Episode #10 - Trade Wars: The New Battlefield Is Your Wallet

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ready start oh we starting right now we
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starting right now all right Jr here we go we starting right
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now we starting right now all
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right they say wise men speak because they have something to say yeah they also say fools speak because they have
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to say something well here we are yeah yeah we forget that one well well
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relax all right episode 10 here we
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are diaz yeah man it's episode 10 y'all
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um welcome back nice to be back with you guys um we going to just dig right in on
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this one we're going to talk about some stuff that everybody else has been uh having some discussions about we're
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going to uh give you guys some different insights on it from our perspective try to give you some uh for those of you who
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don't really know much about them a little bit of education on what they are uh we're talking about tariffs right and
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um from what I understand about tariffs is they are an economic tool that when they are used
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they become part of a political instrument as well
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yeah i don't know much about tariffs i mean where I hear about them uh I'm seeing the the news all over the place
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and and it seems to be a very very hot topic yeah well it's uh it's going to be
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a hot topic because of uh the impact that they have like you know on on
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there's not many people that they don't impact so around the world around the world yeah so so last episode we talked
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a little bit about globalization and how the world is all kind of working
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together on a global level right and and now we're getting into tariffs which
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seem to dramatically affect how globalization can and will work right
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and that that that would be another question is like does is this something that is going to impede that effort or
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delay it more than likely so but um more than likely uh the people that are
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involved in it think that it's something that should happen something that should happen first before you know these other
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efforts go forward for the uh how you say the international picture
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so what is a tariff okay uh a
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tariff is a tax that is uh a government imposed tax on imported goods okay
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government imposed tax on imported goods so uh something let's say China
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sent a product to America the government says okay we are going to add this tax
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to the cost of this good yes now
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essentially you could look at it as hey this is the cost of you're paying the cost of doing business right like of
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having this this access right of having this direct plug right that's that's what they look at it like right there's
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all you know they have port I believe that's what they call port tax okay so so who actually pays the
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tariff how does it affect I could I could be mistaken but from the way I understood it the people that
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actually go to the you know the purchasers right the
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purchasers of the stuff that's coming in in those containers they're the ones that are paying the
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tariffs not the country right so that produce the goods it's so like say for
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example China right when China sends something over here us putting tariffs on China's products is not making China
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pay the tariffs china doesn't pay the tariffs our people who picks up their products they pay the tariffs okay so so
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the person or the company that picks up the product that was made in China that
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got chipped over shipped over here they pay this let's say it's a 50%
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tariff right cost of the good pay 50% more to the
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government which then they need to go you know they just bought these goods they're going to sell them here in
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America they're going to have to raise their prices to whoever they sell them to i think the way the government kind
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of looks at it is like hey that's our people over there that's
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our plug like internationally if it wasn't for us like none of you would even be able to go over there and make your relationships and do your business
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so like it's a cost of doing business that's that's just how they look at it but again like you know America um has
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changed quite significantly in the last you know 60 years man where you know we were
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we were the uh manufacturing powerhouse in the world and um when the industrial
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revolution happened and all this and then you know uh I I don't remember who
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it was but uh one of our presidents decided that they were going to start outsourcing ing um all of the production
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right and the manufacturing in America and uh take it to China and the first thing that we saw was uh the impact on
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Detroit uhhuh right because car manufacturers right detroit was the the biggest car manufacturer
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uh car car manufacturing place in the world and um as soon as they got up out
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of there when much time went by Detroit is like one of the most violent places
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in the country detroit is poor like Detroit is gutter going through it like
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Shy Town like like one of those places like Yeah it needs it needs some uh it needs some jobs for them people they
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need some infrastructure there they need some they need some stuff like that there and um that's that's why uh you
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know you know my family is a very strong union family and like yeah we need unions
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right we need to be able to like protect the the jobs of the people like a lot of times you know it's a sad thing business
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is business you know and like when businesses are looking out for businesses they're definitely not looking out for the interest of the
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people you know what I mean yeah I'm seeing that so when tariffs go out how
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they affect consumers is price hikes so consumers will see that a price
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of something that once was $1 is now
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$1.25 simply because well they added an extra tariff
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now for that product to be sold to the consumer it's going to be a higher price
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because they just added an extra tax on top of it and that could happen like literally any day every day any day it
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can happen in accordance to what was brought in and what that tariff was right hey yeah so my boy my boy my boy
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Fat Joe shout out to Fat Joe fat Joe as he says yesterday's price is not today's
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price says that yeah that's F Joe's thing yeah yesterday's price is not today's price
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what was he talking about in reference to oh man I don't remember it could have been anything it could have been cheap
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Chinese toy it could have been some shoes cuz you know Joe's a shoe man too joe Joe's one of the dopest shoe men
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really yeah that man's off the chain when it come to shoes fashion and shoes fat Joe's so he he's one of those dudes
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that has uh he stay clean bro closet full like from top to bottom rows
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of shoes and all this stuff i I don't know if he still does but I know for a while he had ownership in a in a big
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like badass shoe store in Manhattan oh wow like no bro is really locked in on his fashion bro wow yeah i mean he
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definitely is fashionable i see him out there yeah shout out shout out Terra Squad Fat Joe Pistol Pete man um yeah uh
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JB all the boys man all that wow so uh
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so consumers get price hikes importers they see their margins
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shrink because all of a sudden they were able to buy this good for $1 and sell it
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for $1.50 now they're buying it for a dollar they're paying 50 cents for the tariff
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and now they got to sell it for $2 yeah or or which shows a shrinking margin
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right they make the same amount but the margin shrunk right right a small
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business they get affected by disruptions yes so and by disruptions uh
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what we mean by that is is uh are these goods readily available to be sold well
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when tariffs are imposed there's a time frame
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where are they still shipping the stuff out is are are the uh are the purchasers
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the importers are they like I don't want to do this no more that's a very good question but there's another thing to be
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considered with that another thing that brings impact is the
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function of the port the efficiency of the port yeah wherever they're being shipped into um there's something I'd
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like to share with everybody that um I don't know if everybody knows about but
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you know I go to San Francisco you know I live uh on the other side of the Bay i go over the Bay Bridge you know I've
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been back in California since 2012 every time I'm super observant every time I go over to Bay
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Bridge I look to the left and I see there's this big lot of um cargo ships
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and he's talking about in the bay in the bay this is not a parking lot but a parking lot for big cargo ships they're
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they're outside or oil tankers right well mo Yeah all of them but mostly it's
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it's car uh cargo ships but the uh that area right there is basically right in
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front of the port of Oakland okay totally so in uh when I first came back here to
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California um in 2012 there would be anywhere
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uh between five to nine ships that would be sitting out
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there not often on the high end though most of the time it was a smaller number they were pretty efficient getting them
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ships in getting them out you know these guys are coming from AC across far all
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the side of the world through the water it take them a long time to get here they need to get offloaded and they need to go yeah so they're bringing in the
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cargo ships stacked like four or five high all the different colors right you
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know and and then they they have those huge cranes that come over gantry cranes
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and these other types what it's magnetized right to grab grab them and
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then lift them off put them into the port take them off the ship yeah so um
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around uh 2019 when when COVID came about I had noticed damn there was
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between literally between like 18 to 22 ships sitting out there in the water
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the same way okay so before it was between 5 to 9 yeah and then when CO hit
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there was like double triple ships if you looked out there it was just
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littered with cargo ships wow uh on that side you know between the bridge and the
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port uh-huh okay well CO passed time went by and
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uh then it was maybe like back down to
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maybe between 8 to 13 14 okay that's what was normal now and and you're
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talking now being uh 2024 2025 starting 2025 well last week I took a drive over
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there and when I looked over to my dismay would you believe how
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many ships I saw that were cargo ships i'm like zero whoa there was not one single cargo
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ship which for me was immediate cause for concern this is not this is
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different like and not in a good way because from my understanding those things that are coming in is what we
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survive off of here these are our things like when those things sit out in the water and
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they don't get offloaded fast like they're days behind and all this
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stuff we feel inflation locally they have to charge more for stuff locally because they don't literally know when
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they're going to be able to get this stuff off this ship yeah or they don't they don't even know the ship situation
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yeah in a All they know is all they know is their stuff is not here on time so guess what they got to do scarcity thing
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yeah exactly what do they got to do with what's left turn up the price on it you understand so now we're in this place
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i'm sitting out there i'm like "Dang there's no cargo ships." But wouldn't you know what there was there was a
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dozen or better oil tankers there i said to myself "Dang." And this is just an
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assumption but I said to myself man we're really going to start feeling this
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stuff like uh So does that mean the price of oil is going to go down well in
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my opinion what I think is happening I think they're picking up those ships are laying in wait to pick up oil from the
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refinery in Richmond because if I'm not mistaken the refinery in um Martinez is
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closing down too so they're trying to get out as much oil out of our country as possible and sell
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that stuff up out of the country so we can get some money in because right now this trade thing with everything else is
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and let's assume that applies to petroleum as well but those are different goods that's a
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different thing that's a different market but it's it's a it's quite a big it's quite a big deal man all right so
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getting into this information we put together and some of the history of
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tariffs right there's what's called the Smoot Holly Act in
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1930 so tariffs have been going on for a long time this is not just some new
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thing created um by our new president although some people think it it may be
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uh tariffs have been around for a long time all the way back to 1930 there was an there was an act that was created
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because uh essentially it worsened the Great Depression by inciting global
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retaliation tar tariffs existed long before that even it's just that that specific event was a monumental event
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that people will remember forever because the Great Depression was already happening people were already suffering
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people was already starving in the streets and then these people thought
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that this was a good idea that was going to fix the problem and all it did was make everything much worse yeah so it
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was signed into law in 1930 was a protectionist trade measure
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that sharply raised tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods its intention was
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to shield American industries from foreign competition during the onset of
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the Great Depression but it ultimately deepened the economic
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crisis so over 20 countries retaliated with their own tariffs causing
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international trade to drop by over 60% us exports fell from 5.2 2 billion in
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1929 to 1.7 billion in 1933 contributing to mass
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unemployment the problem that we have here is that because of the party system
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right that there's no alignment there never is going to be like a a a mission that's a mission that everybody
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feels is the same mission that we need to accomplish as a country like it's like either a blind following to a party
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or they fall in love with a president right and like when people have a blind
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following or this uh they're so enamored by a figure
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um they're less likely to look to hold those figures accountable right yeah we
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spoke about this a few weeks back different types of bias yeah that's our issue that we have here it's
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confirmation bias is what we're talking about where you have somebody that you're like "Oh I'm I'm idolizing
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them." So anything they say you're just going to confirm your thought that they
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are the greatest that's scold and see the thing is it's very interesting as I said its intention was to shield
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American industries from foreign competition it's quite interesting
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there have been some people who wanted to do that and then obviously there were
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some people that made the decision that they were going to sell all that stuff to other countries and do the exact opposite and
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now we're in a certain position where we're the biggest consumer in the world
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okay and our money is being spent elsewhere because we ourselves do
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not have the manufacturing capabilities and it will take a very long time to put
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that in place that is it's it's pretty much unrealistic
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yeah we'll get to that we we have some evidence on on that some information that we could get to
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um you know you said something that that kind of sticks with me a little bit you
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said we are the biggest consumer in the world but in fact what what I'm kind of
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hearing is that we're saying we we don't necessarily want to
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buy your goods anymore because we're imposing these
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tariffs which makes the price go up which makes us not want to buy their goods which could potentially
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increase the ability for us to create those goods ourselves i wouldn't say it
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would increase the ability like so the idea is the need for certain the need
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for certain but the ability not so much so the way to look at it is this the way the the
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way that uh it's looked at by people without saying any names is we're going
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to make these tariffs so high that people here are not going to
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want to pay for this and people over there are going to
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get pissed off because their stuff's not getting bought at a at a good rate and
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we ourselves is going to force us to start doing this manufacturing right the sentiment is
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good you know what I mean the intent is well but you know as I the road to hell
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is paved with good intentions this is this is a business this is a business uh
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a business type of of venture going on
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but there's too many other components that can contribute to its outcome like
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if it was just us saying "Hey we're going to put these tariffs on and that's
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it cool." But no that's not it there's a bunch of other stuff there's a bunch of other tariffs that are being put on by
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other countries and there's a bunch of other deals that people are making with other people that are uh potentially
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going to take customers away from us let's get into some of these specifics
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cuz we're we're talking about it before we really laid the groundwork yeah right so in
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in some of this data that we got you know we we use the internet some of it
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may be perfectly on point some of it may be slightly off because we use the internet it is the internet we did use
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AI no but it has to be right though it comes from the internet oh yeah that's how it works everything from the
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internet is true you know it right um no clickbait here um that being said what
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what we gathered it it talks about Trump era tariffs and this is like buzzwords
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right one of the reasons that we're doing this story is because or this podcast episode is because we know this
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is a very hot topic it's something that myself I don't know anything about
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and I'm eager to learn a little bit educate myself about what's going on as
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everybody continues to talk about this and says how it's going to affect every
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single American citizen and not just American citizen but everywhere around the world these tariffs will affect yeah
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for us this is like entry level education for both of us i don't know nearly as much as I think I should about
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this subject matter either but it's definitely something that I care about people there you go right and I'm an
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American so guess what i care about the American people too right so it's like
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if something is happening and it's pe uh it's peing the interest of everyone and it's impacting all of us we need to lock
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in on it too and see what's going on uh yeah and and us doing this is really us
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trying to let you guys know as our listeners that we're open to learning
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more about this you know something that that has happened as we've got this channel going is we've gotten some great
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comments from our listeners where they've educated us on different things that we didn't fully understand we read
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those comments and then we go to work start learning more and that's kind of what we're trying to accomplish here in
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creating creating the gambler and the guardian and some of these topics that we're choosing so uh back to some of
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these Trump era era tariffs uh it it says that it's increased costs on
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appliances steel and electronics said the average price of a washing machine
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rose by nearly $86 per unit and that's based on the Federal Reserve okay i uh
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the estimated cost to American consumers 1.4 billion per month in
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increased prices and that's from the Peterson Institute
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so you know the Federal Reserve seems like a pretty uh uh you know there
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everybody knows who the Federal Reserve is given some of this source and the Peterson Institute I I've never heard of
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them but um the 1.4 billion per month in increased prices that seems like a lot
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that's astronomical yeah um and the source of a lot of this is the Brookings
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Institution okay well that's crazy it's like that 1.4 billion yeah that's that's
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being paid by by by US citizens right there that's coming out of the pocket of the people yeah an increased amount
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right right um so all this wouldn't be a problem though let me just say this all this wouldn't be a problem if if uh
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President Trump if you would just eliminate uh federal income tax probably
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a lot of people wouldn't feel as strongly about this as they do because they'd have like extra money to like buy
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some of these more expensive items so that's just something for you to think about big dog yeah
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okay uh yeah le let's ask our politicians to remove taxes
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isn't that like a thing that happens it's illegal federal income tax is illegal so why does it happen then they
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we were in a horrible place at a different time in history our government was in a horrible place and our government told the people "Hey we're
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going to start taxing you it's not going to be forever this is only going to last a certain amount of time." And they just never stopped oh so this is like give
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them an inch they take them out oh 100% yeah yeah we're not tax taxes or Yeah uh
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yeah he was talking about eliminating taxes brother too okay yeah I haven't heard that yeah look that up yeah that's
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Maybe we should do an episode on that that would be so dope eliminate federal income tax because taxing is something
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that is done in um it's not something that's supposed to be done in a democracy
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it's that's something that comes from a monarchy man you know since we're on this whole taxes thing I mean we don't
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have a king i see people so
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fearful related to every year when taxes tax time comes around that's Yeah
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because they'll take you they will take they will take everything from you if you do not pay your taxes they will take
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all of your stuff of value they will take it and they will sell your put you in jail that's what they'll do they're
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going to get their money out of you they going to get that labor up out of you they going to get however much money per
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day they get for every person that's locked up yeah they going to get all theirs up out of you yeah so it's crazy
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this just brings up something you know we you're taking people to prison for not paying an
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illegal tax this is crazy so over the last couple of months you
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know you've opened up a little bit with me about like your family history and your descendants uh coming from
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literally slavery right how is what we're talking about
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now any different yeah and you can't
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imagine how people that was like descendants of slavery feel about this this is to us this is just like this is
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ab this is absurd it's like this shouldn't even be a conversation but we know these people to be takers because
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they took us okay there's not many like if you look
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at the history of the United States who came here everybody came here everyone
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except Native Americans no no they was here yeah that's what I'm talking here
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that's not what I'm talking about there's one group of people who's here that didn't come here
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who's here and it's not the Native Americans
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okay that's black people because they were brought here well they came here they didn't come
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here when you come somewhere it's by choice they were taken and brought
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oh okay i kind of see where you're coming from that's the difference and
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like like it's it's been a hard road for these people you know what I'm saying to
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get to this point to be somewhat closer to an equal playing
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field right and it's still not quite that many may say yeah you know one of
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these quotes that uh I've heard my whole life it's usually older people that say
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it it's something like uh life ain't fair
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that's but it's always easy for um most of the time it's the people who
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are not on the receiving end of the hardship that say that statement i I totally agree with this so it's always
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like yo whenever they say it it's like STF you homie like yeah like come on
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yeah I see that happening a lot nowadays where it's like everybody has some kind of gripe
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right real quick I'm sorry i'm sorry i had to do this real quick do that shout
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out to the world according to Jen and Carolyn
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that's our people right there if any of you guys uh are watching this y'all hear me hear say that give a give a give a
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check out to uh their podcast they're dope very outspoken um very smart ladies
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and um man you better be ready to keep up cuz they be ripping oh yeah they go
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fast through their dialogue in fact they one of the episodes I listen to of their
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podcast is when they spoke about tariffs and they kind of broke it down
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in in a much more uh educated way than
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than we're going about this that's because they're much smarter than we are yeah well pretty much yeah i think
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that's the deal they are much smarter much more educated than we are so they're going about it in a little bit
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different way um so tariffs often hurt the people they
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aim to protect especially the middle and the working class right so a couple
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questions that we have here just asking our listeners who benefits most from tariffs
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in today's global economy [Music] that's a good question
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i don't I don't know i think the
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government the governments the governments uh internationally that are taking part
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in these type of activities are the ones that are benefiting from I don't see the benefit
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at all i have no clue so let me let me just let me just say let me just say this i'm 43 years old only one time in
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my life have I ever seen the government give money to people ever and that was
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during COVID that was actually President Trump as well i've never seen the
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government do anything for the people that the people were like "Yo our government's looking out for us i'm so
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happy our tax dollars are going towards that." I've never heard those statements from any of my peers or any of my elders
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or any of my youngsters i've heard lots of politicians say how they're helping
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the people yeah it's their job to say that but again it's like we're down here on the ground what do we see are you
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guys Do you guys like Have you guys ever like looked at something and been like proud of it knowing that your tax dollar
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went into building something that you can actually access
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that you can actually You know what I'm saying on that note we have roads come
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on bro we have I I mean hey dude we have industries roads most of
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those roads are maintained by local municipalities and states that's not
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federal un understood understood um but
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but it is government specifically in California CALR
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takes care of our roads and bridges in California yeah like on the highway right highways and bridges but in terms
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of like other roads and stuff that's local municipalities and that's a big part of what we talk about our taxes a
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big part of our taxes uh bring uh help to make up the actual net worth of the
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country because our net worth of our country is what we have right but
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there's also a net worth that they have that's based on what they think we have in
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terms of resources that are still in the ground you know what I'm saying so there's two different figures for that
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and they're very very different very different figures yeah um so some of the
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headlines that I've I've seen buzzing around China eliminates tariffs on Yemen
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imports yemen yes that [Music]
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uh China bans rare earth exports to the US
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and US retaliates with tariff hikes up to 300%
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so that like stopping those rare earth rare earth imports uh um from coming in
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here is stop a lot of our production of a lot of a lot of fundamental things
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that are needed to operate stuff like it's pretty
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crazy that's going to hurt we can't replace them like who else like where
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are we going to get them from yeah i've also seen that the Chinese how do you
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pronounce his name Nathan xi Jinping xi Jingping mhm uh is doing some kind of trade
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diplomacy with Vietnam Cambodia and Malaysia as well as others to
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essentially make us realize in America that were the problem essentially yeah
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so like basically he's going to these other people and saying to them
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"Hey if you don't like how they work come work over here for starters you're
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not going to have to pay any terrorists how's about that and we'll buy everything you got." Seems like a pretty
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good deal that's seem like a good deal for anybody sounds sweet to me yeah so
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there's some strategy behind a lot of this and what we did in coming into this is we used a a famous famous book um
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written by Sun Sue uh it's called uh the art of war uh to kind of use some
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examples from the art of war to explain some of the tariffs and what may be
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happening all and all all great leaders uh military strategists
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um and generals have all read that book and it's a it's it's a vital part of all
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types of warfare all throughout history since it was made yes so it says tariffs
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are being used as economic warfare and so in SunSu's terms all warfare is based
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on deception and Sunsu himself was a brutal military tactician he was no joke
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ruthless ruthless um these moves aren't just about money
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they signal alliance shifts production
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reorientation and strategic aggression so an example of this is
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Yemen gets China as a buyer for all exports the US loses leverage in the
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Middle East yeah any little piece of leverage that you can get in the Middle East you want
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to keep that so So and I don't know much about this right but it it appears that
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the US used to buy a bunch of Yemen products products from
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Yemen now we're essentially not going to be buying those
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products because China said "I'll buy them all and we won't have Think about
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think about the impact on a country like Yemen you know they're not balling out of control or nothing like that." And so
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like what they have to sell like it needs to be bought right and like if it's like slow to get bought because
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people are like man I don't know if I really want to pay that for that because I was paying this just last week and I
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don't know if I'm going to be able to sell it for what I need to sell it for to make my bottom line mhm and uh yeah
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Yemen is like "Yo we ain't got time for this we need to eat." And bro comes over and it's like "Hey guys um whatever you
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got bring it i'll take all of it good no
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tariffs it sounds like good business bro yeah um so these headlines reflect
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how modern economic power plays out like chess
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with tariffs as the new pawns knights and kings
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so what does economic warfare look like in the age of global trade
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super scary i mean it's super scary my problem is
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um everyone is only count the pieces that's on the board like me I look at
37:37
everything like when I say that I mean before all this started we had
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quite a significant multibillion dollar deficit
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to China is it billion or trillion oh one
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of those huh dang i mean I I would Whatever it is whatever it is
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specifically to them i understand the way things are you know there's a lot of different
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components you know to be considered when you're dealing with international trade and relations it's not straight
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business it's not dollar for dollar that's not how it works but when you owe somebody such a
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substantial amount of money you know where I come from you don't posture on them you know you you
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kind of maintain some you got like my question is okay if we're not happy with
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the uh business um relationship that can be renegotiated but what I don't like
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is not having gratitude for somebody that I owe
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and I think like the United States has that ego like bro those people help us to sustain life
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in our country and we owe them obviously what we owe them we could not pay we
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couldn't have paid for it over however many years and they're still doing it for us
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what's really going on here we're all dependent on each other is the deal and
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and so going to ask you i don't know all right that being said
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um when someone is taken hostage like let's say you're in war another country
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you are you are now captured prisoner of war prisoner of war yes and you've been
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there for years yeah at some point you have admiration for
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those people that feed you because they haven't killed you and they haven't killed you yet that's right so does that
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mean you should have gratitude towards them i think so because they give you food i think so allowed you to stay
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alive i Yeah absolutely they've they're your enemy yeah but
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they're taking care of me they're they're they're they're allowing me to see the next day to have hope that
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I'm going to get up out of here so they're allowing me they're allowing me that that they don't have like that's
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the problem what we have here we have such an entitlement issue that we think all these things are givens dude
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nothing's a given dude that's the thing that I'm kind of learning nothing's a given dude but if you're if you're going
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to take this to another level um essentially like poking the bear creating creating
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conversation it's like you spoke about um you know black people came to America
40:37
they didn't come to America they were brought to America and to to correct
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that statement specifically there was a small very small fraction of black people that were here in America living
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amongst the natives before uh Spain and the rest of the Europeans came over here so when they came here
40:57
before they started bringing slaves here there was already black people here
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this is facts yeah okay
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i don't know this to be 100% true but what I've heard is the black people that
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were sold to come to America they were sold by other black
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people some of them were some of them some of them were okay so so that is a
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fact yes there are some tribes that um were have said to do that i know the
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names of them but I'm not gonna say that because it's not it doesn't matter but
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yeah um so so should those people be grateful to the people that sold them to
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come to America those people that were brought here as slaves have nothing to be grateful for
41:51
other than what they think they were being fed yeah but that's this is what this is why I'm saying there's some it's
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a way it's not the same thing there's this is uh this is a big topic is why
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why I'm bringing this up and like challenging a little bit right it is a sensitive that's one thing that uh this
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whole like us going down the road and talking about this stuff for me was like
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you know I was pretty apprehensive about doing this um we started going through
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it uh in preparation of today and filming and and through the process we
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almost just like scrapped it did we um did we get down to what we had
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found here so yeah it's coming up it's coming up some of this other stuff that we have yes right so this to me uh if
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anybody wants to know about tariffs right to me this is kind of like the
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elephant in the room right now in terms of the end result right what what do we want right the goal of the tariffs is as
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Americans as Americans is to make it so America itself is more self- sustaining
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by way of being able to manufacture a great more of its own goods yes yeah I believe
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so okay so we went and asked
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um how long it would take for
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America to be able to build the
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infrastructure to be able to manufacture everything that we are getting right now
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imported from China yep and what we found is it would
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take a decade or more and significant investment potentially hundreds of
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billions of dollars for the US to build its infrastructure to fully replace China's imports this includes not only
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building new factories and production facilities but also reskilling the workforce and addressing policy
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uncerties that can hinder long-term investments so addressing policy uncertainties it's
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almost impossible to get everyone to agree upon this yeah especially here in America
44:25
it's like we we have a serious problem with the two sides fighting against each
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other and and literally blindly following one side whether it's good or bad correct the blind following is awful
44:38
but also another big problem is if you can uh go back up
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was reskilling the workforce bro yeah it seems like
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Americans don't want to do a lot of the certain work that is necessary i was going to say Americans don't want to do a lot of work at all
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and and you know it is it is I don't know this i'm not I'm uncertain of the number but it is said that you know this
45:05
this next generation of kids like a high high percentile of them looking to be content creators like bro people ain't
45:11
looking to get their hands dirty anymore man because we are entitled because like
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people were born into the world where nothing was made here like there was like construction workers and a few
45:24
other types of workers but not not not nearly as many types of manufacturing jobs like it's not cool like people
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don't think that's cool to work so we've taken for granted what it took to build everything
45:38
that now we have here in America as they say how soon we forget yeah um I I would
45:44
also say that there's other pieces to that and the youth do not have the same
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opportunities that let's say the baby boomers had when they were young for instance well the
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baby boomers got to like work jobs when they were like eight and stuff like eight and 12 like they they they there
46:03
was no such thing as a work permit bro when they were kids none of that stuff so it's it's it's it's starkly different
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you know well also baby boomers houses were like $12,000 $24,000 maybe in in the heart of San
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Francisco $43,000 right today this is the same amount of money
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today but what they paid back then now it's the same amount it's inflation
46:27
things cost so much more money you see what I'm saying all right so you're you're going to tell me that uh my
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grandparents who bought their house in South San Francisco for I think it was $22,000
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okay and after they passed it was sold for 1 right two by 2x4s 2x4s back then
46:51
when their house was built was costing like like uh eight cents homie okay so
46:57
check this the cost of building materials and like everything like it's just over time so you're going to say in
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50 years Mhm that that house that went from 20,000 to 1.4 million okay which I
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It's pretty hard for me to do the math on this right but I know that 500% would be $100,000 the market
47:20
right right so we're talking about 5,000% more than 5,000% okay right and
47:28
now if I was to go buy that house for 1.4 4 million you're saying in 50 years
47:36
it's going to be 5,000% more than what it was and I'll be able to have my
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like the same kind of feeling the same opportunity that that those grandparents
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had at the rate that everything else is also moving and growing with it it's
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possible it it sounds like well what we built society based on always growing it's not
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sustainable and that's what my point is and I'm just asking the question no it's
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not sustainable because I'm looking at this going okay so 5,000% growth from
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you know 50 60 years since they purchased their house to now right and I'm like okay so I'm going to go pay 1.4
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million for that that means it's going to be like like hundreds of millions of
48:28
dollars is what that's going to be like that should that should also give that should also give you a more of a real
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realistic perspective on really really the value what the value of the dollar really is right yeah so so what's
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happening is it's in my mind I'm trying to make sense of all this the
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opportunity cuz I hear people say that's how much less the dollar is valued we're
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going to have to charge this much more money just to get something for this i hear people say all the time about our
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youth the kids don't want to work the kids don't want to do what we had to do
49:05
and them kids be ready th this is this is uh my perspective on it is those kids
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don't have near the opportunity that you had you were sold a bill of goods that
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this is how it things were now all the truth is coming out and we're able to
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see what is actually real and we're learning how to
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disseminate from what were lies what was real and what was completely fake and
49:35
made up to control us the level of critical thinking that
49:40
we have nowadays compared to what we used to have has gone down the drain however there's certain people and
49:47
certain areas that that we have really honed in and tried to uptick this by
49:52
trying to create knowledge and use our critical thinking heads to disseminate
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what was truth what was fake what was a complete lie to control us to go well
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what is our opportunity so you say people want to get on YouTube hey man
50:15
we're one of those people it's tough it's tough it's a tough road yeah oh it's a tough road i mean we've been at
50:20
it for four months now we're We're seeing growth we're seeing you know progress i'm really enjoying this in
50:27
fact every two weeks when we get to come do this it's this is like the the the
50:34
best part of of life right now because I get to let it all out man some of the
50:40
frustrations that I have in the in the world to get to learn about it together from a different viewpoint listening to
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yours you know um and then also uh in the middle after we've we've done it we
50:53
get to see what the people say about what we put out i don't know if I agree
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on uh there being less opportunities for kids
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like they're different for sure different opportunities yeah but there might be more for them though because of
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accessibility so you're saying they could do anything
51:15
meaning like there's like kids that are like 10 years old 12 years old who like
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got rocking Instagram accounts who are like bosses like shoe barons like like when it comes to like certain shoes and
51:27
stuff like that they're like in the game you know what I mean they're getting their money like we we didn't have the opportunity to do anything like that
51:33
like the That's true that stuff was there's a whole bunch of stuff that's like that that was not it wasn't there
51:39
or we didn't have the accessibility because the internet wasn't quite there like yeah smartphones wasn't the thing we didn't have those until way later you
51:46
know what I mean like yeah for sure and these kids are like born with this stuff you know and it's like putting them into
51:52
other places that we we just didn't have access to Yeah there's lots of unknowns yeah you
51:59
know um I think that's like a a real thing that's happening nowadays is is
52:05
nobody knows what's going to actually happen we have the fear of what AI could potentially do to us humans but then
52:14
also the blessings that it could bring you know yeah um we have like skilled
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labor that is like the only thing in my head like "Okay well I need to go get my
52:27
haircut right?" Is will there be a machine that could do this probably just
52:32
said haircut shout out Mama Lori Baji there you go
52:38
love you um you know that's definitely something where it's like you're still going to
52:45
want to go get your haircut and pay that person for the service of of doing it
52:50
and they're skilled right right um yeah work still needs to get done to
52:57
keep up this society that we live in and these things that we take for granted yeah and that's that's where we have
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this issue like I said reskilling the workforce like okay let's let's first like figure
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out if we really got enough people to actually want to do the work let's just do that right so SunSu had a quote the
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supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting
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so some of the things that that we see have happened here is China has banned rare earth
53:30
exports right to to the United States it impacts US military
53:37
tech electronic vehicle supply chains
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so it's like they're technically not fighting we're not like dropping a a
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boom yeah this is another um aspect of what is considered a cold
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war right when I think of cold war I think of the
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um Russia United States and all these uh posturing a bunch of posturing and
54:08
blustering and all these weapons that became the legal arms trade later
54:14
that's what I think of the Lord of War right that movie oh which is uh in real life Victor Bout
54:23
which was the guy that we traded for Britney Grinder that's who we gave away we gave
54:30
away Victor Bout the Lord of War for Britney Grinder that's what we did
54:36
welcome home Britney Grinder yeah imagine that but I hope it's if it goes
54:42
down Britney that you so dope that you could get to blocking the missiles cuz girl man okay what else we got
54:54
um so there's a
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redirect 150 billion in trade from US to the global south yeah so everybody else
55:08
it goes everywhere else are people going to start doing business with other people so China courts the EU with trade
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incentives offers tariff-free access to Yemen Iran Russia and Africa
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so essentially they're creating a whole alliance just pay attention africa they
55:30
didn't say any any country in Africa they said the continent homie yeah like
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y'all wake up and Africa is what the motherland why because it has the most
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natural resources of any place in the world that make China's look small and they about to get in with them they
55:49
already have they already have business over there though you know oh I've heard this i've heard that uh years and years
55:55
ago China started uh mining yep getting their foothold in there and starting the
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process they have a foothold all over the world bro if anywhere that you go bro you will be surprised bro there's
56:07
Chinese everything especially what shocked me was going through the Caribbean
56:14
what do you mean dude there's Chinese people all through the Caribbean everywhere you go there's Chinese people
56:20
and but they're like they're influenced by the culture
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of where they live so they're not like Chinese you feel me oh yeah just like Chinese Americans right yeah but like
56:32
it's so dope when you see a Chinese person like me nothing say all right all
56:38
right like speaking deep Jamaican pouts while you're like what deeper than I can
56:44
deeper than I can understand i'm like what the hell and um yeah man they everywhere but see they stick together
56:52
man i love that's what I love about the Chinese culture man they take care of each other and they plan on doing stuff for their kids and their kids kids and
56:59
all that that's what I love about them yeah they're definitely playing uh chess mhm you know they ain't playing no check
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mm-m uh so US response threatens 200 to 300% tariffs on Chinese EVs but the
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supply chain vulnerability is totally exposed
57:20
so it says the uh the battlefield has shifted now it's about disrupting trust
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trade flow and economic morale quietly and surgically oh man and that's
57:38
the thing you beware of those who operate in
57:44
silence that guy was not over there posturing that guy's over there you know what like yeah hold on hey y'all pull
57:51
the plane around uh tell them them and them uh we pulling up and we got deals
57:56
to make mhm damn
58:02
um so the global trade war who's in the crossfire the rest of how is the rest of
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the world adapting china's big boat doctrine
58:13
smaller nations survive the economic storm by allying with China vietnam
58:19
Cambodia and Yemen become trade partners the EU potentially against US dominance
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africa and Latin America new investment zones for minerals and agriculture example USS Truman rendered
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inoperative due to part shortage real consequence of global uh
58:43
interdependence so even that with the USS Truman guys we got to pay
58:49
attention they be like you know all this like posturing like yeah if anybody touches our stuff we going to light them
58:55
up yeah they've been lighting up the USS Truman to the point that it's inoperable
59:01
like you start to tell people "Hey I'm going to When you say lighting them up dropping bombs on it or really they're
59:08
just not allowing parts to get through that they would use to fix the boat."
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Yeah but the what I'm trying to say is for
59:19
these people to be attacking that ship they do not respect us they're not
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They do not fear the consequences neither and that's why I say you know what I've
59:34
never done i've never told anybody I was going to punch them in the face before i never told anybody I was going to kick
59:39
their butt yeah if I was going to punch somebody in the face I would just punch them in the face and that's the problem we keep
59:48
telling people that if you do something that we're going to punch you in the face and we haven't punched anybody in the face like that in a long time like
59:54
we keep getting into little schoolyard fights you feel me but we're not We ain't punched anybody in the face like that in a long time bluff is being
1:00:00
called essentially boom they're calling our bluff they don't believe Hey bro they don't believe us bro they're like
1:00:05
"Oh yeah so look we going to keep throwing rocks at your biggest ship." Yo bro i believe that was a car it's a aircraft carrier bro the biggest ships
1:00:13
we That's the biggest ship we got yeah so yeah this is this is something
1:00:19
that I hear people speak about related to government as well they say "Hey you
1:00:26
know keep on making laws and laws and laws." It's like who's going to actually
1:00:33
enforce what you're putting in law well people will
1:00:38
follow because they blindly follow right it's like but not all people yeah but
1:00:43
the majority is the majority and they're the ones that's the followers the sheeps the ones that's don't have the internal
1:00:50
voice the ones that are just like okay yeah and that's why they're the ones that are they're the ones that are
1:00:56
constantly being taken advantage of there you go and then the other ones that are like who's actually going to
1:01:02
enforce this they're out there doing what they want to do just like in
1:01:07
Oakland and SF and these these places where you mean like the career bippers
1:01:13
yeah there you go yeah uh you know breaking uh windows in order to get into
1:01:19
the car to where it's like "All right man i'm just going to leave my car door unlocked so you could just open it i'm
1:01:25
I'm going to leave the windows down so you don't break the window so you can see that there's nothing in here right?"
1:01:31
And um because the reality is there is very little
1:01:37
enforcement they put the law out there but it seems like in a way society is
1:01:45
benefiting those people that just go and do what they need to do and see like
1:01:50
that's how things happen over time that become unconstitutional like so it's
1:01:56
like how long can every 15 seconds a
1:02:01
every 15 seconds a car is being broken into in the city of San Francisco is that Wow
1:02:08
that that was last year's statistic so if that's
1:02:14
happening for how long does that go on until they say you know what we can't
1:02:20
have enough cops out everywhere to catch these people so you know what we should do we should start putting cameras up
1:02:26
everywhere like Europe but that's unamerican cuz it's unconstitutional because now everybody's
1:02:33
worried about them being watched just walking by doing their normal stuff but you don't want them criminals though
1:02:40
right but you you see you have to be able to pick your poison you have to
1:02:45
know hey something is part of something or not you can't have everything you
1:02:52
cannot have every You cannot have your cake and eat it too you know what I mean so later on when they got all these
1:02:59
cameras up because there wasn't enough enforcement and all these threats was being made but nothing got done don't
1:03:05
come crying later talking about oh it's unconstitutional well I don't know bro and I agree with
1:03:12
that i agree it's unconstitutional i don't want cameras Yeah everywhere but damn what's going to stop
1:03:20
Yeah i don't What's going to stop all the killing in Chicago what's going to stop all the killing in the streets in
1:03:26
Oakland in Detroit in uh uh uh DC what's
1:03:32
going to stop all the bipping in San Francisco what's going to stop all the all these uh uh
1:03:39
uh uh businesses being burglarized in Oklahoma but is it actually are they
1:03:45
really wanting it to stop i mean that's that's the thing the It depends on who
1:03:52
who's they who who actually wants it to stop the business owners and the people
1:03:57
like me and you that live down there that are actually trying to live and work and like there's a lot of people
1:04:03
profit off it not stopping yeah yeah it's not It's not going to end
1:04:10
well that's how that only way things happen right it's like something is actually happening
1:04:17
some bip happens somebody gets caught bipping there's an absolute catastrophe
1:04:23
somebody makes an example out of that person and goes the extra mile and does some inhumane stuff and now the whole
1:04:28
world is paying attention yeah because that person gets gets put in the death penalty now we got to do something about
1:04:35
this you understand that's how things work so uh you know humanity is like that it's uh
1:04:43
uh we first get it's
1:04:48
want need and then have to that's the way we think and it's unfortunate but
1:04:55
that's what happens that's that's where we go
1:05:01
um Okay so what nations stand to gain the most
1:05:08
from a weakened US trade position well it's obvious that China gains but
1:05:17
China the most yeah but but they also hold the majority of our debt right so
1:05:24
if we don't have money to pay them they're just getting it in a different way i would do the same thing i would do
1:05:31
the same thing i'd be like "Bro you know what bro you've been owing me this money for a long time bro and I keep giving
1:05:36
you work bro and you keep not paying me and now you trying me too." Yeah bro you
1:05:42
know what we I might just have to cut you off bro we might have to figure something else out cuz this is not working um
1:05:49
will this global reshuffleling lead to new superpower dynamics seems like it's already kind of
1:05:55
happening the the value of the dollar is is not where it once was
1:06:02
um it seems like these you know now there's literally crypto there's other
1:06:07
type of of currencies out there and it
1:06:13
seems like a bunch of these other nations are starting to join together in
1:06:19
alliance to go against America
1:06:25
yeah that's that's definitely a thing it's is my concern is um directly
1:06:30
is Mexico and Canada yeah we're stuck in the middle of them they like Mexico
1:06:37
Canada and the United States comprises North
1:06:42
America so if uh if if China is an ally
1:06:48
of Mexico and an ally of Canada that puts us in a very very bad
1:06:56
strategical position [Music] uh geographically at that point it's
1:07:03
like we become so small and not only that isolated in a way isolated and if
1:07:09
China decides to annex either one of those places and put something there
1:07:15
militarily that's kind of it's an act of war it's kind of an act of war
1:07:20
and like there's really only so many ways to deal with that before Yeah we're not going to get into
1:07:26
that right now but yeah it's not this is not this is not this is not a good situation so what tariffs mean for
1:07:32
American life and how this how does this all trickle down to your wallet and
1:07:39
world right and so a couple things you can expect is grocery and electronics
1:07:47
inflation which we've been seeing a lot of already i remember not too long ago
1:07:52
it was like eggs right i was like "Oh my gosh eggs are $8 for a dozen." Like all
1:07:58
this crazy stuff that was happening around eggs they weren't that bad bro yeah well it Well I saw a social media
1:08:04
video saying that but I I never saw them $8 a dozen but I bought I bought five dozen eggs every every two three weeks
1:08:12
yeah uh price did go up though they went up for sure but it it wasn't like
1:08:18
what I was hearing bro people were really going hard and exaggerating the eggs bro it was crazy bro oh yeah
1:08:24
there's exaggeration based on just like once I went to the store I was like
1:08:29
"Come on come on guys." Yeah uh but still going up it's not like it was 10
1:08:35
years ago that's for sure delivery and shipping delays definitely going to be some
1:08:42
shipping delays uh you know happening uh if it if it's
1:08:48
coming order from Teimu see what happens i don't see no ships out there guys
1:08:54
i'll see no cargo ships guys it's not looking good job losses in the import
1:08:59
reliant sectors right so a lot of tech is probably going
1:09:05
to have you know which we're seeing a bunch of huge corporations laying off and we're a lot of people are relating
1:09:12
that to AI but we ain't there yet there there's other stuff happening yeah
1:09:17
there's other there's other contributing factors right now uh national divide over globalism verse
1:09:28
protectionism so expand on that a little bit Nathan
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well globalism right this is the same agenda that we spoke of in our last
1:09:41
podcast where there's all these multiple governments of the world that
1:09:49
come together that you know want to work together right mhm so when they say
1:09:56
national divide over globalism versus protectionism it's like yeah
1:10:02
uh protectionism comes in with us being involved in the
1:10:09
UN we have removed ourselves from the UN so now the US isn't in the UN anymore
1:10:15
we're no longer a See that's how Hey guys you see how much he ain't tapped in yet we are not any longer a part of the
1:10:22
United Nations so this is this
1:10:27
uh globalism versus protectionism thing it's like everyone is feel differently about it you know what I mean because
1:10:35
some feel like the the UN benefits more from having us in the UN than we benefit
1:10:41
from us being in the UN you know because of our contributions to the UN right the
1:10:47
astronomical amount that we contribute to the UN but we'll get nothing back
1:10:53
though so how long how long can we do that for and it be fair to us that's the
1:11:00
question from those people's perspective and it's a great question great question and I I I I could see how how how
1:11:09
somebody might think that way and um yeah man there's a divide on it
1:11:15
there's a national divide on both of them because we all don't feel the same way about these these topics and you
1:11:21
know uh hence so some warning signs to watch out for
1:11:29
one that Nathan talked about idle cargo ships at ports or lack thereof or lack
1:11:35
there yeah um bricks the br expansion and this is like the new
1:11:43
currency right so bricks is if I'm not mistaken it's
1:11:49
uh Brazil no Britain it's Brazil russia
1:11:56
russia what is it let me look it up yeah look it up real quick i forget the other countries that
1:12:03
are in bricks but it's going to make our dollar go to nothing brazil Russia India China
1:12:09
and South Africa but there's even more there's Egypt Ethiopia Indonesia Iran and the United
1:12:17
Arab Emirates correct but yeah this is this is going to
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[Music] um if we continue on our current trajectory on the path that we
1:12:30
are our dollar is going to have zero value in the world and zero respect
1:12:36
because the fact of the matter is it's only speculatory the quantity of
1:12:43
natural resources that we have in America that are not yet mined that
1:12:49
comprise our net worth as a country but if you actually look at what
1:12:54
we can count here today it's not nearly substantial enough
1:13:00
to be in the conversation versus that currency
1:13:06
because remember our currency is supposed to be substantiated by gold a
1:13:12
lot of which was taken from the American people and supposed to be returned and was not i don't know about that whole
1:13:19
another story but true um and
1:13:25
um I don't know man like our our dollar you know inflation you know it is inflation yes yeah when we just keep
1:13:32
making printing paper printing paper printing paper and everything you know
1:13:41
well this brick situation it's not good for America yeah
1:13:47
I could see that the only way it can be good for America is it's they're they're going to
1:13:52
come back on some Hey if you can't beat them join them that's what's going to end up happening
1:13:58
because of the power of their currency this is if you combine all of these things together with everything they all
1:14:03
have combined we do not win we become not that that our dollar is no longer
1:14:10
going to be that uh global bomb it's not going to be like that no more yeah I don't think it is
1:14:18
literally at this point anymore um so a final takeaway this isn't
1:14:24
panic it's uh pattern recognition m tariffs aren't just taxes they're trade
1:14:33
bullets and if they're fired understand who's loading the
1:14:43
weapon well interestingly enough like you know um this wasn't something I
1:14:50
learned about in school tariffs and I you know I don't you know I'm sure some
1:14:55
people did but not not many of us and um we all kind of make a certain choice
1:15:02
to educate ourselves to a certain level that we think we need to on politics to be able to make certain educated
1:15:08
decisions but we don't go so deep um God willing this all uh works out or
1:15:16
passes over and um we're able to move on
1:15:21
because it's definitely a concerning thing man you know not like not knowing
1:15:27
what's going to happen the uncertainty of that but I'm glad I know what a tariff is now i'm glad uh you know and
1:15:34
I'm I'm I'm sure everybody else has kind of had to be forced to have more of an education on what tariffs are too and
1:15:41
you know um to be honest I I don't think the regular people even give a crap
1:15:48
they're they're just worried about making sure they could have number one a
1:15:54
roof over their head they're making sure that they could put food in their system you have to
1:16:01
give a crap because if you cannot afford to eat food because stuff's going crazy or there's not there's like Hey bro the
1:16:07
So like you know like the Great Depression right like bro there was famine bro there's
1:16:13
like people were starving in America in the streets like dying yeah I see all these people they're uh they they have
1:16:20
money right now and they're all like "I'm good don't worry about their neighbor." Right your dollar is and well
1:16:27
their dollar isn't worth anything oh you're good and the homie over here that
1:16:32
you weren't worried about that that he's been grinding and that guy's like got an eight pack you're the fat dude on the
1:16:39
couch you're good you good now buddy that's kind of unfortunately the world I
1:16:47
kind of see us going down the road you know um some of these we we have some
1:16:53
little uh little quotes and clips that could make potentially good
1:16:58
uh little things for our socials okay okay
1:17:04
um so uh tariffs are today's warheads huh
1:17:11
quiet lethal and aimed at your wallet damn how's that
1:17:17
sit it It just It just All I'm saying is right if the
1:17:23
government over ye over decades and decades like built all these relationships and messed stuff up right
1:17:30
messed stuff up and we've been paying taxes the whole time right why we got to pay for this right now why why why does
1:17:38
everything always fall back squarely on the shoulders of the American people bro like and when y'all are sitting on a
1:17:44
whole bunch of our money that you have collected from us forever like why don't y'all like do something with our money
1:17:50
that is going to benefit us it's a good point man how about you
1:17:56
don't need bombs when you control supply chains so this is huge in my opinion i
1:18:04
mean I don't want to have bombs right that's a classical example of what was going on years ago uh for four years i
1:18:11
say years ago but before all this stuff hit the fan in Israel with with uh with Palestine and Gaza they had Gaza locked
1:18:17
down so bad they couldn't get food into Gaza and when all this happened and uh the
1:18:25
when that war started happen war when Israel started retaliating against um
1:18:33
Palestine there they were saying on the news all the Hamas's tunnels and Hamas
1:18:39
tunnels dude look bro we've been watching since the 90s bro we know those
1:18:44
tunnels was made to bring food into the country because they was not letting food into the country Bro and that's the
1:18:51
type of stuff we're talking about right now oh wow so that's why they made the tunnels that's why they made the tunnels
1:18:57
this was not Hamas's tunnels and all this fake news that they was making up about it because they was trying to
1:19:05
demonize freaking people but whatever this is a concern
1:19:12
how about China just offered Yemen zero tariffs and bought everything
1:19:19
that's not charity oh it's chess hey that's business dog
1:19:26
so they're doing business hey and I and I and you know what i love Yemen for it
1:19:32
you know why cuz Lemon was Yemen was Yemen was like "You want it all?" They weren't like They weren't
1:19:39
like "You know but we got to keep some for these people over here cuz they already rocking with you want it all you
1:19:44
got the money right now here you go
1:19:51
and they say we'll take it all anything you got we buying yeah opportunistic
1:19:56
when I heard that I was like sounds like Yemen's fairly opportunistic
1:20:01
well anybody would be that has something to sell it's business they got a product hey you better be opportunistic man you
1:20:09
better be opportunistic or else you going to be sitting on product that ain't going to do you no good yeah
1:20:15
that's a real thing that's a That's a bet that's a layup hey thank you Ping thank you you feel me
1:20:24
um why don't you do the next one uh which was the price of groceries the
1:20:29
price of groceries just isn't just about farming anymore it's about foreign
1:20:34
policy whoa well again that's our fault and I
1:20:40
say our American government right when the industrial revolution came about you
1:20:46
know they invented all these big big machines that were to make things produce
1:20:53
faster and you know it's all about bigger faster stronger so what they did at that time was they eliminated um like
1:21:01
organic farming kind of went out because they had started making all these all these chemicals these plant growth
1:21:06
regulators to to make plants grow faster but in actuality what they were doing
1:21:12
was literally poison the poisoning the earth because all of those chemicals that they were using was were saltbased
1:21:18
for the most part and salt kills all organic life right and um yeah same same
1:21:25
stuff um it's bad it's just disgusting in my eyes it's bad bro it's bad like like you
1:21:32
know why you know why they made that decision because somebody had a bunch of chemicals to sell and they needed to get
1:21:38
sold and they sold that snake oil and people got involved and like like literally like suffered for it shortly
1:21:44
thereafter when you know like Great Depression hits like yo
1:21:50
dude nobody's buying we can't afford to buy these chemicals to keep doing this
1:21:56
farming that we're doing it's like bro well but what if those chemicals create
1:22:02
a whole new industry that we could get the money from called the health care
1:22:09
industry because if you eat this food then you get diabetes and you get cancer
1:22:15
then you get these things that's what came with the industrial revolution all those all those things man things got
1:22:21
things got nastier man it doesn't seem like the same issues that we're having
1:22:27
here they're having in other places in the world because they didn't have the indust Well actually I'm incorrect i
1:22:34
believe the industrial revolution started in Europe yeah i'm talking
1:22:39
related to food you know a lot of the food that is okay here they don't even
1:22:45
allow in other countries they'll make it differently like Hind ketchup stuff that's in our foods here yeah like those
1:22:53
countries yeah those chemicals are literally banned in those countries like they won't even let them in the country
1:22:58
but in our country it's like oh no we're trying to poison standard this is the standard it's like if you guys have
1:23:04
known for all these years that uh Yellow Five does all these things but why is it
1:23:10
okay to give it to us but y'all keep telling us that this is what it does but how come you're not stopping Mountain
1:23:15
Dew from putting that stuff in Mountain Dew for Is it going to It's not going to make it taste different
1:23:22
is there not another yellow that you can come up with that's going to make it pretty close to that yellow yeah or why
1:23:30
does it even need to be real this is just so whack um how about this isn't a trade
1:23:38
war it's an economic revolution
1:23:43
that seems like uh more of what it is to me
1:23:49
and who's having that revolution is another question whose
1:23:55
revolution is it well it's there's whose economic revolution is it you see what
1:24:01
I'm saying it's all the economies are
1:24:08
affected i think every economy's affected however some of them are
1:24:16
revoling others maybe not it doesn't seem like in China like
1:24:22
there's a revolution happening no that's beneficiary then go then again I don't
1:24:27
think we fully know what's actually happening in China we don't get to see it everybody
1:24:34
gets to see what we're doing what's crazy is I be seeing all these videos
1:24:40
bro and they're always telling us about how bad China is bro but I've been seeing these videos
1:24:47
bro these black dudes in China that are like getting treated so well by people
1:24:55
in China and people in China are like "Yeah like it's crazy over there where you guys live how they're like racist
1:25:01
and stuff like we don't care about none of that over here." I'm like what's really going on here i have
1:25:09
really good friends of mine um shout out to the Casemis uh beautiful family from
1:25:18
Afghanistan beautiful Muslim people yeah they I've heard things about
1:25:24
Afghanistan that they're like "Yeah it's not the picture that is being painted it's not that it's not like that." Like
1:25:30
it's not you know what I mean i'm like for real yeah I would understand that a
1:25:38
lot of the stuff that we were told or the narrative that was
1:25:45
spun is not you know it whose eyes has it been
1:25:51
you know shown through right what lens right or what lens has it shown through
1:25:58
so you could spin it any way i mean uh somebody could talk about you and say
1:26:05
all these horrible things some of them might be true yeah and they could do it
1:26:11
in a way that demonizes you so other people believe he's he's
1:26:18
evil and if you say it enough you keep on
1:26:23
saying it and keep on putting people more people will believe it cuz after you see it and hear it so many times
1:26:29
it's like it must be true does it mean it's true doesn't like for
1:26:38
example they saying Shannon Shannon Sharp essayed that girl i wonder if that's true
1:26:45
i don't know 50 million bucks though try to get 50 he has 50 million
1:26:50
to give i heard he offered her 10 and got declined
1:26:58
really was this like you know some gossip
1:27:04
newspaper you heard from like an actual source
1:27:09
um it's a it's a and I I think he just stepped You could Google maybe I'm wrong
1:27:16
did Shannon Sharp just step down from CNN
1:27:22
janice Sharp right there stepping aside from CNN in waking of SA assault lawsuit
1:27:28
of SA lawsuit so buddy uh where I come
1:27:33
from you don't settle when you don't do nothing wrong hey just so you know for
1:27:39
me like yeah I'm crazy like that i'll die about some stuff so you'd never take
1:27:45
you'd never take a plea bargain cuz a plea bargain every
1:27:51
lawsuit every criminal thing all right don't bring criminal
1:27:56
into this bro oh so something different yeah this is this is not criminal this is civil this is a civil Oh this is
1:28:03
purely a civil thing this is not civil matter they suing him for $50 million so
1:28:08
it's just about money it has no idea as of right now this is what we know okay so he offered to pay $10
1:28:17
million and where I come from just being real like I'd rather die that's
1:28:22
admission of guilt in your eyes yeah i'd rather die like I'd rather die especially for something like that cuz
1:28:29
Yeah there's not many things for me that are unforgivable there's not but that's
1:28:35
one of them though for me that's that's that's you can't ever get that back and you'll never be anything less than a
1:28:42
scumbag dirt in my eyes right mhm
1:28:47
you don't settle and then stepping down
1:28:53
from ESPN why would you do that
1:28:59
well he's got a podcast now you think You think that's going to keep up you think people is going to love him
1:29:07
if he did something like this probably not m still got a ton of followers we'll
1:29:14
see still got a spin we'll see how that shakes out for him i hope I hope he didn't do that yeah me too and the girl
1:29:21
the lady she looks like a like bro she looks so young bro you know this guy's
1:29:26
almost 60 years old bro the girl looks so young i was like "Bro why bro?" That kind of weighs a concern for me too i
1:29:33
was like "Why bro?" Yeah why would he so like I'm on some weird stuff like I
1:29:38
still look at I still look at stuff like like when we were in high school like bro uh I I ain't going to date a girl in
1:29:45
middle school that's way too young like there's still a like code I have
1:29:52
like within me that's like there's a certain amount of years that's like hold on bro like hey I got I got nieces that
1:29:57
age yeah I know what are you talking about like you sound crazy right now and that's what that looks like right now
1:30:03
that should look crazy right now if you see the girl bro I'm telling you it looks it's like you're attracted to
1:30:10
that's what you're attracted to someone that looks young like that bro i'm I'm
1:30:15
worried about you boy so it's far as that situation goes is 50/50 to me i
1:30:20
don't know i don't know Shannon Sharp i just I hope you didn't do that Shannon
1:30:27
yeah how will you ever know oh we gonna find out with this money when he gets hit with this when he gets hit with this
1:30:34
money if they got what they really think they got and they take him all the way to trial with it they gonna get they 50
1:30:39
million that's how we gonna know does that actually mean that it actually
1:30:45
happened if he lost in court if it's proven that he did something yeah so it's never been anybody that's been uh
1:30:53
went to court and been falsely put in jail or something yeah sure you
1:30:59
mean like how OJ lost his civil suit there you go oh that's civil OJ but
1:31:06
criminal he He didn't do it but he came out later and said he did though well he
1:31:12
still got away with it yeah crimally doesn't matter he lost that money right now Shannon is So it's about money it
1:31:19
ain't about actual truth for criminal aspects oh for criminal aspects it's about truth too most of the time unless
1:31:25
it's a federal situation a federal situation you might be able to pay out of depending on the situation federal is
1:31:31
easier to pay out of yeah pay your way out of yeah okay they'll they'll depending depending on the
1:31:38
situation the feds might might or might not work with you depending on the situation if you got enough money yeah
1:31:44
but for this civil stuff right here that ain't they they ain't no working with that they your only work with is to settle unless you know you didn't do it
1:31:50
then you're going to rock out you're going to go to trial all the way till that ends you going to drag them out i'mma drag you through the mud because you I'm gonna make you I'm gonna make
1:31:57
this cost you everything because you you you you trying to defame me i'm dragging
1:32:02
you through the mud i'mma I don't care how long it's going to take i don't care how much it costs i'm doing this okay so
1:32:08
from what I just learned and how you just explained that and relating it to this it's like oh this isn't looking
1:32:14
good for Shannon Sharp dude that part okay cuz now I'm understanding where you're coming from 's like "Yeah if he's
1:32:22
approaching it like this but we don't know who these people are." The problem we have is we see these athletes we're
1:32:29
like "Damn we're enamored by them." We're like "Yo he's phenomenal he's great." Totally but and and the fact of the matter is we don't know what kind of
1:32:35
human this person is hey one of the best football players ever touched the field doesn't mean he's a great person aaron
1:32:41
Hernandez oh everybody thought he was cool until what until he offed a couple people
1:32:50
and they end up offing himself because he he's like that yeah we don't know we don't know who these people are how he
1:32:57
offed himself for correct me if I'm wrong when he did that he also made sure
1:33:06
his child Oh he made sure his people was taken care of okay so so there's this
1:33:12
aspect he He was not a good dude no right not a good dude but he had love
1:33:17
for his child he had love for his child all right and so instead of like rotting
1:33:23
away doing all this he also was uh I would assume felt a bunch of guilt bro
1:33:30
was out there bro bro was out there bro bro had a lot going on inside of him like spiritually and mentally like he
1:33:36
was not in alignment brother yeah and in the end though the insurance companies
1:33:41
paid out again again I'm I'm going to say this again like we got to pay attention to the history it's definitely
1:33:47
a smaller portion but it's like yeah OJ Simpson was one of them dudes um
1:33:56
there was others that So OJ was also one of those figures like Shannon Sharp he was a phenomenal one of the best running
1:34:03
backs ever to touch the ball and he was big in uh in that space he was a commentator he had the I remember as a
1:34:10
as a kid he was the coolest thing in the world he had a contract with Herz i remember seeing OJ running through the
1:34:16
airport hurdling stuff you know what I'm saying on the commercials I was like "Yeah OJ's dope." And OJ's from San
1:34:22
Francisco so like we we really like rocked with OJ little did we know that's what I'm
1:34:28
saying we don't know who these people are like I'd be like also you could be a
1:34:33
decent human being and all of a sudden do some really messed up
1:34:39
stuff and turn into someone who is not a good What I'm saying is what I'm trying
1:34:45
to say is I'm trying to sum up is this i don't think that because
1:34:51
somebody's a dope athlete that they should that should instantly put them into the
1:34:57
category of them being a good person and doing what their next thing is and they
1:35:03
like I think everything that you do like say us right say we blow up on YouTube right and then we get into something
1:35:09
else just cuz we're famous on YouTube I don't think that we should be like entitled on that other stuff i think we
1:35:14
should earn our way up in everything we do like I think like Shannon should have been more we all were enamored but
1:35:21
Shannon was one of them dudes y'all on the football field this dude's a freak of nature he's bad bad to the bone and
1:35:28
um yeah man i don't know i'm not saying that he's a bad guy i'm not saying that he did it even he's a good commentary i
1:35:33
always liked Shannon Sharp i always liked his personality his podcast is good too yeah he's pretty cool you know
1:35:39
but yeah there's other aspects yeah so uh
1:35:45
just to close off here closing thought around you know tariffs are
1:35:52
overall what we've been speaking of today um this is a quote from Suns Sue
1:35:58
to know your enemy you must become
1:36:04
him this isn't alarmism this is realism this isn't war by bombs it's war
1:36:13
by billing codes it's tariffs if tariffs are the new weapons then critical
1:36:20
thinking is your shield and with that being said guys we just wanted to share this with you guys because we care about
1:36:26
you guys we care about uh all Americans me and this man right here we don't have
1:36:32
a political a political affiliation we have our opinions but we like to keep
1:36:37
those opinions for the most part to ourselves because it's private it's you know it's really nobody's business but in terms of what impacts all of us
1:36:44
together as Americans no longer what the uh political affiliation is that's what we're trying to bring to you guys uh
1:36:51
we're trying to bring that perspective to you guys because look at the end of the day if the government fs up it
1:36:56
doesn't matter what political party you're in we're all in this together boots on the ground and we're the ones
1:37:03
no matter what the party is that are going to have to interlock our arms and
1:37:08
work together to lift each other up to help feed each other is shall somebody come up over here and act crazy we're
1:37:14
going to be the ones that's going to be fighting together to hold it down over here i love all of y'all love from the
1:37:19
gambler in the Guardian and uh thanks for coming we'll see you next time peace out
1:37:26
all right that was the best outro ever