1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 2 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:09,640 Speaker 2: I'm a huge proponent of American made products where available, 3 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 2: so I am delighted to see that more and more 4 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 2: production is moving back to the United States. Toyota announced 5 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:21,799 Speaker 2: that more cars, more Toyotas will be made in the 6 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 2: United States than anywhere else next year. US steel production 7 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 2: now has surpassed Japan for the first time in over 8 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 2: twenty years. So we are producing steel again. That's good. 9 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:40,199 Speaker 2: We need steel. Steel is good. Steel goes in cars. 10 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 2: Steel also goes in your kitchen appliances. That's great. I 11 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 2: want to start manufacturing kitchen appliances in the United States again. 12 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:52,840 Speaker 2: Everything in your house, and I mean everything in your 13 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 2: house used to be made in America at an American factory, 14 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 2: by an American making really good, good wages, and it 15 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 2: was high quality stuff. So it is possible to do. 16 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 2: One of the things that has been really a sticking 17 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 2: point for an awful long time is apparel. Clothing. Clothing 18 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:18,959 Speaker 2: used to be made in America, but foreign competition and 19 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 2: cheaper wages moved a lot of American apparel overseas. There 20 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 2: is a small company in rural North Carolina which by 21 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,039 Speaker 2: the way. That's where a lot of apparel was a 22 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 2: lot of clothing came from North Carolina and South Carolina. 23 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:45,679 Speaker 2: They are fighting back and bucking the trend. They know 24 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 2: that they can't compete with foreign labor costs, and you know, 25 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 2: clothing is very cheap, but it's also cheaply made, so 26 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 2: they decided to go in the other direction. This is 27 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 2: a great story. The company is called American Giant, and 28 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 2: they basically make sweat shirts like hoodies and sweatpants, but 29 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 2: they do it from the beginning to the end all 30 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 2: American made. In other words, they use locally sourced cotton 31 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 2: and then take the cotton to a local cotton gin place. 32 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:23,919 Speaker 2: However you take however you make cotton into fabric, and 33 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 2: they locally source the dyes that are used, which makes 34 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 2: the hoodies and all the sweatshirts very interesting colors because 35 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 2: they're American colors. And they take it to the factory 36 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 2: where American seamstresses assemble and it's called piecework assemble these 37 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 2: sweatshirts and hoodies and sweatpants and some other things, and 38 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:55,959 Speaker 2: believe it or not, it is selling big, really really big. 39 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 2: The first item they did was called the Classic full zip. 40 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,119 Speaker 2: This is a zip up hoodie and it was completely 41 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 2: American made, from the cotton to the packaging, all American made. 42 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 2: And it's an interesting model. The guy that runs the company, 43 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 2: he was in the apparel business, realized it is impossible 44 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 2: getting clobbered with all this imported stuff that's cheaply made. 45 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 2: So he said, well, let's see. Let's just see what 46 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 2: happens if we do it all to America, from the 47 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 2: raw materials all the way to the finished product, right 48 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:32,360 Speaker 2: down to the zippers themselves, and then let the price 49 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 2: find wherever the price is. Let's factor in a profit 50 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 2: for ourselves, and let's just see what it comes to. 51 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 2: And let's see if there is an appetite for that 52 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 2: price point. And guess what he can't keep them on 53 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 2: the shelf is they're moving so fast. When the classic 54 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 2: full zipper was released, a story was done on it 55 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 2: by Slate magazine, and Slate magazine called it the greatest 56 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 2: hoodie ever made, and it blew off the shell. Now, 57 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 2: as you can imagine, being one hundred percent American made, 58 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 2: paying Americans to make it, it's not cheap, but for 59 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 2: whatever reason, Americans have decided, you know what I'd like 60 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 2: to have the greatest hoodie ever made. 61 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 3: Sweatshirt it's one hundred and eight dollars. Yeah, I can 62 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 3: pay one hundred eight dollars for a Sweatshirt's. 63 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 2: One hundred eight dollars for a hoodie sounds high. Not 64 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 2: that high, Actually lower than I thought it would be. 65 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 2: Some of these designer skater hoodies are north of seventy 66 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 2: five dollars. Like I've gone shopping with my sons and 67 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:41,599 Speaker 2: They'll be looking at things on the rack, and I'm 68 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 2: like looking because I'm not paying ninety nine dollars for 69 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:48,679 Speaker 2: a hoodie. But people must, even at the outlet stores, 70 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 2: people must be doing it because they're there, and that's 71 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 2: stuff that's manufactured overseas. This is stuff that's manufactured here 72 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,159 Speaker 2: in the United States for about one hundred bucks. 73 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 3: Sweatshirt, it's one hundred and eighty. Yeah, I can pay 74 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 3: one hundred and eight dollars for a sweatshirt. 75 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 4: What we really want to do with this particular item 76 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 4: is make something that you are going to have for decades. 77 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 3: But despite its lofty price tag, his hoodie has been 78 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 3: selling well ever since. The digital magazine Slate called it 79 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 3: the greatest hoodie ever made. 80 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 2: Greatest hoodie ever made. I never thought of that. Like, 81 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 2: now I want one, and I want to feel. I 82 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 2: want to be in one and see what it's like 83 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 2: to wear the greatest hoodie ever made, Like the greatest zipper, 84 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 2: the greatest string, the greatest materials, and know that it's 85 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 2: American cotton, an American die, and it was assembled by Americans. 86 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 3: The greatest hoodie ever made. 87 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 4: The article came out and within twenty four hours we'd 88 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 4: sold everything we'd ever made for him. 89 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 3: The Maid in USA label. 90 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 2: Creates both jobs and pride. Yeah, jobs and pride. How 91 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 2: about that? So according to the website, again, the company 92 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:01,720 Speaker 2: is American Giant, and they're not an advertiser. I'm not 93 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 2: a spokesperson. I make no money from this. You can 94 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 2: buy them or not buy them. I'm gonna buy one. 95 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 2: That's pretty cool. So according to the website, when you 96 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 2: buy American Giant, you create jobs for seamsters cutters. My grant, 97 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:23,359 Speaker 2: my grandmother's brother was a cutter, a garment cutter in 98 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 2: New York, and that's all I know. I still don't 99 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 2: really know what that is. But they work now at 100 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 2: American Giant Seamsters Cutters factory workers in towns and cities 101 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 2: across the United States. It's more than an income. Jobs 102 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 2: bring pride, jobs, bring purpose and stitch people together. That's clever. 103 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,359 Speaker 2: It has revitalized local communities. We want to make the 104 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 2: communities where we operate better places to live. So we're 105 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 2: reopening factories that were shuttered, bringing back jobs that were 106 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 2: off shore. This is just the start of the good 107 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:59,159 Speaker 2: we can do by reinvesting in our local places, growing 108 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:02,479 Speaker 2: jobs for people who need them. That's part of their 109 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 2: mission statement. So they've been open for about ten years, 110 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 2: probably about twelve years now, and they're doing great. Like 111 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 2: it's happening. People have made the conscious effort that, yeah, 112 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 2: when I need something in a pinch and I need 113 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 2: to have this color and it's absolutely necessary, I'll go 114 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 2: grab something, you know that's junk off the shelf at 115 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 2: Target or Walmart. But if I really want to have 116 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 2: a good piece of apparel, I want to pay for it, 117 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 2: and I want the pride of knowing that I'm employing 118 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 2: Americans as I'm doing it. 119 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 5: Yeah, the company's about twelve years old, and we started 120 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 5: with a sweatshirt and pretty committed to the US supply 121 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 5: chain from the cotton all the way through and it's 122 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 5: been a great ride. 123 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 2: But the last I love that the US supply chain 124 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 2: all the way through. It's true, like everything that you 125 00:07:54,640 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 2: need to make a hoodie is domestic, from the cotton 126 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 2: all the way to the zipper, all the way to 127 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 2: the workers, all the way to the machinery, all the 128 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 2: way to the marketplace. 129 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 5: The US supply chain from the cotton all the way through. 130 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 5: And it's been a great ride. But the last few 131 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 5: years have certainly accelerated, and I think it's you know, 132 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 5: there's a growing understanding about the importance of keeping jobs 133 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 5: and manufacturing here, and we're seeing customers respond to that. 134 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 5: So it's a nice time to be running an American made business. 135 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 2: I love it. I love everything about that. 136 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 137 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 2: Talking about this company that took a chance and said, hey, 138 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:38,960 Speaker 2: let's just make clothing in America. Let's start with something simple. 139 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 2: Everybody needs a good sweatshirt, everybody needs a good hoodie. 140 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 2: Let's make it all the way, like complete supply chain 141 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 2: from the cotton in the ground locally here in the South, 142 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 2: to the dies to the zipper itself and the packaging 143 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 2: and the materials and the staff, all American made, and 144 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 2: let's pay everybody, and then whatever the price is, the 145 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 2: price is, and let's see if it sells. And guess what, 146 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:08,959 Speaker 2: they can't keep them on the shelves. The classic full Zip, 147 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 2: which is their first item, was called the greatest hoodie 148 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:18,439 Speaker 2: ever made. The CFZ for shut is just flying. Everybody 149 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 2: wants one, not just because it's American made, and they 150 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 2: want to make a statement. That is part of it. 151 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:27,959 Speaker 2: But they are aware every time they put it on 152 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 2: that they're employing Americans and keeping American jobs and keeping 153 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:37,319 Speaker 2: small factory towns running. So it is a statement and 154 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 2: it's high quality. People love them. So this is a 155 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 2: trend that I like and I want to see it 156 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 2: continue to move in this direction. It's okay, and it's 157 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:51,679 Speaker 2: not cheap. It's one hundred and eight dollars for the sweatshirt, 158 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 2: so it's somewhat of a vanity buy. But you know, 159 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:02,679 Speaker 2: things can come down in price as volume increases, so 160 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:08,080 Speaker 2: we can get there. We can start re employing Americans, 161 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 2: making American stuff and paying Americans a fine salary to 162 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:16,680 Speaker 2: do it, because we've always done it, Like everything in 163 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 2: your house used to be made in America. Buy an 164 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 2: American at an American factory, and we had factory towns 165 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 2: all over the United States, and it was high quality stuff, 166 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 2: just like this product, which has been called the greatest 167 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 2: hood he ever made. So I like the direction it's going. 168 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:35,319 Speaker 6: Rick Schulu, I enjoy listening to you. 169 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 7: Well, one thing you've failed to point out is that 170 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 7: when products are made overseas. 171 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 6: The countries are made at is helping with shipping costs. 172 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 6: But what for that, It wouldn't be worth it, even 173 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 6: though they are getting cheap flavor. So you need to 174 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 6: point that out. 175 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 2: Oh, I'm well aware that governments of other countries subsidize 176 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 2: the export costs to a lot of this stuff that 177 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 2: is in the United States. Of course it is. I mean, 178 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 2: do you think the people that are manufacturing the plastic 179 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 2: crap that's in the ninety nine cents store could afford 180 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 2: the shipping cost of shipping a container of plastic crap 181 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 2: in the ninety nine sense store or the Dollar Tree. No, So, 182 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 2: of course the Chinese government is subsidizing that, right, and 183 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 2: it distorts the marketplace. It fills our houses with plastic 184 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 2: crap from China. It's all junk, It doesn't work, it 185 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 2: all breaks and goes into the landfill. It's bad from 186 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 2: other earth, it's bad for the American worker, and it's 187 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 2: bad for you. 188 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,080 Speaker 7: Hey, this is ken out and upland I'm listening to you. 189 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 7: The American giant hoodie maker in North Carolina. Well, you 190 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 7: know what else used to be made in the United States. 191 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 7: Furniture Mount Hairy, North Carolina was kind of the furniture 192 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 7: capital of the United States. And I have furniture that 193 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:02,319 Speaker 7: I inherit from my parents. My mom had some custom 194 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:04,560 Speaker 7: made stuff fifty plus years ago. 195 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 2: Yep, I'm well aware of that. Everything in your house 196 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 2: that you sat upon was made in North Carolina back 197 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:15,439 Speaker 2: in the day. Every single thing, every stitch of furniture 198 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:21,560 Speaker 2: you had, every wooden bed frame, every dresser drawer, every 199 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 2: every sofa, every love seat, Everything that you sat on 200 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:31,439 Speaker 2: in your house post World War Two up until about 201 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 2: nineteen eighty one was built in North Carolina, and then 202 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 2: that was shipped to Johnson City, New York. Every the 203 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:48,079 Speaker 2: fabric that covered every chair, every sofa, every love seat, 204 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 2: the cushions of every kitchen table or dining room table, 205 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 2: all that fabric was milled in Johnson City, New York. 206 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 2: And it was all put together, and it was sent 207 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 2: to the furniture store, and then your parents went out 208 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 2: and bought it. And it was high quality. It was 209 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 2: American maid. It was strong. Right, you as a kid 210 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 2: could stand on the arm of the sofa and fall 211 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:20,560 Speaker 2: backwards into the sofa over and over and over again. 212 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 2: Right you could. I mean you could stand on your 213 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 2: parents furniture and do superfly Jimmy snook into the lob 214 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 2: seat over and over and over again for years. You 215 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 2: remember doing it. That's how high quality the furniture is. Now, 216 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 2: go out and buy a piece of furniture. It's a joke. Man. 217 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 2: I have three boys, so they are hot hard on furniture. 218 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:49,559 Speaker 2: I get it. But I was a boy and I 219 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 2: had an older brother, and we're doing wrestling matches. I 220 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 2: remember doing atomic knee drops and you know, all kinds 221 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 2: of solar plexes and body slams on the furniture all 222 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 2: the time. So I think we were hard on furniture. 223 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 2: But it was still there, Like Nope, my parents ever 224 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 2: came home and found a broken piece of furniture because 225 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 2: of my brother and I playing. But I have come 226 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 2: home to find broken furniture many a time. I cannot 227 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 2: tell you the amount of beds have gone through. Have 228 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 2: you gone out and bought a bed lately? It's unbelievable 229 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 2: you go out and buy like a bed, it's a 230 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 2: piece of junk, just an like the wood isn't even wood. 231 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 2: If it's I mean, if it's a like that that 232 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 2: particle board, you're lucky because at least you have a chance. 233 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 2: If not, it's wood from Vietnam. And you know what 234 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 2: they do in Vietnam. They take scraps and they glue 235 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 2: scraps together all day and then mill it down to 236 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 2: a piece of like like lumber, like like a two 237 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 2: by four, and you look at it and know, like 238 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 2: this is I mean this this piece of wood looks 239 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 2: like a dehydrated like piece of cake or something. It's 240 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 2: so weird looking. It's because it's not that that doesn't 241 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 2: come from one tree, comes from like a bunch of scraps, 242 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 2: and it doesn't hold. And I have replaced let's see one, 243 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:19,040 Speaker 2: two two, just in this last couple of years, in 244 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 2: in my youngest bedroom, two beds, because I mean, the 245 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 2: beds just they collapse. I've assembled them, and as I'm 246 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 2: assembling them, I'm thinking, why did my wife buy this? 247 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 2: What am I doing. I could be watching football right now, 248 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 2: and I'm in here assembling this ridiculous piece of this 249 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 2: ridiculous bed frame that is no way gonna last. And 250 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 2: it doesn't. And you know, like there's a crossbeam that 251 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 2: goes underneath that is supposed to be what you and 252 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:51,160 Speaker 2: I would call a one by four, but it's not. 253 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 2: It's not. It's it's the thickness of a notebook and 254 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 2: it runs the length of the bed and once't you know, 255 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 2: it cracked in half. So now there's no support and 256 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 2: then the rest of the frame just starts collapsing upon 257 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 2: itself and it's just a matter of time before you 258 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 2: throw the whole damn thing out. When they sell you 259 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 2: these beds that are made overseas, they ought to come 260 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:15,840 Speaker 2: with a free reciprocal saw, like a reciprocating saw, because 261 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 2: you need that. That's the only way you get the 262 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 2: garbage man to come and pick it up, because that's 263 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 2: what you'll be doing. If you go buy a new 264 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 2: bed right now and it's Maid in China or Maide 265 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 2: in Vietnam, you need to get out your reciprocating saw 266 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 2: because you're gonna need to cut it up into small 267 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 2: pieces to fit it in your garbage can. Otherwise you 268 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 2: have to wait for the bulk item pickup day to come, 269 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 2: which never comes. 270 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 271 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 6: A Lou American Giant is an advertiser. As Lou see. 272 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 2: You, I'll see you. 273 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 8: And so when I start getting it from the Chinese, 274 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:04,960 Speaker 8: even poor people could could afford it, then Ollie, the 275 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 8: rich people could afford them. 276 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's the bill of goods you were sold. 277 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 2: That is the big lie. That was the false narrative. 278 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 2: That's how we moved American manufacturing offshore in the eighties. 279 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:23,120 Speaker 2: I was there. I watched it happen, and they said, 280 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:25,640 Speaker 2: and this is Republicans and Democrats. And by the way, 281 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 2: this is not a great, big conspiracy theory. You can 282 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 2: go to c SPAN and find old Senate floor speeches 283 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:39,439 Speaker 2: by senators, both Republicans and Democrats, debating and arguing in 284 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:47,680 Speaker 2: favor of moving American manufacturing, apparel, manufacturing, furniture, manufacturing, electronics, 285 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:52,679 Speaker 2: home goods, appliances, things we used to call white goods, 286 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:58,160 Speaker 2: moving them overseas. And they were the debates were rewriting 287 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 2: American trade law that would all allow companies to move 288 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 2: American factories overseas without any any consequence, any government obstruction, 289 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 2: any barrier, so that they can re establish in a 290 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:18,199 Speaker 2: foreign land, keep the name brand, so brand loyalty was 291 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 2: maintained among the American consumer. Throw the Americans out of work, 292 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:25,080 Speaker 2: bring the stuff in and sell it on our shelves 293 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:30,320 Speaker 2: without any fees, no duty, no nothing, no tariff nothing. 294 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 2: And the argument then was what you just said, this 295 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:38,120 Speaker 2: is going to bring the cost way down. And at 296 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:39,679 Speaker 2: the end of the day, this is good for the 297 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 2: American consumer because what's best for the American consumer is affordability. 298 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:48,399 Speaker 2: So what's really good is that we can ship the 299 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:52,920 Speaker 2: jobs overseas and manufacture the washer and dryer there, bring 300 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:55,639 Speaker 2: it back over here, and it will be much less 301 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:59,160 Speaker 2: in price, lou And that's good for the American consumer, 302 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 2: who's all right struggling. We just got out of the seventies. 303 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 2: We're in the eighties, and you know, everybody's pinching pennies. 304 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 2: And so if we can reduce the costs of these 305 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 2: consumer goods that Americans all need. You all need a refrigerator, 306 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:16,640 Speaker 2: then by golly, we got to do everything we can. 307 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 2: On the floor of the United States Senate to make 308 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 2: that happen. That was the cell that you would be 309 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 2: better off with junk from China. You would be better 310 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 2: off with your fellow Americans unemployed. 311 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 6: Right. 312 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:34,920 Speaker 2: They never factored in the actual cost of closing down 313 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 2: an American factory and shipping the jobs overseas. It isn't 314 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:44,440 Speaker 2: that the washer and dryer now manufactured in a foreign 315 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:48,120 Speaker 2: land where, by the way, you and I would never 316 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 2: tolerate the labor conditions. We would never tolerate it. I 317 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:55,160 Speaker 2: don't care if your pro union, if you are pro management, 318 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 2: I don't care if you think unions are great, or 319 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 2: if you think unions are you know, balance that are okay, 320 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,639 Speaker 2: or if you hate you like you as a first 321 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 2: world country person would never tolerate the labor conditions where 322 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 2: most of your appliances are manufactured. I mean absolutely, no 323 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 2: health care concerns, no quality controls, no environmental controls, no 324 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:23,640 Speaker 2: labor laws. You would never tolerate it. And we ought 325 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 2: not tolerated because we're civilized people. But we allowed companies 326 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 2: to relocate where people are uncivilized with respect to how 327 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 2: they treat workers, and then they bring it in, put 328 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 2: it on the shelf, and expect you to be delighted 329 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 2: because it's so inexpensive. Wow, look at that new refrigerator 330 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:46,200 Speaker 2: six hundred dollars. That's great, right, So we ought not tolerated, 331 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:50,680 Speaker 2: But that doesn't allow for the cost. You had an 332 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:57,000 Speaker 2: entire industry in manufacturing kitchen appliances, right, your range top, 333 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:06,320 Speaker 2: your stove, your oven, refrigerator, everything on the counter, toasters, blenders, mixers, 334 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:10,600 Speaker 2: can openers, the ware can opener. Right, all pieces of 335 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:15,160 Speaker 2: engineering that were high quality and lasted forever and were 336 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 2: manufactured in the United States. Now we shipped all those 337 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 2: jobs overseas, fired all the American workers, put them all 338 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 2: out of work. What happened to those factory towns. All 339 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 2: those people became unemployed. They ought to go on unemployment. 340 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 2: They had to be retrained if they could be retrained. 341 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:35,040 Speaker 2: But the reality is you throughout an entire generation of 342 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 2: Americans out of work in the middle of a thirty 343 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 2: year mortgage. They were in the middle of those of 344 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 2: raising a family. Those factory towns died. Housing values tanked. 345 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 2: People didn't know what to do. Families were destroyed. An 346 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:58,959 Speaker 2: entire like a major industrious section of America, became overwhelmed 347 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 2: with addiction. Alcoholism, right, smoking, divorce, and it was destroying families, suicide. 348 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:14,960 Speaker 2: And you go there now where all your kitchen appliances 349 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 2: used to be manufactured, where all your white goods were manufactured. 350 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 2: You go to these towns and there's just overgrown weeds 351 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 2: and everybody sitting at a casino somewhere smoking cigarettes and 352 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:30,479 Speaker 2: being diabetic like it was devastating. That's the real cost. 353 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 2: It isn't just oh, look the labor costs. This is great, 354 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:35,880 Speaker 2: so I can bring these products into the United States 355 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 2: a lot cheaper. That's good for everybody because now people 356 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:43,399 Speaker 2: with less means can afford to get appliances. Like it 357 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 2: doesn't work that way. I'll give you a quick example. 358 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 2: Athletic weear. We used to manufacture athletic war in the 359 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 2: United States almost exclusively in the Pacific Northwest. Did you 360 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,919 Speaker 2: know that? Almost exclusively in the Pacific Northwest, with the 361 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 2: exception of New Bound, which was manufactured in New Hampshire. 362 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 2: And people actually went to work every day manufacturing shoes athleticwaar, 363 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 2: high quality athleticwaar. And you may think, well, Loo, that 364 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 2: doesn't sound very glamorous, right, Making shoes isn't sexy, But 365 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 2: neither is poverty. And they used to manufacture shoes. Then 366 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:27,160 Speaker 2: they closed the Nike factory down in Portland and threw 367 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:33,119 Speaker 2: all the workers out of work, shipped the jobs to Vietnam, 368 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 2: where they paid like eighteen cents a day to manufacture 369 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 2: Nike shoes. The Pacific Northwest has never recovered, never recovered. 370 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 2: The social ills of that area of the nation are 371 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:53,680 Speaker 2: still there because of the decision to offshore the manufacturing 372 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:57,159 Speaker 2: of athletic ware. And what kills me is that you 373 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 2: didn't win, Like, even if you weren't one of those 374 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,440 Speaker 2: people lost a job and you're not sensitive to your 375 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,920 Speaker 2: fellow American being thrown out of work, you didn't win 376 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 2: because I mean, when you talk about a piece of 377 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 2: athletic wear, what do you have? You have leather, you 378 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:16,400 Speaker 2: have rubber, you have laces, you have packaging, you have shipping. 379 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 2: The single largest expense in bringing an athletic shoe to 380 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,960 Speaker 2: market is the celebrity endorsement. The cost to pay the 381 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:30,320 Speaker 2: celebrity endorsement single largest component in making a profit. So 382 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,160 Speaker 2: we shipped all those jobs overseas. Now we import them, 383 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 2: you put them on the shelf, and the shoe's the 384 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 2: exact same price, it's still one hundred and twenty nine dollars, 385 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,639 Speaker 2: So you got nothing out of it except a lot 386 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 2: of social ill in the Pacific Northwest. And they called 387 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:51,520 Speaker 2: it free trade, so it didn't work for us. Free 388 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 2: trade is like free love. It sounds great, it doesn't work, 389 00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 2: and in the end, all you're left with is a 390 00:24:59,000 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 2: social disease. 391 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 392 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,680 Speaker 2: Valentine's Day is coming up. It's seventeen days away, seventeen 393 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 2: days away till Valentine's Day, and the new Valentine's Sweetheart 394 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:19,320 Speaker 2: candies are out. These are the little hearts with the 395 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:22,760 Speaker 2: sayings on them, be Mine and all of that. Well, 396 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 2: they've updated them to reflect twenty the reality of romance 397 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:28,399 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six. So we'll tell you what they 398 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 2: stamped on the new Sweetheart candies. Also, Mexico is cracking 399 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 2: down on vaping anything. So if you're going to Porta, 400 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:46,440 Speaker 2: No Porter, porter Portera, Waevo, Cancun, Cabo, Putamida, wherever you're going, 401 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,920 Speaker 2: leave the vape pen at home, you're gonna forget about it. 402 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,199 Speaker 2: You're gonna think that you're like it's like you are 403 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 2: in California, and you're gonna get busted and you're gonna 404 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,200 Speaker 2: be unhappy. So we'll tell you what the rules are, 405 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,399 Speaker 2: but pretty much leave it at home. 406 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:03,959 Speaker 8: I'm not going to pay one thousand dollars for a 407 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 8: hoodie just because it's made in the United States for America. 408 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 2: I appreciate that call. So the three D steak is out. 409 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:16,879 Speaker 2: They are already mass producing three D steaks. This is incredible. 410 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 2: I remember listening to Bill Handle talk about this years 411 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 2: ago here on KFI, because then it was just an 412 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 2: idea that and it was two guys, two scientists that 413 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 2: were based in southern California. I think in like El Segundo. 414 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 2: I just remember the story so well because I found 415 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:43,879 Speaker 2: it fascinating that you can make like a steak is 416 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 2: a cow. So you can take steak into a laboratory 417 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 2: and break it down and reassemble it atomically, like figure 418 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:58,800 Speaker 2: out what the you know, what what's I mean, what's 419 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:02,359 Speaker 2: a mistake, what's made up those fibers? What makes it red? 420 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 2: You know, there's fat in there, this protein in there. 421 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:12,360 Speaker 2: I mean, they literally could recreate artificially the chemical combinations 422 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 2: that make beef and they have, so what do you 423 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,520 Speaker 2: do with that, Well, you've got to turn it into 424 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 2: a steak. Now, now you have the recipe, how do 425 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 2: you make that into a New York strip? Well, the 426 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:32,920 Speaker 2: three D printers have come along and they have made 427 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 2: three D printers that have the perfect balance of Well, actually, 428 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:40,879 Speaker 2: it's not that hard to make a perfect balance. Right, 429 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 2: you go buy eighty twenty chuck grind for hamburger. 430 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 1: What are you getting? 431 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:51,719 Speaker 2: You're getting eighty percent beef twenty percent fat. Well, now 432 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:56,200 Speaker 2: that we have the recipe for beef fat and beef beef, 433 00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,639 Speaker 2: you throw it in the printer and you say, for 434 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:04,359 Speaker 2: you know, a mixture of eighty twenty of steak, and 435 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,200 Speaker 2: the three D printer knows how to print it to 436 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 2: look like a steak, and it's you can adjust the marbling. 437 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 2: It's quite astounding. And they literally three D print the 438 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:21,280 Speaker 2: meat and the fat to become a steak without touching 439 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 2: a cow. 440 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 9: This steak was made entirely by a three D printer. 441 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,639 Speaker 9: It looks like real steak, complete with fibers, and the 442 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 9: flavor and texture are surprisingly close. It's created by growing 443 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:33,160 Speaker 9: real cow cells in a lab. 444 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 2: Real cow cells in a lab. I don't know what 445 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 2: cow they got the DNA from I guess that's where 446 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,960 Speaker 2: you really got to start. You want a really good cow, 447 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 2: but like you don't know it's a good cow for 448 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 2: steaks until after it's no longer a cow. I think 449 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 2: you want to start with a live cow, but maybe 450 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 2: you know you go the way they do horses and thoroughbreds. Right, 451 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 2: Like you had a really good cow, and then so 452 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 2: you take that cow's sun and daughters, and then you 453 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 2: don't hurt the cow. All you need is just to 454 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:08,280 Speaker 2: I guess you just get a little Q tip swab 455 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 2: on the inside of the cow's mouth cloaks. 456 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 9: It's created by growing real cow cells in a lab, 457 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 9: then layering muscle and fat cells through a three D 458 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 9: printing process. If this technology becomes widespread, we could enjoy 459 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 9: steak in the future without slaughtering a single cow. 460 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 2: No cow is harmed. Now, some people are gonna want 461 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,640 Speaker 2: to be og and still go at the cow. But 462 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:28,960 Speaker 2: this is gonna be a lot cheaper. 463 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:29,480 Speaker 6: Now. 464 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 2: This is not like fake meat. This isn't beyond or 465 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:38,400 Speaker 2: any of those things. I almost bought stock and beyond 466 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 2: in the initial public offering. I was close. I was 467 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 2: really close. I had just sold some stock there was 468 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:53,120 Speaker 2: a during the Obama crisis, the downturn in the economy, 469 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 2: a lot of people got into day trading to try 470 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,680 Speaker 2: and make some money because nothing was happening. And some 471 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 2: of the people that worked in my life's company, we're 472 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:05,320 Speaker 2: doing some day trading and we were just chatting about it. 473 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,200 Speaker 2: I learned about it. They went and took a class 474 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 2: at like some ballroom at a Marriott and they sold 475 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 2: them the program for five hundred dollars. And it was 476 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,320 Speaker 2: supposed to be so easy. All you do is follow 477 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 2: when the arrows are green and point up, you buy, 478 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,240 Speaker 2: when the hours are red, you sell, and you made 479 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 2: like eight hundred bucks a day, and you did it 480 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 2: five days a week, and there's your salary. And it 481 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 2: was you didn't have to know anything about anything. That's 482 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 2: what the cell was. So people were trying it and 483 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 2: it was working with somebody. So they got me to 484 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:37,440 Speaker 2: buy some individual stock from some company I'd never heard of, 485 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,520 Speaker 2: and I don't know anything about stocks, so I let 486 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 2: you know, the index funds work for me. But I 487 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 2: was in this individual stock and then I just wanted 488 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 2: out of it, so I sold it, and so I 489 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 2: had this money at the brokerage account, and I'm like, oh, 490 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 2: you know what, this beyond meat thing. I think this 491 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,160 Speaker 2: is going to be a thing. And this makes a 492 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 2: lot of sense. They already have contracts with Carls Junior, 493 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:02,640 Speaker 2: the impossible Whopper is going to be at Burger King. 494 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 2: This is going to be like the next big thing. 495 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 2: I should invest in it. And my advisor said, no, 496 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,680 Speaker 2: don't do it. If you want to invest money, then 497 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,080 Speaker 2: just give it to me and we'll just put it, 498 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,440 Speaker 2: you know, in a good gross stock mutual fund, but 499 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:20,240 Speaker 2: don't be buying individual investments, and don't be buying it 500 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 2: on something like this. I just can't advise you to 501 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,240 Speaker 2: do it. And I said, you know, I got to 502 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:28,640 Speaker 2: be honest. I did my research, and I've known about 503 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 2: this for a while. It makes a lot of sense. 504 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,920 Speaker 2: I used to work in fast food and my wife's 505 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,240 Speaker 2: a vegetarian, so I could see how this could really 506 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 2: take off. And she emailed me back and said, yeah, 507 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,680 Speaker 2: I took the liberty of talking to some of our people, 508 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,800 Speaker 2: and apparently there's not enough pea protein in the world 509 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,360 Speaker 2: to make this a viable thing. So even if they 510 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,600 Speaker 2: could produce, they couldn't scale it because they couldn't get 511 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,720 Speaker 2: the peas to make the pea protein, So don't do it. 512 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,600 Speaker 2: And I remember thinking, you know, I've never had an 513 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:08,400 Speaker 2: investment advisor so strongly adamant that I don't give her 514 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 2: commission for a sale of stock. But this is what 515 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:13,880 Speaker 2: she does for a living, and I should probably take 516 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:14,320 Speaker 2: that device. 517 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 6: So I didn't. 518 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:19,240 Speaker 2: Initial public offering is announced at twenty five to the 519 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 2: general public. It's at forty six, it opens, it closes 520 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:27,240 Speaker 2: that day at eighty six. I'm like, what is going on? 521 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 2: You cost me a fortune? Fast forward now it's that 522 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:34,360 Speaker 2: I think it's at ninety cents a share. 523 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,479 Speaker 6: So she was right. 524 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 2: So bottom line, listen to your investment advisor, not Bill Handle. 525 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 2: I am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app 526 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty on demand