The A&G Replay Friday Hour Three

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand – The A&G Replay Friday Hour Three

Episode Date: July 3, 2026
Host: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This hour features Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty's irreverent takes on the American workforce, economic discontent, birth order science, and the lasting fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and official narratives. The hosts blend data-driven discussion with personal anecdotes, memorable asides, and their signature dry humor to dissect current societal trends and attitudes.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Teen Employment & Changing Summer Jobs Landscape

• Context: Recent reports show teen summer employment hitting record lows.
• Main Factors:
  • Technology: Many "starter" jobs teens once held are now automated.
  • Affluence: Families may no longer require their teens to supplement income.
  • Higher Minimum Wages: Entry-level opportunities are squeezed.
• Quotes:
  • “Is there anybody that thinks that’s good that we have the lowest teen participation work rate of all time? … I certainly don’t think so.” — Joe Getty (04:07)
  • “If I wanted a luxury, I had to have a job. And like everything was a luxury other than roof, food, clothing and not very good clothing either.” — Jack Armstrong (04:37)

2. Economic & Political Discontent: “The System Is Stacked Against People Like Me”

• Data Discussion: Citing a Wall Street Journal poll showing a massive increase in Americans across all classes feeling the economic and political system is rigged against them compared to a decade ago.
• Breakdown by Class:
  • Upper Middle Class: Increased from 29% → 65%
  • Middle Class: Increased from 42% → 72%
  • Working/Lower Class: Increased from 52% → 86%
• Concerns:
  • Discontent may be unsustainable for democracy.
  • All classes feel financial pressure, even the affluent.
  • Money anxiety is fueled by consumer lifestyle and constant negative news.
• Notable Quotes:
  • “If 2/3 to 3/4 to 90% of people depending on your class think the political class is stacked against them… that's no good.” — Joe Getty (08:07)
  • “Selling economic resentment and discontent is the number one motivator in politics these days.” — Jack Armstrong (08:37)
  • “How many TVs, cars, how many vacations would the average person have to take before you, Bernie Sanders and AOC would feel like you're surrounded by prosperity?” — Joe Getty (10:03)
  • “Bottom line is humanity cannot endure the Internet.” — Jack Armstrong (17:17)

Timestamps:

• Start of segment: [04:07]
• Poll results: [07:05]
• Analysis/discussion (system stacked, causes): [08:07]-[13:33]
• Cynical summary/humor: [17:12]-[17:24]

3. Internet, Media, and the Creation of Discontent

• Discussion: The hosts explore the role of politics, media, and social media algorithms in magnifying economic dissatisfaction.
• Insight: The news cycle incentivizes highlighting grievance and dissatisfaction, feeding feelings of being "cheated."
• Memorable Moment: “In our politics, it figures out who we are. Change unless you have discontent. Never forget that in politics, it’s the coin of the realm.” — Jack Armstrong (16:47)

4. Public Humor – The Naming of the National Zoo’s Elephant

• Story: Celebrating a new baby elephant at the National Zoo, and referencing the public's track record for picking comedic names (“Mr. Splashy Pants,” “Boaty McBoatface”).
• Comedy: The zoo restricts choices after previous comedy chaos.
• Quotes:
  • “This is like Iran where you have their approved candidates on the ballot… I thought this was America.” — Jack Armstrong (18:55, 19:00)
  • “I just asked the Internet for a funny name for an elephant and they said Trunk Norris.” — Montucky Advertiser 3 (20:27)

Timestamps:

• Elephant story: [17:52]-[20:27]

5. COVID-19: Fauci, Gabbard, and Lingering Controversy

• Context: Tulsi Gabbard releases documents implicating Dr. Fauci in gain-of-function research and cover-up allegations as she leaves office, which is then overshadowed by a Washington Post article on her religious background.
• Main Points:
  • Media reluctance to revisit their role in pandemic coverage.
  • Fauci’s actions, public perception, and political fallout.
  • Discussion of blanket pardons for public officials involved in pandemic decisions.
• Quotes:
  • “Never before seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions of dollars in US taxpayers to fund dangerous gain of function research at the WUHAN lab…” — Jack Armstrong citing Miranda Devine (24:33)
  • “I don’t care as much about Fauci being punished as I do about the truth coming out.” — Joe Getty (28:51)
  • “They can’t [admit mistakes] because it was so part of their identity… It wasn’t a scientific belief at all. It was a moral framework.” — Jack Armstrong (29:14)
  • “The only thing the sane can take away from it is: don’t be cowed into obedience next time.” — Jack Armstrong (30:58)
  • “My [faith] that anybody will ever pay a price for this? Mine is low.” — Joe Getty (32:27)

Timestamps:

• Fauci/Gabbard segment: [23:47]-[32:33]

6. Anecdotes: Old Car Lot Shenanigans

• Personal Stories: Jack and Joe recount the shadier practices of bargain car dealerships from their youth, poking fun at deceptive sales tactics.
• Memorable Quote:
  • “This one ain’t on fire… This one will actually start. $999.” — Joe Getty (34:05)

Timestamps:

• Used car story: [33:02]-[35:36]

7. Birth Order Science

• Study Summary:
  • New research shows firstborn children generally perform better on earnings, education, and mental health.
  • Reason: Later siblings are more likely exposed to germs in infancy, impacting early neural development.
  • Discussion on how averages don’t dictate individual destinies—“It’s what you do with it that matters.”
• Quotes:
  • “Being born first is a far better bet in life, the data shows… The other half seems to be germs.” — Jack Armstrong (39:09)
  • “Get in the game and play. That’s the only thing that matters.” — Jack Armstrong (42:25)
  • “They are so incredibly different. They have such a different tool set to go out into the world with… that’s what blows your mind.” — Joe Getty (43:48)

Timestamps:

• Birth order study: [38:57]-[44:41]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “In politics, [discontent] is the coin of the realm.” — Jack Armstrong (16:47)
• “Bottom line is humanity cannot endure the Internet.” — Jack Armstrong (17:17)
• “If the upper and upper middle class say they haven’t… saved money to retire comfortably, then that’s a… ” — Jack Armstrong (13:33)
• On Boaty McBoatface: “That brings me joy. Now what does that mean about the human spirit?... Is that sticking it to the man?” — Joe Getty (19:25)
• On old car lots: “This one ain’t on fire...” — Joe Getty (34:05)
• On individual agency: “It’s what you do with it that matters.” — Joe Getty (42:24)

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Structure & Segment Timestamps

| Segment | Topic | Timestamps | |---------|-------|------------| | 1 | Teen Employment | 04:07–05:51 | | 2 | System Stacked Against Us/Discontent Poll | 05:54–17:24 | | 3 | Internet & Media’s Role in Discontent | 16:37–17:24 | | 4 | National Zoo Naming Humor | 17:52–20:27 | | 5 | COVID-19/Fauci/Gabbard | 23:47–32:33 | | 6 | Used Car Anecdotes | 33:02–35:36 | | 7 | Birth Order Study | 38:57–44:41 |

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Final Thoughts

The episode showcases Armstrong and Getty at their best—mixing real data, gallows humor, skepticism of media and political narrative, and a deep streak of American common sense. Whether dissecting why everyone feels betrayed by "the system," calling out the faddish nature of viral name votes, or parsing the real costs of pandemic decisions, they invite the audience to question received wisdoms, laugh at absurdity, and reflect on personal agency amid larger social trends.

Transcript

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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Joe Getty]

And now, here's Armstrong and Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

We're so close to the 4th of July.

[Joe Getty]

Of course, Joe and I aren't actually here. We're out there trying not to blow our thumbs off with a variety of firecrackers.

[Jack Armstrong]

We got one thumb left. Anyway, happy birthday, America. So happy and proud to be an American.

[Joe Getty]

Now, more of the Armstrong and Getty replay.

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One report predicts this summer could mark the lowest level for teen employment since 1948, when the government began tracking the data. Fewer employers are hiring 16 to 19 year olds for a variety of reasons. Many starter jobs have been taken over by technology and there's more competition these days from older, more experienced workers.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Is there anybody that thinks that's good that we have the lowest teen participation work rate of all time? Maybe there are some people. I certainly don't think so.

[Jack Armstrong]

Roland Fryer, the young economist and Harvard researcher who writes for the Free Press, did an interesting piece the other day when he was explaining why fewer and fewer teens are seeking employment. One of those reasons being their time is better spent like getting an SAT tutor, because the economic rewards later in life, theoretically. Yeah. The other reason though, I think, and this is a good setup for what we're going to talk about, is that the family doesn't need the money in the same way that like our generation, the teenagers did. Because if I wanted a luxury, I had to have a job. And like everything was a luxury other than roof, food, clothing and not very good clothing either. So that's probably part of it because we're so affluent compared to a couple of decades ago. But that is the opposite of people's attitudes, which is interesting.

[Joe Getty]

That's interesting. I only know my own microworld. In my microworld, everybody's teen is working except mine, who has slow getting off the line in applying, though he had been pushed by his parents a lot. Anywho, he's applied at a whole bunch of different places and that hasn't occurred yet. But he and all his friends will be working. Hopefully his friends already are. But that's interesting. The whole yet doesn't surprise me that if technology eliminates fast food jobs, that's a lot of teen jobs in urban areas particularly.

[Jack Armstrong]

And in a related story, artificially high minimum wages.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. Different economic story that I found interesting, came across some analysis that said a democracy can't survive this. Based on these numbers, this is a Wall Street Journal poll. Think that America's political economic systems are stacked against people like me. That's the topic. Do you, do you think that is true or not? That America's political and economic systems are stacked against people like me? And the best thing is they've got a comparison to a decade ago and now. And they break it into three categories for all the questions they asked. Working in lower class, middle class, upper and upper middle class. One interesting point about this is for approval of Donald Trump. Numbers are almost exactly the same through working class, middle class and upper class. What do you suppose that is? Doesn't make any difference your economic situation. The same percentage of people back Trump or don't back Trump.

[Jack Armstrong]

It may be partly because of the drop in support among the working class. That number has come down maybe, I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

Think that America's political and economic system are stacked against people like me. For the upper and middle class, it has more than doubled. It has gone from 29 to 65%. Upper middle class think that the economic political system is stacked against them. For the middle class, it has gone up 30 points from 42 to 72.

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Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

So it went up well, 36 points for the upper class, 30 points for the middle class, and it has gone up 34 points for the working lower class.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Again the analyst. It was actually Ian Bremmer who said our country can't survive this attitude if 2/3 to 3/4 to 90% of people depending on your class think the political class is stacked against them.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's just.

[Joe Getty]

That's no good.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow, that is so interesting. I say, I mean it would require one to three books to tease out everything that's happening well, and particularly the change.

[Joe Getty]

The change in a decade.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh yeah, that is incredible.

[Joe Getty]

Well, what's your off the top of your head thinking? Why is everybody feel like the economic system is stacked against people like me? Because it's. Because it seems to be stacked against everybody. Tax rates are high and you get nothing out of it.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's right. Everybody of the world, unite. The system is against all of us. Now that's a revolutionary slogan. All right, off the top of my head, here's your three explanations. Number one, selling economic resentment and discontent is the number one motivator in politics these days.

[Joe Getty]

That's a pretty good one.

[Jack Armstrong]

I've got some fabulous analysis that could be a reflection.

[Joe Getty]

Is that the leading people thinking that way or Politicians catching on to the fact that people feel that way. So they're just trying to reflect back their needs.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sure, yeah. It's kind of a self, you know, promoting couple of. It's a swirl of a perpetual cycle of whirlwind of doom or something. Anyway, to that point, great piece by Andy Kessler, I think it was in the Wall Street Journal talking about how Bernie and his ideological. His mind meld, mini me. AOC said not long ago that an entire generation came of age and never saw American prosperity.

[Joe Getty]

What?

[Jack Armstrong]

And then AOC said, I've never seen that or experienced it really in my adult life.

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[Jack Armstrong]

I know nothing could be more false.

[Tony Ayo]

What?

[Jack Armstrong]

But huge numbers of people, particularly young people, say, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm getting cheated. All right, so that's explanation number one. Bigger house.

[Joe Getty]

How many TVs, cars, how many vacations would the average person have to take before you, Bernie Sanders and AOC would feel like you're surrounded by prosperity.

[Jack Armstrong]

How sophisticated a mini computer slash entertainment complex must you hold in your pocket at an affordable price before you feel like.

[Joe Getty]

How much eating out would have to occur before you feel like you're surrounded

[Jack Armstrong]

by prosperity, drinking an expensive milkshake every day, et cetera. So I want to talk more about that perception later on because it is absolutely hand in glove with the rise of democratic socialists, which I want to talk about. But so second figure. So part of it is selling economic resentment is incredibly important politics right now. Second thing I think is there is a perception, and it is not incorrect, that you've got your connected tech world types who are printing money and inventing the future and the rest of us are utterly perplexed and intimidated by what's going on over there. That's part of it. And the super sophisticated money changers of the world, I mean the, you know, the Wall street types that can. That were the money traders, essentially, I'm

[Joe Getty]

going to overturn their tables. What I'm going to do.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's a good idea. So you know that crowd, we've always looked at them with a mix of envy and resentment and dislike. You know, the Wall street barons and the day trade. Well, like the hedge fund managers, blah, blah, that make more money than we could possibly imagine. Well, with the advent of.

[Joe Getty]

I'm going to look at them with a mixture of envy, ennui and arousal.

[Medical Expert / Commentator]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. To each their own. But those guys have become so efficient and are making so much money right now. It doesn't really affect me much except during like the crash of 0708 but there's a lot of resentment there, I think because it is amazing how they seem to be printing money. And what was the third factor? I can't even remember. Third factor to be named later. Second round draft choice in 2028. But it's a stew of things, like most things. Well I wonder. So that idea that it doesn't need to be oh third factor is that we're living to the limits of our means and beyond as a society. All of us, all the time, we've got this wonderful lifestyle but we go even further than that and stack up charges on our credit cards. So in the Wall Street Journal again had a great piece on this the other day about how everybody at every level lives a lifestyle that puts them under financial pressure to sustain that lifestyle. Nobody lives less than their means. So you combine all those three things and you get a feeling like the system stacked against me and people like me and I'm gonna vote for AOC

[Joe Getty]

because she's cute beyond a certain salary. And you can figure that out for yourself. Financial pressure is a choice because if you lived in a smaller house and drove a crappier car and took less expensive vacations, you wouldn't be feeling the financial pressure we, you, everyone. Maybe that's why fitting in with this poll, more than 40% of Americans who call themselves upper and upper middle class. More than 40% say they haven't saved enough money to retire comfortably. Yeah, if the upper and up upper class and upper middle class say they haven't retired saved money to retire comfortably, then that's a.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, I touted the new Jon Hamm vehicle her a vehicle made of

[Tony Ayo]

ham

[Jack Armstrong]

on Apple tv. Our Friends and Neighbors really funny drama dramedy. And the opening 90 seconds of it is exactly what we're talking about. He talks about he got an entry level gig at a Wall street firm which brought house number one. And he talked about struggling to pay the bills and all. And then they had a baby and then another baby. But then I got this breakthrough which led to house number two and an elevated lifestyle. But he was still chasing because that new lifestyle was expensive. And he's like, holy crap, I gotta really kill myself at work. Which brought house number three, which is a really affluent lifestyle. But then he's like, holy, I gotta just devote all my attention to work. Then his marriage falls apart and which leads to house number four, which is this crappy rental house. But it's a perfect example of what we're talking about always living about 20% more than you can truly afford. Try the opposite. And I'm not lecturing out of some high horseishness. Okay, Judy. And I lived the lifestyle I'm about to suggest because Jack and I have lived like this scam was about to blow up since day one because it was since the. It was likely to. The fact that it hasn't is something like a miracle. But so from day one, we lived our lives like this is going to end next week. And it is. It's a good way to live if you can figure out how. Again, I didn't do that because I'm better or more disciplined than you. I did it because I had to. But looking back, it was a really good idea.

[Joe Getty]

So before we take a break, back to that original poll that is so horrifying. The jumps in numbers being the biggest difference. Only 29% of upper, upper middle class people thought the economic system was stacked against them 10 years ago. Now it's 2/3. For middle class, it was 42. It's now 7230 point jump.

[Jack Armstrong]

For working in lower class, it went from 52 to 86.

[Joe Getty]

So you got nearly 90% of working in lower class who feel like the politics and economic system are stacked against them. That's revolution material right there.

[Jack Armstrong]

Ian Farmer's right.

[Joe Getty]

My point was

[Jack Armstrong]

I feel that way

[Joe Getty]

and I just feel like everybody else

[Jack Armstrong]

is overreacting, but I feel like for

[Joe Getty]

me it's true for my station in life. I feel like the economic system is stacked against me. Wow.

[Tony Ayo]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

I would love, love, love to hear yalls take on this. Whether you want to text us at 415295 kftc or [e-mail] if emails more your speed including if you want to take a look. Guys, the system is more stacked than it used to be for these reasons. Go ahead, that's fine. I'm curious what your perceptions are of this.

[Joe Getty]

I think a lot of it though is the algorithms feeding us the bad news over and over again. That that's the big change. That could be the. That could be the main thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

And in our politics, it figures out who we are. Change unless you have discontent. Never forget that in politics it's the coin of the realm.

[Joe Getty]

You talk about clickonomics. I mean if you click on stories that matter to financially and it feeds you constant negative barrage of stuff, which is what the algorithms do.

[Medical Expert / Commentator]

Damn.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, man, we're an hour into the new week and already we're the most depressing radio show in America.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, bottom line is humanity cannot Endure the Internet.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, that's the bottom line. There you go.

[Medical Expert / Commentator]

There you there.

[Joe Getty]

There you go.

[Jack Armstrong]

Figured unplug it.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, ever. Where's the liar?

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[Jack Armstrong]

This from a truly wonderful zoo. If you've never been there. The National Zoo in Washington, D.C. tony decouple on CBS Evening News.

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National Zoo has welcomed a new baby elephant. The first there in 25 years. Described as alert and bright eyed, weighing in at 308 pounds at birth. Fans can now vote to name the new elephant on the zoo's website. But we all know how this sort of thing has gone in the past. When Greenpeace asked for help naming an endangered whale in 2007, Mr. Splashy Pants is what the public chose. Then we got Bodie McBoatface in 2016, when the United Kingdom asked the public to vote on names for our research vessel. Of all things that inspired the Australian racehorse named, yes, Horsey McHorse Face. Lessons have been learned and the National Zoo is asking for the public's help naming this beautiful new elephant. But you only get to choose between four options the zoo has already approved. The zoo is apparently not interested in your suggestion for Trunky mctrunk Face.

[Jack Armstrong]

This is like Iran where you have their approved candidates on the ballot.

[Joe Getty]

So there was.

[Jack Armstrong]

I thought this was America.

[Joe Getty]

Horsey McCourse face.

[Jack Armstrong]

What was the whale? What was the whale?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, what was the whale? That was a good one.

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Oh, Mr. McSplashy Pants or something.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's right, Mr. Splashy Pace. Oh, my God.

[Medical Expert / Commentator]

Oh, God.

[Joe Getty]

That brings me joy. Now what does that mean about the human spirit? That if you get to name a boat and somebody comes up with one of those funny names that everybody says, yeah, let's pick that one.

[Jack Armstrong]

Is that sticking it to the man

[Joe Getty]

or what is that with a tip

[Jack Armstrong]

of the cap to the Aussies, Americans are the funniest people on earth. It's not even close. We can't lose that. You know, we spend all day attacking each other. Of course, a lot of people are lunatics, but yeah, God damn it.

[Joe Getty]

I remember when that Boaty McBoatface thing happened and I thought it was the most hilarious thing I'd ever heard.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, Trunky mctrunk Face is too obvious. You got to be a little more creative than that, Mr.

[Joe Getty]

Splashy Pants. Yeah, that is really, really good. So are the four names just like

[Jack Armstrong]

I love this country.

[Joe Getty]

So you get to choose between four predetermined names.

[Jack Armstrong]

This is the Swahili word for exactly, exactly.

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I just asked the Internet for a funny name for an elephant and they

[Joe Getty]

said trunk Norris Armstrong and get.

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It's always tough to predict that. I think if we continue to go down in the cases that we're seeing right now and more and more people get vaccinated as the dynamics of the outbreak, namely the amount of virus circulating in the community, goes down, I hope we'll be able to pull back on some of those restrictions to get closer to what we really feel is normal in the community. I hope that's soon, but I can't give a prediction of a date on that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Joe Biden with some unfinished business, issuing

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[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, he kept us all safe, didn't he, Jack? By imposing ludicrous unconstitutional restrictions that did no good. Thank God for Anthony Fauci.

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Way longer than needed to happen.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, right, yeah. And he caused it too. Probably. So on her way out the door last Friday, Tulsi Gabbard released a bunch of declassified evidence accusing Fauci essentially of causing the COVID 19 pandemic, then engaging in a cover up about the virus's origins in China and then lying to Congress about it. And as Miranda Devine writes in the New York Post, perhaps most disturbingly, he was assisted by the U.S. intelligence Committee, which is why Tulsi Gabbard got into it. And, you know, she I'll go ahead and just let Miranda say it. It's time you knew that you know the truth, she said Friday. This has gotten no coverage in the mainstream media. For what it's worth, never before seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions of dollars in US taxpayers to fund dangerous gain of function research at the WUHAN lab worked with politicized elements within the intelligence community to suppress the truth about and hide the virus's lab leak origin and then lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. The tactics used to hide the truth are straight from the Deep State playbook. Interestingly, two days after the Friday release, on her last day on Sunday, the Washington Post ran a 9,000 word hit piece accusing Gabbard of taking instructions from a Hindu cult leader described in the headline as her guru. I remember that whole weird relig thing her family was into came out when she first came on the scene and was running for president at one point and I thought wow, that's odd. And, and some people say she's still into them. She says she's not. I thought that was odd, quirky. But that was years ago. Two days after she releases this information 9,000 word piece about her somewhat off kilter religious beliefs, past and or present. Miranda, for some reason I don't remember

[Joe Getty]

the religious belief story.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, her family grew up in a weird Hawaiian pseudo pineapple cult. Yeah, something like that, says Miranda. It was a gratuitous exercise. Gratuitous exercise in guilt by association masquerading as an investigation. Another tactic straight from the Deep State playbook. Meanwhile, the Washington Post did not publish a word about Gabbard's Fauci revelations. Nor for that matter did any mainstream outlet on the left. The same news organizations that helped cover up the origins of the COVID 19 pandemic, now overwhelmingly believed to have come from a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, are still refusing to come clean on liberal social media platform Blue sky. They're still talking about wet markets and pangolins.

[Joe Getty]

So I believe Anthony Fauci is a villain in this whole thing and always will. But why did Tulsi Gabbard wait until the day she's headed out the door to release this stuff?

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

That doesn't make sense.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm scanning to see if they address that at all. And on a Friday. Right, right, yeah, yeah. Miranda goes into a great deal of length and detail about how the intelligence community helped him out on this. Fauci was the behind the scenes advisor who along with his hand picked so called experts, pushed the intelligence community to endorse a natural animal origin to hide his dangerous gain of function research that he funded using taxpayer dollars. Meanwhile, Fauci's nemesis, maverick Senator Red Rand Paul, was again sent criminal referrals to the DOJ. Perhaps more significantly, Paul insisted the 11 year blanket pardon President Biden issued for Fauci on his last minutes in office should be challenged in court because it was signed with an auto pen and because of its rare retrospective nature.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. So like you said yesterday, you want to see him punished. I don't care about that as much as the truth coming out. He's a very old man. I'd be perfectly fine with him going to jail, but I just don't want to get bogged down in that versus everybody knowing what he actually did. I wish somehow that could come to light.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I think we're into. Well, I'll start at the beginning. I don't think the mainstream media, left of center America and our institutions will ever say out loud, it started in the lab. Fauci funded it. We helped cover for the communist Chinese. Many of the restrictions were useless. We let people die alone so they. Without a hug from their family members when their young, strong family members were utterly not in any danger. And the list could go on and on. They can't, because it was so a part of their identity. It was who they were. They were doing what they were told against Covid. And anybody who didn't was a monster. It wasn't a scientific belief at all. It was a moral framework.

[Joe Getty]

Well. And a lot of it driven by Trump said what? Okay, I'm against that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

And I will always lead that list with keeping kids out of school because my kids were in grade school at the time. And I think it did them and their friends great damage.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, right. Yeah, it's horrific. It almost. It would be like a Nazi disavowing anti Semitism or, you know, there have been cases, you know, Christopher Hitchens went from a flaming lefty to a much more center guy. Still had some leftist beliefs, and we're not going to get that. And I think hoping the evildoers learn from and confess to their evil, it's beginning to look like to me that that will never happen. And so the only thing the sane can take away from it is don't be cowed into obedience next time.

[Joe Getty]

Well, Fauci believes, as we've discussed many, many times, I'm sure he sleeps soundly, thinking, look, I'm smarter than everybody else in the world and I know the importance of this research. That is going to save us from an awful pandemic by creating the worst pandemic in a century. You've saved us from a worse pandemic is what he believes.

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They're really criticizing science because I represent science.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, yeah. That's what we Were doing. We were criticizing science when we said open the schools like Europe, like all the private schools because the little kids are fine.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

We were ignoring science stand 6ft apart,

[Joe Getty]

which we now know had no scientific basis whatsoever. They just picked a number at random.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, so fauci to your how he rationalizes it. Yeah. We were doing important research to prevent a pandemic. And this was a 1 in 5,000. Terrible coincidence. But you can't restrict science to prevent a 1 in 5,000 happenstance. That's too restrictive. So, yeah, it was super unfortunate what happened. But I can't allow people to clamp down on my sort of important research by telling the truth. That would do more harm than good. So I will remain silent. That's the attitude the New York times and the Washington Post. That's just psychosis. That's just being a cultist and ignoring facts because they don't conform to your worldview.

[Joe Getty]

What is.

[Jack Armstrong]

I will never forgive them for that.

[Joe Getty]

What is your level of belief that anybody will ever pay a price for this? Mine is low.

[Jack Armstrong]

Very low.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I mean, the teachers unions. And let's not leave them out of the. The equation. I think the bad will against teachers unions fueled by the COVID monstrosity, I think that's starting to accumulate some weight in a good way. But that might be, you know, one of the few examples.

[Joe Getty]

Do we have an ad here? Michael. Okay.

[Jack Armstrong]

Would you like to do one?

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I'm Jack Armstrong from a car I'm trying to sell.

[Jack Armstrong]

This car is a smooth riding beauty. Power windows, power brakes, power steering.

[Joe Getty]

I do that because auto world. I used to do these ads with this guy for auto world. It was what they call a pot lot. It's like a gravel lot with crappy old cars that they find somewhere at auctions and sell them to people. I bought two cars there because I was very poor and it was all I could afford. But yeah, and they were crappy cars. Anyway, this guy with this gravelly voice would come in and I'd record his commercials every week. Michael. And those were his lines. Got four new tires, ice cold air conditioning. This one's a beauty at eighteen hundred dollars. And it was. Oh, it was always stuff you hope you expected to have on a car. It's like God would hope.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, boy.

[Joe Getty]

This one's got a crack fury windshield.

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[Joe Getty]

Good. Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's what you're featuring?

[Joe Getty]

That's.

[Jack Armstrong]

This one ain't on fire.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, exactly. This one will actually start. $999.

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[Jack Armstrong]

And I adjusted for inflation. That's 2,000.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know how we got on this story the other day about people. Oh, Michael, is your story about you agreed to buy a car one time and the guy jumped up and down? You realized you had overpaid? Yep, I was very young, which is very funny. But my favorite story on that is

[Jack Armstrong]

Jim, Jim, good job selling that car. But you gotta wait till the guy's off the lot to jump up and down.

[Joe Getty]

The most obvious ruse that, thank God I wasn't too stupid to fall for. My buddy Chris and I, we drove, we. We had his sister drop us off in Denver. Colorad. We each had a thousand bucks and we were going to buy cars because we each needed a car. We're 19, 20 years old and we're each going to get a thousand dollar car. So we were going around to some really crappy car lots. I mean, this is a long time ago, but a thousand dollars wasn't much then either for a car. But so we're going around to these really, really crappy car lots. And crappy car lots are usually run by not the most honest people anyway. So we're looking at this car, it's priced at $900, and we're talking to the salesman, and his boss rides up and says, hey, hey, hey, I told you, there's supposed to be a one in front of that number. All right, well, if they decide to buy it, go for it. But as soon as they leave, put the one back up there. My buddy Chris and I both looked at each other like, wow, they think we're that dumb?

[Jack Armstrong]

We need to dress my haircut if I look that stupid.

[Joe Getty]

No kidding. Oh, my God, they forgot to put the one there. We're saving up. He actually did that? That's a true story.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, that's beautiful. I bet he had a dozen of those maneuvers and he was, you know, rifle throw him.

[Joe Getty]

Wow, that is really a caviar emptor or e pluribus unum or whatever it is.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, that one.

[Joe Getty]

I think one of those things you, you get what you deserve if you fall for that one. Holy crap.

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No idea. Last week it was dinosaurs.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Jack, you are the oldest sibling in your family, correct?

[Joe Getty]

I am three.

[Jack Armstrong]

I am a middle child. The middle of three.

[Joe Getty]

And I must say, I've never put much stock in birth order.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, no, I. You know, I don't want to jump to the conclusion, but. Well, I'll. I'll hold up. So, really interesting coverage in the Washington Post. Of some new science about birth order. They mentioned that younger siblings enjoy real advantages in life. Generally, the parents have more money, no doubt more experience as parents. Older siblings can serve as role models, mentors, productive rivals. You know, you play basketball against your older brother, you're going to become a better basketball player. The ranks of elite athletes are filled with many more younger siblings than older brothers and sisters. There are a lot of reasons why second borns should do better, said this one economics professor, Brigham Young. But being born first is a far better bet in life, the data shows. A landmark study shows that younger siblings fare worse than firstborns on lifetime earnings, educational achievement, mental health, and for women, teen pregnancy. The later the birth order, the worse the stats get. The youngest siblings get measurably less schooling than the firstborn on average. But that only explained half of the difference. The other half seems to be germs. They followed 1.2 million Danish children born since 1980 into adulthood. The study found that the tiniest organisms have a profound impact on a child's future. Future exposure to respiratory viruses before a baby's first birthday, when their immune systems are immature. And before most childhood vaccinations consistently predicted reduced earnings, education and health. Decades later. Whoa. Illness. Serious respiratory illness.

[Joe Getty]

And you're more likely to get them if you're the third child or not,

[Jack Armstrong]

Just not the first, because the first one is off at school or daycare, whatever. Bringing bugs home. That doesn't happen to the firstborn kid.

[Joe Getty]

Wow, this is gonna come up at Thanksgiving, my younger brother. Thanks for bringing all those germs home.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, way to go, germy boy. You know, I could get into the details of this, but they said the data was absolutely clear. Earnings, education, mental health outcomes all declined as community disease exposure rose. Now these are averages across populations. So the AD adult incomes fell by nearly 1%. High school and college graduation dropped by about half a percent. Psychiatric clinic visits rise by about 6% above the baseline rate. Blah, blah, blah. And they say those numbers might appear trivial, but they are averages across the entire population. Blah, blah, blah. So this is interesting from a scientific perspective, but a couple of caveats. Number one, try to keep your kid reasonably healthy. Do what you want, but get the vaccinations against scary stuff. They've performed miracles, saved kids lives. Second thing is, and this is the the part I didn't want to get to prematurely, you get dealt the cards, you get dealt. We've lost that bedrock belief as human beings because a grievance culture and the narcissism of Small distinctions. Nobody cares that you got, you know, 88% of the good luck when somebody else got 91%.

[Joe Getty]

It's what you do with it that matters. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Get in the game and play. That's the only thing that matters.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. The whole one thing I had never, for whatever reason had never really occurred to me the other day till somebody brought, brought it up is if you're the oldest, you grew up in the household of the full number of your family for your whole life till you left. Whereas the youngest, in some cases, depending on how spread out they are, was, was an only child through high school

[Jack Armstrong]

or, or longer like my younger brother,

[Joe Getty]

which would have been a completely different sitting down to the family table with nobody else there than when I was in high school.

[Jack Armstrong]

It was five of us.

[Joe Getty]

I had never really thought about that before.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, there was one more thing that I just thought was interesting because since Judy got pregnant with Kate many years ago, I. I've been fascinated by prenatal development, specifically neural development. Serious illnesses in early childhood can derail grain bait. Obviously it's derailed mind can derail brain growth and cast a long shadow on later life. In the first months of life, roughly 85% of an infant's calorie intake goes toward neural development. Isn't that amazing?

[Joe Getty]

So feed your child is your recommendation.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's non negotiable. A serious infection can reduce how much a baby eats and divert calories away from building a brain.

[Joe Getty]

The thing you know the most, and we've talked about this endlessly and everybody knows. Well, everybody who's a parent knows this. You don't know this till you're a parent completely is how different they are. Oh yeah, they're so incredibly different. They have such a different tool set to go out into the world with. Some of it you know, better than their siblings, some of it worse. And you go out there with what you got and you know, make your way but it just, that's. That's what's the blows your mind.

[Jack Armstrong]

And that's why you can't react to studies like this with a Wait a minute, wait a minute. My little brother's a genius and highly successful and blah blah, blah. Yeah. These are averages across populations. Your family could be completely the opposite of everything that is indicated by the

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