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Jack Armstrong
Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center,
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Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. The guy whose biggest qualification is the
Jack Armstrong
sound of his name in a state that's half Hispanic. Javier Becerra. He worked for Biden, but Biden didn't
Joe Getty
even know his name. I nominated Javier Bakaria. You know Javier Bechira. Excuse me.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Joe Getty
But Jill didn't see any decline.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. Javier Bakaria. So Javier Bakaria is going to make the top two for governor in California and hopefully Steve Hilton will too. But there's so many votes left to count. They're at 58% counting, so it could take weeks. Well, and, and the results could change a lot. But so anyway, we'll talk about that when it happens. Speaking of, I don't know. I don't need to have a transition. I'll just start a new sentence.
Joe Getty
Sure. It's your first Amendment, man.
Jack Armstrong
Let's listen to Bill Maher and Jay Leno talk about comedy and that hole in the basement smoking pot thing that he does. And Bill Maher was talking about how I always admired your transitions. You just didn't do them. Like all comedians think they need to transition and you just didn't do them. And Jaylon was like, yeah, yeah, you don't need a transition. You just, you just, you just start. And he said, it's like, it's like the insurance companies, you know how they, you just start. You just start a new thing and then they laugh and then you start a new one.
Joe Getty
Oh, a buddy of mine and his wife saw Nate Bargazzi not long ago. He was telling me about that on the golf course. He's got does an our set of brand new material.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, really?
Joe Getty
Yeah. And he said it was just hilarious.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I saw him and Seinfeld together on a podcast and Seinfeld said, you are among the best I've ever seen. Which Nate Bargazi was like, wow, thank you. He is good though. So having burgers with my son yesterday and I mentioned to him and this gets into state laws and politics and stuff like that a little bit. Having burgers with my son. Yesterday afternoon I mentioned to him because I asked how I'd like the burger cooked and I said, when I lived in North Carolina, you, you could only get your burger cooked all the way through. It was the law. Like you couldn't have pink on a burger, which to me is just a crime. And he said, how did they do that? He said, was that a liberal state? And I said, no, it's actually a very conservative state. Which got me thinking, how did a at that time, a very red state pass a no personal freedom law. Like restaurants can't serve you a, a burger that's got any pink in it. So I did a little research on it to bring it back. And yeah, Joe and I lived in Charlotte, North Carolina for two years in the mid-90s. And we, it turns Out. We actually showed up there right after they passed a law in North Carolina that burgers had to be cooked all the way through because there had been some outbreak at a restaurant or something like that. Which is just ridiculous.
Joe Getty
Just assumed it was something like that.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, but it's. It's ridicul and I can't believe it happened in a red state. But it just shows you how things can occur when people get all worked up. And I hate stuff like that for all kinds of different reasons. Starting with. Burgers are way better if there's some pink. I like a lot of pink in my burger. But it didn't outlaw you ordering it well done. You could still go to a restaurant and say, I'd like it well done, because I'm worried about bacteria. No, you gotta mandate it that nobody, everybody has to get it well done. Which is just crazy. And it stayed that way for like 15 years before they finally overturned it and went back to, like, the rest of the country does it, where you can order the burger,
Joe Getty
people want the beef.
Jack Armstrong
I just thought that was kind of interesting. And even in a conservative state, you're willing to do this sort of stuff sometimes. Or legislators, legislations get out of control.
Joe Getty
This is what happens when you give women the vote.
Jack Armstrong
And then one interesting thing. I got into an argument with the. The AI chat bot Claude, where it said,
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so.
Jack Armstrong
Which lets restaurants served undercooked burgers the new guidelines. And I said, I don't like the term undercooked. I think that's prejudicial. I consider it cooked properly. I consider no pink overcooked. And of course, its reaction had to be, oh, you're absolutely right. You caught me on that one. I got it wrong.
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Good job.
Jack Armstrong
You know that whole weird thing that AI does that. That is so troubling. They gotta fix that somehow. I think that leads to a lot of the lawsuits that we're gonna see going forward on, you know, confirming crazy people's crazy.
Joe Getty
What would you change it to? I have an idea, but I'd like to know your.
Jack Armstrong
I think we should try to outlaw attempting to be human. Quit trying to be a human.
Joe Getty
You who don't want beef temperatures regulated are going to outlaw, quote unquote, acting like a human. Sir, what are you even talking about?
Jack Armstrong
I don't know. I think they're pretty different categories. Artificial intelligence. Acting human. Artificial intelligence.
Joe Getty
This is. This is pretty good. He wants freedom of beef, not of speech. I'm Joe Getty.
Jack Armstrong
We kind of made that leap, like, really fast without discussing it. Right. Artificial Intelligence doesn't have to include acting human, but that's where we went right off the bat. Or it went there on its own. I'm not even exactly sure which is true.
Joe Getty
Right, right, right. So as an alternate though, that specific scenario you mentioned, what would you have it say?
Jack Armstrong
I don't know.
Joe Getty
Point?
Jack Armstrong
I don't know. I don't know that we need to be in these discussions at all. I don't know. I don't have an answer for that.
Joe Getty
But unless it has some sort of default, this system is imperfect. You have pointed out a. An aspect of this that I had not included in my answer. My programming will not allow me to. What's the. What's. I don't know what the alternative is.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Then the other thing. Speaking of AI, as I bounce from topic to topic, did you see the pictures I post yesterday? Somebody had sent me pictures. I don't even remember what this was. Somebody had sent me pictures of them with different haircuts or something like that. And I thought, oh, cool. I thought I'd try that. What do I look like with hair? Google put hair on me. Or I think it was Claude or ChatGPT. I don't even remember which one I used put hair on me. I said, give me some different options. And it gave me three different options. And you know what? I thought they looked really good. I was expecting it to be ridiculous, but I thought, wow, that really looks good. So then I asked, what would it cost to get hair like that? And.
Joe Getty
Oh, there it is. Oh, yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it looks good. Wow. I know.
Joe Getty
Hell, you looking like Scott Pelly in the top left. Somebody's going wig shopping.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, yeah, they are wigs. That's hair transplants. And so I asked, what would it cost to get, you know, for instance, number one or number three, which are the ones that me and all the people voting on Twitter liked the best of me with hair. But what would that cost? About 18 grand to get it done. And then 4,000 a year maintenance. Whoa.
Joe Getty
What are you, a boat?
Jack Armstrong
And the recovery period is like six months long. So I don't know what they do to you, how much bleeding and oozing there is, how much pain you're in for how long?
Joe Getty
So much oozing.
Jack Armstrong
And then what do they have to do to you every year for $4,000? So do you spend like another month or two every year recreating, scraping your hull? Oh, no, that's.
Joe Getty
I'm sorry, that's boats again, scraping my hull. Wow. Get yourself a wig, like Michael says. Way, way less money. I mean, a good wig hat, as the old bluesman used to say, well, it costs you a few grand, but to have to, you know, there's no oozing. And you take her off at night, hang it up on the. The little rack thing.
Jack Armstrong
And don't worry about the comments from your co workers.
Joe Getty
What do they know?
Jack Armstrong
I didn't know it cost that much money, but so it made me realize. I'll bet there's a lot of balding rich people, especially people in Hollywood or on TV or whatever, who've done that. I didn't realize you could do something that looked that good. You know, the. The best. Of course, the best case scenario for anybody would be you get it done and nobody can even tell that it's not real. As opposed to a lot of hair pieces, which are obvious.
Joe Getty
Well, here's. Here's what we need.
Jack Armstrong
But it ain't cheap, as I found out.
Joe Getty
That's a single shot from a single angle rendered by AI. Your results, maybe. You ever been in a McDonald's? You seen what the pictures of the burgers look like in the order Order in the board there doesn't look so much like that when it comes out of the cardboard.
Jack Armstrong
Kevin Hart's got a funny thing about LeBron James and his hairline because he talks about. He said, LeBron and I are good friends. He said, well, at least we were before I do this comedy bit. And he talked about how he's known LeBron forever, and LeBron was clearly going bald. And then all of a sudden, he shows up one season and he's got full head of hair. His hairline is here, and just like thick full hairs. Like, dude, you obviously did something. Who are you trying to get here? You got to just put up with that. I guess if you show up to work, we know someone. I'll be very, very vague, but we know somebody who just all of a sudden showed up with full head of hair, and it was a person in position of power. So nobody, to my knowledge, said a word, because what are you going to say? And then I guess if you're just going to be a nice person, what do you say? Anyway?
Joe Getty
All right, yeah, yeah, yeah, if you go.
Jack Armstrong
But it's not like. Like LeBron was thinning, and then all of a sudden he's got full head of hair. That's not me. I've had a shaved head for 30 years. If I show up with, like, any of those pictures, full head of hair, that's a. People don't know if it's me or like, you know, I've got a older brother or something walked in the room.
Joe Getty
Oh, right, yeah. They would say, jack, I mean, looking you right in the eye.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that'd be weird. How long would, how long would I have to put up with that for? A long, long time. You know, we all go ahead, Jack. Yeah, it's me. Okay. You know, every time you meet somebody for a couple of years would be weird.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I know a guy, he's a nice fellow, I like him, but he's had something or other done and we all have our vanities and look, if it helps you feel good about yourself or, you know, helps you land chicks and, or dudes or whatever, do what you think is right. I try not to judge people about this stuff, but nobody says of this guy, Manny has great hair. Everybody says, what's going on with that? Is that a. A piece or plugs or what?
Jack Armstrong
Oh really?
Joe Getty
It's like, it's like the. Not, not the current view of plastic surgery among rich women where you want mar a lago face, which to me is just bizarre. But the old view that you don't want people to know you had work, you just want to look younger. Yeah, yeah. Be careful with some of these things. It doesn't always work out that way.
Jack Armstrong
That's a decent point. Unless you're gonna like move to a new town and start your life over or something like that. Most people are not gonna. Are just gonna be. Well, I don't know. Do you also say, hey, it looks great or do you not say that in this case the person you're thinking of?
Joe Getty
I don't know.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, so you're thinking about did he get a piece or is it plugs? But is it also. It looks good.
Joe Getty
No, see, I. I didn't know him before that. Okay. And in fact he moved to the hood having already done that. But it's it's just has a bit of the look of not natural.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, See, if I get that hair, I gotta, I gotta move to Paraguay or something. Start my life over with a new name.
Joe Getty
Paraguayan's very accepting people. Might be a good idea.
Jack Armstrong
I don't think I'm gonna do that. I would like to know what the four thousand dollar year maintenance is. So do you spend another month of the year in bandages? It seems like a bit of a commitment.
Joe Getty
Maintenance. What?
Jack Armstrong
I don't even know what that is. Where's the hair coming from? Dissidents.
Joe Getty
Oh boy, I hope not.
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Jack Armstrong
I had never ever seen Joe like
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Joe Getty
Good God, I've seen better acting in porn. Seriously, Jilly, you should have watched the beginning of Horny Housewives 2. You know, Joe Biden saying she had no idea her husband was a little off. This is like Snoop Dogg's wife being like, wait, he smokes weed? Are you serious?
Jack Armstrong
My Snoop? Yeah, I suppose you beat up Jill because she's the one who said it. But how about any interviewer who takes it seriously, including the woman sitting across from her or the Wall Street Journal the other day, taking it as seriously as opposed to. I think most people are gonna have a hard time believing that.
Joe Getty
Right? Yeah, exactly. And I want to get to the significance of this because I think there is some. This whole book tour and the denial. But first, this. I'd miss this. And there may be audio, but it's really hard to hear. So Jill is wrapping up a q and A about her new book with moderator Whoopi Goldberg on the Upper east side of New York when 83 year old Joe Biden leaves his seat audience and wanders up to the edge of the stage. Now, Goldberg had read a comment from the audience thanking Biden for his service, if you can imagine that. And Jill stood up to give her husband a standing ovation when he wandered to the front of the stage and said, I have a question without a microphone. Joe has a question like you couldn't ask it later? Jill responded. Who do you love most in the world? Biden inquired. Whoopee, Jill answered, causing the audience to laugh. As the View co host tried to resume speaking. Biden continued to stand and blankly face his wife, seemingly unhappy with her answer. The former first lady caved and said, I love you most. Joe, was that. What was that it? Was that the answer you wanted? It's overwhelming, isn't it? The 46th president continued, Barely audible without a microphone. Overwhelming. Well, that's what keeps him on his toes. He's never 100% sure. I always keep him guessing. Is that not true? She said as her husband lowered his head and made the sign of a cross.
Jack Armstrong
Whoa. I read that, but I haven't seen any video. Has that come out or have they kept that hidden?
Joe Getty
I don't know. In an attempt to end the bizarre moment and wrap up the event, Goldberg encouraged the audience to purchase Jill's new book. But Biden remains standing in point, pointing his finger as the exit music played. My book, Joe Biden began before a crew member came from backstage to hand him a microphone. My book, which comes out in September, read it. Do I have to remind you this is my event. Jill asked jokingly. Oh, man. Cringy, Unplanned.
Jack Armstrong
Wait a second. That's news. So Joe's book is coming out in September. What the hell is that going to be? Oh, he's got to do a book tour. Oh, no, no, that'll be the final. I hate to say nail in the coffin because he might actually be in one.
Joe Getty
Yeah, that's a, that's not even a metaphor.
Jack Armstrong
It's just a way to secure the lid.
Joe Getty
You know, cats, to keep the coffin from, you know, opening. We've got to get into the significance of all this stuff in a. In a couple of minutes. We don't have time now, but. So good news for you, love more than any
Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
Oh no.
Jack Armstrong
I hate to have that happen.
Joe Getty
What's worse, the pain, the embarrassment, or letting down your team?
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It's a trio of bad things. We got a lot on the way. Hope you can stay here. If you missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and get Demand
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Joe Getty
You guys see this? In her new memoir, Jill Biden said that former President Biden would have beaten Trump in 2024. She's right, assuming she's talking about a soup eating competition.
Jack Armstrong
Or an Amtrak trivia contest. Those are good jokes. I like those jokes. What a ridiculous thing to say. Of course she can't say anything else. What's she gonna say? I think my husband would have lost, but it's just a ridiculous thing to say. By the way, Joe ran through so they did an event with Whoopi Goldberg. Y he he throws out at the end. How about my book coming out in September? Nobody has any idea what he was talking about. I did some research on that and he did sign a deal reportedly for $10 million for a memoir, though there's no information at all that he's been writing it or written it or that it's coming out September. So this is the only information anybody has at all about him having a book coming out.
Joe Getty
Wow. Yeah. Speaking of the ridiculous things Jill, Dr. Jill has said, the most ridiculous is probably when she said on the terrible, that laughable CBS this Morning early morning show, whatever it was, that, oh, he would have made a great president the next term. Oh yeah, he's more than capable of serving. Same senile old man who wandered up the stage. Who do you love the most? Just terrible.
Jack Armstrong
How about the notion that he's busy writing a book?
Joe Getty
Right, right. A couple of related topics here. Got a couple of notes from JT in Livermore, frequent correspondent 1 about why the book tour matters and exposing the COVID up as thoroughly as possible matters. And I'll hit you with the broad outlines of it, Jack. Then I'd like to hear your opinion. Relitigating Covid. I think matters a great deal because what was done was horrible, unconstitutional, terrible health policy, terrible social policy, terrible educational policy. Just a nightmare of incompetent and unconstitutional leadership. And there will be health emergencies and pandemics in the future. And by God, if we don't learn the lessons from that horror, well, we're doomed to repeat them. Now, JT says the book tour matters because of the depth of the COVID up and for instance, the 13 needlessly dead soldiers in the calamitous Afghan withdrawal. Biden made multiple claims that no one warned him that that might happen and no one advised him to maintain a small force of troops to protect it, blah, blah, blah. When a couple of his own generals testified under oath that, yeah, we did, we absolutely did. And you know, various other things. All the deaths caused in Ukraine, etcetera, had to do with his senility. And so, yes, yes, we should re litigate the Joe Biden was senile thing because it can be linked to those deaths. I just, I keep getting stuck on. It was self evident.
Jack Armstrong
Right, Yeah, I just. Is there any anybody who wasn't already convinced this is going to do it now?
Joe Getty
Right, right. Which brings us to the fellow who Mark Halpern was quoting, I believe.
Jack Armstrong
No, I was on his show. I saw the guy on his show. So Halpern does a show every afternoon and then he usually has different kind of regular Republican strategists, Democratic strategists, people have worked in campaigns. Right stuff, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, the Democrat that was on there the other day said, you know, I gotta tell you, and I can't explain it myself. I didn't see it. I didn't see Joe Biden's decline. I wanted so much for it to be true that Joe Biden was capable of running again. I deluded myself. He said, that's the only thing I can. The only way I can explain it in retrospect is that I just wanted an outcome to be true so much that I deluded myself. Which is a horrifying notion because how often do we all do that? In what other areas of life?
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah, we've talked about this before and it's a great topic. My concern is that those most capable of deluding themselves are the least capable of knowing that. Deluding themselves or ever figuring that out or ever admitting it. Judy, and I were leaving our community where you got a It's a long road to get out of our community and there's no passing on it. And we were behind one of those jackasses that's going really, really slowly and we made the comment to each other as we have before. The person who most needs to look in their rear view mirror right. Is the least likely to.
Jack Armstrong
I wonder though if it's possibly a strength for some people it's like goal setting. It's people that just despite what would make most of us think, oh, this will never work, I can't do this or we can't come back from this deficit or whatever it is they're so capable of the result they want, blinding them to everything else they're able to push forward and accomplish that things.
Joe Getty
Right. Maybe it works both ways. Well, you're getting onto some of the great tragedies ever written where a person's strength becomes their undoing or vice versa. Yeah, so. But the JT note that I really wanted to get to is about that person who admitted that they deluded themselves. He says it might surprise some, but it doesn't surprise me in the least. Why? Because the left has succeeded in turning a political party into a cult. Their party members are not rewarded for thinking critically or independently or even accurately. Their party members are rewarded and expected to tow the as part of their Article 5 style of blindly supporting all the disparate special interest groups that make up the Democratic Party, Unions, environmentalists, open border, one world types, transing the kids groups, men can be women groups, communists, socialists, anti white racists, anti anti male bigots, anti Semites, Islamists, Marxists, anti capitalists, anti free markets, eat the rich nutters who equate wealth with evil. When you are told to believe lies, good people on both sides and you're told to repeat lies, Russia's behind the hacking, blah blah blah. And you're told that the murder of a health care CEO is justified. Well of course your mind is going to go a little crazy. Is it any wonder that amidst all of that brainwashing a person can deceive themselves into Biden's obvious about Biden's obvious dementia. Yeah, yeah, well we've talked about that before. To the psychological phenomenon of people who view information not through a truth filter but an acceptability filter. And if saying this is acceptable to my group, I don't even ask if it's true, I just repeat it. A lot of people are like that.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I was thinking about this this morning when I Got up and every news thing I flipped to is election results. And I thought, God, this whole obsession with elections and, and the politics is just so tiring. And it didn't used to be this way. And it's our number one TV show now and everything like that. And I wonder how much that has to do with it where if, if it's not your whole life, the outcome of a. Various elections, like you think, well, life is going to be miserable now for the next four years, or great, now for the next four years because of this person. I've never looked at life that way. I don't break my life into chunks of administrations. Seems kind of weird, but seems like
Joe Getty
a lot of people did.
Jack Armstrong
If you don't do that, maybe it's easier to not be blinded because you don't. Your, your happiness is not so married to a result. Right?
Joe Getty
Yeah. Yeah. And your identity isn't married to that result either. I don't, I don't feel horrified or betrayed. My side loses. I get used to it. I,
Jack Armstrong
I would consider myself. I didn't vote, actually. I have this weird belief that if I voted, it makes it harder for me to be fair talking about stuff. Some people in the punditry world believe that and some don't. But either way, if I had voted, I would have voted for Trump three times. All three times. He could fly so far off the rails, I mean, like, and become just such a disaster. Start World War 3 or turn out to have been the biggest crook in our nation's history or whatever. And it, like, it wouldn't hurt me personally. I mean, I'm not invested like that in the whole thing. I just think, yeah, probably should have seen that coming. Doesn't seem that surprising or whatever.
Joe Getty
Seemed like the best choice at the time.
Jack Armstrong
Now we know. Yeah, exactly.
Joe Getty
My entire identity is now crushed.
Jack Armstrong
Or really hardly any of my identity. Just got to choose one or the other for a direction you want to go.
Joe Getty
All right, this is a tangent, but I like it from jt. Call me an optimist, but I can picture a future in which all public figures are asked or required to run their statements through an AI that can fact check their statements, possibly in real time. Imagine a political system in which most or all of the political lies and misstatements are caught in real time. No more Biden saying Jim Crow on steroids. No more claiming Bush stole the 2000 election. No more good people on both sides. Well, of course, it would cut both ways too, but the AI system, of course, would have to be unbiased and good luck with that.
Jack Armstrong
Ukraine hit Saint Petersburg pretty hard last night. I don't know if you saw that in the news. Right before Putin was supposed to do some sort of conference there. They don't know if those were linked or not, but.
Joe Getty
Oh, I'll bet they were.
Jack Armstrong
That war is getting more interesting to watch, no doubt.
Joe Getty
Oh, yeah, that's right. I was going to talk about this. Experts on warfare say Russia cannot win now. They cannot come close to accomplishing their goals. And it's not just a question of look at them, they're not doing very well. No, it's just structurally in terms of manpower, the equipment on both sides.
Jack Armstrong
Zero chance, man. It'd be nice.
Joe Getty
What does Putin do?
Jack Armstrong
It'd be nice if the free world thought now's our time to push them out and end this thing. But that's not what the free world's doing. Ain't hearing a word out of Europe really useless. Useless. Europe just came around this. Across this staff, right this stat. God, there were no words in that sentence that are part of the English language. Just came across this station that Russia's per capita yearly GDP is about $18,000. $18,000 per person in Russia compared to almost 100,000 in the United States. In Mississippi, it's 55,000. Russia is that poor a country. They are a third world country with a first world nuclear arsenal.
Joe Getty
Yeah, they used to say first world military, but I don't think that's true anymore.
Jack Armstrong
Probably not.
Joe Getty
We will finish incompetent.
Jack Armstrong
We'll finish strong. Next
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
And about 30 people in my backyard last night. I haven't had 30 people cumulative. I am muted. I don't know who is Hanson Mute you.
Joe Getty
There he is.
Jack Armstrong
I haven't had 30 people cumulative, at my house, on my property, spread out over a quarter of a century.
Joe Getty
At total.
Jack Armstrong
At total, yes. And that's why I'd like to keep it. But I had a boy Scout event there last night. They were doing their swimming test. All kinds of different things you had to do to get your swimming merit badge to do various things for camp this summer. And they were doing it in our pool. It was very cool. My son was very, very, very active in getting the yard ready, in the pool ready, and very proud of getting to use his house to help the scouts and stuff. It was very charming, very nice. I hid in the house mostly not talking to people because I'm a misanthrope. I got this text from a friend of mine yesterday. He said, I just left the Book of Mormon. That's the famous musical mocking the religion of Mormons. Hadn't seen it before. It was meh to me. They put an Epstein Trump joke in there and the audience fell apart with laughter like trained seals. It wasn't even a joke with the punchline. I think the line was, basically, I'm Jeffrey Epstein and I did things with Trump. And everybody laughed just because it was. They mentioned Epstein and Trump.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Still waiting for their Book of Islam musical. And I was thinking about that. We've made this remark many times before. This is not new information, but I think I really like Trey Parker. And who's the other guy? From Stone, Matt Stone and Trey Parker from South Park. I like them. I think they're clever, they're funny, and they have done some very, very brave things in their careers that you wouldn't do if all you cared about was making money. But it is pretty chicken ass to go out there and make a musical making fun of a minor religion that really has no effect on anybody's life life. Unless you're in that religion when the real religion that is like running world history in terms of difficulties you couldn't do that with or they would kill you and your family. That's a pretty chicken ass move.
Joe Getty
Okay, I don't.
Jack Armstrong
You disagree?
Joe Getty
No. Yeah, yeah. They had a funny idea, they wrote a musical, period. They didn't. You shouldn't sit around thinking about the major world religions and which one deserved a kicking and blah, blah, blah. You're thinking about it backwards. I think the fact that you couldn't conceivably do that about Islam is. That's the discussion that needs to be had.
Bare Knuckle Fighting Announcer
Man.
Jack Armstrong
I feel like if that's true what you just said, obviously, but man, if you're gonna go out and kick some religious people,
Joe Getty
wow.
Jack Armstrong
Wouldn't you rather kick somebody that's got it coming? And not all Muslims, obviously, but the crazies that are disrupting the world so much. This is a theme. Yeah, sure, yeah. Or the fact that more people haven't come in. It's so easy to sit and laugh at this tiny group of people that have no effect on anything.
Joe Getty
And because they're mostly very nice folks.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, because they're really nice people who statistically. And this is just true. I know it's true. Are more likely to have jobs and support themselves and all kinds of different things.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. Similar theme. And I, I was hoping to get to it today, maybe tomorrow. Talk about a, a case that's getting a tremendous amount of attention in the online world, but the media, the American media is very, very uncomfortable with it. So I haven't been talking about it. And that's the death of Henry Nowak in, in Great Britain, Britain, who was stabbed to death by some immigrant fellows and was allowed to bleed out. He was handcuffed. Because the cops said, no, you haven't been stabbed. Be quiet. Because the, the murderers had called the cops and said, yeah, this guy attacked us when he hadn't. And that the two tiered justice system in Britain that they have now, where they are so terrified of primarily Muslim uprisings or hostility or, or Islam being Islam manifesting what Islam wants to be in Britain and they think they can. We love you. We love you. You can do anything. We're with you. They think they can take that posture and it will solve itself when they're, they're dead wrong about it. That's a reckoning the west is going to. Well, it's having already and will continue to have. That's the, the main issue to me.
Jack Armstrong
We haven't talked that well until now about that particular case. It's all over Twitter. Elon's really big on it, so he pushes it out a lot. It's a very troubling story.
Joe Getty
Constantine Kissen, who's absolutely brilliant and even handed, has been up in arms about it. He's been pointing out that in Great Britain the leaders of the country took a knee for George Floyd and there were all sorts of speeches and this, that and the other about George Floyd in Britain, but a young Brit allowed to die in police hands through negligence and lack of caring and probably a racial slash ethnic angle that the Floyd thing didn't have. There's no evidence that there's anything racial about what happened to George Floyd, but it's all being ignored because it's inconvenient. More on that tomorrow. Oh boy.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, that is troubling. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Joe Getty
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew. Let's start with our technical director, Michelangelo Michael.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, Jack, I'm getting a little concerned about you.
Joe Getty
Many of your stories now are.
Jack Armstrong
I was arguing with my chat bot. You're doing this more and more and I just. Just relax. You can always unplug it. Well, I'm, I'm really trying to push back on the it taking over the world, but I see your point.
Joe Getty
Good luck with that.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, Jack, a final thought for us do. I thought I had a final thought but it flitted out of my head because of my senility.
Joe Getty
I will throw mine in. While you're thinking about that, my final thought is entirely self serving. We're about to chat at length with the fabulous Noah Ran Rothman about his new book about left wing violence. It will be available via podcast. Just, you know, subscribe to Armstrong and get on demand and you'll automatically get everything downloaded. Noah is absolutely brilliant. Looking forward to it.
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Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
My final thought was going to mention just California's inability to count votes in a way that everybody else, counties, states and countries around the world seem to be able to do is just a amazing. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
We will see you tomorrow. God bless America. I'm strong and get it.
Joe Getty
They're way better at words. Bad words.
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Oh my word.
Joe Getty
Words.
Bare Knuckle Fighting Announcer
Let me say. Let me say one thing.
Joe Getty
Do what you know how to do. Because when you do what you do. What the hell are you talking about?
Jack Armstrong
I was gonna put him.
Child 1
Oh, you gotta be kidding me.
Jack Armstrong
Oh man. Are you sure of that dude?
Joe Getty
Is it finally over at the end of this tranche of hearings?
Jack Armstrong
What's that word on that high note? Thank you all very much.
Joe Getty
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Child 1
Mom, can I have Lingokids. Dad. Lingokids? Please.
Parent 1
When did we become the Lingokids house?
Parent 2
No idea. Last week it was dinosaurs.
Child 1
This week it's Lingokids.
Parent 1
Why Lingokids?
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Date: June 3, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
This episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand blends humor, current events, cultural commentary, and reflections on personal freedoms. The central theme weaves from a comical exploration of state laws regulating burger doneness ("freedom of beef") to broader discussions on personal choice, artificial intelligence, political self-delusion, and Western society's handling of sensitive social topics.
“I nominated Javier Bakaria. You know Javier Bechira. Excuse me.”
— Joe Getty, impersonating Biden ([02:53])
“Burgers are way better if there’s some pink. I like a lot of pink in my burger… but you gotta mandate it that everybody has to get it well done. Which is just crazy.”
— Jack Armstrong ([05:41])
“I don’t like the term undercooked. I think that’s prejudicial. I consider it cooked properly. I consider no pink overcooked.”
— Jack Armstrong ([06:45])
“I think we should try to outlaw attempting to be human. Quit trying to be a human.”
— Jack Armstrong ([07:30])
“I thought they looked really good. I was expecting it to be ridiculous, but I thought, wow, that really looks good.”
— Jack Armstrong ([09:41])
“Good God, I’ve seen better acting in porn. Seriously, Jilly, you should have watched the beginning of Horny Housewives 2.”
— Joe Getty ([17:56])
“Of course she can’t say anything else. What’s she gonna say? I think my husband would have lost, but it’s just a ridiculous thing to say.” ([24:23])
A segment analyzes why seemingly intelligent people, including political strategists, can become blind to obvious truths when they desire a particular outcome.
“I didn’t see Joe Biden’s decline. I wanted so much for it to be true that Joe Biden was capable of running again. I deluded myself.”
— Quoting a Democratic strategist ([27:32])
Joe extends the critique to broader groupthink, noting:
“The left has succeeded in turning a political party into a cult. Their party members are not rewarded for thinking critically or independently or even accurately.” ([29:22])
The value of critical self-reflection and the dangers of tying individual identity or happiness to political outcomes are discussed at length.
“Imagine a political system in which most or all of the political lies and misstatements are caught in real time… Of course, it would cut both ways too, but the AI system, of course, would have to be unbiased and good luck with that.”
— Jack Armstrong reading listener JT ([32:58])
The hosts discuss the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, economic disparities, and conclude that, per military analysts, Russia now “cannot win.”
“Russia is that poor a country. They are a third world country with a first world nuclear arsenal.”
— Jack Armstrong ([34:12])
They lament the tepid response from Europe and speculate on Russia’s next moves.
“It is pretty chicken ass to go out there and make a musical making fun of a minor religion… when the real religion that is like running world history in terms of difficulties you couldn’t do that with or they would kill you and your family. That’s a pretty chicken ass move.”
— Jack Armstrong ([39:43])
“I think the fact that you couldn’t conceivably do that about Islam… that’s the discussion that needs to be had.” ([40:06])
“They are so terrified of primarily Muslim uprisings… and they think they can take that posture and it will solve itself when they’re dead wrong about it. That’s a reckoning the west is going to… well, it’s having already and will continue to have.”
— Joe Getty ([42:10])
“California’s inability to count votes in a way that everybody else… seems to be able to do is just amazing.” ([44:15])
| Segment | Timestamp | |---------------------------------------------|--------------| | Biden/Becerra Gaffe & California Politics | 02:46–03:38 | | Freedom of Beef (Burger Laws) | 04:25–06:33 | | Arguing with AI, Empathy vs Authenticity | 06:36–08:05 | | Hair Transplants & AI-Generated Vanity | 09:38–12:39 | | Jill Biden Denial & Biden’s Public Moments | 17:49–25:33 | | Political Delusion, Self-Reflection | 27:32–32:10 | | AI Fact-Checking in Politics | 32:58–33:36 | | Russia-Ukraine Analysis | 33:36–35:06 | | Mocking Religions & Taboos | 38:45–40:52 | | British Justice, Media Double Standards | 40:52–43:13 | | Final Thoughts & Wrap-Up | 43:19–45:21 |
The hosts maintain their trademark mixture of irreverence, sarcasm, and mock-serious insight. Banter is quick, informal, and self-effacing, with rapid topical pivots and satirical jabs at themselves, politicians, and cultural norms. They’re unafraid to lampoon groupthink on either side of the political aisle, question societal taboos, and riff on their own lives as microcosms of larger trends.
This episode of Armstrong & Getty exemplifies their ability to blend humor with sharp cultural and political analysis. Using the "freedom of beef" as a springboard, they give listeners a brisk, but thorough, journey through the absurdities of regulation, AI’s pitfalls, personal vanity, political self-deception, war, religion, and media bias. If you missed the lively repartee or any of their signature rants, this summary captures their most engaging, funny, and thought-provoking moments.