February 10, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- The Superbowl, Jack hates blow outs & what was the Brad Pitt commercial?
- 53% approval rating for Trump!
- Mailbag!
- Katie Green's Headlines!
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Speaker 1 (00:39):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arm Strong
and he Armstrong and oh, this is Gronk. I'm here
(01:04):
for the show. Open up the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Get out of here, Gronk. You don't need to be
in every damn thing I ever look at in my life.
Everybody loves Gronk. Oh my god, enough Gronk already live
from Studio C, a d lit room deep within the
bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications combound. And hey, everybody,
(01:26):
on a brand new week. We're under the tutelage of
our general manager here, pil.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Phenelfia el Gleckles.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
But super Bowl champions. I hate blowouts as my least favorite.
I would rather have had a that was last on
my list of there's only four outcomes for any game
you watch, right, your team barely wins, your team barely loses,
or the blowout either way, really and uh this is
(01:54):
the worst. I would rather have a close Philadelphia win
than a Kansas City blowout. I don't like blowouts. I
find blogs aring and uh yeah, so I was cleaning
my room the entire second half. I didn't see how
they scored twenty two points somehow was as clearly matter
wasn't as close as the score indicates, as they say,
as they often say, yeah, but yeah, that's disappointing. Well,
(02:18):
we had, you know, many years in a row of
very close super Bowls like came down to the last play.
I mean, that's more than you can really expect to
have over and over again. Yeah, Cups was running over.
It was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, could this usher in a new era of super bores?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Much like the nineties? Is that a thing? Did these
things come in waves that you couldn't usher it in?
This is footstock.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
It doesn't have to make a damn look of sense.
What do you think, Gronk?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Seriously enough, Gronk, I'm amazed at how people get hot
and then every company out there thinks we need to
throw how how much money we need to throw at
Gronk to get him an hour ad? Or do they
not know that? Maybe I'd ask Gronk just before we
signed the paper and we have you in the ad?
(03:10):
Are you doing like fifty other commercials that are gonna
make people roll their eyes? They won't even remember mine?
He's the U two of the twenty twenties.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Good Ronk's everywhere? Every show got to have Gronk or what.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
The I tweeted a lot yesterday. I was on a
tweet and roll before the game. My favorite thing of
the whole everything, if you saw it, was what the
hell was that like five minute Brad pit thing. I
couldn't figure out, what are you asking me to do?
What are you telling am I supposed to cry? Am
I supposed to stand up in salute? Am I supposed
to be excited about football or the country or kids.
(03:47):
I don't even know what we're doing here? Are you
selling me something? Do I need to go onto a
website and donate money? I had no idea what's going
on there? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I missed the audio on that when I was at
a party, so I was just looking at it mystified.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
You know, Brad Pitts one of the biggest stars in
the world, and they gave it super prime placement right
before the game starts, and it was mystifying as to
what it was, like, what what is the message here?
Did you see that? Michael? Yeah? And it brought back
memories of my dad. He used to scream at the TV.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Damn it, it's just a football game, and it just
started getting mad.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
That is a good thing to say. That is a
perfect thing to say. Quick trying to pull my like
heartstrings around patriotism and hurt children and all these different
equality in the world and all these different things. Damn it,
it's just a football game.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I would like to see it more seriously, at least
slightly more seriously.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Just a pole.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I guess of Americans, how many people are like touched
and moved that they trotted out or brought out the
families of the victims of the would be jihadi who
ran a bunch of people over because it's in the
same set is there's some sort of sin being committed
(05:03):
by going ahead with life, and there was a rather
important football game schedule, so we're going to go ahead
and have the football game. But you've got to, like Genufleck,
to the idea of this is like weirdly inappropriate because
there was just death here.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I don't have to, by the way, I don't think
you do. Entertainment executives make all, as we know, make
all kinds of stupid, stupid decisions. Yeah, and whoever got
together in a room and decided. They probably decided it
right after the ISIS attack, when it was like super fresh,
and now we hear we are month and a half
later or whatever it is where it's like, oh, yeah,
(05:36):
that's right, that happened, as opposed to I don't know
if I can watch the super Bowl in New Orleans
after what happened the other day. Now, who was feeling
that way? And lama is another one of my tweets.
As Lady Gaga was singing her song and people were
waving her hands. Okay, I guess we're all unified. We're
anti ISIS.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Let's get to kickoff, noted anti Ghatty activist Lady Gaga.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Ah, I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
There is clearly a certain sort of person for whom
that sort of gesture is appreciated.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I don't believe.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yes, I don't believe I feel better now that Lady
Gaga sang an emotional song.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I don't believe it. I think if the entire Super
Bowl had completely ignored the horrifying shooting or I guess
car ramming there in New Orleans, I don't I don't
think I would have noticed. I don't think anybody would
have minded.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
But it wouldn't have popped into my mind. No, absolutely,
I was acutely aware of the event and who was
involved in New Orleans' failures and putting up the ballards
and the rest of it a chapter and verse. I
followed the news, but no, I wouldn't have thought of it.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I need football. I need Tom Brady in a T
shirt walking between the firefighters and the cops talking about
pulling together and something or other and how and you know,
it's a stretch anyway, We're all getting together to get
drunk and get fat and watch a football game to
try to success. By the way, to try to turn
it in. I think this was Brad Pitt's message, to
try to turn it into some sort of this is
who we are as Americans. I think it's a real stretch. Well,
(06:59):
try to make more important than just it's a football game.
It's way to kill an afternoon, and to further torture it.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Because we were paying loving tribute to the death in
New Orleans, it seemed insensitive not to pay a tribute
to the death and destruction in California. So Tom Brady
was it was was wearing an LA Fire Department.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
T shirt just as kind of a token representation of
Oh in California too, because somebody in the meeting threw up.
But what about California? That's right, we need to resonate
with California. Also, Yeah, at least three people wearing T shirts. Now,
three seems like a lot because the game's in New Orleans.
How about one? Would one be good? Okay again, if
you know what that Brad Pitt thing was, it seemed
(07:42):
like the length of a motion picture. Please text four
one KFTC. I still don't Oh crap, the Eagles just
scored again. Jeez, it's to twenty four. Let's start the
show officially. I'm Jack Armshaw. I hain't a lot of
your cheese dip yesterday, Michael to come out. It was
damn good, good, it was damn good. I wish I
(08:03):
had to put more cheese on top because I like
that part. But it was really really good. But after
you get I don't know, a pound into it, yeah,
you start to regret your decisions. Yep, that's what I noticed.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I don't have any leftovers because when I set fire
to my kitchen to celebrate the Eagles, when I accidentally
torched it, so I might name it Michelangelo's Regretful Cheese Dip,
because after you eat a whole bunch of it, you
will regret that you had ever started.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I went to the grocery store and spent money and
time to do this. I feel awful. What was the
point here? What was I trying to a couple hole?
It's not a very good endorsement. Well, it might have
to do with the quantity you have to eat as
much as I. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this.
It is Monday, February tenth, year, twenty twenty five. We
are armstrong in getting we approved of this program.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
All right, let's kick off the show for brand new
week officially according to FCC rules regulations.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Here we go at Mark.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
On the.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
And see.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Me.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Let's go Bart, Here you go. Because it was New Orleans.
I really liked the music. I thought the America the
Beautiful with trombone Shorty was flipping awesome. I thought that
was so good. Hey, at the end.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
There, though we were talking about this in the pregame show,
he was just playing random notes that was not groovy
piano riff.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
And that was a guy that's like, yeah, whatever, I
didn't notice the piano I was singing about that. Did
you have a clock on? And at how do they
make sure the anthem singer doesn't do some insider trading
or whatever it is if you're involved in betting, Because
it was one hundred and twenty seconds. He over under
on the beat and you can actually bet money on that.
And he could have said the Home of the Brave.
(10:04):
He could have had home with a brave, brave, but
he went home with a brave, brave, brave right, And
it got him to one hundred and twenty seconds. And
I just wonder, how would you How would you not
have an uncle who puts a thousand dollars on it someplace?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It had the feel of a team going for two
when they didn't need to, And.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I was said, why would they do that? Well? The
spread was what right? Did you know? My favorite headline
of the day. What we woke up to today? The
end of the penny? Donald Trump tweeting out last night,
no more pennies. We spend two cents on a penny.
It's stupid. We're gonna stop, he announced, He ordered the treasurer.
(10:45):
Why did this not happen before? Why is he only
a person that can say the capital is of Israel
is Jerusalem. We all know it, right, let's just move
it over there. USA.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
It is a fraud the department, it's a fraud factory.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
We got to get rid of it. But can he
defeat the humble penny, the pennies? Just can he order
the Treasury Department to do that? Well, we're well read
at the nickel must go. And let's talk about the dime.
A quarter is enough of a denomination, all right, we're
a rich country. We're not.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
You know, we don't make four thousand dollars a year
per capity here?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yes, wegel.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Does this mean that pennies will become collectible items and
that will be worth a lot?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
My son and I were actually talking about that last night.
What does that mean for the penny? Does it wonder
what happens to it? Because there are gazillions of pennies
in circulation.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Well, oddly enough, now that it's no longer currency and
is merely the constituent parts, it's worth more. Although you know,
none of us has the ability to smelt it down
to whatever, so you know there's going to be a
discount on it, but you'll probably get like one point
two cents for every penny's.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Most of us on the show aren't tweakers. We're not
that fascinated by copper just in general. But all your
tweaker friends would love to have your pennies probably, hey,
tweak your friends, plenty of them. And what was the
other thing? Oh, so he announced on Brett Bear's interview
yesterday that he said, starting in twenty four hours, Elon's
going to turn his Elon whose name I now hear
more than Trump's, that Elon's going to turn elected dictator
(12:16):
by the way, a world Church's man. Yeah, which obviously
you don't allow dark. You don't need to explain why
that's evil. It's just obviously evil. The fact that he's
rich and trying to government clearly evil. He announced that
Trump announced yesterday during Brettbear's interview and will play some
of it later from the super Bowl. That within twenty
four hours, so that'd be today, Elon's going to turn
(12:38):
his attention toward the Department of Education. And I'm all
about that. I want to hear all kinds of great
stats coming out on that. How does mail bag look? Oh,
it's good.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
We'll get to that a little later on in the hour,
I think, right, we are we going to oh take
come to schedule.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
That's right, We're going to do things differently. Now. Yeah,
we're gonna see how this works. It could be a disaster.
I mean it could be like the Kansas City Chiefs
offensive line. Nothing could be that bad. Not really. No
lots on the way, you stay here, armstrong and getty.
What's driving this?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I will keep it simple, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
He is doing, in the eyes of the public, what
he said he would do in the campaign.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
There's political value in that.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
In fact, seventy percent of people say he's doing what
he promised.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
That's whether they approve of him or not.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Now there's another part of this that continues over from
the campaign.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
There were words that he was described as.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Being tough, being energetic, and he still is today in
big majority numbers. So as people take a look in
these first few weeks, there's been a lot of activity,
they're getting that general sense of governance and that's being
reflected in these early numbers.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So this is the most recent big poll to come
out since Trump has been in office, and while it
seems like he's been in office for a year and
a half, it's been He's inaugurate on the twentieth. We're not.
We're ten days away from the one month then mark.
How is that even possible? I know we're ten world ways,
we're a week and a half from the one month mark.
(14:10):
It's incredible. I was remer it's well go ahead.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I was gonna say, it's a symptom of a lot
of different things, including the incredible power and flexibility of
the presidency. They have it within their grasp to just
redesign two thirds of the policies of the United States.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Government, which is not a great deal. But before before
I get back to the polling, which is really good
for Trump, I was reminded yesterday that FDR, when he
took office, he had one day where he had one
hundred executive orders in a day, seven hundred for his
first year. So it's not like nobody's ever done this before,
(14:50):
your hero lefties. FDR was really into the president gets
to do whatever the hell he wants. So anyway, Trump's
overall approval rating with CBS after all this stuff in
the world went, it's a disaster, and oh my god,
it's funny. I was in a group over the weekend
because of the town I live in, they all lean,
you know, Trump is hitler and just it is all
(15:11):
kind of a how are you holding up? You know
sort of mood, oh lord, which I find is hilarious.
And somebody said that to me, and I mean, I
don't talk about politics in my own personal life. It
was like, I'm holding up. Fine, it's just whatever, Why
would I not be Exactly According to CBS fifty three
percent approval rating for Donald Trump, his overall approved rating
(15:31):
is fifty three percent, the highest he's ever had in
his presidency. So apparently it's not quite so how are
you holding up? He as some of you might think,
Good lord, Well.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I love the the Just a subtle little Weasley hedge
there from Anthony Salvanto on Face the Nation. There he is,
according to voter perceptions, doing.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
What he promised to do. Wait a second.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
If I say I'm going to carry in a dozen eggs,
and I carry in a dozen eggs, you don't have
to say Joe just did. But according to voter perceptions,
he said he dude, no, you freaking heard me say it.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Just they as such weasels. We'll get into more of
this later because there's a lot but on the biggest
topic of the first three weeks, Trump administration's programmed to
deport immigrants illegally in the United States fifty nine percent approval,
call it six oh nine percent. And yet, as I
(16:26):
keep saying, show me a report that's not on Fox
where they even indicate it's neutral that he's doing that,
as opposed to it's all negative. It's all bad. Clearly,
this is awful. No wonder your ratings are so bad.
Don't you people want to make a living, You newspapers,
you TV channels. Sixty percent of America is okay with this,
(16:46):
So maybe at the very least be neutral or even
shade it somewhat positive.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
You nut jobs, right exactly as I said off the air,
their punishment is they're dying, which is a pretty good punishment.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
How does mailbag look now that we've tried a new schedule?
Very thought provoking. I'll bet it, oh, I bet it
kicks ass. It's going to be moving and just appropriate.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Like that weird introductory Brad Pitt wandering around saying, looking sad.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Okay, cool, that's on the way. We've got Katie's headlines
and a lot more news to catch you up from
the weekends. I hope you can stick around.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
As I mentioned earlier, and because I'm a guy with
a couple of school age kids, I'm excited that Elon
and Dozer turning their attention toward the Department of Education
this week. I'm already out a tweet from Elon. Every
education and research grant made over the past four years
required DEI in one form or another. The US Department
of Education spent at least one billion dollars since twenty
(17:50):
twenty one on advancing DEI, hiring programming, mental health training,
et cetera, et cetera. They're going to get into the
details of it. Excellent Tim saying the whole DEI shot
through our government is way worse than people even think
it is. Oh yeah, well, I guarantee that's true. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I love this. Couldn't love it more. Here's your freedom
loving quote of the day. This one goes out to
Patrick Mahomes and Andy ridd the entire Chiefs Organization, Day,
Tay and others.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Hey Taylor, you're at your husband's workplace. How about not
shorts and a tank top? Have some class. You look
like a bar waitress. Oh wow, Wow, kicking her.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Well, she's down, poor kid. What has she got to
going for now? Very little?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Oh this is from Edwin Markham.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
The quota's defeat may serve as well as victory, to
shake the soul and let the glory out.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Some nice phrase making right there.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Huh you go, feet may serve as well as victory,
to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I found that to be truth. So well, it's one
of the avengers of being a religious guy like Patrick Mahomes.
After all the winds, it's always well, it's all thanks
to God. It's all his work. So I mean, you
can do the same after a loss. Just you know,
I'm supposed to learn something from this, so here we go. Yeah. Yeah,
he's a good kid, that Pat Malmes. Glad to see
him doing well, mailbag, Glad to see him do well.
(19:10):
Not so much yesterday, of course, not his fault. I don't.
You could put any quarterback in the world there. Oh,
you got half a second before the biggest of the
line in history is going to jump on top of you.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Right, You could have a committee a Joe Montana, y,
a tittle, Tom Brady and whoever else you wanted back
there trying to figure out what to do, and they'd
all be run.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
For your life. That's what you need to do. Get
more life insurance. That's what I suggest.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Drop his note mail bag at Armstrong Andgeddy dot com.
Faggotty Steve Wright's that's friend of Armstrong and Getty over
ten years. I'm very dismayed by the lack of diversity
in the halftime show yesterday, seventy five percent of America
was not represented.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I'm just saying that's a good point. I didn't know.
I saw that black chick dancing really cool, and I
thought that's kind of cool. It was Strina Williams. I
didn't realize that was her. She didn't really dance. Oh,
I'm not surprised.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, but or for a halftime show that looks like America, Uh,
Kurt from San Jose, California.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Trump's gonna stop minting pennies. Good.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Then I don't have to give my thoughts to anyone.
I can stop always having to watch out for things
falling from heaven. I don't have to defend the worthiness
of something to smallest level of investment.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Can quit being so stingy and having to pinch something. Yes,
and can.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Stop trying to give even a little credit to someone
for being barely wise when they are just fooled.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
A clever reference to the many expressions in the English
language that reference the penny.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yes, it is not saved or earned. It no longer exists. Yeah, exactly,
And again, how about the nickel?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Seriously seriously, that's you know, four oh eight plays four tens.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Fine, you can have my dime. How recently was a
nickel what a penny is was worth? It's got to
be like eight years ago. Maybe it wouldn't be very
long ago.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I wouldn't think quintupled in or cut by eighty percent.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I don't know. It is interesting question though.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Uh Brian and Walla Walla, I don't know if you
guys are too young to remember that in the seventies,
were not the global crisis was over population. I remember
posters of a plant with people hanging off of it.
That was the radical lefts global crisis of the day.
And did it ever materialize.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
No.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Now we have the global warming crisis meant to spread
fear and push an agenda. So why does no one
ever bring up over population or ice ages as an
argument about how wrong the experts get things, soil it grain,
it's people.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Yeah, there was a lot of ai ads yesterday during
the Super Bowl, and I didn't understand a single one
of them. But certainly a lot of this is going
to change everything. Well we'll see.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah. Yeah, I think that's for investors as much as anybody.
But there are a couple that I noticed immediately, Oh,
I'll bet this is an ai AD, And I focused
in carefully and I thought, oh, there it is open AI.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Sure I was right, but I got nothing from that commercial. Yeah.
I don't know what black thoughts on white backgrounds. Apparently
I do too.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Let's see, let's see more praise for Michaelangelo's cheesy.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
What's not to like? Right? Exactly? Oh my god, my
gift of humanity? Yeah, it's all. The Your recipe on
our website is funny, though. The way you wrote it
is very clever. I like that. I wish I had
eaten about half as much. I still don't feel good
from that. Oh, nothing wrong with it. It's not your dip.
It's my volume. It's all. That's what I had for
lunch and dinner. It was my lunch and dinner. It's
(22:31):
your legacy.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Michael, Really, it's your Stairway to Heaven, it's your great novel.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
It's gone, but the dip will live on. Exactly, That's
what I was trying to say. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Jt In Livermore, frequent correspondent, pointing out that the March
of Dimes effect is clearly going on with the Democratic Party.
The March of Dimes was originally created a combat polio.
Polio's defeated. They're like, well, we got all the staff.
We're good at raising money and birth the facts.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Which is fine.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
But often you've got an organization like the NAACP, for instance,
or the Southern Poverty Law Center, which had legitimate civil
rights goals but has evolved into a blackmailing, race baiting
fund raising colossus that doesn't do any good to anybody anyway.
But he points out how the Democratic Party has a
long and checkered history with many awful policy positions from
(23:22):
slavery to Jim Crow laws, but a number of successes,
et cetera. But now it looks like they've hit a
brick wall. They've tried and failed to stay relevant by
enacting a foe constant revolution, that's true, Yeah, constant civil
rights battles, even when all the battles are settled. But
unlike the Pass, they're not on the side of history
or righteousness, nor do they have the masses on their side. Instead,
(23:45):
they've chosen the most caustic and abrasive posturing in an
effort to force support for terrible topics and policies that
are not supported big bloated, etc. They're for racism, against
the rule of law, open borders, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Well, so like the Snoop Brady things, the PSAs that
I guess the NFL was behind, or whatever, I hate
you because you're different. I hate you because I think
you hate me and the whole thing. And then Snoop
saying I hate that we live in a time where
we have to say this or something like that. Do
you think we're in a particularly hateful racist time historically speaking?
(24:20):
I just I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Not until DEI came in, not until Black Lives Matter
came in.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
All people of all races agree.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Race relations have gotten worse since the recent round of
what JT was just describing in his email, the never
ending revolution, the never ending civil rights battle, when everybody's
achieved more or less what we wanted to, and now
we're working on the details that it's ridiculous, but it's
about saving it's about raising money and having power and
(24:49):
their pitches. We will change things and get rid of
the evildoers. Finally, this had a similar topic Pallo writing about.
I was trying to understand the position of people who
oppose meritocracy, so I googled around. Oh, we've got a
very strongly worded email said, dudes, groc it'll change your
life so good, So I may try that anyway. That's
(25:11):
that's that's what What is grock search engine? AI powered
search engine? As I understand.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
It a lot. Is it his thing? I don't know anyway?
So he uh, yes, Katie.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Grock is attached to x And when you pay for
premium you get it and it is awesome.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Oh really, yeah, it's when you pay for premium Twitter.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I don't even know what any of these terms mean.
It's it's the premium.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
It's the little blue check mark you pay to be
verified by the website.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
You get grock for well for free, but it's included
with it. Okay, so we're premium then, so okay, I'll
start using grock to something yep, yes, so right away
or yes.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Powell is trying to figure out how people oppose meritocracy,
what the reasoning is, and he says I came up
with three things. People in favor of it pnfortunately seemed
to be those who benefited from it, and vice versa.
Not shocking, a lot of people seem to believe that
meritocracy was a form of gas lighting. It was intent
is to perpetuate racism. It's absolutely not true. In fact,
(26:14):
I would say, if you want to perpetuate bad outcomes
for a people, get rid of meritocracy.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Well you remember we did a big forum one time
thingy in front of a progressive crowd, and we were
having an argument with these other people and I said,
and I was completely unaware of this. I said, well,
I believe in meritocracy. I just want to And one
of the guys that was on the other side said, ah,
that's dog whistle for racism, and the crowd started cheering
(26:43):
and everything like that. I was like, really, I had
never even heard that before. I didn't know meritocracy was
for progressive It's just you're just trying to slip in
racism through the back door. Yeah, I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Utterly illogical and dead wrong and incredibly damaging that attitude.
I mean, if you're super concerned about education for little
black kids, for instance, and you get rid of meritocracy
and just have quotas, what incentive is.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
There to fix the education for the little black kids
you've removed it.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
It is the worst sort of soft medium, hard bigotry,
of low expectation. Then the final thing is the most
popular rejection seems to be that meritocracy doesn't account for
the fact that some people come from circumstances that are
not conductive to success. I guess I agree that's true,
and it goes a long way to explaining disparate outcomes.
(27:33):
But my answer to that would be easy, Well, that's
why a society works on making sure that people have
Perhaps you've heard the phrase equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
That's a band aid. It's evil rejected. So a couple
of minutes into the halftime show yesterday with Kendrick Lamar,
I assume singing some of his most well known songs
because I don't know he's speaking.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
He speaks more of the things, doesn't he a rapper?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
My brother texted me, gonna be whistling these songs all
night now, which I thought was hilarious. But you know,
but I'm aware that the halftime show is not aimed
at me, don't but I am always kind of interested.
Who's their target?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Then?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Well, I mean, who do they have in mind when
they're putting on the halftime show? Because I picked up
my son. This is the first year my son went
went to a Super Bowl party with other people, which
was a little nice moment for him, a little hurtful
for me, but you know, time March is on. Anyway,
I went and picked up my high schooler from the
super Bowl party you went to, and I said, what
do you think of the halftime show? He said, eh,
(28:36):
you know, it's not for me. I said, what do
you mean? He said, it's for like thirty year olds.
Kendrick Lamar is kind of like for thirty year olds. Oh,
which when you're fifteen is like old people, right. But
I thought, okay, so it wasn't for you, wasn't for me.
I had to be for somebody. I mean, there's a
lot of money at stake in trying to figure out
who your target audience is for this stuff, or is
it the big dumb corporation that brought you the Brad
(28:58):
pitt sad face in trow and other just questionable decisions.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Lay.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Yeah, the Lady Gaga eight minutes of resonating with the
ISIS attack for some reason, like you felt like we
needed that, right, Yeah, It's just it's probably just a
bad decision. To me. It only felt like harsh in
my mellow, that hole every time you brought up the
ISIS attack. I don't think you needed to resonate with him, No,
not at all.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I thought it was attacked on and felt like, well,
we feel like this is obligatory, so here it is.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Sit there and listen to sit there and be reminded
of death, like surprise death that could happen at any time.
Now back to the game. Thanks for that. We've got
Katie's headlines on the way. Next two headlines I've just
seen before we get to Katie's headlines in New York Times.
Tom Brady's performance wasn't any better than the Kansas City Chiefs.
(29:51):
I don't get the excitement over trying to beat up
on Tom Brady as a color guy. I don't know,
Maybe I just don't think about it that much. Seems
perfectly fine to me. I know, and what was the
other one? Oh? I like this headline. Another Doge thing
for you. Doge cancels Anthony Fauci Museum exhibit in federal
(30:13):
cutting spree. There's an Anthony Fauci Museum exhibit that we
were all going to pay for. Fantastic. Wow, that's just sickening.
It is get a donor to see. There are plenty
of rich mask wearing getting their skulls getting their ninth
booster today. People out there that'd be willing to support that. Oh,
(30:37):
stand in line to get in. You have to stand
six feet apart.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
That's right, Michael Goodwell, that's beautiful, good, resecure Michael fill
the wind. Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what it's
the lead story. It's Katie Green.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Katie all right.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Well this one coming from not only Elon Musk, but
the New York Post. FEMA sent fifty nine million dollars
last week to luxury New York City hotels.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
To house illegal immigrants. Last week housing illegals luxury hotel
fifty nine million dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Hey, Pablo out to go sneaking in the United States. Well,
I'm in a luxury hotel in New York City. They
pay for everything, and if I commit crimes, they just
let me go.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
That would be something to text back to somebody. Hey, dude,
I'm at the Ritz Carlton in New York. No, I'm serious. No,
I'm not paying anything for it, right, The government pays
the US government. Yeah really, and it's your stone and
to me if you don't even breathe toward me. The
the real problem in our budget is the entitlements are
(31:41):
out of control. And this million here and millionaire is
not going to every penny which is about to be
out lawned, every nickel that is spent. That is a waste.
I want looked at well, and more broadly.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
A culture whereby waste is rooted out and loathed, and
a culture that says, all right, let's just as mental exercise,
let's strip this agency down to nothing. Then let's talk
about what's really important that we ought to be funding.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
That is a seismic shift. It's not about the dollar amounts. Sure, absolutely,
I want every agency department in America to be scared
to do something that would be embarrassing if it got
tweeted out by Elon, so that they'll be more careful
with their money. That's what I would like, and entitlements eventually, And.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
Since this is one of your favorite stories, I'm bringing
it back Washington Post. Trump has ordered the Treasury Department
to stop producing new pennies.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
That's right, finally, so good. Why did it take this long.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I'm not sure I have kept a penny in a decade.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I just I found one on my desk.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
But I'm going to keep it in case it becomes
a collector's right. From study fines, majority of football fans
want Super Bowl Monday declared a national holiday.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah, well, I'm in favor of that. Or play the
game on Saturday, but they're never going to do that.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I feel half sick, Michael, and it's not your DIP's fault.
I just ate so much of it, and only it.
I didn't need anything else. Oh my word, make sense
of vegetables. I did. I had to. I had a
peanut butter sandwich earlier in the day. Then for lunch
and dinner, I had your dip. Oh I feel like
a refried bean. From NBC.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Trump announces blanket tariffs on steel and aluminum and reciprocal
tariffs on other countries.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Oh, we'll have to get to the CBS polling of
what people think of tariffs. That's pretty interesting too.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
And hey, in the interest of fairness, Elon's said, Hey,
you know that, like the graphite from China and this
other material, could we not have tariffs on that because
it's super important for Tesla. Mmmm. Nope, not the way
it works. Boys, they're gonna have to wrestle with some
of that stuff.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
From the New York Times, Hamas makes gaunt Israel hostages
thank their captors prior to release.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah, this really isn't getting enough attention during the whole
ceasefire thing. The way Hamas is treating these hostage treated
the hostages over the last year and a half, and
it's treating them as they hand them over horrible.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
From the Wall Street Journal, Ozembic slimming can make skin
sag enter the twenty thousand dollars body lift.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah, I was gonna talk about this later. Super popular
plastic surgery. It's true, if you lose a lot of
weight rapidly, you got some loose skin there.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
What do they do with the shaggy lamp shades? Snippers?
Oh my god, the two of you see.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
This isn't a meme, but it's a tweet that I saw.
It's just a trolling page and it says I'm not
a big fan of sports, so I don't know who
Taylor Swift is, but he sounds fast, all right. Finally,
the Babylon Bee country with record illiteracy worried. So what
will happen if education system is reformed?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Wow? I love that, No kidding?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
And who is leading the charge against reforming the Department
of Education? You're blue states with the worst educational results.
It's because it's a jobs program. Government schools have the
education happens accidentally, it's a jobs program.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
I think it was jd Vance. It tweeted out yesterday.
It started in seventy seven, Department of Education. Our scores
have gone down since then. That's all you need to know.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arm Strong
and he Armstrong and oh, this is Gronk. I'm here
(01:04):
for the show. Open up the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Get out of here, Gronk. You don't need to be
in every damn thing I ever look at in my life.
Everybody loves Gronk. Oh my god, enough Gronk already live
from Studio C, a d lit room deep within the
bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications combound. And hey, everybody,
(01:26):
on a brand new week. We're under the tutelage of
our general manager here, pil.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Phenelfia el Gleckles.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
But super Bowl champions. I hate blowouts as my least favorite.
I would rather have had a that was last on
my list of there's only four outcomes for any game
you watch, right, your team barely wins, your team barely loses,
or the blowout either way, really and uh this is
(01:54):
the worst. I would rather have a close Philadelphia win
than a Kansas City blowout. I don't like blowouts. I
find blogs aring and uh yeah, so I was cleaning
my room the entire second half. I didn't see how
they scored twenty two points somehow was as clearly matter
wasn't as close as the score indicates, as they say,
as they often say, yeah, but yeah, that's disappointing. Well,
(02:18):
we had, you know, many years in a row of
very close super Bowls like came down to the last play.
I mean, that's more than you can really expect to
have over and over again. Yeah, Cups was running over.
It was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, could this usher in a new era of super bores?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Much like the nineties? Is that a thing? Did these
things come in waves that you couldn't usher it in?
This is footstock.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
It doesn't have to make a damn look of sense.
What do you think, Gronk?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Seriously enough, Gronk, I'm amazed at how people get hot
and then every company out there thinks we need to
throw how how much money we need to throw at
Gronk to get him an hour ad? Or do they
not know that? Maybe I'd ask Gronk just before we
signed the paper and we have you in the ad?
(03:10):
Are you doing like fifty other commercials that are gonna
make people roll their eyes? They won't even remember mine?
He's the U two of the twenty twenties.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Good Ronk's everywhere? Every show got to have Gronk or what.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
The I tweeted a lot yesterday. I was on a
tweet and roll before the game. My favorite thing of
the whole everything, if you saw it, was what the
hell was that like five minute Brad pit thing. I
couldn't figure out, what are you asking me to do?
What are you telling am I supposed to cry? Am
I supposed to stand up in salute? Am I supposed
to be excited about football or the country or kids.
(03:47):
I don't even know what we're doing here? Are you
selling me something? Do I need to go onto a
website and donate money? I had no idea what's going
on there? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I missed the audio on that when I was at
a party, so I was just looking at it mystified.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
You know, Brad Pitts one of the biggest stars in
the world, and they gave it super prime placement right
before the game starts, and it was mystifying as to
what it was, like, what what is the message here?
Did you see that? Michael? Yeah? And it brought back
memories of my dad. He used to scream at the TV.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Damn it, it's just a football game, and it just
started getting mad.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
That is a good thing to say. That is a
perfect thing to say. Quick trying to pull my like
heartstrings around patriotism and hurt children and all these different
equality in the world and all these different things. Damn it,
it's just a football game.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I would like to see it more seriously, at least
slightly more seriously.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Just a pole.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I guess of Americans, how many people are like touched
and moved that they trotted out or brought out the
families of the victims of the would be jihadi who
ran a bunch of people over because it's in the
same set is there's some sort of sin being committed
(05:03):
by going ahead with life, and there was a rather
important football game schedule, so we're going to go ahead
and have the football game. But you've got to, like Genufleck,
to the idea of this is like weirdly inappropriate because
there was just death here.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I don't have to, by the way, I don't think
you do. Entertainment executives make all, as we know, make
all kinds of stupid, stupid decisions. Yeah, and whoever got
together in a room and decided. They probably decided it
right after the ISIS attack, when it was like super fresh,
and now we hear we are month and a half
later or whatever it is where it's like, oh, yeah,
(05:36):
that's right, that happened, as opposed to I don't know
if I can watch the super Bowl in New Orleans
after what happened the other day. Now, who was feeling
that way? And lama is another one of my tweets.
As Lady Gaga was singing her song and people were
waving her hands. Okay, I guess we're all unified. We're
anti ISIS.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Let's get to kickoff, noted anti Ghatty activist Lady Gaga.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Ah, I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
There is clearly a certain sort of person for whom
that sort of gesture is appreciated.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I don't believe.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yes, I don't believe I feel better now that Lady
Gaga sang an emotional song.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I don't believe it. I think if the entire Super
Bowl had completely ignored the horrifying shooting or I guess
car ramming there in New Orleans, I don't I don't
think I would have noticed. I don't think anybody would
have minded.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
But it wouldn't have popped into my mind. No, absolutely,
I was acutely aware of the event and who was
involved in New Orleans' failures and putting up the ballards
and the rest of it a chapter and verse. I
followed the news, but no, I wouldn't have thought of it.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I need football. I need Tom Brady in a T
shirt walking between the firefighters and the cops talking about
pulling together and something or other and how and you know,
it's a stretch anyway, We're all getting together to get
drunk and get fat and watch a football game to
try to success. By the way, to try to turn
it in. I think this was Brad Pitt's message, to
try to turn it into some sort of this is
who we are as Americans. I think it's a real stretch. Well,
(06:59):
try to make more important than just it's a football game.
It's way to kill an afternoon, and to further torture it.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Because we were paying loving tribute to the death in
New Orleans, it seemed insensitive not to pay a tribute
to the death and destruction in California. So Tom Brady
was it was was wearing an LA Fire Department.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
T shirt just as kind of a token representation of
Oh in California too, because somebody in the meeting threw up.
But what about California? That's right, we need to resonate
with California. Also, Yeah, at least three people wearing T shirts. Now,
three seems like a lot because the game's in New Orleans.
How about one? Would one be good? Okay again, if
you know what that Brad Pitt thing was, it seemed
(07:42):
like the length of a motion picture. Please text four
one KFTC. I still don't Oh crap, the Eagles just
scored again. Jeez, it's to twenty four. Let's start the
show officially. I'm Jack Armshaw. I hain't a lot of
your cheese dip yesterday, Michael to come out. It was
damn good, good, it was damn good. I wish I
(08:03):
had to put more cheese on top because I like
that part. But it was really really good. But after
you get I don't know, a pound into it, yeah,
you start to regret your decisions. Yep, that's what I noticed.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I don't have any leftovers because when I set fire
to my kitchen to celebrate the Eagles, when I accidentally
torched it, so I might name it Michelangelo's Regretful Cheese Dip,
because after you eat a whole bunch of it, you
will regret that you had ever started.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I went to the grocery store and spent money and
time to do this. I feel awful. What was the
point here? What was I trying to a couple hole?
It's not a very good endorsement. Well, it might have
to do with the quantity you have to eat as
much as I. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this.
It is Monday, February tenth, year, twenty twenty five. We
are armstrong in getting we approved of this program.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
All right, let's kick off the show for brand new
week officially according to FCC rules regulations.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Here we go at Mark.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
On the.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
And see.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Me.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Let's go Bart, Here you go. Because it was New Orleans.
I really liked the music. I thought the America the
Beautiful with trombone Shorty was flipping awesome. I thought that
was so good. Hey, at the end.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
There, though we were talking about this in the pregame show,
he was just playing random notes that was not groovy
piano riff.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
And that was a guy that's like, yeah, whatever, I
didn't notice the piano I was singing about that. Did
you have a clock on? And at how do they
make sure the anthem singer doesn't do some insider trading
or whatever it is if you're involved in betting, Because
it was one hundred and twenty seconds. He over under
on the beat and you can actually bet money on that.
And he could have said the Home of the Brave.
(10:04):
He could have had home with a brave, brave, but
he went home with a brave, brave, brave right, And
it got him to one hundred and twenty seconds. And
I just wonder, how would you How would you not
have an uncle who puts a thousand dollars on it someplace?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It had the feel of a team going for two
when they didn't need to, And.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I was said, why would they do that? Well? The
spread was what right? Did you know? My favorite headline
of the day. What we woke up to today? The
end of the penny? Donald Trump tweeting out last night,
no more pennies. We spend two cents on a penny.
It's stupid. We're gonna stop, he announced, He ordered the treasurer.
(10:45):
Why did this not happen before? Why is he only
a person that can say the capital is of Israel
is Jerusalem. We all know it, right, let's just move
it over there. USA.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
It is a fraud the department, it's a fraud factory.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
We got to get rid of it. But can he
defeat the humble penny, the pennies? Just can he order
the Treasury Department to do that? Well, we're well read
at the nickel must go. And let's talk about the dime.
A quarter is enough of a denomination, all right, we're
a rich country. We're not.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
You know, we don't make four thousand dollars a year
per capity here?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yes, wegel.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Does this mean that pennies will become collectible items and
that will be worth a lot?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
My son and I were actually talking about that last night.
What does that mean for the penny? Does it wonder
what happens to it? Because there are gazillions of pennies
in circulation.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Well, oddly enough, now that it's no longer currency and
is merely the constituent parts, it's worth more. Although you know,
none of us has the ability to smelt it down
to whatever, so you know there's going to be a
discount on it, but you'll probably get like one point
two cents for every penny's.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Most of us on the show aren't tweakers. We're not
that fascinated by copper just in general. But all your
tweaker friends would love to have your pennies probably, hey,
tweak your friends, plenty of them. And what was the
other thing? Oh, so he announced on Brett Bear's interview
yesterday that he said, starting in twenty four hours, Elon's
going to turn his Elon whose name I now hear
more than Trump's, that Elon's going to turn elected dictator
(12:16):
by the way, a world Church's man. Yeah, which obviously
you don't allow dark. You don't need to explain why
that's evil. It's just obviously evil. The fact that he's
rich and trying to government clearly evil. He announced that
Trump announced yesterday during Brettbear's interview and will play some
of it later from the super Bowl. That within twenty
four hours, so that'd be today, Elon's going to turn
(12:38):
his attention toward the Department of Education. And I'm all
about that. I want to hear all kinds of great
stats coming out on that. How does mail bag look? Oh,
it's good.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
We'll get to that a little later on in the hour,
I think, right, we are we going to oh take
come to schedule.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
That's right, We're going to do things differently. Now. Yeah,
we're gonna see how this works. It could be a disaster.
I mean it could be like the Kansas City Chiefs
offensive line. Nothing could be that bad. Not really. No
lots on the way, you stay here, armstrong and getty.
What's driving this?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I will keep it simple, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
He is doing, in the eyes of the public, what
he said he would do in the campaign.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
There's political value in that.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
In fact, seventy percent of people say he's doing what
he promised.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
That's whether they approve of him or not.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Now there's another part of this that continues over from
the campaign.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
There were words that he was described as.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Being tough, being energetic, and he still is today in
big majority numbers. So as people take a look in
these first few weeks, there's been a lot of activity,
they're getting that general sense of governance and that's being
reflected in these early numbers.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So this is the most recent big poll to come
out since Trump has been in office, and while it
seems like he's been in office for a year and
a half, it's been He's inaugurate on the twentieth. We're not.
We're ten days away from the one month then mark.
How is that even possible? I know we're ten world ways,
we're a week and a half from the one month mark.
(14:10):
It's incredible. I was remer it's well go ahead.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I was gonna say, it's a symptom of a lot
of different things, including the incredible power and flexibility of
the presidency. They have it within their grasp to just
redesign two thirds of the policies of the United States.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Government, which is not a great deal. But before before
I get back to the polling, which is really good
for Trump, I was reminded yesterday that FDR, when he
took office, he had one day where he had one
hundred executive orders in a day, seven hundred for his
first year. So it's not like nobody's ever done this before,
(14:50):
your hero lefties. FDR was really into the president gets
to do whatever the hell he wants. So anyway, Trump's
overall approval rating with CBS after all this stuff in
the world went, it's a disaster, and oh my god,
it's funny. I was in a group over the weekend
because of the town I live in, they all lean,
you know, Trump is hitler and just it is all
(15:11):
kind of a how are you holding up? You know
sort of mood, oh lord, which I find is hilarious.
And somebody said that to me, and I mean, I
don't talk about politics in my own personal life. It
was like, I'm holding up. Fine, it's just whatever, Why
would I not be Exactly According to CBS fifty three
percent approval rating for Donald Trump, his overall approved rating
(15:31):
is fifty three percent, the highest he's ever had in
his presidency. So apparently it's not quite so how are
you holding up? He as some of you might think,
Good lord, Well.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I love the the Just a subtle little Weasley hedge
there from Anthony Salvanto on Face the Nation. There he is,
according to voter perceptions, doing.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
What he promised to do. Wait a second.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
If I say I'm going to carry in a dozen eggs,
and I carry in a dozen eggs, you don't have
to say Joe just did. But according to voter perceptions,
he said he dude, no, you freaking heard me say it.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Just they as such weasels. We'll get into more of
this later because there's a lot but on the biggest
topic of the first three weeks, Trump administration's programmed to
deport immigrants illegally in the United States fifty nine percent approval,
call it six oh nine percent. And yet, as I
(16:26):
keep saying, show me a report that's not on Fox
where they even indicate it's neutral that he's doing that,
as opposed to it's all negative. It's all bad. Clearly,
this is awful. No wonder your ratings are so bad.
Don't you people want to make a living, You newspapers,
you TV channels. Sixty percent of America is okay with this,
(16:46):
So maybe at the very least be neutral or even
shade it somewhat positive.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
You nut jobs, right exactly as I said off the air,
their punishment is they're dying, which is a pretty good punishment.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
How does mailbag look now that we've tried a new schedule?
Very thought provoking. I'll bet it, oh, I bet it
kicks ass. It's going to be moving and just appropriate.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Like that weird introductory Brad Pitt wandering around saying, looking sad.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Okay, cool, that's on the way. We've got Katie's headlines
and a lot more news to catch you up from
the weekends. I hope you can stick around.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
As I mentioned earlier, and because I'm a guy with
a couple of school age kids, I'm excited that Elon
and Dozer turning their attention toward the Department of Education
this week. I'm already out a tweet from Elon. Every
education and research grant made over the past four years
required DEI in one form or another. The US Department
of Education spent at least one billion dollars since twenty
(17:50):
twenty one on advancing DEI, hiring programming, mental health training,
et cetera, et cetera. They're going to get into the
details of it. Excellent Tim saying the whole DEI shot
through our government is way worse than people even think
it is. Oh yeah, well, I guarantee that's true. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I love this. Couldn't love it more. Here's your freedom
loving quote of the day. This one goes out to
Patrick Mahomes and Andy ridd the entire Chiefs Organization, Day,
Tay and others.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Hey Taylor, you're at your husband's workplace. How about not
shorts and a tank top? Have some class. You look
like a bar waitress. Oh wow, Wow, kicking her.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Well, she's down, poor kid. What has she got to
going for now? Very little?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Oh this is from Edwin Markham.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
The quota's defeat may serve as well as victory, to
shake the soul and let the glory out.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Some nice phrase making right there.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Huh you go, feet may serve as well as victory,
to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I found that to be truth. So well, it's one
of the avengers of being a religious guy like Patrick Mahomes.
After all the winds, it's always well, it's all thanks
to God. It's all his work. So I mean, you
can do the same after a loss. Just you know,
I'm supposed to learn something from this, so here we go. Yeah. Yeah,
he's a good kid, that Pat Malmes. Glad to see
him doing well, mailbag, Glad to see him do well.
(19:10):
Not so much yesterday, of course, not his fault. I don't.
You could put any quarterback in the world there. Oh,
you got half a second before the biggest of the
line in history is going to jump on top of you.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Right, You could have a committee a Joe Montana, y,
a tittle, Tom Brady and whoever else you wanted back
there trying to figure out what to do, and they'd
all be run.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
For your life. That's what you need to do. Get
more life insurance. That's what I suggest.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Drop his note mail bag at Armstrong Andgeddy dot com.
Faggotty Steve Wright's that's friend of Armstrong and Getty over
ten years. I'm very dismayed by the lack of diversity
in the halftime show yesterday, seventy five percent of America
was not represented.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I'm just saying that's a good point. I didn't know.
I saw that black chick dancing really cool, and I
thought that's kind of cool. It was Strina Williams. I
didn't realize that was her. She didn't really dance. Oh,
I'm not surprised.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, but or for a halftime show that looks like America, Uh,
Kurt from San Jose, California.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Trump's gonna stop minting pennies. Good.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Then I don't have to give my thoughts to anyone.
I can stop always having to watch out for things
falling from heaven. I don't have to defend the worthiness
of something to smallest level of investment.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Can quit being so stingy and having to pinch something. Yes,
and can.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Stop trying to give even a little credit to someone
for being barely wise when they are just fooled.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
A clever reference to the many expressions in the English
language that reference the penny.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yes, it is not saved or earned. It no longer exists. Yeah, exactly,
And again, how about the nickel?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Seriously seriously, that's you know, four oh eight plays four tens.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Fine, you can have my dime. How recently was a
nickel what a penny is was worth? It's got to
be like eight years ago. Maybe it wouldn't be very
long ago.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I wouldn't think quintupled in or cut by eighty percent.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I don't know. It is interesting question though.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Uh Brian and Walla Walla, I don't know if you
guys are too young to remember that in the seventies,
were not the global crisis was over population. I remember
posters of a plant with people hanging off of it.
That was the radical lefts global crisis of the day.
And did it ever materialize.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
No.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Now we have the global warming crisis meant to spread
fear and push an agenda. So why does no one
ever bring up over population or ice ages as an
argument about how wrong the experts get things, soil it grain,
it's people.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Yeah, there was a lot of ai ads yesterday during
the Super Bowl, and I didn't understand a single one
of them. But certainly a lot of this is going
to change everything. Well we'll see.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah. Yeah, I think that's for investors as much as anybody.
But there are a couple that I noticed immediately, Oh,
I'll bet this is an ai AD, And I focused
in carefully and I thought, oh, there it is open AI.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Sure I was right, but I got nothing from that commercial. Yeah.
I don't know what black thoughts on white backgrounds. Apparently
I do too.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Let's see, let's see more praise for Michaelangelo's cheesy.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
What's not to like? Right? Exactly? Oh my god, my
gift of humanity? Yeah, it's all. The Your recipe on
our website is funny, though. The way you wrote it
is very clever. I like that. I wish I had
eaten about half as much. I still don't feel good
from that. Oh, nothing wrong with it. It's not your dip.
It's my volume. It's all. That's what I had for
lunch and dinner. It was my lunch and dinner. It's
(22:31):
your legacy.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Michael, Really, it's your Stairway to Heaven, it's your great novel.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
It's gone, but the dip will live on. Exactly, That's
what I was trying to say. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Jt In Livermore, frequent correspondent, pointing out that the March
of Dimes effect is clearly going on with the Democratic Party.
The March of Dimes was originally created a combat polio.
Polio's defeated. They're like, well, we got all the staff.
We're good at raising money and birth the facts.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Which is fine.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
But often you've got an organization like the NAACP, for instance,
or the Southern Poverty Law Center, which had legitimate civil
rights goals but has evolved into a blackmailing, race baiting
fund raising colossus that doesn't do any good to anybody anyway.
But he points out how the Democratic Party has a
long and checkered history with many awful policy positions from
(23:22):
slavery to Jim Crow laws, but a number of successes,
et cetera. But now it looks like they've hit a
brick wall. They've tried and failed to stay relevant by
enacting a foe constant revolution, that's true, Yeah, constant civil
rights battles, even when all the battles are settled. But
unlike the Pass, they're not on the side of history
or righteousness, nor do they have the masses on their side. Instead,
(23:45):
they've chosen the most caustic and abrasive posturing in an
effort to force support for terrible topics and policies that
are not supported big bloated, etc. They're for racism, against
the rule of law, open borders, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Well, so like the Snoop Brady things, the PSAs that
I guess the NFL was behind, or whatever, I hate
you because you're different. I hate you because I think
you hate me and the whole thing. And then Snoop
saying I hate that we live in a time where
we have to say this or something like that. Do
you think we're in a particularly hateful racist time historically speaking?
(24:20):
I just I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Not until DEI came in, not until Black Lives Matter
came in.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
All people of all races agree.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Race relations have gotten worse since the recent round of
what JT was just describing in his email, the never
ending revolution, the never ending civil rights battle, when everybody's
achieved more or less what we wanted to, and now
we're working on the details that it's ridiculous, but it's
about saving it's about raising money and having power and
(24:49):
their pitches. We will change things and get rid of
the evildoers. Finally, this had a similar topic Pallo writing about.
I was trying to understand the position of people who
oppose meritocracy, so I googled around. Oh, we've got a
very strongly worded email said, dudes, groc it'll change your
life so good, So I may try that anyway. That's
(25:11):
that's that's what What is grock search engine? AI powered
search engine? As I understand.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
It a lot. Is it his thing? I don't know anyway?
So he uh, yes, Katie.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Grock is attached to x And when you pay for
premium you get it and it is awesome.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Oh really, yeah, it's when you pay for premium Twitter.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I don't even know what any of these terms mean.
It's it's the premium.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
It's the little blue check mark you pay to be
verified by the website.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
You get grock for well for free, but it's included
with it. Okay, so we're premium then, so okay, I'll
start using grock to something yep, yes, so right away
or yes.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Powell is trying to figure out how people oppose meritocracy,
what the reasoning is, and he says I came up
with three things. People in favor of it pnfortunately seemed
to be those who benefited from it, and vice versa.
Not shocking, a lot of people seem to believe that
meritocracy was a form of gas lighting. It was intent
is to perpetuate racism. It's absolutely not true. In fact,
(26:14):
I would say, if you want to perpetuate bad outcomes
for a people, get rid of meritocracy.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Well you remember we did a big forum one time
thingy in front of a progressive crowd, and we were
having an argument with these other people and I said,
and I was completely unaware of this. I said, well,
I believe in meritocracy. I just want to And one
of the guys that was on the other side said, ah,
that's dog whistle for racism, and the crowd started cheering
(26:43):
and everything like that. I was like, really, I had
never even heard that before. I didn't know meritocracy was
for progressive It's just you're just trying to slip in
racism through the back door. Yeah, I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Utterly illogical and dead wrong and incredibly damaging that attitude.
I mean, if you're super concerned about education for little
black kids, for instance, and you get rid of meritocracy
and just have quotas, what incentive is.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
There to fix the education for the little black kids
you've removed it.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
It is the worst sort of soft medium, hard bigotry,
of low expectation. Then the final thing is the most
popular rejection seems to be that meritocracy doesn't account for
the fact that some people come from circumstances that are
not conductive to success. I guess I agree that's true,
and it goes a long way to explaining disparate outcomes.
(27:33):
But my answer to that would be easy, Well, that's
why a society works on making sure that people have
Perhaps you've heard the phrase equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
That's a band aid. It's evil rejected. So a couple
of minutes into the halftime show yesterday with Kendrick Lamar,
I assume singing some of his most well known songs
because I don't know he's speaking.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
He speaks more of the things, doesn't he a rapper?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
My brother texted me, gonna be whistling these songs all
night now, which I thought was hilarious. But you know,
but I'm aware that the halftime show is not aimed
at me, don't but I am always kind of interested.
Who's their target?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Then?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Well, I mean, who do they have in mind when
they're putting on the halftime show? Because I picked up
my son. This is the first year my son went
went to a Super Bowl party with other people, which
was a little nice moment for him, a little hurtful
for me, but you know, time March is on. Anyway,
I went and picked up my high schooler from the
super Bowl party you went to, and I said, what
do you think of the halftime show? He said, eh,
(28:36):
you know, it's not for me. I said, what do
you mean? He said, it's for like thirty year olds.
Kendrick Lamar is kind of like for thirty year olds. Oh,
which when you're fifteen is like old people, right. But
I thought, okay, so it wasn't for you, wasn't for me.
I had to be for somebody. I mean, there's a
lot of money at stake in trying to figure out
who your target audience is for this stuff, or is
it the big dumb corporation that brought you the Brad
(28:58):
pitt sad face in trow and other just questionable decisions.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Lay.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Yeah, the Lady Gaga eight minutes of resonating with the
ISIS attack for some reason, like you felt like we
needed that, right, Yeah, It's just it's probably just a
bad decision. To me. It only felt like harsh in
my mellow, that hole every time you brought up the
ISIS attack. I don't think you needed to resonate with him, No,
not at all.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I thought it was attacked on and felt like, well,
we feel like this is obligatory, so here it is.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Sit there and listen to sit there and be reminded
of death, like surprise death that could happen at any time.
Now back to the game. Thanks for that. We've got
Katie's headlines on the way. Next two headlines I've just
seen before we get to Katie's headlines in New York Times.
Tom Brady's performance wasn't any better than the Kansas City Chiefs.
(29:51):
I don't get the excitement over trying to beat up
on Tom Brady as a color guy. I don't know,
Maybe I just don't think about it that much. Seems
perfectly fine to me. I know, and what was the
other one? Oh? I like this headline. Another Doge thing
for you. Doge cancels Anthony Fauci Museum exhibit in federal
(30:13):
cutting spree. There's an Anthony Fauci Museum exhibit that we
were all going to pay for. Fantastic. Wow, that's just sickening.
It is get a donor to see. There are plenty
of rich mask wearing getting their skulls getting their ninth
booster today. People out there that'd be willing to support that. Oh,
(30:37):
stand in line to get in. You have to stand
six feet apart.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
That's right, Michael Goodwell, that's beautiful, good, resecure Michael fill
the wind. Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what it's
the lead story. It's Katie Green.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Katie all right.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Well this one coming from not only Elon Musk, but
the New York Post. FEMA sent fifty nine million dollars
last week to luxury New York City hotels.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
To house illegal immigrants. Last week housing illegals luxury hotel
fifty nine million dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Hey, Pablo out to go sneaking in the United States. Well,
I'm in a luxury hotel in New York City. They
pay for everything, and if I commit crimes, they just
let me go.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
That would be something to text back to somebody. Hey, dude,
I'm at the Ritz Carlton in New York. No, I'm serious. No,
I'm not paying anything for it, right, The government pays
the US government. Yeah really, and it's your stone and
to me if you don't even breathe toward me. The
the real problem in our budget is the entitlements are
(31:41):
out of control. And this million here and millionaire is
not going to every penny which is about to be
out lawned, every nickel that is spent. That is a waste.
I want looked at well, and more broadly.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
A culture whereby waste is rooted out and loathed, and
a culture that says, all right, let's just as mental exercise,
let's strip this agency down to nothing. Then let's talk
about what's really important that we ought to be funding.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
That is a seismic shift. It's not about the dollar amounts. Sure, absolutely,
I want every agency department in America to be scared
to do something that would be embarrassing if it got
tweeted out by Elon, so that they'll be more careful
with their money. That's what I would like, and entitlements eventually, And.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
Since this is one of your favorite stories, I'm bringing
it back Washington Post. Trump has ordered the Treasury Department
to stop producing new pennies.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
That's right, finally, so good. Why did it take this long.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I'm not sure I have kept a penny in a decade.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I just I found one on my desk.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
But I'm going to keep it in case it becomes
a collector's right. From study fines, majority of football fans
want Super Bowl Monday declared a national holiday.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah, well, I'm in favor of that. Or play the
game on Saturday, but they're never going to do that.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I feel half sick, Michael, and it's not your DIP's fault.
I just ate so much of it, and only it.
I didn't need anything else. Oh my word, make sense
of vegetables. I did. I had to. I had a
peanut butter sandwich earlier in the day. Then for lunch
and dinner, I had your dip. Oh I feel like
a refried bean. From NBC.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Trump announces blanket tariffs on steel and aluminum and reciprocal
tariffs on other countries.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Oh, we'll have to get to the CBS polling of
what people think of tariffs. That's pretty interesting too.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
And hey, in the interest of fairness, Elon's said, Hey,
you know that, like the graphite from China and this
other material, could we not have tariffs on that because
it's super important for Tesla. Mmmm. Nope, not the way
it works. Boys, they're gonna have to wrestle with some
of that stuff.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
From the New York Times, Hamas makes gaunt Israel hostages
thank their captors prior to release.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah, this really isn't getting enough attention during the whole
ceasefire thing. The way Hamas is treating these hostage treated
the hostages over the last year and a half, and
it's treating them as they hand them over horrible.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
From the Wall Street Journal, Ozembic slimming can make skin
sag enter the twenty thousand dollars body lift.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah, I was gonna talk about this later. Super popular
plastic surgery. It's true, if you lose a lot of
weight rapidly, you got some loose skin there.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
What do they do with the shaggy lamp shades? Snippers?
Oh my god, the two of you see.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
This isn't a meme, but it's a tweet that I saw.
It's just a trolling page and it says I'm not
a big fan of sports, so I don't know who
Taylor Swift is, but he sounds fast, all right. Finally,
the Babylon Bee country with record illiteracy worried. So what
will happen if education system is reformed?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Wow? I love that, No kidding?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
And who is leading the charge against reforming the Department
of Education? You're blue states with the worst educational results.
It's because it's a jobs program. Government schools have the
education happens accidentally, it's a jobs program.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
I think it was jd Vance. It tweeted out yesterday.
It started in seventy seven, Department of Education. Our scores
have gone down since then. That's all you need to know.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
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