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Rob Armstrong

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
497 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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Gloom and boom

Does he believe it?

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Gloom and boom

I surely hope he doesn't.

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Gloom and boom

I am short exercise technology, Katie.

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Gloom and boom

I made a terrible mistake last week, and I bought one of these smartwatches that monitors your performance.

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Gloom and boom

And I'm training for, you know, a couple of triathlons this summer.

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Gloom and boom

And so I ran a 10K.

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Gloom and boom

in the park and all this was captured by my new technology on my wrist.

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Gloom and boom

And I, you know, I say, okay, now I'm done.

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Gloom and boom

Then it was like, uh, very good.

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Gloom and boom

Your runtime was this estimated recovery time, 67 hours.

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Gloom and boom

And like this phone basically concluded that I'm an 85 year old man after monitoring my, after monitoring my vitals for, you know, one hour run or whatever.

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Gloom and boom

It was like, you are about to die.

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Gloom and boom

What about you, Katie?

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Gloom and boom

What's your long and short?

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China Shock 2.0

When you think of China's role in the global economy, you might think of it as the place that makes low value stuff for the world.

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China Shock 2.0

It makes widgets, it makes the basics and it does that quickly, cheaply and on a huge scale.

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China Shock 2.0

And that makes it hard for other countries to make widgets and basics because we just can't beat China on price or speed.

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China Shock 2.0

But it's also made life much cheaper for all of us over the years as we load up on bargain goods that are made in China.

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China Shock 2.0

People who are very upset about this include a Mr. Donald J. Trump.

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China Shock 2.0

But actually, that image of China is really out of date.