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Joe Getty
Armstrong and Getty. And now here's AR Armstrong and Yeti. French police said they've been working around the clock to track down the suspects in last week's Louvre jewelry heist. Working around the clock, or as it's known in France, 10:30 to noon and then like 2 to 3:30.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, like that. Criticize the French culture as being lazy. It's funny and accurate.
Joe Getty
True enough. Oh, speaking of foreign cultures, Jack, here's your headline of the day. China is testing restroom machines that make you watch ads in exchange for toilet paper.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, my God. You want to tidy up? You gotta watch his ad first. Yeah.
Joe Getty
You need more? Well, here's another ad. Oh, 30 seconds. China, you thought communism was bad. Now they're inflicting this on us.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. Now that is. I remember from, like, the only economics class I've ever had in my life, one that I took in college where you learned about elastic and inelastic products. Toilet paper is inelastic.
Joe Getty
Oh, yeah. Yeah. You will pay what you need to pay.
Jack Armstrong
I will sit through however many ads I got to sit there.
Joe Getty
Wow. Damn commies.
Jack Armstrong
So speaking of France, I wonder, we were talking about this poll, which I'm about to repeat, and the number of people who are extremely proud to be American. What is the poll in other countries? Your average Frenchman.
Joe Getty
Are they Call him Jacques.
Jack Armstrong
Are they proud to be French or British or Spanish or Chinese or. Pick a country. I would love to know that. I don't have. I don't really don't. I don't really have a guess.
Joe Getty
Well, and let's poll French, French people and then immigrants and ask them the same question.
Jack Armstrong
Gallup's been asking this question for a quarter of a century now. How proud are you to be an American? And they only are putting in this graph extremely proud or very proud. It's the only group you really need to include when they started doing the graph, because everybody was at like 90%. Republicans, Democrats and independents were all high 80s around 90% either extremely.
Joe Getty
And I'm sorry, that was in 1950, right?
Jack Armstrong
Right after World War II. Now in 2000, to start this century, either extremely or very proud, not even including moderately proud. Extremely or very gets you to damn near 90% for everybody. It is held at 90% for Republicans, it has gone down to barely over half for independence, it's barely over a third now. For Democrats who are extremely or very proud to be an American, I find that highly troubling. And the fact that it's. That Republicans held steady through the Obama years, so they weren't basing it on who's president, which is a stupid way to base it. Maybe it's because Republicans would think I'm not going to change whether I'm proud to be an American based on who's president. What's that got to do with it? Like. So we got a text. For instance, as an independent, I would say my pride for my country has gone down because of the way both parties now act so much like each other. Well, yeah, I'm not proud of our current state of politics. In fact, I think it's crappy. And I'm not. I don't. I think our education system's a mess. I think our culture is headed in the wrong direction. But am I proud to be in America? Be a. Put me extremely. Do you have something higher than extremely? Put me down for that.
Joe Getty
My friend, you have inadvertently reminded me of something I've said many times and it's insidious. The idea that the United States of America is its government. That's absolutely not true. It's the people of the United States. It's our Constitution. It's our system. It's not our political parties. They exist within the US Of A. They are not. They do not define the US of A. It's a part of it.
Jack Armstrong
And I'd rather stand up next to you.
Joe Getty
Yes. So how did we get here? I was expounding on my theory last hour and there's more to it that the indoctrination of the neo Marxist class, and some of that's from, you know, the Soviets and the Russians doing it on purpose and the Chinese now, but also just radical leftists. The indoctrination that they've gotten into our schools has been successful. We've now got a couple, a handful of generations of people who've been brought up. The only history they've gotten is the United States is evil. Here's a list of the evil things that have happened.
Jack Armstrong
That's not an exaggeration. My son is recently out of an American history public school class.
Joe Getty
Yeah. And we let it happen. And I'm ashamed of that. Although, you know, Judy and I were pretty involved in our kids schooling and it kind of crept in bit by bit. And then as we all know, as kids were Doing online schooling during COVID parents actually for the first time heard what was happening in the classrooms and were horrified by it. But this battle against it has just begun. To wit, back to the piece I mentioned about the Minneapolis Public Schools have Ethnic studies is absolutely required. You got to take a bunch of it. And here's a class about the Hmong people.
Jack Armstrong
Why? Why do you have to take those classes?
Joe Getty
Well, here. Well, I'll tell you exactly why. So if you're taking a Hmong studies class, you would think you'd learn about Southeast Asian people's culture and history, right? Maybe their involvement in the US Civil, the Vietnam War, blah blah, blah.
Jack Armstrong
So Minneapolis, prepare you for life to go out and, I don't know, support your family.
Joe Getty
But. But again, that's not why that class exists. In Minneapolis, high schoolers are instead taught lessons demonizing capitalism as a pillar of white supremacy alongside slavery and genocide in their class about Hmong studies. According to course materials obtained by this group defending education, the Hmong studies course, which requires social justice activism as part of a final project, is just one of the ethnic studies classes offered in Minneapolis public schools that push the so called anti racist agenda. Course materials describe ethnic studies as an anti racist tool featuring themes like decolonizing education. Readings by anti racist activist Ibram X. Kendi, who is both a con man and an America hating Marxist.
Jack Armstrong
Made a lot of money though.
Joe Getty
Yeah, you're no kidding. From fools. Idiots. So I'm reading about this, some of these class descriptions. Let's see. Is that the one I wanted to read? They all look kind of the same. Oh, here you go. So. Oh, that's right. I meant to mention I heard this a number of years ago and was totally unaware of it. That the schools of education, the colleges of education is. That was the seed of all this stuff seeping into universities and then high schools and elementary schools across the country. The leftists brilliantly and evilly targeted our educational system. Of course you would. You got to convince the kids to hate their country if you want to bring it down. So they successfully got their evil into the schools of education. Listen to this. Intro to Ethnic Studies Education and Multi Multicultural Education. This is for grades 11 and 12 juniors and seniors in high school. And you can earn up to six college credits for taking this. And it all has to do with heading into the field of education. Intro to Ethnic Studies education is designed to look at the origin, development and mission of ethnic studies education programs within the context of K12 education in the United States. Okay, so what is that you Will learn how ethnic studies is an anti racist tool as counter story in humanizing pedagogy. You will identify the kinds of structural inequalities that are part of K12 institutions, the development of curriculum as well as understand the concept of multi dimensional identities and intersectionalities. Wow. Blah blah, blah.
Jack Armstrong
Bunch of freaking gobbledygook.
Joe Getty
There's more. Multicultural education introduces prospective teacher candidates approaches of multicultural anti oppressive education including issues related to student, family and community diversity based on race, culture, language, class, gender, sexual orientation and ability. You will reflect on your own biases as they relate to oppression, privilege and equity in schools and society as well as formulate ways teachers can be agents of change in and with classrooms, schools and communities.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. You gotta get your kid out of that school. You've.
Joe Getty
I know.
Jack Armstrong
Got to get your kid out of your school. You'd be better off if they sat at home looking at YouTube videos about math and science than to be subjected to that. You're gonna reflect on your own biases. F you. God, that makes me angry.
Joe Getty
And here's the.
Jack Armstrong
And you can't.
Joe Getty
You can't connect. Latinx studies, what they offer. It's all about tearing down the system. That's what all this language means.
Jack Armstrong
I got so mad. I know I've told this story several times if you've heard. But my son's American history classes started this year and he was so excited about it. He loves stuff like that. He's a history nut like his dad is and he was so excited about getting into the Revolutionary War and George Washington and Tom Jefferson and all the different stuff and everything like that. Nope. Maybe they got to it eventually. I don't know. I pulled him out of the class. They wrote the land declaration the first day explaining how we had stolen the land from the Indians and how awful we should feel about it. Had to.
Joe Getty
That's what they did on day one.
Jack Armstrong
And had to give out their pronouns. That was their first day of school and went downhill from there as they learned more about the genocide that we committed against Native Americans.
Joe Getty
I'm surprised you didn't pull them day one. He gave it a second day just to be sure. Gender Sexuality Studies. Students will explore the struggles, accomplishments and culture of intersectional of individuals within the LGBTQ TIA community. Students will have the opportunity to investigate engrossing narratives, lectures, drawings, poems and more as we engage in uncovering the rich history of the queer community. This course encourages students of all identities to deepen their understanding of how intersectionality in their own life and uncovers the History of unequal systems of power and privilege and how they have been used to silence members of the queen community. Queer community.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, my God.
Joe Getty
Students will also learn about resilience, how the Alphabet soup community has embraced resistance as a way to transform the communities in which they live.
Jack Armstrong
What grade is this?
Joe Getty
This is high schoolers 10 through 12. Public high school? Yeah, it's required in Minneapolis. Required?
Jack Armstrong
That's insane. And you know you can't. You should pay attention to the education your kids are getting. But, you know, you also should be able to count on sending your kid to a public school and things will be okay. You'd think you could, but you can't.
Joe Getty
So the course materials defending education uncovered for the Hmong studies course back to that is perhaps the best window into the Minneapolis public school system's approach to ethnic studies classes. In one section, power struggles and resistance, the class centers. Do you still think I'm paranoid when I say this is all foisted on us by neo Marxists? Resistance to what? Well, the class centers on the pillars of white supremacy, a complete with a diagram equating capitalism with slavery and on par with war and genocide. Part of the class's final assignment requires students to engage in youth lead participatory action research, a convoluted name for social justice activism. It involves students identifying a problem perpetuated by the institutions and the logics of white supremacy. Remember, our whole system is white supremacy. You remember systemic racism. The kids are being taught to tear down the institutions of white supremacy. And our whole country is white supremacy.
Jack Armstrong
I keep thinking about my own kids and, you know, wanting to make sure they're not exposed to too much of this crap. Dangerous and a waste of time. But, you know, I gotta worry about the whole country, not just my kids, because there's thousands and thousands of kids that are being taught this bull s and they're gonna be out there, get.
Joe Getty
Up in the morning and come in and do this, and they're gonna be.
Jack Armstrong
Out there voting and forming the future of this country. God, that is so frustrating.
Joe Getty
One final note. There's more, but we're out of time. Supplemental resources for the class include the article 5 Faces of Oppression, which actually c writes Carl effing Marx, to argue that exploitation uses capitalism to oppress.
Jack Armstrong
That's incredible. Parents need to pay more attention to what they're teaching in their school.
Joe Getty
I'm glad I did for the school board.
Jack Armstrong
If I'd have just ignored it and assumed he was going to an American history class, I would have never known. Right Got an update on the diseased monkeys. They caught a bunch of them, but they don't have all of them. Still some diseased monkeys out there.
Joe Getty
Let's take as much time and money as it takes to get all of them.
Jack Armstrong
Stay tuned for that update and other stuff.
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Jack Armstrong
So what nonsense have you brought us here, Michael? I have brought you the bird theory.
Joe Getty
And what it is is a theory that if you ask your spouse about a bird and they don't ask questions about it, your relationship's in trouble.
Jack Armstrong
If you ask.
Joe Getty
Wait a minute. I've heard a similar thing. It's the. The beautiful bird theory, right?
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Joe Getty
You say, oh, my God, look at that bird. And if your partner doesn't look up, they don't care about you and your feelings.
Jack Armstrong
Okay, well, let's hear it first and then I have my comments.
Joe Getty
Let me do 10 here first. That'll explain it. And then 11 is an example of it. Okay, what is the bird theory? This theory is going super viral on Tick tock right now because apparently you.
Jack Armstrong
Can tell how strong your relationship is.
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By testing it out.
Jack Armstrong
The way you could test this theory.
Joe Getty
Is with a very simple prompt of I saw a bird today.
Jack Armstrong
And if your spouse turns to you and starts asking questions about the bird, that means your relationship's in good standing. Okay, I want to hear this other clip, but then I've got questions. All right, Baby, I saw a bird today. What do you mean you saw a bird? I just saw a pretty blue bird.
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Joe Getty
What was it, a blue jay?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it was like. I don't know. It was pretty, though, and I really liked it and I flew around the house, but I just thought it was pretty. I forgot to tell you, I saw a bird yesterday. Who'd you see?
Joe Getty
I saw a bird yesterday.
Jack Armstrong
A bird? Yeah, I saw like a bird.
Joe Getty
Why are you telling me?
Jack Armstrong
Exactly, Exactly. That is what I mean.
Joe Getty
Can I set up every day?
Jack Armstrong
My whole life?
Joe Getty
Yeah, we see birds every day. Here's how I would set up the audio. Here is audio of two guys who are dating Stupid women. I saw a bird today.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah?
Joe Getty
Good. What are you, three years old?
Jack Armstrong
Did you hit your head?
Joe Getty
Is there more? I saw a bird today. You did? Yeah. What kind of bird? A pretty blue bird. Okay, it was blue. That's good. Blue, honey. Good.
Jack Armstrong
Yes. Katie, you're a woman. We need a woman's opinion on this. No, my response would be.
Joe Getty
All right, cool story. What?
Jack Armstrong
Good story.
Joe Getty
That first chick must have been hotter than a two dollar pistol because she sound sounded like she was dumb as a dog.
Jack Armstrong
That is a good response. Good story. Yeah.
Joe Getty
It'S going super viral on TikTok right now. Oh Lord. Read a book.
Jack Armstrong
I saw a bird today.
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Yeah, they're everywhere.
Jack Armstrong
Okay. Are you high right now?
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Joe Getty
Yeah, no kidding. Of course they're all government drones anyway. But that's a different tr.
Jack Armstrong
If it flies, it lies. Yeah, that's true.
Joe Getty
Right?
Jack Armstrong
Okay, okay. I get the original premise.
Joe Getty
I'm diffuse.
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Even now.
Jack Armstrong
Even dumber than we expected. Thank you, Michael.
Joe Getty
Wow. Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
That doesn't mean that there aren't going to be little skirmishes here and there. We know that Hamas or somebody else within Gaza attacked an IDS soldier. We expect the Israelis are gonna respond, but I think the President's peace is gonna hold.
Jack Armstrong
Despite the bigger question, though, here is the next stage of the agreement is about disarming Hamas. And we have seen no evidence right now that Hamas has signed on to that.
Joe Getty
The idea of Hamas disarming voluntarily is a fantasy.
Jack Armstrong
They're built. So those are three different views. That's Vice President Vance saying, there's an interesting thing he said is a very smart guy. Hamas killed an IDF soldier. We expect Israel to respond militarily. The peace will hold. That's an interesting group of sentences.
Joe Getty
Explain the whole peace will hold ground rules for me again.
Jack Armstrong
Exactly. Then David Sanger of the New York Times saying, yeah, the next stage is Hamas disarming, and there's no indication thus far that they have any interest. And then Lindsey Graham, who's a very Trumpy senator, saying, Hamas isn't going to disarm. So do what you want with all bad information from three different viewpoints.
Joe Getty
Well, and I remember your optimism of a week or two ago, whenever it was, was based on the fact that the other Muslim countries around the area were down with enforcing the peace. But are they really? That's my question. Has it happened? It's gonna be dirty work.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Trump said again on the plane last night. He said no, he got a bunch of, bunch of friends in the region, a bunch of countries that are agreeing to put skin in the game and. Okay, well, it's gonna have to happen.
Joe Getty
Apparently the game remains skinless. Unfortunately.
Jack Armstrong
Different topic. I just saw this headline. This might be the biggest story of the day. Joe already brought it to us earlier, but I just saw this up there on a little Chiron on a cable news channel. Bill Gates, climate change won't be humanity's demise. That might be the biggest story of the day because he's, he's pretty influential guy in lefty politics.
Joe Getty
And if he was one of the leading doomsayers for a long time, him.
Jack Armstrong
Not on board anymore. Is something mentioned earlier that Nvidia has become the first $5 trillion company powered by the whole AI frenzy because they build the fastest AI chips out there. They were the first $4 trillion company like two and a half months ago. It seems like really amazing growth right there.
Joe Getty
Yeah. You know what we need, Michael? Audio. Maybe you can do this during your ample free time. Some sort of bubble sound. I don't know what it would sound like. Some blowing bubbles or some sort of bubble machine. I don't know. We need that every time we talk about this stock market. That.
Jack Armstrong
How do you say the last name of the CEO? Jensen Huang.
Joe Getty
Huang Wong, I believe.
Jack Armstrong
Guy always wears a cool leather jacket. That's his look.
Joe Getty
Good looking chap. Yeah, good look.
Jack Armstrong
He's worth about $200 billion now as he has got a lot of stock in their own company. But that is something.
Joe Getty
That's the stock market.
Jack Armstrong
Another AI ish story happened yesterday. Elon unveiled Grokopedia is now online. I haven't checked it out yet or started using it, but it's supposed to compete with what he calls Wokopedia Wikipedia. He says Wikipedia is too woke and now he's got Grokopedia, which he says is 10 times better than Wokopedia. I haven't, I haven't checked it out but it's gone live. So maybe next time I have to look something up, I'll do that even.
Joe Getty
If it were just seven or eight times better. That would be fantastic. But it's 10. Exactly 10 times better. Elon.
Jack Armstrong
That'S kind of funny. Came across this story. The UN nuclear watchdog chief told the Associated Press that Iran has renewed movement trying to enrich uranium and it's been detected at several nuclear sites. So they might be in for another bombing.
Joe Getty
Take that.
Jack Armstrong
Barry Weiss blindsides a CBS News president after tapping a former Wall Street Journal editor as a top deputy. Continuing to. Well, if you're a lefty, wreak havoc on free and fair news. If you aren't a lefty, maybe restore some sanity to our network.
Joe Getty
Newscasts are entirely one sided media. Yeah, blindsided. I hope she literally blindsided him. Ran up to him in the office and blasted him while he wasn't looking. Send him tumbling over a desk and.
Jack Armstrong
Then I'll finish with this from my little burst of headlines for you. This was declared by Charles C.W. cook the dumbest tweet ever. Good news everybody. I've come across the dumbest tweet ever.
Joe Getty
And now that's a claim from somebody.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know who this person is and that doesn't matter. Mozart and Beethoven are Mozart and Beethoven because they were listened to by people who conquered the majority of the rest of the planet, not because they are deific figures who bend space and time around them.
Joe Getty
Yeah, nobody claimed that. Wow. So you've got a woke idiotic premise meeting a straw man.
Jack Armstrong
So that is what settler colonialism taking over the world is the only reason do we have Mozart and Beethoven?
Joe Getty
These are the people you shalt listen to and deify as geniuses.
Jack Armstrong
So I'm not supposed to dig Mozart and Beethoven because they just, they, they only were allowed to pursue their musical talents because of the rape of other lands or something? I mean, I don't even fully understand that. That's an interesting worldview. So anybody that's really successful in any of your dominant countries throughout history, we shouldn't have any respect for Mozart, Beethoven, I assume Newton and you know, Shakespeare. Whoever. Yeah, name whoever. That's just because they lived in a country where they had abused other lesser people.
Joe Getty
Well, and more significantly, I think to that utterly moronic argument, the love of them or worship of them has been spread by force across the world by white supremacists. That's what they're saying.
Jack Armstrong
Gotcha.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Yeah. Does Charlie Cook say anything about the dumbest tweet ever?
Jack Armstrong
No, just that dumbest tweet trots it.
Joe Getty
Out there and lets everybody enjoy it.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I, I Used to not think this, but I think I do think now. I just saw Travis Kelsey doing the Trump dance after a touchdown. I hadn't seen that. I didn't used to think this, but I think this now that there's a decent chance that Western civilization will disappear in the way that the Romans and Greeks did for about their culture disappeared for like 500 years. Their contributions to art and math and everything like that, you know the Dark Ages, You've heard of them?
Joe Getty
Yeah. The political trends are important and the fact that so many folks in Western civilization have bought the suicide pillar that neo Marxism is. But also the birth rates. I mean, we'd be going away even if everything was hunky dory. In the poll we were referencing before, 100% of everybody said they're as proud as they could be of the United States of America. You don't have kids, couple hundred years or 75 years, you're gone. Sure take more than 75, obviously, but.
Jack Armstrong
It doesn't take very long though. The spiral is amazing.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
You combine that with. There's not a college in America that teaches Shakespeare anywhere anymore other than as how oppressive he was. Yeah. And that sort of stuff goes away. That's wild. I didn't think that we need. If you'd have told me that 20, 30 years ago, I thought, not a chance.
Joe Getty
How did that happen? Yeah. Katie, would you be willing to consider. I don't know if it's too late this go round, but would you be willing to consider octuplets to help repopulate the Western world? Sure, I'll take one for the team. I mean because. No, no, no. You'll have everything donated. Right. Go fund me, pages. You'll be an influencer, you'll be rich, we'll have a reality show, etc. All right, you have a deal. It'll. It'll be easy and you'll be repopulating the West. It's too late for us. We're old.
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Joe Getty
Well. And I've been neutered like a dog, so I can't help.
Jack Armstrong
I was in a restaurant the other day and a family came in. Mom, dad, he was carrying a baby. And she had like a two year old. And then there was another kid and I thought, oh, I have three kids. Then there was another kid. There was another kid. They had five kids. And they got in the booth next to me and it just stood out as like the sort of thing you don't see anymore. It was fairly common when I was a kid. There's three kids in my family. But five kids and I was looking at that. It's just like, wow, what a lifestyle. Their lifestyle is so much different than all of their friends.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Who have somewhere between zero and two.
Joe Getty
Right, right.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, man, that would be a lot of work. I was watching them navigating that whole thing because the kids were all between. I think the oldest kid looked like they're eight or something like that. Right. About to spread. I'm tired just hearing that. Oh, wow, good for you. I wanted to go over and like, you know, shake his hand. See, you are doing the deal, man.
Joe Getty
Give him a medal. Yeah. Its own reward, so no, no medals necessary.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, we don't get a medal at the end of this child rearing. I thought that's why I was doing it. I thought at the end you get some sort of.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I've been telling you that all along.
Jack Armstrong
I thought I got some sort of trophy or no. Coupon or something.
Joe Getty
No, you just keep worrying the end of the child rearing. Let me know when that happens. Right.
Jack Armstrong
You had a pet monkey.
Joe Getty
That's easy. Or this could say one without herpes. Certified herpes free.
Jack Armstrong
They have shot and or captured most of the diseased monkeys. But there are a couple that are still on the loose. So they got all but the last two or three.
Joe Getty
Again. Take your time.
Jack Armstrong
And how about you? Nailed it down. Is it two or three? Don't say, wait a second, we got them. We got both of them. Wait a second. You said or three at one point.
Joe Getty
Yeah, we think we got them.
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Joe Getty
All the hep c Herpes Covid monkeys. Most of them. All of them. All of them.
Jack Armstrong
I think.
Joe Getty
Wait a minute. Okay.
Jack Armstrong
We will finish strong.
Joe Getty
Next, Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
A pig named Norbert recently set a Guinness world record by skateboarding 33ft in under 12 seconds, while the previous record holder was delicious.
Jack Armstrong
I like that joke. They ate the pig. We had a friend who was working really hard to get a skateboarding bulldog going because there was another skateboarding bulldog that was making so much money and they thought, they thought, I want to get a piece of that because there's Some. I don't remember Fido, the skateboarding bulldog. But everybody was paying a lot of money for Fido to come to their grand opening or whatever because it draws a crowd for whatever your event is. And this, this couple and their bulldog, who for some reason can skateboard travel around the west coast in a big expensive RV getting paid lots of money.
Joe Getty
Wow. Wow. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah. It was obscene how much. And the dog would be in commercials and stuff like that. Yeah, this guy was sure it was his route to fame and fortune.
Jack Armstrong
For some reason. I'm. I got in my head $300,000 a year that they were making. Wow.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Skateboarding bulldog.
Joe Getty
You know, I was gonna bring up a couple of things about poor people, but then I remembered I promised to do something else. But I'll give you the very brief version. Maybe we can talk on them, talk about them tomorrow. The people of Memphis, Tennessee. Did you know that there are 150 National Guard troops Trump deployed there this month? You're not hearing about that. You know why? Because the people of Memphis are thrilled. It's just like D.C. although, you know, there are activists in D.C. that are protesting. But here's a guy who manages a store on Main Street. I'm looking for all the help I can get. I wish there was more for lease signs hanging nearby storefronts. Crime is terrible. People of Memphis are thrilled.
Jack Armstrong
That's interesting.
Joe Getty
And the other one that I found so interesting is in going over that Argentine election that I'm so obsessed with and Javier Milei and whether he's going to be successful in weaning them off of the. The clutches of mobbed up communism is that the slums, the poorest Argentinians, turned out like crazy. Voting for the free market. Voting for Melaye. He did his. His party did very strong, very well, even. Much stronger than expected. I sound like Trump. But it was. It was led by the poorest people embracing the free market, which I find very interesting.
Jack Armstrong
They're just fortunate that they've lived through socialism and then get to have fair and free elections, because usually that doesn't happen.
Joe Getty
Right? Right. And they're seeing chances at upward mobility. That's the thing about socialism. It kills upward mobility. Anyway, but I promised this. So here it is. Public restrooms in parts of China are testing new dispensers that release toilet paper only after users scan a QR code and watch an online ad. A system that has drawn widespread criticism. I'll bet it has loud, obscenity strewn criticism during the act. I'LL bet. The mounted paper dispensers are equipped with optical scanners that display a QR code. You got to use your smartphone to connect to the dispenser, triggering an app based video advertisement that runs for a few seconds. When the ad concludes, the machine releases a controlled length of paper. Those unwilling to watch the ad can bypro bypass the process by paying a certain amount of money.
Jack Armstrong
I have been to a number of other countries that have pay public toilets and I wish we had more of those in the United States. They're great because they keep them clean. It keeps out the drug fiends or hobos or whatever. And, and they're clean. And you got someplace you can use a bathroom? America, we've, we've done away with public toilets pretty much because we allowed the drug crazies to take it over.
Joe Getty
It was funny. There's a beautiful, beautiful park in London. What is the name of that park? It's the one right by the Churchill Museum. Anyway, and the, the restroom's in there. You got to pay a nominal amount of money. It's like a buck.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
And, and Judy, I commented, wow, it was great. And she said, oh. A lady held it open for me and said, no, don't pay, dear, come on in. Blah, blah, blah. I said, no, no, we don't want that. No, we, we want the COVID charge of a book to make it nice. There's no junkies washing their junk in the sink.
Jack Armstrong
Even in Moscow when I was there, they had like a dollar public toilets and they were really nice and clean just to pay a buck to keep you out. Although the one I used was just a hole. It was really nice cement and everything like that. Like tiled and really nice. But it was just a hole in the gas squat over a hole. I was in a, in a need to squat at the time.
Joe Getty
Oh, I. Sorry. Putting a bit of a fine point on. Yeah, I'm not sure I'm flexible enough at this point in my life. I'd be prone to falling over.
Jack Armstrong
Oh God. So the idea of I've got to watch this ad to get as much toilet paper as I need, that is horrific.
Joe Getty
They claim it's to eliminate, eliminate waste and to finance the, the facilities.
Jack Armstrong
I'd probably go ahead and pay.
Joe Getty
What else are you gonna do? No, don't even, don't even. Why don't we just move on from that while we still have time? Oh, we're out of time.
Jack Armstrong
I've spent money for s year reasons.
Joe Getty
Funny.
Jack Armstrong
It's final thoughts. I'm strong again. It's Final Thoughts.
Joe Getty
It's Final thoughts. I'm strong again. Get ready with Katie Green and Michael Angelo.
Jack Armstrong
Here's your host for Final Thoughts, Joe Getty.
Joe Getty
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap things up for the day. There he is, pressing the buttons, our technical director, Michelangelo. What's your final thought?
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Joe Getty
And my final thought is as far as that story goes, I'd watch 20 minutes of ads if I had to. Yep, you got to do what you got to do. Katie Greener, Steam News Woman has a final thought. Katie I need to turn Frankie my dog into an intro influencer. I'm seeing here Doug the Pug for.
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Jack Armstrong
Doug the Pug is huge. We got calendars and.
Joe Getty
What'S wrong with humanity? Jack, a final thought for us.
Jack Armstrong
I'm going to tease the One More Thing podcast. I got some more great entrance from the anti work Reddit thread that I find both disturbing and hilarious. So hope you can check out the One More Thing podcast.
Joe Getty
So my final thought is we spent a lot of time talking about the Minneapolis Public schools and their woke Marxist required education courses, the DEI anti racism stuff and the organization that was being quoted in the article was called Defending Education. I'm clicking around on their website really like the cut of their jib. I could really see helping them out, contributing in whatever way. Defendinged.org that is fantastic.
Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
I had a schnauzer that could go kite sailing, would there be money in that?
Joe Getty
It's tougher to get good shots of him.
Jack Armstrong
Dachshund on roller skates. I just need. I need something.
Joe Getty
Roller skating wiener dog. That's. That's Fort Knox.
Jack Armstrong
Fallback plan. Labradoodle on a pogo stick. Would that be worth much money? See you tomorrow. God bless America. Armstrong and Getty.
Joe Getty
They're Armstrong and G. Thanks for listening to the show. Ah God. I got attacked by this monkey that was carrying hep C and Covid and herpes.
Jack Armstrong
I speak tongueless luckily. So he said there are 21 monkeys on this truck.
Joe Getty
Well, I'll give them to you for 200.
Jack Armstrong
One of the diseased monkeys probably yanked his tongue out and he was.
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Bye Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
This is Jim.
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Jack Armstrong
Jim started advertising with iHeartRadio way back.
Joe Getty
In April and now I have customers out the door.
Jack Armstrong
And this. This is Sarah.
Joe Getty
Hi.
Jack Armstrong
She started putting a portion of her marketing dollars in podcasting back in June.
Joe Getty
Business is booming. That's why I'm working on a Saturday.
Jack Armstrong
Want to be like Jim and Sarah? It's easy. All you have to do is own or manage a business and reach out to iHeart. Get started today at 844-844-IHeart or iheartadvertising.com.
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Episode: Two Guys Dating Stupid Women
Date: October 29, 2025
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Producer/Contributors: Katie Green, Michael Angelo
This episode blends political commentary, social critique, and trademark Armstrong & Getty banter. The hosts focus heavily on what they see as ideological shifts in American education and culture, the fracturing of civic pride, viral culture “bird theory,” global news headlines, and the generational challenges facing Western civilization. Listeners should expect candid, at times biting, humor alongside skepticism toward contemporary progressive movements and trends.
The episode is marked by brash humor, irreverent takes on social and political trends, and frequent sidetracks into absurdity or personal anecdotes. Armstrong & Getty mix biting satire, palpable frustration, and moments of lighthearted camaraderie.
For listeners new to the show, this episode offers a full palette of Armstrong & Getty’s cultural skepticism—poking at “woke” education, viral relationship tests, and the pitfalls of modernity—while never missing an opportunity for an acerbic joke or a self-deprecating aside.