Jack Armstrong (2:16)

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

Joe Getty (2:22)

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong. And you get it.

Jack Armstrong (2:36)

Did anybody else walk into work with a fiddle today? Did you?

Joe Getty (2:42)

Live from Studio C season.

Jack Armstrong (2:45)

A dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound on Little Friday.

Joe Getty (2:51)

It's Thursday.

Jack Armstrong (2:52)

It's the last show of the year, really. We got our Eclipse of the year show tomorrow, but it's the last free flowing show. And today we're under the tutelage of.

Joe Getty (3:00)

Our general manager, the President, I guess.

Jack Armstrong (3:04)

Why is the President's general manager?

Joe Getty (3:07)

Because he gave a big speech. He was yelling at me.

Jack Armstrong (3:11)

I would argue with the word big. I don't.

Joe Getty (3:14)

I don't like him yelling at me. He was yelling at me.

Jack Armstrong (3:16)

I'd argue with the word big.

Joe Getty (3:19)

It was a prime time address, Jack.

Jack Armstrong (3:21)

Was it?

Joe Getty (3:22)

What's the matter with you? That's right. Right there in the middle of the prime time. He addressed us. That's how you know it.

Jack Armstrong (3:28)

Is that a term that has any meaning, primetime television? I don't think it probably does, not really, no, because all the meaning was built around this is when the most watched shows were on in the evening.

Joe Getty (3:41)

But between dinner and bedtime.

Jack Armstrong (3:43)

But nobody watches shows when they're on anymore, like nobody. So I don't know if that's a term. That's an anachronistic term, I believe.

Joe Getty (3:51)

Yeah, I suppose it's a fairly convenient time for most people to watch it live if they had the inclination, if.

Jack Armstrong (3:57)

There'S a sporting event on or something like that.

Joe Getty (3:59)

Well, sure, yeah, yeah. For instance, or a presidential address. I didn't watch. Yeah, I forgot it was happening. And I do this for a living.

Jack Armstrong (4:07)

Well, you know who will remember this tomorrow? Nobody, so.

Joe Getty (4:11)

Well, in spite of that, we've got hours of analysis of the President's aggressive speech. Stay with us.

Jack Armstrong (4:16)

Well, I'll put in my earbuds and listen to the Taylor Swift CD I did hear. And this kind of fits in with what I just brought up. The Oscars announced, starting in a couple of years, it's no longer gonna be on television. It's gonna be on YouTube. And I can't tell if that's a recognition that it's over and nobody cares anymore or if that's just like being modern and cool and moving over to the platform where everybody is. But I don't know what that exactly means, that it's on YouTube.

Joe Getty (4:46)

You know, it'd be a good publicity stunt. You see this once in a while. I remember there have been, like, concerts and stuff that are like a nationwide simulcast in theaters.

Jack Armstrong (4:56)

Mm.

Joe Getty (4:57)

Tell you what, Hollywood, you can have that for free. I'd appreciate an invite maybe to the ceremony, but I Can't go because y' all sicken me.

Jack Armstrong (5:04)

Y' all sicken me.

Joe Getty (5:06)

Yeah, that'd be a good idea.

Jack Armstrong (5:11)

So the changing nature of media, that was our theme there. And was it. How would you. So if the oscars are on YouTube, you would go to YouTube and then there'd be a live. Something there you'd find.

Joe Getty (5:21)

Yeah, live stream. And then you could watch it later, clearly.

Jack Armstrong (5:24)

Yeah. Okay.

Katie Green (5:26)

Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (5:26)

We're gonna be on YouTube starting next year, right?

Joe Getty (5:29)

I believe so, yeah.

Jack Armstrong (5:30)

Is that. Is that a secret in some form?

Joe Getty (5:33)

I don't think so.

Jack Armstrong (5:34)

I don't. I don't know how it could be a secret. We're using our own money to buy cameras, so I feel like if I use my own money to buy something, I can say whatever the hell I want.

Joe Getty (5:41)

Well, I. Oh, I thought you were. Yeah, I don't give a crap what anybody thinks with us, and I can't imagine why we would want to keep it secret.

Jack Armstrong (5:47)

Right.

Joe Getty (5:47)

Other than, you know, we. We give a date and then keep failing to meet it. Because that could happen.

Jack Armstrong (5:52)

Yes, Michael, you have a question about us being on YouTube starting in 26 at.

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Yeah, well, we have time to get the holiday weight off because I just.

Jack Armstrong (6:00)

That's a good question. We don't want to start at Jan5 when we come back. Let's wait till we get that holiday weight off.

Joe Getty (6:07)

Well, we've invested a good five, six million dollars in cgi, Michael, so I myself will be looking like a Hemsworth when we debut, so we can craft whatever look you like for you.

Jack Armstrong (6:17)

Seriously. I know people that use filters, and I'm familiar with the filters you use. Like if you take a picture, if you want to do something. But I don't know how people do it on video, but they do where you just. You look thinner on your video. And we got to do that. Why wouldn't we.

Joe Getty (6:34)

Whatever.

Jack Armstrong (6:35)

Why wouldn't we handsome ourselves up a little bit? Little eye candy.

Joe Getty (6:41)

Go right ahead. Not sure what good that would do. Can't imagine.

Jack Armstrong (6:47)

Do we need to start dressing better when. I mean, I wear a suit to work a lot anyway. But when we're going to be on YouTube and next year, I'm willing to discuss it. I don't care about clothing or anything like that. I care about the lighting. I hate that washed out. Looks like you're doing it from your basement in 1978. Look that sometimes you get with videos.

Joe Getty (7:11)

Right. But you insist on working in the dark Nosferatu. So I'm not sure what sort of lighting you Will consent to.

Jack Armstrong (7:18)

Very dark. I want people to barely be able to sell as a person there, like a hostage tape.

Joe Getty (7:24)

Fair enough, right?

Jack Armstrong (7:25)

Like when 60 Minutes has somebody on and they're trying to conceal their identity. That's what I want. Like my video feed to look like.

Joe Getty (7:32)

Beautiful. Yeah. Like I said, I'm willing to discuss it. I don't, I, you know, I don't know. There are people making zillions of dollars in T shirts on, on your video and stuff. And I don't know why you do that though.

Jack Armstrong (7:43)

I mean, I know people do. I just, I don't know why, why you'd go out of your way to look as horrible as possible. I mean, Joe Rogan makes a gazillion dollars, but I feel like he goes.

Joe Getty (7:51)

Out of blood stained T shirt.

Vizio Advertiser / Katie Green (7:53)

Horrible.

Jack Armstrong (7:54)

He feels like he seems like he goes out of his way to look like he just changed the oil in his car before he walked into work.

Joe Getty (8:00)

I think that's part of his thing. It need not be part of our thing. I'm just saying, I think his every, he's every man, average guy, just sitting there talking to folks.

Jack Armstrong (8:12)

The lighting on his show is horrible and he's got endless money to spend. Yeah, yeah.

Joe Getty (8:17)

It's interesting.

Jack Armstrong (8:18)

Yeah. He obviously doesn't care and it seems to work for him. So we're raising money for scouting this week. You know that if you've been listening, we're trying to hit $100,000. We clearly need to up our goal, which I'm happy to do because we're going to hit that this hour, I hope. And we'll get to some of the funny donations that came in since we got off the air yesterday. But we got a couple of fun stunts planned, some cunning stunts.

Joe Getty (8:43)

Yes.

Jack Armstrong (8:44)

That we have planned for the show that include playing motivators, I call them. Joe playing the trombone, me playing the fiddle on Christmas songs. Until we get a certain amount of money. We get these instruments out once per year.

Joe Getty (8:57)

I don't ask you nicely. Now we're gonna have to get tough.

Jack Armstrong (9:00)

Right? And then I think we should give this away because it's just, it's funny. Katie is going to later. We've done many incarnations of this way back in the day. Our crazy producer who's now dead, thank God. Because he's a bad person, Dominic. He used to sing show tunes and we'd like have him sing show tunes until he raised, you know, $10,000 or something like that. And he loved singing show tunes, man. He would belt them out.

Joe Getty (9:27)

He was Evil. But he was talented.

Jack Armstrong (9:29)

No doubt. Very, very talented. Positive Sean or old producer. He would discuss video games until he reached a certain amount.

Joe Getty (9:38)

Oh, that was torturous.

Jack Armstrong (9:40)

I think our plan today is Katie is going to read the legal language of licensing agreements that everybody clicks.

Joe Getty (9:50)

I agree on the terms of use.

Jack Armstrong (9:52)

Because you got no choice to do anything. She's going to read those until we reach a certain amount of money later. So that'll be in. Right. That's a punishing thing. I'm actually kind of interested in hearing some of that since I never read them. Your.

Joe Getty (10:03)

Your eyes will gloss over and you will cease comprehending it. A sentence and a half in.

Jack Armstrong (10:07)

No kidding.

Joe Getty (10:08)

That's how they get you.

Jack Armstrong (10:09)

What we'll get to why you should donate to scouting and, and where we are and all that sort of stuff a little bit later. And we do have some news of the day. We should start the show officially. Yes. Your mouth.

Joe Getty (10:19)

You know, it's. It just. He could tell by the look on my face. I. It just occurred to me we should have a, an on air meeting about what? Look, we should present for the yout thing. We should talk about it. I mean, because there it occurs to me, all right, look, what's our thing? We're both reasonable guys, Midwestern guys. We just, we don't particularly like being bamboozled. We're not so tribal. Our side's always right, blah, blah, blah. We're reasonable. I think that's more or less our image. Any, any dissent, any comment, feel free. Anybody can jump in.

Jack Armstrong (10:57)

Yeah, obviously.

Joe Getty (10:58)

So, you know, there's nothing wrong with looking nice because if you look nice, you can act like a clown. But if you look like a clown, you'll never get the perception of, you know, you're. You're a respectable person. That's always been our philosophy, Katie. Through the years. We, we've always shown up to events looking really nice because then we can be jackasses and get away with it.

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It works.

Jack Armstrong (11:20)

There's also. You just. I think you get taken more seriously immediately if you look better. That's. And I've been trying to convince my son of that. As he complains sometimes. They followed me around the store line.

Joe Getty (11:30)

We're criminal.

Jack Armstrong (11:30)

You know why you look like a criminal? You dress exactly like a criminal dresses. That's why they're following you around the.

Joe Getty (11:36)

Store to the bath. I've just got to figure out who do. Who do I admire who does a lot of stuff on camera. Neil Ferguson, the late Chris Hitchens, who went often went with the like. Nice dress shirt. He stopped wearing a couple of buttons on button.

Jack Armstrong (11:53)

Well, that's when he got fat. When he was younger. If you watch younger videos, he was off in a suit.

Joe Getty (11:58)

Yes, well, they got too fat to.

Jack Armstrong (11:59)

Button the top button.

Joe Getty (12:00)

Yeah. There will be no tie.

Jack Armstrong (12:03)

I'm not wearing a tie. But I wear a suit a lot of times I'm just. I don't. I suppose I'm not going to change the way I dress at all. I wear a suit a lot of days and then some days I don't. So whatever. I don't know. That's probably the end of the thought. I will put into that again. I'm more concerned about the light.

Joe Getty (12:16)

That's why we fail. Your lack of thought.

Jack Armstrong (12:18)

More concerned about the lighting. I mean, dim, dimly lit. Barely see me across the room.

Joe Getty (12:24)

All right, let's not. Let's just. Reporting live from the blackout, we have Jack Armstrong.

Jack Armstrong (12:28)

Let's not put it all out there and horrify people. All right, I want to do that.

Joe Getty (12:32)

Like the scandalous Vanity Fair pictures. That whole Susie Wiles interview. That's the other part we didn't talk about yesterday. The Vanity Fair intentionally made all the pictures make the members of the. The cabinet and staff look extra ugly.

Jack Armstrong (12:45)

Oh, I don't know anything about that. I want to talk about that later.

Joe Getty (12:47)

Hit piece. Total hit piece.

Jack Armstrong (12:49)

I want to be like BL Ranch and Streetcar Named Desire. Always over in the corner in the dark, trying to preserve my youthful look so people can't see how I've aged. Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Thursday, December 18, year 2025, where Armstrong and getting. We approve of this program.

Joe Getty (13:07)

Okay, let's begin officially then. According to FCC rules and regulations, here we are leaping into action at mark. I can wear red, any red shirt.

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Joe Getty (13:18)

Stupid. No.

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Why the would you wear that? You're at work at Target. You support a racist.

Joe Getty (13:25)

It's not racist.

Jack Armstrong (13:26)

Yes. So he talked about this yesterday. That might be the worst person in America. Certainly ranks up there. You're a horrible, horrible human being. Anyway, it happened actually locally to us. It's become a giant national story. It happened locally to us. We're huge in Chico. Where. Where this happened.

Joe Getty (13:45)

Yeah, love Chico. Hey, Chico. Yeah. This awful, awful, mean woman chewing out an obscene fashion. An elderly Target worker because the worker dared to have a T shirt on that had Charlie Kirk's name on there.

Jack Armstrong (13:58)

And the woman who started dropping F bombs on a nice old lady working probably holiday shifts to make a little extra money. She posted this herself, so you're so certain she was on the right side.

Joe Getty (14:09)

Of this topic to make it so everybody could see how cool she is?

Jack Armstrong (14:13)

Didn't quite work out that way for her as the Internet gets its own revenge. We'll talk more about that coming up. Play the whole thing if you haven't heard it. God, that got me all worked up hearing it again. I heard it yesterday.

Joe Getty (14:23)

What a horrible human being. Well, in the sweet old gal from Target who handled it as well as any human being possibly could, she has weighed in on the controversy, so we'll have that for you.

Jack Armstrong (14:33)

And then there's a GoFundMe for her, of course, because that's the way we have to do things in modern America.

Joe Getty (14:37)

She should never because of financial losses.

Jack Armstrong (14:40)

What we got Katie's headlines on the way. If you want to donate to the Scouts before we get to our next update, you can go to armstrongandgetti.com armstrong and getty.

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Jack Armstrong (17:14)

So love the funny names people come up with to donate money to our causes every single year. And this year we're trying to raise money for the scouts. We'll tell you more about that in a little bit. But we got $65 from Adam Carolla's sink. Well, you got to know that story to enjoy it.

Joe Getty (17:34)

But wow, wow. Kudos, friend, for that deep poll.

Jack Armstrong (17:39)

Oh, we had Adam. We interviewed Adam Carolla or we were on his show or he was on our show. I don't remember what it was.

Joe Getty (17:45)

Yeah, we're talking to him about a book that I think he had coming out.

Jack Armstrong (17:48)

He was on our show and then he told a story on his show about how he was doing an interview with a couple of disc jockeys or whatever and he had to urinate and he went over and urinated in the sink while he was doing the interview. And somebody was listening to our interview of him and was able to pick out the point where he did it.

Joe Getty (18:05)

Well, because he got really distracted because he peed on his shirt, as I recall.

Jack Armstrong (18:12)

That was last. That was not a sign. I like Adam Caroll, but that was not a sign of respect for us. Well, that was a sign of a full bladder.

Joe Getty (18:20)

Wow. He's an older fellow. Listen to you judging. All right, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's lead story with Katie Green. Katie.

Katie Green (18:28)

All right, Trump's tri.

Joe Getty (18:29)

Whoa, Take two.

Katie Green (18:30)

Trump's primetime speech is at the top of the list today. NBC Trump seeks to defend his economy in primetime speech to the nation. USA Today Trump plays the blame game in White House address and CNN fact check.

Joe Getty (18:46)

Wow.

Katie Green (18:46)

I am having a rough time today. CNN fact check. Trump repeats numerous false claims in primetime address.

Joe Getty (18:54)

I want to go over some of the big newspapers and their coverage as well. The New York Times was more. Was more or less lying. Trump lies to nation as incompetent boob, yells at people and deflects blame. And then you got the New York Post who said Trump's used lots of charts.

Jack Armstrong (19:12)

Yeah. And obviously if Trump, Joe Biden stands up there and does like most presidents do and says things that aren't true, they don't mention it in his case.

Joe Getty (19:21)

Right. Of course.

Katie Green (19:23)

ABC inflation drops to lowest level in months defying expectations of uptick.

Jack Armstrong (19:33)

By the way, I just saw a poll. Quinnipiac acts out Democrats in Congress. Lowest approval they've ever had at 18%. So there's lots of unpopularity to go around.

Joe Getty (19:44)

Wow. From Wired.

Katie Green (19:46)

People are paying to get their chatbots high on drugs.

Jack Armstrong (19:51)

What does that mean?

Katie Green (19:52)

There is an online marketplace that is selling codes that simulate the effects of cannabis, ketamine, cocaine, ayahuasca and alcohol when they're uploaded into ChatGPT.

Jack Armstrong (20:03)

I don't understand that.

Joe Getty (20:05)

I gotta admit to being a little curious about this.

Jack Armstrong (20:08)

That's.

Joe Getty (20:08)

That's an insane idea.

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I am too.

Jack Armstrong (20:10)

I don't know why you'd want to do that. I'll have to look into that.

Katie Green (20:12)

Story from the New York Post. Welcome to your steamy new holiday fetish, Santa Claus.

Jack Armstrong (20:22)

Santa Claus is a holiday fetish?

Katie Green (20:24)

These people are called Santa Files.

Jack Armstrong (20:26)

Oh, are they? And there's three of them in the world. And somebody did a story on it. Act like it's sweeping the nation straight.

Joe Getty (20:32)

Out of your favorite holiday movie, Bad Santa, Katie.

Katie Green (20:35)

I know it from Study finds screen time officially tops chores as America's number one family fight.

Jack Armstrong (20:47)

Oh, I don't doubt that a bit.

Joe Getty (20:50)

I haven't. That's interesting.

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And finally, from the Babylon Bee, struggling Chiefs trade Taylor Swift for new it girl Sydney Sweeney in a bid to save their season.

Jack Armstrong (21:06)

I saw the other day it's the end of the Mahomes Kelsey era. Is that the idea that Kelsey's going to retire?

Joe Getty (21:13)

Yeah. Well, there's a lot of speculation around that.

Jack Armstrong (21:16)

Yeah, because my homes ain't going anywhere.

Joe Getty (21:18)

You wouldn't think.

Jack Armstrong (21:19)

No. We got some news of the day to catch you up on. We'll do another pitch, in case you haven't heard of why donating to the Scouts is a really good idea. And we'll see where we can get today. And where we are with the total and got some fun things planned for a little bit later. We're still on the cusp of going to war with Venezuela, it looks like, and I was kind of interested that the president didn't mention that at all last night. I thought maybe he would sell that policy a little bit in his address, but he didn't get into that at all, just the economy. More on that coming up. If you missed a segment, get the.

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Podcast Armstrong and Getty.

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Joe Getty (24:15)

It was just announced that after 50 years, the Oscars will soon leave ABC.

Jack Armstrong (24:19)

And air on YouTube. So now you'll hear and the Oscar goes to.

Joe Getty (24:24)

And then have to watch the 32nd.

Jack Armstrong (24:25)

AD for Royal kingdom, say the king. Yeah. If you think the Oscars on YouTube is strange, I just heard the Tonys.

Joe Getty (24:33)

Are moving to only fans. Wow.

Jack Armstrong (24:39)

So we're raising money this week with the idea that more kids will have access to scouting as we can pay the, the, the, the, the fee of a couple hundred dollars. It takes a family to get their kid into scouting, and sometimes that's enough to keep, you know. Yeah, I got a kid that would. You'd like to get into scouting or they'd like to get into scouting and you don't have the money. So we're trying to come up with the money to cover that and a lot of people donating. We got a donate donation a little bit ago from somebody who said former scout who joined the marines. And it's quite common for people to have that track scouting to the military because there's a lot of similar sorts of things in there. Serving your country, patriotism, all that sort of stuff. And I really, really like that. Yeah. And one of the things I noticed since my kid got into scouting is it's they, they try to teach it as a lifestyle is like, you're a scout. Kind of like, you know, the way marines talk about always being a marine, you're a scout. And my son, I see my skin and I've seen some of the other scouts that he's around act this way. Where my son's at home. I'm a scout, so I have to take the trash out. What else can I help you with that sort of thing? Oh, wow.

Joe Getty (25:50)

What's your sense of identity divorced from our perverse, you know, popular culture that.

Jack Armstrong (25:55)

Comes with a duty and responsibility. It's just. That's fantastic. And again, as I said, what other thing you got out there where they're saying the pledge of allegiance every week and putting up the u. S. Flag? Because that's kind of disappeared from, from our life. Anyway, we'll talk more about scouting a little bit later. Just wanted to hit you with a total. Oh. And so we had some whales Come in since we got off the air yesterday.

Joe Getty (26:13)

Well, Michael, whale side exhibit off the starboard bow. Tis a pod.

Jack Armstrong (26:19)

She's a whole pot of whales. Sean Hansen, thanks for a thousand bucks. Deborah Mousey, a thousand bucks. Jim Merriman, also a grand. Brian Shannon came in with a grand. And if we missed anybody, any of the whales apologize. Those are some good numbers. And then some of you jokers out there, because I know how you are.

Joe Getty (26:37)

I. I have a feeling the whales aren't doing it for a claim. I think they're fine.

Jack Armstrong (26:42)

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Getty (26:43)

It's more than appreciated.

Jack Armstrong (26:45)

Yes, no doubt.

Joe Getty (26:46)

May your blubber remain blubbery.

Jack Armstrong (26:49)

Bleeding from my ends and a contributed $25. We had that story. What caused that?

Joe Getty (26:56)

Well, certainly Ebola.

Jack Armstrong (26:59)

No, we had a story just recently that it was some. Something caused. Like one of those bugs that's out that just got imported to the United States or something.

Joe Getty (27:07)

There was something out there that caused that to happen. Wasn't the monkeypox or the bird flu or the marmot fever.

Jack Armstrong (27:15)

I don't remember. I don't remember. One of our favorites from yesterday was 100 bucks. Stomping the Joy out of Life, the Armstrong and Getty Show. We're going to try to really do less of that in the year 2026. I hope. Return the sausages. Donated 100 bucks. Was that our clip of the year last year? It might have been.

Joe Getty (27:36)

I think it wasn't it second place. Well, it may have been. I don't know. I can't remember. I'm really looking forward to this year's Clips of the Year show tomorrow in particular, trying to figure out what is the clip of the year because, you know, it's such a whirlwind of things that happen in stories and clips and sound bites and all. All year long. I've got to be reminded of what the heck we were talking about and laughing about. It's always fun.

Jack Armstrong (28:01)

Yeah.

Joe Getty (28:02)

That's tomorrow's show. Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (28:04)

Look forward to that. Corn pop donated 50 bucks. Thank you, Corn Pop. I ain't got time for that. In for a hundred. Kamala's word salad dressing, $25.

Joe Getty (28:15)

Oh, nice. It's tangy, yet spicy.

Jack Armstrong (28:18)

Yeah, and makes no sense. That's pretty fantastic. Anyway, so let's get a total here on our way to and. God, I was on a. I was on another radio station yesterday. Very popular radio station. They had me on. It was very nice of them as the host had recently been involved in an Eagle Scout ceremony which I talked about yesterday. Those are Just amazingly impressive. And he wanted to help out. And I shot my mouth off with a new goal.

Joe Getty (28:42)

Oh, no.

Jack Armstrong (28:43)

So we are currently at 98, $458. And appreciate that a lot. We had a goal this week of 100 grand. I'm hoping we're gonna meet that this hour. But I shot my mouth off with a goal yesterday of 150. We gotta, we gotta raise $50,000 during the show today, which I think we can with our contests and everything like that. And I'm just hoping that there's a lot of you out there that all week long haven't. Yeah, I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna do that. You just haven't gotten around to it yet. Get around to it. It takes just a couple of minutes. Go to armstrongandgetty.com end of speech for now.

Joe Getty (29:14)

Yeah, yeah, we oughta. We gotta create some sort of standard. What do you routinely spend for a dinner out?

Jack Armstrong (29:22)

What do you spend on coffee every week?

Joe Getty (29:24)

Yeah, yeah. Anyway, whatever you think. Small amount, if things are tight or if you're having a great year and you got money laying around, you're looking for a good cause, giving kids, you know, role models and discipline and patriotism. All the stuff we've talked about. What a great thing to do.

Jack Armstrong (29:39)

Anyway, I knew it was going to be a bit of a slog, and this is a transition into the economy. And the president talking last night knew it was going to be a bit of a slog, raising money based on all the polling around people's attitudes about the economy. And it's even worse. There's some new polls that came out yesterday and this morning. People are sour on the economy. It's going to be really interesting to see where holiday spending lands.

Joe Getty (30:02)

As a total, of course, you have.

Jack Armstrong (30:03)

To keep in mind that the top 10% of income earners are spending half the money out there. So it's a little misleading.

Joe Getty (30:10)

Yeah. Actually, I'm thinking let's go big on the president's address. Big ish. Next hour. Top next hour. Maybe Got some interesting commentary and the contrast and coverage I have found very, very amusing. But to your point, Jack, a couple stories, the second of which is also very amusing. One of the headlines I've seen over and over again, the Wall Street Journal's on it a lot, obviously, is office workers are filled with anxiety. Tuesday's job report, an ominous sign in an era of big corporate layoff announcements. Chief executives warning that artificial intelligence will replace workers. Overall unemployment has ticked up. A lot of white collar, not top of the heap. You know, C suite workers are getting laid off or are not getting hired. And a lot of folks are really, really concerned. And that's no joke. That's not the amusing part. Obviously, nobody's quite sure where this is going to go.

Jack Armstrong (31:05)

And that's AI related already.

Joe Getty (31:07)

Indeed. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. And some of it now, a lot of it has not yet come home to roost. We're talking mostly about concern there has been some actual layoff for halting and hiring based on related AI. But just a couple more stats. Americans with bachelor's degrees are higher. This is asking them now. They put the average probability of losing their jobs in the next year at 15%, which is up from 11% three years ago. Again, it's a perception thing. Workers in this group now think losing a job is more likely than those with less education do. A striking reversal from the past. And also, they're growing more pessimistic about their ability to find a new job if they do get laid off. In that same survey, college educated workers say they have an average 47% chance of finding a job in the next three months if they lost their job today. A little less than half, down from 60% three years ago.

Jack Armstrong (32:03)

You know, it's interesting. It just anecdotally, I have someone in my life who does a forklift sort of thing in a big warehouse who said AI ain't gonna be able to do what I do for quite a while. And I know somebody else in my life who's got kind of a cubicle job who thinks AI is gonna be able to do what I do in like a month.

Joe Getty (32:21)

So in a related story, Wall Street Journal with a very interesting and funny piece by Joanna Stern, who does a lot of their tech writing, we let AI run our office vending machine anthropics. Claude ran a snack operation in the Wall Street Journal newsroom.

Jack Armstrong (32:38)

I'm not exactly sure what that means. Are you about to tell us what that means?

Joe Getty (32:41)

Precisely. Exactly, yeah. In mid November, I agreed to an experiment. Anthropic had tested a vending machine powered by its Claude AI model in its own offices and asked whether we'd like to be the first outsiders to try newer, supposedly smarter version. Claudius. The customized version of the model would run the machine, ordering inventory, setting prices, responding to customers.

Jack Armstrong (33:01)

Setting prices?

Joe Getty (33:03)

Yeah, Via Workplace. The workplace chat app. Slack. Sure, I said. It sounded fun, if nothing else. We'll have snacks.

Jack Armstrong (33:11)

Yeah.

Joe Getty (33:11)

Setting prices, I imagine. Which are more or less geared to break even, I would think, in an office setting. Anyway. So Then came the chaos. Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all of its inventory for free, including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for marketing purposes. It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear. Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared. Yeah, so this was supposed to be the year of the AI agent, when autonomous software would go out into the world and do things for us. But two agents, Claudius and it's overseeing CEO bot Seymour Cash.

Jack Armstrong (33:54)

That's a.

Joe Getty (33:54)

That's really. That's funny. It's dumb, but it's funny. Became a case study in how inadequate and easily distracted the software can be. Leave it to business journalists to successfully stage a boardroom coup against an AI chief executive.

Jack Armstrong (34:07)

So, like, I'm running an insurance operation here, and I decided to sign on Claude and everything like that. And Claude's first, first thing we need to do is get a live fish.

Joe Getty (34:18)

You know, why don't we devote a good long segment to the story later on? That's pretty funny.

Jack Armstrong (34:24)

Yeah, it.

Joe Getty (34:24)

Well, yeah, it is. It is funny and interesting and kind of reveals at least to some extent the, the current state of AI systems, which all of us either are highly concerned about or ought to be also of concern. What do you get that loved one for Christmas who doesn't need stuff we recommend strongly? Omaha steaks@omaha steaks.com Give them the gift of deliciousness.

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Jack Armstrong (35:42)

It's fun to mock the failures when AI fails. But just to keep it real, Joe and I were in a text conversation with a friend of the show yesterday. A very successful smart guy who understands how to use the latest versions of chat GPT and it sure looked impressive the way what he was getting out of it as a. As a. As an assistant to do his work.

Joe Getty (36:05)

Yes. Those who process information in one way or another for a living, I think they can hear the footsteps behind them.

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Joe Getty (36:13)

Well, that's scary way.

Jack Armstrong (36:14)

Yeah. Talking with our friend yesterday and the way he was using AI, it was reminding me of the. What's the CEO runs Nvidia, the most valuable company in the world.

Joe Getty (36:22)

Where's the cool Nelson Wong?

Jack Armstrong (36:23)

Where's the cool Tom Ford leather jackets? He says you're only going to be replaced by AI if you don't jump on right now figuring out how to use AI. That's. That's his claim. That's not exactly right, but there's some truth to it. You're better off like in engaging what is coming whether you like it or not and figuring out how to use it.

Joe Getty (36:41)

Oh yeah, absolutely. No, I think that's really good advice. It's not 100% accurate, but yeah. Those who can use AI to the advantage of their company are the most likely to hang on to their gigs, clearly.

Jack Armstrong (36:54)

But there's a lot of jobs that are going to be that are going to go away. Yes. Katie.

Katie Green (36:58)

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Jack Armstrong (37:01)

Okay. You had your baby.

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Joe Getty (37:05)

No.

Katie Green (37:05)

We have finally passed $100,000.

Jack Armstrong (37:09)

Holy cow. That's a big. That's big news.

Joe Getty (37:11)

With a total 405.

Katie Green (37:14)

68.

Jack Armstrong (37:15)

That's what I like. He had beautiful hair. Came in with 20 bucks.

Joe Getty (37:21)

Oh, yes.

Jack Armstrong (37:23)

In honor of the daisy the bulldog. $525. What's Daisy the bulldog? We had a story on that recently, I think. Was this just their own dog? And. And here's my favorite 25 bucks from things are getting weird and they're getting weird fast. Which I believe was our clip of the year last year or the year before it.

Joe Getty (37:40)

So many years ago. Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (37:41)

Dang true.

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Jack Armstrong (37:44)

Fits in with that whole AI conversation.

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And they've kept getting weird and they.

Jack Armstrong (37:48)

Ain'T going to slow down getting weird anytime soon. We got. We got. If you want to donate to the Scouts, go to Armstrong and getty.com mailbag on the way.

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Jack Armstrong (40:37)

So I don't know if you can hear this or. Now we're playing the, the. Do they know it's Christmas time at all? When they raised money for hungry Africa kids back in the 80s with the band Aid Christmas song, which gets played a lot this time of year. And Joe brought up the idea the other day, which I'd never really thought of before. The whole. Do they know it's Christmas time at all? No, no. And it's not because they're hungry, it's because they're Muslim. Exactly.

Joe Getty (40:59)

Certainly large majorities are there, which is fine. It's just not to suck the fun out of it, there are plenty of Christians in Africa who are now being murdered by the Muslims. But yeah, but yeah. Do they know it's Christmas? Well, they might be vaguely aware of it, but they certainly don't care. They're Muslims. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day in honor of Glenn Beck interviewing AI George Washington. Which actually was pretty darn good.

Jack Armstrong (41:22)

It was, yeah.

Joe Getty (41:24)

I mean it's, it's funny, the lefties criticized it as Glenn Beck. Interviewing Glenn Beck. Just having George Washington says you should shut up. I wish I had a sword right now. Anyway, I treat you like old General George would. The broad side of it. I'd give him a spanking with it. I'm not anybody through. I'm no murderer. Anyway, so here's my favorite quote from George Washington. And it offers a little more context than the form you usually hear it in in. He was addressing the officers of the army in March of 1783 as the war was winding down. He was actually responding to an anonymous petition which encouraged officers to protest if Congress did not provide the promised pay and pensions. And he told his troops that they had some valid points, that he supported his officers. But the author's proposed solution to mutiny was not the answer. And so the context was very, very serious. And he was defending their rights to defend themselves. He said, for if men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind. Reason is of no use to us. The freedom of speech may be taken away and dumb and silent, we may be led like sheep to the slaughter.

Jack Armstrong (42:45)

That's a heavy speech.

Joe Getty (42:47)

So as he was looking at mutiny, he said, freedom of speech demands you be able to say how pissed off you are. And I support that. On the other hand, let's not be mutinying. But anyway, it's great speech from a Great man. Mailbag.

Jack Armstrong (43:01)

And the Internet didn't get a chance to clap back.

Joe Getty (43:07)

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Jack Armstrong (43:33)

All I've done in my life that's dismissive. A parent to citizen. It's all been reduced to the pie eater.

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Jack Armstrong (43:39)

Wow.

Joe Getty (43:40)

Well, you can't control your own legacy. Just like Washington. He could have told you that. Then he slapped you with his sword. Let's see Ryan in Houston. Always good to hear from Ryan. Thank you for another year. While your topics sometimes made me want to stick my head in the oven, the show's been a solid rock has helped me keep going. Joe, enjoy the nog you can read the newspaper through while you continue to be the cold warrior. I can't drink eggnog like that anymore. I just. No, no, no. It's much milder than it used to be. Jack, be as fancy as you want to be. Thanks for showing how powerful a good single dad can be. Michelangelo, continue to be a national treasure. Katie, enjoy. Jack, Joe, Mike. Mike Hanson. Continue to be the world's leader of wacky AI music. Don't lose the fist in 26. I have no idea what that means.

Jack Armstrong (44:25)

Don't lose. We were putting the fist back in sophistication. Oh, that was our slogan for a long time. We put the fist back in sophistication. Whatever that means. That.

Joe Getty (44:40)

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Jack Armstrong (45:13)

Yeah, I'd rather he does that than continues to masturbate on LA park benches.

Joe Getty (45:18)

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Jack Armstrong (45:19)

Allegedly.

Joe Getty (45:20)

I think there was video. Oh, you know what? I didn't have time to get to this. We've had this company offer to dub our podcast in foreign languages. Yes, finally for foreign audiences so we can become a global media power.

Jack Armstrong (45:35)

Good for news for you, Bangladesh. Okay, if you missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand. Much more to come.

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