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broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at
Joe Getty
the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong
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and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty. And now he
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Armstrong and Getty.
Jack Armstrong
I like this tweet. It's cool that Salman Rushdie has outlived two Ayatollah.
Joe Getty
That is cool.
Jack Armstrong
Going way back in the day when they issued a fatwa on him and he had to live in hiding for much of his life. That one died and then the next one died. And there may never be another one. I hope there's never another one. That would be obviously a giant failure of this operation if we end up with another ayatollah. I don't think that's gonna happen.
Joe Getty
And speaking of tweets, I called this perfect earlier. Apologies for the R word. It will not, it will never not be hilarious that the same SSRI gobbling weirdos who walked around dressed as handmaidens are now collectively wetting themselves because Donald Trump killed a guy who literally made women walk around dressed as handmaidens.
Jack Armstrong
That is too good.
Joe Getty
So true. Yes, but they are hypocrites and fools and just want to tear down Western civilization. Remember, their arguments masquerade as moral arguments. They don't care about that stuff. More on that to come, but we thought we would get this on. Pete Hegseth had a hell of a press conference earlier today, and he addressed all sorts of different topics, including most notably that for 47 years, Iran has waged a one sided war. We didn't start it. We're finishing it. And then after he addressed various issues, he addressed the troops.
Pete Hegseth
Before I turn it over to General Kaine for the operational update, let me speak straight to you. The Joint Force are warriors on the front lines. This is your moment. This is the generational turning point America has waited for since 1979 and since the rudderless wars of hubris. My generation, our generation endured. Don't listen to the noise. Just stay focused. Our commander in chief is steady at the wheel. We face a determined enemy. But you are better. But we must prove it every single day. History doesn't care if we're tired, if we're scared, or if the fight feels big. It demands warriors who rise anyway. Peace through strength. The warrior ethos, lethality, unity of purpose. Those are not slogans. They're the beating heart of what it means to wear the uniform. That uniform. You think clearly. Under fire, you act decisively. In chaos, you uphold the Constitution and you uphold our country without hesitation. We are not defenders anymore. We are warriors trained to kill the enemy and break their will. History is watching. Be the force you swore an oath to be. Focused, disciplined, lethal, and unbreakable. We will finish this on America first. Conditions of President Trump's choosing, nobody else's. As it should be. And know this above all, President Trump and I have your back. Always through fire, through criticism, through fake news, through everything. We unleash you because you are the best, most powerful, most lethal fighting force the world has ever seen. May Almighty God watch over you and his providential arms of protection extend over you. Godspeed, warriors. And keep going.
Joe Getty
The occasional demonstration of the unimaginably awesome force the United States can bring to bear is pretty damn useful. You don't want to do it capriciously or stupidly, but once in a while, once in a while, I think the world needs to be reminded, oh, they're really a nice people and gentle and kind of naive in some ways, but if you piss them off, they devastate. That's useful to demonstrate or especially if
Jack Armstrong
there's a bit of, you know, they can't do it anymore because they're so divided and you see all the craziness on TV and that sort of thing. I mentioned this early from David Harsani. I'm old fashioned, but I think that regimes that have slogans like Death to America should be terrified at all times. I think that going forward, you gotta think that little fathead in North Korea is thinking holy crap. Or that what's his name in Cuba is thinking holy crap. Or maybe Canada. Actually, Canada.
Joe Getty
That was good. You got me.
Jack Armstrong
The Canadian Prime Minister, whatever his name is, he came out right away and said, we back the United States in their efforts. So I liked that.
Joe Getty
Yeah, that was surprising from the lily livered Mark Carney. Although, you know, honestly, there was no need to say we were going to annex his country. I still feel bad about that.
Jack Armstrong
Do we have the audio on Ker Starmer is a wanker. I guess it's got F bombs in it. Oh. So they were chanting in the streets. You had a bunch of young Iranians and young Jews dancing in the streets in London chanting, Kerr Stormer is an effing wanker. So he came out and gave a speech right away and said, while we do not like the Ayatollah and blah, blah, blah, we do not support this action the United States has taken. Now, is that just for his domestic Muslim audience? Is that why he did that? He's got a 13% approval rating, by the way.
Joe Getty
Yeah, he's a left wing limp wrist.
Jack Armstrong
Is that it?
Joe Getty
He is an effing wanker. Yeah, he is.
Jack Armstrong
He is.
Joe Getty
He is a captain who is more than willing to continue Britain's course toward annihilation. Economic, social, you know, just. He. He is everything that's wrong with Britain. Distilled into one man.
Jack Armstrong
He can't go soon enough. But. So he didn't allow us to use one of their main military bases that normally in this sort of situation we would have used because it's much handier. He said, no, Sunday afternoon, he opened it up and said, okay, you can
Joe Getty
use it now for specific defensive purposes.
Jack Armstrong
Right. That is so. Wanker is an effing wanker. They were right in the first place.
Joe Getty
Street dancers had it right, but.
Jack Armstrong
So Germany, Britain and France announced yesterday that they will join us in defensive for defensive purposes. Although it's all defensive purposes at this point.
Joe Getty
Sure, yeah. I've read a couple of pieces of analysis about Europe and their new stronger tone and their new commitments and a couple of the. If America, we can't count on them, well, we will band together. Including one by Boris Johnson that was like. It went into great detail about you big talking phonies. You can't agree on anything. You agree on a joint statement, it takes you three weeks to write, and then nobody fulfills the obligations in it. You're phonies.
Jack Armstrong
So the Iranian regime has attacked with rockets and missiles the Dubai International Airport, which I believe is the biggest in the world. I read. I did not know that. Dubai International Airport, Kuwait International Airport, Zayed International Airport, that's in Dubai. Erbil International Airport in Iraq, The Fairmont Palm Hotel, fancy hotel in Dubai, another fancy hotel in Dubai, Crowne Plaza Hotel in Bahrain, the Port of Dubai, residential areas in Israel, residential areas in Tel Aviv and other towns in Israel. Residential areas of Bahrain, residential areas of Qatar. All in the first, like, hours. They did this. Now, I didn't understand why the hell you would do that. Mike Lyons explained to us, and this makes sense, that they just wanted to have it spread out over such a large region that we and Israel and whoever else has defense capabilities would use up all your defense capabilities. Sure, yes.
Joe Getty
All your ammunition.
Jack Armstrong
And then Iran could shoot whoever they wanted when I mean, really kind of force us to the table. Maybe.
Joe Getty
On the other hand, this. This headline from the Wall Street Journal. By striking its neighbors, Iran has deepened the Gulf's resolve to fight back. Diplomats and analysts say Tehran miscalculated with its attacks on Dubai, Doha and Bahrain.
Jack Armstrong
Did you see the Shah's son on 60 Minutes last night?
Joe Getty
Just a little bit.
Jack Armstrong
I forget his name.
Joe Getty
So he's been living in London and
Jack Armstrong
Texas for the past. Since 1979, since his dad got booted out. And he is, like, ready to go in and be in charge until they can have elections. He says, nice. I Think he's sincere. I don't think.
Joe Getty
I do, too.
Jack Armstrong
I don't think it's one of those, you know, I'm gonna get in there and I'll be there the rest of my life. I think he's sincere. He said people were chanting his name in the streets, which they were during the protests. I remember that.
Joe Getty
Yeah. You really have to rally around something. You have to. Everybody we all hate the Ayatollah is not good enough. You've got to rally around. And this is what's going to happen next. And that's the difficulty, because the Ayatollah has been in charge for so long.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe Getty
And anybody who raised their head and said, I'd like to be the opposition, please, ended up being tortured in a prison cell.
Jack Armstrong
And overnight, the New York Times asked Donald Trump, do you have specific people in mind to be the next leadership? And Trump said, yeah, we did, but they're all dead now. They were part of the 40 that were killed along with the Ayatollah.
Joe Getty
Right.
Jack Armstrong
So you're going to be fairly down the road of leadership before you get to somebody. I don't know. I don't know how this is going to turn out, but it doesn't mean it was a bad idea.
Joe Getty
No.
Jack Armstrong
Status quo was not tenable.
Joe Getty
Right. There are a number of possible outcomes from this. And if the Trump administration is quick on its feet, it will analyze day after day after day and figure out where we are, what the possibilities are. It's like a decision tree. If this, then that yes or no, blah, blah, blah. You got to be adaptable. But as you said, the status quo is not acceptable.
Jack Armstrong
No. The one thing that's almost guaranteed not to happen, like, within several years now, at least, is getting them getting a nuclear weapon, which was the goal.
Joe Getty
How amazing is it that we and or Israel knew who was meeting when in what buildings, had just rock solid, actionable intelligence inside. It's very inner circle. It's amazing.
Jack Armstrong
It's incredible. I can't wait to learn more about that years from now when they can finally disclose it. Yes, Michael, Just according to Fox, Qatar
Joe Getty
has already shot down Iranian planes this morning.
Jack Armstrong
Good.
Joe Getty
So they're starting to fire on, you know, what we haven't even mentioned we've sunk a significant chunk of their navy to the bottom of the sea.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. There's nothing better than all those Iranians in Los Angeles doing the Trump dance to the ymca. That's the best thing I've ever seen. With American flags, Israeli flags and Iranian flags altogether, that is a beautiful moment, you lefties. Isn't that the sort of thing you like? Iran, US and American flag, Israel flags altogether. Like you like the whole U.N. coexist. Coexist. Yeah, you like the coexist thing, don't you?
Joe Getty
They really don't. They just hate their country. They hate their own country, they hate their own culture and in return I hate them. Fair is fair.
Jack Armstrong
We got some more interesting information. Some of the things Trump said in his speech. Just a little bit, a little more from SNL maybe. And stay tuned.
Joe Getty
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Whoa. Quinn and Jack.
Joe Getty
You guys literally just won the Olympics.
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Jack Armstrong
Thanks.
Pete Hegseth
We've been so busy playing, we haven't had time to see your show yet.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, I hope some hockey players watched it. Don't worry, we saw your.
Joe Getty
Oh, wow.
Jack Armstrong
Hillary, Megan, it's so cool that we're all here.
Joe Getty
It was gonna be just us, but
Jack Armstrong
we thought we'd invite the guys, too. Okay.
Joe Getty
That's good.
Jack Armstrong
That's from Saturday Night Live that the. A couple of these stars. The men's hockey team come out and then start. The women's hockey team come out and everybody cheered like crazy. And it was yet another good one of those moments. Really, really liked that.
Joe Getty
That's nice.
Jack Armstrong
I was trying to nail down what that feeling is of excitement for your country, winning an athletic event against other countries. Is that just patriotism or is it evil nationalism on a level we should all be frightened of?
Joe Getty
You're not going to get me to agree to that assessment. Clearly. Yeah. Patriotism. There's an element of tribalism to it, but that's the way we're made as beings.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Is to join together for mutual defense and aid with our fellow humans.
Jack Armstrong
But if we had. I mean we won both of those against Canada in overtime. Could have easily gone the other direction. So we could have taken the civil more silver medal in both very easily. We would have been no less strong as a country. Militarily, economically, cohesively in any way had we gotten the silver.
Joe Getty
I would hope not. Right. I think it's partly. It's a community thing, too. We're all watching. We're not all, obviously, but Many, many of us were watching, we were rooting, we were hoping and we got the results, result. And we're all happy together. It's just great to do anything together at this point.
Jack Armstrong
Speaking of sports, is that often speaking of if you root for your country or not? So Rashida Tlaib texted out over the weekend right after the attack on Iran, both the United States and genocidal Israel. That's a nice adjective to use for Israel. Genocidal, as if it's just an agreed upon thing.
Joe Getty
But anyway, be praised.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, both the US and genocidal Israel doesn't care about the laws. This is who they are. To which Bill Malushin of Fox pointed out. Congressman Rashida Tlaib of Michigan refers to the United States as they. Oh, both the US and Israel don't care about the laws. This is who they are. That's an interesting thing to do.
Joe Getty
I think her veil slipped there.
Rob Gronkowski
I.
Joe Getty
That is the classic gaffe. She said what she meant accidentally. Abc, I guarantee you she's an America hater. Guarantee it. She hates the United States. She wants the United States to fall.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, I would agree with that. I don't know if ABC News hates America, but I don't know why you'd write this story like this right at the beginning. Like within an hour of the war starting, the toll from a strike on a girls elementary school in Iran has risen to 57 students dead and 60 others injured. According to Iran's official news agency. There is no news agency in Iran that's not run by the mullahs. So you just took their word for it and went with it like it's fact.
Joe Getty
They're dying and they deserve to.
Jack Armstrong
One of my business wise, one of my favorite, I think fair journalists responded. It's a grotesque journalistic malpractice to credulously report unconfirmed allegations from the propaganda arm of a terrorist regime that murdered 50,000 of its own citizens just in the last couple of months.
Joe Getty
Boy, that's a great blast.
Jack Armstrong
No kidding.
Joe Getty
That's a fabulous blast.
Jack Armstrong
Do you remember when they murdered all those people in the street, tens of the thousands of them, and denied it? That was a lie. That was their official news organization also saying they didn't kill all those protesters. Nobody in the world believes that. So when they say that we just blew up a school, perhaps take it with a grain of salt until it can be confirmed. ABC and practically every other news organization.
Joe Getty
You can't have enough contempt.
Jack Armstrong
No, you can't. No you can't. A buddy of mine said. No wonder they lose. They're all losing their viewers and their readers. Good. I mean, they earn it.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Your blast was every bit as good as theirs, by the way. Yeah. And. And even if the protesters weren't demand precisely the things these people claim to be in favor of, it would be horrifying journalistic malpractice. But they are. They're. They're fools. They're. They're liars.
Jack Armstrong
They're.
Joe Getty
Oh, they're beyond contempt or beneath contempt.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. I shouldn't be surprised at this point, I guess. No, we got a lot more on the way. If you miss a segment or an hour, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand. Armstrong and Gettysburg.
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Jack Armstrong
after the US Attack on Iran and the killing of its supreme leader, a horrific and deadly scene outside of a bar in Austin, Texas. A gunman opening fire on more than a dozen people. The suspect dressed in a hooded sweatshirt bearing the words Property of Allah. Sources identifying the alleged gunman as njaga Janya, a 53 year old naturalized citizen from Senegal. Initial reports to police said he was wearing a T shirt making a reference to Iran, had a Quran in his car, an Iranian flag in his apartment. A jihadist style attack. Although you get into that weird, always hard to understand Sunni versus Shia Islam thing because Sunnis and Shia has been killing each other forever. And all the, you know, the Al Qaeda crowd is all Sunni. Iran is Shia, correct? Yeah, right. Yeah.
Joe Getty
But apparently band together to kill the infidel now and again.
Jack Armstrong
Apparently.
Joe Getty
Apparently. This guy had a history of mental problems. Not surprisingly, in contrast to his apparent crazy anger, you've got folks all over America of Iranian descent who feel quite differently about it. I've totally lost. Oh, there it is. Hit us with 35, Michael.
News Reporter
The demonstration at City hall today was actually a celebration. Some told us this was San Jose they have waited 47 years for. Draped in flags. More than 250 Iranian Americans celebrated at San Jose City hall this afternoon, with many hugging and dancing as they reacted to what they consider the ouster of the Iranian Islamic regime. Many here also say they consider President Trump a hero for ordering the military strike.
Jack Armstrong
Oh boy I feel sorry for those idiots when they find out what they're saying on msnbc. They should not be happy about this.
Joe Getty
Bizarrely, during that report, the banner across the screen said protest against bombings at San Jose City Hall.
Jack Armstrong
Somebody in the newsroom had such an ideological head of steam going that clearly people are protesting this because we all protest anything Trump does. Wait a second. These people are actually happy about this. That can't be Next clip. Michael For 47 years, many times the
Pete Hegseth
Iranian people tried to take over and
Jack Armstrong
get rid of these mullahs and they never had a chance because some governments
Pete Hegseth
always protecting them from fall.
Jack Armstrong
But now with the, I don't know,
Pete Hegseth
with the help of Netanyahu and his persistence, President Trump decided to make that
Jack Armstrong
happen and final one.
News Reporter
Some told us they finally have hope that Iranian people will be able to enjoy the same freedoms Americans have. Some voiced support for Prince Reza Pahlavi to become Iran's new leader. Others we spoke with say they haven't been able to return home to see their families in Iran for decades. And they say they're hoping a change of leadership in Iran will help them finally reunite with their loved ones.
Joe Getty
While we're on the theme, go ahead and hit Los Angeles. That's the next clip. The celebration is striking. We got here just moments after initial reports. Initial rumors of the death of had just started to trickle from Iran to this diaspora community. And people were jumping in excitement, hugging each other, crying, saying that basically They've been waiting 47 years for this very day is the reason so many of them have come out here today. So the crowd of single white women that makes videos in their car screaming at their phones and weeping openly because something or other are their heads just exploding over?
Jack Armstrong
No. I took in a fair amount of msnbc. A single educated went to Oxford. White woman, Rachel Maddow on msnbc, sad face, sad tones, the entire special coverage they had. So I don't know, would she go lecture those young women? You know, you should have a sad face and a sad tone about this. Not why are you dancing in, why are you pouring champagne on my head? No, this is a sad moment.
Joe Getty
Or is she 100% cynical and is just committed to the anti Trump thing and so we'll just ignore the people dancing in the streets because there's no way to square that with our reports for our, you know, half wit audience. I don't know.
Jack Armstrong
I really, I would really like to hear that. I mean, completely honestly, I would like to hear that from your educated crowd. Would it be like the really paternalistic, patronizing. Well, they're happy, but they don't realize that ultimately this is bad or something like they're not smart enough to understand why this is bad, or I don't even understand what they. Their thinking is.
Joe Getty
Maybe they'd hit you with a libertarian esque argument that, no, of course the Ayatollah is horrible and the Mullers are horrible, but the US can't be launching these illegal unitalateral strikes of murder.
Jack Armstrong
I might agree with that, but you don't need to have the sad face, sad tones about it. Still, something good happened. It just might be. I don't know.
Joe Getty
I don't know.
Jack Armstrong
I don't get it. I don't get it.
Joe Getty
Well, it's absolutely. I think I disagree with you because that's a needle nobody even tries to thread anymore. That, look, it's good that the Ayatolls are dead, but Trump is a lawless maniac who violated the Constitution. That's just too subtle for the cable news viewer, I think. I don't know.
Jack Armstrong
I would think at least in the hours after this happened, when you see all those young Iranians around the world dancing in the streets, you'd have to have some feeling of, yeah, this is pretty cool, huh? That they might get their country back.
Joe Getty
Well, there are plenty of people, I remember it well, who hated when Reagan said, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall, when in retrospect, I mean, history is
Jack Armstrong
like, why the f. Would he not say that? Yeah, the wall was freaking evil. They were oppressive.
Joe Getty
They were an evil empire.
Jack Armstrong
Who'd be against saying that?
Joe Getty
Well, he had to be there.
Jack Armstrong
And another point about the dancing in the streets and the partying, oh, wouldn't it be amazing if some of these countries, I said about Cuba the other day, if Iran became like a normal country, where you could go vacation in Tehran and go around and see the various historical sites and everything like that, that be amazing.
Joe Getty
Economic juggernaut, too, almost certainly. They're entrepreneurial, hardworking people by tradition. Culturally, it's an invitation across the nation, Jack, a chance for folk to meet. Dancing in the streets.
Jack Armstrong
The proper lyrics sort of go with the YMCA sense. That's the dance that many Iranians are doing around the world. And doing the Trump dance, I'm being
Joe Getty
told by the control room, that's a coded song about young gay men meeting up for hookups at the ymca. Is that correct? We have confirmed it, yes. That's an odd choice.
Jack Armstrong
If you would have tried to explain to me 10 years ago, back when YMCA was popular in the 70s because I'm old. That someday young Iranians will be dancing to this song in the streets because of our president. I'd have thought, what possible twists of history occurred? I don't know.
Joe Getty
Yeah, it'd take too long to explain. Just wait.
Jack Armstrong
This is a minor novelty hit here in 1978. It can't possibly still be listened to 50 years later by people in foreign countries with a special dance.
Joe Getty
Is it the cowboy Indian, construction worker, cop thing that appeals to them? No, no, it's got nothing to do with that.
Jack Armstrong
Nothing. No, it's just kind of a favorite song of the sitting president at the time. And he.
Joe Getty
Wait a minute.
Jack Armstrong
It's a funny dance.
Joe Getty
In 40 years, his favorite song is going to be YMCA. What?
Jack Armstrong
And he very cleverly came up with a dance. Came up with a dance for those of us who don't feel like we can dance or are uncomfortable dancing. He came up with one that you can just do right easily with your arms. The Trump dance. Anybody can do it.
Joe Getty
They think you ought to be in a mental institution.
Jack Armstrong
Trump just a little bit ago said this. The plan for this is to be a month long, maybe five weeks, could take longer, he said. So the plan is four or five weeks.
Joe Getty
Do you believe it? Or is that a message aimed squarely at the remaining vestiges of the Iranian military? That's a good point.
Jack Armstrong
That could be because he's trying to force them to the negotiating table. He said last night in a presumptive close, because he's a salesman, they're willing, they're ready to come back to the negotiating table. Then the minister of defense, where did he come from? Because the actual one's dead.
Joe Getty
I am.
Jack Armstrong
The minister of what's left of defense announced no negotiating. So Trump is saying, okay, we're planning for four to six weeks here, so knock yourself out. CNN is quoting their poll. 59% of people disapprove of the strikes on Iran. That's gotta be among the lowest numbers for a major military operation ever. Usually we rally around the flag, especially when you get a great result like this. I mean, it's not like this was launched and. And 2,000Americans died and the mullah's still in charge. It was like one of the most successful military strikes ever on planet Earth. So the fact that the numbers are 60% against has to do a lot with people not having any idea why we're doing this, partially because the president didn't tell people while we're doing this.
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Joe Getty
Well, last week, as we interrupted the never ending discussion of Jeffrey freaking Epstein, who was a monster, to discuss the fact that nobody's talking about we might go to war with Iran. And indeed nobody was. And so to a lot of Americans, because a hell of a lot of Americans don't really pay attention to the news. This came out of nowhere. They thought, Iran. What? Why?
Jack Armstrong
Let's run through some of these Saturday Night Live jokes. I didn't see the news part. I saw the earlier part. Hit me with one there, Michael. After launching a massive military strike against Iran, Trump announced hours ago that they officially killed the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, and replaced him with. Oh, my God, the guy from Venezuela. Well, at least the guy from Venezuela got to stay alive. He's sitting in a prison in Brooklyn. The Ayatollah disappeared. Probably a. Probably a painless death. Probably just got obliterated. Right? If you. If you've seen the bombing of that compound. Whoa.
Joe Getty
As I texted to the crew over the weekend, 10 seconds into it, there wasn't a cockroach alive in that complex
Jack Armstrong
because we knew exactly where he was and who he was with.
Joe Getty
Boy. And we didn't, like, let's just use a couple of bombs because we want to make sure we don't use them all. No, I mean, it was just atomized.
Jack Armstrong
I want to hear the next joke because it deals with the E word. It was reported that Jeffrey Epstein hid photographs in secret storage lockers across the country. But I guess he had to take a lot of pictures because kids grow up so fast.
Joe Getty
Oh, it's a good show. Oh, that's a good joke. It's. It's dark. I think it was a WaPo. I read a long piece over the weekend about the many, many victims of Epstein and the many missteps or somewhat mysterious lack of interest in investigating him at times. And it is highly troubling. Not because he was a freaking Israeli agent. It was because he was a super rich, powerful guy who knew lots of super rich, powerful guys.
Jack Armstrong
Does this keep Epstein off the front page for long enough for it to go away?
Joe Getty
No. For a while.
Jack Armstrong
Didn't hear a word about Bill's testimony from Friday, partially because we went to war over the weekend.
Joe Getty
Oh, right. I forgot it happened.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Did he say anything?
Jack Armstrong
I don't know. It would have been the lead story on the Sunday shows if it hadn't been for this war. Apropos, nothing. Let me hear the next couple of jokes, Michael. Researchers have developed a new nasal spray vaccine that can protect people against the flu, Covid and other respiratory diseases, but to get it approved by rfk, they're calling it Shark Testicle Creatine.
Joe Getty
That's funny.
Jack Armstrong
I actually like Colin Jost's Pete Hegseth impersonation. I think Pete Hegseth probably kind of likes it because they make him like a super badass tough guy. Listen up dimwads. I mean, I don't think he minds that. Okay, next joke. A former Olympic athlete who promoted the run walk run strategy to running has died at the age of 80. Cause of death was listed as run walk bus.
Joe Getty
Oh,
Jack Armstrong
see, I like that joke. That's.
Joe Getty
That's not funny. Poor old fellow.
Jack Armstrong
And one more a 70 year old man is saying that he discovered he had a serious heart issue after getting an alert from his smart mattress while a regular mattress diagnosed my drinking problem with a big old wet spot. Wow. Wow. See, I like that joke too. A regular mattress diagnosed my problem. Ah, the lighter side of drunkenness. We will finish strong Next Armstrong and
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
How are you doing? Huh. Busy weekend for me because I really really like this sort of stuff. So I followed the news very very closely but still tried to get outside and enjoy myself.
Joe Getty
Yeah, here, here. Yeah. Hope everybody did. I absolutely did. I had a great weekend volunteering at a college golf tournament as I do this time. One of the reasons I love the Free Press is they have articles like this. I mean it was started and run by a center left lesbian journalists Barry Weiss, but Jesse Jackson, godfather of the Great awokening then the subhead is the late civil rights activist and politician brought identity politics from the streets to corporate boardrooms and university administrations. We are still living with the consequences today.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Joe Getty
And it went into his full history as a grifter.
Jack Armstrong
Really good for them. Practically nobody was willing to talk about that. They felt, I guess just because he died that you had to praise him as a civil rights leader and leave out the fact that he was a shakedown artist.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. And yeah, that's. Well that's the mainstream lefty media and all sorts of problems they have with criticizing anybody who's more tan than me because you don't want to come off as a white supremacist.
Jack Armstrong
I felt like even Fox soft pedaled it though. At least the first day.
Joe Getty
You're absolutely right. I'll just hit you with a little bit of this. Much has been said in the days since his death about Jackson's role in post king civil rights movement, particularly his trailblazing campaigns for the White House. The one is reluctant to speak ill of the dead so soon after the passing the Chicago operators. Corrupt racializing of American politics for the profit of himself and his allies must not go unnoticed. There's a straight line from the kind of lucrative racial activism Jackson pioneered to the same profiteering practice that a far grander scale by the founders of Black lives matter.
Jack Armstrong
Absolutely. 100.
Joe Getty
Clearly.
Jack Armstrong
We hired Weezer to do that. Here's your host for Final Thoughts, Joe Garrett. Danny, let's get a funnel final thought
Joe Getty
from everybody on the crew to wrap things up for the day. There he is, pressing the buttons in the control room. Michelangelo. Michael, final thought. You know, I'm picturing when this is
Jack Armstrong
all over, Trump having a rally in
Joe Getty
Iran, introducing the new leadership and everybody
Jack Armstrong
doing the Trump dance.
Joe Getty
That'll be the new national dance. Katie Greener, esteemed newswoman, has a final thought. Katie, I don't know if I'm proud of this, but usually I don't have
Jack Armstrong
time to engage in political arguments online, but this weekend I had time.
Joe Getty
Enjoy yourself, did you?
Jack Armstrong
I did.
Joe Getty
Excellent. Jack, final thought for us.
Jack Armstrong
I'm just going to quote Rich Lowry of the National Review. I thought this was good. It's more and more clear that October 7th was for Islamic radicals what December 7th was for the Japanese. A brilliant tactical success that carried within it the seeds of catastrophic strategic failure.
Joe Getty
Well, I had a golf related final thought, but I'm going to change mine to this. Yeah, and let's finish the job. The threat of radical Islam will never end unless we end it.
Jack Armstrong
Certainly this version of it could come to an end, whatever the Iranian theocracy was.
Joe Getty
Right. You've just got to understand it's not like it's not a craze. It's not a fad. It's not like, you know, a slang word or a certain style of dress that'll just kind of go away. No, it needs to be ended.
Jack Armstrong
Armstrong, you Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
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Date: March 2, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
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This episode centers on the dramatic U.S. military strike that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, exploring reactions both in the U.S. and globally, especially among Iranian-Americans. The hosts break down international political consequences, dissect Western media narratives, and reflect on the oddities of public celebration—including Iranians around the world performing “the Trump dance” to the Village People’s "YMCA." The episode blends analysis, humor, and media critique in classic Armstrong & Getty style.
Jack quotes Rich Lowry:
“It’s more and more clear that October 7th was for Islamic radicals what December 7th was for the Japanese. A brilliant tactical success that carried within it the seeds of catastrophic strategic failure.” (44:54)
Getty concludes:
“The threat of radical Islam will never end unless we end it.” (45:13)
The episode features Armstrong & Getty’s signature blend of:
For listeners who missed the episode, Armstrong & Getty provide a fast-paced, skeptical, and often biting examination of the consequences of America’s strike on Iran’s top leader, the complexity of reactions among Western liberals and Iranian expats, and a healthy dose of satire about politics, media, and culture. The episode’s namesake “Trump Dance” serves as both a metaphor for unexpected geopolitical shifts and a literal snapshot of the moment, as diaspora communities worldwide celebrate what may be a new chapter in Iranian history, all while the world (and cable news) struggles to make sense of which side they’re supposed to cheer for.