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Joe Getty
Broadcasting live from the abraham lincoln radio studio at the george washington broadcast center, jack armstrong and joe getty. Armstrong and getty.
Jack Armstrong
Enough.
Joe Getty
Here's armstrong and getty.
Trey Yingst
We're also tracking the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. An Israeli official told Fox News that preparations are underway for the upcoming meeting in Washington on Thursday that will formally mark the start of the military to military channel between Israel and Lebanon. The official added that Iran hopes the broader ceasefire will undermine the current efforts between Israel and Lebanon aimed at weakening Hezbollah. Overnight, the IDF launched a series of airstrikes in southern Lebanon as ground forces are advancing deeper into into Hezbollah territory.
Jack Armstrong
Israel And Hezbollah and all that sort of stuff. Kind of like forgotten about that part of the Middle east, even though that's what's been driving all the news my entire life. And Saudi Arabia the other day saying, no way we're signing on to the Abram Accords until there's a Palestinian state. I was like, what year is this Palestinian state?
Joe Getty
What? Yeah, yeah, go ahead and say that, mbs. We know what you're working at. So I was thinking as we listened to the great Trey Yinx there, and he really is one of the best. What would the world, particularly the Middle east, look like without Iran financing, arming and promoting fundamentalist Islam? I mean, Lebanon isn't at war with Israel. They just can't get rid of Hezbollah.
Jack Armstrong
It looked like Yuma, Arizona.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. And have seaside resorts and all sorts of great stuff. Fundamentalist Islam is underrated as a corrosive force on planet Earth, in my opinion.
Jack Armstrong
God, what a vacation paradise that old part of the world would be. Between the weather, the beaches and the historic sites.
Joe Getty
Oh, my God.
Jack Armstrong
If it was safe to, like, you know, spend two weeks going around all those different places. Oh, my God.
Joe Getty
Oh, yeah. I mean, you could visit the sites of, you know, the great religions of the world, which are all in one place, which is kind of weird if you think about it anyway, but the incredible historic sites, perhaps you're a Christian person, you could walk the roads Jesus walked and, you know, visit the places where he was tortured to death, because that's what crucifixion is, and. And the Sea of Galilee, the rest of it. Then go get drunk on a beach,
Jack Armstrong
then bump over and check out the pyramids and maybe go up to Iraq and see where mankind first started, perhaps, and all kinds of cool stuff.
Joe Getty
And the reason you can't, or you can't always, is almost exclusively fundamentalist Islam. Trey Angst goes on.
Trey Yingst
Open source intelligence indicates that the Internet is largely back online In Iran, around 88%. And this is a major development because since even before Operation Epic Fury in early January, the government in Iran shut down the Internet, creating a blackout situation for the more than 90 million people that live there. It was very challenging for people to get information out. So we do anticipate getting new images and information out of Iran in the aftermath of those demonstrations and, of course, the war earlier this year. But it is the first time, following a decree by Iranian President Massoud Possession, that the majority of Iranians can be back online.
Jack Armstrong
I had not heard that. So the decree was to turn the
Joe Getty
Internet back on yeah, yeah, to a large extent. Mostly to free up commerce. Oh, I read some great accounts. And it's funny, you know, the nature of our business is not as direct as some. The way, you know, the revenue happens at all. But all of your retailers, we're like, I can't talk to my suppliers. I can't order stuff. My customers can't reach me.
Jack Armstrong
This is.
Joe Getty
The Internet is how we do this these days. So it's been extra devastating for their economy. And Trey gets into that in the next clip.
Trey Yingst
Look, what President Trump has done here is create an unbearable situation for the Iranian regime. The Iranian economy is crumbling as a result of the US Naval blockade of Iranian ports, and it is choking off not only the crude oil exports, but also larger exports for the entire country are down 90%. The crude oil extraction is around 50% of what it's supposed to be, and the regime is suffering. They are facing new domestic internal pressure, and as a result, they have arrived at the negotiating table and they are making these concessions despite a lot of the reporting that is out there. You have to trust the process in all of this, because the Iranians are in a very difficult economic situation. And after they suffered those battlefield defeats earlier this year, they are anxious to make a deal with President Trump.
Joe Getty
Interesting. But how anxious? Anxious enough to make substantive concessions on some of the big questions, like the nuclear material and the straight. They're notoriously dishonest and vicious negotiators. And, you know, they can string things along in half a dozen ways. I mean, like, they're mining of the Strait. Indoor Straits of Hormuz. We got to decide as a show, is it straight or straight?
Jack Armstrong
I think we alternate, so we got our bases covered.
Joe Getty
I like your thinking. So the mining of the Strait of Hormuz the other day that we blasted their ships out of the water is a classic. Make it a little more difficult to open the straits and put up another roadblock to the negotiations to make it a little more complex and to say, well, we just laid them. All right, we'll take them away. But it's going to take at least a week, maybe 10 days, because delay and obfuscate is what they do. So I appreciate Trey's optimism that they're desperate to make a deal. I trust his judgment as much as anybody's, but, oh, boy, an easy time with the IRGC is a hard time.
Jack Armstrong
What was that thing we had a couple of weeks ago about asking idiots on the street about the Gays of Hormuz as opposed to the Straits of
Joe Getty
Hormuz Everybody's worried about the Straits of Hormuz, but nobody has shown any concern about the gays of Hormuz. Should we be leaving them behind? No, absolutely not. I think that's. That's terrible, people.
Jack Armstrong
Of course, in Trump's America, you can expect.
Joe Getty
All right, yeah. How's that coming after your gay marriage working? You noticed any of that lately? Like even an iota of it? Like even anybody on the right even suggesting it? Not so much. But again, rage and fear animate politics, meaning they animate fundraising. The thing I was going to squeeze in last hour, but we didn't have time, is I love worship H.L. mencken's writing from especially the first half of the 20th century, where he's describing the political conventions. He reported on, like, I don't know, eight in a row. Every four years he'd go and do this. And back in the day, like in the early 20th century, you'd have your coalition for Taft and your coalition for Jones and whatever, and they would actually have, like little marching bands in the convention hall and they would have written a song called Up With Jones, he's the man for Me. Jones will lead us into history. And they would. They would march around trying to get people into these songs and get people to sing along and clap along and. And if it kind of petered out, oh, that was not good for Jo Jones. Jones delegates would start thinking, oh, man, that's not a lot of enthusiasm here. That's maybe. I look back at Taft again, and it was literally trying to gauge enthusiasm by whipping up songs and how politics has changed so much since then. Now it's just whipping up anger and hatred all the time.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. On a one by one.
Joe Getty
Oh, and. And then directing that at the Supreme Court is so dangerous. I hate that.
Jack Armstrong
I got two wacky headlines for you. I haven't looked into the stories yet. First, this one from the Seattle Times. Mark Zuckerberg super yacht arrived in Seattle yesterday As Meta announced 1400 layoffs in King County. So at the same time he said, we gotta. Sorry, we gotta get rid of you because AI and tightening our belt, his giant. I just look at the picture. Good God. That's a guy's boat. That's not an ocean line. It's not an oil tanker in the straight savor moves. That's Zuckerberg's own boat. And then this headline. I. I don't know the story. Terrified passengers sob comma, vomit as plane aborts two landings on notorious mountaintop airport. They're trying to land the plane in bad weather, I guess, and passengers were sobbing and vomiting.
Joe Getty
And vomiting.
Jack Armstrong
That's a rough flight to be on.
Joe Getty
Oh, wow. How's your flight?
Jack Armstrong
I was sitting in between these two. She's sobbing, he's vomiting and some covered in human squeezes.
Kevin O'Leary
Really?
Joe Getty
Do you mind if I use your washing machine? Oh, that sucks. Oh my God. I've had a couple of flights like that and I neither sobbed nor vomited, but oh my God, I was clutching the armrest. I never have.
Jack Armstrong
I just have gotten lucky, I guess. I've never really had that experience.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. Oof. Thunderstorms. Hate them. Which we go tomorrow. It's going to be sunny and nice tomorrow. I'll stay here today. It's fine.
Jack Armstrong
Which would you more likely do if things got really rough? You're going to sob, you going to vomit?
Joe Getty
Just grit my teeth. I don't. I mean, if I had a nice meal on the airplane, I could see vomiting. I'm unlikely to sob. I just. That's not my reaction. I don't judge anybody else. So, yeah, vomiting, I guess probably more likely. Yeah. I ate some ill advised airport food and decided to finish it before I got on the plane. Even though I was full.
Jack Armstrong
They said it was only $1 for the extra large beer. And I thought, why not? It's a dollar.
Joe Getty
My stomach's burning, churning. Oh yeah. And then the turbulence started, so I
Jack Armstrong
guess I' oh no, he's gonna vomit. She's sobbing.
Joe Getty
No. And nothing makes me puke more than a woman crying. It's a vicious cycle. It's terrible.
Jack Armstrong
How are we gonna break out of this? Okay, we have more on the way. Stay here.
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We're here starting with some exciting reveals from NASA.
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Joe Getty
Tom Costello.
Jack Armstrong
Then they go through the details there. Yeah. So NASA made this announcement yesterday about they're going to start working on building that moon base this year. I realized we were that far along on that. That's going to be exciting to watch.
Joe Getty
That's crazy. You know, I came across a tweet. It's about a former astronaut, Garrett Reisman, who said about Elon Musk, SpaceX is a big part of everything we do these days practically in terms of space. But he measures pretty much every major decision by whether or not brings the day when we have a self Sustainable colony on Mars. Sooner or later. That's the prism by which he makes every single decision he makes. He's got an idea and he'll keep pushing and if he gives us aggressive timelines that we have work to blah, blah, just the whole thing. His whole thing is the colony on Mars. And Elon tweeted, mostly true. What matters is securing the long term future of consciousness both on Earth and other heavenly bodies. And the moon's too close, so we got to go to Mars.
Jack Armstrong
He believes the reason there's been no life discovered anywhere in the universe is you have to become multiplanetary to survive, because whatever orb you exist on is intelligent life. Eventually, you know, it gets too hot or gets too cold or you destroy it or whatever. You have to be multi planetary to survive. And he wants human life to survive, which of course, if he pulls that off, he'll be one of the most important people in the history of all living things.
Joe Getty
Yeah, no kidding. It's, and it's semi obsessive, but at the same time it's very much the guy who plants an oak tree knowing he'll never enjoy its shade. Looking to future generations. I mean, I got to admit, and I think of myself as a fairly caring human being, but if 150,000 years after I go, there's some meteor coming for the Earth, not that worried about it.
Jack Armstrong
Well, right, and that's the difference between Elon and, you know, we just talk about Zuckerberg's yacht and what's his name, Jeff Bezos's, you know, expenditures, stuff like that. Elon doesn't seem to care about that stuff. You never hear about his, he drives Teslas. You never hear about his yachts or cars or anything like that. He's, he's, he is, he is obsessed with human beings becoming an inter multi planetary species. That's his thing.
Joe Getty
Oh, do you want to hear something else interesting about Elon and SpaceX? Unless you had something you're super excited about doing right now, another hour and a half. Yeah, it's a good point. I had not known this. How did that flit out of my head? Starlink is the profitable part of SpaceX. It pays for virtually everything.
Jack Armstrong
I didn't know that either.
Joe Getty
The Internet service, you know, Elon's vision is the stars and the rocketry and the rest of it that we've been discussing. But a decade after that all started, Starlink is now generating enough to bankroll a company that burns through it at warp speed. I could give you the numbers, but the sales of Starlink is the company's cash machine and it finances all the more high flying, no pun intended goals.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Meanwhile, over on Tesla, they rolled out the last Model S and Model X last week, which were their flagship vehicles. The whole time Tesla was becoming the biggest, most viable carmaker in the world, they just stopped making them. I don't exactly know what the plan is there. I don't know if he's going to keep making the cybertruck robots.
Joe Getty
Right, Robots.
Jack Armstrong
Are they still going to make cars now? I know this week they're releasing new software to my vehicle where you can pay even less attention when you drive than in the past. When I first started doing self driving, you had to touch the steering wheel like every five seconds and it was like, I might as well drive if I have to do this now, I don't touch a steering wheel at all. And you can look at your phone for maybe 30, 40 seconds before it'll say, hey, pay a little attention. And I guess it's going to go from there to much, much less this week.
Joe Getty
I got to admit, that is tempting.
Jack Armstrong
It's pretty enjoyable. I gotta tell you, once you get used to it, it's hard to get into a regular car. It really is. And I never ever, ever thought I would have any interest in a self driving car.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Yeah. Wow. There was. Judy and I took a vacation a number of years ago. We drove from
Jack Armstrong
where did.
Joe Getty
Oh, we were seeing our son who lived in Bend, Oregon at the time. And we drove to Coeur d' Alene. And part of the trip was incredibly scenic, but it was like you're on a winding road at the top of a cliff looking down hundreds of feet. I'm getting like freaked out talking about this. And there's just a little guardrail. And she was like, you drive. And I'm like, you drive. And so you could just set the. Just press the button and close your eyes and go, oh God, oh God, let it be over. Let it be over and trust the car.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know if I could do that. I don't know if I could. And I do it every single day. Let the car go.
Joe Getty
Well, the car's not freaked out. I'm freaked out. I can't be trusted.
Jack Armstrong
That'd be a heck of a time for it to make a mistake.
Joe Getty
I should have driven myself.
Jack Armstrong
That's the sound of you plunging to your death is your boy. Voice gets fainter getting further away.
Joe Getty
Theater of the mind. Yeah. How interesting. Where's this all going to be in 10 years.
Jack Armstrong
How much time I got? Michael, we got a minute. Okay. I'll mention this to you. There's a political thing. Former President Joe Biden, who apparently is still alive, sued the Justice Department yesterday trying to block a bunch of audio video recordings, transcripts of his private interviews with a ghostwriter who is helping him write his memoir. Republicans have a kind of cooked up half baked. The public needs to see this thing that I don't think is real. We don't need to see that. I mean, he's out of office, we all know, but it's going to be horribly embarrassing.
Joe Getty
Right.
Jack Armstrong
I get it.
Joe Getty
Politically, let's reinforce the narrative that they hid Biden's senility from us.
Jack Armstrong
Right? Yeah, I get the politics of it, but you can't justify that. We need to see this at this point. But I'll bet we do. I'll bet it does happen. And we'll get to see and hear just how far gone he was when they were trying to claim that he could still run.
Joe Getty
Well, you're right. There's no good reason for it. So when I watch it, I'll be sure to not enjoy it too much.
Jack Armstrong
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In Chicago, as more than a dozen people are shot during weekend violence, five police officers were injured after officials say an 18 year old driver plowed into a crowd during a teen takeover that drew hundreds of people. The suspect was taken into custody and a weapon was recovered. Separately, four teenagers were wounded in a mass shooting in Little Village. The offender reportedly appears to have run away.
Joe Getty
Wow, that is a heck of a lot of violence in a single weekend. I mean, Chicago's a big town, but when was last time you shot at somebody intending to kill them? So the deterioration of Chi Town, where I grew up is is notable and it's not overstated. There's there are neighborhoods that are perfectly safe, certainly, but there are also plenty that are very, very dangerous and getting worse. And Brandon Johnson, the worst mayor in America. And that's saying something with Katie. What her face in Seattle. She's closing along the rail. Anyway, Brandon Johnson is got a approval rating of 26%. And as the voters are saying, my God, you're terrible. But what they don't understand is he doesn't work for them. He works for the teachers unions and the other, you know, the big unions in town. But anyway, we've featured Alderman Raymond Lopez a handful of times. He's like a common sense Chicago politician and he cuts loose here.
Alderman Raymond Lopez
Mayor Johnson does not know the meaning of the word consequences. And despite his rhetoric, despite his postings on X and other social media platforms, he has no intention of ever holding either these teens, these young adults, or their parents accountable for their actions. Even when they try to kill five officers using a car. As we Saw this weekend.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Johnson is defund the police long after defund the police is popular, as Alderman Lopez explains.
Alderman Raymond Lopez
Sadly, what we know is this, is that the mayor has espoused that law enforcement is a sickness. He has said, you can never arrest your way out of issues in neighborhoods to solve crimes. And that message reverberates with these teens who are now erupting in neighborhoods all across Chicago trying to become social media famous at the behest of the mayor, who supports their antics.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. A lot of it's just so they can post it. It. Which is crazy that. That phrase. And we're about to play Brandon Johnson for you. What's the name of the guy who sounds like a combination of Kermit the Frog and. And Dracula? Not Chesa Bodine. He was San Francisco. The LA Gascon. George Gascoigne. That's right. George Gascon. Yeah. We cannot arrest our way out of the problems we are seeing. Well, here's Brandon Johnson's version of if
Jack Armstrong
we believe that we can arrest our way towards safety, we're wrong. We ask police officers to do too much. At some point, adults have to work hard to help raise their children, and that's what we're calling for in this moment. Well, I, you know, if you want to attack it at the raise kids, that won't be criminals level, okay. But I'm all for trying to arrest ourselves out of these problems. Let's give it a whirlwind.
Joe Getty
Build more prisons, Arrest the people who break the law. I mean, because that's kind of baked in, Right. We cannot arrest our way out of the problems we are seeing.
Jack Armstrong
So we cannot prosecute our weight out
Joe Getty
of the desperation that we have. So anybody we want to prosecute our way out of being victimized by criminals.
Jack Armstrong
Anybody who says that's a full on Leninist, right?
Joe Getty
Yeah. Yeah. That's part of what you learn there in college. Well, Alderman Lopez wants to land one more shot.
Alderman Raymond Lopez
To say that you have to have adults stepping up when you have an entire generation without family values shows just how disconnected you are from reality. And what we need to do is to wake up parents. And yes, we can't cite them for the actions of their children. If they are contributing to their delinquency, we can force them to get family counseling to learn how to be better parents, because ultimately, that should be our goal. Because we cannot rely on sacrificing our law enforcement officers simply because our children do not have any sense of value. They're being told that this is their culture. This is not their culture. This isn't the culture of our city. We are better than this. And yet the mayor and police leadership continue to talk tough while doing absolutely nothing about it.
Jack Armstrong
What is their angle there? I've never heard this one before. Going after that or you're not raising the kids right? Is this a we need to take your kids and raise them ourselves or what is going on there?
Joe Getty
That does have that ring to it, doesn't it? Yeah, I'm not exactly sure. Now if somebody wants to say, hey, we need to really emphasize intuition, tact, families and valuing education and kids being obedient to their parents and obedient to teachers and, you know, order in the classrooms and stuff like that, I'd say, yeah, let's do it. But that's the opposite of what the Brandon Johnson's of the world want.
Jack Armstrong
There's no, there's no cap in your rap. I heard that the other day.
Joe Getty
Is that a compliment?
Jack Armstrong
Just cap is lying. No cap.
Joe Getty
Okay. All right, thank you.
Jack Armstrong
So I suggested saying that to my son. We were eating a little lakeside, Riverside restaurant. Restaurant. We were out on a deck and I heard this couple of dudes get into a Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar argument. And I said, I'm going to go up to one of the guys and say, hey, there's no cap in your app.
Joe Getty
Yes, sure. That delighted your boy.
Jack Armstrong
And my 16 year old was horrified by that.
Joe Getty
Oh, that's so much fun.
Jack Armstrong
He always thinks I'm going to do it. He gets so flustered. Dad, literally nobody says that, that.
Joe Getty
Oh, speaking of that sort of governance, you can either talk about Zoran Mundani's plan to open a $30 million city owned grocery store in East Harlem. Interestingly, it's on a site that was already approved for a $25 million public upgrade years ago. So it's like two different grants at once are going to pour tens of millions of dollars onto this, this grocery setup thing. It's, it's a pretty good, It's. It would take too long to explain now that I started into it, but it's a good example of how socialism always ends. Well, hell, it practically starts with enormous amounts of money flowing into the coffers of those who are connected to the regime, as it always does. And then one more, you know, socialist equity related story that I got to get into. You see, the University of California regents eliminated the SAT requirement because they found it, quote unquote racist, even after their own very left wing leaning expert panel declared, look, those tests predict college performance. Better than any other metric. They are the best way for us to figure out who's going to excel here and who really can't excel here. Well, University of California STEM professors are begging to have the standardized tests back due to severe math deficiencies among students. One of the quotes is, we now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle school mathematics.
Jack Armstrong
So you think you're teaching university level engineering, but you first have to do middle school math to get them up to speed.
Joe Getty
Right. I'm just going to hit a couple more quotes. Furthermore, the widening spread between the underprepared and well prepared students creates polarization courses, weakening the foundation available to many students and making it harder to teach at the level required for advanced STEM work. Another quote. This outcome was explicitly predicted by The Academic Senate's 2020 standardized testing task Force, which warned that removing these tests would eliminate a vital predictor of college success and obscure the impact of severe high school grade inflation. But you did it anyway, and now it's a freaking disaster. And that's from UC STEM professors. And then one of my favorite commentators writes, the one inexorable feature of anti racism, quote unquote, is that it kills excellence by focusing both artificial inclusion of low performing groups and punitive exclusion of high performing ones. It's almost always the reverse of what you'd want to do if you cared about a culture of achievement and excellence. The inestimable damage that's been done by the lack of moral courage of our institutions in acknowledging the existence of large differences between groups in distributions of preparation. That moral failure touches and damages almost everything.
Jack Armstrong
No cap in your app, thank you.
Joe Getty
As you put it to us so accurately in the last couple of weeks, the. The animating principle of socialism isn't bringing the bottom up, it's bringing the top down.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Yeah. You don't really. It's not. You don't really care if the results make things better for the people at the bottom. You just want to punish those people at the top because you hate them so much. Weird impulse.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I'd say here's a great impulse looking into Incogni. Every spam call you get, every scam text, every sketchy email with your name on it starts the same way somebody found you on one of those data broker sites. Your home address, your email, your age, the names, your kids, for God's sakes, all of it is searchable and for sale, and scammers are using it. But there is an answer.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. So the company is Incogni. Like the Word incognito, like you're in incognito mode. So the, you know, they can't trace your data, which doesn't work. They actually do get your data, and that's why it's floating around out there and it's on a whole bunch of data servers. And that's why you get so many fake calls, emails and texts all the time. And Incogni, they go to these data brokers, they contact hundreds of them and legally force them to remove your information.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
I'll mention before we take a break, we've not talked much about the various primaries across the country because we're not really the kind of show that does that sort of thing. We touched a little on the Senate race in Texas, but another race in Texas, that old crazy guy Al Green lost yesterday, which is either the Democrats thought, you know, he's too crazy either for us, or we need somebody younger or whatever it was. But anyway, Trump really responded to that, saying, I will miss that lunatic not screaming and violently waving his cane at me during my next State of the Union. Which is a funny thing to say.
Joe Getty
Yeah. He staged a walkout. What, the last couple of them or.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. And that was, that was. Everybody was making the joke. Joke. Nothing says we're the party of youth like an old man literally shaking his cane at the president.
Joe Getty
Right.
Jack Armstrong
Two days in a row, we're gonna have Mr. Wonderful Kevin O' Leary on the air to talk about California this time. Not a place to do business, he says, among other things we've got to talk about. Stay here.
Joe Getty
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Kevin O'Leary
California is actually the worst managed state in the union. I would never invest there. It's a loser state and it's been that way for a while and you can see the collapse of cities like San Francisco and now la. San Francisco's a war zone. I mean you don't walk around there at night. It's. It's completely in disarray and and I think a good example of what happens when you don't have good management.
Jack Armstrong
Shark Tank's Kevin o' Leary there on why he would never invest in California. It's a. It's the worst managed state. Which are to deny that. There's plenty of evidence to point to those to that fact. The state will have an opportunity to pick a new governor starting a week from yesterday. Next Tuesday June 2nd is when they do that whole who gets the top two votes and runs jungle primary and runs until November. And we're thinking our man Steve Hilton is going to make it. We'll see. It's coming up really fast. Let's get this news story on. This is an important news story story
Hooters CEO
they have taken the Hooters girls uniforms over sexualized that I call it the shorts almost turned into thongs and frankly that was never the intent of the brand this was a created 1983 as an escape or an oasis. You know, it's a beach community, it's a beach theme type of thing here in Clearwater. So that was very upsetting. And of course today on social media, when you see pictures of people wearing the uniform, it appropriately affects other markets and affected us. So we just wanted to rectified, get the brand back to its roots. I call it a rehooterization.
Jack Armstrong
Rehooterization.
Joe Getty
That's the rallying cry there.
Jack Armstrong
That's the CEO of Hooters saying that he wants to get back to their roots. I don't, I don't know. I haven't been in a Hooters in many, many years. I was never really a fan. Our official show take on Hooters was as a guy who has spent a lot of time in sports bars in my life. All sports bars have chicks in tight tank tops and short shorts smiling at you, serving your beer. That's what sports bars are. And Hooters wasn't really that much different.
Joe Getty
So Hooters might be the all time king and or queen, if you will, of unwarranted attention.
Jack Armstrong
Right?
Joe Getty
Yeah, it's just a sports bar with chicks, with good looking waitresses and chicken wings. They all have all sports bars.
Jack Armstrong
Right. I haven't heard this. Let's just get this on too. Clip 14. I want to. Does this need to set up? Michael, this crowd chanting thing?
Joe Getty
Well, it's a sports crowd and a guy has lost his keys and somebody has just found him. And so the crowd lets him know,
Jack Armstrong
What did they say?
Joe Getty
He's got his keys. He's got his keys. I love British soccer fans. They call it football, you know, that reminds me, the Wall Street Journal had a really funny article, interesting article about how Wemby Victor Wembanyana, the star of the San Antonio Spurs.
Jack Armstrong
I'm a big wenbe guy.
Joe Getty
Oh, I know you are.
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Joe Getty
He said he decided because he's. He's French, right? He.
Jack Armstrong
He said, look, he's only 22.
Joe Getty
Oh, I know. I think he turned. It doesn't matter. But he said we need fans more like British soccer, European soccer fans with their chants and their songs and they're a unit and they get everybody involved. And he took an active role in forming and continuing to work with and tutor what they call the jackals. It's this special section of fans that do the euro style chants and songs and they work together. And when are the right moments to do that? When's there going to be enough time to Get a good song going in the flow of the game, when's it most necessary. And he's like actively consulting. He was in a two hour rehearsal slash meeting talking about we need a little more volume there and that song needs to be a little shorter.
Jack Armstrong
So they do. Isn't that crazy? They do that at home. Spurs games. I didn't know that and I've watched several games. Unfortunately for me, they lost last night. So they're down three, two. The OKC Thunder on. Who plays? The Knicks. Be it be cool if they could bring the whole New York media along for Wemby's chance at spurs games. That'd be fun.
Joe Getty
Yeah, Entertainment. Quit taking it so serious.
Jack Armstrong
Why do they have way more fun in the stands at soccer games than we do with our version of football and basketball? And we have the wave. It's about it.
Joe Getty
You know, this will resonate with you, Jack. Maybe it's because there are so many long stretches of soccer where it's just kind of.
Jack Armstrong
I was going to say that, but I thought it'd be too hurtful. They had to come up with something entertaining because they're at a soccer match.
Joe Getty
Okay, that's too far. You've gone too far now. You've hurt people's feelings. There's a, there's a little time in a soccer match to get a song going, you know, in the 23 seconds between the tackle and the quarterback breaking the huddle, there's not quite as much.
Jack Armstrong
Trump currently live holding his cabinet meeting with all the heavyweights and supposedly they're gonna have a big discussion about the whole Iran thing and he's taking questions and so we'll have anything new or exciting that happens in our four of that. What's, what's your quickie off the top of your head prediction where, how, how we're gonna wrap this Iran thing up. I still think we're gonna attack hard. I, I don't know. Maybe it's just, you know, my wishes being the father of my thoughts. I still think we're going to go back to bombing the crap out of him. But I could be wrong.
Joe Getty
Unless Trey Yingst is right in a way that I don't get. We. We aired some of his audio earlier in the hour and he said, yeah, Iran's desperate for a deal. I, I just see them doing what they always do, pretending to come to an agreement, but then immediately beginning to cheat to protest that that's not what we agreed to. And to, to work as fat as quickly as they can to, you know, undo whatever was agreed to probably be
Jack Armstrong
the smart thing to do. It's always worked in the past.
Joe Getty
Right. And that's when the big whooping has to come that you're talking about then.
Jack Armstrong
The big whooping.
Joe Getty
The bw. Yes.
Jack Armstrong
But it has to happen while Trump's president, because whoever the next president is, if it's a Democrat specifically, is going to be, you know, not all about whooping ass, probably.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Yeah, we shall see. I read a preview of what the lame duck two years are going to look like if the Republicans lose the House and or the Senate and all the investigations into the Trump family and the cabinet officials.
Jack Armstrong
We got to take two years off and come back in.
Joe Getty
I'm good. Yeah. Sabbatical. That sounds good to me. So it's not the bw, it's the nb The Nazi beach. Unhinged protesters screaming at that New Jersey ice protest. That's gotten crazy. The whole bloom is off. The ice protest rose. I feel like it's not quite as hot a topic as it used to be, but it's still going on, particularly in this place in New Jersey where you've got Democratic politicians joining in the protests and getting pepper sprayed and that sort of thing. They'll have a little coverage of that for you next hour.
Jack Armstrong
And so a lot of the policies are still in place. It's just they got rid of Ice Barbie and her husband with the weird balloon boobs and things. Calm down a little bit.
Joe Getty
Oh yeah. A little lower profile and you know, smaller balloons.
Jack Armstrong
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In this episode, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty serve up their trademark mix of irreverent humor and astute social commentary while riffing on global affairs, domestic politics, big tech billionaires, the state of cities like Chicago and San Francisco, and even self-driving cars. The episode’s title nods to the story of Mark Zuckerberg’s massive super yacht, but the hosts veer through contemporary news, some pop culture, and their usual blend of sarcasm, skepticism, and plain-spoken analysis.
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Continued Conflict and Iran’s Influence:
Iran’s Internet Blackout and Economic Struggles:
The Strait of Hormuz / Humor Interlude:
(09:17–10:58)
(10:10–11:24)
(15:07–19:50)
NASA’s Plans for a Moon Base:
Elon Musk’s Mars Obsession:
Starlink: The Secret Sauce:
Tesla’s Future:
(20:58–21:57)
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Lively, sarcastic, irreverent, and fast-moving—Armstrong & Getty present news and politics with biting humor, liberal doses of skepticism, and a populist sensibility. They blend serious analysis and political insight with digressive humor and playful asides, keeping the show engaging and accessible.
This episode of Armstrong & Getty spins through the absurdities of world news, domestic dysfunction, tech excess, and pop culture—ultimately underlining the importance of common sense amid chaos. Whether lamenting lost opportunities in the Middle East or mocking California’s mismanagement, the hosts never stray too far from their core: skeptical enthusiasm, comic relief, and a call for reality-based policy. The discussion is as informed as it is irreverent, with something for news junkies and casual listeners alike.