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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 Giddy.
Joe Getty
We're going to have Ukraine talks tomorrow as well in Geneva with kov. What are you expecting there? Is there?
Jack Armstrong
Well, they're big talks. It's going to be very easy. I mean it's look so far. Ukraine better come to the table fast. That's all I'm telling you. Trump on the plane. Not a lot on the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, but as usual sounding like he's putting the pressure on Ukraine. Ukraine better come to the table, I'll tell you that. I hope that that's just a tactic. It's to make Putin think that Trump's putting pressure on, you know, meanwhile we're, you know, snatching oil all around the world. So Russia is really in trouble. Next year is a four year anniversary of that war. Russia currently losing 35,000 guys a month. I mean, it's shocking by world history standards.
Joe Getty
This is Battle of Leningrad.
Jack Armstrong
It's just amazing. Anyway, Zelensky with a post yesterday, a really long one, but a portion of it saying, because you can't stop Putin with your kisses or flowers, I never did it. And that's why I don't feel that it's the right way. My advice to everybody, don't do that with Putin talking about whether or not they should, you know, give him some land and then, and then hope that he won't go any further or attack again. In Zelensky's long post, he said, that didn't work in 2008, didn't work in 2014. It hasn't worked at any point.
Joe Getty
Right.
Jack Armstrong
To give him what he wants and then hope that he stops there.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. Just outrageous. I do not get Trump's thinking on this. I really don't. Speaking of the Ukraine conflict, it is the proving ground for all sorts of technologies. We've been talking about this, including drones, but here's a headline. The newest old tech in warfare balloons reinvented as long range drone launchers. High altitude balloons are extending the reach of Ukrainian attacks in Russia and of American surveillance. So the hot new thing is balloons. Anything you can do off an airplane, you can do off of a balloon, and most countries aren't looking for it, said Peter Phillips, former U.S. senior Special Operations officer who worked with balloons. Just crazy. They don't really show up on radar. So you can do all sorts of interesting stuff. Balloons. Is this the French Revolution? Absolutely crazy. We can talk more about that. Totally different topic here. The break is over. Companies are jacking up prices again. High, higher tariffs. Labor and health insurance costs have pushed many businesses to raise prices. And man, they go through a list in the Journal of Companies that said, yeah, we held out as long as we could, but the price break is over. Many companies typically raise prices at the start of the new year. Increases appear to be stronger than normal for January for electronics, appliances and other durable goods, according to economists.
Jack Armstrong
That's interesting because the Wall Street Journal had a piece over the weekend saying, wow, things are looking as good in the US Economy as they have since pre pandemic inflation back down to about 2%. All indicators strong. Trump may have pulled off the soft landing. Unheard of soft landing.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Well, as often in economics, two takes might differ. We'll have to see if this bird comes home to roost or not. No need to make predictions. We'll all find out together. Let's see. That's kind of totally off the topic. Oh, geez Louise. Is Iran in trouble? Not only because we've sent half the Navy their way but. But their economic meltdown which was so bad at the New Year it triggered millions of people coming into the streets and getting mowed down. Those problems are significantly worse now. The value of their crappy, crappy per. I'm sorry currency sent angry merchants into the streets when it reached 1.4 million real to the dollar. It's now 1.6 million. Annual food inflation was at 72% when protests broke out. It is now significantly worse.
Jack Armstrong
I can't even. Having lived through 9%, I can't even wrap my head around 70 some percent. I don't even know what that would look like.
Joe Getty
Right. Right. Here's a man in his 20s who'd recently traveled to around from the UK to spend time with family. Saw the prices of some goods double in the month he was there. Wow. Browsing online the other day for groceries. He noticed an offer to buy yogurt in installments.
Jack Armstrong
Oh my God. We can get you into this yogurt. 72 months. It's only a dollar fifty a month for 72 months.
Joe Getty
Wow. No money down now.
Jack Armstrong
I'm gonna need. You have to. Good. You have to have at least an 800 on your credit score though.
Joe Getty
We're sourish. You can throw a little fruit in there or something. But yeah. Yeah. The real fell 84% against the dollar last year, wiping out people's savings and purchasing power.
Jack Armstrong
So many of your great revolutions begin with this sort of thing. The out of control hyperinflation. Whether it's the Nazi Germany or whatever I got. I hope I never lived through anything like that. Seeing everything you've worked for disappear and now we're all equally broke. Would be. You'd do anything at that point. I got an accent where we go, let's smash something. I mean, good lord.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. People are absolutely desperate. Craziness. And then I teased this story last week and we never got to it. So just spend a minute on it. But I absolutely love it for a couple of different reasons. The article is the mega rich are turning their mansions into impenetrable forces. Anxiety over high profile violence, including the disappearance of poor Mrs. Guthrie, has the wealthy spending big on our security bunkers and even moats to keep themselves safe from intruders.
Jack Armstrong
Moats, you say?
Joe Getty
Yes. Yes. And they start this article with British music producer Alex Grant, formerly known as Alex Da Kid, who had an. He was living in his under construction mega mansion in Los Angeles when one morning after 9am an armed intruder burst into the home. Thank God he wasn't hurt badly.
Jack Armstrong
And that's when he says to himself, you know what I need, honey? You know what we need, honey? A moat.
Joe Getty
He briefly considered abandoning the project, blah, blah, blah. But he ultimately finished the 24,000 square foot home, which has eight pools. Let's stop there.
Jack Armstrong
You have eight pools at your home.
Joe Getty
I want to get in the pool.
Jack Armstrong
But it's way over there.
Joe Getty
Can we build another pool right here? Eight pools. Anyway, you can have a pool party.
Jack Armstrong
And never run into various people.
Joe Getty
Oh, yeah, you should have gone to Alex the kid's pool party. I was there. I was there all night.
Jack Armstrong
Hey, Jim, long time no see. I was at your pool party yesterday. You were?
Joe Getty
I didn't see it.
Jack Armstrong
I was at one of the. I went to six of the eight pools, but I didn't make it to the last two. Well, that's where I was. Yeah, we were playing volleyball. The pool is great.
Joe Getty
It also has a car, elevator and a nightclub. But he doubled down on security features, including installing a guardhouse tall gate security system with retina scanners that alert the homeowner to events to movements in the home. Recently listed the mansion in a neighborhood house for $85 million. That's in New York. If you're in the market, hate pools. Interestingly. Go ahead. If you have more on the pool.
Jack Armstrong
That's just stunning.
Joe Getty
He would spend more on chlorine in a year than I spend on food. The break ins. You remember that group of that gang of Chilean nationals who stole from Travis Kelsey and Pat Mahomes, among others? That further spurred a lot of it. Uh, you got Miami Dolphins Star 2 oh, Tagalovoliolia, who hired personal security to monitor his house. Let they be. No, let that be known. They're armed. So if you decide to go to my house, you think twice, he said in the press conference. And there's one more super rich guy. Okay, here you go. One entrepreneur capitalizing on this growing demand is David Witterhorn, who got into real estate after selling a tech company in 2017. He recently built a Heavily secured home in Scottsdale, Arizona that he's trying to sell for $15 million. He walked through the roughly 8,600 square foot house, pointing out 32 casino grade cameras with AI powered facial and vehicle recognition systems. There's also a laser intrusion detection system around the perimeter. Pausing at a steel double gate in the front of the house, he warned that the security system kicks in even before the visitors reach the front door, which is fashioned out of 3 inch thick solid steel and has 13 deadbolts.
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Joe Getty
Witterhorn even said the landscaping was designed to be a deterrent. There are sour orange trees with 4 inch spikes in concrete planters on the edge of the property. Just beyond those trees separating the house and the street is a moat.
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Wow.
Jack Armstrong
I don't want to live like that.
Joe Getty
How about you give away like 90% of your money so nobody gives a damn anymore? But they make a point that the Internet has made it so easy to find people and find out how much they're worth and what they might have, which.
Jack Armstrong
Which could be what's driving this Guth disappearance. You know, there was talk over the weekend that this might have been a robbery gone bad. Could be some nut job that, you know, figured out where Savannah Guthrie's mom lives and just assumed she'd have money or who knows what the. What the nut job was thinking. But like you said, it's easy to figure out people's addresses in the modern world.
Joe Getty
So a little more. Should anyone get past the trees, the lasers will detect motion, the system will call the police. Inside the house, three ear piercing alarms will go off, and the fireplace in the great room, which is made of cristalo quartzite, changes colors. So if all of a sudden the wall of your room turns red, that's a security alert. The home's most fortified feature lies hidden behind a wood paneled wall, a reinforced concrete safe room with a 2,000 pound door and an air filtration system built to US Army Corps of Engineers standards.
Jack Armstrong
Who do you think's coming after you? Seal Team Six?
Joe Getty
I don't know. It cost more than $10 million to build a house. About a million dollars was spent on bullet resistant smart glass. And the front entry security features cost more than a million dollars. One more.
Jack Armstrong
Are you Michael Corleone? Which is a transition to. We'll talk about Robert Duvall coming up.
Joe Getty
Yeah. And finally, here's a guy with a safe room. The Safe rooms air filtration system keeps out nuclear, biological and chemical contaminants. That's the U.S. army Corps of Engineer standards. It has a server farm, a centralized collection of computer servers, and a cryptovault, as well as a sink, toilet, bed and TV screen.
Jack Armstrong
Okay, so these people aren't just preparing for being robbed. They're preparing for civilization falling apart in whatever way that they're picturing it. And everybody coming for the rich and their stuff. So they need to have a 2,000 pound door and a moat and everything else.
Joe Getty
Yeah, maybe that's true.
Jack Armstrong
I was thinking all that.
Joe Getty
I was thinking, you know, home invasions or kidnappings or stuff like that, and I realized you got to have a bed in your safe room. But how much sleep you going to get knowing there's, you know, SEAL Team six upstairs just trying to work their way in? I'm going to grab a little nap. Let me know if anybody busts through our 2000 pound door.
Jack Armstrong
Gonna take a little nap, get up, eat some canned beans, get on with my day.
Joe Getty
Avert your eyes, would you? I'm gonna go to the toilet in the corner there, next to the computer servers.
Jack Armstrong
So we had Robert Duvall on the air a couple years ago, the actor who died over the weekend. And I asked him about when I met him in a hotel lobby. And it was kind of an interesting story. I want to talk about that. Also, the most interesting thing I've heard recently about the Guthrie disappearance, which should calm people down a little bit, I hope.
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Among other things.
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Stay tuned.
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Joe Getty
Napalm Son Nothing else in the world smells like that.
Jack Armstrong
I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
Joe Getty
You know one time we had a.
Jack Armstrong
Hail bomb for 12 hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of them. Not one stinking dink body you know that gasoline smell. A whole hill.
Joe Getty
Smells like victory.
Jack Armstrong
That's Robert Duvall, one of his most famous roles in Apocalypse Now. He died over the weekend, 94 or something like that in his 90s. I didn't realize he was that old. His best role, in my opinion is the TV miniseries Lonesome Dove, which if you haven't seen, you should. They should re release that on Netflix or something like that. I think lots and lots of people who never saw it would love it.
Joe Getty
It's one of the great somewhere.
Jack Armstrong
It is so good in this. The cast is amazing. And Robert Duvall himself, so that was his greatest role. I remember he said on our show and others that let the English have Hamlet. I'll be Augustus McCrae. It was just. Just an amazing performance. He was nominated for an Oscar seven times, which is pretty impressive. One once for Tender Mercies, which I feel like not enough people have seen. Fantastic movie also. Yes, Michael, Lonesome Dove is on Peacock. Oh, is it? Yeah, maybe that's why I've had several people tell me recently that they re watched Lonesome Dove. And I thought that's a weird coincidence apparently, because it showed up on Peacock. And I asked them all if it held up and they said yes, it is really, really well done. It's based on a Pulitzer Prize winning book by Larry McMurtry. So the story is good also. Anywho. So I've always been a Robert Duvall fan and my brother too. And so it was interesting that we were staying at a nice hotel in Gladys. We gave you President's Day off. I don't.
Joe Getty
You didn't establish that it. Well, it was kind of a reminiscence. I don't know.
Jack Armstrong
She's got to be on her toes. Her orthopedic shoed toes.
Joe Getty
You yell at her so much, she can't hear me. Afraid of doing the wrong thing.
Jack Armstrong
She can't hear me. I can say whatever I want. I only have two minutes. I better get to it. So we're at a fancy hotel, me and my brother in Austin, Texas, and we come down in the lobby and lo and behold, there's Robert Duvall standing with this big old cowboy. And this guy was old, he looked like he was in his 60s, at least. Big old cowboy. And they're standing there and I told my brother, that's Robert Duvalls. We walk over and we hang around with like a couple other people are standing there because the cowboys doing something and everybody's watching the cowboy, not Robert Duvall. Well, what the guy is doing and it's making Robert Duvall laugh. And he sounded just like Augustus McCrae laughing, which we really enjoyed. But what the guy is doing is he's taking quarters. You could hand him a quarter and he would bend it back and forth with his fingers and then tear it in half and hand you back a torn quarter.
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Jack Armstrong
And I thought, that's freaking amazing. I mean, this guy was giant. But I thought, as big as you are. And his thumbs were like my wrists. But I thought, can anybody do that? So, anyway, many, many years later, we interview Robert Duvall. A couple of years ago on the radio. He had a. Out a memoir, something. I don't remember why we had Robert Duvall on the air, but at the very end of the interview, I bring up to him, I say, hey, I gotta ask you. My brother and I were in Austin, Texas, staying at the Omni Hotel. We come down in the lobby, and you're standing there with a big old cowboy who was tearing quarters in half. And he laughs and he says, and I wish I remember the guy's name. He said, oh, yeah, that's Buck Johnson. Good old guy. Man, he has really something. That was fun. I always liked hanging around with him. And I said, well, was that real? Was that a magic trick? He said, no, that guy could tear quarters in half. What?
Joe Getty
Wow. Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Is that possible?
Joe Getty
I break a sweat trying to tear a dollar bill in half.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, what a great Robert Duvall moment. The way he was laughing at all of us standing around watching, that was just. It was fantastic.
Joe Getty
We gotta see if we can find audio of that.
Jack Armstrong
I know we don't do a good job of archiving our greatest hits, but we'll see if we can find that. We got more news of the day on the way. If you missed a segment, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand.
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The Sheriff of Pima County, Arizona says all of Nancy Guthrie's family members have been cleared as possible suspects in her disappearance. Search For Guthrie. Now in week three, Sheriff Chris Nanos says the family has been cooperative and gracious and suggesting otherwise is, quote, not.
Joe Getty
Only wrong, it's cruel. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
And we're not going to play the Savannah Guthrie clip. I don't know. I find those two personal. Her yesterday, she put out another video. Do the right thing. If you're out there. And I just. I understand, man. You're in desperate. You're in a desperate situation to get your mom back and. But, yeah, whoever it is doesn't give a crap about doing the right thing. Unfortunately.
Joe Getty
Yeah. I. I find that so sad. I'm not going to judge her.
Jack Armstrong
No, absolutely not.
Joe Getty
Yeah. It's either a psychopath who takes joy in your suffering.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Or it's some scumbag loser who knows he's at a dead end. He can't do the right thing. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
There was a first talk yesterday, and I don't know if this was based on anything of it being a robbery gone wrong as opposed to a kidnapping. Oh, the clearing, the family thing. One interesting part about that is statistically only 15% of kidnappings are by a stranger. So the thing that we're most afraid about everybody of, you know, a random person breaking in and snatching us or our kids or whatever. Very seldom is that the case. It's a friend or family member more often than not, somebody that you know. So that's one reasons that they had to clear the family. So a couple of things that happened over the weekend that I thought were interesting. One, the DNA on the glove. The glove that they had in the house that they didn't announce until last week, for whatever reason, there is DNA on there and they're starting to run it through all kinds of databases and they're going to turn to your like 23andMe and those kind of things, which have solved some crimes. You know, as we all know, really big, high profile crimes in recent years. You get a match with a brother and narrow it down and all kinds of stuff. So hopefully that.
Joe Getty
I was watching one of the crappy network newss and they reported on, you know, their. They found some DNA and so they'll compare it to the FBI database, but they'll only have a match if he's committed a crime previously and they have access. And I'm like, wait a minute. What about the genealogy stuff?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
You don't know about that.
Jack Armstrong
Well, the genealogy people have to agree to it, for one thing. They don't have to. Generally they do.
Joe Getty
Or the individuals involved.
Jack Armstrong
The companies. Yeah, 23 me I says yeah, you can, you can run that through our. But so another interesting aspect of that to me was so originally it was on Friday, they've identified the backpack. And so then Everywhere for like 48 hours was the brand of the backpack and how it sold at Walmart. And then I heard on the evening news Walmart has not responded to our request for information. And I thought what the hell's Walmart supposed to say? And we sell that backpack, we're not happy she's gone either. I mean, what do you, what do you want us to do here?
Joe Getty
You want to buy one?
Jack Armstrong
So, but now it's the backpack, the holster he was wearing between his legs like a weirdo and the jacket are all Walmart purchases. It's been narrowed downs. So now probably with the help of AI, they're going to go try to go through every receipt at Walmart when anybody made a one time purchase of that jacket, that backpack and that holster in case he bought them all at once. And I mean if that happened, you could narrow it down a lot, right? Like maybe even find the one person.
Joe Getty
Well yeah, I mean if you gave AI and some supercomputer a little while to crunch it, surely they could cross match purchases of XYZ and credit card numbers and that sort of thing and eventually come up with, even if you bought them on separate occasions. But I don't know how accessible that information is.
Jack Armstrong
How Walmart keeps very detailed records of all their sales, it's one of the reasons they're the biggest retail giant in the world is they have a really good idea who buys what, where, when. But I also, and I, I don't have a specific privacy concern, but I just feel like there's some, there's just so many layers between 23andMe and Walmart and everything like that and working with the police or the government and all this sort of tracking stuff that just in this case, fine. But in all cases of trying to find you or figure you out, I don't know what your future is going to look like.
Joe Getty
This is an overstatement, but we have opted into a Chinese style surveillance state kind of one bit at a time.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, one for safety reasons. Which is the way we give up so much freedom for safety.
Joe Getty
Yes, safety and, or you know, curiosity like the 23andMe thing and logistics in the case of Walmart that I remember when I first read about modern logistics I was absolutely blown away by how smart it is. But yeah, if you combine all those layers, you end up with an incredibly capable security or surveillance state. And you know, history tells us over and over again, if government has a power, it will use that power.
Jack Armstrong
Control your soul's desire for freedom. Oh my God, they're running a montage up on the TV of Robert Duvall. I'd forgotten about the Great Santini. Now that is a good role.
Joe Getty
Oh, tough to watch.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, that's a good one. Cruelty, I'd say.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. Speaking of amazing technology, I thought this was crazy. Some North Korean computer whiz guy has defected and explained exactly how one of their big scams work. We talked about this, I think it was last year or something like that, where North Koreans are like landing lots and lots of remote IT jobs in the US and all over the world. But the US is the most lucrative because we pay really well and there's the best intelligence value of being in our systems. But they literally have guys living in state run dormitories in China. North Koreans living in China because the Internet service and all the infrastructure is a lot better in China. But they apply for IT jobs via LinkedIn or whatever. They got a nice smiling Midwestern looking bloke on there. And the, their. What's the, what's the correct term? It's in here somewhere. Your computer address seems to be coming from the Midwest and they employed a bunch of Americans to help them with the scam. Especially during COVID They had all over the place, hey, if you're working remotely, you can make a lot of extra money easily, blah, blah, blah. And so they say, hey Joe, we just need you to log on occasionally and blah, blah, blah. So it really makes it look like I'm operating out of the Midwest and we'll give you more money than you can earn in a week. And they've used this to generate up to $800 million a year for the Kim regime in the last couple of years. It's a crime, by the way, to do this as an American. Not sure precisely what the crime is.
Jack Armstrong
Speaking of China, look at your phone. I just sent you the video. Has everybody seen the video of what China aired on television last night with their robots dancing around? Oh, I sent it to the group, so it's on so you can all check it out. But, but unbelievable. So it's for the Lunar New Year or whatever they're celebrating. A billion people in China saw this. The latest technology from the robots dancing around swinging nunchucks and swords. And that is some, that their, their, their robot technology is really, really good.
Joe Getty
I feel like the nunchucks is working a little Too hard. I mean, you got to kill a robot. It can shoot lasers out of its eyes or bullets out of its nipples or something like that. Well, you got to go with the ancient army.
Jack Armstrong
No, no, no. The idea is not that they're going to send armies of nunchucks across the. The plains. It's the fact that they can physically do it, the coordination that it takes to do that. And it's stunning. And as people were pointing out, it was just a couple of years ago that robots being able to, like, just kind of, you know, do the twist, we all thought was really crazy. These things are hopping around, dancing around, swinging numb checks and swords, and everything's like that. It's absolutely going to be robot armies sweeping across the plains with guns, I assume.
Joe Getty
Well, there you go. Took him a minute, folks, but here he is now. He's working my side of the street. Yeah, it's. It's stunning.
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Joe Getty
I'm reminded of the discussion of the quantum leaps forward in AI the robotics stuff is just crazy.
Jack Armstrong
Did you look at that, Michael? Isn't that incredible? It's scary. Oh, my God. It's so much better than anything I've seen from Boston Electronics or whatever that we have.
Joe Getty
Oh, helpfully, with exciting Chinese sounding music. Here, I'll turn it up.
Jack Armstrong
Look at them. Look at them. Robots dancing.
Joe Getty
Are you effing kidding me?
Jack Armstrong
I know, I know. I almost thought. At first, I thought, those are people in robot suits and China's trying to trick us the way they do. Like the way they shave a chow at the zoo and tell you it's.
Joe Getty
A lion, a panda, or whatever.
Jack Armstrong
It doesn't look like those are people in robot suits.
Joe Getty
And the little commie children applauding for all they're worth. Yeah, that is. That is. Well, it's bone chilling.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, it's bone chilling. If you want your bones chilled, check it out. I tweeted it out and we'll post it@armstrongandgetty.com.
Joe Getty
The world could be utterly unrecognizable by the year 2030.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, absolutely, absolutely. And the structure of economies, all of it. We've got some Elon Musk clips we got to get to a little bit later on that front, but, yeah, it's.
Joe Getty
The pace, you know, January 1, 2030, I'm going to be, you know, languishing in one of Mark Zuckerberg's prisons for dissidents. And I'll be thinking, yeah, I was right, but I'm not really. Yeah, I guess it's kind of cool to be right about this stuff, but I wish they'd throw me a crust of bread.
Jack Armstrong
A crust of bread?
Joe Getty
Yeah, anything.
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Yeah, we'll get to the Elon Musk stuff and other things. So stay with us.
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Eileen Gu
The expectations were, I wouldn't say low, but I was just trying to take it one step at a time. Going into my first big air competition in four years and just go out there and ski and see what happens. I had so much fun today and I'm just proud of all the girls for showing out when it really counted.
Joe Getty
That's America's Snow Princess Eileen Goo talking to a fawning, fawning NBC about her Olympic experience thus far. America's snow Princess who skis for the Communist Chinese for money.
Jack Armstrong
Born in San Francisco at Stanford, currently highest paid athlete at the Games with her modeling and everything like that. She makes 20 some million dollars a year and competes for the Chinese Communist Party rather than the United States. As the greatest ever at what she does, whatever kind of skiing that is, she's the greatest ever, some people say.
Joe Getty
Goo was recently invited onto NBC's Today, where the anchors gushed over the Stanford University student despite her decision to represent the regime that is not only responsible for human rights atrocities on the Uyghur minority, but also for the sentencing of pro democracy. Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy lied at 20 years in prison for a very old man last week on trumped up national security charges. Not a question to Ms. Goo about any of that.
Jack Armstrong
I would hate that even if we weren't asking any political questions of athletes. Just as an idea, you know, this is the whole point of the Olympics, is we put politics aside and people from different countries come together and compete fairly and in sportsmanship. Even then I would think you ought to throw her a question. But given the fact that every time our athletes sit down they get asked about Minneapolis or Trump or some crap, then the Chinese competing athlete, you don't ask anything that is really obnoxious.
Joe Getty
Before we get to know Ms. Gu a little better, a little more info. New Wall Street Journal reporting suggests Gu has been well paid to turn a blind eye to the country's crimes and to represent the Chinese Communist Party. The Bay Area native, along with figure skater Zhu Yi, another US born athlete who competes for China, received a combined $6.6 million from the Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau last year. Although since Gu is a three time Olympic medalist gets a much bigger share. The budget indicates the sports bureau was set to pay athletes a combined $14 million over the past three years. Yet NBC, NBC's co hosts treated Goo like an all American girl. Craig Melvin introduced the silver medalist as quote, American born Eileen Goo, who competes for her mother's home country, China, the number one dryer. And Al Rooker asked Goo softball questions about how she felt on her silver medal winning run and how she she would be preparing for the freestyle freestyle skiing competition.
Jack Armstrong
How can you possibly justify letting that slide that she's competing for the biggest geopolitical enemy we have on planet Earth.
Joe Getty
A totalitarian dictatorship that is conducting a genocide and has concentration camps. Give us 18B. Let's get to know the sweet Snow Princess a little better.
Eileen Gu
It kind of rubbed off, but I wrote same team on my finger and it's talking to myself. I think I'm a very cerebral person, which in a lot of ways is a good thing. But also sometimes I get in my own head like I think about every possible outcome and maybe 9 out of 10 outcomes are not the positive one. So I was really just trying to focus on self belief today and just dare to try. So I just tried to carry that with me.
Joe Getty
She's very cerebral. One more clip. Michael.
Eileen Gu
I was talking about trust. I think especially as young women we have a tendency to maybe over complicate or question what we deserve and what we believe. And I think so much of our beliefs shape reality. And so I was really trying to lean into daring to love myself, daring to trust myself, daring to believe that I could do something wonderful tonight. So yeah, that's what I wrote about. I called it a love letter to myself, if you must know. Yes, exactly. So not in like an egotistical way. It's more in like a self belief way.
Jack Armstrong
The fact that she's wealthy disgusts me that this has worked out for her.
Joe Getty
Oh, and gets fawned over by NBC.
Jack Armstrong
That is disgusting.
Joe Getty
Back to the interview on Today. Dreyer was delighted by all of this. Eileen, you are such a delight. Thank you so much for joining us. This morning. I don't know how you're going to pack up to eventually go home at some point, but good luck in the rest of the games. Roker sarcastically added. And Eileen, next time you can come out of your shell because you're just so laid back. Because she was so effusive and had such a great personality.
Jack Armstrong
She's a traitor to her nation. She should be in prison.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. For money.
Jack Armstrong
God, I hate her. I couldn't hate her more.
Joe Getty
It's impossible to hate our media enough.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, they're bad. You know, he got that and he got quad fraud falling on his sparkly ass. It was a rough weekend. That's too far. Too far.
Joe Getty
Cross the line now.
Jack Armstrong
I just became aware of the feel good story that is Winnie and her three brothers. I kept seeing up on the TV these three dudes at the Olympics, and I didn't really know what it was. Are you into this story? So the women's hockey team, which is playing in the semifinals on Thursday, they've been blowing everybody out, and they're headed toward a gold medal match with Canada, clearly. Anyway, one of the members of the team, Haley Win, she is one of the stars of our hockey team and her three brothers, her older brothers, who are all college hockey players, and she used to play against them in the backyard, and they'd beat the crap out of her. And that's what made her a tough hockey player. They all, they all show up to every match. They're there in Italy and they're all. They're always dressed the same and they've, like, dances they do, you know, there's like, very few people in the stands, but they're super supportive of their sister. And it's just become a media sensation. It's very, very cool.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Wow. Yeah. The gals are whooping up on the competition, no doubt.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, they're, they're, they're killing it, though. You'll see them. Because the gold medal match will probably get some attention when it's US versus Canada, since. Especially since we should be invading Canada and taking them.
Joe Getty
Oh, my God. MAGA sickness.
Jack Armstrong
When. These brothers are pretty funny.
Joe Getty
The men's and the women's, it's going to be U.S. canada, in all likelihood, right?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Let's bring it on. Good stuff. Oh, hey, you'll love this. Speaking of the Olympics, there's a feature story about a figure skater who wanted to compete for Germany. But first, and this has happened a couple of times, he had to pass Germany's rigorous citizenship test, the Outlandish probably racist demands Germany makes on you becoming a I assume it's racist because anytime anybody makes any requirement or makes any request of our immigrant community, the media calls them racists and bigots and nationalists. So I can only assume Germany is. Wait till you hear the test you gotta pass.
Jack Armstrong
Why does every other country get to value their citizenship and their culture but we don't?
Joe Getty
We don't blame our media and our educational elite enough for the sicknesses in this country. Seriously, I'm not going to go Mao and drag them into the streets and beat them on their heads, but they have poisoned the American bloodstream.
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Episode: "I Break A Sweat Trying To Tear A Dollar Bill In Half"
Date: February 17, 2026
Podcast: Armstrong & Getty On Demand (iHeartPodcasts)
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
In this lively and wide-ranging episode, Armstrong and Getty hop between current events, global politics, economics, true crime, technology advancements, and pop culture. They discuss major news stories including the Ukraine war, Iran’s spiraling economy, rising security measures for the ultra-wealthy, the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, and the implications of modern surveillance technology. The show also features a memorable tribute to actor Robert Duvall and a discussion critiquing pro athlete Eileen Gu's choice to compete for China. As always, the hosts mix in humor, sharp commentary, and personal anecdotes, making for an engaging listen.
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Armstrong & Getty mix sharp news commentary with an irreverent, wry style—moving fluidly between serious critique, political analysis, humor, and human interest. They attribute source material, react in real time, and cap heavy moments with tongue-in-cheek asides, making the episode both informative and entertaining for listeners.
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