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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and get. And now here. Live.
Joe Getty
Live live from studio C, senor. A dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And today we are toiling under the
Jack Armstrong
title of the show, the Southern Progressive Loot center gets its comeuppance. Or if you prefer, Trump rem Which side is the enemy?
Joe Getty
Does he? I hope you're more optimistic than I am.
Jack Armstrong
I'm not very optimistic. I see Glimmers. Glimmers.
Joe Getty
I was reading the New York Post editorial board last night was basically like, come on, what are you, Jimmy Carter? That was basically their piece.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, and fair enough. Another round of fire between Iran and Israel and Hezbollah has Trump saying, israel, stop it. Good God.
Joe Getty
I'm more worried about US versus Iran and them shooting down our helicopter. And our response being, I Guess we ought to do something. We better. We kind of have to. But we're only doing it because we have to. We're not going any further than that. So, come on, what is that? What the hell is going on here?
Jack Armstrong
I have not heard a better explanation than desperate lust for the Big Deal. And if another round of fighting seems to push that off further into the future, Trump has no taste for it. I could be wrong, but again, I haven't heard a better explanation.
Joe Getty
I'll tell you, I. Joe Scarborough, who I can't stand, was on Morning Joe this morning, but he said, hey, conservatives, maggots, whatever you call yourself on the right side of things. If Joe Biden or Barack Obama reacted this way to an Apache helicopter being shot down by the Iranians, how would you respond? How. What would you be thinking about?
Jack Armstrong
That we would go berserk.
Joe Getty
Yeah, of course we would. Talk radio would be just on top of that.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Like what?
Jack Armstrong
It's a good point.
Joe Getty
I don't. I don't know. I think you're right, but I don't get how you're. You're. You so think you can get a deal. That passing pass, being passive on your way to that deal is going to work in the face of these lunatics who only understand power and need to just be pummeled into submission. Ah, it really is frustrating.
Jack Armstrong
Things would be different under President Rubio. That's all I'm saying. I'm a Marcoist.
Joe Getty
When the New York Post is, you know, calling you Jimmy Carter, that's rough.
Jack Armstrong
Oof.
Joe Getty
They also pointed out, as of last night, it might be a higher number now 37 times or it's now 38 times. 38 times Trump has said we're very close to a deal. We've almost got it, and it's starting 38 as of today.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, sorry. It's kind of ridiculous to keep up.
Joe Getty
It's kind of ridiculous and a little confusion over the fact that J.D. vance yesterday said it could be easily be a month or longer. So Trump saying two days, his vice president saying a month or longer. Trump has said we're within hours or days for. Well, he said it 38 times. And
Jack Armstrong
I don't know.
Joe Getty
I don't know where we are in this whole thing. So it's very frustrating to me.
Jack Armstrong
And back to my boy Marco. President Trump's Secretary of State unleashed one of the best, most articulate and concise descriptions of radical Islam, fundamentalist Islam and its evils. So he's not sleeping on Iran, as the kids say. Not a bit.
Joe Getty
Well, then which advisors is it? So, editorial board of the New York Post. As I mentioned, Trump's advisors are letting Tehran play him for a sucker. So I guess maybe they wrote it that headline that way to put it on his advisors as opposed to on
Jack Armstrong
him, because he's unreachable.
Joe Getty
He's the, you know, he's the ultimate decision maker.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I find it very difficult to believe. I think maybe as a maneuver, you're right. They were trying to pressure the Rubios and Hegseths and fellows like that to exert more pressure on Trump. But I can't picture Rubio being soft on it and thinking, hey, let's not, like, make him mad. Let's just hit him a little bit because they shot down our copter. No freaking way.
Joe Getty
Hegseth's not saying that, and certainly Lindsey Graham is not.
Jack Armstrong
No, bless my soul. He won his primary going away.
Joe Getty
And Iran shot all kinds of rockets and missiles at various targets, including our Navy and other military base. And we were able to shoot those down, or at least so we are told. Sometimes we find out later that, you know, we have injuries or whatever, but, God, we need to make it so clear to bad guys, you can't do that. Over the years and several presidents, I don't understand how we got to this place of if you shoot at us and we deflect it, it doesn't really count. And that just doesn't make any sense. You got to make a rule. Don't shoot at the United States. Right.
Jack Armstrong
We picture the cops. Some suspect squeezes off three shots at them. The cops say, yeah, just squeeze off three shots back at them. Okay, Just three shots. That's insane. Yeah, and it's worth mentioning because I was just reading about this, that the Patriot missiles, which run a couple of million dollars each, you know, our main missile defense tools and take years to restock. We can't just run through those like it's nothing. Well, they shot at us, but we shot them all down. Okay, we just spent $30 million. Set us back another three months or whatever it happens to be to fully restock our armaments and blah, blah, blah. That's not without cost. And you point out the human cost because sometimes they get through. I am baffled by this whole chapter and Trump's passivity. Explain. You know, we got that great note from JT and Livermore the other day comparing this situation to the one with Ukraine, where unquestionably our ally, the Western leaning Eurocentric, trying to clean up corruption, trying to get away From Russia side is the one that gets the hard arm twisting. What the hell.
Joe Getty
Yeah. And again, if Joe Biden did that, Fox and anybody on the right would be going nuts.
Jack Armstrong
Sure.
Joe Getty
You're trying to limit Israel's response, not Iran's response. Now, I did see David Ignatius of the Washington Post saying today that the stuff we did in Iran yesterday, hitting a whole bunch of different targets looks like a shaping operation, as in it could be laying the groundwork for another major strike.
Jack Armstrong
Okay, Trump did say some things, according to Trey Ginks, that hinted that. All right, I'm out of patience. Let's play some of those for you.
Joe Getty
Trump's such an interesting dude. So he says things that are completely over the top. Like we're gonna wipe the civilization off the planet of the Earth.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe Getty
And then when a helicopter gets shot down, you say, well, we, we out of self defense. You got to admit we have no choice here. We got to do something. Like, who's he worried about angering? Is he worried about the MAGA crowd that is anti war and feels like he deceived them? Is he worried about angering the Iranians? And I don't know what's going on there, but man, I want stronger talk. You do not shoot at American helicopters.
Jack Armstrong
You do that again, we're going to reduce Karg island to rubble and do
Joe Getty
it or just do it. You don't have to say, do it again. There's been enough war here. Just do it.
Jack Armstrong
Good point. I'm with the Armstrong doctrine.
Joe Getty
Anyway, we got more on that a little bit later. Hey, we're actually talking to Steve Hilton today, which is pretty cool. He, as of yesterday, officially is in the running for governor of the state of California. The top two are the ridiculous Javier Becerra, former HHS secretary who was laughed at in his own administration. Biden administration, running as Democrat, Steve Hilton running as a Republican. And we'll have Steve Hilton on a little bit later today. So that's good stuff, right?
Jack Armstrong
Also some great audio from that absolute perfect humiliation of the Southern Poverty Law center in a hearing in Congress. And we'll talk to one of the congressmen who was there.
Joe Getty
Boy, that was too late in coming.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, yeah.
Joe Getty
Everybody in, you know, the talk radio world has known that the Southern Poverty Law center has been a joke for decades and they just finally are getting their comeuppance.
Jack Armstrong
But, well, as I characterize them cleverly, if I do say so myself, the Southern progressive loot center, because that's what they've been. Please, I've got such a Great example of you've got to create a feeling of victimization to raise money. It may be the most exquisite possible example of that centered around the World cup, oddly enough. Stay tuned, Stay tuned for so much
Joe Getty
to not have such a negative tone. We should talk about what we've all learned about our Navy's drone abilities. The drone operation to rescue those two pilots from the Apache helicopter and other drone boat ship things we've got that we have learned over the last 24 hours. Really pretty spectacular. And I'm suppose we're putting that information out both for Iran and China and anybody else out there. Look at this stuff. We have pretty amazing stuff.
Jack Armstrong
And hey, also on the positive side, well, I should say this. Oh, I'll just start from the beginning. I have had a not terribly serious medical thing for 20 years and I've been to multiple doctors and they're like, I don't know, here's an antibiotic. And I finally asked Claude, I was like, oh, yeah, this is what's going on. Here's the specialist you need to see. And it's right. It's 100%.
Joe Getty
Really?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
You solved it with Claude after 20 years. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
It took me, what, 90 seconds to type it. Maybe.
Joe Getty
That's interesting.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Cool.
Jack Armstrong
It'll take your job and ruin your life and harvest your organs. But meantime, we're all very, very productive.
Joe Getty
Those first two guaranteed to be true? Pretty much.
Jack Armstrong
Well, ah, I've got a great. This is the sort of thing only the Wall Street Journal can do. They got together 16 leading economists who have been studying AI and its probable effects on the economy and said, what do you guys think about this? That and the other. And have like 10 say it'll do this, 4 say it'll do this, only to say it'll do this. So it's kind of a panel of
Joe Getty
thinkers, like that sort of thing. So let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is. How did it already get to be Wednesday, June 10, the year 2026, where Armstrong and Gideon, we approve of this program.
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All right, let's begin then. Officially, according to FCC rules and regs. Here we go at.
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Mark, I just spoke with President Trump. And following the US Strikes against Iran overnight and the Iranian missile attacks against US Forces in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan, the president tells Fox News he may keep going and that he is getting closer to the targeting of Iranian power plants and bridges. He told Fox that the Iranians are tapping the US along as it relates toward reaching a negotiated settlement to formally end this conflict.
Joe Getty
Trump of all people. Trump of all people. Dude, how do you not understand that? You look ridiculous saying at this point, I think Iran's tapping is long.
Jack Armstrong
Really?
Joe Getty
I mean, what, you're the guard of the deal? Come on.
Jack Armstrong
I think you, you mentioned it yesterday. He can't conceive of religious fanaticism or, you know, Vladimir Putin style, conquest, lust. He just doesn't get it. He thinks everybody wants to make a deal to make more money.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Anyway, we got headlines in the way
Jack Armstrong
and lots to talk about.
Joe Getty
Graham Platner squeaked out a 50 point win in Maine, so he's going to Burglar to celebrate. Oh, my God. Okay, we got all that on the way. Stay here.
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When did we become the Lingokids house?
Parent 2
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Why Lingokids?
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Joe Getty
We got game four tonight in the NBA playoffs in New York City. Trump's not going to that one, though, so that makes it a little easier for everybody. Who's going?
Jack Armstrong
I'm not going. Nor am I. Indeed. Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Heather Myers. Heather, what's happening?
Heather Myers
Oh, Jack, good morning. Let's find out how the networks are covering the news this morning, starting with the story you've been talking about. From cnn, Trump says Iran will pay the price for taking too long to negotiate. From Fox News, U.S. strikes Iran in retaliation for Apache shoot down. And from the New York Post, Trump readying new strikes on Iranian power plants and bridges, saying have to pay the price.
Joe Getty
I hope so. I hope he means it.
Heather Myers
From ABC News this morning, Bill Gates to face questions from House oversight panel regarding his relationship with Epstein.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, boy. You know, Bill Gates reminds me a lot of Tiger woods geek. Didn't get the girls as a youngster, you know, college student, whatever, became super rich and super famous and had like access to all the pleasures of the world and he just, he didn't know when to say when.
Heather Myers
If I just his poor ex wife.
Joe Getty
Yeah, no kidding.
Heather Myers
And yeah, from NBC news, more than $200 million later, Tom Steyer's second bid for elected office is done. From CBS News, Graham Platner projected to win main Democratic Senate primaries, setting up race against GOP Senator Susan Collins.
Joe Getty
We will play some of his acceptance speech from last night. It was really, really good. If you knew nothing about his background, you'd think, man, this is my guy. He's good at that, right?
Jack Armstrong
He is a skilled and charismatic speaker. Definitely.
Heather Myers
This story all over social media making major headlines this morning. This one out of News Nation. Carmelo Anthony sentenced to 35 years for Austin Metcalf murder. That's that story out of Texas.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, we haven't talked about that much, but it was, it was so open and shut but became a racial matter because that's all the defense had was to try to polarize racial people. Racially, the evidence was just overwhelming.
Joe Getty
Yeah, we'll go through that a little later.
Jack Armstrong
It seemed pretty.
Joe Getty
Yeah. A black and white to me. Well, I shouldn't say the term black and white because that's what the issue became.
Heather Myers
From NBC News, inflation jumps to 4.2%, the highest since early 2023. Yeah, that's story breaking right now. ABC News reporting that sellers are pulling their homes off the market at the fastest pace in years. From cnn Air Canada, a pilot flew passengers for years with a fake pilot's license.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. Wow, wow, wow. Is there any way you can cross check that? Maybe call the flight school? Wow.
Heather Myers
Remember that movie Catch me if you can? Leonardo DiCaprio.
Jack Armstrong
So good. Yeah.
Heather Myers
Yeah. From the LA Times, California's new Hell's Angels are teens on E bikes.
Joe Getty
Yeah, boy. My teens are some of them.
Heather Myers
My teens are begging to be some of them.
Joe Getty
It's fun. I was, I was riding it the other day. Man, I rode to the grocery store the other day. That thing is fun.
Jack Armstrong
Don't be a monster like Jack, Heather. Keep those kids off that. That's. It's a one step from there to lawlessness in prison.
Heather Myers
Jackie, popping wheelies on that thing in the middle of an intersection.
Joe Getty
No, I can't. And I don't let my kids do that either.
Heather Myers
That's good. All right. And finally this morning from the Babylon be Los Angeles officials warn it may take several weeks to tally up goals from World cup matches.
Jack Armstrong
I love that.
Joe Getty
Hey, that inflation story is not a minor story. In fact, it could be overall, politically the biggest story of the day. Even with everything going on.
Jack Armstrong
I don't want to seem like I'm beating up on Trump, but he just got a couple new tariffs going that are impossible to explain.
Joe Getty
Yeah, we'll get a little of the details on this inflation stuff and other stories coming up.
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Joe Getty
Like, you just put your hand in whatever you get.
Jack Armstrong
You take whatever you get.
Joe Getty
I kitten fish all, all time.
Jack Armstrong
Everything doesn't need a name.
Joe Getty
Kitten fishing. Exaggerating a little on a first date to be more appealing. Yeah, no kidding. Or dating, right? That's pretty good.
Jack Armstrong
Oh boy.
Joe Getty
There is a new sheriff in town in San Francisco and the proof is out today. We'll get to that in a little bit. So inflation numbers came out. Economics is not my wheelhouse, as I've said many, many times, and I don't care for it to be. It's too late in life to learn a new thing. I care about some other issues that I feel like I know a lot about. I don't know a lot about economics, but I don't understand this. Maybe somebody can explain it to me. They put out the inflation numbers. You're the Wall Street Journal, for instance. You're the freaking Wall Street Journal. You're the go to what's the economy doing in America? Or the world newspaper of record. And you do headlines, Inflation highest. It's been whatever. Then two paragraphs in, you'll say, although core inflation, which is the number economists turn to to actually know what inflation is doing. Well, then give us that. If that's what people actually use to know what inflation is doing, why do you give us the other number? It's like you're always saying about the Dow. Smart people who actually invest don't look at the Dow number, but they give us the Dow number as the headline all the time.
Jack Armstrong
Why is that, Jack, you fool, you. Not the Dow thing, the other thing. Oh, you fool, you fool. Because you're more likely to click on the inflation heated up highest level in months. It's a more compelling story. And then a couple paragraphs in, they say, but you don't need to worry about it that much because it's a momentary hike in fuel prices.
Joe Getty
Yeah, 60% of the big rise in overall inflation is gas because of the war. And you strip that out, which again, is the way economists who actually want to know what inflation is doing look at it, and they don't seem to be worried at all.
Jack Armstrong
I tell you, though, what they strip out generally is energy and food. Now, I can stay at home
Joe Getty
and
Jack Armstrong
I could sit here sweating, but if
Joe Getty
I ain't got any food, I'm gonna die.
Jack Armstrong
So how do you strip out food?
Joe Getty
I don't know.
Jack Armstrong
I realize it's volatile, so it's less a trend indicator of. Of solid trends. But meantime, core prices, which is the
Joe Getty
way economists look at it, rose 0.2%, which was cooler than the 0.4% in April, not hotter, which is the overall headline, and less than what economists had expected. So it actually was better news than what they were expecting. The headline is worse news than what we've expected. The opposite of what they say is what the real news is. So I don't know. I don't know.
Jack Armstrong
I say we return to the obsession of 2024. What's the price of eggs? Let's talk about the price of eggs every single day.
Joe Getty
Oh, that Reminds me of a comedy bit from Adam Carolla I became aware of yesterday. I have to do that later. Very, very funny. So anyway, the inflation, the overall number, I don't know. It's. It's what people feel. And I, like Joe just pointed out, I actually buy fuel and use energy, especially in the summer when it's hot. So I can't really strip those out and say, good God, it cost me $230 to fill up my truck and my electricity bill is $1,000 a month. Yes, it actually is in California to cool my house. Thousand dollars a month. It's like having another house payment, but I strip those out, so I'm not. I strip those numbers out, so I'm not really concerned about it. That doesn't make any sense.
Jack Armstrong
No, no, it does.
Joe Getty
More people. I will say this. I was thinking about this. More people in real life bring up to me how expensive stuff is than the Warren, the war, than Epstein, than the east wing being torn down. Lots of other stories that make the news. People do mention to me, good God, that's expensive.
Jack Armstrong
Or this is expensive.
Joe Getty
Or that it's expensive.
Jack Armstrong
Speaking of which, as a guy has criticized Trump already in the first 40 minutes of the show, I will say I love his idea of a celebratory arch to celebrate the nation's 250th birthday. I think it'.
Joe Getty
I don't know that. Where are they building an arch and how big?
Jack Armstrong
It's. It's in D.C. obviously. It's 250ft tall. It looks beautiful. It reminds me of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. But anyway, here's my favorite headline of the day. The fda, the food and. I'm sorry, is it the fda? The usda Department of Agriculture has an entire department for insect defense. You know, invasive insects. The damn screw worm. Oh, a dog in New Mexico was found with this screw. Screw worm Jack. So you need to be working that screw worm desk like you were the other day.
Joe Getty
Do something about your open wounds.
Jack Armstrong
Keep your orify closed. Anyway, so the usda. I'll just read you the headline. The federal government's Insect Defense Agency is infested with bed bugs. The department has had to send their entire staff home twice and is doing a lot of remote work and that sort of thing. That is such a bad look. That is hilarious. Way to go, giant government.
Joe Getty
So the new sheriff in town in San Francisco story is this. Back in the day, if you shut down a major freeway, including the Golden Gate Bridge, you didn't get penalized at all because they agreed with your protest. And Chesa Bodine, the DA was like, you go shut down these capitalist scumbags in honor of trying to stop a
Jack Armstrong
war or ice or whatever it is, anti capitalism. We'll cuff you briefly, then give you a shoulder rub and send you home with a little extra money provided by Kamala Harris.
Joe Getty
San Franciscans get fed up. They bring in a new mayor and they bring in a new DA to replace Chesa Bodine. And then this new person, Brooke Jenkins, 15 years they're going after for this latest group that shut down the Golden Gate Bridge in a protest. 15 years in prison.
Jack Armstrong
You won't get that. But you go, Brooke, I go, girl.
Joe Getty
The sound of that. I love the sound of it. And no, way too scary to shut down a bridge or a major freeway because animal rights or whatever the hell, I'm not going to go to a prison for a decade.
Jack Armstrong
Gaza is a genocide.
Joe Getty
Right? Love it.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, love it.
Joe Getty
So that's interesting. There is a limit, as we've seen in San Francisco, but they haven't reached it in Los Angeles yet because they wouldn't go for Spencer Pratt.
Jack Armstrong
Here's the Armstrong and Getty doctrine. It's going to take a while to lay out, so maybe freshen up your coffee or whatever. Enforce the law. There it is. Speaking of San Francisco. I love this.
Joe Getty
That's a good one. Or change it. Or change it. If people have decided, you know what, we don't want, want anybody to pay a price for shutting down freeways, then change the law. But if the law is going to continue to be this. Enforce the law. Right.
Jack Armstrong
So speaking of San Francisco, I referenced this earlier in the hour. This is perhaps the perfect story about how the left, and this is not trying to kick him, it's trying to understand his psychology. Because this sort of thing fascinates me. The left needs to feel afraid. It brings them together. They feel like victims, but then they commune with other people who are afraid. And they love that feeling of acceptance and community and stuff like that. But the Southern Poverty Law center made zillions of dollars through the years, and we'll be getting into this later by, you know, just jacking up people's fears of white supremacy way, way, way beyond its actual existence and labeled anybody to the right of, I don't know, Joe Manchin. A hate group and the rest of it. San Francisco Chronicle. The open hostility to gay rights in today's US Creates an anxious environment for fans traveling to attend World cup matches. Pride houses such as the one in San Francisco offer a safe haven. And as the prominent, brilliant lesbian Nellie Bowles writes, they have a safe haven. Pride House in San Francisco, California. She quotes the article. The United States is a real nightmare in terms of queer travelers and ice raids and racial profiling, says a Pride House international Canadian guy. They're right. The queer travelers I've encountered are a total nightmare. Blah, blah, blah. And Nelly says, yeah, they are a nightmare. Why are they always asking about salad substitutions for those keeping score at home? The last World cup, the one before, like LA and Seattle, was hosted by Cutter, where sex between men is literally illegal and punishable by up to seven years in jail. What did the Chronicle write at the time? They defended Qatar against critique. In fact, their opinion section ran this story. The Western media's World cup coverage has put its anti Muslim bias on full display. That's San Francisco. It's too hostile to gaze here. Be careful. Oh, my God.
Joe Getty
I saw a lady yesterday and I thought she was holding a monkey. And it turned out it was a dog.
Jack Armstrong
Monkey, dog.
Joe Getty
And I said to the woman, I said, I thought you were holding a monkey. And she looked at me like I was crazy. And both my kids said, dad, that didn't look anything like a monkey. So I don't know. Anyway, I hope she gets her dog Rough Greens so it looks less monkey like. It's a great story, though.
Jack Armstrong
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Jack Armstrong
Give it to your monkey. Who cares? It won't do it any harm. Most dog owners don't realize the live nutrients in their dog that their dog needs to thrive is probably missing from their food. Rough Greens.com use that code ARMSTRONG Rough Greens. They make any dog food better.
Joe Getty
I like talking to people because my kid. It embarrasses my kids just to no end. Oh yeah, my teenagers and they. And they often say, dad, is that. That's the most old man thing you've ever said to anyone.
Jack Armstrong
Perfect. Keep going. Well, that means you got to keep pushing the bounds, you got to keep setting records. Hey, final thought on the World Cup. This from the Washington Post. Public health officials have spent years preparing for the tournaments because you got a bunch of foreigners, right, with their foreign diseases coming to our land and then trading it amongst each other. And they say ebola and hantavirus are not what anybody's worried about. Speaking of clickbait. But they are really keeping their eyes out for measles, dengue and respiratory viruses and sexually transmitted infections that are already circulating.
Joe Getty
Well, I'm not going to get the sexually transmitted ones, but so could I
Jack Armstrong
get dangerous with that attitude? You're not. You could absolutely get dengue.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I don't know if I'm inoculated against that. I got a measles shot one 60 years ago, so I should be good. I thought.
Jack Armstrong
Isn't dengue mosquito born?
Joe Getty
Oh, good.
Jack Armstrong
No, but so tropical disease. Yes, indeed. Puerto Rico has recently experienced major dengue activity.
Joe Getty
USA plays Paraguay Friday so far in Los Angeles where the Chargers and Rams play.
Jack Armstrong
Whoop those Paraguayans. Send it back home.
Joe Getty
We're supposed to. Or much more high. It would be a crazy upset for us to lose. We've got mailbag on the way and lots of other news. Stay here.
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mom,
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can I have Lingokids? Dad? Lingokids, please.
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When did we become the Lingokids house?
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No idea. Last week it was dinosaurs.
Jack Armstrong
This weekend, Lingo kids, why Lingokids?
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Because it's the best thing ever. We can play games with astronauts, wild animals and superheroes.
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So no dinosaurs and dinosaurs.
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Joe Getty
mentioned USA taking on Paraguay Friday. It is Sofi Stadium, but for the World Cup Soccer it's not Sofi Stadium, it's Los Angeles Stadium. Oh yeah, because they didn't pay for the rights for the during this event, so it has a different name. So we'll call it Los Angeles Stadium during the World Cup.
Jack Armstrong
Fair enough. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day sent along by JT as a gift to the good people of Los Angeles. Now that the wise people of LA have chosen their two mayoral finalists, two famous quotes come to mind. First, H.L. mencken famously Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. Or the great Joseph de Maestra every nation or city gets the government it deserves. Although the, you know, 30% who are sane are like, oh my God, help us. Help us.
Joe Getty
Now you can be the 45% that are sane and still get trampled by the idiots, right?
Jack Armstrong
Indeed. Trampled by idiots. That's a bad way to go. Mailbag mailbag@armstrongandgetti.com on that topic. Good morning Joe writes Brian. You remember a few months ago when all those videos started surfacing about people registering junkies to vote? What do you think happened? All those ballots might be legal in California, but to say these are free and fair elections is total horse crap. I feel disenfranchised when Jack makes noises like he's okay with the primary election result. I cringe. Can we keep some perspective here? Stuff matters.
Joe Getty
Sorry, I just don't think it was stolen. It's just, that's the, that's, that's, that's the people getting what they want. Good and hard.
Jack Armstrong
Could be. On the other hand, and I want to get into this, nearly 1200 people registered to vote with their address being a homeless shelter on skid row that has 132 beds.
Joe Getty
Nice.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, 1200 Bowers were then delivered to that homeless shelter and they were harvested and returned. Nice process, dinks.
Joe Getty
By the way, we're talking to Steve Hilton, who is going to be running against a Democrat for governor. We'll talk to him in hour two.
Jack Armstrong
Hour two, indeed. How about this? Oh, boy, did we get a lot of email on this topic. Michael, you ready for this? Barry writes, it took me most of the day, not yet, to get that voice out of my head. You know which one? The guy, question mark, who vetted Platner. Well, at least we now have a perfect replacement for Scott Pelley. Welcome back, Michelangelo. He says, and then this. Sarah in Kentucky, please, no more of P Hustle's Eddie Non Vetter part of our thesis here.
Joe Getty
Not yet.
Jack Armstrong
Not yet. Michael. I'm sorry. I pointed at you. I was pointing at Jack. How clever is that? Eddie Non Vetter.
Joe Getty
Oh, as in vetting. Gotcha.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, yes, Vetter, who sounds like an emasculated trans parrot stuck in the eternal interrogative. It's a crime against ears and cerebral cortexes.
Caller or Guest
Part of our thesis here is that people do not want their candidates grown in vats. They want people who are real human beings and they want people who do not look and sound like the background. People who've been leading this country off a cliff for the last century. And that was Graham.
Jack Armstrong
The last century. Oh, my God, my Testosterone just dropped 35 points.
Joe Getty
By the way, that was one of the best sentences I've ever heard. What was that about the stuck in an interrogative parrot thing?
Jack Armstrong
That was really, really good. Yes, absolutely terrific. Yeah, yeah. I will read it again. Fans of the English language, I agree. Please know more of P Hustle's Eddie Non Vetter, who sounds like an emasculated trans parrot stuck in the eternal interrogative. It's a crime against ears and cerebral cortex. Really good cortices. I apologize. Sarah in Kentucky. Very clever. That's beautiful, Sarah. That's one of the finer sentences enunciated on the show in some time, including the host. God knows he may have the worst male voice I have ever heard. It is so self consciously effeminate. Vocal fry. E up talkie.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, my God.
Joe Getty
Stuck in the eternal interrogative.
Jack Armstrong
If he has cojones at all, they're like raisins.
Caller or Guest
I assume he's a unique in bats and had never done or said anything.
Joe Getty
I can only assume he's a eunuch. For some reason he had his testes removed so he could talk more like that. I saw the video yesterday. He looks like he sounds oh yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, weedy. He's never driven by a nice rare steak even. He's never been in the same zoo zip code as a as some decent protein. Wow.
Caller or Guest
Geez.
Jack Armstrong
The always dependable Sideshow Bob weighing in on a different topic. I finally figured out why these AI systems worry me. Oh. Coming up, I think next hour we'll squeeze this in 16 noted economists with their thoughts and predictions on how disruptive AI will be to the economy. Super interesting. Anyway, Sideshow Bob writes, I finally figured out why these AI systems worry me. I feel that are like the government. They start with good intentions and a specific set of tasks, but they quickly learn to grow and feed upon themselves to become more integral to everyday life until they direct virtually everything we do. Took a couple of hundred years for our government to accomplish this. I doubt it'll take nearly that long for these AI models. Until then though, I can get 700 recipes for chocolate cake. True enough, Sideshow mom. Or it diagnosed my. My medical.
Joe Getty
Oh yeah, you got to tell that story. That's really interesting.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, telling you. Amazing. Do we have 30 seconds? It wouldn't. It would take too long.
Joe Getty
So we're pretty proud to have Steve Hilton on the day after he gets named one of the top two finishers in the jungle primary of California to be governor. And we'll see where he is now that he's running in the general election against Javier Becerra. Or what did Joe Biden, his boss call him? Xavier Baccara.
Jack Armstrong
Right. And they, they laughed him out of the administration because he was so useless.
Joe Getty
Anyway, hour two is going to be great. If you don't get it, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
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When did we become the Lingokids House?
Parent 2
No idea. Last week it was dinosaurs.
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This week it's Lingokids.
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Why Lingokids?
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Because it's the best thing ever. We can play games with astronauts, wild animals and superheroes.
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This episode of Armstrong & Getty centers on escalating U.S.-Iran tensions, President Trump’s handling of recent military incidents, and a scathing critique of the Southern Poverty Law Center (dubbed here as the "Southern Progressive Loot Center"). The hosts blend sharp political commentary with signature irreverent humor while exploring the day’s biggest headlines—from foreign conflict to domestic politics, soaring inflation, AI, San Francisco’s shifting law enforcement, and more. Guest segments and listener mail further enrich the conversation.
The episode exemplifies Armstrong & Getty’s irreverent but incisive approach; they combine skepticism, exasperation, humor, and cultural commentary with unsparing dispatches from politics and daily life. Both the absurdities of media and the serious business of war, politics, and economics get their turn in the spotlight, with both hosts never shying from direct, opinionated takes but also welcoming moments of comic relief.
Summary by Podcast Summarizer, June 2026