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A post show drive in the Ionic five.
Jack Armstrong
We had snacks, laughs and we even recorded a special episode featuring some unforgettable car themed stories.
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Jack Armstrong
Played in none other than the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Okay, well, yes, it's right there in the title. Right.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
Unknown Speaker
My workspace has become completely disordered. It's just. It's out of control. And I think it's a disordered mind. Disordered workspace, something like that.
Jack Armstrong
Maybe we should take an hour and simply tidy.
Unknown Speaker
I think it's a reflection of a maniac, this sort of living environment. Live from Studio C, senor, a dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty communications compound. And hey, y' all, on a Tuesday. We're under the tutelage of our general.
Jack Armstrong
Manager, Peace and Tranquility. Wait a minute. They did what he said.
Unknown Sponsor
What?
Jack Armstrong
Oy vey.
Unknown Speaker
So do you know where we are currently? I've been trying to get a handle on that because I was watching a bunch of news when I got up and since then, and a lot of it was recorded, like, you know, news that happened really, really early in the morning. And so I wasn't watching it live, but so it's all recorded, but it keeps getting. Getting surpassed by breaking news. So where are we currently? Trump announced a ceasefire last night or late yesterday afternoon. He said, hey, Israel, Iran agreed to a ceasefire. Then there were all kinds of news stories floating around saying, Israel hasn't agreed to a ceasefire, Iran hasn't agreed to a ceasefire. Then by the time I went to a bed, both Israel, a bed, my.
Jack Armstrong
Bed, by the time one is enough.
Unknown Speaker
Any bed will do. Just any bed near me. Once I went to Abed, Israel and Iran had agreed to a ceasefire.
Jack Armstrong
Yes.
Unknown Speaker
And I was reading some of the commentary on that. Ian Bremmer said on his side, he said Iran has, as an expression recently used in the Oval Office, Iran has no cards to play. So he wasn't surprised there was a ceasefire. Okay, so where are we currently as of this minute?
Jack Armstrong
I wish I could tell you in a definitive way. As of this minute. Well, the last I heard, and I'm checking again, the idea was that, look, you got operations going on, you got planes in the air, you got missiles you're launching at Israel, right? Everybody, you know, you got like 12 hours to mop things up. This was yesterday, last night. And it would seem that the mopping up has not stopped. According to the President's intended timetable. So he's pissed off about it at both parties.
Unknown Speaker
He's. He's mad at Israel and Iran.
Jack Armstrong
Yes. Yeah. In fact, he said some shockingly strong things about Israel which I thought were ill advised, but that's just me.
Unknown Speaker
Well, he. I was just watching a really interesting discussion with the Washington Post, leading analyst of this sort of stuff. And I think he's right in that Trump is a make trade, not war guy. He doesn't understand why anybody would ever want to do anything that disrupts their ability to just make money and live your life, which I understand on a certain level, it is amazing that human beings ever want to do anything other than figure out a way to, you know, just better your life. And you would think you would, no matter what you disagree on, come up with a way to figure out how are we both going to move forward and better our lives.
Jack Armstrong
Well, I think Netanyahu has to go to him and speak a language he understands. Mr. President, this problem we have with Iran and its proxies, it's like a leak, it's like a water leak around the foundation of a hotel you're building. And if you just wait till you've got the leak dealt with 90% and then you start building, you're just begging for a problem. We gotta get the leak stopped. 100%. It's gonna take a little longer.
Unknown Speaker
Well, I expect the ceasefire to happen. I could be wrong, but I expect it to happen and hold at some point. It just, it doesn't make sense to me that it wouldn't. Iran does have no cards to play. They got nothing. They've got nothing to play. Obviously, Israel wants the war to stop.
Jack Armstrong
Well, the question becomes 100%, has Israel accomplished what it thought was necessary to, you know, push off Iran's nuclearization for whatever time period they deemed as the minimum? That's the only question to me, if they still have a couple of sites to take out a couple of, you know, manufacturers of the electric motors of centrifuges or whatever it happens to be. You got to finish that. And an artificially imposed, hastily announced truce is not necessarily going to allow them to accomplish that goal. So, yeah, who knows? But Trump is annoyed.
Unknown Speaker
I know that as one old international ham and I saw on one of the channels, who's followed a lot of wars for many, many decades, said ceasefires and the ends of wars always go this way. There's always, like, last minute. It's like separating two boxers at the bell. They're each trying to get one jab and as they get away, which is horrifying if you've ever read or watched, all is quiet on the Western front. I mean the idea that they're. And this, this has happened in many wars, including that one, World War I where there are generals that want to like take one more hill. I know the ceasefire, the war is over, but I don't take one more hill. I don't care about that particular 19 year old who's going to die as I take that hill. It's just absolutely horrifying. But it is a reality, I guess.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I think it's less that than what I was describing, honestly from the Iranian side. It's just a pathetic, I mean like pitiful effort at face saving going on right now because they aren't achieving any strategic goals whatsoever by shooting their missiles about. They're just depleting their supply of missiles.
Unknown Speaker
So I'm just looking at the headline on cnn Trump, I think they both violated the ceasefire.
Jack Armstrong
Fox.
Unknown Speaker
Iranian missile barrage kills foreign Israel. They're going with at least a headline right now that doesn't suggest Israel did anything. They're both still lobbing at each other. You know, be interesting to see where this ends up. I'd like it to stop.
Jack Armstrong
I'd like all kinds of. When we've accomplished the goal. But yeah, in general, of course, Warmonger.
Unknown Speaker
Neocon, that's what we're all working with.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, you're right. Gosh, there's no answer to that argument. That's an all powerful argument.
Unknown Speaker
You win the argument working with a neocon, which is like the term fascist or what was the other one we had yesterday? That can mean anything.
Jack Armstrong
Nazi.
Unknown Speaker
Nazi means anything. Anybody you don't like for any reason. So whoever, for instance, whoever cleaned out the fridge last week and poured out my cream, clearly a Nazi. Factual Nazi neocon.
Jack Armstrong
The worst sort of Nazi neocon.
Unknown Speaker
We should start the show officially because the clip we've got is so good. It just happened a little bit ago and it shows you how mad Trump is. I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty on this. It is Tuesday, June 24, the year 2025, where Armstrong and Getty and we approve of this program.
Jack Armstrong
All right, let's begin officially then, according to FCC rules and regulations. So much to do as always. Here we go at.
Donald Trump
We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the they're doing. You understand that?
Jack Armstrong
Oh my God.
Unknown Speaker
That is the presidential news.
Jack Armstrong
Why is that leaked? That is Presidential news. Damn it.
Unknown Speaker
So I'm looking up at cnn, Israel Naran, quote, don't know what the f. Asterisk. Asterisk. K they're doing. What is the word, I wonder, for.
Jack Armstrong
Funk, I believe fork. Fork. They don't know what the fork they're doing.
Unknown Speaker
Flack with a K. That is from a guy who's been in radio his whole life standpoint, absolutely 100% justifiable to play that unbleeped, but nobody's gonna have the guts to do it. I would if I were running this place, but I'm not. Our boss would S a B, if you'll pardon expression.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. I think you can say brick, but, you know, whatever. These are uncertain times.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Don't do the other way around.
Unknown Speaker
Yes, I think he would so be. If we played it unbleeped. But no chance in hell that you could get fined by the FCC for that. The president of the United States, during a moment of wartime, just made a comment. You have to be able to air that to people on the public airwaves so the people know what the president said.
Jack Armstrong
Right. It could be argued. We know what he said. But yeah, it's ironic that we both abhor people using foul language in public. I don't think you don't have a choice whether to see it. But yeah, no news. It's absolutely defensible on first Amendment.
Unknown Speaker
I understand your point that we know what he said, but it loses so much of its sting. Yes. And the president wanted it to have a sting.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, indeed. Speaking of sting, let's not hold back, Michael. You got 40B in front of you. The president was running hot. Donald Trump coming in hot here.
Donald Trump
And I will say I think CNN ought to apologize to the pilots of the B2S. I think that MSDN code to apologize. I think these guys really, these networks and these cable networks are real losers. You really are. You're really.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, he's just getting started. Roll on, Michael, Roll on. Come on.
Donald Trump
You're gutless losers. I say that the cnn, because I watch it. I have no choice. I got to watch that garbage. It's all garbage. It's all fake news. But I think CNN is a gutless group of people. And the people that run it, nobody even knows it's been sold so many times. But the people that run it ought to be ashamed. Msdnc. A guy named Brian Roberts, he heads it. He's a disgrace. He's a weak, pathetic disgrace.
Unknown Speaker
And earlier, because I was watching this live, he called CNN is scum CNN is scum.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, unfortunate.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah. I don't know if that helped anything.
Jack Armstrong
The unique fellow, this Donald Trump, he.
Unknown Speaker
Didn'T like the reporting that Fordo may not be as damaged as they're claiming.
Jack Armstrong
Okay. All right.
Unknown Speaker
So, yeah, there's that. Well, there you go. That's, that's the whole ceasefire or not war in the Middle east story. And we'll be dipping in and out of that throughout the show with probably Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu just spoke. Okay. Asking him not to resume. Netanyahu says they're going to stop. So we'll see what happens and we'll.
Jack Armstrong
Report any minute now. We're stopping in minutes. We're starting to stop. We haven't started the end of the stopping, but we've started the beginning of the stopping, Mr. President.
Unknown Speaker
We've stopped the end of the starting is what we've done.
Jack Armstrong
Indeed.
Unknown Speaker
But you believe there will be a ceasefire like I do you think this actually will.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Unknown Speaker
And I don't mean like five years from now. I mean like today or tomorrow.
Jack Armstrong
Certainly by tomorrow. Yeah, I think so.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah. I think it'll stop here real soon. And then there's plenty of other news that we can report on a whole bunch of different fronts and Katie's got all the headlines on the way. Next we'll see what's going on in the world. Stay tuned.
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Unknown Speaker
We're on vacation next week as a lot of the America will be fourth of July. You know, landing right in kind of in the middle of the week and either taking a day or so on either side or your company has days off or whatever. I'm taking the kids to Florida where it's going to be 150 degrees and mosquitoes so thick you can't breathe, so.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Unknown Speaker
But that's what keeps the other tourists away.
Jack Armstrong
Jungle environment there for you. Just go where? Just pack loincloths. It's all you're gonna need. High cloths and flip flops.
Unknown Speaker
Maybe hide in the hotel room the entire trip until it's time to come back.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. Sounds great. We've got so much to get to. Coming up, a strong, strong defense of the constitutionality of what Trump did, but only Congress can declare. Shut up. We'll get to the reality of it. Coming up. I'm working on this headline. Katie, since you're the queen of the headlines, Bunker bombs for Iran, F bombs for cnn.
Unknown Speaker
Love it.
Jack Armstrong
Trump on the attack. It's probably a little long.
Katie Green
I think it's good. All right, we can end the headline segment now. That was it.
Unknown Speaker
That.
Jack Armstrong
Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Katie Green
Katie, Starting with the New York Times, Trump lashes out at Israel and Iran amid ceasefire violations.
Unknown Speaker
They don't know what that. What did he say? They don't. They don't know what the F they're doing. Except he said the actual words.
Jack Armstrong
I think Israel knows precisely what the F it's doing. Every time I start thinking Trump is, you know, thinking clearly and gets it, he says something like that just seems nuts.
Unknown Speaker
From Pakistan.
Donald Trump
We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the they're doing. You understand that?
Unknown Speaker
That's historic. That's a historic F bomb.
Jack Armstrong
It's the WTF doctrine. It's like the Monroe Doctrine before it, but somewhat more F bomby. Yes.
Katie Green
From Fox News, Pam Bondi confirms officials are on high alert amid concerns of Iranian sleeper cells.
Unknown Speaker
Are you worried about Iranian sleeper cells?
Jack Armstrong
Personally? No.
Unknown Speaker
I'm not either.
Jack Armstrong
I, I understand that there could be agents within the country hoping to strike, but. But the last thing in the world I would do, even if our crazy mullah is provoke some sort of terrible, terrible vengeance by the United States.
Unknown Speaker
Right.
Katie Green
From NBC. Supreme Court allows Trump to swiftly deport certain immigrants to quote third countries.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Interesting situation being badly reported by our media, as usual. But, yeah, you're Pedro from El Salvador and they won't have you back. Well, look forward to your new apartment there in Angola or wherever. Wow.
Unknown Speaker
And then. And then what do you do? You just land in a country you've never lived in. You have no. Maybe you don't speak the language. You don't know anybody there.
Jack Armstrong
Like the closing Time at many a bar. The policy is you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
Katie Green
Hey, speaking of Florida, Jack, CNN Florida did it to detain illegals in new Everglades facility dubbed the quote alligator Alcatraz.
Unknown Speaker
Wow. I'm going to the Everglades. I'm going to be there for a couple of days.
Katie Green
So yeah, there's some.
Unknown Speaker
Maybe I'll see lots of illegals. It'll make me feel at home as a Californian.
Katie Green
Yeah. There's a used airstrip that apparently they're. They said they don't have to worry about security perimeter. Securing the perimeter because there's plenty of gators for that.
Jack Armstrong
There you go.
Unknown Speaker
Gator guards.
Katie Green
Gator guards. From the Wall Street Journal, Powell reaffirms wait and see posture on rate cuts, citing a solid economy.
Unknown Speaker
There you go. So good news is bad news or the bad news is good news or something.
Katie Green
From the Washington Post, prosecutors are expected to rest their case today against Sean Combs.
Jack Armstrong
Then did his defense takes up the. Takes the ball and runs with it.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah, it could get damned interesting. Then I think from the New York.
Katie Green
Post, Hunter Biden sued over $50,000 in unpaid legal bills, including from his Delaware gun case.
Unknown Speaker
He needs to meet another weirdo at a party who's willing to pay all his bills for some reason.
Jack Armstrong
Not with the old man out of power.
Unknown Speaker
Forget it.
Jack Armstrong
The sugar daddies are no longer interested.
Joe Getty
What do you mean?
Unknown Speaker
People aren't interested in my art anymore.
Jack Armstrong
What? Give. I was getting half a million bucks a piece for these. What do you mean $35.
Unknown Speaker
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Katie Green
And finally, from the Babylon beef, Obama distraught as Trump bombs cool nuke factory that he paid for.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, wow. Ouchie. That one landed. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker
I was just reading an update. The Trump was on the phone with Netanyahu, is that right?
Jack Armstrong
Yes. Correct. Yeah. And. And what did he say to him? I was just talking about it. Split it out of my head.
Unknown Speaker
Yes. And it was big news.
Jack Armstrong
Oh. He told Netanyahu to bring back military aircraft that were on the verge of attacking Iran. Essentially turn around the planes. Getting a nuke is the last thing on Iran's mind right now.
Unknown Speaker
So Netanyahu is saying, well, I've already got planes in the air, so they'll have to fulfill their mission. And Trump? No turn him around.
Jack Armstrong
That's the way it seems, yes. According to reporters on Air Force One.
Unknown Speaker
Well, Netanyahu is going to try to squeeze as many bombings as he can out of the final moments. Before the ceasefire is ceasefire. Certainly we'll be keeping our eye on this throughout the show. Pretty interesting stuff.
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Jack Armstrong
New York Governor Kathy Hochul yesterday declared a state of emergency amid a heat wave that's expected to break 125-year-old records. Which means it's time for my favorite hobby, going down to Times Square to watch the Elmo's fate. Yeah, he's down.
Unknown Speaker
To watch the Elmo's face. Wow, that's a very Letterman like joke. So here's one of the exciting things today that I'm watching. The New York mayoral race. It's the Democratic primary, but that's basically the race because no Republican's going to win. And unbelievable turnout. Early voting crazy. Off the charts high. Mostly young people already. Huge turnout. Mostly young people. I think the freaking. He calls himself a democratic socialist. He's a socialist communist. He's downplaying his socialist, but I think that guy's going to win.
Jack Armstrong
Anti Semitic, pro Hamas Communist. Yeah, I am torn. I want to talk more about that. Part of me thinks I don't live.
Unknown Speaker
In New York, so it'll be fun.
Jack Armstrong
Well, not only that, but what's the the most effective way to discredit progressive policies? Enact them. You've got to hit bottom like Portland did. Like Seattle did. Like Chicago is in the process.
Unknown Speaker
Like San Francisco did.
Jack Armstrong
O my God. Please. Yeah, sorry. How could I leave off the City by the Bay? So a couple of interesting pieces of news in terms of the Israel, Iran, US conflict. First of all, in an exclusive, the Washington Post is reporting that in the hours after Israel launched its first devastating wave of strikes against Iran exactly a week ago, or just over a week ago, killing top military leaders and nuclear scientists, you remember that one. Israeli intelligence operatives launched a covert campaign to Intimidate senior officials, apparently trying to divide and destabilize the theocratic regime. So people who work for Israel's security services, who speak Persian, Iran's primary language, called senior Iranian officials on their cell phones and warned them that they and their wives and children would die unless they ceased supporting the ayatollah and got the hell out of Dodge.
Unknown Speaker
And they didn't quote, I can.
Jack Armstrong
Well, I don't know. Some may have, don't you think? They did quote, I can advise you now you have 12 hours to escape with your wife and child. Otherwise, you're on our list right now. An Israeli intelligence operative told a senior Iranian general close to the country's rulers. The operative then suggested that Israel could train weapons on the general and his family at any moment. Quote, we're closer to you than your own neck vein. Put this in your head. May God protect you. Yikes. The general, a member of Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was told he had 12 hours to make a video disassociating himself from the Iranian government. How should I send it to you? The general replies, I'll send you a telegram. ID operative says send it. Unclear whether it was made or sent or anything like that. Boy, all these guys. We got a bomb pointed at your head right now. You got a cute little kid, don't you? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Do the right thing. See ya.
Unknown Speaker
Am I right? Ayatollah has not been seen in quite a while.
Jack Armstrong
A couple of weeks, from what I understand. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker
So he could be gone.
Jack Armstrong
I'd read one report that he. You mean, like, he ran for his life? Gone?
Unknown Speaker
Surely that news would break, right? I mean, somebody would try to take over the country or.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, you would think. Yeah. I just assume he's in hiding. I mean, he's older than Joe Biden, and I'd seen one report where they suggested that he was acting and speaking erratically, and people weren't sure if he had his marbles, but don't know. So, on a completely different topic, John Yu, who was a Pentagon lawyer in the Bush administration, among other things, senior fellow at various places, Professor Law, UC Burke.
Unknown Speaker
He became a big deal around the torture stuff, I think.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, that is correct. Not exactly a shining place on his resume, in my opinion, but he is a highly respected constitutional scholar. But anyway, he's talking about. Well, he says Trump's strike on Iran was constitutional. The president acted to protect the nation's security within the powers granted to his office by the Constitution. And he goes into some of the caterwauling about it. Bernie Sanders, AOC I just, I just.
Unknown Speaker
Saw her on cable news talking about impeachment.
Jack Armstrong
Ro Khanna, Democratic California, who's trying to raise his profile. He has a sniff of the Oval Office. He immediately voted. He demanded the Congress vote on his newly introduced War Powers Resolution, quote, to prevent America from being dragged into another endless Middle east war.
Unknown Speaker
An endless war that may have ended.
Jack Armstrong
An hour ago, right after like eight hours of our involvement. Uh, well, flight time, 37 hours anyway. And then on the isolationist, right, you got Thomas Massey griping about it. Warren Davidson of Ohio, Marjorie Taylor Green came hardcore. But then you. And this is the part I really found interesting. He gets into some of the Federalist Papers in which Alexander Hamilton explained.
Unknown Speaker
Alexander Hamilton.
Jack Armstrong
It gives the President the primary constitutional duty of, quote, protecting the community against foreign attacks. And the founders vested these powers in the President precisely because only a single man could act, quote, with sufficient energy in the executive to respond to the challenges of foreign, national, national security, decision, activity, secrecy and dispatch, meaning speed, will generally characterize the proceedings of one man. Hamilton wrote in the federal 74. Hamilton was even more explicit. Of all the cares or concerns of the government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand. Blah, blah, blah. Now, how that relates to the declaration of war, I don't know, because as you were discussing yesterday, Jack, we have. Congress has declared war five times in our nation's history. Presidents have committed military forces to combat abroad 130 plus times. And here's the historical part I found extra interesting.
Unknown Speaker
Well, we didn't declare war in Vietnam. Right. Or Korea.
Jack Armstrong
It was a police action. Yes.
Unknown Speaker
So two giant wars with many Americans dead, and we have have huge memorials to them in Washington D.C. were not.
Jack Armstrong
Declared wars by Congress and we call them wars.
Unknown Speaker
Right? Well, they look a lot like a war with the whole guns and dying thing.
Jack Armstrong
All right. Hamilton's defensive executive power and war has held sway for more than two centuries and it has had little. Well, what does he say? With little variation, the President takes the lead in deciding when to initiate armed conflict, with Congress exercising a check through its sole power of the purse. So here's the history. The practice extends at least as far back in the Korean War. In cases of smaller conflicts, the practice can be traced to the very first administrations. George Washington conducted the Indian wars without a declaration. Thomas Jefferson fought the Barbary Pirates on his own authority. That's a pretty good parallel to what Trump is doing. Abraham Lincoln raised an army and Navy and Launched them against the south without calling Congress into session. FDR ordered escorts for British convoys, aid to the Allies attacks on German submarines. In the face of Congress's neutrality acts in the wake of the Vietnam War, political leaders adopted a radical academic theory that only Congress could authorize any sort of war. And they enacted the War Powers Resolution over the veto of a weakened Nixon. It required the President to receive congressional approval for any use of military force abroad and if they do not get it, to pull troops out after 60 days. And your Teds, Kennedy and Joe's Biden claim that the Constitution's war powers clause forbade Republican presidents from waging war without congressional permission. And then they go through the history of plenty of Democratic presidents doing that very thing and nobody said a word. Presidents have refused to accept the legality of the War powers Resolution of 1973, and neither Congress nor the courts have shown any interest in enforcing it. Ford, Carty, Carter, Reagan, all engaged in several military actions without congressional assent. Then you got HW and then W. Clinton interventions in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, the Middle east, most significantly Kosovo. Part of it, none of which were authorized by Congress.
Unknown Speaker
Part of it, A lot of it, maybe practically all of it. It is because the panty waisted, weak willed. I shouldn't say panty wasted because that, that, that, that, that, that, that's implying what? Women wear panties and women are weak. And I shouldn't because that's not true when it comes to like taking votes or whatnot.
Jack Armstrong
So we learned a couple of weeks ago that it was actually a reference to a, a small child's award.
Unknown Speaker
Okay, then I'll go back to panty wasted. How about lily liver? Does that unfair to people with a who, who drink too much? Cirrhosis?
Jack Armstrong
Light purple livers? No. I don't know.
Unknown Speaker
Anyway, it's because the weak, weak, cowardly Congress people don't want to have their name attached to a vote for or against any wars because they've seen how it can get used against you in future elections if you're wrong on the wrong side of it. I mean, how many politicians, including Ted Cruz just the other day with Tucker Carlson, still have to talk about their vote on Iraq, whether they voted for it or against it. And it gets drug out and held up so they don't want to have to. They don't want their name attached to any votes, which is incredibly weak, but by doing that, they just let the commander in chief do whatever the hell they want. Then they'll take all the credit or the blame, but then at least me In Congress, I don't have to risk my vote.
Jack Armstrong
It's time for a John Kennedy like figure to not write a book because Kennedy didn't write profiles. Encourage. Not write a book entitled Profiles and Cowardice. And really hammer.
Unknown Speaker
That'd be great.
Jack Armstrong
Chicken Beaches of Congress for their. Their unwillingness to take a stand on.
Unknown Speaker
Anything with their child's panties around their waist.
Jack Armstrong
Yes.
Unknown Speaker
Litters that are lily colored.
Jack Armstrong
I would, you know, I'd like to go into even more detail about the, the War powers resolution in 1973. But again, I think the key sentence is that all every single president of both parties has said. Yeah, that's nice. And neither Congress nor the courts have decided to do anything about it. So what are we talking about?
Unknown Speaker
Well, I can tell you a couple of things. We're talking about. We're talking about fundraising and your constituents seeing that you're talking impeachment against Trump and you send them a check.
Jack Armstrong
Check.
Unknown Speaker
They ask for a check and you send it to them. So that's part of it.
Jack Armstrong
Truth bomb. Run for your lives. Jack is dropping massive ordinance truth bombs.
Unknown Speaker
There should be a ceasefire. I just saw John Crap penetrating truth bombs. I just saw John Fetterman on Fox saying impeachment is going nowhere. It doesn't need to go anywhere. They just want to go through the process and get all the credit for trying. Because we live in a new age of performative politics.
Jack Armstrong
You ask your pollster, if I announce an impeachment resolution, how many sad sacks will kick me 25 bucks through the Internet? Well, sir, we would believe that'll be roughly 2% of your district or 1500 people. Really? Okay, great. I'll, I'll write it up this afternoon.
Unknown Speaker
Right, exactly. Um, I'm becoming enraged about a local skateboard park story that I've seen in the news today that I think is worth sharing with everybody because it's emblematic of a certain mindset.
Jack Armstrong
Love it.
Unknown Speaker
We've got Mailbag on the way. Was the other story that I want to get to. I teased it a little bit ago right at the beginning. Oh, yeah, the New York mayoral race. If you don't know this communist who's going to end up being the mayor of New York, it's worth taking a look at him. What a story. What a thing to watch. As Joe says, it's going to be good for the rest of the country to watch a communist run the biggest city in the country and get all the. The news attention as it fails and fails and fails and people get angrier and angrier. And angrier career.
Jack Armstrong
New York has got to stop electing morons mayor or they will suffer for it. And I think they're about to.
Unknown Speaker
This guy is Wolf. He is. Well, we'll explain that later. Mailbag on the way.
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Jack Armstrong
The safety obsessed. They make me insane.
Unknown Speaker
They make me so crazy. And I'm so agitated about this local skate park situation that I've seen play out across the country. Actually, we'll talk about that later in the show.
Jack Armstrong
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day from a gentleman who celebrated his 77th birthday yesterday. And he should be a hero to young children, particularly black children all across America. That's Clarence Thomas. But he's been so denigrated and bad mouthed by the liberal media. He's not. But he was talking. He gave a speech not too long ago about the importance of standing up for truth, even if you're the only one doing so. And here's the quote. You can be in the middle of a hurricane or you can be on a calm day. North is still north. You could be in a thunderstorm. North is still north. People can yell at you. North is still north. North. It doesn't change fundamental things. And in this business, right is still right even if you stand by yourself.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah, different. Different version of 2 +2 equals 4 no matter what anybody else says.
Jack Armstrong
Right? Exactly. Well said, Clarence. And happy birthday, sir. Mailbag, got a couple more later in the week from Clarence Thomas. Drop us a Note mailbag@armstrongandgetti.com. dirk's a German rights. It was a moment mostly peaceful bombing. See, Iran is a nation of over 600,000 square miles. The US bombed three small nuclear sites to protest Iran's nuclear ambitions. It was clearly a mostly peaceful protest.
Unknown Speaker
That's fantastic.
Jack Armstrong
Well done, Dirk.
Unknown Speaker
How come nobody's commenting on the rest of Iran? The vast 99% of Iran that was untouched by bombs?
Jack Armstrong
Iran's a very big country. It was just downtown Nukeville that had the problem. Problems. Well played, Dirk. Don writes if President Trump wants Iranian women's supportive regime change, he could. She should offer swapping their burkas and other oppressive head coverings for red make around. Great again ball caps. Wow. Just ship cases of those over to Iran. Yeah, my hair's covered with this troovy red hat I just got. Take that, Secret police. Of course, they'd probably get the hell beat out of him for that.
Unknown Speaker
And then you'd be tortured and then executed.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Let's see why I am not stressed out by Steve and Everett Washington. Seems to me that two very important metrics should be considered whether or not we're at peace with the regional conflicts in the Middle East. One, did oil prices increase or decrease? It decreased significantly. More than 10 bucks a barrel. Two, did the Dow Jones increase or don't look at the Dow, look at the S&P 500. Did the S and P increase or decrease? It increased the better part of 1%. I'm not one to engage in industrial espionage, but I trust the fact that Wall street has those resources. If the markets seem to think things have calmed down, I'm inclined to agree with them.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah. Up again today on the ceasefire talks, although it might have more to do with the Fed chair and what he said about interest rates.
Jack Armstrong
I was just reading about how uncertainty affects hiring and investment in business, and I find myself wondering whether at some point and we become just more comfortable with a higher level of volatility, uncertainty as a culture, we better get used to.
Unknown Speaker
We better get used to it or we're going to go crazy.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Paolo with an interesting topic. It looks like Iran has at least a fly in the ointment of its nuclear ambitions. It's probably only a bump in the road for them. But it's not just Iran and nukes we have to worry about. The development of technology and learning generally is snowballing. And eventually just about everybody will have the capacity to do great harm. May take a while, I hope. Very long while, but it's inevitable. How can we avoid it except by our destruction or some sort of great reset that sets us back centuries. We'll have to hope that we get a lot wiser before our knowledge progresses to the point where the power to destroy ourselves is ubiquitous and available to just about everyone. Yeah, that's true. Let's see, JT in Livermore makes the point that none of the former presidents have come out and said nice job Donald J. Getting, you know, taking the nuclear capabilities away from Iraq.
Unknown Speaker
That that's a decent point considering I saw a montage of Clinton, Obama, Biden, all saying Iran will never get a.
Jack Armstrong
Nuclear weapon right, and doing very little.
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Armstrong & Getty On Demand: "He's Going To 'S' a 'B'" – Episode Summary
Release Date: June 24, 2025
Host: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Produced by: iHeartPodcasts
In the June 24, 2025 episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand, hosts Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty delve deep into the tumultuous geopolitical landscape surrounding the recent ceasefire announcements involving the United States, Israel, and Iran. The episode, titled "He's Going To 'S' a 'B'," navigates through heated political discourse, constitutional debates, and the intricate dance of international diplomacy, all while maintaining the show's signature blend of humor and critical analysis.
The episode opens with a critical exploration of President Donald Trump's unexpected announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Hosts dissect the chaotic aftermath, highlighting conflicting reports and the President's visibly frustrated stance.
Jack Armstrong [05:09]:
"As of this minute... it seems that the mopping up has not stopped. According to the President's intended timetable, he's pissed off about it at both parties."
(Timestamp: 05:09)
The hosts discuss the intricacies of whether Israel achieved its strategic objectives and the implications of an "artificially imposed" truce. They emphasize the uncertainty surrounding the longevity and effectiveness of the ceasefire.
Joe Getty [07:08]:
"He was talking about how ceases and ends of wars always go... trying to get one last jab... Horrifying reality."
(Timestamp: 07:08)
This segment underscores the cyclical nature of conflicts and the challenges in achieving lasting peace, drawing parallels with historical ceasefires.
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to analyzing President Trump's contentious remarks about the ceasefire, particularly his unfiltered language and its broadcast implications.
Unknown Speaker [10:16]:
"They don't know what the f. Asterisk. Asterisk. K they're doing."
(Timestamp: 10:16)
The hosts debate the balance between adhering to FCC regulations and the necessity of transparent communication during critical times. They ponder the impact of censored versus uncensored broadcasts on public perception.
Jack Armstrong [11:04]:
"You have to be able to air that to people on the public airwaves so the people know what the president said."
(Timestamp: 11:04)
A pivotal segment involves a detailed legal discussion on the constitutionality of President Trump's actions concerning the Iran ceasefire, featuring insights from constitutional scholar John Yoo.
Jack Armstrong [30:28]:
"Alexander Hamilton explained... the President has the primary constitutional duty of protecting the community against foreign attacks."
(Timestamp: 30:28)
The hosts trace the historical precedence of presidential war powers, referencing the Federalist Papers and various military engagements where Congress did not formally declare war. They critically assess the War Powers Resolution and its practical enforcement (or lack thereof).
Unknown Speaker [37:08]:
"Congress people don't want to have their name attached to any votes, which is incredibly weak..."
(Timestamp: 37:08)
This discussion highlights the tension between executive authority and legislative oversight, questioning the effectiveness of existing checks and balances in modern warfare scenarios.
Shifting focus to domestic politics, Armstrong and Getty analyze the New York mayoral race, expressing skepticism about the election of progressive candidates.
Unknown Speaker [27:14]:
"He's a socialist, communist. He's downplaying his socialist, but I think that guy's going to win."
(Timestamp: 27:14)
The hosts critique the potential implications of electing a mayor with strong progressive ties, forecasting challenges and instability based on current political climates in other major cities.
Engaging with their audience, Armstrong and Getty address listener questions and comments, further elaborating on their stances regarding international conflicts and domestic policies.
Jack Armstrong [43:05]:
"You can be in the middle of a hurricane or you can be on a calm day. North is still north... Right is still right even if you stand by yourself."
(Timestamp: 43:05)
This segment features a quote from Justice Clarence Thomas, emphasizing the importance of steadfast principles amidst chaos and opposition.
Jack Armstrong [05:09]:
"I wish I could tell you in a definitive way. As of this minute..."
(Timestamp: 05:09)
Unknown Speaker [10:16]:
"They don't know what the f. Asterisk. Asterisk. K they're doing."
(Timestamp: 10:16)
Jack Armstrong [30:28]:
"Alexander Hamilton explained... the President has the primary constitutional duty of protecting the community against foreign attacks."
(Timestamp: 30:28)
Unknown Speaker [27:14]:
"He's a socialist, communist. He's downplaying his socialist, but I think that guy's going to win."
(Timestamp: 27:14)
Jack Armstrong [43:05]:
"Right is still right even if you stand by yourself."
(Timestamp: 43:05)
Throughout the episode, Armstrong and Getty maintain a critical stance on the current administration's handling of international negotiations and constitutional authority. They argue for stronger legislative oversight and express concern over the increasingly polarized political environment. The hosts advocate for transparency, accountability, and principled leadership both domestically and on the global stage.
By intertwining historical context with present-day analysis, the episode underscores the complexities of modern geopolitics and the enduring challenges of maintaining constitutional integrity in times of crisis.
"He's Going To 'S' a 'B'" offers listeners a comprehensive examination of the delicate balance between executive action and legislative oversight in the realm of international conflict. Armstrong and Getty's insightful commentary provides a platform for understanding the multifaceted nature of political decision-making and its far-reaching consequences.
For those seeking a nuanced perspective on contemporary political issues, this episode serves as an enlightening and thought-provoking listen.
For more detailed discussions and insights, listeners are encouraged to tune into the full episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand.