Keep Your Nipples To Yourself

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: Keep Your Nipples To Yourself
Date: February 4, 2026
Podcast Host: iHeartPodcasts

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Main Theme & Purpose

In this episode, Armstrong & Getty blend their trademark humor and cultural commentary as they dive into the enduring legacy of “Nipplegate”—the infamous Janet Jackson Super Bowl halftime incident—and its long-tail impact on American media, sensibility, and censorship. The conversation evolves into a critique of performative politics, focusing on the Super Bowl halftime show, the media discipline (or lack thereof) for political stunts, and segueing seamlessly into a discussion of California politics, reparations in San Francisco, Gavin Newsom’s presidential ambition, and the broader ramifications of political image in modern America.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Super Bowl Predictions & Halftime Show Hype

• Fun with “Animal Predictions” ([02:46]-[03:57])

  • Armstrong & Getty mock a news story about African lions at an Iowa zoo making Super Bowl picks, which are claimed to have 80% accuracy.

  • They riff on the arbitrary correlations and narratives the media constructs around the Super Bowl each year.

    “You could come up with anything. When the stock market has a down week before a Super Bowl, the AFC team wins—been true 75% of the time over the last decade or whatever. You can make up anything.” — C, [03:37]

• Halftime Show Politics and “Stunts” ([03:57]-[05:32])

  • Discussion turns to speculation about potential political or controversial acts from headliner Bad Bunny.

  • Getty jokes about a hypothetical contract: half the payment now, the other half only if there are no political or “sex stunts” — an allusion to the infamous Janet Jackson moment.

    “No stunts, keep your nipples to yourself. And if you do that, you get the other million.” — C, [05:04]

2. The Legacy of “Nipplegate” and American Prudery

• Personal Anecdote: The 7-Year-Old Girl & the Boob ([05:37]-[07:39])

  • Jack shares a self-effacing, humorous story about inadvertently hosting a neighbor’s child for the Super Bowl the year of Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction.”

  • He laments, as a non-parent, naively exposing a child to “boobs on TV” (hyperbolically calling it “showing her porn”) and jokes about her hypothetical future therapy sessions.

    “The only time I’ve ever had a kid over at my house and I’m showing them porn.” — C, [07:09]

• Broader Impact on Media Censorship ([08:10]-[09:48])

  • They recall the immediate crackdown: delays added to live broadcasts, paranoia about language (“S-bombs”), and disproportionate hysteria.

  • Getty criticizes American society’s overreaction to harmless content and draws attention to lasting consequences for live media.

    “After the boob, everybody was so uptight about it... everybody acted like a child had been grievously injured.” — A, [09:37]

• The Power of a Tenth of a Second ([10:12]-[11:21])

  • Discussion of how such a brief incident drove massive industry change.
  • They note the moment’s role in the rise of YouTube: “That was what launched YouTube, was it? Yes, that’s the famous story.” — C & A, [10:55]

3. Reparations in San Francisco

• Unworkable Promises and Political Theater ([18:48]-[22:11])

  • The hosts review San Francisco’s reparations ordinance, noting that despite official approval, no one’s funding it and no donations are forthcoming.

  • They argue that most politicians pass on such measures to avoid being labeled as anti-reparations, but everyone knows it’s unworkable.

    “Everybody at every point says, yes, I agree with you. We’re gonna get it passed. And indeed, sometimes they pass it and they’re like, hey, where are the reparations? We’re working out a funding mechanism.” — A, [20:32]

  • They question the rationale for California (a non-slave state) funding reparations.

    “Why are the white people of California on the hook for it?... especially doesn’t make sense in California.” — C, [21:26]

4. Gavin Newsom as a Presidential Hopeful

• Criticism from NYT and California’s Record ([25:27]-[31:49])

  • They summarize Brett Stevens’ NYT column warning against nominating Newsom, arguing his California record is a liability:

    • Affordability: “California is incredibly unaffordable, dead last in affordability.”
    • Homelessness: California accounts for roughly half the national homeless population.
    • Flight: Major population loss; “every 1:44 another Californian leaves.”
    • Education: Doubling per-pupil spending with no improvement, flat reading, declining math.
    • Crime: Newsom backed policies like Prop 47, fueling shoplifting sprees.
    • Wokeness: Sanctuary for trans healthcare, “free” for illegals.

  • They joke about the absurdity of “per-pupil spending” stats.

    “My per salad spending is very, very high. I don’t eat any salads. It’s all going to other food.” — C, [30:28]

• Newsom’s Political Style — “Message Delivery System” ([32:06]-[35:13])

  • Quoting Rui Teixeira, they analyze Newsom’s political flexibility:

    “Newsom lets absolutely nothing stand in the way. Not principles, not beliefs, not prior positions. He reliably presents whatever message he deems most politically effective at any given time to any given audience.” — A, quoting Teixeira, [34:37]

  • Getty compares Newsom’s skill at repositioning to historical strongmen, “the way I study the Third Reich or the Mao regime in China. Unquestionably evil, but really, really capable.” — A, [32:28]
  • Jack points out how Trump and Newsom, in different ways, mastered modern media environments.

• Discussion: How Would Newsom Survive a Real Campaign? ([36:07]-[38:20])

  • They debate whether Newsom’s Teflon-coated style would hold up under a critical media spotlight, especially if running against another polarizing figure.

  • They poke fun at Newsom’s media-trained evasions and the “fawning” coverage he currently enjoys.

    “Did you take any money from APEC?”
    “Oh, it’s interesting that you bring that up.” — C & A, [37:31]

5. National & International News Quick Hits

• Jill Biden’s Ex-Husband Charged with Murder ([25:02]-[26:01])

  • Brief, bemused coverage—no effort to tie it back to current political figures (“No comment from the Bidens”).

• Violence Against Political Figures ([41:24]-[43:10])

  • Sentencing of Ryan Ruth (attempted Trump assassination), a segment on the lack of detailed reporting regarding the attempted assassin who shot at Trump, and the possible suppression of information for institutional reasons.

    “Don’t you feel like if somebody had almost killed Barack Obama, we would know every single thing about that human being by now?” — C, [42:38]

• Xi Jinping’s Purge in China ([43:28]-[44:45])

  • Brief analysis of Chinese leader Xi Jinping arresting his own military inner circle, showcasing the dangers and drama of dictatorship: “It’s Game of Thrones stuff right there.” — C, [44:45]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On American Prudery:

  “We saw part of a boob for a tenth of a second and the world shuddered.” — C, [10:40]

• On Per-pupil School Spending:

  “Why are you mentioning the pupils? That’s going to middle management and DEI programs and lobbyists… It’s not flowing to the children. That’s the wrong measure.” — A, [29:33]

• On Gavin Newsom:

  “He’s embarrassingly handsome… lithe and ardent, that was it.” — A & C, [32:11]

  “I study him the way I study the Third Reich or the Mao regime in China. Unquestionably evil, but really, really capable.” — A, [32:28]

• Political Image vs. Substance:

  “Gavin Newsom… will cause an enormous problem, a disastrous problem. And then say, we are attacking that problem with every resource… as California leads into the future. And you’re like, yeah, wow, he’s really attacking that problem energetically.” — A, [33:05]

• On Political Flexibility:

  “He reliably presents whatever message he deems most politically effective at any given time to any given audience.” — A, quoting, [34:37]

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Important Segment Timestamps

• [02:46] Super Bowl predictions by zoo lions
• [03:57] Halftime show contracts & “nipple clauses”
• [05:37 – 08:00] Jack’s story about looking after a neighbor’s daughter during “Nipplegate”
• [08:10 – 09:48] Aftermath of Nipplegate: Censorship, broadcast delays, and cultural overreaction
• [18:48 – 22:11] San Francisco reparations: politics, feasibility, and public posturing
• [25:27 – 31:49] Gavin Newsom’s vulnerabilities as a candidate and the state of California
• [32:06 – 38:20] Newsom’s campaign style, “message delivery,” and media treatment
• [41:23 – 43:10] Political violence—failed Trump assassin and lack of transparency
• [43:28 – 44:45] Chinese political purges and their implications
• [45:09 – End] Lighthearted final thoughts, crew banter, and Super Bowl party tips

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Tone and Style Notes

• The banter is irreverent, self-deprecating, and conversational.
• Hosts use comedy to defuse even serious cultural criticism, often defaulting to analogies, sarcasm, and running jokes.
• Cultural references (Super Bowl, music, political scandals) are central, and their critiques blend social commentary with nostalgia and world-weary skepticism.

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Summary Takeaways

This episode of Armstrong & Getty offers a critical and comedic look at how one fleeting Super Bowl incident reshaped American broadcast culture, serves as a launchpad for reflecting on ongoing American prudery and hypocrisy, and is skillfully tied to the hosts' broader skepticism about performative politics on both local and national stages. The conversation then radiates outward—critiquing San Francisco’s reparations plan as an example of political theater, diagnosing California’s woes under Newsom, and questioning the sincerity and effectiveness of modern campaign style. The episode concludes with quick-fire news stories and the crew’s banter, leaving listeners with both laughs and lingering food for thought about substance versus appearance in American life.

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A zoo in Iowa had African lions make their super bowl picks. Deuce went first, decided to defer. Then Zarina was up. She sniffed both barrels before choosing Seahawks. This might be a prediction worth banking on. The Zeus as its animals have been correct for nearly 80% of the time over the years.

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Of course, a lion's going to go for the NFC team.

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So a zoo and Iowa says their African lions can make super bowl predictions and are correct 80% of the time. Like, how many years in a row have you done this? Since it's.

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Let's talk about the data set.

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It's a 50.

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50 shot.

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You start at 50%. Okay. And if you just do it a couple of years, you could very easily, by just guessing, do a lot better than 50%. This is always one of my favorite stories. Every single year. And things that predict. And you could come up with anything. When the stock market has a down week, the week before a Super bowl, the AFC team wins. And this has been true 75% of the time over the last decade or whatever. You can. You can make up anything.

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Right? Right. The correlation Bowl. So we're all excited about Substandard Rabbit entertaining us at halftime. Right. Will he do something political and controversial? Roger Goodell, the godfather of the NFL, commenting, listen. And I think that was demonstrated last night. One of the great artists in the world. And that's one of the reasons we chose him. But the other reason is he understood.

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The platform he was on and that.

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This platform is used to un. And to be able to bring people together with their creativity, with their talents, and to be able to use this.

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Moment to do that. And I think artists in the past have done that.

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I think Bad Bunny understands it, and I think he'll have a great performance.

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And we did not bring Bad Bunny in because it reaches a Hispanic audience and we're trying to expand the NFL into Mexico. It has nothing in South America. Has nothing to do with that.

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Right.

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I like your theory. I never thought of this, but makes sense to me. Bad Bunny gets paid. I don't know what he gets paid. $2 million to be the halftime act. A million of it you get now and then the other million you get after you do a performance in which you have no stunts, no political stunts, no sex stunts, no stunts, keep your nipples to yourself. And if you do that, you get the other million. You come out and rip off your T shirt that says ice or your shirt and it says ice out underneath. You don't get your million dollars. That's the way to handle it 100%.

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Yeah, I'll bet they do. Because there has not been an incident since Janet. Right.

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Since the nipple.

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And Justin Timberlake, who is clearly a compatriot, a complicit in the crime.

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Katie, have you ever heard my story about nipple? Gate, I don't think you probably have. That's one of the great things about having Katie on the show in the last couple of years. I get to retell stories. So Gate, you remember the super bowl where we saw the nipple? You were probably like 4 years old or something.

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No, I remember it. Yes.

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So this was long before I had children. I was single and childless. In retrospect, it's not a big deal, but I was horrified at the time. I'm watching the super bowl by myself, I get a phone call. My next door neighbor got pulled over driving drunk on that Sunday morning.

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Oh, okay.

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Hammered drunk gets thrown in jail Sunday.

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Morning getting your drink on. Yeah, I think that's a sign or.

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Leftover from the night before or whatever. But anyway, and so I get a call from his wife who was out of town. Their seven year old daughter was home by herself because dad just got thrown in jail coming back from the grocery store or whatever and, and I know these people pretty well and could you, could you keep an eye on her until you know, three this afternoon when I get off work or whatever it was. And so I go over and knock on the door, hey, your mom called one. Okay. So I have her come over to my house and me not being a parent, I would have never done this now that I've been a parent. But I have her watching the super bowl with what a boring thing for a seven year old girl to do. I could have come up with so much better things. I just, I didn't know.

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I wouldn't know. What are you going to do? You didn't have Barbies, you didn't have coloring books.

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I'm a single, whatever. I was 38 year old guy drinking beer, watching the Super Bowl. Yeah, I didn't have Barbies or coloring books. And now I would have, screw the super bowl. We'd have gone for a walk or gone to the park or whatever. I can't believe I did this. Anyway, we, we sit there and we watch the super bowl and the halftime show and there's a boob. So I'm showing a 70 year old girl porn. The only time I've ever had a kid over at my house and I'm showing him porn. Rumor you'd have been better off with your drunk dad than over at my house seeing boobs, looking at boobs. Of course, in retrospect, you know, doesn't seem like it probably did that much damage. She's probably. What would she be? She might be in her mid-30s now. So it was a long time ago.

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Right.

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So she might be on the couch talking to a therapist. And then this weird neighbor had me come over and look at boobs on tv.

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Right, right. What else did he do? Well, he just watched the football game, but I'm certain something unto word was happening. You know what this is? This is so out of date and yet it continues to fascinate me. I want America's greatest writers all to give me, I don't know, a thousand words on how Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake pig.

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He gets let off the hook all the time.

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Kind of sort of bearing a nipple more or less led to, you can't play Steve Miller bands, you know, whatever the song was, Any of that funky s going down in the city. Big old jet airliner. Jet airliner, Right. And why Pink Floyd's money couldn't have do goody good bull s in it anymore on FM radio. There are, there are a dozen examples of that.

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Is that when we got a delay because we did our talk radio without a delay for a long time.

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And we took a lot of calls too.

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We did live talk radio, no delay for like a decade. But then Janet Jackson's boob, all of a sudden, now we got like a seven minute delay going on.

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Yes, it was February 1, 2004. Yeah, 20, 22 years ago. A dark, dark day. Whoa.

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So that girl is 30 now. Wow.

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Day that will live in infamy. She let the lip, the, the nip slip and all went to hell that day. And, and, but just continuing on the discussion, once every, I don't know, a couple of weeks, months, somebody dropping s bond, we'd. We'd cut them off real quick and say, hey, don't be an idiot. If you're going to be an idiot, don't call. And that was. And nobody was ever hurt by it. Nobody ever drove off the road, died in a fiery wreck. No kids ever turned to drugs or prostitution because they heard an S bomb on the Armstrong and Getty show on the way to work. It was utterly, utterly, obviously harmless. But after the boob, everybody was so uptight about it, we had to get a, you know, like a 10, then a 20, then a 30 second delay. And if anything slipped through, everybody acted like a child had been grievously injured.

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Right.

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Or, you know, somebody had lost their life on the factory floor or the accountant had been caught embezzling all the profits. Everybody would act like something terrible had happened in the wake of the boob. What does that say about human beings? Americans in particular? Morality? I don't know. We're blank. And stupid is my essay. It's brief.

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You saw a portion of not even one of the really jazzy body parts. I mean, there's more jazzy body parts.

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It's in the top few, but.

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It's in the top. But it's not the top two. I mean, if he had dropped his pants and showed his wang, that would have been a much bigger deal. Boy.

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And you would have had a 7 year old girl sitting on your couch.

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That would have been. Yeah.

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Then you might have been charged.

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Wow. But he's. We saw part of a boob for a tenth of a second and the world shuddered.

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I remember that was when DVRs were just coming in and that was like the most TiVo'd moment or whatever.

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Launched YouTube. That's what launched YouTube, was it? Yes, that's the famous story. YouTube existed, but everybody wanted to see that video and it was on YouTube. So everybody became aware of YouTube because of that. And that was the big giant. Oh yeah. YouTube's kind of a cool thing. And it took off from there. Yeah.

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Because the boob wasn't on TV long enough for anyone to actually really register it. So they had to go back and.

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Rewatch to be severely damaged.

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Yes. I remember watching it with my wife and saying, did she just show her. I can't remember what you mean.

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You said that after you're done crying.

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Well, right.

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Hold me. I think I just saw part of.

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I saw a body part for 10th of a second. Yet it undeniably cost. Major changes to American media. What does that say? God.

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So I was a. Was I single then? I don't remember. But I was in the house by myself. I was 32 years old, drinking beer, watching the Super Bowl. I was in no position to watch a 7 year old.

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It's interesting and I do not mean this in an offensive way at all. It is interesting that you were the person they called.

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I mean, granted it sounds offensive even if you didn't mean it to be offensive.

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Well, points for proximity.

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But God, of all the people you could call, you can just. That random guy over there. You'd be better off.

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Yeah. Really? Yeah. Just Pick somebody off the street. No, Come on, come on. You got a seven year old kid. Oh my God. Who do we call? How about that single guy who lives down the street? It's just an odd choice. Why? It was me because relative trusted friends.

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There were other neighbors, parents. All the other neighbors around there had kids. Yeah, so they must not have been. I'll bet they called 10 people before they got to me. Including like just random payphones hoping to see if somebody would answer.

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Right. Oh, God.

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We gotta call that Jack. We'll have to call J.

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Last Ditch, Always Drunk Jack.

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We'll call him. Maybe he's less drunk than her dad. And oh boy, that was an interesting situation. I just thought, what are the chances of this? I have this kid here and all of a sudden there's nudity on television.

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Her dad's in jail, you're showing her porn. Something tells me in the landscape of her life as she looks back, that was not a major peak. North Valley.

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He was a super successful guy. Just.

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Yeah.

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Drinking on a Sunday morning for whatever reason.

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Yeah, yeah, sorry. I'm distracted by something happening in my real life.

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I wonder if she remembers it at all. I'd love to know that. I hope she's not, you know, dancing on the pole in her 30s because she's still so horrified by that event.

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Seems unlikely. Probably dressed as Janet Jackson that day.

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Exactly. She's never moved on from that moment.

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Get his act together. Do you know?

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I don't know. I think I moved out of that neighborhood and never, never really found out.

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Spite of your go to status as child care.

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Neighborhood child care.

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Right.

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The single guy down the street who always has a beer in his hand. That's the guy. Call him if you ever have a. You just randomly need somebody to watch your kid.

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The honor, it seems.

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Daycare. No kidding.

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Hey, kid, you want a beer?

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It's funny, I've never thought of this and it was so many years ago, but clearly I had to be like the eighth option of people to call. There's no way.

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Yeah, well, like I said, I didn't mean to be hurtful, but it's an odd choice.

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That was a great neighborhood too, because my other neighbors, they had a couple of daughters and the one who did the neighborhood newspaper, do you remember that? I would read it on the air sometimes. She was a little girl, she's a journalist now. Actually writes for a newspaper, but she would do the neighborhood newspaper and say, interesting news with the Armstrong family. It looks like they got a new car. You know, that sort of stuff.

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I remember it was so cute.

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Why didn't you call that family instead of they were out of town, clearly. All right then.

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New York Times oh, oh, go ahead.

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I got a tease. New York Times Brett Steven thinks the Democrats will be making a huge mistake if they pick Gavin Newsom.

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He's not the only one. And bad news if you're hoping to get a reparations program going. San Francisco has given it a try and surprisingly, it's going really poorly.

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We didn't predict that at all, so stay tuned for all that stuff. Stay here.

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At least one columnist with the New York Times thinks it would be a huge mistake for the Democrats to nominate Gavin Newsom, and his logic is probably pretty sound. So we'll get to that coming up.

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Speaking of progressive hopes and dreams, in December we mentioned this and I was surprised at the time. San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, who's a very reasonable guy and has done a lot of good things for San Francisco, he signed an ordinance establishing a reparations fund for black residents in San Francisco, but it was never clear who would fund the program. He he Laurie Lori, who signed the ordinance after it was unanimously approved by the Board of Supervisors, stressed that no city funds will go toward the initiative. Instead, the fund is open to private donations. The mayor said if money becomes available, the city would work to distribute it to eligible recipients. However, no non profit groups or wealthy individuals appear to have come forward with plans to donate to the fund.

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So reparations are unworkable. Anybody with a brain knows, and we've talked about it over the years, but we always liked the angle of each committee or assembly or Senate or whatever passes it because they know it's unworkable. But they don't want to be the ones to say no because then you get attacked like being anti reparations. So you're some council of, or a committee of three people. We voted two to one to move forward with reparations. Then the next level says yes, and the next level, all of them knowing it can't ever happen. How would you possibly do it?

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Well, and people who think it's a good idea are crackpots and ignoramuses or race baiters, but I'm sure some of them are sincerely crackpots. And it's got to be frustrating to go to the government, say this needs to happen, and the government says, yes, it does. I'm with you 100%.

[C]

Does everybody know what reparations are so you don't have to like, okay, I think so.

[A]

Don't they? Yeah, but you know, everybody at every point says, yes, I agree with you. We're gonna get it passed. And indeed, sometimes they pass it and they're like, hey, where the reparations? We're working out a funding mechanism.

[C]

Well, you've got the. Where's the money come from? Then how do you hand the money out to who. Who gets included? Who doesn't get included?

[A]

Right.

[C]

And then remember at one point they were passing legislation or ordinances or whatever they were that included anybody who's a descendant of a slave gets a free home, for instance. Okay.

[A]

Or $3 million or some absurd amount of money.

[C]

Were you gonna go grab a home and give it to people or. I mean, where's the home gonna come from?

[A]

Taxpayers? The rich tax the rich. They gotta pay their fair share. Right, Right. And what about recent immigrants from Africa and. Oh, that. Well, that's your.

[C]

Wouldn't you just mention California wasn't a slave state?

[A]

Right.

[C]

So who. Why are the white people of California on the hook for it? Not that it is. It doesn't make sense even in a slave state, but especially doesn't make sense in California.

[A]

Right. Yeah, exactly. So anyway, it's interesting that a guy as reasonable as Dan Lurie would say, yeah, okay, sure, I'll sign it. And the National Review says he shouldn't have signed it because now it creates this at least a smallish bureaucracy to distribute this money that will never exist. And I wonder, the people who were part of the reparations office or whatever they're calling it, who are part of. What are they doing all day?

[C]

No kidding.

[A]

That'd be easy, collecting a no show paycheck.

[C]

Wow. So Brett Stevens, he's the conservative by New York Times standards columnist who says the Democrats better think twice before they nominate Gavin Newsom and he gets through some of the reasons why a billboard showed up in New York. Gavin Newsom, the Jets of Democrats New York jets of Democrats. Which is kind of funny like a loser. But we got more on the way. I hope you can stay here.

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Now facing murder charges and the death.

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William Stevenson accused of killing his wife during a domestic dispute in Wilmington, Delaware in December.

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William Stevenson and Jill Biden divorced in 1975. There's no comment from the Bidens.

[C]

Well, you don't need to comment on some of your divorced half a century ago. Right. But Joe Biden's ex husband killed his current wife. Wow.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. What's interesting, if you want to spill a little tea, is that back in the day, Joe and Jill both claimed that. Yeah, we, we just, we were introduced after the split and husband's like bull s. Me and Jill both worked on Joe Biden's first campaign. The two of them clearly hit it off. I could see sparks flying. Wonder was going on and she announces she's leaving and then they end up together. But Joe and Jill's version is, oh no, it all happened after this bl completely innocent.

[C]

Well, that particular story only happens about 95% of the time. So he's a fairly common. Will Newsom be the Democrats next mistake? Brett Stevens writes in the New York Times, talks about all the fawning coverage which we went heavy on last couple of days from Vogue and other places. And then he goes on to write Democrats should be careful whom they crush on. Newsom's record as governor of California is a Republican strategist. Perfect foil. And he gets into the more salient points. But we've talked about this for a long time. You know, living in California, he's got so many like giant targets. It's just, I mean, it's, I can't remember a time somebody was talking about running for president who had this many giant targets on them. Anyway, he goes through them and you know, just briefly on a bunch of them. Affordability. California is incredibly unaffordable at dead last in affordability. So explain that. Prices for mid tier homes about twice as expensive as the typical US Mid tier home. Poverty and income inequality sort of thing he talks about all the time. Got a ton of poor in California tied with Louisiana for the country's highest poverty rate. And inequality. California has one of the highest rates of income inequality also. So both of those in the toilet.

[A]

Ruin the entire country. Newsom 2028.

[C]

No kidding. Homelessness. We all know this one.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

In this particular study, California alone accounted for 44% of all the homeless people in the entire country. There's been other stats that say it's half whatever 40 50% for one state is just absolutely unbelievable.

[A]

Right, Right.

[C]

I think it's the magnet is mainly the most thing. People always talk about the weather. There's lots of places with nice weather, Nate, Full of homeless people, flight. Maybe the best measure of a state's success or failure is how people vote with their feet. In California, as we all know, we've talked about it, a lot is bleeding people like crazy. Housing prices and all kinds of reasons. Highest income tax rate, state income tax rate in the entire country, slow job growth, all that different sort of stuff.

[A]

So California perversity.

[C]

Yeah, you got that. California had a total net loss of almost 1.3 million people who moved to other states, according to the Coastal Moving Services. Unbelievable. Oh, I like this stat. I hadn't heard this one before. Last year, the National Taxpayers Union foundation found that another Californian leaves the state every minute and 44 seconds. Every one minute and 44 seconds, another Californian leaves the state. Wow, that's incredible.

[A]

Net right? Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

Education, even though the University of California continues to be a jewel of American higher education. You write all right.

[A]

Less and less.

[C]

So maybe by the standards of higher education, I don't know, K through 12, though, not so much. And here's a stat that matters a lot to me as a guy raising two kids and trying to educate them in the state of California. While the state increased per pupil spending by 102% since just 2013, reading comprehension has remained flat. Math skills have dropped. I didn't realize we've increased spending per pupil 102%.

[A]

You know what's interesting about that? Statistics. Yeah, what's interesting about that statistic is the very name of the statistic is misleading. What if I were to describe my expenditures on liquor and golf as now on a per child. What would I say? My per child spending, honey, has risen 30%. And she would be quite legitimate in saying. Why are you calling it per child spending? That's not where the spending is going. Per pupil spending, the money gushing at California schools. Why are you mentioning the pupils? That's going to middle management and DEI programs and lobbyists and film strips about how you can change your sex and the rest of it. It's not flowing to the children. That's the wrong measure.

[C]

It really is. It's kind of funny. What a great trick that is. My per salad spending is very, very high. I don't eat any salads. It's all going to other food.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Wow, that is really clever. Whoever came up with that.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. So dishonest. It really is.

[C]

Anywho, yeah, they're spending more money on the schools and not getting any bang for the buck. In fact less bang for the buck in some case. Energy costs. Americans hate high energy prices. Average retail price for electricity in California is twice the national average. Crime got all kinds of crime. Cause Newsom was really behind that whole Prop 47 which reclassified shoplifting, which led to the endless TikTok and YouTube videos you've always seen of people going into stores and with one arm swiping the shelf off into a trash bag and walking out the door. Newsom was behind that. He thought it was great and wokeness California tremendously woke being the sanctuary state for trans children, surgeries and all illegals should get free health care and all that different sort of stuff. Just endless that. So with all of those California not being like not only in the red on a lot of those topics, but dead last. Yeah. How does he get through the nomination process?

[A]

Well, that's a great question. And I think Rui Teixeira, who is a moderate Democrat, I think he writes for the Free Press, he addresses that very question. Before we get there though, before I forget, I want to mention something that will help Gavin and I study Gavin now.

[C]

The fact that he's so incredibly handsome with his salt speckled hair and his.

[A]

Let's get this out of the way and what he is embarrassingly handsome.

[C]

The. The lithe and in adamant striking strident confidence of a self made millionaire whose molecular something or other we read yesterday.

[A]

He was lithe and ardent. That was it.

[C]

Yes, interesting.

[A]

Yeah. But I study him now the way I study the Third Reich or the Mao regime in China. Unquestionably evil, but really, really capable. And so I'd like to study how evil prevails. And the one thing he's really good at is he will he and his party and his policies will cause an enormous problem, a disastrous problem. And then he will say we are attacking that problem with every resource we can find. We're looking to the future, we're being creative, we're spending the money, we're innovating as California is gonna lead the country into the future. And you're like, yeah, wow, he's really attacking that problem energetically.

[C]

Well, to repeat myself because I've said this many times. He's figured out the time we live in. He's watched what Trump, Trump, Trump oftentimes will get up and say something that is just opposite of what is occurring in terms of results of a various policy like his tariff stuff. Sometimes. But, you know, most people aren't paying attention to that. They. They take it through their own news outlet and hear the person that they like say it and run with it. And. And Gavin Newsom, to his credit, I guess, has figured out the times we live in.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And the way you can work that whole thing.

[A]

Right. Much as Hitler did. That's right. I think that's fair comparison. So you laugh.

[E]

I laugh.

[C]

Much as Hitler did.

[A]

So Ruiz Shera is talking about how Gavi seems to be having a moment, and he writes, what accounts for this remarkable surge? How did a liberal California Democrat win so much support a year after Democrats got walloped when their candidate was another liberal California Democrat? The answer lies in Newsom's ability to be everything to, well, not quite everybody, but every Democrat. Think of him not as an ordinary politician, but as a message delivery system and a very effective one. All politicians fit that description to some degree, but Newsom lets absolutely nothing stand in the way. Not principles, not beliefs, not prior positions. He reliably presents whatever message he deems most politically effective at any given time to any given audience that has enabled him to appeal to nearly every Democratic faction. Well, then he goes through the various facts.

[C]

Come on. And I. I preferred Trump in both elections. All right, but doesn't that. Isn't that a perfect description of Trump's method? I don't think so. You don't think so?

[A]

No, no, because Trump had certain principles that he stuck with no matter what, no matter who he offended.

[C]

That's true. Only a couple. But the couple that he had, he has been very, very solid on and never backed down, even in the face of great, great resistance. And I don't think Gavin's got a single one.

[A]

I mean, Trump would not go to the chamber of commerce types and say, look, we need lots and lots of immigration for our labor force, blah, blah, blah. No, Gabby will say anything at any time to anybody unrestrained by any values, positions, principles, beliefs.

[C]

Look, I'm right there with you. I remember. I remember the times with the stacks of white bread. What are you talking about?

[A]

Hey, you know, there but for the grace of God.

[C]

What are you talking about?

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

He's a different version of Kamala Harris when it comes to answering questions. Like a more clever version of not answering the questions.

[A]

Yeah. Kamala would string together nonsense, you know, strings of words, whereas Gavin resorts to, like, chuckles and half formed thoughts. And.

[C]

Well, he benefits also from fawning media. Will he run into media? Sometimes it will follow up and say, what do you mean? There but for the grace of God. I still don't understand which side of this you're on. You just stopped your sentence before you got to the subject. Yeah, I just don't.

[A]

I think for the grace of God. Yeah. It'll be after he gets the nomination that he faces anything approaching critical media. And honestly, if he's running against somebody who is J.D. particularly objectionable to the liberal media, maybe Trumpy, maybe J.D. he will get the Barack Obama. I almost used the F word. Not that F word. The other F word rhymes with Horatio. They will get. He will get the full Barack Obama. Horatio. It's just interesting. A press corps that would treat Kamala Harris like she's not a joke would be absolutely frothing at the mouth to serve as Gavin Newsom.

[C]

Good point.

[A]

Who is evil but he's smart.

[C]

That's a good point. The same press corps that was willing to pretend they didn't notice Joe Biden was senile and pretend that Kamala Harris made sense.

[A]

That's no more.

[C]

People love Gavin Newsom.

[A]

You're making it rhyme louder than it's ever rhymed before. That addict fk.

[C]

But his. Did you take any money from apec? Oh, it's interesting that you bring that up. It's just interesting that you bring that up, which is just interesting. Did you take any money or not? Should have been the follow up, but it wasn't.

[A]

That hasn't been a part of my life. Things I've thought about. It's just so interesting that at this moment you would bring that up. That's, that's been, you know, there but for the grace of God.

[C]

Hey, I mean you're overwhelming me with how ardent you are, but did you take a dollar or not?

[A]

Lies. So lies.

[C]

Why don't you take your self confident, self made millionaire strut and walk on out of this room if you're not willing to answer that question or are you too ardent, whatever that means. Okay, we will finish strong next.

[A]

Armstrong and Gettys.

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[A]

Switching gears to some business news, Pepsi announced that they are cutting prices on.

[E]

A lot of their snacks like Doritos and Cheetos.

[A]

That's great. That's great.

[C]

It's really going to save the President a lot of money.

[A]

On makeup ended up being a soap. I was using Flaming Hot Takis for.

[C]

A while, that being a Trump joke. I was really looking forward to a Doritos joke but Breaking news.

[A]

Fallon betrayed us.

[C]

Breaking news. A judge has sentenced Ryan Ruth to life in prison. If you don't remember the name. He was the nutjob who was laying in the bushes with a rifle hoping to kill Donald Trump on a golf course in Florida in September of 2024. Luckily, somebody saw the barrel of the gun, so he wasn't successful. But he's gonna spend the rest of his life in jail, I would assume. He looks like he's fairly old, so that reminds me.

[A]

And crazier than hell. Did you happen to see on Bret Bear last night? He was talking to Cash Patel about the Pennsylvania would be assassin, the young misfit who shot Trump in the air. And Brett was making the case that. Why don't we know more about that day, that case, that kid who he talked to on the cell phone. Why isn't that stuff out? And Cash Patel gave him a non answer. Very dodgy answer.

[C]

Wow, that fuels conspiracy and speculation.

[A]

Yeah, it was, it was odd. And Brett was frustrated, which I thought was interesting because he's no conspiracy theorist. If anything, he's a little mainstreamy.

[C]

That's a good point. Don't you feel like if somebody had almost killed Barack Obama, we would know every single thing about that human being by now?

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

And what was really curious about it was it wasn't kind of a, you know, a very official sounding explanation of why some of the information can't come out or as part of an ongoing blah, blah, blah. No, it's just very dodgy.

[C]

I wonder if any of it has to do with failures of a couple of agencies that really are stonewalling.

[A]

It certainly could. Yeah. Because we all learned a lot about the Secret Service.

[C]

Or something. But, you know, guy on the roof with a rifle with the best angle to kill a president is not supposed to happen.

[A]

I'd say not.

[C]

This is an interesting story. We don't have much time to get into the dispatch writing today with all the stuff going on everywhere in Minneapolis and here and there and, you know, whatever story you want to emphasize. The biggest story may have unfolded 7,000 miles away this week when Chairman Xi of China started arresting various heads of his military, including the very, very top guy right the other day. I don't know how to pronounce his name, but the most senior general in the Chinese People's Liberation army came up with Xi through the ranks.

[A]

He was a childhood friend.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Going.

[C]

Going back to when they were kids. Both of them worked with Mao and, and have arisen all these years together. And, and he got accused of selling nuclear secrets to the United States, which he almost certainly did not do. And, And Arrested.

[A]

Wow. I have some final thoughts, and some people say they are the greatest final thoughts they've ever heard. But if you look at what's happening, I would have to say Armstrong and Getty have some wonderful final thoughts. They are right up there with Abraham Lincoln and everybody knows it.

[C]

I want to talk about that more tomorrow, man. That whole dictatorship purge thing has always interested me, man. It's Game of Thrones stuff right there. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.

[A]

Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up the show. Let's begin with our technical director, Michelangelo. Michael, what's your final thoughts? Yeah, my final thoughts, I thought, is that story, Jack, about you taking that little girl during the Super Bowl. That was. That was funny. I was laughing back here so hard.

[C]

Well, do you remember when that happened?

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah. But I forgot how funny that was.

[C]

Yeah, it's funny. It's a different perspective now that I'm a parent. I don't know what I was doing.

[A]

Katie Green, our esteemed newswoman, has a final thought. Katie? It's kind of a final question, but speaking of super bowl, we have Michelangelo's cheese dip.

[F]

What?

[C]

On the.

[A]

On the website, what was the chip you suggest? Did Michael.

[C]

The Fritos with the scoop. Yeah, Frito scoop.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Frito scoop. You gotta have a tough chip, otherwise they just break off. Okay? You're standing there with a shard of chip in your hands and a chunk of chip in the dip and everybody's unhappy.

[A]

Like I said, the Hoover Dam and the Scoopy chip. The two greatest achievements of American engineering. Jack, a quick final thought.

[C]

I used up all my time. My fault.

[A]

Mine's serious as hell. It would probably be a mistake to share it. We'll about talk. Talk about Russia's death toll in Ukraine tomorrow.

[C]

Yeah, it's the anniversary of it starting four years ago.

[A]

How do you feel about at least six times as many guys as we lost in Vietnam already?

[C]

Amazing. Armstrong and Yeti wrapping up under the grueling four hour workday. We will see you tomorrow. God bless America. Armstrong and get it shut off the lights.

[A]

Clear out the floor.

[C]

The show is now over. Time to hit the door. Jack and Joe done for the day.

[A]

Armstrong and Getty. Armstrong and Getty.

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