Jack Armstrong (2:40)

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center,

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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Joe Getty (2:49)

Armstrong and Getty.

Jack Armstrong (2:50)

And now here's Armstrong and get.

Joe Getty (3:03)

Do you think, looking down the road, that the United States should consider maybe, you know, rethinking our military support for Israel? It breaks my heart because the current leadership in Israel is walking us down that path where I don't think you have a choice, but that consideration.

Jack Armstrong (3:22)

Okay. Did he say any more on that? I saw lots of people reacting to him. Gavin giving up on Israel or whatever.

Joe Getty (3:31)

Yeah, he kind of hinted that he's against it because he knows his leftist, anti Semite Marxist friends wouldn't approve. But as usual, I had not heard that clip. As the question was being asked, I thought, all right, here comes a non answer.

Jack Armstrong (3:45)

Yeah, sure enough. So where do you think he actually is if he ends up being elected president? Is he. I'm assuming he's not near as woke as he hints at because I think he's just trying to play the game.

Joe Getty (3:58)

Yeah, his wife is.

Jack Armstrong (4:01)

His wife is. That's one of the thing about the whole politics game is trying to figure out what somebody actually believes versus what they're saying.

Joe Getty (4:11)

I also think if Gavin Newsom cries himself to sleep every night thinking about the plight of Jewish people on earth, if he could get 50% plus one votes for saying we should nuke Israel tonight, he would say that.

Jack Armstrong (4:27)

Oh my God.

Joe Getty (4:28)

He is utterly unprecedented.

Jack Armstrong (4:30)

In other words, you don't hold him in high regard.

Joe Getty (4:32)

That is what I was hinting at. Yes. I'm glad you. You poked through my veil.

Jack Armstrong (4:36)

We have a bit of a breaking news thing.

Joe Getty (4:39)

Oh, I got a lot of good Gavin stuff. We'll get back to you.

Jack Armstrong (4:41)

Read the war in Iran and I don't know why they're saying this. Hold on.

Joe Getty (4:51)

It's not a war, it's a kinetic police activity.

Jack Armstrong (4:56)

The Iranian foreign minister has told NBC News that Iran is ready for a US ground invasion. And he also refuses any negotiations with the United States. And says that Iran has not asked to talk to the United States. So I don't know what's going on there between the president and this foreign minister, it would seem. Is the guy, is the guy in charge?

Joe Getty (5:23)

Because every Quote about got to be the highest ranking guy who's still intact,

Jack Armstrong (5:27)

who's still breathing, because every quote that comes out of Iran is this guy. So he must be the guy in charge. But this seems like a bit of a dumb game. Iran reportedly said they're willing to negotiate with Trump or, or, or, or where Trump said, I'm willing to negotiate with Iran at any point. Then they came out and said, we will not negotiate, negotiations are over. Then Trump came out and said, I never said I would negotiate, that is a lie, and I won't negotiate with you. And then this guy is saying, we won't negotiate with you, and we never asked to negotiate. So everybody's, I don't know what that whole thing is when I gotta believe behind the scenes there's lots of some sort of talk, some back channels, I assume.

Joe Getty (6:17)

Well, there's gotta be a great deal of WTF do we do in Iran? What do we do? Let's lob a missile at Turkey or something. I don't know. Let's hide and pray it ends soon and then kill a bunch of people in the street and go back to the good old days. I can't imagine what they're thinking and, and how do you get together to figure it out? I guess you called, hey, hey, Ali, this is a Muhammad, what do you think we ought to do next? Who's in charge?

Jack Armstrong (6:49)

So just this kind of fits in with Gavin and everything like that and just the conversation. So I don't know what like Gavin actually believes about a number of topics.

Joe Getty (7:00)

I'm not sure that he believes much.

Jack Armstrong (7:02)

And that happens a lot with presidents when they get elected. They end up doing something different than what they ran on or whatever, or what you thought they might be. And because they were kind of hinting a certain direction to make one crowd feel good. But that's not. That happens a lot. The conversation of a lot of Trump voters being disappointed with the amount of military activity we've had in foreign countries. Trump certainly tonally ran on the idea that those days are over. Iraq and Afghanistan were disasters and we're not going to do that sort of stuff. And America first and all that sort of thing. I, I feel like he can, you know, make the argument, well, they're going to get a nuclear weapon. That is America first. I buy that, actually, that letting them get the nuclear weapon would not be good for America. So it is America first. But anywho, while Trump did run on no more stupid wars and all that different sort of stuff, he has been talking about Iran being a problem for a long time. We don't have to play this whole thing necessarily, but here's Donald Trump in 1980, 46 years ago.

Donald Trump (Archive Clip) (8:08)

When you get the respect of the other countries, then the other countries tend to do a little bit as you do and you can create the right attitudes. The Iranian situation is a case in point. That they hold our hostages is just absolutely and totally ridiculous. That this country sits back and allows a country such as Iran to hold our hostages, to my way of thinking, is a horror. And I don't think they'd do it with other countries. I honestly don't think they'd do it with other countries. Obviously you're advocating that we should have gone in there with troops, et cetera,

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and brought our boys out.

Donald Trump (Archive Clip) (8:46)

I absolutely feel that, yes. I don't think there's any question and there's no question in my mind, I think right now would be an oil rich nation and I believe that we should have done it. Very disappointed that we didn't do it. And I don't think anybody would have held us in abeyance. I don't think anybody would have been angry with us. And we had every right to do it at the time. I think we've lost the opportunity.

Jack Armstrong (9:10)

So that's a pretty willing to jump into a war situation. Donald Trump in 1980.

Joe Getty (9:17)

Right, right. Yeah. I mean, we could get into the subtleties of being against nation building, but if there's a serious threat and they clearly won't cooperate, well then they got an ass whooping coming and we might have to help clean up the mess. I mean, I get why people who are maximalist in their desires, who heard Trump saying, you know, no foreign entanglements and nation building and stuff like that, they don't want any. But I would suggest that they're somewhat unwise in their views of the way geopolitics actually works and always has and always will.

Jack Armstrong (9:54)

I wish we could bring back to life many of our presidents, present them with the situation and see what they would have done. George Washington, avoid foreign entanglement. Dwight Eisenhower, avoid all these little brush fire wars around the world. We don't need to get involved in these, you know, those sorts of attitudes. Or would they have looked at this and it clear cut, they're gonna, they're still trying to get a nuke even after we blasted the hell out of them. No, we gotta, we can't put up with that.

Joe Getty (10:16)

Right. George would adjust his wagon, say, is there any chance of negotiating with these people? And, and he'd be told, oh, no, no. They're, they're like, their national slogan is Death to America. And he'd think, well, you better get them before they're, you know, before they get their muskets loaded.

Jack Armstrong (10:31)

Now, the Trump administration has said some things about how close they were to getting a nuclear weapon. That can't be true. Two weeks away from getting a nuclear weapon. I don't understand. So, and then the lefty crowd says, I don't get it. You said you obliterated their nuclear program, and now you're saying they're trying to get a nuclear weapon. Well, those things could be true. At the same time, you obliterate the program. And they still, as a relatively rich country, are working as hard they can with nuclear scientists to try to get a nuclear weapon again. And they won't stop, and we can't get them to stop.

Joe Getty (11:04)

I have in front of me a pretty technical explanation of enriching of uranium and how much they were thought to have and how quickly they could make a bomb and blah, blah, blah.

Jack Armstrong (11:15)

Well, according to Witkoff, they stated to him, we have this X number of pounds of enriched uranium, like it was a threat or something, I don't even know what.

Joe Getty (11:22)

And we can make 11 bombs currently. So how. Would you shut up? You and your, your boss, Don Trump, ought to shut up. Said the mullahs.

Jack Armstrong (11:30)

Why did they do that? Did they think we would back off and they misread Trump on that one?

Joe Getty (11:37)

Yes. Yeah, I think I, I think that's it. Although I, I tell you, I have struggled to figure out what their thinking was. Even if, if, you know, as you're looking at a situation like this, even if you think somebody was wrong or, or foolish or whatever, you can at least describe their thinking. This one's tough. We're gonna just talk big, having been completely emasculated in June and had our air defenses destroyed, but we're gonna pretend like we're still a big, strong lion and are gonna eat ya. That's our strategy.

Jack Armstrong (12:12)

Why didn't they do the same thing Iraq used to do back in the day? Iran has been doing for decades, North Korea did, until they actually got a nuclear weapon where you claim you're gonna go along with it, and then you make it really difficult on the inspectors and you drag your feet, and then there's more sanctions and then a different president comes in and they start over. Why didn't Iran do that, continue to do that?

Joe Getty (12:34)

I can't imagine. I mean, that's what they do. That's their thing. I mean, it's like, you know, going to Led Zeppelin and saying, have you thought of playing some heavy blues riffs? No, no. That's what they do. So I can't imagine it was. It's an enormous, bizarre miscalculation, honestly.

Jack Armstrong (12:52)

And then you find out the ayatollah's kid can't get an erection. That's in the news.

Joe Getty (12:56)

Allegedly. Allegedly. That's. That's the claim. Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (13:01)

You're throwing it in.

Joe Getty (13:01)

Allegedly.

Jack Armstrong (13:02)

You're afraid he's gonna sue us.

Joe Getty (13:05)

I don't like it. Turns out loose talk about other men's junk.

Jack Armstrong (13:09)

You don't just feel like there's a. Like a bond between men. You don't go around claiming the guy can't get wood in the forest if. Unless it's. You got a doctor's note or something.

Joe Getty (13:20)

Secondhand accounts at best. So, speaking of bad leadership, I've got more Gavin Newsom news and some great humor pointed in his direction coming up.

Jack Armstrong (13:31)

Humor.

Joe Getty (13:32)

Yeah. Yeah. I tell you what, let me get this out of. Out of the way. I was thinking of this while we were talking about that James Talarico wackadoodle in Texas. And this is from Nellie Bowles, who is a lesbian who writes for the Free Press. She's so smart and funny and reasonable. But she's talking about a Tweet from Heather McPherson, who is a member of Parliament in Canada. And she put this out. Many Canadians, especially members of the two SLGQIA community. All right, I'm going to stop right there. The idea that the Q's or the two S's aren't represented by the letter Q and the B's aren't satisfied, or the A's or the A pluses, whatever they are, don't feel represented by the preceding seven or eight letters is hilarious. This is an exercise in. You have to memorize that to prove what tribe you're in.

Jack Armstrong (14:38)

Oh, right. Yeah. If you don't have the latest. If you left out a letter from the latest update. Yep, that's exactly what it is. That you're not on board because it's a purity test. The constituency for those each individual letters is not enough to cause any problems.

Joe Getty (14:52)

Well, and again, that if you're too spirit, you're unsatisfied with being described as Q or AI plus or whatever. Who cares? Shut up. There's only two of you. Anyway, to. To her point, she says the tweet is many Canadians. It's about the violence in Puerto Vallarta. Many Canadians, especially members of the two SLGBT community, are in Puerto Vallarta, where violence has quickly escalated, a shelter in place, order is in effect. Stay vigilant, blah blah blah. And Nelly writes, gringos, especially members of the two SLGBTQIA community, have been trapped in a drug war and Canada's government is like, we especially see you two spirit Puerto Vallarta party boys. Stay safe, queens, because in those shorts, they're coming for you specifically. Oh, the whole thing's so ridiculous.

Jack Armstrong (15:44)

Come on, in those shorts. I saw a grown man the other day washing his car in shorts that were so short it's like it was 1980. I understand fashions change, but man, you're a grown man, you can't wear those shorts.

Joe Getty (16:03)

There's a great golf witticism about how much a putt is going to break. No, I can't, I can't. It's just too coarse.

Jack Armstrong (16:13)

Okay, maybe for the grandpa's.

Joe Getty (16:15)

Grandpa's shorts is the joke. How much is gonna break?

Jack Armstrong (16:21)

All right, maybe for the podcast, because

Joe Getty (16:23)

you got like one cup out, right? Or if it's less break than that, you might say one ball out. Or if it's a little more than that, you say two balls out. Okay, that's Grandpa's shorts.

Jack Armstrong (16:39)

Now I understand.

Joe Getty (16:42)

Sorry again. Course. And it's not the sort of humor I appreciate. If you ever happen to be playing golf with me.

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Joe Getty (16:47)

To keep that sort of thing to yourself.

Jack Armstrong (16:49)

Sure. And if somebody says that, you reprimand them right there on the green.

Joe Getty (16:52)

Yes, I do.

Jack Armstrong (16:53)

More on the way. Stay here.

Joe Getty (16:56)

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Jack Armstrong (20:03)

Okay, two quick things first, this this is kind of a comedy bit. This is Trump doing his thing with the with the headline being if you put some of Trump's speeches to the Seinfeld music, it seems like an episode of Seinfeld. This is kind of funny.

Joe Getty (20:16)

They want to Ban straws. Has anybody ever tried those paper straws? They're not working too good, right? Has anybody ever tried. Seriously, the new store? It's made out of paper, right? It disintegrates as you're drinking. If you have a nice tire like this Ty, this would have no chance. By the time you get finished, the straw is totally disintegrated. Does anybody walk around with a plastic straw? Because it's not bad. You know, you whip it out, boom, boom.

Jack Armstrong (20:45)

You never had to do that.

Joe Getty (20:46)

So they want to ban straws. I said, oh, really? What about the cart?

Jack Armstrong (20:50)

What about the plates? What about the knives and the spoons that are plastic?

Joe Getty (20:54)

Well, they're okay, but the straws we gotta ban.

Jack Armstrong (20:59)

Which is a good point. Sitting there with my plastic fork, my plastic spoon, my plastic plate, but I can't have a straw. So I just asked Joe if he saw the wrestling tweet that I retweeted yesterday that the headline said no and then watched it. The headline was, if wrestling is a. If wrestling is fake, then explain this. And apparently, it's some pro wrestler known as the pizza maker. And he spins some dough in his hands and he throws it. His opponent hits him in the face and knocks him over.

Joe Getty (21:34)

And his opponent goes down like you hit him in the head with an A.

Jack Armstrong (21:37)

If wrestling is fake, then explain this. Pizza dough.

Joe Getty (21:45)

What? How. How does that get started?

Jack Armstrong (21:49)

I don't know.

Joe Getty (21:49)

You fill out a resume with all your skills. I can whistle. I'm a trumpet player. I can juggle a little bit. Oh, and I learned how to spin pizza dough in high school. And some promoter thinks, wait a minute, there's something we can do with that.

Jack Armstrong (22:05)

Gee, I don't really have time for this. I'll have to get to it a little bit later. It was on the idea of people who, when they talk about the news, they mean Entertainment Tonight or tmz. When they say, did you see the news last night? They're talking about celebrity news, even though I've mentioned the fact that Brittany got arrested last night 20 times already on the show today. Oh, we got a little Gavin Newsom stuff coming up for you, which is worth taking a look at, because he might be the nominee and president, although I doubt it. I want to play a little of Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, who is on the stand in a different trial that might end up being part of a couple of other trials about social media addiction and that sort of thing. It's pretty interesting.

Joe Getty (22:47)

Yeah, that whole topic is about to have a really thorough hearing in a bunch of different courtrooms.

Jack Armstrong (22:52)

It needs a thorough hearing just as a conversation nationally and everything else. So stay tuned, won't you

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Jack Armstrong (25:37)

Where are you guys from?

Joe Getty (25:38)

California.

Jack Armstrong (25:39)

Oh, cool. What's it like to be from the show?

Joe Getty (25:44)

Shittiest place in America.

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70 degrees every day of the year.

Joe Getty (25:48)

Oh, you know what else is warmer?

Jack Armstrong (25:50)

My house.

Joe Getty (25:51)

When I California be saying this, you're like, yeah, there's homeless people everywhere and heroin all over the streets. Also, our city has no infrastructure whatsoever and our politicians are all completely corrupt. Everybody's depressed.

Jack Armstrong (26:05)

But guess what?

Joe Getty (26:06)

There's some. Some comedian in a New York comedy club arguing with Californians who are. I have a friend call Unicornia the crappiest place in the country is idiotic. It's absolutely.

Jack Armstrong (26:23)

Oh, yeah, that is. That is ridiculous. Slightly troubled.

Joe Getty (26:25)

Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (26:26)

But I have a friend who says, because there's a lot of downsides of living in California, for those of you who list better places, it's so expensive. Everything is more expensive. And there's traffic always everywhere you go. I don't care where you are and what time of day, two o' clock in the morning on a Tuesday and you're in a rural area, you're going to be in traffic. It's just the way it is.

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Jack Armstrong (26:47)

I have a friend who says, you know, on a nice day, this is why we pay the taxes we have to pay. And I always think, well, that might be why you put up with the taxes, but there's not like a cause and effect. We're not paying taxes to get more sunshine and less bad weather.

Joe Getty (27:03)

Right.

Jack Armstrong (27:04)

I don't quite understand that.

Joe Getty (27:07)

So we are both tantalized and horrified by the idea of Gavin Newsom running for president. Tantalized because watching him get the comeuppance he so richly deserves is just. It will make my year. On the other hand, weird twists and turns happen in politics. I mean, how Donald J. Got reelected after everything that happened involved a senile Joe Biden than a desperate Democratic Party going with the moron Kamala Harris. Now, maybe it'll end great. I certainly hope it will. But that's a hell of a couple of twists of fate. So, you know, J.D. vance has a fatal heart attack and Marco Rubio says, I don't want the job. And all of a sudden you Got President Gavin Newsom. I mean it could happen. So it's, it's terrifying in a way. Some Gavin related comedy coming up in a bit by the way, but just a handful of and these are like the last few days Gavin headlines from admittedly critical media outlets. But every single one of these stories is 100% legitimate. Newsom Pardons convicted attempted murder illegal alien to shield him from deportation. This is a guy who was part of a drive by shooting where he shot lots and lots of people in 1997. He got 14 years to life for 10 counts of premeditated attempted murder, assault with semiautomatic firearm. There's a long list of charges. An immigration judge issued a final removal order against him in 2019. But then because of the liberal pro, you know, policies in California, he's going to be turned loose. So Gavin pardoned him because then there was no pretext to deport him. So didn't just parole him or let him be on the streets or anything, said no, you're pardoned for all your crimes. What are you going to do now, ice, huh? Which is just insane. There's a Newsom appointed judge who dismissed gun charges on a known maniac. He told 29 year old Freddie Snyder to complete a gun safety course, then released him from jail around Christmas. Less than two months later he murdered an astrophysicist in a, in a robbery gone wrong. 67 year old genius he had been, he had been charged with all sorts of stuff, arrested over and over again. It's an old story. I won't bore you with any more of the details. Here's Gavin Newsom blaming Trump for soaring gas prices in California, which is truly hilarious if you understand anything about like the cap and tax, it's like cap and trade, but cap and tax program in California, the legislature is about to tighten that further, making it impossible for refineries to operate in California. And the estimates from think tanks are it's gonna cause the of gas to go up again in California. From $1.12 was one figure I saw to a dollar and a half. And the truly perverse result of all that is that California imports more gasoline in a dirtier way and exports thousands of jobs. Brilliant leadership. And then my final one, and this one bothers me personally because we've worked with a lot of A cops and B folks who are seriously to their bones, to their souls interested in preventing girls and young women, especially those who've been recently emancipated from the foster programs, foster kids programs. The percentage of those Poor little girls who've been dealt such a terrible hand in life. The percentage of them that end up turning tricks in the cities and being pimped and exploited and raped and beaten, often dying of drug overdoses. The rest of it is horrifying. These are beautiful little girls whose parents were screw ups or drug addicts or died or whatever. They're in the foster program. And the one thing the activists and the cops will tell you, and a lot of your activists, you'd think, okay, that's, that's probably a do gooder person. They're probably a left lefty person. Maybe in some ways they are. But the one thing they all agree on is when Gavin and, and, and, and Wiener, not Anthony Weiner, the Scott Wiener, they managed to get it made legal to be a street walking prostitute. Now the cops have no excuse to approach a woman and say, hey, how old are you? Why are you out here? Is there, there's some pimp who's bothering you, blah blah blah. They, they and they can't arrest them and have a real talk with him in private. They have to do it on the street where the pimp is watching. And by God, if that conversation lasts more than 30 seconds, that poor girl is going to get the S beat out of her for talking to the cops. That's the reality.

Jack Armstrong (32:04)

I remember the original reason for that. What was the reason for that?

Joe Getty (32:08)

We can't criminalize sex work. And plus the transgender community, that was it.

Jack Armstrong (32:12)

That was it.

Joe Getty (32:13)

Is disproportionately sex workers. And so this is transphobic.

Jack Armstrong (32:17)

Yeah, that's just sick.

Joe Getty (32:19)

But there's this article in the New York Post, I think, I suspect it's from their California Post bureau about the notorious stretch of South Los Angeles known as the Blade where prostitution unfolds in plain sight and vulnerable girls, including minors, are trafficked night after night. It's exploded. So roughly three to four miles around South Figueroa street, if you know the area. Bleak gauntlet of hotels, liquor stores and auto shops that morphs into one of the region's most brazen open air sex markets after dark. And one outreach worker is talking about these missing or exploited girls because so many girls who run away, they end up there and they end up being pimped. What they do all night is reach out to these girls to try to save them. They don't keep a cent. One outreach worker said. The money goes straight to the trafficker. Then they're taken back to a flop house during the day, often drugged, sometimes beaten. Beaten and sent right Back out at night to do it all over again.

Jack Armstrong (33:18)

Boy, you literally are a sex slave.

Joe Getty (33:21)

Yeah. Steve Hilton, to his credit, was looking into this and is quoted in this article. And he's made that sort of thing a centerpiece of his campaign against the Democrats. But it's sick and it's a great example of the unintended consequences of the super far left. Anything goes. You know, it's so crazy. They don't like any sort of freedom. They don't want freedom of speech because they'll call what you say hate speech. They don't want freedom of thought on campuses. They're in favor of the one sided, only one ideology thing. They don't believe in property rights. They don't believe in right to work. That one thing they're hardcore about, ironically, is sexual freedom. To the point that they'll make it impossible to save poor runaway girls, foster kids who are getting pimped and beaten on city streets in the middle of the night. It is absolutely sick. Ruin the entire country. Newsom 2028. All right, I promised you comedy. Here's comedy. You remember Gavin's utterly idiotic, inexplicable. I'm just like you. I'm stupid. I am terrible in schools. I don't know who my father is.

Jack Armstrong (34:32)

He has a learning disability. If he had laid it out better, it would have been 100%. I think you'd have compassion for the situation or it'd be impressive. But he laid it out in such a weird way. It's like, what is this angle?

Joe Getty (34:45)

But as I've said several times and will several more get used to it. He is one party, state level talented. He cannot hit major league pitching. Anyway, here's another attempt at humor at poor Gavin's expense. You know, I'm basically one of you.

Jack Armstrong (35:00)

I mean, I got a terrible credit score.

Joe Getty (35:02)

Sometimes when I go to Red Lobster, I get up and leave without paying. You hear that fire alarm beep? Me neither. I like to talk loud in movie theaters. Love me some fried chicken. You know what I'm saying, brother? I got many baby daddies. I mean baby mamas. I got many baby mamas. I just fought at a Waffle House last week, bruh. We hanging out at the barbershop every day, son. No, Cap. I keeps it real up in this biatch. That's a hike. Gavin Newsom.

Jack Armstrong (35:35)

I fought at a Waffle House last week. That's pretty fun. Speaking of politics and annoying, I've seen the word the name Kennedy way too much lately, and I don't Mean, oh, no, John Kennedy of Louisiana. I mean, the Kennedy family that dominated politics for way too long.

Joe Getty (35:56)

Ah, Camelot. Jack, those camels.

Jack Armstrong (35:58)

So there's two reasons I keep seeing Kennedy. Coming up. There's a new biopic miniseries. Something about the love affair between John Jr. Who died in the plane crash, and his wife. I don't remember her name and I don't. I'm not gonna Google it. Cause I don't care. But so some sort of love story thing that is in the news and then you've got. Actually in politics, you got a relative. JFK's grandson is running for Congress in New York.

Joe Getty (36:30)

Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (36:31)

And the headline on CNN was return to Camelot. JFK's grandson running for Congress. The whole Camelot thing being moronic from the beginning. And you know who thought it was moronic? Jfk, he hated it. But the whole Camelot thing, they're America's royalty. You're stretching that out now way beyond a half a century. We're now into three quarters of a century.

Joe Getty (36:54)

Right. You left out noted bear carcass prankster Bobby Kennedy Jr. And this kid.

Jack Armstrong (37:02)

And he might be brilliant and he might be all kinds of great. I don't know anything about him.

Joe Getty (37:06)

He's not.

Jack Armstrong (37:07)

But this information did come out that he had to release his financials. And he lives off a variety of trusts, has earned zero money on his own, at least in the last years that they can come up with anything.

Joe Getty (37:21)

Yeah, yeah. He's just a drug taking trust fund kid.

Jack Armstrong (37:26)

Well, you know that he's drug taking.

Joe Getty (37:28)

Yeah. Oh yeah. He's a party boy and ne' er do well and just well.

Jack Armstrong (37:32)

RFK Jr. Was a heroin addict for how many years? Dozen years or something like that.

Joe Getty (37:36)

All right, Right.

Jack Armstrong (37:39)

Which we all might be if we grew up that way with everything given to us and endless money to spend.

Joe Getty (37:46)

Yeah, yeah. For the record, both the bear prank and the sawing off of the whale head are points in his favor in my book. Both excellent maneuvers. I have problems with them in other ways, but

Jack Armstrong (38:01)

I'm not sure.

Joe Getty (38:02)

Can you imagine them, the people of. I assume it's Massachusetts or New York. Is it?

Jack Armstrong (38:05)

I think it's New York.

Joe Getty (38:06)

Electing a guy because his effing name

Jack Armstrong (38:08)

is Kennedy or being the slightest interested in all. Again, we're at three quarters of a century down the line almost from the namesake. So how much credit do you get for how many generations later? How many years later for having the same last name? All right, whatever. Yeah, but then cnn, a return to Camelot. Who's that for cnn? Who is that for? First of all, you got to be like 70 years old to have ever had any Camelot feelings.

Joe Getty (38:42)

Well, their viewers must just be spoon and paste into their own mouths if they're if they're going for that crap. Good Lord.

Jack Armstrong (38:52)

There's another Zuckerberg trial going on outside of the social media trial in Los Angeles and they all kind of fit together. Maybe bring you up to speed on that, among other things on the way next. Stay tuned.

Joe Getty (39:02)

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Jack Armstrong (41:51)

If we can get them to change the way they do business in this state, we can establish a blueprint for how they can make these products safer for people all across this country and around the world.

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Jack Armstrong (42:20)

Yeah, the verdict in New Mexico that they're talking about there and the verdict in Los Angeles for the social media trial with Meta and, and Google. So this particular trial is about inappropriate stuff for kids being on there and you know, coming across things that you shouldn't as a kid and need to be have better age verification and Zuckerberg saying we have that. Well It's Are you 18? Click yes if you're 18. If you're not 18, leave the platform right now. Surprise. They got me surprised that isn't working. So, and I'm not sure there's anything Meta could do. I don't know if there's any age verification thing that we can make work very well.

Joe Getty (43:01)

I don't know but

Jack Armstrong (43:04)

the fact that there are, I've heard other people say 2000 but so, so there's 1500 to 2000 different lawsuits ready to go based on the verdicts of this New Mexico case and this and the, and the kid that got addicted to social media case in Los Angeles.

Joe Getty (43:21)

As you said before we get to the Bizarro suicide case that just came out. Who is in love with his chat

Jack Armstrong (43:26)

bot that just landed 48 hours ago. So. Oh, that. That one's brand new. That's the one we talked about at length yesterday. The guy who killed himself. So as Joe said earlier this, the whole landscape of this might be changing soon.

Joe Getty (43:42)

At the same time, we gotta stay in a of the Chinese developing, you know, our systems, especially our AI systems. Turbulent waters, Jack.

Jack Armstrong (43:52)

We don't want to get so burdened with regulations.

Joe Getty (43:54)

Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (43:54)

That we can't compete on the global stage.

Joe Getty (43:57)

Final thought with Ang.

Jack Armstrong (44:00)

Yeah. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.

Joe Getty (44:03)

Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up the day. There is our technical director, Michelangelo, pressing the buttons. Michael, what is your final thoughts?

Jack Armstrong (44:10)

Sir?

Joe Getty (44:10)

Yeah, I went to Costco the other day and I got wagyu beef jerky. I've never had wagyu beef. I've always wanted it. And it's delicious.

Jack Armstrong (44:18)

Oh, yeah? Yeah. And it's various grades of it.

Joe Getty (44:21)

Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (44:21)

So like everything else, some of it's okay, some of it's stunning.

Joe Getty (44:26)

Yeah. It's expensive.

Jack Armstrong (44:27)

Oh my God.

Joe Getty (44:28)

Like organic. You can claim all sorts of stuff. Katie Greener, esteemed newswoman, has a final thought. Katie, I think I'm going to go down a pizza dough wrestling rabbit hole later today. That's so funny.

Jack Armstrong (44:40)

If wrestling is fake, explain this.

Joe Getty (44:44)

So funny. Jack, a final thought for us.

Jack Armstrong (44:47)

So I was talking about using one of the chat bots yesterday. I'm looking at buying something and, you know, trying to figure out. And the chat bot told me, life's too short to wonder what if. If, if it were me at your stage, I'd probably just do it. What does that mean when a chatbot says to you, if it were me at this stage, I'd probably go ahead and buy it. You're not a person.

Joe Getty (45:09)

You're not a biological being.

Jack Armstrong (45:11)

Your zeros and ones.

Joe Getty (45:13)

You'll live a day or 6,000 years. Nobody's sure yet. But what the hell would you know about anything?

Jack Armstrong (45:18)

I don't know. How weird is that?

Joe Getty (45:20)

My final thought to my fellow lazy people. I've been exercising more lately. Been getting out more physical. More physical activity very quickly. The more you do, the easier it gets.

Jack Armstrong (45:30)

No doubt.

Joe Getty (45:31)

Trust me. So you've been lazy. You got the little extra pounds, Your joints hurt a little bit.

Jack Armstrong (45:36)

It.

Joe Getty (45:36)

Trust me, you can do it.

Jack Armstrong (45:37)

And for those who are active, like me, I've done this before. If you stop. It's so hard to get started again.

Joe Getty (45:43)

So don't stop.

Jack Armstrong (45:44)

Once you're on a roll, don't stop. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

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So many people. Thanks a little time. Go to armstrongandgetty.com pick up some ang swag. What, you don't own a hot Dogs are dogs T shirt yet? You gotta get one.

Jack Armstrong (45:58)

See you tomorrow. God Bless America.

Joe Getty (46:02)

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Jack Armstrong (46:05)

First time I had one of those come up through the straw I thought it was gonna vomit. Honestly,

Joe Getty (46:12)

Rat had lost an eyeball in there.

Jack Armstrong (46:15)

The consistency of those things.

Joe Getty (46:16)

Yes Katie oh no, I'm with Joe.

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Joe Getty (46:20)

Really?

Jack Armstrong (46:21)

Oh they're gross.

Joe Getty (46:25)

Just so squishy. Be Armstrong and Gay. Show

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