Bad, Stupid Children

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand - "Bad, Stupid Children" (February 2, 2026)

Episode Overview

In this episode, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty take their signature irreverent, rapid-fire approach to current events, focusing on cultural commentary, recent political happenings, and reactions to the Grammy Awards. With biting humor and a skeptical eye, the hosts dissect everything from activist celebrity speeches to trends in the housing market, AI in academia, and America’s political landscape as the 2026 midterms loom.

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Main Topics & Key Insights

1. Celebrity Activism and the "Stolen Land" Rhetoric

[03:05 - 04:41]

• The show opens with audio from activist musicians at the Grammys, notably Billie Eilish saying, “No one is illegal on stolen land” ([03:05]), sparking immediate sarcasm and pushback from both hosts.
• Jack and Joe express frustration toward what they see as shallow, virtue-signaling statements made by celebrities lacking historical or policy insight.
  • Quote: “I don't think I could craft a stupider comment on this whole thing than that.” —Jack Armstrong ([04:20])
  • Quote: “She just throws together a bunch of phrases, a little greeting card rhetoric, and on she goes, as if that's any way to administer a country.” —Joe Getty ([04:35])
• The hosts bemoan the “crowd mentality” and contrast showbiz advocacy with actual governance and historical complexity.

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2. Outrage Culture: Federal Agents Mistaken for ICE

[05:41 - 07:24]

• Jack and Joe recount an incident where federal air marshals were chased out of a Los Angeles restaurant after being mistaken for ICE agents.
• They condemn the growing trend of confronting public servants based on perceived political affiliations.
  • Quote: “The idea that you can't go out to a restaurant to eat... without people hounding you out of your politics, is just awful. Do not share that, no matter who it is.” —Jack Armstrong ([06:46])

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3. Geopolitical Tensions: U.S. Military in the Middle East

[07:27 - 08:23], [40:20 - 40:59]

• The discussion briefly shifts to U.S. military buildup in the Middle East amid concerns about Iran's missile capabilities and the need to defend both Israel and American personnel.
• The hosts reference ongoing uncertainty: “We're in a wait and see pattern on that” ([08:23]).

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4. AI Cheating and Academia

[08:37 - 10:33]

• They examine the increasing use of AI in academic settings, noting how students use AI not just to write papers, but also to “dumb down” work to avoid detection.
• Joe summarizes: “AI is going to be superhuman in some things way beyond anything a human... could do... but it’s going to be a long time before there are other things it can do that humans can do” ([09:47]).

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5. Housing Market Shifts

[10:33 - 12:37]

• Discussing recent data, the hosts note a softening in the housing market with buyers finally gaining some leverage as more homes sell below asking price.
• They analyze the inertia in the market tied to low-interest loans and speculate about long-term demographic consequences.

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6. Media Critique: Puff Pieces and Politicians

[12:37 - 14:09]

• Jack and Joe mock a Wall Street Journal article highlighting the New York mayor's struggle with his wife’s desire for a cat despite his allergies.
• Joe lambasts the media for painting controversial public figures in soft, humanizing light, drawing extreme satirical comparisons:
  • Quote: “Next week it's gonna be Joseph Stalin says fly fishing really relaxes him… after a long day of starving Jews…” —Joe Getty ([12:46])

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7. The Grammys: Performances, Music Awards & More Celebrity Activism

[18:25 - 23:23], [43:15 - 48:06]

• Jack reviews highlights and musical performances, complimenting Jelly Roll's acceptance speech for its unusual open expression of Christian faith in L.A.
  • Quote: “Jesus is for everybody. Jesus is not owned by one political party. Jesus is not owned by no music label. Jesus is Jesus. Anybody can have a relationship with him.” —Jelly Roll ([18:54])
• The hosts lampoon the cure’s death-obsessed new album (“Regret-filled life… our mutual demise” [21:43]) and joke about pop stars' stage antics.
• Coverage includes more Grammy activist sound bites, notably Bad Bunny’s “ICE out” comment ([44:39]) and Kalani urging artists to protest injustice, which Jack and Joe deride as “greeting card rhetoric.”
  • Quote: “[These are] people who, like Ricky Gervais said… have the least perspective of anybody on anything” —Jack Armstrong ([45:14])

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8. Political Punditry, Special Elections & 2026 Midterm Dynamics

[26:54 - 36:12]

• Jack expresses skepticism over the significance pundits assign to special elections, though he acknowledges a “31-point swing” towards Democrats in a recent Texas race is notable ([29:19]).
• They detail shifting party momentum, unprecedented political fundraising (Trump’s $375M war chest), and the impact of money versus messaging.
  • Quote: “If you got the wrong message, it doesn’t matter how much money you have. If you got the right message, heaven or hell can't stop you.” —Jack Armstrong ([34:06])
• Predicting future Congressional gridlock, they anticipate Trump will face more impeachments if the House flips.

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9. Tesla's Pivot and Robot Speculation

[40:36 - 43:22]

• Joe notes Elon Musk's move to discontinue the Model S to focus on robotics, referencing a caregiver robot demo.
• The conversation touches on the “uncanny valley” and why robots shouldn’t resemble humans: “Make it have three legs or like R2D2. Makes more sense than C3PO, in my opinion.” —Jack Armstrong ([43:15])

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10. Critique of Broadcast & Social Influence

[46:28 - 47:50]

• Jack voices annoyance at morning shows amplifying simplistic activist messages, frustrated viewers might uncritically absorb such rhetoric “because listen, everybody cheer. Yeah, it makes me so angry that they think they're so smart.”
• Joe calls much of the activist language “meaningless greeting card rhetoric” ([47:50]).

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “No one is illegal on stolen land.” —Billie Eilish ([03:05]), used as springboard for a lengthy critique of celebrity activism.
• “God dang it.” —Jack Armstrong ([04:56]), notably exasperated with pop culture discourse.
• “The Wall Street Journal with a cute article about how the racist Marxist Islamist new mayor... is allergic to cats… Next up, Joseph Stalin says fly fishing really relaxes him.” —Joe Getty ([12:46])
• “I want to be able to talk to her in very calm ways. Say, you know, you’re a fantastic musician. I don’t blame you for not paying attention in school…” —Jack Armstrong on Billie Eilish ([04:59])
• “AI is going to be superhuman in some things… But it’s going to be a long time before there are other things it can do that humans can do.” —Jack Armstrong ([09:47])
• “If you got the wrong message, it doesn’t matter how much money you have. If you got the right message, heaven or hell can’t stop you.” —Jack Armstrong ([34:06])
• “We're so together and we're feeling powerful and right. We're having a real effect. No, no.” —Joe Getty ([48:06])

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Key Timestamps

• [03:05]: Billie Eilish’s “No one is illegal on stolen land” & hosts’ immediate reaction
• [05:41]: Air marshals mistaken for ICE, crowd confrontation
• [07:27]: U.S. Navy armada and Middle East update
• [08:37]: Student AI cheating tactics
• [10:33]: Housing market unfreezing
• [12:37]: NY Mayor/cat/WSJ media criticism
• [18:47]: Jelly Roll’s Grammy acceptance speech
• [21:43]: The Cure’s new album described as “about dying alone”
• [26:54]: Coffee recall/political analysis/special election results
• [34:06]: Political fundraising discussion (“right message” quote)
• [40:20]: Musk's robot plans and discussion on uncanny valley
• [43:15]: More Grammy activism, Bad Bunny’s “ICE out”
• [46:28]: Jack’s critique of media cheerleading celebrity activism

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Tone & Style

True to Armstrong & Getty’s style, the conversation is brisk, sarcastic, and peppered with humor—often caustic, unapologetically skeptical of mainstream narratives, and deeply irreverent toward both pop culture and politics. They bounce quickly between stories, often using one absurdity to tee up another, and rarely let a sanctimonious celebrity statement slide by unmocked.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This episode delivers a panoramic (and highly opinionated) take on the symbiosis of celebrity, activism, and politics. Armstrong & Getty are in full form: lampooning modern cultural trends, ridiculing empty rhetoric, side-eyeing both right and left, and zeroing in on the contradictions of American politics and media. If you enjoy blunt skepticism, cultural snark, and wariness of elite platitudes, it’s a must-listen.

Transcript

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[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

And now he's Armstrong and Getty.

[Guest Speaker / Activist]

No one is illegal on Stolen Land.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yay.

[Joe Getty]

My God.

[Jack Armstrong]

Your children.

[Joe Getty]

Stupid children.

[Jack Armstrong]

Bad, stupid children.

[Guest Speaker / Activist]

And.

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Oh, there's more.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Guest Speaker / Activist]

It's just really hard to know what to say and what to do right now. And I just, I feel really hopeful in this room, and I feel like we just need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting and our, our voices really do matter and the people matter and say sor.

[Jack Armstrong]

What did she say there?

[Joe Getty]

Is that F ice and F the usa?

[Jack Armstrong]

Is that what she said? She said F the usa.

[Joe Getty]

Did she really clarify?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, let's clarify that. F ice and F Trump is.

[Joe Getty]

I don't like that because there's some serious slandering coming if we can, but after usa.

[Jack Armstrong]

Too much. Yeah, I think she said F ice. Okay. Took her a while.

[Joe Getty]

That was.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Unless she said, by the way.

[Joe Getty]

Easy now. I thought I heard say at the end, who knows? Who knows? I, I. Why did I leap to that? I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's musician Billie Eilish. Moron Billie Eilish, that no one is illegal on Stolen Land. I don't think I could craft a stupider comment on this whole thing than that.

[Joe Getty]

And the crowd goes crazy. And she says, I feel so encouraged in this room by a bunch of other soft heads who can't articulate a reasonable adult statement on what we're talking about. She just throws together a bunch of phrases, a little greeting card rhetoric, and on she goes, as if that's any way to administer a country. What does that do where the adults are talking? Please sit down.

[Jack Armstrong]

God dang it.

[Joe Getty]

I know.

[Jack Armstrong]

I would honestly like to be able to talk to her in very calm ways. Say, you know, you're fantastic musician. I don't blame you for not paying attention in school. If I had your talent, I probably wouldn't either. Now, you're a gazillionaire and you own like nine homes or something. But like France, for instance, do you. How many. Do you know how many different empires, countries, people have claimed the ground of France? Who do you think it ought to belong to? You think.

[Joe Getty]

What year in history are you choosing?

[Jack Armstrong]

If you were in France and you won an award, would you say the same thing? Because they're doing the same thing we are, Right? Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

It's different because it's settled. Or colonialism and white supremacy or something. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Shut up.

[Joe Getty]

Shut up. So we're gonna go swiftly story to story here, bouncing around, whipsawing you back and forth like a malfunctioning amusement park ride. Why don't we start with this? We mentioned this briefly, but I thought it deserves a more serious tipping of the cap. Three federal air marshals, these are TSA guys, were chased out of LA county restaurant after a crowd mistook them for immigration agents last week. They are having dinner at a Korean barbecue restaurant. When somebody recognized them, they thought as ICE agents. And the rumor spread through the restaurant and then on social media. And the air marshals called for help, prompting dozens of deputies from two nearby stations to respond. They had to separate the air marshals from the angry crowd, create a skirmish line between the two groups in the parking lot. After a brief time, they walked the federal agents to the sidewalk run marked van, picked them up and whisked them away to safety.

[Jack Armstrong]

That would make you really despondent about the future of this country. I, I hate that this started, but I have seen enough of y'.

[Joe Getty]

All.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know, you know, most of you not, but some of you, you know, tweet and comment with glee whenever this is done to a, to a Democrat. So if you're gonna think it's okay for the other side, well, then, guess what, it's gonna happen for all sides. And it's just abhorrent. The idea that you can't go out to a restaurant to eat, especially when you're with your family, without people hounding you out of your politics, is just awful. Do not share that, no matter who it is.

[Joe Getty]

And the sheer stupidity of these guys are tsa. They try to prevent hijackings, but what do you see? A blue uniform or something? Or a badge and oh, it's ICE guys. It's ICE guys. Let's go yell at them at a restaurant.

[Jack Armstrong]

They shouldn't be able to eat at a restaurant.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, you didn't even get it right. Moving along. President Trump's promised armada has arrived in the Middle east, headed by the USS Abraham Lincoln and the accompanying aircraft carrier battle group. But according to military experts, they're going to wait for a while because they want to build up U.S. air defenses in, get them in place to protect Israel, as well as American troops in various bases throughout the the region. So it is expected that Iran will kick back, sending some of their thousands of serious ballistic missiles at our boys and gals abroad. And we want to be ready for it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, yeah, as we talked about last week, there are a number of outlets now with that story that some of our Arab friends are warning this that, hey, they have way more capability than you might think they do after that attack back in June.

[Joe Getty]

So yeah, yeah, fair enough. So we're in a wait and see pattern on that. Complete change of topic here. This may be my, my favorite headline of the day. To avoid accusations of AI cheating, college.

[Jack Armstrong]

Students should have driver's licenses. That's the sort of thing I think you should say at the Grammys.

[Joe Getty]

No animal should be illegal to drive in a world where they were born.

[Jack Armstrong]

Cats shouldn't have to walk everywhere. They should have driver's licenses. And everybody stands up in shoes. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, that's about as sensical. Just about. Oh, that reminds me. All right, I'll pay off this story. And then there's another cat related story. Believe it or not, that has set me on edge. So to avoid accusations of AI cheating, college students are turning to AI Students are taking new measures such as dumbing down their work, spying on themselves, and using AI humanizer programs to beat accusations of cheating with artificial intelligence. So you have AI write your paper, then you say to AI, hey, this is probably better than I can do. Can you dumb it down a little bit? Then the AI dumbs it down for you.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I don't see, I don't see how we're going to avoid that.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, interesting. Yeah, this is all evolving very, very quickly.

[Jack Armstrong]

The, the long and short of what I took in on a three hour Lex Friedman podcast that I listened to a little bit over the weekend with a couple of your top AI writers, thinkers, people that follow this. Their thinking was that AI is going to be superhuman in some things way beyond anything a human could be. Could do. It already is. But it's going to be a long time before there are other things that it can do that humans can do. It just can't. So that might be the future, like for the next 15, 20 years at least. And that makes more sense to me. There's some things like going over medical records and connecting dots that no human being could ever do. I can do that. But like some other relatively simple things that humans can do, it's just. Just isn't going to be able to figure it out.

[Joe Getty]

Huh. Okay, Interesting. Yeah. A. Another complete change in topic. This is interesting and I hope the trend continues. The famously knotted up housing market appears to be a nodding at least a little bit. Nearly 2/3 of home buyers last week. I'm sorry, last year ended up paying less than the original asking price. It's the highest proportion since pre Covid. It's been Creeping up, up, up, up, up. Indications that it's, it's still a seller's market, but that is, that's changing. It's more and more power to the buyer.

[Jack Armstrong]

So speaking of podcasts, I took in some information on this about and it was going through all the tentacles of our current, you know, locked up housing situation. Like people can't take jobs other places because I mean, you could be offered a really good job, but it ain't good enough to make up for the fact that you've got a 2% loan on your current house.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

I mean, how much extra money would you have to make to get a similar home when you move someone else somewhere else at 6 or 7% a lot.

[Joe Getty]

Minus the hassle, all the emotional cost and blah, blah, blah. Yeah, yeah, it's, it's just gonna, it's gonna take an enormous amount of time. Although I think in some families, you know, you'll just, you'll inherit mom and dad's house because it's got a 2.7% mortgage, doesn't make any sense to sell it, blah blah, who knows? But it's going to take a long time, but it's, it's starting to creep back toward normalcy, they think. And, and finally this. I told you I had another cat related story. I saw this in the formerly respectable Wall Street Journal. Mamdani's toughest mayoral transition. Moving a cat into Gracie Mansion. The mayor of New York is preparing for what could be his prickliest transition. Mumdani is allergic to cats, but his wife Ramaduaji wants one for the Gracie Mansion, the couple's now official residence on Manhattan's Upper east side. He started taking weekly shots in December to build up to tolerance to felines.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. You got a marriage where you're allergic to cats and your wife's still gonna make you have a cat.

[Joe Getty]

What, you gotta get a bunch of shot?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, nevermind that.

[Joe Getty]

You can do the marriage counseling. I'm gonna do the media criticism. The Wall Street Journal with a cute sweet article about how the racist Marxist Islamist new mayor, the Communist mayor of New York City is allergic to cats, but his wife loves cats. Isn't that sweet that he' the next week it's gonna be Joseph Stalin says fly fishing really relaxes him. Oh, it's the, it's the rhythmic of the casting, the rhythm. It just, it really unwinds me After a long day of starving Jews and the gula, the culottes and the rest of it.

[Jack Armstrong]

I get your point.

[Joe Getty]

Pol Pot says there's Nothing like a game of pool on a Friday night to forget about you.

[Jack Armstrong]

What the hell?

[Joe Getty]

Wall Street Journal. Oh my God.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's pretty good point. Seriously, though. Yeah, I know I'm allergic to cats and you're gonna make us have a cat.

[Joe Getty]

Like severely allergic.

[Jack Armstrong]

What? How about we don't have a cat?

[Joe Getty]

His eyes swell shut. But she really wants a cat in Gracie Mansion.

[Jack Armstrong]

What the hell is going on there?

[Joe Getty]

She's a lunatic. You're a communist. The Wall Street Journal is doing puff pieces on Ebodia. As we used to say back in Chicago, what the hell?

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, that's funny. I think all food should be free.

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know which Grammy. Jelly Roll. One for something country. There's several new categories. Classic, country, pop country, different stuff. But anyway, he won some dessert. Most weight loss by major star could have been Jelly roll. But anyway, he invoked Jesus in a way you don't nearly hear very often in the godless communist city of la. Here's Jelly Roll at the Grammys last night.

[Jelly Roll]

There was a time in my life, y', all, that I was. I was broken. That's why I wrote this album. I didn't think I had a chance, y'.

[Jack Armstrong]

All.

[Jelly Roll]

There was days that I thought the darkest things. I was a horrible human. There was a moment in my life that all I had was a bible this big and a radio the same size and a 6 by 8 foot cell. And I believe that those two things could change my life. I believed that music had the power to change my life and God had the power to change my life. And I want to tell y' all right now, Jesus is for everybody. Jesus is not owned by one political party. Jesus is not owned by no music label. Jesus is Jesus. Anybody can have a relationship with him. I love you, Lord.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, some cheering for that there in the, you know, a room full of atheists, apparently. The camera went right to Reba McIntyre as they found the one person in the hall that wasn't going to roll their eyes at that.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, boy, wait, quick, find us Christian. There's surely. There's got to be one. I can give you 15 Satanists, sir. Find me a Christian.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wait, there's Reba. So a little on the music. And of course, music is taste. But, you know, either, like, you don't like, like I like the Kendrick Lamar song that won record of the year, Luther, about Luther Vandross, but you gotta like hip hop. The person who won best new artist, Olivia Dean, I'd never heard of at all, but so I checked out her album last night after she won that. Really, really like that. Man, if you're ever in a romantic setting, throw on that album. But she's being compared to Dionne Warwick, which, if I'm her, I'd say, who the hell's Dionne Warwick? But really like that album. Listening to it yesterday was one, oh, best Americana album, whatever that category means. John Batiste, who won album of the year a couple of years ago, just in general, won for Americana album last night. And I was listening to that. And that is a cool freaking album. He is one amazing musician. But here's the one I want to talk about. Just because I think it's entertaining. The Cure put out an album. I'm a Cure fan from way back in the day. They put out their first album in like almost 20 years and won some Grammy for best something or other. Some Kind of rock best award likely.

[Joe Getty]

To attract older viewers to the show. Those two.

[Jack Armstrong]

The Cure, right? The Cure's 14th studio album, Songs of a Lost World, deals almost exclusively in death, dying, and the relentless march of time.

[Joe Getty]

Good stuff.

[Jack Armstrong]

The songs move slowly and many go on for many minutes before Smith opens his mouth at all. No pop hits, no hooks, and no fun. That's the review. Now on the specific song that won an award, listen to this. The glacially paced opener and lead single, alone is majestic and mournful, with string swells and apocalyptic lyrics about birds falling out of the sky. But mostly it's about dying alone. The shattered pieces of a regret filled life and the foregone conclusion that is our mutual demise. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Just for the record, I am not ready to rock.

[Jack Armstrong]

When do you feel like that? Throwing that on? What are you in the mood for? It's mostly about dying alone. The shattered pieces of a regret filled life. Have some people over open up some bottles of wine.

[Joe Getty]

Sure.

[Jack Armstrong]

Beautiful spring day.

[Joe Getty]

Maybe a little road trip music.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hey, kids, let's listen to music.

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

You're gonna have to listen to several minutes of orchestral swells before the words come on, but trust me, it's about dying alone. What in the hell?

[Joe Getty]

I haven't heard it. It might be great art. That's a hell of a description.

[Jack Armstrong]

It could be the best at that. And I'm just not sure when I'm exactly going to be in the mood for it. A lot different than, like, you know, some of the dance tunes that were winning awards. Justin Bieber played in his underwear last night.

[Joe Getty]

Silvery underwear.

[Jack Armstrong]

Stripped down to his boxer shorts and socks. For some reason, he also had to throw in a little ice out commentary because, you know, you got to be cool. All right, good for him. I can't say anything about the album of the year, Bad Bunny, because I don't speak Spanish and I have no idea what was about.

[Joe Getty]

Well, you get to watch him at the super bowl on Sunday, right?

[Jack Armstrong]

You know he's gonna make some sort of comment about ice. He's got something planned. Everybody sees it coming. There's gonna be a shirt or a banner or a comment or a change of the lyrics. And it's gonna be a reference to.

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

So annoying and tiring.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Courage announced a recall of more than 80,000 McDonald's brand decaf coffee pots because they actually contain caffeine. So if you brew McDonald's decaf at home. Jesus, man, That's a good punchline. Except for the fact that McDonald's regularly wins various coffee contest things.

[Joe Getty]

Oh yeah, they make fabulous coffee.

[Jack Armstrong]

He probably doesn't know that, but just in general, I get it. That's pretty fun. Funny. So I We have long mocked these special elections that they have, and then the political punditry tries to extrapolate them for several days and make them mean.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, it's a bellwether, an indicator of blah, blah, blah. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Then you add that to the whole midterm thing. And then the ongoing conversation, which I saw pop up several times in the Sunday shows. And I fast forwarded through it because I'm not going to listen to any conversation about who who might take back the House during the midterms. It's just, I. I don't know. Are there, are there people who are interested in that outside of the media? Are there people who actually, if you're living your life a year out taking in information, I wonder if they'll get the. What, what is wrong with you? In my opinion.

[Joe Getty]

Explain to me what difference would be made in anybody's life if we just waited 10 months before anybody said a word and then talked about it?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, not to mention portraying it as a big deal if the Democrats take it back. Yeah, that's what happens after a president gets elected. Like almost every time. It's like as predictable as the rain. So it's not a big rejection of this or embrace of that or it's just what always happens.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, it's a near inevitability, sure.

[Jack Armstrong]

So I don't know why it's even that interesting. All that being said, as a setup to this, I think it's kind of interesting. Special election last night in Texas won by the Democrats is getting a fair amount of attention because Trump won the. And with this guy as soon as he sworn in, like today or tomorrow or whatever, now the Republicans have a one seat edge in the House. It's never been this close ever in US history. One seat advantage. This particular district, Trump had won by 17, this Democrat won by 41. So it's a 31 point swing to the left in, you know, a year and a couple of months. 31 points. Now, Trump wasn't on the battle, it wasn't specifically voting for Trump. But going from people preferring, you know, a Republican To a Democrat, 31 points is a lot. That's really. And even Ron DeSantis, who is one of your more reasonable people out there, he's not a cable news pundit getting all excited about it or whatever. He said special elections are quirky and not necessarily projectable like a general election. He said that said a swing of this magnitude is not something that can be dismissed. Republicans should be clear eyed about the political environment heading into the midterms. The only thing I would say to that, I mean, he's right about that. The only thing I would say to that is, yeah, but historically they're supposed to lose, so it's.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I think that there's. That's not a reason not to try to win.

[Jack Armstrong]

No.

[Joe Getty]

And to try to, you know, be so good at governing the country that, that you deserve to win.

[Jack Armstrong]

I get that. But again, presenting it is like, oh, if we're not careful, we might lose. No, that's the opposite. It would take an aberration to not lose, regardless of all kinds of headwinds around immigration or whatever. So now I set all that up to get to some good news that Mark Halpern pointed out for the Republicans. Oh, I got one more bad news that you'd throw in. This is.

[Joe Getty]

Wait, you know what, I'm sorry, just, just real quick. This is a tiny election.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

This is a special election with a tiny turnout.

[Jack Armstrong]

I agree. I do.

[Joe Getty]

Well, it's getting attention way beyond.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm not a person who pays attention to that sort of thing. But a 31 point swing, that's a lot. Democrats topped Republicans in a generic congressional ballot by six points, scoring the highest of any party on that metric in the history of the survey that Fox has done for many decades. So the Democrats. No, no party's ever had a lead like this ever since Fox.

[Joe Getty]

The Democratic Party was dead six months ago.

[Jack Armstrong]

Dead. Yeah. I guess it's the immigration stuff and the economy. The economy's a big one because things aren't cheaper. They were never.

[Joe Getty]

The lack of coherent messaging around the economy, as I often point out, things.

[Jack Armstrong]

Were never going to be cheaper. Shouldn't have said they were going to be cheaper. But. So back to the good news. So Mark Halpern Wright, in his newsletter over the weekend, he said, here's a couple of things that could happen. First and foremost, Scott Bessant turns out to be right. And the economy boom so much in quarter two and three that the voters actually start to feel it at home. That could happen. The Republicans have a fundraising advantage that nobody has ever seen before in politics. It's pronounced and important. Money matters way more in down ballot races than in presidential contests. Lots of people, including us, me, mock the money thing in presidential contests because it's, it's never shown to mean anything. But in your small races where people got no money, like this district here, if, you know, if you got a bunch of those and Republicans could come in and throw in a ton of money, maybe it could make the difference. According to the people who claim to know about this sort of stuff. And also in terms of fundraising going on, the Democrats have no equal to Trump's ability to raise money. This is from the Washington Post. I believe over the weekend. Donald Trump's political war chest grew dramatically in the second half of 2025, according to new campaign finance disclosures that just came out late Saturday, giving him an unprecedented amount of money for a term limited president to influence the midterms and Beyond, Trump raised $26 million. They're always different. This and that and then another eight for this and then blah, blah, blah, which. And then the super PAC that has more than $300 million in the bank to spend. Altogether a web of campaign accounts, some of which Trump controls directly and others under the care of close allies within the president's orbit, have $375 million in the coffer. The funds far outstrip those of any other political figure, Republican or Democrat, entering 2026 and have no historical precedent as an amount.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

There's never been any, anything like this before. So it depends on whether how much money matters in, in those races, I guess. Is that just the Trump effect?

[Joe Getty]

Yet again, both pro and con everything gets extra jacked up and impassioned because Trump's involved.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know. And you know, and they mentioned later.

[Joe Getty]

In the article, we're extra divided and the division is very, very big right now between the radical left and normal people.

[Jack Armstrong]

I want to get into the weeds, but on like a lot of measures, the Republicans have a ton of money and the Democrats are actually in the red. They have more bills than money. And Elon has sworn to what did he say he'd spend a billion or whatever he'd send. He'd spend on the, on the midterms to make sure the Republicans hold on to the House. So there's going to be plenty of money. As I think Dick Morris or somebody told us one time many, many years ago, if you got the wrong message, it doesn't matter how much money you have. If you got the right message, heaven or hell can't stop you.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

And if the message is bacon so expensive, I don't know, there might not be any getting around that.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, it's at least slightly difficult to reconcile this with what we were talking about earlier, which was the, the first half of the 2020s is in the books now and the census numbers have come out and not the, the, it's what the, the once every 10 year census, but just the, the stuff they keep track of year to year and the population flow from blue states to red states for native born citizens is unmistakable. I mean it sits well. It's one of the great demographic trends in American history. And yet the generic Democrat has a, has a lead and, and they're expected to take back the House and everything. It's just interesting.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, how Halperin and other pundits have declared Trump's presidency over. If the Democrats take back the House, which historically they will just in that he won't be able to get anything through and they're going to muck everything up the last two years with impeachments.

[Joe Getty]

That'Ll free him up to battle. Trevor Noah though, there'll be one or.

[Jack Armstrong]

Two impeachments and it will, it will all just come to a halt, which, you know, if you're a Democrat, that's awesome. You want him to not be able to pursue all these different things he's been pursuing, I guess, but that'll be more or less the end of it.

[Joe Getty]

Trump slew of controversial executive orders as we slide further and further down into that sort of governance, I would guess.

[Jack Armstrong]

God living through another impeachment which everyone says is inevitable. Do you think it is?

[Joe Getty]

I would bet money that it will happen. Yeah, for sure.

[Jack Armstrong]

Probably around some of his money he's getting in crypto.

[Joe Getty]

Financial dealings. Yeah, probably crypto. And the the Meme Coin scam, which.

[Jack Armstrong]

In some cases might have legs.

[Joe Getty]

All Meme coins are scams, by the way. All of them. Anyway.

[Jack Armstrong]

You think that stuff has legs? Some of that financial stuff, they'll sure.

[Joe Getty]

Try to to to run it up the flagpole, he says, mixing metaphors. They'll. They'll try like crazy.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Look it up at CNN. Sources say us moving additional air defenses to protect Israel Arab air allies so you don't move all those forces because it's off the table that you're gonna attack Iran. We'll keep our eye on it.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, if I were a betting man, wait, I am. I would say yeah, it's gonna happen. So I found this interesting. Elon Musk is burning a bridge and it's not calling Trump a chump or anything like that. It's that they're not going to build the Model S anymore as part of their pivot toward robots. He's serious. Tesla's gonna be all about building robots.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's kind of interesting. The Model S was their flagship car and they redesigned it last year and it looks awful. It went from being, I thought, a pretty cool looking sports car to a really ugly. In my opinion. Okay, It's. They're phasing it out, so that's why they did. Okay, I got it.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. By narrowing the company's money making lineup, he's giving himself even less room for error, according to the Journal. But it's, it's a real gamble. The robots are cool looking. They put out a online commercial, whatever you want to call it, of a robot being a caregiver to an oldster. That was pretty good. I mean, making sure grandma takes her pills and holding an arm out for her to hold on to and, you know, turning off the oven or whatever.

[Jack Armstrong]

And not ripping off grandma's arm and beating her with the bloody stuff dump.

[Joe Getty]

They're still working on that. Be realistic. It's a new technology.

[Jack Armstrong]

I haven't seen this ad. I'll have to check that out. Yeah, well, I know Elon's gone all he says there'll be more robots and people within. I don't forget how many years, but seems like it's gonna be a long time for there are more robots and people on Earth. Why do the robots need to have faces, though? That's what bothers my son. That's what freaks him out. He. He thinks that's what freaks most people out. There's a, there's a term for that, that.

[Joe Getty]

The uncanny valley.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, uncanny valley thing. And who decided, you know, somebody decided in science fiction way back in the day that robots should have faces, but there's no reason for them to actually have a face. Or he'd be even shaped like a human, I don't think, because I've read a lot about Evolutionary.

[Joe Getty]

I would argue that from a human being's point of view, it's. It's worse. It's better that it's just a machine. You know, maybe it's got like whimsical cartoon eyes or something like that, but don't make it nearly human. Yeah, that's the worst thing you can do.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't understand why it's got to have like a head, neck looking situation at all. And then I've read a lot from an evolution standpoint about how impractical in many ways the development of the human being was. So why have it have two legs and two arms and then a neck and a head? Just don't make it look anything like a human. Make it have three legs or like R2D2. Makes more sense than C3PO, in my opinion.

[Joe Getty]

Like an octopus with glowing red eyes and long fangs. I mean, maybe that the kids would enjoy that. That maybe not.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. I don't. I. I wonder. I wonder what. At what point we will all have a robot in our house. I don't think it's going to be that long. We touched on the Grammys a bunch of different times because of some stupid things that were said last night. Who. Let's get another one of those. These are good. How about. Well, let's go with Bad Bunny. He won the album of the year. As Joe says, Subpar Bunny. Subpar Bunny wins album of the year. And here he is when he goes up to do it. Do his acceptance speed. Before I say thanks to God. I'm gonna say eyes out, listen to the crowd. Yay. Just from the award standpoint, when they announced his name, he sat there for a long time. He looked like he was actually quite emotionally affected by winning that album, which I don't think he probably expected to since it's not even in English. I don't get that kind of music. So I like lots of different kind of music. The whole Latin beat thing, I've just never liked for some reason. But that's just my personal taste. Let's do another one of these. Just Whoever Kalani is. Clip 37.

[Guest Speaker / Activist]

Everybody is so powerful in this room and in this room later. And together we're stronger in numbers to speak against all the injustice going on in the world right now.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Guest Speaker / Activist]

So instead of letting it be just a couple few here and there, I hope everybody's inspired to join together as a community of artists and speak out against what's going on. And I'm going to leave this and say ice.

[Joe Getty]

I hope they take some sort of joy and comfort from all agreeing with each other over and over again and acting as if they're being brave. It just strikes me as silly as.

[Jack Armstrong]

A whole bunch of people who, like Ricky Gervais said at the Golden Globes jobs, you have the least perspective of anybody on anything. Your lives are so different from any normal human being. Your opinion matters significantly less than like anybody out there watching a grocer, a guy who chains oil for a living, your insurance salesman. All those people, their perspectives make more sense than somebody who is really hot and can dance and became famous at age 17. But they're convinced for some reason and I don't know who tells them this, I guess they tell each other that their opinion is more valuable and we as artists can band together and change the world or something. It's.

[Joe Getty]

I think it may be as simple as I'm getting a lot of attention so I must be deserving of a lot of attention. And just for something completely different and.

[Jack Armstrong]

Just for anybody who hasn't heard it yet, just the beginning of Billy Eilish her thing again, which is the dumbest thing said last night.

[Guest Speaker / Activist]

No one is illegal on stolen land.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know what would be nice too is if I've seen that played on 15 different shows other than Fox, which I didn't see it played on Fox, so I don't know what they're coming with but it'd be nice off on any show, you know, even left leaning ABC News or whatever if somebody would jump in and say well you know, there's actually problems with that notion and that the land has changed hands many, many times including with Indian tribes before we even arrived here. So who it would belong to originally would be problematic at best. Anyway, it'd be nice if somebody threw that in and just didn't play it as a. Look how wonderful this is. Listen to the crowd cheer leading other stupid people who are watching your stupid morning television show. And you're probably stupid if you are watching a morning television show because it means you don't have a job or you don't have kids to take care of. So you're probably a.

[Joe Getty]

But you're being very critical.

[Jack Armstrong]

You're being led by these stupid clips and when you hear those people get cheered. There it is right now on cnn. I can see it so I know they're playing it and they're going to play the crowd cheering and morons are going to see that and think well I guess they're. That's wise and. And deep and what everybody thinks. Cuz listen, everybody cheer. Yeah, it makes me so angry that they think they're so smart.

[Joe Getty]

Michael, play me the beginning of 37 again, just the beginning.

[Guest Speaker / Activist]

Everybody is so powerful in this room and in this and doesn't mean anything.

[Joe Getty]

I wanted more of that but virtually everything she said was just meaningless greeting card rhetoric as I like to call it.

[Jack Armstrong]

And then people cheered like crazy busy.

[Joe Getty]

We're so together and we're feeling powerful and right. We're having a real effect. No, no.

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