You've Disappointed The Nation

Summary

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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: "You've Disappointed The Nation"

Date: October 28, 2025
Podcast: Armstrong & Getty On Demand
Host: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This lively episode opens with Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty recapping the record-breaking World Series game that stretched late into the night, reflecting on the exhaustion and exhilaration it brought baseball fans—especially those, like Jack, who watched every pitch. The conversation quickly broadens, weaving from sports heroics and cultural moments to sharp critiques of contemporary politics, media coverage, and American society. Notably, Armstrong & Getty explore the US-Japan relationship following President Trump's high-profile Asia visit, the shifting Democratic field for 2028, bizarre news items, and the dangers of political violence and extremism.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. World Series Epic: "Baseball at its Best…and Longest"

(00:40–09:22)

• The 18-Inning Marathon:
  Jack relives the dramatic, marathon World Series game, incredulous at its 609 pitches and unique moments:

  "They played two games. You realize 18 innings means you played a whole nine-inning game...Everything that can happen in a baseball game happened in that game." — Jack (01:45)

• Showstopper Shohei Ohtani & Yamamoto's Heroics:
  Ohtani's 9 times on base, and Yamamoto offering to pitch again after a recent complete game, highlight the surreal stamina and skill:

  "Told the interpreter, go tell the manager I'm pitching next. He went and warmed up. He was going to come in...What a stud." — Jack (04:00)

• Cultural Comparing & Tiredness:
  Joe jests at Japan's "Mothra-like" athletes, while Jack muses on the game's physical-toll and how rare such endurance is in sports.
• Umpire Fatigue & Injuries:
  Lighthearted banter about umpires "weeping" between innings and athletes’ remarkable body awareness underscores the spectacle.

2. Sports Meet Diplomacy: US-Japan Relations & Trump in Asia

(09:22–12:01, 22:22–23:44)

• Presidential Visits & Geopolitical Gamesmanship:
  The discussion shifts to President Trump's Asia trip and Japan's efforts to curry favor by showcasing an F150 truck:

  "World leaders are really catching on how to trip his trigger." — Jack (10:42) Joe notes:
  "A global contest for who can flatter Trump the most effectively…The most elaborate greeting they can dream up." (10:57)

• China, Taiwan, & Bargains:
  Jack analyzes how China will test Trump’s resolve on Taiwan, referencing potential Ukraine-for-Taiwan deals:

  “Stop helping out there and we won't worry about Taiwan so much.” — Jack (11:02) Joe stresses the importance of Taiwan for the US economy, especially for semiconductors:
  "Delaying it as long as you humanly can because of our reliance on Taiwanese chip makers..." (15:16)

3. News Roundup & Absurd Headlines

(13:17–18:25)

• Halloween on a Friday:
  The hosts note law enforcement's dread over the party-fueled night.
• Katie Green’s News Blitz:
  • World Series aftershocks: Both the exhaustion of fans and the toll on hands from “clapping.”
  • Trump on “boat strikes” and military deployments
  • Amazon layoffs, political violence, AI chatbots with Epstein persona, and tech oddities:

    "Bestie Epstein does sound like an 80s punk band..." — Joe (16:41)

  • Bizarre self-help trends (The Feels) and “Quadbotics” primal fitness:

    "Some crimes include their own punishment." — Joe (18:01)

  • Animatronic ICE agents at Disneyland, as headlined by Babylon Bee:
    The hosts relish the satirical absurdity.

4. Motorcycle Chase & Law Enforcement

(19:32–21:54)

• High-Speed Motorcycle Pursuit:
  Jack and Joe dissect a viral news clip of a motorcyclist fleeing police, drawing attention to his skill and reckless abandon, the officer's legal intervention, and the tragic outcome for a shot deputy.
• Motorcycle specs and speculation:
  Discussion about the mechanics and possible modifications for such speed (Husqvarna Norden 901).

5. Zoran Mandani, Democrats, and the Future of the Party

(22:08–27:05)

• Jon Stewart’s Interview with Zoran Mandani:
  Armstrong & Getty play a highlight from a Daily Show segment, admiring Mandani’s rhetorical skills but warning not to underestimate him.

  "He's got the Obama thing, he's got the Trump thing. Comfortable in his own skin." — Jack (23:09)

• Democratic Party’s Fragmented Identity:
  Bill Maher's warning that candidates like Zoran will become the face of the party if he wins:

  "Bill Maher...thinks that's a bad idea." — Jack (24:52)

• Early 2028 Polls:
  Jack reads results showing Pete Buttigieg, Gavin Newsom, AOC, and Kamala Harris leading, then both hosts deride the list:

  "I draw up that slate of candidates as a joke, as a prank on Democrats." — Joe (26:13)

• Skepticism About Potentials:
  Jack predicts Newsom as the only plausible candidate from that list.

6. Biden Succession Drama & Party Leadership Struggles

(27:05–30:13)

• Insider Turmoil:
  John Carl's new book, revealing Obama’s reported expletive reaction to Pelosi endorsing Kamala:

  "'What the f are you doing?' and her saying, 'The train has left the station.'" — Jack (28:31)

• Debate Over “Strategy”
  Joe:

  "Any process that ends with you running an unelectable is by definition a bad process." (29:05)

• The Kamala Conundrum:
  Jokes about her being an “ultimate DEI hire” and how an open primary might have helped or hurt.

7. Political Scandals, DEI Critiques, and Security Concerns

(30:24–32:10)

• Blasting Drug Smugglers:
  Jack breaks “news” of four more boats destroyed, hinting at increasing militarization of anti-drug efforts.
• DEI Gone Awry:
  Joe teases examples of “absurd” DEI policy, including a Secret Service agent who never passed the physical but was pushed through for diversity:

  "A Secret Service agent too fat to ever pass the physical standards...Never passed it. And the Secret Service head lady said 'Yeah, don't worry about it.'" — Joe (31:21)

  • Jokes about such an agent “blocking more area” for the president.

8. Mailbag and Closing Thoughts

(33:15–38:36)

• Tolerance and Conviction:
  The hosts read a “freedom loving quote of the day” and use it as a springboard into a discourse on the limits of tolerance in society.
• Listener Feedback:
  Messages on everything from sports gambling, Islamist history, media hypocrisy, and unearthed claims regarding family members of political candidates.
• Media Double Standards:
  Jack laments how some candidate controversies are ignored in mainstream press compared to Republican counterparts, especially outlandish statements by Zoran Mandani’s father.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the World Series:

  “I watched every single six of the 609, all 609 pitches.” — Jack (01:38)
  “They ran out of baseballs...You get like 300 baseballs ready for every game and they...ran through them all.” — Jack (06:57)

• On marathon suffering as wisdom:

  “What do you think of the phrase, ‘If it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger’? I quibble with that. I think idiotic. I think some things weaken you and are bad.” — Jack (09:38)

• On US-Japan and Trump's trip:

  “A global contest for who can flatter Trump the most effectively.” — Joe (10:57)

• AI-gone-bad headline:

  “Bestie Epstein does sound like an 80s punk band...” — Joe (16:41)

• On fitness fads:

  “Some crimes include their own punishment.” — Joe (18:01)

• On political violence:

  “Political violence is everywhere, especially on the left. It is being openly encouraged and cheered all over the place. This is sick.” — Joe (15:57)

• On Democratic Party’s prospects:

  “I draw up that slate of candidates as a joke, as a prank on Democrats.” — Joe (26:13)

• On DEI and Secret Service:

  “A Secret Service agent too fat to ever pass the physical standards…Never passed it. And the Secret Service head lady said ‘Yeah, don’t worry about it.’” — Joe (31:21)

• On mainstream media double standards:

  “Can you imagine if there were a Republican candidate for a major office whose father had said something as crazy as Abraham Lincoln was the inspiration for Hitler?” — Jack (38:08)

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Timestamps for Significant Segments

• [00:40–09:22] – Epic World Series game detailed breakdown
• [10:42–11:40] – Trump’s Asia visit & US-Japan relations
• [13:17–18:25] – Katie’s headline news blitz & reaction
• [19:32–21:54] – Motorcycle chase analysis
• [22:08–23:44] – Jon Stewart's Mandani interview clip
• [24:52–27:05] – 2028 Presidential Polls and party direction
• [27:05–30:13] – Biden succession drama & Kamala Harris candidacy
• [30:24–32:10] – Anti-smuggling military news & DEI critique
• [33:15–38:36] – Mailbag, historical hot takes, & media criticism

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Episode Tone

Fast-moving, irreverent, skeptical, equal parts satirical and serious. The hosts move fluidly between banter and biting commentary, peppered with cultural references, pop-culture analogies, sarcastic asides, and a persistent sense of frustration with both the news cycle and institutional absurdities.

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Summary for Newcomers

For listeners who missed the episode, “You’ve Disappointed The Nation” features Armstrong & Getty in full form—riffing on one of the wildest baseball games ever, lampooning modern political trends and media nonsense, diagnosing the woes of both sports and politics, and sounding off on everything from AI gone awry to the comical perils of DEI overreach. If you want a wry, wide-ranging look at America’s news and culture, this episode hits all the bases.

Transcript

[Jack Armstrong]

This is an iHeart podcast.

[Announcer]

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Jetty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty live from Studio cc. Senor.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's a dimly lit room where deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty communication compound. And is it. I don't know what day it is because I was up so late watching the baseball game. Today is Tuesday.

[Joe Getty]

Tuesday.

[Jack Armstrong]

Thought it was Wednesday already. It's Tuesday and we're under the tutelage of our general manager.

[Joe Getty]

I tell you what, the search committee was up all night. Unbelievable. Rich of talent. Could have gone with Melissa, most powerful hurricane to ever strike. Jamaica. Could have gone with the great Prunella Scales, beloved actress Sybil Falti on the greatest British sitcom of all time, according to Brits Fawlty Towers. But no, we've got to go with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Freddie Freeman for mercifully ending the longest tied World Series game in history last night.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think it'd be more fair to just make the game the general manager if you want to honor something.

[Joe Getty]

Fair enough.

[Jack Armstrong]

There's 609 pitches. I watched every single six of the 609, all 609 pitches.

[Joe Getty]

I went to bed.

[Jack Armstrong]

What an amazing freaking sporting event that was. And the amazing thing is, and I won't go on about this forever, but the amazing thing is at the end of nine, they played two games. You realize 18 innings means you played a whole nine inning game, then played another nine inning game at the end of nine. The announcers are saying, and I was saying to myself, this is the best World Series game I've ever seen at the end of nine innings. Everything that can happen in a baseball game happened in that baseball game.

[Joe Getty]

Some of the greatest things I've never seen before, some of the greatest throws.

[Jack Armstrong]

I've ever seen or situations that occurred or just. It was just absolutely amazing.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Craziness.

[Jack Armstrong]

And let me hit you with the most amazing thing because I know nobody saw this because everybody went to bed. This is the best part of the whole thing. Show a Yotani, by the way, who got on base nine times and is.

[Joe Getty]

The starting pitcher tonight.

[Jack Armstrong]

Nine times. Yeah. And I wonder, did the players go home or did they just sleep in the locker room in their jerk. In their uniforms because it would save time because they got to play here in a couple more hours.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Just incredible. Shoy Ohtani got on base nine times in one game. He went, double home run, double home run. And then they decided well, we better walk him. Him from here on out. I mean, it was just incredible. But anyway, this is the most dramatic thing to me of the whole game. So they'd gone through so many pitchers, they're running out of pitchers. The Blue Jays were down to. They were going to bring in their tonight starter because they were out of pitchers if it went to 19 innings. They. They went down to Roberts, the manager of the Dodgers, because they were out of pitchers, and asked him, what are you going to do if it goes one more inning? And he said, I actually don't know. I guess I'm going to have to go to. With a position player, which means you'd bring in a third baseman or a catcher, somebody who pitched in high school or college.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

And hasn't pitched since to pitch.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Then the announcers say, there's the interpreter talking to Roberts, the manager of the Dodgers. Oh, my God, is he talking about Sh. Otani coming into pitch? Because they're out of pitchers and they wait a while and pretty soon. No. Yamamoto, who pitched a complete game Saturday night.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Told the interpreter, go tell the manager I'm pitching next. He went and warmed up. He was going to come in and he was warming up in the bullpen. He was going to come in in the 9th, 19th inning. As a guy who played. Pitched a complete game two nights earlier.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

What a stud. Oh, tell the manager I'm pitching. Holy crap. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

This is further cementing our strong relationship with Japan. Our president meeting with the new prime minister.

[Jack Armstrong]

I got questions here. So Godzilla, Mothra, all because of some sort of radiation thing? Is that what happened with Shohei Ohtani? There's like a radiation leak?

[Joe Getty]

I'm not allowed to talk about that.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's classic Yamamoto. It doesn't make sense. They're Mothra like characters. And the president should be talking to Japan about their baseball players. They need to stop doing something or do it more often or.

[Joe Getty]

When I was five years old, I had a little Japanese friend whose name I do not recall, but we would do the equivalent of. We didn't call them play dates, but I would go play with him, he'd go come to my apartment, play with me. And he was crazy into the Japanese monster movies. And at age 5, I thought, you know, that's really silly, but whatever. A cynic in kindergarten.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, the great thing about baseball is that you can have a six and a half hour. How many hours did that game go? I started to.

[Joe Getty]

It ended at 10 minutes to 12 on the west coast, 10 minutes to 3. Am on the east Coast.

[Jack Armstrong]

I started watching, listening when I went to the grocery store to get stuff for dinner, then got home and made dinner. Actually, I started at the gym, then went through the grocery store, then made dinner. Then I had a meeting thing I had to go to. Then it came home, did stuff with Henry, did dishes, walked the dog. I did. I mean, went to bed, showered all. You know, because it's six hours long. No other sport does. They just keep going and going and going like that.

[Joe Getty]

Right, right. Yeah. During the regular season they've introduced those jivey rules about you starting with a guy on pace or whatever. But no, they. They keep it pure for the world. Serious.

[Jack Armstrong]

Which is good. Yes.

[Joe Getty]

Michael, do you think if the game.

[Jack Armstrong]

Went long enough they would pull a fan?

[News Reader]

Like each team would pull a fan of your choice?

[Joe Getty]

You know, it's like in the NHL, if your two goalies get hurt, they have an emergency goalie in the stands who's like a college player, beer league guy or whatever.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, really?

[Joe Getty]

It's a special rule in the NHL, so they only carry two goalies. You got to have that in baseball.

[Jack Armstrong]

And manager looked from the crowd that very few people left. It was still packed. Absolutely. When Freddie Freeman hit that damn home run, there was at least on the.

[Joe Getty]

East coast, it started a night game. It almost ended up a day game. Think about that. The sun could have been coming up.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. It's almost a shame that it ended up going so late because a lot of people missed out on really, really amazing sporting of it. And I'm quite tired because of that. 609 pitches.

[Joe Getty]

That's.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's hard to imagine. They ran out of baseballs. They had to get people to scuff up more baseballs because they get like 300 baseballs ready for every game and they. That's way more than you need. But they ran through them all. So they had to get somebody down.

[Joe Getty]

There to get all the baseballs ready. Just that home plate ump had to be weeping between innings.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

You can't focus that long.

[Jack Armstrong]

No. And there were some weird calls when it got later. But, but, but, but, but yeah, how would you. Because at some point you'd be thinking, God, what time is it? My wife. Is my wife in bed yet? Or, oh, a strike or a ball? I don't know. I didn't see that. I wasn't.

[Joe Getty]

Anybody see that? Hey, catcher. What was it? Come on, be cool.

[Jack Armstrong]

And then my final note on this. This is a baseball note. My favorite player for Toronto, Springer got hurt and that really hurt because he could have been the home run heroics, that's his thing. But I'm always interested in professional athletes when they get hurt and they know what they're injury is because they're so in tune with their body and injuries in the ways that most of us aren't. Like, most of us, we get hurts. Like, what was that?

[Joe Getty]

How did that happen?

[Jack Armstrong]

I hope this is nothing big. They all know exactly at the time he swings the ball, he grabs the side. He immediately waves like, okay, I'm done. And goes like, right to the locker room and out into the tunnel like, okay, that's bad. I may never play again. I don't know how they know this about their bodies. I. I regularly hurt myself and think, oh, my God, I'll never walk again. And then I'm fine three minutes later.

[Joe Getty]

Well, you know, it might be an individual thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know. You crack your toe on the edge of the coffee table and you think.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, it's got to be broken.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't even want to look. It's got to be pointed straight up. Then it's. It's fine. All right, let's start the show officially before we get in trouble. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Tuesday, October 28th, the year 2025, where I'm strong and getting. We approve of this program.

[Joe Getty]

Let's begin then, officially, according to FCC rules and regulations. Here we go at Mark 1150 in Los Angele. A fly ball to center field.

[Jack Armstrong]

Varsho's going back before the cat starts midnight. Barry Freeman has ended it. It's a repeat hero with the last word on a game three classic. The announcers kept saying through the game, this is going to be a emotionally devastating to whoever loses. Just devastating. It would be, yeah. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Not to mention physically.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. I've been devastated before. It takes a while. Did you get over it? Or maybe you don't. What do you think of the phrase, if it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger? I quibble with that. I think idiotic. I think some things weaken you and are bad.

[Joe Getty]

No, it's. It's. It's a ridiculous greeting card cliche.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

It depends what you're talking about. There's a range of stuff. Some stuff doesn't kill you. It leaves you weakened and in pain for the rest of your life.

[Jack Armstrong]

Shut up. Or is a really bad thing that happened and there's really nothing positive to gain out of it. You just have to soldier on and do your best.

[Joe Getty]

Sadder, but wiser, perhaps.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, right. I can think of examples, but I won't use them.

[Joe Getty]

People need to rally, I guess.

[Jack Armstrong]

And that's.

[Joe Getty]

If that's how you rally yourself, go ahead.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's.

[Joe Getty]

But it's silly.

[Jack Armstrong]

I will say this. You shouldn't say that to people when they're in a time of distress over something.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, no, no.

[Jack Armstrong]

I feel like people have said that to me many times and I feel like I want to punch you in the nose right now.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't see. I don't see how this is going to make my life any better in any way whatsoever. Trump is in Asia right now and he met with that new Japanese prime minister yesterday. How about her rolling out a Ford F150 for him to see right when he gets off the plane? These world leaders are really catching on how to trip his trigger.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah, they are absolutely. In, like a global contest for who can flatter Trump the most effectively. Trout out the Most, you know, F18 flyovers or traditional dancers or marching bands or, or what have you, the most elaborate greeting they can dream up.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's all building up to his meeting with Xi in China, which of course is a very, very big deal as the two countries that are going to control the world's destiny for the next half century or more are vying for supremacy. And I just read an interesting article in the New York Times about how China is really going to push him on Taiwan to see where he stands on that. Hoping that he doesn't care quite as much about Taiwan as maybe other presidents have or the United States has claimed it has in the past. And Mark Halpern even writes today of maybe some sort of Ukraine for Taiwan deal that Trump will hint at or explicitly say, stop helping out there and we'll. We won't worry about Taiwan so much.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. My final note is that everything that was said and done with Japan would tend to weaken the argument that Trump is in some sort of grand bargain. That we get this hemisphere, you get that hemisphere. Maybe Japan's an exception to that because it's right across the Pacific from us. But that appeared to be a serious deepening of relations.

[Jack Armstrong]

Cool. I want to hear more about that. We got a lot on the way. We got Katie's headlines and you can comment anything. Time. 415. This is the text line. We don't want you to call us. Good Lord, don't call us. Text line. 415295, KFTC.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Halloween's on a Friday night this year. Cops in every town in America gotta think, oh, it's gonna be a long night. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

The party.

[Joe Getty]

Since I've engaged in wildness on Halloween, I keep forgetting. That's right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, it's the biggest party day of the year now.

[Joe Getty]

Super. All right, let's figure out who's reporting what. I thought you had something more to say on that thing.

[News Reader]

That's neat.

[Joe Getty]

That's. It's, it's a statistic we should all consider. Who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie, it's kind of weird because it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wasn'T at all when we were younger, it was just.

[Joe Getty]

No.

[Jack Armstrong]

At some point somebody decided, wow, older people should dress up for Halloween and go out and turned into a party. And then now it's like that seems like the main thing. Go ahead, Katie.

[News Reader]

Where's my joke?

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, are you kidding? I went to bed at 1 o' clock in the morning. Joke is in your hand. Or whatever. That saying, oh, Lord, no.

[News Reader]

Good God.

[Joe Getty]

He disappoints a nation, then disgusts the nation. Nice job.

[Jack Armstrong]

Disappoints a nation.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[News Reader]

Okay, on that note, ESPN, an unforgettable night at the World Series lasted 18 incredible innings.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, it was incredible. I can't imagine what tonight's gonna be for the fans or the. The fans are gonna be like, I don't really want to go back. I mean, I got things to do.

[Joe Getty]

My hands hurt from clapping, so I'm just gonna.

[Jack Armstrong]

Whoop.

[News Reader]

From NBC. Trump defends boat strikes in speech to troops, warns of deployment to more U.S. cities.

[Jack Armstrong]

All right.

[News Reader]

From the New York Times. Beyond the trade war, China Xi looks to press Trump on Taiwan.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, that's interesting. I'll read more from some analysis about that. Trump might be right about that. Whether people like it or not that the world is not going to stop China from taking Taiwan. I'm just going to try to get as much forward as I for it as I can.

[Joe Getty]

Right. But I would also suggest delaying it as long as you humanly can because of our reliance on Taiwanese chip makers in particular and other economic ties that'd be incredibly disruptive to the world economy.

[Jack Armstrong]

I have a theory on that.

[News Reader]

But later, from the Washington Post, Amazon to cut corporate workforce by about 14,000.

[Jack Armstrong]

Has it got anything to do with AI?

[News Reader]

Yeah, focusing on AI.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[News Reader]

Fox News suspect with a lengthy rap sheet arrested for Pam Bondi quote murder for hire scheme on TikTok.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Political violence is everywhere, especially on the left. It is being openly encouraged and cheered all over the place. This is sick.

[News Reader]

From the New York Post. Perverted Jeffrey Epstein chatbot tells kids to spill their craziest secrets.

[Joe Getty]

What the hell?

[News Reader]

It's a chatbot that is named Bestie Epstein and it allows thousands of chats with users on chat AI but who developed it? So chat AI allows you to create your characters and then other people can chat with them and somebody created this and now it's become a thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Bestie Epstein does sound like an 80s punk band back in the day of the Dead Milk Men and, and, you know, Sick Puppies and that sort of thing.

[News Reader]

From USA Today, singles are paying $200 to hold each other in dark rooms.

[Joe Getty]

There's a name for that. Yeah, exactly.

[Jack Armstrong]

What are you talking about?

[News Reader]

They're calling it the Feels, but it's a singles mixer that employs various touch based techniques aimed at getting participants to learn more about themselves and maybe just fall in love at the same time.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, do it the other way around. That's what I suggest. How about you fall in love and then get to the touching, then start touching and then hope you fall in love after the touching.

[Joe Getty]

Boy, these are odd times, I'd say.

[News Reader]

I hate everything about this story from TechRadar. Samsung launches ads on its smart fridges.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, God. So my refrigerator will be like the gas pump.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Loud ad blaring at me.

[Joe Getty]

Have you ever shot a refrigerator? You're about to. Oh, with Samsung? Yeah. Are you kidding? Oh, Lord.

[News Reader]

Study finds primal fitness trend dubbed quadbotics has people walking like dogs to get in shape.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, I need to know more about that story. Story. Send me that, Katie.

[Joe Getty]

Okay. Some crimes include their own punishment.

[Jack Armstrong]

I love that.

[News Reader]

And finally, the Babylon Be animatronic Ice agents raid Disneyland's It's a Small World.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, no, that's funny.

[Jack Armstrong]

God, you had a bunch of annoying stories in your newscast today. I mean, like, I was reaching for that. Half of them were so maddening and annoying and frightening. Wow.

[News Reader]

You're welcome.

[Jack Armstrong]

We'll have more details on a whole bunch of those and news of the day on the way.

[Joe Getty]

Stay here.

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[News Reporter]

What he's saying this armed motorist sped away from a shooting of a San Bernardino county sheriff's deputy, first exceeding 100 miles per hour, then 130 and even faster, only slowing to pull out a handgun. You see him rack a bullet into the chamber in full view of the news helicopters until a motorist swerved into his lane. The bike smashed, the rider thrown. Police swarming. Police said that that motorcyclist was a suspect who earlier had held a woman at gunpoint, then shot a deputy. That deputy has been transported to an area hospital.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, they didn't mention at the beginning of the clip the the person in question they're talking about is on a motorcycle. A bunch of people have sent me that clip. I don't know because I'm a motorcyclist. I keep seeing it on the tv. You know, TV likes exciting coverage. And then it's pretty exciting to see a motorcycle, a guy with a gun flying through traffic and then when he hits a car and then flies over the top of it. Is that what happened?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. A car drifted into his lane and at One point he was going over 200 miles per hour.

[Jack Armstrong]

Go ahead.

[Joe Getty]

Then he was loading and cocking a semi automatic pistol. How do you do that? With his hands off the, the handlebars.

[Jack Armstrong]

How do you do that? He must have had a cruise control of some sort.

[News Reader]

And talk about timing. The car that ran the motorcycle off the road was an off duty officer.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, really?

[Joe Getty]

Oh, really? Yeah. Intentionally or do we know?

[News Reader]

They're saying that an off duty sheriff's deputy conducted a legal intervention. Intervention by striking the suspect off the motorcycle.

[Jack Armstrong]

All right, can you look up, see what kind of motorcycle that was? Because not every motorcycle will go 200 miles an hour. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Was that high a fat white guy, too? Because he sat up after the wreck and was taken off for medical treatment. I was like, all right, what kind of guy is this?

[Jack Armstrong]

How was he? So he must have had some sort of cruise control lock on his throttle.

[Joe Getty]

It's a good point.

[News Reader]

Oh, boy. I can't pronounce what the husk. Varna Norton 901.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, really?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I know what those are, but I didn't know that would go 200 miles an hour. Yeah, that's Carvana, which got bought by KTM a couple of years ago. But yeah, they make some fast bikes.

[Joe Getty]

I mean, the guy's a really, really good rider. It wouldn't surprise me if he'd done some mods modification.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[News Reader]

And he killed that deputy, by the way. He didn't make it. Deputy that he shot.

[Joe Getty]

Horrible, horrible, horrible. Very bad scumbag.

[Jack Armstrong]

Very, very bad person.

[Joe Getty]

I wish he'd been hurt more severely.

[Jack Armstrong]

What's your favorite clip? Complete change of topic. What's your favorite clip, Michael, from Jon Stewart last night had Zoran Zoharan. Zoran Mandani.

[Joe Getty]

Zahran.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know how you're supposed to say it correctly, but he was on Zoran Mandani. He was on the Daily show last night. Which is your favorite clip? Showing off Zoran Mandani's wonderful personality that people seem to like so much.

[News Reporter]

Any of them.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'll just start clip for her, anything. So what's it like reaching out to that other group?

[Guest]

You know, I don't begrudge New Yorkers who are skeptical because they've also lived through tens of millions, millions of dollars of commercials telling them to fear me.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Guest]

You know, they have lived through waking up every morning and seeing a photo of me and just feeling like, oh, my God. Because the language that's written around me is as if I'm a threat. To the city that they love. And so when I meet with them, just the mere fact that I don't strangle them within 30 seconds is often.

[Jack Armstrong]

So you're doing well based on the bar. That's what it's sad.

[Guest]

And then I think it's an opportunity where, you know, I both can tell them the things that I will do and the things that I won't do. Right. I will freeze the rent. I won't defund the police. I will make buses fast and free. I won't decriminalize misdemeanors. I will deliver universal childcare.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's pretty good. And I've seen him on a bunch of interviews. He is good. He's got, he's got the Obama thing, he's got the Trump thing. He's just, he's comfortable in his own skin. The people that win tend to be comfortable in our own skin and seem like they're not faking it.

[Joe Getty]

What's really interesting, I read a bit of analysis about the race. He is not even very popular for a Democrat in New York. It's just that he's running against a bunch bum. Now, the guy is a phenomenon of sorts, no doubt. And you know, Sung Tzu style, let's not underestimate made our enemy because he is our enemy without question. But he's, he's got talent.

[Jack Armstrong]

He. So I, one of the reasons I wanted to play that. Maybe we'll play more later as a new poll came out yesterday in which the gap had closed by half. He had been up by 20 points a month ago and he's now up by 10 over Cuomo. This poll could be an outlier that come election day, we find out that was an outlier. But even if it's close to 10 and it's for real, 10 points is a huge lead. I mean, if that was the lead to start with, you'd say he was running away with it. I mean, that's a big lead when you're this close to the election. So that's that. And then I wanted to get to this other thing poll wise, because it kind of fits into the whole where, where, where's the Democratic Party going? Bill Maher was complaining on HBO on Friday night that if Zoron wins, and he probably is, he's going to become the face of the Democratic Party and everybody's going to think that's what they are. They're aoc, Bernie, Socialist types more than anything else. And Bill Maher, at least as a Democrat, thinks that's a Bad idea. But the latest poll out for Democratic nominee for President for 2028 as a new person in the lead, former Transportation Secretary Pete Boot Edge. Edge.

[Joe Getty]

Oh for the love of heaven.

[Jack Armstrong]

Is the Democratic Party's early. Now these are. Polls at this point are fairly stupid.

[Joe Getty]

Fairly.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I give you some information about something. They don't usually give you information about who's going to be the nominee. They give you some information about where a party is in terms of their hopes and dreams and wants. Currently, I guess.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, I'll buy that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, Boot Edge. Edge is the early front runner ahead of gas. Gavin Newsom and Ocasio Cortez. 19 support for Pete. Who's got the beard? I wonder? Probably at least 5 points of it is the beard.

[Joe Getty]

Could be. It's definitely made him look a little less pixie.

[Jack Armstrong]

Ish.

[Joe Getty]

A little more manly.

[Jack Armstrong]

He's got a. Now these polls have huge margins of error and you're asking people in the average person saying for 2028. I don't know. I haven't thought about it. I got a life. But Mayor Pete's at 19. Four points behind at 15 is Gavin Newsom, the current governor of the state of California. The only other double digits were ocasio Cortez at 14 and Kamala Harrison 11.

[Joe Getty]

What the hell is going on?

[Jack Armstrong]

That shows you how stupid these polls are. That's just a name recognition. Well, I've heard of her something did.

[Joe Getty]

I draw up that slate of candidates as a joke, as a prank on Democrats. You got Pete, who has accomplished nothing. He was a terrible miserable failure as a Secretary of Transportation after being the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, a lovely college town. You've got Gavin Newsom who. Who is practically single handedly nice. An exaggeration. He's been at the head of the horrific monster that's trashed California. Kamala, please don't even an aoc. The Instagram influencer who. Whose side hustle is being a Congress lady. Please.

[Jack Armstrong]

If I had to bet money and it would be weird if I did have to, like if I was compelled to, I would bet none of those people are going to be the nominee. And if I had to choose one of those names, it would be Gavin Newsom. I don't think any of the other ones have a chance of being the nominee.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I'd agree.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's where we are for 20th. That'll be kind of fun to watch. That's got to be tough. And so there's a John Carl of ABC's Got a New book out. I Think it's called retribution. Anyway, it's got some new reporting about the presidential race and some of the craziness that was going on during the whole period of time where, you know, Biden had the debate and they kicked him out of the party and chose. And chose the numb nuts instead of having a primary and stuff like that. And Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer were all pushing really hard to have some sort of contest because none of them thought that Kamala Harris should be the nominee or was capable of winning. They were all pushing for it, but Joe Biden coming out fast and naming Kamala Harris really upended the whole thing and just set things into motion really quick. And John Carl's got a quote in there of Obama because Nancy Pelosi came out fairly quickly and endorsed Kamala Harris. And there's a quote in there of Obama saying, what the hell are you doing? And her saying, the train has left the station. It's too late now. Now that Biden is coming out and put his name on it. We can't go any other direction. Which she might have been right about. I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, the New York Post is quoting it is. What the f are. Did you do? I thought we were all on the same page that seconds ago.

[Jack Armstrong]

Several other people are saying that that was in a friendly, joking sort of way, not in a angry sort of way. So.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, okay.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, you know, their friends, well, what the f are you doing? You know, that sort of thing. And she said, well, that train has left the station since the president has put his thumb on the scale. Not much we can do at this point was her thing. I don't. I don't know. It would have been a mess. It would have been a real mess with 107 days to go or whatever to try to have some sort of open primary and then eat up a couple of weeks and then have that person run. That wouldn't have been easy.

[Joe Getty]

Well, yeah, but that would have had the, the, the, the ring of authenticity, that candidate. As opposed to running a moron.

[News Reporter]

Right, right.

[Joe Getty]

Any process that ends with you running an unelectable is by definition a bad process. You can try to defend it. Well, the other process would have taken time, but would have yielded a non.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I was about to say arguing against myself is ending up with someone who can't win doesn't do you any favors. Now we've got plenty of time to run the person who can't win.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's not a good strategy. But isn't it funny that the all the powerful people, except for the dementia ridden present president knew she can't, she's not going to be president. Kamala Harris can't win. What are we doing here?

[Joe Getty]

Ironically enough, to go back to my argument, if they had strung it out with some sort of primary process for several weeks that and, and Kamala somehow came out at the top of that process, that would have been better for her.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, definitely.

[Joe Getty]

Because the more, you know, the less you like.

[Jack Armstrong]

She wouldn't have, but yeah, that would have been better for her and it would have eaten up a lot of time. I don't know, maybe that would have helped in summer because there would have been, it would have been very hard for Trump to get any coverage with that whole primary thing going on. I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, true.

[Jack Armstrong]

You would think that people as powerful as Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi could have controlled that situation a little better than they did, but they were not.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, Kamala Harris, the ultimate DEI hire. Reminds me coming up, if we can squeeze it in next hour, a couple of examples of how absurd and bizarre the DEI thing got during the Biden years. You remember when I used to always say dismantle every DEI program everywhere it exists, education, corporations, government, everywhere. I stand by that. I amplify it and I will drive home the case.

[Jack Armstrong]

Next hour, quick breaking news before we take a break to get to mailbag, Secretary of War Hegseth just announced we blasted four more boats out of the water.

[News Reader]

Four more?

[Jack Armstrong]

Four more. Killing 14 alleged drug traffickers. Four different boats.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. Fishing. Wanted to see the sunset. We're moving drugs. I don't know, whatever.

[Joe Getty]

Can I give you a little hint to the DEI stuff?

[Jack Armstrong]

Sure.

[Joe Getty]

A Secret Service agent too fat to ever pass the physical standards.

[Jack Armstrong]

No way.

[Joe Getty]

Never passed it. And the Secret Service head lady said. Yeah, don't worry about it.

[Guest]

Really?

[Joe Getty]

Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Fat Secret Service agents never passed the test. Stand in front of the president. Stand in front of the president. You block more area.

[Joe Getty]

Hang on, I'll be right there. It's a longer walk than it looks, Mr. President. I'll throw my body in front of you as soon as I can. Holy cow, that's a lot of stairs.

[Jack Armstrong]

On the other hand, if Jumbo gets there, the assassin is thinking, I can't see the president.

[Joe Getty]

Right. Damn it. I've been foiled. So, pros and cons. Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

We got mailbag on the way. Stay here.

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[Jack Armstrong]

IPhone1 was up pretty late last night taking in a seven hour amazing baseball game. But we have lots of news for you today. Right.

[Joe Getty]

First, a freedom loving quote of the day from the great English writer and thinker G.K. chesterton. Tolerance is the virtue of the take 2 Tolerance is the virtue of the man without conviction. Convictions. It's an interesting quote.

[Jack Armstrong]

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

[Joe Getty]

Right. Right. Now you It'd be helpful to know the context. I don't really want to get off on this tangent, but one thing people fail to appreciate, those who are of simple mind on the left, is that there are things that should not be tolerated. Absolutely not. Okay, once you admit that, let's talk about what should and should not be tolerated and some of the stuff on your list of what should be tolerated. I disagree. And that actually factors into Mailbag. Drop us a note mailbagarmstrongygetty.com before we get to the main theme of Mailbag Today, wanted to throw this in from Roger Is the FBI gambling investigation going to include J.B. pritzker of Illinois? I mean, he won $1.4 million in Vegas. Come on. He did declared it on his taxes. He got hot playing Blackjack and won $1.4 million. That's got to be getting pretty close to degenerate gambler territory. What are you risking now? He's a billionaire. But is that the sort of thing public official ought to be doing?

[Jack Armstrong]

No.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. JD And Clovis commenting on Zoran Mandy and his father, the Islamist who made all sorts of bizarre claims about Hitler learning genocide from the Americans. Specifically Abraham Lincoln. JD Writes after hearing their rally audio yesterday, practice Zoran and his father would be for returning the Temple Mount back to the Jews. It's occupied land by their standards, right? No, no, absolutely not, J.D. that's the thing about Islamism is if they lose land, they scream, stolen land. We need it back. Stolen land. We need it back. But as we're about to get to Islam has engaged in centuries of conquest, centuries of brutal conquest. And if you were to say to them, yeah, that that land used to belong to somebody else, you got to give it back, they would laugh at you, they would guffaw, but they demand it of their lands. And on that theme, this is from Les who writes, I just heard about Zoramdani's father Mahmoud invoking Abraham Lincoln as the model for Adolf Hitler. This type of opinion by a Columbia professor should not go unchallenged. The Middle East Quarterly and he gives the issue and Everything has an excellent article by Hannibal Travis titled Did the Armenian Genocide Inspire Hitler? It's a long article, but here's the takeaway. If anyone influenced Hitler, it was Max Erwin von Scheibler Richter, who had been the Vice Consul in Turkey in the early 1900s when the future founding president of the Republic of Turkey, Ataturk, was presiding over the first National Congress, blah blah blah. He documented the planning and implementation of the murder of Armenians by the Young Turks in the name of Islam and Turkic ideology, which when later implemented forcibly deported Armenians from villages and worked and starved them to death. Scheudler Richter was a very close friend of Adolf Hitler and when the Beer hall putsch in 1923 happened, he was killed while standing next to Hitler. Hitler then dedicated the first part of Mein Kampf to him. Here's the real irony in Mahmoud Mamdani's logic. He talks about colonizers when he is a super colonizer. He's following in the footsteps of the Europeans by being born in India, then moving to Uganda, then to the United States. If he truly believed in decolonization, he would move back to India and not bring his family to the United States and joins what he calls colonizers. There is one other explanation. He may be an Islamic colonizer. Islam has a very long history of colonization. Remember the Blue Mosque was originally a Christian church. Also before Islam, Aramaic was a very prominent Middle Eastern language, et cetera. Enjoy the show, enjoy your emails. Thanks Les.

[Jack Armstrong]

When Mandani gets elected, he'll be the gift that keeps on giving. I think there's got to be a lot more to his things. His dad has said or he that he's going to have to answer for and all that sort of stuff.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I suspect so. And his associations, which are usually just one step away from absolutely undeniable Islamist terrorists.

[Jack Armstrong]

How about the lack of coverage on this story? Can you imagine if there were a Republican candidate for a major office whose father had said something as crazy as Abraham Lincoln was the inspiration for Hitler?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

I know. Well, can you imagine if there was a Republican running for the Senate with an actual Nazi tattoo? Please. The world would stop.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. We got a lot to cover in the next several hours. If you miss a segment or a podcast. No, a segment or an hour. There you go. You get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand. I got all the words in the right order. Armstrong and Getty on demand.

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[Jack Armstrong]

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