It's From Bangin' That Green Girl
35 min
•Feb 20, 2026about 2 months agoSummary
Armstrong and Getty discuss the Supreme Court's tariff ruling limiting Trump's authority, the decline in alcohol consumption and sexual activity among young Americans, and debate the existence of extraterrestrial life following comments from Obama and Trump about aliens.
Insights
- Small businesses without lobbying power suffered disproportionately from tariff uncertainty, unable to plan inventory or pricing strategies effectively
- Declining consumption patterns (alcohol, sex, social interaction) among young people may reflect risk aversion and anxiety rather than cultural shifts alone
- The digital revolution amplifies both positive and negative human behaviors, potentially substituting real-world experiences with digital alternatives that reduce motivation for traditional activities
- The Fermi Paradox remains unresolved; the vast timeline of the universe combined with short intelligent civilization lifespans makes detecting alien life statistically improbable
- Public figures casually discussing classified information about aliens reflects broader erosion of information security norms and governmental discretion
Trends
Decline in sexual activity and alcohol consumption among young Americans, particularly Gen ZRise of kiosk-based ordering systems reflecting customer preference for avoiding human interactionWine industry contraction in traditional regions like Napa Valley due to reduced consumer demandIncreased anxiety and risk-aversion among younger generations affecting consumer behavior and social engagementDigital substitution effects replacing real-world experiences with online alternatives (pornography, social media, gaming)Distillery financial distress in Scotland mirroring broader Western consumption declinePoliticization of UFO/alien disclosure as bipartisan talking pointErosion of classified information protocols among high-level government officials
Topics
Supreme Court Tariff Ruling and Economic ImpactSmall Business Impact of Trade Policy UncertaintyDeclining Sexual Activity Among Young AmericansAlcohol Consumption Decline and Wine Industry ContractionDigital Revolution and Behavioral Substitution EffectsYouth Anxiety and Risk AversionExtraterrestrial Life and the Fermi ParadoxClassified Information Disclosure by Government OfficialsAI and Digital Technology's Societal ImpactGovernment Structure and Civics EducationWork-Life Balance in Political CareersHuman Interaction Avoidance in Service IndustriesLongevity and Aging (William Shatner reference)Bipartisan UFO Disclosure DebatePodcast as Political Communication Medium
Companies
E. & J. Gallo Winery
Announced closure of major Napa Valley production facility and elimination of 100+ jobs, cited as major blow to wine ...
Louis M. Martini Winery
Gallo subsidiary experiencing staff cuts as part of broader wine industry contraction
Chevrolet
Referenced as major company affected by tariff policy alongside Ford and Apple
Ford Motor Company
Referenced as major company affected by tariff policy alongside Chevrolet and Apple
Apple Inc.
Referenced as major company affected by tariff policy alongside Chevrolet and Ford
People
Ben Sasse
Former Nebraska Senator and University of Florida president with stage 4 pancreatic cancer discussing government stru...
Barack Obama
Former president who stated on podcast that aliens are real, prompting Trump's accusation of classified information d...
Donald Trump
Current president responding to Obama's alien comments and announcing potential declassification of UFO-related docum...
Carl Rove
Political analyst praised for his critique of California Governor Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
California Governor who was subject of criticism by Carl Rove
Enrico Fermi
Physicist whose Fermi Paradox is central to discussion about existence of extraterrestrial intelligent life
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical physicist referenced for warning against broadcasting human location to potential alien civilizations
Arthur Brooks
Scholar on happiness who wrote about young people choosing OnlyFans over romantic relationships due to fear
William Shatner
94-year-old actor who recently traveled to space and made jokes about Trekkies at Comic-Con
John Fetterman
Pennsylvania Senator who responded to Trump's UFO declassification announcement
Quotes
"The digital revolution would cause a collapse in sex, but we know it's happening. There's almost no sex in America."
Ben Sasse•Mid-episode discussion
"If there ever has been intelligent life somewhere, or how's there never been a blip of noise? Or any sign whatsoever?"
Enrico Fermi (referenced)•Fermi Paradox discussion
"The digital revolution has created something that has made us all bored by sex. That's weird."
Armstrong or Getty•Ben Sasse segment
"They're real, but I haven't seen them, and they're not being kept in Area 51."
Barack Obama•Podcast clip discussion
"Everything more and faster. But if the desire for sex can be driven out of us by getting enough of whatever from the internet, then anything's on the table."
Ben Sasse•Digital revolution impact discussion
Full Transcript
This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. It's the little guy that is the most interesting part of this whole tariff ruling today. So the Supreme Court has ruled that Trump cannot throw around all these tariffs in all these different countries for a variety of reasons. And, you know, a lot of attention gets paid to Chevy, Ford, whoever. Apple. But I was just reading a thing in the dispatch about all these little businesses, you know, and little businesses are just barely squeaking by most of the time. And how they couldn't order things from other countries to put together whatever it is they put together because they didn't know what they're going to cost. Or they'd buy them and they were, and then a week later they wish they hadn't bought them because the tariff got dropped for some reason. You know how they would come and go really fast? and just how devastating it was to try to run a business like that. And they don't have lobbyists, the little fellas. They don't have influence. And the inputs they need to manufacture in the U.S. were being heavily tariffed. I've hated this policy from the beginning. How many of those businesses were driven out of business or really, really stunted their growth over the last year? Or laid off a bunch of people. Laid off a bunch of people, right. Yeah, yeah. I mean, two entirely different questions. if China, for instance, is dumping goods on us to undermine our industry, tear up the crap out of them. But just all the rest of that stuff, no, never liked it. Never liked it. Great takedown of Gavi Newsome by, of all people, Carl Rove. He is a skilled man. We'll touch on that a little bit later on. You had something, though, you said it was a good last hour Friday thing. Was that the text email thing? Yeah, yeah. I'd like to do that. And I also have Ben Sasse, who's going to be dead in a couple weeks. He talks very openly about it in his latest interview. Yeah, yeah. It's really interesting. But, man, he said a lot of interesting stuff about the structure of government and what we've lost in terms of civics and stuff like that. He also had an interesting take on the fact that we've all stopped having sex. So maybe we'll get to that this hour. Oh, I'd love to hear that. Yeah, so much to cram into the last hour of the week. But first, it's the Friday tradition. Let's take a fond look back at the week that was. It's Cal Clips of the Week. Clips of the Week! For we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West's managed decline. A massive U.S. military buildup is underway in the Middle East. Now is the time for Iran to join us on a path that will complete what we're doing. Bad things will happen if it doesn't. Would and should the U.S. actually commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan? You know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is a... We have mice, we must fight. Just for our rights, look at the future and set our sights. F*** guys. Survivors had found three deceased members of their group. Search teams then found five more, all of them close together. We're being given food that is low in nutrition and high in calories, and it's making, it's destroying our health. How does this compare with tobacco? It's as large, if not larger. Police in the United Kingdom arrested Britain's former Prince Andrew on suspicion of misconduct I love Nicki Minaj so beautiful his skin's so beautiful I said Nicki is so beautiful Get off the man's back let him do his job he's doing the right thing back up off of him Are aliens real? They're real but I haven't seen them Well he gave players the right information he's not supposed to be doing that I may get him out of trouble by declassifying. Do not despair. The Calvary is coming. He scores! He scores! A script that would have been rejected as far-fetched. The joy, the passion. I'll get up! It's clips of the way. You've been mocking it all day, but I'd like to get into the back and forth between Obama and Trump about extraterrestrial life. I will knock it while you do it. And what Obama said about it. So maybe we can get to that coming up. I did want to ask you about this since it's your wheelhouse. Oh. America's biggest winemaker has shut down production in Napa Valley, and it's a huge blow to the wine heartland. Do tell. Gallo announced the closure of a large Napa Valley production facility and the elimination of jobs across two counties. and some of their other smaller companies beneath them. Yeah, they have some boutique-y labels. Yeah, they have some other more expensive boutique-y labels. They're also shutting down. 100-plus jobs in Napa and Sonoma counties. This is being seen as a real blow to St. Helena. It's been a big industry there for a long time. Gallo is also slashing staff at some of its other prestigious labels, including the Louis M. Martini Winery and the Orange Swift Tasting Room in St. Helena, as well as Jane Vineyards and Fry Ranch in Healdsburg. So, it says here that it has a lot to do with the people drinking less. Right, yeah. Is it that much? I hadn't heard this, but yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Why? Why did drinking fall off that much that fast? There are all sorts of theories about that. The answer to that is an essay that includes several different theories. You know, number one, they're more into smoking pot or vaping their THC or whatever. There's also the thought, and I found this so persuasive. I can't remember if it was Peggy Noonan or somebody wrote it, and I just came across a piece of thinking slash writing that tended to substantiate it. youngsters are terrified by being out of control, by taking chances, by taking risks, by calling for a pizza, by asking a girl out or asking a boy out. And the idea of a little bit of loss of control is just too scary to them. I don't know. There's a couple of new restaurants that opened up in my college town and both of them are kiosk only. You don't get to order with a human being, which I hate. I'd rather walk up there and say, you know, give me a double cheeseburger, no onions. They tell me how much it is. I tap my watch. I walk away. I don't like scrolling through the screen and all that. But I said, I wonder why that is. And my son said, it's because of the young people that don't want to have to talk to anybody. They're more likely to go to the restaurant that's got the kiosk. And I thought, wow, is that true? that it's a noticeable enough number of people that you would put a kiosk in your restaurant because, you know, a lot of your customers don't want to have to walk up and say to someone, I'll take the number three. Wow. Yeah, yeah. That's true. That is, wow. We've already mentioned more than we can get to this hour, but Arthur Brooks, who I quoted the other day about happiness and the study of happiness, he wrote a great piece, Why are young people choosing OnlyFans over love? The answer, I believe, is fear. And he makes the case that it's just too uncertain for the modern anxiety-prone veal calf to take a chance to roll the dice. Anyway, yeah, yeah, I wonder. I don know but yeah the wine that I just I happen to be at the Single Malt Scotch Society I belong to last night and they mentioned that I can remember one out of five distilleries in Scotland is in severe financial difficulty I'll be damned. It's the Western world. We're not having babies, we're not having sex, we're not getting our drink on. Strange times. Maybe it is the right time for AI to come along and you don't have to go to work and you just sit in your house and look at porn and smoke pot. I'm so glad I was born when I was. It doesn't sound like an enjoyable life to me. But like I said the other day, I'll bet there's a hell of a lot of people that would check the yes box for what I just described. Yeah. I wouldn't. That sounds awful to me. I'll bet a majority would. A majority said, you don't have to smoke pot, but sit in my house, watch porn, play video games, smoke, drink, whatever. No job? Yeah, where do I sign up? Yeah. I'll be damned. Yikes. I worry for humanity. Speaking of the not having sex, one of the smartest people ever in government, Ben Sasse, talking about that in the final weeks of his life, among other things, on the way. Armstrong and Getty. So, I don't have a sense of how many of y'all know who Senator Ben Sasse is. I almost said was. He's still alive. he uh who's a favorite of our show he's a favorite of lots of conservatives he uh nebraska uh senator super smart guy came in young highly educated at your elite universities but with conservative principles and you know classic liberal views of the world i would add wise reasonable kind yeah all kinds of good we played lots of clips of his speeches throughout the years and he left government to go and run uh be president of um florida university of florida is that the one he chose yeah and he was was he at nebraska i can't remember he um he's dying he got diagnosed uh and right before christmas with stage four pancreatic cancer and given 30 days to live it's been more than 30 days and he's still alive he's on some experimental new chemo thing that they're trying and he said he's looks like he might get 90 days instead of the 30 days and he's about halfway through that but he did a long interview yesterday it was really really interesting i tweeted it out and we we can put it at armstrongandgetty.com it's worth listening to and if the cancer stuff's too heavy skip that and just listen to him talk about government oh my god i wish everybody in government even people that don't agree with him, if they could talk about it in that way with a very principled, reasonable, grown-up, kind of the way I picture the founders discussing things way of talking about government. God, there are not many people like that. As he said, we've got a whole bunch of people in Congress that want to be TikTok stars, not legislators. Yeah, I think if the folks who don't approach it in a sassy and style were to be honest, they'd say, guys, there's too much money at stake to be gentlemanly. It's all about money now. We've let the government get so big. There's so much money flowing through it. I can't compromise and be like a founding father. I've got to be like a money-grubbing hoe. It's also just plain interesting to listen to a smart guy who knows he's going to be dead really, really soon talk about lots of things, including looking back over his life and thinking he got the work-life balance wrong thing in his 20s and 30s, and then he was on the road too much and really, really regrets doing that, which is interesting. But I couldn't recommend this interview more highly. He's got a podcast. He's starting here in like a week or so. Jeez, he doesn't have many weeks left, but with some friends, that it was in the work before he got diagnosed, so they're just staying on track, and he's going to be part of the podcast until he's gone. but uh it got into the topic of um changes in ai in social media and all these different sorts of things and the internet and what's that done to society and is it making it better or worse or can we survive it and a lot of the conversations we've had on this show over and over again what uh you know what what a what's ai going to do for us anyway this is where it went like people ask me all the time when I was still on the speaker circuit, is the digital revolution going to bring heaven or is the digital revolution going to bring hell? Yes. The only right answer is it's going to bring everything humans do faster. The good stuff, more of it faster. The bad stuff, more of it faster. But you would never think that the digital revolution would cause a collapse in sex, but we know it's happening. There's almost no sex in America. There's less premarital sex. There's less marital sex. There's less extramarital sex. The only increase in sex is like there's some 70-year-old rich dudes who have Viagra, who have a tick more sex. But in general, there's a crap ton less sex everywhere in American life. And it's because a porn revolution has made it way easier for people to be satisfied, not really, but to be short-term satisfied without having to go through all the work of having communion and relationship with another human who's annoying. And so sex is great. And the digital revolution has created something that has made us all bored by sex. That's weird. no kidding and this and the point of this conversation isn't just about sex i don't think that was his point it said you take something as amazing as sex and you can drive that impulse out of people with what he calls the digital revolution then anything's on the table obviously yeah you know it's funny it struck me i've been so busy dressing up ben sass in a tri-corner hat and a powdered wig and the rest of it is worthy of the founding fathers i forgot how likable he was and is. For instance, the use of the term crap ton. Yeah, everything more and faster. But if the desire for sex can be driven out of us by getting enough of whatever from the internet, then... Empty calories as I've been arguing for a very long time. Absolutely everything's on the table. Everything. Desire to work, desire to love, desire to leave our homes, everything. What's next? You don't breathe anymore because you're on a website that shows people breathing and people just die? It's too much trouble, so I just watch other people breathe on Breathe Talk. And they turn blue and keel over. Breathe Talk. I swear to God. It's just such a good example because if that can happen, anything can happen. You wouldn't have to go back very many years, and if you said to somebody, I'm going to invent something that's going to make people not want to have sex anymore. I'd be like, what in the hell would that possibly be? Or I guess there's going to be a cultural change where people no longer desire sex. Not possible. Certainly for men. But apparently it is. 18-year-old men will not be looking for beer, not be looking for a girl. They won't even have any interest in it. And I'll think, what the hell happened? You know what I want? What was in the water supply? What war happened? What radioactive pulses were unleashed? Michael Hansen, just because I really like Ben Sass and he's going to be gone soon, I want that last thing. That's weird. As a drop for the rest of our time doing this show. That'd be bittersweet. A little tip of the cap to the guy. Because that is weird. That's weird. Speaking of weird, do you actually want to talk about the space aliens thing? I do. All right. All right. I do. Well. Because it's one of the few things I've changed my mind on, big topics I've changed my mind on in my lifetime. And I've completely changed my mind on this topic. And it's not just that shiny objects fascinate you. Over here. Over here. No? Okay. Trump and Obama both talking about space aliens within 48 hours, among other things. Armstrong and Getty. That'd be incredible. I mean, I mean, this is, you know, I grew up and I was watching like the X-Files. Now, if he's going to release all the X-Files, I mean, I think that could be a bipartisan thing to finally realize what's happening. So for me, now, if President Trump is going to release everything, I think that's fantastic, because I think America, I think, and the world would deserve. Such Senator Fetterman of Pennsylvania responding to the news that Trump going to unclassify some documents around Area 51 or aliens or some BS UFOs. How did the truth is out there? Who started this? So did Obama started on the podcast the other day and then Trump responded to it or did Trump announce it? It doesn't really matter. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I'm into this story. big picture into it because it's one of the few things I've changed my mind on in my life. But this part of it's dumb. But anyway, here's a rundown of what's happened in the last couple of days. The president is accusing former President Barack Obama of revealing classified information when he told a podcaster aliens are real. Here's that Obama comment. And then President Trump responding to Peter Doocy today. Are aliens real? They're real, but I haven't seen them. And And they're not being kept in, what is it? Area 51. Area 51. There's no underground facility. Unless there's this enormous conspiracy, and they hid it from the President of the United States. Well, he gave class of right information. He's not supposed to be doing that. So aliens are real? Well, I don't know if they're real or not. I can tell you he gave class of right information. He's not supposed to be doing that. He made a big mistake. He took it out of class of right information. No, I don't have an opinion on it. I never talk about it. A lot of people do. A lot of people believe it. Do you believe it, Peter? Well, the president can declassify anything that he wants to. I may get him out of trouble by declassifying. So, before we get to the real conversation about this, because the is there life on anywhere else in the universe but on planet Earth is an interesting question. Of course, yeah. This conversation is stupid. What was Barack Obama, what was he doing there? What was he, why did he say that? He just responded to a question. He said, yeah, there are probably life out there, but I haven't seen them, and no, we don't have them. He didn't say probably, he said there are. He said there are aliens, just they're not at Area 51. Why did you say are? I don't know. I felt like he was working too hard to pretend he'd never heard of Area 51. practicing for sort of a Candace Owens style show maybe something in the future. That was a good start yeah. And then just asking questions. And then Trump's thing was just a shot at Obama right trying to make him uncomfortable with the whole he released classified information or whatever. Having been on the receiving end of some good law fair right. I don't believe for a nanosecond that our government has any information about intelligent life in the universe that they're keeping a secret why would they keep it a secret but anyway i don't believe that i'm not concerned about that in the least yeah i'm certain that there are what do we call them these days uaes or something like that uh but they have nothing to do with the space aliens they're foreign governments our own experimental craft stuff like that and i'm 100 satisfied with that explanation my whole life up until a couple of years ago, although I was a very smugly, because you know, you got to do everything smugly, very smugly, of course there's life elsewhere in the universe, only a poltroon Neanderthal would think otherwise, with the number of planets and stars there are out there. I've completely switched gears, though. I'm leaning way more toward there is no other life anywhere else out there in the universe, just based on a lot of reading and scientists I've listened to over the last couple of years and everything like that. And basically the Fermi paradox, which is a tough one to get around. It's a tough one to get around, the idea that... Takes one to know one? It's very close. Then where are they, is the Fermi paradox. One of the great physicist thinkers of all time, who once said that, sitting around a lunch table with a bunch of other brilliant thinkers. Well, then where are they? If there ever has been, over the span of time, intelligent life come to be somewhere, Or how's there never been a blip of noise? Or any sign whatsoever? My argument with Fermi, which wouldn't last long because he'd look at me like I look at goldfish. I would say, well, it's extremely unlikely, but the universe is vast. And not only where are they, but when were they? So you got them over there on Zutron 36 five million years ago. No, we don't have any idea that it happened. I'm agnostic on the question I'm fascinated by it but I don't feel like I will ever have enough information to come to a firm opinion That is one of the things, the span of time is so long and if you are of the belief that intelligent life would follow the same trajectory as intelligent life did here on Earth, it's going to destroy itself It's going to destroy its own planet or themselves with weapons or ruining the planet so you can no longer support the life or whatever. Or they all get wiped out by a disease, right? It might not be self-inflicted. Sure, exactly. Or a damn meteor. But Earth's been around for 4 billion years. The blip of time that intelligent life has existed is not even measurable, really, over 4 billion years. So we could kill ourselves off within the next 1,000 years. I don't think we're going to last that long. But the next 1,000 years, it would be a blip in time, and that could have happened on some other planet. The universe is 13.8 billion years old, I think is the right number. Intelligent life and all these other planets could have happened a billion years ago, five billion years ago, eight billion years ago, and burned itself out, and there would be no sign of it. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So was Fermi right or wrong, then? Or is it a question of, like I was saying, not only where are they, but when were they? Well, it just seems hard to imagine that if there was intelligent life, if it's, one of my favorite thinkers on this says, if it's anywhere, if we ever prove it's anywhere, it's everywhere. I mean, it goes from, it ain't anywhere else, and it's some unique thing that happened here, whether it's believing God or just the right things came together or whatever. Or if you ever discovered anywhere else, well, then it's everywhere. I mean, it's all over the place. Not everywhere, literally, but so much of it out there, because obviously these circumstances are replicable. They can be replicated. You would think there would have been some beeps or blips out there from space travel or sending out signals or whatever that we would have picked up on, and we never have. And we've got an ability to reach a really, really long way with some very, very sensitive equipment. And I've never picked up a tiny anything. We also don't have the slightest idea yet why life started, how it started, what caused it to start. Nothing yet. And to our believers who are shouting at the radio, okay, great. I'll concede what you're shouting at the radio. But by what biochemical processes did the almighty get her done? You can still answer that and still believe in God if you are of that bent. Remember when Shatner went into space, not as James Tiberius Kirk, but as William Shatner, the 90-year-old actor? He went up in one of the rockets recently. Was that one of the Basel's? Blue Origin, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Do we have that clip that we never played a Shatner from early in the week, Michael? He was making fun of Trekkies. Never got to that. Bill Shatner, one foot in space, one in the grave. He would like that joke, by the way. He would. He's an astronaut, just like Katy Perry. Maybe we should ask Katy Perry about this. But I remember, I thought it was interesting, when he went up there, he just said it was just so cold and dead. You know, if your view of there is no life anywhere else, it's almost hard to wrap your head around everything just being a dry, lifeless rock for all of eternity once you leave planet Earth. It's a terrifying notion. It really is. If you're like heading into it, I'd be like, can I go home? Yeah, let's hear the great Bill Shatner. There's so much going on in New York. Comic-Con is coming back this year. Which means for seven whole days, New York will be known as the city that never sleeps with anyone. Do we have any Trekkies here All the diehard Trekkies speak Klingon And for those of you who don know Klingon is a language you speak when you want people to know you're a virgin. Wow, it sounds like he's 40 years old. Maybe. That's why I just looked up. He's 94. He does sound 40. That's what he ordered. No kidding, or whatever he encountered on one of his space travels. Everybody was always joking about him getting the space gun from all the hotties that he hooked up with. Banging that green girl. I think she gave him some sort of special, you know, green girl love potion. He's 94. Biden hasn't sounded like that since he was 64. Yeah. Isn't that wild? He doesn't sound the least bit old. He sounds exactly like he sounded on a 1966 episode of Star Trek. Good gracious. He's beaten the clock somehow. He may be immortal. We need to stop looking for life in other planets and try to figure out why William Shatner is holding on to youth so well. It doesn't age, yeah. That's a big question. I'm curious to hear 47, Michael. Is this from the movie? No, this is from News Report. When we made it, myself and everyone who participated in it hoped that it would set the stage for a sitting president to tell the world we're not alone in the universe and begin the disclosure process. And here we are just three months after the film came out. So couldn't be more pleased. Okay, that's Dan Farrow, the producer of the alien movie Age of Disclosure, trying to get somebody to rent it or something by drawing our attention to it. Well, I don't know that this is true, but it sounds like it could be true. Does the anti-God, anti-religion crowd really, really want there to be life on other planets? Because it makes it so much more difficult. Gosh, I don't know. I don't know either. That could be. But my reason for believing that we are the only life is not for religious reasons. Although, if it turns out we are the only place that life has developed, you really got to wrap your head around that. I mean, why? What's going on there? That's weird. I agree, Ben Sass. That is weird. I would think God would want to diversify, though. Diversify and buy the dip and, you know, all the other conventional wisdom. I don't know. I'm going to start three planets and, you know, tweak that one a little bit. You're right. Even if you go with we're God's chosen planet in the universe, why? Why only Earth? What's the point there? Yeah, I mean, I'm sure there's a theological answer for it, but it's fine. The thought plickens. All right, one more. 41 for me. I wanted the basics of what Obama said. Are aliens real? They're real, but I haven't seen them, and they're not being kept in, what is it? Area 51. Area 51. You're right. That was pretty unequivocal. They're real. Yeah, he just stated his... What does he know? Well, exactly. I don't believe for an effing minute. I think that's why I've got gums flapping, is him just stating, well, they're real. Like, obviously, I've seen the pictures. I've attended an alien autopsy. Barack Obama's also full of crap. I just think he's... You know what? Honestly, he's got a really good sense of humor. Yeah. If he was not so sanctimonious, he'd be a pretty likable guy. I think he was just trying to be provocative with some wacky podcasters. Sure. And I am not constantly amused by talk of space aliens. Like the rest of the media seems to be. No, I'm not either. I'm not either. Except in the more cerebral way we've been knocking it around here. And then always the thing that Stephen Hawking pointed out, that if we do believe there's intelligent life out there, why are we raising our hands up, putting out beacons? Hey, we're over here. Anybody powerful enough to travel through space? You're clearly more advanced than us. We're over here. Right, we're like fat little pigs that you can slaughter to eat or keep as pets. Come investigate us. What an idiotic thing to do. Yeah, I'd say. That's weird. It's like the Incas had called out to the Spaniards. Hey, we got so much gold over here. What are you waiting for? Women everywhere? Come on over. Enjoy yourself. No immunity to smallpox, by the way. Well, they probably wouldn't have thrown that in. Oh, God. We'll finish strong next. Armstrong and Getty. So the Supreme Court shot down Trump's ability to wage tariff wars on every country on Earth. $124 billion worth of tariffs were paid in varieties of directions. How that all turns out or what goes on with that, nobody knows really. Well, and who truly paid the tariffs is another layer of complication. He just told reporters the Supreme Court ruling is a disgrace. And he's about to hold a briefing at the White House and take questions about it, and I expect him to unleash some serious, serious venom toward the six justices that voted for it. I expect him to be sober and restrained in his comments. So, there you go. Yeah. That'll be jazzy. Can you imagine being President of the United States? So, one of your biggest economic policies gets shut down by the Supreme Court. You've got to figure out how to deal with that and massage it and talk to the people behind the scenes. At the same time, being updated by Pete Hegseth and whoever else about the aircraft carriers almost in place, sir, for the war you're about to launch while you're getting ready for the State of the Union address on Tuesday. I don't know how anybody does it without dropping dead. And now, final thoughts with Armstrong and Giddy. Engage. There you go. A little Shrek reference there. One of your bastard treks, your ladder generation treks. Here's your host for Final Thoughts, Joe Getty. Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew. There he is, Michelangelo, to lead us off. Michael, final thought. Yeah, Jack, I've been thinking about your birthday and you eating cake. I got an idea. You sit down, you eat an entire cake, you make yourself sick, basically, and then you never want to touch it again. It's like the smoking a whole pack of cigarettes principle. Exactly. Have your cake and puke it, too. Katie Green, our esteemed newswoman, has a final thought. Katie? Mine's a long outline as well. Puke talk around a pregnant lady is a bad idea. Sorry. No, it's all right. Jack, eat the cake. Eat a piece of damn cake for your birthday. That's my final thought. I'm leaning no right now. Jack, final thought for us? Yeah, tip of the cap to the women's hockey team who beat Canada for the gold medal yesterday. Just the joy they had and the skating around with the American flag and then everybody singing together the national anthem on the podium. That was freaking awesome. We need way more of that. Loved it. Way to go, ladies. Way to push around them Canucka girls, too. Well, and in celebrating America and being proud to represent the United States. 100%. My final thought, woo you, boo goo. Correct. If you don't know what we're talking about, listen to the show via podcast. The whole show. Armstrong and Getty on Demand. The whole dang show. You know, at some point, maybe next week, we've got to talk about how the text line is vastly more negative than the email. I wonder why that is. The ease of shooting off hatred versus having to take a minute and write in our email address, type it in whatever. I don't know. Doesn't text seem more flippant than email? I feel like if I have a serious conversation I have with somebody, I email them. Yeah, true. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four-hour workday. What did Marshall McLuhan say? The media is the message or something like that? Anyway, so many people's thanks for a little time. Go to armstrongandgetty.com. Drop a note over the weekend. If you see something we really ought to be talking about, go ahead and send it along. Mailbag at armstrongandgetty.com. Pick up some A&G swag. Will we be a wartime show come Monday? We'll see you then. God bless America. The tale of two Olympians, Alyssa Lou, we celebrate you and the way you skate with joy. Armstrong and Getty. This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human.