May 9, 2025 • 11 mins
It was a great day for Catholicism, for Christianity generally and by extension yesterday was a great day for humanity.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome to the Brian Mud Show and thank you for listening.
It's time for today's Top three takeaways. Helpful, useful, repeatable.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
An American pope and a British trade. Happy Friday. My
top three takeaways for you, Starting with yes, an American pope.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Americans and Saint Peter Square were shell shocked after the
election of Chicago native Cardinal Robert Prevost now Pope Leo
the fourteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
That's pretty insane.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I mean, I think it's something that I definitely didn't
ex back.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
But some feel it's a timely opportunity.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Having an American pope, with how divided everyone is, hopefully creates
immunity within the world again.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
World leaders have also offered their congratulations, Italian Prime Minister
Georgia Maloney telling the Pope Italians will look to you
as a guide. In Argentina, President Javier Malay, a critic
of Pope Francis, declared the forces of heaven have clearly
given their verdict.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, so as we dive in here.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Okay, So an American being the next vote not something
I expected. And I understand you know that, Oh it's
an American.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Not really the biggest thing to me, not even clothes. Actually,
in fact, this might sound to odd. Doesn't particularly get
me excited. There is something that does, though. There is
one thing I wanted out that just one, and it
hit the mark my opinion, yesterday was a great day
for Catholicism, for Christianity generally by extension, yesterday was a
(01:47):
great day for humanity. On the fourth vote, the cardinals
found I think the right person. I think they got
it right. It's a new chapter for the Catholic Church
in more ways than one. So Chicago born and naturalized
Peruvian citizen Cardinal Robert Provost heretofore to be known as
(02:10):
as Pope Leo the fourteenth. What he's really about is
what matters most, not where he's from or this or that.
And you know, people want to get caught up in
all kinds of other typical like, well did you see
what he posted on social media somewhere along the way,
and this uh uh, in the words of President Trump,
(02:31):
it's a great honor for our country. Well, it has
been one hundred and two years since Pope Leo the thirteenth,
and as always, there is a lot to a pope's
chosen name. So Leo the thirteenth he was post for
twenty five years, having been elected pope at age sixty eight,
which is people are going, hey, what does the name mean?
(02:53):
That is also something that I think is highly relevant
because they're almost the same age. Leo the thirteenth, it
was only one year younger than our newest pope, so
there could be something to that as well. The previous
Leo was a pragmatist who boldly rejected socialism at a
time when it was on the rise, while also siding
(03:15):
with labored unions over corporations and unchecked capitalism at a
time both were also on the rise. His stances earned
him the nickname the worker's Pope. Now, a lot of
digging has been done into this Pope, and it has
been spun to fit agendas. I just do not have
an interest in doing that. One of the things that
(03:37):
does bother me. And I know that there's a tendency,
especially in this medium, to try to left right this
whole thing.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
That's not what God is about. It's not about.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Left right politics, not about Democrats, Republicans or anything. Although yes,
if you go back to win Leo was voting in Chicago,
he was a Republican voter. I mean, that's just consistent
with the faith. I mean, this is a whole separate argument.
But there's nothing. You have to go back to JFK
to find a time when it would have been okay
(04:08):
to be Catholic and be a Democrat. There's nothing consistent
with a platform of Democrats that is in any way
consistent with Christianity in the Catholic Church.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I mean nothing anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So there's that, but that is really superficial in the
grand scheme of things. What matters here is what I
mentioned following the passing of Pute Francis, because I believe
that the Church in the faith were at an inflection point.
Continue to pursue the progressive ways of embracing things like
(04:42):
the homosexual alphabet and other constructs of pulp culture and
a flawed society, or get back to actually teaching God's words.
Whatever you might hear, whatever the spin might be on
this pope, what I needed to know about this new
(05:06):
pope summed up In a speech before bishops back in
twenty twelve, when Leo said that pop culture prompted sympathy
for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the Gospel.
He specifically highlighted matters of homosexuality. Said it was all wrong.
So all the homosexual alphabet people, the whole Hey, we're
(05:29):
gender fluid, and they all.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
No, not at all. That's it.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Precisely what we've needed is an originalist. Is an originalist
because God's word doesn't change. God's word hasn't changed our
society does. Values of people in a lot of society
(05:56):
they change.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
God's word has not changed. Again, did commandments?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Ten commandments and in Jesus's words, still the same words.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
We just needed a pope who would actually.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Stay with them, rather than trying to evolve in a
progressive way bring about some kind of message that didn't
actually ever exist there and is inconsistent with the Ten Commandments,
isn'tconsistent with what Jesus's teachings were.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, as I.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Also said in the wake of the passing to Pote Francis,
I'll pray that the next decision, no matter who the
person ends up being, prioritizes God's word over the current
ways and temptations of the world, and would encourage you
to do so too. The fate of the Catholic Church,
but also the world may hang in the balance. So
God is the progressivism of Francis in is it the
(06:43):
originalism of Leo? And in the words of Pope Leo
the fourteenth yesterday spoken in Italian and Spanish without a
word of English, which was interesting, that was I think
quite clearly purposeful. He said, God loves everyone, Evil will
not prevail.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
My second takeaway today a new deal. Final details are
still being written, but President Trump's is an agreement with
the UK will drastically reduce trade barriers, especially.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
In agriculture, dramatically increasing access for American beef, ethanol, and
virtually all of.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
The and the virtual of all the agriculture industry. Is
how that clip ended up going from Trump, And now
we know. I think what President Trump was hitting at
earlier in the week when he said that he would
soon announce something very very very big, and it's like
as big as it gets. Now you can decide whether
(07:43):
you think a trade deal with the UK is like
as big as it gets.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I see the look of skepticism by I think, I
mean it's a subjective thing. Obviously, I don't know if
I would consider it not as big as it gets.
I mean, you know, all right.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
So maybe that means there's more news that hits before
Monday before he hits out on Monday. Could be so anyway,
technically speaking, all in on this trade deal with the UK,
it is the eleventh, the eleventh biggest trade deal President
Trump can make on trade, so that part of it
is actually not subjective. It is there are eleventh biggest
trading partner, and so there's that a year to date,
(08:19):
that is where they rank with US on trade. Now,
there's also another wrinkle with the ua UK that made
a trade deal easier for President Trump to make. It
is one of the rare countries the United States already
has a trade surplus with. So in other words, we
technically were already benefiting the most with the British trade
relationship prior to the establishment of the new deal. So
(08:40):
what that means is that any concessions President Trump got
for the US just kind of made an already good
trade arrangement that much better. And on that note, it
might have been these words from President Trump that mattered
most yesterday. He said, today's agreement with the UK is
the first in a series of agreements on trade that
Miam at At has been negotiating over the past four weeks,
(09:02):
the implication being that this is the first of what's
expected to be many new trade deals that are completed
very soon. So it seems that President Trump specifically wanted
the deal announced yesterday because it was the V Day
or a World War two Victory Day anniversary, if you notice.
Symbolism has been a very big part of his second administration.
(09:23):
A La Doge being in force until our country's two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary talks a lot about that. So anyway,
back to the deal, what's in it? And my third
takeaway for you today, what does it mean with this deal?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
The UK joins the United States and affirming that reciprocity
and fairness is an essential and vital principle of international trade.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Structurally, the biggest news emerging from yesterday's UK trade deal
it was that the current ten percent tariffs charged for
UK imports into the United States will remain in place
with the present stating that ten percent is the floor
that all countries will be charged for importing goods into
the US, with select exceptions. And what this also means
(10:10):
is that tariffs they're here to stay. They're here to say,
and the question comes down to the rate. We're just
haggling over the price now. So quoting to the President,
some will be much higher because they have massive trade
surpluses and in many cases they didn't treat us right.
So news of trade deals doesn't mean like an auto
reset of stort. It's just kind of like going back
to doing the business the way we used to do it.
(10:32):
President Trumps serious about super serving American interests here, and
what the US gained from the deal is full market
access to the UK for America's agriculture industry, including multiple
tarif free categories such as beef, where tariff rates had
averaged greater than nine percent previously. So that's a nice
win for American producers. England also agreed to purchase ten
(10:53):
billion dollars in Boeing aircraft and align their still tariff
policies with the US, So essentially for the cost of
not President Trump was able to get reduced UK tafrates
on US agricultural products ten billion dollars in new business
for a major US manufacturer, and policy that helps protect
the US steel industry. I mean, that's far from the
(11:13):
biggest trade deal that President Trump will make. However, it
is endemic of why his policy has been worth pursuing,
and the stock market's reaction yesterday with another massive rally
that took place tells you the relevance of our new
arrangement with trade on trade with the UK.
The Brian Mud Show podcast is driven by Brayman Motor Cars.
My family is a Brayman Motor Cars family. Your family
should be too. Visit Braymanmotorcars dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome to the Brian Mud Show and thank you for listening.
It's time for today's Top three takeaways. Helpful, useful, repeatable.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
An American pope and a British trade. Happy Friday. My
top three takeaways for you, Starting with yes, an American pope.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Americans and Saint Peter Square were shell shocked after the
election of Chicago native Cardinal Robert Prevost now Pope Leo
the fourteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
That's pretty insane.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I mean, I think it's something that I definitely didn't
ex back.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
But some feel it's a timely opportunity.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Having an American pope, with how divided everyone is, hopefully creates
immunity within the world again.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
World leaders have also offered their congratulations, Italian Prime Minister
Georgia Maloney telling the Pope Italians will look to you
as a guide. In Argentina, President Javier Malay, a critic
of Pope Francis, declared the forces of heaven have clearly
given their verdict.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, so as we dive in here.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Okay, So an American being the next vote not something
I expected. And I understand you know that, Oh it's
an American.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Not really the biggest thing to me, not even clothes. Actually,
in fact, this might sound to odd. Doesn't particularly get
me excited. There is something that does, though. There is
one thing I wanted out that just one, and it
hit the mark my opinion, yesterday was a great day
for Catholicism, for Christianity generally by extension, yesterday was a
(01:47):
great day for humanity. On the fourth vote, the cardinals
found I think the right person. I think they got
it right. It's a new chapter for the Catholic Church
in more ways than one. So Chicago born and naturalized
Peruvian citizen Cardinal Robert Provost heretofore to be known as
(02:10):
as Pope Leo the fourteenth. What he's really about is
what matters most, not where he's from or this or that.
And you know, people want to get caught up in
all kinds of other typical like, well did you see
what he posted on social media somewhere along the way,
and this uh uh, in the words of President Trump,
(02:31):
it's a great honor for our country. Well, it has
been one hundred and two years since Pope Leo the thirteenth,
and as always, there is a lot to a pope's
chosen name. So Leo the thirteenth he was post for
twenty five years, having been elected pope at age sixty eight,
which is people are going, hey, what does the name mean?
(02:53):
That is also something that I think is highly relevant
because they're almost the same age. Leo the thirteenth, it
was only one year younger than our newest pope, so
there could be something to that as well. The previous
Leo was a pragmatist who boldly rejected socialism at a
time when it was on the rise, while also siding
(03:15):
with labored unions over corporations and unchecked capitalism at a
time both were also on the rise. His stances earned
him the nickname the worker's Pope. Now, a lot of
digging has been done into this Pope, and it has
been spun to fit agendas. I just do not have
an interest in doing that. One of the things that
(03:37):
does bother me. And I know that there's a tendency,
especially in this medium, to try to left right this
whole thing.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
That's not what God is about. It's not about.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Left right politics, not about Democrats, Republicans or anything. Although yes,
if you go back to win Leo was voting in Chicago,
he was a Republican voter. I mean, that's just consistent
with the faith. I mean, this is a whole separate argument.
But there's nothing. You have to go back to JFK
to find a time when it would have been okay
(04:08):
to be Catholic and be a Democrat. There's nothing consistent
with a platform of Democrats that is in any way
consistent with Christianity in the Catholic Church.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I mean nothing anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So there's that, but that is really superficial in the
grand scheme of things. What matters here is what I
mentioned following the passing of Pute Francis, because I believe
that the Church in the faith were at an inflection point.
Continue to pursue the progressive ways of embracing things like
(04:42):
the homosexual alphabet and other constructs of pulp culture and
a flawed society, or get back to actually teaching God's words.
Whatever you might hear, whatever the spin might be on
this pope, what I needed to know about this new
(05:06):
pope summed up In a speech before bishops back in
twenty twelve, when Leo said that pop culture prompted sympathy
for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the Gospel.
He specifically highlighted matters of homosexuality. Said it was all wrong.
So all the homosexual alphabet people, the whole Hey, we're
(05:29):
gender fluid, and they all.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
No, not at all. That's it.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Precisely what we've needed is an originalist. Is an originalist
because God's word doesn't change. God's word hasn't changed our
society does. Values of people in a lot of society
(05:56):
they change.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
God's word has not changed. Again, did commandments?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Ten commandments and in Jesus's words, still the same words.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
We just needed a pope who would actually.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Stay with them, rather than trying to evolve in a
progressive way bring about some kind of message that didn't
actually ever exist there and is inconsistent with the Ten Commandments,
isn'tconsistent with what Jesus's teachings were.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, as I.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Also said in the wake of the passing to Pote Francis,
I'll pray that the next decision, no matter who the
person ends up being, prioritizes God's word over the current
ways and temptations of the world, and would encourage you
to do so too. The fate of the Catholic Church,
but also the world may hang in the balance. So
God is the progressivism of Francis in is it the
(06:43):
originalism of Leo? And in the words of Pope Leo
the fourteenth yesterday spoken in Italian and Spanish without a
word of English, which was interesting, that was I think
quite clearly purposeful. He said, God loves everyone, Evil will
not prevail.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
My second takeaway today a new deal. Final details are
still being written, but President Trump's is an agreement with
the UK will drastically reduce trade barriers, especially.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
In agriculture, dramatically increasing access for American beef, ethanol, and
virtually all of.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
The and the virtual of all the agriculture industry. Is
how that clip ended up going from Trump, And now
we know. I think what President Trump was hitting at
earlier in the week when he said that he would
soon announce something very very very big, and it's like
as big as it gets. Now you can decide whether
(07:43):
you think a trade deal with the UK is like
as big as it gets.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I see the look of skepticism by I think, I
mean it's a subjective thing. Obviously, I don't know if
I would consider it not as big as it gets.
I mean, you know, all right.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
So maybe that means there's more news that hits before
Monday before he hits out on Monday. Could be so anyway,
technically speaking, all in on this trade deal with the UK,
it is the eleventh, the eleventh biggest trade deal President
Trump can make on trade, so that part of it
is actually not subjective. It is there are eleventh biggest
trading partner, and so there's that a year to date,
(08:19):
that is where they rank with US on trade. Now,
there's also another wrinkle with the ua UK that made
a trade deal easier for President Trump to make. It
is one of the rare countries the United States already
has a trade surplus with. So in other words, we
technically were already benefiting the most with the British trade
relationship prior to the establishment of the new deal. So
(08:40):
what that means is that any concessions President Trump got
for the US just kind of made an already good
trade arrangement that much better. And on that note, it
might have been these words from President Trump that mattered
most yesterday. He said, today's agreement with the UK is
the first in a series of agreements on trade that
Miam at At has been negotiating over the past four weeks,
(09:02):
the implication being that this is the first of what's
expected to be many new trade deals that are completed
very soon. So it seems that President Trump specifically wanted
the deal announced yesterday because it was the V Day
or a World War two Victory Day anniversary, if you notice.
Symbolism has been a very big part of his second administration.
(09:23):
A La Doge being in force until our country's two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary talks a lot about that. So anyway,
back to the deal, what's in it? And my third
takeaway for you today, what does it mean with this deal?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
The UK joins the United States and affirming that reciprocity
and fairness is an essential and vital principle of international trade.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Structurally, the biggest news emerging from yesterday's UK trade deal
it was that the current ten percent tariffs charged for
UK imports into the United States will remain in place
with the present stating that ten percent is the floor
that all countries will be charged for importing goods into
the US, with select exceptions. And what this also means
(10:10):
is that tariffs they're here to stay. They're here to say,
and the question comes down to the rate. We're just
haggling over the price now. So quoting to the President,
some will be much higher because they have massive trade
surpluses and in many cases they didn't treat us right.
So news of trade deals doesn't mean like an auto
reset of stort. It's just kind of like going back
to doing the business the way we used to do it.
(10:32):
President Trumps serious about super serving American interests here, and
what the US gained from the deal is full market
access to the UK for America's agriculture industry, including multiple
tarif free categories such as beef, where tariff rates had
averaged greater than nine percent previously. So that's a nice
win for American producers. England also agreed to purchase ten
(10:53):
billion dollars in Boeing aircraft and align their still tariff
policies with the US, So essentially for the cost of
not President Trump was able to get reduced UK tafrates
on US agricultural products ten billion dollars in new business
for a major US manufacturer, and policy that helps protect
the US steel industry. I mean, that's far from the
(11:13):
biggest trade deal that President Trump will make. However, it
is endemic of why his policy has been worth pursuing,
and the stock market's reaction yesterday with another massive rally
that took place tells you the relevance of our new
arrangement with trade on trade with the UK.
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