1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:09,719 Speaker 2: Good to have you along with us on a Sunday night. 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 2: All right, So, there's been a lot of talk about 4 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 2: the Supreme Court decision that President Trump did not, in 5 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 2: fact have the authority to impose an emergency tariff on 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 2: the world. And I'm not going to get into the 7 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 2: weeds on this, it'll make your hair hurt. At Sunday night, 8 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 2: the United States hockey team won the gold. But I 9 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 2: do want to talk a little bit about the impact 10 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 2: because the purpose of imposing tariffs on other nations to 11 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 2: bring to make it more painful for them to bring 12 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 2: their stuff into the United States was designed to encourage 13 00:00:52,800 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 2: companies to resure manufacturing to the United States. Sure that 14 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:08,679 Speaker 2: has to happen. We have spent about forty years shutting 15 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 2: down American factories in the United States, throwing Americans out 16 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:17,400 Speaker 2: of work, and sending those jobs overseas, only to import 17 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:22,039 Speaker 2: the products back into the United States without any duty 18 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 2: on them at all. Just tear free and they're junk. 19 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 3: Like. 20 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:33,680 Speaker 2: We have lost this game of free trade. And it's 21 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 2: both Republican and Democrat. That's why I spare me the 22 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:41,400 Speaker 2: argument that oh, Trump's tariffs and Gavin Newsom says he's 23 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 2: protecting California his Newsom Newsom was one of the lead 24 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 2: litigators that took this case to the Supreme Court and 25 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 2: he won. 26 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 4: Today I announced the lawsuit on behalf of the state 27 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 4: of California issuing the Trump administration. California is the largest 28 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 4: manufacturing state in our Union, one of the largest trading 29 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 4: partners around the globe. No state will be impacted more 30 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 4: than the state of California. 31 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 2: So there's news in making the argument that there should 32 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 2: be no tariffs because we manufacture so many things in 33 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 2: California and we want to be able to sell them, 34 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 2: and if Trump imposes tariffs on other nations, then we 35 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 2: won't be able to sell them to the nations, which 36 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 2: is the exact opposite of what Trump was trying to 37 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 2: do and what he was successful in doing, and that 38 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 2: is bringing other nations to the bargaining table and say, hey, 39 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 2: you guys are either putting up trade restrictions on our 40 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 2: products into your market. You may not have a tariff, 41 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 2: but you had all kinds of regulations and rules that 42 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:46,359 Speaker 2: make it almost impossible to do business. So you scrap 43 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 2: that and will lower the tariff. But until that happens, 44 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 2: we're going to impose a tariff that's going to make 45 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 2: it so economically painful for you to sell your stuff 46 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 2: in the United States that maybe some of your manufacturers 47 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 2: will decide, you know what, better off making the product 48 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 2: in Indiana where we used to do it. That's not 49 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:09,359 Speaker 2: a bad strategy. So forget Republican, forget Democrat, forget make 50 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 2: America great again. Forget the fight, and think about what 51 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 2: we're trying to accomplish here. It was better when everything 52 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 2: in your house was made in America. If you grew 53 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 2: up as I did in the seventies and eighties, everything 54 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,799 Speaker 2: in your house, and I mean everything in your house 55 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 2: was made in America at an American factory by an 56 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 2: American worker, and it was high quality stuff. Everything in 57 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 2: your kitchen. I was talking in the last second about 58 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 2: shopping for stovetop. There's nothing in a stovetop. It's a 59 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 2: piece of steel and a couple of brass knobs and 60 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 2: some wrought iron burners and a hose that connects the 61 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 2: natural gas. That's all it is. But it was so 62 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 2: high quality when it was made in America. When you 63 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 2: taped it, you felt steel. When you turn the knob, 64 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 2: you felt like you were turning a piece of engineering 65 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 2: ready clicked into place. Knobs were made of metal, That 66 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 2: makes sense. One of the reasons that we're getting rid 67 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 2: of the stovetop is because the knobs. I have one 68 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 2: of those stovetops where the knobs are on the face, 69 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:28,359 Speaker 2: like it doesn't cut into the cabinet down by your hips. 70 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,599 Speaker 2: So the knobs are on top, Okay, wherever the knobs go. 71 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 2: I mean, you guys designed it. Well, you know what 72 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 2: else is on top, the flame and the pan. So 73 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:39,839 Speaker 2: sometimes the edge of the pan gets too close to 74 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 2: the knob and he tipped the knob. Okay, guess what. 75 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 2: The knobs are made of? Plastic? Who thought of that? 76 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 2: Like a terrible idea. I called KitchenAid and they said, yeah, 77 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 2: that actually was a bad design. We know about that model. 78 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 2: So here's what we're gonna do. She sent me out 79 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:03,159 Speaker 2: a bunch of new knobs, and they're also made of plastic. 80 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 2: So now I'm just replacing the melted knob with another 81 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 2: plastic knob. So absurd, absolutely absurd. And these are not cheapies, man, 82 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 2: this is an expensive Kitchen eight stovetop. But it's it's 83 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 2: par for the course. It doesn't matter like whether it 84 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 2: is that self top or all the other ones, or 85 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 2: whether you go to any other brand out there in 86 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,280 Speaker 2: the showroom in the design center, whether it is an 87 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 2: oven or a dishwasher, whatever it is, it's all cheapy, tinny. 88 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:33,719 Speaker 2: Tap it with your finger and you're like, what is 89 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:38,039 Speaker 2: this eight hundred dollars for this? You gotta be kidding me, 90 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 2: And it's it's everything And it was never like that. 91 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 2: Everything in your house used to be made in America. 92 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:49,840 Speaker 2: It was high quality, it was heavy duty. The refrigerators 93 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 2: are the one that get me. That's the one that 94 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:56,039 Speaker 2: just makes me insane. I have lived We moved into 95 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:58,920 Speaker 2: my house when the baby wasn't born yet. The baby 96 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 2: is now twelve. I remember this because my wife was 97 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 2: like in her eighth month or something, so she couldn't 98 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 2: lift anything. So that was a hell of a movie 99 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 2: game for me. But so now the baby's talk. So 100 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 2: I've lived in my house twelve years. I have gone 101 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 2: through three refrigerators, three and it was always the same thing. 102 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 2: Compressor shot. It wasn't until the second one where I 103 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,159 Speaker 2: talked to the repair because I was talking to a 104 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 2: guy and he's an HVAC guy, and he does like 105 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 2: commercial HVAC, like the guys that go in and service 106 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 2: the yard house. Right, think about the compressors they use 107 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 2: at the yard house. They can't swap out the refrigerators 108 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 2: at the yard house because the entire place is a refrigerator. 109 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:46,600 Speaker 2: So there they have to go get a new compressor. 110 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:48,919 Speaker 2: And he told me, he said, now, look, what you 111 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:52,600 Speaker 2: don't understand is these are not compressors. These are Chinese 112 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 2: junk compressors. What a compressor is is iron. That's what 113 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:59,600 Speaker 2: you need. And we used to have standards in the 114 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 2: United States when we made refrigerators, small refrigerators, large refrigerators, 115 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 2: big commercial refrigerators. The iron had to meet a certain 116 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 2: standard because if you don't use the right iron, it's 117 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 2: gonna break. It's it's junk. And the Chinese compressors are junk, 118 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 2: and we allow them in the United States and they break. 119 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 2: And that's all a refrigerator is is a power supply, 120 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 2: a compressor, a relay switch, and a great big insulated 121 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 2: white box. So if the compressor is crap, the whole 122 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 2: thing's crap and it's not worth repairing. And you're lucky. 123 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 2: You're lucky to get three or four years out of it, 124 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 2: which makes sense because when you go and buy a refrigerator, Now, 125 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 2: what's the first thing they want to sell you, Right, 126 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 2: you're at the counters, You're at the counter, you're swiping 127 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 2: your cart, and what do they come running after you? 128 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 2: What do they want to sell you? The extended warranty 129 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 2: program because they know it's a piece of crap from 130 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 2: China and it's gonna break. Did your grandfather have an 131 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 2: extended warranty on his refrigerator? Do you ever remember your 132 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 2: parents or grandparents ever getting a new refrigerator. 133 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 5: Never? 134 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 2: Because it was high quality, it was General Electric, it 135 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 2: was Westinghouse, it lasted forever, and if there's ever anything 136 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 2: wrong with it, they would call the guy and the 137 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 2: guy would come with a truckload of parts and he 138 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 2: would swap out a part and it kept going and 139 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 2: going and going. Now I have gone through three and 140 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 2: the expectation is I'll go through three more. So it 141 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 2: is a good idea to reshore American manufacturing, bring these 142 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 2: products back to the United States, put Americans to work 143 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,200 Speaker 2: making them. We made everything in the United States. We 144 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 2: can do it again. It would put Americans back to work, 145 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 2: you know, making refrigerators and stovetops and washing machines and 146 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 2: dryers not a bad day's work. Not everybody wants to 147 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,679 Speaker 2: be a brain surgeon. There was always a sign out 148 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:57,680 Speaker 2: in front of the factories that said hiring today, so 149 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 2: people didn't need college degrees. They were advanced opportunities. These 150 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:05,199 Speaker 2: jobs paid good money. These factory towns dotted across the Midwest. 151 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:12,680 Speaker 2: They supported communities and families and small businesses that fed 152 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 2: for these that fed these factory workers, and it was 153 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 2: prosperous for these people. People worked at factories, came home, 154 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 2: had a house and a family and a car in 155 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 2: the driveway, and would go out on the town and 156 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 2: sponsored little league leagues. I mean, it was good paying money, 157 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 2: and it made sense because we would buy our own stuff. 158 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 2: So when you went to go buy a refrigerator, you 159 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:41,719 Speaker 2: bought it from some guy that assembled the refrigerator. And 160 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 2: that refrigerator was assembled by raw materials that were mined 161 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 2: in the United States. The steel came from the iron 162 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 2: from Birmingham, Alabama. The rubber came from Indiana right All 163 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 2: the plastic parts were manufactured in Oklahoma City and they 164 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 2: were all shipped to the fact to the factory in 165 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 2: Ohio where an American put it all together and then 166 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 2: shipped it to your refrigeration store or your applying store 167 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 2: here in Los Angeles. You would go buy it, and 168 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,960 Speaker 2: all that money circulated in the United States and you 169 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,320 Speaker 2: were happy with it. Now you go buy a refrigerator, 170 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 2: it's a piece of crap, either assembled in China or 171 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 2: assembled in Mexico of Chinese parts. You bring it home, 172 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:26,480 Speaker 2: you stick it in the in the kitchen, and it 173 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 2: breaks in three years. So it's not working. So, whether 174 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 2: you like tariffs or not, we need to come up 175 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 2: with some strategy to bring these American jobs back to America. 176 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 177 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 5: Good to have you along with us on us Sunday 178 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 5: hundred bucks for cooked top lou You can get them 179 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 5: on Amazon for three or four hundred bucks and are 180 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 5: probably just as good as what you got. Just did 181 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 5: mine about six months ago. 182 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's crap. I know you can get cheaper 183 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 2: crap on Amazon. I'm not in I'm not opposed to 184 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 2: you having crap. I am opposed to crap flooding our 185 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 2: marketplace and undermining American manufacturing and quality. Like why would 186 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 2: you want the landfills filled with Chinese crap? I don't. 187 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:23,440 Speaker 2: Why do you so? By extension, why are we filling 188 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:27,679 Speaker 2: our kitchens with plastic crap from China? Because we are. 189 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:32,199 Speaker 2: Go into your kitchen, Go turn everything on your countertop 190 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 2: upside down. It's all made in China and it's junk. 191 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 2: Everything in your house used to be made in America. 192 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 2: Your mom's Hamilton Beach blender was made in Wisconsin. Hamilton 193 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 2: was the engineer and Beach was the marketing guy. Or 194 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 2: maybe it was the other way around. Right. If you 195 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 2: grew up as I did in the late seventies and eighties, 196 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 2: then in your house growing up, you either had a 197 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 2: General Electric washer and dryer or a Westinghouse washer and dryer, 198 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 2: and it was unbelievable. It was a workhourse. Your mother 199 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 2: had either a Hoover vacuum cleaner or an electro Lux 200 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 2: vacuum cleaner. If it was a Hoover vacuum cleaner, it 201 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 2: was manufactured in Maryland. If it was elecro Lux, which 202 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 2: is a Swedish brand, but it was manufactured in the 203 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 2: United States, it was manufactured in Connecticut, and it was 204 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:30,840 Speaker 2: a beast. Remember how powerful your mom's vacuum cleaner was 205 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:36,440 Speaker 2: it scared the dog. Now you go to the store 206 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:39,320 Speaker 2: and you go buy a Black and Decker vacuum cleaner, 207 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 2: a little dustbuster. I had one, right, oh, Black and 208 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 2: Decker American sounding name used to be. But now it's 209 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:47,440 Speaker 2: manufactured in China, and it's a plastic piece of crap 210 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 2: and it barely picks up the crumbs. Like forget taking 211 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 2: it out to your car and trying to get sand 212 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 2: out of the car after the boys go surfing. It's ridiculous. 213 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 2: That's everything, Everything on your kitchen counter, everything, all what 214 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 2: we used to call white goods, which are appliances. They 215 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 2: all used to be high quality and made in America. 216 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 2: Every electronic RCA, Zenith Emerson all manufactured in America by Americans, 217 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 2: and there were high quality. Then we shut down the factories, 218 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 2: shipped all the jobs overseas, put the Americans out of work, 219 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 2: and they told us we're ahead of the game. 220 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 3: If you want to know when things went wrong, it 221 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 3: went wrong when we started allowing cheaper goods to be 222 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 3: imported here. Our big companies and factories decided they could 223 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 3: get cheaper labor in other countries. Nobody stopped them from leaving, 224 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 3: and honestly, I don't even remember that being on the ballot. 225 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:50,839 Speaker 3: So we need to look at ourselves. If we want 226 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 3: to rebuild those factories, we need to rebuild them and 227 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 3: hire people to work in them. 228 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,960 Speaker 2: That's right and good news. The factories are still there, 229 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:02,079 Speaker 2: at least the foundation of the factories. Maybe the buildings 230 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 2: are in disrepair, probably could use a weed whacker or two. 231 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 2: But the entire infrastructure to bring back American manufacturing is 232 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 2: all in place. Is as if they handed us the infrastructure. 233 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 2: There is a rail system that goes all across the 234 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 2: United States and headquarters in Chicago, and it connects all 235 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 2: of these factories to a major rail line that distributes 236 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 2: all the finished products to every major city in the 237 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 2: United States and connects all the raw materials, all the 238 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 2: mines and mills from small towns and sends it to 239 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 2: the factories. It's all there trade to roll. All we 240 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 2: have to do is make the decision to do the 241 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 2: opposite of what we did in the late eighties, which 242 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 2: has closed down the American factories and fire the American workers. Now, 243 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 2: let's fire up the factories and hire the American workers. 244 00:14:57,280 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 6: And the great part is you'll only have to pay 245 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 6: twenty percent sent more for all those items. 246 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 2: Big business is not going to do that. Well, look, 247 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 2: I will argue this all day. Every day. You are paying. 248 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 2: You are paying. You think you're ahead of the game 249 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 2: because you got a piece of plastic crack from China 250 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 2: and you only paid nine ninety nine for a coffee machine. 251 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 2: You are paying. We fired that American worker that was 252 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 2: manufacturing that appliance. We fired him in the middle of 253 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 2: his thirty year mortgage. We shut down entire factory towns. 254 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 2: We put people on unemployment. We destroyed families. You know 255 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 2: what happened after all those jobs was shipped to China. 256 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 2: Those families fell apart. Disease, addiction, alcoholism, broken homes, depressed housing. 257 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 2: Detroit has a twenty five percent graduation rate. Seventy five 258 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 2: percent of the people that start kindergarten in Detroit do 259 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 2: not graduate. Seventy five percent. Right, that is a cost 260 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 2: to you and me, because we got to go in there. 261 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 2: That's a social cost. We got to go in there 262 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 2: and help those Americans. We've got to retrain them, we've 263 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 2: got to treat them to They got drug addiction, they're 264 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 2: addicted to cigarettes, they're hanging out at the casino all 265 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 2: day like that didn't used to be. That's a direct 266 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 2: result of the policy of shipping the jobs overseas so 267 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 2: that you can get a cheaper plastic crap from China 268 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 2: coffee maker. So don't tell me that the costs will 269 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 2: go up. The costs have gone up in so many 270 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 2: more painful ways. I would. Yeah, I would rather pay 271 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 2: twenty percent more for a coffee maker than have an 272 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 2: entire sector of you know, American manufacturing on unemployment. Yeah, 273 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 2: I would. They called it free trade. Free trade is 274 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 2: like free love. Sounds great, doesn't work, and in the end, 275 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:04,879 Speaker 2: all you're left with is a social disease. 276 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:09,640 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 277 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:13,880 Speaker 2: Lou Penrose with you till seven o'clock on a Sunday. 278 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 7: I remember in the late seventies early eighties when the 279 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 7: ge microwave first came out. My dad spent a weeks 280 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 7: of his pay about one hundred. 281 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:26,120 Speaker 2: And thirty dollars for it. 282 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 7: And that thing lasted over thirty years because I had 283 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:32,200 Speaker 7: to throw it out when. 284 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:33,919 Speaker 1: I was thirty two years old. 285 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 2: And now it's replaced. 286 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 7: By something I have to get a microwave every two years, calculator. 287 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:41,920 Speaker 2: Love your show, Lou, take care, Hey, appreciate the call. 288 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:46,159 Speaker 2: I remember it too. It was called the Mana Radar Range. 289 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,360 Speaker 2: That was the official name of what we now call 290 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 2: a microwave oven, the Mana Radar range. It was made 291 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:58,159 Speaker 2: in America. It was made in Ohio at the man 292 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 2: Of factory, and it was heavy and it did last. 293 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:04,400 Speaker 2: Now go buy a microwave oven. It's a plastic piece 294 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:08,879 Speaker 2: of crap from China. The door will break eventually. I 295 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,920 Speaker 2: don't know what we're doing to ourselves with these Chinese 296 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 2: crap microwaves, but I'm sure we're probably hurting ourselves. But 297 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 2: they're junk and just feel it, Just feel how tinny 298 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 2: it is. How can that be safe? It's microwaves going 299 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 2: on in there. 300 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 8: Who is this old man on the radio? He is 301 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 8: completely out of touch. We're never going back to those days. 302 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:35,440 Speaker 8: I can't believe old men. 303 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 3: Like this exist. 304 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 2: Unbelievable, so out of touch. Worst fill in host ever. 305 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 9: You're exactly right, and it really is a shame. And 306 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 9: we need to bring the money back here asap and 307 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 9: get some quality made stuff, regardless of. 308 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:55,400 Speaker 1: What we have to pay for it. 309 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 2: Thank you. 310 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:58,400 Speaker 9: I hope you have a wonderful night, Lou. 311 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:00,399 Speaker 2: You're amazing, amazing. 312 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 10: Hey, Lou, I haven't have an NBA. Spent twenty five 313 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:05,400 Speaker 10: years in corporate America. It was laid off a couple 314 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,520 Speaker 10: of years ago. Been having all kinds of trouble. I 315 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 10: gotta be honest. Manufacturing jobs sounds rosy. Put me in, 316 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:12,920 Speaker 10: put me in coaching. I'm ready to learn, I'm ready 317 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 10: to grow, I'm ready to play. But yeah, I'd love 318 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:16,960 Speaker 10: to have one of those manufacturing jobs, all assembly. 319 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 2: I appreciate the call, right, many people would love the 320 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 2: option of having a manufacturing job. Like, It's not the 321 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 2: way it sounds in your mind. This isn't norma ray, 322 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 2: This isn't the closing scene in an Officer and a Gentleman. 323 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 2: These are not gray, drab, loud factories steal clanking. Everybody sad. Right, 324 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:46,920 Speaker 2: Manufacturing is a vibrant industry, and the good news is 325 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:49,720 Speaker 2: it's always going to be there. So people talk about 326 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 2: AI and robotics. Yeah, that makes it more efficient, but 327 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 2: you still need manufacturers to manufacture, and the United States 328 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 2: is set up to do it better than anybody else, 329 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:04,680 Speaker 2: which is why we did so well post World War two. 330 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,199 Speaker 2: You know, we came out of World War two not 331 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 2: the number one GDP in the world. We didn't come 332 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 2: out of World War two in the first position, right. 333 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 2: We came out of World War two winners, and you know, 334 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 2: relatively unscathed here. But we lost a lot of men. 335 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 2: But we had to get right back to work. And 336 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 2: it became very clear that as Americans wanted to, you know, 337 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 2: turn their sites inward and just enjoy life here in America, 338 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 2: having you know, spent a little time in Europe and 339 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 2: in the Pacific fighting our enemies, right, it became very 340 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:48,440 Speaker 2: clear that hey, we could have a great little country here. 341 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 2: This is great because I uh, you know, I want 342 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:52,919 Speaker 2: to get married now, and I want to have a family, 343 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 2: and I want a house, and I want modern appliances. 344 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 2: And this is great because everything we need to build, 345 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,399 Speaker 2: everything I want is here in the United States. We 346 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:03,479 Speaker 2: don't really have to deal with other countries. We can 347 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:05,920 Speaker 2: deal with our fellow Americans. We all speak English, and 348 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 2: we all trade in US dollars. This is amazing, Like 349 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 2: America was designed to be a manufacturing powerhouse because all 350 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 2: the raw materials we need to build everything, the glass 351 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 2: and the rubber and the steel in the cars is 352 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:23,360 Speaker 2: all available here in the United States. All the steel 353 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:25,920 Speaker 2: and all the electronics we need to build all the 354 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 2: appliances is all available here in the United States. As 355 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 2: a kid, in your living room, your sofa and your 356 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 2: love seat, and your dad's favorite chair and your mom's 357 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 2: favorite end table, every stitch of furniture in your house 358 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:51,639 Speaker 2: was manufactured in North Carolina from mills in North Carolina. 359 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:54,679 Speaker 2: And all the fabric that covered all the sofas in 360 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 2: your house, that was all milled in Johnson City, New York. 361 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 2: Both of those are in America, and they were connected 362 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,880 Speaker 2: by freight and they were put together. And somebody put 363 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 2: together your mom's sofa, and then they sent it to 364 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 2: the sofa store and your mom and dad bought it, 365 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:14,280 Speaker 2: and it sat in your living room for your entire life. 366 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 2: And it was high quality. You could jump on it. 367 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,040 Speaker 2: Go try and jump on a sofa. Now I have 368 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,679 Speaker 2: three boys, I have gone through just my youngest. I 369 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 2: just built his third bed bed. Do you ever remember 370 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 2: your bed breaking growing up as a kid. You can 371 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,120 Speaker 2: jump up and down on the bed. Dodgers one jump 372 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 2: up and down, Lakers one jump up and down on 373 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 2: the bed. I'm from New York Mets Win jump up 374 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:41,680 Speaker 2: and down on the bed. Rangers Win jump up and 375 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 2: down on the bed. Now, the bed's are ridiculous. I 376 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 2: don't even know what kind of wood they're made out of. 377 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:51,440 Speaker 2: It from Vietnam. You put them together. Even what they 378 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 2: call screws, they actually they're technically called fasteners in the industry. 379 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 2: The ridiculous, right, the head's strip all the time. I 380 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 2: mean of the woodscrews they send you home with are 381 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 2: made of jello. And I was putting together the frame. 382 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 2: My wife ordered it, and I'm all right, whatever, put 383 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 2: together the third bed, and it's ridiculous the wood that 384 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:19,399 Speaker 2: they use. And I know it's gonna break. When you 385 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 2: buy a bed or a piece of furniture for a 386 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 2: boy that is made in Vietnam. They ought to send 387 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 2: you a complimentary reciprocating saw with it because you will 388 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 2: need to cut it up in small pieces. Eventually it 389 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,639 Speaker 2: won't break. And you'll have to cut it all up 390 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 2: to fit it in your garbage can because otherwise you 391 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 2: gotta wait for bulk item pick up in Los Angeles County. 392 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:50,160 Speaker 2: Like it's all crap. And it didn't used to be, right, 393 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 2: I mean, the furniture that you grew up with in 394 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 2: your living room. You could jump on it, you could 395 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 2: dive on it. You could pretend you are a professional 396 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 2: usler and get up on the corner and dive into 397 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,159 Speaker 2: the cushions, and you know what, twenty years later it 398 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,960 Speaker 2: would have the same level as spring today. Forget about it. 399 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 11: You're absolutely right. My mom gave me a Hoover vacuum 400 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 11: cleaner when I was about twenty or twenty one, when 401 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 11: I got married the first time. I'm going to turn 402 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 11: sixty seven in May. This thing still kicks ass. It's 403 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,440 Speaker 11: never had a major repair of belt in a bag, 404 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:29,679 Speaker 11: nothing else. 405 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 2: Oh, my mom had an Electrolux. I remember when the 406 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 2: electro Lux salesman came to the house and he did 407 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:39,639 Speaker 2: the demonstration with like steel balls, like steel bearings, like 408 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 2: the size of tennis balls. There was like four steel 409 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:46,160 Speaker 2: bearings the size of tennis balls, and he showed how 410 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 2: the vacuum could lift all four of those. That's how 411 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 2: much power was in that vacuum. That was like in nineteen, 412 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,159 Speaker 2: I don't know, like eighty four or something. So what 413 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 2: is that forty years ago? And when my mom died 414 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 2: and we went and go but we went and cleaned 415 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,400 Speaker 2: out the house. I know my brother snagged it because 416 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 2: it's no way it would have gone in the trash. 417 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:06,960 Speaker 2: And I bet you he has it at his house 418 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,960 Speaker 2: in North Carolina and he's probably still using it because 419 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 2: it was made in America. High quality stuff made by Americans. 420 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,440 Speaker 2: We're paying Americans to make things that we buy anyway, 421 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,119 Speaker 2: makes all the sense in the world to me. 422 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 423 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 2: Good to have you along with us. 424 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:35,920 Speaker 6: In nineteen eighty one, Jack Welsh was made the corporate 425 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,440 Speaker 6: leader of General Electric and said, you make your own 426 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 6: testining or somebody else will make it for you. And 427 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,439 Speaker 6: he sent a lot of jobs overseas, and all the 428 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:47,960 Speaker 6: corporate leaders thought he was so brilliant that they all 429 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 6: followed him. And now they've got their wages down, the 430 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,920 Speaker 6: hate unions and nobody could afford to buy stuff that's 431 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:57,200 Speaker 6: made in America anymore. 432 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 2: So good luck, Well, I appreciate the call. You're right, 433 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 2: those manufacturing jobs could not have been sent overseas without 434 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:10,879 Speaker 2: trade law that was designed by both Republicans and Democrats 435 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 2: in the United States Congress. You can go back. This 436 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 2: isn't Lou Penrose conspiracy theory. You can go back, go 437 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:20,120 Speaker 2: to c SPAN and go look and search. You'll see 438 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 2: floor speeches by United States senators, Republicans and Democrats arguing 439 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 2: in favor of changing American trade law to allow American 440 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 2: manufacturing job jobs to be shipped to China and Southeast Asia. 441 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,120 Speaker 2: And the rationale was it was going to be cheaper 442 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:44,679 Speaker 2: for you, right, we can't compete with the labor costs 443 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,440 Speaker 2: that they got going on down there, and that's good 444 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 2: for the Americans. And it was a complete failure and 445 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:56,639 Speaker 2: completely unnecessary. And this idea that Americans cannot afford to 446 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 2: pay Americans to make things in America is false. It 447 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:07,239 Speaker 2: is a complete falsehood, because we did it. Was your 448 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,639 Speaker 2: grandfather a millionaire? How was he able to afford to 449 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 2: buy your grandmother all those appliances? Was your father a millionaire? 450 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 2: How did he fill your kitchen with American made products? 451 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,199 Speaker 2: So don't let them lie to you. They did it 452 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 2: once and got away with it. We can actually pay 453 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:29,920 Speaker 2: Americans good money to manufacture things for Americans and keep 454 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,200 Speaker 2: all that money circulating right here. Let me tell you 455 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,879 Speaker 2: a quick story before I run out of time. True story. 456 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 2: In nineteen seventy two, two engineers from the Westinghouse Corporation. 457 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 2: Remember that, on their own time in the garage, designed 458 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:56,600 Speaker 2: and built a kitchen appliance that went on to become 459 00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 2: the most famous applying in its genre. It was commercial grade, 460 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:10,679 Speaker 2: high quality. It was not an expensive and it was 461 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 2: a star. More Mister Coffee coffee makers were sold in 462 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 2: nineteen seventy three than any other kitchen appliance, kitchen counter appliance. 463 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 2: It was great, it was high. They were everywhere. Everybody 464 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 2: had one. They were in every home. They were in 465 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,359 Speaker 2: every office, they were in every er, they were in 466 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 2: the they were at the workplace, they were in the 467 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:44,960 Speaker 2: repair shop at the car dealership. They were everywhere. Your 468 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 2: mom had one. You remember exactly where it was on 469 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 2: your mom's counter. It was high quality, it was commercial grade. 470 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:57,000 Speaker 2: It made coffee like the way coffee was made in 471 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:03,040 Speaker 2: the diner or in the restaurant. It took off. By 472 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 2: nineteen seventy four, more Mister Coffee coffee makers were given 473 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 2: as Christmas gifts than any other product in its category. 474 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 2: And it wasn't cheap. It was twenty four ninety nine 475 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy four dollars. It was an appliance. In 476 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 2: nineteen seventy five, Marshall Fields in Chicago listed it as 477 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:32,480 Speaker 2: its number one requested item on the wedding registry. People 478 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 2: gave it as a wedding gift. That's how successful that 479 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 2: simple little countertop kitchen appliance was. Because it was so 480 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,320 Speaker 2: good and it was such high quality, and it performed 481 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:49,200 Speaker 2: as design, made delicious coffee every single morning, and every 482 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,800 Speaker 2: once in a while it made coffee in the morning 483 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,120 Speaker 2: and then also in the evening when you had friends 484 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 2: over for caking coffee. Maybe it was a birthday party. 485 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:01,640 Speaker 2: By nineteen eighty one, shut down the Mister Coffee coffee 486 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:06,520 Speaker 2: maker factory, ship the jobs to China, fired all the 487 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:11,800 Speaker 2: American workers. Allowed the company to maintain the name Mister Coffee. 488 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:14,600 Speaker 2: Bring it back to the United States, put it on 489 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 2: the shelf. It's a plastic piece of crap, you know that, right. 490 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 2: The door doesn't close and it leaks coffee all over 491 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 2: the countertop. Now, the caraffe is so thin that if 492 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:26,440 Speaker 2: you go to wash it in the kitchen sink, it 493 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,920 Speaker 2: smashes in a million pieces and cut your thumb or 494 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 2: the heating coil will burn out in ninety days and 495 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 2: then you throw it in the trash, and then you 496 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,880 Speaker 2: run to Walmart and buy yourself another one because you 497 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 2: think you're ahead of the game, because it's only nine 498 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 2: to ninety nine in twenty twenty six dollars. I told 499 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:47,040 Speaker 2: this story once before, and somebody called me. He is 500 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 2: a he's a doctor works for Kaiser, And he said, Loo, 501 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:56,760 Speaker 2: you are so right. I must have went through nine 502 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 2: or ten coffee makers from freshman year at UCLA through residency, 503 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:07,480 Speaker 2: and they're just junk. Every year they got worse and worse. 504 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 2: And my mom still has her Mister Coffee coffee maker 505 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:17,960 Speaker 2: at the house in Burbank, and it still works. You're right. 506 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:23,200 Speaker 2: It's yellowed a little bit, but it still drips coffee. 507 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:27,720 Speaker 2: And I must have thrown away nine. And so if 508 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,120 Speaker 2: my mom paid twenty four to ninety nine four nineteen 509 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 2: seventy five, she won because I've paid hundreds and we'd 510 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:41,600 Speaker 2: filled the landfill with a bunch of junk. So we 511 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 2: can do this. This is not hard to do. We 512 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,239 Speaker 2: will always need a coffee maker. You're always gonna need 513 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 2: a stovetop, You're gonna need a washing machine and dryer. 514 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:54,320 Speaker 2: The technology improves, but the basics of a dryer or 515 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 2: a washing machine or a dishwasher or everything else that's 516 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 2: in your house is pretty much the same. We used 517 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:02,680 Speaker 2: to make them here. Why would we not want to 518 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,480 Speaker 2: make them here. I'm not talking about going back in 519 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 2: time putting American ingenuity in reverse. I'm not talking about 520 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,920 Speaker 2: that at all. I'm talking about just solving a small problem, 521 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 2: and that is we used to have a three legged 522 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:20,440 Speaker 2: stool in economics. We had the professional class that's your doctor, lawyer, businessman. 523 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:25,640 Speaker 2: Right then we had the service economy that's people that 524 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:27,840 Speaker 2: make the beds at the hotel, people that serve you 525 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 2: Martinez at the bar, and people that do your dry cleaning. 526 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,760 Speaker 2: And then the third leg in that stool was manufacturing, 527 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 2: taking raw materials and turning them into products for retail sale. 528 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 2: The good news is that we do that here in 529 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 2: the United States. We buy the raw materials from Americans, 530 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,240 Speaker 2: we pay Americans to ship it, we pay Americans to 531 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,640 Speaker 2: manufacture it. Then you go buy it because you're gonna 532 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,720 Speaker 2: go buy it anyway, and all that money circulates in 533 00:32:54,960 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 2: our country and enriches all of us. It is the 534 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:05,200 Speaker 2: only way to have full prosperity again in this country. 535 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:10,000 Speaker 2: And we need to get there, Louke Penrose on KFI 536 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 2: AM six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio 537 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:16,400 Speaker 1: App, KFI AM six forty on demand