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Wolf
Okay, so you can't go through the drive through on Valentine Day with your sweetheart and get the McDonald's McNugget Caviar Valentine's Day kit.
Jack Armstrong
What was, where was that from, that audio?
Wolf
I don't know. It was weird though.
Jack Armstrong
And it was a commercial. I mean, it was just a commercial. Huh.
Wolf
That's one of your better stunt foods right there. McNugget caviar for Valentine's Day. I assume everyone who would do that would be doing it ironically. Nobody's going to be doing it. Sincerely. Yes, Katie. Oh, no.
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Wolf
That audio was a report from a.
Jack Armstrong
Local news station in Milwaukee. Speaking of news, probably laid off all the reporters and don't have any actual news.
Wolf
Well, right. Speaking of news and that sort of thing, the Washington Post is in the midst of, as we speak, a video call in which they are laying off hundreds of people. Hundreds. Bezos announced to the Washington Post employees, everybody stay home today. Log into the video thingy. Zoom call. And then they're laying. You know, if you work for a big company, you've probably been through one of these or two or eight in the last several years and they're laying off 300 plus so far. New York Times has got a, an article about it. They're probably fairly gleeful that one of their top competitors is taking it in the shorts. Or actually maybe they're not. Probably not happy that newspapers are dying.
Jack Armstrong
Mixed blessing for sure.
Wolf
Yeah. And points out that the Washington Post, for instance, readership has halved in the last couple of years and this is not good. I know, I know how y', all, a lot of y' all hate, you know, a lot of these left leaning big news organizations and I understand why. They've earned it. But man, any of your big. We all read them, try to hold them to some sort of standard news outlets, them all going away and everybody just having their own favorite People, they fall on Twitter or Instagram or TikTok who are spouting crap all the time. We cannot, honestly, I'm not even exaggerating. We cannot function as a society like that.
Jack Armstrong
It won't work. I agree with everything you said. I agree with everything you said five years ago. What you need to do is accept that that horse has left the barn. Those big organizations lost their trust years ago. They're not too trusted. They're terrible. They earned it. They flush their credibility down the toilet and it's gone. You still feel like they could grab it back. I am less optimistic.
Wolf
You're right. You're probably. You're probably right. First of all, you got to be. I don't know what age to even ever think about the New York Times or the Washington Post or Face the Nation or any of those heritage big important media sites. Because if you're under 30, you've never even heard of these things. And if you have, you've never checked them out. You certainly aren't checking them out on a regular basis. So you're probably right.
Jack Armstrong
Speaking of the WaPo, this is great from Nellie Bowles in the Free Press. She mentions that the Washington Post casually refers to the Free quote, the Free Press, a conservative opinion website that cbs, his parent company, bought a conservative opinion site. She says, I pointed out only because the Washington Post is expecting massive layoffs in the coming weeks after their businesses have gone, well, tits up, as she puts it. What I'd like to propose is that these two things are related. The Free Press is the most right wing publication of Washington Reporter can conjure in their minds a spectrum of politics for the WaPo staffer goes from Bernie Sanders left, to Zoran Mumdani, center left, to AOC center right. And then the Free Press conservative. And she makes a couple of jokes. How accurately can the Washington Post reporters describe news and events in America? If this is the political spectrum they see, who are they serving with this? Exactly. It's a good point. And then she, she points out to these Slack conversations or whatever it is between Washington staffers and I'm gonna quote some of them per former colleagues. In a Zoom meeting today, Post foreign staff was told by editors that up to half, oh, half the newsroom will be cut. Someone responded, sickening. Bezos could fund the Post out of his own pocket into infinity. Why won't he and this editor, Farhee, Paul Farhee, agreed. Great question. We've all asked ourselves that many times. So they don't even desire to be in a sustainable business they find it offensive. They want infinity subsidies. Trul, God bless their hearts, she writes.
Wolf
Well, a lot of my favorite publications though, and your favorite publications, I don't know that people are aware of this. A lot of your political. They're now websites, but they used to be magazines. They didn't. They never. They've always relied on like donations and.
Jack Armstrong
Practically charity to stay alive because they've been foundation support.
Wolf
Yeah, they've always been so niche.
Jack Armstrong
So I guess that's what they see.
Wolf
As the Washington Post being to a certain extent, there just might not be a model. New York Times has kind of cracked the code with a whole bunch of other stuff that they've added in to keep eyeballs around, but like nobody else has. And there just might not be a model for being able to hire reporters that do the very expensive job of, you know, going to a town, staying in a hotel, digging up information, writing a story about it over weeks. It just, just might not work money wise.
Jack Armstrong
Right. You need a lower common denominator than would go to say, the National Review or the Dispatch or whatever or the Free Press, although they're doing pretty well. Yeah. Which means crap, because the lowest common denominator wants crap. They don't want carefully researched articles on how AI might disrupt the economy, which is.
Wolf
There's a new book, there's a new book out about Tucker Carlson that's getting some attention about his, his career and how he ended up where he is. And part, part of how he ended up where he is because he's a super, super smart guy is he just realized all the money is in salacious headlines and clicks. It just, you know, good solid journal. Nobody clicks on the good, solid journalism that you took weeks to put together. The, the article that somebody threw together from their laptop in their car with one, one quote from somebody online.
Jack Armstrong
Right. Yeah.
Wolf
It's going to get 10 times as many clicks. And it's just a fact.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, the echo chamber, the commentariat will talk about these articles a lot, but the sheer number of clicks and advertising dollars attached to them are not much at all.
Wolf
But to the earning their demise. I mentioned this yesterday, but I'll mention again because it's just too good. The media critic for the Washington Post wrote on Monday after the Grammys.
Jack Armstrong
All right.
Wolf
Politics are often treated like radioactive material on Grammys night. This is pop music critic Chris Richards writing in the Washington Post. Guy makes a living writing this sort of stuff for one of your major publications. He might have gotten fired an hour ago. Probably did. Politics are often Treated like radioactive material on Grammy night. But on Sunday, something changed. The world outside had finally become too loud to ignore. That's a Washington Post claiming that they keep politics out of awards shows, except for in this case where it was just too big to ignore what's going on in Minneapolis.
Jack Armstrong
So they broke the long standing tradition and actually mentioned politics at an awards show.
Joe Getty
No one is illegal on stolen land.
Wolf
Who's reading that and not laughing out loud? I mean, seriously.
Jack Armstrong
Right back to Nellie Bowles question somebody that twisted in their view of reality, who are they serving? I don't know. How are they serving them?
Wolf
That is funny. So just quickly, why do you think Jeff Bezos doesn't just go ahead and fund the Washington Post doing what it's doing?
Jack Armstrong
I think he was curious to see whether he could crack the code, as you said, like the New York Times had and still supply quality journalism in the nation's capital. He probably believed, yes, we can do that and we can be self sustaining or at least not need much subsidizing. It's difficult. I just had a conversation about this with a loved one. Changing the culture of an organization is a slow and painful pursuit, whether it's a football team or a musical organization or a big newspaper. I mean, heads have got a roll. There will be tears and weeping in cardboard boxes and accusations and counter accusations and it might not work. Ask anybody who's ever tried to. I can actually name a couple of really, really good NFL coaches who've gone to crappy franchises and failed to be able to turn the culture around. Hard to do anyway.
Wolf
And you're not obligated to just because you got the money. Prop up a failing business model with your own cash.
Jack Armstrong
Right. I think everybody who starts any business thinks, all right, we'll give it this amount of time, this amount of money, and if it's not working, we're not going to throw good money after bad. It's just not a good idea. Anyway. A word from our friends at Rough Greens. This is a good idea for your dog. Add rough greens to your dog's food. Don't change your food her their food. Add rough greens. That has all sorts of great nutritional benefits, especially as your dogs age.
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Wolf
Wolf One final comment on the media stuff, and I wonder about this myself since we do this job, is I feel like a dinosaur anytime I really even mention like the Washington Post or I saw on Face the Nation because that's not where people are getting their information anymore. But if I, for instance, quit taking that stuff in, where am I getting it? And how many of y' all would? I mean, I what's our shared knowledge of the world out there anymore? I don't even know if you, if you, you can have a dinner party now, especially the younger you get, you could have a dinner party with a bunch of 40 year olds and they're sitting at the table. You got like six couples, 12 people. They're all sitting at the table with completely different information about hot top stories. In fact, they would have completely different ideas if you had them all. List what's the top three stories in America right now? It might be all different and they'd all have completely different takes on it because of their news source.
Jack Armstrong
But I would argue that Face the Nation and the Washington Post do that. That's what they do. They're not the antidote to it.
Wolf
Well, I'm not claiming they are. I just don't know what's what to do next. If you got, you know, the, the, the. Well, our audience is all these different couples. Everybody's got a different idea of what the important stories are because of whatever Twitter follower you're into or, you know, website you go to and then all kinds of different facts that aren't shared by the rest of the people.
Jack Armstrong
Right. But you were contrasting that with those outlets you mentioned. And I would argue they're just another example of exactly what you're talking about. A lot of great stories, important stories to get to including some gender bending sanity, the fight against the cruel experimentation on kids gaining ground. Good news on that. Plus AI has finally really rattled the stock market. Not just driven it upwards, but made people sell, sell, sell. Talk about that as well.
Wolf
That's a heck of an interesting story.
Jack Armstrong
All right, stay here Armstrong and Getty.
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First lady Melania Trump's documentary Melania made more than $7 million this weekend at.
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Wolf
We have breaking news at the moment we're on the air. I don't know when you're actually going to hear this. The Trump has signed a bill. The government shutdown is over. Thank God.
Jack Armstrong
Beautiful.
Wolf
That was a rough one.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I do this for a living. And I saw the other day there's a partial government shutdown. I'm like, there is?
Wolf
Well, it's over now.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, thank God. Yeah. Again, so ideological capture. So smart by the Neo Marxists. What they did was they called organizations racist until they controlled the boards or whatever. They blackmailed and terrified people, including the major medical associations, which is really a shame. One of the major pediatrics organizations is completely woke. The ama. The American. Oh, the American Academy of Pediatrics is just completely woke. Controlled by far lefties. But luckily not everyone is. And in major gender bending sanity news, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons released new guidance this week cautioning physicians against performing gender transition surgeries on minors, which is a significant breakthrough because many of us have long called on major medical associations to tell the truth about these experimental treatments on momentarily confused adolescents. The new ASPS guidance acknowledges that there is insufficient evidence to prove that irreversible gender related surgical interventions have long term benefits for adolescents and therefore recommends that surgeons delay gender related breast, genital and facial surgery until a patient is at least 19 years old. And they say the association has substantial uncertainty about any positive benefits of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones as well.
Wolf
Facial reconstruction surgery.
Jack Armstrong
Yes. Wow.
Wolf
So somebody who's a child getting their like bones reshaped on their face to look more manly or more feminine because.
Jack Armstrong
An activist that convinced them that's why they're unhappy, it's not their underlying psychological problems or autism or whatever, then blackmailed the parents by saying, your child will probably commit suicide if you don't do this. Yeah, that's right. One more quote from this. At least one more. Surgeons should maintain responsibility for, quote, determining whether a minor is developmentally able to understand the nature, irreversibility and long term implications of the proposed surgical intervention.
Wolf
That's, that's a, I don't know what you call that, a catch 22 or something like that. A minor can't determine that. That's what, that's what being a minor is. You don't have the life experience and judgment to make big decisions. That's why you're not held accountable for crimes the same way or all kinds of different things.
Jack Armstrong
No kidding. Doctors should assess whether the adolescent patient can meaningfully engage with information about uncertainty, alternative approaches and the possibility that distress or perceived identity may evolve over time. And they go on and on with this. Everything that's clear to anybody who's sane. Good for them. Way to go. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
Wolf
Well, since the. If you didn't hear this, I may.
Jack Armstrong
Get bigger boobs just to thank them.
Wolf
The first successful lawsuit has happened against psychologists and a doctor. $2 million and there's going to be, I think, a flood of these, um, some of them possibly being, you know, unscrupulous cash grabs. If you figure out, hey, I could go sue the doctor who did this to me, maybe get some money, but there'll be a lot of, you know, legit ones. And if I'm a psychologist who recommended somebody for, to a doctor for surgery over this, I'd be pretty worried.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it's interesting that, that you went to cash grabs when we're talking about people who have been permanently altered by experimental treatments.
Wolf
I want it to get out of hand though. I want that. I want it to get, I want it to be so overwhelming and happen so often that people are scared to death to even think about recommending a young person get surgery.
Jack Armstrong
Meanwhile, in the last two years, the number of adolescents identifying as transgender has been cut in half because it was a social craze, always was. And the idea that kids were mutilated because they were like super into K pop or whatever, it's just, it's obscene because it's the same sort of social contagion. Anyway, AI shaking up the stock market if you're involved in software and software.
Wolf
Services and the Clintons are going to testify. Want to talk about that?
Jack Armstrong
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Friday kick off the Winter Olympics in style with the opening ceremony from Italy featuring a special performance by Mariah Carey. Celebrate the greatest athletes from around the globe as they come together to go for gold. Lindsey for sensational the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.
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Jack Armstrong
President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will testify on camera later this month in a House investigation into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. They had little choice in the matter.
Wolf
Facing contempt of Congress charges.
Jack Armstrong
Had they refused. So.
Wolf
Contempt of Congress charges would have included a fine and perhaps jail time.
Jack Armstrong
My formative experience in the whole contempt of Congress world was the Eric Holder mess. Right. She was just openly in contempt and wouldn't show up and get in both barrels. And yeah, nothing ever happened. Right. The Obama Justice Department decided, man, I don't think we have enough charges against the guy running this place or, you know, just went nowhere.
Wolf
But. So the Clintons must have thought that the hammer was going to come down anyway. So Bill and Hillary are going to be questioned about the Epstein files in one of those congressional hearings where people shoot off their mouths with all kinds of nutty stuff. Is that what's going to happen there?
Jack Armstrong
Yes, yes, yes. I think it's just going to be a deposition that's recorded, not a congressional hearing.
Wolf
Will it be released to the public? Will we all.
Jack Armstrong
Yes. That was one of the Clinton's demands. Yeah. I think that the transcript will be released in full.
Wolf
So is this a situation where Bill and Hillary think, look, we're very smart lawyers and we're going to tear this thing apart. These morons questioning us. Is that what they're thinking?
Jack Armstrong
And. Or we'll just stonewall them. A good attorney knows how to stonewall somebody.
Wolf
It's not just a legal case. It's politics?
Jack Armstrong
Well, yeah, you don't want to stonewall.
Wolf
In a way that lets everybody think you're guilty.
Jack Armstrong
Bill, did Bill and Hill kill? Do they care?
Wolf
I would think so. For your legacy? I would think so.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. But what in your mind are they covering?
Wolf
Who?
Jack Armstrong
Covering Bill and Hillary. What are they covering up for or stonewalling about?
Wolf
Well, people stonewalling crap all the time. That I think it's a bad idea politically. Might be a good idea legally. Lawyers tell you to always say nothing. And I think oftentimes it really hurts people's reputations because they don't get to say anything about something they're completely innocent of. And I Think they'd be better off like really refuting this stuff. I don't know who's going to be doing the questioning, but I don't think they've got anything to hide.
Jack Armstrong
Well, that's, that's exactly what I'm saying. I suspect very strongly this will be a non.
Wolf
Event.
Jack Armstrong
That leaves people saying, yeah, probably could have gone about this a different way. Dragging an ex president in all. And I'm not, I'm no great defender of Bill.
Wolf
No, absolutely not. Do I think he was friends with Epstein because he. Probably. Hot chicks were at parties.
Jack Armstrong
Yes.
Wolf
Underage chicks. Knowingly, I doubt it.
Jack Armstrong
I don't think so. Bill's a horn dog. But smart.
Wolf
Well, it's just, I don't know, you can be all kinds of horny and wild and slutty and, and, and think underage is completely out of bounds.
Jack Armstrong
No, you'd yell holy ass and you'd run out of the place.
Wolf
And not just because it's illegal. It's because it's gross.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah, exactly. So, yeah, I just don't think it's much. I was a little slow to come around, but now I agree with you completely. James Comer is a Republican. Adam Schiff, he is a grandstanding liar, half truth teller, click bait guy. Congressman. And it's a shame because the Oversight Committee has some really important jobs. And if a super smart straight shooter was running the committee, I think if they could do some real good. I think he's a P.T. barnum type. Speaking of the issues that divide us in America, did you hear about this? They're holding a hearing in the Minneapolis area about why the administration wasn't complying with court orders to release detained migrants. When did we start saying migrants? And anyway, so the Justice Department lawyer, the judge says, why aren't you, why aren't you releasing these people? What's going on? She said, because the system sucks and this job sucks. And if you would please hold me in contempt, then at least I could get 24 hours of sleep, which is really quite the thing to say in court. She'd been in the office only a matter of weeks, was still having trouble accessing her Justice Department email to coordinate the response to court orders. And the poor woman is just stressed to death and is buried in paperwork. The system sucks. This job sucks. Wow.
Wolf
I've said that. Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Yeah. As promised. So this is interesting. I have no idea what I'm talking about, but I. My, my, my. Wait a second.
Wolf
That's. It says that on the back of.
Jack Armstrong
Your talk show host card on this topic. On this topic.
Wolf
It says it on my card. Okay. But I have no idea what I'm talking about. Many times what I do for a living and come in and spout off on things I don't know about.
Jack Armstrong
Where is AI going? Some people are saying non event they're wrong. Dead wrong. Some people are saying robot wolves will hurrying across the landscape and eat us and by march our organs. By March. Yes, exactly. I think the reality is going to be probably somewhere in the middle. But the disruptions will be significant to witness. Artificial intelligence tools are improving at a dizzying pace and branching into new specialized areas. And rapidly expanding artificial intelligence capabilities helped erase $300 billion in market value on Tuesday. Here's what's going on.
Wolf
Erase. Is that what you said?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Erase a drop in value. Yeah, yeah.
Wolf
The race is close to a raise of so.
Jack Armstrong
Oh yeah, they raised the building to the ground. I've always thought that was. We got to have a different word than raise, Raz.
Wolf
But the stock market dropped a whole bunch over some AI news is that.
Jack Armstrong
Certain stocks did okay. Certain stocks did. So here's what's happening. The the new upgrades from Anthropic and open AI can perform tasks in an array of job functions with minimal instructions. I'm quoting the Journal. Now operating with relative autonomy on a user's computer, Anthropic's legal tool can review contracts, perform other industry specific functions. And analysts have suggested that other specialized business capabilities will surely follow. Finance, customer service, other areas anyway. So there are a number of legal Zoom, Thomson Reuters, RELX, which are all in the legal space. Stocks plunged 15% ish as people are using these increasingly sophisticated agents they call them. With relatively simple prompts, they can take over a user's computer and use it to write software, make and launch smartphone apps, analyze stock market fluctuations, take over a user's email account and countless other tasks. So the disruptions have begun.
Jacob Goldstein
Yeah.
Wolf
I was disappointed to hear mentioned this the other day that we're in the golden age of the chatbots. That's going to end here one of these days, any day. It reminds me of you gotta be old to know this. But when satellite dishes first hit the scene and I had some friends who, their families were rich so they got satellite dishes when they first came out. You could, you could latch onto a satellite up there and watch anything in the world pretty much for free. And. And you got to see all kinds of like behind the scenes and newsrooms and during commercial breaks, people walking around.
Jack Armstrong
It was Commercial free.
Wolf
Yeah, I didn't. I didn't have one, but I had a friend who did. And so. And everything was free. You could watch anything in the world for free. Well, then, you know, that came to a screeching halt when people figured out how to monetize it. Everything like that. And then you got to get, you know, your package, this, that. And that is going to happen with all these chat bots. One of them is going to decide to put ads in chat GPT or grok or whatever. Then they're all going to follow suit and it's going to be a completely different thing. You're either going to have to pay a lot more or see tons of ads every time you go on there and ask a question. Because currently I probably use it half a dozen times a day at least. And it's pretty awesome. You don't have to work your way around all these freaking ads like you do on Google.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it'll be they're paid or ad supported. Right. So I don't think. What's the definition of nostalgia?
Wolf
I remember when nostalgia was fantastic, but those that day is over.
Jack Armstrong
Modern nostalgia can't hold a candle to old timeiness. No. Yeah.
Wolf
No.
Jack Armstrong
You know, I used to think of it as like just a purely emotional state as opposed to an absolutely supportable perception that that was better than this.
Wolf
Well, sometimes it has to be true that things were better. Can't always be just the rosy glow of memory. Right. Sometimes literally true that it had to be better.
Jack Armstrong
So do I have nostalgia for when news was better? Is that nostalgia? Is that just discontent over time? I don't even know. Anyway, one of the things I'm nostalgic about is back when you would go to a different city in America or a different state and you would have different things.
Wolf
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
You would have different stores, different restaurants, different music, different culture.
Wolf
My buddy's a private pilot. He talks about this all the time because he goes to towns all over the country. Just rich people need to go to this town either to play golf there or do a business deal or whatever. He said every time they go to is exactly the same. You leave the airport and there's the Best Buy and the Home Depot and the big box.
Jack Armstrong
Hell, I call it everywhere. Yeah. Well, a charming, charmingly unique bit of culture is enduring in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that I want to tell you about.
Wolf
Okay.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Wolf
Maybe after the break, we're also going to check in on Savannah Guthrie's mom story. She's still missing and it's become quite the whodunit with new information coming out in the last day or so. Maybe we'll get into that in hour three. Hope you can join us.
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Wolf
You know, it's fun to just say the word shaboozy. But he went not far enough in his woke acceptance speech for the woke CR being attacked from the Grammys the other night. We'll get to that too, in our.
Jack Armstrong
Three Something to look forward to. So I was right in a way. I looked up the meaning, the definition of the word nostalgia. A sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal association.
Wolf
Yeah, but you looked it up online, which is not as good as back when we used to look it up in the paper dictionary.
Jack Armstrong
Okay, all right, so. But I was, I was right in that. I mean, for instance, because of the changing in media, the change in media over the last couple of decades, radio has been gutted. Okay. And there are a lot of changes to the industry. I'm not nostalgic for when it worked better. That's not nostalgia. That's. Things have gotten crappier, which I don't think you can probably call nostalgia.
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Wolf
So if I lived in a nicer house 10 years ago than I do now, that wouldn't be nostalgia. It was just a nicer house. House.
Jack Armstrong
Right. I, I, I'm not nostalgic about before I had arthritis. I mean, there's a difference.
Wolf
Right? Okay, well then, then tell me something that is clearly, is clearly nostalgia.
Jack Armstrong
I think how much fun I used to have playing pond hockey with my friends all the winter long and, and girlfriends I fell for and, but that was fun riding my bike to the.
Wolf
Pool and, but it was fun playing the pond hockey. So why is it nostalgia as opposed to that actually was fun and I wish I could do that again.
Jack Armstrong
Well, it's a sentimental longing for the past because it was fun and nice and good. It's not, it's different than those other.
Wolf
Things, but I feel like the motions very, the emotions are very similar. I feel like.
Jack Armstrong
Same quadrant of your brain, I'll give you that.
Wolf
Had a cool sports car once that I can't have now because I got kids.
Jack Armstrong
I like driving that car. Is that nostalgia?
Wolf
I don't know. No.
Jack Armstrong
No, I don't think so. Not per se, anyway. This is all a long, wishy washy lead into an absolutely charming story about one of the last vestiges of local culture in America. I despise the, the absolutely uniform, big box hell that spread across the country.
Wolf
Anyway, got a TJ Maxx. You got a best Buy. You got a Home Depot.
Jack Armstrong
You got the same restaurants, same stores. They all have the same design. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Everybody's, you know, listening to the. Well, actually, different music depending on your neighborhood, but. So, anyway, this is about Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and parking chairs. Not only is it tradition, it's the law in Pittsburgh. Snows there a lot. If you dig out a parking space, like in front of your house on the street, you put a chair there until you can get your car or your. Your wife gets home or whatever, and she parks her car there because you cleared it, it's your space. And it's not. Again, it's not just a tradition.
Wolf
It's the law.
Jack Armstrong
And if somebody moves your chair, you're probably gonna get cussed out, get your face punched, or you can even get a ticket. That's like a civil ticket violation thing. Frequen, the note on the windshield will call them a, quote, jag off, which is a delightful Midwestern term defined here by the Oxford English Dictionary as Western Pennsylvania slang for a stupid, irritating, or contemptible person.
Wolf
That's with a G. That's what?
Jack Armstrong
J, as a matter of fact.
Wolf
J as in Joseph, but then Jag G there.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, indeed. In the middle. Yes, yes.
Wolf
Not the K sound.
Jack Armstrong
Two F's at the end if you want to get super thorough. Yeah, I just. Pittsburgh's Mayor Corey o' Connor Bigora said there's a lot of chairs popping up on your street, so please respect the chair law, or whatever you want to call it in the neighborhoods, he told reporters last week.
Wolf
In other words, don't be a jag off.
Jack Armstrong
Don't be one of them. Right. Let's see. Yeah. And there are all sorts of charming stories. Oh, it went viral. This gal chopped ice for nearly two hours for the family Dodge Caravan, and then she sat down on her chair and had a glass of Pinot noir, and her daughter took a picture of it and put it up online, and she became Yinzer famous, which is a reference to Pennsylvania culture, I think, but.
Wolf
It'S like a different world there. I don't understand any of these terms.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah, but how charming.
Wolf
And then you try that.
Jack Armstrong
In a lot of parts of America, you get shot either if you're one side of that bargain or another.
Wolf
You want to talk jag offs? I mean, come on.
Jack Armstrong
Let's see. Cities accustomed to blizzards have customs for saving a spot. In Chicago, it's called dibs. Boston sanctions the use of space savers after a declared snow emergency. Still, not everyone is a fan of man don't do it. Said Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott icily last week. That's some good writing. If I see your chair, it's coming with me and going into the trash. So.
Wolf
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
In violent, lawless Baltimore, there is no shared culture. There's no common agreement on mores and custom.
Wolf
Why would you be anti the put in the chair thing there? Well, how long do you get to save a spot? I guess be one of the things, because pretty soon all the spots.
Jack Armstrong
As long as it takes.
Wolf
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
I think that's an interesting contrast, though, in.
Wolf
Yeah, I'd say in Pittsburgh, they're saying.
Jack Armstrong
Hey, this is our customer tradition, and you need to respect it. In Baltimore, they're saying, f you. I'm taking your spot in your chair. You want to come at me, come at me. Bees. Bluey, bluey, bluey. I got my gat. Yeah, right. Welcome to Baltimore.
Wolf
You got a jag off in your sights, and you ain't gonna let him get away.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, boy. You don't want that. The parking chair, like the pierogi, has become a kitschy emblem of Pittsburgh. As comforting as strawberry jello pretzel salad. Boy, that's a Midwestern throwback right there. T shirts proclaim respect the parking chair. Tiny chairs dangle on Christmas trees. Besides fake Heinz pickles. Heinz like it's. It's a native to Pittsburgh. Well, dealers, logos, etc.
Wolf
That's the culture of Pittsburgh. We'll do another town next Wednesday when we do Omaha, Nebraska, and their chart.
Jack Armstrong
There are no other cities that have a culture anymore. Yeah, their culture is the big box.
Wolf
It is going away a lot. One thing I liked when I was in Louisiana, New Orleans. There's quite a bit of culture there. I was. I was amazed that they've been able to hold on to as much culture as they have there because everything is becoming so homogenized, and it sucks.
Jack Armstrong
It sucks.
Wolf
Homogenization sucks. Kind of. Savannah Guthrie's mom missing. What is going on with that story? The latest. I think a lot of you are following it. We'll do that in hour three.
Jack Armstrong
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Episode: I May Get Bigger Boobs Just To Thank Them
Date: February 4, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
This episode of the Armstrong & Getty Show tackles the state of American media, the dying trust in legacy journalism, changing news habits in the social media era, and significant developments in the medical field regarding gender transition surgeries for minors. They also discuss nostalgia, cultural homogenization, quirky local customs (Pittsburgh’s parking chair tradition), and recent news about the Clintons’ testimony concerning Jeffrey Epstein.
"You need to accept that that horse has left the barn. Those big organizations lost their trust years ago. ...They flush their credibility down the toilet and it's gone." — Jack Armstrong, [05:35]
“It’s interesting that you went to cash grabs when we’re talking about people who have been permanently altered by experimental treatments.” — Jack Armstrong, [23:09]
"Meanwhile, in the last two years, the number of adolescents identifying as transgender has been cut in half because it was a social craze, always was." — Jack Armstrong, [23:27]
"If you dig out a parking space, like in front of your house on the street, you put a chair there until...she parks her car there because you cleared it, it's your space. ...It's not just a tradition. It's the law." — Jack Armstrong, [41:58]
Fast-paced, sardonic, and conversational with frequent asides, wry jokes, and a blend of skepticism and nostalgia about America’s present and future. The hosts’ signature banter is present throughout, mixing deep concern over media and cultural trends with self-deprecating humor.
This episode blends biting commentary on the collapse of legacy journalism and trust, emerging social and medical controversies, impacts of AI on the economy, and the disappearance of local culture in homogenized America. Armstrong & Getty offer criticism, humor, resignation, and the occasional glimmer of hope for quirky regional resilience amid technological and societal tumult.