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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center,
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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Armstrong and Getty. And now here. Armstrong.
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I've already voted three times. Live from Studio C C Senor, a dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Giddy communications compounded on Tuesday voting day here where we broadcast from in Californ with the two most interesting races in the country. We are toiling under the title of
Joe Getty
the show a rare triple title Today. Jack Trump has no Batna. That's from negotiating theory. Best alternative to negotiated agreement. We will discuss. Trump is desperate for a deal with Iran. And it shows title number two, welcome to the storm before the storm. Boy, oh boy, do we have some headlines for you coming up, but those are two downers, so I went with the rare third headline. Summer's here. Enjoy a hot dog. Just kind of a mood lifter.
Jack Armstrong
You know what? I've talked about this for years. We've been on the air in California, the biggest state in the nation, home to the 2nd and 2nd, 4th and 10th biggest TV radio markets in the entire country. And how all the media coming out of New York, which is pretty much all the media, has no idea what's going on out here.
Joe Getty
Correct.
Jack Armstrong
And I'm just amazed that that's still true with the Internet existing and whatnot. It's not like you have to travel on the Pony Express to come to California to know anything about it.
Joe Getty
Right.
Jack Armstrong
It's so. It's just, it's just their focus because all the media lives in New York, they only care about New York and they fly back and forth between there and Washington D.C. i was watching some of the national coverage of this mayor race in LA that is seems to have caught the nation's attention and how bad a job they did. They have no idea what they were talking about. I was listening to MSNBC this morning and one of their old hands has been on there forever. Mike Barnacle, former Boston Globe writer, has been on Morning Joe, going way back to the Imus days, talking about.
Joe Getty
Barnacle is the perfect name for that guy too, because he clings to the media like one and will never go away.
Jack Armstrong
And as I was watching him this morning talking about, I can't understand why they'd be interested in a reality TV star. No idea that it's not the person, it's the message. It's the fact that people are fed up with zombie drug camps all over, everywhere. That's what's driving all of the politics. The governor and the mayor race in LA on a Republican having a shot. The taxes, the drug zombies, the regulations. It's not the personalities, it's those issues.
Joe Getty
And I would say in more generally, a growing awareness that the government is for itself. It does not exist to serve the people of California or the people of la, more specifically in that race. It exists to enrich itself and its cronies. And man, if you pay any attention to the budgets or the politics or the fricking bullet train or anything like that, it becomes more and more apparent. So, yeah, it's not about Spencer Pratt per se. It's about somebody willing to tell the truth finally. And then you've got the Karen Basses of the world or the Gavin's Newsome are continuing to say, hey, this is the fourth biggest economy in the world. Everyone wants to be Everything's great, everything's perfect. As people step over a dead junkie or get stabbed by a live one.
Jack Armstrong
Executive producer Mike Hanson pulling into the radio station today. We're not where the. Right on the corner. He was talking about the drug zombies. He saw a woman leaned over, just leaned over with her arms hanging. Somebody else leaning up against the wall. You see that all over the place. That's not normal. That is not a normal way to live. Not to mention everything being locked up, which we've kind of gotten used to so much that nobody even remarks on it anymore. But my son and I at the CVS last night having to press the button over and over because they're kind of busy to get some 20 year old to come over and unlock the shampoo. Shampoo. Something that has been on the shelf since its invention.
Joe Getty
I'm sorry, you said a $300 bottle
Jack Armstrong
of scotch is behind locking locked glass because you let criminals run around and just steal stuff over and over and over again. That's the issue. I remember we had in studio Dick Morris many, many years ago, he was running Bill Clinton's campaign to a certain extent, way back in the day, and
Joe Getty
he stole our shampoo.
Jack Armstrong
And he said in our studio, he said, if you have the right message, heaven and hell can't stop you.
Joe Getty
That's what drives these election.
Jack Armstrong
Everybody gets caught up in the personality in the ads, which plays a role, obviously, but the message. When Bill, when Donald Trump came down the escalator and said to America hungry to hear illegal immigration has got to stop. This is crazy. Right? Boom. He heads to the top of the polls and he never went down again. And he same thing with Spencer Pratt. The AI ads are cool and all that. It's the message that why are we living like this with drug zombies everywhere? Look at this street full of tents. Look at the fact that you can't take your kid to the park that you paid for because there's a drug zombie in there and there's needles everywhere. That's the message.
Joe Getty
Somebody needs to transcribe what you just said and sprinkle me in if you like and reprint that in the New York Times because you're so right. The media just reads the media Then repeats what the media said, and you get these ridiculous narratives that bear no relationship to reality. Yeah, well said indeed.
Jack Armstrong
Because of the way they do politics in California, there's unlikely to be results tonight, especially for the Californians. So slow counting the way they do ballots and everything like that. So don't expect any results, too.
Joe Getty
It'll take a week. You got to massage those votes, especially
Jack Armstrong
if it's really, really close.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Anywho, so Batna, best alternative to negotiated agreement. The idea is that if you're negotiating something, you have to be mentally and emotionally ready to not get a deal. What is your best alternative if there is no deal? Know it, understand it, be ready to pivot to it. Otherwise, you are the party that has to have a deal, and the other side will smell that and exploit it. Trump is giving every sign, despite his tough talk, that he's desperate for a deal with Iran. Where's the ass kicking? After all these weeks of saying, you know, we're gonna negotiate. I know you keep saying, and you're right, that, yeah, it could be closer than we know, top secret, behind the deal, behind the curtain, because the IRGC is never going to admit that, yeah, we're giving up a lot and we have to, but we're close to a deal. It's definitely possible. But now the story is Trump is beating the hell out of Bibi Netanyahu, telling him stop attacking Hezbollah because that's holding up the Iran deal. To which Bibi. I'm sure he's a smart and wily character for sure, but he ought to reply, no, no, there is no living with Hezbollah. There's no such thing as a peace deal with Hezbollah. And they're an Iranian proxy. No, we're going to kill him is what we're going to do.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, we'll talk about that later. If you haven't heard Trump yelling at Bibi Netanyahu and dropping f bombs, the outrage in that really is that that leaked. That should not have leaked. Whoever leaked that is a bad human being. As Mark Halpern pointed out last night in his new show, the last five US Presidents have lost their temper and cursed at Bibi Netanyahu. They all have it. Just. That's the situation, trying to rein him in. And Obama did and Bush did and, and, and Biden did. Everybody, everybody ends up in that situation where they're like, whoa, whoa, you're making life really hard for us right now, trying to support you. Um, I happen to agree with Netanyahu in this particular instance, but so that's unique.
Joe Getty
The. Each and every one of those guys was wrong about fundamental issues in the Middle East. The.
Jack Armstrong
The unique thing is that when Trump does something, it gets leaked to the media by somebody that wants to ruin. Ruin his life. But that is an interesting situation. Wall street editorial board out today saying, we got to go back to bond them. You got to have. You got to use your stick. That's our stick. You got to bomb the crap out of them. You got to make them submit. That's what wars are. You use violence until the other side submits. But I'm not quite sure why Trump's unwilling to do that. There's something in his character that really, really hates war, which I suppose is good to a certain extent.
Joe Getty
That might be it. Well, that's definitely part of his character. I'm not sure that's the controlling influence in this. I think part of it may be grossly overestimating the efficacy of air power and thinking it would be another quick and easy mission, and then finding himself enmeshed in something difficult to get out of and unwilling to do what it takes to get out of it. According to me in the editorial board,
Jack Armstrong
the Journal, aren't Hegseth and Rubio saying to him, look, we gotta pound them. Just pound them until they enter, until they're either gone or they give in. They. They know there's no choice.
Joe Getty
I'd be shocked if that's not the case. Yeah, I think that absolutely those two guys are saying that.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Tuesday, June 2, the year 2026, where I'm strong and getting. We approved of this program.
Joe Getty
All right, then, let's begin. Officially, according to FCC's rules and regulations, we're just sticklers. We study them every day. Here we go. At mark. For the mayoral primary election in la, Spencer Pratt's name is first on the ballot.
Jack Armstrong
All right.
Joe Getty
Which helps since most voters are in a rush because they're on fire.
Jack Armstrong
There you go.
Joe Getty
We're being stabbed by junkies.
Jack Armstrong
I'm voting in person today. I want to go through that process. Plus, in the town I live in, we got to very, very contentious measure going on where there's people on every corner yesterday with signs trying to get you to vote yes or no on a certain thing. And everybody's got yard signs and everything. It's really a really hot one. So I'm interested.
Joe Getty
Is it whether you're Marxists or Leninists in that town? Was Trotsky Right or wrong?
Jack Armstrong
That's funny. I had one more comment. We'll talk about the whole it looks like the 1776 fund, $1,776,000,000 fund that Trump was going to use however he wanted is not going to happen.
Joe Getty
Yeah, they appear to be backing down in the face of widespread Republican opposition.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, which is pretty interesting. On its own, his ability to do whatever he wants seems to be limited. We've got headlines on the way and plenty of stuff to talk about. You can join us anytime if you have an opinion or you think we're wrong about some text line 415295 KFTC Armstrong and Getty. Armstrong and Getty here for hims, there are all kinds of great weight loss approaches that fit into your world out there. They've got them at hims with a wide range of affordable GLP1 options.
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hey, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Heather Myers.
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Heather Joe Jack, good morning. Let's find out how the networks are covering the news starting with cnn. California heads to the polls in wild races for governor and L A mayor. From Fox News, from reality TV to city hall Trump backed Spencer Pratt soars in LA mayor race as Californians vote. And from calmatters California votes in most uncertain governor's primary in years.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, there's no clear front runner in either race which is pretty interesting. You know, with the Republican in the mix. More analysis on that. What it would mean what it may be already means for the whole progressive wing of the Democratic Party.
Heather Myers
ABC News this morning. Trump cursed at Netanyahu and call over Lebanon escalation sources say
Joe Getty
more on that to come as well. Stay with us.
Heather Myers
From NBC this morning, Scott pelley accuses CBS News's Barry Weiss of murdering 60 Minutes asshat.
Joe Getty
Oh, I can't wait to talk about that. That pompous jackass.
Jack Armstrong
He is the most pompous man on planet earth. SCOTT pelley yeah, we will.
Joe Getty
And he represents everything that was wrong with and killing 60 minutes. What again I say jackass.
Heather Myers
SCOTT Pelly impression. I take my glasses off and put one arm of the glasses in between my teeth.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, exactly.
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From FOX News. Californians fleeing to red states are driving up home prices and rents in their new states cities data shows.
Joe Getty
Yeah, don't California my fill in the blank.
Heather Myers
From ABC News. Mexican authorities say they found a nearly 900 tunnel in Tijuana that likely connects to a well known street in San Diego.
Jack Armstrong
Have you seen the video of this thing?
Joe Getty
Oh no.
Jack Armstrong
Wow, that's troubling that that existed still.
Joe Getty
It's how long?
Heather Myers
Heather almost 900ft.
Jack Armstrong
But it's, it's one of those that's like way bigger than it ought to be. Right. Really well lit and I mean it looks like it was a well a California construction project. It would take 20 years to make that right.
Heather Myers
Union workers. I think everybody was environmental studies.
Joe Getty
Exactly. Yeah.
Heather Myers
From the independent breakthrough melanoma vaccine would slash risk of the deadliest cancer returning
Jack Armstrong
cool and Then there's really good news on the pancreatic cancer front. We'll have to talk about both those.
Heather Myers
From NBC News, Serena Williams is returning to competitive tennis after a nearly four year absence.
Jack Armstrong
She's going to do the thing John McEnroe did in late age, be a doubles partner. And she'll probably be really good at it.
Joe Getty
Yeah, why not? She still enjoys the game. Good luck. Go get him.
Heather Myers
44 years old.
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From Fox News, the NFL's main social media accounts remained silent about Pride Month on its first day.
Joe Getty
Oh, the NFL. All right. The whole compulsory, you've got to go along with this or you're against it in some sort of bigot. I want to address that.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Coming up as well. Oh, boy.
Heather Myers
And finally this morning from the Babylon Be, Trump recognizes Pride Month by hosting soccer match on White House lawn.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I want to talk about that whole UFC fight on the, on the White House lawn and the way that's being perceived. That's a good story right there. So your other job is what, Heather?
Heather Myers
I'm also a freelance correspondent for Newsmax.
Joe Getty
Right.
Heather Myers
And I'm busy this morning.
Jack Armstrong
And what are you talking about at Newsmax today? I'm interested.
Heather Myers
This morning I'm talking about the Benadryl Challenge. Have you heard of this?
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Jack Armstrong
Is it a TikTok thing?
Heather Myers
It's a TikTok thing. It came around a couple years ago. It's making a resurgence. Five teens were rushed to San Diego Area Children's Hospital over the past week from purposely overdosing on large quantities of Benadryl because they want these hallucination effects. So we're talking all about that. And, and really, this has actually taken the lives of a couple of teens across the country from doing this.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. It just keeps getting worse and stupider. So the challenge now is take a ridiculous amount of medicine until your brain crashes. What kind of a challenge is that?
Heather Myers
That makes your heart race, your pupils dilate. It's just, I, I don't know what's worse, this or the tide pods.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I am completely confident. Well, you know what if the kids are like, under 14, they don't have any judgment whatsoever. I'd have thought, as a kid, I'd have thought, that's stupid. I'm not doing that. But, you know, if the kids are young enough, you got to excuse them. The Internet is the most dangerous street in your town, and your kid is
Jack Armstrong
loose on it starting at a pretty young age and all day, every day. Yep. It certainly is true. Well, thank you, Heather. We'll talk to you soon.
Heather Myers
All right.
Jack Armstrong
We'll catch up on a whole bunch of those stories that she just mentioned. The the A really good point has been made to to defend the UFC match on the White House lawn. If you haven't heard it, we are into Pride Month, so all that stuff is starting to come around. The NFL has stayed silent on Pride Month so far. How do you like that Jiu Jitsu.
Joe Getty
And it's quote unquote Pride Month. It's not a national holiday. Let's stop with that stuff. It's all the postmodernist neo Marxist stuff. I will Armstrong and getty
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Heather Myers
Pratt released a final plea to voters on Monday, a seven minute video blasting Bass's policies on everything from homelessness to the response to the Palisades fire. And he specifically addressed people considering voting for Nithya Rahman, essentially saying that she has no chance.
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Voting for Nithya is a wasted vote. It's me versus Karen. It's change versus more of the same. It's no longer a question about me or Nithya or Karen. Nithya has no path to Victory. Now it's me versus Karen.
Jack Armstrong
Well, the way we do it in California or in LA for the mayor is you just got to make it into the top two and then you have the real race between the top two. And he's going to make the top two, almost certainly. So it's Spencer Pratt, the Republican, kind of versus Karen Bass is sitting nut job mayor.
Joe Getty
Well, if Nithya Rahman, the Communist, were to drop out, it's conceivable Pratt could get over 50%.
Jack Armstrong
Wow, that'd be something.
Joe Getty
Hoping for that.
Jack Armstrong
Anyway, more coverage on that a little bit later. We actually have Steve Hilton, the Republican governor, who's hoping to make the top two in California. We're going to talk to him in our two. Also coming up, how to bust an AI chatbot if it's pretending to be a person. Either. You know, one of those help things, like you're on a website and they have a help for you, but it's actually AI. Are you talking to somebody on the phone and you're wondering if it's AI Got the way to bust it. I learned this yesterday.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
It's pretty. Pretty good tip.
Joe Getty
Okay, so this.
Jack Armstrong
I just came across this over the weekend and thought, yeah, that's so obvious. I wish I'd have remembered that and thought of it myself. The jokes and complaining about the fact that Donald Trump is gonna have a UFC match on the White House lawn and. And the pushback on that and how embarrassing it is for the country and how, you know, it. It's undignified for the office and all that sort of stuff. People, good job on people who are posting the videos of a year two years ago when Joe Biden had the biggest Trans Pride festival on the White House lawn that included topless women, women using my finger quotes, dancing around and drag queens and all that sort of stuff. Okay, Once you watch those videos and are reminded what they did on the White House lawn. Spare me the oh, my God, this is the White House. You can't have a UFC fighting.
Joe Getty
Not to mention mixed martial arts is the new boxing. And there have been many US Presidents who are boxing fans, so please stop with your performative outrage. But that's a great point.
Jack Armstrong
Drag queens dancing around in front of children on the White House lawn. Come on.
Joe Getty
Wow, that's so good.
Jack Armstrong
Pride Month, people quote, unquote. I actually was watching, so I wish, I wish I'd have known if they were real or not. That's one of the problems in modern media and with AI and everything like that, and actors and Chinese chat bots trying to stir up our politics or whatever. But I ended up on some posts on Twitter last night of lesbians just like regular run of the mill gay women who were like, please don't do this crazy LGBTQ plus Pride Month thing. It's embarrassing for all of us. It's making my life harder, not better, et cetera, et cetera.
Joe Getty
Thank you. You practically stole the words out of my mouth. Is my various gay friends and associates and musical partners and you know, have known through the years I absolutely nothing about against gay people. You know, whatever gay rights basic issue is out there, I'm in favor of it. I don't believe in discriminating against people. People ought to be who they are and I don't care. It's none of my business. But the what I hate about so called Pride Month is that it's becoming this obligatory show of goodness. You must express support for this notion or you're an anti gay bigot.
Jack Armstrong
And how ballsy was it to go for a month as opposed to a day?
Joe Getty
Right, right. Or a fortnight?
Jack Armstrong
An entire month.
Joe Getty
But here's the part I object to. They cleverly in the postmodernist neo Marxist left, they're trying to mobilize all of the sexual minorities to overthrow Western civilization. As part of the strategy, just every minority, racial, religious, sexual, so called gender, whatever, they're oppressing you. You have to join together with us and the Palestinians to overthrow Western civilization because it's so oppressive. Right. So they've roped in with gay people and bisexuals. There's half of me that's jealous twice the chances on Friday night anyway. Wow. But with all that they thrown in the trans and the queer, which merely means politically radicalized and the I like to have sex with cats and just whatever could conceivably be conceived, I'm supposed to express pride in that as well and endorse that. And they keep expanding what that category is. So that and trust me on this, I paid a lot of money for an education in this and I read every day so that if you come out against the 14th letter of the LGBTQ minus over the Power of Four group, you're a bigot and a hateful person. So no one can stand up against neo Marxism. That's what it's all about. They make it obligatory to endorse whatever. Because where does that list end? They will tell you.
Jack Armstrong
I like the fact that if so it's not even that if you come out against something like that. That headline that Heather had about the NFL still silent on their website about Pride Month. So the fact that they just are neutral is being attacked in some quarters as. As not on board enough. Yeah.
Joe Getty
And what's. Oh, I had something else that was so good.
Jack Armstrong
You know why that is probably why the NFL's tied in knots about it. Because it's a heavily black league, and the black community ain't quite as down with a lot of this. The stuff further down, the letter train stuff, as. As white graduate degree women are across America.
Joe Getty
Exactly. But people are still looking at the NFL like, why aren't you down with this? Because in the midst of the George Floyd madness, the fever that if you're down with one progressive cause, you must be down with all of them, was really running hot. And so you had the NFL saying, yeah, yeah, the progressives are telling us, we gotta fly the rainbow flag. We gotta do it. We gotta do it or we'll be called bigots and they'll bring us down, too. At that point in American history where everybody was so terrified of the progressive mafia, the progressive lynch mobs, that they would just do whatever they asked, which led to stuff like, you know, rainbow flags at the NFL games. Why would the NFL take any interest in that at all? It's not a major civil rights issue. Gay people have everything they want, everything they deserve. Anyway, I wanted to bring this to you because it's an illustration of what I'm talking about. It's from the New York Post. Maybe you heard about this at the violent riots at Delaney hall in New Jersey over the ice facility. One of the rioters who bit an officer and kicked him. And when I say bit, the wounds are horrible. Horrible. It looks like he was attacked by, like, a pit bull. He's bleeding, and it's just the skin is way broken. And anyway, this guy whose name is Brendan John Geier, age 26, who was arrested assaulting a federal officer, causing bodily injury, blah, blah, blah, he was previously charged with sexual abuse of children related to dissemination and possession of child pornography. And that might seem kind of weird and unrelated to you, but it reminded me of. And I can't remember if it was Andy Ngo or somebody else went through the 16 or so people who were arrested at a violent antifa assault in Portland, and they went through each of their social media profiles, and the number of them who were either transgender and that was like, half of them, at least, or furries or other, like, way out their sexual minorities was unbelievable. And you're asking yourself, all right, so what's the Nexus here. It's what I was just talking about. So the violent leftist, politically leftist rioters are the agitated whipped up sexual minorities. How do you go from I like to dress up like a fox and it makes me feel sexy to I want to smash a cop in his face because of immigration issues. It's what I'm always talking about. It's the, the Omni cause, the all minorities have to come together and overthrow western civilization. It's a perfect illustration of that. Man, this guy's one of those guys.
Jack Armstrong
If I had the time, if I wasn't busy parenting kids all the time, I would, I would like to infiltrate this stuff just to hear it. I, you know, get as close as I could go to meetings, you know, get the approval to go to the next meeting. I would like to hear when you get to the level where they actually explain to you what they're doing.
Joe Getty
You know, I don't know if the brains behind it ever do explain. And I know you've read both Marx and Lenin where they explain that. Look, the proletariat can't be. They don't get it. They're not smart enough, they're not motivated enough. We have to get them to do this. I think the leaders of it would just say no. We don't exactly explain that. We just tell them they're being oppressed and the entire world's divided into oppressed and oppressor and you got to fight the oppressors.
Jack Armstrong
But nobody raises their hand and says I'm a furry. What do I care about legal immigration detention facilities,
Joe Getty
right? You'd think they would. But the ultimate proof of what I'm saying is queers for Palestine. Pardon me?
Jack Armstrong
The fact that they show up is the. What you're saying.
Joe Getty
Well, yeah, that's true too. But queers for Palestine, it's one of the most hilariously bizarre things that have ever existed on earth. True that. So, yeah, they torture you and kill you and throw you off a building for being who you are. So anyway, that's the Omnicus.
Jack Armstrong
Are we telling people about a cogni here, Michael?
Joe Getty
I think we are.
Jack Armstrong
Love doing that. This is going to make your life better. It really, really is. And I hope you, I hope you believe this. Incogni. It's like a take on the word incognito. It's I, n C O G N I incogni. And if you're an incognito mode on your phone or your computer, whatever, you ain't actually incognito. All kinds of different Websites are still grabbing all your information and all your data and that sort of stuff, and they sell it to people and they use it themselves. And that's why you get all these spam calls, spam emails, spam texts. Oftentimes people trying to rip you off. And you want it to stop. Of course you want it to stop. And you can do that with Incogni. It's pretty awesome.
Joe Getty
Yeah, and it's amazing. Right now, criminals are buying your phone number and your family details from data brokers. Then they grab three seconds of your kid's voice off of video and clone it with AI to make the call to rip you off. Your kids saying they've been in an accident and they need money wired right now. That's what scammers are doing. Rely on Incogni. It contacts hundreds of data brokers, forces them to delete your personal info, then keeps it gone. It costs about $7 motor worth every penny. Go to incogni.comarmstrong that's incogni.com armstrong.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, as it says here. I mean, here's the commercial transitioning into the actual topic I wanted to talk about here. You can't stop them from cloning a voice, but you can make sure they never get your number in the first place. How about that? That the bad guys out there are getting some of the audio of you or your mom or your kid or whatever and can fool you in a phone call or what that mean? We are living in such a weird time for that. Anyway, I wanted to get to the how you bust an AI chatbot. And this will just take. This won't take very long because we got to get the mailbag. So anytime you go to a website now down in the corner, it says, would you like an assistant? And sometimes it says virtual assistant. Sometimes it just says assistant. And it seems pretty clear right off the bat that you're texting with a. An AI chatbot or whatever. Or worse yet, when you're on the phone, they talk kind of haltingly and weird. And you wonder, is this a human being or not? I heard this tip yesterday. Ask it a random trivia question, because AI chatbots don't know. That's weird. So if you ask a real person who was Pope in 1588, they'll say, what? But if you ask a random chatbot, they're going to say Pius ii because they don't know. That's a weird question. Isn't that funny?
Joe Getty
Wow. Yeah, that's great. That's. Do they do that consistently or. I don't know how chatbots work exactly in that context. Or would they just say I'm sorry, could you repeat that? Or did you say account number?
Jack Armstrong
But that is one of the things that chatbots don't get right? I don't know what person say what the hell?
Joe Getty
Why didn't you just ask me that?
Jack Armstrong
We're talking about insurance and no, I don't know that. How would anybody know that? Okay, we got Mailbag on the way next.
Joe Getty
Stay here.
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Parent 2
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Jack Armstrong
Two teases. One man has the 640, 000 electric Ferrari been a bust already. And two, we haven't even mentioned the attack on Ukraine overnight from Russia. Just it and still going on. Quite a few people dead and this is like a big push by Russia to get to the city center of Kyiv and a whole bunch of other cities. More on that later.
Joe Getty
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Going back to our list on optimism, Nelson Mandela from his autobiography I am fundamentally enough, whether that comes from nurture or nature, I cannot say. Part of get off my screen you pop up bastard. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested. But I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.
Jack Armstrong
You know, we should talk about this more later, this whole thing, because I've known some pretty successful pessimists. Mostly I think being an optimist is a good idea, but I've known some pretty damn successful pessimists. There are some historically and then some just poltroon optimists. So it works both ways.
Joe Getty
Yeah, that's an interesting discussion. Yeah. Mailbag. Yeah yeah, yeah. Drop us note mailbagarmstrongandgetti.com I'll read that later. Here's a nice note from David. One of the few friends I have left in the Golden State happens to be a poll worker in SoCal. Dave from South Carolina.
Jack Armstrong
You mean like a stripper or somebody working in the election? That one.
Joe Getty
The second one. This is from the horse's mouth. If they want a ballot, they get a ballot. We this is in quotes. We can't ask for an id. Everyone in California gets a sent a mail in ballot. We cannot ask if they already used it. Did they lose it? Did they not get it? We give them another if they look too young, we can't ask their age, we give them a ballot. I only do this job because it's the easiest 23 bucks an hour I ever made just handing out ballots to whoever wants one. I asked her, so how do you know they don't go to another place and vote again? She said, we don't. Okay, so with that, how can anyone in California think any political races are legit? Someone tell me I'm going to test that premise today.
Jack Armstrong
I actually thought I don't know where the because since I moved I don't know where the polling place is for where I live now. I'm just going to go to one downtown and just try to Vote there and see what happens. And I'll bet they let me.
Joe Getty
Yeah, your address. Call them a racist.
Jack Armstrong
I don't want to end up in prison trying to make a point. Would they throw you in prison but then go to another polling place and vote again? That'd be kind of fun.
Joe Getty
When they found out you're a conservative, they might throw you in prison. Ah, here's a nice note from Orion in Houston. Dear Cold Warrior and steak eating dad, your. Your thought that you and your sons might go on a stunt eating tour, right?
Jack Armstrong
Henry brought that up yesterday.
Joe Getty
Craziest and best idea anyone's ever heard. Anyway, guys. Jack, I just found out there is a traveling road show. The big Texan roadshow 72 ounce steak tour. Bringing the Amarillo 72 ounce challenge to cities all over the country. Yes, including Cal, Unicornia. Perhaps your son can chow down on a giant steak and not have to leave the Golden State.
Jack Armstrong
Love that.
Joe Getty
Let's see. Yeah. It's going to be in Santa Monarcha, Pasadena, Barstow, needles, then Flagstaff, Arizona onto Amarillo, Texas. Oak. Okay. City. Okay. Tulsa, Springfield, Illinois. Right.
Jack Armstrong
Sounds like it's a Route 66 thing. Almost certainly.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Yeah. Fantastic. Love that idea. Let's see. How about Paolo on AI. I keep hearing sky is falling pronouncements on AI. The loudest pronouncers seem to have no viable suggestions about how we respond to the falling sky. Many imply that we should simply slow or stop its progress. We the genie is out of the bottle. It's really not such a different genie than we've dealt with in the past, just a much faster one. Maybe he's right, maybe he's wrong, but he's definitely right about this part. Human knowledge and capability continue to threaten progress faster than we develop the wisdom to manage to that them. While AI's potential to do previously unimagined good, anything so powerful also has the potential to do great harm. Our challenge to make sure it serves us well. And this is the important part. There is no opting out of the challenge.
Jack Armstrong
True.
Joe Getty
And no slowing it down. Every single person and thought that I've heard expressed on the we need to regulate it. We need to be careful. We need to slow down. We need to think. What about China?
Jack Armstrong
Is always my response.
Joe Getty
What about China and North Korea and Russia or whatever. They're forging ahead as fast as they possibly can. They're. They're outside your net.
Jack Armstrong
Friend. I did hear a good suggestion for a law around AI. Maybe I'll get to that later in the show. That I think would be workable.
Joe Getty
Yeah, we're about out of time.
Jack Armstrong
Okay, we got lots of news to get to. A bunch of the stuff that we mentioned. Some of it really fun. If you don't hear it on the radio, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty
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Parent 1
with my mom and dad living in Orange county, when we bring my five and seven year old to visit, we are sometimes in for a two hour drive that could feel like 10.
Parent 2
Oh, as an avid camper, I know all about this. We'll pack up the RV and know this is either going to be the trip of a lifetime or a complete disaster.
Parent 1
Which is why we load up the iPads with Lingokids before we even pull out of the driveway.
Parent 2
It's what dreams are made of. Lingokids keeps kids engaged and quiet with over 4, 000 interactive games, songs and shows that kids simply cannot get enough of.
Parent 1
You can pack whatever you think you'll need, but Lingokids is the only entertainment you'll need for a stress free car ride.
Parent 2
Or really any ride, plane, train, hovercraft, whatever.
Parent 1
Download Lingokids for free today or unlock
Parent 2
even more amazing content with LingoKids.
Parent 1
Plus choose the yearly plan and save up to 60%. Search LingoKids in the App Store or Google.
Parent 2
Play Lingokids everything kids love.
This episode kicks off summer vibes with a dose of biting political commentary and news roundup, focusing on California's major elections, the disconnect between national media and local realities, Trump’s approach to Iran and Israel, the cultural politics of Pride Month, and practical takes on modern life (from AI chatbots to wacky TikTok challenges). The episode blends serious political analysis, dark humor, and lighthearted banter—an Armstrong & Getty signature.
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“If you have the right message, heaven and hell can’t stop you.”
— Dick Morris, via Jack Armstrong [06:47]
“As people step over a dead junkie or get stabbed by a live one.”
— Joe Getty, on ignoring California’s urban decay [04:57]
“That pompous jackass.”
— Joe Getty, on CBS’s Scott Pelley [16:58]
“I like to dress up like a fox and it makes me feel sexy, to—I want to smash a cop in his face because of immigration issues. It's…the Omni cause…”
— Joe Getty, on cultural coalition politics [31:09]
“The Internet is the most dangerous street in your town, and your kid is loose on it…”
— Jack Armstrong [20:33]
“Ask a random trivia question…a real person will say, what?”
— Jack Armstrong, on busting AI chatbots [35:06]
The episode interweaves sharp satire, news analysis, and rants both comedic and dead serious. The hosts repeatedly return to the disconnect between elite narratives and street-level reality, especially in California. There’s unapologetic skepticism of political and media orthodoxies, with asides about daily life, family, and the hazards (and absurdities) of tech and the social media age.
You’ll come out of this episode with: