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Jack Armstrong
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Gavin Newsom
This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed a combustible situation, putting our people, our officers, and even our National Guard at risk.
Jack Armstrong
Now let me into the Oval Office.
Joe Getty
All right. So things would have calmed down on their own. I highly doubt it. But Gavin Newsom gave a late night speech last night, and it was his most. His biggest effort yet at trying to look like a presidential candidate or already President of the United States. The lighting, the hair, the standing in front of the flag. They know what they're doing. And his hair grayer than I've ever seen it. That wasn't an accident. He's trying to look more dignified anyway. And then he went on to say this.
Gavin Newsom
This isn't just about protests here in Los Angeles. When Donald Trump sought blanket authority to commandeer the National Guard, he made that order apply to every state in this nation. This is about all of us. This is about you. California may be first, but it clearly will not end here. Other states are next. Democracy is next. Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived.
Joe Getty
Trump settler. That's the. That's the underscore. That's the between the lines.
Jack Armstrong
Meanwhile, most of America hears those words and thinks so. Trump will send in the National Guard in any state where riots are out of control and the cops are overwhelmed. Okay, good.
Joe Getty
Says at least two thirds of America, if not more.
Jack Armstrong
This is totalitarianism.
Joe Getty
Not according to. Not according to Rich Lowry of the National Review. This is not what authoritarianism looks like. This is pretty good. President Trump's activation of the California National Guard has launched a thousand op EDS warning of his authoritarianism. This is what autocracy looks like, wrote Michelle Goldberg in the New York Times. Edward Loose of the Financial Times, sending the National Guard into LA is the administration's clearest step yet toward authoritarianism. The same word again. Cnn, too, had a piece saying Trump is acting like an authoritarian. Goldberg of the New York Times believes we are seeing her worst fear realized. Just like Gavin Newsom said, the moment we had feared is here.
Gavin Newsom
This moment we have feared has arrived.
Joe Getty
New York Times believes our worst fears have been realized that Trump would call out the military against people protesting his mass deportations, putting America on the road to Martial law. The phrase road to martial law is doing a lot of work here. What's happened so far is that Trump has acted within the law. Even analysts not favorable to him and his approach have acknowledged that that has the right and ability to use the National Guard and now a contingent of Marines to protect federal personnel and property. In la. Most people don't feel threatened or provoked by guys in camo standing impassively in front of a federal building. I like this part from Rich Lowry. The old saw about the Nazis is first they came for the Jews. It's not first they protected government property from violent demonstrators. That's a good one.
Jack Armstrong
Wow, that is a good line.
Joe Getty
Rich Goldberg minimizes the mayhem. She quotes a Saturday statement by the LAPD that all is well, leaving out the subsequent comments by the police chief on Sunday night about the situation being out of control and his officers getting overwhelmed. Many news outlets have done that. Yeah, they, they selected the things were fine earlier and left out the police chief saying himself, we are overwhelmed.
Jack Armstrong
The chief may I could just quickly pause and refer to Michelle Goldberg's using the term mass deportation as if that is somehow so repugnant and awful. Everybody agrees. And then she doesn't need to make an argument. She'll just use those words. Hey, Michelle, I got a question for you. There was a mass importation of illegal immigrants willy nilly across an open border. How would you rectify a mass import importation? Michelle, I have an idea.
Joe Getty
He goes through a long thing about how ICE officers were being attacked, not being able to do their job. Federal buildings were. Were under assault, being defaced, etc. Etc. Those who see budding autocracy and Trump's handling of LA probably read Homan's statement about protecting federal buildings and the ICE are going to do their jobs. There he goes again, saying you can't assault ICE agents or destroy property. Has he no dec. In pretty much any other circumstance, defying federal law and federal law enforcement would be portrayed as reprehensible proto secessionism. But since we're talking about Trump and immigration law, it's federal agents and those charged with protecting them who are precursors of. Precursors of a dystopian future. That's right. And this happens on both sides, and I was talking about this yesterday, try to have some principles and stick with them regardless of who's involved.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe Getty
You, you hate the idea of states, you know, deciding gay people can't get married or trans this or whatever, you know, federal rules, rule and all that sort of stuff. Except for when it's Trump and immigration, I mean, come on, be one or the other.
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Jack Armstrong
So many people think emotionally it's, you can't reason with them because they'll say, I don't care. I, I know what I feel and that's the way they live their lives.
Joe Getty
I, I, I absolutely believe, and I will be shocked if it turns out, doesn't turn out to be true when we get some polling on this. I did see some polling yesterday that was too early for a lot of the stuff that has happened. See if I can find that real quick. But it was roughly 50, 50 on Trump wanting to boot out illegals. I'll see if I can find that. But I'll be shocked if when the polling comes out later on the, well, basically, what do you think of doing whatever we gotta do to stop riots? And a vast majority of people saying, yeah, you gotta, you gotta stop riots. You can't have riots.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I was just gonna say it's when things calm down and it's mass deportations, if you will, of non criminals, that the politics could get really interest. And I will enjoy observing it and we will bring it to you in an unbiased fashion, you know what the polls say and that sort of thing.
Joe Getty
Here's the poll real quick, just so I found.
Jack Armstrong
Okay, yeah, go ahead.
Joe Getty
How Americans feel about immigration authorities searching their communities for people they believe are in the country illegally. Nothing to do with crime here, it's just how Americans feel about immigration authorities searching their communities. So, you know, sweeping through your, your town, workplace or whatever for people that Home Depot believe are in the country illegally. In favor, 51. Opposed, 49. That's CBS YouGov 5149 in favor. So it's 50. 50. It's within the margin of error, but yeah, man, in terms of quelling riots. So ICE can do its job. And I'd be shocked if it's not at least 2/3 to 3/4 support.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, no brainer. Absolutely not. Which is why it's so curious that Gavi Newsom would think that this is the time to launch his, his true final ascent into the upper upper echelon of would be Democratic presidential candidates. Because it looks so bad. Can we hear one more? Gabby Newsom. What have we not played? Just whatever the next clip is.
Gavin Newsom
Donald Trump, without consulting California law enforcement leaders, commandeered 2,000 of our state's National Guard members to deploy on our streets illegally and for no reason. This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president, inflamed A combustible situation, putting our people, our officers, and even our National Guard at risk. That's when the downward spiral began. That's when the spiral doubled down on his dangerous National Guard deployment by fanning the flames even harder. And the president, everybody did it on purpose.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, he. Of course he did it on purpose. Oh, the inflaming part. Okay, Gabby, so I wish I could do better than Peter Heck with not the bee, but I can't. So I'll just tell you what he said. The media is trying so hard, the left wing shills at Politico have seized on the chaos in California, hoping it can be manipulated to catapult the state's Democratic governor into the national conversation. But if this is his audition for 28, it's not going very well. Newsom is up to his armpits in another mess of his own making. The progressive poser during his tenure as mayor turned one of America's most beautiful cities into a poop stained, needle riddled cesspool of debauchery. Took those talents from San Francisco to Sacramento and the results have been nearly identical.
Joe Getty
Cesspool of debauchery. I'm going to go see them Friday night.
Jack Armstrong
And he goes into the billions of dollars spent to combat quote, unquote homelessness, only to see the homeless rate increase. It's transient drug addicts that are the problem. The billions and billions and billions of dollars spent on the high speed rail that hasn't been built and won't be. Thousands of convicted felons granted early release. Businesses fleeing the state twice as fast as years prior. Highest gas prices in the country about to go even higher. Good Lord. Good luck, Gabby.
Joe Getty
Oh, man. Yeah. So are we past the. The whole thing in L. A now? There was violence in a number of other cities, including Austin last night. I think there were 80 in Austin last night. Quite a few. And a few other towns. Do you think this is a growing thing across the country, like George Floyd, Ask. Or is it? We're past the worst of it.
Jack Armstrong
It's not going to be as big as. As George Floyd. That's right.
Joe Getty
It's an unfair standard, right?
Jack Armstrong
Certainly. But yeah, it's. It's spreading. Those young radicals who've been schooled in the hatred of Western civilization, the United States, for their entire careers and government schools are. They're thinking this is a good enough excuse to take this straight. So, yeah, we're going to see a fair amount of it for. For weeks and weeks. Nah, nah.
Joe Getty
I want to get away from politics for a moment. Coming up, Apple unveiled their new software with some cool new features that I I'm excited about myself. I want to talk about at some point. Also, back to politics. Our DNI Tulsi Gabbard put out an interesting video yesterday about the atomic bomb in Japan and whatnot.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, Tulsi is a crank.
Joe Getty
What is a cr. What is a crank?
Jack Armstrong
She is a nut job. She has bizarre beliefs. She is unfit for the job. Sorry Tulsi fans, she's lost her damn mind.
Joe Getty
Well, okay, we'll get to that. What what people think of the military parade. Rand Paul came out against it pretty strong yesterday. The big military parade Trump's gonna have. I'm. I'm kind of agnostic on this one, but I can see the argument on both sides. But there's much to discuss. I hope you can stick around Armstrong.
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New liquid glass design announced at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference which adds kind of a glass like appearance to your phone's in app interfaces. You can see, you can kind of.
Tulsi Gabbard
See through them there.
Joe Getty
Apple also adding an AI powered translation tool. This is cool, guys. For calls and text. So you could have a phone call with someone who speaks a different language and it'll be spoken to you aloud by an AI voice in your language and will also appear as captions on your phone in your language. That's cool. It is very cool. How about that? They showed the demonstration you could FaceTime with somebody from wherever they speak in. You know they're speaking Kurzikstan or whatever they speak over there and it will come. You'll be looking at their face on the FaceTime and you will get an AI voice coming back to you in English.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that's.
Joe Getty
It's awesome.
Jack Armstrong
What was it? Three, four days ago? We played you the audio of Google's new system to do that. So now it's on your iPhone automatically, man. There's.
Joe Getty
You're looking at their face and getting it in English to you. I mean that's incredible. Yeah, the liquid glass display, I don't know what that means and I don't care. That sounds like a minor whatever. But another thing, as I transition to a different story, another thing that they touted was you could have your passport in your phone, kind of like you'd have your credit card in your phone. Now you can have your passport in your phone. Although they haven't worked it out with governments to where they'll accept that. But at least in the United States, half the fun. At least in the United States you'd be able to do it. And that leads me to flying, which our friend Craig, I don't know if he wanted his name attached to us, but Craig, the healthcare genius, who is a very handy contact by the way, in my own personal life for lots of Questions. Everyone should have someone like Craig to ask a medical insurance everything questions too, because he knows everything and it's so complicated. Anyway, he texted this to Joe and I yesterday. This is one of my hobby horses. I love how in some airports your sweater absolutely must come off or you will be presumed to be a member of Al Qaeda. And another airport. You're an effing idiot for even thinking that could be the case.
Jack Armstrong
Right. Keep your sweaters on. Keep your jackets on.
Joe Getty
Another one. Computers, too. Now. In Sacramento, no electronics come out of the bag. Stop wasting time. In Chicago, pull out your electronics, Osama.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, so true.
Joe Getty
Do these people never travel? Do you TSA people never travel and realize, oh, I guess the rules are different in every airport. So yelling at people like they're idiots doesn't work because they don't have any idea. Airport to airport. Not even airport to airport. At my local airport, it's line to line because they have different machines on the one on the left than they do here than they have over there.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe Getty
These machines, they don't need your electronics to come out.
Jack Armstrong
Those that do.
Joe Getty
See, kid, I'm not an expert. And looking at the machine. Oh, that's the. That's the Osama 3000 terrorist catcher. No. Okay, so I don't have to take my computer out for that one, obviously. I know that. So many.
Jack Armstrong
I mentioned it to a similar experience. I was dealing with a. An airline agent who said, show me your IFT. I'm like, what's an IFT? She said, it's on your ticket. Where on your ticket? Where on my ticket? In the bottom. All right, the bottom. Where there's 15. What's an IFD? And. And I needed this to happen fairly quickly.
Joe Getty
Undo my pants. Okay.
Jack Armstrong
I. I don't know what I needed to have.
Joe Getty
I assumed it was an acronym for something.
Jack Armstrong
I thought it was a reference to my manhood. Look, look. And if I had not needed it to happen quickly and successfully. No, no matter what else happened, it had to happen. That the switch of the flight, I would have said. Now, how in the world would I know what an IFD is?
Joe Getty
I've never heard.
Jack Armstrong
That's my name. Here's what I do for a living. Here are my hobbies. Where would I have come into contact with that series of letters?
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Jack Armstrong
You dumb.
Joe Getty
Oh, man, you sound like me, which is fun. And then one more for Craig when he got to Chicago.
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Joe Getty
Boarding pass is your face here in Chicago. Lovely. Facial scanning is here that I haven't had that experience. We're all getting our pictures taken everywhere. But I haven't had the this is my ticket face yet.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, yeah, wow. I've done that.
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Joe Getty
How soon will that be posed in.
Jack Armstrong
Front of the little camera thing and it says, okay, you are Joe, come on in.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I've done that at every ticket. But I also had to have my ticket. I haven't had that work as the ticket yet. Huh. That is something when that can be. Or your ticket is your first face. Is that going to be going into every ball game, every concert, every everything.
Jack Armstrong
You know, my face has always been my ticket, Jack. My ticket to fame.
Joe Getty
My ticket.
Jack Armstrong
That's a good question.
Joe Getty
My face is my ticket to people cross the street to the other side. That's what my ticket.
Jack Armstrong
Boy, he looks angry and weird. Let's cross the street, honey. Yeah. Well, who's trying to get the eye scans going and all the little booths around Silicon Valley? Is it Sam Altman or one of those tech gurus? Yeah, everybody's competing. Eye, fingerprint, whatever.
Joe Getty
Tulsi Gabbard, director of National Intelligence, put out a video like looked like it was made by Hollywood. It was so good yesterday about us dropping the bomb on Japan.
Jack Armstrong
How evil it was inexcusable.
Joe Getty
What the heck was that all about? Stay tuned.
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Jack Armstrong
California.
Joe Getty
Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass.
Jack Armstrong
Denounced the federal immigration raids. So now they don't want California to have ice or water.
Joe Getty
Shot at water. The water conservation problem in California.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I get it. I get it. Coming up, I will flesh out why I think Tulsi Gabbard is a crank. I've thought that for a long time. I wobbled briefly. I am back to thinking she is a complete crank. I don't really unqualified to be in the dni.
Joe Getty
I might be an outlier here. I don't really know the word crank that well and what it means.
Jack Armstrong
Really? Yeah, like a crank call or a. You know. Well, I know what a cranky call is. She's a nut. She's a nut job. She's incapable. She's right in the head.
Joe Getty
Strong words from Joe Getty.
Jack Armstrong
I can go on if you'd like a couple of things of worth noting. You know I was really hoping Katie would be here for this discussion. The. Is it the aura ring? Is that how you pronounce it?
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Wearable.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Aura paranoia.
Joe Getty
I know a number of people who, who do the aura ring, and I almost bought one a while back. The only reason I didn't. It's supposed to be like one of the best things out there because it's tight around your, your, your finger and for keeping track of sleep, heart rate, all these different sorts of things. And the only reason is I just thought, I'm not going to be a guy who wears a ring all the time. I just found that unlikely.
Jack Armstrong
Right, right. Well, yeah, and it looks a little bulky to me, too. But this article's all about how people are getting aura paranoia. They're getting, you know, their, their sleep graded and their heart rates and their respiration, their activity, and they, they see results that are like, in the yellow zone or however they grade it, and they get all concerned and obsessed with it and go to see their doctors about it.
Joe Getty
And yeah, actually I was having a heart rate thing or I just noticed my heart rate from my, my Apple Watch. Let me start my sentence over. My Apple Watch alerted me to my heart rate a while back, and I've never paid attention to my heart rate. I've never had any problems with heart. My heart rate was probably doing that. My heart was probably doing this my whole life and I never knew it. But my Apple Watch alerted your heart. Your resting heart rate has been higher the last two days, and I thought, that's kind of interesting. Then I had a kind of high one. It alerted me and I asked my doctor about it and he said, yeah, you got to watch out for this. People with the Apple watches, with the Fitbits. He didn't mention the OURA ring. But what you're saying, I'm sure is true. Said people are, like, discovering things that have always been true for them and, like, freaking out about them. So it's something you got to watch out for.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. You know, I was kind of enthused about wearing my Apple Watch to track my sleep or getting something like that, some similar product. But I read that they did a big study and people tended to start having worse sleep because they were worried about it.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
That they knew they'd be scored and so they would wake up in the middle of the night and think, oh, God, I get to get back to sleep or I'm not going to have a good score.
Joe Getty
Wow, that's interesting. I don't have any need to have a Certain score. I don't know. That's kind of funny.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
I'll be damned.
Jack Armstrong
Here's a woman who went to, she asked her doctor practically the very thing you were discussing and he told her, no, you're fine. And quote, they were like anti aura ring. They were just like, this is not just necessary information for a healthy, able bodied person to have. Don't worry about it. Quit paying attention.
Joe Getty
Basically the one doctor said to me, yeah, get rid of the apple watch. Like just dismissively said that like, you know, out of hand. And I guess the, the. And I did a little reading about it afterwards. Your heart rate gets a lot higher than you think because you're not, you know, one of you. When has mankind ever known this? Your heart rate gets a lot higher than you think. Maybe going up the stairs to your office, maybe walking out to your car on a hot day carrying something heavy.
Jack Armstrong
Just, you know, whatever it is, right?
Joe Getty
Your heart rate gets a lot higher than you think it does and it's fine.
Jack Armstrong
It's supposed to, Right? Right. So here's this. The woman who wrote a book called the Quantified Self, A Sociology of Self Tracking. And she posits, and I my initial response to this was cynicism, but I don't know, now she thinks that people just want some control over some aspects of their everyday lives and their health and their well being in these fevered, crazy times. I don't think that's completely crackpot.
Joe Getty
No, I want control over my well being. And during these crazy times.
Jack Armstrong
Crackpot. A nice synonym for crank, by the way.
Joe Getty
I was motivated for the oura ring, mostly for the sleep thing because I've never had a heart problem. I just thought it would be interesting to know how many hours of sleep I'm actually getting. If I, if I think I'm getting seven, but I'm actually getting five and a half. It seems like it'd be good to know so I could try to work in more sleep.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. And I have read with interest emails from folks who, like me, are cocktail enthusiasts and say, man, it's just undeniable. If you have a couple of drinks in the evening, you will not sleep as soundly and as well during the night.
Joe Getty
Interesting.
Jack Armstrong
And I've read that a number of times.
Joe Getty
It seems like I slept fine, you know, I woke up in exactly the same position as I went to sleep in. In my clothes on the floor next to the bed.
Jack Armstrong
That's not quite my lifestyle.
Joe Getty
Jason. Isabel says in one song, have you ever heard his song? I don't want to die in a Super 8 home motel. It's funny, funny, funny song about kind of a hard night of partying. But one of his lines is, I woke up with the bed still made. I've done that a few times. Yeah, didn't quite make it to the bed.
Jack Armstrong
Sometimes I just drift off while I'm watching a golf tournament late at night. After several glasses of wine, it happens. So one more quick note from the world of technology before we take a break and we'll come back and I'll make my. My Tulsi Gabbard case. But we all feared this was true. We all heard this was true. We hoped it wasn't. There are quite a number of times when hitting unsubscribe just confirms it's a hot live email address. And the evil doers say, we got a live one.
Joe Getty
Damn it. I was afraid of that. I was. I always wondered that. How I thought, how is this not the same as answering the phone when it's a telemarketer and all I've done is tell them I exist?
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What are you supposed to do now? It's not a ton. It's not a ton. Some. Most are legit. Your big, like Constant Contact or Survey Monkey or I can't remember the names of the big well known firms that do push emails. You know, sales emails. I'm assuming they're legit.
Joe Getty
I'm assuming they're like Banana Republic. I buy a shirt there, I put in my email to buy it, and then they start sending me ads and I hit the unsubscribe up there in the corner. I assume that's legit. I always worry about the ones that they don't have, the little unsubscribe up in the corner. You have to go to their website and do some stuff. Those are the ones that worry me.
Jack Armstrong
Bingo. Bingo. And it's the ones, the ones that bother me are, why am I getting this email anyway? Never bought that. Never.
Joe Getty
Yeah, there was a while I was.
Jack Armstrong
Getting like 17 different, practically identical financial advice, you know, pushes, which is why.
Joe Getty
I say no to, you know, at a place yesterday. Are you part of our rewards program? Rewards program here for buying a burger. Every six months I come in here and get a burger and fries. No, I'm not. And I don't want to give you my address and my telephone number and then get a. And then you sell it to someone new.
Jack Armstrong
The tech company who did this study found that one in every 644, which is not many, but that Say click here to unsubscribe. Lead you directly to a potential potentially malicious website. Spam screening, probably the best thing you can do. Some program, and they're imperfect. Everybody who's tried one, including me, knows that you end up with, you know, something you really need to see buried in, you know, sales solicitation folder or whatever.
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How long has email been super popular? Late 90s. Back in the early days I can understand why companies thought this, but now they're 2025. I'm surprised that they don't have some sort of formula or just intuitive knowledge that blanketing me with emails every day is going to make me unsubscribe to you.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe Getty
I don't mind being subscribed to you. Like Banana Republic is a good example because every once in a while I'm going to buy a dress shirt or socks or whatever, but if you hit me three times a day with what's on sale, I'm going to block you or unfollow you. You've. You've completely gone the other direction from your intention. How do they not know that? And every company does that. I remember we bought, I bought a Kawasaki motorcycle. I actually called them up and said, look, I will never buy a Kawasaki again if you don't stop emailing me and calling me. I love your product, but I'll never buy one again if you don't leave me alone.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe Getty
I don't need to buy one every five times a day. That's so nuts.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, a lot of them. If you unsubscribe, they'll say how often would you like to see a message from us? And you choose. But yeah, very seldom. So inflammatory. Explosive. Joe Getty claims Tulsi Gabbard is unfit for the office she holds. And I think she's some sort of weird America hater. The evidence next.
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Joe Getty
You could start with the question of is the DNI supposed to spend her time producing and hosting mini documentaries for social media? I didn't know that was a thing.
Jack Armstrong
For some reason Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, just put out a three and A half or so minute video in which she describes visiting Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and how horrific it was that the US used those weapons. You'll hear some of it and then moves toward her point, which is troubling to me indeed. We'll give you a sample of it. Michael. Let's hear 16.
Tulsi Gabbard
I recently visited Hiroshima in Japan and stood at the epicenter of a city that remains scarred by the unimaginable horror caused by a single nuclear bomb dropped in 1945, 80 years ago. It's hard for me to find the words to express what I saw, the stories that I heard, the haunting sadness that still remains. This is an experience that will stay with me forever. This attack obliterated the city, killed over 300,000 people, many dying instantly, while others died from severe burns, injuries, radiation sickness and cancer that set in in the following months and years.
Jack Armstrong
Years.
Tulsi Gabbard
Nagasaki suffered the same fate. Homes, schools, families, all gone in a flash. The survivors, the Hibokusha, they carried the pain of extreme burns, radiation sickness and loss for decades.
Jack Armstrong
So she goes on in that vein for a couple of minutes and describing how today's warheads are even more.
Joe Getty
And it is never. It is like a mini documentary. I mean, it's really, really well done. The music, she looks great. It looks like a motion picture. And then all the video behind her of the explosion and then, you know, sick and dying and injured and mutilated people. I mean, it's.
Jack Armstrong
It's like a documentary in art displays of the survivors, that sort of thing. So she, she never mentions the brutality of Imperial Japan, Pearl Harbor, Bataan Death March, tens of thousands of US troops who died to try to, to win the war in the. She doesn't mention Operation Downfall, which was the invasion of the Japanese mainland in which our military authorities believed between 100 and 500,000 more young American men were expected to die. It just goes on and on about the horrors of using the nuclear weapons against Japan. Shi Obama, who did this a while.
Joe Getty
Ago, or the Japanese Imperial Army's statement they would never surrender or any of those things.
Jack Armstrong
Well, yeah, I just happened to hear a great podcast with a historian who was talking about the war in the Pacific and how the closer we got to Japan, the more intensely the Japanese fought to the death. There would be. I can't remember the numbers, like 17,000 Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima, and only 200 of them surrendered at the end. Everybody else fought to the death. Pardon me if my numbers are not exact. I don't have them in front of me. And so the end of the war would have been horrifically bloody for both sides. I mean, casualties on the Japanese side far beyond. And. And the toll from the bombs.
Joe Getty
You attacked us. It is not our obligation to try to end this war in a way that saves as many of as you as possible. While wasting our lives.
Jack Armstrong
Right? Exactly. Exactly. So what is she doing? Why did she make the video? Let's skip to 18, Michael. And it's about to become more clear.
Tulsi Gabbard
This isn't some made up science fiction story. This is the reality of what's at stake, what we are facing now. Because as we stand here today, closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before, political elite and warmongers are carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers. Perhaps it's because they are confident that they will have access to nuclear shelters for themselves and for their families that regular people won't have access to. So it's up to us, the people, to speak up and demand an end to this madness. We must reject this path to nuclear war and work toward a world where no one has to live in fear of a nuclear holocaust.
Jack Armstrong
This is a mini documentary made to convince people to abandon Ukraine. That is the purpose of it. She is trying to convince us that support for Ukraine will lead to a nuclear holocaust that will get us all. Except for those elites who have their own bomb shelters.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Ian Bremmer tweeted that out and said, closer to nuclear war than ever before possible because elites have access to bomb shelters. Questionable. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
What?
Joe Getty
Whatever.
Jack Armstrong
But Noah Rothman in the National Review points out many times we're much, much, much closer to nuclear war than we are now. So that's just wrong. But. And he also points out that. So where did this come from? Why would Tulsi Gabbard impugner countries integrity and terrorize the public as she talks about causing unnecessary fears? It's because Moscow's not coming around to Donald Trump's charms, as he put it. If you've succumbed to the delusion that Vladimir Putin is honest and that his invasions of Ukraine are the result of NATO's supposed aggression, then the Kremlin should have been satisfied by now. But Trump's peace overtures and concessions to Russia have failed to dissuade Moscow from pursuing its territorial ambitions with violence. Bigger attacks every day. In the conspiracist mind, Russia's stubbornness is evidence only that American dishonesty is even worse than we previously knew.
Joe Getty
I1,1 one of the many interesting things about the Trump administration in the way he does Things, you know, he only has certain things that he's really interested in. And I think the rest of it he doesn't pay much attention to. Does he have the slightest idea that she did that? Is he okay with that? His dni?
Jack Armstrong
Big internal argument in the Trump administration, the abandoned Ukrainians versus the support Ukrainians and this appears to be some sort of, you know, howitzer blast for her side. As the Director of National Intelligence.
Joe Getty
She goes on to say, and I think this is important, I wish more people knew this. She goes on to say, the bombs we have now are many, many, multiple times more powerful than those. I think most people think nuclear bomb and they think Hiroshima, which is bad enough, but it's significantly worse. It wouldn't be hundreds of thousands, it would be millions. These bombs are so much bigger. Now if the point is to alert the world of that's what we're dealing with in the reality if we ever go to nuclear war, I'm fine with that. The problem is, I believe sending the message to Putin and Xi that you can take land and there'll be no pushback gets us closer to nuclear war, not further from it.
Jack Armstrong
I would agree. And what the hell is the DNI doing doing this?
Joe Getty
Right? Right.
Jack Armstrong
Why is she putting out America? You have to understand how horrible nuclear war would be.
Joe Getty
What the hell with Certainly an implication and maybe I'm reading too much into it. I don't think I am an implication that we implication that we shouldn't have done what we did to end World War II.
Jack Armstrong
She's 100% give Putin what he wants. 100%.
Joe Getty
And you think that would make the world safer from nuclear war? I think that's nuts.
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Armstrong & Getty On Demand: Episode Summary – "Cesspool of Debauchery"
Release Date: June 11, 2025
Host: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Publisher: iHeartPodcasts
The episode delves into the contentious decision by former President Donald Trump to deploy 2,000 National Guard members to Los Angeles amidst escalating protests and civil unrest. Host Jack Armstrong introduces the topic with a critical tone:
Jack Armstrong [03:01]: "Now let me into the Oval Office."
Joe Getty expands on Gavin Newsom’s reaction to Trump's move, highlighting Newsom’s attempts to position himself as a presidential contender through a late-night speech:
Joe Getty [03:12]: "Gavin Newsom gave a late night speech last night, and it was his most. His biggest effort yet at trying to look like a presidential candidate or already President of the United States."
Newsom condemned Trump's actions as a "brazen abuse of power," emphasizing the risks posed to both civilians and law enforcement:
Gavin Newsom [03:46]: "This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed a combustible situation, putting our people, our officers, and even our National Guard at risk."
Armstrong and Getty critique the portrayal of Trump's actions as totalitarian:
Jack Armstrong [04:35]: "This is totalitarianism."
They reference various commentators who have labeled Trump's deployment as authoritarian, including Rich Lowry from National Review and Michelle Goldberg from The New York Times. The hosts argue that Trump's actions, while legally permissible, contribute to a narrative of authoritarianism:
Joe Getty [05:17]: "New York Times believes our worst fears have been realized that Trump would call out the military against people protesting his mass deportations, putting America on the road to Martial law."
The discussion shifts to public sentiment regarding immigration enforcement and the use of National Guard forces. Armstrong references a poll indicating a near-even split in American opinion on immigration raids:
Joe Getty [09:34]: "How Americans feel about immigration authorities searching their communities for people they believe are in the country illegally. In favor, 51. Opposed, 49. That's CBS YouGov 5149 in favor."
Despite the mixed responses, Armstrong and Getty express skepticism about the effectiveness and public support for aggressive immigration enforcement:
Jack Armstrong [10:15]: "Yeah, no brainer. Absolutely not."
Newsom’s criticism of Trump extends beyond immediate actions, touching on broader concerns about democracy and authoritarianism:
Gavin Newsom [10:38]: "Donald Trump, without consulting California law enforcement leaders, commandeered 2,000 of our state's National Guard members to deploy on our streets illegally and for no reason."
Armstrong and Getty mock Newsom’s political aspirations, suggesting his efforts to position himself as a Democrat are backfiring amid California’s ongoing socio-economic challenges:
Joe Getty [11:14]: "If this is his audition for 28, it's not going very well."
They highlight issues such as rising homelessness, increased homelessness rates despite substantial spending, and economic hardships exacerbated under Newsom’s administration:
Jack Armstrong [12:03]: "He goes into the billions of dollars spent to combat quote, unquote homelessness, only to see the homeless rate increase."
A significant portion of the episode critiques Tulsi Gabbard's recent video addressing nuclear war and her stance on international conflicts. Gabbard reflects on the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, linking it to current nuclear threats:
Tulsi Gabbard [41:36]: "This isn't some made up science fiction story. This is the reality of what's at stake, what we are facing now."
Armstrong and Getty question Gabbard’s role as the Director of National Intelligence, calling her actions and message into question:
Jack Armstrong [44:43]: "This is a mini documentary made to convince people to abandon Ukraine. That is the purpose of it."
They argue that Gabbard's message inadvertently undermines national security by suggesting that relinquishing support for Ukraine could prevent nuclear catastrophe, thereby weakening the U.S.'s strategic stance:
Joe Getty [45:53]: "Ian Bremmer tweeted that out and said, closer to nuclear war than ever before possible because elites have access to bomb shelters. Questionable."
Shifting focus, the hosts discuss advancements in technology, particularly Apple’s new features unveiled at the Worldwide Developers Conference:
Jack Armstrong shares a humorous anecdote about airport security protocols, emphasizing the inconsistency and frustrations travelers face:
Joe Getty [21:02]: "Keep your sweaters on. Keep your jackets on."
The conversation transitions to personal health tracking devices like the Aura Ring and Apple Watch. They debate the psychological impact of constant health monitoring:
Joe Getty [30:16]: "People are discovering things that have always been true for them and, like, freaking out about them."
Armstrong mentions a study indicating that awareness of sleep scores can paradoxically lead to poorer sleep quality, highlighting the unintended consequences of health tracking technologies:
Jack Armstrong [30:57]: "They knew they'd be scored and so they would wake up in the middle of the night and think, oh, God, I get to get back to sleep or I'm not going to have a good score."
In a lighter segment, Armstrong and Getty discuss the frustrations of dealing with email spam and the challenges of unsubscribing from unwanted mailing lists. They express concerns over malicious unsubscribe links and the perceived inefficiency of spam filters:
Jack Armstrong [34:10]: "What are you supposed to do now? It's not a ton."
The episode "Cesspool of Debauchery" offers a robust critique of current political maneuvers in California, skeptically examines Tulsi Gabbard’s stance on nuclear issues, and touches upon the complexities of modern technology and personal privacy. Armstrong and Getty provide their perspectives with a blend of humor and critical analysis, encouraging listeners to question and engage with the topics discussed.
Notable Quotes:
Gavin Newsom [03:46]: "This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed a combustible situation, putting our people, our officers, and even our National Guard at risk."
Joe Getty [05:17]: "New York Times believes our worst fears have been realized that Trump would call out the military against people protesting his mass deportations, putting America on the road to Martial law."
Tulsi Gabbard [41:36]: "This isn't some made up science fiction story. This is the reality of what's at stake, what we are facing now."
This comprehensive summary encapsulates the key discussions and viewpoints presented in the "Cesspool of Debauchery" episode, providing listeners with a clear understanding of the topics covered without requiring prior knowledge of the podcast.