History Hyenas with Chris Distefano and Yannis Pappas - Hot Money War w/ China

Episode Date: April 10, 2025

Yannis and Chris dive into the wild ride that is the history of American tariffs…spoiler alert: it’s been messy. Then they fast-forward to the Trump Tariffs, breaking down the best-case, worst-case, and total-chaos-case scenarios. This it’s a hot money war, cuz! Will it work? Well, they tell you.  Support our sponsors: Make life easier by getting harder and discover your options at https://bluechew.com! Try your first month of BlueChew FREE when you use promo code HYENAS -- just pay $5 shipping. Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @shop.mando and get $5 off off your Starter Pack (that’s over 40% off) with promo code HYENAS at https://shopmando.com! #mandopod #comedy #Podcast #History Join our Patreon at 👇 https://www.patreon.com/historyhyenas/ Subscribe to the poddy woddy Our YouTube!: https://bit.ly/2ARdDOz HH Clips:https://bit.ly/2YaK2Z8 iTunes: https://apple.co/2UQTHCc Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3fxtsc0 Hyenas Merch!!! https://teespring.com/stores/historyhyenas Follow us Cuz! 🙆🏻‍♂️ Yannis Pappas Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/yannispappas/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/yannispappas Website - https://www.yannispappascomedy.com/ 🙆🏼‍♂️ Chris Distefano Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/chrisdcomedy/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/chrisdcomedy Website - https://www.chrisdcomedy.com/ 🐕More Hyenas Website: www.historyhyenasisback.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/historyhyenas/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistoryHyenas Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/historyhyenaspod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello everyone, my name is Yonis Pappas and I'm joined by my co-host Christopher DiStefano We're two Christian kids wearing Christian hats gonna talk about tariffs. Tariffs, we're coming to you live from China because that's where it's safe We're gonna talk to you tell you the history of tariffs We're gonna speed up all the way into what's happening in present-day America and we're just two Kids who are really not that smart but really not that America and we're just two kids who are really not that smart but really not that dumb and we're going to break down tariffs and how it affects you and you personally.

Smart or dumb is really a matter of opinion. That's what it is. So depending on your intellectual capabilities, you'll be watching this going, you're smart or you're dumb. And it's what it is and we- If you're watching this from China, you're going to go, they're dumb. They're dumb. If you're watching this from China, you're going to go, they're dumb. They're dumb. You're watching this from America.

You're going to go, these are smart kids. Here's what I could tell you. Absolutely 100% with 100% certainty right now is that this will not be on the Tik Tok in China, but it will be on the Tik Tok in the United States. It absolutely will be. And can we just stop beating around the bush when you look at all the Ivy league schools, which are our finest institutions, I mean, Chinese kids to Ivy League are black kids to the NBA.

It's what it is. It's just what they do. It's what it is. And I'm going to tilt this in honor of our African-American brothers till the morning. I was going to say, because I'm wearing a jacket that a 50-year-old black man who grew up in the Bronx probably has.

So I want to tip that down and just wear it like that. That jacket looks like you're a black guy asleep on the train at two in the morning. It's what it is. That's the jacket he'd be wearing. Now here we go. Talk to me. We got two economists sitting here. Yeah, I just want to sit down and tell you, because here's the thing is tariffs. I know that it's probably the first time people are hearing about them because of what's going on in the US economy.

I want to tell you though that they've been around for a while. Okay? Do you know who had the very first half who created the very first half? Your favorite Dominican, Alexander Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton, everyone's favorite Dominican from the play Hamilton, he, when he was alive in 1790s, he actually was the one who instituted the tariff because back then there was no federal taxes.

You did not get taxed by the government. The only way for the government to make money was a little thing we like to call a tariff. That's why he did that. And what he was thinking about was we had just went into a war with the British. Don't mind me, I'm just on my ox. That's it, yes.

I think Chinese like to write ox when they do agriculture. He was on the war. We had just fought with the British and he had said to them, he had said, we don't wanna deal with the British anymore. We don't wanna buy any of their tea or their textiles or anything. We wanna make things here at home.

He was the first guy to say, it all starts here. You know what he was the first guy to do? Make America great again. He was the first guy. Yeah, a lot of people don't know that there wasn't even a federal income tax until 1913. Yeah, that's the truth. Everything was about states, states' rights.

So this whole idea, and by the way, we're gonna talk to you, I'm gonna get to you where this whole idea of states rights come from. It comes from a little thing called the tariff of abomination, which reminds me of Joe DeRose's vile horrendous, which I heard him talking about on a podcast this week, and it's disgusting. Just go Google Joe DeRose's vile horrendous. But so let me tell you something real quick, because basically in the 1790s, we needed money to pay off the debt because we borrowed a lot of money from the French kids to help us beat the British.

Yeah. So we're going to make things here and like true fashion. See, a lot of people think the Civil War just came out of nowhere and a lot of people blame it on slavery and that is a huge part of it because in the 1790s in with Alexander Hamilton when he said tariffs and he's going to increase the the prices of exports coming from British and all these other countries because he wanted the United States or the 13 colonies at the time to make their own products it really favored the north and not the south because the south said yeah but you know what guy the south said this they know what, guy? We need cotton and other things

because we gotta have these slaves doing their work. So you guys up in the North, you don't really need the things that we need. And Alexander Hamilton said, shut up. Yeah, it's just very interesting to be wearing these things because the size of your head, that just looks like a normal hat. It just looks like a, yeah.

And for me, it's just probably just engulfing my head. I just look like a rice ball on a plate right now. And here's the thing is we the reason why we have these hats on is just in case we do lose the trade war because we will eventually tell you we will get to the part where we tell you that this is actually just a tariff on China. This is just a war with China. Other countries are involved but really it's not about that it's about China so just in case we do lose the trade war I just want there to be evidence in Shanghai right now I want Gigi John ping-ping to just see me and Yanni with these hats on and know that we're communist cuties

I would I am ready to be a farm worker yeah in the agrarian land of China and Chris did get these hats on Amazon right before they cost $340. Yes! And unfortunately the string already broke and we didn't even hug on it or anything. But that's essentially a good metaphor and example of what's been going on since China joined the WTO.

Yes. Is that they've just been making cheap shit and we've just been buying their shit. That's what it is. The World Trade Organization Organization Which we'll get to in a moment, but here's the thing cuz is all At back in the day when Hamilton had these tariffs It was just about America being number one and the problem is is no matter how much you want to slice it We are all in this together as human beings and even though I love this country and I am red white and blue to the day I die when you start to get a little it it's called protectionism, when you just want to protect your own country's rights and all that and manufacturing

stuff, the other countries get cut out and everybody begins to lose. Yeah. And this is what started to happen. So, Alexander Hamilton started to lose and they taxed the foreign goods, especially the manufacturing ones, and Hamilton wanted to make these American-made products even better, but then everything just started to go down and people started to get mad, and it led to the War of 1812. Did this have anything to do with the reason that Bill Burr shot him?

Yeah, Bill Burr did shoot him, and Bill Burr was sitting in these seats right before you got here. Bill Burr was in the podcast. The Murderer of Alexander Hamilton? Yeah, what it, man. So here's the thing is, like I said, the South really opposed, this is Alexander Hamilton right here, yes, he's the Dominican man.

The South really opposed these tariffs because they relied on imported goods and exported raw materials like cotton and tobacco because that's what their slaves were there for, that's what they were working with. So they saw the tariffs as benefiting the North and not the South. So that was a problem. So here's the thing is I want to just, I wrote a little charty thing. Let's want to read from this for a second. A charty thing.

A charty thing. I love charty things. Yeah, a little charty thing. So you get a star. I want just like my daughter, I'm giving you a star for writing a charty thing. So here's the differences because people say, oh, Alexander Hamilton did tariffs, so he's on the $10 bill. He's a Dominican kid.

I saw his play. And my brother's on the $3 bill. And your brother's on the $3 bill. Exactly. So that maybe tariffs aren't so bad, but here's the differences. So the purpose of Alexander Hamilton's tariffs were to generate revenue because, like I said, they had no federal income tax, and protect new industries. The modern era, we're using tariffs right now

really for trade leverage and national security. A big thing that the people are not talking about in the economy, what Donny T said, why he's instituted these tariffs, because he believes it's a national security issue, because a lot of fentanyl is getting into the Canadian-Mexican border. Now, is that a cover?

Probably, but he's still saying it. But here's the other reason. So also rates. Hamilton by today's standards his rates were pretty high. Five to fifteen percent with higher rates on luxury goods. Right now the tariffs typically 1.5 to 5 percent but they can spike like with the China tariffs because here's the other thing to not forget baby gorgeous is Trump in his first term went to a trade war with China and instituted many tariffs on China and then what did they respond with? Not it yeah, 2000 2018. He started trade war with China and 2019

They exported something that we could not power. Yeah, maybe we're gonna have to edit that part out You are trying not to be demonetized, but make no mistake, in Shanghai, we started putting tariffs on them and they started releasing the bat. So it's just what it is. It's one of those coinkie things. It's a coinkie thing that makes you go, hmm. So you kind of wonder what are they going to do now? Yeah. What's coming down? But that's why we have these hats on. We are protected. Yeah, who knows what's coming now, but it doesn't matter because everyone's focused on Israel. Yeah! So, so in Hamilton's era, the focus of the tariffs was manufacturing imports from Britain.

That was kind of still the enemy. Today it's electronics, auto, steel, agriculture, goods, everything China makes. And then the dependence on the tariffs. So tariffs were the main... Hold on a second. I just got a message on my phone. Yeah. It says stop talking about China, you two second. I just got a message in my phone. Yeah. It says, stop talking about China YouTube and income poops.

Okay. Yeah. Sorry. They make these folks. Sorry. Yeah. They make everything. Dependence on tariffs.

So tariffs were the main source of federal income in Hamilton's day, like I said. And today, it's really for income... Our main source of income are income tax and payroll tax. So... I thought it was only fans feet picks. That's what I was gonna say. A lot of it is only fans feet picks. And of course, patreon.com slash history hyenas

is what's supporting the US economy at the moment. I thought we were a podcast economy and Andrew Schultz has us all believing we can do it too. We can do it. Okay, so this leads to the war of 1812. A lot of people don't like the war of 1812 because they don't want to admit that we lost to the British. That's the one we lost.

But we did get the Star-Spangled Banner out of it. Yeah, we did. And you know what? Listen, the battle was lost, but the war was won. Yeah. Because look at their tiny little country and look at our big little country. Exactly.

Yeah. Okay, so this leads us to the Tariff of 1828, also known as the Tariff of Abominations. So in come my boy, Andrew Jackson. Yes. Yeah, the man on the $20 bill. The man on the $20 bill who had a little thing for not being too fond of the Indians.

Yeah, it's just what it is, he didn't like them, but here's the thing, even though his vice president was John C. Calhoun. Now, John C., the big thing with the Tariff of Abominations is South Carolina. Oh, and Calhoun hated blacks. Yeah, he did. Let's just break it down and say it as is,

is that our founding fathers didn't like blacks or Native Americans. They just didn't like them. It's just something that they had in them, and Calhoun was a biggie, biggie, biggie of that. Yeah, and if you saw a man with a hat like this in Andrew Jackson's time, you know what he had in his right hand?

Dynamite. Way song shi-y. But it is. So here's the thing. So the tariff of abominations, a hat like this in Andrew Jackson's time, you know what he had in his right hand? Dynamite! So here's the thing. So the tariff of abominations, what basically it is, is they have the federal government institutes sky high tariff rates. They really lean in now. They say, you know what? 45%. Tariff! There's just tariff. And the North North and because they want to protect the northern factories So they're saying we want to make sure that the north is okay in the south they explode They say listen, we're important goods exporting cotton and now we got to pay massive markups with no local benefit We want to secede So even though the Civil War is not for another 30 40 years, South Carolina says we're succeeding now

That's a great point because you know behind everything is money. Money, money, money, money, money. Right. So here's what led to South Carolina's meltdown is John C. Calhoun, who was the vice president of Andrew Jackson at the time awkward. He's basically sit telling South Carolina, you know what? You should succeed. You should succeed. Succeed.

You should succeed. Yeah. Sorry. You should succeed. You should succeed. Get out of here. And then Andrew Jackson's like, uh, hello, I'm the president. Stupid.

You're my vice president. He was like, well, I'm the president, stupid. You're my vice president. He was like, well, I'm siding with South Carolina and he's the first vice president ever and only to resign. He just resigned in office because Andrew Jackson, even though he's about states' rights and does hate Native Americans and pretty much anyone who's not white,

he is a federalist and he does love being the, he loves having a central United States. He wants a strong big country. He's a federalist. Yeah. He's not like John C. Calhoun, which is states rights. So all these states rights that we're seeing even pop up today, it all really starts stemming from this. Yeah. Andrew Jackson, the tariff of abominations. Basically, Calhoun was saying, you take him, you take him my slaves from my cold dead hands. Yeah. And here's what, and here's the thing. Here's the thing with Andrew

Jackson, you know, he gets misunderstood. You know know Andrew Jackson in the tariff of abominations even though it would have been better for Andrew Jackson to Have the South secede and to to really to decrease the tariffs because he was a southern slaveholder He said no, you know what? I'm thinking about my country first and my slave second and that's nice first and my slave second and that's nice. And unfortunately back then it was just slaves were like, they were like Nike Air Force ones. A lot of white women had them. Yeah, it's just what it is. So, there was a thing called the Nullification Crisis.

So the Nullification Crisis was basically kind of like leading to the Civil War where John C. Calhoun resides as VP. I told you he was on the South Carolina side and he's, oh, and here's another thing that John C. Calhoun said was just a little thing where you're like, what? He said that slavery was good for both races. So it's just, what can you do? What can you do? It's just the way the kid felt. So what happens is, Henry Clay is a guy who, Henry Clay not supposedly a racist, he comes up with the Compromise Tower of 1833, which he lowered rates. He lowered the rates over the course of 10 years. He said, look, this is getting crazy. We are going to go into a civil war. So let me just lower the rates a little bit here and save everyone's life. Because at that time, I mean, cuz make no mistake, if you're getting a tower from 45%,

you're going to start killing people. You're going to start killing people to the south of you. So it's interesting to think just the north and south had different economies, and then the tariffs really accelerated the advantage of one over the other. Yeah, it's just what it is. And unfortunately, one of those economies was based on free human labor. Yeah, it's just what it is, you know. And unfortunately, one of those economies was based on free human labor.

Yeah, it's what it is. It's what it is. So that was a big problem. And then you have, of course, the Civil War then happens, not, you know, obviously it's about slavery and all these other things, but it really has a lot to do with this. That's seeded the North versus the South.

It started happening here with one side of the country getting tariffed more and it affecting them more than another side Of the country and you're starting to see well could that happen in today's tower for and I don't know it might so then FDR here's the big thing then FDR comes in with the reciprocal trade right after Andrew Jackson right after Andrew Jackson in Andrew Jackson's 1832 this is 1934. She's got a hundred years of no problem so problems just go smooth sale no turbulence yeah so uh... with uh... fdr fdr rolls into the picture guess he does so fdr couple of the that lot of work so he comes in and he's really the first president that says you know what we need

to start negotiating bilaterally with these countries cuz a lot of it was a lot of it for years was just like you know what para we need to start negotiating bilaterally with these countries. Because a lot of it was, a lot of it for years was just like, you know what, tariff on you, you can suck my ass. Where the night, where FDR comes in and says, you know what, we're gonna put a tariff on you, you know, Britain, China, but you, let's have a discussion on, we'll trade you stuff,

and then you have to buy a certain amount of stuff back from us. And they started, so it wasn't even really about tariffs, it was about, let's just have negotiations. Let's just be cute and talk like human beings. Yeah, let's sit down at the table and talk. Yeah, and they would- Let's work out a deal.

Let's work out a deal because here's one tariff that I do want to bring up that I do think I've heard a lot of economists talking about how they think it could apply to today. It's a little thing called the Smoot-Hawley Tariff. Do you know about it? Oh yeah, this is where things get interesting because we have a Great Depression that happens, we have a Great Depression that happens, and then this happens. Yeah, so the Smoot-Hawley tax, we're in the Great Depression, and when the Smoot-Hawley tariff does, what they do is they really double down.

And what their thought process of the American powers that be at that time said, we're in a Great Depression, we're losing everything. Let's basically cut ourselves off from the rest of the world and just make everything in here, squeeze everyone else out, and make our people start pumping money into the economy and buying American goods. And it failed big. That's the consensus.

I think most people think that that really accelerated the depression. You also had the Dust Bowl that happened. So it was an act of God. So what happened is Jesus Christ said, you know what, we're a little mad at the United States for whatever reason. I don't know. We got to ask your mom what happened. And he sent the dust ball. So the farms really dried up. And that's what sent a lot of farmers west. Yes. And I think it was, it was a quadruple whammy. It was a quadruple whammy. And then he sent, you know how like, um, and then he sent like in the Wizard of Oz, you know, in the Wizard of Oz, they have like those, the, the flying monkeys,

like with the, the, they fly around with the, uh, guns in the movie. Yeah. So in world war two, he just sent the Japanese. Just kidding. Yeah. Um, okay. So the smooth, Hawley tariff. So what it did is it raised tariffs sky-high prices, it isolated the US, it triggered trade wars, and it hurt US exports. And like I said,

a lot of people really genuinely think this made the Great Depression worse. And why I brought that up today is because people think what Donnie T is doing right now with this new tariffs that we're experiencing in present day, they think it could have a smooth, holy effect and put us further into a recession and cause big problems, but I say have no fear because Donny T. knows what he's doing. Yeah, that's the argument I've heard on the other side is just I trust that guy.

So what happened with this tariff is much like what you're seeing today. The other countries retaliated and they put their own talifs. I'm wearing a hat, it's all called a talif. It's a talif. I'm having trouble with the Rs with this Adam. And so they retaliated and there was just a much more, a bigger drop in international trade and prices went up and it's just what it is.

And that's why a lot of people say tariffs are basically taxes because the prices of goods just go up for the ordinary American. Yeah. So it's kind of some people feel like with inflation and all these issues happening that what's the point of the tariff? It's all going to cut into our bottom dollar. But listen, here's the thing is, I think ultimately what I want to just try to explain real quick is that tariffs have been around for 250 plus years

and every single time, if you just look at a 10-year span, your money has always been up at the end. So you should think about if you have all your money in the stock market right now and it's going way down and you need that money, then then yes probably that's nerve-inducing but you shouldn't have all your money in the stock market if you freaking need it to live life. What about people who retiring right now who got 401k's? So people who are timing bad timing but also 401k's keep working but 401k's they're gonna definitely go down and get but you know typically older people are not as aggressive as younger people.

So I think like it's gonna get bad, but I think if you look over the course of 10 years, even after the Great Depression, you're always up, always up. The elderly people, that might suck for them a little bit, but what are you gonna do? I mean, I don't know, have your grandson take you in the back and shoot you.

JK. Well my advice would be to just take all your money at the market. We can't get financial advice. Just be careful. Okay, so this is a joke and I'll say it. We're not going to get financial advice, but there is a hot coin that I know about called retardo that I think maybe you should just get in on because who knows? Right now, America's really being known for something and maybe that's the coin to go.

It's called retardio coin. Yeah, it's called retardio coin. Yeah, and it's an actual digital coin that you can invest in and I think that it's gonna be hot It's what it is promoting it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Yeah, so, okay, so You know we get these Hawley Smooth Hawley tax tariffs which are bad and then FDR really does come in and save the day He rolls in and he saves the day and he says and he creates he creates the RTAA what I said the why am I blanking the retardo no not retardo the what is our TA look it up again no but what what is it why am I having a

freaking road trade initiative no it stands for the reciprocal trade agreements I was reciprocal trade which is what Trump says he's doing right now he says it's a reciprocal tariff right he's like I'm gonna tar'm going to tariff you knowing they're going to tariff us back, but the kids said it's all part of the plizang. It's all part of the plan. That's what he said. So listen, I don't know how it's all going to turn out, but I'm just telling you, the only thing you could do right now is fear not. And we are going to take a quick break and be right back. And then Yanni is going to explain to us how all of it applies to present day America and how you're going to be okay, baby gorgeous.

I didn't say that last part. I don't know, but we're getting into the WTO and, uh, and the NWL in wrestling. Yeah. And we're getting into NAFTA, which is present day, baby. The rise of China and the Royal rumble between the United States versus China. What I like cause I just like it when you're nice and hard. Yeah. I just like it, and I know when you've taken a Blue Chew

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And they're in Target too. Okay, so America becomes a big powerhouse. You wanna know why? Superman, baby. Tell me. Man of steel. Yeah. Pittsburgh.

Yes. West Virginia. Love it. Pennsylvania's going strong. It's steel. Yeah. Pittsburgh. Yes. West Virginia. Love it. Pennsylvania's going strong. It's not just the Quakers. We're not just making bread and baked goods by inbred people with acne. Right. We're also... We're...

Who can't touch light switches. Yes. And can't use cars. Yes. But we're also making steel. Yeah. Got all these Italian kids and all these immigrant kids, they're just moving around steel and we're building bridges and it makes us a powerhouse.

We're exporting steel. People are buying our steel with our surplus steel. We just become strong. We put up the Empire State Building. We put up buildings that can't fall down from planes. Right. Right. But do get hit with planes.

That's what it is. That's what we do. We can't, here's the thing, cuz we can't, we can make steel that can get, that can withstand anything except conspiracies. That's the only thing that can take us down. That's the only thing that can take down steel is a good conspiracy. That's what it is. Yeah.

And invisible. Yes. Yes. They always can do the job. Yeah. Yeah. So. So we're gonna just, for the YouTube, just drop all that parts out because we just won't.

Just tomorrow. Cackle it. Or cackle it. Yeah, just cackle it. If you want to hear the unedited version, you know where to go. Patreon.com says history hyenas. Yeah, just cackle it.

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Lad 14. Yes, we do. Yeah. Yeah, we do. We do. We look like it. Yeah. Yeah.

So America becomes strong. One second. Oh, there it is. Yeah. So America becomes strong. Yeah. Okay. And then, uh, and then, uh, then 1994 rolls around.

Yeah. It's a good year for hip hop. 1994 rolls around. We're coming off the 80s, Reaganomics. Which we were having, by the way, we were having fun in the 80s. Everybody was buying houses. All our fathers were rich.

People had money. People had money and hoes in the 80s. Yeah, if you didn't like crack, you were doing good. Yes, that's what it is. If you like crack, you weren't doing so good. It's what it is, cuz. It's what it is. Everybody was having fun, they had money, and they had AIDS. And AIDS, if you didn't like gay sex, if you didn't like crack, things were okay.

Yeah, it's either you had money and a mortgage, or you had crack and AIDS. It's basically the 80s. It is, baby, that's the 80s. That's the 80s right there. That is essentially the 80s. Unfortunately. Unfortunately, that's the 80s. Yeah. That is essentially the 80s. Unfortunately, unfortunately it's the 80s. Yeah, we're just historians. Yeah, then Bill Clinton rolls a cigar in a 21 year old girl's vagina and the 90s come roaring in. It's what it is.

It's what it is. And then in the 90s, we get NAFTA, baby, which is the... North American Free Trade Act. Yeah, where we go, we look down to the south and we go, Hey, Mexico, we look up to the North and we go, Hey, American snow monkeys. Yeah. Are you guys ready to trade? Yeah. And they say, of course we are bubba's.

Yes. So we start trading with them. Right. And it's good. It's good for Canada for the most part. We start getting auto parts from Mexico, from Canada. We get cheaper labor in Mexico. We get avocados.

Really, that's a fact. The NAFTA is why Av-AVO brunch, like Av-AVO, that's really because of NAFTA because we started getting avocados for cheapy weepy. We started getting cheapy weepy. But then, unfortunately, American farmers, that's what we needed to really start subsidizing. American farmers just get government checks. They just do. Yeah Donnie T's just was just last administration they were just getting checks. Because make no mistake because you know sometimes like we use words and

even you know not everyone knows you got what we got to understand too cuz is a lot of people just they read headlines because the world is tough right now, there's a lot of things going on. What a subsidy is, because people just say subsidies and it goes over people's heads, a subsidy is basically the government just giving you money. That's why I always say I think the Chinese are getting subsidies to buy houses in this country. I really genuinely, in my heart, believe it because you keep getting outbid by these Chinese guys that have cash.

And I'm like, oh, that's, they're very smart. Yes, they're very good at what they do, but I really genuinely think they're getting money from the govey these Chinese guys that have cash. Yes. And I'm like, oh, that's they're very smart. Yes, they're very good at what they do. But I really genuinely think they're getting money from the govey. Yeah, that's right. So 1994, we got NAFTA. And the new girl's just a piece, and it's what it is.

So NAFTA is the biggie. And that's what starts the United States, Mexico, and Canada really trading. Now, FDR after World War II, like you said, the whole point behind the international trade agreements and GAF and all that was like, hey, we don't want all this protection. GAF, by the way.

GAF, yeah. And by the way, what that was was the gentleman's agreement on tariffs and trade. Yeah, no ladies allowed. No ladies allowed, and it was basically FDR and the countries that were in power at the time saying, let's just be gentlemen right here, let's just be gentlemen and trade. Yeah, no ladies allowed. No ladies allowed, and it was basically FDR in the countries that were in power at the time saying, let's just be gentlemen right here, let's just be gentlemen, and trade with each other

and exclude the Chinese. Let's just be gentlemen. Let's just be gentlemen. That's a fact, they just excluded a lot of Asian nations. F-OK. Yeah, it was just for people with body hair. Yeah, it's what it is. No Asians, no women allowed.

And yeah, and a gat is also a gun and a rap song. Yes. So that's just what it is. It's what it is, yeah. So the whole goal was like, we don't want this international conflict anymore. We're going to create the United Nations. We're going to create GATT. We're going to create trade agreements.

We want to lift people out of poverty. We want to get rid of this protectionism that they think was a major reason why the World War happened. Right. We want everyone to flourish. We want to be interdependent on each other. And what protectionism is, is basically a nation saying, we're protecting our own interests and excluding everyone else.

That's what it means. That's what we don't want. And that's what they think, that's what they're saying Trump is guilty of right now. Some people are saying that. And some people, like Chris said, when we had our tariffs at the beginning, we were a nation nation and we had the tariffs

because we wanted to build our nation up. And that's what a lot of people say. That's why Vietnam has tariffs. That's why a lot of these countries have tariffs. That's why China has tariffs. But you're going, why do you continue to have tariffs? Because you're built up. Yeah, you're built up.

So you're acting sneaky. Yeah. You're devaluing your currency and you're doing everything to become us and we don't like it. We don't like it. Yeah, we're the only ones who could do what we do. Yeah, they're basically comics just doing Shane's cadence. Yes. And Shane doesn't like that. Doesn't like them. We don't like it. Yeah, we're the only ones who could do what we do. Yeah, they're basically comics just doing Shane's cadence.

Yes. And Shane doesn't like that. Doesn't like that. We're Shane. We're United States. It's what it is. It's what it is. It's what it is, because I had a show in Boise, Idaho,

on Friday. And I was performing at one venue. And then Moe Ammer was performing at another venue across town. And I said on stage to the crowd, I said, listen, some of you guys may have went to the other show or may have gone to the other show, Mo Amr show, the Palestinian crowd. I said, this show in here, this is Israel. And I created, and I said, boys, he's the Gaza Strip. And I told

Mo about it, thinking he was getting funny. And he got very mad at me and told me to stop disrespecting the Prophet Muhammad. So it's just what it is. They're just a little bit of militant kids. That's just what it is. It's just how they feel about this. Yeah, OK. So yeah, I mean, ultimately, that's what becomes a big wrench in the whole international trade scene, is culture and politics and economic systems, communism, capitalism, human rights, and higher mental rights. Who's going to respect what?

Unions, non-unions, labor laws, non-labor laws. And you know what American capitalists love? They love a country with no labor laws. That's what they like. They love that. So they said, we see you China. We see you girl. They're like, yo, you're gonna work your workers to death

and nobody give a fuck. We in, y'all can't sue me. Ooh, that. They're like, yo, Ying Yong ain't gonna sue me. They're like, ooh, look at that 12-year-old right there with no right. Yeah. In 14 hours a day, I see you.

They're like, ooh, they're killing all the girls? Great, more guys to work. Ooh, we like that. They like that. So then we made a little deal with them. Because you know who cares about the Chinese people even less than the Chinese government? Yeah.

American, capitalist. Yes, capitalist. Which, by the way, only a small section of China is communist. Most of them are communist are capitalists. Yeah. Just a mixed economy. It's a mixed economy. It's a mixed bag. Yeah.

It's like our sexuality. It's a yeah. It's like they got capitalism with strong state control. It's what it is. Yes. The state, especially it's gotten more and more and more under King Z. He's got, he likes to put his fingers in every company and go, okay, what are you guys doing? Okay, we're gonna take some of that.

We're gonna do this. We're gonna dictate what you're doing. Yeah, I mean, we got state control too here. It's called Miss Rachel, because I was watching it this morning with my daughter. And if they keep going on and on and on about how there's no gender, they're gonna get an email from me.

I didn't know Miss Rachel started doing that. Yeah, Miss Rachel's kind of leaning all in and doesn't give a shit. And it's like, the truth is Miss Rachel's, we know you have nipple rings. I could see it, cause started doing that. Yeah, Miss Rachel's kind of leaning all in and doesn't give a shit. And it's like, the truth is, Miss Rachel, we know you have nipple rings. Yes. I could see it, because every time they pop out, I pause my TV and tell the kids to go upstairs.

And she is a billionaire, probably. Oh my god. She's got hundreds of millions of dollars, and that's the American economy now, baby. Contact, sweetheart. Contact, and make absolutely no mistake, do not put, I would not, I would not be shocked at this for a second if the

government has not gotten to Miss Rachel and said, you're going to start getting our ideas out through your little pictures and your little drawings of dinosaurs and you're going to, you're going to start to indoctrinate these kids. Yeah. And you could tell that she got her orders from the last administration, but this newest administration you're going to start hearing songs like, ah, Chinese goods are cheap and break and American goods are sturdy. They're made by white immigrant hands that are a lot stronger than Chinese children.

So get your iPhone made in Texas and make sure you buy your Tesla and pronounce it Tesla to honor our commander in chief in the office. Yes! Colorado please repaint that painting of the great Lord Donald Trump and that's what it's gonna be. That's a good song. I like that song. That's what it's gonna be. Yes. Yeah. America first kids. Let's say it together. Ah, muh, rrr, ka, first. Yes.

So NAFTA happens 1994, Bill Clinton after George W. Bush initiated it. And so we go into NAFTA and then the biggie happens. 1999, we're not just going to party like it's 1999, like we're a cute androgynous man who can sing and play instruments. We're also going to formalize the global trade agreement in something called the WTO. The World Trade Organization, folks. It gets a home base.

It's basically how we talked about that gentleman's agreement. It's now morphed all the way into the World Trade Organization, which is a permanent institution. And it's basically there to what? Settle rules, settle fights between, basically settle trade wars. To have a winner and a loser, but make no mistake, what don't they have? Enforcement.

That's the problem with these international organizations. That's the problem with the United Nations. That's the problem with the WTO, is they're basically a referee in a WWE wrestling match. Yeah. They got no authority. Yeah, that's the basic, it's a problem with the traffic cop. It's like, guy, you can't give me a ticket

if I tell you not to. Yeah, they just wave their finger and they go, put that down, Israel, put that chair down, America stop, and then they just do fake counts and that's all they can do. It's in the traffic cop, it's like, hey, let me ask you a question, guy. Is it worth giving me a ticket for $55 when ICE shows up at your door tomorrow? Is it worth it? Because I'll make a call.

Yeah, that's a question for you. That's a question for you, guy. That's a question. So it takes place in Seattle. Now, this is an takes place in Seattle. Now, this is an interesting moment in history because the phone is there, the computer is there. So this is like one of the first times, if not the first time, a massive protest is organized on the internet. 400,000 people converge onto Seattle. They coordinate on the internet, they coordinate

with cell phones. and the interesting thing is it's people from all walks of life, different groups. You got unions, you got environmentalists, you got anarchists, you got people who are upset about the turtles because they're getting caught in the nets in Peru or whatever. Because they're going, because in South America they were catching these turtles with these nets and the fucking turtles' faces would get caught caught and the WTO would go, hey, we don't regulate how they catch them. We just want to facilitate the free trade. So you got environmentalists, you got turtle protectors, you got all these different groups. You got blue collar union guys going down there going, no,

we don't want that. It's going to hurt the steel worker. So all these different groups come together and then you got the anarchists. They were called anarchists there, but this is like a precursor to the Antifa. That's what it is. They put their masks on. It's a mostly peaceful protest out there, but then they start assimilating into all these groups and they start smashing shit. And what we're talking about is that a fun name was called the Battle of Seattle. It was called the Battle of Seattle, which rhymed. And if you can see, that Seattle still carries on that tradition of having Chazz. And whenever you go to Seattle, when you get the weather report, you just go, hey, it's a little hazy.

There's precipitation, 70%. It's a little cloudy, 47 degrees, and a 12% chance of tear gas. Because that's what it is. And let me me just tell you I just want to take a quick moment to tell you that this weekend I was in a little city called Spokane, Washington and let me tell you something right now now you look at me right now you look at me good okay this is still probably Chrissy coming at you if you've ever complained about living in New York City because I hear a lot of people complain about how our city is degrading and our city isn't at once what it was and New York lost its stuff. Let me tell you

something right now. Go spend a weekend in Spokane, Washington and you tell me, you tell me, I bet you'd rather live in Brownsville in 1997 than Spokane, Washington. Okay folks, Spokane, Washington, I am NOT, I am NOT dramatic when it comes to these things about cities and the drug issues all that spokane Washington is one of the craziest Drug war zones I've ever seen in my entire Life and I'm telling you right now cuz I'd rather be in Shanghai than Spokane Okay, you do not Spokane one and and here's what happened is the people who live in Spokane, Washington

I did Washington State University, one of the most liberal schools ever, it's in the state of Washington, even they said, we voted differently this election because of a little thing called Spokane, Washington. So make absolutely no mistake, Seattle, Spokane, these types of places that Yanni's talking about right now, you got it wrong and you get it wrong a lot, okay?

You're just wrong about most of the stuff. And I just think that your city was once beautiful and now you let it go to shit and make absolutely no mistake. Me and Jan are here to save you. Yeah, that's what we're going to do. We're going to do. We're going to bring back jobs. Yeah, it's what it is.

We're going to bring back jobs. We're going to bring back jobs and we're going to tell you how right after this break. It's getting good, baby. You're not going to want to miss what we say next, and we're keeping the hats on. Oh, it gets really, really gnarly. No Frills delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frills with PC Express.

Shop online and get $15 in PC optimum points on your first five orders. Shop now at nofrills.ca. Okey doke, So here we are. Yeah. Here we are. Right. Trade stop starts then 2001, September 11th happens, but another big event happened that a lot of people don't talk about China joins the WTO.

Wow. Vince McMahon pulls the strings. Yeah. Changes the storyline and China, the big bad China, joins the WTO and American companies get wet in the pussy. Yes. They go, ooh, we're sending our companies to China because we love your cheap labor. It's what it is.

And it happens fast, dude. From 2001 to 2025, China rose up in two decades to become our rival. Yeah, you have to understand. Because of the WTO. Because people always think about, it's hard for our brain sometimes to let go of the present, but there was a time, 30 years ago, I actually remember this being a kid,

China was a country, a very big country, but like not at all on the economic superpower that it was, like not even close. People didn't even wear shoes. Yeah, it was just China was just like, it was like a country like a Vietnam or a Cambodia was just bigger, it was, you know, they're there, they're making their things,

but they're not, it was just the United States and Russia. That was just what it was. There was nothing industrial about China. It was just agrarian, just farmers walking around in little thong, sneaker shoes, and they were just eating rice and they were squatting down and they were wearing these hats to protect themselves from the sun or whatever, and they had ox pulling them around. They were sitting on ox and they were doing all types of things. And then they got involved in international trade and that is what started this new economic

arms race. China just exploded. They threw tariffs on our stuff to protect themselves. They undervalued their currency. They really took advantage of becoming the world's factory, which we mentioned in another episode. Wait, hold on. You said they undervalued their currency?

Yeah. So like what? They didn't care if their yen went down because they were like we just they just want to tariff everybody can you explain that what they are doing can you explain why they under because I sometimes I don't understand that and that's what I mean sometimes I mean right now and always it's unfair what they were doing it what would they do about the dollar the dollar is the international currency the US dollar is the international when people make deals they make it in dollars.

So people want to collect dollars. Now Jesse will explain to you what the undervaluing of the Chinese currency does. I think it can just keep their goods cheaper. Right. So but even though they're losing money. It gives them more buying power and then they would save dollars, right? Because as Yana said that was the international reserve currency. So everything gets traded in dollars. Right. Dollars are the safe haven. And then the yen can go down and then it's cheaper for them. So when you have your money in like the,

that international monetary fund that IMF, it's dollars. They, they, they give out loans. They give out loans, they give out loans to build you up. But do they equate it in everything? Dollars. Dollars. So if your currency is stronger than the UA, you just got to pay less dollars.

You got a white guy with a wig on a bill. Yeah, it's what it is. And that's what you get. That's what you get. That's what you get. But right now, as we say right now, the US dollar is still strong, but it's getting a bit weaker with the tariffs, right? Absolutely.

Yeah, the euro's coming up. Who's got the strongest currency? I think maybe the euro now? Is it the euro? Who's number one? It's always flip-flopping between the euro and the... So wait, but would the Chinese devalue their own currency to say, basically, you think part of it too might have been like, maybe we can get the rest of the world to want to use our dollar because it's cheaper? Well, that's what's happening. That's what they're

trying to do now. So what happens is, so this is, let's get back to the... The Kuwaiti dinar. Dinar. Yeah, the Kuwaiti dinar the kawaii dinar Or yeah, the or the kawaii diner which is down. It's it's in bensonhurst now. Yeah, things are changing out there So the the dinar in kuwait is the official currency of kuwait is known for its high value instability in the international market They just got so much oil. Wow. One kwd is currently worth three dollars and 25 cents. That's good Yeah, I also think the uh, the kroner is currently worth $3.25. That's good. Yeah, I also think the Kroner is worth more than the dollar. Is the Kroner German? The Kroner is what they use in Scandinavia.

Ah, okay. Yeah, so it's like Norway. Yeah. And they got a lot of oil too. Yeah. So... Oh, yeah. So tell us about, I think you were just about to get to... So the WTO works, but it benefits some rich countries,

but not so much some poor countries. Right. Right, because the richer countries are going, hey, we're gonna not play by the rules. Right. We're gonna, you know, we're not gonna let, we're not gonna take, like America, for example, is going, we're not, to protect our farmers,

we're not gonna take your corn, we're gonna take our corn. Got it. So we didn't play by the rules in the WTO since we run it. They were a referee in a WWE wrestling match. So then some countries are benefiting and other countries are not.

Right. So what happened? One of the countries who's not benefiting is China. No, China's benefiting. China's benefiting who's not benefiting? Brazil. Okay. Yeah, we put tariffs on their meat.

We protect it because Brazil's got a lot of meat. It's got a lot of soybean, whatever. It's got a lot We protect it, because Brazil's got a lot of meat. It's got a lot of soybean, whatever. It's got a lot of fat asses. It's got a lot of fat asses. Yeah. Yeah, and yeah, Thailand, the ladyboy market right now is a little expensive, so we're going back to just dudes and wigs.

Yeah, it's one of those. For a little while, dudes and wigs, because ladyboys are just hard to import. Yeah. There's a 10% tariff on top of 30%. You just want to go back to a guy with a wig. It's just what it is, Scott. Yeah. Cross-dressers are back for a little while. Yeah, it's what it is. It's save a little money. Yeah. Yeah.

By the way, the reason why Jesse pulled it up, why Asia devalued its currency, China, is because it lowered the price of its exports and gained a competitive advantage in the international market. That's why they did it. So just like Jesse said, just like smart kids got his money with fidelity. He's got his money with fidelity. That's why they did it. So just like Jesse said, smart kids got his money with fidelity. He's got his money with fidelity, that's what it is. So then what happens is Brazil, it's not working out for Brazil, it's not working out for Russia,

it's not working out for India, right? For whatever reason. Oh, they're gonna come together? Yeah, and that's what happens. That's when the WTO just turns into jail rules and people start ganging up and it turns into factions. So now you got NAFTA, which then turns into 2020, it turns into something else because they're trying to look out for workers' rights and... NAFTA turns into the USMCA Donald Trump

made at the United States-Mexican-Canada agreement. So it's the same thing, but he just made it a little bit more beneficial for the US because Donald Trump is the president that feels like the United States is always getting shafted. And if he thinks that, then that's what I think. Yeah. So basically with a rich guy, with a rich guy who's got a lot of poor friends and we're always buying them dinner.

And we're going like, you know, that's what you expect, but we're going like, I've paid for enough dinners. You guys gotta start kicking in a little bit. That's basically what's going on. So then BRICS comes out and BRICS is Brazil, Russia, India and China. So they start forming their own thing. They make their own currency, right? Yeah, they're starting to fucking, they're trying to make their own currency and they're

trying to do their own trade agreements. Right now you got South Korea, Japan and China who are starting to strengthen their trade agreements are not one one guy that looks say exactly what's up one guy that's just one guy that i don't look to bet to retaliate against us their strength in their trade agreement when they show up to the meeting with the u.s. trumps got to say okay which wants from which country it's just what has happened if they turned around if they turned around their name card, you think Trump would say, Yeah, so Japan?

It's a tough taste test. Yeah, it's a tough taste test. Yeah, he would say, yeah, I don't want to use. Yeah, say I love Asia. So they're retaliating right now. Some would say we're pushing our allies economically into our foes' hands because the reason why we're pulling the brakes on this is because China got too powerful And so we feel like China's not playing fair anymore because they got these high tariffs enough, but they're a built-up nation

Yes, these this tower for right now even you agree on us It's about us first China the other countries are just there to be there, but it's us first China It's what if China says we're we'll back off Trump will pull off the tariffs from everybody. That's why Biden kept the tariffs that Trump put in. It's about China. But like Donald Trump does, he goes in hard and he goes in and he just puts tariffs on fucking everybody. So the big critique is like, you're going a little hard, man. Why are we going to war

with Canada, dude? Why do you wanna buy Greenland, bro? What are you doing, bro? Why, bro? Why are we fucking putting tariffs on fucking Cambodia, dude? I think he could put a tariff on Antarctica. There's just penguins there. We don't get anything from Antarctica. Everyone gets it.

I think he put a fucking tariff on Mars. I mean, the guy just put a tariff on everybody. You're going like, okay, maybe you go a little too hard, man. What it is, guys. What are you doing, dude? He just puts tariffs on people walking in. I mean, dude, anybody who wants to step up will get a tariff. Yeah, I mean, the EU, the EU's our greatest friend

and it's like bang, he's slapping them. And you go, what are you doing, man? Yeah, so. What are you doing? They slapping Vietnam and Vietnam's our new Chinese. Yeah. We moved, a lot of the American companies during COVID moved their fucking companies to Vietnam.

Some of this might honestly be truthfully like a little bit of a psychological warfare where he wants the other countries to be like, yo, this guy is crazy, let's just do what he wants. Is it possible? What you hope is that this is a negotiation tactic. This is a game of poker right now. Yeah.

It's a game of poker. The problem is Donald Trump doesn't have a poker face. Yeah. He's very predictable. All you got to do is insult him and he goes nuts. Well, here's the thing too. Here's what I just want to say, just a real quick thing is I want to say is, I know, I understand that people are for tariffs against tariffs. I think ultimately if we're not economists, which we're not, we really don't know really what we're talking about. We're just taking wild steps. But I will tell you this, hey, some guy in Italy, you know, in a couple of months,

gonna get six to eight weeks paid vacation. They're gonna get paternity leave. They're gonna get all that. We don't get any of that. You wanna know why we don't get that? Because we pay, our debt pays for your fricking vacation time, okay, guy? So we want the money back.

You got to go to fricking Meekinos for six weeks, and I have to sit there in Disneyland like an asshole because I barely get any time off. So also I know you're going to say, oh, that the UK tax is higher, Europeans tax higher, and then they, because of those tax money that the people pay into, that's why they get more time off, that's why they get more freedoms, that's why they get free healthcare. Well, maybe some of that's true, but what's also true is we pay for a lot of your shit, guy, and so I just want the money back. I want to go to Mekinos to and cheat on my wife Yeah, but the problem is we set that system up. We said hey, we want our bases over there We want to control you guys. We don't got want you guys to have a military more

We don't want your pan. I should say they in World War two instead. We have to do it We were the ones you made us drop that nuke on those people. Yeah, we's what's happening. I mean. But that's right. I don't know, man. I don't know, man. I don't know. I don't know if we had to do it. Can't look good. Yeah, I know. But what's definitely going to happen is if this continues, prices will go up. Here's the thing, folks. Let me just say this. You're going to want to hold on to your Samsung. Prices are going up a little bit. Prices are going up a little bit, but here's the interesting thing. They are going up, but no matter what way you slice it,

if you look back at history, if you look at a 10-year span, even the Great Depression, even the 2008 crisis, even COVID, you're up. You're up right now. It's only five years later. You are up from COVID, okay? So just know that we will probably weather this storm because if in fact you lose everything

It's probably because the country's lost everything and the world's ending and it doesn't matter You're gonna have to eat rats to survive anyway. We're gonna be cannibals So that so if you find yourself with nothing then just find the fattest person and eat that guy Yeah, and just kill that guy and put that guy in your meat freezer because that's what it's going to be. So do not worry. You are going to take some losses now. It's going to hurt for a little bit. Donny T said it was going to hurt for a little bit. But here's the good news. Mortgage rates are going down a little bit because now the Fed is going to say we want money pumping back into the economy. So it introduces an interesting time if you want buy a house. Maybe the rates are gonna come down a little bit

over the next six months, that's possible. If you got put some money in bonds, it's relatively safe. The US government never defaults on its loans and that's what a bond is. You're just basically giving the government money so they can use it. We're not financial advisors. We're not financial advisors, I'm just saying,

I'm not saying to do that, I'm just saying there's positive things going on. But if you have most of your money in the stock market right now, it's probably gonna go down. And you gotta ask yourself, do I need that money or not? It has gone down. It has gone down and what you should,

what I think, just know that historically, I'm not saying it's gonna happen this time, but historically, every single time, you have eventually gotten your money back. You've eventually, the money's been up and the next couple of weeks are gonna tell the story. But if my advice, this is not financial advice, it's just life advice, don't look, don't look every day

because you're gonna just get upset. Just don't look, it's like, you know, it's like when I gotta wake up and pee in the middle of the night and I'm almost positive there's a ghost in my room, I just close my eyes and I find the bathroom and I pee on it. Yeah, the only, the very nerve-racking thing is when you think, okay, what prevents people

from going to war with each other? You go, it's economic interdependence. And if you stop doing that and you start, and everyone starts teaming up with their own stuff, you know, their own little squads, economic squads, then you start messing with people's money, that's when people get really frustrated. They get really frustrated.

They get really upset. That's the other thing, I will say that's the other boo boo, that's the other thing to just add on because we are history people here. If you look back in history, this is not an opinion, it's just a facty wacky. Every time we've had trade wars like this, wars come pretty soon after. Because basically this is an act of war. This is an act of war. It is an act of war.

It's a way to look at it. You can say this is an act of war. I mean, the same way when we put an embargo on oil to Japan and then Japan's well now we got to attack you. Yeah. That's kind of what's happening now. It's not a full embargo but we're saying dude some some products in China if you if you put the tariff on with the already tax they have with some other stuff China has to pay like 78% to ship something here so that's gonna be a big problemo. Yeah and you start pushing allies into foes hands and, and alliances start forming, and people might start liking it.

And then you've got culture involved there. You've got. Because every time you say the word foe, you remind me of another three-letter F word. Bo and friends, baby. And so this is where we are right now, where America is trying to reclaim itself, ourself, as the dominant force. And we're trying to bully everybody else back into an order that we like. We're trying to reclaim itself, ourself, as the dominant force.

And we're trying to bully everybody else back into an order that we like. We're trying to bring, we're trying to onshore companies that were offshored or at least bring them near shore. Now here's the big question. Will Americans get back on the line? That's, we don't know. Can they fit on the line?

Yes, that's the other issue. Can they actually move across their belly and move a product on a belt? That, we don't know. Can they fit on the line? Yes. That's the other issue. Can they actually move across their belly and move a product on a belt? That I don't know. We don't know. I don't even know if they can fit into a belt, let alone get on the belt. Now here's another problem.

With robots coming, do we even need Americans? Are those jobs gone forever? Is this just a Quixotic dream? Big word, Don Quixote. Yeah, what's Quixotic dream? Big word. Don Quixote. Yeah. What does Quixotic mean? It's like a fantasy. Quixotic, you know, he was always trying to fight the windmills. Oh yeah. So Quixotic means like, you know, you're delusional.

Right. So is this like, I mean, what are we doing? What are we doing? I mean, we got human robots. Those are Chinese. Right. And then we got real robots. Right. And then we got real robots coming. Right.

That are going to be making stuff. So the guy from Pittsburgh, is he really going back into the factory? I don't know. I'm just asking questions. Questions. Here's the thing, cuz. Here, I think, I hope that you learned something about the history of the tariffs, about what's actually going on in these tariff wars.

I hope you learned something and I hope it's just fun for you, but know honestly that there's really nothing that we can do here as people to stop a trade war between two First World nations. All you could do is have fun and enjoy your life and try not to look at your money every second of the day because it will give you anxiety. Just know that you're probably okay and at the end of the day if you just want to seek comfort then you go to patreon.com search history hyenas that's where you spend your money because that money that is not a tariff. That is just where we're just giving that out to the people. Yeah what we don't build anything there, but we do provide a service and that service is to give you entertainment You would give you an entertainment business, which is our economy right now

We are an only fans and podcast economy. So go out there and shake your ass or open your mouth, babe I'm gonna be April 24th, New Haven, Connecticut College Street music hall April 25th Albany the egg and then May 29th, Washington DC May 30th, New Haven, Connecticut, College Street Music Hall, April 25th, Albany, The Egg, and then May 29th, Washington, D.C., May 30th, Durham, North Carolina, May 31st, Charleston, South Carolina, and my show, September 11th, has been moved from MSG Arena to MSG Theater. I told you it was going to happen and it did. And the thing is, the show is almost sold out. So if you want to get tickets to see me in New York, I'm only doing one show. You got to go to chrisdcomedy.com or historyinisisback.com

and get those tikkies. New York is almost sold out, go get them. Yeah, and just see me in Cleveland, Ohio at Hilarity's April 18th and 19th and then I'm taking a break on the road and then I'll be in Bozeman, Montana in June. But my special will be coming out somewhere soon and then I'll be back on the road, so that's it.

Yeah, special can come out somewhere soon and then Yanni's gonna make his pockets a little lighter, the manager's getting fired. Now, I hope you learned something. Let us know in the comments at youtube.com slash history anus what you like what you didn't like. We always have the most fun here at patreon.com slash history anus so we're gonna read the newest members of the matron who I've just recently joined to a part of our club now and that's where you have the unpackled episodes. That's where you get a bonus episode. We're going to go further into tariffs. We have an episode with the great Matan on, the kid who says he's from Sweden,

but he's really from California. So we're having a good time over there. So welcome to the matriarchy, Zach Zussman, Christian Berner. Then we got the last cum bender. What do you think? Style bender. OK, style bender. I'm going to give him a Drexler.

Okay, Big Ten tuba player. Big Ten tuba player's a chicken finger. I like it. Diddy's towel. I love it. Chicken finger. Chicken finger is an honor. Okay, then we got Donald Jingleheimer Trump.

Okay, I don't know what that means, but thank you. Adam Graham. Then we got a twinkle of his lordship, Dylan J. Timothy. Okay. Like that. Very funny. Then we got Krube. his lordship, Dylan J. Timothy. Like that, very funny. Then we got Crubby, MV Peace, 6ix9ine Squeak with an acorn piece. Put him on the list. All right, there we go.

We call a guy with a little peepee. Then we got Theodore's Fumologist. Very funny. Robert Ahrensmeyer, Thomas Greco, Ben Scranage, then we got Benjamin Boxbriether Franklin. Okay, okay. Foley Lies, then we got Diddy with Dami and Til Kanya Drinks Mommy's Glue, okay.

Then we got Glucom, AKA Gay Edgar Hoover. Gay Edgar Hoover would probably just won. Gay Edgar Hoover would have been good. Sean Sara Flores, then we got Kendrick Fumar's Jinko jeans. In the Super Bowl, right? Yeah, direct so that. That's a good one. I mean, if it was closer to the Super Bowl, you're talking maybe on the list. Well, maybe that's, but this is how far back we are. Remember, if you're listening here and you're not on the Patreon, we have so many members. You guys are missing a lot here. We have so many members that we're like two months behind on names because that's an honorary on the list for how good All right, honorary on the list. He's gonna win but I'm putting your honor or honorary

All right, Richie row Alexis Ribl are Rudy Kurowski be just here for the content That's right. So we have so right to the back straight to the back those people who just want to get here They don't want anyone to know who they are They're just here for the content listening straight to the back with you walk to the back of an people who just want to get here, they don't want anyone to know who they are, they're just here for the content, listening straight to the back, like you walk to the back of an adult film video store. Head down, raincoat on. Then we got Zan, the rice and beans kid who freely uses the N-word. Okay, so we cannot...

We walked into one there, we don't condone that kind of behavior. It's an extra kid who slings the N-word around. Yeah. Can't do that. Jojo Bebop, Spencer Underwood, Clue Nan. Maybe that's a Walked Into One award. Maybe we got to do a Walked Into One award. Want to do a Walked Into One award?

Yeah, that guy won it. All right, so you're in the Walked Into One. Then we got Father Bill Squeak of the Week's Pink Stink. Drexler. Drexler. Francisco, call me Sauce Monkey Man Narino. All right. All right.

Then we got Kippy's hair from the limo video. Okay. Okay. Got a lot of RU garbage guys here. Then we got Panda Express, like Panda, but Panda. Panda Express. Panda Express. I like it.

Chicken finger. Little Brown Toot with the uncut flute. Okay. Okay. Shamiah Brown, Devin Westcott. Then we got Cousy Wuzzy, Bros F Stalin. Okay. Okay. Uh, Shamiah Brown, Devon Westcott. Then we got Cousy Wuzzy, Bros F Stalin. Okay. Uh, Rich Berger, Mr. Champ, Logan. Then we got Chen, make no mistake, I play ping pong in Ding Dang Lee. Okay. Drexler. Then we got Cleared Hot. Uh, Steven Spencer, Austin Medina, Mr. Bat OG,

Austin Souza. Then we got Go On Strike, WNBA. I like the women's basketball. Okay. But funny. I mean the Yukon game last night was great. I mean, but they won by 30. Yeah, it was a blowout. Make Europe Fumeless again.

Okay. Proofers crematorium, walk-ins welcome. Put it on the list. Walk-ins welcome to a crematorium is very funny. We walked into one and okay. Amy Fumer, we've had already. Father Billy shit on my willy. Okay.

Okay. I'll go to therapy. Then we got Yuka, make me so horny. We talked about the Yuka app a lot. Yeah. One episode. Put them on the list. Yuka, make me so horny.

Yuka, make me so horny, yeah. Then we got what's in the ball bitch. Okay. Okay. Then we go, I waited six months trying to come up with a funny name. Yeah. Uh, then we got what's in the ball, bitch. Okay. Okay. Then we go, I waited six months trying to come up with a funny name. Okay. It's just a name. Okay.

Being honest. I was being honest. Barry Bashior. Then we got AKA Pablo Diablo. Okay. Evan Hisbe. Then we got, I had a leaky roof, but Yanni P and Chrissy D glue gunned it like Marines on Iwo Jima.

Put it on the list. On the list. Okay. Put it on a list. The guy had a leaky roof and then we glued it back together. Yeah. Like Marines on Iwo Jima. Put it on the list. On the list. Okay. Put it on a list, guy had a leaky roof and then we glued it back together. Yeah. Like Marines on Iwo Jima. What it is.

Yeah. Um, okay. Cardiolix. Then we got Mike Dantz. Walked into one. So sorry about that. That's an actual slur and I apologize. I just walked into one.

Weiss on she ain't. He wrote it all out there and it just gets you when it's one word. It starts from a different generation. Yeah. Then we got, okay, Future Trip. Then we got Zin'd Up and The Roof is Still Leaky. Okay. Jaron Sletcher's, Matthew Raimondo. Then we got The funny F word.

Sarah bird, Ahmad Hassan. Then we got Italian frisbee. Call me a sauce wits monkey. Sauce wits like, okay. Yeah. Interesting. I like it. I like it. Then we got a muff munchkin midget.

Okay. Then we got big Turkey testicles. Uh, put it on the list. All right. Yeah. You know, I just like it. I like it. Then we got no pot, Hawkeye 67, Emmanuel J. Baldes. Then we got Nikki Glazer's discharge yummy, Chrissy rubbed my tummy.

Okay. It's just a freak. Wow. Yeah. Then we got small piece on my Frank dribbles on my beans when I pay. Oh, he likes that. Yanni likes that. Then we got Plato's student because you know, they liked him cute. Yeah. Uh, then we got, uh, New York, bigger knocker.

New York, bigger. No, I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. Uh, frisbee Dave, the gelfight fit, the gefilte fish slave, Wei Shanqian. Okay. Gifilte fish slave.

Sorry, bad read. Yeah. Then we got Zach Isis, hairy glue gun. And we got, if I'm for the table, at least give me service at the mouth. That's etiquette. It's just what it is. Cause. Put them on the list. Cause. Cause. Cause.. Sorry, bad read. Then we got Zach Isis, Harry Glu gun. And we got, if I'm for the table, at least give me service of the mouth. That's etiquette.

It's just what it is. Cause put them on the list. Okay. Yeah. He's just making a point. It's funny. Then we got, uh, Robert Paulson, glue chew promo code, hyenas, Xbox boy, else dizzy.

Then we got the boys and girls club. The boys, boys, like a Jewish thing. Like, yeah, you're going. Yeah. Okay. That's very good. Just chicken finger. Then we got Fumare Stoudemire, which we've had Calvin Winkler, Zachary

Smith, drew the, then we got Weishan Xian, peaking fuckhouse. Okay. Zachary money. Then we got Sarah Tonin. Uh, is it Sarah Tonin? No, Sarah Tonin. Just the, just, yeah. And here, look, we've got two morein. Is it Saratonin? No, Saratonin. Just yeah. And here look we got two more pages and then I think we're caught up. Yeah. Okay so we're almost caught up. We are doing the work so just stick with us for a

couple more. We're gonna have a great list today. You're gonna want a list to the end. I'm sure there's some more bangers. Chris D. Cockenfeller, like cock in feller. Interesting. Like Rockenfeller, he's saying cock in feller, interesting. Like rock in feller, you're saying cock in a guy. I know, that's good. It's good, but I don't know. Drexler. Okay, Drexler. Don LaMitte, Diego Sanchez, Luis Villa, then we got so much Mattel water, even my coffee's

white. Drexler. Okay. Boston McNeil, then we got if Yanni's body was the patron, send me straight to the back. Okay. Don't understand it. King Louis broken turd cutter. Oh, send me straight to the back. Okay? Don't understand it. King Louis' broken turd cutter. Oh, send me straight to the back to bang it out.

Got it. Got it. King Louis' broken turd cutter. Brian Stewart. Then we got Time for Toots and Snoot Boops. Wait, I really like, because he's got a kid out of broken asshole. What do you want? I want a Drexler.

Alright, Drexler. King Louis Gay Honorary Drexler. Then we got Gavin Brockway, Well It's Cam, Peek Squeak. Then we got I Told My Mom To Listen To H.H., Now She Won't Speak To Me. That's what it is. Sorry about that. Yeah, she's not in, yeah, it's not for everyone. Loretta Allen, Jonathan, Jammie Whammy, Tyler Feamster, Dutch Oven, My Jewish Wife. Walked into one. be like that. But here's the thing, it's so bad. Yeah.

There's people, what does he say? There's people. We can't understand your writing. These people are scamming everyone. Which people? Scaring. Oh, scaring, who's that? Guests.

Oh, guests. Oh, yeah, they're out there. What is he doing? I don't know, they're. All right What is he doing? I don't know. Did he come with his fucking guy? Crazy. Yeah. A couple minutes.

Yeah, tell him five minutes. Okay. All right. So much, okay. Time for dudes to snoop boobs. Tom's just a boy soldier for the table. Oh shit. Oh, Tom's just a hobo hunter,

Gavin Brockway, Peek Squeak, Un Poco Coco, Zach Folkerth, Big Schwug, Daniela Vail, Ashley Lammers, Jake, FA double. Oh yeah, sorry, shit. Trans historian cosplayer, Benedict Arnold on OF. Very good, sorry. Shit. Wei Zhongxian. Trans-historian cosplayer, Benedict Arnold on OF. Very good. Drexler. I like it. Barry $3 Bill McCockenham.

McCockenham. Drexler. Pete, take it up the ass, Buttichedge. Okay. Calabrese Cuckmerchant, Brian Bravo, Jacob Dwyer. Uh oh, DaVinci is in my stinky. They called me Boof Lee, it's what it is. Okay.

Bruce Lee. Bufle, he said. Yeah. Okay. Kanye is the real Clayton Bigsby. It's very true. Zoe Schlagen on some Hoff, Blair Schleitzengraaff. Okay.

Pizzle, shizzle, hop on the Dizzle and fill you with jizzle. It's what it is. Oh, you feel me, my nizzle. Fuzzy Muzzy was a bear. bear fuzzy was he had so much hair fuzzy was he wasn't on caliphate pilgrimage over the southern border was he? Okay, ebony Scrooge shooting her glue gun into her own mouth aka single stream recycling You know that goes out Liz Sushi on my nips Cause it's what it is. I'm for the table.

Okay. Got to put it on the list. Okay. It's a good list. Yeah. Then we got Mike hunt short bus mechanic. Uh, it's a, it's a Drexler chicken figure and Drexler. It's a Sarah Keter piece.

I don't know what that means. Yeah. Waka kaka flaming hot cheeto fingers Tuck her back Carl daughter Okay Shaquille oatmeal toaster bath Funny Tim Clemens Julie. All right, one more page guys, and then we are all caught up Justin Fox LeBron's Hong Kong kindergarten sings slave songs

He was going for it. Yeah. All right. Maximilian Lane, Joseph McKinsky, Hammersmith, Nicholas Morrison, Big Mike, Squeeze My Dom De Louise, Balls, Sacajawea, like Ballsac, Ballsacajawea. Chicken Finger. Chicken Finger, I like it.

J.C. Sawyer, Brian M. Jake R. Then we got Vinny Tia, the Trans Sauce Monkey, like instead of Venetia, Vinny Tia. Vinny Tia, get it. Funny, I like it. Call me pest control the way I'm bug chasing. Put them on the list. List, there you go.

That's contender. Bug chasing, if you guys don't know, is when you knowingly know someone has HIV and you have unprotected anal sex. But that's what bug chasing is. I would say that's the contender. Then we got Leaky Roof Repair, LLC. Hertz 2 Brown, Go Birds. That's I would say that's the contender. They've got leaky roof repair LLC

hurts to Brown go birds No, so far out to kill Eka Amau Alexander Rodriguez, Jacob Ligenza Jackson Miller five knuckle shuffle on AOC's beef It's a thick list Matthew Doherty Jacob, Yanni, close eyes to see the cock size. It's not gay if it happens underwater. Put them on the list. I mean, it's just a point that I've never thought about. Yeah. Doritos, Locos, Forever Essay, Doritos Locos Forever Essay, Zoe Ryan Sam. Then we got Kevin Hall, Empress Theodorus Tootjuice. Then we got Vivek, Vivek, the Paget lays sheet in the street. Then we got my history, Hyena's name is in my bio.

Oh, thank you. Andrew Kester, Chris, Grant Big One, Harrison. Then we got Tuck It Back Mark, Just Call Me Caitlin Clark. Okay, okay. Boys, Pelosi, I Just Lost the Skirt, I'm Screwed In, Cause Make No Mistake. Sean, then we got Dang Ling Wong, it's a character piece. Then we got Bobby the Throat Goat, Kennedy's Angry Voice Box. We had that, a better one earlier.

It's a good one. Mike Tillen-Smith, and then we have Tutty's Big Ol' Dirty Milkers. Yeah, that's... Right. Our garbage. And last but not least, we have Winnie the Pooh Puncher 3000. Good one. Chicken finger. Okay.

So we got a list today. We got a thick list. All right, we got a thick list, so let me just read this. Okay, so we got, on the list, shooting your glue gun into your own mouth, AKA single stream recycling. Contender. Contender. Sushi on my nips, because it's what it is, I'm for the table.

Any other day. Any other day. Okay, so he's out. All right, so let me just put that in. Then we have Kendrick Fumar's Jinko jeans. Any other day. Any other day. Six eight squeak with an acorn piece. Chicken finger. All right. It's great. Any other day. Any other day. Six eight squeak with an acorn piece. Chicken finger. All right. It's great. Any other day. Okay. So that page is out. So then we have a Furo's,

Pifuras crematorium walk-ins welcome. I like the walk-ins welcome, but any other day. Any other day. Yeah. Drexler. Yuka making me so horny. Drexler. Drexler. Good one. I had a leaky roof, but Yanni P and Chrissy D glue gunned it like Marines on Iwo Jima. Contender. Contender, so we're gonna circle him. Then we got big turkey testicles. Jesse loves it but it's getting chicken figure. Chicken figure, okay. Then we got small pee so my Franks dribbles on my beans when I pee. Another good one, chicken finger. Chicken finger, okay. So that's out. Then we got I'm for the table, at least give me service of

the mouth. That's etiquette, it's just what what it is cuz I'm contendering that one. I like it. All right. Yeah, I like just what matter of fact service Yeah, yeah Okay, so we got that so we got three Call me pest control the way on bug chasing contender contender. Yeah, we like him. Yes, five knuckles shuffle on AOC's beef We're gonna we're gonna chicken. We're gonna direct. So that Ixler, good one. It's not gay if it happens underwater. I like that one. I like that one too. Yeah okay. Alright so let me just read them out again. Call me pest control the way I'm bug chasing. It's not gay if it happens underwater. I had a leaky roof but Yanni P and Chrissy D glue gunned it like it's

Marines on Iwo Jima. For the table at least give me service of mouth that's etiquette it's just what it is cuz and then shooting your glue gun into your own mouth aka stringles single stream recycling Okay, single stream recycling still in staring. Yeah, that's still in for the table. We're gonna Drexler it for the tables out Yeah, we're gonna direct to the for the table. Okay, and what do we got? And then we got and then we have I had a leaky roof But Yanni P and Chrissy D glue gunnedundit like two Marines on Iwo Jima. Very good, but you're getting Drexler'd. Getting Drexler'd.

Any other day, guys. Any other day, guys. So, and then we have, call me pest control the way I'm bug chasing, and it's not gay if it happens underwater. Those are good ones. Okay, so we got three left, right? We have three left. My pick is it's not gay if unless it happens underwater. What are you going? I like the bug chaser. I like the bug chaser. Alright, come? We have three left. My pick is it's not gay if and unless it happens underwater. What are you going? Ooh, I like the bug chaser.

I like the bug chaser. Yeah. All right, come down to Yanni then. I also like the single stream recycling. We have to pick one. It's coming in his own mouth. It's single stream recycling. All right, so I'm gonna leave, I'll leave.

It's a good one. You pick. Yeah, it's a tough one. I'm gonna call it, I'm gonna, single stream recycling, God damn it, bug chasing, those are my two. Okay. Underwater's great. Underwater's out. Underwater's great, but any other day. All right, so between shooting your glue, I'm gonna single stream recycling god damn it bug chasing those are my two. Okay underwater The water is out. Okay. The water is great but any other day so between shooting your glue shooting your glue gun into your into your own mouth aka single stream recycling and

Call me pest control the way on bug chasing. God. Those are two fun. What do we think Jesse? What do you like out of those two? I'm on record for bug chasing. Yeah, I'm on record for bug chasing. I'll go bug chasing That's the winner. That's the winner. All right so I was gonna go single stream. So, so congratulations, call me Pest Control, the way on bugchaser, you can see your name up in lights at History Hyenas is Back, historyhyenasisback.com, you have the PPW, you won, congratulations. Yeah.