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Jack Armstrong
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Joe Getty
Armstrong and Getty.
Jack Armstrong
And now, here's Armstrong and Getty.
News Reporter
The indoor water park chain Great Wolf Lodge this week will offer a limited edition milkshake that blends vanilla ice cream and ranch dressing. And after one of those, you become the water slide.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know if I understood the punchline, but the setup was interesting.
Joe Getty
I believe he thinks your digestive system will be troubled for a while.
Jack Armstrong
I took the kids to Wendy's last night. They got a whole bunch of new products they didn't have the last time I was at Wendy's. When did this happen?
Joe Getty
They seem unhappy by that.
Jack Armstrong
Well, yeah, I think they just. I. I knew it. I don't know. I walked in and all of a sudden they got burritos and.
Joe Getty
Wait, what?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, they got Mexican food and a fish sandwich and just all kinds of stuff they've never had before.
Joe Getty
Wendy, I thought I knew you. I know.
Jack Armstrong
$8 for a single with cheese, by the way. $8 for a.
Joe Getty
Seeing that little red headed girl up on a stripper pole or something selling burritos.
Jack Armstrong
Very similar.
Joe Getty
Wow. Shocking stuff.
Jack Armstrong
It looks like Trump's had it with Kristi Noem and might be looking to get somebody else. We can talk more about that later.
Joe Getty
Yeah, Ice Barbie, soon to be gone. I mean, you saw that one coming. So I guess our theme this segment is the absolutely astonishing change in what is big media. And how quaint a lot of old media is in comparison. Now, that's not to say there isn't
Jack Armstrong
great content and I think how out of touch all of us over a certain age are, whether we want to be or not. We just still have in our heads that certain Alphabet networks and newspapers are a big deal. They aren't. They just aren't.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Now, I want to make it clear that I don't think the lowest common denominator is something to be sought after unless you're just looking to make a ton of money. But if you're making. If you're looking to make a ton of money, then the market is not nearly what you think it is if you're past a certain age. To wit, in the last month and yes, Jack, I am re bringing up the question of funk music.
Jack Armstrong
P H O N K Funk.
Joe Getty
Yes sir. And yes, I do enjoy saying it. Little Funk.
Jack Armstrong
Clearly you do.
Joe Getty
Where's the melody anyway? That is, it started, I think in I can't remember one of your southern cities, but in last month, the music artist with the largest audience across all YouTube platforms wasn't bad Bunny or Taylor Swift, it was Slaughter. Spelled S L X U G H T E R. Because apparently in funk you have to change one of the letters in your name to a different letter or a number or something. Like every single person they mentioned does that.
Jack Armstrong
I wouldn't have known how to pronounce it.
Joe Getty
Well, you see it in print unless he calls it slickster, but I doubt it. The term probably doesn't sound familiar funk, but anyone who spent any time on social media in the past few years has almost certainly listened to it. Maybe it's better to say heard it, because the overwhelming majority of people who consume funk don't recognize it as a genre, let alone actively choose it. But it's constantly playing in the background during YouTube shorts, TikTok or Instagram Reels. It can sound like electronic dance music. Also hip hop, trap funk, or mix of all those things. Like I know what those subgenres are. It can accompany dance clips, gaming montages, fan edits, workout content, sports highlights, motivational clips, and anything aiming to convey high energy vibes. Who cares? You're saying to yourself, well, the people who crank this stuff out, who are desperate for their track to become the go to on YouTube backup for the aforementioned, you know, genres of videos are making. For instance, this one guy who I've never heard of in my life and whose name I've forgotten already, has gotten $5 million already from a track he produced probably in two and a half hours in his basement. And then here's this other oh yeah, oh I'm sorry, here's scrolled past it somebody Henson who goes with some wacky moniker earned he won't say how much, yearned from Sahara, which was the hot track at one point. But he says, I have some guys that have made over $5 million from their music. Here's a company that represents these people. They've paid out over $140 million to their creators on their roster over the past five years who make this Background music for videos because everybody gets paid.
Jack Armstrong
That sounds like to play that again. Michael Carol Baskin fed her husband to tigers, snacked on.
Joe Getty
Doesn't it sound like that what's happening? Carol Baskin Yeah, it really does. It really does. So you got that going on. And then this I think is every bit as significant in the Wall Street Journal Journal the power brokers behind the 250 billion dollar influencer economy. 250 billion dollars.
Jack Armstrong
I was talking about this the other day, we were at Target and we were in the like shampoo section and they had a typical kind of Target ad there, just a picture on the end cap with a couple of people in champagne shampoo. And I thought well it's probably just, you know, random people, good looking people holding the shampoo bottle. And my son was like oh my God, I can't believe DJ so and so is blah blah blah is some YouTube people that are a big enough deal to put on the in cap ad at the Target to sell the shampoo I'd never even heard of. They don't have a TV show or a movie or anything.
Joe Getty
They just have, they don't have the time. They wouldn't waste their time doing that. A movie, right. I can't take the cut and pay they would say. So this article, the big picture at the beginning of it is some attractive 35ish gal sitting at a desk but perched on a milk crate on the desk it's just so on the nose is a bleach blonde pixie sunglass wearing, vibey 20 something influencer girl. Because of course you'd be sitting on a milk crate on your agent's desk. Something I can promise you I've never done in my long career. Anyway, the it's Ali Berman, who's the co head of United Talent Agencies creators division with podcaster and entrepreneur Emma Chamberlain, a UTA client. They actually start the article with Kate Bartlett, a 24 year old influencer who has 1.6 million TikTok followers. And they're having a big meeting in Hollywood pitching business ideas for the year ahead. Would she be interested in getting a teaching certificate so she could lead a course on influencing? What about landing an editorial director position at a magazine or launching an accessories line or taking a defunct fashion TV show, buying the name of it and reviving it and blah blah blah. But they mention there is practically no limit to what influencers can do and how much they can earn for it. They're starring in Netflix series, launching pop careers, running brands that rake in nine figures a year, folks, nine figures is $100 million or more. Those at the top of their game are now up against actors and athletes for the biggest endorsement deals. They've appeared in super bowl commercials, staked out lucrative investment opportunities, scored ambassadorships for some of the biggest companies in the world. In 2015, influencer marketing was 1.7 billion dol billion globally, 1.7. Last year it was 32 billion. When Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research last sized up the creator economy as a whole, in 2023, it put it at 250 billion.
Jack Armstrong
So what I always think about this as somebody that's in the business,
Joe Getty
how
Jack Armstrong
are there enough people watching? I mean, there's so many different things to look at when you split up all the people. It's amazing to me that they still get enough views and everything like that to earn that kind of money. But I guess that's where you get to the stat of the average young person spends nine hours a day on TikTok or whatever. If you spend that much time on there, I suppose you see all this
Joe Getty
content and they're spitting. They're splitting up a smallish percentage of everybody on the effing earth who is watching this stuff.
Jack Armstrong
But I mean, think about when we were young and which is, you know, might as well be a 500 years ago as 50 years ago in terms of, or 40 years ago in terms of how much things have changed. But God, I took in on the big nights. I'd take in an hour because we'd watch two 30 minute sitcoms at night when I was a kid. The rest of the nights may be 30 minutes, certainly not hours and hours and hours. So people consume so much more media now.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Than anybody ever did. Right?
Joe Getty
Yeah. And, and again, because it's in your hand, it's everybody on effing earth. This gal who runs that department of the, the big talent agency, Cutie, by the way, she's the big swinging Richard at that company now. It ain't movie stars, it's influencers on the tickety tock on the Instagram. Partly because you can custom fit your ad campaigns to, you know, that crowd and their interests. And man, it is, it is 100%. I mean like advertising on the Armstrong and Getty show is incredibly effective. I mean, efficient. You get more than your money's worth. And if you're not advertising with us, you're a fool. But if we did a Show that was 100% about what are the coolest auto accessories these days? If you're an auto parts person or A customization person. That's where you gotta advertise. So it's kind of micro directed advertising. And the truth is, and young people are so cynical these days and should be. It would bother me knowing that. All right, the person who's gushing to me about these guitar strings, for instance, to cite one of my hobbies, they're obviously getting paid. I can't trust that they're being sincere at all.
Jack Armstrong
A lot of them, because I watch a lot of this sort of stuff, is they make it clear that they're not. Those seem to be the people that have the most followers. And it works out pretty well because they, they, they say, I do not, I do not get paid by anybody. They're letting me use this guitar or motorcycle or whatever it is, I got to send it back. But they get, they get more followers that way because more people believe them. But then the product people have more reason to let them use the stuff because there's so many eyeballs on the review. So it kind of works both ways.
Joe Getty
You know, you're, you're right, but at the same time, you're a senile old fool. And here's why. I'm sorry, that, that was, that was unnecessarily hard. No, the young people don't have that standard. From what I've read, they see Kylie Jenner saying, oh my God, look at this, it's so amazing. Oh, I love this stuff. Look how I look. And they think, bingo, gringo, I'm buying it. But like I said, they don't expect neutrality.
Jack Armstrong
I guess I just, again, I can't believe there's a big enough audience for all this, but there clearly is some. I'm looking at one particular motorcycle I want to buy. I was looking at reviews, different people who review this very product on YouTube. I've gone through, I don't know, 20 different people that each have millions of followers that do this sort of thing. I mean, they're making their entire livings off of doing this. And there's so many of them. How could there be that many of them? I can understand how there'd be one or two, but I can't understand how there would be hundreds of people that can make their living reviewing the latest iPhone or salad dressing or whatever the hell it is.
Joe Getty
Yes, but the same way there are, there are hundreds of successful podcasts.
Jack Armstrong
I think it's part of it, though. I keep getting back to how much content we all take in. It's just a stunning amount, especially young people.
Joe Getty
Yeah, agreed, but that's where the that's where the economy is. That's where the media economy is. Producing funk and hoping somebody likes your funky track and or being a pixie haired 22 year old influencer inexplicably squatting on your agent's desk.
Jack Armstrong
And of course then every kid, like both my kids, they're making their run at trying to, you know, post stuff and have it catch on. How could you be a young person and not at least try that? Impossible. I would have guaranteed I would have.
Joe Getty
The only constant is change Jack. Change and people being a holes. That seems to be a constant as well.
Jack Armstrong
Okay, we got more on the way. Stay here.
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News Reporter
The US military is escalating its crackdown on drug trafficking in South America. Two months after the invasion of Venezuela, officials say the U.S. now has troops on the ground in Ecuador taking part in joint operations against narco terrorist groups. In a series of raids, Ecuador targeted a group that officials say was trafficking drugs to Europe.
Jack Armstrong
Troops on the ground in Ecuador. I heard a story, I think it was yesterday, some African country where we have troops there trying to deal with, you know, men. One of the many problems they have there with various groups trying to commit a genocide against another group that the world doesn't pay any attention to for whatever reason. I don't know why Africa is the way it is. People often blame it on race. I don't think that's it. But it's amazing you can, you can try to commit a genocide in Africa, one, one country against another and one people against other and nobody says a word.
Joe Getty
There are a couple of them going on as we speak.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Yeah, well.
Joe Getty
And will there be boots on the ground? There are boots on the ground all over the place. All over the place, including Ecuador.
Jack Armstrong
So let's look it up at cnn. I don't know what they're specifically talking about. Britain getting pulled into this now, I'll have to Google that or chat GPT it to figure out what they mean. But that attempt by Iran to hit Turkey, luckily the rocket was shot down before it got there. But if it hit Turkey, a NATO country, I don't know what would have happened at that point. As Joe pointed out earlier, they're hitting us and we're a NATO country, so maybe if you start the war, it doesn't count. I don't know how Article 5 works around that whole thing, but.
Joe Getty
Well, I'm waiting to see our allies flock to our side, which is an excuse to bring up a great Norman Schwarzkopf quote that I was reminded of. Going into a war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, that is good. Pete Hegseth with his daily press conference thingy, which is a quote machine, as our producer Mike Hansen puts it, just called out the Biden administration's campaign to erase our warrior ethos at the not officially what the Biden campaign was. That's Pete's take on it.
Joe Getty
Accurate enough, they would say it over
Jack Armstrong
and over and over again. What they would say is our diversity is our strength. It's the single dumbest phrase in military history. Our strength is our unity. Our strength is our unity. Not diversity is our strength. Which is a dumb thing. It's a dumb thing for just your society, right? Let alone for your military.
Joe Getty
It's suicidal for a military. Everybody gets to do their own thing. That's the strength of our military.
Jack Armstrong
We need to check in on that social media trial that's going on. There's some more audio that came out of Zuckerberg on the stand that's kind of interesting. Britney Spears, menace to society, is back on the street. She was in jail for a few hours last night having been arrested drunk driving, but she is back out. So wear a helmet or do something if you're in Ventura County.
Joe Getty
And speaking of Iran, you know those betting markets, those prediction markets that everybody's talking about? Somebody made 553k on weird beard getting snuffed.
News Reporter
Really?
Joe Getty
Who was it and what did they know?
Jack Armstrong
I would have bet on that.
Joe Getty
Plus, are the betting markets a source of intelligence for our enemies? Stay with us.
Jack Armstrong
That's an interesting one.
Joe Getty
That's what I'm shooting for.
Jack Armstrong
Cool. If you missed a segment of the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. Lots on the way.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
so I was not on this story. I'd heard the name this this guy running down in Texas against so Jasmine Crockett. We've played lot of clips of Jasmine Crockett over the years. She's a Texas Democrat and kind of a nut.
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Jack Armstrong
She's not really a nut.
Joe Getty
She is a she's like your bomb chucking Instagram star fundraiser congress person. Like an aoc.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, she's not a nut. She just understands the current landscape and that you want to say outrageous things and you get lots of donations and you get on Insta, you know, you can become a, a tick tock star or whatever, which is what a lot of people in government are trying to do. Okay. So she gets challenged, as the way happens in modern politics, by somebody in her own party.
Joe Getty
They're running for the Senate, right, against John, the winner of John Cornyn versus Ken Paxton. And that's its own story.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that's why this is important. This is an actual Senate seat. But she was going to run and a Democrat challenges her. And I'd heard about this guy, but I didn't realize what a complete kook this guy is. And he won.
Joe Getty
Yeah, he's a nice looking white fella whose act is. I'm a Bible college student, I'm a ordained minister. I love the Lord, the Bible, just, just like my fellow Texans. You love God, right? And he happens to be wildly left
Jack Armstrong
and, and, and a kook. All kinds of kook. As I read quotes. He grew up, his dad was a minister, beat his mom all the time. Mom takes son. This is the guy that just won the election on Tuesday. And they move away from crazy dad, the wife beating preacher and kid grows up to decide he wants to be a preacher too with I'm sure all kinds of weird stuff going on in his head. And anyway, this is a little background on who he is and he is a nut.
Joe Getty
Enjoy a little of James Talarico in his own words with 60 please.
Jack Armstrong
Michael.
News Reporter
Our Southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front. There are many more than two biological sexes. In fact there are six. God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non binary.
Joe Getty
So that's just a sampling. I've got another clip of him where he refers to women. He's trying to pitch some sort of handmaiden's tale crap about the Trump administration. And he refers to quote every one of our neighbors with a uterus.
Jack Armstrong
Well, I like this one. White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus that is being white. We spread it wherever we go through our words, our actions and our systems. We don't have to be showing symptoms like a white hood or a confederate flag to be contagious of the white virus. The only cure for the white, he's a white guy, in case you didn't
Joe Getty
know that self hating George Floyd woke apocalypse white guy.
Jack Armstrong
The only cure for the white virus is diagnosing the virus within ourselves and taking dramatic actions to contain the spread. The first small step is proclaiming loudly and unequivocally that black lives matter.
Joe Getty
Yeah, here's the reasonable moderate Democrat. Yeah, here's some more samples of Mr. Talarico at work. Fans of and students of the Bible cock your ear for his interesting theories. 61.
News Reporter
But I say all this in terms of, in context of abortion because before God comes over Mary and, and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary's consent, which is remarkable. I mean go back and read this in, in, in Luke, I mean the, the angel comes down and asks Mary if this is something she wants to do. And she says if it is God's will, let it be done. Let it be, let it happen. So to me that is a, an affirmation in one of our most central stories that creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force someone to create. Creation is one of the most sacred acts that, that, that we engage in as human beings. But that has to be done with consent. It has to be done with freedom. And, and to me that is absolutely consistent with the ministry and life and death of Jesus. And so that's why I, that's how I come down on that side of the issue.
Jack Armstrong
So why did he win?
Joe Getty
So he's making the argument there's nothing more Christian than abortion.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe Getty
So that, and, and, and wait, wait, wait, wait. That passage doesn't exist in the Bible. He made it up.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. What's his appeal though? Because he's so woke. So is that a, one of those deals? The wokest candidate one.
Joe Getty
Yeah. And he's also, you know, he's bright and good on the stump and Jasmine Crockett's a bomb chucking nut job of the sort that especially Hispanics look at and think. No, no, because Hispanics, for all their turning away from Trump recently, still have the qualities that we've been describing for years. You know, they're hard working, they're fairly traditional, they value family, that sort of thing. They don't need a woke bomb chucker. But this guy does a decent enough job of keeping, keeping it under wraps. So he's a self despising white guy. He makes up passages from the Bible. How does he feel on the trans issue?
News Reporter
Before my constituents elected me to this body, I taught middle school and my students are the reason I'm here to make public policy that improves their lives. But instead we're doing this, endangering the lives of some of our most vulnerable children to solve a problem that doesn't exist. When she laid out this bill in front of the Public Education Committee, Representative Swanson summed up the justification for this Legislation in one sentence. She said, if one girl loses a game, this bill is worth it. I guess we just have a different moral yardstick because I say if one trans child dies to protect someone's damn trophy, this bill is grotesque.
Joe Getty
Forcefully advocating for boys and wigs playing girl sports.
Jack Armstrong
Well, and he was going with that whole, if you don't let trans kids be the sex they parents told them they're supposed to be, they will kill themselves.
Joe Getty
Yeah, exactly. Or the activists talked him into.
Jack Armstrong
Which has been debunked over and over again, that study. So it's good news for Republicans. All right. Because this guy's not going to win a Senate seat.
Joe Getty
No, no. He ought to get beaten like a drum.
Jack Armstrong
And the Senate's going to be really, really close. And that would be a disaster if the Republicans lost the House and the Senate and the White House in two years. So that would be a disaster. Democrats are going to take the House and there's going to be plenty that flows out of that. They're going to impeach Trump, they're going to bring Trump and Melania up there to ask about Epstein. There's going to be all kinds of stuff happens. But at least if the Republicans control the Senate can keep a lid on things.
Joe Getty
So a couple of things. Number one, the Harvard Harris poll just came out. It's super interesting. Maybe we can spend some time on that next hour or tomorrow. But one of the more intriguing results was that the generic ballot you'd vote for a Republican or A Democrat is 50, 50 right now, which is surprisingly weak given the history of the president and blah, blah, blah, midterms. The second thing is Trump's got an interesting decision because I referenced John Cornyn and Ken Paxton running against each other. Paxton is a real character. He's been indicted over and over, accused of all sorts of stuff. He's a bomb, chucking ultra magic like modern politics guy, Jasmine, the same Jasmine Crockett school of politics. And he's super, super Trumpy. But anybody with any sense knows if there's a Republican who can lose, it's that guy John Cornyn, who's a little more milquetoasty Reagan Republican, reasonable, crosses the aisle, likable. He can win hands down. He's the two term incumbent. And so Trump said, I'm about to make an endorsement and he's probably going to endorse Cornyn.
Jack Armstrong
You think? Remember in Georgia, Georgia should had two Republican senators ended up with two Democratic senators because of Trump making such bad choices in the candidates.
Joe Getty
I think God forbid He may have learned something from that.
Jack Armstrong
I hope so.
Joe Getty
If he doesn't endorse Cornyn, we'll know he hasn't.
Jack Armstrong
Interesting. You mentioned a poll. I got to get to this poll that came out just yesterday on people's attitudes currently toward illegal immigration. You haven't heard this much in the media for obvious reasons once you hear it. So we'll have that coming up. Maybe next segment. We have to tell people something first. Yeah, we do. I have to tell you about Simply Safe, which I love. I love the fact that I have Simplisafe, that I got the sign in my yard, which reminds me, and anybody who ever looks at my house thinks, I wonder what's in that house. I got the Simplisafe system with the cameras and the sensors and all that different sorts of stuff. And you can get that live guard protection and it ain't going to cost you much.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, another wacky thing that Talarico said that we didn't mention. He said prison is violence. It's hard to imagine a world without prisons. Just because it's hard to imagine doesn't mean you shouldn't. Not many years ago it was hard to imagine a world without smartphones or laptops. We could live in a world without prisons. He's one of those people. You don't need jails. I mean, how crazy an ideology is that? You're an idiot. You are such an idiot. Or, or, or, or, or you've got an IQ of like 8 and it's kind of cute that you believe that, that you know, you could craft a world where everybody's going to be nice to each other. This all get. You know, your kid kind of learns this from various Sesame street type shows and then they go to kindergarten and realize why this isn't anything like I was told on every single kid's show I ever watched my whole life.
Joe Getty
So you're saying he has a sub kindergartner understanding of human nature?
Jack Armstrong
Yes. Yes.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Yes. Try to imagine worlds without prisons. We don't need jails. Are you nuts?
Joe Getty
How did he get this far?
Jack Armstrong
No kidding.
Joe Getty
Good question. He is smooth. He does a good job of presenting himself as a moderate when he needs to. He's slick. In short, I don't care how.
Jack Armstrong
You could come in and be very smooth and good looking and have a drink in your hand, twinkle in your eye and say we don't need prisons. And I'd still think you're a freaking
Joe Getty
moron because you know what you're talking about.
Jack Armstrong
All right, we got more on the way. Stay here.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
may be contaminated with glass. That's bad. You don't want your fried rice to be have glass in it.
Joe Getty
How picky are you?
Jack Armstrong
I said to Trader Joe's just because it was the closest grocery store to me. I'm not a regular for a variety of reasons because they don't have like the lame old products I like. They got all fancy stuff, man. There's a lot of hippies in there. Young college hippies and old hippies. Lots of bare feet in there. Lots of Birkenstocks.
Joe Getty
Yeah, my son's a bit of a hippie and he works at a Trader Joe's.
Jack Armstrong
That's the place to be if you're a hippie. Yeah. So why are you making that face, Katie?
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, did he? Were there hippies in there when you worked there? A couple, which is fine, but it's just not my vibe. Usually a couple.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. And the boys are good. Very, very good. Yeah.
Joe Getty
It's just always so busy. Oh, yeah, my boy tells me it's. It's a super great place to work.
Jack Armstrong
I believe that. I don't doubt that for a second. This poll came out yesterday. You did not hear much about it. Latest Harvard Harris poll, people's attitudes toward illegal immigration. And this is not the ice grabbing people out of their homes and all this, this is just in general. Asked respondents whether they favored or not Trump's vow to deport all immigrants who are here illegally. That's a very straightforward question. You for or against deporting all immigrants who are here illegally? 57%, yes. Including 35% of Democrat and 56% of independents. It's still very popular. The idea of get the illegals out of the country is still very popular. Even a third of Democrats say, yeah, you got to get the illegals out. Yeah.
Joe Getty
I would suggest Christy Noem, Stephen Miller. The only way you can screw that up is if you just get too, a little too enthusiastic and over your skis. Just be reasonably smart about managing the deportations and you will keep the American people on your side. Yeah, that's a good point.
Jack Armstrong
This is an easy win. You got 60% of the country. Just don't do crazy. S. Right.
Joe Getty
Just eliminate that 10% of craziest, ugliest stuff and you've got the people with you, including the Hispanic people. But hey, yeah, well, we've all seen it unfold. I found this interesting from the Harris, Harvard Harris poll. The right track, wrong track thing back in June, it was, oh, can you scroll over that? It was, oh, this is so hard to read. It was like 71% wrong track and 23% right track. Now it's 52, 38. I mean, it's still upside down, but as we always point out, you know, the wrong track, 52%. Half of those think we're too conservative. Half, we think we're not conservative enough. So.
Jack Armstrong
Right. It's always a little grain of salt. So is this for the whole country, right. Tracker on Tucker. The economy.
Joe Getty
Whole country.
Jack Armstrong
Whole country. Right.
Joe Getty
I've got separate economy numbers if you want them. They're actually very, very similar.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know how to answer that question.
Joe Getty
Here's your revealing stat.
Jack Armstrong
I think I've been wrong track for a long time. I mean, if I was really going to sit there and think about it, I think we're on the wrong economy. I think we're. No, no, the country. I think we're on the decline. And. And I don't think there's anything going to be Done to turn it around. So.
Joe Getty
So who says the country's on the right track? As of right now, 73% of Republicans say we are, 16% of Democrats. So there's a bit of a partisan divide there. 73 to 60.
Jack Armstrong
Exact opposite of when Biden was in. That's just purely. Am I in favor of the current president? That's that crowd.
News Reporter
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Independence is 24%. Say right track. The economy. As I said, the numbers are actually fairly similar. They're almost exactly the same. 73 to 16 Republicans to Democrats and 24%.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it depends on if you're looking at it through the lens of the daily politics or whatever. I'd probably be right track. I mean, I'd be. You know, I prefer this track to the Kamala Harris track, for instance, if you're looking at it through the lens of the White House. But I don't look at things through the lens of the White House like. Like everybody does with everything. Now, if I'm just looking at it, our schools, our lack of civic engagement, the fact that people don't pay attention to real news sources and never will. That's all wrong track.
Joe Getty
We're indoctrinating our children or our schools to hate their own country. We got a case of their race.
Jack Armstrong
We got a $35 trillion debt. And then individually, more people are taking money out of their 401ks to pay off credit cards than they ever have before. I mean, that's all wrong track stuff.
Joe Getty
Unless you're on a credit card company. Yeah. So would you say that your personal financial situation is improving or getting worse? I thought this was interesting. Improving currently 36%, which has been kind of inching upward for a year or so. Getting worse is 40%, which is a higher number than getting better. But it's been inching downward, See, just as well off has been, as you might expect, Fairly steady at 24% now for some time. Jack, this is for you. No opinion. I can track it up till November 2021, but they removed no opinion as a response in November of 21 because anybody with no opinion is so stupid, they shouldn't get polled. Are your finances, your personal finances, getting better, worse, or staying the same? No, no, no, no, dude, seriously. Better or worse or the same?
Jack Armstrong
No opinion.
Joe Getty
No, no, no. Staying the same is one of the choices. So, like, it's not better and it's not worse. You get a choice. Just say it's about the same.
Jack Armstrong
I'm not sure. I don't know. I have. Do you have more money now or less money than last year?
Joe Getty
Oh, declin the state. Trump's approval rating is steady at 46% in the Harvard Harris Poll.
Jack Armstrong
Can I click not applicable? Oh yeah.
Joe Getty
Surely you have some sort of income, right? Maybe.
Jack Armstrong
I'm telling you.
Joe Getty
Oh boy, we do another hour. Good Lord. If you can't stay tuned or you gotta go whatever, grab it via Podcast subscribe to Armstrong and gettyondemand Armstrong and Getty
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Episode: Inexplicitly Squatting On Your Agents Desk
Date: March 5, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty
In this lively episode, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty dive deep into today’s rapidly evolving media landscape, from the explosion of influencer and creator economies to contemporary political oddities in Texas. They explore why traditional media feels outdated, how social media and young audiences are reshaping culture and commerce, the economics behind background music genres like "funk," and dissect the ascent of unconventional political figures. The tone is classic Armstrong & Getty: irreverent, skeptical, quick-witted—peppered with memorable quotes and back-and-forth banter that blends humor and insight.
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Armstrong & Getty tackled the dizzying transformation in how media and influence work in 2026, painting a picture of a world where teens and young adults make and consume massive amounts of online content—as both audience and would-be creators. They skewered political extremism and naivety, especially in Texas’s Democratic primary, and parsed the latest opinion polls on immigration and America’s general sense of direction. The episode is fast-paced, funny, and shrewd—plenty to chew on for anyone who missed it.