They Left The Land & We Built The Studio

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: “They Left The Land & We Built The Studio”

Date: October 27, 2025

Host: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on political communication and virtue signaling, zeroing in on Gavin Newsom’s elusive messaging style as he’s grilled about a potential presidential run. Jack and Joe dissect Newsom’s strange tendency to sidestep direct answers, the broader phenomenon of focus-grouped language among politicians, and wade into the cultural moment around land acknowledgments. The episode also highlights campus culture at elite universities and touches on contemporary city and state politics—sprinkled, as always, with the hosts’ trademark wit and riffing.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Gavin Newsom’s Perplexing Communication Style

[00:44 – 07:23]

• Interview Analysis
  The episode opens with a Newsom–Robert Costa interview, Jack and Joe noting how Newsom continues dodging the direct “why” for presidential ambitions, instead offering vague references and unfinished thoughts:
  • “When asked directly about why he'd run for president, Newsom gives this meandering answer—'Nisha said if you have a compelling why, you can endure any how’—never finishing the thought.” ([01:48], Gavin Newsom)
  • Hosts’ Reaction:
    • Jack: “That was a big swing and a miss. That's bad political acumen.” ([03:06])
    • Joe: “He's way down the line of running for president ... how does he not have that sentence ready to go—the ‘why’ sentence?” ([02:26])
• Newsom on Trans Issues
  • The hosts play a clip of Newsom on the Charlie Kirk podcast where he dances around clarifying his position on trans athletes:
    • “How can we address this issue with the kind of decency ... but no firm stance.” ([05:09], Newsom)
  • Jack: “He just dances around topics until they change. He never says anything definitive.” ([05:42])
• Diagnosis:
  The consensus is that Newsom’s style is over-calculated, focus-grouped, and ultimately ineffective if he wants to reach the “big stage.”
  • Joe: “He can't just say something. He's got that too focus-grouped problem that some politicians have … Usually doesn't win. Al Gore, Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom.” ([06:56])
  • Jack: “Just so calculated he can’t just speak.” ([06:53])

2. Land Acknowledgments and Virtue Signaling

[08:29 – 12:41]

• Critique of Land Acknowledgments:
  Jack and Joe break down a Nellie Bowles Free Press piece, critiquing the performative aspect of land acknowledgments ("We are learning this American history on land that used to belong to...").
  • Joe: “My son had to do it day one of American history class ... learning on land that used to belong to the [Indigenous group].” ([08:29])
  • Jack: “You can just give your property to the native people—or you know, donate the land value to the tribe. Otherwise, shut the F up.” ([11:19])
  • Case in Canada:
    • Reference to a recent Canadian court action that unsettled property owners, warning that these declarations aren’t just symbolic.
    • Jack: “Do Berkeley next. Do Harvard next.” ([10:45, [11:34]])
  • Core Criticism:
    • These gestures don’t change the reality but are primarily about self-aggrandizement.
      • Joe: “Truth be told, I'm hoping you shut up.” ([12:18])

3. Higher Ed Hypocrisy: Harvard’s Decline

[15:46 – 19:45]

• PhD Bubble Bursting:

  • Reports that Harvard is cutting PhD slots by 75% in sciences and 60% in arts/humanities amid budget woes.
    • Jack (citing Nellie Bowles): “During PhDs, students teach and grade but are paid next to nothing ... maybe this way there’ll be 5,000 fewer Antifa soldiers produced each year.” ([16:21])
  • Host View:
    • Deep skepticism about the value and direction of modern graduate education.

• Harvard Leadership & Ideological Bias:

  • A dean at Harvard is under fire for radical statements about rioting and whiteness; the university refuses comment.
    • Joe: “He tweeted rioting and looting are parts of democracy, just like voting and marching.” ([17:33])
  • Conservative Harvard students allege open double standards for liberal vs. conservative clubs on campus, leading to widespread self-censorship.
    • Quote: “The prudent thing to do is just sort of toe the line ... particularly in the social sciences.” ([19:06])

4. Progressive Politics: New York & Name Games

[21:56 – 26:47]

• NYC Politics:
  Jack and Joe play soundbites from progressive rallies in New York, joking about the increasing leftist tilt and the performative aspects of political showdowns.
  • Joe: “Bernie’ll outlive me ... even at 140, he’ll be yelling about oligarchs.” ([24:48])
• Pronunciation as Virtue:
  • Fun is made of AOC’s “authentic” pronouncing of Zohran Mamdani’s name:
    • Jack: “Look how authentic. We order in French at French restaurants... You say Zoran, we say Zohran. So you're a bad person.” ([26:36–26:47])
    • Critique about how only certain minority groups get hyper-corrected pronunciation for virtue signaling.

5. Unlikely Candidates and Hypocrisy

[27:27 – 30:04]

• Zohran Mamdani:
  • Pointed out as “socialist” running for office while coming from wealth:
    • Jack: “He’s so rich, he doesn’t have to work, and he’s preaching socialism … an Islamist Marxist.” ([28:34])
• Andrew Cuomo:
  • Criticized for scandals, but still, the hosts find themselves forced to “root” for him against even worse alternatives.

6. Language Battles: Illegal Aliens vs. Undocumented

[30:24 – 31:24]

• Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is grilled about spending reports on immigrants, pivots on terminology:
  • Johnson: “We don’t have illegal aliens. The legal term for my people were slaves. You want me to use that term too?” ([30:39])
• Hosts call out what they see as faux outrage and distraction from substantive issues.

7. Harvard’s “Across the Divide” Panel

[32:08 – 33:05]

• Mockery of Harvard’s “bridge-building” panel stocked exclusively with Democrats:
  • Jack: “Across the Divide … invited three lefties to speak. You’ve got to be kidding me.” ([33:08])
  • Joe: “That is unbelievably unself-aware.” ([33:05])

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On Newsom’s Communications:

• Joe Getty: “That was a big swing and a miss. That's bad political acumen.” ([03:06])
• Jack Armstrong: “He just dances around topics until they change. He never says anything definitive.” ([05:42])

On Land Acknowledgments:

• Jack Armstrong: “You can just give your property to native people … or donate that [land] value to that tribe. Otherwise, shut the F up.” ([11:19])

On Higher Ed Bias:

• Jack Armstrong (quoting Harvard students): “The prudent thing to do is just sort of toe the line … particularly in the social scientists [departments].” ([19:06])

On Virtue Signaling Pronunciations:

• Jack Armstrong: “Look how authentic. We order in French at French restaurants … You say Zoran, we say Zohran. So you're a bad person. That's the way I say it.” ([26:36])

On Harvard Panel:

• Jack Armstrong: “Across the Divide … invited three lefties to speak. You've got to be kidding me.” ([33:08])

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:44 – Start of main content: dissecting Gavin Newsom’s CBS interview
• 03:06 – Hosts critique Newsom’s lack of clear “why”
• 04:54 – Analysis of Newsom’s non-answers on trans sports
• 08:29 – Discussion on land acknowledgments, Nellie Bowles’ article
• 15:46 – Harvard PhD program cuts and university ideological bias
• 19:06 – Conservative Harvard students speak on campus culture
• 21:56 – Progressive politics and New York rallies (Bernie et al.)
• 26:36 – Riffing on pronunciation/vituous signaling
• 28:34 – Zohran Mamdani’s background and socialist credentials
• 30:39 – Chicago mayor on terminology for immigrants (“illegal aliens”)
• 32:08 – Satire of Harvard’s “Across the Divide” panel
• 36:01 – Nike “Mind” shoes discussed/mockery of mindfulness marketing
• 41:24 – Final thoughts and closing riffing

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Conclusion & Episode Tone

The tone is skeptical, irreverent, and self-aware throughout. Armstrong and Getty take aim at evasive political language, performance over substance in activism, and hypocrisy in elite institutions, all while infusing the show with jokes, cultural references, and a healthy dose of mockery for marketing “mindfulness” and the virtue signaling of the professional class.

For New Listeners

This episode epitomizes Armstrong & Getty’s style: rapid-fire conversation, sharp political analysis, and comedic commentary—perfect for listeners who want to keep up with political culture and progressive discourse with a hefty dose of skepticism and humor. No need to have heard the episode: this summary covers both the arguments and the zingers.

Transcript

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[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. So we're, we're trying to wrestle to the ground what the hell Gavin Newsom was talking about. So he, he was asked about running for president. Even that exchange was weird. I'll play that too. Yeah, let's start there. I just. Why can't he. I think we've discovered his flaw or it's a on purpose tactic. I'm not exactly sure what. So here he is with Robert Costa being asked about running for president on CBS at 33. Is that right? Yeah, 33 after the 2026 midterms, you're going to give it serious thought?

[Gavin Newsom]

Yeah, I'd be lying otherwise. I'd just be lying and I can't do that.

[Joe Getty]

Governor, you have long said that if you ever run for the White House, you need a compelling why, a reason. Are you moving closer to figuring out your own why and your own decision?

[Gavin Newsom]

Yeah. Nisha said if you have a compelling why, you can endure any how. And so I don't think, I think the biggest challenge for anyone runs for any office is people see right through you. If you don't have that why.

[Joe Getty]

Well, did you get to the why.

[Jack Armstrong]

Or no, he's kind of building up to it. That was more comprehensible than usual. But he also started off the one sentence with admire you better.

[Joe Getty]

Well, following people who run for president, generally it works. If you've got the very. You got the sentence, how are you this far down the line of running for president? Which he's way down the line of running for president. He's visited all the swing states, he's been meeting with all the donors. He's been, you know, he launched Prop 50, which we're voting on here in a week or whenever it is all this stuff to fight Trump. How does he not have that sentence ready to go though the Y sentence? Robert Costa on CBS just set him up for the Y sentence.

[Jack Armstrong]

You gotta jump on it immediately. Gotta. You gotta get the Y and the Y. Incomprehensible. Something. You gotta have the.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I think we've seen our first inkling of what we suspected, that he's not ready for the big stage because he should have. Barack Obama, Donald Trump, like, been able to jump on a tight. Why immediately? That would have been played on every news station in America yesterday and today.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. And that was a big swing and a miss. That's bad political acumen. But our topic more specifically is we're trying to get to the bottom of his weird speaking style, where you think he's, you know, where he's going with the sentence, but he never finishes the sentence. So, Michael, let's do 32. He's on some radio show or something, but try to figure out what the hell he's talking about.

[Gavin Newsom]

But also, you know, it was also about paying the bills, man. And it was just like, hustling. And so I was out there kind of raising myself, turning on the tv, started, you know, just getting obsessed, you know, sitting there with, you know, the Wonder Bread and five stacks of the white stack.

[Jack Armstrong]

Five story.

[Joe Getty]

Come on, macaroni and cheese. Are you talking about me?

[Gavin Newsom]

Every day. Every day in the backyard, just bouncing the basketball, throwing the ball against the wall until the ball is just, like, fraying, man. And you yourself, that's it.

[Joe Getty]

Whole thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

What?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, because he didn't say the Mac and cheese. Somebody else did. So I don't know. I don't even know what he's getting at there.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I, I, it lacked context, but there, there were just quite a few phrases in there that were, like, completely unconnected. He didn't finish the thought. It just, he throws phrases out. And, and is it intent? Is it something wrong with his brain? Or is it an intentional technique for not getting nailed down in the. We're gonna play it right now. The, the clip where he went on the podcast with the great late Charlie Kirk talking about trans issues. See how many of his thoughts he actually completes and how many he just kind of gives a head fake toward but doesn't finish.

[Joe Getty]

It's like, you right now should come out and be like, you know what? The young man who's about to win the state championship in the long jump in female sports, that shouldn't happen. You, as the governor, should step out.

[Gavin Newsom]

And say, no, no. And I appreciate, but, like, would you.

[Joe Getty]

Do something like that? Would you say no? Men in female sports.

[Gavin Newsom]

Well, I think it's an issue of fairness. I completely agree with you on that. So that's easy to call out the unfairness of that. There's also a humility and a grace that these poor people are more likely to commit suicide, have anxiety and depression. And the way that people talk down to vulnerable communities is an issue that I have a hard time with as well. So both things I can hold in my hand. How can we address this issue with the kind of decency that I think is inherent in you but not always expressed?

[Joe Getty]

So what's your stance?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah, I. Yeah, it's. It's interesting. It's hard to nail down his style exactly. But he just dances around topics until they change. He never says anything definitive.

[Joe Getty]

No, that was another opportunity for him. Unless he didn't want to take the opportunity for him to make the clear statement, which would have been great for, I think, getting the Democratic nomination. Actually. No. Trans boys should not be participating in girls sports or trans girls or whatever it is. I never can get. I don't know how you're supposed to call it, but yeah, okay, I think we've nailed it down. He can't just say something. He's got that too focused grouped problem that some politicians have. They don't all have. The ones that win generally don't have it. Trump, Obama, Clinton. They just said they were. They. They. They knew in their head what they wanted to say, and they just said it. Those people usually win.

[Jack Armstrong]

W was good at that.

[Joe Getty]

But the people that are thinking, what did the. We did the focus group on this and went. And I got to worry about to see In New Hampshire, 30% of people don't want to. You know, they. You get down that road and you.

[Jack Armstrong]

Just so calculated that he. He can't just speak.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. That person usually doesn't win. Al Gore, Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, Right. Yeah. Well, it'll be amusing to watch anyway.

[Joe Getty]

Huh? Wonder if he can get over that, be coached out of that. Say it. Just say it. First of all, sit down and figure out what your positions are. What is your why for running for president? What. What is your position on boys and girls sports? And when somebody asks you about it, tell them. And.

[Jack Armstrong]

And it would be so easy to say, you know, all that. And some of it was crap about, you know, transgender kids and suicide and the rest of it. Yeah. That you want them to be suicidal and miserable when they wake up and realize they've ruined their lives for a ridiculous ideology when they were a teenager. They've changed their bodies forever. Then they're going to be really down. But anyway, you couldn't say, look, a lot of these people are troubled, sometimes suicidal. They've got a lot of anxiety and depression. I think we need to treat everybody with dignity, particularly young people. But no, a biological male cannot compete in girls sports. It's just not fair. How hard is that to say? But he doesn't. He never says it. Speaking of that sort of hypocrisy, I just love this. The great Nellie Bowles writing in the Free Press. All those land acknowledgments, Jack, that the progressive idiots make before every city council meeting and faculty meeting and sometimes even school classes, right?

[Joe Getty]

Yes. My son had. My son had to do it. Day one of American history class. We are learning this American history on land that used to belong to the forget which Indian group that stole it violently from another Indian group. It's actually known.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, but you just go back one in the progressive doctrine. You can't go back two, because then you would realize how utterly ridiculous and foolish your philosophy is.

[Joe Getty]

Well, we're doing the Armstrong and Getty show in this studio on the land once owned by some tribe. Actually, Joe and I actually drove the tribe off the land for the radio studio.

[Jack Armstrong]

Get out of here. Got a show to do, you damn interlopers. Yeah, we pointed guns at them.

[Joe Getty]

They had bows and arrows. So you want to take this on? We got guns, you got bows and arrows. They left the land since we built the studio.

[Jack Armstrong]

Absolutely hilarious. Shallow, simple minded gobbledygook, these land declarations. But the great Nellie Bowles, getting back to what she wrote was, hey, what do you think decolonization meant? Vibes or papers? No, you think all your land acknowledgments are just for fun. No, eventually, after years of saying, excuse me, that you do not own the land under your house, that it belongs to the Native American people of blah, blah, blah, tribe. Well, the tribe might get ideas and they might win. Certain property owners in the Canadian city of Richmond, British Columbia, recently got this letter explaining that quote, for those whose property is in the area outlined in black, the court has declared aboriginal title to your property, which may compromise the status and validity of your ownership, which was mandated without any prior notice to the landowners. The entire area outlined in green is claimed on appeal by the Cowachan First Nations. So I. Canada's so woke.

[Joe Getty]

So I always wonder, what is the point? What do you think the point is? Like, I understand at the very highest level it's Marxism and tearing down the system, everything like that, but that's not what the average dope who, who says this at the Rotary Club meeting is doing.

[Jack Armstrong]

We are having enlightened.

[Joe Getty]

They think they're being enlightened. And then what am I supposed to do? Sit there and feel bad for a few moments?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, right, exactly. While they trumpet their virtue. But the point Nelly's making is in Woke Woke Canada, courts have said, you know, you have a point, so you really don't own the land under your house. And Nelly writes, do Berkeley next.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, no kidding.

[Jack Armstrong]

She says, I once walked by the most gorgeous craftsman whose owners had installed the plaque by the sidewalk that acknowledged the house was on unceded stolen land. It's time to take people people at their word. The land is stolen. The craftsmen must be redistributed. I am the tribe. We've been following the story, blah, blah. The point is, you make that sort of declaration, you got two choices. You can just give your, your property to native people or you know, they didn't build a house. You figure out, and this is done for tax purposes, what percentage of the total value of your house is the house and what percentage is the land? The value of that land. You need to take a mortgage out on your house and donate that amount, the value of the land, to that tribe, if they still exist. Otherwise, shut the F up.

[Joe Getty]

Do Berkeley next. Do Harvard next. Since it was founded in like the mid-1600s or something like that, you probably wouldn't, probably wouldn't be very hard to figure out exactly who that belonged to at that moment.

[Jack Armstrong]

Again, not going back.

[Joe Getty]

One more goes down the college and turn it into a casino or whatever you think is appropriate. I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah, plow it all down and plant tobacco again. Yeah. It's just so phony. Virtue signaling.

[Joe Getty]

I like that. The next time Sony brings that up, I need to. I will, I will remember that. Okay, well then figure out how much the land is worth and donate that money to the tribe if you believe it so strongly.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. Or shut up.

[Joe Getty]

Or shut up. Which is what I'm really preferring.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right?

[Joe Getty]

Truth be told, I'm hoping you shut up.

[Jack Armstrong]

Self aggrandizing fools. Anything.

[Joe Getty]

That's whether it's privilege or the land acknowledgment, where the whole point is for me to sit there and feel bad for a few minutes. Who's benefiting from this?

[Jack Armstrong]

I woke up feeling bad. It's redundant.

[Joe Getty]

I've been ashamed my whole life. This is nothing new. You think you got something new on me. I woke up ashamed.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, I've got a couple more brief Harvard updates too. What's going on in that den of progressive iniquity?

[Joe Getty]

Cool all on the way.

[Jack Armstrong]

Stay here Armstrong and Getty.

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The World Series is all tied up. A game of peace After a dominant pitching performance, the LA Dodgers Yoshu Nobu Yamamoto tossed his second straight complete game of the postseason. First time anyone's done that in 24 years. The Dodgers beat the Blue Jays in Toronto 5 to 1.

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[Joe Getty]

You know who pitches complete games down the Major League Baseball? Nobody.

[Jack Armstrong]

Ever.

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And he's done two in a week in the playoffs at Yamamoto.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's crazy.

[Joe Getty]

It's ridiculous that they have Shohei Ohtani and Yamamoto on the same team. But anyway, I like the cheer that Toronto had at least on Friday night when they blew out the Dodgers when Ohtani came up to bat in the ninth inning. We don't need you. Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap. Because they were second in the running to the Dodgers. He almost went to Toronto.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh wow, that's a good inside baseball taunt. So a couple of notes on Harvard, supposedly the world's greatest university, which has be clowned itself completely. I thought this was interesting. At Harvard, PhD programs are collapsing amidst amid budget woes. Faculty of Arts and Sciences just slashed the number of PhD student admissions by more than 75% in the science division and 60% in the arts and humanities division in the past two years.

[Joe Getty]

If you how much does the world need more PhDs in most areas?

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, quoting Nellie bowles Again, the PhD racket has always been a weird one. These schools push their smartest, most annoyingly ambitious kids to get a PhD. During that PhD, the guys do all the work of being a paid professor, teaching course horses, grading papers, but they're paid next to nothing. Then the clincher is that at the end there are no jobs available. Maybe one English department job in Idaho for a group of 300 to battle to the death over. So I support this belt tightening. We will have about 5,000 fewer Antifa soldiers produced each year. They might even spend their twenties making money. Love that. Well said Nelly. Speaking of Harvard, they say the university won't say whether they will sanction a dean who defended rioting and looting is legitimate parts of democracy. Described whiteness as a self described self destructive ideology. Celebrated Charlie Kirk's death, said it was acceptable to wish death on Donald Trump, et cetera, et cetera. This guy is unbelievable. What's my favorite he in the following the death of George Floyd, he tweeted rioting and looting are parts of democracy, just like voting and marching. Wow. A month before he got his gig last year, he posted on Instagram that people should love each other and hate the police. Describe whiteness as a self destructive ideology that annihilates everyone around it. Like in Trump to Adolf Hitler that appeared to celebrate the death of Rush Limbaugh, et cetera. Harvard has no comments on it. And the the con, the communist himself, Gregory Davis is his name, said those posts do not reflect my current thinking or beliefs. One of them was last year.

[Joe Getty]

Well I was a kid then.

[Jack Armstrong]

Marxists lie. They lie and they lie and they lie. And then Fox News had a panel with conservative Harvard students that was really interesting. Maybe we can find some of the audio for it, but they're speaking out about what it's really like on campus right now where the university has said no, we're gonna be fair, but in practice they're not. Said one quote A good example of this would be like something like the university is very strict on not co sponsoring events with outside groups when it comes to the Republican club, let's say putting on events. But the Democrats get away with that all the time, no questions asked. And the students described what they believe to be selective enforcement of various campus rules. Quote There have been other things like the Republican club puts on a big event and they send a bunch of administrators to really, you know, enforce fire code rules, making sure the audience is sitting properly in their seats. Whereas Democrats can host events, the whole place can be jammed pack and there's no concern whatsoever.

[Joe Getty]

Not the least bit shocking, no.

[Jack Armstrong]

And then they get into the self, the culture of silence by those who might disagree with their leftist professors for fear of academic and social reprisal. Quote I think most students get the sense that the prudent thing to do is just sort of toe the line both for academic and social reasons. I mean the grading, particularly in the social scientists is sort of subjectively left up to graduate students who are usually the teaching staff. So usually what students just do is sort of parroting whatever the professor says for the sake of the grade.

[Joe Getty]

Shocking.

[Jack Armstrong]

Not to mention the social ostracization. But that's the opposite of what a university ought to be. Polar opposite.

[Joe Getty]

So are they gonna have a new communist mayor there in New York City? You're probably saying his name wrong. If you've been saying it at all, we now know how to say it, among other things.

[Jack Armstrong]

Coming Armstrong and Getty.

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[Joe Getty]

Free buses and who runs that?

[Jack Armstrong]

The city of New York runs it, just like we run so many other services. And the bottom line here is think about the free buses again. Free buses has been proven to work in many parts of the country where it's. I'll get to a list of cities. But the bottom line is it is.

[Joe Getty]

Something that allows people to one, reduce their points. That's former Mayor de Blasio, who was the most socialist mayor they've ever had in New York. Until Mamdani wins, saying, hey, free buses have worked in lots of cities. Scarborough says, where he says, I'll have to get back to you on. Oh, that's pretty funny. That's pretty funny.

[Jack Armstrong]

So.

[Joe Getty]

Zoran and I've been saying his name wrong. You're about to learn it from aoc. How to say it properly is going to be the mayor. And he had a big campaign rally yesterday. And man, the heavy hitters of the Democratic Party trying to assert the progressive wing of that party. Mayor New York, aoc, Bernie, Bernard, Sanders, all there. Yesterday, this is what it sounded like.

[Jack Armstrong]

Governor of New York. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. What'd I say?

[Jack Armstrong]

Mayor.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Mayor of a state kind of system do they have there?

[Jack Armstrong]

That's idiotic.

[Joe Getty]

I can't believe. Mayors of the state.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right? Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

It's crazy. Yeah. So, Governor, and then you'll recognize the other voices.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right now, our city and our state and our country are under attack by Donald Trump and the Republicans in Washington.

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The very forces that Zohran is up against in this race mirrors what we are up against nationally. Both an authoritarian, criminal presidency fueled by.

[Jack Armstrong]

Corruption and Bigotry is that people want to know the answer to one very simple question. Is it possible for ordinary people, for working class people to come together and defeat those oligarchs? Wow, that's a lot of enthusiasm.

[Joe Getty]

It's interesting to me. People in places like San Francisco, Louisiana. And New York, particularly San Francisco and New York because they're so lefty. You live in the most expensive places in America. You can't afford it. Move.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

I would have loved to live in New York. I never thought I could afford it. So I didn't. So I didn't move there. I didn't move there and wonder, hey, where's my affordable housing?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I know there. There's so many notions that were at the heart of everything that we just heard that are just wrong. They're just not their fantasies. They've never been true. They never will be true.

[Joe Getty]

Bernie's act, he'll. He might outlive me. And he's quite a bit older. Good. I just feel like he could keep doing that. He's 140 and he'll be saying, and the oligarchs are ruined in the country.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. We've got to fight the oligarchs. Yay.

[Joe Getty]

Damn oligarchs. Freaking oligarchs everywhere I look. Sick of her ass. Can't swing a dead cat without hitting an oligarch. What was the thing you wanted to hear?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, are we going to focus on Zohratin? You want to hear from pronounces first?

[Joe Getty]

I'll play AOC Saying his name because I got to get that down.

[Jack Armstrong]

That Zoharan.

[Joe Getty]

Zohran.

[Jack Armstrong]

There's an H in there. Zohran.

[Joe Getty]

Where's the H? Go after Zohan.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's like haram, but haran.

[Joe Getty]

Now, I've heard his name said a million times. It's the first time I've heard it said that way. Yeah, she just invent that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Or she being super authentic or trying to be or something. I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

Zorron.

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That Zoharan.

[Joe Getty]

Authentically Ugandan Indian.

[Jack Armstrong]

Indigandan.

[Joe Getty]

I just think it's interesting that I've never heard anybody say India. I haven't heard anybody say his name.

[Jack Armstrong]

That way, that Zofran.

[Joe Getty]

But like I said earlier, I think this game, NPR does it all the time. I think the game is to make you feel like you're a racist or something or not. Not culturally sensitive. When. When they say it with the weird accent or inflection or sounds that you don't normally say with it's just saying to you, we're. We're a little better than you, a little more enlightened than you. You're kind of a racist.

[Jack Armstrong]

Look how authentic. We order in French at French restaurants.

[Joe Getty]

You say Zoran, we say Zohran. So you're a bad person. That's the way I say it.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's Zohran. Yeah. Okay. And you know, as I've said before, it's only Latinos. It's only Hispanic names that they do that for. Or like Zahran, you never hear a newscaster say, and then Shawn o' Kelahar walked into a bar. Or, you know, Luigi, nobody pronounces it like that because that would be stupid. But for Hispanics, because, you know, they're an oppressed minority, you got to go with the authentic sounding pronunciation. You're so friggin enlightened, it would be.

[Joe Getty]

Hilarious if you did that with every Italian name.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, here's Zohran himself. Let our words ring out so loud tonight that Andrew Cuomo can hear them in his $8,000 a month apart. Let them ring so loud so that he could hear us even if he's in Westchester this evening. Let them ring so loud that his puppet master in the White House hears us. New York is not for sale.

[Jack Armstrong]

This is the whole Cuomos of Trump or Trump stooge, which is hilarious. Yeah, I know.

[Joe Getty]

Cuomo's taking orders from Trump.

[Jack Armstrong]

I know. It's absolutely hilarious. There is nothing there but adolescent, like resistance.

[Joe Getty]

You can't.

[Jack Armstrong]

You can't tell me what to do. I don't have to listen to you. He's in just adolescent, you know, rebellion.

[Joe Getty]

It's interesting. So Zoharan lives in a rent controlled apartment, blasting the other guy for living in an $8,000 a month apart. Okay, we'll see how that works out.

[Jack Armstrong]

And you know what's funny is we've mentioned that he came from great wealth and he's never had a job. Think about that. He's so rich, he doesn't have to work and he's preaching socialism. You know, he's an Islamist Marxist. He is absolutely a Manchurian Candidate. Somebody who in his heart wants nothing but the dissolution of the United States. I actually believe that.

[Joe Getty]

Zoron. Mum. Dummy. Thank you.

[Jack Armstrong]

I will not be defending Cuomo. He is a cat creep and a crook.

[Joe Getty]

That's the problem. You know, I hear him taking shots at Cuomo and I think, I'm with you. All kinds of corrupt. He actually had his secretaries, those who he hadn't Tried to force himself on sexually destroying documents to cover up the fact that he sent old people, the old folks, home to die of COVID I mean, he is as awful as awful can be in terms of a public figure. And he's the one you're supposed to be rooting for against Zoron Zoharan.

[Jack Armstrong]

That Zoharan. It's like he intentionally thought, all right, what moral failings are there? I haven't racked up one. That's like killing the old. Let me think. What can I do? What can I do? He's just. He's rotten in every way. Every direction you look, he's rotten. And he's running against a communist Islamist.

[Joe Getty]

I don't think he's run a puppy mill yet. Maybe if he could get that going, he'd check all the boxes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, no cruelty to animals yet. He ought to get working. Get to work on that. Speaking of lefties, of, well, highly questionable leadership capabilities. Give me 34, would you? Michael? This is a reporter talking to the infamous Brandon Johnson of Chicago.

[Joe Getty]

So it's come to our attention through.

[Jack Armstrong]

Our cultural sources, Mr. Mayor, that you're supposed to have filed a report on spending on illegal aliens in Chicago with the White House by now.

[Joe Getty]

What's happening with that?

[Jack Armstrong]

What has happened with that?

[Joe Getty]

We don't have illegal aliens. I don't know if that's from some.

[Gavin Newsom]

Sort of sci fi message that you wish about.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, listen, the legal term for my people were slaves. You want me to use that term, too? So look, let's just get the language right. We're talking about undocumented individuals that are human beings. The last thing that I'm going to do is accept the type of racist, nasty language to describe human beings.

[Joe Getty]

So, yeah, in the laws, they use the term illegal aliens, and so that person used that term and then.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes, exactly. You want to use the term slaves for my people, because that was the term at the time. Well, yes. Yeah. In fact, lefties are constantly bringing up slaves. What are you talking about?

[Joe Getty]

I'm belligerent. I'm resistant.

[Jack Armstrong]

Look at me. I'm confident.

[Joe Getty]

And I'm kind of mad.

[Jack Armstrong]

So follow me, because I'm kind of mad. That's all they've got.

[Joe Getty]

Their ideas suck. I saw the awful not funny funny meme on Instagram the other day of Abraham Lincoln leaving the White House and then walking by the neighbor guy's house and saying, hey, Jim, your yard's getting a little out of hand. Yeah, I used to have a guy for that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, oh, oh, that's not funny.

[Joe Getty]

Not at all.

[Jack Armstrong]

No. The Internet needs higher standards.

[Joe Getty]

That's what I thought. I think it was from Family Guy. Yeah, well, most certainly.

[Jack Armstrong]

That rings true.

[Joe Getty]

Yes, it does. Sounds like something Family Guy would have on there.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, hey, before. Before we end the segment, I was talking about Harvard and how it still bullies anybody to the right of Trotsky. I left out one great example. The famed Harvard Kennedy School School Institute of Politics held a panel just a couple of days ago across the Divide, organizing to build bridges in partisan times. Okay, three speakers on the panel, all of them Democrats. In fact, there's like a centrist Democrat, a far left Democrat who's the president of the notably left wing naacp, and the former Democratic mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu. They held an institute called across the Divide, Building Bridges in Partisan Times and and invited three lefties to speak. You've got to be kidding me.

[Joe Getty]

Wow, that is an unbelievably unself aware.

[Jack Armstrong]

Is that parody?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, no kidding.

[Jack Armstrong]

I mean, because I could craft that as a joke.

[Joe Getty]

Kind of like the joke I used to have a guy for that. Like a crafted ed as a joke.

[Jack Armstrong]

Not a good joke.

[Joe Getty]

No.

[Jack Armstrong]

Inappropriate.

[Joe Getty]

Obviously. We will finish strong Next Armstrong and Getty.

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[Joe Getty]

For example, turn your phone off and get busy.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's not like you're gonna miss a job offer.

[Joe Getty]

That's. Wouldn't you like a tiny friend to watch spongebob with?

[Jack Armstrong]

You can get through to the kids.

[Joe Getty]

Make her scream about something other than the patriarchy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Save the planet. Make more people who recycle.

[Joe Getty]

You know how you plug your charger into your phone? It's like that. That is Bill Martha's list trying to help young people have more sex because they aren't having sex anymore or having kids. It's like the way you plug your. Your charger into your phone. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think we need to know the premise before we heard that.

[Joe Getty]

That's funny.

[Jack Armstrong]

Trying to remember all the jokes now and the.

[Joe Getty]

Put your phone away. It's not like you're gonna get a job offer. That's pretty funny. So Nike's got another new product out. Do you remember last week I mentioned the one that's like a robot leg? It attaches to your calf and everything like that. And it propels you forward and everything like that. I just sent a picture to you. Did I send the picture? Maybe I didn't send the picture.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah, I did.

[Joe Getty]

Okay. So that's the newest shoe.

[Jack Armstrong]

What the heck is that?

[Joe Getty]

Let me read to you what it says. It's designed to help athletes lock in their mindset pre and post competition. You're. You regularly work out, Katie. This might be perfect for you. It's the Mind 001 and the Mind 002. They're the first neuroscience based footwear from Nike. The tap into the mind body connection. They look like Yeezys. The stuff that Kanye invented. It's funny how that that weird looking shoe. Every other shoe company has started making something that looks like the Kanye shoe. But anyway, this hipster Crocs. Yeah, yeah. The little nodes on the bottom somehow do something. The mind body connection by activating sensory receptors in the feet. Oh, okay. This helps athletes lock in their mindset. It's shown to activate key sensory areas of the brain via underfoot stimulation Helping ground them in their bodies and bring.

[Jack Armstrong]

Them back to the present moment using placebo tronics.

[Joe Getty]

That last line is particularly bull ass. Helping ground them in their bodies and bring them back to the present moment. Okay, so I got these little nodules under my shoes now that help me live in the present moment more. My tennis shoes are somehow keeping me mindful.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wouldn't burning you with a cigarette do the same thing? Return you to the moment?

[Joe Getty]

Wow, what the hell? Ain't daydreaming anymore?

[Jack Armstrong]

Are you in the moment? You think a company like Nike would be able to make something like this? That not have it look stupid? These shoes look dumb.

[Joe Getty]

Well, you think they look dumb. They're very popular. The, the whole, like I said, Kanye's easy thing. Every shoe's making something that looks like it. So they must sell lots of My don't see them on people's feet a lot, but I do see them in the stores and there's gotta be some reason they're all making the. The foam weird looking Kanye easy shoe.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sometimes you see them when a large number of people emerge from a very small car. Hey, hey, hey.

[Joe Getty]

Get it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Clown shoes.

[Joe Getty]

The interaction between these shoes and your body helps heighten sensory awareness, which can help.

[Jack Armstrong]

Doesn't.

[Joe Getty]

Which can help clear away distractions and enhance concentration.

[iHeart Radio Announcer]

Oh, it can't.

[Joe Getty]

I'm with you.

[Jack Armstrong]

So to slap in the face. Hey, I'm not distracted anymore. Thank you.

[Joe Getty]

This person said, every step I take, I think of the shoe and what I feel in my feet. Which is a good thing now because.

[Jack Armstrong]

You'Re getting jabbed with those little weird knobs.

[iHeart Radio Announcer]

They hit like pressure points in your feet. Is that what it's supposed to be?

[Joe Getty]

In theory, yeah. Specific pressure points that somehow make you more mindful and live in the moment and lock in your concentration both before and after.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, you know what? You're a fool with money. I'll tell you what's gonna happen here. So does a slap in the face.

[Joe Getty]

Burning you with a cigarette, that'll help you live in the moment. Remember that moment where I burned you with a cigarette that brought you back real quick?

[Jack Armstrong]

Hey, you're not. You're not worried about the future. You're not dwelling on the past. You probably ought to put a little Bactine on there or something. Maybe, I don't know. Neosporin.

[Joe Getty]

Exactly. You aren't pondering the future. All you're thinking is, how do I get this guy to stop burning me with a cigarette?

[Jack Armstrong]

God, that hurts.

[Joe Getty]

You're in the moment. I don't want the show to be.

[Jack Armstrong]

Over, but I'm ready.

[Joe Getty]

To listen to.

[Jack Armstrong]

The final thought from Monstromy Getty. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Let's get a final, final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up the day. Wouldn't that be fun? Michelangelo, our technical director, will lead us off. Michael, final thought.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm kind of scared back here, actually. For years you had the beating wand that you would threaten me with and now I'm thinking cigarette burning.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

So it's moving up, boy. Katie Green, our esteemed news woman. As a final thought, Katie, I want to go somewhere where they have these shoes just to try them on.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Just to see.

[Joe Getty]

Yep.

[Jack Armstrong]

They're so dumb looking. They're very dumb looking. Jack, a final thought for us.

[Joe Getty]

More on the shoes. The new Nike Mind 001 has 22 independent foam nodes per shoe.

[Jack Armstrong]

That will.

[Joe Getty]

That with pistons and gimbals. Whatever a gimbal is, that helps impart the feet with the texture of the ground directly beneath them.

[iHeart Radio Announcer]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's got pistons.

[Joe Getty]

It heightens sensory awareness, which can clear away distractions again and help you live in the moment. There you go. That's some shoe.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. My final thought is one more shot at Harvard. These students told the story of Carol Hooven, who was a biology teacher there for 20 years and was hounded out of the university for saying the terms male and female are indispensable to science educators and we need to continue to use them. Despite the push to banish those words, her language was branded as transphobic by the DEI coordinator in the school's department and students attacked her and forced her to resign within a year, having never recovered from the reputational damage done by her comment. That's our citadel of higher learning, Harvard. Unfreaking believable.

[Joe Getty]

You're a foam node. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's a kick in the gimbals. All right, let's. Oh, right. So many people. Thanks. A little time. Thank you for being here. Drop by armstrongandgetty.com for the hot links. Pick up some Angie swag. We got some cool new T shirts for your favorite ang fan. Christmas is rapidly approaching. Yep.

[Joe Getty]

Cool. We will see you tomorrow. God bless America, Armstrong.

[Jack Armstrong]

And get it just in case you missed it. Maybe he's got the anal pain. Wow. Tough to concentrate on what you're doing when you got the ap. No doubt.

[Joe Getty]

Right. Especially on a Monday. You're starting a brand new week.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right?

[Joe Getty]

Got traffic and I got a stack of work on my desk and ap.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, right. Hard to keep a smile on your face. Worst time to have it.

[Joe Getty]

It's the worst time to have it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Michael Armstrong and Getty.

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