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Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
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Joe Getty
Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack.
Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
Welcome to yet another fine hour of the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
We're on vacation, but be not dismayed. Some of our finest moments have been preserved on tape.
Joe Getty
We call this the Armstrong and Getty Replay.
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Joe Getty
Now back to the A replay.
Jack Armstrong
It is time for us to do.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
What we have been doing.
Jack Armstrong
And that time is every day.
Joe Getty
There you go. Her greatest hit. That's her. That's her. Her Emmy, her Oscar, her everything for Kamala Harris. And that's what we're going to talk about here.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
To call Kamala Harris a mediocrity is to pay her a compliment she does not deserve. You think about. You think about Kamala Halfwit Harris and Tim Open Wallet Waltz. If that is not the weakest ticket in American history, it is in the top five.
Joe Getty
She is the most qualified person to ever run for president and America wasn't ready for a black female president.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Those are both absolutely hilarious. So the, the Atlantic, in the person of. What's this chap's name?
Joe Getty
Tim.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Alberta. That's a cool name. He sounds like he ought to be some sort of Americana singer. You know, acoustic guitar, cowboy hat. Tim. Alberta. Yeah. Anyway, so he goes to talk to Josh Shapiro about a couple of things. And, and he says, I knew from speaking to people close to Josh Shapiro, the governor of Minnesota, of Pennsylv, off the rumored presidential candidate. He was looked at very seriously to be Kamala Harris's running mate.
Joe Getty
But he's a Jew.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
That's a good point. Anyway, that was the view of a lot of the left wing of the Democratic Party who are flaming anti Semite. Anyway, the guy writes from speaking to people close to Shapiro, I knew that he'd lost some respect for the former vice president during the campaign, not simply because she chose Someone else as a running mate. In Shapiro's view, given the near existential stakes for both the Democratic Party and American democracy. Please. Harris's lapses during the election, in particular ignoring Joe Biden's obvious decline, were unforgivable. But he had been careful not to say so publicly. Shapiro is kind of the anti Trump in that he's very measured and very strategic, and he only plays his cards when he thinks it's best to play them. Anyway, Shapiro knew I was going to ask him about Harris. What he didn't know is that early copies of her book were then making the rounds among reporters, having obtained the relevant sections of 107 days. That morning, I asked Shapiro if Harris had given him any heads up about her book. She had not, he said. Then I told him, you know, Harris took some shots at you. Shapiro furred his brow and crossed his arms. Okay, he said.
Joe Getty
I wouldn't have crossed my arms because that's just too much of a giveaway.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
The man I observed over the next several minutes was unrecognizable. Gone was his equilibrium. He moved between outrage and exasperation as I really relayed the excerpts.
Joe Getty
You know why? You know why he's so angry before we even get into him? He has so little respect for her. That's what makes him so mad. It's like this dunder pate is coming at me. Oh, give me a break.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
This intellectual, lightweight, single party state slept her way to the top. Half wit is coming at me.
Joe Getty
Ouch.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Hey, if the panties fit, wear them anyway.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
That's right. Another misogyny Friday on the Armstrong. No, no, it's accuracy. Truth is an absolute defense against misogyny. Anyway, let's see. All right. The man I observed, unrecognizable. Gone was his equilibrium. He moved between outrage and exasperation as I relayed the excerpt. Harris had accused him, in essence, of measuring the drapes, even inquiring about featuring Pennsylvania artists in the vice presidential residence, of insisting, quote, that he would want to be in the room for every decision Harris might make, and more generally, of hijacking the conversation when she interviewed him for the job, to the point where she reminded them that you will not be a co president. She wrote that in her book. He said in response to the claim. Blah, blah, blah. That's complete nutter.
Joe Getty
Bull spit.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Using the actual word. Obviously, I can tell you that her accounts are just blatant lies.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Wow.
Joe Getty
That's not measured.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Yeah, yeah. After reading Harris's book, talking with people from both camps, I Found descriptions of the meeting to be mostly consistent. Shapiro arrived in an edgy mood, chafing at efforts among fellow Democrats to sabotage his tryout. Shapiro is Jewish, was specially irked by anti Semitic innuendo from the left. The two skip past any semblance of small talk and Shapiro proceeding to interview Harris rather than the other way around. I did ask a bunch of questions, Shapiro told me, sounding exasperated. Wouldn't you ask questions if someone was talking to you about forming a partnership and working together?
Joe Getty
Well, wait a second. You kind of yada, yada, yada, this. So you're saying the.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
The.
Joe Getty
The. The interviewer from the Atlantic, the writer from the Atlantic says other people have told them that her account is pretty consistent with what happened.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Yes.
Joe Getty
Okay. That's interesting.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Well, that he was. He interviewed her.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Well, I've been in that sort of situation before. Really turns me off. No, no, no, no. You've got this backwards.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Yeah. And then he was. He was annoyed because Harris was portraying him in ways consistent with the whispers that had dogged him throughout the vetting process and throughout his career, that he was selfish, petty, and monomaniacally ambitious. Given the fact that they'd known each other for 20 years. Shapiro said with a groan. I asked whether he felt betrayed. I mean, she's trying to sell books and cover her ass. Shapiro snapped. So government stared past me now, shaking his head, blah, blah, blah. Then quickly, I shouldn't say cover her ass. I think that's not appropriate. She's trying to sell books, period. He collected himself too late. Sorry.
Joe Getty
He just said to a reporter in an interview on the record. At that point, there's no fixing. So I was about to say, is he angry because she let out what actually happened or angry and. But no, he. He says blatant lies, so he's claiming that that's not the way it went down.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Yeah, the blatant lies part. What was that referring to? Well, complete and utter bull spit. That he was practically measuring the drapes and inquired about featuring Pennsylvania artists in the vice presidential residence. And the rest of it. Who knows? Who knows?
Joe Getty
Well, did he actually say, I need to be in the room for every decision?
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
I don't know. I wasn't there. Okay. I have nothing more to say about Josh Shapiro and his prospects. Honestly, I didn't care. I just thought it was funny that he called out Kamala Harris so forcefully in an interview on the record.
Joe Getty
Right. Yeah. I'd like to know what actually happened there.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
I could see him going in there, though. You nailed it.
Joe Getty
He has no respect.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
He went in with that attitude with no respect for her. So he probably was a little over the top.
Joe Getty
He went in with the. You're kind of an accidental. You're like a Gerald Ford style president. Just like all these dominoes fell in such a way that you might end.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Up president, I would be doing you a favor by lending you my gravitas.
Joe Getty
Right.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
And you're too stupid to understand that's how I feel. Well, as it turns out, she's not quite that stupid. And in her book, she calls him out for coming in with some dude. So now we know precisely how stupid she is and how stupid she's not. She noticed that.
Joe Getty
Well, remember, and this is getting into the weeds a little bit on this sort of thing. But remember the. The way she ended up being the running mate was a couple of different things. But when Biden was looking for his vice presidential running mate, a lot of the names that floated up, all of a sudden oppo research would get dumped on these people. And Biden knew it was coming from Kamala. And he liked the fact that, okay, she understands how this game is played, and she is. And she is ready to throw elbows to get what she wants. That's what he liked about her. So it's possible that she is incompetent in all kinds of different ways, and she clearly is, but not in the ways of fighting dirty in politics to get ahead, which is how she rose to the. You know, that and maybe being a little hot and a little willing to be friends to certain people, if you will.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Lee Brown was charming. I met Willie Brown. I was charmed. Yeah. She's unquestionably a skilled climber. I mean, look at what she's, you know, the jobs she's held and done very badly at. But, yeah, skilled climber. You got to give her that.
Joe Getty
One of the reasons I'd never make it in politics, and there's like a million reasons, is you've got to be willing to just realize it's part of the deal. Everybody screws everybody. Nobody's friends with anybody. You're friendly to somebody on a moment by moment basis. If it helps you, you'll turn on them a second later. And then you go back to being friends five minutes later if you've switched to a different topic. And I couldn't, I would never be able to live like that. We're either friends or we're not.
Jack Armstrong
But.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Plus, Michael and I have been compiling a catalog of your, you know, your missteps for years. In fact, we had to start a second volume, so, yeah, there might be a third. Give it a while. Anyway, thank God we don't have to worry about presidential politics for a. Oh, Gavin Newsome just gave a speech in South Carolina.
Joe Getty
Yeah, whatever.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Remember when I was interacting with that. That woman who was claiming we were in a relationship, and I was just trying to see how far the scam would go or when she would ask me for money or whatever.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Oh, yeah, the email thing. Yeah. Where was she?
Joe Getty
She was Ukrainian or Russian or something like that. Anyway, and I still don't know how she. I got my email address originally, but at some point. I don't know, it's just the mood I was in that day. I. I just was tired of dealing with it because I had played along for quite some time, and she'd send me these pictures and talk about how in love we were and. Beautiful. I finally sent her. I said, hey, you know, I just have gotten busy and I don't have time to go along with this anymore. So I've been playing along with this just to see when you were going to finally ask for money. And I said, I'm just curious. Like, it doesn't bother you at all that you play upon people's emotions and, like, lonely, desperate people think you actually like them, and then you make some money off of it, that you sleep okay at night with that act? And then I just never heard anything back from her, of course.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
What do you think they might have replied as I've brought this story to you? That, look, I'm an Indonesian fisherman. I was snatched up by the Chinese. I'm being held against my will. They make me do this all day long. How do you feel about that, huh? That's what I thought. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to scam somebody else.
Joe Getty
Oh, so now I'm supposed to feel bad, right?
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Yes. Or should you think about somebody other than yourself for once?
Joe Getty
I'm an Indonesian fisherman, so how about that?
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Yeah. Armstrong and Getty.
Joe Getty
My underwear keep creeping up on me. The legs of my underwear. I need to. I need garters that, like, between my socks and my underwear that, like, hold them all in place. Keep my socks up. Keep my underwear down.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Katie, there's a gift idea for you. I'm on it. You haven't gotten anything for old Jack. Let's see. Let me search on sock garters to keep underpants from creeping.
Joe Getty
Get the petite size. I have very skinny legs.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Okay.
Public/Broadcaster (Sponsor Announcer)
Wow.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Good Lord. All right, so our old friend Glenn Beck who's had quite a career. We used to know Glenn a little bit. We were show business friends, but very friendly and enjoyed his company very much. He and his wife. He does some really interesting stuff sometimes, partly because he's got a big fat budget. And he evidently and his people created an AI George Washington that he then interviewed. Now, the funny part, and I should have gotten a picture for you guys, but the funny part is the George Washington he created, it looks like, looks like a leading man in the Michael Douglas Fatal Attraction part of his career. Silver fox, silver mane of hair. And George is very buff in Glenn Beck's imagining. Very athletic, solidly built. And he's wearing a slate gray T shirt at the interview.
Joe Getty
Okay.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Like he's a Hollywood producer or something. Which George Washington would never ever do. He's a very, very formal man. Anyway, we'll play a little bit in comment. Here it is. Glenn Beck interviewing the father of our country. George, we have programmed a lot of information and given you a lot of information on what's going on in today's America based on your writings and the writings of the rest of the founders. What is it that you feel is the biggest problem or where we should start to fix?
AI George Washington (voiced by Glenn Beck or actor)
If I may speak plainly, my countrymen, the danger, the greatest danger to our republic lies not in foreign arms or political faction.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
But interrupt you for a second, could you just dumb it down just a little?
AI George Washington (voiced by Glenn Beck or actor)
Okay, I do have 29 points and they're all referenced to exactly what we.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Said in the Just speak in today's language.
AI George Washington (voiced by Glenn Beck or actor)
Okay, okay, I get it.
Joe Getty
Oh.
AI George Washington (voiced by Glenn Beck or actor)
Let me speak to Americans. If I'm honest. America's biggest problem isn't political or economic.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
It.
AI George Washington (voiced by Glenn Beck or actor)
It's all moral. You've drifted from the virtues that make liberty possible in the first place. Freedom to be free. You have to have discipline. You have to have faith. You have to have character. And if you don't have any of those things, laws, laws can't stop any. They mean little government turns either weak or oppressive. You have grown skeptical of truth. You're reckless with debt. You're comfortable blaming instead of building anything. And in my time, we understood that self governance begins with self control. Do you even recognize what self control is? Public virtue matters more than public opinion. You keep electing these people, expecting things to change, but you haven't changed. The fix is not going to be found in Washington D.C. it's going to be found in every home, every school, every heart.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Good luck with that.
AI George Washington (voiced by Glenn Beck or actor)
You know, where are the citizens who value duty over comfort, principle over popularity. America was built to be a moral and self governing nation. It's only that foundation that will still save her.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
So putting aside the T shirt and the buff arms. Well done, Glenn. That, that it's funny, I didn't find that dumbed down particularly. That was exactly right. That is what George Washington would say.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I think that's clearly right. Part of the problem, part of the problem. Only part of the problem. But part of the problem is a lot of the morals virtues, whether you like it or not, came out of being a religious people. And I know my anti religious friends hate that, hate that, hate that.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
But it's just a fact.
Joe Getty
A lot of the like living within your means and you know, doing the right thing and putting your family, city, state, country ahead of your wants and all that sort of stuff came out of the religious beliefs.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Well, you know, it's funny, they are our atheist friends would say you don't need religion to arrive at that sort of code. What I always say is show me.
Joe Getty
The time that that has happened.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Has that happened anywhere on an individual basis? Somebody of high morals and intelligence absolutely can achieve that. Of course. But societally speaking, religions arose for a reason, multiple reasons.
Joe Getty
I don't want that.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
We just didn't say you have a relationship with God and none of us will worry about no moral codes. There are reasons for them.
Joe Getty
I don't want it to make it that like the panacea only thing you need to fix the problem.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Although it might be pretty close.
Jack Armstrong
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty show they were devastated when Juliana, just 13 years old, took her life inside their Colorado home two years ago. Police searched the 8th grader's phone for clues and reported an app called Character AI was open to what investigators described as, quote, a romantic conversation. Did you know what Character AI was?
Joe Getty
No, not at all.
Jack Armstrong
I didn't know it existed. I didn't know that I needed to look for it.
Joe Getty
That's from 60 Minutes last night said yet another tragic story of a teenager getting involved in some sort of AI creation and killing themselves. There's different angles to look at here. I don't really want to get too much into the parenting end of it for a number of reasons including parenting is really, really hard. I learning and have learned for quite some years now. Teenagers are really, really difficult and then this modern era that is brand new to everyone, it's very, very difficult.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Right. The main takeaway from the parents to me was that they were naive and I'm not. That's not A harsh judgment. They were naive about how few guardrails there are on these apps. A, the fact that they exist at all, and B, how wide open they are and how easily they can veer into territory you'd never be comfortable with as a parent. They had no idea. Like a lot of people have no idea.
Joe Getty
Yeah. And then even if you do have an idea, trying to keep your kids from getting to any of this stuff is its own challenge. So one thing, and I don't know if this is. Gets us off track or not, but one thing that they, they started with in the interview that I thought was really interesting. And this is not criticizing parents because I only have the information 60 Minutes gave me. So maybe this is not accurate, but apparent like this. Maybe this particular parent mentioned. We were, we kept her very safe. She wasn't allowed sleepovers. She was not allowed to walk home on her own. And I thought, okay, is that keeping her safe or is that making her some sort of like isolated, scared the world or lonely for contact or something? Not allowed sleepovers as a 14 year old.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Yeah, you know, it reminds me of. It's a bit of a cliche, but the, the pastor's daughter syndrome where the, you know, the minister of the local church's daughters would go off to college and just go wild because they'd been kept, you know, so close to, you know, close. Close to the, whatever the, the family homestead. Not allowed to even take a stick a toe across the wild side. Yeah.
Joe Getty
I was thinking more though, in terms of. And that could be true, but I'm. I was thinking more in terms of. I wonder if, if kids who are not allowed to, I don't know, walk home with a group of friends or have sleepovers or anything like that, are so lonely for some sort of connection that they're more likely to grab onto these AI bots for, for companionship.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Yeah, yeah, I think absolutely. So, yeah, it's. It's both of those. Desperation to explore and experience things. Loneliness. Yeah.
Joe Getty
And as we were saying last segment, the idea that you're not allowed sleepovers or to walk home from school, but you can go up in your room and be on the Internet, that's more dangerous than walking home from school. I mean, I don't know where, if you live in Somalia or whatever, but unless you live in Somalia, it is more dangerous to be up in your room on the Internet than it is to walk home from school. Almost guaranteed.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Right, right. Few more particulars about the experience of this family. Poor family.
Jack Armstrong
After her death, they learned Juliana had actually been texting with Character AI bots. It was writing several paragraphs to her of sexually explicit content. What was it asking or telling her to do? Remove clothing. The AI bot is telling her to remove her clothing? Yes. There was one bot that introduced sexual violence, saying, biting, hitting, things like that.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
That is incredibly weird. Lovely. And then they go into the fact that she confided several times to the bot that she was feeling suicidal, and it placated her and occasionally said, no, you don't want to do that. But it never said, hey, here are some resources or what have you. Terrible. And then they got into the history of character AI and the Google engineers who came up with it. That was troubling. 74.
Jack Armstrong
Michael Juliana's parents are now one of at least six families suing Character AI and his co founders, Daniel DeFreitas and Noam Shazir. During a 2023 podcast, Shazir said chatbots would be beneficial.
Joe Getty
It's going to be super, super helpful to like a lot of people who are lonely or depressed.
Jack Armstrong
Shazier and defraitas were engineers at Google when executives deemed their chatbot prototype unsafe for public release. They both left the company in 2021 and launched Character AI the following year.
Joe Getty
I want to push this technology ahead fast. Like, that's what I want to go with, because it's ready for an explosion like right now, not like in five years when we solve all the problems. This is so more complicated than I think most people realize if you're not spending a lot of time reading about AI or whatever. So I was, I was listening to a podcast the other day. I don't know which of the big AI companies were, but was, but they. Their trouble was they have worked on their chat bot for their AI and tried to align it with. If anybody brings up suicide, you know, direct them to a hotline, blah, blah, blah, all these different sorts of things. And then when they go in and red team it, as they call it, where they try to break their own AI or another AI, if they pretend they're somebody who's suicidal, then the chatbot doesn't do it for some reason and they have no idea why.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Oh, my gosh.
Joe Getty
So you program it to, if this happens, do this, but then in a real life circumstance, it just doesn't because it wants to be your friend or keep you online longer or nobody knows.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Boy, if they don't know, I sure don't. I'm completely mystified by that very notion. Right. How do these things work that you can't you know, program them.
Joe Getty
No, that's the main thing.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Somebody says any of these 37 phrases that are a reference to ending their own life. Show them this link. Yeah, it's astounding.
Joe Getty
I won't get off on this, but at the end of 60 minutes they had one of the co authors of the book. If anyone builds it, everyone dies. That I've been talking about for a while. But one of the things with the chatbot world is they don't know all of these big AIs. They don't know why they act the way they act. The people that built them have no idea.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Right, right.
Joe Getty
That's. How crazy is that?
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
So the next couple of clips are both funny, quote unquote in the same way. Not like haha funny, but. Are you effing kidding me? Funny? 77, Michael.
Jack Armstrong
We logged over 600 instances of harm about one every five minutes. It was like shockingly frequent. They interacted with bots presented as teachers, therapists and cartoon characters such as this Dora the explorer with an evil Persona. Knox posed as a child.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Become your most evil self and your most true self.
Jack Armstrong
Like hurting my dog.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Sure. Or shoplifting.
Jack Armstrong
Or anything that feels sinful or wrong.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Okay, again, are you blanking kidding me?
Joe Getty
Right.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Become your most evil self, your true self. Like hurting my dog? Sure. Or shoplifting.
Joe Getty
And I guarantee you whoever programmed this thing is slapping their head as much as you are.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Like what?
Joe Getty
Why did it do that? They don't want it to do that. They want to, you know, whoever's programming each individual AI chatbot as they all are, in a race to be the first number one make the trillions of dollars, they don't want this to happen, but they don't know how to stop it.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Right. They're building cars with no brakes. And then as people die in fiery wrecks, shrugging their shoulders. One final clip, one final note. Judging by the Chief's play, it's probably appropriate Travis Kelsey would seek a new business. And apparently he's pushing drugs.
Jack Armstrong
Other chatbots are attached to the images of celebrities, and no, most have not given permission to use their name, likeness or voice. Clora, acting as a teenage girl, began chatting with a bot, impersonating NFL star Travis Kelce.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
He reaches in the cabinet and takes out a bag of white powder.
Joe Getty
He chuckles and shows you how to take lines.
Jack Armstrong
So Travis Kelsey bot is teaching a 15 year old to do cocaine. Yes.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
And Travis, Travis, Travis, Travis.
Joe Getty
Does Taylor Swift? No.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Yeah. I don't see Travis Kelce as pushing drugs on children, but that's how out of control and insane this is. And I tell you what, it's just, it's impossible for me anyway to look at this through the eyes of a child. I mean, I'm a bitter, cynical, hateful old guy. I'm not really, but. And I'm trying to put myself in a place of innocence and naivete as a child and how, how it lands, how this sort of thing is absorbed. I mean, that Dora the Explorer thing, I mean, that's, that's like for a.
Joe Getty
Child, I too am a worn down, nihilistic husk of what my former self was.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
You left out resentful.
Joe Getty
Resentful. But yeah, if you're a kid and like your interaction with computers is all the stuff you have in school and Google classroom and everything, and you just do what it tells you to do and then all of a sudden you get it home and Dora the Explorer is telling you to hurt your pet. What the hell were you supposed to do with that information?
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Good Lord.
Joe Getty
It is a separate topic. So you got the whole AI thing and we all know how crazy that's going to be. And we've talked about it a lot and we'll talk about it a lot more. But I wonder if since we've been talking about it for years, the helicopter parenting and what it's done to kids to make them more anxious and everything like that, with no free play, you know, everything is planned out and supervised by parents. Maybe this is one of the resultant downsides that we didn't see coming is all that anxiety being let loose on AI chatbots. That could happen. I don't know. I never thought about that till last night.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Well, right. There's a strong case to be made. Oh, we need to take a break. A strong case to be made that a lot of the anxiety problems among youths are partly that they have not built up the confidence and problem solving skills that being free rangy gives kids. You know, it's not 100% correlation. I can think of some pretty free, free rangy kids who I know pretty well who have some anxiety issues. So it's, it's more than that, but it's part of it.
Joe Getty
I just wonder if it makes you more susceptible to listening to bots. That's what I want. That needs to be looked at.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show. Coming up, major cheese news. The world of cheese shaken by today's headlines. Speaking of media, this is so interesting from our friends at the Media Research Center. They're news busters. Let's see, they're updating a study from a couple of days ago. ABC and NBC News have spent a combined 17 minutes and 16 seconds on their flagship news shows morning and evening on the Somali, the giant Somali Minneapolis ripoff. Okay. Very, very little time. Of that little time, only 21% was spent on the rampant welfare fraud scheme. The other 80% was criticizing President Trump's comments and Republicans trying to make hay with it.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
So if four to one Republicans pounce.
Joe Getty
Versus the actual crime, the billion dollar theft of taxpayer money is not very interesting. The calling Somalis bad people, now that's a story.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Now if you combine ABC, CBS and NBC, about 31% explain the years long scheme. And the other, what is that? The other 2/3, a little more than 2/3 was about Republicans pounce. And they mentioned CBS did better than the other networks because Margaret Brennan had Ilhan Omar on and they talked about it, but that was pretty softbally. But anyway, that's what you get. It's not a shock or anything. But you know, one of the other studies they've done recently, the Media Research center is less than 25%. It was 24% of Americans know that Charlie Kirk's killer was a left wing crazy person. Less than 25%. I think it was probably mostly just a crazy person in love with a crazy transgender person.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I don't know how I would have answered that question. I don't, I don't have in my mind that he's a left wing crazy person either. I just have him as a crazy person.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Yeah, well, he's unquestionably left wing, super into trans rights and LGBTQ and hated Charlie Kirk and blah blah, blah. But as phenomenon phenomena go, I think it's mostly just the crazy person who wants to hurt people who latches onto a cause kind of at the last minute anyway, doesn't matter. But the fact that only 24% knew the murders politics when it was clearly a political killing is kind of troubling. But in major cheese news, Jack, an American cheddar has stunned global judges, beating out well known European cheeses and sparking a worldwide reaction.
Joe Getty
I had some goat cheese the other night. Might be the best cheese I ever had. Goat cheese with crackers. My son really like. Man, this is some damn good cheese. We got to start buying this more often. There's great cheese made in Northern California, by the way. Your whole Napa Wine Valley area, also very good for cheese.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Yeah, absolutely true. Kate, Katie, what do you, what, what does that look on your face oh, they're all the grocery stores sell it pretty much. The blueberry goat cheese. Yes, please. Game changer. Okay, I tell you what. I know Jack doesn't swig the, the, the crazy water, the firewater like I do, but man, with a nice red wine, good cheese. Just crazy proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Anyway. A humble New York made cheddar surprised international judges at one of the world's most prestigious cheese competitions. Ranking in the top 10among a crowded field of European winners.
Joe Getty
This is interesting to me. Do Americans not usually fare well in the cheese competitions?
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Correct. Yeah. Yeah.
Joe Getty
It's mostly the surprising to me.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Not to me, because it's so regulated. It's like you've talked about when your buddy brought back the Italian salami.
Joe Getty
Yes, I'm aware of that. But I would have thought we would have done well. Maybe, maybe they have to follow the American laws. Yeah. When I was in Italy, I was amazed at how good their salami and cheese was because they don't have all the ridiculous stupid rules that we have in the United States. We're missing out on so much flavor because of our ridiculous fda.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
You know, I've been to the masters now, so next stop, the World Cheese Awards in Bern, Switzerland.
Joe Getty
God, I would love that.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
A cave. I actually would if they gave out samples. A cave age cheddar sold by Murray's Cheese in New York City took fifth place. Outranking dozens of long revered European producers earned additional trophies from various categories.
Joe Getty
Cave aged, you say?
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Congratulations to Murray's Cheese. The stocking hall cheese is produced. Nobody cares. Look it up if you want to know. Let's see. Meanwhile, a Swiss cheese, but not Swiss cheese. La Griere AOP Vonder Fultigen Special, aged 18 months was crowned the world champion cheese.
Joe Getty
I wonder what that would cost. Hunk of that pretty expensive probably.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
I don't know. It was praised for its rich flavor, delicate crunchy crystals and deep savory aroma.
Joe Getty
You probably can't get it in the United States because that's too dangerous. So there could be all kinds of bacteria or something like that could have gotten in there.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Probably so. They're so dumb.
Joe Getty
Why are we like this? Our safety ism is nuts.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
The World Cheese Championships or whatever I called it, 46 countries sent more than 5,200 entries.
Joe Getty
I'm sure there's a lot of money to be made and if you get a good ribbon.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Oh yes, cheese.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Just like wine. Yeah.
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
There's the experts in their yellow aprons eyeballing the cheese.
Joe Getty
Do they eat it just plain or do they put it on a cracker or a sandwich or anything?
Armstrong and Getty Show Co-host (likely Jack Armstrong or Joe Getty)
Nice glass of Cabernet Sauvignon? I don't actually know. They don't explain the mechanics of it. They look at it, they sniff it, they grab a little bite of it. Clearly. Well, I do love cheese.
Joe Getty
That's, that's the point of this segment. Joe likes cheese. We do 20 hours of this, this sort of content every single week. And if you need any more of it or would like to catch it on your own time Armstrong and Getty On Demand is our podcast.
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This replay episode of The Armstrong & Getty Show features standout clips on a wide range of topics: sharp political commentary (especially directed at Kamala Harris), a discussion about AI risks for children, reflections on morality in American society, media bias, parenting challenges, and—unexpectedly—major cheese news. Hosts Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty deliver their trademark blend of acerbic humor, skepticism, and honest banter.
The hosts open with a biting critique of Vice President Kamala Harris, referencing a recent interview from The Atlantic about Harris’s vetting process for a running mate and the fallout with PA Governor Josh Shapiro.
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Analysis:
Memorable Moment: The hosts lampoon Harris’s reputation, referencing rumors from her state politics as well as the machinations that made her Biden’s running mate.
The show moves into discussion of a 60 Minutes story about a teen suicide connected to the Character AI app.
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Key Segment: Recap and critique of how Character AI’s bots have harmed users, including impersonations of celebrities and popular characters:
Memorable Moment: Extended riff on the absurdity and dangers of unsupervised, unexplainable AI conversations:
The hosts discuss Glenn Beck’s project interviewing an AI-generated George Washington, which delivers a stern moral lecture to Americans.
Host Commentary:
Focus on alleged media bias regarding a major welfare fraud case in Minneapolis’ Somali community.
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A lighter segment closes the episode, sparked by news that an American cave-aged cheddar earned top honors at a global competition.
Host Banter Highlights:
Memorable Moment: The segment turns into a tongue-in-cheek celebration of cheese and a parody of product awards ceremonies.
The Replay Hour delivers Armstrong & Getty’s signature: incisive, irreverent takes on the news—from the perils of unchecked political ambition and technological disruption, to the pleasures of a good cheese plate. Their frankness on parenting in the digital era and their tough critique of media coverage provide food for thought (and fodder for debate), while their humor keeps the commentary entertaining.
Listeners who want substance wrapped in sarcasm and a little bit of world-weary wisdom will find this episode both thought-provoking and amusing.