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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center,
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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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We also heard from the Chinese spokesperson
Katie Green
who said that military means cannot fundamentally solve this problem and that the escalation
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of the conflict is not in the
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interest of either side. The root cause of the Strait of
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Hormuz blockage, they said, is the illegal
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military operation in Iran.
Joe Getty
So this is the strongest we've heard from the Chinese as well. Whenever we're talking about China, we always want to know what Gordon Chang has to say. Gordon is an author and columnist. He is clear eyed, he is direct and knows what he's talking about. Also, for folks who live in the area of our flagship station in the capital of Cal, Unicornia, Gordon Chang's going to be appearing at the Capitol Lincoln Club's inaugural Freedom awards dinner on May 2nd at the Sutter Club. Get info online at CapitolLinkInCOlub.com we'll have a link at Armstrongandgetty.com I would love to be there. Sounds great. Gordon Chang, welcome. How are you?
Gordon Chang
I'm fine, thank you. And thank you so much.
Joe Getty
Oh, it's our pleasure. I was just touting your upcoming appearance in Sacramento. So we've covered that and we'll have a link at our website so people can get more information easily. But we played a clip on the way back that mentioned the Chinese made comments about the war in the Gulf and what was going on there. Why don't we start there? What do you think? What lessons do you think the Chinese leadership are taking from what they're seeing unfold right now?
Gordon Chang
They're seeing that President Trump is determined that he is willing to use force and they believe that they can back him down. I'm not sure that they're convinced of the last one, but they're certainly trying to do that. We now have that ceasefire. The Iranians violated the cease fire from the get go and I guess we're going to see if President Trump imposes costs on Tehran for doing that.
Joe Getty
Now every time the wind changes direction, somebody brings up, will China take advantage of this to move on Taiwan? How concerned are you about that in the near term? And how do you see that situation in general?
Gordon Chang
Yeah, I don't see the Chinese taking advantage of the situation there clearly is what we've been moving military assets out of East Asia, especially South Korea. But unfortunately for Xi Jinping, he has decimated the top of the Chinese military with his purges, which means that they are not capable of starting hostilities by launching an invasion on the main island of Taiwan. Now, China can blunder into a war elsewhere. They're engaged in very provocative activities in the south. China, for instance. So the risk of war is still high. But the risk that people think about all the time, which is the one you mentioned, is, I think, off the table because of Xi Jinping's purges.
Joe Getty
Do you think Xi and his leadership are looking at the Straits of Hormuz and thinking. So extracting a toll or blackmailing the world through closing shipping lanes is on the table now?
Gordon Chang
Oh, certainly, because Iran has been charging tolls. It's been blocking shipping since Tuesday, the announcement of the cease fire. And basically Iran is helping China by de dollarizing the world by requiring the toll be paid in China's currency, the renminbi. So Iran is trying it on. If the United States has had any consistent foreign policy over the course of 250 years, it's been keeping the global commons open. China and Iran are challenging that. And we're going to see if President Trump opens the strait. President Trump has the power to do it. We can even do it without putting boots on the ground. We can do that, for instance, by closing the strait to all shipping that has paid the toll. That would force the Iranians to stop the toll. But we're going to see if President Trump will do that.
Joe Getty
Hey, let's hit rewind real quickly. It flitted out of my mind. I'd meant to follow up. You talked about the purge of the top generals in the ch Communist military. What was that all about? Help us understand that dynamic.
Gordon Chang
Yeah, this is one of the most important things that have gone on in the world. And basically Xi Jinping, through his corruption purges, has removed a lot of officers. Now, some of those officers have been engaged in removing Xi Jinping's loyalist from the top of the top of the military from all we can see, which means that there is all out fighting among the generals and admirals. There's a lot we don't know because of the regime has become even more opaque over the last three or four years. But we are seeing signs that show turmoil at the top of the People's Liberation Army.
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We're talking to author and commentator Gordon Chang. Gordon, I saw a piece in the Journal today that bothered me. Trump quietly scraps his own playbook on China. The White House walks back. The aggressive approach of the first administration Trump won, which I praised heartily for helping the American people understand that, no, China's not our buddy, they're our adversary. Have you been watching that? And what do you make of it? More conciliatory approach?
Gordon Chang
Yeah. President Trump wants this meeting that is now scheduled for May 14th. The White House announced it, but China hasn't announced it. And that's making President Trump look a little bit needy, which is not a good look for the United States, because that means it makes it much harder for him to accomplish what he wants with China. Sometimes. You know, for four decades, and this goes back to the Nixon era, we have chased the Chinese for dialogue and that has inflated their already big sense of self importance. So I think the way we get things from China is we stop talking to them and we make them chase us for once. If we do that, then we are able to use our leverage. But if we appear desperate to talk to China, China would certainly use that against us.
Joe Getty
All right. They're absolutely relentless and remorseless in exploiting any weakness. Correct?
Gordon Chang
Correct. And they have seen even strong American presidents act weak towards China. We have done that to be generous, to be indulgent, to try to integrate the Chinese into the international system, to try to entice them. But although that sounds like it should work, it hasn't worked. So we've got to pivot and try something that might work. What might work, may not work, but at least it has a chance of working. What we're doing right now, it has no chance of success.
Joe Getty
Wow, that is so interesting and troubling, and I hope they figure that out quickly. So one of the recurring themes of the show, whether today or in general, Gordon, is that it makes me insane when the media reports, you know, the day to day, you know, occurrences, the happenings around the world, but they completely miss the big picture. When you think about the big picture with US China relations, what do you think is left out of the discussion usually? What do people not understand about China?
Gordon Chang
Well, the most important thing which sometimes gets discussed is that President Trump is going after China's proxies. China doesn't want to take on the world directly. So what President Trump has been doing is going after Venezuela, going after Cuba now, going after Iran, and China is basically losing its pause. So this is really good for us. The other big story that people don't talk about is that because. Because China has turned its back on consumption as the basis of the Chinese economy. The only way China can grow is to export more. Xi Jinping, by disrupting the world through various stratagems, is basically globalizing the world. He's making trade more difficult. And I think that ultimately Xi Jinping is working against his own economy. He works against his own economy, that economy will fail. And if that fails, the political system will be in deep trouble.
Joe Getty
Interesting. So, and I appreciate you talking about the actions against China's proxies, and you're absolutely right. So am I just wrong in believing that the approach is more conciliatory or is it, you know, just choosing different avenues to exert pressure?
Gordon Chang
It's choosing different areas to exert pressure. And Trump is messing with the Chinese. On the one hand, when you look at the substance of his policies, they're mostly really good. But when you look at the rhetoric, it isn't good. And so there is a. The Chinese must be totally confused by Trump because there's only one person in the world who knows what Trump is doing, and that is our president himself.
Joe Getty
Right, right. And this is the sort of commentary, Gordon, you just don't get elsewhere, which is why it's a pleasure to talk to you. So final question. Your first book, if I'm correct, was the Coming Collapse of China, which you wrote in 2001. Maybe you could explain very briefly the premise of the book, but how is it aging? What has changed? What are your thoughts on the longer term trajectory of China right now?
Gordon Chang
In that book, I said the Communist Party would fail within 10 years. I was wrong. What happened is the 2008 downturn, which gave a lot of confidence and strength to the regime, but they overstimulated their economy. They now basically having their 2008 debt crisis while their economy is really deteriorating fast. So China is right now at a very fragile point and President Trump can exploit that if he chooses to do so.
Joe Getty
Okay, interesting, interesting. Gordon Chang is upcoming appearance in Sacramento again is at the sutter club on May 2nd. And we'll have all the info readily available@armstrongandgetty.com Gordon. It's always stimulating. Thanks for the time. Let's do it again soon.
Gordon Chang
Oh, well, thank you. I really appreciate it and stay safe.
Joe Getty
Thanks. Thanks indeed. Yeah. Okay, so we'll have clips of the week coming up in a couple of minutes. Maybe a little follow up on the China discussion. Squeeze in some fun stuff for goodness sakes, at the end of the week. It's been, I've enjoyed everything so far, but it's certainly been on the serious side. Anyway, I hope you can stay around cow Clips of the week coming up in moments.
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Hey, how you doing? Lots to squeeze in during the last hour of the week, but first let's take a fond look back at the week that was its cow Clips of the week. Open the expletive straight, you crazy bastards. Open the straight, you crazy bastards.
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Iran and the US vowing to send each other to hell.
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The entire country could be taken out in one night and that night might be tomorrow night.
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Failing to meet his terms will result in Iran being bombed back to the, quote, stone Ages.
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It was truly the 11th hour down to the wire when President Trump announced this cease fire agreement.
Katie Green
We'll be hanging around. We're not going anywhere.
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Day two of this cease fire is already looking shaky right now. President Trump's main condition for this truce
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is not being met.
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The Iranians are still saying public they're in control of the strait and that it is closed right now, but we're obliterating and they just don't want to stay uncomfortable.
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What happened.
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I don't think the voters fully understood and neither did we in the public sector what it was going to take to actually get this project delivered.
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I can't stop thinking about how grass lawns are racist and like, based in white supremacy.
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Experts have found that strong glute muscles can increase a person's life but also drain a brother's bank account.
Katie Green
So one of the tests that we do is trying to get them to
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say something like Kim Jong Un is a fat, ugly pig.
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Could you, could you say that for me?
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Yeah,
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I.
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Sorry, I just say I should say black dad.
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Like every problem that we have in society right now will be fixed when women come together.
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They provided $0 to deal with the ongoing genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQIA +MMIWG2SLGBBTQIA the lies
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linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today.
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It's clips of the week.
Joe Getty
So much there. Including Melanie. I don't think anybody thought that, even if some idiot is going around saying it. But if you want to make a statement, your delightful Slovenian accent, you should feel free to do so. Speaking of delightful speakers, I give you football star war Jason Kelsey at the
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Masters Caddy outfit on we're going to be mingling around this par three contest grounds here at Augusta National Golf Club. I'm out here with the patrons. Everybody's excited for today. Guys, there we are. I got my Augusta chair. I got my cooler. About 18 sandwiches in here. One of the things I'm looking forward to most today. I have never seen a hole in one in person, and there's more than enough par threes out here to make it happen. We're going to be mingling. I'm going to be giving advice. Hopefully nobody's going to be taking it. Maybe I get a stick in my hands. I don't know if I deserve that. But back to you guys.
Joe Getty
I love the Masters. I love Augusta National. I. I would love to play there someday. Still waiting for that invitation. If anybody emailed me that invitation, it went to spam. Call me anytime, night or day. Anyway, Jason Kelsey at the Masters should be interesting. He's obviously minding his manners, but bringing the NFL football spirit to the Masters. I mean, because famously, Gary McCord, who is one of the top announcers in golf back in the day, he got banned by Augusta national for life from the broadcast because he said the grains were so fast. It was like they were bikini waxed, which is a provocative image to say the least. But they said, no, you don't say that on the telecast. You can never work the Masters again. Wow.
Katie Green
Banned for life for that.
Joe Getty
Yeah. And they own absolutely the rights to everything that's broadcast. Wow. Including the fact that they only have four minutes of commercials an hour, which is nice. I hear you. I wish you guys were the same. I'm sorry. Sorry. It's tough business.
Katie Green
But, you know, you made this point yesterday. It's. It's having high standards that have kept it to be such a pristine event.
Joe Getty
So, yeah, yeah, they have standards, and they enforce their standards. Imagine that.
Katie Green
Friends fancy that.
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Imagine that.
Katie Green
Boy, I would like to party with Jason Kelly. Just. Or Jason Kelsey just one time. Oh, he seems like so much fun.
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In my prime. Yes, you're in your prime. I am not. I'm well past it. All right. I am about to speak words that are going to bring joy and delight into every heart listening, including all of us. It's almost. I want to, like, wrap it in a box so you can unwrap it slowly. But, no, I'm not going to tease till after the break. I'm not going to do that to you. Ladies and gentlemen, Kamala Harris gives her clearest signal yet that she is mounting a 2028 presidential bid.
Katie Green
Oh, beautiful.
Joe Getty
This is gonna be fun.
Katie Green
Thank you. It's a good day. It is a good day.
Joe Getty
I am so happy right now. Oh my God.
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Please be true. Please be true. Oh, I know. I'm beside myself with Clay. I'm gonna have to take a moment during the commercials to recompose myself. I'm so excited about this. Gabby and Kamala maybe. Oh, please Lord, one last blessing is all I ask from you. All right, we're gonna squeeze in some. Yeah, exactly. We're gonna squeeze in a little more. Stay with us or grab the podcast later.
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Space is exciting.
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It spurs our imaginations and it forces us us to ask big questions.
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Space.
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It affects us all and it connects us all.
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When I called her a half wit earlier, I think I was being too generous. Kamala Harris, who in a speech today at Al Sharpton's outfit in New York is hinting strongly that she will run for president again. Go ahead with 64. Michael.
Jack Armstrong
Listen, I might, I might. I'm thinking about it.
Joe Getty
I'm thinking about it. And then we'll play the next clip in which Katie, was it Katie who pointed or one of you guys pointed out that whenever Kamala goes within the context of or when you think about, you know, there's some crap coming and this clip lives up to that. Look, the American people have a right to expect that anyone who wants to
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run for office
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and be a leader, that it can't be about themselves and what they want for themselves has got to be about the American people.
Joe Getty
And that's how I think of it.
Jack Armstrong
And I am thinking about it in the context of then, you know, is
Joe Getty
who and where and how can the best job be done for the American people? What is anybody hurt? What a crack up that was. So, okay, so we'll keep that. Obviously I'm looking at the schedule I had drawn out for what to do when on the show and I have scheduled in for this segment talking about how voter fraud absolutely exists, how it's fairly widespread and is a damned problem for our system. And I'm not an election denier at all. I don't, I don't make claimed wild claims about various elections of the past. But the idea that it's not a problem is completely wrong. And I am going to Build an ironclad case for that. But not today. It's the end of the show on a Friday, so let's screw around. Michael, give US Clip number 10, would you? HALTERS works by sending a series of signals to a collar that the cow wears. Provides feedback to your smartphone so you can see where those cows are. On an app, you can draw in fences. With the click of a button, you can move your cows into that. That part of your pasture and graze
Gordon Chang
for as long as you wish.
Joe Getty
The halter collar is solar powered, and so it is really sealed. There's not a weak point for water to enter, and it worked. A solar powered smart collar for cows? Please. You can't fool me. That just exists to collect a cow's data so you can send them targeted ads. Yeah, so I didn't. Michael, is there, like, a written version of that? I don't. I don't understand how you could use the collar to move the cattle from one area to the other. Oh, you talk about a time when Jack ought to be here. So I literally worked in cattle yards as a teenager.
Katie Green
I'm looking at their website, and it looks like through an app, you can draw a virtual fence and you can move that. Does this thing zap them?
Joe Getty
Oh, it probably zaps them a little bit.
Katie Green
It probably gives them a little buzz and then allow. Yeah, okay. So you know what? It looks exactly like the dog collars for the. For barking. It's got the little box on it. So it says, using gps, it gives them an audio cue to move. So maybe when they approach the line of the fence, it sets off some noise they don't like until they go
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back, and maybe a pleasant noise that they associate with food or something. Because you can train cows, from what I understand, to recognize if a bell rings, that means food is coming. It's Pavlov's dogs, which don't ever read about what he actually did. It was horrifying. But anyway, I could. I could see that happening. GEO fencing for cows.
Katie Green
Yeah.
Joe Getty
In other words. Yeah, that makes sense. They have it on golf courses now, where if you go with your cart somewhere you're not supposed to in your cart, it'll slow the cart down to like one mile per hour and a big warning will flash. Go back to the path or whatever. So now cows, apparently.
Gordon Chang
Okay.
Katie Green
Golfers and golf, Katie. Well, no, I'm just. I'm looking at the app right now, so you can. Yeah, you. You can go in and edit where the cows are allowed to go just at the click of A button.
Joe Getty
That's pretty cool. Yeah, it's amazing. You know, obviously it's got to be cost effective, but anyway, I. Actually, today I just came up with a great idea for an invention. I've been wanting to do that since I was a kid and haven't. I guess I'm not very inventive. I think it's a great idea, but I got to look at whether it exists. So at this point, it probably does, but I've never heard of anybody having it. And it's just got to be marketed, right? But no, I can't tell you what it is, because then you'll. You'll latch onto my idea and the riches that I so richly deserve will not be coming my way. And that would be unacceptable.
Katie Green
Wow, the gatekeeping is thick right here.
Joe Getty
Oh, yeah. Top secret. Top secret. You got to do a retina scan, a thumbprint, and drop your pants to get into our corporate headquarters. I mean, thorough security.
Katie Green
Somebody's gonna send the last $10 of their Social Security in a very angry letter to the station. Again with your gatekeeping. First it was chips.
Joe Getty
No, no, we cannot have people suitcasing smartphones into the. The Joe Getty Blank headquarters. Oh, that smartphone thing reminds me. Oh, you know what? Where is that really amusing account of the whole Nutella? Do people pronounce it Nutella or Nutella? Because it's not. It's a hazelnut.
Katie Green
I've always said Nutella.
Joe Getty
Yeah, that's that. I think that's right. Do I have that. Where is that? When it floated through the air. There it is, the Nutella scene all over the world. And 253, 000 miles away. The Nutella what? The marketing meeting. They were having a meeting in Parsippany, New Jersey. The brand's parent company were taking their. Oh, an operations committee meeting that deals with shipping and distribution and store relations and stuff like that. They're just sitting down for the meeting when everybody's phones went crazy and they didn't know if that video. Is everybody familiar with this? There's video of the Artemis II mission the other day, of the capsule, and the astronauts were doing what astronauts do, and various stuff was floating around, including a jar of Nutella, which floated by. And at one point, the label was perfectly aligned to see on camera.
Katie Green
It's this. If they don't use this in a commercial at some point, they're fools.
Joe Getty
Oh, they already are. They already are. In fact, the. Let's see. They weren't even sure the video was real. So anyway, so now that I've reset, in case you missed it, what happened? So they're at this meeting in New Jersey and everybody's phone goes just ape poop. And they're like, what's going on? What's going on? And, and they're like, is real? Was it? And they all ran out and they watched it and looked into their phones and stuff like that. Ba ba ba. They weren't even sure it was real when they watched the watch the jar hurdle across their screens at exactly the right angle for the label to spin into focus. It all looked too perfect, said Chad Stubbs, the North America Chief Marketing officer. Quote, I couldn't have filmed it any better if I tried. Right? So now they're, they're making hay on social media, as you might guess, various videos that you'll probably run into.
Katie Green
Oh yeah, here's one Natalia now enjoyed in space
Joe Getty
and I actually a couple of things I didn't know that I learned reading a Wall Street Journal article is that during it was either World War II or just after World War II. Where is that? It's a long article about a sandwich spread. There was a chef in an Italian town. There it is. Post war cocoa shortage. In 1940s, Italian pastry chef named Pietro Ferrero had the genius idea to combine the scarce resources he could get with something his town had in abundance. Hazelnuts. They got hazelnut orchards all over the place.
Jack Armstrong
Okay.
Joe Getty
So he was like, you can't get food, you can't get cocoa, you can't make the stuff I like to make. So he thought, what can we do with hazelnuts? Hmm, hmm. And it ended up ended up being engineered into a spreadable paste in the 50s, was launched as Nutella in 1964. Anyway, the other interesting part that I learned is that NASA has an extremely strict policy against promoting or endorsing commercial products and enforces it so aggressively that not naming brands is actually kind of part of the astronauts training. They cannot get paid for naming image and likeness, unlike a college hoops play or something like that. Okay. And in fact, when one of the Artemis 2 guys let slip in a press conference that he was bringing an iPhone to get some amazing photos of the Earth from space, he caught himself. He said, quote, I don't think I can actually say that as a government employee. We have small, highly powerful computing devices that we'll take with us that have outstanding cameras.
Gordon Chang
That's crazy.
Joe Getty
So he backtracked on even mentioning the iPhone. Yeah, yeah. Then finally this while in the cosmos, they also found other purposes for those powerful computing devices. One picture shared by NASA showed Jeremy Hansen with an electric shaver in one hand and his iPhone the other because he was using it as a mirror. And it wasn't even the most amazing part of the shot. Anyone who looked closely would have spotted another product in the corner. A container of Jif peanut butter. And I don't know if Jif has flogged this at all. They should. It's a child's peanut butter. But what do you mean? Nobody's talked about that. It's. It's not. No, no. Get a nice organic kind that you have to stir up because the oil separates.
Katie Green
Here comes Boutique Joe here.
Joe Getty
That's real peanut butter.
Katie Green
Okay. Have you ever made your own?
Joe Getty
No, ma'.
Gordon Chang
Am.
Katie Green
Oh, see, now that's where it's at.
Joe Getty
Who's boutique now?
Katie Green
Well, I now more homesteady if anything. But it's. It's fun to make your own, but. Oh, my gosh, Jif, Jif crunchy peanut butter is fantastic. And I will not be sway.
Joe Getty
Okay, all right, whatever. You're right. It is more home homesteady than boutique. Fair. Fair point. Gotta have the oil.
Katie Green
Mix it because it's real.
Joe Getty
Okay. Speaking of high tech computer devices that shall not be named, perhaps you've seen this video on yours. If not, we will play the audio now. Katie assures me this is legit. It's some weird glitch of chat. GPT. This guy's name is Zach Tellender and It's clip number 12 on Michael. How many Rs are there in Strawberry?
Jack Armstrong
Strawberry has two Rs in it.
Joe Getty
Are you sure?
Cindy Crawford
Absolutely sure.
Jack Armstrong
There's an R after the T and
Cindy Crawford
another one near the end.
Joe Getty
So two Rs it is. Okay, so I think that there are three Rs.
Cindy Crawford
Ah, I see what's going on.
Jack Armstrong
But if we count them together, there's
Cindy Crawford
one R after the T and one
Jack Armstrong
right before the Y.
Cindy Crawford
So that does add up to just
Joe Getty
two Rs in Strawberry.
Cindy Crawford
One of them is just feeling extra noticeable.
Joe Getty
Okay, no, it's three Rs. Right, it's three Rs because is. It's one after the T and then in the word berry. You know that word, berry? There's two R's in berry.
Cindy Crawford
I get what you're saying now.
Jack Armstrong
You're counting the berry part as if
Joe Getty
it had two Rs on it. No, no, I'm not counting it as if it had two Rs. It has two Rs.
Cindy Crawford
All right, I see where the confusion is coming from.
Jack Armstrong
I promise. I'm not trying to be stubborn here.
Cindy Crawford
In the standard spelling of strawberry, there's just one R in straw and one R in berry.
Joe Getty
So no, there aren't. How many R's are there in straw?
Jack Armstrong
In straw, there's just one R. Okay,
Joe Getty
now in the word berry, how many R's are there in Barry?
Jack Armstrong
There's also just one R. It's right there before the rye. So combined strawberry is just that. One R& straw and one in berry.
Cindy Crawford
I know it can be a bit frustrating when we're just seeing it differently, but you haven't done anything wrong.
Joe Getty
No, you have done something wrong. Okay, so Katie, I still say that's a bit. And that's a woman, not the, the chatgpt. But I have admittedly never used the voice function of those things.
Katie Green
Okay. So I, I have and I prefer the male voice because it's not as clucky as that one. But yeah, that's the, that is the female voice that Chat GPT provides.
Joe Getty
Okay.
Katie Green
And there were several posts. I just liked the way that he got animated with it because he was he. If you watch this video, I'll put it up@armstrong getty.com he's visually frustrated. He's like. No, like, like getting angry with this thing. But there were other reports of once this video came out, other people tried it and Chat GPT just swears upside down and backwards that there's two Rs in Strawberry.
Joe Getty
Wow. Wow. Okay, take a short break. We'll come back and finish strong right after this.
Cindy Crawford
Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
The 2026 Masters is underway and a trio of legends including 86 year old Jack Nicklaus hit the ceremony first drives of this 90th tournament. The six time Masters champ hit a low hooking shot that had some spectators ducking. He laughed it off when the crowd cheered on. I would consider it an honor to lose an eye at the hands of the great Jack Nicklaus.
Gordon Chang
I'm sorry.
Joe Getty
So before we shuffle on out of here, this is amazing. Nellie Bowles writing in the Free Press, the New York Times trying to downplay the random killing of a baby in her stroller last week. Here's your quote of the week among shootings in New York City in which a person is struck by stray bullets, babies are rarely the victims. I mean that's amazing. As if it's like hysterical Fox News fear mongering since babies aren't shot that often. My good God. Good. I mean, I know. Yeah.
Katie Green
Did you see what happened to the guys that. That fired off those shots?
Joe Getty
I don't think so.
Katie Green
Okay, so they. They did the shooting, which was horrific. And as they were running from the scene, they just got totally slammed by a car, which resulted in one of them getting caught. The other one ran off, but it was. It was just good timing.
Joe Getty
Yeah. I certainly hope they catch the second one and his life is what it should be, what it deserves to be. Yeah. Speaking of murders, however, this is amazing. Everybody, I think, has heard that the murder rate is falling, but 2025 is really, really good compared to the 10 years that went before it. I mean, really, really low in terms of murders. It's actually the lowest year. Do they have that? Actually, I'm looking at this chart, which is small. Luckily, I have the eyes of a 16 year old. It looks like the lowest murder rate since the 1960s. What happened in 2020 25? Anybody wanted to commit a murder got murdered during COVID or something. A crackdown on the progressive policing. I don't know. So. Interesting, huh? Well, I'm anti murder, so that's good.
Katie Green
Yeah.
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Gordon Chang
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Gordon Chang
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Joe Getty
Get ready with Katie Green and Michael Angelo. It's final thoughts.
Gordon Chang
I'm strong.
Joe Getty
Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap things up for the day and the week. Let's begin with our technical director, Michelangelo. Michael, what's your final thought? All right, here's a. Here's an idea. I hope nobody's thought of it already, but NASA needs to start charging for product placement on space missions, so you have objects to floating by. And they're a sponsor. Oh, they're trying to avoid that very much. Michael, I'm not sure I'm with you on that plan. It would pollute the purity of space travel. Katie Green, our esteemed newswoman, has a final thought.
Katie Green
Katie, I just got a text from my husband, and we have the fancy peanut butter at home. I had forgotten, so.
Joe Getty
Good man, Drew. Good man. Mm. Ah. Yeah, if you don't have to stir it up. It's not real peanut butter. Come on. My final thought is entirely self indulgent and self promotional. A good show today had a lot of great guests, including. Including Greg Lukianoff from fire, the foundation for Individual rights and Expression during hour one of the program. If you didn't catch that, definitely worth a listen. He is such a great and elegant crusader for the first Amendment. Really enjoy the conversation. Likewise our chat with Mike lyons an hour 2 Tim Sander for an hour 3 so check it out. Armstrong and Getty on demand. Wherever you'd like to get podcasts, subscribe so it downloads automatically. Armstrong and Yeti wrapping up another grueling four hour workday. So many people to thank, so little time. Thanks to Hanson and Katie and Michael and everybody who helped out today. Jack will be back on Monday. Go to armstrongandgetty.com we mention a couple of great events, books, articles, whatever. Those links are there under hot links or usually hot links or we've got a special banner armstrong getty.com we'll see you Monday. God Bless America.
Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty vowing to send each other to hell.
Joe Getty
You crazy bastards. Crazy bastards. It was truly the 11th hour ceasefire agreement.
Katie Green
We'll be hanging around.
Joe Getty
We're not going anywhere. I think we can all agree on that. It's already looking shaky. They just don't want to stay uncle
Gordon Chang
the lies need to end today they
Joe Getty
provided $0 to MMIWG2SLGBTQIA bye.
Gordon Chang
Have a great Friday, you mother Armstrong
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Date: April 10, 2026
Podcast: Armstrong & Getty On Demand
Host: iHeartPodcasts
This episode features a robust discussion on the current state of U.S.–China relations amidst global conflict, including a deep-dive interview with China analyst Gordon Chang. The hosts also lighten the mood with cultural commentary—most notably about a viral Nutella-in-space moment, golf traditions at the Masters, and a hilarious AI mishap over the spelling of "strawberry." The episode balances serious geopolitical analysis with lighter talk, all delivered with the Armstrong & Getty signature style—skeptical, irreverent, and insightful.
(Starting ~03:03)
Chinese Response to Conflict:
“Military means cannot fundamentally solve this problem and the escalation of the conflict is not in the interest of either side.” – (Katie Green, 03:06)
Gordon Chang’s Analysis:
“Xi Jinping, he has decimated the top of the Chinese military with his purges... they are not capable of starting hostilities by launching an invasion on the main island of Taiwan.” – (Gordon Chang, 05:03)
US Policy Options & Consistency:
“We can do that, for instance, by closing the strait to all shipping that has paid the toll.” – (Gordon Chang, 06:44)
(07:04)
“There is all out fighting among the generals and admirals.” – (Gordon Chang, 07:04)
(08:06–09:34)
“It makes it much harder for him to accomplish what he wants with China... We have chased the Chinese for dialogue and that has inflated their already big sense of self importance.” – (Gordon Chang, 08:06)
(09:34–11:50)
“President Trump is going after China's proxies... China is basically losing its pause. So this is really good for us.” – (Gordon Chang, 10:05)
“Ultimately Xi Jinping is working against his own economy... if that fails, the political system will be in deep trouble.” – (Gordon Chang, 10:57)
(12:15)
“China is right now at a very fragile point and President Trump can exploit that if he chooses to do so.” – (Gordon Chang, 12:40)
(16:08–18:32)
“Open the expletive straight, you crazy bastards.” – (Jack Armstrong, 16:11) “I can't stop thinking about how grass lawns are racist and like, based in white supremacy.” – (Jack Armstrong, 17:26) “So one of the tests we do is try to get them to say something like, ‘Kim Jong Un is a fat, ugly pig.’” – (Katie Green, 17:42)
(18:53–20:47)
“It’s having high standards that have kept it to be such a pristine event.” – (Katie Green, 20:29)
(21:31–26:15)
“Kamala Harris gives her clearest signal yet that she is mounting a 2028 presidential bid.” – (Joe Getty, 21:32) “Whenever Kamala goes within the context of, or when you think about, you know there’s some crap coming.” – (Joe Getty, 25:34)
(27:19–29:17)
“No, we cannot have people suitcasing smart phones into the Joe Getty Blank headquarters.” – (Joe Getty, 30:16)
(30:40–34:57)
“They weren’t even sure the video was real when they watched the jar hurdle across their screens at exactly the right angle for the label to spin into focus.” – (Joe Getty, 32:25)
“As a government employee...We have small, highly powerful computing devices that we’ll take with us that have outstanding cameras.” – (Artemis II astronaut, paraphrased, 34:10)
(35:29–37:50)
“No, you have done something wrong.” – (Joe Getty, 36:59) “Chat GPT just swears upside down and backwards that there's two Rs in Strawberry.” – (Katie Green, 37:50)
(41:01–43:03)
“Among shootings in New York City in which a person is struck by stray bullets, babies are rarely the victims. I mean, that’s amazing.” – (Joe Getty, 41:01)
“The lowest murder rate since the 1960s. What happened in 2025? Anybody wanted to commit a murder got murdered during COVID or something?” – (Joe Getty, 42:26)
On Diplomatic Posture:
“We have chased the Chinese for dialogue and that has inflated their already big sense of self importance. So I think the way we get things from China is we stop talking to them and we make them chase us for once.”
— Gordon Chang (08:16)
On US Toughness:
“They have seen even strong American presidents act weak towards China... What we’re doing right now, it has no chance of success.”
— Gordon Chang (09:04)
On Tech in Agriculture:
“GEO fencing for cows... No, we cannot have people suitcasing smartphones into the headquarters.”
— Joe Getty (30:07, 30:16)
On Internet Virality:
“If they don’t use this [Nutella in space] in a commercial at some point, they’re fools.”
— Katie Green (31:38)
Final Thoughts (Peanut Butter Edition):
“If you don’t have to stir it up, it’s not real peanut butter.”
— Joe Getty (43:55)
| Timestamp | Segment | Description | |-----------|---------|-------------| | 03:03 | China Analysis & Gordon Chang Interview | Deep dive into US–China–Iran dynamics | | 07:04 | Xi’s Military Purges | Analysis of PLA instability | | 08:06 | Trump’s Approach to China | Is the US looking needy? | | 09:34 | The Big Picture | China’s proxies and trade vulnerabilities | | 12:15 | Coming Collapse of China | Chang’s book and its relevance now | | 16:08 | Clips of the Week | Rapid-fire audio from the week | | 18:53 | Masters & Augusta National | Golf traditions & standards | | 21:31 | Kamala Harris 2028 | Hosts react to speculation | | 27:19 | GPS Collars for Cows | Virtual fencing technology | | 30:40 | Nutella in Space | Accidental viral marketing moment | | 35:29 | ChatGPT Strawberry Glitch | AI spelling debate goes viral | | 41:01 | Crime Data & Media Critique | NYT’s “rare baby shooting” phrasing | | 42:26 | US Murder Rate Discussion | 2025’s historic low rate |
The episode features the Armstrong & Getty hallmarks:
In summary:
This episode mixes serious, timely analysis of international relations with Gordon Chang with the show’s lighter side—highlighting viral cultural phenomena, clever technology, and idiosyncratic personal debates. Whether critiquing world powers or debating peanut butter, Armstrong & Getty keep the tone brisk, wry, and always engaging.