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We love Canada so much and we really might need to come here actually. Uh, it's feeling very Handmaid's tail down
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there.
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Hi everyone, live from the Queen Elizabeth Theater in Toronto. This is Pivot from New York Magazine and the Vox
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Media Podcast Network. I'm Carara Swisser. And I'm Scott Galloway. And where where are we cara? Here.
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Toronto. As I I said, this is the first stop on
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our seven cities in seven days tour, which should challenge our relationship quite a bit. We're spending all our time
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together. Um before we start, we want to say a big thank you to our sponsors, ODU and Upwork. Um we're taping the show,
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as I like to say, kaching. Okay, we're taping the show for audio and YouTube distribution. So, look
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pretty. You'll be able to hear it or watch it next week. And let's begin.
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Let's begin. We've got a lot to talk about tonight, Scott. From terrace to tourism to local politics and beyond.
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We're g we're we're making these in each city, whether we go to uh Boston, we're making them local. We're localizing
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them. That's what we're doing. So, we're going to talk a lot about Canada and things like that. We learned up on y'all. Um but first, uh how was your
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flight here? My flight here? Yeah. I feel like you're setting me up. My flight here was fascinating.
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Not mine. Not mine. No. See, this is when she asks a question, it's not really because she wants to know me. She
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wants me to say, "Cara, how was your flight?" By the way, just quick fun fact, there are more raccoons in Toronto
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than kids under the age of 10. Okay, good to know. True story. True story. 5% of
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Torononians are vegan. I don't know if that's especially high or low, but is it Torononians or Toronto?
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Well, it's Toronto, but it's Torononians. Oh, Tonians. Oh, hello.
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Passport coming my way. He was literally We're in the car here the entire time. I haven't seen him in a
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while on Chat GPT having a relationship with a chatbot the whole time. And this is what he was doing. He was asking
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questions like this. I'm in a relationship. I'm in a synthetic porn relationship and I just I'm addicted and I can't and plus you're
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like you're not doing this. No, no, no. That was sexist. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Anyway, flight
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cancellations, mine was three hours late actually, across the US could rise 15%
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or even 20% if the government shutdown continues. The FAA started off by cutting around 3% of flights at select
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airports, including mine. Uh, we're taping this Saturday. By the time it airs, that number could be up to 10%.
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Here's uh What do you think of this? What's going on? It's bad for every everybody. Business, tourism. I thought
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I almost wouldn't make it here. It feels as if somebody has asked chatbt that how
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could we most elegantly reduce the prosperity of Americans because if you
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think about if you think about we we generally think of innovation as things
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uh that can capture economic value. So we think about e-commerce or search or social because a small number of
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companies were able to sequester the value through IP or distribution and
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capture value for a small number of companies. But if you look at the most impressive innovations in history that
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really change things, they're typically things where we're the winners and that is no small group of entities called the
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Delaware Corporation are are able to skim massive value. So it's consumers and the public that is able really are
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the big winners. And some of those things are I believe the greatest innovation in history is the western
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nation middle class. Longer story, but close up there would be vaccines. And and by the way, if you don't think
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vaccines are the biggest innovation in history, your head's up your ass and I can't save you. Yeah. Um there's
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but literally tens of millions of kids every year get to be adults because of vaccines. But no one company has really
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been able to sequester and capture shareholder value. Another example would be the PC. Think about just the you were
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basically able to put a $30 million supercomput from 1970 on everyone's desk for about 300 bucks by 1995. And then
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the third biggest I would argue innovation in terms of how it's changed the world is we're going to be in seven
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cities in seven days skirting the surface of the atmosphere for at 710 the
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speed of sound for very little cost. Whereas to get across the US just 100 or
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150 years ago we'd begin eating our nieces and nephews. Yeah. And so who do you think would survive that? You
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or me? Me? Oh, it's pretty obvious you. Right. It would pretty be obvious to you. You own the prison yard.
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It would be both gamey and stringy to eat. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just thinking. No, I don't think it would be like how
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about how about some Scott with your makers and ginger. Yeah. If you bit into me, I would totally kill you and eat you if
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I needed to. Go on, as you say. Okay. Uh but anyways,
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I may have to in the United States. But if you if you if first off, I would argue that the administration is trying
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to threaten people and has conflated coarseness and cruelty with masculinity and leadership and is basically trying
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to say we're going to make your life miserable and they're not afraid to. And I I wonder I mean when you think about
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airline travel there's few things that have created more connection, more
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global commerce. It's just uh deploying human capital to its best use whether
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it's for a few days or over you know a couple of years but I just think it's amazing and what's interesting about
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airline if you think about the airline industry again going back to the notion that as capitalists we like to think the
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greatest innovation creates a small number of companies with trillions of dollars in values trillions of dollar in value what's happened with the airline
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industry if you added up the profits of Boeing Airbus Bombardier a Canadian manufacturer I own a Bombardier plane.
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That was an incredible douchebag. That's why his trip was easy. Anyways, by the way, if you buy a plane
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from Bombardier, you're getting it for 50% off because Canadian taxpayers continue to bail that company out. So, thank you. Um, but essentially, uh,
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you're you're I added up all of the profits and losses of all the airlines
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in history, all the jet manufacturers in history, this year, they're at break even. So there's something around the
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notion that and I'm going to bring this forward to technology. I'm waiting for you to land the plane, but go ahead. Yeah, this is this is where Cara says,
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is there some is there something I I'm thinking it is there's a big is there something resembling a period at the end of this,
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right? I wonder if AI is going to be I'm hoping AI becomes one of these innovations
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where no small number of companies are able to aggregate trillions of dollars in value and that is we win. And I think
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there's some geopolitical concerns here. I think China is going to dump into the market a bunch of inexpensive LLMs to go
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after the jugular of America. They're sick of [ __ ] with them. But I think that AI could be more like the airline,
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the PC or the vaccine industry. And that is it could end up benefiting all of us, but it's not a small number of companies
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aren't going to be able to sequester that kind of value. I don't know how I got here, Carol. I don't either. I'm like watching this go.
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Anyways, my flight was fine. How was yours? I'm going to be on his plane tomorrow.
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Um to Boston. Uh here's the problem is that this is this is a I was thinking
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that if I miss this flight given I have to fly commercial as opposed to you for example. Um
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like we have all these people working for us. We have this whole tour going and it just eats into economic vitality.
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We've sold out. We've sold out everywhere. It's all the people you come here. You go to dinner. Everything that
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leads to it. And then this this idiot who was on like I forget what stupid reality show he was on. Sean Duffy is
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running our transportation department. Secretary of Transportation. Okay, fine. Whatever. The idiot, the incompetent [ __ ] Um and and then he
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just they're using it as a political pun, which is grotesque. And then from
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the safety point of view, two planes almost collided in LA today. There's going to be a a collision in in midair
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or something terrible is going to happen. Airlines are among the most safe thing to do in general compared to
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almost any other transportation which is there was a real visionary innovation around the FAA and that is I mean if you
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think about from from Kittyhawk to a man landing on the moon I think it was 70 or
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80 years. Yeah. I mean just the innovation there has been incredible. But what was really visionary about the
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airline or the air transportation industry is they said it feels very
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unnatural. I don't know how many of you are like this, but out of the blue I started getting on planes and I think why am I sweating and feel like I'm
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going to die? And I realized that I had anxiety. It was the first time I noticed I was getting old and suffering from
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depression and anxiety was on a plane when I started freaking out. And when I
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did some research on it, it is not natural. Our in our species is not used to skirting along the surface of the
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atmosphere at 500 miles an hour. So every you know 300,000 years of instinct says to you get the [ __ ] to the ground.
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This is not a good idea. And so it is a very anxious process. It's much more anxious than going at 0.1 the speed of
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sound on the ground in a four- wheeled vehicle. You just get anxious in a plane. and the vision of the FAA and
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different air um regulatory bodies around the world as it related to transportation air transportation and
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said whereas we're making auto safety one sigma we're going to make planes
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four sigma I love aviation I invest in aviation companies and they're generally speaking really shitty businesses
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because the the cost and time to get FAA certification is so intense because they
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decided early on we are going to make this the safest form of travel because you un you naturally just feel so unsafe
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in this thing. If you started meeting if you knew as many people who had been hurt on an airliner as you
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knew people who had been hurt in an auto accident, you'd never get on an Air Canada flight. You'd be like, "No, I
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think I'll just take the Greyhound or what I used to call the dog. You'll take a bus." But it was visionary
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because now most of us while anxious get on a plane because we see those stats that the most dangerous part of your
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your airline travel is the ride to the airport. So it was somewhat visionary to create standards
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and of course we're we're blowing it as always. We're blowing it with this stupid thing because people become there's lots of statistics showing
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people are now cutting flights. We're going into Thanksgiving and Christmas. The economic toll will be gigantic on
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this whole thing. And so, well, it's I like it's almost as if we were so [ __ ] stupid, we'd impose
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tariffs, right? Exactly. We'll get to that. We'll get to that in a minute. But one of the other things the United States is these
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SNAP food benefits. Um, last week we talked about which we correctly predicted that Elon Musk would get his
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trillion dollar pay package, which he's not going to get until he meets all kinds of criteria. Um, but it had the it
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wasn't related, but it had the juxtiposition with these SNAP food benefits. The Supreme Court is letting
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the Trump administration continue to hold back full benefits. That's actually a very smart move by Judge Jackson who's
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a liberal justice because it goes down to the circuit court who will probably quickly uh force him to do so and not
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that the Supreme she wanted them to make the decision because it's a more liberal um court than the Supreme Court. So
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actually it was a smart chess move on her part. Um so she judge uh Jackson
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currently is in charge of the emergency decision. since she sent the appeal back to the first circuit court of appeals can handle the matter quicker will
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probably decide against President Trump and his uh people who want to stop children from eating food. Um and and
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you know one one of the things that's happening is you have these juxapositions of very wealthy people largely tech people and children and
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people who are desperate for food and of course there's all this uh misinformation online about um the use
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of SNAP that you can buy all manner of things which you can't get hair extensions whatever uh it's quite racist in general
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um but again another another bad black eye on the United States we're going to
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get the terrorists in a minute, but it really does reveal the ugly side of the United States. My dad used to say
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that America is a terrible place to be stupid. And I think that was a harsh, unfair way of saying America is a
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terrible place to be unfortunate. And capitalism at its core does believe
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in winners and losers. That we create an incentive system where people who work hard, are talented, and also quite
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frankly really lucky can have an extraordinary life. And quite frankly, the people who aren't as lucky or as
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talented don't have as nice a life. That is a basic trade-off that we we opt for
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in a capitalist society. But when the net gets so low that people just massively hit it just hit the ground, it
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reveals something ugly about a culture, especially when it's been recognized the kind of prosperity that America has.
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Prosperity. This is astonishing that we're allowing kids to be starving in the United States. Well, where I was
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headed with this was that a budget and fiscal priorities on behalf of of voters
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reveals a nation's character. And this is America's character right now. And that is somewhere about 22% of America's
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population is under the age of 18, but 40% of SNAP recipients are kids. So we
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have decided to overindex in the wealthiest nation in the world the number of kids who uh go hungry. That is
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a really poor reflection on our values because effectively what's happened in
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the United States is people my generation really car's generation because she's much older than me but
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essentially not much older than essentially old people have figured out a way in the US to vote themselves more
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money the Dian democracy is working too well and that as old people vote so as a
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result we are now spending more you know those masked icelike weird secret police
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force. We're now spending more money on ICE in the United States than we're spending on um children. So, your your
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budget reflects your values. And I think this is bringing to light some very ugly things about America that we have
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decided we're no longer capitalism believing in winners and losers. We're about the Hunger Games where if you win,
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it's a life you couldn't have never imagined, but for everybody else, you die a pretty slow, ugly death.
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Yeah. It's a really it's it's we'll see how it goes. I don't think it's a particularly good look for Go ahead. You
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can um I think it will have implications. I think between the ICE raids and the
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cruelty of them and SNAP benefits and the juxosition between Trump tweeting 17
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photos of the Lincoln bathroom, which has a lot of marble now, and the Oval Office, which I don't even understand
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what's happening in that Oval Office. So much gold um uh is happening there. And then the this ridiculous ballroom, all
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of it together is is I think an indictment on the Trump administration. And it looks like I'm I'm like waiting
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for Three Spirits to visit him on Christmas this year. That's my feeling. You know, that's what's happened to
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Marjorie Taylor Green, in case you're interested. So,
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we don't know what to think of that. I think it's a scam. We all think it's a scam. We know it, but we're here for it.
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We're fine as long as she's the best. She is the We were talking about there was this poll recently of who was the
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leading uh who was the Democrat and it came up no one. You know, it was 17% no
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one. But I feel like it's Marjorie Taylor Green is the leader of the Democratic party at this point. Don't you think?
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Well, there they did some analysis where they tried to figure out so Trump's Trump's popularity is really taking a
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dive and they tried to sus out what?
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Yay. Sus it out. Well, yeah. They they figured out he's a menacious [ __ ] Um the and they think
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they think a bunch of there's some academic research now saying that the one thing that they think has had the
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greatest uh impact on his popularity has been the visual image of them
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tearing down the east wing. And we are a highly visual species. So it's not these these visual metaphors are
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incredibly the ice people. There's a lot of visuals now. But they say that image of a crane
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tearing down the east wing has somehow conoted or or inspired a visceral
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reaction. Yeah. And what he's going to put in place from the American public. Well, I don't know what the next president's going to do. Presumably,
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it's You know what it's going to look like? It's going to look like the best wh house in Iraq. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. Can you imagine going by the way, the
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East Wing wasn't all that, but that's okay. They shouldn't have torn it down. They should have renovated. That's what I felt. Um, so, uh, we're going to go on
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a quick break and when we come back, we're going to talk about the US Canada trade war, which won't be awkward at
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Scott, we're back. Recording live from Toronto. Hello, Toronto.
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Oh my god. Yeah. Scott has remained dressed this entire
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time. It's early in the program. You have so much respect for your Canadians. It's early in the program
00:19:57
in Austin. The shirt came off immediately. I get the sense the ladies want a little dessert. They don't
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little dessert. That's right. No. Surrender to the dog. They do not want a little dessert.
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What kind of dessert would you be? I'm thinking chocolate pudding.
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Or no, vanilla pudding. Excuse me. I'm sorry. I'm a tall drink of lemon cello.
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Lemonchello. Like lemonade. Like a tall drink of lemon. know what lemonchella is. All right,
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move on. Okay, I'm trying to think of what dessert you are. I got I'll think about that later. Um anyway, we're back, as I
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said, recording live from. So, it's a great time to talk about trade tensions between the US and Canada. Uh elbows up.
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Uh since President Trump took off, we're paying attention. Um since
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President Trump took office, the US has imposed sweeping tariffs on Canadian imports. Many Canadian goods face up to
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35% tariffs and steel and aluminum face rates of 15%. After four decades of close economic partnership, Prime
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Minister Mark Carney is saying it's time to date other people. He's looking to uh
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double exports with countries other than the US within the next 10 years. His government's new budget proposes
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spending 280 uh billion uh Canadian, that's 200 mill billion US over the next
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5 years to help offset the effects of the US's trade war. attract investment and increase defense spending. By the
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way, Carney is two seats away from a majority government. A conservative MP defected to the Liberals. Um he's doing
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rather well. Um and of course there was the Doug Ford ad which angered President
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Trump. Um which you I wasn't seeing it coming from Doug Ford. I'll be honest with you, but I'm I'm also down for
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that. So talk about what's going on here because that of course incense Trump. Um
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and uh we're sorry about the World Series by the way. Not really. No.
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I'm from California. Too bad. Sorry. Um but I grew up in LA and I was rooting for
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Wait for it. The Blue Jays. Were you wearing You are such a suckup to Canada.
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True. I I tweeted about Um that's cuz you were conceived here. Um so talk a
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little bit about the terrorists because it's a really difficult situation this and of course he continues to say you
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you do not want to be the 51st state I assume. Thank you. Um but he keeps talking about
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it. Um it's demented obviously. That's a waste of time. But talk a little bit about where the
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tariffs are because by the way we'd like it. We're progressives. We we'd win every Democratic House. We can you imagine
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what would happen if Canada became the first 51st state? We'd be so [ __ ] liberal be out of control.
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Yeah, it's true. It would Anyways, so just a little bit of context.
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We have the the the strongest alliance in the world. Churchill said the the only thing worse than fighting with your
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allies or fighting uh with your allies is fighting without your allies. And I think America right now is taking for
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granted a lot of things. We're taking for granted the FAA. We're taking for granted Veterans Affairs. We we taking
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granted competence in in the administration and across all of our great public sector employees, but we're
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also quite franking frankly taking for granted our friends. Canada has the largest undefended border in the world
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with the US. That says something. It would cost us somewhere between 20 and $50 billion a year if either side
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decided to militarize their border. But we don't because we trust and we like each other. Canada uh in World War I.
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And I looked this up because someone pinned this on on me and I thought, well, I should try and figure out what this means. Canada went to World War I,
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a colony came back, a nation, actually went to World War II or entered World War II before we did. They were in
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Afghanistan with us. So, this has been this unbelievably prosperous
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relationship where, in the words of Animal House, quite frankly, you [ __ ]
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up. You trusted us. And that is about somewhere between 60 and 70% of exports
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from Canada go into the US. It's about 17% of ours. That's a bit misleading
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because of the exports that come into the US from Canada, they're generally low margin products. They're oil,
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petroleum, lumber, and they're in companies that trade at a P multiple of about 20. Whereas the products that we
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import or export into Canada are more like automobiles, electronics, iPhones,
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pharmaceuticals that have double or triple the operating margins and usually our revenues in a company that trade at
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about a multiple of 20 to 30. So for every dollar of exports that we push
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into Canada, we recognize about three times the shareholder value. So trade,
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if you will, between the US and Canada is asymmetric in that is for every
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dollar we push into you that you buy versus every dollar you push into us, we
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get triple the amount of shareholder value. So if anyone's getting has been taken advantage of over the last 20 or
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30 years, it's been Canadians. We benefit more from this trade than you do. But we've decided,
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we've decided, and this is what is just so sclerotic and stupid, economically stupid about what we're doing. We've
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decided because we're, it's like going through an angry divorce and one partner is much wealthier than the other and has
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said, "Well, I'm going to over I'm going to damage myself more, but because I have so much more money, it's going to
00:25:37
hurt you more." So, it's not only irrational. The bottom line is it's just, for lack of a better term, it's
00:25:44
just unkind. And what you're seeing is uh Carney. By the way, I don't know if
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you know this, I have another podcast called Prop G. No, I haven't heard of it. My most my most viewed podcast with this
00:25:56
was this guy who reached out to me his office and said, "We want to come on your podcast." And it was Mark Carney.
00:26:02
And I had no idea who the guy was. This was What do you mean you had no idea who the guy was? I didn't I'd never heard of the guy.
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The prime minister of Canada. No, no, no. This is This was during the election. That's why I called. Okay. Um, and he came on and by it's like 70
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minutes later, I'm like, "Hold me. That guy, I'm like, "Dad,
00:26:20
dad, seriously, that's the dad I want." Wait, wait. You didn't have those feelings for Justin Trudeau.
00:26:26
Justin's more like, "I'd like to roll and pick up chicks with Justin."
00:26:31
Justin's like, "That seems to be his job right now." I think I met him in person like 3 days ago and
00:26:37
I'm like Jesus Christ look at this guy's skin and he's beautiful. He looks like he's
00:26:43
in a [ __ ] boy band. He doesn't look like Anyway,
00:26:49
where were we? Bring me back. Mark Carney, what do you think of him? Anyways, so what are these leaders
00:26:55
doing? Trump and the trade wars have absolutely accomplished what he was
00:27:00
hoping to accomplish. They've inspired a massive flurry of deal making. That's
00:27:05
the good news. The bad news is it has nothing to do with us. So essentially every world leader is on a global tour
00:27:13
trying to figure out new supply chain and new alliances that don't include America. And the unfortunate thing about
00:27:18
this is that if and when Trump is out of office in 28, it's going to take us a
00:27:24
decade and to repair if at a minimum to repair these trade alliances. Cuz once
00:27:30
you establish alliances with other nations for your lumber and for your parts and for your whatever it might be,
00:27:37
your petroleum, your oil, whatever it might be, you're not going to say, "I'm sorry, girlfriend. We can't trust you
00:27:43
the next time some weirdo comes into office. We When COVID hit, I was on the board of a
00:27:50
company called Urban Outfitters, an apparel company, and we recognized that 70 or 80% of our tops were coming from a
00:27:56
10-mi radius of Shenzen that basically got shut down. And we said, "Okay, never again. We can't be this." Supply chains
00:28:03
were maximized for no slack and just pure efficiency, which made us vulnerable to a supply chain shock. What
00:28:09
Canada is going through is sort of a self-imposed own goal COVID from America
00:28:14
where they're going to diversify their supply chain and never put themselves in a position again where they need to
00:28:20
trust this meth lab that they have an apartment on top of. So one of the things that
00:28:28
actually your point your point about it being a good thing for Canada I think absolutely because it creates a
00:28:34
situation where you have to be one of the issues around Canada. I'm sorry to insult Blackberry because when I had my
00:28:40
baby I was holding a Blackberry um in the in the delivery room in my hand because I I was texting with someone at
00:28:48
the time. Um Wait, so you you actually bur the child? Yes, I did. You know that.
00:28:54
Okay. Louie. Oh my god. Don't say anything. You need to invest. Don't say anything.
00:28:59
You need to invest in our relationship. He's coming tomorrow to the Boston. Louie. Louie. Oh, great.
00:29:05
Okay. I actually had him. I had a cesarian scar. Do you want to see it right now? Oh, god. No.
00:29:10
Okay, good. All right. Um, but now I'm getting back. Anyway, I love BlackBerry,
00:29:15
but one of the innovations in technology didn't happen here as much
00:29:21
as it should have because of the dependencies on the United States. And it's a good thing to get out from under
00:29:27
a a dependency because with the US, BlackBerry was absolutely out front in
00:29:32
terms of innovation, in terms of usage, but as you know, it got run over. It got
00:29:38
run over by Apple and Google and everything else. And that to me was and and again Waterlue is an astonishing uh
00:29:46
technology school. Um did you know about Waterlue
00:29:51
a little bit? Yeah. Okay. You didn't. Um so one of the things that I think is interesting is what how can
00:29:57
you revive innovation in places like Canada like and not rely because the
00:30:02
reliance on I was looking at a list of American the most valued companies in the world. They're all US companies
00:30:09
whether it's Nvidia or Apple or or Meta or Alphabet. And it's really important
00:30:14
to establish and not just to support them to really think about innovation within each of your countries and to get
00:30:21
off to get off the relationship with the US may not be the worst thing for most countries in the world given how
00:30:28
repugnant we are at this moment. But also because it's important because I think of Blackberry. I just they
00:30:35
dominate it. they dominated the early technology era of mobile uh computing
00:30:40
and then absolutely didn't. Yeah. Look, it's this is the question I
00:30:46
get most. I live in London right now and it's like why can't we you know one company? So I think Nvidia right now is
00:30:55
worth more uh than the Canadian GDP. Is that right?
00:31:02
Yeah. It's worth 5 trillion I think Canadian. Anyways, the bottom line is you don't command the space you occupy
00:31:09
in terms of technology. There's just no getting around it. And we can talk about Blackberry and root for a company that's been irrelevant for 10 years, but
00:31:18
it's true. But you got great universities. You got a great culture. I think there's something to the I mean I hate to admit
00:31:24
this but the ready the ready fire aim regulatory environment in the US does
00:31:29
create a lot of fast movers opportunities in addition we I would describe the
00:31:35
benefit of the US as being kind of comes down to one word and that is risk so
00:31:42
people you know when I describe I don't know if this is true of Canada because 50% of the people living in Toronto were
00:31:47
born in other countries but when you describe when People when I'm in the UK
00:31:52
say, "Why are you guys doing so much better than us?" I was like, "Well, you're the ones that decided to stay."
00:31:59
And so, for example, what you need is quite frankly, you need 10 or 20 Shopifies. Cuz what happens is a company
00:32:06
starts, it gets huge. They have huge liquidity events. The people who started
00:32:11
these companies decide to stay there because they collect mates and dogs. and then they start a VC firm and start
00:32:18
salting the environment with more and more venture. In addition, and this is unfortunate, but the environment in the
00:32:26
US where there's more upside because of lower tax rates on the wealthy, we have a very strange tax system. It's
00:32:32
progressive, right? Until you get to about the 99th percentile and then once you get to the 99th percentile, it
00:32:38
plummets. So the tax rate on someone in the 99th percentile, if you're living in a blue state, might be 52 points. The
00:32:45
tax rate on the 25 wealthiest families in America is 6%. And the the the superpower of Americans
00:32:52
is their optimism, but it's also the Achilles heel because all of us in America think our kid is in the top 1%
00:32:59
and I can prove to every one of us 99% of our children are not in the top 1%. But what it create and then we have a
00:33:05
very low safety net. So, what it creates is an incentive system where people are encouraged to take more risk because
00:33:12
there's just so much more upside. But there's got to be something else. And I'm not sure entirely sure what it is
00:33:19
why, you know, when you get to the Canadian border, quite frankly, those unicorns somewhat stop. And the honest
00:33:25
answer, I don't have an answer for. Well, it's an opportunity. Um, but uh we're going to move on, but it's really
00:33:30
it's just an interesting time. I think ultimately Trump taco, you know, he will
00:33:36
taco the the thing out. Trump always chickens out. Um and so at some point he'll repair those relationships,
00:33:42
although he has to wake up first. Um anyway, we're going to he's been sleeping a lot lately in meetings. Um he
00:33:49
just did yesterday when that guy fainted. The OMPic guy fainted. Anyway, we're going to go on a quick break. When we come back, we're going to talk about
00:33:55
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00:35:06
Scott, we're back. How much do we love it here?
00:35:11
What? How much do we love it here? I do. I know. We're moving here. Another 20 years of global warming. This is going to be the greatest city in the
00:35:16
world. Yeah, it's going to be great. Seriously. So, back in the US, we had one local
00:35:22
election that transfixed the whole country. The New York City mayoral election. Toronto's mayor, Olivia Chow,
00:35:28
is a progressive who campaigned on affordability issues when she ran in 2023, like a certain newly elected
00:35:34
mayor. Uh her advice to him in a recent interview, she was talking um about the issue that defines affordability is
00:35:40
housing, not so much free buses. I just want to ask you a question. You've got a thing from now, how do we pronounce it?
00:35:47
Mam Dani. Um one of the I have no thing for him. You have a thing for him so you can pander to your
00:35:53
Pakistan liberals. No, no. Here's what I think. I want to ask you this question. You talk you're
00:35:59
on his incredible book tour and Scott's book is number one on Amazon right now. Notes and men.
00:36:04
I'm gonna throw throw you a bone there because it's worthwhile to be that way. But here is a man who is the description
00:36:09
of the men you're talking about, right? Who is respectful, who's communityoriented, who has gone around
00:36:16
the city and met people, etc., etc., etc. I'm just curious. A rich kid living in a rent control apartment.
00:36:22
No, it's not rank. No. Lot listen. Cuomo Cuomo was in a a rent stabilized
00:36:27
apartment too before. I find it interesting, but this these are the kind of people you want to men
00:36:34
to be like or look up to or not. You don't think so? Oh, I I honestly I hadn't I hadn't run
00:36:40
the macho test on Mandami. I think he's a I think he's a super impressive young man. I think he's an incredible
00:36:47
candidate. I think the Democrats can learn a lot from him. I thought he ran a great campaign. He's bold. He takes
00:36:52
risks. He's smart. Um I and I want to be clear, we talk about this a lot. I think
00:36:58
once someone is elected, you have an obligation as a citizen to rally behind them and and and hope for their success
00:37:06
and support them and let them prove you wrong. Voting, it's not a su we're not when you go to a voting booth, we're not
00:37:12
in a suicide pack. Well, you know, one one of the things I keep saying about I I've been thinking a lot about quote
00:37:18
unquote the the mating crisis because I wrote this book on young men. And
00:37:24
one of the another yet another reason why young people aren't hooking up is
00:37:30
because women are becoming slightly more progressive and men are becoming much more conservative. And women don't want
00:37:38
it. The moment a a a dude starts talking about his conservative values, she's like, "Okay, I'm out." And I literally
00:37:45
try to think, can you name Can you think of anyone when you were dating when you were single?
00:37:50
Well, maybe you did. I've never been single. You never been single? No. I've been single most of my life.
00:37:56
Anyways, I've literally a month. I was single for a month. Single for a month. Well, you know, I'm beachfront property
00:38:01
in Malibu, but among lesbians at least. Go ahead. Yeah. I'm the part of the beach that
00:38:08
washed away and it's gone forever. Anyways, but I can't remember the Inland Empire, I guess. I can't remember what the political
00:38:15
leanings were. And it's yet another reason why people are writing each other off. But to your point, as I think about
00:38:23
it, I think of a I think of masculinity as being three things. Uh provider. I
00:38:28
think every man at the outset of his career should assume that at some point he needs to take economic responsibility
00:38:34
for his household. And sometimes that means getting out of the way and being more supportive of your partner who's
00:38:39
better at that money thing. But I don't think it's a bad idea to start out saying, "I'm going to have to be economically viable in a capitalist
00:38:45
society that disproportionately evaluates men and my self-esteem is largely based on my economic viability."
00:38:52
I'm not saying that's the way the world should be, but it's the way the world is, too. Once you have that prosperity,
00:38:57
you move to protector. I think this is the part of the program that the men we're supposed to look up to for
00:39:02
masculinity, specifically the richest man in the world and the pres president, have totally missed the whole protector part of masculinity. Yeah.
00:39:09
And then three, procreation. I think sex and being horny and wanting to have sex,
00:39:14
makes you a better man. Makes you want to dress better, smell better, have a kindness practice, be resilient, make an
00:39:21
approach while making expressing romantic interest and making someone feel safe. Stop demonizing sexual
00:39:26
desire. It's an amazing thing. It makes men better men. Mom Dami.
00:39:33
Mom Donnie. You got it. Yeah, you got it. Stop it. Stop shaming me. I get him
00:39:38
right. I think he's a great role model for, as I think about it, I think he's a great
00:39:43
role model for young men. He takes risk risks. He's I think he's happily married.
00:39:49
He seems to be talking about protecting other people. So, as I'm thinking about this real time, yeah, I think he's a
00:39:56
great what I'm best of luck to him. In any
00:40:03
case, what do you want? In any case, I think he's a great role model and you know, I'd even [ __ ] him. So would you. Um, so, but you would.
00:40:11
That hair. Come on. A few beers. You never know. I'm down. I
00:40:17
mean, all right. And I know you hate, very quickly, we have two more things. Um, and then we'll get to questions from the audience. I know you hate the idea of a
00:40:24
state-run grocery stores, but here in Canada, most provinces have governmentr run liquor stores. Some states in the
00:40:29
United States have them. That's That's okay though, right? That's No, it was a bad idea here and it was a
00:40:35
bad idea there. When Alberta got rid of their government-owned liquor stores, the number of liquor stores tripled, the
00:40:41
number of employment tripled, and the number of products available to consumers was up eightfold. That's nothing but a transfer of wealth from
00:40:47
consumers to the government for shitty service. There are certain things the government does really well. They're really good at taking care of our
00:40:53
national parks. They're really good at collecting taxes. They're really good at the Navy. They're really good at the DMV. Someone from the DMV should not be
00:41:00
picking out your produce or your alcohol. The private sector does some things really well. One of them is
00:41:05
grocery. We do not need food sponsored food lines called government-owned grocery stores. Grocery is the last
00:41:12
thing that should be nationalized. I get it. I think it's the idea of getting better nutrition to poor people who now can't
00:41:18
give them money. Give them money. Well, we are not giving them money because of SNAP being cut. The problem when government gets involved involved
00:41:25
on a lot of this stuff is it creates an infrastructure where the majority of the money does not end up in the pockets
00:41:30
that you're supposedly helping. If you want to get more food or make food more affordable for people, what you do is
00:41:36
you give them money, more money in their pockets, $25 an hour minimum wage, which he is pro proposing, which I'm a huge
00:41:42
fan of, and then let them force Trader Joe's, Kroger's, Loblaws, or whatever
00:41:47
you call it up here, to compete against each other and battle it out in this full body contact violence called the
00:41:54
private sector. All right, I we will talk to him. I I I see your point, but I would I I
00:42:00
appreciate you acknowledging he's a good role model for men. I think he is a good role model. I'm glad you pointed that out.
00:42:05
Last last thing, tourism is down between the US and Canada. Last year, Canada was the top source of international tourists
00:42:11
to the US, generating over 20 billion dollars in spending and supporting 140,000 American jobs. In the first half
00:42:18
this year, can US saw a 25% drop in Canadian We Canadian visitors. Uh this
00:42:25
summer, for the second time in nearly 20 years, more US residents travel to Canada, largely escaping, um than
00:42:31
Canadians traveling to the US. Um why don't you think they want to come see
00:42:36
us, Scott? It's so funny. We we supposedly these tariffs are going to reinvigorate the
00:42:43
manufacturing sector. But here's the problem. Nobody wants to work in the manufacturing sector. You don't get to
00:42:49
take your dog to work on the sha on the on the shop floor. And 11% of the the
00:42:55
American public works in manufacturing. Yet 80% of Americans think we need more manufacturing. We have this fetish of
00:43:02
around manufacturing. And the reality is over time America has been very good at
00:43:08
arbitrageing out of low wage lowwage jobs into more service more in information more innovation industry.
00:43:14
12% of American public is employed in the tourist industry. So our obception
00:43:19
with trying to falsely, sclerotically, idiotically prop up the manufacturing sector with quote unquote tariffs is
00:43:26
taking down faster an industry which is higher margin and employs more people called the tourist sector. When you come
00:43:33
to Disneyland, we get much more money, much more margin, support much more jobs
00:43:39
than if we tariff your [ __ ] such that our lumber's more competitive. This again if you were look it's as if the
00:43:45
Trump administration said to chat GPT how can I elegantly reduce the prosperity of Americans inch by inch and
00:43:52
make it almost irreversible for it's not that elegant. It's not elegant at all. Um but what could bring
00:43:58
Canadians back to us? What could bring Canadians back? Yeah. What could we do?
00:44:04
[ __ ] A new president. I mean,
00:44:11
so so let let me get a prediction from you because you know what the world cup is Canada
00:44:18
team? No, they're not coming for the World Cup. Are you coming for the World Cup? I'm coming to I'm coming to Vancouver.
00:44:25
There's two cities, two cities or three cities in Canada. Toronto, Vancouver,
00:44:30
and then Montreal. There's lots of cities in I used to come every year in June to
00:44:36
Canada for tourist reasons. Anyone want to guess? F1 Montreal. Oh my god. Oh my
00:44:43
god. Hello. European food and hot women. Did I just say that? Yeah. So, what could what could we do? Say
00:44:50
Trump leaves, right? His tiny minion doesn't win. JD Vance,
00:44:56
um the most uncharming person in politics that exists. Um,
00:45:01
talk about pandering. Yeah. Uh, South Park has him exactly right.
00:45:07
Yeah. Um, what could the what would should the first thing the US should do to get
00:45:13
tourists back to the US? Canadian tourists.
00:45:23
I I just don't I think all we need to do is make America America again. I I just
00:45:32
don't Yeah. I don't think we need advertising. I don't think we need Disneyland and Niagara on the American board.
00:45:38
We have Niagara, too, but go ahead. I just this I mean, let's be honest,
00:45:44
we're pretty much the same goddamn people. We're we're fraternal or maternal twins, right? And the fact that
00:45:51
we don't we just we love each other so much. We
00:45:56
take each other for granted. It's like you wake up in the morning and you're spooning your your wife and you just you
00:46:02
forget how wonderful it is. It just this is not a Canada and America like we're
00:46:09
we're you and you're us. And the thought that we even have this kind
00:46:15
No, they don't think so. They don't. want to be spooned by you, Scott.
00:46:22
And neither do I. But that's another issue. This is really interesting, though, because
00:46:28
we Americans are so narcissistic. That's correct. That
00:46:34
listen, we agree with you. Scott was shocked by that. Americans, I was not.
00:46:40
Americans feel much better about Canadians right now than Canadians feel about Americans.
00:46:46
Yep. So Scott, they hate us. They really hate us.
00:46:51
So I don't I don't think there's anything we can do other than what I
00:46:56
would call just going back to a sense of normaly and someone who doesn't declare war on its friends.
00:47:02
Yes. I would say the one thing we could say is we're so sorry. We are so sorry.
00:47:07
That's what I see. That's how you do it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Yeah.
00:47:13
Can I tell you I was conceived here? Look at you. Were surprised by that. They don't like us. I'm just telling you. Anyway, we're going to finish up
00:47:18
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00:48:24
Okay. All right. So, we're gonna Scott in his head is going, "Love me, Canada."
00:48:30
It's going to be all night tonight with us discussing this. So, let's get some questions from the audience. Where are they? They're okay. Right here. There's
00:48:37
a podium here. So, we would love any questions you have. There is no question
00:48:43
uh too rude. And Scott made it through the entire show without a dick joke, so you should be happy.
00:48:50
Thank you so much. Um we've been watching and we're kind of terrified as
00:48:55
to what's happening in America. uh and uh we've been watching the
00:49:02
dismantling of democracy with the legal systems and the military and I could go
00:49:09
on with 250 things. Yeah, there's a lot to say. There's a lot going on these days. So my question to you is what is your
00:49:15
suggestion because it seems to be there's a mobilization around Donald
00:49:20
Trump and all of his followers. Who are we supposed to follow on the opposite
00:49:27
side? What is your suggestion? There needs to be a leader. Well, the recent election said something, didn't it? Didn't the recent
00:49:33
election? Absolutely. And it's not just at the top levels. It was down in the city councils like
00:49:38
and we're very hopeful that and I think that says to us that the American people
00:49:44
have a voice, right? But who's leading that voice? Who's going to take it to
00:49:50
the next level? And that's my question to you. We don't know right now. You know, we don't know. We don't know who the
00:49:55
Democrat there's a lot of Democratic Party officials. There's other people maybe you've not heard of yet. There's
00:50:00
leaders. My whole take on the whether you like uh Mamani or not is we contain
00:50:06
multitudes is how the Democratic party should be. Not that we have to agree on socialism or or Abby Spanberger in
00:50:14
Virginia is much more conservative or if you're Jared Pace in in Colorado. The
00:50:19
Democratic Party has to say here's the three things we care about. affordability, dignity, and democracy or
00:50:25
something like that. And I think it's really going to be interesting to see who emerges. But there's some great candidates. It's just a question of the
00:50:32
fever of Trump is a fever that the United States has all the time. Whether from the Salem witch trials to the m,
00:50:39
you know, to the McCarthy era to the Civil War, we have fevers that are really ugly and grotesque. And we're
00:50:46
going to come out of I feel like we're going to come out of this and this I agree this sad decrepit cruel man will
00:50:55
be gone but we'll see. He's got a lot of ad he's got a lot of people who love him you know. Absolutely. Any quick things?
00:51:02
Yeah, but to to build on Cara's point, America has been in very dark places
00:51:08
before and has actually it's tested our democracy and the democracy has been damaged in like a muscle that's damaged.
00:51:14
It's grown back stronger. At one point, slave owners controlled our dem quote unquote democracy. Right after the Great
00:51:20
Depression, there was Henry [ __ ] Ford. [ __ ] that guy. I
00:51:26
mean, he's dead, but he should be dead. Veterans were marching on the capital
00:51:33
and this guy named this young general named Douglas MacArthur opened fire on them. We were essentially putting we
00:51:39
were interning people because of their Japanese background in camps. We have been through very dark times and each
00:51:45
time we have come back, learned from it and come back stronger. So that's not an excuse to be complacent, but we're our
00:51:52
democracy is being tested. I think a lot of Americans are recognizing that a lot of our blessings we've taken for
00:51:57
granted. So I'm I'm hopeful that our democracy like a muscle is being tested
00:52:03
and it's going to grow back stronger. We've been through worse before. I also believe in young people. Um
00:52:08
again, New York mayoral, you can have all the feelings you want about it. young people voted and they said what they wanted and they said we don't want
00:52:14
an ass grabbing terrible Trumploving Democrat. So we'll
00:52:20
see. I believe in young people. That's who I believe in. Hello Scott and Cara. My name is Daniel.
00:52:25
I'm here with my wife. Um it's our first anniversary tomorrow and we both
00:52:31
Congratulations. Thank you. Uh we both love you and I wanted to ask both of us have worked in
00:52:36
advertising. I had an agency that I uh exited last year and I'm still working you know as a strategist and consultant.
00:52:43
Um she works in advertising. My question is and I also teach in postsecary. So my question for you mostly Scott is uh are
00:52:50
we screwed to work continue to work in these industries? Should we pivot now? Uh yeah. Yeah. What are your thoughts on
00:52:57
that? It's it's situational because I'd say if you're over the age of 40 and you have senior level sponsorship and you're
00:53:04
doing well and you own relationships, which is always the key in a services industry, I would say ride it out and
00:53:10
keep going. It's it if you're younger and thinking, okay, I have some options
00:53:15
in other industries. I think you want to get out of the adsported ecosystem. I think it's going to be a difficult industry. It's better to be good in a
00:53:22
growing industry than great in an industry that's flat or declining. uh within your industry. If you decide to
00:53:28
stay in it, I would say try and get as close to the relationships with the clients as possible. And also try to get
00:53:34
good at buying media and creating content for a small screen. The return on investment of your human and your
00:53:40
financial capital will be inversely correlated to the screen you're creating content for. If you're in the business
00:53:45
of big screens, movies, that's a shitty business. It's only going to get worse. If you're in the business of a
00:53:50
medium-siz screen TV, that's a huge business. It's gone flat. But if you're in the business of designing creative
00:53:57
for this is champagne and cocaine, my brother. All right, last question really quick.
00:54:05
Make it a good one. Um, hi, I'm Kelly. Um, I'm here with the bummer question. Um,
00:54:10
oh, okay. That's So AI has been the fuel on the fire that is disinformation.
00:54:16
Yes. How do we curb that? Or is the horse too far out of the barn, as my mom would say? It
00:54:21
It's not AI. It was here before. By the way, propaganda has been around since the beginning of time. Let's be clear.
00:54:26
Um, it's just been amplified and weaponized in a way. And social media has certainly done its job. So, it's not
00:54:33
a new thing. Um, I think the question is now that we have AI here and it's not as protected legally, at least in the
00:54:39
United States, as social media is. Um, it's time for our regulators to get very
00:54:44
clear about guard rails. Uh, beginning with young people in terms of the usage and safety. Um, let me tell you, my
00:54:51
whole book was about how they do not give a [ __ ] how safe you are. They are people who have never felt unsafe a day
00:54:58
in their lives. Don't care about safety. They don't care about your safety. And so, we have to engage as citizens to get
00:55:05
our legislators to get a [ __ ] backbone and start to really legislate guard reasonable guardrails. I'm not
00:55:12
talking about innovation killing guardrails, but the fact of the matter is, as Scott's pointed out, the AI boom
00:55:18
right now is allowing Trump to has kept the stock market up, which is allowing Trump to do all manner of heinous
00:55:25
things. Like that's an aftere effect. But we have to absolutely get control of
00:55:30
the technology industry and pass. We don't have any laws in our country, regulating them. We have to start
00:55:37
understanding how easy it's going to be to destroy all our democracies, not just the US because we're so vulnerable, but
00:55:44
everywhere without understanding there should be reasonable and important legislation around transparency,
00:55:51
privacy, usage, safety, all kinds of things. And it's not that hard. We do it
00:55:56
with every other industry and it should be done here. I This is all I talk about now. And I I want to start with young
00:56:02
kids because everybody agrees on that. like everybody agrees on the safety of children and so that would be my my
00:56:09
beginning. Scott, why don't you end it? So, you're zeroing in on what I think is the most important topic that has the
00:56:15
least amount of coverage and that is we're all like what's going on with our kids? What's happening to our society?
00:56:21
And it's because people don't want to acknowledge and the incumbents want to make sure we're focused on other weapons
00:56:27
of mass distraction. But the thing that really ails the West right now is the following. Our economy in the United
00:56:34
States is a giant bet on AI. The economy would be flat. The stock
00:56:40
market would not be up 16%. It'd be up 0% if it wasn't for the massive runup in
00:56:47
these 10 companies related to AI based on incredible expectations.
00:56:52
So we've effectively connected the entire global economy. 40% of the S&P is
00:56:58
these 10 companies. that represents 20% of global market value. Right? If these c if these companies sneeze, the whole
00:57:05
world gets pneumonia. And these companies are in the business of a lot of things, but mostly they're in the business of dividing, polarizing, and
00:57:12
sequestering people from one another. There is now unfortunately the deepest
00:57:17
pocketed god-like technology has connected trillions of dollars in shareholder value to separating our
00:57:24
children from their parents and each other and making them feel shitty about the flag, each other and democracy.
00:57:31
There is now unfortunately a profit incentive attached to evolving a new
00:57:36
species of asocial asexual youth. And it is terrible for the species. It's
00:57:42
terrible for the economy. It's as if we have connected a profit motive into planning our own extinction. So what do
00:57:49
we need to do? No synthetic relationships for anyone under the age of 18. No phones in schools. No social
00:57:55
media under the age of 16. And quite frankly holding these companies to the same account as every other company. We
00:58:02
need antitrust. We need fines. And quite frankly, someone needs to do a [ __ ] per walk.
00:58:10
other than that, but you need to get involved. And on that note, we want to thank you. Scott's book is really
00:58:17
amazing. It's called Notes on Being a Man. It's number one on Amazon right now. Is that correct?
00:58:23
I think it's going to be He does, of course, because he's so insecure. He's like, it's going to be two or three on the New York Times bestsellers. It's
00:58:28
going to be one. And so, I urge everyone to buy it in bulk. Um, so that he gets
00:58:34
that little moment in the sun that he would adore. But it's a great book. And one of the things we like to end on, we
00:58:39
want to thank obviously Canada, but one of the things we always talk about in this era of AI and separation and
00:58:46
anxiety and partisanship is you got to get along with people you don't agree with. And obviously Scott and I don't
00:58:51
agree on a lot of things. Um, but it's been a real journey. Um, you saw it here right now. I'm correct about Zoron. Um,
00:58:59
uh, but but it's really important that you have personal relationships in the real world. We talk about tech a lot. We
00:59:06
talk about online a lot, but the most significant relationships are with each other and unlikely ones where you have
00:59:12
disagreement and challenge each other. And that's the most critical thing to do. We make our money with tech and
00:59:18
media, but we really make our money because of a relationship, a personal, don't you think? I
00:59:24
Yeah. Anyway, he's he can't stand it. I think we need to embrace our imperfect
00:59:30
allies. Canada, hang with us for your Please do. Thank you so much. We love
00:59:35
and Americans love Canada. We really do. Scott, read us out.
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