#2373 - Dave Landau
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Just rocking the Shinola. We're talking about your Shinola watch. I'm glad Detroit's coming back, you know, and I like how Shinola represents Detroit.
Shinola is definitely one of the things that's great about Detroit. Yeah, they say it, like, made in Detroit. They're proud. Yes, which we didn't have for a long time.
Dude.
Detroit is the craziest story. If you know the story about Detroit, like, in the 1950s and 60s, it was the third richest city in the world.
Well, yeah, it was called the Paris of the Midwest. And it's a city that's still built for 7 million people with supposedly 700,000 living in it. I mean, so you do see a lot of, like, how is there, like, a million-dollar condo in the same place that has, like, eight abandoned other apartments? When you go downtown, it makes no sense logistically.
You ever watch that show Top Gear? Oh, yeah. Jeremy Clarkson. I think it was easier. Top Gear was maybe the one they did after that that they did for Amazon. But they went to Detroit, and they bought a house for $500.
Yeah, you can. And there's also the people that buy them and open the door and get mauled by pit bulls. Or you see the ones that, like, they'll put, like, a pumpkin patch. Like, they'll do an urban farm, which is hysterical. And you'll see, like, these hippies on the news. Like, they cut my face and stole my plums. And I'm scared. It's like, yeah, but you're in a crack neighborhood. Nobody wants your farm. No, we're genderfying. Yeah, isn't that what you guys want? It's like, they don't want that at all.
There's some delusional fucking people out there, dude. And what they did to Detroit. Like, anybody that thinks that You should allow corporations to just take all the jobs and move them overseas. Well, this is just like corporate decision making and it's a prudent financial decision making.
Look at Detroit. Look what they did. It's a prime example of like that was the American dream. And they're like, we'll just we'll assemble them in Mexico. But we'll write Made in America on your door. So you're going to feel good about it. Do they even write Made in America on the door? Sometimes they do. Like I prefer like the 80s and 90s where if you bought a car and it was made on a Friday, you knew a drunk guy did it. So you're like, give me one from a Wednesday. Like those were the days of American automaking.
See, that's part of the problem, too. A friend of mine who was in the union told me that the automakers union just got out of control. They were making so much money, and they were constantly in negotiations. There were strikes impending. Oh, yeah. And then they were like, hey, fuck you. We'll just go to Mexico. Yeah, they offed Hoffa. Right.
That's right. Yeah. That's just part of it. But no, later on, like you said, in the 80s and 90s, you're grandfathered in, and it really doesn't matter what you do wrong.
Right.
That's part of the deal.
Yeah, you can't get fired.
No, it was great.
I mean, it's great for the worker. Yeah. There seems to be, like, a middle balance that could be reached. Yeah.
Like, don't be fully hammered when you're trying to put a door on an F-150.
I mean, they should make good money because the corporation makes good money. I mean, you know, they were doing well. It was a very profitable business. The workers should share in those profits.
Well, and like the electric ones, it just didn't work for them either. They pushed it out too soon too. Because I know people that work on the line, you have like the electric F-150. And it's like F-150s, everybody wants one. They love it as a work truck. But as an electric truck, you put the thing down in South America where it's hot all the time, it's just going to catch fire. So it's like it's not really working out. Or if you're in the cold, the battery sucks. Yeah, which – And I just don't like electric cars personally.
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