You're Fired! I'm Fired? Yes, You're Fired!

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Armstrong & Getty On Demand — Episode Summary

Episode Title: You're Fired! I'm Fired? Yes, You're Fired!
Original Air Date: June 3, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Producer & Headlines: Heather Myers
Podcast Network: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Armstrong & Getty riff on a series of major news stories, from the shifting landscape of America’s biggest companies to California’s endless elections and the rise of ultra-processed foods as a public health threat. The duo blend sharp social commentary with their trademark sarcasm, unpacking everything from skyrocketing healthcare costs and voter confusion at the polls, to bizarre lost-and-found items in Uber rides and the latest viral health scares. Political fatigue is a recurring theme, as the hosts commiserate with listeners over the drag of a months-long election season and the media’s relentless Trump-centric coverage.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Amazon Overtakes Walmart as Top Revenue Generator (03:50–06:49)

• Headline: “Amazon is the new king!”
• Jack introduces the major news: Amazon’s annual revenue has surpassed Walmart’s ($717B to Walmart's $713B). The hosts explore why it took so long and what it says about rural vs. urban consumer habits.
• Joe reflects on accessibility: Urban consumers (like him) rely on Amazon for same-day delivery; rural consumers (like his brother) still shop infrequently on Amazon and prefer their local Walmart.
• Revelations about UnitedHealth Group earning third place in US revenue at $447B lead to a rant over skyrocketing medical costs, especially for families.
  • Joe (06:37): “It’s more expensive than it used to be to go to the doctor … the affordability thing is absolutely the number one political issue out there, and nobody’s speaking to the affordability issue.”
• Jack laments how even basic healthcare items (like waterproof bandaids) have become “painfully expensive.”

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2. Healthcare Cost Crisis & the Politics of Affordability (06:37–07:42)

• The hosts share personal anecdotes about the rising cost of medical care, with Jack joking about DIY amputation to avoid “outrageous” medical bills.
• Political leaders, they argue, offer no realistic solutions, leaving Americans squeezed by both healthcare and basic necessities.

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3. The Dreaded, Never-Ending Election Season (08:38–09:22, 26:12–29:37)

• Joe and Jack express exasperation with “five more months” of election coverage, especially regarding California’s races, predicting inevitable outcomes rooted in state demographics.
  • Joe (08:38): “I opened with: you can’t make me talk about this for five more months.”
• Jack likens it to baseball season: hype on “opening day,” then tuning out until the conclusion.
• Heavy sarcasm is directed toward California’s "third world-style" voting system, with delays, ballot harvesting, and “mystifying incompetence.”
  • Jack (28:34): “Old man Maduro wishes he’d come up with a system that ridiculous.”
  • Joe (28:57): “It’s an embarrassment to democracy worldwide … California is the worst in the world in terms of getting results.”

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4. Neil Ferguson & the Global Arms Race: AI vs. Nukes (09:23–11:48)

• Drawing from historian Neil Ferguson, the duo discuss the “most dangerous arms race in world history”: AI intertwining with nuclear arsenals.
• The uncertainty and complexity of AI, both hosts argue, make it harder for policymakers to regulate or comprehend, compared to the bivalent logic of nuclear weapons.
  • Joe (11:05): “The people building AI don’t know what it’s going to do or how it works. I can’t imagine how some old Congress people… are going to wrap their heads around it.”
• Jack dismisses a new Trump executive order on AI as “populist nonsense.”

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5. America 250 Celebrations & Vanilla Ice’s Star-Spangled Soundbite (11:59–13:06)

• In a comedic aside, the hosts play a clip of Vanilla Ice—aka “Robbie Van Winkle”—commenting on America’s 250th birthday and the politics surrounding it.
  • Vanilla Ice (12:11): “It’s simple as a pimple for me… It’s not anything to do with politics.”
• Jack and Joe mock the phrase “simple as a pimple” and recount a Vanilla Ice sighting in Key West, poking fun at celebrity patriotism.

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6. National & Offbeat Headlines Roundup (17:07–23:15)

Political Races & Media Coverage

• Heather Myers summarizes the spins different outlets put on the California gubernatorial primary (17:07–18:33).
  • Joe (18:33): “And to try to make it about Trump again…”

Hostages at Bank in Bakersfield, Ca

• Breaking news: Hostage situation involving bomb threats (18:45–19:13).

Drug Tunnels and Border Crime

• Massive cocaine haul via hidden tunnels under “fake” discount stores—an opening for Jack and Joe to reminisce about an eerily quiet Vietnamese restaurant they suspect was a front (20:13–20:43).

Flesh-Eating Screw Worms Near the Border

• Grim details from Heather about a parasitic fly found 25 miles from the US border; hosts react in mock-horror and dark humor.
  • Joe (21:02): “Can I just read you the details on this real quick?”

Uber’s Strangest Lost-and-Found Items

• Highlights include dentures, prosthetic eyes, and live fish—Jack and Joe envision farcical scenarios.
  • Joe (21:58): “Mommy, where’s my eye? Oh, I left it in the backseat of the Uber with my live fish. Damn it.”

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7. California Voting Anecdotes: Disarray at the Polls (29:47–34:47)

• Jack recounts his experience voting in person for the first time in years:
  • Describes a well-dressed young woman completely forgetting her address or prior addresses, astonishing Jack and the poll worker.
  • Critiques the state’s refusal to check IDs, contrasting with overwhelming voter support for ID requirements.
  • Observes a “million-years-old” poll worker moving at a glacial pace, causing voting lines to stretch.
  • Jack (34:47): “You know, you’re either on mushrooms or you’re a moron. Wow.”

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8. The New World Screw Worm Infection Scare (36:03–37:37)

• Joe shares inside-info from a federal briefing on flesh-eating screw worms, highlighting their gruesome potential impact on humans and livestock.
  • Joe (36:39): “It only eats live flesh. The flies lay eggs on live, warm-blooded creatures… what it does are pretty disgusting.”
• Jack and Joe take the “watch your orifices” warnings to predictable, comedic extremes.

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9. Mailbag: Ballot Shenanigans, Political Cynicism, and The Death of Legacy TV (41:09–47:47)

• Listeners vent about ballot errors and over-registration (41:09–42:26).
• Disbelief at billionaire Tom Steyer’s failed gubernatorial bid despite spending $200M (43:10–43:23).
• Nick the Plumber: “Jack is the stupidest genius I’ve ever heard. I love him, but he is annoying.” (44:49)
• A retiring generation laments the collapse of family TV culture and the rise of fragmented, low-quality programming (47:23–47:43).

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• On Amazon and Walmart:
  • “Amazon has taken over Walmart to claim the number one spot of America’s biggest companies… annual revenue vs. 713. Third place is way down at 447 billion. That’s UnitedHealth Group. I would not have guessed.” — Jack Armstrong (06:04)
• On Healthcare:
  • “The affordability thing is absolutely the number one political issue out there and nobody’s speaking to the affordability issue.” — Joe Getty (06:50)
• On Political Fatigue:
  • “You can’t make me talk about this for five more months.” — Joe Getty (08:38)
  • “Our elections are too long, people.” — Joe Getty (28:29)
• On California’s Ballot System:
  • “It takes weeks, weeks to count the ballots!” — Jack Armstrong (28:34)
  • “Voted for by whom? I don’t know. We’ll check the signatures… maybe a little bit, I don’t know, it’s corrupted, unwieldy and embarrassing.” — Jack Armstrong (29:19)
• On Political Self-Delusion:
  • “That ability to deceive yourself because you want a certain outcome is something we should all be very aware of in our lives…” — Joe Getty (48:04)
• On AI Regulation:
  • “The people building AI don’t know what it’s going to do or how it works. I can’t imagine how some old Congress people… are going to wrap their heads around it.” — Joe Getty (11:05)
  • “I characterize the new executive order as populist nonsense.” — Jack Armstrong (11:40)
• On Voter ID:
  • “80% of Americans say [showing ID] would be perfectly fine. In fact, it should be required. Including Democrats. California, you don’t dare.” — Jack Armstrong (32:23)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [03:50] – Amazon overtakes Walmart; rural vs. urban shopping habits
• [06:37] – Health insurance, medical bills, rising costs
• [08:38] – Political fatigue & “five more months” of election season
• [09:23] – Neil Ferguson & global AI/nuclear arms race
• [12:11] – Vanilla Ice on America 250 (audio clip)
• [17:07] – News headlines: CA races, Bakersfield hostage, Supreme Court, border tunnel
• [21:02] – Flesh-eating screwworm story
• [23:15] – Offbeat lost & found; Sesame Street’s Pride message
• [29:47] – Jack’s in-person CA voting story
• [36:03] – Inside info on New World Screw Worm
• [41:09] – Mailbag: Ballot confusion, billionaires, Iran, TV nostalgia
• [47:43] – Reflections on the evolution (and decline) of American TV culture

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Episode Tone & Style

• Conversational and Irreverent: The hosts engage in quick-witted banter, often laced with heavy sarcasm.
• Personal & Relatable: Frequent storytelling and personal anecdotes ground national news in everyday experience.
• Exasperated but Playful: Despite cynicism about politics and bureaucracy, the hosts keep the show lively through humor and absurdity.

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For Listeners Who Missed It

This episode is especially relevant if you want:

• A fun, critical digest of current events (from economics to politics to offbeat weird news)
• Candid conversation about why election coverage feels endless—and how national politics is often all spin
• Firsthand commentary on the real-world effects of inflation and the healthcare system’s dysfunction
• Amusing, relatable takes on voting snafus and the strangeness of modern American life

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Armstrong & Getty: Keeping current events honest, irreverent, and entertaining—so you don’t have to listen to five months of bad political coverage yourself.

Transcript

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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

And now here's Armstrong.

[Joe Getty]

Surely I'm not expected to talk about this for five months. Live from studio Si senor, a dimly lit room deeper than the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. It is midweek and today we are toiling under the title of the show

[Jack Armstrong]

Ultra processed foods are the new sitting. Which was the new smoking or. You're fired. I'm fired? Yes, you're fired. I'm fired?

[Joe Getty]

For God's sake.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes. Now leave.

[Joe Getty]

I like both those headlines, that's fantastic.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know what got pushed out of the top? Because we have a jungle primary of headlines here at the Armstrong and Yeti show was, sorry, Walmart. Amazon is the new king. Amazon just passed Walmart. It's the biggest revenue company in the S and P top. Well, however many you want.

[Joe Getty]

Biggest retailer in America or the world.

[Jack Armstrong]

Company, period.

[Joe Getty]

Biggest company. Walmart was the biggest company. There's some qualification.

[Jack Armstrong]

There are many, many qualifications that are important to.

[Joe Getty]

Walmart's not the biggest company. Your Nvidia's, your apples, your. Those are the biggest companies.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's. No, that's valuation, not revenue.

[Joe Getty]

Right. So I'm saying what's the qualification on this? It's revenue.

[Jack Armstrong]

Revenue. Yeah, but I said that maybe not. Where the heck is it? It's around here somewhere, trust me. Well, Amazon is very, very big and important and, and heads up many lists.

[Joe Getty]

I would say that's mostly amazing to me that Walmart held on till now.

[Jack Armstrong]

I had the same reaction, honestly with

[Joe Getty]

all the shopping that Amazon. So I wonder. I grew up rural, middle of America I'm thinking and I haven't lived that way in a long time. I'll bet most people like. I'll bet my brothers. I'll bet my brother almost never uses Amazon if once a year maybe as opposed to I'm several times a week.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'll have to ask, is that right?

[Joe Getty]

Well, but he hardly ever does. Yeah, partially because you'd get stuff a lot. It feel different if you live in an urban area and I don't know, you know where you are listening right now, but if you live in certain areas, like I can get stuff this afternoon when I order on Amazon all the time, pair of socks, batteries, whatever it is I need and you know, that's you. You pay a little more. It's like going to the convenience store. That's why convenience stores are more expensive, because it's so convenient. But you're paying for the convenience. But if you, if you got to wait several days, you probably just go to the Walmart on the edge of whatever town you live in.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. It's funny. I'm. I'm very pro ordering on Amazon. My wife resists a little bit. No, no, no. I'll just go to the store and get it.

[Joe Getty]

I'm like, but I can check it

[Jack Armstrong]

off my list if I do this.

[Joe Getty]

Otherwise I gotta check.

[Jack Armstrong]

Honey, did you get a chance?

[Joe Getty]

But anyway, anywho, so Walmart.

[Jack Armstrong]

Amazon has taken over Walmart to claim the number one spot of America's biggest companies. America's by revenue. And what's pretty interesting, they're very, very close at 717 billion in annual revenue versus 713. Third place is way down at 447 billion. That's UnitedHealth Group. I would not have guessed that UnitedHealth was the number three revenue company in

[Joe Getty]

America that's paying medical bills and stuff.

[Jack Armstrong]

Essentially. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. I don't know, man. I have had quite a few medical bills lately with my kids going to urgent care for various things that happen to kids and God dang it, it's more expensive than it used to be to go to the doctor.

[Jack Armstrong]

Holy cow.

[Joe Getty]

Along with everything else, the bills are just way bigger than they used to be. The affordability thing is absolutely the number one political issue out there and nobody's speaking to the, to the affordability issue. Yeah, I suppose you could have rhetoric around it, but what you can actually do about it, I don't know. But things. What. What was it I paid for yesterday? It'll pop into my head. Something. I was just like, holy crap, things are expensive just the way it is, I guess. Oh, I know. My, My son needed some band aids. So particular kind of band Aid, because he was doing his swimming test last night for Boy Scouts. He wanted some waterproof band aids for some surgery he had. Blah, blah, blah. I go to CVS, I buy a little box of band aids. It's $14. Good Lord. In my head it's like, in my mind it's going to be like 4 and it's 14. It's just everything is like that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I'm not going to go to the doctor. I got something going on with my index finger. It's really sore. I don't know if I did Something to it or it's infected or something. But Michael, I'm just going to grab a pair of bolt cutters out of the garage and. And just take care of it myself. There you go.

[Joe Getty]

That only makes sense. Walk it off.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, how many, how many fingers? How many like segments of your finger do you need all three of them?

[Joe Getty]

Depends on the finger too. They, they, they aren't equal value.

[Jack Armstrong]

I won't have to clip my nail anymore. That's the way I look at it.

[Joe Getty]

My two ring fingers. I feel like he could take them off today and I wouldn't even notice. I don't. What do I need them for? I play the guitar and the piano. So does that.

[Jack Armstrong]

But yeah, they're kind of a supporting role finger. They're handy but you know, necessities.

[Joe Getty]

Maybe it'd keep me from getting married again. I might not do that just out of precaution.

[Jack Armstrong]

Not sure that's how the law works. But you do you buddy.

[Joe Getty]

Avoiding one particular topic that's leading all newscasts everywhere in America. And like I opened with you can't make me talk about this for five more months.

[Jack Armstrong]

So.

[Joe Getty]

Five more months, people on the two big races in California that got so much national attention. Five more months. That's a long time. You got your whole June, July, August, September, October. Five months before you get to the first Tuesday in November. That's a long time.

[Jack Armstrong]

So I look at it like baseball season. Let's make a big deal over opening day.

[Joe Getty]

Then kind of, you know, sort of,

[Jack Armstrong]

kind of not really pay attention. I'll see in late July.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I'm with you. I get that. I was just reading in terms of things that actually matter. Like I want to hear that ultra food, ultra processed food story that you got that sounds really interesting and actually important to people's lives.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

The affordability thing. Got some economic stuff around that. And then I was just reading Neil Ferguson, the historian. We like him.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, I was going to bring this up.

[Joe Getty]

His a piece today about the world is in the most dangerous arms race in world's history. And the people running it are. Are not. Are not the people you'd want running it. So.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, no. Most dangerous arms race in human history.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Which is almost certainly true, I guess. Yeah, I think it is. Clearly. Yeah, it is.

[Jack Armstrong]

There have been some good ones. Atomic bombs come to mind, of course. But this is a big one. Right. Because. Well, because obviously we still have the atomic bombs and the AI is another layer of uncertainty, including in the use of those bombs.

[Joe Getty]

Right. And then it's the added thing that nuclear weapons were not going to eliminate all college graduates having a job.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. All of a sudden unleashing unthinkable levels of political unrest. Correct.

[Joe Getty]

While each country has the ability to maybe turn off the other country's lights and shut down their energy grid and everything else, or launch nuclear weapons or who knew or do. Who knows what.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, Right. And I would argue, and I'm not trying to freak anybody out, but we've been talking about this for a long time. The nuclear arms race had a lot of, like, binary questions. Will the US or the Soviets use them? Will, you know, other countries get them? Will they use them? It's pretty yes or no.

[Joe Getty]

Ish.

[Jack Armstrong]

And the answer is thank God. Since the middle 1940s, the answer's been no. But with AI, there are a hundred different questions.

[Joe Getty]

And Donald Trump signed an executive order around AI yesterday. Right. During the end of our show that we talked about. We'll have to explain that to you again early. And I don't, I can't imagine the federal government having any role in this. Hardly whatsoever since they have no idea what they're talking about. I just, I just don't know what, what, what, what rules you can put in place. The people building AI don't know what it's going to do or how it works. I can't imagine how some old Congress people. Yeah. Who don't send emails are going to wrap their heads around it.

[Jack Armstrong]

I characterize the new executive order as populist nonsense. Yesterday I have come across nothing that shakes my, My opinion.

[Joe Getty]

Interesting. Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday, June 3rd, the year 2026, where I'm strong and getting. We approve of this program.

[Jack Armstrong]

Let's begin officially then, according to FCC rules and ranks. Here we go at mark. It's simple as a pimple for me. There's nothing to it. It's the birthday of America, 250 years. It's not anything to do with politics. I don't know why they're turning it into politics.

[Joe Getty]

I'm not even. I've never voted in my life.

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I never do that.

[Jack Armstrong]

He's the white and the red. White and blue, folks. Robbie Van Winkle, perhaps you know him as Vanilla Ice.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, my God. That was Vanilla Ice. I thought it was the guy who won the Michigan primary. Vanilla Ice.

[Jack Armstrong]

Talking about the controversy over the various 250th birthday celebrations.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. I don't like the term simple as a pimple.

[Jack Armstrong]

For some reason.

[Joe Getty]

I don't like that.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't like a single damn thing about that halfway.

[Joe Getty]

You know, we saw Vanilla Ice driving down the street in Key west last year. My son was so excited. He was in a convertible looking like.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's a story.

[Joe Getty]

Looking like Vanilla Ice. Looking exactly like Vanilla Ice would. You'd expect them to look in a convertible driving down Duvall and in Key West. And he sounded like the kind of guy that would say what you just. What we just heard there.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right? Right.

[Joe Getty]

Standing up for the red, white and blue. Gotta like that. We got Heather's headlines on the way. So much to talk about today. Stay here.

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[Joe Getty]

How y' all doing? Cool. Glad to hear it. I do want to talk about that dude in terms of politics, that dude up in Maine that they're having their big primary this next Tuesday up in Maine. That's the guy that had the Nazi tattoo and all the sexting and that sort of stuff.

[Jack Armstrong]

Platner, Graham Platner.

[Joe Getty]

Yes, I do want to talk about him. Him and the. And the character thing, which I kind of blew off the other day, maybe too

[Jack Armstrong]

easily showing a lack of, I don't know, character.

[Joe Getty]

I just didn't know that was on the table as an issue anymore. After Trump and a whole bunch of other things, I just thought people had decided that doesn't matter. But more on that later.

[Jack Armstrong]

All right, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Heather Myers.

[Joe Getty]

Heather back.

[News Reporter]

Joe, good morning. Let's find out how the networks are covering the news the day after the primary, starting with Fox News. Their headline reads, Trump backed Hilton surged in California gubernatorial race. USA Today.

[Joe Getty]

Go ahead.

[News Reporter]

I was saying USA Today covered it like this. Hilton Becerra lead California governor's race. And here's the headline this morning from cnn. I'm going to read it exactly how you would read it if you Clicked on their site. California governor's race still too early to call semicolon. Trump endorsee suffers loss.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I was gonna say they love putting Trump endorsement in the headline. Like that's the main factor in the whole thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, my God. That was Steve Hilton wishes it hadn't happened. I have a feeling. And. And it's been a non factor. Right, right. Nobody cares.

[Joe Getty]

It's got nothing to do with it. But they're gonna try to make it everything to do with it for both Hilton and the mayor situation in la just to try to make it a Trump versus us. Don't let a MAGA candidate win.

[News Reporter]

Yeah. You know, it's just interesting the way that they worded that because they said Trump endorses suffers loss. They're actually talking about the race in Iowa. They're coupling that in the same headline.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, I see.

[News Reporter]

As the governor's race because Hilton did not suffer a loss.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, right.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. And to try to make it about Trump again.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Here we go.

[News Reporter]

All right. From Fox Los Angeles, Spencer Pratt on track for a top two finish.

[Joe Getty]

Yep,

[News Reporter]

this one's interesting. And this is developing right now. Bakersfieldnow.com Two hostages released amid bomb threat at Chase bank in Bakersfield.

[Joe Getty]

Wow, haven't heard that story. We'll get you details later.

[News Reporter]

Yeah, that one's been going on for probably close to 18 hours now. Guy walked into a bank with what they think are bombs strapped to him. He's still there with customers in the bank and at this point just to hostage.

[Joe Getty]

Was he wanting money or is it a political thing at this point?

[News Reporter]

They haven't released a ton of details

[Joe Getty]

on FBI's now on maybe just a crazy person.

[News Reporter]

Could be very well be. From ABC News, Iran targets US Forces Kuwait airport amid cease fire from us.

[Jack Armstrong]

We need to talk about that as usual. And we will. Back to you, Heather.

[News Reporter]

From USA Today, 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley fired after criticizing CBS execs.

[Joe Getty]

Well, shock. You can't like yell at your boss on the first day and say don't you realize nobody wants you here, man? To your new boss and not get fired Even if you're Scott Pelley.

[Jack Armstrong]

What an asshat.

[Joe Getty]

He is an asshat. I can't wait to talk about that more. Most pompous man in the world.

[Jack Armstrong]

Alert listener Steve gets full credit for this joke with slow talking. Scott Pelly fired. Perhaps they can now make the show 30 minutes. Pick up the base.

[News Reporter]

From NBC News this morning. Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map that eliminates a majority black district.

[Joe Getty]

Jim Crow on steroids. We'll talk about that more.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, thanks, Uncle Joe.

[News Reporter]

From Fox Los Angeles, $45 million Cocaine bus uncovers massive tunnel to Mexico under supposed discount store.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I was really got into that story yesterday. There was a fake store. It looked just like a regular store that just nobody ever came in and out of that view, drive by and just nobody paid any attention to it. And it wasn't a real store. It had a tunnel in it and drugs were going back and forth.

[Jack Armstrong]

That was like that Vietnamese restaurant in Charlotte we used to eat at that. There was never anybody in. We're like, what, are they selling drugs or breeding pandas out of here or what?

[News Reporter]

From CBS News, this morning, flesh eating screw worm detected 25 miles from US border.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, boy. Let's close the border immediately. Yikes.

[Joe Getty]

How do you get that thing?

[News Reporter]

Can I just read you the details on this real quick?

[Jack Armstrong]

Sure, sure.

[Joe Getty]

Please do.

[News Reporter]

The New World screwworm is a parasitic fly that feeds on warm blooded animals and people. It lays its eggs in open wounds or orifices like the eyes, ears, nose or mouth, which can then eat living tissue or flesh once they hatch.

[Joe Getty]

I do not have any open wounds, but I do have orophil. Mmm.

[Jack Armstrong]

Keep them closed. Tightly closed.

[News Reporter]

All right. From ABC News, Uber releases list of strangest lost and found items. Dentures, Butterflies. Dishwasher.

[Joe Getty]

Dishwasher. Where am I? Where. Where are my dentures? Did I leave them in the backseat? Where are they?

[News Reporter]

The list goes on. Breath, breast milk, a child's prosthetic eye, two wedding gowns, live fish.

[Joe Getty]

Mommy, where's my eye? Oh, I left it in the backseat

[Jack Armstrong]

of the Uber with my live fish. Damn it.

[News Reporter]

I remember losing my retainer a lot as a kid. I wonder if that's the same thing. If you have a prosthetic eye as a child, you just leave it in random places.

[Jack Armstrong]

I lost my glasses so many times in high school, my parents just said, you're good, squint. Yeah, we can't afford any more glasses.

[Joe Getty]

Walk into things. That's your problem.

[News Reporter]

From Buzzfeed, people are having an absolute meltdown over Sesame Street's Pride message.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I don't know about this getting lots of attention. Yeah, we'll have to play that for you.

[News Reporter]

And finally this morning from the Babylon be Trump shocked to learn genocidal jihadists often don't negotiate in good faith.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, that's good. That's. That's a question for history. Is he caught unaware of this whole sit? Like, is he unaware that he's dealing with Nihilists who want to die. And it's not like most real estate developers who don't want to die.

[Jack Armstrong]

I would hope Marco is in his ear making that infinitely clear to him.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, thank you Heather. Good stuff. And we got a lot more on the way on a whole bunch of those topics. If you missed a segment of the podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand, there's some interesting stuff to talk about today. That's not the election.

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[Joe Getty]

well obviously God wanted five more months of me exposing all the failures of our mayor. So it's gonna be a fun ride. I hope she's ready. Are you ready? I mean I was born for this. Clearly I'm gonna prove to everybody this is, this is for real and I'm ready to run the city. Spencer Pratt. I was born for this.

[Jack Armstrong]

I love the disco music robbing in the background.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, it was the big celebration party at their campaign headquarters as he's trying to become the mayor of Los Angeles. I don't have a lot of stomach for the big political races today personally. Part of it might be from watching our old friend David Drucker on MSNBC this morning. David Drucker, who used to write for the Washington examiner, now works for the Dispatch. Every once in a while he's on msnbc and we, we like David, super smart guy, but showbiz, not his thing. He's like just, just the facts, ma', am, just the facts. And, and often takes the air out of the room. But anyway they're building up the whole Steve Hilton, you know, is, is going to make the, the top two for governor in California and Pratt and this and that and what does it mean? And Trump, blah blah blah. And he said you just look at the numbers. It's pretty simple. Both the Democrats are going to run away with it in the general. So. And I thought, you know what, you're probably right. So I'm not sure there's that much more to talk about. Wow. Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Really, really. To overcome just the demographics of what things are, LA is seven points more blue than the state, which is quite blue.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. Wow, wow. Although you made the point yesterday, perhaps you've forgotten your own wisdom that often it takes a few cycles before the electorate says you Know that guy wasn't so bad and he was right about this, that and the other. And they, they drift from hardcore D voter, no matter how bad it gets to, to being willing to make another choice. So I think a great deal of absolutely terrific messaging is going to take place during the campaign and whether Steve Hilton for triumphs or not, there's gonna be a lot of truth telling and I think that's a good thing over

[Joe Getty]

the next five months. Our elections are too long, people.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, the other thing that's worth mentioning if you're talking about those big California races, is that the absolutely laughable, ridiculous third worldy California voting system that is the. I mean, old man Maduro wishes he'd come up with a system that ridiculous. It takes weeks, weeks to count the ballots to know who won in a close race.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was following some of the. Well, yeah, Nate Silver, the great pollster saying it's an embarrassment to democracy worldwide, that California, the home of, you know, the highest tech, everything in the world is the worst in the world in terms of getting results from their elections anywhere in the world. How embarrassed?

[Jack Armstrong]

The Democratic party insists on blanketing the entire state with paper mail out ballots so that everybody can harvest up plenty of votes. Voted for by whom? I don't know. We'll check the signatures. Allegedly. Maybe a little bit, I don't know, it's. It's corrupted, unwieldy and, and embarrassing.

[Joe Getty]

Let me do a quick tease before I tell you a story to keep you around. I just got a whole bunch of insider information on that New World. Screw New World screw worm virus thingy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh that.

[Joe Getty]

You want to know it's going to

[Jack Armstrong]

drive people away, not keep them around.

[Joe Getty]

You need to know.

[Jack Armstrong]

I gotta pay off the ultra processed food thing too.

[Joe Getty]

So I went to vote in person yesterday in California. I hadn't voted in person in years. Geez, long time, maybe 20 years. And I went to a random polling place that happened to be the junior high not far from where I live and walked in there in late afternoon, wasn't very busy, kind of followed a woman into the parking lot because I'd know exactly where I was going. Young woman in a nice car, looked to be about, I don't know, early 20s. She got in line in front of me and I thought, well, this is going to be fast. Turned out not to be fast because they had one person checking people in, said do you have a ballot with you? And she said no. And okay, well let me look up your name and address so if you could give me your name. She did. And your address. She said, I don't know my address. And oh boy. And this is a well dressed, I don't know if she's in college, probably in college in the town I live in, probably like close to graduating or graduate student again, driving a nice car that clearly her parents got for her. I don't know my address. And the polling worker just looked at her kind of like, what do I say to someone who says, I don't know my address. Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

You're supposed to teach your six year old dad so they can tell the police if they get lost.

[Joe Getty]

I know. And I thought to myself, I don't know if there's ever been a moment in my life since I was 6, roughly that I didn't know my address. But so the polling worker said, how about a previous address? What was your previous? Because you could have, if you just moved, possibly not remember your new address maybe, but you'd think you'd remember your previous address. She said, I don't know that either. So you don't know where you live now or where you lived before. Now that is like start with your

[Jack Armstrong]

first name and build from there. Do you know that?

[Joe Getty]

Do you know where you are? Do you know why you're here? And I just thought that was so funny. And then the poll worker says it starts with an A because she's got it on the, the iPad in front of her, you know, hoping that the voter will get, you know, it'll spark something in her memory. And she says, oh yeah, I know what street I live on. So that she can confirm it's actually the human being that she says she is, because they will not ask for an id. That is absolutely off the table asking for an id. Obviously if you asked for a driver's license, you know, it would have on there the freaking address.

[Jack Armstrong]

80% of Americans say that would be perfectly fine. In fact, it should be required.

[Joe Getty]

Including Democrats.

[Jack Armstrong]

California, you don't dare.

[Joe Getty]

Including Democrats. So if you just got out your driver's license, I know you got one. I saw you drive in. And your mom and dad's car, it would have a picture of you, your name and your address. But they refused to ask that. I heard somebody say yesterday that they tried to offer one time and everybody was like, no, no, put that back in your pocket. Like they were so horrified by the idea of anybody even having their ID out.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow, it's like a cult.

[Joe Getty]

I know, it's so weird. So it starts with an A and then the Girl just kind of looked at her like, I got nothing. And then, and then finally the poll worker just said the name of the street. So is that where he lived? She said it might be. And then, so they just checked her in and she, she should not be voting. I don't think she was like, you know, lying or trying to pull off anything. I think she just is a person. And I thought, well, she, I'm sure she's dialed in on the issues. Of course it's quite possible that she knows way more about some of these socialist issues than I do. She just doesn't know her own address.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

I thought that was pretty funny. Then There was a 90 year old.

[Jack Armstrong]

She should not be allowed to vote. Sorry.

[Joe Getty]

There's a really, really nice 90 year old poll worker in there that was slowing everything down. He was the person you gave your ballots to after you filled them out. So you went in there, you got your ballot, you got a big magic marker. You fill out your ballot in a private little booth you bring out and you handed this guy, this guy was a million years old and super nice that he's volunteering his time, but just so slow. He'd, he'd grab one ballot and if you're old enough is like Tim Conway and Carol Burnett 60 years ago on television. Just shuffle over really, really slow to where you put the ballot it and then he'd slide it in the hole and he'd miss a couple of times and he'd get it in there and he'd turn around for the next one in. The line is getting long. No. Would you like a I voted sticker? And people would say yes and then he'd have to turn around again and shuffle over to where the stickers are. Oh my God. So the line just kept stretching and stretching and stretching. I thought that was so hilarious. Any who that was the voting experience yesterday. I was just blown away by somebody who doesn't know their address or last address. Like I said, I'll give you a pats. Maybe you're a college kid, you just moved, you don't know the dorm address or something, but you don't have a previous address.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, you're either on mushrooms or you're a moron. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Okay. Do you want to know about this? Do we have an ad we have to do? Okay. Do not touch that dial because you're about to learn about this. This flesh eating worm that's going to come into America.

[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

I'll be vague about where I got this information. It's from a regular texter who works in the federal government. I don't want to get them in trouble, but they had a briefing training just yesterday. That's how new this news is that Heather brought us about 15, 20 minutes ago on this new world screw worm. That's 25 miles from the border. Is that what Heather said?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Coming up from South America. It's a certain type of fly that lays eggs that turn into maggots. But unlike the maggots, most of us are familiar with it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Only old American maggots.

[Joe Getty]

It doesn't grow on dead things like old meat or a dead, dead animal. It only eats live flesh. The flies lay eggs on live warm blooded creatures. I guess the photos of it and what it does are pretty disgusting.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I've seen them as horrifying. They get cattle a lot, I guess.

[Joe Getty]

This person mentions that the Pennis is a common place that they end up.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh boy.

[Joe Getty]

Inside nostrils.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh boy. So to pick a favorite there. Glad you stay tuned folks.

[Joe Getty]

Well, it's something to be aware of. Watch out for.

[Jack Armstrong]

Watch out for it. Yes. How does that work exactly? Try not to let a fly penetrate my. You know.

[Joe Getty]

Hey honey, will you look at this? Does this look like maggots? Does this look like I got maggots eating?

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh no. See, that's disgusting. Stop.

[Joe Getty]

Well, I hope it doesn't start spreading around everyone.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's right.

[Joe Getty]

Be afraid. Be very afraid. So we Got a mailbag on the way. Stay right here.

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wrestling.com I do want to talk later about the whole character character issue in politics, whether it still matters or not. It's kind of having a minor resurgence around this Platner guy up in Maine, but we'll see particularly around fidelity in your marriage. I thought we had moved on after Clinton and Trump and a number of other people. People.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. But there's so much more to it than that. We can discuss that in a minute. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Continuing on the theme of optimism, a couple of quotes from some of my favorite works of fiction. First of all, Tolkien in the Return of the King in this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure. That's straight out of the Bible, actually, more or less. And then William Goldman wrote this for the Princess Bride. We'll never survive. Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has. What a wonderful movie. Rob Reiner. Too bad his son was a crazy drug addict. Mailbag, [e-mail] Kids don't do the hard drugs ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. Let's see. Brian from Santa Rosa writes, I finally got my mom, who died in 1999, off the voter registration rolls in Cal Unicornia. However, my brother has at least four ballots mailed to four different addresses, including mine. It's frustrating sometimes to have values because I know which way he votes and it's the direct opposite of me. Same with two of my daughters who blah blah blah. I've told them every vote counts. Vote every time you get a chance. One person, one vote. So much easier to be a Democrat, especially in California.

[Joe Getty]

So I got a ballot it that I could drop off. If I had dropped that off yesterday, would they have caught that I voted in person and through the mail? It seems unlikely.

[Jack Armstrong]

No idea. Let's see. David writes. David in Sacramento, why the f do we even pay attention to polls? Which polls?

[Joe Getty]

All of them.

[Jack Armstrong]

What? You can't buy any election in California. Sorry, Tom Steyer. Now please go away. Buy an island where you can perform all your silly environmental wishes. I have a wee bit of hope for our state. Not much, but a wee bit.

[Joe Getty]

Tom Steyer, the billionaire who looks like it's not going to make the top two. Spent $200 billion of his own money to try to become governor of California.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's a lot. Billionbillion. Million. Sorry.

[Joe Getty]

200 million. $200 million of your own money to be. To be governor. I mean if you were trying to be president, that would be an. That a crazy amount of money.

[Jack Armstrong]

Boy, you're right. Yeah. I can't remember where I was reading. He is so far left of like Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom is Ronald Reagan compared to Tom Steyer. Yeah, I mean that would be. You would see people leaving California by the millions if Steyer got into office. He is a strange character.

[Joe Getty]

I wonder what kind of personal rejection that feels like. If you spend $200 million in one state race and you. And you can't make the top three.

[Jack Armstrong]

I hope it's good and humiliating. Let's see. Nick the Plumber writes guys, two things. The IRGC we're switching to Iran now is stalling knowing that Dems will help them after the midterms. I wouldn't be surprised if Democratic leaders have been in contact with Iran's leadership regarding this subject. I don't know about that, but there is historical precedent for that. See Nixon and North Vietnam. Iran already has a nuke. They have all the parts. They have ICBMs. The current 60% breakout uranium can be finished in two weeks if not fully enriched already it's like saying I don't have a gun but I have all the pieces and ammo. You can assemble the gun in five minutes. Um, I think it's a boy who called Wolf scenario because of Iraq and Afghanistan but the threat is real. And then he says by the way, Jack is the stupidest genius that I've ever heard. I love him but he is annoying. 25 year listener Nick the Plumber. Thanks for listening Nick.

[Joe Getty]

I am annoying.

[Jack Armstrong]

The great music radio personality. Radio personality Don Geronimo once often referred to himself as the world's stupidest millionaire. Moving along, this is at least semi interesting on the story about the young man who had a bluetooth device labeled bomb on the airplane. And the pilots we, we played this audio yesterday said okay, somebody thinks they're going to be funny but now we've got to go back to New York or Newark whatever it is they were trying to fly to Spain. Got this from David. The hello T tech speaker branded as the bomb speaker is apparently named bomb by factory settings. Their website crashed shortly after the incident. With everyone researching it, somebody at the company is probably now in the unemployment line. It Appears the kid is not directly at fault from packing a suitcase in a way that turned the speaker on. Appeared to be in checked luggage so he could not turn it off. Wow. Interesting.

[Joe Getty]

And as I always like to point out, when they grab your toothpaste and hold it in front of you and then drop it in the trash, you didn't actually stop a terrorist attack. Okay. You followed some rules that might be helpful to stop terrorist attacks, but in most cases are not. But they're just inconvenient for everyone. You didn't stop a terrorist attack. You just followed to the letter the rules. With all of you knowing there wasn't actually a bomb involved here.

[Jack Armstrong]

There's got to be a. You know, that's the Jones principle or the iron law of something or other that the purpose is lost in the.

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Yeah. Let's see. I thought this was interesting from the stick. I just read about Scott Pelley's hissy fit at CBS and then cuts coming to NBC. I expect ABC to produce drag queen dramas soon. Cable companies continue to grasp at diminishing returns by relentlessly pricing more people out of the market. To say nothing of the crap programming anyone can afford. You're witnessing history, folks. 1944 with World War II still in fury. This is World War 11, if you're lying. Ilhan Omar, by the way, he writes There were only 44,000 households with TV's 1949 when our family got our first first I was four years old, but there were only four. There were already 40 million. Programming grew, desirability grew, families grew, the sets became attractive. The shows dazzled. Our entire family life grew up around the entertainment news and abundance of selections. Those days are flat over.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

And. And in short, we're just moving on to a different age of communication. Clearly.

[Joe Getty]

But not better I don't think. Which is a problem.

[Jack Armstrong]

Better in some ways worse than others. How it nets out is, you know, in the eye of the beholder, I guess.

[Joe Getty]

Awful. That's how it's going to net out. Or so how it's netting out so far.

[Jack Armstrong]

JT in Livermore actually makes a great point about the Democrat you quoted on Mark Halperin show admitting that he had deceived himself about Biden's mental deficiency. Yeah, we really don't have time to get into that. But boy, we've got some interesting stuff on why Jill Biden's book tour actually

[Joe Getty]

matters and similar topic like to talk about that. That ability to deceive yourself because you want a certain outcome is something we should all be very aware of in our lives or how susceptible we are to it. We got a lot on the way. If you missed a segment, get the Podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand

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[News Reporter]

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[Joe Getty]

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