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Jack Armstrong
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Joe Getty
Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Katie
Meanwhile, Trump just signed executive orders renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and changing denali back to Mount McKinley. He's serious about renaming things and he's not done there. Check out some of these other orders. First up, he's changing San Antonio to St. Tony. Next up, he's making the Rocky Mountains, the Sylvester Stallone Mountains.
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Jack Armstrong
Here's another one.
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Katie
He had the US Virgin Islands, now they're the Mike Pence Islands. Next up, he's renaming Burger King and Dairy Queen to Burger President and Dairy First Lady.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, I, it's interesting. Everybody laughs at the Gulf of America thing. I laughed first time I heard it. Even though I think it's a great idea. Why, why wouldn't we do that?
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Jack Armstrong
It's just so obviously I, I don't know what it is.
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Joe Getty
I like this.
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Jack Armstrong
It's funny though.
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Joe Getty
Like this map you sent us all, Katie, where it's got the whole world renamed America. Classic is us, obviously. Then above us, gay North Dakota. Below us, America's pants. And it goes from there up. Alaska's. McKinley's happy Finland. I like the other ocean of America. They're all the ocean of America.
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Jack Armstrong
Exactly.
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Joe Getty
And then England, Bad teeth. America.
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Jack Armstrong
Boy. So, a semi comprehensive list of the important executive orders thus far. In just a moment or two came across this Wall Street Journal poll that they just put out that I found very interesting. What do voters actually want from Trump? And they described the answer as mega light, which I think is a fairly accurate description. 53% want Trump to make significant changes in how government is run. Let's see, blah, blah, blah. And it's some of the stuff. People don't know what they like, but they like what they know. Some of these negative ish responses I think boils down to, well, you gotta make the case for people because they've not heard the case made. Certainly, certainly through a lot of Bigfoot media. For instance, 60% oppose replacing thousands of career civil service workers with people chosen by the President. Well, it depends who you're talking about and why. More than 60% also oppose eliminating the Education Department. Let's make the case to them, that's fine. I'm not, that's, that doesn't decide anything. They've never heard that case made. Those of us who exist on right leaning media or whatever, we're, we're pretty well versed in this stuff, right? Most of America has never even heard of it.
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Joe Getty
Sure. How many people think that doing away with the federal Department of Education would mean your school would shut down? That's probably what most people think.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. Or it would have no funding or something like that. Yeah, exactly. It's, it's a bit of a paradox or a conundrum or what's good for the goose, I don't know. But there's a good 40% of the country, I would guess, that has been in a media bubble run by like 3% of the country. The ideology of that tiny percent percentage of people that run the mainstream media have convinced 40% of the country everybody thinks like this when they don't. Not at all anyway.
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Joe Getty
Right. Yeah. It would be interesting if you could run an experiment where the majority of the media, for instance, was constantly talking about the advantages of doing away with the Department of Federal Department of Education and where people would be on that issue if that's what they were getting from the CBS Evening News and NPR and everything on a regular basis.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. So I get that again, the case has to be made to those people. We need to move some hearts and minds. But there were times that I felt like in the write up of this poll they were saying, oh, look at these percentages, therefore Trump should not do it. And I disagree completely. The poll finds voters want Trump to build is the wall along the border with Mexico.
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
Nearly 75% say only those with criminal records should be removed from the country. 70% say longtime residents law abiding, they can hang around now that the election's been held. And we talked about this before it when huge numbers said ship everybody out, everybody out. That was a reaction to we're trying to get the government's attention. This is a disaster. I think post election people are much more moderate on it. Let's see.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. That's a long way off though. I mean, because this whole, this whole getting rid of the 600,000 known illegals that have criminal records, that's going to be quite the process.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh yeah.
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Joe Getty
And then you get to the. What was the New York Times number? It was well over two thirds that want every illegal who came in the last four years booted out. That'd be recent arrivals, very popular. So I mean you could go to that, to the next level. So it'd be a long time before you'd get to people who've been here for 20 years mowing the grass and you know.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I don't think, I don't think there's any Any will to do that, honestly. Finally, Biden leaves office with a 30% approval, 36% approval, 62% disapproval. Lowest ever. By an almost identical gap of 36 to 60. Voters view the Democratic Party more unfavorably than favorably. That's the lowest ratings going back to 1990. Good God.
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Joe Getty
I'm looking up at the TVs and of course, their lead story everywhere still the January 6th pardoning of the most violent people. And we're learning today that that decision was made by Trump, like at the last minute.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
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Joe Getty
If he hadn't done that, think of the moral high ground we. He would have over Biden for pardoning his whole family. But because Biden pardoned his whole family and Trump did this, it kind of got, you know, all washed out.
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Jack Armstrong
And with that moral high ground, also momentum. Just the popular will to enact his agenda. It was a terrible misstep. Anyway, I'll tell you what.
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Joe Getty
I'll tell you what's the danger and then I'll shut up about this topic.
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Jack Armstrong
Go ahead.
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Joe Getty
The danger is like that Oath keeper guy with the eye patch.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
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Joe Getty
Who his ex wife is out doing interviews saying he's a very dangerous man. So. And some of these people who wouldn't have been able to buy a gun now can buy a gun again, I guess because they're no longer felons. I didn't realize that. But if one of these guys goes out and commits some sort of crime in the name of politics, who. That's going to be quite the story.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. And again, it's going to halt the good stuff. Yes. Interfere with doing the good stuff. That's, you know, I have a moral objection to what he did. I also have just a practical objection. Yeah. So plunging ahead, a list of Trump's key executive orders so far. Ah. And most of them are absolutely fantastic. Ending birthright citizenship. This one's already in the courts. Will be in the courts. Of course it was gonna be in the courts. Interpreting the 14th Amendment has long been a conflict. So that's fine. That's exactly what should happen. At least now we're talking about it. January 6th pardons. We've discussed that already. Fair amount. Halting federal government DEI programs. Could not love this more. It's fantastic. It's just. It is spraying Roundup on noxious, choking weed of neo Marxism in our government. It's, it's, it was horrible how far it went and it's great that he's halting it. It's the, again, just the beginning of the battle because it is absolutely lousy in our schools and universities, although we're going to work on that through the Department of Education, which still exists. More on that to come in days ahead. Gender identity. The president instituted policy recognizing individuals biological sex rather than their, quote, unquote, expressed gender identity, which ought to be in quotes in this article because it's a made up, radical theory term. Going forward, it will be, quote, the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female. Use the term sex. Eliminates the confusion.
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Joe Getty
Overwhelming win. I got huge applause when he announced that the other day. Such an easy one. Such an easy one. I mean, you're picking the ripest fruit of. Everybody agrees with you and the freaking Democrats couldn't do it.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I know, I know. They're beholden to their radical Twitter left trade and tariffs. Trump said he's aiming to place 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexican goods. Renegotiating all sorts of stuff. That's always his opening gambit. You know, they're the business press and, and, and free marketeers are making a big deal over the tariffs. I say, you know, just let the negotiations go for fine.
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Joe Getty
You're soft on the tariffs on Canada and Mexico. I think maple syrup's gonna be $80 a bottle and a sombrero. Cost you $500.
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Jack Armstrong
I drink my syrup out of an American factory. No maple ever comes anywhere near it. All right, pausing. The TikTok ban. This is illegal. This is overstepping his bounds. It is, to me, abuse of the executive authority. It will not stand. It's a mistake.
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Joe Getty
And News today that Mr. Beast is looking into trying to buy TikTok, which he's actually got the f to do and certainly the gravitas as understanding social media.
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Jack Armstrong
Indeed, that's an intriguing move, but again, something duly passed by the United States Congress. I don't want to give this president the ability to just suspend the laws he doesn't like because I don't want the next guy to have that power. It's pretty simple. Moving along. Withdrawing from the Paris climate accord. Perfect. Wonderful. Hallelujah. Touch them all. Mr. President. It's a home run.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, give me a break.
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Jack Armstrong
Phony bunch of jet setting bureaucrats getting together, signing accords that none of them have any intention of living up to, Right? Oh, my God. It's credit for signing it, right? Declaring a national energy emergency. This one's complicated and interesting. Drill, baby, drill. In short, I'm just not worried about it. We'll, we'll deal with any Issues that come up as they come up. Withdrawing from the who, the World Health Organization. Hallelujah again, back to back. Home runs, the lying puppet of China, UN Agency, the World Health Organization. They're corrupt as can be It. You know, it reminds me a little bit of NATO. Although we can't withdraw from NATO. It needs so much reform. The who, to be worth a. Send it. Shock it into compliance with. With reasonableness. I'm fine with that.
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Joe Getty
You're anti getting out of the World Health Organization?
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Jack Armstrong
No, I'm pro. I'm 100 pro. Pro. Yeah, yeah.
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Joe Getty
Not. I'm. I'm pro getting out of it, too. Just the argument from even people on the right is, yeah, you have to rehab it from within and the only way you can do that is be part of it. I just think it's so beyond redemption that could be.
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Jack Armstrong
I don't actually know that. I just think, quote unquote, withdrawing from it for a while will shock it into. Well, we're reform.
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Joe Getty
I've got the stats. We're by far the number one financial supporter of it.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I was just going to bring that up. So, yeah, they will come crawling to our door saying, tell us what reforms you want and we'll do them today.
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Joe Getty
Here's one reform. Here's one reform. Next time there's a pandemic, be honest about where it came from. Think you could do that? If we have the worst. You see, you're all about health. If we have the worst health crisis in a hundred years, how about you be at least somewhat honest about it from the beginning?
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Jack Armstrong
Let's start and not lick the boots of your Chinese overlords. Coming up in a moment, the final few of the executive orders, including one of my favorites. Love it. And the news of the day, of course. Hope you can stick around.
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Joe Getty
And the direction we're going as a species in terms of mating, it ain't the right direction if we want to continue to be around.
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
Trump just said something naughty. Optimistic about the ceasefire, but we got a lot on the way.
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Jack Armstrong
Stay here, Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
Famed financier Jamie Dimon says the stock market is over inflated.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
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Joe Getty
Oh, of course it is. And there's going to be a correction at some point. Of course Trump will get blamed for it no matter what. But anyway, we're also going to talk about people not having sex anymore for whatever reason in this graph around it at different ages. It's really interesting. All that's on the way.
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Jack Armstrong
And as the NFL playoffs roar along, I give you the mayor of Philadelphia. E L, G S E S eos. Let's go birds. Can we hear that again?
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Joe Getty
E L, G S E S E. I couldn't follow up at L. That.
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Jack Armstrong
Is the Mayor of Philadelphia, who, according to her bio, was briefly an English teacher in New Jersey. I'll bet it was brief.
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Joe Getty
Elgzies.
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Jack Armstrong
E L, G L S S L One more time.
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Joe Getty
E L, G S E S E.
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Jack Armstrong
G S Eglis Escal G S E, S. Elgus says that's the freaking mayor of a one party. Oh, my God. I mean, if you, like, left out the A and then E, L, G, S E, S. At least they're all.
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Joe Getty
Letters that appear in the word. She didn't throw in a P or a Q. Wow.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow. Lowish bar. Okay, so we're summarizing, summing up President Trump's early executive orders and commands and that sort of thing. He is ordering the Attorney General to review the work of all law enforcement, enforcement agencies to determine whether any of their moves over the past four years constituted a weaponization of the federal government. I'd like to know more details about it. It's absolutely a worthy goal. It's a little vague. You're going to have bureaucrats investing bureaucrats, but there's no question that the Justice Department and the FBI at headquarters got very political in a way that should not be acceptable. So good for the President. Empowering. Doge, go get Him. Love it. Love it.
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Joe Getty
Elon has an office in the White House. Lots of lawsuits have been filed against Doge already saying they don't have any right to do the things they want to do. Vivek is gone from Doge, if you haven't heard that. The claims are that there was friction between him, him and Elon. Although the other claim is he's gonna run for governor in Ohio and that's gonna be a full time job. So.
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Jack Armstrong
Right, right. The, the main gripe against Doge is that if it is a government agency, occupies space in government buildings, the rest of it it's subject to certain transpar. Haven't done yet because we all know how transparent the Biden administration was. Anyway, that's the, that's the issue. They'll work on it.
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Joe Getty
And keep in mind everybody who's going to push back at Doge is because they don't want any agencies cut or removed.
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Jack Armstrong
They want their money, their power and their turf protected. Period. End of motivation. And finally, renaming landmarks. The President, renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Denali. Etc. Gulf of Mexico is now the Gulf of America.
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Joe Getty
I like the name Denali. It's a cool name. If I Drive a GMC Denali, is it now a GMC McKinley?
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Jack Armstrong
Yes, it is. By presidential order. You know, I don't have any problem with Denali. I mean, that's what it was called for for many, many generations by the, the native people who lived there.
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Joe Getty
And what did McKinley do? He bought the state or.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I don't. Yeah, it's not like he discovered it or anything. I don't care about McKinley either way, honestly. But the Gulf of America, it's our Gulf. Get out of it.
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Joe Getty
Is it the porn? Is it the low T? Is it microplastics? Is it cell phone towers? Why ain't people having sex like they used to?
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Jack Armstrong
Jet contrails. Hank.
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Joe Getty
Actually, the latest numbers on sex for young people came out yesterday and it's pretty interesting. Among other things.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty. According to a new federal study, drinking just one alcoholic beverage a day could raise health risks. So make sure to have at least two.
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Joe Getty
I get it.
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Jack Armstrong
New York Times wine columnist commenting on that study had some interesting things to say.
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Joe Getty
And we'll get to that later about related around dry January and drinking. Probably driven to talk about drinking.
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Jack Armstrong
No, the. The government order or government declaration that Seth was talking about there.
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Joe Getty
How does anybody pay any attention to what any government agency says about health after Covid? I don't even. I don't even look at it.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, then after our entire Utes, we Generation X, load up on carbs. Lots of carbs. And sugar. Just for God's sake, steer clear of protein. No F either. Fat kills. Just carb up, everybody.
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Joe Getty
By the way, the scale was unbelievably cruel to me this morning. Like, what did I ever do to you? Why you got to be so mean? Get off me.
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Jack Armstrong
You're hurting me.
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Joe Getty
It said secless sec. Let me try it again.
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Jack Armstrong
Take two.
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Joe Getty
This is like Joe Biden the other day when he's going to have his big. It's like the great poet said, harry, do we have that? Michael, you made it rhyme louder and.
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Jack Armstrong
It'S rhyme a long time.
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Joe Getty
Okay, let me try it again. Sexlessness. It's not an easy word to say. Sexlessness is rising by every measure among young people going back to 1982, which is a handy number for like, Joe and I, because that's when we were like, you know, high school headed into college. So we have some idea of what things were like at that period. And the, the, the graph on then, this is young people in particular. So you got to think about that. This is people ages 22 to 34. 22 to 34. So I like. It starts at 22. Your past teenage years, you're on into. I mean, you're in your, you know, you're 22. All right. You don't need to be having sex at 19 by 22 if you're not having sex at all. It's a little odd. I think historically it was. Might not be now.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I would say you're definitely in the when is this going to happen? Category.
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Joe Getty
Right. The numbers for. And I'll go with the numbers that are the most amazing. Haven't had sex in the last three months between the ages of 22 and 34. And most of these people are not married. So you can't say, well, they're married and they're having kids and all that sort of thing. Nah, that's not what's going on with most people between 22 and 34. Certainly today. It has gone from practically nobody back in the 80s who would say they hadn't had sex in the last three months to a third now. A third of young people have not had sex in the last 90 days.
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Jack Armstrong
A species of animal has lost the urge to reproduce. That is a biological catastrophe. Certainly a topic so astounding it ought to be studied, you know, in every university all the time.
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Joe Getty
For haven't had sex in the last year among men. They Weren't even asking the question until 2000 and they started asking women early, which is a bit of a Victorian age misogynist, I think, view of things that they didn't even ask men that they just assumed. I don't know. I don't know what, what the theory was behind that. For who, who, who is the polling organization on this? The nsfg, whatever they are. But any who haven't had sex in the last year for men, it's gone from about 10% around 2000 to about 25% now. Two and a half times downing in a couple of decades of haven't had sex in the last year as a man between the age of 22 and 34.
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Jack Armstrong
Things are getting weird and they're getting weird fast.
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Joe Getty
So obviously you got to jump in with the. Why do you think that is? It's a very steep graph too. And let me check. Coincides pretty well with, you know, smartphones and all that. Hidden.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I think it's. Honestly, if I were pressed for my theory, number one, you don't have better people to go too. If indeed scientists ask me. But yeah, it's absolutely a confluence of environmental factors like probably microplastics and stuff like that which have been shown to reduce production of certain hormones. Blah, blah.
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Joe Getty
Just to make sure I understand each of these. You're giving. So that would be. You think the desire is down.
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Jack Armstrong
Yes. Yeah.
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Joe Getty
Drive is not as strong for both men and women or just for men because we went down for men. It go down for everybody because I, you know, it's always been kind of a fair number of women who are like if you're not pressing me, I'm fine with not tonight.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. Yeah, I, Yeah. Disproportionately among men. But so you've got that. I think we. That's going to take more study and it'll be a while before we're confident about that. Obesity causes a decline in sex drive that is well known. Well known. The ubiquity of porn.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, you can't leave porn out of it.
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Jack Armstrong
Political radicalization of young women. Katie, we're so angry all the damn time.
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Joe Getty
Katie, would you like to share a story? Not hurting anybody's feelings from a friend of yours regarding the P word, or would you rather not?
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Unknown
Oh, no, that's fine. Friend of mine, beautiful, beautiful blonde. I was dating this guy who is in his mid-20s and he could not perform because of his porn addiction.
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Joe Getty
You have a crazy hot girlfriend, you're in your mid-20s and you can't get an erection that's. And disturbing.
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Unknown
He actually admitted that it. You know, I, I watch a lot of porn and this has been causing a problem for me and I'm so sorry. It was, it was pretty heartbreaking prior to Internet porn.
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Joe Getty
And Internet porn is different than written porn. I read a lot about this because I got two teenage boys. But prior to Internet porn, if that happened, if you couldn't have sex with a hot blonde in her 20s. When you're in your 20s, you got to go to the doctor. Something horribly is wrong with you.
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Jack Armstrong
I'd go to the ER today. I wouldn't wait till tomorrow. I got no time to make an appointment. Yeah, seriously. It's tragic. And we are again, I believe the Internet AI is the fruit from the tree of knowledge in the book of Genesis. We're gonna kill ourselves.
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Joe Getty
Do we need to think about this for very long? If you combine obesity with porn, you might have solved the whole thing.
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Jack Armstrong
There are other factors too. I mean, you cannot explain a precipitous drop. I don't have it in front of me. Of sperm count among young men. I mean like hugely down. But again, there are probably, now that I think about it, there are probably six or eight main factors in this. Part of it is our utterly comfortable, decadent western world. Danger stimulates testosterone. Tests of strength, challenges, uncertainty, conflict, making up a game, enforcing the rules, winning at it. All of these things stimulate testosterone. We have designed a veal calf like existence for our young men.
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Joe Getty
You're absolutely right about that.
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Jack Armstrong
The send your your friend my way, Katie. I give. There's a little snow on the roof. A little. Literally. And feared. I'll be more on that later. I got a little gray around the temples. No problem. Oh, that's right, I'm married. I need to retract that offer.
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Joe Getty
Damn.
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Unknown
I was. I was sending you her mess. Her number right now. Joe.
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
Tell you what. By the time she had her coat off, we would be ready to roll.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. As a single guy, that was a hard story for to hear as Katie was explaining that on our text thread the other day. That's just like.
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Jack Armstrong
What?
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Joe Getty
What? Come on.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow.
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Joe Getty
And again, this graph is not. It's not subtle. And the. The steepness of it rises. Unlike that hot chick's boyfriend. His penis.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow. Really inappropriate. Funny. Very funny. But inappropriate.
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Joe Getty
So steeply, starting at about 2014, then it just shoots up for the no sex ever. The no sex in last year, or the no sex. The no sex ever is staying relatively flat. So that's not virginity, you know. People just never having sex. But the no sex in the last year or the last three months just shoots up starting in like 2014, 2016. And if it stays on this path, the trajectory, and there's no reason to think it's not going to. Where are we going to be in a couple of years? If it has gone from men who have not had sex in the last year, if it's gone from 1 in 10 to 1 in 3 in the last five years, and the line is like practically vertical, where's it going to be in a couple of years? Is it going to be. Half of men have not had sex in the last year. It sure looks like it's going to be.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. I don't know why that trend would stop.
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Joe Getty
Wow.
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Jack Armstrong
Here's. Here's my question. Because all of this stuff will become utterly impossible to ignore soon. It's almost there now. Does humanity recognize what we're doing to ourselves and adjust? Or because we're so amused and hypnotized by our devices and our porn and the rest of it? Putting aside the environmental factors for now, which I still think are significant, where do we go? I suspect, and I suspect this very strongly, and I hope I live long enough to see it, there will be something like the Protestant reawakening of the 19th and 20th centuries in the United States, where we went from a not super religious country to a much more religious country. I think a whole social movement will spring up. That'll be. I don't know what you want to call it. Away from becoming tech addicts, getting a little closer to the bone. Living life the way human beings were intended to, not the way our tech overlords profit from.
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Joe Getty
We need.
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Jack Armstrong
Maybe it'll be a religion or a commune or something, but it will happen.
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Joe Getty
We need an ASUSA street revival of not staring at your phone. That's interesting, huh? I wonder if that could catch on and spread like wildfire, like, you know, the Great reawakening did. You were talking.
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Jack Armstrong
I wonder.
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Joe Getty
I think about this when I'm at the gym. Everybody's got an earbud on.
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Jack Armstrong
There's.
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Joe Getty
It's silent in the gym, nobody's talking. I worked out in the gym regularly when I was in my 20s. It was constant conversation. What are you gonna do, just mill around in silence and stare at each other? No, there'd be a boombox in the corner with music on. But everybody talked to each other, right? The idea of just being silent in there.
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Jack Armstrong
No, there's the.
- [29:32]
Joe Getty
The gym is full of people every day, not a word spoken.
- [29:35]
Jack Armstrong
There's nothing more heartbreaking than the idea of school lunch rooms are silent, the band trips, sports team trips silent. Everybody's got their headphones on, staring straight ahead, that is. If King Jong Un had instituted that among his young people, we would be just crying out at the cruelty of it.
- [29:57]
Joe Getty
It's so easy to get, like, labeled or looked at or, you know, old people talking about kids today. They always do it. First it was a color television is going to ruin your life and then rock and roll or whatever. This is completely different. Oh, yeah, because for one thing, there are statistics to show people's lives are ruined. They aren't having sex, they're contemplating suicide. At numbers that have never seen before, been seen before in humanity, that is.
- [30:24]
Jack Armstrong
Something simultaneously anxious and depressed but not having sex. Yeah. Wow.
- [30:31]
Joe Getty
You know, it'll be interesting when we're doing this a few years from now, when the numbers hit 50% of young people who haven't had sex in the last year. The TV show Friends. It's funny. It's so popular because it was built around hooking up so much. I'm surprised it has any purchase with young people now. It's like, what are they trying to do?
- [30:52]
Jack Armstrong
Why, it's, it's icky, gross or some.
- [30:56]
Joe Getty
Or you just have no desire. I don't even know if you know anything about this. Maybe you're young. Young. Our text line is 415295KFTC.
- [31:05]
Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty.
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Katie
I heard about a tattoo artist who inked his wife with RIP TikTok 2016-2025 before finding out the ban was lifted. It's a shame because it ru. Otherwise would be a beautiful tattoo.
- [31:21]
Joe Getty
Yeah, exactly. It's a stupid tattoo. Anyway, that's what I thought when I heard that story.
- [31:27]
Jack Armstrong
We used to refer to the show as a trip to the human zoo. And that's. That's kind of. It's appropriate.
- [31:33]
Joe Getty
Even if they hadn't been lifted, the ban. It's a dumb tattoo.
- [31:39]
Jack Armstrong
Every, every single aspect of that story just radiates with dumbness. Hey.
- [31:45]
Joe Getty
The Trump administration announced yesterday a half trillion dollar investment in AI. The modern space race, they're calling it. We'll talk about that more in hour three.
- [31:55]
Jack Armstrong
That's a good moniker for it. I like that. All right, so a couple of things real quick. When I'm not in California, as I mentioned, I think last year, I'm in South Carolina. I happen to be in South Carolina right now, and it snowed like crazy all over the southeast like 6 inches of snow, which is fine. I grew up in Chicago.
- [32:14]
Joe Getty
Climate change.
- [32:16]
Jack Armstrong
Oh boy. Okay, the great argument. Because there's no argument against it anyway, so it's fine. Although nobody's gonna go anywhere for days, which is kind of fun. But my dog is so freaked out. We used to take him to the mountains all the time up in the snow, and he loved it, but he's forgotten, I guess. I don't know how dogs memories work, but I almost couldn't get him out of the garage this morning because he's like, dude, what happened? What happened? We can't go out there. And I got him out of the garage and he's mincing around and turn and he wants to go back inside. He looks up at me, I'm saying, buddy, it's okay, it's okay. He's thinking, what do you mean it's okay? Our environment has changed fundamentally and hostilely. Have you not noticed, you idiot? But it's pretty. But oh my God, the South is going to be paralyzed for days and.
- [33:00]
Joe Getty
Days and days are flights canceled and all that sort of stuff.
- [33:03]
Jack Armstrong
I don't know that nobody can. Nobody can go anywhere because there is not a working snowplow within 375 miles of South Carolina. Everybody's just gonna stay home, which is fine. Anyway, so Trump went to the prayer service, which is a tradition at the episcopal Church in D.C. right near the White House.
- [33:28]
Joe Getty
Yeah, I saw that. Where every president has gone like since, since 1820 or something. I mean, going way, way back.
- [33:35]
Jack Armstrong
And I was about to say, and it's, it's so silly in a way, in that Trump is clearly an atheist. But I don't know, post assassination attempt, I have no idea what his beliefs are or how he sees the universe. And I will not pretend to know from afar. I'll bet it's changed. Anyway, so he goes there to the Episcopal service. Oh, that's right. We got a report on this. You got it, Michael? Yeah. Hit it. President Trump and Vice President Vance attended a prayer service this morning and wound up getting an earful from the Reverend. There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives.
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Katie
Not too exciting, was it?
- [34:20]
Joe Getty
I didn't think it was a good service.
- [34:22]
Jack Armstrong
No.
- [34:24]
Joe Getty
The Episcopalians, if you don't know, it's basically the Catholic Church without the women, can't be priests. And a lot more pro gay. But like way down the road toward, in a lot of a. Depending on where you live. Down the road toward wokeness, it's like a Catholic church.
- [34:44]
Jack Armstrong
They're very progressive. Yeah. And the trafficking in the whole. Trans children will die if you don't.
- [34:51]
Joe Getty
Affirm their children break. I'd have had to stand up and leave. Hey, with all due respect, sorry, Jesus. I still am. I'm a believer. That's crap. That is just crap. It's statistically proven crap. I'm out.
- [35:02]
Jack Armstrong
Well, and then she droned on about having mercy on immigrant families whose children feared that their parents will be taken away. She mentioned the President lectured him from the pulpit there in the first row.
- [35:14]
Joe Getty
Percent of Americans agree with me. So whatever.
- [35:16]
Jack Armstrong
Well, Trump wrote in. So what was he writing a note?
- [35:21]
Joe Getty
So freaking out. A line she.
- [35:23]
Jack Armstrong
Trump wrote. She failed to mention the large number of illegal migrants that came into our country and killed people. Trump wrote. Then he goes into many who are deposited from jails and mental institutions. Giant crime wave.
- [35:34]
Joe Getty
Or how about you just get up there, quote Jesus a couple of times, we'll pray, we'll call it good. You know, we'll be thankful for what we got, give our thanks to God and get out. I don't need the political lecture, lady.
- [35:45]
Jack Armstrong
Well, Right. And the idea that my beliefs should be enforced at the point of the government's guns because that's what Jesus wanted, is such a perversion of the gospels, I can't even.
- [35:55]
Joe Getty
Yeah. God dang it. That's maddening. I don't know how he sat there and took it.
- [36:01]
Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Gettysburg.