Kids Are Dumb & Eat Too Much Sushi

Summary

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Episode: "Kids Are Dumb & Eat Too Much Sushi"

Date: February 5, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Producer/Contributor: Katie Green

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Overview

In this wide-ranging episode, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty tackle contemporary parenting trends, the decline in generational intelligence, and the quirks of American society, culture, and politics. They blend humor and social critique, covering topics as varied as kids’ sushi obsessions, the purported decline in Gen Z cognitive ability, shifts in media, iguana invasions, and pizza economics. Throughout, the hosts maintain their signature irreverent, conversational tone.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Religious Performances in Politics (03:01–04:26)

• Topic: Donald Trump’s public religiosity and authenticity in faith among politicians
• Main Points:
  • Jack recounts Trump’s comments about House Speaker Mike Johnson’s religiosity and Trump’s tendency to “hang around” with religious people for protection.
  • Both hosts express skepticism about performative faith in politics, preferring Trump’s bluntness to insincere piety.
  • Quote:
    Jack Armstrong: “The Bible is a guy who clearly doesn’t take it that seriously.” (03:38)
  • Joe notes Trump’s unique position as a culture warrior: “Trump is the greatest warrior against woke in the heights of our government that's ever existed.” (03:59)

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2. Kids’ Sushi Obsession (05:13–07:12)

• Topic: Viral Wall Street Journal story on parents “going broke” due to their kids’ demand for sushi
• Main Points:
  • The rising trend of sushi overtaking pizza at children’s birthday parties.
  • Jack and Joe lampoon the “parents have no agency” narrative and the cost of modern parenting.
  • Story of a mother spending $150 weekly on her kids’ sushi outings.
  • Both express surprise at the shift in children’s eating habits.
  • Quote:
    Jack Armstrong: “My kids do not dig the sushi. That's interesting. Kids prefer sushi over pizza for a birthday party.” (06:15)

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3. Gen Z: The First Less Intelligent Generation? (07:12–14:22)

• Topic: Declining cognitive abilities of Gen Z relative to previous generations according to neuroscientific research
• Main Points:
  • Citing Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, a neuroscientist, who connects the drop to digital tech and edtech reliance in schools.
  • Concerns over declining attention, memory, reading, math, and problem-solving skills.
  • Both hosts share personal anecdotes on physical books vs. screens, agreeing on the cognitive benefits of traditional reading.
  • Discussion includes the problem of distraction from multi-purpose digital devices.
  • Dunning-Kruger effect described in relation to Gen Z’s self-assessment.
  • Quotes:
    Jack Armstrong: "Attention's really the whole ball of wax when it comes to learning.” (08:24)
    Joe Getty: “Humans are biologically programmed to learn from other humans and from deep study, not flipping through screens for bullet point summaries.” (09:13)
    Jack Armstrong: “When I held a book in my hand...on the other side of that page wasn’t watching highlights...pictures of naked girls...shopping for a new bike...all that wasn’t on the other page.” (12:01)

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4. Physical Books vs. E-Readers (13:01–14:17)

• Main Points:
  • Debate over the merits of physical books and e-readers (Nook, Kindle).
  • Emotional attachment to physical books despite digital convenience.
  • Both admit to re-buying books in physical format after reading digitally.
  • Quote:
    Jack Armstrong: “I have bought the physical book of books that I’ve read online just to have it. Yes, because I like having it. And why? It’s hard to explain.” (14:14)

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5. Media, Washington Post Layoffs, and Partisan Coverage (17:41–22:40)

• Topic: Layoffs at The Washington Post and media partisanship
• Main Points:
  • Katie Green reports on mass layoffs—one-third of newsroom staff cut, including international correspondents.
  • Armstrong & Getty discuss attempts to boycott Amazon Prime to punish Jeff Bezos for cost-cutting.
  • Express that uproar is almost exclusively among progressives, exposing media echo chambers.
  • Commentary on how serving only a narrow political audience is fatal for supposedly national outlets.
  • Quote:
    Jack Armstrong: “If you had a working newspaper that was serving the whole country, everybody would be upset about this. But it’s not that. It’s just like your lefty, progressive cable news crowd that’s upset about it, which shows you what your audience was and only was.” (19:17)

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6. Government Oversight Comedy: Congressional Testimony Highlights (19:53–22:14)

• Topic: Testy congressional exchanges featuring Secretary of the Treasury Scott Besant
• Main Points:
  • Audio montages of combative, often farcical, moments between Besant and various Congress members, including Maxine Waters.
  • Hosts reflect on the dysfunctional nature of such hearings.
  • Quote:
    Joe Getty: “Republics all die of self-inflicted wounds.” (22:33)

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7. American Society: “These Untied States” (27:31–35:35)

• Topic: Societal fragmentation, local policy absurdities, and reactions across the country
• Key Stories:
  • Prince George’s County, Maryland: Residents evicted while a homeless encampment remains.
  • San Francisco teacher strikes with political “sanctuary” demands.
  • Iguana invasions in Florida—bounty programs and local lore.
  • Taxpayer revolt in Oregon amid soaring taxes and failed progressive policies.
• Quotes:
  Jack Armstrong: “That’s the stuff of revolutions. Yeah, it really is.” (29:30)
  Joe Getty: “Teachers unions are leftist political organizations. Right now, that’s all they are. They happen to represent the teachers in their free time, but they’re mostly leftist.” (30:26)

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8. Food Economics: Snack Pricing and Pizza Problems (38:33–42:55)

• Topic: Super Bowl snack prices and the woes of chain pizza
• Main Points:
  • PepsiCo reducing snack prices up to 15% but with likely further shrinkflation.
  • Pizza Hut closing hundreds of locations; hosts debate the quality of various chains and reminisce about pizza growing up.
  • Not always about quality—chain pizza maintained low prices by downgrading ingredients.
  • Quote:
    Jack Armstrong: “If you gotta do a chain pizza, what's the best chain pizza?” (40:04)
    Joe Getty: “Pizza has to get really bad before you won't eat it.” (42:11)

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9. Banana Bread, Recipes, and Food Nostalgia (25:34–27:25)

• Topic: Lighter food banter for comic relief
• Main Points:
  • Extended riff on making banana bread; Katie Green contributes a flourless banana blueberry muffin recipe.
  • Good-natured teasing about food being “healthy” just because it has fruit.
  • Armstrong: “If there's anything better than Baby's Laughter, I don't know what it would be.” (25:35)

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10. Final Thoughts & Humorous Epilogue (43:05–45:13)

• Quick takes from the hosts and crew:
  • Recipe sharing and food chat continue.
  • Reflection on Gen Z “dumbing down” trend:
    Jack Armstrong: “If that is true, that this generation of young people are the first kids to be dumber than their parents...How long will we let that go before it’s seen as a crisis?” (44:05)
  • Animal trivia—iguanas as Florida scourge and “iguana boots.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Kids are dumb and they eat too much sushi. On we go.” — Jack Armstrong (14:17)
• “Republics all die of self-inflicted wounds.” — Joe Getty (22:33)
• “Teachers unions are leftist political organizations...They happen to represent the teachers in their free time, but they're mostly leftist.” — Joe Getty (30:26)
• “Pizza has to get really bad before you won’t eat it.” — Joe Getty (42:11)
• “If there’s anything better than baby’s laughter, I don’t know what it would be.” — Jack Armstrong (25:35)

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Structure & Timestamps for Key Segments

| Segment | Timestamp | |---------------------------------------|--------------------| | Religion in Politics & Trump | 03:01 – 04:26 | | Kids’ Sushi Trend | 05:13 – 07:12 | | Gen Z Intelligence Decline | 07:12 – 14:22 | | Physical vs. Digital Books | 13:01 – 14:17 | | Washington Post Layoffs & Media Bias | 17:41 – 22:40 | | Congressional Hearing Farce | 19:53 – 22:14 | | Societal Fragmentation - Local Politics| 27:31 – 35:35 | | Snack/Pizza Economics | 38:33 – 42:55 | | Banana Bread Riffs | 25:34 – 27:25 | | Final Thoughts | 43:05 – 45:13 |

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Tone & Style

• Consistently sarcastic, witty, and self-aware.
• Blends serious critique with humor and pop-culture references (e.g., references to Kurt Vonnegut, James Joyce).
• Frequent asides, inside jokes, and playful mocking of news narratives.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Show

This episode is a quintessential Armstrong & Getty ride—rapid-fire commentary, skepticism about conventional wisdom, and trenchant asides on everything from failing schools and media to why iguana boots should be cheaper. If you’re looking for a dose of cultural critique laced with laughs, biting observations, and the occasional recipe, this one's for you.

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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

[Joe Getty]

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

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, Mike Johnson's a very religious person, and he does not hide it. He'll say to me sometimes at lunch, sir, may we pray? Say, excuse me, we're having lunch. It's okay with me. But he's a very religious person and he is popular and he's doing an unbelievable job. So I think God is watching over you. God is watching over him. I don't know about me. So I hang around with him because I feel I'm protected a little bit. Trump, with the most support of the religious crowd, maybe of any president in the last hundred years. The Bible is a guy who clearly doesn't take it that seriously.

[Joe Getty]

No, not at all.

[Jack Armstrong]

And it's just. It's just interesting. And there he is at the national prayer breakfast that they have every single year, you know, kind of mocking the idea that he's religious. And now Mike's religious and he says, you want to pray? And I'm like, we're having lunch.

[Joe Getty]

Trump is the greatest warrior against woke in the heights of our government that's ever existed. That's it.

[Jack Armstrong]

But only Trump can pull that off.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, just.

[Jack Armstrong]

This is amazing.

[Joe Getty]

Well, you rarely feel like you're getting, like, bamboozled by Trump. I prefer that he's completely transparent.

[Jack Armstrong]

I prefer that to the pretending to be incredibly religious when you probably aren't.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. By the way, by the way, Trump.

[Jack Armstrong]

Said this morning on the Savannah Guthrie's mom missing thing, Trump said he's directing all federal law enforcement to be at the complete disposal of Savannah Guthrie's family.

[Joe Getty]

Is that good?

[Jack Armstrong]

All law enforcement at the complete disposal.

[Joe Getty]

Gonna send like 5,000 ice guys to Tucson or what, Whatever they ask for.

[Jack Armstrong]

I need the entire FBI. Need to stop any sort of Chinese hacking spy thing, anything like that.

[Joe Getty]

Need them all.

[Jack Armstrong]

Come deal with this. Complete disposal. All of law enforcement.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I think he was just saying, you know, we'll help if you need us. So here's a headline that falls squarely under the umbrella of.

[Jack Armstrong]

Are you blanking?

[Joe Getty]

Kidding me? Wall Street Journal. Parents are going broke from their kids sushi obsession.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, my God. I love the pretending parents don't have agency version of stories. I Love it when they do that.

[Joe Getty]

Parents are going broke from their kids Sushi. Sushi obsession. Raw fish has replaced beets. Pete, no. I'm sorry. Take two. I was so proud of myself for getting through sushi obsession. I was thinking about w. Really pulled that off and then I effed up pizza.

[Jack Armstrong]

You're like Eric Clapton when he talks about soloing and he thinks, man, I've been playing all night long and I haven't made a single.

[Joe Getty]

It happens to anybody who plays knows that. Wow, I am really playing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, crap.

[Joe Getty]

That was a c. Sushi obsession.

[Jack Armstrong]

You said sushi obsession.

[Joe Getty]

Yes. Raw fish has replaced pizza as a birthday party staple, prompting plenty of regrets.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. My kids do not dig the sushi. That's interesting. Kids prefer sushi over pizza for a birthday party.

[Joe Getty]

Let's see, here's a mom with a 8 year old and 6 year old. They regularly request blah, blah blah, salmon rolls, tuna rolls, blah blah blah. They would have sushi every day if they could. But Embry Grace Embry is her name. Has limited their intake to weekly outings where bills can reach $150.

[Jack Armstrong]

That headline is something.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, it is. Anyway, speaking of the young people, parents.

[Jack Armstrong]

Are going broke keeping up with their kids Sushi obsession in the Wall Street Journal, which is supposed to be for.

[Joe Getty]

Smart financial people and rich people.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't eat sushi every night. You know, you better get a good job someday. But we ain't.

[Joe Getty]

While you're a kid. Here's some grilled cheese. Dream big, kid. Neuroscientists are revealing the first generation in history to be less intelligent than their parents.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm going to lord this over my kids.

[Joe Getty]

Gen Z, smarter than you. Gen zers have become the first generation since records began to be less intelligent than their parents. These are averages, obviously. And at least one expert thinks he's uncovered the reason. Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, a former teacher turned neuroscientist, blah, blah, blah, has revealed that Gen Z, which is generally recognized as you're born between 97 and 2010, 2010s have been cognitive cognitively stunted by their overreliance on digital technology in school. Since records have been kept on cognitive development in the late 1800s, Gen Z, now officially the first, ever, scored lower than the generation before them, declining in attention, memory, reading and math skills, problem solving and overall iq.

[Jack Armstrong]

There ain't nobody on planet Earth that could argue with the attention part. I mean, come on.

[Joe Getty]

No. And one might argue, and one would be me. So me might argue that if you don't have Attention, memory, reading, math and problem solving abilities are going to suffer.

[Jack Armstrong]

Attention's really the whole ball of wax when it comes to learning.

[Joe Getty]

It's an excellent ball of wax, yes. Dr. Horvath told the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation that Gen Z intelligence has dropped despite these teenagers and young adults spending more time in school than children did in the 20th century. The increase, or I'm sorry, the cause. And I've actually read some of this guy's stuff and I have found it very, very persuasive. It's directly tied to the increase in the amount of learning that's now carried out using what is called educational technology or edtech, which includes computers and tablets which first flooded schools when my kids were now in their latest 20s to early 30s. They were the first generation.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's all now. It's entirely that.

[Joe Getty]

The neuroscientist explained that this generation has fallen behind because the human brain was never wired to learn from short clips seen online and brief sentences reading brief sentences that sum up much larger books and complex ideas. Humans are biologically programmed to learn from other humans and from deep study, not flipping through screens for bullet point summaries. He explained that humans evolved to learn best through real human interaction face to face. Added that screens disrupt the natural biological processes that build deep understanding, memory and focus.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't think this would be a problem if it was happening gradually. Over a thousand years or a million years maybe, but it's happening in like six months. It went from the old way to the new way. That's because we can't evolve to adjust.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Some of the neuroscience behind this is actually pretty interesting. I remember having a wow moment when and I think we talked about this on the air that they pointed out that if you read a book book as opposed to something you're scrolling through, you will have part of your memory is the physical location of that idea on the page. And I thought, oh my God, that's true.

[Jack Armstrong]

That is absolutely true.

[Joe Getty]

I'm trying to remember something I've read. I find it geographically in my brain.

[Jack Armstrong]

I can open up the book and get close to where was and then eventually find it. Whereas.

[Joe Getty]

And probably remember if it was toward the top or bottom of a page.

[Jack Armstrong]

Whereas I'm reading Ulysses on Kindle and I'm almost done. I haven't got the slightest idea where anything is.

[Joe Getty]

You know, James Joyce was alive right now. He slapped a Kindle right out of your hand in the US for money.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's a James Joyce detail you might not know.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'll pay you back later, he'd say. And then he wouldn't.

[Joe Getty]

You know, a lot of creative geniuses are bums.

[Jack Armstrong]

They are.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. In the US data from the National Association I'm sorry Assessment National Assessment of Educational Progress uncovered that when states roll out widespread one to one device programs meaning each student gets their own device, scores often flattened or dropped quickly. Centuries of data have shown that Gen Z has fallen off the path of constant human development. Horvath claimed that the doctor that many teens and young adults were unaware of their struggles and were actually proud of alleged intelligence. Most of these young people are overconfident about how smart they are. The smarter people think they are, notice that the dumber they actually are. He told the Post.

[Jack Armstrong]

Isn't that Dunning Krueger?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, isn't it? Yeah. What do kids do on computers in real life? They skim. So rather than determining what we what do we want our children to do and gearing education towards that, we are redefining education to better suit the tool that's not progress that surrender the other problem with it.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know if this plays a role or not, but when I held a book in my hand like if I had my science book at my desk when I was in eighth grade, on the other side of that page wasn't watching highlights from the basketball game or listening to my favorite album or pictures of naked girls or, or, or shopping for new bike. I have my eye on all that wasn't on the other page if I wanted to turn it. Nope. All was my freaking 8th grade science book.

[Joe Getty]

Right. Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

I mean because I struggle with that every single night I want to read and then you know, I grab my phone, I'll just check this real quick and then. Oh, that kind of leads me to that. And I wonder what's going on with this. And then next thing I know I didn't read.

[Joe Getty]

You know I've re embraced the physical book because I love, I love. I happen to be a nook guy but it's wonderful like when you're traveling. Oh my gosh, I got half a dozen books I'm really excited to read.

[Jack Armstrong]

The milk is wonderful. As opposed to the physical book, you mean?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, it's wonderful in terms of convenience. Oh yeah. God, I'd say right? Because you could have half a dozen, half a dozen books on vacation. Think you know I'm in the mood for something sciency and bingo, I'll read that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Doesn't matter what light level you have.

[Joe Getty]

On the other hand. Yeah, that's true. That's super handy. On the other hand, I've re embraced physical books because there's something about their actual existence in the world as opposed to zeros and ones on a computer.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, why don't you just blacksmith your own horseshoes too? What is that?

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[Joe Getty]

I don't. I don't know if I can explain it. And I don't think it's an old timey person thing. It's that that book is there and unless my house burns down, it will always be there.

[Jack Armstrong]

I. I don't know if it's an old timey thing or not. I really don't know. I can't fig if it's nostalgia or not. Like if you didn't grow up with books. But the I have bought the I've bought the physical book of books that I've read online just to have it. Yes, because I like having it. And why?

[Joe Getty]

It's hard to explain.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Huh. Anyway, kids are dumb and they eat too much sushi. On we go.

[Jack Armstrong]

On we go. And so it goes. As Kurt Vonnegut would say, if you ever read a book, you'd know what I was talking about. Talking about We've got more on the way. Steer Armstrong and Getty oh, gotta download the Prize Picks app if you haven't yet. The Big Game is almost here and there's no better way to cash in during America's biggest sporting event than Price Picks.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Jeff.

[Katie Green]

Bezos coming under harsh criticism for his management or you might say, mismanagement of the Washington Post. On Wednesday, the Post announced sweeping layoffs, among the most severe cuts in the company's history. About one in three staffers were laid off. I'm told about 300 staffers from the newsroom. This was affecting all sorts of sections at the Post. Sports is basically shutting down the Metro desk is being decimated. Many international correspondents were laid off. And these cuts are just the latest round of cost cutting moves at the Post as it tries to move from the print age to the digital age.

[Jack Armstrong]

So there's an attempt to get a boycott going of Amazon prime to punish Jeff Bezos for cost cutting a third of the newsroom at the Washington Post.

[Joe Getty]

And eunuch Brian Stelter on CNN claims that the posts will ails. You know, ills are because Jeff Bezos mismanaged it in the last couple of years. That's their problem. Okay, Brian, do you have something on this?

[Jack Armstrong]

Katie?

[Katie Green]

I just, I saw a story yesterday about a girl who said that she's in Ukraine reporting from the war zone and she got an email that she was laid off from the Washington Post.

[Jack Armstrong]

How am I supposed to get back? I have, I have a point of. So the. There's a GoFundMe for the reporters or whatever. That sort of thing always happens to me. All you need to know is progressives are horrified that the Washington Post is, you know, scaling way back and nobody else either cares or the rest of the people are thrilled. So that's all you need to know. If you had a working newspaper that was serving the whole country, everybody would be upset about this. But it's not that. It's just like your lefty, progressive cable news crowd that's upset about it, which shows you what your audience was and only was. It's, it's like, it's like a.

[Joe Getty]

Which is the problem. The reason you're going broke. Are you still, are you following?

[Jack Armstrong]

Are you following how this cycle is working here?

[Joe Getty]

Right. Yeah, exactly. All right, we got to jump into this now if we're going to do it. I'd like to call this Scott Besant, Secretary of the trolling areas, pissing off various Democrats in various settings and including, and mostly in front of Congress. We'll start with 50 and go from there. This is Besant with Congressman Gregory Meeks, Democrat in New York for the President.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, well, stop being his flunky. Gentlemen, gentlemen. For the American people, for a mob, maybe you're going to. As long as they talk.

[Joe Getty]

Recognize. Mr. Bessett, please. All right. And here's Democrat.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes, that was, that was productive.

[Joe Getty]

Stop being a. Are you all right, Katie? You look stricken.

[Katie Green]

Oh, no, that was just, you know, they're making big moves.

[Joe Getty]

Here he is with Democrat from Massachusetts, Representative Stephen Lynch.

[Jack Armstrong]

This should be a serious question to you.

[Joe Getty]

Trust.

[Jack Armstrong]

Should be a serious question and a serious issue for the financial services Industry, especially as the Secretary of the Treasury. Well, that's an important no.

[Joe Getty]

This is my time.

[Jack Armstrong]

I haven't asked any more questions. I haven't asked you any more questions. The gentleman from Massachusetts. I'm trying to get to my next question. Question. Could you speak a little louder? I can't hear you. Yeah, okay, I, I might, I might.

[Joe Getty]

Because he was yelling at him. And finally, let's end with Besant, with super genius Maxine Waters. Will you be the voice of reason in the administration?

[Jack Armstrong]

Will you be the voice? Will you be the voice? Will you be the voice? Will you be the boss of reason? Will you be the study from Morgan.

[Joe Getty]

University Reclaiming my time? Reclaiming my time.

[Jack Armstrong]

Was a 10 and 20 million immigrants. Can you the housing, housing stock of working Americans and can you maintain some level of digital labor? Well, that's a classic roar Shock. If you're a Democrat, you think Maxine Waters owned him there. And if you're, you don't like her, you think, wow, he really handled her well. It's one of those I, I don't know if we're ever going to get anywhere with these kind of conversations. I don't know if there's any way we can get past it.

[Joe Getty]

But later that day, they settled their differences and came to an agreement. Democracy works for a while, a republic works for a while.

[Jack Armstrong]

Democracy dies in darkness. Remember that was the slogan of the Washington Post after Trump got elected.

[Joe Getty]

Also dies in stupid. Yeah, my gosh. Republics all die of self inflicted wounds.

[Jack Armstrong]

And newspapers die of serving one tenth of the population with what they what they want to hear. Okay, we got a lot more on the way.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Gettysburg.

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[Jack Armstrong]

I just came across a good topic for the One More Thing podcast, which is a little segment that we record every day after the show does not air on the radio. And if you're not catching it, then you gotta look at you. You got a treasure trove of old One More Thing podcasts you can check out.

[Joe Getty]

Oh wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Today it's gonna be about Baby's Laughter. A really interesting article in the New York Times.

[Joe Getty]

That's nice.

[Jack Armstrong]

And if there's anything better than Baby's Laughter, I don't know what it would be.

[Joe Getty]

You know, that's funny. I wasn't sure I was gonna bring it up, but I had one of my more Homer Simpson esque moments. I almost Michael, did you have any luck in finding theme music? I'll. I'll let you know. But I almost forgot to ask Michael to get theme music because I was sitting here contemplating which do I like more cornbread which I brought up yesterday as perhaps the best thing in the world. Or fresh made banana bread. That's what I was thinking.

[Jack Armstrong]

They're so different, but they're a boat.

[Joe Getty]

Instead of, you know, my work duties here.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, a completely different flavor. But I would right now, if I had a warm piece with butter of each, which would I reach for first? Oh, one's obviously sweeter than the other.

[Joe Getty]

Usually both proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

[Jack Armstrong]

No kidding. I. I think I threatened this last year as like a resolution, learning to make good banana bread. And I still would like to do that. Like recipes and try a couple things and become good at it. Just made the. I can't cook anything but make. Just get good at banana bread.

[Joe Getty]

Katie, where do you stand on banana bread?

[Katie Green]

I could eat an entire loaf.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's a problem. I have eaten an entire loaf. That's one of the problems. I'm going to be very large if I start making banana bread on a regular basis.

[Katie Green]

I'll have to give you. Oh, no, sorry. Go ahead, Michael.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's healthy.

[Joe Getty]

It's got bananas in it.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's what we all say.

[Katie Green]

I'll have to share with you the recipe that I have for banana blueberry muffins that has zero flour.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, that's the one you zapped to me the other day, right? Yeah. I've got to alert the chef, the baker in the family to that. I'd forgotten.

[Katie Green]

Bananas, blueberries, two eggs and a teaspoon of baking soda. That is it.

[Jack Armstrong]

No flour.

[Katie Green]

No flour in it. I have eaten two of those muffins every morning for breakfast for the last week.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think you're a witch. That's not possible. All right, I'll have to try it.

[Joe Getty]

So welcome to these untied States. It's an anagram of these United States. And actually I thought of going with these unt teeth, which is also an anagram of the United States, but distract. Have an extra S and it'd be distracting.

[Jack Armstrong]

And with Governor Walls the other day saying, is Minneapolis this century's Fort Sumter?

[Joe Getty]

In other words, that's an idiotic thing to suggest.

[Jack Armstrong]

In other words, a civil war kicking off again.

[Joe Getty]

Only the stupidest of dodo heads would even propose that. Mr. Governor, sir. So it's just a look around. Some stories that are happening in various states and cities around the country is unbelievable. Prince George's County, Maryland, there is a condominium community that the woke sanctuary. Ish. When did I just say Prince George's county has permitted a bum Camp to spring up next to big giant junkie camp. Members of the homeless encampment in the condo's backyard constantly sneak in to use it as a crack house, a bathroom, an open air drug market. They steal wires out of the walls. They're breaking into buildings, smoking crack. In the stairwells. Tenants must navigate needles, feces and sleeping bodies as addicts nap half naked in the hallways.

[Jack Armstrong]

Needles, feces and bodies.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, and here's a bunch of junkies sleeping in the stairwell where these people live. The authorities got word that the condominium complex was getting damaged, so they came by to check it out and said, we're evicting everybody who lives in the condo complex. The junkie camp stays. That's the stuff of revolutions. Yeah, it really is.

[Jack Armstrong]

That'd be pretty maddening.

[Joe Getty]

Believable gang activity too. Let's take a look at San Francisco where the teachers are about to go on strike. Theoretically. And one of the reasons is that, and it's funny, it takes many paragraphs in this woke news outlet to get to the fact that among their demands is a proposal that the district adds sanctuary district policy language which says it is committed to protecting immigrant students and also a written commitment from the district to continue its current emergency shelter housing program for families. Teachers unions are leftist political organizations. Right now, that's all they are. They happen to represent the teachers in their free time, but they're mostly leftist.

[Jack Armstrong]

Why are you involved in this?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I know. Yeah. Gotta be a sanctuary city. This one is merely amusing. I think we're, are most of us familiar with the phenomenon that when it gets really cold in Florida, the iguanas.

[Jack Armstrong]

Fall out of the trees because they're asleep or what happens there?

[Joe Getty]

They're cold blooded. Check it and see.

[Jack Armstrong]

So they, they, they pass out under a certain temperature?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, essentially, yeah. They just, they freeze up and are, are super groggy. All of their function, including brain function just slows down to practically a stop and they fall out of the trees.

[Jack Armstrong]

I wonder what that's happened. There was a. I had an iguana fall right next to me. And where was I? Florida over the summer. And I'm sitting in this big giant hanging chair under a awning thing at the beach and just as happy as could be, but this big giant iguana thump right next to me and I wonder if that's what happened there.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, probably so. But what I had forgotten about all this is iguanas are invasive. They don't want the bastards in Florida. And so they were paying, paying premiums for people to round up as many as they could.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hit him with a hammer and put them in a sack.

[Joe Getty]

Just bag them up and bring them in. They snuffed them. Yeah. They reminded people don't stop inside to like have breakfast with your bag of iguanas because they'll warm up and chew on your your hands. In warm temperatures, iguanas are almost impossible to nab. You need either a gun or a 15 foot long pole with an invisible lasso attached to it, according to this iguana expert.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, well then the fact that this iguana fell right next to me and almost had to be that situation. It was early in the morning, so maybe it was just probably. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

But the dipping temperatures created a new opportunity last weekend and this director of iguana something or other decided to temporarily pivot it to a quest he dubbed a Florida man Easter egg hunt for dinosaurs. Which is a good name. Oh, back to a teacher's union. This is Raise Up Massachusetts, a lobbying group backed by the Massachusetts Teachers association and the state's American Federation of Teachers branch, which filed a lawsuit last week to have a tax cut declared unconstitutional because the language on the ballot fails to inform petition signers and voters that the tax cut would apply to capital gains in addition to wages and interests. Ballot measures a response to a separate referendum which was pushed by the unions during a low turnout vote that raised the state's income tax an additional 4%.

[Jack Armstrong]

So is the argument that tax cut. And then people think their taxes are going to be cut, but it's only for people who have capital gains and interest on investments. So it's only.

[Joe Getty]

That's their argument.

[Jack Armstrong]

Certain.

[Joe Getty]

But the teachers unions real purpose is we just, we don't want to give up any money. We want more taxes, higher taxes. And finally this for two things for our Oregonian friends. First of all, Portland area County, it's Multnomah county, which is where Portland is launched a sanctuary fund providing taxpayer funded grants to assist illegal immigrants. Part of a quarter million dollar package approved by Multnomah county commissioners to help out illegals. Proud sanctuary jurisdiction. And finally this. And this is interesting. A taxpayer revolt could shake up Oregon politics. Nearly 200,000 Oregonians signed a petition to put a tax repeal proposal on the ballot. They did it entirely without professional signature gatherers. It was just volunteers and they delivered some 193,000 signatures. It was a lump of coal and progressive stockings, writes Jeff Eager in the Wall Street Journal. The organizers of the repeal effort, weary of being taxed at some of the highest rates in the nation gathered signatures in about a month to give the voters the chance to rescind a $4.3 billion tax hike that Governor Tina Kotak and her allies shoved through the legislature along party lines. The progressive paradise of Oregon seeing a taxpayer revolt, which is just interesting.

[Jack Armstrong]

So that's an example of you can go too far for everybody. They went too far in San Francisco. They finally decided to hire somebody different to be mayor and get rid of the homeless people. Maybe they got too far. They went too far with legalized drugs in Oregon and people decided that ain't working right now. Maybe the same thing with taxes.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. There are so many states, California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois that are big red states full of reasonable people who are outnumbered by the wackadoodles of the big cities, who, unlike the people in the red districts who don't give a crap, the people in the blue districts think everybody should live the way I want to live. And I'm gonna pass lots of rules that demand they live like I want people to live. That's these Untied States.

[Jack Armstrong]

Teats.

[Joe Getty]

These Untied Teats.

[Jack Armstrong]

Except you have to add an extra S teats. Good news if you're gonna eat chips. Bad news if you're gonna eat pizza. We've got in the economy coming up, among other things. We'll finish strong. Stay tuned.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Some of your favorite snacks will be cheaper just in time for the Super Bowl Bowl. PepsiCo says it is cutting prices on Doritos, Lays and cheetos up to 15% this week. Company says it's responding to customer complaints that the snacks have become too expensive. Yeah, and if they're cutting the price, how tiny the bag is going to get. Now you can open up a bag and it's going to be one flipping chip in there. One chip and they had to open up another bag to get your next chip. That's the supposed good news. We'll see if they do shrinkflation to to deal with the prices. Here's some bad news if you're a lover of delicious pizza, Pizza Hut is closing hundreds of restaurants across the U.S. the chain has been struggling in a competitive pizza market, recording another dismal quarter. Its parents company Yum Brand says Pizza Hut Same store sales dropped 3% in the U.S. yum Brand's other restaurant chains, Taco Bell and KFC have reported higher same store sales of 7% and 1% respectively. Well, that's kind of interesting. So it's not just, you know, people are. Don't want to eat crappy food, if you'll pardon that judgment. Because Taco Bell.

[Joe Getty]

Taco.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. That's what I am when it comes to eating Taco Bell and, and KFC are up while Pizza Hut is down. So.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I just think there's too much really good pizza in the world.

[Jack Armstrong]

Why not where I live? So if you gotta, if you've got to do a chain pizza, what's the best chain pizza? Domino's, Round Table, Pizza Hut and what other else you can think of. You got one, Katie.

[Katie Green]

It's a close tie between Round Table and Domino's. Domino's has turned it up quite a bit.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, really? I haven't had a Domino's in forever. I should try it.

[Joe Getty]

The only one of those name that I've had in ages is Round Table. I think they make a really good pizza.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

What kind of a pizza sauce freak. And the flavor of their sauce is fantastic.

[Katie Green]

Domino's Savory.

[Joe Getty]

It's not sweet and sugary. Yuck.

[Katie Green]

Domino's does the pan pizzas. So it's, it's like all baked together. It's not. I don't. I, I love those things so much.

[Jack Armstrong]

What happened to the Hut? The Hut used to be a big deal.

[Joe Getty]

Gotta shut the Hut.

[Jack Armstrong]

I really grew up with pizza because it was. It started in Kansas and so they expanded from there originally. And so every tiny little town in Kansas had a Pizza Hut. Didn't matter how small you were. Like, we had no fast food in the town I grew up with. There wasn't fast food within a half hour drive of me growing up as a kid. But we had a Pizza Hut. Everybody had a Pizza Hut. Every tiny little. Didn't matter if you had 800 people yet. A Pizza Hut. Wow. And so that was the thing. And unless my tastes have changed, I thought it was really good back then. But the last several times I've had it, I thought, this is not that great.

[Joe Getty]

I know in high school I loved Pizza Hut. And this is in Chicagoland where we got plenty of good pizza. Yeah, I thought it was a good pizza.

[Jack Armstrong]

Now I've seen some charts and I haven't verified this, some charts that say the price of pizza has remained more stable than most other foods. And the only way they pulled that off is by having the ingredients get cheaper. That seems to ring true to me.

[Joe Getty]

Yes. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Because a, a pizza, if you weren't going to keep, keep up the same quality that Pizza Hut used to have. You might have to charge $55 for a large pizza. And they just don't think anybody's going to do that.

[Joe Getty]

Well, right. And they're right. Yeah, yeah. People just want cheap stuff or, you know, they want stuff they can afford, obviously. But yeah, Michael. Plus, let's be honest, pizza has to get really bad before you won't eat it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I don't usually have that much trouble with how it tastes at the time. I do notice how I feel afterwards if I eat cheaper pizza.

[Joe Getty]

Any good? Mentioned in the past. Pizza Hut, Westmont, Illinois, 1980s early 80s. If you look to be older than 12, they'd pour you a pitcher of beer. It was a favorite stop for me and my friends, my baseball teammates. Yes, indeed, we love the Zaha. Really?

[Jack Armstrong]

So you could be a 15 year old and just order a pitcher beer. Nobody blinked an eye.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. I mean, we might have been a little older than that when we. But I can picture a couple of occasions with my friends and my sister or whatever going in and having a couple of pictures of beer as high schoolers.

[Jack Armstrong]

Man, I have had some flat, barely cooler than room temperature pitchers of beer at Pizza Hut. Which was fine at the time. I wasn't picky, but.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, but when it's frosty and cold. Come on.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, no doubt. Here's your host for fun. Final thoughts, Joe Getty.

[Joe Getty]

Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up the show for the day. Wouldn't that be delightful? Let's start with Michelangelo, our technical director. Michael, ain't it?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

I got a text about my bean.

[Katie Green]

Dip for the soup for the game coming up. But yes, you can add ground beef to it. That was your question.

[Joe Getty]

I'm sure ground beef would be fine.

[Jack Armstrong]

Is there no meat in it?

[Joe Getty]

Currently no meat, but you can cook up some ground beef.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'll probably add some sausage.

[Joe Getty]

There's no meat in. It's got marinase. Katie Green, our esteemed newswoman. Do you have a final thought?

[Katie Green]

I do. I've already gotten a couple of tweets asking about the no flour banana muffins. So I'm gonna put the recipe up@armstrong.

[Joe Getty]

Yeti.Com we're like a cooking show. Are anti flourists enthusiastic?

[Jack Armstrong]

It's a gluten thing.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, gluten. Gleben. Jack, final thought for us if that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Is true, that that this generation of young people are the first kids to be dumber than their parents. Yes, that's really Interesting. And how long will we let that go before it's seen as a crisis?

[Joe Getty]

Not enough people are aware of it. That's why the activists are activating. My final thought. Green iguanas are a scourge in South Florida. First documented in the 1960s, their populations exploded to by some estimates, more than a million. They wreaked havoc on the region's infrastructure, brewing holes around homes, sidewalks and seawalls.

[Jack Armstrong]

I did not know that. I had a pair of iguana boots once. Really, really liked them. Kind of expensive though. Why are iguana boots expensive if they got iguanas all over the place?

[Joe Getty]

I'm falling out of the freaking trees in Florida.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm going to go with a suitcase. I'm going to bap a bunch of guangans on the head. I'm going to bring them back to California. I'm going to have somebody sew me up some boots. It'll be much cheaper.

[Joe Getty]

One more fascinating iguana fact. In Florida, it is lawful to dispatch them in a humane way, but it is illegal to transport them.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, I'll keep that in mind. Armstrong and Yeti wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

[Joe Getty]

What are you in for? Transporting iguanas. So many people. Thanks. A little time. Go to armstrongandgetty.com A lot of great clicks for you, including in Katie's Corner that delicious muffin recipe.

[Jack Armstrong]

We'll see you on Friday. God bless America.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty. If you missed any part of the Armstrong and Getty show, you're a loser.

[Katie Green]

Loser.

[Joe Getty]

Loser. Hey Ma, I'm gonna store this rat poison in this here bottle, so don't be drinking anything from it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Why do you keep all your urine in bottles, Jeb?

[Joe Getty]

I'm gonna need it. Don't question me, woman. Armstrong and Getty.

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