All The Rappers Would Beat The Hell Out Of You

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: "All The Rappers Would Beat The Hell Out Of You"
Date: February 2, 2026
Podcast: Armstrong & Getty On Demand (iHeartPodcasts)
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty

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Episode Overview

This episode kicks off the week with Armstrong & Getty’s signature mix of irreverent satire, media critique, and cultural commentary. The hosts riff on Groundhog Day, the Grammys' political posturing, the current state and implications of U.S. immigration and population shifts, and media coverage of the Melania Trump documentary and Jeffrey Epstein cases. The conversation skewers Hollywood self-importance, "woke" celebrity commentary, and the migration patterns influencing American politics, all delivered with biting humor and sarcasm.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Groundhog Day and Everyday Absurdity

• The show opens with jokes about Groundhog Day traditions and the infamous "Gobbler's Knob" (“I’m not comfortable with the term Gobbler's knob. Do we have to keep saying that?” – C, 02:04), with mentions of the winter weather predictions and memories from childhood in Wisconsin.
• Tone: Light, nostalgic, mildly bemused.

2. Grammys, Celebrity Activism, and Surface-Level Sloganeering

• The Grammys are roasted for being a platform for “woke” politics, focusing particularly on Billie Eilish’s statement:

  “Guaranteed, no one is illegal on stolen land.” — Billie Eilish (26:43)
  Reaction:
  “That is just such a stupid sentiment... If Fred Armisen was doing a mock woke thing, he would say that sort of thing.” — C, 04:36
  “That's straight out of Portlandia. You're exactly right.” — A, 04:51

• The hosts critique the lack of depth in such statements, likening them to things a child might say and lamenting their uncritical reception:

  “It's childlike.” — A, 05:09
  “If your 8 year old said that, well, I understand, you're 8. And then you explain it to them...” — C, 05:19

• Larger critique of performers using award shows for political grandstanding, and the echo chamber environment:

  “They all say it with this tone of bravery while they say it to a crowd... who agrees with everything they say no matter how ridiculous...” — C, 08:14

3. The Self-Importance of Hollywood

• Armstrong & Getty lampoon musical and Hollywood elites for their self-aggrandizement:

  “These people have convinced themselves that what they're doing is important... You're basically like a clown. You're entertaining and it has no meaning.” — C, 09:02

• Acknowledgement that entertainment does sometimes have an impact, but it’s rare and generally overblown by the industry itself.

4. Immigration Debate, Census Data, and State Migration

• Current Population Shifts:
  U.S. Census shows population growth is largely from immigration, not births.

  “The other 8.3 million, 80% have been new arrivals... The low rate of births is deeply concerning. The notion of... four new immigrants for every net baby is alarming.” — A, 24:52

• Migration Trends:
  • People are overwhelmingly moving from blue to red states (e.g., Texas, Idaho, the Carolinas).
  • Blue states’ population losses are offset only by international (often illegal) immigration.

  “Red states gained population, blue states dangerously dependent on illegal immigration... The population grew slowly... mostly because of the border.” — A, 24:20

• Political Implications:
  • Projections show red states will gain congressional seats, blue states will lose them.

  “Texas is now projected to gain four seats, Florida two, and California to lose four. No wonder Gavin Newsom is gerrymandering...” — A, 28:53

5. Media Coverage of Epstein & Melania Trump

• Epstein Files:
  • Armstrong notes how ABC covered Epstein as a leading story, while CBS ignored it—criticized mainstream media inconsistency and mishandling of leaked victim names:

    “The DOJ exposed the names of at least 43 victims when they were supposed to all be redacted...” — A, 17:06

  • Frustration with both the overblown and underplayed approaches.
• Melania Trump Documentary:
  • The Melania film as a case study in media and public polarization:

    “Melania Trump's movie knocked the lights out... 99 audience score... critics score 10% on tomato reader. Not surprising.” — C, 32:21
    “Because they hate Melania Trump so much... You could have the exact same movie about Michelle Obama... and they would talk about how beautiful it was and how brilliant she is.” — C, 33:12

• General conclusion: Coverage and criticism are now entirely “directional," reflecting underlying bias, not merit.

6. Political Correctness, Labels, and Lingering Satire

• The hosts lampoon evolving terminology ("immigration" versus "migration"):

  “Who decreed that? The left did and y' all fell for it, dumb bastards.” — C, 25:14

• Ongoing lampooning of the “woke” crowd, with satirical suggestions for stopping to yell during award shows, only to get "beat the hell out of" by rappers:

  “If I had been in the crowd... I'd have yelled after like 30 seconds of a blog: 'Stupid! That's stupid.' ...Get a couple of rappers that beat the hell out of you.” — A&C, 26:57–27:08

7. Other Notable Oddities and News Briefs

• Lighter stories—Waffle House Valentine’s Day reservations, birds hidden in pants at the border, and Babylon Bee headlines—provide comic relief and a sense of the hosts’ eclectic interests.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Grammy Activism:

  “No one is illegal on stolen land is just moronic.” — C, 05:05
  “It's a child's argument.” — A, 27:40

• On Hollywood Self-Image:

  “You're basically like a clown...entertaining and it has no meaning.” — C, 09:02
  “Film is a way for people to take a look at themselves and read—No, it's not.” — C, 10:07

• On Population Shifts:

  “Red states gained population, blue states dangerously dependent on illegal immigration to maintain any sort of population.” — A, 24:20

• On Directional Criticism:

  “Everything’s directional. Just wildly enthusiastic. Directionally. The Creek, like the morons at the Grammys. No one is illegal on stolen lands. That just translates as I'm against what's happening in the immigration thing.” — A, 33:48

• On Media Hypocrisy:

  “You could have the exact same movie [about Michelle Obama]...and they would talk about how beautiful it was and how brilliant she is...” — C, 33:12

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Timestamps of Important Segments

• Groundhog Day banter & Grammys intro: 01:16–04:13
• Billie Eilish’s “No one is illegal on stolen land” reaction: 04:13–08:14, 26:43–27:08
• Critique of Hollywood self-importance: 09:00–10:07
• Census numbers, population trends, and implications: 23:13–28:38
• Melania Trump documentary reviews & media polarization: 32:21–34:36
• Epstein coverage critique: 16:23–18:18, 21:37–22:39
• State migration and political aftermath: 28:00–30:20
• Satirical “seat-filler” fantasies: 27:40–28:00

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Episode Flow & Tone

• Style: Fast-paced banter interspersed with ranting monologues, heavy sarcasm, and satirical jabs.
• Outlook: Sceptical, at times caustic, but anchored in cultural observation and political critique.
• Atmosphere: Lively, irreverent, and frequently humorous, targeting the week’s biggest cultural and political talking points.

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For New Listeners

This episode is classic Armstrong & Getty—unfiltered, wry, and cutting through media and celebrity theater with a blend of fact, mockery, and social insight. The hosts challenge the week’s “received wisdom,” using pop culture moments as an inroad to larger societal debates. Whether you agree or disagree, you’ll leave better prepared to discuss what everyone’s talking about—without ever feeling like you’re hearing the party line.

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End of Summary

Transcript

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See.

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

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Armstrong and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. It is a brand new week and I feel like I just said that like two days ago. And I feel like life is going by way too fast.

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Wow, you may be right.

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Live from Studio C, senor, a dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound, where we won a.

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A Grammy for best acoustics today.

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The title of the show is Nothing to see here.

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Signed Epstein's Mother, which is a really obscure reference.

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Yeah, good, but obscure.

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Yes, and not your Grammys. Grammys.

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I'm not comfortable with the term Gobbler's knob. Do we have to keep saying that? Yes, Michael.

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Oh, no, I had no comment. I was just, you know, frowning.

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It's Groundhog Day, which is.

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Turn that frown upside down, Michael. So, Groundhog Day. Good Lord.

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Did anybody check to see what the groundhog did? Because it's already come out. Now I know that they did pull the groundhog up out of the ground. And it said ice out was the first thing it said, which is unfortunate.

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Oh, that's surprising.

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Freaking little rodent. Who ask you? Yes.

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I don't see any illegal immigrants in your borough. Huh? You talk big.

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So after the groundhog said ice out, what did it do?

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Katie saw his shadow.

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Okay. Yes, I know.

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Which means what the hell, it's going to rain more than usual in March.

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Six more weeks.

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Whatever. Freaking rodent.

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I will tell you this though. Well, first of all, you have to be a child to enjoy this. But as a kid in Wisconsin, it was a big deal. The Teacher would announce it and in the class and everybody'd either cheer or go, oh, he hadn't been outside. Not frozen in months.

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Right, right.

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And the idea of six more weeks of winter is just, oh, I don't know if I can do it.

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You know, I have a vague memory of asking my, my mom or my dad.

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So what's the deal? It sees its shadow, doesn't it just.

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The sun's out and they try to explain.

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Well, it's, it's clear sky. I don't know. That's fantastic. Happy Groundhog Day. Happy Groundhog Day. Spread the word. There you go.

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It's an excuse for day drinking in Pennsylvania. That's it. Who can blame them? It's cold. It's winter. You're in Pennsylvania. Gobblers now. Is that Pennsylvania?

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Yeah, yeah. I quit saying that. It's not. There might be kids listening.

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Wait, so you don't, you don't want us to say Cobbler's Knob?

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Gobbler's Knob just seems inappropriate to me. So we'll play all these clips later. But Lady Gaga comes out last night for the Grammys. Which you didn't watch. Most of you.

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No, no, no. Maybe they can move the groundhog thing from Gobbler's Knob to French Lick, Indiana. Would that be better for you?

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Wow. So Lady Gaga comes out at the Grammys last night, which you did not watch, and she says. No one's illegal on stolen land. And everybody. And everybody cheers like crazy.

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Powerful stuff.

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And that is just such a stupid sentiment. That is the sort of sentiment like if, if Fred Armisen was doing a mock woke thing, he would say that sort of thing in people chair because that one's just too stupid.

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Yeah, that's straight out of Portlandia. You're exactly right.

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It really is. I mean, you can be anti ice in their tactics and stuff like that. I wish you wouldn't do it on awards shows. We should just, you know. But no one's illegal in stolen land is just moronic.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Does she, does she know it's moronic?

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It's childlike. I think that was Billie Eilish, for what it's worth.

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Yeah.

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Who's younger than Lady Gaga either way. But no, it, it's, it's very, very childlike.

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It is. It's like, like if your 8 year old said that, well, I understand your 8. And then you explain it to them and they'd say, oh, okay, well then that doesn't make much sense.

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Yeah.

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Wow. And, but, but, but people cheered. People didn't sit there and think, well, that doesn't make any sense. Or that's dumber. Human beings.

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Human beings have the capacity to believe absolutely anything. Certain sorts of human beings, if the people around them say, good for you there, you good, good girl, good girl. And you just have that reinforced enough and you will repeat absolute nonsense.

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Where, where do they think the French live? Or the Germans? Where do they think they live? Do they. They live on not stolen land that's been in the hands of one completely.

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Empty of anything but micro people.

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There were.

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It wasn't anything bigger than a squirrel.

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It hasn't changed hands 400 times in the last thousand years with different sorts of people with different names.

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Right. No human being is illegal. I think we should celebrate our immigrants.

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It's on the stolen land part that drives me so crazy. What are you talking about?

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Oh, I know it's an idiotic notion.

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I don't know. That bothers me so much. Well, the reason it bothers me so much because a musician who spent their whole life writing poetry and not paying attention to history class is fine. Doesn't really make any difference. But with the national conversation we're having right now about immigration and people so roiled up and fighting in the streets and. And cops being doxed and people getting shot and everything like that, it'd be nice if we could come to some sort of conclusion on what's real and what's not. It actually would be nice having people cheer something as stupid as we're on stolen land does not help the discussion where there's actual violence occurring. No.

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Well, they don't have any interest in pursuing that sort of conversation. They're not even aware it exists, I don't think, except in maybe a dim, far off way.

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Yeah, I suppose you're right. I suppose that's what I should recognize. They're not even aware. Yeah, exactly.

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Yeah, they have a child's view of this. Now substandard rabbit who appears to be the toast of the town said something about I believe we should celebrate our immigrants. Yeah. And then just leaves it there as if he, you know, dropped the mic. I mean, you've said it all, man.

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Whoa.

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He just silenced everybody. Except for just a couple of little questions. Follow up questions. How many folks do you suppose we.

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Ought to let in?

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Do you? Are you in favor of an unlimited number of unfettered immigrants? Okay, explain why that's good for the country and I will listen patiently. Oh, some limits of some people. How about criminals? Gang members? No. How about poor people who Will immediately go on the public dole. I have a number of follow up questions as it turns out but he thinks things. I think we should celebrate our immigrants settles the matter. It's like talking to a little child.

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It really is. Doesn't you know your music's fine but then you know, don't come out and say crap like that if you want me to like you. That's the other thing is they all, they all say it with this tone of bravery while they say it to a crowd of people who agrees with.

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Everything they say no matter how ridiculous what they say is. Yes. They will get nothing but agreement and you know, reinforcement.

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I like this. I'm by the way I'm going to go through some of the Grammys later because I laid in bed last night went through a whole bunch of the winners and listen some of the music and some of it I just friggin love. Fantastic. Which I wouldn't have known about if it weren't for Grammys. Harvey Mason Jr. The chief executive of the recording academy delivered brief remarks at the Grammys last night and challenging times. Music never stands still in moves.

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Oh, that's good point.

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It moves, it heals, it pushes forward. This is the other thing I've always hated about the Grammys and Oscars in particular is these people have convinced themselves that what they're doing is important. Maybe they have to do that because otherwise it's just like I got really lucky that I can make a living basic doing, doing a hobby that I love and. But if you convince yourself it's important like you're changing the world because you're your, your music and your movie. No, you're not briefly entertaining and I'll never remember it again 99% of the time. The other 1% of the time slightly more impact than once. Like every 30 years some music or a movie actually has any impact. But that's it. Relax, relax. You're just. You're a clown. You're basically like a clown. You're entertaining and it has no meaning. It's fine. That has no meaning. Doesn't mean you don't get to be a guitar player. But don't pretend that what you're doing is important just by its very existence. Drives me crazy.

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Yeah.

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Film is a way for people to take a look at themselves and read. No it's not. It's just we're killing two hours on a Friday night after working all week long.

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You know, occasionally it makes you stop and think. Occasionally really good. A really good film will. Will Provoke it will bestow a little wisdom, a little perspective.

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I flip on the music on the drive home. I really like it sometimes. Sometimes I don't like it so much. But you're just. It's not that important. All right.

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Well.

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Well, right, Y.

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Exactly. And I enjoy music, obviously. And film. I love saying film. I know movies, etc. But you know, you can watch like a brilliant movie, like one that really does affect you and makes you rethink things you'd assumed, blah, blah, blah. But they have about as much persuasive power in that way as like a really good Peggy Noonan newspaper column, in my opinion.

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It's exactly right. And no more. Okay, let's start the show officially.

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I just crowd friendly dance hit. Please. I'm a recording artist.

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I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday, February 2nd, otherwise known as Groundhog Day, the year 2026. We're Armstrong and Getty and we approve of this program.

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No. Oh, and a new month.

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That's right. The rent is due. The rent is too. Damn. And it really, really is.

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Sorry, I had one more Grammy comment. I was undisturbed last night, having left orders. If Trevor Noah is ever funny, let me know immediately.

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No kidding.

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And again, I was not bothered even once. All right, let's begin the show officially now, according to FCC rules and regulations. Here we go. Here comes the disco dancing downbeat at mark.

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Ooh, the grace period is over.

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That's right. It's because of 911 that I had to get a new driver's license. I forgot about that.

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That I just got of a century.

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That finally. That alone should say something, shouldn't it?

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Yeah, it says about everything.

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Buildings get knocked down because they got on the planes. What we need is IDs. That would make it harder to do that. And it will take us 25 years.

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To pull that off. Doesn't everybody in America get like a new license every three to five years? Yes, yes, but we can't move to haphazardly.

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It's going to take two, two and.

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A half decades to get this going. But you see, we'll have a little star in the corner.

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That's different. Oh my God. That is. That is not good. Okay, we got Katie's headlines on the way. We got so much stuff to get to. I spent a lot of time over the weekend gathering up entertaining information. I thought.

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Oh good.

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The movie Melania had a huge weekend driving the mainstream press just absolutely nuts. Which I love.

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Did it really?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Okay. All right.

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Got a lot of info on that. It's pretty interesting.

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Super. Super. My goodness. Everything from that to how soon we might be schmack in Iran, developments on that front. All sorts of stuff to talk about. Exactly. Yep. But let's figure out who's reporting. Well first it's lead story with Katie Green. Katie.

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Well it's your guys favorite topic at the top of the Alphabet networks. ABC Epstein victims lawyers asked court to order DOJ to take down the Epstein files website. NBC Ro Khanna says the DOJ's release of the Epstein files is quote, significant but quote, not good enough. And CNN new document dump does little to answer Epstein questions or the pain of survivors.

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I have a fair amount of I thought this was really interesting yesterday on the big Sunday talk shows which you know, nobody pays attention to but those of us who still watch them. I think Barry Weiss at CBS had an impact. So NBC mentions Epstein in their tease at the beginning and does it like third story. ABC leads with Epstein. That's their first guest and makes it the focus of their show on ABC this week. Face the Nation as far as I could tell, never mentioned it the entire hour at all.

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Wow. Well, there's no news there other than that.

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And good for her. I mean good for good for cbs. It's a non story with all the things that are going on in the world. Yeah.

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Yeah. Well the only news really to me is that the DOJ exposed the names of at least 43 victims when they were supposed to all be redacted. And so now they're like hey, can we have all those papers back?

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Well, and hundreds of dudes who didn't do anything wrong at all but are now answering questions for some reason.

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Right? Yep. As predicted on the Armstrong and Getty Show.

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Katie from Reuters, Trump says if Iran doesn't agree to nuclear deal, quote, we'll find out whether US Attack would spark a regional war.

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Wow.

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From the Guardian. Judge denies Minnesota's request to end ice surge in Minneapolis. From tmz, Savannah Guthrie skips Today show as homicide detectives join search for her missing mom in Arizona.

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Yeah, her mom disappeared.

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Hey.

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But homicide. Wow.

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Homicide just joined.

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Yeah.

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From the Associated Press. Music's biggest stars use the Grammy stage to protest Trump's immigration crackdown with quote ice out pins.

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Yeah.

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Good for you.

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You know it's all just directional.

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I know. But I am surprised that there's not somebody, even if they agree with the politics high up on these in the motion picture or music industry who says hey, this is actually a cutting off half of our audience. We'd all make a lot more money if we just keep our politics to ourselves, right?

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Do it on your own time if you wanna.

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From the LA Times Border inspector finds protected birds in man's pants and how he tried to explain it must have.

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Just flown in there.

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Well, the agents questions what behind what was behind his abnormally bulging groin and he said, well that's just my penis.

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They must have flown.

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Study finds a armies that never sleep are faking grassroots movements and threatening democracy.

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Well, I took in some good AI podcasts over the weekend that made me more comfortable with the idea that the timeline is going to be pushed out later.

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I'm interested in this story too, Katie.

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And finally, the Babylon Bee gleeful weatherman excitedly announces dangerous storm system likely to kill everyone in its path.

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Right, Right.

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Oh boy, thank God Punxsutawney Phil did the weather for us. So we're good to. We're good to go. For the next six weeks, we'll catch up on some of the news that happened the weekend. A bunch of stuff that we've teased. If you missed a segment, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand. Remember, we're all living on stolen land.

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So go about your Armstrong and Getty.

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Friday, kick off the Winter Olympics in style with the opening ceremony from Italy. Featuring a special performance by Mariah Carey. Celebrate the greatest athletes from around the globe as they come together to go for gold.

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The opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.

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Ilya Malin redefining this Sport.

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Friday at 8 Eastern, 7 Central on NBC.

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And Peacock this Sunday, iHeartRadio brings you live to Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara for The Super Bowl 60 tailgate concert. Presented by NetApp. It's the ultimate pre game party featuring an exclusive performance from Teddy Swims. Your front row experience will be on iHeartradio stations across the the country. And the free iHeartradio app is Sunday at 3:30 Eastern, 12:30 Pacific. Then after the concert, tune in to the Super Bowl 60 pregame show on NBC.

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Waffle House announced that they will once again be taking reservations for Valentine's Day. And fellas, Waffle House is the perfect place to get down on one knee and say, I've been stabbed.

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Oh, that's funny, man.

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I'm looking up at cnn. Gloria is on there. Representing multiple Epstein abuse survivors. Gloria Allred, who's been in our lives for so many decades, looks exactly the same by the way. She doesn't look a day older than when we were on the steps of somewhere with her 25 years ago.

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Peterson Trial, right?

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Yeah, quarter of a century ago. She looks exactly the same anyway.

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Well, that's because she's a vampire. Apparently they don't age.

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What? We'll do a little deeper dive on the Epstein thing later as I have a bunch of critiques of the media coverage of it. The disgusting media that did cover it, the smart media like CBS just Dan Face the nation ignored it. As you should.

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So I was plowing through some newses last night. ABC News spent the first five minutes of a, well, I was going to say 30 minute newscast, but content wise it's probably like 21 minutes. They spent five. The first five minutes on the most important person in America, the little kid with the blue hat with the floppy ears. Five minutes of following him on the plane coming back to Minneapolis. He'd got released from the detention center. Some judge ruled that it was unconstitutional, blah, blah, blah.

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Oh, and what that judge said is ridiculous. We got to read the quotes from the judge. Unbelievable.

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Yeah. But five minutes on a national newscast about the kid with the floppy ears.

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Wow.

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Wow. We're a soft headed country. Or at least viewers of ABC News are. Anyway, speaking of the country and immigration and that sort of thing, how timely is this? The latest Census Bureau population estimates are in halfway through the 2020s. They show a tectonic shift in America's population and a decided preference among Americans to vote with their feet for red state over blue state governance, it would seem. And also that's some shocking.

[C]

Yeah, that's interesting. Fitting in with. I thought we've had some things in recent years that people aren't moving like they used to. So both those things are happening.

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Yes. So to the extent that anybody is moving, it's that.

[C]

Well, that's interesting. So people don't move anymore. Unless. Unless you hate the politics where you live so much, then you'll move, but you won't for like other reasons.

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For the expense. Yeah. Or the taxes or what have you. But. Well, let's. Essentially politics. And they also throw in the National Review, the dramatic demographic effects of replacing Joe Biden's border policies with those of Donald Trump. The tease I saw to this story was actually perfect. It's funny, it's not the headline. It was essentially red states gained population, blue states dangerously dependent on illegal immigration to maintain any sort of population. So the population grew slowly in 2025. That was mostly because of the border. On the whole, we have added 10.3 million people since the 2020 census to bring us to a total of 341.8 million people in the United States?

[C]

341.

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Almost 342. Yeah. Only a fifth of that growth. Okay, so we grew by 10.3 million. Here's the key part. Only a fifth of that growth, 1.9 million, has been from the natural increase of births over deaths. The other 8.3 million, 80% have been new arrivals. The low rate of births by itself, of course, is deeply concerning. The notion of a future in which we add four new immigrants for every net baby is alarming.

[C]

So if Biden hadn't opened the borders, I wonder where we would be.

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That's a good question. Because population didn't grow much in 2025 because of immigration related numbers. So here's a little more data for you. Net international immigrant migration shot up under. Why has immigration become migration? Who decreed that? The left did and y' all fell.

[C]

For it, dumb bastards.

[A]

Anyway, net international immigration shot up under Biden from 1.7 million in 2022 to 2.2 million. Then 2.7 million in a year fell off to under 1.3 million in 2025. And the foreign born population actually dipped down to 52 million people last year. But 52 million out of the 342 million are foreign born in the United States right now. The list of fastest growing states in 2025.

[C]

And you're supposed to just. Yes. And you're supposed to just automatically think that's amazing and fantastic.

[A]

Immigrants, Jack. Yes, I'm reminded of the wise, wise world words of. Is Michael Michael at your post or once you reclining over your lean. I'm adjusting a computer over here like a temporary employee. It's some sort of banana stand he's doing.

[C]

What was that thing that was popular for a while. We used to talk about quiet quitting and there was some sort of Monday or something like half ass Monday or something like that was a trend back when. Back, back during the pandemic when everybody thought that all of the rules of work had been flipped upside down and.

[A]

Employees have the upper hand. Now they desperate for us. Exactly.

[C]

She could do half ass Monday.

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Michael. I was thinking of the wise words of one Billie eilish clip number 36 last night the Grammys. This will make you stop and think.

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Guaranteed, no one is illegal on stolen land.

[A]

Oh my gosh, so true.

[C]

If I had been in the crowd, honest to God, when the crowd finally quieted down and she'd be talking, I'd.

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Have yelled after like 30 seconds of a blog.

[C]

Stupid. That's stupid. And I would like to have Done that and they can haul me out, you know, and arrest me and probably give me.

[A]

Get a couple of rappers that beat the hell out of you.

[C]

Get a couple licks in on my head. Just to start the conversation, somebody would have to say, why is it stupid? Or he was claiming it was stupid because it is so stupid they would.

[A]

Dismiss you as a white man. You don't get to have an opinion. That's how it's circular. Their firing squad is.

[C]

You don't like ISIS tactics. Perfectly legitimate political discussion among grownups. But the fact that no one's illegal because we're on Stove Atlantic is the words of a five year old.

[A]

Yes. Yeah, it's a child's argument. So, getting back to the data. Jack, we've got to get you a job as a seat filler at one.

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Of these awards ceremonies where you could do this.

[A]

He finally cracks midway through the streets.

[C]

That's it. I've had enough. Can't get anymore. You people are morons.

[A]

All right, so here's your list. List of fastest growing states in 2025, as usual, dominated by those with Republican governments, led by South Cackalack, Idaho, North Carolina, Texas and Utah. The five states that lost population were mostly deep blue. Vermont, Hawaii, West Virginia, New Mexico and California, with New York barely breaking even. The six states with the highest per capita rate of net internal migration likely red dominated list, the Carolinas, Idaho, Delaware, Tennessee, Montana. The biggest losers per capita New York, Hawaii, Alaska, D.C. california, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Illinois. We sense a trend.

[C]

I could have told you the list of states people are going to without you telling me off the top of my head. Just by people I know personally who've left California.

[A]

Correct.

[C]

Going to Idaho, Texas, South Carolina, Tennessee, etc. Same here.

[A]

Now this is interesting. No wonder. Projections for the post 2030 congressional reapportionment now show a nine seat loss for states that were won by Kamala Harris in 2024. With 11 new House seats and electoral votes for red states being offset only by losses of a seat apiece for narrowly divided Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, this is a grim picture for Democrats indeed. Texas is now projected to gain four seats, Florida two, and California to lose four. No wonder Gavin Newsom is gerrymandering as fast as his little feet can fly. You know there's more to this, but you've gotten the idea we can dig into the data a little bit. But if you look at the numbers for international immigration, legal and illegal Blue states gained 3.3 million people from net international migration compared with. It's about 400,000 less in red states. So the long and short of it is the blue states population losses would be extremely surprising, shocking attention getting if it were not for both legal and illegal international immigration. Foreigners are moving into the blue states because they've seen them on TV back in the home country, I guess. But Americans generally are flowing outward.

[C]

So while I mocked the movie Melania last week because I don't understand why we pay attention to first Ladies no matter who they are, you're a mocker.

[A]

I begged you to take it more seriously.

[C]

The movie made a lot of money over the weekend, set some records for documentaries of any kind ever. We can tell you about that in just a second. We need to tell you about Rough Greens for your dog. If you care about your dog's health, you ought to do the rough greens thing. Put some on your dog food. You don't change the dog's food, you put rough greens on top of it and see what they can do for you. Rough Greens is a live nutritional supplement you add to your dog's food and it does all kinds of different stuff for you.

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[C]

I'll read the way Miranda Devine wrote it in the New York Post because it's pretty good. In a big blow to the Trump deranged community, Melania Trump's movie knocked the lights out on its opening weekend. Came in at number three overall all movies as a documentary and it's seven million dollar box off at takings in three days is almost unheard of for documentaries opening anytime ever. Whatever it is crushed it on Rotten Tomatoes. 99 audience score, which is not really surprising to Me, I'm guessing you probably wouldn't go to it unless you had kind of liked her or whatever.

[A]

Well, and Brett Ratner, is that the guy who directed it. I mean, he's like heavyweight, serious director. He had a bit of a hashtag me too problem there at one point and kind of got exiled from Hollywood. So it's going to be really, really good filmmaking.

[C]

Yeah. On the other side of it, the critics score 10% on tomato reader. Not surprising. Wow. Because they hate Melania Trump so much. To say that Melania is a hagiography. That's something that just, you know, a book or a movie or whatever that just makes you look really, really good would be an insult to. Hey, geographies, sniffed the Hollywood Reporter. Variety called it a shameless infomercial. As opposed to, like, if you had a movie about Michelle Obama, which would be exactly the same, and you would talk about how beautiful it was and how brilliant she is now. Impactful it was.

[A]

Fawns would be embarrassed at how fawning it was.

[C]

It would be exact. You could have the exact same movie put in Michelle Ob. They would talk about how just beautiful art it was, and everyone should see it. The first lady is a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in its ghastly bit of propaganda, said the Independent. The Guardian trashed the movie as gilded trash. Two hours of pure, endless hell 99 on tomato, rotten tomato by the audience, 10% by the critics.

[A]

Wow. Well, that's just like your opinion, man.

[C]

How about that? Oh, geez. Everybody's so transparent.

[A]

Yeah. No, everything's directional. Just wildly enthusiastic. Directionally. The Creek, like the morons at the Grammys. No one is illegal on stolen lands. That just translates as I'm against what's happening in the immigration thing.

[C]

Yay for you.

[A]

All right, super. You know, I don't. How many people went to the Melania thing because they thought, wow, as I was hinting or suggesting last week. You know, it is a glimpse behind the scene of a world we don't get to see. You know, a First lady and an inauguration and. And. And all that sort of stuff, and, you know, she's a beautiful woman, mysterious, blah, blah, blah. How many people were sincerely motivated by the content and how many people were like, I'm. I'm with Trump. I'm going to go see it. I don't know about.

[C]

Probably about the same number of critics who went to the movie with 80% of the review already written about how much they hated it.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, true.

[C]

Because you have to signal your, your, your leanings. We've got Mailbag on the way and so much more news to get to. Want to talk about Iran a little bit? Some interesting AI stuff I came across. The headline being, you know, and everybody's guessing, the top researchers in the world are guessing, but the people are listening to on the Lex Friedman podcast over the weekend. They're putting the timeline for, you know, AI taking over the world, pushing it way out, which I was happy to hear. I don't want it to ever happen, actually. Anyway, lots on the way. Stay here.

[A]

Armstrong and Getty.

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This Sunday, iHeartRadio brings you live to Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara for The Super Bowl 60 tailgate concert. Presented by NetApp. It's the ultimate, ultimate pre game party featuring an exclusive performance from Teddy Swims. Your front row experience will be on iHeartradio stations across the country and the free iHeartradio app this Sunday at 3:30 Eastern, 12:30 Pacific. Then after the concert, tune in to the Super Bowl 60 pregame show on NBC.

[C]

Oh, the LAPD just said something interesting about the whole masking thing. We'll have to get to that in breaking news. Stay tuned.

[A]

Oh, interesting. Okay, let's. You know what? It's our freedom loving quote of the day. I'm gonna go back to the freedom hating quotes of the day.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Because I had some leftovers from that series. This one from Joseph Stalin. Let's do a couple. I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will. And then this one. And he knows what he's talking about. Death is the solution to all problems. No man, no problem. Wow, he probably didn't say it exactly like that, but yes, he certainly believed in snuffing his opponents. Probably. Well, 20 million plus in famine and terror. That's communism for you. And Zoran Mungami wants to tell you all about how wonderful it is. Mailbag drop us note [e-mail] Rich and Beautiful Green Oregon writes, When China comes in and takes over our country from all of the soft heads, will Billie Eilish complain that we're not immigrants on stolen land? I doubt it since you will be too exhausted from working in the concentration camps. Let's see David writes I'm going to move on to Billie Eilish's multi million dollar equestrian ranch. I'm sure she has room for a couple dozen murderers and rapists. No one is illegal on stolen ground. What a starve the lazy cole from cows Utter Kansas Jack. You know Kansas stem to stern Cows Utter. Where is that? Not familiar with cow's Utter Western Western Kansas. Seems like over the last few days at least in my feed, especially with the Grammys, seems that there have been a lot more celebrities outspoken about ice. Well I do think the whole situation been handled poorly by everyone involved. They're upholding the laws. My point is that these celebrities something has been said time and time again. They don't have a clue. They have no idea what it's like to live like a normal person anymore. Way back in the day they might have been living paycheck to paycheck. But what is it about being a celebrity that makes you think we can have some sort of utopia if we just try hard enough Goes into gated communities and 75 million of US normies voted to boot these leeches out and that's what's happening. Couldn't be happier though. The loss of life is unfortunate. Those folks should have made better choices. Please, someone tell these guys to stfu. They won't listen. How about this?

[C]

Oh, we got to get to the joke Trevor Noah made and then Trump responding to it. Trump cannot let anything go. He just can't. Dude, you're President of the United States. Grammys ratings are low. Nobody in your audience is watching. You don't need to react to something Trevor Noah says on the Grammys, but he reacts in a long post. And a lawsuit.

[A]

Oh my God, a lawsuit.

[C]

We'll get to that next hour.

[A]

DH in San Diego with an interesting point of view regarding the attack on Ilhan Omar. I was surprised you guys thought the nut job might get 15 years. Did we forget Sean Dunn, the lefty agitator, threw a sandwich at a CBP officer and got off scot free when according to AI, Mayonnaise's much harder to get out of clothing than apple cider vinegar, a mixture that can be used for light cleaning or deodorizing. And don't say she was scared because she charged the guy like a WWE lesson wrestler that was just called chicken. Another example of violence on the right getting harsher penalties while leftists go free.

[C]

She charged like a wrestler that was just called chicken. That's pretty funny. She did too.

[A]

Yeah. And actually, yeah, apple cider vinegar is a helpful cleaning agent. There you go.

[C]

You did me. You know what?

[A]

But to the extent that you want a serious reaction, DH I think it's that we are used to the fact that people tussle with cops in the streets and sometimes throw deli foods at them, whereas an attack of any sort on a congressperson is just. That's something that should never, ever happen. You know, I wish we had time for Skipper's email. Who sees a nexus between our parenting styles discussion and the immigration discussion, the gentle parenting versus the f around and find out. Parenting.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

And what it says about the different sorts of people in the world.

[C]

Would love to get into that later. Yeah, the Trevor Noah joke from the Grammys that got Trump so angry is Epstein related. So maybe we'll get to that now or two because it can lead us into I want to just talk about some of the coverage of the whole Epstein thing over the weekend, which is just so dumb. If you missed the segment, get the Podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand.

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