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- 0:04hello we're
- 0:06back so I left you guys on the Foreign
- 0:09Corrupt Practices
- 0:12Act so the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
- 0:15says that US citizens are always under
- 0:18us
- 0:19laws always okay so we also said that
- 0:24the foreign corrup Practices Act
- 0:26addresses basically federal law
- 0:30so state law is it now is the drinking
- 0:33age it's 21 is the state law isn't it
- 0:37and can prove it to you that's not
- 0:38federal law because if you get an MIP
- 0:41minor in possession what do they take
- 0:45away your driver's license and your
- 0:48driver's license is at the state level
- 0:50it says state of Washington on it
- 0:52doesn't
- 0:54it so that proves that the foreign
- 0:56corrup Practices Act is federal law now
- 1:00say but I'm not a US
- 1:02citizen well don't worry the US
- 1:05government is there for you
- 1:08too
- 1:10uh
- 1:11yeah and that gets us a lot to a lot
- 1:14called the Patriot
- 1:16Act the Patriot Act Now the Patriot Act
- 1:20is
- 1:21interesting it it was originally
- 1:24designed to stop terrorism just like the
- 1:26Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was
- 1:28originally designed to stop bribery and
- 1:30then expanded and expanded and expanded
- 1:33the Patriot Act was originally supposed
- 1:34to stop terrorism or be against
- 1:37terrorism okay so the Patriot Act
- 1:42allows state laws to be
- 1:46enforced what what yeah
- 1:49so you're 20 years old you go up to
- 1:53Canada you drink a beer you come back in
- 1:57the United States can they arrest you
- 2:01so I
- 2:03um asked I stopped by I talked to an
- 2:07officer with the border patrol and I
- 2:09asked him the question I said hey I
- 2:11understand in the patriar can enforce
- 2:12state laws he says yep sure can I said
- 2:15if somebody comes I I'm I'm Community
- 2:18College teacher and if somebody one of
- 2:21my students goes up to Canada and drinks
- 2:22a beer and comes through at the border
- 2:26would you arrest them he says well if
- 2:29they're drunk sure I said no let's let's
- 2:32pretend that they're sitting in the back
- 2:36seat and the driver hasn't had anything
- 2:39to drink would you arrest him he says
- 2:43are they
- 2:44polite I said yes let's pretend that
- 2:47they're sitting in the back seat would
- 2:49you arrest him arrest them he says are
- 2:54they polite that is the only answer he
- 2:56would give me right so what does that
- 2:59tell you
- 3:01well here's a a life rule if you get
- 3:04nothing else from this class if if
- 3:06there's only one thing you remember from
- 3:08this whole class this whole quarter it's
- 3:12always be polite to people with
- 3:17guns that's just the thing right if
- 3:20somebody has a gun they can be a jerk
- 3:23that gives them the right so you can get
- 3:26an argument with them how often do you
- 3:29win when you fight somebody who has a
- 3:32gun It's usually the other way around
- 3:35I'm just just just telling you right
- 3:37some be careful now the Patriot Act was
- 3:40designed for terrorism there's a problem
- 3:43though can you support
- 3:47terrorism and not really be a
- 3:50terrorist well yeah you kind of can can
- 3:53you sell ice cream to children and be a
- 3:56terrorist by selling ice cream to
- 3:58Children he said how can you be a
- 4:00terrorist by selling ice cream to
- 4:02Children ah what if you take the profits
- 4:05from that ice cream set those ice cream
- 4:08sales and give it to
- 4:12terrorists you are technically a
- 4:14terrorist when you do that so they took
- 4:16the Patriot Act which was supposed to be
- 4:17very very specific and they said you
- 4:19know what there's a lot of different
- 4:21ways to support terrorism so let's
- 4:23expand it and expand it and expand it so
- 4:27the Patriot Act says you says stay state
- 4:29laws can be enforced It also says that
- 4:34um the United States can enforce us laws
- 4:39on non US
- 4:42citizens outside the United
- 4:47States yeah it says that all right now
- 4:50makes a lot of people say well I'm not
- 4:52I'm from this other country well if but
- 4:54I'm in the United States I'm not under
- 4:55us laws well of course whenever you go
- 4:57to another country you're under their
- 4:59laws while you're in their country right
- 5:01walk around in Saudi Arabia with a beer
- 5:04see what happens and you got kid say
- 5:06it's legal in my
- 5:08country right that we know that but
- 5:10what's weird is they say we can enforce
- 5:14us laws on non- US citizens outside the
- 5:17United States the big word there is can
- 5:20they don't say we do they say we can for
- 5:24instance uh Barack Obama his during his
- 5:27administration they took out bin Laden
- 5:30right known terrorist they killed him
- 5:33they originally asked Pakistan they said
- 5:36hey we think that this guy's there we
- 5:38want to come and take him out and
- 5:39Pakistan said no you can't do that we
- 5:42don't want you to do
- 5:45that but we did it anyway didn't we
- 5:47because the United States is the big
- 5:50gorilla what does a big gorilla
- 5:53do anything it wants that's just what
- 5:56big gorillas do if a big gorilla came
- 5:58over into my office right now says I
- 6:00want to sit in your chair I'm going to
- 6:02get up and say here I have a nice seat
- 6:04have a seat we're the big gorilla now
- 6:07usually we do it with the permission of
- 6:09the government but not always in
- 6:11Pakistan really they said no but they
- 6:14said no in such a soft way that they
- 6:16kind of said well maybe just we don't
- 6:20want to say yes but it wouldn't be the
- 6:22worst thing that could happen and so we
- 6:24did and so it's usually with the
- 6:25permission of the government but not
- 6:27always yeah yeah
- 6:30so a lot of times people say hey Andy I
- 6:33want to go up to New
- 6:35Amsterdam so you like to travel Andy I'd
- 6:39love to travel with you can you go to
- 6:40new
- 6:41Hamsterdam that'd be fun yeah why are
- 6:45they squinting their eyes and saying New
- 6:47Amsterdam oh because weed is legal in
- 6:50New
- 6:51Amsterdam no it's not yes it is no it's
- 6:55not I'm sorry to tell you it is not it's
- 6:58decriminalized well that's the same
- 7:00thing no it's not okay so first off I'm
- 7:04never taking students to new Hamsterdam
- 7:06but let's say you go there and you smoke
- 7:09some weed it's been decriminalized which
- 7:10means that they don't enforce it on most
- 7:13people guess who they do enforce it
- 7:16on
- 7:18tourists yep because well it's only like
- 7:21$25 fine I know it's only a $25 F who
- 7:25cares about
- 7:27$25 you do because they only give the
- 7:31tickets to the foreigners because it's a
- 7:34way to steal money from
- 7:36us right then if they report it to the
- 7:40federal
- 7:41government in the United States which
- 7:44they usually don't but let's say you
- 7:46were a jerk and they want they wanted to
- 7:48make a point they
- 7:50could then they reported to the United
- 7:52States federal government and the
- 7:55federal government says but that's
- 7:57against federal law but not against
- 7:59Washington law no it's against federal
- 8:02law then you can get arrested in the
- 8:05United States for it just you can would
- 8:07it happen probably not I but the word
- 8:10probably is pretty scary um yeah so it's
- 8:15legal in Washington so stay in
- 8:16Washington and do it yeah but that's
- 8:19it's kind of interesting you're not
- 8:21totally free when you leave the country
- 8:22you're still under under the United
- 8:25States laws now you say Andy this gives
- 8:27us a big disadvantage because other
- 8:28countries don't have the P these pescal
- 8:30laws and that's true but we have a big
- 8:35advantage over them and that's called
- 8:38the
- 8:40usdoc that stands for United States
- 8:43Department of Commerce the US Doc is a
- 8:47branch of the federal
- 8:49government and they help you export
- 8:52that's what they do they don't they
- 8:54really don't do too much for import but
- 8:56if you want to export us products they
- 8:58will help you you don't even have to be
- 9:00a US US citizen you don't even have to
- 9:02be in the United States they will help
- 9:04you and I've done a lot of work with the
- 9:06US Doc and they help people do a lot of
- 9:10exporting of us
- 9:12products so they do all sorts of great
- 9:16stuff for you and a lot of it's free or
- 9:18a lot of it's very low cost very very
- 9:20low cost so let's say you go to a
- 9:22country and you don't speak the language
- 9:24and you need an interpreter well
- 9:26sometimes the other company says we'll
- 9:28give you an interpreter for free yeah
- 9:30yeah then they interpret the
- 9:32negotiations to their benefit so go to
- 9:35the usdc and say hey I need an
- 9:36interpreter they go well you know
- 9:38they're normally $50 an hour but we'll
- 9:40pay $40 how about that you pay the extra
- 9:4310 so that's a heck of a deal they also
- 9:47give you legal advice so you want to do
- 9:49Viet business in Vietnam and you say I
- 9:53want to do business in Vietnam and they
- 9:55say you go to the usdc and they say you
- 9:58will have to bribe government officials
- 10:00to do this type of business and you say
- 10:04isn't I took Andy Johnson's business 101
- 10:06class isn't that against the Foreign
- 10:08Corrupt Practices Act and they will say
- 10:11yes don't do it then you say well then I
- 10:15guess I can't do business in Vietnam
- 10:16they go oh yes you can let us help you
- 10:19there are ways around this there are
- 10:21ways to work around that you can be very
- 10:23legal for instance you can't bribe
- 10:25government
- 10:27officials but you can can give money to
- 10:31speed things up it's not a bride right
- 10:34so let's say you go to the Post Office
- 10:37and you have a letter and you say I want
- 10:38to mail this letter to New York City and
- 10:41they say when do you need it there I say
- 10:43tomorrow morning they say oh so you want
- 10:46us to overnight this I go yes right they
- 10:49say that'll be
- 10:50$50 and you
- 10:53say $50 is worth it you give them $50
- 10:56they overnight your your letter it
- 10:58arrives the next day or two days or
- 11:00whatever you decide to do in New York
- 11:03City now did you just bribe That
- 11:06official well no you paid a fee didn't
- 11:09you right so they will help you
- 11:10determine if it's a bribe or a fee and
- 11:13they'll help you pay the fees without
- 11:15breaking the law and paying a bribe for
- 11:17instance if you came up to me and you
- 11:19say hey
- 11:21Andy I like your classes a lot in fact I
- 11:24like your classes so much I have two
- 11:26free tickets to the Super Bowl
- 11:29would you like to go to the Super Bowl
- 11:32now I'm not a big Sports person but the
- 11:35Super Bowl yeah right the Super Bowl is
- 11:39it's who cares about the football you're
- 11:40there for everything else right it's
- 11:42just it's a I haven't been there but I
- 11:44have a friend who a very good friend
- 11:45who's gone he says it's a lot of fun
- 11:48right so yes I would I would like to go
- 11:51now why are you giving me these two free
- 11:53tickets to the Super
- 11:56Bowl because I like you Andy
- 12:00no nobody's ever said hey Andy want two
- 12:03free tickets to the Super Bowl right why
- 12:05are you doing this because Andy I think
- 12:09there's a good chance that you'll be
- 12:11able to look at my grades and make sure
- 12:14that I get the grade I
- 12:17deserve in other words it's a bribe
- 12:19isn't it it is you say but and I just
- 12:22want to get it okay you want to give me
- 12:24two $33,000 tickets just because you
- 12:26like me no it's understanding that if I
- 12:30take those tickets I am going to do you
- 12:33a favor back okay that's Barber but what
- 12:36if you gave Bill Gates two tickets to
- 12:38the Super Bowl he'd look at him he'd
- 12:42say I could buy the Super
- 12:45Bowl which he could right he could buy
- 12:48the Super Bowl right he doesn't that
- 12:50means nothing to him does it right so
- 12:53the US doc helps you interpret that
- 12:56helps you find your way through to make
- 13:00things more successful so they'll help
- 13:01you with financing so you need it takes
- 13:04a lot of money to do to export and need
- 13:06need to borrow some money they'll lend
- 13:08you money at very low interest rates or
- 13:10they're qu sign for you it's wonderful
- 13:11stuff they'll help you Transportation
- 13:13you say well I want to sell stuff in
- 13:15China how do I get stuff to China they
- 13:17go well that's easy getting stuff to
- 13:19China free it's free to transport Goods
- 13:23to China yep because all those
- 13:25containerships come over to the United
- 13:26States full of stuff and then they go
- 13:29back empty and so they'll say hey we'll
- 13:33charge Pennies on the dollar or we we'll
- 13:35do whatever we need to to to make a
- 13:37little bit of money and then the US DLC
- 13:40says we'll pay those couple pennies for
- 13:43you that's great the usdoc helps you do
- 13:47a lot of stuff so there was a company
- 13:49wanted to sell uh popcorn in Japan turns
- 13:52out Japanese don't eat popcorn very much
- 13:55there's only really one time they eat
- 13:56popcorn and that's at the movie theaters
- 13:58because that's what you do at the movie
- 13:59theaters right right so uh it's kind of
- 14:04like going to a Mexican restaurant and
- 14:06eating chips and salsa right it's kind
- 14:09of like going to eat Chinese food and
- 14:12they give you a fortune cookie because a
- 14:14fortune cookie is from China right yeah
- 14:16that's a Chinese
- 14:17thing it isn't most people in China have
- 14:20no idea what a fortune cookie is it's an
- 14:22American thing it's kind of like we
- 14:24think the Germans think that Americans
- 14:26Coca-Cola and beer we think that fortune
- 14:29cookies came from China they didn't they
- 14:31come from the United States
- 14:33so they I I had a real good friend who
- 14:36who lives in be Beijing he's a big guy
- 14:39he owns a bunch of sporting goods
- 14:41stores and when I went to China he gave
- 14:45me a driver and big old car and I went
- 14:48all over the all over Beijing and had a
- 14:50lot of fun so then I invited him to come
- 14:52back and visit me here in the United
- 14:53States he came back and the first thing
- 14:55I did was I took him to a bad Chinese
- 14:59restaurant I looked around I found the
- 15:02worst CH so I looked for it's it's
- 15:04actually easy to tell a bad Chinese
- 15:05restaurant I looked for a Chinese
- 15:07restaurant with no Chinese or Asian
- 15:10people working there and no Chinese or
- 15:13Asian people eating there what do you
- 15:16know about that food yeah it was
- 15:19terrible so I said I picked him up at
- 15:21the airport and I said hey I'm going to
- 15:23take you to the best Chinese food we
- 15:25have in the United States this is really
- 15:27good stuff and I took to this place and
- 15:30he starts eating it he's like
- 15:31going he just looks at me and I go what
- 15:34isn't this really good he
- 15:36goes how do you eat this I go I don't
- 15:39I'm just to mess with you so I said go
- 15:43home we'll go home I'll cook you some
- 15:44Chinese food because I my wife's Chinese
- 15:46so I can cook Chinese food she can too
- 15:49right so but then they bring the bill
- 15:52right and the bill has the fortune
- 15:53cookies you know they give you the bill
- 15:55and the fortune cookies and I say whatat
- 15:57your fortune he says I don't know I
- 15:59saidwell read your cookie he says how do
- 16:03you read a cookie I mean that he really
- 16:05had he was a very sophisticated person
- 16:07he had no clue what a fortune he was
- 16:09right so when to sell popcorn in Japan
- 16:11this guy takes his popcorn puts it in
- 16:13glass charges his gourmet popcorn really
- 16:15good stuff right ships it to Japan the
- 16:18Japanese ship it back it goes that's
- 16:20kind of weird ships it to Japan Japanese
- 16:23ship it back so then he goes to the US
- 16:25Doc and says what's wrong with this why
- 16:28are they shipping it back the usdc says
- 16:30look to do business in Japan you have to
- 16:32do business like a Japanese business
- 16:35person so in
- 16:37Japan they're very polite they're one of
- 16:40the most polite people in the world and
- 16:43if you do something wrong they're not
- 16:44going to tell you because they don't
- 16:45want to hurt your feelings so keep
- 16:48shipping it they're going to keep
- 16:49shipping it back keep asking very
- 16:51politely what's wrong with it and
- 16:53ultimately they will tell you what's
- 16:55wrong with it right so he ships it back
- 16:57and forth back and forth finally they
- 16:59say well it's just not good enough he
- 17:01goes how can it not be good enough so he
- 17:03goes to the usdc and they say it's not
- 17:04good enough let's look at the jars so
- 17:06they he brings in a case cardboard box
- 17:09with his popcorn in in jars and the
- 17:12person at the usdc lifts up the popcorn
- 17:14and looks at the bottom now what had
- 17:15happened is during Transportation the
- 17:17little kernels rubbed together and when
- 17:21they rubb together it caused dust to
- 17:24form and it was all over the bottom of
- 17:26the jar see in Japanese culture Purity
- 17:29is very
- 17:30important so if you go try to sell the
- 17:33Japanese apple juice they love apple
- 17:35juice you want to sell them orange juice
- 17:38they love orange juice but if you take
- 17:40apple mango orange juice
- 17:43Pimon mustard and mix them all up in one
- 17:46thing they go that's gross they want
- 17:49pure right so it didn't look pure it
- 17:52looked dirty even though it wasn't dirty
- 17:54it still looked it they didn't want to
- 17:55sell nobody would buy it right so they
- 17:58said okay now think about it when you go
- 18:00to the pharmacy and you get medicine how
- 18:03do they keep those pills from rubbing
- 18:06together and turning into
- 18:07dust well they put cotton in the top
- 18:10don't they they say just clean out your
- 18:13jars put some cotton in the top send it
- 18:15back over you should be fine he was he
- 18:17was able to enter the market he said but
- 18:19the Japanese don't eat much popcorn but
- 18:21there's a lot of people in Japan so not
- 18:24a bad idea okay now there's another
- 18:27there was a there was a
- 18:29uh a guy owned a a bakery in Southwest
- 18:33United States he made Fruit Cakes you
- 18:36guys all know what a fruit cake is right
- 18:38if you don't Google it right it's a big
- 18:42loaf of really heavy bread with nuts and
- 18:47cherries and all sorts of stuff in it
- 18:49right in offic officially in the United
- 18:51States we don't like fruit cake so you
- 18:53say it they go oh fruit cake that's
- 18:55gross right right so in the United
- 18:57States we give fruit cake to people that
- 18:59we don't like it's kind of a joke right
- 19:01so you give them some fruit cake and
- 19:02they go oh right and then they give it
- 19:03to somebody else till finally somebody
- 19:06who actually will eat it eats it or that
- 19:09gets thrown away one of the two right so
- 19:11we don't like it but turns out in a lot
- 19:13of other countries fruit cakes okay they
- 19:15think it's okay so this guy wanted to
- 19:17sell his fruit cake in
- 19:19Japan um but it turns out if you think
- 19:21about the postal system how does a
- 19:24postal system determine
- 19:26price by weight what do you know about a
- 19:29fruit cake it's heavy drop it on your
- 19:33toe you break your toe so he said he
- 19:35goes to the US dolc and says hey how do
- 19:37I transport my fruit cake over there
- 19:39they said oh easy take your fruit cake
- 19:42put it in the back of your pickup truck
- 19:44drive it to Mexico and use their Postal
- 19:47Service because they want the jobs they
- 19:49want the money and they'll give you a
- 19:52way better deal than the US Postal
- 19:53Service would ever even think of okay so
- 19:56he sends it down to him goes take it
- 19:57down to Mexico ships it to Japan the
- 19:59Japanese ship it back he says well
- 20:03that's weird right he ships it there
- 20:05they ship it back
- 20:07again okay what's going on here goes to
- 20:11the usdl and they found out that Japan
- 20:14doesn't want certain agricultural
- 20:16products in from Mexico they don't like
- 20:19some of the pesticides and some of the
- 20:20fertilizers that are used that are legal
- 20:22in Mexico so they said no no
- 20:24agricultural products even though it was
- 20:25from the United States still it went
- 20:27through Mexico so they said okay that's
- 20:29actually real easy ship the fruit cake
- 20:32from United States to Mexico then use a
- 20:34Mexican postal service to ship it to
- 20:37Australia then take the Australian
- 20:39Postal Service and ship it to Singapore
- 20:42and then take the Singapore and ship it
- 20:43to Japan and even though you're going
- 20:46through all these different countries
- 20:47it's still going to be a lot cheaper
- 20:49than the United States right and he did
- 20:52and he was
- 20:54fine now few years ago we had something
- 20:57called mad cow disease
- 21:01oo mad cow disease is terrible terrible
- 21:05disease it kills millions and billions
- 21:07of PE no it doesn't it's totally
- 21:10overhyped right it was it it was it was
- 21:14nothing right so let's look at mad cow
- 21:20disease mad cow
- 21:22research as of July 2020 so pretty
- 21:26pretty good mad cow Bass
- 21:29facts okay let's look at the statistics
- 21:32how many humans have died from mad cow
- 21:36disease in the United
- 21:40States or
- 21:43total four how many people have died in
- 21:47Japan from mad cow
- 21:49disease
- 21:50one one wow now that's kind of strange
- 21:54now what country has problems with mad
- 21:56cow disease well the UK UK still has
- 21:59troubles with mow disease right now of
- 22:01the four
- 22:03Americans who went who who uh got mad
- 22:06CES by the way you die with it it's not
- 22:08good right of those four guess how many
- 22:11of them had gone to Europe
- 22:14recently I'll give you a
- 22:17hint yeah so they ate British beef or
- 22:21French beef Spanish beef for something
- 22:23and they got it right now four people
- 22:25four people have died four
- 22:28more people die from
- 22:31dishwashers than mad cow disease well
- 22:35how do you die from a dishwasher I don't
- 22:36know you can slip and fall on a fork and
- 22:40but you get electric shock or something
- 22:43I don't know four people four is nothing
- 22:44it is statistically it's zero right but
- 22:48they were this mad cow disease it's bad
- 22:50now let me tell you how mad cow disease
- 22:53works you have these little things in
- 22:55your brains called prons they little
- 22:56tiny bits of protein and you got it all
- 22:59in your brain right and you're not a mad
- 23:01cow you're not crazy you're not bad
- 23:03right but and you have them in your body
- 23:05and it doesn't hurt you at
- 23:08all but what we used to do and they
- 23:11still have and they don't do it in UK
- 23:14anymore but that's fairly recent is they
- 23:16used to take a cow and they would kill
- 23:19the cow cut the meat off and then they
- 23:22put it in a black in the plastic
- 23:23wrappers and sell us the meat right but
- 23:26what they did with the leftover parts is
- 23:28they would take the all the goo and
- 23:30stuff and they'd run it through rollers
- 23:33to squeeze out all the juice so what
- 23:35comes out on the other end is basically
- 23:38dried up ground up cow right and it
- 23:41looks a lot like cornflakes it really
- 23:45does right if I gave you B of ground up
- 23:47dried up cow and cornflakes you like go
- 23:51well they're probably just different
- 23:52brand right so then we would take the
- 23:56dried up ground of cows and we would eat
- 23:58it back to the cows because it's got a
- 24:01lot of good protein in it and it's free
- 24:03food and the cows don't know that
- 24:04they're carnivorous cows they just know
- 24:07that it tastes kind of yummy and I mean
- 24:09when you eat a hamburger do you say oh
- 24:11this is a dead cow I'm eating no you
- 24:14don't right the same thing with cows
- 24:16they're not very
- 24:17bright so then as the problem is as
- 24:21they're eating up all these leftover
- 24:23Parts they're absorbing the prons from
- 24:26those cows because the pons go in the
- 24:29brain and places like that in spinal
- 24:31cord and stuff so then they're getting a
- 24:34higher load so then you repeat this
- 24:36process few times and pretty soon you
- 24:38have the cows have too many prons in
- 24:41their brain and they turn into a mad cow
- 24:42and
- 24:43die right mad cow and die pretty crazy
- 24:47um how many cases in the North America
- 24:51of mad cow disease do we have 26 20 in
- 24:55Canada and six in the United so we had
- 24:59six crazy cows with and four people have
- 25:02died from it but they all went to to a a
- 25:05EU
- 25:07but that doesn't make any difference and
- 25:09some of our cows came from Canada so
- 25:11they're crazy Canadian
- 25:13cows okay
- 25:16so Japan decided to put an embargo
- 25:21embargo means zero you can't import on
- 25:25American beef because they said hey we
- 25:28don't don't want our people to eat mad
- 25:29cow beef and go crazy right because that
- 25:32it's just that one person that's
- 25:33happened to right but that was bad we
- 25:36don't we're gonna stop one person okay
- 25:39you die more from toothpicks or you die
- 25:42more from
- 25:44Kleenex or then I mean the one person
- 25:47right but they in Bargo right so we took
- 25:50them to the WTO and we said hey this is
- 25:54protectionism and the WTO says yeah yes
- 25:58it is okay they don't care about mad
- 26:01cows they're just trying to protect
- 26:03their own industry you say but Japan
- 26:05they don't make much beef they make coob
- 26:07beef you probably never had coob beef
- 26:09you think you have you probably have not
- 26:12if you go to the store and they say coob
- 26:14sliders it is not coob beef right
- 26:17but and they have such such small
- 26:21portions of it I mean they don't have
- 26:23that many cows many I've been to coob
- 26:25they don't have that many cows right so
- 26:28but they were trying to protect their
- 26:29own Industries because how did they get
- 26:31most their cows they imported remember
- 26:33all countries hate to import love to
- 26:34export so they decided hey instead of
- 26:37importing
- 26:38cows let's stop it so then they have to
- 26:41eat Japanese
- 26:43cows and also that but we're not really
- 26:45care if they eat Japanese cows right
- 26:48because we are really good at
- 26:50making a meat so Japan is really good at
- 26:55producing a type of meat in fact they're
- 26:58about the best in the world at producing
- 27:00it and that's called fish Japan has a
- 27:03huge fishing plate they're really really
- 27:06good at harvesting fish so they said now
- 27:10price of beef is going to be real
- 27:11expensive price of fish is going to go
- 27:13down everybody will eat fish then we
- 27:14create jobs here in Japan and
- 27:16everybody's happy and we don't have any
- 27:18mad cows so we took them to the WTO and
- 27:21the WTO says no no no that's
- 27:24protectionism you have to do it by the
- 27:26way we still even before the WT ruling
- 27:29because it takes the WTO a long time to
- 27:31get a ruling to go through before that
- 27:33we were still selling beef in Japan so
- 27:36what happens we would get crazy Canadian
- 27:38cows fatten them up for a little bit
- 27:41then we take the crazy Canadian cows and
- 27:43we move in from the in the United States
- 27:46we fat them up then we move them to
- 27:48Mexico where they can become crazy
- 27:50Mexican
- 27:51cows then we ship them to
- 27:54Australia where they become Australian
- 27:57cows
- 27:59and Japan has a trade agreement
- 28:01specifically with Australia saying that
- 28:04they won't put embargos and tariffs and
- 28:05stuff on their cows and stuff like that
- 28:08so then they go into Japan from
- 28:10Australia so the Japanese thought they
- 28:13were eating Australian cows which are
- 28:16really crazy Mexican cows which are
- 28:18really crazy American cows which may
- 28:19have been also crazy Canadian cows but
- 28:22now you have a world traveling
- 28:26cow this cow has seen the world
- 28:28world that's an expensive cow isn't it
- 28:31cause the price to go up so even though
- 28:33we were still selling them beef it was
- 28:37it was didn't didn't work too well right
- 28:40so I took him to the WTO and the WTO
- 28:42says you don't care about your people
- 28:44you're doing this for economic reasons
- 28:47and I said no no we don't want our
- 28:48people to turn into into crazy cows
- 28:51here's how the United States proved that
- 28:53Japan was doing
- 28:55protectionism so remember they take the
- 28:57cow take the meat the stuff that's left
- 29:00over they squeeze the juice out and now
- 29:03they use that as bone meal and stuff and
- 29:04fertilizers but guess what they do with
- 29:07the juice you know they use the whole
- 29:10cap people think that they throw away
- 29:12you use the whole cap right so now what
- 29:15do you do with the juice well some
- 29:18ladies may find this a little bit
- 29:20distressing right are you wearing
- 29:26lipstick get gu what one of the
- 29:29ingredients is in your
- 29:31lipstick dead cow
- 29:35juice dead CCH dead couches I'm wearing
- 29:38dead couches yes you are right now what
- 29:41happens to lipstick ladies what happens
- 29:44to the lipstick a when you're eating a
- 29:46meal usually comes off doesn't it and
- 29:49where does it go into the tummy right
- 29:52I'm putting dead cows on my face come on
- 29:54you wear tennis shoes and tennis shoes
- 29:56are made out of dead cows you wear belts
- 29:59belts are made out of De well tendis
- 30:01shoes might not be but shoes are made I
- 30:04I I guarantee you you've got some shoes
- 30:06that are made out of dead cows you got
- 30:08belt buckles that are made out of dead
- 30:09cows so you eat dead cows right that's
- 30:13why I eat I by the way I grew up on a
- 30:15farm I know cows I hate cows that's why
- 30:18I eat them right so it's not gross but
- 30:22what's weird is so a prion cannot be
- 30:24killed with chemicals or heat
- 30:28so ladies when you're eating the
- 30:30lipstick it's going in your tummy you
- 30:33are being exposed to Mad Cow PR diseases
- 30:37right now they they said Japan how come
- 30:41you don't have a tariff on American
- 30:44cosmetics and Japan says well we like
- 30:48those but shouldn't you put a tariff on
- 30:51shouldn't you put an in embargo in
- 30:52American Cosmetics nobody ever got
- 30:55nobody ever got mad cow disease from
- 30:58Cosmetics yeah and one person in Japan
- 31:01got mad cow disease from a cow and we
- 31:03don't who knows what where they got that
- 31:06so then they said EP that's
- 31:09protectionism so the US doc helps you on
- 31:16that okay
- 31:19now interesting so the um
- 31:23usdc helps helps you with protectionism
- 31:27uh but it only help for the United
- 31:28States now we know something about
- 31:30England and France those are the two big
- 31:33countries with mad cow diseas aren't
- 31:35they and they're both in the
- 31:38EU so the French decided to put an
- 31:42embargo on British bof that's how you
- 31:46say on Fall say B right so the British
- 31:51could have taken to the
- 31:53WTO or they could take him to the EU EU
- 31:56is going to be a lot faster and they
- 31:59have a lot more power in the EU than
- 32:01they did in the WTO so they said hey
- 32:03this is protectionism and the French
- 32:05says no no it's not we want we want to
- 32:08protect our people from British beef mad
- 32:11cows so the EU ruled against France and
- 32:15said
- 32:16no it's even though UK has some problems
- 32:20with it it's so low that you really
- 32:23don't care about and they said okay so
- 32:27then they let in British boof in France
- 32:31but when you would go to the store it
- 32:32says British
- 32:35boof so now you're a French Citizen and
- 32:38you say boof to FR or boof the British I
- 32:44can't remember what the name for British
- 32:45is in French
- 32:48anyway uh which are you gonna buy I'm
- 32:50gonna buy the French beef well but of
- 32:52course you are so then uh England takes
- 32:56him back to the EU and says you can't
- 32:59label this they said oh it's different
- 33:02all cows are different here's the thing
- 33:04is cow is cow is cow you cannot tell cow
- 33:08you go to the store and they say 100%
- 33:09Angus cows you can't tell Angus from
- 33:12Herford it's a cow there is no taste
- 33:15difference at all but I can tell the
- 33:17difference okay you can tell by what
- 33:18they eat just like when you smell a
- 33:21person you can tell by what they eat
- 33:23that changes the smell of people it
- 33:25changes the taste of the cow but it's
- 33:27it's the food is what changes it a cow
- 33:29as a cow as a cow right and so they said
- 33:32no France you can't label it British
- 33:35booth and you can't label your own bof
- 33:38to F you have to uh just label it
- 33:42boof now so Britain sells a lot of beef
- 33:46in France and the French do not like
- 33:48this they're very unhappy with this
- 33:50decision what is going to
- 33:53happen after brexit
- 34:00they're no longer in the EU and so
- 34:03France instantly is going to say small
- 34:06Booth right and to a lot of other
- 34:08products too this is going to hit UK
- 34:11hard it's going to really hit
- 34:15it okay now let's talk let's shift gears
- 34:20a little bit and talk about the largest
- 34:22company in the
- 34:24world the largest company in the world
- 34:28let's ask Mr Google who the largest
- 34:31company in the world
- 34:34is Walmart is the largest company by
- 34:37Revenue right it's also the largest
- 34:40private employer in the world with 2.2
- 34:43million
- 34:45employees wow so largest revenue so
- 34:49nobody else has the money coming
- 34:52in biggest employer those are two really
- 34:55good definitions of a large company
- 34:58can we agree with that right who are the
- 35:0010 largest companies in the world this
- 35:02is kind of
- 35:04interesting right so there's Walmart
- 35:07China petroleum and Chemical Corporation
- 35:09now this is uh it's not really publicly
- 35:12owned so this number it's kind of like
- 35:14putting your Army in this number they
- 35:17they this is kind of questionable right
- 35:20Amazon number three Petrina again same
- 35:25sort of thing Apple CVS that I wouldn't
- 35:29have guessed CVS Royal Deb shell now
- 35:32Royal debt shell moves up and down and
- 35:34also I don't know how they determine
- 35:36what they said who are the biggest
- 35:37companies is this by Revenue Walmart's
- 35:39number one or is this by employees
- 35:42Walmart's still number one so either way
- 35:43it is so I think if you take by Revenue
- 35:46Royal Dutch Shell gets up up real close
- 35:49to quite often it's been number one and
- 35:51number two it's usually between those
- 35:53two and Berkshire haway doesn't have
- 35:55that many employees but they have a lot
- 35:56of money that remember that's um Warren
- 35:59Buffett yeah okay so Walmart wanted to
- 36:04go to Germany now makes sense Germany is
- 36:08a wealthy country got a lot of people
- 36:11it's centrally located they're Big
- 36:14Spenders makes a lot of lot lot of
- 36:18sense so robust robust economy third
- 36:22largest economy in the world
- 36:27also it's centrally located in Europe
- 36:29think about how many
- 36:31countries
- 36:33touch
- 36:34Germany look on the map pretty much all
- 36:37Europe touches Germany or comes real
- 36:39close right so centrally located they
- 36:42have a great infrastructure remember how
- 36:44do they ship their stuff at night using
- 36:47trains that are run on electricity so
- 36:49that the the roads
- 36:51are not as crowded as other places right
- 36:55so a lot of people say hey Andy have you
- 36:56ever been on the autobond yeah been on
- 36:59the autobond is it true you can go as
- 37:01fast as you want it's not that is a myth
- 37:05no I you can drive as fast as you want
- 37:07you can okay what happens if tomorrow
- 37:11Seattle
- 37:13says downtown Seattle I5 we're gonna
- 37:16have no speed limit
- 37:19tomorrow so today right
- 37:22now right now it's about noon what's
- 37:26traffic like in Bel in the
- 37:28Seattle going to take you're going to go
- 37:3020 M hour if and it's a 50 mph speed
- 37:33limit so let's say tomorrow they decide
- 37:36hey we're not going to have a speed
- 37:37limit how fast are you gonna go 20 miles
- 37:40an hour same thing so yes there are
- 37:42parts of of the Autobon where you can go
- 37:44as fast as you want but there's so much
- 37:46traffic you don't do it very much so you
- 37:48can go late at night when the cows get
- 37:50out and hit a cow and go real fast you
- 37:53can but it's it sounds a lot more fun
- 37:56than it really is right
- 37:58okay now
- 38:01um the German government said when so
- 38:04Walmart says we want to come in the
- 38:06German government says
- 38:08nine love that nine nine means no
- 38:13no absolutely no because Walmart does
- 38:18one thing and does one thing very very
- 38:21well they destroy local
- 38:25businesses they do it's hard to compete
- 38:29with
- 38:30Walmart so did you know that Walmart can
- 38:34buy
- 38:35medicine and sell that medicine at a
- 38:39profit at below what most pharmacies pay
- 38:42for that
- 38:44medicine so in other words you're a
- 38:46pharmacist you can actually go to
- 38:49Walmart and buy the medicine that you're
- 38:51going to sell at lower prices than you
- 38:54can buy it out outside as a consumer we
- 38:57can buy it it cheaper than the pharmacy
- 38:59can get it so if you've got a
- 39:02pharmacy and Walmart shows up next to
- 39:06you it's a bad day isn't
- 39:09it it's a real bad day now Germany is
- 39:14very sensitive to unemployment they are
- 39:18if you look historically every time they
- 39:20have
- 39:21unemployment they start to have social
- 39:24problems right and if you watch
- 39:26television very much you'll hear them
- 39:27they say well there's certain parts of
- 39:29Germany where nationalism the ultra
- 39:33right the Nazis the neonazis which are
- 39:36illegal in Germany but they're starting
- 39:38to make a little bit of a comeback
- 39:40because in those areas they have high
- 39:43unemployment right I was in Eastern
- 39:45Germany on a train once and I saw a guy
- 39:50get the salute like that to another
- 39:52person as he was getting off the train
- 39:55and the guy gave it to him back I'm like
- 39:58going
- 40:00wow whoa so I walked uh I I was in
- 40:04Berlin once and I'm walking under a
- 40:07bridge and I see some
- 40:08graffiti and it looked pretty scary the
- 40:13graffiti and uh I asked my friend who
- 40:17was with me reads German I don't speak
- 40:20German right um I said whatat does that
- 40:23say because I was just I just knew it
- 40:25was something bad he said he said
- 40:27they're against torturing pets they
- 40:31think that pets need to be protected
- 40:35from medical experiments and torture
- 40:38okay but Berlin is a wealthy City
- 40:41because they there is no unemployment in
- 40:44Berlin well not really it's a big
- 40:46bustling successful City and that's
- 40:48right so the German government is very
- 40:50sensitive to this they say we do not
- 40:52want to lose jobs that's a that's a deal
- 40:57but Walmart got in
- 41:00anyway how did they do that tell you
- 41:02that next time thanks for coming bye-bye
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