Memo of Underwhelming

Summary

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Episode: Memo of Underwhelming

Date: June 19, 2026
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty

Episode Overview

This fast-paced episode centers on the political fallout and public skepticism surrounding the recently signed "Memorandum of Understanding"—dubbed by Jack as the "Memo of Underwhelming"—relating to U.S.-Iran relations and the broader Middle East peace process. The hosts dissect the controversial deal, reflect on American culture and sports fandom, lampoon political ironies, and critique key political figures. A running theme is the skepticism toward the sincerity and effectiveness of the so-called "historic" memorandum and its associated negotiations.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The “Memo of Underwhelming” and Middle East Peace Process (02:54, 03:53, 04:30)

• Jack and Joe dissect the recently signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), raising several doubts:
  • The signing ceremony was postponed due to renewed hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.
  • Questioning if the signing or the ceremony itself legally matters for deals like this.
  • Jack: "Trump signed the MOU, but then JD was supposed to go to a signing ceremony, right? And that got postponed." (03:37)
  • Joe: "They canceled it because Hezbollah attacked Israel... line one in the Memorandum of Underwhelming is, hostilities end on all fronts." (04:31)
  • Israel does not agree to the ceasefire terms outlined.
• Cynicism and skepticism toward the agreement's real-world enforcement.
  • Joe: “Israel repeatedly says we didn’t agree to that… Can’t make us agree to that." (04:46)
  • The hosts agree: the story is just beginning, as the practical consequences are yet to play out.

2. Sports as a Source of Community and Happiness (12:31, 14:03)

• Celebrating the Knicks’ NBA championship and public joy in New York:
  • Joe: “Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks… who was the 33rd pick in the NBA draft… Everybody passed on him at least once." (12:31)
  • The Knicks' victory illustrates organic, real-life communal joy—“an un-Internet phenomenon” where people actually look at and interact with each other, in contrast to online culture.
• Sports fandom and collective happiness:
  • Jack cites Arthur Brooks’ research: Sports fans are, statistically, happier people than non-sports fans, not because happy people are drawn to sports but because sports make people happy. (14:03)
  • Jack: “It was an UN Internet phenomenon. And I thought, wow, right? At least we do that with sports.” (13:42)
  • Shared enthusiasm builds community and social interaction.
  • Sports serve as a positive distraction from political or economic woes.

3. American Optimism vs. Negativity & Tourist Impressions (07:10)

• Discussion on American friendliness, generosity, and self-image:
  • Jack references how international visitors, including Scottish visitors in Boston, rave about America's hospitality.
  • Jack: “Americans are fabulous people. And I'm like, yeah, that's right. We are. Don't forget that we're the most generous, welcoming people on Earth, generally.” (07:10)
  • Urges listeners not to wallow in negativity.

4. Political Irony: Obama’s "Shrine" & Celebrity Culture (08:30–10:27)

• Ridiculing presidential libraries as monuments to ego:
  • Jack singles out Obama for criticizing American materialism while launching an $850 million presidential library.
  • Jack: “Obama slams America's fixation on wealth and fame ahead of star studded launch party for $850 million shrine to himself.” (08:30)
  • Joe: "That is 60% enriched irony right there." (09:03)
  • The hosts mock the celebrity-filled crowd and the transformation of presidential libraries into self-glorifying “shrineseums.”

5. Juneteenth and Federal Holidays (11:43, 46:03)

• Musings on the meaning and political origins of Juneteenth as a federal holiday:
  • Some listener feedback is critical, calling the holiday "stupid."
  • Jack: “It was born of the great awokening and the Biden administration, so that's enough to despise it. But as a historical day, it's [an] interesting thing. And I hate that it's become woke-ified.” (46:22)
  • Joe: “If you were born in the United States, that's a huge legacy. I'd like to get rid of like all but three [federal holidays].” (46:03)

6. Iran Deal Criticism and JD Vance’s Rhetoric (19:14–39:54)

• Harsh critique of JD Vance's comments about U.S.-Iran negotiations:
  • Joe: “J.D. Vance thinks you're stupid… He can say anything in front of you. And because he went to Yale and you didn't, you'll just buy it… He just says stuff that's not true over and over again.” (19:14, 19:24)
  • Jack: “He thinks you're stupid. Yeah. All right, well, we're not, damn it.” (20:01)
• Further analysis:
  • The hosts express dismay at legitimizing Iran’s regime and criticize the notion of "fairness" between U.S. allies and adversaries.
  • Summarize several perspectives on why the U.S. proceeded with the agreement, including economic and geopolitical pressures (33:22–36:04).
  • Joe on the deal’s risks: “Luck's a heck of a strategy.” (33:22)
  • Jack: "There is zero indication that the future is promising in terms of nuclear negotiations. There's no reason to think that. But they repeat it over and over again.” (35:16)
  • Joe: “The argument boils down to this: Every other potential benefit disappears if negotiations collapse.” (35:26)
  • The hosts reference analysis from journalists and think tanks, with particularly strong criticism from Commentary magazine about Vance’s anti-Israel positioning (38:05).

7. International Negotiation Culture (29:55–31:02)

• Negotiating with Iran vs. Western expectations:
  • Jack’s friend, who has negotiated worldwide, says Iran’s culture views dishonesty in negotiation as clever rather than unethical.
  • Joe: "If you sat down at a table... and it turns out the guy lied to your face... you would think he was a scumbag. But apparently in some countries that's seen as clever." (30:44)

8. U.S. Domestic Policy and Social Commentary (22:01–23:15, 44:49)

• Briefs on California's billionaire tax proposal, health care affordability at a five-year low, and listener emails about drug enforcement and law enforcement perspectives.
• Law enforcement reflection: Jailing addicts, even briefly, offers them clarity and is sometimes the only way drug-addicted mothers regain sobriety to get their kids back. (47:04)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Middle East deal cynicism:
  • Jack: “This is very controversial. Trump signed the MOU, but then JD was supposed to go to a signing ceremony… and that got postponed.” (03:37)
• On sports creating real-world happiness:
  • Jack: “It was an UN Internet phenomenon… At least we do that with sports.” (13:42)
• On American self-esteem:
  • Jack: “Americans are fabulous people… Don’t forget that we’re the most generous, welcoming people on Earth, generally.” (07:10)
• On political irony:
  • Jack: “Obama slams America's fixation on wealth and fame ahead of star studded launch party for $850 million shrine to himself. That’s hilarious.” (08:30)
  • Joe: “That is 60% enriched irony right there.” (09:03)
• On Juneteenth:
  • Jack: “It was born of the great awokening… But as a historical day, it’s interesting. And I hate that it’s become woke-ified.” (46:22)
• On JD Vance:
  • Joe: “J.D. Vance thinks he can say anything in front of you… you’ll just buy it or something. He just says stuff that’s not true over and over again, very emphatically.” (19:24)
• On negotiating with Iran:
  • Jack's friend (paraphrased by Jack): "They’re just utterly dishonest and manipulative and will steal from you as they're shaking your hand… if you can get over on the other guy, that scene is clever, not as despicable, but clever." (29:55)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Timestamp | Topic/Segment | |-----------|---------------| | 02:54 | Show start; MOU deal, “Memorandum of Underwhelming” | | 03:37 | Trump signs MOU, JD Vance, signing ceremony confusion | | 04:30 | Hostilities between Israel & Hezbollah, undermining the deal | | 07:10 | U.S. hospitality, Americans’ self-esteem, Scottish tourists | | 08:30 | Obama presidential library, irony in politics | | 12:31 | Jalen Brunson, Knicks, community joy | | 13:42 | “Un-Internet phenomenon,” sports fans’ happiness | | 14:03 | Arthur Brooks findings—sports fans are happier | | 19:14 | Critique of JD Vance & U.S.-Iran deal statements | | 22:01 | California billionaire tax proposal and legal details | | 29:55 | Culture of dishonesty in international negotiation | | 33:22 | Risks of the Iran deal; luck vs. strategy | | 35:16 | No hope for nuclear negotiations; administration logic | | 38:05 | Commentary magazine’s critique of JD Vance | | 44:49 | Listener mail: addiction and law enforcement |

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Language and Tone

True to style, Jack and Joe blend sharp satire, frustration, and genuine curiosity. Their banter is irreverent and pointed, especially when discussing politicians or cultural trends they find hypocritical or unserious. Despite moments of humor, the tone turns serious when addressing the risks of Middle East politics, American unity, and policy impacts—often with exasperation and skepticism.

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In Summary

“Memo of Underwhelming” takes listeners through current events, especially the uneasy, arguably hollow rapprochement between the U.S., Iran, and Israel. An American sense of humor and skepticism threads throughout, tackling sports, holidays, and the persistent ironies of public life and political dialogue. The episode is a lively blend of mockery, warning, and affirmation that—in both sports and international strategy—community, vigilance, and honesty are in short supply but sorely needed.

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Transcript

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[Joe Getty]

Live from Studio C. Say, senor. A dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong. You get a communications compound on Friday, and today we're toiling under the title

[Jack Armstrong]

of the show more like Memo of Underwhelming. Or if you prefer, uncle sam boxes, kangaroo filament 11.

[Joe Getty]

Ah, it's too bad you just came up with the MOU as memorandum of Underwhelming, because that's good. I mean, and the story's kind of over, so.

[Jack Armstrong]

The story is just beginning, my friend.

[Joe Getty]

Using the term MOU is kind of going to come to an end, though. I mean, that was. That was all the talk there up until who's seen mou. When are they going to release mou? And Memorandum of Underwhelming is pretty good.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Speaking of which, and we won't belabor this. We've talked about it enough. But I'm glad you didn't pay me the $10 yet, because this is very controversial. Trump signed the MOU, but then JD was supposed to go to a signing ceremony, right? And that got postponed.

[Joe Getty]

I was actually just thinking about this. This is why. This is why law run the world. This is why you get to get lawyers. We should have had lawyers involved in our bet. I bet $10 that the deal would not be signed. Did I say Friday or by Friday? I don't remember. But it wasn't signed on Friday. It was signed before Friday.

[Jack Armstrong]

Listen, I got no nits on me. Quit picking them, huh?

[Joe Getty]

And then you've got the. Well, so they're not doing the. Is it the signing or is it the ceremony that matters? And I would imagine it's the signing. That. But anyway, not a good start. When they were supposed to go and meet and start the negotiations about missiles and stuff like that.

[Karen Kilgariff]

And.

[Joe Getty]

And no, they canceled it because Hezbollah attacked Israel. Israel attacked Hezbollah overnight. And that is line one in the Memorandum of Underwhelming. Line one is, hostilities end and on all fronts.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. No, no.

[Joe Getty]

Israel repeatedly says we didn't agree to that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Can't make us agree to that.

[Jack Armstrong]

No kidding.

[Joe Getty]

Anyway, well, we'll talk about that more later. What was the thing with Uncle Sam? Boxing? Who?

[Jack Armstrong]

Uncle Sam Boxes kangaroo film at 11. We were playing the Aussies this afternoon. The US and Aussies in the World Cup.

[Joe Getty]

The Socceroos.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Very exciting for my house.

[Jack Armstrong]

I have a conflict and I'm very bummed about it.

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I'll.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'll be DVRing it, but do you

[Joe Getty]

know what time it is? So what time the. The match?

[Jack Armstrong]

Three o' clock Eastern, noon Pacific.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, it is. It's that early in the day?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, cool.

[Jack Armstrong]

From Free Adult. Don't step on any needles on the field, guys. That's the key thing to avoid. Never mind the awesome Aussie defense. Don't step on any junkie needles.

[Joe Getty]

Some noon west coast time. So I'm running errands today, so we'll have it on in the car as we drive around. Cool.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, wow. Yeah. Soccer without the. The excitement of soccer without the dist. Action of being able to see it. Yes, that does sound like a dream come true. Or you could.

[Joe Getty]

You could say it that way. You could say, it's not like I'm gonna miss anything by not watching.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, I disagree completely.

[Joe Getty]

They can tell me if somebody scores. Well, I don't know anything about strategy, so it. So watching it is worthless for me. I just see people running around, and it looks like they're randomly kicking the ball.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right? Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

And everybody cheers, and I think, what. What are y' all excited about? The ball is 50 yards from the goal. What are we cheering about here?

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, right.

[Joe Getty]

It's.

[Jack Armstrong]

It helps if you picture it a lot like basketball, where they. There's a lot of ball movement around the perimeter. They're trying to get mismatches and trying to get the defense to be a little slow to react, and then you exploit that and move forward and blah, blah, blah. But, yeah, it takes a long time, which is why they sing those songs and drink like lunatics. I mentioned this yesterday. The Scotsman descending upon Boston. They drank the Sam Adams Boston Lager dry at the Sam Adams Giant Taphouse. They had to do an emergency thing, and bar owners are Reporting receipts quadruple St. Patrick's Day.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Just because the Scotsmen are in town. Yeah. Having a big time.

[Joe Getty]

My niece, who lives in Boston, sent out more pictures yesterday of dudes and kilts walking around the subway and stuff like that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Love it. I tell you what, this whole phenom phenomenon of online influencers from all over the world saying this country's freaking great. I've heard all this negative stuff. These are the nicest, friendliest people in the world. They're thrilled to show us their city. Americans are fabulous people. And I'm like, yeah, that's right. We are. Don't forget that we're the most generous,

[Joe Getty]

welcoming people on Earth, generally.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, except during the Biden years, if you have permission to come in. But yeah, God dang it, we're great people in a great country. Let's not wallow in negativism all the time.

[Joe Getty]

Unless we lose to the Socceroos. Then I want them jailed.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh yeah. Oh yeah, yeah. Ship them off to that El Salvador prison you're such a big fan of. Where they shove your head down in your white jumpsuit. Exactly.

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[Jack Armstrong]

That's not going to endear us to any tourists.

[Joe Getty]

No, they won't think that's good at all. Now I'm trying not to talk at all about the whole Iran thing because I think it's, it's, it's really quite a dealio. But we'll get to that soon enough, I'm sure.

[Jack Armstrong]

You want to hear my favorite headline of the day?

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Sure.

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Here it is. Obama slams America's fixation on wealth and fame ahead of star studded launch party for $850 million shrine to himself. That's hilar. Hilarious. We're too focused for the win.

[Joe Getty]

He says to Bruce Springsteen and Bono and Ari Ariana Grande in the first row.

[Jack Armstrong]

Was that some sort of scientific irony test? You know, what's the purest distilled irony that can be produced or what? That's hilarious.

[Joe Getty]

Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

That is 68, $50 million shrine to himself.

[Joe Getty]

That is 60% enriched irony right there.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right? That's weapons grade. Yeah, weapons grade. Hilarious.

[Joe Getty]

That is funny.

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I never thought about that. But that is absolutely true about that crowd. They're always talking about, you know, the regular guy and the rich getting away with this and that and you're, you're the most elite assembled group that could possibly exist.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, right. All the energy in the Democratic party is the college educated, wealthy. It's crazy.

[Joe Getty]

Well, and the whole presidential library thing has clearly turned into something that wasn't the original point. It was supposed to be. You gotta house the documents from an administration somewhere and then scholars and researchers can go and dig through them like that. Robert Caro, I read the LBJ book. Spends, spent, has spent his whole life practically at the LBJ library as he says, turning over millions of pages over the years, looking, reading every line that that's what they're. But they just kind of recently it's, I'm going to build a giant like monument to myself. It's a shrineseum with the donations of people that I helped out over the years or maybe can still help out in the future. Yeah, a shrine. That's not, that's so not American.

[Jack Armstrong]

I would agree. Yeah. And honestly there is a lot to like. The Obama thing, it's a giant community center, you know, sports courts for Kids and. And, you know, educational resources and that sort of thing, which is lovely, but. Yeah. In general. Yeah. The shrines to presidents. Why? I mean, some of them deserved, like, monuments and such, but a very few.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Interesting. I didn't take in any of it. I just couldn't. You said you turned it on for like five minutes.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, I think it was 10 seconds. Michelle was slathering praise on her man for being a visionary and all and a far seeing, you know, sage and saint and the rest of it. I'm like, oh, God. And I just. I bailed.

[Joe Getty]

He'd have won a third term if we allowed that sort of thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. Interesting. Michelle Obama is a man.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

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That was one of the speakers.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, that was the. That was the wrestler from last weekend at the UFC match.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, I'd misunderstood. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

That's not helpful.

[Jack Armstrong]

You're not keynote speaker there.

[Joe Getty]

That's dividing us. That's not bringing us together.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah.

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Come on, let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Friday, June 19th. It's Juneteenth, right? It's today. Juneteenth, Correct.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

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The year 2026. We are Armstrong and Giddy. Are we racist if we're working here? If we're working on Juneteenth, does that make you a racist?

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I think so, yes. All right, let's begin. Now, officially, according to FCC rules, regulations, here comes the show at Mark.

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All. Thank you. Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks, who's become the most celebrated basketball player on the planet, who was the 33rd pick in the NBA draft a couple of years back, second round. Everybody passed on him at least once.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. Just amazing. I am not an NBA fan. I am certainly not a New York Knicks fan. But I've become a giant fan of the Knicks win and the reaction in New York City. And it crystallized in my head through two things. I read. One, Arthur Brooks, who's the psychologist, he writes about happiness and unhappiness for the Free Press. And he was describing how sports fans are happier people in general than non sports fans. There have been all sorts of scientific studies about it, and we can dig into that because I found it super Interesting. But the other thing was Peggy Noonan quoted a friend who was observing all this and how happy people were and watching the scenes of the crowds in the street day after day after day. And the fact that it was an UN Internet thing that was happening. People were physically with each other, they were looking at each other. Nobody was scrolling with their phones. Very few of them had their phones up to video, take pictures. Everybody was interacting with each other in a great American city. It was an UN Internet phenomenon. And I thought, wow, right? At least we do that with sports.

[Joe Getty]

I'm intrigued by this concept that sports fans are happier than non sports fans. I think that makes sense based on just my anecdotal. Having lived my life.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. And they asked the question, if you're a skeptic, good for you. You should be. Is it just that happy people like sports or that sports make people happy? And again, we'll dig into those studies and spell that out for you.

[Joe Getty]

That's a good question.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

The problem is when you're a sports fan, your team doesn't always win the championship. In fact, they don't always even have a winning season.

[Jack Armstrong]

So how about those years? Doesn't matter.

[Joe Getty]

Doesn't matter.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, not at all.

[Joe Getty]

Just something to focus on. That's not inflation or war or it's

[Jack Armstrong]

interaction and something in common with friends, acquaintances and strangers. There's definitely a bridge to other human beings.

[Joe Getty]

There's definitely community aspect to it. No doubt whatsoever.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, that's very, very interesting.

[Joe Getty]

Maybe I'll have to rethink mine. I was, I was huge into sports for almost my entire life, from a little kid until I had kids. When I had kids I thought, I ain't got time for this anymore. I kind of bailed on all sports. But sure, yeah, we've got headlines on the way. What do you think of that? Do you have any thoughts on that? The whole being a happier for your sports fan? Text line 415295 KFTC.

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Hetty. She starts dating Howard Hughes, the aviation tycoon. Do you know a lot about him?

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Wow. Wow. I sense a hidden meaning there.

[Joe Getty]

J.D. vance thinks he can say anything in front of you. And because he went to Yale and you didn't, you'll just buy it or something or. He's so persuasive, you. I just was watching him on Fox and he just says stuff that's not true over and over again, very emphatically. Yeah, they won't get a dime until they've agreed to all our nuclear blah, blah. That's just flat freaking not true, dude.

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And nobody believes it.

[Joe Getty]

Not a dime of U.S. dollars. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,. Ain't the U.S. part of the dollars that bothers me.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right? It's just dollars. Who cares where they come from? He thinks you're stupid. Yeah. All right, well, we're not, damn it. And neither is Heather Myers. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story. Heather, take it away.

[Heather Myers]

That could be arguable. Good morning, Joe and Jack, I hope that your Friday's off to. All right, let's start with some of the headlines. CNN saying US Iran talks postponed as Israel clashes with Hezbollah. CBS News, Israel Hezbollah fighting intensifies in Lebanon as next phase talks are delayed. And from NBC News, Obama says US May be worse off now than before Iran war.

[Joe Getty]

So starting day one, the strait is open.

[Jack Armstrong]

So up to.

[Joe Getty]

I forget what the number is. Hundreds of millions of dollars. It is still pouring into Iran with the straight open. And the talks over the nuclear part have been delayed. It's already happened.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. And look, this is not patting myself on the back, but when it emerged that one of the points of the deal was that all fighting stops, including Israel and Hezbollah. I'm like, whoa, whoa, that's a non starter.

[Joe Getty]

That'll never happen.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's silly. It's ridiculous. And here it didn't last, you know, long enough to make a decent ham sandwich. They wouldn't eat in Israel because ham's not kosher. Anyway, back to you, Heather, npr.

[Heather Myers]

Luigi Mangioni's lawyers withdraw plans for psychiatric defense.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, there's only thing, one thing we can do here. Joe not only considered going to law school. He filled out some of the paperwork.

[Jack Armstrong]

Why?

[Joe Getty]

Yes, why did they throw that out for like a cup of coffee yesterday and then pull it back?

[Jack Armstrong]

I wonder whether they talk talked him into it and he later said wait, no, I don't want to do that. Okay, it's entirely possible. Best guess or they're all crazy. He's crazy. No, he's not crazy. He's crazy Again, that's pretty crazy.

[Heather Myers]

From the Associated Press. California labor union offers to scale back billionaire tax proposal after pushback.

[Jack Armstrong]

Huh? Yeah, their cash grab was too greedy and obvious.

[Joe Getty]

But it's already on the ballot. How does, how does that work?

[Heather Myers]

They are asking the governor to get behind this and if he does, they'll scale it back to 2% instead of 5%.

[Joe Getty]

Can you do that when the voters have already voted on putting on the ballot?

[Jack Armstrong]

I. Inside the paper where the petitions and all. Yeah, I'd love to know more about the legalities of that. They just. It's so naked to just shameless. Cash grab.

[Heather Myers]

Gallup this morning. Adult US Adults ability to afford health care at a five year low.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I noticed

[Heather Myers]

from the Chicago Tribune, Obama's presidential center in Chicago will be a beacon of hope for democracy.

[Joe Getty]

That's what we needed, a beacon of hope.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, for democracy. Specifically the old boh.

[Joe Getty]

We need more bohs in every town.

[Jack Armstrong]

Keep your pants on. Tribune.

[Heather Myers]

Finally this morning from the Babylon bee. Iran wins 300 billion dollar cash prize for placing second in war.

[Joe Getty]

That's pretty good.

[Jack Armstrong]

Never disappoints. Yes. Well done. Thanks.

[Joe Getty]

You know, I was listening to Jonah Goldberg yesterday. How much time I got, Michael? Like five seconds. Well, I have to explain what but one of Iran's main goals looks like is going to be met. And that's dividing the United States and Israel. Maybe that was their goal.

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Hedi. She starts dating Howard Hughes, the aviation tycoon. Do you know a lot about him?

[Karen Kilgariff]

I mean, I watch the Aviator so I know everything Leonardo DiCaprio has allowed me to know about him. But incredible innovator, right?

[Georgia Hardstark]

She says he's a, quote, very strange man. But they do get along really well.

[Karen Kilgariff]

Give us examples.

[Georgia Hardstark]

I know they do get along intellectually and in fact, she helps him design a faster plane. She takes a look at what he's designed. It's got these square wings and she's like, that doesn't make sense. And so she finds the fastest bird and the fastest fish and sketches out a drawing of like what the two would look like as a plane and that becomes the plane that we know today. And he calls her a genius. Check out our new episode spotlighting groundbreaking innovators like Hedy and Lamar and Billie

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Goodbye.

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[Joe Getty]

I am horrified by what has happened to the ran this whole Oran thing. I think it's terrible, but not everybody apparently does. And I also think JD Vance is lying to you. But more on that later.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I've run across a couple really interesting takes recently that definitely they shine the light from a different side. Might not change anybody's minds, but perspectives worth hearing. But first and most importantly, it's time for the Friday tradition. Let's take a fond look back at the week that was its cow Clips of the Week Clips of the Week. Michelle Obama is a man. Am I right America? Sadly, due to the construction of data centers and the impending water wars, the most useful college majors now are foraging

[Heather Myers]

in hand to hand combat.

[Jack Armstrong]

Go ahead and cry. After 53 years, the Knicks are finally NBA champions once again. No one is getting left behind this time. Yes, it's basically a medical emergency. We were notified that we have a possible Ebola case on board.

[Joe Getty]

So that means 30 equals 6, which equals 8. You know what also equals 8? 4 unrelated 2 equals 6.

[Jack Armstrong]

I want want my country back. He's a stupid son of a bitch to get me. He's coming after my wife Jen, a public servant. I want to be lighting you up every single day.

[Joe Getty]

And now I don't have to worry

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about offending CNN viewers. It's war.

[Joe Getty]

The paradox of California today is a successful economy attached to a failing model of governance.

[Jack Armstrong]

Phrase I learned early in my career

[Joe Getty]

in the New York field office. And that's don't choke on your own smoke.

[Jack Armstrong]

This is a memorandum of understand. The coolest thing about the progress we've made over the last few weeks. The Iran deal that we made is going to bring a lot of success to the world.

[Joe Getty]

We are prepared to release frozen funds.

[Jack Armstrong]

Iranians in charge. The killers and thugs are still in charge. They're going to take that money and recover everything. But isn't it worth trying? These fools who think I haven't been

[Joe Getty]

Tough enough on Iran are either jealous

[Jack Armstrong]

of bad people or stupid. You can't tell a country whether Israel, Iran, they're not allowed to have any self defense. It's common sense. They don't want to get bombed, they don't want to get hit. Know your rights and for the love of Mike, don't ever give them up. I'm Mike and I approve this message. Still Baligan, Flo Baligan.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Want to hear that Bob Odenkirk thing again? Maybe later in the show today. I love that his better call Saul talking about how precious our rights are and how we better not give them up. Love that, love that, love that.

[Joe Getty]

So Joe, text me yesterday that he ran into somebody who thinks it's a good idea that Trump has made this deal. And I haven't heard a lot of that. So I was interested.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. A couple of perspectives. A good friend of mine who did business all over the world, and I mean all over the world, said first of all, because he's, he's done business in negotiating all these countries, he says negotiating in China is really hard. India is worse and Iran is impossible because of the utter lack of candor. And they're just utterly dishonest and manipulative and will steal from you as they're shaking your hand. And just, just, just culturally if you can get over on the other guy, that scene is clever. Not as despicable, but clever.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, it's, it's hard to fully appreciate cultural differences.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Because if somebody, if you sat down at a table and you were doing

[Jack Armstrong]

a deal about a car or a

[Joe Getty]

house or anything in the United States and it turns out the guy lied to your face. Like the words in the contract you're gonna sign were completely different than what he was saying to you with words,

[Jack Armstrong]

you would think he was a scumbag.

[Joe Getty]

And everybody you told the think he was a scumbag.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

But apparently in some countries that's seen as clever.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, well, yeah, man. Yeah, you should have checked more. He painted over all that mold that's on you. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, but this same friend said he is much more positive about the memorandum. Memorandum of underwhelming, as I called it this morning, because he said the world economy was suffering much more than we feel in the United States. And there were several countries, whether friends or like frenemies like China that were on the verge of panicking and were really seriously saying, hey, we've got to resolve this thing quickly. And so that was the idea. Having set back their nuclear program for years, probably that Trump was just under much greater pressure than we understood. And this will get the world economy going again. So one perspective, on the other hand, I think I was trying to find it. I think the Journal maybe has an article about how the economies of South Korea, Japan and Singapore and Asia is just exploding with wealth, all based on tech. But yeah, folks from all over the third world are flocking Asia now because there's so much money rolling around there. So I shoot, I don't know what's going on. And then I came from across this from the fabulous Neil Ferguson, who says on its face, Trump's 14 points. He's comparing it to Wilson's 14 points at the end of World War I. Right now Trump's 14 points look as wretched as Wilson's 14 points looked splendid in 1918. But who can be sure what lies ahead if the most perilous time for Iran's horrible regime is not when it is under intense bombardment, but when it makes peace and smells the approach of boatloads of money? What if at the same time it turns out that the IRGC's equally blood soaked confederate, Vladimir Putin is in deeper trouble than we realize with his war in Ukraine? Moscow got pounded the other day anyway. And what if the reason oil prices didn't even go higher than they did in the past four months is that China's domestic economy is in free fall, as some numbers indicate? What if, in short, President Trump's luck holds as it has held so often throughout his 80 years of often reckless risk taking?

[Joe Getty]

Obviously that all could happen, but that's counting on your luck holding as opposed to a strategy. Luck's a heck of a strategy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I think luck. I think he tossed out that word too easily. Let me read his next sentence. In the end, the wording of this lousy memorandum of understanding may matter less than the second and third order consequences of Trump's Iran war. The economic consequences to date have certainly been far less damaging than I foresaw in the earlier in the conflict. Maybe, just maybe, the same will turn out to be true of the geopolitical consequences.

[Joe Getty]

Then what's with the complete bull s? I wish I could say the word that J.D. vance is spreading around the last couple of days. All the crap about, look, you know what's cool? They don't even want a weapon anymore. They've come to the conclusion that was a bad idea. That's crap.

[Jack Armstrong]

The idea has ever lied to me about a good thing for me, right?

[Joe Getty]

Or Trump and JD Are Both saying the same thing with the. Wait a second. It wouldn't be fair to tell Iran they can't have rockets when. When Saudi Arabia can have rockets. What. What is this equivalence between our enemies and our friends? Where the hell did this come from?

[Jack Armstrong]

Trump says stuff like that a lot. He said it about Russia. He said it about China.

[Joe Getty]

That is nuts.

[Jack Armstrong]

I think he thinks it's a bargaining maneuver. I don't know. I find it despicable.

[Joe Getty]

Well, I can tell you what Commentary, the magazine that stands up for Israel, thinks about it in a second. But first, this from Mark Halperin's piece today, getting to what your friend was saying. Halperin talking to officials in the White House. Officials directly involved in the negotiations argue that allowing Rand to sell oil is a relatively small price to pay if it lowers gasoline prices in America, stabilizes energy markets, and creates a pathway to preventing a nuclear crisis. With that third one is very thin, it seems to me, since they've already today delayed the talks. Day one. The talks have been delayed.

[Jack Armstrong]

There is zero indication that the future is promising in terms of nuclear negotiations. There's no reason to think that. But they repeat it over and over again.

[Joe Getty]

The argument boils down to this. Every other potential benefit disappears if negotiations collapse. In that sense, they see the deal not as an act of weakness, but as an exercise in risk management. It a gamble, but a calculated one. Uh, I like this part. Nobody inside the administration that Mark Halpern talks to seems to be under any illusion about the odds. They might be talking like we're talking. Trump advisors almost universally acknowledge this is a long shot. Their view is simply that a long shot beats no shot. How do then you shouldn't have started the war if you weren't willing to go through. To the point that you're just gonna make them go along with this. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Or do we just knock their program backward over and over again through the years? It's a disease that can't be cured. It'd be too costly to cure it. So we just, you know, we knocked the symptoms back every so often. So I was the Tylenol of a good solid bombing.

[Joe Getty]

So I was listening to Jonah Goldberg yesterday of the Dispatch, who I haven't agreed with much in quite a while, but he was making the point that Iran has cleverly one of their great goals, in addition to having enough rockets to overwhelm Israel's Iron Dome at some point. And they were getting close. I had missed this part of the story, but I guess Marco was talking about this at the beginning. That's one of the reasons we needed to go to war now. Iran was approaching the place where they would have so many rockets that they could overwhelm the Iron Dome forces and then they would actually be able to blow up Tel Aviv with. With conventional weapons. Weapons they don't need a nuke. And now we're gonna allow them to have rockets again because it's not fair to tell one country they can have rockets in one country. Then it's perfectly fair. It's the way the world works.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's what's being a superpower is all about. That's the fun.

[Joe Getty]

Well, why do some countries have nuclear weapons and some don't? Because some countries we trust with them and some we don't. It's just. It's a non. Again, J.D. vance thinks you're stupid is my headline there. But the other part, that the second best thing that Iran could get is to drive a wedge between Israel and the United States. Israel exists because of the help of the United States since its beginning. They get so much military financial help from us. And now you're getting this. Israel gets rockets but Iran doesn't. That wouldn't be fair. Talk out of JD Vance. Commentary magazine, which is well respected in your think tank world, has this piece from Abe Greenwald. Today, Vance drops the pretense. J.D. vance's Jew baiting is no longer hiding in plain sight. It's no longer something he has to be that has to be inferred from his choice of anti Semitic allies, his serial flirtations with the rhetoric of the podcast.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

Because, you know, he's friends with Tucker and that sort of stuff.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

Or his clear displeasure whenever the Jewish state asserts itself in a way that conflicts with his political factions. Priorities. It's now out in the open, open. We get it. Everyone hates Israel and maybe they're all onto something. Vance has been itching to say this for a long time. And Donald Trump's failure in Iran finally gave him the opportunity. The President is letting jdb jd. Turns out he's exactly who I thought he was. So that's the view from the Israeli think tank community. Anyway.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

JD's part of the whole Tucker, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, Israel is the root of a lot of problems crap. I don't know if I believe that or not. Although that whole why does Israel get rockets and Iran doesn't? What?

[Jack Armstrong]

That's a bizarre state. Or.

[Joe Getty]

Or lecturing Israel about firing on Hezbollah. You realize Hezbollah, the other day, when this happened, the other day was Hezbollah blew up A school bus shot at a school bus in Israel. Israel fights back. And then, of course, the world headlines are Israel attacks Hezbollah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Leaving out the first part, right? Right. Yeah. And Hezbollah is Iran.

[Joe Getty]

Right? Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Unblanking. Believable. I don't know what to make of it.

[Joe Getty]

How about the fact that day one, the negotiations get blown up?

[Jack Armstrong]

That's a slight delay. I wouldn't worry about it. It's rainy.

[Joe Getty]

Do you think they'll ever sit down? I. I'd rather they didn't. I don't want to see JD Vance smiling and shaking hands with a leader from the Revolutionary Guard.

[Jack Armstrong]

They'll go through the motions. Yeah. At some point,

[Joe Getty]

they have to.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. I mean, it would be so incredibly laughable if they didn't even have meeting number one. I don't think anybody wants that.

[Joe Getty]

Legitima. Legitimizing one of the worst regimes on earth. That's something. Never thought I would see that. All right, we got Mailbag on the way and lots of other stuff. Stay here.

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I mean, I watch the Aviator, so I know everything Leonardo DiCaprio has allowed me to know about him. But incredible innovator, right?

[Georgia Hardstark]

She says he's a, quote, very strange man, but they do get along really well.

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Give us examples.

[Georgia Hardstark]

I know they do get along intellectually. And in fact, she helps him design a faster plane. She takes a look at what he's designed. It's got these square wings. And she's like, that doesn't make sense. And so she finds the fastest bird and the fastest fish and sketches out a drawing of, like, what the two would look like as a plane. And that becomes the plane that we know today. And he calls her a genius. Check out our new episode spotlighting groundbreaking innovators like Hedy and Lamar and Billie Jean King.

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Damn it. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.

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Sent along by Brian frequent correspondent Brian from Santa Rosa. Thanks Brian. From D.H. lawrence, the great writer.

[Joe Getty]

Big fan.

[Jack Armstrong]

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children brought up easy let it slip away. Poor fools and their great grandchildren are once more slaves.

[Joe Getty]

Seems to be human nature. Not sure if you can interrupt that.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's very very difficult. I think you can just delay it as long as you can. As Reagan put it, we're never more than a couple of generations away from losing our liberty.

[Joe Getty]

Or just look at your absolutely true. Just look at your own family dynamics of your own. They'll swing in your own family.

[Jack Armstrong]

Family.

[Joe Getty]

It's not easy to to arrest that track.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, no. Growing up poor yields a different person than growing up affluent. On average across a population. There's no doubt of it. No doubt about it. Mailbag.

[Joe Getty]

I can't wait till later talk about how great my first crock pot meal turned out. It was amazing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Excellent. Drop us Note [e-mail] yesterday yesterday we we played this clip of Gavin Newsom I'd like to say something to my wife. These times are not normal. They're not ordinary. I love you and I'm sorry he's doing this. And Jack observed, that's funny that he has the same cadence as Bill Shatner as Captain Kirk in the original track. And now I can't get out of my head. Neither can. Neither can Brian. Different Brian. Dr. Brian. He does sound like Kirk when you said California, the final frontier. I effing spit out my drink. That's funny. Yeah, I know. That's a weird speaking style.

[Joe Getty]

If that's his I'm mad speaking style. I mean, he should work on that.

[Jack Armstrong]

Stan says, you got to hear this. It's got to be blaring from the Trump motorcade. Undoubtedly the. Undoubtedly the theme song to Trump's entire two terms. I don't think a single person in the entire world would disagree with me. Imagine Trump singing this in karaoke. It is, of course, the Molly Hatchet classic Flirting with Disaster, which is a pretty good Trump walk up song, as it were. We can't play it for you, Stan, because of weird licensing laws with music and podcasting. Anyway, moving along, Aaron writes, happy Juneteenth. Check your privilege. I actually do check my privilege daily. But race has nothing to do with it. I pray, thank you, Jesus, that I was born in America to two great parents who loved me, cared for me, and taught me how to be a good man. I thank him for my wife and children and our quality of life because I know it is not common to live as well as we do. Again, not even a single thought about race. If anybody thinks I'm missing something racial in my practice of gratitude, that says more about them than it does of me.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, if you were born in the United States, that's. That's a huge legacy. Up on having a good life in the history of the world then if you got a good family. Also.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, we got a couple of emails pointing out that Juneteenth is a stupid holiday. I want to talk about that. My feelings are a little more ambivalent than that.

[Joe Getty]

Well, I don't like federal holidays, period. So it's not just because it's Juneteenth. I'd like to get rid of like all but three.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. It was born of the great awokening.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

And the Biden administration, so that's enough to despise it. But as a historical day, it's interesting thing. And I hate that it's become woke ified. Moving along on Seattle's incredible drug problems John from Boise writes first. He misses Katie and wants her to come back. We all do. Seattle during my 30 years of law enforcement in the East San Francisco Bay, we were very active in drug enforcement. Back in the old days before the George Soros funded DA's we had the ability to arrest many drug addicts for being on the under the influence and possession. Here are my conclusions. 1. If people are sent to jail, if only for a week, once they are sober and are able to they are able able to make clearer decisions when they get out. Saw it over and over again.

[Joe Getty]

2.

[Jack Armstrong]

The easiest way to get a young mother off drugs is to arrest her for under the influence and call cps. Many moms will stay off drugs to get their kids back. Drug enforcement is a tool which helps many people. It's so true. We've heard that from so many cops and former addicts now.

[Joe Getty]

Build them a tiny house, give them the needles, let them make their own decisions.

[Jack Armstrong]

Decisions.

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If you missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand Armstrong

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[Joe Getty]

Goodbye.

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[StartPage/LingoKids Advertiser]

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[Joe Getty]

mom, can I have Lingokids? Dad, Lingokids, please. When did we become the Lingokids house?

[Georgia Hardstark]

No idea.

[Joe Getty]

Last week it was dinosaurs.

[America 250 Announcer 2]

This week it's Lingokids.

[Joe Getty]

Why Lingokids?

[Jack Armstrong]

Because it's the best thing ever.

[Joe Getty]

We can play games with astronauts, wild animals and superheroes.

[StartPage/LingoKids Advertiser]

With more than 4,000 interactive games, songs and shows, LingoKids is the number one entertainment platform for young kids.

[Joe Getty]

Kids.

[Bethenny Frankel (Ad)]

So no dinosaurs.

[Jack Armstrong]

And dinosaurs.

[Joe Getty]

Everything kids love, download it for free.