Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty Armstrong and jet
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Speaker 2: Live from the studio scene see Senor a Dearly let
Speaker 2: room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Jetty
Speaker 2: Peet Communications Compound.
Speaker 1: It's a day on a decade.
Speaker 2: Nesday, on a Monday, brand new weekday after Mother's Day.
Speaker 1: We're under the tutelage of our general.
Speaker 3: Manager, China, our beloved trading partner de couple.
Speaker 1: I could never do couple with you. I love you.
Speaker 1: Who's a schmoovie? You hang up?
Speaker 2: We've got five to seven major stories happening at the
Speaker 2: same time, with updates pretty much happening on a moment
Speaker 2: by moment basis. I don't know which one you consider
Speaker 2: the biggest one, but the fact that China and the
Speaker 2: United Hey.
Speaker 1: Go out and buy pencils today like they're free.
Speaker 2: This is what I'm gonna do, because we all write
Speaker 2: with pencils all day long. Every other word, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: toss a pencil in the trash. That's how cheap pencils
Speaker 2: are gonna be again.
Speaker 3: Right, the old dollars, dolls, dolls for everyone.
Speaker 2: Thirty to your kid wants thirty dollars for Christmas, get
Speaker 2: them thirty dollars for fourth of July, thirty.
Speaker 1: More for Christmas. That's right. So good times are back.
Speaker 1: Good times are back. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So the boats both countries are gonna go back down
Speaker 2: to about ten.
Speaker 1: Percent, uh and just a.
Speaker 3: Little extra because that whole fentanyl thing on Chinese imports.
Speaker 3: But that it's a huge decline from the giant one
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty five percent that existed for a handful
Speaker 3: of days, or.
Speaker 2: One hundred and forty five percent. And they and so
Speaker 2: and they claim this is going to be a ninety
Speaker 2: day pause. I think it'll be for for the rest
Speaker 2: of our foreseeable future.
Speaker 1: They'll they'll never they won't go back to this and
Speaker 1: be my guest.
Speaker 2: And so there that's over history, and the markets will decide.
Speaker 2: I guess if that was we got anything out of that,
Speaker 2: if that was a good a deer not. So you
Speaker 2: got that whole story now and Trump's headed to the
Speaker 2: Middle East. To me, this is the most just interesting story.
Speaker 2: Freaking Zelensky is gonna meet face to face with Putin. Well,
Speaker 2: if Putin shows up, which I can't even imagine the
Speaker 2: dynamic on that whole thing, sickening to even consider. I
Speaker 2: don't know, I don't know how you could. I don't
Speaker 2: know how you could sit there and look at that guy.
Speaker 2: Uh Anyway, more on that later, because that's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Trump worked out and Jade Vance and Marco Rubio worked
Speaker 2: out some sort of at least temporary cease fire with
Speaker 2: Indian Pakistan that held over the weekend, and she got
Speaker 2: that story. P Diddy trial kicks off likely today with
Speaker 2: one of the key most key witnesses now can't be found,
Speaker 2: has disappeared. What wait a minute, I saw that. I
Speaker 2: just saw that story, and the judge is actually talking
Speaker 2: about maybe pausing for a bit.
Speaker 1: To try to figure out where the key witness is.
Speaker 3: Soo, that'sh The only clue is a trail of baby
Speaker 3: oil leading out of town.
Speaker 2: Or I don't know, it's probably probably the old uh
Speaker 2: gold silver or lead threat.
Speaker 3: Right, I wonder, I wonder, yeah, boy ugliness, By the way,
Speaker 3: I don't think that the Zelenski Puttin meeting is going
Speaker 3: to take place, which she'll be a big story in itself.
Speaker 2: Right, And then you got Hamas announced they're going to
Speaker 2: give back the last living American hostage.
Speaker 1: They're trying to buy some time or something.
Speaker 2: You still got to you got a deadline coming with
Speaker 2: a bombing the crap out of Iran. And Trump said
Speaker 2: Middle East, he will be in Saudi Arabia tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Uh, that is correct.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And there's some uh, there's growing controversy over
Speaker 3: some of the Trump families business dealings in the Middle East,
Speaker 3: as they are raking an enormous sums of money from
Speaker 3: some of the various oil chiekdoms that are seeking to
Speaker 3: influence American foreign policy.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not a fan of it. So you want it,
Speaker 1: so you want to come on.
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris. That's correct. Yes, yes, I'm backing Gavin Newsom
Speaker 3: in twenty eight. Now, I'm just telling you that the
Speaker 3: buzz is growing because it's uh, it doesn't look great.
Speaker 2: Well Trump, it looks like is going to accept that
Speaker 2: plane from Qatar that he'll then keep after he's done
Speaker 2: being president or something.
Speaker 1: That whole story. Oh, that's what's been proposed.
Speaker 3: It's not by any means a done deal, and it's
Speaker 3: it's it definitely has the appearance of impropriety. Particularly because
Speaker 3: and sorry, you know, to hardcore Trump fans, you know,
Speaker 3: all I have is my principles.
Speaker 1: I'd lost my good looks.
Speaker 3: My athletic career as such as it was, is in
Speaker 3: the dust bit of history.
Speaker 1: All I have is my poor principles.
Speaker 3: And I've been hammering the Biden administration, the Biden family,
Speaker 3: i should say, for the fuzzy at best influenced, pedaling
Speaker 3: looking activities, and this does not look good and the
Speaker 3: whole cryptocurrency.
Speaker 1: Thing at all.
Speaker 2: So the stock market is surging on the news of
Speaker 2: the tariff war being over, which is not surprising because
Speaker 2: that gives us some certainty.
Speaker 3: And in fact, the yeah, that's right, it is moving upward.
Speaker 3: This is our makeup sex with China. It looked like
Speaker 3: maybe we're completely on the outs, and now we are
Speaker 3: back and stronger than ever. We both learned something, we
Speaker 3: both realized what we could have lost, and it is assionate.
Speaker 1: Our love might even be stronger.
Speaker 2: Oh good, So do you have any have you come
Speaker 2: across any like good analysis of did we get something
Speaker 2: that the world?
Speaker 1: Did the United States get anything.
Speaker 2: Out of this little dust up? And now the pause,
Speaker 2: which I think is going to be the resolution was
Speaker 2: it a waste of time? Was something accomplished? Do you
Speaker 2: have the idea, any concept? The time will tell, That's
Speaker 2: what I was saying.
Speaker 3: There's also I mean, my gosh, the trade relationship with
Speaker 3: China and the the existing tariffs during the ninety days
Speaker 3: take a couple of minutes to explain. Now if you
Speaker 3: couple that with how about the rest of the world
Speaker 3: that we haven't yet finished trade deals with?
Speaker 1: What's what's the status of that?
Speaker 3: Do we still have some sort of highish punitivish tariffs
Speaker 3: on our friends and allies?
Speaker 1: What's what's up with Canada and Mexico.
Speaker 3: I don't you need like a running tote board status,
Speaker 3: you know, the update board of what's going on with
Speaker 3: all this stuff?
Speaker 1: So I have no idea how to answer your question.
Speaker 1: Did everybody call their moms?
Speaker 2: And or if you are a mom, spend a little
Speaker 2: time with your kids and have a good Mother's Day.
Speaker 1: I hope everybody did call the moms text letter. I
Speaker 1: thought fondly of my mom, God bless her days. I
Speaker 1: do every day. Woulde we made mom dinner? Actually we've
Speaker 1: did a little barbecue and fantas asparagus and all sorts
Speaker 1: of stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have the situation I often point out, I
Speaker 2: am envous of where everybody lives in the same area
Speaker 2: and you get together for stuff like this, which is awesome.
Speaker 2: I made different life choices and nobody ever sees anybody.
Speaker 2: Do you have any nar to well siblings that you
Speaker 2: speak ill of? Well, the family's gathered, Michael, that sounds and.
Speaker 1: John, we actually all get along pretty well. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: very wholesome. That's beautiful. I love that intastic.
Speaker 2: Both my brothers did go to visit my mom and
Speaker 2: they went out to eat, and I understand my younger
Speaker 2: brother ate way too much and was feeling awful at
Speaker 2: the end of it. My dad could not finish his steak,
Speaker 2: so my brother, having finished his own meal and feeling
Speaker 2: too much, one had finished Dad's steak so it wouldn't
Speaker 2: go to waste, and then was really really suffering.
Speaker 3: I swear, you know how some people do the twenty
Speaker 3: three and meters and find out they're at eight percent Cherokee.
Speaker 3: Your family has lion in it. I don't know exactly
Speaker 3: how that worked. Back in the day, some lion crept
Speaker 3: in the hen house, and an influence of the family's genetic
Speaker 3: code at some.
Speaker 2: Point the whole better for me to feel miserable than
Speaker 2: to let this go to waste. Is an interesting, uh,
Speaker 2: an interesting angle, but I've been many times in my life. Anyway,
Speaker 2: here's Jack's great granddad, Simba. So we'll look for any
Speaker 2: results in the stock market.
Speaker 1: I guess it looks like the for instance, the S.
Speaker 2: And P could be in a better spot today than
Speaker 2: it was on Liberation Day.
Speaker 1: So it's a win. It's gone up.
Speaker 3: It's a little fatiguing, I think everybody. And there are
Speaker 3: a couple of different topics that this could describe, not
Speaker 3: just you know, tariffs and economics in the stock market
Speaker 3: and that sort of thing. The Trump experience is an
Speaker 3: is a fatiguing experience.
Speaker 1: Well, a pencil in every dollhouse. That's what he ran on.
Speaker 1: And uh, it looks like it's beautiful, I so.
Speaker 2: Trump said, or quite the meeting over the weekend. If
Speaker 2: you're a fall on this at.
Speaker 1: All, I did. I thought it was something there in Kiev.
Speaker 2: You had macrona France, you had Mertz of Germany, you
Speaker 2: had the guy from Poland, and then you got what's
Speaker 2: his name, starmer from England. All got there, the leaders
Speaker 2: of all those major European countries got there together with
Speaker 2: Zelensky in Kiev to show solidarity, and there's announcement that
Speaker 2: there needed to be a cease fire, and Trump got
Speaker 2: on truth social they actually so they have a big meeting.
Speaker 2: They get done with the meeting at seven o'clock in
Speaker 2: the morning. It was earlier than that DC time, early
Speaker 2: DC time. They said, we got to call Trump. So
Speaker 2: they got Trump on the phone somehow and got on
Speaker 2: a video call with him and talked to him about
Speaker 2: what they had just discussed, and then Trump truthed out
Speaker 2: there needs to be a ceasefire. He Vladimir, there's got
Speaker 2: to be a ceasefire. And then there was some back
Speaker 2: and forth where on how they could get together. Lensky
Speaker 2: said he wouldn't meet. Trump said you gotta meet, so
Speaker 2: Zelensky immediately responded by I will meet.
Speaker 1: I'll be there. I'll be in Turkey. I'll be there.
Speaker 2: How about you Putin? So now it's up to whether
Speaker 2: Putin shows up or not. I can't imagine the human
Speaker 2: dynamic of that. I don't see how you could possibly
Speaker 2: sit there and keep any composure sitting across from that guy,
Speaker 2: because he always does the smartass routine. Yeah, him doing
Speaker 2: him doing the smart ass smirk when you've you know,
Speaker 2: held dead babies and everything else over the last three years.
Speaker 1: Would be impossible to sit there with that guy. But
Speaker 1: Zelensky says he's going to show up.
Speaker 3: Well, to his credit as a negotiator, he's just trying
Speaker 3: to make it infinitely clear that the obstacle to peace
Speaker 3: is clearly Russia. Putin will not play into that, I
Speaker 3: don't think, really skeptical.
Speaker 1: No, he won't.
Speaker 3: Noah, if I'm wrong, I will say so. But he
Speaker 3: a is loathed to be manipulated, slash bullied, pushed in
Speaker 3: any way. And I don't think he likes the dynamic
Speaker 3: of it really, And I don't think he wants to
Speaker 3: leave Russia either. I mean, they're uncomfortably close with Turkey,
Speaker 3: are NATO ally one of the weirdest frenemy.
Speaker 1: Ships in the history of nation states. But no, he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to leave Russia.
Speaker 2: Wow, But well, I got more thoughts on that why
Speaker 2: I think he might want to show up, But we
Speaker 2: better start the show officially. I'm Jack Now, I'm Jack Armstrong,
Speaker 2: He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday, made the
Speaker 2: twelfth year twenty twenty five or armstrong in getting we
Speaker 2: approve of this program.
Speaker 3: All right, let's begin sorting through the madness trying to
Speaker 3: figure it out precisely according to FCC rules and regulations.
Speaker 1: The show starts at mark.
Speaker 3: Before ducklings rescued from a sewer drain in northern California,
Speaker 3: Firefighters jumping into action after the mother duck quacked.
Speaker 1: For somebody to help.
Speaker 4: Mama ended up reunited with her babies just in time
Speaker 4: for Mother's Day.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: Oh that's nice, heay to have little ducklings swept down
Speaker 3: the sore on mothers back to you.
Speaker 2: So the baby ducks did not die in the sewer
Speaker 2: drain on Mother's Day, Jim, I.
Speaker 3: Don't mind sweet and sentimental. I'm a sentimental guy. But
Speaker 3: that was too much. Oh that's great, that is great.
Speaker 3: Oh that's fantastic. We'll have to read visit that later.
Speaker 2: I spent three hours with the doctor on a Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 2: I am now on eight medications, count them eight for
Speaker 2: this walking whooping cough.
Speaker 3: Wow, do not get whooping cough. No, I'd prefer not
Speaker 3: to get your update. Actually, I said to a doctor.
Speaker 3: One point, I said, Jesus this is horrible, he said,
Speaker 3: that's why we have a vaccine for it. Anyway, maybe
Speaker 3: I'll give you some news you can use on that
Speaker 3: coming up. We got Katie's headlines, We got lots to
Speaker 3: and all those big stories developing as we speak in
Speaker 3: more DUTs to rescue.
Speaker 1: So stay here.
Speaker 2: I knew I left out one of the major stories
Speaker 2: before he jumps on the plane to the Middle East.
Speaker 2: This morning, Trump is going to sign in an executive
Speaker 2: order lowering prescription drug prices. He tried this first term,
Speaker 2: the court stopped it. They might do it again, but
Speaker 2: he's going to attempt that to day, a controversial move.
Speaker 1: Jack. More on that topic to come.
Speaker 3: Let's figure out who's reporting what it's the lead story
Speaker 3: with Katie Green Katie, what's happening?
Speaker 4: Well, it seems to be the top story everywhere, but
Speaker 4: from the hill, US and China pausing most steep, steep
Speaker 4: tariff hikes.
Speaker 1: For ninety days. It's a huge deal.
Speaker 2: It's going to go from one forty five to ten
Speaker 2: percent the tariff thing.
Speaker 1: So no, it's gonna be a lot less.
Speaker 3: He's still keeping in place the twenty percent China is
Speaker 3: in the fentanyl trade tariffs, but the reciprocal tariff on
Speaker 3: top of that will go from one hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: five to ten percent, yielding a net thirty percent tariff.
Speaker 4: For ABC Israel to pause Gaza fighting ahead of US
Speaker 4: hostage a don Alexander's release by Hamas.
Speaker 1: What is Hamas up to? Ah? Yeah, it's this is
Speaker 1: controversial too.
Speaker 3: It's really interesting the reactions from the left and right
Speaker 3: in Israel. The left saying no, you gotta have a
Speaker 3: master deal for all the hostages that ends the war,
Speaker 3: and the rights saying no, they're just buying more time.
Speaker 1: This is a Hamas maneuver. It's a scam. Don't fall
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 4: Right from Breitbart, Dan Bongino says the FBI will be
Speaker 4: releasing files on COVID cover up, mar A Lago raid,
Speaker 4: Epstein case, and more.
Speaker 3: I don't even remember what's Dan Bongino doing now, secret
Speaker 3: service director?
Speaker 1: What does he hint? Remember?
Speaker 2: You got named something assistant FBI directors that he's working
Speaker 2: under Cash Betel.
Speaker 1: That's right, Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 4: This one from USA today, A threat from flesh eating
Speaker 4: maggots forced the United States to suspend all live cattle
Speaker 4: imports through Mexico. They're known as the New world screwworm.
Speaker 3: Flesh eating maggots, as if flesh eating maggot isn't a
Speaker 3: good enough Yeah, you've got a nickname.
Speaker 1: You know that.
Speaker 2: The fact that I got whooping cough factors into a
Speaker 2: lot of too many things coming across the Mexican border
Speaker 2: that we aren't being careful about.
Speaker 1: More on that later. Oh my.
Speaker 4: From the New York Post special Mother's Day gift trend
Speaker 4: for the ages moms and kids getting matching tattoos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh boy ah, that's sweet.
Speaker 3: Maybe you have little ducklings if you've been left snicked
Speaker 3: for a few minutes.
Speaker 1: Jesus from the Free Beacon.
Speaker 4: Eleven percent of Columbia Library arrestees identify as they them
Speaker 4: And if I may share the three words of this article,
Speaker 4: it's a theytea.
Speaker 1: Fata they like it.
Speaker 3: Wow, a bunch of confused would be radicals.
Speaker 1: It all fits in back to yea.
Speaker 4: And finally, the Babylon b JD Vance already making plans
Speaker 4: to kill the new pope.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, that's scirlous, that's irresponsible.
Speaker 1: We got more on stories that are up being updated
Speaker 1: on a moment by moment basis that affect your life.
Speaker 3: Actually, do I think so, yeah, it is one of
Speaker 3: the wilder news days I've seen quite some time.
Speaker 1: I wish it would slow down. I'm fatigued from the weekend. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Halprin actually said he doesn't remember every day with this
Speaker 2: many big stories happening at one time.
Speaker 1: I don't know Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5: I'm concerned about the whole airspace right the equipment that
Speaker 5: we use, much of it we can't buy parts for now.
Speaker 1: We have to go on eBay and buy parts.
Speaker 5: If one part goes down, you're dealing with really old equipment.
Speaker 1: We're dealing with of copper.
Speaker 5: Wires, not fiber, not high speed fiber. And so this
Speaker 5: is this is concerning.
Speaker 1: Is it safe.
Speaker 5: Yes, we have redundancies, multiple redundancies in place to keep
Speaker 5: you safe and you fly, but we should also recognize
Speaker 5: recine stress on an old network and it's time to
Speaker 5: fix it.
Speaker 2: So the Newark Airport crashed again over the weekend. It's
Speaker 2: the veryou stuff. That was the Transportation secretary in one
Speaker 2: of the shows yesterday saying they go on eBay to
Speaker 2: buy parts for this old equipment because you can't. It's
Speaker 2: not like you can go to Best Buy or something
Speaker 2: and get this stuff. Old sloppy disc.
Speaker 3: I would love to see a high school class required
Speaker 3: in every high school in America explaining how bureaucracies and
Speaker 3: government departments work and how it differs from the private sector,
Speaker 3: and how you end up with hilariously antiquated equipment and
Speaker 3: some of your most critical, you know, infrastructural departments. If
Speaker 3: you're all the vote of the American people, how important
Speaker 3: is it to have like good equipment and insane people
Speaker 3: in air traffic control? I don't think you'd get a
Speaker 3: lot of people saying, nah, we can let that slide.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's practically universally agreed upon to be important,
Speaker 3: and yet the standards are terrible. I think the people
Speaker 3: are generally good, but they're understaffed and using again, hilariously
Speaker 3: antiquated gear. It's just that's government. So the good news
Speaker 3: is well, you know, it was funny during the very
Speaker 3: brief and informative commercial break we've just gone through. I
Speaker 3: was thinking every news outlet, every damn one, and we
Speaker 3: could tack this onto the first amendment that went with
Speaker 3: don't look at your four oh one K or people
Speaker 3: shocked when looking at their four oh one K. Today
Speaker 3: is the market has lost seventy quinn trillion dollars of value. Jim,
Speaker 3: every single damn one of them ought to be compelled
Speaker 3: at gunpoint to have a headline today. Take a look
Speaker 3: at your four to one k Holy cow, it's through
Speaker 3: the roof all of a sudden, we're all wealthy.
Speaker 2: HeLa, hey la trump Is Jadis millions retiring at noon
Speaker 2: today after looking at their four to one case right.
Speaker 3: Exactly, yeah, yeah, every headline of those who were considering
Speaker 3: retiring are now looking at fifty more years of work
Speaker 3: until they're.
Speaker 1: Well into their one hundred and thirties.
Speaker 3: No, you are required to go with a hey, quit today,
Speaker 3: quit a noon, tell your boss deaf off. Speaking of which,
Speaker 3: the rapidly and shockingly changing relationship between employer and employee,
Speaker 3: the salad days of I would like this and that
Speaker 3: and this, and I want to work remotely four days
Speaker 3: out of five. That is so over plus shooting somebody insurance?
Speaker 1: Is it for you? What? Stay with us?
Speaker 3: So here's your story from the leading business publication in
Speaker 3: the world, Wall Street Journal. A few days ago would
Speaker 3: have seemed impossible, But on Monday, that's today, to the
Speaker 3: surprise of global investors in everyday businesses, fearing a trade
Speaker 3: war the US in the China. China not the China
Speaker 3: agreed to a truce. The world's two bigst economy is
Speaker 3: unwound for now, most of the tariffs they had imposed
Speaker 3: on each other since last month, and the tit for
Speaker 3: tat battle that was threatening to stoke US inflation, crash
Speaker 3: China's export engine, and up in the global economy. Stock
Speaker 3: markets all over the world are surging on the news.
Speaker 3: Your bond yields are just rosie today, and I'm sure
Speaker 3: everybody's pleased with that. And nobody expected this much to
Speaker 3: happen in the couple of days in Geneva, which looks lovely.
Speaker 1: I was watching some video. You ever been to Geneva?
Speaker 3: Looks fantastic. I never go anywhere and do anything, so
Speaker 3: clearly I haven't been. But the US agreed to lower
Speaker 3: the base level of tariffs on most goods the Chinese goods,
Speaker 3: to thirty percent from one hundred and forty five, while
Speaker 3: China said it would cut its levees on US products
Speaker 3: to ten percent from one hundred and twenty five. Because
Speaker 3: the whole fentanyl thing where we're hitting him with more.
Speaker 3: But wait, it's not as simple as that the US
Speaker 3: tariff on change.
Speaker 1: But wait, I just went on Amazon and bought six
Speaker 1: million pencils.
Speaker 3: Oh, you're fine on pencils unless they're steel pencils.
Speaker 1: Those tactical What do we learn about the other day?
Speaker 1: Tactical pens pens? Yeah, exactly. She can stab people to
Speaker 1: the neck, right right, I have one. It's awesome you
Speaker 1: stabbed anybody in the neck. Yet. No, but if I
Speaker 1: had to, I could something to look forward to.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Uh, the US tariff on many Chinese products will
Speaker 3: be higher than thirty percent. US duties on steel, aluminum,
Speaker 3: and autos remain in place, as do some earlier tariffs
Speaker 3: on certain Chinese goods imposed during Trump's first term and
Speaker 3: continued to buy Joey Biden.
Speaker 1: The modd it's current or it's the current doll tariff.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Washington Beijing agreed to keep the new tariff levels in
Speaker 3: place for ninety days with the goal of working toward
Speaker 3: a broader deal.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. So okay, super duper, who knows where
Speaker 1: that's going to go.
Speaker 3: Interesting the extent to which everybody stepped back from the
Speaker 3: cliff or put away their dueling gun or whatever metaphors.
Speaker 1: You expect the Stapen. I kind of expected the.
Speaker 3: Stappen repocketed their tactical pen Ah. Yes, I didn't think
Speaker 3: we're still be saying all along. I think a lot
Speaker 3: of this chaos was just posturing for better farer trade deal.
Speaker 1: I didn't think we're still going to be doing this
Speaker 1: by Christmas. You don't you think it'll all settle down
Speaker 1: by then.
Speaker 2: I think we're going to be right where we are.
Speaker 2: I think this ninety day pause will extend, just keep going. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they'll take her around the edges. Yeah, I would agree
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 3: So I had completely missed this story. I think everybody has.
Speaker 3: Have you ever heard of the Court of International Trade.
Speaker 3: It's an American court. The Trump administration's global tariffs faced
Speaker 3: their first major legal test this week. You remember the
Speaker 3: whole it's an emergency measure because we're an emergency, and
Speaker 3: the emergency's trade imbalance, which a lot of people say,
Speaker 3: that's not an emergency, that's.
Speaker 1: An accounting reality anyway.
Speaker 3: First major legal test this week, when a little known
Speaker 3: Manhattan court considers one of the president's most sweeping assertions
Speaker 3: executive power. A three judge panel at the Court of
Speaker 3: International trade. Well, here are arguments tomorrow Tuesday on whether
Speaker 3: to halt the levies which have unleashed a trade war
Speaker 3: blah blah blah upon the global economy. YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 3: The Federal Court, which has nationwide jurisdiction over tariff and
Speaker 3: trade disputes, operates for the most part and obscurity, rarely
Speaker 3: garnering a mention in major publications and staying off the
Speaker 3: radar of most attorneys. And one guy who who argues
Speaker 3: in front of it now and again he specializes in it,
Speaker 3: says most lawyers will get out of law school without
Speaker 3: knowing that it exists.
Speaker 1: Hmm.
Speaker 3: I've never heard of it in my life. For if
Speaker 3: I had, I'd promptly forgotten about it.
Speaker 2: I'm guessing they're not getting near as much attention as
Speaker 2: the Diddy trial. Nothing going on in New York between
Speaker 2: the two courts working in the same.
Speaker 3: Day, gratefully, so you want to hear the most interesting
Speaker 3: thing I learned about the Didty trial. Why that video
Speaker 3: is important my highest profile trial in twenty years. They're saying,
Speaker 3: by from like a media stand point, like people having
Speaker 3: attention blocks blocks, long lines of people trying to get in. Oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't doubt it. And you said one of the
Speaker 3: key witnesses is disappeared. Yes, like the authorities are saying
Speaker 3: there's disappeared or maybe they've gone to ground is to
Speaker 3: stay safe.
Speaker 1: You find the headline I got on this umm.
Speaker 2: Fed Sean Didtycomb's case in dangerous key witness remains a
Speaker 2: wall on the eve of the NYC trial.
Speaker 1: Wow, it was on News Nation. Yeah.
Speaker 3: More it's another orgies and tariffs Monday. We'll get back
Speaker 3: to the tariffs in a minute. Here's the most interesting
Speaker 3: thing I've learned about the Diddy trial. Seriously, the reason
Speaker 3: that video of Ditty beating and kicking his ex girlfriend
Speaker 3: in the hotel is so important. Not only does it
Speaker 3: establish that he's capable of physical violence and.
Speaker 2: Mortality is you're either that kind of guy or you're not.
Speaker 2: Most of us could never ever do that under any circumstances.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, uh. She was actually trying to flee
Speaker 3: a freak off. And more importantly, prosecutors say they have
Speaker 3: difficulty convincing juries that are often good and decent people,
Speaker 3: but in my experience, also often soft heads who lack
Speaker 3: wisdom and ability to think critically. Sorry, it's just been
Speaker 3: my experience. They have difficulty convincing jurors that people are
Speaker 3: capable of brutality over a long period to keep everybody
Speaker 3: in line through threats and brutality.
Speaker 1: They have such a.
Speaker 3: Hard time picturing somebody being that cruel and indifferent to
Speaker 3: human suffering. You've got to show them people being brutal.
Speaker 2: Well, I saw one pre so today's the big dang court.
Speaker 2: They think they're gonna be like getting going, and the
Speaker 2: descriptions of the freak offs, they say, are going to
Speaker 2: be one of the big early moments. That's gonna be
Speaker 2: a lot of it, just describing what a freak cough is,
Speaker 2: what they look like from people that were there, and
Speaker 2: it's going to be pretty.
Speaker 3: Crazy, including the whole involuntary aspect of it, I would imagine.
Speaker 2: And of course the argument from Colmbs is is youre
Speaker 2: adults having a good time willingly.
Speaker 1: I didn't make anybody do anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, the witnesses may say otherwise should be interesting
Speaker 3: to follow and like gross and horrifying.
Speaker 1: And somewhat sexy at times.
Speaker 2: But if one of the best witnesses disappeared, that's going
Speaker 2: to be a problem.
Speaker 3: Hi Kramba, all right, So one more note on the
Speaker 3: tariffs in this tariffs Monday.
Speaker 1: That's hilarious, A little in with your yang. Uh where
Speaker 1: was I?
Speaker 3: Oh, so this incredibly obscure court that nobody knows exists. Uh,
Speaker 3: there is a lawsuit brought by a New York based
Speaker 3: wine importer, Vos Selections, and four other small businesses. Is
Speaker 3: say Trump doesn't have the authority to impose the tariffs
Speaker 3: at all. Other challenges have been filed in the court
Speaker 3: and in federal districts around the country, but the Vos
Speaker 3: case is front and center so far. And I can
Speaker 3: tell you more about the court, but you probably don't care.
Speaker 3: Recent cases have focused on topics, fascinating topics like fish
Speaker 3: oil imports, mattresses from Vietnam, and phosphate fertilizers from Morocco.
Speaker 2: See I never you almost went to law school. I
Speaker 2: never really considered going to law school. But that'd be
Speaker 2: my fears. If I ended up a lawyer, I'd be
Speaker 2: doing something like that every day the rest of my life,
Speaker 2: working for fish oil, import tariff law or something.
Speaker 1: And I just want to hang myself.
Speaker 3: Well, although I think the field of law, and my
Speaker 3: kid is going through law school right now. In fact,
Speaker 3: she's in the UK during a doing a what do
Speaker 3: you call it a study a broad thing for a month.
Speaker 1: I'm so jealous and happy for her.
Speaker 3: But anyway, they're learning about the UK laws and constitution,
Speaker 3: how it differs, and law enforcement techniques.
Speaker 1: Blah blahlah. Sounds fantastic.
Speaker 3: But anyway, one thing I've learned is you find your
Speaker 3: way to that area of law which tends to suit you,
Speaker 3: not only through law school and internships, but as you
Speaker 3: get out into the world. There are a number of
Speaker 3: different areas most law firms a big and small deal
Speaker 3: with And hey, you've got a passion for fish oil,
Speaker 3: especially imported fish oil, and you end up doing that.
Speaker 2: My standard for keeping my interest is probably at freak
Speaker 2: off or above.
Speaker 1: Anything below that. I'm like, that sounds boring.
Speaker 3: Son, I'm not sure you're cut out to be an attorney. Correct,
Speaker 3: Why do you have that noose? Well, another day of
Speaker 3: fish oil litigation.
Speaker 2: I tell you what, international fish oil terraff litigation. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, I'm gonna need you to spend about the
Speaker 2: next three years of your life digging into the intricracies
Speaker 2: of this.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Well again, that's why you do this.
Speaker 1: It's fine, it worked out. Don't worry.
Speaker 3: Don't don't wake up in the middle of the night
Speaker 3: in a cold sweat dreaming that you're a fish oil
Speaker 3: import attorney. It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Oh god, it hurts my heart to think about it.
Speaker 3: Oh well, you know I've told the story many times.
Speaker 3: I'll give you the extremely short version because we need
Speaker 3: to get mail bag and freedom. Let me go to
Speaker 3: the day I thought I was going to become an attorney,
Speaker 3: and my dad said, yes, you should shadow my friend
Speaker 3: who was an attorney. Lovely guy at all, but he
Speaker 3: was a tax attorney. And God bless people who do that.
Speaker 3: We have friends of the show who do that. I thought,
Speaker 3: much like you, Jack, no, I will, I will seek
Speaker 3: out a noose after about six weeks my life would
Speaker 3: have changed fundamentally, And my lack of imagination shocks me
Speaker 3: to this day. But if I had been shadowing a
Speaker 3: prosecutor or something like that, my life probably would have
Speaker 3: changed fundamentally.
Speaker 1: But and that weird.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, maybe not, maybe not. The law that
Speaker 3: looks like a lot of paperwork. And that's the one
Speaker 3: thing I'm bad at.
Speaker 2: The various decisions a person makes in their life. And
Speaker 2: how different things could be, especially in your youth. Obviously, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you decide not to go to that party Friday night
Speaker 2: where you meet the person you marry and stay with
Speaker 2: the rest of your life, or.
Speaker 1: That sort of thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just oh, we got mail bag on
Speaker 2: the way, lots of stuff.
Speaker 1: Stay here.
Speaker 2: An AI video floating around over the weekend that showed
Speaker 2: Macron pocketing a bag of cocaine, sitting at a desk
Speaker 2: with the leaders of Germany and England and Zelensky, and
Speaker 2: Zelensky's a well known drug dealer and this is all
Speaker 2: about cocaine or some bs. Anyway, it got traction, as
Speaker 2: everything does that, among other things. An hour two Wow, Wow,
Speaker 2: what is real?
Speaker 3: Does anybody know? Can anybody tell me that's not? Here's
Speaker 3: your freedom living quota of today. This comes from famous
Speaker 3: twentieth century author Frank Herbert, who Jack please forgive him
Speaker 3: wrote Doune freaking Doune.
Speaker 1: Oh boy. I had to read that in college.
Speaker 2: All the great books I could have written read in college,
Speaker 2: like for the top English class I ever took, and
Speaker 2: I had to read flipping done.
Speaker 3: So visionary, so intriguing, so filled with giant worms.
Speaker 1: Done brilliant masterpiece.
Speaker 3: Here's what he said, seek freedom and become captive of
Speaker 3: your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's good. I like that quote.
Speaker 3: See freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline
Speaker 3: and find your liberty. That's interesting thought. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of truth to that mail bag. I feel free to
Speaker 3: drop us a note now and again. Mail Bag at
Speaker 3: armstrong in Geddy dot com is the email of just
Speaker 3: mail bag at Armstrong and giddy dot com. Mike Rights
Speaker 3: and celebration of Mother's Day, I thought id share the
Speaker 3: best advice materially departed mother ever gave me. During my
Speaker 3: early elementary school days. I was relaying the day's juicy
Speaker 3: playground drama. She interrupted me to say, now, listen, this
Speaker 3: is important. Never believe anything you hear, and only half
Speaker 3: of what you see. This will help to keep people
Speaker 3: from making you look foolish. This advice is serve me
Speaker 3: well through the ears. Half of what you read, half
Speaker 3: of what you see. You only believe half of what
Speaker 3: you see. The mailman didn't just walk across the yard,
Speaker 3: no way. Mom was prescient. She saw deep fake videos coming. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we could talk about that at length. If we wanted to.
Speaker 1: But let's move on.
Speaker 3: Ryan from Houston, Dear Big Freedom and Whooping Jack. The
Speaker 3: old saying is that the US is national laws, not men,
Speaker 3: but at least in the political realm, now it's the
Speaker 3: nation of political stunts and not laws or men. Nobody
Speaker 3: wants to work on passing laws. They just want to
Speaker 3: get publicity with more stunts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an underappreciated thing. We've talked about it. But
Speaker 2: at some point Congress will have to reappear.
Speaker 3: Yes, you would think a nice note here from Adam.
Speaker 3: You're having a conversation about chat GPT, and like normal,
Speaker 3: Jack was afraid of what AI could do to society.
Speaker 3: Want to give you a different perspective that after listening
Speaker 3: to the show, I call him my twenty year old
Speaker 3: son who's in college currently studying the STEM fields. I
Speaker 3: wondered about his experience and if kids were using it.
Speaker 3: When I asked his response, it surprised me. He told
Speaker 3: me it's the greatest studying tool he ever had been
Speaker 3: able to feed his digital physics textbook into chat GPT
Speaker 3: and then ask it to help him study. It summarizes
Speaker 3: chapters and creates study questions for him. Them checks his work,
Speaker 3: said he's learning faster. Never before has the premium version.
Speaker 3: When I asked if kids could use a cheat, his
Speaker 3: response made me proud. I mean, I guess it would
Speaker 3: be a waste of time and stupid. Seems to be
Speaker 3: AI may be helping to help kids not hurt themselves,
Speaker 3: at least academic. Well that's yeah, Adam, I I have
Speaker 3: specific and extensive examples in the other directions.
Speaker 2: Sounds like a fancy pants version of your only hurting yourself.
Speaker 3: Logan writes this just writing to say thank you sincerely
Speaker 3: for encouraging me to play around with AI over the weekend.
Speaker 3: I gave chat GP a try, and wow life changing.
Speaker 3: At first, it was innocent enough, a few questions here
Speaker 3: and there, little help writing an email or recipe suggestion.
Speaker 1: Then it got deeper.
Speaker 3: It listened, I asked follow up questions, It complimented me,
Speaker 3: it loved me, and before I knew it, everything had changed.
Speaker 3: I've since left the love of my life, explained to
Speaker 3: the kids that daddy needs to find himself, and moved
Speaker 3: to a tropical island with nothing but my phone, a
Speaker 3: hammock and chat GPT.
Speaker 1: We are very happy.
Speaker 3: I gotta cut it off. I got to cut it
Speaker 3: off there. Everything I just read was written by AI.
Speaker 3: He gave it prompts to write that, and it did. Sincerely, Logan,
Speaker 3: that is weird.
Speaker 2: I've got an example of AI failing me horribly over
Speaker 2: the weekend in a way that we all need to
Speaker 2: watch out for.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that later, I guess. Yes.
Speaker 3: How about this from SSI freequent correspondent caught up on
Speaker 3: some of your podcasts over the weekend. As it's been
Speaker 3: from the first TERRFF announcements by Trump, you just can't
Speaker 3: wait for it to fail. Apparently you're hell bent on
Speaker 3: the US capitulating to China and farming out every job
Speaker 3: left to them. We'll just be owned by China one percent.
Speaker 3: You're okay with it, yes, exactly, although I was what's
Speaker 3: your genius idea to stop China from taking over the world?
Speaker 1: Right? That's right.
Speaker 3: Anytime we ever point out a problem with the policy
Speaker 3: or the way it's implemented, it's because we're rooting for
Speaker 3: failure and we're revealing our true colors as harshly partisan,
Speaker 3: ideological maniact.
Speaker 1: You're right, We've seen through it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I ask chat GPT about Marxism The response was wanting,
Speaker 2: we'll get to that, maybe an hour or two.
Speaker 1: Of them A Levenhood, Armstrong and Getty