Then Bluey! No Gonads!

Summary

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Episode: Then Bluey! No Gonads!
Date: October 31, 2025
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty

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Episode Overview

This episode of the Armstrong & Getty Show explores current event headlines and culture-war anxieties, focusing especially on the hype versus reality of AI, political maneuverings regarding the Senate filibuster, the embarrassing perils of texting, damning reports on the Biden administration’s internal assessment of presidential competency, and some lighter moments around Halloween trends. The hosts toggle between humor and pointed critique, employing their trademark banter, dry wit, and skepticism toward both political sides.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Halloween Panic: Drugs in Candy?

[03:34 – 04:49]

• News out of Michigan advises parents to watch out for THC/mushroom-laced candy on Halloween.
• Both hosts agree: real instances are rare, but the sensationalism means the stories get repeated constantly.
• Jack: "I've known numb nuts that would think it was funny to get kids high."
• Joe: This is “classic exception bias ... It gets attention because it's so rare.”

Quote [04:33] – Jack Armstrong: “It will be incredibly rare. And I, I'm not worried about it for my own kids, but I could see. I've known numb nuts that would think it was funny to get kids high.”

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2. The AI Debate: Hype, Fear, and Reality

[04:52 – 11:20]

• Jack summarizes a Substack piece arguing both AI "doomers" and AI skeptics are wrong; there are extremes on both sides.
• They discuss an MIT study—95% of companies found “little or no” ROI from AI so far, leaving an $800B shortfall by 2030.
• Joe offers a counter: his lawyer friend reports “scary good” results from legal AI personas tailored to real attorneys.
• Jack’s stance: AI will be profitable and helpful, but it could also “ruin the world,” especially affecting jobs and human relationships.
• Both hosts are deeply skeptical that AI’s social impact (particularly on relationships and motivation) is being seriously considered by the “computer geeks” running the show.

Quote [08:02] – Jack Armstrong: “I lean more toward [AI] ruining the world than toward making it better … if nobody has jobs and nobody gets together in relationships anymore, who cares if it's curing these obscure cancers?”

Quote [10:19] – Joe Getty: “A lot of opinion leaders are self-motivated go-getters ... but a hell of a lot of human beings aren't made like that.”

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3. Idle Hands, AI, and Social Rot

[12:00 – 13:42]

• Discussion on the age-old proverb “Idle hands are the devil’s playthings” — how labor gives life structure, and the peril of removing that for most people.
• They sound the alarm about a growing “blob of bitter and weak” class if AI idles the masses, skeptical of utopian arguments (“everyone will be an artist or poet”).

Quote [13:08] – Jack Armstrong: “Everybody can be an artist or a poet or whatever ... but they aren't going to like engage in 8 hours of effort every single day ... They're going to sit around and get, you know, navel gazingly selfish and insular in their lives.”

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4. Political Brinksmanship: Should Republicans Nuke the Senate Filibuster?

[15:12 – 24:18]

• Trump’s Truth Social post calls for Senate Republicans to eliminate the filibuster to reopen the government.
• Jack argues this would be a disaster, eliminating the last vestige that “the bulk of America needs to agree on something for it to pass.”
• They discuss the “race to the bottom”—that one side’s partisan move will only accelerate the loss of restraint.
• Both fear a Senate without filibuster would allow wild policy swings, politicized judges, and more chaos.
• There’s resigned speculation that the era of the filibuster is ending, regardless of who pulls the trigger.

Quote [20:03] – Jack Armstrong: “That would be a horrible thing to do ... probably the last vestige of, yeah, we disagree with each other, but we care about the country.”

Quote [21:50] – Jack Armstrong: “Race to the bottom. That's just a perfect race to the bottom.”

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5. Potatoes for Halloween? Parenting Culture Quirks

[28:47 – 30:05]

• Segment on people giving out potatoes instead of candy; both hosts find it weird but amusing.
• Jack jokes about ladling creamed corn into trick-or-treaters’ baskets.

Quote [29:13] – Jack Armstrong: “Now I have been ladling, ladling out hot cream corn for years at Halloween. You know, hold out your little basket and I just give you a full scoop of creamed corn…”

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6. Biden Administration: Damning Staff Testimony on Mental Fitness

[30:31 – 36:16]

• Scathing House Oversight report shows Biden's own chief of staff and Secretary of State thought he should not run again after the debate due to cognitive decline.
• The mainstream press is not reporting this, which angers Jack and Joe, who see it as a major story.
• Jack references Mark Halperin losing his mind over the lack of coverage.
• Chief of staff Jeff Zients and high-level Cabinet members confirmed their concerns under oath, but “kept their mouths shut.”

Quote [32:34] – Jack Armstrong: “They didn't think he was mentally competent to be president. The Secretary of State, his own chief of staff.”

Quote [33:16] – Joe Getty: “We've got to hold people to account ... It's not about Joe Biden, but there are a whole bunch of people involved that plan to continue to be major movers and shakers of the Democratic Party.”

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7. Media Industry: Layoffs and Culture War Fallout

[36:40 – 38:31]

• CBS announces mass layoffs, eliminates its race and culture unit due to low ratings and audience disconnect.
• Armstrong and Getty note CBS is lagging far behind its competitors and suggest the moves are about business survival, not ideological shifts.

Quote [37:43] – Jack Armstrong: “If you're just running a business, you would come in and lay waste because you're getting your ass kicked.”

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8. Middle East Update: Hezbollah Rearms, Ceasefire at Risk

[38:31 – 40:13]

• Brief report about Hezbollah restocking arms, while Israel’s patience wears thin. “You can’t make peace with religious zealots who vow to wipe you off the face of the earth if it takes a thousand years.”

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9. Embarrassing Modern Moments: The Accidental Text

[44:19 – 48:21]

• Jack talks about sending a sensitive text about someone directly to them by accident, describing the horror and how “it could have been disastrous.”
• They riff on handling texting errors, using “private thread” labels, and share war stories about potentially life-altering miscommunication via smartphone.
• Universal lesson: Always check the recipient line before hitting send.

Quote [47:03] – Jack Armstrong: “Here's the lesson. Before you press send every single time, check at the top to see who it's going to.”

Quote [48:38] – Jack Armstrong: “Nothing more true than the whole you can’t unring a bell about things said.”

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10. Calling Out the Extremes: 'No Enemies to the Left/Right' is Nonsense

[49:55 – 51:11]

• Joe previews a piece by Seth Dillon (Babylon Bee) in The Free Press, critiquing the idea that you shouldn’t call out extremists on your own side.
• They discuss the origin of “no enemies to the left” from the French Revolution.
• Both bemoan the fear that keeps moderate Democrats from speaking out on culture-war flashpoints, e.g., “dudes shouldn’t beat up on girls in women’s sports.”

Quote [51:01] – Joe Getty: “You got moderate Democrats afraid to say no. Dudes shouldn't beat up on girls in women's sports. That’s ridiculous. ... No enemies to the left. Well, let's call out our enemies to the right.”

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• [04:33] – Jack Armstrong: “It will be incredibly rare. And I, I'm not worried about it for my own kids, but I could see. I've known numb nuts that would think it was funny to get kids high.”
• [08:02] – Jack Armstrong: “I lean more toward [AI] ruining the world than toward making it better … if nobody has jobs and nobody gets together in relationships anymore, who cares if it's curing these obscure cancers?”
• [20:03] – Jack Armstrong: “That would be a horrible thing to do ... probably the last vestige of, yeah, we disagree with each other, but we care about the country.”
• [21:50] – Jack Armstrong: “Race to the bottom. That's just a perfect race to the bottom.”
• [32:34] – Jack Armstrong: “They didn't think he was mentally competent to be president. The Secretary of State, his own chief of staff.”
• [47:03] – Jack Armstrong: “Here's the lesson. Before you press send every single time, check at the top to see who it's going to.”
• [48:38] – Jack Armstrong: “Nothing more true than the whole you can’t unring a bell about things said.”
• [51:01] – Joe Getty: “You got moderate Democrats afraid to say no. Dudes shouldn't beat up on girls in women's sports. That’s ridiculous. ... No enemies to the left. Well, let's call out our enemies to the right.”

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Tone & Style

• A mix of dark humor, sarcastic banter, and genuine concern, with frequent asides and pop-culture references.
• The hosts don’t pull punches on any side of the political spectrum.
• Conversational, irreverent, and fast-moving, with both pointed critiques and light-hearted observations.

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Summary for New Listeners

The “Then Bluey! No Gonads!” episode typifies Armstrong & Getty’s blend of biting political analysis, cultural commentary, and personal storytelling. Whether exploring the perils of AI, Senate dysfunction, or the pitfalls of modern communication, the duo keeps the tone lively and the insights sharp—even as they worry aloud about the future. If you’re looking for both analysis and laughs, with zero sacred cows, this one delivers.

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[Joe Getty]

Authorities in Michigan told parents to be on the lookout after discovering candy and snacks containing THC and hallucinogenic mushroom products. Said parents, oh, we been on the lookout for those.

[Jack Armstrong]

So is this a serious problem? I would assume if you're a stoner, a drug fiend, you don't want to be giving away your stuff.

[Joe Getty]

And especially given the fact that it's.

[Jack Armstrong]

A felony and should give it to a child. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If something bad happened, you'd go to prison.

[Joe Getty]

I suspect, Jack, that there will be and have been a small handful of cases around a gigantic country where somebody who's either just monumentally stupid or has monumentally terrible judgment will do this and everyone in America will hear about it over and over again. So it'll be the classic exception bias news story. It gets attention because it's so rare.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, it will be incredibly rare.

[Joe Getty]

Convincing people that it's common.

[Jack Armstrong]

It will be incredibly rare. And I, I'm not worried about it for my own kids, but I could see. I've known numb nuts that would think it was funny to get kids high. Get kids high. I. I could see that. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, that's. That's your really top tier of stupid.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yep, it really is. So I came across this in substack yesterday from this guy named Timothy Lee, who I do not know, but his article was. He's. He write AI for a living. And his headline was AI Skeptics and AI Boosters are both Wrong. And I gave that a look. And everybody, everybody's guessing to a certain extent here, but I just thought this was an interesting take. A take I hadn't heard before. Earlier this month, he writes, I attended an AI conference called the Curve in Berkeley, California, just a few miles from where we are. A lot of people there were AGI pilled, he calls it. For example, I participated in a role playing exercise organized by this dude who argues that AI systems will soon achieve human level intelligence. Then they will rapidly improve themselves, leading to superhuman AI capabilities and an extreme acceleration of scientific discovery and economic growth. Then he went across the hall to another conference where a different AGI pilled writer that's someone who believes so much this, who believes the super intelligent AI will kill everyone on the planet, he said.

[Joe Getty]

Go back to the first one.

[Jack Armstrong]

He said. At the opposite end of the spectrum are skeptics who believe AI is not just overhyped but practically useless. This perspective wasn't well represented at the conference, but it came up a lot. We mentioned this a couple of weeks ago. There was a piece in the New York Times quoting this study. One of your. One of your big godfathers of AI. You know, there's a handful of people that are really well respected whenever they talk about AI. One of those people wrote a column in the New York Times citing this MIT study, which we have talked about before. A recent study run by MIT's program that looks into this sort of stuff found that 95% of companies that did AI pilot studies found little or no return on their investment and financial analysis projects, an estimated shortfall of $800 billion in revenue for AI companies by the end of 2030 that it's not going to pan out near the way they thought. So that article got a lot of attention at the time and apparently came up a lot in this conference.

[Joe Getty]

I can contradict that right now, but go ahead, do that later. No, go ahead. Oh, just. I happened to yesterday afternoon have a conversation with a good friend who is an attorney of great experience and success and worked for a fairly important law firm. And he's actually my friend who I've mentioned, who is licensed to practice both in the US and Britain. He is no dummy. He and his company are working with a certain university on AI programs for law. And he was describing to me how they were designing AI Personas, I think was the term he used, that would approach a problem as he would, not just as a generic attorney or as a computer, but as he has and would throughout his career. And that's based on extensive interviews and study of how he does it. And he said the results were scary good.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't buy the. It's not going to be profitable or be a thing. I lean more toward ruining the world than toward making it better, personally, even though I think it will make it better and it'll. It'll be able to cure diseases and help you figure out medication and all kinds of different things, but it, at the same time is going to ruin the world. And you Know, if it ruins the world, what good does it do if, I mean, if nobody has jobs and nobody gets together in relationships anymore, who cares if it's curing these obscure cancers.

[Joe Getty]

Right in the few remaining human beings produced?

[Jack Armstrong]

But anyway, I wanted to get to this part and then I will shut up about it because I won't worry out. But I thought it was this interesting. This guy writes, my view is between these two extremes. I think that AI has genuinely impressive capabilities that are likely to improve further in the coming months and years. I think the AI industry is likely to be profitable in the long run and that OpenAI's basic business model is perfectly reasonable. But I don't think we're very close to human level intelligence at all. I don't think AI is about to drive the kind of massive social and economic changes that AGI pilled folks expect. Then it gets into some of his reasoning after that that gets complicated and uses phrases and terms that you have to look up. But there is a crowd out there that believes, well, kind of what I just, kind of what I just said, but not completely. He believes, yeah, it's a thing and it's gonna, it's gonna come along and it's, it's going to be impactful but it's not going to upend society and our economic models in ways that we need to be worried about. And I hope he's right.

[Joe Getty]

Oh yeah, yeah, I, I, I don't think he is. I think there is a wide swath of so called white collar jobs that will vanish. I'm completely convinced of that.

[Jack Armstrong]

There's that. And then I think a lot of these people, because they're computer geeks, which in most cases by definition means you're kind of like not a normal person in society. I think they vastly underestimate what it's going to do to relationships and society and coupling and all that sort of stuff because they're such outliers as human beings to start with. I'm not sure that a lot of these people even can conceive of thinking about that issue because they just don't live in that world of like going out and dating and blah blah, blah.

[Joe Getty]

Well, and a lot of opinion leaders are also self motivated go getters and so they can't conceive of because you no longer have to work to take care of yourself, you become a blob of bitter on weak because they would find something.

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Right.

[Joe Getty]

But a hell of a lot of human beings aren't made like that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Most, yeah, the vast majority And I feel like we've already seen enough of the people having relationships with chatbots when it's at its current level of engagement that it's in inevitable that it becomes a huge problem. I can't, I can't imagine the argument that says, no, it's not. It's not going to be a big deal. You aren't going to have millions of incel dudes who are so obsessed with their AI chatbot and porn that they never get with a real woman. That won't happen. I don't understand that argument at all.

[Joe Getty]

Right. Oh my gosh. I've got a great think piece around here somewhere about the rise of that very sort of young man and how they quickly become embittered and hateful and for instance, kill Charlie Kirk or try to put a bullet in Donald J. Trump's head for the, the very scenario you were describing.

[Jack Armstrong]

And then then for women, because women tend to be more about the emotions than most dudes in general. Man. The getting some sort of comfort from a chat dude that talks to you about your problems and agrees that you've been wronged by your mom and your sister. I just think that's going to be a huge thing.

[Joe Getty]

Right, Right. Just as an aside, as you were speaking, Jack, I quickly did a search on how old is the saying idle hands are the devil's playthings or are similar phrasings of the same thought? And it definitely goes back to the Old Testament. Sure, it's in Proverbs. Idle hands are the. Well, it depends which you know translation you have. It endured throughout the early days of Christianity. Here are a bunch of citations from the medieval period. Here are early English usages in the 1500s through the 1700s. The wording probably solidified in the 18th or 19th century, but the idea itself is at least 1400 years old with deep roots in early Christian moral teaching. It is an idea that has never receded from human consciousness that idle hands are the devil's playthings. And yet we are moving as quickly as possible toward a mechanism to idle as many hands as possible.

[Jack Armstrong]

That only works. That's true, but it only works because you believe that a lot of people are not self motivated to do something. The Remember Nancy Pelosi famously saying, this will be a chance. Everybody can be an artist or a poet or whatever. Yeah, a lot of people are going to kind of talk about that, but they aren't going to like engage in 8 hours of effort every single day to be whatever they're going to be and be Occupied. No, they're going to sit around and get, you know, navel gazingly selfish and insular in their lives and it's going.

[Joe Getty]

To go off the rails and high and high. All right, here's a little poetry for you, Nancy. Roses are red, violets are blue. AGI is here, Humanity's through. There you go. There's a little artificial generalized intelligence. That's the AGI, right?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

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Trump dropped a bit of a political bomb earlier. We can talk about suggesting the Republican Senate do away with the filibuster. I don't know how much you understand that but that is trouble.

[Joe Getty]

Don't do it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Highly troubling. Among other things we can talk about. Stay here.

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President Trump says enough is enough. It is time to nuke the filibuster and reopen the government. Here's what he posted last night on Truth Social it's now time for Republicans to play their trump card and go for what is called the nuclear option. Get rid of the filibuster and get rid of it now. That would allow Senate Republicans to reopen the government on their own, even though Senate leaders generally don't like the idea of ending the filibuster. But pressure is mounting. Troops are getting paid today after the Pentagon shifted some funds around. But federal snap benefits run out this weekend and we're already seeing major flight disruptions in places like Orlando and here in Washington.

[Jack Armstrong]

That would be a horrible thing to do to end the filibuster. Currently you need 60 votes in the Senate, so you usually need the party with the majority and a decent handful of the other party. In other words, the bulk of America needs to agree on something for it to pass, is the theory. And if and it's probably the last.

[Joe Getty]

Vestige of yeah, we disagree with each other, but we care about the country. So let's talk about it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Probably is as naked partisanship probably is the last vestige of that. And if you do away with the filibuster and then it just becomes majority rule like it is in the House, then whichever party holds power in The Senate has 50 votes, and then if you have the vice presidency, you only need 50. We'll just pass everything they want. So the House will pass it, the Senate will pass it, and there you go, it's law without any say whatsoever from the other party, which would be horrible, horrible, horrible Now, Trump's argument is that the Democrats tried to do it for three years, but couldn't because Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona wouldn't vote for it because they're decent Americans. I also don't think all of those Democrats that voted for it actually meant it because I think there are enough institutionalist grown up Democrats also in the Senate that, okay, you two are going to vote against it. Okay, then I can vote for it to look like I'm for it for my crowd, I think, you know, a couple would have stepped up to make sure it didn't pass. We may, we're going to cross the line at some point. I think at least that's the direction all our politics are going, where one party is going to do with this, away with this, and Trump's making the argument they're going to do away with it when they take over the Senate, then they'll be able to pack the Supreme Court with whoever the hell they want because all you will need is 50 votes and we might as well do it now to get the jump on them, which is, which is the classic definition, what I've been, the phrase I've been using for a long time, race to the bottom. I mean, that's just a perfect race to the bottom.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. I wish I could declare that those folks are just wrong category, categorically wrong. But they might not be. It could be that we're, we're heading toward a future where it is simple majority for everything and elections have enormous consequences and policy swings wildly back and forth. Of course, with the, you know, Congress forgetting its job, forgetting the Constitution and all of us worshiping the chief executive as something like a king, we're having wild swings in policy back and forth anyway. Well, imagine the, kind of, just make it worse.

[Jack Armstrong]

Imagine the kind of judges we might get. If you just need the majority and you've got a strong president with a big following like Barack Obama. Biden didn't have it, but like Barack Obama or Donald Trump, where you could get somebody through fairly extreme and there'd be a tremendous amount of pressure to put on your 50 senators to say, put this person on the Supreme Court, then we've completely blown up that institution. Also, we get whack jobs.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. You might have a handful of senators on the president's party on his side thinking this person's a monster. They shouldn't be on the, the bench.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

I still get through.

[Jack Armstrong]

I hate the idea of doing away at the filibuster But I do think it's inevitably going to happen. It just, it's the direction everything is going to.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

And then we're just going to be majority rule. You might as well just combine the House and the Senate into one thing. 535 members of that. God dang it.

[Joe Getty]

That's what the Democratic Socialists of America party wants. They want elimination of the Senate and just pure, you know, majority rules, single House. Speaking of which, I've got a Zoran Mamdani update coming up later on in the show.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know where I am on the weather because I think Trump might be right that it's going to happen. It'd be better if we do it than they do it. And you get no credit through history for we weren't the party that did it. It was the other party. That isn't going to matter when the other party does await the filibuster and then just starts passing whatever the hell they want to pass. Yeah, I'm of two minds of this. I'm against. I would, if I were a senator, I would, I would try to stop this from happening.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I agree completely. I'm reminded of conversations with. Go ahead.

[Jack Armstrong]

Especially around this. Trump's argument is to. To end this shutdown. The freaking shutdown. You're going to blow up the damn Senate over the shutdown of all things.

[Joe Getty]

Which is the Democrats fault.

[Jack Armstrong]

Come on now.

[Joe Getty]

No, no, no. Don't bail them out.

[Jack Armstrong]

The WaPo editorial board today says the quickest way to end the shutdown is to have the Democrats enough Democrats to vote for passing this. The WaPo editorial board.

[Guest or Additional Announcer]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Don't do anything much less blow up the the Senate.

[Jack Armstrong]

By the way, on Tuesday we will officially be in the longest shutdown this country has ever had. And I think we're going to get there.

[Joe Getty]

Over what? Nothing. We have no way to run a republic.

[Jack Armstrong]

We got a lot more on the way. If you missed a segment, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand.

Armstrong and Gettysburg.

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Fireworks in the fourth quarter.

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Snooze off.

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Season that is kids saying trick or tater.

[Jack Armstrong]

Did you just get a potato?

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Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Videos of homeowners handing out potatoes on Halloween have been sprouting up on social.

[Commercial Announcer]

Media in recent years, leaving some puzzled.

[Jack Armstrong]

But surprisingly most ecstatic.

You want more potatoes?

[Sports Announcer]

You want more potatoes?

[Jack Armstrong]

More trick or treaters are poised to strike Yukon gold.

Now I have been ladling, ladling out hot cream corn for years at Halloween. You know, hold out your little basket and I just give you a full scoop of creamed corn in there on top. All your candy and yeah, potatoes. Might as well. The last kid. The thing any kid needs is more candy. It's ubiquitous candy. It's everywhere. It's practically free.

[Joe Getty]

Right, Right. Yeah. Yeah. That is kind of funny.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, I, I might do that myself tonight. Honestly. Henry would love that. We'll get a, we'll get a bag of potatoes and potatoes. Just full, raw potatoes. Is that the way you do it, Katie? Just like a big brown raw.

[Joe Getty]

Just a dry potato potato and. Am I missing the joke here or is it just ironic?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I don't know if it's ironic. It's just odd.

[Joe Getty]

All right, whatever. Why not a turnip. That's what I say. Or California prunes. Check out California prunes.org Let's see, where was I? Oh yeah, just a handful of stories that worth. Are worth at least tipping our cap to. I'm always torn with like looking back at Joe Biden's presidency, the Free Press with a scathing, scathing report on the House Oversight Committee. Report that just came out.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

About how incredibly out of touch Joe Biden was.

[Jack Armstrong]

I got some, I got some great details from that. Later.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah, grab them. Or we can do it now, whatever. Particularly the use of the auto pen and all of the pardons. It's become completely clear that his activist staff just had some very broad perimeters. Didn't look at individual parameters, rather didn't look at individual cases at all. And gave pardons to some really monstrous people and people who didn't deserve it at all. But. And Biden had no idea of any of it.

[Jack Armstrong]

So not surprisingly, the mainstream media, which was involved in covering for an obviously addled president, is not reporting on the report that just came out. But this is a legit report. This is not like Colmer, you know, the Republican committee member who makes all these claims and then they never come true. This was the testimony of actual people who worked in the Biden administration. And I became aware of this only through Mark Halperin's podcast yesterday. He was losing his mind over the fact that this was not in the New York Times or the Washington Post because this came out two days ago. And he's like, how is nobody talking about this? Here's what Axios had. This is from Thompson. He's the other guy with Jake Tapper that wrote the book. One of the very few journalists in America who was being honest about Biden's mental decline. Alex Thompson.

[Joe Getty]

Thompson.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. So he wrote this in Axios. This is from the report that came out two days ago that's getting no coverage. Former Biden chief of staff, his chief of staff, Jeff Zients, told the panel that he, Jake Sullivan, the NSA advisor, Anthony Blinken, the Secretary of State, the Commerce Secretary, the VA Secretary, all expressed concern about Biden continuing his reelection campaign after the debate. Zients told all lawmakers that within a few days after the debate, Biden was aware of my view that I thought it was prudent to get out of the race. They didn't think he was mentally competent to be president. The Secretary of State, his own chief of staff.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Didn't think he should be president at that time, let alone for another four years.

[Joe Getty]

And they all kept their mouths shut.

[Jack Armstrong]

And they kept their mouths shut. And that's not a big enough story for the New York Times or the Washington Post. As I heard someone describe. Well, they were complicit in the COVID up. So how do they report at this point that it's shocking that somebody was not saying out loud what was clearly true? So like I said, Mark Halpern was losing his mind over how this is not a big national story, that the Secretary of State and the guy's own chief of staff knew the guy shouldn't be president, that he was incompetent and kept their mouths shut. The Democrats should have this hung around their head for many cycles.

[Joe Getty]

Right, right. So as I started to say at the beginning of the segment, I mean, there's part of me that thinks, you know, we got plenty of problems now dissecting the past. You know, what good Would it do? Biden's out of office and soon to be out of. But at the same time, I mean, we've. We've got to hold people to account it or even a political party on some level.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not about Joe Biden, but there are a whole bunch of people involved that plan to continue to be major movers and shakers of the Democratic Party.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

That we now know because they testified. They had to testify. And I'm thinking the only reason they testified this is because they knew either other people were going to say it or it's documented somewhere or whatever. The freaking Secretary of State. What kind of patriot are you if the Secretary of State. Everything that's going on in the world, a couple of wars, all the different awful things that could happen, you know, the guy is not competent to be President of the United States and can keep your mouth shut. Don't mess with the men in America.

[Joe Getty]

Unless you want to get the benefit.

[Jack Armstrong]

And part of it, I guess, is Trump drain syndrome. They probably thought, well, it'd be better than having Hitler as president.

[Joe Getty]

Part of it was that. And the other part of it was that people who are closest to Biden, who are politically very dangerous, would cut you off at the knees if you dared break ranks, for instance. And the fact that this is not, like, covered a lot in the mainstream media just shows how incredibly biased they are because it's a super interesting political story. Mike Donilon is a campaign consultant. He's been with Biden for nearly 45 years. People close to Biden, this is in 2021 in the Washington Post, see Donalin as Biden's conscience, his alter ego, a shared brain. One longtime Biden advisor estimated no fewer than 10,000 times in their working relationship. Has the president turned to Donilon and asked, mike, what do you think? Closest guy to Biden had a $4 million bonus coming if Biden got reelected as his campaign consultant. He got paid 4 million bucks for getting Biden in the White House the first time. And if he could keep Biden in the race, he would earn 4 million more. Mike Donilon was the hatchet man behind the nobody says anything scheme about Biden, and he's under oath. Here, the transcript of the committee's interview with Donilon. He spells it all out.

[Jack Armstrong]

Man, if you're chief of staff to a president and you've gone to the guy and said, I don't think you should run for reelection, you can't keep your mouth shut and let that play Out.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I know, I know it's terrible.

[Jack Armstrong]

What if we'd have had a crisis that he. Maybe we did. Maybe that's the next shoe that's going to drop. Maybe not for 25 years when a variety of things are finally released, but who knows who's making variety of decisions around, you know, our Israel policy, our Ukraine policy or whatever policy it might have just been, you know, the chief of staff and the Secretary of State and then auto pin and signing it.

[Joe Getty]

Is there a big historic shoe foot that's going to drop shoe to the trouser shoe shoe that's going to drop when Biden croaks. Is Anthony Blinken going to unleash his book?

[Jack Armstrong]

No, I don't think he could. I don't think you could because you're implicating yourself as a really bad person.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Yeah, I guess so. Speaking of media and politics and that sort of thing, here's a headline for you. Bloodbath. CBS parent company announces mass layoffs slashes race and culture unit at CBS. They announced Wednesday around 2,000 layoffs, including 100 in the newsroom. Well, I don't eliminated the outlet's race and culture unit in an effort to crack down on ideological bias.

[Jack Armstrong]

I haven't paid attention to the ratings for the evening newscast for many, many years because it has become much, much less relevant. Used to be so important, the three evening newscasts and they are barely important now. But I didn't realize CBS was so far behind the other two. I mean, absolutely. Getting trounced by ABC and NBC. And so, yeah, I mean, it's not some sort of right wing, Barry Weiss fascist. It's. I mean, if you're just running a business, you would come in and lay waste because you're getting your ass kicked.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, it's funny. In spite of that clear unmistakable reality, the folks at CBS are, are tweeting mostly anonymously or on Slack messages that it's just, it's a bloodbath. It's nerve wracking. It's so unfair. It's a blah, blah, blah. No, no, you, you, you're losing. Your team loses all of its games. Don't like weep bitter tears when you fire the offensive coordinator. That's what you're supposed to do. But that, that sense of entitlement is, is nothing new in the, the media. Let's see. I want to squeeze in one more. Oh, that's really good. Oh, here's a good one for you. Here's a headline for you. Hezbollah is rearming Putting ceasefire with Israel at risk.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hezbollah. They're the ones that got their junk blown off by pagers.

[Joe Getty]

Not enough of them, apparently. Israel is losing patience as the Lebanese militant group restocks rockets, anti take missile, anti tank missiles and artillery. More on that after a word from our friends at Prize.

[Jack Armstrong]

Beepity beep. And you say hold on a second, somebody's trying to get a hold of.

[Joe Getty]

Let me see what this is then.

[Jack Armstrong]

Bluey no gonads.

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

I love this. Prize Picks off also offers injury reboots if one of your players leaves the game in the first half and doesn't return. Prize picks will not count that as a loss. That is fair. Download the Prize Picks app today. Again, use that Code Armstrong. You get fifty dollars in lineups after you play just a five dollar lineup. You don't have to win. It's automatic. That's the Code Armstrong. The prize picks. At prize picks, it's good to be right. So you've got Hamas continuing attacks, trying to regroup as fast as it can, and Hezbollah rearming. It's almost as if you can't make peace with religious zealots who vowed to wipe you off the face of the earth if it takes a thousand years. Turns out you can't just, you know, knock them around a little bit and get them to come to their senses. Census doesn't work.

[Jack Armstrong]

We haven't mentioned the foiled terrorist plot that Cash Patel announced today the FBI stopped. Maybe we'll get into some of the details of that. If it's all accurate, it was.

[Joe Getty]

It was a big one in a major mom dummy. The Commie update next hour.

[Jack Armstrong]

Cool. And if you haven't heard our tip, the easiest costume for couples. You're going to a party tonight. You got to throw something together real quick. It's the hot costume.

Stick around Armstrong and Getty.

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[Guest or Additional Announcer]

Okay.

[Jack Armstrong]

Joe's gonna have to come up with something. I'm a little distracted.

[Joe Getty]

Oh.

[Jack Armstrong]

We'Ve all done this. Oh, I sent a text to the wrong person. Oh, oh, oh.

[Joe Getty]

I was gonna guess phone in toilet judging by the look in your face.

[Jack Armstrong]

But no, that phone in toilet, that's annoying.

[Joe Getty]

Is this gonna have consequences kind of a text?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes.

[Joe Getty]

Can you unsend it?

[Jack Armstrong]

No, they. They already responded. Epic D pick. Not a deep pick. Hanson says I did not send a D pick to somebody. Oh my God. I can't even come close to hinting what it's about. But it is not a good one. Damn it.

[Joe Getty]

Were you talking smack about the particular person you sent it to?

[Jack Armstrong]

Not smack in the sense of like, you know, backbiting gossip for fun or something like that. Like a serious conversation about someone and their shortcomings to the. To that person. And that was all designed around helping them and love.

[Joe Getty]

Interesting wrinkle.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, it's my role to help this person. You can probably figure out what I'm talking about.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, fair enough. My biological role.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I sent.

[Joe Getty]

Fair enough.

[Jack Armstrong]

I sent the conversation to them about a problem that they have. God dang it. I've only done this. This is the third time I've done. I've done it a bunch of times. We all have. But I've only done it three times with like actual ramifications.

[Joe Getty]

I'm not sure I have.

[Jack Armstrong]

Good for you. I have. It's been so long. Because I'm usually really careful.

[Joe Getty]

Partly because you have. And the idea scares me so much when you tell us about it. I think never do that. You know, as an absent minded guy. It's an ever present threat, you know?

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, go ahead.

[Joe Getty]

No, my, my issue lately has been the. The audio messages. I don't know how I keep hitting that button, but I'll text somebody and then it turns on the audio recording and then. And then I look down at my phone and it's like I was. I haven't sent one, but I've been.

[Jack Armstrong]

Too close many a times.

[Guest or Additional Announcer]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Can you like, ask Siri to do me a favor and don't ever turn that on until you've asked me if I'm sure I want it on.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, good idea. This could have been so much worse. I got really lucky that I worded it the way I did. Or it could have been disastrous.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, boy.

[Jack Armstrong]

But so here's the lesson. Before you press send every single time, check at the top to see who it's going to.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I'm a big fan of note private thread. If you go from, say, a group, maybe you're putting together a tee time for the golf course for something very innocent and. And Al Jones signs up and Al is a known cheater and you don't want to have anything to do with it. It. And I'll send a text to, you know, a person, say, no, this is a private thread. This is not the same thread. Just to avoid that sort of thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. If you're in that situation, that's a good idea. I was not in that situation. I don't know how I did this. I think I was just a mind. I was thinking about the person and I was sending it to someone else. And just in my mind, I conflated it somehow that I should be sending it to the person that it's about. I have done the whole thing where you got two conversations going at once with two different people and so they're coming in back and forth, back and forth, and you just reply to, oh, your fly. And the other one had jumped in and you said, and you in and.

[Joe Getty]

For inadvertently tell Michelangelo. Love you too, friends. Yes, I remember that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I've got a few of those. I've got a few of those.

[Joe Getty]

It's time I came to terms with my feelings for you.

[Jack Armstrong]

Those are mildly embarrassing as opposed to, oh my God, this could change my life. Ish. You could easily have some that change your life. Nothing more true than the whole you can't run ring a bell about things said.

[Joe Getty]

Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

It just. It's just a hundred percent ironclad true.

[Joe Getty]

It got back to me a hundred years ago that one of my good friends had expressed to somebody else I cared about that I don't get why he's with Judy. I don't see anything there at all. This is when we were dating.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

It's never been the same. Still in touch. Never been the same.

[Jack Armstrong]

Of course it's not.

[Joe Getty]

You know, and he's entitled to his opinion. I mean, it's fine, but just.

[Jack Armstrong]

Of course you wouldn't be the same. Yeah, well, that's been very kind of you to say he's entitled to his opinion, which, of course he is, but. And he didn't. Did he need to be saying that to anyone?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, you got to be really careful about that, because you don't know what's happening in a relationship if you're not in it.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, you don't.

[Guest or Additional Announcer]

Anyway.

[Joe Getty]

Anyway. Oh, speaking of difficult conversations.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, I got that out of my system.

[Joe Getty]

All right. Yeah, that's good. That's good. Science has proved that shouting obscenities is good for you. Just not in a crowded McDonald's. Speaking of difficult conversations that ought to be had.

[Jack Armstrong]

You shouldn't at church. Just sit there and appeal.

[Joe Getty]

There are a number of.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sorry, I'm thinking of something else. Got nothing to do with your.

[Joe Getty]

Actually, just to summarize several settings where that's inappropriate. But speaking of difficult conversations, the great Seth Dillon, the genius behind the Babylon Bee, wrote a piece for the Free Press about the foolishness of no enemies to the right. The idea that. Don't. Don't attack the nutty right wing as a conservative because we gotta train all of our firepower on the left and how foolish that is. And it surprises me not a bit how eloquent and persuasive his case is. We'll get to that later.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think originally it was always no enemies to the left, but it is caught on. On both sides.

[Joe Getty]

Well, the humorous part, and you may know this already, Jack, is that that emerged from the French Revolution, no enemies to the left.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's where it came from.

[Joe Getty]

And that ended just beautifully.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. No. No matter how crazy the people to the left of us are, we're all together, so we're gonna. And you see that on the left all the time.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

The average Democrat is not down with a lot of this nuttiness, but they. They feel like they should have no enemies to the left.

[Joe Getty]

You got moderate Democrats afraid to say no. Dudes shouldn't beat up on girls in women's sports. That's ridiculous. They're afraid. No enemies to the left. Well, let's call out our enemies to the right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Okay. If you miss a segment, get the podcast. Check who you're sending your text to.

Do Armstrong and Getty.

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[Joe Getty]

Snooze off.

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Game on. It's Sunday morning Football continues November 9th at 9:30 Eastern only on NFL Network.

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It's $15 a month. 2.

[Jack Armstrong]

Seriously, it's $15 a month.

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

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