June 6, 2026 • 37 mins
As heard throughout the week of June 1-5, 2026 on the radio broadcast of The Armstrong & Getty Show....
- The Jill Biden Book Tour...
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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Speaker 3 (00:34):
As always an action packed week. Jill Biden on her
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That's what it's called. Even today, she still thinks her
husband with him made a good president if he had
(01:02):
stayed in the race, of course, he would have made
a good president. He made a good president the four
years he was there. I mean to me, he was
the best president. What a waste of freaking time. That's
doctor Jill Biden on her interview yesterday. And she's going
to do a bunch more and I hope somebody at
some point presses her on these issues. But you know,
(01:23):
I suppose in reality, what is she supposed to say?
What is she going to say? There, as the wife
of an old man in his final days of life,
maybe she's supposed to say, Oh, clearly he would have sucked.
The brain doesn't work, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Come on, Well, that raises the question, though, then why
are we going through this exercise at all? Well, I
was going to say, anybody who buys it all that
old bad is going to lie to us. Why am
I watching this?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Anybody who buys her book and reads it, never talk
to me. Stay away from me. You're not the sort
of person I ever want to engage with. I can't
imagine anyone buying that book and reading it.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Fine, Michael's halfway through it, Jack, I should have said something.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
He's been loving it, you know. So I've been debating
whether to bring this up or not. But it's pretty interesting.
So I'd been mentioning that journalist Mark Alpern, who does
a TV show every afternoon on YouTube or a bunch
of other platforms. He has a Democrat and a Republican
on every day, and he has been incensed about this
(02:26):
whole thing from the beginning the media coverage. He calls
it the biggest media cover up in our nation's history,
the fact that they did not report on what everybody
could see and acted like it wasn't happening. But the
Democrat on there said, look, I fooled myself. He said,
(02:49):
I look back on it, and I think, how could
I be so blind to that? I saw this stuff
on TV and I just convinced myself that it is
not as bad as everybody's saying, or this is you know,
Trump people trying to make it worse than it actually is,
or he's got a stutter, or everybody misspeaks every now
(03:10):
and then he said, I myself don't know how I
blinded myself to this. Yeah, I find it disturbing. And
so the reason I bring that up, it's not a
politics thing. I just just for everybody, all human beings
in their own lives. Are we apparently that capable of
deluding ourselves if we want a specific thing to be
(03:32):
true or not true?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Apparently some more than others. Yeah, it's disturbing that somebody
who's at least arguably accomplished enough and articulate enough and
bright enough to be on that sort of form would
be self delusional like that. That's disturbing to me.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Well, it depends how invested you are. Think about if
you've ever known anybody talking about their husband or wife
or kids and they're laying out the story and you think, whoa,
I mean that they're a train wreck, And how do
you not recognize that this is like a serious problem.
(04:11):
It's because you want an outcome so much. And maybe
if you're in politics, you want an outcome like you
want your husband to not be as bad as he seems,
or wife or kids or whatever. Yeah, yeah, I just
think it varies from person to person.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
It's probably like you know, the spectrum of virtually any
human emotion or psychological function, from you know, the logic
to complete delusion. You have you know, self delusion and
rationalization on a scale.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Some people don't do it at all, some do. Well
you have that orwell quote orwell saying that the hardest
thing to do is to see something that's right in
front of one's nose.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So all right, right, Well, he famously is one of
my intellectual heroes obviously, and a brilliant, brilliant man, but
he was a dedicate is socialist and then you know realized,
oh yeah, this doesn't work among human beings. It's prone
to disaster and torture and totalitarianism and the rest of it. So,
(05:12):
and I don't think it's a discredit to somebody like Orwell,
for instance, that they fell for something that could never
work we had in spite of his brilliance.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It's not a DISCRETI fit. It turns out we're all
capable of deluding ourselves if we want a particular outcome
bad enough of whatever it is. And that's a disturbing
thing to think about. What what do you really want
to be true or not true? And you're just not
dealing with the facts on I don't.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Know what where are you on a scale of one
to ten. That's what I'm trying to tell you repeatedly.
I think some people are not very prone to that
at all, and some people are very very prone to it.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Well, you'd have to think that George Orwell wasn't very
prone to it, yet he would you im do that?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Huh? Why why would you think that? I don't know.
I think it's independent of intelligence. It's it's a tendency
like height or being a worrier or being cheerful versus
being kind of a door into an introvert.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I also think it'd probably be something that it's impossible
for you to diagnose yourself. Agreed, you agree no idea
yourself to where you would be on that scale. Well,
I know I got to disagree with that too, and
I certainly I've never thought about this in depth, so
I stand ready to be corrected. I think if you're
on the brutal realist end of things, your diagnosis is
(06:32):
better because you tend not to to self delude.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I don't know, the self delusional cannot diagnose themselves as
delusional because they're or delusional is too strong a term,
but you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
So then the question would be how much of the
media and political class were in the self delusion thing
because they wanted a particular outcome so bad, And how
many people knew exactly what they're doing but they're just
flat out lying.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, I assumed it was ninety eight percent cynicism by
the political class who just figured they could get the
soft heads to go along with it. If that guy's
being sincere, it's fascinating again and somewhat terrifying or at
least a little scary.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
What he was like whispery and forgetful and would wander
around and had to be guided, and his speeches were
either angry, sputtering, or like just slow paced. You didn't
notice that, oh, de Line just just articulate crazy, you know,
(07:42):
making stuff up Joe Biden and then uh uh Joe.
You didn't notice that.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
So the Joe Biden interview, which you probably didn't watch,
was an embarrassment of journalism. It's one of the most
embarrassing things that's ever happened in the history of journalism,
the fact that they did not bring receipt, eat and
drill down on various things that she was denying. I mean,
I suppose on one level you could It would seem
a little cruel, But I mean, you are a journalist
talking to somebody who's written a book about this, about
(08:11):
a very important topic. You could have shown clips and
say this happened, you know, three years before the debate,
explain this on the whole. You never saw him like
that before or after.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I mean, I just I think your problem here is
you're asking Hockey Night in America to talk about golf.
That show is an old bat talking in gentle tones
for the entertainment of old bats who are getting ready
to go to church in the morning.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It's not journalism. Okay. Well, let's hope that in the
coming days, as Joe Biden continues to go out there
and hawk this book, that she runs into some journalists
that are gonna like really push her on that up.
Because the most ridiculous thing she says, of all the
ridiculous things is I never saw him like that before
or after we did.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
How come you didn't, Well, yeah, you're right, he'd have
been a great president his second term.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
That's pretty ridiculous too. I can't believe that they are
so I mean, this is Louly the sixteenth stuff. They're
so tone deaf to the whole thing. Jill Biden that
she does the interview in front of their one of
their homes because they have many homes. Oh. I had
just recently watched Jerry Seinfeld Comedians and Cars with Coffee
(09:25):
with Eddie Murphy and he goes to Eddie Murphy's house
and picks up Eddie Murphy, and Eddie Murphy walks out
of this house and it's like, holy crap, that's a house. Yeah.
Jill Biden has the same sort of house as Eddie Murphy.
Why is that? And multiple times during the interview, I
mean it's like she walked out of an art museum
(09:47):
or something. That home. I mean, who has a house
that looks like it and has just the front I
can't imagine what it looks like going back and then
the yard behind it and the property and everything like that.
And that's one of several houses. Yeah, yeah, that's not
beach home. And several times during the interview they talked
about after a lifetime of public service, and you know,
Joe Biden's been in public services entire life, He's dedicated
(10:09):
his life to How did he dedicate his life to
public service? And you're standing in front of Eddie Murphy's
style house. Eddie Murphy made like a billion dollars as
a movie star. Why does Joe Biden have the same
house as Eddie Murphy? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I said, Well, he about one hundred years of Applestock
in nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
It was a good move. I just accept the fact
that people we know what their salaries are, you can
look them up. You have friends who make that much
money and they don't have houses like that. And nobody
questions it. It's so weird.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yeah, well, not only did they not question it, they
paraded openly good. I mean, Joe said, no, I tell
you what, why don't we meet at the University of
Delaware library or something like that exactly, or or.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
His childhood home and talk about his beginnings or something
like that, but not in front of this house to
make it clear that we became ungodly wealthy as him
being in the government since he was in his early twenties.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Spent it all though, apparently because they're widely known to
be broke.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
At this point. Yeah, well, they thought it was going
to come in for quite some time, but that jig
is up. As I heard the dispatch right yesterday, history
is not going to be kind to the Bidens, and
it is well deserved.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Jack Armstrong and Joe, this is the best weekend talk
show in America?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Are you ready? I was born for this.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Clearly, I'm going to prove to everybody this is this
is for real and I'm ready to run the city.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Spencer Brad, I was born for this. I love the
disco music dropping in the backround. It was the Big U,
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 political political racist personally.
Part of it might be from watching our old friend
(12:04):
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
air out of the room. But anyway, they're building up
(12:26):
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 generals. So and
I thought, you know what, You're probably right. So I'm
not sure there's that much more to talk about. Well, wow,
(12:50):
he would be really really to overcome just the demographics
of what things are. LA is seven points more blue
than the state, which is quite.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Oh wow, wow wow, although you made the point yesterday,
perhaps you've forgotten your 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
(13:23):
to make another choice. So I think a great deal
of absolutely terrific messaging is going to take place during
the campaign, and whether Steve Hilton, for instance, triumphs or not,
there's gonna be a lot of truth telling and I
think that's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Over the next five month. Our elections are two long people.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Well, the other thing that's worth mentioning if you're talking
about those big California ass is that the absolutely laughable, ridiculous,
third worldy California voting system. That is the I mean,
old man Maduro wishes he'd come up with a system
that ridiculous. It takes week weeks to count the ballots
(14:02):
to know who won in.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
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
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.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
How Ambre'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
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.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
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.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
It's going to drive people away, not keeping the mark
you need to know. I got to pay off the
ultra processed food thing too.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
So I went to vote in person yesterday in California.
I hadn't voted in a 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, kind of followed a
woman into the parking lot because I didn't know exactly
(15:23):
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
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 could give me your name,
she did and your address.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
She said, I don't know my address.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
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 close to graduating
or graduate student. Again, driving a nice car that clearly
her parents got for her. 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
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don't know my address?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Wow, you're supposed to teach your six year old at
so they could 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 polling worker said, how about a previous address.
What was your previous because you could have if you
(16:34):
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 like,
start with your first name and build from there.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Do you know that? Do you know where you are?
Do you know why you're here? And I just thought
that was so funny. And then the poll worker says,
it starts with an acause she's got it on the
iPad in front of her, you know, hoping that the
voter will get you know, it'll spark something in her memory.
(17:12):
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.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
The freaking address of Americans say that would be perfectly fine.
In fact, it should be required, including Carnia. 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.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
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, 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
(18:05):
looked at her like, I don't I got nothing. And
then and then finally the poleworker just said the name
of the street, So is that where he lived? She
said it might be. And then so they just checked
her in and she went ahead 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
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she's dialed in on the issues. Of course, it's quite
possible that she knows way more about some of these
socialist issues 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.
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He was a person you gave your ballots too after
you filled him out. So you went in there, you
got your ballot, you got a big magic marker, you
fill out your ballot, and a private little booth you
bring out and you handed this guy. This guy was
a million years old and he's volunteering 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
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to where you put the ballot, and then he'd slide
it in the hole 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.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Jack Armstrong and Joey.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
This is the best legend talk show in America.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Here at the White House, President Trump spent his time
in meetings, including calls with Israeli Prime Minister Benjaminette and
Yahoo and the leaders of Hezbola through intermediaries over the weekend.
President Trump says he's in no hurry to reach a
deal with Iran. Earlier, he posted on true Social he
thinks the negotiations will can tom at a rapid pace.
(20:01):
And earlier and an interview with CNBC News, the President did
not sound as optimistic. Here's what he said, I don't
care if they're over, Honestly, I couldn't care less, and added,
the protracted negotiations have started to get very boring.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
So that's an interesting thing for the President to say.
Was that designed to try to convince the Iranian leadership
whoever's making the decisions, that he's not desperate, Like, I
don't even know he is dragging on too long. I'm
bored with the whole thing. I don't even care. Does
I don't take it at his word? It's posturing, I think,
But does anybody feel a threat from him at this point?
(20:38):
I doubt it. I'd be shop if he, like, really really,
you know, start a bombing him again. Anyway, Apparently Trump
was pretty angry that Netanyahu was continuing to attack hesblah
because he thinks it's throwing off the whole US ending
the war with Iran thing. And he was on the
phone with Netanyahu yesterday. And here's a little reporting from
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MSNBC actually quoting Axios on this story.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Axios has some new reporting on that call between President
Trump and Prime Minister net and Yahoo. The President reportedly
lashing out at net Yahoo during expletive laden conversation. That's
according to US officials and a third source briefed on
the call. According to one US official, Trump told yet
Yaho he was efing crazy and that the Prime Minister
(21:24):
would be in prison if it were not for Trump,
likely referring to the Israeli leaders years long corruption trial.
The president adding quote, everybody hates you now, Everybody hates
Israel because of this. That's the president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
You're efing crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't
for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now,
everybody hates is Reel because of this. What the eforre
you're doing? He said? Now, I thought it was interesting.
Mark Hauprin's reporting was, this is like the fifth president
because Net Yahoo has been Prime Minister a few times
and longer than anybody in Israeli history, so he's worked
(22:00):
with I think were five presents, and they've all ended
up frustrated by bb Net yahou In cussing at them,
all of them. So the unique thing here is that
somebody leaked out the private phone call, not that somebody
was cussing it BB Net Yahoo. Because Trump did it,
I mean Biden did it, and Obama did it, and
Bush did it. I think maybe even Clinton did it.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I wish I knew more about the context of when
they did it, because I agree with what you're saying
about the leaking. I feel like that's a different topic.
But all of those presidents contributed to what led to
October third, and that is the idea that you could
seven seventh, sorry, twenty three. I knew that was wrong
when I said, I was like, wait a minute, one
of those anyway, October seventh, the idea that you can
(22:46):
negotiate with hamas hezbla Eran and get them to be
good actors if you cut the right deal. They were
completely wrong, and I think bb knew that at the time,
but putting that aside, I happen to agree with. For instance,
the well The Wall Street Journal's news piece on this
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is entitled Trump pushes to end Lebanon conflict in a
hope of unlocking a deal with Iran.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Their editorial boards headline is.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Iran gets Trump to rescue Hesbolah, and I happen to
agree with that. I think Trump is willing to subordinate
anything to his personal interest, his ego, and his desired
reputation is the greatest deal maker who's ever lived. He's
willing to subordinate Israel in a second to getting what
he sees as the big win or avoiding the big loss,
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in a way that I think is really really unhealthy.
BB has become completely convinced that there is no living
with Hesbelah and Hamas and Iran. They made that clear
on October seventh, when they were pretending for years saying
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publicly like.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
We've given up the terrorism game.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
We just want to govern, we just want to bring
peace to the territories. We're nice fellas. Then the moment
they saw the opportunity is slaughtered, raped, tortured, burned, and
took thousands of Israelis hostage and BB and the Israeli
people said, Nope, that's over. We're gonna beat you now,
and anything that gets in the way of that beating
I am against.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
So Trump watches a lot of Mourning Joe MSNBC, so
he knows that a constant refrain on MSNBC is BB
Neet Yaho runs a corrupt government, and the moment he
leaves office, he's going to be charged with all kinds
of things and he's probably gonna end up in prison.
So that's on Trump's mind because they talk about that
weekly on MSNBC. How true that is, I don't know
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because I don't follow internal Israeli politics, but it certainly
could be. So that's what Trump was talking about. You'd
be in jail. I saved your ass et cetera, et
cetera by getting you re elected, you campaigning for you, basically.
But what's interesting is the media, the same media that
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loved the story whenever that was a month or so
ago that Natanyahu came to the United States told Trump
what to do, that he wanted Trump to go to
war against Iran, and Trump did it. We're dancing to
Israel's tune. We are a puppet of Israel and the Jews,
which fed the left and the right wing anti Israel
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people and everything like that. That same crowd last night
I was watching it was saying, and this is the
way Trump talks to an ally. So okay, you're not
happy no matter what happens. Either you're dancing to his
tune or you're not being nice enough to him. Which
is it.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Yeah, that's an excellent, excellent point, ah Iran.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
You know, they are the living proof of you know,
sung to.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
And other military geniuses saying you must never ever underestimate
your enemy. If anything, overestimate him. And I don't think
Trump and I could be wrong. There could be stuff
going on behind the scenes that it completely blows what
I'm about to say out of the water. And if
it does, I will manfully come to you good people
and admit it. I think brutal religious zealot negotiators are
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playing Trump. They're playing Trump against net and Yahoo. They're
trying to rescue their surrogate, their proxy, Hesbelah by saying, look, Donald,
we would rush to the table and settle this whole
nuke thing, if only that mean Beebe would stop beating
up on hesbela, please make him stop and then we'll.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Make a deal with you.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
And they don't have a single laughing intention of doing that. God,
I've been watching this for decades.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yikes, I'll bet Trump hasn't part of it. Has not
been following like the Palestinian conflict and all that over
the many, many years. What about people who say Iran's
gonna come out of this in a stronger position than
when the war started. That doesn't make any sense to me,
But I hear people saying it all the time.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Yeah, you know, no, it's it's a bad argument. They
have the shred of truth in it, in that Iran's realized, Wow,
we really can control the straight uform moves and screw
with the world economy. That was always that tesn't make
them stronger. That was always true.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
They just didn't know it apparently, or didn't dare do it,
and it was a different leadership at the time.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
But no, they're not stronger, quote unquote. They can't project
any power. They can barely defend themselves. It's ridiculous for
what it's worth. And I think most of you know this.
I Joe am not Trump deranged at all. When he's right,
he's right. When he's wrong, he's wrong. I hope I'm wrong,
but I feel like he's getting played.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I don't know why he doesn't go back to bombing.
What's the main thing keeping him from bombing the out
of him.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
He's desperate to open the straits and get the world
economy humming again and gas prices to drop in the US.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
And if we were.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
To restart the kinetic effort to bring Near on to heel,
that would postpone that.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
So back times, for months back when he said, you know,
we're gonna wipe a civilization off the face of the
earth and all that sort of stuff, and I never
believed that he meant that. But was he never ever
going to start bombing him really hard?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Again?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Was that never really on the table?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
I don't know. I just think he's the number one
legacy he wants to leave behind is that he's the
greatest deal maker to ever walk the planet.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah. Well, and he sees a giant opportunity, like I
said yesterday, and I do think this is true. We'll
find out. I think what he's got going for him
is that I don't think people pay much attention to this,
and we have short memories so he could walk away
from this. And you know, well, to my mind, why
did we do it? Wasn't a very good we didn't
make a very good new blob. But nobody's gonna care.
(29:05):
Nobody's gonna pay attention. I don't think he's going to
get hurt by that in the polls. Really, they'll try
to make a big deal out of it, but most
people don't care. They most people, the average person think
it's over cool, good, not care about the result at all.
That's not good. I don't like that you should care
about the result or whether they get a nuclear weapon,
but I don't think most people care.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Meanwhile, if the irgc AT leadership was listening, they would
be texting right now saying, fellas, we've manipulated every US
president since we took power in nineteen seventy nine, and
we're manipulating this one. And guess what we're going to
manipulate the next one?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Ha ha, Well they're going to get a nuke then
that is going to be a big moment. I truly
thought Donald J.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Was finally the president who was going to do something
about it.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Well, remember, really something after the epic fury began George
will in the Washington Post, who Couldn't hate Trump More,
said the return of American deterrence. He was so happy
that we'd let the world know no more pushing us around.
I'm not sure that's the way the world's gonna feel
(30:12):
if we walk away from this.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Yeah, the next two weeks to me will be what's
the term they use in fancy pants circles. It will
be declarative, definitive, something like that. Yes, that's what I
was going for, because if two weeks from now we're
having the same conversation, that's I think everything you need
to know.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Freddie this is the best.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Weekend talk show in America. 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 a straight out of the Bible, actually
(30:58):
more or less. And then William Goldman wrote this for
the Princess Bride will never survive.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Oh what a wonderful movie. Rob Reiner, too bad his
son was a crazy drug addict. Oof mailbag, Rob's a
ote mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com. Kids
don't do the hard drugs ever, ever, ever, ever, ever,
Let's see. Brian from Santa Rosa writes, I finally got
my mom, who died in nineteen ninety nine, off the
(31:30):
voter registration rolls in cal Unicornia. However, my brother has
at least four ballots mail 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.
I've told him every vote counts. Vote every time you
get a chance, one person, one vote, so much easier
to be a Democrat, especially in California.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
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.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
David writes David and Sacramento, Why the f do we
even pay attention to polls? Witch 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 our state. Not much, but a
wee bit.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Tom Styr, the billionaire, looks like it's not going to
make the top two. Spent two hundred billion dollars of
his own money to 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
(32:46):
be president, that would be and I got a crazy
amount of money.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Well, you're right, yeah, I can't remember where I was reading.
He is so far left like Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom
is Ronald Reagan compared to Tom Styer.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Yeah, I mean that would be.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
You would see people leaving California by the millions if
Styr got into office.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
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 and you can't make
the top three.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Well, I hope it's good and humiliating. Let's see Nick
the Plumber rights 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.
I don't know about that, but there is historical precedent
(33:39):
for that. See 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.
I think it's a boy who called wolf scenario because
of Iraqi and Africanistan, but the threat is real. Then
(34:03):
he says, by the way, Jack is the stupidest genius
that I've ever heard. I love him, but he is annoying.
Twenty five year listener, Nick the Plumber, Thanks for listening, Nick.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
I am annoying.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
The great music radio personality radio personality Don Geronimo once
often refer to himself as the world's stupidest millionaire.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
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 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.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Got this from David.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
The Hello t tech speaker branded is 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 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
(35:13):
turn it off. Wow.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
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
actually stop a terrorist attack. Okay, you followed some rules
that might be helpful to stop terrorist attacks, but in
most cases or not, they're just inconvenient for everyone. You
(35:39):
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.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
There's gotta be a you know, that's the Jones principle
or the iron law of something or other that the
purpose is lost in the air.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Oh yeah, and it's driven me crazy since I was
five years old.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Yeah, yeah, let's see, I thought this was 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 queen dramas soon cable companies
continue to grasp it, diminishing returns by relentlessly pricing more
people out of the market, to say nothing of the
crap programming anyone can afford. You're witnessing history, folks, nineteen
(36:21):
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 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 grew,
desirability grew familiescrew, the set became attractive, the show's dazzled,
(36:43):
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.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
But not better. I don't think which is a problem.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Better in some ways worse than others. You know, how
it nets out, as you know, in the eye of
the beholder, I.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Guess awful, that's how it's gonna net out, or so
how it's netting out so far.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
J t In Livermore actually makes a great point about
the Democrat you quoted on Mark Halprin'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.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
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 in our lives.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
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That's what it's called. Even today, she still thinks her
husband with him made a good president if he had
(01:02):
stayed in the race, of course, he would have made
a good president. He made a good president the four
years he was there. I mean to me, he was
the best president. What a waste of freaking time. That's
doctor Jill Biden on her interview yesterday. And she's going
to do a bunch more and I hope somebody at
some point presses her on these issues. But you know,
(01:23):
I suppose in reality, what is she supposed to say?
What is she going to say? There, as the wife
of an old man in his final days of life,
maybe she's supposed to say, Oh, clearly he would have sucked.
The brain doesn't work, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Come on, Well, that raises the question, though, then why
are we going through this exercise at all? Well, I
was going to say, anybody who buys it all that
old bad is going to lie to us. Why am
I watching this?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Anybody who buys her book and reads it, never talk
to me. Stay away from me. You're not the sort
of person I ever want to engage with. I can't
imagine anyone buying that book and reading it.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Fine, Michael's halfway through it, Jack, I should have said something.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
He's been loving it, you know. So I've been debating
whether to bring this up or not. But it's pretty interesting.
So I'd been mentioning that journalist Mark Alpern, who does
a TV show every afternoon on YouTube or a bunch
of other platforms. He has a Democrat and a Republican
on every day, and he has been incensed about this
(02:26):
whole thing from the beginning the media coverage. He calls
it the biggest media cover up in our nation's history,
the fact that they did not report on what everybody
could see and acted like it wasn't happening. But the
Democrat on there said, look, I fooled myself. He said,
(02:49):
I look back on it, and I think, how could
I be so blind to that? I saw this stuff
on TV and I just convinced myself that it is
not as bad as everybody's saying, or this is you know,
Trump people trying to make it worse than it actually is,
or he's got a stutter, or everybody misspeaks every now
(03:10):
and then he said, I myself don't know how I
blinded myself to this. Yeah, I find it disturbing. And
so the reason I bring that up, it's not a
politics thing. I just just for everybody, all human beings
in their own lives. Are we apparently that capable of
deluding ourselves if we want a specific thing to be
(03:32):
true or not true?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Apparently some more than others. Yeah, it's disturbing that somebody
who's at least arguably accomplished enough and articulate enough and
bright enough to be on that sort of form would
be self delusional like that. That's disturbing to me.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Well, it depends how invested you are. Think about if
you've ever known anybody talking about their husband or wife
or kids and they're laying out the story and you think, whoa,
I mean that they're a train wreck, And how do
you not recognize that this is like a serious problem.
(04:11):
It's because you want an outcome so much. And maybe
if you're in politics, you want an outcome like you
want your husband to not be as bad as he seems,
or wife or kids or whatever. Yeah, yeah, I just
think it varies from person to person.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
It's probably like you know, the spectrum of virtually any
human emotion or psychological function, from you know, the logic
to complete delusion. You have you know, self delusion and
rationalization on a scale.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Some people don't do it at all, some do. Well
you have that orwell quote orwell saying that the hardest
thing to do is to see something that's right in
front of one's nose.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So all right, right, Well, he famously is one of
my intellectual heroes obviously, and a brilliant, brilliant man, but
he was a dedicate is socialist and then you know realized,
oh yeah, this doesn't work among human beings. It's prone
to disaster and torture and totalitarianism and the rest of it. So,
(05:12):
and I don't think it's a discredit to somebody like Orwell,
for instance, that they fell for something that could never
work we had in spite of his brilliance.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It's not a DISCRETI fit. It turns out we're all
capable of deluding ourselves if we want a particular outcome
bad enough of whatever it is. And that's a disturbing
thing to think about. What what do you really want
to be true or not true? And you're just not
dealing with the facts on I don't.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Know what where are you on a scale of one
to ten. That's what I'm trying to tell you repeatedly.
I think some people are not very prone to that
at all, and some people are very very prone to it.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Well, you'd have to think that George Orwell wasn't very
prone to it, yet he would you im do that?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Huh? Why why would you think that? I don't know.
I think it's independent of intelligence. It's it's a tendency
like height or being a worrier or being cheerful versus
being kind of a door into an introvert.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I also think it'd probably be something that it's impossible
for you to diagnose yourself. Agreed, you agree no idea
yourself to where you would be on that scale. Well,
I know I got to disagree with that too, and
I certainly I've never thought about this in depth, so
I stand ready to be corrected. I think if you're
on the brutal realist end of things, your diagnosis is
(06:32):
better because you tend not to to self delude.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I don't know, the self delusional cannot diagnose themselves as
delusional because they're or delusional is too strong a term,
but you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
So then the question would be how much of the
media and political class were in the self delusion thing
because they wanted a particular outcome so bad, And how
many people knew exactly what they're doing but they're just
flat out lying.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, I assumed it was ninety eight percent cynicism by
the political class who just figured they could get the
soft heads to go along with it. If that guy's
being sincere, it's fascinating again and somewhat terrifying or at
least a little scary.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
What he was like whispery and forgetful and would wander
around and had to be guided, and his speeches were
either angry, sputtering, or like just slow paced. You didn't
notice that, oh, de Line just just articulate crazy, you know,
(07:42):
making stuff up Joe Biden and then uh uh Joe.
You didn't notice that.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
So the Joe Biden interview, which you probably didn't watch,
was an embarrassment of journalism. It's one of the most
embarrassing things that's ever happened in the history of journalism,
the fact that they did not bring receipt, eat and
drill down on various things that she was denying. I mean,
I suppose on one level you could It would seem
a little cruel, But I mean, you are a journalist
talking to somebody who's written a book about this, about
(08:11):
a very important topic. You could have shown clips and
say this happened, you know, three years before the debate,
explain this on the whole. You never saw him like
that before or after.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I mean, I just I think your problem here is
you're asking Hockey Night in America to talk about golf.
That show is an old bat talking in gentle tones
for the entertainment of old bats who are getting ready
to go to church in the morning.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It's not journalism. Okay. Well, let's hope that in the
coming days, as Joe Biden continues to go out there
and hawk this book, that she runs into some journalists
that are gonna like really push her on that up.
Because the most ridiculous thing she says, of all the
ridiculous things is I never saw him like that before
or after we did.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
How come you didn't, Well, yeah, you're right, he'd have
been a great president his second term.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
That's pretty ridiculous too. I can't believe that they are
so I mean, this is Louly the sixteenth stuff. They're
so tone deaf to the whole thing. Jill Biden that
she does the interview in front of their one of
their homes because they have many homes. Oh. I had
just recently watched Jerry Seinfeld Comedians and Cars with Coffee
(09:25):
with Eddie Murphy and he goes to Eddie Murphy's house
and picks up Eddie Murphy, and Eddie Murphy walks out
of this house and it's like, holy crap, that's a house. Yeah.
Jill Biden has the same sort of house as Eddie Murphy.
Why is that? And multiple times during the interview, I
mean it's like she walked out of an art museum
(09:47):
or something. That home. I mean, who has a house
that looks like it and has just the front I
can't imagine what it looks like going back and then
the yard behind it and the property and everything like that.
And that's one of several houses. Yeah, yeah, that's not
beach home. And several times during the interview they talked
about after a lifetime of public service, and you know,
Joe Biden's been in public services entire life, He's dedicated
(10:09):
his life to How did he dedicate his life to
public service? And you're standing in front of Eddie Murphy's
style house. Eddie Murphy made like a billion dollars as
a movie star. Why does Joe Biden have the same
house as Eddie Murphy? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I said, Well, he about one hundred years of Applestock
in nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
It was a good move. I just accept the fact
that people we know what their salaries are, you can
look them up. You have friends who make that much
money and they don't have houses like that. And nobody
questions it. It's so weird.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yeah, well, not only did they not question it, they
paraded openly good. I mean, Joe said, no, I tell
you what, why don't we meet at the University of
Delaware library or something like that exactly, or or.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
His childhood home and talk about his beginnings or something
like that, but not in front of this house to
make it clear that we became ungodly wealthy as him
being in the government since he was in his early twenties.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Spent it all though, apparently because they're widely known to
be broke.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
At this point. Yeah, well, they thought it was going
to come in for quite some time, but that jig
is up. As I heard the dispatch right yesterday, history
is not going to be kind to the Bidens, and
it is well deserved.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Jack Armstrong and Joe, this is the best weekend talk
show in America?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Are you ready? I was born for this.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Clearly, I'm going to prove to everybody this is this
is for real and I'm ready to run the city.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Spencer Brad, I was born for this. I love the
disco music dropping in the backround. It was the Big U,
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 political political racist personally.
Part of it might be from watching our old friend
(12:04):
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
air out of the room. But anyway, they're building up
(12:26):
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 generals. So and
I thought, you know what, You're probably right. So I'm
not sure there's that much more to talk about. Well, wow,
(12:50):
he would be really really to overcome just the demographics
of what things are. LA is seven points more blue
than the state, which is quite.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Oh wow, wow wow, although you made the point yesterday,
perhaps you've forgotten your 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
(13:23):
to make another choice. So I think a great deal
of absolutely terrific messaging is going to take place during
the campaign, and whether Steve Hilton, for instance, triumphs or not,
there's gonna be a lot of truth telling and I
think that's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Over the next five month. Our elections are two long people.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Well, the other thing that's worth mentioning if you're talking
about those big California ass is that the absolutely laughable, ridiculous,
third worldy California voting system. That is the I mean,
old man Maduro wishes he'd come up with a system
that ridiculous. It takes week weeks to count the ballots
(14:02):
to know who won in.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
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
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.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
How Ambre'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
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.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
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.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
It's going to drive people away, not keeping the mark
you need to know. I got to pay off the
ultra processed food thing too.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
So I went to vote in person yesterday in California.
I hadn't voted in a 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, kind of followed a
woman into the parking lot because I didn't know exactly
(15:23):
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
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 could give me your name,
she did and your address.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
She said, I don't know my address.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
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 close to graduating
or graduate student. Again, driving a nice car that clearly
her parents got for her. 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
(16:11):
don't know my address?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Wow, you're supposed to teach your six year old at
so they could 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 polling worker said, how about a previous address.
What was your previous because you could have if you
(16:34):
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 like,
start with your first name and build from there.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Do you know that? Do you know where you are?
Do you know why you're here? And I just thought
that was so funny. And then the poll worker says,
it starts with an acause she's got it on the
iPad in front of her, you know, hoping that the
voter will get you know, it'll spark something in her memory.
(17:12):
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.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
The freaking address of Americans say that would be perfectly fine.
In fact, it should be required, including Carnia. 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.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
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, 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
(18:05):
looked at her like, I don't I got nothing. And
then and then finally the poleworker just said the name
of the street, So is that where he lived? She
said it might be. And then so they just checked
her in and she went ahead 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
(18:26):
she's dialed in on the issues. Of course, it's quite
possible that she knows way more about some of these
socialist issues 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.
(18:49):
He was a person you gave your ballots too after
you filled him out. So you went in there, you
got your ballot, you got a big magic marker, you
fill out your ballot, and a private little booth you
bring out and you handed this guy. This guy was
a million years old and he's volunteering 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
(19:13):
to where you put the ballot, and then he'd slide
it in the hole 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.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Jack Armstrong and Joey.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
This is the best legend talk show in America.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Here at the White House, President Trump spent his time
in meetings, including calls with Israeli Prime Minister Benjaminette and
Yahoo and the leaders of Hezbola through intermediaries over the weekend.
President Trump says he's in no hurry to reach a
deal with Iran. Earlier, he posted on true Social he
thinks the negotiations will can tom at a rapid pace.
(20:01):
And earlier and an interview with CNBC News, the President did
not sound as optimistic. Here's what he said, I don't
care if they're over, Honestly, I couldn't care less, and added,
the protracted negotiations have started to get very boring.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
So that's an interesting thing for the President to say.
Was that designed to try to convince the Iranian leadership
whoever's making the decisions, that he's not desperate, Like, I
don't even know he is dragging on too long. I'm
bored with the whole thing. I don't even care. Does
I don't take it at his word? It's posturing, I think,
But does anybody feel a threat from him at this point?
(20:38):
I doubt it. I'd be shop if he, like, really really,
you know, start a bombing him again. Anyway, Apparently Trump
was pretty angry that Netanyahu was continuing to attack hesblah
because he thinks it's throwing off the whole US ending
the war with Iran thing. And he was on the
phone with Netanyahu yesterday. And here's a little reporting from
(21:00):
MSNBC actually quoting Axios on this story.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Axios has some new reporting on that call between President
Trump and Prime Minister net and Yahoo. The President reportedly
lashing out at net Yahoo during expletive laden conversation. That's
according to US officials and a third source briefed on
the call. According to one US official, Trump told yet
Yaho he was efing crazy and that the Prime Minister
(21:24):
would be in prison if it were not for Trump,
likely referring to the Israeli leaders years long corruption trial.
The president adding quote, everybody hates you now, Everybody hates
Israel because of this. That's the president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
You're efing crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't
for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now,
everybody hates is Reel because of this. What the eforre
you're doing? He said? Now, I thought it was interesting.
Mark Hauprin's reporting was, this is like the fifth president
because Net Yahoo has been Prime Minister a few times
and longer than anybody in Israeli history, so he's worked
(22:00):
with I think were five presents, and they've all ended
up frustrated by bb Net yahou In cussing at them,
all of them. So the unique thing here is that
somebody leaked out the private phone call, not that somebody
was cussing it BB Net Yahoo. Because Trump did it,
I mean Biden did it, and Obama did it, and
Bush did it. I think maybe even Clinton did it.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I wish I knew more about the context of when
they did it, because I agree with what you're saying
about the leaking. I feel like that's a different topic.
But all of those presidents contributed to what led to
October third, and that is the idea that you could
seven seventh, sorry, twenty three. I knew that was wrong
when I said, I was like, wait a minute, one
of those anyway, October seventh, the idea that you can
(22:46):
negotiate with hamas hezbla Eran and get them to be
good actors if you cut the right deal. They were
completely wrong, and I think bb knew that at the time,
but putting that aside, I happen to agree with. For instance,
the well The Wall Street Journal's news piece on this
(23:07):
is entitled Trump pushes to end Lebanon conflict in a
hope of unlocking a deal with Iran.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Their editorial boards headline is.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Iran gets Trump to rescue Hesbolah, and I happen to
agree with that. I think Trump is willing to subordinate
anything to his personal interest, his ego, and his desired
reputation is the greatest deal maker who's ever lived. He's
willing to subordinate Israel in a second to getting what
he sees as the big win or avoiding the big loss,
(23:40):
in a way that I think is really really unhealthy.
BB has become completely convinced that there is no living
with Hesbelah and Hamas and Iran. They made that clear
on October seventh, when they were pretending for years saying
(24:00):
publicly like.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
We've given up the terrorism game.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
We just want to govern, we just want to bring
peace to the territories. We're nice fellas. Then the moment
they saw the opportunity is slaughtered, raped, tortured, burned, and
took thousands of Israelis hostage and BB and the Israeli
people said, Nope, that's over. We're gonna beat you now,
and anything that gets in the way of that beating
I am against.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
So Trump watches a lot of Mourning Joe MSNBC, so
he knows that a constant refrain on MSNBC is BB
Neet Yaho runs a corrupt government, and the moment he
leaves office, he's going to be charged with all kinds
of things and he's probably gonna end up in prison.
So that's on Trump's mind because they talk about that
weekly on MSNBC. How true that is, I don't know
(24:45):
because I don't follow internal Israeli politics, but it certainly
could be. So that's what Trump was talking about. You'd
be in jail. I saved your ass et cetera, et
cetera by getting you re elected, you campaigning for you, basically.
But what's interesting is the media, the same media that
(25:08):
loved the story whenever that was a month or so
ago that Natanyahu came to the United States told Trump
what to do, that he wanted Trump to go to
war against Iran, and Trump did it. We're dancing to
Israel's tune. We are a puppet of Israel and the Jews,
which fed the left and the right wing anti Israel
(25:29):
people and everything like that. That same crowd last night
I was watching it was saying, and this is the
way Trump talks to an ally. So okay, you're not
happy no matter what happens. Either you're dancing to his
tune or you're not being nice enough to him. Which
is it.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Yeah, that's an excellent, excellent point, ah Iran.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
You know, they are the living proof of you know,
sung to.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
And other military geniuses saying you must never ever underestimate
your enemy. If anything, overestimate him. And I don't think
Trump and I could be wrong. There could be stuff
going on behind the scenes that it completely blows what
I'm about to say out of the water. And if
it does, I will manfully come to you good people
and admit it. I think brutal religious zealot negotiators are
(26:23):
playing Trump. They're playing Trump against net and Yahoo. They're
trying to rescue their surrogate, their proxy, Hesbelah by saying, look, Donald,
we would rush to the table and settle this whole
nuke thing, if only that mean Beebe would stop beating
up on hesbela, please make him stop and then we'll.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Make a deal with you.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
And they don't have a single laughing intention of doing that. God,
I've been watching this for decades.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yikes, I'll bet Trump hasn't part of it. Has not
been following like the Palestinian conflict and all that over
the many, many years. What about people who say Iran's
gonna come out of this in a stronger position than
when the war started. That doesn't make any sense to me,
But I hear people saying it all the time.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Yeah, you know, no, it's it's a bad argument. They
have the shred of truth in it, in that Iran's realized, Wow,
we really can control the straight uform moves and screw
with the world economy. That was always that tesn't make
them stronger. That was always true.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
They just didn't know it apparently, or didn't dare do it,
and it was a different leadership at the time.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
But no, they're not stronger, quote unquote. They can't project
any power. They can barely defend themselves. It's ridiculous for
what it's worth. And I think most of you know this.
I Joe am not Trump deranged at all. When he's right,
he's right. When he's wrong, he's wrong. I hope I'm wrong,
but I feel like he's getting played.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I don't know why he doesn't go back to bombing.
What's the main thing keeping him from bombing the out
of him.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
He's desperate to open the straits and get the world
economy humming again and gas prices to drop in the US.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
And if we were.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
To restart the kinetic effort to bring Near on to heel,
that would postpone that.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
So back times, for months back when he said, you know,
we're gonna wipe a civilization off the face of the
earth and all that sort of stuff, and I never
believed that he meant that. But was he never ever
going to start bombing him really hard?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Again?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Was that never really on the table?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
I don't know. I just think he's the number one
legacy he wants to leave behind is that he's the
greatest deal maker to ever walk the planet.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah. Well, and he sees a giant opportunity, like I
said yesterday, and I do think this is true. We'll
find out. I think what he's got going for him
is that I don't think people pay much attention to this,
and we have short memories so he could walk away
from this. And you know, well, to my mind, why
did we do it? Wasn't a very good we didn't
make a very good new blob. But nobody's gonna care.
(29:05):
Nobody's gonna pay attention. I don't think he's going to
get hurt by that in the polls. Really, they'll try
to make a big deal out of it, but most
people don't care. They most people, the average person think
it's over cool, good, not care about the result at all.
That's not good. I don't like that you should care
about the result or whether they get a nuclear weapon,
but I don't think most people care.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Meanwhile, if the irgc AT leadership was listening, they would
be texting right now saying, fellas, we've manipulated every US
president since we took power in nineteen seventy nine, and
we're manipulating this one. And guess what we're going to
manipulate the next one?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Ha ha, Well they're going to get a nuke then
that is going to be a big moment. I truly
thought Donald J.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Was finally the president who was going to do something
about it.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Well, remember, really something after the epic fury began George
will in the Washington Post, who Couldn't hate Trump More,
said the return of American deterrence. He was so happy
that we'd let the world know no more pushing us around.
I'm not sure that's the way the world's gonna feel
(30:12):
if we walk away from this.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Yeah, the next two weeks to me will be what's
the term they use in fancy pants circles. It will
be declarative, definitive, something like that. Yes, that's what I
was going for, because if two weeks from now we're
having the same conversation, that's I think everything you need
to know.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Freddie this is the best.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Weekend talk show in America. 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 a straight out of the Bible, actually
(30:58):
more or less. And then William Goldman wrote this for
the Princess Bride will never survive.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Oh what a wonderful movie. Rob Reiner, too bad his
son was a crazy drug addict. Oof mailbag, Rob's a
ote mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com. Kids
don't do the hard drugs ever, ever, ever, ever, ever,
Let's see. Brian from Santa Rosa writes, I finally got
my mom, who died in nineteen ninety nine, off the
(31:30):
voter registration rolls in cal Unicornia. However, my brother has
at least four ballots mail 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.
I've told him every vote counts. Vote every time you
get a chance, one person, one vote, so much easier
to be a Democrat, especially in California.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
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.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
David writes David and Sacramento, Why the f do we
even pay attention to polls? Witch 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 our state. Not much, but a
wee bit.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Tom Styr, the billionaire, looks like it's not going to
make the top two. Spent two hundred billion dollars of
his own money to 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
(32:46):
be president, that would be and I got a crazy
amount of money.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Well, you're right, yeah, I can't remember where I was reading.
He is so far left like Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom
is Ronald Reagan compared to Tom Styer.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Yeah, I mean that would be.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
You would see people leaving California by the millions if
Styr got into office.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
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 and you can't make
the top three.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Well, I hope it's good and humiliating. Let's see Nick
the Plumber rights 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.
I don't know about that, but there is historical precedent
(33:39):
for that. See 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.
I think it's a boy who called wolf scenario because
of Iraqi and Africanistan, but the threat is real. Then
(34:03):
he says, by the way, Jack is the stupidest genius
that I've ever heard. I love him, but he is annoying.
Twenty five year listener, Nick the Plumber, Thanks for listening, Nick.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
I am annoying.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
The great music radio personality radio personality Don Geronimo once
often refer to himself as the world's stupidest millionaire.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
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 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.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Got this from David.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
The Hello t tech speaker branded is 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 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
(35:13):
turn it off. Wow.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
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
actually stop a terrorist attack. Okay, you followed some rules
that might be helpful to stop terrorist attacks, but in
most cases or not, they're just inconvenient for everyone. You
(35:39):
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.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
There's gotta be a you know, that's the Jones principle
or the iron law of something or other that the
purpose is lost in the air.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Oh yeah, and it's driven me crazy since I was
five years old.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Yeah, yeah, let's see, I thought this was 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 queen dramas soon cable companies
continue to grasp it, diminishing returns by relentlessly pricing more
people out of the market, to say nothing of the
crap programming anyone can afford. You're witnessing history, folks, nineteen
(36:21):
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 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 grew,
desirability grew familiescrew, the set became attractive, the show's dazzled,
(36:43):
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.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
But not better. I don't think which is a problem.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Better in some ways worse than others. You know, how
it nets out, as you know, in the eye of
the beholder, I.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Guess awful, that's how it's gonna net out, or so
how it's netting out so far.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
J t In Livermore actually makes a great point about
the Democrat you quoted on Mark Halprin'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.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
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 in our lives.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
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