It's Made In China. They Don't Care About Santa.

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand – Episode Summary

Episode Title: It's Made in China. They Don't Care About Santa.
Airdate: December 9, 2025
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Producer/Contributor: Katie Green
Podcast Network: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This episode blends sharp political analysis with signature Armstrong & Getty irreverence, focusing on economic messaging in U.S. politics, political communication failures, international news, and evolving social policies. Jack and Joe also riff on holiday headgear (and its dubious origins), contemporary youth fads, the rise of euthanasia in Canada, and experimentations in social media bans for minors in Australia—sprinkling in their trademark banter, skepticism, and memorable moments.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Kennedy Center Honors and Mainstream vs Elite Culture (03:11–03:52)

• The duo opens with a tongue-in-cheek exchange about the latest Kennedy Center honorees: Kiss, Gloria Gaynor, and George Strait.
• Quote (Jack, 03:40): “So you always want it to be the liberal elite and not people that regular people like? Okay, fine.”
• They riff on cultural elitism versus mainstream appreciation.

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2. Sick Days, Old-Timey Illnesses & Personal Health (04:00–04:45)

• Jack copes with being ill, recalling how pre-modern medicine might have “done him in.”
• Joe jests: “He was always sickly...” (04:35).
• Trademark Armstrong & Getty self-deprecation and gallows humor.

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3. Trump’s Political Future & Economic Messaging (04:56–12:06)

Economic Messaging & Public Perception

• Jack cites Mark Halperin’s newsletter, discussing Trump’s new rallies and the urgent task of remaking his image as a champion of economic pain.
• Halperin’s theory: This could be Trump’s last stand if he can’t convince people he cares and understands their economic struggles.
• Quote (Joe, 05:53): “If people are feeling that fear, nothing else matters.”

Critique of Political Communication

• Both agree that explaining complex economic problems in plain language is critical — and sorely lacking.
• Example: Trump’s claim that inflation is a “Democratic hoax” is derided as political malpractice, and both note criticism even from Republican allies.
• Quote (Joe, 06:57): “He’s long been bad at explaining anything more complex than one sentence... There was none of that.”
• On tariffs and farm bailouts: “The messaging is a little complicated...” (Jack, 07:57), highlighting political contradictions.
• Trade wars and messaging fumbles are discussed for both parties, not just Trump.

Pandemic & Inflation Legacy

• They stress that COVID-era inflation was undercovered and transformative: “Everybody in the country took a giant pay cut forever... had a giant chunk of our savings appropriated by the government...” (Joe, 09:56).

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4. Skepticism Toward Empty Political Empathy (10:51–11:33)

• Jack and Joe agree that empty displays of empathy (“I feel your pain”) don’t work for them; they want substantive policy.
• Quote (Jack, 11:24): “Whatever, get the F out of here.”
• Preferences for authenticity and action over theatrics.

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5. Holiday Hats, Chinese Manufacturing & Forced Labor (12:21–12:34)

• Jack wears a “cheap, crappy Santa hat,” riffing on its likely Chinese, possibly forced-labor origins.
• Quote (Jack, 12:28): “Probably made in China. They don’t care about Santa.”
• Joe immediately deadpans: “Tuesday, December 9th, with the Uyghurs.” (12:30)
• A classic Armstrong & Getty pivot from humor to stinging social commentary.

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6. The 67 Fad—Youth Culture & Generational Gaps (12:45–15:21)

• Hilarious exploration of the inexplicable “67” meme among youths: orchestrating food orders just to “cheer like crazy when they call out six-seven.” (12:45)
• Quote (Jack, 13:51): “To explain it to someone, you have to say it doesn’t make any sense. So don’t try to figure it out.”
• Katie Green participates, joking about naming babies after “6-7,” expressing hope the craze fades.
• Joe’s wry take: “It seems like the sort of thing that would entertain, like, a severely mentally... wow... person.” (14:30)
• Generational differences and the search for meaning in fads.

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7. Headline Roundup (Katie Green) & World Affairs (18:54–22:25)

Major Headlines

• U.S. Military Boat Strike Video: Congress withholding Pentagon travel funds until the video is released.
• Trump on Foreign Policy: Open to “drug strikes” on Mexico and Colombia.
• Ukraine War: Zelensky will not cede territory.
• Fed Rate Cut: Split expectations on a cut.
• Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban: Proposed deactivation of under-16 accounts.
• Airport Gyms: RFK Jr. and Sean Duffy’s pull-up contest to promote airport fitness.
• Babylon Bee Satire: “Ilhan Omar argues she should be able to stay in the horrible country that she hates so much.”

Reactions

• Jack finds the Congressional standoff on the boat video mystifying; Joe suspects “something’s going on” and rejects the usual classified excuses (19:55).
• On Ukraine: “More grinding war, probably...” (Joe, 20:43).
• Australia’s social media ban is praised as an “experiment well worth trying” (Joe, 21:39).

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8. Social Media Bans for Minors in Australia (25:37–27:50)

• New law: Under-16s banned from social media, with “age assurance tech” (ID scans, facial scans) to enforce.
• Katie explains the mechanics, drawing comparisons to weak age gates on U.S. sites (“click if you’re 18...which is silly” – Jack, 27:34).
• Joe laments, “The Internet is ruining children” (26:58), both supporting efforts to limit digital harm even if enforcement logistics are questionable.

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9. Canadian Euthanasia – Startling Numbers & Ethical Quandaries (29:12–35:20)

Key Stats & Discussion

• 17,000 Canadians died by euthanasia in the last year; nearly 1 in 20 deaths.
• Sharp increases since legalization; biggest jump during pandemic lockdowns.
• Application process critiqued as “abhorrent”—with a disturbing 23% citing loneliness as main reason.

Slippery Slope Concerns

• Eligibility expanding to include mental illness and “mature minors.”
• Quote (Joe, 33:27): “‘Mature Minors’ is a good Orwellian phrase.”
• Joe’s “speed limit principle”: sometimes tight limits are needed to avoid runaway social phenomena.

Core Takeaway

• Armstrong & Getty show deep discomfort with bureaucratized death, especially among the young, and fear cultural drift into normalized suicide.
• Quote (Jack, 35:20): “One out of 20 deaths is people killing themselves. That ain’t normal.”

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10. Mood Changer: Musical Interlude & Omaha Steaks Ad (35:24–36:32)

• Following the euthanasia segment, they pivot with bouncy music and jokes about cheering up: “This is cheerful enough to rescue a Canadian from their suicidal impulses.” (Joe, 35:51)
• Armstrong’s classic meat quality commentary and a hearty endorsement for Omaha Steaks.

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11. Additional Features & Listener Mailbag (39:07–47:50)

AI News Teaser (42:14–42:26)

• Joe teases a segment on OpenAI pausing its race to artificial superintelligence, but details are left for later in the show.

Freedom-Loving Quote of the Day (42:26–42:59)

• Thomas Sowell: “What exactly is your fair share of what someone else has worked for?”
• A core Armstrong & Getty value: skepticism toward redistributive politics.

Mailbag Fun

• Hugging norms, generational differences, holiday music preferences, and Congressional hypocrisy provide fodder for listener banter.
• Notable tip from Katie: “For hugging a guy, always hug down around their waist so they can't do that creepy rubbing along your hip line move.” (45:10)

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12. Teasers for Next Hour (38:59–39:05)

• Promised topics: The impact of laptops in schools (“We gave students laptops and took away their brains”), Joe Getty’s vision for a “back to the woods fundamentalist civilization,” and further takes on modern American life.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Political Messaging:
  “He’s long been bad at explaining anything more complex than one sentence... There was none of that.” – Joe Getty (06:57)

• On Holiday Hats & Labor:
  “Probably made in China. They don’t care about Santa.” – Jack Armstrong (12:28)
  “Tuesday, December 9th, with the Uyghurs.” – Joe Getty (12:30)

• On Social Experiments:
  “I think it’s an experiment well worth trying.” – Joe Getty, on Australia’s social media ban (21:39)

• On Canadian Euthanasia Figures:
  “One out of 20 deaths is people killing themselves. That ain’t normal.” – Jack Armstrong (35:20)
  “Mature minors is a good Orwellian phrase.” – Jack Armstrong (33:24)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Kennedy Center, Pop Culture: 03:11–03:52
• Economic Messaging & Trump: 04:56–12:06
• Political Empathy Critique: 10:51–11:33
• Santa Hat & Labor Commentary: 12:21–12:34
• Generation Gap: The 67 Fad: 12:45–15:21
• Headline Roundup (Katie Green): 18:54–22:25
• Australia Social Media Ban: 25:37–27:50
• Canadian Euthanasia Explored: 29:12–35:20
• Listener Mailbag: 39:07–47:50

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Tone & Style

• Wry, irreverent, skeptical—refreshingly unfiltered.
• Rapid shifts from humor to serious social commentary.
• Banter is laced with self-deprecation and generational perspective.
• Despite levity, a consistent current of concern about economic, technological, and ethical trends.

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Summary prepared for listeners looking to catch up on all critical insights, topical humor, and Armstrong & Getty’s sharp perspective.

Transcript

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[Jack Armstrong]

A dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And hey, y'. All. On Tuesday, we call it Little Wednesday around here. We're under the tutelage of our general.

[Joe Getty]

Manager, Kiss and Gloria Gaynor.

[Jack Armstrong]

What now?

[Joe Getty]

Trump's Kennedy center honors honoring our greatest entertainers and contributors to our culture. Singled out the band Kiss, Gloria Gaynor and I can't believe it. Remember somebody else? Charles Bronson, George Strait. Oh, that's right, George Strait. I knew it was somebody very traditionally and heartlandy. God bless George Strait. Not everything he's done for the country.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, so you want it to always be. You always want it to be the liberal elite and not people that regular people like? Okay, fine. That's right.

[Joe Getty]

That's. I would prefer the liberal elite. Yes. No.

I just find that such an interesting combination. Kiss and Gloria Gaynor. Hilarious.

[Jack Armstrong]

How y' all doing?

[Joe Getty]

Oh, just terrific. How are you?

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm ill, but what are you gonna do? I went to the doctor last night. They put me on antibiotics now. So now I'm on some antibiotic you gotta take four times a day. Oof.

[Joe Getty]

For some reason my wife is just coming down with something. She's in this acapella choir. Their members are dropping like flies. It's the season.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, things are going around. I am. My colds often turn into an infection for whatever reason they hang around. I am somebody like in the olden days, I would have died young. I think it would have just turned into an infection. Infection and I would have died.

[Joe Getty]

He was always sickly because for whatever.

[Jack Armstrong]

Reason, my body just doesn't fight off colds anymore anyway. Whatever. Maybe it's my all donut diet.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, look out, look out. Coughing fit.

[Jack Armstrong]

Look out below. So I was just actually reading. I read the Mark Halperin morning newsletter every day and I really enjoy it.

He is quoting a bunch of people. Trump's given a speech tonight in Pennsylvania. He's going on the road. He's going to do his Trump style tours all over America. You know, his rallies today hasn't done for a very long time.

All about trying to convince people that he cares about their economic pain and he wants to do something about it. And Halperin's writing that.

See if you agree or not, that of all the times.

In the past decade people have declared Trump dead from various this, that misstep political Wins whatever. This time he might actually be done as a political force if he can't turn around the perception, at least right now by lots of people, including lots of Republicans, that he's not doing enough for the economy or doesn't care enough or doesn't understand.

[Joe Getty]

Right. Yeah, I would, I would agree with that assessment. It is so fundamental, just in a couple of ways. Number one, on an individual basis, your, your financial, you know, either comfort or fear. Because really those are the two emotions we all have about our finances. Right. Pretty much one of the uncomfortable or we're afraid.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

And if people are feeling that fear, nothing else matters. And so, yeah, if I think his messaging, the administration's messaging on economics has been horrible. Horrible. Well, since inauguration day.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. I mean that's just the in general stuff. If you get to a specific of last week where he said inflation is a Democratic hoax or affordability.

That, that is rough. That is rough. And a lot of his long time supported him no matter what. Josh Howley of Missouri and lots of were like, whoa, dude, no.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. You know, he's long been bad at explaining anything more complex than one sentence. And the approach the administration needed to take was, look, here's how inflation works. Those prices are way up. There are a few we might be able to bring down. What we're gonna try like crazy to do is stop them from rising much more. We're gonna throw everything we've got into stopping prices rising much more. But it's gonna take six months to a year. Hang with us. We're gonna bust our asses to do this for you. There was none of that. None of that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Plus, plus it would be easier to do if you hadn't run around saying you were going to bring prices down. And people who don't understand the way inflation works thought that would actually happen.

[Joe Getty]

Well, right. Yeah. That's a trap of your own making. Not to mention the tariffs, which are a massive tax. They have not had hugely disruptive effects yet, but they are, the effects are being felt throughout the economy. They're just more subtle than a lot of economists expect.

[Jack Armstrong]

He announced a giant multi billion dollar farmer bailout yesterday to help them deal with the tariffs. It's, the messaging is a little complicated there. Also, obviously, if you're claiming.

American citizens don't pay tariffs, but on a whole bunch of different industries, you've either gotten rid of the tariffs because the price of coffee was so high, or you're giving a whole bunch of money to farmers because the tariffs are affecting them. It kind of works counter to your. This doesn't come back to cost the American taxpayer money claim.

[Joe Getty]

I, I think the, the effect the tariffs are having on farmers is mostly it's the trade war, although, you know, their equipment costs and that sort of thing are rising, too. But it's mostly Chinese retaliation that I think that's bothering the farmers. But anyway, it's all related, you know, and I don't want to just bash Trump because we need to have a wrestling match with China over trade policy. Need it very, very much there. That relationship's been way out of whack for decades now, but it's a tough road, no doubt, and it's gotta be handled. Back to the messaging thing. It's gotta be handled with a little sensitivity and skill. Understanding, you know, leading your people through difficult times is real leadership. And there are a bunch of examples of it through history, those who've done a good job, whether it's war or economic bad times or look, we've gotta go through a period of austerity to straighten out our budget. Here's why we're doing it. You've got to be with me on this. It's not been great lately.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, no. And neither party has any interest in that sort of thing.

[Joe Getty]

True.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. The. When inflation really spiked there during COVID after we spent all those trillions of dollars, that was so much worse and so much bigger a story than people even appreciated, than the media covered it because they, they bought into the Joe Biden thing as transitory or not that big a deal or whatever. Everybody in the country took a giant.

[Joe Getty]

Pay cut forever and had a giant chunk of our savings appropriated by the government as well.

[Jack Armstrong]

And it doesn't go away.

[Joe Getty]

Confiscated. Brutal.

[Jack Armstrong]

Absolutely brutal. And whoever ended up president after that was going to, was going to be stuck with those prices and have to, you know, deal with the. As we all get more and more weary, continue to be weary every time we go out to either go to the grocery store or do whatever we're going to do.

[Joe Getty]

So the, you know, the classic explanation of what Trump and company are doing with these rallies is that prior to the midterms, they want to get the word out that, hey, we're on your side. We're working as hard as we can to, you know, straighten out the economy and lower inflation, stuff like that, which is good. Those are really, really good messages. Is it too little, too late is the question. Can a bunch of rallies sway people at. Oh, he does get it. I don't know. We'll see. And you know there are plenty of events that will intervene between now and the midterms too.

[Jack Armstrong]

I. This is where the politics doesn't work on me anyway. Just because. Because. Just because a politician goes out and says, I care about you and your problem with X doesn't work on me.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

I need to hear some sort of policy that's going to have some effect on me. I don't. The whole Bill Clinton, I feel your pain. I know it works on millions of people. It doesn't work on me. Whatever. You politician.

[Joe Getty]

Well, that's a nice handshake, but. All right, what do you got for me? The compassion thing is not useless, but that's just the. That's just the opening word. Now, what you got to me?

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm very cynical about politicians and they're crap. Throw on your barn jacket, staying on a bale of hay and tell me how much you care about my life. Whatever. Get the F out of here.

[Joe Getty]

Right, right. There you go. That's the spirit.

[Jack Armstrong]

But I'm interested to see what Trump says tonight at the speech. If he dials back the whole all this is a hoax thing, which is probably a good idea because it's not a hoax.

[Joe Getty]

Well, God, he's so incapable of explaining himself. If you wanna say blaming me for the price of meat in the grocery store right now is a hoax, it went up under Biden. We're trying to hold the line here, but I haven't even heard an explanation that good. That's a hoax. It's a Democrat hoax.

[Jack Armstrong]

What is.

Well, hopefully when we're at war with Venezuela, all this will be forgotten. Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. I'm wearing a Santa hat again today. Helps me feel better.

My son took the good Santa hat. We got a good Santa hat and a cheap, crappy Santa hat. I'm wearing the cheap, crappy Santa hat. Probably made in China. They don't care about Santa.

[Joe Getty]

Tuesday, Tuesday, December 9th with the Uyghurs.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, exactly. Probably made with slave labor. This Santa hat right here. 20, 25. Where Armstrong and Yeti. And we approve of this program.

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Are you actually. We have taken 67 out of our system. So whenever we're taking orders, it goes 66 to 68. Because of people like you. Because of people like you. That's the nice girl at the In N Out burger where they had to stop having 67 as a number because And I've actually seen this in my own real life. You get a bunch of young people come in and they realize that it's at like 52 or whatever, the number they're calling out. They all do an individual order of, like, one thing. I'll get a milkshake. I would like a fry. I would like whatever. To get through enough numbers to get it up to 67 so they can all cheer like crazy when they call out six seven.

[Joe Getty]

This is so strange. And we talked about this before the show. As a guy with grown kids, I have no experience of this in real life. None. But for a lot of the population, it's like, omnipresent, right? Oh, absolutely.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, my brother who works for the city was talking about how he constantly works it in with his boss just to annoy him.

Wow. My parents, who are grandparents of my kids, just became aware of the whole 6, 7 phenomenon and were somewhat confused by it. To explain it to someone, you have to say it doesn't make any sense. So don't try to figure it out. It doesn't make any sense.

[Joe Getty]

It is. It is a fad without a fad.

[Jack Armstrong]

If you want to see the. I mean, go on YouTube. You can look for any sports game in the country, any high school basketball game. When A team hits 67, crowd goes wild. Oh, my God.

Easily amused is an understatement.

[Joe Getty]

Well, that's the thing. It seems. And again, I don't want to be bitter old guy shouting at clouds, but it is so devoid of any substance whatsoever. It seems like the sort of thing that would entertain, like a severely mentally wow. Person.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

I mean, just fascination with combination of numbers. You might have to. There's nothing there.

[Jack Armstrong]

You haven't revealed your baby name, Katie, but you might have to consider six, seven.

[Katie Green]

I'm. I'm just.

[Jack Armstrong]

With the babies being born.

[Joe Getty]

If you want to murder him, Katie, I won't say a word. I'll hand you the gun.

[Jack Armstrong]

The kid's six pounds, seven ounces. Oh, my God.

[Joe Getty]

Well, that'll be just the weight. And it has no significance.

[Jack Armstrong]

The doctor would come in and say, here's your. Your baby, six, seven.

[Katie Green]

And then I would knock that doctor the F out. I am praying that this trend is gone by the time my kid is old enough to figure out what's going on.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, well, the war in Venezuela will wipe this all from our memory. We do need to talk about that as we had a quite, quite the military exercises yesterday and so did Venezuela as they're prepared for our invasion. And are vowing to fight to the last man to defend their socialist Heaven Utopia. Yes. So we got Katie's headlines on the way. Lots of news to catch you up on. Our text line is 415295KFTC.

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[Jack Armstrong]

As always, we just need stuff that's interesting. Who freaking cares? If it's got anything to do with the news of the day, this actually kind of has something to do with the news of the day. I've got a stat for you out of Canada around their euthanasia that's mind blowing.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah, Good.

[Jack Armstrong]

Good for a discussion. So we'll have to get to that at some point.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I'm delighted to do that. We can talk about ideas all day long and ignore the news if you'd like. I'm 100% on board. That's probably a poor lead into this feature. It's who's reporting what.

[Katie Green]

Hey, thanks.

[Joe Getty]

The lead story with Katie Green. Katie, go ahead. Nobody wants your crap, but go ahead.

[Jack Armstrong]

Katie. Somebody. Somebody sent me this.

[Katie Green]

Okay.

[Jack Armstrong]

This is my. This is my stepladder. I never knew my real ladder.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. You child.

[Katie Green]

Depressing joke.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, Exactly.

[Jacob Goldstein]

Yeah.

[Katie Green]

All right. Well, the boat strikes at the top. So we've got three of the top headlines on that. From abc, lawmakers move to compel Hegseth to release military video of September 2nd boat strike. Politico, Congress to withhold Pentagon travel funds until it sees the boat strike video.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. And from the Republican dominated Congress. Yeah.

[Katie Green]

And the Washington Post, Trump says Hegset will decide whether to release the boat by boat strike video.

[Jack Armstrong]

That is something I didn't hear that about. Congress saying we're going to yank your funds. Show us the damn video. There's no, there's no excuse for not releasing that video.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, well, it's. There's something going on here. There. The easiest, easiest thing to do is just say, here's the video. Look at it. It's like all those videos. There you go. Are we done here? That would be the easy thing to. Why aren't they doing the easy thing now? It's not to protect methods and sources or whatever else.

[Katie Green]

From Newsweek, Trump now open to drug strikes on Mexico and Colombia.

[Jack Armstrong]

Mexico, wow.

That's getting pretty close to home.

[Katie Green]

From BBC, Ukraine prepares for new peace plan as Zelensky rules out giving up any land.

[Jack Armstrong]

I have no idea where this is going.

[Joe Getty]

More grinding War, probably. And Trump is more or less saying, yeah, we're pulling out a funding Ukraine. We'll see.

[Katie Green]

For the Wall Street Journal, an unusually divided Fed is expecting to deliver a rate cut.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, are they?

[Joe Getty]

Okay, quarter point and then say, that's it for a long time, so don't ask for any more. We'll see. They're a little troubled that inflation is still as high as it is.

[Jack Armstrong]

You're a mean one, Mr. Fed from.

[Katie Green]

NBC Australia launches youth social media ban as it says it will be the world's first first. They're deactivating over a million accounts for anyone under the age of 16.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, it'll be interesting to see that, how that, well, that works. I don't know how, how, how functionally, how well it worked to stop kids from being on social media. Of course, if it's a lot harder to get to and there's not as much around, fewer people are on it, it'll have less appeal.

[Joe Getty]

I think it's an experiment well worth trying.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sure, why not?

[Katie Green]

From the New York Post, RFK Jr. And Sean Duffy have a pull up competition while touting a one billion dollar bid to add mini gyms and healthier food options at airports.

[Jack Armstrong]

You're like the only two guys over 40 in America that can do pull ups and you're just very happy about that.

[Joe Getty]

At an airport.

[Katie Green]

At an airport, RFK did 20, Duffy did 10. And finally, from the Babylon.

[Jack Armstrong]

How many pull ups is that? What is he, 70? That's unbelievable.

[Katie Green]

Roids from the Babylon be Elon Omar argues she should be able to stay in the horrible country that she hates so much.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, no kidding.

[Jack Armstrong]

You need to shut up.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, shut up, Elon.

[Jack Armstrong]

We'll catch you up on more news of the day. There's some interesting stuff out there, I promise.

[Jacob Goldstein]

Armstrong and Getty, this is Jacob Goldstein from what's your problem? Business software is expensive. And when you buy software from lots of different companies, it's not only expensive, it gets confusing. Slow to use, hard to integrate. Odoo solves that because all Odoo software is connected on a single affordable platform. Save money without missing out on the features you need. Odoo has no hidden costs and no limit on features or data. Odoo has over 60 apps available for any needs your business might have, all at no additional charge. Everything from websites to sales to inventory to accounting, all linked and talking to each other. Check out [e-mail] that's o d o o dot com.

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[Joe Getty]

A new law is set to take effect this week in Australia to keep children under 16 off social media, which means millions of Children in Australia will finally put their phones down, go outside, get bit by something and die.

I should have given them an iPad.

That's an excellent Australia's full of nasty animals joke, love.

[Jack Armstrong]

It is. My niece just spent a whole summer there doing a medical internship. And there's all kinds of crazy spiders.

[Joe Getty]

And crap there, snakes, there's the frogs that'll kill you. It's insane.

[Jack Armstrong]

But just so Katie had that in her headlines, the idea that Australia is going to try banning social media for teens, how will they go about doing. Do they have any different control over their Internet than we do here in the United States where the government can step in? Or is it the ridiculous Click this if you're 18 to prove that you're 18.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I don't, I don't recall reading anything about the mechanics of it.

I think it might just be really harshly enforced regulations to make sure the social media companies themselves check ages and stuff. That's worth looking into because whether this stuff works or not is of concern, I think, to virtually everybody.

As the Internet is ruining children, ruining our children.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, no doubt. You'll get no argument out of me.

[Katie Green]

Yes, Katie, I'm seeing that they're going to use, quote, age assurance tech like facial. Facial scans and ID checks.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's interesting because you have to get.

[Katie Green]

Your ID over there apparently by the time you're 16. So they're going to have you scan your ID.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think it's not bad because.

I like. The only thing we have in the United States, I think so far, is porn. And it's, you know, click this if you're 18. If you're not 18, don't click. Yes.

Which is silly, but if you had to show your driver's license or ID or something, of course. Who wants to put their ID into a porn site? Probably not a lot of people.

[Joe Getty]

Your kid who's porn addicted, grabs yours.

[Jack Armstrong]

Awesome.

[Joe Getty]

For instance. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. I don't know. But yeah, like you said, I have no problem with them trying. For whatever reason, my boys are not interested in social media stuff, but there's plenty of other things on the Internet that they do and spend a lot of time on that is awful. They just, for whatever reason, they don't care about the social stuff.

[Joe Getty]

This is a bit of a tangent, but it's a bunch of stuff we've talked about already so far kind of coming together in my head. And one thing we've become very bad at politically, our politicians and just as a people is understanding if you let a problem go.

Past a certain point, if you let it grow, fixing it is going to be painful. And everybody acts as if, well, undergoing the pain of, say, budget cuts and serious welfare reforms and the rest of it is unfair. It's a how dare you do that to me? Or, you know, it's going to cause a lot of stress in families. Detoxing kids from their social media addictions.

That's why you nip things in the bud, as they say.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, moving from Australia where they speak English to Canada where they speak English, a different former colony of Great Britain, they have set a new record with their killing people through euthanasia.

I didn't realize Canada is approaching the 10 year mark of practicing legalized assisted suicide. Man, time goes by when you get older. But they've been at it for almost 10 years now. A total of 16,499 people, let's call it 17,000 people, were put to death by euthanasia last year. That's 1 in 20 deaths, according to many estimates, in the entire country were euthanasia. Now, the largest jump in numbers came from 2019 to 2020. For some reason, there was almost a 40% jump that year. Covid it is slowed down. People killing themselves because they have Covid.

[Joe Getty]

Well, no, because they're depressed in the freaking leftist government locked them down, wouldn't let them do the things human beings need to do to be happy.

[Jack Armstrong]

The increases have slowed. It'll take more years to determine, you know, how many, what percentage of the population is actually interested in this at any given time.

There's a lot of interesting stuff in here. About 4% of people who are approved for assisted suicide. Just the idea that you apply to a government building to whether or not somebody is going to kill me at my wish, and they determine whether or not I get to, I find abhorrent.

[Joe Getty]

The whole thing's pretty abhorrent in the real world.

[Jack Armstrong]

A bunch of bureaucrats in a building are gonna decide whether or not I get to kill myself or not. The hell is that? Anyway? About 4% of the people who were approved for assisted suicide did not have a terminal diagnosis or reasonable, reasonably foreseeable death. Nearly 23% of people overall reported isolation or loneliness as their main reason for seeking euthanasia.

[Joe Getty]

Right?

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm lonely, so I'd like to die. I'd like the government to come kill me.

[Joe Getty]

And whether you're looking at, say, the, the bullet train or a thousand other government programs, the numbers have turned out to be way, way, way, way bigger than the legislators said they would be. When they passed this thing a decade ago. They said it'd be extremely rare. There'd just be a few people every year in the most miserable of circumstances. It's the merciful thing to do. A lot of people said, yeah, I get that. That's it's their life, it's their choice. Okay? And the numbers have just exploded and the guidelines have gotten looser and looser and more and more vague.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, how do you square this with some sort of libertarian personal freedom? If I want to kill myself, I should be able to kill myself thing?

[Joe Getty]

I still don't have the right name for this principle. You impose a limit.

So you achieve a different limit. My favorite is the speed limit. The speed limit's 70. Not so everybody will go 70, but so nobody goes 90. You outlaw prostitution, so there's not prostitution everywhere. It exists, but it's limited by that other limit. And the suicide thing, euthanasia thing. You say no, no way in a society. So only those who are really, really, really serious about it end up going that route.

Because Canada has proven if you make it, you know, fairly easy and an official procedure and everybody knows how to do it, the numbers explode far beyond what you thought they would. It's like the, you know, legalizing pot or whatever. I remember thinking and hearing people say, you know, pot is easy enough to get even though it's illegal right now. We don't expect to see any significant gross growth in pot use if it's legalized. That turned out to be completely wrong.

[Jack Armstrong]

There are growing concerns is eligibility for this program is expected to expand next year to people whose underlying condition is mental illness. And a joint House of Commons Senate committee has recommend extending it to mature minors from just adults.

[Joe Getty]

Oh my Lord.

[Jack Armstrong]

Mature minors is a good Orwellian phrase.

[Joe Getty]

That makes me want to go militant. Well, it's like the progressives who think a 12 year old can consent to life altering chemical treatments and surgeries.

[Jack Armstrong]

Mature minors. What a great Orwellian phrase. So the government's going to decide whether this 16 year old is mature enough to be considered an 18 year old. Let me guess. A lot of the times you're going to say yes if it's, you know, for the program that you created.

[Joe Getty]

Wow, this depressed 16 year old is really articulate and brought us some evidence from other countries. They're a mature miner. And so I think we ought to let that 16 year old kill themselves. In fact, we're going to help. I'm telling you, I don't know exactly how to articulate this as A lover of liberty. But.

Unless you are going to let people fully carry the weight of all of their choices, you know, eliminate the welfare state for everybody but the most miserable among us, you know, and there's a dozen examples of what you would have to do. But we need limits. It's clear. We need guidelines as human beings. Otherwise crazy stuff takes root and you get these social contagions and they're just unhealthy. It's. The balance is tough. I'm not saying it's easy, man.

[Jack Armstrong]

You expand it to. I mean, it's already really disturbing. The idea of 18, 19, 20 year olds being able to make this lifetime decision. You expand it to 15, 16 year olds or whatever they're planning to do. God, that's horrifying.

One out of 20 deads is people killing themselves. That ain't normal. You think throughout the history of mankind that percentage of people killed themselves?

[Joe Getty]

Of course not. Now that's insane.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's all of our hardware, programming.

[Joe Getty]

All right, we need something. We need a mood changer of some sort. Michael. I don't know what it.

Transition music or we have any wacky audio or something.

The electric piano, the saxophone.

The jazzy drum.

Just what we need.

This is cheerful enough to even rescue a Canadian from their suicidal impulses.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know what?

[Joe Getty]

Oh, no, I. Whoops, I screwed up.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, you know what? I was gonna go down to the hospital, but I'm gonna flip on a hockey game, grab myself a Molson, my Kooky Canadian hat and enjoy my life a little. Now that I've heard this music.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I'm in a better frame of mind.

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[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I know, I know this is probably true for all food, but like a lot of stuff then you know, this is farm grown or this is fresh from the field or whatever. And I can't tell the difference between other stuff. Not true with meat, man meat. Huge difference in quality of meat. And Omaha Steaks is the absolute best out there. Whether you're talking about the steaks or the burgers or whatever, we absolutely love it all. And I'm happy anytime we got a box showing up. And I love this sale that they've going on got going on right now where you can visit Omaha steaks.com for 50 off site wide during the Sizzle all the Way sale.

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

I will attack you with some AA stuff later as OpenAI, which has really been the leading AI company out there, Sam Altman made a giant announcement yesterday in the direction of the company. Huge. So we'll talk about that. Justini. The Monday Night Football last night. Man, that the fourth quarter in overtime. Wow, was that something? With defending super bowl champs losing on an interception at the very end of the game to the San Diego. Sorry, I called them the San Diego Chargers.

[Joe Getty]

You should charger. It's an obscenity. I'd rather hear the F word on the air than the phrase Los Angeles Chargers.

[Jack Armstrong]

Disgusting, man. That was a fun game.

[Joe Getty]

No, I didn't see a second of it, unfortunately. And speaking of the kids and tech and that sort of thing, how do you like this headline? We gave students laptops and took away their brains. Decades of data show a clear pattern. The more schools digitize, the worse students perform.

[Jack Armstrong]

That doesn't surprise me at all.

[Joe Getty]

Correlation or causation?

We'll take a look at it.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm leaning causation.

[Joe Getty]

Okay.

[Jack Armstrong]

Timing suspicious, though.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, we'll see. Oh, my gosh. I saw another graphic. I'll explain it to you. I think I can pretty effectively about how Americans spend their time from, oh, boy, the early 20th century to now.

[Jack Armstrong]

Is this going to make me want to move to Canada and buy a rope and a creaky stool?

[Joe Getty]

No, no. That's not how they do it up there anyway. But. No, but it may motivate you to join Joe Getty's new back to the woods fundamentalist civilization that I'm going to found.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, cool.

[Joe Getty]

We're going to be like the Amish, but with, like, cocktails.

[Jack Armstrong]

I want to hear that. The Amish with cocktails. I want to hear that in hour two. We got Mailbag on the way.

[Announcer]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Stay here.

[Jacob Goldstein]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Who wouldn't?

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[Joe Getty]

Dream Machine, the long and short of.

[Jack Armstrong]

It is probably the leading AI company in the world has decided, yeah, we're going to put off to trying to get to AI super intelligence for a while. Which is, you know, pretty big news.

[Joe Getty]

We'll talk about that later. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Love this one. As wise as it is simple, simple as it is wise. From the great Thomas Sowell. What exactly is your fair share of what someone else has worked for? Oh, so obviously true question you've been asking for many years. The rich need to pay their fair share. Okay, what's that share? How much You. You tell me.

[Jack Armstrong]

Currently they're funding everything practically. So what would be fair?

[Joe Getty]

What exactly is your fair share of what someone else has worked for? That's great. Mailbag.

If you would like to correspond, please do. Email address is mailbagarmstrongygetty.com [e-mail] Jeff Listener from day one writes, I'm disappointed in Katie. Your headline yesterday from the Babylon Bee husband issues travel ban on any trucks from Amazon was good, but she missed this one. How could she? Nigerian prince scammed by Somali immigrants.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, that's pretty funny.

[Joe Getty]

That is pretty good.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's a funny joke. I will.

[Joe Getty]

I will not hear Katie called into question her Skittles.

[Katie Green]

Thank you. I think that one might have come up later in the day.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I think it probably did. Yeah. Yeah. Let's see.

I had to learn to hug people. Rights. I'll say. Anonymous Listen to the podcast. Jack said he'd rather get in a fight than fist fight than hug someone. Yes. When I left home and moved to California at the age of 18, I was very confused by all the hugging. I felt like people were constantly hugging, say hello, goodbye, or just because. And I hated it. I really had to observe other people and just bite the bullet to fit in. Handshakes are so underrated. Then she mentioned that she married into a family of huggers and kissers. Egad. But learned to adjust.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well. Okay, that's. That's a different situation. You married into a family of huggers and you got a. But the. The. Before that, I feel no need to fit in so.

[Joe Getty]

And then this is my favorite part. I will never initiate a hug, but I'll go along if it's clear the other person wants to hug. Unless it's a man I don't know well. And I think he's just moving into Copperfield. Then he gets the cold, hard handshake of death.

[Jack Armstrong]

Ladies, I'm telling you, I know guys like this. I've known him my whole life. Lots of them are huggers because they want to hug young women. That's why they're huggers.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, man. I just find that so off putting.

[Jack Armstrong]

I do, too.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

You are a young woman, so you should weigh in.

[Katie Green]

Well, just a tip for hugging a guy, Always hug down around their waist so they can't do that Creepy rubbing along your hip line move forces their arm to go up.

[Jack Armstrong]

Is that a thing?

[Katie Green]

Yes, it is. Yes, it is.

[Joe Getty]

See, it's funny. I have enjoyed nothing more in my life, I think, than being inside the zone of intimacy with females.

[Jack Armstrong]

It does have its glasses.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Yeah. Very big fan of that. But the idea of being in that zone, like, un. Uninvited.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Horrifies me.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, yeah. And having them talking to their friends about it. Oh, my God.

[Joe Getty]

And being. Being the creepy guy horrifies me.

[Katie Green]

Anyway, it horrifies us, too.

[Joe Getty]

Sure it does. I'm gonna keep it light in this mailbag. I made the decision. Eric. Eric Hop Singh from Astoria, Oregon. Beautiful Astoria. Y' all mentioned Christmas music mentioned some of your favorites, like Michael buble, Harry Connick Jr. Philistines, the lot of you. There is only one appropriate music for the yuletide season. To wit, Christmas on the Ponderosa from 1963. A Christmas without the dulcet tones of Lorne Green and Dan Blocker. That's an America I don't want to live in. Have I heard that?

[Jack Armstrong]

Is that something we used to play years ago?

[Joe Getty]

It sounds vaguely familiar. Christmas on the Ponderosa with the cast of Ponderosa Bonanza. Bonanza, right. Yeah. Let's see. Ryan from Houston is just spitting mad problems with our Spitty Congress. Our worthless Congress has trillions issues. But the main reason I can't trust any of them is this. It's amazing that the stupid party and the evil party all say the same thing on an issue. For instance, they all see hideous war crimes in the Venezuelan drug boat thing are clearly an action that was justified. I can't trust any of them because these lying liars, all they do is lie. And then he throws in a different email. The video could have shown a guy with the rocket launcher in one hand and holding a Scarface level of cocaine. Or two people creating Jack and Rose from the Titanic while holding their detached limb. And those lying liars would still say spew the same bs. You're right. You're right. They would have stuck to their scripts no matter what they saw.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I tend to only pay attention if people have a comment that runs against their type or party. That's about the only time you can get my interest. And me think I believe you, which is unfortunate.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, unless it's somebody making an especially eloquent argument, but that's increasingly rare in our Instagrammy politics world.

[Jack Armstrong]

Boy, Joe teased so many good things that I can't wait to hear myself. I hope you feel the same. It's coming up an hour or two. If you missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand.

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