May 12, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Tariffs, Trump headed to the Middle East & the cease fire
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Take a look at your 401K & China tariffs
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:39):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arm Strong
and and He Armstrong and.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
From the studio scene see sor I Dearly let room
deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getting Communications Compound.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
There's a day, on a.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Decades day, on a Monday, brand New weekday after Mother's Day.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
We're under the tutelage of our general.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Manager, Shina, our beloved trading partner de couple.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I could never do couple with you. I love you.
Who's a schmoopie? You hang up?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
We've got five to seven major stories happening at the
same time, with updates pretty much happening on a moment
by moment basis. I don't know which one you consider
the biggest one, but the fact that China and the
United Hey go out by pencils today like they're free.
This is what I'm gonna do, because we all write
with pencils all day long. Every other word, I'm gonna
(01:52):
toss a pencil in the trash. That's how cheap pencils
are gonna be again.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Right, Dolls, dolls, dolls for everyone.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Thirty to your kid wants thirty dollars for Christmas, get
them thirty dollars for fourth of July, thirty more for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
That's right. So good times we're back. The good times
are back.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, So that both both countries are gonna go back
down to about ten.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Percent, uh and just a little.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Extra because that whole fentanyl thing on Chinese imports. But
it's a huge decline from the giant one hundred and
twenty five percent that existed for a handful of days.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Or one hundred and forty five percent. And they and
so and they claim this is going to be a
ninety day pause. I think it'll be for for the
rest of our foreseeable future. They'll they'll never they won't
go back to this, and be my guess, and so
there that's over history, and the markets will decide. I
guess if that was we got anything out of that,
if that was a good deer nut. So you got
(02:48):
that whole story now, and Trump's headed to the Middle East.
To me, this is the most just interesting story. Freaking
Zelensky is gonna meet face to face with Putin.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Well, Putin shows up.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Which I can't even imagine the dynamic on that whole thing.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Sickening to even consider. I don't know, I don't know
how you could. I don't know how you could sit
there and look at that guy.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Anyway, more on that later, because that's gonna happen. Trump
worked out and jad Vance and Marco Rubio worked out
some sort of at least temporary cease fire with Indian
Pakistan that held over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
And so she got that story.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
P Diddy trial kicks off likely today with one of
the key most key.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Witnesses now can't be found, has disappeared. What wait a minute,
I saw that. I just saw that story.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
And the judge is actually talking about maybe pausing for
a bit to try to figure out where the key
witness is.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
So that's Oh, the only clue is a trail of
baby oil leading out of town.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Or I don't know, it's probably probably the old uh
gold silver or lead threat, right.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I wonder, I wonder. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Boy, By the way, I don't think that the Zelenski
Puttin meeting is going to take place. Oh, she'll be
a big story in itself, right.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And then you got Hamas announced they're going to give
back the last living American hostage they're trying to buy
some time or something. You still got a you got
a deadline coming with a bombing the crap out of Iran,
and Trump said Middle least he will be in Saudi
Arabia tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Uh, that is correct.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, yeah, And there's some there's growing controversy over some
of the Trump families business dealings in the Middle East,
as they are raking in enormous sums of money from
some of the various oil chekdoms that are seeking to
influence American foreign policy.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well, I'm not a fan of it. So you want it,
so you want to come on.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Kamala Harris, that's correct, Yes, yes, I'm back in Gavin
Newsom in twenty eight. Uh no, I'm just telling you
that the buzz is growing because it's uh, it doesn't
look great.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Well Trump, it looks like is gonna accept that plane
from Qatar that he'll then keep.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
After he's done being president or something. That whole story.
Oh that's what's been proposed.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
It's not by any means a done deal, and it's
it definitely has the appearance of impropriety, particularly because and sorry,
you know, to hardcore Trump fans, you know, all I
have is my principles.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I've lost my good looks.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
My athletic career as such as it was, is in
the dust bit of history. All I have is my
poor principles, and I've been hammering the Biden administration, the
Biden family, I should say, for the fuzzy at best influenced,
pedaling looking activities, and this does not look good and
the whole cryptocurrency thing at all.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So the stock market is surging on the news of
the tariff war being over.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Which is not surprising because that gives us some certainty.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
And effect the Yeah, that's right, it is moving up forward.
This is our makeup sex with China. It looked like
maybe we're completely on the outs, and now we are
back and stronger than ever. We both learned something, we
both realized what we could have lost, and it is assionate.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Our love might even be stronger. Oh good.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So do you have any have you come across any
like good analysis of did we get something that the world?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Did the United States get anything.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Out of this little dust up? And now the pause,
which I think is going to be the resolution? Was
it a waste of time? Was something accomplished? Do you
have any idea, any concept.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
The time will tell. That's what I say.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
There's also I mean, my gosh, the trade relationship with
China and the existing tariffs during the ninety days take
a couple of minutes to explain. Now if you couple
that with how about the rest of the world that
we haven't yet finished trade deals with?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
What's what's the status of that?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Do we still have some sort of highish punitivish tariffs
on our friends and allies?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
What's what's up with Canada and Mexico. Don't you need
like a running tote.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Board status, you know, the update board of what's going
on with all this stuff?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So I have no idea how to answer your question.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Did everybody call their moms and or if you are
a mom, spend a little time with your kids and have.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
A good Mother's Day.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I hope everybody did called my moms text letter.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I thought fondly of my mom, God bless her, had
a very good day, as I do every day.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Would you, Michael? We made mom dinner.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Actually we did a little barbecue and asparagus and all
sorts of stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah, you have the situation. I often point out. I
am envous of where everybody lives in the same area
and you get together for stuff like this, which is awesome.
M I made different life choices and nobody ever sees anybody.
Do you have any nar to well siblings that you
speak ill of? Well, the family's gathered, Michael.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
That sounds and johny, we actually all get along pretty well. Okay,
that's very wholesome. That's beautiful. I love that. Fantastic.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Both my brothers did go to visit my mom and
they went out to eat, and I understand my younger
brother ate way too much and was feeling awful at
the end of it. My dad could not finish his steak,
so my brother having finished his own meal and feeling
too much when it had finished Dad's steak so it
wouldn't go to waste, and then was really really suffering.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I swear.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
You know how some people do the twenty three and
meters and find out they're at eight percent Cherokee. Your
family has lion in it. I don't know exactly how
that worked. Back in the day, some lion crept into
the hen house and influenced the family's genetic code at some.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Point the whole better for me to feel miserable than
to let this go to waste is an an interesting angle.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
But I've done it many times in my life. Here's
Jack's great granddad, Simba.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
So we'll look for any results in the stock market.
I guess it looks like the A for instance, the
SNP could be in a better spot today than it
was on Liberation Day.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
So it's a win. It's gone up.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It's a little fatiguing, I think everybody. And there are
a couple of different topics that this could describe, not
just you know, tariffs and economics in the stock market,
that sort of thing. The Trump experience is a fatiguing experience.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Well, a pencil in every dollhouse. That's what he ran on.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
And it looks like beautiful, I so.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Trump said, or quite the meeting over the weekend. If
you were a falling this at all, I did, I
thought it was something there in Kiev. You had macrona France,
you had Mertz of Germany, you had the guy from Poland,
and then you got what's his name, starmer from England.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
All got there.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
The leaders of all those major European countries got there
together with Zelensky in Kiev to show solidarity. And there's
announcement that there needed to be a cease fire, and
Trump got on truth social they actually so they have
a big meeting. They get done with the meeting at
seven o'clock in the morning. It was earlier than that
(10:17):
DC time, early DC time. They said, we got to
call Trump. So they got Trump on the phone somehow
and got on a video call with him and talked
to him about what they had just discussed, and then
Trump truthed out, there needs to be a ceasefire. He Vladimir,
there's got to be a ceasefire. And then there was
some back and forth where on how they could get together.
(10:38):
Zolensky said he wouldn't meet. Trump said you gotta meet,
so Zelensky immediately responded by I will meet.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I'll be there. I'll be in Turkey. I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
How about you Putin? So now it's up to whether
Putin shows up or not. I can't imagine the human
dynamic of that. I don't see how you could possibly
sit there and keep any composure sitting across from that guy,
because he always does the smartass routine. Yeah, him doing
him doing the smart ass smirk when you've you know,
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held dead babies and everything else. Over the last three
years would be impossible to sit there with that guy.
But Zelenski says he's going to show up.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Well, to his credit as a negotiator, he's just trying
to make it infinitely clear that the obstacle to peace
is clearly Russia. Putin will not play into that, you
don't think, freely skeptical, No, he won't.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, if I'm wrong, I will say so.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
But he a is loathed to be manipulated, slash bullied,
pushed in any way. And I don't think he likes
the dynamic of it really, And I don't think he
wants to leave Russia either. I mean, they're uncomfortably close
with Turkey, are NATO ally one of the weirdest frenemy
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ships in the history of nation states.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
But no, he doesn't want to leave Russia.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Wow, But well, I got more thoughts on that why
I think he might want to show up. But we
better start the show officially. I'm Jack Now, I'm Jack Armstrong.
He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday, May the
twelfth year, twenty twenty five or Armstrong and getting we
approve of this program.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
All right, let's begin sorting through the madness trying to
figure it out precisely according to FCC rules and regulations.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
The show starts at.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Mark 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 reunited with her babies
just in time for Mother's Day.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
There you go, that's nice, yay to have little ducklings
swept down the sore on mother's Dad.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Back to you, so.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
The baby ducks did not die in the sewer drain
on Mother's Day, Jim, I don't.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Mind sweet and sentimental.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I'm a sentimental guy, but that was too much.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
That's great, that is great. Oh, that's fantastic. We'll have
to revisit that later.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I spent three hours with the doctor on a Saturday afternoon.
I am now on eight medications, count them eight for.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
This walking whooping cough. Wow, do not get whooping cough?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
No, I'd prefer not to get your update. Actually, I
said to a doctor one point. I said, yes, this is horrible.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
He said, that's why we have a vaccine for it.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Anyway, maybe I'll give you some news you can use
on that coming up. We got Katie's headlines. We got
lots today and all those big stories developing as we
speak in more ducks to rescue.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
So stay here.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I knew I left out one of the major stories
before he jumps on the plane to the Middle East.
This morning. Trump is going to sign in an executive
order lowering prescription drug prices. He tried this first term,
the court stopped it. They might do it again, but
he's going to attempt that today. A controversy. You'll move
Jack more on that topic to come.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Let's figure out who's reporting what it's the lead story
with Katie Green.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Katie, what's happening?
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Well, it seems to be the top story everywhere but
from the hill, US and China pausing most steep, steep
tariff hikes.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
For ninety days. It's a huge deal.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
It's gonna go from one forty five to ten percent
the tariff thing, So no, it's gonna be a lot less.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
He's still keeping in place the twenty percent China's in
the fentanyl trade tariffs, but the reciprocal tariff on top
of that will go from one hundred and twenty five
to ten percent, yielding a net thirty percent tariff.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
For me ABC Israel to pause Gaza fighting ahead of
US hostage a Don Alexander's release by Hamas.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
What is Hamas up to?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, it's this controversial too.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
It's really interesting the reactions from the left and right
in Israel. The left saying no, you gotta have a
master deal for all the hostages that ends the war,
and the right saying no, they're just buying more time.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
This is a Hamas maneuver. It's a scam. Don't fall
for it.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Right from Breitbart, Dan Bongino says the FBI will be
releasing files on COVID, cover up, mar Lago, raid, Epstein case,
and more.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I don't even remember what's Dan Bongino doing now? Secret
service director?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
What does he hint? Remember? You gotta named something assistant
FBI director of that he's working under Cash Betel. That's right, Okay? Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
This one from USA today, A threat from flesh eating
maggots forced the United States to suspend all live cattle
imports through Mexico.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
They're known as the New World screwer fleshening maggots.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
As if flesh eating maggot isn't a good enough Yeah,
you've got a nickname.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You know that the fact that I got whooping cough
factors into a lot of too many things coming across
the Mexican.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Border that we aren't being careful about. More on that later.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Oh my from the New York Post special Mother's Day
gift trend for the ages moms and kids getting matching tattoos.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, oh boy ah, that's sweet.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Maybe you have little ducklings if you've been left sneak
for a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Jesus from the Free Beacon.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Eleven percent of Columbia Library arrestees identify as they them
And if I may share the first three words of
this article, it's a they tea fota I like it.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Wow, a bunch of confused would be radicals.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
It all fits in back to you.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
And finally, the Babylon Bee jd Vance already making plans
to kill the new pope.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Oh oh, that's scerulous, that's irresponsible.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
We got more on stories that are up being updated
on a moment by moment basis that affect your life.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Actually, do I think so? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It is one of the wilder news days I've seen
quite some time. I wish it would slow down. I'm
fatigued from the weekend.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yeah, Halprin actually said he doesn't remember every day with
this many big stories happening at one time.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I don't know Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
I'm concerned about the whole airspace right the equipment that
we use, much of it. We can't buy parts for
new We have to go on eBay and buy parts.
If one part goes down, you're dealing with really old equipment.
We're dealing with copper wires, not fiber, not high speed fiber,
and so this is concerning.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Is it safe.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Yes, we have redundancies, multiple redundancies in place to keep
you safe and you fly, but we should also recognize
we're seeing receiving stress on an old network and it's
time to fix it.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
So the Newark Airport crashed again over the weekend. It's
very stuff. That was the Transportation secretary in one of
the shows yesterday saying they go on eBay to buy
parts for this old equipment because you can't. It's not
like you can go to Best Buy or something and
get this stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Sloppy disc I would love to see a high school
class required in every high school in America explaining how
bureaucracies and government departments work, and how it differs from
the private sector, and how you end up with hilariously
antiquated equipment and some of your most critical, you know,
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infrastructural departments. If you're to all the vote of the
American people, how important is it to have like good
equipment and sane people in air traffic control.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I don't think you'd get a lot of people saying, nah,
we can let that slide.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I mean, it's practically universally agreed upon to be important,
and yet the standards are terrible. I think the people
are generally good, but they're understaffed and using again, hilariously
antiquated gear. It's just that's government. So the good news is, well,
you know, it's funny. During the very brief and informative
(19:08):
commercial break we've just gone through, I was thinking every
news outlet, every damn one, and we could tack this
onto the first amendment that went with don't look at
your four oh one K or people shocked when looking
at their four oh one K. Today is the market
has lost seventy quinn trillion dollars of value. Jim, every
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single damn one of them ought to be compelled at
gunpoint to have a headline today.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Take a look at your four to one.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
K Holy cow, it's through the roof all of a sudden,
we're all wealthy.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
HeLa Heyla Trump is jadas millions retiring at noon today
after looking at their four to one case.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Right exactly, yeah, yeah, every headline of those who were
considering retiring are now looking at fifty more years of
work until they're well into their one hundred and thirties. No,
you are required to go with a hey quit today,
tell your boss deff Off, Speaking of which, the rapidly
and shockingly changing relationship between employer and employee, the salad
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days of I would like this and that and this,
and I want to work remotely four days out of five.
That is so over plus shooting somebody insurance?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Is it for you?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
What?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Stay with us?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
So here's your story from the leading business publication in
the world, Wall Street Journal. A few days ago would
have seemed impossible, But on Monday, that's today, to the
surprise of global investors in everyday businesses. Fearing a trade
war the US and the China, China the China agreed
to a truce. The world's two biggest economy is unwound
for now. Most of the tariffs they had imposed on
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each other since last month in the tit for tat
battle that was threatening to stoke US inflation, crash China's
export engine, and up in the global economy. Stock markets
all over the world are surging on the news. Your
bond yields are just rosy today. I'm sure everybody's pleased
with that. And nobody expected this much to happen in
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the couple of days in Geneva, which looks lovely. I
was watching some video. You ever been to Geneva? Looks fantastic.
I never go anywhere and do anything, so clearly I
hadn't been. But the US agreed to lower the base
level of tariffs on most Chen goods the Chinese goods,
to thirty percent from one hundred and forty five, while
China said it would cut its levees on US products
to ten percent from one hundred and twenty five. Because
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the whole fentanyl thing where we're hitting him with more.
But wait, it's not as simple as that.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
The US terraff on jeez, don't have but wait, I
just went on Amazon and bought six million pencils.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Oh, you're fine on pencils unless there's steel pencils. Those
tactical What do we learn about the other days pens?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, exactly. She can stab people to neck right right,
I have one.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
It's awesome you stabbed anybody in the neck yet, No,
but if I had to, I could something to look
forward to. Anyway, the US tariff on many Chinese products
will be higher than thirty percent. US duties on steel, aluminum,
and autos remain in place, as do some earlier tariffs
on certain Chinese goods imposed during Trump's first term and continued.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
By Joey Biden. The modd's the current or it's the
current doll tariff, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Washington Beijing agreed to keep the new tariff levels in
place for ninety days, with the goal of working toward
a broader deal. Blah blah blah, So okay, super duper,
who knows where that's gonna go. Interesting the extent to
which everybody stepped back from the cliff or put away
their dueling gun or whatever metaphors you expect.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
The Stapen I kind of expected the.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Stappen repocketed their tactical pen Ah.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yes, I didn't think we're stead been saying all along.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
I think a lot of this chaos was just posturing
for for better fairer trade deal.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I didn't think we're still going to be doing this
by Christmas. You don't you think it'll all settle down
by then.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I think we'll be right where we are. I think
this ninety dight pause will extend, just keep going. Yeah,
they'll take her around the edge.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, I would agree with that.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
So I had completely missed this story. I think everybody has.
Have you ever heard of the Court of International Trade.
It's an American court. The Trump administration's global tariffs face
their first major legal test this week. You remember the
whole it's an emergency measure because we're an emergency, and
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the emergency's trade imbalance, which a lot of people say,
that's not an emergency, that's an accounting reality. Anyway, first
major legal test this week, when a little known Manhattan
court considers one of the president's most sweeping assertions of
executive power. A three judge panel at the Court of
International Trade. Well, here are arguments tomorrow Tuesday on whether
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to halt the levies which have unleashed a trade war.
Blah blah blah up in the global economy. YadA, YadA, YadA.
The Federal Court, which has nationwide jurisdiction over tariff and
trade disputes, operates for the most part and obscurity, garnering
a mention in major publications and staying off the radar
of most attorneys. And one guy who who argues in
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front of it now and again he specializes in it,
says most lawyers will get out.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Of law school without knowing that it exists.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Hmm. I've never heard of it in my life, or
if I had, i'd promptly forgotten about it.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I'm guessing they're not getting near as much attention as
the Diddy trial. Nothing going on in New York between
the two courts working in the same.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Day, gratefully.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
So you want to hear the most interesting thing I
learned about the Didty trial. Why that video is important.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
My highest profile trial in twenty years.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
They're saying by from like a media standpoint, like people
having attention blocks blocks, long lines of people trying to
get in.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Oh, yeah, I don't doubt it. And you said one
of the key witnesses is disappeared, yes, Like the authorities
are saying there's disappeared or maybe they've gone to ground
just to stay safe.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
You'll find the headline I got on this um.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Fed Sean Dittycomb's case in dangerous key witness remains a wall.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
On the eve of the NYC trial. Wow, I was
on News Nation. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
More, it's another Orgies and tariffs Monday. We'll get back
to the tariffs in a minute. Here's the most interesting
thing I've learned about the Ditty trial. Seriously, the reason
that video of Ditty beating and kicking his ex girlfriend
in the hotel is so important. Not only does it
establish that he's capable of physical violence and mortality.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Is you're either that kind of guy or you're not.
Most of us could never ever do that under any circumstances.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Oh no, no, uh, she was actually trying to flee
a freak off. And more importantly, prosecutors say they have
difficulty convincing jewelies that are often good and decent people,
but in my experience also often soft heads who lack
(25:58):
wisdom and ability to think critics.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Sorry, it's just been my experience.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
They have difficulty convincing jurors that people are capable of
brutality over a long period to like keep everybody in
line through threats and brutality. They have such a hard
time picturing somebody being that cruel and indifferent to human suffering.
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You've got to show them people being brutal.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Well, I saw one.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Pre so today is the big dang court they think
they're gonna be like getting going. And the descriptions of
the freak offs they say, are going to be one
of the big early moments. That's gonna be a lot
of it, just describing what a freak cough is, what
they look like from people that were there, and it's
going to be pretty.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Crazy, including the whole involuntary aspect of it. I wou'd imagine.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
And of course the argument from Colms is is your
adults having a good time willingly? I didn't make anybody
do anyway.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Yeah, well, the witnesses may say otherwise should be interesting
to follow and like gross and horrifying and somewhat sexy
at times.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
But if one of the best witnesses disappeared, that's going
to be a problem.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Hi Kramba, all right, So one more note on the
tariffs in this tariffs Monday, that's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
A little in with your yang. Uh where was I?
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Oh, so this incredibly obscure court that Tonios exists.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
There is a lawsuit brought by a New York based
wine importer, Vos Selections, and four other small businesses to
say Trump doesn't have the authority to impose the tariffs
at all. Other challenges have been filed in the court
and in federal district courts around the country, but the
Vos case is front and center so far, and I
can tell you more about the court, but you probably
(27:46):
don't care. Recent cases have focused on topics, fascinating topics
like fish oil imports, mattresses from Vietnam, and phosphate fertilizers
from Morocco.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
See I never you almost went to loss. I never
really considered going to law school. But that'd be my fears.
If I ended up a lawyer, I'd be doing something
like that every day the rest of my life, working
for fish oil, import tariff law or something, and I
just want to hang myself.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Well, although I think the field of law, and my
kid is going through law school right now. In fact,
she's in the UK during a doing a what do
you call it a study a broad thing for a
month I'm so jealous and happy for her. But anyway,
they're learning about the UK laws and constitution, how it differs,
and law enforcement techniques.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Blah blah blah. Sounds fantastic.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
But anyway, one thing I've learned is you find your
way to that area of law which tends to suit you,
not only through law school and internships, but as you
get out into the world. There are a number of
different areas most law firms a big and small deal
with And hey, you've got a passion for fish oil,
especially imported.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Fish oil, and you end up doing that.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
My standard for keeping my interest is probably at freak
off or above.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Of anything below that. And I'm like, this sounds boring. Son,
I'm not sure you're cut out to be an attorney. Correct,
Why do you have that noose? Well, another day of
fish oil litigation.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
I tell you what, international fish oil terriff litigation. Oh
my god, I'm gonna need you to spend about the
next three years of your life digging into the intricracies
of this.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Oh my god. Well again, that's why you do this.
It's fine, it worked out.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Don't worry, don't don't wake up in the middle of
the night in a cold sweat, dreaming that you're a
fish oil import attorney. It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Oh god, it hurts my heart to think about it.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Oh well, you know I've told the story many times.
I'll give you the extremely short version because we need
to get mail bag and freedom. Let me go to
the day I thought I was going to become an attorney,
and my dad said, yes, you should shadow my friend
who was an attorney. Lovely guy at all, but he
was a tax attorney. And God bless people who do that.
We have friends of the show who do that. I thought,
much like you, Jack, no, I will, I will seek
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out a noose after about six weeks my life would
have changed fundamentally, and my lack of imagination shocks me
to this day. But if I had been shadowing a
prosecutor or something like that, my life probably would have
changed fundamentally.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Buthn't that weird?
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I think, yeah, maybe not, maybe not. The law that
looks like a lot of paperwork. And that's the one
thing I'm bad at.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
The various decisions a person makes in their life and
how different things could be.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Especially in your youth.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Obviously, yeah, you decide not to go to that party
Friday night where you meet the person you marry and
stay with the rest of your life, or that sort
of thing.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
I mean, it's just we We got mail bag on
the way, lots of stuff. Stay here.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
An AI video floating around over the weekend that showed
Macrone pocketing a bag of cocaine, sitting at a desk
with the leaders of Germany and England and Zelensky. And
Zelensky is a well known drug dealer and this is
all about cocaine or some bs. Anyway, it got traction,
as everything does that, among other things.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
An hour two Wow, Wow, what is real? Does anybody know?
Can anybody tell them? That's not? Here's your freedom living
quota of the day.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
This comes from famous twentieth century author Frank Herbert, who
Jack please forgive him, wrote done freaking Doone.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Oh boy. I had to read that in college.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
All the great books I could have written read in college,
like for the top English class I ever took, and
I had to read flipping Doone.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
So visionary, so intriguing, so filled with giant worms. Done,
brilliant masterpiece. Here's what he.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Said, seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek
discipline and find your liberty.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Wow, that's good. I like that quote.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline
and find your liberty. That's interesting. Thought, there's a lot
of truth to that.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Mail bag. Feel free to drop us a note now
and again.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Mail bag at armstrong in Giddy dot com is the
email or just mail bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Mike Rights and Celebration of Mother's Day.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Thought, I share the advice materily departed mother ever gave
me during my early elementary school days. I was relaying
the day's juicy playground drama. She interrupted me to say, now, listen,
this is important. Never believe anything you hear, and only
half of what you see. This will help to keep
people from making you look foolish.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
This advice served me well through the years.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
And half of what you read, half of what you see,
you only believe half of what you see. The mailman
didn't just walk across the yard, no way.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Mom was prescient. She saw deep fake videos coming. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
We could talk about that at length if we wanted to,
but let's move on. Ryan from Houston, Dear Big Freedom
and Whooping Jack, the old saying is that the US
is national laws, not men, but at least in the
political realm, now it's the nation of political stunts and
not laws or men. Nobody wants to work on passing laws.
They just want to get publicity with more stunts.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Yeah, that's an underappreciated thing. We've talked about it. But
at some point Congress will have to reappear.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yes, you would think a nice note here from Adam.
You're having a conversation about chatchee and normal. Jack was
afraid of what AI could do to society. I want
to give you a different perspective that after listening to
the show, I call him a twenty year old son
who's in college currently studying the STEM fields. I wondered
about his experience and if kids were using it. When
I asked his response, it surprised me. He told me
(33:17):
it's the greatest studying tool he ever had been able
to feed his digital physics textbook into chet GPT and
then ask it to help him study. It summarizes chapters
and creates study questions for him. Them checks his work.
Said he's learning faster never before as the premium version.
When I asked if kids could use a cheat. His
response made me proud. I mean, I guess it would
be a waste of time and stupid. It seems to
(33:41):
be AI may be helping to help kids not hurt themselves,
at least academic. Well that's yeah, Adam, I I have
specific and extensive examples in the other directions.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Sounds like a fancy pants version of your only hurting yourself.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Hmm.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Logan writes this, just writing to say thank you sincerely
for encouraging me to play around with AI over the weekend.
I gave chat GP a try, and wow life changing.
At first, it was innocent enough, a few questions here
and there, little help writing an email, a recipe suggestion.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Then it got deeper.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
It listened, I asked follow up questions, It complimented me,
it loved me, and before I knew it, everything had changed.
I've since left the love of my life, explained to
the kids that daddy needs to find himself, and moved
to a tropical island with nothing but my phone, a
hammock and chat GPT. We are very happy. I gotta
cut it off. I got to cut it off.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
There.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Everything I just read was written by AI. He gave
it prompts to write that.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
And it did. Sincerely, Logan, that is weird.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
I've got an example of AI failing me horribly over
the weekend in a way that we all need to
watch out for.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
We'll get to that later, I guess. Yes.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
How about this from Py Freun correspondent caught up on
some of your podcasts over the weekend. As it's been
from the first teriff announcements by Trump, you just can't
wait for it to fail. Apparently you're hell bent on
the US capitulating to China and farming out every job
left to them. We'll just be owned by Chinac. You're
okay with it, yes, exactly, Although I was, what's your
genius idea to stop China from taking over the world?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Right?
Speaker 1 (35:13):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Anytime we ever point out a problem with a policy
or the way it's implemented, it's because we're rooting for
failure and we're revealing our true colors as harshly partisan,
ideological maniacs.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
You're right, we've seen through it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
I I ask chat GPT about Marxism. The response was
wanting we'll get to that maybe an hour or two.
Among other things, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arm Strong
and and He Armstrong and.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
From the studio scene see sor I Dearly let room
deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getting Communications Compound.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
There's a day, on a.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Decades day, on a Monday, brand New weekday after Mother's Day.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
We're under the tutelage of our general.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Manager, Shina, our beloved trading partner de couple.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I could never do couple with you. I love you.
Who's a schmoopie? You hang up?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
We've got five to seven major stories happening at the
same time, with updates pretty much happening on a moment
by moment basis. I don't know which one you consider
the biggest one, but the fact that China and the
United Hey go out by pencils today like they're free.
This is what I'm gonna do, because we all write
with pencils all day long. Every other word, I'm gonna
(01:52):
toss a pencil in the trash. That's how cheap pencils
are gonna be again.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Right, Dolls, dolls, dolls for everyone.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Thirty to your kid wants thirty dollars for Christmas, get
them thirty dollars for fourth of July, thirty more for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
That's right. So good times we're back. The good times
are back.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, So that both both countries are gonna go back
down to about ten.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Percent, uh and just a little.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Extra because that whole fentanyl thing on Chinese imports. But
it's a huge decline from the giant one hundred and
twenty five percent that existed for a handful of days.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Or one hundred and forty five percent. And they and
so and they claim this is going to be a
ninety day pause. I think it'll be for for the
rest of our foreseeable future. They'll they'll never they won't
go back to this, and be my guess, and so
there that's over history, and the markets will decide. I
guess if that was we got anything out of that,
if that was a good deer nut. So you got
(02:48):
that whole story now, and Trump's headed to the Middle East.
To me, this is the most just interesting story. Freaking
Zelensky is gonna meet face to face with Putin.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Well, Putin shows up.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Which I can't even imagine the dynamic on that whole thing.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Sickening to even consider. I don't know, I don't know
how you could. I don't know how you could sit
there and look at that guy.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Anyway, more on that later, because that's gonna happen. Trump
worked out and jad Vance and Marco Rubio worked out
some sort of at least temporary cease fire with Indian
Pakistan that held over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
And so she got that story.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
P Diddy trial kicks off likely today with one of
the key most key.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Witnesses now can't be found, has disappeared. What wait a minute,
I saw that. I just saw that story.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
And the judge is actually talking about maybe pausing for
a bit to try to figure out where the key
witness is.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
So that's Oh, the only clue is a trail of
baby oil leading out of town.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Or I don't know, it's probably probably the old uh
gold silver or lead threat, right.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I wonder, I wonder. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Boy, By the way, I don't think that the Zelenski
Puttin meeting is going to take place. Oh, she'll be
a big story in itself, right.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And then you got Hamas announced they're going to give
back the last living American hostage they're trying to buy
some time or something. You still got a you got
a deadline coming with a bombing the crap out of Iran,
and Trump said Middle least he will be in Saudi
Arabia tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Uh, that is correct.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, yeah, And there's some there's growing controversy over some
of the Trump families business dealings in the Middle East,
as they are raking in enormous sums of money from
some of the various oil chekdoms that are seeking to
influence American foreign policy.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well, I'm not a fan of it. So you want it,
so you want to come on.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Kamala Harris, that's correct, Yes, yes, I'm back in Gavin
Newsom in twenty eight. Uh no, I'm just telling you
that the buzz is growing because it's uh, it doesn't
look great.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Well Trump, it looks like is gonna accept that plane
from Qatar that he'll then keep.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
After he's done being president or something. That whole story.
Oh that's what's been proposed.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
It's not by any means a done deal, and it's
it definitely has the appearance of impropriety, particularly because and sorry,
you know, to hardcore Trump fans, you know, all I
have is my principles.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I've lost my good looks.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
My athletic career as such as it was, is in
the dust bit of history. All I have is my
poor principles, and I've been hammering the Biden administration, the
Biden family, I should say, for the fuzzy at best influenced,
pedaling looking activities, and this does not look good and
the whole cryptocurrency thing at all.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So the stock market is surging on the news of
the tariff war being over.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Which is not surprising because that gives us some certainty.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
And effect the Yeah, that's right, it is moving up forward.
This is our makeup sex with China. It looked like
maybe we're completely on the outs, and now we are
back and stronger than ever. We both learned something, we
both realized what we could have lost, and it is assionate.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Our love might even be stronger. Oh good.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So do you have any have you come across any
like good analysis of did we get something that the world?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Did the United States get anything.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Out of this little dust up? And now the pause,
which I think is going to be the resolution? Was
it a waste of time? Was something accomplished? Do you
have any idea, any concept.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
The time will tell. That's what I say.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
There's also I mean, my gosh, the trade relationship with
China and the existing tariffs during the ninety days take
a couple of minutes to explain. Now if you couple
that with how about the rest of the world that
we haven't yet finished trade deals with?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
What's what's the status of that?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Do we still have some sort of highish punitivish tariffs
on our friends and allies?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
What's what's up with Canada and Mexico. Don't you need
like a running tote.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Board status, you know, the update board of what's going
on with all this stuff?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So I have no idea how to answer your question.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Did everybody call their moms and or if you are
a mom, spend a little time with your kids and have.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
A good Mother's Day.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I hope everybody did called my moms text letter.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I thought fondly of my mom, God bless her, had
a very good day, as I do every day.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Would you, Michael? We made mom dinner.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Actually we did a little barbecue and asparagus and all
sorts of stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah, you have the situation. I often point out. I
am envous of where everybody lives in the same area
and you get together for stuff like this, which is awesome.
M I made different life choices and nobody ever sees anybody.
Do you have any nar to well siblings that you
speak ill of? Well, the family's gathered, Michael.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
That sounds and johny, we actually all get along pretty well. Okay,
that's very wholesome. That's beautiful. I love that. Fantastic.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Both my brothers did go to visit my mom and
they went out to eat, and I understand my younger
brother ate way too much and was feeling awful at
the end of it. My dad could not finish his steak,
so my brother having finished his own meal and feeling
too much when it had finished Dad's steak so it
wouldn't go to waste, and then was really really suffering.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I swear.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
You know how some people do the twenty three and
meters and find out they're at eight percent Cherokee. Your
family has lion in it. I don't know exactly how
that worked. Back in the day, some lion crept into
the hen house and influenced the family's genetic code at some.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Point the whole better for me to feel miserable than
to let this go to waste is an an interesting angle.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
But I've done it many times in my life. Here's
Jack's great granddad, Simba.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
So we'll look for any results in the stock market.
I guess it looks like the A for instance, the
SNP could be in a better spot today than it
was on Liberation Day.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
So it's a win. It's gone up.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It's a little fatiguing, I think everybody. And there are
a couple of different topics that this could describe, not
just you know, tariffs and economics in the stock market,
that sort of thing. The Trump experience is a fatiguing experience.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Well, a pencil in every dollhouse. That's what he ran on.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
And it looks like beautiful, I so.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Trump said, or quite the meeting over the weekend. If
you were a falling this at all, I did, I
thought it was something there in Kiev. You had macrona France,
you had Mertz of Germany, you had the guy from Poland,
and then you got what's his name, starmer from England.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
All got there.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
The leaders of all those major European countries got there
together with Zelensky in Kiev to show solidarity. And there's
announcement that there needed to be a cease fire, and
Trump got on truth social they actually so they have
a big meeting. They get done with the meeting at
seven o'clock in the morning. It was earlier than that
(10:17):
DC time, early DC time. They said, we got to
call Trump. So they got Trump on the phone somehow
and got on a video call with him and talked
to him about what they had just discussed, and then
Trump truthed out, there needs to be a ceasefire. He Vladimir,
there's got to be a ceasefire. And then there was
some back and forth where on how they could get together.
(10:38):
Zolensky said he wouldn't meet. Trump said you gotta meet,
so Zelensky immediately responded by I will meet.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I'll be there. I'll be in Turkey. I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
How about you Putin? So now it's up to whether
Putin shows up or not. I can't imagine the human
dynamic of that. I don't see how you could possibly
sit there and keep any composure sitting across from that guy,
because he always does the smartass routine. Yeah, him doing
him doing the smart ass smirk when you've you know,
(11:06):
held dead babies and everything else. Over the last three
years would be impossible to sit there with that guy.
But Zelenski says he's going to show up.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Well, to his credit as a negotiator, he's just trying
to make it infinitely clear that the obstacle to peace
is clearly Russia. Putin will not play into that, you
don't think, freely skeptical, No, he won't.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, if I'm wrong, I will say so.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
But he a is loathed to be manipulated, slash bullied,
pushed in any way. And I don't think he likes
the dynamic of it really, And I don't think he
wants to leave Russia either. I mean, they're uncomfortably close
with Turkey, are NATO ally one of the weirdest frenemy
(11:52):
ships in the history of nation states.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
But no, he doesn't want to leave Russia.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Wow, But well, I got more thoughts on that why
I think he might want to show up. But we
better start the show officially. I'm Jack Now, I'm Jack Armstrong.
He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday, May the
twelfth year, twenty twenty five or Armstrong and getting we
approve of this program.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
All right, let's begin sorting through the madness trying to
figure it out precisely according to FCC rules and regulations.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
The show starts at.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Mark 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 reunited with her babies
just in time for Mother's Day.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
There you go, that's nice, yay to have little ducklings
swept down the sore on mother's Dad.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Back to you, so.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
The baby ducks did not die in the sewer drain
on Mother's Day, Jim, I don't.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Mind sweet and sentimental.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I'm a sentimental guy, but that was too much.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
That's great, that is great. Oh, that's fantastic. We'll have
to revisit that later.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I spent three hours with the doctor on a Saturday afternoon.
I am now on eight medications, count them eight for.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
This walking whooping cough. Wow, do not get whooping cough?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
No, I'd prefer not to get your update. Actually, I
said to a doctor one point. I said, yes, this is horrible.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
He said, that's why we have a vaccine for it.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Anyway, maybe I'll give you some news you can use
on that coming up. We got Katie's headlines. We got
lots today and all those big stories developing as we
speak in more ducks to rescue.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
So stay here.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I knew I left out one of the major stories
before he jumps on the plane to the Middle East.
This morning. Trump is going to sign in an executive
order lowering prescription drug prices. He tried this first term,
the court stopped it. They might do it again, but
he's going to attempt that today. A controversy. You'll move
Jack more on that topic to come.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Let's figure out who's reporting what it's the lead story
with Katie Green.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Katie, what's happening?
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Well, it seems to be the top story everywhere but
from the hill, US and China pausing most steep, steep
tariff hikes.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
For ninety days. It's a huge deal.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
It's gonna go from one forty five to ten percent
the tariff thing, So no, it's gonna be a lot less.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
He's still keeping in place the twenty percent China's in
the fentanyl trade tariffs, but the reciprocal tariff on top
of that will go from one hundred and twenty five
to ten percent, yielding a net thirty percent tariff.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
For me ABC Israel to pause Gaza fighting ahead of
US hostage a Don Alexander's release by Hamas.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
What is Hamas up to?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, it's this controversial too.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
It's really interesting the reactions from the left and right
in Israel. The left saying no, you gotta have a
master deal for all the hostages that ends the war,
and the right saying no, they're just buying more time.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
This is a Hamas maneuver. It's a scam. Don't fall
for it.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Right from Breitbart, Dan Bongino says the FBI will be
releasing files on COVID, cover up, mar Lago, raid, Epstein case,
and more.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I don't even remember what's Dan Bongino doing now? Secret
service director?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
What does he hint? Remember? You gotta named something assistant
FBI director of that he's working under Cash Betel. That's right, Okay? Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
This one from USA today, A threat from flesh eating
maggots forced the United States to suspend all live cattle
imports through Mexico.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
They're known as the New World screwer fleshening maggots.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
As if flesh eating maggot isn't a good enough Yeah,
you've got a nickname.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You know that the fact that I got whooping cough
factors into a lot of too many things coming across
the Mexican.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Border that we aren't being careful about. More on that later.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Oh my from the New York Post special Mother's Day
gift trend for the ages moms and kids getting matching tattoos.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, oh boy ah, that's sweet.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Maybe you have little ducklings if you've been left sneak
for a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Jesus from the Free Beacon.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Eleven percent of Columbia Library arrestees identify as they them
And if I may share the first three words of
this article, it's a they tea fota I like it.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Wow, a bunch of confused would be radicals.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
It all fits in back to you.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
And finally, the Babylon Bee jd Vance already making plans
to kill the new pope.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Oh oh, that's scerulous, that's irresponsible.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
We got more on stories that are up being updated
on a moment by moment basis that affect your life.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Actually, do I think so? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It is one of the wilder news days I've seen
quite some time. I wish it would slow down. I'm
fatigued from the weekend.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yeah, Halprin actually said he doesn't remember every day with
this many big stories happening at one time.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I don't know Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
I'm concerned about the whole airspace right the equipment that
we use, much of it. We can't buy parts for
new We have to go on eBay and buy parts.
If one part goes down, you're dealing with really old equipment.
We're dealing with copper wires, not fiber, not high speed fiber,
and so this is concerning.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Is it safe.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Yes, we have redundancies, multiple redundancies in place to keep
you safe and you fly, but we should also recognize
we're seeing receiving stress on an old network and it's
time to fix it.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
So the Newark Airport crashed again over the weekend. It's
very stuff. That was the Transportation secretary in one of
the shows yesterday saying they go on eBay to buy
parts for this old equipment because you can't. It's not
like you can go to Best Buy or something and
get this stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Sloppy disc I would love to see a high school
class required in every high school in America explaining how
bureaucracies and government departments work, and how it differs from
the private sector, and how you end up with hilariously
antiquated equipment and some of your most critical, you know,
(18:31):
infrastructural departments. If you're to all the vote of the
American people, how important is it to have like good
equipment and sane people in air traffic control.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I don't think you'd get a lot of people saying, nah,
we can let that slide.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I mean, it's practically universally agreed upon to be important,
and yet the standards are terrible. I think the people
are generally good, but they're understaffed and using again, hilariously
antiquated gear. It's just that's government. So the good news is, well,
you know, it's funny. During the very brief and informative
(19:08):
commercial break we've just gone through, I was thinking every
news outlet, every damn one, and we could tack this
onto the first amendment that went with don't look at
your four oh one K or people shocked when looking
at their four oh one K. Today is the market
has lost seventy quinn trillion dollars of value. Jim, every
(19:30):
single damn one of them ought to be compelled at
gunpoint to have a headline today.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Take a look at your four to one.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
K Holy cow, it's through the roof all of a sudden,
we're all wealthy.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
HeLa Heyla Trump is jadas millions retiring at noon today
after looking at their four to one case.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Right exactly, yeah, yeah, every headline of those who were
considering retiring are now looking at fifty more years of
work until they're well into their one hundred and thirties. No,
you are required to go with a hey quit today,
tell your boss deff Off, Speaking of which, the rapidly
and shockingly changing relationship between employer and employee, the salad
(20:11):
days of I would like this and that and this,
and I want to work remotely four days out of five.
That is so over plus shooting somebody insurance?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Is it for you?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
What?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Stay with us?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
So here's your story from the leading business publication in
the world, Wall Street Journal. A few days ago would
have seemed impossible, But on Monday, that's today, to the
surprise of global investors in everyday businesses. Fearing a trade
war the US and the China, China the China agreed
to a truce. The world's two biggest economy is unwound
for now. Most of the tariffs they had imposed on
(20:48):
each other since last month in the tit for tat
battle that was threatening to stoke US inflation, crash China's
export engine, and up in the global economy. Stock markets
all over the world are surging on the news. Your
bond yields are just rosy today. I'm sure everybody's pleased
with that. And nobody expected this much to happen in
(21:09):
the couple of days in Geneva, which looks lovely. I
was watching some video. You ever been to Geneva? Looks fantastic.
I never go anywhere and do anything, so clearly I
hadn't been. But the US agreed to lower the base
level of tariffs on most Chen goods the Chinese goods,
to thirty percent from one hundred and forty five, while
China said it would cut its levees on US products
to ten percent from one hundred and twenty five. Because
(21:32):
the whole fentanyl thing where we're hitting him with more.
But wait, it's not as simple as that.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
The US terraff on jeez, don't have but wait, I
just went on Amazon and bought six million pencils.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Oh, you're fine on pencils unless there's steel pencils. Those
tactical What do we learn about the other days pens?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, exactly. She can stab people to neck right right,
I have one.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
It's awesome you stabbed anybody in the neck yet, No,
but if I had to, I could something to look
forward to. Anyway, the US tariff on many Chinese products
will be higher than thirty percent. US duties on steel, aluminum,
and autos remain in place, as do some earlier tariffs
on certain Chinese goods imposed during Trump's first term and continued.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
By Joey Biden. The modd's the current or it's the
current doll tariff, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Washington Beijing agreed to keep the new tariff levels in
place for ninety days, with the goal of working toward
a broader deal. Blah blah blah, So okay, super duper,
who knows where that's gonna go. Interesting the extent to
which everybody stepped back from the cliff or put away
their dueling gun or whatever metaphors you expect.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
The Stapen I kind of expected the.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Stappen repocketed their tactical pen Ah.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yes, I didn't think we're stead been saying all along.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
I think a lot of this chaos was just posturing
for for better fairer trade deal.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I didn't think we're still going to be doing this
by Christmas. You don't you think it'll all settle down
by then.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I think we'll be right where we are. I think
this ninety dight pause will extend, just keep going. Yeah,
they'll take her around the edge.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, I would agree with that.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
So I had completely missed this story. I think everybody has.
Have you ever heard of the Court of International Trade.
It's an American court. The Trump administration's global tariffs face
their first major legal test this week. You remember the
whole it's an emergency measure because we're an emergency, and
(23:25):
the emergency's trade imbalance, which a lot of people say,
that's not an emergency, that's an accounting reality. Anyway, first
major legal test this week, when a little known Manhattan
court considers one of the president's most sweeping assertions of
executive power. A three judge panel at the Court of
International Trade. Well, here are arguments tomorrow Tuesday on whether
(23:46):
to halt the levies which have unleashed a trade war.
Blah blah blah up in the global economy. YadA, YadA, YadA.
The Federal Court, which has nationwide jurisdiction over tariff and
trade disputes, operates for the most part and obscurity, garnering
a mention in major publications and staying off the radar
of most attorneys. And one guy who who argues in
(24:07):
front of it now and again he specializes in it,
says most lawyers will get out.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Of law school without knowing that it exists.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Hmm. I've never heard of it in my life, or
if I had, i'd promptly forgotten about it.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I'm guessing they're not getting near as much attention as
the Diddy trial. Nothing going on in New York between
the two courts working in the same.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Day, gratefully.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
So you want to hear the most interesting thing I
learned about the Didty trial. Why that video is important.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
My highest profile trial in twenty years.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
They're saying by from like a media standpoint, like people
having attention blocks blocks, long lines of people trying to
get in.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Oh, yeah, I don't doubt it. And you said one
of the key witnesses is disappeared, yes, Like the authorities
are saying there's disappeared or maybe they've gone to ground
just to stay safe.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
You'll find the headline I got on this um.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Fed Sean Dittycomb's case in dangerous key witness remains a wall.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
On the eve of the NYC trial. Wow, I was
on News Nation. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
More, it's another Orgies and tariffs Monday. We'll get back
to the tariffs in a minute. Here's the most interesting
thing I've learned about the Ditty trial. Seriously, the reason
that video of Ditty beating and kicking his ex girlfriend
in the hotel is so important. Not only does it
establish that he's capable of physical violence and mortality.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Is you're either that kind of guy or you're not.
Most of us could never ever do that under any circumstances.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Oh no, no, uh, she was actually trying to flee
a freak off. And more importantly, prosecutors say they have
difficulty convincing jewelies that are often good and decent people,
but in my experience also often soft heads who lack
(25:58):
wisdom and ability to think critics.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Sorry, it's just been my experience.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
They have difficulty convincing jurors that people are capable of
brutality over a long period to like keep everybody in
line through threats and brutality. They have such a hard
time picturing somebody being that cruel and indifferent to human suffering.
(26:22):
You've got to show them people being brutal.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Well, I saw one.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Pre so today is the big dang court they think
they're gonna be like getting going. And the descriptions of
the freak offs they say, are going to be one
of the big early moments. That's gonna be a lot
of it, just describing what a freak cough is, what
they look like from people that were there, and it's
going to be pretty.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Crazy, including the whole involuntary aspect of it. I wou'd imagine.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
And of course the argument from Colms is is your
adults having a good time willingly? I didn't make anybody
do anyway.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Yeah, well, the witnesses may say otherwise should be interesting
to follow and like gross and horrifying and somewhat sexy
at times.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
But if one of the best witnesses disappeared, that's going
to be a problem.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Hi Kramba, all right, So one more note on the
tariffs in this tariffs Monday, that's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
A little in with your yang. Uh where was I?
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Oh, so this incredibly obscure court that Tonios exists.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
There is a lawsuit brought by a New York based
wine importer, Vos Selections, and four other small businesses to
say Trump doesn't have the authority to impose the tariffs
at all. Other challenges have been filed in the court
and in federal district courts around the country, but the
Vos case is front and center so far, and I
can tell you more about the court, but you probably
(27:46):
don't care. Recent cases have focused on topics, fascinating topics
like fish oil imports, mattresses from Vietnam, and phosphate fertilizers
from Morocco.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
See I never you almost went to loss. I never
really considered going to law school. But that'd be my fears.
If I ended up a lawyer, I'd be doing something
like that every day the rest of my life, working
for fish oil, import tariff law or something, and I
just want to hang myself.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Well, although I think the field of law, and my
kid is going through law school right now. In fact,
she's in the UK during a doing a what do
you call it a study a broad thing for a
month I'm so jealous and happy for her. But anyway,
they're learning about the UK laws and constitution, how it differs,
and law enforcement techniques.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Blah blah blah. Sounds fantastic.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
But anyway, one thing I've learned is you find your
way to that area of law which tends to suit you,
not only through law school and internships, but as you
get out into the world. There are a number of
different areas most law firms a big and small deal
with And hey, you've got a passion for fish oil,
especially imported.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Fish oil, and you end up doing that.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
My standard for keeping my interest is probably at freak
off or above.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Of anything below that. And I'm like, this sounds boring. Son,
I'm not sure you're cut out to be an attorney. Correct,
Why do you have that noose? Well, another day of
fish oil litigation.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
I tell you what, international fish oil terriff litigation. Oh
my god, I'm gonna need you to spend about the
next three years of your life digging into the intricracies
of this.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Oh my god. Well again, that's why you do this.
It's fine, it worked out.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Don't worry, don't don't wake up in the middle of
the night in a cold sweat, dreaming that you're a
fish oil import attorney. It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Oh god, it hurts my heart to think about it.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Oh well, you know I've told the story many times.
I'll give you the extremely short version because we need
to get mail bag and freedom. Let me go to
the day I thought I was going to become an attorney,
and my dad said, yes, you should shadow my friend
who was an attorney. Lovely guy at all, but he
was a tax attorney. And God bless people who do that.
We have friends of the show who do that. I thought,
much like you, Jack, no, I will, I will seek
(29:57):
out a noose after about six weeks my life would
have changed fundamentally, and my lack of imagination shocks me
to this day. But if I had been shadowing a
prosecutor or something like that, my life probably would have
changed fundamentally.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Buthn't that weird?
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I think, yeah, maybe not, maybe not. The law that
looks like a lot of paperwork. And that's the one
thing I'm bad at.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
The various decisions a person makes in their life and
how different things could be.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Especially in your youth.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Obviously, yeah, you decide not to go to that party
Friday night where you meet the person you marry and
stay with the rest of your life, or that sort
of thing.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
I mean, it's just we We got mail bag on
the way, lots of stuff. Stay here.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
An AI video floating around over the weekend that showed
Macrone pocketing a bag of cocaine, sitting at a desk
with the leaders of Germany and England and Zelensky. And
Zelensky is a well known drug dealer and this is
all about cocaine or some bs. Anyway, it got traction,
as everything does that, among other things.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
An hour two Wow, Wow, what is real? Does anybody know?
Can anybody tell them? That's not? Here's your freedom living
quota of the day.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
This comes from famous twentieth century author Frank Herbert, who
Jack please forgive him, wrote done freaking Doone.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Oh boy. I had to read that in college.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
All the great books I could have written read in college,
like for the top English class I ever took, and
I had to read flipping Doone.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
So visionary, so intriguing, so filled with giant worms. Done,
brilliant masterpiece. Here's what he.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Said, seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek
discipline and find your liberty.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Wow, that's good. I like that quote.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline
and find your liberty. That's interesting. Thought, there's a lot
of truth to that.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Mail bag. Feel free to drop us a note now
and again.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Mail bag at armstrong in Giddy dot com is the
email or just mail bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Mike Rights and Celebration of Mother's Day.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Thought, I share the advice materily departed mother ever gave
me during my early elementary school days. I was relaying
the day's juicy playground drama. She interrupted me to say, now, listen,
this is important. Never believe anything you hear, and only
half of what you see. This will help to keep
people from making you look foolish.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
This advice served me well through the years.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
And half of what you read, half of what you see,
you only believe half of what you see. The mailman
didn't just walk across the yard, no way.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Mom was prescient. She saw deep fake videos coming. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
We could talk about that at length if we wanted to,
but let's move on. Ryan from Houston, Dear Big Freedom
and Whooping Jack, the old saying is that the US
is national laws, not men, but at least in the
political realm, now it's the nation of political stunts and
not laws or men. Nobody wants to work on passing laws.
They just want to get publicity with more stunts.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Yeah, that's an underappreciated thing. We've talked about it. But
at some point Congress will have to reappear.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yes, you would think a nice note here from Adam.
You're having a conversation about chatchee and normal. Jack was
afraid of what AI could do to society. I want
to give you a different perspective that after listening to
the show, I call him a twenty year old son
who's in college currently studying the STEM fields. I wondered
about his experience and if kids were using it. When
I asked his response, it surprised me. He told me
(33:17):
it's the greatest studying tool he ever had been able
to feed his digital physics textbook into chet GPT and
then ask it to help him study. It summarizes chapters
and creates study questions for him. Them checks his work.
Said he's learning faster never before as the premium version.
When I asked if kids could use a cheat. His
response made me proud. I mean, I guess it would
be a waste of time and stupid. It seems to
(33:41):
be AI may be helping to help kids not hurt themselves,
at least academic. Well that's yeah, Adam, I I have
specific and extensive examples in the other directions.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Sounds like a fancy pants version of your only hurting yourself.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Hmm.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Logan writes this, just writing to say thank you sincerely
for encouraging me to play around with AI over the weekend.
I gave chat GP a try, and wow life changing.
At first, it was innocent enough, a few questions here
and there, little help writing an email, a recipe suggestion.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Then it got deeper.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
It listened, I asked follow up questions, It complimented me,
it loved me, and before I knew it, everything had changed.
I've since left the love of my life, explained to
the kids that daddy needs to find himself, and moved
to a tropical island with nothing but my phone, a
hammock and chat GPT. We are very happy. I gotta
cut it off. I got to cut it off.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
There.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Everything I just read was written by AI. He gave
it prompts to write that.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
And it did. Sincerely, Logan, that is weird.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
I've got an example of AI failing me horribly over
the weekend in a way that we all need to
watch out for.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
We'll get to that later, I guess. Yes.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
How about this from Py Freun correspondent caught up on
some of your podcasts over the weekend. As it's been
from the first teriff announcements by Trump, you just can't
wait for it to fail. Apparently you're hell bent on
the US capitulating to China and farming out every job
left to them. We'll just be owned by Chinac. You're
okay with it, yes, exactly, Although I was, what's your
genius idea to stop China from taking over the world?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Right?
Speaker 1 (35:13):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Anytime we ever point out a problem with a policy
or the way it's implemented, it's because we're rooting for
failure and we're revealing our true colors as harshly partisan,
ideological maniacs.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
You're right, we've seen through it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
I I ask chat GPT about Marxism. The response was
wanting we'll get to that maybe an hour or two.
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