Cultural Warfare and Political Mailbag

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Somehow and I put it in the closet, you got bent and it was pressed between shirts and now I look like a hobo. You hate to start the day feeling like a hobo. Yeah no, you do. It's a dimly lit room deep with them the bowels of the Armstrong and get any communications Compound, and today we're toiling under the title of the show. Only one title today. This is a dictatorship. This is a one-party state. Your title is time to close Congress or reboot it or shut it down or just to just, you know, take a big Sharpie and cross out Article One in the Constitution. It's completely useless. It's a it's a clown show. It's a joke. It's ineffective. It doesn't do its j It's like a wrinkled hobo shirt of an institution, Congress. Terrible. She hadn't mentioned that. How bad is it? It's it's pretty bad. You can't The bottom part of my shirt is uh yeah. You'd have to stare at my couch. But the bottom part of my shirt is very wrinkled. Um Uh it is off a uh amazing though how like I notice sometimes I can put on s certain I don't want to say the word outfit, but certain group of clothes . Why don't you want to say outfit? I don't know. Because of the J Jason Isabel song? Because of the drive by truckers song, yes. Oh yeah, I guess it was drive-by-truckers, yeah. Don't call what you're wearing an outfit. It's not manly. You're fit, as my son says. Like your fit. Uh sometimes you can have a fit on and you're like, man, I really look good today, which at least for me helps my entire mood. But then put exact same thing on two weeks later and like, it lost its zip somehow. I don't know what's going on. Well and and we all spend way too much energy uh praising ourselves when the rest of the world isn't really paying that much attention. Having your swagger though helps with the day. You you like throw around French or Latin. Joie de Viv, yeah. I got zero nom de plume. I got zero I got zero nom de plume today. Yeah. That's too bad. I tell you had their swagger was the Knickerbachers in game one of the NBA Finals. Man, I'd say. Not that I watched, but it sounded exciting. That Jalen Brunson dude is he is something. He's he's um he performs better in playoffs than he does regular season more than any other player than NBA history statistically. Like he's bored during the regular season and then he gets into the games that matter and he's a different guy more than anybody ever ever has been. It's weird Because Wag's got to have a lot at stake to focus. Or to be properly motivated. One more sports sports note, which I know is uh annoying to people who don't like sports, sho hei Otani , the greatest baseball player in the world, maybe of all time , has the lowest ERA at this point in the season. Pretty early in the season, but he's however f many innings in. Uh has the lowest ERA since nineteen thirteen. Good lord. I know it. As a pitcher. And he's hitting over three hundred, which will put you in the Hall of Fame on its own. No, he's he's he's the greatest. That is ridiculous. That is absolutely ridiculous. Yeah. Um it's kinda funny though when you get into sports stats when you go way, way, way back 'cause the sport is so different, you barely can call it the same thing. I mean, you know, the equipment and just all kinds of differ ent things. But this is of no significance to anyone or anything, but uh how much of an outlier is he physically in Japan? Because Japanese men are are famously smaller generally speaking than say Americans, but he's gotta be like the equivalent of eight foot tall, doesn't he? Yeah, he's an enormous man. So yeah, he's got to they gotta fear him like Godzilla . I mean please have mercy on the subway trains, Shohei. Oh great Shohei. Right. To traffic in the worst clich es Japanese stereotype . Yeah, exactly. Man, when he comes back to Tokyo, he's probably walking through the streets and they got airplanes flying around and trying to stop him. Makes those noises. Yeah, I've never s heard him make that noise, but he might in his private time with his bookie translator die. They've severed ties. Yes, exactly. So this is interesting. I got a question. Speaking of the playoff clutch thing, I've either died emotionally or I've reached a new l plateau of Zen. Uh I I use two computers and an iPad for the show. I got tabs, I got screens, I got sheets, I got updates . Both of my computers crashed today. I mean like, crashed. I lost dozens of carefully arranged tabs of articles I wanted to talk about, arranged by subject and like in order of most like newsworthy to most evergreen and everything. It's a genius system if I just crashed, lost it all. And yes, I know how to get it back, but it keeps coming back in the wrong way. And I don't care. It's fine. I thought, no, we'll work our way around it. In the past, I would have been panicked , sickened. Do you have any idea why? I think I've died emotionally. I have a friend who used to say, you know how I handle it, I'm dead inside. I wonder. I wonder. But we we will forge ahead nonetheless. Maybe you don't care anymore. Is that it? Uh I happen to be talking to my I said it's not like it was a patient on the table. It's okay. Low T . Well, that too. No, no tea. I have no measurable tea . I'm like a female veal calf as a man. It's terrible. Um I got a comment on an NPR story that I heard on the way to work today that uh it's going the right direction. Their their coverage of it, their version of it, the lefty version of it really bothers me. It's all around uh their questi are quite a few states in the country. They said most ly red states. I think it's interesting that it's not all red states, but I'll have to look into it before we discuss it. All around the topic of states that have decided , yeah, we didn't really know the county or city health commissioner had the power to do all these things in a pandemic. So we're changing the rules here so that uh the legislature or that some bigger body can decide whether or not schools are going to be closed for two years or the parks are closed down, or you can no longer go to the beach or whatever, as opposed to one person that somehow Right. NPR presented that as a horror with a bunch of quotes from Dr. Fauci, I guess, who's uh part of the pushback on this across the country. Oh my god. I don't know about that more later. Just oh I couldn't it brought back all the horrors of the whole thing. And the idea that some people like one individual who the hell knows what their qualifications are in your county that could say, you're right, parks are closed down, put yellow tap er on the playground equipment so the kids can't play. Well, why? Doesn't matter. I make those decisions. As opposed to the legislature who would be responsible to the people making that decision. Right. For all of their constant howling about democracy , the left is extremely uncomfortable with democracy. They really want dictatorship. Whose sworn duty is to protect your health and put it in the hands of a committee? That's outrageous. Yeah, if they're gonna revoke our rights hundred percent, Dr. Gain of function. I want the Dr. Wuhan. I want the legislature who legislat es, in other words, makes laws to decide the rules as opposed to some person on a whim, one person. Right. It'll never happen in Cruptaformia, but I'd also like to see every statehouse around the nation rule firmly on what constitutes an emergency. No careful how one is declared and when one ends, quite specifically, terrain in the future lunatics like Gavin New som. And then they ended the story. It's just so funny 'cause NPR constantly runs promos about how you s the the place you go to get the real story with no spin and all the facts and it's just so hilarious. Anyway, they ended the story with Hontavirus's uh cases continuing to show up and the Ebola virus not under control. This could become an issue sooner than many of us realize. Back to you, Jim. Oh, I pray it does. And I pray all those red states and their legislat ures take a careful look at the the policy and and and and scient actual scientific fact, not the craze that took place during COVID, but what all of the responsible health organizations had declared years before would be the response to pandemics. And and look follow this carefully, and then let's draw a con uh a uh uh a contrast, if it happens again, God forbid, between your economy, our economy, our schools, your schools, uh our health outcomes, your health outcomes. That seems to be the only way to do it. The time is to s uh to strike is now though, before people forget about it. Yeah. Because the next pandemic could be in, you know, another century away. But uh let's do it. Starts to boil. Joe's I represent science. Here's our headline for the day. Joe's not dead inside. That's uh that's our breaking news. I'm not doing well, but uh not dead yet. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Thursday, June the 4th of the year 2026, where Armstrong again we approve of this program. Okay, let's begin officially then. According to FCC, rules are eggs. Here we go at mark. On the drive, spins . Underneath, puts it up, puts it in, Jalen Brunson does it again. It's a six-point lead with 37 seconds left . They were down by 14. Late in the third quarter. Never say die. That's what I say. Timothy Chalamet was digging it. He was in the second row. He was in the second row behind uh what's his name, the comedian that got all the money from the car wreck? Tracy Morgan. Tracy Morgan was in the front row. Chalamet was in the second row. So hey Chalamet, you need a little more money or something? It's twice as many rows as the first row. Heather Myers has our headlines for us and a bunch of stuff we can get into today. California's not even close to finishing counting their bells, not even close, which is pretty crazy. Among other things 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 los s by HIMS. It's designed to support you in losing the weight and keeping it off, and HIMS now offers access to an affordable range of FDA approved GLP one medications, including the Wigove pill and the Wigovi pen. Through HIMS, everything happens online . 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Just having a lot more fun . Altman , one of the biggest AI guys in the world, says, ah, this whole thing about people losing their jobs is overblown. I think it's uh gonna be just fine. And I would trust his honesty on this topic about as little as anybody I could possibly imagine, but more on that later. Yeah, no kidding. Who asked you? I just came across a fascinating bit of American history. The farm boy, the Vermont farm boy, who in the early eighteen hundreds invented something that made skyscrapers possible. What the plucky young American. Great story. We'll share that with you coming up. But first let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Heather Myers. Heather. Joe, Jack, good morning. Let's find out how the networks are covering the news this morning. From NBC News, House votes to rebuke Trump over war with Iran . Nobody I I have to jump in just because nobody is pointing out because they want the excitement that goes with it. It's a symbolic vote. It holds no weight. It has no power. It doesn't help politically, but no, it does not signal the end of anything. You know, that it uh that it passed. But um to leave out the fact that it's symbolic and does not have the ability to end the war is uh beyond disingenuous. I mean, you're misleading on purpose. That's a tough story. We're covering out of Northern C alifornia this morning. KCRA reporting one dead and three injured in shooting after graduation ceremony at Fairfield High School. Yeah, it's getting national attention. It's just down the road from us . From Forbes, Trump baselessly accuses Democrats of stealing California primaries . Well, if you allow counting to go on for days and weeks, it it certainly hel ps the argument from people for people who want to claim uh there are shenanigans going on. Yeah, California's vote counting system essentially puts lipstick on collar, blonde hair across shoulder of shirt, and weird hotel stays that can't be explained, but then denies there's an affair going on. It sets it all up to look like electoral fraud. So if people say, wow, that looks kind of fraudulent, you can't act like that's unreasonable . Well this headline from the LA Times well backs that up. Does Nithia Raman still have a chance? California's uncounted votes could help Democrats. Yeah, uh speaking of disingenuous, a lot of the coverage around this uh giving people totals of who's ahead and whatever, with fifty some percent to the vote counted, there's no point. So the the wait until they're got yeah. Well every number you hear about uh results in California could be flipped completely upside down by the time they're done counting and the Sacramento B Katie Porter's failed bid for governor is a loss for all Californians. What? Who said that? Sacramento B? They're opinion page this morning. Wow. It used to be a newspaper. That's hilarious . From ABC 7, Newport Beach CEO accused of illegally selling U.S. Yeah, that's a big story we got into later. Yeah, they nabbed him at his $35 million mansion. Yeah. Woo . From CNN, SpaceX sets the stage for a record $75 billion IPO. We gotta talk to somebody somebody smart about all these IPOs that are coming out. The big tech things, what it means, should you be trying to get involved, blah, blah, blah . From people.com, service dog's extreme in-flight accident sickens passengers. What happened? Uh-oh . Oh, the dog got the squirts. Ooh, that swells. That's swell. Okay. That's an uncle. What happened. So clarity. Points for clarity. Well, I just wanted to sum it up so there was no guessing. Yeah, exactly. That settled the issue. From the Associated Press this morning, woman sues outback steakhouse for one and a half million after allegedly slipping on mashed potatoes. Oh, God . All right . From the AP again, the winner pays nine million in charity auction for a private lunch with Warren Buffett and Stephen Curry . Wow. I would like to lunch with the greatest investor of all time and the greatest jump shooter of all time. Yes. Together. The same table. Exactly. They must be together. Whoa. And finally, why so many three pointers in the NBA? Stefan, is there growth in the housing industry? Sorry, 15 seconds. Go from the Babylon B. California announces they have finished counting the votes. Ronald Reagan has won the nineteen sixty six governors race. Yeah. That's an embarrassment. I got a uh a scenario around that to present. Oh, and have you heard the Steph Curry business story? Armstrong and Getty . This July 4th, come celebrate at America's Block Party, hosted by America 250. America's Block Party is a can't miss 4th of July concert happening at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. 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Cause like I know Bill Maher and uh Jimmy Kimmel are friends. Um I've seen Jimmy Kimmel on his show a couple of different times, uh hanging out and talking and stuff like that. And likewise the very practical and very realistic adam Carolla. But Bill Maher, you know, as a lifelong lefty who lives in Los Angeles saying, look, this is ridiculous. We got street people everywhere. You can't get anything done. Jimmy Kimmel Are you being a Karen when you pointed out that poor woman who was chased into a furniture store and stabbed to death by a crazed junkie? I mean was that uh is that being a Karen to point out w the horror of that? Anyway, I got another thing on the California elections, but I wanted to follow up on a couple of things um that Heather had for us headlines. That one about somebody paying a bunch of money to have lunch with Warren Buffett and Steph Curry. That sounds I would love to have lunch with either one of those guys alone , but I feel like if I was there with them together and you have that whole thing going where you're trying to include everybody, like at a party or something like that, it'd be really difficult to do. I mean I have specific questions for Warren. I have specific questions for Steph Curry, but neither one of 'em I don't Steph Curry's. I would like to lunch with Getty Lee and Sam Altman. I mean, come on. Ged, how do you get that bass sound? Sam, will this restructure the economy? Getty, how do you play the keyboards? Sam , what that's an odd combo. Anyway, Steph Curry's closer to Warren Buffett than the other way around. Um Steph Curry just signed a four a new he's going with a new shoe. His under armor shoe thing ended, biggest sports contract at that time that had ever been signed. His new one with some Chinese shoe I've never even heard of. Oh boy. Um they're all kinda Chinese shoes, cause I mean, Nike's an American comp any, but everything's made in China. Anyway, Lean Ning. 4 00 milli on dollar shoe deal. Steph Curry signed, and his career's practically over. 400 million dollars. So yeah. I think he could talk business with uh both of those guys. Yeah, yeah. Wow. I'm super uncomfortable with that though. It's a Chinese owned company. That's the difference. So he's under the influence of the communist Chinese. By definition. By definition. Um on the election thing. Oh, well, we so we got this text. Uh people that are complaining about how slow California is in counting the ballots and l andots of different people pointing out uh how long it takes in different states, cities, or countries around the world. California is the worst of any like developed democracy on planet Earth in terms of getting results. And the problem is, well, we got this text. If they did it super quick, you guys would say that's too fast. It had to be rigged. Um no, I wouldn't. Nobody in history has ever said that. Everybody does it fast and y the likelihood that you believe a fast result just is obviously higher than a slow drawn out result. Now I don't like I I was thinking about my um big local measure where I live in uh you don't need to know the details, but it's a housing development. So I was thinking like how much money is involved here in one small town and the vote is really close. They're like five hundred votes apart and they're 40% of the way counting two days later. You've got how many, how many millions of dollars would you have involved in a 1,500 home development of hundreds of acres. It would it would have to be hundreds of millions of dollars, wouldn't it? That's an awful lot of money. Cause there's a park and there's roads and there's all kinds of stuff that has to happen. That's a lot of money hinging on a very tiny election. Now I don't have any reason to think that it's going to be rigged in any way, but oh my God, there'd be a lot of people that would love to rig it if they could, and you only gotta change a couple hundred votes. Right. So yeah, you gotta get those results out fast. You're just asking for people to to speculate when it takes you this long to count votes. The problem is it's got to take this long because the of bizar practically unprecedented uh in electoral history system California has. You can mail in a ballot any time before the election, you can mail it in day of, it can get there a week later, it still has to be counted. There's nothing like a deadline. There's no structure to it. It's the most unstructured voting I've ever seen. In terms of time, and then the blanketing of the state with mail and ballots, a state of forty million people. I mean, that's just the reason nobody else does it like that is because it's so wildly unmanageable both logistically and security of the vote wise. But I I you know, I don't know. I just so it was all driven by the goal, I suppose, to get as many people to vote as possible, make it the easiest vote as possible. Every half wit bum junkie the moron i in every corner of California, let's get a ballot from the What's your address? I don't know. Yes. Uh can you tell me what your previous address was? I don't know. Well, the the the young woman you were talking about, you we Jack actually witnessed in line, who didn't know her present nor former address, uh, but was still voting. She's in like the the 80th percentile. She got herself to the poll. She knew where to go, or at least knew where a polling place was. She's above average . It's all designed designed to allow A collecting votes from morons and B fraud. Yeah. The whole the lot of the Save Act stuff that Trump's trying to get through, still claiming that the 2020 election was stolen from him is uh nonsensical or counterproductive. But anything that makes it faster and leans towards showing your ID is a good idea, and everybody should be on board with that. 100%. As we've discussed many times, including the vast majority of Democrats. A couple other headlines just to touch on Israel and Lebanon agreed to implementation of a ceasefire. It's so crazy Well what does that mean? So your headline right there, you you talked about this yesterday. Israel's not at war with Lebanon. So calling a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon and them signing an agreement. That's not the problem. Here here's a little tip for you from your old Uncle Joe. Say you're forming up a country and one of your political parties decides, you know, we're hardcore Islamists and we don't want to wait around for our country to make decisions about who needs to be killed or fought. We're going to arm our giant political party and kind of do what we want most of the time. Don't do that. You don't want that in your country. So Lebanon's in a situation where they do join with Hezbollah at times if they think Israel's gotten too belligerent or they're in an armed conflict, and Hezbollah says, Yeah, we'll help you out if you need it, and they'll say, All right, yeah, throw some rockets at Israel. But uh a significant amount of the time uh the like legitimate government of Lebanon and Lebanese people are thinking, can we get these lunatics out of here or at least get them to disarm? Because then we can have peace with Israel. Israel has no desire for conquest. They just don't want to be attacked anymore. So what's happened now, and as you're kind of indirectly pointing out, it doesn't mean peace has come. Lebanon has just said to Israel, look, we're not fighting each other, right? So do us a favor and be Israel. Be a little restrained when you're attacking Hezbollah, 'cause don't draw us into it, 'cause we don't want any part of it. And Israel said, Okay, let's be cool and concentrate on Hezbollah. So that's my nickel version of what's happening right now. But Trump said Israel's gotta stop fighting Lebanon. And that's it's that's again oversimplified. But it's a good sign, I think at least maybe if fighting resumes, Israel can point out to Trump and others, look, we're not fighting Lebanon. We have an agreement with Lebanon. Lebanon, are we fighting you? No, you're not. And it's it's just the Islamist Iranian proxies again . Yeah, there's some interesting um Wall Street Journal reporting on Trump's attitude about the war, but we can tell you about it right after we tell you about rough greens, which is something you need to get for your dog. You put it on your dog's current food. You don't have to change your dog's food. Because your dog doesn't like your dog's stomach does not like it when you change food, has been my experience. But uh you put rough greens on top of the food and you got all this live probiotics, enzymes, omega oils, 20 vitamins and minerals. That's a good idea. It's all about giving your dog a longer, healthier life. It's America's number one dog supplement, all natural, made in the USA. There are thousands of dogs feeling younger, more energetic, and healthier than ever before. More good days and more time together. What's that's what it's all about. And you can get a free jumpstart trial bag today. You just cover the shipping. Yeah. Um, which is pretty dang handy. So why not try it? 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And then you read the entire body of the article and you realize, no, that's not what he said. He said he would seriously consider ending the ceasefire if Iran uh killed American troops. Not that that was the only trigger or that that was the only scenario. That's a it's a terrible misleading. I see the difference you're pointing out, but I would rather he use the words hell yeah, f ye if they kill US troops, we're going back to war as opposed to a Oh right, and or how about yeah, we're gonna go back to serious war unless they come to the table in a serious way and agree to a a deal. Right. I I I think Trump has lost his nerve and his willingness to rattle the world economy to uh push as hard as it it's gonna take to get Iran to actually agree to war. I have not been on board with the taco thing through any of this stuff, tariffs or any of this stuff , uh, he has lost his nerve on this one. He chickened out, and I'm not exactly sure why. The market, I mean, there's he doesn't care about people's opinions, he does care about the market. Um but yeah, he's he's he clearly is chickened out. We were talking to Nora Rothman yesterday. He is a uh journalist with the National Review, and he's got a book called Blood and Progress about Left Wing Violence. Anyway, we did uh podcast with him yesterday that you can find where you find podcasts . But anyway, we uh we we said what Joe said a couple of weeks ago to him because I wondered what his reaction was . Iran getting a nuclear weapon would be one of the biggest developments in world history. And he said, absolutely. He agrees. Um, I don't know how it would not. I don't know you'd make the argument that wouldn't be. With that on the table, and a negative development, not like uh electricity is one of the biggest developments in world history too, but um didn't lead to World War III . How is that the case? Iran getting a nuclear weapon to be one of the worst things that's ever happened on plan et Earth. And because gas is going to be high this summer, we're just gonna not bother. Not bother. Yeah. Yeah. I I think it's awful. It's terrible mismanagement. Uh I want to pay off next hour the uh young Vermont farm boy who made skyscrapers possible. Might be a slight overstatement, but it's a cool story. It's a Wright Brothers esque tale. Couple of bicycle repairmen, that'll never happen. Uh plus we've got mailbag coming up on the