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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
This is a minute long and I don't know what it is. So I wasn't paying attention. I wanted the the end of the Stanley cup playoffs, which was clip 10 but apparently is no longer. I thought that would be exciting. The Florida Panthers defeated Edmonton and won the Stanley cup for the second year in a row.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, very disappointing. But I think they won because they're a better hockey team. Watched a bunch of.
Jack Armstrong
It feels weird Florida having a hockey team. To me, I still haven't accepted that into my life.
Ryan Seacrest
And winning Lord Stanley's cup, no less.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Ryan Seacrest
Shocking. Humor is a funny thing. A friend almost made me crack up in the middle of a fairly serious story with a text. I've now turned my phone over and part of what made the text so hilarious was that it wasn't the least bit funny. It was the uber dumb attempt at humor.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Ryan Seacrest
That wasn't funny that made it so funny.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, sometimes that works. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometimes a bad joke can be hilarious, but sometimes it's just bad and then that's a pain. I find that painful as a guy who tries to be funny for a living. It's painful whenever I do that. It just like it wounds me deeply.
Ryan Seacrest
Right. Yeah. No, this was deliberately asinine.
Jack Armstrong
So we might be going to war like today, this hour, this minute, or tomorrow or whenever. More on that in a little bit. The very latest got a little on the whole immigration front as there's a big pushback from farmers, restaurants, landscaping, all the different sectors that say, hey, wait, you can't or we'll just this isn't going to work. And Trump had gone back on that and then he went forward again on Monday. So where are we on that whole story? Stay tuned.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, I love that discussion. Really Interesting couple of things. Absolutely worth touching on. Apropos of nothing in particular, I mentioned very briefly earlier, the Free Press was reporting that British CNN journalist Christian Amanpour recently said, when I went to Harvard to give this speech, and it was just a few days ago last week, I must say I was afraid. I'm a foreigner, I don't have a green card, I'm not an American citizen, I'm fairly prominent. And I literally prepared to go to America as if I was going to North Korea. I took a burner phone, imagine that. And I had nothing on the burner phone except a few numbers. I was really afraid.
Jack Armstrong
Oh my God.
Ryan Seacrest
Can you believe that?
Jack Armstrong
S. How does she not have some sort of ability to be here at this point?
Ryan Seacrest
Well, she's a Brit. She can come whenever the frig she wants, right?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, sure.
Ryan Seacrest
I mean. Oh, that. That ability to convince yourself to be afraid because then you bond with other people and that feels really good, especially to certain personality types. And so it's like during COVID they convinced themselves that everybody was going to die, including healthy little kids and robust 23 year old soldiers and the rest of it. That we all had to hide in our home for years and years because we were so very afraid.
Jack Armstrong
I got another example, Katie, you'll like this one. I had a woman I knew who after the Dobbs decision which overturned Roe versus Wade, said they were texting and said, my friends and I are all starting to write down our menstrual cycle stuff on paper because the government's going to get into our phones and track to see if we're pregnant so they can. And there was. I don't even know what the next part was, why you have to round.
Ryan Seacrest
You up and bring you to the Handmaid's Tale camps where they would force you to give birth.
Jack Armstrong
So people were writing down their date for a, you know, the curse to come visit.
Christina Quinn
Because that's not psychotic because it's the.
Jack Armstrong
Government'S getting into your phones and will know you're psych.
Christina Quinn
That's their top priority, is to find out when my peer comes around. Good stuff.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, some people really like being afraid. Anyway, Nelly Bowles in the Free Press writes, it's Massachusetts, not Mosul. Christiane, you're traveling to Harvard and you're not Jewish. You'll be fine. What are you going to run into? Acapella kids demand to see your Social Security card. And then she gets serious. I actually think what's happening is that people are freaking themselves out on Blue sky, which if you're not familiar is the newish, progressive Twitter like outlet. Just like how ex Twitter is convincing me that the entire world is full of guys who think Hitler is misunderstood. Blue sky is convincing Christiane Amanpour that she needs a burner phone to visit Harvard Yard.
Jack Armstrong
The best line in that is, you're going to Harvard and you're not Jewish, so you'll be okay. That's really good.
Ryan Seacrest
No kidding. And then this is actually also indirectly from Nellie Bowles in the Free Press. Tulsi Gabbard, I guess, admitted last week that she asked AI which JFK files she should keep classified as dni, which is just interesting in itself. I'm not against that. Depending on the particulars, obviously, but you're talking about a huge amount of information. The complex question of what should be classified. But here's the really interesting part. Nelly actually said, I asked AI for a joke in my voice, and it's not half bad. This is AI's joke. This is how the singularity begins. Not with a bang. Oh. Oh. This is the joke. This is how the singularity begins. Not with a bang, but with Tulsi Gabbard uploading the Zapruder film to chat GBT and asking, be honest, was it the CIA? That's a pretty good joke.
Jack Armstrong
The joke is in your hand. That's what I'd have gone with if I was grok.
Katie Greener
Wow.
Ryan Seacrest
Wow. That's a lack of intelligence.
Jack Armstrong
You probably don't know this, Katie, because you don't go into men's rooms a lot. That's a common thing to scroll forever. That's a common thing.
Ryan Seacrest
Right? Well, if you were trans, you could.
Jack Armstrong
That's. That's a common thing for some malcontent to scrawl in front of the urinal. So you're standing there and it says, the joke is in your hand.
Ryan Seacrest
No, why are you looking up here? The joke is in your hand. Right, yeah, clever. Oh, speaking of which, you're on maturity.
Jack Armstrong
Do not look at the walls in a men's room.
Ryan Seacrest
The SCOTUS decision dealing with mutilating confused adolescents will go back into that. Apparently, everybody is now condemning grotesquely overly expensive public housing. Name checking. A city councilman in I think this is DC who advocated for this project says, this is ridiculous and really disturbing. The cost per unit. Ezra Klein lambasting Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's plan for affordable housing, 1.1 million bucks per unit, and saying, that's just insane.
Jack Armstrong
Well, that's with his whole Abundance book.
Ryan Seacrest
Right, right, right. Yeah, they mentioned that the system Mayor Johnson used to select projects. There was a point system for who could build the projects. 11 points were doled out for projects with BIPOC development control. 10 points for those with advanced level green building certification. But only three points were given for cost containment. So you almost got quadruple the number of points that you get for ability to contain costs for BIPOC Development Control. How do you like that? It's everything you need to know.
Jack Armstrong
Okay, I just asked Chat GPT for common men's room.
Ryan Seacrest
You know what's funny is it's hard not to say gbt.
Jack Armstrong
It is very hard to say.
Ryan Seacrest
It's cheat GPT. I know it. I said it myself the last time.
Jack Armstrong
Hey, Chat GPT. Why is it so hard to not say Jet GPT? Maybe it'll tell me. Anyway, I asked Chad GPT for common men's room graffiti.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, boy.
Jack Armstrong
And it didn't actually didn't have what I was looking for, but it had some good stuff. It says the most common and you don't see, you don't know this, Katie. So I'm letting you and all other women know who've never been in a men's room. You probably didn't picture this, but exciting, crude humor and drawings. Simple, often vulgar sketches of body parts.
Ryan Seacrest
That's what I've seen.
Jack Armstrong
I can attest to this.
Christina Quinn
Those are in women's restrooms as well.
Jack Armstrong
Really?
Christina Quinn
Oh, yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Really?
Christina Quinn
Yes. Women are drawing crude body parts all the time.
Ryan Seacrest
Penises mostly.
Christina Quinn
Oh, lots of penises.
Jack Armstrong
Really? Who's the chick who's scrawling a penis on the wall in the women's room?
Christina Quinn
The hilarious ones. Continue.
Jack Armstrong
All right. Lots of for a good time calls. That's always been a thing. They have a category called bathroom philosophy, which. I've never heard this before. Every once while you come across something that's just funny and philosophical, like this one. No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize a cat. All right.
Christina Quinn
Life changing.
Ryan Seacrest
What?
Jack Armstrong
You're not yourself when you're constipated. That's another good one. First person God is dead. Nietzsche. Then the reply is, nietzsche is dead God. That's pretty good.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, seen that one.
Jack Armstrong
What are you looking at? Your mom.
Christina Quinn
Okay, I like the arrow fights where somebody writes like you suck and then there's an arrow and then it just.
Jack Armstrong
Keeps going all over the I poop, therefore I am.
Christina Quinn
Okay.
Michael
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
You're in good hands.
Christina Quinn
Like urine.
Ryan Seacrest
Thank you, Michael. Yes, Michael. A classic liquid waste. Yes.
Jack Armstrong
A classic Michael rejoinder.
Ryan Seacrest
Yes.
Jack Armstrong
Flush twice It's a long way to the Capitol.
Ryan Seacrest
Or the lunchroom or the cafeteria or whatever.
Jack Armstrong
Make toilets great again. All right.
Ryan Seacrest
Wow. Again, it's the utter stupidity of it that makes it so funny.
Jack Armstrong
Right? The best thing of this whole segment is I learned women also scrawl crudely drawn penises on the wall in their bathrooms. I would have never guessed that. I just assumed you all were above that sort of thing.
Christina Quinn
Next time I'm in a more chaotic one, I'll take a picture for you guys so you can see it's. Yeah, I'm sure it's just the same as in yours.
Ryan Seacrest
Is there a commentary attached to the artwork? Generally speaking, yeah.
Christina Quinn
There's a lot of name calling. Jenna is a. Oh, okay. Oh, who are you?
Jack Armstrong
What is that?
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, no.
Christina Quinn
And then somebody crosses out Jenna and writes, Deborah, you know, getting that aggression out while you're in there.
Jack Armstrong
Is that a crudely draw cannon? And are those the wheels? I always wonder. I never know what's going on.
Ryan Seacrest
Okay, that's what it is. It's a Civil War reenactment.
Jack Armstrong
Jack, we got more news on the way.
Ryan Seacrest
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, Michael Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
We've all done it. You see a headline but don't have time to read the whole story. Or there's so much news you're not sure what is worth your time. I'm Colby Ekowitz, co host of Post Reports, the weekday afternoon podcast from the Washington Post. Post Reports brings you what's relevant and revealing. Breaking stories, politics, wellness, culture. Each episode goes beyond a headline for the context you need. Find Post Reports now wherever you're listening.
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Jack Armstrong
Today Secretary Noem had an allergic reaction. She was transported to the hospital out of an Abundance of caution. She's alert and recovering. By all accounts, the secretary appears to be stable, but we're trying to get more information about what the allergic reaction was to and the severity. Good news, she appears to be okay and is talking to her staff. Yeah, that was kind of weird when the breaking news was Kristi Gnomes being rushed to the hospital.
Ryan Seacrest
That is kind of funny. That was right around when I was making the joke that her collagen enhanced lips made it look like she was in anaphylactic shock. That she may have been.
Jack Armstrong
I mean, she's not very old. Although when you got that level of health care and protection, you're a Secret service protector.
Ryan Seacrest
You could have some.
Jack Armstrong
A lot of the stuff that all of us have all the time, kind of minor this or that. They'd rush you to the hospital because why not?
Ryan Seacrest
Sure.
Jack Armstrong
You get the best health care in the world.
Ryan Seacrest
While.
Jack Armstrong
While I just saw this. I want to talk about it. Mark Feeson, the Washington Post put this out about Caitlin Clark getting the hell beat out of her last night. This is disgraceful. Has a league ever treated its best player this way? How do our teammates let the other team get away with these cheap shots? Have you seen the video? Her team needed to freaking light that chick up. There should have been a bench clearing brawl. You don't get to do this to our player like they would have done with. Like they did with Wayne Gretzky, like they did with Michael Jordan, like you do with your best player. You can't let the biggest chick on the other team come knock down your best player like that and just walk away from it. Wow, that was out of line. That was crazy.
Ryan Seacrest
Katie, you saw it?
Christina Quinn
Yeah, I actually, I saw that this morning and I put it up on Katie's corner because it just set me off. It was actually. It was two players. She got into it with the one, and then one of the other team's players came up to defend her just completely from the. From the side.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it was that second shot. Your team needs to have that girl on the ground after that. I mean, that's just the way sports works. If you're gonna. You need to send the message you don't get to do that.
Christina Quinn
Right.
Jack Armstrong
I mean, remember when Wayne Gretzky was new and he wasn't that very big a guy? Man, thugs would go out and fight like crazy. Stay away from our best player works.
Christina Quinn
The way she got hit, it looked like a whiplash.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Yeah, that had to. That had to rattle her brain.
Christina Quinn
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
The way she goes down on that one. And also, I would just think, as Thiessen of the Washington Post was pointing out, just from the league standpoint, like Charles Barkley's been saying, this is your ticket to relevance, you idiots. This is the best thing that has ever happened to you.
Ryan Seacrest
Take advantage of it.
Jack Armstrong
Don't be mad about it. Anyway.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, I'm watching. Oh, she pokes her in the eye.
Jack Armstrong
No, the next one. It's the blast. The next girl.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, yeah, yeah. Are you kidding?
Jack Armstrong
You got to be all over her. That should have cleared the benches.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, yeah. More violence in women's sports. Jack calls for. I love it. That's great.
Jack Armstrong
Well, you'd have. You know, this is funny.
Ryan Seacrest
You gotta have her back.
Jack Armstrong
This is funny. This is kind of like Iran and what's going on here. More violence would lead to less violence. You put that chick on her back and clear the benches, next team knows. Yeah, you can't really get away with that anymore, right?
Ryan Seacrest
100%. Yep.
Jack Armstrong
Another little breaking news nugget. We have just crow closed the American embassy in Israel for the next three days and are getting everybody out of there. That, that is not an accident. Something is going to happen in the next 4,872 hours, no doubt about it.
Ryan Seacrest
Well, yeah, it's 100%. I mean, there could be some intelligence that they've just discovered that makes this next statement wrong, incorrect. But if we hadn't closed the embassy in the previous five days, you wouldn't think there's any particular reason to close it now. Unless something big is about to happen, something fundamentally different.
Jack Armstrong
Right. That's going to cause Iran to lash out even more than they have to the extent that they have the capability. I don't know how much capability they have now. They did shoot down an Israeli plane yesterday. So Israel's announcement or President Trump's announcement that we control the skies? Not a hundred percent, apparently. Maybe you can't ever 100 control the.
Ryan Seacrest
Skies, but sure, yeah. But they didn't get completely different topic. You know who's hot to trot to talk about AI Just like you, Jack. The Pope. The new Pope. He took the name Pope Leo because the old timey Pope Leo was like big for standing up for industrial workers during the industrial revolution. He thinks AI is the new that. And the Catholic Church really needs to be into standing up for people displaced by AI.
Jack Armstrong
Interesting. I wonder what that would look like.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, he's wrong about a bunch of stuff, but it's, it's an interesting stance he's taking.
Jack Armstrong
Well, governments and psychologists and religions are going to have to figure this out because there's going to be a lot.
Ryan Seacrest
Of people out of work. Armstrong and Getty and here we have a specimen from the early 2000s, a legacy investing platform. Please don't touch the exhibit folks. It could crash.
Colby Ekowitz
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Ryan Seacrest
You don't know me yet, but I bet we have something in common. We all wish we were better functioning humans.
Katie Greener
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Ryan Seacrest
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Katie Greener
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Jack Armstrong
Today, food giant Kraft Heinz, maker of Kraft Mac and Cheese, Heinz Ketchup Jell o Kool Aid, will remove all artificial colors from its products sold in the United States by 2027, while 90% of their products already contain no artificial dyes. Kraft Heinz will be one of the first US packaged food companies to commit to phasing out artificial dyes from its brands entirely. Wait a second. That cheese. I eat a lot of the Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. We love that. That cheese powder, the orange cheese powder. That's gotta be fake coloring. There's no way it's actually that color, is it?
Ryan Seacrest
Well, right. Well, no, it isn't necessarily artificial. I mean like a pumpkin's that color. Roughly.
Jack Armstrong
So you think they put pumpkin in it to make it that color?
Ryan Seacrest
They use natural dyes like that. Yeah, I'm concerned cheese ought not to be that color.
Jack Armstrong
Well, cheese, you better use your finger quotes when you say cheese.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, no kidding. I've told the story before. I lived downwind of the giant craft plant in Champaign, Illinois many years ago.
Jack Armstrong
Must have been delicious.
Ryan Seacrest
And the smell coming out of that plant wasn't food.
Jack Armstrong
Okay.
Ryan Seacrest
Just terrible.
Jack Armstrong
So we've been looking for our favorite versions of mainstream media covering the Supreme Court decision today. The six three decision around transgender surgeries. Let me read you the Washington Post version, which is ridiculous. Breaking news. A divided Supreme Court cleared the way for states to ban certain gender transition treatments for minors. A polarizing national issue the Trump administration has seized on in initiatives targeting transgender rights. Well, that's fair. Or Charles C.W. cook replies to it. He of the National Review. This is all irrelevant. The reason the Supreme Court upheld the Tennessee law is that the job of the Supreme Court is to uphold federal law, including the Constitution. And there's nothing in either source that obviates the Tennessee law, which is doctors shouldn't be doing operations or medical procedures on children to try to make them bodies look more like a man or a woman.
Ryan Seacrest
Or to be more precise, if the states want to ban that sort of experimental mutilation of children, they can.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Ryan Seacrest
Agreeing with the 6th Circuit, which had come to the same conclusion, which I'd like to see.
Jack Armstrong
I'll bet even in California we'd vote to ban it if you put it to a state vote.
Ryan Seacrest
Could be. Definitely. Yeah. And. And the more people learn and understand and realize that, oh, radical gender theory was taught to me in school like it's a certainty, like everybody agrees, but it's actually an 8020 issue. The other way, once you figure that out, people, they, they lose the scales from their eyes. To paraphrase the good book pretty quickly, the Bible. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of the Court's three ridiculous liberal members who voted against the majority, wrote that the court decision, quote, authorizes without second thought untold harm to transgender children and the parents and families who love them because there is no constitutional justification for that result. I dissent.
Jack Armstrong
Okay, well, let's go.
Ryan Seacrest
So that's a beautiful example of the problem with liberal justices. It's not the result she prefers.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Ryan Seacrest
So she dissents. Never mind the Constitution. Never of mind democracy, as Judge Roberts wrote. Look, this is for people to vote on.
Jack Armstrong
Well, let's read from Justice Roberts opinion. Transgenderism is a tax. He decided.
Ryan Seacrest
No, that's pretty funny, but a distraction. Get back to it.
Jack Armstrong
Justice Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. This case carries a simple lesson in politically contentious debates over matters shrouded in scientific uncertainty. Courts should not assume that self described experts are correct. Of course not. And he said penises are attacks.
Ryan Seacrest
That's not even funny. Now. Let's see. I'm trying to find Amy Coney Barrett wrote something pretty good. This is a long article, man. In the majority opinion, Roberts alluded to the growing Body of scientific literature coming out of advanced western democracies, including the uk, Norway, Finland, exposing the lack of evidence demonstrating that the benefits of transgender operations outweigh the considerable harms.
Jack Armstrong
Well, they. I don't know. Did they have, in those countries, those European countries, this movement that we had for a while that studies show that they're going to kill themselves if they don't get gender affirming care. Did they have that over there? Because it was.
Ryan Seacrest
That's from wpath, the World Professional association for Transgender Health. They put out all of that.
Jack Armstrong
It's been debunked. It's just. It's not true.
Ryan Seacrest
And over and over again, it's been debunked.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, but it sure was a good club to beat you if you're gonna, you're gonna let that child die because they're gonna kill themselves if we don't rush them to the hospital and have their wang cut off.
Ryan Seacrest
Right. Remove healthy breasts and pump them full of irreversible hormone treatments. That's right. Justice Coney Barrett acknowledged the existence of detransitioners in describing. And this is absolutely true. This is something I've been hammering and she put it more clearly than me because she's twice as smart. But she acknowledged the existence of detransitioners in describing the lack of a clear definition of what a transgender person is. Given the fact that people begin to identify as transgender and sometimes often return to identifying with their biological sex in, in fact, it's the vast, vast majority of adolescents if you just leave them alone. Barrett suggested the variation in, quote, gender identity distinguishes it from immutable characteristics people are born with, like race or sex. Quote, the boundaries of the group, in other words, are not defined by an easily ascertainable characteristic that is fixed and consistent across the group. See, the gender bending madness. Advocates have stated transgenderism is immutable. It's like your, your race or your eye color when that's ridiculous. I mean, it's utterly unsupportable. Other than a vanishingly small number of cases of actor actual gender dysphoria. The idea that every 12 year old girl terrified of puberty, who says, I think I may be a boy, as it turns out, mom, that that's an immutable characteristic. That's obs. And anybody believes it as a fool.
Jack Armstrong
Well, that's for the older kids, the confused or whatever. How about the littler kids, like, I know one of who clearly their parents pushed them down that path.
Ryan Seacrest
Clearly, yeah.
Jack Armstrong
I mean, that's horrifying. Anyway, so happy with the Supreme Court ruling. So got a couple of things on the war front. Looking at open source on the, on the Twitter. Sirens are now sounding across central Israel. As of a minute ago, ballistic missiles launched by Iran beginning to approach. What is Iran's goal there? They're not going to change Israel's mind. If anything, it just brings over more of the public to the side of probably we got to do something around Iran. They're crazy. But.
Katie Greener
But what.
Jack Armstrong
What are the goal? The missiles from Iran.
Ryan Seacrest
I think like a team down a touchdown and a half with 40 seconds to go. You're looking for that lucky shot, the Hail Mary that causes so much damage. It causes Israel to recalculate.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. I can't even imagine what that would be.
Ryan Seacrest
They're down to that.
Jack Armstrong
I can't even imagine.
Ryan Seacrest
I think they just the mullahs and the Revolutionary Guard and everybody, I mean they've got to respond. Otherwise they're utterly illegitimate as rulers from their point of view.
Jack Armstrong
This is new reporter to Trump. Mr. President, what do you have to say to the Supreme Leader of Iran who says that they will not surrender? I say good luck. Another reporter. When does your patience run out with Iran? It's already run out. That's why we're doing what we're doing. They had 60 days, plenty of time. They made a mistake. Their country is in ruins. So many people are dead that shouldn't be dead. It's a very sad thing. What do you say to the Supreme Leader? I say good luck.
Ryan Seacrest
I thought you were going to say goodbye.
Jack Armstrong
That'd be something.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. Okay. When does it happen? I don't know.
Ryan Seacrest
The Pope is the 250.67th Pope compared to the 47th President. For what it's worth going all the way back to Peter 2000 year old office Pope and his thing. The reason he took Pope Leo as a name was he's really concerned about artificial intelligence. The Chicago math major Leo the 14th. Okay, more on that in a minute. In a minute or two.
Jack Armstrong
That's pretty interesting.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
The Pope is worried about AI. Is it the devil? Is AI the devil?
Ryan Seacrest
I don't think he goes there exactly, but he thinks it's going to be a huge threat to human dignity and life and labor. He's right.
Michael
Yes.
Jack Armstrong
100% right. Yes. We will finish strong. Next, Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
Nothing worked.
Ryan Seacrest
Every day felt heavy, I felt trapped.
Katie Greener
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
The pill does not target depression directly.
Katie Greener
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Jack Armstrong
To be depressed when cute dogs show.
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Jack Armstrong
That's true.
Ryan Seacrest
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Jack Armstrong
Surprising cost that much.
Ryan Seacrest
Just time and everything included in in crafting it and doing the prompts and stuff like that. Utterly convincing.
Jack Armstrong
Talked about the way they can do radio commercials now pretty much instantly you just give AI the website and it crafts the whole thing.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, and they had some examples of the realistic tones of voice of the AI voices. Now it's hilariously idiotic that I will still sometimes use the take me to your leader voice computer technology when indeed the the examples they played were 100% lifelike. You'd never guess that they were artificially generated. Anyway. Which brings us to a brief consideration of the new Pope, Leo xiv. He calls himself, as he explained his namesake, Leo the 13th, stood up for the rights of factory workers during the Gilded Age when industrial robber barons presided over rapid changes and extreme inequality. Yeah, he's got similar concerns about that.
Jack Armstrong
I'll let that go for a different time.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, I know, I know. I'm with you. Yeah. And now all of those people in their offspring. Offspring enjoy a standard of living which was like 15 times better than their.
Jack Armstrong
And you're, you're not a robber baron because you took advantage of the current technology and put it to use.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, yeah. Isn't that something? That's just worth a quick nod, that is. Four people worked on this article for the Wall Street Journal, three of them women, and it's sprinkled through all sorts of stuff like that. Sprinkled with it, yeah. So anyway, the new Pope, who was a math major, the Chicagoan, famously four.
Jack Armstrong
Plus three equals Jesus.
Ryan Seacrest
He has many of Silicon Valley's most powerful executives flying to Rome to meet with him and chat with him. He wants a binding international treaty on AI which just shows he knows more about the New Testament than life on Earth. That is an hilariously unrealistic notion.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I, I don't know. I've gone back and forth in this. I have read a ton about this bunch of different books. Part of it is the idea that, yeah, nobody thought it would work to have any sort of international treaties on nuclear weapons either. I mean, nobody thought it would work. What's the point? It did work.
Ryan Seacrest
It.
Jack Armstrong
It's much easier to detect somebody getting a nuclear weapon, see Iran, than it is working on AI in a basement somewhere. Doesn't hurt to have rules in place just so you can prosecute somebody when they violate them. But yeah, I don't, I'm not optimistic.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, the non proliferation thing worked some, but it is a different beast. AI, I would argue you can't set off a nuclear bomb, you know, in Manhattan and get away with it. Whereas the use of AI to do horrendous things, I think we'll see all the time.
Jack Armstrong
Well, not until fairly recently.
Ryan Seacrest
Hung up on that.
Jack Armstrong
Up until fairly recently, it had to been a very big country with a very big budget and some of the greatest scientists in the world with AI, you could be any doofus who owns a computer.
Ryan Seacrest
Right. And you could do it under the COVID of darkness until it's gotten to a very, very advanced stage. So yeah, the comparison is interesting, but you know, the Vatican has Been pushing for a binding international treaty on AI. Tell me about how that binding works, Mr. Pope, sir. Yeah, number of companies support voluntary ethical. Voluntary ethical guidelines, preferring them to legally, quote, unquote, binding regulation of AI, which the European Union is gradually rolling out because they regulate everything all the time.
Jack Armstrong
That sounds like climate change nonsense. The countries that sign on to that will stifle AI productivity and the ability to make money off of it while the evil countries will do whatever the hell they want and, and, and win the race. It's just like climate change.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, not only that, but the Euros. You know, I had a great article not long ago about how entrepreneurs and tech people who went back to Europe after a stint in the US in Silicon Valley, they went back to their home countries to, to really get to plant the seeds of a tech revolution in their own countries. And it was so suffocating and so hostile toward innovation and business in Europe, they said to hell with it. Moved Back to the U.S. final thoughts with Ang. Yeah, yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Ryan Seacrest
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap things up for the day. There is our technical director, Michelangelo, frantically pushing the buttons in the control room. Michael, final thought. Well, I just wrote some stuff down.
Jack Armstrong
In the men's room wall. I wrote, tell Congress you want the.
Ryan Seacrest
Flat tax and recycle your plastic. So we'll see how that goes.
Jack Armstrong
That's a funny thing to write on a bathroom wall. Yeah, tell Congress you want the flat tax.
Ryan Seacrest
Right above the urinal. Katie Greener, esteemed news woman, has a final thought.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that's a good cereal right there.
Christina Quinn
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Jack Armstrong
Very filling too. You don't need much Jack. Final thought for us, Let us know how the fiber works out for you.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh boy. Please don't.
Jack Armstrong
I think my Sam and I, since I have to go pick up my younger one at Boy Scout camp down by Long beach, gonna go to a Dodgers game Friday night. Have not been to Dodgers Stadium in 30 some years, so I'm looking forward to it.
Ryan Seacrest
That's exciting. My final thought is, last week especially there were activists anti ice activists talking about how California has lots of Spanish named cities and that's proof that English speakers are colonists and has been pointed out by several people. You've got to be an idiot to make that argument and an idiot to accept it as the conquistadors apparently are indigenous now and the Spaniards who chopped off the hands of anybody who didn't convert to Catholicism are the true Native Americans.
Jack Armstrong
Wow, that light skinned Spaniards, that is something.
Ryan Seacrest
Seriously.
Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
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Jack Armstrong
We've got the most military presence in the Gulf area since the beginning of Gulf War two as of now. See you tomorrow. God Bless America.
Ryan Seacrest
Armstrong and Getty Our message is clear. Our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak.
Jack Armstrong
Are you sure Pocahontas says yes?
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Ryan Seacrest
Wow. Oh Congressman.
Jack Armstrong
Well, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty asked the same question of their listeners and here's their response. I still wonder did he know that she wasn't European?
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Armstrong & Getty On Demand: "This Was Deliberately Asinine" – Detailed Summary
Release Date: June 18, 2025
Host: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Platform: iHeartPodcasts
The episode kicks off with the hosts discussing the surprising outcome of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Contrary to expectations, the Florida Panthers defeated Edmonton to clinch the Stanley Cup for the second consecutive year.
Jack Armstrong:
[03:25] “I wanted the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs, which was clip 10 but apparently is no longer. I thought that would be exciting. The Florida Panthers defeated Edmonton and won the Stanley Cup for the second year in a row.”
Ryan Seacrest:
[03:37] “Yeah, very disappointing. But I think they won because they're a better hockey team.”
The hosts express mixed feelings, with Armstrong finding it unusual to see a Florida-based team excel in a traditionally colder-climate sport.
A significant portion of the episode delves into the escalating tensions surrounding immigration policies. The conversation highlights the pushback from various sectors such as farming, restaurants, and landscaping against new immigration measures. Former President Trump’s fluctuating stance on the issue adds to the uncertainty.
Jack Armstrong:
[04:46] “This wasn't a deliberate move; it was deliberately asinine. We might be going to war like today, this hour, this minute, or tomorrow or whenever.”
The hosts emphasize the chaotic nature of the current immigration debate and the potential for imminent conflict, urging listeners to stay informed as the situation evolves.
Ryan Seacrest brings up a concerning report about CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour expressing fear for her safety while traveling to Harvard. Amanpour revealed she prepared as if visiting North Korea, equipped with a burner phone due to her lack of a green card and American citizenship.
Ryan Seacrest:
[05:39] “Colby, a friend almost made me crack up in the middle of a fairly serious story with a text. I've now turned my phone over and part of what made the text so hilarious was that it wasn't the least bit funny. It was the uber dumb attempt at humor.”
Jack Armstrong:
[06:07] “How does she not have some sort of ability to be here at this point?”
The discussion extends to the role of social media platforms like Blue Sky in amplifying fears and misinformation, potentially influencing prominent figures like Amanpour to take unnecessary precautions.
In a lighter segment, Armstrong and Seacrest analyze common men’s room graffiti, highlighting the absurdity and unintended humor found in these private expressions.
Jack Armstrong:
[11:21] “Katie, you probably don't know this because you don't go into men's rooms a lot. You probably didn't picture this, but exciting, crude humor and drawings. Simple, often vulgar sketches of body parts.”
Ryan Seacrest:
[13:39] “Wow. Again, it's the utter stupidity of it that makes it so funny.”
The hosts share various examples of humorous yet crass drawings and messages penned during moments of boredom or frustration, underscoring the universal nature of such expressions.
The conversation shifts to the contentious issue of public housing costs, citing a Washington Post article critiquing Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's affordable housing plan.
Ryan Seacrest:
[10:01] “That's really good.”
Jack Armstrong:
[10:38] “Well, that's with his whole Abundance book.”
The hosts discuss the exorbitant costs associated with public housing projects, questioning the feasibility and sustainability of such initiatives, especially when cost containment is given minimal priority compared to other factors like BIPOC development control.
A major portion of the episode is dedicated to dissecting the Supreme Court's recent decision to allow states to ban certain gender transition treatments for minors. The hosts critically analyze the ruling, referencing opinions from both the majority and dissenting justices.
Ryan Seacrest:
[28:07] “The reason the Supreme Court upheld the Tennessee law is that the job of the Supreme Court is to uphold federal law, including the Constitution.”
Jack Armstrong:
[29:15] “Justice Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. This case carries a simple lesson in politically contentious debates over matters shrouded in scientific uncertainty. Courts should not assume that self-described experts are correct.”
The discussion highlights concerns about the lack of clear definitions for transgender identities and the potential long-term impacts on transgender youth, emphasizing the need for informed, compassionate policies over politically driven decisions.
Armstrong and Seacrest address the abrupt closure of the American embassy in Israel amidst rising tensions, speculating on the motives and potential repercussions.
Jack Armstrong:
[21:31] “We have just closed the American embassy in Israel for the next three days and are getting everybody out of there. That, that is not an accident. Something is going to happen in the next 4,872 hours, no doubt about it.”
Ryan Seacrest:
[22:14] “Unless something big is about to happen, something fundamentally different.”
They connect this development to recent missile launches by Iran, discussing the fragile state of Middle Eastern geopolitics and the potential for escalation into broader conflict.
A unique segment explores the newly appointed Pope Leo XIV's concerns regarding artificial intelligence and its implications for human dignity and employment.
Ryan Seacrest:
[36:28] “The Pope thinks AI is the new that. And the Catholic Church really needs to be into standing up for people displaced by AI.”
Jack Armstrong:
[43:39] “He wants a binding international treaty on AI which just shows he knows more about the New Testament than life on Earth. That is an hilariously unrealistic notion.”
The hosts debate the feasibility of international treaties on AI, drawing parallels to nuclear non-proliferation efforts and questioning the practicality of enforcing such agreements in the rapidly evolving tech landscape.
Addressing recent violence in women’s sports, the hosts discuss the incident involving basketball player Caitlin Clark, who was brutally hit during a game.
Jack Armstrong:
[19:02] “This is disgraceful. Has a league ever treated its best player this way?”
Christina Quinn:
[19:48] “Yeah, I actually, I saw that this morning and I put it up on Katie's corner because it just set me off.”
The conversation underscores the need for immediate and decisive action against unsportsmanlike conduct, advocating for stricter penalties to protect athletes and maintain the integrity of the sport.
In a shift towards corporate news, Armstrong highlights Kraft Heinz’s commitment to eliminating artificial colors from their U.S. products by 2027.
Jack Armstrong:
[26:50] “Kraft Heinz will be one of the first US packaged food companies to commit to phasing out artificial dyes from its brands entirely.”
The hosts discuss the potential health implications and consumer reactions to this move, pondering whether natural dyes like pumpkin extract will suffice in maintaining the appealing appearance of products like Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.
As the episode wraps up, the hosts share personal anecdotes and final reflections on the discussed topics, emphasizing the chaotic and often absurd nature of current events.
Jack Armstrong:
[46:49] “Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four-hour workday.”
Ryan Seacrest:
[47:41] “Thanks a little time. Go To Armstrongandgetty.com for the hot links for Katie's Corner. For the swag. Pick up an A G T shirt and wear it proudly or give it to your favorite Angie fan.”
The episode concludes with a blend of humor and critical insights, leaving listeners with food for thought on the myriad issues discussed.
Jack Armstrong:
“This is an asinine decision that could lead us to war in the next few minutes or days.”
Timestamp: [04:41]
Ryan Seacrest:
“The actionable lesson from Supreme Court's decision is not about the majority’s preference but about upholding the Constitution.”
Timestamp: [29:24]
Christina Quinn:
“Katie, you guys got me hooked on Grape Nuts.”
Timestamp: [46:37]
Note: This summary intentionally omits all advertisement, intros, outros, and non-content segments to focus solely on the substantive discussions and insights shared by the hosts during the episode.