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Chapter 1: What is the impact of Donald Trump's tariffs on American manufacturing?
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon Show, recorded on the day the market is dipping, crashing. There's blood in the water. The tariffs have arrived. Donald Trump is putting tariffs... on many countries to bring back manufacturing to America. It's a gambit. It's a risky gambit. We are primarily a podcasting based economy. We are a hot take economy. We are an opinion driven economy.
We do not make anything anymore except takes. We are a grievance based economy. We are a rage based economy. And that is we're shifting now. And it's painful. from an economy based on people's thoughts and feelings to an economy now hopefully based on people manufacturing things and going back to the factory, get back in the factory is what Trump's hoping.
He's hoping that people will walk back into the factories and start making stuff made in the USA today. You know, people, they're proud. They work with their hands again. They get into it again. They get on that assembly line again. And I don't know. I mean, maybe that happens. I'm skeptical. I'm a little skeptical. But you know what? Maybe it happens. Maybe we learn to live with less.
Maybe we learn to live with less. We don't need all these things. Instead of all these things that are cheap, you get a job in a factory and you work there all day every day. And you have camaraderie with the other workers at the factory. That's the hope here. You know, the softball team. And the cookout. And the block party. And we bring America back. That's the hope.
The hope is that you work all day at the factory and then you have friends there and you all go together and raise your children and one of you coaches the team. And then it's that America we all read about and hoped for and none of us really ever lived in. But it comes back and people are excited and have pride. I work at the factory and I make the stuff and the stuff is good.
And we derive a sense of national pride from that. And you don't have a million cars. You have one car that the family uses. And everyone has to decide who gets the car when. Because you're not going to afford a car anymore. You get one car for the family of six or seven people. Grandpa, grandma, mom, dad, the three kids. You have one vehicle. You have one TV.
It goes back to fighting over what are we watching, right? We've lost that with cheap goods. The rage that you felt when someone had the TV in the living room and you didn't and you wanted to watch something. It's all coming back is my point. Those moments we lost fighting with each other. Now everyone's got a TV. Everyone's got a phone. Everyone's got a car. There's no sense of togetherness.
But now there will be a sense of together, when everyone has one thing, an entire family has one thing that everyone can fight over and rip each other's faces off so that you all decide as a family, you argue as a family about the merits of what shows on Netflix you want to watch. Let's go see some of these numbers here. They're a little troubling. They're disconcerting.
The Dow's down about 1,400 points. S&P is down 4% as of now. Nike fell 12%. So many of its products are made outside of the United States. You don't need Nikes. You don't need them. There are other shoes. There's other types of shoe other than a Nike. United Airlines lost 10% because their customers are worried about the global economy. You ain't getting on the plane.
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Chapter 2: How might America adapt to a factory-based economy again?
OK, and then Charlie's sitting there and he's saying, hey, man, this is just the way it is. Those Oompa Loompas need to diversify their portfolios. And the Oompa Loompa's like, wait, what? I'm covered in corn chowder at a Panera. I think people are trying to kill me. The lemonades caused two heart attacks this last month. And people go, yeah, man, but you're a fucking racist.
And the Oompa Loompa goes, well, I'm not really a racist, but I just have, my life has been made horrible. I don't know how it happened, you know? I'm a third generation Oompa Loompa. I'm trained in the chocolate manufacturing. And people go... Yeah, whatever, man. I don't know. You just seem like some kind of Nazi. And you go, I don't know about that.
I just, I don't get healthcare at this Panera. And my wife's sick. She has headaches. We don't know what they are, but they keep coming. And they go, hey, man, I just don't understand, like, why you have to keep harping on immigrants. And you go, I don't really care about immigrants. I just want some type of job. I want some type of future in this country.
And they go, well, I don't know about that.
I don't know about that, bucko. Do you want it hot? We can make the sandwich hot. Do you want it hot? Do you want it heated up?
So then someone's elected. And they say, we want to bring the chocolate factory back to America. But it's complicated. Well, why is it complicated? Well, fuck. Because Charlie wasn't the only one who sold the chocolate factory. In fact, Santa Claus... is no longer making the toys at the North Pole. Do you know who's making the toys? The people in Taiwan are making the toys. Fine. Okay.
So you go, well, Santa shut down the toy shop and it's being made by people in Taiwan and that's fine and great for them. But what happened to the elves? Well, the elves and the Oompa Loompas are on the internet reading about maybe the earth is flat because they don't have enough money to take their kids to a Disney world or whatever. So now we've abandoned the elves and the Oompa Loompas. Okay.
And we're yelling at them and screaming at them and wondering why they're becoming increasingly politically radical and volatile and why they're embracing pathological behavior. We don't understand it, but Santa Claus is in Miami living in a penthouse with Ken Griffin. And Santa's like, I was an early investor in Citadel and I've always believed in Ken. And that's lovely and nice.
He goes, oh, the toy business ain't what it used to be. And Santa's just sitting there in Bal Harbor in a seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom condo overlooking the ocean, maybe at the Oceana. I don't know who cares, but Santa's sick of the cold. He likes Miami because there's no income taxes, and there's plenty of Latin American women that he can ogle. So Willy Wonka...
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