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Jack Armstrong
We talked about the mysterious and controversial settlement with Iran, if it exists, and got comments from all sorts of different sources. Not a popular deal. Among other Fair. Yep.
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We talk about what's happening around the country and around the world without left wing spin. Enjoy the best weekend talk show in America. I thought this was interesting. There was a big debate last night or two nights ago in the California Assembly. There's some big DEI bill that's about to pass as California goes further down the road of neo Marxism and dei, which is nothing it claims to be. And I compiled a list of that sort of program that's going on right now. They all happen to be on the west coast, but Chris Ruffo wrote a great piece for City Journal. California is currently pressuring public utilities to award $633 million in special contracts to LGBT owned firms. But to qualify, you've got to go through the state's official gay certification program and you face up to a year in jail if you're not gay enough.
Co-host/Guest
So I got a Mm in front
Jack Armstrong
of someone with someone. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Co-host/Guest
Well, yeah, obviously with someone in front of someone so they can document. Yep. He's either gay or he was good at pretending.
Caller/Guest
All right.
Jack Armstrong
Scheme operates through the California Public Utilities Commission, the cpuc, which regulates privately owned utility companies. California utilities spent more than $43 billion on contractors, fuel suppliers, surveys, engineers and others. You know, you can imagine. But they created a supplier diversity problem way back when. But now they're trying to explain expanded to the LGBTQ+ over the Power3 community.
Co-host/Guest
What's the theory that I, the taxpayer should be giving a break to gay owned businesses over. Well, the idea is that they were. They were discriminated against in the past or something.
Jack Armstrong
It's usually that sort of thing. Yeah, it's just Nick's used to spread out money to specific cronies. But the idea that you would be awarded state contracts based on who you are romantically attracted to and or sexually attracted to is bizarre. Applicants can secure gay certification by providing a letter from an LGBT organization attesting to their sexual preferences.
Co-host/Guest
Now, is that a one time deal? Do I get certified the first time I do it or do I every six months? Do I have to go back and get recertified? Bring some dude along and I would
Jack Armstrong
think it's like a medical license. You have to be recertified every so often. Make sure you haven't forgotten what you've learned.
Co-host/Guest
Yeah. Wow. I got to go do it again.
Jack Armstrong
So you can either get a letter from an LGBT organization declaring you gay, proof that a newspaper identified you as lgbt, or three letters from personal contacts written on company letterhead attesting to your homosexual orientation. Corporate officials who falsely represent their business as gay face up to a year in county jail. Wow.
Co-host/Guest
Man. If I was going to start a business, I'd be pretty tempted to claim I was gay and make them prove I'm not.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. Prove I'm not gay.
Co-host/Guest
I should have mentioned.
Jack Armstrong
I've been wanting to mention it for a week now. The Justice Department issued an opinion explaining the disparate impact under federal law is unconstitutional.
Co-host/Guest
Should be.
Jack Armstrong
It's an earthquake in federal civil rights law. Writes one civil rights attorney. If. Right. This is the foundation to overturn that pernicious regime. And the Wall Street Journal. The Constitution versus disparate impact. That's the presumption that if there's a different result, say white kids tend to do better than black kids on this test. That's proof there is racism there.
Co-host/Guest
Or if you got more men passing the firefighter test than women, the test is skewed against women.
Jack Armstrong
Clearly unfairly so.
Co-host/Guest
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
And needs to be corrected by the government.
Co-host/Guest
No chance that just men are better at that than or more are applying or any other number of things. Nope. It's clearly sexism or racism or whatever if you don't end up with an equal result. Only against black and brown people though.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Co-host/Guest
Asian people and people from India because they're better than everybody. You can discriminate against them.
Jack Armstrong
Or Jewish people. Yeah. No problem there. No problem there. Justice Department took a great step by telling the Equal Opportunity Commission that its policy on disparate impact was unconstitutional and companies might be. That's kind of confusing. It's the old double reverse. But here's the key quote. Rather than treating disparate impact as an evidentiary mechanism to smoke out intentional discrimination, it contemplates liability based on disproportionately adverse effects alone. Blah, blah, Blah. You've got to prove intent and specific activity to discriminate, which is so obviously true. But. So how far has this sort of thing gone? Some more examples for you. Canada, which is admittedly not an American state, explicitly advertises for university and other jobs that are restricted by race and gender. You need not apply, unless you are this race or this gender for government jobs in Canada, which is obscene. This is hilarious. Charles Cook, quoted for the second time on the show today. He says, here's a story so crazy that upon first glance, I assumed it must be a hoax. And it's a tweet from a guy who says, I just got a silver alert, which is a good reminder that California decided to racially segregate its missing person alert system for some reason. And Charlie's headline is, apparently California has a racially segregated Missing person alert system. There is an Amber Alert, which is actually named after a kidnapped child by the name of Amber. That is a missing child. There is a blue alert, which is which one? Maybe I'll just read it.
Co-host/Guest
And Smurf has gone missing. Hilarious.
Jack Armstrong
Okay, so you've got the Ebony Alert, which is for the suspicious or unexplainable explainable disappearance of a black woman or black person, and the Feather alert, which is for when a missing person is an indigenous woman or indigenous person. The blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And there's also a yellow alert, but mercifully, given the state's history, that isn't in the same vein as the others. He says. And then he points out, it's so weird when you dig into it. The CHP notes. As I just read, the Ebony alert accompanies investigations into the suspicious or unexplained disappearance of a black woman or black person. Why are those two things separated? Black women are black persons. There's no or about it. The same goes for the Feather alert again, one group contains the other. I suppose if you're already slicing up adults into racial groups for alerts for some reason, then creating more weird subdivisions comes naturally. But it doesn't look half strange and, well, racist especially. You know, Constitution says you're not supposed to discriminate by race, both the state and federal constitutions.
Co-host/Guest
So I was having this conversation with my son the other day about how it's okay to discriminate against or no, it's okay to point out advantages. Different. I don't know what term to use. Races, ethnicities, skin colors, whatever groups, whatever advantages, but not disadvantages. And how weird that is. You can say that this group is Better at this than others. But you can't say a group is worse than. So you're making this assumption that everything's only a positive and never a negative. Anyway, we got started on this. My son sat down. There's a thing they do in the town I live in is they have pianos, various places sitting outside. And so you can just sit down and play the piano. Like, there's one the library, and then there's one downtown by a coffee shop, and there's a couple different places.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Co-host/Guest
And covered.
Jack Armstrong
Or are they subject to the elements?
Co-host/Guest
I don't know how they survive the rain, but anyway, they're not in the greatest tune, but they're a piano. And so Henry sat down the other day. I was getting some coffee. He said, I'm going to go play the piano. So he's over there by the different coffee shop playing the piano. And I heard him and I went over there. This little Asian girl came along. When he got up and just started cranking out some Mozart or whatever the hell she was.
Caller/Guest
Yeah.
Co-host/Guest
And he said, it seems like everything I do, some Asian kid comes along and shows me up. I thought, yeah, yeah, that's the way it is for us white people, Asia. The Asians are showing us up at absolutely everything, pretty much. And you can say that, but you couldn't do the opposite. If you're better than a group at something, you can't point that out because that's racist.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. If you're better than another group, pointing
Co-host/Guest
out being worse than a group is
Jack Armstrong
okay, well, that's the weird thing. You can praise a culture, but you can't say they're bad at this unless it's in the context of it's proof that there's been terrible discrimination.
Co-host/Guest
You can say there are no sociological
Jack Armstrong
norms that are negative or cultural norms that are negative, except those that can be explained away by racism, which is so crazy to me because since I've been a kid, I've been studying different cultures and political systems, and they all have pluses and minuses because. Well, of course they do.
Co-host/Guest
Just like every human being has pluses and minuses. So you can say Asians are better at science and math. You can't say Asians are bad drivers. These are. These are things. And I just picked a obviously not true stereotype that only racists would say as an example.
Jack Armstrong
I can't even believe the words came out of your mouth.
Co-host/Guest
Everything I do, some Asian kid comes along and shows me up.
Jack Armstrong
Couple more headlines for you. We'll squeeze them in. Real quick because I went to the trouble of compelling them A Portland based county, Portland area County, it's Multnomah county, spent millions of dollars on race based housing programs and outcomes for homeless minorities got worse. They dismissed the data that showed that, arguing that lived experience mattered as much as measurable outcomes. I mean how stone dreamy Portlandia is that lived experience counts more than your hard cold data. Race dependent. And we talked about this actually when it first came to light that there was a point scoring system where if you were a black trans person, a 25 year old male masquerading as a female or whatever, you got emergency housing before a pregnant white lady or a white mom because you were lower down on the intersectionality totem pole. These people are insane, they're racists and they're going further down the road. It ain't over yet.
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said Anytime somebody says. What do you call that? Foaf. Anytime somebody says, a friend of a friend, it's it's usually not true. It's. It's something we do. Because if you separate it more than friend of a friend, it doesn't have any.
Jack Armstrong
Loses his credibility.
Co-host/Guest
Loses his credibility. I can tell you in this case it is literally a friend of a friend. Like I could get them on the phone, but. So this is a pilot who is flying into the United States and had this conversation the other day and I'm surprised this hasn't made the news.
Caller/Guest
You said emergency or medical emergency. Just verify that for me, please. Telephone 29 or 8 0. 29 or 8 0. And yes, it's basically a medical emergency. We were notified that we have a possible Ebola case on board. 200 979, we need some information from you there. The seat numbers of the passenger. Passenger or passengers. Unfortunately, we don't have any seat numbers. We were given information by ops that customs and border control couldn't verify, but that we had a possible Ebola case on board. We're thinking that it's a family of five or six that came in from Uganda, but at this time we don't have any seat numbers.
Co-host/Guest
So it was a medical emergency, landed, they did the whole, you know, they got ambulances there, the plane got them off, tested them, turned it out. They didn't have Ebola, but they've been exposed to Ebola and not checked. And I'm just surprised this didn't make the news because usually we go nuts over things that we mock as nothing to worry about. This seems like a big deal. Yet a family of five or six exposed to Ebola, they might have bola, might be six people on a plane for hours because it's an overseas flight who have Ebola who landed in the United States. I don't understand. And I apparently I'm told that the airline didn't want that on. Took that off tick tock or made him take it off tick tock and have been trying to squash the story.
Jack Armstrong
Really?
Co-host/Guest
That's what I was told. I don't know that one. I can't verify.
Jack Armstrong
But what was the communication chain prior to the pilot? Radio, radar or radioing? Ground control was like a store is doing the beverage service. And somebody said, and then we got exposed to Ebola. And I thought to what next? And that Stuart is like, wait, wait, what?
Co-host/Guest
Or hey, that guy I just gave peanuts to, he appears to be bleeding from his nipples.
Jack Armstrong
Well, again, they were symptom free. And you're telling of the account.
Co-host/Guest
Oh, that's right. They don't actually have a bone.
Jack Armstrong
Exactly. But they were exposed to it so they were talking to their seat mate. Oh, you're coming from Uganda?
Caller/Guest
You're kidding.
Jack Armstrong
I've never been there. Oh, it's a nice place. But occasionally you get exposed to Ebola like we did this week.
Co-host/Guest
How did this.
Jack Armstrong
What?
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What?
Jack Armstrong
What happened?
Co-host/Guest
Hey, I think the woman in 13e is sloughing off her skin. No, no, that's right. I forgot again.
Jack Armstrong
They don't have the Ebola as you yourself stated. They were symptom free. Speaking of foreigners coming to the United States, have you followed Freddie the viral German soccer fan? He was the guy we quoted the other day who he's making his way around America, mostly in the southeast so far. And is is he ate a chicken sandwich for breakfast at a Walmart near Chattanooga and he tweeted about it. He bought inexpensive shoes at the store because he'd ruined his other shoes and was talking about how wonderful it was. He drove through Alabama listening to country music. He stopped at the BUC EE's where he was struggling to comprehend it. Gas pumps as far as the eye can see and slow smoked Texas barbecue inside. Or as Freddie put it, photos and three crying face emojis.
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Jack Armstrong
Lmao. This is a gas station in America. Just fabulous. And then he this is my favorite one. He was in Alabama. I love Americans. He posted after arriving. We were about to walk an hour to the stadium in the rain to save on an Uber and the receptionist at the hotel we were parked in front of decided to drive us there. And then from inside Auburn University's 88,000 seat stadium, he posted this is the most the European mind can't comprehend this moment of my life. There's an eagle flying around stadium.
Co-host/Guest
Yeah, I hear Charles C.W. cook of the National Review talks about this a lot because he's from England. He's now a US citizen. He's from England. He said people in America don't realize how much richer they are than all of the rest of the world, even advanced European countries. We have so much more of everything than anybody else does. It's. And we take it for granted.
Jack Armstrong
Richer and more imaginative and really really funny. We are a funny people. The Washington Post points out that sometimes
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Field Reporter
where some say they're getting paid for signatures. So they give you names to sign.
Jack Armstrong
A lot of them do and they offer like with like five bucks.
Field Reporter
What kind of stuff do they want you to sign?
Jack Armstrong
Just those are like petitions and stuff like that.
Caller/Guest
Big promises like housing or oh this is for like a new governor or something like that.
Jack Armstrong
Just like I don't even know what
Co-host/Guest
they tell us what they sign.
Field Reporter
They also try to get you registered to vote.
Jack Armstrong
They can, but that's not bad, that's
Caller/Guest
not a bad thing.
Jack Armstrong
But yeah, they, they have a way to register you to vote.
Field Reporter
The address to people put on there,
Jack Armstrong
most people use that just right there, that's James o' Keefe's outfit that I've made the point many times that folks on the left, including I think some well meaning folks will say, well there's not, there's no record of widespread voting fraud in America. Now he's respond, well, there's no effort
Co-host/Guest
to root it out.
Jack Armstrong
You got no cops radaring, you're not going to get a lot of speeding tickets. California is the subject of a federal investigation right now, spawned in large measure by that video. That and oh, the cleverness of this investigative technique blows my mind. They went down to skid row in LA and asked a bunch of bums and junkies, hey, do people pay you to vote? And they're like yeah, all the time. There's a voter there.
Co-host/Guest
I wish we, I said this last week. I wish we could get past the whole talking past each other on like I don't think it changed the results of the election and I think they do this. Both of those things can happen. It isn't a stolen election. So therefore there's no point in Seeing if they were paying bums to vote.
Jack Armstrong
Activist Democrats know this. They just disregard it because they use this to their advantage. But the. The perception of the fidelity of the vote is almost as important as the fidelity of the vote itself. They have so many policies that undermine people's faith.
Co-host/Guest
That's not good. By the way, every time I say that, we get tons of texts on how can you be so stupid to think the election wasn't solely. Well, there's a number of reasons, including the fact that it turned out the result was almost exactly what the polling was, the direction the polling was going. People of Los Angeles, like communists. I find that to be more troubling
Jack Armstrong
than a stolen election. Right, right. Yeah. Come to grips with the real ugliness that people want. Nithya Ramen and Karen Bass. Ay caramba. More from outside city hall.
Field Reporter
Outside city hall, only about a mile from skid row. Some people say that they are seeing these signature collectors here as well. You're not even giving your own name. What kind of stuff do they have you sign?
Caller/Guest
To be honest, I don't even put the money in.
Field Reporter
How often do you see these signature signer people?
Jack Armstrong
Every day.
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You see this every day?
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Wow. Well, first of all, I think it's kind of funny what stuff they have you signed. I don't know. You hand me a $20 bill, I'll sign. Flipping anything. Put it in front of me.
Jack Armstrong
And the first lady was hard to understand because she's a drug addict. They asked her. So they give you a name? Yeah, they give you a. And you fill that out so it's not even her name.
Co-host/Guest
All right, right down.
Jack Armstrong
Jennifer Sinclair.
Co-host/Guest
And then click. You know, check the box.
Jack Armstrong
One, two, three Main Street. Yeah, exactly. Longtime signature gatherer will plead guilty to paying homeless people on skid row to help get initiatives on the ballot, according to federal prosecutors this week, part of an effort to crack down on what they claim is widespread voter fraud across the state. Brenda Lee Armstrong, age 64, of Marina del Rey, agreed to plead guilty to one felony count of paying a person to register to vote. She faces up to five years in prison. Armstrong, who worked for 20 years gathering signatures for ballot initiatives, would give people on the skid row two or three or four or five dollars, sometimes a cigarette or a phone cord in exchange for their signature and their completely fraudulent name or et cetera. That's just. It's the tip of the tip of the iceberg. Now, let's see, moving along. Ballot harvesters accused of secretly bribing Skidlero homeless into voting election every day. The California Post, which is the new outpost of the New York Post, showed that this one homeless shelter had 1600 people registered to that address. The Mission, the Midnight Mission is called, has only has beds for about 100 and they had 1200 registrations there. Whether those people actually then, quote, unquote, voted, their names may have voted, who actually voted, then of course those signatures are rounded up by the ballot harvesters and are thousands of voters. A Post review of records showed 7,600 voters tied to homeless shelters and service providers. And then we heard some of the skid row folks talking about how they were encouraged to register to vote. And whether they actually did again or somebody did in their name is the question. And then I wanted to get to this. This is the very sober, very serious Jeff Blair of the National Review. And he goes into what Jack's been talking about, about the overwhelming number of Democrat voters in LA and how the polls indicated that Pratt was gonna lose. And actually there was one great writer for the Free Press who thinks Pratt was right about everything and will continue to have a serious effect on LA politics. Cuz he finally told the truth about the junkies, the bums and the junkies very sympathetic to him. He said, look, I went to a Pratt rally. He was making the point that a lot of the support was online from people outside la. He went to a Pratt event Sunday before the Tuesday election. He said it was very, very sparsely attended and Pratt didn't even speak.
Co-host/Guest
Yeah, it was very easily to be easy to be misled across the country because he was way more popular on Fox News for people who don't live in Los Angeles than he was in la.
Jack Armstrong
So anyway, that's the disclaimer, but this was the point. Jeff Blair writes, I hope I've been able to sufficiently persuade you that Pratt was not denied a spot on the November ballot by fraud. But here's the thing, thing. I don't mind if you refuse to accept this ugly truth. You are entirely within your rights to retain anger and suspicion about how the vote count has gone because there are uglier truths to address. Namely California's. California, America's largest state with a GDP greater than Germany's, has chosen to run its elections the way a notably unstable Third World country would. Slothfully, overly permissively and with willful opacity. Meaning, you know, it's opaque, it's impenetrable, you can't see what's going on in California. And this is the point, folks. Focus on this. The real scandal is what's legal with a universal mail in ballot option, a seemingly endless window for ballot counting and legal mechanisms for unions and organizers to harvest and later cure ballots. We'll get to that in a second. California system is a black box to everyone except well informed organizers and jaded electoral analysts. Almost as if it were intentionally designed to fuel paranoia. It wasn't. At least not at first. California's horrible electoral system is the accumulated result of serially stupid decisions, like silt swept downstream that eventually clogs a river. So he gets into some of the history of it, which is pretty interesting, but would get things a little long. But.
Co-host/Guest
Well, it's horrible at every level. If you're living across the country in various towns, you probably can't imagine this, but like the town I live in, not that big. There was a measure on there about a big housing development. There's going to be worth nearly a billion dollars. So there's a billion dollars at stake and people voted on it. It's a total of about 22,000 votes. 11,000 votes roughly on each side. They're still counting and haven't announced a winner yet. Two weeks ago today the voting happened. Two weeks on something with 22,000 votes total and they haven't announced a winner. And when you got a billion dollars at stake, how am I supposed to believe nobody's cheating somehow?
Jack Armstrong
Right? Right. So back to what Jeff Blair says. People on social media chatter about ballot harvesting, but I'd wager most of them know little about ballot curing. Mail in ballots are subject to signature verification by comparison to the voter signature which is already on file. Theoretically, this is a time intensive and error ridden effort that usually devolves to Democratic Democratic election employees. Mismatches can be cured if done so quickly. Voters are notified and given a chance to confirm their identity. Who has the sort of manpower to make sure all those signatures are verified? You guessed it, labor unions and activist NGOs. Wow. These are the same people who have the money, personnel and strategic capability to go around legally harvesting ballots in the first place. And they're determined to make their own investment pay off. So the unions and and lefty NGOs, they handle the vote. People are right to be angry about California's electoral system. It has rotten to its core, he says. And again, this is a sober, serious guy. Well, as am I. At least at the moment. I'm sober.
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So speaking of business, I thought this was interesting. I almost didn't read the story because I'm not particularly concerned about State Farms auto insurance business or the nature of the business. But the Wall Street Journal is reporting on the fact that, and trust me, this is it gets more interesting as it goes that they rolled out the red carpet for its 19,000 or so sales agents because State Farm since the day it was born, which we'll talk about has been like a good neighbor. It's your agent Jim, who's been with you for years. Years. He knows your kids names and he when you go went from your your crappy used car to your first ever new car, Jim was there with some good advice. Blah blah blah. So anyway, these thousands of people fly into Las Vegas on the insurer's dime. They get treated to, I think a private pink concert. Jimmy Fallon let us sing along and did some comedy for them. They got to take selfies with Jake from State Farm. The the actor with the beard, black fellows in the red jacket who's in all those ads. It's just a great, great time. And then the CEO took the stage at Allegiant Stadium and dropped a bombshell. Yeah, we're tearing up everybody's employment contract. If you want to stay past 2027, it's a new compensation deal. And sales targets were incorporating lots and lots of AI. Sorry, everybody. least they got to see the Pink concert. So it's going to be much more apps and bots sales. You go online, you click around, you get the rate from State Farm and you sign up or you don't much like the other companies.
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Wow. So I won't mention the company I use, but it's one of the big ones. And like, I know my guy. I've known him for decades. I've been with him for decades. He knew me before I was married. He coached one of my kids in little league. It's the sort of thing you're describing. And I would hate it if it was just a go on AI deal with a chat bot from here on out. I hate that. But I can see how it would go that direction.
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that was one of the agents there in Las Vegas. Yeah, that's the question before all of us. So just to finish up the discussion of people in their jobs only like
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I want to get exactly right.
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That's what you're going to say when you call after a fender bender, Right?
Jack Armstrong
Exactly. Press two for fender benders plus three for you are a fatality. Well, there's an irony there. So anyway, it's like, is it going to be the most successful and aggressive agents are going to stick around. The model is changing completely. I just thought this was interesting. The initiative is clearly in response to state farms eroding status in the industry. The insurer was usurped as the nation's biggest personal auto insurance this year by Progressive, losing a throne it has held since World War II.
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No kidding.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Yeah. And Progressive sells over half its personal auto policies direct to consumers, using AI and tech to keep costs low. And State Farm, by contrast, is the Goliath among agents sold auto insurance. But they're being laid low by some of the Davids.
Co-host/Guest
Yeah, you're probably going to go where most people are probably going to go with, you know, if you're shopping around which one's cheapest. And you know, you like the personal touch of knowing the name of the guy. You call and say, hey, how's your son doing? Blah, blah, blah, you like that. But you're not willing to pay extra for it.
Jack Armstrong
Right, Right. Yeah. Anyway, I thought that was interesting. A couple other AI type stories. Yeah.
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Since a car insurance came up. Let me throw this in here. Maybe we'll get back to AI when we come back. So a close acquaintance of mine, I will keep this vague, very close acquaintance of mine did get into a fender bender with a gentleman in a really crappy car. I mean it's like a 15. I saw the picture after the wreck when much of a wreck but it was about a fifteen hundred dollar car. Did some damage to probably total it because it wouldn't take much damage to total a fifteen hundred dollar car.
Jack Armstrong
No it wouldn't.
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Dude got out very, very angry about. It was the fault of this acquaintance of mine. Just didn't see him in a turning lane or something and just bumpers met very slow speed. Anywho guys, very, very, very angry that really matter. This person asks over and over are you hurt? Are you hurt? Are you hurt? Hard to imagine they'd be hurt, but they said no, no, no. They exchange information like you do in the modern world. You don't call the cops because they don't. They're not going to come. You exchange the information and move on. Then you find out a week later they have made a, an injury claim.
Jack Armstrong
Oh boy.
Co-host/Guest
And it's from one of those big companies. I'm not going to mention it but I mean especially if you live in California, there's like two that are the giant ambulance chaser billboards in every town. And it's that company. And dude is now in Mexico apparently, which is apparently where he's from. The, the guy that was in the car. And so the insurance person with this friend of mine actually did this. So they're on the phone with him about the injury claim and the person said, the, the insurance dude says hold on a second, I gotta turn off the recorder. So you know the phone calls may be recorded for quality, right? Turns off the recorder and says look, this is, this is how this works. We've been through this a thousand times and just laid out the whole. People are here from other countries and they. So he told somebody I got in a wreck, oh, you gotta call. I'm not gonna mention the name. You gotta call, you know, one of the big ambulance chaser companies. I did it. My buddy did it and he got $100,000 or whatever anyway and they turn it into a thing and you, and you claim your neck hurts and you go to chiropractor and try to rack up bills and the insurance company fights it and it becomes a big dance.
Jack Armstrong
So I'm guessing what he told you after stopping the recording was look, we got to just write them a little check and they go away. Or no, you not want to go there?
Co-host/Guest
No, apparently it is. Most of the time if you just. If you push back hard enough, they give up. And then you don't actually have to pay anything, but if you don't, they will rack up a whole bunch of bills.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, it's like their rental car company scam these days where they hit everybody with a hey, there was a scratch at 350 Bucks Place. Knowing that, you know, 86% of people will say, wait, what? No, there wasn't. And they'll think, yeah, okay, fine, never mind, we were thinking of a different guy. But they'll collect on the 16 or whatever number I implied. Who don't push back.
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Remember I got that, that with the chip on the windshield. They hit me for 1800 bucks or something like that. And it hurt.
Jack Armstrong
Hurts.
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When I think about it, it really hurts. I won't mention the company, but I told my. I and then I told my insurance people about it and they said, yeah, they do that. That the company especially does this all the time. We'll deal with it. And I don't know how it got worked out, but yeah, that sucks. All of that sucks.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, sucky, suckitude.
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What should you do? What's the best way to protect yourself? You get into a fender bender, get on the phone, the person saying they're not hurt, have your phone out recording the whole time. Are you hurt? So that when they say repeatedly, no, I'm fine. Because I don't know that that works. Because you could. When I had my motorcycle wreck, I bopped up people around me who had stopped their cars and everything like that. I'm bleeding all over the place. I'm lipping.
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I'm fine, I'm fine. I said repeatedly. Hours later, I was not fine at all. So just because you said you're not hurt then doesn't mean you're not hurt, Right? But I don't know how you get. I don't know how you protect yourself against that.
Jack Armstrong
Gosh, I don't know. I would consult a lawyer, one legitimate, one crooked, and combine their two sets of advice into what seems best for
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Date: June 21, 2026
Podcast by: iHeartPodcasts
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
In this episode of Armstrong & Getty's weekend talk show, Jack and Joe dive into a range of hot-button topics, including controversies around California's DEI policies, criticism of disparate impact law, race-based public alerts, election integrity concerns in Los Angeles, and the evolution of the insurance industry with AI. Their signature blend of irreverence, skepticism, and candid commentary is on full display as they poke holes in news narratives and share personal anecdotes.
On DEI & Identity Verification:
On Race-Based Alerts:
On Voter Fraud & Electoral Perception:
On Ballot "Curing" & Process Complexity:
On AI Replacing Insurance Agents:
| Segment | Topic | Time (MM:SS) | |---------|-------|--------------| | Intro | Show intro and topic preview | 03:11–03:35 | | California DEI Bill & LGBT Contracts | DEI debate, “gay certification” | 03:35–06:54 | | Disparate Impact Law | DOJ’s position and implications | 06:57–08:58 | | Segregated Alerts | Ebony & Feather alerts, racial discussions | 08:58–13:41 | | Portland Housing Programs | Race-based policies critique | 13:41–14:55 | | Voting Fraud on Skid Row | Signature-buying investigation | 27:11–33:33 | | Election Process Critique | Ballot harvesting, curing, skepticism | 33:23–37:02 | | State Farm and the AI Shift | Insurance industry modernization | 40:55–44:27 | | Insurance Claims Anecdotes | Listener advice and stories | 44:53–49:08 |
This episode offers a sharp, skeptical look at progressive policies, election management, and the automation creeping into American life — all with the Armstrong & Getty trademark of humor and healthy outrage. If you want news that’s unfiltered by “left-wing spin,” as the hosts put it, this is a dense, provocative hour that will leave you with both facts and plenty to argue about.