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January 24, 2025 36 mins

Hour 3 of A&G features...

  • Birthright citizens & Trump's executive order
  • Sports news!
  • Trump in North Carolina & then traveling to CA
  • The last nail in the Oscars coffin

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jettie and now he Armstrong and Eddy. This
is step one. We have a long way to go.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
A federal judge in Seattle handing President Trump the first
court loss of his second presidency, swiftly blocking an executive
order that would redefine bird citizenship inside a packed courtroom.
Reagan appointed judge John Kunauer called the president's order blatantly unconstitutional.
Twenty two states are suing in two separate lawsuits. Trump's

(00:48):
order would end the practice of giving citizenship to a
child born in the United States, even if both parents
are not citizens.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
You are an American if you were born in the
United States.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
In the Constitution, and we were talking about this the
other day, should a president our last several presidents have
done this, be trying to do things that they know
are unconstitutional. I guess the gray area is if you
have legal scholars telling you this is constitutional, or the
Constitution is wrong on this, or the Constitution is being

(01:22):
misinterpreted on this or something, then you kind of have
some cover for I'm not being an unconstitutional. It's been misinterpreted.
Let's have the court interpreted it again. But are there
constitutional scholars saying this one's wrong or being misinterpreted.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
I don't, you haven't read.

Speaker 5 (01:36):
That's their Yeah, oh yeah, I was just going to say,
I think David spun It was a good reporter, but
to say the first judicial defeat of his new administration
too much. It's like me going to buy a three
hundred dollars lawnmower and I say, will you take two
hundred for it?

Speaker 1 (01:49):
And they say that's a little low. Joe Getty is
endured a lawnmower defeat.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
No, no, no, that's just that's part of the process
I'm going through. It's yeah, it's highly debatable weather the
fourteenth Amendment means. What the liberal point of view is
that absolutely anybody wanders onto the territories of the United
States and then pop's a kid, that kid's a citizen.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
In talking about this, I just I want everybody.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
To remember what we're trying to fix, and that is
not necessarily birthright citizenship per se.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Do you want to make sure the children of slaves
can be a US citizens and have all the rights
therefore being a citizen.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
Well you kind of jumped ahead, but yeah, that's absolutely true.
But no, what we're trying to prevent, aren't we is
what do they call it a citizenship tourism?

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, birth tourism. What's the term that people use either
of those? Yeah, yeah, something like that, where you know,
you have.

Speaker 5 (02:43):
Chinese nationals often at the behest of hijin ping fly
to la pop a kid who's a US citizen then
and can be used as a tool for the communists
going forward.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
That's the worst of it.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
You're right, hand's an anchor baby. That's another good term,
which is a different thing. What President she is doing,
great idea. You got all these Chinese nationals who are
US citizens, so they can travel in and out and
around very easily without scrutiny because they're US citizens.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
That's his goal.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
And then the anchor baby thing is we can just
get a kid born there. Then with the whole chain
migration thing, we can get you know, fifteen other people aunts, uncles, nephews,
obviously moms and dads into the country.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Right.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
And there's just a question of whether the fourteenth Amendment
ever meant to include anybody who like jumps off a
boat runs down to the beach in Miami, gives birth,
and then jumps on a boat and goes back to
wherever they're from. And to my mind, absolutely not, it
never meant that. Here's here's the specific verbiage. Fun fact,

(03:47):
the fourteenth Amendment is five paragraphs long, and it would
take the next three and a half minutes for me
to read the entire thing. It's very very long, as
opposed to the thirteenth Amendment, Slavery Abolished, which I could
read in about twenty five five seconds.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Anyway, here's the relevant part.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United
States and of the state wherein they reside.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
And there are some people on the right who say.

Speaker 5 (04:14):
Ah, subject to the jurisdiction thereof, that's not illegal.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Limit. It's an openage, shutcase. It's easy. It's not easy.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
There's a lot of disagreement over to what extent that
verbiage applies to one thing or another. But so my
two points are, number One, Trump has begun the process
of the courts taking a serious look at the fourteenth
Amendment and what it means, what it was intended to
mean originally how it's been interpreted the rest of it.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
It's fine's process we have to go through.

Speaker 5 (04:41):
And if it turns out that even the soups say, look,
it's always meant this that if you pop a baby
on American soil, the kid's a citizen, and so we're
going to go with that interpretation, all right, then we
go through the process of do we want to change that. Now,
that'd be a long and cumbersome process, but it's begun.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
I don't so I've read some of the pushback from
people on the right who say, no, no, no, birthright citizenship
is good and here's why, And a lot of it
has to do with we need more people, we need
talented people, touch sid can't we use a different process
other than birthright citizenship to make those people citizens or
their children?

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Right? Right?

Speaker 5 (05:23):
And I'm glad you brought that up because that reminded
me of where I wanted to go with the discussion.
I think we could very easily. It's a cumbersome process,
but I think it's very persuasive argument. I'm in the
Constitution in a way that makes clear if you are
lawfully here, if we.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Have invited you.

Speaker 5 (05:44):
If we have said, yeah, you're the sort of person
we want here, and you have some sort of permanent
status or even like a semi permanent status, and you
have a child here, Yeah, okay, that's fine. Kids are
US citizen Welcome.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
Surely there's got to be some way to have a
If your parents are staying at the holiday inn and
you landed on Wednesday and you're gonna fly out the
next Wednesday, that don't count.

Speaker 5 (06:09):
Right, You've got to have legal status. I don't think
that's unreasonable at all. Got this note from Todd San
Diego area. Bah bah bah, how's this case for birthright citizenship?
It expresses American exceptionalism most are all other countries. Your
national identity is bound up with your family history. It's
less true now than it used to be where your
ancestors lived between this mountain, that river or whatever. America

(06:31):
isn't about the past, It's about the future. So if
you start your life here, no matter the circumstances, you're
an American, dammit.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
I kind of like that idea, he writes. Yeah. And
the other idea is that.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
It attracts people the sort of people we want to
the country. It's an enormous gift to say, all right,
if you come over and make your life here, your
kids are citizens welcome. But all I require, and all
people who think like meat require, is that it's done lawfully.

Speaker 6 (06:58):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
That's not a huge ask, is it? So?

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Is uh?

Speaker 1 (07:06):
So?

Speaker 4 (07:06):
Is this different Trump doing this and putting it into
the courts? Do we take another look at this part
of the Constitution and decide if it needs to be
tweaked or if it's final way? Is that okay? And
how is that different from Biden jamming in the school
loans stuff? Despite that he can't Could Biden make the argument, no, No,

(07:30):
I think the courts are wrong about the way they
interpret my power to wipe out kids loans.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, he could make that case.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
There are like no legal scholars who thought that was
going to pass muster of any seriousness. I mean, that
was just a naked pander to his core. I see
your point, though there is some overlap in terms of
the politics of it. But how to interpret the fourteenth
Amendment is is that is a thing in constant circles.

(08:01):
That's not crazy to say, hey, the original intent has
not been followed and the situation has been allowed to
get wildly out of hand. We need to take a
serious look at the intent of the fourteenth Amendment.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
But we don't want every president.

Speaker 4 (08:14):
Forcing every rule law part of the Constitution into the
courts because they want to question it. I'm going to
shoot my opponent and then we'll get into the courts
and see if that's okay.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
I argue it is.

Speaker 5 (08:26):
Yeah, well, yeah, it's the eye of the beholder thing
to some extent.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
But I mean Biden was just handing stacks.

Speaker 5 (08:34):
Of cash to his most likely voters at the expense
of tax payers. It was so nakedly just transactional and corrupt.
In the rest of it, Trump's saying we got to take.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
A look at the fourteenth Amendment. It's very different in
my mind.

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Speaker 4 (09:51):
Trump is in North Carolina and ignored disaster that occurred
in Trump Country, and that's part of the reason it
gets ignored. And you know, La New York are always
going to get more attention anyway when things happen. But
Trump's in North Carolina to draw attention to the failure
of the Biden FEMA administration there. Then he's head of

(10:13):
the California and there's some great drama around that. If
you haven't heard about it, I'll meet with Gavin Newsom
and everything like that. We don't know how this is
going to play out. We'll have to tell you about that,
among other things.

Speaker 7 (10:21):
On the way stage, Arm Straw he yetie that urgent
mid air may day as smoke fills the cockpit and
cabin of a Cathe Pacific Airlines plane. Passenger video taken
just minutes after takeoff from Boston's Logan International Monday, showing
reading lights shining through the thick haze as it quickly
filled the packed Hong Kong bound aircraft. The pilots forced

(10:45):
to turn the airbus A three fifty a round in
the air for nearly an hour, dumping fuel to lighten
the plane, landing safely back in Boston, the airline saying
none of the three hundred and two people on.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
Board were hurt. I'm not a new US fly at all.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
Thank God, I do not have that particular phobia, because
I know people with it and it seems awful but
cabin fills with smoke so thick I can't see.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
I'm texting loved ones. I'm concerned. Oh my god.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
Indeed I love to breathe, That's one thing I mean.
And there I am an enclosed space filling with smoke.
I'm thinking, Oh golly.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Ty, So I'm exciting.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
Do you mind if I step outside for a moment
and get some air. I'm excited about the football games
on sunny. You got your AFC and NFC championships. That's
how you determine who plays in the super Bowl. Are
we allowed to say super Bowl?

Speaker 5 (11:39):
Yeah, unless it's for a commercial purpose, a specific commercial purpose.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
This is a for profit enterprise though the Armstrong and
Getty show. Yeah, it's a freedom of speech in Fairy.
We haven't been in the black in years. We have
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Speaker 1 (11:56):
We lost. I'm getting one now. Oh wait, Lobster.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
We fly private back and forth to our homes each
before and after every show, and we just can't get
into black for some reason.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
What was I gonna say? Oh?

Speaker 4 (12:09):
So, as a Chiefs fan for forty years, most of
them being sucky, it has become clear to me that
they are the most he hated team in America unless
you are a Chiefs fan, and in particular, people hate
Patrick Mahomes Now, unless you're a Patrick Mahomes fan. Man, God,
if you're in Kansas City, you can't walk five feet

(12:31):
without seeing his face on something for oil changes or
bars of soap or a charity or whatever. I mean,
he is like omnipresent in Kansas City.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
But he does get a lot of good calls.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
I don't know if he gets more good calls than
other people, but that is the way a lot of
football fans feels.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
The Chiefs get all the calls.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
I don't know why the league would feel like they're
better off with the medium sized market in the middle
of the country whining all the Super Bowls weird.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
He theoried an in depth study and then a meta
study of referees in their attitudes, because everybody's known the
superstars in the NBA get the calls.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
I mean for the long test time.

Speaker 5 (13:12):
Is that a decision that people make or is there
some sort of subconscious he's a great basketball player. He
probably did the right thing there deep in.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
The referee minds, I think, And as you've been pointing
out forever these are TV shows for profit. They're not
actually a contest to see which city has the best
baseball team or basketball team. It's a for profit TV show,
and you make more money on the TV show with
the big stars having good games. Just flat out true.
Having big stars to start with and having them have

(13:44):
good performances makes you more money. So I've always understood
why Magic Johnson could run down the lane with My
dad always used to complain to just put his leg
up in the air and run people over.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
And there is never a foul gold.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
Any who uh does Patrick Homes get great calls, and
two Hall of Fame quarterbacks in the last week have
been pretty outspoken about it. During the broadcast, if you're
watching the game, Troikman said, he's a runner at this point,
he's a runner. You got to treat him like a runner.
He can't treat him like he's a quarterback in the
pocket and call a personal foul on him because you
have tackled him. And Tom Brady came out said yesterday
and said that the NFL has gone way too far

(14:19):
and that they need to treat quarterbacks like a runner.
And you as a defensive player need to be able
to go in there and try to dislodge the ball.
Tom Prater said, Tom Brady said, you can't blow on
the guy and get the ball out of his hands.
You got to hit him with force to knock the
ball out. And he's a runner at that point. And
I said, I don't know if they'll change the rules
or not. I know, just as a casual fan, if
the star quarterback is injured for the year, that takes

(14:42):
a lot of the fun out of the game.

Speaker 5 (14:44):
Oh yeah, it's hugely damaging to the TV show. But
I actually think putting the sports aspect of this society
is a great study in the way rulemaking and human
beings work and the way you know, mankind interacts with government.
So they craft this rule that if the quarterback is
running and he gives himself up he slides feet first,

(15:06):
you're not allowed to pound him to keep them in
the game and that sort of thing. And it's true
of running backs too, but they really enforce it against quarterbacks.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
But quarterbacks quickly realized, Okay.

Speaker 5 (15:17):
I can run till that very last fraction of a
second where I'm gonna get hit and then quick slide,
and not only will they Well, you got two possibilities.
Number one, they don't hit me, or number two, a
guy is really already physically committed to coming at him,
it's gonna get called for a costly penalty for hitting him.
And so they have exploited the quarterbacks quite smartly, exploited

(15:41):
an unforeseen aspect of enforcing that law.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
Now we've got to recraft the law.

Speaker 4 (15:49):
Brady said, These defensive backs got to run at half
speed in case the guy all of a sudden darts
out of bounds or slides, because if you hit him
because of a quarterback, you get a fifteen yard penalty.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Right.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yeah, we'll see how that plays out.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
What are we doing here?

Speaker 4 (16:04):
Did you say, Hanson? He said something in my ear? Oh, okay,
is it love? He loves you. Michelangelo, our normal board
operator is out for a couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
What did you claim yesterday? Hanson? H for supporting transition.
That's not actually what's happening. But Michelle will be back
with us on Monday. I believe we.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
Don't want to be like mister beast. Oh his sidekick
became a woman, and it really I don't know if
it hurt him or not. He's still insanely popular and rich.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
His sidekick became a crazy person who liked to dress
up as a woman. Anyway, I love this from Andrew
Styles in The Free Bacon. Trump's plan to deport I
legal immigrants, which is very popular among normal Americans. His
forced journalists to pretend that they care about federal spending
in the national debt, many for the first time.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
To pull off this is a quote.

Speaker 5 (16:55):
From the obnoxious, unctious David Muir last scene if you
remember using clothes pins to make his safety jacket more
form fitted to show off his physique at the LA fires.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Eh. Anyway, here's what.

Speaker 5 (17:09):
Mire said to pull off some of what Donald Trump
would really like to see when it comes to undocumented
immigrants in the country.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Is extremely expensive.

Speaker 5 (17:18):
When you're also talking about cutting down government spending, trying
to bring down the deficit, extending the tax cuts, you're
going to have to pay for immigration as well. So
now lefty journalists are tut tutting about government spending.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
It's too much.

Speaker 5 (17:33):
Well, no wonder they have no ratings because they're putts
is so could they be clown themselves so thoroughly nobody
can take them seriously.

Speaker 4 (17:39):
So a really interesting soap opera that's going to play
out today, and we're not exactly sure how it's going
to go.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
I didn't know this till this morning.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
Trump has not been returning Gavin Newsom's phone calls, perfectly normal,
legit during the biggest disaster in California history for the governor.
Try to get ahold of the President about federal aid.
Trump will call him back. Trump's going to California today
and the details very interesting.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Armstrong and Getty.

Speaker 8 (18:04):
I'm going to fix it, and we're going to fix
it as fast as you can.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
It's a massive amount of damage.

Speaker 8 (18:10):
FEMA has really let us down, let the country down,
and I don't know if that's Biden's fault or whose
fault it is, but we're going to take over and
we're going to do a good job.

Speaker 4 (18:21):
That's Trump in North Carolina surveying the damage from that
was a hurricane that caused the mountains to flood.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Who knew mountains could flood? Well, nobody, craziness.

Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yeah, And here's a little more Trump and we want
to take care of the people of North Carolina.

Speaker 8 (18:37):
It is so interesting everybody's talking about California and.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
That's a mess.

Speaker 8 (18:41):
But I said, I'm not going to California until I
stop in North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
So here we are.

Speaker 8 (18:46):
We're going to go visit the site, and we're going
to work with probably three of the congressmen, Republican congressmen
who've been fantastic whose areas have been affected, and with
Michael Wattley, the governor, and whoever else is. You know,
we decide to get involved.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
Okay, So he surveyed some of the damage that still exists,
and they still struggle in North Carolina. And now he
is in some building and taking questions. So it'll be
much later today when he's finally in California. But here's
the story from Politico. Newso plans to crash Trump's LA
wildfire visit. The president and the governor have not spoken

(19:29):
since Trump left office in twenty twenty. I didn't realize that,
and Newsom claims, and I use the word claim on
purpose because he might not be being honest here. Newso
claims that he's been reaching out to Donald Trump, but
Trump has not returned his phone calls. So he says,
I look forward to being there on the tarmac to
thank the President, welcome him. He's gonna just that they

(19:52):
don't have a planned meeting like usually happens when a
president goes to a devastated state the governor there, they
shake hands, they walk around, they hug, they do a.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
Press conference together. Perhaps there's not a plan for that.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
So according to Politico, Newsom's gonna try to force that
to happen by figuring out where Trump's going to land,
being there and there you go.

Speaker 5 (20:14):
I just hope this Secret Service doesn't tackle Newsom and
kneel on his head until they've had a chance to
search him for weapons.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Oh did I say? I hope that doesn't. I hope
that does happen. Sorry, Wow, that'd be jazzy. We're all
better off. We're all better off. We're all better off,
and we're working together.

Speaker 4 (20:29):
As political points out, it is a bit of a
high wire act because if you're a you follow politics
fairly closely. You know the whole Chris Christie Barack Obama
story in which Barack Obama showed up in New Jersey
when Chris Christie was governor and Chris Christy was flying
high as a Republican presidential candidate prospect at that time,
but he gave Barack Obama a great big hug and

(20:53):
other people who wanted to be president just killed him
for that, and it really hurt his approval.

Speaker 5 (21:00):
You know, I get why intellectually it shouldn't have hurt him,
but the pictures, yeah, he looked like a child hugging
his papa. It just it came off wrong. And I'm
way more pro Chris Christy than a lot of the maga.
Crown is the obvious thing to do.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
What are you gonna not meet the president when he's
coming to survey the billions of dollars of damage in
your state and have a conversation about federal aid.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
I'd be nuts. So I don't know how.

Speaker 4 (21:31):
You're supposed to handle it. But that's why they're talking
about the high wire actic. Gaven Newsom's god. I mean,
they just passed legislation this week for fifty billion dollars
worth of Trump proofing the state of California as Trump
tries to, you know, hurt immigrants and transgender people and
our way of our California way of life. Scott Weener said,
whatever that is, I mean bums and junkies and high taxes,

(21:53):
indoctrinating little children and mutilating them without their parents' knowledge,
that's right, and turning junkies loose on the streets and
arcs of nice neighborhoods.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
That's the California way.

Speaker 5 (22:02):
And they'll spend tens of millions if that's what it
takes to preserve it.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
But Gavin does want to be the leader of the resistance,
and he's working hard on that since day one.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
He can't How would you go ahead? Sorry?

Speaker 4 (22:14):
Can he come out and shake hands with Donald Trump
and smile and laugh in that pictures without Kamala Harris
or Josh Shapiro or whoever is going to be running
against him saying, look at him shaking hands with Donald Trump.

Speaker 5 (22:25):
We don't want that, do we. I jumped into early
shaking hands with him. Absolutely, one hundred percent. He can
get away with a tongue kiss smiling and jack Oh no, no,
no tongue smiling and laughing and backslapping and tongue kissing.

Speaker 8 (22:39):
No.

Speaker 5 (22:39):
Absolutely, not an air kiss like Trump gave Melania because
of her big hat the other day.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
At best.

Speaker 5 (22:45):
No, he's you didn't like him, you know, I hope
you know. Gavin Newsom is tackled and taste, as I've
made clear. How would you suggest Trump handle.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
It like a grown up. I think he uh, he
calls Jusimon. Yeah, I think he calls Newsom on the
way to California. They have a discussion, they meet, they
walk around, the shake hands. They look concerned at the
fire damage, and you would be concerned if you're looking
at it.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah. I think he should have handled like a normal president.

Speaker 5 (23:15):
You don't think he should call him now scum and
reach out and tweak his here.

Speaker 4 (23:20):
Hey say something, you got something on your shirt? Hit
him in the chin. Well, first of all, he's not
gonna have run against Gavin Newsom, so the news was
a threat to him.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
I just whatever, buzzing fly is the way I would
treat him.

Speaker 5 (23:33):
Yeah, yeah, I think I think he goes with statesmen
like But we'll see. I can't wait to watch it live.
I've cleared all of my appointments. I have no appointments.
I've told all my friends who wanted to nobody wanted
to do anything.

Speaker 4 (23:50):
I'm gonna watched some news like a sad loser. Oh
that is funny. No, there's no risk in it for Trump.
That's why he should be a statesman. There is risking
it for Gavin. I mean, haven't seen the way Chris
Christie got treated. So he's got to got to not
go too far. He's got to at least some point,
look some phrase or facial expression to show I'm we'll

(24:13):
take the federal hoet, but I'm not happy it's coming
from you. That's the vibe he's got to give off somehow.
Oh yeah, serious and grim one hundred percent. Oh yeah, absolutely.
The journal mentions that.

Speaker 5 (24:25):
Gavin is toned down his anti Trump rhetoric for now
post to the beginning of the wildfires.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
It's cause he's kind of soft pedaled his.

Speaker 6 (24:34):
Whole I'm the brave leader of the resistance. Trump is
a fascist. He's just like Hitler, and I'm gonna save
you from the new Hitler. Yeah, he's kind of toned
that down as he's going to be begging for federal
money on bended knee, although you know, I shouldn't characterize
it that way. He is going to say, hey, this
is the sort of giant disaster that federal money comes to.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
You know, we need it, which is appropriate. He should
do that. As the governor.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
News out to the Mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass
her brother's house burnt down in the Spic Palisades area.
He might be getting on the phone with his sister
and saying, hey, Sis, just a question for you. How
come the fire hydroans didn't have any water? And what's
going on there?

Speaker 5 (25:17):
To be a brother, don't vote for DEEI love and communists.
You'll have better city leadership. That'd be my suggestion. What's
the deal with that there's no water in the fire hydrants?
It seems weird?

Speaker 1 (25:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (25:30):
Oh hey, speaking of one more California note, a tip
of the CAF to Huntington Beach. The city council just
voted unanimously to be a non sanctuary city.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
I have a friend who lives in the HB as
they call it, and yeah, that's cool.

Speaker 5 (25:49):
And there are a number of other city councils who
are planning to do the very same thing. I would
love to see that gain some steam before we take
a break. I just saw this. This is kind of
funny making their rounds on social media. I guess did
you call this a meme? Is it a meme or
is it just a joke? I think it's just an anyway.

Speaker 4 (26:05):
You know how you see those billboards with ambulance chasing
lawyers on them.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Sure have you been a number one category of billboards
in America? By far?

Speaker 5 (26:15):
Is it for real or just your observation? Oh that's
my observation. But I'm certain I'm right.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Been in a motorcycle wreck? Are you getting what you deserve?
Call me? Yeah? Maybe I look a little sleazy, right? Uh? Well,
we gotta have a theme, though, what's the general? You
got to have? Like a rhyme or a you know
why they should call you? You gotta have a theme.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
There's one I see in the way all the way
home every single day. It might be the motorcycle one,
but it's something you know, rear ended in a wreck.
Make sure you get what you deserve. But anyway, it's
this incredibly attractive blonde woman dressed in a incredibly alluring way.
And I think how many dudes have called that number
thinking they're actually going to have a meeting with her?

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Never see her? One? That's weak, that's weak. But anyway,
here's what I'm trying to remember.

Speaker 5 (27:07):
There's one don't howl call o'dowell or something like that
is this guy's theme.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
I'm trying to remember some of them I've seen.

Speaker 5 (27:16):
Hot chicks are a big thing, though, I mean, like
a really good looking at a lawyer.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Lady just absolutely plays that up.

Speaker 5 (27:22):
And I tell you what, if you're the sort of
guy who would think, let's see, I got a settlement coming,
I'm gonna.

Speaker 4 (27:27):
Go with a hot chick. You go ahead and call them,
or I've been in a car wreck. But you know what,
it'd be cool if I get a date with her.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, I tell you what.

Speaker 5 (27:37):
That'll clear the phone lines over at the fat, homely
guy who's done a thousand of these, and it's gonna
help me out.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
So that's fine.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
Yea, yes, And oh there's a couple of them that
I see, but one of them is something wrong.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
Call and pong, that's one of them.

Speaker 5 (27:53):
Yeah, you can tell attorney if they can rhyme.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
What's the kind a term for I said, ambulance chasing lawyers.
What's the kind term trial? Personal injury? Yeah, personal injury attorneys?
So this is a fake personal injury attorney.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Ad.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
It's a dog in a suit with reading glasses on.
So it's a dog's head with reading glasses in a suit.
You got a talking dog in a hot shake. I'm
still going with the hot shake, but I'm tempted to
call the dog anyway back to you and the merbiage
on this sign for the trial attorney personal injury, trial attorney,
who's a dog? Did your human break a treat in

(28:34):
half and try to pass it off as a whole treat?

Speaker 1 (28:36):
You may be entitled to compensation. Yeah, I saw that.
It's great. Okay, we got more on the way. Stay here. Well,
this is exciting.

Speaker 9 (28:50):
Today the nominations were announced for the ninety seventh Oscars.
That was great, and Wicked was nominated for his Best Picture. Yeah,
people have heard, were like, yes, the movie we've actually seen.

Speaker 8 (29:08):
This is.

Speaker 9 (29:10):
The movie I'm still here was nominated for Best Picture.
There's a film about Joe Biden's last six months in office.
Hey o, hello, Hello.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
So I like movies, Fine, I don't love them.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
And I really realized with a couple of different friends
that I've known in my life, there is that movie
crowd that like they just always what is the you
go to a movie every weekend or watch a movie
every weekend?

Speaker 1 (29:42):
What is the hot movie? You talk about them?

Speaker 3 (29:44):
What?

Speaker 4 (29:44):
And I am not that person at all. I don't
find them to be that important to my life, not
even close. And so I used to love the Oscars.
And then you know a lot of us have bailed
on the whole Oscar thing for all kinds of different reasons.
And when they started not eating eleven different pictures, you
can't keep track of them in your head. And then
they got two woke to this point. What movie got

(30:06):
the most? And this is kills This finally, this is
the last nail in the coffin for the Oscars. For me,
what movie got the most nominations, leading the entire pack
with thirteen nominations?

Speaker 1 (30:18):
It is Amelia Perez?

Speaker 4 (30:19):
What is that movie about a Mexican lawyer has offered
an unusual job to help a notorious cartel boss retire
and transition to living as a woman, fulfilling a long
held desire. So the movie they got the most nominations
is a trans movie?

Speaker 1 (30:34):
What a shot? What a coincidence, What.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
An amazing coincidence that at a time when trans stuff
is so controversial and Trump's in office, that the movie
that's positive about trans got the most nomination.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
That's just that's.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
Crazy, mind blowing. Oh give me a freaking break. Might
I might have to watch the Oscar ceremony, just like
to hate it? The never ending them crying about how
wonderful it is that that movie is out in this
tough time when the Trump administration is coming out with
their anti trans policies or whatever bs they're gonna say

(31:09):
on Oscar.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Night, it's gonna be something.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
Yeah, yeah, it will be the last nail in the
Oscar coffin. It will be the end of it.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
I hate you for this, though, You've made me kind
of want to tune in. I know, I know it's
gonna be.

Speaker 5 (31:22):
To say I'm not into it, it's just a gross understatement.
It's like saying I'm not into the DEI Executive of
the Year awards. No, I'm forcefully against it. It disgusts me.
But that is tempting because they could go full on
and much like the bigfoot media, the legacy media CNN
that's lost like eighty percent of its viewers, laying off

(31:44):
hundreds of people, it's aggressively trying to root out anybody
who's making any serious money there. They displayed who they
truly were in the senile Joe Biden era, denying up
and down that he was and saying it was a
Republican talking point and a cheap fake or whatever.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
And they oh, and telling.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
People Igno the evidence of your eyes, and he is
there is no inflation here. These are not the droids
you're looking for. You can easily afford your groceries. And
they lost America. Maybe the final like you said, the
final nail in Hollywood's coffin, which in my graveyard is
already six feet under and the back hoe is filled

(32:24):
in the grave. It doesn't need any more nails. But anyway,
maybe it'll do that. I would certainly love that.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
Amelia Perez leads with thirteen nominations in the Oscar Race.
How self congratulatory will they be that night?

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Oh my god, it's just gonna be vomitous.

Speaker 5 (32:42):
So I really wanted to get this hour to the
true cost of pet ownership.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
We'll do that next hour.

Speaker 5 (32:49):
If you don't get next hour, subscribe to the podcast
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Speaker 1 (32:53):
I have strong feelings about pet ownership.

Speaker 5 (32:56):
Yeah, yeah, we can talk about it. I want to
sweep an obsession in this country. Uh yeah, oh yeah,
enormously profitable. But more on that to come. A couple
of things I want to squeeze in just because they
have to be mentioned, even though they're out of town.
The Department of Energy, in one of its final actions
under President Joe Biden, earmarked billions of dollars in green

(33:19):
energy loans to utility companies based in Energy Secretary Jennifer
Granholmes state home state of Michigan, defying the agency's own
inspector General, who called on the Biden administration is to
spend the loan program amidst serious conflict of interest concerns.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
But they spent Mitchelle Granholm.

Speaker 5 (33:41):
Jennifer Granholm spent those billions dollars in her home state
even as she went back to become a politician in
that state. Again, utterly unethical, and I wanted to throw
this in this educational think tank put out Biden's Department
of Justice spent over one hundred million dollars in four

(34:03):
years for restorative justice DEI efforts for k through twelve students.
And you can talk about restorative justice with more authority
than I can.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
I've read about it, You've lived it.

Speaker 5 (34:15):
This this bizarre neo Marxist method of justice and schools
where if one kid punches an innocent, smaller kid in
the face, they both have to sit down and talk
about how they felt about it, and then there's no
punishment for the bully.

Speaker 4 (34:29):
Nope, it is, as I've called it, the Golden Age
of bullying, even though you hear more anti bullying messages
than ever.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (34:37):
Yeah, And keep in mind that a lot of these
funding mechanisms are used. As you know, levers, you're not
going to get the money you're counting on unless you
do this. They divvied up at least thirty grants that
explicitly mentioned DEI or staying an intention to approve outcomes

(34:58):
for specific demographic groups. Another recent report detailed how the
US Department of Education alone has spent nearly a billion
dollars to promote DEI in schools all over the country
to indoctrinate the kids. I'm glad it's over. I wish
you could ended sooner.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
Imagine if we'd have gone another four, eight, twelve years
down that road.

Speaker 5 (35:19):
Oh, thank goodness we didn't. Four years is not going
to be nearly enough to clean the house. Though. Imagine
if the movie that got the most nominations was an
Orange real estate developer who believes in borders and lower.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Texas I was worshiped as a hero in the movie.
That wouldn't be more.

Speaker 4 (35:42):
Oh my God, you've got to be kidding me than
this No No happens to.

Speaker 5 (35:49):
Be the best movie made anywhere on Earth this year. Right,
Isn't that inspiring? Oh my god, oh boy. We've got
a completely different Clips of the week in our four.
This week, Hanson has worked. I don't know why you
did this, Hanson, but he went with two different clips

(36:10):
of the week, and we'll have that an ho or four.
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