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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. It's Friday. Live. from Studio C. C, Signor. A dimly lit room. Deep put them the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound and headed into the weekend. We are toiling under the title of the show. My most literary title ever. Fantastic. Casca reacts to slush fund scandal. What's Casca? Of course, Jack, you recognize Casca. And Julius Caesar, I'm sorry, in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, he was the first to stab Caesar. Okay, did not remember that. Caesar Trump has been stabbed, and the knives are coming out, is my contention. Alternate title, if you prefer something less obscure. Graham Platner is a Nazi creep, and the party that calls everybody a Nazi and started hashtag Me Too is standing by him. Cool. It's funny you break up Shakespeare because I'm like on a, I was thinking yesterday, I'm about to go on 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'd not understand a lot of the references. And I thought I need to be better where I've done this stuff. So. Yeah, wow. I admire your intellectual explorations. 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. Let the Republicans just show this as they have no. And I thought, how do you people do this for 50 years? You politicians, how do you? you get on both sides exactly the same thing how do you get up there every day for 50 years and pretend you care about this crap and say the exact same thing over and over again Why wouldn't 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. And then the Republican chicken up and say the same thing. Here is the, I see previous comments from the last 30 years and then sit down. The usual stuff about radicals and open borders and balancing the budget and I'll not waste any more of your time. Now, 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 a 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.

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. And it's not even very good showmanship. That's the problem. It's not good entertainment. And then it's entertainment, though, so that 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 was everybody's number one show that they followed was freaking presidential politics. Right, right. Well, see, I would never traffic in the kind of droning schumerisms 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. Both fascinating and revealing. Oh, yeah. I wouldn't merely fascinate you. That's a child's play for a man like me. I must also reveal. I should play 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. Like today, I feel like I could have guessed. I turned around. I looked up at Fox and they've got what's his name Graham Platner's Bear Chest with his Nazi tattoo up on the screen. Yep. And then on MSNBC, they had a shot of Trump appearing to be asleep in a meeting yesterday, which I might have been able to guess to. Do you think he's dozing off in those meetings? I don't think it's impossible. It looks 100% at least the one from yesterday. It looks 100% like his sleep, which doesn't really bother me that much. I'd like to dose off right now. I'm staying up too late watching sports. Damn it. I think it was his energy guy with the cool hair, the billionaire from North Dakota. He was a... He was going on and on about shale or something like that in trouble. You know, middle of the day, maybe a little hot in the Oval Office, had a big lunch. I can see snoozing just a little bit there. Right, yeah, yeah. Oh, God, not shale. I can, yeah. 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 heat of the spring and summer was starting to come. And they didn't run the air conditioner that much. So it's hot in there. And that person's drowning on about something, something, something, Bueller, anyone, Bueller. And just, just, oh, my head weighed 8,000 pounds. Oh, I know.

You could have drifted off in a second. I know. Like one second if you, you know, permitted yourself. 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 just never could be that person. I think I probably did that once or twice. I know I didn't. Looking back on it, I wish I would. Like I've said many times, I wish I'd have skipped school once. I never did one time, ever. Neither did I. I don't know. Should have been a major scandal in my house. And mine. Because I know this now as a parent who has high schoolers. You don't want to, you know, start down a path. And you think if your kids skip school, you think it's going to be a lifetime of lack of responsibility and all that sort of stuff. That's what you're worried about. But looking back on it, when everything's turned out, it seems like, God, one time on a nice day when everybody went to the lake or something, I should have done that once in my life. 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 to opt out of school. But you've got to admit there's a different feeling if you're doing something naughty. That's a different feeling. Oh, please, the forbidden fruit. Exactly. So yummy. 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, and he's Joe Getty on this. It is Friday, June 5th of the year, 2026, where Armstrong and Getty, and we approve of this program. 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 lights. Oh, wow. Oh, boy, did not see that coming. Ah, that's a great joke. That's pretty good joke. I like that a lot. Yesterday was my sophomore. his last day of school. So are you officially a junior once you're a rising junior? I'm not going to use that term. That's not going to happen. Why not? Anyway, so it was his last day of the sophomore year and he went over to a friend's house after school and I went to pick him up last night and man, the smiles on their faces just. Just the happiness that was exuding from it. 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. Jack Sophomore from the Greek Sophos, meaning wise and moros meaning fool. Okay.

How about that? Huh? I was mostly. Then what... I've quoted Shakespeare and ancient Greeks. And you're bringing it today. Oh, but unfortunately, that's all I got. That's it. That's it. What's junior mean, just less than senior? That means you're, yes, younger than a senior, but older than a sophomore from the ancient Greek sophos, meaning wise. Oh, I did that one already. Do you have any idea where freshman comes from? I think it's self-evident, isn't it? Fresh men. It's like fresh meat. Okay, got you. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Why they had to work a little Greek in just for a year two, I have no idea. Right. They don't teach them that or anything else. I think it was my favorite professor in college, Ira H. Carmen, who introduced me to that. Brilliant man. Brilliant. Fantastic. And that's stuck in your head. Yeah, I don't know why. I thought, I've been hearing this word my entire life and it never occurred to me to ask what it means other than second year. So there are new jobs numbers out that are good according to people who look at that sort of thing. And cool. And we'll look into that and the unemployment rate and a bill that did pass last night. Yes. And I do want to get into the 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 has turned. You think? 100%. I've heard this a few times. Over 15 years. This time it's true. If you were a junior like me and not a sophomore from the ancient Greek Sophos, you would know this already. Okay. And we've got our headlines with Heather Myers next. Stay here. Strong and Getty.

Jim Rome takes on sports. I will always have a complicated relationship with this game. But people evolve. So do sports. Do not make me regret this. Do not make me devolve. Back to that guy that so many clones wish that I still was. And do not embarrass the entire country. Now, I can go back. I can get there fast. Lose tonight. And you got a real problem. Do not blow it. The Jim Rome Show podcast. You've been warned. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. The Armstrong and Getty show. 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. Hmm. Top ticket price documented so far for the first Knicks game in New York, $176,000. That's a lot. Oh, boy. Nosebleeds are going for high thousands, high four figures. Yeah, and the other day they said they expect your Tim Salome seats to maybe be in seven figures that front row. for all the stars. Anyway, resumes tonight in San Antonio game two. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Heather Myers. Heather, take it away. Happy Friday, Jack Joe. Good morning to you. Let's find out how the networks are covering the news, starting with CNN. Senate passes massive immigration bill and big win for Trump. From MS now, Senate Republicans fall in line with Trump in past reconciliation bill. And from the Associated Press, Senate okays $70 billion immigration bill after rejecting efforts to permanently ban Trump's settlement fund. Yeah, the slush fund is not dead yet. And Trump the other day said, I don't know if it's dead. I've got to ask my lawyers. So it could reappear Frankenstein like, surely not. From the BBC this morning, Volodymyr Zelensky proposes direct meeting with Vladimir Putin to end war. I saw that. I was just reading in Mark Halperin's newsletter about the animosity between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky is now part of the problem of getting any end to this war. They hate each other so much. I have no doubt. It's far from unanimous, but there are some serious Russian heavyweights who are now saying, we got to end this. Can't win it. It's too costly. We've got to end it. Interesting developments. Did you imagine after all of this, the two of them meet face to face and settle this? 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 where they both feel like they're not going to be snatched or killed. I don't know what that would look like. 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, you're right. What a logistical nightmare.

From the LA Times this morning, California election results. Ramon makes gains, but Spencer Pratt remains ahead in L.A. mayor race. Yeah, there's still way too many votes out to predict anything. I say 64%. They assume are in right now. From NBC News, U.S. added 172,000 jobs in May, even as inflation squeezes consumers. 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? That's amazing. And government. And government. From CNN, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Center orders staff to remove Trump's name. All right. There's a story I haven't been following also. Now, you've missed the fascinating developments then. Trump putting his name on the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Center and then the artsy-fartsy crowd. Just being up in arms over it. All right, whatever. From Newsmax, 20% of young people use AI chatbots for mental health advice. Only 20% would be my response. I'm surprised that's not higher. Yeah, do it more. They're pretty good at it. Claude especially. From News Nation, USPS raising stamp prices again. 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. Right, right, indeed. Wise. July 12th, they go up again, now to 82 cents to mail a letter. Whoa! I was about to say we should have a guess what a stamp cost, because I would have missed by 40 cents. Really? I think so, yeah. I don't remember the last time I bought a stamp. I always buy the forever, so I had no idea they're up to 82 cents. Okay. We should have a pull on when stamps will reach a dollar. Dollar to mail a letter. It's actually kind of the other way around. When does a dollar reach a stamp? Because the value of a dollar is going down so much. I'm not sure. I wouldn't have said 40 cents, but I'd have no idea what a stamp was. Zero idea. I'd have come off like George Bush Sr. at the scanner there at the supermarket. Oh, look at that. Well, my wife runs that department. From NBC News this morning, Mom found moving worms and parasites in daughters' SpaghettiOs. There you go. It's probably that bloodsucking worm. The screw fly, the screw worm. Yeah, yuck. Gross. And she was unhappy with that, I take it from your tone. There's a lawsuit, as you can imagine. From the Babylon B this morning, Nation shocked as a candidate with a Nazi tattoo turns out to be total scumbag. Yeah. That's pretty good. I don't know. The New York Times had a heck of an 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, but it wasn't much to it. I'm not sure we saw the same accounts. The one gal, he grabbed her hard enough to bruise her and locked her in a room at one point.

That's not good. Eventually they got to that many, many words into the article after a lot of didn't call her back and was dating someone else at the same time. And like, that's what 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 duty is. He didn't call somebody back when he was dating them. Hanson, let's go ahead and title this section of the podcast, Jack Defends Nazi. I'm sorry, misogynist Nazi. Wow. That's not a good title for a podcast. That's not a good look for me. So that puts you in a bad life. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, boy. Thank you. Thank you. You too. Have a great weekend. Oh, we'll see you in an hour. Never mind. Are you convinced? Are you convinced he knew it was a Nazi tattoo and that was the whole point when he got it? Yes. Yeah. Me too. Yeah. Yeah. He thought it was hard ass and cool. And that was like the Nazi concentration camp. Right. Insignia. Yeah, it's pretty hardcore, even among Nazi tattoos. Okay, we got more news to get to. Stay with us. Armstrong. Hey, I'm Chris Van Fleet. Go behind the scenes and beyond the headlines with the biggest names in pro wrestling and beyond. Mr. Sandman. All I ever wanted to be was a pro wrestler. So I got to live my life and make people really happy. The heartbreak kid himself, Sean Michaels. Do you think there's anybody better than you were? I think I was great at what I did. And I think other people were great at what they did as well. Greatness is more of mindset, I think, than anything else. Mindset, motivation, insight with Chris Van Fleet. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. platform. The Armstrong and Getty Show. 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 weigh 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. 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. Yeah, I think they clearly hate each other. They really do. We'll bring you the evidence, you good people, and let you be the judges coming up. 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. Oh, yeah, contempt is the best gasoline on fires ever invented. Yes. Plus, I will explain why I keep making references to Shakespeare and stabbing Trump and that sort of thing. Because you're fancy, that's why. After, 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.

We need to get all the naked drug addicts off of the sidewalks. We can't walk and chew gum at the same time. With the state of L.A. right now, the solar panels, you can spit that gum out. Spencer 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. Are you ready? I mean, I was born for this, clearly. Xavier Becerra has surged. Javier Bacaria. By God, if you have Ebola, show up and vote today. Whatever it takes. I know. We're a mask. Trump backed former Fox news host, Republican Steve Hilton, is in the league. The Senate. race in Maine with presumptive Democratic nominee and horny Lorax, Graham Platner. The Wall Street Journal in 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. Why have you happened? I don't know what happened. I mean, as I watched it, I thought, oh my God, he's having a stroke. And so I said, you know, you answered every question. My mind's racing. You know, that's a pretty low bar. More turmoil at CBS News. Journalism is under attack in America. Trump told me at Yahoo he was effing crazy. Everybody hates you now. I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon. Nobody is interested in the ramblings of a cap-out. Her son and Jeffrey Epstein talk about pole dancing as he begged him for money using your limited credibility. Reclaiming my time asking to shut up. That's a pretty... Shut up. We're talking about shoes. Are you guys kidding me? I mean, is this the Foreign Affairs Committee or is this like a circus? What is this? It's simple as a pimple for me. There's nothing to it. It'd be nice if it was caught human being taken away, and obviously it's domesticated bird.

It was very shocking, and we asked it out of the box, what is kink? Kink can be a fascinating topic. There are many different styles that people enjoy. It's clips of the wind. Oh, that was that AI teddy bear talking about kink. 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. Top advisor to a British prime minister for years. 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. I think it may be unintentional. They are so blinded by their own biases. And because they don't consider somebody going out into the world and making a living, any qualifications for anything. Oh, no, it's the opposite. It makes you suspect. Right. Being low-level public service automatically qualifies you to be anything. Okay, want to pay off the topic of stabbing Trump a la Julius Caesar and the Shakespeare play. We were talking the other day about the Wounded Bear Caucus, the senator specifically, that Trump has pissed off or gotten primaried, but who are going to be in office now for many months until next January, I guess it is. And how. They're now openly expressing their dislike, contempt, disagreements with Trump in a way that was much more reserved a month ago. 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 going to go along with whatever Trump wanted. Yeah, or felt like they had to. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, okay, fair enough. But so a couple of examples for you. Kim Strassel of the Wall Street Journal is absolutely brilliant. One of our favorite writers. The headline is Trump's help wanted problem. There aren't enough people left with the lack of qualifications he's looking for. Job description. Superpower seeks anyone to direct its national intelligence apparatus. Responsibilities. Whatever the CIA tells you. Qualifications. Obescence to Donald Trump's day-to-day agenda. Willingness to express constant admiration for the boss. Fluidity and maga talk. No intelligence experience required. This is about the guy he pointed to replace Tulsi Gabbard that everybody is yelling about the fact he's got no credentials.

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've got to quit claiming everything's top secret. That's absolutely true. Yeah, I agree. Word from our friends, it's simply safe. In the U.S., there's a break in every 26 seconds, and if you're in a blue state, it's way more than that. That means somewhere right now an intruder is getting closer and the problem with most security systems as they alert you after the break-in is started. But SimplySafe, using the outdoor camera series 2 and advanced AI alerts, SimplySafe, U.S.-based live agents identify threats on your property and help deter them stopping the crime before it starts. Putting us simply back and simply safe. It's simple to go on the website and order it. The specific system for your house based on Windows, doors, size, all that sort of stuff. Simple to set up. Simple to use. No long-term contract for SimplySafe. Oh, yeah. They earn your business every single day. And right now you can get 50% off with our code and you get the peace of mind we enjoy. Go to simplysafe.com slash Armstrong. That's half off at Simplysafe.com slash Armstrong. It's super affordable too. Simplysafe.com slash Armstrong. There's no safe like Simplysafe. There isn't. Clearly. You were mentioned Shakespeare several times? Yes. The knives are out? Yes. The wounded bear caucus. Bears wielding knives are darkest night. 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. Crap! I would think to myself, crap! This is not my lucky day. This will only end badly. One of the reasons I'm wanting to do a deep dive on Shakespeare, I came across this stuff yesterday talking up Shakespeare. Alexander Dumas, who wrote the Count of Monaget Christo. Dumas, I guess is a way. There's some dispute over the pronunciation of his name, but go on. Famously said, after God, Shakespeare has created most. Everything you need to know about human nature is in Shakespeare. Correct. And nothing new needs to be written at all. And the number of phrases that we use to this day that he coined defy belief. Yeah. Um. And very little is known about the guy, which is really, really interesting. Right. Well, he didn't like the celebrity lifestyle. He kept a low profile. And the fact that colleges and universities don't teach Shakespeare unless it's to deconstruct his colonialism is an obscenity. That alone is reason to just bulldoze all our universities and sell the bricks for scrap. I would agree wholeheartedly. Start it again. We got a lot of we got to get to today, surprisingly, on a Friday, but we got mailbag next, so stay here. Bah-da-pap-da-pap. Woo! Armstrong and Getty.

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To that point, 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 Schorberg, and it's handwritten, so it's a little tough to read, 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 came across that early on in life and have tried and failed, but tried to live an Ikean, you know, life. Yeah, that morning where he gets up early and goes and addresses those guys, specifically the paratroopers and looks them in the eyes and says good look 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 would be a rough thing to do. Yeah, to your point, D-Day by the numbers always fascinates me. The invasion. The amphibious invasion involved roughly 133,000 men landing by sea. 133,000, 23,400 airborne troops supported by 7,000 naval vessels and 11,500, I'm sorry, 11,590 aircraft, almost 12,000 aircraft. 73,000 Americans, 62,000 Brits, 21 plus 1,000 Canadians and small contingents of the other allies. And the casualties we lost either dead or wounded, roughly 6,600 men that day. British forces 2,700, Canadians 950. Germans lost something between 4,000 and 9,000 men, killed, wounded, or captured. 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. 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. Yeah, I've got to do it. Oh, it's worth the trip just for that. Yeah, yeah. Well, I propose because there's some really good email for a mailbag. Why don't we squeeze that in next hour? I recommend every year. David Ambrose's D-Day book is fantastic. If you want to really get a great feeling of what it was like that day, holy crap. And beautifully written, too. 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, you get the podcast, Armstrong and Getty on Demand. You should subscribe, then you'll get it fed to you automatically. More on the way. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty.

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