Latest / Tony Katz | Popcorn Moment / Today’s Popcorn Moment: : We still need to build things

Transcript

Today’s Popcorn Moment: : We still need to build things · Tony Katz | Popcorn Moment

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Bring on the popcorn moment brought to you by Boer, B-O-O-H-E-R, boerremodeling.com,
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: your kitchen, your bathroom, your basement. What is it that
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: you're trying to get done to create value for your life? That,
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: that is what you're trying to do. You're trying to
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: create value for your life. Sure, you want to increase
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: the value of your home. That's great. But you live there,
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: and you're going to live there a good long time.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: You need your life to be better. You need things
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: to flow better. You need the room. You need the space.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: You need the organization. You need the look. That's what
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: Biller can do for you. Listening to you, the best materials,
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: the most skilled craftsmen going to work for you. giving
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: you what it is you wanted. For us, it was
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: putting the final little steps there, the final little pieces
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: in the kitchen. Countertop is done. Back splash is done.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: Everything's sealed. The painting got finished up. A little bit
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: of cleanup today. We're done. It was easy. It was simple.
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: And Booer made it happen from beginning to end. I
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: will tell you that the level of communication sometimes is overwhelming.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: I've talked about this with Booer Remodeling. It's nuts how
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: much stuff. is being discussed, communicated. You know, you know
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: so much of what's going on down to levels of detail.
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: You're like, I don't know if I need this much
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: detail in my life, but maybe you do. In which
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: case you're really going to love Booer Remodeling. Talk to
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: them today.
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: 317-852-5546.
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: Tell them Tony Katz sent you.
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: 317-852-5546.
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: Booer Remodeling. 852. 5, 5, 4, 6, or online at Booer. B-O-O-H-E-R. BooerRemodeling.com,
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: the popcorn moment. Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: It's a story you need to hear to believe, and
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: then grab your popcorn, because there is more. There's always more.
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: I've got a bunch today. This is... Let's start with
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: Marco Rubio, shall we? With the very conversation of how
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: do you fix old mistakes?
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: What is the challenge that we're here to talk about today?
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: Let me put it to you this way. I think
• 2:13
  Speaker 2: we made a terrible mistake in this country. Not many
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: years ago under people that were in charge at the time,
• 2:20
  Speaker 2: especially at the end of the Cold War. And that
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: was the idea that the ability to make things no
• 2:24
  Speaker 2: longer mattered. It didn't matter any longer where things were made.
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: They were to be made in the most efficient place
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: at the lowest possible cost. That meant more profits for
• 2:32
  Speaker 2: the company, lower costs for the consumers. And that was
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: the way the world would work. There was this fantasy, really,
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: that the whole world would become a free enterprise democracies
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: and that everyone would look like us. That ran into reality.
• 2:44
  Speaker 2: The reality that that is not how human events have
• 2:46
  Speaker 2: ever worked, that the nation state still does matter. Nationalism
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: is still real. National borders still matter. And that countries
• 2:53
  Speaker 2: are going to always act in their best interest. But
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: the result of it is that it deindustrialized America. We
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: lost our ability and our capacity to make things. And
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: not just big things, not just the kinds of big
• 3:04
  Speaker 2: machinery and things that we normally identify with industry, but
• 3:08
  Speaker 2: even some of the most basic components that are necessary
• 3:11
  Speaker 2: that underpin economic life, especially in the 21st century. And
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: we woke up to the reality just a few years
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: ago that we are suddenly, as a nation, dangerously dependent,
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: dangerously dependent on other nations for all sorts of things
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: that we need.
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: This is true. This is outrageously true. But there's an
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: underpinning here. And the vice president, J.D. Vance, is speaking
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: of this. You know he's a believer in that. I
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: have zero issue with the bringing back of manufacturing. And
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: I have told the story that I was at– this
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: is two decades ago now. I was a young guy.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: I was at South by Southwest. Southwest. the music festival,
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: which was also a burgeoning tech festival. And I was
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: discussing this with people that we need to build things.
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: In the U.S.
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: And I got laughed at. Why would we need to
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: build anything? We're a service economy. We don't need to
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: build anything. Let other people build that. Who cares? I
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: knew how wrong they were. And some of them were
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: building some really interesting tech and trying very different things.
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: Video was just coming into its own, and it was
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: referred to as vlogging back in the day, if anybody
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: remembers that. But they were wrong. And it was a
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: remarkable bit of hubris. The need for us to be
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: able to manufacture things for our own self-interest, for our
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: national security, is extremely important. Our need to manufacture everything
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: is non-existent. That's where the mistake is. We'll build for
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: ourselves and don't worry about anybody else. I cannot describe
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: to you how economically immature that is and remarkably daft
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: that is. But the bigger story in here is when
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: Secretary Rubio discusses, we thought everybody would look like us.
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: This is the China story. And I'm one of the
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: people who got this wrong. The theory was, was that
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: if you open up China, if you expose it to
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: the West, you introduce McDonald's and Blue Jean's, They will
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: come around to being a capitalist nation. They will see
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: that this is better. What was unknown was the decision.
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: The unknown was the decision that had already clearly been
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: made by the Politburo. that that was never going to
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: be the way. They actually watched what happened in other
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: places and other spaces. They watched what happened with Gaddafi
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: in Libya, the power vacuum that it created when he
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: got removed. No one was there to take it and
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: to the Muslim Brotherhood and others. And they said, how
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: do we prevent this? They watched these other things happen.
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: And their answer was not less communism, more communism. We
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: could walk ourselves through a historical timeline of just the
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: last 20 years. Let's go the last 30 years. Where
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: at every turn and every move, their answer was not
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: more westernization, but less. And their less was being less open.
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: Their answer was to be less free. Their answer was
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: to be more oppressive of the people. More cameras, more
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: threats to movement, more taking away of individuality, more suppressing
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: the ability to engage with others via any type of
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: technology while pushing that technology on other nations and then
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: utilizing algorithms to push what specifically your kids and others
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: would be seeing within those technologies. creating more inequality to
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: the ideas the vice president discusses, as the secretary discusses here,
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: of dependence. We develop the drugs, but we let China
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: make all our drugs. That's insane. That is stupid. Well,
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: it's cheaper and easier. Cheaper and easier is not necessarily better. Yeah.
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: Cheaper and easier might be fun with a girlfriend, but
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: it's nobody to marry. Did Tony just say that? He did.
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: That's a little bit of advice, kids, from me to you.
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: Cheaper and easier. It might be fun at the moment,
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: but it's certainly going to lead to more diseases down
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: the road. Honestly, I don't know how I am not
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: Like the example of the year. I'm just trying to
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: help people help themselves. There's a tremendous amount of truth
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: in this, and there's a lot from J.D. Vance, and
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: I'll play that on Tony Katz today at noon. But
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: it is absolutely true that we gave up these things.
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: We gave up these things. Under the guise of somehow
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: we don't need to do that stuff. And it has
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: hurt us. And we need to take these things back.
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: If only because it's going to put a lot of
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: economic hardship on China. And that's good. That is very good.
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: Their hardship makes life better for us. Because you can
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: break them militarily, but the best way to break them
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: is economically, where the people realize that everything they were
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: sold was a bill of goods, and then they start
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: asking questions. And, well, China has not set up for
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: the people to start asking questions.