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- [00:39]
Jack Armstrong
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
Hi, this is Cronk here for the show open of the Armstrong and Getty Show. Get out of here, Gronk. You don't need to be in every damn thing I ever look at in my life. Everybody loves Gronk. Oh, my God, enough Gronk already. Live from Studio C, a C lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Yeti Communications compound. And hey, everybody, on a brand new week, we're under the tutelage of our general manager.
- [01:30]
Jack Armstrong
You're Pilfanelfia El Gles.
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Joe Getty
What?
- [01:35]
Jack Armstrong
Super bowl champions.
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Joe Getty
I hate blowouts. That's my least favorite. I would rather have had a. That was last on my list of there's only four outcomes for any game you watch, right? Your team barely wins. Your team barely loses. Or the blowout. Either way, really. And this is the worst. I would have rather had a close Philadelphia win than a Kansas City blowout. I don't like blowouts. I find blowouts boring. And yeah, so I was cleaning my room the entire second half. I didn't see how they scored 22 points. Somehow it was not as close. Matter wasn't as close as the score indicates, as they say. As they often say. Yeah, but yeah, that's disappointing. Well, we had, you know, many years in a row of very close Super Bowls, like, came down to the last play. I mean, that's more than you can really expect to have over and over again.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, yeah. Cups was running over. It was fantastic. Yeah. Could this usher in a new era of super bores, much like the 90s?
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Joe Getty
Is that a thing? Do these things come in waves?
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Jack Armstrong
Is that. Could it usher it in? This is sports talk. It doesn't have to make a damn lick of sense. Seriously, Gronk?
- [02:49]
Joe Getty
Seriously enough. Gronk. I'm amazed at how people get hot. And then every company out there thinks we need to throw however much money we need to throw at Gronk to get him in our ad? Or do they not know ever that maybe I'd ask Gronk. Just before we sign the paper and we have you in the ad, are you doing like 50 other commercials that are going to make people roll their eyes? They won't even remember mine.
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Jack Armstrong
He's the U2 of the 2000s. Could be everywhere. Every show. Got to have Gronk or what.
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Joe Getty
The. I tweeted a lot yesterday. I was on A tweet and roll before the game. My, my favorite thing of the whole everything, if you saw it was what the hell was that like five minute Brad Pitt thing? I couldn't figure out. What are you asking me to do? What are you telling. Am I supposed to cry? Am I supposed to stand up and salute? Am I supposed to be excited about football or the country or kids? I, I don't even know what we're doing here. Are you selling me something? Do I need to go onto a website and donate money? I had no idea what was going on there.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I missed the audio on that when I was at a party. So I was just looking at it, mystified, ignored it.
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Joe Getty
You know, Brad Pitt's one of the biggest stars in the world and they gave it super prime placement right before the game starts. And it was mystifying as to what it was like. What is the message here? Did you see that, Michael?
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
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Joe Getty
And it brought back memories of my dad.
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Michael
He used to scream at the tv, damn it. It's just a football game.
- [04:19]
Jack Armstrong
Just start getting mad.
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Joe Getty
That is a good thing to say. That is a perfect thing to quick trying to pull my like heartstrings around patriotism and hurt children and all these different equality in the world and all these different things. Mishmash, damn it. It's just a football game.
- [04:37]
Jack Armstrong
I would like to see more seriously, at least slightly more seriously. Just a poll, I guess, of Americans. How many people are like touched and moved that they trotted out, brought out the families of the victims of the would be jihadi who ran a bunch of people over because it's in the same city. As if there's some sort of sin being committed by going ahead with life. And there was a rather important football game scheduled. So we're going to go ahead and have the football game. But you've got to like genuflect to the idea of this is like weirdly inappropriate because there was just death.
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Joe Getty
You don't have to, by the way.
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Jack Armstrong
I don't think you do.
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Joe Getty
Entertainment executives make all, as we know, make all kinds a stupid, stupid decision. Yeah. And whoever got together in a room and decided, they probably decided it right after the ISIS attack when it was like super fresh. And now we. Here we are a month and a half later or whatever it is where it's like, oh yeah, that's right, that happened. As opposed to I don't know if I can watch the super bowl in New Orleans after what happened the other day. No. Who was feeling that way and lay was another one of my tweets as Lady Gaga was singing her song and people were waving hands. Okay, I guess we're all unified. We're anti isis. Let's get to kickoff.
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Jack Armstrong
Noted anti jihadi activist Lady Gaga. I don't. I don't know. There is clearly a certain sort of person for whom that sort of gesture is appreciated.
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Joe Getty
I don't believe. I don't believe.
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Jack Armstrong
I feel better now that Lady Gaga sang an emotional song.
- [06:13]
Joe Getty
I don't believe it. I think if the entire super bowl had completely ignored the. The horrifying shooting or I guess, car ramming there in New Orleans, I don't. I don't think I would have noticed. I don't think anybody would have minded.
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Jack Armstrong
But it wouldn't have popped into my mind.
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Joe Getty
No, absolutely.
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Jack Armstrong
I was acutely aware of the event and who was involved and New Orleans failures in putting up the Ballards and the rest of it, a chapter and verse. I followed the news, but no, I. I wouldn't have thought of it.
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Joe Getty
I need Tom Brady in a T shirt walking between the firefighters and the cops, talking about pulling together and something or other and how and you know, it's a stretch anyway to we're all getting together to get drunk and get fat and watch a football game. To try to. Success, by the way, to try to turn it in. I think this was Brad Pitt's message to try to turn it into some sort of this is who we are as Americans. I think it's a real stretch. Well, try to make it more important than just it's a football game. It's way to kill an afternoon and.
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Jack Armstrong
To further torture it. Because we were paying loving tribute to the death in New Orleans. It seemed insensitive not to pay tribute to the death and destruction in California. So Tom Brady was. It was. Was wearing an L. A Fire department T shirt. Just as kind of a token representation of.
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Joe Getty
Oh, and California too, because somebody in the meeting threw up. But what about California? That's right. We need to resonate with California.
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Jack Armstrong
Also, at least three people wearing T shirts now. Three seems like a lot because the game's in New Orleans. How about one? Would one be good? All right.
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Joe Getty
Okay. Again, if you know what that Brad Pitt thing was, it seemed like the length of a motion picture. Please text 415295, KFTC. I still don't know. Oh, crap. The Eagles just scored again.
- [07:51]
Jack Armstrong
Jeez. 75 to 24.
- [07:54]
Joe Getty
Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. I ate a lot of your cheese dip yesterday. Michael, how'd it come out? It was damn good.
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Michael
Good.
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Joe Getty
It was damn good. I wish I'd have put more cheese on top because I like that part, but it was really, really good. But after you get, I don't know, a pound into it.
- [08:10]
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
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Joe Getty
You start to regret your decisions. Yep, that's what I noticed.
- [08:14]
Jack Armstrong
Well, I don't have any leftovers because when I set fire to my kitchen to celebrate the Eagles win, I. I accidentally torched it.
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Joe Getty
So I might name it Michelangelo's Regretful Cheese dip. Because after you eat a whole bunch of it, you will regret that you had ever started. I went to the grocery store and spent money and took time to do this. I feel awful. What was the point here? What was I trying to accomplish?
- [08:34]
Jack Armstrong
It's not a very good endorsement.
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Joe Getty
Well, it might have to do with the quantity. You don't have to eat as much as I. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday, February 10th, for year 2025. We are Armstrong and getting. We approve of this program.
- [08:49]
Jack Armstrong
All right, let's kick off the show for a brand new week. Officially, according to FCC rules and regulations. Here we go at mark for the land of the free.
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Joe Getty
Oh, my God. E L G S E S E.
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Katie Green
G. Let's go first.
- [09:23]
Joe Getty
There you go. Because it was New Orleans, I really liked the music. I thought the America the beautiful with trombone shorty was flipping awesome. I thought that was so good.
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Jack Armstrong
Hey, at the end there, though, we were talking about this in the pregame show. He was just playing random notes. That was not groovy piano riff. And that was the guy who's like, yeah, whatever.
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Joe Getty
I didn't notice the piano. I was thinking about the. Did you. Did you have a clock on and about? How do they make sure the anthem singer doesn't do some insider trading or whatever it is if you're involved in betting? Because there's 120 seconds the over under on the bet, and you can actually bet money on that. And he could have said, home of the brave. He could have said, home of the brave, brave. But he went home with a brave, brave, brave. Right? And it got him to 120 seconds. And I just wonder, how would you. How would you not have an uncle who puts a thousand dollars on it someplace?
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Jack Armstrong
It had the feel of a team going for two when they didn't need to. And you're thinking, why would they do that? Whoa.
- [10:26]
Joe Getty
The spread was what? Right? It did. You know my favorite headline of the day? What? What? We woke up to today, the end of the penny. Donald Trump tweeting out last night, no more pennies. We spend 2 cents on a penny. It's stupid. We're gonna stop. He announced. He ordered the treasurer. Why did this not happen before? Why is he only a person that can say, the capital of Israel is Jerusalem. We all know it. Right? Let's just move it over there.
- [10:55]
Jack Armstrong
USA is a fraud department. It's a fraud factory. We gotta get rid of it. But can he defeat the hu. Penny.
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Joe Getty
The penny is dumb. He just, he just. Can he order the Treasury Department to do that?
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Jack Armstrong
Well, we're. While we're at it, the nickel must go. And let's talk about the dime. A quarter is enough of a denomination. All right? We're a rich country. We're not, you know, we don't make $4,000 a year per capita here. Yes, Michael, does this mean that pennies will become collectible items and be worth a lot?
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Joe Getty
My son and I were actually talking about that last night. What does that mean for the pennies? Does it wonder how. Wonder what happens to it? Because there are gazillions of pennies in circulation.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, oddly enough, now that it's no longer currency and is merely the constituent parts, it's worth more. Although, you know, none of us has the ability to smelt it down to whatever. So, you know, there's going to be a discount on it, but you'll probably get like 1.2 cents for every penny.
- [11:52]
Joe Getty
Well, most of us on the show aren't tweakers. We're not that fascinated by copper just in general. But all your tweaker friends would love to have your pennies, probably. Hey, tweaker friends.
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Jack Armstrong
Plenty of them.
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Joe Getty
And what was the other thing? Oh, so he announced on Brett Baer's interview yesterday that he said starting in 24 hours, Elon's going to turn his. Elon, whose name I now hear more than Trump's, that Elon's going to turn.
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Jack Armstrong
An elected dictator, by the way, world's richest man. Yeah.
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Joe Getty
Which obviously you don't need. You don't need to explain why that's evil. It's just obviously evil. The fact that he's rich and trying to cut government. Clearly evil. He announced that Trump announced yesterday during Brett Bears interview, and we'll play some of it later from the super bowl, that within 24 hours. So that'd be today. Elon's going to turn his attention toward the Department of Education. And I'm all about that. I want to hear all kinds of Great stats coming out on that. How does Mailbag look?
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, it's good. We'll get to that a little later on in the hour, I think. Right. Are we going to schedule?
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Joe Getty
That's right. We're going to do things differently now. Yeah, we're going to see how this works. It could be a disaster. I mean, it could be like the Kansas City Chiefs offensive line.
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Jack Armstrong
Nothing could be that bad.
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Joe Getty
Not really, no. Lots on the way. Stay here.
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Katie Green
Armstrong and Getty, what's driving this?
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Michael
I will keep it simple, Margaret. He is doing in the eyes of the public what he said he would do in the campaign. There's political value in that. In fact, 70% of people say he's doing what he promised. That's whether they approve of him or not. Now, there's another part of this that continues over from the campaign. There were words that he was described as being tough, being energetic, and he still is today in big majority numbers. So as people take a look in these first few weeks, there's been a lot of activity. They're getting that general sense of governance, and that's being reflected in these early numbers.
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Joe Getty
So this is the most recent big poll to come out since Trump has been in office. And while it seems like he's been in office for a year and a half, it's been. He's inaugurated on the 20th. We're not. We're 10 days away from the one month then mark. How's that even possible?
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Jack Armstrong
I know we're 10, Jack.
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Joe Getty
We're a week and a half from the one month mark. It's incredible. I was.
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Jack Armstrong
It's go. Well, go ahead. I was going to say it's a symptom of a lot of different things, including the incredible power and flexibility of the presidency. They have it within their grasp to just redesign two thirds of the policies of the United States government, which is not a great deal.
- [14:29]
Joe Getty
But before, before I get back to the polling, which is really good for Trump, I was reminded yesterday that fdr, when he took office, he had one day where he had 100 executive orders in a day, 700 for his first year. So it's not like nobody's ever done this before. Your hero lefties. FDR was really into. The president gets to do whatever the hell he wants. So anyway, Trump's overall approval rating with cbs, after all this stuff in the world, when did he. It's a disaster. And oh, my God, it's funny, I was in a group over the weekend because the town I live in, they all lean, you know, Trump is, is Hitler. And just it was all kind of a how are you holding up? You know, sort of mood.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, Lord.
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Joe Getty
Which I find just hilarious. And somebody said that to me and I mean, I don't talk about politics in my own personal life. It was like, I'm holding up fine, whatever.
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Jack Armstrong
Why would I not be?
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Joe Getty
Yeah, Exactly. According to CBS, 53% approval rating for Donald Trump. His overall approval rating is 53%, the highest he's ever had in his presidency. So apparently it's not quite. So how are you holding up, as some of you might think. Good Lord.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, I love the, the. Just a subtle little Weasley hedge there from Anthony Salvanto on Face the Nation. There he is, according to voter perceptions, doing what he promised to do. Wait a second. If I say I'm going to carry in a dozen eggs and I carry in a dozen eggs, you don't have to say Joe just did what according to voter perceptions, he said he'd do. No, you freaking heard me say it. Just. They are such weasels.
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Joe Getty
We'll get into more of this later because there's a lot. But on the biggest topic of the first three weeks, Trump administration's program to deport immigrants illegally in the United States, 59% approval. Call it 6. Oh, 59%. And yet, as I keep saying, show me a report that's not on Fox where they even indicate it's neutral that he's doing that, as opposed to it's all negative, it's all bad. Clearly. This is awful. No wonder your ratings are so bad. Don't you people want to make a living? You newspapers, you TV channels. 60% of America is okay with this. So maybe at the very least be neutral or even shade it somewhat positive. You nutjobs.
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Jack Armstrong
Right, exactly. As I said off the air, their punishment is they're dying, which is a pretty good punishment.
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Joe Getty
How does Mailbag look now that we've tried a new schedule?
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Jack Armstrong
Very thought provoking.
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Joe Getty
I'll bet it. I'll bet it kicks ass.
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Jack Armstrong
It's going to be moving and just appropriate. Like that weird introductory Brad Pitt wandering around thing, looking sad.
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Joe Getty
Okay, cool. That's on the way. We got Katie's headlines and a lot more news to catch up from the weekends. I hope you can stick around.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong.
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Joe Getty
And Getty as I mentioned earlier. And because I'm a guy with a couple of school age kids, I'm excited that Elon and Dozier turning their attention toward the Department of Education this week. Already out a tweet from Elon every Education and research grant made over the past four years required DEI in one form or another. The U.S. department of Education spent at least $1 billion since 2021 on advancing DEI, hiring, programming, mental health training, et cetera, et cetera. They're going to get into the details of it. Excellent, Tim. Saying the whole DEI shot through our government is way worse than people even think it is.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh yeah, well I guarantee that's true. Yeah, I love this. Couldn't love it more. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. This one goes out to Patrick Mahomes and Andy Ridd and the entire chiefs organization, Tay Taylor and others.
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Joe Getty
Hey Taylor, you're at your husband's workplace. How about not shorts and a tank top? Have some class. You look like a bar waitress.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh wow. Wow. Kicking her while she's down. Poor kid. What does she got going? For now, very little. This is from Edwin Markham. The quote is Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. Some nice phrase making right there, huh?
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Joe Getty
There you go.
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Jack Armstrong
Feet may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. I found that to be true.
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Joe Getty
Well, that's one of the advantages of being a religious guy like Patrick Mahomes. After all the winds, it's always. Well, it's all thanks to God. It's all his work. So I mean you can do the same after a loss. Just, you know, this is. I'm supposed to learn something from this. So here we go.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. He's a good kid that Pat Malms. Glad to see him doing well, Mailbag.
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Joe Getty
Glad to see him do well. Not so much yesterday of course. Not his fault. I don't. You could put any quarterback in the world there. You got a half a second before the biggest of a line in history is going to jump on top of you, right?
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Jack Armstrong
You could have a committee of Joe Montana, Ya Tittle, Tom Brady and whoever else you wanted back there trying to figure out what to do and they'd all be run for your lights. That's what you need to do.
- [19:31]
Joe Getty
Get more life insurance. That's what I suggest.
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Jack Armstrong
Drop us note mailbag at armstrong and getty.com Faggoty Steve writes that's friend of Armstrong and Getty over 10 years. I'm very dismayed by the lack of diversity in the halftime show yesterday. 75% of America was not represented. I'm just saying it's a good point.
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Joe Getty
I didn't know. I saw that black chick dancing really cool and I thought that's kind of cool. It was Serena Williams. I didn't realize that was her. She can really dance.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, I'm not surprised. Yeah, but that I prefer a halftime show that looks like America. Kurt from San Jose, California. Trump's gonna stop minning pennies. Good. Then I don't have to give my thoughts to anyone. I can stop always having to watch out for things falling from heaven. I don't have to defend the worthiness of something to smallest level of investment. Can quit being so stingy and having to pinch something.
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Joe Getty
Yes.
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Jack Armstrong
And can stop trying to give even a little credit to someone for being barely wise when they are just foolish. Wow. A clever reference to the many expressions in the English language that reference the penny.
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Joe Getty
Yes. It is not saved or earned. It no longer exists.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, exactly. And again, how about the nickel? Seriously? Seriously. That's, you know. 408, please. 4 10's fine. You can have my dime.
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Joe Getty
How recently was a nickel what a penny is. Was worth. It's got to be like eight years ago, maybe. It wouldn't be very long ago. I wouldn't think.
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Jack Armstrong
Quintupled in or cut by 80%. I don't know. It is an interesting question, though. Uh, Brian and Walla Walla. I don't know if you guys are too young to remember that in the 70s. We're not. The global crisis was overpopulation. I remember posters of a plant with people hanging off of it. That was the radical left's global crisis of the day. And did it ever materialize? No. Now we have the global warming crisis meant to spread fear and push an agenda. So why does no one ever bring up overpopulation or ice ages as an argument about how wrong the experts get things? Soylent Green. It's people.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. There was a lot of. A lot of AI ads yesterday during the super bowl, and I didn't understand a single one of them. But certainly a lot of this is going to change everything. Well, we'll see.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Yeah, I think that's for investors as much as anybody. But there are a couple that I noticed immediately. Oh, I'll bet this is an AI ad. And I focused in carefully and I thought, oh, there it is. Open AI. Sure. I was right. But I got nothing from that commercial.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, I don't know what you're telling.
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Jack Armstrong
Black dots on white backgrounds, apparently. I. I do too. Now, let's see, let's see. More praise for Michelangelo's cheesy. What's not to like, right?
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Joe Getty
Exactly. Oh, my God. My gift to humanity. Yeah, it's all your recipe on our website is funny, though. The way you wrote it is very clever. I like that. I wish I had eaten about half as much. I still don't feel good from that.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, nothing wrong with it.
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Joe Getty
It's not your dip. It's my volume. It's all the. That's what I had for lunch and dinner. It was my lunch and dinner.
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Jack Armstrong
It's your legacy, Michael. Really. It's your stairway to heaven. It's your great novel. It's, you know, someday I'll be gone, but the dip will live on.
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Joe Getty
Exactly.
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Jack Armstrong
That's what I was trying to say. Yeah. JT in Livermore, frequent correspondent, pointing out that the March of Dimes effect is clearly going on with the Democratic Party. The March of Dimes was originally created to combat polio. Polio's defeated. They're like, well, we got all the staff, we're good at raising money and birthday the facts, which is fine. But often you got an organization like the naacp, for instance, or the Southern Poverty Law center, which had legitimate civil rights goals but has evolved into a blackmailing, race baiting, fundraising colossus that doesn't do any good to anybody anyway. But he points out how the Democratic Party has a long and checkered history with many awful policy positions, from slavery to Jim Crow laws, but a number of successes, etc. But now it looks like they've hit a brick wall. They've tried and failed to stay relevant by enacting a faux constant revolution. That's true. Yeah. Constant civil rights battles, even when all the battles are settled. But unlike the past, they're not on the side of history or righteousness, nor do they have the masses on their side. Instead, they've chosen the most caustic and abrasive posturing in an effort to force support for terrible topics and policies that are not supported. Big bloated, et cetera. They're for racism against the rule of law, open borders, etc.
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Joe Getty
Well, so the Snoop, Tom Brady things, the PSAs that I guess the NFL was behind or whatever. I hate you because you're different. I hate you because I think you hate me and the, the whole thing. And then Snoop saying, I hate that we live in a time where we have to say this or something like that. Do we? You think we're in a particularly hateful, racist time, historically speaking? I just, I don't know.
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Jack Armstrong
Not until DEI came in. Not until Black Lives Matter came in. All people of all races agree race relations have gotten worse since the recent round of what JT was just describing in his email the never ending revolution, the never ending civil rights battle, when everybody's achieved more or less what we wanted to. And now we're working on the details. Yeah, it's ridiculous, but it's about saving. It's about raising money and having power and their pitches. We will change things and get rid of the evildoers. On. Finally, this. On a similar topic, Paolo writing about. I was trying to understand the position of people who oppose meritocracy. So I googled around. Oh, we got a very strongly worded email, said, dudes, Grok, it'll change your life. So good. So I may try that. Anyway, that's a.
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Joe Getty
That's a. What, what is Grok?
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Jack Armstrong
Search engine. AI powered search engine, as I understand it.
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Joe Getty
Elon talks about it a lot. Is it his thing?
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Jack Armstrong
I don't know. Anyway, so he. Yes, Katie, Grok.
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Katie Green
Grok is attached to X and when you pay for premium, you get it. And it is awesome.
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Joe Getty
Oh, really?
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Katie Green
Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
When you pay for premium. Twitter.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, I don't even know what any of these terms mean.
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Katie Green
It's. It's the premium. It's the little blue check mark. You pay to be verified by the website.
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Jack Armstrong
You get Grok for.
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Katie Green
Well, for free, but it's included with it.
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Joe Getty
Okay, so we're premium then. So. Okay, well, I'll start using Grok to something.
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Jack Armstrong
Yep. Yes. Oh, right away or something. Yes. Paul was trying to figure out how people oppose meritocracy, what their reasoning is. And he says, I came up with three things. People in favor of it disproportionately seem to be those who benefited from it, and vice versa. Not shocking. A lot of people seem to believe that meritocracy is a form of gaslighting whose intent is to perpetuate racism. That's absolutely not true. In fact, I would say if you want to perpetuate bad outcomes for people, get rid of meritocracy.
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Joe Getty
Well, remember we did a big forum one time thingy in front of a progressive crowd and we were having an argument with these other people and I said, and I was completely unaware of this. I said, well, I believe in meritocracy, I just want to. And one of the guys that was on the other side said, oh, that's dog whistle for racism. And the crowd started cheering and everything like that. I was like, really? I had never even heard that before. I didn't know meritocracy was for progressives. Just. You're just trying to slip in racism through the back door. Yeah, I had no idea.
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Jack Armstrong
Utterly illogical and dead wrong and incredibly damaging, that attitude. I mean, if you're super concerned about education for little black kids, for instance, and you get rid of meritocracy and just have quotas, what incentive is there to fix the education for the little black kids? You've removed it. It is the worst sort of soft, medium hard bigotry of low expectation. Then the final thing is the most popular objection seems to be that meritocracy doesn't account for the fact that some people come from circumstances that are not conductive to success. I guess I agree that's true. And it goes a long way to explaining disparate outcomes. But you know, my answer to that would be easy. Well, that's why a society works on making sure that people have. Perhaps you've heard the phrase equal opportunity, not equal outcomes. That's a band aid. It's evil. Reject it.
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Joe Getty
So a couple of minutes into the halftime show yesterday with Kendrick Lamar, I assume singing some of his most well known songs because I don't know, he.
- [27:58]
Jack Armstrong
Speaks more than sings, doesn't he? He's a rapper.
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Joe Getty
My brother texted me, gonna be whistling these songs all night now. Which I thought was hilarious, but you know, and, but I'm aware that the halftime show is not aimed at me. I don't, but I am always kind of interested, who's their target demo? I mean, who do they, what do they have in mind when they're putting on the halftime show? Because I picked up my son. This is the first year my son went, went to a Super bowl party with other people, which was a little nice moment for him, a little hurtful for me, but you know, time marches on. Anyway, I went and picked up my high schooler from the super bowl party he went to and I said, what do you think of the halftime you show? He said, eh, you know, it's not for me. I said, what'd you mean? He said, it's for like 30 year olds. Kendrick Lamar is kind of like for 30 year olds.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh.
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Joe Getty
Which when you're 15 is like old people. Right. But I thought, okay, so it wasn't for you? Wasn't for me. Had to be for somebody. I mean there's a lot of money at stake in trying to figure out who your target audience is for this stuff.
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Jack Armstrong
Or is it the big dumb corporation that brought you the Brad Pitt sad faced intro and other just questionable decisions. The lady of the victims.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, the Lady Gaga. Eight minutes of resonating with the ISIS attack. For some reason, like you felt like we needed that, right?
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it's just. It's probably just a bad decision.
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Joe Getty
To me. It only felt like harsh in my mellow. That whole every time you brought up the ISIS attack, I don't think you needed to resonate with it.
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Jack Armstrong
No, not at all. I thought it was tacked on and felt like. Well, we feel like this is obligatory. So here it is. Sit there and listen to sit there.
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Joe Getty
And be reminded of death. Like surprise death. That could happen at any time. Now back to the game. Thanks for that. We've got Katie's headlines on the way next.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
Two headlines I've just seen. Before we get to Katie's headlines. New York Times. Tom Brady's performance wasn't any better than the Kansas City Chiefs. I don't get the excitement over trying to beat up on Tom Brady as a color guy. I don't know, maybe I just don't think about it that much. Seems perfectly fine to me. I know. And then what was the other one? Oh, I like this headline. Another Doge thing for you. Doge cancels Anthony Fauci museum exhibit and federal cutting spree. There is an Anthony Foushee museum exhibit that we were all going to pay for. Fantastic.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow, that's just sickening.
- [30:24]
Joe Getty
It is. Get a donor to see. There are plenty of rich mask wearing getting their ninth skulls, getting their ninth booster today. People out there that'd be willing to support that stand in line.
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Jack Armstrong
To get in, you have to stand six feet apart. That's right, Michael.
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Joe Getty
Good one.
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Jack Armstrong
That's beautiful. Good. Restore Michael for the win. Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie.
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Katie Green
All right, well, this one coming from not only Elon Musk, but the New York post. FEMA sent $59 million last week to luxury New York City hotels to house illegal immigrants.
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Joe Getty
Last week, housing illegals. Luxury hotel, $59 million.
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Jack Armstrong
Hey, Pablo, how'd it go? Sneak into the United States? Well, I'm in a luxury hotel in New York City. They pay for everything. And if I commit crimes, they just let me go.
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Joe Getty
That would be something to text back to somebody. Hey, dude, I'm at the Ritz Carlton in New York. No, I'm serious. No, I'm not paying anything for it.
- [31:27]
Jack Armstrong
Right. The government pays. The US Government? Yeah. Really? I think you're stoned.
- [31:32]
Joe Getty
And to me, if you don't even breathe toward me, the. The real problem in our budget is the entitlements are out of control. And this million here and million there is not going to. Every penny which is about to be outlawed, every nickel that is spent, that is a waste. I want looked at.
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Jack Armstrong
Well and more broadly, a culture whereby waste is rooted out and loathed and a culture that says, all right, let's just as mental exercise, let's strip this agency down to nothing. Then let's talk about what's really important that we ought to be funding. That is a seismic shift. It's not about the dollar amount.
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Joe Getty
Sure, Absolutely. I want every agency, department in America to be scared to do something that would be embarrassing if it got tweeted out by Elon so that they'll be more careful with their money. That's what I would like.
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Jack Armstrong
And entitlements eventually.
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Katie Green
And since this is one of your favorite stories, I'm bringing it back. Washington Post. Trump has ordered the Treasury Department to stop producing new pennies.
- [32:34]
Joe Getty
That's right. Finally.
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Katie Green
So good.
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Joe Getty
Why did it take this long? Long?
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Jack Armstrong
I'm not sure I have kept a penny in a decade.
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Katie Green
I just. I found one on my desk, but I'm going to keep it in case it becomes a collector's item.
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Jack Armstrong
Right.
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Katie Green
From study finds majority of football fans want Super Bowl Monday declared a national holiday.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, well, I'm in favor of that. Or play the game on Saturday. They're never going to do that.
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Joe Getty
I feel half sick, Michael. And it's not your dip's fault. I just ate so much of it and only it. I didn't eat anything else.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, my Lord. Mix in some vegetables.
- [33:14]
Joe Getty
I did. I had. I had a peanut butter sandwich earlier in the day. Then for lunch and dinner, I had your dip. Oh, I feel like a refried bean.
- [33:26]
Katie Green
From NBC. Trump announces blanket tariffs on steel and aluminum and reciprocal tariffs on other countries.
- [33:33]
Joe Getty
Oh, we'll have to get to the CBS polling of what people think of tariffs. That's pretty interesting, too.
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Jack Armstrong
And hey, in the interest of fairness, Elon's said, hey, you know that like the graphite from China and this other material, could we not have tariffs on that because it's super important for Tesla. Nope. Not the way it works, boys. They're going to have to wrestle with.
- [33:54]
Katie Green
Some of that stuff from the New York Times. Hamas makes gaunt Israeli hostages thank their captors prior to release.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, this really isn't getting enough attention during the whole ceasefire thing. The way Hamas is treating these hostages, treated the hostages over the last year and a half and is treating them as they hand them over.
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Jack Armstrong
It's horrible.
- [34:19]
Katie Green
From the Wall Street Journal, Ozempic slimming can make skin SAG. Enter the $20,000 body lift.
- [34:27]
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I was going to talk about this later. Super popular plastic surgery. It's true. If you lose a lot of weight rapidly. You got some loose skin there.
- [34:36]
Joe Getty
What do they do with the extra bag?
- [34:38]
Jack Armstrong
Lampshades, Snip it off. What? Oh, my God. The two of you.
- [34:44]
Katie Green
This isn't a meme, but it's a tweet that. I saw it. It's just a trolling page and it says I'm not a big fan of sports, so I don't know who Taylor Swift is, but he sounds fast. All right. Finally, the Babylon be country with record illiteracy worried what will happen if education system is reformed.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow, I love that. No kidding. And who is leading the charge against reforming the Department of Education? Your blue states with the worst educational results. That's because it's a jobs program. Government schools have education happens accidentally. It's a jobs program.
- [35:22]
Joe Getty
I think it was JD Vance that tweeted out yesterday. It started in 77. Department of Education. Our scores have gone down since then. That's all you need to know.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Gettysburg.