WEBVTT - Memo of Underwhelming 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:07.840 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:11.920 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong Show, Katty. 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:18.880 Armstrong and Jekiet and No Key arms Drawn Get It 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:29.520 Why from Studio C say signor a dimly let room 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.959 deep within the bowels of the Armstrong Yaghetti Communications Compound 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:36.320 on Friday, as they were toiling under the title of 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:40.839 the show more like memo of underwhelming or if you 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:46.600 prefer Uncle Sam Box's Kangaroo film at eleven, it's too 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.200 bad you just came up with the mo OUs Memorandum 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.680 of underwhelming because that's good and the story's kind of over, 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:57.120 so yeah, the story is just beginning. My friend using 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:59.280 the term m OU is kind of gonna come to 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.600 an end. Though that was all the talk there up 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.520 until Who's seen MoU? What are you going to release? MoU? 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:08.480 And memorandum of underwhelming is pretty good? Yeah, speaking of which, 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.679 And we won't be labor this. We've talked about it enough. 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.400 But I'm glad you didn't pay me the ten dollars 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:17.440 dollars yet because this is very controversial. Trump signed the MoU, 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.800 but then JD was supposed to go to a signing 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.240 ceremony and that got post poems. 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.280 I was actually just thinking about this is this is 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:27.960 why lawyers run the world. This is why you get 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:29.800 to get lawyers. We should have had lawyers involved in 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.000 our bet. I bet ten dollars that the deal would 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.440 not be signed. Did I say Friday or by Friday? 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:38.800 I don't remember, but it wasn't signed on Friday. It 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.399 was signed to before Friday. Listen, I got no knits 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.080 on me. Quit picking them. Uh, and then they've got 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:48.400 the Well, so they're not doing the Is it the 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.880 signing or is it the ceremony that matters? And I 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.560 would imagine it's the signing that But anyway, not a 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.200 good start when they were supposed to go and meet 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:00.880 and start the negotiations about mihstiles and stuff like that, 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:06.240 and no, they canceled it because Hesbela attacked Israel. Israel 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.560 attacked Hesbela overnight, and that is line one in the 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:15.560 memorandum of underwhelming. Line one is hostilities end and it's 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:20.560 not all front Yeah. No, no, Israel repeatedly says we 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:23.440 didn't agree to that. Yeah, you can't make hiss agree 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.919 to that, No kidding. Anyway, Well, we'll talk about that 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.280 more later what was the thing with Uncle Sam Box? 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.760 And who Uncle Sam Boxes? Kangaroo film? At eleven? 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.360 We were playing the Aussies this afternoon in the US 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.120 and Ausi's in the World Cup. 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:41.800 The soccer ruse. Yes, yes, very exciting. 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.640 At my house, I have a conflict and I'm very 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:48.480 bummed about it. I'll be dvring it. 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.200 But do you know what time it is? So? What time? 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:55.959 The three o'clock eastern noon Pacific? Oh it is? Is 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:59.919 that early in the day? Yeah? Oh cool from free. 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.639 Don't step on any needles on the field, guys, that's 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.920 the key thing to avoid, never mind the awesome Ausy defense. 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:10.079 Don't step on any junkie needles some noon West Coast times. 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:11.560 So I'm running air in stace, so we'll have it 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.000 on in the car as we drive around. Cool. 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:18.480 Oh wow, Yeah, soccer without the excitement of soccer, without 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.600 the distraction of being able to see it. 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.239 Yes, that does sound like a dream come true. O. 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:25.399 You could you could say it that way. You could say, 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.480 it's not like I'm gonna miss anything by not watching. Oh, 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:32.040 I disagree completely. You can tell me if somebody scores. Well, 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.760 I don't know anything about strategy, so watching it is 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:38.280 worthless for me. I just see people running around and 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:42.160 it looks like they're randomly kicking the ball right yeah, 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.640 and everybody cheers, and I think, what, what are you 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.640 all excited about? The ball is fifty yards from the goal? 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:49.880 What are we cheering about here? Oh? Right right? 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.720 It helps if you picture it a lot like basketball, 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.280 where they there's a lot of ball movement around the perimeter. 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.400 They're trying to get mismatches and trying to get the 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.080 defense to be a little slow to react, and then 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.480 you exploit that and move forward and blah blah blah. 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:08.040 But yeah, it takes a long damn time, which is 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.560 why they sing those songs and drink like lunatics. I 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:15.400 mentioned this yesterday the Scotsman descending upon Boston. They drank 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:19.800 the Sam Adams Boston Lagger Dry at the Sam Adams 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.560 Giant Tap House. They had to do an emergency thing 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:29.719 and bar owners are reporting receipts quadruple Saint Patrick's Day, Wow, 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.880 just because the Scotsmen are in town. Yeah, having a 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.360 big time. My niece who lives in Boston sent out 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.320 more pictures yesterday of dudes and kilts walking around the 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.360 subway and stuff like that. Love it. 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:48.520 I tell you what, this whole phenom phenomenon of online 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:53.400 influencers from all over the world saying this country's freaking great. 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.799 I've heard all this negative stuff. These are the nicest, 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:58.320 friendliest people in the world. 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:03.520 They're thrilled to show they're city Americans are fabulous people. 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:07.200 And I'm like, yeah, that's right, we are. Don't forget that. 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:12.320 We're the most generous, welcoming people on earth generally, you know, 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.480 except during the Biden years if you have permission to 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.520 come in. But yeah, god dang it, we're a great 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:19.120 people in a. 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:23.280 Great country's wallow and negativism. 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.160 All the time. Unless we lose to the sakar Us, 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:26.200 then I want I'm jailed. 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:30.240 Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, ship him off to at 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.040 El salvad Or prison. Here's such a big fan of 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.039 They shove your head down in your right jumpsuit. 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:45.560 Exactly. Wow, that's not going to endear us any tourists. No, 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.719 they won't think that's good at all. Now I'm trying 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.520 not to talk at all about the hole Ran thing, 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.600 because I think it's it's it's really quite a deli. 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:57.160 Oh but we'll get to that soon enough. 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.520 I'm sure you want to hear my favorite headline of 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:03.920 the day here. It is Obama slams America's fixation on 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:07.200 wealth and fame ahead of star studded launch party for 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.839 eight hundred and fifty million dollars shrine to himself. 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:16.440 That's hilarious. We're to win, he says to Bruce Springsteen 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.040 and Bono and Ario are on a grande in the 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:19.600 first row. 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:24.520 Was that some sort of scientific irony test? You know, 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.440 what's the purest distilled irony that can be produced or what? 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:29.480 That's hilarious? 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.279 Yes, that is sixty eight hundred and fifty million dollars 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:36.960 trying to himself. That is sixty percent riched irony right there, right? 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:43.479 Weapons great, yeah, weapons, great irony. Hilarious. That is funny. 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.160 That is I'd never thought about that, but that is 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:49.240 absolutely true about that crowd. They're always talking about, uh, 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.360 you know, the regular guy and the rich getting away 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.679 with this and that, and you're you're the most elite 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:59.480 assembled group that could possibly exist, right right, All the 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:03.320 energy in the Democratic Party is the college educated wealthy. 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.960 It's crazy. Well, and the whole presidential library thing has 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:11.040 clearly turned into something that wasn't the original point it 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:15.080 was supposed to be you gotta house the documents from 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:19.640 an administration somewhere and then scholars and researchers can go 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.040 and dig through them like that. Robert Carrow, I read 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.840 the LBJ book spent, has spent his whole life practically 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:31.360 at the LBJ libraries, he says, turn it over millions 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:35.160 of pages over the years, looking reading every line. That's 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.240 what they're for. But they just kind of recently it's 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:42.240 I'm going to build a giant like monument to myself. 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:48.160 It's a shrinezium with the donations of people that I 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.600 helped out over the years or maybe can still help 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:55.560 out in the future. Yeah, a shrine that that's so 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:57.280 not American. 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.680 I would agree. Yeah, And honestly, there is a lot 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:05.200 to like at the Obama thing. It's a giant community center. 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:09.160 You know, sports courts for kids and you know, educational 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.840 resources and that sort of thing, which is lovely. But yeah, 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:16.920 in general, Yeah, the shrines to presidents why, I mean, 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:21.160 some of them deserved like monuments and such, but a 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:21.960 very few. 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:27.080 Yeah. Interesting, I didn't take in any of it. I 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.680 just couldn't. You said, you tuned it on for like 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:32.560 five minutes. No, I think it was ten seconds. 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:39.240 Michelle was slathering praise on her man for being a 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:42.240 visionary and a far. 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:46.439 Seeing you know, sage and Saint and the rest of it, 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.160 and I'm like, oh god, and I just I bailed. 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:51.839 He didn't want a third term if we allowed that 0:08:51.920 --> 0:09:00.240 sort of thing. Wow. Interesting, goshells a man. Yeah, you 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.079 know that was one of the speakers. Yeah, that was 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:04.839 the That was the wrestler from last weekend at the 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.760 UFC match. Oh, I'd misunderstood. Yeah, that's not helpful. You're 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.600 not speaker there. That's the fighting us. That's not bringing 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.160 us together. Yeah. Yeah, come on, let's start the show officially. 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.600 I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Friday, 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:21.440 June nineteenth. It's juneteenth? Right? Is today juneteenth? Correct? Yeah? 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.120 The year twenty twenty six. We are Armstrong in Geddy. 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.600 Are we racist? If we're working here for working on Juneteenth? 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.480 Does that make you a racist? I think so? Yes. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.600 All right, let's begin now officially according to FCC rules regulations, 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:34.400 here comes the show at Mark. 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:34.920 Damn, New York. 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:41.000 We really did it, man, we really did it. There's 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:44.320 a lot of people have a lot of negative stuff 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.240 to say. There's a lot of people who have a 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.559 lot of opinions, but when you prove them wrong, you 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:51.520 really have to You don't have to say too though. 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:08.200 Appreciate you all. Thank you. Jalen Brunson of the New 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.720 York Next who has become the most celebrated basketball player 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.439 on the planet, who was the thirty third pick in 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.480 the NBA draft a couple of years back, second round. 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:20.640 Everybody passed on him at least once. Yeah, yeah, just amazing. 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:22.719 I am not an NBA fan. 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.800 I am certainly not a New York's Knicks fan, but 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:30.880 I've become a giant fan of the Knicks win and 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.000 the reaction in New York City. And it crystallized in 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.720 my head through two things. 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.439 I read. One Arthur Brooks, who's the psychologist. 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:41.959 He writes about happiness and unhappiness for the Free Press, 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:47.800 and he was describing how sports fans are happier people 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.960 in general than non sports fans. Sure, there have been 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:52.920 all sorts of scientific studies about it, and we can 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.360 dig into that because I found it super interesting. But 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:59.000 the other thing was Peggy Noonan Rent quoted a friend 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.199 who was observing all this and how happy people were 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.960 in watching the scenes of the crowds in the street 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.040 day after day after day, and the fact that it 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:13.360 was an Uninternet thing that was happening. People were physically 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.480 with each other, They were looking at each other, Nobody 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:17.760 was scrolling with their phones. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.200 Very few of them had their phones up to video 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.880 take pictures. Everybody was interacting with each other in a 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:31.520 great American city. It was an Uninternet phenomenon. And I thought, wow, right, 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.160 at least we do that with sports. I'm intrigued by 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.320 this concept that sports fans are happier than nonsports fans. 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:43.600 I think that makes sense based on just my anecdotal 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.480 having lived my life. Yeah. 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.720 Yeah, And they asked the question, if you're a skeptic, 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:51.920 good for you you should be. Is it just that 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.800 happy people like sports or that sports make people happy? 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.320 And well, again, we'll dig into those studies and spell 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:00.840 that out for you. That's a good question. And yeah, 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:04.680 the problem is when you're a sports fan, your team 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:08.240 doesn't always win the championship. In fact, they don't always 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.320 even have a winning season. So how about those years? 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.880 Doesn't matter, doesn't matter, no, not at all. Just something 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:16.559 to focus on. 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:22.880 That's not inflation or war, or it's interaction and something 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:26.880 in common with friends, acquaintances, and strangers. 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:30.760 There's definitely range two other human beings. There's definitely a 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:34.320 community aspect to it, no doubt whatsoever. Mm hmm. Yeah, 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.640 that's very very interesting. Maybe I'll have to rethink by 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.120 I was. I was huge into sports for almost my 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.480 entire life, from a little kid until I had kids. 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:45.360 When I had kids, I thought I ain't got time 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.160 for this anymore. I kind of bailed on all sports. 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.800 But sure, Yeah, we've got headlines on the way. What 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:52.080 do you think of that? Do you have any thoughts 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.240 on that? The whole being happier for your sports fan? 0:12:54.320 --> 0:13:05.160 Text line four one five two nine five KFTC my headline. 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:11.840 If I is writing a headline. Jd Vance thinks you're stupid. Wow, Wow, 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:15.319 I sense a hidden meaning there. Jd Vance thinks he 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.360 can say anything in front of you, and because he 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.040 went to Yale and you didn't, you'll just buy it 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.240 or something, or he's so persuasive you. I just was 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.200 watching him on Fox and he just says stuff that's 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:31.640 not true over and over again, very emphatically. Yeah, they 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:35.600 won't get a dime until they've agreed to all our 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:41.360 nuclear But that's just flat freaking not true, dude. No 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:45.880 one nobody believes it. Not a dime of US dollars. 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.880 Whoa whoa, whoa whoa. Ain't the US part of the 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:50.079 dollars that bothers me? 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.840 Right, it's just dollars. Who cares where they come from? 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:58.280 He thinks you're stupid. Yeah, all right, well we're not, 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:00.679 damn it. Uh and neither Heather Myers. 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.680 Let's figure out who's reporting what it's the lead story, Heather, 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:05.760 take it away, that could be arguable. 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.680 Wordy, Joe and Jack. I hope that your Friday's up 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:10.760 to a great start. Let's start with something. A headline 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:16.679 CNN saying US Aron talks postponed as Israel clashes with Hesbela, 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:21.080 CBS News Israel HESBLA fighting intensifies in Lebanon as next 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:26.240 phase talks are delayed, and from NBC News, Obama says 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.280 US may be worse off now than before Iran war. 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:34.800 So starting day one, the strait is open. So up 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:38.120 to I forget what the numbers, hundreds of millions of 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.160 dollars they did, still pouring into a ran with the 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:43.080 straight open and the talks over the nuclear part have 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.120 been delayed. It's already happened. 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.160 Yeah, yeah, And look, this is not petting myself on 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:50.480 the back. But when it emerged at one of the 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.960 points of the deal was that all fighting stops, including 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:56.720 Israel and Hezbollah, I'm like, whoa, that's a non starter. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:00.760 That'll never happen. That's silly, it's ridiculous. It didn't last, 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.280 you know, long enough to make a decent ham sandwich. 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.440 They wouldn't eat in Israel because Ham's not kosher. Anyway, 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:07.240 back to you, Heather. 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:13.720 NDR. Luigi Manngioni's lawyers with draw plans for psychiatric defense. 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:15.840 Okay, there's only thing, one thing we can do here. 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.800 Joe not only considered going to law school, he filled 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.160 out some of the paperwork. Why yes, Why did they 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.720 throw that out for like a couple of coffee yesterday 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:25.560 and then pull it back. 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.760 I wonder whether they talked him into it, and he 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.280 later said, wait, no, I don't want to do that. Okay, 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:38.880 it's entirely possible. Best guess, or they're all crazy. He's crazy. No, 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:39.600 he's not crazy. 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.480 He's crazy. Again, that's pretty crazy. 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:47.560 From the Associated Press, California labor union offers to scale 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.440 back billionaire at tax proposal after pushback. 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:55.720 Huh. Yeah, their cash grab was too greedy and obvious. 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.040 But it's already on the ballot. How does that work? 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:03.480 They are asking the governor to get behind this and 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.400 if he does, they'll scale it back to two percent 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:07.720 instead of five percent. 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:09.440 Did you do that when the voters have already voted 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.800 on putting on the ballot I and signed the paperwork, 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:14.960 the petitions and all. Yeah, I'd love to know more 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.520 about the legalities of that. They just it's so naked 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.840 a kid to just shameless cash grab. 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.680 Come gallop this morning at US adults ability to afford 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:27.960 healthcare at a five. 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.440 Year low yet unnoticed. 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:32.440 Yeah, that's tough. 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:37.360 From the Chicago Tribune, Obama's presidential center in Chicago will 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.120 be a beacon of hope for democracy. 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.640 That's what we needed to become of hope. Yeah, for 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:45.600 democracy specifically the old Bokay, we need more bohs in 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.520 every town. Keep your pads on Tribune. 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:53.160 Finally, this morning from the Babylon Bee, Iran wins three 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:57.000 hundred billion dollar cash prize for placing second in war. 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:06.560 Wow. That's pretty good. Very much. Never disappoints. Yes, well done. Thanks. 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:10.040 You know I was listening to Jonah Goldberg yesterday. How 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:13.080 much time I got my goel? Like five seconds? Well, 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:15.800 I have to explain what one of Iran's main goals 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.480 looks like is going to be met, and that's dividing 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:21.480 the United States and Israel. Maybe that was their goal, 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:25.920 Armstrong and Geddy. I am horrified by what has happened 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.719 in the RAND, this whole Horan thing. I think it's terrible, 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:32.320 but not everybody apparently does. And I also think jd 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:34.280 Vance is lying to you, But more on that later. 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:36.840 Yeah, I've run across a couple of really interesting takes 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:40.320 recently that definitely they shine the light from a different side. 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.760 Might not change anybody's minds, but perspective's worth hearing. But first, 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.560 and most importantly, it's time for the Friday tradition. 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:48.280 Let's take a fond look back at the week that was. 0:17:48.359 --> 0:18:00.520 It's cow Clips of the Week, shell am I right, America. Sadly, 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.760 due to the construction of data centers in the impending 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:08.120 water Wars, the most useful college majors now are foraging 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:14.680 and hand to hand combat. Go ahead and cry after 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:19.240 fifty three years the Knicks. So finally NBA Champions looks again. 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:27.920 Go on, is getting left be this time? Yes, it's 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:30.359 basically a medical emergency. We were notified that we have 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:31.399 a possible equal the. 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:35.560 Case on board, so that means thirty equals six, which 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:36.360 equals eight. 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:40.280 You know it also equals eight four unrelated to equals six. 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:45.560 I want my country back. He's a stupid son of 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:49.920 a bitch to get me. He's coming after my wife, Jen, 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:54.719 a public servant. How are lighting you up every single day? 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:55.879 And now I don't have to worry about it? 0:18:55.920 --> 0:19:00.680 Bendy CNN viewers. It's more the paradox of Cali today 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:05.000 is a successful economy attached to a failing model of governance. 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:07.920 The phrase I learned early in my career in the 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:10.359 New York Field Office, and that's don't choke on your 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:15.720 own smoke. This is a memorandum of understanding. The coolest 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.760 thing about the progress we've made over the last few weeks. 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:21.520 The Randia that we made is going to bring me 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:23.840 a lot of success to the world. 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:29.240 We are prepared to release frozen funds. Your Runyan's in charge. 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.879 The killers and thugs are still in charge. They're going 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:35.680 to take that money and recover everything. But isn't it 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:39.120 worth trying. These pools who think I haven't been tough 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:42.640 enough on Iran are either jealous, bad people, or stupid. 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:46.119 You can't tell a country whether Israel Iran. They're not 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:49.960 allowed to have any self defense is common sense. They 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.080 don't want to get bombed, they don't want to get hit. 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:55.000 I know your rights, and for the love of Mike, 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:59.120 don't ever give them up. I'm Mike and I approved 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:10.000 this message. It's clips of the week. 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:16.120 I want to hear that Bob Odenkirk thing again, maybe 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:18.600 later in the show today. I love that has better 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:21.119 call Saul talking about how precious our rights are and 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:22.320 how we better not give him up. 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:26.040 Love that, Love that, Love that. So Joe texted me 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:28.440 yesterday that he ran into somebody who thinks it's a 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:30.840 good idea that Trump has made this deal, and I 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:33.640 haven't heard a lot of that, so I was interested. Yeah, 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:34.679 a couple of perspectives. 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:36.880 A good friend of mine who did business all over 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:41.200 the world, and I mean all over the world, said, 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:46.879 first of all, because he's done business and negotiating in 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:50.720 all these countries. He says, negotiating in China is really hard, 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:57.159 India is worse, and Iran is impossible because of the 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:01.879 utter lack of candor and that you utterly dishonest and 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:06.520 manipulative and will steal from you as they're shaking your hand. 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:09.600 And just just just culturally, if you can get over 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:13.080 on the other guy, that scene as clever, not as despicable. 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:17.800 But clever. Yeah, it's it's hard to fully appreciate cultural differences. Yeah, 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:19.920 because if somebody if you sat down at a table 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:21.480 and you were doing a deal about a car or 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:24.359 a house or anything in the United States, and it 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:27.680 turns out the guy lied to your face, like the 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:30.160 words in the contract you're going to sign were completely 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:31.920 different than what he was saying to you with words, 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:34.159 you would think he was a scumbag, and everybody you 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:37.000 told the story to would think he was a scumbag. Yeah, 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:40.159 but apparently in some countries that scene as clever. Oh 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:42.600 well you have another good Yeah, you should have checked more. 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:46.479 He painted over all that mold that's on you. Yeah, exactly. 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:50.440 Anyway, But this same friend said he is much more 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:56.480 positive about the UH memoranding memorandum of underwhelming as I 0:21:56.560 --> 0:21:59.960 called it this morning, UH, because he said the word. 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:03.480 Our old economy was suffering much more than we feel 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:06.960 in the United States, And there were several countries, whether 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:10.119 friends or like frenemies like China, that were on the 0:22:10.240 --> 0:22:15.000 verge of panicking. And we're really seriously saying, hey, we've 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:16.639 got to resolve this thing quickly. 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:20.439 And so that was the idea. Having set back their 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:24.919 nuclear program for years. Probably Trump was just. 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:27.800 Under much greater pressure than we understood, and this will 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:30.280 get the world economy going again, So one perspective. 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:32.000 On the other hand, I think I was trying to 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:34.800 find it. I think the journal maybe has an article 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:42.200 about how the economies of South Korea, Japan, and Singapore, 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:48.240 Asia is just exploding with wealth all based on tech. 0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:51.639 But yeah, folks from all over the Third world are 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:54.199 flocking Asia now because there's so much money rolling around there. 0:22:54.359 --> 0:22:56.600 So shoot, I don't know what's going on. 0:22:56.960 --> 0:23:00.600 And then I came across this from the fabulous Neil Ferguson, 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:06.400 who says, on its face Trump's fourteen points, he's comparing 0:23:06.480 --> 0:23:09.400 it to Wilson's fourteen points of the n World War One. 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:13.640 Right now, Trump's fourteen points look as wretched as Wilson's 0:23:13.680 --> 0:23:16.760 fourteen points. Looked splendid in nineteen eighteen, But who can 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:19.680 be sure what lies ahead? If the most perilous time 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:22.480 for Iran's horrible regime is not when it is under 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:25.480 intense bombardment, but when it makes peace and smells the 0:23:25.560 --> 0:23:28.720 approach of boatloads of money. What if, at the same time, 0:23:28.800 --> 0:23:32.080 it turns out that the IRGC's equally blood soaked confederate, 0:23:32.280 --> 0:23:35.280