Ya Pandering Bastards!

Summary

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Episode: "Ya Pandering Bastards!"

Release Date: December 11, 2025
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty

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Episode Overview

This episode blends the Armstrong & Getty duo's trademark mix of political commentary, cultural satire, and real-life anecdotes. The hosts take on topics ranging from Christmas song “updates” and health care subsidies, to China’s AI ambitions, shifting political alliances, and modern news coverage. There’s also a generous helping of sports tangents, holiday stories, and jabs at mainstream media.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Modernizing Christmas Traditions & Generational Humor

[03:03 – 04:11]

• The show opens with playful frustration at the trend of “updating” classic Christmas songs to fit modern slang.
  • Example parodies:
    • “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas” becomes “It’s lowkey giving Christmas right now.”
    • “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” morphs into “Mommy and Santa are in a situationship.”
    • The “12 Days of Christmas” shrinks to “the 6, 7 days of Christmas.”
• Quote:
  • Jack: “Oh, the whole thing sickens me.” [03:46]
  • Joe: “I got groans and laughs.” [03:48]
• Joe recounts how he riffed on “6-7” jokes while working at a Christmas tree lot, mixing corny jokes with observations about generational gaps in humor.

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2. Obamacare Subsidies & The Politics of Health Care

[04:11 – 09:34]

• The “most annoying” political story currently: debates over extending or ending the extra Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies granted during COVID.
  • The Democratic plan: Extend enhanced subsidies for three years.
  • The Republican plan: End extra subsidies, redirect savings to HSAs for those on low-cost plans.
• Hosts’ take:
  • The scale of change is often overstated—most Americans get employer healthcare, actual affected numbers are smaller than portrayed.
  • Media and politicians frame the rollback as cruel, when in fact it returns subsidies to pre-pandemic levels.
• Quote:
  • Jack (on messaging): “They are the New York Jets of messaging... you can communicate that. And if you can’t, we gotta give up on self-governance and get a king.” [08:03]
  • Joe: “Everything that flows to taxpayers is permanent, always.” [09:13]
  • Jack: “You can quite literally give people a benefit of some sort for a week... if you remove the benefit at the end, people will weep and tear their garments as if you’re stealing their children.” [09:13]
• References to Lindsey Graham and Ron Johnson explaining the issue.

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3. Wholesome Anecdotes and Human Nature at the Christmas Tree Lot

[09:34 – 15:14]

• Joe shares heartwarming and humorous stories from working with his son at the Boy Scout Christmas tree lot.
  • Interactions with quirky customers: an elderly pair bickering (“Would you just listen to me for a second?” [11:16]), and a 93-year-old man who sold Christmas trees in the 1940s, still sharp and active.
• Quote:
  • Joe: “It was just, it was like out of a movie, it was so fantastic.” [10:04]
  • Jack (on the elderly customer): “He was... physically and mentally like a 70 year old... the blessing of good genetics, I guess.” [14:59]

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4. China’s AI Power Play & Infrastructure Autocracy

[18:58 – 33:56]

• Discussion shifts to geopolitical tech competition.
• China’s massive investment in power grids is seen as a strategic move to lead in AI infrastructure, even as they lag in AI research itself.
  • “Between 2010 and 2024, China’s power production increased more than the rest of the world combined.” [28:54]
  • Surplus energy capacity is expected to vastly exceed data center needs.
  • Comparison of Western democracies and Chinese autocracy:
    • Jack: "So much intellectual freedom needed for developing new technologies... but in terms of building infrastructure... autocracies are really impressive." [30:47]
    • Joe: “I wonder who gets credit for this. Is it President Xi or one of his advisors? Pretty clever plan...” [31:18]
  • Jabs at environmentalism: “Bet there aren’t a lot of, I’m being sarcastic, environmental studies that go into [Chinese projects].” [31:35]

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5. Canada’s Energy U-Turn & Climate Change Fatigue

[34:08 – 36:18]

• Canada pivots back toward traditional energy projects, as public support for climate change policy plummets.
  • Example: Only 4% of Canadians now see climate change as their top concern (down from 29% six years ago) [35:56].
  • The “cult” of climate change has waned; economic and energy needs are driving new pipelines.
• Quote:
  • Jack: “This is a country that has changed its mind... stomping on the gas—pun intended.” [35:02]

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6. Fractures in the ‘Red-Green Alliance’ (Leftists & Islamists)

[36:18 – 40:12]

• UK politics: New leftist-Islamist alliance faces internal culture war—over leadership, values, and even music (John Lennon’s “Imagine” lyrics cause offense among Muslim delegates for “no religion” line).
• Joe: “The leftists and Islamists agree that the Jews are the root of all evil... but they don’t agree on almost anything else. Will they be able to make their unlikely love work...?” [38:52]
• Satirical riff on revolutionary alliances gone wrong (e.g., Iran).

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7. Sports Follies: Drunk Football & Scandals

[20:07 – 23:18]

• Football coach at Michigan allegedly fired and arrested for workplace relationship and assault.
• Quentin Jammer (NFL) admits to playing eight 2011 games “hammered drunk” to cope with personal issues [22:11].
• Joe: “I don’t know how you could play football drunk. I just can’t even imagine how you can do that.” [22:29]
• Sports stories are used to springboard into larger points about coping strategies and cultural expectations.

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8. AI & Disney: Copyright, Creativity, and Media Weirdness

[25:56 – 27:26]

• Disney grants permission for their characters to be used in OpenAI’s video platform.
• Speculation about the potential (and comedic dangers) of AI-generated content.
  • Jack jokes: “Could I create a video, a manifestation of the infamous joke about Mickey and Minnie and Goofy...?” [26:30]
  • Joe: “That’s gonna be one of the first things anybody does with the video generator on AI.” [27:04]
• Scepticism about AI as a creative “boon”: “No... you’re working too hard.” [27:26]

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9. News Media Critique: From Viral Videos to True Information

[43:52 – 47:33]

• The duo mocks the state of TV news, which increasingly consists of viral videos and “fluff” stories at the expense of significant events.
• They dream up a daily 10-minute information service giving just “what you need to know”—comparing it to the concise, agenda-free news of the Cronkite era.
• Joe: “Most of us could count on them to try to bring us... here’s everything you actually need to know that happened today.” [45:08]
• Jack: “If you’re a grown-up network, you have to do good solid news. Otherwise it’s shameful. But we have no shame anymore.” [47:01]
• The episode title lands here as Jack riffs: “That’s no reason to show the video again, you pandering bastards.” [47:20]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “If you remove the benefit at the end of the week, people will weep and screech and tear their garments as if you’re stealing their children from them. It’s just unbelievable.” – Jack Armstrong [09:13]
• “I got groans and laughs.” – Joe Getty on his Christmas tree lot jokes [03:48]
• “You can communicate that. And if you can’t, we gotta give up on self governance and get a king.” – Jack Armstrong [08:03]
• “This is a country that has changed its mind... stomping on the gas—pun intended.” – Jack Armstrong [35:02]
• “If you are a grown up network, you have to do good solid news. Otherwise it’s shameful. But we have no shame anymore.” – Jack Armstrong [47:01]
• “That’s no reason to show the video again, you pandering bastards.” – Jack Armstrong [47:20]

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• Christmas Songs & Tree-Lot Stories: 03:03 – 15:14
• Obamacare Subsidies Explained: 04:11 – 09:34
• China’s AI Power Grid: 18:58 – 33:56
• Canada’s Climate Policy Pivot: 34:08 – 36:18
• Leftist-Islamist Alliance in UK Politics: 36:18 – 40:12
• Sports Follies: 20:07 – 23:18
• Disney, AI, and Media Riffs: 25:56 – 27:33
• News as Viral Videos & The “Pandering Bastards” Rant: 43:52 – 47:33

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Tone & Style

The classic Armstrong & Getty voice: fast-paced, sarcastic, skeptical, and conversational, with hearty doses of satire. They blend policy seriousness (especially regarding healthcare and geopolitics) with light-hearted banter, keeping the discussion both engaging and incisive for listeners tuned in for both news and entertainment.

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For listeners who missed the episode:
You’ll get a whirlwind tour of holiday humor, inside-baseball health care, global power struggles, sports oddities, media critique, and the hosts’ cultural flavor—serving up both laughs and sharp observations.

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[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 get.

Guys, the Christmas season is in full.

[Joe Getty]

Swing Everybody's enjoying their favorite Christmas music.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. It's fun.

[Joe Getty]

But I noticed that this year they've updated a lot of classic songs to make them feel a little more modern. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

For instance, instead of It's Beginning to look a lot Like Christmas, there's it's.

[Joe Getty]

Low key giving Christmas right now.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. Here's another. Instead of I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus, there's Mommy and Santa are in a situationship.

And finally, Instead of the 12 days of Christmas, there's the six, seven days of Christmas.

[Joe Getty]

I got a lot of mileage with 6, 7 jokes last night working at the Christmas tree lot. Lots of mileage.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, the whole thing sickens me.

[Joe Getty]

I got a lot of laughs. I got groans and laughs.

Cause you got the trees lined up and you got four to five foot trees, then you got six to seven foot trees. So I stood in the six, seven lot pointing at the sign.

[Jack Armstrong]

Lot.

[Joe Getty]

More on that in just a second. So the biggest.

Congress political story, not like electoral, but like legislation political story going on right now is Congress legislates.

[Jack Armstrong]

I almost forgot.

[Joe Getty]

Not really. They don't really. They go through some motions now and then. But it's the whole Obamacare subsidy story that I'm so tired of hearing anything about. But anyway, here's the latest on that and we'll discuss briefly.

[Jack Armstrong]

As of right now, it does appear that this plan backed by Democrats and the one supported by Republicans, both of.

[Joe Getty]

Those plans appear unlikely to pass right now.

[Jack Armstrong]

The Democrats supported plan would extend ACA.

[Joe Getty]

Subsidies for three more years, but some.

[Jack Armstrong]

Republicans say it does not do enough.

[Joe Getty]

To combat fraud and it costs too much. On the other side of this, the Republican plan eliminates those subsidies and redirects.

[Jack Armstrong]

The savings into health savings accounts, also known as HSAs, for people buying bronze or catastrophic plants.

[Joe Getty]

So I find this story so annoying. I assume that if you follow us in the news, you understand what's going on here. So people who have their health care through Obamacare got a break during COVID.

That the Biden administration thought was a good idea. And then it was supposed to end when Covid was over. So it's supposed to end soon and supposed to go back to the price. It was before that. Right. Democrats, the law Democrats came up with, it's supposed to go back to their numbers, but it's being portrayed as a raise in the cost of your health care to a small portion of America. We're not even talking about that many people. Right. It's just a handful of million people that this, even the whole health care thing Always drives me crazy because the vast majority of us still get a job that provides us health care. Right?

[Jack Armstrong]

Sure. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

And we're always talking about these little portions of people anyway. So the numbers are going to go back to what Obama and Biden wanted them to be right before, before the pandemic. And now any attempt to fix that is seen as like pushing old people downstairs or starving, then sick babies or.

[Jack Armstrong]

Whatever the hell you're intentionally yanking the medicine away from. Sick babies. Yeah. Indeed. Finally, the gop, which is so bad at messaging it's a joke. They are the New York jets of messaging. Lately, part of it might be it's difficult for them to get the word out because the mainstream media won't report what they say. But finally I heard Lindsey Graham say, and I'm going to ask for 46 here, Michael. I finally, last night I heard Lindsey Graham say, those are extra subsidies for Covid. Covid is over. I mean, that simple is great. And then with a little more fleshing out, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin here, the Obamacare subsidies will continue. What we are talking about are the temporary Covid enhanced subsidies that Democrats voted.

[Joe Getty]

For the Democrats scheduled to expire at.

[Jack Armstrong]

The end of this year. We're not talking about anything that's going.

[Joe Getty]

To impact people on employer sponsored health care, Medicare, Medicaid, Virginia.

[Jack Armstrong]

We're talking about the supposedly 24 million people on the exchanges. The vast majority of those will just revert to the original Obamacare subsidies. If you don't like that, blame Obamacare. Blame Democrats. If your premiums are going up, it's not because the enhanced subsidies are going away. It's because the faulty design of Obamacare driving them. Yeah, Hallelujah.

[Joe Getty]

You'd think they could do a better job on the talk shows or whenever they're asked about this of pushing back from Marjorie Taylor Greene got so much attention.

A while back now about how my own kids, their, their health care is about to go up blank percent and they can't afford it. Somebody should have said to her, President Trump should have said to her. Now it's going back to what it was before. Those were the numbers Barack Obama and.

[Jack Armstrong]

Joe Biden came up with.

[Joe Getty]

Are you mad with their numbers? You were happy with them before you.

[Jack Armstrong]

Signed up for it.

[Joe Getty]

Before that was their numbers.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I appreciated Ron Johnson throwing in the fact that Obamacare is a miserable failure. It is a horrific money pit that's done nothing but profit. The giant insurance corporations who were in on writing it and Craig the healthcare guru told us from the beginning would be the result. But they just. Look, I realize this is not as beautifully stupidly simple a message as they're gonna take away your health care, which is tough to beat in our, our politics, our modern politics, but you can communicate that. And if you can't, we gotta give up on self governance and get a king.

[Joe Getty]

Well, it often goes back to one of my favorite books, the High Cost of Good Intentions.

Tracking this going all the way back to the Revolutionary War. Anytime you offer anything to people, it grows and grows and grows and is always permanent. It starts as a temporary this and it ends up a permanent that for many more people. It's just the high cost of good intentions. It's just the way bureaucracies work. It's the way apparently Democratic politics works.

[Jack Armstrong]

And you can quite literally give people a benefit of some sort for a week. And if you remove the benefit at the end of the week, people will weep and screech and tear their garments as if you're stealing their children from them. It's just unbelievable. Everything that flows to taxpayers is permanent always.

[Joe Getty]

So there's a Republican bill and a Democratic bill, as you heard, they're neither one are going to pass today. And so this conversation will be around for a while. I wanted to mention this. I work at the Christmas tree lot with my son last night. He's in Boy Scouts and it's a Boy Scout Christmas tree lot. And so we did our. Got a couple of shifts we're working and we worked a two hour shift and it was absolutely fantastic. Lots of people coming out to support the Boy Scouts. And we're going to the actual name of it is Scouting usa but there's no law that can make me say that. So.

Lots of people coming out supporting the Boy Scouts and that sort of stuff. And it was a very festive family. Nice. I mean it was just, it was like out of a movie, it was so fantastic.

[Jack Armstrong]

But anyway, out of life 20 years ago. It's great. I love that.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, it was really, really great. It's so wholesome. But there was, but, but it was like the first time my son has ever done any sort of. Like he actually said to me, he said, have you ever worked retail? My 13 year. To me, I said, I did briefly. I worked at a giant.

Hardware store, kind of like a Home Depot sort of place in Kansas City for like six months. It's the only retail I've ever worked in my life. Although this job is a bit like that. Although we don't have to do it face to face very much but so I'm running around helping. Can I help you with that? Well, let me know if you make a decision. We're right over here if you need someone to help carrying it. Blah, blah, blah. You want a fresh cut on that?

[Jack Armstrong]

Blah, blah, blah.

[Joe Getty]

Doing the whole thing. Working my magic.

[Jack Armstrong]

Very nice.

[Joe Getty]

My son got to see an interaction between. And I wasn't exactly sure it was a very old guy and a not quite as old woman, but also old. And I wasn't quite sure if the relationship with husband, wife, like 75 and 55, or father, daughter.

When I retold the story to someone else after they left, he said had to be father, daughter. No wife would put up with that. Anyway, so they're looking at the tree and they're kind of getting it. And I just walk up to him and the old guy says, would you just listen to me for a second? How about you listen to me for one second? Oh, my tone of voice to the woman. And she looks at me and kind of rolls her eyes.

[Jack Armstrong]

We're shopping for a Christmas tree is the context here.

[Joe Getty]

Surrounded by children who are boy Scouts.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, boy, you gotta pity that person.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, she looked at me and I kind of. I didn't make any facial expression. She rolled her eyes just a little bit. He was very, very agitated. So about something.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I think.

[Joe Getty]

I think dude I was talking to is right. It almost had to be father, daughter. Couldn't have been husband, wife. She would have left a long time ago if that was his ricket routine. Wow. I guess he didn't want a Douglas fir, huh? Apparently not.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Douglas for my ass, he's saying right now. That's something.

[Joe Getty]

It's. We all run into this now and then. Sometimes I'm that person. And usually it's other things you're agitated about from yesterday, earlier, always or whatever. But when you come across somebody and they're that agitated about something and it's incongruent with whatever the situation is, it's always so striking, right? Whether it's the airport or a restaurant or whatever the situation is.

[Jack Armstrong]

Would you just listen for one side? One second. Listen to me. Maybe she doesn't listen to him. And did you consider that maybe, you.

[Joe Getty]

Know, maybe she hasn't been listening to him for like 57 years and he's had it.

[Jack Armstrong]

And finally, finally they're at the Christmas tree lot surrounded by the Scouts. He thought, now is the time to take my stand. Well, you're a daughter, Katie. Yeah. Got my guess.

[Joe Getty]

Husband, wife or father, daughter.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's got to be father, daughter.

[Joe Getty]

And even now it's not.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't think that's okay. I don't think so.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, you think? I think she would have put up.

[Jack Armstrong]

With that all these years, though.

[Joe Getty]

Maybe she's like 20 years younger.

[Jack Armstrong]

Did he seem like maybe he's got.

[Joe Getty]

A lot of money? I don't have no idea about that.

[Jack Armstrong]

And maybe he just turned mean. That happens too. Yeah, With a certain percentage of guys, as they get older, they turn mean.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

For it. But it's. It's terrible.

[Joe Getty]

I had the opposite situation. There was another old guy helped. And he was. He was pretty old. I could tell he's pretty old. And I carried the tree to his car and I'm tying it down. He said, I used to sell Christmas trees. Of course it was. He had to tie him to the fender back then. It was in the 40s. I said, how old are you, if you. If I might ask? He said, I'm 93. 93. He was selling Christmas trees and tying to the fenders of big cars back in the 40s, front and back.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I can picture it.

[Joe Getty]

And we had quite the long conversation. And he was physically and mentally like a 70 year old or 60, really mentally and still driving. Got in his car and drove off with this Christmas tree in the trunk. 93 years old, man. And I said, I said, I gotta ask you, I said, so have you just lived a pretty clean life? Like no smoking, no drink? He said, I drink occasionally, but I never smoke. Both my parents died of cancer from smoking. And I said, I never smoked. And I said, well, doctors say that best two things you can do is don't smoke and have good genetics. He said, I got good genetics. My uncle or whatever lived to be 98 or something like that. When I thought, man, is something. Be 90. He's got 33 more years than I've got and he's still doing everything he wants to do, apparently.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, the fact that that guy might have sold a Christmas tree to my child dad, who just turned 85, I mean, that's just amazing.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, man. The blessing of good genetics, I guess. But anyway, he was, you know, he was old, perfectly cheery, having a good time, talking to people, thanking the boy Scouts. You got the other guy yelling at his daughter, wife. For some reason over minor problems, we.

[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

I wonder. I don't think a hole is one of the things you're mandated to report.

[Joe Getty]

I mean, I should have stepped in there with the clipboard. Is he abusing you? Oh, would you like to give some testimony? We've got more on the way. Stay here.

[Jack Armstrong]

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[Jack Armstrong]

This is where mindset comes in.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Pressure is coming down.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Hey Michael, get this sports music ready, would you? Also coming up, I'm looking forward to the it reminds me of the Internet meme, how it started and how it's going now or whatever it is. Number the alliance between the left and Islamists, the red green alliance is starting to fray, notably in Britain in somewhat hilarious fashion. Also Canada just announced. Yeah, we've completely changed our mind about the climate change thing. So interesting stuff, right? But first because I like to give jivey names to everything. Oh, Michael's got his he can't find it look on his face. Well, we we use the same filing system as the government of California. Doesn't work, hasn't worked, never works. You're spend half a billion dollars to replace it with something else that doesn't work. Do you have it? Michael? It's football. What? Go ahead. It's Football Follies.

You know, that's pretty good.

It's very serious sounding though. Gridiron action this Saturday, hitting number two Florida against number 11. Whatever the hel. All right, make it stop. It's annoying. So first of all, shocking story from the world of college football. University of Michigan, the Wolverines, the hated Wolverine, sorry, fired their football coach for an inappropriate relationship with a staffer.

[Joe Getty]

Getting fired. I understood he got Arrested?

[Jack Armstrong]

Why did he get a.

[Joe Getty]

Why did he get arrested?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, right, we were getting, gonna get there later that day. He got arrested for assault. So here's my entirely speculative timeline. He's having a consensual adult relationship with a staffer. But that's against the rules for some pretty good reasons in football, I think. But anyway, to me, consenting adults can do whatever they want whether they work together or not. If it affects the workplace, then you have an issue. If they can pull it off without affecting the workplace, then let's get it on. Anyway, let's get it on. So somebody, somebody outed him, reported the relationship and there was some aspect of that, that this guy knew who it was. So this person narcked him out, ratted him out, cost him his five and a half million dollar salary that increases $500,000 every year.

[Joe Getty]

And if you don't know sports, one of the most prestigious coaching jobs in America.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh yeah, absolutely. In the TUDs. Yeah, top 10. And so the coach sought him out and punched him in the head.

[Joe Getty]

Now that makes my entirely speculative speculation. That makes sense. He said Nunya as he punched the guy in the head. No business.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. But now he's, he's sitting in a jail in Ann Arbor or something like that. Or will be anyway. That and then this story. San Diego Chargers fans, I refuse to say sand Los Angeles Chargers.

Crazy story. Quentin Jammer, one of the great names in the history of sports. The cornerback for years for, for the Chargers. He admitted to playing hammered drunk for at least half the team's regular season games in 2011.

[Joe Getty]

That's amazing to me. I don't know how you can do that. Remember when the story came out a couple years ago that a lot of NBA players were playing high?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

And I don't have much experience with marijuana, but like I can, I can believe that. That's it. Like gets you in the zone and everything. I don't know how you could play football drunk. I just can't even imagine how you can do that. I've been drunk, I played football. I can't imagine combining the two things.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, of course, nothing will ever beat Doc Ellis throwing, what was it, a one or two hitter on LSD in the 70s for the Pittsburgh Pirates. But yeah, he says he took the bottle as a way to deal with his messy divorce. It was really traumatic. He could only cope with alcohol. He played eight games hammered drunk. He said I played well in all but one them. But. But he's moved on from the booze.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know how you physically could do that.

[Jack Armstrong]

I could picture it.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

You'd have to be just drunk enough. Armstrong and Getty.

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News I don't quite understand, but it sounds like it could be a big deal. Category Breaking News Disney is going to license its characters to open AI's video platform. So they. Because there's there's been all kinds of copyright issues around this artificial intelligence stuff.

And, and our, our thinking all along has been you can't stop it. I mean, good luck.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

But so Disney has actually legally licensed their characters to open AI, which.

[Jack Armstrong]

So could I create a video, a manifestation of the infamous joke about Mickey and Minnie and Goofy.

[Joe Getty]

He's blanking. Goofy. She's blanking.

[Jack Armstrong]

Goofy. Mickey. You can't leave Minnie because she's got mental illness problems. I didn't say she is mentally ill. I said she was blinking Goofy.

[Joe Getty]

Exactly.

[Jack Armstrong]

Which is a hilarious. Yes. And I could illustrate that with the aid of Chat GPT.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know if I need to.

[Jack Armstrong]

Good job, Disney.

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[Joe Getty]

That's gonna be one of the first things anybody does with the video generator on AI. Now that that is.

[Jack Armstrong]

I read a piece in the Wall Street Journal today advocating the idea that AI is going to be a boon to creativity because it removes the drudgery and it's just pure expressiveness now. And I read it and thought no.

[Joe Getty]

No.

No, you're working too hard. And speaking of AI.

So this is all unfolding so fast. Chat GPT just landed in 2022 and made all. Everybody in the world has been following this. Go.

[Jack Armstrong]

What?

[Joe Getty]

We're there already and it's just been a full speed foot race and money race ever since by Elon and Zuckerberg and China. China. Not that long ago where Wall Street Journal was reporting, China had a whole of country effort to try to catch up. Then like two months later it was we can't catch up. We've given up on that. What we're going to try to do is we're going to take the AI the United States builds because we'll, we'll never catch up to them, but we're going to use it better. And that's what this story is all about. China's AI power play China now has the biggest power grid the world has ever seen. Between 2010 and last year, its power production increased by more than the rest of the world combined. That is a stunning number which of course includes the United States and all your first world countries in Europe and India and everybody else. I'll say it again. Between 2010 and 2024, China, its power production increased more than the rest of the world combined. Last year China generated more than twice as much electricity as the United States. Twice as much. They used to be behind us not that many years ago.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

Some Chinese data centers are now paying less than half of what Americans pay for electricity in China. And in case you don't know, this AI sucks tremendous amounts of juice. And that's one of the biggest things that's going to hold us back and one of the biggest problems to overcome. It's one of the reasons that Elon is building one of the biggest power centers ever in the United States, I think in Texas or someplace.

To try to, you know, power the AI that they're building.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, and as we discussed yesterday, the administration, the Secretary of Energy was talking about helping get going at least 10 significant nuclear reactors around the country. As we bring Nuke back, we're behind currently.

[Joe Getty]

This is just the beginning. Morgan Stanley forecasts that China will spend some 560 billion. So that's over half a trillion on grid projects in the next five years. That's up almost 50% from the previous five years when as you heard, they built more than the entire world combined. They're like, well, they're doubling down on that or 50% more down on that. Goldman Sachs predicts that by 2030, China will have about 400 gigawatts of spare capacity. That's three times the world's expected data center power demand at that time. I mean, these numbers are stunning.

[Jack Armstrong]

Can they ship electricity via TAMU and undercut all of our markets and ruin us with electricity too? How does that work?

[Joe Getty]

I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think you need wireless ultimately for.

[Joe Getty]

Being a free human being on Earth.

[Jack Armstrong]

Clearly.

[Joe Getty]

Representative government democracies, self governance is a better system than autocracies. But for the race for AI or a number of other things, it helps to be an autocracy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Certainly for infrastructure. I would argue that the. There's so much intellectual freedom needed for developing new technologies that they will always lag in that.

[Joe Getty]

That's why they're all in the United States right now, right?

[Jack Armstrong]

That's right. They come to the United States and steal our technology with their thousands and thousands of Chinese spies who are even now at your local university. But in terms of like building infrastructure, decisiveness, yeah, autocracies are really impressive at times.

[Joe Getty]

I wonder who gets credit for this. Is it President Xi or one of his advisors? Pretty clever plan to just say, whoa, whoa, we're never going to catch the United States in like the developing the AI, but we could kick their ass into being able to use it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Building robots and systems that utilize AI, that's what they're working on.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. And having the electricity to be able to pull it off. And bet there aren't a lot of, I'm being sarcastic environmental studies that go into they talk about some a portion of China, a word I can't pronounce that's like Texas. It's a big, vast, not very agriculturally, you know, valuable chunk of land where nobody lives. And they're putting these giant data centers there. I think they did a lot of environmental studies about whether or not some bird or mouse you've never heard of's environment is going to be disrupted. If you put that plant there right, then you got Uyghur labor building the.

[Jack Armstrong]

Thing for free, right? Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. Speaking of which.

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My friends, one more brief thing about China's AI. There's some thinking that President Xi and the Communist Party is really worried about AI because if AI is what people think it's going to be once AGI or ASI takes off, it might decide the Communist Party is not the best way to go forward and do its own thing. Oh, they can't control it. And you know, controlling everyone and everything is kind of the whole communist deal.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, sure, you got your AGI. It'll say communism. That's interesting. Let me take a look at this. And in the tenth of millionth of a blink of an eye, it'll say, whoa. That many people, whoa. It fails every time.

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[Jack Armstrong]

What are we doing here? And it'll, it'll end it right then who knows? Who knows? Well, looking to our north in our beloved 51st state, Canada, that kind of came and went, didn't it? Where's America's hat?

[Joe Getty]

Canada.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, exactly. So they begin this piece describing this Northern Gateway project was going to be a 715 mile pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia. The conservative government of Stephen Harper, way back in the day, well, in 2014, got the project moving, but the company that wanted to actually build a pipeline was told it could only do so if it met 209 different conditions set by the National Energy Board, a regulatory agency. 209. And then the lawsuits piled up and finally, little panty wearing Justin Trudeau killed the project in 2016.

[Joe Getty]

His girlfriend, Katy, astronaut Katy Perry does not like that sort of language.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, that's fine. Great. Super. He can borrow your panties. Anyway, back just back then, 37% of Canadians supported Northern Gateway. You know, the whole climate change green energy cult thing was, had fooled so many people, but now 60% say they favor building new pipelines. This is not a subtle shift. This is a country that has changed its mind, writes this reporter for the Free Press. As a result, Mark Carney has a lot more wiggle room to fast track major energy and infrastructure projects than any prime minister in more than a decade. And they are stomping on the gas. Pun intended. According to a poll In July, only 4% of Canadians saw climate change as their top concern. Wow, 4% down from 29% six years ago.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, and you know, in the United States is, we pointed out many, many times, many election cycles, even with all the talk about it, when you ever, when you actually ranked it, it never ranked very high in the United States as a concern for most people.

[Jack Armstrong]

Here's another, for instance, different wording.

[Joe Getty]

If you have a master's degree from certain universities, of course you think about it all the time, but the rest of your country was not thinking about it much.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, the media was and our movie stars were and the activist class were and their, their influence is way outsized. Anyway, a different survey asked, is the environment a top issue? FAC? 18% said yes this past September. It was 42% six years ago when little Greta Thunberg was lecturing all of us. So that's how it started. Here's how it's going. Similarly, and this one delights Me more than I can tell you. This brings me more cheer than the tinkle of the Christmas bells and the twinkling of the lights. The leftist Islamist alliance is having some issues, especially in Great Britain. We might have a few more months to get our affairs in order, writes the fabulous Nellie Bowles. There's a new party in the UK called your party.

How JV marketing issues. That your party? Oh, they're my party. That's the party I'm gonna support. Cause their name is your party. Good lord. Those people should not be allowed to vote anyway. It blends hard left ideology and Islamist factions. Seriously. But they faced a leadership clash between founders Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana at their inaugural conference last week. The event closed with the song Imagine, a traditional empty headed lame traditional progressive anthem whose lyrics prompt one to imagine a number of things including no religion.

[Joe Getty]

Too.

Great melody, Stupid lyrics.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, so no religion, well that didn't go over very well with the UK's Muslim leaders. They were offended.

[Joe Getty]

Corbyn.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I'm gonna quote Nellie Bowles here cause she's brilliant. Corbyn, who is basically showing up to work in a Hezbollah commander uniform these days, has been confronted by left wing advocates and activists who accuse him of not being anti Zionist enough. Prompting his exasperated reply. I'm fed up with being painted in the corner of being some kind of pro Zionist. And a trans member of your party stood on stage and accused two MPs of transphobia. When this party started, it included two MPs who are openly transphobic. We have to set clear criteria for who we will and will not work with. Well, they're openly transphobic because they're frickin Muslims.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, a lot of your hardcore Muslims are definitely transphobic.

[Jack Armstrong]

The leftists and Islamists agree that the Jews are the root of all evil, sure, but they don't agree on almost anything else. Will they be able to make their unlikely love work based on that one strong common bond? Or will this marriage fat fracture over their lack of agreement on most other things? You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. Tune in next week for an update. Oh my God. You know, if it were not effective in toppling institutions of Western civilization, the red Green alliances is called would be just hilarious. But it's the old and you see this in revolutions all the time. Islamists say I want to tear down Western civilization. And the woke is say wait a minute, I do too. Let's work together. Each side thinking after the wonderful revolution. We'll take power and we'll shove them to the side. But you never know who's going to win in those battles. Sometimes like in Iran, it's the Islamists.

[Joe Getty]

If you got the wokests versus the fundamentalists. I like the side with guns and the willingness to be very violent.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I like the the side that thinks killing in the name of their cause is righteous versus the multicolored hair.

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Answers the Islamists with violence.

[Joe Getty]

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Armstrong and getty go.

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Birth on the back of one of.

[Jack Armstrong]

Those self driving taxis.

[Joe Getty]

No driver in the car. The company says the woman was in labor and hailed a Waymo, a self driving taxi in San Francisco. The baby was delivered in the back seat. She did it on her. The company said its rider support team detected unusual activity inside the vehicle, called the passenger and 911 the mother and newborn arriving safely at the hospital. So the Waymo is able to detect unusual activity like a woman laying on the back seat with one leg up on the foot rest and a baby coming out of her. Yeah, that is unusual activity.

[Jack Armstrong]

The algorithm clicked. Yes, indeed.

[Joe Getty]

You know, I think if I'm in the situation where I'm about to have a baby, based on my experiences like cab drivers in San Francisco, of course, it's the Uber era. I'll take my chances alone in the back of an Uber rather than the guy that picks me up.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's judgmental. That's terrible.

[Joe Getty]

Darn right it is.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

It bothers me how the evening news has become kind of. Here's the most interesting YouTube clips that happened today.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sure. And weather.

[Joe Getty]

And weather. So here's a plane that landed on the highway and somebody happened to get it on their iPhone because they had their iPhone out recording something else. So now we're going to make it a news story. If somebody hadn't had their iPhone out and gotten the video, we wouldn't have put it in the news. We're only showing you this because we have video of it. And there's like five of those every night on your evening newscasts.

[Jack Armstrong]

And then if it's really good footage like the plane landing on the car, they concoct some sort of follow up the next day so they can show it a couple of more. Right?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, here's, here's one that will be on tonight. Here's a, a guy in some country where he's playing pickleball. And you know, sometimes when you see an athlete make that amazing play where you like jump over the railing to make the catch or whatever, he did that playing pickleball. He jumped over the railing tape to get the ball. Except he apparently had forgotten that he was playing pickleball on A court that was at the top of a building and he just jumped off the building and plunged to his death.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. Now that's a clip and they have it on video.

[Joe Getty]

I was thinking that, I wonder if some sort of news site source will emerge. Maybe Barry Weiss will do this.

Where most of us could count on them to try to bring us. Here's like, give us 15 minutes of your time. Here's everything you actually need to know that happened today.

[Jack Armstrong]

No stuff of most significance to your.

[Joe Getty]

Life, probably to most people's lives. Yeah, it did be some sort of bell curve thing. This is the most significance to most people's lives with. No, we're not putting any, we're not pushing it any direction because I remember the, the great James Lindsay who we follow about woke stuff. He's a PhD in math and he did some sort of calculation. I have no idea how he did this, where he claims he figured through math that it takes you about 10 minutes to take in all the news you really need every single day. Everything else is opinion and entertainment, which is fine. We're in the opinion entertainment business and I take in lots of opinion entertainment too. But I also want to know what's the important stuff that happened today and if there was one source I could go to that would more or less guarantee everything big that I need to know. Here it is right here. I think that that that outlet or site would print money if you could develop a reputation for being pretty good at it.

I wonder if anybody will emerge like that because, I mean, that's what Walter Cronkite was, you know, my entire childhood, more or less.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think you might be a little too optimistic about people's tastes. On the other hand, if their marketing was good enough and enough people heard about it, I would agree it would be very successful. Maybe that's what we ought to do. Ten minutes a day. That sounds great to me.

[Joe Getty]

Wouldn't you agree that that's what the evening newscast was like in the 70s or probably 60s and 50s also, more or less.

[Jack Armstrong]

That was the effort. Yeah, that was the effort. It was imperfect, obviously, but there are human beings in charge.

[Joe Getty]

There were less stupid celebrity stories or the, you know, video of the day. We caught. Here's a cow running through the street of a city.

[Jack Armstrong]

And significantly, the news departments were under no pressure whatsoever to make a profit.

[Joe Getty]

Right?

[Jack Armstrong]

They were seen as just. If you are a grown up network, you have to do good solid news. Otherwise it's shameful. But we have no shame anymore.

[Joe Getty]

We've stamped it out that's why we're showing you now. A cow running through a city. This cow got loose and blah, blah, blah.

[Jack Armstrong]

And a plane landing in a car. And the next day the 911 call has been released. Yeah, I'm on the highway. There's a plane landing in a car. Yeah, what'd you think they were gonna freaking say? That's no reason to show the video again, you pandering bastards.

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