This week the boys deliberate whether our cognitive capabilities are declining, analyze Mark Rober's Tesla video, and solve America's issues with The Jones Act.Recorded on: March 19th, 2025Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCurXaZAZPKtl8EgH1ymuZggAudio Listeners can hear us:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Yz44z9z3t8VQu4WRmsrs6Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lemonade-stand/id1799868725Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/7d7e1f54-49a3-4082-81e8-f70bfe1ace63/lemonade-standiHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-lemonade-stand-269417962/Follow usTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@thelemonadecastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/thelemonadecast/Twitter - https://x.com/LemonadeCastThe C-suiteAiden - https://x.com/aidencalvinAtrioc - https://x.com/AtriocDougDoug - https://x.com/DougDougFoodEdited by Aedish - https://x.com/aedisheditsNew takes on Business, Tech, and Politics. Squeezed fresh every Thursday.#lemonadestand #dougdoug #atrioc #aiden
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
Did you know that if you go to x.com, the everything app, and you submit the winning college basketball bracket for March Madness, you could win a trip to Mars. This is a real thing that's on Twitter.
And so what I'm thinking is because we have a big audience now, if every one of our viewers, we all submit a different bracket, but we put Atriox's name, then one of us will win, and then Elon will kidnap him and send him to Mars, and we'll finally be rid of you.
Is that what you're thinking? Because you know what I'm thinking? I think after our episode last week where you defended Elon Musk, he reached out and hired you as an ad man to promote his various... And he's like, don't worry, whatever is submitted, he will win the contest.
I do like that it says win a free trip to Mars, but then after that, best bracket wins 100K. So do you get both, or does it imply that if you put together the best... Are you going to show up to Mars with no money?
Are you going to be broke? I would hate to be broke. No, he puts it on Mars.
It's like Ready Player One. That's where he leaves his inheritance on Mars, and then the rest of humanity has to go get it.
He's been weirdly quiet about Mars. Have you noticed in the past few years? Because he kind of... You know the whole thing with him blowing past Tesla deadlines? He used to be blowing past the Mars deadline. And we'd be like, we're going to Mars this year. We're going to Mars this year.
He did say something. And we've left it behind. I think today. He said Mars in... 20 years, maybe 30. I'm only kidding.
He said it was like five years.
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Chapter 2: Are we getting dumber as a society?
I like the idea that the yard just becomes like a mystery science theater. They're just watching our show making fun of Aiden the whole time.
That's all they do. But ships started getting built in other places outside of the U.S. because it was way more cost effective to do that.
Can I say a stat? Yeah. 55% of all ship building globally is done in China.
Yeah. And dude, get this, as of 2018, and this was the trajectory was still going up, 91% of ship building happens in China, Korea, and in Japan. So the entire like shipyard industry, like ship manufacturing industry in the U.S., it just doesn't exist anymore. All of these companies went out of business and they don't have enough Jones Act compliant clients to like keep a business open.
There's not enough demand for that. So it was funny because when I was reading through this, there was like the paper that I was reading was from 2020. And it was talking about how few shipyards are left in the U.S. that even make these types of ships anymore. And it was like, and one of the few remaining ones is about to close. It's called like the Philly, the Philly shipyard.
So I looked up the shipyard, the name of that shipyard. Now the Hanwha Philly shipyard.
A true American institution. In 2024.
Don't talk shit about Philly, the Eagles or Hanwha shipping.
They've been bought by a South Korean company. A South Korean company.
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