June 3, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour One of the Wednesday June 3, 2026 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Show features...
- Amazon is the new king, and affordability....
- Heather Myers has The Lead Story...
- Trump embraces whiplash...
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Caddy, arm Strong.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And Jetty and.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Arms wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Surely I'm not expected to talk about this for five
months live from studio c sare a dimly lit room
deeper in the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound.
It is midweek and today we are toiling under the
title of the show, Ultra Processed Foods are the new sitting,
which was the new smoking? Or You're fired, I'm fired. Yes,
(00:49):
you're fired. I'm fired for God's sake. Yes, now leave.
I like both those headlines. That's fantastic. You know what
got pushed out of the top two because we have
a jungle primary of headlines here at the Armstrong and
Getty Show was sorry Walmart. Amazon is the new king.
(01:10):
Amazon just passed Walmart. Really the biggest revenue company in
the SMP your top well, however many you want biggest
retailer in the America or the world company period, biggest company.
Walmart was the biggest company. That's there's some qualification there.
There are many, many qualifications that are important to consider.
(01:33):
Walmart is not the biggest company. Your Nvidia is your
apples here, those are the biggest companies. That's no, that's valuation,
not revenue. Right, So what I'm saying, what's the qualification
on this? It's right revenue revenue. Yeah, that's what I said.
That maybe not what the heck is it. It's around
here somewhere. Trust me. Well, Amazon is very, very big
and important and heads up many lists. I would say,
(01:56):
that's mostly amazing to me that Walmart held on till now.
I had the same reaction honestly with all the shop
in that Amazon. So I wonder I grew up rural
middle of America, I'm thinking, and I haven't lived that
way in a long time. I'll bet most people, like
I'll bet my brothers. I'll bet my brother almost never
(02:19):
uses Amazon, if once a year, maybe, as opposed to
him several times a week. I'll have to ask that
ball buddy, hardly ever does Yeah, partially because you'd get
stuff a lot to It feel different if you live
in an urban area and I don't know you know
where you are listening right now, But if you live
in certain areas, like I can get stuff this afternoon
when I order on Amazon, all time, parasox batteries, whatever
(02:40):
it does I need, And you know that's you pay
a little more. It's like going to the convenience store.
That's why convenience stores are more expensive because it's so convenient.
But you're paying for the convenience. But if you got
to wait several days, you probably just go to the
Walmart on the edge of whatever town you live in. Yeah. Yeah,
it's funny. I'm very pro ordering on Amazon. My wife
(03:01):
resists a little bit. No, no, no, I'll just go to
the store and get it. I'm like, but I can
check it off my list if I do this. Otherwise
I gotta check honey, did you get a chance? But anyway, AnyWho,
So more, Amazon has taken over Walmart to claim the
number one spot of America's biggest companies America's buy revenue.
And what's pretty interesting, the very very close at seven
(03:22):
hundred and seventeen billion in annual revenue Woo versus seven
hundred and thirteen. Third place is way down at four
hundred and forty seven billion. That's United Health Group. I
would not have guessed that United Health was the number
three revenue company in America. That's paying medical bills and
(03:45):
stuff essentially. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Man.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I've had quite a few medical bills late with my
kid's going to urging care for various things that happened
to kids, and god dang it, it's more expensive than
it used to be to go to the doctor. Holy cow.
With everything else, the bills are just way bigger than
they used to be. The affordability thing is absolutely the
number one political issue out there, and nobody's speaking to
(04:12):
the affordability issue. Yeah. I suppose you could have rhetoric
around it, but what you can actually do about it,
I don't know. But things, what what was it I
paid for yesterday? It'll pop it in my head something.
I was just like, holy crap, things are expensive just
the way it is. I guess. Oh, I know. My
son needed some band aids, so a particular kind of
(04:32):
band aid because he was doing his swimming test last
night for Boy Scotts. He won some waterproof band aids
for some surgery he had. Blah blah blah. I go
to CBS, I buy a little box of band aids.
It's fourteen dollars. Good lore. In my head, it's like,
in my mind, it's gonna be like four and it's fourteen.
It's just everything is like that. Yeah, I'm not gonna
go to the doctor. I got something going on with
(04:54):
my index finger. It's really sore. I don't know if
I did something to it, or it's infected or something.
But Michael, I'm just gonna grab a pair of bolt
cutters out of the garage and just take care of
it myself. There, that only makes sense. Walk it off.
You know how many? How many fingers?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
How many like segments of your finger do you need?
All three of them are kinds on the finger too.
They aren't of equal value. I won't have to clip
my nail anymore. By the way I look at my
two ring fingers, I feel like you could take them
off today and I wouldn't even notice. I don't what
do I need him for. I played a guitar and
a piano, so or does that. But yeah, they're kind
(05:29):
of a supporting role finger. They're handy, but you know, necessities.
Maybe it'd keep me from getting married again. I might
not do that just out of a precaution. I'm not
sure that's how the law works, but you do, you, buddy.
Avoiding one particular topic that's leading all newscasts everywhere in America.
(05:51):
And like I opened with, you can't make me talk
about this for five more months. So five more months.
People on the two big races in California. They got
so much national attention. Five more months, that's a long time.
You got your whole June, July, August, September, October, five
months before you get for the first Tuesday in November.
That's a long time. So I look at it like
(06:12):
baseball season. Let's make a big deal over opening day
then kind of yeah, sort of, kind of not really
pay attention. I'll see in late July. Yeah, I'm with you.
I get that. I was just reading in terms of
things that actually matter, Like I want to hear that
ultra food ultra processed food story that you got. That
sounds really interesting and actually important to people's lives, right,
the affordability thing, got some economic stuff around that. And
(06:34):
then I was just reading Neil Ferguson, the historian We
like him. Oh, I was going to bring this up
his AI piece today about the world is in the
most dangerous arms race in world's history, and the people
running it are are are not the people you'd want
running it so h no, no, most dangerous arms race
(06:55):
in human history? Yeah, which is almost certainly true. I guess, yeah,
I think it is clearly Yeah, it is. There have
been some good ones. Atomic bombs come to mind, of course,
but a big right because well, because obviously we still
have the atomic bombs, and the AI is another layer
(07:16):
of uncertainty, including in the use of those bombs. Right.
And then it's the added thing that nuclear weapons were
not going to eliminate all college graduates having a job, right,
all of a sudden, unleashing unthinkable levels of political unrest. Correct,
while each country has the ability to maybe turn off
(07:38):
the other country's lights and shut down their energy grid
and everything else, or or launch nuclear weapons or who know,
or do who knows what? Right? Right? And I would argue,
and I'm not trying to freak anybody out, but we've
been talking about this for a long time. The nuclear
arms race had a lot of like binary questions, Will
the US or the Soviets use them? Will you know
(08:01):
other countries get them? Will they use them? As pretty
yes or no? Ish? And the answer is thank god,
Since the middle nineteen forties the answer has been no.
But with AI, there are a one hundred different questions,
and Donald Trump signed an executive order around AI yesterday
right during the end of our show that we talked about.
We'll have to explain that to you again early. And
(08:27):
I can't imagine the federal government having any role in this,
hardly whatsoever, since they have no idea what they're talking about.
I just don't know what rules you can put in place.
The people building AI don't know what it's going to
do or how it works. I can't imagine how some
old congress people, yeah, who don't send emails, are going
(08:47):
to wrap their heads around it. I characterize the new
executive order as populist nonsense. Yesterday I have come across
nothing that shakes my opinion interesting. Let's start the show officially,
Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday,
June the third, the year twenty twenty six. Were Armstrong
and getting we approved of this program. Let's begin officially then,
(09:09):
according to FCC rules and ranks, here we go at Mark.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
It's simple as a pimple for me. There's nothing to it.
It's the birthday of America two hundred and fifty years.
It's not anything to do with politics. I don't know
why they're turning it into politics. I'm not even I've
never voted.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
In my life.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I never do that.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
He's the white and the red, white and blue folks.
Robbie van Winkle, perhaps you know him as Vanilla Ice.
Oh my god, that was vanilla Ice. I thought it
was a guy who won the Michigan primary or something.
Vanilla Ice talking about the controversy over the various two
hundred and fiftieth birthday celebrations. Wow, I don't like the
(09:47):
term simple as a pimple for some reason that I
don't like that. I don't like a single damn thing
about that half with You know, we saw vanilla Ice
driving down the street in Key Wes last year. My
son was so excited. He was in a convert looking
like that's a story, looking like vanilla Ice, looking exactly
like Vanilla Ice. Would you would expect him to look
at a convertible driving down and do vall in Key
(10:09):
West And he sounded like the kind of guy that
would say what you just what? We just heard there
right right standing up for the Red, White and blue.
Gotta like that. We got Heather's headlines on the way
so much to talk about today. Stay here, hi, y'all
(10:30):
doing cool? Glad to hear it. I do want to
talk about that dude in terms of politics, that dude
up in Maine that they're having their big uh primary
this next Tuesday up in Maine. That's the guy that
had the Nazi tattoo and all the sexting and that
sort of stuff. Platin Gram, Platiner. Yes, I didn't want
to talk about him and the and the character thing
(10:52):
which I kind of blew off the other day, maybe
too uh easily showing a lack of eye, don't know. Character.
I just didn't know that was on the table as
an issue anymore after Trump and a whole bunch of
other things. I just thought people had decided that doesn't matter.
But more on that later. All right, Let's figure out
(11:14):
who's reporting what It's the lead story with Heather Meyers Heather.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Back, Joe, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Let's find out how the networks are covering the news
the day after the primary.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Starting with Fox News.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Their headline reads, Trump back to Hilton surged in California,
gubnatorial race. USA Today Go ahead, I say USA Today
covered it like this, Hilton, But Sarah lead California governor's race.
And here's the headline this morning from CNN. I'm gonna
read it exactly how you would read it if you
clicked on their site. California Governor's race still too early
(11:48):
to call Sam Colin Trump Endorsee suffers loss.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah. I was going to say they love putting Trump
endorsement in the headline, like that's the main factor in
the whole thing. Oh my god, that was Steve Hilton
wishes it hadn't happened. I have a feeling and it's
been a non factor, right right, It's got nothing to
do with it, But they're going to try to make
it everything to do with it for both Hilton and
(12:16):
in the mayor situation in LA just to try to
make it a Trump versus US. Don't let a magi
candidate win.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah, you know, it's just interesting the way that they
worded that, because they said Trump and Dorsey Suffers lost,
they're actually talking about the race in Iowa. They're coupling
that in the same head Oh, I see the governor's
race because Hilton did not suffer a loss.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Right right?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Will you try to make it about Trump again?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Here we go, all right, from Fox Los Angeles Spencer
Pratt on track for a top two finish. YEP, this
one's interesting and this is developing right now. Bakersfield Now
dot com Two hostages released a mid bomb thread at
Chase Bake in Bakersfield.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Wow, I haven't heard that story. We'll get you details later.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah, that one's been going on for probably close to
eighteen hours now. Guy walked into a bank with what
they think are bomb strapped to him. He's still there
with customers in the bank and at this point just
too hostage.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Was he wanting money or is it a political thing?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
At this point, they haven't released a ton of details
on fbis now on this.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Maybe just a crazy person could be very well.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Be from ABC News, Iran targets US forces Kuwait Airport
amid cease fire.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
From usage to.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Talk about that as usual, and we will back to you,
Heather from.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
USA to sixteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Correspondent Scott Pelly fired after criticizing CBS execs.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Well, shock, you can't like yell at your boss on
the first dange. Don't you realize nobody wants you here?
Man to your new boss and not get fired even
if you're Scott Pelly. What an ass hat? Hey, he
is an ass hat. I can't wait to talk about
that more. Most pompous man in the world Alert listener
Steve gets full credit for this joke with slow talking
(14:01):
Scott Pelley fired. Perhaps they can now make the show
with thirty minutes Pick up the Base.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
From NBC News this morning.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional math that eliminates
a majority black district.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Jim Craw on steroids. We'll talk about that more. Oh, thanks,
Uncle Joe from.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Fox Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Forty five million dollar cocaine bus uncovers massive tunnel to
Mexico under supposed discount store.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, I was really got into that story yesterday. There
was a fake store. It looked just like a regular
store that just nobody ever came in and out of that.
You'd drive by and just nobody paid any attention to it.
And it wasn't a real store. It had a tunnel
in it and drugs were going back and forth. That
was like that Vietnamese restaurant in Charlotte we used to
eat at that. There was never anybody in. We're like,
(14:53):
what are they selling drugs or breeding pannas?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
What from CBS News this morning, flesh eating screwworm detected
twenty five miles from US border.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Oh boy, let's close the border immediately. Yeah, how do
you get that thing?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Can I just read you the details on this shoe? Sure?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Sure, please do.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
The New World screwworm is a parasitic fly that feeds
on warm blooded animals and people. It lays its eggs
in open wounds or orifices like the eyes, ears, nose,
or mouth, which can then eat living tissue or flesh
once they hatch.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I do not have any open wounds, but I do
have orify. M keep them closed, tightly closed. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
From ABC News.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Uber releases list of stranges lost and found items dentures, butterflies, dishwasher.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Dishwasher, Uh, where am i? Where am I denter? Live
in the back feet? Where are they?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
The list goes on breast milk, a child's pross, esthetic eye,
two wedding gowns.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Live fish.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Mommy, where's my eye? Oh? I left it in the
backseat of the Uber. What's my live fish? Damn it?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I remember losing my retainer a lot as a kid.
I wonder if that's the same thing. If you have
a prosthetic eye as a child, you just leave it
in random places.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I lost my glasses so many times in high school.
My parents just said, you're gonna squint. Yeah, we can't
afford anymore classes walk into things, that's your problem.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah. From BuzzFeed, people are having an absolute meltdown over
Sesame Street's pride message.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah. I don't know about this, getting lots of attention. Yeah,
we'll have to play that for you.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
And finally, this morning from the Babylon b Trump shocked
to learn genocidal jihatis often don't negotiate in good faith.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, ah, that's good. That's a question for history. Is
he caught unaware of this whole situation? Like, is he
unaware that he's dealing with nihilists who want to die
and it's not like most real estate developers who don't
want to die. I would hope Marco is in his
ear making that infinitely clear to him. Thank you, Heather,
(17:10):
good stuff, And we got a lot more on the
way on a whole bunch of those topics. If you
missed the segment at the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand,
there's some interesting stuff to talk about today that's not
the election.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Well obviously got one in five more months of me
exposing all the failures of our mayor.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
So it's gonna be a fun ride. I hope she's ready.
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I know I was born for this.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Clearly, I'm gonna prove to everybody this is this is
for real, and I'm ready to run the city.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Spencer Brat, I was born for this. I love the
disco music, robbing in the back. It was the big
uh A celebration party at their campaign headquarters. As he's
trying to become the mayor of Los Angeles, I don't
have a lot of stomach for the big little races today. Personally,
(18:01):
part of it might be from watching our old friend
David Drucker on MSNBC this morning. David Drucker, who used
to write for the Washington Examiner now works for the Dispatch.
Everyone's while he's on MSNBC, and we like David, super
smart guy, but showbiz not his thing. He's like just
a fax man, just the facts and often takes the
(18:23):
air out of the room. But anyway, they're building up
the whole Steve Hilton, you know, is going to make
the top two for governor in California, and Pratt and
this and that and what does it mean and Trump
and blah blah blah. He said, you just look at
the numbers. It's pretty simple. Both the Democrats are going
to run away with it in the general. So and
(18:45):
I thought, you know what, You're probably right. So I'm
not sure there's that much more to talk about. Well, wow,
he would be really really to overcome just the demographics
of what things are. LA is seven points more more
blue than the state, which is quite old. Wow. Wow wow.
Although you made the point yesterday, perhaps you've forgotten your
(19:07):
own wisdom that often it takes a few cycles before
the electorate says, you know, that guy wasn't so bad
and he was right about this, that and the other,
and they drift from hardcore de voter no matter how
bad it gets, to being willing to make another choice.
So I think a great deal of absolutely terrific messaging
(19:30):
is going to take place during the campaign, and whether
Steve Hilton, for instance, triumphs or not, there's going to
be a lot of truth telling. And I think that's
a good thing. Over the next five month our elections
are two long people. Well, the other thing that's worth mentioning.
If you're talking about those big California races, is that
the absolutely laughable, ridiculous third world The California voting system
(19:55):
that is the I mean, old man Nadoro wishes he'd
come up with a system that ridiculed. Uh it takes weeks,
weeks to count the ballots to know who won in
a close race. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was following
some of the well, yeah, Nate Silver, the great Polster,
saying it to an embarrassment to democracy worldwide that California,
(20:17):
the home of you know, the highest tech everything in
the world, is the worst in the world in terms
of getting results from their elections anywhere in the world.
How Embari's Democratic Party and assists on blanketing the entire
state with paper mail out ballots so that everybody can
harvest up plenty of votes voted for by whom I
(20:39):
don't know. We'll check this signatures allegedly, maybe a little bit.
I don't know. It's it's corrupted, unwieldy, and embarrassing. Let
me do a quick tease before I tell you a story.
To keep you around. I just got a whole bunch
of insider information on that New World screw New World
screwworm virus thingy. Oh that you want to know, it's
going to drive people away. He not killing the mark.
(21:01):
You need to know. I got to pay off the
ultra processed food thing too. So I went to vote
in person yesterday in California. I hadn't voted in person
in years. She's a long time, maybe twenty years. And
I went to a random polling place that happened to
be the Junior High not far from where I live,
and walked in there in late afternoon, wasn't very busy,
(21:23):
kind of followed a woman into the parking lot because
I didn't know exactly where I was going. Young woman
in a nice car, looked to be about I don't know,
early twenties. She got in line in front of me,
and I thought, well, this is going to be fast.
Turned out not to be fast, because they had one
person checking people in and said do you have a ballot
with you? And she said no, and okay, well let
me look up your name and address, so if you
(21:45):
could give me your name, she did and your address.
She said, I don't know my address, and oh boy,
and this is a well dressed I don't know if
she's in college, probably in college in the town I
live in, probably like graduating or graduate student again, driving
a nice car that clearly her parents got for her.
(22:07):
I don't know my address, And the polling worker just
looked at her kind of like, what do I say
to someone who says I don't know my address? Wow,
you're supposed to teach your six year old dad so
they can tell the police if they get lost. I know,
And I thought to myself, I don't know if there's
ever been a moment in my life since I was six,
roughly that I didn't know my address. But so the
(22:31):
polling worker said, how about a previous address. What was
your previous because you could have if you just moved,
possibly not remember your new address. Maybe, but you'd think
you'd remember your previous address. She said, I don't know
that either, So you don't know where you live now
or where you lived before. Now that is, start with
(22:51):
your first name and builds from there. Do you know that?
Do you know where you are? Do you know why
you're here? And I just that was so funny, And
then the poll worker says, it starts with an au.
She's got it on the iPad. In front of her,
you know, hoping that the voter will get you know,
(23:13):
it'll spark something in her memory and she says, oh, yeah,
I know what street I live on, so that she
can confirm it's actually the human being that she says
she is. Because they will not ask for an ID.
That is absolutely off the table asking for an ID. Obviously,
if you asked for a driver's license, you know what
would have on there, the freaking address, And percent of
(23:33):
Americans say that would be perfectly fine. In fact, it
should be required, including cornea. You don't dare, including Democrats.
So if you just got out your driver's license, I
know you got one, I saw you drive in in
your mom and dad's car. It would have a picture
of you, your name, and your address. But they refuse
to ask that. I heard somebody say yesterday that they
tried to offer one time and everybody was like, no, no,
(23:55):
put that back in your pocket, like they were so
horrified by the idea of anybody even having their ID out. Wow,
it's like a cult. I know, it's so weird. So
it starts with an A and then the girl just
kind of looked at her like, I don't I got nothing.
And then finally the pollworker just said the name of
the street, So is that where you lived? She said
(24:16):
it might be. And then so they just checked her
in and she went and voted. She should not be voting.
I don't think she was, like, you know, lying or
trying to pull off anything. I think she just is
a person. And I thought, well, I'm sure she's dialed
in on the issues. Of course, it's quite possible that
she knows way more about some of these socialist issues
(24:36):
than I do. She just doesn't know her own address. Wow,
I thought that was pretty funny. Then there was a
ninety year old she should not be allowed to vote. Sorry,
there's a really really nice ninety year old poleworker in
there that was slowing everything down. Here was a person
you gave your ballots too, after you filled them out.
So you went in there, you got your ballot, you
got a big magic marker, you fill out your ballot,
(24:57):
and a private little booth you bring it out and
you handed This guy was a million years old and
super nice, and he's voluntary his time, but just so slow.
He'd grab one ballot and if you're old enough, is
like Tim Conway and Carol Burnett sixty years ago on television,
just shuffle over really really slow to where you put
the ballot, and then he'd slide it in the hole
(25:18):
and he'd miss a couple of times, and he'd get
it in there and he'd turn around for the next one.
In the line is getting longer. No, would you like
a I voted sticker? And people would say yes, and
then he'd have to turn around again and shuffle over
to where the stickers are. My god, so the line
just kept stretching and stretching and stretching. I thought that
(25:40):
was so hilarious. AnyWho, that was the voting experience estate.
I was just blown away by somebody who doesn't know
their address or last address. Like I said, I'll give
you a pats. Maybe you're a college kid you just moved.
You don't know the dorm address or something, but you
don't have a previous address. You know, you're either on
mushrooms or you are a more Wow. Okay, do you
(26:04):
want to know about this? Do we have an ad
we have to do? Okay, do not touch that dial
because you're about to learn about this this flesh eating
worm that's gonna come into America. So oh, no, oh no,
Biden's open borders. So your personal information is valuable. You
might not You might not know though, how accessible it is.
(26:26):
Every time you shop online, your data is collected, packaged,
and sold to data brokers, and that's why you need
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Incogniti dot com slash armstrong. I'll be vague about where
I got this information. It's from a regular Texter who
works in the federal government. I don't want to get
them in trouble, but they had a briefing training just yesterday.
That's how new this news is. That Heather brought us
about fifteen twenty minutes ago on this new world screwworm
(27:33):
that's twenty five miles from the border. Is that what
Heather said? Yeah, yeah, coming up from South America. It's
a certain type of fly that lays eggs that turn
into maggots. But unlike the maggots most of us are
familiar with, it only hold American maggots. It doesn't grow
on dead things like old meat or dead dead animal.
(27:53):
It only eats live flesh. Oh, the flies lay eggs
and live warm blooded creature. I guess the photos of
it and what it does are pretty disgusting. Yeah, I've
seen them as horrifying. They get cattle a lot. I
guess this person mentions that the pennis is a commonplace
(28:14):
that they end up. Oh boy, inside nostrils. Oh boy.
So love to pick a favorite. There's glad you stay tuned, folks. Well,
it's something to be aware of. Watch out for, Watch
out for it. Yes, how does that work? Exactly? Try
not to let a fly penetrate my You know, hey, honey,
(28:37):
you'd like to look at this. Does this look like maggots?
Does this look like I got maggots eating?
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
No, so that's disgusting. Stop well, I hope it doesn't
start spreading around. Everyone. Be afraid, be very afraid. So
we got a mail bag on the way. Stay right here.
I do want to talk later about the whole character
(29:02):
issue in politics, whether it still matters or not. It's
kind of having a minor resurgence around this platiner guy
up in Maine. We'll see, particularly around fidelity in your marriage.
I thought we'd moved on after Clinton and Trump and
a number of other people. Yeah, but there's so much
more to it than that. We can discuss that in
(29:24):
a minute. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Continuing on the theme of optimism, a couple of quotes
from some of my favorite works of fiction. First of all,
Tolkien in the Return of the King in this hour,
I do not believe that any darkness will endure. That's
the straight out of the Bible, actually, more or less.
And then William Goldman wrote this for the Princess Bride.
(29:47):
We'll never survive. Nonsense. You're only saying that because no
one ever has. What a wonderful movie. Rob Reiner too bad.
His son was a crazy drug addict oof mailbag who
was an oote mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
Kids don't do the hard drugs ever, ever, ever, ever, ever,
(30:09):
Let's see. Brian from Santa Rosa writes, I finally got
my mom, who died in nineteen ninety nine, off the
voter registration rolls in cal Unicordia. However, my brother has
at least four ballots mailed to four different addresses, including mine.
It's frustrating sometimes to have values because I know which
way he votes and it's the direct opposite of me.
Same with two of my daughters, who blah blah blah.
(30:30):
I've told them every vote counts. Vote every time you
get a chance, one person, one vote, so much easier
to be a Democrat, especially in California. So I got
a ballot that I could drop off. If I had
dropped that off yesterday, would they have caught that I
voted in person and through the mail. It seems unlikely,
No idea. Let's see David, writes David in Sacramento. Why
(30:54):
the f do we even pay attention to polls? Which
polls all of them? What? You can't buy any election
in California, sorry, Tom Steyer. Now please go away, buy
an island where you can perform all your silly environmental wishes.
I have a wee bit of hope for a state.
Not much, but a wee bit. Tom Styre, the billionaire,
looks like it's not going to make the top two.
Spent two hundred billion dollars of his own money to
(31:18):
try to become governor of California. That's a lot billion
or million, sorry, two hundred million, two hundred million dollars
of your own money to be to be governor. I
mean if you were trying to be president, that would
be and a crazy amount of money. Well, you're right, yeah,
I can't remember where I was reading. He is so
(31:38):
far left of like Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom is Ronald
Raken compared to Tom Styre. Yeah, I mean that would be.
You would see people leaving California by the millions if
Styre got into office. He is a strange care I
wonder what kind of personal rejection that feels like if
you spend two hundred million dollars in one state race
(31:59):
and you and you can't make the top three. Well,
I hope it's good and humiliating. Let's see. Nick the
Plumber writes, guys, two things. The IRGC we're switching to
Iran now is stalling knowing that Dems will help them
after the midterms. I wouldn't be surprised that Democratic leaders
have been in contact with Iran's leadership regarding this subject.
(32:21):
I don't know about that, but there is historical precedent
for that. Seeing Nixon in North Vietnam. Iran already has
a nuke. They have all the parts, they have ICBMs.
The current sixty percent breakout uranium could be finished in
two weeks, if not fully enriched already. It's like saying
I don't have a gun, but I have all the
pieces and AMMO, you can assemble the gun in five minutes.
(32:41):
I think it's a boy who called wolf scenario because
of Iraq and Afghanistan, but the threat is real. Then
he says, by the way, Jack is the stupidest genius
that I've ever heard. I love him, but he is
annoying twenty five years listener, Nick the Plumber, Thanks for listening, Nick,
I'm annoying the great music radio personality. Radio personality Don
(33:06):
Geronimo once often referred to himself as the world's stupidest millionaire. Right, Oh,
moving along, this is at least semi interesting on the
story about the young man who had a Bluetooth device
labeled bomb on the airplane and the pilots we played
(33:27):
this audio yesterday said Okay, somebody thinks they're going to
be funny, but now we've got to go back to
New York or Newark, whatever it is they're trying to
fly to Spain. Got this from David. The Hello t
Tech speaker branded as the Bomb Speaker is apparently named
Bomb by Factory Settings. Their website crashed shortly after the
incident with everyone researching it. Somebody at the company is
(33:49):
probably now in the unemployment line. It appears the kid
is not directly at fault from packing a suitcase in
a way that turned the speaker on. Appeared to be
in check luggage so he could not turn it off. Wow.
Interesting And as I always like to point out, when
they grab your toothpaste and hold it in front of
you and then drop it in the trash. You didn't
(34:10):
actually stop a terrorist attack. Okay, you followed some rules
that might be helpful to stop terrorist attacks, but in
most cases are not. They're just inconvenient for everyone. You
didn't stop a terrorist attack. You just followed to the
letter of the rules, with all of you knowing there
wasn't actually a bomb involved. Here. There's gotta be a
(34:32):
you know, that's the Jones principle or the iron law
of something or other that the purpose is lost in
the h oh yeah, and it's driving it's crazy. Since
I was five years old. Yeah, yeah, let's see, I
thought this is interesting from the stick I just read
about Scott Pelly's hissy fit at CBS and then cuts
coming to NBC. I expect the ABC to produce drag
(34:55):
queen dramas soon cable companies continue to grasp it diminishing
returns by relentlessly price more people out of the market,
to say nothing of the crap programming anyone can afford.
You're witnessing history, folks, nineteen forty four, with World War
two still in fury. This is World War eleven if
you're lying ill han Omar, by the way he writes,
there are only There were only forty four thousand households
(35:15):
with TVs nineteen forty nine when our family got our
first I was four years old, but there were only
there were already forty million programming crew desirability grew families
screw the set became attractive, the show's dazzled. Our entire
family life grew up around the entertainment news and abundance
of selections. Those days are flat over. Yeah, and in short,
we're just moving on to a different age of communication, clearly,
(35:42):
but not better. I don't think which is a problem
better in some ways worse than others. How it nets
out is you know, in the eye of the beholder.
I guess awful that's how it's going to net out,
or so how it's netting out so far. Jt in
Livermore actually makes a great point about the Democrat you
(36:04):
quoted on Mark Halpern's show, admitting that he had deceived
himself about Biden's mental deficiency. Yeah, we really don't have
time to get into that, but boy, we've got some
interesting stuff on why Jill Biden's book tour actually matters
and similar topic. I would like to talk about that
that ability to deceive yourself because you want a certain
outcome is something we should all be very aware of
(36:26):
in our lives, or how susceptible we are to it.
We got a lot on the way. If you miss
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Arms wrong.
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Surely I'm not expected to talk about this for five
months live from studio c sare a dimly lit room
deeper in the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound.
It is midweek and today we are toiling under the
title of the show, Ultra Processed Foods are the new sitting,
which was the new smoking? Or You're fired, I'm fired. Yes,
(00:49):
you're fired. I'm fired for God's sake. Yes, now leave.
I like both those headlines. That's fantastic. You know what
got pushed out of the top two because we have
a jungle primary of headlines here at the Armstrong and
Getty Show was sorry Walmart. Amazon is the new king.
(01:10):
Amazon just passed Walmart. Really the biggest revenue company in
the SMP your top well, however many you want biggest
retailer in the America or the world company period, biggest company.
Walmart was the biggest company. That's there's some qualification there.
There are many, many qualifications that are important to consider.
(01:33):
Walmart is not the biggest company. Your Nvidia is your
apples here, those are the biggest companies. That's no, that's valuation,
not revenue. Right, So what I'm saying, what's the qualification
on this? It's right revenue revenue. Yeah, that's what I said.
That maybe not what the heck is it. It's around
here somewhere. Trust me. Well, Amazon is very, very big
and important and heads up many lists. I would say,
(01:56):
that's mostly amazing to me that Walmart held on till now.
I had the same reaction honestly with all the shop
in that Amazon. So I wonder I grew up rural
middle of America, I'm thinking, and I haven't lived that
way in a long time. I'll bet most people, like
I'll bet my brothers. I'll bet my brother almost never
(02:19):
uses Amazon, if once a year, maybe, as opposed to
him several times a week. I'll have to ask that
ball buddy, hardly ever does Yeah, partially because you'd get
stuff a lot to It feel different if you live
in an urban area and I don't know you know
where you are listening right now, But if you live
in certain areas, like I can get stuff this afternoon
when I order on Amazon, all time, parasox batteries, whatever
(02:40):
it does I need, And you know that's you pay
a little more. It's like going to the convenience store.
That's why convenience stores are more expensive because it's so convenient.
But you're paying for the convenience. But if you got
to wait several days, you probably just go to the
Walmart on the edge of whatever town you live in. Yeah. Yeah,
it's funny. I'm very pro ordering on Amazon. My wife
(03:01):
resists a little bit. No, no, no, I'll just go to
the store and get it. I'm like, but I can
check it off my list if I do this. Otherwise
I gotta check honey, did you get a chance? But anyway, AnyWho,
So more, Amazon has taken over Walmart to claim the
number one spot of America's biggest companies America's buy revenue.
And what's pretty interesting, the very very close at seven
(03:22):
hundred and seventeen billion in annual revenue Woo versus seven
hundred and thirteen. Third place is way down at four
hundred and forty seven billion. That's United Health Group. I
would not have guessed that United Health was the number
three revenue company in America. That's paying medical bills and
(03:45):
stuff essentially. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Man.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I've had quite a few medical bills late with my
kid's going to urging care for various things that happened
to kids, and god dang it, it's more expensive than
it used to be to go to the doctor. Holy cow.
With everything else, the bills are just way bigger than
they used to be. The affordability thing is absolutely the
number one political issue out there, and nobody's speaking to
(04:12):
the affordability issue. Yeah. I suppose you could have rhetoric
around it, but what you can actually do about it,
I don't know. But things, what what was it I
paid for yesterday? It'll pop it in my head something.
I was just like, holy crap, things are expensive just
the way it is. I guess. Oh, I know. My
son needed some band aids, so a particular kind of
(04:32):
band aid because he was doing his swimming test last
night for Boy Scotts. He won some waterproof band aids
for some surgery he had. Blah blah blah. I go
to CBS, I buy a little box of band aids.
It's fourteen dollars. Good lore. In my head, it's like,
in my mind, it's gonna be like four and it's fourteen.
It's just everything is like that. Yeah, I'm not gonna
go to the doctor. I got something going on with
(04:54):
my index finger. It's really sore. I don't know if
I did something to it, or it's infected or something.
But Michael, I'm just gonna grab a pair of bolt
cutters out of the garage and just take care of
it myself. There, that only makes sense. Walk it off.
You know how many? How many fingers?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
How many like segments of your finger do you need?
All three of them are kinds on the finger too.
They aren't of equal value. I won't have to clip
my nail anymore. By the way I look at my
two ring fingers, I feel like you could take them
off today and I wouldn't even notice. I don't what
do I need him for. I played a guitar and
a piano, so or does that. But yeah, they're kind
(05:29):
of a supporting role finger. They're handy, but you know, necessities.
Maybe it'd keep me from getting married again. I might
not do that just out of a precaution. I'm not
sure that's how the law works, but you do, you, buddy.
Avoiding one particular topic that's leading all newscasts everywhere in America.
(05:51):
And like I opened with, you can't make me talk
about this for five more months. So five more months.
People on the two big races in California. They got
so much national attention. Five more months, that's a long time.
You got your whole June, July, August, September, October, five
months before you get for the first Tuesday in November.
That's a long time. So I look at it like
(06:12):
baseball season. Let's make a big deal over opening day
then kind of yeah, sort of, kind of not really
pay attention. I'll see in late July. Yeah, I'm with you.
I get that. I was just reading in terms of
things that actually matter, Like I want to hear that
ultra food ultra processed food story that you got. That
sounds really interesting and actually important to people's lives, right,
the affordability thing, got some economic stuff around that. And
(06:34):
then I was just reading Neil Ferguson, the historian We
like him. Oh, I was going to bring this up
his AI piece today about the world is in the
most dangerous arms race in world's history, and the people
running it are are are not the people you'd want
running it so h no, no, most dangerous arms race
(06:55):
in human history? Yeah, which is almost certainly true. I guess, yeah,
I think it is clearly Yeah, it is. There have
been some good ones. Atomic bombs come to mind, of course,
but a big right because well, because obviously we still
have the atomic bombs, and the AI is another layer
(07:16):
of uncertainty, including in the use of those bombs. Right.
And then it's the added thing that nuclear weapons were
not going to eliminate all college graduates having a job, right,
all of a sudden, unleashing unthinkable levels of political unrest. Correct,
while each country has the ability to maybe turn off
(07:38):
the other country's lights and shut down their energy grid
and everything else, or or launch nuclear weapons or who know,
or do who knows what? Right? Right? And I would argue,
and I'm not trying to freak anybody out, but we've
been talking about this for a long time. The nuclear
arms race had a lot of like binary questions, Will
the US or the Soviets use them? Will you know
(08:01):
other countries get them? Will they use them? As pretty
yes or no? Ish? And the answer is thank god,
Since the middle nineteen forties the answer has been no.
But with AI, there are a one hundred different questions,
and Donald Trump signed an executive order around AI yesterday
right during the end of our show that we talked about.
We'll have to explain that to you again early. And
(08:27):
I can't imagine the federal government having any role in this,
hardly whatsoever, since they have no idea what they're talking about.
I just don't know what rules you can put in place.
The people building AI don't know what it's going to
do or how it works. I can't imagine how some
old congress people, yeah, who don't send emails, are going
(08:47):
to wrap their heads around it. I characterize the new
executive order as populist nonsense. Yesterday I have come across
nothing that shakes my opinion interesting. Let's start the show officially,
Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday,
June the third, the year twenty twenty six. Were Armstrong
and getting we approved of this program. Let's begin officially then,
(09:09):
according to FCC rules and ranks, here we go at Mark.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
It's simple as a pimple for me. There's nothing to it.
It's the birthday of America two hundred and fifty years.
It's not anything to do with politics. I don't know
why they're turning it into politics. I'm not even I've
never voted.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
In my life.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I never do that.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
He's the white and the red, white and blue folks.
Robbie van Winkle, perhaps you know him as Vanilla Ice.
Oh my god, that was vanilla Ice. I thought it
was a guy who won the Michigan primary or something.
Vanilla Ice talking about the controversy over the various two
hundred and fiftieth birthday celebrations. Wow, I don't like the
(09:47):
term simple as a pimple for some reason that I
don't like that. I don't like a single damn thing
about that half with You know, we saw vanilla Ice
driving down the street in Key Wes last year. My
son was so excited. He was in a convert looking
like that's a story, looking like vanilla Ice, looking exactly
like Vanilla Ice. Would you would expect him to look
at a convertible driving down and do vall in Key
(10:09):
West And he sounded like the kind of guy that
would say what you just what? We just heard there
right right standing up for the Red, White and blue.
Gotta like that. We got Heather's headlines on the way
so much to talk about today. Stay here, hi, y'all
(10:30):
doing cool? Glad to hear it. I do want to
talk about that dude in terms of politics, that dude
up in Maine that they're having their big uh primary
this next Tuesday up in Maine. That's the guy that
had the Nazi tattoo and all the sexting and that
sort of stuff. Platin Gram, Platiner. Yes, I didn't want
to talk about him and the and the character thing
(10:52):
which I kind of blew off the other day, maybe
too uh easily showing a lack of eye, don't know. Character.
I just didn't know that was on the table as
an issue anymore after Trump and a whole bunch of
other things. I just thought people had decided that doesn't matter.
But more on that later. All right, Let's figure out
(11:14):
who's reporting what It's the lead story with Heather Meyers Heather.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Back, Joe, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Let's find out how the networks are covering the news
the day after the primary.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Starting with Fox News.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Their headline reads, Trump back to Hilton surged in California,
gubnatorial race. USA Today Go ahead, I say USA Today
covered it like this, Hilton, But Sarah lead California governor's race.
And here's the headline this morning from CNN. I'm gonna
read it exactly how you would read it if you
clicked on their site. California Governor's race still too early
(11:48):
to call Sam Colin Trump Endorsee suffers loss.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah. I was going to say they love putting Trump
endorsement in the headline, like that's the main factor in
the whole thing. Oh my god, that was Steve Hilton
wishes it hadn't happened. I have a feeling and it's
been a non factor, right right, It's got nothing to
do with it, But they're going to try to make
it everything to do with it for both Hilton and
(12:16):
in the mayor situation in LA just to try to
make it a Trump versus US. Don't let a magi
candidate win.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah, you know, it's just interesting the way that they
worded that, because they said Trump and Dorsey Suffers lost,
they're actually talking about the race in Iowa. They're coupling
that in the same head Oh, I see the governor's
race because Hilton did not suffer a loss.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Right right?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Will you try to make it about Trump again?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Here we go, all right, from Fox Los Angeles Spencer
Pratt on track for a top two finish. YEP, this
one's interesting and this is developing right now. Bakersfield Now
dot com Two hostages released a mid bomb thread at
Chase Bake in Bakersfield.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Wow, I haven't heard that story. We'll get you details later.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah, that one's been going on for probably close to
eighteen hours now. Guy walked into a bank with what
they think are bomb strapped to him. He's still there
with customers in the bank and at this point just
too hostage.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Was he wanting money or is it a political thing?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
At this point, they haven't released a ton of details
on fbis now on this.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Maybe just a crazy person could be very well.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Be from ABC News, Iran targets US forces Kuwait Airport
amid cease fire.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
From usage to.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Talk about that as usual, and we will back to you,
Heather from.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
USA to sixteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Correspondent Scott Pelly fired after criticizing CBS execs.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Well, shock, you can't like yell at your boss on
the first dange. Don't you realize nobody wants you here?
Man to your new boss and not get fired even
if you're Scott Pelly. What an ass hat? Hey, he
is an ass hat. I can't wait to talk about
that more. Most pompous man in the world Alert listener
Steve gets full credit for this joke with slow talking
(14:01):
Scott Pelley fired. Perhaps they can now make the show
with thirty minutes Pick up the Base.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
From NBC News this morning.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional math that eliminates
a majority black district.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Jim Craw on steroids. We'll talk about that more. Oh, thanks,
Uncle Joe from.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Fox Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Forty five million dollar cocaine bus uncovers massive tunnel to
Mexico under supposed discount store.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, I was really got into that story yesterday. There
was a fake store. It looked just like a regular
store that just nobody ever came in and out of that.
You'd drive by and just nobody paid any attention to it.
And it wasn't a real store. It had a tunnel
in it and drugs were going back and forth. That
was like that Vietnamese restaurant in Charlotte we used to
eat at that. There was never anybody in. We're like,
(14:53):
what are they selling drugs or breeding pannas?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
What from CBS News this morning, flesh eating screwworm detected
twenty five miles from US border.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Oh boy, let's close the border immediately. Yeah, how do
you get that thing?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Can I just read you the details on this shoe? Sure?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Sure, please do.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
The New World screwworm is a parasitic fly that feeds
on warm blooded animals and people. It lays its eggs
in open wounds or orifices like the eyes, ears, nose,
or mouth, which can then eat living tissue or flesh
once they hatch.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I do not have any open wounds, but I do
have orify. M keep them closed, tightly closed. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
From ABC News.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Uber releases list of stranges lost and found items dentures, butterflies, dishwasher.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Dishwasher, Uh, where am i? Where am I denter? Live
in the back feet? Where are they?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
The list goes on breast milk, a child's pross, esthetic eye,
two wedding gowns.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Live fish.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Mommy, where's my eye? Oh? I left it in the
backseat of the Uber. What's my live fish? Damn it?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I remember losing my retainer a lot as a kid.
I wonder if that's the same thing. If you have
a prosthetic eye as a child, you just leave it
in random places.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I lost my glasses so many times in high school.
My parents just said, you're gonna squint. Yeah, we can't
afford anymore classes walk into things, that's your problem.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah. From BuzzFeed, people are having an absolute meltdown over
Sesame Street's pride message.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah. I don't know about this, getting lots of attention. Yeah,
we'll have to play that for you.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
And finally, this morning from the Babylon b Trump shocked
to learn genocidal jihatis often don't negotiate in good faith.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, ah, that's good. That's a question for history. Is
he caught unaware of this whole situation? Like, is he
unaware that he's dealing with nihilists who want to die
and it's not like most real estate developers who don't
want to die. I would hope Marco is in his
ear making that infinitely clear to him. Thank you, Heather,
(17:10):
good stuff, And we got a lot more on the
way on a whole bunch of those topics. If you
missed the segment at the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand,
there's some interesting stuff to talk about today that's not
the election.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Well obviously got one in five more months of me
exposing all the failures of our mayor.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
So it's gonna be a fun ride. I hope she's ready.
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I know I was born for this.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Clearly, I'm gonna prove to everybody this is this is
for real, and I'm ready to run the city.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Spencer Brat, I was born for this. I love the
disco music, robbing in the back. It was the big
uh A celebration party at their campaign headquarters. As he's
trying to become the mayor of Los Angeles, I don't
have a lot of stomach for the big little races today. Personally,
(18:01):
part of it might be from watching our old friend
David Drucker on MSNBC this morning. David Drucker, who used
to write for the Washington Examiner now works for the Dispatch.
Everyone's while he's on MSNBC, and we like David, super
smart guy, but showbiz not his thing. He's like just
a fax man, just the facts and often takes the
(18:23):
air out of the room. But anyway, they're building up
the whole Steve Hilton, you know, is going to make
the top two for governor in California, and Pratt and
this and that and what does it mean and Trump
and blah blah blah. He said, you just look at
the numbers. It's pretty simple. Both the Democrats are going
to run away with it in the general. So and
(18:45):
I thought, you know what, You're probably right. So I'm
not sure there's that much more to talk about. Well, wow,
he would be really really to overcome just the demographics
of what things are. LA is seven points more more
blue than the state, which is quite old. Wow. Wow wow.
Although you made the point yesterday, perhaps you've forgotten your
(19:07):
own wisdom that often it takes a few cycles before
the electorate says, you know, that guy wasn't so bad
and he was right about this, that and the other,
and they drift from hardcore de voter no matter how
bad it gets, to being willing to make another choice.
So I think a great deal of absolutely terrific messaging
(19:30):
is going to take place during the campaign, and whether
Steve Hilton, for instance, triumphs or not, there's going to
be a lot of truth telling. And I think that's
a good thing. Over the next five month our elections
are two long people. Well, the other thing that's worth mentioning.
If you're talking about those big California races, is that
the absolutely laughable, ridiculous third world The California voting system
(19:55):
that is the I mean, old man Nadoro wishes he'd
come up with a system that ridiculed. Uh it takes weeks,
weeks to count the ballots to know who won in
a close race. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was following
some of the well, yeah, Nate Silver, the great Polster,
saying it to an embarrassment to democracy worldwide that California,
(20:17):
the home of you know, the highest tech everything in
the world, is the worst in the world in terms
of getting results from their elections anywhere in the world.
How Embari's Democratic Party and assists on blanketing the entire
state with paper mail out ballots so that everybody can
harvest up plenty of votes voted for by whom I
(20:39):
don't know. We'll check this signatures allegedly, maybe a little bit.
I don't know. It's it's corrupted, unwieldy, and embarrassing. Let
me do a quick tease before I tell you a story.
To keep you around. I just got a whole bunch
of insider information on that New World screw New World
screwworm virus thingy. Oh that you want to know, it's
going to drive people away. He not killing the mark.
(21:01):
You need to know. I got to pay off the
ultra processed food thing too. So I went to vote
in person yesterday in California. I hadn't voted in person
in years. She's a long time, maybe twenty years. And
I went to a random polling place that happened to
be the Junior High not far from where I live,
and walked in there in late afternoon, wasn't very busy,
(21:23):
kind of followed a woman into the parking lot because
I didn't know exactly where I was going. Young woman
in a nice car, looked to be about I don't know,
early twenties. She got in line in front of me,
and I thought, well, this is going to be fast.
Turned out not to be fast, because they had one
person checking people in and said do you have a ballot
with you? And she said no, and okay, well let
me look up your name and address, so if you
(21:45):
could give me your name, she did and your address.
She said, I don't know my address, and oh boy,
and this is a well dressed I don't know if
she's in college, probably in college in the town I
live in, probably like graduating or graduate student again, driving
a nice car that clearly her parents got for her.
(22:07):
I don't know my address, And the polling worker just
looked at her kind of like, what do I say
to someone who says I don't know my address? Wow,
you're supposed to teach your six year old dad so
they can tell the police if they get lost. I know,
And I thought to myself, I don't know if there's
ever been a moment in my life since I was six,
roughly that I didn't know my address. But so the
(22:31):
polling worker said, how about a previous address. What was
your previous because you could have if you just moved,
possibly not remember your new address. Maybe, but you'd think
you'd remember your previous address. She said, I don't know
that either, So you don't know where you live now
or where you lived before. Now that is, start with
(22:51):
your first name and builds from there. Do you know that?
Do you know where you are? Do you know why
you're here? And I just that was so funny, And
then the poll worker says, it starts with an au.
She's got it on the iPad. In front of her,
you know, hoping that the voter will get you know,
(23:13):
it'll spark something in her memory and she says, oh, yeah,
I know what street I live on, so that she
can confirm it's actually the human being that she says
she is. Because they will not ask for an ID.
That is absolutely off the table asking for an ID. Obviously,
if you asked for a driver's license, you know what
would have on there, the freaking address, And percent of
(23:33):
Americans say that would be perfectly fine. In fact, it
should be required, including cornea. You don't dare, including Democrats.
So if you just got out your driver's license, I
know you got one, I saw you drive in in
your mom and dad's car. It would have a picture
of you, your name, and your address. But they refuse
to ask that. I heard somebody say yesterday that they
tried to offer one time and everybody was like, no, no,
(23:55):
put that back in your pocket, like they were so
horrified by the idea of anybody even having their ID out. Wow,
it's like a cult. I know, it's so weird. So
it starts with an A and then the girl just
kind of looked at her like, I don't I got nothing.
And then finally the pollworker just said the name of
the street, So is that where you lived? She said
(24:16):
it might be. And then so they just checked her
in and she went and voted. She should not be voting.
I don't think she was, like, you know, lying or
trying to pull off anything. I think she just is
a person. And I thought, well, I'm sure she's dialed
in on the issues. Of course, it's quite possible that
she knows way more about some of these socialist issues
(24:36):
than I do. She just doesn't know her own address. Wow,
I thought that was pretty funny. Then there was a
ninety year old she should not be allowed to vote. Sorry,
there's a really really nice ninety year old poleworker in
there that was slowing everything down. Here was a person
you gave your ballots too, after you filled them out.
So you went in there, you got your ballot, you
got a big magic marker, you fill out your ballot,
(24:57):
and a private little booth you bring it out and
you handed This guy was a million years old and
super nice, and he's voluntary his time, but just so slow.
He'd grab one ballot and if you're old enough, is
like Tim Conway and Carol Burnett sixty years ago on television,
just shuffle over really really slow to where you put
the ballot, and then he'd slide it in the hole
(25:18):
and he'd miss a couple of times, and he'd get
it in there and he'd turn around for the next one.
In the line is getting longer. No, would you like
a I voted sticker? And people would say yes, and
then he'd have to turn around again and shuffle over
to where the stickers are. My god, so the line
just kept stretching and stretching and stretching. I thought that
(25:40):
was so hilarious. AnyWho, that was the voting experience estate.
I was just blown away by somebody who doesn't know
their address or last address. Like I said, I'll give
you a pats. Maybe you're a college kid you just moved.
You don't know the dorm address or something, but you
don't have a previous address. You know, you're either on
mushrooms or you are a more Wow. Okay, do you
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Incogniti dot com slash armstrong. I'll be vague about where
I got this information. It's from a regular Texter who
works in the federal government. I don't want to get
them in trouble, but they had a briefing training just yesterday.
That's how new this news is. That Heather brought us
about fifteen twenty minutes ago on this new world screwworm
(27:33):
that's twenty five miles from the border. Is that what
Heather said? Yeah, yeah, coming up from South America. It's
a certain type of fly that lays eggs that turn
into maggots. But unlike the maggots most of us are
familiar with, it only hold American maggots. It doesn't grow
on dead things like old meat or dead dead animal.
(27:53):
It only eats live flesh. Oh, the flies lay eggs
and live warm blooded creature. I guess the photos of
it and what it does are pretty disgusting. Yeah, I've
seen them as horrifying. They get cattle a lot. I
guess this person mentions that the pennis is a commonplace
(28:14):
that they end up. Oh boy, inside nostrils. Oh boy.
So love to pick a favorite. There's glad you stay tuned, folks. Well,
it's something to be aware of. Watch out for, Watch
out for it. Yes, how does that work? Exactly? Try
not to let a fly penetrate my You know, hey, honey,
(28:37):
you'd like to look at this. Does this look like maggots?
Does this look like I got maggots eating?
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
No, so that's disgusting. Stop well, I hope it doesn't
start spreading around. Everyone. Be afraid, be very afraid. So
we got a mail bag on the way. Stay right here.
I do want to talk later about the whole character
(29:02):
issue in politics, whether it still matters or not. It's
kind of having a minor resurgence around this platiner guy
up in Maine. We'll see, particularly around fidelity in your marriage.
I thought we'd moved on after Clinton and Trump and
a number of other people. Yeah, but there's so much
more to it than that. We can discuss that in
(29:24):
a minute. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Continuing on the theme of optimism, a couple of quotes
from some of my favorite works of fiction. First of all,
Tolkien in the Return of the King in this hour,
I do not believe that any darkness will endure. That's
the straight out of the Bible, actually, more or less.
And then William Goldman wrote this for the Princess Bride.
(29:47):
We'll never survive. Nonsense. You're only saying that because no
one ever has. What a wonderful movie. Rob Reiner too bad.
His son was a crazy drug addict oof mailbag who
was an oote mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
Kids don't do the hard drugs ever, ever, ever, ever, ever,
(30:09):
Let's see. Brian from Santa Rosa writes, I finally got
my mom, who died in nineteen ninety nine, off the
voter registration rolls in cal Unicordia. However, my brother has
at least four ballots mailed to four different addresses, including mine.
It's frustrating sometimes to have values because I know which
way he votes and it's the direct opposite of me.
Same with two of my daughters, who blah blah blah.
(30:30):
I've told them every vote counts. Vote every time you
get a chance, one person, one vote, so much easier
to be a Democrat, especially in California. So I got
a ballot that I could drop off. If I had
dropped that off yesterday, would they have caught that I
voted in person and through the mail. It seems unlikely,
No idea. Let's see David, writes David in Sacramento. Why
(30:54):
the f do we even pay attention to polls? Which
polls all of them? What? You can't buy any election
in California, sorry, Tom Steyer. Now please go away, buy
an island where you can perform all your silly environmental wishes.
I have a wee bit of hope for a state.
Not much, but a wee bit. Tom Styre, the billionaire,
looks like it's not going to make the top two.
Spent two hundred billion dollars of his own money to
(31:18):
try to become governor of California. That's a lot billion
or million, sorry, two hundred million, two hundred million dollars
of your own money to be to be governor. I
mean if you were trying to be president, that would
be and a crazy amount of money. Well, you're right, yeah,
I can't remember where I was reading. He is so
(31:38):
far left of like Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom is Ronald
Raken compared to Tom Styre. Yeah, I mean that would be.
You would see people leaving California by the millions if
Styre got into office. He is a strange care I
wonder what kind of personal rejection that feels like if
you spend two hundred million dollars in one state race
(31:59):
and you and you can't make the top three. Well,
I hope it's good and humiliating. Let's see. Nick the
Plumber writes, guys, two things. The IRGC we're switching to
Iran now is stalling knowing that Dems will help them
after the midterms. I wouldn't be surprised that Democratic leaders
have been in contact with Iran's leadership regarding this subject.
(32:21):
I don't know about that, but there is historical precedent
for that. Seeing Nixon in North Vietnam. Iran already has
a nuke. They have all the parts, they have ICBMs.
The current sixty percent breakout uranium could be finished in
two weeks, if not fully enriched already. It's like saying
I don't have a gun, but I have all the
pieces and AMMO, you can assemble the gun in five minutes.
(32:41):
I think it's a boy who called wolf scenario because
of Iraq and Afghanistan, but the threat is real. Then
he says, by the way, Jack is the stupidest genius
that I've ever heard. I love him, but he is
annoying twenty five years listener, Nick the Plumber, Thanks for listening, Nick,
I'm annoying the great music radio personality. Radio personality Don
(33:06):
Geronimo once often referred to himself as the world's stupidest millionaire. Right, Oh,
moving along, this is at least semi interesting on the
story about the young man who had a Bluetooth device
labeled bomb on the airplane and the pilots we played
(33:27):
this audio yesterday said Okay, somebody thinks they're going to
be funny, but now we've got to go back to
New York or Newark, whatever it is they're trying to
fly to Spain. Got this from David. The Hello t
Tech speaker branded as the Bomb Speaker is apparently named
Bomb by Factory Settings. Their website crashed shortly after the
incident with everyone researching it. Somebody at the company is
(33:49):
probably now in the unemployment line. It appears the kid
is not directly at fault from packing a suitcase in
a way that turned the speaker on. Appeared to be
in check luggage so he could not turn it off. Wow.
Interesting And as I always like to point out, when
they grab your toothpaste and hold it in front of
you and then drop it in the trash. You didn't
(34:10):
actually stop a terrorist attack. Okay, you followed some rules
that might be helpful to stop terrorist attacks, but in
most cases are not. They're just inconvenient for everyone. You
didn't stop a terrorist attack. You just followed to the
letter of the rules, with all of you knowing there
wasn't actually a bomb involved. Here. There's gotta be a
(34:32):
you know, that's the Jones principle or the iron law
of something or other that the purpose is lost in
the h oh yeah, and it's driving it's crazy. Since
I was five years old. Yeah, yeah, let's see, I
thought this is interesting from the stick I just read
about Scott Pelly's hissy fit at CBS and then cuts
coming to NBC. I expect the ABC to produce drag
(34:55):
queen dramas soon cable companies continue to grasp it diminishing
returns by relentlessly price more people out of the market,
to say nothing of the crap programming anyone can afford.
You're witnessing history, folks, nineteen forty four, with World War
two still in fury. This is World War eleven if
you're lying ill han Omar, by the way he writes,
there are only There were only forty four thousand households
(35:15):
with TVs nineteen forty nine when our family got our
first I was four years old, but there were only
there were already forty million programming crew desirability grew families
screw the set became attractive, the show's dazzled. Our entire
family life grew up around the entertainment news and abundance
of selections. Those days are flat over. Yeah, and in short,
we're just moving on to a different age of communication, clearly,
(35:42):
but not better. I don't think which is a problem
better in some ways worse than others. How it nets
out is you know, in the eye of the beholder.
I guess awful that's how it's going to net out,
or so how it's netting out so far. Jt in
Livermore actually makes a great point about the Democrat you
(36:04):
quoted on Mark Halpern's show, admitting that he had deceived
himself about Biden's mental deficiency. Yeah, we really don't have
time to get into that, but boy, we've got some
interesting stuff on why Jill Biden's book tour actually matters
and similar topic. I would like to talk about that
that ability to deceive yourself because you want a certain
outcome is something we should all be very aware of
(36:26):
in our lives, or how susceptible we are to it.
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