1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: And it's a bit confusing. So his opponents claim it's chaos, 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:07,240 but it isn't. I mean, he's closed the border, he's 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:10,839 got the Twerff discussions going, and so far, so good 4 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:15,320 in terms of economic growth and inflation. And you know 5 00:00:15,359 --> 00:00:19,239 he's doing the necessary that he can to reduce crime. 6 00:00:19,399 --> 00:00:24,280 He's got NATO now scrambling out way beyond what their 7 00:00:24,399 --> 00:00:27,359 previous target was on military expenses. 8 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 2: You're listening to Carrie Letz's Financial Survival Network, where you 9 00:00:31,519 --> 00:00:35,479 get valuable information you just can't find anywhere else to 10 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,679 thrive in today's trying times. You need the Financial Survival 11 00:00:39,719 --> 00:00:44,399 Network now more than ever. Go to Financial Survivalnetwork dot 12 00:00:44,439 --> 00:00:48,799 com and get your free newsletter and gift. Financial Survival 13 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:51,799 Network now more than ever. 14 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 3: And welcome you are listening to and watching the Financial 15 00:00:58,359 --> 00:01:02,679 Survival Network. Special guest today been on the show before. 16 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:07,280 One of the great minds of our time. You may 17 00:01:07,359 --> 00:01:12,159 or may not be familiar with them, Lord Conrad Black, author. 18 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:15,319 He's written more books than I can keep track of. 19 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:18,480 He's got a new one out, The Political and Strategic 20 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:22,359 History of the World, Volume two. From Caesar's to the 21 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:27,719 Peace of Westphalia and Louis the fourteenth, and wow, it 22 00:01:27,879 --> 00:01:32,760 just came out earlier in the month, last month, May sixth, 23 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:36,239 And well, Lord Black, it's great to have you back on. 24 00:01:36,359 --> 00:01:39,200 I want to talk about the book, but first your 25 00:01:39,239 --> 00:01:42,760 assessment of Trump two point zero or as I would 26 00:01:42,799 --> 00:01:44,239 call it Trump GPT. 27 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: But what did GPT said as in chat GPT AI. 28 00:01:50,079 --> 00:01:55,239 Oh yeah, okay, you know you're getting a bit technical. Look, 29 00:01:55,319 --> 00:01:58,400 I think he's off. He shows every sign of having 30 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,359 an extremely successful cham I would say, I mean he's 31 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,760 attacked on all the fronts at once. He knows he's 32 00:02:03,799 --> 00:02:06,840 only got one turn, but he doesn't have. 33 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:12,199 Speaker 4: The baggage of a Laine duct because you know, he 34 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:14,879 can elect a vice president or every once after him, 35 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,199 or at least put them forward as a candidate. 36 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: And it's a bit confusing. So his opponents claim it's chaos, 37 00:02:21,319 --> 00:02:24,800 but it isn't. I mean, he's closed the border, he's 38 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:28,039 got the Tower of discussions going, and so far, so 39 00:02:28,159 --> 00:02:32,879 good in terms of economic growth and inflation, and you know, 40 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:36,800 he's doing the necessary that he can to reduce crime. 41 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,840 He's got NATO now scrambling out way beyond what their 42 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:47,199 previous target was on military expenses. He started out seven 43 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:51,639 years ago, complaining that they weren't with a few exceptions, 44 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,919 spending the two percent they pledged, and they're now all 45 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:59,360 claiming they're going to three and a half percent. And 46 00:02:59,439 --> 00:03:02,960 he's there was not a word spoken by any serious 47 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:06,599 person about peace in the Ukraine until he came, and 48 00:03:06,719 --> 00:03:09,319 now they haven't got it yet, at least it's under discussion. 49 00:03:10,599 --> 00:03:15,680 And you know, he's doing everything the president can to 50 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:19,560 tear down woke, stop all the you know, the d 51 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:25,080 inclusive with nonsense. I mean, let's have meritocracy. Let's just 52 00:03:25,159 --> 00:03:29,280 have the best people for every position. What their skin color, 53 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:32,159 religion is. Nobody cares about that. It's just who knew 54 00:03:32,159 --> 00:03:36,080 are the best people for that position. And you know, 55 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:39,879 it's all sensible. And he's he's starting to try and 56 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,400 shape up education, abolishing the department and putting it in 57 00:03:44,439 --> 00:03:49,319 the States and in effect encouraging non union schools. And 58 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:52,520 I mean, he's just doing everything he said. He's doing 59 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:56,199 it all at once. And I assume that the big 60 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,520 bill is going to pass in a few weeks and 61 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,840 that'll be a that'll be a tremendous achievement, because if 62 00:04:04,879 --> 00:04:08,719 you read it, it's it's an extraordinarily comprehensive law. I mean, 63 00:04:08,919 --> 00:04:11,560 just read the headings of it. It touches all the 64 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:15,439 policy areas he promised them. So I look at so far, 65 00:04:16,879 --> 00:04:18,040 it's looking very good. 66 00:04:18,959 --> 00:04:22,600 Speaker 3: So the deep state, you've been a victim of the 67 00:04:22,639 --> 00:04:26,160 deep state yourself. We didn't call it that back then, 68 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:31,120 but clearly that was it. And with Doge, which I 69 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:34,360 believe Doge, even though a musk is gone, Doge is 70 00:04:34,399 --> 00:04:38,240 now embedded in the government and it's an AI venture 71 00:04:38,319 --> 00:04:43,759 to monitor all operations of the government, including the Pentagon. Eventually, 72 00:04:45,959 --> 00:04:48,399 were you at all surprised at the type of things 73 00:04:48,439 --> 00:04:52,199 we were spending money on in us AI d which 74 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:54,319 which I've known it was. 75 00:04:54,439 --> 00:04:56,639 Speaker 1: Ready to fear the words, So it didn't surprise me 76 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:00,399 that much. But in a way I I used to 77 00:05:00,439 --> 00:05:03,319 be confirmed. I mean some of it, some of it 78 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:06,120 was probably caricatured a bit unfairly, but some of it 79 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:11,160 was obviously just you know, it's just it was what 80 00:05:11,199 --> 00:05:14,680 are you you know? It was throwing money out of 81 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:18,319 the window. It was nonsense. Yeah, well, look in a 82 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,439 budget of trillions of dollars for a country of a 83 00:05:21,519 --> 00:05:23,519 third of a billion, you're going to get a lot 84 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,680 of waste money. But even at that it was a 85 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:30,360 very interesting revelation. Now, they tried for a time to 86 00:05:30,399 --> 00:05:34,240 say that Mosque was running the country, Trump was poppaitive Moss. 87 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:37,560 You remember all this, they try everything, it's all none 88 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,439 of it is ever true. So you know they're they're 89 00:05:40,519 --> 00:05:43,600 they're like the child trying wolf and there's no wolf. 90 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:45,560 R in the public's a bit tired of it. 91 00:05:46,639 --> 00:05:47,839 Speaker 5: Yeah, well I was. 92 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 3: I was impressed by the spending and the subsidization of 93 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:56,800 of media and he was getting money. 94 00:05:56,839 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: Politteral then do you see which is NANTA American Network? Yeah, 95 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:05,000 I mean some of the programming is good, but they're used. Honest, 96 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,319 it's as bad as you know your network. 97 00:06:07,439 --> 00:06:09,079 Speaker 5: BBC was getting money. 98 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm going to company owned by the British government. 99 00:06:12,519 --> 00:06:15,120 I mean, what guess the United States paying a British 100 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:19,360 government crime corporation for it's madness. 101 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:24,319 Speaker 3: But and all of these fringe I think I can't remember. 102 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:30,720 There was one conservative guy who supposedly can Oh Crystal. 103 00:06:31,319 --> 00:06:34,800 He's got tens of millions of dollars from it as well. 104 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:39,600 They were an equal opportunity, but it turned into this 105 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:43,839 huge grift, and what it really demonstrated was that the 106 00:06:43,959 --> 00:06:46,120 US government is one big grift. 107 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:50,519 Speaker 1: Yeah, was that Bill Crystal getting tens of Bill Crystal 108 00:06:50,639 --> 00:06:54,439 Yeah for Bold Rossia magazine, which is a hysterically anti 109 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:55,360 Trump magazine. 110 00:06:55,439 --> 00:06:58,079 Speaker 3: Yeah, oh really anti. Well, I guess that's all you 111 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:04,160 needed to show. But he was getting his foundation millions 112 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:10,079 of dollars from USAID and USAID has always been a 113 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:15,040 sketchy organization, very fine line between it the State Department 114 00:07:15,399 --> 00:07:19,839 and the CIA, and they kind of did the soft 115 00:07:19,959 --> 00:07:26,319 power thing. But it's been exposed. Hopefully most of it 116 00:07:26,519 --> 00:07:30,560 will be eliminated. You know, Congress doesn't really want to 117 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,480 like cut spending, though they don't really want to get 118 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,399 rid of all these programs. Is Trump's force of personality 119 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,279 and his determination is that enough to get rid of 120 00:07:41,319 --> 00:07:42,360 this useless spending. 121 00:07:42,959 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 1: He's awfully good at It reminds me of when Reagan 122 00:07:45,639 --> 00:07:50,959 was pushing his tax cuts. He would wait until waivering 123 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,639 congressmen were in their districts on radio Phonian shows, and 124 00:07:54,639 --> 00:07:57,279 then he would phone in his staff would range all this. 125 00:07:57,879 --> 00:08:00,680 All of a sudden he comes on the line and says, Congressman, 126 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,800 now that you're speaking to your constituents, do you favor 127 00:08:03,879 --> 00:08:06,240 cutting their taxes or not and a stuff like that. 128 00:08:06,279 --> 00:08:07,920 I mean, he knew how to put the eat on 129 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:11,920 them and he got to step through. But look, people 130 00:08:11,959 --> 00:08:16,199 didn't Reagan's opponents didn't hate and they claimed he was 131 00:08:16,319 --> 00:08:19,600 dulled and a movie actor, but electable person. Here, you've 132 00:08:19,639 --> 00:08:23,319 got something different. You've got an irrational dislike Trump in 133 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:28,519 some areas. But the answer, in a word, I think 134 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:31,639 is yes, you would be better placed being in the 135 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:35,039 country than I am to judge it. But my impression 136 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:39,440 is the country now feels Trump has proved his point. 137 00:08:39,519 --> 00:08:46,440 They stole his election, They've showered him with these spurious indictments. 138 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:49,759 In the end, there were attempts to assassinate and presumably 139 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:54,360 not directly connected doing his political opponents, but it's somewhat 140 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:56,879 encouraged by them, by some of the outrageous things they 141 00:08:56,919 --> 00:09:00,559 said about him. He came through it all with dignity, 142 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:05,240 with better humor. He's much more good humored and less 143 00:09:05,399 --> 00:09:08,559 bombastic than he was in his first term. And I 144 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:12,759 think the country, the majority, feels he's earned his chance. 145 00:09:12,799 --> 00:09:14,120 He won fair and square. 146 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 5: He has a man. 147 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 1: They'd let him, let him, let him do what he 148 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,720 said he did, see how it works, So I think, yeah, 149 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:22,840 I think he's going to get I think he's going 150 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:24,480 to get most of it true, and I think he'll 151 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:28,279 probably succeed. It's early to say, of course, but in 152 00:09:28,639 --> 00:09:35,240 in being succeeded by the candidate he approved. Yeah, well, 153 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:37,159 pretty pretty remarkable. 154 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:43,639 Speaker 3: The first person since Grover Cleveland to serve non consecutive terms. 155 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:49,440 That in itself, and there's a lot of striking parallels 156 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:51,360 between him and Grover Cleveland. 157 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: He's a much more activist man than Cleveland. Cleveland was 158 00:09:55,279 --> 00:09:58,879 a popular mayor of Buffalo and governor of New York. 159 00:09:58,919 --> 00:10:01,840 I mean, Trump is the first person in the history 160 00:10:01,879 --> 00:10:04,919 of the office of president to be elected to it 161 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,600 without ever having previously sought an elective officer held a 162 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:14,519 high military command. He turned celebrity into the president's and 163 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:17,639 it was an amazing thing. That's why everyone thought it 164 00:10:17,639 --> 00:10:19,559 was a joke and he came down the escalator, but 165 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:20,320 it wasn't a joke. 166 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty remarkable that he actually pulled it off, 167 00:10:26,399 --> 00:10:30,320 that he was able to do it. I mean, like 168 00:10:30,399 --> 00:10:34,559 you say, with a zero political experience, but a lot 169 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:38,279 of experience with politicians. 170 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:39,559 Speaker 5: And the public. 171 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 1: I mean, he knew the public and he look he 172 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:48,159 was like an African lion chasing wilde beast. You know, 173 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:50,200 he sort of singled it out and then but after it, 174 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,480 but he changed parties seven times and thirteen years. He 175 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:56,279 was looking for his chance, you know, and then he 176 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:59,000 got it. And then not only I mean it's two 177 00:10:59,039 --> 00:11:05,639 great innovations I think were translating celebrity into the highest office. 178 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:09,759 And I mean you sometimes had had people who were 179 00:11:09,919 --> 00:11:14,200 celebrities becoming governance or something, but not present. And secondly, 180 00:11:14,879 --> 00:11:18,279 once he was there, he used sort of Dwight Eisenhower, 181 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:23,480 Richard Nixon, Ronald Brigg and Republican capitalism and fastened it 182 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:28,840 right on top of disadvantage districts and using the tax 183 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:32,080 system incentive by his job creation in those districts, and 184 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,799 ate heavily into these democratic chiefdoms, these voting blocks, and 185 00:11:35,799 --> 00:11:38,320 that it was relied upon since Roosevelt, like. 186 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:42,919 Speaker 3: Like the Teamsters, I mean, they didn't support him, but 187 00:11:43,039 --> 00:11:48,320 they didn't endorse Harris either, because they would they know 188 00:11:48,399 --> 00:11:50,440 they would have had a revolution among all the rank and. 189 00:11:50,519 --> 00:11:53,559 Speaker 1: File supported and it's just the executive had to be neutraent. 190 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 5: Yeah, they couldn't do it. 191 00:11:55,919 --> 00:12:00,399 Speaker 3: So uh looking ahead, So the tariff's been highly controversial, 192 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:04,559 it's going to throw the country into a depression, and 193 00:12:04,799 --> 00:12:05,720 this and that. 194 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:09,679 Speaker 5: And what's really happening here. 195 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: Well, look, the US couldn't go on with a trade 196 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:18,480 deficit of over a trillion dollars. And essentially that started 197 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:20,799 not at that scale, but the idea of a trade 198 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:25,960 deficit started during the Cold War, when the United States 199 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:30,200 gave greater access than it normally would to a number 200 00:12:30,279 --> 00:12:34,879 of countries as an incentive to them not to waffle 201 00:12:34,919 --> 00:12:38,080 into the Communist block in the Soviet Block. It was 202 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,440 a legitimate thing to do during the Cold War. But 203 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:44,480 you know, the Cold War ended suddenly and very satisfactorily, 204 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:48,000 but a lot of these things that needn't have continue 205 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,240 you did continue. And that just grew and grew, and 206 00:12:51,279 --> 00:12:53,519 we were all, all of us in the West were 207 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:56,480 hosed out of our underclothing by the Chinese. We all 208 00:12:56,519 --> 00:12:59,559 bought into this line. We just treated the nicely. They'd 209 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:01,600 be one of my y you know. Now, Look, it's 210 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:04,440 not like Nazi German area in the Soviet Union. It's 211 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:09,080 not that evil a regime. But they know Chinese aren't 212 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:12,039 threatening to go to war with us, but they but 213 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,000 on the other hand, they were they were picking their 214 00:13:14,039 --> 00:13:18,480 pockets and it's got to stop down there. So you know, 215 00:13:18,519 --> 00:13:21,320 there's no reason for the United States to have a 216 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:25,720 trade deficit of that size. And it was just a 217 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:30,080 strictly commercial version of NATO free loading on America's back. 218 00:13:30,159 --> 00:13:33,919 I mean, NATO most of it got the brilliant idea 219 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,759 that the United States was like a great Saint Bernard dog, 220 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:40,639 you know, that it would do the work and take 221 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:43,639 the risks, and the Europeans and Canadians would hold the 222 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,480 leash and give the orders. Well, that's not how alliance work, 223 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:49,240 you know. So you know Trump is disabused of that. 224 00:13:49,399 --> 00:13:54,519 But what the critics didn't see is that trade is 225 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:57,759 only I think twenty one percent of American GDP, so 226 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:03,279 exports are less than half of that. And you know 227 00:14:03,799 --> 00:14:07,000 that's that's a manageable amount of money to take a 228 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:12,519 partial hit on. And the foreigners basically they're eating the 229 00:14:12,639 --> 00:14:18,000 tariffs and replying with higher tariffs themselves. Well that they can't. 230 00:14:18,039 --> 00:14:20,320 You know, that's that's not a defense that's going to 231 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:23,080 work for it. In the end, you'll get everything produced 232 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:25,440 in the US except a few raw materials that they 233 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:29,440 don't have. And and so you know, one hundred and 234 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:32,720 thirty or so countries are lined up to make deals. 235 00:14:32,759 --> 00:14:34,639 Not one of them think they're going to get a 236 00:14:34,639 --> 00:14:37,120 better deal in the one they had, you know, two 237 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:40,639 months ago. So you know obviously it's going to be 238 00:14:40,639 --> 00:14:43,720 a gain for you. So we talk about the trade deals. 239 00:14:44,279 --> 00:14:46,399 By the way, on that, I must say, one thing 240 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:48,919 I objected to is he never should have treated Canada 241 00:14:48,919 --> 00:14:51,399 the way he doesn't have. And I told him this 242 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:54,600 person he doesn't have a legitimate grievance of hindon. 243 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:59,559 Speaker 3: No, because outside of energy, we run a surplus. 244 00:14:58,960 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 5: With that's right. 245 00:14:59,639 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 1: In the end, you take a lot of it, you 246 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:03,679 resell at a higher price you'd get it from a 247 00:15:03,759 --> 00:15:07,080 statue price. And you know we're a fair trading country. 248 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,879 I mean, you do have a very big grievance with Mexico, 249 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:11,759 but Tenna is a fair trading country. 250 00:15:11,919 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 3: Well, I think as the personal animosity towards your former 251 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,600 minister and current, because I. 252 00:15:20,519 --> 00:15:22,759 Speaker 1: Don't think he mins the present guy from when he's 253 00:15:22,799 --> 00:15:27,679 told me. I have my debts about him, but the 254 00:15:27,759 --> 00:15:31,559 current has been very careful with the Trump I think personally, yeah, 255 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:35,480 they're together at west now. But is g said and well, it. 256 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:38,159 Speaker 3: Was like a big fire hose and you guys were there, 257 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:42,200 so you'd hit by it. But yeah, I didn't think 258 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:46,519 that was right. But on the other hand, looking so, 259 00:15:46,879 --> 00:15:49,120 one thing I want to talk about, and you probably 260 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:51,440 have more knowledge of this than I do, but it 261 00:15:51,559 --> 00:15:54,879 seems to me like the only thing the only people 262 00:15:55,000 --> 00:16:01,559 less productive than Harvard tenured Harvard professors are diplomat and 263 00:16:02,039 --> 00:16:06,120 there we charge them with negotiating all these trade agreements 264 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:10,759 and it turns into this multi decade grift where they're 265 00:16:10,799 --> 00:16:15,799 meeting at the finest resorts in the world, dining at 266 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:21,200 Michelin Star restaurants. The Bordeaux is flowing, and the incentive 267 00:16:21,279 --> 00:16:24,840 is to not get anything done. Now, all of a sudden, 268 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:27,679 I think AI plays a role in this as well. 269 00:16:28,919 --> 00:16:31,840 The heat's on and the diplomats are out of it. 270 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:35,960 It's the economic it's not even the economists. 271 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 5: That are involved. Well here, you've got to watch. 272 00:16:38,759 --> 00:16:42,399 Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's totally different the way these agreements are 273 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:46,600 getting negotiated. And I think there's a prototype agreement and 274 00:16:46,639 --> 00:16:49,600 it's like, you know, sign you know, they say to 275 00:16:49,639 --> 00:16:53,720 the other side, to the other country, sign hard, press hard. 276 00:16:53,799 --> 00:16:57,080 You're making three copies, you know, just sign here. 277 00:16:57,559 --> 00:16:58,279 Speaker 5: This is the deal. 278 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:02,039 Speaker 1: That's what he says. He's doing is issuing a statement, 279 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:04,000 and this is the deal. If you don't like the deal, 280 00:17:04,079 --> 00:17:07,640 it's fun. But if you want to deal, here's the deal. Now, 281 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:10,160 in some countries you might not be able to do that. 282 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:21,200 But I thought again, and this is sometimes a tactical weakness, 283 00:17:21,279 --> 00:17:24,039 not exactly a weakness, but a technique that may not 284 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:28,000 always work with Trump is oversimplification. You know, he had 285 00:17:28,599 --> 00:17:32,519 Nabarro saying ninety deals in ninety days. And you know, 286 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:38,799 these trade deals are horribly complicated. You're trading finishing and 287 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:44,160 putting some finish on shingles against vanadizing some metal or something. 288 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:46,119 And by the time you'll work it all that, it's 289 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:49,559 a terribly complicated thing. But so you can't do it 290 00:17:49,599 --> 00:17:52,640 that fast. But I like this thing he's doing. Now 291 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:55,079 I'm saying, all right, here's our deal, take it or 292 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,680 leave it. But what he really means is, if you 293 00:17:57,759 --> 00:18:00,839 don't like it exactly as it is, put a few 294 00:18:00,839 --> 00:18:02,599 things in it and we'll see if we can accept it. 295 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:05,240 You know, so it'll act to bedite to think there's 296 00:18:05,279 --> 00:18:08,000 a framework in place. But you're right, I mean, the 297 00:18:08,079 --> 00:18:11,880 diplomats like everybody else sell think themselves as important as 298 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:16,960 they can, but they're all these compromises. I mean Nixon 299 00:18:17,319 --> 00:18:20,759 and some of your great presidents like Nixon, who wasn't 300 00:18:20,759 --> 00:18:24,200 out standing president I think. And Roosevelt, you know, he 301 00:18:24,519 --> 00:18:26,839 never would let the Secretary of State do anything. He 302 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,279 could go and talk to the South Americans or something, 303 00:18:29,279 --> 00:18:31,839 but all through World War two he never came to 304 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:35,519 those big conferences with Churchill and Stalin or anything like that. 305 00:18:35,759 --> 00:18:40,119 Cardell Owl's longest serving secretary of State. But Roosevelt wouldn't 306 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,720 let the State Department have anything to do with foreign policy. 307 00:18:43,079 --> 00:18:45,440 Speaker 3: All right, So let's talk about your book and how 308 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:49,160 it ties into this where I said, Jay, you your 309 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:54,240 work here, because it's multiple volumes, how did you like, 310 00:18:55,759 --> 00:18:58,359 how'd you come up with a concept here that? 311 00:18:58,519 --> 00:19:03,519 Speaker 1: Well, because of all the research I did writing biographies 312 00:19:03,519 --> 00:19:07,160 of prominent people and the histories of the US and Canada. 313 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:10,759 I mean, you see behind me in the screen here, 314 00:19:10,839 --> 00:19:17,680 So for example, all of Cambridge University Medieval, Ancient, Medieval, 315 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:20,240 and modern History bought some a lot of the volumes 316 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:22,400 behind me. I had to read all this stuff and 317 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:23,720 I thought, you know, this is nonsense. 318 00:19:23,759 --> 00:19:24,319 Speaker 5: I mean, you. 319 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:32,400 Speaker 1: Could give you could give a good readable summary of 320 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:37,480 everything that's important here in a much smaller space. And so, 321 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:41,720 you know, not by design, but just as things worked out. 322 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:45,319 The myth existed that in order to get any grasp 323 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:47,119 of the history of the world you had to spend 324 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,640 twenty years reading about it. And that is not true. 325 00:19:50,319 --> 00:19:53,000 I mean, it wasn't an untruth. It was just a mistake. 326 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,400 And so these books of mine, as you know, there 327 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,240 are a thousand pages pro volume, three volumes, but you've 328 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,960 got everything there. You've got a good index. And you know, 329 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,880 if you're interested in one, you know, in February, or 330 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:08,759 interest in Alexander the Great, you can read all you 331 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:11,359 need to know about them, you know, in a day 332 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:14,640 or two there, and then a few months later you 333 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:17,839 can read about you know, Queen Elizabeth the First. I mean, 334 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:20,119 whatever you want, it's all there, and it's not If 335 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:22,440 you want to go further, you can go get detailed 336 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:26,119 books into these things. But by condensing it that much 337 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:30,279 you can. There is a certain logic how how history moved. 338 00:20:30,319 --> 00:20:33,720 And there is progress, I mean, there actually is progress. 339 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:36,720 If you look at where this thing began, where the 340 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:40,640 people were just plans with no real organization going around 341 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,160 killing their neighbors to where we are now. I mean, 342 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:45,680 obviously it's still terrible things happen in the world, but 343 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,640 it's a lot don't kill it next. 344 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:50,599 Speaker 3: And where we were so still killing our neighbors, but to 345 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:51,599 a bit in. 346 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,880 Speaker 1: Some places, but we're the larger countries are behaving and 347 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:55,680 the more civilized. 348 00:20:55,720 --> 00:21:01,759 Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, it's it's remarkable and how complicated our 349 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:08,319 modern society is. And the amazing thing like I just 350 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:12,519 look at like the whole air traffic control system, the 351 00:21:12,559 --> 00:21:15,440 fact we can fly all over the world in a 352 00:21:15,519 --> 00:21:18,720 moment's notice as long as the TSA lets you through 353 00:21:18,759 --> 00:21:19,640 the to the gate. 354 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:24,599 Speaker 1: And it's so compl they'd finished, you know, rummaging through 355 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:26,680 the underclothing of eighty old women. 356 00:21:27,759 --> 00:21:30,559 Speaker 3: Yeah, and the older you are, the more curious they 357 00:21:30,559 --> 00:21:36,039 are about about your intimate areas, it seems. But you 358 00:21:36,079 --> 00:21:39,119 know that the system, even though it's got problems, and 359 00:21:39,559 --> 00:21:43,720 you know, government all that, but the system is the 360 00:21:43,839 --> 00:21:48,519 most complicated system in the world in all likelihood. It 361 00:21:48,559 --> 00:21:51,920 seems like it's easier to send a rocket into space 362 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:56,079 than it is to get a you know, a triple 363 00:21:56,160 --> 00:22:01,920 seven from England to New York. But you know, somehow 364 00:22:02,279 --> 00:22:07,240 we've cooperated and it's a global cooperation to make this 365 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:11,240 system work. And yeah, it's got its problems and accidents happened, 366 00:22:11,319 --> 00:22:15,240 but overall, you know, it's a collective human effort that 367 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:21,000 has really distinguished us because prior to you know, the 368 00:22:21,079 --> 00:22:24,880 last two generations, it was very difficult to go from 369 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:28,839 one continent to the other by plane. You had generally 370 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:32,319 you were taking ships. Maybe the last three generations, going 371 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:37,000 back to the sixties, you know, the late fifties kind 372 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,960 of was the birth. And you know, like you said, 373 00:22:41,039 --> 00:22:45,039 things have gotten better, except our media has gotten worse. 374 00:22:45,599 --> 00:22:48,920 Is because they'd specialize in just telling us how awful 375 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:55,240 everything is, when really things in many respects haven't been better. 376 00:22:55,279 --> 00:23:00,440 I mean, I think the family, the interpersonal relationship, and 377 00:23:00,559 --> 00:23:05,759 what technology has done. Yes, there's some definite negatives there, 378 00:23:06,079 --> 00:23:10,400 but overall, the amount of knowledge that is available to 379 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:14,000 the lowliest person on the planet in the palm of 380 00:23:14,039 --> 00:23:15,599 their hands, and. 381 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 5: The quality of life. 382 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 3: You know, for the largest numbers, it's just never been better. 383 00:23:23,799 --> 00:23:24,319 Speaker 5: This is true. 384 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:28,119 Speaker 1: I mean, the number of people in poverty, as I 385 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,279 understand that in the world was under fifteen percent. Have 386 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:33,720 still a lot of people, but that's not a big percent, 387 00:23:33,799 --> 00:23:37,279 and when I was young, the number was over fifty percent, 388 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:42,079 and even countries of them particularly well governed. When I 389 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:44,440 first went to Brazil in nineteen sixty eight, it was 390 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,839 only a half literate country. Now it's a completely literate entry. 391 00:23:48,319 --> 00:23:54,720 And the Chinese and the Indians are pulling again. Their 392 00:23:54,759 --> 00:24:00,279 methods aren't appropriate to the North America, but they're pullings 393 00:24:00,279 --> 00:24:02,880 and millions of people out of poverty every year, so 394 00:24:03,039 --> 00:24:06,759 that certainly is progress. The lesson on that one, Kerrie, 395 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,880 is that if the major powers are not at war, 396 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:14,519 the amount of prosperity generated is astounding. And you can 397 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,079 argue about the distribution of it. Our friends and the 398 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,640 left say that it's unfair distribution, but the fact is 399 00:24:21,559 --> 00:24:27,039 it affects everybody. The lowest groups, you know, do get richer. 400 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:28,519 Speaker 5: Yeah. 401 00:24:28,599 --> 00:24:32,599 Speaker 3: Well, the technology that things were surrounded with, that would 402 00:24:32,599 --> 00:24:37,240 have been for the noblemen way back when there wasn't 403 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:42,480 you know, the availability of these tools to really improve 404 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,920 your life, to help you get through life, to have 405 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,880 a better life. It just wasn't there. I mean, and 406 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:53,319 you think back the printing press. You know, it's a 407 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:56,960 fairly recent innovation that kind of sparked it all. 408 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, the tremendous impulse to the you know when this 409 00:25:03,799 --> 00:25:06,480 may have been before your time, but when I was young, 410 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,359 there was a Dick Tracy comic strip. Oh and you 411 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,559 he spoke into his watch you. Yeah, like you're talking 412 00:25:13,599 --> 00:25:15,599 to well not my wife has a box like that. 413 00:25:16,079 --> 00:25:20,640 And and the email, I mean we sit here with 414 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:24,720 a handheld device and send emails to Russia in the air, 415 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,319 Argentina or Australia anywhere and get a reply back in 416 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:32,319 three minutes. I mean that would have been just science 417 00:25:32,319 --> 00:25:34,599 fiction stuff up until about thirty years ago. 418 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 5: Yeah, I was. I was away. 419 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,519 Speaker 3: I was in Spain and Thailand, and I managed to 420 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:46,400 keep my podcast going, was writing content for my website, 421 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,319 and I never really I mean I didn't work as much, 422 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:55,160 but I was able to basically conduct myself almost as 423 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:56,920 well as if I was just sitting here at my 424 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:02,279 desk here in Florida. So so, so, your book, your 425 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:06,759 Volumes one and two and three mentioned is on its. 426 00:26:06,559 --> 00:26:09,599 Speaker 5: Way the overview. 427 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:14,359 Speaker 3: So I always like to ask people, and they've had experiences, 428 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,920 what did you learn from it from writing this because 429 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,680 writing is a process of learning. I don't think many 430 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,440 of you out there think about it. But when you 431 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:30,640 write something, your understanding of it really goes up, and 432 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,680 your knowledge of it and the way it all kind 433 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,400 of fits together because you're connecting dots. It's harder to 434 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,960 connect the dots looking forward than it is looking backward. 435 00:26:41,519 --> 00:26:46,200 But what's the biggest revelation you got from really rehashing 436 00:26:47,279 --> 00:26:48,960 you know, modern history here? 437 00:26:50,559 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 1: All of history. I mean, I go back as far 438 00:26:53,519 --> 00:26:56,359 as we have authentic history. I don't get in that 439 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,119 this is volumet one, of course, but I don't get 440 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:04,839 into law or legend, you know, I mean just stuff 441 00:27:04,839 --> 00:27:08,640 that we can authenticate. But that still gets us back 442 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:15,079 to about three thousand BC. I'd say a couple of things. 443 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:22,400 One is religion never goes away. And I'm not getting 444 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,480 into my religious views or anyone else's here. And I 445 00:27:26,559 --> 00:27:29,839 mean I think religions like sex, people should do what 446 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,920 works for them and avoid what doesn't and be respectful 447 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,039 about this and be discreet, you know, but. 448 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:38,680 Speaker 5: It never goes away. 449 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,359 Speaker 1: And these militant atheists who think it's just superstitious rubbish 450 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:46,799 and every day we're getting closer to a plinnitude of knowledge, 451 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:53,799 they'll never succeed because the human mind is always preoccupied 452 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:59,359 with the existence of spiritual forces and the frontiers that 453 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:03,839 are beyond our ability to reach. Even though we you know, 454 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:11,160 the advances in science and elsewhere human research and ingenuity 455 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:16,039 or astonishing and gratifying, they don't actually has had for 456 00:28:16,079 --> 00:28:23,519 a long time thought obviate or vaporize the general pursuit 457 00:28:23,599 --> 00:28:27,359 of a or an attempt to propitiate a divine intelligence 458 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,400 of some sort. That's one thing. I mean, religion is 459 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,519 much more sophisticated now than what than it was three 460 00:28:33,559 --> 00:28:38,000 thousand years ago, but it's still there. Another family answers 461 00:28:38,079 --> 00:28:40,319 with progress is real and there are a lot of 462 00:28:40,359 --> 00:28:43,519 cynics around who say that it isn't and human nature 463 00:28:43,519 --> 00:28:46,799 doesn't change much. I agree with that, but the fact 464 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:48,720 is just what we were talking about a few minutes ago. 465 00:28:48,799 --> 00:28:52,000 I mean, if the major countries are not at war 466 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:56,480 with each other, the amount of prosperity that is generated 467 00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:01,160 is it's just just look at the skylines of the 468 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,799 cities of world in our lifetimes. I'm not an older 469 00:29:03,839 --> 00:29:06,400 than you, but when I was a young person, I'm 470 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,359 in Toronto right now, the tallest building in the British 471 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:13,160 Commonwealth was it was a bank building here in downtown Toronto. 472 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,200 It is twenty six stories tall. Well, I mean, I'm 473 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,200 not saying that progress is necessarily measured in tall buildings, 474 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,480 but the amount of economic activity and the amount of 475 00:29:22,559 --> 00:29:29,720 construction and just the building things and advancing things a 476 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,200 newness and when we focus on that. But we do, 477 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:34,559 as you said in a few minutes ago, we do 478 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:38,680 reduce the poverty levels very profoundly. I'm not saying we 479 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,960 couldn't do better. I'm not saying any system is perfect. 480 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:46,039 But the point is there is progress and very few 481 00:29:46,119 --> 00:29:50,480 countries today are governed by people who think that really 482 00:29:50,559 --> 00:29:54,680 the principal activity is simply to go and make war 483 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:56,960 on your neighbor and kill him and take his territory. 484 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:58,720 And that's how we start an edging. 485 00:30:00,079 --> 00:30:00,519 Speaker 5: So true. 486 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 3: You know, one of the things, and you mentioned the prosperity. 487 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,200 One of the things I like best about what President 488 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:11,039 Trump is doing has nothing to do with political is 489 00:30:11,799 --> 00:30:22,880 the encouragement to explore and exploit resources, whether it's minerals, oil, gold, silver, copper. 490 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,960 Because one of the fallacies of the left is that 491 00:30:27,119 --> 00:30:30,680 somehow we can have this green economy and never have 492 00:30:30,799 --> 00:30:37,720 to use a jackhammer to get new metals and resources 493 00:30:37,799 --> 00:30:38,559 out of the ground. 494 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,720 Speaker 1: I think we were afflicted in the ways by a 495 00:30:41,799 --> 00:30:46,720 sort of economic snobbery that blue collar was beneath us. 496 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:48,759 So we were all going to have a service economy. 497 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:56,480 That's fine, except people in India, Thailand or something Vietnam 498 00:30:56,599 --> 00:31:00,640 can produce the same service at a quarter of the costs. 499 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,599 So what are we going to do now? Yeah, I 500 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:08,440 mean we sort of lost tract of the fact. I 501 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,119 mean I never agreed with that Buchanan. I thought he 502 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:15,400 was too primitive in his views, you know, sort of 503 00:31:15,599 --> 00:31:17,440 paleo conservative. 504 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:18,240 Speaker 5: Isolation but native. 505 00:31:18,319 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 1: On the other hand, I never agreed with Herman and 506 00:31:22,279 --> 00:31:24,720 Kahn either. I used to go to that a few 507 00:31:24,799 --> 00:31:28,519 years ago, and his idea was that we would outsource everything, 508 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,559 just be leisure society. That's not going to work. 509 00:31:33,599 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 3: Maybe the robots and maybe the AI, but certainly not 510 00:31:37,039 --> 00:31:41,079 to other countries because because you've got to produce something 511 00:31:41,119 --> 00:31:45,720 in the end. The whole concept of the consumer economy 512 00:31:46,319 --> 00:31:50,400 I've always found to be disturbing because I think we 513 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:54,359 should be producers, and the idea that we're just here 514 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:59,680 to consume and not contribute and not produce has always 515 00:31:59,759 --> 00:32:00,920 been disturbing to me. 516 00:32:01,839 --> 00:32:05,119 Speaker 1: Well, and The worst of it, I thought was in 517 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,400 the fifties and sixties, when General Motors was the greatest 518 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:12,920 corporation in the world. They had this thing called planned obsolescence. 519 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,920 Their cars would fall apart after twenty five thousand miles, 520 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,079 so you know, I mean nowadays they go for two 521 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,759 hundred thousand mileth I mean they all look the same. 522 00:32:22,839 --> 00:32:25,400 I'd sort of like the look of cars then better, 523 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:29,039 but they were putting one over on us, and then 524 00:32:29,079 --> 00:32:31,599 they lost their market to the Japanese and the Germans. 525 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,400 Speaker 3: The problem is that that business model is alive and 526 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:39,519 well in your kitchen and or laundry room. Because those things, 527 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:43,559 whether the Chinese components, if you get five years out 528 00:32:43,559 --> 00:32:45,200 of them, you're doing great. 529 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,440 Speaker 5: And that is disturbing. 530 00:32:48,559 --> 00:32:54,759 Speaker 3: To create demand by building inferiority into your products, charge 531 00:32:54,839 --> 00:32:55,759 twice as much. 532 00:32:56,519 --> 00:33:00,559 Speaker 5: I mean, I remember, he just go back like I remember. 533 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:01,559 But in my. 534 00:33:01,599 --> 00:33:05,319 Speaker 3: Parents' house we had a Nordge a refrigerator that was 535 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:06,960 thirty seven years old. 536 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:07,720 Speaker 5: Norge. 537 00:33:07,759 --> 00:33:10,200 Speaker 3: It was a great brand, yeah, and it made a 538 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:14,240 lot of noise even all those years later. But man 539 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:18,119 like the thing kept working and try to find something 540 00:33:18,119 --> 00:33:21,960 that'll do that well. The book is the political and 541 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,759 Strategic History the World, Volume two, from Caesar's to the 542 00:33:25,799 --> 00:33:32,759 Peace of Westphalia to Louis the fourteenth AD. And well, 543 00:33:33,039 --> 00:33:33,759 it's great. 544 00:33:33,559 --> 00:33:34,200 Speaker 5: Having you on. 545 00:33:34,319 --> 00:33:38,720 Speaker 3: I think we go to fourteenth century to sixteen sixty one, 546 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:39,920 so we got no. 547 00:33:40,279 --> 00:33:42,640 Speaker 1: Fourteen AD to sixteen fourty one. 548 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:46,319 Speaker 3: Yeah, fourteen AD A pardon me, yeah, fourteen AD, which is. 549 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:47,279 Speaker 5: A long time ago. 550 00:33:47,319 --> 00:33:50,640 Speaker 3: We don't even call it a D anymore, which bothers 551 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:54,400 me a lot. And BC is B and I don't 552 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,039 know what any of it means, but at bce the 553 00:33:57,119 --> 00:34:02,559 Christian era. 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