Jack Enjoys Bone Inductions

Summary

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Episode: Jack Enjoys Bone Inductions

Date: January 13, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Podcast Network: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on the hosts’ commentary of recent quirky and controversial products at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), debates around privacy and technology, social and political developments including Supreme Court cases about transgender athletes, and political topics ranging from anti-Semitism to AI’s impact on the power grid and society. The hallmark Armstrong & Getty tone—a blend of skepticism, humor, and cultural commentary—permeates throughout, with memorable banter, offbeat news, and thought-provoking takes.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. CES "Worst in Show" Awards & Bone Induction Tech

(00:28–06:47)

• Musical Tech Lollipop: Jack and Joe lampoon the “Lollipop Star,” a lollipop that uses bone conduction to play music as you eat.

  • Jack: “One of the worst in show winners at the Consumer Electronics Show… stuff you wouldn’t buy in a hundred years.” (00:45)
  • The impracticality and environmental impact are ridiculed: “You just throw it in the battery and in the trash after the length of time it takes to eat a lollipop, just not that great.” (05:50)

• Bone Conduction Headphones: Joe notes that the original technology is useful, but the lollipop application is baffling.

• Privacy Nightmares: The AI-powered Samsung refrigerator, Amazon’s Ring Doorbell new surveillance features, and an ever-watching AI 3D “companion” named Amy Ami (05:10) are slammed for unnecessary complexity and privacy issues.

  • Jack: “Can you imagine your refrigerator showing you advertisements?” (03:05)
  • “It’s got all sorts of AI facial recognition... includes mobile surveillance towers... includes an app store that’s going to let people develop even sketchier apps for the doorbell…” (03:34)

• Tech Cynicism: Joe expresses skepticism about tech innovations, revealing he’s sometimes been proven wrong by later practical use (04:07).

2. Weight Loss, Trump Diplomacy, and Oprah

(06:47–09:01)

• Diplomacy via Weight Loss Drugs: A comedic riff on the Trump admin reportedly offering Belarusian dictator Lukashenko weight loss drugs in exchange for cooperation.

  • Jack: “Because this Lukashenko is a big old boy. I mean he’s huge...” (07:06)

• Oprah’s Weight Loss Cycle: Hosts poke fun at the repetitive nature and commercial success of Oprah’s weight loss journey.

  • Joe: “She’ll get fat, stay fat for a couple of years, lose weight, then… make a couple of million dollars off of how I lost weight this time…” (08:07)
  • Jack: “She’s like an NFL offensive lineman who intentionally gains weight for the football season and then profits from it.” (08:50)

3. News Odds & Ends: Presidential Pardons, Walrus Artifact Theft

(09:01–11:38)

• Pipe Bomber Pardon: Discussion of reports that Trump’s broad pardons after January 6th may have accidentally included a suspected pipe bomber.

  • Jack: “The intent of a pardon doesn’t matter. All that matters is the text, according to attorneys.” (09:54)

• Bizarre Crime: Story of a stolen walrus penis bone from a famous New Jersey restaurant, delivered with tongue-in-cheek commentary.

4. Supreme Court: Transgender Athletes & Title IX Debate

(11:38–21:52, 13:26–21:52, 18:59–21:52 interwoven)

• Armstrong & Getty track live updates from Supreme Court hearings addressing whether states can bar transgender athletes from competing in girls’ sports.

  • Jack: “What’s a woman? ...You don’t need to get all complicated with this topic. That’s what the activists want… hoping you’ll become confused and exhausted. It’s not complicated.” (12:09)
  • They dissect legal arguments, make pointed comments on activist rhetoric, and highlight polling suggesting the public disagrees with allowing biological boys in girls’ sports.
  • Joe: "The Supreme Court’s not supposed to go by polling... if a majority of people thought slavery was good, the Supreme Court shouldn’t... make a rule on it based that way." (21:20)

• Notable moment (Clip):

  • New York Times: “Do you think there’s room within the Republican coalition... for people with anti Semitic views?”
  • Trump: “No, I don’t. I think we don’t need them. I think we don’t like them.” (14:33–15:31)
  • Hosts note the lack of media coverage of Trump’s forthright disavowal.

5. Anti-Semitism, Media Bias & Political Realignments

(15:31–16:45)

• Critique of media double standards, particularly regarding anti-Semitism protests and coverage.

  • Jack: “Can you imagine? ‘We support the Klan’ outside a traditionally black college… every news site... would be leading with that all day long. But you can just chant outside a synagogue in a Jewish school... and the New York Times is fine with it, apparently.” (17:14–17:36)

• Reflection on the phenomenon of conservative pundits switching sides for professional benefit.

  • Joe: “…if you can get some sort of traction as a conservative and then flip and go against them… man, they will... welcome you with open arms, give you a show, put you in a limo...” (25:21)

6. Scott Adams, Dilbert & “Far Right” Labels

(21:52–24:51)

• On the death of Scott Adams (Dilbert creator), the hosts discuss his “far right” media labeling and the general misuse of that term.
  • Joe: “The term far right is so lazy because it really just describes anything lefties don’t like.” (22:20)
  • Jack: “I hate the term far right because... it describes things that are very conservative, very trumpy, sometimes insane... and a lot of the times the wackadoodles on the right agree with the wackadoodles on the left...” (24:26)

7. America's AI Boom & Power Grid Tensions

(25:41–30:08)

• Nationwide energy anxiety as AI data centers demand massive power, causing higher electric bills, with Elon Musk and other billionaires building their own power plants.
  • Jack: “How’s it [the power grid] gonna take another 25% with windmills? Sorry darling, no TV tonight. The wind isn’t blowing.” (27:47)
  • Joe: “So my electric bill’s higher because we need to have AI, which is also taking my job. I’m not sure I’m the winner in this.” (28:12)
  • Both hosts muse about the pie-in-the-sky vision of universal AI-driven prosperity but see little practical planning for displaced workers.

8. Miscellanea & Everyday Frustrations

(30:22–38:09)

• Sports News: Aaron Rodgers looks miserable after a playoff loss—“He seems like a guy who’s realized he should have retired.” (32:32)
• Lost & Found at Airports: Portland airport’s vast piles of electronics, IDs, and water bottles—woes and practical implications.
  • Joe: “If I’m not interested enough to hang on to my winter coat, I don’t know what you can do about that.” (35:37)
• ID Frustrations: Joe’s frustration with bureaucratic requirements to open a bank account for his son, comparing these headaches to the ease with which criminals commit fraud.
  • Joe: “All you do is inconvenience law abiding people and appear to make no dent in the illegals.” (37:13)

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On CES Tech: "The musical lollipop. One of the worst in show winners at the Consumer Electronics Show that just happened. ...Stuff you wouldn't buy in a hundred years." — Jack Armstrong (00:45)
• On Overengineered Appliances: “Can you imagine your refrigerator showing you advertisements?” — Jack Armstrong (03:05)
• On Privacy & AI: “It's got all sorts of AI facial recognition... includes an app store that's going to let people develop even sketchier apps for the doorbell than the ones Amazon already provides.” — Jack Armstrong (03:34)
• On Oprah’s Business Genius: “She’s like an NFL offensive lineman who intentionally gains weight for the football season and then profits from it.” — Jack Armstrong (08:50)
• On Anti-Semitism & Media Bias: "Can you imagine? 'We support the Klan' outside a traditionally black college... But you can just chant outside a synagogue... The New York Times is fine with it, apparently." — Jack Armstrong (17:14–17:36)
• On "Far Right" Labeling: “The term far right is so lazy because it really just describes anything lefties don't like.” — Joe Getty (22:20)
• On AI & Electric Bills: “So my electric bill’s higher because we need to have AI which is also taking my job. I’m not sure I’m the winner in this.” — Joe Getty (28:12)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:28 — Discussion of CES musical lollipop; bone induction technology
• 03:03 — Samsung AI fridge privacy concerns
• 03:34 — Amazon Ring Doorbell privacy controversies
• 05:10 — AI “companion” gadget Amy Ami discussed
• 06:47 — Trump/Lukashenko weight loss diplomacy story; Oprah’s weight journey
• 09:01 — Trump’s alleged accidental pipe bomber pardon
• 11:38 — Stolen walrus penis bone from New Jersey restaurant
• 13:26 — Supreme Court oral arguments on transgender athletes in girls’ sports begin
• 15:31 — Trump’s anti-antisemitism comments to NYT
• 17:14 — Jack’s analogy on protest coverage
• 21:52 — Scott Adams (“Dilbert”) dies; debate over “far right” description
• 25:41 — America’s AI-driven power grid crisis
• 30:22 — Aaron Rodgers NFL misery, airport lost and found
• 37:13 — Frustrations with ID requirements vs. ease of criminal fraud

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Tone and Style

Armstrong & Getty maintain their characteristic dry wit, irreverent humor, and pointed cultural skepticism. The conversation is fast-paced, peppered with anecdotes, asides, and friendly ribbing. The language is casual, frequently sardonic, and appeals to listeners wary of hype—whether from Big Tech, political activists, or the mainstream media.

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Final Thoughts

This episode encapsulates Armstrong & Getty’s penchant for sharp, often contrarian analysis of tech, media, and politics, delivered with humor and irreverence. Even on dense or quirky topics—privacy in gadgets, Supreme Court arguments, lost walrus bones, or the consequences of AI—the show remains lively, relatable, and opinionated.

Transcript

[Announcer]

This is an iHeart podcast, guaranteed human broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

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

[Guest or Product Expert]

So Lollipop Star is a lollipop where as you eat it, you start hearing the music and you enjoy music while you're enjoying the lollipop. It uses bone conduction technology, so from the back of your mouth you'll start to feel the different vibrations that go up into your ear.

[Jack Armstrong]

The musical lollipop. One of the worst in show winners at the Consumer Electronics show that just happened. We'll bring you some of the other winners, stuff you wouldn't buy in a hundred years. Come coming up in a moment.

[Joe Getty]

So I've got those bone induction headphones. I really like them. But this thing was supposed to use the same technology with a lollipop. So you hear like you're. I love lollipops, but if only I could hear music while I eat them. One of those.

[Jack Armstrong]

Exactly. I just, I find myself bored and uninterrupt. Just label this segment of the podcast. Jack enjoys a good bone induction. Yes, Katie. Apparently it causes up speak as well like this.

[Joe Getty]

So here's a good tease. The Atlantic. And this is probably a 9,000 word piece, but too many people own dogs, which I would agree with in general.

[Jack Armstrong]

Stopped just short of the end of that sentence and asked me for 50 guesses. I don't think I would have gotten the dog.

[Joe Getty]

Too many people own dogs. The rise in anxiety among American dog owners. And the idea is that anxious people are causing dogs to be anxious who then need meds like their owners to deal with their anxiety.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh Lord.

[Joe Getty]

More on that later.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. Okay, I gotta shake that off. All right, so your worst in show awards at the Consumer Electronics Show. There are a variety of tech like review organizations and privacy advocates that do these ratings and why privacy advocates will become clear in a minute. But the overall worst in show was the Samsung bespoke AI family hub refrigerator. Samsung invites users to speak to the refrigerator and command it to open or close the door. It was too noisy there and it wasn't working at the show. And you know, I can forgive him for that, but that was just part of the complication. Reliability concerns Samsung added to an appliance that's supposed to have one keeping food cold. Everything is an order of magnitude more difficult using this fridge, said one of the reviewers. It also uses computer vision to track when food items are running low and can show you advertisements for what you could buy to replace them. Sour cream running low. Why don't you try, you know, at Lando Lake Sour cream now with 15% less and whatever I can you imagine your refrigerator showing you advertisements?

[Joe Getty]

I give a little bit of leeway on this stuff just because I've been really wrong in predicting what people would want or what I would even want. There have been a number of people things come along that I'd have thought who wants that? And then I love it. So you know, they, they, they, they try lots of different stuff. I don't need my refrigerator really to do anything other than keep food cold. I feel like I would agree.

[Jack Armstrong]

Amazon's Doorbells Once Again Ring Privacy Alarms an array of new features for Amazon's ring doorbell camera system won the worst in show for privacy, doubling down on privacy invasion and supporting the misconception that more surveillance always makes us safer. According to the executive director of the Electronic Frontier foundation, it's got all sorts of AI facial recognition, includes mobile surveillance towers that can be deployed at parking lots and other places, includes an app store that's going to let people develop even sketchier apps for the doorbell than the ones Amazon already provides.

[Joe Getty]

Here's. Here's two of my examples. One, I've mentioned this many times going way back to first time I ever saw our old news person Jamie Coffey texting. I thought why would anybody do that? Obviously I was wrong about that. For hurt for other people and myself and self driving cars. I thought I'd have no interest in that whatsoever. I was thinking today as my car was driving me to work and I was enjoying my coffee and doing other things thinking, this is so awesome. I never believed that I would have any interest in that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Maybe that's not a take about these awards, it's a take about you. I don't know. But. Well, you know, you're right though that they trot these things out and you don't know why you want them. And then they improve a great deal too down the road. Down the road. How about the people's choice of worst products was an AI companion called Amy Ami made by Chinese company Lepro, which has a camera that's always on. It's your 3D soulmate for remote workers or lonely people. It stares at you and tracks eye movements and other emotional signals like tone of voice. To do what is your companion to then do what? Talk to you.

[Joe Getty]

It'll talk to you. So like if it picks up that you're. You seem a little down.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes. Hey.

[Joe Getty]

Hey buddy. What's the problem, right?

[Jack Armstrong]

Do you want to talk? Do you need to talk?

[Joe Getty]

It's a beautiful day. Life is good.

[Jack Armstrong]

Keep in mind I'm Chinese communist sponsored and my camera's always, always on. So let's talk. And then the tech lollipop won the worst in show for the environment because you're eating lollipop.

[Joe Getty]

Who was the venture capitalist you snookered into this one? Who's the guy who took a meeting and said, sure, I'll cut you a check for $2 million to pursue this dream?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, because you bite the thing with your back teeth. And then you hear various songs from what's the list? From Ice Spice and Acon. But the sticks can't be recharged or reused after the candy is gone. So you just throw it in the battery and in the trash after the length of time it takes to eat a lollipop, just not that great. Oh, and then AI powered chatbot fitness coach that attaches to your treadmill and like speeds it up if you need to work harder and that sort of thing anyway. And then they make the point that all of this stuff makes everything harder to fix if it goes south.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah, that's what.

[Jack Armstrong]

Coffee maker. You're talking coffee maker. Your, your E bike, whatever. It just. It's impossible.

[Joe Getty]

That is legit. One of the reasons I don't want complicated things is I think I don't need this. And if it's on there, you know it's gonna end up shutting down the lawnmower's ability to mow the lawn or whatever it is. And that's all I want it for.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I know. I happen to have a very, very smart car. It's a nice car. I like it. But it's got this like, awesome computer brain that can do everything. No, just, just turn the wheels and then when I hit the brakes, stop it so I don't get killed. I don't need you to be the be all and end all. Anyway, moving along, keeping things on the light side. I love this story. US Offered Putin's closest ally sanctions relief and a weight loss drug. The Trump administration reaching out to the bella Russian dictator, what's his face, Alexander Lukashenko, and turned to him with a personal question. Have you lost weight? Yes, replied the veteran litigator who represented Donald Trump and John Cole. The emissary guy said, yeah, we've. You've Zep Bound. It's unbelievably effective. Here's a brochure for the manufacturer. We can get you Zepp Bound if you want. Help you lose weight. Because this Lukashenko is a big old boy. I mean he's huge. And he really bonded with the, the emissary guy who's, who gave him the weight loss drug and now talks of are open and evidently they have a great relationship. I don't know. Lukashenko has referred to himself as the last and only dictator in Europe.

[Joe Getty]

That's something, that's something to be proud of since you brought up weight loss on cbs Right now, Oprah shares Weight journey and personal new book. How many times has Oprah played that card and successfully, it would seem in my life a dozen times. She'll get fat, stay fat for a couple of years, lose weight, then come up with a new product or book or whatever and make a couple of million dollars off of how I lost weight this time when I got fat. And then she, then she gets fat again. And then she writes another book or promotes a different product. This is one of the most clever. She's a genius. She just, she's just been writing this for like 30 years or more.

[Jack Armstrong]

She's like an NFL offensive lineman who intentionally gains weight for the football season and then profits from it.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. And you continue to be interested in her weight journey. Just doesn't matter how many times.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, couple more wackadoodle headlines. Donald Trump may have accidentally pardoned the January 6th pipe bomber guy. You remember that probably autistic guy who lives at home with his parents in suburban Virginia or Maryland, whatever it is, Erkel the pipe, DNC and rnc. Yeah, the Urkel looking guy. Well, Trump commuted the sentences of 14 individuals. The January 6th stuff. And also granted, quote, a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Which would seem to include the pipe bomber. And the intent of a pardon doesn't matter. All that matters is the text, according to attorneys.

[Joe Getty]

Are there, are those, are there do overs or take backs on those.

[Jack Armstrong]

Unpardons?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Can you do that?

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know. That's an interesting question.

[Joe Getty]

Sorry, I didn't mean that.

[Jack Armstrong]

I would guess not having pardoned somebody. Can you carve them out and unpardon them? I doubt it. I doubt it.

[Joe Getty]

I'm gonna write a quickie book. My Weight Journey. I lost all discipline, ate a bunch of pie and stuff and got fat. And then I realized it and then I stopped eating all that stuff and lost some weight. That's not a very good book. And I need.

[Jack Armstrong]

You gotta flesh it out a little bit. It's short for one thing.

[Joe Getty]

Fill it in with something else. Yeah, about childhood trauma or. Or the patriarchy or something.

[Jack Armstrong]

Jack's two page book. And then there's 198 pages that says notes, if you want to make some notes.

[Joe Getty]

Right. Final headline.

[Jack Armstrong]

Thief snatched beloved walrus penis from famed New Jersey restaurant Donkey's Place. An owner needs help getting it back. Beloved. A thief snatched a beloved antique walrus penis bone from behind the bar at the famed Camden, New Jersey, cheesesteak joint Donkey's Place. And staffers are blubbering mad. That's a. I think that's a walrus joke. Blubbering. Some dude went behind the bar and just stole it. They've got his picture and they put the word on the street. See if they can bring him down. On January 30, a group of three men who had been, quote, drinking for hours asked to see the artifact, and then one of them bolted with it. According to the bartender involved, it must mean December 30th. Anyway.

[Joe Getty]

So I'm looking at the live Supreme Court arguments as they go, and Clarence Thomas is getting into, you know, the specifics of boys competing in girls sports and why don't they. Why don't these people compete in the. With the girls and that sort of thing? So the. The rubber is meeting the road in the Supreme Court oral arguments day.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think they might have to go full Matt Walsh. Okay. What's a woman?

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

What's a girl? You say anybody who declares themselves as a girl is a girl. I don't think that's right.

[Joe Getty]

They.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, you don't need to get all complicated with this topic. That's what the activists want. They drag you into the weeds with all their terms and their rhetoric and their theories, hoping you'll become confused and exhausted. It's not complicated.

[Joe Getty]

And are the progressive justices going to be able to look at this in a rational, scientific way, or are they going to feel beholden to a certain crowd to pretend certain things, which is the way it's been for the last half dozen years for.

[Jack Armstrong]

I have a guess. I think you could guess what my guess is.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, well, if anything jazzy happens in that, we'll have the audio for you and lots of other stuff on the way. Stay here.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Justice Thomas. Justice Alito, under Title 9, what does the term sex mean?

[Joe Getty]

We think think it's probably interpreted pursuant to its ordinary traditional definition of biological sex. And I think probably given the time it was enacted, reproductive biology is probably the best way of understanding that. Thank you. Just one little clip from the oral arguments today. Getting into the whole trans thing, whether or not people are boys deciding they are girls can compete in girls sports in high school.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's the question in specific. More specifically, can states say no, you can't, right?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. More specifically that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, same question.

[Joe Getty]

So more on that later. We've got some longer clips. I think it's gonna be a danged interesting conversation and unlike a lot of Supreme Supreme Court arguments, I don't think it'll be that difficult to follow.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't think some of it will be. Some of it won't be. I've been reading some of the transcripts and they're getting into various questions of intermediate scrutiny and strict scrutiny and that sort of, all right, not of the genitals, but of the law, freaking lawyers, strict scrutiny of your genitals.

[Joe Getty]

So I thought this was interesting. Donald Trump sat down with the New York Times the other day, did a two hour interview, wide ranging, lots of topics. They're letting it out drip by drip over a couple of weeks. This got no attention yesterday because of course it didn't. New York Times do you think there's room within the Republican coalition, the Make America Great movement, for people with anti Semitic views? Trump no, I don't. I think we don't need them. I think we don't like them. New York Times do you condemn those views? Trump said certainly. New York Times do you think leaders of the Republican Party should condemn figures who espouse antisemitism? Trump from my own personal standpoint, absolutely, because I condemn. I have a daughter who's married to a Jewish person. My daughter happens to be Jewish. Beautiful. Three grandchildren are Jewish. I'm very proud of them, very proud of that whole, that whole family. I'm the least anti Semitic person probably there is anywhere in the world. Which of course is a Trump thing to say.

[Jack Armstrong]

Very Trumpian.

[Joe Getty]

Yes, but I got no news coverage, of course. I mean you can't. More I Mean, there's no hemming and hawing. There's no dodging the issue. There's no trying to have it two ways.

[Jack Armstrong]

There.

[Joe Getty]

Just don't want them in the party. Don't like them. They shouldn't be in the party.

[Jack Armstrong]

And then he had foaming at the mouth. Anti Semite Tucker Carlson to dinner at.

[Joe Getty]

The White House the other day to advise on what? What were they? I think they Iran the situation. I think that's what Tucker was there for.

[Jack Armstrong]

What? What? Remember, it's to keep the Tucker part of the coalition loyal. That's it.

[Joe Getty]

Remember when Tucker talked to Ted Cruz and said, how many people live in Iran and Ted said, I don't know. You tell me. We're about to go to war with the country and you don't know how many people live there?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, that whole thing, very helpful. Yeah. Yeah, Very helpful. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Remember, the reason Joe Biden got in the race was those veins bulging there in Charlottesville. The Republican Party and its anti Semitism. The Democratic Party is full of anti.

[Jack Armstrong]

Semitism.

[Joe Getty]

They're out and proud about it. They say it out loud every single day.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, there was. There was a march. This got no coverage.

[Joe Getty]

That.

[Jack Armstrong]

The hypocrisy of the media is so flaming and obvious and stupid. I hate to. I'm tired of even pointing it out. Big march the other day. A bunch of people marched on a school, a Jewish school in New York City chanting, we support Hamas. We support Hamas. Where is that headline? Anti Israel Protesters descend on New York City synagogue Jewish school while shouting we support Hamas in the New York Post. Can you imagine? We support the Klan. We support the Klan. Outside of a traditionally black college university, every publication, every news site in the nation would be leading with that all day long. But you can just chant outside a synagogue in a Jewish school essentially saying, death to Jews. And the New York Times is fine with it, apparently.

[Joe Getty]

We'll get a law professor in here and break down direct scrutiny versus strict scrutiny versus intermittent scrutiny. No, we won't, actually. We get into some of the news of the day and if anything exciting comes out about the trans athlete case before the Supreme Court and the oral arguments, we'll bring you that. I hope you can stick around. If you miss a segment, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Actually get into the science of men versus women, athletically speaking, and boys versus girls, it's just, it's indisputable what the truth is. Which is why they keep coming, the progressives, with silly arguments like, well, what if a transgender male was super weak and weedy and was not as good as girls? Well, that doesn't, you know, that doesn't change the greater question. And even little kids who've not gone through puberty, the change or the difference rather is, it's striking. I mean, I've got statistics in front of me about speed and endurance and weight and that sort of thing, but as a guy who's coached girls and boys sports at every level, the speed and violence of boys sports is so much more than girls. It's just, it's a ridiculous question to even be asking. And it's especially from the perspective of like human beings 15 years ago, it's bizarre that we're even asking the question or acting like it's a difficult answer. I'm mystified. Anyway, the Supes, I hope, are gonna give some sort of substantive ruling that lets us know where we are. And not a quote unquote narrow ruling, but we shall see.

[Joe Getty]

I what a blow, what a blow it would be if they decided no, states can't ban this.

[Jack Armstrong]

Whoa.

[Joe Getty]

Would that set us back?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, that would be horrifying.

[Joe Getty]

I don't think that's likely.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, no. And I think the popular uprising against that would be probably ugly and unfortunate. But, but notable.

[Joe Getty]

Two different polls I saw both on Fox and News Nation, two different polls added a 7030 issue of where people are. And I got it. I really, really, honestly believe it's more it's more than that. If people felt like they had to cover to the COVID politically or emotionally, morally, to say out loud, no, boys shouldn't be playing girl sports. So at 7830 at the least.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, right. And then you've got the. The people that view things through the lens not of is this true? But whether I will be rewarded for saying it's true. They look at it through the conformity lens as opposed to the truth lens. And they're always going to go with what they perceive is what they're supposed to say. But they can switch on a dime.

[Joe Getty]

Though, for our lawyer friends, I suppose, whose heads may explode when we say things like this. The Supreme Court's not supposed to go by polling. It's not majority rule of what, you know, if a majority of people thought slavery was good, the Supreme Court shouldn, you know, make a rule on his base that way.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I was just talking about the probable, you know, result among the people if the Supreme Court were to go the wrong way on this issue and you had boys invading women's girls sports all over America because activist groups could get them in. There's no way to stop it. The people would go nuts.

[Joe Getty]

So this is kind of a topic for our crowd. So let me read what it has in the Washington Post right now and what you think of this. Joe. Scott Adams, the creator of the comic strip Dilbert, which poked fun at corporate jargon and managerial ineptitude, has died. We mentioned that he died earlier. Adams drew criticism after he veered into far right political terrain. You think he was far right?

[Jack Armstrong]

The term far right is so lazy because it really just describes anything lefties don't like.

[Joe Getty]

They would never say far left about somebody equally far from the center on the left.

[Jack Armstrong]

Like every single person on the Golden Globes the other night, for instance. Right.

[Joe Getty]

Or practically everybody writes for the Washington Post, but.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

That was one of the things that interesting about Scott. And it helps to be rich. He had to be ungodly rich after the success of Dilbert.

[Jack Armstrong]

I would think so. Got merch alone.

[Joe Getty]

I remember for a long time in our family, like Dilbert calendars and stuff like that were a regular go to Christmas gift. Gilbert, one of the great comic strips of all time, no doubt for him to stick his neck out into a weight into politics and know that he was gonna, you know, make a lot of people angry as opposed to just.

[Jack Armstrong]

Stay out of it. Yeah, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Helps me wealthy though, again.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah, it does. Honestly. Oh, sure.

[Joe Getty]

You, you know, the worst that can happen to you is some people don't like me anymore, but I still live in a giant house or home, several homes, and I'm gonna be fine for the rest of my life.

[Jack Armstrong]

You don't have to worry about getting fired from your job per se. If you have enough money, then it doesn't matter. But yeah, he was, he was an interesting guy. As I said earlier, I disagreed with them semi regular. I thought he was a little out there.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I did too.

[Jack Armstrong]

But I would often see that he disagreed with me and think, okay, let me take a look at his argument and see if there's anything to it.

[Joe Getty]

That whole mocking corporate culture at a time that, you know, white collar work was really becoming more the norm. And when did it start? Early 90s when Dilbert took off. But just brilliant, genius stuff. I mean the commentary, the, the guy having a bent tie. I don't know why, but that's just so good.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, and the, the way he would identify different types of people around the office.

[Joe Getty]

Yes, yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, the ass kisser and the, the mean gal and the, the idiot boss. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

And mostly the managerial bureaucracy nonsense that you have to deal with all the time in the corporate setting.

[Jack Armstrong]

So who is the little guy who's the even more beat down and cynical guy? Anyway, gotta reread some, some Dilbert. But yeah, yeah, just. Yeah. I hate the term far right because number one, it's lazy and it describes things that are very conservative, very trumpy, sometimes insane. And with your horseshoe theory, a lot of the times the wackadoodles on the right agree with the wackadoodles on the left. So where does that leave us? And yeah, I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

Well, they got Marjorie Taylor Greene live on CNN commenting on the Supreme Court case or something. She is now a hero of the left because she took on Trump blind, bad built, butch body. You want to make money? The easiest way to make money is if you can get some sort of traction as a conservative and then flip and go against them. That's the easiest money in the world. And get a job on CNN or MSNBC or write pieces or whatever. That is the thing. So become known as a conservative and then go against George W. Bush like Nicole Wallace did or Trump or whatever. And man, they will just, they will. It doesn't matter that they hate everything you believe in and have believed in your entire life. They will welcome you with open arms, give you a show, put you in a limo to bring you to the studio to bad mouth Republicans.

[Jack Armstrong]

And everyone knows that Everyone does know that that slander you brutally for 15 years and then the moment you flip your a honored guest and we're so glad to have on the air. Yeah, it's just ridiculous. So speaking of things that are going to annoy people, this is, this was predicted and sure enough it's happening. America's AI boom is pushing power grids to the brink of a supply crisis and raising normal Americans electric rates. They're looking at the biggest power grid in the country. That is the 13 state grid. PJM runs it. It's a nonpro stretches from New Jersey to Kentucky. 67 million people in the region get their power from PJM. So too do many data centers. AI data centers springing up in northern Virginia's data center alley. And they have a bottomless appetite for electricity. And rates are going up for consumers. PJM expects power demand to grow faster, about 5% a year on average for the next decade. An astonishing pace for a system that has not had substantial growth demand in years.

[Joe Getty]

Now Elon and Zuckerberg among others, I'm sure Altman knows this realize this is a problem and that's why they're throwing billions into creating their own power sources. Elon spending billions of dollars to build a big power plant. The sort of thing that we used to only build to run cities. He's going to build to run his AI. But it's funny how this doesn't get more conversation.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, they think they experts in this sort of thing thinks you think US power demand in the year 2030 will be 25% higher than it was a couple of years ago. That's only four years from now. Five percent. Wow. And how many times have we heard friends especially Cal Unicornians the power grid is stretched to the limit. It's on the brink. How's it gonna take another 25% with windmills? Sorry darling, no TV tonight. The wind isn't blowing.

[Joe Getty]

And that's with electric cars on the Wayne if they had taken off. That was one of the big questions always. Where's the electricity gonna come from?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. Gonna burn spotted owls. Oh yeah. Okay. Well and you know people, this is all abstract until you see your energy bill go up more and more and more.

[Joe Getty]

Right again.

[Jack Armstrong]

Cal unit are kind of used to that already. It's brutal.

[Joe Getty]

But it's coming whether you like it or not. But I could see why a person might be angry at so my electric bills higher because we need to have AI which is also taking my job. I'm not sure I'm the winner in this.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, no kidding. So I'm huddled, unemployed in the cold with the lights out. Yay. Yay. It's a real advancement. Now I can like Google stuff even better.

[Joe Getty]

What a time to be alive.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Maybe you could hit it up Grok with when I die of the cold, who gets my stuff? I don't know, that sort of thing.

[Joe Getty]

They need to sell AI better at some point, don't they? To people on how this is going to benefit you. What are the supposed upsides are all fantasy and haven't been worked out with the government at all.

[Jack Armstrong]

Everybody can become a poet and not work anymore. Sucky, sucky poet.

[Joe Getty]

But that jump from AI is going to make us, you know, 10 times more productive as a country to we're going to get checks from somewhere that all, everything in between there hasn't been worked out at all.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I'll share the wealth from who's.

[Joe Getty]

Getting the money and then doling it out. What, what age is this? The government or private sector? Who's sending me checks to live off of when AI takes everybody's jobs?

[Jack Armstrong]

The two to three companies that get all the revenue of the economy and they only send you checks. So there's not a revolution. It's not a very tenable system.

[Joe Getty]

Joe is hearkening back to this, by the way. You'd be doing wind windmills. And if it doesn't, if it doesn't blow, you can forget about television for that night, darling. I want to watch television.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm sorry, the wind isn't blowing.

[Joe Getty]

I know a lot about wind. He always has to throw it there. I'm the least anti semitic person on earth. I know more about wind than most people. As a funny tick, he's got.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know what struck me about that clip is he sounds older now.

[Joe Getty]

Oh yeah, well, he is older. Yeah, it's a good point.

[Jack Armstrong]

There's probably correlation there.

[Joe Getty]

Age happens and he's got three years to go as of we're seven days away. You'll have three years from there. We've only had one year of this one.

[Jack Armstrong]

Not sure I got it in me.

[Joe Getty]

I'm not sure. I'm not sure he's got it in him.

[Jack Armstrong]

Woof.

[Joe Getty]

We'll see. We got other stuff on the way. We're keeping an eye on the oral arguments of the Supreme Court and other things. Coming up, Stacy Armstrong.

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[Jack Armstrong]

It's picked off by Bullock and Rogers is in his way trying to make the tackle. Can't and it's a touchdown Texas.

[Joe Getty]

I don't think he tried too hard. Aaron Rodgers. Perhaps his last pass was an interception. One of the great quarterbacks of all time, Green Bay Packer. Hall of Famer playing for the Steelers. Last night lost to the Texans. Texans move on in the playoffs. Aaron Rodgers, a guy who's in his 40 whatever, looks miserable. He looks miserable all the time. He seems angry and miserable always. What are you enjoying about this? You got more money than God. You should retire, dude.

[Jack Armstrong]

He seems like a guy who's realized exactly that he should have retired. You're right. Because every shot of him, he's pissed off.

[Joe Getty]

He's unhappy with the coaches and the players and the fans and vaccines and.

[Jack Armstrong]

The state of the world and the vaccines. Right? Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

This is kind of interesting. This is from the Portland airport. I'm sure it's true at all airports and even bigger numbers at bigger airports. The headline 1600 wallets, 800 phones and one special labubu inside Portland Airports Lost and Found. There is a lost and found at the airports. Obviously there is. And if you lose something there, that's where you go to find it. In 2025, the Portland Airport Lost and found logged a total of 21,500 items in one year that were lost at the airport. That seems like a lot.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's a good airport by the way. Really. Like the Portland airport that included.

[Joe Getty]

I almost lost my cell phone recently. I so lucky. This would have Ruined our trip. We had just gone through security. Somehow I left my cell phone behind in the basket or something and. And we're headed to our gate, and Sam says, hey, this guy ran up to me and said, I think this is your dad's cell phone. Holy crap. That would have end. We wouldn't have gone on a trip because my tickets are in there and, you know, everything's in there.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, yeah, all your arrangements.

[Joe Getty]

I certainly wouldn't have figured out the ticket thing in time for the flight anyway. I'm not the only person who does that in one year at not, you know, a giant airport in Portland. 3353 electronics, laptops, smartphones, oodles of AirPods that people just sit down and forget. And we're not talking about the stuff on the planes. That's a different thing. The airlines hang on to those. This is stuff you just leave in the airport. 2,700 pieces of clothing. 2,100 IDs, including passports. 2100 over a year. That's a lot. Several a day. 1700 bags, 1600 wallets. Roughly. This one's easier to imagine. 18,000 water bottles, books, hats, and belts. Also turned up items so common, so rarely retrieved, and of so little value that the department doesn't even bother logging them all. They have stacks and stacks and stacks and stacks of water bottles. So why would you keep track of it in case of me. Hey, did you find a green water bottle last week? Yeah, I got about 800 green water bottles.

[Jack Armstrong]

Come in and pick one.

[Joe Getty]

Not everything lost at the airport lands at the lost and found. Anything left on a plane, as I mentioned, stays with the airline. TSA also keeps the object it seizes in the security checkpoint, like my pocket knife that I had to get over a week or so ago. Wouldn't go to Lost and Found. It would tsa. I think they sent them to an auction or something.

[Jack Armstrong]

I heard something like that, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Which is a good idea. There's no point in throwing them in the trash. They're trying to figure out how to cut down on this. All those, you know, if I'm not interested enough to hang on to my winter coat, I don't know what you.

[Jack Armstrong]

Can do about that. Right? Yeah. Wow. Laptop. That sucks.

[Joe Getty]

You have to be quite miserable. You're probably on a business trip. And now everything is in that laptop that I left sitting somewhere. I sat down for coffee and walked away.

[Jack Armstrong]

Then what's the process for getting it back? I mean, you call the airport, I guess, and finally figure out what line to call and you leave a message or something, they say, yeah, we got 79 of them from Friday. You gotta come in and flip through all of them. If you can sign on to one, you get it. I don't. I wonder. I mean, because you can't just say, oh, it's not like a water bottle. Ah, Damn it, my MacBook. Well, what are you gonna do? I'll buy another one. People aren't generally gonna do that.

[Joe Getty]

Right. How about your ID that changed your trip? Oh, you're not getting into your hotel or your rental car or on the plane or all kinds of different things.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah, I actually did that once. I can't remember. I left it or lost it or something. But as I recall, it was pre 911 and it was still. No, it couldn't have been, because I think pre 9 11, you just walked up with your ticket and walked down to the sure bit. Yeah. Yes, it was a pain in the butt. Yeah, I got a business card. I got all these credit cards. What do you want to know about me?

[Joe Getty]

I can't believe I left my phone by. Oh, it's like I'm opening a checking account for my oldest son. I did this with his brother weeks ago. They need two forms of ID to prove it's him, me being dad, and me having an account there. And my ID is not enough. Are you kidding me?

[Jack Armstrong]

What, What. What are we trying to prevent then? I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

What's amazing to me about this, all these sorts of things, is it. It's a lot like gun laws. All you do is inconvenience law abiding people and appear to make no dent in the illegals. I mean, see, Somali thieves in. In Minnesota, they stole $9 billion. But I'm trying to open a checking account, and I need to come up with two forms of ID for my son. So I got his birth certificate. Thank God I know where it is. And. And another form of id I said have another. Like a driver's. Like, he doesn't have a driver's license.

[Jack Armstrong]

He's a child.

[Joe Getty]

Look at him. Yeah, his Social Security card. We don't have a Social Security guard. Maybe I should have one, but I don't have one.

[Jack Armstrong]

But inmates in the Russian mob can bilk, say, the state of California out of billions and billions of dollars.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, we do lots of stuff. Including in the fourth hour, I'll probably have some audio from the Supreme Court arguments. Anywho, if you missed the same segment, get the podcast, Armstrong and Getty on Demand.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's what you should subscribe. Yeah.

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