Cultural Commentary and Two-Tiered Justice

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Must be 21 to enter. Please gamble responsibly . Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty . Armstrong and Getty. And uh he 'm strong and ready. The guy whose biggest qualification is the sound of his name in a state that's half Hispanic. Javier Becerra. He worked for Biden, but Biden didn't even know his name. I nominated Javier Baccaria . You know, Javier Bachera, excuse me. Wow. But Jill didn't see any decline . Wow. Javier Baccaria. Um, so Javier Baccaria uh is gonna make the top two for Governor in California. And hopefully Steve Hilton will too, but there's so many votes left to count. They're at fifty eight percent counting, so it could take weeks. Well and and the results could change a lot. But so anyway, we'll talk about that when it happens. Um speaking of uh I don't know. I don't need to have a transition. I'll just start a new s sentence. Sure, to your first amendment, man. I was listening to Bill Maher and Jay Leno talk about comedy and that whole in the basement smoking pot thing that he does. And Bill Maher was talking about how I always admired your trans itions. You just didn't do them. Like all comedians think they need to transition and you just didn't do them. And and Jalen said, yeah, yeah, yeah, you don't need a transition. You just you just start. And he said it's like, it's like the insurance companies. You know how they you just start you just start a new thing. Yeah. Yeah. And then they laugh and then you start a new one. Oh, a buddy of mine uh and his wife saw Nate Bargazzi not long ago. He was telling me about that on the golf course. He's got uh does an hour set of brand new material. Oh material. Yeah, and he said it was just hilarious. Yeah, I saw him and Seinfeld together on a podcast, and Seinfeld said, You are among the best I've ever seen, which Nate Bargazzi was like, uh wow. Thank you. Um he is good though. Uh so um having burgers with my son yesterday and I mentioned to him, and this gets into state laws and uh politics and stuff like that a little bit. Uh having burgers with my son yesterday afternoon, I mentioned to him, because I asked how I'd like the burger cooked, and I said, when I lived in North Carolina, you you could only get your burger cooked all the way through. It was the law . Like you couldn't have pink on a burger, which to me is just a crime. And he said, How did they do that? He said, Was that a liberal state? And I said, No, it's actually a very conservative state, which got me thinking, how did a at that time very red state pass a no personal freedom law like restaurants can't serve you a burger that's got any pink in it? So I did a little research on it to bring it back and yeah, w Joe and I lived uh in Charlotte, North Carolina for two years in the mid nineties, and we it turns out we actually showed up there right after they passed a law in North Carolina that burgers had to be cooked all the way through because there had been some outbreak at a restaurant or something like that. Which is just ridiculous. Just a ridiculous. But it's s but it's it's ridiculous. And I can't believe it happened in a red state. But it just shows you how things can occur when people get all worked up. And I hate stuff like that for all kinds of different reasons. Starting with burgers are way better if there's some pink. I like a lot of pink in my burger. Um, but it didn't outlaw you ordering it well done, you could still go to a restaurant and say I'd like it well done because I'm worried about bacteria. And no, you gotta mandate it that nobody, everybody has to get it well done, which is just crazy. And it stayed that way for like 15 years before they finally overturned it and went back to like the rest of the country does it where you can order the burger way. People want the beef. I just thought that was kinda interesting and a y even in a conservative state you're you're willing to do this sort of stuff sometimes. Or legislators legislations get out of control. Oh this is what happens when you give women the vote. And then one interesting thing I got into an argument with the uh the AI chatbot, Claude, where it said, um which lets restaurants served undercooked burgers, the new guidelines. And I said, uh, I uh don't like the term undercooked. I think that's prejudicial. I consider it cooked properly. I consider no pink overcooked on it . And of course its reaction had to be, oh, you're absolutely right. You caught me on that one. Um, I got it wrong. Good job. You know, that whole weird thing that AI does. That that is so troubling. They gotta fix that somehow. I think that leads to a lot of the lawsuits What would you change it to? I have an idea, but I'd like to know your I think we should try to outlaw it attempting to be human. Quit trying to be a human. You who don't want beef temperatures regulated are going to outlaw quote unquote I don't know. I think they're pretty different categories. Artificial intelligence acting human. Artificial intelligence prototype. He wants freedom of beef, not of speech. I'm Joe Getty . We kind of made that leap like really fast without discussing it, right? Artificial intelligence doesn't have to include acting human, but that's where we went right off the bat. Or it went there on its own. I'm not even exactly sure which is true. Right, right, right. So as an alternate though, that specific scenario you you mentioned, what would you have it say ? I don't know. I d I don't have an answer for that. But uh unless it has some sort of default this system is imperfect. You have pointed out a an aspect of this that I had not included in my answer . My programming will not allow me to what's the what's I don't know what the alternative is. Yeah. Then uh the other thing, speaking of AI, as I bounce from topic to topic . Did you see the pictures I post yesterday? Somebody had sent me pictures, I don't even remember what this was. Somebody had sent me pictures of them with different haircuts or something like that. And I thought, oh, cool. I thought I ought to try that. How what do I look like with hair? Uh Google put hair on me, or uh, I think it was Claude or ChatGPT, I don't even remember which one I used, put hair on me. I said, give me some different options, and it gave me three different options. And you know what? I thought they looked really good. I was expecting it to be ridiculo us, but I thought, wow, that really looks good. Um uh so then I asked, what would it cost to get hair like that? And Oh, there it is. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it looks good. Wow. Wow. I know. Hell, you're looking like Scott Pelly in the top left. Somebody's going wig shopping. Oh yeah. They are wigs. That's a hair transplants. And so I asked what would it cost to get, you know, for instance, number one or number three, where which are the ones that me and all the uh people voting on Twitter liked the best of me with hair, but uh what would that cost? About eighteen grand to get it done, and then four thousand a year maintenance. Whoa, what are you about ? And the recovery period is like six months long. So I don't know what they do to you, how much bleeding and oozing there is, how much pain you're in for how long. So much oozing. And then what do they have to do to you every year for four thousand dollars. So do you spend like another month or two every year? Recraying. Scraping your hull. Oh no, that's I'm sorry. That's boats again. Scraping my hull ? Wow. Get yourself a wig, like Michael says. Way, way less money. I mean a good wig hat, as the old uh bluesman used to say, well uh it costs you a few grand, but they're not gonna have to, you know, there's no oozing. And you take her off at night, hang it up on the uh the little rack thing. And don't worry about the comments from your co-workers. What do they know? Um I didn't know it cost that much money, but so it made me realize, oh, but there's a lot of b alding rich people, especially people in Hollywood or on TV or whatever, who've done that. I didn't realize you could do something that looked that good . You know, the the best, of course, the best case scenario for anybody would be you get it done and Well here's here's what we need to do. That's a single shot from a single angle rendered by AI . Your results may vary. You ever been in the McDonald's? You seen what the pictures of the burgers look like in the order ordering the board there ? Yeah, it doesn't look so much like that when it comes out of the cardboard. Kevin Hart's got a funny thing uh about LeBron James um and his hairline, because he talks about he said uh LeBron and I are good friends. He said, well, at least we were before I do this comedy bit. And he talked about how he's known LeBron forever and LeBron was clearly going bald, and then all of a sudden he shows up one season and he's got full head of hair. His hairline is here and just like thick full hair. It's like, dude, you obviously did something. What are you trying to get here ? You gotta just put up with that, I guess. If you show up to work, we know someone, I'll be very, very vague, but we know somebody who just all of a sudden showed up with full head of hair. And it was a p person in position of power. So nobody to my knowledge said a word. Because what are you gonna say? And then I guess if you're just gonna be a nice person, what do you say anyway? All right . Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you go but it's not like like LeBron was thinning and then all of a sudden he's got full head of hair. That's not me. I've had a shaved head for 30 years. If I show up with like any of those pictures full head of hair, that's a people don't know if it's me or like you know, I've got a older brother or something walked in the room. Oh right, yeah. They would say Jack . Right. I mean looking you right in the eye. Yeah. That'd be weird. How long would how long would I have to put up with that? For a long, long time. You know, we all go ahead. Jack? Yeah, it's me. Okay. You know, every time you meet somebody for a couple of years going. Would be weird. Yeah. Uh I know a guy. He's a nice fellow. I like him. Um but he's he's had something or other done and and and we all have our vanities. And look, if it helps you feel good about yourself or you know helps you land chicks and or dudes or whatever, do what you think is right. I try not to judge people about this stuff, but nobody says of this guy, man, he has great hair. Everybody says, what's going on with that? Is that a uh a piece or plugs or what? Oh really? It's like it's like the not not the current view of plastic surgery among rich women where you want Mar-a-Lago face, which to me is just bizarre. But the old view that you don't want people to know you had work, you just want to look younger. Yeah. Yeah, be careful with some of these things. That's a decent point. Unless you're gonna like move to a new town and start your life over or something like that. Mm-hmm. Most people are not gonna are just gonna be well, I don't know. Do do you uh do you also say, hey, it looks great? Or do you not say that in this case? The person you're thinking of? I don't know. Oh, the So you're thinking about did he get a piece or is it plugs, but is it also it looks good? Uh no, see, I d I didn't know him before that. Oh okay. And and in fact he moved to the hood having already done that, but it's it's just has a bit of the look of not natural. Yeah. See if I get that hair, I gotta Paraguayans very accepting people. Might be a good idea. I don't think I'm gonna do that. I'd I would like to know what the four thousand dollar a year maintenance is. See, do you spend another month of the year in bandages? That seems like a bit of a commitment. Maintenance? What ? I don't even know what that is. Where's the hair coming from ? Dissidents? Oh boy. I hope not. Pets? I don't even know where the hair comes from. Alright, we got more on the way. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty . Armstrong and Getty here for HIMS. There are all kinds of great weight loss approaches that fit into your world out there. They've got to put HIMS with a wide range of affordable GLP1 options. You've got weight loss goals, but hitting them is another story. Check out Weight Loss by HIMS. 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Yeah, I suppose you beat up Jill because she's the one who said it, but how about any interviewer who takes it seriously, including the woman sitting across from her or the Wall Street Journal the other day, taking it as serious as opposed to I think most people are gonna have a hard time believing that I want to get to the significance of this 'cause I think there is some this whole book tour and the denial. But first this, I'd miss this, and there may be audio, but it's really hard to to hear. So Jill is wrapping up a Q<unk>A about her new book with moderator Whoopi Goldber g on the Upper East Side of New York, when eighty-three year old Joe Biden leaves his seat in the audience and wanders up to the edge of the stage . Now Goldberg had read a comment from the audience thanking Biden for his service. If you can imagine that. And uh Jill stood up to give her husband a standing ovation when he wandered to the front of the stage and said, I have a question without a microphone . Uh Joe has a question like you couldn't ask it later, Jill responded. Who do you love most in the world? Biden inquired. Whoopee, Jill answered, causing the audience to laugh. As the view co host tried to resume speaking, Biden continued to stand and blankly face his wife, seemingly unhappy with her answer. The former first lady caved and said I, love you most, Joe. Was that what was that it? Was that the answer you wanted? Uh it's overwhelming, isn't it? The forty sixth president continued barely audible without a microphone. Overwhelming. Well that',s what keeps him on his toes. He's never one hundred percent sure. I always keep him guessing. Is that not true? She said as her husband lowered his head and made the sign of a cross. Oh my god . I read that, but I haven't seen any video. Has that come out or have they kept that hidden? Uh I don't know. In an attempt to end the bizarre moment and wrap up the event, Goldberg encouraged the audience to purchase Jill's new book, but Biden remained standing and pointing his finger as the exit music played. My book, Joe Biden began before a crew member came from backstage to hand him a microphone. My book, which comes out in September, read it. Do I have to remind you this is my event? Jill asked uh jokingly. Oh man . Cringy. Unplanned. Oh, wait a second. That's news. So Joe's book is coming out in September? What the hell's that gonna be? Oh he's got to do a book tour. Oh no no that'll be the final I hate to say nail in the coffin because he might actually be in one. Yeah that's a that's not even a metaphor. We've got to get into the significance of all this stuff in a in a couple of minutes. We don't have time now, but we love more than anyone . Good news for Jose Conseco, no longer the only major league baseball player to have a ball bounce off his head over the fence for a home run. 'Cause it happened to an Angels outfielder yesterday. Going back for a fly ball, ball hits him on the head, bounces over for a three run home run. Oh no. I you hate to have that happen. What's worse? The pain? The embarrassment? Or letting down your team? It's a trio of bad things. We got a lot out of the way. Hope you can stay here. If you miss this segment, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on Demand . Armstrong and Getty . You guys see this in her new memoir. Jill Biden said that former President Biden would have beaten Trump in 2024. She's right, assuming she's talking about a soup eating competition . Or an Amtrak trivia contest . Those are good jokes. Those are good jokes. I like those jokes. What a ridiculous thing to say. Of course she can't say anything else. What's she gonna say? I think my husband would have lost. Uh but it's just a ridiculous thing to say. By the way, Joe ran through show so they did an event with Whoopi Goldberg yesterday. He he throws out at the end oh about my book coming out in September. Nobody has any idea what he was talking about. I did some research on that. Wow. And uh he did sign a deal reportedly for ten million dollars for a memoir. There's though there's no information at all that he's been writing it or written it or that it's coming out September. So this is the only information anybody has at all about him having a book coming out. Wow. Yeah speaking of the uh ridiculous things Jill, Dr. Jill has said , the most ridiculous is probably when she said on the uh terrible that laughable CBS This Morning, early morning show, whatever it was, that um oh he would have made a great president the next term. Oh yeah. He's more than capable of serving. Same sen ile old man who wandered up the stage. How about the notion that he's busy writing a book. Right. Right. Couple of uh related topics here. Got uh a couple of notes from JT and Livermore, frequent correspondent. Um uh one about why the book tour matters and exposing the cover up as thoroughly as possible matters. And I I'll hit you with the broad outlines of it, Jack, then I'd like to hear your opinion. Re-litigating COVID, I think, matters a great deal because what was done was horrible, unconstitutional, terrible health policy, terrible social policy, terrible s uh uh educational policy, just a nightmare of incompetent and unconstitutional leadership. And there will be uh health emergencies and pandemics in the future, and by God, if we don't learn the lessons from that horror, uh well, we're doomed to repeat them. Now JT says the book tour matters because of the depth of the cover up and for instance the thirteen needlessly dead soldiers in the calamitous Afghan withdrawal . Biden made multiple claims that no one warned him that that might happen, and no one advised him to uh maintain a small force of troops to protect it, blah blah blah. When uh a couple of his own generals testified under oath that yeah, we did. We absolutely did. And you know, various other things, all the deaths caused in Ukraine, etcetera, had to do with his senility, and so yeah, yes we should relitigate the Joe Biden was senile thing because it can be linked to those deaths. I just I keep getting stuck on it was self-evident. Right. Yeah. I just is there any anybody who wasn't already convinced this is gonna do it now? Right, right . Which brings us to the fellow who Mark Halpern was uh quoting, I believe. Um I saw the guy on his show. Oh Halpern does a show every afternoon and then he ha he usually has different um kind of regular Republican strategists, Democratic strategists. People have worked in campaigns, right? Stuff, blah, blah blah. Anyway, the Democrat that was on there the other day said , you know, I gotta tell you, and I can't explain it myself, I didn't see it. I didn't see Joe Biden's decline. I wanted so much for it to be true that Joe Biden was capable of running again, I deluded myself. He said that's the only thing I can the only way I can explain it in retrospect is that I just wanted an outcome to be s true so much that Which is a horrifying notion because how often do we all do that and what other areas of life? Yeah, yeah, we've talked about this before and it's it's a great topic. Uh my uh my concern is that those most capable of diluting themselves are the least capable of knowing that they're diluting themselves or ever figuring that out or ever admitting it. Judy and I were uh leaving our our community. We you gotta it's a long road to get out of our community and there's no passing on it. Um and we were behind one of those jackasses that's going really, really slowly. And we uh made the comment to each other as we have before, the person who most needs to look in their rear view mirror is the least likely to. Yeah. I wonder though, uh if it's possibly a strength for some people . It's like goal setting. It's people that just despite what would m would make most of us think, well, this will never work. I can't do this or we can't come back from this deficit or whatever it is. They're so cap able of of of the of the the result they want, blinding them to everything else, they're able to push forward and accomplish things. Right. Maybe it works both ways. Well you're getting onto some of the great tragedies ever written where a person's strength becomes their own doing. Or vice versa. Yeah. So uh but the JT note that I really want to get to is uh about that person who admitted that they deluded themselves. He says it might surprise some, but it doesn't surprise me in the least. Why? Because the left has succeeded in turning a political party into a cult. Their party members are not rewarded for thinking critically or independently or even accurately. Their party members are rewarded and ex pected to tow the party line as part of their Article V style of blindly supporting all the disparate special interest groups that make up the Democratic Party. Unions, environmentalists, open border, one world types, transing the kids groups, men can be women groups, communists, socialists, anti white racists, anti male bigots, anti Semites, Islamists, Marxists, Anticapitalists, Anti Free Markets, eat the rich nutters who equate wealth with evil. When you are told to believe lies, good people on both sides, and you're told to repeat lies, Russia's behind the hacking, blah blah blah, and you're told that the murder of a healthcare CEO is justified, well, of course your mind is going to go a little crazy. Is it any wonder that amidst all of that brainwashing a person can deceive themselves into Biden's obvious uh about Biden's obvious dementia? Yeah, yeah. Well well we've talked about that before too, the psychological phenomenon of people who view information not through a truth filter, but an acceptability filter. And if saying this is acceptable to my group, I don't even ask if it's true. I just repeat it. every news thing I flipped to is election results. And I thought, God, this whole obsession with elections and the politics is just so tiring. And it didn't used to be this way. And it's our number one TV show now and everything like that. And I wonder how much that has to do with it where if if it's not your whole life the outcome of a various elections, like you think, well, life is gonna be miserable now for the next four years or great now for the next four years because of this person. I've never looked at life that way. I don't break my life into chunks of administr ations. Seems kind of weird, but seems like a lot of people do. Uh if you don't do that, maybe it's easier to not be blinded because you don't you y you your your happiness is not so married to a result . Uh right. Yeah. Yeah. And and your identity isn't married to that result either. I don't feel horrified or betrayed when my side loses. I get used to it. I um I would consider myself I didn't vote actually. I have this weird belief that if I vote , it makes it harder for me to be fair talking about stuff. Some people in the punditry world believe that and some don't. But either way, if I had voted, I would have voted for Trump three times. All three times. He could fly so far off the rails. I mean, like and become just such a disaster, start World War III, or turn out to have been the biggest crook in our nation's history or whatever. And it like it wouldn't hurt me personally. I mean, I'm not invested like that in the whole thing. I just think, yeah, probably should have seen that coming. Doesn't seem that surprising or whatever. Seemed like the best choice at the time. Now we know. Exactly. Not my entire identity is now crushed. Just got to choose one or the other for a direction you want to go. All right, this is a tangent, but I liked it from JT. Call me an optimist, but I can picture a future in which all public figures are asked or required to run their statements through an AI that can fact check their statements, possibly in real time. Imagine a political system in which most or all of uh the political lies and misstatements are caught in real time. No more Biden saying Jim Crow on steroids. No more c laiming Bush stole the 2000 election. No more good people on both sides. Well, of course it would cut both ways, too. But the AI system, of course, would have to be unbiased, and good luck with that on warfare say uh Russia cannot win now. It it they cannot come close to accomplishing their goals. And it's not just a question of look at 'em, they're not doing very well. No, it's just structurally in terms of manpower, the equipment on both sides, zero chance. Man, it'd be nice So what does Putin do? It'd be nice if the free world uh thought now's our time to push them out and end this thing, but that's not what the free world's doing. Ain't hearing a word out of Europe really. Useless, useless Europe. Just came across across this stat. Rush this stat. God, there were no words in that sentence that are part of the English language. Just came across this stat. Russia 's per capita yearly GDP is about eighteen thousand dollars. $18,000 per person in Russia compared to almost a hundred thousand in the United States. In Mississippi, it's fifty-five thousand. Russia is that poor a country. They are a third world country with a first world nuclear arsenal. Yeah, they used to say first world military, but I don't think that's true anymore. Probably not. We'll finish strong next. Armstrong and Getty I had about 30 people in my backyard last night. I haven't had 30 people cumulative. I am muted. I don't know who isn't. Um Handson mute you. There he is. I haven't had thirty people cumulative at my house on my property spread out over a quarter of a century. At my total, yes. And that's why I'd like to keep it. Uh but I had a Boy Scout event there last night. Uh they were uh doing their swimming test. All kinds of different things you had to do to get your swimming merit badge to do various things for camp this summer and they were doing it in our pool. And it was very cool. My son was very uh very active in getting the yard ready and the pool ready and very proud of um uh getting to use his house to help the scouts and stuff. It was it was very charming. Very nice. I I hid in the house mostly not talking to people because I'm a misanthrope. Um I got this text from a friend of mine yesterday. He said, I just left the Book of Mormon. That's the famous musical mocking the religion of uh Mormons . Hadn't seen it before. It was meh to me. They put an Epstein Trump joke in there and the audience fell apart with laughter like trained seals. It wasn't even a joke with the punchline. I think the line was basically I'm Jeffrey Epstein and I did things with Trump and everybody laughed just because it was they mentioned Epstein and Trump. Wow. Still waiting for their book of Islam music. And I was thinking about that. Uh we've made this remark many times before. This is not new information, but I think I I really like Trey Parker and who's the other guy? From Matt. Matt Stone. Matt Stone and Trey Parker from South Park. I like them. I think they're clever, they're funny, and they have done some very, very brave things in their careers that you wouldn't do if all you cared about was making money, but it is pretty chicken ass to go out there and make a musical making fun of a minor religion that really has no effect on anybody's life unless you're in that religion . When the real religion that is like running world history in terms of difficulties, you couldn't do that with or they would kill you and your family. That's a pretty chicken ass move. Uh uh well okay. I don't know. You disagree? No. Yeah, yeah. They had a funny idea. They wrote a musical, period. They didn't sit around thinking about the major world religions and which one deserved a kicking and blah, blah, blah. You're thinking about it backwards. I think the fact that you couldn't conceivably do that about Islam is that's the discussion that needs to be had. Man, I feel like if uh that's true what you just said, obviously, but man, if you're gonna go out and kick some religious people , wow, wouldn't you rather kick somebody that's got it coming . N and not all Muslims, obviously, but the crazies that are disrupting the world so much? Just as a theme? Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Or the fact that more people haven't come in. It's so easy to sit and laugh at this tiny group of people that have no effect on anything and 'cause they're mostly very nice folks. Yeah, because they're really nice people who who who who