What Is An Uncontrolled Ass?

Summary

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Armstrong & Getty On Demand: "What Is An Uncontrolled Ass?"

Host: iHeartPodcasts
Episode Date: August 22, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode, titled "What Is An Uncontrolled Ass?," sees hosts Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, joined by Katie Green, engaging in their trademark irreverent banter as they dissect media narratives, sensational news coverage, social trends, and day-to-day absurdities. The show’s main themes include a critique of both mainstream and cable news cycles, a discussion on political retribution and government investigations (notably, the FBI raid on John Bolton), cultural commentary on online advertising (with a humorous focus on shapewear), and the pitfalls of fleeting fame. They sprinkle in personal anecdotes, tease weekend plans, and keep their tone light and sarcastic, even when dealing with heavier news topics.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Media’s Sensationalism and Content Inflation

• News Cycle Critique:
  • The hosts question the constant need for media to fill time, arguing that truly important news could be covered in just minutes daily.
    • [03:16] Jack Armstrong: “James Lindsay...calculated that you only need about 10 minutes to take in everything you need to know every day.”
  • They lampoon the repetitive nature of cable news, where stories are endlessly recycled for the sake of content length, not substance.
  • Hyperbolic discourse (“Calling everyone Nazis”) is criticized for desensitizing audiences and inflaming tensions.
    • [05:19] Jack Armstrong: “The first thing I hear is a guy saying, it started with, and these are the kind of people who would put you in a cattle car and take you to the gas chamber...This is a little hot to start my Friday.”
    • [04:33] Joe Getty jokes about actual Nazis in hell thinking, “you’re really overplaying that hand.”

2. Political News: Lawfare & the John Bolton Raid

• FBI Raid on John Bolton's Home:
  • The segment opens with speculation about whether the raid on Bolton, ex-Trump national security advisor, is legitimate or political retribution (“lawfare”)—raising concerns about tit-for-tat politics.
    • [01:04] Joe Getty: “The FBI has raided his home, part of an investigation into handling of classified records...Is this law fair, Jack?”
  • The hosts debate whether this is retaliation for Bolton's criticism of Trump or a genuine security concern.
    • [13:01] Joe Getty: “That was honestly my initial reaction...I was intrigued to see that Matt Taibbi, whose jihad is exposing how the intelligence services have become perverse and politicized. He says he thinks it’s about the big Russiagate thing.”
    • [22:23] Joe Getty: “Question number one is, is it lawfare?...But the number one question is, is it lawfare or is it something more legitimate?”
    • [26:10] Joe Getty: “He seems to think that this is all part of the Trump administration’s being serious about calling out our intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies for, quote, unquote, weaponizing government during the Russiagate thing.”
  • They acknowledge the difficulty in discerning the real motives behind such government actions and express concern about the “race to the bottom” in politicized prosecutions.
    • [26:18] Jack Armstrong: “I couldn’t be more against it. And the whole...I’m not into the whole race to the bottom thing.”

3. Media Marketing Absurdities & "Ass Control Pants"

• Ad Choices Targeting and the Etymology of “Uncontrolled Ass”:**
  • Joe humorously laments being targeted by shapewear ads, leading to an extended riff about “ass control pants” versus “uncontrolled asses.”
    • [06:29] Jack Armstrong: “What is an uncontrolled ass? What are we controlling?”
    • [07:34] Joe Getty: “No, it’s not Depends. It’s like Spanx. It’s shapewear. Oh, that’s what you’re supposed to call it.”
  • The segment riffs on online privacy and the uncanny targeting of digital ads.
    • [06:53] Joe Getty: “I am the only homo sapien who ever uses this MacBook. And I can’t imagine why...they are trying to sell me control garments for women.”
  • Katie Green confirms that such products exist for men, prompting more self-deprecating jokes.
    • [08:34] Katie Green: “They do make them for men. Okay, well, I’ll be wearing those on Monday.”

4. The Villanova Hoax Shooting and Media’s Panic Induction

• Media Hysteria Around Hoaxes:
  • Katie Green reports on a hoax active shooter at Villanova University, which major networks led with dramatically, despite knowing it was a false alarm.
    • [09:15] Katie Green: “Reports of an active shooter at Villanova University outside Philadelphia...SWAT team moving in...the school warning students to shelter in place.”
    • [09:53] Jack Armstrong: “Yeah, I don’t think that ranks as a lead story, but...they’re stretching things beyond their interest level to try to fill the time they have to fill.”
  • Joe criticizes the prioritization of panic-inducing, “bloodbath” headlines to retain fleeting viewership.
    • [10:10] Joe Getty: “They’re willing to do whatever it takes to get you to stay tuned for another 30 seconds. But you can only prostitute your credibility so often before it goes away.”

5. Light-Hearted Interludes & Personal Updates

• The hosts discuss weekend plans—sailing lessons (in 104-degree heat), overseas vacations, and poking fun at themselves for forgetting show segments.
• Armstrong teases Joe about “getting swole” for London and the effects of steroids interfering with sleep.

6. Broader Cultural Trends in Headlines & Social Commentary

• Current Events Roundup with Katie Green:
  • Quick-fire headlines touch on topics like electric school buses failing, the federal workforce shrinking, young men moving rightward politically, doom-mongering about AI, and even the Babylon Bee’s satirical take on introverts.
    • [16:12] Joe Getty: Mocking over-politicized dating: “Enjoy being lonely.”
    • [16:30] Katie Green: Babylon Bee: “Introvert bites down on cyanide capsule as waiters start singing Happy Birthday to him.”

7. Fleeting Celebrity & the “One Hit Wonder” Crisis

• Lil Nas X Spotted in Underwear and Cowboy Boots:
  • The hosts riff on the dangers of sudden fame, suggesting there should be some fund or foundation to help viral stars transition back to normalcy.
    • [28:13] Jack Armstrong: “There should be a...fund of some sort...to help out people who are briefly famous.”
    • [28:46] Joe Getty: “More like an educational foundation...like FEMA. They’d rush in: ‘Look—your income stream is going to disappear in two to five weeks.’”

8. Listener Engagement & Mailbag

• The mailbag features listener questions on dating preferences, the naming of government programs, male cheerleaders, and even vestibule panic products—keeping the tone irreverent with quick jokes and recurring segments.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• [03:16] Jack Armstrong: “James Lindsay...calculated that you only need about 10 minutes to take in everything you need to know every day.”
• [04:33] Joe Getty: “I wonder if in the deepest pits of hell the actual Nazis are thinking, ‘you’re really overplaying that hand.’”
• [06:29] Jack Armstrong: “What is an uncontrolled ass? What are we controlling?”
• [07:34] Joe Getty: “No, it’s not Depends. It’s like Spanx. It’s shapewear. Oh, that’s what you’re supposed to call it.”
• [09:15] Katie Green: “Reports of an active shooter at Villanova University outside Philadelphia...SWAT team moving in the school warning students to shelter in place.”
• [10:10] Joe Getty: “But you can only prostitute your credibility so often before it goes away.”
• [13:01] Joe Getty: “That was honestly my initial reaction...Matt Taibbi says he thinks it’s about the big Russiagate thing.”
• [26:10] Joe Getty: “He seems to think that this is all part of the Trump administration’s being serious about calling out our intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies for, quote, unquote, weaponizing government during the Russiagate thing.”
• [28:13] Jack Armstrong: “There should be a...fund of some sort...to help out people who are briefly famous.”
• [30:04] Joe Getty: “People who are not capable of boarding by group number do not deserve the right to vote.”

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Important Timestamps

• [03:16] — 10-minute news theory and media repetition critique.
• [04:33] — Overusing Nazi analogies in media.
• [06:29 - 08:37] — Extended riff on "ass control pants"/shapewear ads.
• [09:15 - 10:29] — Villanova hoax shooting story and media sensationalism.
• [12:42] — Katie Green’s headline rundown.
• [21:07 - 26:10] — Detailed debate about John Bolton, FBI raid, lawfare.
• [28:13] — The “fame fallout” fund bit (Lil Nas X example).
• [30:04] — Irreverent freedom-loving quote and airline boarding rant.
• [31:09] — Explaining “shreking” in dating culture.
• [34:14] — On male cheerleaders and culture wars.

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Conclusion

With their trademark blend of cynicism, humor, and skepticism, Armstrong & Getty deconstruct the absurdities of modern media, politics, and culture while volleying jokes and offering candid takes on everything from government overreach to male shapewear ads. Episode "What Is An Uncontrolled Ass?" is a quintessential installment—equal parts media lampoon, culture commentary, and offbeat news roundup, delivered in a conversational, sharply satirical style accessible to both new and longtime listeners.

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Transcript

[Jack Armstrong]

This is an iHeart podcast broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

[Joe Getty]

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's I'm Strong and Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Live from Studio C. Si, senor. It's Friday from a dimly lit room.

[Joe Getty]

Deep within the bowels of the Armstrong.

[Jack Armstrong]

And Getty Communications compound. And today we're under the tutelage of our general manager.

[Joe Getty]

You know, I was going to go with a hurricane in the Menendez brothers, according to the mainstream media, but our general manager, last minute change, John Bolton, apparently.

[Jack Armstrong]

How come?

[Joe Getty]

We'll tell you about that in a minute. Well, the FBI has raided his home, part of an investigation into handling of classified records. The thorn in Trump's side, John Bolton. Is this law fair, Jack? Is it a legitimate investigation into the Russia Gate hoax?

[Jack Armstrong]

So your first thing about the Mendendez brothers in a hurricane, what was your. You were implying something, I think there.

[Joe Getty]

Well, yes, indeed, as I scan the evening news is partly just to amuse myself because they're practically useless. Their emphasis on weather and personalities is unmistakable.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, here's the, here's the problem. I was thinking about this as we are in the media business and we have to fill 4 hours with content of some sort of every single day. And usually when I'm coming to work, I'm thinking, you know, what's the most interesting thing happening today? And some days like today, none of the big things that are being covered by the regular media are really grabbing me and reminding. It should remind all of us that just because the evening newscast is a half hour long or, you know, Jake Tapper show on CNN is now, that doesn't mean there's an hour's worth of interesting news out there every day.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, no, no.

[Jack Armstrong]

I mean that.

[Joe Getty]

Well, and these pinheads certainly can't supply any analysis worth hearing either.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right? And it does, it doesn't work that way. And luckily we have a sort of show and, and the way we do things that we don't, we don't have to talk about the news of the day. But a lot of, but the things, the, the things that call themselves the news and have to talk about the news of the day, if there's not a lot of news, then they just repeat stuff you already know. If you ever find yourself, like sitting at cable news and just like, you're kind of spacing off, it's because they're repeating stuff you already know. That's why they're saying for the fifth time today, something that you Already knew. And it's a waste of race time. And it reminded me of James Lindsay, who we love, who's the greatest anti woke warrior in America, maybe the world. Ph.D. mathematician Chris Rufo, also on that list.

[Joe Getty]

But yes, James is a hero.

[Jack Armstrong]

James Lindsay, who as a mathematician somehow calculated that he believes you only need about 10 minutes to take in everything you need to know every day. On a normal day, sure, there are some days, maybe like last Friday or whatever, where it'd be more than that, but on your average day, 10 minutes would cover it. And you got all these organizations that have to pretend that there's way more than that. And that's, you know, doing this for a living. That's what I like to watch out for. And I, and then the other part of it. So I flip on npr, and in this case I'm not going to be knocking a liberal news organization because it could have been a right wing radio just as easily. I flip on npr. I have no context. I don't know what they're talking about. But it was a clip of somebody saying, and these are the kind of people that would put you in a cattle car and drive you to the gas chambers. And I thought, I don't know what this is about, but this, I feel like I hear this sort of thing ten times a day. And, and what, what does that do to people who take in media for their lives where everything is Hitler, Nazi, exterminating the Jews level all the time. I don't know if they were talking about climate change or illegal immigration or cutting funding from colleges or.

[Joe Getty]

And you didn't really care.

[Jack Armstrong]

No. And it didn't matter.

[Joe Getty]

It doesn't matter. Somebody's calling somebody a Nazi again. You know, I wonder if in the deepest pits of hell the actual Nazis are thinking, you know, too much, too much. You're really overplaying that hand.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, right. But so, you know, you can only play that card so many times for so long before the, the customer that exists for spoken word.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Decides that's enough. I'm just not doing this anymore.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah, I would agree completely. I'm going to call an audible, by the way, Michael, our opening clip. Let us go with 21 when it comes time to do that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay.

[Joe Getty]

Because the John Bolton clip I've already kind of given away, honest to God.

[Jack Armstrong]

I flip on the radio and the first thing I hear is a guy saying, it started with, and these are the kind of people who would put you in a cattle car and take you to the gas chamber. I thought, oh, My God, this is a little, this is a little hot to start by Friday.

[Joe Getty]

No kidding. And you don't know whether it's about just. It could be anything.

[Jack Armstrong]

Immigration, climate change, the wnba, could be anything. Nazi Germany.

[Joe Getty]

That's right, sir. That's right. That's what we're talking about. Here's a question for you. I don't know who handles the online ad sales for like the Wall Street Journal. Oh, Ad Choices, I guess is the company. They're the folks with the little like light blue arrow and dot, dot, dot at the corner of the ad and you can get rid of the ad and they ask you why and then they give you a different ad or whatever. I would like to talk to the folks at Ad Choices right now. I don't need ass control pants for women. Okay. What is, I don't need like, you know, like spanks. I'm sorry for the.

[Jack Armstrong]

What is an uncontrolled ass. What do we, what are we controlling?

[Joe Getty]

Well, you don't want that. It's the proverbial wild ass. Yeah, the, for some reason now, for a couple of weeks. And I will tell you.

[Jack Armstrong]

Maybe you do. There are cameras on the computer. Maybe they've caught you walking away from the screen and you know, they thought, you know what this guy needs? Ass control pants.

[Joe Getty]

You got a coughing fit, which is the highest praise for comedy. Although I am already sick, so points off. I am the only homo sapien who ever uses this MacBook. And I can't imagine why day after day after day they are trying to sell me control garments for women. I think showing me their hineies.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think do the math.

[Joe Getty]

Well, nice, nice hiney there in your, your, like your 90s Batman suit wearing young gal.

[Katie Green]

Yes, Katie, I, I, I believe they must have continuously heard you lose your s on the air and thought this guy needs.

[Joe Getty]

No, it's not Depends. It's like Spanx. It's shapewear. Oh, that's what you're supposed to call it. Puts it up higher. It looks pretty high.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

This gal's wearing again, it looks like she's some sort of Marvel sex pot ass kicker. You know, Scarlett Johansson, Is she the.

[Jack Armstrong]

She is the Black Widow.

[Joe Getty]

Cute gal is, right? Yeah, it's very much like that. But again, it's like day after day.

[Jack Armstrong]

She was actually raised by Russians to be a spy. It's a long story.

[Joe Getty]

Scarlett Johansson was.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, her and her sister.

[Joe Getty]

No accent, to the ash, cheap history.

[Jack Armstrong]

So, Senator McCain, did they make these for men? That's my final question before I start the show officially.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know, maybe I should click shop now. You know what I give? I give you win these. Buy some.

[Jack Armstrong]

These ad people are the kind of people who will put you in cattle cars and drive you to the gas chambers. What they are?

[Katie Green]

I don't answer your question. They do make that appropriate.

[Jack Armstrong]

They do make them for men. Okay, well, I'll be wearing those on Monday.

[Joe Getty]

This brand is Fanca. Fanca. F A N K A.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, we got to start the show officially or we get in trouble at the FCC and they raid our homes. I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Jo Getty on this. It is Friday, August 22nd of the year 2025 where Armstrong and getting we approve of this program.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, let's begin then. Officially. Here comes the show. According to FCC rules and regs at Mark.

[Katie Green]

Reports of an active shooter at Villanova University outside Philadelphia. Dramatic video just coming in. Students running for cover, ducking for safety on the first day of orientation. SWAT team moving in the school warning students to shelter in place.

[Joe Getty]

That was the opening of ABC News last night. When she spoke those words, they already knew it was a hoax. But they went with the full bloodbath student shot video package. Fast moving, panic inducing voiceover, etc knowing that it was a hoax. Their lead, if they had any human decency, would have been multiple hoaxes at American universities on the first day of classes or student orientation day in which false reports of mass shootings were called in.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I don't think that ranks as a lead story, but. Oh, I would agree. They. It's what I was starting with. So we got like a 24, 48 hour lull, I guess. And so people are stretching things beyond their interest level to try to fill the time they have to fill.

[Joe Getty]

Well, yeah, that and look, I understand they're in a desperate battle for declining old media dollars and so they're willing to do whatever it takes to get you to stay tuned for another 30 seconds. But you can only prostitute your credibility so often before it goes away.

[Jack Armstrong]

If you wear garments that move your fat around in such a way that you look better. Is it uncomfortable? Like by the end of the day, are you really wanting to get out of those things?

[Joe Getty]

I think it depends on the. The extent of the blubber rearrangement, which is the technical term.

[Jack Armstrong]

Katie once again joins us.

[Katie Green]

The answer is yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh yeah. You're like, you can't wait to like let it all.

[Katie Green]

Everything sucked in.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, it's, it's not comfy. I actually have like one shirt like, super tight. I can't even remember how I got it or where I got it. But it's like a great first layer if you're going hunting or something like that. And you need multiple layers. But by golly, it's a pleasure to take that thing off. At the end of the day, you're.

[Jack Armstrong]

Going hunting for cougars in this sensor, maybe. Gotcha. Okay, so we got Katie's headlines. We got Katie's headlines on the way and more stuff. Stay with us.

[Katie Green]

Armstrong and Gettys.

[Jack Armstrong]

So that's just another headline, Katie. You can just do that as a headline. It's a tweet. But.

[Joe Getty]

How y' all doing today?

[Jack Armstrong]

Excited. Are you excited? I got sailing lessons tomorrow and it's gonna be 104 degrees, so I don't know what that'll be like.

[Joe Getty]

Fall into the water intentionally A couple of times.

[Jack Armstrong]

Exactly.

[Katie Green]

Flip the thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Flip that thing on purpose. Exactly.

[Joe Getty]

You're excited. I'm excited. I'm flying to London tonight, all right? For my big vacation. And I was awake for two straight hours in the middle of the night last night, my mind going 100 miles per hour. Not because the trip, because I'm on steroids. They're interfering with my sleep.

[Jack Armstrong]

You want to get swole. You saw RFK Jr doing those pull ups, right?

[Joe Getty]

Right. Yeah. I don't want no Brit soccer hooligans to, you know, gonna bully me. What's that, Katie?

[Katie Green]

You're gonna get swollen. Then put on shapewear, really just knock everybody out.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, wow.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And pick me up some British chicks with their sexy accents.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sorry, honey.

[Joe Getty]

Are you listening? All right. Michael. Michael.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Now see, that's a hurtful stereotype. Yeah, terrible. So more on that to come. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's lead story with Katie Green. Katie?

[Katie Green]

Alrighty. Starting with NBC News, FBI raids former National Security advisor John Bolton's home in a probe to find classified documents.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, we need to discuss this more. At the bottom, is this just Trump retaliating? A guy who's on cable news all the time badmouthing him?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, that was honestly my initial reaction. I was intrigued to see that Matt Taibbi, whose jihad is exposing how the intelligence services have become perverse and politicized. He says he thinks it's about the big Russiagate thing. Could be. Absolutely.

[Jack Armstrong]

Could be.

[Katie Green]

This one straight from Marco Rubio. Effective immediately, we are pausing. All insurance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers.

[Jack Armstrong]

After that, illegal in Florida who got a license to drive a giant truck in Stupid states like California, they're just going to pause them all until they can get their head wrapped around this.

[Katie Green]

From the free Beacon back to gas. School districts revert to diesel because Biden's electric buses can't be repaired.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. Nobody predicted that that electric bus thing was performative and wouldn't actually work in practice. Oh, wait, lots of people did.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, including us. Yeah, I remember we, we broke that story, gosh, months and months and months ago while Biden was still in office. School district saying, you literally cannot find anybody to work on these. The company that made them doesn't have time. They have no authorized service centers. You cannot repair these things.

[Katie Green]

From USA Today, shooting hoax at Villanova spread panic during orientation.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, you'd be in a panic if you heard. Heard there was a shooter on campus. No doubt.

[Joe Getty]

And happening a couple places, freshman orientation. Nobody's, you know, quite sure where they're going or. Right Already pretty tense. Yes. Terrible. What a cruel and horrific hoax.

[Katie Green]

From the Telegraph. We may be facing the dot com bubble 2.0 with AI. They're saying as US tech stocks lost $1 trillion. We have to remember that overhyped tech can cause catastrophe.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. Well, we had that yesterday. A report came out of MIT that 95% of firms reported that the whole AI thing has fallen short of what they thought it was going to be.

[Joe Getty]

There.

[Jack Armstrong]

More on that later.

[Joe Getty]

That's what we need, a little more uncertainty. Finally. Everything's just so steady rolling these days, it's making me crazy. Finally a little something to worry about. Chimney.

[Katie Green]

From the New York Times. Trump official says year will end with 300,000 fewer federal workers.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, and that's something. It's the biggest reduction in the federal workforce since World War II.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. Good.

[Katie Green]

From the New York Post. Young men shifting to political right has caused women to distrust dating apps. According to the Atlantic.

[Jack Armstrong]

Distrust. Distrust them. From what I understand, a lot of women put in their no Trumpers or, you know, make it clear don't want that kind of guy. No maga. Yeah, which, you know, if that's your tripwire, it's probably a good idea to be upfront about it.

[Joe Getty]

Enjoy being lonely.

[Jack Armstrong]

Enjoy your sad, sexless, loveless life.

[Joe Getty]

Enjoy shrieking about intifada at your fellow lonely 23 year old sush majors.

[Katie Green]

And finally, the Babylon Bee introvert bites down on cyanide capsule as waiters start singing Happy Birthday to him.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, no kidding. You would if you could if you had one handy. And you're sitting at the Texas Roadhouse and they bring out the Saddle. You might do it.

[Joe Getty]

Just put that right on that thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wait a second. I have to sit on the saddle in a hat while people sing at me and everybody looks at me.

[Joe Getty]

Everybody is looking at me in the restaurant and clapping.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes, exactly.

[Joe Getty]

Why? Oh, and why the hat?

[Jack Armstrong]

Why do I have to wear a ridiculous looking hat? I'm a grown man. We've got more on the. Yeah. The former national security advisor to Donald Trump got raided by Trump's FBI. It's like, going on right now. And we'll tell you more about that coming up.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Gettysburg.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, yeah, Here we go. Here we go. We both get it. We both get it. We both get it. We both get it. I was. I was as completely unaware of clips of the week as Joe. I think that's the first time I've ever forgotten. But, yeah, we're. But we both get buzzed today.

[Katie Green]

Two weeks in a row.

[Jack Armstrong]

Two weeks in a row. I think we probably.

[Joe Getty]

Time to hang it up.

[Jack Armstrong]

It might be time for a home.

[Katie Green]

Do you guys need some failed ass pants?

[Jack Armstrong]

I think we need to be in a home for old retired radio announcers. And we all just walk around saying 75 degrees.

[Joe Getty]

But yeah, traffic and weather together.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, there's no traffic here.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. Folks home.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's a little disappointing.

[Joe Getty]

All right, so a lot of good stuff to come, including the the unexpected raid on John Bolton's home, among other things. But first, it's time to take a fun look back at the week that was. It's Cal. Clips of the week. Clips of the week.

[Jack Armstrong]

How you doing giving away a taco? When you hear this sound later. Next hour. I'm in ag.

[Joe Getty]

I'm in AG Buddy, you're gonna regret this.

[Jack Armstrong]

The FDA is warning consumers not to.

[Katie Green]

Eat certain shrimps that may be radioactive.

[Joe Getty]

The boo boos.

[Jack Armstrong]

And the Chinese company behind the plush just reported a net profit of nearly 400% in the first half of this year.

[Joe Getty]

Excuse me. They were outside of my home. They're not going to pimp the whore.

[Jack Armstrong]

Pimp, pimp, whore. I played duck, duck, goose.

[Joe Getty]

Same game. Law enforcement in Colorado announcing a massive undercover operation targeting trend Aragua. Several of the defendants agreed to kill two people for $15,000 and return their severed heads as proof of the murders. And we don't want to spend $100 million coming into California and then find out that the state's gonna take it all and waste it all. It's not about, you know, redistricting lines. It's about holding the line. It's about protecting all of us. A truck driver allegedly making a reckless.

[Jack Armstrong]

U turn that caused a crash killing three people. The Israeli military has started its operation to Occupy Gaza City.

[Joe Getty]

33 free Palestine. So we're going to ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they're all over 90 years old.

[Jack Armstrong]

We had a lot of the precursors agreed to for a peace deal.

[Joe Getty]

Now it's really up to President Zelensky to get it done. This is such a stupid media narrative that they're coming here tomorrow because Trump is going to bully Zelensk into a bad deal. President Zelensky, are you prepared to keep sending Ukrainian troops to their deaths for another couple of years?

[Jack Armstrong]

Thank you for your questions.

[Joe Getty]

President Trump saying Vladimir Putin wants peace.

[Jack Armstrong]

I believe he wants to make a deal for me. As crazy as it sounds, the White.

[Katie Green]

House not reacting after the Kremlin poured cold water on claims of progress.

[Joe Getty]

So far, the Russians have not confirmed whether or not Vladimir Putin is even up for a meeting. If I can save 7,000 people a week from being killed, I think that's a pretty. I want to try and get to heaven if possible. I'm hearing I'm not doing well.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. So that was clips of the week. It was quite a week.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I'd say it was great, Scott.

[Jack Armstrong]

So do you know who John Bolton is? Do you remember the guy had the big mustache, biggest mustache you've ever seen? Remember that meme? For a while, every time you'd see, it's like every time he'd talk, his mustache was bigger.

[Joe Getty]

I actually don't, but it sounds amusing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, this is what's going on with that guy. He was the national security advisor for Trump.

[Joe Getty]

Today, FBI agents have raided former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton's Washington, D.C. area home early this morning as part of a, quote, national security investigation in search of classified records. In a seemingly related post just made on X, FBI Director Cash Patel wrote moments ago, no one is above the law. FBI agents on mission. So.

[Jack Armstrong]

The immediate reaction from the mainstream of media is that this is the Trump White House going after a guy who criticizes Trump on television all the time. And it's the same sort of lawfare that people used to go after him, which they ignored, by the way, at the time when he was running for president, that didn't bother them. But this one does, I guess, if that's what's happening here, and I don't know if it is right, exactly.

[Joe Getty]

Question number one is, is it lawfare? And if it is, certainly I'm against it on all sides. And I can already read the emails coming in and saying, hey, fellas, you keep insisting our side fights fair, the other side fights unfairly and wins. So we're not going to anymore. Okay, there. We've taken care of that, and we can have that discussion another day. But the number one question is, is it lawfare or is it something more legitimate? They say it's about the handling of classified records. Interestingly, and I'd forgotten this, the Justice Department, during Trump's first term, sued Bolton and launched a criminal investigation into whether he was on unlawfully disclosing classified information on his memoir. That got banged around for a while, and the Biden Justice Department dropped it, and now they're bringing it back up again and raided the guy's house. Now, I was leaning toward the whole lawfare settling scores thing, because, you know, Trump is known to be pretty petty at times.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, and I saw Bolton was on the Sunday talk shows, several of them, this past Sunday. And he's a really, really smart guy and has a lot of experience, you know, at high levels of this sort of stuff. And it was all about the Russia, Ukraine thing. And he was on a bunch of the big Sunday, you know, Face the Nation and Press the Meat and those shows. And he has Trump derangement syndrome. I mean, he couches everything in the most negative terms possible. I was watching him and I thought, dude, I mean, come on. I mean, that. That is not even close to, like, a nonpartisan view of what could be happening here. You're putting the worst spin on everything. And, you know, it's possible Trump saw that and hates the guy and thought, what can I do to him?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, that is possible. On the other hand, I was intrigued by this. Matt Taibbi on his substack says update. Bolton rated leak probe widens. Hold onto your hats. The Russiagate investigation is heading into high gear, and he recounts the news of the day in the Cash Patel tweet. As the Post, the Washington Post noted, Donald Trump previously accused Bolton of leaking classified information in his memoir. Breach of agreements he signed, blah, blah, blah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, see that one, that one. I don't know the details, but if it's something he was willing to put in a memoir, that leads me to believe he didn't think it was that big a deal. And then you get into that whole they classify everything, you know, story that we've learned over the last many years that everything gets classified.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

At a ridiculous level.

[Joe Getty]

Here's. Here's the business end of it. Either way, the raid is a serious escalation. It underscores what racket that's Matt Taibbies. Media companies called was told by a senior Trump official a month ago that recent releases of documents related to Russiagate and other topics are not a hearts and minds campaign, but precursors to legal action. The raid comes a day after Patel announced that, quote, agreements have been reached with 10 FBI whistleblowers and their counsel to include a combination of back pay, security and reinstatement. And the whistleblower representation firm and power oversight confirmed that five of those deals involve their clients, blah, blah, blah. One of those people is Marcus Allen, the former FBI agent well known for his dramatic testimony to the White House Weaponization of Government committee last year. So again. And then he says more from racket soon on what will be a busy day. So he seems to think that this is all part of the Trump administration's being serious about calling out our intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies for, quote, unquote, weaponizing government during the Russiagate thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I hope that's what it is. And. But if it's not, I couldn't be more against it. And the whole. They do it so we should. I'm not into the whole race to the bottom thing, so.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

I would be 100% against this if it turns out it's just punishing a critic because you can. I don't know that, but I would be against it.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, here's a tip for you on that score. If you're in government, especially if you're like anti Trump, don't list multiple properties as your primary residence because that seems to be the charge du jour.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, really?

[Joe Getty]

For bringing people to heel. Yes. The mortgage fraud thing. That one gal who's one of the Fed board, who the administration's trying to get to resign because she committed mortgage fraud. That's what she did. Adam Schiff, that's what he's con. He's accused of both his, you know, back in his district home and his D.C. area home listed as primary residences to get better, better rates for mortgages. And it is fraud.

[Jack Armstrong]

Before we take a break so we can get the mailbag. I'm glad this never happened to me. You know who Lil Nas X is? He's saying that song about being kind of a. It's kind of a cowboy song that he sang with Miley Cyrus's old man.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Giant hit. No.

[Jack Armstrong]

It was one of the biggest hits in the last 10 years. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

The Hop Along Cafe. What was the name of that game, son? It was Everywhere it was omnipresent. You couldn't escape it. Something like that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. I got Gucci on my booty. That song, it's called Old Town Road. Yeah, Old Town Road. Very, very cool song. And I've listened to it about 8 million and all its various mixes and my kids and I have sung it in the car. But anyway, there's video of him on Ventura Boulevard in his underwear and cowboy boots with a traffic cone on his head marching around in the middle of the night. Which I'm just glad that never happened to me, you know? Yeah, you have a couple of drinks, you might think, you know what? I'm going to strip down to my underwear and my cowboy boots, put a traffic cone on my head and disrupt traffic.

[Joe Getty]

Sounds like a big night.

[Jack Armstrong]

It sounds like things aren't going as well as. I had a feeling that the whole one hit wonder thing would not have a good ending. This might be the ending.

[Joe Getty]

Boy. Yeah, guys like that. I'm against government programs, but there's got to be government programs for people like that. Whether it's him or the hot to a girl or.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, there shouldn't be. There should be a. Like a fund. I don't know if it's government, but a fund of some sort. We, we. We can help out people who are briefly famous to help them, you know. Re. Re. Enter life as someone who is not famous because it doesn't last the dog to a girl.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I'm not thinking of a fund exactly, but more like an educational foundation which I guess would cost money, but that would rush in. I mean they're like fema. They would rush in. They'd say, look, your income stream is going to disappear in two to five weeks.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

Or in the case of little Nas X, two to three years. You will make no money after that. Here's a chart for how much to save right now and blah, blah, blah. You can't spend any more than this.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, Cash me outside girl Hawk to a girl. Nas X. Whoever invented the Labubu. All those people need to be into some sort of. Life's gonna go back to normal real soon. It's gonna be shocking here. We're here to help you through whatever.

[Joe Getty]

This afternoon's meme becomes exactly.

[Jack Armstrong]

Joe's mailbag.

[Joe Getty]

Coming up next, Armstrong and Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yet another AI story for you coming up. Actually, I was talking to a teacher last night at a fantastic church barbecue I went to but a teacher and asked them about the whole AI thing in their English class is pretty interesting. We'll have to discuss that later how they're dealing with that. But it's a real problem though. I mean, immediately I said, what? How's AI? Oh my God. Like her eyes got big, like she was ready to go. It's a thing.

[Joe Getty]

Here's your freedom loving quote the day continuing our series about voting. This is from a person who I don't know, but it amused me, especially because I'm going to be flying today. People who are not capable of boarding by group number do not deserve the right to vote. Oh, there would be a long, long list of offenses, violations of which would end with you losing your right to vote in my world, and especially when.

[Jack Armstrong]

You have assigned seats. What's the hurry anyway? Just go in your group.

[Joe Getty]

Overhead space.

[Jack Armstrong]

Just go in your group.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I know, I know. Mailbag, Drop us a Note [e-mail] let's see, on the topic of shreking, which we discussed.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Our email address is mailbagarmstrongygetty.com Shreking.

[Jack Armstrong]

If you don't know what it is, it's women who date men that are beneath them and looks not attractive men on purpose because they think that man will treat them better because they know what they've got.

[Joe Getty]

Well, Ryan Wright's Dear Big Freedom and old Simple Jack is someone who has been divorced for a year and has the self confidence of a 105 batter being sent down to double A. And the looks below, former producer Dominic. I'm all for shreking. I'm back in the game. Wow. Signed Ryan from various couches in Houston. Oh, oh, Ryan, sorry to hear it's going, you know, not great for you, brother.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I'm sure you're above that.

[Joe Getty]

And another important topic, the Bed, Bath and Beyond story. California Gavin Newsom, bankruptcy, blah, blah, blah. Grab the podcast if you missed it. Let's see, Ingrid writes, you claimed that they could furnish hallways, kitchens, multiple rooms, door, corridor doors, corridors can be furnished, foyers, windows. Don't get me started. Me channeling aoc. What about the vestibules? Do they have products to help escape from them in a moment of panic? Give me a break.

[Katie Green]

Filing a motion to expel a member.

[Joe Getty]

Who in a moment of panic was trying to escape a vestibule. Give me a break.

[Jack Armstrong]

I agree.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I don't, I don't know if they have anti vestibule panic, you know, products there. But thank you for the note anchor. That's very funny. And she signs off. Thank you for your attention to this matter. That is very Amusing. Let's see. Here's a great note. Tom in Windsor. Guys, we gotta name things like the Dems do. If Trump can rename the Gulf, why does he not preempt the Dems by changing some more names or using better names when announcing a new action? The whole ICE and the COPS thing. Citizen protection advocates, National Guard Auxiliary, crime prevention promoters. And then he says federal law enforcement activities in D.C. call it the Protection of Children's and Minorities, Children Minorities Improvement Initiative, et cetera, et cetera. One of the reasons I grabbed this was that they are now kind of, you know, retroactively renaming the Big Beautiful Bill to be the, what was it, the Working Class Prosperity act or something.

[Jack Armstrong]

I didn't hear this.

[Joe Getty]

Well, the Big Beautiful Bill was made up and the Inflation Reduction act did the opposite. So I suppose you could call it whatever you want before, during and after.

[Jack Armstrong]

Do they think it will pull better? Because it doesn't poll very well. Of course, nobody knows what's in it, including the people that voted for it.

[Joe Getty]

Correct. Yeah. Let's see. Our biggest British fan, Hannah writes. Joe, want to make sure you have a roast dinner on your radar for your England trip? It's essentially a Thanksgiving dinner, but with roast potatoes instead of mashed potatoes. And Yorkshire pudding, not pudding. Having it on a pub, in a pub on Sunday is standard in England. We are actually booked for an English roast Sunday night with, weirdly, our next door neighbors.

[Jack Armstrong]

Your next door neighbors are going to be there at the same time.

[Joe Getty]

They're going to be in London at the same time.

[Jack Armstrong]

And did you plan that it just happened that way?

[Joe Getty]

No.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

What's the chances of that? One in three? I don't know. Let's see. Sideshow Bob writes. Guys just looked it up. Apparently the Minnesota Vikings are not the only team with male cheerleaders. Here's the list. Baltimore, Carolina, Indianapolis, Kansas City. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Beloved Chiefs with cheer dudes.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, but you're missing something again. Male cheerleaders have been around forever, but male cheerleaders who are kind of dressing like girls and acting like girls, that's a new thing. Are these examples they gave at the other teams? Do they have the regular male cheerleaders? A guy in guy's clothes being the strong person on the bottom flipping the girl up in the air? Or they dressed as girls with long hair, prancing around like the Minnesota Vikings cheerleaders? Trans leaders like the Minnesota Vikings cheerleaders. There's a difference.

[Joe Getty]

Prancing. Don't prance, son. Advice to the young men, whoever you are just whatever you are, don't prance.

[Jack Armstrong]

Maybe that was a prejudicial term. I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

We have more. Great email. We'll sprinkle it in throughout the day.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I need to know the answer on the cheerleader thing, and I think I'm right. I think what Minnesota is doing is unique. And if you don't believe me, you know, YouTube it. Check out the videos. A lot more on the way. If you missed a segment or an hour, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand.

[Joe Getty]

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