WEBVTT - This Is Great But There's A Ballgame On 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.840 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong and 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:33.880 Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty. Thanks being and welcome 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:34.280 to the show. 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.879 Thank you very much for tuning in to Michael. The 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:39.519 gift plane from Qatar would have to be stripped from 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.600 the lead. We got that seventy on my sheet. No, well, 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:44.240 I'll just say it what he said. The gift flame 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.040 plane from Qatar would have to be stripped for security reasons. 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:48.240 We were talking about that earlier. 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:51.680 So the idea of a Katari jet being lent to 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:53.639 the president to be the new air Force one then 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:54.840 maybe goes to his library. 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:57.600 There's a lot. 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:01.400 Being made of it. Prob bleed too much. But we'll 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:05.800 let the President himself explain what he's thinking. Clips seventy three, Michael, 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:08.400 people who knew. 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:11.160 That luxury jet as a personal get to you? Why 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.040 not leave it by NBC? Fake news? 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:13.280 Right? 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:14.920 Why not only only ABC? 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:18.920 Well a few of you would, let me tell you, 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:22.280 you should be embarrassed asking that question. They're giving us 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.840 a free jet. I could say, no, no, no, don't 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.040 give us. I want to pay you a billion or 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.399 four hundred million or whatever it is, or I can 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.960 say thank you very much. You know, there was an 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.360 old golfer named Sam Sneed. Did you ever hear me? 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.240 What eighty two terms? He was a great golfer that 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.280 he had a motto, when they give you a putt, 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.440 you say thank you very much, You pick up your ball, 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:46.080 and you walk to the next hole. A lot of 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.520 people are stupid. They say no, no, I have just 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:50.320 start putting it. And then they put it and they 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.920 miss it and their partner gets angry at them. You 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:57.440 know what, Remember that Sam Snead, When they give you 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:59.120 a putt, you pick it up, and you walk to 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:01.240 the next hole, and you say thank you very much. 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.639 Sam Snead would have hit you at a golf club. 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:10.000 You fake news ABC reporter, Why Hannah, just Katie. 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.240 So many people are stupid. 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:18.919 He just you know, lover hate the guy. He's funny. Yeah, 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:23.320 sometimes yes, yes. So I'm less worried about the plane 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:25.720 thing than some people are because there are ways that 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:30.200 to take care of any ethical problems, and I have 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.960 a feeling they'll be taken care of. I just there 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:36.000 are much much bigger problems facing the US of a However, 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.280 before we get to my main point, which is kicking 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:44.119 Cutter the country, why not have a little fun with it. 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:45.600 It's a late night joke off. 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.959 We've got three comedians all making jokes about the same topic. 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:52.560 I Joe Geddy will grade them the bottom grade. Getter 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.000 will be banned from comedy for life. 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:56.120 Hit it, Michael. Yeah. 0:02:56.120 --> 0:03:00.000 The eighty nine passenger luxury plane has wood finishes, custom carpets, 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:01.200 and gold walls. 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:03.880 The only thing it doesn't have is a way to 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:05.360 safely land at Newark Airport. 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:07.160 That's the only thing he doesn't make. 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.320 Qatar is donating this new air Force one to the government. 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.960 It's really just for Trump because air Force one is 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:17.320 the president's personal plane, and when he's done being president, 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.840 the plane would then be donated to Trump's presidential library, 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.280 meaning he may continue using it. 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:24.320 After leaving office. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.200 Actually, I actually think it's fitting that the only thing 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:33.639 Trump's going to check out of his library is big plane. 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:38.000 Trump administration is planning to accept a four hundred million 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.720 dollars luxury jet as a gift from Katar's royal family. 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.960 The jet features three lounges, nine bathrooms, and I'm guessing 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.360 about one hundred and fifty hidden microphones. 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:57.080 Wow, boy, felon Meyers both with c's just because you 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.520 know they're reasonably topical and door. Yeah, the hidden microphone 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:04.880 thing Colbert with a D minus god and it would 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.480 be an F except that somebody in the audience appeared 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:07.920 to like it. 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.040 I don't know. That was terrible. Give him an F. 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:15.440 Yes, f you're right, it's too much great inflation. That 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:20.080 made us all sad and less alive. That was terrible, terrible. 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.440 I blame you, which is the important thing anyway. 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.520 So yeah, the whole he gets to use it after 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:31.040 the office. It's donated to his library number one Trump 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:32.040 as old as the Hills. 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:33.320 Two. 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:38.279 If that is ethically unacceptable, there will be it'll be 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:42.480 dealt with. It's just it'll be fine. I'm not worried 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.320 about this bringing down the United States. And if there 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:47.960 are ethical questions, I think they will probably be answered. 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:50.640 By the way, there are a handful of presidential libraries 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.920 I think. I know Reagan's has the Air Force one 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:58.680 that he used, and other Air Force ones have been 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:02.240 donated to various aerospace museums and flight museums and that 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.240 sort of thing. So the fact that it's don't quote 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:05.640 unquote donate to do his library. 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.200 I mean that's a gift to a museum anyway. 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.320 So you know, you might disagree on that I was 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:16.560 talking earlier about I am very, very wary of accepting 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:22.920 gifts from various Middle Eastern regimes, including the Qataris in general, 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:29.360 beware Katari's offering gifts, bearing gifts. Great piece by Eli 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:31.400 Lake I came across not long ago, a couple of 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:32.440 days ago, Ashley. 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.040 Qatar's war for young American minds. 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.800 Right now, senior leaders of Hamas, the perpetrators of the 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.240 worst atrocity against Jews since the Holocaust, are huddled in Qatar. 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:45.479 Or do you say Connor? 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.440 They've been there for years, but American foreign policy has 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:50.560 turned to a blind eye. 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:50.800 Why. 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.000 One reason might be that for the last twenty five years, 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:56.320 this small, energy rich state has pumped billions of dollars 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.960 into America to purchase influence in good favor. The Katari 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.000 have spent their lavish fortune at American law firms, on 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.480 lobbying contracts with former senior officials, and on junkets and 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:10.920 partnerships with big media companies. The biggest recipients of Katari largest, though, 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.240 have been major universities in think tanks, and we're talking 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.520 about unbelievable amounts of money. A couple of years ago, 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.359 the National Association of Scholars did a study. Katara is 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:24.480 the largest foreign donor to American universities. Seems kind of odd, 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:29.599 doesn't it that this little oil rich country in the 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:34.080 Middle East would care so deeply about our universities. The 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.200 study found that in the twenty years between twenty one 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.000 and twenty twenty one, the petro state donated a whopping 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:43.760 just under five billion dollars to US colleges. Largest recipients 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.920 those are some of America's most prestigious institutions of higher 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.400 learning that already have a ton of money. That's odd, too, 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.400 says if the Kataris are trying to buy influence, not education. 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.440 These schools have partnered with the regime to build campuses 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.680 in Doha's Education City, a special district of the capitol 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:03.400 that hope holds satellite at hosts rather satellite colleges for 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:08.440 American universities. So, for instance, in the last quarter century 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:10.520 or so, Katar has donated more than one hundred and 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:15.600 three million dollars to Virginia Commonwealth one point eight billion 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:19.320 to Cornell, seven hundred million to Texas A and M, 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.160 and the list goes on and on. Seven hundred and 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:25.120 sixty million dollars to Georgetown University for a school of 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:29.280 politics and six hundred and two million Northwestern University for 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:35.760 a school of journalism. All but one of the universities 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:40.679 contacted declined to comment on the relationship and the future 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:45.960 of the Doha campuses. In Qatar, which again hosts Hamas 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:50.120 and has for years and years and years, there's one 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:54.040 school that said serves a broader purpose fostering international dialogue 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:58.640 and cooperation, peaceful resolutions rather than conflict, which is a 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:04.320 lovely sentiment. But there is a significant body of thinking 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:09.320 that believes that the Kataris are trying to soft pedal 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:15.440 any criticism of their behavior in Islamism in general. Organizations 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:23.240 like Hamas, these universities have incredibly Islamist friendly faculties and programs, 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:25.840 and the reason is they're getting hundreds of millions of 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.920 dollars from Cutter. So I just I see Cutter coming 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.280 with another big giant gift, and I think you guys 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:32.280 are up to something. 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:38.200 Anyway. We'll dig more into this at another time. I 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.160 have the very latest. Enough, Now I have the very 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:43.280 latest in the Sean Combs trial. Oh good lord, is 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:43.840 it gross? 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.240 Today's today, man, the star witness, the key to the 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.600 whole thing is testifying, and this is the whole ball 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:52.959 of axe today, even though it's spected to be kind 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.040 of a longish trial, The whole ball of axes today. 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:59.640 Pop singer Cassie also known as Cassandra what's her name? Yeah, 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:01.480 that's the gal, the one who took the beating in 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:02.480 the hotel lobby. 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.480 Right, And she's testifying, and she's got some gruesome things 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:07.680 to say, and I will explain what those are coming up. 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:09.760 And it might be one of those what's not might 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.160 want to be one of those deals, one of those deals, 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:12.840 or you don't want to definitely don't want your kids. 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.880 Listening, oh boy, in any way whatsoever. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:20.160 But I can't imagine how this would, these details will 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.880 land with a jury. She's eight months pregnant, so she got 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:27.520 an eight months pregnant woman up there testifying to some 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:29.800 really crazy stuff. 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:31.200 Right. 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.840 I think she's gonna be quite sympathetic. Oh yeah, one 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.240 hundred percent. But then the the defense is gonna hammer 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:41.800 look dated him for ten years. What's that you dated 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.959 him for ten years? That's well one thing, Yeah, number 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.560 one and number two is gonna be Look, having wild 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:53.079 sex is not sex trafficking, right, Domestic battery is not 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.480 necessarily sex trafficking. He's a hot tempered guy. He's hit 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.960 a woman. It's terrible, but that's not the charge here, folks. 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:01.240 That's what the defense is. 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:05.120 Going to say. Folks. He dropped the folks absolutely. You 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:06.960 know why because I'm folksy. Folks. 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.840 Seems out of place given the testimony book and other 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:12.920 stuff on the way, stay right here. 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:20.640 Big news from the Sports World Number twenty three is back. 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.359 Michael Jordan will be part of the NBC Sports coverage 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.800 of the NBA. Jordan said he's excited about his new 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.959 role as a special contributor. You can catch the sixth 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.679 time NBA Champs starting this October. 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.000 Yeah, we'll see if he's got anything to say. It's 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:40.120 not really ever been his brand of having particularly witty 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:43.440 or interesting things to say in a compelling way, But 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:45.760 we'll see. I wonder what he's getting paid as opposed 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:50.640 to his former best friend Charles Barkley, who contract goes 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.680 from TNTDESPN next year and he said for the weekend, 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.000 ESPN was rolling out all the states. So Barkley decided 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:58.960 to keep working. They threw so much money at him. 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:02.079 I think it's two hundred million, two hundred million dollar 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:02.840 ten year deal. 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.400 Wow. And he decided to keep working for that amount 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:05.680 of money. 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:07.439 But so they announced all this stuff for Barkley that 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:09.480 he would be you know, he'd be joining on this 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.240 show in the morning and this show in the afternoon, 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:12.599 and all this stuff. And he came out over the 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:14.600 weekend said no, I'm not I'm not doing any of 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:16.520 that stuff. You think I'm gonna do any extra work 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:18.760 at this point in my life, fire me if you want, 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:20.200 but I'm not doing those shows. 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:25.000 Wow. That's funny. That's something man, that's when you got leverage. 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.199 I'm surprised he signed a ten year deal though, I mean, 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:30.760 maybe he just really enjoys it. 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:32.680 Good for him, he enjoys it if he gets to 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.120 completely dictate, you know, his own hours and pace. 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:36.400 Right. 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:37.920 So they so they came out with some sort of 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.040 we've been in these situations before where they say, now 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:41.600 you're gonna go on the morning show in New York 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:42.800 every Tuesday morning at eight, And he. 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:44.679 Said no, I'm not. I'm not doing that. 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:47.320 Yeah, well, and I should know better than this. It's 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:48.959 a ten year deal. But he can quit any time 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.280 he wants. He just can't go to work for a competitor. 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.520 Yeah, and he's got more money than God anyway. And 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.280 then the NBA last night, as we mentioned, the Knicks 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.000 are up three to one over the Celtics city defending champ, 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.840 but the. 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:03.920 Star player for the defending champs went down. 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.280 I've always been interested in the idea that athletes are 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.520 so in touch with their body and injuries that they 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:14.160 seem to know it instantly when they've got an injury 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:15.280 that's a really big deal. 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:17.679 Like most of us, I don't know. 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:19.600 I've gotten hurt before I thought, oh my god, I'll 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.160 never walk again, you know, and it's fine, or we're 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:23.920 the opposite. I think, you know, that's kind of a 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:25.640 little tweak, and then it ends up being eight weeks 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:26.080 or something. 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:27.240 But they seem to just know. 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:29.960 And like this, Jason Tatum for the Celtics, he went down, 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.200 and everybody said he knew immediately, Oh, this might be 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.840 the end of my career. I'm not playing again this 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.199 next year. Even it just did they know this. There 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.240 are some injuries. I think, yeah, you don't need to 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.559 be in all with an incredible ripport with your body 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.440 or whatever. But I see your point. But yes, some 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.640 when your knee is pointing sideways and you think, well, 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:52.880 that's doomed. 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.640 This was an ankle, but he is. He may be 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:59.840 done forever. So the Sean P Diddy thing. 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:01.480 Just want to throw that out there, do not if 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.360 you're if you're squeamish about this sort of stuff. I 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.480 shouldn't even say squeamish, and that makes it make it 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:11.360 sound like you're weak or something like that. I don't 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:12.640 even know what the right term is. But this is 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.800 really gross what I'm about to say. 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:20.520 And it is testimony that the jury is hearing, right, 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.559 but this is really gross. I mean, this is not 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:26.000 some sort of rumor on the web. This is evidence 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:27.080 in the trial. 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:27.840 Yeah. 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.840 So this Cassie Ventura, who is P Diddy's girlfriend for 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.280 ten years, and if you know anything about this trial, 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.280 you've seen the video where he drags her down the 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:37.520 hall by the hair and all that. 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:41.000 Sort of stuff. And she's the star witness in the trial. 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:44.079 And I guess there was some discussion of whether or 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.320 not she'd actually even testify as recently as this past weekend. 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.360 But here she's going to testify, and it's today, like 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.600 it's right now, and this is gonna be the really 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.480 hard to overcome thing, and he is going she is 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:58.320 going to corroborate, corroborate. She's going to say the same 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:04.679 thing somebody else said to a bodyguard yesterday that testified 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:11.439 that did he would hire male escorts to have sex 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:15.520 with his girlfriend in front of him, sometimes for as 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:20.400 long as ten hours, which is hard to even imagine. 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.160 On Hey, this is great, but there's a ballgame on. 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:28.400 I'm gonna yeah, that's wow, that's a kink. I don't 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.640 know if that's a drug thing like that. Those of 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.200 us who don't do those kind of drugs can't understand. 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.440 It keeps you interested. For who could stay interested for 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:37.160 ten hours? 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:40.520 Yeah, there's there's other stuff to do. 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.080 Yeah, or there's a you know, I don't know if 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:44.880 you know how the whole sex thing works, but there 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:49.040 is a there is a payoff usually that is quite pleasant, 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.640 and then you think, you know, I'm good for a while. 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:56.240 I'm good for a while ten hours, No, maybe next week, 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:57.880 maybe even this weekend, but. 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:01.040 Not like after lunch. 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:06.480 Today anyway, on stop the testimony yesterday, wash and again, 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.840 this is highly gross among the things that the. 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:14.040 Paid escort was forced to do, like did he threaten them? 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:16.520 Was he had to do? 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:24.400 We wanna can we just be vague? How do you 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:25.440 be vague about this? 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:31.200 They played horrible, disgusting ppe games. 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.040 Well, she was on the receiving end of something that 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.000 she says was not her idea or something she wanted. 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:43.160 And she's going to say, yeah, that did happen. And 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.320 I'm thinking, in terms of scoring points with the jury, 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:50.960 that makes you look like a crazy person. 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.240 Well, and I've been harping on the fact that the 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.480 defense is going to say, well, being a perv is 0:15:57.520 --> 0:15:58.440 not sex trafficking. 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:00.480 Having orgies not sex trafficking. 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.920 If they testify that she was made to do something 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.000 so gross and off putting for most people, uh, the 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.480 vast majority of people, and they ask her why did 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:10.920 you do it? 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:11.360 Anyway? 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.680 And she says, because I was terrified. That's going to 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:21.200 be really damaging. Right, So this thing, we're two days 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:25.480 into this and the big cohuna is today. 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.640 Yeah, there you go, And. 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.960 Then I guess you get into the specifics of trafficking 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.840 and money being transferred whiles being broke is more legalistic stuff. 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.240 Yeah, so, I guess that's the way you want to 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:37.480 do it. 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:38.760 You want to you want to hit the hit the 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.320 jury with this hard first early while they're paying attention, 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:42.280 then get into the. 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:47.040 Uh yeah, yeah, I see the strategy. 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:47.320 Sure. 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:51.480 So who won the big trade deal between China and Trump? 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.160 It seems to be running pretty one sided when you 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:58.160 ask people to be Joe Alwayer, Armstrong. 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:02.800 And gettystick d escalation in the trade war between the 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.560 United States and China. Starting Wednesday and effective for the 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.960 next ninety days, the United States government will lower it's 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.240 overall tariffs on Chinese goods from one hundred and forty 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:17.000 five percent to thirty percent. China will lower its duties 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.560 on American imports from one hundred and twenty five percent 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:20.280 to ten percent. 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.199 Okay, So that was the headline yesterday, and as you know, 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:27.080 as we had it here and here's where I get 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.000 I could get in trouble with Trump fans if I 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:30.680 had to. If I had to click a box of 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:32.639 whether I'm a Trump fan or a Trump hater, I 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:34.600 definitely would have to check Trump fan. 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:36.200 Between those two choices. 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:40.240 But uh, I took in a lot of coverage on 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:42.560 the analysis of this yesterday, and I'd be interested in 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:47.640 what your takeaway was the vast majority of it, I mean, 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.600 like ninety five percent of it, unless it was somebody 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:54.919 who worked for Trump basically said he backed down, he 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:59.600 backed down, and we accomplished nothing. And that's from obviously 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:02.639 from the from painting sources, but from also a conservative 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:03.400 leaning sources. 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:08.000 Yeah, some of them hate Trump, but true. Uh yeah. 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:12.920 I have searched far and wide for people who are 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:16.320 saying that this made perfect sense and the result is great, 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.120 and it's just nobody's really saying that. 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:22.440 And to the extent that the market's roared back up, 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:25.440 it's not because uh, Yay, we won something. 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:27.560 It's okay. Now we've got some certainty. 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:32.480 The super bad scare of you know, immediate recession stagflation 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.359 we can put off and kick the can down. 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.400 The road, which is the way markets react. It wasn't 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:40.919 a yay, this was a great deal. It was a 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:43.000 thank God it's over. Yeah, it was a thanks God 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:45.000 it's over. He has I heard somebody describe it yesterday. 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.800 It was a you know, it's like you're punching yourself 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.280 in the face and you stop punching in yourself in 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:50.680 the face. 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.600 It feels good and you're you're happy for it, but 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:55.439 it doesn't mean it's a good idea put yourself in 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:56.399 the face in the first place. 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:00.680 Right, Yeah, I would agree, Uh yeah, I'm troubled by 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:04.320 a lot of it. In it's you know, it's one 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:07.080 of those issues that there are a couple of layers 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.560 to it, which doesn't lend itself well to a lot 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:15.040 of the super blunt, super strongly fell talk of whether 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:19.800 it's talk radio or politics in general. You talk about tariffs, 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:22.119 all right against our allies, all right, what are their 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:24.439 non trade barriers? Let's talk about it. Let's let's have 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:27.520 a little more equity here with that. I'm one hundred 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:32.119 percent fine with that. The China thing's completely different. And 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:35.600 within the China thing, are we talking about areas where 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:39.080 they are flooding the market in ways that violate trade 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:42.520 agreements with the steel for instance, which we'll get to 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:46.640 in a second. Or is it a strategic industry that 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:49.240 we need to protect just for national security reasons. 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:53.000 That's a different question. And then you got the problem that. 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:55.600 Wherever there are tariffs there are carve out because the 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:58.560 powerful and well connected go hat in hand to the 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:04.560 White House promising gigantic contributions or threats or whatever, and 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:07.200 the powerful and well connected get carve outs and the 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:10.600 small business people don't, and it becomes a very very 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:14.840 swampy cesspool of what's called rent seeking among economists, which 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:18.639 means begging the government, essentially spending your time, energy and 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:21.560 money on begging the government as opposed to innovating and 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.399 designing better products. And so the tariff thing bothers me 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:27.359 a lot on that level. Oh, by the way, I 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:29.280 want to get to later. There's a chunk of the 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:30.440 new Jake Tapper. 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:33.160 Book that comes out in a few days about all 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:35.560 the secret hidden stuff in the Biden White House that 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:38.280 Jake Tapper and his friends were ignoring. But anyway, there's 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:41.399