WEBVTT - Drinking The Black Coffee Of Reality 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:05.640 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:07.640 George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:10.480 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm. 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:12.560 Strong and Jetty and now he. 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:17.680 Arms Strong and Yetty. 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:28.360 Eighty five year old Motown Legends Smokey Robinson has been 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:32.479 accused of sexual assault by four of his former housekeepers. 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:35.320 Robinson plans to beat the charges by being dead soon. 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:44.760 That was funny. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:46.040 He has a point. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.800 Yeah, no kidding those of you who like flavored coffee. 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:52.280 So I'm out of my good my coffee. That's like coffee, 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:55.040 flavored coffee, which is what I think coffee should taste like. 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.480 And the worst part is you lose the smell. I'm 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:00.840 making my coffee and it didn't smell coffee, which is 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:02.880 one of the greatest smells in the history of the world. 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.320 It smelled like chocolate or hazelin or something. 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.000 What the hell? What is wrong with you people? 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:12.240 Gum staunchly anti flavored coffee? I say, no, I don't. 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:17.640 You're wrong, deeply wrong. If you like flavored coffee characters flawed. 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:20.240 I do want it to another thing you may or 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:24.080 may not be wrong about. We're getting a face from Katie. 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.039 Why are you flavored copp Well, you're a girl. 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:28.800 No, I like my coffee black. But says the guy 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.200 who just put creamer in his what flavor was the 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:32.440 creamer you put in your coffee? 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:33.480 Like a week ago? 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.440 Cream flavored cream face like cream like from a cow? 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.280 You sure it wasn't almond berry? 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.160 No, I don't do flavors. I don't do flavors strawberry 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:43.280 whipped cream. 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.399 It's whatever came out of the cow flavored. I do 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:46.959 want to talk. 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:47.800 About Mother's Day a little bit. 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.520 I noticed yesterday there's two very divergent views on what 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:53.840 Mother's Day, how it should be celebrated, and I just 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:55.600 wondered where most people. 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:55.960 Are on that. 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.960 Also, I got to mention the teriff thing, the war 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.520 with China, the terrif or with China's over. They they 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:06.520 ended it, so the ninety day pause and and and 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:09.480 I feel like it's probably just gonna stay that way. 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:13.639 And so that whole thing. I'm ready for the historians. 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:17.200 To write what we got out of it. Yeah, the 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.760 crazy part is over. There's still some john to be done, 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.720 in numbers to be set, and and you know, honestly, 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.240 I'm not quite as rosy as you are. I'm drinking 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:31.400 the black coffee of reality. Here we still are an 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:35.200 enormous trading partner with a malevolent communist power that seeks 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:35.880 our destruction. 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.960 So what about that part? Anyway? 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:44.040 We will see going forward. I don't know if you're 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.959 familiar with this. Trump has the White House, the Republicans 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.560 have a White House, and in both houses of Congress 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:53.440 at barely. But there's a midterm coming up. So what 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:58.200 are the demo crats up to? A couple of interesting perspectives. 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:00.760 Quoting a bit from the fabulous ally Bowls of the 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:07.680 Free Press, she's highly amused that tariffs are now what 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:13.280 she says is MAGA coded. They're code dead, they're associated 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.919 with maga. So socialists are finally realizing that these are 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:19.440 a bad idea to begin with. So suddenly everybody on 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.160 the left is turning pro free trade and anti tariff. 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:27.000 Complete flip Bernie Sanders saying it's a bit arrogant to say, well, 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.839 maybe kids have too many toys and the price may 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:30.440 go up a bit. 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:32.400 I think billionaires like. 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:34.200 Trump and Musk do not have a clue what it 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.040 means for working class families. So all of a sudden, Bernie, 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.760 who's been like pro labor and anti tariff his whole 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:40.120 life for. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:48.520 Like free trade. Now it's funny, here's proff his whole life. Correct. Yeah, 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.480 oh yeah, he said anti So I just did he 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:53.000 is now? Yeah? 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:53.520 Sorry. 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.880 So Bernie led a movement that fought hard against free 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:00.720 trade for decades. Like his own Senate page, he literally 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.760 says he has quote helped lead the effort against disastrous, 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.800 unfettered free trade deals with China, Mexico, and other low 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.320 wage countries. All we needed was one Trumpo, and every 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:14.160 socialist in America's waxing poetic about cheap China made toys 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.679 on Amazon and how they're the American dream. 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:24.120 I love that man. About eight thousand pencils today on Amazon. 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.080 I'm so excited about the good times, being back the 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.400 gravy years, where you can have as many pencils and. 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:29.279 Dolls as you wanted. 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.279 So many dolls. I've assembled a doll Congress. 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:35.479 I have four hundred and thirty five dollars that I 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.280 call the House of Representatives, and then one hundred dollars 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.120 I call the Senate, hundreds and hundreds of dollars. 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:42.560 Then I have one giant doll. 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:44.839 I call trump a pencil in their hand. 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:46.480 That's right, please. 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.479 So it's well known that the Democrats are out of 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.000 power and out of sorts. Nobody knows what they believe in. 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:57.000 They ran a mummy and then they realized that was 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.440 a bad idea, so ran a dummy and he got 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:04.680 trounced by Donald Jay and nobody knows what they stand for. Well, 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:09.080 it's starting to take shape a little bit. Nelly Bowles 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:12.320 Wrights my beloved technocrats. New York Times columnists and podcast 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:16.200 hosts Ezra Kleine and data whiz David Shore have been 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:18.920 tapped by Senate Democrats to be their special guests. 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:20.160 That their annual retreat. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:24.960 Only a few years ago, David Shore was fired for 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:30.360 posting data suggesting that the riots following MLK Junior's assassination 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:34.400 likely tipped the nineteen sixty eight presidential election in Nixon's favor, 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.839 and that was interpreted as a vai as a thinly 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:41.479 veiled critique of the Black Lives Matter protests, So he 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:45.839 was fired for that. So the fact that seven demo 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:49.280 Senate Democrats are picking Klein in Shore, who left really 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.640 tried to destroy because they were normal, indicates a massive, 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:58.239 massive messaging shift is coming our way, sure enough. 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.200 And then here's Gaviy Newsom. 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.960 Last week we lost the popular vote, we lost the 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.600 electoral vote. We got crushed, and we need to be 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:09.559 humble about that, and we need to have some grace 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:12.680 and we need to understand why was it because of immigration? 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.360 Was it because we were too quote unquote woke? 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:17.400 And then Pete. 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:21.520 Boot Edge Edge sporting beard by the way, Yeah, oh yeah, 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:22.679 Pete's got a beard. 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.080 Yeah, he's rocking a beard. Yeah. 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:29.080 And he's hitting up the manly podcasts too. He's appearing 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:33.400 anywhere on the like Moderate to write manly men podcasts, 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.960 the drink coffee. If you know what I'm saying, I 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:39.240 do know precisely what you were saying. 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:46.160 You're saying he's gay anyway, boot Edge Edge. 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.680 So anyway, he said, it is so hard to build 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:52.920 and do things in this country. And I lived this 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:56.080 when I was at the Department of Transportation. Too much 0:06:56.160 --> 0:07:00.480 regulation standing in charge in the way of progress. And 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.000 Nelly writes, that's the closest thing we've gotten to Ama 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:07.240 Kulpa for Pete having seven and a half billion dollars 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:10.760 installing a total of seven charging stations in two years. 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:16.760 I'm ready to forgive you, Pete. I. 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:18.800 I was listening to the Dispatch podcast last week and 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.040 A had an interesting conversation and Sarah, I isger on there, 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.679 said she's on ABC this week every week. But she said, 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.520 and I think she's absolutely right. She said, in what 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.480 sense are there political parties anymore? 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:29.040 There aren't. 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.320 I mean they wait for a personality to emerge and 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.800 then they go with whatever that personality. 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:36.520 Believes they don't have. 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.920 So the Republican Party does what Trump is into now, 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:41.680 but as soon as. 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.640 He disappears from the scene, it will be as at 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:44.280 see as. 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:46.520 The Democrats are right now, who are waiting for somebody 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:50.560 to emerge, and then they'll adopt whatever policies that person is. 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.880 If it's Bernie, they'll be a Bernie person. If it's, 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:56.080 you know, somebody more moderate, they'll adopt that person. But 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.880 the parties aren't driving it. The personality that emerges is 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.160 driving it. So there aren't really parties now. I've been 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.880 resisting the temptation to get into the Medicare reform negotiations, 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:11.640 which are making me insane. These so called moderate Republicans 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:18.200 are just trying to somewhat cap the explosive growth in waste, fraud, abuse, 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.960 and perversion of this medical medical you. 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.200 Know, care for the you know, the poor and the 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.600 old and the it's just expl it's exploded Medicaid too. 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.640 But well with medicaid, you know, you got the federal 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:34.320 government paying ninety percent of the bill for healthy, working 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.840 aged males who are just too lazy to work. You've 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:41.160 got them paying about a third for poverty stricken pregnant ladies. 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:45.280 It's become so perverse and upside down. But the so 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.600 called the moderate Republicans are saying, hey, we shouldn't crack 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:50.640 down on this because it's it's real easy for them 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:53.160 to portray us as mean, and so let's just keep 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.080 letting it explode out of control. Now you got fiscal 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.800 hawks saying, for God's sake, we got to do something 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:02.360 about this. But the being shouted down in the Republican Party, 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:04.719 I said to Jack, was it? I think it was 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:07.520 verbally before the show, I said, the Republican Party doesn't 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.360 stand for anything anymore. I have no idea what it is, 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.160 neither party. It's funny you should bring that to us. 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.679 Yeah, yeah, it's a personality's driven on both sides. Part 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:19.360 of it is the way financing works now and all that, 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:24.400 and in the air of Trump, you can have everybody 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.360 bellowing from the same hymnal on the right. 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:29.800 Then Trump changes his mind two weeks later, and then 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.439 everybody's bellowing the opposite. Sure it's enough to make you 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.240 a cuckoo nuts anyway, I love this. 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.400 Back to kicking the Democrats who deserve it. 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.920 Nelly Bowles in the Free Press brings up the project. Hey, La, 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:45.920 you know what you're slack and listen to what Philly's doing. 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.599 You think you can squander enormous amounts of money on 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.520 practically nothing. Philadelphia has a project to build fifty seven 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.839 units of affordable housing. So far, it's taken over six 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:01.640 years and many many meetings and they still haven't even 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:09.480 broken ground six years, tremendous amounts of money and haven't 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:13.120 even stuck a shovel in the dirt on only fifty 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:17.840 seven units. Anyway, Yes, yes, that's correct. And they're six 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:22.760 years into the project, whatever that means. I guess I'm 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.960 six years into my becoming an astronaut project too. 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.760 Anyway, this is the punchline, folks. 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:34.280 I went to the actual website to verify these numbers. 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:40.160 They are, actually they are literally in print. The City 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:47.800 of Pasadena, is it Pasadena? Yes, Pasadena, California is putting 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:52.360 their electrical cables underground. There are a number of cities 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.440 in California and around the country that do this. It 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:59.040 helps maintain the reliability of electrical power during storms and 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.160 that sort of thing. It also prevents you know, crappy 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.760 polls from falling down or poorly secured wires from falling 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:09.959 and igniting the underbrush and forests and causing horrific wildfires 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.240 that kill many people and then ruin ruin many lives. Right, So, 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.319 there are a lot of good reasons to put these 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:22.640 electrical cables underground. The City of Pasadena's website estimates that 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.960 it will take four hundred years to put their electrical 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:31.600 cables underground. This is real quote. According to that construction timeline, 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.600 Category two streets it's going to take Category one streets 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.240 is the most important priority streets. According to the website, 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.960 it will take one hundred years to put the power 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.559 underground for the priority streets. One hundred years. Now, let 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.240 me read from the website. Category two streets would be 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:51.439 completed completed in approximately four hundred years. That's right, folks, 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.280 it will take longer than America has existed to put 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:58.240 electrical cables under the sidewalk. Progressives have decided that since 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.760 getting things done is right wing coded, now we must 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.480 remain completely still. We must put down our hammers and 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.280 let the buildings around us slowly decay. We must embrace 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.800 decay and death is the truest expression of what it 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:11.920 means to be American, what it means to be human. 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:16.400 Pasadena measures civic improvement projects in centuries like redwoods, like 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:17.360 shark teeth, like. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.520 The wind, that's funist to god. 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:24.000 The city website says, we're estimating it will take approximately 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.960 four hundred years to complete the Phase two straits. 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.160 And that's why there's an opening for that whole abundance 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.160 Democrat movement that's catching on that we talked about on Friday. 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:36.480 Right exactly, it's you know what, it's very blue doggie, 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:38.079 or so it seems. 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:39.240 In its early days. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:41.839 What is Mother's Day supposed to be? Came across two 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:43.880 diverging opinions. I wanted to bring up and a bunch 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.240 of other stuff on the waist here farm strong. 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:53.600 Before ducklings rescued from a sewer drain in northern California, 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:57.600 firefighters jumping into action after the mother duck quacked for 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:01.000 somebody to help. Mama ended up rene with her babies 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.120 just in time for Mother's Day. 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:07.120 Oh well, Jan, thank goodness those baby ducks weren't swept 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.880 way into the sewers to drown or be eaten by rats. 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:16.160 In sports news, the a's were I like that, that's their. 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.040 Happy Mother's Day story. 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:26.959 Ducks rescued from a sewer from pure ducks. Well, I'm glad, 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:29.640 well done, San Mateo Fire Department. 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.120 I don't wish that the sewer ducks had perished on 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:33.360 Mother's Day or any other day. 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:34.319 Really, I'm glad that this. 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:35.840 Oh I'm pro duck. 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:41.040 So I am trying not to have any judgment on 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:45.559 this and realizing that I may have been misled by 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.360 my own experience and circle of friends my whole life 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:50.679 into having a certain view of what Mother's Day or 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:54.960 Father's Day is. I'm from the Midwest, that maybe that 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.160 has something to do with it as opposed to like California, 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:58.480 La style Mother's Day. 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.880 Maybe it's an air a thing. I don't know, but. 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.840 My experience with Mother's Day and Father's Day as a 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:10.280 child and then as an adult has always been the 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.600 kids and the parents spending time together on that day. 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:18.000 But I became aware yesterday that I was. I was 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.920 confronted with no, no, no, no, no, that's that's not 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.760 mom's Mom's that's a day for moms to get away 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.680 from their kids. Manny's, petties, champagne, brunch with the girls. 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:28.840 That's what Mother's Day is. 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:34.200 And I realized, maybe I've been off base all these years. 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.080 I feel like all the people I know, it's way 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.880 more hanging out the kids ish. 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:43.360 But that's a long running joke in society is that 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:45.640 Father's Day is for dads to spend time with the 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:47.520 kids and Mother's Day is time for the mom to 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.720 get away from the kids. Hmm. 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:52.560 I mean it doesn't need to be that way. You 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:56.360 you do you? But yeah, right, yes, Katie. 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:58.640 The trend I've seen this year with my mom friends 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.960 was they get away for the day and then they 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:02.560 have the evening the dinner together. 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.680 Interesting. Yeah, yeah, I don't. 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.840 Again, my own small circle of experience has not been 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:15.040 that at all, But that doesn't mean that that's the 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:19.280 prevailing view. 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:22.440 Was No, Judy was the primary caregiver, stay at home 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.800 mom for a lot of years. So yeah, Mother's Day 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.680 was a day to indulge mother. 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:28.960 Okay, and. 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:35.000 Uh, I know one mom was I heard from yesterday 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.440 spent like was exhausted from a weekend of doing things 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.000 with the kids because the kids wanted. 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:42.160 To do Mother's Day things all weekend. Made me feel 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:43.480 good and so you know. 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:45.880 Not nearly so sweet. 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.240 Opening statements from the Diddy trial shaping up to be 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.320 as horrifying as you might guess, stay with us. 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.920 Back to you, Jack, Do we know any more about 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.720 the witness that has disappeared? That was the story this 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:58.320 morning that shocked me from News Nation. 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:02.440 One of the key witness has just gone a wall, 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.080 and uh, with even some concern that they might have 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:07.560 to delay the trial because the kind of hinged on 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:14.320 this person's testimony. Some of the rap moguls have influence 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:18.480 connections very reminiscent of crime bosses of old. 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:22.160 Absolutely, and do they offer you, hey, how about five 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:23.680 million dollars and you don't show up? 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:25.960 Or how about you show up. 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:27.600 And I'm gonna you know, your children are going to 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.400 disappear either one of those combination of that sort of thing. 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:32.960 Watch you're back for the rest of your life because 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:33.920 I'm gonna get you. 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:34.360 Wow. 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:37.960 Wouldn't that be something They have entire medi areas that 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:39.520 can deliver that sort of message. Yeah. 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:41.320 So that did He trial really kicking off today, So 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.120 we've got an update on that coming up in a 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:43.440 little bit. 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:44.720 Good. I'm looking forward to that. 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:45.120 Well. 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.480 Also, Trump said a few things today before he jumped 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.440 on a plane to go to the Middle East. There's 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:51.920 so many huge stories going on right now. Are Zelenskin 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.960 Putin going to meet face to face on Thursday? Zelensky 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:56.280 says he'll be there waiting for him. 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.600 Yeah, I'm skeptical, as I said earlier, but we shall see. Plus, 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.040 the US China trade deals take in shape, all those 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.119 giant tariffs are off. The stock market has exploded. I 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:08.320 haven't checked recently, but. 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:13.000 A pencil in every dollhouse going forward. Great gravy times 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:14.440 are here again. Isn't it exciting? 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.200 Armstrong and Getdy The. 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:22.320 First week of jury selection and the Sean Combs trial 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.960 has ended without a jury being selected. Well yeah, I mean, 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.480 where are you going to find twelve people who haven't 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.680 had sex with Didty? 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:34.960 So today's a big day in the Ditty trial. We're 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.880 about to hear some details, and I'm wondering if this 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:40.720 isn't going to be the first big celebrity trial we've 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:44.439 had in a long time where we have practically daily 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:45.280 updates on. 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:46.200 It here on the show. 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:48.040 I think so. 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.119 Probably you start getting big time celebrities names thrown in 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.200 there or some wild details. 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.760 Like we've got today, what do we have, Katie. Opening 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:56.919 statements have begun. 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.719 Yeah, they right now. The defense is starting to talk 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:03.160 about Diddy, but the prosecutor just finished up. She talked 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.040 a lot about Cassie Ventura and Jane, who was a 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.639 girlfriend that did he had back in twenty twenty. 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:10.800 How they were going to. 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:14.399 Describe for you in painstaking detail, how they were forced 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:19.439 to perform at freakofs. Another part says that Combs had 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.879 found out that Cassie Ventura was seeing another man. In 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:27.440 a rage, comb took his gun, his bodyguard, and kidnapped 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.600 an employee to go to the unnamed man's house. Combs 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:32.239 said that he was going to kill the man that 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:37.400 Cassie was with. In another detail, they were going through 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:41.320 allegations of regular physical abuse, saying that Combs sometimes beat 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.919 Cassie Ventura when she took too long in the bathroom, 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:48.600 and when she tried to run away, he always found her, 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:51.240 often with the help of his inner circle. 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:52.520 Wow. 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:57.240 Yeah, it's pretty brutal. I'm reading some of the descriptions 0:18:57.280 --> 0:18:59.119 of what they're talking about. Yeah, this is not going 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:03.320 to be like sexy and funny and exciting. I think 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:04.800 it's going to be mostly sickening. 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:05.280 Well. 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.919 Yeah, and the defense just came out saying Seawan Combs 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:12.000 is a complicated man, but this is not a complicated case. 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:14.359 She's talking to the jury about. 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:18.919 This case is about love, jealousy, infidelity, and money and 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:24.040 voluntary choices made by capable adults. And the defense plans 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:27.479 to present text messages from Shawn Comb's employees. For the 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.159 most part, the evidence will show you it's talking to 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.160 the jury that they loved him. 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:36.879 And I loved the lifestyle that came with being around him, right, 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.360 and then if things got ugly enough, he would put 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:40.919 you in a position where he couldn't leave because you 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:46.040 were scared for your life. Probably, what obviously is going 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:49.280 to emerge over time is how in the world in 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:52.280 the year twenty all the years this has been going on, 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:54.439 how in the hell in the modern arrow with the 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.280 number of people that would have had to have been 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:00.600 aware of this lifestyle. Can you continue to pull this 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.560 off in the United States of America. That's what's going 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:05.680 to emerge. I think can be quite amazing. 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:11.679 Yeah, So the prosecutors previewing some of the evidence the 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:16.680 jury should expect test messages, text messages about prostitutes, videos 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:20.280 of Comb's assaulting Cassandra Ventura, videos of some of the 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:23.760 freak offs, which the government says show that Combs was 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:27.640 directing the encounters. Of course, you know that's not a crime, 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:31.400 but you will see for yourself the defendant's violence and aftermath. 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:35.639 They described accounts to two women, including former girlfriend, who 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:38.720 say Combs course them into drug fuel to orchestrated sex 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:42.480 marathons with male prostitutes. Government says a third woman and 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:45.800 a form employee will testify about times that Combs forced 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:51.400 himself on her sexually. A case resolve around Combe's conduct, 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:53.520 but also that of members of his inner circle who 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:56.120 are accused of working to cover up their boss's crimes. 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.120 So this is a good entry from the Washington Post 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:01.600 today from reporters who were in there and tapping away 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:04.760 on their phones. Sean Combs has been still an expressionalist, 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:08.400 looking intently at the prosecutor and the jury box as 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:11.119