Sit Down Gently

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand: "Sit Down Gently" – October 29, 2025

Episode Overview

In this episode, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty dive into several wide-ranging and topical discussions, blending humor, cultural critique, and social observation. The main theme revolves around the shifting perceptions of climate change advocacy (highlighted by Bill Gates's recently moderated stance), American national pride's dramatic partisan split, the dangers of ideological education, and a recurring, tongue-in-cheek concern about diseased monkeys at large. The show retains its trademark irreverence, fast-paced banter, and skepticism toward accepted wisdom.

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Key Segments and Discussion Points

1. Escaped Diseased Monkeys: Humorous but Pointed Opening

[03:49–04:55]

• Jack and Joe riff on a news story about research monkeys escaping after a truck crash in Mississippi; some may carry diseases (hep C, herpes B, COVID).
• They poke fun at the university’s statement that only control group monkeys escaped, not the infected ones.
• Memorable Quotes:
  • Jack: "So they'll merely bite you and rip you limb from limb in the traditional monkey sense. But you will not get herpes B. You'll just have your eyes gouged out by an angry monkey." [04:27]
  • Joe: "Your face ripped off... but at least you won't have Covid." [04:51]

Tone: Sarcastic and irreverent, blending legitimate news with absurd comedy.

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2. Climate Change Discourse & Bill Gates’s Shift

[05:05–13:24] & [20:32–21:48]

• Joe positions climate change as fraught with "dishonesty, hyperbole, greed and... phony politics."
• Discusses the Paris Climate Accord as a futile gesture, highlighting political hypocrisy.
• Bill Gates’s Shift:
  • 2020: Gates expressed extreme alarm, predicting climate change impacts "much, much greater than...this pandemic." [06:47–06:57]
  • Recent CNBC interview: Gates now says innovation can prevent "super bad outcomes" but insists focus should be on maximizing "overall human welfare," not just emissions. [07:22–07:52]
  • Armstrong and Getty note Gates’ moderation: more emphasis on adaptation and balanced welfare spending.
  • Jack jokes about Gates’s connection to Epstein and his "inflated view" of his influence (with tongue-in-cheek references to Gates’s personal scandals).
• The hosts appreciate Gates's new pragmatism:
  • Quotes Gates: “Wasn't the goal here to improve human lives?...Should we get [kids] a measles vaccine or should we do some climate-related activity?” [10:51–11:26]
  • Joe: "To flush your economies down the toilet, brutally reduce your people's standards of living...to accomplish nothing in the name of climate change might have been a bad decision." [12:13]
• They mock climate alarmists, including Greta Thunberg, as "progressive godheads" who are confused or swept up in rhetoric.

Tone: Cynical toward environmental politics, skeptical of celebrity experts, and amused by the swings in public narrative.

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3. The Fragmentation of Shared Culture: Dictionary.com’s ‘Word’ of the Year & Modern Tech

[14:24–16:22]

• The hosts mock Dictionary.com’s early ‘word of the year’ pick (which is not actually a word) as a publicity stunt.
• Joe describes using tech’s live translation tools for home renovations, leading to a comedic exchange about privacy and "sex dungeon" jokes. [16:05–16:22]

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4. American Pride: Gallup Poll and the National Divide

[28:49–41:48]

• Highlight a new Gallup poll tracking American pride (very/extremely proud) since 2000.
• Details & Trends:
  • In 2000: ~90% across Republicans, Democrats, Independents.
  • 2025: Republicans still ~90%; Independents down to ~53%; Democrats down to ~33%. [31:02–33:36]
  • The show dissects why Democrats have dropped—speculating on the influence of critical theory, DEI agendas, left-leaning education, and cultural pessimism.
  • Minneapolis public schools cited for "capitalism is white supremacy" lessons (blamed on neo-Marxist indoctrination).
• Powerful Quotes:
  • Joe: "Russia, China, and, you know, the whole critical theory crowd, I congratulate you. You haven't won, but you're winning. That's an enormous gain for driving the country apart, for killing the United States from within." [33:36]
  • Jack: “How could I be in a relationship with somebody who thinks this is a bad country, which apparently is two thirds of Democrats?” [39:36]
  • Joe: “We’ve let wolves into the hen house of education. I mean, they’re like running all diseased monkeys...” [41:08]
• The segment closes with both hosts reflecting on the polarizing effect of modern progressive ideology and the destruction of civic unity via educational and media narratives.

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5. Media and Political Dishonesty: Trump-Hitler Comparisons

[28:49–30:15]

• The hosts play a montage to debunk claims by Nicole Wallace and IL Governor Pritzker that "no Democrats have called Trump Hitler," highlighting major Democrats (Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi) doing exactly that.
• Joe bemoans the mainstream tolerance for overt lying because "most people don’t have the nerve to call them on it." [30:15]

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6. Wearable Technology: Meta Glasses & Social Alienation

[21:48–25:02]

• Discussion about new Meta smart glasses that display information on the lens, raising concerns over further social disconnection as people can now privately consume media or messages in face-to-face settings.
  • Joe jokes about workplace implications and the likelihood that people will be even less present in meetings.
  • Jack concedes he’s terrible at predicting which technologies will take over.

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7. Sports as Rare Shared Experience & Youth Sports Pressures

[47:47–50:56]

• Jack notes the loneliness of modern life and nostalgia for "shared experiences," using a recent Dodgers playoff game as an example.
• Mookie Betts’s post-game quote: “I'm probably not going to think about another man when I’m in bed.” [48:52]
• Reflections on Shohei Ohtani’s early commitment to baseball and his father’s key question: “Are we still having fun?”
• Jack expresses concern about the pressures and injuries in youth sports: "...so many injured young people like nobody was injured practically when I was young." [50:33]

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Notable Quotes & Moments (by Timestamp & Speaker)

• On Escaped Monkeys (04:27):
  Jack Armstrong: "So they'll merely bite you and rip you limb from limb in the traditional monkey sense. But you will not get herpes B. You'll just have your eyes gouged out by an angry monkey."

• On Bill Gates’s Self-Importance (10:08):
  Joe Getty: "I just think he has an incredibly inflated view of his own intelligence and wisdom. I think he's very, very good at one thing."

• On Societal Narratives Crumbling (12:42):
  Joe Getty: "Trans women are women. No, they’re not. You know, climate change threatens us all. And no cost is too much to endure. Yes, yes it is..."

• On American Pride Decline (33:36):
  Joe Getty: "Russia, China and you know, the whole critical theory crowd. I congratulate you. You haven’t won, but you’re winning. That’s an enormous gain for driving the country apart, for killing the United States from within."

• On Public Education & Indoctrination (39:48):
  Joe Getty: "...the subversion of the United States has been a project of those who would either want to dominate us or just hate us for ideological reasons for a very, very long time... One way you do it is to inject Marxism into everything in sheep clothing. And they've been incredibly successful at that."

• On Youth Sports Burnout (50:33):
  Jack Armstrong: "I know so many injured young people like nobody was injured practically when I was young."

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Escaped monkeys & satirical disease commentary: [03:49–04:55], [46:24–47:44]
• Climate change/Bill Gates discussion: [05:05–13:24], [20:32–21:48]
• Dictionary.com and culture: [14:24–16:22]
• Meta glasses & tech alienation: [21:48–25:02]
• Gallup poll on national pride: [28:49–41:48]
• Political dishonesty (Trump-Hitler comparisons): [28:49–30:15]
• Sports, shared experience, youth sports: [47:47–50:56]
• Notable comedic tangent ("Sit Down Gently" BDSM joke): [16:05–16:22]

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Conclusion

This episode deftly blends caustic humor, cultural skepticism, and news analysis, focusing especially on societal narratives (climate change, education, national pride). Armstrong & Getty’s style—punctuating serious points with jokes—keeps the conversation brisk and accessible, even as they grapple with polarizing and weighty themes about contemporary America. Listeners come away with a deep, if playful, sense of the cultural fissures and absurdities at the heart of the national conversation.

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For further detailed breakdowns of any segment or direct quotes, please refer to the timestamps provided.

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[Joe Getty]

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

[Jack Armstrong]

Hepatitis C and herpes be among the diseases the escaped monkeys have as they are traveling across the country in bands, biting, mostly children.

[Joe Getty]

I mean, were they sex worker monkeys or what? What sort of lifestyle were they living where they had like, you know, kind of the clap variety pack going?

[Jack Armstrong]

This is in Mississippi where a truck crashed and a whole bunch of monkeys that may or may not be infected with all these diseases because our research monkeys started running around. And that's a good story right there. That's a, that's a beginning of a movie sort of story. Now, the university is claiming that these were the monkeys that aren't injected. They're like the, you know, when you do an experiment, you've got the control group. Control group. And these are the control group movies. So they'll merely bite you and rip you limb from limb and in the traditional monkey sense. But you will not get herpes. B. You'll just have your eyes gouged out by an angry monkey.

[Joe Getty]

Your face ripped off.

[Jack Armstrong]

Exactly. But at least you won't have Covid.

[Joe Getty]

Right, Right. Okay, nice. Good story. We don't believe anything universities say anymore. You've crapped on your own legacies.

[Jack Armstrong]

Boo.

[Joe Getty]

So there is no topic, I think, more soaked in dishonesty, hyperbole, greed and, you know, phony politics than climate change. And for the record, my position has long been, yeah, the climate's changing. Climate always changes. It could well be partly from human activity and we ought to look into it. But for instance, the Paris Climate Accord. Laughable. Absolutely laughable. Hilariously inept and incredibly expensive economy killing half gestures toward doing a little bit.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

The developing world does nothing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. And it's been around for a long time. And I remember when whoever signed us onto it and then Trump came along and took us off of it and, and people like Tom Friedman in the New York Times would make a big deal. He is taking us off of the, the countries that signed onto it didn't do the things they were said they.

[Announcer 3]

Were going to do.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's all a sham.

[Joe Getty]

Yes. Yeah. They made phony pledges that they never intended to carry out and they didn't. Yeah. By the way, so much dishonesty.

[Jack Armstrong]

If you're a longtime listener, you know, my position on climate change is I decided I'm not covering this story. For whatever reason. Many, many years ago, I decided I'm not looking into this. I'm just not. And I never have.

[Joe Getty]

Can't do everything.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Can't. Can't pay attention to everything. So I just have never really looked into it.

[Joe Getty]

Right. I mean, like, puppetry is a fascinating art, but I've never really looked into that either.

[Jack Armstrong]

There's just a fascinating art.

[Joe Getty]

Anyway, so. Bill Gates has long been a champion of. We must act to deal with climate change. This is Billy Boy 30. Michael, back in 2020, the actual economic.

[Bill Gates]

And death toll from climate change will be much, much, much greater than what we have with this pandemic.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

He thought climate change was going to kill more people than the pandemic.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. And he was, he was part of the whole horror story. We must sacrifice everything to prevent this cataclysm crowd. Now this was only four and a half years ago, for goodness sakes. Here he is now. He did a big interview on cnbc. That's getting a lot of attention. Start here, Michael.

[Bill Gates]

Climate is a super important problem. There's enough innovation here to avoid super bad outcomes. We won't achieve our best goal, the 1.5 or even the 2 degrees. And as we go about trying to minimize that, we have to frame it in terms of overall human welfare. Not just everything should be solely for climate change.

[Announcer 3]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

So what, what brought him around on that reality?

[Joe Getty]

I have a feeling he's a smart guy. We're going to talk about how smart in just a second. But he's, he's joined me and plenty of other people saying essentially we've been too narrowly focused on reducing emissions. We should spend more time on mitigation, adapting to a warmer world, improving the lives of those most affected. You know, you know, move 15ft back from the coast, sell your park and buy some shorts type adjustments. Well, I like, start growing your, your corn a little north of where you used to. And grow rice instead or something, you know?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I like his saying we have or will make technological advances that will deal with this. And, and, and there's more to look at than just the climate change and how disruptive it would be to economies and lifestyle. Did he. I wonder if he learned this from one of them teenage masseuses. Epstein Island. She was talking to him about the climate change. Huh.

[Joe Getty]

Isn't he on the list?

[Jack Armstrong]

He's on the list.

[Bill Gates]

What list?

[Jack Armstrong]

Isn't that why his wife divorced him?

[Joe Getty]

Ms. Bondi, what list are you talking about? I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's why his wife divorced him when she found out he was traveling around with Epstein.

[Joe Getty]

No, I thought he had an affair with his. Somebody around that, too. That doesn't matter. Anyway, so here, Katie, that's your job.

[Jack Armstrong]

Look up Bill Gates's sex life. If you could just Google that for me.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. That's probably harassment. So anyway, Andrew Ross Sorkin is talking to Gates here on cnbc, and I think this clip is a little long, but it illustrates what I think I said yesterday. Bill Gates, as a young geek in a garage, was super great at writing software code and thinking about what sort of software would be useful for people in the early, early days of the computer boom. That does not make him a sage on climate change or any other topic. He's like a gifted actor or something. I don't care what you think about economics. You've done nothing to prove your acumen in that field. And I don't think Bill is. I don't honestly think he's a bad guy. I'm not down with the whole he wants to put chips in you to turn you into something, you know, whatever the hell conspiracy crowd. I just think he has an incredibly inflated view of his own intelligence and wisdom. I think he's very, very good at one thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Or was you look up Bill Gates, Epstein. What did you come up with, Katie?

[Announcer 3]

Breakdown of trust stemming from an affair Bill Gates had with a staffer, plus his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, everybody's right. Isn't that nice? Isn't that nobody has to feel bad? That's just great. Anyway, let's continue the conversation as Bill drones on about something or other.

[Jack Armstrong]

When the climate activists who have been very supportive of what you've done and you've been very supportive of what they've done, read this. And if Greta Thunberg is reading this.

[Announcer 3]

And saying to herself, my goodness, he.

[Jack Armstrong]

Seems like he is reversing himself, what.

[Joe Getty]

Would you tell her?

[Bill Gates]

I'D say, wasn't the goal here to improve human lives? And shouldn't we, in our awareness of how little generosity there is to help measure, you know, should we get them a measles vaccine or should we do some climate related activity? And if, if we could take, if we stopping all vaccines and that, you know, saved you point one degree, would that be a smart trade off? That's the kind of question we have to ask.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, and I like the interviewer, making him respond to this autistic child who got upset about climate change, not fully understanding the story and got elevated.

[Joe Getty]

Betray her.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, exactly.

[Joe Getty]

You have stolen my dreams, my childhood with your empty words. Yeah. Oh my God, the fact that that poor confused little girl is now some sort of progressive godhead is just such a bizarre.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, now she's on the whole Hamas, Palestinian things.

[Joe Getty]

Right? Of course. She is the permanent omnicause. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, so, okay, good for Bill Gates to start valuing. You know, the goal here is to improve human lives in whatever manner. And the 0.1 degree thing is not that big a deal.

[Joe Getty]

Or Bill, I might suggest, and perhaps Europe is listening to me, to flush your economies down the toilet, brutally reduce your people's standards of living, crush upward mobility, to accomplish nothing in the name of climate change might have been a bad decision.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I'm so happy he said that. I'm Gonna install Windows 95 on my computer when I get home. That's a good idea.

[Joe Getty]

You know what is somewhat encouraging, but don't let down your guard, friends. Don't let down your guard. So many of the attitudes of the great awokening are crumbling in the face of reality. Trans women are women. No, they're not. You know, climate change threatens us all. And no cost is too much to endure. Yes, yes it is. A lot of those costs. And by the way, you're all phony greed heads and you're just wasting the money. Stacey Abrams, please. Getting $1.8 billion or whatever it was, it's obscene, it's ridiculous and people are starting to say so.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I'm glad you got to focus on real problems. Like monkeys with COVID roaming the landscape, coughing on people.

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So Trump tipped off something about his meeting with President Xi tomorrow on a hot mic moment. We can bring that to you among a little more about what is at stake there. Katie mentioned this earlier. Dictionary.com is already named their word of the year. It's. Well, I guess it's November here in a couple of days. We're getting to end of the year list time, aren't we?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

That time of year, dictionary.com there, it's still October.

[Joe Getty]

I mean that's untoward to me.

[Jack Armstrong]

The word of the year is going to be 6, 7.

[Joe Getty]

It's not a word.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's not a word is my biggest problem with it.

[Joe Getty]

I'll tell you what it is a desperate attempt to get anyone to click on Dictionary.com by creating a fake annoying.

[Jack Armstrong]

Controversy or find out that it exists.

[Joe Getty]

Right. Why would you go to Dictionary?

[Jack Armstrong]

Why would you ever go to dictionary.com to look up a word?

[Joe Getty]

Why else?

[Jack Armstrong]

I just say to grok. What does blank mean?

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Very handy.

[Joe Getty]

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[Bill Gates]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Is that your BDSM room or what you can't have. You don't want anybody to find out. What do you got going on in that room?

[Joe Getty]

It's their sex dungeon. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want somebody to wander in there and like say, well, maybe I'll try this thing. And you know, you need to know what you're doing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh look, a swing. That looks fun. Not understand what's going.

[Joe Getty]

Sit down gently. Yeah. Anyway, geez. Where were we? What? No, you brought it up.

[Jack Armstrong]

We gotta.

[Joe Getty]

Don't you act shocked. Now go to break.

[Jack Armstrong]

Go to break.

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Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

So you came across more information that Bill Gates has had a major change of heart about climate change?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I mean, back in the day he was one of the leading cheerleaders of climate alarmism.

[Jack Armstrong]

This could be important for those of us who think it's been overblown for a long time.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. He said way back in the day that blah, blah, blah, that climate change will be one of the greatest challenges humans have ever taken on. Greater than landing on the moon greater than eradicating smallpox, even greater than putting a computer on every desk and then enormous loss of life.

[Jack Armstrong]

And now he says, eh, nevermind.

[Joe Getty]

Well no, he essentially said, look, poverty and disease are the biggest problems as they've always been. Understanding this lets us focus our limited resources on interventions that will have the greatest impact for the most vulnerable people. In other words, don't spend all your time and money and effort on climate change. Help people where they are. Yeah, we know Bill, we know. So he's come around. I wonder if will this be reported in the New York Times and who will criticize him bitterly for it?

[Jack Armstrong]

I want to get to this latest Gallup poll that's out about people's attitudes toward of America and whether or not they're proud of their country. It's highly disturbing but probably worth taking a look at. Maybe we'll get to that next segment. How many people do we have who wear any of the meta glasses? Our agent, the greatest agent in the world, Eric, wears them. They're Ray Bans. But you can take phone calls, you can listen to music, you can do a variety of things. And the reason I mention this is they've got the new version out, Generation two that has a little screen that shows up in one of the lenses and you can see it like a little computer screen and other people looking at you. Other versions like Google. What was the one that went down? Yeah, you could. People could see it and it was a little off putting everything like these. It looks like you're just wearing glasses. They can't see on their side that you're looking at screen that just shows on your side. And I saw it demonstrated in a couple of reviewers talking about how it's amazing. It is for, for instance, directions. They were just walking around in town and they put up the directions of like now you walk up to this corner and you turn left and you're following your way to get someplace or whatever. Just one example. Or they had somebody, they were cooking in the kitchen and they had in their lens instead of regularly look at your phone or whatever, the recipe for whatever you're making was right there. While you can also be looking at whatever you're doing anyway reading something that.

[Joe Getty]

Close to your eyeball. How does that work?

[Jack Armstrong]

It must work. They all said it was great, but. And these weren't people working for the company selling it. These were independent reviewers who've said they haven't liked past versions and that they think this is finally crossed over into the. This might be something that people start to use. But one of the reviewers, I said this said she said this is gonna divide us even more into not paying attention to each other or listening to each other or living in our own worlds. As you can sit there with your glasses on and, you know, reading something else or watching a video or whatever the hell you're doing instead of paying attention to your friend.

[Joe Getty]

That's funny. Journal just had a big article about CEOs and executives dealing with people texting and checking their feeds and whatever during meetings. And they can tell that they're not really present.

[Jack Armstrong]

You won't be able to tell now. You'll be checking your text in a little thing in your eye, your lens.

[Joe Getty]

Until somebody says jack, what do you think? And you say, I agree with most of what's been said. I need to study it further. Let's not be hasty.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think there's nuance though, and so that requires a second look.

[Joe Getty]

I think we should put a pin on it and circle back.

[Jack Armstrong]

But I I realized a long time ago with texting, I told this story a bunch of times. The first time I heard about texting I thought that's stupid. Why wouldn't you just call them and then, you know, finding out it takes over my life like it did everybody else. So I realized I don't have the ability to predict even what I am interested in doing or not doing, let alone the rest of humanity. I don't see like a need or use for these glasses, but for all I know everybody will be wearing them in two years. I have no idea.

[Joe Getty]

I think I'm as bad as you are at predicting that. I don't think I will be. But you should feel free.

[Jack Armstrong]

How do people feel about America? Are they proud of it or not? New Gallup Poll Highly troubling Armstrong and.

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See mintmobile.com I haven't suggested that Donald Trump is Hitler. I wouldn't say.

[Joe Getty]

I don't think any Democrat has.

[Jack Armstrong]

I actually, and I think it's a, it's a smear that they project back on to critics. Okay, that's the governor of Illinois saying he's never compared Trump to Hitler. And Nicole Wallace, the host, saying, I don't think any Democrat ever has. Now here's a montage, and this is just a short portion of Democrats comparing Trump to Hitler.

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[Joe Getty]

Donald Trump to Mussolini and Hitler as a very legitimate thing. He is paving the way to become a Vladimir Putin or to become an Adolf Hitler. Well, Hitler was duly elected.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's right. Right.

[Announcer 1]

And so somebody with those tendencies, though.

[Joe Getty]

Dictatorial, authoritarian tendencies, would be like, okay, we're going to shut this down. We're going to throw these people in jail.

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And they didn't usually telegraph that Trump.

[Joe Getty]

Is telling us what he intends to do. Yes. Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. So it's not even low level Democrats in that montage. You got Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, among others, Trump, Hitler right after Nicole Wallace and the governor of Illinois saying, I've never called him Hitler. I don't think any Democrat ever has. Okay, whatever these are, these are the times we live in.

[Joe Getty]

There are a number of people, including a lot of progressives, of course, who will just lie overtly, knowing most people don't have the nerve to call them on it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, I thought that might lead into this and maybe it's why we're going the direction we're going. I have no idea. I'm not a fan of Hitler. The question from Gallup is it's about pride in being an American. And it goes back to the turn of the century, 2000. So since 2000, they've been asking this question, how proud are you to be an American? Extremely proud. Very proud. Moderately proud. Only a little proud or not proud at all. Which would you choose? Joe Getty, as of this day in 2025?

[Joe Getty]

Oh, the top one.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, me too. Extremely proud.

[Joe Getty]

Totally. Yeah. Beacon of liberty across the globe. Yeah. Extremely proud. With all Our flaws, of course, this.

[Jack Armstrong]

Graph, you would not have been an outlier at all at the turn of the century, no matter your political stripe. This graph only includes people who are very or extremely. Doesn't even include moderately proud, just very or extremely. In the year 2000, start of this century, for Republicans it was 90%. For independents it was 85%. For Democrats it was 87%.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

So it was 9 out of 10 of Americans, no matter your political stripe, who were extremely or very proud of being an American.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Let that sink in for a second. That's amazing. To where we are now for Republicans.

[Joe Getty]

Just served two terms. Bush was in the middle of term number one and it was pre 9, 11. Okay, so it was just the attitude, it was the culture.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, we'll have to get into the whys. But Republicans have held steady more or less during that entire time at around 90%. I think that's interesting because I mean that includes the Obama years. It's not just a I'm up with whoever's president now thing. It stayed at 90% during a time when you weren't happy with the president. You're whether you're proud of being an American, not should not change with the presidency. But Democrats, it has gone mostly down. It's like the stock market. There's little jiggles. But the overall trend has been down over this quarter of a century.

[Joe Getty]

And now Jiggles is my drag name, by the way. You read books, dance on the weekend.

[Jack Armstrong]

At high school, high school libraries.

[Joe Getty]

You're a drag queen. Elementary school libraries.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Drag time, story hour. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Little jiggles, ladies and gentlemen.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

You're so flamboyant.

[Joe Getty]

Hi kids. Let me indoctrinate you.

[Jack Armstrong]

Let's get back to this very important question. This is important. This should be studied by a panel of experts and figure out what's going the hell's going on here. So for the Republicans, people are self identified. Republicans, it's held steady at 90%. Independents are now at half. So it was 90%, it's now half, 53%. Why independents have dropped to 53% is an interesting question. And then for self identified Democrats, it's now down to barely above a third. Went from 9 out of 10 the start of the 2000s to barely above a third now.

[Joe Getty]

Russia, China and you know, the whole critical theory crowd. I congratulate you. You haven't won, but you're winning. That's an enormous gain for driving the country apart, for killing the United States from within. It's one of the most amazing propaganda victories I've ever seen.

[Jack Armstrong]

Why have Republicans held steady regardless of the administration, while Democrats have trended downward? Brief blip up a little bit when Biden took office from Trump, but then went down very quickly and then continue to go down.

[Joe Getty]

I think Democrats are obsessed with politics in a way that a lot of conservatives are aren't, for one thing. So this could be some Trump backlash. I also have to observe that the people that are self identified Democrats are very, very different 25 years on than they were in 2000.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, it looks to me way to the left looks to me like when Trump was elected. And it did go down fairly steeply after Trump was elected, but at the time Trump was elected it was down into the 60s. How did it go from 90% into the 60s during two terms of Bush and two terms of Obama?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Well, I tell you my theory and I'm pretty sure I'm right. Here's a couple of headlines to illustrate the point. Minneapolis Public Schools have prohibited white and Asian students from taking classes on black culture and black queens and all sorts of woke stuff. The obsession with race, the whole critical theory crowd. And then you have this one. This is also Minneapolis public schools. They have declared capitalism a pillar of white supremacy in a required ethnic studies class. Every kid has to take this class and they are taught that capitalism or free market economy is a tool of white supremacy with the caveat we always.

[Jack Armstrong]

Throw in of it's easier said than done. How do you keep your kid in that freaking school? I know to learn that. F you. Not only do I don't agree with your teaching style. F you.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah, I hate you. That's hate speech.

[Jack Armstrong]

You're a bad person. That's what I wanted to say to my son's history teacher since I pulled my son out of that public school class. You're a bad person. You're actually damaging the country. You a hole.

[Joe Getty]

Well, a lot of these people are actively damaging the country on purpose. That's what they want to do. They're, they're useful. Idiots who think they're doing what's morally right are just idiots.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right?

[Joe Getty]

These people are awful. But anyway, I think people who tend to be of a conservative bent have heard all of the critical race theory, the DEI stuff, the trans radical stuff, and said, no, what you're saying is not true. Whereas people of a progressive point of view, for reasons we've discussed, whether, you know, they're just born this way or whatever, or sometimes they just want to be approved of so they will parrot whatever is being Told to them is right. Just so that they get the approval of people around them. But people with a progressive bench heard all this crap and said, oh my God, oh my God, this is a terrible country. The propaganda worked on them. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I guess if I was going to be intellectually honest, it's because they think they're helping a bad country by teaching the things they're thinking. They, you know, pointing to the graph right here.

[Joe Getty]

They don't think they're trying to destroy something that they believe to be evil.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. If you think it's a bad country, you should be trying to change it. I guess I just, I think it's really illustrates something that the Republican numbers held steady through all the various things that have happened over the last 25 years. And a lot of things have happened. It's just kind of a flat line basically at 90% of very extremely proud. That's something that this is. This is a problem.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Yeah. I'm digging more into the second Minneapolis story and it's so interesting. It's like studying the propaganda tactics of the Soviet Union or Russia or whatever. But they're really hammering ethnic studies on the kids. Ethnic studies is an anti racist tool. They say identify the structural inequalities that are part of K through 12. They're gonna decolonize education. And there's all sorts of. They read Ibram X Kendi and the other jokers and liars of neo Marxism. But it's a classic example of everything that the neo Marxists hate they call racist or based on white supremacy. And all the poor sheep, weak minded people who all they know is I don't want to be a racist. I know being racist is bad. These people are telling me what's racist and what's not. I will believe them and I will obey them. They are calling everything, including the free market, white supremacy. That's because they're Marxists. They don't want the free market call something racist until you control it. It's so obvious what's happening here. And they brand it all with anti racism and they teach the poor little kids we're gonna tell you about decolonizing this and anti racism, that it's all bent on tearing down the western systems.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. And the reason my kid is no longer in that American history class, it seemed to be, at least in the first two months, all bent on convincing you the country was bad. That's the only thing they'd learned so far.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Which is wild. And I don't want to be the kind of guy that buys into this notion that you can only have friends who are on your side politically. Or I'm single, can only date. You know, based on politics, I don't want to live in that world. But based on this graph, I might not have any choice.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

How could I be in a relationship with somebody who thinks this is a bad country, which apparently is two thirds of Democrats? That's, I mean, that's a tough situation. That'd be a heck of a thing to overlook in your lives.

[Joe Getty]

Oh yeah, yeah. I mean it would come up a lot. Especially because everybody's so obsessed with politics lately. That's wild. Yeah, it is. It's sick. It's, I mean, and I don't know, I could go on and on about this stuff, but the subversion of the United States has been a project of those who would either want to dominate us or just hate us for ideological reasons for a very, very long time. And one of the ways you do it is to inject Marxism into everything in sheep clothing. And they've been incredibly successful at that. The other thing is you constantly pit people against each other, which is why, you know, so much of online hatred and sniping back and forth is bots or foreign agents and that sort of stuff. But then once you get that going, sustains itself. It's like when you get the whirlpool going in your above ground pool. Once you get it started, it keeps going. You don't have to work at it anymore. And that's what, you know, the people who hate the United States have gotten going through our educational systems which should be torn down to the foundation and rebuilt or just abandoned by parents with conscience.

[Jack Armstrong]

I can't see, looking at this graph, I can't see any reason to think that those down numbers from independents and Democrats aren't going to trend the direction, keep going the direction they're going. I mean, how low will it get?

[Joe Getty]

No, well, we've let wolves into the hen house of education. I mean they like run all diseased monkeys.

[Jack Armstrong]

Let's, let's be, let's be in touch with the news of the day. We've let diseased monkeys into the hen.

[Joe Getty]

House and they've got a metaphor of the diseased monkey.

[Jack Armstrong]

And they got, they got hep C, they got foxes and gonorrhea and Covid and they have gonorrhea resting leg syndrome and all kinds of things.

[Joe Getty]

Resting monkey face. Yeah, I, I, I feel so for parents who know all of this, but they can't afford or don't have time to get their kid in an alternate educational environment. I understand how tough that was, but it's, it's, it's beyond a problem. It's horrifying what kids are being taught in government schools.

[Jack Armstrong]

Tell me about it. So we missed this somehow. Greatest baseball game I ever saw in my life from two nights ago. Sorry. World Series is tied 22 now. Very exciting, correct? It will be a game in Canada, but in game tonight, big one, somebody's gonna go up. 3 2. Anyway, we missed a very funny interview question with one of the Dodgers players after the game and then I got some comment about sports in general, youth sports particularly. On top of that all on the.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Research monkeys that escaped from the wreckage.

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We got 21 monkeys that was on this. Heavily armed officers responding to the scene. Here's one of the monkeys right here. There's one sitting right there.

[Jack Armstrong]

At least six monkeys escaping officials warning.

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Yeah, I thought I saw one report they said HIV were some of them. So they got all kinds of things. These monkeys.

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So don't eat it not very healthy monkeys.

[Jack Armstrong]

Don't eat it, don't pet it, don't lick it, don't have sex with it. Just leave it alone. Let it be. Slow down.

[Joe Getty]

I'm jotting all this down.

[Jack Armstrong]

Diseased research monkeys, that's like the worst. Practically the worst kind of car crash you could have. Where the truck tips over and diseased monkeys spill out into the land.

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It sits down in your bottom 10% of things that can happen to you. Yeah. Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

How's your day? I got into. I got into a fender bender, which is bad enough with insurance costs these days, but turns out the truck was full of diseased monkeys and several of them bit me. So I've got hep B, I got Covid, I got aids. Not a good day.

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How's your day, honey?

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay. So love that baseball game the other night. I was wearing my Dodgers hat yesterday and it was really interesting. So many people brought up the game to me and I thought, oh, yeah, I remember shared experiences.

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[Jack Armstrong]

I haven't had a share experience other than like voting day in quite a few years where like we all were doing something and like people would comment on it.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Because it just doesn't happen anymore.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

And it was cool. Anywho, we missed this. So Mookie Betts, the amazing shortstop for the Dodgers, was asked after the 18 inning game about his thoughts. And it said, he said, the interviewer asked him, when you go to bed tonight and put your head to the pilly, will you be talking, thinking about Shohei and his performance or will you be thinking about Freddy in his home run? What jumps out at you? And he said, I'm probably not going to think about another man when I'm in bed.

[Joe Getty]

Homophobe. Will you be thinking about Shohei or Freddy?

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm probably not thinking about another dude while I'm in bed. No.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I was just in the locker room with him. That was plenty.

[Jack Armstrong]

But speaking of Shohei. Oh, Itani, they had interesting background stuff on him during the game last night that I thought was really interesting about his upbringing and how he and his dad, starting as a little kid. Shohei Ohtani was so into being a baseball player. Starting at age 8, he had like a journal mapped out of his whole career. How he was going to do it, where he was, what positions he was going to play, where he was going to play, how far he would be at various points, including making into the major leagues. And he just, he had mapped out his life and he was sticking with the plan. And so far it's worked out pretty well for him. But he and his dad would play catch every single day when he got home and practiced various stuff and they would work on like, okay, this is what our weakness is. And like really, really diligent about it, which I thought was cool. But he said his dad always would always regularly ask, are we still having fun? Are you still enjoying this? Which I thought was really interesting because youth sports where they are now, I, I know personally people who are concerned that their kids are not enjoying it anymore because whichever sport you you decide to do, it's year round, way more hours than anybody ever used to do.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I was around a kid the other day and I want to be vague about this because I don't want hurt anybody's feelings, but running and this kid was a really good runner. He's 12 years old, he's wearing a leg brace, took off his leg brace, ran, had to put his leg brace on because he's dealing with an injury like so many young athletes are now. Because you practice constantly and play your sport year round. I know so many injured young people like nobody was injured practically when I was young.

[Joe Getty]

Right. I'd forgotten actually that Shohei Ohtani has already had two Tommy John surgeries. Age 31. Is he?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. That's interesting.

[Jack Armstrong]

Is it still fun for your kid if they're playing year round in some sport? I mean, if it is, great. But check in on that. Hey, if you missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.

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