WEBVTT - Conversations About American TV Brands 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:02.480 What's Up? 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:05.439 And welcome back to another episode of No Senner's podcast 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:14.360 with your hosts now fuck That with your loaw glasses, Malone, 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.279 I ain't no big political guy, bro, you know, I 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:21.560 ain't really you know what I guess. In the streets, 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:26.640 I'm more aware of policies. I'm more of my world 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:30.640 of politics, you know what I mean, where the street 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:35.680 policies are dominant. But as far as American policies, you 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:42.800 know what I mean, I'm really I get it. I 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:45.640 get it makes sense to me to some degree. Like 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:49.040 it's really hard for me because even like something like abortion, 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.879 you know, I get kind of both sides of it. 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:55.920 I'm probably like more to the ladder of like you 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.680 probably shouldn't get abortions, you know what I mean. 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.000 But then I do understand those. 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:06.759 Particular instances where somebody got raped and maybe somebody may 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.200 die if they deliver a child, you. 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:09.679 Know what I mean. 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:13.959 And you know I don't necessarily agree with the woman's 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:18.120 body because I just think that's such a disingenuous you know, debate. 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:22.040 Like just when I think about policies, you know what 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:27.440 I mean, My my problem is to me, they seem 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:30.040 too simple, like which. 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:33.360 Ones well just just how they should be. 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:39.040 America should be a country that depends on itself. Sure, 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:41.959 now I don't know how that lines up right. So 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.640 I don't like the fact we outsource so many things, 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.920 you know what I mean? And even compared to like 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.960 my hip hop career, Like I feel like one thing 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.560 my hip hop career did take punishment in it was 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:03.520 too many things outsourced. When I first came into this business, 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.440 like I believed in bringing everything in house. You know, 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.200 my older brother some of my team, they didn't really 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.480 understand that. They were so used to just you know 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.040 how they saw you know, rap and hip hop going 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.200 because they were more vested in it than I was. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.799 But I remember walking in thinking to myself, like, Yo, 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:22.840 I'm not going to. 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:27.639 I'm not going to. 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.600 I'm not going to sell tickets to perform for somebody else. 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.520 I'm going to book the venue myself. I'm going to 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:45.200 press up my CDs and push them throughout the West 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:49.440 Coast myself. Like even how I wanted my own record 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.919 deal when Freeway Rick and Army Mani from John Street 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:55.480 both who homes shout out to them brothers, But they 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.360 was gonna give me seven hundred to seven hundred and 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.680 fifty thousand dollars in two thousand and five to launch 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:05.280 Blue Division then, and that was my goal. I really 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.280 listened to Pool, my older brother. He wanted to do 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.560 the deal with Sony, like they wanted to do a 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.680 record deal with cash money in different people, so you know, 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.239 they were more vested in hip hop. So I listened 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.680 to them. But where we at now, Like it's hard 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.800 for me to listen to other people who aren't as vested, 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:26.000 but I still do listen even if I don't take 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.600 the advice. I listen, but I also know the path 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:32.359 I want to walk, and I'm still you know, tweaking 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:36.720 things because really this path doesn't exist today. Like the 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.320 last time this path existed was probably like in the 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:44.840 sixties and seventies, before you know, corporations got involved into 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.240 black music, you know what I mean, when you had 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:50.760 to do it yourself. And that's my mentality, Pete, Like 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.000 I really believe, like yo to make this happen for 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.400 Glasses and alone as an artist. Glasses is a is 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:02.600 a is a person of people. Like I've always done 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:06.120 well when it's me and people, but whenever you know, 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.360 you get behind the curtain, like no artist is going 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:14.080 to be able to be There's not an artist today 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.279 that's going to do better in a room full of 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:21.640 strangers than me, you know what I mean, There's not 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.800 an artist today. And I could really say that, like, 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.719 there's not an artist today that will do better in 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:28.480 a room full. 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:29.520 Of strangers than I would. 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:34.200 True, it don't matter which room it could be, the palos, 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:39.440 white folks that don't even like Negroes, to the streetest, 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.039 most violent negroes in the history of the world, the 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:47.000 whole spectrum, you know whatever, all colors in between. That's 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:50.480 always worked for me, and I know that that's been 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:52.480 my gift, that that worked for me. Well, I look 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:56.040 at the same with policies, whereas like I really believe 0:04:56.080 --> 0:05:00.320 in America, bro that has that, that's forced to fin 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.719 for itself, that has to create its own products, that 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:05.760 has to create its own cars, that has. 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:06.760 To create everything. 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.839 Because to me, it makes sense to create jobs, right, 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:14.080 That's how you create jobs. Economy that pours into itself 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:18.120 and rewards itself. So to me, that's what makes it simple. 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.680 That's the whole concept of policy. Everything else is just bullshit, 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.000 you know what I mean, Every other part of it 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.200 to me, is just bullshit. Like that's the simple part 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:31.200 of it. This country should be pouring into itself, I mean, 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:33.960 and rewarding itself a porn. It should be this cycle 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.240 of things happening for Americans. 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:39.440 I agree with that. 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:44.320 I think that like the way I would illustrate, like 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:48.599 my opinion on how policy and the job market and 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:52.359 US economy works is like a like the Hoover dam. 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:54.920 Our economy needs to grow in advance. 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:59.040 You know, it's going to grow in advance faster than 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:00.440 the rest of the world. 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:02.240 So you don't want to like. 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:07.840 Have a big block of people stuck with these like 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:11.520 low paying pedestrian jobs that like really don't fit here. 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:13.039 So you kind of kind of but you have to 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.440 you have to manage the flow. You can't just open 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:17.920 and let all the water flood out like we did. 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:22.880 You have to hold a reservoir of domestic jobs while 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:28.240 you strategically, you know, let the water out of the 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:30.520 bottom at the same rate that it's coming in to 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:32.800 keep that water lying stable. And we don't do a 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.120 good job of that because people want to you know, 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.919 dump water or buy water downstream. 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:42.000 Or however the hell you want to look at it. 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:49.440 Outside of crude oil. Do we need to depend on 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:50.680 another country for something else? 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:52.280 We don't need to depend on what crude oil. 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.640 We were net oil exporters during the Trump era we 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.120 got We have so much freaking oil. 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:56.719 It's absurd. 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:01.320 We have so much fossil fuel and energy sources in 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.360 this country on our own land rights. It is utterly absurd. 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:08.839 That's just purely EPA policy because for whatever reason, Democrats 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.360 feel better about themselves when they buy oil from other 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:12.880 countries than when they buy it from here. 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:13.760 That's it. 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:14.280 That's it. 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:16.920 So what I would like to believe now, this is 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.440 my intellect kicking in now. Obviously it's limited information, so 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.200 I can't even trust it as just intellect. But I 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.400 genuinely believe when you start to pump too much oil, 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:31.760 like oil and water is the is the Earth's life blood, right, 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.560 and it does repln It's just like blood replenishes in 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.600 our body. We could get shot and love some blood 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:41.040 and eventually our bodies will repent it, you know, will 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.840 replenished blood. And I do think you can only pull 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.240 so much, you know, so often, you know, before the 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:48.960 earth needs to replenish blood. 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:50.400 You know. Does that make sense? 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:51.200 Yeah? 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.400 So is there anything we need to depend on for 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:58.160 another country? Like, is there something we do not that 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.400 that cannot be made in this country that we need 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.000 to depend on another country for? 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.920 There might be some rare earth mineral things. Everything really 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.200 just comes down to cost. Truth be told, we could 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.640 do everything here, but a lot of people don't want 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.000 to pay eighteen hundred dollars for a television. 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:20.600 That's really what it is. 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.160 Yeah, but what if you can afford an eighteen hundred 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.559 dollars television? Do you get what I'm saying? 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:28.640 I get what you're saying. 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.720 This issue is like there's a disassociation with verticals and 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.360 costs and all that kind of stuff, you know, So 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:39.880 at some point I think it comes down to, like, 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:44.240 all right, you're going to pay all these people who 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.400 make televisions blank dollars here, and they'll have the money 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:48.239 to buy televisions. 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:51.760 But like, the consumption rate. 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:56.800 Doesn't always outrun the production rate, so the demand doesn't 0:08:56.800 --> 0:09:02.320 always stay on track with the supply. So when that 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:07.520 starts to happen, the company will go to business because 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.559 they're paying an awful lot of money to make each television. 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.880 And then it's the demand, you know, doesn't keep up, 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.360 because I don't think that Honestly, if TVs were made 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.200 in the US and they cost eighteen hundred dollars, people 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.880 wouldn't be buying TVs. Like people throw out TVs when 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:24.959 they move apartments, Like you have many random like just 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.400 decent enough TVs, you see. If we will throw something 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.040 into the television, like if it's a three hundred dollars whatever, 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:31.640 like it's not that big a deal, you know what 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:32.080 I mean. 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.199 I think, but I think that's the problem. 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.000 It is a big part of the problem, you know. 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:40.160 What I mean. Like, sure, so many things that we 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:44.960 have that are like unnecessary, but they're so cheap, and 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:50.280 they become these huge distractions, right because I'm at one 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:51.720 time America I'm sure. 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:53.640 Was making its own TVs. 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:59.320 Only so many people had TVs, right, But it also 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.880 created more or of a you didn't have so many 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:06.480 things to distract you like this this, Like was it 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.640 worth starting to do business with other countries to put 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.480 a TV in every household as a distraction, Like. 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:14.600 It's not even that it's a TV in every room 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:15.440 in every household? 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.640 Now was that really worth it? 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:20.920 Because it really just creates a level of the distraction 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.880 it's not even a necessary tool, like I could see 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:27.280 if it was something that was necessary to advance humanity 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.760 versus something to distract humanity. 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:31.920 Right in my tribute, No, you're a. 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:36.559 Thousand percent right, there's a and it manifests itself in 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:40.679 so many ways. There's a huge like what Kanye West 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:44.120 said it right in the first album, young female attention 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:45.360 to retail or something like that. 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:46.440 But it's bigger than them. 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:52.320 It's it's it's throughout society where there's a massive, you know, 0:10:53.520 --> 0:11:00.760 cultural obsession with just retail therapy culture. And credit card 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.880 debt is super high. Credit card that's not high like 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:07.080 that because people are because food went up. 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:07.600 That sucks. 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:11.360 It's expensive gasing up. That's I get that. The marginal 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:14.319 difference is a lot of stupid, worthless ass ship that 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:17.160 people buy all the time. And you can see, I 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.360 mean you just look around like there's so much, so 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:23.560 many companies that make dumb fucking widgets that are eighty 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:25.480 billion dollar companies. 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.319 For what it was, by the shit, why. 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:31.560 You know. 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:38.800 Those sendings gl my man Pete working through some things, 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.080 working through some things, let us work. 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:47.640 And on the inverse of that, we're a historical low 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:52.760 point in savings and also like democratized investment, people don't 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:54.520 have a lot of money they're investing on their own. 0:11:54.559 --> 0:12:00.640 Everybody's investments now is like their house and their four 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.360 O one K. That's everybody, and that's a small amount 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.480 of money. So there's these huge gaps that then have 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.959 to have programs by the government pay for every thing, 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.440 which are these ballooned up government agencies and debt which 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:13.800 contribute to the inflation. It does root in the fact 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:18.560 that we do not personally as individuals, manage our books 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:22.240 very well, so we outsource it to companies and government, 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:25.160 and that's not a good model. 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:27.680 We're seeing the fruit of that right now. 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.400 So why is it so obvious for me to see 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.720 and not so obvious for other people to see? 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:37.400 Like how did okay? 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.040 Now, I'm not a policy person again, I'm not in 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.880 the politics enough to really jump off a cliff. I know, 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:47.480 really bare minimums of all this stuff. But it does 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:55.040 come across very democratic, I mean, to that concept, you 0:12:55.080 --> 0:13:00.320 know what I mean? Why is it so easy for 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:05.560 me to see. 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:07.920 Because you don't, I don't think, have a habit. 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:15.280 Of self deception or believing, Like if you had a 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.880 menu of things in front of you. You can believe 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:25.000 bucket A, B, C or D. You're not gonna always 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.480 choose the one you wish were true. You're gonna look 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:31.080 more trying to figure out which one actually is. Most people, 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:36.280 at least enough people are like, well, I mean, I 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.240 don't know which one it is, but rather than figuring 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.079 it out, I I'd be happy if it was B. 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:42.880 So I'm going with B. 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:44.000 And that's just. 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.800 That's just dumb. Every Man thought. 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:56.120 So many things about this that makes perfect sense to me, 0:13:56.200 --> 0:14:00.040 yet people are arguing about it. 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:01.240 Yeah, I just. 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.960 Like, if you barely pay people, right, if you barely 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:10.040 pay people, if you create a system where everybody doesn't 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.520 have money and then you create a Walmart to service 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:14.000 people who don't have money. 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.720 It just seems so counterproductive to me. Like that. 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:19.840 That's one of those things that make me think, like 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:23.520 this world is, like, this country is ridiculous, It's silly. 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:24.720 Why the fuck? 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:35.520 Okay, in my mind, America is a business of businesses, right, 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:39.040 It's in the business of empowering business basic America. 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.000 Not that he. 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.840 Said that the business of America is business. 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.720 Yeah I never heard, right, Okay, so dope, right, So 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:50.720 it makes sense to me. Right, this is kind of 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:56.240 this sober conscious mind that I'm always looking at taking 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:56.920 in information. 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:58.760 I never heard that, but that's dope. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.840 Right, because it was written on the wall over the 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.760 head of my APUs history teacher in like the eleventh grade, 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.080 and I was staring at it every day. 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:09.480 Right. 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:15.440 So America empowers businesses because businesses are supposed to take 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:22.160 care of American citizens. Yeah, right, Because if businesses are 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:26.880 flourishing and they hire American citizens, than American citizens are flourishing, right, 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.520 and then that creates a better economy, right, which is 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.280 kind of like the thought of the industrial revolution. Right, 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.240 I would imagine that's the thought of that. Right, that's 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:40.760 the model of that. But if you outsource things to people, 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:47.160 then you empower other economies and you also kill this one. Now, 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.960 to some degree, I get, you can get a surplus 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.640 of spending, right because things that were not affordable initially 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.640 because you went to someone else paying in what would 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:01.000 be considered a slave wage in this country, right to 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.440 make something, and then you could buy something that is 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.720 really cheap. But guess what that also means you lost 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:13.880 multiple jobs of making something. So if we're just using 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.520 the TV as a model, like when America was making 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.240 those floor models in the fifties and sixties and TV 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:21.480 was a big thing, and it was a really expensive thing, 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.360 and you know, so forth and so on. Right, you 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:28.240 had American companies, you know, ge and different companies making it. Right, 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.000 So it was expensive and it was a luxury, and 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:32.080 it should have been a luxury. 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:33.280 It should have stayed a luxury. 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:39.080 It valued any it valued nobody, or the value is 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:45.480 minimum effect, minimum effect because by putting TVs and people 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:50.560 houses and taking the jobs away from people making TVs, right, 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:55.200 what you did was give somebody a distraction to not 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.040 work on their shortcomings of not being able to afford 0:16:58.040 --> 0:16:58.720 a fucking TV. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:12.879 Yeah, that's the fact. In a nutshell, the US, like 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:20.199 the culture at large, is completely consumed by distractionary obsessions 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:26.600 in the form of like chemical consumption and just purchase consumption, 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:28.639 or i mean entertainment consumption. 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:30.840 I'm sorry, entertainment, not purchasing entertainment consumption. 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:36.640 And yeah, there's no growth there, there's no learning there, Yeah, 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:37.960 there's nothing. 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:44.920 So who was the fucking dickhead that stimulated this, because 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:48.160 I'm sure it always goes back to about four dickheads 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:50.200 that came up with this bad idea. 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:54.840 It's a few A lot of things were happening at 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:59.080 once at the in the nineteen sixties into the nineteen seventies, 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:06.760 so how they converged and a lot of it's like 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.960 you get people in government who have an idea, let's 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:14.040 do this, and then markets adapt. Well, they don't understand markets, 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:17.280 so they don't really anticipate how markets are going to adapt. 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:21.439 And you see that only every single solitary time. But 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:25.800 you had this massive like then the Johnson administration in 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:29.919 the sixties, you had like Democrat politicians that started really 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:34.879 growing the government's capacity to subsidize people. 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:41.159 And then you had like the George HW. 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:48.400 Bush part of the Republican Party, which kind of infiltrated 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.800 the Nixon administration and opened up doors to China and 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.160 convinced Nixon to go start doing business with China because 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:55.639 it was going to be a great boom for the 0:18:55.720 --> 0:19:00.760 US economy to open up trade with China. And and 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:04.040 and those have always been the big you know, like 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:07.959 the rhino that the anti Reagan, anti Trump, anti Nixon, 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:11.159 all the people that like Republican, like grassroots, like the 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:14.360 mag of all those people that like don't like the 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:18.399 gerald for George Bush, Mitch McConnell Republicans, they're the globalist Republicans, 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:19.160 and that's like that. 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:21.840 So it is true that those parties kind of have 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.400 split into two separate style of parties as well. 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.879 Yeah, that's been like that's the seventies. 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:32.320 So I'm sorry taking my notes. Yeah, so I can 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.959 look at him later. So then it was Lyndon B. Johnson. 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.120 That's that's what we talking about writing the sixty seventies. 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:39.760 Yeah, he was in the sixties. 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:42.200 He had like like the Great Society and a lot 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:44.480 of the welfare programs and stuff like that. So it 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:51.320 became less Not only did it become less critical for 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:56.359 business to support everybody rich to poor, because now the 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:58.800 government just took over like the bottom quarter. 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:02.640 So my question is why why would they? 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:11.399 Okay, welfare became a big necessary need when America lost industry? 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:14.359 Is that fair to say? 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:18.399 Because I think it predicated America losing industry, or it 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:20.920 preempted it, it enabled it. 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:30.560 So you think welfare, So you think welfare happened first, 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:33.080 But I'm saying it wouldn't make no sense. 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:38.280 You want to, like my real dirty secret on the shit, Sure, 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:42.280 no one really says this. People talk about the big 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:45.200 party switch that happened between like Republicans and Democrats or 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:46.960 whatever back in the day with regard to race stuff, 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:50.680 but no one really switched parties. And the Republican Party 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:52.680 is usually like a conservative party. They kind of stay 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.160 where they're at and the Democrat Party kind of moves 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:58.480 And then they say, oh, the Republicans moved because we're 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:00.119 so much further away. 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:01.600 So what happened? 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:04.600 You had, like the Civil Rights Act, black people got 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:06.600 the right to vote and all this stuff happened. So 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:11.399 they were like, well, we've been manipulating the situation. 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:14.040 To keep black people from voting for a very long time. 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:21.679 Now they could vote. Let's pull you know, circumvent or here. 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:26.359 We're just gonna buy them instead of alienating them from 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:29.200 the economy, We're gonna subsidize them out of the economy 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:32.120 to keep them out of the economy and earn their vote. 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:34.320 Because the Democrat Party is big in the South, like 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:37.199 Democrat Boulevard is like the main boulevard in Memphis, like 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:40.560 the old Southern Democrats, Clan Democrats, all those people they 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:45.200 went from switch. Yeah, they didn't really switch. The Democrat 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:48.720 Party just juxtaposed the way that they alienated black people. 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:54.560 They went from alienating black people like forcibly directly to 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:58.919 them not being allowed to anymore by constitutional amendment. So 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:02.920 they said, well, we'll just alienate them by paying a 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:07.600 pittionship money not to participate, you know or. 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:08.200 Do you think so? 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:11.879 You feel like the goal of the government was to 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:16.480 get black people, like poor people, black people out of 0:22:18.200 --> 0:22:22.160 policies by saying we'll give you a couple hundred dollars 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:25.480 a month. You don't really have to go out and 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:28.480 fuck work, but you don't have to care about the workforce, 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:34.600 which which really low key. Economics and commerce drive policy. 0:22:35.119 --> 0:22:37.960 That's the one thing that I'm certain of. It's the 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:42.960 driving force. I don't care if we're talking about even abortions. 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:49.480 It's driven by economics. Everything about policy is driven by economics. 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:52.879 It doesn't feel like it, but a big complaint is 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:54.520 the economics of it all. 0:22:55.600 --> 0:22:56.080 Yeah, And the. 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:59.160 Problem is you can really see it is that there's 0:22:59.240 --> 0:23:02.840 two like takes on economics. There's like the zero sum 0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:05.800 gain a version of economics, and then there's the growth 0:23:05.840 --> 0:23:09.520 begets growth version of economics. So like the South, for 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:11.159 a long time, as I've said on the show before, 0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:16.120 was a barrier of entry economy, and it was anemic 0:23:16.240 --> 0:23:21.520 in growth, but the wealth was extremely invulnerable to risk 0:23:21.600 --> 0:23:24.919 of competition down there, you know. And the fact that 0:23:24.960 --> 0:23:29.439 they didn't slavery killed the economy in the South, but 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:31.840 for that little ribbon of ultra wealthy. 0:23:31.480 --> 0:23:34.480