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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty.
Michael
And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
Donald Trump (quoted)
And most importantly, we have a deal that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, which was the whole purpose of what we had to go through to get this. So it was a big, very big Thing, but we have a signing soon and the documents are in pretty final shape. So we'll see, we'll see. Very good. Should be done. That should be done pretty quickly. They want it every bit as much as everybody else wants. I think a lot of good relationships can ensue from this.
Jack Armstrong
No, they can't.
Michael
That was yesterday. I feel like. And I realize for a lot of you, for a lot of people, they, they, they gone past the. I care what Trump says about this thing like weeks ago, but I really think like this is his last go around with this before it's a complete joke. I think the next time it will not just be skepticism, it'll be like, you gotta be freaking kidding from like everybody if this one isn't real.
Jack Armstrong
So you think this is some sort of end of credibility last go round,
Michael
I was feeling that. So I don't know what order to do this and let me do this. So Trump makes the announcement yesterday sounding very, very serious. More serious than usual, I would say, more, less blustery, more, more businesslike, I thought than usual with we finally have a deal. He had, he had vowed in the morning, he went on Fox and Friends yesterday talking about how we're gonna hit all their infrastructure, we're taking their oil. You know, I've had it. Then in the day, later in the day, he calls it off and says, we have a deal. We have a, we have a deal. They agreed to the terms. The, you know, the ink's almost dry. Hopefully get it signed this weekend. But very soon, J.D. vance flying to the Middle east sounded very, very solid about it. Then some details started to leak out from various sources. And how accurate those are, that's the question on that. There is a truth social post from Trump about that this morning. The terms that Iran leaked out to the fake news have nothing to do with the terms that we agreed to in writing. What they just said, including their weak and pathetic statement on having a deal, bears no relation to the truth. Very dishonorable people to deal with. With them, there is no such thing as dealing in good faith. Amazing. All caps, exclamation point. Also, they're totally rebuffed drone attack last night. Yeah, they attacked a bunch of ships with drones last night after Trump announced we have a deal, uh, against Indian ships leaving the Hormuz straight is totally unacceptable in all caps. Yeah, yeah, it is. Uh, I, that's my words. They better get their act together and fast. President Donald J. Trump. I don't even know how to react to that. So it, it, it's possible the details that leaked out. Who, who knows who leaked them out and whether they're close to the piece of paper or not or if they are just completely jerking him around again.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Michael
Eric Eric Erickson is a co radio host of Some Note in America and he's been behind Trump and a lot of stuff for a lot of years of the whole Trump thing. He tweeted this out today. He has a lot of followers. At least 39 times in the last 65 days, the president of the United States has declared the United States and Iran were close to a deal only to have the Iranians openly mock him and deny it. Which seems like might be what has happened in the last 18 hours.
Jack Armstrong
It's sure close to mockery and denial.
Michael
Yesterday the President went on Fox and Friends in the morning to declare bombings would resume and be even more ferocious by the afternoon. He declared bombings would cease because the deal was close. He claimed buy in from the Egyptians, the Emiratis, the Saudis, the Kuwaitis, the Israelis, the Iranians and more. Egypt said it had no knowledge of any deal. Israel said it had no knowledge of any deal. Then the official semi Iranian news agency fars, that agency that represents the voice of the Revolutionary Guard in Iran, I did see this, said there was no deal. Overnight word came that the Ayatollah refused the deal. Then the Iranians started firing drones at commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. That is known. The president the other day said Iran was playing us. The only one being played is President Trump. A state of war exists between Iran and its neighbors. The ceasefire is a farce. The president has turned into a clown.
Jack Armstrong
Boy, that Eric, who has not historically. He's not a Trump deranged guy or anything like that.
Michael
No, no.
Jack Armstrong
He is the centerpiece of my all double named talk radio station though. Eric Erickson, Hugh Hewitt and Lars Larson. Lars Larson, that's right. Yeah, yeah. If your name is William Bill, Bill Williamson will consider you now.
Michael
James Jameson has tweeted, like I said, maybe it's, maybe I just am the last one off the ship or whatever on this. He's turned into a clown thing. But I feel like if what he said yesterday doesn't turn out to be anything, I don't know where we are now. I feel like he's at credibility zero. Mark Kaeperno is pointing out on his newscast yesterday that Trump announced this the war is over deal to be signed in a couple of days. And a bunch of newscasts put it like 4th in their newscasts that afternoon. I Noticed that last night watching abc, because they're like, we've heard this before.
Jack Armstrong
I hope I am wrong, but I'm having exactly the same emotional and intellectual reaction as I do to a person who I'm involved with their life, who is a severe underachiever and is always talking about what they are going to do, and it doesn't happen ever. I'm like, okay, all right. I don't. I don't want to hear this. Tell me when it happens.
Michael
That's a. I know that personality thing and all that and all that. That's a different thing than what Trump's doing, though, because Trump is not. He believes them. That's what's crazy about this. He.
Jack Armstrong
It's a different sort of delusion.
Michael
He thinks. He thinks things. He thinks he's got a deal every time. I think he actually believes it.
Jack Armstrong
Boy. Eric's rundown of the events the last 2436 hours was extremely compelling. It was quite an indictment. Wow. I hope to be wrong. I really do. For the good of the United States of America, unlike most of the country these days. And I want to talk about this at some point, but I am not obsessed with Donald J. Trump. A victory for Trump, if it's a victory for America is a good thing. A loss for Trump if it's a loss for America is a bad thing.
Michael
Yeah. No, I don't. Yeah, I agree 100%. This is a big deal, though. We're at war. And the.
Jack Armstrong
The terrible, malign power that seeks to export horror and death. Yes.
Michael
Killed more Americans than any other country in the last half century, and they want to get a nuclear weapon.
Jack Armstrong
And they're genocidal Islamists, for God's sake.
Michael
Right. And I feel like because of all the stuff going on, somehow history is not fully appreciating. Appreciating usually has positive connotations, but fully appreciating the fact that they murdered 42,000 people in the streets.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Michael
Tiananmen Square is still talked about in. Is a fraction likely in 1989. Tiananmen Square, China mowing down. The students there trying to revolt. A fraction of what happened in Iran the other day. I don't feel like it fully is appreciated as an historical event.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. And I think the reason for that is. And all this factors in one of the tentative. The proposed titles of the program today, which I cook up every day. I want to make sure I get this exactly right. Dad. Dad, come on up here. There it is. There are no. There are no barbarians at the gate now. Hurry up or will be late for the gladiator match. My point being, between the unbelievably successful incursion of Marxism into our schools and America, self hatred in our schools and universities and now in our culture and the accompanying xenophilia, the idea that America is rotten to the core. But these other countries, they have beautiful cultures and systems, and we dare not, especially if you're white, criticize what they do. We've got to only stare at ourselves in our horrors. And if I were to, if I were, you know, one of the masterminds of the Marxist takeover, I would do that because I would realize, look, if you look around at the rest of the world, everybody's going to realize we're way, way, way better, way more welcoming to different people and cultures, way more opportunity, far more human rights. We can't convince everybody is America's Satan if they. So don't ever criticize anybody else. That's all part of the whole. The same unholy stew. And so any Homo sapien on the face of the earth ought to be condemning Iran at the top of their lungs for the horrors they've perpetrated, but it's not happening. There's got to be a cultural reason for that. And I think I'm pretty close to having described it. I'm no Eric Erickson or Hugh Hewitt or Lars Larson or Jim Jameson, but. Moving along.
Michael
So like the New York Post headline, trump blasts Tehran, they better get their act together.
Jack Armstrong
Does or what?
Michael
Yeah, exactly. Does anybody feel that threat? Anybody on earth feel that threat? I mean, that is the parent saying for the 50th time, you better stop. And the kid doesn't even hear it at that point. And they don't even bother to roll their eyes.
Jack Armstrong
They don't even hear the words background noise.
Michael
Yeah, it's embarrassing. It's embarrassed. I'm embarrassed for him. Please stop saying. Or else it's embarrassing to the whole country.
Jack Armstrong
And please stop saying we're close to a deal. Tell us when it happens. Of course he more or less did yesterday, but say again?
Michael
That's what I'm concerned about. I think he believed it. I don't think he was jerking us around. He's being jerked around and he keeps falling for it. That's what's so crazy.
Jack Armstrong
I've never been close to the most powerful office on earth, so I can imagine how people behave. I can try to. Try to understand it, but I can't really, you know, I can't feel it. I can't imagine it Accurately. Marco. Pete Hegseth.
Michael
Good point.
Jack Armstrong
Jared Kushner.
Michael
Yeah, no kidding.
Jack Armstrong
I mean, think whatever you want to, Jared. He's not an ideologue. He's a very, very practical man. Is it that Trump is not listening to them or he doesn't hear them, or they're not saying it roughly what we're saying?
Michael
I wonder if they're just not saying it. But there's no way those people are fallen for every single time the Iranians say, sure, sure, we'll do that, and then start bombing ships and put out a statement in the media saying we don't agree to anything.
Jack Armstrong
Right, right. Often when Jack asks me to make a prediction or I talk about what I think's happening, I'll give you a percentage of certainty. I am 100% certain. Or let's say 99, because, you know, acts of God, et cetera. I'm 99% certain the leadership in Iran is 100% committed to getting a nuclear weapon, 100% committed to preserving their proxies, 100% committed to conquering the entire world in the name of Allah. All of those three things. And to the extent that they've come to an agreement or whatever, it's merely a feint, merely a tactic to achieve those three goals? I am as certain of that as I am of my own reality.
Michael
Yeah, I would agree.
Jack Armstrong
Therefore, I am.
Michael
And I think that I would agree. All right. Well, I would imagine there are going to be developments over the next 3 hours and 42 minutes that we're doing this today. I want you to do the buffalo thing.
Jack Armstrong
Isn't it 2 hours and 42 minutes?
Michael
Yeah, you're right.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, my God.
Michael
I almost gave Joe a heart attack. We're doing a five hour show today. I don't have it in me either.
Jack Armstrong
I'm not a strong man. And it's Friday.
Michael
Lord, you got to do the buffalo thing, okay? We got to work this out. If you haven't heard this, this is funny. This has got nothing to do with war or Trump Marxism. Elon Musk's a trillionaire now, and that's just awful for some people. But anyway, stay tuned.
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Thanks for listening to the Jack Jackson and Jojo Son Show. Coming up next, Lars Larson, Eric Erickson and Hugh Hewitt. Stay tuned for more.
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Jack Armstrong
Yep, too late. So we got this note from Scott who says this sentence is actually grammatically correct and some of the buffaloes in the sentence are capitalized. I'm going to clap my hands to indicate when something is capitalized.
Michael
That's interesting.
Jack Armstrong
Buffalo. Buffalo. Buffalo. Buffalo. Buffalo. Buffalo. Buffalo. Buffalo. He says it's actually grammatically correct and means the bison from buffalo that are bullied by other bison from buffalo. Also bully bison from buffalo. And yes, I'm aware of bison. Bison is subtly different than a buffalo. But I have gone over this and gone over this. I am far past the point where, you know, if you say a word often enough, it it just becomes a collection of sounds and doesn't have meaning anymore and you start to get a headache. I'm way down that road. But Scott, with all due respect, I have studied this now for 10 minutes as a grammar Nazi and I don't think it's correct. You need to.
Michael
Well, the first. I can get. The first three words make sense to me.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Buffalo. Buffalo. Buffalo. Buffalo.
Michael
For forwards. Yeah, those four words definitely work as a sentence.
Jack Armstrong
Buffalo.
Michael
Buffalo. Buffalo. Buffalo.
Jack Armstrong
But to.
Michael
To.
Jack Armstrong
To write out what you've stated, it means you need number one past tense and I believe a dash. I'm going to clap my hands again. The first one is capitalized merely because it's the first word in the sentence, but it does also the proper name of the city in New York. Buffaloed. Buffalo. Buffalo. Buffaloed. I'm sorry, I missed. Buffaloed. Buffalo. Buffalo. Buffaloed. Buffalo. Buffaloed. Buffalo. Buffalo.
Michael
Oh, I see. Buffalo. Buffalo. Right.
Jack Armstrong
Buffaloed. Buffaloed.
Michael
Buffalo.
Jack Armstrong
Buffalo. The city of. Bullied. City of Buffalo. Buffalo. Dash. Buffalo. Buffaloes. Because you need the plural there. Buffaloed. Buffalo. Buffalo. So while they are. While they are victims. While they are victims of Buffalo. Buffalo. Buffal. They in turn are buffaloing their fellow. Buffalo. Buffalo.
Michael
Right.
Jack Armstrong
Which is really a study of human nature. Buffalo nature or something.
Michael
That might be the funniest clip you've ever played. Michael.
Jack Armstrong
Scott, thanks for giving me a headache.
Michael
Please clap.
Jack Armstrong
Please clap. Oh, Lord. Oh, I need to lie down.
Michael
Biggest sporting event in the world every four years. The World cup soccer match.
Jack Armstrong
The US Team. Do we have a chance? They're being called the golden generation. We'll tell you about them.
Michael
Oh, I don't know about that. I know we got a team and I know we're playing tonight against Paraguay. I didn't know they got a chance of going far, so a lot on the way. If you missed a segment, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand.
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John Cleese (quoted)
Why do the Americans insist on calling it soccer? Why do they have such a problem calling it football? It's a game played with a ball that is struck with the foot, hence foot ball. Whereas American football is a game where an object that's not really a ball at all is carried around by hand and occasionally thrown for other people to catch in their hands. Only one person in each team is allowed to actually kick the ball, and they have to be specially brought onto the field to do it.
Michael
The great John Cleese of Monty Python wondering about the whole soccer football thing, which kind of reminds me of the famous Nate Bargazzi thing where he's George Washington on Saturday Night Live.
Jack Armstrong
Hilarious.
Michael
Is there kicking? So there's kicking. There's some kicking. How many points? Sometimes one, sometimes three. But the World cup soccer match is going on. It's the biggest sporting event in the entire world every year. Because other countries really, really care about soccer a lot more than we do.
Jack Armstrong
What's the origin of the term soccer? What's the etymology of No, I don't even know. I have no idea. There's gotta be some explanation of it, Michael. Figure it out. Anyway, yeah, so the World cup is kicking off, no pun intended. Or did yesterday, I guess, in the U.S. canada and Mexico. And the U.S. team is actually expected to do okay pretty well.
Michael
We're the 16th seed, aren't we?
Jack Armstrong
Ah, something like that.
Michael
Or 16th ranked in the World or something like that.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. We didn't even qualify for the 2018 World cup, which was considered a huge. So the US Soccer Federation cleared out all the veterans and began building around a nucleus of young players who were, like, up and coming stars in Europe's toughest leagues. Because, you know, if you're really good, that's where you go. With all due respect to the North American Soccer League or Major League Soccer, I guess. Right.
Michael
Because there's so much money in it over there. What. That's what makes you a big star, which is always makes you wonder, what would our soccer program be if you said, all right, none of you young athletes in America are allowed to play in the NBA, the NFL, or Major League Baseball. All you best athletes have to play soccer. I think we'd dominate the planet if we did that.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it's entirely possible. So these youngsters have come up playing together as a national team year after year now when they're not at their day jobs and have been widely dubbed America's golden generation. They haven't really been golden yet, but they're very, very promising. When they're good, they're very, very good. But they tend to give up fair number of goals because they. They play very aggressively. So that's. That's your basics. The. The big star, I guess.
Michael
Like I'm imagining Jalen Brunson would be a great soccer player if he decided to do that instead of play for the New York Knicks.
Jack Armstrong
Right, sure. Oh, yeah, yeah. Look at the entire NFL.
Michael
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
You're incredibly strong, quick, and, and, and, and have unbelievable cardiovascular fitness. Yeah. Yeah. So the star. And I don't actually know how to pronounce his name. I've known a handful of people of Slavic origin, Serbs and Croats and stuff, and sometimes they Americanize their names and sometimes they don't. But what is this kid's name? Where is it? I've lost it. Well, come back to it. Oh, Christian Pulisic. If he pronounces it like the old country or Pulisic. Don't know.
Michael
So he could be a household name by tomorrow.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. But it sounds like an exciting team to watch anyway. To the extent that you, anybody, find soccer exciting, I love watching it. I don't watch it a lot because there's just too much entertainment in the world, but I'll be watching the American Games 100%.
Michael
We're supposed to beat Paraguay. They're not that great. So we'll at least move on past today for a little while. Do you know how they do it in the World cup, like, if it's a tie at the end of the time when they announce, hey, the game's over, and everybody's like, oh, okay, cool. Because there's not actually a clock, a
Jack Armstrong
duel, I believe, in the. In the group stage where y' all play each other roughly, and then the top teams advance to the knockout round where it's single elimination. I think ties are ties. When you get to the knockout round, you just settle it with goal kicks.
Michael
There's the horns there. It's already begun. The festivities have begun.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, fantastic. And very festive, too. Oh. What was I going to say? Oh. Interestingly enough, if we come in second in our pool group, whatever they call it, and Iran comes in second in their group, we play each other.
Michael
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Yes. Yes. Donald Trump just announced that we have won that match.
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Jack Armstrong
The Iranians are denying it and the match hasn't been held.
Michael
Well, that would be interesting because the Iranian team, probably, to a man including the coaches, would happily defect and stay here if it weren't for their families would be executed at home.
Jack Armstrong
Yes.
Michael
So it's not like, you know, they wouldn't be in agreement. Yeah, I hope you do win. I hope they would be thinking, I hope you do win the war. I hope the regime falls. And, yeah, I'm rooting for you.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, we're going to try super hard in this match. So we're not executed. Not because we have any great pride in our country. Most of them, probably. Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
I don't know whether to root for beating the hell out of them or, you know, let them emigrate, but they can't because their families would be executed.
Michael
Yeah, that's some. Boy, that'll be exciting if that comes to be. I want to talk about this later. I don't know if I'm in the mood for it on a Friday, but the Nation magazine, which I assume is a website, used to be a magazine. It's one of your super lefty magazines. Whenever I would see a reporter from the nation on a cable news channel, I knew I was about to get a load of crap.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Michael
Anyway, they've published a special edition for America's 250th birthday, which is just all negative stuff about the United States. It's just. It's really a really maddening. Here are some of the people who've written articles for it. Jamie Raskin on the Constitution. Jane Fonda on epic activism. Robert Reich on economics. Oh, my God. Zoran Mamdani on patriotism. Letitia James on voting Rights. Bernie Sanders on fighting the oligarchy.
Jack Armstrong
Let me up. I've had enough.
Michael
Pramila Jayapal on immigration. I mean, it just goes on and on. All your favorite American. Hayden, People have written a piece for this special 250th anniversary which somebody from the National Review said, are we allowed to call them American haters at this point? This magazine. No kidding.
Jack Armstrong
Well, I wanna, I've mentioned this a couple of times, including at the very outset of the show and I wanna get into it next hour. The communists, the Marxists are winning. The America hating Marxists are winning. They have the youth, they have the media, they are on the front foot and moving forward. The whole WOKE thing crested some, but the vast majority of our young people, especially our young women, are still 100% percent committed to these things. We have. If the WOKE thing is, Pete, shouldn't we have fewer openly socialist candidates running for office right now?
Michael
I think you got getting elected. Yeah, I think you got to separate them. I mean, the WOKE stuff that drove everybody crazy and got so much attention, using the term Latinx and some of the trans stuff and you know, microaggressions. Nah, you know, that was part of the whole Marxist tear down America movement. But that could go completely away if you still have young people who believe in socialism. That's a problem.
Jack Armstrong
Right. It was all a tool of the same fight. But you're right, they will adapt and overcome. They're, they're, they're crazy, but they're smart.
Michael
But this Nation issue that's out, I might get a copy or go to the website or whatever. I ain't paying for it. Has articles like 250 Years of Genocide, theft and displacement. I mean, you're just anti American. Yeah, you're an anti American magazine. If that's what you put out on the 250th birthday. That's on the, that's on the COVID 250 years of genocide, theft and displacement. Get out of the freaking country that's
Jack Armstrong
fully captured by the Marxists.
Michael
We'll do a GoFundMe. We could probably buy you a house somewhere with a GoFundMe. We'll fly you there and put you in a home. Leave the nation.
Jack Armstrong
Here, here's a great comparison for you. I remember a few months ago being introduced to the. How do you, how do you define or how do you recognize antisemitism? It's when Jews or Israel are held to a completely different standard than people hold everybody else to. Well, how do you recognize blatant anti Americanism, America haters. They hold the United States to a different standard than every other country on Earth.
Michael
That's very important.
Jack Armstrong
They might say, well, that's because it's the country where I live, so it's the one I'm interested in. But if you point out to them every single country on earth has conquered territory and booted people out or killed them or whatever at every moment of human history, then you lose the argument that, oh, it's uniquely evil and should be taken over by, I don't know, people who think like me. It's ridiculous. The American story is the human story, except with lots more rights and lots more opportunity.
Michael
Some of the titles of some of the pieces in this American Hatin magazine, after we tell you about Rough Greens, which is a pretty good thing for your dog. We got a great text the other day from somebody who said it really helped their old dog in the last months, maybe of this old dog's life. So they are really happy that we told them about Rough Greens. You know, your dog food that you're using and you can keep using with Rough Greens doesn't have any live nutrition in it. Rough Greens has lots of live probiotics, enzymes, omega oils, over 20 vitamins and minerals.
Jack Armstrong
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Michael
If you're an American.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, go ahead.
Michael
If you're an America hater and you want to read the Nation's very special 250 years edition, there are articles like I mentioned. 250 years of genocide, theft and displacement. The celebration of the nation's birth is a sham. Shame is the name of one article. The bald eagle perfectly embodies America's flaws.
Jack Armstrong
I despise these.
Michael
America is due for a deep clean. America's due a third reconstruction, et cetera, et cetera. We have the power to begin the world again. There you go. Nice. Get out of the country.
Jack Armstrong
Marxist revolutionaries are going to overthrow the power and bring about a Utopia. Good Lord. I tell you what. I enlist you this moment in this fight. This is not a joke. This is not some. You know, there are a number of different topics that the conclusion is, we're so successful and so fat and happy, we don't think anything can ever threaten us as a people. That's why my proposed title for the show was there's no Barbarians at the Gate. Hurry up. We'll be late for the gladiator match. There are serious threats to our culture, to our country, to our constitution, that are thriving in the United States right now. It's like a bacterial infection. And AD will probably go away on its own. It won't. God's sake.
Michael
Very frustrating.
Jack Armstrong
More on that next hour with some great examples. People running for office, endorsed by Mumdani, for instance. Smiling at the camera and raising money and talking about how this person's gonna stand up for the little people. Oh, my God.
Michael
There now has been a trillionaire on earth. There is one right now. Elon Musk. Because of the SpaceX IPO initial public offering. We got a little on that coming up. He rang the bell there in Wall street to kick off the stock market today and a bunch of other stuff on the way. Stay here.
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Jack Armstrong
Hard to believe that little company that started in a warehouse in El Segundo is now is not going public for the with the largest IPO that ever yes started.
Michael
I saw a picture the other day from 2012 Elon in the hallway of some building with like 10 other people officially announcing the company. Which that would have been impossible not that many years ago to go from that to to this in that amount of time in 14 years.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Michael
But you know, we live in a different world of that sort of thing. And breaking its official on in many news outlets, Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire as SpaceX goes public. Now as far as the actual investing and stuff, Elon and a whole bunch of other people at SpaceX rang the bell there on Wall street, there at the the stock market. It the IPO is expected to create 4,000 new millionaires at SpaceX employees there that were given enough SpaceX stock as part of their working deal. They weren't making that much money but they were being given Stock and the 4,000 of them will become millionaires today.
Jack Armstrong
Not like 1.1 million, like 20 million in a lot of their cases. How do you keep them working?
Michael
How do you not come to work on Monday? And there's nobody there.
Jack Armstrong
I wouldn't be there.
Michael
Well, that's a lot of money.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. Oh, I found that article I referenced earlier. A manufacturing revolution is happening in space. This is from the Free Press. Drugs, fiber optic cables, data centers. Thanks to SpaceX, it's a boom time for manufacturing goods in space. Manufacturing them in space. Yeah.
Michael
Everything I've read over the last couple of weeks and this was being put out by people who wanted SpaceX's IPO to go well. But, yeah, that sort of thing. And all the rockets, or most of the rockets that are going to be doing this are SpaceX rockets. They're going to be in great demand as the way to get all this stuff up into space. Now, if you're wanting to get involved, the fact that the opening bell has rung does not mean SpaceX starts trading. And I'm not going to claim I have any idea what any of this I'm about to say means. NASDAQ runs a price discovery auction first. And for a deal that size, it can take hours before the first share of her prints and then it has to cross this line. But if it crosses this line before that line gets crossed, it waits another hour and blah, blah, blah. The live order book depth before launch could be delayed.
Jack Armstrong
Needless to say.
Michael
Yes, exactly.
Jack Armstrong
I read this stuff earlier and it boggled my mind.
Michael
For instance, when Google launched in 2004 with our IPO, the first trade happened two and a half hours after the bell. Sometimes it's faster, sometimes it's slower. So, you know, whatever. It probably doesn't matter that much to you.
Jack Armstrong
And a lot of folks can't sell their shares for a while or, you know, so I don't know.
Michael
Well, I came across this. So I mentioned earlier, I'm looking forward to guaranteed today. Bernie Sanders aoc, Elizabeth Warren. They have something to say about how awful it is that there's a trillionaire. Here's some lefty publication site that tweeted out, SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Here's how to. Oh, my God. Here's how to properly hate him. Which one of my favorite journalists reposted with what? Which is a good question. Why do I have to hate him? Because he came up with a really amazing company that's going to be the future of the world.
Jack Armstrong
Well, they're saying the quiet part out loud. We are Animated by envy, pure envy. Wanting what other people have. That's our principle. We want to tear them down. Oh, man, I despise that. I really, really do. I have since I was a kid.
Michael
Do you want the latest alcohol study on a Friday? Is that the birth best day to do it or the worst day to do it?
Jack Armstrong
That's by far the worst day to do it.
Michael
Did you see the big headline in the New York Times?
Jack Armstrong
No.
Michael
I'm not a teetotaler. I don't drink. Haven't had a drink in 20 years. But I am perfectly fine with everybody else drinking. Everybody can get drunk today as far as I'm concerned. Makes no difference to me. I have no opinion on that. But health risks of alcohol accelerate after one drink a day. New study finds.
Jack Armstrong
All right.
Michael
Concluded that the health first of alcohol started to drink a day. Caught up in the controversy over the whole alcohol thing. And back, you know, for a cup of coffee there, which is a funny thing to say. For a glass of wine there, everybody told us that having a glass of wine was the best thing you could do. Then they said, no, absolutely not. How many years was that? 10 years, 15 years where they. I felt like as a guy who didn't drink, I was missing out on all the health benefits of drinking wine. And they said, absolutely not.
Jack Armstrong
No, it'll kill you. I'll kill you, dad.
Michael
For people who have one drink a day on average, the researchers found there was an increased risk of premature death from an illness or injury directly attributable to alcohol. Though it was small. One in a thousand people. But the risk of premature Death jumped to 1 in 25 for those who had two drinks a day.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, my God.
Michael
A level long considered safe for men, according to this study.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. You're. You gotta separate out accident. I'm not a 25 year old reeling around New Orleans pie eyed. Okay. Or whatever. Jumping on my motorcycle.
Michael
I, I'm wondering if it's a. Those who have two drinks a day. A certain percentage. If you have two drinks a day, you have 10 or eight or whatever that gets you actually drunk because you're not gonna have a lot of accidents on two drinks. But I'm just wondering that if the numbers get fudged by, the two drink a day count includes those who do have eight drinks a day, who might wreck their motorcycle or fall off a ladder or decide to crawl into the lion pit at the zoo or whatever thing they do.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. I don't debate for a second the science of it. I'm sure not drinking is better than drinking. On the other hand, I need to forget my problems or dance or lots of different things. Or deal with boring people. It gets even more complicated because I know like colon cancer, drinking more, it makes you more likely to get colon cancer. But there's a range of genetic predispositions to certain kinds of cancers. And if I'm way over here on the much less likely scale, genetically speaking, well then what do those numbers mean to me?
Michael
Plus boring people or the need to dance?
Jack Armstrong
Oh my Lord, droning on and on. Kill me, kill me.
Michael
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Date: June 12, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Podcast Network: iHeartPodcasts
This episode centers on President Donald Trump's latest announcement of a supposed nuclear deal with Iran—an episode the hosts see as another iteration in a pattern of premature or misleading proclamations about U.S.–Iranian negotiations. Jack and Joe scrutinize the credibility of Trump’s claim, discuss broader geopolitical issues in the Middle East, and lament what they perceive as declining confidence in American institutions and culture. The show also veers into lighter territory, including the U.S. soccer team’s prospects in the World Cup, the infamous "Buffalo buffalo" grammar brain teaser, commentary on America’s 250th birthday, and the SpaceX IPO that reportedly makes Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire.
(02:47–15:21)
(09:46–12:26)
(20:24–23:09)
(23:20–31:38; 26:04–26:35–John Cleese segment)
(32:01–38:01)
(41:28–45:18)
(45:18–47:56)
“And most importantly, we have a deal that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, which was the whole purpose...”
— Donald Trump (quoted by hosts), (02:47)
“No, they can’t.”
— Jack Armstrong, dismissing Trump’s optimism (03:23)
“The president has turned into a clown.”
— Eric Erickson (via Michael), (06:20)
“A victory for Trump, if it's a victory for America is a good thing. A loss for Trump if it's a loss for America is a bad thing.”
— Jack Armstrong (09:07)
“Any Homo sapien on the face of the earth ought to be condemning Iran at the top of their lungs for the horrors they've perpetrated, but it's not happening...”
— Jack Armstrong (11:52)
“Donald Trump just announced that we have won that match. The Iranians are denying it and the match hasn't been held.”
— Jack Armstrong, on the U.S. vs Iran possible World Cup matchup (30:51)
“We are animated by envy, pure envy. Wanting what other people have. That's our principle. We want to tear them down.”
— Jack Armstrong (45:01)
| Topic | Start | End | |-------------------------------------------|--------------|--------------| | Trump Iran Deal/Skepticism | 02:47 | 15:21 | | Iran’s Human Rights Abuses/Apathy | 09:46 | 12:26 | | “Buffalo buffalo” Grammar Segment | 20:24 | 23:09 | | World Cup / US Soccer & Iran Parody | 23:20 | 31:38 | | John Cleese Football/Soccer | 26:04 | 26:35 | | The Nation’s Negative 250th Anniversary | 32:01 | 38:01 | | SpaceX IPO/Musk Trillionaire | 41:28 | 45:18 | | Alcohol Risk Study | 45:18 | 47:56 |
The episode is marked by the Armstrong & Getty duo’s trademark skepticism, sarcasm, satire, and deep concern for the perceived cultural and geopolitical direction of the country. Their language oscillates between deadpan seriousness about world affairs and irreverent humor on lighter topics, maintaining a conversational, sometimes exasperated, but always engaging style.
For more episodes, search "Armstrong & Getty On Demand" wherever you get your podcasts.