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A dimly lit room deeper than the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound today. You gotta like these short weeks. It's already Wednesday. Yes! And we are toiling under the title of the show. World's Most Violent Ceasefire Continues or Texas Turmoil . The big political story of the day. Paxton trounces cardin, the Trumpy candidate, steps up to the plate and Democrats are thrilled. I don't know. I was just looking up at the TV and you got something happened with a garbage truck somewhere, and then you get the woman hang gliding and you got hit by a plane and you got We gotta figure this out, people. We gotta figure this out. Do we want our news to be all the irrelevant to your life but interesting videos of the day? Or would we rather have like no videos but relevant to our lives? I'm for the latter. But I I feel like it's exploded in the last week or two. If you'll pardon the expression because some of them were explosions. If they have video of anything catching fire or wrecking or a God knows if a plane's involved, that is the lead story over war s and all kinds of And they will stretch it for three days, a single bit of video. We found a new neighbor who saw the mishap unfolding. Then they show the video a couple more times. The neighbor goes, Yeah, I couldn't believe it. I mean it was right over my head and I thought, oh my God. That's it. That's the only new thing. Right. So we get we gotta figure this out. I I was hoping Barry Weiss would have uh Tony what's his name on CBS come out and say, look, we're not gonna be the hot YouTube video of the day. We're gonna bring you actual news, but no they're they're the hot YouTube video of the day also. You know these are apt and and wise questions, but I find myself wondering what happened with the garbage truck. I like a good garbage truck mishap . There's the garbage, it's big, it's got a top, and was somebody asleep in a dumpster or a kid. Oh, a .way from being squashed Nothing bad happens. Very exciting. Of course, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. You gotta figure that out. It's hard to get to the actual news . Um everybody's pleased with Trump candidates winning. The Republicans uh Fox loves touting how Trump picks a candidate and they win, and the Democrats love it, so the mainstream media loves it, 'cause positioning Trump as the scary, scary, powerful man behind the scenes on every topic is is good for them. So there's reasons for the idea. Uh true so far. Um that's a that's a handy narrative for the Dems, sure. Yeah. Good fundraiser, good keep people worked up . Yeah. ends my interest in picking apart politics, at least for the moment. Yeah. I uh we've never been big on these kind of runoffs or in-betweens or all these different sorts of things. Just not the kind of show we do. But it is interesting that we uh particularly as Republicans have completely abandoned the character issue in terms of uh candidates, which maybe that's fine, I don't know. A lot of the rest of the world was looking at us with wonder like, you care whether or not the candidate cheated on their wife? That matters to you? What the hell? Is the way Europe and lots of other places say. And w it used to matter. And uh we no longer care about that sort of thing or even uh corruption to a certain level. So Yeah, my uh main problem with Ken Paxton in in uh Texas is that he is c clearly, nakedly , plaintiff's attorney uh 's best friend in the government, and he does everything he can to make everybody suable so he and all his buddies make more money. And here's the way the scam works, because I know some of you think, well, he's very trumpy and Trump loves him, uh, because he's loudly Trumpy. You latch on and and in fact you know what? I'm gonna switch teams here. I'm gonna show you how it works uh on the other side without ruffling any conservative feathers. Right. But that's not enough. No, no. He didn't pledge like fealty to Trump sincerely enough. And Ken Paxton did. So out with the loyal guy, in with the bootlicker. Anyway, but I'll I'll d here's here's the way Ken Paxton types work. Uh I'm going to go Democrat. I'm going to pick a couple of hot button-y issues. I'm going to go harder core on abolish ice than you've seen ever. I'm going to go harder core on uh Republicans are trying to ruin public schools by funding these rich people's private schools. Okay. I'm gonna just I'm gonna preach about that with just vigor and sincerity. Meanwhile, my real project is my excuse me. Oh, it's Ebola. Freaking Ebola. I'll bet that soccer that soccer team brought it over. Well, yeah, and I just uh you know, last weekend I was bored, so I said, honey, let's go to the Congo and hang out, tour a couple of hospitals. It was a mistake, I admit it. Did you sex up a monkey? Because isn't that how you catch it? Just one. Um so and you just got over the henna virus. Yeah, you just got over Hannah and you got Ebola. Yeah, I know. It's been a rough spring so far. Uh so I preach uh that that I am the world's most fervent evangelist on those two issues. Mean my m meanwhile, my real deal is I have friends and relatives who run these phony homeless services places and we're gonna rake in zillions of dollars. But I convinced the hardcore anti-ICE crowd that oh Joe Getty, he is something. I mean, he's more vehement than anybody ever that's how the scam works. Tired of it. Yeah . Thus end theeth lesson. Yeah. On that whole topic . So Well Paxton did that with like the gender betting madness, which would grab my ear certainly. Sure. And what was his other big one? I can't even remember. But that's how it works. Uh World Cup Soccer starts June eleventh. United States plays June twelfth at SoFi in Los Angeles, where the football teams play. And takes on Par aguay. We are the sixteenth best soccer team in the world according to the rankings. Paraguay is in the forties or something like that, so we should we should beat Paraguay and then move into the knockout round against who knows who, who knows where, 'cause the all the matches have to get played before they let you know that. But we should look good. I like giving the home team a a powder puff to open the tournament with. That was good planning. I like is that on purpose? Probably. Oh you think? You want the home country uh excited and involved. It's good for business. Well there are And FIFA will fix anything. They've uh excellent point. And if you go along with it, you can win their Peace Prize. Um They expanded this year. There are now forty-eight teams. There used to be thirty-two. So uh if we're ranked sixteenth, you know, we should be playing somebody that's a lesser seed open. Sure, yeah, that makes sense. So that'll be exciting. stuff. We'll have to see if that uh ends up true. But I've heard that story many times in my life with big Olympics and soccer and whatever and things shake out differently once you get there. Uh it'll be interesting to see how big the crowd is rooting for the United States, though? Do we have the home field advantage at SoFi with everybody cheering for USA, or is there a whole bunch of people from south of the border cheering for the other team? How many Paraguayans did Joe Biden let in? We'll have to check the figures. Or if you're from Mexico, do you like Paraguay over the United States in soccer? I don't know. Uh sure. Yeah. Yeah. The big bully to the north. You want them to be brought down, of course I think that'.ll get so interesting. That'd be quite the thing. Send ice into that crowd, speaking of ice. Wow. Let's start. Check in their papers. There's nothing wrong with that. Let's start the show officially. Uh I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. This it is Wednesday, May 27th, the year 2026, where Armstrong and Getty, and we approve of this program. Let's begin then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations, leaping into action at Mark. Now to a wildlife Encounter posted today by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Here we see the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services wrangling and removing a pair of black racer snakes from Dr. Oz's patio in Palm Beach. The snakes, we believe to be non-venomous, snap at his hands while he explains to his wife Cheryl Hines that the pair had been mating. We don't know why Secretary Kennedy posted this video, but there's interest in it. It's been viewed six million times and counting. Well, we watched it ten times on the show yesterday when it first came out and we were talking about it. There's a lot there. There's there's snakes having sex. You're on Dr. Oz's patio . JFK Jr.'s running around in his tie dress shirt and suit pants and socks. Larry David's wife enthusiasm is narrating the whole thing. He 's thinking Adam to He grabs the snakes with his bare hands with a big giant smile on his face as the snakes start biting his hands . It's quite there's a lot to like there. How would you not click on that video? Smiling broadly and occasionally wincing as the snakes uh bites land? Yeah, it's just it's one of the strangest things I've ever seen. On Dr. Oz's patio, of course. Why wouldn't it be? The stalking footed cabinet secretary is seen wrangling the two snakes that are biting him as his TV star wife screeches . Doctor Oz presumably videoing the whole thing says very little. Yes, exactly. It's something. Not just everybody goes over and grabs a couple of stinks live by the tail and you know, thinks it's hilarious the way they're biting him. Not just everybody is that way. He's an odd duck, that uh RFK Junior It's interesting. Well, you know, what do the rest of us do if we find a dead bear? Probably nothing. Contemplate what pranks would be, you know, possible. We don't immediately jump into what are our hijinks options with this dead bear ? You don't just leave a dead bear behind. There's so many possibilities. Course. Take it to Central Park, put it on the bike path, for instance. As if it were run down by a bike. That would be a good one.. Yes What else? My God. Put it in the elevator of some high dollar hotel. And the fact that he's so tan and so and so sw ole adds to the video. R Right. He's 75 years old and he's just buff as hell and dar and brown as a catcher's myth. Yeah. Yeah. The whole thing is amazing. Yeah. Somebody's got to put that to music or something. I'm sure there will be memes eventually. We've got headlines on the way. Stay here . Armstrong and Getty . Armstrong and Getty here for HIMS. There are all kinds of great weight loss approaches that fit into your world out there. They've got to put HIMS with a wide range of affordable GLP1 options. 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This July 4th, come celebrate at America's Block Party, hosted by America 250. America's Block Party is a can't miss 4th of July concert happening at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Experience music performances from major artists, patriotic tributes, and the kickoff to Giving Forth, helping to make July 4th the largest day of giving in American history. It's more than just fireworks. Learn more about this landmark celebration at America 250.org. Airtasker can help with your to-do list. Wire patio speakers, fix the leaky faucet, and learn Spanish before Madrid. Go to Airtasker.com or download the app. Local taskers can help. Accent not included. Airtasker, get anything done. What if your next favorite hobby came with a built-in crew? That's cornhole. Whether you're brand new to the game or just looking for an excuse to get outside, there's a whole world of players out there ready to welcome you in. Local leagues, weekend tournaments, backyard throwdowns. It's all happening near you. Find your people at your next event at iPlayCornhole.com slash events. New hobby, new friends. Seeing you, just having a lot more fun . We're going to talk to the great Sarah Isger of the Dispatch in Hour Two. Really looking forward to that. We've been trying to get her on for a long time. And uh she's got a book out. Obviously that's why she's making the rounds and wants to talk about that. But I got God, I got like five different things I would like to hear her do her screed on on our show. I definitely want to I definitely want to get one of them jammed in in addition to her book. She is so good. She's one of the best pundits in America, I think. I wish everybody was forced to listen to her a anti-first amendment policy Sarah would hate. But I'm willing to compromise. Uh speaking of terrific women in the news, Heather Myers is visiting from Newsmax among uh other assignments and filling in for Katie while she's on maternity leave, which is so great. Newsmax, how's their insurance like and everything? Everything yeah they treat you good. Fantastic people. And I told you guys that you know before that in this business sometimes um you don't always work for people that you love. So no, no not you guys, but other people in the business. Um and this time I'm just so happy. Great people. Excellent. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Heather Myers. Heather. All right, same story. Three different headlines, starting with Fox News. Trump to hold cabinet meeting amid Iran war negotiations. From CNN, Trump to convene cabinet meeting as Iran threatens to retaliate after U.S. strikes. And from the Washington Post, Trump to hold cabinet meeting amid declining approval on Iran and economy. So that's scheduled to start halfway through our radio show today, and he's uh likely to do what he usually does with the cabinet meetings, where they all sit around there for a while and take questions on camera before they close the door. I guarantee Yeah, we're gonna be getting into that a little bit more later . From Fox Business, Meadow lays off nearly 1400 Washington employees in latest tech workforce cut. Yeah, they are once again scaling down the amount of employees they have and scaling up the enormous amount of money that they're putting into those massive data centers and to AI. And as we always ask, so if if people are going to be taken care of by the universal income, when does that start? Uh Wall Street Journal with a great article today about thousands and thousands of jobs being lost in Phoenix, which had emerged as kind of the cubicle capital of the country for customer service jobs and uh, you know, earpiece and a cubicle type work that were uh lifting people into the middle class, but those jobs going away in a hurry, mostly due to AI Have you gotten the robocalls from the uh I was gonna say have you gotten the robocalls from the AI thoughts yet? No, what's that sound like well they kind of purposely stumble over your name and reflections a little bit different. Wow. I want to get one. I prefer the human touch when I'm being scammed. I appreciate that. Me too. All right from NBC Chicago, some tick bites can trigger a red meat allergy cases reported in Illinois . Wow . Oh . Yeah, this one's weird. Alright, New York Times. I know you guys touched on this a moment ago, but you gotta love the headline here. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. keeps picking up snakes. Is he doing it right? Oh snake snake handling tips. I appreciate that. Oh, that's a funny way to look at it. And from the Babylon B, parents help graduate sound out the words on diploma. Yeah, that's a good one. Oh boy. I like that. Yeah. Some of the big universities in California are saying, can we please go back to the SAT? These kids can't do middle school math that are coming into our STEM program. Yeah, that was an engineering program where they're like, We can't teach them engineering because they can't do basic math. Yeah and they got to had a chance. They were straight A students at their school they went to. That's weird. God dang it. We m we we sewed uh uh something. Something bad. I'll work on that sentence. I said it's a better school. Something good there. Heather, there's more than one Myers. Gotta remember that. Um the equity thing. Equity elimin ates excellence. A country that eliminates excellence will die . Well, it's just it's such an awful thing to do to kids. Yes. What a terrible thing to do to your kid to say, hey, you're a straight A student. Life is going to be easy for you . Go out there in the world and make your fortune. And you get out there and you you can't you can't do the most basic things. And then admit you into an engineering program at some uh auspicious university in a blue state based on your here's how I suffered as a BIPOC or whatever, you know, essay. And then they let you in, you can't multiply and divide. Oh, holy crap. We're here to teach you how to build rocket engines. Uh this is gonna take a while. Oh man, we got we gotta work hard to not be uh too negative, the most depressing show radio show in America, but there's a big column in the New York Times today about why we shouldn't be celebrating our birthday, the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of America. We're awful and we need to recognize that. I hate that person. In the fighting New York Times by a big time journalist. We'll get to that a little bit later. 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I guess I Googled and and searched through the swamp that is Google to get kind of a half assed answer eventually . Under the best of circumstances, yeah. AI is so much better. Anywho , uh this didn't take long. So yesterday uh Joe brought us some of the pushback on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of this country, particularly like a lot of our parks and monuments around the United States. And museums. my kids where there's gotta be all kinds of anti American, anti human, anti Western civilization stuff and every freaking plaque you see in every museum you go to and it really gets tiring. Uh and I said, Well we're gonna get ready for a lot of that coming for the July fourth anniversary, the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. And then bingo bango, there's a review of this book, America USA in the New York Times last night. Eddie Glaude Jr., if you're a watcher of MSNBC or MS Now now , uh he's a regular on there as a pundit. He's a uh black dude and he uh hates America. And um he's written this book, America, USA , where he wants to um well I can read a little bit here from the review, which I find highly annoying. Uh Eddie Glaude looking back on previous celebrations like the bicentennial in 1776, which Joe and I were old enough to live through and everything like that. Such celebrations he contends have never really been the moments for honest self-reflection that they're often advertised to be. Wait a second, that's interesting. So when mom uh and dad have their fiftieth wedding anniversary, the point of it is to have honest reflection on all our flaws? That's funny. That's not the way most people look at these sorts of things. I la I love how the left will state that is uh I'm c I mean clear ly this is the way people look at it. No, no, no, no, before you say another word, no. Well it's your daughter's sixteenth birthday. Let's go through everything she's done wrong in her sixteen ye ars and spend our time reflecting on that. Because that's what we do with celebrations. And why people, especially boys, don't like her and probably never will. Yes. Happy 16th, honey. Instead, the nation usually shatters the mirror , refusing to accept what it prefers not to see. Glaud rights to suppress the fact of America's soul. And it goes on and on and on and on like that. And I knew there was going to be a lot of that crap. And the fact that the New York Times already has a review touting how wonderful that is. Oh my. We have been using the um marriage metaphor because I think it's so good. Or or whether you're looking at the anniversary or just like your husband or wife, do you feel the need with your husband or wife for many decades to constantly focus on the flaws that if you don't focus on the you know a couple of years that that weren't great or they did this wrong or really did that wrong or whatever, always focus on the well, you're burying the past, you're turning a blind eye to the sins. Is that what you're doing? Or are you looking at the totality of things? And you're pretty happy where you are now, and you got here by zigs and zags, but look at where we are now, and I'm happy with this and I want it to continue. Which is it? And you work on stuff that isn't great in a way that does not betray your love for the family slash the country. Imagine if, you know, in your twenties uh the husband will say made a an investment that didn't work out. And thirty years later, they're looking at d I don't know, new dishes. Well, I'm not sure we can afford those. You remember that bad investment you made in our twenties? That didn't help us a bit. That would be poisonously dysfunctional. I mean horrible. I've known a few marriages that survived affairs and uh strengthened them in some cases. And uh do you just you lean on that all the time? Every year anniversary, you gotta make that the focal point because otherwise you're burying your history. Right. You're censoring your history. Or you got through it and you're better for it, and uh and this is where you want to be and you're moving forward. It's just it's so ridiculous. The self hating nature of that, it's a weird psychological thing. You want to spend all your time on the negatives as if they've gotten worse and not better. Right. Well that's useful if you're selling that and and you wish to profit from it, but it's incredibly unhealthy. It's it's poisonous toxic crap back in 1976, or at least as a child, it was hidden from me. It is going to be everywhere this July 4th. It's going to be hard to get away from. For instance, I shared some of this yesterday. It's a sign at a Philadelphia museum that's getting geared up, Philadelphia of all places, getting geared up for the What did independence mean for people in the colonies of British North America? Well that's a very ABC one two three basic question. Here's the answer. When Thomas Jefferson famously declared in 1776 that all men are created equal, his words did not ring true for many groups in the colonies, enslaved people, indigenous people, women, and the economically disadvantaged and others all tried to that's your your plus, you know, L B G B T Q plus plus plus. All tried to discern what their opportunities for life, liberty, and a pursuit of happiness might be in the new United States. Individuals who could choose to support the revolution, most often white men, did so for varying reasons. Some joined because of political ideals, many sought new economic opportunities, and others hoped that independence would bring Westward expansion onto the lands of various indigenous nations. Colonists like Edward Shippen, whose portrait hangs nearby, rebelled because they felt that unfair tax policies made them slaves to great Britain, yet many were enslavers themselves. Growing colonial industries, like John Bartlam's porcelain factory, proved that colonists could produce their own fine goods, but they too exploited enslaved labor. So there is not a sentence of this that does not suggest that the entire revolution and everybody who participated in it was just a sick slaving monster and that's at a museum in reply. And I've quoted uh Robert L. Woodson Jr. before. He is, speaking of uh black Americans, he is a black man, he is a man of the cloth , and he is absolutely brilliant and eloquent and a patriot. And I'm just going to hit you with part of this because it's a little long, but the 250th birthday of the United States presents a unique moment to celebrate beyond flag waving, anthem singing, and praising the wisdom of the founding fathers. Though meaningful, such rituals become empty without moral reflection. This is the part I loved. Which victories exactly are we celebrating? What kind of nation are we calling ourselves and our posterity to be? Over the past decade, American history has been weaponized to convince its people that we are irredeemably defined by our worst chapters, especially the moral darkness of slavery. Black children are increasingly taught to believe they live in a country that fundamentally thinks less of them. White children are told they are inherently guilty because they are privileged oppressors. Both messages produce the same outcome, a diminished sense of human value, the erosion of self-respect, and a collapse of social trust. And people a people that are convinced they are powerless will eventually live as though they are. The pest should be a teacher, not a jailer. People don't rise when We were first hit with this. When did this all start? Ten , fifteen, twenty years ago, whenever this all started. Yeah. Starting in the colleges of education, leached its way outward. They started doing it in schools, and it was more negative than positive about the United States at every turn. Ultimately, what well, I know what ultimately it is. This is an attempt to bring down Western civilization, but just for the for the teachers and the people that go along with everything, what are you trying to accompl? What's your goal? Do you think that the perfect place to be would for everybody to just be sad about the country? Or should we dissolve it? People c cross swim through rivers, they get on boats and shark infested waters, they cram into the back of the trucks and nearly die of heat to get into this country. To hope have a chance to live here. And you present it to school kids as if it's the worst place on earth to be. What is your point? Right, right. Part of it is if you're a progress of the progressive mindset, self-hat red is absolutely the pass you need to show at the door to get in. You will not be accepted in those circles unless you express hatred of your country and of your race if you're white, of your economic position, if you're not poor . Self hatred is a complete it's a requirement. Jacket and tie required. Self hatred required. Anyway, so he mentions that uh the Israelites were commanded to never forget their bondage in Egypt, not so that they would remain victims forever, but so they would never become Pharaoh to another people, to find their goodness and their morality and to regret the badness of the past, but not be bound by it. America must remember its own Egypt in that exact spirit, Woodson writes. The evils of slavery should never be forgotten, but neither should they be used as a permanent indictment against the nation. They should serve as a moral guardrail, reminding us that greatness is neitherher inited nor guaranteed. It must be earned, defended, and renewed. Slavery reminds us of the capacity for cruelty within every society and why we must remain humble, vigilant, and committed to justice. Then he talks about the entire American experiment is that we're striving for our ideals and it's hard and we make mistakes, but those ideals they're a North Star and they are always there for us. And he says the painful struggle to live up to those ideals takes courage, self-discipline, and above all grace. Not the cheap performative grace of political rhetoric that rationalizes wrongdoing or denies injustice. The costly kind that demands something of you.cipl Dineis, sacri fice, responsibility, and moral courage. Um, the kind that chooses restoration over revenge, even when revenge feels justified. And his last couple of sentences, um uh Uh as America turns two hundred and fifty, the question is whether we still possess the spiritual resources to renew ourselves. Will we continue nursing our grievances or will we choose the harder path of radical grace? America's future depends on that choice. Radical grace, that's a good term. Yeah. Yeah. I've got to comment on that. 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