That Zapped My Will To Live

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand – “That Zapped My Will To Live”

Episode Date: March 25, 2026
Podcast by: iHeartPodcasts
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty (“Michael” is Joe Getty’s on-air name)
Episode Summary Prepared For: Listeners who want all the substance—no ads, and all the usual Armstrong & Getty skepticism and banter.

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Episode Overview

This episode delivers Armstrong & Getty’s signature blend of sharp political commentary, economic analysis, and irreverent humor, zeroing in on U.S.-Iran negotiations, oil markets, and the rampant cynicism about insider trading in politics. Along the way, the hosts hit on topics like the introduction of computer-assisted umpiring in baseball, the impact of legalized gambling—including political betting—and the blurry line between parody and reality in internet “trends.”

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Trump, Iran, and the Strait of Hormuz (04:24–10:47)

• Armstrong & Getty discuss Donald Trump's recent statements about negotiations—or lack thereof—with Iran, highlighting a tense back-and-forth in a CBS News interview (clips of Trump via Ed O’Keefe).
• Trump boasts about “killing all their leadership” and says Iran gave the U.S. a valuable oil and gas “present” after nuclear talks—a claim generating much speculation.
• The hosts express skepticism about both Trump’s claims and Iran’s denials, then critique pundits (notably John Brennan, ex-CIA director) for choosing to believe Iran over Trump.

Jack (on the necessity of negotiating with adversaries):
“[O’Keefe’s question] is a dumb question, I think… If you don’t trust them, why negotiate with them? Because you have to negotiate with everybody. You have to negotiate with Putin to end the war. Do you trust him? No.” (07:22)

Michael (on former CIA director John Brennan):
“He ought to be in jail for perjury. …He will perform any act that will do that, including betraying the truth, betraying his vows, betraying his country.” (09:31)

• They also play a perspective from an Iranian-American journalist, asserting Iran’s regime “does nothing but lie through their teeth.” (10:23)

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2. Oil Prices and Context-Free Economic Hot Takes (11:01–14:32)

• The hosts blast economic reporting that fails to adjust numbers for inflation, especially regarding oil prices.
• Michael recalls investing during the last spike, noting energy is, historically, less expensive now than it was a decade or so ago—even with recent turmoil.

Jack: “I don’t understand any economics discussions that don’t include numbers adjusted for inflation.” (12:35)

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3. Computer Umpires in Major League Baseball (15:49–26:23)

• They preview opening day—with the twist that Netflix has exclusivity and computer-assisted balls-and-strikes calls are being tested.
• Both hosts are skeptical of anything that slows the game, even if it increases accuracy.
• Jack reports a stat: catchers were successful more often than batters or pitchers when challenging calls with computers.

Jack: “So half the time the umpire got it wrong. That sounds significant to me.” (24:06)

Michael: “We yelled about the umps. It was part of it.” (25:46)

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4. Political Cynicism and Insider Trading in Washington (31:44–40:50)

• Breaking news: Before Trump’s recent Iran announcement, massive oil trades happened—clear-cut insider trading, according to the hosts and CBS’s Jill Schlesinger.
• Armstrong & Getty express resignation at elite corruption, noting the near-impossibility of eliminating it, even with bans on congressional stock trading.

Jack: “You recognize that… rich connected people get to do this. …If I dwell on it, I’ll be less happy. So I think I’ll just forget about it.” (34:31)

• Michael extends the critique: “This is crony capitalism. It’s the opposite of a free market.” (38:10)

• They discuss the Biden and Trump families: both—though differently—enrich themselves using political power and inside information.

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5. The Rise (and Risk) of Political & Props Betting (41:04–44:02)

• Legalized and online gambling now means you can bet on everything—including specific missile strikes in the Middle East or outcomes of governmental actions.
• Stories of threats to journalists and others who could sway betting outcomes; hosts note the inevitability that gambling could influence real decisions, not just sports.

Michael: “You can bet on fricking anything these days.” (42:43)

Jack: “So the question is, is there anything that can be done about this now that there is betting on everything?” (43:31)

• Conclusion: The internet has enabled this, and it’s “inevitable” that corruption and manipulation will follow.

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6. Blurring the Line: Yoga Trends or Parody? (50:00–54:50)

• Lighter moment: Jack, Michael, and Katie Green attempt to distinguish a supposed new wellness trend, “Sandwich Yoga,” as real or parody.
• The exercise underscores how internet culture has made it increasingly difficult to tell satire from reality.

Michael (reading): "Life is a sandwich; a delicious, layered experience best savored one mindful bite at a time." (as “Sandwich Yoga” philosophy, 51:34)

• Ultimately, Sandwich Yoga is revealed as parody, and the hosts riff on how insane trends make satire nearly impossible.

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7. Classic Armstrong & Getty: Humor in the Face of Despair

• Throughout, the hosts maintain a resigned, sardonic tone—laughing at the bleakness of American politics, the ubiquity of corruption, and the absurdities of our era.
• The episode closes with self-awareness about their niche:

Jack: “There’s no other radio show, TV show or podcast that talks this way.” (44:07)
Michael: “Oh, the most depressing radio show. …That makes us unique.” (44:16–44:28)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “That zapped my will to live. Was that your purpose?”
  – Michael, after discussing persistent corruption (39:58)

• “This ape has gotten too smart for its own good and will bring itself to ruin.”
  – Michael (43:41), summarizing the hosts’ pessimism about humanity’s trajectory

• Armstrong, about negotiating with bad actors:
  “Trust has nothing to do with it. There are incentives and disincentives, you jackass.” (07:35)

• Michael (on separating parody from reality):
  “There are at least half a dozen things I can think of…in which it is impossible to launch a parody.” (53:16)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Topic/Segment | Timestamps | |--------------------------------------------------|----------------| | Iran, Trump’s negotiation claims | 04:24–10:47 | | Oil price, economics analysis | 11:01–14:32 | | Baseball: computer umpiring | 15:49–26:23 | | Insider trading, political cynicism | 31:44–40:50 | | Legal gambling/political betting risks | 41:04–44:02 | | Yoga trend or parody, internet absurdity | 50:00–54:50 |

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Tone, Language, and Banter

• The hosts’ language is pointed, colloquial, and irreverent, often laced with irony or sardonic asides.
• Political discussants are sometimes called “jackass” or accused of “betraying their country,” reflecting Armstrong & Getty’s directness.
• Their style is equal parts exasperated, world-weary, and bemused—a blend that longtime fans expect and newcomers might find bracing.

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For Listeners Who Missed It

This episode of Armstrong & Getty is a masterclass in skeptical, often darkly comedic analysis of American politics and society. The hosts dissect serious topics—corruption, the oil market, tech in sports—but also riff on the absurdity of current wellness trends and the near-impossibility of regulating either insider trading or legal gambling. If you want honest, unfiltered, context-rich discussion—with memorable quips and an undercurrent of “well, what can you do?”—this episode delivers.

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End of summary.

Transcript

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[Michael]

Can you give us any more sense of who exactly in Iran it is either?

[Donald Trump (via Ed O'Keefe interview)]

Woodcock yeah, we had I hate to say this in front of these young people. They're not children. I spoke to most of them. They sound like adults to me, even though they are sort of children. Right? They'll always be your children. But I hate to say it, but we killed all their leadership and then they met to choose new leaders and we killed all of them. And now we have a new group and we can easily do that. But let's see how they turn out.

[Jack Armstrong]

Compass Ed o' Keefe of CBS News talking to Donald Trump yesterday. And this conversation gets more interesting, starting with the whole it's all built around Trump saying we're negotiating, we're getting close and Iran responding with we're not talking to anybody. And then that whole Thing. So Edo keep goes on.

[Michael]

What makes you trust them?

[Donald Trump (via Ed O'Keefe interview)]

I don't trust anybody. I don't trust you. I mean, that's only because I know you. But if I didn't know you, I'd probably have more trust. But I don't trust that.

[Michael]

Why bother?

[Donald Trump (via Ed O'Keefe interview)]

Why do you, why do you say that? Why do you say, what makes you try. Do you think I trust them? I don't trust them. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I wish he would have had at hand the Ronald Reagan quote, that is always so good. Oh, I trust, trust, but verify. Which is a very fancy way of saying I don't trust you.

[Michael]

I'm not going to say I distrust you because it would be insulting, but I don't.

[Jack Armstrong]

I trust you. I just need to be able to verify you're doing everything you say you're going to do on a regular basis because. Well, because I don't trust you.

[Michael]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

They go on, why bother talking to me?

[Donald Trump (via Ed O'Keefe interview)]

Because they're going to make a deal. They're going to make a deal. They did something yesterday that was amazing, actually. They gave us a present and the President arrived today. It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money, and I'm not going to tell you what that President is, but it was a very significant prize and they gave it to us and they said they were going to give it. So that meant one thing to me. We're dealing with the right people. No, it wasn't nuclear related. It was oil and gas related. And it was a very nice thing they did. But what it showed me is that we're dealing with the right people.

[Jack Armstrong]

So that every. Had everybody wondering, what's the great present that Iran sent you? Like a set of lovely bookends or a pen or.

[Michael]

Yeah, I, I'm sorry, I can't get past how obnoxious that o' Keefe is, but that's your department. Having been annoyed by him for an evening, I, I was at a different table.

[Jack Armstrong]

I sat next to him at a

[Michael]

rest at a restaurant for several hours

[Jack Armstrong]

and I found him unbelievably pompous. But I shouldn't let that get in

[Michael]

the way of this. But the question, well, why even talk to them then?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, that's a dumb question, I think. If you don't trust them, why negotiate with them? Because you have to negotiate with everybody. You have to negotiate with Putin to end the war. You have to. Do you trust him? No. Practically everybody you negotiate with you don't trust.

[Michael]

Because in some deals you build in standards and sanctions and the Rest of it. So trust has nothing to do with it. There are incentives and disincentives, you jackass.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, but his only goal at o' Keefe is to try to present Trump as dumb or doofus or naive or whatever. Anyway, so another question, different journalists kind of gets to what the gift is that are Rand gave us just the next clip 54.

[Danielle Fishel]

Was it related to the straight flow?

[Donald Trump (via Ed O'Keefe interview)]

Yeah, it was related to the flow to the strait.

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[Danielle Fishel]

to control the strait.

[Donald Trump (via Ed O'Keefe interview)]

From now on, we'll have control of anything we want. Look, if we can end this without more lives being down, without knocking out $10 billion electric plants that are brand new and the apple of their eye, I'd like to be able to do that, you know, but we, they can't have certain things. I mean, you know, the things, I don't have to go over the list. But again, it starts with no nuclear weapons and they've agreed to that.

[Jack Armstrong]

So Iran came out yesterday and said that non hostile vessels, including those belonging to or associated with other states, countries may go through the Strait of Hormuz. And then they also said that they are not negotiating with us because, and here's the quote, our first and last word has been the same from day one and it will stay that way. Someone like us will never come to terms with someone like you. Not now, not ever. That's what Haran said. Which leads you to this. Former CIA director John Brennan was on Ms. Now yesterday and asked about whether Trump says we're negotiating, Iran says we're not. And the former CIA director said, well, I tend to believe Iran more than I do Donald Trump, which is just dandy.

[Michael]

He ought to be in jail for perjury.

[Jack Armstrong]

Now I realize Donald Trump once said, I believe Russia over our intelligence. That was a horrible thing to say. He should have never said it, which

[Michael]

we kicked him for it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Kicked him that day for it. Because that's a terrible thing for Trump to say. But the former CIA director shouldn't go on cable news and say, I believe Iran. Iran of all countries, I believe Iran, not the president. What is, where are we as a country now? Where that's, that's the sort of conversations we have.

[Michael]

That is a prostitute, he works for the network, whipping up anti Trump fervor and he will perform any act that will do that, including betraying the truth, betraying his vows, betraying his country.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, and I'm sure the audit, their audience just loved it.

[Michael]

Oh, I know exactly. He's doing his job, Michael. KLIP 60 please. This is an Iranian American journalist.

[Danielle Fishel]

I would not believe the Iranian regime and never, I never in all the work I've ever done with the Iranian regime, they do nothing but lie through their teeth. So I don't believe that when they say that there are no talks because their supporters, which are 20% of the country, want to see the regime pummel the United States and Israel.

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I think Trump is leaving.

[Michael]

Yeah. Brennan, shove that up your lion hind end, would ya? Unbelievable.

[Jack Armstrong]

I hope I never become so partizan that I would root for an Iran or a Russia or a China over who's president because I don't like the president. I hope I never get that partisan. I don't know how you get that way.

[Michael]

Oh boy. Yeah, I don't get it. A couple of kind of counterintuitive pieces of journalism here. An odd juxtaposition. This is from the Wall Street Journal. The oil supply crunch is spreading from the Gulf to the rest of the world. For a glimpse of how much higher energy prices could still soar, look to beyond the West Texas Intermediate Brent, blah, blah blah. At the center of the supply squeeze in the Middle east, traders are paying an eye watering $160 a barrel for the Emirati oil that can dodge the Strait of Hormuz far above those global benchmarks. And they make the point that because the world economy is interrelated and some of our allies use Gulf oil and Asian countries, blah blah, blah, fertilizer, blah blah blah, that would be pretty exp. And the right it would be but eye watering. $160 a barrel. Now here's Brett Stevens, who is the token conservative in the New York Times editorial pages. Most Americans probably don't look back at March 2012 if they remember it at all and think of terrifyingly high gas prices in the month when the Hunger Games ruled the box office and President Barack Obama was on his way to a comfortable reelection. The price of Brent crude closed the month at around $123 a barrel. That would be about $175 a barrel in today's dollars. And as of Tuesday, despite Iran's effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz and its attack on neighbor's energy facilities, it's hovering around $100, slightly higher than the average inflation adjusted price since January of 01, which is roughly $95.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, as I mentioned the other day, 100 bucks is about 79 in your pre pandemic numbers. So I don't understand any economics discussions that don't include numbers adjusted for inflation.

[Michael]

They're clickbait. They're interest bait.

[Jack Armstrong]

Now, when you do it with movie box office or athlete salaries, this is the highest anybody's ever been paid to do this or the most money a movie's ever made. Fine, go ahead. I mean, you're just trying to sell an entertainment product, but it's a lie. Also, you're not adjusting for inflation. But if you're going to do it around important statistics like the price of oil and whether or not we're going to have a worldwide recession and that sort of stuff, come on, you're just not doing your job.

[Michael]

Yeah, it's funny, I actually do remember that period, weirdly enough, because I decided to get into, not day trading exactly, but individual stock trading. And I decided to get into the sector I was going to concentrate on was oil exploration. Stock and oil. Gas prices just kept going up, or oil prices, I should say, just up, up, up, up, up. And I was starting to think I was a genius. But I remember where those prices were because of those stocks and. Yeah, where energy has gotten significantly less expensive. Way less expensive in general, other than at the moment. So, yeah, again, it's just clickbait.

[Jack Armstrong]

So oil is significantly less expensive than 20. I don't even remember.

[Michael]

Is anybody going to click on the following headline, Oil surges to slightly more expensive than average over the last 25 years. No, nobody would click on that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, and then there's political advantages, too.

[Michael]

Sure.

[Jack Armstrong]

So you got the media clickbait advantage and then you've got the political advantages. Trump has gotten us into a terrible situation. We're bogged down, and oil is so expensive.

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Oh, we're still talking.

[Michael]

We? Well, you are dying. Now I'm talking as well.

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I want to talk about baseball. Baseball starts tonight. But they got a new wrinkle. They got computers that are going to call balls and strikes sometimes.

[Michael]

Interestingly, I have a brief note on how sabermetrics data is ruining basketball.

[Jack Armstrong]

Interesting also. Yeah. So stay tuned for all that and other things. Stick around.

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[Michael]

Yeah, I saw the play by play when the manager came out in the infield, came around and the manager walked up to the pitcher and like he said, any pitcher knows what what to expect. And the manager said, hey, you made the opening opening day roster. And all of his teammates smiled big and clapped him on the back and all. And he was trying to suppress, you know, the biggest grind he's ever had in his life. It was really sweet moment. Kind of a fun idea by the manager.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, because we ruin everything is the way we do things. Ever since the TV era began in Major League Baseball. Up until a few years ago, opening day meant every baseball team played and everybody was rooting for the team and it was kind of a kickoff of spring and it was kind of a cool thing. But of Course, we got to ruin stuff like that. So now the games come out in drips and drabs to a certain extent. First game is tonight, Netflix. First ever Netflix game, Yankees at Giants. You got Aaron Judge playing 80 miles from where he grew up in Yuba City or whatever, and. And then you got hometown hero Logan Webb, who's also from Northern California, as the pitcher for the Giants. Pretty cool. But it's a Netflix thing. If you don't have Netflix, you don't get to see the game. And it's the only game. And whatever more interesting thing is, they're gonna have computers calling balls and strikes if you ask for it. So you get a couple per game where you get to say, either the pitcher, the catcher, or the batter can tap their helmet and say, wait a second, that wasn't a ball or it wasn't a strike, and then they go to the computer. First of all, are you in favor of that or not?

[Michael]

I have really mixed feelings.

[Jack Armstrong]

Like, anything that slows down the game. I don't quite understand if they think the computer is more accurate. Why you didn't just leap to having the computer do all the pitches was. What is that?

[Michael]

Oh, there are all sorts of issues, from bargaining agreements and unions to. Oh, it would just take too long. It's complicated.

[Jack Armstrong]

But doesn't that. But from a making sense standpoint, aren't you just declaring by having the computers. The computers can get it right all the time. We've just chosen not to.

[Michael]

Yeah. Part of it is it would so change the game. It would shock baseball fans to see how much it changes the game for the. The weirdly unspoken strike zone to become the technical strike zone.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, here's.

[Michael]

They don't want to do that all of a sudden.

[Jack Armstrong]

Here's what they learned. Boy, in the strike zone thing, I just heard. I read about that. It's interesting. So rather than like, chest to the knees or whatever you learned in Little League, it's 32.4% of your height and blah, blah, blah that the computer uses, but which obviously you couldn't calculate as a human being to that degree. One thing they found in preseason, though, is the catchers were right more often by far than the pitchers or the batters just because of the angle they have or whatever. So batters and pitchers challenging. It didn't go as well as catchers, but it was just barely over 50% of the time that they. The umpire got the call wrong. So there's two ways you could look at it. I was listening to npr, and they Said so. It didn't really make much difference. And I thought so half the time the umpire got it wrong. That sounds significant to me.

[Michael]

Well, keep in mind, though, it is in the couple of times, one or two times per game, that the players believed it was the most egregious missed call of the game. Half the time it was a strike or a ball.

[Jack Armstrong]

Half the time they got it right, but half the time they didn't. So I don't know. I would imagine it's going to grow from here over time, though. Wouldn't you guess that it grows from twice a game to more often?

[Michael]

Oh, yeah, 100%. Yeah. I prefer.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't like anything that slows down any games. I don't care if it's more accurate. I'm not one of those. As long as I get the calls right. I don't think if it takes an hour of replay, I am not that person at all. I want the games to just go. And it was fine. I watched it my whole life. I enjoyed the games and my. My life was not ruined by the occasional bad call.

[Michael]

We yelled about the umps. It was part of it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Michael]

Or the refs or whatever. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

It'll be interesting to see how that works tonight. I would hate it as an umpire, I think.

[Michael]

Yeah, well, they do because their industry is going away. They'll just have to stand back there and assess whether it was a foul tip and whether somebody gets tagged out or forced out at the plate. And it's going to be a completely different line of work.

[Jack Armstrong]

Most of your other baseball teams play tomorrow. If you don't have Netflix, you don't get to watch the game tonight. That's going to make some people angry. Netflix only has three games the entire season. But they have the opening game.

[Michael]

We're out of time to do the NBA thing I was going to talk about, but maybe we can talk about that later. How data sabermetrics has kind of ruined the NBA. Squeeze that in later, maybe fit that

[Jack Armstrong]

in with all kinds of prop betting that's going on. That is a problem. Including, like government policy. That's really a problem. Armstrong and Getty, Come on.

[Bobby Bones]

No.

[Michael]

Oh, boy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I know. My golf swing is off today. It's just a lesson. Loosen up, champ. Can't. I think I might have gotten away with something I shouldn't have. What the heck are you talking about? Okay. You see that brand new Hyundai Santa Fe over there?

[Michael]

Yeah. Well, I only paid

[Bobby Bones]

deal, so.

[Michael]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

It almost feels wrong. Get the Hyundai you've always wanted plus America's best warranty at the Hyundai Getaway Sales event.

[Jack Armstrong]

Finish that bucket of balls on your own. I gotta run. Those Santa Fes come in green, right?

[Michael]

I love green.

[Jack Armstrong]

No to come back, I paid for the full hour.

[Bobby Bones]

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[Michael]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Michael]

mystery in the oil markets and the suspicion that some people are getting very

[Jack Armstrong]

rich by trading on inside information.

[Michael]

In the minutes before President Trump's announcement Monday that the U.S. would postpone strikes against Iranian energy targets, traders suddenly bet

[Jack Armstrong]

hundreds of millions of dollars on oil

[Michael]

prices falling, which is exactly what they did.

[Jack Armstrong]

Huh? I'll be darned. So this happened and it's getting surprisingly little attention, which I think is a problem, I think because the whole country feels the way I feel about it. It, of course that happened. It's always happened. It's always going to happen. And there's nothing I can do about

[Michael]

it, which both parties are doing it

[Jack Armstrong]

all the time, which really isn't good that we're that cynical and just accept the beating that we take from the rich and connected who somehow were alerted to the fact that Trump was about to go out and make an announcement that was going to make oil jump up. Here's Jill and, and CBS handled this in a very soft way. This is the, the new Barry Weiss, cbs, where you don't just come out and call the President a liar or whatever, you know, like other networks do. Hasn't helped him in the ratings yet. But anyway, here's Jill Schlesinger, their businesswoman on cbs explaining how this, how odd this is.

[Commercial Announcer]

Well, I think the most important thing of what stands out is that we saw a surge of trading activity. So if you look at this at 649 to 651, there is this circle there, that's a big jump up in activity. And then soon after we see the price of oil at the top and then it drops by 10% literally in minutes, 15 minutes before this non public information is out.

[Michael]

So somebody might have known something a little too early.

[Commercial Announcer]

It does appear that way. And why we care about this is that is not considered public information and someone seems to know it. And that's illegal, Tony. I mean, that's the issue is that this is essentially insider trading.

[Jack Armstrong]

That was a pretty gentle way of handling it because it's obvious that there was insider trading going on. Obviously.

[Michael]

Yeah, there was a great story not long ago and I referenced it a couple of times. I never really read anything on the show. But the point of it was intelligence agencies around the world are watching the poly markets, prediction markets, because politicians in every, I was saying both parties are doing it. Politicians in every country around the world are trading on insider information on these prediction markets. And the stock market is essentially a prediction market. So everybody's doing it everywhere, insider information, blah, blah, blah. This is why you limit the size of government. But I've lost that fight. So I'm graciously accepting defeat.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think as a country that a lot of people, like I said, are where I am. You recognize that. Yeah, rich connected people get to do this. I don't get to do it. There's nothing I can do about it. If I dwell on it, I'll be less happy. So I think I'll just forget about it.

[Michael]

That's very, very, very sane of you.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes, I think. I mean, it sucks. It sucks a lot. And I don't know how you'd ever get rid of it because even if you get like Elizabeth Warren's, people in Congress aren't allowed to trade stock, which I'm fine with. I don't know if it's constitutional, but I'm fine with that. Or any stock with any committee that they're involved in that industry. Hold on, I'm about to sneeze.

[Michael]

Oh, oh. Soul trying to escape. According to Middle Ages popes.

[Jack Armstrong]

I got hpmrv or whatever it is

[Michael]

that's going around msrp.

[Jack Armstrong]

Even if you got Elizabeth Warren thing through where you can't trade on stocks as long as you're in Congress or whatever, you can't stop them from calling their wives or their husbands or their kids or whatever. It may be impossible.

[Michael]

Brother in law. Right. You know, I was thinking the Biden family really set a pace in their obvious, you know, insider information dealing, influence peddling, the rest of it. And I yelled about it like a lot of people did. The truth is the Trump family has taken. Doesn't do that per se, but they've made zillions of dollars based on, hey, dad, what's gonna happen tomorrow?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, well, yeah.

[Michael]

And again, everybody, everywhere is doing this now.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, that, that's, that, that is, that is true. But on this one, it was so much. It was so broad. I mean, and all these people, minutes before he makes the announcement, all the trading going on, I mean, is very kind of Jill Schlesinger and Tony Decopol to act like it's an open question on whether or not there's insider trading happening. And it's probably bipartisan. It's probably spread out among all kinds of different people. They got the tip on that. I'll tell you what, I'm a really honest guy. It'd be pretty damn hard if I knew there was about to be a giant announcement that's going to affect this drug or that oil price or whatever, electric vehicles, and just keep it to myself. It'd be pretty hard to do, right? To not say to, you know, tell you what, might want to dump that ev stock we got before Tuesday.

[Michael]

Just saying, you do that two, three times and they owe you an enormous favor and they pay back that favor someday. So it's like we were talking about the Epstein network. People are obsessed with the sex stuff. It was an insider trading network and the guy at the center of it happened to be a perv. Yeah, I know. Yeah, well, born into the wrong family, stupid working class.

[Jack Armstrong]

I really don't know that there's anything you can do about this. Try to keep it to as much of a minimum. And you say I can.

[Michael]

I tell you what, why don't you set up a rule and then give me 30 seconds to get around it. Right. I don't know if this is policeable in any meaningful way.

[Jack Armstrong]

Maybe, just maybe, the best you can do is have the news do what they did. We're aware of this. Just letting you know we're aware of it.

[Michael]

Sit on. And the Wall Street Titans are like, yeah, we don't care, but just don't

[Jack Armstrong]

get too greedy, I guess. Or don't push it too far. Don't think we're not paying any attention. I guess that's all you can do.

[Michael]

Yeah. Yeah. A final note from me. I am, as you know, a huge fan of the free market and I despise capitalism or communism, socialism, so much of this sort of thing that is decried. As you see, this is the problem with capitalism. This is crony capitalism. It's the opposite of a free market with the free flow of information. It's the very, very powerful who have a serious role in business. It's the government business nexus. That's where things get perverse.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'd like to know how that information got out. So Trump knows he's going to go out and give that speech. Wouldn't be a whole lot of other people that know that, though. I wouldn't think.

[Michael]

Well, it's like the. Well, it's like any viral phenomenon, including word of mouth recommendation. I have three people I'm going to call. They each have three people they're going to call, et cetera.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. So if you had Marco Rubio's crowd, Pete Hegseth crowd, Trump's crowd and all the staff involved, that probably be three figures at least.

[Michael]

Right. Did the gang of eight get briefed on this? Yeah, there you go.

[Jack Armstrong]

Now you're up to several hundred people with the staffers that would be aware

[Michael]

of it, each of whom has friends,

[Jack Armstrong]

and you're some staffer making, I don't know, $65,000 a year make working 80 hours a week for Mike Johnson and you find out that this is going

[Michael]

to happen and you're worth $3.8 million on your salary. Yeah. Gee, what's going on there. They must be a real saver. They scrimp when they say it's very admirable saver.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, that happened and it will continue to happen for all of eternity and everyone knows it. That's right. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

[Michael]

Margie. Well, that discouraged me. That set my will to live. Was that your purpose? Was that what you were trying to do?

[Jack Armstrong]

Wasn't actually. Because like I said, I think we've all just made our peace with it.

[Donald Trump (via Ed O'Keefe interview)]

It.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. The connected get to do this and I don't. And bingo. Thanks Michael.

[Michael]

That lived to my spirits.

[Jack Armstrong]

That was good.

[Michael]

Ah, the old man. Don't we all miss Joe Biden.

[Jack Armstrong]

But that's how you get there. That's how you get there. Like Joe. Joe Biden. I wonder how long he was in D.C. before he started doing that, before he looked around and said, well, thousands and thousands of people are taking advantage of the system we have. I'm. And I'm not going to in a way that can help my family for all of eternity. I'd be a schmuck is probably what you come to convince yourself, huh?

[Michael]

Yeah. Your Buddy at the Department of Labor, hey, U.S. steel is going to lay off like 15,000 people. Whoa, time to make a trade, right? Over and over and over again. Or your brother in law does it for you or what have you.

[Jack Armstrong]

So I was listening to the Dispatch podcast the other day and they started with talking about sports gambling around March Madness, really? And just how much of it is done and, and how it has affected sports. Because we've got the stories from the last couple of years of major league pitchers throwing the ball straight into the ground or, or college basketball players, you know, shooting a free throw and it goes over the backboard or whatever because they were involved in some of the trading. But there are all these prop bets now on like governmental policy that you can get involved in. Will Maduro be removed from office or will we attack Iran or stuff like that. And there the real concern that if you can find a pitcher who's willing to throw a baseball straight into the ground because he's on the hook for some gambling debts, you're not gonna find somebody in government who influences policy one direction or the other because of betting.

[Michael]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Almost certainly guaranteed to happen.

[Michael]

Came across a report that there's this small time journalist, I think he's based in Israel, whose job was just to do the little column on where a missile hit or whatever, and there's an Iranian missile that got through and caused like very minor damage. In some town. And he wrote up the little report, you know, page 14C of the newspaper. He started getting death threats and offers of bribes and We Will Ruin yous and blah blah, blah. Because some of the betting markets, the prediction markets, had bets of whether there would be any missile strike that got through in Israel on that day. Who knew you could bet on fricking anything these days?

[Bobby Bones]

You can.

[Michael]

So they were threatening his family. They were hitting him with, I know where your kids go to school, saying you've got to retract that report and say it was an error.

[Jack Armstrong]

And so the question is, is there anything that can be done about this now that there is betting on everything. I didn't know it was that specific. Bets on will any missiles get through to Tel Aviv tonight. You can bet on that. And then of course, the problem being at some point, does it sway people's decisions or do you, you know, I'm the guy who makes the decision anyway. I might as well make some money off of this. So I'm going to bet heavily and then fire the missile off at 7pm that sort of thing. That's inevitable, isn't it?

[Michael]

Yeah. In one form or another. Yeah. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Can anything be done about that pareback legal gambling?

[Michael]

No, I just didn't exist before.

[Jack Armstrong]

Or is this all because the Internet exists?

[Michael]

Yeah, that's. That's a huge part of it. That is absolutely the catalyst for so much evil. I stick by my assessment that this ape has gotten too smart for its own good and will bring itself to ruin.

[Jack Armstrong]

You say that I was bringing people down. You end the segment with we are bringing ourselves to ruin. It's inevitable. Okay.

[Michael]

Humanity is. Is on the way out. Yeah, I. I'm at peace. I'm an old guy.

[Jack Armstrong]

There is no good luck. There's no other radio show, TV show or podcast that talks this way.

[Michael]

That's true.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Gettys. Oh, oh, the most depressing radio show. There's. There's nobody offering this product anywhere. I guess that makes us unique. We've got our own. Own niche market.

[Michael]

Oh, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Hey, do you listen to that show that brings you down every single damn day? Oh, I love them. Coming up, yoga trend or parody? In recent days, we've brought you Snake Yoga. Legit Portland Sward Yoga.

[Jack Armstrong]

That was right.

[Michael]

New York. I will present a new yoga trend. Is it real or parody? It's getting harder and harder to tell.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know how we could possibly know that. And other stuff on the way way Armstrong and Getty. Come On.

[Bobby Bones]

No.

[Michael]

Oh, boy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I know my golf swing is off today.

[Rob Gronkowski]

It's just a lesson.

[Jack Armstrong]

Who sent up champ? Can't I. I think I might have gotten away with something I shouldn't have. The heck are you talking about? Okay. You see that brand new Hyundai Santa Fe over there?

[Michael]

Yeah. Well, I only paid

[Bobby Bones]

deal, so. Right. It almost feels wrong. Get the Hyundai you've always wanted plus America's best warranty at the Hyundai getaway sales event.

[Jack Armstrong]

Finish that bucket of balls on your own. I gotta run. Those Santa Fe's come in green, right?

[Michael]

I love green.

[Danielle Fishel]

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[Jack Armstrong]

No. What? To come back. I paid for the full hour.

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[Michael]

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[Danielle Fishel]

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[Michael]

@trunaturemeats.com Here is Katie Green to set up what we are about to hear. So this guy is standing at a

[Jack Armstrong]

crosswalk and is approached by a Mingo food delivery robot, which proceeds to ask

[Michael]

him to hit the crosswalk button for him. All right.

[Commercial Announcer]

Huh?

[Jack Armstrong]

Hello. What do you want? What do you want? You want me to press the button for you? You want me to press the button for you? Mingo, you press it yourself. You took a human job and you want me to press the button for you? No. Hello.

[Commercial Announcer]

You.

[Jack Armstrong]

Excuse you? Yeah, excuse you. I'm not pressing nothing. You press it go yourself. The relationship between human and artificial intelligence rocky. And then he cr.

[Michael]

And then he crosses the street and just leaves the robot there. He goes the other way, his intentions clear. Yeah, I'd say angley shouting obscenities at a robot is proof that you need to relax. Perhaps you should consider yoga now. Katie, you're part of the committee. This you. You will vote. Okay, this is Joe Getty's Yoga trend or parody. I used to be a mess. I'm reading from a woman's account. What's her name? Elena. High stress, corporate job, endless deadlines, a diet consisting of sad desk salads and existential dread. My body ached, my mind raced, my soul felt as empty as the gluten free bread aisle.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hello.

[Michael]

Then one ordinary Tuesday, while stress eating a turkey club in my kitchen, I accidentally struck something that was similar to the tree pose. While reaching for the mustard. Blah, blah, blah. I had discovered sandwich yoga. What is sandwich yoga? It's the mindful practice of combining ancient yogic postures with the sacred act of holding and eventually eating a sandwich. The core philosophy is life is a sandwich, a delicious layered experience best savored one mindful bite at a time. And the virtues of sandwich yoga include balance in every layer, mindful consumption, stress release with zero equipment and community and connection. Because we encourage people to get together and do this with each other. Actual yoga trend or parody?

[Jack Armstrong]

It's hard to say. Life is a sandwich is a pretty good line.

[Michael]

Balance in every layer. That's right. The virtues of sandwich yoga. Life is a sandwich. Jack. Sandwich, not a turd sandwich.

[Jack Armstrong]

I really have no idea. It'd be a coin flip. It could be Katie. I mean, so silly. Now that anything's on the table, I'm

[Michael]

going through the past week. We've brought you sword yoga and snake yoga. Michael. I'm gonna say real. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we have precisely one reel, one parody, and one coin flip. Not very helpful. I believe it gets thrown to the House of Representatives and the. And the VP breaks the tie or something like that. Yeah, it's parody.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay. I was gonna say we're really clearly. But not clearly. It's not yet.

[Michael]

There are at least half a dozen things I can think of off the top of my head in which it is impossible to launch a parody. There was a rally in Brooklyn yesterday for dot, dot, dot.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Michael]

Can you come up with something so outlandish it's clearly not true.

[Jack Armstrong]

The latest TikTok trend is.

[Michael]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Democratic Socialists of America are in favor of.

[Jack Armstrong]

Young people are hammering tax between their toes to

[Michael]

call it BS on that because young people are so soft. Oh, boy.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's called the Toe tack challenge. A 16 year old died in Pennsylvania. Parents are outraged. Blah, blah, blah.

[Michael]

Traditional yoga, the hammering traditional yoga teaches balance. Sandwich yoga demands it. Try holding a fully loaded BLT in mountain pose without dropping the tomato. It builds core strength, focus, and deep appreciation for structural integrity.

[Jack Armstrong]

There you go. I had a BLT yesterday and I was reminded that I had my first BLT maybe 10 years ago. I was in my 50s. First time I ever tried a BLT, they always sounded gross to me. And then the first time I ever tried one, I was like, wow, this is fantastic. And I've had thousands of them since.

[Michael]

Jack, you're amazing. You are constantly mystifying.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I just always thought they sounded terrible and had never taken a bite until I did. And I was like, wow, this is great.

[Michael]

All right, well, the humble turkey on rye next hour. Stay with us.

[Jack Armstrong]

If you missed the segment of the podcast, Armstrong and Getty on Demand.

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