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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Armstrong and Getty.
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And now here's Armstrong and Getty. Live from Studio C. Senor I assume a lot of you are suffering from post President's Day hangovers. Like I am myself as every year I drink a shot for each president. Go man. By the time I got the Taft, I was knee walking drunk. I'll tell you that. We're alive inside the Armstrong and Yeti communications compound and today we're toiling under the title. Oh, wait a minute.
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That's weird. Sorry, wrong one. There it is. Marco wins gold medal for diplomacy. Or spend your savings. Elon says it's cool.
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Elon saying no point in saving for retirement. Wow. Spend it.
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Buy some cocaine. Started off a toilet seat with RFK Jr. Whatever you want to do.
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I would. I would suggest one. Go ahead and save for retirement anyway, but that's a heck of a notion if that ends up being the case.
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Yeah, yeah, that's. I'm sorry. You know, Elon's a fascinating autistic genius, blah, blah, blah. But for a guy that rich to tell me, don't worry about saving for your retirement. It'll be fine. Yeah, but what if it's not? Are you going to rip me off a check for $10 million? Or even a million. No, you were not.
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Well, even if we have univers basic income at a fairly high level because AI has made us such a productive country, wouldn't I be better off with more money than what the government's giving me or. Or whoever's giving it to me? We still still haven't heard anybody even ever mention who's giving me this money. The universe makes. Yeah, who's. Who's giving me this?
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Well, it's not universal basic income. What's the new term that they're using? Universal lavish income or whatever it is?
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Yeah, h. I think it's, uh, universal high income.
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Exactly. You don't need additional savings. How much money. How many yachts do you need? In AI Future, we will all have villas in veil. We'll all have yachts. We will all vacation in the south of France.
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How many yachts do you need? That's a good question to answer.
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I really take my little yacht out to my big yacht.
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Feel like one would do the trick. But I don't know. I'm. I'm yachtless right now, so. Yachts for everyone. What do I know?
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Oh, America's yachtless give generously these in their yachts. That's what I say.
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I. I hate the fact that Jesse Jackson has died and obliterated the coverage of Robert Duvall dying. Because I'd much rather talk about the great actor Robert Duvall than race hustler Jesse Jackson. Hey, I said it. I wanted to say it because I haven't heard anything. I haven't heard a single word but.
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The ugly face of racism.
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I haven't heard a single word but praise for Jesse Jackson since the news broke overnight that he. It passed even on Fox. So nobody's gonna Mention that he was a race hustler for the latter half of his life.
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Blackmailer.
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Where he would come to a big corporation artist. He'd come to a big corporation if they got into sort of racial flap. And if you donated a whole bunch, millions of dollars to his nonprofit, all of a sudden he would give a speech that got you out of trouble.
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Right, Exactly. Get out of jail free.
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And I feel like he invented the idea of running for president. Non seriously. In a way that elevates your Q factor and makes you more money with. No, no. With no plan of actually being president or winning the. The candidacy or anything.
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And his protege, Al Sharpton learned that lesson well, didn't he? Perfected the art. He just went from luxury suite to luxury suite, sipping champagne, eating shrimp cocktails and giving a speech about once a month that nobody cared about.
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We're trying to find the interview we did with Robert Duvall, the late actor who died yesterday. We interviewed him several years ago and the only reason I want to get it because I don't find most celebrity interviews that interesting, is I had a personal tale of having met Robert Duvall in a hotel lobby that told to him and his. His version of the story is pretty good. So we're looking to see if we can find that. If we can't, I'll just retell the story myself.
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I have no memory of that.
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Oh really? It's a good story.
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Me neither. I love Robert Duvall.
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It's a. It's a really good story and I.
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You don't remember that either, Michael?
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No.
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Do you think Jack just imagined it possible?
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Well, my, my brother was there and we were texting about it yesterday when we were in the lobby of the hotel and met Robert Duvall. But I'll tell that story a little bit later. One of my favorite all time actors.
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I can't wait.
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Nominated for seven Academy Awards, yet his best performance was on television in Lonesome Duff. Anyway, we can talk about that later too. Lots of news of the day. There's some really, really major international conflict resolution news going on that gets obliterated in our country anyway by celebrity deaths and missing women. But man, we're close to maybe full on war with a big country. Biggest war in certainly 30 years.
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Why have they not released enough Epstein files? See, you forgot that one.
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Oh my God, I did.
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Blindsided. And bam.
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I spent a fair amount of time with the Epstein files over our three day weekend though. There's some interesting stuff in there.
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Yeah. Oh yeah. I. I am so conflicted because we Railed against the release of investigatory materials.
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Because it's awful.
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Because it is awful. It's unprecedented. It is indefensible. It's evil. And yet there's some really good stuff in there. I mean, really good. Prince Andrew full on perv. As was Epstein. I mean, these dudes got it on.
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Yeah.
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They would. They would like, recruit the Eastern European women in particular Romanians and Ukrainians or whatever. Young hotties by the twos, threes and fours for the little get togethers.
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Man off.
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Get it on. And it once in, I think it was Buckingham palace, they met a bunch of Romanian hotties.
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Yeah. And that's very regal. Pretty untoward lifestyle. But a lot of the names, so and so's name appears in the Epstein files have nothing to do with that sort of behavior.
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Right, right.
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So. But, you know, so you got the people who were engaging that behavior and they should be looked at in a certain way, but not the same way as the people that were engaging in like, business deals or whatever with Epstein.
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Sure.
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Hillary. So that Munich Peace conference over the weekend got so much attention because Marco Rubio gave a speech that many people are calling one of the great political speeches of recent decades. Whereas, like aoc, Gretchen Whitmer and Gavin Newsom went over there to bad mouth the current president on foreign soil, which used to be something nobody did in their effort to become the nominees for president. But Hillary Clinton yesterday, real big shot at Trump over the whole Epstein thing. Wow. At the Munich Peace Conference. So maybe we can play that for you. Also, there's a lot of news to catch up on. Too much news.
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What the hell? Well, we've got some of the AOC attempting to distinguish herself as a foreign policy thinker there at the same setting as Marco, who absolutely hit it out of the park. It's. It did not go well.
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Yeah. I don't know what clips we have, but AOC was asked if the United States will come to Taiwan's defensive attack by China. That one. And it.
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That's the one.
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And it came off. And the look on her face was if she had never heard the topic before or thought about it. Right. Which is kind of interesting.
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Yes.
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If you want to be President of the United States.
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Anyway, anyway, she finishes to the top of the meaningless and stupid polls about who might be the next nominee. So it is at least arguably worth knowing her foreign policy jobs.
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Listening to the National Review podcast yesterday in which one of their writers said, well, her problem is she's a stupid communist.
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Concise.
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It's concise. Anyway, let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Tuesday, February 17th, the year 2026, where I'm strong and get in. We approve of this program.
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Before we actually begin an on air meeting, we've got to figure out a way to incorporate Katie into the opening segment of the show, don't we?
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I usually wave. Well, that's more than that.
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She's sitting there looking at that. Lovely.
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But we'll start that tomorrow. Tomorrow we begin the incorporating Katie. You got it. So be prepared.
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Get ready. All right, here we go. Officially, according to FCC rules and regulations at mark. All right, now I gotta get back. Are they laughing or screaming? I'm 40 years old.
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I can't be dealt with this. I thought that was.
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There was a news report to that. Apparently not. That's a turkey attacking a UPS driver.
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Is he okay or is he torn limb from limb?
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That one. The second one. Yes. He'll be missed. Yes. Turkey's very, very aggressive in hot, hot turkey lovin season.
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Oh, really? I didn't know that. So I. I've encountered many packs, flocks, flocks of turkey walking to the gym and back lately. And I didn't know it was mating season. Thank God it was not taken by one of them. By a randy buck male. I don't know. I don't know my turkey terminology.
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Tom. As a matter of fact, Tom, our esteemed former newsman, Marshall Phillips was menaced by turkeys at one point. And I think, Jack, you may have mocked him for that cruelly.
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I did.
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Elder abuse. And. And, and they are indeed very aggressive.
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And we have more on that story later. Katie, you have details? Okay.
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Oh, there's so much more to it.
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Well, the animals have turned on us. That's the detail you need. And who can blame them?
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They got DNA off the glove at the Guthrie house and now they're doing the work of trying to match that up with anybody. And turning to your, like, genealogy databases.
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Remember how we've solved the fertile ground?
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Yeah, we've solved a lot of big crimes that way. So maybe something is going to happen on that case. Anyway, we got so much to get to. Katie's headlines on the way. Stay here.
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Off in honor of President Fillmore and others. So we weren't here to talk about 60 Minutes Sunday night, but I want to talk about the first story in which 60 Minutes featured a leading Democrat about nutrition along with RFK Junior about nutrition. Really trying to warn us all that this ultra processed food thing is really, really a big deal and a pretty interesting story. And man, it got my attention. Bigger deal than tobacco. The one guy that used to work in the Obama administration said for the the way the companies have been misleading us, lying to us, addicting us and and ruining our health, the whole ultra processing.
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Yeah, I've been on that train for a while. I'm definitely not as hardcore about it as like I am about not smoking, but look forward to hear hearing more on that. Let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead stories Katie Green.
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Katie all righty, the Alphabet Networks are talking about the Geneva talks going on right now. Abc, Witkoff and Kushner set for Geneva talks on Ukraine and Iran as Trump pushes for deals. NBC, Iran's supreme leader, warns Trump warships can be sunk as nuclear talks are held in Geneva. And CNN, whirlwind day of diplomacy as U.S. holds talk on Iran and Ukraine.
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Yeah, I was reading Mark Halperin's newsletter over the weekend and he talks to lots of sources in the White House and Pentagon, stuff like that. And he said don't be surprised if we are in a lengthy, serious war with Iran very soon. And I thought, wow, we are not ready for that. I mean, there's not a lot of public discourse going on about a lengthy war with Iran.
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Like zero. I don't think anybody has brought that up to me in real life. Not a single human. How about Witkoff and Kushner? They start the day doing Ukraine and then the afternoon is Iran.
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That's big day from the New York Times. Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader who sought the presidency, dies at 84.
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Parkinson's.
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I guess.
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From the New York Post livestream footage captured the moment trans shooter opened fire at Rhode island hockey game, killing two and injuring three.
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Okay. At what point is it not just right wing radio talk shows that discuss the number of recent shootings that have featured a trans shooter? When does.
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I had heard that this was a trial.
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Oh, yeah.
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Good lord.
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Pictures are out and he killed his. Killed his own family is what really happened.
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Right.
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Just get it in a public place. But yeah, he's. He goes by a female name and got all the pictures and the dresses and heels, stuff like that, but it was.
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Yeah.
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How many, how many times does this need to happen before it's like a real discussion of something?
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Well, and here's an interesting flip side. So I was looking at some of the commentary online about this. The liberal left is, you know, if. If someone from the right goes, oh, have you noticed what all of these shooters recently have in common? A lot of them are commenting. Yeah, white men.
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Okay.
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Oh, so it is okay to call them men if you're denigrating white people.
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Right.
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I'm gonna need a chart. Yeah.
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From the Washington Post. The Epstein files have brought a wave of resignations and investigations.
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True.
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From the Wall Street Journal. Goldman Sachs plans to scrap DEI criteria for its board.
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Good. End all DEI programs everywhere they exist. Private enterprise, education and government do it today.
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USA Today, NASA, Mars, Mars Rover finds new clues pointing to past life on Mars.
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What?
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Oh, yeah, I need to know more about that.
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From study finds. Two out of three Americans now take prescription medication every week.
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I'm sorry, what percentage of it?
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Two out of three.
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I would like to know, what was it 20 years ago? Is that higher or the same?
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And finally, the Babylon B ice leaves Minneapolis to focus on American cities.
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That whole, I get it, prescription drug thing, I mean, that number is only going to go up as the population gets older.
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Yeah, true. Plus a lot of the medications that have lowered heart disease deaths and heart attacks and stuff like that are maintenance medications that zillions of people are on.
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That's why I was there. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. They almost need to take out of their blood pressure medication. Maybe there's some others that. That shouldn't be included in that because it's kind of misleading.
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Yeah, I suppose. Well, it's oversimplified anyway.
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Yeah. Because I mean that's a huge leap forward and a good idea if there's some little pill that can keep people's blood pressure down so you don't have a stroke or whatever. But I don't know if that's. I know. Anyway, yeah, tease that out. Speaking of teasing that out and speaking of the sugar being trans, Gallop's got a new poll out about the percent. I don't think I've ever seen this poll before about percentages of people that call themselves gay, lesbian or trans and broken down by age groups and gender and all this different sort of stuff. That's really interesting. Just came across it. Good. It's a very small number by the Right.
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Right. Which includes a fair cohort of people who call themselves queer because that means I. I resist the man. That's all it means.
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But the trans number is really small as we'll get to. And then to have it be. You know, the number that it is of these mass shooters is odd and seems like it deserves a mention.
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It's actually fairly easy to explain, but nobody has the guts to except us. Stay with us.
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A lot on the way. If you missed a segment against Podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand Armstrong and Getty.
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The horror unfolding at a high school hockey game in Rhode Island. Authorities say a man opened fire, killing at least two people before shooting and killing himself.
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Officials say they believe the suspect may.
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Have been targeting his own family. Yeah, well that was early yesterday after the shooting when they didn't really know what was going on. But that is what happened. I'll go with the New York Post or California Post headline on it. Transgender father Robert Dorgan ID is Rhode island hockey shooter who gunned down his family as his sick posts are revealed. He was very angry about what he considered anti trans bigotry. Correct.
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And having been groomed to believe that anybody who questioned radical gender theory deserves to be hurt.
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Yeah, yeah. And he. He killed a bunch of his family members and then himself, which is horrible.
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Including children. Good Lord.
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The night before he stormed the hockey tournament with a gun he had posted Keep bashing us, but do not wonder why we go berserk in response to an anti trans ex post. So sort of suggesting that trans People are going berserk. But as there have been several high profile shootings recently.
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Yeah. Mass shootings by angry, crazy transgender people.
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Yeah. In this case, his transgender identity appeared to be the source of all kinds of court battles and the divorce itself. His ex wife filed for divorce in 2020 on grounds of gender reassignment surgery, etc. Etc. Which, you know, I would throw a wrench in your marriage if all of a sudden the guy you're married to says that I'm a chick, so that would be difficult.
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You, etc. Etc. I think the most important part, he had a number of psychological problems, fairly significant, you know, mental illness issues, and the. The question of why all these transgender people are shooting people up. I can, I can explain it to you right now. You start with the fact that somebody has some pretty significant personality disorders or psychological problems. Okay. Which is a tough road to hoe. It really is. And they have my sympathy. But you get a bunch of crazed activists, many of whom are neo Marxists and the rest of it, who convince these troubled people cure for their ills is a gender transition. Now imagine if somebody convinced you. Now you are seriously miserable, mentally ill, but we can cure you. We need to remove your hands surgically, but once we remove your hands, you will be happy, well adjusted, and you think, wow, that's awful. But I guess I'll do it. And then imagine after that procedure, you realize, oh, my God, now I have no hands and I'm as miserable as I've ever been. Not only was that not the cure, it's damaged me even further. You add to that, then throw the match onto the gasoline. The match of. If anybody dares question any of this, they are threatening your life. That's how you end up with these shooters.
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Yeah.
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Feel free to transcribe that, sign my name to it, and put it anywhere you want. I would love to argue the case on the merits.
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Can you think of any other example where if you had several shootings in a row or like three of the last five that featured a certain specific, very low percentage of the population. Anything?
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Sure.
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I mean, anything. Like if, you know, if you had three shooters out of five, mass shooters out of five that wore red hats.
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Or were one legged or any video game champions or.
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Yeah, professional bowlers. I mean, anything. Mailman. Remember when going postal became. Became a term back in like the 80s or 90s? Because.
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Great example.
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People that worked at the post office several times in a row. But in this case nobody's like, mentioning it for obvious reasons.
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Oh, yeah. If it were anything but this, there would be an insatiable hunger to understand the links and the common causality. It would be consuming the progressive media. God, they're horrible. They're beyond terrible. They're evil.
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I just saw the video. So it's a youth hockey game and the guy goes in there and starts shooting people and man, all the players ducking down behind the horrible, horrible, horrible.
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And it is a guy, it's a man, it's a male. It's easy. The man.
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Anyway. And you know, I be less serious later because I didn't come in today with the idea of being this serious right off the bat. I mean, it's the Lunar New Year, for crying out loud. Are we not going to honor the lunar. Are we going to pretend the Lunar New Year doesn't exist? I mean, what.
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I'm still signing the old lunar year on my checks. I don't even know what that is, Right.
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But a Gallup has this poll out that I thought was really interesting. LGBTQ identity among US adults. As a total, Nine percent of the U.S. public identify as either LGBTQ or plus. So lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or Q plus, you know, two spirit or whatever thing like that.
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Nine percent, keeping in mind queer, which means nothing.
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But it definitely varies by age. You get up 65 plus and it's hardly anybody in any of those categories. 2.3% total and zero transgender people above 65. Zero transgender people 50 to 64, probably probably not literally zero, but zero as a percentage nationally for 30 to 49, it's only 1.3% of the population. 18 to 29 is where almost all of this crowd exists. 3%. That's still very, very low. So if you got. I don't know what that averages out to.
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Wow, that's very small number.
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The big number is three. But so that makes my point in the whole trans shooter thing, when you got a tiny, tiny percent of the population identifying as a certain thing, you'd think that would. That would make the news. By the way, when you start breaking it down in different things, it's kind of interesting. For they're basically zero percentage of Republicans are trans, whereas for Democrats it's 1.3, independents 1.4. So not a lot of MAGA trans, apparently, for whatever reason. I thought that was interesting. Men 5. All in general, the LGBTQ community. Men 5.6, women 10 and a half. So twice as many women as men identify in that overall group. But for non binary, because they have the choice of men, women and non binary, most of the crowd joins the binary non binary thing because it's almost 90% of the non binary crowd identifies as either lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, et cetera.
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So I'm a little hung up on the male and female numbers. I don't know how we get to the very, very small numbers total since everybody's either male or FEMA or non binary, but that's a good question.
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I don't know.
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Male and female numbers were way, way too high.
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I don't know how that works.
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Did you say 10.6?
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Yes. Of women identifies either lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, Queer or the Plus. Okay, 10 seems pretty high, doesn't it? One out of 10. Not for young people though. That's not surprising.
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Young people declaring themselves queer. I'm telling you, that's a big part of the number and it doesn't mean anything.
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I have a friend who his high school daughter and all of her friends, group of nine came out as gay last year in high school. The whole crowd and he sat her down and said, you know, I have no problem with you being gay or your friends, but statistically this isn't possible. He said, statistically, it's really not possible that all nine of you are gay. It just doesn't fit with any surveys that have ever been done.
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Yeah, yeah.
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In the, in the year since then, several of them have decided that they're not. But.
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And in the years to come, all of them will decide they are not practically guaranteed anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How interesting.
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Before we take a break, how about quad God falling on his ass?
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No.
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How about that story?
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Oh.
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Being put up there in terms of sports, chokes, failures, whatever you want to call it, with Mike Tyson getting knocked out by Buster Douglas, or I saw the New York Times say the warriors having the best season in NBA history, being up 3:1 in the Finals and then losing. I mean, it's up there in your top tier of. There's no way this person doesn't win.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And he falls on his ass and finishes eighth. If you didn't watch it the other night, he only had to get, like, a very basic score to end up with the gold medal. He was that far ahead. And he just. But to me, the best part of the story was, and this is why I played it for my kids Sunday, even though I knew the results, the fact that it was all a choke job, it was all mental. He says so himself in all the interviews. Just like. Just all the pressure. So when I got out there, just all the pressure of my life came flooding into my head. I couldn't think, I couldn't see, I couldn't feel my hands. Just like everything I'd ever done in my life just came flooding into my head.
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See, I did not see that interview. But having watched it, I'm. That makes sense now because his very first jump was supposed to be a triple. Something which to him is like getting up and brushing his teeth in the morning. It's effortless. And he did a single. And the announcers are like, oh, that was odd.
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Yeah, I. I thought it was really cool. He did not shy away from doing lots of interviews and just flat out saying he choked. He didn't have some excuse for this or that or whatever. He said, I choked. I couldn't handle the moment. Just like it. Just like it all. I just lost my mind out there. Wow. As he was standing there getting ready in his sparkly outfit, you know, and everything. His dramatic, fierce face that he would put on because he. Or he started the fierce dancing around thing that they do. And he just. He said everything in his life, all the pressure just flowed into him at one point, and he couldn't feel his body even.
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Oh.
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Which I see.
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I've had that feeling.
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Poor son of a gun.
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I can relate to it as an. As an. As a mediocre athlete that Anytime a fly ball came that my way, that's what I would feel. I would just start thinking, oh, my God, if I drop this, what it's going to be like at school tomorrow. And just like everything, all those thoughts. So I know what that feels like. You can't feel your hands. You can't make your feet move. And that's what happened to him.
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He finished eighth after all the championships he's won. But something about the Olympics, I guess it is that big a deal. It's like Michaela Shiffrin, the great skier. She gets to the Olympics and. And. And poops are tight little suit.
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Quad fraud had won 17.
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Oh, no. Oh, no. I will not permit that.
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That's funny. Please.
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As a guy who fielded fly balls with his forehead, I will not have you mock the young man who is and will be a world champion.
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That just popped into my head. It was pretty good, I thought. I didn't have that in the holster. That as it was, as I said quad. It popped into my head. This is like. It rhymes. This is pretty good.
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As unholy slanders go, it was pretty well constructed. It was.
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But anyway, what's like I say, oh. He had won like 17 straight international competitions against all the same people.
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So everybody was just going for silver every other competition.
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That's really something.
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Yeah.
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Rolling around his backside on the ice. I don't know how to do this anymore.
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Wow, that's brutal.
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It is. We've got a mailbag on the way and lots of other news to get to stay here.
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I love the smell of my pump in the morning. The great Robert Duvall died. I didn't realize he was in his 90s, but I want to tell my Robert Duvall story when I met him in a hotel lobby. Then something very interesting happened which I asked him about in an interview on the air several years ago. We'll get to that later.
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I don't want to belabor the point. But I find myself wondering, does Charlie surf? Yes or no?
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That's the question.
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Yes. What a great actor. Don't venerate actors. Really. But damn, he was a good one. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. It's from the great American philosopher Eric Hofer. Hofer. And this is in honor of Jesse Jackson, who also passed away over the weekend. Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and eventually degenerates into a racket that ought to be on Jesse Jackson's headstone.
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No kidding.
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That is his story. By the side of Martin Luther King. Then he realized the profits and power available to those seen as racial leaders. Then it just turned into a blackmail racket. Disgusting. More on that to come at some point. Mailbag. Drop us a note please. Mailbagarmstrongandgetty.com Boy, we got a handful of these. First, the standard sort from Gary. Really? You get President's Day off now? My alarm goes off. I don't want to get out of my bed, get up to make my morning cocktail. I say at least I can listen to a but no. So I took the day off too. Thanks, boys. Well, then, this. This is my favorite one. Brian from Houston Dear Grim Reapers, I have it on good authority that the great Robert Duvall looked forward to two things every year, Michelangelo's cheese dip and the Armstrong and Getty Presidential Fun Facts on President's Day. So there he was, trying to enjoy the last of the cheese dip when he heard a best of A and G. Knowing he wouldn't get his presidential fun facts, he took one last bite of cheese dip and died. Way to go, murderers.
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That's pretty good.
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You know, about halfway through yesterday, I did realize, oh, that's right, we would be doing ridiculous presidential fun facts right all day today. And I had a pang of regret. But just a pang, I got over it. Yeah. Moving along on the topic of your stinky restaurant, Jack, last week, in case you haven't already heard from a dozen plumbers or janitors, I think it's likely that the cause of the porta potty smell from the Restaurant that Shall Not Be Named was that the floor drains needed to be primed. All commercial buildings have floor drains, whether in restrooms, kitchens, etc. That use P traps to keep the sewer gases out of the occupied spaces Jack mentioned it was newly opened. I'm pretty sure that a pitcher of water dumped down all the floor drains would fix the porta potty odor. That's an excellent tip. I once ventured into One of our upstairs guest room bathrooms that almost never got used until I discovered the shower pressure was unbelievable. The water pressure, oh my God. It's like being in a high end hotel. Anyway, but I walked in there and it smelled like the undead had had digestive problems and that they, you know, crapped and then died. Pardon the frankness. It was horrific.
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That's among the worst things you've ever said.
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Well, it was. It was graphic. I'll grant you.
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The undead had digestive problem.
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Let's move on.
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Good Lord.
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And I don't know why if I thought of this or what, but I ran the water in the shower for a couple of minutes and it completely sealed up the gases from coming up through the sewage chain. It's a good tip. Anyway, I apologize for the unnecessarily pungent verbiage there. I have no need to bring Melania Trump down, nor elevator. I don't really care about first ladies in general and I'm not part of the fevered American culture wars. I'm really not the, I should say the Trump derangement thing. I like to think I do a pretty good job of calling him right when he's right and wrong when he's wrong. Anyway, I'm just interested in this phenomenon. Tj, who's usually angry, writes, I can't believe you guys are pretending that anyone actually saw Melania. I'm not pretending anything. Why do you judge people so harshly? You a hole. Anyway, the, the. The documentary about Melania. During the opening week at my local multiplex, someone brought, bought several rolls, rows of seats down front for every showing for a week in advance. For the second week, they bought all but two seats for every showing, obviously knowing only one or two people that actually go. And here's the AI report that the 2026 documentary Milani experienced highly irregular ticket sales with evidence of, quote, sold out screenings that were actually largely empty. And then he goes, it goes into some detail on theater employees, blah, blah, blah, more or less observing that who would spend.
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I mean, it's expensive to go to the movies now. Who would spend thousands of dollars at their local multiplex just so you'd have better numbers for the Melania documentary?
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Trump himself a pac.
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Well, I understand that that's a regular thing. It's like book publishers buying up a bunch of books. So it's number one on the New York Times list. But just a regular person. I can't imagine doing that.
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Oh, no, it was widespread across the country. Yeah, that's the point. It was an organized effort. Yeah, and again, I don't care either way. I'm just interested in the phenomenon. Let's see, somebody brings up Eileen Gu, the traitorous American who skis for the communist Chinese for money. She had an absolutely vomit worthy interview where any NBC just gushed over her. Gushed over her? The network that bashes the United States always.
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So the American athletes get asked impossible to answer gotcha political questions. The American competing for China gets a free pass. That's nice. You missed a segment of this show.
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Episode: How Many Yachts Do You Need?!
Date: February 17, 2026
Host: iHeartPodcasts
This episode dives deep into the week’s major news—from Elon Musk’s provocative comments about retirement, luxury, and AI futures, to the fallout from Robert Duvall and Jesse Jackson’s deaths. The hosts unpack recent mass shootings, poke at political hypocrisy, analyze new Gallup data on gender identity, and offer their signature blend of sarcasm, skepticism, and deadpan humor on current events and cultural trends. The show features the classic Armstrong & Getty combination: irreverent commentary, robust debate, and laughs—even as the topics turn serious.
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| Timestamp | Segment Description |
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| 03:13 | Elon Musk on retirement & utopian AI luxury |
| 04:56 | Duvall vs. Jackson: Media & “race hustler” monologue |
| 07:35 | Epstein file drops; morality of releasing material |
| 09:08 | Politics at the Munich Peace Conference |
| 11:46 | Turkey attacks UPS driver; animal hijinks |
| 17:10 | Katie Green’s headline news roundup |
| 25:29 | Rhode Island trans shooter: analysis & data |
| 30:29 | New Gallup LGBTQ/trans identity poll discussed |
| 35:07 | Olympic “Quad God” disaster, sports psychology |
| 41:41 | Mailbag: jokes, plumbing tips, Melania doc conspiracy|
| 47:29 | Eileen Gu, NBC’s double standard for athletes |
This episode is a masterclass in Armstrong & Getty’s blend of cultural observation, caustic wit, and “call it as we see it” commentary on America’s political, social, and media landscapes. Whether tackling serious news, lampooning tech-billionaire fantasies, or commiserating over Olympic heartbreak, the duo’s style is never less than engaging—and often sharply provocative.