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4:07You come up with a do-good or idea and then you come up with a ridiculous budget and then you go way past the budget and you just keep asking for money. The Butterfly Bridge, it's officially the Wallace and in Berg Wildlife Crossing, also known as the Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing in Southern California. It's a massive, vegetated wildlife overpass going across 101, which is a big freeway in California if you don't know that. It's a giant overpass that they're going to grow stuff on. It's sometimes called the Newsom Cougar and Butterfly Bridge. I hope there will be shard nay stations so that if the Cougars as they cross the bridge can get refreshments. So the bridge connects habitats between the two areas of Southern California, which will, in theory, help wildlife safely cross the busy freeway. If the wildlife happens to have a smartphone and are on waves, navigation system of some

5:18sort, that can tell them that this is the best way to cross. You got two mountain lions, ones about to walk into the road. The other one says, yo, yo, Jim, Jim, let's take the bridge. It's much safer. So it originally came up because there was so much road kill along the freeway or somebody decided there was more road kill there than other places or whatever. Including butterflies or all kinds of wildlife and that they needed some sort of like bridge for the the beasts, all kind of everything from butterflies to mountain lions and everything in between. You get a cross and it's, um, it's about an acre. It's such pretty big. I mean, the overpass is an acre. If you can picture an acre, it's pretty damn big, making it the world's largest wildlife crossing. You know why? Because nobody else has done this dumb idea. It probably won't benefit a single ant. Anyway, it's behind on funding. It's as all these sorts of things happen. Let's hear from this Beth Prett who's involved in the raising more money for it. When we started stage one and we're waiting to start stage two, the world chain beneath

6:19us though, this spring construction costs increase considerably. Although we were holding reserves to finish construction, all those are exhausted at this point because of tariffs, inflation and so many other factors impacting construction projects, not just ours. So we need your help one more time to get us to the finish line and help us build back those reserves so that we can ensure that we finalize construction by November so we can all cut that ribbon together. What a moment that will be and like you, I can't wait to see that first night lining cross. It'll probably be at night if I understand mountain lion habits, but well, you have to believe that, I mean, while an acre is fairly large, it's very, very small for a giant area of Southern California, and you have to believe the mountain is going to figure out that there's a place I can cross here to get to the other side of the freeway. I just, I don't know that I believe that any, this is going to benefit anything other

7:23than whoever's getting all the money. It's going to be mountain lions, deer, bobcats, coyotes, foxes, bears, rabbits, lizards, birds and smaller creatures like monarch butterflies, bats and rodents that will use the butterfly literally fly. So you heard from the groundbreaking there, that was Gavin Newsom, the groundbreaking on Earth Day in 2022 where he said that we're going to get $54 million from the state we won't ask for any more money, $54 million of taxpayer money for this thing that will probably never benefit, like I said, an aunt, and of course, they haven't been able to build it and they need lots and lots of more money. Yeah, it's more than doubled in price, right? The total cost has risen to about $114 million, with 21 million in overruns and increasing state funding, but that's always the so far. I mean, we're always never even close to the end of these things. It's a money spigot for cronies.

8:24That's what it is. Every project never mind what they call it. It's a money spigot. Critics call it a boondoggle or jobs program or money spigot. While supporters emphasize long-term safety and biodiversity, allying with California's conservation goals, who could be against living reduced wildlife vehicle collisions so that we won't have any more SUVs hitting bats? And lizards. My God, the lizard car. The lizard carnage has been unspeakable. Now, I haven't heard this clip. This is another do-good herd that do we just happen to have? Here we go. 91. So seed scouting is going out into natural lands and you're identifying populations of plants that you want to be able to return to when they set seed. So I literally had months to myself to work to get exactly what was needed done for this particular project. And so to be able to just be roaming the Santa Monica Mountains looking for seeds

9:24in that sacred solitude was such a blessing. And it was such a blessing to be part of this particular team and group. Wow. Hey, baby, I got a hint for you. You ever try to plant a lawn? Just spread out some dirt and you'll have all the native plants you can use within about two weeks. So somebody told this poet dreamer, we're going to give you a salary to go roam the mountains and hunt for seeds to plant on this overpass. And she felt like she'd won the lottery because she did. You got the poet job in California that we taxpayers are paying for that won't do any good for anything. The idea that this is going to cause lots of animals to figure out. Well, that's the overpass. If you need to get over there, if you're going down there, so you all as foxes and deer and bats and lizards, we all head down to the overpass and cross there. Didn't she read the animal newsletter, Jim? There's an overpass now. You see because we're animals and we understand roads and the dangers of roads. So we wouldn't try to pass here when we know

10:26more mouth or beak. There's overpass down there. I mean, the whole concept is so silly. Well, and you made it sound more efficient than it is. She wasn't going out to gather the seeds. She was doing a separate scouting trip to find the plants that might someday have the seeds that would just blow through the damn air. Again, just spread out some dirt. Trust me, all the native plants you can see will be growing. How much did she get paid? This is what... Maybe I'll do it someday when I'm retired or whatever. There's so many documentary films or news pieces. I wish somebody would do. Find out the people that are getting the money for this project. And interview them and lay it out for people. This lady, whatever her name is. How many hours did you work? What did you get paid? What were the other benefits that came with the seed sprouting job for this ridiculous, fanciful unicorn project? And there's probably hundreds of examples of just what this project

11:27of things that would blow people's minds. She probably legally had her name change to Butterfly Ocean Feather. A speed which Gavin Newsom is going to figure out that that's where it across. See, the lizard doesn't know it's a road. It's got a brain like an acesomy seed. Boy, Gavin Newsom's utterly hilariously fictional climate false alarms coming up in a moment or two. Oh, my God, stuff like this get off the ground. Thanks for taking my money. And while a California taxpayer there, and while $114 million so far is a drop in the bucket for what we spend in California, as we always like to point out, that could be all the state tax money you ever pay in your life and all your neighbors right there that just went to this stupid, complete waste of money.

12:32It's a land bridge for animals that fly. Oh boy. Well, luckily for the animals that have GPS and understand roadways. Right, exactly. Exactly. All right, Gavin's stuff's worth staying tuned for. Okay, trust me. That's next. Art is strong and getting. Texting privacy policy in terms of conditions posted at textingtourms.us. Texting rules you for a current one of many text marketing messages. Your messaging data is in a plier place. Stopped out visit ISSA online for details. Tired of the nine to five grind. Looking for something different that's flexible, fulfilling and pays well? How do you like to get paid to work out? Now you can, with ISSA, the global leader in personal fitness certification. There's a huge demand for certified personal trainers right now. And once you get ISSA certified, they guarantee you'll get a job. Trainers can make as much as $100 an hour. Yes, I said $100 an hour. And with ISSA, you can be certified in as little as six weeks. You do everything at your own pace and 100% online. Pursue your passion in specializations like yoga, nutrition or strength training.

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16:38Oh, Chuck, get well soon. Chuck Norris, definitely listen to Armstrong and Gettie. He doesn't? Armstrong and Gettie, listen to Chuck Norris. How is he? The hospital is in Chuck Norris. How old do you think? Chuck Norris is 83. 86. Pretty good guess. Thank you. So let's talk about Gavin's ridiculous hilarious inaccuracy on climate change. I'm going to start with this though. Leave it to the New York Times. They're writing an article about struggling LA restaurants. And that's not exactly the focus of the story. But one of the lead sentences is some local chefs have find it inconvenient plumber ball. When LA restaurants are facing existential threats from climate change, inflation, and immigration enforcement. And the facing existential threats is actually hyperlinks to two New York Times articles about the challenges facing the LA restaurant industry. But neither one of those articles mentions climate change

17:39in any way. But the New York Times listed it as one of the factors in the hyperlink to those stories. It's like a cult. Oh, they don't mention bums and junkies, the artificially high $20 an hour minimum wage, crime, any of that. No, it's climate change that's making it tough to run a restaurant in LA unbelievable. But let's move on to Kevin Newsom, shall we? The climate change thing is currently one of his big planks that he really hammers on why he should be president and what a leader he is in California. Man, he seems pretty wily to me. I don't understand why he doesn't understand that that is kind of like that ship has sailed a bit. Yeah, because I don't think it's sailed among the hardest core 30%. He might argue, hey, dude, it's primary voters. That's what I'm talking to right now. And he might be right. Anyway, but I'm going to be quoting now some nice writing by Bjorn Lomborg. Kevin Newsom raising alarms on climate change again and getting basic facts wrong.

18:39California governor vows to sue the feds over the Trump administration's repeal of the EPA's 2009 endangerment finding, which was the main legal basis under the clear act for mandating reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, declaring carbon dioxide a pollutant in essence is what it did. Mr. Newsom claims the reversal will trigger more deadly wildfires and more extreme heat deaths. So let's start there with the dead people. Age adjusted heat related death risk in California has risen modestly in recent decades enough to account for 90 additional deaths likely linked to higher temperatures over the last 20, 30 years, 90. But he admits the other side, warming is help produced age adjusted cold related deaths by more than 5,000 a year by more than 5,000 a year. Oh my god, that's citing only the tiny heat increase while ignoring the cold related deaths is insanely misleading. Well, that's what politicians do. But yeah, and it's not even close.

19:41If it were a wash, it would be hilarious, but it's not even close. As for wildfires, Mr. Newsom is long wrongly focused on California in the Western U.S. while ignoring the global warming is global. He has repeatedly referred to California as the tip of the spear of climate change. Why? Including after last January's palisades fire, years earlier amid West Coast wildfires, he claimed climate change's role cannot be denied. The science is absolute self-evident. All of those are quotes. Global data contradicts this. Nancy satellites. Yeah, go ahead. Self-evident. Now that's ridiculous. Climate change is self-evident. Just as a human being on earth, I can tell. Well, and then it caused the wildfires. Wow. Was undeniable absolute and self-evident. Uh, NASA's satellites have trapped fires globally for more than 25 years. In the early 2000s, about 3% of the world's land burned annually in total acreage and area about twice of the size of Mexico.

20:41The trend since has been downward. 2022 hit a record low of 2.16% 2025 nearly matched it only slightly more. That's a reduction of over 25% in 25 years, sparing an area of land larger than Texas and Kellogg for you to combine to each year. North America's the only continent where burning burned areas increasing, but it accounts for only 2.2 of the global total. Yeah, the interesting thing about climate change, especially at this point is so they always go with the settled science and like list their facts and figures to make the point. But now we have, it's been around enough this craze. Though we have plenty of facts and figures to refute it with. Like you're just doing, but nobody ever gets into those. Right, right. And then this author points out that the main reason for these really devastating wildfires in California is all the building in the border areas between, you know, urban and and like wilderness areas. I know I had a house there and it was uninsurable.

21:43Wildfire CO2 emissions have plummeted globally as well, hitting a satellite era low last year down three billion tons from early 2000 levels. This undercuts claims of supercharged fires and feedback loops of carbon release because less of the world's landscape is burning. The result is less air pollution, especially in heavily populated areas. And indeed, it's spiraling in the other direction less and less and less carbon going into the air. The wildfire decline is a century long pattern driven by human adaptation, better land management farming practices, suppression of tamed global fires. Some claim that intense fires are worsening, a 2024 nature paper that declared extreme fire events double globally from 2003 to 2023. I remember hearing about that, but a subsequent nature review demolished that claim. The original study inflated trends by clustering fire hotspots and measuring their radiative power as intensity properly analyzed extreme fire didn't burn more. It's frequency decreased by about 35%. Yet NASA's fire homepage still prominently features the original studies claim.

22:45And there's more to this. It's just well, global global fires are dramatically declining in extent emissions, pollution, death, risk, and intensity. Mr. Newsom's rhetoric may energize his supporters, but Americans deserve evidence-based policies, not cherry pick the alarm. Yeah, you might be right. Maybe he thinks this is still the hot ticket to get the nomination being big and climate change. But in terms of it being a national issue, the ship has sailed. Of course, I'm sure I'm plunged off the charts. I'm sure in our public schools, it's still a very, very hot topic if you'll pardon the expression. Yeah, maybe someday I can get into another piece by Mr. Lamborg who wrote a great thing for the free press, how reality destroyed Europe's green energy dreams. They devastated themselves economically and socially to achieve nothing. So yesterday was the biggest escalation of the Iran war since the first day.

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28:03Today, we've struck over 7,000 targets across Iran and its military infrastructure. That is not incremental. That is overwhelming force applied with precision. And again, today will be the largest strike package yet. Just like yesterday was. As I've said from day one, our capabilities continue to build. Iran's continue to degrade. We're hunting and striking death and destruction from above. So this war is clearly escalating by any measure from both sides. The things people are willing to hit is going up. Yeah, I'm interested in that math, Pete, just laid out that we're escalating their ability to do anything is declining. Will that mean capitulation fairly soon? Or can they maintain that cornered beast flailing and doing damage for the indefinite future? I don't know. So let me do it in this order. I talked about

29:05historian Neil Ferguson and his peace and the free press about how the Iran war goes global with his sub headline being the Strait of Hormuz is blocked for how long the Strait of Taiwan is open for how long. The administration is now trying to salvage a plan that seems to be disintegrating on contact with the enemy as often happens. It may still be salvageable. The Islamic Republic may yet oblige Trump by expiring. I do not rule that out. I remember correctly at the beginning of this, Neil Ferguson was a supporter. Thought it was the right thing to do. Plans often disintegrate on contact. However, if Trump's advisors do not keep their wits about them, they may overlook the fact that they have created a huge strategic opportunity for China and Russia, especially if they act in concert. A Taiwan crisis would upend the international economy in geopolitical order. If China and Russia decided to close the Strait of Taiwan

30:09that the same time we're all focused on how the hell to get the Strait of Hormuz open, that would be a big problem for the world. I don't know how difficult that would be, how likely it is, but we're obviously otherwise occupied to a great extent. I don't know if Neil gets into this. This is what comforts me, but it's the sort of prediction that you make and then realize, oh, I didn't know that when it goes south. But according to a number of really persuasive things I've read recently or listened to, if China moved on Taiwan, that would cause a brutal worldwide chip shortage and probably a global recession bordering on depression, which would be devastating to China right now. So I don't think they dare do it. I don't know, man. Chaos is a ladder. If I wanted to change the history of the world and have in the United States no longer be the hedgeman that it has been for the last 80 years,

31:14really upending everything seems like a good idea, but I don't know. Be roll in the dice, no doubt. So eventually the books will be written about what Marco Rubio is doing behind the scenes that got this to happen. The United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan released a joint statement today expressing their readiness to contribute to efforts to ensure the safe passage of commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. That was not the language, those were not the noises they were making the last 72 hours. Why they all came together and decided to make a statement on that today, I have no idea why. Yeah, wow. Possibly thinking about what Neil Ferguson was writing about. Look, we got to get this open because what if something happened somewhere else? I don't know. Or the transactional Trump said, hey, all those tariffs forget about them. You join us in this. We'll call it good. Who knows?

32:15Different piece just because this has been a topic now for, well, since the war began, did we do this because of Israel? Are we doing this? Are we dancing to Israel's tune or that whole thing? And Joe Kent, the guy that left the center for counterterrorism and went on Tucker yesterday and says, oh, yeah, Israel and their lobby, they, they got us to go to war. In Bremer, to his credit, tweeted out, Netanyahu has been pushing for an Iran war with every American president for many decades, doesn't make Israel responsible for a decision made solely by the US commander in chief. Right. Appreciate that. I think that's obviously true. Pandera and Israel has been right about Iran for decades. Correct. Where this goes is absolutely anybody's guess. I'll tell you, 24 hours ago, I would have not bet that all those countries would have signed on to a letter saying, we're all on board with helping you open the straight. I didn't think that was going to happen. So who knows what's going to happen the next day? The fact that Israel

33:18hit the largest gas field in the world in Iran and apparently without telling us and Trump being very angry about it. And with a long truth social post last night saying that will not happen again. Israel, we didn't want Israel to do that. We didn't know they were going to do it. And it will not happen again as if he's can forbid Netanyahu from doing that sort of thing. Israel, Iran by the way after getting hit like that hit Qatar next door who shares that oil field with them also hit the oil field. Oh yeah, you're going to hit the oil field. We're going to hit the oil field, the gas field. And we didn't do it says cutter. Right. Why are you hitting us like you hit and everybody. But boy, that strategy is backfire and like crazy. The dog, I tell you what, we're going to lash out and punish everyone in the region for the actions of Israel and the US and anybody who helped them or hasn't we're just going to punch everybody. Well, so is there a theory that it's just going to drive up energy prices and democracies will. Doesn't matter what's the best thing

34:21long term democracies will react with. Gas is too high. This is the Gulf and the Gulf states will react with. We're tired of getting bombed. You got to stop attacking Iran. That's their that's their strategy. I don't know if that's going to happen though. A Saudi representative I saw in Fox morning said that they're contacting their Gulf neighbors to talk about bringing this to an end being attacked by Iran, bringing that to an end no matter what they have to do economically, diplomatically and militarily. So are you going to see Saudi planes and Qatari planes and UAE planes all probably purchased from the United States flying next to Israeli planes bombing Iran? Well, here's some old guy wisdom that if that guy still maintains that Twitter account and he'll probably quote me in life, there are many things that go very, very well that are still extremely difficult building a career, raising a kid, that sort of thing. And even if this effort continues to go quite well from virtually any vantage point,

35:23it could still be incredibly difficult for one thing as we discussed earlier. At some point, we have to get all of the highly refined fizzle material that Iran has and that's going to be a hell of an operation fraught with risk, including it's extremely radioactive and volatile. Plus getting the straight of four moves open and kept open, even if it goes great, is going to be really costly and involve human beings with guns on the ground. Oh, yeah. We haven't talked since earlier about the couple thousand Marines being sent and now a couple thousand more Marines being sent. It certainly looks like it's headed toward boots on the ground sort of conflict, doesn't it? There are aspects of it like the two things who's just talking about that absolutely can't do them above and entirely. And then those have a tendency to grow, doesn't mean this one will, but historically they do.

36:26One thing we've learned is apparently you can't bomb someone back to the Stone Age as they seem to still be using modern ordinance. I'm surprised. I don't know anything about this, but I'm surprised after what did Hegseth say? We've hit 9,000 targets, something like that, that they still have the capacity to fire rockets and missiles and kill people in Tel Aviv and attack an oil field and cutter and everything else they did yesterday. Right. That 9,000 targets doesn't take out all of their launchers. I mean, Mike Lines has been told since day one of the war, you know, it's you don't have to take out the arrows, you take out the archers, but apparently we haven't taken out all the archers. Well, some of it's that we've hit their army and their navy and their air force and command and control and stuff like that, but takes a while. We have that hilarious clip. Which one was that about the navy? I really enjoyed that. Oh, yeah, that was good.

37:26Yes, if you like hardass, you get some here. 54. The last job anyone in the world wants right now? Senior leader for the IRGC or Beseech, temp jobs, all of them. And to borrow a page from Admiral Ernest King in World War Two, we've decided to share the ocean with Iran. We've given them the bottom half. We've damaged our sunk over 120 of their navy ships with battle damage assessments pending for many more. We're sharing the ocean with them. We'll give them the bottom half. Oh, I know what he means. Who's that for? I like it. I'm not against it, but who's that for? Is that to keep the American spirits up? If I'm in the navy and I hear that, I'm yelling with all my might, with all my shipmates, sharing like a maniac. I'm all for that. Yeah. I haven't got to talk about the war fighters, Pete. How history judges them,

38:28ultimately, I don't know, but I believe he is 100% sincere in his protectiveness of and love for our actual fighters. Well, you mentioned this earlier, and I think it's true. History is going to judge Pete Hegseth completely based on how this war turns out. And maybe Donald Trump, even all the stuff that's gone into Trump's presidencies, including January 6th, the whole thing might get judged by how this turns out, depending on how it goes. Right. Right. As I mentioned briefly, he is, Trump has now 41 points underwater, overall, on cost of living. And it's 60 points underwater among independents. So the, you know, the next blood bath is going to be the midterms. And then he'll be impeached. So that'll be our last two years of his second term. Super couple of impeachments. That'll be fun. But I have no idea where this war's going. None. Like I said, I wouldn't have predicted all those European countries in Japan saying,

39:30we'll help you open the street. What that means? How did we get them there? How did we get them there? The character of the stick? Oh, well, we got them on board with this letter. Yeah. Yeah. And then how long does it take them to get boats there? Plains or troops or whatever they're going to do to help us open the street? Right. Don't know. The CEO of Costco, taking a page from the McDonald's guy said, oh my God, what is this? Oh, wow. I don't know. I eat this. That guy. The CEO of Costco has put out a video. He had one of their hot dogs and what he said, we'll shock you. We're not shocking. Among other things on the way. Stay here. Something different that's flexible, fulfilling and pays well. How do you like to get paid to work out?

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43:41with Sinesta Travel Pass. Here today, Rome tomorrow. Join now at Sinesta.com, terms and conditions apply. Doing all kinds of moves, going between his legs behind him, then shot the ball and then strutted around him. Very entertaining. What a fun thing to do for some theater major. Probably. You know, the more I think about it too, that whole butterfly bridge thing in California that we talked about earlier this hour, that is one of the more hilarious stealing of taxpayer money stories ever. It's very California. This might be have taken it to the limit, to complete absurdity. Makes the bullet train seem like cancer research in terms of spending taxpayer dollars.

44:46I wonder, there's part of me that wonders. I mean, you can make the argument, okay, mountain lions have to be able to get across and cool. And what was the foxes and other things. But they included things that fly on the list. Like the butterfly is going to say to its youngsters. Now kids, remember, let's fly over this bridge and not down by the roadway where we might get hit by a semi-truck. I mean, to include flying beasts as being benefited by a land bridge, I think that's just seeing how far they can go. You laugh. I laugh. Okay, different topic. It's been very popular now for a couple of weeks because the CEO McDonald's put out a video of him eating a sandwich and then a bunch of CEOs from other restaurants, put out videos and everything like that. Here's the CEO of Costco sitting down at a Costco table to have a hot dog. $1.50 for this hot dog. He's now eating it. Put your ketchup on it. The hot dog price will not change as long as I'm around.

45:51It's amazing. Amazing quality, amazing value. That's $1.50. Well spent. Are you going to have another one at your next building video too? Absolutely. See, he came off exactly the way you would want to come off if you're trying to promote that sort of item. He kind of looks like a regular guy, little fat, really actually enjoying his Costco hot dog the way I enjoy them as opposed to them the McDonald's guy who it just wreaked of. You've never eaten a burger at McDonald's, have you? Is the first time you've ever seen one is the way he came off and like this is a fine burger product. And he took a tiny tiny little nibble of it and I'll save that for later. So funny. Oh my god. The Costco guy looks like I'm a guy with Costco hot dogs. Lots of my every one I go every store and go to I eat one. Give me some onions.

47:05Dude, you got to put out a whole album of that stuff. I like all I buy it. Here's your host for final thoughts. Joe Getty. For the record, I'm neither sharp nor steady, but you know, whatever it's hard. Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up. The day there is Michelangelo and the controller Michael. Wish these CEOs would quit putting out these videos. I've got to eat a big arch, a new walker, a Costco hot dog. I'm going to get fat. I do like me a Costco hot dog. Jack, a final thought for us. Yeah, there's a funny YouTube video somewhere of it's a cartoon rendering of when I went to Costco one time and got the Costco hot dog and I was walking around shopping and didn't notice that I had spilled mustard all down my shirt and onto the tops of my shoes. Oh, no. I was walking around with mustard on top of my shoes and mustard might as well be oil-based paint. Yes. I mean, it's never coming out. My final thought, it just dawned on me. Mark Wayne Mullen will get confirmed as the DHS secretary and he's going to be going in front of that committee featuring Rand Paul for a couple of years probably. Rand Paul is the chair

48:10of that committee. Right. Oh boy. That back and forth argument was with the chair of the committee. Secretary A. Hall, what do you want? Curly at a punchy interface. For a couple of years. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four-hour workday. So many people with thanks a little time. Go to Armstrong and Getty.com for the hotlings for Katie's corner for the A&G swag store. Your favorite A&G fan would love a hat a t-shirt or a hoodie. I'm going to cough now. Excuse me. I'll be back tomorrow. Joe sounds like he's dying. I'm probably dying. See you tomorrow. God bless America. I'm strong and getty. There's a fantastic podcast that you got to listen to every day. It's got Jack and Joe. Katie and Michael Angelo. It's called Armstrong and Getty. On demand. Subscribe now. Wherever you download your podcast.

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