May 12, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Flavored coffee & what the democrats are up to
- Mother's Day
- The Diddy trial & what's to come
- Lowering the price of prescription drugs
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Strong and Jetty and now he.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Arms Strong and Yetty.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Eighty five year old Motown Legends Smokey Robinson has been
accused of sexual assault by four of his former housekeepers.
Robinson plans to beat the charges by being dead soon.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
That was funny.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
He has a point.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Yeah, no kidding those of you who like flavored coffee.
So I'm out of my good my coffee. That's like coffee,
flavored coffee, which is what I think coffee should taste like.
And the worst part is you lose the smell. I'm
making my coffee and it didn't smell coffee, which is
one of the greatest smells in the history of the world.
It smelled like chocolate or hazelin or something.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
What the hell? What is wrong with you people?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Gum staunchly anti flavored coffee? I say, no, I don't.
You're wrong, deeply wrong. If you like flavored coffee characters flawed.
I do want it to another thing you may or
may not be wrong about. We're getting a face from Katie.
Why are you flavored copp Well, you're a girl.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
No, I like my coffee black. But says the guy
who just put creamer in his what flavor was the
creamer you put in your coffee?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Like a week ago?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Cream flavored cream face like cream like from a cow?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You sure it wasn't almond berry?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
No, I don't do flavors. I don't do flavors strawberry
whipped cream.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's whatever came out of the cow flavored. I do
want to talk.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
About Mother's Day a little bit.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I noticed yesterday there's two very divergent views on what
Mother's Day, how it should be celebrated, and I just
wondered where most people.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Are on that.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Also, I got to mention the teriff thing, the war
with China, the terrif or with China's over. They they
ended it, so the ninety day pause and and and
I feel like it's probably just gonna stay that way.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And so that whole thing. I'm ready for the historians.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
To write what we got out of it. Yeah, the
crazy part is over. There's still some john to be done,
in numbers to be set, and and you know, honestly,
I'm not quite as rosy as you are. I'm drinking
the black coffee of reality. Here we still are an
enormous trading partner with a malevolent communist power that seeks
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our destruction.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
So what about that part? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
We will see going forward. I don't know if you're
familiar with this. Trump has the White House, the Republicans
have a White House, and in both houses of Congress
at barely. But there's a midterm coming up. So what
are the demo crats up to? A couple of interesting perspectives.
Quoting a bit from the fabulous ally Bowls of the
Free Press, she's highly amused that tariffs are now what
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she says is MAGA coded. They're code dead, they're associated
with maga. So socialists are finally realizing that these are
a bad idea to begin with. So suddenly everybody on
the left is turning pro free trade and anti tariff.
Complete flip Bernie Sanders saying it's a bit arrogant to say, well,
maybe kids have too many toys and the price may
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go up a bit.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I think billionaires like.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Trump and Musk do not have a clue what it
means for working class families. So all of a sudden, Bernie,
who's been like pro labor and anti tariff his whole
life for.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Like free trade. Now it's funny, here's proff his whole life. Correct. Yeah,
oh yeah, he said anti So I just did he
is now? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
So Bernie led a movement that fought hard against free
trade for decades. Like his own Senate page, he literally
says he has quote helped lead the effort against disastrous,
unfettered free trade deals with China, Mexico, and other low
wage countries. All we needed was one Trumpo, and every
socialist in America's waxing poetic about cheap China made toys
(04:14):
on Amazon and how they're the American dream.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I love that man. About eight thousand pencils today on Amazon.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I'm so excited about the good times, being back the
gravy years, where you can have as many pencils and.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Dolls as you wanted.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
So many dolls. I've assembled a doll Congress.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I have four hundred and thirty five dollars that I
call the House of Representatives, and then one hundred dollars
I call the Senate, hundreds and hundreds of dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Then I have one giant doll.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I call trump a pencil in their hand.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
That's right, please.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
So it's well known that the Democrats are out of
power and out of sorts. Nobody knows what they believe in.
They ran a mummy and then they realized that was
a bad idea, so ran a dummy and he got
trounced by Donald Jay and nobody knows what they stand for. Well,
it's starting to take shape a little bit. Nelly Bowles
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Wrights my beloved technocrats. New York Times columnists and podcast
hosts Ezra Kleine and data whiz David Shore have been
tapped by Senate Democrats to be their special guests.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
That their annual retreat.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Only a few years ago, David Shore was fired for
posting data suggesting that the riots following MLK Junior's assassination
likely tipped the nineteen sixty eight presidential election in Nixon's favor,
and that was interpreted as a vai as a thinly
veiled critique of the Black Lives Matter protests, So he
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was fired for that. So the fact that seven demo
Senate Democrats are picking Klein in Shore, who left really
tried to destroy because they were normal, indicates a massive,
massive messaging shift is coming our way, sure enough.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And then here's Gaviy Newsom.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Last week we lost the popular vote, we lost the
electoral vote. We got crushed, and we need to be
humble about that, and we need to have some grace
and we need to understand why was it because of immigration?
Was it because we were too quote unquote woke?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
And then Pete.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Boot Edge Edge sporting beard by the way, Yeah, oh yeah,
Pete's got a beard.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, he's rocking a beard. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
And he's hitting up the manly podcasts too. He's appearing
anywhere on the like Moderate to write manly men podcasts,
the drink coffee. If you know what I'm saying, I
do know precisely what you were saying.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
You're saying he's gay anyway, boot Edge Edge.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So anyway, he said, it is so hard to build
and do things in this country. And I lived this
when I was at the Department of Transportation. Too much
regulation standing in charge in the way of progress. And
Nelly writes, that's the closest thing we've gotten to Ama
Kulpa for Pete having seven and a half billion dollars
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installing a total of seven charging stations in two years.
I'm ready to forgive you, Pete. I.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I was listening to the Dispatch podcast last week and
A had an interesting conversation and Sarah, I isger on there,
said she's on ABC this week every week. But she said,
and I think she's absolutely right. She said, in what
sense are there political parties anymore?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
There aren't.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I mean they wait for a personality to emerge and
then they go with whatever that personality.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Believes they don't have.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
So the Republican Party does what Trump is into now,
but as soon as.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
He disappears from the scene, it will be as at
see as.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
The Democrats are right now, who are waiting for somebody
to emerge, and then they'll adopt whatever policies that person is.
If it's Bernie, they'll be a Bernie person. If it's,
you know, somebody more moderate, they'll adopt that person. But
the parties aren't driving it. The personality that emerges is
driving it. So there aren't really parties now. I've been
resisting the temptation to get into the Medicare reform negotiations,
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which are making me insane. These so called moderate Republicans
are just trying to somewhat cap the explosive growth in waste, fraud, abuse,
and perversion of this medical medical you.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Know, care for the you know, the poor and the
old and the it's just expl it's exploded Medicaid too.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
But well with medicaid, you know, you got the federal
government paying ninety percent of the bill for healthy, working
aged males who are just too lazy to work. You've
got them paying about a third for poverty stricken pregnant ladies.
It's become so perverse and upside down. But the so
called the moderate Republicans are saying, hey, we shouldn't crack
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down on this because it's it's real easy for them
to portray us as mean, and so let's just keep
letting it explode out of control. Now you got fiscal
hawks saying, for God's sake, we got to do something
about this. But the being shouted down in the Republican Party,
I said to Jack, was it? I think it was
verbally before the show, I said, the Republican Party doesn't
stand for anything anymore. I have no idea what it is,
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neither party. It's funny you should bring that to us.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah, yeah, it's a personality's driven on both sides. Part
of it is the way financing works now and all that,
and in the air of Trump, you can have everybody
bellowing from the same hymnal on the right.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Then Trump changes his mind two weeks later, and then
everybody's bellowing the opposite. Sure it's enough to make you
a cuckoo nuts anyway, I love this.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Back to kicking the Democrats who deserve it.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Nelly Bowles in the Free Press brings up the project. Hey, La,
you know what you're slack and listen to what Philly's doing.
You think you can squander enormous amounts of money on
practically nothing. Philadelphia has a project to build fifty seven
units of affordable housing. So far, it's taken over six
years and many many meetings and they still haven't even
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broken ground six years, tremendous amounts of money and haven't
even stuck a shovel in the dirt on only fifty
seven units. Anyway, Yes, yes, that's correct. And they're six
years into the project, whatever that means. I guess I'm
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six years into my becoming an astronaut project too.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Anyway, this is the punchline, folks.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I went to the actual website to verify these numbers.
They are, actually they are literally in print. The City
of Pasadena, is it Pasadena? Yes, Pasadena, California is putting
their electrical cables underground. There are a number of cities
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in California and around the country that do this. It
helps maintain the reliability of electrical power during storms and
that sort of thing. It also prevents you know, crappy
polls from falling down or poorly secured wires from falling
and igniting the underbrush and forests and causing horrific wildfires
that kill many people and then ruin ruin many lives. Right, So,
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there are a lot of good reasons to put these
electrical cables underground. The City of Pasadena's website estimates that
it will take four hundred years to put their electrical
cables underground. This is real quote. According to that construction timeline,
Category two streets it's going to take Category one streets
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is the most important priority streets. According to the website,
it will take one hundred years to put the power
underground for the priority streets. One hundred years. Now, let
me read from the website. Category two streets would be
completed completed in approximately four hundred years. That's right, folks,
it will take longer than America has existed to put
electrical cables under the sidewalk. Progressives have decided that since
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getting things done is right wing coded, now we must
remain completely still. We must put down our hammers and
let the buildings around us slowly decay. We must embrace
decay and death is the truest expression of what it
means to be American, what it means to be human.
Pasadena measures civic improvement projects in centuries like redwoods, like
shark teeth, like.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
The wind, that's funist to god.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
The city website says, we're estimating it will take approximately
four hundred years to complete the Phase two straits.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
And that's why there's an opening for that whole abundance
Democrat movement that's catching on that we talked about on Friday.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Right exactly, it's you know what, it's very blue doggie,
or so it seems.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
In its early days.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
What is Mother's Day supposed to be? Came across two
diverging opinions. I wanted to bring up and a bunch
of other stuff on the waist here farm strong.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Before ducklings rescued from a sewer drain in northern California,
firefighters jumping into action after the mother duck quacked for
somebody to help. Mama ended up rene with her babies
just in time for Mother's Day.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Oh well, Jan, thank goodness those baby ducks weren't swept
way into the sewers to drown or be eaten by rats.
In sports news, the a's were I like that, that's their.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Happy Mother's Day story.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Ducks rescued from a sewer from pure ducks. Well, I'm glad,
well done, San Mateo Fire Department.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
I don't wish that the sewer ducks had perished on
Mother's Day or any other day.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Really, I'm glad that this.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Oh I'm pro duck.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
So I am trying not to have any judgment on
this and realizing that I may have been misled by
my own experience and circle of friends my whole life
into having a certain view of what Mother's Day or
Father's Day is. I'm from the Midwest, that maybe that
has something to do with it as opposed to like California,
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La style Mother's Day.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Maybe it's an air a thing. I don't know, but.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
My experience with Mother's Day and Father's Day as a
child and then as an adult has always been the
kids and the parents spending time together on that day.
But I became aware yesterday that I was. I was
confronted with no, no, no, no, no, that's that's not
mom's Mom's that's a day for moms to get away
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from their kids. Manny's, petties, champagne, brunch with the girls.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
That's what Mother's Day is.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
And I realized, maybe I've been off base all these years.
I feel like all the people I know, it's way
more hanging out the kids ish.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
But that's a long running joke in society is that
Father's Day is for dads to spend time with the
kids and Mother's Day is time for the mom to
get away from the kids. Hmm.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I mean it doesn't need to be that way. You
you do you? But yeah, right, yes, Katie.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
The trend I've seen this year with my mom friends
was they get away for the day and then they
have the evening the dinner together.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Interesting. Yeah, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Again, my own small circle of experience has not been
that at all, But that doesn't mean that that's the
prevailing view.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Was No, Judy was the primary caregiver, stay at home
mom for a lot of years. So yeah, Mother's Day
was a day to indulge mother.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Okay, and.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Uh, I know one mom was I heard from yesterday
spent like was exhausted from a weekend of doing things
with the kids because the kids wanted.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
To do Mother's Day things all weekend. Made me feel
good and so you know.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Not nearly so sweet.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Opening statements from the Diddy trial shaping up to be
as horrifying as you might guess, stay with us.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Back to you, Jack, Do we know any more about
the witness that has disappeared? That was the story this
morning that shocked me from News Nation.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
One of the key witness has just gone a wall,
and uh, with even some concern that they might have
to delay the trial because the kind of hinged on
this person's testimony. Some of the rap moguls have influence
connections very reminiscent of crime bosses of old.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Absolutely, and do they offer you, hey, how about five
million dollars and you don't show up?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Or how about you show up.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
And I'm gonna you know, your children are going to
disappear either one of those combination of that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Watch you're back for the rest of your life because
I'm gonna get you.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Wouldn't that be something They have entire medi areas that
can deliver that sort of message. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
So that did He trial really kicking off today, So
we've got an update on that coming up in a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Good. I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Well.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Also, Trump said a few things today before he jumped
on a plane to go to the Middle East. There's
so many huge stories going on right now. Are Zelenskin
Putin going to meet face to face on Thursday? Zelensky
says he'll be there waiting for him.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yeah, I'm skeptical, as I said earlier, but we shall see. Plus,
the US China trade deals take in shape, all those
giant tariffs are off. The stock market has exploded. I
haven't checked recently, but.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
A pencil in every dollhouse going forward. Great gravy times
are here again. Isn't it exciting?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Armstrong and Getdy The.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
First week of jury selection and the Sean Combs trial
has ended without a jury being selected. Well yeah, I mean,
where are you going to find twelve people who haven't
had sex with Didty?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
So today's a big day in the Ditty trial. We're
about to hear some details, and I'm wondering if this
isn't going to be the first big celebrity trial we've
had in a long time where we have practically daily
updates on.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
It here on the show.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I think so.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Probably you start getting big time celebrities names thrown in
there or some wild details.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Like we've got today, what do we have, Katie. Opening
statements have begun.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Yeah, they right now. The defense is starting to talk
about Diddy, but the prosecutor just finished up. She talked
a lot about Cassie Ventura and Jane, who was a
girlfriend that did he had back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
How they were going to.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Describe for you in painstaking detail, how they were forced
to perform at freakofs. Another part says that Combs had
found out that Cassie Ventura was seeing another man. In
a rage, comb took his gun, his bodyguard, and kidnapped
an employee to go to the unnamed man's house. Combs
said that he was going to kill the man that
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Cassie was with. In another detail, they were going through
allegations of regular physical abuse, saying that Combs sometimes beat
Cassie Ventura when she took too long in the bathroom,
and when she tried to run away, he always found her,
often with the help of his inner circle.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, it's pretty brutal. I'm reading some of the descriptions
of what they're talking about. Yeah, this is not going
to be like sexy and funny and exciting. I think
it's going to be mostly sickening.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Well.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Yeah, and the defense just came out saying Seawan Combs
is a complicated man, but this is not a complicated case.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
She's talking to the jury about.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
This case is about love, jealousy, infidelity, and money and
voluntary choices made by capable adults. And the defense plans
to present text messages from Shawn Comb's employees. For the
most part, the evidence will show you it's talking to
the jury that they loved him.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
And I loved the lifestyle that came with being around him, right,
and then if things got ugly enough, he would put
you in a position where he couldn't leave because you
were scared for your life. Probably, what obviously is going
to emerge over time is how in the world in
the year twenty all the years this has been going on,
how in the hell in the modern arrow with the
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number of people that would have had to have been
aware of this lifestyle. Can you continue to pull this
off in the United States of America. That's what's going
to emerge. I think can be quite amazing.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yeah, So the prosecutors previewing some of the evidence the
jury should expect test messages, text messages about prostitutes, videos
of Comb's assaulting Cassandra Ventura, videos of some of the
freak offs, which the government says show that Combs was
directing the encounters. Of course, you know that's not a crime,
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but you will see for yourself the defendant's violence and aftermath.
They described accounts to two women, including former girlfriend, who
say Combs course them into drug fuel to orchestrated sex
marathons with male prostitutes. Government says a third woman and
a form employee will testify about times that Combs forced
himself on her sexually. A case resolve around Combe's conduct,
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but also that of members of his inner circle who
are accused of working to cover up their boss's crimes.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
So this is a good entry from the Washington Post
today from reporters who were in there and tapping away
on their phones. Sean Combs has been still an expressionalist,
looking intently at the prosecutor and the jury box as
a woman detailed the government's case against him, including an
alleged incident when Combs paid for hotel security footage of
him abusing Cassi Ventura. That's the video we've all seen
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of him dragging her by the hair down the hallway.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Johnson said Combs arranged.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
For his workers to pay for what they thought was
the only copy of the footage with a brown paper
bag filled with one hundred thousand dollars in cash. High
ranking employees who allegedly helped Combs cover up his crimes
included his chief of staff as well as others. So
they so, you know, at a hotel, of course, there
probably would be only one copy of something like that,
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And they tried to show up with a paper bag
full of one hundred grand and say, hey, give it
to us, this is yours, No harm done, no foul,
keep your mouth shut.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Well that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah, money was exchanged and the silence was maintained until
somebody had made an.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Extra copy, because people tend to do that, decided to
leak it a year later.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Right in the modern world, it'd be pretty easy to
make an extra copy, whereas God, it wouldn't be that
many years ago.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
You'd had to been like a you know, an audio
visual major in college or something to be able to
do that. But wow, that's how these people get away
with that.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
They've just got so much money to throw at these situations,
because without that video, this trial doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Speaking of throwing money at situations, his lawyer team makes
OJ's dream team look like a double A ball club.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I mean, you're not going to know all these names,
but they're like the biggest names in especially New York
defense attorneys, including folks who defended pharma bro Martin Screlley,
remember him, Keith Ranier, the leader of the Nexium sex cult,
Dominique strauss Khan, the former managing director of the IMF.
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Remember in twenty eleven he was accused of sexually assaulting
an hotel maid. They've defended Louis Mangione, among others. He's
just he's got quite a few super heavyweights.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Well he's a billionaire, right, including the.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Daughter of Mark Geragos by the way, a little ty
and O Jay.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, I think he is something like that. Yeah, so
that gives you.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
A you know, quite a bit of money to spread
around on lawyers.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Team also includes Alexandra Shapiro Fromin, a appellate court lawyer
at the firm Shapiro or out of Bach, who was
once prosecutor.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
In New York.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
She graduated from Columbia Law School and was one of
the first clerks of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the
Supreme Court. She also wrote a novel entitled Presumed Guilty.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
It's sort of Shakespearean when you just get through the
idea of you got so much money and power that
you just you know, you run amook. You your most
base instincts, run them up, and you feel like you
can do anything. Because he was doing anything and getting
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away with it for a very long time. And it
would seem as a fan of Shakespeare in human Nature
that your appetite for that sort.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Of thing grows with the eating.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I mean, the more you get to do whatever you
want and can pull it off, it makes you want
to just explore further that part of your personality seems
to happen. Well, Shakespeare was a plagiarizer. Jack this stuff
straight out of the Old Testament. There are a number
of tales of kings of old who grew bold and
greedy and expressed contempt towards the laws of God and
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man and found themselves falling.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
So yeah, how many.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Movie stars, actresses, musicians that we do respect knew this was.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Going on, had an idea of it? Yeah, you could
be like the ugly Particulars.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Yeah, I think you could have an idea. He's pretty
freaky and not have any idea of like the hardcore
violence and threats and all that sort of stuff, the rape.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Right.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I've known a handful of people in my life who
have been kind of pleasure seeking types. Hard PARTI yours
in the direction of uh of old Diddy, and yeah,
they they want everybody to have a good time, and
they don't necessarily, you know, show you the inner workings
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of how everybody happened to be there, what substances and
and the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Now, that's the part of throwing a good party.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
You don't tell them, Hey, I've threatened these prostitutes with
a pistol whipping right, a bad form.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
It's that romantic or sexy.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Uh. If that video had stayed hidden, I think he
would he wouldn't even be in jail right now. I
think that was the big deal, and I mean it's
been stated as such by all kinds of legal experts
in all the articles I read over the weekend, And
then that's going to be huge for showing the jury
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what kind of person he is.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Not only that, but I read with interest mentioned this
a little earlier. But prosecutors say they have trouble convincing
juries that somebody like Diddy allegedly can be that brutal
and cruel over that long period of time, because most
normal people don't have that in their life experience.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Somebody who is so.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Who's so disregards kindness and compassion that they can just
brutalize people. Would do They have a hard time picturing that.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Would you want to be a jury on a trial
like this?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Oh I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
So to finish the thought, to show somebody brutalizing somebody else,
that juror say, oh wow, he is capable of that.
That's terrible in a way that you know I don't need.
But I'm a cynical man, having got it. I'd love
to be as of humanity for an entire career. Yes,
I'd love.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
To be a juror what a fascinating experience that would
be six to eight weeks of listening to this and
then and then applying the law to it with the
evidence and everything. That would be so interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, it's you know, it's one of the downsides of
the jury system. And we around here advocate very very
strongly for you to not try to.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Get out of jury duty.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Try as hard as you can to do jury duty
because it's a constitutional you know, responsibility of all of us,
and it's just crazy interesting in all sorts of different ways.
I really really recommend you you try to get on
a jury. Plus, you could end any common sense whatsoever
we need you.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Yeah, you could end up on the other end of
this someday where you didn't do anything. Do you want
a bunch of numb nuts making the decision?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
On the other hand, six to eight weeks, I mean,
there are plenty of us who that that would not do.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I just can't do it.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
No, I couldn't single parent, Yeah, full time.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Primary care or is just somebody with the nature of
their work.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
You can't have Jim cover your accounts while you're out
for six weeks. You're a sole proprietor for a proprietor,
for instance, or you do a radio show slash podcast
and nobody could come.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Close to your brilliance to fill in. Uh so, yeah,
it's tough, but it's important.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
I'm not a guy who's I don't think would be
shocked by any of the stuff that's going to come
out of this trial.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
But there are probably jurors on there. I'm like trying
to picture my mom or somebody.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Who might be like, I mean, really kind of hard
to wrap their heads around what they're talking about.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Oh yeah, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
There are occasional discussions of having professional jurors in this
country to simplify things and not have to run through
zillions of people who are trying to make excuses and get.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Out of it.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Blah blah blah. It's just a whole rigmarole. It's an
intriguing notion. There's some pretty strong pros and some cons.
But tell you what, if that were the deal man,
when and if I ever retire from this dead end gig,
I could absolutely see doing that being a professional juror.
I wouldn't want to work full time all the time.
But oh it's so interesting.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Hey, so is there a racial element to this. You know,
the whole OJ thing really turned into a black white
you know, the riots afterwards and everything like that. And
is there a racial element to this? Is is black
community standing up for Diddy Combs or is he not?
Is that not the thing here?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I don't know, Katie, have you heard anything like that.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
I've been unaware of any dynamics like that, which doesn't
prove anything.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
But the only person I've seen charing for Diddy is Kanye.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Right, yeah, I agree, which is not like somebody you
want on.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Your side, not see sympathizer. Yes, not the best look. Hey,
thanks for the offer, yea, but yee yay ye But yeah,
I'll bet Ya shows up at the courthouse at some point.
He is going to be out front there at some
point doing it. We were in his clan robes yelling
about Hitler is all blat not helpful.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Hey, you're not helping. You're not helping me here with
the klan that.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
You think you're helping.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
And I appreciate it, But you and your clan robe
and your heile Hitler go.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Trump is headed to the Middle East. You might be
getting a new plane from the uh from who Qatar?
It's going to provide him with a plane. That's kind
of a story that the left's really into right now.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I don't know if.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
It's well, he's good. They're going to lend it to
him as Air Force one.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Then when he's out office, he'll just keep it.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Theoretically, Okay, now, okay, we got a bunch of stuffed update.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
You want to stay here.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
So for the first time in many years, we'll slash
the costs of prescription drugs, and we will bring fairness
to America.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Drug prices will come down by much more.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
Really, if you think fifty nine if you if you
think of a drug that is sometimes ten times more expensive,
it's much more than the fifty nine percent. You know,
it depends on the way you want to addle, but
in one way, you could analyze.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
It that way.
Speaker 8 (31:02):
But between fifty nine and eighty and I guess even
ninety percent, I don't.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Know what any of those numbers mean.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
But President Trump signed an executive order that are supposed
to really slash.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Prescription drug prices. He signed it today.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Now, he tried to do the same thing in the
first term, but the court stopped him, saying he doesn't
have the ability to do that.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I don't know if he feels he has the ability
to do it.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Here, it's another example of something that you know, Congress
could write a law about him, could be a permanent
part of our lives.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
But we don't do things like that anymore.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Right, Yeah, I've got to admit I'm torn on this topic.
I've heard some pretty steady role in reliable people say
we're removing the innovation, the R and D, the incentive
to come up with groundbreaking new drugs, and Trump is saying, now,
that's that's not truel.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
We're getting ripped off.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
I'm completely at sea, and I think ninety nine percent
of people are on all this stuff. I mean, I
don't have this lightest idea what things cost.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I got.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
I'm on eight different drugs for my whooping cough. Now eight.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
I was at the doctor for three hours on Saturday,
lots of drugs. I went and picked up four Saturday afternoon.
They ranged in price that I paid, that I had
to hand money over to someone. They ranged in price
from zero to thirty five cents to forty eight dollars
and I just pay it just like everybody else does.
(32:28):
Why is that one forty eight why is that one zero?
I don't have any idea. I don't question it. What
am I gonna try to figure out?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Why?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Where would you even start?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
And who's paying how much?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
To a pharmacy or a pharmacy benefits manager, an insurance
company or whatever.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Yeah, And I don't know if that one that cost
me thirty six cents was outrageously priced that my insurance
company picked up but is now spreading that cost among I.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Don't have any idea, and neither to you.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
And so yeah, I don't even know what it means
when he says I'm gonna low or prescription drug costs.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
I have insurance and my drugs don't cost much, So.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I don't know. Right, it doesn't mean they don't cost
me much.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
They might be costing a ton of money, and it
might be horrible, and we might be all getting ripped off,
and we're all paying way too much for insured and
my insure, my premiums are high enough, my deductible's insane.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Maybe it's because insurance the drugs are too high.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
But I don't know, and I'm never gonna sit down
to figure it out either. No, in every good and
thorough explanation I've ever gotten of how our health system works,
including the government's involvement in it. You go through it's
like the stages of accepting death. I mean, there's the
eyes glazing, then there's the anger, then there's the discouragement
and the sadness, and you realize not all. Not only
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do I know this system is crazy and confusing. I
know I will never be able to understand it. It
is so complex and mobbed up.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Oh, and I got a lot.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I don't mean to be discouraging it just is.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I got a letter the other day on some medical bill.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
They're gonna turn it over to collections because I owe
five dollars in twenty four cents that somehow slipped through
the cracks of and I tried to pay it, and
that I punched in the code of the account I've got.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
And they claim it doesn't exist. I know I've done
this before.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
It's five dollars and twenty four cents.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Good freaking God, and I have no idea what I
was from or where.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
That sort of stuff is just nuts.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Yeah, Yeah, that's what pushes people toward wanting a single
pair system. But I guarantee you a single pair system
is gonna feel a lot like being at the DMV.
You might not be paying out of pocket per time
the same way, but the hassle paperwork getting denied will
be insane.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
So love a lot of what Trump's doing on a
lot of different fronts, but the whole having a tariff
against foreign movies to help out Hollywood's saying, there's rather
a good argument against that. I would like to make
it among other fair. Next Hour plus in California's Crumbling Update.
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Speaker 2 (35:00):
You can get you on demand. You probably ought to subscribe.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I just read a detail from the Diddy trial today.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
One of the women is going to explain, Gee ros So,
I mean, there's stuff there that was shocked the conscience
of anybody but a merchant marine.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Yeah, I'm not sure we want to hear about it.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
No, I'm not going to tell you about it. We
got more an hour four. If you don't get it,
get to the podcast
Speaker 1 (35:23):
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Strong and Jetty and now he.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Arms Strong and Yetty.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Eighty five year old Motown Legends Smokey Robinson has been
accused of sexual assault by four of his former housekeepers.
Robinson plans to beat the charges by being dead soon.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
That was funny.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
He has a point.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Yeah, no kidding those of you who like flavored coffee.
So I'm out of my good my coffee. That's like coffee,
flavored coffee, which is what I think coffee should taste like.
And the worst part is you lose the smell. I'm
making my coffee and it didn't smell coffee, which is
one of the greatest smells in the history of the world.
It smelled like chocolate or hazelin or something.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
What the hell? What is wrong with you people?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Gum staunchly anti flavored coffee? I say, no, I don't.
You're wrong, deeply wrong. If you like flavored coffee characters flawed.
I do want it to another thing you may or
may not be wrong about. We're getting a face from Katie.
Why are you flavored copp Well, you're a girl.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
No, I like my coffee black. But says the guy
who just put creamer in his what flavor was the
creamer you put in your coffee?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Like a week ago?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Cream flavored cream face like cream like from a cow?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You sure it wasn't almond berry?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
No, I don't do flavors. I don't do flavors strawberry
whipped cream.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's whatever came out of the cow flavored. I do
want to talk.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
About Mother's Day a little bit.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I noticed yesterday there's two very divergent views on what
Mother's Day, how it should be celebrated, and I just
wondered where most people.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Are on that.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Also, I got to mention the teriff thing, the war
with China, the terrif or with China's over. They they
ended it, so the ninety day pause and and and
I feel like it's probably just gonna stay that way.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And so that whole thing. I'm ready for the historians.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
To write what we got out of it. Yeah, the
crazy part is over. There's still some john to be done,
in numbers to be set, and and you know, honestly,
I'm not quite as rosy as you are. I'm drinking
the black coffee of reality. Here we still are an
enormous trading partner with a malevolent communist power that seeks
(02:35):
our destruction.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
So what about that part? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
We will see going forward. I don't know if you're
familiar with this. Trump has the White House, the Republicans
have a White House, and in both houses of Congress
at barely. But there's a midterm coming up. So what
are the demo crats up to? A couple of interesting perspectives.
Quoting a bit from the fabulous ally Bowls of the
Free Press, she's highly amused that tariffs are now what
(03:07):
she says is MAGA coded. They're code dead, they're associated
with maga. So socialists are finally realizing that these are
a bad idea to begin with. So suddenly everybody on
the left is turning pro free trade and anti tariff.
Complete flip Bernie Sanders saying it's a bit arrogant to say, well,
maybe kids have too many toys and the price may
(03:29):
go up a bit.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I think billionaires like.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Trump and Musk do not have a clue what it
means for working class families. So all of a sudden, Bernie,
who's been like pro labor and anti tariff his whole
life for.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Like free trade. Now it's funny, here's proff his whole life. Correct. Yeah,
oh yeah, he said anti So I just did he
is now? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
So Bernie led a movement that fought hard against free
trade for decades. Like his own Senate page, he literally
says he has quote helped lead the effort against disastrous,
unfettered free trade deals with China, Mexico, and other low
wage countries. All we needed was one Trumpo, and every
socialist in America's waxing poetic about cheap China made toys
(04:14):
on Amazon and how they're the American dream.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I love that man. About eight thousand pencils today on Amazon.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I'm so excited about the good times, being back the
gravy years, where you can have as many pencils and.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Dolls as you wanted.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
So many dolls. I've assembled a doll Congress.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I have four hundred and thirty five dollars that I
call the House of Representatives, and then one hundred dollars
I call the Senate, hundreds and hundreds of dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Then I have one giant doll.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I call trump a pencil in their hand.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
That's right, please.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
So it's well known that the Democrats are out of
power and out of sorts. Nobody knows what they believe in.
They ran a mummy and then they realized that was
a bad idea, so ran a dummy and he got
trounced by Donald Jay and nobody knows what they stand for. Well,
it's starting to take shape a little bit. Nelly Bowles
(05:09):
Wrights my beloved technocrats. New York Times columnists and podcast
hosts Ezra Kleine and data whiz David Shore have been
tapped by Senate Democrats to be their special guests.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
That their annual retreat.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Only a few years ago, David Shore was fired for
posting data suggesting that the riots following MLK Junior's assassination
likely tipped the nineteen sixty eight presidential election in Nixon's favor,
and that was interpreted as a vai as a thinly
veiled critique of the Black Lives Matter protests, So he
(05:41):
was fired for that. So the fact that seven demo
Senate Democrats are picking Klein in Shore, who left really
tried to destroy because they were normal, indicates a massive,
massive messaging shift is coming our way, sure enough.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And then here's Gaviy Newsom.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Last week we lost the popular vote, we lost the
electoral vote. We got crushed, and we need to be
humble about that, and we need to have some grace
and we need to understand why was it because of immigration?
Was it because we were too quote unquote woke?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
And then Pete.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Boot Edge Edge sporting beard by the way, Yeah, oh yeah,
Pete's got a beard.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, he's rocking a beard. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
And he's hitting up the manly podcasts too. He's appearing
anywhere on the like Moderate to write manly men podcasts,
the drink coffee. If you know what I'm saying, I
do know precisely what you were saying.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
You're saying he's gay anyway, boot Edge Edge.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So anyway, he said, it is so hard to build
and do things in this country. And I lived this
when I was at the Department of Transportation. Too much
regulation standing in charge in the way of progress. And
Nelly writes, that's the closest thing we've gotten to Ama
Kulpa for Pete having seven and a half billion dollars
(07:07):
installing a total of seven charging stations in two years.
I'm ready to forgive you, Pete. I.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I was listening to the Dispatch podcast last week and
A had an interesting conversation and Sarah, I isger on there,
said she's on ABC this week every week. But she said,
and I think she's absolutely right. She said, in what
sense are there political parties anymore?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
There aren't.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I mean they wait for a personality to emerge and
then they go with whatever that personality.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Believes they don't have.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
So the Republican Party does what Trump is into now,
but as soon as.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
He disappears from the scene, it will be as at
see as.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
The Democrats are right now, who are waiting for somebody
to emerge, and then they'll adopt whatever policies that person is.
If it's Bernie, they'll be a Bernie person. If it's,
you know, somebody more moderate, they'll adopt that person. But
the parties aren't driving it. The personality that emerges is
driving it. So there aren't really parties now. I've been
resisting the temptation to get into the Medicare reform negotiations,
(08:06):
which are making me insane. These so called moderate Republicans
are just trying to somewhat cap the explosive growth in waste, fraud, abuse,
and perversion of this medical medical you.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Know, care for the you know, the poor and the
old and the it's just expl it's exploded Medicaid too.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
But well with medicaid, you know, you got the federal
government paying ninety percent of the bill for healthy, working
aged males who are just too lazy to work. You've
got them paying about a third for poverty stricken pregnant ladies.
It's become so perverse and upside down. But the so
called the moderate Republicans are saying, hey, we shouldn't crack
(08:48):
down on this because it's it's real easy for them
to portray us as mean, and so let's just keep
letting it explode out of control. Now you got fiscal
hawks saying, for God's sake, we got to do something
about this. But the being shouted down in the Republican Party,
I said to Jack, was it? I think it was
verbally before the show, I said, the Republican Party doesn't
stand for anything anymore. I have no idea what it is,
(09:10):
neither party. It's funny you should bring that to us.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah, yeah, it's a personality's driven on both sides. Part
of it is the way financing works now and all that,
and in the air of Trump, you can have everybody
bellowing from the same hymnal on the right.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Then Trump changes his mind two weeks later, and then
everybody's bellowing the opposite. Sure it's enough to make you
a cuckoo nuts anyway, I love this.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Back to kicking the Democrats who deserve it.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Nelly Bowles in the Free Press brings up the project. Hey, La,
you know what you're slack and listen to what Philly's doing.
You think you can squander enormous amounts of money on
practically nothing. Philadelphia has a project to build fifty seven
units of affordable housing. So far, it's taken over six
years and many many meetings and they still haven't even
(10:01):
broken ground six years, tremendous amounts of money and haven't
even stuck a shovel in the dirt on only fifty
seven units. Anyway, Yes, yes, that's correct. And they're six
years into the project, whatever that means. I guess I'm
(10:22):
six years into my becoming an astronaut project too.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Anyway, this is the punchline, folks.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I went to the actual website to verify these numbers.
They are, actually they are literally in print. The City
of Pasadena, is it Pasadena? Yes, Pasadena, California is putting
their electrical cables underground. There are a number of cities
(10:52):
in California and around the country that do this. It
helps maintain the reliability of electrical power during storms and
that sort of thing. It also prevents you know, crappy
polls from falling down or poorly secured wires from falling
and igniting the underbrush and forests and causing horrific wildfires
that kill many people and then ruin ruin many lives. Right, So,
(11:13):
there are a lot of good reasons to put these
electrical cables underground. The City of Pasadena's website estimates that
it will take four hundred years to put their electrical
cables underground. This is real quote. According to that construction timeline,
Category two streets it's going to take Category one streets
(11:34):
is the most important priority streets. According to the website,
it will take one hundred years to put the power
underground for the priority streets. One hundred years. Now, let
me read from the website. Category two streets would be
completed completed in approximately four hundred years. That's right, folks,
it will take longer than America has existed to put
electrical cables under the sidewalk. Progressives have decided that since
(11:58):
getting things done is right wing coded, now we must
remain completely still. We must put down our hammers and
let the buildings around us slowly decay. We must embrace
decay and death is the truest expression of what it
means to be American, what it means to be human.
Pasadena measures civic improvement projects in centuries like redwoods, like
shark teeth, like.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
The wind, that's funist to god.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
The city website says, we're estimating it will take approximately
four hundred years to complete the Phase two straits.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
And that's why there's an opening for that whole abundance
Democrat movement that's catching on that we talked about on Friday.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Right exactly, it's you know what, it's very blue doggie,
or so it seems.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
In its early days.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
What is Mother's Day supposed to be? Came across two
diverging opinions. I wanted to bring up and a bunch
of other stuff on the waist here farm strong.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Before ducklings rescued from a sewer drain in northern California,
firefighters jumping into action after the mother duck quacked for
somebody to help. Mama ended up rene with her babies
just in time for Mother's Day.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Oh well, Jan, thank goodness those baby ducks weren't swept
way into the sewers to drown or be eaten by rats.
In sports news, the a's were I like that, that's their.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Happy Mother's Day story.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Ducks rescued from a sewer from pure ducks. Well, I'm glad,
well done, San Mateo Fire Department.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
I don't wish that the sewer ducks had perished on
Mother's Day or any other day.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Really, I'm glad that this.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Oh I'm pro duck.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
So I am trying not to have any judgment on
this and realizing that I may have been misled by
my own experience and circle of friends my whole life
into having a certain view of what Mother's Day or
Father's Day is. I'm from the Midwest, that maybe that
has something to do with it as opposed to like California,
(13:57):
La style Mother's Day.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Maybe it's an air a thing. I don't know, but.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
My experience with Mother's Day and Father's Day as a
child and then as an adult has always been the
kids and the parents spending time together on that day.
But I became aware yesterday that I was. I was
confronted with no, no, no, no, no, that's that's not
mom's Mom's that's a day for moms to get away
(14:23):
from their kids. Manny's, petties, champagne, brunch with the girls.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
That's what Mother's Day is.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
And I realized, maybe I've been off base all these years.
I feel like all the people I know, it's way
more hanging out the kids ish.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
But that's a long running joke in society is that
Father's Day is for dads to spend time with the
kids and Mother's Day is time for the mom to
get away from the kids. Hmm.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I mean it doesn't need to be that way. You
you do you? But yeah, right, yes, Katie.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
The trend I've seen this year with my mom friends
was they get away for the day and then they
have the evening the dinner together.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Interesting. Yeah, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Again, my own small circle of experience has not been
that at all, But that doesn't mean that that's the
prevailing view.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Was No, Judy was the primary caregiver, stay at home
mom for a lot of years. So yeah, Mother's Day
was a day to indulge mother.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Okay, and.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Uh, I know one mom was I heard from yesterday
spent like was exhausted from a weekend of doing things
with the kids because the kids wanted.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
To do Mother's Day things all weekend. Made me feel
good and so you know.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Not nearly so sweet.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Opening statements from the Diddy trial shaping up to be
as horrifying as you might guess, stay with us.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Back to you, Jack, Do we know any more about
the witness that has disappeared? That was the story this
morning that shocked me from News Nation.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
One of the key witness has just gone a wall,
and uh, with even some concern that they might have
to delay the trial because the kind of hinged on
this person's testimony. Some of the rap moguls have influence
connections very reminiscent of crime bosses of old.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Absolutely, and do they offer you, hey, how about five
million dollars and you don't show up?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Or how about you show up.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
And I'm gonna you know, your children are going to
disappear either one of those combination of that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Watch you're back for the rest of your life because
I'm gonna get you.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Wouldn't that be something They have entire medi areas that
can deliver that sort of message. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
So that did He trial really kicking off today, So
we've got an update on that coming up in a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Good. I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Well.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Also, Trump said a few things today before he jumped
on a plane to go to the Middle East. There's
so many huge stories going on right now. Are Zelenskin
Putin going to meet face to face on Thursday? Zelensky
says he'll be there waiting for him.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yeah, I'm skeptical, as I said earlier, but we shall see. Plus,
the US China trade deals take in shape, all those
giant tariffs are off. The stock market has exploded. I
haven't checked recently, but.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
A pencil in every dollhouse going forward. Great gravy times
are here again. Isn't it exciting?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Armstrong and Getdy The.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
First week of jury selection and the Sean Combs trial
has ended without a jury being selected. Well yeah, I mean,
where are you going to find twelve people who haven't
had sex with Didty?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
So today's a big day in the Ditty trial. We're
about to hear some details, and I'm wondering if this
isn't going to be the first big celebrity trial we've
had in a long time where we have practically daily
updates on.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
It here on the show.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I think so.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Probably you start getting big time celebrities names thrown in
there or some wild details.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Like we've got today, what do we have, Katie. Opening
statements have begun.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Yeah, they right now. The defense is starting to talk
about Diddy, but the prosecutor just finished up. She talked
a lot about Cassie Ventura and Jane, who was a
girlfriend that did he had back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
How they were going to.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Describe for you in painstaking detail, how they were forced
to perform at freakofs. Another part says that Combs had
found out that Cassie Ventura was seeing another man. In
a rage, comb took his gun, his bodyguard, and kidnapped
an employee to go to the unnamed man's house. Combs
said that he was going to kill the man that
(18:32):
Cassie was with. In another detail, they were going through
allegations of regular physical abuse, saying that Combs sometimes beat
Cassie Ventura when she took too long in the bathroom,
and when she tried to run away, he always found her,
often with the help of his inner circle.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, it's pretty brutal. I'm reading some of the descriptions
of what they're talking about. Yeah, this is not going
to be like sexy and funny and exciting. I think
it's going to be mostly sickening.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Well.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Yeah, and the defense just came out saying Seawan Combs
is a complicated man, but this is not a complicated case.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
She's talking to the jury about.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
This case is about love, jealousy, infidelity, and money and
voluntary choices made by capable adults. And the defense plans
to present text messages from Shawn Comb's employees. For the
most part, the evidence will show you it's talking to
the jury that they loved him.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
And I loved the lifestyle that came with being around him, right,
and then if things got ugly enough, he would put
you in a position where he couldn't leave because you
were scared for your life. Probably, what obviously is going
to emerge over time is how in the world in
the year twenty all the years this has been going on,
how in the hell in the modern arrow with the
(19:54):
number of people that would have had to have been
aware of this lifestyle. Can you continue to pull this
off in the United States of America. That's what's going
to emerge. I think can be quite amazing.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yeah, So the prosecutors previewing some of the evidence the
jury should expect test messages, text messages about prostitutes, videos
of Comb's assaulting Cassandra Ventura, videos of some of the
freak offs, which the government says show that Combs was
directing the encounters. Of course, you know that's not a crime,
(20:27):
but you will see for yourself the defendant's violence and aftermath.
They described accounts to two women, including former girlfriend, who
say Combs course them into drug fuel to orchestrated sex
marathons with male prostitutes. Government says a third woman and
a form employee will testify about times that Combs forced
himself on her sexually. A case resolve around Combe's conduct,
(20:51):
but also that of members of his inner circle who
are accused of working to cover up their boss's crimes.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
So this is a good entry from the Washington Post
today from reporters who were in there and tapping away
on their phones. Sean Combs has been still an expressionalist,
looking intently at the prosecutor and the jury box as
a woman detailed the government's case against him, including an
alleged incident when Combs paid for hotel security footage of
him abusing Cassi Ventura. That's the video we've all seen
(21:18):
of him dragging her by the hair down the hallway.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Johnson said Combs arranged.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
For his workers to pay for what they thought was
the only copy of the footage with a brown paper
bag filled with one hundred thousand dollars in cash. High
ranking employees who allegedly helped Combs cover up his crimes
included his chief of staff as well as others. So
they so, you know, at a hotel, of course, there
probably would be only one copy of something like that,
(21:44):
And they tried to show up with a paper bag
full of one hundred grand and say, hey, give it
to us, this is yours, No harm done, no foul,
keep your mouth shut.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Well that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah, money was exchanged and the silence was maintained until
somebody had made an.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Extra copy, because people tend to do that, decided to
leak it a year later.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Right in the modern world, it'd be pretty easy to
make an extra copy, whereas God, it wouldn't be that
many years ago.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
You'd had to been like a you know, an audio
visual major in college or something to be able to
do that. But wow, that's how these people get away
with that.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
They've just got so much money to throw at these situations,
because without that video, this trial doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Speaking of throwing money at situations, his lawyer team makes
OJ's dream team look like a double A ball club.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I mean, you're not going to know all these names,
but they're like the biggest names in especially New York
defense attorneys, including folks who defended pharma bro Martin Screlley,
remember him, Keith Ranier, the leader of the Nexium sex cult,
Dominique strauss Khan, the former managing director of the IMF.
(22:56):
Remember in twenty eleven he was accused of sexually assaulting
an hotel maid. They've defended Louis Mangione, among others. He's
just he's got quite a few super heavyweights.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Well he's a billionaire, right, including the.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Daughter of Mark Geragos by the way, a little ty
and O Jay.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, I think he is something like that. Yeah, so
that gives you.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
A you know, quite a bit of money to spread
around on lawyers.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Team also includes Alexandra Shapiro Fromin, a appellate court lawyer
at the firm Shapiro or out of Bach, who was
once prosecutor.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
In New York.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
She graduated from Columbia Law School and was one of
the first clerks of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the
Supreme Court. She also wrote a novel entitled Presumed Guilty.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
It's sort of Shakespearean when you just get through the
idea of you got so much money and power that
you just you know, you run amook. You your most
base instincts, run them up, and you feel like you
can do anything. Because he was doing anything and getting
(24:06):
away with it for a very long time. And it
would seem as a fan of Shakespeare in human Nature
that your appetite for that sort.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Of thing grows with the eating.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I mean, the more you get to do whatever you
want and can pull it off, it makes you want
to just explore further that part of your personality seems
to happen. Well, Shakespeare was a plagiarizer. Jack this stuff
straight out of the Old Testament. There are a number
of tales of kings of old who grew bold and
greedy and expressed contempt towards the laws of God and
(24:37):
man and found themselves falling.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
So yeah, how many.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Movie stars, actresses, musicians that we do respect knew this was.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Going on, had an idea of it? Yeah, you could
be like the ugly Particulars.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Yeah, I think you could have an idea. He's pretty
freaky and not have any idea of like the hardcore
violence and threats and all that sort of stuff, the rape.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Right.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I've known a handful of people in my life who
have been kind of pleasure seeking types. Hard PARTI yours
in the direction of uh of old Diddy, and yeah,
they they want everybody to have a good time, and
they don't necessarily, you know, show you the inner workings
(25:32):
of how everybody happened to be there, what substances and
and the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Now, that's the part of throwing a good party.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
You don't tell them, Hey, I've threatened these prostitutes with
a pistol whipping right, a bad form.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
It's that romantic or sexy.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Uh. If that video had stayed hidden, I think he
would he wouldn't even be in jail right now. I
think that was the big deal, and I mean it's
been stated as such by all kinds of legal experts
in all the articles I read over the weekend, And
then that's going to be huge for showing the jury
(26:10):
what kind of person he is.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Not only that, but I read with interest mentioned this
a little earlier. But prosecutors say they have trouble convincing
juries that somebody like Diddy allegedly can be that brutal
and cruel over that long period of time, because most
normal people don't have that in their life experience.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Somebody who is so.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Who's so disregards kindness and compassion that they can just
brutalize people. Would do They have a hard time picturing that.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Would you want to be a jury on a trial
like this?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Oh I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
So to finish the thought, to show somebody brutalizing somebody else,
that juror say, oh wow, he is capable of that.
That's terrible in a way that you know I don't need.
But I'm a cynical man, having got it. I'd love
to be as of humanity for an entire career. Yes,
I'd love.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
To be a juror what a fascinating experience that would
be six to eight weeks of listening to this and
then and then applying the law to it with the
evidence and everything. That would be so interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, it's you know, it's one of the downsides of
the jury system. And we around here advocate very very
strongly for you to not try to.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Get out of jury duty.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Try as hard as you can to do jury duty
because it's a constitutional you know, responsibility of all of us,
and it's just crazy interesting in all sorts of different ways.
I really really recommend you you try to get on
a jury. Plus, you could end any common sense whatsoever
we need you.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Yeah, you could end up on the other end of
this someday where you didn't do anything. Do you want
a bunch of numb nuts making the decision?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
On the other hand, six to eight weeks, I mean,
there are plenty of us who that that would not do.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I just can't do it.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
No, I couldn't single parent, Yeah, full time.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Primary care or is just somebody with the nature of
their work.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
You can't have Jim cover your accounts while you're out
for six weeks. You're a sole proprietor for a proprietor,
for instance, or you do a radio show slash podcast
and nobody could come.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Close to your brilliance to fill in. Uh so, yeah,
it's tough, but it's important.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
I'm not a guy who's I don't think would be
shocked by any of the stuff that's going to come
out of this trial.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
But there are probably jurors on there. I'm like trying
to picture my mom or somebody.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Who might be like, I mean, really kind of hard
to wrap their heads around what they're talking about.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Oh yeah, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
There are occasional discussions of having professional jurors in this
country to simplify things and not have to run through
zillions of people who are trying to make excuses and get.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Out of it.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Blah blah blah. It's just a whole rigmarole. It's an
intriguing notion. There's some pretty strong pros and some cons.
But tell you what, if that were the deal man,
when and if I ever retire from this dead end gig,
I could absolutely see doing that being a professional juror.
I wouldn't want to work full time all the time.
But oh it's so interesting.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Hey, so is there a racial element to this. You know,
the whole OJ thing really turned into a black white
you know, the riots afterwards and everything like that. And
is there a racial element to this? Is is black
community standing up for Diddy Combs or is he not?
Is that not the thing here?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I don't know, Katie, have you heard anything like that.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
I've been unaware of any dynamics like that, which doesn't
prove anything.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
But the only person I've seen charing for Diddy is Kanye.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Right, yeah, I agree, which is not like somebody you
want on.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Your side, not see sympathizer. Yes, not the best look. Hey,
thanks for the offer, yea, but yee yay ye But yeah,
I'll bet Ya shows up at the courthouse at some point.
He is going to be out front there at some
point doing it. We were in his clan robes yelling
about Hitler is all blat not helpful.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Hey, you're not helping. You're not helping me here with
the klan that.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
You think you're helping.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
And I appreciate it, But you and your clan robe
and your heile Hitler go.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Trump is headed to the Middle East. You might be
getting a new plane from the uh from who Qatar?
It's going to provide him with a plane. That's kind
of a story that the left's really into right now.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I don't know if.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
It's well, he's good. They're going to lend it to
him as Air Force one.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Then when he's out office, he'll just keep it.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Theoretically, Okay, now, okay, we got a bunch of stuffed update.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
You want to stay here.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
So for the first time in many years, we'll slash
the costs of prescription drugs, and we will bring fairness
to America.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Drug prices will come down by much more.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
Really, if you think fifty nine if you if you
think of a drug that is sometimes ten times more expensive,
it's much more than the fifty nine percent. You know,
it depends on the way you want to addle, but
in one way, you could analyze.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
It that way.
Speaker 8 (31:02):
But between fifty nine and eighty and I guess even
ninety percent, I don't.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Know what any of those numbers mean.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
But President Trump signed an executive order that are supposed
to really slash.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Prescription drug prices. He signed it today.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Now, he tried to do the same thing in the
first term, but the court stopped him, saying he doesn't
have the ability to do that.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I don't know if he feels he has the ability
to do it.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Here, it's another example of something that you know, Congress
could write a law about him, could be a permanent
part of our lives.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
But we don't do things like that anymore.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Right, Yeah, I've got to admit I'm torn on this topic.
I've heard some pretty steady role in reliable people say
we're removing the innovation, the R and D, the incentive
to come up with groundbreaking new drugs, and Trump is saying, now,
that's that's not truel.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
We're getting ripped off.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
I'm completely at sea, and I think ninety nine percent
of people are on all this stuff. I mean, I
don't have this lightest idea what things cost.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I got.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
I'm on eight different drugs for my whooping cough. Now eight.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
I was at the doctor for three hours on Saturday,
lots of drugs. I went and picked up four Saturday afternoon.
They ranged in price that I paid, that I had
to hand money over to someone. They ranged in price
from zero to thirty five cents to forty eight dollars
and I just pay it just like everybody else does.
(32:28):
Why is that one forty eight why is that one zero?
I don't have any idea. I don't question it. What
am I gonna try to figure out?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Why?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Where would you even start?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
And who's paying how much?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
To a pharmacy or a pharmacy benefits manager, an insurance
company or whatever.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Yeah, And I don't know if that one that cost
me thirty six cents was outrageously priced that my insurance
company picked up but is now spreading that cost among I.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Don't have any idea, and neither to you.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
And so yeah, I don't even know what it means
when he says I'm gonna low or prescription drug costs.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
I have insurance and my drugs don't cost much, So.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I don't know. Right, it doesn't mean they don't cost
me much.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
They might be costing a ton of money, and it
might be horrible, and we might be all getting ripped off,
and we're all paying way too much for insured and
my insure, my premiums are high enough, my deductible's insane.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Maybe it's because insurance the drugs are too high.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
But I don't know, and I'm never gonna sit down
to figure it out either. No, in every good and
thorough explanation I've ever gotten of how our health system works,
including the government's involvement in it. You go through it's
like the stages of accepting death. I mean, there's the
eyes glazing, then there's the anger, then there's the discouragement
and the sadness, and you realize not all. Not only
(33:41):
do I know this system is crazy and confusing. I
know I will never be able to understand it. It
is so complex and mobbed up.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Oh, and I got a lot.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I don't mean to be discouraging it just is.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I got a letter the other day on some medical bill.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
They're gonna turn it over to collections because I owe
five dollars in twenty four cents that somehow slipped through
the cracks of and I tried to pay it, and
that I punched in the code of the account I've got.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
And they claim it doesn't exist. I know I've done
this before.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
It's five dollars and twenty four cents.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Good freaking God, and I have no idea what I
was from or where.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
That sort of stuff is just nuts.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Yeah, Yeah, that's what pushes people toward wanting a single
pair system. But I guarantee you a single pair system
is gonna feel a lot like being at the DMV.
You might not be paying out of pocket per time
the same way, but the hassle paperwork getting denied will
be insane.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
So love a lot of what Trump's doing on a
lot of different fronts, but the whole having a tariff
against foreign movies to help out Hollywood's saying, there's rather
a good argument against that. I would like to make
it among other fair. Next Hour plus in California's Crumbling Update.
(34:56):
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Speaker 2 (35:00):
You can get you on demand. You probably ought to subscribe.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I just read a detail from the Diddy trial today.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
One of the women is going to explain, Gee ros So,
I mean, there's stuff there that was shocked the conscience
of anybody but a merchant marine.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Yeah, I'm not sure we want to hear about it.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
No, I'm not going to tell you about it. We
got more an hour four. If you don't get it,
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