No BS Newshour Episode #358
Tariff This!
How Canada stole our underpants.
Everything you need to know about Tariffs, Nafta and the global game of Risk.
Spoiler Alert- The American worker gets screwed.
With John Stoll @johnstoll1977- Head of Global News for X (Twitter)
Advisory! This is actual news.
Editor’s Note: The Ambassador Bridge was not involved in creating, nor has it approved, the content of this report.
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Transcript:
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Okay, Karen,
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what should we do today?
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How about today’s program?
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I explain to you how Canada stole our underpants and
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everything else,
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and how X will become the world’s first global newspaper
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with the first global editor of X News coming.
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Live from downtown Detroit,
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it’s the No Bullshit News Hour with my main man,
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Charlie LeDoux.
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And Karen Dumas.
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Double or bullshit.
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Double or bullshit.
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Let me just hit this right off.
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I just got off the phone with Luke Nowacki at Pinnacle
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Wealth Strategies,
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who reminds you that panic is not a rational financial
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Market’s up,
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the market’s down.
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I said, what do you do?
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He goes, you look for opportunity.
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You know, today,
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the Jerome Powell speaking,
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the chairman of the Fed,
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Folks, let me just remind you that the day before the
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election,
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the Dow was at the same level.
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That on January 10th,
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while Biden was in office,
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the Dow was at the same level.
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It’s flat.
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You got the Trump effect up.
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You got a bunch of crazy shit going on.
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Do not panic.
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Call Luke Nowacki.
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He’ll worry about your money so you don’t have to.
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248-663-4748.
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I’m sure glad.
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Well, I’m not speaking for Luke,
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but I speak to,
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I’m glad I got some utilities.
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When you get a little bit skittish,
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utilities and they give you a dividend.
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You know what I’m.
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People are like,
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what are you talking about?
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I’m talking about Luke Nowacki,
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2486-634-748.
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For sound,
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rational financial advice.
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Now, speaking of finances,
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lady, Canada.
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Canada stole our underpants.
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You can tear up this.
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Are they boxers or are they?
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They’re like all of them.
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They stole they stole your panties too.
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I can’t get that out.
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I mean, let me just put some.
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The point was they’re hitting everyone.
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I got you.
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Okay, so listen,
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if you are listening,
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you definitely want to go to X,
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Charlie LaDuff.
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We’re going to post this.
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You watch it.
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You can go to the Michigan Enjoyer and watch this.
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You can go to YouTube.
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I say go to X.
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That’s all I deal with now because X is the only one
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that didn’t fuck me during COVID.
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You know what I mean?
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Okay, so let’s just play it.
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All right.
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Hello, Detroit here.
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You remember?
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Blue collar factory working class humps in the Rust
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Well, now all of a sudden everybody’s talking about
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working class humps in the Rust Belt and prices and
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tariffs when you can’t even spell tariff.
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Is it T-A-R-I-F or is it T-A-R-I-F-F?
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Maybe it’s T-A-R-R-I-F.
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And then again,
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it could be T-A-R-R-I-F-F.
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You would know this if you walked out of your Manhattan
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high-rise and maybe drove up to Rochester,
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New York,
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or Pittsburgh,
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Pennsylvania,
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or Cleveland,
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Ohio, or Detroit.
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Give me some,
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I’m on the Ambassador Bridge.
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85% of the trucks going back and forth.
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are Canadian.
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Because the Canadians have been us for the last 30
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Let me explain.
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NAFTA is 30 years old,
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but there’s no free trade.
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Not really.
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The Canadians refuse to compete.
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We send stuff to Canada and they tariff the shit out
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Butter, 300%,
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milk, 270%,
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cheese, 250,
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chicken, 240,
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eggs, 150,
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copper and steel,
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50%, aluminum,
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25%, and cars,
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And Canadian cars,
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we don’t tariff Canadian cars.
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In fact, Canada doesn’t even have any car companies.
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Those are our car companies over there.
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But still,
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the Canadian auto worker makes a couple of dollars
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more an hour than the American auto worker,
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and his car’s still cheaper.
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One, because of the tariffs.
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And 2, because Canada pays for the health care of the
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auto worker.
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In the United States,
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the big three has to pay for it.
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So how does Canada afford health care for its auto
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Because we pay for their defense.
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That’s why.
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And wait, do you see that down there?
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That’s the new Gordie Howe International Bridge,
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the latest piece in the big diabolical global game
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And Canada is scamming us.
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They pay for the bridge and we get not only the smog,
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but we get Chinese and German goods being dumped into
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the US as Canada takes a middleman piece and we lose
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the jobs.
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Just take a look at this map.
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Canada’s got two giant ports on the east coast,
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one in Halifax and one in Montreal.
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They’ve got two more giant ports on the west coast
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in Vancouver and Prince Rupert.
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See the red lines going across the continent?
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carry the goods,
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and then they come to the bridges in Detroit,
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Chicago, Seattle,
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and Buffalo.
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And wait, what’s that great big red line going right
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down the middle of America from Chicago to New Orleans,
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cutting the USA in half?
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That’s the Canadian National Rail System based in Montreal.
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I got an idea.
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How about 100%
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tariff on that bridge,
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President,
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and maybe that railroad going from
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New Orleans to Chicago,
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And so places like Detroit crumble and first world
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workers become secondhand shoppers.
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Just look at the clothes on your back,
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My hat is made in a USA,
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100% beaver pelt.
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But the coat,
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made in China.
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Sweater, Bangladesh,
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The American flag boots,
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ironically,
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HO in Mexico.
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Blue jeans,
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Pakistan, my undies,
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Vietnam, bro.
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So remember,
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there’s the price of stuff,
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but there’s also the price of labor.
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And in Detroit,
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we’ve been getting shafted for three decades with
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these unfair trade deals.
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They got us standing around with our hats in our hands.
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Shut the bridge down.
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Causing a big accident.
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Here, let me.
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Let me read something from the Bridge Company.
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I quote, the Ambassador Bridge was not involved in
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creating,
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nor has it approved,
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the content of this report.
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That’s fair.
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So don’t sue us.
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Renegade right up in there.
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If I got to get buck naked on the bridge,
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I’m getting buck naked on a bridge to make a point
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to my people.
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And I was thinking about this last night.
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You don’t have to like me,
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and I don’t necessarily have to like you,
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but Michigan,
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I love you.
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You are my people.
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I’ll fight to the death for you.
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Even if we don’t like each other,
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we’re in it together.
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And I’ve just been thinking about,
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I’m old enough to have been working before NAFTA.
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I’m old enough
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to remember when we made our own stuff that you could
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afford a car.
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Everybody’s talking about prices,
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but they don’t talk about the price of your labor.
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And you could afford a house and a little shack near
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some water somewhere.
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That’s what we were about and it’s gone.
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It’s true.
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And you’re trying to tell me that if I don’t buy underpants
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from Vietnam or take a wage cut,
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somehow everything implodes?
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But Charlie,
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what’s the manufacturing of all those things here?
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I mean, are they,
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they’re not even made here anymore.
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So do you even have that as an option?
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Well, I think at the time is now or never,
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Because if you think economically and rationally about
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it, tariffs,
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All of this stuff was ours.
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Like Canada doesn’t have a car company and Mexico doesn’t
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have a car company and China doesn’t have a smartphone
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who had weaving looms in Vietnam.
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That was actually our own companies that did that to
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And we let it go.
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If you look over the time of all of this shit,
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the productivity of the American worker has skyrocketed,
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For every hour you work,
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how many dollars did you make?
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It’s skyrocketed.
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Technology helps with that,
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but yeah.
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Absolutely helps with that.
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Technology really helps with that.
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And you have less employees,
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so technology plus less employee.
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Still, why have the wages in Michigan in the last five
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years fallen by 3%?
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Not gone up by 3%?
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So you get rammed that way.
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Do not believe the mainstream media about the economy.
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For instance,
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stock market.
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We just talked about,
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oh my God,
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it’s definitely the stock market.
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93% of all stocks owned in America are owned by 10%.
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10% is owned 93%.
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Now, 62% of American households own stock during the
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401k, right?
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But so that means,
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what would that math be?
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52% of Americans own 7%
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of the stock and 40%
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own 0% of the stock.
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So your economy is your wage,
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the price of your labor.
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Your economy is eggs.
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Eggs have gone down.
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It’s gasoline.
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Gasoline has gone down.
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And yet we’re running around burning what?
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Like the economy’s on super steroids because of borrowed
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printed deficit money,
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2 trillion a year.
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We’re gonna die,
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the dollar’s gonna be useless if we don’t rein that
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in, that’s the steroid.
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So naturally,
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if that’s eight,
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9, 10% of the economy,
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and you cut it in half,
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the economy shrinks by 5%.
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You gotta get it back into the private hands in order
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to create,
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and at the,
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That’s part one.
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Part 2 is like,
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how do we get our factories back?
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No one’s saying,
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I’m going to punish you.
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You see everything Canada did to us over 30 years.
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It was supposed to be free trade,
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but it’s not.
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300% on butter,
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45% on cars.
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You’re subsidizing your healthcare and then you’re
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leaning on us to protect you.
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I love Canada,
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But I don’t love it more than Michigan.
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So let’s talk a little bit about,
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Charlie, or explain why we are losing manufacturing
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here in not just the country,
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but especially in the state.
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Think about how many factories we’ve lost,
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you know,
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I mean, in terms of your governor saying that she’s
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going after,
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you know,
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talking to the manufacturers and they go and relocate
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someplace else.
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She’s A dipshit.
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They don’t respect her.
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Remember, she started handing out billions to even
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the Chinese,
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the Koreans,
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GM, the big
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bloodsucker stock owner right here.
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Because she got her ass handed to her when it was Ford
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said, I’m going to go down to Kentucky and Tennessee
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and build a new big EV palace.
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Well, EVs,
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as we told you years ago,
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weren’t going to work.
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Okay, so you got this gigantic campus where nothing’s
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going on,
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Ford Motor Company ostensibly is an American company,
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but it’s not anymore.
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Why don’t you bring the
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Mustang E,
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the electric Mustang that you’re building in Mexico,
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and you bring it up here and put it in that campus
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that we just gave you,
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shit loads of money to build.
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Why not that?
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But that’s the question.
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Well, there you go.
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Because everybody was so myopic,
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so nearsighted that nobody pushed for it.
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Now, I’m telling you,
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Democrats,
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what I just said here,
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This is the soul of what the party used to be.
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This is why I listened.
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This is why you listened.
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And you guys are running around burning Teslas now?
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What the fuck kind of party is?
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It’s meat and potatoes and leave me the fuck alone.
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And making TikToks.
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Don’t forget they’re doing that too.
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Well, we don’t do TikTok.
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Here we do X.
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Isn’t that right,
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Johnny boy?
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I’m saying they’re making the videos.
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X is way better.
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We’re going to get to,
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we got, he’s being real cool.
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Well, John,
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let’s just bring you now.
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John Stoll,
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the global director of the new Globe.
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Oh, that’s interesting.
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I like that.
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He’s got his own ding.
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So every time we have Mon,
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that’s his sound.
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He’s the director of X Global News.
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We’ll get into that.
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what that even freaking means in a little bit.
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But John, you were a columnist for Wall Street Journal.
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You covered Detroit.
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What’s your take on the rant there and the piece and
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what I’ve been saying?
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Am I incorrect?
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No, not at all.
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I mean, it goes by my dad’s,
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my dad was a 45 year car salesman in Detroit.
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And so I never really wanted to have anything to do
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with the auto industry after growing up in that household.
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Yeah, I got sucked into it because it was the best
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way to make living out of Oakland University.
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And so I started covering autos a long time ago.
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And the first thing,
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one of the first things that I was made aware of,
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and this was the unions and the executives would talk
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about the unfair and lack of balance in the playing
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field, right?
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It was tariffs.
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It was currency manipulation.
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The automakers would like to blame the unions.
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The unions were trying to hold the automakers feet
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to the fire so that there was fairness for the workforce.
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So what else are you going to do but try to represent
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They were in a no win,
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a lose-lose situation.
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And you know,
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one of the things you see,
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like I covered General Motors as they were going into
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And I covered Ford.
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after they went into Europe.
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And those two things are really interesting because
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when Ford went to Europe,
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they had to become a German automaker.
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They had to become a British automaker.
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They couldn’t pretend that they were the Japanese coming
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in with great solutions and just love us because we’re
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a Japanese automaker.
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It was, you know,
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we’re one of you.
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And that’s the game that the Chinese made General Motors
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And now General Motors has taken it on the chin.
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But for years,
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they were growing because they played like a domestic.
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Okay, their supply chains,
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their production,
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everything was based in China,
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and they had to do that to play the game.
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We stopped forcing automakers to do that under free
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market capitalism,
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but at the end of the day,
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it came back and bit us.
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And nothing was done.
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And I think one of the instructive things,
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and I know we’re here to talk about X,
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but God, you got me going.
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No, dude, I didn’t even know all this about,
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you know,
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I know some of your work.
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One of the fascinating things about the auto industry
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in the United States is that we’ve had a tariff for
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50 years,
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dating back to Eisenhower.
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And the British,
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I can’t remember,
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you know,
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there was a chicken tax.
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So every time we exported a chicken,
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we had to pay,
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you know,
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there was a tariff.
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And in response to the chicken tax,
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Eisenhower administration levied a 25%
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import tax on anything that was a pickup truck or
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above coming in from Europe.
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And that chicken tax endured and it went semi-global.
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It never applied to NAFTA if I’m not considered,
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you know,
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don’t, I mean,
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obviously I’m not,
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I didn’t read up on this to remember everything before
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I came on.
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But as you were talking,
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I thought about that good old chicken tax because
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it’s really protected
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the trucks and SUVs,
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which are the profit centers for the Detroit automakers.
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They really cannot bring trucks and SUVs from Europe
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where they have a lot of smaller trucks and they’ve
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had a very vibrant,
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like the Ranger size and below that,
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you know,
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in Europe and Thailand and Japan,
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they make a lot of those products and could have easily
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started shipping those over,
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but they can’t because of the fact that they have
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a truck bed or they have a truck chassis.
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And so that protected until this day,
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the bread and butter of what Detroit makes most of
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its money on,
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which are trucks and SUVs,
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and has kept a competitive advantage.
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And it forced Toyota and Nissan and others,
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when they were thinking about where to build their
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pickup trucks,
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they had to build them in the United States to avoid
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Otherwise,
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you had to knock down your van or SUV or your truck,
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meaning you had to take it apart,
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put it in a box,
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ship it to Baltimore,
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and then you had to pay people to put it together
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They’re called knockdown kits.
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And the chicken tax endures.
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And I don’t know.
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I mean, I’m not an economist.
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I play one on TV.
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But to me,
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you know,
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it’s something lacking from the discussion.
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And then, you know,
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to sort of.
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Let me get there before we move off that,
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because the chicken tax,
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I didn’t know about the chicken tax.
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Interesting.
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The way you get around the chicken tax is you create
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a continental trade bloc.
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You’re still an American company,
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but you put it in Mexico,
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And then that way,
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we now had the free trade,
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those in the executive suites and the stockholders
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make the money.
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And the worker who used to share in it is out on his
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Is it that simple?
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I think it’s that simple to me.
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That’s what’s happening.
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Yeah, you increase profitability by putting it in lower
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cost markets like Canada and Mexico.
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Well, due to the chicken tax also,
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I mean, the Japanese figure a way around it.
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It’s like,
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well, let’s assemble them here,
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which led to the boom of assembly factories in the
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Am I right about that,
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Which really transformed a lot of stuff.
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Yeah, Nissan started the assembly boom in the 80s or
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90s in Tennessee.
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understanding it was good political behavior.
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And it’s also good for supply chains to have,
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you know,
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a factory not on the other side of the world.
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And that became,
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you know,
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it began A trend of,
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of Honda and Nissan really setting up a lot of shop
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But there’s supply.
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Yeah, yeah,
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non-union states and their supply chain stayed heavily
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And at the same time,
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Detroit supply chains became increasingly foreign.
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So the components of the car were no longer,
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you know,
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And obviously on every car in America,
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there’s a label that says how much of it of the contents
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come from the United States or come from NAFTA.
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And that’s-
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Yeah, it comes from,
532
00:19:41,080 –> 00:19:41,560
they got it,
533
00:19:41,560 –> 00:19:42,520
it’s divided in two,
534
00:19:42,840 –> 00:19:43,400
Ken, who,
535
00:19:43,400 –> 00:19:44,840
Ken, well done on that,
536
00:19:45,000 –> 00:19:45,960
on the piece there,
537
00:19:45,960 –> 00:19:46,760
man, great editing,
538
00:19:47,560 –> 00:19:51,640
Ken just got a new used car and it’s got the plate,
539
00:19:53,000 –> 00:19:53,640
Oh, it’s new.
540
00:19:54,080 –> 00:19:55,760
It’s got the new plate in there and it says,
541
00:19:55,760 –> 00:19:57,320
what percentage is made in Mexico?
542
00:19:58,520 –> 00:20:00,720
I think it’s like 29%.
543
00:20:00,720 –> 00:20:07,240
29% made in Mexico and the other 71 is made in North
544
00:20:07,760 –> 00:20:09,880
It doesn’t even tell you what parts Canada.
545
00:20:09,880 –> 00:20:11,560
So are those going to be like nutrition labels now?
546
00:20:11,640 –> 00:20:13,480
You got to read them to see where your vehicle is.
547
00:20:14,160 –> 00:20:14,760
What a loophole.
548
00:20:14,920 –> 00:20:17,160
I mean, to me,
549
00:20:17,160 –> 00:20:18,120
it’s a disaster.
550
00:20:18,920 –> 00:20:19,640
The money,
551
00:20:19,720 –> 00:20:21,560
look, the Republican Party people,
552
00:20:21,560 –> 00:20:22,280
if you don’t know,
553
00:20:22,280 –> 00:20:23,560
if you’re a big MAGA guy,
554
00:20:24,040 –> 00:20:26,280
it’s still run by the country club,
555
00:20:26,520 –> 00:20:29,720
who is pretending he likes,
556
00:20:30,920 –> 00:20:31,200
you know,
557
00:20:31,200 –> 00:20:32,360
like beer from Miller too.
558
00:20:32,360 –> 00:20:34,200
I didn’t want to say Bud Lake and they’ll be drinking
559
00:20:34,200 –> 00:20:34,520
any more,
560
00:20:34,520 –> 00:20:35,720
but I bet you they are.
561
00:20:36,600 –> 00:20:37,480
You know what I mean?
562
00:20:38,200 –> 00:20:38,680
Mark said he is.
563
00:20:38,680 –> 00:20:39,800
That’s who makes the money.
564
00:20:40,520 –> 00:20:41,720
You know, you don’t make the money.
565
00:20:41,720 –> 00:20:44,120
Like, so when you see the talking heads on TV,
566
00:20:44,920 –> 00:20:45,720
They have stock.
567
00:20:45,720 –> 00:20:47,280
They’re worried about the stock market.
568
00:20:47,320 –> 00:20:48,720
It doesn’t affect you,
569
00:20:49,000 –> 00:20:51,400
the price of your wage.
570
00:20:51,480 –> 00:20:52,680
So when I hear,
571
00:20:53,400 –> 00:20:54,520
did you know AOC,
572
00:20:54,520 –> 00:20:54,920
by the way,
573
00:20:56,440 –> 00:20:59,400
Cortez is not a native name.
574
00:20:59,400 –> 00:21:00,920
It’s not Aztecian.
575
00:21:01,640 –> 00:21:02,840
It’s European.
576
00:21:03,240 –> 00:21:06,840
And the first Cortez to land in the new world was Hernan
577
00:21:06,840 –> 00:21:11,000
Cortez, the biggest conquistador killer in the fucking
578
00:21:11,440 –> 00:21:12,680
planet’s history.
579
00:21:12,760 –> 00:21:14,680
He wiped out the Aztec.
580
00:21:15,080 –> 00:21:16,360
Cortez was a dirty,
581
00:21:16,360 –> 00:21:17,240
rotten killer,
582
00:21:17,400 –> 00:21:19,840
and he’s your great something.
583
00:21:20,840 –> 00:21:22,840
You got Scandinavians,
584
00:21:23,880 –> 00:21:24,680
You’ve got…
585
00:21:28,120 –> 00:21:30,280
The, what would you call it?
586
00:21:30,280 –> 00:21:32,120
Espanola, like Portugal and Spain,
587
00:21:32,120 –> 00:21:32,640
right there,
588
00:21:33,720 –> 00:21:34,680
Iberian, yeah.
589
00:21:34,680 –> 00:21:36,000
Iberian, thank you very much.
590
00:21:36,000 –> 00:21:37,160
You got the Celts,
591
00:21:37,320 –> 00:21:38,520
you’ve got the slobs,
592
00:21:38,600 –> 00:21:39,880
but you’re all European.
593
00:21:39,880 –> 00:21:41,560
I don’t care if you’re a little bit brown,
594
00:21:41,640 –> 00:21:42,600
you’re a European.
595
00:21:43,240 –> 00:21:45,160
Now fucking lecture with me about what’s going on.
596
00:21:45,320 –> 00:21:46,440
Now, here’s the thing.
597
00:21:46,840 –> 00:21:48,920
She went to Boston University,
598
00:21:49,560 –> 00:21:50,760
majored in economics.
599
00:21:51,160 –> 00:21:52,040
Okay, it’s great.
600
00:21:52,040 –> 00:21:53,720
I don’t know how you ever applied it,
601
00:21:53,720 –> 00:21:57,080
but now she’s tweeting shit like the Gini coefficient.
602
00:21:57,400 –> 00:21:58,920
John, do you know what the Gini coefficient is?
603
00:21:59,720 –> 00:22:00,240
No, I don’t.
604
00:22:00,240 –> 00:22:00,840
Okay, I’ll tell you.
605
00:22:00,840 –> 00:22:01,680
I, you know,
606
00:22:01,720 –> 00:22:03,720
you went to Oakland U and studied history.
607
00:22:04,040 –> 00:22:05,920
I studied finance and economics,
608
00:22:06,040 –> 00:22:06,760
Let me give it to you.
609
00:22:07,160 –> 00:22:08,280
The Gini coefficient,
610
00:22:08,600 –> 00:22:09,400
real simple.
611
00:22:09,560 –> 00:22:11,480
Scale from one to 100 or one,
612
00:22:11,560 –> 00:22:12,280
zero to one,
613
00:22:12,360 –> 00:22:14,440
zero to 100 or zero to 1,
614
00:22:14,560 –> 00:22:16,480
however you want to do it.
615
00:22:16,480 –> 00:22:18,040
And it’s a measure of income inequality.
616
00:22:18,440 –> 00:22:21,240
So if there’s $1,000,000 in a million people,
617
00:22:21,560 –> 00:22:24,400
the coefficient will be 0 if everybody had $1,
618
00:22:26,120 –> 00:22:27,640
equality in terms of what you own.
619
00:22:28,280 –> 00:22:33,480
It would be 100 if one person had $1,000,000 and 999,999
620
00:22:33,480 –> 00:22:34,600
people had nothing.
621
00:22:36,440 –> 00:22:38,400
I don’t know why she’s fucking quoting that.
622
00:22:38,400 –> 00:22:40,600
I mean, you can Google that big freaking deal.
623
00:22:40,680 –> 00:22:42,840
It’s a it’s a question on a test.
624
00:22:43,400 –> 00:22:45,200
It’s it’s not an economic outlook.
625
00:22:45,480 –> 00:22:49,640
So let me that Bernie AOC bullshit.
626
00:22:49,640 –> 00:22:50,280
It’s done.
627
00:22:50,280 –> 00:22:51,800
You want to let me tell you why it’s done.
628
00:22:51,880 –> 00:22:53,000
We just tried it.
629
00:22:53,720 –> 00:22:54,720
We actually just tried.
630
00:22:54,920 –> 00:22:57,040
Who was the head of the Senate Finance Committee under
631
00:23:01,600 –> 00:23:03,960
When you’re looking at Jared and he’s on the Council
632
00:23:03,960 –> 00:23:06,440
of Economic Advisors and he doesn’t know how a fucking
633
00:23:06,440 –> 00:23:07,240
bond works.
634
00:23:08,120 –> 00:23:09,160
Okay, so what we did,
635
00:23:09,960 –> 00:23:11,480
because we have this inequality,
636
00:23:11,480 –> 00:23:11,960
thank you,
637
00:23:12,200 –> 00:23:13,240
AOC, Cortez.
638
00:23:14,600 –> 00:23:15,320
We have it,
639
00:23:15,320 –> 00:23:16,520
but what was your solution?
640
00:23:17,400 –> 00:23:19,400
There was no work being done like
641
00:23:19,960 –> 00:23:22,280
with John’s just talking about the imbalances and the
642
00:23:22,760 –> 00:23:23,880
There’s no discussion of that.
643
00:23:24,120 –> 00:23:26,760
It was just print fucking shit.
644
00:23:27,400 –> 00:23:28,600
And when you print shit,
645
00:23:28,600 –> 00:23:29,400
you print money,
646
00:23:29,400 –> 00:23:30,360
John, what happens?
647
00:23:31,040 –> 00:23:31,640
Inflation.
648
00:23:31,800 –> 00:23:32,520
Thank you.
649
00:23:32,680 –> 00:23:33,640
You can’t just,
650
00:23:33,960 –> 00:23:36,040
that’s, it takes hard work.
651
00:23:36,680 –> 00:23:39,160
I, I, as a former Democrat,
652
00:23:39,400 –> 00:23:42,480
I, as a lifelong resident,
653
00:23:42,480 –> 00:23:42,800
well, not,
654
00:23:42,800 –> 00:23:44,000
I’m not, you know,
655
00:23:44,080 –> 00:23:44,760
I grew up here.
656
00:23:44,760 –> 00:23:45,400
I live here.
657
00:23:45,400 –> 00:23:46,280
I raised my kid here.
658
00:23:47,880 –> 00:23:48,920
Now’s the time.
659
00:23:50,000 –> 00:23:51,600
Just move back to the,
660
00:23:51,600 –> 00:23:53,320
stop burning fucking cars.
661
00:23:54,320 –> 00:23:56,200
Remember when all the people were coming in over the
662
00:23:56,200 –> 00:23:58,720
border and everybody was going,
663
00:23:58,720 –> 00:23:59,560
what the fuck,
664
00:23:59,720 –> 00:24:00,840
Get the fuck out of here.
665
00:24:01,000 –> 00:24:01,640
What the fuck?
666
00:24:02,520 –> 00:24:05,240
Did one, one person from the ghetto,
667
00:24:05,240 –> 00:24:07,000
one person from the trailer park,
668
00:24:07,000 –> 00:24:08,360
one person from the barrio.
669
00:24:09,240 –> 00:24:10,680
One person from the reservation.
670
00:24:10,840 –> 00:24:14,200
Did anybody go to the border and take pot shots?
671
00:24:14,440 –> 00:24:16,680
Did you guys ever hear of one story where somebody
672
00:24:16,680 –> 00:24:17,320
just, you know,
673
00:24:17,480 –> 00:24:18,680
buckshot over the top?
674
00:24:20,840 –> 00:24:22,920
Do you think people had feelings that they wanted to
675
00:24:27,240 –> 00:24:28,560
Because we’re a good people,
676
00:24:28,560 –> 00:24:29,320
it’s the right thing.
677
00:24:29,480 –> 00:24:33,960
You put up with it until you have possession of the,
678
00:24:34,120 –> 00:24:34,400
you know,
679
00:24:34,400 –> 00:24:36,240
law and order in your hand in the office.
680
00:24:36,240 –> 00:24:36,920
And a solution.
681
00:24:38,040 –> 00:24:39,080
So why is it now?
682
00:24:39,080 –> 00:24:41,160
Why am I seeing these things?
683
00:24:41,480 –> 00:24:42,840
Shut the fuck up.
684
00:24:43,160 –> 00:24:44,200
If you put a key on,
685
00:24:44,360 –> 00:24:45,760
I can’t afford a Tesla,
686
00:24:45,800 –> 00:24:46,680
but you know,
687
00:24:47,320 –> 00:24:50,640
I can’t afford to wait around and charge this shit
688
00:24:50,640 –> 00:24:52,560
is what I’m saying.
689
00:24:52,840 –> 00:24:53,800
I like the way they look,
690
00:24:53,800 –> 00:24:54,360
but I don’t,
691
00:24:54,360 –> 00:24:55,440
I’m not charging anything.
692
00:24:55,440 –> 00:24:56,200
They’re top notch,
693
00:24:56,400 –> 00:24:57,800
They’re like 0 to 60,
694
00:24:57,800 –> 00:24:59,080
what, like 3 mark?
695
00:25:01,240 –> 00:25:02,080
They’re good.
696
00:25:02,080 –> 00:25:02,840
I like the way they look,
697
00:25:02,840 –> 00:25:03,240
but I’m not,
698
00:25:03,240 –> 00:25:04,480
I don’t want an electric vehicle.
699
00:25:04,480 –> 00:25:04,680
All right,
700
00:25:04,840 –> 00:25:06,040
let me, let me.
701
00:25:06,680 –> 00:25:08,920
remind you that if you’re an entrepreneur looking for
702
00:25:08,920 –> 00:25:11,400
safe and socially responsible real estate investments,
703
00:25:11,640 –> 00:25:17,800
give Archangel Senior Management a call at 989-614-0416.
704
00:25:18,040 –> 00:25:22,080
Be an investor and be part of a community where elderly
705
00:25:22,080 –> 00:25:23,640
people have a good,
706
00:25:23,960 –> 00:25:25,800
healthy, nutritious,
707
00:25:26,040 –> 00:25:28,120
and vibrant end of life.
708
00:25:28,120 –> 00:25:31,240
I’m going to have him on.
709
00:25:31,920 –> 00:25:32,440
Yeah, you should.
710
00:25:32,440 –> 00:25:32,920
I like Joe.
711
00:25:33,000 –> 00:25:33,520
He’s a good guy.
712
00:25:33,720 –> 00:25:36,200
Because the lockdown orders for Whitmer and going into
713
00:25:36,200 –> 00:25:36,560
the nursing,
714
00:25:36,560 –> 00:25:37,400
that’s coming up.
715
00:25:37,480 –> 00:25:38,880
And we’re five years old.
716
00:25:38,880 –> 00:25:42,600
And Joe was like on the board of directors of assisted
717
00:25:43,480 –> 00:25:44,200
So this guy,
718
00:25:44,200 –> 00:25:44,760
I’m going to have him.
719
00:25:44,760 –> 00:25:45,360
I’m going to call him.
720
00:25:45,360 –> 00:25:46,120
Remind me to call him.
721
00:25:47,475 –> 00:25:48,675
LeBlanc at Archangel,
722
00:25:48,675 –> 00:25:52,675
989-6140416 for ethical,
723
00:25:52,915 –> 00:25:57,395
genuine investment opportunity in long-term care.
724
00:25:57,715 –> 00:25:59,155
Let’s play Bernie.
725
00:25:59,155 –> 00:25:59,715
Do you have him?
726
00:26:00,115 –> 00:26:00,595
Stay with me,
727
00:26:00,755 –> 00:26:01,795
Well, you know when it rains,
728
00:26:01,795 –> 00:26:02,635
the power goes out,
729
00:26:02,635 –> 00:26:03,875
and when the power goes out,
730
00:26:03,875 –> 00:26:04,875
the internet goes out.
731
00:26:04,875 –> 00:26:05,875
When the internet goes out,
732
00:26:05,875 –> 00:26:09,075
I call my friend Matt and Bernie at XG Service Group.
733
00:26:09,315 –> 00:26:11,075
Look at Bernie here on his hands and knees,
734
00:26:11,315 –> 00:26:12,595
giving it everything he’s got.
735
00:26:13,235 –> 00:26:14,435
Look at that man crack.
736
00:26:16,195 –> 00:26:17,235
He forgot to wear a belt.
737
00:26:17,235 –> 00:26:19,315
There’s Matt right there getting the board together.
738
00:26:19,315 –> 00:26:22,035
That’s 734-245-4100.
739
00:26:22,035 –> 00:26:24,995
If you need Matt and Bernie to come take care of your
740
00:26:24,995 –> 00:26:25,795
voice over internet,
741
00:26:26,035 –> 00:26:27,155
your security cameras,
742
00:26:27,395 –> 00:26:28,995
off-campus access control,
743
00:26:29,235 –> 00:26:31,635
Wi-Fi and cameras for homes and business,
744
00:26:31,635 –> 00:26:32,755
they’ll design it for you.
745
00:26:32,995 –> 00:26:33,835
You got restaurants,
746
00:26:33,835 –> 00:26:35,035
they do drive-through systems,
747
00:26:35,035 –> 00:26:36,835
railroad cameras for public safety.
748
00:26:36,995 –> 00:26:40,275
Total wireless camera systems for your home and business.
749
00:26:40,515 –> 00:26:40,995
Yeah, that’s right.
750
00:26:40,995 –> 00:26:44,755
Call XG Services at 734-245-4100.
751
00:26:45,275 –> 00:26:46,035
I’m Grace Karos,
752
00:26:46,075 –> 00:26:48,315
and I’m third generation of American Coney Island.
753
00:26:48,755 –> 00:26:50,435
People say Detroit’s a comeback city.
754
00:26:50,435 –> 00:26:51,315
I say, Where you been?
755
00:26:51,315 –> 00:26:52,995
We’ve been here for over 100 years.
756
00:26:53,315 –> 00:26:55,315
My family’s been here on the same corner,
757
00:26:55,475 –> 00:26:58,715
serving our famous proprietary American Coney Island
758
00:26:59,715 –> 00:27:00,475
So like always,
759
00:27:00,475 –> 00:27:01,555
we’re keeping things fresh,
760
00:27:01,755 –> 00:27:02,995
updated, and new.
761
00:27:05,315 –> 00:27:07,075
We’d love to have you come downtown and visit us,
762
00:27:07,155 –> 00:27:07,955
but if you can’t,
763
00:27:08,035 –> 00:27:10,275
you can always go to AmericanConeyIsland.com,
764
00:27:10,355 –> 00:27:11,155
order a Coney kit,
765
00:27:11,155 –> 00:27:12,915
get it delivered fresh right to your door.
766
00:27:14,515 –> 00:27:15,795
I’m just gonna really say,
767
00:27:17,995 –> 00:27:19,875
when my daughter was younger,
768
00:27:19,875 –> 00:27:24,835
we went out to Nevada to see Mike Carlisle,
769
00:27:25,075 –> 00:27:27,435
the greatest homicide detective ever in the history
770
00:27:27,435 –> 00:27:28,035
of Detroit,
771
00:27:28,595 –> 00:27:30,515
solved 125 murders.
772
00:27:31,155 –> 00:27:32,275
That’s A shitload.
773
00:27:33,555 –> 00:27:34,595
We went out there,
774
00:27:34,675 –> 00:27:35,715
gonna go visit him.
775
00:27:36,275 –> 00:27:37,475
I sent a Coney kit.
776
00:27:37,795 –> 00:27:39,955
before we got on the plane.
777
00:27:39,995 –> 00:27:40,995
When we got there,
778
00:27:40,995 –> 00:27:43,115
he picked us up from the airport and we walk up to
779
00:27:43,115 –> 00:27:44,915
his door and he looks at it.
780
00:27:45,275 –> 00:27:45,715
It was there.
781
00:27:45,955 –> 00:27:47,235
And he starts crying.
782
00:27:48,595 –> 00:27:50,755
Because, yeah,
783
00:27:50,755 –> 00:27:51,395
to him, he goes,
784
00:27:51,395 –> 00:27:53,675
it was the only place that was open 24 hours when
785
00:27:53,675 –> 00:27:55,355
he was doing the death beat.
786
00:27:55,355 –> 00:27:58,355
And man, he put the paper hat on.
787
00:27:58,355 –> 00:27:59,995
It was, he was so happy.
788
00:27:59,995 –> 00:28:01,155
And it’s such a good product,
789
00:28:01,155 –> 00:28:02,835
AmericanConeyIsland.com.
790
00:28:02,995 –> 00:28:04,515
Now I got breaking news.
791
00:28:10,515 –> 00:28:15,755
Why is Dana Nestle tweeting so much shit about nothing
792
00:28:15,755 –> 00:28:16,995
to do with her?
793
00:28:18,995 –> 00:28:20,155
Are you running for something?
794
00:28:20,915 –> 00:28:21,995
Madam Nestle,
795
00:28:22,075 –> 00:28:24,475
are you going to run for the US Senate seat or the
796
00:28:24,835 –> 00:28:26,115
state Supreme Court?
797
00:28:26,115 –> 00:28:28,995
I wouldn’t bet on it because breaking news.
798
00:28:35,155 –> 00:28:36,515
The investigations
799
00:28:36,755 –> 00:28:37,395
have begun.
800
00:28:38,675 –> 00:28:43,275
You got yourself some oversight committees.
801
00:28:43,275 –> 00:28:45,475
Good luck.
802
00:28:45,555 –> 00:28:46,195
Congratulations,
803
00:28:46,515 –> 00:28:48,435
I still don’t know what’s going on in Kent County,
804
00:28:48,435 –> 00:28:50,755
but that’s why.
805
00:28:50,755 –> 00:28:53,795
Give me the dum,
806
00:28:57,715 –> 00:28:58,635
dum, dum,
807
00:29:01,235 –> 00:29:03,195
Yeah, boy.
808
00:29:03,555 –> 00:29:04,275
I got more notes,
809
00:29:04,275 –> 00:29:05,035
but we’ll forget about it.
810
00:29:06,075 –> 00:29:06,675
Breaking news.
811
00:29:07,595 –> 00:29:08,915
That’s a lot of breaking news.
812
00:29:12,675 –> 00:29:14,595
X, formerly known as Twitter,
813
00:29:15,635 –> 00:29:17,395
has decided in some way,
814
00:29:17,395 –> 00:29:23,155
shape, or form that they need to get their fingers
815
00:29:23,155 –> 00:29:26,115
more into the news business in the sense of,
816
00:29:27,315 –> 00:29:27,995
what do we do?
817
00:29:27,995 –> 00:29:28,355
This is…
818
00:29:29,875 –> 00:29:32,515
All the media is on there and that’s where they communicate.
819
00:29:32,515 –> 00:29:33,715
That’s where they put all their stories.
820
00:29:33,875 –> 00:29:35,835
So what’s Twitter going to do X?
821
00:29:35,835 –> 00:29:38,515
What are they going to do to capitalize on this,
822
00:29:38,515 –> 00:29:39,155
formulate it,
823
00:29:39,155 –> 00:29:40,355
move us into the future?
824
00:29:40,355 –> 00:29:41,355
I tell you what they did.
825
00:29:42,035 –> 00:29:43,315
They hired John Stoll here,
826
00:29:43,315 –> 00:29:44,355
former Wall Street Journal,
827
00:29:45,075 –> 00:29:46,115
Bureau Chief of Detroit,
828
00:29:46,435 –> 00:29:47,075
columnist.
829
00:29:47,235 –> 00:29:48,515
Now, John,
830
00:29:48,675 –> 00:29:49,395
what’s the plan,
831
00:29:50,995 –> 00:29:52,035
Tell us the master plan.
832
00:29:52,355 –> 00:29:53,675
I mean, you need to tell everybody.
833
00:29:53,675 –> 00:29:54,595
I reached out to you.
834
00:29:57,555 –> 00:29:58,075
What would you say?
835
00:29:58,195 –> 00:29:58,555
Wait a minute,
836
00:29:58,555 –> 00:29:59,275
what I was talking,
837
00:29:59,275 –> 00:29:59,835
what would you say?
838
00:30:00,675 –> 00:30:02,555
To get this conversation started,
839
00:30:02,555 –> 00:30:03,395
I reached out to you.
840
00:30:04,275 –> 00:30:05,395
Oh, of course you did.
841
00:30:06,795 –> 00:30:08,035
Please, let’s talk about me.
842
00:30:10,595 –> 00:30:12,435
Because, you know what I mean?
843
00:30:13,755 –> 00:30:15,155
It’s, you know what?
844
00:30:15,795 –> 00:30:17,035
I’m not going to blow smoke up your ass.
845
00:30:17,035 –> 00:30:17,795
So I’m just going to.
846
00:30:17,795 –> 00:30:19,795
Well, you should have done that when I was on the bridge
847
00:30:19,795 –> 00:30:20,635
and my pants were off.
848
00:30:20,635 –> 00:30:21,875
It would have been a lot easier.
849
00:30:23,555 –> 00:30:24,515
I was on the Gordie Howard.
850
00:30:26,915 –> 00:30:28,275
He’s funny.
851
00:30:28,315 –> 00:30:28,755
No, I mean,
852
00:30:28,755 –> 00:30:33,355
the media’s moved so far past what you and I grew
853
00:30:33,355 –> 00:30:34,835
up with and where we were working.
854
00:30:35,075 –> 00:30:41,795
I mean, the user or the reader is not where they were
855
00:30:41,875 –> 00:30:42,755
30 years ago,
856
00:30:42,755 –> 00:30:43,715
20 years ago.
857
00:30:43,715 –> 00:30:45,155
They’re, you know,
858
00:30:45,315 –> 00:30:46,115
like it or hate it,
859
00:30:46,115 –> 00:30:48,035
they’re on TikTok and they think they’re consuming
860
00:30:48,035 –> 00:30:48,755
news there.
861
00:30:49,875 –> 00:30:50,755
They’re all over the place,
862
00:30:50,755 –> 00:30:52,155
podcast, you name it.
863
00:30:52,675 –> 00:30:53,955
And, you know,
864
00:30:54,115 –> 00:30:56,035
most of the media has been slow to keep up.
865
00:30:56,075 –> 00:30:56,995
And I understand that.
866
00:30:56,995 –> 00:30:59,235
It’s just the same story as the Detroit automakers.
867
00:30:59,235 –> 00:31:01,955
I mean, you got to get disrupted into waking up or
868
00:31:01,955 –> 00:31:03,115
you’re going to go out of business.
869
00:31:03,115 –> 00:31:04,755
And that business model is broken.
870
00:31:05,635 –> 00:31:07,155
It’s tough to make money no matter what.
871
00:31:07,155 –> 00:31:08,115
If disruptor,
872
00:31:09,235 –> 00:31:09,555
you know,
873
00:31:09,715 –> 00:31:10,755
finding advertisers,
874
00:31:10,755 –> 00:31:12,755
finding subscribers is a tough business.
875
00:31:13,475 –> 00:31:17,395
The thing that X does and Twitter did well was give
876
00:31:17,755 –> 00:31:20,795
a platform and distribution in an age when distribution
877
00:31:20,795 –> 00:31:21,475
is really hard.
878
00:31:22,435 –> 00:31:25,955
I went from being a reporter who didn’t care about
879
00:31:25,955 –> 00:31:26,995
how the paper got delivered.
880
00:31:26,995 –> 00:31:27,755
When I first started,
881
00:31:27,755 –> 00:31:28,595
the internet was just,
882
00:31:29,315 –> 00:31:29,555
you know,
883
00:31:29,635 –> 00:31:32,035
a baby and we didn’t know how to use it.
884
00:31:33,155 –> 00:31:35,635
But we had a very strong distribution network,
885
00:31:36,035 –> 00:31:40,195
We had printing presses and deliveries all over the
886
00:31:40,755 –> 00:31:43,395
And so my job was to make the news.
887
00:31:43,395 –> 00:31:44,915
Somebody else’s job was to deliver it.
888
00:31:44,915 –> 00:31:45,875
And what, you know,
889
00:31:45,875 –> 00:31:47,555
one of the demoralizing things
890
00:31:47,995 –> 00:31:49,955
when you’re in that position over time that changes
891
00:31:49,955 –> 00:31:53,155
is I became a newspaper delivery guy when my ex account,
892
00:31:53,155 –> 00:31:54,275
my Twitter account blew up.
893
00:31:54,915 –> 00:31:57,675
And so it was my job to get attention for the news
894
00:31:57,675 –> 00:31:58,515
that I was creating,
895
00:31:58,515 –> 00:31:59,635
which is not a bad thing.
896
00:31:59,675 –> 00:32:01,155
I mean, it’s a very entrepreneurial thing,
897
00:32:01,155 –> 00:32:03,035
but it’s a mind shift change.
898
00:32:03,035 –> 00:32:06,275
And a lot of journalists and a lot of readers became
899
00:32:06,275 –> 00:32:06,875
accustomed to,
900
00:32:07,155 –> 00:32:07,395
you know,
901
00:32:07,475 –> 00:32:08,755
getting news in a different way,
902
00:32:09,635 –> 00:32:12,115
shorter and bringing it back to you,
903
00:32:12,115 –> 00:32:13,795
Charlie, more dynamic,
904
00:32:15,475 –> 00:32:16,115
You know, I mean,
905
00:32:16,115 –> 00:32:17,635
don’t take yourself so seriously.
906
00:32:17,875 –> 00:32:18,755
You know, I mean,
907
00:32:18,995 –> 00:32:20,435
I was in the White House press room 3,
908
00:32:20,435 –> 00:32:21,155
4 weeks ago,
909
00:32:21,795 –> 00:32:22,835
and you’d think we were at a,
910
00:32:22,835 –> 00:32:24,355
we had to call what’s his name,
911
00:32:24,355 –> 00:32:27,555
Joe from Archangel,
912
00:32:28,115 –> 00:32:28,435
you know,
913
00:32:28,675 –> 00:32:31,075
services Joe could have been here to help us,
914
00:32:31,155 –> 00:32:31,395
you know,
915
00:32:31,395 –> 00:32:33,715
plan an end of life investment strategy because it’s
916
00:32:33,795 –> 00:32:35,595
so good product placement.
917
00:32:35,595 –> 00:32:36,195
I like it.
918
00:32:36,915 –> 00:32:37,795
Yeah, you know,
919
00:32:37,795 –> 00:32:38,675
and you’re just like,
920
00:32:40,715 –> 00:32:47,115
That’s 9896140416 for ethical.
921
00:32:47,115 –> 00:32:49,195
But you remember being in the media at one time was
922
00:32:49,195 –> 00:32:49,875
a big deal.
923
00:32:50,115 –> 00:32:51,635
You know, you saw people on television,
924
00:32:51,635 –> 00:32:52,675
everybody looked up to them.
925
00:32:52,675 –> 00:32:54,915
They were this larger than life figure.
926
00:32:55,035 –> 00:32:57,395
And then platforms like X,
927
00:32:57,395 –> 00:32:58,515
formerly known as Twitter,
928
00:32:58,835 –> 00:33:00,315
made everybody accessible.
929
00:33:00,315 –> 00:33:01,395
Everybody had an opinion.
930
00:33:01,395 –> 00:33:02,355
Everybody could talk.
931
00:33:02,355 –> 00:33:07,075
So it kind of took a lot of the air out of that inflated
932
00:33:07,395 –> 00:33:09,155
perception of people in the media.
933
00:33:09,955 –> 00:33:11,635
And the thing that I get over and over again is how
934
00:33:11,635 –> 00:33:14,315
do I find these news sources that are different,
935
00:33:14,595 –> 00:33:15,955
that are not mainstream,
936
00:33:16,275 –> 00:33:17,795
that are given different points of view,
937
00:33:17,795 –> 00:33:19,195
that will tell you the truth on tariffs?
938
00:33:19,195 –> 00:33:20,835
So tariffs is a great example.
939
00:33:21,955 –> 00:33:22,915
Like I said at the beginning,
940
00:33:22,955 –> 00:33:24,635
when I started covering the auto industry,
941
00:33:24,635 –> 00:33:26,115
it was all about tariffs are,
942
00:33:26,115 –> 00:33:26,275
you know,
943
00:33:26,275 –> 00:33:27,315
tariffs are killing us,
944
00:33:27,315 –> 00:33:28,275
Detroit wanted to say.
945
00:33:28,875 –> 00:33:29,875
And then, you know,
946
00:33:29,915 –> 00:33:31,715
in 2015 and 16,
947
00:33:31,715 –> 00:33:33,995
when Peter Navarro and Donald Trump start talking
948
00:33:33,995 –> 00:33:35,555
about tariffs and redoing NAFTA,
949
00:33:35,555 –> 00:33:36,515
all of a sudden,
950
00:33:37,555 –> 00:33:38,955
the automotive lobby comes out and says,
951
00:33:38,955 –> 00:33:40,475
well, these are a really bad idea.
952
00:33:40,475 –> 00:33:42,155
And I, my head was spinning like,
953
00:33:42,155 –> 00:33:42,595
wait a minute,
954
00:33:43,475 –> 00:33:44,995
for 20 years,
955
00:33:45,155 –> 00:33:48,035
you’ve had me writing stories about how tariffs are
956
00:33:48,035 –> 00:33:48,915
bad for, you know,
957
00:33:49,155 –> 00:33:52,035
tariffs against us are bad for your business.
958
00:33:52,035 –> 00:33:55,075
And so now we have a retaliatory mechanism in place
959
00:33:55,395 –> 00:33:57,475
where somebody’s actually trying to get a deal done
960
00:33:57,995 –> 00:33:58,355
and you’re,
961
00:33:58,675 –> 00:34:00,115
you’re railing against it.
962
00:34:00,195 –> 00:34:04,675
And the media narrative ubiquitously was tariffs are
963
00:34:04,675 –> 00:34:05,795
bad, tariffs are bad,
964
00:34:05,795 –> 00:34:06,995
they’re going to sink the economy.
965
00:34:07,635 –> 00:34:09,075
We went through four years of Trump.
966
00:34:09,075 –> 00:34:10,515
We had some tariff noise.
967
00:34:10,515 –> 00:34:11,875
It didn’t sink the economy.
968
00:34:12,995 –> 00:34:14,115
And so here we are,
969
00:34:14,115 –> 00:34:15,475
2020, whatever,
970
00:34:15,875 –> 00:34:17,395
25, I’m old.
971
00:34:18,515 –> 00:34:22,395
The same headlines are being bandied about over and
972
00:34:22,395 –> 00:34:23,075
over again.
973
00:34:23,115 –> 00:34:24,035
Right out of the trick bag,
974
00:34:25,875 –> 00:34:27,475
But there’s a lot of information out there,
975
00:34:27,475 –> 00:34:29,715
like the piece you just did with your underpants off,
976
00:34:30,435 –> 00:34:33,075
that will give people a different perspective.
977
00:34:33,475 –> 00:34:34,435
in a different view.
978
00:34:34,475 –> 00:34:35,555
And YouTube may say,
979
00:34:35,555 –> 00:34:37,755
well, that’s fake news and they’re going to throw
980
00:34:38,475 –> 00:34:39,315
X won’t do that.
981
00:34:39,795 –> 00:34:42,035
And it’s not a badge of honor as much as it’s just
982
00:34:42,315 –> 00:34:43,635
an operating philosophy.
983
00:34:43,635 –> 00:34:46,835
And why the company was started as Twitter and why
984
00:34:46,835 –> 00:34:49,235
Elon bought it was the belief that people should be
985
00:34:49,235 –> 00:34:50,435
able to say what they want.
986
00:34:50,435 –> 00:34:51,795
Are there limits to free speech?
987
00:34:53,155 –> 00:34:55,475
There’s things that you can’t get away with saying
988
00:34:55,475 –> 00:34:56,835
even in the most free
989
00:34:57,395 –> 00:34:58,635
society in the world.
990
00:34:58,675 –> 00:35:00,355
Let’s put that aside for a minute.
991
00:35:00,675 –> 00:35:04,035
I was writing something yesterday about the lab leak.
992
00:35:04,835 –> 00:35:06,915
And, you know,
993
00:35:06,915 –> 00:35:10,835
my wife brought up the lab leak to me in 2020 when
994
00:35:10,835 –> 00:35:12,795
everybody used to change their lives.
995
00:35:12,795 –> 00:35:16,195
So we went on walks every night with our swarm of children.
996
00:35:16,835 –> 00:35:18,595
We all had to get out of the house before dinner.
997
00:35:18,995 –> 00:35:20,715
So we’d go on these walks and my wife brings up the
998
00:35:20,715 –> 00:35:21,795
lab leak theory to me.
999
00:35:21,795 –> 00:35:23,035
You know, COVID was,
1000
00:35:23,035 –> 00:35:23,235
you know,
1001
00:35:23,475 –> 00:35:24,195
leaked from a lab.
1002
00:35:24,915 –> 00:35:25,195
And I said,
1003
00:35:25,195 –> 00:35:25,635
well, that’s a,
1004
00:35:25,955 –> 00:35:26,155
you know,
1005
00:35:26,155 –> 00:35:27,555
I was working at the Wall Street Journal at the time
1006
00:35:27,555 –> 00:35:27,875
and I’m like,
1007
00:35:27,875 –> 00:35:30,115
well, that’s just a dangerous conspiracy theory,
1008
00:35:30,115 –> 00:35:30,475
Kimberly.
1009
00:35:32,355 –> 00:35:35,555
I’m on, I’m on calls all day with really smart people
1010
00:35:35,555 –> 00:35:37,715
who say that that is misinformation.
1011
00:35:38,755 –> 00:35:40,155
Let’s not let the kids hear that.
1012
00:35:40,435 –> 00:35:40,995
And I mean,
1013
00:35:40,995 –> 00:35:41,795
five years later,
1014
00:35:41,795 –> 00:35:43,675
I’m the one with the mea culpa saying,
1015
00:35:43,675 –> 00:35:46,915
you know what I bought and I wasn’t suppressing that
1016
00:35:46,915 –> 00:35:47,635
information,
1017
00:35:49,955 –> 00:35:50,595
You bought it.
1018
00:35:51,315 –> 00:35:53,475
All the sources that you trusted told you that,
1019
00:35:53,595 –> 00:35:54,955
and you realize you were manipulated.
1020
00:35:54,955 –> 00:35:59,675
It’s like an agency to spin the opposite narrative.
1021
00:35:59,715 –> 00:36:01,235
That’s all that you’re asking for.
1022
00:36:01,235 –> 00:36:03,155
You’re not asking to shut the other guys down.
1023
00:36:03,235 –> 00:36:03,955
Well, let me pause you there.
1024
00:36:04,035 –> 00:36:04,995
Let me pause you there.
1025
00:36:05,075 –> 00:36:06,115
Okay, I get that.
1026
00:36:07,715 –> 00:36:09,075
If everything’s out there,
1027
00:36:09,315 –> 00:36:10,115
right, go ahead,
1028
00:36:10,115 –> 00:36:10,915
say what you’re going to say.
1029
00:36:12,435 –> 00:36:15,075
Look, I do the tariffs because I’m watching the news
1030
00:36:15,075 –> 00:36:15,435
and I’m like,
1031
00:36:15,635 –> 00:36:16,155
that’s fake news.
1032
00:36:16,155 –> 00:36:17,315
You don’t even know what you’re talking about,
1033
00:36:17,755 –> 00:36:19,595
I’m going to put mine out there and they’re going to
1034
00:36:19,595 –> 00:36:20,675
say, oh, that’s fake news.
1035
00:36:20,835 –> 00:36:24,995
So it seems to me that your plan would be one,
1036
00:36:24,995 –> 00:36:25,755
you got to find,
1037
00:36:26,195 –> 00:36:26,515
you know,
1038
00:36:26,515 –> 00:36:28,115
it’s nice to make videos and stuff,
1039
00:36:28,115 –> 00:36:29,235
but if you want your news,
1040
00:36:29,235 –> 00:36:32,595
you got to find reputable people that have some experience
1041
00:36:32,595 –> 00:36:35,155
making news and have been put through the meat grinder
1042
00:36:35,315 –> 00:36:36,195
to be accurate.
1043
00:36:36,195 –> 00:36:39,155
My my ex handle is not fun.
1044
00:36:40,195 –> 00:36:43,235
It’s not fun because I’ve turned it into my column
1045
00:36:43,235 –> 00:36:44,595
space, you know,
1046
00:36:44,675 –> 00:36:46,355
and I got to be accurate.
1047
00:36:47,075 –> 00:36:48,555
I want people to go there like,
1048
00:36:48,875 –> 00:36:49,955
hey, you know,
1049
00:36:50,635 –> 00:36:51,355
he makes a point.
1050
00:36:51,355 –> 00:36:52,275
Let me look into that.
1051
00:36:52,555 –> 00:36:53,715
And when they look into it,
1052
00:36:53,955 –> 00:36:55,075
I want them to believe it.
1053
00:36:55,675 –> 00:36:57,195
But you have a different set of standards,
1054
00:36:57,195 –> 00:36:58,315
Charlie, and not everybody,
1055
00:36:58,315 –> 00:36:59,875
and we’ve talked about this for years.
1056
00:37:00,115 –> 00:37:01,235
Those are standards.
1057
00:37:01,235 –> 00:37:01,955
You have people,
1058
00:37:01,955 –> 00:37:03,555
and I wouldn’t call it fake news.
1059
00:37:03,715 –> 00:37:08,755
I would call it incomplete news because the research
1060
00:37:08,755 –> 00:37:09,155
isn’t there.
1061
00:37:09,155 –> 00:37:10,275
The homework isn’t there.
1062
00:37:10,315 –> 00:37:12,115
The other side of the story is not there.
1063
00:37:12,115 –> 00:37:15,075
So people are getting very myopic slices,
1064
00:37:15,075 –> 00:37:16,195
subjective
1065
00:37:16,915 –> 00:37:19,555
presentation of what they want you to think and what
1066
00:37:19,555 –> 00:37:20,635
they want you to believe.
1067
00:37:20,915 –> 00:37:23,155
And you’re giving them the whole story and say,
1068
00:37:23,155 –> 00:37:24,675
this is what’s happening.
1069
00:37:24,835 –> 00:37:25,955
Now what do you think?
1070
00:37:25,955 –> 00:37:28,995
So now it’s so funny you say that because we have John
1071
00:37:28,995 –> 00:37:32,035
Stoll, the global head of news for X.
1072
00:37:32,115 –> 00:37:37,075
John, what’s the plan in order to get people to find
1073
00:37:37,075 –> 00:37:39,315
that or is it just it’s just going to remain the Wild
1074
00:37:40,315 –> 00:37:40,915
It’s not going to,
1075
00:37:40,915 –> 00:37:43,075
I mean, there’s going to be a Wild West aspect and
1076
00:37:43,075 –> 00:37:43,955
that’s not a bad thing.
1077
00:37:43,955 –> 00:37:44,515
I mean, no,
1078
00:37:44,515 –> 00:37:45,235
it’s a great thing.
1079
00:37:46,075 –> 00:37:48,195
This is, this is the world we live in.
1080
00:37:48,355 –> 00:37:50,755
And, but I do think if I’m,
1081
00:37:50,915 –> 00:37:53,955
and I am a ex-user,
1082
00:37:53,955 –> 00:37:55,155
I, in full disclosure,
1083
00:37:55,315 –> 00:37:56,355
after I left the journal,
1084
00:37:56,355 –> 00:37:58,275
I left Twitter and that was before Elon bought it.
1085
00:37:58,875 –> 00:38:00,755
And I don’t know that Elon’s ownership of it would
1086
00:38:00,755 –> 00:38:01,475
have made a difference.
1087
00:38:01,475 –> 00:38:02,315
I was worn out,
1088
00:38:02,515 –> 00:38:02,835
you know,
1089
00:38:02,835 –> 00:38:04,195
I was worn out from the battles,
1090
00:38:04,195 –> 00:38:04,675
blah, blah,
1091
00:38:05,475 –> 00:38:08,475
So I took some time off and I came back and realized
1092
00:38:08,595 –> 00:38:10,675
that there is a community on,
1093
00:38:10,835 –> 00:38:11,635
if I, you know,
1094
00:38:11,635 –> 00:38:12,995
if I’m open to it,
1095
00:38:13,715 –> 00:38:16,195
There’s a community of news creators out there who
1096
00:38:16,195 –> 00:38:17,795
aren’t mainstream media,
1097
00:38:17,795 –> 00:38:18,395
full stop.
1098
00:38:18,915 –> 00:38:22,755
They aren’t singing off the same songbook that MSNBC,
1099
00:38:22,755 –> 00:38:23,795
the New York Times,
1100
00:38:23,795 –> 00:38:26,115
Washington Post have been singing.
1101
00:38:26,115 –> 00:38:26,595
They’re all,
1102
00:38:26,595 –> 00:38:27,475
it’s an echo chamber.
1103
00:38:27,675 –> 00:38:30,195
They’re competing with each other to be first with
1104
00:38:30,195 –> 00:38:31,075
the same opinion,
1105
00:38:31,395 –> 00:38:33,875
to be loudest and most provocative with the same opinion.
1106
00:38:34,275 –> 00:38:37,235
And that’s an industry and it will persist.
1107
00:38:37,715 –> 00:38:40,355
But there’s also another side of it where people are
1108
00:38:40,355 –> 00:38:41,875
thinking for themselves that,
1109
00:38:41,875 –> 00:38:42,155
you know,
1110
00:38:42,435 –> 00:38:43,675
I was listening to,
1111
00:38:43,675 –> 00:38:44,315
of all places,
1112
00:38:44,315 –> 00:38:45,435
the Ben Shapiro podcast.
1113
00:38:45,435 –> 00:38:45,995
And I was like,
1114
00:38:45,995 –> 00:38:47,595
is he even allowed to say that?
1115
00:38:47,595 –> 00:38:49,795
Is that legal to say that?
1116
00:38:49,795 –> 00:38:50,955
You know, and I’m starting to think like,
1117
00:38:50,955 –> 00:38:53,995
why am I conditioned to think that all,
1118
00:38:54,235 –> 00:38:54,555
you know,
1119
00:38:54,715 –> 00:38:56,315
even if I don’t agree with the opinion,
1120
00:38:56,635 –> 00:38:57,915
that that opinion should be,
1121
00:38:58,235 –> 00:38:58,395
you know,
1122
00:38:58,555 –> 00:38:59,715
withheld from the public.
1123
00:38:59,715 –> 00:39:01,435
And so there are standards.
1124
00:39:01,675 –> 00:39:04,955
And that’s a big piece of what my job is,
1125
00:39:04,955 –> 00:39:06,875
is to make sure that there’s a standard for trust,
1126
00:39:07,115 –> 00:39:07,995
which by the way,
1127
00:39:08,155 –> 00:39:09,715
nobody trusts the mainstream media.
1128
00:39:09,715 –> 00:39:11,915
So trust ain’t the issue.
1129
00:39:12,635 –> 00:39:14,795
accuracy, that there’s a commitment to accuracy,
1130
00:39:14,795 –> 00:39:15,635
but I’ll tell you,
1131
00:39:15,635 –> 00:39:17,835
in every newspaper that’s delivered every day,
1132
00:39:18,075 –> 00:39:19,355
there are inaccurate things.
1133
00:39:20,075 –> 00:39:21,395
And so we haven’t,
1134
00:39:21,395 –> 00:39:24,235
nobody has solved the trust issue or the accuracy
1135
00:39:24,235 –> 00:39:26,075
issue and that there’s integrity,
1136
00:39:26,315 –> 00:39:27,915
that I’m not lying to my audience.
1137
00:39:27,955 –> 00:39:28,635
And, you know,
1138
00:39:28,635 –> 00:39:29,355
the internet,
1139
00:39:29,675 –> 00:39:31,595
particularly acts with the way that we’ve created
1140
00:39:31,595 –> 00:39:33,195
community notes and other safeguards,
1141
00:39:33,835 –> 00:39:36,955
has a funny way of calling bullshit.
1142
00:39:38,435 –> 00:39:40,795
And so if your piece on tariffs,
1143
00:39:40,955 –> 00:39:44,075
standing on the bridge has something wrong with it,
1144
00:39:44,635 –> 00:39:47,595
I guarantee you somebody will punch back.
1145
00:39:47,995 –> 00:39:49,515
And the onus is on you,
1146
00:39:49,515 –> 00:39:50,075
Charlie, to be like,
1147
00:39:50,075 –> 00:39:51,955
no, this is where I got the information or you’re
1148
00:39:53,035 –> 00:39:54,075
I was using the wrong information,
1149
00:39:54,075 –> 00:39:55,115
whatever it may be.
1150
00:39:55,595 –> 00:39:57,795
There isn’t a mechanism except the letters page,
1151
00:39:57,795 –> 00:40:00,955
which is highly curated at a newspaper to,
1152
00:40:01,115 –> 00:40:02,635
there hasn’t been traditionally to say,
1153
00:40:02,635 –> 00:40:03,435
wait, wait a minute,
1154
00:40:03,435 –> 00:40:03,915
wait a minute.
1155
00:40:04,835 –> 00:40:05,675
What are your facts?
1156
00:40:05,675 –> 00:40:07,435
What was the methodology behind that?
1157
00:40:07,435 –> 00:40:07,875
Et cetera,
1158
00:40:07,875 –> 00:40:08,395
et cetera.
1159
00:40:08,395 –> 00:40:09,755
And so, you know,
1160
00:40:10,075 –> 00:40:11,195
to answer a question in short,
1161
00:40:11,195 –> 00:40:12,315
because I’ve been very long-winded,
1162
00:40:12,795 –> 00:40:15,395
there needs to be an alternative aggregator of news
1163
00:40:15,395 –> 00:40:16,715
where people can go and say,
1164
00:40:16,875 –> 00:40:18,635
what podcasts do I listen to?
1165
00:40:18,795 –> 00:40:20,315
What things should I be reading?
1166
00:40:20,475 –> 00:40:22,075
What television shows should I,
1167
00:40:22,155 –> 00:40:22,355
you know,
1168
00:40:22,355 –> 00:40:23,115
television shows,
1169
00:40:23,115 –> 00:40:23,675
streaming,
1170
00:40:23,675 –> 00:40:24,155
whatever,
1171
00:40:24,395 –> 00:40:25,275
where I’m going to get it,
1172
00:40:25,395 –> 00:40:27,035
where I’m going to get a different perspective?
1173
00:40:28,035 –> 00:40:30,835
Fifty percent of America think differently than the
1174
00:40:30,875 –> 00:40:31,515
other 50%.
1175
00:40:31,515 –> 00:40:34,795
And 80% of America agrees on certain issues that are
1176
00:40:34,795 –> 00:40:36,235
disregarded by the 20%.
1177
00:40:36,235 –> 00:40:37,915
And sometimes the 20%
1178
00:40:37,915 –> 00:40:40,315
is just so loud that they use their bully stick to
1179
00:40:40,395 –> 00:40:41,355
pop everybody down.
1180
00:40:41,435 –> 00:40:43,035
So it’s, you know,
1181
00:40:43,115 –> 00:40:43,835
I think, you know,
1182
00:40:43,835 –> 00:40:45,275
just to channel Elon for a minute,
1183
00:40:45,435 –> 00:40:47,675
and I’m very careful when I do that.
1184
00:40:48,395 –> 00:40:50,635
I think he’s very eager to see
1185
00:40:51,955 –> 00:40:55,195
a platform that gives agency and gives voice to these
1186
00:40:55,195 –> 00:40:58,515
alternative sources and at the same time gives a pathway
1187
00:40:58,515 –> 00:41:00,955
for legacy media to continue to be on the platform,
1188
00:41:00,955 –> 00:41:02,795
distribute and partner with us in ways that make sense.
1189
00:41:02,795 –> 00:41:03,555
There you go.
1190
00:41:03,955 –> 00:41:06,875
I was also going to say there’s also a value in the
1191
00:41:06,875 –> 00:41:10,475
timeliness of it because by the time you would traditionally
1192
00:41:10,475 –> 00:41:12,475
turn on the 6 o’clock news or in the morning,
1193
00:41:13,115 –> 00:41:16,155
I’ve already seen everything on X or on Twitter.
1194
00:41:16,155 –> 00:41:17,835
I mean, and I’ve said for years,
1195
00:41:17,835 –> 00:41:20,435
I love it because I constantly know what’s going on.
1196
00:41:20,435 –> 00:41:20,995
So there’s not a
1197
00:41:21,075 –> 00:41:22,235
24 hour news cycle.
1198
00:41:22,395 –> 00:41:25,755
There’s now a 24 second news cycle and people have
1199
00:41:25,755 –> 00:41:27,115
access to access to it.
1200
00:41:27,115 –> 00:41:29,355
And this is so good for my colon.
1201
00:41:30,275 –> 00:41:31,115
You know what I mean?
1202
00:41:31,355 –> 00:41:33,435
By the time I’m done with my morning toilet,
1203
00:41:33,915 –> 00:41:34,715
I’m aware.
1204
00:41:35,035 –> 00:41:37,075
So Jenna, let me give you,
1205
00:41:37,435 –> 00:41:38,195
as I see this,
1206
00:41:38,195 –> 00:41:40,155
I’m looking at X right now.
1207
00:41:41,195 –> 00:41:42,395
There’s the these.
1208
00:41:44,395 –> 00:41:45,675
headings for you.
1209
00:41:45,675 –> 00:41:48,115
For you is the algorithms reading you.
1210
00:41:48,115 –> 00:41:49,355
It knows what you like.
1211
00:41:49,355 –> 00:41:49,795
It’s, you know,
1212
00:41:50,275 –> 00:41:53,435
that’s where they spend it.
1213
00:41:53,835 –> 00:41:54,915
Then there’s trending,
1214
00:41:54,915 –> 00:41:55,435
which is,
1215
00:41:55,435 –> 00:41:56,635
okay, I can see what everybody,
1216
00:41:57,275 –> 00:41:58,355
what’s the zeitgeist?
1217
00:41:58,355 –> 00:41:59,475
What’s everybody talking about?
1218
00:41:59,515 –> 00:42:00,075
Okay, you know,
1219
00:42:00,075 –> 00:42:01,595
you can geolocate that.
1220
00:42:01,595 –> 00:42:02,195
I can do Michigan,
1221
00:42:02,195 –> 00:42:03,435
I can do the United States,
1222
00:42:03,475 –> 00:42:04,235
I can do the globe.
1223
00:42:04,715 –> 00:42:07,435
Then there’s this thing called news.
1224
00:42:07,995 –> 00:42:09,115
And that basically,
1225
00:42:10,115 –> 00:42:12,235
is, look, AI generated shit.
1226
00:42:12,235 –> 00:42:14,875
It reads like New York Times headlines,
1227
00:42:15,035 –> 00:42:16,155
sparks debate,
1228
00:42:17,515 –> 00:42:18,555
I think there,
1229
00:42:18,795 –> 00:42:21,755
because I’m already getting my algorithm feed,
1230
00:42:22,075 –> 00:42:26,395
that the news should be rebranded Editor’s Choice.
1231
00:42:26,955 –> 00:42:29,915
And that these are the things that the human beings
1232
00:42:29,915 –> 00:42:33,915
at Twitter think are sound and we’d like to show them
1233
00:42:36,675 –> 00:42:38,155
Everything that I see on Twitter,
1234
00:42:38,315 –> 00:42:38,635
you know,
1235
00:42:38,635 –> 00:42:39,995
from the big boys that you’re talking about,
1236
00:42:39,995 –> 00:42:40,635
big girls,
1237
00:42:41,595 –> 00:42:43,835
it’s all like Ben Shapiro’s talking about,
1238
00:42:43,835 –> 00:42:45,515
what Tucker Carlson’s talking about,
1239
00:42:45,555 –> 00:42:47,075
which Rachel Maddow’s talking about.
1240
00:42:47,435 –> 00:42:49,675
But there’s a huge amount of interest,
1241
00:42:49,915 –> 00:42:50,635
a huge hole,
1242
00:42:50,635 –> 00:42:53,915
and a bunch of money to be made in local news.
1243
00:42:54,475 –> 00:42:58,395
Like if X had some people they trusted in Detroit.
1244
00:42:58,795 –> 00:43:00,595
And a couple people.
1245
00:43:00,635 –> 00:43:03,435
If you know anybody in Detroit,
1246
00:43:03,435 –> 00:43:03,835
let me know.
1247
00:43:04,715 –> 00:43:05,515
Oh, well, okay.
1248
00:43:06,955 –> 00:43:07,355
Hey, can you,
1249
00:43:07,595 –> 00:43:08,395
okay, so that’s,
1250
00:43:08,635 –> 00:43:09,595
that’s what I would do.
1251
00:43:09,915 –> 00:43:18,675
Can you make my tariff piece not go viral,
1252
00:43:18,715 –> 00:43:20,035
but do you guys have the,
1253
00:43:20,035 –> 00:43:20,435
of course,
1254
00:43:20,435 –> 00:43:21,875
you have the ability to push that out.
1255
00:43:21,875 –> 00:43:23,315
You could algorithmic that and say,
1256
00:43:23,315 –> 00:43:24,075
take a look at this,
1257
00:43:27,675 –> 00:43:30,555
Algorithmic it would be if it goes viral.
1258
00:43:32,155 –> 00:43:33,435
We have super users.
1259
00:43:34,355 –> 00:43:34,715
And you know,
1260
00:43:35,355 –> 00:43:37,955
so that’s another way is to try to get it on the main,
1261
00:43:38,035 –> 00:43:39,195
on the, you know,
1262
00:43:39,315 –> 00:43:40,475
and there are tricks to the,
1263
00:43:40,555 –> 00:43:41,835
to the, to making,
1264
00:43:42,875 –> 00:43:43,115
you know,
1265
00:43:43,115 –> 00:43:44,315
I think people are,
1266
00:43:44,475 –> 00:43:47,915
it’s not just Elon is the trick is understanding who
1267
00:43:47,915 –> 00:43:51,315
the super users are.
1268
00:43:51,315 –> 00:43:52,955
Yeah, let’s do an experiment.
1269
00:43:53,355 –> 00:43:54,395
Yeah, let’s do an experiment.
1270
00:43:54,395 –> 00:43:54,835
Hook me up,
1271
00:43:55,355 –> 00:43:55,915
Let’s see.
1272
00:43:56,795 –> 00:43:57,595
Because I’m not,
1273
00:43:57,595 –> 00:43:59,635
I’m not into the super user bit because I,
1274
00:44:00,515 –> 00:44:03,515
One little thing about like getting monetized on X
1275
00:44:03,995 –> 00:44:07,195
is you need 5 million impressions every quarter,
1276
00:44:07,195 –> 00:44:07,915
every three months.
1277
00:44:08,315 –> 00:44:10,635
It’s got to go to the super users,
1278
00:44:11,115 –> 00:44:13,435
So you got to follow the super users and all of that
1279
00:44:13,435 –> 00:44:14,075
bullshit.
1280
00:44:14,395 –> 00:44:16,715
And what the super users do,
1281
00:44:16,795 –> 00:44:17,675
why do you think when,
1282
00:44:17,835 –> 00:44:18,115
you know,
1283
00:44:18,115 –> 00:44:19,755
something’s trending and you hit it,
1284
00:44:20,475 –> 00:44:20,955
breaking,
1285
00:44:20,955 –> 00:44:21,435
breaking,
1286
00:44:21,435 –> 00:44:21,915
breaking,
1287
00:44:21,915 –> 00:44:22,395
breaking,
1288
00:44:22,395 –> 00:44:23,595
they’re all doing the same thing.
1289
00:44:24,235 –> 00:44:25,115
You know why they’re doing it?
1290
00:44:25,275 –> 00:44:26,715
To get some impressions.
1291
00:44:27,115 –> 00:44:29,635
So it’s, it becomes a parrot and
1292
00:44:30,315 –> 00:44:34,715
John at what’s your Twitter handle or X handle at John
1293
00:44:34,715 –> 00:44:35,395
Stoll, right?
1294
00:44:36,795 –> 00:44:38,835
So if you’re a really good reporter and knows how to
1295
00:44:38,835 –> 00:44:39,915
make good videos,
1296
00:44:40,235 –> 00:44:41,115
just drop my DM.
1297
00:44:41,115 –> 00:44:41,915
Is your DM open?
1298
00:44:42,635 –> 00:44:43,275
Yeah, it’s open.
1299
00:44:43,795 –> 00:44:44,635
Or, you know,
1300
00:44:44,955 –> 00:44:46,955
look, just I read them all.
1301
00:44:47,395 –> 00:44:49,595
And if you have trouble with your X account or you
1302
00:44:50,555 –> 00:44:51,635
Send me good stuff either way.
1303
00:44:52,315 –> 00:44:52,995
Okay, folks.
1304
00:44:53,595 –> 00:44:56,075
I just had an issue because I went through a lot,
1305
00:44:56,075 –> 00:44:56,875
in my opinion,
1306
00:44:56,875 –> 00:44:59,755
to earn my blue check on Twitter and then come in
1307
00:44:59,755 –> 00:45:01,675
and everybody wiped it out and you had to buy it.
1308
00:45:01,795 –> 00:45:02,115
I was like,
1309
00:45:02,115 –> 00:45:02,795
not going to do that.
1310
00:45:02,955 –> 00:45:03,835
I was so into that.
1311
00:45:04,155 –> 00:45:04,795
I was too.
1312
00:45:04,795 –> 00:45:05,355
I liked it.
1313
00:45:05,355 –> 00:45:06,795
I mean, you had to send in all your stuff.
1314
00:45:06,875 –> 00:45:08,555
Yeah, like I’m sending Twitter.
1315
00:45:08,555 –> 00:45:09,675
Like I earned it.
1316
00:45:09,915 –> 00:45:11,115
Like a blood sample.
1317
00:45:12,435 –> 00:45:13,195
No, pretty much.
1318
00:45:13,675 –> 00:45:14,555
My passport,
1319
00:45:14,755 –> 00:45:16,075
To that point,
1320
00:45:16,075 –> 00:45:16,835
can I ask a question?
1321
00:45:16,835 –> 00:45:18,395
Because this is where it gets really tricky.
1322
00:45:18,475 –> 00:45:19,355
No, the show’s getting long,
1323
00:45:20,315 –> 00:45:20,955
No, no, no.
1324
00:45:20,955 –> 00:45:23,075
But it’s kind of a paradox because Twitter’s a business
1325
00:45:23,075 –> 00:45:24,795
and they need to make money and they make money on
1326
00:45:24,795 –> 00:45:26,795
blue check marks and advertisements.
1327
00:45:27,035 –> 00:45:30,075
But doesn’t that kind of then loop back and feed super
1328
00:45:30,075 –> 00:45:32,635
users or people to put out stuff that,
1329
00:45:32,635 –> 00:45:32,875
you know,
1330
00:45:32,875 –> 00:45:34,235
for a lack of better phrase,
1331
00:45:34,315 –> 00:45:36,715
is clickbait because that’s what happened to legacy
1332
00:45:36,715 –> 00:45:39,635
media where they entered an echo chamber because that’s
1333
00:45:39,635 –> 00:45:40,115
how they got views.
1334
00:45:40,115 –> 00:45:41,355
Because it is entertainment.
1335
00:45:41,355 –> 00:45:42,275
News is still entertainment.
1336
00:45:42,795 –> 00:45:43,995
And how do you balance that?
1337
00:45:43,995 –> 00:45:44,675
Well, you know,
1338
00:45:44,675 –> 00:45:46,075
I’m going to speak for John.
1339
00:45:46,075 –> 00:45:46,475
I’m going to,
1340
00:45:47,955 –> 00:45:50,235
he’s looking for original stuff.
1341
00:45:50,235 –> 00:45:52,315
So it’s not just echo chamber.
1342
00:45:52,475 –> 00:45:53,115
So there is,
1343
00:45:53,115 –> 00:45:53,915
there is,
1344
00:45:53,915 –> 00:45:55,675
there’s a person involved who can say,
1345
00:45:55,675 –> 00:45:58,075
yes, there’s a little bit of editorial process,
1346
00:45:58,075 –> 00:46:01,115
be it Rachel Maddow or Ben Shapiro or whatever.
1347
00:46:01,835 –> 00:46:02,995
Or Charlie the Duff,
1348
00:46:02,995 –> 00:46:05,915
who does research instead of just spewing out their,
1349
00:46:06,235 –> 00:46:06,555
you know,
1350
00:46:06,555 –> 00:46:09,155
the Holocaust isn’t real just to get eyeballs and
1351
00:46:09,155 –> 00:46:10,155
get Cortez.
1352
00:46:10,635 –> 00:46:11,435
Stuff like that.
1353
00:46:11,435 –> 00:46:13,915
I mean, that’s a tricky balance and I don’t know how
1354
00:46:13,915 –> 00:46:14,515
X does that.
1355
00:46:14,635 –> 00:46:15,355
Let’s ask.
1356
00:46:16,795 –> 00:46:17,835
One of the things about that,
1357
00:46:18,315 –> 00:46:20,235
the AI, let’s get back to the AI,
1358
00:46:20,235 –> 00:46:21,035
because the AI,
1359
00:46:21,355 –> 00:46:22,675
I’m not an AI evangelist,
1360
00:46:22,675 –> 00:46:24,075
but I am,
1361
00:46:24,875 –> 00:46:25,995
by my job,
1362
00:46:25,995 –> 00:46:27,595
have to understand the way that AI works.
1363
00:46:28,875 –> 00:46:31,955
AI does a very good job of telling us what’s happening
1364
00:46:31,955 –> 00:46:32,955
and what people are talking about,
1365
00:46:32,955 –> 00:46:33,915
what people are clicking on,
1366
00:46:33,915 –> 00:46:34,235
whatever.
1367
00:46:34,235 –> 00:46:36,475
And it doesn’t have to be super user manipulated.
1368
00:46:36,475 –> 00:46:37,795
It can be a number of things.
1369
00:46:37,795 –> 00:46:38,635
And, you know,
1370
00:46:38,635 –> 00:46:39,355
we’re running out of time,
1371
00:46:39,355 –> 00:46:40,235
so I won’t get into that.
1372
00:46:40,555 –> 00:46:42,795
But the AI,
1373
00:46:42,795 –> 00:46:43,795
to Karen’s point,
1374
00:46:43,835 –> 00:46:45,355
is still slow.
1375
00:46:46,155 –> 00:46:48,035
And it’s not slow because AI sucks.
1376
00:46:48,035 –> 00:46:50,715
It’s because AI is a learning mechanism and it has
1377
00:46:50,715 –> 00:46:51,515
to learn what’s going on.
1378
00:46:51,515 –> 00:46:54,315
Humans can make a judge a snap decision
1379
00:46:55,155 –> 00:46:55,995
of what news is.
1380
00:46:56,075 –> 00:46:58,155
And so AI needs a human buddy,
1381
00:46:58,715 –> 00:47:00,995
If it’s going to be fast and it’s going to be as fast
1382
00:47:00,995 –> 00:47:02,555
as the expectation is for news,
1383
00:47:03,115 –> 00:47:03,355
you know,
1384
00:47:03,355 –> 00:47:04,235
the New York Times,
1385
00:47:04,395 –> 00:47:04,955
God bless them,
1386
00:47:04,955 –> 00:47:07,235
they’re 30 minutes late with telling you what happened
1387
00:47:07,235 –> 00:47:08,795
in the world with a push notification.
1388
00:47:10,315 –> 00:47:11,115
To Karen’s point,
1389
00:47:11,435 –> 00:47:12,635
you’ve already read it on X,
1390
00:47:12,635 –> 00:47:13,915
you’ve already experienced on X.
1391
00:47:14,635 –> 00:47:16,875
We have to allow or give our,
1392
00:47:17,315 –> 00:47:20,715
give the users an opportunity to go into an environment
1393
00:47:20,715 –> 00:47:22,635
where they can learn more about what’s happening in
1394
00:47:22,635 –> 00:47:23,995
real time versus leaving,
1395
00:47:23,995 –> 00:47:24,315
you know,
1396
00:47:25,195 –> 00:47:29,435
The for you is why people love Twitter slash access
1397
00:47:29,435 –> 00:47:30,315
long-term users.
1398
00:47:30,715 –> 00:47:36,155
The news channel or tab is an opportunity to take people
1399
00:47:36,155 –> 00:47:38,195
deeper in the news on things that they’re interested
1400
00:47:38,195 –> 00:47:39,995
in or they may be interested in or they should be
1401
00:47:39,995 –> 00:47:40,715
interested in.
1402
00:47:41,315 –> 00:47:42,795
you know, the way that news has always been,
1403
00:47:42,875 –> 00:47:43,675
but with a different,
1404
00:47:43,755 –> 00:47:44,555
with a different spin.
1405
00:47:44,555 –> 00:47:45,915
And so, yes,
1406
00:47:46,075 –> 00:47:48,795
you need humans involved in the process to get that
1407
00:47:49,355 –> 00:47:49,955
And I’m, you know,
1408
00:47:49,955 –> 00:47:51,475
when you go to news,
1409
00:47:51,475 –> 00:47:52,995
it’s going to give you the deeper dive,
1410
00:47:53,195 –> 00:47:54,955
but you’re still getting into posts.
1411
00:47:55,275 –> 00:47:58,115
And I’m looking for somebody in the post who did the
1412
00:47:58,115 –> 00:47:58,875
deep dive.
1413
00:47:59,435 –> 00:47:59,955
You know what I mean?
1414
00:47:59,955 –> 00:48:00,595
That’s like,
1415
00:48:00,595 –> 00:48:02,315
what the hell’s behind this?
1416
00:48:03,515 –> 00:48:04,795
You know, whatever,
1417
00:48:04,955 –> 00:48:06,155
you pick a million stories,
1418
00:48:06,155 –> 00:48:07,395
but I just,
1419
00:48:08,275 –> 00:48:09,835
I think what’s old is new,
1420
00:48:09,835 –> 00:48:11,275
and what’s new is old.
1421
00:48:11,435 –> 00:48:13,035
And I mean,
1422
00:48:13,035 –> 00:48:13,675
I wish you luck.
1423
00:48:13,675 –> 00:48:15,955
I don’t know how you create a network,
1424
00:48:15,955 –> 00:48:17,355
which is basically bureaus,
1425
00:48:17,355 –> 00:48:18,915
which is like how the AP work.
1426
00:48:19,275 –> 00:48:20,755
But you don’t want to duplicate a company.
1427
00:48:20,755 –> 00:48:22,115
Obviously you’re not getting a contract.
1428
00:48:22,115 –> 00:48:22,875
You don’t want to do that.
1429
00:48:22,955 –> 00:48:25,395
No, no, but it’s sort of a model.
1430
00:48:25,395 –> 00:48:29,035
Like there are really talented people out there who,
1431
00:48:29,795 –> 00:48:30,235
and again,
1432
00:48:30,235 –> 00:48:32,475
I mean, last show I got a little bent out of shape
1433
00:48:34,115 –> 00:48:36,635
And the internet personality is talking about we’re
1434
00:48:36,635 –> 00:48:37,475
to the media now.
1435
00:48:37,475 –> 00:48:37,875
And I’m like,
1436
00:48:38,155 –> 00:48:39,595
you are to the media,
1437
00:48:39,595 –> 00:48:40,795
but you’re not the press.
1438
00:48:41,435 –> 00:48:42,875
And the press is a skill.
1439
00:48:43,515 –> 00:48:45,715
It’s a big difference between journalism and news.
1440
00:48:45,955 –> 00:48:46,955
Yeah, big difference.
1441
00:48:47,275 –> 00:48:47,875
So, you know,
1442
00:48:47,875 –> 00:48:48,675
I mean, that’s where we’re at.
1443
00:48:50,755 –> 00:48:52,035
And that’s not to be a jerk about it.
1444
00:48:52,035 –> 00:48:54,035
That’s just to say that there’s a method to the madness.
1445
00:48:54,035 –> 00:48:54,515
And, you know,
1446
00:48:54,515 –> 00:48:55,515
we need people to understand that.
1447
00:48:55,595 –> 00:49:00,315
So John Stow is the guy who’s got to rack his brain
1448
00:49:00,315 –> 00:49:01,515
with his seven kids,
1449
00:49:02,235 –> 00:49:02,515
you know.
1450
00:49:03,315 –> 00:49:06,475
Deal with Elon Musk and figure out how the world is
1451
00:49:06,475 –> 00:49:07,355
going to be shaped.
1452
00:49:07,355 –> 00:49:08,475
If you have an idea,
1453
00:49:08,475 –> 00:49:11,075
you hit him at John Stowe on X.
1454
00:49:11,195 –> 00:49:12,635
Or better.
1455
00:49:12,995 –> 00:49:14,355
What’s your blue sky handle,
1456
00:49:14,555 –> 00:49:16,955
At John Stowe.
1457
00:49:19,675 –> 00:49:22,395
Let me look that up.
1458
00:49:22,515 –> 00:49:23,515
Forgot the password.
1459
00:49:25,355 –> 00:49:25,595
All right,
1460
00:49:25,595 –> 00:49:26,235
listen, brother,
1461
00:49:26,795 –> 00:49:27,515
thanks for being on.
1462
00:49:27,515 –> 00:49:28,555
That was really
1463
00:49:29,595 –> 00:49:30,395
illuminated.
1464
00:49:30,715 –> 00:49:31,515
Hey man, you know,
1465
00:49:31,675 –> 00:49:32,075
I love you,
1466
00:49:32,955 –> 00:49:34,475
God, I’ve been watching you for years and I,
1467
00:49:34,675 –> 00:49:34,995
you know,
1468
00:49:35,115 –> 00:49:36,875
this is what I had to do to get on your radar.
1469
00:49:36,875 –> 00:49:37,435
This is awesome.
1470
00:49:37,755 –> 00:49:38,275
Yeah, you know,
1471
00:49:38,275 –> 00:49:40,515
I mean, you need a better shave.
1472
00:49:40,515 –> 00:49:41,195
I’ll tell you that right now.
1473
00:49:41,675 –> 00:49:41,875
Well, see,
1474
00:49:41,875 –> 00:49:42,955
that’s the other asset.
1475
00:49:42,955 –> 00:49:44,315
It can connect you to people.
1476
00:49:44,395 –> 00:49:46,515
I mean, you can connect with almost anybody.
1477
00:49:47,035 –> 00:49:48,155
So that’s also an asset.
1478
00:49:48,155 –> 00:49:49,515
Okay, I got a question.
1479
00:49:49,515 –> 00:49:51,355
One last one for you,
1480
00:49:53,235 –> 00:49:53,835
When people,
1481
00:49:53,835 –> 00:49:54,075
you know,
1482
00:49:54,075 –> 00:49:55,155
you’re looking at them like they’re,
1483
00:49:55,275 –> 00:49:55,555
you know,
1484
00:49:55,555 –> 00:49:58,715
their Twitter profile and it says no DMs,
1485
00:49:59,395 –> 00:50:00,555
That means direct messages.
1486
00:50:00,555 –> 00:50:00,995
Is that right?
1487
00:50:03,035 –> 00:50:04,395
Can’t you turn those off?
1488
00:50:05,355 –> 00:50:08,475
You can actually just go to settings and turn off your
1489
00:50:09,035 –> 00:50:11,595
So why is everybody acting like a pretentious asshole?
1490
00:50:11,755 –> 00:50:12,675
Just turn it off.
1491
00:50:12,875 –> 00:50:13,595
I’m so busy.
1492
00:50:13,595 –> 00:50:14,635
I can’t deal with you.
1493
00:50:17,875 –> 00:50:18,475
I don’t know.
1494
00:50:19,355 –> 00:50:21,035
So there’s a breaking news.
1495
00:50:21,035 –> 00:50:22,395
He said he doesn’t know.
1496
00:50:23,435 –> 00:50:25,675
We got breaking news here.
1497
00:50:27,075 –> 00:50:27,755
Breaking news.
1498
00:50:27,755 –> 00:50:29,755
You can turn off your DM’s,
1499
00:50:29,755 –> 00:50:30,475
dumb ass.
1500
00:50:33,115 –> 00:50:35,635
So John, take us out.
1501
00:50:35,635 –> 00:50:36,595
What’s the last thought?
1502
00:50:37,995 –> 00:50:38,475
Final thought?
1503
00:50:42,155 –> 00:50:43,515
You know, I’ll be back on.
1504
00:50:43,515 –> 00:50:46,235
I’m going to come back and when I actually have a plan
1505
00:50:46,235 –> 00:50:47,355
in concrete to talk about,
1506
00:50:47,355 –> 00:50:48,915
I’ll break it on No Bullshit News.
1507
00:50:49,275 –> 00:50:51,835
Whoa, Canada.
1508
00:50:52,835 –> 00:50:53,195
I love you,
1509
00:50:53,195 –> 00:50:54,635
but not like that.
1510
00:50:55,515 –> 00:50:56,475
And the only thing,
1511
00:50:56,475 –> 00:50:57,835
let me make a last statement.
1512
00:50:58,395 –> 00:51:01,515
The only thing that gets next to my genitalia,
1513
00:51:01,515 –> 00:51:04,715
the only thing that gets to touch my genitalia is
1514
00:51:05,595 –> 00:51:07,675
100% American beaver.
1515
00:51:08,875 –> 00:51:09,475
See you next week.
