With American Values in Mind

Summary

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Episode: With American Values in Mind

Date: May 18, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Armstrong & Getty dive into a wide variety of contemporary American issues, blending sharp cultural critique, political commentary, and trademark humor. The hosts discuss the spectacle of celebrity MMA fighting, the fallout of the Trump-branded phone controversy, shifting attitudes on anti-Semitism and college campus culture, the surprising effects of school cellphone bans, the future of political advertising in the age of AI, and the struggles facing higher education. The episode is unified by recurring themes of American values—authenticity, skepticism of elite institutions, and the ongoing tension between tradition and change.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Celebrity MMA & Pop Culture Spectacles (04:18–08:43)

• Topic: Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano fight, promotion by Jake Paul, and the general appeal (or lack thereof) of women’s sports vs. men’s.
• Insights:
  • The fight, lasting only 15 seconds, draws jokes about the comparative pay and exposure for female athletes.
  • Both hosts highlight age (Rousey at 39, Carano at 44) and moderate crowd interest, suggesting that despite claims of sexism, "it just doesn’t draw as many eyeballs" ([07:18]).
  • Discussion of promotional tactics by Jake Paul, how crowd size was faked with lighting, and the perceived artificiality of modern spectacles.
• Memorable Quote:

  "If you like chicks beating the crap out of each other, that was something." — Host 2 ([04:49])

2. Gina Carano, Cancel Culture, and "American Values" (09:13–10:18)

• Topic: Carano's firing from Disney for comparing societal shunning to the Holocaust, mocking mask/vaccine mandates, and pronoun usage.
• Insights:
  • The tone is indignant, criticizing Disney’s reaction and celebrating Carano’s ability to "get an arm bar submission and 4 million bucks in midlife" ([10:18]).
  • Argues that expressing moderate or dissenting views leads to disproportionate consequences.
• Memorable Quote:

  "They should have been mocked running healthy 20 year old men out of the military for not getting the jab. Freaking obscene." — Co-host ([09:56])

3. The Trump Phone: A Modern Grift? (21:13–25:40)

• Topic: The failed Trump-branded phone, unfulfilled pre-orders, shifting marketing slogans, and revelations it was an outdated, foreign-made device.
• Insights:
  • The hosts lay out the mechanics: $59 million raised from deposits, no phones delivered after a year, and a legal "gotcha" where deposits became "conditional opportunities."
  • "Made in the USA" is changed to "designed with American values in mind"—a moment both hosts mock for its emptiness.
  • Moral outrage at how the Trump brand "ripped off" devoted fans.
• Memorable Quotes:

  "It's just a step past pushing them down and grabbing their wallet at that point." — Host 2 ([24:29])
  "Changing Made in the USA to made with American values in mind—wow." — Host 2 ([24:09])

4. Anti-Semitism, Progressivism & The Bill Maher Monologue (10:28–12:24)

• Topic: Bill Maher’s recent monologue denouncing progressive silence on anti-Semitism.
• Insights:
  • The hosts observe a "sheeple effect," claiming progressive crowds now parrot what they're told—supporting Israel is taboo simply "because Trump supports them."
  • Disappointment that defending Jews from hate no longer wins applause among progressives.
• Notable Quote:

  "A lot of people...believe what they're told to believe...they're sheep." — Co-host ([11:45])

5. Ban on Cell Phones in Schools: Common Sense Vindicated (13:03–17:12)

• Topic: Schools in LA and New York ban student cell phones, resulting in "jaw-dropping" improvements.
• Insights:
  • The hosts’ tone is incredulous and sarcastic; they mock experts and PhDs who are "astounded" by the positive effects.
  • They liken allowing phones to letting every kid have a personal television in class.
• Memorable Quotes:

  "If you're surprised by this, you are by definition a moron." — Host 2 ([13:33])
  "Proof that stupid people get PhDs right there." — Co-host ([14:46])

6. AI-Generated Political Ads & New Dynamics in Campaigns (29:04–32:55)

• Topic: The rise of AI in political campaign ads, illustrated by a viral faux ad featuring LA Mayor Karen Bass.
• Insights:
  • Predicts that AI will "take the air out" of expensive, traditional political ad campaigns, as small teams can generate widely-seen, memeable content at almost no cost.
  • Less reliance on large war chests; the cultural impact is shifting away from paid media to viral creativity.
• Notable Quote:

  "Maybe that's the fix...anybody can make a free AI ad and it’s all just about coming up with a clever ad for free." — Host 2 ([31:00])

7. Higher Education: Coddling, Campus Culture, & Graduation Speaker Controversies (33:17–43:23)

• Topic: Jonathan Haidt booed at NYU commencement; students report "unenthusiasm and defeat" for being confronted with opposing views; general critique of higher education as overpriced and ideologically captured.
• Insights:
  • The "coddling of the American mind" thesis is explored: students conflate discomfort with harm, seek to silence debate.
  • The backlash and performative "offense" are seen as tools for social power, not sincere emotion.
  • Colleges, faced with public scandal and lost reputation, are cracking down on cheating and grade inflation, with hosts approving this trend.
• Memorable Quotes:

  "Since the announcement, many students have reported feelings of disappointment, disgust, unenthusiasm, defeat, and embarrassment." — Host 2 reading from NYU letter ([34:34])
  "Claiming offense is how you get power. Remember?" — Co-host ([34:58])
  "That Trump phone thing is like the most over the top thing he's done, I think." — Host 2 ([51:39])

8. The Future Value of a College Education (41:20–43:23)

• Topic: Speculation that rising dissatisfaction among students stems not just from ideology but suspicion they've been "sold a bill of goods"; degrees fail to provide real value outside certain disciplines.
• Insights:
  • Faults grade inflation, lack of academic rigor, and rising costs for a sense of anger and malaise among new graduates.
• Quote:

  "Maybe the hard science people [got value]. Everybody else paid way too much for not much information..." — Host 2 ([42:43])

9. Satire of FIFA Halftime Shows & Pompous Media Figures (47:55–50:11)

• Topic: Mocking FIFA’s attempt at an "everyone hates it" World Cup halftime show; long-form lampooning of 60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley as “the most pompous man in the world.”
• Insights:
  • Joking tone throughout; uses pop culture references to lampoon broader trends of inauthenticity and corporate pandering.
• Memorable Quote:

  "He is so pompous...it's just—it's hard to take." — Host 2 ([50:01])

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Notable Quotes & Moments by Timestamp

• Women’s MMA, crowd manipulation:
  "Jake Paul's good at this sort of stuff." ([07:10])
• Gina Carano on cancel culture:
  "She said something fairly moderate and the lunatics at Disney threw her out on her ear." — Co-host ([05:34])
• Cell phone ban effects:
  "Kids actually talk to each other in school now...they play games. I actually saw a card game in the hall recently, which was jaw-dropping." — Host 2 ([14:49])
• The Trump phone grift:
  "It's a deposit on a perhaps phone that is overpriced to start with. And by the way, not made in the USA." — Host 2 ([24:55])
• AI in campaign ads:
  "If you had just one or two really creative people...you could have a very small shop of people getting you an enormous amount of attention." — Co-host ([31:35])
• Generation of "bubble kids":
  "They don't want to uninvite anybody who disagrees...because they're actually unsettled. They want them silenced, period." — Co-host ([38:15])

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Final Thoughts & Recap (50:22–51:56)

• The hosts reflect humorously on doing nothing over the weekend and tie up the Trump phone scandal with a string of Trump-branded satirical products.
• Announcement for a provocative new T-shirt ("Socialism sucks") in their merchandise shop as a tongue-in-cheek call to resist the perceived spread of leftist ideas.

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Thematic Threads

• Skepticism of elite institutions: Media, academia, and corporate America are all targets of both ridicule and genuine concern.
• Championing of “common sense” American values: From mocking “experts” shocked by obvious results (cell phone bans) to disgust at grifting on patriotism.
• Cultural polarization: Whether in sports, graduation speeches, or product marketing, Americans are split and signals of tribal affiliation often outweigh substance.
• Sarcastic, irreverent tone: Throughout, the discussion is shot through with the hosts’ signature sardonic style.

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With its blend of social commentary, political skepticism, and quick-witted satire, this episode embodies Armstrong & Getty’s ongoing concern for “American values”—not as empty slogans, but as lived critique of hypocrisy, pretension, and the failure of leadership across the spectrum.

Transcript

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studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Immediately, Rousey takes Carano down, but Carano looking for the guillotine. And Rousey pops her head out in

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

full mouth, ground and bound.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Rousey looking for the arm.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

And already the arm. It's over. Mamma Mia. It is incredible.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

The most devastating finish in MMA history and Ronda Rousey just took another arm hostage. And just like that, it's over.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Wow. If you like chicks beating the crap out of each other, that was something.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Over the weekend I especially middle aged ones. That's what I love.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

I don't know why I can't watch mma. I find it way too violent. And I watch boxing and I've watched lots of boxing matches. I don't know what's different in my head about it. There's something about the when the person finally loses them being so helpless and getting beaten on that I just can't watch. Anyway, that was a 15 second match between Ronda Rousey, who I ask embarrassing questions to on the show many years ago. She's a very famous MMA fighter. And then that Gina Carano, who was famous in the Mandalorian. I'd never seen her do anything other than being the Mandalorian. But then she made Some comments about Trump or whatever, and she got.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

She said something fairly moderate and the lunatics at Disney threw her out on her ear.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Anyway, they fought each other the weekend. And Ronda Rousey, it says here. What was the wording they used here? I wanted to use this wording because I thought it was really good. An arm bar submission victory. What's an arm bar submission victory?

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

That means he gets the person's arm in a position and they say, I'm

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

out, I'm out, I'm out.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Because if they don't, you. They break it.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Oh, my God. Anyway, that was a Jake Paul production. Not the kind of purse usually in these big Jake Paul fights where, like when he fought most recently, he made like $90 million. It's usually huge. So this was on Netflix over the weekend. Ronda Rousey made 2.2 million. Gina Carano made a million. Would I let somebody bend my arm up behind me to where it's almost to break for a million dollars? If I can say that's enough after 15 seconds, yeah, I probably would. Million bucks. That hurts. I'm done. Right?

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Exactly. I walk out into the middle of the ring. I'm through here.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Right. Anyway, so is it SOFI Stadium? And is that the big LA football stadium? Yeah, it's where the Chargers and Rams play.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Yeah. Super. And I don't think our listeners necessarily have all the stadium names memorized.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Oh, gotcha. And not that big a crowd. So they, they, they, they had it the. In the dark. And so they had lights in each of the seats to make it look like there was way more people there than there actually were. Which is an interesting. Jake Paul's good at this sort of stuff.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Yeah. That's why he makes a zillion bucks, because he's like the brain and promoter behind it. I mean, I'm not a big fan of his as a human being, but he sure is an entrepreneur in that

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

prime that either he or his brother came up with. That drink is just disgusting if you've ever tasted it it. But anyway, they're good at putting on the spectacles. Two million dollar purse for the winner is not a giant money. So I don't think people like the chick fighting, just like people don't like the chick basketball. You can claim sexism or whatever you want, but it just doesn't draw as many eyeballs. Sorry, I don't know what to do about that. I don't know how.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

How old is Gina Carano who got screwed? I don't want to criticize her. And if she can make a million bucks, good for her. But Michael, do you know I think she was 44. Yeah. Oh, my God.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Let me ask, because I was asking Gemini, how old are the two participants? Because that's a decent question. Watching middle aged women beat the crap out of each other. So Rousey is 39, Carano 44. Right. If they, if they were household name, big deals, you wouldn't get necessarily that many eyeballs. Anyway, that's enough of that. Just kind of funny that it happened. It's also funny that this happened. You're a big wine connoisseur. Do you know about the new wine they've got at Costco? Kirkland signature wine that's coming in a big tub, like an ice cream tub. Costco's now selling a 10 liter bucket of wine.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Have you.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Do you know anything about this, whether it's good or not?

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

No, I don't buy my wine by the bucket.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

And I thought by the plastic bucket. 10 liters in a big plastic bucket at Costco.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Or you could save 10% by buying a kiddie pool full of wine.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

I like this joke about it though. Here's a note. For the less cultured Europeans, you can only call it Kirkland Cabernet Saverno if it comes from the Costco region of the United States.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

That's a good wine joke.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

That is pretty funny. Yeah.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

I want to go back to Gina Carano. Go ahead and move on.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Sure.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Yeah. I was reminding myself, here's why Disney fired her. She shared a post suggesting that neighbors turning on Jews during the Holocaust was similar to how people today treat others for having differing political views. In blue cities and states, for instance, people are getting hounded out of their jobs and careers for not expressing the right views, which was 100% true. And now you have progressives out and out denying the Holocaust over and over again. And Disney ain't firing anybody. Secondly, she mocked mask mandates, criticized pandemic lockdowns and alleged fraud in the 2020 presidential election, mocking mask mandates and inoculation with vaccine mandates. They should have been mocked running healthy 20 year old men out of the military for not getting the jab. Freaking obscene. And she mocked the use of gender pronouns by listing unrelated words in her social media bio. That's why Gina Carano was fired by freaking Disney.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Then she gets her, gets an arm bar submission and 4 million bucks in midlife.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

You can bar both my arms.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Now where's my check? On the subject of the anti Semitism, did you watch that Bill Maher screed That I sent you?

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

No, I have not yet.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Definitely worth watching. So Bill Maher's final little monologue that he does on his show Friday nights, and I know for a fact because I've heard him talking about that's what he's most proud of. He puts a lot of effort into writing that every week. And it's usually got comments that either get laughs or big applause lines. This one got almost no applause lines, which he kind of mocks the crowd for. And it was all about, hey progressives, what happened to we stand up for minorities. And it was all around the anti Semitism thing and using the example of how Jewish people getting beaten up and driven out of jobs and jokes about him and everything like that and nobody says anything. Hey progressives, what's going on here? And the crowd just sat there silent and you could tell he was a little rattled by that or angry about that would be a better, a better way to look at it. Like he make a joke about, you know, basically the ridiculousness of overlooking anti Semitism. The crowd was silent and he'd say haha. But yeah, crowd wasn't cool with laughing about that. The Jews deserve. This is the only thing I could take from the crowd's reaction. Israel deserves this.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

The a large majority of people, and I remember how disturbed I was when I first learned this, but it's absolutely true. A lot of people, and I don't know the percentage, they believe what they're told to believe. They say what they're told to say. They've been told to say over and over again that Israel's evil and Jews are, you know, Israel. And I've heard people say Jews are actually bad. So I'm going to sit here and I believe that having spent zero time looking into it or thinking about it. They're sheep. Sheeple. And those were a bunch of sheeple at the Bill Maher taping who were shocked when their man was going against what they've been taught they are supposed to believe.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

I mean Israel's a bad company because Trump's in favor of them. So.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Right. So they must be bad.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Different topic before we take a break. That's a sheep sound.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Of course it is. My animal noises are known far and wide for their accuracy.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

This is a sheep.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Yeah, I don't see. I don't need to say that self evidently a sheep.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

My one of those toys if you remember that if you're old enough from when I was a kid somehow got out of adjustment so the arrow would point to or the thing and it was the. It was all so I.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

An arrow would point to a cow.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Yeah.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

You hear. Right, right.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

So lifelong problem with my animal noise is the wrong thing. Surprised when an elephant doesn't bark, for instance. Different topic. These sorts of headlines drive me nuts. Thank God for the LA school district. And they were the first in the country to ban cell phones. And people were shocked about the good results. Here's another one now. New York City. New York City teachers say phone band in classrooms has caused jaw dropping change in students attention.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

You're kidding.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

If you're surprised by this, you are by definition a moron.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Yes.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Or an idiot or something. I don't Even know what. May 15 marked one year since Governor Kathy Hochul enacted a bell to bell ban on personal phones in public schools, impacting almost a million children in K through 12 schools across the state. Teachers who spoke to the New York Post all say the ban has been an overwhelmingly positive impact on their schools. Do you think like Joe, he says, imagine if back in the day, I'm going to bring my television to school and then plug it into the cable and then sit here at my desk with the TV in my cable package. Is that okay? And then when you take that out of the room, teachers say, oh my God. The results have been. I was skeptical, but the results have been very positive.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Every kid has a television set.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

I think that the cell phone ban has been remarkable. Dr. Jessica Chalk Goldman said, You have a Ph.D. and you're. I've been astounded by how much of the, of a shift it has been. You got a PhD and you were astounded that taking a, the, the entirety of the Internet out of their hand while they're in the classroom ended up being a good thing. Okay, I can see why you have a PhD because you're a very.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Proof that stupid people get PhDs right there.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Kids actually talk to each other in school now. They sit in the hall engaged, they laugh, they study, they play games. I actually saw a card game in the hall recently, which was jaw dropping. I've been working in schools now for 12 years. I've never seen that. It actually hurts my heart.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Yeah.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

That we're allowing this to go on and people with PhDs are acting surprised at the positive result from taking the phones out of their hands at school.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

It's like your Uber driver says, you

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

know what I figured out today?

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

I should not steer in oncoming traffic. It occurred to me that's a bad idea.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

And you'd be like, geez. Wait, what? Wow. Listen to this. That level of stupidity.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Good God.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Or.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Or foolishness.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

As the school year comes to a close, teachers tell the Post that their students appear totally transformed. How is this news? Before the ban, 8th grade social studies teacher Michael Simmons said it felt like you could be in a classroom with 25 students and still feel that. Like you're by yourself. Yeah, I know that feeling when I'm around people who are staring at their phones. You're sitting in a classroom with a bunch of people staring at their phones. How.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

What would you do to fix that problem?

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Well, let's brainstorm here and see if there's anything. Good Lord.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Spend a hundred million dollars on a study.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

But without the constant distraction of devices, he reports, kids are finally present again. Students used to get a vibration on their phones and they'd try to hide it. Now they have to pay attention to what I'm saying. Yeah, I don't know what to say about this other than, you know, don't be angry when it goes the right direction, I guess.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

But turns out those double yellow lines in the middle, you're supposed to stay on your side of it and not,

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

like, steer into a truck.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

I'm getting out now.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

I thought they were just random.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Turns out PhD in driving.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

The fact that schools and my public school, they exist nearby. I don't know about everywhere in the audience, but the fact that schools still allow cell phones in the classroom is astounding. The fact that that happens anywhere in the United States at all at this hour is stunning. And it just shows how weak people are. Parents, teachers, administrators, everybody. Everybody should be on the hook for being weak. Every parent should be at the school saying, this is outrageous.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Yeah, I agree completely.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

I don't know what percentage of parents don't agree with that. I really don't know.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Now, there are going to be a few days that your. Your kid is pissed off because they got the new Trump phone and they really want to be looking at it.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

I can hit you with some of the details on that.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

That'll never happen because they didn't get.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

They didn't get them shipping today. According to the Trump people, it's just a coincidence that that story broke over the weekend. Okay, more on the way. Stay here.

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[Cindy Crawford]

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[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

According to a senior official, President Trump keeps a letter in the Resolute desk addressed to Vice President J.D. vance in the event he dies or is assassinated. The letter reads simply, I wish it had been you.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

It's you money.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Wow. So apparently Joe has mitigating circumstances for how awful this story looks for the Trump family.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Oh no, no, no, no, I don't.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Oh, you don't? Okay.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

No, it's worse. What I've got makes it look worse.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

So Don Jr. And Eric Trump, last year on the 10 year anniversary of Trump announcing he was running for president, had a special commemorative Trump phone that they released. MAGA friendly alternative to Apple and Samsung. It was $499 if you got in early on the promotional price. Gold colored phone with patriotic branding, made in the usa. And it happened to be bundled with Trump Mobile Wireless, which is a $47 plan to fit in with the fact that he's a 47th president.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

By blah blah blah.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Buyers could place a $100 deposit to pre order the phone that was supposed to be available late summer. So it came out in June. In a couple of months you would have your phone. An estimated almost 600,000 people did so, generating $59 million in deposits for the phone. A year later, not a single phone is shipped at all. Nothing. And they've updated the terms on the website for the phone that you put your deposit on. No longer is it a deposit on a phone you will get. It's a conditional opportunity to buy a phone if the device is produced. That's what it says in the fine print.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Oh my Lord.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

You made a deposit on a device that get if the device is produced. It does not guarantee production or availability and nothing about a refund. So your money just went away then also the whole Made in the usa, which is appealing to a lot of people shifted in the website. If you go there now, it says designed with American values in mind. Wow. As opposed to Made in the usa. Now this story broke over the weekend, got a lot of attention and a bunch because it's, it's, it's the sort of thing that makes you say, oh my God, did you hear this? And so it got a lot of traction. The Trump people announced that the preorder customers will start receiving a phone any day now. Maybe that's true, but as of yet nobody has received an actual phone.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Well, although it is known now what the phone is, it is off the shelf rebrand of a device made by WingTech called the Revel 7 Pro 5G was available at T Mobile for $0 when you sign up for their service. The 7 Pro, by the way, was replaced by the 8 Pro because this thing is over 18 months old.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Right.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

One writes, one tech writer. This is old stock that they bought to avoid a lawsuit.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

I love changing Made in the USA to made with American values in mind.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Wow.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

I don't. So how did. Come on. I don't care how big a Trump fan you are. I'm still a by far glad Trump beat Kamala. Not even close.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Sure.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

But this is disgusting that a President of the United States, you know, and his kids are doing it, but they're, they're trafficking on his dad. The reason it sells is because they're dead. It was a 10 year anniversary of him announcing blah, blah, blah. I mean you're playing to your biggest fans and just plain flat out freaking ripping them off. I mean you're just a step past pushing them down and grabbing their wallet at that point.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Ilk in their bank accounts.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Yeah, and the hundred dollars doesn't guarantee you'll even get a phone. It's a deposit on a perhaps phone that is overpriced to start with. And by the way, not made in the usa. And it's a year later. And as we all know with phones, a phone a year later is completely different than.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

And we were getting bad publicity. So we said where can we find 600,000 phones? Just, it doesn't matter what it is, just give me 600. Yeah, well they've got this outdated model of this that Verizon gives away anyway.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Get them, buy them. How weak is that?

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

It's horrific.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

And like you need $59 million why? Why? Why have this sort of baggage out there that makes you look bad for $59 million?

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

What does Donald J say about his followers in private? I don't know.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

We'll know someday. I'll bet Armstrong and Getty Support for

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[Martha Stewart]

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[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

All right, listen up. One pipe per person. Don't waste them. Oh, God, yes. Thank you, Mayor.

[Host 1 (possibly Armstrong)]

Settle down. There's enough for everyone.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

More. I need more. That's it. Share them wisely. Here you go.

[Host 1 (possibly Armstrong)]

Clean syringes. Thanks, Mayor.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

We need these.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Be safe.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

There's more coming. Yeah, that's it. Meth rocks your teeth. You can't succeed without teeth. Thank you, Karen Bass. Remember, Spencer Pratt won't do this for you. We appreciate it. That's the latest AI Created amazing ad against Mayor Bass from the Spencer Pratt people.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Fans or just. Yeah. Anybody?

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Several interesting things about that. One, that audio of the mayor from last week, Mayor Bass of LA going around where she talked about why taxpayers need to fund dentistry for meth heads. They don't have teeth. Meth rots your teeth. You can't go out and get a job without teeth. What job can you get with no teeth? Oh, because they've taken meth for so long and continued to take it that they're now toothless. I'm on the hook for paying for their new teeth so that they can in theory get their act together and go out and get a job. That's quite the position.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Anyway, hearing your toothy privilege right there.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Anyway, so that AI ad is Mayor Bassinet. Looks very real of her going around to drug addict camps and handing out pipes and talking about dental care and stuff like that. But aside from the issues there. It's just the. What has this done for advertising? Political ads. And am I wrong that the main reason campaigns have had to raise money, politicians have raised money all these years is so you have a war chest for running ads.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

That's a lot of it.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Yes. If, if, if it turns into. No, you just need some creative people. They don't even need to work for you, just on your side. But you could certainly hire a bunch of college guys or kids or girls or whatever for pretty cheap to put these ads together. Maybe that's the fix that we've all been wanting for a long time of. You say outrageous things as an AOC or an. Or a Marjorie Taylor Green. You raise more money than anybody else because of your Twitter followers. Then you have a Warchester run ad. Maybe all that blows up when anybody can make a free AI ad and it's all just about coming up with a clever ad for free.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Right. Yeah, it will help. It will certainly take some of the air out of it. Because if you had just one or two really creative people, and hell, that same people might do your social media, if they're really adept at that sort of thing, getting noticed, getting clicks, promoting, you know, posts and that sort of thing. Yeah. You could have a very small shop of people getting you an enormous amount of attention.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Yeah, I don't know if we're there yet, but we're gonna end up there. So few people watch regular television and certainly watch it in such a way that they sit there and watch commercials. Same with the radio industry, into certain kinds of radio shows. But. So if you can get a memeable commercial out there that reaches people, then what the hell difference does it make that your opponent has a $2 million war chest to buy ads? Go ahead, buy as many ads as you want to and put them on the evening news that nobody watches. What the hell difference is going to make? And I remember Chris Christie. This is several cycles ago when he ran for president. What year was that? Trump's first term? I guess so 2016. I remember him talking about, you know, people say money doesn't matter in politics. It does. If somebody puts up a piece about you and you don't have the money to fight back with the ads, you're doomed. I'm not sure that's true anymore.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

The longer we go, the truer what you're saying will be. Yeah, because remember, older folks vote disproportionately. They actually show up at the polls. But that's. We're sliding toward that. Having less and less.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

We're. We're older people. And I don't know about you, but I don't watch any TV where I sit and watch the commercials. Yeah, we're already older people.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Well, yeah, true enough. So let's talk about younger people. This is. I'm going to quote Nellie Bowles and then move to something else, but did you hear about the episode between Jonathan Haidt, the fabulous John Haidt, and New York? He was invited to speak at the graduation. And as Nelly writes in an episode so validating it almost feels made up, the NYU Student Government assembly issued a statement opposing the selection of Jonathan Haidt as the class of 2026 commencement speaker because of what they say is his, quote, disturbing rhetoric. They called his selection, quote, deeply unsettling. Now, height, you might know from our show or just reading him or the stuff he writes for various publications, but he's the author of the Anxious Generation. Most recently, he's been a major figure in the movement to reduce screen time in childhood. He's also warned that shielding students from opinions they disagree with or even might find offensive is to their detriment. Well, here's what the NYU Student Government assembly letter protesting him said. Quote, since the announcement on Thursday, April 30, this is so good. Many students have reported feelings of disappointment, disgust, unenthusiasm, defeat, and embarrassment.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

First of all, before you even go farther, I didn't attend my college graduation to my shame. I've told that story before, but if I had gone, I'm not sure I would even have looked up who spoke. Does that matter that. That many people. Who speaks at the graduation, Is that something that's on your mind for everybody?

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

No, no, no. It's either something that, wow, that was cool, I'm a little fired up, or it was just glad that's over and

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

then you go on with your freaking life. Right?

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Anywho, but that's claiming offense, though, is how you get power. Remember? That's what all of this is about. But anyway, I love that list. Since the announcement, many students have reported feelings of disappointment, disgust, unenthusiasm, defeat, and embarrassment. But enough about my morning

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

boy. You wouldn't want to have to go to a graduation and feel a lack of enthusiasm, unenthusiasm, every graduation I've ever been to in my life, feeling that

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

their commencement intended to be a celebratory moment has instead become another instance of being misunderstood. Well, indeed, as Nelly points out, his graduation speech spewed such vile bigotry as what you pay attention to shapes what you care about and what you care about shapes who you become.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Oh, my God, shield me from those horrors.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

It included other deeply disturbing lines, like from a poem by Mary Oliver. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Students booed.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

What? Well, hold on now. Why did they boo that? Is this person.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

They booed everything he said, practically.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

But is that person known for being a Trump voter? I don't know, Mary Oliver, but it.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

I love. I love what, what Nellie Bull says.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

How do you boo that?

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

And I stand with them.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Why?

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Because it's enough already. John Height, your book was on the bestseller list for what, a billion weeks? Actually, 106 weeks. 106 weeks. When I think about that fact in your literary success. Well, John, I also report feelings of unenthusiasm and defeat. But Alicia Finley, genius of the the Wall Street Journal editorial board, she mentioned she's talking about the same thing. Among other similar, you know, happenings in a trenchant critique of higher education, the Coddling of the American Mind, which came out in 2018. Fabulous book. Get it? It's. It's more relevant than ever. Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, another friend of the Armstrong and Getty show, argued that academia's efforts to shield young people from discomfort and challenges was producing a generation of bubble kids. They took aim at, at campus, cancel culture, identity politics and safe spaces. And then, of course, New York University students lent their support to their thesis this month by demanding that the school cancel their invitation, blah, blah, blah, because, wait for it, they found his opinions unsettling. Keep in mind, though, the activists, when you're talking about the postmodernists or neo Marxists, whatever you want to call them, the woke crowd. There is virtually nothing that they say, this is the reason you must do this, that sincere. They don't want to uninvite anybody who disagrees with, with the woke culture because they're actually unsettled. They want them silenced, period. They make these quasi moral arguments that are completely insincere. Student government committee wrote that Mr. Height had, quote, promoted disturbing rhetoric around anti racism, social justice and diversity, equity and inclusion, claiming that the abolition of DEI may be the only way out of the leftist ideological capture of American campuses. That's deeply unsettling and clearly undermines the university's stated values. Height is 100% right. Then they get into the unenthusiasm and defeat feeling. Oh, Perhaps administrators invited Mr. Height because they understood the students so well. He delivered his speech Thursday to jeers and a walk, exhorting grads to Quote, turn their attention toward doing hard things, invoking philosophers and songwriters. Unbelievable. Then they actually, the title of her piece is. Is the Age of College Coddling Coming to an end or Coming to a close? Because New York University, of all places, ignored the students and had Jonathan Haidt show up.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Yeah, that's what's amazing to me is that. That he actually spoke there.

[Host 1 (possibly Armstrong)]

There.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Yeah, yeah. She talks about how Cornell, they had that debate on the Israel, Palestine conflict, and. And a bunch of students and activists surrounded the president of the university's car. And one got bumped and claimed to be injured. And then we've got to fire him. We got to fire him. But the university has stood by the president, said, no, you guys are the problem. Last week, Princeton scrapped their 133-year-old tradition. We talked about this. That allowed students to take exams unsupervised if they signed a pledge that they didn't cheat. The votes followed a student survey in which a third of seniors admitted having cheated on an assignment or an exam. Piece by piece, universities are trying to replace broken windows and repair their damaged reputations, including the grade inflation thing at Yale and Harvard. It's good. Good.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

So let's get on. You know, I think we're starting to see a breakdown between the. The student body of these universities and, And I don't know what. I know what's going on here, because we. We played a clip last week. I don't know if you're here for that or not, that in which whoever was given the speech mentioned AI and everybody booed, whatever that was about. Now here we've got the former Google executive giving a commencement speech at Arizona and got booed. Let's hear this. Every profession, every classroom, every hospital, every laboratory, every person and every relationship you have. I know. Know what many of you are feeling about that. I can hear you. There is a fear. There is a fear in your generation, if. That the future has already been written, that the machines are coming, that the jobs are evaporating, that the climate is breaking, that politics is fractured, and that you are inheriting a mess that you did not create. And I understand that fear, okay?

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

I can just hear their disappointment discussed on enthusiasm, defeat, and embarrassment.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

There might be something going on. There's been something going on in the world of the, you know, higher education for a very, very long time.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Yeah.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

I wonder if students are just

[Host 1 (possibly Armstrong)]

maybe,

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

maybe everybody is starting to hear the chatter of, this is a waste of time and money. His degree's not gonna do any good. They're charging way too much for this, you're not actually learning anything. I wonder, I wonder if that's seeping into people and they're just kind of angry as they head out the door.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Angry and indoctrinated into a monoculture.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

What a weird situation. Here's another clip we played this last week. The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution. Oh,

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

This is something very different.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Yeah, but it's. It's kind of interesting though. It's interesting. Just another happy student body about the state of the world.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

I don't know the guy who wrote the book saying don't coddle students. The students are upset that he's going to come and not coddle them again. It's as if it is made up.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

I feel like though, you get that entire crowd there at University of Arizona. What percentage of people there got bang for their buck in their degree? Maybe some of the engineer science kids.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Maybe the hard science people.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Yeah, yeah, and that'd be it. Everybody else paid way too much for not much information according to all studies. It's wild that we have that.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Yeah, the applied degrees are still pretty good. Although there's so much grade inflation, you know, you don't. I mean, you as anybody who's ever done anything difficult knows, whether it's the military or sports or academic discipline or music or whatever, if you give people very low expectations, they will rise to those and not much above. So, yeah, even the accountants, I'll bet are a lot worse at accountant accounting than they were 20 years ago.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

I want to talk about the world's most pompous man on the way out the door. We will finish strong.

[Cindy Crawford]

Next, Armstrong and Getty.

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[Host 1 (possibly Armstrong)]

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[Cindy Crawford]

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[Martha Stewart]

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[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

FIFA announced that this year's World cup final will have a halftime show featuring Madonna, Shakira and bts, which is being described as something for everyone to dislike. Like, no kidding. The BTS people don't want to see Madonna and the Madonna people don't want to see bts, and most people don't want to see any of them. But you know what?

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Roger Goodell probably gets that in a gathering like mine. People love to hate it.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Ah, that's where. Yeah, that could be. That absolutely could be. I thought about grabbing audio from 60 Minutes last night, but this is mostly a visual and it was the third story. If you did or didn't watch 60 Minutes, they often do like kind of an entertainment thing for their last story. This is a pretty decent one. I actually watched it. It was about the new movie the Odyssey, which is coming out in a few weeks. Christopher Nolan, who's done some of the great giant screen epic sort of things, he did Oppenheimer, if you saw that taken on the Odyssey, 3,000 year old, maybe the first great story ever told in world history. And he was featured on it last night. I thought it was kind of interesting. I'm not buying Matt Damon as the lead though. That. That really disappoints me. I just don't think he's got the. Whatever it is to be that guy. I just can't picture it. Anyway, Scott Pelley did the interview and I was watching that and thinking he is the most pompous human being in the world, maybe who's ever lived his style. That's why I said I didn't grab audio. It's the. The way he talks as we do. You think that, but the way he leans back in his tight shirt with his big arms and his glasses in his mouth and head cocked. And the way he just. He is so pompous. He's like a Saturday Night Live caricature of that sort of person. He's so over the top with his pomposity. It's just.

[Sponsor Announcer]

It's hard to take.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Yeah. What a slow talker.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Can you imagine being around somebody like that that talks that way all the time? Jesus. Take it down a notch, Captain. Wonderful. Oh, he's hard to take.

[Martha Stewart]

Check your clock.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

It's time to stop. Jack and Joe.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

They've got to go and if they

[Sponsor Announcer]

don't get canned, they'll be back tomorrow.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

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

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Let's get a final thought from everybody in the crew to wrap up the show for the day. There he is, pressing the buttons in the control room. Michelangelo.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Michael, what's your final thought?

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

This past weekend, I did absolutely nothing. I literally sat down on the couch and just watched television. I actually felt shame this morning getting up.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

I got nothing done. Shame. Jack Funnel thought, yeah, I'll pick up on that. I think Katie Green, who's not here with her new baby, could probably relate to this. Michael, I can't even imagine that for an afternoon, let alone for a whole weekend of having nothing to do and doing nothing. Oh, my God. It's been a long time since I've done that.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Harkening back to the Trump phone story, I'm going to seed my final thought to old friend of mine and of the show's name, Dave, who says, I swear on my Trump Bible, your Trump phone is on its way.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

That's pretty good.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

O.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

And if you're not happy with it, try to chase me down in your Trump shoes.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Oh, my. Using all the knowledge from Trump University.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Right? You can try to sue me with the law degree you got at Trump University. Oh, my God. That's. That Trump phone thing is like the most over the top thing he's done, I think.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Oh, my.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

I was just saying something. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

So many people.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Thanks.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

So little time. Go to Armstrong and getty.com for the hot links for the swag. The Ang Superstore. We're working on a new T shirt that says socialism sucks. Wear that around. Make a statement, damn it.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

We gotta fight back against these commies. Yeah, I do like that. All a tr Socialism sucks T shirt. Absolutely. We'll see you tomorrow. God bless America.

[Cindy Crawford]

The people in charge of this country.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Do not love Armstrong and get it. This is a crisis. This is a mess, this sandwich and everyone knows it. Yep. Yeah, absolutely.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Let me say. Let me say one thing. Happy Birthday Grandpa.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Happy

[Host 1 (possibly Armstrong)]

Jermaine. Could come down just a little bit.

[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

Don't you oppress me. Those are the rules. Those are the rules. Now don't buy that on that high note. Thank you all very much.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly Joe Getty)]

Armstrong and Getty, are you trying to

[Host 1 (possibly Armstrong)]

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[Host 2 (possibly Getty)]

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