Joe Weisenthal

Great.

All very interesting themes.

Everyone maybe like feels in their gut somehow that they're like pro-reindustrialization.

Whatever that means.

Right.

But then the gap between like somehow like we feel good about producing physical things.

We want more of that.

What does that actually look like in practice?

What are these jobs?

What are these potential industries?

Then it suddenly gets much more.

hazy, right?

People don't know what that actually looks like in practice.

Can I say one random thing about Billy Joel before we go further?

You know, because obviously you mentioned he talks about, you know, a lot of political economy things, including, of course, and We Didn't Start the Fire.

The final line of that song is like something about the Cola Wars.

And he's like, I can't take it anymore.

And I just think it's really funny that the Cola Wars, Coke versus Pepsi is the thing that tipped him over the edge.

Like all the Vietnam War, all these things happened.

And finally, the thing that tipped him over the edge was the Cola.