The A&G Replay Friday Hour Two

Summary

Podcast Summary: Armstrong & Getty On Demand – The A&G Replay Friday Hour Two

Date: June 26, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty
Podcast: Armstrong & Getty On Demand (iHeartPodcasts)

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Episode Overview

This episode is a "best of" and highlights replay, featuring Armstrong & Getty’s recent commentary, discussions, and insights from the radio show and possibly their podcast. The central themes are the cultural and political shifts post-"wokeism," the rise of anger and political violence, ongoing voter fraud debates, the decline of mass literacy, and societal quirks like fascination with zoo animals and legacy rock bands.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Media Activism and NYC Trial Controversy

• The show opens with Armstrong & Getty criticizing the NYC mayor’s office for granting press passes to activist "journalists" during a high-profile murder trial.
  • Jack Armstrong (03:33): “Those are the voices of those three young women, quote unquote, journalists who weren't journalists at all. They were far left wing activists... just absolutely bizarre moment again and troubling.”
• The hosts are incredulous that mainstream outlets (e.g., NY Times) didn’t object to biased coverage or lack of journalistic standards.
  • Joe Getty (04:01): “You think at some point I’d cease being surprised the fact that more media outlets aren’t interested in how the mayor’s office... gave press passes to people so that they could come out and say, ‘I’m glad the guy got murdered.’”

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2. “Wokeism” Has Peaked—But What’s Next?

• Referencing Tyler Cowen’s thesis in The Free Press (circa 2022): “Wokeism” has peaked, even if it isn’t gone.
  • Political institutions and corporations are retreating from DEI and cancel culture.
  • Jack (05:53): “He says that his prediction actually seems pretty good in retrospect. Wokeism is hardly gone, but it does seem to have peaked in 2022 or so.”
• However, there’s a new, more aggressive and angry era emerging—manifesting as direct action and violence, replacing institutional capture.
  • Jack (07:07): “[Cowen]’s afraid we’re moving into an era of a culture of anger and resentment and physical action more and more… it’s no longer about capturing the institutions... now the hardcore left is actually shooting people. Wow.”
  • Joe (07:48): “So we might have been better off with the previous thing then, huh?”

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3. Culture of Resentment and Political Violence

• Relates stories of social aggression, e.g., road rage against Tesla Cybertruck drivers.
  • Joe (09:15): “I had one of the most aggressive I hate you because you drive a Tesla cyber truck instances yesterday… here we go, I guess I’m gonna fight this guy.”
• The hosts link the rise in day-to-day hostile interactions to broader cultural narratives that justify violence against “evil” opponents, a shift from rhetoric to physicality.
  • Jack (11:21): “If you study political movements in the way they progress now… the youngsters you indoctrinated have become convinced that because the other side is evil… you’re justified in committing virtually any act of violence.”
  • Joe (11:51): “How many people in the lefty town I live… would think, well, he had it coming. He was driving a cybertruck.”

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4. Continuing Strongholds of “Wokeism” in Blue States

• Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s administration is spotlighted for “microaggressions” training that portrays white people and police as mosquitoes.
  • Jack (13:26): “His administration is offering a taxpayer funded training... that depicts white people and police officers as mosquitoes who suck the blood of people of color.”
• Despite national trends, left-leaning state governments continue to advance progressive policies in DEI and anti-racism.

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5. Car Culture, Tribalism, and Elon Musk

• Discussion about cultural tribalism and animosity surrounding brands and personas, using Elon Musk and the reaction to his vehicles as an example.
  • Joe (15:32): “He tried to run an organization to cut back waste… but let’s go with someone I think is highly objectional. Ibram X. Kendi… If he owned a car company and I saw somebody driving one of his cars, I would not be… angry about it though.”
  • Jack (16:09): “That’s because you think they’re a fool and not a vicious force for evil like... progressives have been taught to view conservatives.”

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6. Zoo Stories and Americana

• Lighthearted detour about zoos, animal news (bald eagle nest cam, mountain lion in San Francisco), and the American fascination with such stories.
  • Jack (16:57): “Oh my God, I love going to the zoo. I wish I was in the zoo right now.”
  • Joe (17:06): “Big news here from that famous family of bald eagles in Southern California...”
• Snarky banter about naming animals and the patriotic symbolism of eagles.

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7. Voting Fraud—From Dogs Voting to Ballot Harvesting

• Examination of real-world voter fraud ranging from the silly (dog registered to vote in California) to more serious, historical and contemporary cases.
  • Jack (27:30): “Woman from Costa Mesa… charged with illegally registering her dog Maya to vote and submitting ballots on the canine’s behalf… the dog’s vote was successfully counted in the 2021 gubernatorial recall.”
  • Joe (28:48): “If you’re in doubt, you’re not allowed to… air toward, ‘We probably shouldn’t count it.’ It’s the other direction.”
• Cites Kevin Williamson’s argument: fraud is real, often small-scale but potentially decisive in close local contests.
  • Jack (34:17): “It is possible... that all of the following things to be true at the same time: 1) Trump lost 2020 fairly; 2) Voting fraud happens; 3) It is more widespread than many imagine; 4) Can affect close, small elections.”
  • Joe (35:40): “People always immediately go to presidential elections... that’d be the hardest thing to rig. But local elections? God, I’m sure it happened all the freaking time.”

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8. Decline of Book Reading and the Age of Mass Literacy

• Lamentation on declining book readership, suggesting the “age of literacy” is ending.
  • Joe (45:00): “Somebody talking to somebody… about reading Ulysses… they said you might be among the last people who ever read that. And that’s probably true.”
  • Jack (46:08): “Let me quibble a little bit with equating literacy with reading books.”
  • Joe (46:16): “Reading books is coming to an end. It only lasted 300 years and I can’t believe that’s okay.”
• Jokes about public interest in trivial or celebrity books compared to literary classics.

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9. Pop Culture: Grateful Dead and Bob Weir

• Short tribute segment to Bob Weir from the Grateful Dead, marking his death and reflecting on the legacy and surprising longevity/profitability of the band.
  • Joe (44:06): “The Grateful Dead span been around for 60 years. And their other lead singer… Bob Weir, age 78… Can you go on without Bob Weir? You can’t, can you?”
  • Jack (44:22): “Can you imagine as a musician, somebody saying to 23 year old you… you’re going to make the most money in your 70s from music?”

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Memorable Quotes

• Jack Armstrong (07:07): “If wokeism is dwindled, what has replaced it?... a culture of anger and resentment and physical action more and more… the hardcore left is actually shooting people.”
• Joe Getty (11:51): “If this guy beats me up… how many people... would think, well, he had it coming. He was driving a cybertruck…”
• Jack Armstrong (13:26): “Offering a taxpayer funded training… depicting white people and police officers as mosquitoes who suck the blood of people of color.”
• Jack Armstrong (27:30): “Woman from Costa Mesa… registering her dog Maya to vote and submitting ballots on the canine’s behalf.”
• Kevin Williamson via Jack (34:17): “It is possible... that all of the following things [can] be true at the same time: 1) Trump lost 2020 fairly; 2) Voting fraud happens; 3) It is more widespread than many imagine; 4) Can affect close, small elections.”
• Joe Getty (45:00): “You might be among the last people who ever read [Ulysses]... the age of literacy is coming to an end. It only lasted 300 years and it's going to be over soon.”

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Notable Moments & Timestamps

• [03:33]: Outrage over activist “journalists” reporting on a murder trial
• [05:53]: Discussion of Tyler Cowen’s “Peak Wokeism”
• [07:07]: Fears that rage, not wokeism, is the new dominant culture
• [09:15]: Tesla Cybertruck road rage and cultural tribalism
• [13:26]: Illinois' controversial microaggression training
• [16:57]: Animal news – eagles, mountain lions, and the American zoo fascination
• [27:30]: The California dog voter case
• [34:17]: Reading and unpacking Kevin Williamson on voting fraud
• [44:06]: Tribute to Bob Weir and Grateful Dead’s longevity
• [45:00]: The decline of mass literacy and shift away from books

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Tone & Style

• Language and Tone:
  Direct, wry, occasionally sarcastic, but with flashes of genuine concern or admiration for American institutions and culture. The hosts frequently employ banter, snark, and cultural references (e.g., quoting comedians or referencing classic literature).
• Style:
  Conversational, interspersed with some deep dives (e.g., voting fraud) and frequent cultural asides; playful yet opinionated.

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Summary Takeaway

In this "Replay Hour," Armstrong & Getty argue that while “wokeism” has peaked, a potentially more dangerous culture of anger and literal violence is now ascendant. They highlight troubling examples of political and social hostility, lampoon continued progressive excess in blue states, and debate issues like voter fraud and the future of reading. Animal stories and tributes to rock legends add levity, but the episode’s throughline is a wary concern for the trajectory of American culture, civility, and democracy.

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End of summary. For those following U.S. cultural and political shifts—or just enjoying Armstrong & Getty’s trademark blend of outrage and wit—this episode offers a timely snapshot.

Transcript

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Millions of Americans. Those are the voices of those three young woman, quote unquote, journalists who weren't journalists at all. They were far left wing activists who were approved by the far left wing activists in Mayor Mandani's office to attend the trial of the murder of young Brian Thompson and then spout their Marxist platitudes. Just absolutely bizarre moment again and troubling.

[Joe Getty]

And you think at some point I'd cease being surprised the fact that more media outlets aren't interested in how the mayor's office in New York gave press passes to people so that they could come out and say, I'm glad the guy got murdered. Yeah, what the hell.

[Jack Armstrong]

As the press. How, how twisted are you? I mean, because I don't think that David Muirs of the world and the New York Times of the world approve of that. No, but it, because it has a faint whiff of the left, they won't criticize it.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know. And they're, they're like we talked about the other day. This is one of those. Is the hottest story of the day in all of America. There are all kinds of news outlets that I'm sure didn't get press passes that wanted them. You'd think there'd be more complaint that, okay, so you're giving press passes to people who are in favor of murder, but I can't get in there to write for the Omaha Gazette or whatever.

[Jack Armstrong]

Sure, yeah. You'd think just their pride as journalists would motivate, you know, quote unquote pride as journalists would motivate them to say something about it. You're right. The under reporting that is really, really Troubling. Anyway, Tyler Cowan writes for the Free Press. And, and he, in early 2022, had argued that wokeism had peaked. I remember reading that, that. That piece, and he mentions himself, that it was met with a mix of skepticism and hostility because wokeism seemed to be rising to a lot of people. You had corporate boards adopting, you know, racial equity audits, for instance, and DEI crap was popping up here, there and everywhere.

[Joe Getty]

Just. I'm sure you're going to fill this out as I. When you said that, I thought that's crazy. But then I thought, oh, peaked, not over peaked. Right? It may have peaked then.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. And he says that his prediction actually seems pretty good in retrospect. Wokeism is hardly gone, but it does seem to have peaked in 2022 or so. President Trump has been reelected. Republicans hold a trifecta in government. Universities have retreated from cancel culture and dei. Corporations bought Twitter.

[Joe Getty]

Corporations are clearly scared off getting involved in a lot of these things now.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, exactly. The media in general have moved right, from, you know, communism, but. And Chris Ruffo has done his great work and, you know, he name checks a bunch of stuff. And I think some of it is right. Some of it was just self preservation

[Joe Getty]

or I mean, people saw what happened with Nike and Bud Light, for instance, and thought, oh, we ain't going there.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, and more and more people found the courage to say, this is effing stupid and these moral arguments that these people are making are phony and they're obviously just trying to capture institutions and take them over. So, yeah, he's right. But is I always think about the

[Joe Getty]

Chris Rock bit about corporations getting involved in this stuff and Lululemon signs. We don't discriminate. You discriminate against the poor.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah, that was great. But his question is, if wokeism is dwindled, what has replaced it? And he says, and the reason we played those pro murder. If I don't like your politics or policies, gals, is that what Tyler Cowan says is he's afraid we're moving into an era of a culture of anger and resentment and physical action more and more, and that it's no longer about capturing the institutions because that's kind of peaked and gone away and now the hardcore left is actually shooting people. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

So we might have been better off with the previous thing then, huh?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, no, you had to stamp that out because it was absolutely poisonous and it was trying to get the people who are now murdering into power. And thank God people woke up before, you know, all of our institutions were captured. But he mentions the assassination of Charlie Kirk, health care CEO Brian Thompson, several attempts on the life of President Trump. And he actually ties it to like Bernie Sanders trying to stamp out progress in AI which as troubling as it is, we can't let China have it. The ideology of third worldism is on the rise. It takes the form of anti Semitic demonstrations and concrete violent actions on individual Jews or group of Jews who appear in predictable locations such as going to and from synagogues or in Jewish neighborhoods. Such attacks have risen steadily and that sort of thing. And then he actually includes like the idiotic billionaire tax that even left wingers have rejected and they've given up wealth taxes in Europe and stuff like that, probably passing in California. And he thinks that it's going to. And I'm not sure this is the right framework, but he thinks that the older wokeism reflected stronger female influences with its use of collective social pressures and its obsession with in groups and out groups and the rest of it. And this is turning more masculine and more face punchy. So, yeah, I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

That fits in with the. I had my. One of the most aggressive I hate you because you drive a Tesla cyber truck instances yesterday.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right? Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

And decided I'm going to start carrying

[Jack Armstrong]

some sort of protection.

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

And then it's less than lethal force. Yeah, yeah. But they, they will protect you.

[Joe Getty]

I can shoot some, you know, whatever. Like the phrases. Flip it out of my head because I'm an old person. It's like tear gas. It's like, you know, hitting with somebody with tear gas or something like it's like that. And to incapacitate them if I get into some sort of beef with somebody. But I'm going to keep it in my truck because I had a guy yesterday and I got flipped off over the weekend. I talked about that story Sunday. I got flipped off by this little blonde college chicken or really cool convertible

[Jack Armstrong]

her parents bought her.

[Joe Getty]

She was so angry at me and flipping me off. Not really worried about fighting this college girl. But there was a dude yesterday in a pickup truck. He's like laying on his horn. I'm in the parking lot trying to find a place to park and he's laying on his horn next to me as I was kind of looking around like you honking at me. I don't think I'm in your way. And he's like, effing cyber truck F you. Cyber truck F you. And he rolls down his window and he pulls in real fast to park. And I okay, here we go. I guess I'm gonna fight this guy. And then he just never gets out of his truck. And I park and I walk to mine. I keep thinking he's gonna get out, but I mean, he was angry.

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[Joe Getty]

Just like on him, he had the I'm gonna fight angry thing going. I thought, I gotta carry a weapon with me over the kind of car I drive. How nuts is that? Of course, you can't reason with somebody who wants to fight you, but you realize you want to get physically violent over the kind of car I drive. Does that seem crazy to you, you nut jobs? But it happens all the time. And I just. I absolutely refuse to change cars. Because you have to be scared to drive a certain car. That's a nuts way to live, right?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've been talking about this lately. It seems to be coming up more and more that if you study political movements in the way they progress now, the. The. The youngsters that you indoctrinated have become convinced that because the other side is evil and they are bad people. And I've got another great think piece on that for later. But you're justified in committing virtually any act of violence. It's like that Dostoevsky quote I keep going back to. And that's the period we seem to be in now.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. And the thing would have to be, which is troubling, is if. So if this guy beats me up and it makes the news how many people in the lefty town I live, especially the college kid crowd, would think, well, he had it coming. He was driving a cybertruck, so.

[Jack Armstrong]

Or at the very least, I'll bet he did something to deserve it. Because a person like that, I'm sure he did something terrible.

[Joe Getty]

Right? It'd be a lot.

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[Joe Getty]

Well that's that whole Ibram x Kendi anti racist crap.

[Jack Armstrong]

Exactly. Yeah, yeah. So they're in at least in Illinois with the good graces of the governor and the money. Like in California where Jennifer Jennifer Siebel nuisance is pushing this sort of thing in the gender bending madness to the kids. It's still being pushed hard in your your blue states.

[Joe Getty]

Can you come up with an equivalent. What would be the equivalent on the other side to Elon Musk? Just, I'm trying to wrap my head around. I still can't imagine getting angry about what brand car somebody drives. But so maybe I need to put myself on the other side. So what would be, would be a similar character to Elon on the left? Can you think of one?

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, okay.

[Joe Getty]

Maybe, maybe I don't think this is fair at all because I don't think Elon did anything bad at all.

[Jack Armstrong]

He. No, he just aligned with Trump.

[Joe Getty]

Well, he tried to run an, or run an organization to cut back waste and spending in the government and, and, and you know, so. But let's go with someone I think is highly objectional. Ibram X Kendi, who we just mentioned. I think he is flat out fraud racist. Yeah, but if he owned a car company and I saw somebody driving one of his cars, I would not be, I would not yell at them, I would not honk at them, I would not want to hurt them. I might roll my eyes. Oh geez, what a fool. At the most I might roll on my eyes. I probably wouldn't notice enough to care. I can't imagine getting red faced angry about it though.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's because you think they're a fool and not a vicious force for evil like concert like progressives have been taught to view conservatives.

[Joe Getty]

So nuts. Yeah, it is wrong with people.

[Jack Armstrong]

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show. It's a visit to the Armstrong and Getty Zoological Gardens or if you prefer the A G. Zoe. I do not pronounce the word zoo because it's zoological. It's properly pronounced zo.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, that's an interesting stand. I think you should die on that hill.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, zoos are one thing I, I will never ever be tired of. Okay, going to the zoo.

[Joe Getty]

I like.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh my God, I love going to the zoo. I wish I was in the zoo right now. Anyway, a handful, a trio if you will of animal related reports.

[Joe Getty]

Big news here from that famous family of bald eagles in Southern California in the San Bernardino National Forest. Mom and dad, Jackie and Shadow capturing the world's attention.

[Jack Armstrong]

So many watching that nest cam live. It was last year in March. In recent weeks, the new development.

[Joe Getty]

Mom and dad have been observed building up their nest. Jackie laying an egg over the weekend last Friday night. And then overnight, Jackie laying a second egg. Scientists say in about 35 days or

[Jack Armstrong]

so we may start to see them hatch. Shame it was that bent nosed jackass David Muir doing that report because they kind of ruined it.

[Joe Getty]

ABC back in first place among evening newscasts.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, I wonder if everybody just tried CBS and went back. Yeah, Katie, fun eagle fact. I didn't know this until watching the live stream. They pant like dogs. They open their mouths and stick their tongues out to cool themselves down.

[Joe Getty]

Eagles pant.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, like dogs. I didn't know that.

[Joe Getty]

The panting.

[Jack Armstrong]

That. That is a fun eagle fact.

[Joe Getty]

That is absolutely my next band at an open mic night. The panting eagles.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, well, I can't wait then. This wildlife officials in San Francisco have captured a mountain lion that was spotted in recent days prowling among the multi million dollar homes in the Pacific Heights neighborhood. These sightings are rare in the city. In this case, the cougar was safely tranquilized and moved to another area. I'd like to point out that a Porta Potty is a multi million dollar home in Pacific Heights.

[Joe Getty]

Good point.

[Jack Armstrong]

Not to mention Silicon Valley. Another fun fact. While a reporter was doing the story on the mountain lion, a coyote walked through the shot in the background. So it's chaos out there.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Nature's taken back. California New can blame the mankind hasn't done a very good job with it. The mountain lion, fascinating beast. Also known by a number of names. The puma, the cougar, the catamount. That's my favorite one. That's a different, different animal completely. What about Sri Lankan animals, you're saying? Any news on them? Yes, as a matter of fact. Harrowing moments for a troop of terrified tourists in Sri Lanka.

[Joe Getty]

The massive elephant approaching a vehicle carrying Russian travelers using its trunk to rock the car.

[Jack Armstrong]

The driver trying to accelerate its trunk keeping the van in place. The Russian embassy in Sri Lanka issuing a sharp warning reminding people that wild elephants can be dangerous.

[Joe Getty]

Reminding people that wild elephants can be dangerous. For people with an IQ of 6.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's caution. Pie filling may be hot to me. Yeah, right.

[Joe Getty]

No kidding.

[Jack Armstrong]

You're too stupid to understand the warning. If you need the warning.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Don't fall off this ladder because of gravity and whatnot is what the sign should say.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, kind of sweet, heart warming eagle report or wild elephants on the rampage. I gotta go with NBC Nightly News. I did the wild elephants.

[Joe Getty]

Did anybody here get sucked into the baby eagles thing? I know people like, like grown up people with jobs and other things to do got sucke the baby eagle thing and really enjoyed it. Yes, Katie. Oh, I, I love it. You being with child. That makes sense. You get to. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Even last year though.

[Joe Getty]

Okay.

[Jack Armstrong]

But you got to be Pregnant to like birds and, and, and, and eagles. It's our national bird.

[Joe Getty]

Well, there's life.

[Jack Armstrong]

Every American's heart swells with pride.

[Joe Getty]

I don't. If your heart's swelling, see, See a position.

[Jack Armstrong]

You're a patriot. That's what you are.

[Joe Getty]

I, I like eagles. Fine. It's just I didn't get into the checking multiple times a day and saying to texting friends, ooh, did you see that? Whatever the name, Madison stood up today.

[Jack Armstrong]

Jackie and Shadow.

[Joe Getty]

Jackie and Shadow stood up.

[Jack Armstrong]

Don't give them names. That's stupid.

[Joe Getty]

Okay?

[Jack Armstrong]

It's like you're a freaking child now

[Joe Getty]

whose heart's swelling with patriotism.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, no, it's Jackie. Jackie the eagle. Really is. It was this short for Jacqueline, is it?

[Joe Getty]

Stop it.

[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Karen Kilgariff]

Hi, it's Karen and Georgia from My Favorite Murder.

[Georgia Hardstark]

We cruised around LA in the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and dove into the fascinating life of actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Want the full story?

[Georgia Hardstark]

Take a listen, Hedy. She starts dating Howard Hughes, the aviation tycoon. Do you know a lot about him?

[Karen Kilgariff]

I mean, I watch the Aviator, so I know everything Leonardo DiCaprio has allowed me to, but incredible innovator, right?

[Georgia Hardstark]

She says he's a, quote, very strange man. But they do get along really well.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Give us examples.

[Georgia Hardstark]

I know they do get along intellectually, and in fact, she helps him design a faster plane. She takes a look at what he's designed. It's got these square wings, and she's like, that doesn't make sense. And so she finds the fastest bird and the fastest fish and sketches out a drawing of, like, what the two would look like as a plane. And that becomes the plane that we know today. And he calls her a Gina. Genius. Check out our new episode spotlighting groundbreaking innovators like Hedy and Lamar and Billie Jean King.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Presented by the Hyundai Ioniq 5.

[Jack Armstrong]

Goodbye.

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[Jack Armstrong]

The armstrong and getty show. 2, 3, 4 1. We see that there's a wrong to be right into we know that we are stronger when United 3. We exercise our right to assemble more that's when the proud and mighty start to tremble Just in case you're wondering Just in case you're wondering hey hey look this way this is what democracy looks like show me what democracy looks like this is what democracy looks like this is an LGBTQQIA plus min over the power of three BBQ choir singing this is what democracy looks like Worst

[Joe Getty]

thing that ever happened to politics is

[Jack Armstrong]

the

[Joe Getty]

success of the hippies in the 60s and them thinking that singing and marches was really what accomplished everything as opposed to slow work of legislation or

[Jack Armstrong]

irresistible moral arguments being expressed in those settings. Yeah, let's talk about voting and voter fraud. Something that the left would tell us doesn't exist. And Democrats in Sacramento, for instance, the capital of Cal Unicornia, have sought to ease voting requirements to the maximum extent possible. Lisa Finley points out in the Journal. What's the result? Even pets have managed to cast ballots. Well, their owners have on their behalf in an unbelievable injustice.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know how my dog votes.

[Jack Armstrong]

He votes how you damn well tell him to vote.

[Joe Getty]

Bad dog.

[Jack Armstrong]

Woman from Costa Mesa, California was charged last fall with illegally registering her dog Maya to vote and submitting ballots on the canines behalf. Orange County DA's office said the dog's vote was successfully counted in the 2021 gubernatorial recall election, but was rejected in the 2022 primary. I like how they actually call it the dog's vote, since an ID isn't required to register a vote in California elections in which federal officials aren't contested

[Joe Getty]

by dogs don't have IDs.

[Jack Armstrong]

An ID also isn't required to register in federal elections. Californians don't have to provide an id. When they register, they must present. They must present documents. I know when they vote in a federal election for the first time. But acceptable forms of ID include a drug prescription, a gym card and even a sample ballot sent to the registrant's home. What's worse, in case your gym card is kind of dog eared and not very convincing.

[Joe Getty]

Gym card.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hey, is that a real Jim Carter? Did you make that in your copier? California says its voter ID rules and I quote, shall be liberally construed to permit voters and new registrants to cast a regular ballot. If a voter's eligibility is in doubt, local officials are not allowed to throw the ballot out. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

If you're in doubt, you're not allowed to go to air toward. We probably shouldn't count it. It's the other direction. Of course the Punchline Showing an ID thing is always that 70% of everybody thinks you should have to show an ID. Black, white, men, women, liberal, conservative. Everybody thinks you should have to show an id. It still can't happen.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, just those who would perpetrate vote fraud or against it. I think that's the entire crowd. Local officials also aren't required to verify that a voter is a citizen or even exists. Orange County DA notes that the defendant posted on social media In October of 24, quote, a photograph of Maya's dog tag in a vote by mail ballot with the caption Maya is still getting her ballot even though the dog had previously passed away.

[Joe Getty]

So the was discovered dead. Dogs are voting. It's bad enough that live dogs are voting because they are. They live off everybody else. Of course they like socialism. Name a dog with a job. McGruff the crime dog. Seem to have a dog sled dogs have no dogs.

[Jack Armstrong]

There's few dogs with a job. There are a couple, but they're the exception.

[Joe Getty]

But the dog is dead and is still voting. Now that's an outrage.

[Jack Armstrong]

And so this is the really outrageous part. This gal plainly did this to get attention to how easy it is. How California's voting rules practically invite fraud and how the only way they will ever catch you is if you post online. Look at how ridiculous this crap is. And they prosecuted this woman during the pandemic the state and I'm what's the penalty?

[Joe Getty]

Because I should. I've been meaning to threatening in my mind to test this because I live in a house that has been rented out in a college town for years.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

And I get I don't know how many, at least a half dozen, maybe eight different named ballots to my house from people that have lived there. And I'm pretty sure there's nothing stopping me from voting nine times.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't think for a minute, I don't believe for a minute they have like strict enforcement of signature matching or anything like that. No way. As long as you vote Democrat. I'll point this out and then we'll move on to a great piece by Kevin Williamson. But during the pandemic, the state paid an estimated $30 billion in fraudulent unemployment claims, including to state prisoners and criminals who used patently false identities like Dianne Feinstein and Mr. Poopypants. The number of hospice companies in LA county has increased by 1,500% since 2010, with 89 registered in a single building. Yet such flagrant signs of fraud did not raise alarms with state officials who are in charge of regulating hospices. Voter fraud in California may not be prevalent, but it's surely more common than in most places. And she goes a bunch of examples of voters who sent her fraudulent ballots and multiple registrations, all sorts of stuff.

[Joe Getty]

And I think no Pupperonis within 100ft of a puppet polling place because that's hilarious. Do anything.

[Jack Armstrong]

So this is from extremely Not Trumpy, brilliant Texas conservative that I agree with most of the time. Kevin Williamson. Yes, voting fraud is real. He's actually making the point. He's not a fan of the SAVE act for various reasons that are a topic for another day. But I I loved his opening. Sometimes the headline raises more than one question, and he goes with quadruple amputee cornhole player fatally shoots man. Authorities say one story, a story we got into, that's a very efficient headline. He says it raises more questions than there are verbs in it. And then he goes into detail. And he's a funny guy. But people who take an interest in voting fraud have been told, lectured over and over again for many years, that voting fraud is not a thing, that there is no evidence of frauds having changed the outcome of any American election. And yet there are these provocative headlines and he gives just a few examples. South Philadelphia Judge of elections admits he took bribes to stuff ballot box for Democratic candidates Here's another one. Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud Macomb county nursing home employee pleads guilty in an attempted election fraud case Texas social worker charged with 134 felony counts involving election fraud in Limestone County. There's another East Texas Democrat official pleads guilty to voter fraud fraud. One more three women charged with voter fraud in Houston County. And those headlines raise at least one question. Why go to the trouble and take on the legal risk of committing fraud if not to change the outcome of an election? Now, maybe Ezra Klein and his buddies think that as an issue, voting fraud itself is fraudulent. The voting fraud fraud, as Klein's old Washington Post blog post put it. But there are those who disagree, including, presumably the real experts, the people committing voting fraud. And he makes, you know, he makes a number of good points. Because we live in a dumb world, it is possible, though not likely, that this column will be put in front of the eyes of at least a few dumb people. And so a few caveats here. It is entirely possible for all of the following things to be true at the same time. One Donald Trump lost the 2020 election fair and square. Two, the only people who say otherwise are dopes, dupes and charlatans. 3 Logistically, it would be extraordinarily difficult to fraudulently alter the outcome of a U.S. presidential election.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah, we've done good job of designing a system that would be really hard to rig that.

[Jack Armstrong]

And 4 it is not the case that there are millions of illegal aliens registered to vote and voting. But it's also true at the same time that 5 voting fraud happens. Voting fraud happens regularly. Voting fraud, though not pervasive, is more widespread than many would imagine. And point 8 it is possible and even likely that such fraud can and does change the outcome of certain elections.

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[Jack Armstrong]

9 Evidence suggests that the affected elections are mostly relatively obscure primaries and municipal elections in which the total number of votes is small and hence the number of fraudulent votes needed to change the outcome is also small. And 10 if number eight is not true and no election is being successfully captured, then the only likely explanation for this persistence and regularity of actual real world voting fraud, the existence of which has been proved time and time again to the satisfaction of the generally excellent standards of evidence relied upon in our criminal trials, is that the ballots stuffing and ballot harvesting in such a some kind of expressive therapeutic exercise in extreme political tribalism. Which strikes me as an unlikely explanation. Yeah, how many times have I heard there is virtually no voting fraud in

[Joe Getty]

the U.S. yeah, imagine back in the day how often it happened.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, you know, some great historical examples.

[Joe Getty]

People, people always immediately go to presidential elections. Again, that'd be the hardest thing to rig. But local elections? God, I'm sure it happened all the freaking time. The most consequential and famous example is the 46 somewhere in that range election for House member Lyndon Baines Johnson. That was Completely fraudulent, as nailed down by many people, including Robert Caro and his books about Lyndon Johnson. And of course, the reason it's so consequential is he was a House member than a US Senator than a very consequential US President. None of it would have happened if you hadn't had that fraudulent first election.

[Jack Armstrong]

That was good old ballot stuffing, Right.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. I hear some of you yelling.

[Joe Getty]

He had lost, though he had lost the previous election. So maybe it was 48. Because he. I think he lost in 46. 1. 48. He lost in 46. He got screwed by somebody who was all. Because I think everybody was doing it all the time in certain places. So the Republicans had fraudulently done that. And Franklin Roosevelt must have been earlier. Because Franklin Roosevelt being involved. Yeah. My math. My years must be way off.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, what is this, the olden days?

[Joe Getty]

Franklin Roosevelt said him, you told him laughingly, you got us once you get the votes and you got to sit on the ballot box to make sure that nobody else can get votes in there before they're declared.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. Because everybody's stuffing.

[Tony Ayo]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anywhere where the term good old boy. Good old boy resonates. Yeah, Absolutely true. Now, I hear some folks shouting an argument at the radio, and it's a, It's a decent one that in a presidential election that's incredibly close, like, for instance, 2020, especially if you have a couple of key counties in a couple of key states and can turn those votes, that would be of incredible significance. You know, way beyond the.

[Joe Getty]

No, I mean, when you're, when things are as close as they are with our recent elections, where, you know, a couple states make a difference, you don't have to rig it coast to coast. You just have to rig a couple states. States.

[Jack Armstrong]

But. And this is reminiscent of our discussion of the Candace Owens style grifters trying to pervert people's minds about Charlie Kirk and the rest of it, a lot of what was presented to you as evidence was either true but completely misinterpreted on purpose or 75% true. But that last 25% really negates what you think it means or just completely untrue. A lot of like the 2000 Mules movie. I mean, Dinesh D' Souza had to come out and say, no, that's not accurate.

[Joe Getty]

So because he got sued, he made the movie.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

He got challenged.

[Jack Armstrong]

Show up with the goods in court and he said, there aren't any goods. Yeah. So I don't, I don't believe that. But it's not an unfair point that, yeah, you could have exceptional leverage through, say, one key county. But anyway, what we come down to again, and it's, it's kind of discouraging in a way that this doesn't just win the day automatically, hands down, is the vast majority of Americans want secure registrations and secure ballots. Virtually everybody wants that except the activist left of the Democratic Party, which depends on a herding half wits who have no idea what's going on into voting booths by hook, crook, bribery or dangling, you know, Slim Jims in front of them or marshmallow peeps or whatever it takes to get people at the polls.

[Joe Getty]

Marshmallow peep, you say?

[Jack Armstrong]

Hmm. And ballot harvesting and, you know, either out and out voter fraud or damn near voter fraud. Here, check this box. Sign this, here's your 20 bucks. Move on to the next department. So we need much more stricter, much more strict oversight of voting, period. And everybody thinks that. Armstrong and Getty show. The Armstrong and Getty Show. Armstrong and Gettysburg.

[Tony Ayo]

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[Karen Kilgariff]

Hi, it's Karen and Georgia from My Favorite Murder.

[Georgia Hardstark]

We cruised around LA in the Hyundai Ionic 5 and dove into the fascinating life of actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Want the full story? Take a listen.

[Georgia Hardstark]

Hedy. She starts dating Howard Hughes, the aviation tycoon. Do you know a lot about him?

[Karen Kilgariff]

I mean, I watch the Aviator so I know everything Leonardo DiCaprio has allowed me. But incredible innovator, right?

[Georgia Hardstark]

She says he's a, quote, very strange man. But they do get along really well.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Give us examples.

[Georgia Hardstark]

I know they do get along intellectually and in fact, she helps him design a faster plane. She takes a look at what he's designed. It's got these square wings and she's like, that doesn't make sense. And so she finds the fastest bird and the fastest fish and sketches out a drawing of like what the two would look like as a plane. And that becomes the plane that we know today. And he calls her genius. Check out our new episode spotlighting groundbreaking innovators like Hedy and Lamar and Billie

[Karen Kilgariff]

Jean King, presented by the Hyundai Ionic 5.

[Jack Armstrong]

Goodbye.

[Karen Kilgariff]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Professional wrestling fans, the action continues every week. You got it coming. This is total non stop action. TNA Thursday night is Impact Every week on AMC. For show times and more information, visit tna wrestling.com the Armstrong and Getty Show. Born in the Bay Area, we joined the band that would become the grateful dead in 1965 as a teenage guitarist after a chance meeting with co founder Jerry Garcia. Bobby, you were 6016 when you first heard Jerry Garcia playing banjo.

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[Jack Armstrong]

In Palo Alto.

[Tony Ayo]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Yep. The Grateful Dead span been around for 60 years. And their other lead singer, not Jerry Garcia, died over the weekend. Bob Weir, age 78. I assumed he was sick of some sort based on some of the announcements they've made recently with concerts and that Sort of stuff. And I saw one of their final shows a year or so ago and it was fantastic. Dead and Company with John Mayer taking over the Jerry Garcia role. Can you go on without Bob Weir? You can't, can you?

[Jack Armstrong]

No. Unless you just openly say, hey, we're a tribute band.

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[Joe Getty]

Interesting. Because they're printing money. I mean, just insane amounts of money. Money.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Without Jerry Garcia, probably more money than they ever made in their history.

[Jack Armstrong]

Can you imagine as a musician, somebody saying to 23 year old you, by the way, you're going to make the most money in your 70s from music. Yeah, yeah, from music. And you're thinking, what happened? How's that going to work?

[Joe Getty]

So I remember reading about this. He got kicked out of the band once, like when they were already really popular because Jerry Garcia didn't think he was a good enough guitar player. Like, learn your parts. Kicked him out and he had to

[Jack Armstrong]

go practice up and got let back in.

[Joe Getty]

I thought that was interesting.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, well, fair enough.

[Joe Getty]

You suck.

[Jack Armstrong]

Do your job.

[Joe Getty]

Get out of here.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah,

[Joe Getty]

I mentioned earlier, our friend Tim Sandifer's got a new book about the Declaration of Independence coming out in April. And I'm excited about it for. But Tim had said to me when I was talking to him a while back about books about how nobody reads anymore. And he was. He hit me with some stats on book sales and stuff like that that are just freaking highly troubling. Somebody talking to somebody the other day about reading Ulysses, which I am, and I'm almost done with, and they said you might be among the last people who ever read that. And that's probably true. It's considered one of the greatest books ever written. Written. But there aren't very many people that are going to read it in the future. And I talked a couple weeks ago about this piece I read that I think is true that the age of literacy is coming to an end. I mean, it's just statistically true. And it only lasted 300 years. Mass literacy, where the mass of humanity read books, didn't happen until about 1700 and it ended a couple of years ago. And we're on the downhill side. It only lasted 300 years and it's going to be over soon.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, let me quibble a little bit with equating literacy with reading books. Can we separate those two? Probably should.

[Joe Getty]

But reading books is coming to an end. It only lasted 300 years and I can't. I can't believe that that's okay.

[Jack Armstrong]

We're good.

[Joe Getty]

But there's no stopping it, it's just, it's, it's definitely happening if it hasn't already happened. Now, I was at a bookstore the other day still packed full of books that nobody buys because it costs like nothing to print them. But one that was on one on the table, you know, they put the stuff out on the table like the candy books that they hope people will buy that like shares memoir. This is what grabbed my attention about Cher's memoir page.

[Jack Armstrong]

Flipper.

[Joe Getty]

The memoir part one is what it says on the this is a two parter. It's like 600 pages long and it's, you need two parts to tell that story.

[Jack Armstrong]

Cher's kids don't want the two part. Wow. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. There's some hot pictures of her in there, though. I didn't realize she was a teen model.

[Jack Armstrong]

I didn't know that. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

It's interesting though that the whole book thing for human beings only lasted 300 years. Now it's over.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. I think we're just going to become more and more shallow, clearly, as a species.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, clearly. But there's no turning that back.

[Tony Ayo]

Armstrong and Gettysburg this July 4th, come celebrate at America's Block Party. Hosted by America 250. America's Block Party is a can't miss 4th of July concert happening at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

[America 250 Announcer]

Experience music, performances by major artists, patriotic tributes and the kickoff to giving 4th, helping to make July 4th the largest day of giving in American history.

[Tony Ayo]

It's more than just fireworks.

[America 250 Announcer]

Join this landmark celebration and get your America's Block Party Tickets now for $17.76 at america250.org LA hi, it's Karen and

[Karen Kilgariff]

Georgia from My Favorite Murder.

[Georgia Hardstark]

We cruised around LA in the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and dove into the fascinating life of actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Want the full story? Take a listen.

[Georgia Hardstark]

She starts dating Howard Hughes and in fact she helps him design a faster plane. So she finds the fastest bird and the fastest fish and sketches out a drawing of what the two would look like as a plane. And that becomes the plane that we know today. And he calls her a genius. Check out our new episode spotlighting groundbreaking innovators like Hedy Lamar and Billie Jean King.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Presented by the Hyundai Ioniq 5.

[Jack Armstrong]

Goodbye.

[Karen Kilgariff]

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