What's With The Fleshy Cowboy Hat?

Summary

Podcast Summary: Armstrong & Getty On Demand – "What's With The Fleshy Cowboy Hat?"

Release Date: February 10, 2025
Host: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty
Platform: iHeartPodcasts

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1. Introduction to the Political Climate

The episode opens with Jack Armstrong addressing the overwhelming nature of current headlines, emphasizing the increasing targeting of federal agencies and the surge in court cases. He sets a critical tone, suggesting that the nation is amidst a significant constitutional crisis.

Notable Quote:

"I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly since Watergate."
— Joe Getty [00:33]

2. Elon Musk's Influence on Federal Agencies

Jack and Joe delve into Elon Musk's recent endeavors to reform federal bureaucracy. They discuss Musk's efforts to streamline government operations, reduce wasteful spending, and eliminate what they describe as "DEI Neo Marxist garbage." The hosts express cautious optimism, hoping Musk's interventions will enhance efficiency without compromising necessary technological advancements.

Notable Quote:

"I hope they [Musk's team] don't overcut that [technology]. But then they also mentioned... they're looking through the Medicare agency... which is mind bogglingly incompetent."
— Jack Armstrong [05:46]

3. Department of Education and DEI Initiatives

A significant portion of the discussion centers on the Department of Education (DOE) and the pervasive influence of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) within federal grants and programs. The hosts critique the DOE's effectiveness, citing reduced test scores and misallocation of funds. They argue that DEI requirements have politicized grant distribution, shifting focus from merit-based funding to fulfilling ideological agendas.

Notable Quotes:

"All federal grants for science... if it's DEI governed, I have all the control of who gets that money."
— Jack Armstrong [09:02]

"It's entirely getting stuff that sounds good to the people who are in charge of the purse strings at the time."
— Unnamed Contributor [09:33]

4. Current Events: Hostage Releases in Gaza and Hamas Negotiations

The hosts transition to international affairs, specifically the recent release of American hostages by Hamas. They express frustration and disbelief at the conditions under which these hostages were released, highlighting ongoing tensions between Israel and Hamas. The discussion underscores the complexities of ceasefire agreements and the humanitarian implications for the hostages involved.

Notable Quotes:

"Families of the three hostages released now describing how the men endured horrific conditions."
— Unnamed Contributor [17:12]

"Elon Musk is the monster they have long described to their children around campfires at night."
— Jack Armstrong [04:45]

5. Super Bowl Ads Analysis: The Fleshy Cowboy Hat and Other Controversial Marketing

A significant segment is dedicated to dissecting the Super Bowl's advertising lineup. The centerpiece of their critique is an unsettling ad featuring a character with a "fleshy cowboy hat," which they find particularly disturbing. The hosts also review other ads, such as Coors Light's sloth-themed commercial and various AI-related advertisements, questioning their creativity and effectiveness.

Notable Quotes:

"The poor guy whose head was shaped like a cowboy hat with all that floppy weird skin. What the freak was that?"
— Unnamed Contributor [28:36]

"The fleshy cowboy hat was a to be ad. See what's to be?"
— Unnamed Contributor [30:32]

6. Sports Commentary: Chiefs vs. Eagles Game Review

Shifting from politics to sports, Jack and Joe provide their take on the recent football game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles. They lament the game's lack of excitement and poor performance by key players, expressing disappointment in the overall execution and outcome.

Notable Quotes:

"It was just no fun. I mean, there was no enjoyment after, like, the first minute of the game, practically."
— Unnamed Contributor [33:07]

"It was rough on the and right before half they had to play right before half."
— Unnamed Contributor [16:19]

7. Closing Remarks and Light-Hearted Banter

Towards the end, the hosts engage in humorous exchanges about everyday inconveniences, such as needing an enema after indulging in cheese dip. They also briefly touch upon the mixed reactions to celebrities' political endorsements, using Taylor Swift's backlash as an example.

Notable Quotes:

"Michael, grab the kit."
— Jack Armstrong [23:42]

"Nobody needs to feel sorry for Taylor Swift. She's a billionaire and everything else."
— Unnamed Contributor [15:27]

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Conclusion

In this episode of "Armstrong & Getty On Demand," Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty navigate a landscape of political turmoil, critiques of federal agencies, international hostage crises, and the cultural phenomenon of Super Bowl advertising. Their candid and often critical perspectives offer listeners a deep dive into contemporary issues, all the while interspersed with light-hearted commentary and humor.

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Transcript

[Jack Armstrong]

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Gettys. The relentless headlines can seem overwhelming. More federal agencies targeted, more court cases filed. More. More chaos and confusion.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, listen. I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly since Watergate. The President is attempting to seize control of power and for corrupt purposes. The President wants to be able to decide how and where money is spent so that he can reward his political friends, he can punish his political enemies. That is the evisceration of democracy.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Yes, I want you to shut up that senator, Senator Chris Murphy, right before that was Martha Rad. It's opening ABC this week. Re. Relentless headlines are overwhelming. Chaos and confusion. Yeah, you're gonna have some chaos and confusion as you try to unwind a whole bunch of spending money on crap nobody wants to spend money on. You want everything to just continue the way it is, where Everybody goes to D.C. and the media and the government gets incredibly wealthy and we taxpayers just keep funding it.

[Jack Armstrong]

God suckers.

[Unnamed Contributor]

For instance, this. This is Representative Mike Walls on Meet the Press yesterday explaining one of the many things we on.

I could tell you I've worked out in the Middle east, we saw a radio station with a big. Built by America, usaid. We go inside and there is literally a black turbaned MOA backed by Iran preaching anti American hate. And yet the USAID officer in charge told me as a Green Beret, well, we're just building radio stations. We're just handing out food. That's our job, to just be humanitarian. No, we need to realign their mission and line it up with the President's foreign policy vision.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, I don't mind Chris Murphy trying to hold on to whatever hardcore constituency the left still has. I don't mind Martha Raddatz trying to hold on to whatever rapidly dwindling audience they have by telling them what they want to hear. But, man, there's nobody buying what you're selling outside of that very small core group. The idea that in the recent CBS News poll, speaking to cbs, recent CBS News poll numbers, I should say, have made it clear that in the vast majority of questions, what Trump and Musk and Doge are doing are very, very popular. And to the extent that they're not as popular, it's fine. We'll work through the process and make sure the right thing happens. They're just, they're pitching. The sky is falling for the 413th time and people stopped listening, like, 74 times ago.

[Unnamed Contributor]

My favorite tweet over the weekend from Trump, back to plastic Paper straws don't work.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes. Yeah. That is so funny.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Got done with a round of golf the other day, and we were sitting around sipping delightful drinks and refreshments, and I said, look at that plastic straw Winning Return to sanity.

[Unnamed Contributor]

What a huge, easy political win. Something like back to plastic straws. Paper straws don't work.

[Jack Armstrong]

I know.

[Unnamed Contributor]

That's probably a 7030 issue.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Yeah. So I got done with my drink, I took my plastic straw out, and I hunted for a long time. Took me forever to find one. But I found a sea turtle.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Oh, yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I shoved it right up its nose.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I stabbed it to death with my straw. Yeah.

[Unnamed Contributor]

And you know why? Because we hate sea turtles.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. Well, just anything natural, I just want it to die.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Their mere existence makes me angry.

[Jack Armstrong]

As a conservative. Yes. I hate all living things, obviously. So I love this. Jonathan Shirley wrote this. It appears that Elon Musk has incited the good Townsfolk of Washington, D.C. across the Internet, politicians and pundits are in a monstrous mood. The same people who spent last year declaring the imminent death of democracy if Donald Trump were elected are now insisting that the real threat is the monster he has unleashed upon the federal bureaucracy. For Washington Washingtonians, Musk is the boogeyman they have long described to their children around campfires at night. An outsider who comes to town and lays waste to government waste, firing thousands of slashing budgets. Part Frankenstein, part Bigfoot, that creature never had a name, but would be beholden to no one and uninterested in the status quo. That monster now has a name, and it is Elon Musk.

[Unnamed Contributor]

As I've been saying, it's the only name that surpassed Trump in the recent years that I hear more often now. If you flip on NPR or CBS or whatever, you're going to hear Elon's name automatically because he is the monster.

[Jack Armstrong]

And Turley refers to Chuck Schumer. Oh, my golly. You want to talk about an act that is worn out? I mean, this Chuck Schumer makes REO Speedwagon at your local county fair look like today's hitmakers. Okay, Chuck Schumer needs to go away. But anyway, Turley describes how he's bellowing dramatically to a crowd this week at some outdoor rally that Musk's government efficiency efforts are taking away everything that we have. Oi. So, anyway, what are the Doge guys actually up to? Uh, you heard the usa, the aid stuff. And And a couple other things they're now digging into how to take apart, dismantle and end the Department of Education. And if there are any core duties, who could do those more efficient, which I think is beautiful.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Bill Maher said on his HBO show Friday night the Department of Education should go away. Started in 1977. Test scores have only gone down. And Bill Maher, the liberal, said, it seems to me all they do is collect money. I don't understand how they're benefiting us in any way.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, actually we've got some of those clips. Maybe we'll play them in a little bit. So and so the what is this? The Wall Street Journal goes through some of the things they've done already and says this is a mere fraction of the $2 trillion in spending cuts. Elon said as a goal, of course, but shows how the entity has begun going program by program across multiple federal agencies, paring back what it considers low hanging fruit. But soon they're going to take on the General Services, General Services Administration, which manages government buildings and commercial real estate. Zillions of dollars worth. And they found all sorts of cuts to make there. They've cut out a billion dollars worth of Dei Neo Marxist garbage. They've terminated about $30 million for contracts for digital modernization projects and at least 4 million in leases for little used office space now. And, and I actually, I trust Elon Musk to be smart about this. I hope it's not misplaced. There are areas of the federal government that are technologically living in 1981 and really do need to be updated. So I hope they don't overcut that. But then they also mentioned in a subsequent article that doge, at least some of the DOGE guys are now looking through the Medicare agency, the payment systems for fraud and if you're familiar with Medicare at all and you know I could have brought reams of this stuff to you over the last couple of years, but it's, it's really, really dry. But the amount of fraudulent billing done by insurance companies and hospital companies and medical organizations and stuff to medic is mind boggling. If it wasn't our money, it would be hilarious that any agency would be that apathetic about rooting out crime and rip offs. But number one, it's you and me footing the bill and number two, you know, half of its deficit spending. So our kids are going to be footing that bill. But yeah, they are horrifically, almost mind bogglingly incompetent at rooting out fraud and waste and just out and out thievery. So now they're turning their attention there. They're going after, you know, bigger fish. Good them.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Elon is tweeting today about the amount of DEI that got into education as this. As we mentioned, he's turning his eye toward the Department of Education this week. How they're. People really don't comprehend the implications of all of this. All the DEI being injected into schooling, all of the federal contracting and grant funding has been infected with DEI in both blatant and insidious ways. From the programs themselves to the terms of awards, to the scoring of proposals top to bottom, it's everywhere, with hundreds of billions of dollars impacted. And as Elon said, those are just the explicit DEI grants found. Vastly worse is that every education and research grant in the last four years has required DEI in one form or another.

[Jack Armstrong]

Correct? Yep. All federal grants for science. Can I translate that for you? If I'm in charge of, say, $100 billion in grants and it's meritocratic, I have no control of who gets that money. If it's DEI governed, I have all the control of who gets that money. I will identify who gets the federal largesse, and then perhaps, I know this is crazy, perhaps they will make my life a lot better, whether now or down the road. God.

[Unnamed Contributor]

I had a friend, I talked about this a little years ago. I had a friend who was working for a big organization in getting their grants. That was his job. He was a guy who did the dollars and cents and applied, and he didn't know it until he got the job. But he, he explained all the different parts of me how it's all politics. I mean, it's entirely getting stuff that sounds good to the people who are in charge of the purse strings at the time. And it's whether you accomplish anything or not, it's just, you know, you'd sign, you'd get to it, we got another $2 million for our blah, blah, blah project. Everybody'd be like, yes, we get to keep the doors open for another three months and everybody gets their salaries ready. They don't have. You don't have to actually accomplish anything. It's just a never ending how do you get your next grant? And in the world of dei, you just got to play toward that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Then you combine that with what we were talking about last week, where in many cases the USAID money, only 10% got to where the rubber met the road. The rest was spent by the bureaucrats on salaries and perks and travel and lining pockets in whatever foreign land the money was going. It's an enormous scam and there are some good things accomplished by it and some noble goals. But if you can't accomplish your stated goals to within a certain standard of efficiency, you aren't the people to accomplish that goal. We will find somebody better. And if you have a situation where hundreds of millions of dollars are being filtered through a system that not only it's. It reminds me of Gavin Newsom spending on the so called homeless in California, not only does nobody know what standard of efficiency you're living up to, nobody even bothers to ask. There's no system to measure it. I. How nightmarishly ridiculous is that? Fellow taxpayers, makes you want to slap yourself in the forehead. And then as somebody's trying to straighten it out, Chuck Schumer says, that's taking away everything that is dear to us. Oh, yeah.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Elon tweets out a lot of interesting stuff if you don't follow his account.

[Jack Armstrong]

But this was not as interesting as Kanye, but pretty interesting.

[Unnamed Contributor]

So this is a tweet of a response to an article in the Daily Beast. If you'll follow me. Congresswoman Nancy Mace, Republican, South Carolina, claimed she uncovered in scare quotes a $10 million federal program for, quote, making animals trans. And the person that commented on this story said, these people are just so full of s. Elon attached an article from NBC that said taxpayers have footed a bill for roughly $10 million in transgender animal experiments in recent years, according to a selection of grants compiled by this waste project by the Washington Examiner. So, yes, they were experimenting with trans animals. Something.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. Well, I'm rely. I'm reminded rather of what the great James Lindsay taught us. Marxists just lie. They lie so overtly and blatantly that people begin to question their own perception.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Well, the point was, Elon's point was this, which I think is really interesting. One reason conservatives have had such a difficult uphill battle all along is it's hard for people to believe how insane a lot of this stuff is. Because when you hear it, you. And if somebody says that's not true, it's Nancy Mace just being nuts, you can understand why you think. I'm sure she's exaggerating. We weren't spending millions of dollars on trans studies for animals injecting with hormones to see how it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Blah, blah, blah, it's too nuts. Yeah, well, and if somebody told me a few years ago even, yeah, usa, they, they don't even have systems to measure effectiveness. Nobody even asks that question. I think. No, come on. Surely they do, at least on some level.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Nope, there's lots of examples of that. We got a little more. Some interesting stuff about the super bowl you may or may not have noticed, and other things on the way. Stay here.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Unnamed Contributor]

So listen closely. Is this cheers or booze here? That's when they showed Trump up on the screen for the first time during the national anthem. Sure. Seemed like more cheers and booze to me.

[Jack Armstrong]

When I saw it live, it was unambiguously, 100% way more cheers. Having listened to it again, I have the same opinion. Not even close.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Yeah, it's not the way it was for Chiefs or Eagles when they came out. That was clearly booze for the Chiefs and clearly cheers for the Eagles.

[Jack Armstrong]

That wasn't even close.

[Unnamed Contributor]

So I missed. I've read about it several times. Somehow I didn't catch it. Taylor Swift got booed the first time she was on the screen. Was she actually booed? That's been quite the controversy, yes. Katie.

Oh, she. She was booed. And she did the jaw open, can't believe this is happening face.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'll bet.

[Unnamed Contributor]

For a number of reasons. First of all, I'm sure she's never been booed really in her life. And, and also, why are you booing me? I mean, what, why, why, what don't.

[Jack Armstrong]

You like about me? What are they associated with the Chiefs? Jack, come on.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Oh, and she, she endorsed Kamala, so.

Right. So that's why. So that's why Trump tweeted out last night he had to troll her about Taylor being booed and how she made a bad decision in supporting Kamala and other things.

[Jack Armstrong]

In Taylor Swift's defense, she makes that same face whether she is cheered or booed or winning a Grammy or drops a little toothpaste in the sink and realizes she'll have to clean it up. Oh, with the mouth wide open. Everything. It's just. No, it's her go to.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Nobody needs to feel sorry for Taylor Swift. She' a billionaire and everything else, but.

[Jack Armstrong]

She'S got Raf resting, amazed face.

[Unnamed Contributor]

But she had to at some point yesterday think, I'm a pop star and I just got booed. What?

[Jack Armstrong]

What? But football game.

[Unnamed Contributor]

But you did wade into politics. And a lot of these celebrities for some reason don't seem to think that it's not never ending adulation for your support of the liberals. A lot of us don't dig that. When you come out on the stage and start talking about your pro choice this or anti war that or whatever, a lot of us really freakin hate it. And we go to your concert anyway or your movie just because we want to see the concert of the movie. But we're not all digging it. All your friends are talking about how brave you are for coming out and supporting this or that. Well, we don't all like it. So you got booed.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, yeah, we'll go to your shows. Unless you just are so obnoxious about it for so long we can't stand it anymore.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Bruce There are endless stats that point out what a drubbing it was of the Kansas City Chiefs by the Eagles last night. And I think it's all about the offensive line. I mean they just, Patrick Mullins didn't have a chance, but it was what is a game, 60 minutes long. It was at the 42 minute mark. The Chiefs crossed midfield for the first time in the game, the 42 minute mark. They got past the 50 yard line.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's an early season mismatched game. It had that feel.

[Unnamed Contributor]

It's not a game you want to watch.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, no.

[Unnamed Contributor]

It's rough on the and right before half they had to play right before half. But like with a minute before half they had 14 total offensive yards. The Chiefs and a half.

[Jack Armstrong]

That is Brutus, Armstrong and Getty, those.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Families of the three hostages released now describing how the men endured horrific conditions. Ohad Ben Ami, Elisha Rabi and Or Levy looking frail and gaunt as they were handed over from Hamas to the Red Cross in Gaza now. Or Levi's brother, he said they were subjected to physical and psychological abuse, adding that he doesn't think the remaining hostages will actually survive the conditions any longer. Now there are still six Americans held captive by Hamas in Gaza.

There's so much going on domestically and it's getting so much coverage because the mainstream media is so in love with government. Any attempt to cut it is the only thing that matters in the world.

[Jack Armstrong]

But this and Trump is their catnip.

[Unnamed Contributor]

But this whole ceasefire thing with Hamas is crazy. I understand Israel wants to get the hostages back and it is their religious law and their history to go above and beyond. I mean, they'll give hundreds of horrible criminals who have murdered Jews back to get one Israeli citizen. They, they've, that's their history. So they're putting up with this. But the idea that there's any sort of agreement on both sides to like tone down hostilities or anything like that is obviously ridiculous. These people are coming out tortured and, and thin and with all kinds of health problems and they'll never be the same heart problems for the way They've been treated, as you just heard there. A lot of the hostages are left. They, the hostages that are coming out are saying they're not going to survive. And then if you haven't watched any of these turning over ceremonies, Hamas mentally tortures them as they hand them over.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Humiliates them at the very, very least. Yeah.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Making the hostages on Saturday, they released obviously at gunpoint. If not, you know, if not. Well, literally even without the gunpoint, Adam, you're literally at gunpoint until you're in the hands of the Israelis. They could, they could do anything to you. Making them thank their captors. What sort of S is that?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. It's just bizarre because nobody buys it. It's not changed any minds in Israel. The whole thing's obscene.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Well, that's, that's what I'm getting. Getting at, I guess. I mean, I'm going to give you back to the Israelis because we're getting back a whole bunch of hundreds of prisoners, including 18 on Saturday that had life sentences because they were that bad Palestinians that the Israelis let go. You're going to give back these hostages who you've tortured. Yeah. Before I turn you over, I want you to look me in the eye and thank me. That's some depraved crap right there.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, right.

[Unnamed Contributor]

And we have this.

[Jack Armstrong]

Speaking to depraved. I'm sorry. The almost immediate call for quote, unquote, ceasefire on October 9th. You know, it's just not only idiotic, but just morally bankrupt. Ugh.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Well, let me do this before I get to the breaking news. Obviously it's not so breaking that I got to get to it right away, but I'll just read the dispatch report on this. Israel on Saturday welcomed home three male hostages from terrorist captivity after 491 days. That's a year and a half, ladies and gentlemen. Health officials said the men, who all were underweight upon the release. Release now suffer from health conditions including malnutrition and heart disorders. Also on Saturday, Israel freed 183 Palestinian prisoners, 18 of whom had been serving life sentences because what they did was so horrible. Part of the first phase of a three part ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas and goes through the number of hostages and prisoners and blah, blah, blah, blah. On Sunday, Israeli troops withdrew from another one of the corridors as part of their agreement to get out of Gaza and leave them alone. Meanwhile, the Trump administration notified Congress on Friday that it had approved the sale of more than $7 billion in weapons to Israel, including 3,000 Hellfire missiles and other Munitions. So I think it's what you said earlier. Trump's completely on board with Bibi on this whole do what you do got to do to get as many living hostages back or the bodies of the dead ones. I'm giving you all this stuff. As soon as it's over, you freaking lay waste to those people.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Which I think is what happened.

[Jack Armstrong]

Accepted a setback of few weeks, few months, who knows, to get as many people back. But then it'll be on with a vengeance. As it should be.

[Unnamed Contributor]

But the breaking news is Hamas says it's postponing the next hostage release, alleging Israel has broken terms of the agreement.

[Jack Armstrong]

Of course.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Somehow, in a lot of quarters, Netanyahu will be blamed for this. Yeah, they're animals, these Hamas people. They should be eliminated from a living. From planet Earth, every single last one of them.

[Jack Armstrong]

And they've stated openly, if a million Palestinians have to die, to boot the Jews out, that that's fine with us. You're going to have a ceasefire. But somebody who says that and then do what? Kamala? Joe. College kids. Well, they're settler colonialists. Okay. God, please go to class and be quiet.

[Unnamed Contributor]

That's rough, man.

[Jack Armstrong]

That.

[Unnamed Contributor]

That. That whole screaming at them, pointing guns at them as they move the hostages from the hands of Hamas to Israel. I mean, that's just.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Unnamed Contributor]

They're not even making the slightest effort.

[Jack Armstrong]

No. Well, and I think it's worth noting that. How many American hostages did you say there still are? And how little attention has been paid to that in the US what's become of us as a country? Our countrymen are being held by monsters of the mainstream media. And the college kids tell us they're on the wrong side because they're Jews, and you can't recognize that for what it is.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Yeah, that's a very good point. Anyway, just wanted to get that on because of the breaking news that Hamas has said they're pausing the next phase.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, speaking of negativity, on a much lighter note, if I might. You know, Michael, we need transition music. Do you have anything handy? Little.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Tell you what, I need an enema.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Or something. I ate so much.

[Jack Armstrong]

Michael, grab the kit.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Which you can get [e-mail] with our logo on it.

[Jack Armstrong]

An A G enema kit. Wow.

[Unnamed Contributor]

I hate. Had no idea so much of Michael's cheese dip yesterday. I mean, like, a lot.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. Wow. So, speaking of negativity and I guess I've lost my touch. I can't believe we didn't go there. We. We counted down the top 10 Super Bowl LA last night. And of course, number one, the little Clydesdale rolling the keg across the countryside. Because little horses, their top priorities. Timely beer. Deliver it. Look at that cute little horse go. I mean, oh, America. I know it's a cute little horse, all right, but that doesn't make it the best ad.

[Unnamed Contributor]

No, come on. Have more.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, my God.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Discretion or something than that.

[Jack Armstrong]

So, Xi Jinping, you want to invade the US Have a cute little horse. Lead the way, America. Oh, its way to being conquered. The hell? They could have that little horse commit a murder, and it would be the number one super bowl lad.

[Unnamed Contributor]

We did switch over to the Puppy bowl for a while when the game was so boring.

[Jack Armstrong]

How was the Puppy Bowl? Close shooter.

[Unnamed Contributor]

The neck. So dang cute. Oh, my God.

[Jack Armstrong]

Now the flop ears. Now lead the ears up in the air team by four points.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Oh, there are endless dog puns around. Football and everything like that are so good.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. So we didn't touch on the. The least popular ads. The Super Bowl.

[Unnamed Contributor]

That's usually like a PSA for prostate cancer or something like that.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, that actually finished very nicely. Interestingly enough, we commented on it early. Earlier. Fifth from the bottom was open AI's black dots swirling around, making pictures that turned out to be AI.

[Unnamed Contributor]

So we mentioned last week that there were going to be a lot of AI commercials. And I was really looking forward to it because I'm really into the whole AI thing and what it's going to do to society and all that. I didn't understand any of the ads. I didn't know what they were telling me or asking me to do or projecting. I couldn't tell what they were.

[Jack Armstrong]

Maybe they're just statements that we have $8 million to squander. Look how big we are.

[Unnamed Contributor]

I mean, one of them. I don't know if you saw the one with the. The. The. The kid saying, someday AI will take over all this. And there's a flashback when dad said the same thing about the computer and people were still writing checks and stuff like that. And I thought, okay, Cyr, this is an ad just to say AI is a thing and it'll be big. Okay, so what do you want me to do at this point? You want me to.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know, Just remember it. Tuck it away.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Okay, I will.

[Jack Armstrong]

Fourth from the bottom, some white guy in a blue T shirt yelling about, you got circle, whatever that is. Nobody cares. Moving along.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Yeah, that's funny. I didn't. I was trying to grasp what the product was. Didn't get it now my son says it's some sort of flavored water or something okay.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh oh that's right yeah everybody or a filtered something or other big dumb cup. I don't know. Don't care. I've got. I got running water at my house as it turns out it's a great convenience. Third from the bottom the incredibly off putting Coffee Mate Foam Diva the guy who sprays Coffee Mate foam into his mouth that his tongue dances around and.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Gets disembodied I just remembered because it popped into my head the most off putting I don't know if you're about to mention it or not though I.

[Jack Armstrong]

Don'T think so cuz the the the last two and I'll let me hit them real quick fetch the big reward it was some dumb Contest and then 2B with a 15 second AD the Z suite that was like Tik Tock videos of Gen Z declaring that they got the job but 15 seconds long.

[Unnamed Contributor]

I also what was that an ad.

[Jack Armstrong]

4 what's 2 what is that to be? It's a like webs it's like it's.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Like Hulu I guess I'm an old man I don't even understand what the.

[Jack Armstrong]

Ad It's a streaming service that seems.

[Unnamed Contributor]

To be for cars and beer whatever.

[Jack Armstrong]

The melody Internet Was there a car ad yesterday?

[Unnamed Contributor]

Was there a single card?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah Kevin Costner or I'm sorry Harrison Ford in a G bad I missed that one Rye reference to his surname.

[Unnamed Contributor]

I missed that but it used to be endless car ads I mean that would be the new Chevy this, the new Ford that the new Mercedes this. Yeah wonder why all the car companies have decided to that that's not money well spent. I don't know comes and goes the most disturbing ads to me were and I I don't even remember what the ads were for the poor guy whose head was shaped like a cowboy hat with all that floppy weird skin. What the freak was that?

[Jack Armstrong]

And he finally fit in when he went to a cowboy town or something.

[Unnamed Contributor]

You'Re dude your ears are shaped all that skin shaped like a cowboy hat Nice deformity nice birth defect something or.

[Jack Armstrong]

Other off putting it weird I'm trying to find it in the ad meter.

[Unnamed Contributor]

The first ad time because they had multiple versions of the ad and the first one I thought saw I didn't get the ad but I thought he was wearing a cowboy hat it was the second one where the song mentions his weirdly shaped skin hat and I thought I wanted to run away in Horror you.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, one that was super popular at the gathering I was at. That was number 18 in the ad meter rankings was the Coors Light. Slow Monday with the sloths. Yeah, I like, man, there were LOLs all over the place for that one.

[Unnamed Contributor]

I thought that I was damn funny.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, we liked Pac America. Like the little horse better, Jack. The cute little horse. Did I mention to you he saw the keg fall off the truck? It rolls the keg all the way across land. Because people love little horses and kegs.

[Unnamed Contributor]

The fact that that's the number one commercial people like that the most makes me want to check out of the entertainment business.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, well, luckily, mass appeal is not really the idea of our sort of media God trying to find an ad that was weird and off putting.

[Unnamed Contributor]

How little could the horse have done for it to be your favorite ad? Could it have just stood there?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, and. And the horse. Look, it was a wagon with like 50 kegs. If they run short of one, they'll just come back to the barn and get another one and deliver it to Joe's bar and then the drunks can continue drinking.

[Unnamed Contributor]

That's right.

[Jack Armstrong]

I wouldn't. I wouldn't go to all that trouble. Little horse.

[Unnamed Contributor]

So the degenerates in the CD bar get their next keg.

You know your fleshy. The fleshy cowboy hat was a to be ad.

See what's to be?

Yeah, it's a streaming service.

It's like YouTube.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, one of the million. Well, in that Netflix is a streaming service. Yes. It's like Hulu or all those other ones. Paramount Plus.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Do I need it? It's the only one I don't have. But what's with the fleshy cowboy?

Oh, that's what they called it. A cowboy fleshy hat.

Yes. It was the song where they said the cowboy in his fleshy hat. And I thought, oh, that's his skin. I didn't real. I thought it was just a cowboy hat the same color as his head.

[Jack Armstrong]

That was hard to look at. Frankenstein.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Ad that was hard to look at.

[Jack Armstrong]

Jackasses.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Cowboy in his fleshy hat. The word fleshy. Ew. It's like a giant earlobe. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Did you find where that one ranked, Katie?

[Unnamed Contributor]

Oh, no, I don't see it in the ranking. I was just trying to figure out where that. Oh, hard escape came from.

Any comments on anything? Yes, Michael.

[Jack Armstrong]

I like the little horse. If he had danced, oh, I would have lost it.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Anything you liked from the whole thing yesterday? Whether it was trump, the ads to play, Anything, text line. 415295, KFTC.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Unnamed Contributor]

You call this a party?

[Jack Armstrong]

Cul de sac. Party. Launch. Launch.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Here's our metaphor for an invitation.

[Jack Armstrong]

Is that our leaf blower party at Sack Back. You are cordially invited to the end of the C section.

[Joe Getty]

This is incredible.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Your mower smokes meat. Oh, a smoker cuts grass.

[Joe Getty]

Hell, yeah.

[Unnamed Contributor]

I spend most of my money on this. The part I wanted to get totally cut. You more smokes meat. No, my smoker cuts grass. Shane Gillis is a funny guy. Bud Light commercial, of course, promoting boozing. All the other ants promote gluttony. At least they weren't promoting near as much sex. Oh, how about the boob ad that ended up being for breast cancer? My son actually said, should I be watching this?

[Jack Armstrong]

You'll be fine, son. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was fine.

[Unnamed Contributor]

The Dispatch mentioned one of the weirder ads I'd forgotten about with Seal, the singer as an actual Seal singing Kiss from a Rose with hilarious lyrics.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Washington Post gave that their most disturbing visual award. I would pick the deformed cowboy hat.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Guy, but no, the skin cowboy hat is the most disturbing visual.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, without a doubt. Yeah.

[Unnamed Contributor]

What did you come across on that?

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, somebody wrote. Whose idea was this? Explain yourself.

[Unnamed Contributor]

I agree. What do you mean, his hat's gonna be skin? Yeah, it'll be great. No, you're disturbing me and I haven't even seen it yet. I. I was so disappointed in the game. I was really expecting a really close game and, like, really enjoying it. I like close football games. It's really fun to watch. And I don't mind as much that the Eagles won. I just. It was just no fun. I mean, there was no enjoyment after, like, the first minute of the game, practically.

[Jack Armstrong]

So, yeah, I was at a gathering and it was standing around and hobnobbing with people and chatting and stuff like that, which I'm not a huge fan of. Anyway, it's lovely, folks, and all was great. But, yeah, as a football fan, I go to watch the championship football game.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Well, you're lucky to be at a social gathering in this case, because Henry and I were there thinking, you know, we're two football fans are going to sit here and watch this as, like, a game. And that was not enjoyable at all.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, no, it was one of those, I wonder how bad it can get. That was the only level of interest as a football game.

[Unnamed Contributor]

How did they score 22 points. I missed. I didn't watch the second half. I checked in now and then.

[Jack Armstrong]

Your standard they really opened up the offense and the Eagles were. Were giving ground slowly. So the Chiefs couldn't score quickly, but. But you knew they were going to score and just mop up time. Typical.

[Unnamed Contributor]

It wasn't as close as the score indicates, as they say in the football business.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. So that takes care of that. Now we're into the no exciting sports ghetto. Unless you're a big hockey fan or something For a while.

[Unnamed Contributor]

Yeah. So we do four hours of this every single day. If you miss an hour or a chunk, like we went through the top ads, for instance, as rated by Ad Meter. If you want to hear that, find our podcast. Armstrong and Yeti on demand.

[Jack Armstrong]

New Jersey cancels another windmill project. Why? Because they're stupid. An hour four, if you get it. Armstrong and Gettysburg.