WEBVTT - We're Going Home, Honey! 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.959 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:17.320 Arm Strong and Getty and now he I'm Strong and Getty. 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.200 As you know, twelve days ago, I had dinner with 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:28.200 President Trump, a dinner that was set up by my 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:31.280 friend Kid Rock because we share a belief that there's 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:33.760 got to be something better than hurling insults from three 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.440 thousand miles away. And let me first say that to 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:38.680 all the people who treated this like it was some 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:44.320 kind of summit meeting. You're ridiculous, like I was going 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:45.640 to sign a treaty or something. 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:49.320 I have no power, and he's. 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.479 The most powerful leader in the world. I'm not the 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:56.680 leader of anything except maybe a contingent of centrist minded 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:58.800 people who think there's got to be a better way 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:01.720 of running this country than hating each other every minute. 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.720 Oh man, your lips to God's ears, even though you're 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:05.240 an atheist. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.520 That combay uh before we. 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.320 Get to that's Bill Maher from his HBO show on Friday, 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.080 and he had dinner with Trump and Kid Rock and 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.080 Dana White and a couple other people at the White House, 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.640 which would be about the coolest thing that ever happened 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.080 in your life, if you ever got to do it, 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:25.959 it's a hell of a guest list. But Bill Maher 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.240 with his whole I'm a centrist. He's a centrist left, 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:33.640 but I mean compared to you know, the politics of 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:35.640 what you'll hear on the news all day long, he's 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:40.319 a centrist. No doubt there anyway that crowd us can 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:42.560 take back over. Is there any chance of that. 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.560 We have to be specific about what we want to 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.560 do and attack it in an organized way. 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:51.960 I think he got I think rules need I think 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.560 laws and rules need to change. I think the current 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:59.560 structure of campaign finance and that sort of stuff. I 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.720 don't think rhetoric could change it. I think he had 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:02.200 change that. 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.760 Oh I'm well, yeah, I'm not talking about rhetoric necessarily, 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.680 But in our school system, which is, as we've outlined 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:13.680 many times, completely infected with far left ideology, needs to 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:15.079 be dealt with. Pretty much. 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.840 The only way you lose your seat as a Senator, 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:19.920 as a House member is from someone in your own 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:23.880 party who's further to the extreme than you. That's almost 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:25.919 the only way you lose. So as long as that's true, 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.320 we continue down the road we are. But I'm off 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.640 track already. Here's Bill Maher talking a little about what 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:32.279 it was like to eat Donald Trump. 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.480 In the Oval office. He was showing me the portraits 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.680 of presidents, and he pointed to Reagan and said, in 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:41.320 all seriousness, you know the best thing about him his hair. 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.400 I said, well, there was also that whole bringing down 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:53.239 communism thing. Waiting for the button next to the diet 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.320 coke button to get pushed and I go through the 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:55.960 trap door. 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:01.520 He laughed. He got it. 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:05.120 He didn't get mad. He's much more self aware and 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.720 he lets on in public. Look, I get it. It 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.240 doesn't matter who he is at a private dinner with 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.280 a comedian. It matters who he is on the world stage. 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:18.160 I'm just taking as a positive that this person exists, 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.680 because everything I've ever not liked about him was, I 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.880 swear to God absent at least on this night with 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:25.440 this guy. 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.960 Isn't that interesting? It really is? 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:36.160 And Bill Maher's a hardcore trumpeter. Everything I've ever not 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.040 liked about him was absent on this night. 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:43.880 Yeah. Yeah. I mean we all have our public facing persona, 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:46.800 what we do and how we act, and we're a 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.480 little different among friends or a more intimate setting. Trump 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:55.880 seems to have his front is very different than how 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.800 he's described by everybody who spent time with him. Friends 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.040 of ours, Bill mar. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.120 Of course, a lot of the things Bill Maher hates 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:07.320 about the public Trump we love when we see it, 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:12.480 you know, we laugh up, roar Easley or whatever. Let's 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:14.760 hear a little more from the lefty Bill Maher. 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.039 There were so many moments when I hit him with 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:21.159 a joke or contradicted something, and no problem. At dinner, 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.719 he was asking me about the nuclear situation in Iran 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.040 in a very genuine, hey, I think you're a smart guy. 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.880 I want your opinion sort of way. He didn't get 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:31.640 mad or call me a left wing lunatic. 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:32.240 He took it in. 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.320 I told him I thought parts of his plan for 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.320 Gaza were whacky, but that I had supported him in 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.000 the idea that Gaza could be Dubai. 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:41.240 Instead of Hell. 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.240 I never felt I had to walk on eggshells around him, 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.600 And honestly, I voted for Clinton and Obama, but I 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.280 would never feel comfortable talking to them the way I 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.080 was able to talk with Donald Trump. 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.320 That's just how it went down. Make of it what 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.960 you will. I thought that was really interesting. 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:00.520 I would have never been able to talk to Clinton 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.760 or Obama the way I talked to Trump, but just 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.880 feeling so comfortable and like you're having a real, you know, 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:07.920 human interaction. 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.159 They're actually listening to you, that sort of thing. Yeah, 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.360 he's describing the other side of the coin, that is 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.479 Trump's ability to connect with people in general, but like 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:20.240 working people, that lack of projecting that I'm better than you. 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.920 Which is interesting is he's almost certainly the richest guy 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.640 who's ever been president or perhaps ever will be. I 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:30.200 don't know. The common touch they used to call it. 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:33.400 All right, Well, Bill Maher talks about how he looks 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.240 you in the eye and seems to actually be listening 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.800 to what you're saying. I mean, that's really really interesting. 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.120 I mean I'm not surprised because, like Joe said, we 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.560 know people who've worked for him, like worked for him, 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.520 saw him every day. That was the one woman that 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.440 we knew that was before he was president, when he 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:51.840 was like, you know, a TV star. 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:53.880 She worked with him and said, no, he's not like 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:58.000 that at all. I said, yeah, that's not surprising to me. 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:04.200 That's a personality trait. Though we've all known successful people. 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.839 Who don't listen to you and not successful. 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:09.760 So I mean, it's not like you have to have 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:11.800 that trait to be successful. I think it's probably helpful. 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:13.640 It's just it's some sort of personality trait. 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:17.320 Yeah, and this is less about politics or hating Trump 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.160 or loving Trump or anything like that. It's just trying 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:23.400 to understand human beings. Trump is famously the guy who 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.840 follows his gut, and he trusts his gutten and it's 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:28.960 served him well in a lot of ways, undeniably. I 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.440 think sometimes it gets him in completely unnecessary jams. But 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:37.119 you know, that's my opinion. What's interesting is he comes off, 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.719 you know, in that clip by Bill Maher for instance, 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.080 and describing Obama and Clinton, he comes off as a 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.440 guy who's much more open to listening to other people's opinions, 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:47.800 right than a lot of powerful men. 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:51.039 Yeah, Mar says, I've had so many conversations with prominent 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.800 people who are much less connected than Trump was. People 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:55.719 who don't look in the eye, people who don't really 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:57.640 listen because they just want to get to their next thing, 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:01.560 people who's response to things you just say that you 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.360 say you can tell doesn't track none of that with him, 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.080 and he mostly steered the conversation to what do you 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:13.360 think about this, which is interesting, and Bill Mars. 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.040 Says, I know your mind is blown. Mine mind is blown. 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.880 But that's what it was like. Yeah, yeah, I liked 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.840 where he was. He compiled a list of the terrible 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:24.640 things Trump had said about him throughout the years. We'll 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.560 have to play that later and had Trump sign the 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.440 list for him, which he cheerfully did. That's pretty funny. 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:37.320 So getting back to the whole WWE, Trump's got a 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:41.960 wrestler persona, but behind the scenes he's happy to sign 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.040 the picture where he was getting beat down by Black 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.000 bart or whatever that right, I'm kidding. 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.480 Just to wrap this up, not to be Trump obsessed, 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.720 but he did have his physical over the weekend. I 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.600 needed physical sounds like I'm dying, t allergies, some sort 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:02.200 of weird plant as in a blue Apparently. Trump deemed 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.880 an excellent health and robust neurological condition by the White 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:10.480 House physician. The seventy eight year old Trump. It's hard 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.520 to remember that he's seventy eight because he's so energetic 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.680 as a seventy eight year old six three two twenty 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:18.920 four he's lost a significant amount of weight since his 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.560 first term when he was two forty three, So he's 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:26.360 lost twenty pounds since when he was eight years younger, 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:29.480 which is good. 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:30.600 Other vital signs. 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.679 Listen to this as a seventy eight year old fat 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.560 guy who eats fast food and has the most stressful. 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:36.120 Job on planet Earth. 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.000 Trump's blood pressure clocked in at one twenty eight over 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:43.559 seventy four, which is great, uh, and his resting heart 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:47.640 rate is sixty two. He's only on two medications, one 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.720 for both of them for his cholesterol to keep it 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:51.439 in the optimal level. 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.640 No, it's the only medications he takes. Wow, that is well, 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.240 it's a gift. It's yeah. 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.079 He You know, doctors will tell you what's the Don't 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:02.400 smoke and have good jeans. Those are your best tips 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.680 for uh, being healthy, laid into age. Don't smoke and 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:07.920 have good jeans. And he clearly has good jeans and 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:08.839 he doesn't smoke, so. 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:12.560 Right, right, So coming up trying to untangle what the 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.200 heck's going on with the tariffs, and also and I 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.719 want to get to this. I think it's important we 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:21.240 reckon with it. There's a hell of a lot more 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:25.880 to the media's Biden cover up than just group think, 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:30.760 and Jack was right all along. Hey, as I do 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:35.160 to admit it, Doctor Jill was the engine. She was 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.760 the evildoer behind the scenes. We have lots of great 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:39.280 information on that. I got a question. 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.880 I got a question for you, because she's speaking live 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.520 now and Hanson congrab it. How much do you want 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:48.559 to hear from Katy Perry about how going into space 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:49.640 changed her as a person? 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:54.520 I want very much to hear that for the purpose 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.240 of hating it. So we've got a lot on the 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:57.840 ways they here. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:05.679 Hey, yeah, puffect dust, last milliseconds air cushing that will 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.839 kick up the dust. It's a very soft, soft landing, 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.319 despite the sporty uh percept. 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:12.040 The it is. 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:21.679 And they're home. Oh my god, like that the screaming, 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.680 terrible suffrenching. That's the chicks into space. 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:27.720 I think they're calling it Katy Perry and Bezos's uh 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.920 hatty fiance and Gail King what was that? 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:35.640 It's a very soft light landing, despite what the sporty 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:37.720 something dust because it looked like. 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:39.840 A hard landing. But maybe there's springs in there that 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:40.560 makes it feel soft. 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:44.160 I don't know. I'm trying to care, but I just don't. 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.280 As long as everybody's okay, I'm happy. 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:47.800 It took them a long time to come out. They 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:51.560 came out, their hair was perfect. I guarantee you the 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:54.600 time spent sitting there was some sort of stylist making 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:56.640 sure their hair was okay because they gotta wear helmets 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:57.120 and stuff. 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.439 All right, you're right, that's odd. 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.520 I mean, d Perry looked like she looks on the 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.920 cover of a magazine when she's selling her shamboo. 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.320 Speaking of behind the scenes the true story of the 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:11.200 Biden sinility cover up coming up later on. Plus my 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:17.920 experience is at Augusta National Golf Club. Wow whoop. So 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.320 we need the theme music to play anyway, So I 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:24.959 thought this was really interesting. Justin Lehart in the Wall 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.720 Street Journal talking about how the US lost its place 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:32.520 as the world's manufacturing powerhouse, and well, I'll just launch 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.960 into it. They mentioned that in the fifties there was 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.160 over a third of the private sector jobs in the 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.320 US were manufacturing, a little over third thirty five percent. 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.760 Today it's about nine and a half percent. Of course, 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:48.400 the population is more than doubled since the nineteen fifties, 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.120 but still the raw number of manufacturing jobs has got 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.400 to be down a little bit, if my numbers are correct, 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.520 and I believe they are. Yeah, but it's almost exactly 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.960 the same President Trumps as the sweeping tariffs is aimed 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.319 at bringing manufacturing back to the US. Economists, as I'm 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:09.920 sure you've heard, are skeptical that tariffs could do that successfully, 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.679 and they were that the damage that they do will 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.320 outweigh any benefits. Not here to talk about that, at 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.680 least not right now. I just thought it was interesting 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:21.160 to go through some of the steps that we went 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:25.720 through to become not a manufacturing powerhouse. Now they go 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:32.000 through how in the early nineteen hundreds we Americans pioneered 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.280 the use of interchangeable parts and organizing factories for mass 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.880 production Henry Ford the assembly line. We all learned that 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:40.880 in school, back when we weren't being taught to hate 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.880 our country and to love how innovative and energetic we 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:48.160 are as a people. Remember that good times anyway, So 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.760 we had the infrastructure in place and the techniques and 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:53.600 the technology, and then World War two came along and 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.400 it was like, you know, gobbling up steroids to become 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.080 the best manufacturers we could possibly be, to beat back 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:03.880 the Nazis and the imperial Japanese. It's interesting now you 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.880 can call the Nazis anything you want, the crowds, the Jerry's, 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.520 the fascists, whatever. You can't say anything rude about the 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:15.600 Japanese though, because why Because Japanese people look slightly different 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.240 than Caucasians, whereas Germans are Caucasians. So you can say 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:22.280 anything you want about them. Anyway, That's a good question, son. 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.280 We're at war with both of them, slaughtering each other 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.560 as fast as we were in Germany. Didn't attack us, 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:30.160 or at least not in that way. No, no, really. 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.200 In the postwar years, many more Americans joined the middle 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:38.320 class dry and that drove jumps in spending on long lasting, 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:42.280 durable goods, cars, appliances, homes, that sort of thing. And 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.200 America is our best customer. We were our best customer 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:48.640 for manufactured goods. But you can only buy so many 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:52.439 of them. And after a while, more and more services 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.720 were demanded, and more and more places opened up, at 0:13:55.760 --> 0:14:01.200 least like rudimentary manufacturing across the world, Asian particular, and 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:05.200 so the service economy grew in America, more people more spending, 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.920 more jobs in the service economy and that sort of 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:11.360 thing because we're so much more affluent after World War Two. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.000 What's all I keep hearing the term service economy. What's 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:17.720 all included in service economy everything that you can't hold 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:23.960 in your hand and look at travel, banking, financial advice, advertising, 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:28.080 banking is considered service. Okay, that's interesting, Yeah, absolutely, Technology, 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:34.920 software is so, insurance agent, all that so yeah okay, yeah, restaurants, hotels, 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.960 you know, just all that stuff. So practically, so everything 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.760 I'm going to interact with today, I'll interact with. No manufacturing, 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:46.240 right yeah, yeah, practically other than the goods you use, 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:47.960 but most of those you probably owned for a while. 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.920 But in the nineteen eighties things began to change. American 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:56.960 manufacturers of non durable goods, that's like clothes and paper 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:00.080 products and just anything you're not going to have in 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:04.840 in a dozen years, ten years, whatever. American manufacturers of 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.840 non durable goods had an increasingly difficult time competing with 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:11.720 countries where labor costs were lower. That intensified in the 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.560 nineties in part as a result of the North American 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:17.800 Free Trade Agreement NAFTA, lowering the duties on Mexican goods 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.360 that was ross Perro's giant sucking sound, you remember that, 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.560 sucking all the jobs out to south of the border. 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:28.560 He was right then, steel producers in developing countries like 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.160 South Korea, you got to remind yourself. In the eighties 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:35.720 and nineties, South Korea was just a tiny miniature version 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:37.880 of what it is today as an economy. But they 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:42.120 built up their steel industries and subsidized them and left 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:46.360 the world awash in excess capacity, and we couldn't compete, 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.400 so so much of our steel industry went away then. 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.080 But what happened in the eighties and nineties pales in 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:55.760 comparison to what happened after the China Shock, when we 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.440 naively and stupidly thought China would be our buddies if 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.280 we opened up to them economically and they would reform politically. 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.840 They joined the WTO in twenty oh one, opened the 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.960 country to foreign investment, gained access to the global markets. 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:12.680 And the US had faced import competition from other countries before, 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:16.680 but never one that dwarfed its population. So instead of 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:19.640 Japan coming on first, it was cheap transistor radios then 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:23.000 made in Japan was code for cheap and crappy. When 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.400 our kids, when I yeah, exactly when when we're when 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:27.920 we were kids, that was a joke. You turn the 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:32.920 soil made in Japan, right, Yeah, it's probably gonna break 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:36.120 by turning it over. But anyway, China came on the 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:39.160 scene super suddenly, and in nineteen ninety nine, for instance, 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.360 value of Chinese goods exports came to a tenth of 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.960 the US's exports. We had ten times as many exports 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:51.600 as China nineteen ninety nine. Nine years later, China surpassed 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:56.720 US as an exporter of goods. Wow. That's something. Yeah, 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.240 And that is together with a couple other minor trade 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.760 that's why we where we are. China is a huge 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:08.639 part of that. Hence trumps emphasis on China. Another thing 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:10.760 we're going to get to, why do you like to 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.920 rewatch TV shows or movies you've seen before? Science is 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:17.160 in It's interesting. Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:25.200 Preto Watts, the richest guy on earth running all over Washington, DC, 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:30.840 throwing tens of thousands of dedicated federal workers out on 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:31.399 the street. 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:33.040 That is Bernie. 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:36.680 Oh, we don't have any cheering for Nard Sanders pay 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:38.359 just a little bit of sixty two so you realize 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:39.159 how popular it is. 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:44.159 That's Coachella. 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.800 Over the weekend, Bernie Bernie speaking at the big Coachella 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:51.880 Musical festival where it was one hundred and two degrees 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:58.600 and the weight to get in in your vehicle because 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:03.600 of the security checktion every like that was twelve hours long. 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:09.560 Twelve home, honey, twelve hours in line to get into 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:11.520 one hundred and two degree music festival. 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.240 Man, that's a long time, but it's worth it to 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:17.680 hear me yelling about holagauchs. Right. 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.399 So I got this funny thing. We'll get the audio 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:21.920 for you later. Elon tweeted it out. Somebody put together 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:25.919 this montage. Bernie has been so complaining about oligarchs have 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:31.080 taken over since the early nineties, so thirty three years. 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.679 I think the first one's nineteen ninety two where he says. 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:37.119 I have bad news. Oligarchs have taken over our country. 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:40.520 And he says every year for the past thirty some years, 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:42.800 it's so funny. Well, here's a little of it right here. 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:47.000 This great country of ours is moving very rapidly in 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:50.359 the direction of oligg that's in the United States of 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:56.960 America today is increasingly becoming. 0:18:55.119 --> 0:19:00.640 More and more moving toward in oligo in the direction 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:05.840 of oligachy, even more rapidly in the direction of an 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:07.200 oligos twenty. 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:11.920 Great country is evolving into an oligaut twenty fourteen. 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:15.440 Evidently it is called. 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:19.760 Olia, and that is the system we are rapidly moving, Todd, 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:23.720 this is a bunch of twenty our country rapidly into 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:29.359 the direction of olig Here's twenty eight of billionaires on 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:35.640 moving this entire planet seven years to get an oligauchic society's. 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:38.840 But you get the point, Sanders, How great is that? 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:43.080 Oh my gosh, play the hits, man, get up there 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:45.480 and for Coachella. You're a band playing at Coachella. Don't 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:47.400 play some new track from your album. 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:49.800 They haven't heard. Play the hits, right, Like I said, 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:53.120 that's his free bird. He's not gonna send you home 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:58.560 without playing and down with the olig Come on, hilarious. 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:05.960 It is hilarious, hilarious. So this is more than dissecting 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:10.119 the recent past Joe Biden's senility in the cover up 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:13.760 of it. It's understanding media to a large extent, and 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:16.479 it was funny. In going through this piece by Beckett Adams, 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:19.159 I was reminded of a couple of things that have 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:21.320 guided us through the years, and it's you know, I'm 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:23.879 not patting ourselves on the back. It's like blind pigs 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:28.240 finding acorns. But he starts talking about how Mike Allen, 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:31.560 who co founded Axios, did a podcast with Barry Weiss, 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:34.920 the Fabulous Berry Weiss of the Free Press, talking about 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:39.040 the cover up of the senility, and he talks a 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:41.160 lot about it, and it's worth pointing out that Axios 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:44.040 actually had one of their best reporters, Alex Thompson, who 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:49.240 was reporting accurately on Biden's deterioration, which is fairly unique. 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:53.000 So I'm not here to kick Axios, But so Alan says, 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:55.680 the medius coverage of Biden's health was quote all the 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:59.080 worst parts of reporter brains coming together. And there's the 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:02.640 group thing, monothink and the cluelessness. And this is where 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:05.280 the American people see something, sense something, and they're not 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:07.960 seeing it reflected in news outlets that they used to trust. 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:12.520 And so specifically with the Biden health, people discounted what 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:14.280 they saw with their own eyes, ignored it. And this 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:16.359 is the reporter group think part of it. There's this 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:19.600 insecurity herd mentality. You don't want to be separate. It's 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:24.399 like crazy the typical reporter instinct, which is, I mean, 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:27.200 like the opposite of what a reporter ought to be. 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:34.760 You'd think, Yeah, so I've been yelling for years. No, No, 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:39.200 I've been yelling about how the media moves in a herd. 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:42.960 And it's remarkable the extent to which, like a herd 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:46.119 of cattle, they don't dare find themselves outside of the 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:50.760 perimeter of the group in a way that's just really again, 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:53.040 it's antithetical to what a reporter ought to be. They 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:55.119 ought to be an independent thinker who follows the facts 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:58.720 and doesn't give a good gd whether other people are 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:02.639 seeing it the same way. And the other thing that 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.080 we've kind of used to guide us through the years, 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:09.280 and it's Beckett Adams point in this article that it 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:11.480 was a lot more than group think. It was that 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:17.520