What Are We Even Doing Here?
Armstrong & Getty On Demand
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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ ? minutes
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Hour 2 of A&G features...
- The jobs numbers revision
- The best mattress & being thrifty
- Redistricting in TX
- Pull ups & rope climbing
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, |
| 0:10.0 | the George Washington Broadcast Center. |
| 0:12.2 | Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. |
| 0:14.5 | Armstrong and Getty. |
| 0:16.0 | And now here's Armstrong and Getty. And yet he's Armstrong and Getty. |
| 0:25.6 | One of the top BLS staffers is actually working in the White House to help us understand the jobs numbers. |
| 0:31.6 | When I saw the jobs revisions, I literally called up that person to said, I think there's a typo. Because I've been following these numbers all the way back when I worked with Alan Greenspan |
| 0:41.0 | for something like 40 years that I've never seen revisions like. |
| 0:44.3 | Okay, so that's Kevin Hassett, whatever he is in the Trump administration, talking about the economy. |
| 0:51.9 | This was for your Trump hating news shows, the number one story all weekend long. |
| 1:00.4 | So the jobs numbers came out on Friday. |
| 1:02.5 | We talked about them. |
| 1:04.5 | Trump fired the person in charge of those numbers coming out. |
| 1:09.6 | Though, as I learned over the weekend, they have very little to do with computing the numbers. |
| 1:15.2 | There's a giant staff of people that do that and plug it in to formulas. |
| 1:19.5 | And then this woman found out about him like two days before they came out. |
| 1:23.3 | And then she just signs off on them. |
| 1:25.2 | Yeah, there's really no discretion there. |
| 1:27.7 | No. |
| 1:27.9 | So, so, so as usual, Trump does what Trump does. |
| 1:34.2 | So he, he came out and claimed that she is a hack and political and fudged the numbers to try to make him look bad and that she's been doing this for long time. |
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