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Speaker 1:
[00:06] Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Speaker 2:
[00:14] Armstrong and Getty.

Speaker 3:
[00:16] And now, here's Armstrong and Getty.

Speaker 4:
[00:28] Live from Studio C.

Speaker 5:
[00:31] C, senor.

Speaker 4:
[00:32] Welcome to Little Friday. How y'all doing? Today, we are toiling under the title of the show.

Speaker 5:
[00:37] There's no debate. California's screwed up. Or the war is canceled for low ratings.

Speaker 4:
[00:44] Oh, that's a good one. What's that all about? The fact that nobody's paying attention?

Speaker 5:
[00:48] Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's just... And it's entered kind of a static phase where Iran's not letting the ships through the strait and we're blockading their ports and we're just putting the economic squeeze on them. Nobody's paying attention.

Speaker 4:
[01:05] This isn't static. This is not getting much reporting. I only heard it one place, taking in all the news today. We boarded three ships a thousand miles away from Iran in Asian waters full of Iranian oil. Why isn't that getting more attention? That seems like a big deal. It's not just the blockade around that little straight of Hormuz. We're taking on ships on, you know, a long, long, long, long way away, making sure the oil doesn't get to India or China or wherever the heck it was headed.

Speaker 5:
[01:38] Well, you're talking about a spinoff to a very low-rated show. So nobody's paying attention to the spinoff either.

Speaker 4:
[01:44] Man, that seems like a big deal to me. I can't imagine that India and China are happy about that.

Speaker 5:
[01:49] And I'm in a bit of a mood because even the Wall Street Journal, which is generally editorially conservative, but they've got a lot of journalists who are young progressives, but they had a big article about the situation in the straight and the blockade and the rest of it. And the entire thing was about how, oh, that could escalate. It could turn into violence. It could mean the return of violence. It could spiral out of control. And it was an alleged news article, not an editorial, but it never even mentioned that, well, it's a specific strategy of putting the economic squeeze on the IRGC so they have to capitulate without violence. It just didn't even concede that truth. And it very much smacked of the 21st century where nobody's even curious about the facts or wants to know what's actually happening. They just want to go immediately to the debate, right to the spin room. Kind of frustrating.

Speaker 4:
[02:45] So here's my explaining away Trump's stuff, three-dimensional chess thing I was thinking about last night. Maybe all this back and forth and the big threats and then you delay again, everything like that, is to distract from the fact that we have a blockade in place on a major country. And it kind of like is flying under the radar. That's a major act of war to blockade a country and try to starve it out. And it like, it's not even being seen as controversial because he's got all that other noise above it. I don't know if he's doing it on purpose that way or not, but it just kind of is flying under the radar. And I feel like if you didn't have all the other noise, there'd be protests in the street about blockading and children not getting their food or whatever.

Speaker 5:
[03:30] Right, right. Gosh, I wish I could remember who wrote this. They deserve the discredit for it. It's some former cabinet secretary or a Ben Rhodes type or something like that, a big heavyweight in democratic politics, who actually suggested, and this was this week, that the whole Iran thing was really just to distract from Epstein. I'm like, oh my Lord. This is okay. All right. We've regressed as a country. We were a child, rose up on our feet. We fought the British. We were a scrappy young adult, and we achieved a little toughness and wisdom. And now we've regressed to like a second adolescence, where we're just, just snarling and sneering and hate everything again. And we just, we're not a serious people. Oh well, what are you gonna do?

Speaker 4:
[04:19] Two more quick Iran things, and then I'll shut up about it, since as Joe points out, nobody's interested. All over Tehran, there are giant billboards and wall murals saying, the control of the Strait of Hormuz will be Iran's forever. It's like trying to rally the people around this, like it's ours and we control it sort of thing. And I don't know who's paying for that or putting those up, but that's interesting. And then the good news that Trump says Iran won't execute eight women after he demanded their release. Part of the whole negotiations, he said don't kill those eight women, who varied in age from 16 to 34, I think, protesters. One of them of accused of helping an injured protester. That's what they were going to be hung for.

Speaker 5:
[05:02] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[05:03] Not unbelievable.

Speaker 5:
[05:04] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[05:05] What country is that?

Speaker 5:
[05:06] Anyway, and of course, the brutes in Iran are saying, well, we're never going to execute them. We haven't conceded anything. They just lie about everything.

Speaker 4:
[05:15] I'm glad they're not going to execute them. I'm guessing their stay in prison hasn't been violence free, but just just horrible, absolutely horrible. All right, we're going to start the show officially just because this clip is going to lead us to more conversation. From the debate last night in California, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is, how did it get to be Thursday, April 23rd, the year 2026, where Armstrong and Getty will be approved of this program.

Speaker 5:
[05:40] Well, let's begin then, officially, according to FCC rules and regulations. Here we go at Mark. What grade would you give him on homelessness? And what, if anything, would you do differently?

Speaker 4:
[05:49] You have 60 seconds.

Speaker 6:
[05:50] I'm a notoriously tough grader, but I would probably give him a B on homelessness. I don't think this has been an easy problem to solve, but I do give him a lot of credit for calling attention to the problem. He campaigned eight years ago. He was talking about housing when nobody else was.

Speaker 2:
[06:06] Well, by the way, I'd love to be in your class, Katie, if you get a B for what Gavin Newsom's done on homelessness, my goodness.

Speaker 5:
[06:14] Amen to that. It's a zombie apocalypse around the radio ranch.

Speaker 4:
[06:18] The two Republicans gave Gavin Newsom an F on his efforts at doing something about the homeless situation. The Democrats all gave him Bs or As. Yeah.

Speaker 5:
[06:29] As! Well, keeping in mind that their goal is to distribute as much cash to their cronies as is humanly possible. So on that level, Gavin Newsom absolutely deserves an A.

Speaker 4:
[06:40] I should just take my phone and go walk out around the radio station and you can see the success of the homeless program. And that didn't exist not that many years ago. And now it's just all over the place.

Speaker 5:
[06:50] It would take you roughly 20 minutes to compile a video so devastating as to reduce Katie Porter's claim to hilarious laughter. I mean, it would take you 20 minutes to produce that documentary total, including the walking.

Speaker 4:
[07:07] Anyway, I thought it was interesting. I think it was at the LA Times or the New York Times, somebody writing about the California governor's race. Speaking of nobody caring, and this might be just a national problem in general, nobody cares. Nobody cares about the California governor's race in California, let alone those of you who live other places according to the LA Times. Just all their polling shows, people aren't paying attention. So don't pay attention to the war. Don't pay attention to who's governor. What do we pay attention to? I guess, let us TikTok challenge of short videos, short videos, whatever.

Speaker 5:
[07:40] That was unnecessarily harsh because they are entertaining, but we are dumbing ourselves down to the point of drooling morons.

Speaker 4:
[07:48] What kind of shark video do you watch? Sharks doing what?

Speaker 5:
[07:50] Short videos, short videos.

Speaker 7:
[07:51] Oh, I thought you said shark videos.

Speaker 4:
[07:54] Did you think he said shark, Katie? Yeah, we both thought you said shark videos.

Speaker 5:
[07:57] Well, now I do enjoy a good shark video. Shark videos are exempt from short videos, because they're fascinating beasts, Katie. Nature's great survivors.

Speaker 3:
[08:10] Shark videos, shark videos.

Speaker 5:
[08:12] No, I'm in favor of those, sorry.

Speaker 4:
[08:14] Had a bit of a short bus sound to it.

Speaker 3:
[08:16] It so did.

Speaker 4:
[08:18] But you are right, we are all addicted. We want short, entertaining videos.

Speaker 5:
[08:25] Shark or otherwise, yeah.

Speaker 4:
[08:26] Music, sports highlights, new dances, somebody falling down in an amusing way.

Speaker 2:
[08:34] A good kick to the crotch.

Speaker 4:
[08:35] Kick in the crotch.

Speaker 5:
[08:36] People taking a beating, right? I watched a good beating video yesterday.

Speaker 3:
[08:40] Oh, the ring camera fails are my new favorites.

Speaker 4:
[08:43] Ring camera fails, right.

Speaker 5:
[08:44] Also a strong genre, yes.

Speaker 4:
[08:47] Boat docking fails. There are so many things to pay attention to other than who's governor or a war.

Speaker 5:
[08:52] Porch pirate pranks, a favorite of mine.

Speaker 3:
[08:55] Oh, the exploding packages.

Speaker 5:
[08:57] Yeah, often now faked up though.

Speaker 4:
[09:00] They sullied such an honored tradition. They ruined it.

Speaker 5:
[09:04] What about the sacred tradition? Yeah. Oh boy, we're adobe people.

Speaker 4:
[09:08] So we're addicted to short shark videos and that is our problem. Okay, so we've got Katie's headlines on the way and we'll get into more news. Stay here.

Speaker 1:
[09:16] Armstrong & Getty.

Speaker 4:
[09:19] Failed to mention that the person currently leading in the governor's race, who was on the debate stage last night, Steve Hilton, is on our program in about an hour or so. So we will talk to him about the state of things.

Speaker 5:
[09:32] Looking forward to that. Man, I'm scrambling. I'm running behind, partly because my printer's being a little B this morning. You know, what's really driving me nuts is I keep thinking, all right, I got to do like the uninstall, reinstall, just the complete reboot thing. But then every time I've given up on it, it clicks one more time, then starts to whirr a little bit. And then I'm like, oh, okay, maybe it's working. And I look, no, it's not doing anything. All right, screw it. And then it clicks and whirs a little more. It's screwing with me.

Speaker 4:
[09:56] There's nothing I hate more than stuff like that. Nothing.

Speaker 5:
[10:00] Really?

Speaker 4:
[10:01] I'd rather have a broken bone then. You need to update your software or this firmware doesn't match up with your current whatever.

Speaker 5:
[10:08] Not communism, not racism.

Speaker 4:
[10:11] That's what I hate the most.

Speaker 3:
[10:14] Order a new printer and then take that one outside and beat it with a baseball bat at such a good time.

Speaker 4:
[10:19] I've done it. I've posted the video, smashed it into tiny pieces.

Speaker 5:
[10:22] Barbaric!

Speaker 4:
[10:23] Piece of crap.

Speaker 5:
[10:24] Wow. Wow. Oh, man. Somebody get this guy on the couch. Boiling anger. All right. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie, hit it.

Speaker 3:
[10:34] All right. He's starting with the Alphabet Networks, ABC, maritime tracking groups say Iranian oil is passing through the US blockade. CNN, Iran said it received first fee from Strait of Hormuz tolls amid the stalemate with the United States.

Speaker 5:
[10:50] And the problem with that is that you've got like every terrorist gang and criminal gang on earth transmitting to the ships. Yeah, this is the IRGC. You need to wire us like three million bucks worth of Bitcoin now and we'll just let you right through the Strait of Hormuz, no problem. But every joker with a radio is doing it now, I guess.

Speaker 3:
[11:10] Yeah. And NBC, US boards another tanker as Iran as Iran blockade standoff snarls the Hormuz.

Speaker 4:
[11:19] Yeah. And then we boarded those tankers a thousand miles away also. So how did they get through? Did they leave from a different port or did they get through before the blockade? I'd like to know more details on that.

Speaker 5:
[11:30] Yeah, there might be a few leaking through maybe for the reasons you cited, but it's not many.

Speaker 3:
[11:37] From the New York Times, Navy secretary is fired as infighting royals the Pentagon.

Speaker 4:
[11:44] Yeah, it seems like a heck of a thing. The Navy, the secretary of the Navy got fired in the midst of the biggest blockade we've attempted in since World War II.

Speaker 5:
[11:54] As this conflict was boiling up, Pete fired the secretary of the Army or the head officer, the head general of the Army. Really cleaning house. And interestingly, the secretary of the Navy is a good friend of Trump's, too. But he's been clashing with Pete.

Speaker 4:
[12:14] Particularly not moving fast enough on the whole, we need to build boats again, things.

Speaker 5:
[12:19] Allegedly.

Speaker 4:
[12:20] Allegedly.

Speaker 3:
[12:23] This one from The Hill. House Judiciary Democrats demand Cash Patel take alcohol disorders test following the Atlantic Report.

Speaker 4:
[12:35] What's the limit on how much you're allowed to drink to be in office? And when did that start?

Speaker 5:
[12:40] Yeah. Well, yesterday we learned, allegedly, his staff had to purchase like battering rams and the jaws of life to get into his office when he's so drunk you can't wake him up.

Speaker 4:
[12:52] I'm more interested in the FBI story now. I don't know if you have that one of him using the FBI to investigate a reporter who did a story about his girlfriend, about Cash Patel's girlfriend.

Speaker 3:
[13:00] Oh, I saw something about that.

Speaker 4:
[13:01] If that happened, that'd be outrageous and in keeping with lots of things the FBI has done over many, many decades.

Speaker 3:
[13:10] Jack, this one's for you. From The Washington Post. Stressed? Just a couple of minutes of meditation a day can help.

Speaker 4:
[13:17] It does help. And if I ever skip it, which I don't very often, it's very noticeable very quickly. I swear by the meditation thing.

Speaker 7:
[13:26] Good.

Speaker 3:
[13:27] From The New York Post. Invasive, quote, crazy worms. Confirmed in California and there's no way to kill them.

Speaker 7:
[13:36] Okay.

Speaker 3:
[13:38] That's a shame.

Speaker 4:
[13:38] Like, do they get into my body or into my garden?

Speaker 3:
[13:41] No, they get into your garden and they're called Asian jumping worms.

Speaker 4:
[13:45] That's a good name.

Speaker 3:
[13:46] I saw a video. I saw a shark video. Shark video of these things and they are, they look like cocaine worms.

Speaker 4:
[13:55] How high can they jump?

Speaker 3:
[13:58] I don't know.

Speaker 4:
[13:59] Like eye level?

Speaker 3:
[14:01] No, no, like a couple of inches.

Speaker 4:
[14:03] All right.

Speaker 3:
[14:05] Higher than they should be able to. True.

Speaker 5:
[14:07] Higher than you want them to.

Speaker 4:
[14:08] Yes.

Speaker 3:
[14:10] USA Today. Another weird one. Goldfish earns Guinness World Record for driving.

Speaker 5:
[14:17] All right. That is so clearly click bait. I won't have it.

Speaker 4:
[14:23] I'm not clicking on it.

Speaker 3:
[14:25] OK, well, an engineer created a motion sensing vehicle and put his goldfish named Blub inside of it, and the goldfish was able to make it move.

Speaker 5:
[14:36] All right, then.

Speaker 3:
[14:37] All right. Kind of cool. I don't know. I thought it was neat.

Speaker 7:
[14:40] Goldfish. Yeah.

Speaker 5:
[14:41] Well, go watch a short video.

Speaker 3:
[14:42] Didn't realize I was on here with a bunch of naysayers today.

Speaker 5:
[14:46] Yes. Nay, nay.

Speaker 7:
[14:47] All right. Here.

Speaker 3:
[14:48] How about this? Study finds. Nearly two in five Americans went no contact with a loved one this year.

Speaker 4:
[14:58] What was the percentage?

Speaker 3:
[14:59] Two in five.

Speaker 5:
[15:01] Like, what do you mean went no contact?

Speaker 3:
[15:04] Went no contact, meaning they cut off a loved one rather than try to work through whatever the problem was. They just went no contact, cut them off.

Speaker 4:
[15:13] I know a couple people who did it.

Speaker 3:
[15:16] I do as well.

Speaker 4:
[15:17] So that brings true.

Speaker 5:
[15:20] Wow. What? Is that a symptom of something?

Speaker 4:
[15:24] We'll have to talk about that later. I think it's a symptom of how connected we are. With texting and phones and everything like that. That if you want to distance yourself from someone, you have to, you almost have to do this.

Speaker 3:
[15:38] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[15:39] Not like the old days where just, okay, I'm not sending you a letter again or calling, but there's just so many ways to get a hold of people. Anyway, we'll have to talk about that later. That's an interesting phenomenon.

Speaker 3:
[15:50] Yeah. One note about this, it leaned very heavily towards Gen Z being the main.

Speaker 4:
[15:55] No way. You should have told me to sit down before you told me that.

Speaker 3:
[15:59] I'm sure. Just knocked you right on your hind. All right, Babylon Bee, here we go. New Ayatollah agrees to surrender, but only if JD Vance wears this cute little sailor outfit.

Speaker 5:
[16:13] Wow. According to a big New York Times story that cites many insiders in Tehran, WeirdBeard Jr. is alive and kicking, but hidden deep, deep within the bowels of the complexes there with his doctors and nurses nursing his injuries.

Speaker 4:
[16:30] Does he have any say in anything?

Speaker 5:
[16:32] Yeah, they described him as kind of the chairman of a board of directors who just always says yes to what the board says, and the board is the IRGC.

Speaker 4:
[16:39] And I think it's kind of interesting that this story comes out now, that they decided, hey, we got to let the world know he's still alive and calling some shots that they are having a real who's in charge here problem right now.

Speaker 3:
[16:52] Is he actually kicking? Because I thought his legs got blown off.

Speaker 5:
[16:56] It's an expression.

Speaker 3:
[16:56] Oh, okay.

Speaker 5:
[16:57] So not to be taken literally alive and laying, lying.

Speaker 4:
[17:02] Probably not doing a lot of kicking.

Speaker 5:
[17:04] No, no, not in the conventional sense.

Speaker 4:
[17:07] No, we will catch you up on more of the stories of the day. If you missed a segment of the podcast, Armstrong & Getty On Demand.

Speaker 1:
[17:17] Armstrong & Getty.

Speaker 7:
[17:20] This universe, Puerto Rico, has announced its second transgender contestant, Gabrielle Rodriguez-Velequez. Her talent, writing her name in the snow.

Speaker 5:
[17:35] Oh, Greg. Well, that was well-played. Oh, didn't see that coming.

Speaker 4:
[17:43] Also later, AI robots can now beat us at ping-pong, so there's another thing, another job they've taken, best ping-pong player is...

Speaker 5:
[17:51] I wouldn't have to be very good. I'm pretty mediocre.

Speaker 4:
[17:54] It goes to the AI robots, but what that means for their mobility and coordination, that's the thing. It's not winning the ping-pong, it's... Oh.

Speaker 5:
[18:06] Hey, and if I might tout the Armstrong & Getty On Demand podcast, yesterday, the 22nd of April, hour four, we talked about an absolutely, this ends the discussion, Finnish meta study of kids who get the sex change, hormones and surgeries and the rest of it, and how it has been a miserable failure. It's a therapy that's not a therapy. There's just no arguing otherwise at this point. It is done, done, done. Again, that was hour four of yesterday. You can get it via podcast, Armstrong & Getty On Demand. You subscribe, it downloads automatically. Wouldn't that be luxurious?

Speaker 4:
[18:43] That was on the special Earth Day show.

Speaker 5:
[18:46] Correct.

Speaker 4:
[18:46] We have some breaking news that I wasn't planning on talking about. A lot of you hippies have been wanting this for a long time. You dope addicted hippies. What? Breaking news, the Trump administration has reclassified medical marijuana as a lower risk drug in an effort to boost medical research, something that should have happened a long time ago.

Speaker 5:
[19:05] Yeah, I would agree. It's all about research, not about teenagers ruining their brains. We got to figure out what this stuff does and what it doesn't do and get a little science behind it.

Speaker 4:
[19:13] So I want to revisit this story of paying racists to be racist so you can comment on how much racism there is that we got in yesterday with the SPLC, that'd be the Southern Poverty Law Center, which my whole adult life mainstream media has been taking completely serious. A new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center says, white supremacy is the number one threat to America. And then all the politicians talk about it as if it's true.

Speaker 5:
[19:39] There are 20% more hate groups in the US than there were just five years ago.

Speaker 4:
[19:46] And if you're a news junkie, you probably have heard the story already that they were paying a bunch of people in different organizations various amounts of money. Now, whether or not this crosses the line into like they're actually supporting the groups so that they could comment on how much racism was as opposed to like, just like, you know, like the cops pay in a stool pigeon in a drug gang.

Speaker 5:
[20:12] Yeah, the SPLC is saying, yeah, they were undercover operatives, so we could keep an eye on these awful groups.

Speaker 4:
[20:17] Well, are you buying that? I don't know that I'm buying that.

Speaker 5:
[20:20] No, no, absolutely not.

Speaker 4:
[20:21] It was a lot of leadership in all these various groups. Now, the one that's getting the most attention is how they paid just shy of two million dollars to a couple of dudes that ended up being involved in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. That's the, they will not replace this handful of doofuses marching around with torches. And then another doofus drove his car into the crowd and killed somebody, which is what got so much attention for this event, otherwise it probably would have disappeared into the ether. Joe Biden says that seeing the veins bulging on those hateful people with the torches is what caused him to run for president. Of course, ignoring the fact that you have veins bulging in the exact same direction over the exact same issue on the campus of Columbia University, for instance, and you got nothing to say about it. But anyway, they were the SPLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center was secretly bankrolling major figures in this group, including the guy, one of the people that was involved in planning it, like was in the meetings on when we're gonna have it and how we're gonna pull it off. And then another guy who was picking people up and driving them to the rally. I mean, that's pretty close to funding a racist rally so that you can then comment on how awful the racist rally is, isn't it?

Speaker 5:
[21:52] Well, and again, you keep saying comment on it. The SPLC exists to raise money. That's all they do. They are a money laundering outfit. They're very highly rated, one of our listeners pointed out on Charity Navigator, because they're open, their accounting is open, they're more than willing to have you look at the books, although these were secret books. But yeah, they have to have scary, scary, right-wingy groups to raise money. So they, you know, finance them. I mean, if you're a chairman of turnout, all right, Jim, you're in charge of making sure there's a good-sized crowd is on the employ of the SPLC, what are we doing here?

Speaker 4:
[22:33] Yeah, the FBI alleges that about $270,000 was paid between 2015 and 2023 by the SPLC to a source who was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the rally, attended the event at the direction of the SPLC, made racist postings online under the supervision of the SPLC. The SPLC actually telling them what racist postings to make so that they could then go on cable news and say, and we've found these online. And then your point is then they fundraise off of that.

Speaker 5:
[23:04] But right, this is straight out of the old-timey book of The Exterminator that would show up to your house and like toss cockroaches into the corner. Say, oh my goodness, you have a problem. That's the SPLC. That's exactly what they are.

Speaker 4:
[23:19] Right.

Speaker 5:
[23:20] I mean, I'm not saying there are no hate groups, but please, they're inconsequential. They're useless. You're worried about hate. Go on college campuses like Jack pointed out.

Speaker 4:
[23:28] I forgot to point out the headline and where I'm getting this from. This is Dan McLaughlin's piece in the National Review and his headline is SPLC indicted for gain of function research into racism, which is pretty clever.

Speaker 5:
[23:41] That is good.

Speaker 4:
[23:42] That is pretty clever. Other dubious recipients with leadership positions in extremist groups allegedly included a former Imperial Wizard of the United Clans of America, a person who led the National Socialist Party of America, that would be your Nazis, was the former director of a faction of the Aryan Nations, a former chairman of the National Alliance, which is a super right wing, waits for the report. The reported national president of American Front, who was a convicted federal felon for his participation in a cross burning, and a Klan member who was the spouse of a different exalted cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan. It's nice that those two people got together and got married. They found love.

Speaker 5:
[24:21] Boy, if you were going for an office in the Klan, would you want to be an exalted cyclops or a grand imperial dragon? Tough choice.

Speaker 4:
[24:29] Those are good titles. Oh yeah. Wow. In other words, Dan McLaughlin writes, this wasn't just a matter of paying the small fish in these groups to rat out the big ones. The SPLC was allegedly bankrolling the leaders. It's hard to argue that that played no role in helping such fringe organizations, which by their natural run on a financial shoestring, because there's not much support for them out there.

Speaker 5:
[24:56] No, because they're stupid.

Speaker 4:
[24:57] And tend to be led by the kind of people who are not employed in prestigious fields. In other words, stupid. So you got stupid people with no money. You bring in smart people and give them money. It's pretty hard to claim that that didn't help the racist group become a big enough thing that then you could go on MSNBC and say, our latest studies show that there are more white supremacy groups than ever. Because you're paying them.

Speaker 5:
[25:22] And they're more active than ever. They're rallied to 140 people, thanks to our efforts. They are tossing mouse dung in the corner of the restaurant, then shrieking, oh, you need our services. It's so blatant.

Speaker 4:
[25:36] It really is. It's a guy who carries around cockroaches in his pocket.

Speaker 5:
[25:43] Oh, man. And the mainstream media, of course, just laps it up.

Speaker 4:
[25:47] The pain, the leadership of these things.

Speaker 5:
[25:50] I know.

Speaker 4:
[25:51] If you really cared about white supremacy and hate groups and everything like that, I mean, if you can get to the leadership, you'd want to try to like shut down the organization, stop them, stop the big rally and all that sort of stuff, and not fund them and make sure more people show up.

Speaker 5:
[26:07] Right. Well, if the leadership is that riddled with agents of the SPLC, why don't they just quit? And then you wouldn't have an organization at all. Right? If you're willing to turn, you know, turncoat and inform the SPLC, you're really not that into your organization.

Speaker 4:
[26:23] It reminds me a little of that so-called kidnapping plot about Gretchen, or the governor of Michigan, where there were so many FBI agents involved, at some point you just got to think, if we weren't here, would this even be happening? So I think the same thing with like the Charlottesville rally. If you didn't have the guy who planned it, the guy who was leading it, the guy that was making all the racist posts online, and the guy who drove by everybody's houses to pick them up and take them to the rally, would it have even happened is a good question.

Speaker 5:
[26:58] Hey, SPLC, this is Clem. We've run out of money to buy torches. Can you send us another five grand to buy torches? Because we feel like if we don't have tiki torches, it's not going to be nearly scary. All right. God dang it. We'll send you another 5K. They better be good-looking torches.

Speaker 4:
[27:16] I can't wait till this actually goes to trial and we learn more about it.

Speaker 5:
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Speaker 4:
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Speaker 5:
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Speaker 4:
[28:39] So then do you got to like actually figure out like down to the details, like who gets my watch or your golf clubs or?

Speaker 5:
[28:47] It's entirely up to you.

Speaker 4:
[28:48] But you can customize it. But you don't have to.

Speaker 5:
[28:51] No.

Speaker 4:
[28:51] Because who wants to think about that?

Speaker 5:
[28:53] Right, right. Yeah, it's-

Speaker 4:
[28:56] Which kid do you like better? Is that how you do it?

Speaker 5:
[29:00] Want me to rank them or what?

Speaker 4:
[29:02] Maybe have a foot race. We're gonna have a foot race this Saturday afternoon. Whoever is the fastest gets my stuff.

Speaker 5:
[29:09] That would be interesting. My son is very tall. I give him the edge. Yeah, at some point, I may write up something more specific, but it's the big stuff that matters. It tears families apart. My daughter was working in, interning for a family law firm over the summer, last summer, and one of her good law school buddies was doing the same thing, but family law for like indigent folks or folks with no money to pay lawyers that the state would pay and stuff. Oh my God, the soap opera, the anger, the hatred, people tearing themselves apart over an inconsequential amount of money and wanting to spend $500 so he doesn't get $200. Oh, it's amazing. Right.

Speaker 4:
[29:54] I've personally known several people that don't speak to their brother or their mom or whoever anymore because of this sort of thing. And it can get very ugly very fast. I mean, just a couple of examples that I know of, I think that are common are, so we're going to split this equally even though I lived near mom and dad and took care of them all the time and you never had to do anything. You know, that sort of conversation.

Speaker 5:
[30:23] That's a good one. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, well, you got to put in writing trustandwill.com/armstrong, 20% off.

Speaker 4:
[30:29] Or the other side of that being the you only went, you don't even like mom. The only reason you went over to her house and made dinner for every Sunday was because of this. I've heard that one too.

Speaker 5:
[30:41] To get more on the will. Oh, no. Dysfunction. Dysfunction Junction. What's your function? I have my favorite new phrase, and then we really got to take a break. But evidently there's a court case that's working its way to trial. Bitter, bitter fight between Elon Musk and Sam Altman and a couple of other players involved, like the super heavyweights of tech, including Jeff Bezos and what's-his-name, Satan, appears in it as well. Zuckerberg. Old Scratch. Old Scratch, and the description by one tech, I think he was a journalist. Oh, no, he's a lawyer. He said, we're about to witness the landing of the Hindenburg on the deck of the Titanic.

Speaker 4:
[31:27] Oh, awesome.

Speaker 5:
[31:28] Yeah, that's some really good imagery. We know it's going to be crazy and nasty. We'll have a preview for you coming up.

Speaker 4:
[31:34] I look forward to that. We need something new to talk about. That's fantastic. We'll get to that in an hour or two. We got Mailbag next.

Speaker 1:
[31:40] Armstrong & Getty.

Speaker 4:
[31:44] I definitely want to hear that. It's the battle between Elon and Altman and Zuckerberg and Bezos and all that sort of stuff. We'll get into that in an hour or two.

Speaker 7:
[31:52] Things are getting weird and they're getting weird fast.

Speaker 5:
[31:54] Allegations of drug use, sexual impropriety. Disgusting, can't wait to get to it.

Speaker 4:
[31:59] What's that got to do with anything?

Speaker 5:
[32:01] Oh, it's, it's, it's lurid and exciting. That's what it has. It's entertainment. Yes. Bread circuses, yummy. Yummy bread, yummy circuses. Here's your freedom-loving quote of the day. There's something, something in this for everybody. Darren from Clover Tucky sent this one along. From the great Winston Churchill. The difference between humans and animals is that animals never allow a fool to lead the pack. Like Trump, shouts half the population. Like Biden and Cumberland, as well well, shouts the other half of the population.

Speaker 4:
[32:35] Next one, please.

Speaker 5:
[32:36] Something for everyone there. I hope you enjoyed it. Mailbag. Please feel free to drop us a note mailbag at armstrongandgetty.com. Let's start with philosophy and move on to grim reality. Adam has been listening for 21 years now. Thank you, Adam. Goodness sakes. My son is in the naval boot camp in Great Lakes and misses his daily dose of AG. I know that center very well there on Lake Michigan. Your thoughts and discussions on culture. I heard you quote GK. Chesterton. Have you read or heard of his cascade idea? It goes something like this. The theology flows to philosophy, which flows to ethics, which flows to culture, which flows to institutions and practices. Or what you believe about God, what you believe about the truth, what you believe is right and wrong, how people live, what society becomes. I have a hard time not seeing this head and have traveled and worked in 16 different countries.

Speaker 4:
[33:38] That would fit in with that book Dominion about how we're all swimming in the culture of Christianity. Whether you're a believer or not.

Speaker 5:
[33:47] Funny you should mention that or perfectly appropriate. You should mention that. He says, I'm reading and loving Dominion by Tom Holland. As a pastor, the question I wrestle with is, can we maintain what are essentially Christian values without embracing the Christian faith?

Speaker 4:
[34:02] Excellent question. I guess we'll find out. Although people are flying back to the stricter churches, your Orthodox Church, your Catholic Church, the young people are digging it.

Speaker 5:
[34:13] My thoughts, Adam, to dovetail with Jack's is, that is one of the most essential and fascinating questions ever asked, and maybe we'll spend a little more time on it later, but it's a great question. Maybe is the answer. How's that satisfying?

Speaker 4:
[34:27] Our super-smart atheist friends believe that, no, the structures of society don't need all that fairy tales of Christianity for it to work, but no society has shown this yet, as far as I know.

Speaker 5:
[34:42] Yeah, they would argue there can be morality without religion. We'll see. Let's see. On the topic of the Chinese toilet car, which we discussed yesterday, in China, I can understand it. You should look up traffic jams in China. You can literally be stuck for 24 hours in Chinese traffic jams.

Speaker 4:
[35:00] Oh, that's why they invented the toilet in the car. They have traffic jams way longer than ours.

Speaker 5:
[35:07] Yep.

Speaker 4:
[35:07] Okay, that makes sense.

Speaker 5:
[35:10] Let's see. Okay. It's about Trump not winning the war, writes another J in San Jose. Let's now Democrats talk about the war with Iran. They say Trump is losing. Trump is being manipulated. Trump doesn't know what he's doing. To them, this is about Trump, not American safety or the world order shipping commerce. Our political scientists have made a fatal error in their voter behavior calculations. They assume an informed and rational voter. For the most part, we are not. True. That's absolutely true. Yeah. Well, let's see. That's very serious. Let's go back to the SPLC. Ryan from Houston writes, Dear four men and one pregnant lady recognized as a hate group according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Yeah, we probably are a hate group. The SPLA seems to have down the same tactic that when government agencies are sending in undercover agents only to arrest other undercover agents. Anyway, screw the SPLC. Yeah. Yeah, agreed. Hilarious. Propping up racism so they can claim there's racism and raise boatloads of money. It's their business model. It's worked.

Speaker 4:
[36:12] We got a lot of good stuff lined up for our two, including we're to talk to Steve Hilton, the current leading contender to be governor of California, who participated in the debate last night. We'll talk to him about how it went. And he's still got his beard, which I think is a good move. All that and hour two. If you missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong & Getty On Demand.

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[36:31] Armstrong & Getty.