Kaska Reacts to Slush Fund Scandal

Summary

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Episode: Casca Reacts to Slush Fund Scandal
Date: June 5, 2026
Host: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This jam-packed Friday episode dives into the recent Slush Fund Scandal, while riffing on the spectacle of modern American politics, Shakespearean drama in Washington, and headline news ranging from job numbers to gnarly Nazi tattoos. The hosts oscillate between world-weary cynicism about current affairs and sharp, often hilarious takes on the personalities in the political arena. Historic perspective, especially with D-Day quotes, rounds out an episode with sarcasm, wit, and surprising depth.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Political Fatigue and Shakespearean Parallels (02:44 – 06:30)

• Show’s Literary Title: Joe Getty quips that the episode’s title, Casca Reacts to Slush Fund Scandal, is a Shakespeare reference—Casca being the first to stab Caesar. He uses this as a metaphor for Trump's recent "political stabbings."
  • “Caesar Trump has been stabbed and the knives are coming out is my contention.” (03:16 - Joe Getty)
• Jack’s Disillusionment with Political Discourse: Jack voices boredom and fatigue with repetitive, performative politics, expressing a desire to dive into Shakespeare to escape the monotony.
  • “I am bored to death of it. It’s the same freaking thing every day... How do you get up there every day for 50 and pretend you care about this crap and say the exact same thing over and over?” (04:03 - Jack Armstrong)
• Joe’s Critique: Joe observes that Congress has become pure performance, with little substantive legislation.
  • “Now it’s just performance. There is virtually nothing happening legislatively.” (05:29 - Joe Getty)

2. Media Predictability and “Nazi Creep” Scandal (06:32 – 08:42)

• Media Coverage Game: Jack jokes about guessing what Fox or MSNBC will put onscreen: Fox was showing Platner’s Nazi tattoo, MSNBC showing Trump allegedly asleep in a meeting.
  • “I turned around, I looked up at Fox, and they've got…Platner’s bare chest with his Nazi tattoo up on the screen.” (06:53 - Jack Armstrong)
• Platner Controversy: Both hosts and news coverage discuss Platner, a political candidate, and his Nazi tattoo, plus related allegations of past misbehavior toward women.

3. Headlines & News Roundup with Heather Myers (16:15 – 22:20)

Key Stories Covered:

• Slush Fund Bill & Immigration Vote: Congress passes a major immigration bill but controversy arises over Trump’s “slush fund,” which senators failed to permanently ban.
  • “Yeah, the slush fund is not dead yet…It could reappear.” (16:44 - Joe Getty)
• Global Events: Zelensky proposes direct talks with Putin (17:02), leading to discussion of the deep animosity between the two leaders and the logistical nightmares such a meeting would entail.
• State & National News: California’s tight election, job growth headlines, the rising cost of postage, Kennedy Center removing Trump’s name, and younger people using chatbots for mental health.
  • Memorable side-moment: Heather Myers: "Mom found moving worms and parasites in daughter's SpaghettiOs." (20:12)
• Satirical Headlines: From the Babylon Bee—“Nation shocked as candidate with Nazi tattoo turns out to be total scumbag.” (20:34 - read by Heather Myers)

4. Debate Over Platner Allegations and Media Coverage (20:46 – 22:14)

• Disagreement Over Allegations: Jack finds the media’s exposé on Platner somewhat shallow (dating misbehavior, not returning calls), while Joe insists some accounts are more serious (bruising, locked in a room).
  • “He didn’t call somebody back when he was dating them…this is your big expose?” (21:17 - Jack Armstrong)
  • “She—he grabbed her hard enough to bruise her and locked her in a room…” (21:06 - Joe Getty)
• Self-Deprecating Banter: Joe jokingly sums up, “Let’s go ahead and title this section of the podcast Jack Defends Nazi. I’m sorry, Misogynist Nazi. Wow.” (21:35)

5. Other Headlines and Sharp Asides (15:29, 25:03, 26:04)

• Trump at Knicks Game: Trump to attend a Knicks game, where he expects boos and outrageously priced tickets.
• Kamala Harris vs. Gavin Newsom: Summer political drama brewing over a possible Harris-Newsom showdown for 2028, with the hosts speculating on their mutual contempt.
  • “Do these people or do these people not clearly hate each other? And they do.” (25:58 - Joe Getty)
• Modern Political Credentials: Armstrong and Getty ridicule how business or TV credentials are minimized if the candidate is a Republican, while Democrats with obscure government posts are praised as “presidential.”

6. Shakespeare References and Stabbing Trump Metaphor (30:19 – 38:03)

• Wounded Bear Caucus: Joe Getty explains his continued references to Shakespeare and the “stabbings of Trump”—noting a new openness among officials to criticize Trump post-primary or when retiring.
  • “And how they're now openly expressing their dislike, contempt, disagreements with Trump in a way that Was much more reserved a month ago.” (30:19 - Joe Getty)
• Job Appointments and Loyalty: Kim Strassel’s Wall Street Journal piece is discussed, criticizing Trump’s focus on hiring loyalists over qualified appointees.
  • “All Trump is hiring is human footstools at this point, and some of them embarrassingly unqualified.” (33:04 - Joe Getty)

7. Justice, Books, and Lawfare (33:04 – 35:30)

• John Bolton Plea Deal: The Trump administration’s heavy-handed prosecution against John Bolton over his critical book is described as “obscene,” especially compared to lighter penalties for apparently greater violations by others.
  • *“President Trump may hate being the target of lawfare, but he sure knows how to wield it against anyone who crosses him…” (Editorial quoted at 34:48 - Joe Getty)

8. D-Day Reflections—History and Leadership (40:57 – 46:31)

• D-Day Anniversary: Joe reads out Eisenhower’s D-Day address and his pre-written “failure speech.”
  • “If any blame or fault attends to the attempt, it is mine alone. That's a man. That's the way a man runs his life.” (44:21 - Joe Getty)
• Personal Reflections: Big operation stats, casualties, and reverence for Eisenhower’s sense of responsibility. Jack highly recommends the WWII Museum’s D-Day exhibit in New Orleans.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Performative Politics:

  • “There used to be a pretty significant performative edge to the actual business of legislation. Now it's just performance.” (05:29 – Joe Getty)

• On Predictability in News:

  • “I should turn my back to MSNBC and Fox and try to guess what they've got on the screen…” (06:39 – Jack Armstrong)

• On Political Candidates’ Past Behavior:

  • “Let’s go ahead and title this section of the podcast Jack Defends Nazi. I’m sorry, Misogynist Nazi. Wow. Wow.” (21:35 – Joe Getty)

• On Loyalty Over Qualifications:

  • “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.” (31:44 – Joe Getty quoting Kim Strassel)

• On D-Day and Leadership:

  • “If any blame or fault attends to the attempt, it is mine alone. That's a man. That's the way a man runs his life.” (44:21 – Joe Getty)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 02:44 – Episode opening, Shakespeare references and show fatigue
• 06:30 – Media coverage of Platner’s Nazi tattoo, Trump “dozing”
• 16:19 – News roundup with Heather Myers (Slush Fund Scandal, global news, postage prices, Kennedy Center)
• 20:34 – Babylon Bee/Nazi tattoo, Platner allegations debate
• 25:03 – Job numbers and Harris-Newsom rivalry
• 30:19 – Wounded Bear Caucus and anti-Trump sentiment
• 33:04 – Trump loyalty and appointee qualifications
• 34:48 – Trump vs. Bolton legal battle
• 40:57 – D-Day anniversary reflections and Eisenhower’s words

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Tone and Style

• Language: Conversational, sharp, sardonic, often self-deprecating.
• Balance: Mix of serious analysis, historic context, comedic banter, and media criticism.
• Style: “Smart guys with a low tolerance for B.S.”—incisive, skeptical, but occasionally heartfelt (especially with D-Day content).

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For Listeners:

This episode is a perfect capsule of Armstrong & Getty’s blend of politics, wit, cultural commentary, and irreverence. From Shakespeare to Nazi tattoos, from D-Day to the latest Trump drama, the show careens between history and headline with both skepticism and genuine curiosity—always ready to poke fun at the spectacle, even as they dig into what really matters.

Transcript

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[Jack Armstrong]

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center,

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Enough.

[Joe Getty]

Here's.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's Friday live from Studio C. Si, senor. A dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound and headed into the weekend. We are toiling under the title of

[Joe Getty]

the show my most literary title ever.

[Jack Armstrong]

Fantastic.

[Joe Getty]

Casca Reacts a slush fund scandal. Of course. Jack, you recognize Casca in Julius Caesar. I'm sorry? In William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. He was the first to stab Caesar.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay. Did not remember that.

[Joe Getty]

Caesar Trump has been stabbed and the knives are coming out is my contention. Alternate title if you prefer something less obscure. Platner is a Nazi creep. And the party that calls everybody a Nazi and started hashtag metoo is standing by him.

[Jack Armstrong]

Cool. It's funny you break up Shakespeare because I'm like on the 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 going to make that my next mission. Having just finished Ulysses almost all the way through the second time, I'm going to go on a Shakespeare kick. 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 read on this stuff. So. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

I'm admiring your intellectual explorations.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, I got to. I'm just so bored with all this politics crap. I am bored to death of it. I have. 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 listening to Chuck Schumer on the floor after last night. What the Republicans just showed us is they have no. And I thought, how do you people do this for 50 years? You politicians? How do you get on both sides exactly the same thing? How do you get up there every day for 50 and pretend you care about this crap and say the exact same thing over and over again? I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

Why would they do it? Chuck 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.

[Jack Armstrong]

And then the Republicans. And then the Republicans shake it up and say the same thing. Here is the I see previous comments from the last 30 years and then sit down.

[Joe Getty]

Right. The usual stuff about radicals and open borders and balancing the budget. And I'll not waste any more of your time.

[Jack Armstrong]

Now is. Is this just a product of 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 just sniping behind the scenes. And then some people get a kick out of talking about the sniping as if it's relevant, but it usually isn't.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, there used to be a pretty significant performative edge to the actual business of legislation. Now it's just performance. There is virtually nothing happening legislatively, although they did pass a big bill financing border security. But, yeah, the work of Congress has become the showmanship.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I guess. And it's not even very good showmanship. That's the problem.

[Joe Getty]

It's not good entertainment.

[Jack Armstrong]

And then it's entertainment, though, so that they get to. 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 opera. Now, that didn't used to be true either, that that was everybody's number one show that they followed was freaking presidential politics.

[Joe Getty]

Right, Right. Well, see, I would never traffic in the kind of droning Schumer isms that you're referring to. What I am bringing politically today is fascinating and revealing turning points in American history. So you're in good hands.

[Jack Armstrong]

Both fascinating and revealing.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah. I wouldn't merely fascinate you. That's child's play for a man like me. I must also reveal I should play

[Jack Armstrong]

a game with myself or maybe on the air, where because we got TVs on in the studio, I should turn my back to MSNBC and Fox and try to guess what they've got on the screen and then turn around and see if I'm right.

[Joe Getty]

Like today. I feel like I could have guessed.

[Jack Armstrong]

I turned around, I looked up at Fox, and they've got what's his name, Platner's bare chest with his Nazi tattoo up on the screen.

[Joe Getty]

Yep.

[Jack Armstrong]

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 in those meetings? Looks.

[Joe Getty]

I don't think it's impossible.

[Jack Armstrong]

Looks 100%. At least the one from yesterday looks 100% like his, which doesn't really bother me that much.

[Joe Getty]

I'd like to doze off right now. I'm staying up too late watching sports. Damn it.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think it was his energy guy with the cool hair, the billionaire from North Dakota. He was. He was going on and on about shale or something like that. You know, middle of the day, maybe a Little hot in the Oval Office. Had a big lunch. I can see, I could see snoozing just a little bit there, right?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. Oh, God, not shale again.

[Jack Armstrong]

I can remember, 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 social studies or something like that, and it was hot in the room because, you know, the, the heat of the spring and summer was starting to come, they didn't run the air conditioner that much. So it's hot in there and that person's droning on about something, something, something. Bueller. Anyone? Bueller. And just, just. Oh, My head weighed 8,000 pounds.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, I know. You could have drifted off in a second.

[Jack Armstrong]

I know.

[Joe Getty]

Like one second if you, you know, permitted yourself.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I was never the kind of guy that could do what some of the other people did who just flat out laid their heads down on the desk and went to sleep. You know, you weren't trying to hide it at all. I could, I just never could be that person.

[Joe Getty]

I think I probably did that once or twice.

[Jack Armstrong]

I know I didn't. Looking back on it, I wish I would have. Like I've said many times, I wish I'd have skipped school once. I never did one time ever.

[Joe Getty]

Neither did I.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

Should have walked a major scandal in

[Jack Armstrong]

my house and mine because, because I know this now as a parent who has high schoolers, you don't, you don't want to, you know, start down a path and you think if they, if your kids get skip school, you think it's going to be a lifetime of, of, of lack of responsibility and all that sort of stuff. That's what you're worried about. But looking back on it when everything's turned out, it seems like had one time on a nice day when everybody went to the lake or something. I should have done that once in my life.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. 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.

[Jack Armstrong]

But you got to admit there's a different feeling if you're doing something naughty. That's a different feeling.

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[Joe Getty]

Oh, please. The forbidden fruit.

[Jack Armstrong]

Exactly.

[Joe Getty]

So yummy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, so yummy. Should have done it once, but you know, what are you going to do? 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. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Friday, June 5, the year 2026, where Armstrong and getting. We approve of this program.

[Joe Getty]

Let's begin then, officially, according to FCC rules and regulations. Here we go. At Mark on the view, Dr. Jill asserted that Joe would have beaten Trump in 2024. Not to the White House, to the white light. Oh.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, boy. Did not see that coming.

[Jack Armstrong]

Ah, that's a great joke.

[Joe Getty]

That's pretty good joke.

[Jack Armstrong]

I like that a lot. Yesterday was my sophomore, his last day of school. So are you officially a junior once you.

[Joe Getty]

You're a rising junior?

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm not going to use that term. That's not going to happen. Why not? Anyway, so it was his last day of sophomore year and he went over to a friend's house after school and I went to pick them up last night. And man, the smiles on their faces. Just, just the happiness that was exuding from them. 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. They were so happy.

[Joe Getty]

Jack. Sophomore. From the Greek sophos meaning wise and moros meaning fool.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay.

[Joe Getty]

How about that, huh?

[Jack Armstrong]

I was mostly then what?

[Joe Getty]

I've quoted Shakespeare and ancient Greece.

[Jack Armstrong]

You're bringing it today.

[Joe Getty]

Oh. But unfortunately that's all I got. That's it.

[Jack Armstrong]

What's junior mean? Just less than senior.

[Joe Getty]

It means you're. Yes. Younger than a senior, but older than a sophomore. From the ancient Greek sophos meaning wise. Oh, I. I did that one.

[Jack Armstrong]

Do you have any idea where freshman comes from?

[Joe Getty]

I think it's self evident, isn't it?

[Jack Armstrong]

Fresh men.

[Joe Getty]

It's like fresh.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, Gotcha.

[Joe Getty]

Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Why they had to work a little Greek in just for year two, I have no idea.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. They don't teach them that or anything else. And I think it was my favorite

[Joe Getty]

professor in college, Ira H. Carmen, who introduced me to that brilliant man. Brilliant.

[Jack Armstrong]

Fantastic. And that stuck in your head.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know why I thought.

[Joe Getty]

I've been. I've been hearing this word my entire life and it never occurred to me to ask what it means other than second year.

[Jack Armstrong]

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.

[Joe Getty]

And I do want to get into the stabbings of Trump. It is an open season now on people who have been grumbling about Trump to now just say it openly. The tide is turned.

[Jack Armstrong]

You think 100 we've heard this a few times over 15 years.

[Joe Getty]

If you were a junior like me and not a sophomore from the ancient Greek Sophos lies, you would know this already.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, and we've got our headlines with Heather Myers next. Stay here.

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[Jack Armstrong]

I hope this doesn't steal a headline from Heather, but Trump said he's going to go to at least one home Knicks game, which would be pretty big. The president of Madison Square Garden, I assume to an arena full of booze. I don't know. Probably, though.

[Joe Getty]

Top ticket price documented so far for the first Knicks game in New York, $176,000.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's a lot.

[Joe Getty]

Nosebleeds are going for high thousands. High four figures.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. And the other day they said they expect your Tim Chalamet seats to maybe be in seven figures. That front row for all the stars. Anyway, resumes tonight in San Antonio game two.

[Joe Getty]

Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Heather Myers. Heather, take it away.

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Happy Friday, Jack.

[Heather Myers]

Joe, good morning to you. Let's find out how the networks are covering the news, starting with cnn. Senate passes massive immigration bill in big in for Trump from Ms. Now Senate Republicans fall in line with Trump and pass reconciliation bill. And from the Associated press, Senate. Okay. $70 billion immigration bill after rejecting efforts to permanently ban Trump's settlement fund.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, the slush fund is not dead yet. And Trump the other day said, I don't know if it's dead. I gotta ask my lawyers. So it could reappear.

[Jack Armstrong]

Frankenstein like. Surely not.

[Heather Myers]

From the BBC this morning, Zelensky proposes direct meeting with Putin to end war.

[Jack Armstrong]

I saw that. I was just reading in Mark Halperin's newsletter about the animosity between Putin and Zelinsky is now part of the problem of getting any end to this war. They hate each other so much.

[Joe Getty]

I have no doubt it's far from unanimous, but there are some serious Russian heavyweights who are now saying, we gotta end this, can't win it. It's too costly. We've gotta end it. Interesting developments.

[Heather Myers]

Could you imagine after all of this, the two of them meet face to face?

[Jack Armstrong]

I can't imagine how that would go down. I don't know how you could secure the safety on either side. Where you could have something there where they both feel like they're not gonna get snatched or killed. I don't know what that would look like.

[Joe Getty]

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.

[Heather Myers]

From the L A Times this morning, California election results. Ramon makes gains, but Spencer Pratt remains ahead at L. A mayor race.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, there's still way too many votes out to predict anything.

[Heather Myers]

And they say 64% they assume are in right now. From NBC News, U.S. added 172,000 jobs in May even as inflation squeezes consumers

[Jack Armstrong]

once again adding lots of jobs in the health care sector. How do we add so many tens of thousands of jobs in health care every month?

[Joe Getty]

Government and government.

[Heather Myers]

From cnn, Kennedy center orders staff to remove Trump's name.

[Jack Armstrong]

All right, there's a story I haven't been following.

[Joe Getty]

Also, you've missed a fascinating development.

[Jack Armstrong]

Then Trump putting his name on the Kennedy center and then the, the artsy fartsy crowd just being up in arms over it. All right, whatever.

[Heather Myers]

From Newsmax, 20% of young people use a chat bots for mental health advice.

[Jack Armstrong]

Only 20% would be my response. I'm surprised it's not higher.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, do it more. They're pretty good at it. Quad, especially

[Heather Myers]

from News Nation, US sps raising stamp prices again.

[Jack Armstrong]

I buy the Forever stamps so that I don't have to get into that dangerous situation of being a penny or two short in a world without pennies.

[Joe Getty]

Right, right. Indeed. Wise.

[Heather Myers]

July 12th, they go up again now to 82 cents.

[Jack Armstrong]

Whoa. I was about to say we should have a, a guess what a stamp cost because I, I would have missed by 40 cents. Really? I think so, yeah. I don't remember the last time I bought a stand. I always buy the Forever, so I had no idea. They're up to 82 cents.

[Heather Myers]

Okay, we should have a poll on when stamps will reach a$, to mail a letter.

[Jack Armstrong]

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 much.

[Joe Getty]

I'm not sure. Yeah, I wouldn't have said $0.40, but I have no idea what a stamp was. Zero idea. I'd have come off like George Bush senior at the scanner there at the supermarket.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, look at that.

[Joe Getty]

Well, my wife runs that department.

[Heather Myers]

From NBC News, this morning, mom found moving worms and parasites in daughter's SpaghettiOs.

[Jack Armstrong]

There you go. It's probably that blood sucking worm, the screw fly.

[Joe Getty]

The screw worm. Yeah. Yeah, gross. And she was unhappy with that, I take it from your tone.

[Heather Myers]

Yeah, there's a lawsuit as you can imagine.

[Joe Getty]

Oh yes.

[Heather Myers]

From the Babylon Bee. This morning nation shocked as candidate with Nazi tattoo turns out to be total scumbag.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, that's pretty good.

[Bethenny Frankel]

I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

The New York Times had a heck of a eye grabbing headline about three women come forward to document just how awful that guy is. And their stories were not much. I mean he ain't a great guy to date date, but it wasn't, wasn't much to it.

[Joe Getty]

Well, I'm not sure we saw the same accounts. The one gal, she, he grabbed her hard enough to bruise her and locked her in a room at one point.

[Jack Armstrong]

Eventually they got to that many, many words in to 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 you're leading with to explain. I mean I don't like the guy, but I thought this is your big expose on what a bad dude he is. He, he didn't call somebody back when he was dating them.

[Joe Getty]

Hanson. Let's go ahead and title this section of the podcast Jack Defends Nazi. I'm sorry, Misogynist Nazi. Wow. Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's not a good title for a podcast. That's not a good look for me.

[Joe Getty]

So that puts you in a bad light.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Oh boy.

[Heather Myers]

Thank you. Happy Friday.

[Jack Armstrong]

Thank you.

[Joe Getty]

You too. Have a great weekend. So we'll see you in an hour. Never mind.

[Jack Armstrong]

Are you confused?

[Joe Getty]

Any kind of weekend.

[Jack Armstrong]

Are you convinced he knew it was a Nazi tattoo and that was the whole point when he got it?

[Joe Getty]

Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, me too.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Yeah, he thought it was hard ass and cool and that was like the Nazi concentration camp, right? Insignia.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, it's pretty hardcore, even among Nazi tattoos. Okay, we got more news to get to. Stay with us.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty.

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[Jack Armstrong]

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. The headline in the Wall street journal. Like two cats circling Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom way a 2028 showdown. They claim to be friends, but many expect a gloves off brawl should the two California Democrats decide to run for president.

[Joe Getty]

I read that article and was going to bring it to you and ask you, as 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? And they do.

[Jack Armstrong]

Ye, I think they clearly hate each other.

[Joe Getty]

They really do. We'll bring you the evidence, you good people, and let you be the judges. Coming up.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think better than that, 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.

[Joe Getty]

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.

[Jack Armstrong]

And that's because you're fancy, that's why. After.

[Joe Getty]

Well, that's part of it. After the beloved Friday tradition, let's take a fond look back at the week that was its cow. Clips of the week. Clips of the week.

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We need to get all the naked drug addicts off of the sidewalks.

[Jack Armstrong]

We can't walk and chew gum at the same time.

[Lingokids Camper]

In the state of LA right now. The solar panels, you spit that gum out.

[Jack Armstrong]

Vincent Pratt should not be a top two finalist for mayor. He should be DJing the worst new Year's Eve party in Reno right now.

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Are you ready?

[Joe Getty]

I mean, I was born for you, clearly.

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[Joe Getty]

Javier Bakaria, By God, if you have Ebola, show up and vote.

[Jack Armstrong]

Whatever it takes.

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

Trump backed former Fox News host Republican

[Jack Armstrong]

Steve Hilton is in the lead. The Senate race in Maine with presumptive

[Lingokids Parent]

Democratic nominee and horny Lorax Graham Platner.

[Jack Armstrong]

The Wall Street Journal, New York Times ran stories without any evidence besides the gossip from a former staffer. Graham and I have a great marriage. Being married is hard. What kind of a creeper has been on a decade on a platform like Kick?

[Lingokids Parent]

Why did it happen?

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know what happened.

[Joe Getty]

I mean, as I watched it, I

[Jack Armstrong]

thought, oh my God, he's having a stroke. And so I said, you know, you answered every question.

[Lingokids Parent]

My mind's racing. You know, that's a pretty low.

[Joe Getty]

More turmoil at CBS News.

[Jack Armstrong]

Journalism is under attack in America.

[Joe Getty]

Trump told Netanyahu he was effing crazy. Everybody hates you now.

[Lingokids Camper]

I was A little bit perturbed at

[Jack Armstrong]

his constantly fighting with Lebanon.

[Joe Getty]

Nobody is interested in the ramblings of a capo.

[Jack Armstrong]

Her son and Jeffrey Epstein talk about pole dancing as he begged him for money. Using your limited credibility. Reclaiming my time asking him to shut up.

[Joe Getty]

That's a pretty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Shut up.

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We're talking about shoes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Are you guys kidding me?

[Lingokids Camper]

I mean, is this the Foreign Affairs Committee or is this like a circus?

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[Joe Getty]

It's simple as a pimple for me. There's nothing to it.

[Jack Armstrong]

It'd be nice if it was caught humanely and taken away. And obviously it's domesticated. Bird. It was very shocking and we asked it out of the box.

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There are many different styles that people enjoy.

[Bethenny Frankel]

It's clips of the week.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, that was that. AI Teddy Bear talking about kink.

[Jack Armstrong]

It was annoying to me. And this has been going on for a long time. If you're like Trump, do we need another reality star president? No. No. 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. Same with Steve Hilton, former Fox host, overlooking the fact he's on the show the other day talking about he started a bunch of businesses and got rich on his own and all that sort of stuff.

[Joe Getty]

But top advisor to a British prime minister for years.

[Jack Armstrong]

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 presidentials enough to be the next level up. But if you were out in the private world. No, they use your TV hosting job as your only experience. It's just so, you know, transparent what is going on there?

[Joe Getty]

I think it may be unintentional. They are so blinded by their own biases.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well. And because they don't consider somebody going out into the world and making a living any qualifications for anything being.

[Joe Getty]

Oh no, it's the opposite. Makes you suspect.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. Being low level public service, it automatically qualifies you to be anything.

[Joe Getty]

Okay. Want to pay off the. The topic of stabbing Trump a la Julius Caesar 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. And how they're now openly expressing their dislike, contempt, disagreements with Trump in a way that Was much more reserved a month ago.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's a kind way to put it. 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 gonna, they're gonna go along with whatever Trump wanted.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, they had to. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, fair. 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. Responsibilities, whatever the CIA tells you. Qualifications, obeisance to Donald Trump's day to day agenda. Willingness to express constant admiration for the boss. Fluidity and MAGA talk. No intelligence experience required.

[Jack Armstrong]

This is about the guy he appointed to replace Tulsi Gabbard that everybody is yelling about. The fact he's got no credentials.

[Joe Getty]

Yes, 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 as this administration ticks down. And she mentions Bill Pulte, who you're referring to, but says we look back on this period as the good old days because the pool of boot lickers is getting thinner and thinner and more and more comedic. I mean, it's savage from Kim.

[Jack Armstrong]

I sure is a better term than bootlicker.

[Joe Getty]

Ass kisser.

[Jack Armstrong]

That ain't great either.

[Joe Getty]

No, it's not. The point is the person is humiliating themselves in service to the boss. Okay, so it's difficult to come up with an example that's not humiliating.

[Jack Armstrong]

Can we keep our mouths off their dirty parts when we describe this? No.

[Joe Getty]

Well, well, well. Wow. Does every colloquial phrase, idiomatic phrase referring to a lackey. How about we go servicing orally?

[Jack Armstrong]

How about we go with my favorite, the story that I brought a while back. A human footstool. That's good.

[Joe Getty]

We'll go with that. So all Trump is hiring is human footstools at this point, and some of them embarrassingly unqualified. And Mrs. Trossel 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 this guy for having in his diary some information that is arguably classified and is seeking prison time. And he's agreed to pay a $2.5 million fine, which I gotta believe is

[Jack Armstrong]

a lot of money for him.

[Joe Getty]

As the Journal puts it, points out, a trial could cost as much as $3 million in legal fees. It runs the risk of greater punishment. The guy's 77 years old. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

It might ruin him.

[Joe Getty]

Exactly.

[Jack Armstrong]

Mark Halperin wrote in his newsletter today, you cannot overestimate how much joy Trump is getting out of this, which is not good.

[Joe Getty]

Right. So they go into the facts of the case, which are not impressive at all. And then they go into the history of the officials who did way, way more egregious things. I mean, miles more egregious. And pled guilty to a misdemeanor and paid a $5,000 fine. Well, or CIA Director David Petraeus, who shared defense information with his biographer, got two years probation, $100,000 fine. There's example after example. This is so far out of the ballpark. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

If there's one thing we've learned over the last 10 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.

[Joe Getty]

So here's your opening two sentences of the editorial by the board. President Trump may hate being the target of lawfare, but he sure 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 Mr. 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 inexcusable.

[Jack Armstrong]

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. We got to quit claiming everything's top secret.

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Clearly. You were mentioning Shakespeare several times. Yes, the knives are out.

[Joe Getty]

Yes, the wounded bear caucus. Bears wielding knives are darkest night.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow, that really is a rough situation. You're out hiking in the woods, you hear a little rustling in the bushes. A bear jumps out and it's got a knife. I think to myself, crap, this is not my lucky day.

[Joe Getty]

This will only end badly.

[Jack Armstrong]

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 Monte Cristo. Dumas.

[Joe Getty]

There's some dispute over the pronunciation of his name, but. Go on.

[Jack Armstrong]

Famously said, after God Shakespeare has created most everything you need to know about human nature is in Shakespeare. Correct. Nothing new needs to be written

[Joe Getty]

at all. And the number of phrases that we use to this day that he coined defy belief. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

And very little is known about the guy, which is really, really interesting.

[Joe Getty]

Right. Well, he didn't like the celebrity lifestyle he kept low profile. And the fact that colleges and universities. Oh, don't teach Shakespeare unless it's to deconstruct his colonialism is an obscenity. That alone is reason to just bulldo all our universities. Sell the bricks for scrap.

[Jack Armstrong]

I would agree wholeheartedly. Okay, we got start again. We got a lot we got to get to today, surprisingly on a Friday. But we got mailbag next, so stay here.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty.

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[Jack Armstrong]

If you got kids, you're probably roughly around the time period I am where they're getting out of school. I got one kid I finished yesterday, one kid next week. And then everything changes for the summer.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I'd say in ways both good and challenging. I'm not going to say bad. So Your freedom 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 to be from Dwight Eisenhower Hour. The first one a 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 point, but this is Ike here.

[Jack Armstrong]

So anyway, 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. But when can you use one?

[Joe Getty]

Well said. You're about to embark upon the great crusade toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you, the hopes and prayers of liberty. 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 Nazi 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 sav. But this is the year 1944. Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940 and 41. The United nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats in 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 and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned. The free men of the world are marching together to victory. I have full confidence in your courage, devotion, 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. Dwight Eisenhower.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm a D Day freak. Like a lot of old men who never stopped talking about or thinking about the Roman Empire or World War II. But we now know. You could have put after a lot of those sentences we think, think or I hope, because it wasn't quite as clear. We've destroyed their defenses. We hope to that point.

[Joe Getty]

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 Cherbourg. And it's handwritten so it's A little tough to read. Have over. 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 mine alone. That's a man. That's the way a man runs his life. And I've. I came across that early on in life and have tried and failed, but tried to live an Ikean, you know, life.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. That morning where he gets up early and goes and addresses those guys specifically, specifically the paratroopers and looks them in the eyes, you know, and says, good luck, men, and that sort of thing. Knowing that lots of them were 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 be do.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. To your point, D Day by the numbers always fascinates me. The invasion, the amphibious invasion involved roughly 133,000 men landing by sea. 133,000. 23,400 airborne troops supported by 7,000 naval vessels. And 1100, 500, and I'm sorry, 11,590 aircraft, almost 12,000 aircraft, 73,000Americans, 62,000 Brits, 21 plus thousand Canadians, and small contingents of the other allies. And the casualties? We lost, either dead or wounded, roughly 6600 men that day. British forces, 2700 Canadians, 950 Germans lost, something between 4000 and 9000 men killed, wounded or captured.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's the biggest operation human beings have ever done ever 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 II fan, or specifically a D Day fan, and you have not been to the World War II Museum in New Orleans. Oh, my God, their D Day display is incredible. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I've got to do it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, it's worth the trip. Just for the. That.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I propose because there's some really good email from. For a mailbag. Why don't we squeeze that in next hour?

[Jack Armstrong]

I recommend every year. David Ambrose's D Day book is fantastic. And if you want to really get a great feeling of what it was like that day. Holy crap.

[Joe Getty]

And beautifully written, too.

[Jack Armstrong]

It is dramatic. We got a lot on the way on a Friday and we're going to squeeze all kinds of stuff in but you know, you're busy people. You probably can't listen for four hours if you miss a segment. Get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand. You should subscribe, then you'll get it fed to you automatically. More on the way.

[Joe Getty]

Stay here Armstrong and getty

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