That's What Xi Said--It's Summit Time!

Summary

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Episode: "That's What Xi Said—It's Summit Time!"

Date: May 13, 2026
Host: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This episode centers around the significant U.S.–China summit occurring in Beijing, featuring Donald Trump, top business leaders, and the geopolitical ramifications of U.S.-China relations. Armstrong & Getty dive into issues of technology theft, sneaker culture, Iran's military capabilities, America's self-image, spy operations, economic anxieties, and even rat infestations in LA restaurants. The tone is irreverent, sharp, and satirical, blending serious political commentary with offbeat banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. U.S.–China Summit: Theatrics, Tech Theft, & Business Interests

[04:49–13:15]

• Presidential Visit to Beijing: Trump and a heavyweight business delegation arrive in China to much fanfare.
  • “Looked like an Olympic opening ceremony or something. And they do it up right there in China.” — Jack Armstrong [05:08]
• China’s Electric Cars:
  • Hosts discuss how China’s electric vehicle industry mimicked Tesla’s designs, using government backing and cheap labor to undercut U.S. car companies.
  • “They stole all of Tesla's...intellectual property and built Teslas for cheaper—with, you know, with the aid of the government and slave labor making them cheaper to build.” — Jack Armstrong [05:19]
  • “Shocking and utterly unsurprising.” — Joe Getty [05:41]
• Self-Hatred on the American Left:
  • Joe laments what he sees as obligatory anti-Americanism in progressive circles.
  • “It's absolutely obligatory to be self-hating of your race, of your country, of your culture...The American left is...completely poisoned against the United States.” — Joe Getty [06:35]

2. Global Trade, Brand Wars & Nationalism

[08:14–11:18]

• Chinese Brands Imitating Nike:
  • Discussion of shifting sneaker culture in China—from Nike to lookalike national brands (like “Ulta”), driven by nationalism and IP theft.
  • “Their brand is Ulta, which they basically stole Nike's technology...Part of it is nationalism; the young Chinese people now hate the United States because we're all adversaries.” — Jack Armstrong [09:06]
  • “I can't believe there are NBA players that wear the Chinese version...Klay Thompson...is wearing the Chinese shoe that is just a stolen Nike shoe.” — Jack Armstrong [09:44]
  • “We ought to treat people sporting those like they got swastikas on their feet. 1943. Come on, America.” — Joe Getty [10:37]
• U.S. Executives’ Pragmatism:
  • Hosts note that American business leaders—including Trump—are willing to look past ethical issues for market access in China.

3. Iran’s Military Arsenal: Intelligence Gaps & Strategic Implications

[12:19–15:50]; [28:47–36:34]

• Contradictory Narratives:
  • Recent New York Times reporting and intelligence leaks show Iran retains most missile capability—contrary to official U.S. claims of military success.
  • “Iran has restored operational access to 30 of the 33 missile sites it maintains along the Strait of Hormuz.” — NYT paraphrased by Jack Armstrong [30:29]
  • “Even after all that bombing...they got 30 of 33 rocket launchers still going along the strait.” — Jack Armstrong [31:02]
• Endurance of Missile Stockpiles:
  • “Iran still fields about 70% of its mobile launchers...and has retained roughly 70% of its pre-war missile stockpile.” — Jack Armstrong [31:19]
  • Joe points out the difficulty of destroying deeply buried infrastructure and Iran’s strategic adaptability.
  • “You practically cannot eliminate a country's capacity to do violence. All you can do is eliminate their will to do violence by beating them down so hard...” — Joe Getty [32:39]
• Regional Complications:
  • Revelation that countries like UAE and Saudi Arabia participated in anti-Iran bombings but kept it secret for domestic reasons.
• Logistics and Sanctions Defense:
  • Massive overland truck convoys now move goods to avoid Strait of Hormuz bottlenecks, blunting U.S. leverage from economic sanctions.
  • “Now we've got 3500 trucks running from the Gulf to the Red Sea. They paused just long enough to refuel while one dude sleeps in the back.” — Joe Getty [35:06]
• Risk of Escalation:
  • If Trump is serious about blocking Iranian nukes or control of the Strait, renewed military escalation is seen as likely.

4. U.S. Domestic Concerns: Economy, Housing, and Culture Wars

[19:45–27:00]; [43:23–50:14]

• Inflation, Real Estate, & Economic Doldrums:
  • Inflation creeps upward, stoked by rising energy costs; bond markets show pessimism.
  • “Serious investors are thinking, yeah, higher inflation for an extended period, like maybe years and probably no rate cuts.” — Joe Getty [21:08]
  • Real estate regret: “People who didn't buy like five years ago...missed out and they may never get back in.” — Jack Armstrong [21:24]
  • Price of canned produce is up 5.7%, evoking dark humor and nostalgia for “gag-inducing” vegetables.
• Britain’s Politics & Sweden’s Culture Shock:
  • Brief coverage of UK’s political turmoil; discussion of Sweden’s problems with integration due to cultural differences—“Everything is downstream of culture.”
• Chinese Influence Ops & U.S. Vulnerability:
  • Cases of a California mayor and a billionaire’s girlfriend allegedly working for the Chinese Communist Party highlight Chinese infiltration via sex, science, and local politics.
  • “From 24-year-old sex pots to geek scientists who are grad assistants at your local university. Yeah, they have [succeeded].” — Joe Getty [24:26]

5. Political Theatre: Congressional Bar Tabs & D.C. Dysfunction

[13:10–14:44]

• Heated Congressional Exchanges:
  • A caustic exchange between Cash Patel and Senator Van Hollen draws ridicule: “Who's the harder drinker at what was passed off as a Senate hearing...it was just a sniping fest.” — Joe Getty [13:26]

6. L.A.’s Rat Infestation and Restaurant Closures

[38:47–44:01]

• Cities Overrun:
  • L.A. is ranked the rattiest city in America, with major restaurant closures due to vermin reported.
  • “Whole bunch of restaurants closed down for at least 48 hours this last month because of rats and other problems.” — Jack Armstrong [39:02]
  • Satirical takes abound, including “retraining” staff, jokes about feeding rats, and “Ratatouille had to close his restaurant.”
  • Mailbag includes San Francisco’s smoking ban, mocked by reference to the city’s public defecation problem.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On U.S. Left-Wing Self-Critique:
  • “It's absolutely obligatory to be self-hating of your race, of your country, of your culture.” — Joe Getty [06:35]
• On Chinese Tech Theft:
  • “They stole all of Tesla's...intellectual property and built Teslas for cheaper—with...slave labor.” — Jack Armstrong [05:19]
• On NBA stars wearing Chinese knockoff shoes:
  • “We ought to treat people sporting those like they got swastikas on their feet. 1943. Come on, America.” — Joe Getty [10:37]
• On Iran’s Resilience:
  • “You practically cannot eliminate a country's capacity to do violence...All you can do is eliminate their will to do violence by beating them down so hard...” — Joe Getty [32:39]
• On Economic Disillusionment:
  • “People who didn't buy like five years ago...missed out and they may never get back in.” — Jack Armstrong [21:24]
• On Public Health Inspections:
  • “It’s not just restaurants—it’s also a couple of school cafeterias and multiple 7-Elevens...as in you’ll find in your Slurpee between 7 and 11 rat droppings. No, that’s not true.” — Jack Armstrong [43:40]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [04:49] – Main theme: U.S.–China summit and tech theft
• [05:19] – China’s “Tesla knockoff” electric vehicles
• [06:35] – Joe Getty’s diatribe on American self-hatred
• [09:06] – Anti-American sentiments in China driving sneaker culture
• [10:37] – Joe Getty’s Nazi Germany analogy for Chinese copycat shoes
• [11:18] – U.S. business priorities in China
• [12:19] / [28:47] – Mounting concerns over Iran’s missile capabilities
• [21:08] – Inflation and grim economic/bond market forecasts
• [30:29] – NYT claim: Iran’s missile sites are mostly intact
• [35:06] – End run around sanctions: truck convoys move goods across the desert
• [39:02] – LA’s “rattiest city” and restaurant vermin closures
• [43:40] – Serious then comical wrap-up of the rat problem

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Additional Memorable Moments

• Mailbag:
  • Bizarre email speculation about China kidnapping U.S. leaders at the summit—Armstrong & Getty laugh it off.
  • Arguments about California’s new jaywalking law and homeless population (“Freedom to Walk Act”).
• Mickey Mantle Anecdotes:
  • “Drunk as a three-eyed monkey.” – Listener recollection [46:37]

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Final Thoughts

This episode mixes biting satire and serious analysis as Armstrong & Getty tackle America’s uneasy dance with China, the realities of international power politics, the self-sabotaging instincts at home, and cultural quirks from the NBA to LA's rodent woes. Their tone is intentionally provocative, peppered with jokes, but always underpinned by pointed questions about America's global standing and domestic priorities.

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[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yo, yo, yo.

[Joe Getty]

Bunch of ingrates. Live from Studio C. What?

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[Jack Armstrong]

That's what Trump's truth social a little bit ago said. All you ingrates out there, you're a very stupid person. I like that. You ingrates. Live from Studio C, a dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty communications compound. That's where we are. And today we are toiling under the title of the show.

[Joe Getty]

One title today. Take it or leave it. That's what she said. It's summit time.

[Jack Armstrong]

Who

[Joe Getty]

the face off in Beijing. Donald J. Versus Winnie the Pooh.

[Jack Armstrong]

I. I don't know if you watched any earlier today when he arrived and walked off the plane in the pageantry and all that sort of stuff.

[Joe Getty]

I did not see that. No.

[Jack Armstrong]

Looked like an Olympic opening ceremony or something.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

And they do it up right there in China.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah.

[Martha Stewart]

Chris.

[Jack Armstrong]

Are trying to get over on the world in a variety of ways. They have. I was just listening. This is kind of a side note, but I was just listening to somebody explain on how those amazing electric cars that China has when they we've taken them apart. They're Teslas. They stole all of Tesla's. You know intellectual property and built Teslas for cheaper with, you know, with the aid of the government and slave labor making them cheaper to build. So they just steal everybody's technology.

[Joe Getty]

Shocking. Asshole. You're never been more. Right, buddy. Shocking and utterly unsurprising. Right, There you go.

[Jack Armstrong]

That ever happened like that in world history?

[Joe Getty]

Oh, gosh, no, no, I mean to

[Jack Armstrong]

this level, obviously everybody's always tried to do that, but at this level, you

[Joe Getty]

know, the, the truth of the Internet is that it has enabled wonderful things and horrible things, crimes and sickness and perversion. And you can stay in touch with your aunt more easily.

[Jack Armstrong]

So connect with your old high school girlfriend.

[Joe Getty]

I mean, back in the day, the evildoers of the world wished they could steal our technology like that, right?

[Jack Armstrong]

But I don't know, I think that should be pointed out more often when you have like that big Wall Street Journal story that got so much attention a couple of weeks ago. Man, if China could sell their cars in the United States, it would decimate our. That's because they're building our cars for cheaper. I mean, like, come on.

[Joe Getty]

I think this, what I'm about to say is really underappreciated and I would love for it to seep into the popular consciousness. And it may. I noticed even the New York Times has a big article today about America's public schools are terrible. We're at a huge crisis in education. The kids aren't learning. It's getting worse all the time. Oh boy. And it took them long enough to wake up to it. But anyway, here's what I would love to see seep into the consciousness of Americans on the left. It is absolutely obligatory to be self hating of your race, of your country, of your culture. It's obligatory. In the same way you go down, you know, to some backwater Mississippi town in, in the 50s, say, and, and you got a bunch of racists running around, a bunch of Klansmen. The fact that they don't like black folks. Of course they don't. That's what they are. And it's stupid. You're not gonna take their opinion on what's wrong with black people seriously because you know, their, their minds are completely poisoned. And that's the way the American left is. They are completely poisoned against the United States of America, the greatest country on earth, which has its sins and problems and challenges, God knows, but that, that knee jerk self hatred, it's so stupid. We need to all understand that.

[Jack Armstrong]

So you would say then looking at Chinese electric car industry, at it like

[Joe Getty]

they're better Than us somehow without any scrutiny. Wow. So quickly, how. How are they so far ahead of us? What happened? No, it just. It reinforces your priors, as you like to say, and so you don't even question it. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Elon's on the plane. Got off the plane with Trump today and Tim Cook from Apple and a whole bunch of other super heavyweights of business.

[Joe Getty]

I'd love for Elon to say, wow, the car looks familiar. I mean, like, really, really familiar. Like, all the parts look so familiar to me.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's what he should say. He should say to somebody. Do you know where the steering compressor is? Oh, you don't? I do. It's right over here. That's where I put it.

[Joe Getty]

No, I've never seen his car before, but I know. Yeah. Thieving thieves.

[Jack Armstrong]

Come on, China. An interesting different thing is, did you see this story about Nike and how Nike's no longer cool in China?

[Joe Getty]

I did see that, yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

And first of all, shoe stories, to me, they always leave out the fact that styles come and go and it has nothing to do with the quality of the shoe or anything else.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

They just do. Do you never hang around young people? Every person under 30 was wearing Adidas Sambas three years ago. Had nothing to do with the quality or anything like that. They just became the cool shoe. And for whatever reason, Nikes were cool for a long time and they're not cool anymore. But I. So their brand is Alta, which they basically stole Nike's technology. Right on the super cool running shoes. Made one that looks a lot like a Nike, but it's a Chinese shoe now. Part of it is nationalism. The young Chinese people now hate the United States because we're all adversaries and

[Joe Getty]

they should wear American brands now. It's like, what are you doing?

[Jack Armstrong]

But we should hate them.

[Joe Getty]

Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

I can't believe there are NBA players that wear the Chinese version. Yes, but there are a couple. Klay Thompson, formerly of the warriors, one of the hall of Famer, is wearing the Chinese shoe. That is just a stolen Nike shoe. It's Ulta, I think, is the brand.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I was looking them up on Amazon when I was reading this story. They look exactly like. Because I have a pair of the super fancy Nike running shoes that I use for walking. But you're old. They're so amazingly comfortable. They're unlike anything I've ever worn before. They're like, you don't have shoes on.

[Joe Getty]

You got a tip? A brother.

[Jack Armstrong]

They're so unreal. The first time I ever put them on, I Thought this is nuts, so I sprung for him. Anywho, Ulta, the Chinese brand makes one exactly like it, except it's $99 instead of $299. Yeah, and, and, and they got those on Amazon. We ought, if you want to promote communist Chinese.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. We ought to treat people sporting those like they got swastikas on their feet. 1943. Come on, come on. Nevermind China. Come on, America. Oh, the self hatred. It makes me insane. How can you be so blind? What do you call it, a gratitude exercise or write a list or something? It's just, it's such a perverse intellectual deceit and you've got to so blind yourself to some, some just mountainous truths to believe that. And yet all of our academia teaches that to kids since they're little kids right through grad school. Oh, it makes me murderous. I won't murder anybody because that's a sin.

[Jack Armstrong]

But that is all correct. That is all correct. But I think most of those business people on that plane, including Trump, they're over there to just open up that giant market of a billion people, and they're perfectly happy if they can, you know, sitting around and making nice with China and making money off of them. So there's that also.

[Joe Getty]

Well, if the president takes that attitude, it's hard to yell too much about basketball players whose agents told them, hey, we can get a better deal over here. And they're like, okay, right.

[Jack Armstrong]

You sign a $40 million deal to wear that shoe and you never think about it. Let me try them.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, they're comfy. Great. Okay.

[Jack Armstrong]

I had one more point I was gonna make. Oh. And then you got the whole. Trump keeps saying, because he just landed in China, that Iran's really not, not on the agenda. I don't think it's gonna be a very big part of the. I wonder how that works, because the number one customer for Iran is China. China's their number one customer. How could that possibly not be a big part of what's being discussed here?

[Joe Getty]

For oil? Yeah, yeah, yeah, for oil. Yeah. I was reading what seemed to be a pretty even handed assessment of his Iran. The Iran situation caused more problems for the US or the, or China at the summit, who's going to have leverage. And the essence of the takeaway was it's kind of, you know, screwing up the US in a few ways. And China's got some challenges, but they're stockpiling oil and it's okay. Everybody's all right. Everybody's got some headaches, but not, not Bad ones.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'll tell you what story we're going to have to get to after we start the show officially. Oh, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday, May 13, the year 2026. We're Armstrong Getty. We approve of this program.

[Joe Getty]

All right, let's begin then, officially, according to FCC rules and regulations. Here we go at Mark. I have not lied to Congress. I didn't ask the Congress as you and I'm not testifying here, sir. And I don't lie.

[Jack Armstrong]

Maybe the next time you run up

[Joe Getty]

a seven thousand dollar bar tab, we can talk about it. Well, see, there you go line again.

[Jack Armstrong]

You suggested the FEC report.

[Joe Getty]

I'll post it. Right. You suggested it was public. It wasn't public money, as you know. That was for a 50 members.

[Jack Armstrong]

So it was a $7,000 bar tab.

[Joe Getty]

What was that? Oh, my God. That was yet another low moment in American history. Cash Patel and Senator Dipstick Van Holland arguing about who's the harder drinker at what was passed off as a Senate hearing. But it was just a sniping fest. It was, oh, poor George Washington rolling over in his grave.

[Jack Armstrong]

What was the topic there? The bar tab? That they used taxpayer money for the bar tab or they drink too much? It was a claim that Cash Patel drinks too much.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Van Hollen was saying that he had episodes of drinking and absences and his staff couldn't reach him. All that stuff. What was it then? The New York Times for a minute and Cash Patel, not content to deny, went on the counterattack and accused Holland of running up a van Hollen of $7,000 bar tab for some staff meeting. And he's like, well, that wasn't public money. Yeah, it was probably campaign contributor money. And you got them a tunnel or a, you know, easier regulations or whatever.

[Jack Armstrong]

Look, if the topic is how much we drink, who paid for the drinks is not the issue at this point. Which what, what are we talking about? We talking about how we spend taxpayer money or how much we drink? That's what I would have said.

[Joe Getty]

You're a drunk. You're a drunk.

[Jack Armstrong]

We're going to the topic of who drank the most. Sounds like you drank the most. Here's the story we gotta get to. And you never know if it's true or not. Cause after Russiagate, there were so many stories in the New York Times, Washington Post, other places that turned out to be completely bogus from unnamed sources. But New York Times got a big story out today, quoting a whole bunch of people in our intelligence community that Iran has way more missiles and rockets and rocket launchers and all that sort of stuff than we were led to believe.

[Joe Getty]

Like lots. Yeah. Their arsenal is more or less intact according to that story. Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Which if it's true, is horrifying. What did we get for those 15,000 strikes? How did we not. How did we not take those out? I mean, I don't know anything about this. Maybe it makes perfectly good sense, but I'm surprised that they still have that capability.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. It didn't have the feel of a Russiagate pile of crap to me.

[Jack Armstrong]

It did not.

[Joe Getty]

They certainly have every interest in declaring, you know, Trump a failure.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I haven't yet heard anybody come out and say that's absolutely not true.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Yeah, we'll, we'll bring you the facts and figures. They're surprising.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Surprising and troubling. So we got headlines on the way and a bunch of other news. I hope you can stay here.

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[Jack Armstrong]

So later we'll have to get into the Musk Altman OpenAI trial that's going on in Oakland. Here's my funniest, my favorite tidbit from yesterday. Altman, I think himself complaining that in one key meeting when this whole thing was coming apart, Elon wouldn't pay any attention. All he did was kept People showing people funny memes on his phone. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Which you can picture.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. So one kind of non headline, just very briefly, because you don't spread news that's not yours to spread. I will just say this about this segment and the person who usually participates in it. Everything's great. Everything's great. Moving along. Inflation ticked up. Maybe you heard that we've got kind of a breakdown. It's rising energy costs were the main factor. Although, interestingly. And I'm not going to get into the bond markets. I mean, you could put an insomniac to sleep with a discussion of the bond markets. But the way they're acting is serious. Serious investors are thinking, yeah, higher inflation for an extended period, like maybe years and probably no rate cuts. So we're going to bet accordingly.

[Jack Armstrong]

Really?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't like hearing that. Oh, I hate it here.

[Joe Getty]

I hate telling you that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, my God.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I know.

[Jack Armstrong]

We were talking to a real estate expert the other day saying people who didn't buy, like five years ago. Raising both of my hands.

[Joe Getty]

Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Thinking that, you know what? Things have got to come down. Yeah. Missed out and they may never get back in. And that's the way I feel. I thought there's no way houses stay this high. And with interest rates where they're just. I'm waiting. I'm not going to get fooled this time.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I wait.

[Joe Getty]

I'm not going all 2006 again.

[Jack Armstrong]

Exactly.

[Joe Getty]

I'm no fool. You know, I just missed out. I did buy in the sweet spot. Thank you, Lord. And that news makes me want to despair. Just the wackiness of the economy. Here's my favorite economic statistic. And Jack, I know this is gonna hit you hard. You might wanna sit down. Breakdown of goods and services, blah, blah, blah. The price of canned produce rose 5.7%.

[Jack Armstrong]

Damn it.

[Joe Getty]

In the previous year.

[Jack Armstrong]

My green beans.

[Joe Getty]

I do love canned produce. Great Scott. This is the US of A. We get it fresh here. God, I remember the veggies we had to choke down as a kid. Overcooked. Out of a. God, I'm gagging thinking about it. I thought I hated vegetables. Then I started getting them fresh and I'm like, wow, this is great.

[Jack Armstrong]

I've seen them on plates at places I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, boy.

[Jack Armstrong]

So the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Care Stormer, may be going down. There's a possibility they're going to call for a new election. And he's got like an approval rating at like 15% currently bounce back. And so they might be going down to whatever extent you care about that.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I do.

[Jack Armstrong]

But be nice to have somebody that might be a little more friendly toward us. He's super out there, hates the United

[Joe Getty]

States and yeah, he's a left wing wackadoodle. I read more into that Sweden's big free market turnaround thing. You had to read down into it. We talked about this briefly yesterday. I'd love to get into it in more detail today. But you had to read down a ways to hear people admit that. Yeah, we let all sorts of quote unquote refugees and immigrants in who don't buy into our morals or our culture or our system. And they're forming gangs and they're doing crimes and they're ripping off our generous state welfare system in ways that we didn't realize people would. We thought everyone was like us. Everything is downstream of culture. Don't give away your culture.

[Jack Armstrong]

So yesterday we never really got into that mayor of Arcadia suburb of Los Angeles who turned out to be working for the Chinese Communist party. And it fits in with the chick that was sexing up the billionaire owner of the Milwaukee Bucks.

[Joe Getty]

Oh right.

[Jack Armstrong]

She, it turns out just came out today. She is also tied to the Communist party. And it's just an overall story of China's done a better job of getting spies into our country and getting themselves into our politics or into our billionaires pants or whatever they're trying to do or our congressman's beds or you know, whatever, wherever they're trying to go From

[Joe Getty]

China from 24 year old sex pots to geek scientists who are grad assistants at your local university. Yeah, they have and I remember. When was it? When did we talk about this a lot. But the whole of society campaigned to undermine the United States and surpass us. Like every trade, every profession, every person is tasked with doing that.

[Jack Armstrong]

So the big explosive story about how much more capability Iran has in terms of rockets and launchers and all that sort of stuff, we can give you some of the details on that. It's troubling.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty support for the show

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[Joe Getty]

Are you aware of reports that Pakistan are allowing their bases to be used to park Iranian aircraft? General King?

[Jack Armstrong]

Sir, I've seen one report on that.

[Joe Getty]

Well, is it accurate? Sir, I think based on the variety of classification matters. Let me just say, do you agree

[Jack Armstrong]

if it is accurate, that is sort of inconsistent with it being a peace mediator? Sir, I wouldn't want to comment on that based on the ongoing negotiations. I don't know why he didn't want to talk about that. That's Secretary My word. Lindsey Graham, our senator Lindsey Graham, talking to Kane. General Kane, yeah. And General Kane didn't want to go there for whatever reason, and Lindsey Graham kind of lost his mind a little later. Maybe we'll play that later about how angry he got. Not about, you know, I don't trust these guys. No, you shouldn't trust them. They. They hid bin Laden from us and they're letting Iran park their planes so they can't be blown up and all kinds of other stuff. And they're the arbiters for this peace deal.

[Joe Getty]

It's ridiculous anyway.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't want to get off on that. This is the story that's getting so much attention today. It's in the New York Times. The Trump administration's public portrayal of a shattered Iranian military is sharply at odds with what US Intelligence agencies are telling policymakers behind closed doors. This is according to classified assessments from early this month that show Iran has regained access to most of its missile sites, launchers, and underground facilities. Most alarming to some senior officials is evidence that Iran has restored operational access to 30 of the 33 missile sites it maintains along the Strait of Hormuz.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, my.

[Jack Armstrong]

Which, of course, could threaten American warships and oil tankers transiting the narrow waterways. So I don't. I don't know anything about this, so I can't claim Incompetence or, you know, anything really. I don't know anything about this, but I'm just shocked with, after all that bombing and the idea that we had decimated their ability to, you know, fire back at us, that we, you know, really had some supremacy in the skies and could do whatever we wanted, that they got 30 of 33 rocket launchers still going along the strait.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, we do have supremacy in the sky and all that sort of stuff. But it looks, and we ought to talk to Mike Lyons about this.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm going to tomorrow.

[Joe Getty]

It looks like they, they, they went to ground in a way. They, they hid their stuff and buried it or whatever, took it deep underground knowing that the attacks were coming in

[Jack Armstrong]

general for the whole country. Iran still fields about 70% of its mobile launchers across the country and has retained roughly 70% of its pre war missile stockpile. According to the assessments. That stockpile encompasses both ballistic missiles which can target other nations in the region, and a smaller supply of cruise missiles which can be used against shorter range targets on land or at sea. That is pretty troubling stuff. Now, at the same time, the story came out today that yesterday the story came out that the UAE had also bombed Iran during this whole war. Today the story's out that Saudi Arabia joined Israel and us in the bombing and kept it quiet the whole time for obvious reasons. I mean, that could disrupt a lot of their population. I mean, if it was a big splashy headline that Saudi Arabia joins the Jews in bobbing Muslims.

[Joe Getty]

Well, you write that headline in Saudi, you get your hands chopped off if you're lucky. Yeah, yeah. And they say they have regained access to roughly 90% of its underground missile storage and launch facilities nationwide. I'm reminded of our last conversation with Mike Lyons in which we were talking about the fact that given the narrowness of the Strait of Hormuz and you know, just the modern weaponry, drones and otherwise, you, you practically cannot eliminate a country's capacity to do violence. All you can do is eliminate their will to do violence by beating them down so hard they say, let me up, I've had enough.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't understand it, but it's clearly true. Having lived through, well, Vietnam as a really little kid, when I, I, you know, was reading about it later, when I got older, but also Iraq, Afghanistan, now Iran, you just can't accomplish what you need to accomplish with air power. You just can't, apparently. And it doesn't quite make sense to me, but it clearly is true. Unless you're gonna put, you know, 100,000 troops on the ground and go through cities with guys you can't do what you want to do, apparently.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, there's a hell of a lot you can do by putting, say, a missile launching system on an elevator and taking it six stories underground. Apparently, then we have to use our super giant ordinance to get to those. And if you have hundreds of them, well, it's just, it's tough to make that happen. You got to get your enemy to capitulate

[Jack Armstrong]

so we can move on to other topics. But it certainly seems to me on this, that, and if Trump is going to, as he said again yesterday before he got on the plane headed to China, if he says, if he's sticking to his guns, and I sure hope he is, that, look, only one thing matters. They are not going to get a nuclear weapon, then we got to go back to bombing the crap out of them.

[Joe Getty]

Probably. Yeah, yeah. Can't imagine any other reason.

[Jack Armstrong]

The other thing that he's not going to say out loud, but I think is also true. They can't control the Strait of Hormuz.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

So I think that's just as true. If those two things are absolutes, no nukes, straight opens back up again, we got to start bombing the crap out of them again.

[Joe Getty]

Even then, it's going to be a tough nut to crack, especially the straight. Given what I was saying about, you know, capability and drones and the rest of it, here's what I love about events and laws and things that human beings do that I always accuse the left of not taking into consideration. There are secondary effects if a happens. How will people adjust? What will they do that will change the world? And convoys of heavy duty trucks are now barreling across the Arabian desert as an escape valve from the jammed up Strait of Hormuz. And it's just absolutely spectacular.

[Jack Armstrong]

Moving stuff across the border by land.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, exactly. Lots and lots and lots of trucks, mostly running around the clock, two drivers each. There's an executive, Alcoa, former executive, who's been watching this unfold and has connections. He says 600 trucks became 1600, became 2000. Now we've got 3500 trucks running from the Gulf to the Red Sea. They paused just long enough to refuel while one dude sleeps in the back.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's interesting because I didn't bring this the other day. Some Iranian foreign minister speakers, whatever, said our border is twice the length of the distance across the United States. Our entire border around our country. You can't police all of that. We can move stuff over land and get stuff in and out of the country that way. I thought that does sound like a problem.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Yeah. So here's an expert said they will have caught up. Well, okay, so he's in the fertilizer business, this one guy being quoted. Who he is doesn't matter that much.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sun Tzu or whatever the name of that guy is who wrote the Art of War. Yeah, he's got to have some saying in there, this truism. The other side gets a vote because that is the most truest thing about all fights and wars and business deals or whatever. Oh yeah, the other side gets a vote. You can come up with your plan, but they get to come up with their plan. And you don't always guess correctly what that's going to be.

[Joe Getty]

Right. So here's the CEO of a Saudi state controlled mining company that was caught up in the blockade and serious about it and helped get the giant number of trucks going. He said they'll have caught up on its export backlog by the end of May. He said, whether I truly believe we could do it or not, I don't know. The drive is making a meaningful dent in a fertilizer shortage that's threatening the global food supply. But we're making real progress.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's the only current leverage we have if we're not going to bomb. The idea is we're crushing their economy because they can't get anything in or out. Well if they are getting things in and out and if they're caught back up to normal in two weeks, then we got no leverage other than bombing. Wow, that's quite a development.

[Joe Getty]

Yikes.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's gonna be fun to watch.

[Joe Getty]

Yikes. The IRGC is no fathead Maduro.

[Jack Armstrong]

Are we supposed. We're supposed to do an ad here? Oh, I've got such a great tease for a story that, I mean you talk about a story that's in the Armstrong and Getty show wheelhouse. I got a story for you. We'll tell you about it after this

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Jack Armstrong]

So what's the rattiest city in America? Oh, Los Angeles. What is number two? San Francisco. Oh, but in the LA Times today

[Joe Getty]

because of the housing costs, right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Rats and other vermin spark notable restaurant closures by LA Health department. Whole bunch of restaurants closed down for at least 48 hours this last month because a rat and other problems.

[Joe Getty]

You're not helping people think about the hantavirus less with this story and including

[Jack Armstrong]

some big name restaurants like Dantana's in West Hollywood and a bunch other places that lots of celebrities go where they got rat droppings and whatnot.

[Joe Getty]

But anyway, even Ratatouille had to close his restaurant.

[Jack Armstrong]

We can get into some of the details of the story, which I find pretty entertaining. Well, some of the details are disgusting and then some of the ways that they resolve it are entertaining. Really? Well, it's like retraining staff. It's like the, you know, you know that. Which is always the joke. It's like, you know, if you have sexual harassment, they, they retrain people. Oh, I'm not supposed to sexually harass. Nobody told me.

[Joe Getty]

So I'm, I'm supposed to grab her ass. No, no, no. Okay.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, oh, oh. I'm not supposed to feed the rats.

[Joe Getty]

And if you are bringing out the plate to the diner and there's a rat on the plate, don't bring it to the table. Okay?

[Jack Armstrong]

Don't bring it to the table.

[Joe Getty]

Right. Slow down, I'm making notes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, so we'll get to that story. Love that. We've got mailbag on the way.

[Joe Getty]

Stay here, Armstrong, and get foreign.

[Jack Armstrong]

Talking about all the LA restaurants hit with citations for vermin infestations. It points out that it's support for

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[Jack Armstrong]

Not just rats and rat droppings that cause this problem. It could also be cockroaches or flies. Flies is really a step down from rats. I mean, I don't want a lot of flies, but it's a different level of. You got flies in your kitchen. I eat at your house. Yeah, I don't dig it.

[Joe Getty]

But.

[Jack Armstrong]

But when rats running around come on. And it's not just restaurant, it's also a couple of school cafeterias and multiple 7 11s. The old 7 11, as in you'll find in your Slurpee between 7 and 11 rat droppings. No, that's not true. That's actually not true. No need to sue us.

[Joe Getty]

Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Just looking for new quotes about freedom. Aung Sand Su Ki, who was the activist in won the Nobel Prize, one of your Asian countries. The only real prison is fear and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. I'd try that, but I'm afraid to carry Jones, whose work I don't know. Similarly, the secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. There you go. Be courageous, friends. Quit being a scaredy cat. Mailbag. Drop us a Note [e-mail] here's your meme of the day. San Francisco is banning outdoor smoking. I missed that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Who is San Francisco outdoor smoking?

[Joe Getty]

Smoke pot. But anyway, I'll finish this and we can discuss.

[Jack Armstrong]

You can't smoke in the bar or outside the bar.

[Joe Getty]

Correct?

[Jack Armstrong]

That's not. There's no way you can make that work.

[Joe Getty]

San Francisco is banning outdoor smoking because the last thing people want to do is smell a disgusting cigarette it while they're pooping on the sidewalk.

[Jack Armstrong]

Now, now, now.

[Joe Getty]

Now that San Francisco is trying. They're doing better. They got a new mayor.

[Jack Armstrong]

Are they going to enforce the no smoking in the whole city, though?

[Joe Getty]

I don't know much about it. Yeah, I have no idea. Here's a note from Ken. Listen to your show. Talking about Michael Jackson, which we were yesterday. I had contact with a couple of the Santa Barbara sheriff's investigators back in the day who were looking into the allegations. Children were able to describe specific features about his penis. How would a child be able to do that without completely inappropriate behavior happening? He paid off the families, forced NDAs to stay out of jail. He was absolutely guilty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Booty rumbles.

[Joe Getty]

I also knew. Oh boy. I also knew people that Worked at Neverland Ranch and nurses at the Santa Ynez Hospital. They all said he was incredibly nice and charming. A skill he used for his predatory behavior.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, if you want to learn about the booty rumbles, we went through that whole story yesterday.

[Joe Getty]

If you don't, that's fine too. One final pop. Culturally. Culturally. Note. We were talking about Mickey Mantle yesterday in the context that all of the men in his family died young. So he just partied like a maniac, figuring he was going to die anyway. Hastening his death. Right. Better hitter than thinker, as it turns out. But what are you going to do? We got this note from E. Mickey Mantle was a friend of my dad's. Cool. When he moved to Lake Oconee, Georgia. Is that how you pronounce it?

[Jack Armstrong]

He was fun to hang out with.

[Joe Getty]

He would hang out at my dad's house and got drunk as a three eyed monkey.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know that one.

[Joe Getty]

I didn't know what it means. But it's funny. I was in college at the time and was visiting my dad and he was there. He signed a Mickey Mantle 4x6 photo card for me and asked me what my apartment number was. So I told him. He wrote to room 214. Best time I ever had. Mickey Mantle. I thought, what a drunk pig. Wow. Charming tale of the baseball great. Drunk is a three eyed monkey.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, if I still drank, I'd use that one. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

On slightly more serious subjects, Michael, longtime correspondent Michael writes. Guys, I have a very dumb question. This trip to China with the President and all of the big names. Yeah. Cabinet officials. Marco's going, Pete's going. And a bunch of like super heavyweight business people from the us what's to stop China from doing something terrible from. For. From locking everyone in the. In a Chinese prison or even worse. Sentence is a bit of a trip. But the whole group are seen as evil by the left for associating with Trump. So there'd be no media backlash in the U.S. and Democrat politicians would say it's deserved it. Seems like the whole world would just kind of shrug it off like they do with everything. Not sure JD Vance would or could do anything formidable in response. Maybe I'm just crazy. Well, that would be an act of war. I mean that would be a declaration of war.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm not worried about that occurrence.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I think maybe you are crazy, Michael. But have a good day and thanks for the note. Let's see. Adam with a note about. Oh, I guess we talked about this. One more thing or something. Gavin Newsom in Cal Unicornia persuaded the legislature to what's the difference of outlaw? Legalize jaywalking. Because jaywalking charges fell disproportionately on people of color. And any sane person would say, well, do they do it disproportionately? That's why.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I think it had a lot to do with the homeless situation too. So you don't have to. You can just let the homeless wander around.

[Joe Getty]

Right. And. Or legitimate drug addicts. Well, right, yeah. Citizens law abiding citizens were like, you just gave me a ticket for this while five junkies went across the street. Well, we can't do anything about that because they don't have an address and we can't find them because they won't pay. So we just enforce the law against the law abiding. But anyway, numbers have just come out about the rapid increase in pedestrian deaths around the capital of Sacramento, where I

[Jack Armstrong]

will be today at noon for this thing I've been going to every Wednesday. And the junkie population there is stunning. Yeah, I had no idea it was that bad because I hadn't been right there on that street on the other side of the Capitol in a while. It's incredible. It's so gross.

[Joe Getty]

And Adam Rice, the timing was sadly perfect after you guys were just talking about suicidal empathy, which I want to talk about more. But when our genius governor signed off on the freedom to walk act, I just vomited in my mouth a little bit.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's freedom to walk.

[Joe Getty]

I made a mental note to check some obviously affected statistics after giving it some time. Ba ba ba. The decriminalization of jaywalking wasn't mentioned in the article, but it seems like a pretty obvious reason. I don't know what else to say. It's pretty low on my list of worries added to the things that make me feel like I live in the movie Idiocracy. Cheers. Same to you, Adam. Cheers. Get as drunk as a three eyed monkey.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh boy. Too bad about all the rat droppings in the restaurants.

[Joe Getty]

Your policy sucks and does the opposite of what you intend. But it makes me feel good and it sounds noble. Oh my God, grow up.

[Jack Armstrong]

We got a lot more stuff we gotta get to. If you miss a segment, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand. Some interesting stuff happened in the OpenAI Sam Altman Elon Musk trial. Just. Oh, there's new numbers out also. Should we. We should hit that do stick around.

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