Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Elbow To The Chops!

36 min
Feb 23, 2026about 2 months ago
Listen to Episode
Summary

Armstrong and Getty discuss Western civilization values, judicial leniency in criminal sentencing, Mexico's cartel violence following El Mencho's death, and the 2024 Democratic primary race. The show covers cultural criticism, criminal justice concerns, international security threats, and Olympic coverage.

Insights
  • Judicial activism in sentencing decisions can undermine public safety when judges override jury recommendations based on social ideology rather than case facts
  • Mass prisoner releases following social movements can have severe consequences for public safety and victim families
  • Mexico's cartel infrastructure remains resilient despite high-profile leadership eliminations, with potential for rapid escalation
  • Democratic primary candidates are struggling with messaging authenticity and foreign policy credibility among voters
  • Sports nationalism and patriotism remain powerful unifying forces in American culture
Trends
Judicial leniency toward violent offenders based on socioeconomic background rather than crime severityPoliticization of criminal justice system through ideological lens rather than public safety metricsEscalating cartel violence in Mexico creating regional instability and tourism disruptionDemocratic candidates attempting relatable positioning backfiring with voters seeking competenceInternational sports events as soft power and national pride messagingEpstein files releases triggering political accountability across multiple countriesPresidential approval ratings declining due to tariff policies and international relationsGenerational shift in Olympic athlete patriotism and national representation
Companies
iHeart Media
Podcast distribution platform for Armstrong & Getty On Demand show
HBO
Network where Bill Maher's show airs, quoted discussing Western values
NBC
Broadcaster of Olympic Games coverage with commentator Mike Tirico
New York Post
Parent company of California Post, mentioned for coverage of Mexico cartel violence
California Post
Sister publication of New York Post covering Mexico cartel stories
Sequoia Capital
Venture capital firm partner Sean McGuire commented on Jack Hughes' patriotism
People
Judge Tracy Davis
Louisville judge who reduced violent offender's sentence from 65 to 30 years despite jury recommendation
Christopher Thompson
24-year-old convicted of robbery, kidnapping, sodomy, and sexual abuse; received reduced sentence
Bill Maher
HBO host quoted discussing Western civilization values and education system concerns
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic primary candidate criticized for Taiwan foreign policy response and whiteness comments
Marco Rubio
Senator whose speech about Spanish horses in Americas was mocked by AOC
Roy Cooper
Former North Carolina governor who fast-tracked release of 3,500 inmates including violent offenders
Ruben Oseguera Cervantes (El Mencho)
Mexican drug cartel leader killed in military operation, head of Jalisco cartel
Gavin Newsom
California Governor and Democratic primary candidate criticized for self-deprecating messaging
Jack Hughes
U.S. Olympic ice hockey gold medalist expressing patriotism after defeating Canada
Quinn Hughes
Jack Hughes' brother, member of Team USA Olympic hockey gold medal team
Mike Tirico
NBC Olympic commentator providing wrap-up coverage of U.S. hockey gold medal victory
John Fetterman
Pennsylvania Senator calling for Democratic respect during Trump State of the Union address
Donald Trump
President facing criticism for tariffs, immigration policy, and Supreme Court comments
V.I. Lenin
Soviet leader referenced for ideology that crime stems from system oppression
Quotes
"The West has also given us everything that makes your life good here. It's about rule of law. It's about respect for minorities. It's about democracy. It's about scientific inquiry."
Bill Maher (quoted)Early segment
"The radicals gave up on the factories, the Marxists, and concentrated on the schools. Brilliant. Insidious and brilliant."
Armstrong and Getty discussionEarly segment
"If you give away law and order, civilization, the rule of law, you will have to fight a war to get it back."
Armstrong and GettyMexico cartel segment
"I love the USA. I love my teammates. It's unbelievable. I'm so proud to be American today."
Jack HughesOlympic segment
"Those snaggled-toothed, scarred-faced young bucks playing hockey love their country. They're proud of it."
Jack ArmstrongFinal Thoughts
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. Now I want to first of all say something about Western civilization. Kids, they think Western means white and white means bad. Kids, first of all, everything bad that white people did, people of color did it too. The Japanese before World War II and during World War II and Genghis Khan and I could go on and on. The left is very down on America, very down on the West. And it's ironic because the West has also given us everything that makes your life good here. Don't ask Billie Eilish or Chapel Roan about what the Western values are, because they'll just say it's about oppression. But it's not about oppression. It's about rule of law. It's about respect for minorities. It's about democracy. It's about scientific inquiry. These are all good things that came from the Western world. I wish that schools would teach that again. my god he's an old man and i don't know how many people are left on the left side of politics who are willing who understand that and are willing to say that that's bill maher from his hbo show on friday but that's really troubling this is not a minor thing i say it's the biggest problem facing america it certainly could be or all of western civilization yeah it's wild The radicals gave up on the factories, the Marxists, and concentrated on the schools. Brilliant. Insidious and brilliant. No, these people utterly reject our values. We must teach their children our values. He's right, too. AOC, this hasn't gotten near as much of attention. I just saw it last night as her Taiwan answer. But when she was at that Munich conference last week, she did this thing about whiteness. She said, people act like whiteness isn't a thing. I mean, we have, there are black people and they have their own culture. And there are Hispanics who have their own culture. But whiteness is, none of it made any sense. But it was some sort of weird white people are evil. To the extent that there is white culture, it's entirely evil. Yeah, it was really strange. Yes, black people have music and dancing and Hispanic people have food and family. White people have hatred. That's white culture. Right. There weren't black African tribes abducting people, holding them as slaves and then selling them for profit. Or all the things that, you know, the Spaniards did or whatever. None of that ever is white. I don't even know what to say about that. And quite literally claiming the offspring of, well, the ancestors, not ancestors, what's the opposite of ancestors? Progeny, the many generations after of the conquistadors. Descendants? Descendants, that's the word I was looking for. The descendants of conquistadors are actually the victims of colonial oppression. What? Well, it's incoherent, but it's just you're repeating the pledges of your sect, your cult, honestly. Well, she mocked. I don't know if you're following this, but she mocked Marco Rubio's speech, which got hailed by all quarters as being quite amazing. She mocked Marco Rubio's speech because he mentioned that the Spanish brought horses to the Americas, which they did. And she mocked that as so stupid. She said, I think African Americans like a word about that. And so would Hispanics. Well, yeah, Hispanics have horses because the Spaniards brought them over. Anyway, but I saw one pundit say, her last name is literally Cortez. This is going to take a minute, so we need to launch into it. This is Louisville, Kentucky. Judge Tracy Davis sentencing a 24-year-old man and trying desperately to let him off. Before we even get appearances, Mr. Thompson, I'm going to need you to be respectful. This is less than 30 seconds into Christopher Thompson's final sentencing. I ain't doing nothing with my D, he responded. This is unbelievable obscenity. Wow. I'll keep it clean. Well, it's fine, okay, she said. What, he asked? It's fine. That's how the hearing began. He was convicted in December of robbery, kidnapping, sodomy, sexual abuse for an attack on a woman he did not know. The details are almost too chilling to repeat. He wore a ski mask, abducted the woman in her own car, drove her to a school parking lot, forced sex acts at gunpoint, drove her to an ATM, robbed her, drove back to school. more sexual assault, rape at gunpoint. As the assistant district attorney said, this was every woman's worst nightmare. And she asked the judge to uphold the jury's recommendation. I'm sorry, were you going to say something? That Thompson receive 65 years for the crimes, reading into the record the Kentucky statutes that dictate when a judge should consider a reduction in jury recommendations. So a jury of his peers had recommended that. the major factor is the defendant's behavior. The defendant's behavior. In Thompson's case, that behavior, exactly what the prosecutor wanted Judge Davis to keep in mind, it was conduct that had already been read into the record by Judge Davis herself. Off the record, the defendant was speaking to the prosecutor lady and stated, quote, I will see you in 20 years, bitch. Judge Davis read aloud. On the record, in front of the entire court, he stated, dsf y'all kids and f y'all's dead loved ones in addition to that speaking directly to the court he said eat my b i'm going to see your blank and s like you blank you this this is an example this is an example and i realize why this can't happen but this is an example where i think just a little bit of vigilante justice would be okay just because in the old days that guy gets the mother-blankin' crap beat out of him by some cops in the hallway. And when they put him in, it's, what happened to that guy? I don't know, he must have stripped and fell. Oh, it gets worse. And that sort of thing happens. You don't get away with saying this stuff. So the judge emphasized how long 65 years is, and Mr. Thompson has not mentally matured yet and had never really had a real shot at getting help. She read aloud his record, which included juvenile crimes, theft, robbery, truancy, failure to pay restitution, felony gun possession, fleeing and evading police, probation violation, blah, blah, did it take too long. Judge Davis went on to explain her thoughts for the record while Thompson repeatedly stated he did not care. Below is the exchange that preceded the judge's decision to forego the jury's recommended sentence in favor of a sentence of less than half of that. Thompson, I don't have sympathy for nobody, Judge Davis. Well, if you come in here and show the court, I don't have sympathy for you, the victim, the victim's family. We don't need your sympathy. I don't care. That's fine. Boo-hoo. Judge says, if you were to come in here and instead of being hurt and angry, which is what this court hears, right? Oh, my God. As a 20-year-old African-American male that has been, you know, experienced this society, et cetera, and you would show that, yes, okay, this is the situation. This is who I am. I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to be in jail forever. That's what y'all trying to make me as. I didn't say that. Yes, you did. I didn't find you guilty. I'm not trying to argue. Well, then don't. Just sit back. You don't even have to actively listen. You just sit back and be quiet and let me make a record and talk to the right noise. You don't want to hear anything. You're going to. So with that being said, it is just a shame that you can't look at all of this, all of these things and say, as of today, you can't tell me how to look at anything. Just say February 22nd or 2nd of 26th, I want to be a different person. I want a better outcome. I want to be an asset to society. Blah blah blah And on it goes And in spite of his refusing defiantly and angrily to even hint at regret Well, he didn't need to actually regret anything. He just needed to say the words out loud for the judge to say. I'm trying to make a record here. Yes. Yeah, but no. He said F you and threatened to rape her and everybody else in the courtroom. And for that, she cut his sentence in half. man these people are crazy they are they're actually nuts they are yeah you can't believe that somebody of a minority race could also be just an evil loser who would be better off with locked up forever you just can't imagine nobody who's of whichever downtrodden group you want to pick could ever just be a bad person for all the reasons other white people are bad people. Right, exactly. Just the system caused you to be... It's exactly Lenin's thinking. V.I. Lenin, the star of the Soviet Union, that just, the only reason we have crime is because of the oppression in the system and everything, but we're going to have to kill a lot of people to get this all straightened out, but once we get it all straightened out, everything will be fantastic. Right, and some people, including this judge, can't even deal with the notion that, maybe I concede everything she said that this guy never had a chance. He's not mentally developed. He had a bad upbringing, whatever. He grew up in a bad place, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Anybody capable of that is irredeemable. Put him in prison for decades. Bring it up at the parole hearing. If he finds God, he matures, you know, whatever, we'll talk about it, but not at the outset. No, you don't cut a sentence in half because of some vague guilt that a black fella is going to go to prison for a long time. God, that judge ought to be heaved out on her ass. No kidding. You should not be a judge. That is so horrifying. Screaming all kinds of horrible things at the judge, and the judge continues to say, all I'm seeing is someone who is hurt. I'm just seeing someone who's acting out because they're hurt. You're a nut job. You know, I don't even have it in me to, I had a companion story with this about North Carolina that Roy Cooper, when he was governor there, he's running for Senate now, so this is getting attention, but in the wake of the George Floyd crap, North Carolina, under the Democrats, was one of those states that just went crazy releasing people from prison. Just anybody, anybody who had darker skin than me was released from prison, including this guy who committed a crime so unspeakable against an elderly North Carolina woman, I won't even describe it to you, convicted in 1995, sentenced to life in prison, a monster, a subhuman monster. But in March of 21, he walked out of North Carolina prison a free man to the horror of the victim's family after Roy Cooper and his administration agreed to fast track the release of 3,500 inmates as part of a legal settlement with the NAACP. It was the, what did we decide the whole COVID George Floyd period ought to be called? The woke apocalypse or whatever that is. The woke apocalypse, yeah, the time of insanity. Great, Scott. You know, and we were discussing this earlier. I can't even remember the context, but, oh, it was the Mexican drug cartels that are now engaged in open warfare with the government. If you give away law and order, civilization, the rule of law, you will have to fight a war to get it back. Yikes. Yeah, maybe we'll check in on what's going on in Mexico because it's insane. I hope you're not there on vacation right now because you ain't leaving anytime soon. Among other things on the way, stay tuned. This is the most consequential case on presidential power that we've probably had in decades. But it also is in line with what they've said before. Presidents trying to use vague emergency powers delegated by Congress simply are going to lose at the court. Biden, student loan debt forgiveness. Trump trying to send the National Guard to Chicago. And now tariffs. The court saying Congress needs to get in the game. Presidents cannot do the job of Congress by themselves. Will Congress get in the game, though? That's an open question. Trump will be standing before Congress tomorrow night for the State of the Union address. Big question out there, how disrespectful the Democrats are going to be, or how many of them are even going to show up. I just saw Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania say Democrats need to show respect for the office and keep their traps shut during the speech, which I like. I wish them well, yeah. Yeah, I'm not sure that's going to happen. First person to shout raises the most money. yeah there's a bunch of counter events going on a couple different ones on the steps and there's kid rock singing it and he'll and jean shorts joy reed's doing something oh good there's some counter events you can go to but you won't get near the attention obviously not a not a not a tiny percentage of the attention you get by showing up and yelling at the president during the speech i mean if you interrupt his speech to the point that it's the news story like has happened several times oh the amount of money you'll raise i'm sure various people know the exact amount no i i can guarantee i'll get five million dollars within five hours if i'm the one that interrupts his speech right say something about ice how much money would they raise i wasn't planning on bringing this up but there is a who was it cbs or abc one of your big news organizations had a poll come out yesterday. And it's worse than recent Trump polls have been, so it could be an outlier. We'll have to wait to see if more polls come out to see if it's a trend line. Wouldn't shock me, really, but it's pretty low. His numbers equaled his low point first term after January 6th. Could his numbers be as low as they were January 6th, including among independents? he's actually lower among independents in this poll one of your respected polls than he was after January 6th yeah yeah well yeah he's lost a lot of people with the immigration thing people have hated the tariffs the beating up of Canada yeah like the beating up of Canada so I was talking to a I mean this is anecdotal but I was talking to a person yesterday who was a Trump supporter but just like why does he got to do this why does he got to say that and i mean like friday man you can't be the president you can't come out and say the supreme court justices are a disgrace to america traitors to their country their families should be ashamed you just can't do that no it's horrible honestly to the extent that anybody takes it seriously it's horrible but and the person i was talking to they use the example of and when rob reiner dies just leave it alone you know you don't need to go attacking people who are murdered in their own homes because they said something negative about you three years ago on twitter you just don't have to keep your eye on the ball the big things are so good we like the big things right but i wonder if that factors into the approval ratings. I have no idea. Different topic. It's almost got to. Kind of breaking news. That Mandelson, Mandelbaum, Mandelbaum, a guy from Great Britain, he just got arrested. Actually arrested. Former British ambassador to the United States arrested because they always say because of it, tied to the Epstein files. Well, yeah, he's tied to the Epstein, but not the sex stuff. He was giving state secrets, apparently, information to Epstein that he's not supposed to do. That's why he's being arrested. Yeah, just that whole network of favors and mutual obligation. What favors did he have? Not a sex island. He had insider information so everybody could get rich. Yeah. But, man, there have been a number of people drop, and this information was not going to come out unless there was this political pressure to release the Epstein files, using my finger quotes. This is going to bring down the British government, likely. Anyway, we got more on the way. Hope you can stay here. If you miss this segment, get our podcast. Armstrong and Getty. Explosions erupting across Puerto Vallarta. Black smoke seen rising over the resort city on Mexico's Pacific coast. Mexico's military forces launching a daring operation to capture cartel leader Ruben N, known as El Mencho. Mexican officials say during their operation, military personnel were attacked. Several cartel members were killed including El Mencho the head of the new generation Jalisco cartel The violence forcing the Puerto Vallarta airport to suspend all flights This stranding many U citizens trying to get home You know, the State Department is saying shelter in place. If you're an American in Mexico, just stay in your hotel until things cool down a little bit. Two-thirds of the country are experiencing explosions in grocery stores, cars being set on fire, gunfights in the street. The cartels have declared war on the Mexican government. And Mexican groceries, apparently. Well, and just, well, they're trying to sow chaos and fear, which they have been doing for many, many years. You do not have a society if you anger us, the message, I believe. Mexico's top defense official just gave a speech sobbing as he announced 25 National Guard members killed since the taking of El Mencho. talking about the cowardly attacks on 27 cowardly attacks against authorities. Man, you talk about brave patriots. Your kid goes off to join the Mexican National Guard and take on the cartels. Boy, and if I'm wearing any sort of government uniform in Mexico today, I'm on my toes, man, from garbage collectors to soldiers to cops to, I don't know what, building inspectors. So El Mencho was the most wanted man in all of Mexico. He was the number one cartel drug kingpin. Little information we just got from our old friend Dave, one of our many bosses over the years. Known as El Devo. El Devo. This dude, born in 1966 in Mexico to poor farmers, he moved to California as a teenager, El Mencho. there he twice faced charges of drug trafficking as a young adult returned to mexico after his second arrest worked briefly as a police officer and ended up working his way up through the cartels he'd actually entered the u.s illegally was uh deported twice known heroin dealer in the united states like a number of people that come to this country illegally he was not just a hard-working law-abiding, wanting a better life for him and his family sort of person. No, he's a criminal who saw a great market for his wares. Interesting. Yeah, that's quite the situation in Mexico. Holy crap. Where does it go from here? I don't know. I watched a little bit of that head of the military there in Mexico talking about all his soldiers being killed. This could be the beginning of a very serious couple of days or weeks or months in Mexico. I could easily see. I mean, there are a hundred different examples. It could be the wrong soldier gets killed. He happens to be the son of the minister of what's whatever. Or, you know, they assassinate the governor of a state or something like that. I mean, it could escalate in a hell of a hurry. Yeah, well, we'll be keeping our eye on this one. maybe even come up with a reporter because the California Post, we like the new California Post. The New York Post has a sister publication now in California, the California Post. Maybe we'll talk to one of their correspondents because they're all over that story. Two things we need to check in on here. We're following the attempt to be the nominee for the Democratic Party with two candidates. We're going to check in real quick. Here's Gavin Newsom speaking in front of a primarily black audience over the weekend and saying this for some reason. I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you. I'm like you. I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy. And, you know, and I'm not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there if you got 940. But literally a 960 SAT guy. I cannot. You've never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech. This may be the wrong business to be in. So the question is, is that Gavin Newsom speaking to a black audience and saying, in effect, I'm just as dumb as you are? No, more than that. I'm just as dumb as black people. Is that what Gavin Newsom was saying? Had a bit of a feel of that, yeah. And what's the deal with pitching yourself as a candidate for, like, the highest offices? I'm a halfwit. I'm a moron. We've talked about this many, many, many cycles. For whatever reason, it's the only job on planet Earth where being, having, like, struggled and being average is one of the keys to getting the job. And any other job you want to be, yeah, I was first in my class at Harvard. I had a perfect score on this. I blah, blah, blah. I turned it, blah, blah. But now running for president, oh, I worked my way up eating rocks and barely went to school. And I couldn't read. Takes me three tries to put on my pants in the morning. I don't know much about much. I'll tell you that. I'm just stupid. Well, you have my vote because you're just like me. Takes me three tries to put on my pants. I got all Ds. C students. Hell, I looked up at the C students, wishing I could be like that. I'm a D student at best. I try to put on my pants, and I realize I got them on backwards. So I turn them around, but I turn them a full turn, so they're on backwards again that second time. Then I try to pull the legs on over my shoes, and not the wide part. Then I think, God, I'm so damn stupid. I should be president. I realize the key to this is a half turn, not a full turn. So I turn my pants a half turn, and then I get them on correctly. I nailed it. On that third try. in the Oval Office. So we got that, and the other candidate that's at the top of all your lists, AOC, she had her disastrous performance in Munich where she was asked about Taiwan and China, and she went, I think that this is such a, I think that this is a... So, and then she got killed by lots of punditry, right, left, and center on that for several days, and on the talk shows over the weekend. So she put out this tweet yesterday. Key question for Katie, having just watched it after you hear it. This is what it sounded like. Sorry, Michael. You're going to get distracted. She's sitting there on her couch. She's got her dog next to her, and the dog is snoring, so that's what that sound is. Oh, boy. If you think that I don't understand foreign policy because out of hours of discourse about international affairs, I pause to think about one of the most sensitive geopolitical issues that currently exist on Earth. I'm afraid the issue is not my understanding, but rather the problem is perhaps you've gotten adjusted to a president that never thinks before he speaks. Ah, it's Trump's fault. So a lot of people were saying she looks like she's been crying based on having a number of women cry in my presence for a variety of reasons. She looked like it to me, but we left it to an expert, another woman. Katie, you watched the video. Does she look like she's been crying? Totally has been crying, without a doubt. And her voice sounds like it, too. So I think she was bawling her eyes out. She watched the Sunday morning shows, realized everybody, including people on her side, are saying, whoa, she may have taken herself out of the running with that one. and she cries and cries and cries on the couch. We're openly mocking her. I picture her laying on her stomach on the couch, kicking her feet and crying with her dog trying to snooze. And then she finally decides, I need to do something here. I need to spin this. And then she jumps on the phone, her eyes still red, no makeup, her horse voice from crying, and then says that nonsense about, if you think me pausing is a problem, the problem's with you. All right? Yeah. I mean, she does sound a little bit sick, but from looking at her, her eyes are glassy, and she's puffy. Not sick puffy, but she's crying puffy. Right. And, oh, my God. Wow. The dog's been listening to Rant and Rain for hours. He's like, God dang it, I got to go to sleep. And he finally falls asleep. And she decides to S half drunk I guessing having been weeping at the mockery she received in the middle of the night Good decision That did not help Got one glass of Chardonnay left in a fresh bottle. That was one of those deals where all you did was extend the story by another cycle or two. Well, and precisely and reinforce the narrative. Right. You're a lightweight. you're a lightweight pretty face who's good at impressing 23 year old social graduates and raising money you've done nothing to dispel that yeah I heard one pundit say and this is not a right wing pundit say she ran on or the big story about her when she got elected was everybody underestimated me I'm just the bartender blah blah blah run against the entrenched power blah blah blah and that ever since the whole underestimated her thing everybody has overestimated her. Which is I think sounds about right. Only if the dog had broken wind could that video have been more perfect. You just really really let one go. I don't know if it like attacked her and she has to fight it off and she's like hold on I'll be with you in a second and she's fighting the dog. Ow! Ow! Bad dog. Oh, God, that is too good. You can't in that hoarse voice with your obviously just cry guys. Well, if you think me pausing his problem, the problem's with you, okay? You've just gotten used to Trump who never stops to think. I was just thinking. And by the way, I have many new boyfriends, and they're all hotter than you anyway, so. Sue, I don't care. I never loved you. and I've lost five pounds and look at me now in my bikini. The dog's like, oh my God. I can't take another minute of this. I'm out. All right, we will finish strong next. Armstrong and Getty. Jack, the first gold medal for the United States in 46 years and you delivered it. Can you just describe the emotions of this moment right now? This is all about our country right now. I love the USA. I love my teammates. It's unbelievable. The U.S. Air Hockey Brotherhood is so strong. And we have so much support from ex-players. I'm so proud to be American today. Have you seen the video of the peewee hockey match that was going on during this? And they announced that the U.S. had won the gold medal. And all the kids just go crazy with excitement. It's very, very cool. Very, very cool. Love that. Love that. Love that. Love that. Yeah, Jack Hughes and his brother Quinn, members of Team USA, Jewish-American, both bar mitzvahed, and his Sequoia Capital partner Sean McGuire putting in a post on X, quote, for last year there's been a whole lot of just asking questions about Jewish-Americans' loyalty. Jack Hughes is the perfect metaphor. Takes a stick to the face to win Team USA gold against Canada, then spouting pure patriotism. Good for him. Good for him. Mike Tirico with the wrap-up. on NBC. This is pretty good. Let's listen to Mike. But what you saw today was the build of a generation inspired perhaps by that team that lost in 2010 in Vancouver to the Sidney Crosby Golden Goal in overtime. Or the team where T.J. Oshie had all those shootout goals in 2014. That's when these guys were doing what you're doing, watching on TV. And they were young and they were living the dream. So for all the young people out there, not just the hockey, but all the Olympics you've watched, those dreams are formed now. Go chase them and go get them. Because our country loves sports, and it brings us together unlike anything else. And if you didn't know that, if you haven't been watching the last two weeks, you saw it in Team USA Hockey, winning the gold over their arch-rival Canada here in Milan to wrap up these 25th Olympic winner games. I've never seen people on the losing side as despondent as those Canadian hockey players were in any sport I've ever watched. You know, people are always down or whatever, but they just looked like everything had been taken from them. Yeah, Goliath beat down David. And the David fans were really bummed because the whole narrative was in their heads. Trump and the belligerents and the big U.S. and all, well, this is our game and we're going to show them who we are as Canadians. and it didn't work out. That's brutal. Yeah. They played great, too, the Canuckers. They failed to do one thing. Put the little disc in the goal. Oh, man, that one goal we keep talking about. The save? If you have any interest in hockey at all, the save, yeah. How the goalie stopped that one. They've got all kinds of slow motion angles on it. It's just, what the heck was going on? If it were in the Matrix, you'd roll your eyes and say, oh, come on. It was just miraculous. That was God favoring the United States over Canada. God bless Canada. No, it's America. It's right there in the song, which I think is right out of the Bible. The Bible! God bless America. That's right. I wish I'd watched it. I didn't watch it. It was on 5 a.m. West Coast time, and I was not going to get up at 5 a.m. to watch hockey. I'm not a big hockey fan. I wish I'd have watched it. Yeah, it was relentless. Here's the way I described it to my sweet wife. I said it was an all-star game where all the best players played. They got to practice and play together for weeks, and they cared as much as they've ever cared about anything. That was the level of hockey that was played. It was unbelievable. If every hockey game had that level of intensity and speed and action and all, oh, it'd be as big as it used to be. It's interesting that you can get professional players who have, you know, millions on the line if they were to get injured or something like that, lay it all out for their countries. A hundred percent. It was unbelievable. Who knows how long I've listened. I started four hours ago. Now it's time for Final Thoughts with our co-hosts, Jack and Joe. Love it! I didn't know there was a big finish. Here's your host for Final Thoughts, Joe Getty. Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap things up for the day. There he is leading us off in the control room, Michelangelo. Michael. Yeah, last night was the closing ceremonies for the Olympics, and I'm going to miss the Olympics. It's fun. And if there's one sport I could do, it'd be bobsled. I'd love to do the bobsled. Yeah, jump in, let gravity take over. Try not to die. Katie Green, our esteemed newswoman, has a final thought. Katie? We went all four hours without the biggest news. Jack, did you have a piece of cake for your birthday? Did not. I did not Wow I don't know how I feel about this I'm surprised I meant to ask earlier Katie this is shocking we'll have to follow up tomorrow Jack a final thought for us very serious final thought El Mencho the drug cartel leader that they shot down in Mexico that has started what might turn into a civil war he would cut the heads off government officials and police officers and display them on the steps of the elementary schools that their kids attended to keep people in line. That's the kind of guy he was. Oh, should have had you go last. My final thought is those snaggled-toothed, scarred-faced young bucks playing hockey love their country. They're proud of it. The Canadians do. And I love my country, too, and I think you do, too. And those people who've taken over our schools trying to teach the opposite, you've got to take care of them, if you know what I'm talking about. Elbow to the chops. I don't know how you can enjoy your gold medal with the level of income inequality we have in this country. Oh, boy. Another elbow to the chops. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four-hour workday. Stick to the bridge of the nose. That'll shut you up. Go to armstrongandgetty.com. Drop us a note. Mailbag at armstrongandgetty.com. See you tomorrow. God bless America. Armstrong and Getty. Walk across it comes. Jeff Hughes wins it The golden goal for the United States I love the USA I love my teammates I'm so proud to be American today And by the way, you've only played not bad So for all the young people out there Not just the hockey, but all the Olympics you've watched Those dreams are formed now Go chase them and go get them Armstrong and Getty This is an iHeart Podcast Guaranteed human Thank you.