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Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and. Get it. So I've been thinking. Might be time to hang it up.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, boy.
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An empty land.
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Okay, so that's the one that's set me off. So that there. The old farmer and his daughter. And then you got that cool acoustic guitar music in the singing. And when she was a little girl, he taught her how to grow crops and they worked together and blah, blah, blah. Now he's giving her the farm because he's retired and everything. And it's for lay's potato chips.
Jack Armstrong
Gigantic industrial potato chip manufacturer.
Joe Getty
And there's just lots of ads like that. And I just. Am I too cynical or is it appropriate for me to not like you trying to make me cry about a flipping potato chip or a dog food or a soda or anything else like that? Some banal commercial product. I just. I find that I don't like it.
Jack Armstrong
Or a beer, which is about making me forget my problems, not cry about yours.
Joe Getty
I just. I don't. And does it work? Is there anybody that eats one more chip? Because they. Yeah. Fathers and daughters coming together and this and that. And.
Jack Armstrong
You know, in truth, the. The butt ad with the eagle riding the Clydesdale. At least they winked at the audience.
Joe Getty
Do we have the end of that one? The audio. You crying?
Jack Armstrong
The sun's in my eyes.
Joe Getty
Were they. See, it's hard to tell because the tugging at your heartstrings trying to make you cry about a potato chip is not many notches away from willing to. Be willing to put a bald eagle on your. On your product, America.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Yeah. The halftime show sent a different message. Budweiser, even.
Joe Getty
Even. Everything's ruined in the modern world. I finally saw the video of the streaker that ran on the field, which, of course, they did not show during the broadcast. During the second half of the super bowl, but because every.
Jack Armstrong
Plenty of nudity at the halftime.
Joe Getty
Yeah, no kidding. But because everybody there's got a cell phone. There's lots of videos. So I just finally looked at him. He's wearing pants. That's how bad things are in America right now. Our streakers wear pants. What's happened to this country? What has happened in this country? So it's just a shirtless guy running in his pants and socks. And then one of. And. And they can't catch him because he's pretty fast. And then one of the defensive backs for the Patriots goes screaming after him and he closes fast as you would expect him to. And. And then the guy slides on the ground like a quarterback trying to avoid getting hit because he realizes, oh, I cannot run this guy. And then a bunch of people jump on him so he didn't get the whooping. Man, if he had taken one more step, that Patriot was going to put a serious. I'm frustrated at this game.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe Getty
Whooping on him.
Jack Armstrong
You would not wait for you to run around the field, jackass.
Joe Getty
You would not want a 22 year old professional defensive back to hit you at full speed while you're running across the field. That would hurt.
Jack Armstrong
Wearing a helmet and shoulder pad.
Joe Getty
That could hurt the rest of your life. Assuming you ever walk again.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, no kidding. I want to get this off my chest. I'm going to say it in Spanish so the new fans of the NFL can understand me. La NFL esta muerta parami. The NFL is dead to me.
Joe Getty
Well, I doubt it. You're going to keep watching games.
Jack Armstrong
I took a couple of years off after the George Floyd Madness, but then I kind of came back like a junkie and put up with the idiotic it takes. All of us on the backs of helmets, meaningless greeting card rhetoric, gesturing to the woke.
Joe Getty
What?
Jack Armstrong
But no, now they've punched me in the face again. Dose times is too many.
Joe Getty
So we got a number of texts agreeing with us about the halftime show and brief version is I'm not complaining about the music because that's every year. You know, different people have different tastes in music and Idol's the worst. Because you don't like that kind of music. I don't do that kind of complaining. It's just, you know, whatever, different tastes. But to have it in a different language and not even make an effort to have me involved, I found really, actually offensive. And we got this text. I love how much the halftime show bothered you two. Poor fragile Joe and Jack. It was your worst nightmare. Multicultural America. The horror. My suggestion to help you feel better, go watch Trump's video depicting Obama and Michelle as apes. That should soothe your racist itch. Can't wait until the midterms.
Jack Armstrong
So that's a trolling, B a non argument and C a false comparison. So to reject Trump's Obama video is to embrace an entirely Spanish super bowl halftime show. You, my friend, have only anger and vitriol and not the capacity to think with your brain. I pity you.
Joe Getty
So there, there, there was some sort of effort Message going with the super bowl halftime show, obviously, because I did some research, I thought, how many people in America speak only Spanish? Because lots and lots of people speak Spanish, but they also speak English. And the best data I could come up with from Gallup, Pew, Census Bureau and everything like that, putting it all together, if you the, the Most generous is 8%. It's single digits. It's probably closer to like 2 or 3%. And as Joe said, that crowd probably wasn't watching the Super Bowl.
Jack Armstrong
And I must point out, you could have watched it on Telemundo.
Joe Getty
True. So there's like practically nobody watching that halftime show that only speaks Spanish, yet they put it in Spanish only, including the little still picture at the beginning of the musical play that would have described for me what I was about to see, so at least I could try to follow along. But you put that in Spanish without subtitles. You wouldn't even put subtitles on that for 98% of your audience who doesn't speak Spanish. So what is, what is the message there?
Jack Armstrong
I think it's unmistakable. Yes, Katie, I'm seeing videos popping up of shots from inside the stadium during the halftime show.
Joe Getty
And everybody has this just standing there with their arms crossed. Most of them, I would imagine.
Jack Armstrong
I would say a good 80% of them are probably because the vast majority of them are English speakers. Yes.
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Well, again, you'd have to be a Spanish only speaker to. To. To think that was necessary. I don't understand.
Jack Armstrong
Right. Interestingly, Jim Garrity of the National Review, who's a very reasonable chap, points out that there was, there was data, you may recall, we talked about this, showing the Taylor Swift effect on viewership of Chiefs games and advertising rates and stuff like that. And she generated hundreds of millions of dollars for the NFL across all equivalent brand value.
Joe Getty
I don't doubt that a bit.
Jack Armstrong
Radio, digital news, print news, et cetera. And he goes into a bit of detail on that. Now, you can quibble with the particular numbers, but there's no doubt that a whole lot of Taylor Swift fans start buying Travis Kelce jerseys and watching the game who otherwise would not have made those purchases or watched those games. Whether we like football, whether we football fans like it or not, Goodell and the league are going to continue to try to sell the game to people who aren't that into next year. The NFL is going to play nine regular season games in overseas stadiums. Australia, Brazil, Paris, Munich, Spain, Mexico City, three games in London. Goodell, seemingly with the consent of the owners, is determined to Turn the NFL into a global game. And he doesn't just mean geographically, means across all demographics and corners of society. So that's it. Period.
Joe Getty
I feel like there's a parable involving a goose that could lay gold megs that because they're counting on you won't care that one of your team's home games that you would have gone to won't exist because it'll be in another country you'll still watch because you love football so much. That's what they're counting on. And they might be right. They might be right. And they'll turn it into a. You know, I don't know what the numbers are. It's huge. But it'll turn it into a $5 billion business per year to a 50 billion by expanding. And, you know, if they think they can do that, that's a pretty good wager.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, those games are kind of sucky and weird because the stadiums are pretty quiet, generally speaking, and the teams have been traveling for hours and hours.
Joe Getty
Well, and if you go to games, you're missing out on a game you could go to.
Jack Armstrong
Right, Right. But.
Joe Getty
Or at least home field advantage for one of the teams.
Jack Armstrong
I'm sure Roger Goodell, who's a very, very smart man, said to himself, all right, what percentage of the current audience will we like so offend? We will lose them. As opposed to the Spanish speaking world. How many of them will take this as a big wet kiss? And he did the numbers and thought it's worth the risk. Let's do it. That's it. Period.
Joe Getty
Yeah. I see it more culturally. Where. Well, do you have the Hillary Clinton clip, wherever that is. Can you figure out what number that is? Hillary Clinton, we played the whole clip of this last week. When Hillary was running for president in 2008 against Barack Obama, she gave a strong speech about illegal immigration and how illegal immigration, they need to get in line, they committed a crime, they need to pay their back, the visa needs to be a penalty, and this.
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So as recently as 2008, you could go around saying, and if you're here, you need to learn English because in this country, we speak English to the halftime show yesterday without a word of English and not even the slightest help with understanding what was going on. He's. There are a lot, a lot of people, I gotta believe the majority of people who didn't dig that, being in.
Jack Armstrong
All Spanish and our idiot troll whose text you read earlier, racism to want.
Joe Getty
Your entertainment to be in your own language. How is that racism? I mean, good Lord, if I go to a movie and it's in a different language and there's no subtitles, why am I here?
Jack Armstrong
Right? Yeah. Anybody who would claim that is just, again, a moron. I'm not gonna waste my time arguing with them. You know, all of a sudden, the French have a halftime show that's entirely in Mandarin. I mean, what are they supposed to do? Cheer for the diversity of it and the idea that. Here it comes. Multicultural America. Good luck with that. Yeah. No shared values, no shared history.
Joe Getty
Not a shared language. That's never worked anywhere in the history of the planet.
Jack Armstrong
No common reverence for the principles of the country. No. Just everybody does their own thing. Good luck with that, friend. Good luck. And it's not a xenophobia thing at all. I like to travel. I like exploring. I've been studying foreign, foreign cultures and governments since I was a kid. I'm fascinated by it. But the idea that you can have a multicultural country is foolish.
Joe Getty
You're threatened by the Browning of America. Okay, do you have some of the lyrics for us when we come back?
Jack Armstrong
I do. Absolutely. Charming.
Joe Getty
I actually don't know anything about the lyrics of any of the songs.
Jack Armstrong
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So good.
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This is your favorite president and this.
Joe Getty
Message is for Bad Bunny, or as I call him, the Nasty Rabbit.
Jack Armstrong
El Canejo Desa Grandabule.
Joe Getty
He's a nasty rabbit and a stupid rabbit. That is not actually Donald Trump, but Donald Trump did put out a post very similar to that, by the way, we got several texts from people who say my wife or husband speaks fluent Spanish and couldn't understand a word he said. Well, that. That certainly could be true. I watched Kendrick Lamar last year and I don't know if I understood a word of that. And it was in English.
Jack Armstrong
So yeah, yeah. And again, taste in music varies. I don't happen to love hip hop. I'm never going to love it. Some's very, very clever and smart, but it's just not my thing. And that's fine. A lot of people like it. I'm not threatened by that. It's. It's great. But the specifics of it, the entirely Spanish with not a single effort to bring around or bring along the English speaking audience and the particulars of the lyrics which had to be bleeped out a fair amount as you may have Noticed, for instance, Tito me pregunto. And he asked me if I have a lot of girlfriends. I A lot of girlfriends. Today I have one, tomorrow I'll have another hat. But there's no wedding. And he asked me if I have a lot of girlfriends. Repeat. I'm going to take them all to the vip. The vip. Hey, say hello to auntie. Let's take a selfie. Say cheese. Let the ones I already f'd smile in a VIP vap A I. And it goes on in that manner. Well, he lists all the girls he's stupping. The one from Barcelona that came by plane and says that my D is on fire, et cetera.
Joe Getty
See a doctor.
Jack Armstrong
Get a shot.
Joe Getty
They got a shot now. Well, I've always been confused by why halftime music is so sexual, given it's the middle of the day and kids are watching. Always been surprised by that.
Jack Armstrong
I got another good one for you. My D is being chased, and I want you to hide it. Grab it like a bonga. She took a pill that made her horny. She blanks in the Audi, not in the Honda.
Joe Getty
E, I, A, E. I'm going to start saying that. Grab it like a bonga. See if that gets me anywhere.
Jack Armstrong
Smooth, smooth. Oh, you're so clever.
Joe Getty
Now, to those of you who are saying, why didn't you switch over to the Turning Point USA halftime show? Well, a couple of reasons. One, I didn't know where to find it, and it would have taken me three seconds to figure it out, which was more than I was willing to take. And I wanted to watch what, you know, the vast majority of America was watching, 135 million people. But, you know, I don't know what songs Kid Rock sang yesterday. I did see that he came out in a fur coat, quote and jean shorts, which I really enjoy.
Jack Armstrong
Perfect.
Joe Getty
But, you know, his lyrics aren't exactly family friendly throughout the years either. I mean, come on, I wasn't a big Kid Rock fan when he was big.
Jack Armstrong
And not just a cultural gesture.
Joe Getty
Right, Right.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. So, no, I didn't bother.
Joe Getty
But it is. Why does everything have to be, are you for Trump or against Trump? Including the halftime show. You can't just ascertain where, how you feel about it other than through the lens of politics. Which side am I on here?
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe Getty
Perfect. Perfectly okay. If on your left to think, you know, I don't speak English. I didn't really dig the music or whatever. Or on the right to think. Yeah, I didn't. I'm not in a bad bunny, but I Didn't need to see Kid Rock screaming either. So, I mean, it's okay. Doesn't really mean what you feel about the country.
Jack Armstrong
And you'll be happier that way too. Take it from me, just the never ending culture war. Oh, it's exhausting.
Joe Getty
I should have watched the Puppy Bowl. Very clever, though. All those little trees on the field were people. Did you notice at the end of it when the. The little trees stood up and ran off? What a great idea for moving props on and off a stage, right?
Jack Armstrong
Put humans in all of them.
Joe Getty
Instead of having 500 people run out on the field that have to carry them off, they all stood up and the plants stood up and ran off themselves.
Jack Armstrong
So you just stand there and in the middle of your. What is that, sugar cane or something? I don't know.
Joe Getty
I don't speak Spanish.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, you just stand there twiddling your thumbs, thinking about five minutes in now, I guess five more minutes to go and then you run off when they tell you run off sugar cane.
Joe Getty
And as Mark Halpern wrote this morning in his newsletter, was I supposed to know that that was Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin? Because I didn't. I didn't either till I heard it this morning. I had no idea that was Lady Gaga and I had no idea that that one dude was Ricky Martin.
Jack Armstrong
So I guess that was a good. Identified her by her tattoos.
Joe Getty
Well, good for you. No, but I didn't know that. And I don't know how it fit into the story because I don't know what the story was because I don't speak Spanish. So that's an interesting development. And why is Green Day singing American.
Jack Armstrong
Idiot before the super bowl oldies act? Green Day, I don't know.
Joe Getty
But do you, do you know the words to that song?
Jack Armstrong
They're America Haters.
Joe Getty
That's a really an America hating song for the super bowl and the biggest audience of the year.
Jack Armstrong
It's an odd choice. George Bush. What Armstrong and Gettysburg.
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Joe Getty
So good.
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Are you my dad now? No, sorry. I do basements. Connecting homeowners with skilled pros for over 30 years. Angie, the one you trust to find the ones you trust. Find pros for all your home projects@angie.com so I was trying to find the audio clip of Lindsey Vaughn crashing, but I know that was a really big story yesterday as she attempted to ski down that dang hill having completely blown out her ACL a week ago. Man oh man, was that, was that, was that bravery and guts or was that just really, really ill advised?
Jack Armstrong
She did two successful training runs, but when she was, you know, hell bent for speed in the the official competition, she wiped out.
Joe Getty
Bad. So a week after blow completely blown on her acl, she skis. And a couple of seconds into her Run. She crashes, breaks a bone in her leg. Reports say she was screaming as she slid down the hill in pain, then was helicoptered out of there. And they keep reporting it as. And she had surgery and. And things are looking good. Well, that's good to hear. Good lord, can you imagine how painful that'd be? Your. Your blown ACL had to hurt like hell cuz your legs got all twisted every which direction. And then the additional broken bone which caused her to scream as she slid down the hill. Yes, Michael, I watched it live during, during the day actually. And they. NBC actually hit the delay because they didn't want to show the crash. I haven't seen the crash and they're not replaying it on NBC News, but some of the pictures I've seen with their legs twisted different direction. It looks pretty gruesome. Oh goodness, man.
Jack Armstrong
So here's a nice transition. This is substantially more charming. I happened to play golf yesterday with a friend who has a close family friend relationship with a figure skating coach of great renown. Has worked with champions and stuff like that. And worked with the ice dancing team, the American ice dancing team that's done so beautifully so far at the Olympics. And was talking to the gal. It's a husband wife team. Interestingly, it's kind of a funny story. The guy and my friend's wife were dancing at this bar they were at and he was down in drinks with a little ice skating gal who was hanging with him anyway. But he was asking her about her career because if you watch the ice dancing or the pairs figure skating, they just throw the woman in the air, she spins and he catches her and blah, blah, blah. What does that look like when you're not very good at it? When you're trying to get good at it. And she was telling stories about that. She said, I spent my entire youth black and blue.
Joe Getty
I'd have to imagine I saw a clip of Quad God talking about like the backflip stuff that he did in competition last night. And he said you have to completely commit to it every time because if you even just a tiny bit don't completely commit to it, you're gonna land on your head and break your neck.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Joe Getty
And I'm sure that's true. I've always wondered that on a lot of that stuff. How do you work up to it? Like the big ski jump. What's the. What's the. I can't do this so you can do it. The in between part, what is that?
Jack Armstrong
I'm guessing they've got different Sizes. Right. For different skill levels at the. The few places around the globe where they would have that sort of thing.
Joe Getty
There must be. Or you're. You're attached to wires or something like that. Because otherwise you'd try it, break both your legs, recover for a year, severe concussion. And then try it again.
Jack Armstrong
Sight in your right eye.
Joe Getty
Yeah. And try it again. It'd be a very slow process.
Jack Armstrong
Can't even imagine.
Joe Getty
I gotta read this one text. Just because we've been talking about halftime show so much. We got a lot of these. Hey, guys. The Turning Point halftime show was so nice, if you didn't know this. Turning Point usa, the group that Charlie Kurt started and then he got assassinated. Now his wife is running. They put on a show and it had Kid Rock and a whole bunch of other people. A few country artists sang. Kid Rock did one short number in his crazy outfit. Beautiful ballad, very patriotic. Very touching. You should have watched that. So, yeah, I don't know. I'd rather not have any politics of any kind. Of course, you know, I wasn't getting away from politics by staying at the super bowl, obviously.
Jack Armstrong
Right. Yeah.
Joe Getty
I did think it was pretty funny that the two polar bears got caught on the camera at the concert hugging each other and kissing. That was pretty funny.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Yeah, that was good. So on a couple of completely different topics, I found this back to back pretty interesting headlines in the Wall Street Journal. America, it reclaims its dominance in space. First manned moon mission since 1972. Will launch next month. China, meanwhile, is struggling. We've got a really nice edge in dominating space, which we'd sure as hell better, because if China's dominating it, it will be to the detriment of mankind. Let's see, we want to seize the research rich areas near the lunar south pole. Bill Nelson, then administrator of NASA in 2023, said the Chinese might assert sovereignty over the moon itself. Stopping them didn't seem a Biden administration priority, especially when space capsule safety programs stranded to American astronauts at the International Space Station for more than nine months. Trump famously came in with Elon Musk and got everybody back. But China is really struggling. So this is a nice area of dominance and I hope we exploit it.
Joe Getty
Wouldn't that be a bold move if China just declares the moon is theirs? Or if we just declare the moon is ours.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. And then this headline, the Chinese factory that opened in the US and clobbered its rivals. And it's about this glass company that supplies like windshield glass and window glass to the big automakers. And it Started by a Chinese company. It came to the U.S. when do they say? It's like 15 years ago. And was cited as just a great thing to revive the economy. And the Chinese. Look, the Chinese are investing in the US since they opened, allegedly with illegal immigrant labor from China and illegal government subsidies from the communist Chinese. They put a bunch of American companies out of business, putting tons and tons of people out of work in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Indiana. Says. Who is this being quoted? He's an industry expert. The entry of Chinese firms into the US auto industry not only threatens the safety security of domestic supply chains, but jeopardize entire communities that rely on American manufacturing jobs. So it's just, it's yet another example. And this is, you know, back to our previous discussion. We need national unity because we are in a century long, perhaps wrestling match with China and they have complete unity. And so what do we do with this? China says your principles are open society. Excellent. We're going to spread our propaganda. We're going to give you TikTok, we're going to invest in companies, then ruin your industries. Meanwhile, their society is completely closed and flamingly racist, by the way, and secretive in a police state. How do we deal with that? We need unity to deal with that.
Joe Getty
Speaking of TikTok, I heard there are a couple of your big TikTok influencers who made a lot of money on TikTok, trying to put together some sort of legal complaint or something saying the algorithm is not the same. Their views have dropped off substantially since the new TikTok hit and it being sold to them as the same product is a violation of this or that or something. I don't know what.
Jack Armstrong
That's interesting because I've been reading conservatives saying, hey Beijing, here it is from the National Review. The algorithm remains under Beijing's watchful eye and bytedance is the strongest ownership position inside the new consortium. Quote, this isn't a divestment, It's a smokescreen. TikTok will remain under ByteDance's effective control.
Joe Getty
Wow. What if it's the worst of two worlds? They still have the same amount of spying on you, but the algorithm for just feeding you stuff and making money is not as good. Could be both.
Jack Armstrong
Well, that'll weaken the spying. I would say yeah, we should have booted them out completely, but. And for what it's worth, this is a factor in what Trump will be impeached for when the Democrats take the House. It's the three way relationship between Trump's company and his sons, the UAE and.
Joe Getty
China you should break that down for us. Maybe next segment like in full or impartial, just so it's on our radar. Speaking of TikTok and influencers, not to make everything about the super bowl, but it is how I spent most of my day yesterday. I was amazed at this. And you wouldn't know unless you're hanging out with a teenager how many of the commercials that came on where there's a person who I just think is like a, you know, a bit player in the commercial. They're nobody. They're just, you know, every man, somebody standing at the counter of a cell phone store. Oh my God, I can't believe that's. My son would say it was a giant star in the YouTube world or TikTok world that I didn't even like, didn't even know was anybody. And that happened over and over and over with various commercials. I thought, wow, they're, they're reaching people on multiple levels so they'd, they'd have some star there that my son is probably like, that's just some good looking guy announcer, not a giant movie star. And then the other dude over there, some young black guy, is a huge star among people. My kids world and I didn't even know was anybody.
Jack Armstrong
It reminds me of 1979. I was watching the super bowl and my children said, who's that? I said, that's Lola Falana. The great Lola Falana. How do you not know the great Lola Falana?
Joe Getty
We were at Target a couple of weeks ago and we were in the men's grooming section because my teenage boys have started to decide they really care how they look and smell and whatnot.
Jack Armstrong
But there's always a welcome development, isn't it?
Joe Getty
There was an ad there and I thought it was just, you know, when you have regular people, you know, holding your products on a sign for Kmart or JCPenney or whatever it is not a star anyway, is some group of like the biggest influencers on YouTube that myself. Oh my God, I can't believe so and so is doing Target commercials. I wonder how often that happens, right? And it's getting so niche for all these different things that I don't know, we're probably all exposed to it every single day. Where you recognize the, the. The influencer and I don't and vice versa.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, my 25 year old daughter is into that sort of thing and will send me stuff she really likes occasionally and I'll check it out and the number of views would be the envy of CBS Evening News.
Joe Getty
Absolutely. Yeah, yeah. This one group, I wish I could remember the name, I wrote it down of these, these guys who just, they basically watch videos and then make snarky comments about them. That's what they do. And they're huge. Like you just said, they get so many more views than anything on cable could even hope. I mean, they're a bigger star than any cable news host. I mean, it's not even worth mentioning. And then you get to the big networks and they dominate that in terms of eyeballs or recognition and they're lost on me completely. That's a good gig if you can get it. Although it's kind of similar to what we do. You just observe the world and make snarky comments.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that, that divide. It reminds me a little bit of what we've been talking about in reference to the super bowl and halftime show and Bad Bunny and the rest of it. The Roger Goodells of the world are looking at that as the future, including the Spanish speaking world. And you know, we've said plenty about that and probably will say some more, but yeah, they're realizing that's where the eyes are, that's where the money is, that's where we're going.
Joe Getty
I don't know that I agree with that. And I'm in the advertising world myself, obviously. How could there be a bigger market? Everybody wants to get into the US Market because it is such a great market. We're the richest on earth. We spend money like crazy. Everybody wants American eyeballs. And we got the NFL thinking now, we don't want that. We want something else.
Jack Armstrong
Venezuelans.
Joe Getty
Yeah, for some reason.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe Getty
Interesting. Well, I guess we'll wait 20 years and see who's right. Joe's going to explain to us what Trump's going to get impeached about if the Democrats take the House. And they almost certainly will. Among other things we got coming up on the show. Stay here.
Jack Armstrong
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Jack Armstrong
May he scurry in peace.
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Nibbles would have loved you like a brother.
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Watching her, she will ski at her limit. The tone is set right here.
Jack Armstrong
Oh my God, that snow.
Joe Getty
Oh, that's Lindsay Von Crashing. That was not good. That was not good.
Jack Armstrong
Michael play 44. And I have an excuse for this. I hope for the best for her.
Joe Getty
I hope that it's. That it's not too bad.
Jack Armstrong
And yeah, I mean my heart aches for her.
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That's us Skier Breezy Johnson.
Joe Getty
Could I call myself Breezy Johnson or.
Jack Armstrong
Would that seem weird?
Joe Getty
So many of these Olympic athletes have super cool names like their parents knew they were going to be something. Breezy Johnson is the gold medal winner.
Jack Armstrong
It's a cool name.
Joe Getty
Hey, by the way, real quick, I just came across this. Ricky Martin's song during halftime was a warning about modern day colonialism, in case you weren't aware.
Jack Armstrong
Super.
Joe Getty
Got that from the New York Times critic. Maybe we'll read more of that later so you have the slightest idea what happened.
Jack Armstrong
So I'm looking at the clock. We can scratch the surface of this, which is probably enough for now. Andy McCarthy of the National Review and the Wall Street Journal and other places is a rock solid, very serious, fair minded conservative, former federal prosecutor, writes about the law and that sort of thing. Generally, you know, we're fans. He has unleashed a five part series, most I think three or four parts of it so far in National Review originally about the ties between the Trump family and Steve Witkoff, by the way, and Jared Kushner and the UAE's trillions of dollars in free cash and the communist Chinese. And here is the thumbnail sketch of what Trump will be impeached for as soon as the Democrats take the House.
Joe Getty
Keeping in mind Andrew McCarthy, cuz we read a lot of it over the years has come to Trump's defense and a whole bunch of bogus lawsuits and stuff like that over the years when nobody else was.
Jack Armstrong
He was absolutely the most persuasive and powerful caller out of the lawfare that was going after Trump while it was going after completely fair anyway, he says it's a long story. But let's cut to the chase. In autumn of 24, when it became clear he'd likely win back the White House in about six weeks, Donald Trump and his friend Steve Whitcoll founded a crypto business called World Liberty Financial. WLF was and remains an ideal vehicle for leveraging political power in search of financial game. Crypto is shrouded in mystery and intrigue. The public generally doesn't understand it. The Federal Reserve says just 2% of Americans use crypto to pay for anything in 2024. The value that investors promote and customers purchase at Vay is vague. Hence a crypto business, whether in tokens, currency or other iterations, is an ideal way to disguise political payoffs as financial transactions. And because they have sons who do not hold government positions and could ostensibly run the crypto business. Trump and his Middle east envoy, Witkoff would be poised to claim that WLF is a private enterprise walled off from Trump's political influence, even though that influence was a magnet for foreign investment and consumer purchases. And it has to do with the Chinese born Canadian billionaire felon Changpeng Zhao, who ran Binance, the cryptocurrency exchange who is desperately seeking a presidential pardon and contributed valuable technical expertise for building WLF's infrastructure. So did Zhao's close associate, Sheikh Tanun bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a top intelligence operative and the second highest ranking royal member of the United Arab Emirates. A tiny, rich Gulf monarchy just for chuckles. Their sovereign wealth fund that they invested is valued at, I think it's $1.2.
Joe Getty
Trillion.
Jack Armstrong
And it was a three way. You scratch my back and we'll all make billions of dollars making Hunter Biden look like the punk he is.
Joe Getty
So if that is the impeachment, that'd be a hard impeachment to sell to the people that don't already hate Trump. You could any impeachment work for the people who really, really hate Trump? But it's gonna be a hard one to sell to the other crowd because this is gonna be very complicated.
Jack Armstrong
It's. I wouldn't say it's very complicated, but it's complicated enough to be a challenge, especially given the fact that people's eyes glaze over as soon as you start talking about crypto and crypto exchanges.
Joe Getty
Mine do.
Jack Armstrong
What's. What's the difference between a meme coin and a stable coin? I don't know. For instance? Well, you gotta figure it out.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I don't think I. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
So anyway, House Republicans even open an impeach. Oh, I'm sorry. They're talking about the Biden family. Andy's thumbnail is everything the Bidens did. Add two zeros to it, and you start to get an idea of what the Trump family's doing.
Joe Getty
Well, that'll sure be fun to follow if that ever happens. Okay, we got a lot more on the way. If you miss a second, May get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
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Episode: Could I Call Myself Breezy Johnson?
Date: February 9, 2026
Podcast Host: iHeartPodcasts
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
This episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand sees Jack and Joe dissecting the aftermath of the Super Bowl, with a special focus on the cultural and political implications of the halftime show’s use of Spanish, the increasingly global ambitions of the NFL, and listener reactions to the event. The discussion flows into commentary on other current topics, including the risks and spectacle of Olympic sports, the infiltration of Chinese business interests in the US, the TikTok algorithm controversy, and the future political controversy involving Trump’s business dealings.
Throughout, the hosts maintain their trademark irreverent, skeptical, and sometimes curmudgeonly tone, balancing cultural criticism with humor and self-awareness.
"Am I too cynical, or is it appropriate for me to not like you trying to make me cry about a flipping potato chip?" — Joe Getty ([03:20])
"Or a beer, which is about making me forget my problems, not cry about yours." ([03:48])
"La NFL esta muerta para mi. The NFL is dead to me." ([05:52])
"There's like practically nobody watching that halftime show that only speaks Spanish, yet they put it in Spanish only, including the little still picture… so what is the message there?" ([08:51])
"You wouldn't even put subtitles on that for 98% of your audience who doesn't speak Spanish. So what is the message there?" ([08:51])
"Not a shared language. That's never worked anywhere in the history of the planet." — Joe Getty ([13:33])
"Goodell and the league are going to continue to try to sell the game to people who aren't that into it… [He] is determined to turn the NFL into a global game. And he doesn't just mean geographically, he means across all demographics and corners of society." ([09:49], [10:37])
"He asks me if I have a lot of girlfriends. Today I have one, tomorrow I'll have another... I'm going to take them all to the VIP. Hey, say hello to auntie. Let's take a selfie. ...Let the ones I already F'd smile in a VIP." ([17:28])
"See a doctor." ([18:32])
"Why does everything have to be, are you for Trump or against Trump? Including the halftime show." ([19:52])
"She said, I spent my entire youth black and blue." ([27:06])
“If you even just a tiny bit don't completely commit to it, you're gonna land on your head and break your neck.” ([27:25])
“They're a bigger star than any cable news host...and then you get to the big networks and they dominate that in terms of eyeballs or recognition and they're lost on me completely.” ([35:28])
"Crypto is shrouded in mystery and intrigue...an ideal way to disguise political payoffs as financial transactions." ([41:56])
"If that is the impeachment, that'd be a hard impeachment to sell to the people that don't already hate Trump." ([43:58])
“Everything the Bidens did, add two zeros to it, and you start to get an idea of what the Trump family's doing.” ([44:36])
The episode maintains Armstrong & Getty’s signature blend of skepticism, humor, mock indignation, pop-culture referencing, and sharp cultural commentary. Political and cultural frustration is expressed with wit and self-deprecation. The dialogue regularly veers into playful mockery, both of each other and of cultural trends, while periodically pausing for more serious, critical analysis.
This summary should provide a comprehensive understanding for listeners unfamiliar with the episode, capturing both major themes and the unique delivery style of Armstrong & Getty.