Straight Outta Law & Order

Published May 9, 2024, 3:56 PM

Hour 2 of A&G features...

  • Our guest, retired Superior Court Judge Larry Goodman--on the Trump Hush Money Trial...
  • Updates from the courtroom!...
  • Businesses are struggling with the new minimum wage...
  • A Late Nite Joke-Off on RFK Jr. and his brain worm.  

From the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty Show.

She told me that Donald was chasing her around his hotel room. And at that time what she told me was tidy whities.

That was some woman I saw her on whatever show I was watching yesterday. So she's another aging hot blonde who was there at the golf tournament at Lake Tahoe back in the day.

Because that's where a whole.

Bunch of rich guys are, is the only reason I can figure out they're there. And Stormy actually invited her, said you ought to come up to Trump's room too, and she said, nah, I gotta I'm doing something else.

Maybe she found some other rich guy to hang out with. I don't know.

But Stormy Daniels is back on the stand today. The cross examination has continued. Specifically, they started by asking her how in twenty eleven, five years before she signed a non disclosure agreement. They suggested that she had been denying the encounter all up until a certain point, and so they're trying to make the argument that it's clearly was extortion.

When the election happened, The Wall Street.

Journal lead opinion today is the Stormy Daniels sex trial. The salacious details of her testimony were irrelevant to the charges against Trump. As you may recall, the details got rather detailed, to the disgust of everyone present, including apparently the judge. The defense asked for a mistrial. The judge said, were not at that point yet, but certainly there were some things said that shouldn't be said. Not impressed by the judge. Seems to me to just be riddled with holes that can be appealed.

But what the hell do I know?

Compared to retired Superior Court Judge Larry Goodman, who served on the bench for thirty one years in the Superior Court, handled many many trials, including many murder trials in Alameda County in the San Francisco Bay area in the courthouse in Oakland, he is also, rumor has it, according to the Internet, the father of one Katie Green, Your honor, how are you, sir?

I'm doing great? Thanks? How are you guys?

Good? Can we call you Larry?

Larry? Yea? Absolutely?

How does one become a judge? I mean, what's the career path through becoming a judge?

Uh?

It depends on if you know the governor or not. I was appointed by George Duke Masian, So so.

You're appointed by a governor. Like were you what were you before you were a judge?

I was a civil attorney.

That okay, you're a lawyer criminal cases.

And then I met then Attorney General George Duke Mason, and then when he became governor he appointed me to the bench.

There you go, excellent.

I've long said I'd be a good judge because I'm so judgmental. Is there more good than that?

I can't really, you know, kind of go with the flow.

So Larry, why don't we just start where we introduced the segment Stormy Daniel's testimony, the salacious sexual details and the relationship to the actual charge.

What's your opinion on all that?

It's totally irrelevant.

I mean, it's it's a shock to anybody that's a decent judge that this was ever let in.

It has nothing to do with the charges.

The test you normally use is the probative value outweigh the prejudicial effect. And I don't know how anybody with any sense could say that the probate of value.

Most of these words you can't use if you're talking about Stormy Daniels, we can't use the word probative. Nope, there's just so many it makes it so difficult to talk about. Well, was it the judge's job to jump up and say this is irrelevant? Or was it Trump's lawyer's job to jump up?

Well, I think they did jump up and say it's irrelevant multiple times, and he overruled them, and then when they objected, he overruled them, and then he accused them of not objecting enough where he has the power to object himself. As a matter of fact, he actually did impose one objection on his own to her testimony, so we knew he had the ability to control it.

He just didn't.

We both have pretty strong opinions, but I really try to avoid being the knee jerk obvious conservative bomb chucker. I try to only say things that I mean, and then I'm fairly confident about it. Seems to me this judge is weak and prejudiced. Is that too strong?

Probably not.

I mean, there's it's almost like he got his judicial training from watching Law and Order, you know, where they call everybody up to the bench and not allowing that in or into chambers motion denied, instead of actually having hearings and listening to witnesses and reviewing papers and making rulings. It's unfathomable the way he's running his courtroom.

And if you were an attorney thinking we might lose this one and will file an appeal, would you be pretty optimistic about the appeals process.

I'd be very optimistic about the appeals process. Although it's probably that closing the gate after the horse gets out of the barn, because the damage will have been done.

To the candidate politically, and that's always we got to separate, you know, what this does to him politically versus the legal situation. I got to ask this, even though it's a bit of a a tangent. So you talking about the judge watching too much Law and Order. Whenever we've had cop panels, it's been pretty universal over the years that the good cops say about a quarter of the cops I've worked with shouldn't be cops. What percentage of judges do you think shouldn't be judges?

Wow, that's uh.

I don't know if i'd go twenty five percent, but there are people that I served with that every now and then you'd want to go back and check they make sure they had a bar card.

Yeah, you think maybe ten percent of judges shouldn't be judges, or would you?

I'd say ten to fifteen percent, that's enough. Interesting. Probably some of them would say that about me too.

But yeah, maybe, yeah, Fairship, maybe that's it. It's just a disagreement of philosophy.

Yeah, there are judge certain judges that don't just don't prepare. I had one judge was amazed that I asked you read cases. He said, well, I quit doing that years ago. Yeah, there are judges who just don't care.

Wow.

We're talking to retired Superior Court judge Larry Goodman, who tried many, many, many many cases in the Bay Area.

Do you have a rough number how many cases you tried?

Over one hundred homicide cases?

Good lord?

Wow, twelve death penalty cases and beyond that.

Those are my clerk's numbers.

I keep getting tangent questions.

How often do cases turn out and you think, wow, that is not the right decision verdict?

You mean, yeah, yeah, not very often, not very often.

Usually you think it should.

Yeah, most of the time.

I had a couple of cases that came out totally different than I thought they would come out.

Most of the time, it's pretty close.

Yeah, So I actually have a jury related question. I've been on a handful of juries. It's a fascinating experience. I'm enthusiastic about serving on juries as opposed to a lot of people, and I would suggest folks take a minute to think about the sacred duty we have to each other to render just verdicts before you try to weasel out just because you don't want to do it. Anyway, it was also a terrifying experience trying to reason with some people who are not capable of reason. But this, getting back to the stormy Daniel's testimony, how it was irrelevant, prejudicial, half gross and half sexy. How do you think jurors might react to that?

Well, that's hard to tell, you know, jurors are an unknown quantity. A lot of the times, a lot of you think, well, they'll be shocked and they'll think to Trump's the worst person in the world.

Other jurors might.

Go, Wow, this lady's really messed up, and whatever she has to say, I'm not going to listen to it.

Yeah, just really hard to tell.

Sorry, Just as.

A former juror if all of the testimony unwound the way it did. And then she said, but I didn't do any of this for the money. I'm sorry you're on. I'm sorry I did go faud.

Well, I understand.

A couple of jurors were seen shaking their head or trying to cover their mouth because they were starting to giggle when she was testifying about some of the things she testified to. It's just hard to tell, you know. You watch a jury and you set up there. That's one of the things you do as a judges. You watch their reactions and sometimes you think, boy, I understand these people completely, and then they go and do something you had no idea what they're going to do.

But so later in the day the judge did say, we heard a bunch of stuff that you know wasn't necessary, we didn't need to hear. But you feel like he should have jumped in earlier, you know, when they got into sexual positions and stuff like that, and said no, no, no, come on now.

Absolutely, at that point, he you know, calls them to the bench and says knock it off, or he starts interposing an objection of his own, and he keeps doing it with more and more force.

So he looks at the jury and he starts.

Shaking his head, going I told you not to go there, And eventually the jury starts going, Wow, these people are disregarding what the judge has to say, and then it starts working against them.

So the judge has already told us that he thinks her testimony was irrelevant to the charges.

So let's talk just a little bit.

Without fully explaining the charges because it would take too long. The idea that they misrepresented a filing, which is a misdemeanor to commit another crime, which is a misdemeanor that the local DA doesn't actually have jurisdiction over, but that makes it a felony, and it all ends up being election fraud because covering up an affair is fraud, which is a ridiculous notion.

I'm sorry, I'm leading. The witness.

Would absolutely I agree with you.

What do you think of the underlying charges?

Well, I don't understand them.

Wow.

Well, I mean it's you're asking a state court to enforce a federal election law, and that's they don't have the jurisdiction to do it. One of the other problems I have with his judge, is he should have made the prosecution lay out specifically before the trial starts. What is your theory, what is the crime? And how do you think you're going to get there?

Because we're now do that.

They're playing hide the ball with the defense through most of this.

Yeah, because we're now fifteen days in and they still haven't explained how they're going to do the math on that and make sure.

It would have made them do that the very first day.

Interesting, right, Yeah, speaking of the appeals process, we should flip this around to the other side to be fair. How about Trump and the gag order and the fact that he's violated.

How would you have handled that whole situation?

Well, you know, the gag order is kind of interesting because the jury knows all about all those gag orders and all the contempts because how could they avoid it.

So now in the.

Jury, even though the jury's not in the courtroom, when they're talking about the gag order and forcing the gag order and posing the gag order, the jury goes home and turns on a TV.

What do they see?

Well, that's interesting.

Right now you assume as a judge that even though they're not supposed to watch TV about the trial.

I don't think you think they do, just assume they do.

Of course they do inter me, particularly on something this high publicity. How are they going to avoid it unless they don't turn on the television, don't turn on social media, don't look at anything that's written.

Down, right, they're going to see it.

Okay, the neighbor's going to say, hey, what do you think about that before you can tell him to be quiet.

Wow. Interesting, But would you have.

Punished Trump in the same way as often or more or whatever.

I would never have imposed the gag order in the first place. Gag orders are to protect the defendant, and it's over broad, it's vague, you know. Trump's can be a pain in that, you know what. So I suppose he felt like he had to do something, but I don't know.

That this was the way to do it, you know.

I'm I heard a commentator say the other day that he pointed out that the judge's daughter, who Trump had said some critical things of, and it was portrayed in the media, of course, that she's a pigtailed twelve year old just trying to get through middle school, when she's a full grown woman who is a high ranking campaign person in Kamala Harris's office, specifically for the Biden Harris campaign. And this person said, can't they find a judge in New York who doesn't have a close family member who's on the Biden campaign?

And I thought, you know, that's a pretty good point.

Does that strike you as at least an uncomfortable conflict of interest?

Yeah, I mean the canon of ethics say that you're supposed to avoid all appearances of impropriety, and this is a pretty good appearance of impropriety. And when they tried to recuse this judge, what the judge should have done was file an affidavit and it should have gone to a third judge or another judge to actually hold a hearing on whether it was improper or not and then rule on refusal motion.

So if I'd pulled off a jewel heist and you're the judge, or they're talking about you for the judge, and that turns out, you know, your daughter does the news on our radio show, then maybe you wouldn't be the right judge much.

It might not be Yeah, at least have to hold a hearing. Wow, this case stinks as much as I thought it did. Retired Supirity Court judge Larry Goodman. Larry really really enjoyed the conversation. I hope we can do it again sometime.

Yeah, I'm available. Okay, cool, excellent, Thank you so much. He's a retired judge, so he's available. Very tired. People love being available.

Oh yeah, interesting stuff.

So the judge should have jumped in and said, what is this talk about?

Whoa whoa whoa whoa with the positions and the panties and the.

Stop it stap it your thoughts text line four one five two nine five kftc Armstrong. So the Stormy Daniels is on the stand, and there are various reporters, you know, sending the notes back as it's going on and everything like that. So and we'll get your highlights and Katie Green's stand on top of everything. But one thing I wanted to mention, just because I thought this was crazy. Well, first of all, at the very beginning, Stormy Daniels, at the beginning of the cross examination took issue with the with the word choice that Trump's lawyer used talking about how she had undergone mock cross examination to prepare for the trial.

Daniels took issue with the word mock. Uh, what do you mean?

What the hell is that? But anyway, here's the part I want to get to. Susan Netchelis. The chilis the lawyer woman. I don't know how you say your name. Anyway, Trump's lawyer has been relentless in painting Stormy Daniels is doing all of this. The NDA, the media appearance, is her book a strip club tour to make money. I need to point out this is the New York Times version of this. You'll notice that here, and this is the new stuff today. Yeah, this is minutes ago. There is, of course, and then this is the New York Times reporter throwing that in there after. They're trying to portray Stormy Daniels is using all this stuff and stuff to make money. There is, of course, a small irony in the fact that Trump himself has always lauded a pursuit of money, including writing a book How to Get Rich.

That's about we're talking about testimony in court or whether or not you were trying to extort.

A guy and make money off of your situation with him.

That is pathetic, it amazing.

Anyway, getting to the more specific stuff, Trump's lawyer has now brought up on the screen. On the screen an advertisement for an event from Daniel's strip club tour, the title of which was make America Horney Again. Daniels claimed on the stand that she hated that tagline all along.

I never did like that slogan.

Yeah, right, so you were going around the country shaking it to the name which I remember it was. That was the whole big deal, was a make America Horney Again. I never did like that, your honor.

I can guarantee you that two to five jurors right now are sitting there thinking this is a complete clown show. Entertaining, but a clown show. Yeah, to that point. One of the reporters said this, and I think it's true. As this cross examination between Trump's lawyer and Stormy Daniels goes along and it's combative and a hostile I'm reminded that earlier in the week we were going through dry testimony of checks invoices and ledgers, the falsified business records that make up the charges in this case. It has to be a jarring shift for the jury in it. The whiplash may be startling and possibly confusing.

I don't know if it's confused.

Well, maybe it is confusing, but at some point somebody would have to bring you around to either your own mind or somebody you're sitting next to the jury. This isn't what the trial's about. It's about that stuff from earlier in the week, the boring stuff. That's what this trial is actually about.

I think it's worse than that, because the average juror is not an enthusiastic taker in of the justice system and almost went to law school. They are sitting there thinking, and I promise you this is true. What are we supposed to be convicting this guy of again?

Right?

Which is no way to run a prosecution.

The idea that or they've just gotten into the ot again. The defense posted the tweet of Daniel's calling Trump an orange turd.

She says she was not talking about Trump. Hilarious.

Oh wow, when one of your key witnesses lose is one hundred percent of their credibility, your case is falling apart. Really now, she wasn't talking about Trump there, she meant somebody else, a different orange that she owes a bunch of money.

Apparently, Yeah, sure, wow, Armstrong and Getty.

The staggering toll of the opioid epidemic on children in this country. New research finds between twenty eleven and twenty twenty one, three hundred twenty one thousand, five hundred and sixty six children lost a parent to a drug overdose. The rate of that loss more than doubled over the decade.

That is a stunning number. Yikes.

That is grim three hundred and twenty one thousand kids lost a parent to opioid or opioid overdose in a ten year period. So'd be roughly thirty two thousand a year kids that lost a parent's That's that's a number.

The question of legalization, criminalization decriminalization drugs is an interesting one, you know, legally, sociologically, philosophically, for those of us who are lovers of liberty, I feel like.

The experiment has been done. It doesn't work. Yeah, I would agree.

I think at the very very very least, we need an aggressive society wide effort from faith.

Leaders to rappers, to athletes.

To teachers, to do you name it, saying hard drugs will ruin your life, don't touch them, don't get anywhere near them. Why is a slippery slope to misery and death? Why has that not happened yet.

Is that because there are too many people that feel, like, you know, they're so happy with the progress they've made on legalizing marijuana and you know, some other drugs, and too many people are incarcerated for having one joint. That old story which isn't true? Is it that which seems crazy to me? You can't draw the line between marijuana and fentanyl.

I think part of it might be, and I mean that story that you brought us, that there's no such thing as casual hard drug use anymore. Right, seventeen year old kid takes his Xanax for a little buzz on a Friday night, it has fentanyl in it.

He's dead, and it happens all the time.

Yes, that should be Like you said, Yeah, there should be PSA's running with Lebron James or Barack Obamber P Diddy maybe that's a bad choice, or whoever could get their attention. Mister beast should be all over the place, right, I would agree. Yeah, as to why it's not happening right now, and I swear I'm trying to come up with a non partisan answer here, but I can't. Other than drug decriminalization was such a cherished.

Goal of the left.

Yep, I think that's it, because they had the fanciful notion that folks would just get treatment and get clean if we only decriminalized it. And you know, the people of Oregon, God bless him, had that utopian notion that that's the way it worked. When they find out, when they found out that it didn't, they revoked the law. To their credit, I'm sure portlandy is still saying no, no, no, we just need to give people more and give them houses, then they'll stop doing drugs.

But anyway, that's probably it.

The story of the day, and we'll talk more about it later. Is Joe Biden saying no to the bombs that he had approved sending to Israel because he's afraid they're actually going to prosecute the war that they're prosecuting. And I think this is the story of the week, maybe the month, maybe the year. I mean seriously, depending on how this goes. And we'll talk more about that later. Yeah, indeed, glad you're here.

So speaking of and I'm reminded I should have this tattooed on my arm, the Tomasol quote. He was talking about the twentieth century, but he was pointing out that much of our recent history has been getting rid of what works in favor of what sounds good. And California, Cali Unicornia, as we affectionately refer to it.

Is absolutely ground zero of.

Fanciful Unicornean schemes that you know in advance, if you have any sense, are a miserable idea, but they're enacted over and over again, like the forced twenty dollars minimum wage for fast food workers. And Rebecca Paxton at The National Review had a great piece on an update This is facts only, an update on how that whole thing is going. She mentions that, Okay, California imposed that twenty dollars minimum wage for fast food workers. Some fast food workers, unless you're a Gavin Newsom's buddy, goes.

At a bar and grille yesterday and I was thinking ill about these people aren't making twenty dollars primum wage?

Yeah, for no good reason.

Nope, Golden State lawmakers don't need to speculate about the consequences of such policy. Twenty A near twenty dollars minimum wage experiment has already played out in their own backyard. In twenty twenty one, Unite Here Local eleven a controversial LA based labor group, ticketed its way into almost eighteen dollars minimum wage for hotel workers in the city of West Hollywood, which is the highest rate in the country. The union didn't stop there. Within the same year, it successfully pushed to spread this policy to all industries in the city. If you don't know West Hollywood, it makes Berkeley look like omahah. As a result, West Hollywood's minimum wage increased sharply, rising from thirteen to fourteen bucks an hour and twenty twenty one depending on the business side, to a peak of over nineteen dollars an hour last July. The consequences of the policy were devastating and immediate. Numerous businesses slashed hours, cut staff level, or closed their doors. They mentioned this small business owner laid off forty percent of her staff in a last ditch effort to keep her business alive. New York Times. The conservative New York Times reported on another local restaurant tour who was forced to reduce his staff by thirty percent. They quote another fellow, Marco, who closed his restaurant after thirty years. You keep a restaurant open for thirty years, you've got the world by the tail. That's keeping it open for thirty months is half impossible, but he lamented for a small business like ours, it's costing us a few thousand dollars to meet this new minimum wage, which is the highest in the country. It's really tough for us, and he ended up shutting it down. Roughly eighty five businesses shuttered in West Hollywood last year alone for reasons of not being able to meet payroll. Perhaps unsettled by these consequences, the city commissioned a study in February of this year to assist to assess the impact of the minimum wage on local businesses and employees. Jack, would you like to take a wild guess what the study showed.

So what I'm wondering as I'm listening to this is because I assume the well, I'm just trying to figure out. Did the politicians know this, the people that push this, that advocate for this, Yes, most of them do.

The true believers who are just dewey eyed, you know, idealists with no grinding in reality, they don't know this.

But that's to their discredit.

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But so did Gavin Newsom, who is big on the whole twenty dollars minimum wage for fast food workers?

Did he think that it.

Wouldn't cause people to lose their jobs, the restaurants to shut down, or for them to decide to automate.

He knew precisely what it would do, but that's how cynical he is. But I don't understand it as a vote grab. Oh it's crazy successful that I got to jump to my conclusion.

So it must be people who don't work at the restaurant who he's going to get their.

Votes, or people who do work at the restaurants who haven't thought this through. But let me get to that in a second. The study in West Hollywood found that twenty two percent of hourly workers in West Hollywood just flat efing lost their jobs.

Twenty two percent.

Well, that's what I was going to say, the workers at the restaurant, don't they look around and notice, Wow, one out of five of us just lost their jobs.

This isn't good.

Some of them will be sadder but wiser, having learned the economic lesson. A lot of them will blame because they've been brought up by lefty politicians to blame the small business owners, because every small business owner is crazy risk yacht is crazy rich and just pays lower wages because they're greedy and mean.

And a lot of people will come away still thinking that.

But there's more so two percent lost their jobs completely. An additional seventeen percent experience reduced hours. That's thirty nine percent who got good and screwed. Forty two percent of businesses were to layoff workers or cut hours. Over one third of businesses that reduced employee hours turned to technology to fill the void.

Well, it's got to add up.

To one hundred percent had to do something, because you're not just going to all of a sudden be able to absorb that.

All right, And I would guess that, well, it's a pretty educated guess that the you know, the fifty percent who still hung under their jobs and were making the twenty dollars an hour artificial minimum wage or whatever to nineteen dollars in the hotels that they were having to bust their asses because they're now brutally understaffed, right, And those of us who've lived through that sort of thing know what that feels like.

Did you?

I think I don't think you were here when I talked about this, because I had Did you see that thing I retweeted about the guy who had a subway franchise? I remember discussing so damned interesting. So this young black guy got a subway franchise and he's the owner manager and he works there constantly, and he went through his bills all downy hours he works and everything, and it was that shocking to me. But I mean his work and his ass off.

It's working.

I think what he's saying, thirteen sixteen hour days every single day, and with his electric bill and what you know, the condiments cost and blah blah blah and this and that and one employee and everything like that, he's making like one thousand dollars a week and then an hour his hourly wage was.

Nothing, right, right, it was a weaker slave wage. Yeah, But how.

Did the perception get out there that everybody who owns a subway or a McDonald's or whatever is wealthy.

I think this is the explanation, and it sounds oversimplified, but I believe it to my soul, to my spine, to my marrow. Most Americans are in the age of witchcraft, believing in evil spirits. When it comes to understanding economics, and specifically microeconomics, like how a business works. They are pre modern in their understanding of how it works, and so they believe all the things we've been describing, and they think if the government steps in just says you're going to make more money, you will make more money and there will be no other effects because they have seriously, what's another way to put it, like a pre adolescent, a child's understanding. And I don't mean to be insulting. It's not your fault if you've not learned something or not been taught it, although but at least humorous or at least you learn the state capital. So that's important. That is the important thing I think, and I've said this many times. I think one of the best, most important things we could do as a society is to make sure every single kid gets out of high school with a thorough understanding of how small businesses work, how taxes work, how compound interest works, a very rough idea of how the stock market works, what an index fund is, and the fact that we don't do that is tragic.

Some school districts do, to their credit.

But my son, who's in the private school, I know a teacher who would love that subway video. I should send it to him. He'd love to show that to the cl I mean, because that would be, Oh my god, the amount of good you could do by just showing that couple minute video. Yes to every high schooler, right, I agree completely, And my final point and it sounds partisan, and for that I insincerely apologize. If we were to institute that policy for every school kid in America, it would be devastating the leftist politics. Yea devastating, right, because the whole narrative of the man has again everybody who owns the subway has a yacht.

Right, the man is going to stick it to you unless the government steps in because they've got your back.

People would go far at that notion.

With even the most basic understanding of the way the world really works.

Hey, KG, are you keeping an eye on the Stormy Daniels trial. Unfortunately. Yes, oh no, we look forward to highlights out to show if anything interesting happens, will come to you when after this break. But I loved that thing about how I never liked the slogan let's make America horny again. Okay, the jury has got to be whatever, this is one of your key witnesses.

Well, and what's this got to do with anything?

Right?

All on the way, I just.

Had this moment of thinking because I was taking in a little of the SDT Stormy Daniels trial, not the Stormy Daniels trial, that's what everybody calls it. And then something else, and then I just had a moment of thinking, this isn't This can't be real life. This is a simulation of some sort. This can't be the actual old world that I like grew up in, of like adults talking about adult things.

Right, this is the matrix.

Yeah, yeah, I've never seen the Matrix, but I've kind of just inferred from people's comments about what it's about.

Right, I've never read Moby Dick, but I understand there's a whale in it.

So one of the best political stories of the day yesterday was the New York Times, disclosing having looked into a divorce trial from years ago with RFK Junior. He was making the argument, I assume, to try to lessen his spousal support, that he couldn't work because or he couldn't work as much as he wanted to because a worm had eaten away part of his brain.

And then people were like, what was that? What was that? You said something about a.

Worm eating your brain in there, so they dug into it a little bit, and yeah, yeah, that's what that's. Apparently what he testified to is that a he was having some sort of problems and the doctor went in and found a dead worm in his brain that they believe had been eating parts of it before it died.

And if there's one frame these human beings can't ignore, it's there's a worm in my brain, good lord, or if it's.

Eaten part of my brain and now I can't work.

And I was reading about these parasites a little bit, and it's just so wicky anyway. So the late night comedian's not surprisingly had at that topic. So let's do a late night joke off. We've got three comedians taking a shot at the joke. On the same topic. I joke Eddie will grade them for their humor abilities in the bottom grade. Getter will be banned from comedy for life.

Michael Letterrip RFK Junior said that years ago a doctor found a dead worm in his brain, and this is strange. Instead of using d wormer, he injected himself with the COVID vaccine.

He's got it all wrong.

Wow, he's got worms in the book brain that explains the ivermectin.

It is a de wormer for a guy who.

Seems to believe doctors are con artists trying to scam you into getting a vaccine. He sure did get to run fast when a worm started eating his brain. The inside of his head is basically the movie Dune.

But you should definitely vote for him.

Guys, want to say to any of RFK junior fans who might be watching, do not to spare. Just because he has admitted in a swarm deposition that he has parasitic brain damage doesn't mean he's going to drop out because Bobby Kennedy Junior does not know the meaning of the word quit because that information was in the part of the brain.

At the worm eight Wow. Next hour, The American comedy crisis.

I didn't even almost laugh any of those three times, which is the first time that's ever happened.

I gave Fallon a D because he's a nice guy. Kimmel a deep plus because it at least seemed like it might be a joke. Colbert a C minus. It's the lowest.

Average grade ever in the history of this.

Wow.

Well, let's hear him talking about He's trying to explain how well this is RFK Junior yesterday cliped twenty Michael, I go.

Hike, and I hiked up hill a mile and a half up and a mile and a half down with my dogs, and I do my meditations, and then I go to the gym, and I go to the gym for thirty five minutes.

He was saying, it's hilarious that these two guys are gonna claim I'm not fit physically or mentally to be president.

Oh yeah, well all right.

I mean, you did testify in court that a warm part of your brain, and so now you can't work the way you used to be able to. Well, you know, you got to either say that was true or not true in nitpicking.

We later on in the show, John F. Kennedy's grandson has put out so this is his.

Cousin.

Yeah, he's put out a series of videos on Instagram mocking his cousin, cousin, Robert F. Kennedy, for being a steroid abuser, stupid, he's.

Kind of swool. Yeah, it's it's not charitable. I think of little Maidy's brain. Yeah, it's kind of of that tone.

So the update on the oh my god, the utter miscarriage of justice that is the Trump traveling Manhattan coming up next hour.

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