I've Brought Joy To People

Summary

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Armstrong & Getty On Demand: "I've Brought Joy To People"

Podcast by iHeartPodcasts | February 13, 2026

Episode Overview

In this lively and unscripted episode, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty are joined by executive producer Mike Hanson and news anchor Katie Green for a quintessential Armstrong & Getty mix of humor, news critique, pop culture, and offbeat observations. The conversation swings wide: abandoned classic cars, skepticism of elites, generational car nostalgia, major news headlines (Epstein files, US military moves, inflation, Iran, Ukraine/Russia), Olympic moments, technology's quirks, and thoughtful tangents on AI, education, and love. The hosts’ banter is sharp, irreverent, and laced with dry wit—a fan-pleaser for their Friday show.

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Major Discussion Points

1. Abandoned Cars, Urban Weirdness, and Automotive Nostalgia

(03:10–11:05)

• The crew discusses a huge, classic car (Oldsmobile/Cadillac, ‘late 60s–70s) that’s been parked for weeks outside their studio.
• Mike Hanson jokes about “claiming” the car:
  “I thought, why don’t I just show up and take it? … It’s been sitting here on the street for I don’t know how long.” (04:02)
• They riff on the absurdity of modern urban life:
  “This is not the sort of place where you’d abandon a car. … What a weird world where there’s just tents and abandoned cars.” (04:36)
• Jokes about “Cal Unicornia” (California) and lax rules for abandoned vehicles.
• Extremely large classic cars (“land yachts”) spark nostalgia:
  “That era of cars...the back seat was literally plenty big enough for sleeping or loving or practically raising a family.” (06:36, Getty)
• Amusing digressions about teaching their kids to drive in massive old cars, and the hazards of potential “meth residue.”

2. The "Real" Epstein Scandal & Elites Above the Law

(07:20–09:04, 17:05–19:39, scattered)

• The crew critiques the media’s coverage of the Jeffrey Epstein files and their implications.
  • Joe Getty:
    “That’s the real Epstein scandal...the overclass of the rich and powerful live in impunity and flout the law and laugh about it.” (07:20)
• They question why high-profile people continued consorting with Epstein after his criminal conviction, discussing the culture of elite impunity (“world’s most exclusive clique”).
• Katie delivers news updates revealing DOJ surveillance of people searching Epstein files and tensions in how the case is handled.
  • Co-host:
    “DOJ keeping an eye on who’s searching for what...why would you do that?” (17:29)

3. Global Affairs: Aircraft Carriers, Iran, Ukraine & Modern Warfare

(09:04–10:00; 16:23–16:57; 35:10–41:04)

• Slightly tongue-in-cheek puzzlement over naming the US’s most powerful aircraft carrier after Gerald Ford.
• Analysis: second US carrier moving towards Iran signals seriousness not just “saber rattling.”
• News about Iran’s government using digital surveillance to track dissent.
• The Ukraine-Russia war:
  • Massive casualty numbers (2 million).
  • NATO held Operation Hedgehog (2025), drone warfare simulation drilling with Ukrainian experts—NATO forces fared poorly, illustrating how unprepared they are for modern battlefield realities.
  • Joe Getty:
    “The Ukrainians and the Russians are absolutely the experts in drone warfare right now. … Our people made terrible tactical mistakes.” (38:25)

4. Quick Hits & Notable News Coverage

(17:05–20:05)

• Inflation cooling, but the hosts poke fun at how the press frames it.
• Iran’s domestic crackdowns, leading politicians jailed.
• DHS up for partial shutdown amid debates on immigration enforcement.
• A missing-woman case (Nancy Guthrie) dominating cable news—hosts note the story seems to be a product of data-driven programming, not real newsworthiness.
• McDonald’s “GLP1 friendly” menu for Ozempic users:
  • “That’s the free market at work…McDonald’s realizes a lot of our customers are on GLP drugs.” (19:51)
• Study: Preteens glued to smartphones have higher rates of depression, addiction, and suicidality.
  • Getty lampoons the obviousness: “Right up there with the new study saying when you drop an object, it heads to the center of the earth.” (20:22)

5. Olympic Highlights & Absurdities

(20:44–22:34, 31:09–34:38)

• The hosts and their families have been enjoying Olympics coverage (via Peacock).
• Favorite events: snowboard cross, snowboarding “big air.”
• Chronicling snowboarder injuries:
  • “It’s like being Evil Knievel…this Mark McMorris…one of the best snowboarders out there.”
  • Injuries: femur break, concussion, induced coma, cracked bones: “That guy sounds like a crash test dummy.” (22:34, Getty)
• NBC issues an apology for misgendering a transgender skier, leading to a segment lampooning corporate fear of online outrage and self-censorship.
  • “They divide sports by sex, biological sex, because that’s the only kind of sex there is...but probably half a dozen lunatics [on Twitter] reacted to this.” (32:05)
  • Co-host:
    “If you ignore the first complaint, nothing would have happened...don’t adjust your entire corporate direction because of a handful of protesters.” (33:05)

6. Technology, AI, Generational Change, and Education

(35:24–36:14; 44:08–48:47)

• Riffs on ChatGPT and Grok: with clever prompting, you can tease out biases or get them to parrot your opinions.
  • “You lead it, it figures out what side you’re on, and then it just joins in...this is not good.” (36:02)
• Aerobic exercise found as effective as antidepressants for many.
  • “I can imagine how if you’re depressed and someone hits you with ‘what you need is to get out and ride a bike’...you’d think go after yourself.” (36:55)
• AI in education: teachers must adapt by reducing “crappy assignments that can be done by AI”; oral defenses are stronger against cheating.
  • Cites book “More Than Words”—writing is uniquely human, AI can’t truly “write.”
• Plato quote: "written work is inferior to oral communication."

7. Romantic Life, Love, and Social Commentary

(44:38–45:39, post-ad segment)

• Valentine’s content teased: “36 questions to make someone fall in love with you” and discussion of love in AI contexts.
• Anecdote: Olympic athlete getting engaged at finish line—banter about fair proposals versus pressured ones.

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Memorable Quotes

• “This is not the sort of place where you’d abandon a car...What a weird world where there’s just tents and abandoned cars.”
  — Michael Hanson (04:36)

• “That’s the real Epstein scandal...the overclass of the rich and powerful live in impunity and flout the law and laugh about it.”
  — Joe Getty (07:20)

• “I used to snort cocaine off toilet seats. And yeah, I know this disease will kill me if I don’t.”
  — Quoting RFK Jr. in a news segment (11:36)

• “That era of cars...the back seat was literally plenty big enough for sleeping or loving or practically raising a family.”
  — Joe Getty (06:36)

• “The Ukrainians and the Russians...are absolutely the experts in drone warfare right now…and our people made terrible tactical mistakes.”
  — Joe Getty (38:25)

• “If you ignore the first complaint [about misgendering], nothing would have happened…don’t adjust your entire corporate direction because of a handful of protesters on Twitter.”
  — Co-host (33:05)

• “This Mark McMorris…he’s like a crash test dummy…being Evil Knievel.”
  — Joe Getty (22:17)

• “Aerobic exercise rivals antidepressants in large review...not surprising.”
  — Joe Getty (36:14)

• “Writing is more than words; it’s a distinctly human activity, and even though AI can predict words, it can’t really write.”
  — Quoting listener Tim in Jacksonville, FL (47:35)

• “The horror of Communism-Stalinism is not that bad people do bad things. … It’s that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.”
  — Quoting Slavoj Žižek, discussed by Getty (45:39)

• “I have brought joy to people.”
  — Joe Getty, joking about others enjoying his own mishaps (27:50)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Abandoned Oldsmobile & Urban Oddity: 03:10–07:09
• Epstein File Reactions & Elite Impunity: 07:20–09:04; news at 17:05–19:39
• Aircraft Carrier & US/Iran Tensions: 09:04–10:00; 16:23–16:57
• Memories of Land Yacht Cars & Teaching Kids to Drive: 10:00–11:05
• RFK Jr. Cocaine Quote: 11:36–12:08
• Olympic Highlights & Athlete Injuries: 20:44–22:34; 31:09–34:38
• NBC Misgendering Controversy: 31:09–33:36
• ChatGPT, AI, and Tech Tangents: 35:24–36:14; 44:08–48:47
• Ukraine, NATO, and Modern Warfare: 35:10–41:04
• Valentine’s, 36 Questions, and Love in the Age of AI: 44:38–45:39
• Žižek on Communism: 45:39–46:19
• Mailbag: AI in Teaching, Plato on Writing: 47:35–48:11

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Tone & Style

• Wryly skeptical, often irreverent.
• Free-associative and deliberately meandering, but quick to return to sharp, insight-rich commentary.
• Characterized by banter, self-deprecation, and quick humor.
• Commentary frequently employs sarcasm, "dad jokes," and playful mutual ribbing.

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For New Listeners

This episode is a classic Armstrong & Getty ride: inventive, unscripted, topical, and acutely observant, especially on the flaws of modern institutions, media, and societal trends. The banter is fast and natural, moving from the lighthearted (old cars, Olympic stunts) to the serious (elite corruption, war, tech’s impact on meaning) while keeping listeners both amused and informed.

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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and get ready.

[Michael Hanson]

Live across from McCain's chicken outside the radio station.

[Joe Getty]

Kane's Chicken, senor.

[Michael Hanson]

And I've been wanting to do this for several days now. And I thought today would be a good day on a Friday, so. And I just realized I can't hear Hanson in my ear. What year do you think this Cadillac is, Hanson that has been sitting out here now for a month.

[Joe Getty]

Executive producer Mike Hanson noted car buff.

[Michael Hanson]

I'm thinking it's 79.

[Joe Getty]

I'm told it's an Oldsmobile. It's probably a 78.

[Michael Hanson]

Oldsmobile.

[Joe Getty]

78 Oldsmobile, close that era. Very similar Oldsmobile trying to move into Cadillac's province there of unnecessarily huge sedans. Sir, back to you. Actually, late 60s, late 60s, okay. Or 70s or 80s, whatever, man.

[Michael Hanson]

I don't think it's the 60s. Anywho, it's been sitting here. It's a cool looking car. It's as long as a boat. It's been sitting here for a month maybe. And I'm wondering if I showed up with the trailer and loaded it up and took it home, would anybody notice? Would I just have a car? I can't imagine that anybody would notice or complain.

[Joe Getty]

No, I'll bet it's been abandoned. And abandoned cars and junkie camps and all are legal now in Cal Unicornia. So yeah, I'd snatch it up.

[Michael Hanson]

I was thinking about this. I think it was Wednesday. I thought, why don't I just show up? Because it's a cool car. My son would love it. And I thought, why don't I just show up and take it? It's been sitting here on the street for I don't know how long. I mean, this is not. This is not the sort of place where you normally would abandon a car. Although there's an RV over there. What a weird world we live in now where there's just tents and abandoned cars and stuff like that. But this is a particularly cool car. And I never pulled up behind it like this and like really gave it a look. And I was wondering if somebody would pop up in the seat and say, hey, I'm trying to sleep. But nothing so far. Yeah, the situation be for that. I go to the DMV and I'd give them the Vin and say, yeah, I need a. I found this or something, and I need a license plate for it.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I might chat GPT that just to know what you might be looking at. But if it's abandoned, what's. What's the status? It's the laws of the sea. Say you can grab up the treasure. Right.

[Michael Hanson]

It would have to be a minor problem, though. I brought it in from another state. You know, we had it sitting on our farm for whatever, and. And then it's just my car. I'm gonna take pictures of it and I'll post them. So, you know, some of you guys that know more about cars, you can nail it down.

[Joe Getty]

I'll bet the title is the abandoned title is in the abandoned glove box of the abandoned car. Just grab it and, you know, sign it over to yourself. Nobody cares. Say, yeah, guy offered to sell it to me for 500 bucks. This is my new car.

[Michael Hanson]

I wonder what this. Yeah, exactly. I wonder what the situation was with the owner who decided, you know what? I'm going to park this here and start walking for the rest of my life or whatever. Whatever decision he made them decided to make. Oh, my God. That's so funny. Could not have happened in any other time, of any other place, of any place I've ever lived in my life. Where you would just have this go occur randomly. Is Michael have something?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Hanson says he thinks the car has moved in the last week, though.

[Michael Hanson]

Boy, I don't think so. I've been keeping an eye on it. I feel like it's been in the same spot. Maybe the guy just really, really likes Cane's chicken and he waits for it to open up every single day.

[Joe Getty]

Could be. It's good chicken. Boy, that. That era of cars were. The back seat was literally plenty big enough for sleeping or loving or practically raising a family, you know, back in the day.

[Michael Hanson]

The memories, raising a family. Yeah, I never. I never lifestyle where I got to find out in a car shaped like that what it would have been like for, you know, young romance. Yes. We head into Valentine's Day weekend. Young romance in the back of that car. But you'd have plenty of room. You can do anything you want Kama Sutra in there.

[Joe Getty]

Why not.

[Michael Hanson]

Thruffle, for instance? I'm gonna take some pictures as soon as we. As soon as we go to break. Okay. Today we are toiling under the title.

[Joe Getty]

Of our show Short term but Long ship Gerald Ford or the Real Epstein Scandal, which a number of folks have been writing about eloquently about how the. The the over class of the rich and powerful live in impunity and flout the law and all laugh about it.

[Michael Hanson]

That's the real Epstein scandal.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, there's. There's no worldwide sex trade cabal. There's just not. But the way these people communicate with each other, it'. To get a glimpse of it. Got to admit it.

[Michael Hanson]

And has been confusing to us, like why so many people would continue to be in contact with somebody who had been found guilty of a, you know, an icky crime. But like you said, if it's just all. We all overlook all this stuff among each other because we're a certain kind.

[Joe Getty]

Of person and do super great, cool things with each other and for each other, and we're all very powerful and. And no, we're part of a. The world's most exclusive clique and do anything to upset it.

[Michael Hanson]

And I'm sure if they overlook sex crimes like that, they really, really overlook financial crimes like, oh, please, those are for other people. They have to have those laws, you know, for little people. But we all know how the world actually works.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, exactly.

[Michael Hanson]

That's interesting. Yeah, I'm willing to discuss that. There are some revelations that came out yesterday that I found pretty damned interesting, kind of along those lines among the people that the law doesn't pertain to or they don't need to feel like it pertains to them. So what was the thing with the ship?

[Joe Getty]

Gerald Ford. Short term, but a long ship. That is our nation's biggest aircraft carrier, and it is now steaming toward the palatian gulf.

[Michael Hanson]

Why is our biggest aircraft carrier named after the. An accidental president? I like him, but he was a fine man.

[Joe Getty]

It was a very good man. Yeah. Why not? I don't know.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Something.

[Joe Getty]

Something, Michigan.

[Michael Hanson]

You know when we'll really know that there's a problem? When there's an aircraft carrier named after Epstein.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, God. Wow.

[Michael Hanson]

That's when we'll realize.

[Joe Getty]

You doubled me over.

[Michael Hanson]

Tony will realize that the powerful really control things.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, right.

[Michael Hanson]

Okay, hold on. I clicked some pictures. Now I'm back in.

[Joe Getty]

All right, good. Oh, hey, He's. Yeah, there he is. Fantastic.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

It's a short walk. I was wondering for when the cane's chicken opened, but.

[Joe Getty]

Memories of those giant 1970s land yachts.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Cool cars.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Just absolutely cool. I'd like to have my son. Because he's just learning to drive and practicing in his tiny little truck. I'd like to have him drive one of those. That's what I learned to drive in. We had an Oldsmobile station Wagon. And as a. When I was 14, which was the age for driving at the time, I was about 5 foot 2 and weighed 88 pounds, because I remember that in 8th grade I wrestled at 88 pounds, which my kids can't believe. How tiny I must have been.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

But sitting in that car, I mean, it just. The seat swallowed me up and I was sitting up on the edge and my feet could barely reach the pedals and the steering wheel was like as big as a. I don't know what. Giant steering wheel. And all I could see was hood. And I just couldn't even imagine how I was supposed to tell where I was on the road.

[Joe Getty]

A simpler time. A time when single digit gas mileage was the norm. Oh, yeah, nine. That's fine. Who cares?

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Gas is 68 cents a gallon, right?

[Joe Getty]

Exactly. So you want to get this car for your kid, huh?

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Yeah, well, I'd like him to drive a car.

[Joe Getty]

Are you worried about the meth residue?

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Yeah, I probably want to get it squeegeed or have a crime lab go through it or something like that.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

We need to start the show officially.

[Joe Getty]

At least the black light. Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It's Friday the 13th. The year 2026. He says that with a voice that implies that it means something. The year 2026. We're Armstrong and Getty and we approve of this program.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. We have science now, so we don't have to worry about that sort of thing. Here we go. Officially. Now, according to FCC rules and regs, the show starts at mark. And I said, I'm not scared of a germ. You know, I used to snort cocaine off a toilet seats. And yeah, I know this disease will kill me. Right. If I don't. Charming revelation there from RFK Jr. Is that recent? Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

What was. What was. What was he being questioned about?

[Joe Getty]

Whether he's a germaphobe, just in general.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

And I'm. And he said, I'm not worried about a germ because I used to snow. Snort cocaine off toilet seats.

[Joe Getty]

Yes. Charming.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Yeah, That's a good lifestyle. Why the toilet seat feels. Feels to me like there'd be lots of flat. If you're in a bathroom, which I assume you are given a toilet seat. There are a number of flat surfaces in there.

[Joe Getty]

Well, you want a little privacy perhaps? You can't be, you know, snorkeling up a rail, a blow right there in front of the. Your fellow shoppers at Macy's. I don't know what these circumstances.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Oh, I see you in the stall with the door closed, right?

[Joe Getty]

Oh wow. Kennedy, have some sort of pen case or something to snort your cocaine off of. You're an embarrassment.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Camelot. America's royalty on their knees. On their knees in the stall at the target doing coke off a toilet. See Camelot. That is hilarious. Okay, we got Katie's headlines on the way. We'll get to some of the news of the day and our text line is 415295KFTC.

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[Joe Getty]

A second aircraft carrier headed to the.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Region of if you want to go to war with Iran is something that's preparing for some pretty heavy duty warfare if you needed it.

[Joe Getty]

That definitely seems like it's going beyond saber rattling and into preparation. Wow.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

This could be the story of Trump 50 years from now. Yes, the war that started with Iran and however it turned out.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, for better or worse.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Man, what a busy day we have today. I can't wait to get to it. Honest to goodness. Let's figure out who's reporting what first. It's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie, let's hear it.

[Katie Green (News Reporter)]

All right, well, Epstein's at the top of the Alphabet Network. CNN Epstein files reveal new depths of his ties to former Obama White House counsel Fox Democrats fume at Bondi after photo allegedly shows DOJ tracking Epstein database searches and ABC ABC Speaker Johnson calls DOJ surveillance of members reviewing UNREDACTED Epstein. Epstein files not appropriate.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

DOJ keeping an eye on who's searching for what in the Epstein files.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Why would you do that?

[Joe Getty]

That's a reasonable question. They're asking.

[Katie Green (News Reporter)]

From NBC. Inflation cooled in January, offering some release relief for consumers.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Oh, I noticed it myself.

[Joe Getty]

Prices drop then, right? If inflation went down, prices dropped. Okay. I'm so dumb and I like dumb politics.

[Katie Green (News Reporter)]

From the New York Times. Iran turns to digital surveillance tools to track down protesters.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, and they're cracking down. Some of the members of the government representatives, whatever they called their rubber stamp parliament who've been pushing for reforms are now getting whisked off to jails and having very miserable days.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, they're. The Iranian regime is doing what you do when you are clinging into power by your fingernails.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Which might be why Trump thinks now's a good time to go. They're just, they're teetering.

[Katie Green (News Reporter)]

From the Washington Post. Much of DHS set to shut down as Democrats demand new restraints on ice.

[Joe Getty]

Partial government shutdown will take your calls.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Oh, boy, that'd be a good radio show.

[Katie Green (News Reporter)]

From the Wall Street Journal. Search for Nancy Guthrie stretches on with fizzled leads and few answers.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Man, they led with it on Fox and Fred's today and I felt like they were really trying to stretch very little information into. Into a topic. Not a lot going on.

[Katie Green (News Reporter)]

We had Fox on yesterday afternoon and it was wall to wall.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

They must.

[Joe Getty]

Nancy Guthrie.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

They must have some data that their audience is interested in it, I guess.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I'll bet it is data driven. But it is absolutely, clearly a management mandate that, look, we're going huge on this. We're the station for the poor old lady who's disappeared.

[Katie Green (News Reporter)]

From the New York Post, McDonald's tests GLP1 friendly menu as items. Friendly menu items as ozempic patients seek out protein packed meals.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Wow, that's a. There's the free market at work. So McDonald's realizes a lot of our customers are on the GLP drugs, so we need to cater to them. I'll be damned.

[Katie Green (News Reporter)]

Study finds preteens glued to their phones more likely to battle depression, suicidal thoughts and substance abuse within a year.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Is this a new study? I would imagine it's going to show up in the trial that's going on right now in Los Angeles, right?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, it's right up there with the new study saying that when you drop an object, it heads toward the center of the earth. I mean, do we need more of this at this point?

[Katie Green (News Reporter)]

And finally, from the Babylon Bee, Turning Point USA announces all American Olympics featuring Kid Rock competing in every sport.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

We did our first serious night of watching Olympics last night, me and the boys. And there was some. There's some good stuff on there. We got the peacocks, so you can go. And they got all the. Everything that's happened so far in various packages. You can just watch the highlights. You can watch the whole event or whatever. And we took in quite a bit and it was, it was really, really entertaining.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, there was some good stuff. I love the snowboard cross. That's one of my favorite sports. Although it used to be a brand, brand new sport and they used to wreck each other all the time. But it's clear they've figured out you've got to avoid a wreck and then just win the last quarter of the course. Because there used to be wild and woolly. Now there's no wrecks.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

We watch snowboarding. Big air, which I had never seen before. That really makes the ski jump look like something easy. Man, that is quite the steep drop and hill and then the distance. They fly and they do like 1800s where you spin five times and land or whatever. But it's a crazy dangerous. So the guy that was one of the gold medal favorites is one medals in the past. He crashed hard and, and got a concussion, so couldn't compete. And they went through his injuries since he started competing in 2016 professionally. 2016, he broke his femur. 2017, medically induced coma with 17 broken bones.

[Joe Getty]

Oh.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

2023, cracked fibula. 2024, broken nose and orbital socket.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, unbelievable.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

This Mark McMorris. I think he's Canadian. One of the best snowboarders out there.

[Joe Getty]

I mean, he's.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

It's like being evil Knievel. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Wow, that's brutal. Why do you keep going? You must love it.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

God, I'd say.

[Joe Getty]

I don't think you're screw loose.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

There can't be any other sport. I mean, we saw what Lindsey Vaughn did, but I don't think there's any other sport with people competing at the high level of that have that list of injuries. Holy crap.

[Joe Getty]

Well, yeah. Guy sounds like a crash test dummy. Yeah, professional, you know, crash test dummy.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

And I don't know. The doctors told him he couldn't compete. Surely they don't have a concussion protocol for that, do they? Where they don't let you. I doubt it.

[Joe Getty]

I. I have no idea.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Given the injuries that he sustained and kept going. Yeah, yeah. I had a setback coming off the injury list. I had a medically induced coma with 17 broken bones. So I missed a month, but I'm back now. How would you ever go down that thing again?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I don't. I don't know. That's. I'm. I'm cut from different cloth. More leisurely cloth that is now officially.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

The sport I would be least likely to even try is that one the big air. Snowboarding.

[Joe Getty]

Holy crap. I pull a muscle playing shuffleboard. That's it on that for me. I'm not going back on that court. The court of death, I call it.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

We'll catch you up on some of the news of the day and some of the interesting things in Epstein I came across yesterday. All kinds of stuff. I hope you can stay with us. If you missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Joe Getty]

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[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Yeah, my mom absolutely loves it. Webroot Total protection, they're all in one product with all kinds of individual plans for you. But it got antivirus, identity protection, VPN backup more. And by the way, if you need help, you give a call you get us based help. I love that that so yeah, you.

[Joe Getty]

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[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

CBS News has already tracked more than 1,000.

[Joe Getty]

I thought we got Michael too. Damn it. I thought Michael had forgotten to open. Snapping Dang it. I thought this was a real red letter day.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

I completely forgot.

[Joe Getty]

I heard Jack asked for the clip and Michael agreed to it. I thought, yes.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

I think I have forgotten every week this year, which might be a sign of dementia.

[Joe Getty]

So much joy.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

So much joy. It is fun.

[Joe Getty]

You know.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

If it brings happiness to people, I'm fine with it. It's like if I slip on the ice and fall on my back and everybody's laughing. I think, look, I lightened their day.

[Joe Getty]

I have brought joy to people.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Exactly.

[Joe Getty]

Furthermore. Ow. Ow.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Let's begin.

[Joe Getty]

I'm sorry that was the wrong screen. It's time to take a fun look back at the week that was. It's cow clips of the week. About two thirds of the way through.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

What is one of the worst performances ever.

[Joe Getty]

Might be time to hang it up.

[Jack Armstrong]

How about one last time?

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[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

To get up there and perform the whole.

[Joe Getty]

The whole show in Spanish is a.

[Jack Armstrong]

Middle finger to the rest of America. You like donuts?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Well, this is my new boyfriend.

[Jack Armstrong]

How you like these nuts?

[Joe Getty]

The tone is set right here. Oh, my God, that snow. It's not easy. It brings up mixed emotions to represent the US Right now. I think what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray.

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[Joe Getty]

Be loud with core power corporate dancers. Let's go. What do you got to say?

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

That guy was there.

[Joe Getty]

I wasn't going because he's gross.

[Jack Armstrong]

Dao the Dow right now.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

I told you about that attorney general before you started.

[Jack Armstrong]

You don't tell me.

[Joe Getty]

No, I did tell you because we saw what you did in the Senate.

[Jack Armstrong]

Lawyer. Not even a lawyer.

[Joe Getty]

It's my hearing, pal. Don't call me. Whistleblowers came. Well, I should call you prisoner because you ought to be in jail. Well, well, the governor's presided over fraud, but really as a business model.

[Jack Armstrong]

And the majority of the questions, all of these questions have really been about other issues. And this happens over and over and over and over again.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

There are three branches of government.

[Joe Getty]

Legislative, executive, judicial.

[Michael Hanson]

Which do you believe you fall under?

[Joe Getty]

I believe I fall under the last one.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, yes. Okay. Well, how do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands? A deadline given in that ransom yesterday came and went. We beg you now to return our mother to us.

[Joe Getty]

Investigators discovered a black glove.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

I mean, I hope they get the suspect because I'm not it. They better do their job and find the suspect that did it so they can clear my name.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's clips of the week.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

First of all, it was a little shocking to me that the super bowl was the last weekend. It seems like a year ago because of the way things work.

[Joe Getty]

What the what? You're right. Great Scott. No wonder I'm tired. It's been a long week.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Several weeks. Yes, it has been several weeks this week.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, my gosh. There's so much to get to today, so let's just dive into it. I mentioned this at the very End of the show yesterday. But I wanted to throw it in because all those Olympic clips reminded me of it. NBC was forced to issue an apology. I'd like to quibble with the very opening phrase of this article.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

NBC issued an apology after accidentally referring to Swedish athlete Ellis Lundholm with the wrong pronouns during its coverage of the Winter Olympics. The 23 year old Skiller skier, rather, who is a woman but identifies as a male, was competing in the moguls event and one of the commentators referred to the athlete as she multiple times. Jack, can you imagine the horror?

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

So the Olympics did the right thing in that. No, no, no. If you're born a dude, you. You can decide your. Or if you're born a woman, you can decide your. Whichever one, you can decide you're. The other thing.

[Joe Getty]

Throw on a sundress, we'll go shopping with you. That's fine.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Yeah, we're okay with that. But you have to participate in the sport of the sex you were born into, which you know the way. The way to do it. But then. So then it's on NBC to make sure you call the person competing in the women's skiing a guy.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. They literally divide the sports by sex, biological sex, because that's the only kind of sex there is. So, yes, she is literally, unequivocally and undeniably a she. But probably half a dozen lunatics reacted to this. NBC quickly removed the footage from the platforms and its social media channels, apologizing for the error. Quote, NBC Sports tape this matter. Seriously. Today we streamed an international feed. Blah, blah, blah. We apologize to Ellis. Oh, oh. Including non NBC Universal commentators. They had to make it clear that these are contractors. They're not our employees. Don't hurt us. Who misgendered Olympian Ellis Lundholm. We apologized to Ellis and our viewers and we have removed the replay of that feed. So they've cleansed history of that feed because they called a woman she. This is madness.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

If you, if you had ignored the first complaint you heard, nothing would have happened.

[Joe Getty]

No.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Two days later, nobody would have. Well, one day later, an hour later, nobody would have even known it happened. So don't, don't, don't adjust your entire corporate direction because of a handful of protesters on Twitter.

[Joe Getty]

And they're Marxists. Anyway, to Ms. Lundholm's credit, she said, I came out and identified as a man, but I compete against women because they have the same qualifications as me. And that's okay with everyone. Well, it's okay with everyone who's a reasonable human being, like Yourself, but not the lunatics. Moving along.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

I don't know if you had more Olympics, but I didn't see that. Breezy Johnson and another one of her races got engaged on the finish line. That is cool. Her boyfriend ran out there and asked.

[Joe Getty]

Her to marry him.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

That's very cool.

[Joe Getty]

Is that unfair? She's full of the adrenaline and great positive chemicals of winning.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

You think she doesn't want to marry him and he was tricking her.

[Joe Getty]

She doesn't know. Please. You're just gushing with positive hormones and love and relief and you love the world, the world loves you, and a God comes out and you think, yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

I'm hoping it's of the variety of where they thought, you know, this is what we're both super into and this will be a great memory for us. As opposed to the people that do it at ballparks where they got a girl that apparently is not that into them and they think she won't have any choice but to say yes. I get her on the jumbotron with all this pressure and the people around, she's going to say yes, and I've.

[Joe Getty]

Got her forever and we'll be happily.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Married once I force her through.

[Joe Getty]

Pressure into saying yes feels like an ambush to me. Katie.

[Katie Green (News Reporter)]

Apparently, it has been her lifelong dream.

[Joe Getty]

To get engaged at the Olympics, and he was aware of that.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Were they dating or was it just a guy who knew that and ran out of the crowd today? You're kind of odd.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, they've been together for a while. Wow. Kind of rock starish. Yeah. Good for those two crazy kids. I hope they're very, very happ together. Let's see. That's some more an editorial thing we'll be getting into. Here are some headlines for you, Jack. Feel free. We want to inquire, dig deeper in any of these. Let's do it. A German general prepares his country for war, and the clock is ticking.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Against Ukraine, Against Russia.

[Joe Getty]

I mean, yeah, absolutely. Seriously, Preparing for war against Russia.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Let's see. That was fun. We'll have to do this later.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

See?

[Joe Getty]

Chat GPT's hidden bias against your city or state. Oh, you got to trick it a little bit. But it'll go ahead and start dishing dirt if you ask it.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Right. So if I said, so if I'm from Kansas City and I say, man, I was just in Kansas City on a business trip, is that place a pit or What? And then ChatGpt will join in.

[Joe Getty]

Well, well, not exactly, but if you ask it, who are the laziest People in America, it'll tell you, I am not Pratt. I am not programmed to provide that information. But if you're a little bit clever, you'll get it out of them.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Yeah, I just. I've had the experience on Grok. Anywhere where you can kinda. You lead it. It figures out what side of something you're on, and then it just joins in, and then. This is not good.

[Joe Getty]

Like a human. Yeah, this is not good. Here's a headline for you. Aerobic exercise rivals antidepressants in large review. Not surprising. Exercise shows effects comparable to antidepressants for depression. Young adults and new mothers see the strongest benefits. Aerobic exercise and group settings seem to work the best. Depression needs longer programs. Anxiety responds to shorter sessions.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

I've never had actual depression or whatever, but I do know how difficult it is to motivate yourself to exercise, just in general. So I can't imagine. I. I can imagine how if you're depressed and somebody hits you with the.

[Joe Getty]

You know, what you need to do is get out and ride a bike.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

You think go after yourself.

[Joe Getty]

Yes, roughly. Yes, that is what I'm thinking. Yeah. Yeah. That's the tough part about depression.

[Michael Hanson]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. That's awful. So, some more headlines for you. We have confirmation. A laser weapon targeted suspected Dr. It hit party balloons instead. The El Paso airport story is exactly what we told you it was yesterday. The FAA and Customs and Border Patrol have been in a dispute about the proper use of anti drone technology near airports. And CBP decided to go ahead and use the secret laser against what they thought were a cluster of Mexican cartel drones. Turned out to be party balloons. The FAA threw a bit of a conniption fit, closed the airport, and about a day later, everybody calmed down and said, all right, all right, all right, we'll stop using this. You open the damn airport. Let's have some meetings.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Yeah, I think we probably need to be on a bit of a hair trigger when it comes to drones and overreacting to birthday party balloons. I don't have a problem with. Because that. That is the big weapon that's out there. That's something to be worried about. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

There's another piece. Where is that? I thought I grabbed that.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

You saw what Ukraine did in Russia. Was that a year ago when they. They got those cargo containers into Russia? Now all of a sudden, the lid opens up off the cargo container and the drones come out and attack all kinds of different stuff.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, we and some of our allies did some serious modern battlefields with drones drills and brought in some Ukrainians to advise and equip the other side, the bad guys. Because the Ukrainians and the Russians, like it or not, are absolutely the experts in drone warfare right now. And our, our people made terrible tactical mistakes. They were quickly overwhelmed, huge losses, that sort of thing. Because you know, I guess reading it in the newspaper isn't good enough and, or I don't know, how do you adapt to modern warfare? A little slowly I guess, unless you're in it. But yeah, we were overwhelmed and clearly unprepared. So it was a real slap in the face in a wake up call, which is what you want.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

We're at the four year anniversary at the beginning of that war and New York Times had a piece just this week. The numbers casualties and dead in that war are historic. It's amazing how little attention this war gets. It's unbelievable. Yeah, 2 million total casualties at the 4 year mark between the two two thirds of them Russian.

[Joe Getty]

I found it. NATO has seen the future and is unprepared. A simulation of drone warfare shows how far the alliance has to go to learn the lessons of Ukraine. Operation Hedgehog, or I'm sorry Hedgehog 2025 involved more than 16,000 troops from 12 NATO countries who drilled alongside Ukrainian drone experts, including soldiers borrowed from the front line. It simulated a congested and contested battlefield with various kinds of drones. Says this expert. The aim was really to create friction, the stress for units and the cognitive overload as soon as possible. That tests the soldiers ability to adapt under fire and indeed their militaries to give them what they need.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Speaking of the front line, there I was listening to a reporter who had been to the front line, Russia, Ukraine recently and talking about how there's this kind of perception in the world that because the line hasn't really moved really in like several years, that there's not much going on there. And it's just the opposite, it's non stop round the clock fighting. Yes. Anyway, they're just stunned by it. Constant drone attacks and shootings and people running across and trying to get to the other. Even though the line isn't moved, it's constant. Can you imagine what that would do to you, how you would keep that pace up anyway with 2 million casualties and then I'm on a tie. I mean that's, it's absolutely amazing. And no sign of it ending anytime soon. We've got Mailbag on the way. I hope you can stay here.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Joe Getty]

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[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Yeah, my mom absolutely loves it. Webroot total protection. They're all in one product product with all kinds of individual plans for you but it got antivirus, identity protection, VPN backup more. And by the way if you need help you give a call you get us based help. I love that.

[Joe Getty]

So yeah you can do the individual plan for up to five devices or a family plan up to 10 identities on up to 10 devices and you get all that stuff jack managed and at a huge discount right now.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

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The protection that's right for you. Just head to webroot.com armstrong for 60% off. Live a better digital life with Webroot.

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[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

If you weren't listening earlier, you won't get this but for those who were, we got this text Jack should take that abandoned car and gift it to his son with a great life lesson for him when the Sonnella Sonola cartel wants it back. That's kind of funny. And I've got a full perfect for the day before Valentine's Day segment about love and falling in love. One is this age old thing. I don't know if you ever heard this before. It's the 36 questions that will make somebody fall in love with you. This is been around for decades. Decades. But anyway, modernizing it to the AI world and people who are getting to relationships with chatbots. A i8 a incels. It's better in print than in saying out loud incels with an A in front of it. A I insults.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I get it.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

And real study that I just came across of how many times you fall in love for real in your life. Which will be perfect the day before Valentine's Day.

[Joe Getty]

Excellent. Here's your freedom hating quote of the day. Up and about communists Keeping that straight going. This guy's an interesting fellow. Slavage Zizek who is a Was he one of your wacky Eastern European countries? He is a philosopher writer is actually listed as a Neo Marxist. I think he's of the school of we just haven't done it right yet. But he said this the horror of Communism Stalinism is not that bad. People do bad things. They always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Yeah. That's interesting.

[Joe Getty]

That is the horror of a lot of communism. Yeah. And. And Marxism. So interesting.

[Co-host (possibly Joe's co-host or guest)]

Mailbag so Lenin was willing to hang all those farmers because he thought that was going to make it better for humanity.

[Joe Getty]

Yes. And bring about the utopia. It was unfortunate, but we need to do it. It's very important. Right. I was just watching a nice white lady and I think in the mini Minneapolis or some Midwestern, they trying to set fire to a warehouse because it was rumored ICE was going to use it as a staging facility or something like that. There's a good person doing horrible things, doing they're thinking they're doing something great. Anyway, drop us a note. Mailbagarmstrongandgetti.com on the topic of the Democrats being surveilled when they looked at the Epstein files, Robert writes, loyal listener Robert. If anyone is researching anything in a skiff or similarly secure facility and does not believe they are being surveilled, well, that individual is an idiot. I don't know a great deal about that. I'll take your word. Tim in Jacksonville, Florida. I like this. Yesterday you guys had a segment about AI replacing the need for writing and education. I'm in the thick of that. As a teacher in private school happens to be in beautiful Jacksonville. I read a good book over the summer called More than Words. One of the conclusions of the book is that AI will be disruptive technology that forces teachers to basically offer fewer crappy assignments that can be done by AI and it'll make some forms of writing outside of class obsolete. The thesis of the book is that writing is more than words. It's a distinctly human activity and even though AI can predict words, it can't really write. Then he says, in my history classes we do a lot of discussions and sometimes I have students do oral defenses instead of essays because it's a lot harder to cheat with AI in a one to one conversation with your teacher than it is to write an essay. Plato famously said that written work is inferior to oral communication because it lessens the need to memorize and can't adapt like a verbal exchange.

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Did not know that.

[Joe Getty]

Interesting. Jeff sent along Jack, you've hammered this many times through the years. The course catalog for history at Harvard in 1949 and 1950. We got spring of 2026.

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We've got to hit that maybe next hour. Hour two.

[Joe Getty]

The Marxists own the universities, love that.

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Topic and a lot of people are unaware it, especially the older you are the less you are aware of it. We got a lot of good stuff today even though it's Friday and if you miss a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand.

[Jack Armstrong]

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Huh?

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