# I Had To Be Drunk To Like You

An episode of [Armstrong & Getty On Demand](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1259438987), 13 Oct 2026, 36 min.

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Hour 2 of A&G features... • New White House Press Sec Katie Zacharia • Shane Gillis on SNL • Ilhan Omar's house raided by the feds! • Response to new White House Press Sec Stupid Should Hurt: https://www.armstrongandgetty.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the
[0:05] Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong
[0:10] Speaker 1: and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty.
[0:23] Speaker 2: And thanks to President Trump, we are once again bringing
[0:26] Speaker 2: back American energy dominance because energy security is national security.
[0:34] Speaker 2: President Trump secured the biggest oil deal in world history,
[0:40] Speaker 2: delivering the US majority control of more than 65 billion
[0:45] Speaker 2: barrels of proven oil reserves in Venezuela. He had a
[0:50] Speaker 2: historic one day war, and now we have a booming
[0:53] Speaker 2: economy and a great relationship with Venezuela.
[1:01] Speaker 3: So that's the new White House press secretary, whatever her
[1:04] Speaker 3: name is.
[1:05] Speaker 1: Katie Zachariah.
[1:06] Speaker 3: Who looks like she won America's Next Top Model. I mean,
[1:10] Speaker 3: she looks fantastic.
[1:12] Speaker 4: I described her as the really, really hot stortus on
[1:15] Speaker 4: a Swiss air flight. Biden. She sounded like a college
[1:23] Speaker 4: freshman who was reading aloud not very well.
[1:26] Speaker 1: First day. First day nerves.
[1:31] Speaker 3: Standing there in front of a hungry press who's going
[1:34] Speaker 3: to start asking hard questions. But I got to say
[1:37] Speaker 3: that was not a good start. Biden hired people based
[1:43] Speaker 3: on DEI. So he got the gay black socialist woman
[1:49] Speaker 3: who was horrible at her job. Trump hires people based
[1:52] Speaker 3: on H.O.T. Do you look like you could be on
[1:55] Speaker 3: the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue?
[1:57] Speaker 4: Exactly.
[1:58] Speaker 1: And this woman sounds like it is.
[2:01] Speaker 4: Okay.
[2:01] Speaker 1: We'll see.
[2:02] Speaker 3: Maybe she ends up being good at this, but what
[2:05] Speaker 3: I heard a little bit of so far today was.
[2:09] Speaker 4: But as the fine man who hired us for our
[2:11] Speaker 4: very first talk radio job many, many years ago said,
[2:14] Speaker 4: I don't even.
[2:14] Speaker 1: Listen to the first show somebody does.
[2:16] Speaker 4: You got to get that under their belt, get comfortable,
[2:19] Speaker 4: and then you can start thinking about what you're doing.
[2:21] Speaker 1: That is a very good point. That is a very
[2:24] Speaker 1: good point. She's probably terrified. Of course you would be.
[2:28] Speaker 3: It'd be the most scrutinized job you've ever had in
[2:31] Speaker 3: your life by one million.
[2:33] Speaker 1: In fact, a factor of a million.
[2:34] Speaker 3: I mean, it's just I can't even imagine every newscast
[2:38] Speaker 3: in America is going to have a clip of her today.
[2:40] Speaker 1: And she knows that. And if she screws up, every
[2:43] Speaker 1: newscast will have a clip of that.
[2:45] Speaker 4: And how she's a mindless bimbo, blah, blah, blah, because
[2:47] Speaker 4: that narrative is quite popular.
[2:50] Speaker 3: Well, you don't have to. It's like I always said about,
[2:54] Speaker 3: what did they call Ice Barbie? You don't have to
[2:59] Speaker 3: clam yourself up like that and open yourself up for
[3:01] Speaker 3: those sorts of criticisms.
[3:02] Speaker 1: I mean, look at her flowing hair over her shoulders.
[3:06] Speaker 1: I mean, what is that?
[3:10] Speaker 4: You know, it's funny. My wife has this brand of
[3:13] Speaker 4: clothing she likes, and the catalog came, and there's this
[3:15] Speaker 4: pretty girl on the cover, as you might expect, but
[3:17] Speaker 4: her hair is the inevitable blowing-in-the-wind flowing.
[3:21] Speaker 1: Hair, which is obviously.
[3:23] Speaker 4: Human beings must react very, very positively to that, because
[3:26] Speaker 4: there ain't a model shoot in the world that doesn't
[3:28] Speaker 4: have a fan going, so your hair is wind-tossed.
[3:31] Speaker 1: Or rock stars. Right, sure. Whether you're Bon Jovi or
[3:35] Speaker 1: this woman.
[3:36] Speaker 5: Um....
[3:40] Speaker 3: She looks like a sideline reporter for an NFL team.
[3:43] Speaker 3: That's what she looks like.
[3:45] Speaker 1: Yeah, sure.
[3:45] Speaker 3: She looks like she's on the sideline for ESPN. She's
[3:48] Speaker 3: a spokesmodel, but that's what she is. That's what Trump wants.
[3:51] Speaker 3: That's what he hired. We'll see how she does.
[3:52] Speaker 1: It's not Ari Fleischer. I'll tell you that. Oh, boy.
[3:56] Speaker 4: Nor Sean Spicer. Oh, I miss Spicy. Those were good times.
[4:00] Speaker 3: So just to give you an idea, we don't pay
[4:05] Speaker 3: a lot of attention to this, but... So we got...
[4:08] Speaker 3: Back-to-back texts. I mean, within seconds of each other. On
[4:14] Speaker 3: the text line, which is 415-295-KFTC. I don't remember what
[4:19] Speaker 3: we were talking about last hour. Oh, Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom
[4:23] Speaker 3: and her being, she seems like a crook. And she's
[4:26] Speaker 3: now been asked to leave as the ambassador to Greece,
[4:29] Speaker 3: which would not be a news story if it weren't
[4:31] Speaker 3: for the fact that she was engaged to Trump Jr.
[4:33] Speaker 1: And part of that whole world and everything. That's not
[4:36] Speaker 1: a news story.
[4:37] Speaker 3: That the ambassador to Greece got caught in a financial
[4:40] Speaker 3: something or other and has to resign. Nobody cares about
[4:43] Speaker 3: that in the Carter administration or whatever, I don't think. No,
[4:48] Speaker 3: it's not a lead story. The fact that it gets
[4:49] Speaker 3: tied into the whole Trump thing, it is a big, big,
[4:52] Speaker 3: big story. So anyway, we were talking about that. We
[4:53] Speaker 3: got back-to-back texts. You guys were talking about rhinos yesterday.
[4:57] Speaker 3: You were the biggest rhinos I've ever heard. followed by,
[5:01] Speaker 3: and that would be somebody that feels like we're being anti-Trump,
[5:04] Speaker 3: followed by, don't be surprised by a backlash from your
[5:07] Speaker 3: audience that you cater to mega morons. These are back-to-back
[5:10] Speaker 3: texts about the same commentary. I'll never listen again. You're
[5:16] Speaker 3: too anti-Trump. Followed by, I'll never listen again. You're too pro-Trump.
[5:20] Speaker 1: Okay. Super.
[5:22] Speaker 3: And you don't have to agree with whatever we're saying, obviously. Oh,
[5:27] Speaker 3: I want to get to a text line challenge at
[5:30] Speaker 3: some point. I got a funny thing for you. But
[5:32] Speaker 3: before we get to that, some important stuff. This Wall
[5:35] Speaker 3: Street Journal story about where things are with Iran, and
[5:37] Speaker 3: they claim they have a lot of sources on this,
[5:40] Speaker 3: is troubling. So Trump's going around doing his roadshow, The Weave,
[5:46] Speaker 3: trying to energize people to go out and vote for
[5:49] Speaker 3: the midterms and all that sort of stuff. And he
[5:50] Speaker 3: keeps saying over and over, first of all, he's promising
[5:53] Speaker 3: the $ 5, 000 if Republicans win, which.
[5:56] Speaker 1: One of the more transparent moves by any politician ever.
[6:00] Speaker 3: But he's talking about how the war is going to
[6:02] Speaker 3: be over soon. We're in peace talks and gas prices
[6:05] Speaker 3: will come down right away. Well, here's the Wall Street Journal's.
[6:08] Speaker 3: article about that. Iran is fortifying its defenses, rallying loyalists,
[6:13] Speaker 3: and threatening a wider, harsher response against the U.S. and
[6:17] Speaker 3: its Gulf allies as it prepares for potential American attacks
[6:20] Speaker 3: after the midterms and seeks to deter them. Iranian officials
[6:23] Speaker 3: have warned publicly and in private conversations with regional officials
[6:27] Speaker 3: that the Islamic Republic will respond with further escalation across
[6:32] Speaker 3: the Middle East if the U.S.
[6:33] Speaker 1: Launches new strikes.
[6:35] Speaker 3: Satellite images show Iran is strengthening sensitive locations, including nuclear
[6:40] Speaker 3: sites and border areas, to make them more resilient to attacks.
[6:43] Speaker 3: The government's also preparing Iranians for renewed war. Listen to this.
[6:47] Speaker 3: Sending paramilitary forces to read war stories to kindergartners, advertising
[6:53] Speaker 3: training in firing shoulder-mounted anti-aircraft missiles and holding rallies.
[6:58] Speaker 6: Wow.
[6:59] Speaker 3: So they're going around talking to kindergartners about the great
[7:01] Speaker 3: American Satan. so that they understand why things are about
[7:05] Speaker 3: to get ugly. They're training locals in neighborhoods to fire
[7:09] Speaker 3: shoulder-fired missiles, which ain't good, and then holding all kinds
[7:13] Speaker 3: of death-to-America rallies. In an attempt to deter a potential attack,
[7:19] Speaker 3: some Iranian officials have hinted that their forces could conduct
[7:22] Speaker 3: land incursions into neighboring countries. According to people familiar with
[7:27] Speaker 3: the warnings, Iran's top national security official, whatever his name is,
[7:31] Speaker 3: said on Sunday that Tehran could target the UAE, which
[7:34] Speaker 3: has largely escaped being attacked since late spring, as well
[7:36] Speaker 3: as data centers and internet cables across the region. So
[7:40] Speaker 3: Iran might actually send land forces into their neighbors to.
[7:44] Speaker 1: Try to push back on this aggression from us. Among
[7:50] Speaker 1: other things.
[7:50] Speaker 5: So.
[7:55] Speaker 1: It's possible, and it's been possible this entire war, which
[7:57] Speaker 1: is now, what, nine months old? Ten months old?
[8:01] Speaker 3: Launched in February, I guess. That history barely even remembers
[8:06] Speaker 3: this last nine months. That the war that is talked
[8:09] Speaker 3: about forever starts, like, next week or next month after
[8:14] Speaker 3: the election or whatever.
[8:15] Speaker 4: Yeah, everything that's happened until now has been everything that
[8:19] Speaker 4: happened before Archduke Ferdinand got his.
[8:23] Speaker 1: To cite World War I.
[8:25] Speaker 4: To wit, and I'm not going to go through this
[8:28] Speaker 4: whole thing because it's pretty big and complicated.
[8:29] Speaker 1: I found it very, very interesting.
[8:31] Speaker 4: But are you familiar with Simon Sebag Montefiore?
[8:36] Speaker 1: I am. I read his Stalin book, I think.
[8:39] Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a historian and author of, among other things,
[8:42] Speaker 4: The Cauldron.
[8:42] Speaker 1: Peter the Great. Peter the Great's the one I read.
[8:44] Speaker 4: The Cauldron, The Making of the Middle East is another
[8:47] Speaker 4: one of his books. And he's talking about how it's
[8:50] Speaker 4: clear that every day right now brings another revelation in
[8:53] Speaker 4: a cascade of developments, momentous deals and alliances that not
[8:57] Speaker 4: only mark a new epoch, but drive a dramatic convergence
[9:00] Speaker 4: of geopolitical theaters that is changing the world. Just consider
[9:04] Speaker 4: some of the events of recent months. Days before what
[9:07] Speaker 4: the Emiratis had declared, a terrorist attack on a flight
[9:10] Speaker 4: from Dubai to Tel Aviv, the UAE president publicly acknowledged
[9:14] Speaker 4: for the first time a visit by Benjamin Netanyahu months
[9:18] Speaker 4: after deploying Iron Dome technology and Israeli personnel to the
[9:21] Speaker 4: UAE to repel Iranian attacks. The Abraham Accords are very
[9:25] Speaker 4: much still alive. In August, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan
[9:29] Speaker 4: signed the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, a NATO-style mutual defense
[9:34] Speaker 4: pact that is already being awkwardly tested after the Houthis
[9:37] Speaker 4: took the Red Sea coast and Iraqi militias hit the
[9:40] Speaker 4: kingdom's east-west pipeline.
[9:42] Speaker 1: Nobody's willing to put boots on the ground in each— I' m sorry.
[9:45] Speaker 4: Nobody's willing to project force for each other, but they
[9:49] Speaker 4: all say, you know, if they invade you, we'll help
[9:52] Speaker 4: you repel it. but we're not going to like, send
[9:54] Speaker 4: the guys to fight the Houthis. So that's the state
[9:57] Speaker 4: of that accord. The same month, Greece signed a $ 3. 5
[10:01] Speaker 4: billion defense agreement with Israel, the largest arms export in
[10:05] Speaker 4: Israeli history.
[10:06] Speaker 1: I'm skipping around.
[10:08] Speaker 4: In March, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, toward the Arabian Peninsula,
[10:12] Speaker 4: signed historic security agreements with Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar
[10:17] Speaker 4: to provide drone interception teams Then there's the arena of
[10:20] Speaker 4: East Africa, where a new scramble for power is intensifying.
[10:24] Speaker 4: It encompasses the catastrophic civil war in Sudan, which involves
[10:28] Speaker 4: over a half-dozen Middle Eastern nations competing for power access
[10:31] Speaker 4: and resources on the Red Sea coast and the African interior.
[10:35] Speaker 4: This includes the UAE, which at an earlier stage in
[10:38] Speaker 4: the conflict supported one side as Iranian drones showed up
[10:41] Speaker 4: on another. Middle Eastern powers are also backing a new
[10:45] Speaker 4: war igniting in Ethiopia. Then he talks about October 7th, 23,
[10:50] Speaker 4: the Israel-Hamas war that caused tensions of escalating in the
[10:53] Speaker 4: region after years of relative calm, U.S.
[10:56] Speaker 1: Squeezing the Iranian economy. U.S.
[10:59] Speaker 4: Is providing Iran with precise intelligence to hit U.S. forces.
[11:03] Speaker 4: China is both supporting Iran, also providing intelligence on U.S.
[11:07] Speaker 4: facilities like Russia, while protecting its new relationship with American
[11:11] Speaker 4: allies with Saudi Arabia and UAE. After all, China buys
[11:16] Speaker 4: roughly 90% of Iran's oil, while a third comes from
[11:19] Speaker 4: the Arab monarchies. If this sounds complicated, it is. Foreign
[11:24] Speaker 4: policy in this interconnected, fast-moving world requires more clarity, coherence,
[11:28] Speaker 4: and measure than ever before. It's chaos, and then I
[11:32] Speaker 4: want to get to this part, and then I will
[11:34] Speaker 4: cease yapping. The countries are all competing in the new
[11:40] Speaker 4: multiplayer tournament, no longer restrained by old traditions and systems,
[11:44] Speaker 4: and no one power has hegemony, all being less formidable
[11:48] Speaker 4: than they appear. The Middle East is a raw nerve, etc.,
[11:52] Speaker 4: He mentions the Houthis, and here it is. The new
[11:55] Speaker 4: conjunctions in the Middle East are less about Sunni versus
[11:58] Speaker 4: Shia or West versus Islam than they are about the
[12:02] Speaker 4: open pro-Western version of Islam represented by U.S.
[12:06] Speaker 1: Allies like Saudi, Egypt.
[12:07] Speaker 4: And UAE in conflict with the closed anti-Western radical resistance
[12:12] Speaker 4: version of Iran and its vassals.
[12:15] Speaker 1: It's all about Islamism.
[12:20] Speaker 4: The most important political movement on Earth, both in international
[12:24] Speaker 4: forums and domestically.
[12:27] Speaker 1: Looking at you, France, Britain, the U.S.
[12:29] Speaker 3: And then to what extent, if Iran does march troops
[12:33] Speaker 3: into its neighbors and a lot of these smaller things
[12:37] Speaker 3: Joe was just mentioning all get hotter and that sort
[12:39] Speaker 3: of stuff, to what extent do China and Russia weigh
[12:42] Speaker 3: in with more targeting information, money, weapons? seeing on what
[12:50] Speaker 3: side for what reasons but well anything that will damage
[12:52] Speaker 3: the united states certainly right yeah things could get very
[12:57] Speaker 3: very interesting very soon.
[12:59] Speaker 4: It will probably sort itself out within 100 125 years
[13:02] Speaker 4: thanks for that uh oh the funny online challenge.
[13:05] Speaker 1: Born out.
[13:07] Speaker 3: Of Shane Gillis' monologue from Saturday Night Live coming up
[13:15] Speaker 3: in a little bit. And then we got a congressperson
[13:18] Speaker 3: whose house was raided. Why did that happen? We'll get
[13:20] Speaker 3: into that story a lot.
[13:22] Speaker 1: Stay tuned.
[13:24] Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty.
[13:28] Speaker 1: About five minutes in, there's a knock on the glass
[13:29] Speaker 1: door of the sauna that scared me. I thought I
[13:31] Speaker 1: was alone. I look over, and it was Theo, Vaughn,
[13:33] Speaker 1: and Joe.
[13:34] Speaker 5: And they open the door, and Joe just goes, hey,
[13:36] Speaker 5: Theo said you looked like a gas station egg.
[13:38] Speaker 1: And then they closed the door. They left. I didn't
[13:41] Speaker 1: even get a comeback. I was like, yeah, whatever. That's,
[13:48] Speaker 1: you dumb hick.
[13:50] Speaker 3: That's Shane Gillis from his monologue on Saturday Night Live,
[13:53] Speaker 3: which I watched and thought was funny and then went
[13:56] Speaker 3: on my life. I didn't know it became a thing.
[13:57] Speaker 3: It's become an online thing and lots of controversy, apparently.
[14:01] Speaker 3: I've now heard it three times. I watched it Saturday night.
[14:05] Speaker 3: We did it on the podcast, the One More Thing
[14:06] Speaker 3: podcast yesterday, if you want to hear it and us
[14:09] Speaker 3: talk about it. because of the controversy, and then I
[14:11] Speaker 3: played it for both my kids last night, and we
[14:13] Speaker 3: thought it was hilarious again, and they couldn't believe it
[14:15] Speaker 3: was controversial. So the Hollywood Reporter wrote yesterday, that's one
[14:19] Speaker 3: of your Hollywood news rag website things, one thing is
[14:23] Speaker 3: for sure, Shane Gillis' monologue was not built for the
[14:26] Speaker 3: SNL audience in 2026. His third time hosting definitely was
[14:30] Speaker 3: not the charm. Keep in mind that Gillis did basically
[14:33] Speaker 3: the same exact monologue hours earlier at dress rehearsal, and
[14:37] Speaker 3: NBC censors knew what was coming.
[14:40] Speaker 4: What?
[14:42] Speaker 1: What?
[14:43] Speaker 3: Wow.
[14:43] Speaker 1: This is a Rorschach test. It really is.
[14:45] Speaker 4: It's like a blood test that can reveal whether you
[14:48] Speaker 4: are desperate to be offended because that's your thing, your self-image.
[14:52] Speaker 1: I didn't even think it was particularly shocking.
[14:55] Speaker 3: It was like that brand of shocking you get from
[14:58] Speaker 3: network television because you can only go so far. But
[15:01] Speaker 3: to the left, it was NBC knew what was coming
[15:03] Speaker 3: and they still aired it.
[15:05] Speaker 1: Knew what was coming? What are you even talking about?
[15:11] Speaker 3: THR, the Hollywood reporter, is told that Shane Gillis had
[15:14] Speaker 3: done the gym bit before and is currently benefiting from
[15:18] Speaker 3: the attention. Gillis's latest monologue currently has 1.2 million views
[15:22] Speaker 3: on SNL's YouTube, which was that was yesterday morning.
[15:24] Speaker 1: So I'm sure it's multiples of that by now.
[15:27] Speaker 3: Then somebody on the other side of this, Sean Davis,
[15:30] Speaker 3: who either know him or you don't. Shane Gillis is
[15:32] Speaker 3: the most popular comedian in the country. He has his
[15:34] Speaker 3: own top show on Netflix. He's sold out arenas and
[15:38] Speaker 3: set Guinness records for comedians. And nobody watches SNL unless
[15:43] Speaker 3: he's on. I don't know that that's true. I know
[15:47] Speaker 3: reality is hard for wokies and gender goblins to stomach,
[15:51] Speaker 3: but we're not doing the actually how dare he and
[15:54] Speaker 3: he's not funny because he punches down nonsense anymore.
[15:57] Speaker 1: I don't know.
[15:58] Speaker 4: You're right.
[15:58] Speaker 1: It is a Rorschach test.
[15:59] Speaker 3: You'd either just watch it and thought that was funny,
[16:02] Speaker 3: or I guess we're horrified that it was the other
[16:05] Speaker 3: side of the joke. that they do all the time
[16:09] Speaker 3: on Saturday Night Live. I'm horrified by things they say
[16:12] Speaker 3: on Saturday Night Live. I watch it every week. I'm
[16:13] Speaker 3: horrified every week. I'm annoyed slash insulted about the way
[16:17] Speaker 3: they treat people like me. Why I keep watching, I
[16:21] Speaker 3: don't know. But they go the other direction slightly with
[16:25] Speaker 3: this Shane Gillis. He said, when did women start dressing
[16:28] Speaker 3: like whores at the gym? I guess that's one of
[16:30] Speaker 3: the things that set people off.
[16:32] Speaker 4: Why?
[16:32] Speaker 3: I'm not exactly sure. At the end of the gym?
[16:35] Speaker 3: Everybody can relate to the.
[16:37] Speaker 4: The influencer wearing nothing, working out for her video, and
[16:42] Speaker 4: if anybody glances over at the fact.
[16:45] Speaker 1: She's dressed like a whore, to quote Mr.
[16:48] Speaker 4: Gillis, she'll, oh my God, the toxic masculinity in here
[16:52] Speaker 4: is unbelievable. The misogyny, you can't, I mean, look at
[16:55] Speaker 4: the way they're staring at me. It's, please, it's naked
[16:58] Speaker 4: what's happening, no pun intended.
[17:00] Speaker 3: I used up all our time. I didn't even get
[17:01] Speaker 3: to our challenge. I'll have to fit that in a
[17:02] Speaker 3: little bit. The insult challenge. Insults that leave a mark,
[17:05] Speaker 3: which is one of the themes of his monologue. But
[17:07] Speaker 3: we'll get to that a little bit later. Do I
[17:08] Speaker 3: have to stick my head in a bucket of ice
[17:10] Speaker 3: or what for this challenge? Ilhan Omar's home being raided.
[17:13] Speaker 3: What is going on there? Joe has the facts.
[17:16] Speaker 1: I do.
[17:17] Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty.
[17:20] Speaker 5: The scope of this investigation is still unclear, but it
[17:23] Speaker 5: is confirmed that the Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is under federal
[17:27] Speaker 5: criminal investigation. Homeland Security investigations led the pre-dawn search of
[17:31] Speaker 5: Omar's Washington, D.C. home, which indicates that immigration may be
[17:35] Speaker 5: part of the equation in this probe. Agents removed multiple boxes,
[17:40] Speaker 5: were told her Minnesota residence was not raided today. Omar
[17:43] Speaker 5: responding on social media in part for 10 years, Trump
[17:46] Speaker 5: has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This
[17:50] Speaker 5: is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.
[17:54] Speaker 1: I will not be silenced.
[17:56] Speaker 3: My media comment before Joe gets into the specifics. How
[17:59] Speaker 3: is that not the lead story on all your mainstream
[18:02] Speaker 3: news yesterday? Whether you're on the side of Trump's trying to,
[18:07] Speaker 3: you know. win an election by arresting Democrats or you
[18:13] Speaker 3: think it's a Somali immigrant who is, you know, ripping
[18:16] Speaker 3: off the country, either side of it. How is that
[18:18] Speaker 3: not the lead story over some actress not taking her
[18:21] Speaker 3: meds on a plane?
[18:23] Speaker 4: We're an unserious people with unserious media. Our mainstream media
[18:27] Speaker 4: are terrible. They're just terrible.
[18:28] Speaker 1: Ignore them.
[18:30] Speaker 4: President Trump here on Ilhan Omar 42, please, Michael.
[18:34] Speaker 5: Well, I.
[18:36] Speaker 1: Understand they're looking at her very carefully.
[18:38] Speaker 6: I've always found her.
[18:41] Speaker 5: To be totally crooked personally, but that has nothing to
[18:45] Speaker 5: do with me.
[18:46] Speaker 1: I think she's a terrible person, just a complainer. She
[18:49] Speaker 1: comes from a country.
[18:50] Speaker 5: That is.
[19:03] Speaker 4: And then finally, before we get to the facts, which
[19:05] Speaker 4: is a novelty in today's media world, well-known communist Ro Khanna, 44.
[19:12] Speaker 6: The Trump administration just raided the home of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
[19:17] Speaker 6: It is simply chilling that they are targeting political opponents
[19:20] Speaker 6: this way. And it is disturbing that they are targeting
[19:24] Speaker 6: Muslim Americans and a Muslim American woman legislator. Any decent
[19:29] Speaker 6: American needs to stand up and speak out.
[19:33] Speaker 4: Okay. All right, Roe. See, I'm anti-jihad. I'm anti-taking the
[19:40] Speaker 4: United States over in the name of Islam. So I'm
[19:42] Speaker 4: sorry I can't go with you there. But thanks for
[19:46] Speaker 4: speaking your piece. All right, so here's what's actually going on.
[19:49] Speaker 1: A raid on.
[19:50] Speaker 4: on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's D.C. home. signifies that law enforcement
[19:56] Speaker 4: already has amassed compelling evidence of criminal activity and are
[20:00] Speaker 4: nearing the end of a long investigation, according to a
[20:03] Speaker 4: law enforcement source who talked to the New York Post.
[20:07] Speaker 4: The most likely scenario multiple people claimed is that immigration
[20:11] Speaker 4: cops are looking into a long-floated rumor that Omar is
[20:14] Speaker 4: actually one year older than she's long claimed to be.
[20:17] Speaker 1: A tiny detail that might put her citizenship.
[20:19] Speaker 3: Is that a crime in this country for a woman
[20:21] Speaker 3: to misrepresent her age in your country?
[20:24] Speaker 1: It is, actually.
[20:26] Speaker 4: A tiny detail that may put her citizenship in jeopardy.
[20:29] Speaker 4: There's a lot more to her story than that, which
[20:32] Speaker 4: we'll get to, and it's super interesting. But she was
[20:35] Speaker 4: brought into the country on the pretext that she was
[20:40] Speaker 4: a child. that she was 17 years old specifically so
[20:45] Speaker 4: could get in on a family visa.
[20:47] Speaker 1: She was actually 18.
[20:48] Speaker 3: If I lived in Somalia and could get my kid in,
[20:52] Speaker 3: if I said they were 17 instead of 18, I'd
[20:54] Speaker 3: do that. I'd shave my beard and claim to be six,
[20:58] Speaker 3: whatever it took.
[21:00] Speaker 4: Right. Right. So, yeah, the family defrauded the government and
[21:06] Speaker 4: passed their adult children off as minors, I guess.
[21:11] Speaker 1: And in fact, a Minnesota local.
[21:15] Speaker 3: Is that what started the investigation?
[21:18] Speaker 1: I don't know.
[21:20] Speaker 3: That doesn't seem like much to me. I mean, you've
[21:22] Speaker 3: got to have laws and you have to enforce them,
[21:24] Speaker 3: I guess, or they're worthless. But I don't care if
[21:26] Speaker 3: she lied about her age.
[21:28] Speaker 4: She defrauded our immigration system.
[21:30] Speaker 1: I care if she has ties to terrorists or whatever. Well,
[21:34] Speaker 1: I agree.
[21:34] Speaker 4: Proportionally, there's no proportion. But, you know, they got Capone
[21:38] Speaker 4: on taxes. So, yeah, her family lied to get her
[21:41] Speaker 4: into the country in the first place. In 2019, a
[21:44] Speaker 4: Minnesotan by the name of A.J. Kern publicly called attention
[21:48] Speaker 4: to Omar actually being 18 or 19 even in.
[21:52] Speaker 1: The year 2000.
[21:53] Speaker 4: If she was actually older than 17 at the time,
[21:55] Speaker 4: she would have been ineligible for citizenship via the parent route.
[22:00] Speaker 1: Two days after Kern, Mr.
[22:02] Speaker 4: Kern released a viral video saying, about her alleged real age,
[22:07] Speaker 4: Omar's official birth year on the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library's
[22:11] Speaker 4: website was revised from 1981 to 1982. Who pointed to
[22:17] Speaker 4: archived versions of the site which revealed the change? Congressional
[22:21] Speaker 4: Records Today reports she was born in October 1982. So anyway,
[22:27] Speaker 4: that's what may be the charge, but here's the really
[22:31] Speaker 4: interesting part to me.
[22:33] Speaker 1: Her family history is a little bit nuts.
[22:38] Speaker 4: And as Jack indicated, what they were trying to do
[22:41] Speaker 4: is get out of war-torn Somalia in the 90s.
[22:44] Speaker 5: So.
[22:49] Speaker 4: Allegedly, the future congresswoman, her father and one of her
[22:53] Speaker 4: sisters used the false name Omar to come to the
[22:56] Speaker 4: United States as part of another Somali family that won
[23:00] Speaker 4: asylum here, while her siblings under different names got asylum
[23:04] Speaker 4: in the UK. Then Omar supposedly did her brother the
[23:08] Speaker 4: favor of getting him into the States, too, via a
[23:10] Speaker 4: sham marriage. If nothing else, she's had a very odd
[23:13] Speaker 4: marital life. She's almost the Zsa Zsa Gabor of Somali Americans.
[23:17] Speaker 4: This is the New York Post, obviously. Omar was in
[23:21] Speaker 4: an Islamic marriage with one man named Ahmed Hirsi. then
[23:25] Speaker 4: married the man believed to be her brother, Ahmed Saeed Elmi,
[23:30] Speaker 4: then divorced Elmi and officially married Hersey, the first guy, again,
[23:36] Speaker 4: before divorcing Hersey and marrying a political consultant who is
[23:40] Speaker 4: now her husband. In her memoir, she says nothing of
[23:44] Speaker 4: substance about Elmi, the alleged brother. She doesn't use his
[23:47] Speaker 4: name and claims she spent very little time with him.
[23:50] Speaker 4: She also doesn't name any of her siblings in her memoir.
[23:57] Speaker 3: But so all the stuff about campaign finance, this and that,
[24:04] Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff, is that the real meat
[24:06] Speaker 3: of everything? Because I got to believe we got millions
[24:10] Speaker 3: of people that do this. Most of the stuff you
[24:12] Speaker 3: just described in the country to get other family members
[24:17] Speaker 3: in and all that sort of thing. Yeah.
[24:19] Speaker 4: Much more is not known than is known. So we'll
[24:23] Speaker 4: just have to see how the facts come out. I've
[24:27] Speaker 4: got to admit, I have at least a little bit
[24:30] Speaker 4: of sympathy for.
[24:32] Speaker 1: She.
[24:32] Speaker 4: Is an America-hating pro-Islamist, in my estimation. She's also mobbed
[24:41] Speaker 4: up as hell. She was very, very close with all
[24:44] Speaker 4: the people ripping off the state and federal governments in Minnesota. And,
[24:48] Speaker 4: you know, if we can get her on taxes like
[24:50] Speaker 4: they did with Capone, I've got some sympathy.
[24:52] Speaker 1: For that strategy. I think she's rotten. Absolutely rotten.
[24:58] Speaker 3: Yeah, so again, according to the National Review's Noah Rothman,
[25:01] Speaker 3: this investigation started under the Biden administration, then was also
[25:07] Speaker 3: started in a different part of it by the Minnesota
[25:10] Speaker 3: Board of Elections, finding that she misused campaign finance funds,
[25:15] Speaker 3: and then all the stuff about her husband and her
[25:16] Speaker 3: immigration status also.
[25:18] Speaker 1: So what are they looking for in her house? I
[25:24] Speaker 1: don't know.
[25:24] Speaker 4: Her dad also passed himself off as a teacher when
[25:27] Speaker 4: it turns out he was a Soviet-trained colonel in the
[25:29] Speaker 4: blood-soaked Somali military.
[25:32] Speaker 1: So there's some deception there. I don't know. I don't know.
[25:36] Speaker 1: Nobody knows.
[25:37] Speaker 4: Nobody knows but the Justice Department. They're going to be
[25:40] Speaker 4: saying what they got soon, I would suspect.
[25:43] Speaker 3: I'm more concerned about El-Sayed's ties as we're learning more
[25:46] Speaker 3: about them with his sister who.
[25:48] Speaker 1: Was on the no-fly list and his mom and dad
[25:51] Speaker 1: and everything. Wow. Oh, yeah.
[25:53] Speaker 4: His sister was all over social media not long ago saying, oh, yeah,
[25:57] Speaker 4: we're totally tied with the Muslim Brotherhood.
[26:00] Speaker 1: Absolutely. They're heroes. We love them.
[26:01] Speaker 4: We support them. Our whole family supports them. This was
[26:04] Speaker 4: years ago, and we'll get into those details coming up. But, yeah,
[26:08] Speaker 4: Al-Sayed is.
[26:10] Speaker 1: 100% a pro-Islamist. 100%. So, I'm sorry.
[26:16] Speaker 4: Incogni, Michael, I'll be happy to tell you about that.
[26:18] Speaker 4: We're all getting scammed and spammed all day long. Incogni
[26:21] Speaker 4: can help.
[26:22] Speaker 3: Picture a for sale sign in your front yard, not
[26:25] Speaker 3: for the house, for you. Your name, your address, your
[26:28] Speaker 3: phone number, your kids, your politics, your religion, everything about
[26:32] Speaker 3: you is for sale. You don't want that out there.
[26:35] Speaker 3: It's data brokers. They got it out there, thousands of them.
[26:38] Speaker 3: They build a file on you, and then they'll sell
[26:40] Speaker 3: it to anybody, scammers, stalkers, criminals, anybody.
[26:42] Speaker 1: Who wants it.
[26:43] Speaker 4: You may have seen the 60 Minutes story on how
[26:45] Speaker 4: attackers use data brokers to find their targets, federal judges,
[26:48] Speaker 4: public officials, you.
[26:50] Speaker 1: That's why we are both using Incogni.
[26:52] Speaker 4: Incogni sends removal requests to hundreds of data brokers and
[26:56] Speaker 4: people search sites for you. It follows up so your
[26:59] Speaker 4: info doesn't sneak back.
[27:01] Speaker 3: Incogni has completed so many requests for me. I've gone
[27:05] Speaker 3: to the website and seen like we took this off
[27:07] Speaker 3: of this site.
[27:08] Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, that was on one of those sites.
[27:10] Speaker 1: That's horrifying.
[27:11] Speaker 3: Go to incogni.com slash Armstrong for 60% off.
[27:15] Speaker 4: Incogni.com slash Armstrong. That's I-N-C-O-G-N-I.com slash Armstrong. Incogni.com slash Armstrong.
[27:21] Speaker 4: Take your name off the market.
[27:22] Speaker 3: So before we take a break, I want to hit
[27:24] Speaker 3: you with the challenge I got here that I think
[27:26] Speaker 3: will be pretty good. By the way, we got this text.
[27:29] Speaker 3: Your one more thing analysis of Shane Gillis' monologue was
[27:32] Speaker 3: pure gold, hilarious and insightful, four stars. Although, you never
[27:36] Speaker 3: know if it's a four-star rating system or a five-star
[27:39] Speaker 3: rating system. I'm assuming this is a four-star rating system
[27:42] Speaker 3: and we got the maximum.
[27:44] Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[27:45] Speaker 3: But anyway, so the point of Shane Gillis' monologue was, basically,
[27:49] Speaker 3: if there was a point other than just being funny, is...
[27:52] Speaker 3: sometimes people hit you with insults that lodge in your brain.
[27:55] Speaker 3: And you know, at the time it's like somebody hits
[27:57] Speaker 3: with an insult and you think, Oh, that's going to
[27:59] Speaker 3: stay in there for a very long time, maybe forever.
[28:02] Speaker 3: And as soon as he said that, I can think
[28:04] Speaker 3: of insults going back to when I was.
[28:05] Speaker 1: A little kid.
[28:06] Speaker 3: There's not a lot of them, but there's like a
[28:08] Speaker 3: half dozen of them that I've got in my brain
[28:10] Speaker 3: for the rest of my life.
[28:13] Speaker 1: And do you have any like that?
[28:14] Speaker 3: I don't know, Katie, you can think about it or
[28:15] Speaker 3: Michael or anybody, but like we got this text, I
[28:17] Speaker 3: just wanted to say, Oh, this is a different one. Sorry,
[28:21] Speaker 3: I'll get to that one later. Went to a party
[28:24] Speaker 3: in college. I hit it off with a guy. We
[28:27] Speaker 3: exchanged numbers. Met up a week later. First thing he
[28:30] Speaker 3: says was, I had to be drunk to like you.
[28:32] Speaker 3: I've never forgotten those words.
[28:40] Speaker 1: That's chilly. That is.
[28:43] Speaker 3: Shane Gillis is one of the many I'm sure he's
[28:46] Speaker 3: had in his life was his mean sisters commenting on
[28:49] Speaker 3: his physique in a particular way that has stuck.
[28:52] Speaker 1: In his mind and he'll remember forever.
[28:54] Speaker 3: But if you have any insults that have lodged in
[28:55] Speaker 3: your head all these years from high school or college
[28:58] Speaker 3: or whenever, from a spouse, from a sibling, from a friend,
[29:01] Speaker 3: our text line is 415-295-KFTC.
[29:02] Speaker 1: 415-295-KFTC. More on the way. Armstrong and Getty. It's a
[29:15] Speaker 1: high drive to deep center. Pahe's going back. It is gone.
[29:20] Speaker 1: And it's tied again.
[29:22] Speaker 5: Contreras knew it.
[29:27] Speaker 3: That was a very excited Milwaukee crowd there rooting for
[29:33] Speaker 3: the Brewers as they went up 2-0 on the Dodgers
[29:37] Speaker 3: last night.
[29:38] Speaker 1: Seesaw battle. Great game. I watched the whole damn thing.
[29:41] Speaker 1: I had a long day, Jack. A rough day. An
[29:42] Speaker 1: hour and a half in the dentist's chair. Oh, my God.
[29:45] Speaker 1: It was taxing.
[29:47] Speaker 4: So I got done with my dinner alone.
[29:49] Speaker 1: My wife was out. My life. It's so sad. I thought,
[29:52] Speaker 1: screw it. I'm not watching news. I'm watching baseball. There
[29:54] Speaker 1: you go. And I did. And I loved it. Yeah.
[29:56] Speaker 1: I love baseball.
[29:57] Speaker 3: The playoff crowds, the intensity is so awesome. But Dodgers
[30:00] Speaker 3: are in trouble. But now they come home for three.
[30:02] Speaker 3: So see what happens. And the Rams lost last night
[30:08] Speaker 3: in overtime. It was a bad day for L.A.
[30:09] Speaker 1: Sports.
[30:11] Speaker 3: So there's a new White House press secretary. We make
[30:15] Speaker 3: way too big a deal. We the media world makes
[30:18] Speaker 3: way too big a deal out of the White House
[30:19] Speaker 3: press secretaries, I think, in the modern world, especially with Trump,
[30:22] Speaker 3: because he comes out and answers questions every single day
[30:26] Speaker 3: or in the Oval Office to everyone who wants.
[30:28] Speaker 1: To ask a question.
[30:29] Speaker 4: So.
[30:30] Speaker 3: It was a bigger deal when Biden was president because
[30:32] Speaker 3: he never had press conferences. So it was your only
[30:35] Speaker 3: opportunity to ask anything about, you know, what the president
[30:38] Speaker 3: thinks about stuff.
[30:39] Speaker 1: And he hired a half whip. He absolutely did.
[30:42] Speaker 3: This new woman, Katie Zachariah, who used to be on
[30:46] Speaker 3: Fox all the time, and some of you were big
[30:48] Speaker 3: fans of hers when she was on Fox. A couple
[30:50] Speaker 3: of things about her that are being reported today. The
[30:53] Speaker 3: media is attempting to tear her down. She looks like
[30:57] Speaker 3: She would have been on the cover of the Sports
[31:00] Speaker 3: Illustrated swimsuit issue, is what she looks like, if you're
[31:02] Speaker 3: wondering what she looks like.
[31:04] Speaker 4: But.
[31:04] Speaker 3: And I think it had a lot to do with
[31:07] Speaker 3: how she got hired, because in Trump's world.
[31:09] Speaker 4: A really hot girl on Fox News got hired in
[31:12] Speaker 4: the White House?
[31:12] Speaker 1: That's interesting. Well, right. So, according to.
[31:17] Speaker 1: Is it Politico? Politico.
[31:19] Speaker 3: Yeah, according to Politico, she used to time her hits
[31:24] Speaker 3: on Fox based on Trump's schedule, knowing that he'd be
[31:29] Speaker 3: more likely to be watching her as she was trying
[31:32] Speaker 3: to get into the White House in some way. She
[31:36] Speaker 3: didn't lobby for the job. She looked at Trump's public
[31:40] Speaker 3: schedule every day, though, and monitors truth social and made
[31:43] Speaker 3: sure she was on air when she assumed he might
[31:45] Speaker 3: be watching, according to someone familiar with her strategy.
[31:48] Speaker 4: That strikes me as ludicrous on its face.
[31:52] Speaker 1: It does.
[31:53] Speaker 4: Reporterettes don't get to decide when they're on the air
[31:55] Speaker 4: in any known universe of broadcasting.
[31:57] Speaker 3: It's hard for me to imagine how that would work.
[31:59] Speaker 3: It's true that Hegzeth got hired off the couch on
[32:03] Speaker 3: Fox and Friends by being really good and Impressing Trump. And, well,
[32:07] Speaker 3: there's like a half dozen examples. But I find it
[32:11] Speaker 3: hard to believe that you could say, I want to
[32:12] Speaker 3: be on during this times, these times, and.
[32:14] Speaker 1: That's when you would be on.
[32:16] Speaker 4: No, the director and producers would say, no, you're going
[32:19] Speaker 4: to go on when we tell you to.
[32:21] Speaker 1: Or we'll get a different.
[32:21] Speaker 4: It's a completely fake story.
[32:23] Speaker 1: Or we'll get a different hot blonde. Okay. So Joe.
[32:27] Speaker 4: You're going to go after the Iran story, like we
[32:29] Speaker 4: just said.
[32:31] Speaker 3: So Joe shoots down that story, probably appropriately. How about
[32:35] Speaker 3: this one? This is being reported by CNN. President Trump's
[32:39] Speaker 3: incoming White House press secretary echoed on her social media,
[32:44] Speaker 3: all since deleted, that she was reposting a lot of
[32:51] Speaker 3: stuff about the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, accused Hollywood elites of
[32:56] Speaker 3: being pedophile cannibals, which I know is a big thing
[33:00] Speaker 3: among some people, And said Michelle Obama had a penis
[33:04] Speaker 3: in some posts.
[33:07] Speaker 1: Since deleted. Now, she was either just.
[33:11] Speaker 3: Trying to be funny and snarky and controversial, or she
[33:15] Speaker 3: believed that stuff. Which I know a handful of people.
[33:19] Speaker 3: By handful, too. I only know personally two people, but
[33:22] Speaker 3: are into all of that stuff.
[33:24] Speaker 4: Yeah, I would have to see the posts. And the
[33:28] Speaker 4: internet is forever. Somebody's got them. If she was like
[33:30] Speaker 4: a hardcore pizza gate devotee, well, that's... That calls her
[33:36] Speaker 4: judgment into question, on the other hand.
[33:38] Speaker 3: Or pretending to be. Or being ironic or sarcastic. That
[33:42] Speaker 3: seemed like the hot thing at the time.
[33:47] Speaker 4: Ah, yes.
[33:47] Speaker 1: The J.D.
[33:49] Speaker 4: Vance-esque, don't run off any part of your coalition unnecessarily. Yeah.
[33:56] Speaker 4: I don't know.
[33:56] Speaker 1: There's so much more important things to talk about. We
[33:58] Speaker 1: do not have... As a country, I mean. We do not.
[34:02] Speaker 3: Have pedophile cannibals in important positions in this country by
[34:10] Speaker 3: the hundreds.
[34:12] Speaker 4: We do not. Cannibals date people of age exclusively.
[34:18] Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm undermining you.
[34:20] Speaker 3: We just don't. And I'm not worried about it at all.
[34:22] Speaker 3: But I know people that are very, very.
[34:24] Speaker 1: Worried about it.
[34:25] Speaker 4: I'm worried about inflating the currency. And stealing my savings.
[34:32] Speaker 1: That's what... You can't get anybody to pay attention for.
[34:36] Speaker 4: An effing 20-second interval on that topic.
[34:41] Speaker 1: Nobody cares.
[34:42] Speaker 4: They want to talk about pedophile cannibals and whatever other
[34:46] Speaker 4: madness is in the air.
[34:48] Speaker 1: Whatever crap is in the air. Michelle Obama's crank. The Jews.
[34:52] Speaker 1: You're an idiot. You know, whatever. It's... Oh, my God.
[34:56] Speaker 1: I give up.
[34:57] Speaker 4: You know what?
[34:57] Speaker 1: I give up. I did my best. I had a
[34:59] Speaker 1: good run.
[35:00] Speaker 3: That's a pretty good comparison right there. Because we know,
[35:03] Speaker 3: we hear radios clicking off if we talk about the
[35:07] Speaker 3: $ 40 trillion debt and how it's going to ruin us all.
[35:10] Speaker 1: But if we did a whole segment on Michelle Obama's penis,
[35:14] Speaker 1: people would think, of course, we'd probably do it in
[35:17] Speaker 1: hilarious fashion.
[35:18] Speaker 4: Yeah, the more I think about it, the more I'm warming.
[35:20] Speaker 1: To the idea. Right, yeah, exactly. You know, it's funny.
[35:24] Speaker 4: I woke up an hour early today, which is a
[35:26] Speaker 4: drag because I don't get enough sleep as it is.
[35:28] Speaker 4: But my mind was just going 100 miles per hour.
[35:31] Speaker 1: Oh, I hate that. Although I felt well-rested. I felt sharp.
[35:36] Speaker 4: And I was thinking about how best to craft an
[35:38] Speaker 4: argument to help people understand how inflation is a tax,
[35:42] Speaker 4: how it's a deliberate government policy to your detriment. They
[35:46] Speaker 4: are screwing you. They know they're screwing you. They're doing
[35:50] Speaker 4: with a smile on their face. These are the things
[35:52] Speaker 4: I think about in the wee hours of the morning.
[35:54] Speaker 1: I'm glad you didn't wake up thinking about MLP. Yeah.
[36:00] Speaker 1: If you want a segment of the show, you can
[36:01] Speaker 1: get the podcast. Subscribe. Armstrong and Getty on demand.
[36:06] Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty.

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