July 28, 2025 • 26 mins
Join Jim and Greg for Monday’s 3 Martini Lunch as they dig into the steep drop in violent crime in Baltimore, President Trump’s new trade deal with the European Union, and a bizarre lawsuit blaming the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels for terrorizing a cat in its final days.
First, they examine the dramatic decrease in Baltimore’s murder rate since voters ousted soft-on-crime prosecutor Marilyn Mosby in the 2022 Democratic primary. Her replacement, Ivan Bates, pledged a return to aggressive prosecutions, and the numbers show it’s working. Under Mosby, there were 334 murders in 2022. Last year, the total dropped to 202, and the city has recorded just 68 homicides so far in 2024. Jim and Greg argue it’s no mystery what’s driving the improvement.
Next, they dissect President Trump’s trade agreement with the European Union, which includes lowered tariffs and major commitments from Europe to buy U.S. energy and weapons. Jim says this deal is a significant relief given what would have happened later this week without a deal. But he's still concerned that American consumers will end up paying more for a lot of things.
Finally, they lambaste the crazy cat lady, who decided to sue the Blue Angels for disturbing the final days of her cat, as it died from heart disease. Jim is flabbergasted that anyone could blame the progression of heart disease on noise from planes. He's also greatly annoyed that the lady is referred to as that cat's "human mother" in news reports.
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First, they examine the dramatic decrease in Baltimore’s murder rate since voters ousted soft-on-crime prosecutor Marilyn Mosby in the 2022 Democratic primary. Her replacement, Ivan Bates, pledged a return to aggressive prosecutions, and the numbers show it’s working. Under Mosby, there were 334 murders in 2022. Last year, the total dropped to 202, and the city has recorded just 68 homicides so far in 2024. Jim and Greg argue it’s no mystery what’s driving the improvement.
Next, they dissect President Trump’s trade agreement with the European Union, which includes lowered tariffs and major commitments from Europe to buy U.S. energy and weapons. Jim says this deal is a significant relief given what would have happened later this week without a deal. But he's still concerned that American consumers will end up paying more for a lot of things.
Finally, they lambaste the crazy cat lady, who decided to sue the Blue Angels for disturbing the final days of her cat, as it died from heart disease. Jim is flabbergasted that anyone could blame the progression of heart disease on noise from planes. He's also greatly annoyed that the lady is referred to as that cat's "human mother" in news reports.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America
and Jim Garritty of National Review.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Free Martini's coming up.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Hey, really glad you're with us for the Monday edition
of The Three Martini Lunch. We hope you had a
fantastic weekend. We've got good kind of a mixed good
martini as we talk about the EU US trade deal.
The good news is improving crime rates in a couple
of deep blue cities, and it's not exactly a mystery
as to why that's the case. And then we heard
(00:35):
last year during the campaigns a lot of chatter about
the crazy cat ladies. Jim, I'm not gonna cast aspersions
on all cat owners, but we've got one who definitely
fits the bill in the Pacific Northwest. So I also
just want to note we talked about Colbert a couple
of times last week, And as is usually my pattern,
I was watching golf on CBS and yesterday afternoon and
(00:56):
they go to the brakes and like this week on
the Light Show, Liam Jamie Lee Curtis and Senator Alyssa Slotkin,
and I'm like, hmm, two of those I'd be slightly
interested in listening to. I know which one I'm not
going to tune in for.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Liam Neeson has a particular set of skills which is
being now absolutely hilarious, at least in the clips of
Naked Gun, So I know what he brings to the table.
You know, when you're doing Alyssa Slotkin, you're not even
doing the big name Democratic senators anymore. It's kind of
like who's left in the caucus. You know, Tina Smith,
you're up, come on, let's go. The last chance for
(01:30):
everybody to get in there. By the way, like the
fact that Colbert, since the announcement that the Late Show
would be ending in May, has basically chosen to turn
his show into an hour long diatribe of how much
CBS executives suck and also even more partisan, even less funny,
even more this you know, primal scream. So if you're
(01:52):
a CBS News executive, sure you want this thing until May.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
He's bagging to get fired, right, He's bagging to get fired.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
He wants to get fired so he could say, ah,
Trump did it. Oh, by the way, for those of
us arguing, and there's probably something to do with the
fact that they're losing forty million dollars a year on
the show. Trump going on to truth Social It's saying
it was me, they did it because of me, you know,
is probably not helping any that, you know, for our
argument that this was not a matter of political intimidation.
When Trump's running around taking a victory lap saying it's
(02:19):
total it is totally political intimidation. I intimidate them. They're
scared of me. You know, that's not helping, mister president.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
The mob of twenty people who showed up for the
Save the Late Show rally probably didn't exactly scare Paramount
or CBS.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Sir Greg you know the gift. There are dozens of us,
you know the gift. There are a dozen. They're not
even a dozens. There's a dozen blocks, a dozen and
a few more of us. That's that's how many there are.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
It's not even enough to block the sidewalk. Really, look,
if you're going to spend weeks and months complaining about
the people who are ending your time on the show,
there's a right way to do it and the wrong
way to do it. Conan O'Brien did it the right way,
and he had a much bigger argument that Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Has including segments in untranslated Spanish, by the way, which
I felt this is. You know, that's an argument for bilingualism.
Otherwise you won't get the jokes that quoted O'Brien wants
to slip past the NBC executives.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
All right, well, let's get to our big good martini here,
because I'll tell you this has not been trending well
for the most part until recently. Baltimore, Maryland, it has
not been a very safe place lately, pretty much going
all the way back to the twenty fifteen decade ago
now Freddie Rias and the Freddy Gray case, and of
course we had the infamous quote from Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake,
(03:35):
we gave those who wish to destroy space to do so,
that's leadership. And then of course you had the state's
attorney Marilyn Moseby, who was basically elected in that same
year twenty fifteen on a progressive platform of quote refusing
to prosecute low level crimes while aggressively charging police officers,
(03:56):
including those involved in the death of Freddy Gray. This
is from the Free Deveacon and Andrew Kerr. But Mosby's
actions and policies went way beyond the riots of twenty fifteen.
In July of twenty twenty two, Baltimore voters had finally
had enough of these soaring crime rates and murder rates.
Marilyn Moseby lost her primary election to her Democratic challenger,
(04:17):
Ivan Bates, who pledged to reverse her progressive non prosecution
policies and put in place harsher penalties for repeat violent
offenses and illegal gun possession. So here are the numbers.
In twenty twenty two, Mosby's last year in office, Baltimore
saw three hundred and thirty four homicides across the city.
The next year, under Bates's watched, that number dropped to
two hundred and sixty two. In twenty twenty four, it
(04:39):
dropped further to two hundred two, and during the first
half of twenty twenty five, Baltimore saw just sixty eight homicides,
a sixty two percent dropped from the same timeframe in
twenty twenty two. Autotheps are also down thirty four percent,
robbery's twenty two percent, arson down ten percent. Now you
know what's bad when they have to write there's only
sixty eight sides in the place where you live. This year,
(05:02):
that's still not great, but it's obviously headed in the
right direction. And the reason is is because this guy said,
you know what, I'm actually going to prosecute criminals. And
guess what crime went down?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah? Well, first of all, Greg sixty eight murderers so
far this year. That's like ten a month. Your odds
of living in Baltimore and not being murdered are really great.
They're significantly better than they were just a little while ago.
Taking my tongue out of my cheek, like this is
wonderful to hear. And it kind of gets down to
the question of like, why do people like you and
me and all of our listeners care about politics. Well,
(05:33):
we genuinely believe that if you change the policies, you
get different outcomes. If you have better policies, you get
better outcomes. Now, are there mitigating factors that can exist?
You know, is there no individual elected official has total
power over what happens to their jurisdiction. So you know,
something like COVID comes along and you have wide reaching
social effects of that. Yeah, maybe crime is going to
(05:54):
go up because of that. If you have the George
Floyd riotsack an exascerate economic recession. Yeah, there are outside
factors effect crime rates, But how do you prosecute crime?
Who do you choose to prosecute, How long do they
get sentenced? What is the deterrent effect of these kinds
of threats of long sentences and behind bars? Those are
we believe that has a actual significant effect. And lo
(06:15):
and behold, here is the proof right here. And it's
wonderful to see. Baltimore went through some really rough times
for a really long stretch, and it's it's sad because
they're you know, having visited there a bunch of times,
you know, there's more to it than the wire. There's
more to it than Campden Yards. There's more like there's
actually a really nice there are nice neighborhoods in Baltimore.
There's you know, Johns Hopkins University, there's all kinds of
(06:37):
a nice part, you know, And this sense of this
place is ungovernable and there's nothing that can be done. Look,
you want to get people to move out of your city,
that's how you do it. That's you know, this the
sense that, yes, you are beset by criminals, and you
are beset by a city government that is just not
going to take its duties seriously in this area, just
but also to throw out kind of the surprising news.
I saw this in the Wall Street Journal a couple
of weeks ago, and kind of meaning to mention this
(06:59):
New York City had the lowest number of shootings and
murderings in recorded history, and set the record for the
lowest number of shootings and murders in May of this year,
right by the lowish It was from January twenty twenty
five to May twenty twenty five. Now I get it
if you're watching this and you're cynical and you really
don't think things are gotten, could possibly have gotten better
under Eric Adams your attitudes, Well, of course there are
(07:20):
fewer murders and shootings. They're running out of people, but
that's not the case. Is not total depopulation of New
York City. You know, probably too late to do Eric
Adams that much good. But in the at least so far,
in this big start of this year, crime rates have declined.
I've heard people crediting it to a new police commissioner.
I've told it to a fact that like after a
couple of years of foot dragging, the NYPD is finally
(07:40):
allowed to actually start enforcing the laws. It is interesting
that you know, this is happening, and that Eric Adams,
former cop, does not appear really capable of gaining getting
much credit for it, certainly, you know, not, you know,
in the polling so far in the mayoral race. He's
running for reelection as an independent. It's very conceivable they'll
make some progress on this and then Alex Aaron Mom
and end up with the guys like, what, what's the
(08:03):
point of incarceration? Doesn't it just make people feel good?
You know, like that. I can't think of a better
way to ruin the progress that New York City's been
making than to put Mom Dammie in there. So good
luck to New York.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
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you've mentioned with you know, the the much better protection
of the US border now of people are focused on
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All right, Jim on to our mixed martini. A lot
of folks breathing a sigh of relief today as yesterday
in Turnberry, Scotland, President Trump at his golf club meeting
with Ursula vonder Lyon she's the President of the European Commission,
(09:56):
and he announced that they've got a deal. They've got
a deal on a new trade agreement between the US
and the EU just days before that August first deadline.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
So we're going to do the following. The European Union
is going to agree to purchase from the United States
seven hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of energy, seven
hundred and fifty billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Worth of energy.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
They are going to agree to invest into the United
States six hundred billion dollars more than they're investing already.
So they're investing a large amount of money.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You know what that amount of money is.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
It's very substantial, but they're going to invest an additional
six hundred billion dollars. They're agreeing to open up their
countries to trade at zero tariff, so that's a very
big factor opening up their countries. All of the countries
will be opened up to trade with the United States
(11:07):
at zero ter and they're agreeing to purchase a vast
amount of military equipment. We don't know what that number is,
but it's the good news is we make the best
military equipment in the world.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
So sort of you have to do with that, man,
So because I found a little bit of a tangent
about that, So Jim, looking at the reaction in some
of the more economic based publications, you've got some saying, man,
the EU took Trump to the cleaners, and then on
the other one it'll be oh, Trump rolled the EU,
and it's not a major pro Trump organization media entity.
(11:41):
So I guess the main question is is how does
this stack up to whatever our arrangement was leading into this.
And obviously the good news here is that we're not
going to head into chaos come the beginning of next month.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, I'd characterize this is more of a sigh of
relief Martini than an all out good Martini. And today's
Martin Joult was was all about that, I should point
out when something like this happens, the first thing I
do is go to Roll Call has this thing called
fact Base where they transcribe all the president's remarks, so
I actually read what the president says, and the first
thing you notice is that what Trump said about the
(12:14):
deal and what European Commissioned President Ursula vonder Lean said
doesn't totally line up, which is not exactly reassuring. Also,
the Wall Street Journal had pointed out how there are
several details that need to be revealed or released about
the US UK Trade Deal, the US Japan Trade Deal,
(12:34):
and the US South Korea. So I don't know about you, Greig.
If I was in trade negotiations, I would write things
down as I was negotiating them. I think that'd be
very useful. So you can then release all that and
not have to try to do as based on parsing
the remarks of the two different leaders during that when
he says that there is a he said no tariffs
(12:54):
on eug goods, Let's point out there's first of all,
this fifteen percent tariff that is going to be in
place because of this. I'm not a fan of it.
It's significantly higher than tariffs were before the Trump presidency.
That said August first, we were looking at a thirty
percent tariff on all goods from the EU, which would
have been significantly worse. Now when I say it's on
most exports. According to vonder Lean, this is not going
(13:16):
to have a fifteen percent tariff on quote, aircraft component parts,
certain chemicals, certain generics, semiconductor equipment, certain agricultural products, natural resources,
and critical raw materials. And we will keep working to
add more products to this list unquote. Now, Greg, I
don't know about you. That sounds like a lot of exceptions.
What you say, certain chemicals, certain generic Well, I think, well,
(13:39):
how many chemicals are we talking about? How many medicines
are we talking about certain agricultural products. But there's a
lot of stuff we send back and forth to us,
so it's kind of you know, a lot of this
is TBD. I also was struck during those remarks. But
Trump said, you know, we have the opening up of
all the European countries, which I think I could say
we're essentially closed. So I looked it up. Twenty twenty four,
(14:00):
most recent year, we have complete numbers. The US sent
three hundred and seventy billion dollars worth of goods to
the European Union, and then there's another two hundred and
seventy seven billion in services, business, consulting, banking, stuff like that.
So heeah ended up that's six hundred and forty seven billion.
That's a very curious definition of essentially closed market if
we're selling them six hundred and forty seven billion dollars
(14:20):
worth of goods and services. That said, on Friday, August first,
we were looking at that's apparently with the extension for
all of these tariffs is supposed to run out. So
it is good that we have this deal. If you're
a free trader, you don't love it, but you prefer
the stability. You hope that the President wants to keep
it this way for the foreseeable future. Tariff revenue will
(14:41):
go up, that's no doubt about it. But as we've
talked about in this podcast many times, consumers are going
to pay for this one way or another. The products
coming over from Europe are going to be more expensive,
So all in all, this could have been much worse.
I also kind of feel like it's hard to evaluate
these deals when we only get kind of the broad
outline of them, and it is kind of surprising that
we haven't had subsequent b deals. More details laid out
(15:02):
about the Philippine deal, the Japan dealt I said South
Korea earlier. I'm at Philippines in the United Kingdom.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, Well, he's meeting with Kier Starmer today. Enough we're
going to get more details on that particular deal that
was signed at the White House a while back. But
China's the big one that's still outstanding. See what comes
from that. Obviously, the harshest tariffs so far have been
aimed at China. Jim as the father of young girls,
any negotiation with someone named Ursula makes me nervous because
(15:27):
you could end up losing your voice and then your
dad has to come in there and get turned into
whatever King Trenton was turned into to save his daughter,
and that was a whole big mess. So this seems
like a better negotiation than what happened in The Little Mermaid.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I will have to say.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Now.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
The other thing that happened today is Trump was waiting
for Kiir Starmer's we got the news that after five
days of fighting, Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an
unconditional ceasefire. And Trump says this is now the sixth
conflict that he has played at least some role in ending.
He says he's average one per month, and he basically
(16:02):
said it comes down to trade, and he says, I
don't want to trade with anybody that's killing each other.
And that's what I told these two countries. And so
we'll find out, I guess, in due time how big
of a factory that is. But it's obvious that this
is a key part of Trump's foreign policy. We saw
it with the Abraham Accords, we see it with other
things he's trying to do in the Middle East and
elsewhere around the world. Where his general philosophy is. You know,
(16:22):
I could sit here at this table forever and try
to help you guys not hate each other anymore. But
instead of that, how about we all get filthy rich.
And in some cases it definitely seems to be working.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
It does now for the you know, Thailand and Cambodia conflict.
I read about this is the Wall Street Journal last weekend,
and because I'd seen the headlines, but I didn't know
what was actually driving the conflict. Very short version, and
I'm not going to do it justice here. The Shinawatra
family in Thailand and the Cambodia's Hun clan basically, as
I say, have dominated the politics of their respective countries.
(16:55):
And it really does feel like it is a personal
dispute almost to Hatfield and McCoy type situation between these
two powerful and influential families in the two countries. If
it's dying down, fantastic. This is a role, you know.
But by the way, for everyone says, oh the US people,
you neocons want the US to intervene everywhere. Nobody wanted
the US to intervene in this fight. This is between
two countries we had relatively good relations with, and we'd
(17:17):
rather see them not trying to kill each other. So
if it has worked out, kudo's mister President, glad to
hear it. But yeah, sometimes these things flare up and
there really is no US angle to them. Just good
to see the US could play a role in ameliorating
the conflict.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, definitely. I'll be honest. Until I heard that it
was resolved, I didn't even know these two were fighting.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
But that's it's like a lot of marriages, Greg, you know.
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mentioned it at the open, people be waiting for the
crazy cat lady story, and.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Here we are.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
This was obviously a issue last dure in the campaign
when jd Vance I think it was a clip from
much further back referring to certain females on the left
as crazy cat ladies, and that became a problem for
him for a little while during the campaign. But we've
definitely got a case in point here out in the
Pacific Northwest NBC News. I'm still trying to figure out
if they're doing this story tongue in cheek, Jim, or
(19:49):
they're actually serious the way they write this. But it's
written by David Lee and John v. Vojwani, and it
says the final days of a Seattle cat were spent
in quote unquote terror to flyovers by Blue Angels fighter
pilots before squadron leaders blocked the feline's human mother on
social media in an act of quote cowardly censorship, she
(20:11):
said in a lawsuit file this week. Layla that's the cat,
was fourteen when she died on August eleventh last year,
following a battle with heart disease, which was allegedly exacerbated
by the Blue Angels flying overhead days and one year earlier.
According to plaintiff Lauren Ann Lombardi, the Blue Angels, of course,
(20:32):
so the US Navy's Flight Demonstration Squadron have been performing
amazing aerobatic maneuvers across the US since nineteen forty six.
Lombardi had voiced her concerns about the impact of the
Blue Angels flying over Seattle online with an expletive laden
tirade quote stop with your bleeping bull bleep. You are
terrorizing my cat and all the other animals in wildlife,
(20:53):
she wrote to the squadron via Instagram August third, last year.
Nobody gives a bleep about your stupid little planes. I
would disagree with that. Lombardi is a pairalegal in Seattle,
and was then allegedly blocked a short time later. I
can't imagine why she tried to direct message the Blue
Angels with a one word response cowards. August fifth last
year quote, which appeared to send but was never delivered
(21:15):
due to the blocking. According to the lawsuit penned by
attorney Nasim Boushtilla, who is married to Lombardi and is
listed as Leila the cat's human father in the feline obituary,
and when the Blue Angels returned to you later, Leila
had just come home from the animal hospital and was
in the throes of her final battle.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
With heart disease.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Okay, I know it's hard to lose a cat, Jim,
but the terminology here is a bit over the top,
and you can't stop the Blue Angels just because your
cat doesn't like it. If we did that, every time,
you know, an animal freaked out to fireworks or something else,
there's a lot that we wouldn't be able to do anymore.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Greg, I find myself wondering how many listeners are listening
to your description and when you get to stop with
your effing bull you are terrorizing my cat and all
the other animals of why how many listens like, oh,
I know her, Yeah, in the sense of like every
community's got some crazy cat lady who's super obsessed with
her cat and believes that her cat's interests, or at
(22:11):
least her interpretation of her cat's interests, should outweigh all
other interests at all other things going on in the
entire world. And I just want to point out Greg
that this article on NBC news dot Com, not MSNBC
dot com, the network of John Chancellor, Tom Brokaw, Tim Russels,
and yes, Brian Williams. But it took two reporters to
(22:35):
write this article, not team coverage of the crazy cat
lady up at Seattle who wants the Blue Angels to
shut down because it bothered her cat. The other thing
that jumped out at me in this Greg which she
says that the Blue Angels exacerbated her battle with heart disease.
Were the Blue Angels performing inside the cat's heart? And
(22:57):
if so, how like brilli heart disease, you know, like
diet can have something to do with that, exercise can
have something to do. Planes flying around, even if they're noisy,
very rarely directs, you know, directly affects your heart. Now
this is the cat bothered by it. I suppose, all right,
blue Angels allowed, But like where you live in Seattle,
if it's near where the Blue Angels do their flight shows,
(23:19):
you can move. You know, it's not up for the
rest of the world to alter their behavior because of
what your cat likes and doesn't like. And then finally,
will you list yourself as the human father of a cat?
Greg That should be mandatory. You have to go back
to biology, right you clearly you did not pass that class.
That cat doesn't work that way. I hope you're not trying, right,
(23:41):
You are not. You are not the father of that cat.
And I say this recognizing and I've had other podcast
co hosts tell me I'm crazy for this. Look, pets
are wonderful. Pets can bring enormous amounts of joy to
our lives, and that's great. And one of the reasons
I was reticent to get a dog for a lot
of years, it was because everybody I know who's ever
(24:02):
lost a dog, you know, they do feel like a
member of the family, and they're just crushed by it,
and they just don't so like I get that level
of closeness. That does not make you the cat's mother
or father. And as a parent, I don't love the
idea of pet owners believing that, oh, me leading out
the litter box is totally the same as changing diapers.
(24:24):
For a bunch of years and everything involved in raising
a child from birth all the way to the point
where they leave the house. And yes, we're getting very
close to that, the Garty household. And it's kind of
freaking me out. So like this is like, you know,
like your cat. No, I'm sure walking your dog is challenging.
I've had dogs in the past. I understand scooping it
up with the little pet elastic bag. That's a very
challenging thing. But you know what that's not, you know,
(24:44):
very rarely is that kids, is your dog crying in
the middle of the night, coming up and spitting up
on you? All right, you know that's just not the same.
And I really don't like this hijacking of the term parent. No,
you're the pets owner. An owner. We're going to wiic's responsibility.
It's a very important role, but it's not a pat
parent and behalf of parents everywhere. Stop stealing our terminology. Oh,
by the way, I'm a feeling this ties it to
(25:05):
the uh the fertility rates and the decline to the
birth rate and the difficulty of forming more traditional families. Look,
if you love your pet, wonderful, great, But to quote
Jane Ruffalo probably not someone who you expected to see
or here quoted on this podcast. It's okay to love
your pet, just don't love your pet.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
The way you lay that out, Jim. It just has
me on the set of the Maury Povit Show. Now
it's saying, Miss Lombardi, you are not the mother. Mister Bushtia,
you are not the fathers.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
So yeah, the father it turns out, was Garfield. You
know that. Who's who's the cat of the cat food commercials?
Morris Morris? Yeah, okay, Morris sounds male as well, so
I don't know. Maybe maybe maybe there's a question of
who the father of that cat is, but feline paternity
tests up, you know. After the break on the next
Mary Poach Jim.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Quite a way to start the week.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
See Tomorrow, See Tomorrow, Greg.
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martini as we talk about the EU US trade deal.
The good news is improving crime rates in a couple
of deep blue cities, and it's not exactly a mystery
as to why that's the case. And then we heard
(00:35):
last year during the campaigns a lot of chatter about
the crazy cat ladies. Jim, I'm not gonna cast aspersions
on all cat owners, but we've got one who definitely
fits the bill in the Pacific Northwest. So I also
just want to note we talked about Colbert a couple
of times last week, And as is usually my pattern,
I was watching golf on CBS and yesterday afternoon and
(00:56):
they go to the brakes and like this week on
the Light Show, Liam Jamie Lee Curtis and Senator Alyssa Slotkin,
and I'm like, hmm, two of those I'd be slightly
interested in listening to. I know which one I'm not
going to tune in for.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Liam Neeson has a particular set of skills which is
being now absolutely hilarious, at least in the clips of
Naked Gun, So I know what he brings to the table.
You know, when you're doing Alyssa Slotkin, you're not even
doing the big name Democratic senators anymore. It's kind of
like who's left in the caucus. You know, Tina Smith,
you're up, come on, let's go. The last chance for
(01:30):
everybody to get in there. By the way, like the
fact that Colbert, since the announcement that the Late Show
would be ending in May, has basically chosen to turn
his show into an hour long diatribe of how much
CBS executives suck and also even more partisan, even less funny,
even more this you know, primal scream. So if you're
(01:52):
a CBS News executive, sure you want this thing until May.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
He's bagging to get fired, right, He's bagging to get fired.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
He wants to get fired so he could say, ah,
Trump did it. Oh, by the way, for those of
us arguing, and there's probably something to do with the
fact that they're losing forty million dollars a year on
the show. Trump going on to truth Social It's saying
it was me, they did it because of me, you know,
is probably not helping any that, you know, for our
argument that this was not a matter of political intimidation.
When Trump's running around taking a victory lap saying it's
(02:19):
total it is totally political intimidation. I intimidate them. They're
scared of me. You know, that's not helping, mister president.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
The mob of twenty people who showed up for the
Save the Late Show rally probably didn't exactly scare Paramount
or CBS.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Sir Greg you know the gift. There are dozens of us,
you know the gift. There are a dozen. They're not
even a dozens. There's a dozen blocks, a dozen and
a few more of us. That's that's how many there are.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
It's not even enough to block the sidewalk. Really, look,
if you're going to spend weeks and months complaining about
the people who are ending your time on the show,
there's a right way to do it and the wrong
way to do it. Conan O'Brien did it the right way,
and he had a much bigger argument that Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Has including segments in untranslated Spanish, by the way, which
I felt this is. You know, that's an argument for bilingualism.
Otherwise you won't get the jokes that quoted O'Brien wants
to slip past the NBC executives.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
All right, well, let's get to our big good martini here,
because I'll tell you this has not been trending well
for the most part until recently. Baltimore, Maryland, it has
not been a very safe place lately, pretty much going
all the way back to the twenty fifteen decade ago
now Freddie Rias and the Freddy Gray case, and of
course we had the infamous quote from Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake,
(03:35):
we gave those who wish to destroy space to do so,
that's leadership. And then of course you had the state's
attorney Marilyn Moseby, who was basically elected in that same
year twenty fifteen on a progressive platform of quote refusing
to prosecute low level crimes while aggressively charging police officers,
(03:56):
including those involved in the death of Freddy Gray. This
is from the Free Deveacon and Andrew Kerr. But Mosby's
actions and policies went way beyond the riots of twenty fifteen.
In July of twenty twenty two, Baltimore voters had finally
had enough of these soaring crime rates and murder rates.
Marilyn Moseby lost her primary election to her Democratic challenger,
(04:17):
Ivan Bates, who pledged to reverse her progressive non prosecution
policies and put in place harsher penalties for repeat violent
offenses and illegal gun possession. So here are the numbers.
In twenty twenty two, Mosby's last year in office, Baltimore
saw three hundred and thirty four homicides across the city.
The next year, under Bates's watched, that number dropped to
two hundred and sixty two. In twenty twenty four, it
(04:39):
dropped further to two hundred two, and during the first
half of twenty twenty five, Baltimore saw just sixty eight homicides,
a sixty two percent dropped from the same timeframe in
twenty twenty two. Autotheps are also down thirty four percent,
robbery's twenty two percent, arson down ten percent. Now you
know what's bad when they have to write there's only
sixty eight sides in the place where you live. This year,
(05:02):
that's still not great, but it's obviously headed in the
right direction. And the reason is is because this guy said,
you know what, I'm actually going to prosecute criminals. And
guess what crime went down?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah? Well, first of all, Greg sixty eight murderers so
far this year. That's like ten a month. Your odds
of living in Baltimore and not being murdered are really great.
They're significantly better than they were just a little while ago.
Taking my tongue out of my cheek, like this is
wonderful to hear. And it kind of gets down to
the question of like, why do people like you and
me and all of our listeners care about politics. Well,
(05:33):
we genuinely believe that if you change the policies, you
get different outcomes. If you have better policies, you get
better outcomes. Now, are there mitigating factors that can exist?
You know, is there no individual elected official has total
power over what happens to their jurisdiction. So you know,
something like COVID comes along and you have wide reaching
social effects of that. Yeah, maybe crime is going to
(05:54):
go up because of that. If you have the George
Floyd riotsack an exascerate economic recession. Yeah, there are outside
factors effect crime rates, But how do you prosecute crime?
Who do you choose to prosecute, How long do they
get sentenced? What is the deterrent effect of these kinds
of threats of long sentences and behind bars? Those are
we believe that has a actual significant effect. And lo
(06:15):
and behold, here is the proof right here. And it's
wonderful to see. Baltimore went through some really rough times
for a really long stretch, and it's it's sad because
they're you know, having visited there a bunch of times,
you know, there's more to it than the wire. There's
more to it than Campden Yards. There's more like there's
actually a really nice there are nice neighborhoods in Baltimore.
There's you know, Johns Hopkins University, there's all kinds of
(06:37):
a nice part, you know, And this sense of this
place is ungovernable and there's nothing that can be done. Look,
you want to get people to move out of your city,
that's how you do it. That's you know, this the
sense that, yes, you are beset by criminals, and you
are beset by a city government that is just not
going to take its duties seriously in this area, just
but also to throw out kind of the surprising news.
I saw this in the Wall Street Journal a couple
of weeks ago, and kind of meaning to mention this
(06:59):
New York City had the lowest number of shootings and
murderings in recorded history, and set the record for the
lowest number of shootings and murders in May of this year,
right by the lowish It was from January twenty twenty
five to May twenty twenty five. Now I get it
if you're watching this and you're cynical and you really
don't think things are gotten, could possibly have gotten better
under Eric Adams your attitudes, Well, of course there are
(07:20):
fewer murders and shootings. They're running out of people, but
that's not the case. Is not total depopulation of New
York City. You know, probably too late to do Eric
Adams that much good. But in the at least so far,
in this big start of this year, crime rates have declined.
I've heard people crediting it to a new police commissioner.
I've told it to a fact that like after a
couple of years of foot dragging, the NYPD is finally
(07:40):
allowed to actually start enforcing the laws. It is interesting
that you know, this is happening, and that Eric Adams,
former cop, does not appear really capable of gaining getting
much credit for it, certainly, you know, not, you know,
in the polling so far in the mayoral race. He's
running for reelection as an independent. It's very conceivable they'll
make some progress on this and then Alex Aaron Mom
and end up with the guys like, what, what's the
(08:03):
point of incarceration? Doesn't it just make people feel good?
You know, like that. I can't think of a better
way to ruin the progress that New York City's been
making than to put Mom Dammie in there. So good
luck to New York.
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Yeah, that's a serious that's a serious point because, as
you've mentioned with you know, the the much better protection
of the US border now of people are focused on
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that's possibly gonna benefit Mom, Donnie. And then, as you mentioned,
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All right, Jim on to our mixed martini. A lot
of folks breathing a sigh of relief today as yesterday
in Turnberry, Scotland, President Trump at his golf club meeting
with Ursula vonder Lyon she's the President of the European Commission,
(09:56):
and he announced that they've got a deal. They've got
a deal on a new trade agreement between the US
and the EU just days before that August first deadline.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
So we're going to do the following. The European Union
is going to agree to purchase from the United States
seven hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of energy, seven
hundred and fifty billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Worth of energy.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
They are going to agree to invest into the United
States six hundred billion dollars more than they're investing already.
So they're investing a large amount of money.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You know what that amount of money is.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
It's very substantial, but they're going to invest an additional
six hundred billion dollars. They're agreeing to open up their
countries to trade at zero tariff, so that's a very
big factor opening up their countries. All of the countries
will be opened up to trade with the United States
(11:07):
at zero ter and they're agreeing to purchase a vast
amount of military equipment. We don't know what that number is,
but it's the good news is we make the best
military equipment in the world.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
So sort of you have to do with that, man,
So because I found a little bit of a tangent
about that, So Jim, looking at the reaction in some
of the more economic based publications, you've got some saying, man,
the EU took Trump to the cleaners, and then on
the other one it'll be oh, Trump rolled the EU,
and it's not a major pro Trump organization media entity.
(11:41):
So I guess the main question is is how does
this stack up to whatever our arrangement was leading into this.
And obviously the good news here is that we're not
going to head into chaos come the beginning of next month.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, I'd characterize this is more of a sigh of
relief Martini than an all out good Martini. And today's
Martin Joult was was all about that, I should point
out when something like this happens, the first thing I
do is go to Roll Call has this thing called
fact Base where they transcribe all the president's remarks, so
I actually read what the president says, and the first
thing you notice is that what Trump said about the
(12:14):
deal and what European Commissioned President Ursula vonder Lean said
doesn't totally line up, which is not exactly reassuring. Also,
the Wall Street Journal had pointed out how there are
several details that need to be revealed or released about
the US UK Trade Deal, the US Japan Trade Deal,
(12:34):
and the US South Korea. So I don't know about you, Greig.
If I was in trade negotiations, I would write things
down as I was negotiating them. I think that'd be
very useful. So you can then release all that and
not have to try to do as based on parsing
the remarks of the two different leaders during that when
he says that there is a he said no tariffs
(12:54):
on eug goods, Let's point out there's first of all,
this fifteen percent tariff that is going to be in
place because of this. I'm not a fan of it.
It's significantly higher than tariffs were before the Trump presidency.
That said August first, we were looking at a thirty
percent tariff on all goods from the EU, which would
have been significantly worse. Now when I say it's on
most exports. According to vonder Lean, this is not going
(13:16):
to have a fifteen percent tariff on quote, aircraft component parts,
certain chemicals, certain generics, semiconductor equipment, certain agricultural products, natural resources,
and critical raw materials. And we will keep working to
add more products to this list unquote. Now, Greg, I
don't know about you. That sounds like a lot of exceptions.
What you say, certain chemicals, certain generic Well, I think, well,
(13:39):
how many chemicals are we talking about? How many medicines
are we talking about certain agricultural products. But there's a
lot of stuff we send back and forth to us,
so it's kind of you know, a lot of this
is TBD. I also was struck during those remarks. But
Trump said, you know, we have the opening up of
all the European countries, which I think I could say
we're essentially closed. So I looked it up. Twenty twenty four,
(14:00):
most recent year, we have complete numbers. The US sent
three hundred and seventy billion dollars worth of goods to
the European Union, and then there's another two hundred and
seventy seven billion in services, business, consulting, banking, stuff like that.
So heeah ended up that's six hundred and forty seven billion.
That's a very curious definition of essentially closed market if
we're selling them six hundred and forty seven billion dollars
(14:20):
worth of goods and services. That said, on Friday, August first,
we were looking at that's apparently with the extension for
all of these tariffs is supposed to run out. So
it is good that we have this deal. If you're
a free trader, you don't love it, but you prefer
the stability. You hope that the President wants to keep
it this way for the foreseeable future. Tariff revenue will
(14:41):
go up, that's no doubt about it. But as we've
talked about in this podcast many times, consumers are going
to pay for this one way or another. The products
coming over from Europe are going to be more expensive,
So all in all, this could have been much worse.
I also kind of feel like it's hard to evaluate
these deals when we only get kind of the broad
outline of them, and it is kind of surprising that
we haven't had subsequent b deals. More details laid out
(15:02):
about the Philippine deal, the Japan dealt I said South
Korea earlier. I'm at Philippines in the United Kingdom.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, Well, he's meeting with Kier Starmer today. Enough we're
going to get more details on that particular deal that
was signed at the White House a while back. But
China's the big one that's still outstanding. See what comes
from that. Obviously, the harshest tariffs so far have been
aimed at China. Jim as the father of young girls,
any negotiation with someone named Ursula makes me nervous because
(15:27):
you could end up losing your voice and then your
dad has to come in there and get turned into
whatever King Trenton was turned into to save his daughter,
and that was a whole big mess. So this seems
like a better negotiation than what happened in The Little Mermaid.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I will have to say.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Now.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
The other thing that happened today is Trump was waiting
for Kiir Starmer's we got the news that after five
days of fighting, Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an
unconditional ceasefire. And Trump says this is now the sixth
conflict that he has played at least some role in ending.
He says he's average one per month, and he basically
(16:02):
said it comes down to trade, and he says, I
don't want to trade with anybody that's killing each other.
And that's what I told these two countries. And so
we'll find out, I guess, in due time how big
of a factory that is. But it's obvious that this
is a key part of Trump's foreign policy. We saw
it with the Abraham Accords, we see it with other
things he's trying to do in the Middle East and
elsewhere around the world. Where his general philosophy is. You know,
(16:22):
I could sit here at this table forever and try
to help you guys not hate each other anymore. But
instead of that, how about we all get filthy rich.
And in some cases it definitely seems to be working.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
It does now for the you know, Thailand and Cambodia conflict.
I read about this is the Wall Street Journal last weekend,
and because I'd seen the headlines, but I didn't know
what was actually driving the conflict. Very short version, and
I'm not going to do it justice here. The Shinawatra
family in Thailand and the Cambodia's Hun clan basically, as
I say, have dominated the politics of their respective countries.
(16:55):
And it really does feel like it is a personal
dispute almost to Hatfield and McCoy type situation between these
two powerful and influential families in the two countries. If
it's dying down, fantastic. This is a role, you know.
But by the way, for everyone says, oh the US people,
you neocons want the US to intervene everywhere. Nobody wanted
the US to intervene in this fight. This is between
two countries we had relatively good relations with, and we'd
(17:17):
rather see them not trying to kill each other. So
if it has worked out, kudo's mister President, glad to
hear it. But yeah, sometimes these things flare up and
there really is no US angle to them. Just good
to see the US could play a role in ameliorating
the conflict.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, definitely. I'll be honest. Until I heard that it
was resolved, I didn't even know these two were fighting.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
But that's it's like a lot of marriages, Greg, you know.
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mentioned it at the open, people be waiting for the
crazy cat lady story, and.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Here we are.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
This was obviously a issue last dure in the campaign
when jd Vance I think it was a clip from
much further back referring to certain females on the left
as crazy cat ladies, and that became a problem for
him for a little while during the campaign. But we've
definitely got a case in point here out in the
Pacific Northwest NBC News. I'm still trying to figure out
if they're doing this story tongue in cheek, Jim, or
(19:49):
they're actually serious the way they write this. But it's
written by David Lee and John v. Vojwani, and it
says the final days of a Seattle cat were spent
in quote unquote terror to flyovers by Blue Angels fighter
pilots before squadron leaders blocked the feline's human mother on
social media in an act of quote cowardly censorship, she
(20:11):
said in a lawsuit file this week. Layla that's the cat,
was fourteen when she died on August eleventh last year,
following a battle with heart disease, which was allegedly exacerbated
by the Blue Angels flying overhead days and one year earlier.
According to plaintiff Lauren Ann Lombardi, the Blue Angels, of course,
(20:32):
so the US Navy's Flight Demonstration Squadron have been performing
amazing aerobatic maneuvers across the US since nineteen forty six.
Lombardi had voiced her concerns about the impact of the
Blue Angels flying over Seattle online with an expletive laden
tirade quote stop with your bleeping bull bleep. You are
terrorizing my cat and all the other animals in wildlife,
(20:53):
she wrote to the squadron via Instagram August third, last year.
Nobody gives a bleep about your stupid little planes. I
would disagree with that. Lombardi is a pairalegal in Seattle,
and was then allegedly blocked a short time later. I
can't imagine why she tried to direct message the Blue
Angels with a one word response cowards. August fifth last
year quote, which appeared to send but was never delivered
(21:15):
due to the blocking. According to the lawsuit penned by
attorney Nasim Boushtilla, who is married to Lombardi and is
listed as Leila the cat's human father in the feline obituary,
and when the Blue Angels returned to you later, Leila
had just come home from the animal hospital and was
in the throes of her final battle.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
With heart disease.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Okay, I know it's hard to lose a cat, Jim,
but the terminology here is a bit over the top,
and you can't stop the Blue Angels just because your
cat doesn't like it. If we did that, every time,
you know, an animal freaked out to fireworks or something else,
there's a lot that we wouldn't be able to do anymore.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Greg, I find myself wondering how many listeners are listening
to your description and when you get to stop with
your effing bull you are terrorizing my cat and all
the other animals of why how many listens like, oh,
I know her, Yeah, in the sense of like every
community's got some crazy cat lady who's super obsessed with
her cat and believes that her cat's interests, or at
(22:11):
least her interpretation of her cat's interests, should outweigh all
other interests at all other things going on in the
entire world. And I just want to point out Greg
that this article on NBC news dot Com, not MSNBC
dot com, the network of John Chancellor, Tom Brokaw, Tim Russels,
and yes, Brian Williams. But it took two reporters to
(22:35):
write this article, not team coverage of the crazy cat
lady up at Seattle who wants the Blue Angels to
shut down because it bothered her cat. The other thing
that jumped out at me in this Greg which she
says that the Blue Angels exacerbated her battle with heart disease.
Were the Blue Angels performing inside the cat's heart? And
(22:57):
if so, how like brilli heart disease, you know, like
diet can have something to do with that, exercise can
have something to do. Planes flying around, even if they're noisy,
very rarely directs, you know, directly affects your heart. Now
this is the cat bothered by it. I suppose, all right,
blue Angels allowed, But like where you live in Seattle,
if it's near where the Blue Angels do their flight shows,
(23:19):
you can move. You know, it's not up for the
rest of the world to alter their behavior because of
what your cat likes and doesn't like. And then finally,
will you list yourself as the human father of a cat?
Greg That should be mandatory. You have to go back
to biology, right you clearly you did not pass that class.
That cat doesn't work that way. I hope you're not trying, right,
(23:41):
You are not. You are not the father of that cat.
And I say this recognizing and I've had other podcast
co hosts tell me I'm crazy for this. Look, pets
are wonderful. Pets can bring enormous amounts of joy to
our lives, and that's great. And one of the reasons
I was reticent to get a dog for a lot
of years, it was because everybody I know who's ever
(24:02):
lost a dog, you know, they do feel like a
member of the family, and they're just crushed by it,
and they just don't so like I get that level
of closeness. That does not make you the cat's mother
or father. And as a parent, I don't love the
idea of pet owners believing that, oh, me leading out
the litter box is totally the same as changing diapers.
(24:24):
For a bunch of years and everything involved in raising
a child from birth all the way to the point
where they leave the house. And yes, we're getting very
close to that, the Garty household. And it's kind of
freaking me out. So like this is like, you know,
like your cat. No, I'm sure walking your dog is challenging.
I've had dogs in the past. I understand scooping it
up with the little pet elastic bag. That's a very
challenging thing. But you know what that's not, you know,
(24:44):
very rarely is that kids, is your dog crying in
the middle of the night, coming up and spitting up
on you? All right, you know that's just not the same.
And I really don't like this hijacking of the term parent. No,
you're the pets owner. An owner. We're going to wiic's responsibility.
It's a very important role, but it's not a pat
parent and behalf of parents everywhere. Stop stealing our terminology. Oh,
by the way, I'm a feeling this ties it to
(25:05):
the uh the fertility rates and the decline to the
birth rate and the difficulty of forming more traditional families. Look,
if you love your pet, wonderful, great, But to quote
Jane Ruffalo probably not someone who you expected to see
or here quoted on this podcast. It's okay to love
your pet, just don't love your pet.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
The way you lay that out, Jim. It just has
me on the set of the Maury Povit Show. Now
it's saying, Miss Lombardi, you are not the mother. Mister Bushtia,
you are not the fathers.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
So yeah, the father it turns out, was Garfield. You
know that. Who's who's the cat of the cat food commercials?
Morris Morris? Yeah, okay, Morris sounds male as well, so
I don't know. Maybe maybe maybe there's a question of
who the father of that cat is, but feline paternity
tests up, you know. After the break on the next
Mary Poach Jim.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Quite a way to start the week.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
See Tomorrow, See Tomorrow, Greg.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Jim Garretty National Review. I'm Greg Corumbus of Radio America.
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