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Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe.
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Getty Armstrong and Getty and now here Armstrong and Get.
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The last time I get to say it in 2025 live from studio C, Senor, a dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And hey, y', all, on the last show of the year, we're under the tutelage of our general manager.
Armstrong
The year of 2025. It was a very good year. If you like crap, it was a rotten year. A dumb, very dumb year.
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A lot of dumb, huh? In terms of like, give me a category.
Armstrong
I will tell you this, my friend. Listen to our blockbuster award winning, painstakingly prepared clips of the year show. And at the end, tell me it wasn't a dumb year. Okay, I'm just scanning through the. The clips and the stories and the. The controversies that lasted for about half a cup of coffee.
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And the rest of it, I'm making a list. I started it in this, in my head on the drive into work today as jamming air supply on the way to work today, for some reason, not.
Armstrong
On my bingo card. Well, good for you.
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It's Michael. I don't know why I was doing that. It just seemed it came up and I thought, yeah, I'll give that a listen. It's been a while Lying alone with my head on the phone Been a while since I'm out of love he's so lost without you two little gay dudes singing back and forth in a duet sort of thing. Are they gay? I don't know. I always just assumed they were.
Armstrong
Ain't real butch. I don't know which way they swing.
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Not that there's anything wrong with it.
Armstrong
Like in their 80s now. It's a little late to out there.
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I was making a list of things I was going to go through with you on, like, is this going to be worse or better a year from now? Oh, interesting. Like, I got a list here of like 10 different categories. They'll be interested in all of our opinions on.
Armstrong
Yeah, I for once in my life remembered that you would be asking for predictions and so have been working on those. But the problem I ran into is, with one exception, they're all fairly grim.
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I'm bullish on. I'm bullish on a couple that you probably are not.
Armstrong
Okay, all right, fair enough.
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So we'll get to those a little bit later. And yeah, we got clips of the year that we'll get to throughout. And.
Armstrong
I don't want people to walk away feeling grim.
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Why would they? Why would they?
Armstrong
Well, yeah, maybe we do the predictions early.
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Okay, here's a happy prediction.
Jack Armstrong
Okay.
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Travis and Taylor, do they make a baby announcement in 26? I think that's an absolute yes.
Armstrong
I think that's a yes.
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I sure hope so.
Armstrong
We're all.
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Yes. You sure hope so.
Armstrong
Her clock's a ticking. She's accomplished anything professionally she would ever dream of. Trav is about to leave the field.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Armstrong
They're gonna get a. They're gonna start a family.
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Well, if you're going to a full huge family, if you're going to have kids and they. They've both said that they want to. Yeah. You know, they're old enough that. Yeah. You would start and. Yeah. Perfect timing, actually.
Armstrong
Be a good looking baby. Oh my God. The best looking. Michael. You're gonna have to wear sunglasses to.
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Look at that child.
Armstrong
I'll bet Travis Kelsey would be a fantastic dad.
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Oh, I bet he would be too. I don't know him.
Armstrong
I don't know him, but I just, I sense that.
Getty
Yeah, but he would.
Armstrong
From everything I've heard him say.
Getty
Well, yeah. And from. Yeah, just everything you get from his brother and their family and all that sort of stuff.
Armstrong
Yeah.
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I wonder though, if Taylor is gonna play. I was just reading about this the other day. The most expensive baby pictures in history and how like People magazine paid I don't know how many million dollars for the forced first picture of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's baby.
Armstrong
Right.
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That was on the COVID or whatever.
Armstrong
I find it didn't end well.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
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I find that just horrific, the idea that you're playing along with this. But then maybe, like, there's no getting around it. People are going to, you know, swing from cranes hiding in bushes till they get a picture and you'll get nothing for it. So you might as well get the picture out there so the paparazzi maybe doesn't get so close to your family. You have some control over the way it happens. Maybe that's the way.
Armstrong
Yeah. I was about to say I find every player in that interaction morally reprehensible. It hadn't occurred to me what you just said. I'd forgotten about that dynamic. But. So that's. I was right. I just had left out some different kinds of morally reprehensible. On the other hand, if they were to auction off the rights for some huge sum and then please donate it to like neonatal care for families that can't have the afford to, you know, have the best care for the baby or whatever, I don't do something positive with this.
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Might be the most in demand baby one ever, though. Taylor Swift's first kid with Travis Kelsey. That's going to be pretty huge.
Armstrong
Pretty huge. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. I'm trying to picture the international footprint of it.
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Well, she's big. International.
Armstrong
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He is virtually unknown. Although just knowing he's a big, handsome football star is probably enough for say, your French swifty.
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Right. And she's one of the biggest things on planet Earth. Yes. So, okay, so we're all in agreement. There will be a baby announcement next year. So from what I understand from executive producer Hansen, we've got to get to starting off the clips of the year right away because we have so many to get through. Is that the way it's working?
Armstrong
Yeah, I think. Didn't we say like 3 per half hour? Yeah. Is that what we need to average?
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We got to get one in this segment. So I don't have the list.
Armstrong
I do. It's right in front of me. Oddly enough. We're going to start with January. It is a beefy son of a gun. It's a fun look back at the year that was. It's koi eclipse of the year.
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The country is on edge after a deadly New Year's Day terror attack that investigators say was inspired by isis. This is not a terror event.
Jack Armstrong
We also need to be stronger together by overcoming an addiction to divisiveness and negativity. A cease fire deal between Israel and Hamas that will implement a pause in fighting between the two sides for 42 days. The Palisades fire burning homes and forcing thousands to run for their lives.
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The word to describe what we're seeing is just apocalyptic.
Jack Armstrong
It was like a hurricane.
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It just was shooting.
Jack Armstrong
Like a blowtorch. Like a blowtorch.
Armstrong
The remnants of flames.
Jack Armstrong
Those were all homes.
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Now they are all gone.
Armstrong
And I don't say half of them.
Jack Armstrong
Were standed, but there was.
Armstrong
There's about six of them have been gone this morning.
Jack Armstrong
Looking back, would you have taken that trip overseas? You know, I am going to focus today on what we know.
Armstrong
Does the buck stop with you?
Jack Armstrong
I mean, you're governor of California, will be the mayor of California.
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Did they fail you?
Jack Armstrong
Yes. We're all better off. We're all better off. We're all better off and we're working together.
Armstrong
But CNN and Fox News are not gonna bring up the insurance companies that are just gonna keep everybody's premiums and still give themselves a bonus.
Jack Armstrong
Yes. Free Luigi. I just saw a fireball and then it was just gone. I'm so sorry. I wish I could do something, but I can't. I don't know what to do. We got a quarter million Americans dead from fentanyl across the Open border. Where's the tears?
Armstrong
For now, we're gonna get and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms. We're eliminating the third party fact checking system.
Jack Armstrong
I'm a little concerned. I mean, this is like Chipotle announcing.
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That it's ending health inspections.
Jack Armstrong
You know what I'm saying? Like, what do you mean? In other countries, they don't have to spend 20% of their paycheck on groceries.
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And you know, we really need to pace ourselves if we're going to freak out over every last tweet or fat.
Armstrong
Boy and say, I'm gonna give you what fur. I'm gonna twist you and knots you do this to my st. Hello.
Jack Armstrong
Very nice to meet you. I'd like to know about sex change operations. I see, I see, I see.
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Clips of the year.
Armstrong
So it's hard to remember a lot.
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We started the year Joe Biden was still president, right? Yeah. Trump didn't become president until the 20th of that first month of January. And then I'd forgotten that the Palisades fire was right off the bat to kick off.
Armstrong
Then the. The DC helicopter airplane crash was the reference to a fireball.
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What was the terrorist attack? Was that the Louisiana New Orleans thing maybe? Yeah.
Armstrong
New Year's.
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Yes, it was. Because I was in Washington, D.C. and some were worried for my safety being in a big city, high profile place for New Year's Day. And that happened. And then the. The CEO of whichever company came out and gave that just the most moronic statement.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, remember that?
Armstrong
Yeah.
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The flap.
Armstrong
Yeah. Who was that? Where is that?
Jack Armstrong
I don't know.
Armstrong
Maybe I can find it. Then there was me portraying Abraham Lincoln vowing to twist J.B. pritzker in the knots for ruining Illinois. Oh, it was all states. Tom Wilson with his idiotic sugar bowl message.
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Yeah. Yes.
Armstrong
Yeah, yeah.
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That was dumb.
Armstrong
And the Amelia Perez song, the transgender drug cartel movie that won the Oscar.
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Right?
Armstrong
Or something. Or whatever it was.
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Oh, that's right. It was Unwatchable Hands movie. I'd forgotten all about that.
Armstrong
Yes.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, wow.
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Wow. No one.
Armstrong
I want to learn about sex change operations.
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So I'll tell you what we'd be doing if this weren't the last show of the year. What I would want to do, I would want to do the in play the entire trans gender affirming care story they just did on NPR as I was driving to work. Play the entire thing and take it apart piece by piece. It was amazing. So RFK Jr announces yesterday that they're going to pull all kinds of funding for any states that don't outlaw what he is calling sex denial procedures or something like that on children. And NPR said doctors it's the consensus among doctors is it's called gender affirming care. So right off the bat you can see the hatred that is coming from the Trump administration towards something that the all pediatric care agrees is a and it was just horse crap.
Armstrong
Wow. Yeah. Let's grab that whole thing and do it. When we come back that'll still be a huge issue.
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I was yelling at my this is why I started listening to Air Supply. I was yelling at my radio saying how are you gonna bring up Europe? That Europe has banned it? Or is it only RFK Jr that thinks this is a bad idea?
Armstrong
Yeah, they are liars and fools. They are such liars they've blinded themselves to the truth. We need to take a break though.
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I got more clips of the year on the way.
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Got to talk about that football game last night with one of the craziest plays ever in the history of the NFL with a very, with a very, very consequential game and just a nutty play. But we'll talk about that later.
Armstrong
Oh wow. Yeah, but we need to get right into the Clips of the year segments. There's so much. This is gonna the end of January is fantastic. It was, as you recall, the month when Joe Biden was removed from his taxpayer funded care facility. Also the White House. Here we go, the second half of January. It's Clips of the Year.
Jack Armstrong
The votes for President of the United States are as follows. Donald J. Trump of the state of Florida has received 312 votes.
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Kamala D. Harris.
Jack Armstrong
An oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy. I know more world leaders than any one of you ever met in your whole goddamn like, mark my words, Fish is going to judge what you've done as one of the most significant contributions that's been made by all of America. You made it rhyme louder than it's rhymed in a long time. The golden age of America begins right now. Oh, but we had some beauties, didn't we, Melania? She said sir. Calls me sir when she's angry. We need Greenland first for national security purposes. We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. One of the dumbest phrases in military history is our diversity is our strength. Our diversity is not our strength. Our unity and our shared purpose is our strength. How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night? Have any of you guys asked them to step down and resign from their job and child?
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Listen, I want y'.
Jack Armstrong
All. I am no child. Do not call me a child. I am no child. Are you supportive of these onesies? I'm supportive of vaccines.
Armstrong
They have Velcro in the crotch. What's wrong with snaps?
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Armstrong
Are you in favor of this or not? This is the Nazi salute.
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My heart goes out to you.
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One of the most exciting things, things we're working on is a cancer vaccine. This is the promise of AI and the promise of the future for the people who are concerned about AI.
Jack Armstrong
What do you say to them? I think people are really good. And people will do, on balance, incredible things with this technology and choices we got in life.
Armstrong
Those were your choices.
Jack Armstrong
Who shot who? Come on. Somebody got shot. I hope y' all good. What? Only on the dirty third. One on one with Mike D. I thought me. I will do anything for you, Daddy. Let me hear you all say E L, G S E S. Eagles. No, I drink light. Cause it's less filling and it tastes great. Seats, huh? You're in the wrong shape, buddy.
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Come on.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, I must be in the front row.
Armstrong
Wow.
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Wow. So I forgot. Garth sang Imagine at the inauguration.
Armstrong
At the Jimmy Carter funeral.
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Oh, at the Jimmy Carter funeral. That's right. The Imagine. There's no heaven to the most religious president that we've probably ever had.
Armstrong
Yeah. Yeah, that's right. The. The drunk Hooters girl with the cop. I'll do anything. Sure, you, daddy.
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Yeah.
Armstrong
I wish we had more of. That was so disgusting. You got the rapper shooting himself during a podcast who shot who?
Getty
And they're incredibly sanguine reaction to someone getting shot and. You all right? I'm okay.
Armstrong
All right.
Jack Armstrong
I think.
Armstrong
So then you got Sam altogether. While he's raising zillions of dollars talking about AI. I think people on balance are good. So it will do. Good things. People, on balance are good. When was the last time you walked down the street?
Getty
Yeah. And that reminded me what a hot start we got off to once Trump took over, obviously with the Gulf of America and Pete Hegseth and all that.
Armstrong
Sort of stuff right off the bat, annexing Greenland.
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I love that second. That first Biden.
Armstrong
The Mark my wor.
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Mark my words.
Jack Armstrong
By my words, she's going to judge what you've done as one of the most significant contributions has been made by.
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All of America that's got to be on the in the in the finals for clip of the year because that's one of his all timers.
Armstrong
I agree completely that you know the GO existential or whatever the Eagles attempt was. It's one of the all time stupid clips. I'm not sure it merits clip of the Year consideration. Although man we did reference it a lot.
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Football Playoffs start tonight with its new expanded format. I'll be interested to see how kind of ratings they get.
Armstrong
Yeah, yeah.
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Armstrong
So a lot to get to. Clips of the year wise. What a month February was. Oh boy. We're gonna have plenty to discuss so let's plunge into the first chunk of February. It's clips of the year President Trump sending shock waves throughout Europe And I.
Jack Armstrong
Think I have the power to end this war and I think it's going very well.
Armstrong
Doubling down and accusing the Ukrainian leader.
Jack Armstrong
Of being a dictator. A dictator without elections. Zelensky better move fast or he's not to have a country left. Got to move, got to move fast. The United States does not believe that Naito's membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome. Just so you understand, Europe is loaning the money to Ukraine. They get their money back. No, in fact, to be to be frank, we pay.
Armstrong
Pennsylvania teacher Mark Fogel is all smiles. He says he is thrilled to be back on US soil.
Jack Armstrong
I feel like the luckiest man on earth right now. The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will a job with it too. We'll own it. It's a remarkable idea.
Narrator/Promo Voice
President Trump saying that if Hamas doesn't.
Jack Armstrong
Release those remaining hostages, then he thinks that ceasefire deal should be canceled. Let hell break out. A robust foreign policy is good for trade and national security.
Armstrong
The tariffs on Mexico and Canada are just paused.
Jack Armstrong
It's going to affect beer. It's going to affect your guac. President Trump signing an executive order. The war on women's sports is over, man.
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Jack Armstrong
There is a difference between the word woman and being a biological female. You know, I wanted to find somebody smarter than him. We settled in this.
Armstrong
Well, thanks for having me.
Jack Armstrong
This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy. Chainsaw. Which side are you on? USAID run by radical lunatics. 15 million for condoms to the Taliban.
Armstrong
But we have actually just a bowl.
Jack Armstrong
Of worms who has used the unfortunate nickname Big Balls. Big balls here. Oh, this is him. Look at it. What's your name? Tell us your name. Give me that idea again. Giving you the idea. I showed it to you. So what? I showed you the idea. Do what I showed you the id. You let me see the ID again, huh? I don't swear in public very well, but we have to Trump.
Armstrong
How far are we from a kleptocracy?
Jack Armstrong
And I think we are there. We don't live in a democracy. We live in a bureaucracy. Even more. He wants us to to bow to him, but we want him in jail. We have to. If you.
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If you.
Jack Armstrong
Sorry. Tell you gravitas can be difficult sometimes. Glimps of the year.
Armstrong
The Doge protest singers.
Jack Armstrong
Which side are you on?
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Oh, Lord, that just made me sad for the way Doge went, was portrayed and ended up. And I'm sure we've got it in our clips coming up later, whatever month it was where he did the fabulous interview with Brett Baer on Fox with the whole Doge team. I wish they could have explained it that way at the very, very beginning and maybe gotten more public will on their side.
Armstrong
Right, right.
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Got in the hole. Are we a kleptocracy or a bureaucracy is so clearly obvious to me. God dang it. It's maddening.
Armstrong
Oh boy. He's discouraged. And it's only halfway through discouraging. Well, and then you got Colin Zelinsky a dictator and just some of that stuff and it's just, boy howdy, more to come.
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We'll.
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They just announced six more high level people charged in the Minnesota fraud scam. Bernie, you're a liberal. You want money to go to good things. The government wastes more money than there is billionaires not paying their fair share. I mean if you want to have a competition.
Armstrong
Right, right. In fact, I would suggest that any lefty who engages in that sort of rhetoric about who needs to pay their fair share and we need to tax the rich, blah blah blah and doesn't go after waste is a fraudster. Yeah, they're a charlatan.
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They're part of their version of the kleptocracy.
Armstrong
Right? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. I would agree. I'm scanning the list for the rest of February. I'm not sure they have it, but one of my favorite writers noted that February was the month that journalists rejected freedom. Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos said, hey, we're going to embrace personal liberties and free markets. And the journalists went crazy protesting against liberty, which is quite a moment in American history. Thomas Paine is whirring in his grade like a Makita drill. Anyway, let's plunge on, shall we? It's the second half of February. A fond look back at the year that was its koi eclipse of the year.
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I don't want to spend an hour applying glitter on my face so that.
Steffi
You will hear and see me.
Jack Armstrong
It didn't reach that level to me to say something terrible could happen and maybe you shouldn't have gone on a trip.
Armstrong
Why didn't it happen to me?
Jack Armstrong
I don't know. I mean, I think that that's one of the things we need to look at. MSNBC canceled Joy Reid's TV show. What I was doing. Hand value. Hand value Capper.
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Writing this book is like Hannibal Lecter writing one on the dangers of cannibalism.
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Free speech meets boundaries.
Jack Armstrong
When I don't have a French pink.
Armstrong
Like white, but pink in the winter.
Jack Armstrong
I eat only tacos and beans and RICE Now, Pastor, 24 years in this country, these people teaching me to eat bagels. I need 20k by this week. Okay. In my pockets in cash. Okay. Okay. That's a demand to the government. They used to have plugs that went into the wall and it was the whole unit. I'm getting the middle of a plug. What is happening?
Armstrong
When they see the birds actually going up in flames, they created a name for that. They call them screamers.
Narrator/Promo Voice
The best country album.
Jack Armstrong
Cowboy Carter. Beyonce. Oh, my God, she's not even country.
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Is there any more annoying than putting a fitted sheet on a mattress? Oh, God, I hate that sheet.
Armstrong
Boy.
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Sheet boy.
Armstrong
A new fitted sheet, please.
Jack Armstrong
The Eagles trying to get it in. They have on a fumble by Mahomes, his third turnover.
Narrator/Promo Voice
For best in show, I choose the giant schnauzer. A seismic shift in the NBA. The Dallas Mavericks trading Luka Doncic to.
Armstrong
The Los Angeles Lakers made the decision.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know why.
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If you put your effort and concentration.
Jack Armstrong
Into playing to your potential to be the best that you can be.
Armstrong
I don't care what the scoreboard says.
Jack Armstrong
At the end of the game.
Armstrong
In my book, we're gonna be winners.
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Okay?
Jack Armstrong
I hate you. Because we from different neighborhoods.
Armstrong
I hate you.
Jack Armstrong
Cause you look different. I hate you. Cause I don't understand you.
Armstrong
I hate you. Cause people I know hate you.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, great. We're in a brave new world. Not my Captain americ ago. Okay. 50 years of the best times of our lives.
Getty
Oh, drunk uncle. Not my Captain America.
Armstrong
I. I'd forgotten the context of It's.
Jack Armstrong
A brave new world.
Armstrong
Joy Reid's show canceled. We still miss sir.
Getty
Yeah. Heck of a Super Bowl. I remember. It's always stunning to me to find out that those things happened like this year. A lot. Yeah, a lot of things. I hear. I like what that was like 10 years ago. Okay.
Armstrong
Yeah. That 60 minute story that you heard. The gal, was she German saying free speech needs boundaries.
Getty
Right?
Armstrong
Yeah, I remember we made some hay with that. Oh, it was absolutely chilling. Orwell rose out of his grave and committed atrocities across the German Plain or he certainly should have.
Getty
So you didn't see the game last night?
Armstrong
No, I was at the big social engagement. I had a tuxedo on last night. I was at a formal social engagement.
Getty
A tuxedo. So we mentioned during the show it was one of the biggest regular season games in a decade. So you had Seahawks, Rams for who likely will have home field throughout in the nfc and the loser is like in a struggle to make the playoffs. It was a really big game. Ends up they they Seattle needs a two point conversion to tie the game to have a shot at going into overtime. Throw the ball. It's it hits it. They don't catch it. It hits the ground. Incomplete pass game party over. Player walks over, picks up the ball like to hand it to the ref. They then rule it. Everybody thought it was done. They then rule it. No it was. It was a lateral pass. So it was a fumble. And the guy who walked over nonchalantly and picked up the ball in the end zone score 2 point conversion. He was just picking up the ball for the heck of it and everybody thought the play was dead. Two point conversion, tie game, going to overtime. Then the Seattle wins in overtime.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Commercial Voice
Wow.
Getty
It's an amazing game, but one of the weirdest plays I've definitely ever seen.
Armstrong
Wow. Yeah, I can't wait to watch that on the dvr. And then the I think the Niners have Seattle on the last game of the year.
Getty
Oh, that'll be an exciting one.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Armstrong
Correct me if I'm wrong, but anyway, cool.
Getty
We ought to take a break and then we'll get more clips of the year coming up with the discussion that follows. Stay right here.
Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Gettysburg.
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Trainer Games on Prime Video January 8th. Watch the trailer on trainergames.com get into.
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Just legalized pot across the country. Okay, have to take a look at that story.
Armstrong
It's a little overstated, but we can discuss that. But first, let's forge ahead. It's a fun look back at the year that was. It's koi clips of the year, the first part of March.
Steffi
What shape is the U.S. pentagon building?
Jack Armstrong
Isn't it just a square like my lazy husband hot dogs? I start by adding onion and bell peppers and seasoning of course. And then I fry them up and add cheese.
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A Dallas company that works on De Extinction genetically modified them with hair to.
Jack Armstrong
Resemble the traits of a woolly mammoth.
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Honolulu Police. A 46 year old Gerhardt Koenig was.
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Hiking the Pali Trail in Oahu with.
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His wife when he struck her in the head with a rock and tried to push her off the ledge.
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He's wicked and he's whistling his way into your heart.
Jack Armstrong
Literally.
Armstrong
I would like to be called Joseph. Joseph of Illinois.
Getty
Can I go with Jack the Great? Just call me Jack the Great.
Jack Armstrong
Lately there's been a shift in the toy market thanks to the rise of grown up toy aficionados known as Kidults. Hi, I'm Melanie.
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I'm studying the unseen body and creative.
Jack Armstrong
Spaces of erasure and exposure of the queer. Do we have jobs for that? Yeah, it's called Starbucks.
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Oh, would you do something like that? Would you say no men in female sports. Why?
Jack Armstrong
It's actually, I think it's an issue of fairness. I completely agree with you on that. When you go to these college campuses, I love watching your TikTok, which is next level. Clearly that's expressed by my 13 year old son.
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I want to meet this guy.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I, I, I actually he's coming.
Getty
To a turning Point event this summer. Tampa, Florida Student Action Summit.
Jack Armstrong
I actually, by the way, if he did, he should be concerned. It's not just white men. We're losing them. We're losing them to these guys online. We're losing people that I'm bringing on this podcast as well. That's why I brought. These are bad guys though. I made my money all by myself. That ain't true. That's what you just heard.
Narrator/Promo Voice
I'm here in Ireland.
Jack Armstrong
Moved here on January 15th. And when you know it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that's when we will consider coming back. Canada should honestly become our 51st state. It makes a lot of sense.
Armstrong
The Canadian Canadians are always ready when.
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Someone else drops the gloves.
Armstrong
You think that white people should pay reparations?
Announcer
I have never said that, sir.
Getty
Yes you did.
Jack Armstrong
I think it was just a reference to the idea that we all owe much to the people who came before us.
Getty
That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted. Who was that? I remember the back and forth, but who was it?
Armstrong
That was NPR's what's Her Name Mayor, the blonde headed she Fascist. March was a hell of a month. We've got the State of the Union address. Let's plunge ahead with the clips of the year.
Jack Armstrong
America is back. And once again I look at The Democrats in front of me, and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy. Remove this gentleman from the chamber. $8 million to promote LGBT BTQI plus in the African nation of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of. I'm also working tirelessly to end the savage conflict in Ukraine. Do you want to keep it going for another five years? Yeah. Yeah, you would say. Pocahontas says yes every single day. We will stand up and we will fight, fight, fight for the country our citizens believe in and for the country our people. Des.
Narrator/Promo Voice
Trump adding a 25% tax on.
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All goods coming across the border.
Jack Armstrong
Your government has chosen to do this to you.
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Venezuelan gang members arriving to his country overnight, marching into prison.
Jack Armstrong
I don't care what the judges think. I don't care what the left thinks. We're coming.
Narrator/Promo Voice
President Trump has a clear message for those that are in our country illegally. Leave now.
Jack Armstrong
You know, as an ex CFO of.
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A big public tech company, really what we're doing is we're applying public company standards to the federal government. And it is alarming how the financial operations and financial management is set up. Today, I am a firm believer that.
Jack Armstrong
President Trump will run and win again in 2028. Why don't you wear a suit? I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Have you ever been to Ukraine that you say what problems we have? I have been to come once.
Armstrong
Have you said thank you once this entire meeting?
Jack Armstrong
No, in this entire meeting.
Armstrong
Have you said thank you?
Jack Armstrong
Because let me tell you, you don't have the cards with us. You start having cards right now. You don't have your playing cards. You're gambling with the lives of millions of people. You're gambling with World War Three. You're gambling with World War Three. And that's what Zelensky did, unfortunately, is he found every opportunity to try to Ukraine splain on every issue. A group chat for the history books. It appears a journalist was accidentally added to a text chain. Nobody was texting war plans.
Armstrong
No, that's a lie. He was texting war plans. I take responsibility. I built the. I built the group.
Getty
Embarrassing, yes.
Jack Armstrong
The FBI is investigating what it calls a targeted attack. Shots fired at this Tesla dealership, Oregon.
Narrator/Promo Voice
And all I want to see happen on my birthday is for Eli to be taken down.
Armstrong
Yes, Tesla is a peaceful company. We've never done anything harmful. Look on the right side.
Getty
I mean, why.
Armstrong
Why are you doing this?
Jack Armstrong
Always look on the. Always look on the bright side of life. Now, here's the bad news. I'm not allowed to drive because if I haven't driven a car in a long time. You gotta come down to White House Tesla Auto Mall. I love Tesla. You gotta come down to White House Tesla Auto Mall. This is really amaz. The year.
Getty
Okay, so that narrows down when I started getting flipped off on a daily basis driving around my cyber truck.
Armstrong
Oh, and the excruciating Oval Office argument slash meeting.
Getty
It's rough to hear again.
Armstrong
Oh, what a month, man.
Getty
We got more clips of the year. We got some of our predictions for the year. A lot on the way. If you miss a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand.
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Trainer Games on Prime Video January 8th. Watch the trailer on trainergames.com the holidays.
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Jack Armstrong
Guaranteed Human.
Date: December 19, 2025
Podcast: Armstrong & Getty On Demand
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
This end-of-year episode kicks off Armstrong & Getty's much-anticipated "Clips of the Year" (COY), 2025 edition. The hosts, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, reminisce through curated audio highlights—absurdities, low points, and bizarre turns—from January through March 2025. The show blends fast-paced banter, satirical commentary, and their signature skepticism as they relive the year's news, politics, and pop culture moments.
You'll hear them debate annual predictions, react to political chaos, riff about celebrity gossip, and lampoon everything from government dysfunction to viral pop songs. It’s a nostalgic, irreverent, and sometimes somber look back at what they largely describe as a “dumb, very dumb year.”
“Might be the most in demand baby one ever, though. Taylor Swift's first kid with Travis Kelsey. That's going to be pretty huge.”
– Getty (07:20)
“They are liars and fools. They are such liars they've blinded themselves to the truth.”
– Armstrong (13:40)
“Garth sang Imagine at the inauguration.”
– Getty (20:07)
"We don’t live in a democracy. We live in a bureaucracy."
– Jack Armstrong (27:52)
Emotional Reaction:
This episode perfectly encapsulates Armstrong & Getty’s year-end tradition: a rapid-fire, humorous, and biting retrospective with little patience for the self-seriousness, incompetence, and culture war insanity they see as defining the times. Both regular and new listeners will gain an audio time capsule of 2025’s absurdities, and plenty of pointed opinions delivered with deadpan mockery.
If you missed the year, or just want a sharp, irreverent refresher—this is your guide.