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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack
Joe Getty
Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
Jack Armstrong
We're so close to the 4th of July. Of course Joe and I aren't actually here. We're out there trying not to blow our thumbs off with variety of firecrackers.
Joe Getty
We got one thumb left. Anyway, happy birthday, America. So happy and proud to be an American.
Jack Armstrong
Now more of the Armstrong and Getty replay.
Joe Getty
I wasn't sure I was going to bring it up, but I had one of my more Homer Simpson esque moments. I almost. Michael, did you have any luck in finding theme music? I'll let you know. But I almost forgot to ask Michael to get theme music because I was sitting here contemplating which do I like more cornbread, which I brought up yesterday as perhaps the best thing in the world or fresh made banana bread. That's what I was thinking.
Jack Armstrong
They're so different, but they're both instead
Joe Getty
of, you know, my work duties here.
Jack Armstrong
Well, completely different flavor. But I would right now, if I had a warm piece with butter of each, which would I reach for first? Oh, one's obviously sweeter than the other.
Joe Getty
Usually both proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Jack Armstrong
No kidding. I, I, I think I threatened this last year as like a resolution learning to make good banana bread. And I still would like to do that like recipes and try a couple things and become good at it. Just made the. I can't cook anything but make just get good at banana bread.
Joe Getty
Katie, where do you stand on banana bread?
Show Contributor (Michael)
I, I could eat an entire loaf.
Joe Getty
It's a problem.
Jack Armstrong
I have eaten an entire loaf. That's one of the problems. I'm going to be very large if I start making banana bread on a regular basis.
Show Contributor (Michael)
I'll have to give you. Oh no, sorry.
Jack Armstrong
Go ahead, Michael. It's healthy.
Show Contributor (Michael)
It's got bananas in it.
Jack Armstrong
That's, that's what we all say.
Show Contributor (Michael)
I'll have to share with you the recipe that I have for banana blueberry muffins that has zero flour.
Joe Getty
Oh, that's the one. You use that to me yesterday, right? Yeah. I've got to alert the, the chef and the, the baker in the family to that I forgot bananas, blueberries, two
Show Contributor (Michael)
eggs and a teaspoon of baking soda. That is it.
Jack Armstrong
But no flour.
Show Contributor (Michael)
No flour. In it. I. I have eaten two of those muffins every morning for breakfast for the last week.
Jack Armstrong
I think you're a witch. That's not possible. All right, I'll have to try it.
Joe Getty
So welcome to these Untied States. It's an anagram of these United States. And actually I thought of going with these Untied, which is also an anagram of the United States, but have an
Jack Armstrong
extra S and it'd be distracting. And with governor Walls the other day saying, is Minneapolis this century's Fort Sumter?
Joe Getty
In other words, that's an idiotic thing to suggest.
Jack Armstrong
In other words, a civil war kicking
Joe Getty
off again, only the stupidest of dodo heads would even propose that. Mr. Governor, sir. So it's just a look around some stories that are happening in various states and cities around the country. This one, Prince George's County, Maryland. There is a condominium community that the WOKE sanctuary. Ish. What did I just say? Prince George's county has permitted a bum camp to spring up next to big giant junkie camp. Members of the homeless encampment in the condo's backyard constantly sneak in to use it as a crack house, a bathroom, an open air drug market. They steal wires out of the walls. They're breaking into buildings, smoking crack in the stairwells. Tenants must navigate needles, feces, and sleeping bodies as addicts nap half naked in the hallways.
Jack Armstrong
Needles, feces and bodies. Okay.
Joe Getty
And there's a bunch of junkies sleeping in the stairwell where these people live. The authorities got word that the condominium complex was getting damaged. So they came by to check it out and said, we're evicting everybody who lives in the condo complex. The junkie camp stays. That's the stuff of revolutions. Yeah, it really is.
Jack Armstrong
That'd be pretty maddening.
Joe Getty
Believable gang activity too. Let's take a look at San Francisco where the teachers are about to go on strike. Theoretically. And one of the reasons is that. And it's funny, it takes many paragraphs in this WOKE news outlet to get to the fact that among their demands is a proposal that the district adds sanctuary district policy language which says it is committed to protecting immigrant students. And also a written commitment from the district to continue its current emergency shutdown shelter housing program for families. Teachers unions are leftist political organizations. Right now, that's all they are. They happen to represent the teachers in their free time, but they're mostly leftist.
Jack Armstrong
Why are you involved in this?
Joe Getty
Yeah, I know.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Gotta be a sanctuary city. This one is merely amusing. I think we're. Are Most of us familiar with the phenomenon that when it gets really cold in Florida, the iguanas fall out of
Jack Armstrong
the trees because they're asleep or what happens there.
Joe Getty
They're cold blooded. Check it and see.
Jack Armstrong
So they, they, they pass out under a certain temperature.
Joe Getty
Yeah, essentially, yeah. They just, they freeze up and are, are super groggy. All of their function, including brain function just slows down to practically a stop and they fall out of the tree.
Jack Armstrong
I wonder what that's happened. There was a. I had an iguana fall right next to me. And where was I? Florida over the summer. And I'm sitting in this big giant hanging chair under a awning thing at the beach and just as happy as could be. But this big giant iguana thump right next to me and I wonder if that's what happened there.
Joe Getty
Yeah, probably so. But what I'd forgotten about all this is iguanas are invasive. They don't want the bastards in Florida. And so they were paying, paying premiums for people around up as many as they could round up people. Well, it was cold for.
Jack Armstrong
Hit him with a, hit him with a hammer and put them in a sack.
Joe Getty
Just bag them up and bring them in. They snuffed them. Yeah. They reminded people don't stop inside to like have breakfast with your bag of iguanas because they'll warm up and chew on your hands. In warm temperatures, iguanas are almost impossible to nab. You need either a gun or a 15 foot long pole with an invisible lasso attached to it, according to this iguana expert.
Jack Armstrong
Okay, well then the fact that the iguana fell right next to me almost had to be that situation. It was early in the morning, so maybe it was just crumbling.
Joe Getty
Yeah, but the dipping temperatures created a new opportunity last weekend. And this director of iguana something or other decided to temporarily pivot to a quest he dubbed a Florida man Easter egg hunt for dinosaurs. Which is a good name. Oh, back to a teachers union. This is Raise Up Massachusetts, a lobbying group backed by the Massachusetts Teachers association and the state's American Federation of Te branch, which filed a lawsuit last week to have a tax cut declared unconstitutional because the language on the ballot fails to inform petition signers and voters that the tax cut would apply to capital gains in addition to wages and interests. Ballot measures a response to a separate referendum which was pushed by the unions during a low turnout vote that raised the state's income tax an additional 4%.
Jack Armstrong
So is the argument that tax cut and then people think their taxes are going to be cut, but it's only for people who have capital gains and interest on investments. So it's only for.
Joe Getty
That's their argument.
Jack Armstrong
Certain.
Joe Getty
But the teachers union's real purpose is we just, we don't want to give up any money. We want more taxes, higher taxes. And finally this for oh, two things for our Oregonian friends. First of all, Portland area County, it's Multnomah county, which is where Portland is launched a sanctuary fund providing taxpayer funded grants to assist illegal immigrants, part of a quarter million dollar package approved by Multnomah county commissioners to help out illegals. Proud sanctuary jurisdiction. And finally this, and this is interesting. A taxpayer revolt could shake up Oregon politics. Nearly 200,000 Oregonians signed a petition to put a tax repeal proposal on the ballot. They did it entirely without professional signature gatherers. It was just volunteers and they delivered some 193,000 signatures. It was a lump of coal and progressive stockings, writes Jeff Eager in the Wall Street Journal. The organizers of the repeal effort, weary of being taxed at some of the highest rates in the nation, gathered signatures in about a month to give the voters the chance to rescind a $4.3 billion tax hike that Governor Tina Kotak and her allies shoved through the legislature along party lines. The progressive paradise of Oregon seeing a taxpayer revolt.
Jack Armstrong
So that's which is just interesting. So that's an example of you can go too far for everybody. They went too far in San Francisco. They finally decided to hire somebody different to be mayor and get rid of the homeless people. Maybe they got too far. They went too far with legalized drugs in Oregon and people decided that ain't working right now. Maybe the same thing with taxes.
Joe Getty
Yeah, there are so many states, California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois that are big red states full of reasonable people who are outnumbered by the wackadoodles of the big cities who, unlike the people in the red districts who don't give a crap, the people in the blue districts think everybody should live the way I want to live. And I'm going to pass lots of rules that demand they live like I want people to live. That's these Untied States
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Joe Getty
These Untied teats.
Jack Armstrong
Except you have to add an extra
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Jack Armstrong
Ashley St. Clair is sounding the alarm after Elon Musk, Musk's AI chatbot Grok generated and published sexualized deep fake images without her permission and shared them on X. How does it make you feel when you See your likeness being manipulated like that.
Joe Getty
The worst for me was seeing myself undressed, bent over, and then my toddler's backpack.
Jack Armstrong
Oh my God, this whole thing. So there's a number of things going on here. First of all, the vocal fry of the person on CBS News talking to Ashley St. Clair. Ashley St. Clair, if you don't know who she is, is one of the baby mamas of Elon Musk. Here's what's going to happen. If you're really, really rich and you have like a dozen women you paid to have kids with you by, by odds and percentages, some of them are going to be crazy or annoying.
Joe Getty
Yes.
Jack Armstrong
And this particular one, she and Elon
Joe Getty
are in a battle over their one year old.
Jack Armstrong
Elon says she's trying to transition the kid.
Joe Getty
So now she is a one year old.
Jack Armstrong
A one year old.
Joe Getty
Oh, Lord. And she's an activist. Lefty, I guess. Yeah, I'm assuming.
Jack Armstrong
And now she's firing back at Elon with this to me stupid story of people out there created deep fakes of me naked. Yeah, you can do that with any woman on earth. So the fact that it's you bent over or whatever position it's in, whatever. And so she's contacted these various countries. Some countries have banned Grok because of deep fake sexual stuff. So she's fighting back against Elon on this front because he's trying to get full custody their kid over the whole trans thing. That's what's going on here. This is like a, you know, ugly divorce situation is what it is.
Joe Getty
That's ridiculous. Okay.
Jack Armstrong
While the issue still is interesting and important, I just don't think there's anything you can do about it that AI. There's, there's going to be AI out there somewhere. Even if you make this one or that one doesn't do it, there are plenty others that will that are going to be able to turn any woman's picture into her naked or having sex or whatever you want it to be. And that, that sucks. But I, I don't know. I don't. I'm not a woman, so I don't
Joe Getty
know how I would react.
Jack Armstrong
But that's not me. That's my head on something else. So I don't know.
Joe Getty
Katie, thoughts?
Show Contributor (Michael)
I. I think before this whole AI thing became such a huge obvious situation, like a nude popping up would be like, oh my God. But now that it's, I mean, it's so blatantly obvious at this point.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I've seen some of these where it is incredibly blatant, obvious. I mean, the head's not the right size for the body or facing the wrong direction or whatever. And how damaged are you by that?
Joe Getty
I think you've been right all along, especially for girls in school or whatever. People are giggling about it, making jokes about it. That would be a horrible.
Jack Armstrong
Sure, of course it would be.
Joe Getty
But especially among adults. Look, this sort of thing is going to be omnipresent. Has nothing to do with you. It's jackasses doing. You know what jackasses do. Move on with your life. It doesn't affect you if you don't let it affect you.
Jack Armstrong
Well, and to CBS to sit down with her and take her complaints seriously and pretend they don't know that they're in a battle over their child for custody. Come on, that's.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah.
Jack Armstrong
What are you doing here? Another angle. Well, here's Elon defending Grok over this. First of all, Elon Musk defiantly defending his AI chat Bob Grock's ability to digitally undress images of real people as countries around the world take action against the AI tool after Grok's X account was flooded with requests to create deepfake, non consensual, nearly nude images of adults and in some cases children. X has said it is taking action against those who prompted Grok to create sexually exploitative images of children and has since restricted image generation request on Grok's X account to paid subscribers, though users can still digitally undress images by chatting with Grok directly. So you have to be a paid subscriber, which I'm not to Grok to do that. I, I'm not doing that. But. And, and so you can ban it, but it sounds like you can get around it by having a conversation for a while with Grok. Right.
Joe Getty
I just, I, I understand why people are outraged, but I mean, if I was like a really, really gifted artist and I could draw brilliantly, I could draw a picture of Hillary Clinton naked. Yeah. For instance. My longtime dream, you know, and then where are we? Is that illegal now too? I don't. You've been right all along. Just got to get used to this because there's no stopping it. Here's Euros are completely unrealistic.
Jack Armstrong
They are. Here's one more clip from that story. Elon Musk repeatedly attacked UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on X and reposted AI generated images of him in a bikini.
Joe Getty
Well, that's out of bounds.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know what his point. Well, Elon just likes trolling people yes, but he might have been here.
Joe Getty
Starmers are putz and screws with the Internet too much.
Jack Armstrong
But he might. Oh yeah, and they got a list of how many people they've put in jail over tweets and stuff like that. They, they out stretch any country in the world by far on that in Great Britain. But Elon's point might have been, here you are in a bikini. How much damage was done? Everybody knows that's not you, right on the beach.
Joe Getty
I mean, what's the.
Jack Armstrong
What. What are you angry about?
Joe Getty
That'd be a good point. Hey, I got a quick Supreme Court update thingy very quickly to clarify on the transgender athlete thing. Remember, the Supreme Court doesn't decide cases. It answers questions. It settles questions. And they intentionally took a case as to whether states may ban transgender athletes based on the equal protection clause of the Constitution. They did not take a case on whether states must ban trans athletes based on Title 9. So my dream of them saying, please, that's why Title IX exists, forget it.
Jack Armstrong
And that's why I think that will die. Blue states will just keep doing what they were doing, right? Until we'll have to see different sort of case comes along. And then what about he up in Idaho?
Joe Getty
You gotta change your name if you're
Jack Armstrong
gonna get involved in this. You should.
Show Contributor (Michael)
Armstrong and Getty show the Armstrong and Daddy show.
Joe Getty
Armstrong and Getty.
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the Armstrong and Getty Show Arms. Our school children are being indoctrinated in a lot of our government schools into far left ideology, radical gender theory, socialism. Just that whole gamut of anti racism hating white people, blaming white. Just all of them. Every day they're taught that and it's absolutely sickening. I give you this from Winters High School. This is a small rural community in Northern California, not far from where the high school students walked out to hold an anti ice protest and a local mom was there, didn't love it and held up a Trump sign. Here's how that went. Her sign was torn down, she was pulled off the box she was standing on. Madness and violence ensued.
Jack Armstrong
That's unbelievable. That's like the sound I expect out of kids if a school shooter is on campus.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. Or something you said earlier. That is straight out of the Cultural Revolution in China. Where Mao turned the kids against their
Jack Armstrong
parents, which never made sense to me. I read about it years ago. I've read about it a lot. And it was always like, is there something different about Chinese culture where people could get this angry and attack people in the streets who are wearing eyeglasses because they're intellectuals and drag them through the streets and beat them. And now I'm seeing that level of anger over things happen in my own country at very young ages.
Joe Getty
I think it was Lenin who said. It was somebody like Lennon who said, give me one generation, I can rule the world. Just let me put their minds of one generation.
Jack Armstrong
Can you play the beginning of that again? It's just a listen to the fever pitch.
Joe Getty
And how old are these K kids? High schoolers. Howling for blood, screaming in hatred. And then this is middle school students in Seattle, Washington. These kids look to be maybe 12. Maybe 12. We are all humans, no matter the race, no disgrace. We all deserve a place.
Jack Armstrong
And we shouldn't have to pick up
Joe Getty
our face because a police officer isn't our face for crazy white lady sprays is missed. We're getting deported by ice and I can't understand why everyone can't suffice. We have might, so we must fight just for our rights.
Jack Armstrong
Look at the future and set our sights.
Joe Getty
Guys, cook. Our system is cooked.
Jack Armstrong
Booked.
Joe Getty
Our president tried to book Shook.
Show Contributor (Michael)
Every time we see an officer, we shouldn't be shook.
Joe Getty
Look, we shouldn't be judged on the way we look.
Show Contributor (Michael)
We can shine as we work together.
Joe Getty
Who knows, maybe like a phoenix, we will continue. Yeah, F ice. They said in the middle of it in a middle school. They've been carefully taught. Carefully taught.
Jack Armstrong
How many violently angry protests were you involved in as a child? Not zero. Any for me.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. It's absolutely sick. And we've let it happen under our watch. And it's. I think it may be the biggest problem in America right now and nobody, certainly nobody in the lamestream media talks about it. But I wanted to get to this. This is so good. Sam Abrams is a professor at Sarah Lawrence College in Westchester county just north of New York City. You can picture what that's like. High dollar, private liberal arts college. But he wrote an essay that's getting a lot of attention and I love it. I recently. Oh, that reminds me. There was another great essay by a professor who some keffiyeh wearing down with Israel, up with the Palestinians folks interrupted a lecture he was doing and he said the more I treated them like angry little children, the more they listened. And by the end. Several of them were crying. He didn't teach to treat them as though they were big and scary, treating
Jack Armstrong
them like little children.
Joe Getty
It was amazing. More on that another time, maybe on the podcast. But anyway, Professor Abrams says, I recently walked into my politics class at Sarah Lawrence College prepared to discuss civic protest. The prompt was Minneapolis, where a recent immigration enforcement surge. We all know what happened.
Jack Armstrong
I heard about that.
Joe Getty
I plan to cover basic principles, the right to protest, the obligation to remain nonviolent, the distinction between civil obedience and coercion. My students rejected the premise almost immediately. What are we supposed to do? One asked, hold signs while people are being shot? You're asking us to play by rules that only we follow. Another said. They cited the Black Panthers. They invoked Stonewall, the famous gay uprising. They argued confidently that throughout American history, violence, or the credible threat of it, was what but forced change. Several endorsed armed confrontation with ICE as both effective and ethically justified armed confrontation.
Jack Armstrong
Did he get a chance to say, at any point, you see, if your side does it, though, the other side does it. Next thing you know, you got precisely where he's going.
Joe Getty
And then the writer who's talking about this says, these views are not, of course, confined to students at Sarah Lawrence, but views widely shared at virtually all of America's prestigious universities. There are many reasons for this growing polarization, which has been documented extensively. Abrams correctly points to the outrageous rhetoric that has now become routine among Democratic politicians. Quote, last month, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner issued a statement that would have been unthinkable from a major American law enforcement official a generation ago. Speaking about federal immigration agents, Krasner declared, quote, we talked about this in a country of 350 million. We outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. The students, Abrams notes, are listening. What is clear from the article, however, is that these young leftists have a very distorted idea of what it means to choose violence over the rule of law. And who is this journalist? Oh, he uses a pen name. I'm hardly the first person to notice that many of the people interfering with ICE are delusionally imagining that they can violently confront armed law enforcement agents without any consequences. At least two people have now lost their lives, but the lesson still has not sunk in. The communists and anarchists in the 30s and even the 60s were certainly depraved and destructive, but they at least possessed a certain realism or worldliness. They knew that violence is a two way street that revolutions are bloody and that they lead to death and destruction on both sides. Thanks in part to the propaganda bubble created by social media, many of today's erstwhile revolutionaries don't understand this. For them, violent rhetoric and even violent actions are a game in which their side at least is not supposed to get hurt.
Jack Armstrong
Hurt. Right.
Joe Getty
They're LARPing.
Jack Armstrong
Clearly true.
Joe Getty
When ICE agents protect themselves with force, these naive radicals are shocked, as if the other team has somehow violated the rules. They do act like that. This may be the first generation of utopians who want to wage a revolution without spilling their lattes. And he says, if I were a guest speaker in Professor Abrams class, I might offer his students the following observations. You've made it clear that you reject civil disobedience, a venerable form of American protest that respects the law while seeking to change it in favor of violently repudiating the legitimate exercise of government authority. Trump ran on the issue of deportations. He won. One of the main immigration laws that ICE is enforcing has been on the books for decades, signed by Bill Clinton in 96. Joe Biden, who was president as recently as 13 months ago, never sought to repeal any immigration laws. He simply ignored them. Before him, Barack Obama deported hundreds of thousands of people per year. Where were your protests then? But rather than change the law, you wish to nullify it. Is this really a precedent you want to set here? He really gets down to it. If ICE stands down in the face of this extortion, it will mean the victory of mob rule. It is hard to see how the rule of law will survive once both sides conclude that rejecting the results of an election justifies riots and violent resistance. Lottie on the left weren't pleased with January 6, for instance. Let me ask you a question you may not have considered. Who is the law designed to protect? The powerful and well armed don't need protection. The framers of the Constitution devised all those artful measures for managing our differences precisely to overcome the age old tyranny of the strong against the weak. Are you our students at an elite university in upscale Westchester County? How many of you have been in a fight? Punched someone in the face, I would add? Been punched in the face, fired a gun, killed anything larger than a bug? Do you really want to start a fight with millions of NRA members living in the middle of the country? People who keep a rifle in their pickup and go hunting every weekend? These people who may live 100 miles from the nearest sheriff's office, can fend for themselves. Can you? Your rhetoric about violence may push the country closer to rampant lawlessness. Perhaps that gives you a thrill of transgressive titilization, titillation rather. But if open conflict comes, it won't be a game for the amusement of children playing at war. A cynic who thinks you should face the consequences of your juvenile Fantasies might paraphrase H.L. mencken by saying, give the students students what they want, good and hard. I won't be that cynic. Instead, I'll urge you to think carefully about what civil breakdown looks like. You may see it soon enough in Zoran Mumbami's New York. You may be wishing for more law enforcement, even from the federal government before too long. Your posturing about violence is thoughtless and dangerous. The rules of law exist to protect people like you, and when it breaks down, the people most likely to get hurt are you. Cut it out.
Jack Armstrong
That's pretty good.
Joe Getty
Oh my God, we need adults in the country and not Marxists Running your local government school, isn't it? You don't believe me? Check out what your school is actually teaching. You might be in the reddest state in the Union. You might be in Utah. Your local school is a blue little sapphire.
Jack Armstrong
It is interesting that the mostly well to do college crowd thinks that if the S really hits the fan, they'll be safe.
Joe Getty
When in the authorities will step in.
Jack Armstrong
When in the history of things going crazy? Are the wealthy and privileged the safe ones? When all order breaks down?
Joe Getty
Who never thrown or received a punch except a sucker punch when 11 of them surround a poor Jewish state?
Jack Armstrong
Well plus you got the stuff. You got the cars and the houses and the money and the privilege. And if ever, if everything breaks down, people are gonna want your stuff.
Joe Getty
Yeah, well that's where we get to that weird neo Marxist upscale what Matt Taibbi famously called I keep it handy. Upper class twits promoting revolution. They've learned self hatred. They hate their parents, they hate themselves, they hate their society. And so they become Marxists to ease their guilt. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty the Armstrong and Getty Show
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None bigger than this one.
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Magical Messi.
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The biggest stars.
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Jack Armstrong
We have this ability to export our story and a lot of people, people have bought it. I feel like the American dream is alive, but not well.
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Joe Getty
Have you ever found yourself craving a cold snack?
Show Contributor (Michael)
Yep.
Joe Getty
Montucky makes my favorite cold snack. It's a cold snackable beer. Montucky is a light American lager from Bozeman, Montana.
Jack Armstrong
Go to montuckycold snacks.com snack-finder to find Montucky cold snacks and a retailer near you.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
I want to tell you this.
Joe Getty
This is a very interesting burger product.
Jack Armstrong
Like the CEO, how do you even attack the this?
Joe Getty
Look at the, look at the seeds.
Jack Armstrong
So yeah, if you're online at all, you're aware that there was a minor flap of no importance a couple of weeks ago when the CEO of McDonald's put out a video with their new sandwich. Their first like launch of a big new product in many, many, many years. The big arch. And he looked like he had never eaten fast food before or how to eat fast food. He took a tiny nibble of it. It was quite mockable. And then the CEOs of every other company put out pretty good videos of them, like appearing to really Enjoy their products. And I mean every other company. I saw a montage last night is like Carl's Jr. And Jack in the Box and the CEO from Costco eating
Joe Getty
a hot dog and just everybody, Everybody, yeah. Burger King.
Jack Armstrong
The guy from McDonald's. One of the reasons maybe he took
Joe Getty
a nibble of it and put it
Jack Armstrong
back down is it's freaking awful.
Sports Announcer
Oh, no.
Jack Armstrong
And I love McDonald's. I love everything at McDonald's. I don't think that I've ever had anything at McDonald's I didn't love.
Joe Getty
Love.
Jack Armstrong
Henry and I both ate part of it and went and ordered other food.
Sports Announcer
No.
Jack Armstrong
Honest to God, what was wrong with it? It was not. It was not even a situation where it's, you know, I won't get it again, but I'll finish it. Nope, I'm not finishing this. I'm gonna go get two cheeseburgers.
Joe Getty
Well, McDonald's burgers don't taste like burgers. Did this taste like a burger and it threw you off?
Jack Armstrong
No, I don't know what it tasted like. We couldn't nail it down. It just, we did. We just found it an unpleasant doesn't flavor. It starts with this. Notice this on the screen. And I only tried one just so I could talk about it on the show since it got so much attention. A Big Mac, which is Henry's go to is 590 calories. Just the sandwich, not fries, drink, just the sandwich is 590 calories. Which is not horrible for a sandwich if you put a bunch of stuff on it.
Joe Getty
Oh yeah. If you're taking in a couple, two, three thousand bucks or calories a day, growing boy, sure. No, that's no deal. Big, big deal.
Jack Armstrong
The big arch is 10, 20, dang near double the calories of a Big Mac. And I don't know what they jam in there to double the calories of a Big Mac, but I did not enjoy it.
BBC Global Story Narrator
Wow.
Joe Getty
Funny. I just got a text from a good friend who, you know, who said, I'm looking forward to Jack's review because I had it and it was really good.
Jack Armstrong
Okay. You know, to each their own. But Henry and I, neither one of us even finished the sandwich.
Joe Getty
Wow, that's a stunning development.
Jack Armstrong
Possible they made it wrong. You know, they might be new to making it.
Joe Getty
They did something's Pre packaged in McDonald's
Jack Armstrong
though I have no idea what's going on back there. Yeah, my McDonald's I go to because I'm in California where the minimum wage for fast food workers are $20 pretty much. You don't see a human being because they've driven human beings out of the McDonald's. Everything's a computer, touch screen and all that sort of stuff.
Joe Getty
The response from my friend to the latest couple sentences was, never mind, he's full of crap. So there you go. Oh boy. Oh, wow. Okay, super. I don't eat fast food because I'm better than you, but nobody, I am tempted to try it just out of curiosity.
Jack Armstrong
Nobody should ever eat a sandwich that's a thousand calories.
Joe Getty
I don't think that's, that's, that's big. It's a big dinner. Yeah. Does it have lettuce on it so I can pretend I had a salad? Kind of. Sort of.
BBC Global Story Narrator
Yeah.
Joe Getty
There you go.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, okay.
Joe Getty
Sword yoga.
Jack Armstrong
When we have the sword extended in front of us creating that long line, instead of having the edge of your sword facing up to the ceiling, let your palm open up towards the ceiling. This way it creates a really clean straight line where you can always focus
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Joe Getty
Is the hot new yoga trend in New York City, Jack, you know, oh, we got to have a pool. How long will this trend last?
Jack Armstrong
Sword yoga. But they don't actually use swords.
Joe Getty
Oh, they do. They actually have swords. Yeah, we were talking about snake yoga. That was Portland, right?
BBC Global Story Narrator
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Oh, you gotta put sword yoga together with snake yoga. Be a bloody barbaric.
Show Contributor (Michael)
The only yoga trend I've seen that's acceptable is wiener dog puppy yoga.
Joe Getty
Oh, wait a minute. You may get. You may got me there.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I'm into that.
Joe Getty
All right, I'm just gonna read this to you. Katya Saturday, that's her name, is all up in arms. But the no nonsense New Yorker isn't angry. She's empowered through sword yoga and a steel 30 inch double edged blade named Golden Hour is her preferred instrument of independence. It's a tool of self expression and freedom. The 25 year old woman told the Post. The sword is like a magic wand that gives me a sense of graceful power. When I hold it, I feel like a force of femininity, beauty and strength added these force to be reckoned with. One in the rising army of everyday dynamos leading the sword yoga fitness charge. It's a girl powered movement aimed at getting in shape while getting their slice of the action. Oh for God's sake. This whole thing makes me want to vomit it.
Jack Armstrong
Well, I always have the same response to this sort of stuff. Have some kids. Have some kids. You'll be too damned busy to think about any of this crap. You Know what? Your parents didn't do this crap because they had kids. They had jobs and kids and they were busy all the time. The, the. The young affluent single set with no children has too much time on their hands and it brings us stuff like sword yoga.
Joe Getty
Interestingly, the next thing she says makes your point. She suffers from chronic panic attacks and lauds Sword yoga is her firm foundation during trying times. Quote when I feel an attack coming on I rely on the training and breathing techniques. She says. Exactly. You're focusing on something other than yourself. It's funny that it reminds me of our discussion about a country that is obsessively inward looking and navel gazing.
Jack Armstrong
It'll make you insane.
Joe Getty
Human beings are not meant to be without responsibility. It's the worst thing you can do. An AI will bring it to all of us at someday. Yeah, but she says now if I'm feeling anxious I'll grab Golden Hour. That's the name of her sword Jack is recall from six or seven sentences ago or a lightsaber and get into a sword yoga pose. It forces me to get out of that negative space and get present in my body.
Jack Armstrong
The number of people that are willing to say stuff like this out loud and don't think they're. They're mockable.
Joe Getty
I've got to name all my golf clubs. My driver actually has a name. The God of thunder. Actually pretty good reason as well. It's got a. It's a Japanese made product like most golf shaft are and it has a Japanese God of thunder on it. Raijin. Yes. I got. I gotta name all of them though. The seven iron. What do I call him? I don't know. Jimmy. The seven iron.
Jack Armstrong
I'll have to think about it.
Joe Getty
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America is the stage for the biggest World cup ever. And Fox is your home for it all.
Joe Getty
None bigger than this one.
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48 countries, 16 cities. One golden dream. The biggest stars.
Show Contributor (Michael)
Ronaldo to the rescue.
Sports Announcer
The biggest games. The biggest moments. The 2026 FIFA World Cup June 11 on Fox FS1 and streaming live on Fox One.
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The United States is about to mark its 250th anniversary.
BBC Global Story Narrator
And so, on the Global Story podcast from the BBC, we're telling surprising tales of American influence on the world stage and in ordinary people's lives all across the globe.
Jack Armstrong
We have this ability to export our story and a lot of people have bought it. I feel like the American dream is alive, but not well.
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From the BBC, it's the United States at 250.
BBC Global Story Narrator
Listen wherever you get your podcasts or find us on YouTube.
Show Contributor (Michael)
The best skaters, BMX riders and moto athletes in the world don't compete in leagues until now. The X Games League championship is live From New Orleans, July 24 through 26. Three days of elite action sports, plus performances from Metro Boomin, JID Subtronics and Bunt Watch on ABC, ESPN and ESPN 2. Stream on the ESPN app, Roku Kick, Amazon and X Games YouTube. The inaugural champion gets crowned this July.
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Wasn't that delicious?
Jack Armstrong
So good.
Joe Getty
Your bill, ladies.
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Joe Getty
I got it.
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
Rock, paper, scissors. Shoot.
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Date: July 3, 2026
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
This episode of Armstrong & Getty features a classic replay touching on a variety of topics with their signature blend of humor, skepticism, and cultural commentary. The hosts riff on everything from America’s political divisions and California/Oregon’s policies to the ethical nightmares of AI-generated deepfakes, the social climate in schools, and even odd fitness trends like sword yoga. The episode exudes classic A&G banter—irreverent, slightly exasperated, and always ready to question the official narrative.
[03:51 – 05:42]
Topic: Cornbread vs. Banana Bread
Jack and Joe open with friendly banter about favorite baked goods, contemplating which is better: cornbread or banana bread.
Notable Quote:
[05:42 – 13:49]
The segment title is a twist—“Untied” instead of “United” States—highlighting ongoing polarization.
Homeless Encampments in Maryland:
San Francisco Teacher Strike:
Frozen Iguanas in Florida:
Tax Revolt in Oregon:
Big Picture:
[14:13 – 19:44]
Ashley St. Clair & Grok AI Scandal:
Deepfake Outrage & Media Reaction:
Supreme Court Update:
[23:48 – 34:46]
Student Protests & Political Indoctrination:
Professor Sam Abrams’ Essay (Sarah Lawrence College):
Notable Quotes:
[37:33 – 44:41]
McDonald’s "Big Arch" Sandwich Review:
Sword Yoga:
This Armstrong & Getty replay episode covers a wide spectrum—from lighthearted breakfast chatter and goofy trends to more serious conversations about American division, youth radicalization, and technological disruption. Characterized by sharp wit and a gruff affection for traditional values, the hosts both vent their frustrations and seek to entertain, making the episode an engaging listen for longtime fans and newcomers alike.