June 5, 2026 • 36 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Armstrong and Jackie and now he.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Arms It's fry live from studio s see you signor
a dimly lit room, deput them the bowels of the
Armstrong and getting communications compound and headed into the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
We are toiling under the.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Title of the show, my most literary title ever, fantastic
Casca reacts to slush fun scandal. Let's come christ Jack,
you recognize Casca and Julius Caesar.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
In William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, he was the first to
stab Caesar. Okay, did not remember that Caesar? Trump has
been stabbed and the knives are coming out?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Is my contention.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Alternate title if you prefer something less obscure. Platner is
a Nazi creep, and the party that calls everybody a
Nazi and started hashtag me too is standing by him.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Cool, it's what do you bring up? Shakespeare?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Because I'm like, honey, I'm I was thinking yesterday, I'm
about to go on a the biggest Shakespeare dive of
my life. I've decided I'm gonna make that my next mission.
Having just finished Ulysses almost all the way through the
second time.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I'm gonna go on a Shakespeare kick.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Wow, because there's like a really really long chapter in
Ulysses that I did not understand a lot of the references,
and I thought, I need to be better where i'd
done this stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
So yeah, wow, I aire your intellectual uh explorations. Oh
I got it. I'm just so bored with all this
politics crap. I am bored to death of it.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I have.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
It's very difficult for me to talk about it at
this point. I'm just so bored with it. It's the
same freaking thing every day. I was listened to Chuck
Schumer on the floor after last I let the Republicans
just showed us as they have non and I thought,
how do you people do this for fifty years? You politicians?
How do you get on both sides it's exactly the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
How do you get up there every.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Day for fifty years and pretend you care about this
crap and say the exact same thing over and over again.
Why don't we do Truck Schumer just stand up and
say I'm going to say the usual things about Republicans
being bad, but I won't waste your time. And then
the Republicans checking up and say the same thing. Here
(02:29):
is the I see previous comments from the last thirty years,
and then sit down the usual stuff about radicals and
open borders and balancing the budgets, and I'll not waste
anymore of your time.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Now. Is this just a product of.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
What can happen in life through age or is it
because I think it's because I feel like things used
to happen, Like legislation got passed and things happened, and
then you talk about that, but nothing ever happens. Now
it's there are sniping behind the scenes, and then some
people get a kick out of talking about the sniping
is if it's relevant, but it usually isn't.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, there used to be a.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Pretty significant performative edge to the actual business of legislation.
Now it's just performance. There is virtually nothing happening happening legislatively,
although they did pass a big bill financing border security.
But yeah, the work of Congress has become the showmanship.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
One, I guess.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
And it's not even very good showmanship. That's the problem.
It's not good entertainment. And then it's entertainment though, so
that they get to the that's the perfect word. So
and then in terms of having entertaining things to talk
about on this program, that's our shared soap oper Now
that didn't used to be true either, that that was
everybody's number one show that they they followed was freaking
(03:51):
presidential politics right right. Well, see, I would never traffic
in the kind of drowning shumerisms that you're referring to.
What I am bringing politic today. He is fascinating and
revealing turning points in American history.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So you're in good hands.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Both fascinating and revealing. Oh yeah, I wouldn't merely fascinate you.
That's a child's play for a man like me. I
must also revealed. I should play a game with myself
or maybe on the air where because we got TV's
on in the studio, I should turn my back to
MSNBC and Fox and try to guess what they've got
(04:28):
on the screen and then turn around and see if
I'm right.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Like today, I feel like I could have guessed.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
I turned around, I looked up at Fox, and they've
got what's his name, Plattner's bare chest with his na
Nazi tattoo up on the screen yep. And then on
MSNBC they had a shot of Trump appearing to be
asleep in a meeting yesterday, which I might have been
able to guess too. Do you think he's dozing off
(04:52):
in those meetings? Looks it's impossible. Looks one hundred percent
at least the one from yesterday looks one hundred percent
like his sleep, which doesn't really bothered me that much.
I'd like to doze off right now. I'm staying up
too late watching sports.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Damn it. What to stop? I think it was his
energy guy with the cool hair of the billionaire from
North Dakota. He was.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
He was going on and on about shale or something
like that, and Trump, you know, middle of the day,
maybe a little hot nailval office, had a big lunch.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I can see.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I could see snooze in just a little bit there, right, Yeah, yeah, God,
not shale, I can remember. I'm gladys. I can call
back this feeling at will whenever I want to. What
it was like the first class after lunch, like in
high school, Oh, any class, and if it was like
(05:46):
social studies or something like that, and it was hot
in the room because you know, the heat of the
spring and summer was starting to come, and they didn't
run the air conditioner that much. It's hot in there,
and that person's droning on about something, something, something, anyone
bueller and.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Just just oh, my head weighed eight thousand pounds.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Oh. I know, you could have drifted off in a second,
like one second, if you, you know, permitted yourself. And
I was never the kind of guy that could do
with some of the other people did who just flat
out laid their heads down.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
On the desk get to sleep, you know, you weren't
trying to hide it at all. I could. I just
never could be that person. I think I probably did
that once or twice. I know I didn't.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Looking back on it, I wish I would have. Like
I've said many times, I wish i'd ha skipped school once.
I never did one time ever either did I I
don't know, should have walked on a major scandal in
my house and mine because because I know this now
as a parent who has high schoolers, you don't you
(06:46):
don't want to, you know, start down a path and
you think if they if your kids skip school, you
think it's going to be a lifetime of lack of
responsibility and all that sort of stuff. That's where you're
worried to behavior, right, But looking back on it when
everything's turned it seems like God, one time on a
nice day when everybody went to the lake or.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Something, I should have done that once in my life. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
See, I engaged in all of my reckless behavior, and
there was quite a bit of it on my own time.
So I didn't feel like I need adopt out of school.
But you gotta admit there's a different feeling if you're
doing something naughty. That's a yes, oh please the forbidden
fruit exactly. So yummy, yeah, so yummy. Should have done
it once. But you know, what are you gonna do.
(07:27):
Let's start the show officially before we get in trouble
with the FCC. Who knows who the FCC director is.
I'm Jack Armstrong and he's Joe. Getting on this it
is Friday, June fifth of the year twenty twenty six,
where I'm strong in getting we approve of this program.
Let's begin then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Here we go at Mark on the.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
View, Doctor Jill asserted that Joe would have beaten Trump
in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Not to the White House, to the white lights.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Oh, boy, did not see that coming on.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That's a great joke. That's pretty good joke. I liked
that a lot.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Yesterday was my sophomore, his last day of school. So
are you officially a junior? Once you're a rising junior.
I'm not going to use that term. That's not going
to happen. Why not anyway, So it was his last
day of the sophomore year, and he went over to
a friend's house after school, and I went to pick
him up last night, and man, the smiles on their faces,
(08:27):
just just the happiness that was excluding from the I
almost caught some of it. I almost got happy for
a second. They were so happy. Oh no, just with
the fact that summer was here and one more year
behind them. Oh, they were just floating.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
They were so happy.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Jack sophomore from the Greek sophos meaning wise and moros
meaning fool.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Okay, how about that, huh? I was mostly then. I've
quoted Shakespeare and ancient ground. You're bringing it today? Oh
but unfortunately that's all I got, was there? That's it?
What's junior mean? Just less than a senior?
Speaker 4 (09:04):
It means here, Yes, younger than a senior, but older
than a sophomore from the ancient Greek sof phos meaning wise.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Oh I did that one. Do you have any idea
where freshman comes from? I think it's self evident, isn't it?
Fresh Men? It's like fresh new Okay? Yeah, gotcha exactly? Yeah? Yeah?
Why they had to work a little Greek in just
for a year or two? I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Right, they don't teach them that or anything else. And
I think it was my favorite professor in college, Ira H. Carmon,
who introduced me to that brilliant man, brilliantastic and that's
stuck in your head.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah, I don't know why I thought.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I've I've been hearing this word my entire life, and
it never occurred to me to ask what it means
other than second year. So there are new jobs numbers
out that are good according to people who look at
that sort of thing and cool, and we'll look into
that and the unemployment rate and a bill that did
pass last night. Yes, and I do want to get
into the stab of Trump. It is an open season
(10:02):
now on people who have been grumbling about Trump to
now just say it openly the tide has turned.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
You think one hundred. We've heard this a few times
over sixteen years.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
This time you were a junior like me and not
a sophomore from the ancient Greek sophos lies, you would
know this already. Okay, and we've got our headlines with
Heather Meyer's next day here. I hope this doesn't steal
(10:35):
a headline from Heather. But Trump said he's going to
go to at least one home Knicks game, which would
be pretty big.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
The president of Madison Square Garden, I assumed to an
arena full of booze. I don't know, probably though, hmmm.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Top ticket price documented so far for the first Knicks
game in New York one hundred and seventy six thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
That's a lot, boy.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Nose bleeds are going for high thousands, high four figures. Yeah,
and the other day they said they expect your Tim
Schalome seats to maybe be in seven figures.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
That front row for all the Stars anyway, resumes tonight
in San Antonio. Game two. Let's figure out who's reporting
what it's the lead story with Heather Myers.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Heather, take it away, Happy Friday, Jack, Joe goodboarding to you.
Let's find o how the networks are covering the news.
Starting with CNN. Senate passes massive immigration bill and big
win for Trump. From MS now Senate Republicans fall in
line with Trump and passed reconciliation bill. And from the
Associated Press, Senate okay, seventy billion dollar immigration bill after
(11:44):
rejecting efforts to permanently ban Trump's settlement fund.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Yeah, the slush fund is not dead. Yes, and Trump
the other day said I don't know if it's dead.
I got to ask my lawyers so it could reappear.
Frankenstein like, surely not.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
From the BBC this morning, Zelensky proposes direct meeting with
Putin to end war.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I saw that as just reading enough.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Mile Mark Helprin's newsletter about the animosity between Putin and
Zelenski is now part of the problem of getting any end.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Of this war. They hate each other so much.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
I have no doubt it's far from unanimous, but there
are some serious Russian heavyweights who are now saying we
got to end this.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Can't win it, it's too costly. We've got to end it.
Interesting developments.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Can you imagine after all of this, the two of
them meet face to face.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
I candle this.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I can't imagine how that would go down.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
I don't know how you could secure the safety on
either side where you could have something that where they
both feel like they're not get to bet snatched or killed.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I don't know what that would look like.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
It would almost have to be in I don't know,
Geneva as administered by the United States, China and the
entire UN or something. I mean, I get you're right,
what a logistical nightmare.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
From the La Times this morning, California election results, Raman
makes the gains, but Spencer Pratt remains ahead at LA
mayor race.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, there's still way too many votes out to predict anything.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Got to say sixty four percent they assume are in
right now. From NBC News, US added one hundred and
seventy two thousand jobs in May, even as inflation squeezes consumers.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Once again, adding lots of jobs in the healthcare sector.
How do we add so many tens of thousands of
jobs in healthcare every month?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It's an end government and government.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
From CNN, Kennedy Center orders staff to remove Trump's name.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
All right, there's a story I haven't been following also,
now you've missed the fascinating developments, then Trump putting his
name on the Kennedy Center, and then the the artsy
fortsy crowd just beating up in arms over it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
All right whatever?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
From Newsmax, twenty percent of young people use AI chatbots
for mental health advice.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Only twenty percent would be my response, I'm surprised he's
not higher.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, do it more. They're pretty good at it, clawed, especially.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
From News Nation. USPS raising stamp prices again.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I'd buy the forever stamps so that I don't have
to get into that dangerous situation of being a penny
or too short in a world without pennies, right right?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Indeed, whyse July twelve they go up again now to
eighty two cents mail letter.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
WHOA. I was about to say we should have a
guess what a stamp costs, because I would have missed
by forty cents. Really, I think so yeah, I don't
remember the last time I bought a stamp. I always
buy it forever, so I had no idea they're up
to eighty two cents.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Okay, we should have a pull on when stamps will
reach a dollar dollar to mail a.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Letter it's actually kind of the other way around. When
does a dollar reach a stamp Because the value of
a dollar is going down so.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Much, I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Yeah, I wouldn't have said forty cents, but I'd have
no idea what a stamp was, zero idea. I'd come
off like George Bush Senior had to scanner there at
the Supermaro.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Look at that. Well, my wife runds that department.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
From NBC news this morning. Mom found moving worms and
parasites in daughters spaghettios.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
It's probably that blood sucking worm, the screw fly, the
screw worm. Yeah, yeah, rous and she was unhappy with that,
I take it from your tones.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, there's a lawsuit, as you can imagine from the
Babylon by this morning, nation shocked as candidate with Nazi
tattoo turns out to be total scumbags.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah, that's pretty good. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
The New York Times had a heck of a I
grabbing headline about three women come forward to document just
how awful that is, and their stories were not much.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I mean, he ain't a great guy to date date,
but it wasn't it wasn't much to it. Well, I'm
not sure we saw the same accounts.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
The one gal he grabbed her hard enough to bruise
her and locked her in a room at one points.
Eventually they got to that many many words into the
article after a lot of didn't call her back and
was dating someone else at the same time, and like,
that's what.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You're leading with to explore it.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I mean, I don't like the guy, but I thought,
this is your big expose on what a bad duty
is he he didn't call somebody back when he was
dating them, Hanson, let's go ahead and title this section
of the podcast Jack defends Nazi. I'm sorry misogynists Nazi.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Wow, that's not a good title point. That's not a
good look for me.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
So that was a bad life. Yeah, yeah, thank you,
thank you, Happy Friday, Thank you you too.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Have a great weekend, so we'll see you in an hour.
Never mind, are you conned any kind of weekend? Are
you convinced? He knew it was a Nazi tattoo and
that was the whole point when he got it, yes, yeah,
met yeah, yeah yeah. He thought it was hard ass
and cool and that was like the Nazi concentration camp, right,
Insignia Yeah, it's pretty hardcore, even among Nazi tattoos.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Okay, we got more news to get Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
With US Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
First, of all those jobs numbers, we'll have to look
into the various economics reporting on that, because most of
the headlines are saying much higher job growth than expected.
So it's not only a good number, but a really
good number. So that's interesting. And then this headline, this
is my favorite headline that's out there, and I'm hoping
this happens because it'd be good excitement for the summer.
(17:49):
The headline in the Wall Street Journal like two cats
circling Kam Layers and Gavin knwso Way at twenty twenty
eight showdown. They claim to be friends, but many expect
the gloves off brawl should the two California Democrats decide
to run for president. I read that article and was
going to bring it to you and ask you, as
(18:09):
you are a fine appraiser of people's relationships, you're very
perceptive about that. Do these people or do these people
not clearly hate each other?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
And they do? Yeah, I think they clearly hate each other,
they really do. Will bring you the evidence, you good people,
and let you be the judges coming up. I think
better than that.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
I think they have a complete lack of respect for
each other, which should allow them to say and do
all kinds of horrible things, which is awesome. Yeah, contempt
is the best gasoline on fires ever invented. Yes, Plus
I will explain why I keep making references to Shakespeare
and stabbing Trump And that's your fancy.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
That's why. After well, that's part of it.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
After the beloved Friday tradition, Let's take a fund look
back at the week that was, its cow clips of
the week, all.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
The naked drug addicts of the sidewalks. We can't walk
into gum at the same time, the state of La
right now, the sword bills you split that gum out.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Panzer pros would not be a top two finalist for mayor.
He should be DJing the worst New Year's Eve party in.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Reno right now? Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Bobby I was born with this?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Clearly Javier Bsera has serge Javier career.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Why God, if you have ebola, show up and vote
what takes wear a mask.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Trump Back's former Fox News host, Republican Steve Hilton.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Is in the league.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
The Senate race in Maine with presumptive Democratic nominee and
horny Lorax Grandpa.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
The Wall Street Journal New York Times ran stories without
any evidence besides the gossip from a former staffer.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Graham and I have a great marriage. Being married is hard.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
What kind of a creeper has been on a decade
on a platform like Kick?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Why do you happened? I don't know what happened. I
mean when I as I watched it, I thought, oh
my god, he's having a stroke. And so I said,
you know, you answered every question. My mind's racing.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
It's a pretty little boar well por turmoil at CBS news.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Journalism is under attack in America. Trump told me, yah,
who he was effing crazy? Everybody hates you now.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting
with Lebanon.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Nobody is interested in the ramblings of a capo.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Your son and Jeffery Epstein talk about pole.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Dancing as he begged him for money using your limited credibility,
we claiming my time.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Asking him to burn up. That's a pretty we're talking
about shoes? Are you guys kidding me? I mean, is
this the Foreign Affairs Committee or is this like a circus.
What is this? As simple as a pimple for me,
there's nothing to it.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
It'd be nice if it was quite human and taking
away and and OCAs is domesticated bird.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
It was very shocking and we asked it out of
the box.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
What is king?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
King can be a fascinating topic and there are many
different styles that people enjoyed.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
It's clips of the week. Oh that was that Ai
teddy Bear talking about kink. It was annoying to me.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
And this has been going on for a long time.
If you're like Trump, do we need another reality star president? No?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
No.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
He was a real estate developer and made billions of dollars,
so he's got a lot of experience in the world
of business, which is what we do in the United
States of America.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Same with Steve Hilton, former Fox host. Overlooking the fact
that he's on the show.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
The other day, he talking about he started a bunch
of businesses and got rich on his own and all
that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Top advisor to a British Prime minister for years.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
But if you run as a Democrat and your job
history is former Undersecretary of I don't know what the
hell they do. That's just automatically considered cresidentials enough to
be the next level up. But if you were out
in the private world now they use your TV hosting
job as your only experience.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
That's just so you know, transparent what is going on there.
I think it may be unintentional.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
They are so blinded by their own biases and because
they don't consider somebody going out into the world and
making a living any qualifications for anything being Oh no,
it makes you suspect, right, being low level public service
automatically qualifies you to be anything. Okay, want to pay
off the topic of stabbing Trump a la Julius Caesar
(22:48):
and the Shakespeare play. We were talking the other day
about the wounded Bear caucus the Senator specifically that Trump
has pissed off or gotten primaried. But who are going
to be in office now for many months until next January,
I guess it is. And how they're now openly expressing
(23:09):
their dislike, contempt, disagreements with Trump in a way.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
That they was much more reserved a month ago. That's
a kind way to put it.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Yeah, that's a pretty disgusting way that That's the way
politics works, is that when somebody is retiring or gets
primaried out. Then all of a sudden you find out
what they really think. And that happens a lot with
people in politics. Otherwise they're going to they were gonna
go along with whatever Trump wanted.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah they had to.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, fair enough, But so a couple
of examples for you. Kim Strassel of The Wall Street
Journal is absolutely brilliant, one of our favorite writers. The
headline is Trump's help wanted problem. There aren't enough people
left with the lack of qualifications He's looking for. Job
description superpower seeks anyone to direct its National Intelligence Apparatus
(23:54):
responsibilities whatever the CIA tells you. Qualifications, obessance to Donald
Trump's day to day, willingness to express constant admiration for
the Boss, fluidity and maga talk. No intelligence experience required.
This is about the guy he pointed to replace Tulsea Gabbard.
That everybody's yelling about the fact he's got no credentials. Yes,
(24:15):
but no, it's about much more than that. That ad
or a variation of it, is the general job description
of the second Trump administration. In theory, given the under
emphasis on skill, it would seem to encompass a wide
sphere of the political universe. In practice, it's a small
and shrinking pool. The Trump averse one is that is evaporating?
Is this administration ticks down? And she mentions Bill POULTI
(24:36):
who you're referring to, but says we may look back
on this period as the good old days because the
pool of boot liquors is getting thinner and thinner and
more and more comedic.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I mean, it's savage from Kim, I sure it was
a better term than boot licker. Ask kisser.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
That ain't great either, No, it's not. The point is
the person is humiliating themselves in service to the boss.
So it's difficult to come up with an example that's
not humiliating. Can we keep our mouths off their dirty
parts when we describe this No? Well, wow, does every
colloquial phrase idiomatic phrase referring to a lackey?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
How about we go first servicing?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Orally, how about we go with my favorite the story
that I brought a while back, A human footstool.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
That's good, We'll go with that.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
So all Trump is hiring is human footstools at this point,
and some of them embarrassingly unqualified, and missus Strassel is
calling them out enough said on that deal. The editorial
board of the journal brutal on the John Bolton plea deal,
and it is obscene. The Trump Justice Department is prosecuting
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this guy for having in his diary some information that
is argued you will belee classified and is seeking prison time.
And he's agreed to pay a two and a half
million dollar fine, which I believe is a lot of
money for him. As the Journal puts it points out,
a trial could cost as much as three million dollars
in legal face. It's the risk of greater punishment. Guy's
(26:16):
seventy seven years old, A might ruin him exactly. Mark
Helpern wrote in his newsletter today, you cannot overestimate how
much joy Trump is getting.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Out of this, which is not u right.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
So they go into the facts of the case, which
are not impressive at all, and then they go into
the history of all of the officials who did way,
way more egregious things, I mean miles more egregious and
pled guilty to a missdemainer and paid a five thousand
dollars fine. Or CIA director David Petrees, who shared defensive
(26:50):
information with his biographer, got two years probation one hundred
thousand dollars finders, example after example.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
This is so far out of the ball.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yeah, there's one thing we've learned over the last ten
years or so is lots of officials have classified information
because we classify everything, and then the prosecution part becomes
very random, depending on who's angry at who or who
has the power at the time. So here's you're opening
two sentences of the editorial by the board. President Trump
may hate being the target of lawfair, but he sure
(27:18):
knows how to wield it against anyone who crosses him.
That's the story of John Bolton, his former National security advisor,
who is agreeing to a plea deal essentially for the
sin of writing a book critical about his time advising
mister Trump in the room where it happened, etc. Trump
got so pissed off at that he's going to try
to put him in jail. It's it's an excuse. Well,
(27:40):
we've got to come up with an answer for this
whole top secret information thing. Everybody can use this as
a weapon too easily now on both sides, to bring
people down. We got to quit claiming everything's top secret.
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Shakespeare several times. Yes, the the knives are out, Yes,
the wounded bear caucus bears wielding knives are darkest knife. Wow,
that really is a rough situation. You're out hiking in
the woods. You're a little rustling the bushes. A bear
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jumps out and it's a got a knife.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Crash your knife. Think to myself, crap, this is not
my lucky day. This will only end badly.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
One of the reasons I'm wanting to do a deep
dive on Shakespeare. I came across this stuff yesterday talking
up Shakespeare. Alexander Dumbass who wrote The Count of Money
at Christo Dumas.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
There's some dispute over the pronunciation of his name, but.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Go on famlessly said, after God, Shakespeare has created most
everything you need to know about human nature is in
Shakespeare correct, and nothing new needs to be written.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
At all. And the number of phrases that we use
to this day that he coined DeFi leaf. Yeah, and
very little is known about the guy, which is really
really interesting. Right, Well, you didn't like the celebrity lifestyle.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
He kept a low profile, and the fact that colleges
and universities, oh, don't teach Shakespeare unless it's to deconstruct
his colonialism is an obscenity.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
That alone is reason to just bulldoze.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
All our universities know, and they sell the bricks for
scrap at wholeheartedly.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Okay, we got totarted again.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
We got a lot of We got to get to today,
surprisingly on a Friday, but we got mail bag next
to stay here, got up up, but up up.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
If you got kids, you're probably.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Roughly around the time period I am where they're getting
out of school, Like one kid finish yesterday, one kid
next week, and then everything changes for the summer. Yeah,
i'd say, in ways both good and challenging. I'm not
going to say bad, so your read them loving. Quotes
of the day Today may take up most of our time,
but I think it's justified as tomorrow is the anniversary
of D Day, and both of these quotes are going
(31:09):
to be from Dwight Eisenhower. The first one tad lengthy,
but it's one of my favorite bits of writing in
American history. From the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, Soldiers,
sailors and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force, Exclamation point. Jack,
I know you're anti exclamation exclamation point, but this is
(31:31):
iike here, so anyway, Well, if it is D Day,
I suppose if you're if you can't use an exclamation
point for D Day when you're in charge of it,
when can you use one? Well said, You're about to
embark upon the great crusade toward which we have striven
these many months.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes
and prayers of liberty.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Liberty loving people everywhere march with you, in company with
our brave allies and our brothers in arms on other fronts.
You will bring about the destruction of the German war machine,
the elimination of not tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe,
and security for ourselves in a free world. Your task
will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained,
well equipped, and battle hardened. He will fight savagely. But
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this is the year nineteen forty four. Much has happened
since the Nazi triumphs of nineteen forty and forty one.
The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats
and open battle man to man. Our air offensive has
seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity
to wage war on the ground. Our home fronts have
given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war,
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and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men.
The tide has turned. The freemen of the world are
marching together to victory. I have full confidence in your courage,
devotion to duty, and skill in battle. We will accept
nothing less than a full victory. Good luck, and let
us beseech the blessings of Almighty God upon this great
and noble undertaking.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Dwight Eisenhower.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Men, my, I'm indeed a freak, like a lot of
old men who never stopped talking about thinking about the
Roman Empire or World War Two. But we now know
you could have put after a lot of those sentences,
we think, or I hope, because it wasn't quite as
clear we have destroyed their defenses.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
We hope to that point.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
This is my other favorite piece of writing about D Day,
and that is the handwritten note Dwight Eisenhower wrote in
advance that said in case it was needed our landing
in the Schuerbourg.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
And it's handwritten, so it's a little tough to read.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Have over.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Have over the hours failed to gain a satisfactory foothold,
and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack
at this time and place was based upon the best
information available. The troops, the air, and the Navy did
all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If
any blame or fault attends to the attempt, it is
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mine alone.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
That's a man. That's the way a man runs his life.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
And I've came across that early on in life and
have tried and failed, but tried to live on ike,
you know life. Yeah, that morning where he gets up
early and goes and addresses those guys specifically specifically the paratroopers,
and looks him in the eyes, you know, and says,
good look men, and that sort of thing, knowing that
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lots of them we're going to be dead in a
couple hours, and lots of them were dead in a
couple hours. That'd be a rough thing to do. Yeah,
to your point. D Day by the numbers always fascinates me.
The invasion. The amphibious invasion involved roughly one hundred and
thirty three thousand men landing by sea one hundred and
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thirty three thousand, twenty three four hundred airborne troops supported
by seven thousand naval vessels and eleven hundre five hundred
I'm sorry, eleven thousand, five hundred and ninety aircraft, almost
twelve thousand aircraft, seventy three thousand Americans, sixty two thousand Brits,
twenty one plus thousand Canadians, and small contingents of the
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other allies. And the casualties we lost either dead or wounded.
Roughly sixty six hundred men that day British forces, twenty
seven hundred Canadians, nine hundred and fifty Germans lost something
between four thousand and nine thousand men killed, wounded or captured.
It's the biggest operation human beings have ever done ever
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on planet Earth, and may ever do again because of
AI and robots and all that sort of stuff. But
I I've talked it up a lot. I can't talk
it up enough. If you're a World War Two fan,
or specifically a D Day fan, and you have not
been to the World War Two Museum in New Orleans,
oh my god, their D Day display is incredible.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Wow. Yeah, I've got to do it. Oh it's worth
the trip just for that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Yeah, Well, I propose because there's some really good email
for a mail bag. Why don't we squeeze that in
next hour? I recommend every year David Ambrose's d Day Book.
It's fantastic and if you want to really get a
great feeling of what it was like that day, holy crap,
and beautifully written too.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
It is dramatic.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
We got a lot on the way on a Friday,
and we're gonna squeeze all kind of stuff in. But
you know you're busy people. You probably can't listen for
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Armstrong and Jackie and now he.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Arms It's fry live from studio s see you signor
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Armstrong and getting communications compound and headed into the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
We are toiling under the.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Title of the show, my most literary title ever, fantastic
Casca reacts to slush fun scandal. Let's come christ Jack,
you recognize Casca and Julius Caesar.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
In William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, he was the first to
stab Caesar. Okay, did not remember that Caesar? Trump has
been stabbed and the knives are coming out?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Is my contention.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Alternate title if you prefer something less obscure. Platner is
a Nazi creep, and the party that calls everybody a
Nazi and started hashtag me too is standing by him.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Cool, it's what do you bring up? Shakespeare?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Because I'm like, honey, I'm I was thinking yesterday, I'm
about to go on a the biggest Shakespeare dive of
my life. I've decided I'm gonna make that my next mission.
Having just finished Ulysses almost all the way through the
second time.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I'm gonna go on a Shakespeare kick.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Wow, because there's like a really really long chapter in
Ulysses that I did not understand a lot of the references,
and I thought, I need to be better where i'd
done this stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
So yeah, wow, I aire your intellectual uh explorations. Oh
I got it. I'm just so bored with all this
politics crap. I am bored to death of it.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I have.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
It's very difficult for me to talk about it at
this point. I'm just so bored with it. It's the
same freaking thing every day. I was listened to Chuck
Schumer on the floor after last I let the Republicans
just showed us as they have non and I thought,
how do you people do this for fifty years? You politicians?
How do you get on both sides it's exactly the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
How do you get up there every.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Day for fifty years and pretend you care about this
crap and say the exact same thing over and over again.
Why don't we do Truck Schumer just stand up and
say I'm going to say the usual things about Republicans
being bad, but I won't waste your time. And then
the Republicans checking up and say the same thing. Here
(02:29):
is the I see previous comments from the last thirty years,
and then sit down the usual stuff about radicals and
open borders and balancing the budgets, and I'll not waste
anymore of your time.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Now. Is this just a product of.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
What can happen in life through age or is it
because I think it's because I feel like things used
to happen, Like legislation got passed and things happened, and
then you talk about that, but nothing ever happens. Now
it's there are sniping behind the scenes, and then some
people get a kick out of talking about the sniping
is if it's relevant, but it usually isn't.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, there used to be a.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Pretty significant performative edge to the actual business of legislation.
Now it's just performance. There is virtually nothing happening happening legislatively,
although they did pass a big bill financing border security.
But yeah, the work of Congress has become the showmanship.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
One, I guess.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
And it's not even very good showmanship. That's the problem.
It's not good entertainment. And then it's entertainment though, so
that they get to the that's the perfect word. So
and then in terms of having entertaining things to talk
about on this program, that's our shared soap oper Now
that didn't used to be true either, that that was
everybody's number one show that they they followed was freaking
(03:51):
presidential politics right right. Well, see, I would never traffic
in the kind of drowning shumerisms that you're referring to.
What I am bringing politic today. He is fascinating and
revealing turning points in American history.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So you're in good hands.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Both fascinating and revealing. Oh yeah, I wouldn't merely fascinate you.
That's a child's play for a man like me. I
must also revealed. I should play a game with myself
or maybe on the air where because we got TV's
on in the studio, I should turn my back to
MSNBC and Fox and try to guess what they've got
(04:28):
on the screen and then turn around and see if
I'm right.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Like today, I feel like I could have guessed.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
I turned around, I looked up at Fox, and they've
got what's his name, Plattner's bare chest with his na
Nazi tattoo up on the screen yep. And then on
MSNBC they had a shot of Trump appearing to be
asleep in a meeting yesterday, which I might have been
able to guess too. Do you think he's dozing off
(04:52):
in those meetings? Looks it's impossible. Looks one hundred percent
at least the one from yesterday looks one hundred percent
like his sleep, which doesn't really bothered me that much.
I'd like to doze off right now. I'm staying up
too late watching sports.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Damn it. What to stop? I think it was his
energy guy with the cool hair of the billionaire from
North Dakota. He was.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
He was going on and on about shale or something
like that, and Trump, you know, middle of the day,
maybe a little hot nailval office, had a big lunch.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I can see.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I could see snooze in just a little bit there, right, Yeah, yeah, God,
not shale, I can remember. I'm gladys. I can call
back this feeling at will whenever I want to. What
it was like the first class after lunch, like in
high school, Oh, any class, and if it was like
(05:46):
social studies or something like that, and it was hot
in the room because you know, the heat of the
spring and summer was starting to come, and they didn't
run the air conditioner that much. It's hot in there,
and that person's droning on about something, something, something, anyone
bueller and.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Just just oh, my head weighed eight thousand pounds.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Oh. I know, you could have drifted off in a second,
like one second, if you, you know, permitted yourself. And
I was never the kind of guy that could do
with some of the other people did who just flat
out laid their heads down.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
On the desk get to sleep, you know, you weren't
trying to hide it at all. I could. I just
never could be that person. I think I probably did
that once or twice. I know I didn't.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Looking back on it, I wish I would have. Like
I've said many times, I wish i'd ha skipped school once.
I never did one time ever either did I I
don't know, should have walked on a major scandal in
my house and mine because because I know this now
as a parent who has high schoolers, you don't you
(06:46):
don't want to, you know, start down a path and
you think if they if your kids skip school, you
think it's going to be a lifetime of lack of
responsibility and all that sort of stuff. That's where you're
worried to behavior, right, But looking back on it when
everything's turned it seems like God, one time on a
nice day when everybody went to the lake or.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Something, I should have done that once in my life. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
See, I engaged in all of my reckless behavior, and
there was quite a bit of it on my own time.
So I didn't feel like I need adopt out of school.
But you gotta admit there's a different feeling if you're
doing something naughty. That's a yes, oh please the forbidden
fruit exactly. So yummy, yeah, so yummy. Should have done
it once. But you know, what are you gonna do.
(07:27):
Let's start the show officially before we get in trouble
with the FCC. Who knows who the FCC director is.
I'm Jack Armstrong and he's Joe. Getting on this it
is Friday, June fifth of the year twenty twenty six,
where I'm strong in getting we approve of this program.
Let's begin then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Here we go at Mark on the.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
View, Doctor Jill asserted that Joe would have beaten Trump
in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Not to the White House, to the white lights.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Oh, boy, did not see that coming on.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That's a great joke. That's pretty good joke. I liked
that a lot.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Yesterday was my sophomore, his last day of school. So
are you officially a junior? Once you're a rising junior.
I'm not going to use that term. That's not going
to happen. Why not anyway, So it was his last
day of the sophomore year, and he went over to
a friend's house after school, and I went to pick
him up last night, and man, the smiles on their faces,
(08:27):
just just the happiness that was excluding from the I
almost caught some of it. I almost got happy for
a second. They were so happy. Oh no, just with
the fact that summer was here and one more year
behind them. Oh, they were just floating.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
They were so happy.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Jack sophomore from the Greek sophos meaning wise and moros
meaning fool.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Okay, how about that, huh? I was mostly then. I've
quoted Shakespeare and ancient ground. You're bringing it today? Oh
but unfortunately that's all I got, was there? That's it?
What's junior mean? Just less than a senior?
Speaker 4 (09:04):
It means here, Yes, younger than a senior, but older
than a sophomore from the ancient Greek sof phos meaning wise.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Oh I did that one. Do you have any idea
where freshman comes from? I think it's self evident, isn't it?
Fresh Men? It's like fresh new Okay? Yeah, gotcha exactly? Yeah? Yeah?
Why they had to work a little Greek in just
for a year or two? I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Right, they don't teach them that or anything else. And
I think it was my favorite professor in college, Ira H. Carmon,
who introduced me to that brilliant man, brilliantastic and that's
stuck in your head.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah, I don't know why I thought.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I've I've been hearing this word my entire life, and
it never occurred to me to ask what it means
other than second year. So there are new jobs numbers
out that are good according to people who look at
that sort of thing and cool, and we'll look into
that and the unemployment rate and a bill that did
pass last night. Yes, and I do want to get
into the stab of Trump. It is an open season
(10:02):
now on people who have been grumbling about Trump to
now just say it openly the tide has turned.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
You think one hundred. We've heard this a few times
over sixteen years.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
This time you were a junior like me and not
a sophomore from the ancient Greek sophos lies, you would
know this already. Okay, and we've got our headlines with
Heather Meyer's next day here. I hope this doesn't steal
(10:35):
a headline from Heather. But Trump said he's going to
go to at least one home Knicks game, which would
be pretty big.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
The president of Madison Square Garden, I assumed to an
arena full of booze. I don't know, probably though, hmmm.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Top ticket price documented so far for the first Knicks
game in New York one hundred and seventy six thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
That's a lot, boy.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Nose bleeds are going for high thousands, high four figures. Yeah,
and the other day they said they expect your Tim
Schalome seats to maybe be in seven figures.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
That front row for all the Stars anyway, resumes tonight
in San Antonio. Game two. Let's figure out who's reporting
what it's the lead story with Heather Myers.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Heather, take it away, Happy Friday, Jack, Joe goodboarding to you.
Let's find o how the networks are covering the news.
Starting with CNN. Senate passes massive immigration bill and big
win for Trump. From MS now Senate Republicans fall in
line with Trump and passed reconciliation bill. And from the
Associated Press, Senate okay, seventy billion dollar immigration bill after
(11:44):
rejecting efforts to permanently ban Trump's settlement fund.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Yeah, the slush fund is not dead. Yes, and Trump
the other day said I don't know if it's dead.
I got to ask my lawyers so it could reappear.
Frankenstein like, surely not.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
From the BBC this morning, Zelensky proposes direct meeting with
Putin to end war.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I saw that as just reading enough.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Mile Mark Helprin's newsletter about the animosity between Putin and
Zelenski is now part of the problem of getting any end.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Of this war. They hate each other so much.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
I have no doubt it's far from unanimous, but there
are some serious Russian heavyweights who are now saying we
got to end this.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Can't win it, it's too costly. We've got to end it.
Interesting developments.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Can you imagine after all of this, the two of
them meet face to face.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
I candle this.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I can't imagine how that would go down.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
I don't know how you could secure the safety on
either side where you could have something that where they
both feel like they're not get to bet snatched or killed.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I don't know what that would look like.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
It would almost have to be in I don't know,
Geneva as administered by the United States, China and the
entire UN or something. I mean, I get you're right,
what a logistical nightmare.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
From the La Times this morning, California election results, Raman
makes the gains, but Spencer Pratt remains ahead at LA
mayor race.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, there's still way too many votes out to predict anything.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Got to say sixty four percent they assume are in
right now. From NBC News, US added one hundred and
seventy two thousand jobs in May, even as inflation squeezes consumers.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Once again, adding lots of jobs in the healthcare sector.
How do we add so many tens of thousands of
jobs in healthcare every month?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It's an end government and government.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
From CNN, Kennedy Center orders staff to remove Trump's name.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
All right, there's a story I haven't been following also,
now you've missed the fascinating developments, then Trump putting his
name on the Kennedy Center, and then the the artsy
fortsy crowd just beating up in arms over it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
All right whatever?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
From Newsmax, twenty percent of young people use AI chatbots
for mental health advice.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Only twenty percent would be my response, I'm surprised he's
not higher.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, do it more. They're pretty good at it, clawed, especially.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
From News Nation. USPS raising stamp prices again.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I'd buy the forever stamps so that I don't have
to get into that dangerous situation of being a penny
or too short in a world without pennies, right right?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Indeed, whyse July twelve they go up again now to
eighty two cents mail letter.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
WHOA. I was about to say we should have a
guess what a stamp costs, because I would have missed
by forty cents. Really, I think so yeah, I don't
remember the last time I bought a stamp. I always
buy it forever, so I had no idea they're up
to eighty two cents.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Okay, we should have a pull on when stamps will
reach a dollar dollar to mail a.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Letter it's actually kind of the other way around. When
does a dollar reach a stamp Because the value of
a dollar is going down so.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Much, I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Yeah, I wouldn't have said forty cents, but I'd have
no idea what a stamp was, zero idea. I'd come
off like George Bush Senior had to scanner there at
the Supermaro.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Look at that. Well, my wife runds that department.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
From NBC news this morning. Mom found moving worms and
parasites in daughters spaghettios.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
It's probably that blood sucking worm, the screw fly, the
screw worm. Yeah, yeah, rous and she was unhappy with that,
I take it from your tones.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, there's a lawsuit, as you can imagine from the
Babylon by this morning, nation shocked as candidate with Nazi
tattoo turns out to be total scumbags.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah, that's pretty good. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
The New York Times had a heck of a I
grabbing headline about three women come forward to document just
how awful that is, and their stories were not much.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I mean, he ain't a great guy to date date,
but it wasn't it wasn't much to it. Well, I'm
not sure we saw the same accounts.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
The one gal he grabbed her hard enough to bruise
her and locked her in a room at one points.
Eventually they got to that many many words into the
article after a lot of didn't call her back and
was dating someone else at the same time, and like,
that's what.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You're leading with to explore it.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I mean, I don't like the guy, but I thought,
this is your big expose on what a bad duty
is he he didn't call somebody back when he was
dating them, Hanson, let's go ahead and title this section
of the podcast Jack defends Nazi. I'm sorry misogynists Nazi.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Wow, that's not a good title point. That's not a
good look for me.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
So that was a bad life. Yeah, yeah, thank you,
thank you, Happy Friday, Thank you you too.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Have a great weekend, so we'll see you in an hour.
Never mind, are you conned any kind of weekend? Are
you convinced? He knew it was a Nazi tattoo and
that was the whole point when he got it, yes, yeah,
met yeah, yeah yeah. He thought it was hard ass
and cool and that was like the Nazi concentration camp, right,
Insignia Yeah, it's pretty hardcore, even among Nazi tattoos.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Okay, we got more news to get Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
With US Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
First, of all those jobs numbers, we'll have to look
into the various economics reporting on that, because most of
the headlines are saying much higher job growth than expected.
So it's not only a good number, but a really
good number. So that's interesting. And then this headline, this
is my favorite headline that's out there, and I'm hoping
this happens because it'd be good excitement for the summer.
(17:49):
The headline in the Wall Street Journal like two cats
circling Kam Layers and Gavin knwso Way at twenty twenty
eight showdown. They claim to be friends, but many expect
the gloves off brawl should the two California Democrats decide
to run for president. I read that article and was
going to bring it to you and ask you, as
(18:09):
you are a fine appraiser of people's relationships, you're very
perceptive about that. Do these people or do these people
not clearly hate each other?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
And they do? Yeah, I think they clearly hate each other,
they really do. Will bring you the evidence, you good people,
and let you be the judges coming up. I think
better than that.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
I think they have a complete lack of respect for
each other, which should allow them to say and do
all kinds of horrible things, which is awesome. Yeah, contempt
is the best gasoline on fires ever invented. Yes, Plus
I will explain why I keep making references to Shakespeare
and stabbing Trump And that's your fancy.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
That's why. After well, that's part of it.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
After the beloved Friday tradition, Let's take a fund look
back at the week that was, its cow clips of
the week, all.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
The naked drug addicts of the sidewalks. We can't walk
into gum at the same time, the state of La
right now, the sword bills you split that gum out.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Panzer pros would not be a top two finalist for mayor.
He should be DJing the worst New Year's Eve party in.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Reno right now? Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Bobby I was born with this?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Clearly Javier Bsera has serge Javier career.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Why God, if you have ebola, show up and vote
what takes wear a mask.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Trump Back's former Fox News host, Republican Steve Hilton.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Is in the league.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
The Senate race in Maine with presumptive Democratic nominee and
horny Lorax Grandpa.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
The Wall Street Journal New York Times ran stories without
any evidence besides the gossip from a former staffer.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Graham and I have a great marriage. Being married is hard.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
What kind of a creeper has been on a decade
on a platform like Kick?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Why do you happened? I don't know what happened. I
mean when I as I watched it, I thought, oh
my god, he's having a stroke. And so I said,
you know, you answered every question. My mind's racing.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
It's a pretty little boar well por turmoil at CBS news.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Journalism is under attack in America. Trump told me, yah,
who he was effing crazy? Everybody hates you now.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting
with Lebanon.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Nobody is interested in the ramblings of a capo.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Your son and Jeffery Epstein talk about pole.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Dancing as he begged him for money using your limited credibility,
we claiming my time.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Asking him to burn up. That's a pretty we're talking
about shoes? Are you guys kidding me? I mean, is
this the Foreign Affairs Committee or is this like a circus.
What is this? As simple as a pimple for me,
there's nothing to it.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
It'd be nice if it was quite human and taking
away and and OCAs is domesticated bird.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
It was very shocking and we asked it out of
the box.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
What is king?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
King can be a fascinating topic and there are many
different styles that people enjoyed.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
It's clips of the week. Oh that was that Ai
teddy Bear talking about kink. It was annoying to me.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
And this has been going on for a long time.
If you're like Trump, do we need another reality star president? No?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
No.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
He was a real estate developer and made billions of dollars,
so he's got a lot of experience in the world
of business, which is what we do in the United
States of America.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Same with Steve Hilton, former Fox host. Overlooking the fact
that he's on the show.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
The other day, he talking about he started a bunch
of businesses and got rich on his own and all
that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Top advisor to a British Prime minister for years.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
But if you run as a Democrat and your job
history is former Undersecretary of I don't know what the
hell they do. That's just automatically considered cresidentials enough to
be the next level up. But if you were out
in the private world now they use your TV hosting
job as your only experience.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
That's just so you know, transparent what is going on there.
I think it may be unintentional.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
They are so blinded by their own biases and because
they don't consider somebody going out into the world and
making a living any qualifications for anything being Oh no,
it makes you suspect, right, being low level public service
automatically qualifies you to be anything. Okay, want to pay
off the topic of stabbing Trump a la Julius Caesar
(22:48):
and the Shakespeare play. We were talking the other day
about the wounded Bear caucus the Senator specifically that Trump
has pissed off or gotten primaried. But who are going
to be in office now for many months until next January,
I guess it is. And how they're now openly expressing
(23:09):
their dislike, contempt, disagreements with Trump in a way.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
That they was much more reserved a month ago. That's
a kind way to put it.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Yeah, that's a pretty disgusting way that That's the way
politics works, is that when somebody is retiring or gets
primaried out. Then all of a sudden you find out
what they really think. And that happens a lot with
people in politics. Otherwise they're going to they were gonna
go along with whatever Trump wanted.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah they had to.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, fair enough, But so a couple
of examples for you. Kim Strassel of The Wall Street
Journal is absolutely brilliant, one of our favorite writers. The
headline is Trump's help wanted problem. There aren't enough people
left with the lack of qualifications He's looking for. Job
description superpower seeks anyone to direct its National Intelligence Apparatus
(23:54):
responsibilities whatever the CIA tells you. Qualifications, obessance to Donald
Trump's day to day, willingness to express constant admiration for
the Boss, fluidity and maga talk. No intelligence experience required.
This is about the guy he pointed to replace Tulsea Gabbard.
That everybody's yelling about the fact he's got no credentials. Yes,
(24:15):
but no, it's about much more than that. That ad
or a variation of it, is the general job description
of the second Trump administration. In theory, given the under
emphasis on skill, it would seem to encompass a wide
sphere of the political universe. In practice, it's a small
and shrinking pool. The Trump averse one is that is evaporating?
Is this administration ticks down? And she mentions Bill POULTI
(24:36):
who you're referring to, but says we may look back
on this period as the good old days because the
pool of boot liquors is getting thinner and thinner and
more and more comedic.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I mean, it's savage from Kim, I sure it was
a better term than boot licker. Ask kisser.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
That ain't great either, No, it's not. The point is
the person is humiliating themselves in service to the boss.
So it's difficult to come up with an example that's
not humiliating. Can we keep our mouths off their dirty
parts when we describe this No? Well, wow, does every
colloquial phrase idiomatic phrase referring to a lackey?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
How about we go first servicing?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Orally, how about we go with my favorite the story
that I brought a while back, A human footstool.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
That's good, We'll go with that.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
So all Trump is hiring is human footstools at this point,
and some of them embarrassingly unqualified, and missus Strassel is
calling them out enough said on that deal. The editorial
board of the journal brutal on the John Bolton plea deal,
and it is obscene. The Trump Justice Department is prosecuting
(25:54):
this guy for having in his diary some information that
is argued you will belee classified and is seeking prison time.
And he's agreed to pay a two and a half
million dollar fine, which I believe is a lot of
money for him. As the Journal puts it points out,
a trial could cost as much as three million dollars
in legal face. It's the risk of greater punishment. Guy's
(26:16):
seventy seven years old, A might ruin him exactly. Mark
Helpern wrote in his newsletter today, you cannot overestimate how
much joy Trump is getting.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Out of this, which is not u right.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
So they go into the facts of the case, which
are not impressive at all, and then they go into
the history of all of the officials who did way,
way more egregious things, I mean miles more egregious and
pled guilty to a missdemainer and paid a five thousand
dollars fine. Or CIA director David Petrees, who shared defensive
(26:50):
information with his biographer, got two years probation one hundred
thousand dollars finders, example after example.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
This is so far out of the ball.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yeah, there's one thing we've learned over the last ten
years or so is lots of officials have classified information
because we classify everything, and then the prosecution part becomes
very random, depending on who's angry at who or who
has the power at the time. So here's you're opening
two sentences of the editorial by the board. President Trump
may hate being the target of lawfair, but he sure
(27:18):
knows how to wield it against anyone who crosses him.
That's the story of John Bolton, his former National security advisor,
who is agreeing to a plea deal essentially for the
sin of writing a book critical about his time advising
mister Trump in the room where it happened, etc. Trump
got so pissed off at that he's going to try
to put him in jail. It's it's an excuse. Well,
(27:40):
we've got to come up with an answer for this
whole top secret information thing. Everybody can use this as
a weapon too easily now on both sides, to bring
people down. We got to quit claiming everything's top secret.
That's absolutely true. Yeah, I agree work from our friends.
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Shakespeare several times. Yes, the the knives are out, Yes,
the wounded bear caucus bears wielding knives are darkest knife. Wow,
that really is a rough situation. You're out hiking in
the woods. You're a little rustling the bushes. A bear
(29:17):
jumps out and it's a got a knife.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Crash your knife. Think to myself, crap, this is not
my lucky day. This will only end badly.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
One of the reasons I'm wanting to do a deep
dive on Shakespeare. I came across this stuff yesterday talking
up Shakespeare. Alexander Dumbass who wrote The Count of Money
at Christo Dumas.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
There's some dispute over the pronunciation of his name, but.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Go on famlessly said, after God, Shakespeare has created most
everything you need to know about human nature is in
Shakespeare correct, and nothing new needs to be written.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
At all. And the number of phrases that we use
to this day that he coined DeFi leaf. Yeah, and
very little is known about the guy, which is really
really interesting. Right, Well, you didn't like the celebrity lifestyle.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
He kept a low profile, and the fact that colleges
and universities, oh, don't teach Shakespeare unless it's to deconstruct
his colonialism is an obscenity.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
That alone is reason to just bulldoze.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
All our universities know, and they sell the bricks for
scrap at wholeheartedly.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Okay, we got totarted again.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
We got a lot of We got to get to today,
surprisingly on a Friday, but we got mail bag next
to stay here, got up up, but up up.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
If you got kids, you're probably.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Roughly around the time period I am where they're getting
out of school, Like one kid finish yesterday, one kid
next week, and then everything changes for the summer. Yeah,
i'd say, in ways both good and challenging. I'm not
going to say bad, so your read them loving. Quotes
of the day Today may take up most of our time,
but I think it's justified as tomorrow is the anniversary
of D Day, and both of these quotes are going
(31:09):
to be from Dwight Eisenhower. The first one tad lengthy,
but it's one of my favorite bits of writing in
American history. From the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, Soldiers,
sailors and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force, Exclamation point. Jack,
I know you're anti exclamation exclamation point, but this is
(31:31):
iike here, so anyway, Well, if it is D Day,
I suppose if you're if you can't use an exclamation
point for D Day when you're in charge of it,
when can you use one? Well said, You're about to
embark upon the great crusade toward which we have striven
these many months.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes
and prayers of liberty.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Liberty loving people everywhere march with you, in company with
our brave allies and our brothers in arms on other fronts.
You will bring about the destruction of the German war machine,
the elimination of not tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe,
and security for ourselves in a free world. Your task
will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained,
well equipped, and battle hardened. He will fight savagely. But
(32:11):
this is the year nineteen forty four. Much has happened
since the Nazi triumphs of nineteen forty and forty one.
The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats
and open battle man to man. Our air offensive has
seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity
to wage war on the ground. Our home fronts have
given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war,
(32:32):
and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men.
The tide has turned. The freemen of the world are
marching together to victory. I have full confidence in your courage,
devotion to duty, and skill in battle. We will accept
nothing less than a full victory. Good luck, and let
us beseech the blessings of Almighty God upon this great
and noble undertaking.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Dwight Eisenhower.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Men, my, I'm indeed a freak, like a lot of
old men who never stopped talking about thinking about the
Roman Empire or World War Two. But we now know
you could have put after a lot of those sentences,
we think, or I hope, because it wasn't quite as
clear we have destroyed their defenses.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
We hope to that point.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
This is my other favorite piece of writing about D Day,
and that is the handwritten note Dwight Eisenhower wrote in
advance that said in case it was needed our landing
in the Schuerbourg.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
And it's handwritten, so it's a little tough to read.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Have over.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Have over the hours failed to gain a satisfactory foothold,
and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack
at this time and place was based upon the best
information available. The troops, the air, and the Navy did
all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If
any blame or fault attends to the attempt, it is
(34:03):
mine alone.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
That's a man. That's the way a man runs his life.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
And I've came across that early on in life and
have tried and failed, but tried to live on ike,
you know life. Yeah, that morning where he gets up
early and goes and addresses those guys specifically specifically the paratroopers,
and looks him in the eyes, you know, and says,
good look men, and that sort of thing, knowing that
(34:30):
lots of them we're going to be dead in a
couple hours, and lots of them were dead in a
couple hours. That'd be a rough thing to do. Yeah,
to your point. D Day by the numbers always fascinates me.
The invasion. The amphibious invasion involved roughly one hundred and
thirty three thousand men landing by sea one hundred and
(34:52):
thirty three thousand, twenty three four hundred airborne troops supported
by seven thousand naval vessels and eleven hundre five hundred
I'm sorry, eleven thousand, five hundred and ninety aircraft, almost
twelve thousand aircraft, seventy three thousand Americans, sixty two thousand Brits,
twenty one plus thousand Canadians, and small contingents of the
(35:12):
other allies. And the casualties we lost either dead or wounded.
Roughly sixty six hundred men that day British forces, twenty
seven hundred Canadians, nine hundred and fifty Germans lost something
between four thousand and nine thousand men killed, wounded or captured.
It's the biggest operation human beings have ever done ever
(35:34):
on planet Earth, and may ever do again because of
AI and robots and all that sort of stuff. But
I I've talked it up a lot. I can't talk
it up enough. If you're a World War Two fan,
or specifically a D Day fan, and you have not
been to the World War Two Museum in New Orleans,
oh my god, their D Day display is incredible.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Wow. Yeah, I've got to do it. Oh it's worth
the trip just for that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Yeah, Well, I propose because there's some really good email
for a mail bag. Why don't we squeeze that in
next hour? I recommend every year David Ambrose's d Day Book.
It's fantastic and if you want to really get a
great feeling of what it was like that day, holy crap,
and beautifully written too.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
It is dramatic.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
We got a lot on the way on a Friday,
and we're gonna squeeze all kind of stuff in. But
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