The Best Weekend Talk Show In America Hour One

Summary

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Episode: The Best Weekend Talk Show In America, Hour One
Date: June 6, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty

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Episode Overview

This hour of “Armstrong & Getty” digs into the political discourse of the week, with a major focus on Jill Biden’s book tour, media self-delusion, and the latest developments in Trump’s foreign policy maneuvering—particularly his relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Jack and Joe also offer their signature satirical observations on California’s elections, dysfunctional voting systems, and the evolution of American media, peppered with signature banter and listener emails.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Jill Biden’s Book Tour & Media “Cover-Up” (01:41–12:32)

• Superficial Media Coverage
  The hosts critique how the press handled Dr. Jill Biden’s interview and book tour, calling it "an embarrassment of journalism" ([08:58]). They question why interviewers failed to confront her on specifics, especially regarding Joe Biden’s health.

• Delusion and Self-Deception in Politics
  Drawing from journalist Mark Halperin’s panel discussions, Jack relays the account of a Democratic pundit who admitted self-delusion about Biden’s capacity ([03:14–04:41]). This launches a deep conversation about human capacity for self-delusion, cognitive bias, and how invested individuals can rationalize the evidence in front of them—whether in politics or personal life ([04:41–07:16]).

  • Orwell Reference: Jack quotes George Orwell: “The hardest thing to do is to see something that’s right in front of one’s nose” ([05:48]), reflecting on how even the highly intelligent can fall for their own wishful narratives.

• Wealth & Public Service Irony
  The hosts poke fun at the Bidens' multiple, lavish homes, juxtaposing them with their “lifetime of public service,” likening Jill Biden’s house to Eddie Murphy’s mansion ([10:09–11:29]):

  • “Why does Joe Biden have the same house as Eddie Murphy?” – Jack Armstrong ([11:09])
  • Mention of media “parading” the wealth: “Not only did they not question it, they paraded openly.” – Joe Getty ([11:49])

2. California Voting System & Personal Anecdotes (14:13–22:12)

• Demographics Overwhelming the Races
  Jack and Joe discuss the predictability of California election outcomes given current demographics, referencing commentary from David Drucker and the state’s deeply entrenched Democratic stronghold:

  • “Both the Democrats are going to run away with it in the general.” – Paraphrasing David Drucker ([15:29])
  • “LA is seven points more blue than the state, which is quite blue.” – Jack Armstrong ([15:30])

• Voting System Dysfunctionalities
  Both hosts lambast California’s mail-in voting and the painfully slow ballot-counting process:

  • “It takes weeks, weeks to count the ballots... Old man Maduro wishes he’d come up with a system that ridiculous.” – Joe Getty ([16:22])
  • “California… is the worst in the world in terms of getting results from their elections.” – Jack Armstrong quoting Nate Silver ([16:44])

• Amusing Polling Place Stories
  Jack shares the tale of a young woman, well-dressed and college-aged, who didn’t know her own address at the polling station—and still was allowed to vote ([17:42–20:39]). This segues into a comical description of an elderly poll worker:

  • “She should not be voting. I don’t think she was like, you know, lying or trying to pull off anything. I think she just is a person. …She just doesn’t know her own address.” – Jack Armstrong ([20:39])
  • On the slow elderly poll worker: “He was a million years old and super nice… but just so slow.” – Jack Armstrong ([21:24])

3. Trump, Netanyahu, & Middle East Diplomacy (23:51–34:51)

• Trump-Netanyahu Tensions
  Discussion of Axios reports that Trump berated Netanyahu in a phone call, using explicit language and telling him he’d be in prison if not for Trump ([25:14]).

  • “You're effing crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.” – Jack Armstrong, relaying Axios quote ([25:48])

• US-Israel Policy and Iran
  The hosts outline the context: Trump wants to end the Lebanon conflict to unlock a deal with Iran, potentially at the expense of Israel’s security. Joe expresses concern:

  • “I think Trump... is willing to subordinate anything to his personal interest, his ego and his desired reputation as the greatest dealmaker who’s ever lived.” ([27:22]) Joe further argues that trying to make “nice” with Iranian proxies has a long record of failure, and that Iran is merely “playing Trump against Netanyahu” ([29:55–31:41]).
  • “Brutal religious zealot negotiators are playing Trump. …They don’t have a single effin’ intention of doing [a deal].” – Joe Getty ([29:55]) They highlight how public and media perceptions swing wildly and inconsistently—one week accusing Trump of being an Israeli puppet, the next, too harsh on Israel:
  • “Either you’re dancing to [Netanyahu’s] tune or you’re not being nice enough to him. Which is it?” – Jack Armstrong ([29:37])

4. Listener Mailbag & Recent Oddities (35:52–42:56)

• On California’s Voting Rolls & Ballot Security

  • Stories of multiple ballots sent to same individuals or deceased relatives ([36:52–37:04]).
  • “So much easier to be a Democrat, especially in California.” – Listener Brian ([37:04])

• Tom Steyer’s Gubernatorial Loss

  • “$200 million of your own money to be… governor. …You would see people leaving California by the millions if Steyer got into office.” – Joe Getty ([38:01])

• Iran/US Foreign Policy Concerns

  • Listener Nick the Plumber claims “Iran already has a nuke,” and that the “boy who cried wolf scenario” is analogous due to past US misadventures ([38:31]).

• Travel Security Story

  • Discussion of an airline incident where a speaker named “bomb” by factory default delayed a flight ([39:29–40:30]), with Jack critiquing the TSA’s obsession with “rules” over actual threats.

• Decline of Traditional TV

  • Joe reads listener mail about the evolution and disintegration of TV as America’s communal anchor, musing that the new digital age is “not better I don’t think. Which is a problem.” – Jack Armstrong ([42:09])

5. Reflections on Self-Deception & Optimism

• Wrap-up on Self-deception
  Closing the hour, Jack and Joe return to the theme of how personal and political motives lead to blindness—even among smart or earnest people ([42:43–42:56]).

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On Human Self-Deception:
  “Are we apparently that capable of deluding ourselves if we want a specific thing to be true or not true?” – Jack Armstrong ([04:21])
• On Political Cynicism:
  “98% cynicism by the political class who just figured they could get the soft heads to go along with it.” – Joe Getty ([08:08])
• On Media Bias:
  “It’s one of the most embarrassing things that’s ever happened in the history of journalism.” – Jack Armstrong ([08:58])
• Pop Culture Parody:
  “Jill Biden has the same sort of house as Eddie Murphy. Why is that?” – Jack Armstrong ([10:43])
• Satire on California Voting:
  “California… is the worst in the world in terms of getting results from their elections.” – Quoting Nate Silver, Jack Armstrong ([16:44])
• On International Affairs:
  “Trump… is willing to subordinate anything to his personal interest, his ego and his desired reputation as the greatest dealmaker who’s ever lived.” – Joe Getty ([27:22])
• Listener Humor:
  “Jack is the stupidest genius that I've ever heard. I love him but he is annoying.” – Nick the Plumber ([39:27])

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Notable Timestamps

• 01:41 - Show intro: coverage of Jill Biden's book tour & Trump/Netanyahu conflicts.
• 03:14 - Mark Halperin’s panel: insight into media/elite self-delusion.
• 05:48 - “Orwell” quote and discussion of cognitive blindness.
• 08:58 - Rant on media's embarrassment covering Jill Biden.
• 10:09–11:29 - Discussion of Bidens’ conspicuous wealth.
• 15:29–16:44 - Prediction of California election outcomes and voting system criticism.
• 17:42–22:12 - Voting anecdote: young woman does not know her own address; polling place humor.
• 23:51–25:48 - Trump-Netanyahu call and explicit Axios leak.
• 27:22–34:51 - Trump’s foreign policy motives and Iran/Israel dynamics discussed in depth.
• 35:52–42:09 - Listener emails: voting rolls, Tom Steyer, Iran nukes, TSA, TV nostalgia.
• 42:43–42:56 - Closing thoughts: the everyday dangers of self-deception.

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Tone and Language

Throughout this episode, Jack and Joe maintain a conversational, sardonic tone, blending irreverent humor with serious critical insights. Their language is direct, sometimes hyperbolic, and they frequently use pop culture references and hypothetical satire to lampoon the day’s political and media landscape. Their banter is equally self-deprecating and biting toward public figures and the press.

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Listeners new to Armstrong & Getty will find this episode a showcase of their signature style: skeptical, quick-witted, focused on media critique, and full of amusing, relatable stories. The major themes—political denial, media bias, election dysfunction, and foreign-policy gamesmanship—are all covered with lively cross-talk and a wink at the absurdities of modern America.

Transcript

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[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

As always in action packed week. Jill Biden on her increasingly disastrous book tour. Plus Trump and BB friends or foes and all the news that happen around the country and around the world.

[Jack Armstrong]

We talk about a lot of stuff. We do 20 hours of live radio every week. If you want more, you can look for the Armstrong and Getty podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand. That's what it's called. Even today she still thinks her husband would have made a good president if he had stayed in the race.

[Joe Getty]

Of course he would have made a good president. He made a good president the four

[Jack Armstrong]

years he was there.

[Joe Getty]

I mean, to me he was the best president.

[Jack Armstrong]

What a waste of freaking time. That's Dr. Jill Biden on her interview yesterday and she's going to do a bunch more and I hope somebody at some point presses her on these issues. But you know, I suppose in reality, what is she supposed to say? What is she going to say there as the wife of an old man in his final days of life? Maybe she's supposed to say, oh, clearly he would have sucked. His brain doesn't work, you know, Come on.

[Joe Getty]

Well, that raises the question though, then why are we going through this exercise at all?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I was going to say anybody

[Joe Getty]

who diesel that old bad is going to lie to us why am I watching this?

[Jack Armstrong]

Anybody who buys their book and reads it, never talk to me, stay away from me. You're not the sort of person I ever want to engage with. I can't imagine imagine anyone buying that book and reading it. Fine.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, Michael, Michael's halfway through it, Jack. I should have said something. He's been loving it, you know, so

[Jack Armstrong]

I've been debating whether to bring this up or not, but it's, it's pretty interesting. So I'd been mentioning that journalist Mark Halpern, who does a TV show every afternoon on YouTube or a bunch of other platforms. He has a Democrat and a Republican on every day. And he has been incensed about this whole thing from, from the beginning. The media coverage, he, he calls it the biggest media cover up in our nation's history. The fact that they did not report on what everybody could see and acted like it wasn't happening. But the Democrat on there said, look, I fooled myself. He said, I look back on it and I think, how could I be so blind to that? I saw all this stuff on TV and I, and I just convinced myself that it's is not as bad as everybody's saying, or this is, you know, Trump people trying to make it worse than it actually is, or he's got a stutter or everybody misspeaks every now and then. He said, I myself don't know how I blinded myself to this. I find it disturbing. And so the reason I bring that up, it's not a politics thing. I just, just for everybody, all human beings in their own lives, are we apparently that capable of deluding ourselves if we want a specific thing to be true or not true?

[Joe Getty]

Apparently some more than others. Yeah. It's disturbing that somebody who's at least arguably accomplished enough and articulate enough and bright enough to be on that sort of, would be self delusional like that. That's, that's disturbing to me.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, it depends how invested you are. Think about if you've ever known anybody talking about their husband or wife or kids and they're laying out the story and you think, whoa, they are a train wreck. And how do you not recognize that this is like a serious problem? It's because you want an outcome so much and maybe if you're in politics, you, you want an outcome like you want your husband to not be as bad as he seems, or wife or kids or whatever.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. I just think it varies from person to person. It's probably like, you know, the, the spectrum of virtually any human emotion or psychological Function from, you know, logic to complete delusion. You have, you know, self delusion and rationalization on a scale. Some people don't do it at all. Some do.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, you have that Orwell quote, Orwell saying that the hardest thing to do is to see something that's right in front of one's nose. So.

[Joe Getty]

All right, right. Well, he famously is one of my intellectual heroes, obviously and a brilliant, brilliant man. But he was a dedicated socialist and then you know, realized, oh yeah, this doesn't work in among human beings. It's prone to disaster and torture and totalitarianism and the rest of it. So. And I don't think it's a discredit to somebody like Orwell, for instance, that they fell for something that could never work. Well, he got it in spite of his brilliance.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's not a discredit that it turns out we're all capable of diluting ourselves if we want a particular outcome bad enough of whatever it is. And that's a disturbing thing to think about. What, what do you really want to be true or not true? You're just not dealing with the facts.

[Joe Getty]

On. I don't know what. Where are you on a scale of 1 to 10. That's what I'm trying to tell you repeatedly. I think some people are not very prone to that at all. And some people are very, very prone to it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, you'd have to think that George Orwell wasn't very prone to it yet he. Why would you think that?

[Joe Getty]

Huh? Why would you, why would you think that? I don't know. I think it's independent of intelligence. It's a, it's a tendency like height or being a worrier or being cheerful versus being kind of door and an introvert.

[Jack Armstrong]

I also think it'd probably be something that it's impossible for you to diagnose yourself.

[Joe Getty]

Agreed.

[Jack Armstrong]

You have no idea yourself to where you would be on that scale.

[Joe Getty]

Well, I know I got to disagree with that too. And I certainly, I've never thought about this in depth, so I stand ready to be corrected. I think if you're on the brutal realist end of things, you, your diagnosis is better because you tend not to. To self delude.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

The self delusional cannot diagnose themselves as delusional because they're. Or delusional is too strong a term, but you know what I mean.

[Jack Armstrong]

So then the question would be how much of the media and political class were in the self delusion thing because they wanted a particular outcome so bad and how many people knew exactly what they were doing, but they're just flat out lying?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I assumed it was 98% cynicism by the political class who just figured they could get the soft heads to go along with it. If that guy's being sincere, then it's fascinating again and somewhat terrifying or at least a little scary. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. When he was like whispery and forgetful and would wander around and had to be guided and his speeches were either angry, sputtering or, or like just slow paced. Whis, you didn't notice that?

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, decline.

[Joe Getty]

This is articulate, crazy, you know, making stuff up. Joe Biden and then Joe, you didn't notice that.

[Jack Armstrong]

So the Jill Biden interview, which you probably didn't watch, was an embarrassment of journalism. It's one of the most embarrassing things that's ever happened in the history of journalism. The fact that they did not bring receipts and drill down on various things that she was denying. I mean, I suppose on one level you could. It would seem a little cruel, but I mean, you are a journalist talking to somebody who's written a book about this, about a very important topic. You could have shown clips and say this happened, you know, three years before the debate. Explain this. On the whole, you never saw him like that before or after.

[Joe Getty]

I just, I think your problem here is you're asking Hockey Night in America to talk about golf. That show is an old bat talking in gentle tones for the entertainment of old bats who are getting ready to go to church in the morning. It's not journalism.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, well, let's hope that in the coming days as Joe Biden continues to go out there and hawk this book that she runs into some journalists that are going to like really push her on that. Because the most ridiculous thing she says of all the ridiculous things is I never saw him like that before or after we did. How come you didn't?

[Joe Getty]

Well, yeah, you're right. He'd have been a great president his second term. That's pretty ridiculous too.

[Jack Armstrong]

I can't believe that they are so. I mean, this is Louis XVI stuff. They are so tone deaf to the whole thing, Jill Biden, that she does the interview in front of their. One of their homes, because they have many homes.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, right.

[Jack Armstrong]

I had just recently watched Jerry Seinfeld, Comedians in Cars with Coffee with Eddie Murphy. And he goes to Eddie Murphy's house and picks up Eddie Murphy and Eddie Murphy walks out of this house and it's like, holy crap, that's a house.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Jill Biden has the same sort of house as Eddie Murphy. Why is that? And multiple times during the interview. I mean, it's like she walked out of an art museum or something at home. I mean, who has a house that looks like it has just the front. I can't imagine what it looks like going back. And then the yard behind it and the property and everything like that.

[Joe Getty]

And that's one of several houses.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, yeah, yeah. That's not their beach home. And several times during the interview they talked about after a lifetime of public service and you know, Joe Biden's been in public service his entire life. He's dedicated his life to. How did he dedicate his life to public service? And you're standing in front of Eddie Murphy style house. Eddie Murphy made like a billion dollars as a movie star. Why does Joe Biden have the same house as Eddie Murphy?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, he listed well, he bought 100 shares of Apple stock in 1991. It was a good move.

[Jack Armstrong]

Just accept the fact that people we know what their salaries are. You can look them up. You have friends who make that much money and they don't have houses like that. No. And nobody questions it. It's so weird.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, well, not only did they not question it, they. They paraded openly.

[Jack Armstrong]

Good.

[Joe Getty]

I mean, Joe could have said no. I tell you what, why don't we meet at the University of Delaware library or something like that. Exactly.

[Jack Armstrong]

Or his or his childhood home and talk about his beginnings or something like that. But not in front of this house to make it clear that we became ungodly wealthy as him being in the government since he was in his early 20s.

[Joe Getty]

Spent it all though apparently because they're widely known to be broke at this point.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, well, they thought it was going to come in for quite some time, but that jig is up. As I heard the dispatch right yesterday, history is not going to be kind to the Bidens and well deserved.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, it was the big what a celebration party at their campaign headquarters as he's trying to become the mayor of Los Angeles. I don't have a lot of stomach for the big political races today. Personally, part of it might be from watching our old friend David Drucker on MSNBC this morning. David Drucker, who used to write for the Washington examiner, now works for the Dispatch. Every once in a while he's on MSNBC and we, we like David, super smart guy, but showbiz not his thing. He's like just the facts, ma', am, just the facts. And often takes the air out of the room. But anyway, they're building up the whole Steve Hilton is going to make the top two for governor in California and Pratt and this and that and what does it mean? And Trump, blah blah blah. And he said you just look at the numbers. It's pretty simple. Both the Democrats are going to run away with it in the general. So and I thought, you know what, you're probably right. So I'm not sure there's that much more to talk about.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. Wow. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Be really, really to overcome just the demographics of what things are. LA is seven points more blue than the state, which is quite blue.

[Joe Getty]

Wow, wow, wow. Although you Made the point yesterday. Perhaps you've forgotten your own wisdom that often it takes a few cycles before the electorate says, you know, that guy wasn't so bad and he was right about this, that and the other. And they, they drift from hardcore D voter, no matter how bad it gets, to being willing to make another choice. So I think a great deal of absolutely terrific messaging is gonna take place during the campaign. And whether Steve Hilton, for instance, triumphs or not, there's gonna be a lot of truth telling. And I think that's a good thing

[Jack Armstrong]

over the next five months. Our elections are too long, people.

[Joe Getty]

Well, the other thing that's worth mentioning if you're talking about those big California races, is that the absolutely laug ridiculous third world, the California voting system. That is the. I mean, old man Maduro wishes he'd come up with a system that ridiculous. It takes weeks, weeks to count the ballots to know who won in a close race.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was following some of the. Well, yeah, Nate Silver, the great pollster, saying it's an embarrassment to democracy worldwide, that California, the home of, you know, the highest tech, everything in the world is the worst in the world in terms of getting results from their elections

[Joe Getty]

anywhere in the world. How embarrassed. The Democratic party insists on blanketing the entire state with paper mail out ballots so that everybody can harvest up plenty of votes. Voted for by whom?

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

We'll check the signatures. Allegedly, maybe a little bit, I don't know, it's. It's corrupted, unwieldy and embarrassing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Let me do a quick tease before I tell you a story to keep you around. I just got a whole bunch of insider information on that New World. Screw New World, Screw worm virus thingy.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, that.

[Jack Armstrong]

You want to know it's gonna drive

[Joe Getty]

people away, not keep them around.

[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

So I went to vote in person yesterday in California. I hadn't voted in person in years. Geez, long time, maybe 20 years. And I went to a random polling place that happened to be the junior high not far from where I live and walked in there in late afternoon, wasn't very busy. Kind of followed a woman into the parking lot because I'd know exactly where I was going. Young woman in a nice car, looked to be about, I don't know, early 20s. She got in line in front of me and I thought, well, this is going to be fast. Turned out not to be fast because they had one person checking people in, said, do you have A ballot with you. And she said no. And okay, well, let me look up your name and address. So if you could give me your name. She did. And your address. She said, I don't know my address.

[Joe Getty]

Oh boy.

[Jack Armstrong]

And this is a well dressed. I don't know if she's in college, probably in college in the town I live in, probably like close to graduating or graduate student again, driving a nice car that clearly her parents got for her. I don't know my address. And the polling worker just looked at are kind of like, what do I say to someone who says, I don't know my address? Wow.

[Joe Getty]

You're supposed to teach your 6 year old that so they can tell the police if they get lost.

[Jack Armstrong]

I know. And I thought to myself, I don't know if there's ever been a moment in my life since I was 6, roughly that I didn't know my address. But so the polling worker said, how about a previous address? What was your previous? Because you could have, if you just moved, possibly not remember your new address maybe, but you would think you'd remember your previous address. She said, I don't know that either. So you don't know where you live now or where you lived before now

[Joe Getty]

that is like start with your first name and build from there. Do you know that?

[Jack Armstrong]

Do you know where you are? Do you know why you're here? And I just thought that was so funny. And then the poll worker says it starts with an A because she's got it on the iPad in front of her, you know, hoping that the voter will, you know, it'll spark something in her memory. And she says, oh yeah, I know what street I live on. So that she can confirm it's actually the human being that she says she is. Because they will not ask for an id. That is absolutely off the table asking for an id. Obviously if you asked for a driver's license, you know, it would have on there the freaking address.

[Joe Getty]

80% of Americans say that would be perfectly fine. In fact, it should be required, including cornea. You don't dare.

[Jack Armstrong]

Including Democrats. So if you just got out your driver's license, I know you got one, I saw you drive in. And your mom and dad's car, it would have a picture of you, your name and your address. But they refused to ask that. I heard somebody say yesterday that they tried to offer one time and everybody was like, no, no, put that back in your pocket. Like they were so horrified by the idea of anybody even having their ID out.

[Joe Getty]

Wow, it's like a Cult.

[Jack Armstrong]

I know, it's so weird. So it starts with an A. And then the girl just kind of looked at her like, I, I don't, I got nothing. And then, and then finally the poll worker just said the name of the street. So is that where he lived? She said it might be. And then, so they just checked her in and she went, she should not be voting. I don't think she was like, you know, lying or trying to pull off anything. I think she just is a person. And I thought, well, she, I'm sure she's dialed in on the issues. Of course it's quite that she knows way more about some of these socialist issues than I do. She just doesn't know her own address. Wow, I thought that was pretty funny. Then There was a 90 year old,

[Joe Getty]

she should not be allowed to vote. Sorry.

[Jack Armstrong]

There's a really, really nice 90 year old poll worker in there that was slowing everything down. He was the person you gave your ballots to after you filled them out. So you went in there, you got your ballot, you got a big magic marker, you fill out your ballot and a private little booth. You bring it out and you handed this guy, this guy was a million years old and super nice that he's volunteering his time, but just so slow. He'd grab one ballot and if you're old enough is like Tim Conway and Carol Burnett 60 years ago on television. Just shuffle over really, really slow to where you put the ballot. Then he'd slide it in the hole and he'd miss a couple of times and he'd get it in there and he'd turn around for the next one and the line is getting longer. No, would you like I voted sticker? And people would say yes. And then he'd have to turn around again and shuffle over to where the stickers are.

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

White House, President Trump spent his time in meetings, including calls with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the leaders of Hezbollah. Through intermediaries over the weekend, President Trump says he's in no hurry to reach a deal with Iran. Earlier, he posted on True Social he thinks the negotiations will continue at a rapid pace. And earlier, in an interview with CNBC News, the president did not sound as optimistic. Here's what he said. I don't care if they're over. Honestly, I couldn't care less, and added that protracted negotiations have started to get very boring. So that's an interesting thing for the president to say. Was that designed to try to convince the Iranian leadership, whoever's making the decisions, that he's not desperate? Look, I don't even care.

[Joe Getty]

This is dragging on too long.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm bored with the whole thing. I don't even care.

[Joe Getty]

I don't take it at his word. It's posturing, I think.

[Jack Armstrong]

But does anybody feel a threat from him at this point? I doubt it. I'd be shocked if he, like really, really, you know, started bombing them again. Anyway, apparently Trump was pretty angry that Netanyahu was continuing to attack Hezbollah because he thinks it's throwing off the whole ascending the war with Iran thing. And he was on the phone with Netanyahu yesterday. And here's a little reporting from msnbc actually quoting Axios on this story.

[Joe Getty]

Axios has some new reporting on that call between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu. The president reportedly lashing out at Netanyahu during expletive laden conversation. That's according to U.S. officials and a third source briefed on the call. According to one US Official, Trump told Netanyahu he was f ing crazy and that the prime minister would be in prison if it were not for Trump, likely referring to the Israeli leader's years long corruption trial, the president adding, quote, everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this. That's the President of the United States.

[Jack Armstrong]

You're effing crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this. What the f are you doing? He said now. I thought it was interesting. Mark Halperin's reporting was this is like the fifth president because Netanyahu has been prime minister a few times and longer than anybody in Israeli history. So he's worked with, I think four or five presidents and they've all ended up frustrated by Bibi Netanyahu and cussing at him, all of them. So the unique thing here is that somebody leaked out the private phone call, not that somebody was cussing at Bibi Netanyahu because Trump did. I mean, Biden did it and Obama did it and Bush did it. I think maybe even Clinton did it.

[Joe Getty]

I wish I knew more about the context of when they did it because I agree with what you're saying about the leaking. I feel like that's a different topic. But all of those presidents contributed to what led to October 3rd. And that is the idea that you could. 7th. Sorry, 23. I knew that was wrong when I said I was like, wait a minute, one of those. Anyway, October 7th, the idea that you can negotiate with Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and, and get them to be good actors if you, you know, cut the right deal, they're completely wrong. And I think Bibi knew that at the time. But putting that aside, I happen to agree with, for instance, the. Well, the Wall Street Journal's news piece on this is entitled Trump Pushes to End Lebanon Conflict in Hope of Unlocking a Deal with Iran. Their editorial board's headline is Iran Gets Trump to Rescue Hezbollah. And I happen to agree with that. I think Trump, Trump is willing to subordinate anything to his personal interest, his ego and his desired reputation as the greatest dealmaker who's ever lived. He's willing to subordinate Israel in a second to getting what he sees as the big win or avoiding the big loss in a way that I think is really, really unhealthy. Bibi has become completely convinced that there is no living with Hezbollah and Hamas and Iran. They made that clear on October 7th when they were pretending for years, saying publicly, look, we've given up the terrorism game. We just want to govern. We just want to bring peace to the territories. We're Nice fellows. Then the moment they saw the opportunity, they slaughtered, raped, tortured, burned, and took thousands of Israelis hostage. And BB and the Israeli people said, nope, that's over. We're going to beat you now. And anything that gets in the way of that beating, I am against.

[Jack Armstrong]

So Trump watches a lot of Morning Joe msnbc. So he knows that a constant refrain on MSNBC is, Bibi Netanyahu runs a corrupt government and the moment he leaves office, he's going to be charged with all kinds of things and he's probably going to end up in prison. So that's on Trump's mind because they talk about that weekly on msnbc. How true that is, I don't know, because I don't follow internal Israeli politics, but it certainly could be. So that's what Trump was talking about. You'd be in jail. I saved your ass, et cetera, et cetera, by, by getting you reelected, campaigning for you, basically. But what's interesting is the media, the same media that loved the story whenever that was, a month or so ago that Netanyahu came to the United States, told Trump what to do, that he wanted Trump to go to war against Iran, and Trump did it. We're dancing to Israel's tune. We are a puppet of Israel and the Jews, which fed the left and the right wing, anti Israel people and everything like that. That same crowd last night, I was watching it was saying, and this is the way Trump talks to an ally. So, okay, you're not happy no matter what happens. Either you're dancing to his tune or you're not being nice enough to him. Which is it?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, that's an excellent, excellent point. Iran, you know, they are the living proof of, you know, sung to and other military geniuses saying, you must never, ever underestimate your enemy, if anything overestimate him. And I don't think Trump and I could be wrong. There could be stuff going on behind the scenes that it completely blows what I'm about to say out of the water. And if it does, I will manfully come to you good people and admit it. I think brutal religious zealot negotiators are playing Trump. They're playing Trump against Netanyahu. They're trying to rescue their, their surrogate, their proxy, Hezbollah, by saying, look, Donald, we would rush to the table and settle this whole nuke thing. If only that mean BB would stop beating up on Hezbollah. Please make him stop. And then we'll make a deal with you. And they don't have a single effing intention of doing that, God, I've been watching this for decades. Yikes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Uh, I'll bet Trump hasn't. Is part of it, has not been following like the Palestinian conflict and all that over the many, many years. What about people who say Iran's going to come out of this in a stronger position than when the war started? That doesn't make any sense to me, but I hear people saying it all the time.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, you know, no, it's a bad argument. They have the shred of truth in it in that Iran's realized, wow, we really can control the Strait of Hormuz and screw with the world economy. That was always make them stronger.

[Jack Armstrong]

That was always true. They didn't know it apparently, or didn't dare do it.

[Joe Getty]

And it was different leadership at the time. But no, they're not stronger, quote, unquote. They can't project any power. They can barely defend themselves. It's ridiculous. For what it's worth, and I think most of you know this, I, Joe, am not Trump deranged at all. When he's right, he's right. When he's wrong, he's wrong. I hope I'm wrong, but I feel like he's getting played.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know why he doesn't go back to bombing. What's the main thing keeping him from bombing the crap out of him.

[Joe Getty]

He's desperate to open the straits and get the world economy humming again and gas prices to drop in the US and if we were to restart the kinetic effort to bring Iran to heal, that would postpone that.

[Jack Armstrong]

So perhaps for months back when he said, you know, we're going to wipe off civilization off the face of the earth and all that sort of stuff. And I never believed that he meant that. But was he never ever going to start bombing him really hard again? Was that never really on the table? I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

I just think his, the number one legacy he wants to leave behind is that he's the greatest deal maker to ever walk the planet. Well, and he sees a giant opportunity,

[Jack Armstrong]

like I said yesterday, and I do think this is true, we'll find out. I think what he's got going for him is that I don't think people pay much attention to this and we have short memories so he could walk away from this and, you know, to my mind, why did we do it? Wasn't a very good. We didn't make a very good new blah, blah, blah, but nobody's going to care. Nobody's going to pay any attention. I don't think he's going to get hurt by that in the polls. Really. They'll try to make a big deal out of it, but most people don't care. They they, most people, the average person would think it's over. Cool. Good. Not care about the result at all. That's not good. I don't like that you should care about the result or whether they get a nuclear weapon, but I don't think most people care.

[Joe Getty]

Meanwhile, if the IRGC leadership was listening, they would be texting right now saying, fellas, we've manipulated every US president since we took power in 1979 and we're manipulating this one. And guess what? We're going to manipulate the next one. Ha ha.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, they're going to get a nuke then. That is going to be a big moment.

[Joe Getty]

I truly thought Donald J. Was finally the president who was going to do something about it. Well, remember, really something.

[Jack Armstrong]

After the epic fury began, George Will in the Washington Post, who couldn't hate Trump more, said the return of American deterrence. He was so happy that we'd let the world know. No more pushing us around. I'm not sure that's the way the world's gonna feel if we walk away from this.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, the next two weeks to me will be. What's the term they use in fancy pants circles? It will be declarative, definitive. Something like that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Big F deal.

[Joe Getty]

Yes, that's what I was going for. Because if two weeks from now we're having the same conversation, that's, I think, everything you need to know. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty this is the best weekend talk show in America.

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[Joe Getty]

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[Joe Getty]

Here's your first freedom loving quote of the day. Continuing on the theme of optimism, a couple of quotes from some of my favorite works of fiction. First of all, Tolkien in the Return of the King in this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure. That's straight out of the Bible, actually, more or less. And then William Goldman wrote this for the Princess Bride will never survive. Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has. What a wonderful movie. Rob Reiner. Too bad his son was a crazy drug addict. Mailbag. Drop us a Note [e-mail] Kids don't do the hard drugs ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. Let's see. Brian from Santa Rosa writes, I finally got my mom who died in 1999, off the voter registration rolls in Cal Unicornia. However, my brother has at least four ballots mailed to four different addresses, including mine. It's frustrating sometimes to have values because I know which way he votes and it's the direct opposite of me. Same with two of my daughters who blah blah blah. I've told them every vote counts. Vote every time you get a chance. One person, one vote. So much easier to be a Democrat, especially in California.

[Jack Armstrong]

So I got a ballot that I could drop off. If I had dropped that off yesterday, would they have caught that I voted in person and through the mail? It seems unlikely.

[Joe Getty]

No idea. Let's see. David writes. David in Sacramento, why the f do we even pay attention to polls? Which polls?

[Jack Armstrong]

All of them.

[Joe Getty]

What? You can't buy any election in California. Sorry, Tom Steyer. Now please go away. Buy an island where you can perform all your silly environmental wishes. I have a wee bit of hope for our state. Not much, but a wee bit.

[Jack Armstrong]

Tom Steyer, the billionaire who looks like it's not going to make the top two, spent $200 billion of his own money to try to become governor of California.

[Joe Getty]

That's a lot. Billion or million?

[Jack Armstrong]

Sorry. 200 million. $200 million of your own money to be. To be governor. I mean, if you were trying to be president, that would be a crazy amount of money.

[Joe Getty]

Well, you're right. Yeah. I can't remember where I was reading. He is so far left of like Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom is Ronald Reagan compared to Tom Steyer. Yeah, I mean that would be. You would see people leaving California by the millions if Stire got into office. He is a strange character.

[Jack Armstrong]

I wonder what kind of personal rejection that feels like if you spend $200 million in one state race and you and you can't make the top three.

[Joe Getty]

I hope it's good and humiliating. Let's see. Nick the Plumber writes guys, two things. The IRGC we're switching to Iran now is stalling knowing the Dems will help them after the midterms. I wouldn't be surprised if Democratic leaders have been in contact with Iran's leadership regarding this subject. I don't know about that, but there is historical precedent for that. See Nixon and North Vietnam. Iran already has a nuke. They have all the parts. They have ICBMs. The current 60% breakout uranium can be finished in two weeks if not fully enriched already. It's like saying I don't have a gun but I have all the pieces and ammo. You can assemble the gun in five minutes. I think it's a boy who called Wolf scenario because of Iraq and Afghanistan, but the threat is real. Then he says by the way, Jack is the stupidest genius that I've ever heard. I love him but he is annoying. 25 year listener Nick the Plumber. Thanks for listening Nick.

[Jack Armstrong]

I am annoying.

[Joe Getty]

The great music radio personality Radio personality Don Geronimo once often referred to himself as the world's stupidest millionaire. Oh, moving along. This is at least semi interesting on the story about the young man who had a bluetooth device labeled bomb on the airplane and the pilots we we played this audio yesterday said okay, somebody thinks they're going to be funny but now we've got to go back to New York or Newark whatever it is they were trying to fly to Spain. Got this from David. The hello T tech speaker branded as the bomb speaker is apparently named bomb by factory settings. Their website crashed shortly after the incident. With everyone researching it, somebody at the company is probably now in the unemployment line. It appears the kid is not directly at fault from packing a suitcase in a way that turned the speaker on. Appeared to be in check luggage so he could not turn it off. Wow, interesting.

[Jack Armstrong]

And as I always like to point out, when they grab your toothpaste and hold it in front of you and then drop it in the trash, you didn't actually stop a terrorist attack. Okay, you followed some rules that might be helpful to stop terrorist attacks but in most cases are not. They're just inconvenient for everyone. You didn't stop a terrorist attack. You just followed to the letter the rules. With all of you knowing there wasn't actually a bomb involved here, there's got to be a.

[Joe Getty]

You know that's the Jones principle or the iron law of something or other that the purpose is lost in the.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Oh yeah. And it's driven me crazy since I was five years old.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Yeah. Let's see. I thought this was interesting from the stick. I just read about Scott Pelley's hissy fit at CBS and then cuts coming to NBC. I expect the ABC to produce drag queen dramas soon. And cable companies continue to grasp at diminishing returns by relentlessly pricing more people out of the market. To say nothing of the crap programming anyone can afford. You're witnessing history folks. 1944 with World War II still in fury. This is World War 11, if you're lying. Ilhan Omar, by the way, he writes there are only There were only 44,000 households with TV's 1949 when our family got our first. I was four years old, but there were only four. There were already 40 million. Programming grew, desirability grew, families grew, the sets became attractive. The shows dazzled. Our entire family life grew up around the entertainment news and abundance of selections. Those days are flat over.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

And in short, we're just moving on to a different age of communication. Clearly.

[Jack Armstrong]

But not better I don't think. Which is a problem.

[Joe Getty]

Better in some ways worse than others. You know, how it nets out is, you know, in the eye of the beholder, I guess.

[Jack Armstrong]

Awful. That's how it's going to net out. How it's netting out so far.

[Joe Getty]

JT in Livermore actually makes a great point about the Democrat you quoted on Mark Halperin's show admitting that he had deceived himself about Biden's mental deficiency. Yeah, we really don't have time to get into that. But boy, we've got some interesting stuff on why Jill Biden's book tour actually matters.

[Jack Armstrong]

And similar topic I would like to talk about that. That ability to deceive yourself because you want a certain outcome is something we should all be very aware of in our lives.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty.

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