Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong Show, Katty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jekiet and No Key arms Drawn Get It
Speaker 2: Why from Studio C say signor a dimly let room
Speaker 2: deep within the bowels of the Armstrong Yaghetti Communications Compound
Speaker 2: on Friday, as they were toiling under the title of
Speaker 2: the show more like memo of underwhelming or if you
Speaker 2: prefer Uncle Sam Box's Kangaroo film at eleven, it's too
Speaker 2: bad you just came up with the mo OUs Memorandum
Speaker 2: of underwhelming because that's good and the story's kind of over,
Speaker 2: so yeah, the story is just beginning. My friend using
Speaker 2: the term m OU is kind of gonna come to
Speaker 2: an end. Though that was all the talk there up
Speaker 2: until Who's seen MoU? What are you going to release? MoU?
Speaker 2: And memorandum of underwhelming is pretty good? Yeah, speaking of which,
Speaker 2: And we won't be labor this. We've talked about it enough.
Speaker 3: But I'm glad you didn't pay me the ten dollars
Speaker 3: dollars yet because this is very controversial. Trump signed the MoU,
Speaker 3: but then JD was supposed to go to a signing
Speaker 3: ceremony and that got post poems.
Speaker 2: I was actually just thinking about this is this is
Speaker 2: why lawyers run the world. This is why you get
Speaker 2: to get lawyers. We should have had lawyers involved in
Speaker 2: our bet. I bet ten dollars that the deal would
Speaker 2: not be signed. Did I say Friday or by Friday?
Speaker 2: I don't remember, but it wasn't signed on Friday. It
Speaker 2: was signed to before Friday. Listen, I got no knits
Speaker 2: on me. Quit picking them. Uh, and then they've got
Speaker 2: the Well, so they're not doing the Is it the
Speaker 2: signing or is it the ceremony that matters? And I
Speaker 2: would imagine it's the signing that But anyway, not a
Speaker 2: good start when they were supposed to go and meet
Speaker 2: and start the negotiations about mihstiles and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: and no, they canceled it because Hesbela attacked Israel. Israel
Speaker 2: attacked Hesbela overnight, and that is line one in the
Speaker 2: memorandum of underwhelming. Line one is hostilities end and it's
Speaker 2: not all front Yeah. No, no, Israel repeatedly says we
Speaker 2: didn't agree to that. Yeah, you can't make hiss agree
Speaker 2: to that, No kidding. Anyway, Well, we'll talk about that
Speaker 2: more later what was the thing with Uncle Sam Box?
Speaker 2: And who Uncle Sam Boxes? Kangaroo film? At eleven?
Speaker 3: We were playing the Aussies this afternoon in the US
Speaker 3: and Ausi's in the World Cup.
Speaker 2: The soccer ruse. Yes, yes, very exciting.
Speaker 3: At my house, I have a conflict and I'm very
Speaker 3: bummed about it. I'll be dvring it.
Speaker 2: But do you know what time it is? So? What time?
Speaker 2: The three o'clock eastern noon Pacific? Oh it is? Is
Speaker 2: that early in the day? Yeah? Oh cool from free.
Speaker 3: Don't step on any needles on the field, guys, that's
Speaker 3: the key thing to avoid, never mind the awesome Ausy defense.
Speaker 2: Don't step on any junkie needles some noon West Coast times.
Speaker 2: So I'm running air in stace, so we'll have it
Speaker 2: on in the car as we drive around. Cool.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, Yeah, soccer without the excitement of soccer, without
Speaker 3: the distraction of being able to see it.
Speaker 2: Yes, that does sound like a dream come true. O.
Speaker 2: You could you could say it that way. You could say,
Speaker 2: it's not like I'm gonna miss anything by not watching. Oh,
Speaker 2: I disagree completely. You can tell me if somebody scores. Well,
Speaker 2: I don't know anything about strategy, so watching it is
Speaker 2: worthless for me. I just see people running around and
Speaker 2: it looks like they're randomly kicking the ball right yeah,
Speaker 2: and everybody cheers, and I think, what, what are you
Speaker 2: all excited about? The ball is fifty yards from the goal?
Speaker 2: What are we cheering about here? Oh? Right right?
Speaker 3: It helps if you picture it a lot like basketball,
Speaker 3: where they there's a lot of ball movement around the perimeter.
Speaker 3: They're trying to get mismatches and trying to get the
Speaker 3: defense to be a little slow to react, and then
Speaker 3: you exploit that and move forward and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it takes a long damn time, which is
Speaker 2: why they sing those songs and drink like lunatics. I
Speaker 2: mentioned this yesterday the Scotsman descending upon Boston. They drank
Speaker 2: the Sam Adams Boston Lagger Dry at the Sam Adams
Speaker 2: Giant Tap House. They had to do an emergency thing
Speaker 2: and bar owners are reporting receipts quadruple Saint Patrick's Day, Wow,
Speaker 2: just because the Scotsmen are in town. Yeah, having a
Speaker 2: big time. My niece who lives in Boston sent out
Speaker 2: more pictures yesterday of dudes and kilts walking around the
Speaker 2: subway and stuff like that. Love it.
Speaker 3: I tell you what, this whole phenom phenomenon of online
Speaker 3: influencers from all over the world saying this country's freaking great.
Speaker 3: I've heard all this negative stuff. These are the nicest,
Speaker 3: friendliest people in the world.
Speaker 2: They're thrilled to show they're city Americans are fabulous people.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, yeah, that's right, we are. Don't forget that.
Speaker 2: We're the most generous, welcoming people on earth generally, you know,
Speaker 2: except during the Biden years if you have permission to
Speaker 2: come in. But yeah, god dang it, we're a great
Speaker 2: people in a.
Speaker 3: Great country's wallow and negativism.
Speaker 2: All the time. Unless we lose to the sakar Us,
Speaker 2: then I want I'm jailed.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, ship him off to at
Speaker 3: El salvad Or prison. Here's such a big fan of
Speaker 3: They shove your head down in your right jumpsuit.
Speaker 2: Exactly. Wow, that's not going to endear us any tourists. No,
Speaker 2: they won't think that's good at all. Now I'm trying
Speaker 2: not to talk at all about the hole Ran thing,
Speaker 2: because I think it's it's it's really quite a deli.
Speaker 2: Oh but we'll get to that soon enough.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you want to hear my favorite headline of
Speaker 3: the day here. It is Obama slams America's fixation on
Speaker 3: wealth and fame ahead of star studded launch party for
Speaker 3: eight hundred and fifty million dollars shrine to himself.
Speaker 2: That's hilarious. We're to win, he says to Bruce Springsteen
Speaker 2: and Bono and Ario are on a grande in the
Speaker 2: first row.
Speaker 3: Was that some sort of scientific irony test? You know,
Speaker 3: what's the purest distilled irony that can be produced or what?
Speaker 3: That's hilarious?
Speaker 2: Yes, that is sixty eight hundred and fifty million dollars
Speaker 2: trying to himself. That is sixty percent riched irony right there, right?
Speaker 2: Weapons great, yeah, weapons, great irony. Hilarious. That is funny.
Speaker 2: That is I'd never thought about that, but that is
Speaker 2: absolutely true about that crowd. They're always talking about, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, the regular guy and the rich getting away
Speaker 2: with this and that, and you're you're the most elite
Speaker 2: assembled group that could possibly exist, right right, All the
Speaker 2: energy in the Democratic Party is the college educated wealthy.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. Well, and the whole presidential library thing has
Speaker 2: clearly turned into something that wasn't the original point it
Speaker 2: was supposed to be you gotta house the documents from
Speaker 2: an administration somewhere and then scholars and researchers can go
Speaker 2: and dig through them like that. Robert Carrow, I read
Speaker 2: the LBJ book spent, has spent his whole life practically
Speaker 2: at the LBJ libraries, he says, turn it over millions
Speaker 2: of pages over the years, looking reading every line. That's
Speaker 2: what they're for. But they just kind of recently it's
Speaker 2: I'm going to build a giant like monument to myself.
Speaker 2: It's a shrinezium with the donations of people that I
Speaker 2: helped out over the years or maybe can still help
Speaker 2: out in the future. Yeah, a shrine that that's so
Speaker 2: not American.
Speaker 3: I would agree. Yeah, And honestly, there is a lot
Speaker 3: to like at the Obama thing. It's a giant community center.
Speaker 3: You know, sports courts for kids and you know, educational
Speaker 3: resources and that sort of thing, which is lovely. But yeah,
Speaker 3: in general, Yeah, the shrines to presidents why, I mean,
Speaker 3: some of them deserved like monuments and such, but a
Speaker 3: very few.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Interesting, I didn't take in any of it. I
Speaker 2: just couldn't. You said, you tuned it on for like
Speaker 2: five minutes. No, I think it was ten seconds.
Speaker 3: Michelle was slathering praise on her man for being a
Speaker 3: visionary and a far.
Speaker 2: Seeing you know, sage and Saint and the rest of it,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh god, and I just I bailed.
Speaker 2: He didn't want a third term if we allowed that
Speaker 2: sort of thing. Wow. Interesting, goshells a man. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: know that was one of the speakers. Yeah, that was
Speaker 2: the That was the wrestler from last weekend at the
Speaker 2: UFC match. Oh, I'd misunderstood. Yeah, that's not helpful. You're
Speaker 2: not speaker there. That's the fighting us. That's not bringing
Speaker 2: us together. Yeah. Yeah, come on, let's start the show officially.
Speaker 2: I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Friday,
Speaker 2: June nineteenth. It's juneteenth? Right? Is today juneteenth? Correct? Yeah?
Speaker 2: The year twenty twenty six. We are Armstrong in Geddy.
Speaker 2: Are we racist? If we're working here for working on Juneteenth?
Speaker 2: Does that make you a racist? I think so? Yes.
Speaker 3: All right, let's begin now officially according to FCC rules regulations,
Speaker 3: here comes the show at Mark.
Speaker 2: Damn, New York.
Speaker 4: We really did it, man, we really did it. There's
Speaker 4: a lot of people have a lot of negative stuff
Speaker 4: to say. There's a lot of people who have a
Speaker 4: lot of opinions, but when you prove them wrong, you
Speaker 4: really have to You don't have to say too though.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you all. Thank you. Jalen Brunson of the New
Speaker 2: York Next who has become the most celebrated basketball player
Speaker 2: on the planet, who was the thirty third pick in
Speaker 2: the NBA draft a couple of years back, second round.
Speaker 2: Everybody passed on him at least once. Yeah, yeah, just amazing.
Speaker 2: I am not an NBA fan.
Speaker 3: I am certainly not a New York's Knicks fan, but
Speaker 3: I've become a giant fan of the Knicks win and
Speaker 3: the reaction in New York City. And it crystallized in
Speaker 3: my head through two things.
Speaker 2: I read. One Arthur Brooks, who's the psychologist.
Speaker 3: He writes about happiness and unhappiness for the Free Press,
Speaker 3: and he was describing how sports fans are happier people
Speaker 3: in general than non sports fans. Sure, there have been
Speaker 3: all sorts of scientific studies about it, and we can
Speaker 3: dig into that because I found it super interesting. But
Speaker 3: the other thing was Peggy Noonan Rent quoted a friend
Speaker 3: who was observing all this and how happy people were
Speaker 3: in watching the scenes of the crowds in the street
Speaker 3: day after day after day, and the fact that it
Speaker 3: was an Uninternet thing that was happening. People were physically
Speaker 3: with each other, They were looking at each other, Nobody
Speaker 3: was scrolling with their phones.
Speaker 2: Very few of them had their phones up to video
Speaker 2: take pictures. Everybody was interacting with each other in a
Speaker 2: great American city. It was an Uninternet phenomenon. And I thought, wow, right,
Speaker 2: at least we do that with sports. I'm intrigued by
Speaker 2: this concept that sports fans are happier than nonsports fans.
Speaker 2: I think that makes sense based on just my anecdotal
Speaker 2: having lived my life. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And they asked the question, if you're a skeptic,
Speaker 3: good for you you should be. Is it just that
Speaker 3: happy people like sports or that sports make people happy?
Speaker 2: And well, again, we'll dig into those studies and spell
Speaker 2: that out for you. That's a good question. And yeah,
Speaker 2: the problem is when you're a sports fan, your team
Speaker 2: doesn't always win the championship. In fact, they don't always
Speaker 2: even have a winning season. So how about those years?
Speaker 2: Doesn't matter, doesn't matter, no, not at all. Just something
Speaker 2: to focus on.
Speaker 3: That's not inflation or war, or it's interaction and something
Speaker 3: in common with friends, acquaintances, and strangers.
Speaker 2: There's definitely range two other human beings. There's definitely a
Speaker 2: community aspect to it, no doubt whatsoever. Mm hmm. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's very very interesting. Maybe I'll have to rethink by
Speaker 2: I was. I was huge into sports for almost my
Speaker 2: entire life, from a little kid until I had kids.
Speaker 2: When I had kids, I thought I ain't got time
Speaker 2: for this anymore. I kind of bailed on all sports.
Speaker 2: But sure, Yeah, we've got headlines on the way. What
Speaker 2: do you think of that? Do you have any thoughts
Speaker 2: on that? The whole being happier for your sports fan?
Speaker 2: Text line four one five two nine five KFTC my headline.
Speaker 2: If I is writing a headline. Jd Vance thinks you're stupid. Wow, Wow,
Speaker 2: I sense a hidden meaning there. Jd Vance thinks he
Speaker 2: can say anything in front of you, and because he
Speaker 2: went to Yale and you didn't, you'll just buy it
Speaker 2: or something, or he's so persuasive you. I just was
Speaker 2: watching him on Fox and he just says stuff that's
Speaker 2: not true over and over again, very emphatically. Yeah, they
Speaker 2: won't get a dime until they've agreed to all our
Speaker 2: nuclear But that's just flat freaking not true, dude. No
Speaker 2: one nobody believes it. Not a dime of US dollars.
Speaker 2: Whoa whoa, whoa whoa. Ain't the US part of the
Speaker 2: dollars that bothers me?
Speaker 3: Right, it's just dollars. Who cares where they come from?
Speaker 3: He thinks you're stupid. Yeah, all right, well we're not,
Speaker 3: damn it. Uh and neither Heather Myers.
Speaker 2: Let's figure out who's reporting what it's the lead story, Heather,
Speaker 2: take it away, that could be arguable.
Speaker 1: Wordy, Joe and Jack. I hope that your Friday's up
Speaker 1: to a great start. Let's start with something. A headline
Speaker 1: CNN saying US Aron talks postponed as Israel clashes with Hesbela,
Speaker 1: CBS News Israel HESBLA fighting intensifies in Lebanon as next
Speaker 1: phase talks are delayed, and from NBC News, Obama says
Speaker 1: US may be worse off now than before Iran war.
Speaker 2: So starting day one, the strait is open. So up
Speaker 2: to I forget what the numbers, hundreds of millions of
Speaker 2: dollars they did, still pouring into a ran with the
Speaker 2: straight open and the talks over the nuclear part have
Speaker 2: been delayed. It's already happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And look, this is not petting myself on
Speaker 3: the back. But when it emerged at one of the
Speaker 3: points of the deal was that all fighting stops, including
Speaker 3: Israel and Hezbollah, I'm like, whoa, that's a non starter.
Speaker 3: That'll never happen. That's silly, it's ridiculous. It didn't last,
Speaker 3: you know, long enough to make a decent ham sandwich.
Speaker 3: They wouldn't eat in Israel because Ham's not kosher. Anyway,
Speaker 3: back to you, Heather.
Speaker 1: NDR. Luigi Manngioni's lawyers with draw plans for psychiatric defense.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's only thing, one thing we can do here.
Speaker 2: Joe not only considered going to law school, he filled
Speaker 2: out some of the paperwork. Why yes, Why did they
Speaker 2: throw that out for like a couple of coffee yesterday
Speaker 2: and then pull it back.
Speaker 3: I wonder whether they talked him into it, and he
Speaker 3: later said, wait, no, I don't want to do that. Okay,
Speaker 3: it's entirely possible. Best guess, or they're all crazy. He's crazy. No,
Speaker 3: he's not crazy.
Speaker 2: He's crazy. Again, that's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1: From the Associated Press, California labor union offers to scale
Speaker 1: back billionaire at tax proposal after pushback.
Speaker 2: Huh. Yeah, their cash grab was too greedy and obvious.
Speaker 2: But it's already on the ballot. How does that work?
Speaker 1: They are asking the governor to get behind this and
Speaker 1: if he does, they'll scale it back to two percent
Speaker 1: instead of five percent.
Speaker 3: Did you do that when the voters have already voted
Speaker 3: on putting on the ballot I and signed the paperwork,
Speaker 3: the petitions and all. Yeah, I'd love to know more
Speaker 3: about the legalities of that. They just it's so naked
Speaker 3: a kid to just shameless cash grab.
Speaker 1: Come gallop this morning at US adults ability to afford
Speaker 1: healthcare at a five.
Speaker 2: Year low yet unnoticed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's tough.
Speaker 1: From the Chicago Tribune, Obama's presidential center in Chicago will
Speaker 1: be a beacon of hope for democracy.
Speaker 2: That's what we needed to become of hope. Yeah, for
Speaker 2: democracy specifically the old Bokay, we need more bohs in
Speaker 2: every town. Keep your pads on Tribune.
Speaker 1: Finally, this morning from the Babylon Bee, Iran wins three
Speaker 1: hundred billion dollar cash prize for placing second in war.
Speaker 2: Wow. That's pretty good. Very much. Never disappoints. Yes, well done. Thanks.
Speaker 2: You know I was listening to Jonah Goldberg yesterday. How
Speaker 2: much time I got my goel? Like five seconds? Well,
Speaker 2: I have to explain what one of Iran's main goals
Speaker 2: looks like is going to be met, and that's dividing
Speaker 2: the United States and Israel. Maybe that was their goal,
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Geddy. I am horrified by what has happened
Speaker 2: in the RAND, this whole Horan thing. I think it's terrible,
Speaker 2: but not everybody apparently does. And I also think jd
Speaker 2: Vance is lying to you, But more on that later.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've run across a couple of really interesting takes
Speaker 3: recently that definitely they shine the light from a different side.
Speaker 3: Might not change anybody's minds, but perspective's worth hearing. But first,
Speaker 3: and most importantly, it's time for the Friday tradition.
Speaker 2: Let's take a fond look back at the week that was.
Speaker 2: It's cow Clips of the Week, shell am I right, America. Sadly,
Speaker 2: due to the construction of data centers in the impending
Speaker 2: water Wars, the most useful college majors now are foraging
Speaker 2: and hand to hand combat. Go ahead and cry after
Speaker 2: fifty three years the Knicks. So finally NBA Champions looks again.
Speaker 2: Go on, is getting left be this time? Yes, it's
Speaker 2: basically a medical emergency. We were notified that we have
Speaker 2: a possible equal the.
Speaker 1: Case on board, so that means thirty equals six, which
Speaker 1: equals eight.
Speaker 2: You know it also equals eight four unrelated to equals six.
Speaker 2: I want my country back. He's a stupid son of
Speaker 2: a bitch to get me. He's coming after my wife, Jen,
Speaker 2: a public servant. How are lighting you up every single day?
Speaker 1: And now I don't have to worry about it?
Speaker 2: Bendy CNN viewers. It's more the paradox of Cali today
Speaker 2: is a successful economy attached to a failing model of governance.
Speaker 2: The phrase I learned early in my career in the
Speaker 2: New York Field Office, and that's don't choke on your
Speaker 2: own smoke. This is a memorandum of understanding. The coolest
Speaker 2: thing about the progress we've made over the last few weeks.
Speaker 4: The Randia that we made is going to bring me
Speaker 4: a lot of success to the world.
Speaker 2: We are prepared to release frozen funds. Your Runyan's in charge.
Speaker 2: The killers and thugs are still in charge. They're going
Speaker 2: to take that money and recover everything. But isn't it
Speaker 2: worth trying. These pools who think I haven't been tough
Speaker 2: enough on Iran are either jealous, bad people, or stupid.
Speaker 2: You can't tell a country whether Israel Iran. They're not
Speaker 2: allowed to have any self defense is common sense. They
Speaker 2: don't want to get bombed, they don't want to get hit.
Speaker 2: I know your rights, and for the love of Mike,
Speaker 2: don't ever give them up. I'm Mike and I approved
Speaker 2: this message. It's clips of the week.
Speaker 3: I want to hear that Bob Odenkirk thing again, maybe
Speaker 3: later in the show today. I love that has better
Speaker 3: call Saul talking about how precious our rights are and
Speaker 3: how we better not give him up.
Speaker 2: Love that, Love that, Love that. So Joe texted me
Speaker 2: yesterday that he ran into somebody who thinks it's a
Speaker 2: good idea that Trump has made this deal, and I
Speaker 2: haven't heard a lot of that, so I was interested. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a couple of perspectives.
Speaker 3: A good friend of mine who did business all over
Speaker 3: the world, and I mean all over the world, said,
Speaker 3: first of all, because he's done business and negotiating in
Speaker 3: all these countries. He says, negotiating in China is really hard,
Speaker 3: India is worse, and Iran is impossible because of the
Speaker 3: utter lack of candor and that you utterly dishonest and
Speaker 3: manipulative and will steal from you as they're shaking your hand.
Speaker 3: And just just just culturally, if you can get over
Speaker 3: on the other guy, that scene as clever, not as despicable.
Speaker 2: But clever. Yeah, it's it's hard to fully appreciate cultural differences. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because if somebody if you sat down at a table
Speaker 2: and you were doing a deal about a car or
Speaker 2: a house or anything in the United States, and it
Speaker 2: turns out the guy lied to your face, like the
Speaker 2: words in the contract you're going to sign were completely
Speaker 2: different than what he was saying to you with words,
Speaker 2: you would think he was a scumbag, and everybody you
Speaker 2: told the story to would think he was a scumbag. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but apparently in some countries that scene as clever. Oh
Speaker 2: well you have another good Yeah, you should have checked more.
Speaker 2: He painted over all that mold that's on you. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Anyway, But this same friend said he is much more
Speaker 3: positive about the UH memoranding memorandum of underwhelming as I
Speaker 3: called it this morning, UH, because he said the word.
Speaker 3: Our old economy was suffering much more than we feel
Speaker 3: in the United States, And there were several countries, whether
Speaker 3: friends or like frenemies like China, that were on the
Speaker 3: verge of panicking. And we're really seriously saying, hey, we've
Speaker 3: got to resolve this thing quickly.
Speaker 2: And so that was the idea. Having set back their
Speaker 2: nuclear program for years. Probably Trump was just.
Speaker 3: Under much greater pressure than we understood, and this will
Speaker 3: get the world economy going again, So one perspective.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, I think I was trying to
Speaker 2: find it. I think the journal maybe has an article
Speaker 2: about how the economies of South Korea, Japan, and Singapore,
Speaker 2: Asia is just exploding with wealth all based on tech.
Speaker 2: But yeah, folks from all over the Third world are
Speaker 2: flocking Asia now because there's so much money rolling around there.
Speaker 2: So shoot, I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 3: And then I came across this from the fabulous Neil Ferguson,
Speaker 3: who says, on its face Trump's fourteen points, he's comparing
Speaker 3: it to Wilson's fourteen points of the n World War One.
Speaker 3: Right now, Trump's fourteen points look as wretched as Wilson's
Speaker 3: fourteen points. Looked splendid in nineteen eighteen, But who can
Speaker 3: be sure what lies ahead? If the most perilous time
Speaker 3: for Iran's horrible regime is not when it is under
Speaker 3: intense bombardment, but when it makes peace and smells the
Speaker 3: approach of boatloads of money. What if, at the same time,
Speaker 3: it turns out that the IRGC's equally blood soaked confederate,
Speaker 3: Vladimir Putin is in deeper trouble than we realize with
Speaker 3: his war in Ukraine. Moscow get pounded the other day anyway,
Speaker 3: And what if the reason oil prices didn't even go
Speaker 3: higher than they did in the past four months is
Speaker 3: that China's domestic economy is in freefall, as some numbers indicate.
Speaker 2: What if, in short, President Trump's luck holds, as it
Speaker 2: has held so often throughout his eighty years of often
Speaker 2: reckless risk taking. Obviously that all could happen, But that's
Speaker 2: counting on your luck holding as opposed to a strategy
Speaker 2: looks a heck of a strategy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think luck. Look, I think he tossed out
Speaker 3: that word too easily. Let me read his next sentence.
Speaker 3: In the end, the wording of this lousy memorandum of
Speaker 3: understanding may matter less than the second and third order
Speaker 3: consequences of Trump's Iran war. The economic consequences to date
Speaker 3: have certainly been far less damaging than I firesaw in
Speaker 3: the earlier in the conflict. Maybe, just maybe the same
Speaker 3: will turn out to be true of the geopolitical consequences.
Speaker 2: Then what's what the complete bulls? I wish I could
Speaker 2: say the word that JD Vance is spreading around the
Speaker 2: last couple of days, all the crap about Look, you
Speaker 2: know what's cool? They don't even want a weapon anymore.
Speaker 2: They've come to the conclusion that was a bad idea.
Speaker 2: That's crap. The ido today has ever lied to me
Speaker 2: about a good thing for me? Right? Or Trump and
Speaker 2: JD are both saying the same thing with a wait
Speaker 2: a second, It wouldn't be fair to tell Iran they
Speaker 2: can't have rockets when Saudi Arabia can have rockets? What
Speaker 2: is this? The equivalence between our enemies and our friends?
Speaker 2: Where the hell did this come from? Trump says stuff
Speaker 2: like that a lot. He said it about Russia, he
Speaker 2: said it about China. That is nat I think he
Speaker 2: thinks it's a bargaining maneuver. I don't know. I find
Speaker 2: it despicable. I can tell you what commentary, the magazine
Speaker 2: that stands up for Israel thinks about it in the second.
Speaker 2: But first, this from Mark Alprin's piece today, getting to
Speaker 2: what your friend was saying. Helprin talking to officials in
Speaker 2: the White House. Officials directly involved in the negotiations, argue
Speaker 2: that allowing Rand to sell oil is a relatively small
Speaker 2: price to pay if it lowers gasoline prices in America,
Speaker 2: stabilizes energy markets, and creates a pathway to preventing a
Speaker 2: nuclear crisis. But that third one is very thin, it
Speaker 2: seems to me, since they've already today delayed the talks
Speaker 2: day one. The talks have been delayed.
Speaker 3: There is zero indication that the future is promising in
Speaker 3: terms of nuclear negotiations.
Speaker 2: There's no reason to think that, but they repeat it
Speaker 2: over and over again. The argument boils down to this.
Speaker 2: Every other potential benefit disappears if negotiations collapse. In that sense,
Speaker 2: they say the deal not as an act of weakness,
Speaker 2: but as an exercise in risk management, a gamble, but
Speaker 2: a calculated one. I like this part. Nobody inside the
Speaker 2: administration that Mark Alprin talks to seems to be under
Speaker 2: any illusion about the odds they might be talking like
Speaker 2: we're talking. Trump advisors almost universally acknowledged this is a
Speaker 2: long shot. Their view is simply that a long shot
Speaker 2: beats no shot. Then you shouldn't have started the war
Speaker 2: if you weren't willing to go through to the point
Speaker 2: that you're.
Speaker 3: Just gonna make them go along with this, Yeah, Or
Speaker 3: do we just knock their program backward over and over
Speaker 3: again through the years.
Speaker 2: It's a disease that can't be cured.
Speaker 3: It be too costly to cure it, so we just,
Speaker 3: you know, we knocked the symptoms back every so often.
Speaker 3: So I was the tile and all of a good
Speaker 3: solid bombing.
Speaker 2: So I was listening to Jonah Goldberg yesterday of The Dispatch,
Speaker 2: who I haven't agreed with much in quite a while.
Speaker 2: But he was making the point that Iran has cleverly
Speaker 2: one of their great goals in addition to having enough
Speaker 2: rockets to overwhelm Israel's iron Dome at some point, and
Speaker 2: they were getting close. I had missed this part of
Speaker 2: the story, but I guess Marco was talking about this
Speaker 2: at the beginning. That's one of the reasons we needed
Speaker 2: to go to war now. Iran was approaching the place
Speaker 2: where they would have so many rockets that they could
Speaker 2: overwhelm the Iron Dome forces and then they would actually
Speaker 2: be able to blow up Tel Aviv with conventional weapons.
Speaker 2: They don't need a nuke. And now we're going to
Speaker 2: allow them to have rockets again, because it's not fair
Speaker 2: to tell one country they can have rockets in one country.
Speaker 2: It's perfectly fair. It's the way the world works. That's
Speaker 2: what's being a superpower is all about. That's the fun. Well,
Speaker 2: why does some countries have nuclear weapons and some don't
Speaker 2: because some countries we trust with them and some we don't.
Speaker 2: It's just it's a nonsen again. Jd Vance thinks you're stupid,
Speaker 2: is my headline there. But the other part that the
Speaker 2: second best thing that Iran could get is to drive
Speaker 2: a wedge between Israel and the United States. Israel exists
Speaker 2: because of the help of the United States since its beginning.
Speaker 2: They get so much military, financial help from US. And
Speaker 2: now you're getting this. Israel gets rockets but Iran doesn't.
Speaker 2: That wouldn't be fair. Talk out of jd Vance Commentary magazine,
Speaker 2: which is well respected in your think tank worlds, has
Speaker 2: this piece from Abe Greenwald. Today, Vance drops the pretense. JD.
Speaker 2: Vance's jew baiting is no longer hiding in plain sight.
Speaker 2: It's no longer something he has to be. That has
Speaker 2: to be inferred from his choice of anti Semitic allies,
Speaker 2: his serial flirtations with the rhetoric of the podcast right
Speaker 2: because you know he's friends with Tucker and that sort
Speaker 2: of stuff or is clear displeasure whenever the Jewish State
Speaker 2: asserts itself in a way that conflicts with his political
Speaker 2: factions priorities. It's now out in the open. We get it.
Speaker 2: Everyone hates Israel and maybe they're all onto something. Vance
Speaker 2: has been itching to say this for a long time,
Speaker 2: and Donald Trump's failure in Iran finally gave him the opportunity.
Speaker 2: The president is letting JDB JD. Turns out he's exactly
Speaker 2: who I thought he was. So that's the view from
Speaker 2: the Israeli think tank community anyway, Wow, JD's part of
Speaker 2: the whole. Tucker, Megan Kelly, Candae Owen's Israel is the
Speaker 2: root of a lot of problems, crowd. I don't know
Speaker 2: if I believe that or not. Although that why does
Speaker 2: Israel get rockets in Iran? Doesn't what that's a bizarre
Speaker 2: statemle or lecturing Israel about firing on Hesbela. You realize
Speaker 2: Hesbela the other day when this happened. The other day,
Speaker 2: was Hesbela blew up a school bus, shot at a
Speaker 2: school bus in Israel, Israel fights back, and then of
Speaker 2: course the world headlines are Israel attacks Hesbela, leaving out
Speaker 2: the first part right right, yeah, and hesbel what is Iran?
Speaker 2: Right right? Unblank and believable. I don't know what to
Speaker 2: make of it. How about the fact that day one
Speaker 2: the negotiations to get blown up. That's a slight delay.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't worry about it. It's rainy. Do you think
Speaker 2: they'll ever sit down. I'd rather they didn't. I don't
Speaker 2: want to see jd Vance smiling and shaking hands with
Speaker 2: a leader from the Revolutionary Guard. They'll go through the motions. Yeah,
Speaker 2: at some point, M wow, sound too Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean it would be so incredibly laughable if they
Speaker 3: didn't even have meeting number one.
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody wants that legitimate, legitimizing one of
Speaker 2: the worst regimes on earth. That's something ever thought I
Speaker 2: would see that all we got mail bag on the
Speaker 2: way and lots of other stuff. Stay here. I promise
Speaker 2: to shut up about the war Iran for as long
Speaker 2: as I can. Good damn it.
Speaker 3: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day Day sat
Speaker 3: along by Brian Frequent Corresponded Brian from Ana Rosa. Thanks
Speaker 3: Ran from D. H. Lawrence, the great writer, big fan.
Speaker 3: Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks.
Speaker 3: Their children brought up easy, let it slip away, poor fools,
Speaker 3: and their great grandchildren are once more slaves.
Speaker 2: Seems to be human nature. Not sure if you can
Speaker 2: interrupt that. It's very, very difficult. I think you can
Speaker 2: just delay it as long as you can.
Speaker 3: As Reagan put it, we're never more than a couple
Speaker 3: of generations away from losing our liberty.
Speaker 2: Or just look at your own family dynamics. If your
Speaker 2: own then swing in your own family. It's not easy
Speaker 2: to arrest that track.
Speaker 3: No, No, growing up poor yields a different person than
Speaker 3: growing up affluent on average across a population. There's no
Speaker 3: doubt of it, no doubt about it, Mailbag. I can't
Speaker 3: wait TOI later talk about how great my first crock
Speaker 3: pot meal turned out. It was amazing, excellent. Drops not
Speaker 3: mail Bag at Armstrong you getty dot com. Yesterday we
Speaker 3: played this clip of Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2: I'd like to say something to my wife. These times
Speaker 2: are not normal, They're not ordinary. I love you and
Speaker 2: I'm sorry he's doing this and Jack and that's funny
Speaker 2: that he has the same cadence as Bill Shatner as
Speaker 2: Captain Kirk in the original track. Now I can't get
Speaker 2: out of my head, and neither can Brian. Different Brian,
Speaker 2: Doctor Brian. He does sound like Kirk when you said
Speaker 2: California the Final Frontier. E think, spit out my drink.
Speaker 2: That's funny. Yeah, I know, speaking style. If that's his,
Speaker 2: I'm mad speaking style. I mean you should work on that.
Speaker 2: Stan says, you gotta hear this. It's gotta be blaring
Speaker 2: from the Trump motorcade. Undoubtedly the undoubtedly the theme song
Speaker 2: to Trump's entire two terms. I don't think a single
Speaker 2: person in the entire world would disagree with me. Imagine
Speaker 2: Trump singing this in karaoke. It is, of course the
Speaker 2: Molly You classic Flirting with Disaster, which is a pretty good,
Speaker 2: you know, Trump walk up song, as it were.
Speaker 3: We can't play it for you stand because of weird
Speaker 3: licensing laws with music and podcasting. Anyway, moving along, Aaron Wright,
Speaker 3: Happy June teenth. Check your privilege. I actually do check
Speaker 3: my privilege daily, but race has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 3: I pray thank you Jesus that I was born in
Speaker 3: America to two great parents who loved me, cared for me,
Speaker 3: and taught me how to be a good man. I
Speaker 3: thank Him for my wife and children in our quality
Speaker 3: of life, because I know it is not common to
Speaker 3: live as well as we do. Again, not even a
Speaker 3: single thought about race. If anybody thinks I'm missing something
Speaker 3: racial in my practice of gratitude, that says more about
Speaker 3: them than it doesn't need.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you were born in the United States, that's
Speaker 2: a huge leg up on having a good life in
Speaker 2: the history of the world. Then if you got a
Speaker 2: good family also. Oh, we got a.
Speaker 3: Couple of emails pointing out that Juneteenth is a stupid holiday.
Speaker 3: I want to talk about that. My feelings are a
Speaker 3: little more ambivalent than that.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't like federal holidays periods, so it's not
Speaker 2: just because it's Juneteenth. I'd like to get rid of
Speaker 2: like all but three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was born of the great Awokening and the
Speaker 3: Biden administration so that's enough to despise it. But as
Speaker 3: a historical day, it's interesting and I hate that it's
Speaker 3: become woke ified. Moving along on Seattle's incredible drug problems,
Speaker 3: John from Boise He writes, first he misses Katie and
Speaker 3: wants her to come back.
Speaker 2: We all do Seattle.
Speaker 3: During my thirty years of law enforcement in the East
Speaker 3: San Francisco Bay, we were very active in drug enforcement.
Speaker 3: Back in the old days, before the George so Us
Speaker 3: funded DA's, we had the ability to arrest many drug
Speaker 3: addicts for being the under the influence in possession.
Speaker 2: Here are my conclusions.
Speaker 3: One, if people are sent to jail, if only for
Speaker 3: a week, once they are sober and are able to
Speaker 3: they are able to make clearer decisions when they get out.
Speaker 2: Saw it over and over again. Two.
Speaker 3: The easiest way to get a young mother off drugs
Speaker 3: is to arrest her for under the influence and call CPS.
Speaker 3: Many moms will stay off drugs to get their kids back.
Speaker 3: Drug enforcement is a tool which helps many people.
Speaker 2: It's so true. We've heard that from so many cops
Speaker 2: and former addicts. Now build them a tiny house, give
Speaker 2: them the needles, let them make their own decisions. If
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