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- [00:02]
Jack Armstrong
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
So I see some people on Fox with ashes on their forehead. It is as it is Ash Wednesday and Fox is a religion approving network. You won't see that on any other channels probably, but it is Ash Wednesday and I am. I'm not Catholic. I've always admired Lent as an idea. As a kid, I thought it was lint, but that is what is in your belly button and. Or dryer vent. Lent, the whole. Giving up something for Lent. When I was a kid, I had lots of Catholic friends. All my, all the private Catholic school kids rode the same bus as me to school. And then they'd get off at St. Joseph. I'd go to the public school, the secular public school. But anyway, they were into the whole Lent thing and what they would give up. And it just always seemed like a good idea to me. It's kind of like a New Year's resolution, but it's just, I think a little more. You stick to it a little closer.
- [01:14]
Jack Armstrong
Yes, Katie, I think is an outstanding idea. I'm Catholic and one year I made the joke that I was giving up Lent for Lent and the priest did.
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Joe Getty
Not appreciate it, didn't think it was funny.
- [01:24]
Jack Armstrong
He'd heard they. He'd heard that one before. He. That's a no good.
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Joe Getty
Are you giving anything for. Are you a lapsed Catholic? Are you giving up something for Lent this time around?
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Jack Armstrong
No, I'm not giving up anything.
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Joe Getty
Okay.
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Jack Armstrong
Exercise. That's what I'm giving up. I'm sorry, it's, I'm. I'm mocking a truly wise, sacred and ancient tradition of making a sacrifice. And, and I apologize.
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Joe Getty
But because it is what goes along with Lent in this week is always Fat Tuesday and Mardi Gras happening in New Orleans. And I just saw some Mardi Gras revelers down there. Cybertruck had pulled up on the street and there was a tremendous amount of booing going on. And I just thought that was interesting that that is like seen as an. I was gonna say a vehicle, but it's actually a vehicle. So using it as a. Here's the sound. The crowd booing. A cybertruck pulling through.
- [02:29]
Jack Armstrong
Well, the music pulsates in the background. Body crawl.
- [02:32]
Joe Getty
Women are showing their boobs for beads. Yet still time to boo the leader of Doge. Because you hate cutbacks in spending. I just don't get it.
- [02:46]
Jack Armstrong
Wasteful spending. Idiotic Spending. That's just tribal signaling. Ooga booga.
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Joe Getty
Okay.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Speaking of that sort of thing. Oh, Michael, are you giving up playing chest for lint? I am.
- [03:02]
Joe Getty
Yes.
- [03:03]
Jack Armstrong
No more chess. So one of the themes that the president struck in his speech last night was getting rid of a bunch of woke crap and transgender this and that, which I thought was terrific. And we'll play some highlights in, I don't know, 20 minutes, half an hour, something like that. But I thought a couple of things were. Were very interesting. One more newsy and one more philosophical. But first of all, the newsy thing. For the last decade, the establishment media have touted advocates claims as fact that we have roughly 15,000 transgender people serving in the US military. If you're not familiar with the term, it means a person of one sex pretending to be the other sex.
- [03:46]
Joe Getty
Wow.
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Jack Armstrong
And over and over again, I've heard the 15,000 number and thought, damn, that's a lot.
- [03:52]
Joe Getty
Nah, I never believed it.
- [03:53]
Jack Armstrong
But, yeah, I was. I didn't either, but I had no idea what to think. But this week, President Donald Trump's Pentagon revealed that the number is about 4,200 service members, which is still a hell of a lot, but it's just over one quarter of what they were claiming. This adds up to one transgender person for every 500 service members in a military of 2.1 million active and reserve members. I am surprised that it is that many, and I'd be curious as to what is going on psychosocially that would. That would cause that.
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Joe Getty
I mean, you. You talk about ridiculous tribalism. I came across Bill Kristol's tweet last night. Most of you don't know who he is. He used to be one of my favorite pundits. He's a hardcore conservative, like, in the classic style. His dad, Irving Kristol, founded, I think, the Weekly Standard, one of the great writers of conservatism, and. And Bill Crystal carried that on. And then Bill Kristol hated.
- [04:58]
Jack Armstrong
Called Barry Goldwater a moderate.
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Joe Getty
Bill. Bill Crystal, who used to be on, you know, like Meet the Press and Face a Nation and arguing for conservatives all these years, he hated Trump so much, he. He went over with the people that formed the Bulwark, and they have become a grift machine, and they've just figured out that if they say bad things about Republicans, that they can make a lot of money. And this is what Bill Kristol tweeted out last night. Stand with trans Americans. You don't have to understand everything about the transgender experience to Know that Trump's act of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust and dangerous.
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Jack Armstrong
You've lost your mind.
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Joe Getty
Just because he. He hasn't lost his mind. He's become so cynical. He just thinks, you know what? It's all a game anyway. Screw it. There are enough of these people out there. If I take this angle, they'll continue to, you know, donate money to us and read our stuff and give us clicks and I'll make a living, whatever.
- [05:51]
Jack Armstrong
The convert. Everybody wants to celebrate the convert.
- [05:54]
Joe Getty
Yep.
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Jack Armstrong
Yep. Yeah. Wow, that is some cynical crap, isn't it? So, speaking of which, those of us who aren't cynical have looked at the world around us, and I think a lot of you probably understand that the hardcore activists in the WOKE thing are neo Marxists. And the WOKE thing is just an excuse to say you're in charge of this institution, but you're a racist. And I can prove it with my anti racist theories. And obviously we can't have a racist in charge. So now I'm in charge. It's a method of conquest. It takes over institutions, be they schools or government departments or whatever. We get the hardcore doing that, the people who want to be nice people and they go along with it. This is the useful idiots. And they, they are legion in their numbers. And often it's young people, because young people are easy to. To indoctrinate.
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Joe Getty
The problem with that term is that Lennon's term?
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Jack Armstrong
I think it is, yeah.
- [06:52]
Joe Getty
John Lennon. No, V, I Lennon. The problem with that term is that it's obviously quite insulting. It's not a good way to explain to someone that they maybe are being used for a purpose that they do not agree with. If you call them an idiot.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. You know, you make a good point. Let's go with useful morons instead. Useful half wits. No, it's. It's actually one of the better impulses in humankind, which is what I'm leaning toward. It's long been known that all the intelligence agencies and governments of the world are interested in influencing people to believe certain things, to support certain programs or certain governments. I mean, that's obvious, right? Propaganda. The Hitler Youth, the Mao Tse Tung and his Red Guard, just all sorts of programs like that. And a guy who's been studying this his whole life, his name is Jason Kristoff, and he did a presentation recently that was hosted by Senator Ron Johnson, speaking of rock ribbed conservatives. And he explained how mind control is easy to execute because human beings are essentially walking psyops. He said he quote he said mimetic programming, which is the process of having someone learn to imitate patterns and behaviors, is routinely used in Hollywood films and by powerful corporations and governments. Quote, mind control works on the subconscious. And the subconscious is something that loves us and wants to protect us. And it's in the realm of activity similar to your heart beating. So you. There are things you understand as a human being that you're not in control of. Their instinctive. Your subconscious mind is always looking to establish what the bigger group of humans is doing, and so it is responsive to repetitive content. Simply put, people are always looking to learn what a larger group is doing and fit in. Meaning that repeated messages can be enormously powerful. You know, obviously, we're just talking about conformity here.
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Joe Getty
All. All sales organizations know this.
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Jack Armstrong
Sure. Quoting again from Mr. Kristoff. The reason the subconscious does this is because it knows that most humans like other humans who act, talk, and think like they do. And all the subconscious know, and all your subconscious know that it's safer to bond with a bigger group. To break this mind control technique down further, your subconscious automatically absorbs repetitive content and forces people to adopt ideas as their own. Your reptile brain is telling you you decided this on your own to go along with the crowd, because for whatever reason, that works better with humans. It's more adaptive, as they say in anthropology.
- [09:38]
Joe Getty
That's why, for example, do any of my beliefs come from my own thinking, or is this all just because I was surrounded by it?
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Jack Armstrong
I think sometimes the best you can do is be intellectually honest and examine your beliefs and test them now and again and try the other ideas. But anyway, that's a great other topic. What time is it? Yeah, we're good. This is why, for example, at a party where there's a lot of alcohol being served and consumed, people can feel nervous saying no when offered a drink. Quote, if you dare say no in opposition of the most repetitive content, your nervous system will make you feel extremely uneasy and full of anxiety. And it will also reward you for going along with it, putting your neurology at peace and calm in the feeling of calmness, that, wow, repetitive sense.
- [10:28]
Joe Getty
So there's more to peer pressure than meets the eye, right?
- [10:31]
Jack Armstrong
Exactly. It's not weakness. It's. It's anthropologically adaptive. The. The problem is, you know, unless you're an alcoholic, you're going to be fine having a drink, or unless somebody's trying to feed you a roofy and rape you or something like that, you're fine. Bill Cosby's house or oh, right, exactly. In short. But if there is an insidious group bent on evil utilizing these truths intentionally and aggressively, you get an entire generation of young people walking around saying it's not wrong to have a man in a woman's sport, even though he whoops the hell out of the women and takes all the titles. It's not wrong to have a man in a women's prison because that man says he's a woman. They come up with an idea as ludicrous is that a man who says he's a woman is actually a woman.
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Joe Getty
And then certainly things that are easier to go for I won't say fall for. Like hearing about climate change every class you're ever in your whole life.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. Christoph actually touched on the COVID 19 pandemic in the response said media outlets pushed highly similar similar narratives to quote unquote control people, influencing them to stay at home. Mind control is the basis of all advertising and the governments have been proven to be using the same group dynamic application against the public. He pointed to examples such as the UK's Behavioral Insights Team, informally known as the Nudge Unit. Have you ever heard of this?
- [12:04]
Joe Getty
No.
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Jack Armstrong
It's a former government organization now run by a charity, which uses behavioral insights to change people's behavior, for example, by changing messaging to make people more likely to pay their taxes on time.
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Joe Getty
Wow.
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Jack Armstrong
Kristof believes such tactics have been used to drive social changes for decades, with depictions of large nuclear families on screen diminishing since the 1950s in favor of less conventional families with fewer children, among other things. And corporations use similar, similar strategies. But we're running out of time. But you get the idea. And I've often said you don't need to do what the culture is doing because a lot of that is designed by people who do not have your best interests in mind. So maybe the only great takeaway from this is if you find yourself wanting to conform, understand that that is your animal brain being used often by evil people to try to get you to behave in a certain way.
- [13:09]
Joe Getty
That's really interesting stuff. I have many thoughts about that. We need to take a break, though. More on the way Armstrong and Getty Domino's Pizza has launched the chain's first stuffed crust pizza and it might be.
- [13:22]
Jack Armstrong
A big seller because apparently it's stuffed with better pizza.
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Joe Getty
I like the sound of stuffed crust pizza, but I've not had any that I liked. It's just too much.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I I liked it because you could dip it in sauce and it was kind of like that's just fine. I mean, that's. It's rearranging the ingredients. So what? But to each their own. If you enjoy a stuffed crust, friends eat it with our blessing.
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Joe Getty
So I've seen a lot of videos popping up over the last several weeks of former Saturday Night Live stars. And I guess that's around the fact that they had the 50th anniversary show when they were all there, or they have projects or they're back in the news. I don't know why, but I've seen lots of different stuff popping up in interviews and stuff like that. Bill Murray was on a podcast the other day. He was part of the original crew when Saturday night live started. Geez, 50 years ago. He's an old man now, but a famous actor, and he was friends with John Belushi. John Belushi, among the biggest stars to ever come out at Saturday Night Live. But if you're old enough to remember, he died quite young because he got kind of into the party lifestyle, and that did him in. Was the cause of death.
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Jack Armstrong
Speedball.
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Joe Getty
Did too many.
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Jack Armstrong
Cocaine. Yeah. OD'd.
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Joe Getty
Anywho, there was a book about John Belushi written by Bob Woodward. Of all the topics for Bob Woodward to take on. He wrote a book called Wired about John Belushi's demise. And Bill Murray was on a podcast talking about that book.
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Michael
When I read Wired, the book written by what's his name, Woodward, about Belushi, I read, like, five pages of Wired, and I went, oh, my God, they framed Nixon. All of a sudden, I went, oh, my God. If this is what he writes about my friend that I've known for half my adult life, which is completely inaccurate, talking to, like, the people of the outer, outer circle getting the story, what the hell did. Could they have done to Nixon? I just felt like if he did this to my friend like this, and I acknowledge I only read five pages, but the five pages I read, you know, made me want to, like, set fire to the whole thing. Jamie, see if you can find those five pages. I went, if they. If he did this to Belushi, what he did to Nixon's is probably soiled for me too. I can't. I can't take it. And I know you say, well, you could have two sources and everything like that, but the two sources that he had, if he had them for the Wired book, were so far outside the inner circle that it was. It was criminal.
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Joe Getty
I thought that was really interesting.
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Jack Armstrong
I read every time you bring up Bob Woodward and his books and he's done some brilliant reporting and he's crazy smart guy. But I think of a long article I read about Wired that was one of the most convincing and brutal indictments of a journalist I've ever heard.
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Joe Getty
Wow.
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Jack Armstrong
He would report on a something that happened brought to him by like a outer, outer, outer ring person and wildly misinterpret what happened and why it happened to the point that the people who were there and participating in it thought this is fiction.
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Joe Getty
Do you think this was a cash grab about something that wasn't important enough for him to care about? Getting the facts straight?
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Jack Armstrong
I have no idea. I wish we I had time to elaborate a little bit. We maybe next half hour.
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Joe Getty
That's pretty interesting though. A lot more on the way. Stay here.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty.
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Katie Green
And two days ago I signed an order making English the official language of the United States of America. I renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. And likewise I renamed for a great president, William McKinley, Mount McKinley again. Beautiful Alaska.
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Joe Getty
There you go. Beautiful Alaska.
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Jack Armstrong
Another one of my faves. Oh. Coming up, really interesting perspectives from, from somebody who is in the room I liked. 48 Michael.
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Katie Green
And we've ended weaponized government where as an example, a sitting president is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent like me. How did that work out? Not too good.
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Joe Getty
JD Was highly amused by many of Trump's comments.
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Jack Armstrong
Yes, he was. He was indeed. He touched on a lot of the DEI and protecting women's sports stuff that I absolutely loved. This was pretty good too. 56.
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Katie Green
As you've heard me say many times, we have more liquid gold under our feet than any nation on earth and by far. And now I fully authorize the most talented team ever assembled to go and get it. It's called drill, baby, drill.
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Joe Getty
And the Democrats are against that, I guess because they don't like fossil fuels.
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Jack Armstrong
Right, right, right. And they're also against this, bizarrely enough. Click clip 64 please.
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Katie Green
So while we take out the criminals, killers, traffickers and child predators who are allowed to enter our country under the open border policy of these people, the Democrats, the Biden administration, the open border insane policies that you've allowed to destroy our country, we will now bring in brilliant, hardworking job creating people. They're going to pay a lot of money and we're going to reduce our debt with that money.
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Jack Armstrong
And then my last request. This has become controversial, I'm told. Jack73.
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Katie Green
I'm also working tirelessly to end the savage conflict in Ukraine. Millions of Ukrainians and Russians have been needlessly killed or wounded in this horrific and brutal conflict with no end in sight. The United States has sent hundreds of billions of dollars to support Ukraine's defense with no security, with no other. Do you want to keep it going for another five years? Yeah. Yeah, you would say. Pocahontas says, y.
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Joe Getty
He called Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas from the podium in the Capitol.
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Katie Green
Pocahontas says, yes.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I know something else. Was that racist? I don't care.
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Joe Getty
Well, a number of people have said it's racist, Charlie. C.W. cook of National Review pointed out the comment is about the fact that she lied about being an Indian.
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Jack Armstrong
Right.
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Joe Getty
So that she could be the first person of color in Harvard or something like that. The comments is not about Pocahontas or Indians or anything like that. It's about the fact that she lied about it.
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Jack Armstrong
Pocahontas says yes, and 90% of the people who are claiming offense know that. But, no, they can weaponize, I tell you.
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Joe Getty
And I know this is getting sidetracked from what we were talking about. I just don't get the strategy on the whole Ukraine thing. I just don't get it. So many Ukrainians have done. What were they supposed to do? Not fight the Russians.
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Jack Armstrong
I don't. I don't get it. Yeah, I think he's just talking about from this moment forward. I don't get it either in full. But, yeah, I mean, I would like him to say, so many Ukrainians and Russians have died unnecessarily because Vladimir Putin wants to rebuild the Soviet empire.
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Joe Getty
Right. Yeah. I wish I remembered which pundit I saw yesterday. Some pundit or journalists, I think, who said, I've checked in with many conservative foreign policy experts and have yet to come across anybody who quite understands what the strategy is here.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, Yeah, I would agree. I'm a little mystified myself. But Trump's negotiating strategy, how he lays the groundwork for doing deals, sometimes strikes me as chaotic and incomprehensible. And then like the Panama Canal situation that we talked about earlier, it works out fine. I never would have gone about it that way, but the result's okay now.
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Joe Getty
So he read from, what, a letter or a tweet or whatever from Zelensky last night? Yes. And Zelensky's ready to do the deal and remeat. And I assume he'll show up in a suit and shave and do all the things that Trump wants him to do. And. And then. And then you still is. Requires the other side to stop trying to kill you. Is Putin on board with that?
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Jack Armstrong
While they're on the front foot. I mean, not by much, but you know, they're making inch by inch progress. While slaughtering many thousands of young men.
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Joe Getty
Of various ethnicities, they're making inch by inch progress. When we were supporting Ukraine, we've just said we're not going to support them anymore. So if I'm rushing, I think, okay, cool.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, no, we're not coming to the table. Absolutely not. Or we will come to the table. But continue fighting and pretending to negotiate. But I wanted to squeeze this in if we can. Unless you have more of substance, that's fine. I'm pro substance. I just don't like substance abuse.
- [23:42]
Joe Getty
I'm on the tail end of the flu, so I'm barely hanging on anyway. I got one foot in the grave.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, grab a seat. You're going to like this. None other than Ethan Haim, the great brave whistleblowing doctor from Texas who blew the whistle on the Texas Children's Hospital that was continuing to perform cruel experimental sex change surgery on confused children even after Texas had outlawed it. He was invited as a guest to the not the State of the Union, State of the Union address last night, and he made some really interesting comments in a Twitter thread about how the Democrats refused to applaud anything, including stuff that ought to be universally popular, a point Trump made. Actually, that was one of the more powerful moments of the speech. But then he said, beyond the applause, there are a few other notable observations. After Al Green started yelling and shaking his cane at Trump, the first person security approached was not Green, but Nancy Pelosi. Almost like she was the pit boss for the Dem side. I could tell she was not pleased since she didn't even turn her head toward the security guard. This would have required Pelosi to look towards her right side, which was the direction where Greene was embarrassing himself in front of the country. Not really surprised by her reaction since this would have compounded the collective sense of defeat on the Democrat side of the chamber.
- [24:58]
Joe Getty
Why? By admitting that she's actually the most powerful person and not the current leader.
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Jack Armstrong
Or I'm not sure. I had very perceptive question slash comment there. I wasn't sure precisely what he meant by that.
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Joe Getty
Because she's just an 80 year old representative from Northern California at this point. What's she supposed to do?
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, an incredibly safe district. Yeah, I thought that was interesting on that level. But there was absolutely a thick sense of defeat that was unmistakable as you watched it.
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Joe Getty
Anyway, so I'll jump in with this before you finish that. So I was watching Mark Halperin's zoom call last night and I don't remember the name of the Democrat he has on with him all the time. Seems like a really nice guy, really like hardcore Democrat, but not woke. So he's very unhappy with a lot of stuff Democrats do. Anywho, he said, you have no idea how enraged the Democratic base is currently. Combination of defeated and enraged. Feeling that the Democratic Party is not fighting, is not doing anything, is just rolling over. So some of the dumb ideas they came up with last night with the signs and the we won't stand for anything is just an attempt to show them that, hey, we're trying to do something. But they got no good answers. There's no real. Nobody has emerged as like the leader, like the voice of the party, right?
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Jack Armstrong
And all reciting that silly. You're gonna hear s that isn't true. That was written and all the dozens of, you know, government lackeys repeated. But anyway, I believe that. So back to Ethan Haim. He said while the cameras were focused on the characters on the chamber floor, they missed the ones in the gallery. Like the young woman catty corner to my left, it looked like she was dressed in sweats and was fully passed out for the entire speech. And it didn't seem like this was an act of protest or defiance, but that she was actually sleeping, working her way through multiple REM cycles. She even used the tight seating in the gallery to her benefit, relying on her neighbor's shoulders and arms to achieve the most comfortable position possible for an extended tiger snooze. At one point I thought she was snoring. Unfortunately, I was too far away to obtain audible verification.
- [27:13]
Joe Getty
How are you connected enough to be in that hall, but so disinterested you sleep through the whole thing?
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Jack Armstrong
Then there was a young guy with a voluminous shoulder length mullet, a Lt. Dan Esque military jacket and blue jeans. One of the guys sitting next to me said it was likely one of Peter Thiel's famous tech prodigies. Probably top three coolest people in the room, I imagine. Then there was the entire row of mainstream media journalists, about a dozen or so directly behind Trump in the gallery. You got to mean the Trump family, Melania. What made this stand out was that they all had the same gray MacBook, which formed a wall of Apple logos. It was too symbolic for the current moment in American history. The irony was almost too much given the viral video earlier that day, which showed over 20 Democratic senators reading the same script using the same microphone producing one of the most cringe worthy displays of shameless inauthenticity I can remember.
- [28:09]
Joe Getty
We have that audience. I haven't heard that.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I was looking for that on the list. Where is that? Go ahead and roll it.
- [28:15]
Joe Getty
I don't know where it is. I saw it earlier. Was that from yesterday or is that.
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Jack Armstrong
I asked for it today.
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Joe Getty
I think I saw it on the list.
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Jack Armstrong
We have so much audio today.
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Joe Getty
That ain't true.
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Jack Armstrong
That's what you just heard. Since day one of Donald Trump's presidency, prices are not down, they're up. That ain't true.
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Joe Getty
That's what you just heard.
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Jack Armstrong
Since day one of Donald Trump's presidency.
- [28:43]
Joe Getty
Prices are up, not down. That ain't true. That's what you just saw. Since day one of Donald Trump's presidency, prices are up, not down.
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Jack Armstrong
That was just three of the 22 that all did precisely the same thing in the same way, using the same equipment, but were hip and cool and.
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Joe Getty
Dropped S bombs in the modern world. Don't they realize we're going to catch on to that? I don't know.
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Jack Armstrong
I know, I know. And it's just so sad and pathetic. But to wrap up Ethan Haim's commentary. But the most remarkable, remarkable part of it all was the indescribable energy coming from the Republicans. It was truly a sight to see such an impressive group of people. Well, some of them are from very poss. Every possible background and every political persuasion coalesce around a shared vision. One of the most important moments in American history and I was able to be part of it. Will be forever grateful for Senator Hawley having me as a guest.
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Joe Getty
Okay, cool. Here's a little punditry around it. Scott Jennings, he's the conservative they have on CNN for the roundtable. He said this was a horrific night for the opposition party. Democrats came into the speech lost and defeated by Donald Trump. It looks to me like they're even more lost and even more defeated when the speech started.
- [29:53]
Jack Armstrong
Okay, I would agree.
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
We'Ll use that clip for the rest of our lives.
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Joe Getty
Brit Hume said last night on Fox. If you've ever doubted that Donald Trump is the political colossus of our time in our nation, this night and this speech should have put that to the to rest.
- [30:16]
Jack Armstrong
Democrats are still hardcore and uniformly against protecting girls from boys in sports, women from men in sports. It's like an 86 to 8 issue. 85 to 8 and they still can't get a single vote. They won't allow a single Member in either house to cross the line and say, yeah, I don't think men should be raping women in prisons. I don't think, you know, men should be beating the crap out of women on sports fields. Not even one man, that is sad.
- [30:49]
Joe Getty
Or, I don't like everything Doge is doing, but I love cutting these wasteful.
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Jack Armstrong
Programs so we'll have more money for good programs. Not one would applaud that.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, you just gonna ride that into the ground?
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Jack Armstrong
I mean, at what point?
- [31:02]
Joe Getty
Which directions? We'll finish strong. Next.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty. Sir. I'm gonna miss my flight, but I'm going to miss my flight. Why didn't you get it before you picked me up? I'm on my way to the airport, and I'm gonna miss my flight because my Uber driver, first of all, took a wrong turn. Second of all is stopping to get gas, which has never happened before.
- [31:37]
Joe Getty
So I always wonder with these sorts of things, are you doing this to post it to get clicks, or were you recording this to, like, have evidence of the fact that you got screwed by the Uber guy and you want your money back? I don't know what.
- [31:48]
Jack Armstrong
But, yeah, I. I had a bad.
- [31:53]
Joe Getty
Run of Lyft drivers. I was using Lyft in la, so I'm not willing to draw any conclusions yet. But, man, it was several bad. Not good in any way. And I just. I don't know if there. There's a labor situation going now where they're having to be less picky about who they hire or. Or what, or if it was just unique to the two days I was in la.
- [32:17]
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I'm a little vexed by the fact that. That whatever. Uber, Lyft, whatever he was guy could not speak a lick of English. Yeah, say I needed gas.
- [32:27]
Joe Getty
I had a couple of those. Well, I told you I got the message of, your Uber driver is hearing impaired, so please learn how to say hello and goodbye in sign language before he gets there, which I thought was hilarious. Sure. I'll just pick up a foreign language real quick, standing here with my bag outside the airport, because, you know, sign language is a foreign language to me. But as people pointed out to me, that's cover for, I don't speak English. That way you can just get away with not being able to speak English. Well, it's pretty tough if you can't talk to anybody, because I had somebody who I couldn't talk to. He just kept going around the hotel, and I was like, it's over there. You got to turn. He Just kind of said some words I didn't understand and did the shrug his shoulders and I started like pointing and saying left really loud. Like, if I said it loud in English, you'd understand what I'm saying. It's a weird habit that. Or a tendency that humans have. Left, left. Like that makes any difference, but left.
- [33:25]
Jack Armstrong
But, senor, what am I supposed to.
- [33:28]
Joe Getty
Leave for a rating if you couldn't get me where I'm going and I couldn't talk to you, and then if I give you one star, do I get a one star? I never know how to handle those situations. 11 score and 17 minutes ago, Armstrong.
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Michael
And Yeti brought forth upon this nation a new broadcast.
- [33:49]
Jack Armstrong
And now, final thoughts.
- [33:53]
Joe Getty
Wow. Okay.
- [33:54]
Jack Armstrong
The great Abe Lincoln there late.
- [33:56]
Joe Getty
Great. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
- [33:59]
Jack Armstrong
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap things up for the day, beginning with our technical director, Michelangelo. Michael, Final thought? Yeah. We need to return humanity to politics. When you're at a seat of a union and there's children involved and involves them recovering from cancer, everybody should be on their feet applauding. I don't care what not do. That is a stunning indictment. Yeah, you're so right. Katie Green's wearing a Doge hat. Katie, final thought. I thought last night, I thought it was great. I think Trump did a great job. And I'm with Michael. If I was a Democrat today, I'm embarrassed that that's who's representing that party. Yeah. Sad. Sad. Jack, a final thought for us.
- [34:35]
Joe Getty
So according to the doctor yesterday, I had the flu, or still have the flu, recovering from the flu. And then I was wondering about the flu vaccine. Would it have worked? Then a doctor friend of mine sent me the CDC chart on this, which I'll assume is accurate, but it says the flu vaccine last year was 42% effective. What does that mean? Does that mean if you got it? What? I don't know what it means.
- [34:59]
Jack Armstrong
There are multiple strains of the flu and they're never sure which ones are going to be big in your area. And so 42% of the time they got it right and it prevented people from getting sick with the flu.
- [35:11]
Joe Getty
How do you know, though? You don't know if I came in contact with the flu, maybe I didn't get the flu because I didn't come in. I mean, I've never. I didn't get the flu last year and I didn't get the vaccine.
- [35:19]
Jack Armstrong
It's a test in the poopy water science. You wouldn't understand. Take my word for it. Okay, My final thought. South Carolina plans to execute a man via firing squad on March 7th. Cool. Talk about that tomorrow. Cool, he says.
- [35:32]
Joe Getty
Bloodthirsty maniac Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
- [35:36]
Jack Armstrong
The firing squad. So many people assigned so little time. So do people who ought to be in front of a firing squad. You saw them last night on the TV. Go to Armstrong.
- [35:45]
Joe Getty
Getty.com are electricity rates too much or they'd use Old Sparky. See you tomorrow. God bless America. I don't know who thought of Armstrong and Getty, but they should be fired.
- [35:55]
Katie Green
Pocahontas says yes.
- [35:56]
Jack Armstrong
That's what you just heard. That's it.
- [35:58]
Joe Getty
It's a collage of idiocy.
- [36:00]
Jack Armstrong
I can't imagine still doubting that.
- [36:02]
Joe Getty
Who did doubt that? That's a good question.
- [36:03]
Jack Armstrong
What the hell are you talking about?
- [36:04]
Joe Getty
Doesn't that sound crazy? Seems like there's a few kinks in that Slinky. That's what you just heard. It's true.
- [36:09]
Jack Armstrong
I've been thinking that we all need a tremendous hug in the world right now.
- [36:14]
Joe Getty
Thank you sir.
- [36:14]
Jack Armstrong
Your time has expired. Bye bye Armstrong and Getty Saving for.
- [36:21]
Joe Getty
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