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Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
Jack Armstrong
Once you left office, I'm just curious.
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Jack Armstrong
I want to talk that your coming book.
Katie
107 days.
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Jack Armstrong
Once you left office, how long before.
Katie
You turned on the news again?
Jack Armstrong
Months.
Joe Getty
Yeah, months. You know, I'm just not into self mutilation and I just. Yeah, lots of cooking shows. Oh, good.
Jack Armstrong
Great British Bake off and stuff like that.
Joe Getty
The kitchen is one of my favorites. Oh, amazing. Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah. The.
Jack Armstrong
Kamala Harris was always good at those kind of interviews. It was just perfectly fine. Can she do well? She can't. Will she do any real interviews? The New York Times even said yesterday when talking all this talk about her running for president, her people believe she needs to do hard interviews and that's what doomed her last time. And she's going to do that this time around. I say bring it on. I want to see her have to answer for any of those policies she never did in the past. So.
Joe Getty
Right.
Jack Armstrong
Well.
Joe Getty
And if she does that and it.
Jack Armstrong
Goes well, it won't. There's not a chance we'll all go.
Joe Getty
To the polls and vote. By the way, just obviously Colbert is a fawning leftist weasel, which is a shame. But if somebody was interviewing me and made a jokey question like that or asked jokey question, I said, yeah, not really. You know, I'm watching the golf channel a lot. And he said, amazing. I would think, oh my God, that is so creepy.
Jack Armstrong
Well, we played the clip earlier, said.
Joe Getty
I like to watch the kitchen. And he said, amazing. Are you gonna call her mamala next, you weasel?
Jack Armstrong
Well, there's such a hunger for someone to root for if you're a Democrat. And I get that, sure. You want your team to win and there's no particular person right now. And I guess that's why we played the clip earlier. She came out to thunderous applause that lasted like a long time. Like it was Bruce Springsteen. And then the crowd broke into chants of usa, usa. To Kamala Harris.
Joe Getty
Yeah, an embarrassment. Maybe. They haven't watched the news in months.
Jack Armstrong
So that's something. Yes, Katie.
Katie
So I've never been to a show like that, but I've seen in tv. Don't they have, like, applause cues and, like, chant cues? Could that have been going on in the background? Just like.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know about chant cues, but you can't get that kind of thunderous applause without.
Joe Getty
That was real enthusiasm.
Jack Armstrong
That was real enthusiasm and adoration, which, again, I think it's just a we hate Trump and oh, my God, we have nothing. We have had no good news. He keeps winning. We keep losing.
Joe Getty
Just approval ratings are in the toilet.
Jack Armstrong
Right on that front. And I'll just read a little bit of this. It's super duper long. I should have highlighted the best parts. Maybe I'll do that over the weekend. I read the Mark Halpern newsletter every day, and he did a faux version of the first chapter of Kamala Harris's book. He's got a book out, and it's pretty funny, but it's really, really long. But I'll just hit you with a little bit of it.
Joe Getty
It's entitled 107 days, which is the count of days last year on which she said anything coherent.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, 107 days. About her campaign. And now she can go on these shows and talk about her book, which is what you do when you're running for president. Anyway, here's the fake version of the book that Mark Halpern wrote, starting with chapter one, the elevator. There are 43 buttons. That's a bad start. There are 43 buttons in the west wing elevator. I counted them three times on the morning I decided to run. 43 gleaming plastic squares, each one of them a portal to a sub basement full of secrets, regrets, or fluorescent lights. I pressed the G for gulag. What we called the press office. When the polling dropped below 39%. The decision to run for president wasn't so much a decision as a medical event, a thrombosis of ambition, a blood cot of destiny. One moment I was pacing in the Roosevelt Room, practicing my sincerely amused laugh for a TikTok Q and A about mental health apps. The next, I was speaking in tongues to the ghost of Walter Mondale. I don't know what that means. And then this. Joe had vanished. Not died, not resigned. Just slipped into a pocket universe somewhere between Scranton and senility. They found his shoes in the Rose Garden, still tied. No footprints, just a pile of Werther's wrappers and an open classified folder labeled very sensitive. No joke. The Secret Service filed a missing person's report and The Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit against reality. It fell to me. And it goes on like that.
Joe Getty
That's beautiful.
Jack Armstrong
It really is.
Joe Getty
Read as much of that as you want.
Jack Armstrong
I'll read a little bit here. I had 107 days, 107 chances to impersonate lucidity. I learned that the line between commander in chief and celebrity mental breakdown is thinner than a CNN chiron. One morning, I woke up convinced I was Angela Bessette. Another, I tried to ban time zones for equity. Oh, my God.
Joe Getty
What's notable about this, I think, is Halpern. I happen to hear part of his podcast, I think it Was Yesterday, is, like, studiously, even handed, like, serious about being a journalist. And if you get swept up in partisanship, you can't be a good journalist. And so he's not. But even a guy like him finds the idea of Kamala penning a book about that campaign.
Jack Armstrong
I watch his podcast so much every day. They all agree, including the Democrat representative on there. She was a horrible, horrible, horrible candidate.
Joe Getty
Right.
Jack Armstrong
I'll give you one more thing here. In our first week, we lost Montana. Not the primary, the state. It seceded and joined the European Union. By day 10, my approval rating was listed on Zillow. I don't know what that means either. And yet I kept going because every time I closed my eyes, I saw her. Hillary hovering like a thundercloud with a headband. She whispered, win or die, and then she vanished in a puffing of expired Chardonnay. So that's not a good start for Kamala Harris in her book, in her campaign that, you know, I don't think.
Joe Getty
She has no support.
Jack Armstrong
Well, it's.
Christina Quinn
It.
Joe Getty
And has the stench of the loser about her.
Jack Armstrong
I think it's the most delusional attempt to be president I can remember. Lots of people run for president and you think, wow, you think you can win. But I mean, she has tried it twice and just been absolutely spanked both times.
Joe Getty
Right. Even when she was getting a butt of jokes. I mean, there are plenty of people who lose that aren't nearly the butt of. Oh. Joke that she is. It's. It's. It's borderline hilarious that she thinks, let's try this one more time.
Jack Armstrong
Well, right. So the 107 days is so she can go around making. The point is, I had a hundred, and all I had was 107 days. Most people have. The other way to look at is you were giving the. Given the biggest head start anybody's ever had where you just landed as the nominee with all the money there ready to go, the whole thing in place. You didn't have to go through the primaries and do all that sort of stuff. And yet it turned out the way it turned out.
Katie
I believe the word you were looking to describe her campaign was abysmal.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, listen, that's right.
Joe Getty
From the other day. Yeah. Abysmal. Yeah. But again, you know, maybe my theory of the other day is at least in second place. Not that she's delusional, but that she will raise enough money from those who are delusional that she can travel around the country eating and drinking and living in style on somebody else's tab for at least another couple of years. I mean, because honestly, you could live a very exotic, fun life, considering she and her husband have a fair amount of money anyway, if she got an infusion of, say, $350,000 in contributions. And she'll get way more than that for her pack or her committee or whatever the heck it is. And she'll use it to, as I said, she will, you know, weigh in on the. The. The. The Touch and Go race in Aspen and then the very close race in Honolulu and then one in Miami beach and live a great life, like Al Sharpton always.
Jack Armstrong
It's possible she's doing the Al Sharpton thing where you run for president because it's just a pretty good lifestyle and it raises your Q factor and you get on more shows, all the stuff just like you explain. I think she's serious. I think she thinks she got ruined, really screwed. A little more from this fake book, because it's kind of funny. This is not a story of triumph. It's a story of motion sickness, of beige hotel rooms and interns named Kai, of crying on hot mics and clapping for things you hate.
Joe Getty
Oh, my God.
Jack Armstrong
It's a story of a woman asked to save a country that couldn't remember her job title. This is 107 days. Hold your applause. You'll need both hands to cover your face. It was a Friday. Always is. The kind of Friday where you open your inbox and know instinctively that democracy is thrown up in its mouth. I was Vice President of the United States, a title I wore like an inherited sweater. Too big, slightly itchy, tolerated for family photos. I had spent three and a half years giving speeches that nobody watched, cutting ribbons at EV charging stations and explaining to foreign dignitaries exactly what it was I did. The president of Guatemala once asked me deadpan, do you run anything? I smiled. But now, suddenly I did.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Nobody will read her book. But that's not the point of putting those books out.
Joe Getty
Oh, boy. Sad. Sad but enjoyable.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, could be freaking hilarious.
Joe Getty
Jack is going to be shocked by this. One more round. One more of the Sydney Sweeney jeans thing.
Jack Armstrong
No way. Really?
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Jack Armstrong
I can't believe there's another round of the whole genes thing.
Joe Getty
All right, she has good genes. Just like the eugenicists. Just like the white supremacists.
Jack Armstrong
It's October 1st, so we've got quarterly numbers in.
Joe Getty
Remember the August 1st, depending on who you ask.
Jack Armstrong
What did I say?
Joe Getty
October?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. It's not October 1st, it's August 1st. And quarterly numbers are in. And how did they look? How many companies you know, had a good quarter since there were predictions of a recession because of the tariff thing and all that? We can get into that later, too. Stay with us.
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Joe Getty
Good genes activates troubling historical associations for this country. The American eugenics move in its prime between like 1900 and 1940 weaponized the idea of good genes just to justify white supremacism.
Jack Armstrong
That's a college professor who I think actually believes her own BS about that jeans commercial. Yeah.
Joe Getty
So a couple of things. Number one, here's another ESPN writer mortified by the fascist Third Reichi gene. And we should listen to the experts, like that lady. And then Jonah Goldberg of the Dispatch was writing about this and he wrote some really funny stuff. But he mentioned that Amber Reagan of the Independent tells us. Well, what we just heard MSNBC declared, Sydney Sweeney's ad shows an unbridled cultural shiftness toward whiteness. And just in case you didn't know if that was a bad thing or a good thing, the subhead is advertisements are always mirrors of society. And sometimes what they reflect is ugly and startling. Therefore, whiteness is ugly and startling.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Joe Getty
He clip 10 Michael, this is a fellow by the name of Luke Wood, who was. This was about eight years ago, I think, when he was a professor. He is now the president of California State University, Sacramento. He is the president of a university. Go ahead and roll him.
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I would not say they're influenced by white people. They're influenced by whiteness.
Jack Armstrong
What does that mean? Whiteness is an ideology. It's a culture.
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It's a value system.
Jack Armstrong
And what we need to do is we need to eliminate that value system. You want to eliminate whiteness? Whiteness, not white people, whiteness. But how do you eliminate whiteness without eliminating white people? What I want to do is to create an environment that is more collective, that is more value driven.
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Jack Armstrong
Are you saying that white people are evil? No, they're not evil. Not at all. But then if they're not evil, why would they treat another human being to a point that a man like you would want to eliminate whiteness?
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Jack Armstrong
Anyway, yeah, the question is define whiteness to me exactly.
Joe Getty
Well, you know, and I could because I've read enough woke garbage and the fight against it, it's absolutely true that they call it whiteness because white people have a lot of the power in Western civilization. And guys, Neo Marxists like Luke W. Would. And Luke, you are a Neo Marxist, you're a racist, you're a racialist. And I will spend every ounce of my energy fighting you and people like you until God whisks me up to heaven for the cosmic ass kicking I've so richly earned.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Joe Getty
But you are a rotten human being. But so, and just a quick aside, can you imagine what I'd like to do is eliminate Jewness, not Jewish people, but, you know, acting like a Jew, you know, how Jews act, or, or even blackness people are bad. Just the way they act is really bad.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that's a very good point. You would not get away with saying that.
Joe Getty
It's disgusting and despicable. And so is Mr. Wood. But anyway, so getting back to Jonah Goldberg, who mentions the whiteness thing and, and this is what I thought was really, really interesting. And this, we don't need to quote, unquote, prove that these people are full of crap, but I think this shows the depth of how full of crap they are. So Jonah quotes a couple of articles and Salon informs that informs us that the eugenics movement in the US often promoted the idea of good genes to encourage reproduction among white able bodies. It was part some of their cold code words. We played the clip, the pun, good genes activates troubling historical associations for the country, blah, blah, blah. And interestingly enough, Jonah, who, you know, does this sort of thing for a living, he thought, you know, I'm going to take their argument literally and figure it out. And so they did what's called an N Gram search. It's a search for terms like through everything published in the English language, certainly through history. And he did a search for the term good genes. And here you go. If you search for mentions of good genes, blah, blah, blah, you'll discover that there are basically no mentions of the term until the early, early 1970s. Nobody said it. And it takes off like a rocket after that. I don't want to get deep into the weeds here, he writes, but the American eugenics movement started to die in the 1940s, and the reckoning with its legacy began in earnest in the 1970s at the precise moment the term started taking off. If you Google for things like good genes, you'll find countless stories about athletes, including many, many black athletes, and how they have, you guessed it, good genes. You can do the same thing with good genes in cancer and good genes in almost anything. You'll find scads, piles, heaps of usages that have no connection to Francis Galton, widely seen as the founder of eugenics, along with Planned Parenthood or, well, Hitler. It's not a term that anybody's ever used in that context.
Jack Armstrong
That's pretty interesting. So the premise is completely false. That is not a term that was being used in the early 20th century.
Joe Getty
And even if it was, that would still be a stupid argument. But their premise isn't even correct.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Joe Getty
So again, I knew they were full of crap. Now you know how full of crap.
Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
Well, this is why the radioactive wasp nest was just found at a site.
Jack Armstrong
Where the US Used to make nuclear bombs.
Joe Getty
Sounds scary, but don't worry, they're sending a dad with a wiffle ball bat.
Jack Armstrong
To take care of it. Shut the door. Hurry, run. Shut the screen door. Shut the.
Joe Getty
Everyone in. Where's the baby? Where's the baby? Radioactive wasps in. I was into The Japanese post WW2 horror movies for a while, where it was always the same thing. Radioactivity had caused a crab to become enormous or chicken or a lizard or whatever. I don't think. Did they ever do a wasp, because that would be terrifying.
Jack Armstrong
I have so much to say about the end of World War II, but I'm hanging on till week after next when the whole country is Talking about the 80th anniversary dropping the bomb.
Joe Getty
Yeah, okay. All right, fair enough. So, among the great things the Trump administration has done, Donald J. Himself, certainly the borders, I think in a lot of people's minds, maybe number one. But rolling back, the climate cult is way toward the top with the help of Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright. And there's a new report out. Kim Strassel in the Wall Street Journal is writing about it, and it's just so good. And look, we're not oil company hacks here. We don't have a. Oh, you are. Wow, that explains the Ferrari. We don't have any particular, you know, dog in the fight, as they say, although dog fighting is abhorrent. I just want to know what the truth is and have good, sound policy based on the truth. But the Energy Department issued a report entitled and this is Sexy, A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the US Climate. And the New York Times, among others, just foaming with indignation. Indignation. Just tried to shame it. They're climate skeptics who misrepresented cherry pick as they undermine and attack the scientific consensus, which is a hell of a change from, you know, during the Biden years. But as Kim writes, note what's missing from this diatribe. A favorite word of the critics yet one they couldn't deploy. Deploy here. Denier. The report written by five respected scientists, including the former chief scientific officer in the Obama Energy Department does not deny the climate is changing. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, in an opening letter, notes, climate change is real and it deserves attention. The report instead provides a holistic picture of the messy reality of climate research. Its many areas of uncertainty, disputes, unknowns. Many people never hear about this complicated debate since only a subset of scientists with the correct views are given voice. She points out that the idea of scientific consensus is the opposite of what science is. You test, you test, you test, you look for flaws, you look for improvements. Anyway, here are some non controversial findings from the report based on peer reviewed literature from recent years. And it might surprise lefties. This is the evil Trump administration. Global warming has risks. It also has benefits, including greater agricultural productivity. We still don't know the extent to which human activity plays a role in warming because of natural variability, data limitations, uncertain models and fluctuations in solar activity. So it's difficult to say how much effect humans have had. Models predicting what is to come are all over the map. US historical data does not support claims of increased frequency or intensity of extreme weather. It's just not there. It comes and goes in waves.
Jack Armstrong
I know, I've seen those charts and even in like the Washington Post, the New York Times, they've been fair enough to point out that yeah, this wasn't worse hurricane season. I mean it was worse than last year, but it's third to like the 50s or whatever.
Joe Getty
And by the way, go ahead Jack, you're mid sentence.
Jack Armstrong
Just that there's no clear graph showing that things are getting worse with the, with the extreme weather.
Joe Getty
I was going to say as a part time South Carolinian with property there, I am really really into the question of hurricanes and hurricane frequency right on the coast. Anyway, US climate policies, even drastic ones, will have negligible effects on global temperatures, says the report. Which is just self evident.
Jack Armstrong
Clearly true.
Joe Getty
Again US climate policy as China and India, if it were only those two, that would settle the argument, continue to do the same things. We can't have any effect or negligible.
Jack Armstrong
But if you want to donate $10 to carbon offsets when you buy your next Southwest airfare ticket, knock yourself out.
Joe Getty
So getting Back to quoting Ms. Strassel, this is the honest modest assessment of the state of climate science today. Which explains the climate activists fury since it is at odds with the controlled story of mass extinction and end of glaciers and deathly heat waves that the consensus gatekeepers obsessively enforce complete control over that scientific narrative has been essential to their ability to manipulate debate and under Joe Biden's presidency gear the entire government to fighting the threat, which means handing out trillions of dollars to cronies. So, anyway, you know, there's more to this, and it's very, very good, but.
Jack Armstrong
How many times have there been predictions of 10 years from now, 12 years from now, it'll all be over, there's no turning back. And then we get 12 years further down the line, and things are about the same as they were before.
Joe Getty
All the polar bears. Bears will be dead and the rest of it. You have stolen my dreams, my childhood, with your empty words.
Jack Armstrong
You stole people like you. Joe stole that young girl's dreams.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Yeah. So this horrible, horrible new approach is jump back into the science challenge, the notion of consensus. You know, remember some of the forgotten factors in the debate, like cost, competing priorities, what it would do to the economy, poverty in general, health outcomes, and in general, insure Americans have the whole picture. Now, in an ironic note, you should.
Jack Armstrong
Be back in school.
Joe Getty
She should be back in school.
Jack Armstrong
She shouldn't be.
Joe Getty
Shut the hell up.
Jack Armstrong
I shouldn't be up here.
Joe Getty
This is all wrong. Well, because you're a child and you have no idea what you're talking about, and you're autistic and you got swept up in an emotional idea that the world is going to perish in a fiery something or other, and it's just wrong, sweetheart. How dare you. Okay. And in a little bit of irony, as I was scrolling through the Wall Street Journal's mobile site, the next story after the editorial section and Kim Strassel was the last editorial just visually on the site. The next story is from the Science and Environment Desk. Climate skeptics are tapped by Trump administration to justify regulatory rollback report challenges decades of scientific findings to undermine EPA authority by a couple of utterly mainstream lefty journalists repeating all the very canards that Kim and the report had very calmly and rationally said, hey, we can't just lean on these cliches. Look at these facts and these facts and this balance of this interest versus this interest. Can we have an intelligent discussion? But the next story in the Journal was a bunch of emotional lefty limp risk dudes talking about the brutal, brutal Trump administration rolling back the very regulations that'll save mankind. Hilarious.
Jack Armstrong
I think my calves are getting bigger. Been really.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
Really been working on my calves. Because I assume you mean your lower.
Joe Getty
Leg and not your young cows.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, the. The space between my ankle and my knee. Yes.
Katie
Katie, did you buy the rubber ones on Amazon?
Jack Armstrong
No, I haven't gotten implants. I am. I've been exercising my Calves.
Katie
Oh, no, they've got hard. They got little slip ons you can, you know.
Jack Armstrong
Really?
Katie
Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's ridiculous. You've been doing calf raises.
Jack Armstrong
The. The slip ons, though, to wear, like, inside of pants.
Katie
They have full body slip ons that will make you look absolutely yoked.
Jack Armstrong
But you'd have to be wearing clothes over them, Right. Or you would look like you're wearing plastic.
Katie
Uh, yeah, yeah, but if I.
Jack Armstrong
So I'm wearing pants that are tight enough around the calves that you can see my bulging calf. Fake calf muscles.
Katie
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Joe Getty
You have non. What's the term that you fancy people use? Non. Incidental. No, you have significant. Right. You have significant mental slash emotional problems if you do that.
Jack Armstrong
If you wear plastic, bigger calves underneath your tight pants, hoping someone will notice.
Katie
Yeah, it's kind of like a girl taking off her eyelashes and her makeup and having fake.
Jack Armstrong
You know what? Wait a second. Katie's got a point here. Wait, wait, wait.
Joe Getty
So you know what's her fake.
Jack Armstrong
I'm out. Please. If you're wearing the big padded bra, that makes it like 30 to 50% more than what is real. What's the difference between that and having bigger cabs?
Katie
Yeah, and you take your eyelashes off and you're wearing a wig.
Joe Getty
There is no difference. They're both fraud.
Jack Armstrong
Okay.
Joe Getty
I'm the consistent one here.
Katie
Now, Joe. Joe is above us all.
Jack Armstrong
But one of them is obviously very, very common. And I realize one of them is a common sex adjacent part that gets people's attention. It's a little weirder to do it for something like calves, but. But how about eyelashes? I like. What was it? You know, fake eyelashes. Why is fake eyelashes okay, but a fake calf is not.
Katie
You have a. You have a solid point, Jack.
Joe Getty
I do.
Jack Armstrong
I. I do. I think it's weird, like, if I found out a good friend of mine was, you know, we're staying at a hotel room, we get up in the morning. Hold on a second. I got to put on my fake calves before we get dressed and go out. I think. What? No, I get it. I get it.
Katie
You're fine. Don't worry about it. You do you, Jack. You know what I mean.
Joe Getty
Hey, you look fantastic. Get into the BMW. I borrowed from my friends so you would think I have more money. And if I can show you this faked up w2 and the rest of it. And now let's look at your fake breasts and your ass. It's fraud. It's all. Go back to your boutique.
Jack Armstrong
All right, I understand. I understand. Delane, you're working there.
Joe Getty
I don't have a boutique, I have a commune.
Jack Armstrong
I understand the lane. Joe is working there, but it is weird what we, we count as perfectly. Okay. You can have a completely, you know, you're gray headed but you're blonde and that's perfectly acceptable. And I find that perfectly acceptable.
Katie
I have fake nails every day.
Jack Armstrong
Fake nails or the wearing a bra that completely changes them off your knees. But also Katie for the win suggests a completely different body shape than what you actually have. But with calves we think it's ridiculous. It's odd where we draw the lines on that stuff. But anyway, I am trying to do it the old fashioned way with calf raises and exercise, stuff like that. And I feel like I've been taking pictures and so I got my before and after pictures and I'm trying to compare and see if I've got any growth going.
Katie
Yes, that is awesome. Sorry, go ahead.
Joe Getty
Compare before and after pictures.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, do measurements.
Joe Getty
Oh really?
Jack Armstrong
I could do that. Pictures are better.
Katie
Anybody who is trying to lose weight or find some like change in their body, before and after pictures, it's the way to go.
Jack Armstrong
Well, you're, you're an expert. Your, your credibility comes from. You lost how much weight from your peak 75.
Katie
I was 210 pounds, but. And every, every month I took a picture because I was looking in the mirror and I couldn't see it. But my friend who also did the same thing said take a picture every month and look at the pictures. Don't look at yourself in the mirror.
Jack Armstrong
It is highly motivating. I've been doing that for the rest of my body since I started lifting weights. And yeah, seeing wow, I didn' like I'd done much but look at that picture in that picture. But now I'm working on the cabs and I got a whole phone full of calf pictures, which if I get in a car wreck and then somebody gets into, my phone's gonna look pretty odd. Like what the hell? Some sort of serial killer. That was something. I don't know, whatever.
Joe Getty
Yes. Yeah, no kidding. Calf weirdo.
Jack Armstrong
So it's the end of a quarter, calendar wise, and a bunch of economic numbers came out today and they're mostly good, but some of them not. And we'll take a look at that among other things on the waystation here.
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Jack Armstrong
To deplane due to disruptive behavior and.
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Jack Armstrong
Flailing her arms in an attempt to not be handcuffed.
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Jack Armstrong
To find a new pilot as soon as possible. So last night, Trump announced, I think 68 new tariffs of varieties, of levels. That's a lot. And said this about Canada. They have to pay a fair rate. That's all. It's very simple. They've been treating our country very badly for years. And look, we like Canada. I love Canada. I have so many friends in Canada. But they've been very poorly led.
Joe Getty
They've been very, very poorly led.
Jack Armstrong
And all we want is fairness for our country. So a lot of talk of fairness. Then there was anger earlier in the day that they were going to recognize Palestine as a state. And then at the end of the day, when he hit him with the 35% tariff that starts today, he had to use the excuse of fentanyl because that's the only way it fits into the whole Emergency act thing. But so you got that weirdness there. So did that the 68 new tariffs caused the stock market to drop this morning or is it because of the labor market news that came out? The labor market was worse than previously thought. So low number for the most recent month and then they downgraded the previous two months. So the US created about 106,000 jobs in the past three months. That's the weakest pace of growth since the onset of the 2020 pandemic. Who knows? Economies are complicated. What all is involved in that? Seasonal tariffs, who freaking knows. But there is that number. It's true that when this tariff talk started, there was a lot of prediction of, of, of horror and recession and all kinds of different things. And remember, people were talking 90% chance of recession and different things. So here we are after a quarter. About that recession is the segment they did on Fox this morning. And we're talking S&P 500 companies so we don't anger Joe, who does not like talk of the Dow Jones industrial Average.
Joe Getty
I'll put down my ball bat I.
Jack Armstrong
Was wielding, but companies in the S P563% or I'll go with the bigger number, which is better. 81 beat earnings per share estimates, 81 beat their estimates for the quarter, 79% beat revenue estimates. And that is not talk of a recession. Now you made the point earlier, which has got to be made, that if you are quoting people's dire predictions from Liberation Day, that doesn't really make sense because he backed off a liberation, Liberation day pretty quickly. A lot of big tariffs are kicking in today or going to next week, but. So we haven't seen the result of the tariffs yet.
Joe Getty
Exactly. And Trump would probably hear those employment numbers and say, well, yeah, it's gonna initially be a period of rough seas until the tariffs are set up and everybody's used to them and we bring back American manufacturing and then you'll see real job growth. Now, I don't happen to think he's right on that. And I don't think the courts are gonna let this tariff thing go through, honestly, and I don't think they should, which probably makes me unpopular in megaland, but it's not a crazy argument. I mean, if he's right about everything, there will be a period of disruption.
Jack Armstrong
So that's enough of that. Anybody watch the number one TV show in America last night? I don't know what the ratings were for the first preseason game of the NFL, but that is the number one TV show in America, the NFL. And they broke out some new technology for the first time that they're going to have this season. There's no more running out onto the field with the chains for a close one. Did they make the first down or not? It's all virtual. They got the yellow line on there that they now say is accurate enough that they'll be able to tell from the yellow line and the ball spot, first down or not. They won't run out with the chains. And there was a couple of times both coaches got angry last night and thought it wasn't correct. But that's always going to be the case, I suppose.
Joe Getty
Yeah. I kind of like the suspense of the measurement. I think it's show busy.
Jack Armstrong
It. I agree. And it. And it is showbiz. That's the. Why the, the, the, the. It is not really important to see which town can produce the best football team them. It's all about selling advertising.
Joe Getty
Right.
Jack Armstrong
And, and it's a TV show and yeah, I think the TV show's better with the refs running out there and they stretch the chains. Looks like he's gonna make.
Joe Getty
Oh, it's an inch short.
Jack Armstrong
Damn it.
Joe Getty
And then the ref holds up his hands two inches apart.
Jack Armstrong
The whole crowd goes, oh, wow. And now. So the whole.
Joe Getty
Now the machines will tell us what.
Jack Armstrong
Is accurate and the crowd won't see the yellow line except for up on the TV screen. I guess so. Yeah. I don't, I don't. I agree. I like the old style better.
Joe Getty
Probably show it on the Jumbotron, but.
Jack Armstrong
Did the referee union decide they don't want to have to run out on the field with the chains. Too dangerous. We could trip or something. I don't know. I don't know.
Joe Getty
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Armstrong & Getty On Demand: "Sad But Enjoyable!" – Detailed Episode Summary
Release Date: August 1, 2025
Hosted by iHeartPodcasts
Timestamp: [03:20]
Jack Armstrong initiates the discussion by delving into Vice President Kamala Harris's upcoming book, tentatively titled "107 Days". He criticizes the book's portrayal of her political career, suggesting it lacks substance and authenticity.
Notable Quote:
Jack Armstrong: "107 days is so she can go around making the point is, I had a hundred, and all I had was 107 days. Most people have..." [06:31]
The hosts engage in a satirical reading of a fabricated excerpt from Harris's book, highlighting perceived shortcomings in her political strategies and leadership during her tenure.
Excerpt Highlight:
"The decision to run for president wasn't so much a decision as a medical event, a thrombosis of ambition..." [06:31]
Timestamp: [09:35]
Jack Armstrong labels Harris’s campaign as "abysmal", emphasizing her lack of support and previous unsuccessful attempts to secure a presidential nomination.
Timestamp: [17:51]
The conversation shifts to the contentious topic of "whiteness" in contemporary society. Joe Getty critiques academic discussions that aim to dismantle "whiteness" as an ideology, arguing that such notions are divisive and lack practical solutions.
Notable Quote:
Joe Getty: "Neo Marxists like Luke W. would call it whiteness because white people have a lot of the power in Western civilization... I'm going to spend every ounce of my energy fighting you..." [20:05]
Jack Armstrong challenges the idea of eliminating "whiteness" without targeting individuals, fostering a heated debate on racial ideologies and their implications.
Timestamp: [23:11]
Joe Getty references a critique by Jonah Goldberg, debunking the association of the term "good genes" with the historical eugenics movement, thereby questioning the validity of certain social theories.
Notable Quote:
Joe Getty: "They call it whiteness because white people have a lot of the power in Western civilization. And I will spend every ounce of my energy fighting you..." [20:05]
Timestamp: [28:09]
Armstrong and Getty analyze a report from the Trump administration's Department of Energy titled "A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the US Climate". They critique the report for downplaying the role of human activity in climate change and highlighting uncertainties within climate science.
Notable Quote:
Joe Getty: "Global warming has risks. It also has benefits, including greater agricultural productivity... Models predicting what is to come are all over the map." [30:18]
Jack Armstrong echoes these sentiments, citing support from mainstream publications like The Washington Post and The New York Times that acknowledge the mixed findings of the report.
Timestamp: [32:02]
The hosts discuss the political ramifications of the report, noting that it challenges the prevailing scientific consensus and influences public perception.
Timestamp: [34:24]
In a lighter segment, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty engage in humorous banter about physical fitness, specifically focusing on calf muscles. They critique the societal acceptance of certain aesthetic modifications while mocking others.
Notable Quote:
Jack Armstrong: "It's a story of a woman asked to save a country that couldn't remember her job title... It's a story of motion sickness, of beige hotel rooms and interns named Kai." [12:14]
Katie interjects with a practical approach to fitness, advocating for before-and-after photos as a motivational tool, which leads to playful ribbing about fake calf enhancements.
Timestamp: [35:12]
Katie: "Anybody who is trying to lose weight or find some like change in their body, before and after pictures, it's the way to go." [38:07]
Timestamp: [42:04]
The hosts provide an overview of recent economic indicators, focusing on the impact of newly implemented tariffs and job growth statistics.
Notable Quote:
Joe Getty: "The US created about 106,000 jobs in the past three months. That's the weakest pace of growth since the onset of the 2020 pandemic." [30:36]
They discuss the skepticism surrounding the effectiveness of tariffs in boosting the economy, citing mixed signals from the job market and stock performance.
Timestamp: [44:11]
Jack Armstrong: "81% beat earnings per share estimates, 81% beat their estimates for the quarter, 79% beat revenue estimates." [44:32]
Timestamp: [45:29]
Armstrong and Getty shift focus to the National Football League's introduction of virtual first-down lines, a technological innovation aimed at increasing accuracy and reducing delays in gameplay.
Notable Quote:
Jack Armstrong: "They won't run out with the chains. And there was a couple of times both coaches got angry last night and thought it wasn't correct." [46:06]
The hosts express mixed feelings about the change, with Jack Armstrong prefering the traditional methods for maintaining the suspense and authenticity of the game.
Timestamp: [46:40]
Joe Getty: "Now the machines will tell us what is accurate and the crowd won't see the yellow line except for up on the TV screen. I don't, I don't agree. I like the old style better." [46:41]
In wrapping up the episode, Armstrong and Getty reflect on the various topics discussed, emphasizing the blend of political satire, cultural critique, and personal anecdotes that characterize their show.
Notable Quote:
Joe Getty: "It's a story of a woman asked to save a country that couldn't remember her job title... Watch out for her book." [12:14]
They encourage listeners to subscribe and stay tuned for more insightful and entertaining discussions in future episodes.
Christina Quinn Ad:
"If you eat too many ultra processed foods, you could be starving your gut microbes and they'll get hangry." [00:00]
Jack Armstrong on Kamala Harris Book:
"107 days is the count of days last year on which she said anything coherent." [06:37]
Joe Getty on "Whiteness":
"It's an ideology. It's a culture. It's a value system." [19:23]
Jack Armstrong on Climate Report:
"Global warming has risks. It also has benefits, including greater agricultural productivity." [30:18]
Joe Getty on Tariffs:
"The US created about 106,000 jobs in the past three months. That's the weakest pace of growth since the onset of the 2020 pandemic." [30:36]
Jack Armstrong on NFL Tech:
"They won't run out with the chains. And there was a couple of times both coaches got angry last night and thought it wasn't correct." [46:06]
"Sad But Enjoyable!" is a quintessential episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand, blending sharp political satire with cultural critiques and light-hearted personal interactions. The hosts offer a provocative take on current events, encouraging listeners to engage critically with the topics discussed while being entertained by their dynamic chemistry.