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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. Okay, so we're going to put up on the screen a few of the things that are part of your platform, and I want to ask you, just give me sort of a true or false on these. Abolish the Senate. True. Okay. Replace the presidency and Supreme Court as we now know them. Yep. Abolish ICE. Absolutely. Abolish borders and give amnesty to anyone currently in the U.S. illegally. As a long-term plan, yep. Defund the Pentagon. Absolutely. Abolish prisons, at least in large part. Yeah, again, as part of a long-term program, yeah. Okay, so no prisons. Government or public ownership of most large corporations. Yeah, absolutely. Well, you got to give them credit for saying it out loud. That's a representative for the Democratic Socialist of America, the DSA on the Fox News Sunday. May I paraphrase her first answer about the Senate and the president and the Supreme Court? We don't want any checks nor balances on our power. That's your message. Back to you. Well, as Charles C.W. Cook has been saying in writing about all this, what people need to understand, this is not a call for a change or an amendment or something. It's a call for a revolution that ends the union and the United States as a country. That's what you're saying. You want to end the United States and create something different. Sure. Yeah. Totally rip up the Constitution. No, they just want things to be slightly more like Sweden. Good Lord, wake up, idiots. It's time for tough talk, Jack. One of your pinky extended dabbing at your forehead with handkerchief rhetoric. Time for tough talk. So what did you want to do next? Oh, I thought you were going to take over with your boys. I thought you had a plan. I have no damn plan. How long have you been working with me? No, I kid. I mean, I can absolutely fashion a plan. I know you wanted to highlight. We'd asked for, I'd ask for John Stewart with Zohran Mamdani. We'd kind of ignored it last week. But I saw a couple of clips, and it just made me so sick. The way Stewart was just gushing and paling with them. And it just, oh, it was terrible. I haven't heard it. Yeah. Yeah. Let's go ahead with 81, Michael. If someone says, we're going to abolish all prisons and borders, like I do go, I don't think that's a good idea. Like, it feels like order and security is also a progressive value. Why shouldn't people in neighborhoods with less resources have the same safety and security that neighborhoods with lots of researchers? So are there tenants of those that are kind of following in the wake of Zohran Mamdani's success that you're not comfortable with?

or that give you pause. If you have more than one socialist in a room and there isn't disagreement, then you don't have more than one socialist in a room. So, but you're comfortable with those kinds of discussions. Well, I'm comfortable with disagreement, and I'm comfortable with disagreement that doesn't end the conversation entirely. Okay. Oh, that's so enlightened sounding. Yeah, if folks on the right of the aisle say, and we need to take care of the Jews, no, I'm not comfortable with that sort of disagreement. That's sick that's twisted, it's wrong, and I'm going to stand against it. That was such a phony answer. Well, and then they moved on from the, we're going to abolish prisons in the police very quickly without nailing down what he believes. Well, and the other thing I want to call out John Stewart for, the premise of that question, the way he phrased it was there are some people in the wake of Zohran Mamdani who believe this crazy ass. John. He's an active member of the, like the cabal of the Democratic Socialists of America who radicalized it toward communism. They're not following in his wake. He is them. Read his words. Good Lord. Well, Bill Maher drew very bright lines around this on his HBO show the other night. It's so, I would, if you had told me this is where we would be in, in 2026, back when what year was it I went to see Bill Maher at my local university here in town? He doesn't even speak at colleges anymore. Thank you, Gladys. He doesn't even speak at colleges anymore because they've gone so far away from him. I went and saw Bill Maher doing his politically incorrect thing at the University of California here in the town where I live. And I almost got up and left, and I thought, no, you can't be the guy who gets offended in leaves. That's ridiculous. But the crowd was cheering so much for this. crap that I thought Bill Maher was spewing, particularly this anti-religious crap that he was into and everything. I was just like, whatever. But now Bill Maher is like the only person standing up against on the left who's standing up against the crazies. Here's Bill Maher on Friday now. I thought this was just fantastic. Democrats seem to be having this debate, whether or not Zohran Mamdani is a socialist or a democratic socialist. Let me settle it. He's a straight-up communist. How do I know this? Well, I'm reading between the lines when one of his major advisors says, elect more communists.

Yeah, that's, I like that, as opposed to the way John Stewart handled it, whereas, you know, if you get two socialists in a room and don't misdegree, then, ah, and you just move off. We're friends, right? We're friends. He's a flat out communist. Here's Bill Maher. I wanted the other clip, actually, Michael, I'm sorry, the long one, explaining why he can't believe that people haven't caught on to this. Her name is Cia Weaver. And if you ask anyone in the blues. It starts there. Let me set it up. Otherwise it will make any sense. Bill Maher is talking about the woman that's in charge of housing for his administration and all the crazy things that she says where she calls herself a communist. She advocates communist policies. And everybody's ignoring the fact that Mumdottie's a straight-up communist. Okay, here we go. Her name is Sia Weaver, and if you ask anyone in the blue sky bubble, who that is, to look at you like a turkey looking up at the rain. She's kind of important in New York, being Major Zohran Mamdani's chief of the office to protect tenants, and since Zohran Mamdani's big issue is the rent's too damn high, it's a very key appointment in the most important city in the country, which is also our financial center. It matters that the mayor stands by, and so I assume stands with. Someone who says things like, if you don't believe in the government's sacred right to seize private property, it's over. Seize private property. Home ownership is racist. Elect more communists. Private property, especially home ownership, is a weapon of white supremacy. Really? Even among the 20 million black Americans who own their own home? And that's why Bill Maher went on to say for those in Democratic circles who are having the debate of whether is Zohran Mamdani a communist or a socialist, he's a straight up communist, which is a heck of a thing. It's a heck of a place to be where he got somebody of Bill Maher's status on the left saying the current mayor of New York is a flat out communist. Yeah. If anybody has studied communism at all or, you know, radical Marxist regimes, they always take a shower and dress nicely and are flattering and lovely, like a person on a first date. They're not stupid. They understand, boy, a lot of people hate this. Let's just come off as something a little different. But they always, always do that. And Marr's not falling for it. Do you think we're in a good place on this? We're in an improving place on it. I just, I always have a hard time answering that question because, you know. We all live in our own worlds surrounded by our friends and contemporaries. We take in the media. We take in. I happen to take in a lot of left-wing media, too, because of the nature of our job. But where is the college student or recent college grad who is going to be incredibly important to our political future?

So I'm not quite sure whether they've achieved critical mass or not to the point that it's going to be very, very difficult to stop them and their plans. I don't know that. Well, it's a good thing that awareness is increasing, no doubt. As Bill Maher was pointing out to people on the left, they don't even know the name of this housing woman in Zohran Mamdani's cabinet that anybody on the right. or anybody who's anti-communist, is completely aware of her in a crazy S that she says. Yeah, this is the same gal we highlighted a few months ago who came out of her very expensive brownstone. And a reporter, I think it was from the New York Post, said, hey, you're saying that housing or homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy. And I want to know. And he asked her a couple of difficult questions. And she started crying and ran back inside. And then made the point that it was utterly outrageous that a reporter would violate her privacy by waiting outside her home. Right. Yeah. And I agree with Mars take that if Zohran Mamdani stands by her, you have to assume he stands with her. I almost dropped an S-bomb. Shoot, he hired her. Stand by her. He sought her out and put her on his staff. The mayor. He inherited her. The mayor of New York City. is a communist. Yes, he is. And an Islamist. And John Stewart, he hates Jews. He and people who think like him would wipe Jews off the face of the earth. Does that not bother you at all? But John, God bless him, he is inoculated himself against any devil's advocate journalism, I think, or opinion. He doesn't want to hear it because he loves the vibes. Well, he's close to a generation younger than Bill Maher. That's part of it, I suppose. Yeah, I suppose. What a weird moment, man. Like I said, I went to see Bill Maher almost walked out because the college crowd was howling at his, you know, liberal beliefs. Just loving it so much, and I was so annoyed with it. Now he's the guy standing up against a communist mayor in New York City. Right. Yeah, yeah. I want to get back to the gal. The utterly, I mean, she's like an archetype of the would-be young American communist who Shannon Bream interviewed over the weekend. And one of her most amazing answers, like to counter that. But she is the 20-something, maybe pushing 30. College miseducated. earnest, bright, utterly fanciful, unrealistic knucklehead that embraces communism. And we'll get to her in a moment or two. Okay, yeah, it's worth hearing, so stick around. Armstrong and Getty. You didn't start a business just to keep the lights on. You're here to sell more today than yesterday. You're here to win.

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Okay, that was the key part. Really, the theoretical framework is crime only exists because of deprivation, of need, and a communist system will get rid of need so there will be no more crime anymore. Well, you have to be completely ignorant of history or believe the old, well, they just didn't do it right argument that you always get with communism. The idea that there are no sociopaths, there aren't people who think, wait a minute, I'm tough and strong and smart. I could take other people's stuff and have lots and lots of stuff. just predators in the world there have always been predators always will be in your theoretical framework You're like these economists I was talking about. Here's reality. We featured this. We went big on it. A number of years ago, Florida girls arrested for stealing money from Girl Scouts. Go ahead with 70, Michael. We needed some money. We saw a girl selling Girl Scout cookies. We saw an envelope with money in it, and I grabbed it, and she drove away. We aren't showing their faces, but these two teens had no problem bragging about their crime to our cameras. Money's money. I mean, I feel bad. It was a nine-year-old girl, but there was $150 in that envelope, and I wanted that money, and it was mine. But after admitting to stealing Gracie Smith's cookie money in front of this West Hyperluxo Wind Dixie, the two Park Vista students are flaunting their freedom. I'm planning on buying like a necklace and all this stuff and a new phone, but now I guess not. So the DSA chick would tell you, well, yeah, they were, they're victims of capitalism. They had need. No, they're affluent Florida girls driving an expensive car. They saw money and they wanted it. Go on. Why did you do it? I mean, who doesn't like money? I know it's a crime, but it was an easy crime. Go on. It looks like they already have a confession on tape, but Gracie should not expect an apology. I'm actually pissed because I should have kept that money. They charged me with all the charges I just got. Do you have any remorse about stealing from a nine-year-old girl? Right now, no, because I'm kind of pissed because I have charges and we give the money back anyway, so now I'm pretty pissed. Like, I don't feel sadness for that little girl. I mean, she's getting a lot of money right now from people who feel bad for her, so whatever.

Certain percentage of people think that way, always have, always will, like you said. How can we hurl these college miseducated into a volcano? No, into a pool of reality. A nice, chilly, 12-foot-deep pool of reality. That's what they desperately need. Or a volcano. Or a volcano. Either one. If you miss a segment, get the podcast, Armstrong and Getty on demand. More on the way. Armstrong and Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show. About your tour getting canceled, and I want to say for the bottom of my heart, I'm sorry. I hope you're well. Mike and I love the fact that you've been out there doing it, supporting what we did in this band to keep this music alive. When you're ready to carry on, Mike and I support you. Come to Vegas for the residency in September. Come on, join us. Sing a couple songs, emcee the damn show. Come out and just do what you do, which is pretty damn entertaining. Anyway, hope you well. I really do. God bless, brother. That sounded sincere. That was Sammy Hagar putting out a post on Twitter to David Lee Roth, who is a nut job to come join them in Vegas if he wants to, because David Lee Roth's tour got canceled, probably because nobody was going to it, I'm guessing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. His situation's a little sad. Yeah, I don't, I'm really into love the art, not the artist, because a lot of artists are confused or weird or believe crazy stuff, but they make beautiful art. So I don't want to gush too much, but Sammy Hagar is absolutely one of the decent people in big time rock and roll. He is a smart, sane businessman who also happened to be a good rock and roll singer, whereas David Lee Roth is a crazy person. And a weirdo, and apparently always was. He's a crazed extrovert. Yeah. He always was. It just kind of got covered up by the fact that he was a really good looking guy in a cool band. But now that he's not a good looking guy at a cool band, acting the exact same way, you can kind of, oh, yeah, how did I not catch on that before? You're a crazy person. Yeah. Yeah. I guess that's a... He was always a bit of a cartoon character, and people don't need cartoon characters in their real lives. Especially when they get older, I'm trying to make a sandwich. All right, that's enough of that. And, you know, I thought there might be a hint of, I'm a gazillionaire and successful. You're a washed-up has been. You know, if you'd like a few breadcrumbs here, come to a... But it sounded completely sincere. Oh, yeah, I think it was. Classic rock nonsense. My youngest and I who likes classic rock and roll, we are going back and forth between Van Hagar and the David Lee Roth stuff. There's a lot of good both. There's a lot of both that's really, really good. There's a lot of good Van Halen music. Yeah. And I guess it turned out that the craziest person in the band was Eddie Van Halen. He was the one that made everything so crazy. Disfunctional, yeah. I'll be darned.

He's dead, right? Eddie Van Halen's dead? He has passed, yes. God bless him. May he rest in peace. He had tiny little rotted out teeth from his drug use right away. That's unnecessary, really, to the topic at hand. Here's an update on a story for you. The New York Times over the weekend, citing multiple people briefed on the matter, reported that President Trump switched planes. Do you remember that story? When he was over there in Europe and he is flying on the new plane that the Qataris gave him and then he switched to the old Air Force one to fly back. Yeah. And he said that it was so that the new cool Qatari plane could stop at a couple of bases and troops could see it, which I'm fine with that lie, why somebody has to alert the world that, no, it's not. up to snuff for protecting the president i mean why we there are way too many leaks helping our adversaries I would agree 100%. What most people don't know is that he switched planes in midair. They got the two planes really close to each other. The wings were practically touching. He did that wing walking thing? The president, exactly. He jumped out of the plane. He walked all the way across the wing, made the short jump to the other plane, walked up that wing and into the plane. Certainly if you're adept at making AI videos, make that and send it to us. That's pretty funny. And then when he switched planes, not only did they just switch planes, but they hurried the president to the runway. Media was not allowed to watch him go up the stairs like usual. And everybody got on the plane and was told to shut their window thing immediately before the plane took off. So that's not a normal. Getting out of the country sort of story for a president of the United States. Anyway, the latest reporting on that is Trump switched from the Qatari Boeing to the legacy Air Force one during the NATO summit. After the Secret Service received, what officials deemed a credible threat that Iranian proxy forces were targeting the president and whatever aircraft he was traveling aboard. So it wasn't just that plane. It was just anything he was flying on. And that other plane, according to some sources, didn't have all of the anti-bad stuff happening equipment on it, although Trump denies that and who knows what the actual truth is and why we're leaking this to bad guys. I have no idea why that's happening anyway. Yeah, I'm enormously uncomfortable with playing footsie with Qatar. I really am. I don't like this Air Force One deal. It's unholy. I could easily picture because I did believe those accounts that, look, it doesn't have some of the systems the old one did, that Trump thought, well, when was the last time somebody took a pot shot at the President in Air Force One and we needed this stuff? I'm flying on the shiny new one with all the gold plate. Then somebody said, hey, look.

This almost never happens, but yeah, Iran's talking about taking Air Force One out of the air. And he said, give me that old one again. I can believe that. Makes sense. Here's what I'd like to be able to ask some smart people who would actually know what they're talking about. But since we don't have any smart people who know what they're talking about, I guess Joe and I will have to do. How would we react if all of a sudden news breaks, Air Force One has just been shot down, crashing to see everyone's dead. And you can tie it to Iran. How would we react? Wow, that's an interesting question. There's how we should react. Well, how should we react? With such a horrific. Yeah, essentially. Well, no, not nuke it, but the vengeance would have to be so terrible that the math would never work again in the future. So including hundreds of thousands of dead regular Iranians who don't like the regime as it is anyway, but that's just the way it goes? I'd like to know a list of my alternatives from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Can we? reign such enormous hell on every military establishment they have that we can avoid that? I'd really like to do that. It would be horrific. And then, oh, and the other layer of this is, well, it would be President JD Vance, unless he was bored Air Force One, which is unlikely. And what does J.D. actually think these days? Because that's very difficult to answer that question. So I don't know. Well, since it seems pretty clear that Iran is trying to kill Trump, they must think they'd get something out of it, that it would be to their advantage? Otherwise, why would they kill him? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Because JD, my best guess is JD is actually a bit of an isolationist. He doesn't want to mess with the Middle East anymore. Again, it's tough to say because he changes his principles as often as I change my socks. But I think that's probably where he is. So you got JD and then a Democrat, probably, at the next election. Yeah, that's better than Trump from the Iranian point of view. And they're already a pariah. They're already a rogue regime. I mean, as pariah as you can get. Of course, then you've got the political nature of it, which would be probably somewhat unprecedented in the United States. Would we have polls showing 45% of people are happy that Trump went down in a plane or agreed with the Iranians or whatever? Wow, wow, wow. You'd have a decent percentage saying that, yeah. And you should be slapped hard upside your head. Okay. So word from our friends at SimplySafe before we dive back into the fair of the day. Had a message go off in my SimplySafe app the other day?

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since it's Muslim extremists. I came across this over the week, and I thought this was pretty good from a thinker. Free Palestine is a chant is just Aluah Akbar in disguise. True. So there's a guy that stabbed a bunch of people in New York, yelling Aluah Akbar, and then all the news reports were, this is being investigated as a possible hate crime or Islamic terrorism. Has there ever been a time where a guy has yelled out Aloha Akbar and killed some people or tried to kill some people? And it wasn't a fundamentalist Muslim who wants to kill everybody else? No, no. Unless the guy's completely psychotic. That's clearly what it is. But back to Free Palestine. Free Palestine is stage one. It turns people who would never shout Aloha Akbar. into useful idiots for the same cause. Once enough minds are captured, once enough people are conditioned to believe that Jews are the ultimate oppressors, then the cry shifts back to its raw form, Alua Akbar. Right. Absolutely. I mentioned earlier on the show. I appreciated kind of the mainstream media calling out, well, repeating the words of the authorities in Germany in Berlin, that that attack on the quote unquote pride parade was an Islamist terrorist incident. Apparently, our media will admit Islamism slaughters people who believe differently than they do if the victims are the right victims. If it had been a bunch of just everyday white Germans, they might have said, you know, authorities are still searching for the motive, but because it was gay people. They went ahead and said it on our alphabet networks over the weekend. German authorities are saying it was an Islamist terrorist attack. So I appreciate that. That's progress. Speaking of progress. I think you're right about that. What's that? The whole totem pole of intersectional victimhood? That they wouldn't have called it out as Muslim. fundamental Muslim violence as quickly if it had just been regular people. Western civilization democracy are absolutely incompatible with fundamentalist Islam. Write that down. No caveats. No apologies. That's true. Coming up, speaking of progress, there is a giant lawsuit against Multnomah County. That's where Portlandia is in Portland. That could be a giant step forward in ending. The neo-Marxist critical race theory, racialist society. that was imposed on us, especially in the wake of the George Floyd thing. This could be a huge blow against those people. Can't wait to tell you about it. Also, Joe, just threw out the term Western civilization as if that is a thing, and it is. What is it and why is Homer's Odyssey considered one of the foundational texts of it? I went to the movie on Friday with my son. I want to talk a little bit about really the phenomenon of how it's...

become such a conversation point for so many people, why that is, and is that a good thing or a bad thing? What's it all about? Stay tuned. Armstrong and Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show. And you're not going to play that clip, Michael? Theaters around the world are adding showtimes trying to meet demand for the Odyssey. Problem is, people want to see it in IMAX in its 70-millimeter glory, but there are only 41 IMAX screens worldwide. Most of those theaters are sold out through September. In its second weekend in North American theaters, it took in another 87 million, the global total so far, an estimated $640 million. Now that is epic. Wow. I didn't realize it's two-thirds of a billion dollars already taken in. It's only been out two weeks. I also didn't know. So the Odyssey was shot in that IMAX format. Nobody'd ever done a major motion picture like that. There's only, what do you say, 41 of the theaters in the whole world? Shockingly low number, yeah. Huh. Is he hoping that that will catch on as a way to make movies and they'll build more of the theaters? If you'd ask me how many of those theaters there were in the U.S., I would have said a couple hundred. I probably might. I might even guess thousands. I wouldn't have guessed that there. How many are there in the United States? Like 17 or something? Yeah, something like that. Sold out through September. And a lot of them are in L.A. and New York. Yeah, I know. Well, it was hard to get tickets. My son and I didn't sit together. I started looking for tickets on opening weekends. So it took almost two weeks to, I kept going further and further out to come up with a day where there were any seats available at all. And then we sat in separate places, which at a movie doesn't really make any difference. Yeah, wow, that's that is something. I don't know what I think about the IMAX format in terms of watching a movie. It's a lot. I mean, it's a lot of sensory overload. The sound system they have at IMAX is like being at a, seriously like at a concert. It's that level of volume. And then the picture is just so huge, you know, it covers all of your vision. It's just a tremendous amount of sensory overload. And for three hours, I thought, I felt like that was a lot. I can understand why a friend of mine said, yeah, I saw it. I'm glad I saw it. I don't know if, you know, I'm in no hurry to see it again. And maybe just because of the format, it's just so much. Yeah, I found that to be true watching IMAX stuff too. I haven't watched much, but I remember thinking it's too big. I'm having to look from one side of the screen to the other and like physically turn my head. Again, the volume, which you have no control over. So, you know, maybe I'm just an old person and the younger crowd likes that level, although the crowd was pretty old.

at the uh we went to the friday afternoon show my son and i i don't know what the average age would have been in there but there are a lot of old people the woman sitting to the left me was probably 85 i mean she came in and her her her daughter i assume was roughly my age helped her in there there was a lot of old people there um she knew homer I'm what I am still fascinated as to why this has become such a national conversation and uh all around the whole theory of uh kind of the golden rule, you know, if you put bad vibes out and the bad thing going to happen to you, and if you put good vibes out, maybe better things happening, that sort of thing. I don't know. There's lots of movies with themes like that that don't get this level of attention. Oh, I just think it's because it's a Nolan film. He's huge. There's a lot of attention being paid to it. And so, like the World Cup, it's one of those incredibly increasingly rare everybody's talking about it or can relate to it moments. And people have a lot of enthusiasm for that. We miss it. Those of us who remember it, we miss it. And those who've never known it are like, wow, this is really cool. Everybody's talking about the same thing and gets my references. Yeah, you're right about that. I was talking to my son. We've been watching Seinfeld on Netflix and I was telling him about how it was such a big deal. He'd come in on Friday morning after watching it Thursday night at 8 and everybody would. He'd say, Seinfeld, of course I did. And you'd be talking about it. And that is a great bonding experience that everybody loves. And that is going on with the Odyssey right now. You know, nothing draws a crowd like a crowd. Everybody talking about it means everybody's talking about talking about it. Right. I liked it fine. If I had gone to it in a vacuum, I don't know that I walked out of it and thought, boy, everybody in the world is going to be discussing this movie endlessly for days and writing long articles about it. I wouldn't have thought that. I just thought it was a. I don't know, big movie with lots of action and stuff like that. I would have not, on my own, thought these are some major themes that need be discussed in 5,000 word pieces in the Atlantic about good and bad and evil. I just would have never crossed my mind. Interesting. Interesting. So you got the Nolan factor, and a lot of Mike Nolan fans are not classicists. Then you got the classicists who are like, oh, it's a giant expensive version of the Odyssey. Let's talk about this. I don't know. What an interesting stew of things coming together. Oh, yeah, I can't put my finger on it, but that's an interesting point. I expected you to be a little more awestruck by it.

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