You Made Everyone's Life Worse

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand Episode: You Made Everyone's Life Worse
Release Date: April 18, 2025
Host/Author: iHeartPodcasts

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1. Exploring the "Perfect Day"

Timestamp: [00:23] - [26:55]

In this episode, Armstrong and Getty revisit the topic of the "perfect day," building upon their previous discussion informed by surveys and scientific studies. Joe Getty shares his personal vision of an ideal day, emphasizing a balance between family time and solitude. He states, "My perfect day would include family, no doubt. It would also include some decent alone time. Reading, practicing a musical instrument, exercising. Those three things always have to happen for me to consider it a good day." ([00:23])

Contrastingly, Jack Armstrong envisions a day meticulously planned around meals and social activities. He remarks, "I'd have all three meals and snacks planned out, beverages as well. Wine pairings." ([01:16])

The hosts discuss the disparity between extroverted and introverted preferences, highlighting how extroverted norms often dominate societal expectations. Joe Getty criticizes the survey's extrovert-heavy ideal, noting, "As an introvert, it's always bothered me that extroverts get to write the rules and everything like that because they're extroverts. So they like getting into conversations and having those rules. But none of your introvert friends want that much interaction with other humans." ([20:57])

They further explore how the concept of a "perfect day" varies widely depending on personality types, with Joe expressing a preference for solitary activities that bring him joy without the pressure of excessive socialization.

2. Educational Policies and School Choice in Texas

Timestamp: [27:09] - [30:39]

The conversation shifts to educational reforms, particularly the recent passage of a school choice bill in Texas. Jack Armstrong outlines the bill's provisions, explaining, "The program, which will be capped at a billion dollars in its first year of implementation, is designed to send money directly to families via education savings accounts. The money can be used for private school tuition, homeschool tools and curriculum, and virtual learning programs." ([27:41])

Joe Getty criticizes the opposition from teachers' unions and Democrats, arguing that the initiative challenges the public education monopoly. He states, "We have some great suggestions. If you can't afford eggs, what to do for Easter dying and oh, a bunch of people who texted in what their perfect day is all on the way." ([29:35])

The hosts support the bill, asserting that it offers families more control over their children's education and undermines the entrenched public school system. They express optimism about similar movements in Arizona, referring to these states as "laboratories of democracy."

3. Gender Issues and LGBTQ+ Critique

Timestamp: [08:22] - [32:16]

A significant portion of the episode delves into contentious gender and LGBTQ+ topics. Celeste, a 17-year-old student, voices her concerns about a biological male accessing the women's locker room. She passionately declares, "We cannot sit around and allow our rights to be given up to cater to an individual." ([09:05])

This leads to an intense discussion between Armstrong and Getty, where Joe Getty labels the individual as a "perv" and criticizes policies that allow males in female locker rooms. Jack Armstrong reinforces the need for strict gender segregation in such spaces, asserting, "No males in the locker room, period." ([11:08])

Additionally, they address a provocative message from an "OG Lesbian," who vehemently opposes the inclusive LGBTQ+ framework. She accuses the community of promoting "depravity" and warns against the expansion of the acronym to include unsavory groups. The hosts dissect her arguments, with Joe Getty highlighting the dangers of mainstreaming harmful ideologies. He remarks, "That's brutal." ([12:56])

The discussion underscores the hosts' staunch opposition to current LGBTQ+ policies, advocating for a return to more traditional gender norms and criticizing what they perceive as the erosion of societal standards.

4. Clip of the Week: Easter Eggers and Unwanted Surveillance

Timestamp: [03:25] - [08:01]

Michael, the technical director, shares a listener's note about "Easter Eggers," a breed of chickens that lay multicolored eggs. Joe Getty expresses his surprise, admitting, "Not an expert, but I've had quite a few different kinds of chickens over the years. Laying eggs. I didn't know that existed." ([03:38])

The segment also includes humorous and critical clips from listeners, such as someone struggling with car usage etiquette and another dealing with personal mishaps. These clips provide a lighter contrast to the more serious discussions, showcasing the show's blend of humor and commentary.

5. Good Friday, Easter Traditions, and Final Reflections

Timestamp: [27:58] - [35:20]

As Good Friday approaches, Armstrong and Getty reflect on Easter traditions. Joe Getty shares a nostalgic look back at hiding eggs with his children, while Jack Armstrong humorously criticizes the non-biblical tradition of the Easter Bunny, declaring, "I've changed at the last second. I've scoured the New Testament, stemmed astern, and found zero mentions of magical bunnies that deliver eggs." ([32:49])

The hosts conclude the episode with final thoughts from the crew, blending humor with personal anecdotes. Michael jokes about using food coloring to create fake eggs, and Katie Greener shares insights from audience polls, though the specifics are mostly playful banter.

6. Concluding Remarks

Timestamp: [35:08] - [35:20]

In their closing remarks, Armstrong and Getty encourage listeners to engage with their content online, share stories, and participate in discussions. They extend a respectful holiday greeting to their Christian audience, despite the earlier critiques of certain traditions.

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Notable Quotes

• Joe Getty: "My perfect day would include family, no doubt..." ([00:23])

• Jack Armstrong: "I'd have all three meals and snacks planned out, beverages as well. Wine pairings." ([01:16])

• Celeste: "We cannot sit around and allow our rights to be given up to cater to an individual." ([09:05])

• Joe Getty: "That's brutal." ([12:56])

• Jack Armstrong: "I've changed at the last second. I've scoured the New Testament... zero mentions of magical bunnies that deliver eggs." ([32:49])

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Conclusion

In "You Made Everyone's Life Worse," Armstrong and Getty tackle a range of topics from personal lifestyle preferences and educational reforms to heated debates on gender and LGBTQ+ issues. Their candid discussions, punctuated by listener clips and personal anecdotes, offer a glimpse into the hosts' perspectives on contemporary societal challenges. The episode blends humor with serious commentary, engaging listeners in both reflective and provocative dialogues.

Transcript

[Jack Armstrong]

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

[Joe Getty]

We got on the topic of the perfect day, last hour. Based on some surveys and science and that sort of stuff, what people say is a perfect day. And we got a whole bunch of texts on that. I'll try to compile those and maybe we can get into a conversation about that. But I've been. I'm thinking about my perfect day. It would include family, no doubt.

[Jack Armstrong]

But.

[Joe Getty]

It would also include some decent alone time. Reading, practicing a musical instrument, exercising. Those three things always happen, have to happen for me to consider it a good day. I don't think it would include any TV time whatsoever.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, no, no, not at all.

[Joe Getty]

I'll have to think about that. Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Katie, what would you eat on your perfect day?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, it's funny because I'm not a food person. I don't care. I wouldn't. I would never even cross my mind on my perfect day. What to put on the list.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, my God. I'd have all three meals and snacks planned out, beverages as well. Wine pairings.

[Joe Getty]

See, that is so interesting to me. I remember reading. I remember reading in the newspaper one time. It was a USA Today and it had some chart about people who plan what they're going to eat on vacation. And that struck me, you know, where they're going to eat, whatever. And struck me as like, really, people do that? It never crossed my mind. Never think about where you're going to eat on vacation. Just you get hungry and you eat at the place next to you. It's just, I don't care. Who cares?

[Jack Armstrong]

So you don't, like, research where to get a good car pie to eat in your car?

[Joe Getty]

No.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anything like that? No.

[Joe Getty]

Well, so, I mean, I realize, I've realized since then, I didn't know till then actually that I'm an outlier, but I've realized since then I'm an outlier. But that's a good example. Planning the perfect day would. If you gave me 10 criteria, it would have never crossed my mind to put what I eat on there as part of my perfect day.

[Jack Armstrong]

My mind. I. I would definitely play golf. There would be something musical, 100%. Breakfast with my wife. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

You know, if. I mean, if I'm going to be honest about a perfect day, there is going to be sex involved. I mean, I'd be lying if I said it wasn't so it wouldn't hurt.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't Think a lot of people are clutching their pearls at that. I'm pretty sure it's not that shocking.

[Joe Getty]

But seems so crass.

[Jack Armstrong]

But. Oh, you presented it in a gentlemanly way. It could have been more gentlemanly, but a little okay. Oh, for instance. There you go.

[Joe Getty]

You were doing so well.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm gonna seize the reins of the show here. Briefly, before Clips of the Week, we got this note from David, who heard the. The stuff about dying Easter eggs. An amusing bit of unintentional comedy which we'll play for you a little later on because we like it so much. But he said there's a breed of chicken called Easter Eggers that lay eggs with the eggs already died. Pink, light green and blue. My wife and I have three, as well as another breed called an olive egger. Her eggs are army green. And sure enough, he attaches a picture of one of the green eggs and the aforementioned hen.

[Joe Getty]

That's interesting. I, as a guy who probably knows more about having chickens and laying eggs than the average person listening right now. Not an expert, but I've had. We've had quite a few different kinds of chickens over the years. Laying eggs. I didn't know that existed.

[Jack Armstrong]

Nor I. Yeah, yeah. I've never owned a damn chicken in my life. I've dined on them several times, but I've owned them.

[Joe Getty]

I've fed them, I've cleaned up after them. I've shot them when necessary when they.

[Jack Armstrong]

Committed a terrible crime, for instance.

[Joe Getty]

Or Rooster. Rooster attacked Sam and I shot it immediately.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hey, Jack, where are you going with that gun in your hand? I'm gonna shoot that old rooster down. Caught him trying to claw my son. Anyway, speaking of livestock, it's the Friday tradition. Let's take a fond look back at the week. There was. It's Cow Clips of the Week.

[Katie]

This is a message from an OG Lesbian.

[Jack Armstrong]

Life moves pretty fast. What a wonderful.

[Joe Getty]

Now Clips of the week.

[Michael]

Let's go to space. You are officially an astronaut.

[Celeste]

How do you feel?

[Jack Armstrong]

I still can't accept that word.

[Michael]

I will never be the same. This experience is right. It's second to being a mom. The moon was so beautiful and that was like. I felt like that was a special gift just for me.

[Jack Armstrong]

But the best part was Katie sang what a Wonderful Beautiful World. She did. You know, I kind of consider myself the number one female pleasuring device on earth.

[Joe Getty]

Jack, that's the worst thing you have ever said.

[Jack Armstrong]

It really is.

[Joe Getty]

Chicken Jockeys McElroy has his masterpiece.

[Michael]

You might have seen the social trends. Plastic egg decorating. And dying Marshmallows potatoes.

[Katie]

Then we have the Qs. Young men feminized by city porn.

[Jack Armstrong]

Together with Governor Newsom, I'm filing our 14th lawsuit against the president. How in the hell are we sitting by and allowing this to happen? And at least on the left, what they say is that they eat their own oligarchy. Oligarchy. An oligarchic society.

[Joe Getty]

It sure don't look like it today. You seem to have a real hatred of Vladimir Putin. 100% hatred.

[Jack Armstrong]

If no progress is being made, then we're just gonna move on.

[Joe Getty]

Kilmar, Abrego, Garcia.

[Jack Armstrong]

The Maryland man. Maryland man. That Maryland man. The Maryland man let this innocent man walk out. I don't understand what the confusion is.

[Michael]

He was a member of Ms. 13. There is no Maryland father. Do you plan to return him?

[Joe Getty]

Is preposterous.

[Jack Armstrong]

How can I dismugle the terrorist into the United States? Why did you throw fast food on.

[Joe Getty]

The side of my tus? You threw mashed potatoes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sit here. You drive in, you drive out. You have junk cars all over. What do you do? You drive in and you drive out. That's what people do in their driveways. You. What an idiot.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, that just not only qualifies for a strong candidate for clip of the year. That's in the top five for clips of my life, it's that I would agree.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, I wish I could somehow assemble all of those. My favorite clips from every year of the show. I mean, just have them if I'm ever feeling down. Hearing that guy howling. That's what you do in a driveway. I mean, please.

[Joe Getty]

We've all been that exasperated when somebody. Somebody says or does something stupid. But often we're so exasperated, we can't get the words out the way we want. And he did, which is.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

Quite the trick.

[Michael]

You sit here and drive in, you drive out.

[Jack Armstrong]

You have junk cars all over. What do you do? You drive in and you drive out. That's what people do in their driveways, you moron.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, boy. There are a couple of things from there I wanted to mention. We should play that OG lesbian woman again.

[Jack Armstrong]

You read my mind. I was thinking the very same thing.

[Joe Getty]

We should play the whole thing. That was really interesting.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. And we uncovered a bit more, too.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, really? Okay.

[Jack Armstrong]

Absolutely. Terrific. Yeah. Yeah. And we could combine that with the high school girl who is saying, there's a man in my locker room who watches us undress because he claims he's a woman. And she's told, hey, wrap it up. We don't need your testimony here. These people are sick, man. Sick.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I'd say diluted.

[Jack Armstrong]

Twisted.

[Joe Getty]

So we have more from the original. The OG lesbian talking about modern society and how she thinks that the LGB needs to break from the rest of the letters.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes.

[Joe Getty]

Which would be a great benefit to society all the way thing around. And I, I think I'm not in the lesbian gay, bisexual community but I think it'd be a great benefit to them to break from the rest of the letters.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh yeah, yeah. I think it's, it's been a terrible, you know, unholy and unwanted in the case of a lot of people like fusion of very different things.

[Joe Getty]

So we've got that, we've got some great suggestions. If you can't afford eggs, what to do for Easter dying and oh, a bunch of people who texted in what their perfect day is all on the way.

[Michael]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Joe Getty]

So last hour we got into the topic of scientific study that says what's the perfect day? And maybe we shall recap that real quick. Coming up. But then we threw it out to you. It's the perfect day. And the responses have been damn interesting. And also a number of people pointing out that extroverts run the world and they're not all of us are like them. So that's its own interesting topic. So we'll get to that next segment.

[Jack Armstrong]

True enough. First, to set up this topic we bring you Celeste who is a 17 year old California high school student. 13.

[Celeste]

Recently I went into the women's locker room to change for track practice where I saw at the end of my row a biological male watching not only myself but the other young women undress. I must add, he is not changing in our locker room because he's in his track clothes, dressed and ready to go to practice at the beginning of the day. Therefore there's absolutely no reason for him to be in any locker room, let alone the women's. Adults like yourself made me and my peers feel like our own comfort was invalid. Even though our privacy was. And still it's being completely violent. The individual who identifies as female has XY chromosomes. Biologically this makes him a male.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, please wrap it up.

[Celeste]

Yeah, I just want to ask, what about us? We cannot sit around and allow our rights to be given up to cater to an individual. That is a man who watches woman undress in a stripping away female opportunity. I hope you put effort into the restoration of our school safety.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

So that that particular dude. Cuz if you're a legit trans person you would want to make it as comfortable for those girls as possible.

[Jack Armstrong]

I mean, things just so twisted. If you show that that poor girl has to be there begging the adults to keep boys out of her locker room.

[Joe Getty]

I mean, that's unbelievable. And the guy. This particular guy's clearly a pervo. I mean, he's taking the opportunity to watch young women undress because, like I said, if you. Unless you're like, some sort of crazy activist, you're legitimate, you would go out of your way to try to make it comfortable for everybody and not cause a scene.

[Jack Armstrong]

You're right. You're 100. Right. But I. I won't even go there. No males in the locker room, period. Whether they're a purvo or not. Was Leah Thomas, the college swimmer, a purvo? I don't know. I don't care. Get him out of the women's locker room.

[Joe Getty]

That's.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, here's a. A British gal who's. Well, she kind of explains what she is. Who has an interesting point of view.

[Katie]

This is a message from an OG lesbian. The acronym LGBTQ is not a representation of a united community for what was once a legitimate civil rights movement. Gay rights has been hijacked quite literally by the TQ plus and used as a Trojan horse to mainstream their degeneracy. First, we have the trans cult who want to sterilise children with puberty blockers. Then we have the cues. Young men feminised by sissy porn furries and pups who fetishize bestiality, all accepted and protected by the rainbow umbrella that magically transforms all scrutiny into bigotry. But the thing that requires the most scrutiny is the unspecified plus at the end, a placeholder for what's coming next.

[Jack Armstrong]

All scrutiny is portrayed as bigotry. I thought that was good, but.

[Joe Getty]

And you think she's suggesting what with the what's coming next?

[Jack Armstrong]

She is happy to explain maps or.

[Katie]

Minor attracted people, a euphemism that is already being used to describe pedophiles who are waiting in the wings for their time to shine. Because the LGBTQ sexual psyop is not about promoting tolerance of diversity. It's about grooming society to accept depravity. And as an L, I renounce all association with IT and the LGBs who are accessories to the fact. And I urge you to do the same and join the movement for LGB without the T plus, because we needed divorce people and we needed stat.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. I. I would like to think that if you try to add. What do they call Them minor attractive maps, minor attractive people. I would like to think that if you try to get that mainstreamed, people will have drawn the line short of that. But I would have thought that about dudes in girls high school locker rooms too. And I was.

[Jack Armstrong]

Or dudes whooping out, whooping up on girls on a sports field. I would have said that's never going to happen. That's absurd. In fact, 98% of America would have said that's absurd. The other 2% would have thought you were kidding. So, yeah, it's. Boy, the way the Marxists, the neo Marxist critical radical theory people, the way they got the playing field ready in the education system and then just took this stuff big and just cowed anybody who resisted into submission by ruining them, convincing everybody else that it. No, it was not legitimate scrutiny. It's bigotry.

[Joe Getty]

As when the history's finally written of this with a little distance of this era. So we lived through this era, we all know where we were all scared to say all kinds of things that we now openly say about race, sexuality, a variety of things. I mean, because they, they did pretty good job of everybody. Everybody scared with the microaggressions, everything like that. And even though we didn't agree with it, we thought they kind of meant it. But between the George Floyd riots in the middle of COVID where it's like, oh, okay, so you don't believe in this Covid stuff or what happened on Columbia with the Jewish kids and all the other campuses, we realized, oh, okay, this is all crap. This is all crap. That, that from the left, they did so much damage to what? You were just talking about that structure they had built themselves. Yeah, they tore down their own structure. When we realized, oh, that whole microaggression thing is complete crap. You don't mean it at all.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, they're just trying to bully you into silence. They don't want diversity, they want one ideology. So call it diversity to shut you up.

[Joe Getty]

Right. We all thought you were actually so precious with these microaggressions and stuff like that that were kind of building society to make sure. No, it's all crap. Okay, fine. Well then screw you. You can't have dudes in women's locker rooms. Let's get rid of dudes and women's sports, etc. Etc.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. As you pointed out, you've got some of them who know exactly what they're doing, and some of them have just been brainwashed and go along with it. But yeah, I remember referring to the microaggression crowd as snowflakes. They were not snowflakes. They were gun wielding aggressors. They were there to take over the institutions by calling you a racist. And of course nobody who's a racist should be in charge of anything. So now we're in charge. It's an instrument of capture.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Pretty interesting. Also interesting, the responses we got on what is your perfect day? We'll have to recap real quickly what science says or a study says. Your perfect day is. It wouldn't be my perfect day. Way too much time with other people. Again, another example of extroverts being in control of everything and making introverts feel like weirdos.

[Jack Armstrong]

But depressing us. What about our rights?

[Joe Getty]

Exactly. More on that in a second. Stay tuned.

[Michael]

Armstrong and Getty. A dozen eggs are going for more than $6 according to the national average. You might have seen the social trends. Plastic egg decorating and dying marshmallo potatoes. All it takes is a little food dye you probably have in the back of your pantry from last year. And egg shaped potatoes. Both options are a fraction of the cost of a dozen eggs.

[Joe Getty]

Having to dye potatoes because we can't afford eggs is the reason our grandparents left the old country. You know what you want. You know what you can do if you can't buy eggs? Here's a suggestion. It's a good suggestion. Just tell your kids you hid the eggs really, really well this year. Egg shaped potatoes, while you are really up against hard times.

[Jack Armstrong]

Had one email or suggest that we're being insensitive because of our financial comfort level?

[Joe Getty]

No. No, I don't believe it. I've been, I've been pretty broke. The difference between what eggs used to cost and what they caught, I mean cost six months ago and what they cost now is a couple of bucks. Couple of bucks is a difference between. I mean, you're really, really, really, really struggling. I just, I just don't believe there's a lot of.

[Jack Armstrong]

God bless you. I hope your, your lot improves. But egg shaped potatoes? Really? Some people have no sense of humor. It's fine. I pity them.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, I guess Dr. Oz is being sworn in as whatever he is now when they said it's historic.

[Jack Armstrong]

He is now the highest in U.S. history. The, the highest ranking quack in American history.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I was actually wondering when they put his hand in the Bible and said, do you swear to uphold the Constitution, did he say quack, quack? We'll take that as A yes. There's Dr. Oz. We had a personal run in with him. So I have a personal beef against him. So that's part of it.

[Jack Armstrong]

And he's a quack.

[Joe Getty]

And he's a quack. Yes, he was a hell of a heart surgeon.

[Jack Armstrong]

No doubt. But then he started pitching fake stuff anyway. Back to you.

[Joe Getty]

And got rich off of it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

So what was it? A scientific study describing the perfect day. Is that what you had for us last time?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, essentially it was a huge survey of people about what they did with their time and how they rated their days. And they came up with this formula. Six hours with family, two hours with friends, an hour and a half of extra socializing, two hours of exercise, one hour of eating and drinking, less than six hours of work, one hour of screen time and a 15 minute commute, et cetera, et cetera.

[Joe Getty]

I'll run through some of the texts we got. We throw it out to you what your perfect day is. The perfect day goes like this. It's Friday, early morning, you make a call into work, cough, cough. You go out to hook up your boat and you head down to the river for some good time fishing. There's a number of people who said the day fishing was their perfect day.

[Jack Armstrong]

Can I come?

[Joe Getty]

The perfect day you described sounds like retired people playing pickleball. Yeah, that's pretty close.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. Nailed it.

[Joe Getty]

I think what you described is the perfect day for extroverts. I need way more alone time than that. Yes. My perfect day.

[Jack Armstrong]

No way.

[Joe Getty]

It includes six hours with family, an hour and a half with friends, and two hours, two hours with friends. And then more socializing. No freaking way. Not even close. And we got a bunch of texts like that and that's, it's. As an introvert, it's always bothered me that extroverts get to write the rules and everything like that because they're extroverts. So they like getting into conversations and having those rules. But none of your introverts friends want that much interaction with other humans.

[Jack Armstrong]

And again, this is not like designed outward by science. It's a giant study. It's a poll essentially. So. And yeah, there are more in extroverts in the world than introverts, so yeah, it reflects an extroverted population.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. An extra, an introvert friend of mine texted me. That would be a hell day for them. Yeah, way too much socializing and hanging out with other people. I mean, if I, I, I would feel guilty if I didn't spend time with my kids on my perfect day. But if I had to spend the whole day by myself, going to a coffee shop, reading Books, playing my guitar. It's not like at the end of the day I'd be miserable.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

I'd be pretty freaking happy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I was thinking about it a little bit and realized just to have like, ah, perfect day is kind of silly because. Yeah, sure, you know, unless you ran yourself to complete exhaustion. I would love to spend time with all three of my kids who are grown, which we did a couple of weeks ago and it was wonderful. And I want to play golf with my buddies and I want to go out for dinner and drinks with Judy. I mean just my big birthday a.

[Joe Getty]

While back I went to LA and I, I spent the whole day by myself. And it was awesome. It was absolutely awesome. But I spend lots of time with my kids so I don't have to one day away from them. I don't have to feel guilty, but I don't think John here from Reno. My perfect day is just being with my wife. That was very nice.

[Jack Armstrong]

Beautiful.

[Joe Getty]

My perfect day is doing none of those things except for work and extending that to 10 hours and listening to Armstrong and Getty. I don't know what he does for a living, but he really enjoys his job. Some people really like working. They really, really like working.

[Jack Armstrong]

And thank you for listening.

[Joe Getty]

Winning Giants baseball game followed by excellent evening of live music and dancing. No drinking. That's pretty good day.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow, you had me until you were dancing. I mean that sounded great. Until we were dancing. Why are you sit here and drink? Will you dance?

[Joe Getty]

That reminds me, we left a restaurant the other day and me and both the boys and we're walking by this like wine bar sort of place and they had a little live music. They got like a guy playing the guitar and his wife singing or something like that. And there were people sitting there drinking. So this is like 6:00 on a Friday evening and inebriation starting to set in. Anyway, there's one like very typical sort of wine drinking wife, like age 55, dancing by herself in front of the music. And I could see her husband right behind her. He's just sitting there with his glass of wine. And I explained to my kids, I told them, I said that woman wants nothing more in the world than for her husband to dance with her. And he should be dancing with her. Even if he hates it. Even if he hates it, he should be out there dancing with her.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know what? She's happy right now and so is he. Leave. Mind your own business.

[Joe Getty]

I just told my kids, I said if you're ever in that situation, even if you don't want to do it. You should be dancing with her because that's what she wants to do. Your. Your answer is pretty good too. They're both happy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Nunya.

[Joe Getty]

I don't understand this one. Maybe I missed something. Perfect day punching a volcano into submission. What is that? They know what that is. I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, I just. It's. It's funny on its face, but what the hell.

[Joe Getty]

What are you.

[Jack Armstrong]

What do you mean, sir or madam?

[Joe Getty]

That perfect day study might be why your blue collar guys working on the deck were so happy. Joe told that story earlier in the show. In the trades, you spend eight hours doing physical work. A group of people that are typically you're friends with. We tend to have fun and joke around while at work. Then we go home and have a drink while doing family time before bed. That's a pretty good day.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's funny. We were talking to. I was talking to my. The contractor, general contractors who oversee and everything we're having done and, and I was asking him questions about how this works and how that fits into that and stuff like that. And he was just so into it. And he said this is the fun stuff.

[Joe Getty]

This is so cool.

[Jack Armstrong]

Building stuff. He said now the billing and the paperwork and the permits and the taxes, not so much. But when we get to actually build stuff. Oh, he couldn't have loved his job more.

[Joe Getty]

Right? We got several more. On the whole, that's way too much of an extrovert day for me. I'm an introvert. I would prefer to be like this person talking about riding their horse alone or whatever.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Hey, back to the job thing. Just real briefly. Remember how several years in a row we would do this, the best jobs report would come out and it was always an actuary. That was the best job. Like an insurance actuary. You sit in a cubicle doing spreadsheets, but it pays pretty well and you're safe and you don't have to be outdoors.

[Joe Getty]

And those studies always emphasize climate controlled comfort above anything. As if nobody actually wants to work outside. I have known so many people in my life who would die if they had to be inside working. And you know, days that are too hot or too cold or too rainy are way better than having to work inside. But a lot of the, you know, academic types who put together these lists can imagine working outside. And one more. I read this one last. Because this person ruins it for everyone else. They might be sincere, but still my perfect day. Is anyone where I make a difference in someone's life. That's fantastic.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, you're better than me.

[Joe Getty]

Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm probably, I don't know, taller than you. So we each have something going for us.

[Joe Getty]

Right? I mean, yeah. Okay, good for you. I mean, you probably mean it, but.

[Jack Armstrong]

That'S just off putting. You've made our lives worse. How does that feel? You make you feel, huh?

[Joe Getty]

That's an excellent point. Everybody listening? Actually, yes. Many thousands of people. You made their lives worse by saying that. Because now they think, oh, I was thinking about going fishing and having sex. And you said, yeah, good to have.

[Jack Armstrong]

St. Francis of Assisi listening anyway. But yeah, thanks for the note.

[Joe Getty]

He made everybody's life worse. So now you've had a bad day. I hope we'll finish strong.

[Michael]

Next, Armstrong and Getty.

[Joe Getty]

We're throwing out the money changers or something today on Good Friday. How you doing?

[Jack Armstrong]

Good. It's funny, I was just thinking I'd almost missed this story that I'm so glad I came across. I was thinking earlier, between that which I have to read, I should read and I want to read, I would need roughly 37 hour days for the next.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

50 weeks.

[Joe Getty]

Ah, I wish I could get to instill that in my kids. My oldest particularly just has no interest in reading this stuff. I said, I keep telling him, man, if I could do anything today, I would read all day long. I go into a bookstore, there's like, there's so many books I want to read in there. It drives me crazy that I'll never get to them all.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I know. I have stacks of them. I finally dove back into the cane mutiny after a couple of day break. I was just too busy reading work stuff and oh, I love that book so much. Anyway, so this is the good news I almost missed. I just saw the headline. The Texas House passed a bill that will bring school choice to the nation's most populous red state. We were railing at length earlier, as we are wont to do, about how perverse and ineffective our education system has become in the United states. K through Ph.D. just a miserable, miserable failure. Anyway, it's a win for Governor Greg Abbott, who championed the bill and supported primary challenges against Republican legislators who opposed school choice last year and for the president actually, who worked the phone with legislators in the hours before the vote was called. Donald J. Was standing up big for school choice in Texas. The program, which will be capped at a billion dollars in its first year of implementation, is designed to send money directly to families via education savings accounts. The money can be used for private School tuition, homeschool tools and curriculum and virtual learning programs. Democrats and their allies in the teachers unions complain that the program's cost could explode a hilarious about face from the top interest group for greater state and local spending, especially on education. If families and students choose to use funds instead of attending public schools, that means they'll they think they'll be better off outside the public education monopoly. And once they leave, legislators can cut public school spending to assuage the teachers. Teachers union spending concerns the people who.

[Joe Getty]

Are in I know one guy in particular. I'm thinking of people who are working public schools. They definitely don't have the attitude they should have. Their attitude should be we don't care where you get your education. We just want to make sure kids get a good education. And we're here for if you want to go to the public school route, they definitely do not have that attitude.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. Yeah, good point.

[Joe Getty]

It's a no. You got to do it here. And anything else is a threat to us and we'll do anything we can to try to keep that from being a viable option.

[Jack Armstrong]

And the idea that we even contemplate the well being of children is hilarious. Yeah, yeah. So clearly true. So good for Texas. Arizona is doing some pretty exciting things in school choice too. Let's keep watching these laboratories of democracy and I'm certainly rooting for it to be successful. I mean, obviously if there were government schools that were solid and educated the kids and didn't attempt to indoctrinate them into radical theories, which is just astonishing to me, that would be great.

[Joe Getty]

Sure.

[Jack Armstrong]

But that's not the situation. Not even close. One thing we probably won't get to is, but I'll save this for Monday, is a great little kind of mini write up in the National Review. I'll just read you the beginning of it. Having been soundly defeated in the court of public opinion, the opponents of gender affirming care quotes for kids have taken their efforts underground. Health care providers are now concealing their mutilation to children when applying to have the procedures covered by insurers. So rather than admit to performing a double mastectomy on a teen girl for purely cosmetic reasons, the responsible physician will file to have the procedure covered as a medically necessary breast reduction.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. Any doctor that would do that is insane, actually. Insane.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Ethan Haim, you remember that surgeon who was prosecuted by the Biden Department of Justice for blowing the whistle on gender transition stuff going on at Texas Children's Hospital in open violation of Texas's laws by the Way. He recently testified before the House Judiciary Committee and explained how the Campaign for Southern Equality, an LGBTQ minus plus over the power of three group, trains doctors to conceal their efforts.

[Joe Getty]

That is brutal.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, it is. Yeah. Sorry, I didn't mean to end on a negative note or an anger inducing note. A most respectful happy Easter weekend to all of our friends of the Christian faith.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I'm trying to come up with something Good Friday ish or Easter ish I'm going to do with the boys, so I got to do something to feel good about myself. My son goes to a Christian private school, so they do plenty of stuff.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. Speaking of books, I want to read when I was in that crazy bookstore I described to you in North Carolina, I guess it was. Yeah, it was around Asheville. I bought like a thousand page history of Christianity and I really need to dig into that. Maybe I'll just start it to get. Get the hooks in me.

[Joe Getty]

Hey, kids, it's that time again.

[Jack Armstrong]

Final thought with Armstrong and Getty.

[Joe Getty]

Here's your host for final thoughts on Good Friday, it's Joe Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up the day. There he is, Michelangelo, our technical director, Michael. Well, I'm gonna spend this weekend just finding any round object I can and putting food coloring on it and so I don't have to spend any money on eggs, potatoes, radishes, whatever's handy. Katie Greener, esteemed muse woman, has a final thought. Katie, I opened up a poll on my Twitter saying peeps are, A, a sophisticated delight and b, trash.

[Michael]

Majority, 70, 30.

[Joe Getty]

Trash.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, well, whenever I find myself in agreement with the majority, I immediately reassess my opinion. Fools. Jack, final thought for us.

[Joe Getty]

Man, the whole period sure goes by fast. When your kids are small enough, you get to do the Easter bunny thing and hide the eggs and all the stuff. That was fun, but it's over. It's a lot less work, but not quite as magical, that's for certain.

[Jack Armstrong]

My final thought. I've changed at the last second. I've scoured the New Testament, stemmed astern, and found zero mentions of magical bunnies that deliver eggs. It's an outrage. It's irreligious. It is shocking.

[Joe Getty]

It is one of the odder things we've got going on in culture, but.

[Jack Armstrong]

Straight out of paganism.

[Joe Getty]

I understand, but.

[Jack Armstrong]

And it's fun.

[Joe Getty]

Sure.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

And it's fun. It's funny. I grew up as a churchgoing kid and we did Easter with the bunny and the eggs, too. And that like didn't confuse me. I didn't stand around. Wait a second. I just think so we did the.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sunrise service and everything and had an Easter egg come.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Armstrong and Yeti rapping them out on their grueling four hour workday.

[Jack Armstrong]

So many people who thanks a little time. Go To Armstrong and getty.com for the hot links. Katie's Corner Pick up some swag for your favorite ANG fan. They'll love it. Maybe it's you yourself. If there's something you see over the weekend we ought to be talking about, send it along. [e-mail] so many big stories out there.

[Joe Getty]

We'll be following next week. See you then. God bless America.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty is an unpredictable beast.

[Michael]

There's nothing wrong with you for being like this.

[Jack Armstrong]

I was wondering, you know, what you felt about that. You're driving. You drive out.

[Michael]

And child, listen.

[Joe Getty]

It's cold. One final message.

[Jack Armstrong]

Perhaps a delicious marshmallow peep.

[Joe Getty]

I like that tone of voice. Like I'm not being reverent toward the Lord and Savior. If I don't like peeps, that makes sense.

[Jack Armstrong]

Have a great Friday, you mother.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Gettysburg.