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When elected leaders decide to look the other way from… ya know… the matters that actually matter to us, we find out about the kinds of people America has in its reserve stock. Yes, the supply chain is a mess; but we’ve got all three hosts to chat with Ryan Peterson, CEO of Flexport, who hopes to fix it. (Take a look at what is likely the first-ever viral tweetstorm on shipping logistics, as well as his children’s book to educate youngsters about the machines that power the world they inhabit!)
The gang ask Ryan about his boat tour of the Long Beach port complex to see for himself what’s got us so backed up. He gets us into the nooks and crannies of his industry; how the pandemic has showed its weak points, his ideas for innovating it; and, naturally, the regulatory burdens that slow it all down.
Also, the guys spar about the importance of the Rittenhouse trial; they talk gas prices and inflation; plus, Rob gives us a view from France.
Music from this week’s podcast: Ship of Fools by World Party
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Robots are deflationary. Capital eliminating labor creating more purchasing power. They tell us that deflation is bad. But we have to have inflation. lol
That is totally what I meant.
Unions can’t do a damn thing about deflation. It’s totally up to the government to make improved policies, and then you wouldn’t even want a union. If they can start a wage price spiral, then they will have some utility again.
Speak of the devil.
Nice tune for ending the show. You could follow it up with This is the Sea.
Another good guest would be Robert Bryce who wrote the book A Question of Power. All about energy production.
Rob doesn’t think the Rittenhouse case is consequential. He is so very wrong. Those riots that destroyed people’s businesses and homes. That matters. The millions of dollars of property damage. It matters. Those people killed in the riots. They matter. Maybe not to Rob, but to America. And before God.
James was right to lead with the story.
The media coverage is what I believe Rob is objecting to. A trial by cable news. He’s right.
Except he said, twice, “I’m glad he’s on trial” and that doesn’t suggest he’s referring to a trial by cable news. And here again “the process is the punishment.” Even assuming acquittal, how much will he/his family owe the lawyers etc? How much of his life has been disrupted/destroyed? The Mayor/DA/etc were just trying to shift responsibility from themselves to the court/judge/jury.
“I’m glad he’s on trial.”
I don’t remember exactly what Rob said, but let’s assume for the sake of discussion that he said that.
I think that it’s good that he’s on trial. My own suspicion is that he behaved in a justifiable manner; if so, I hope that he will be acquitted. I think the trial is both appropriate and necessary.
We’ve spent two years watching street violence tolerated by officials who disregard their public duty. We’ve watched the press sacrifice any vestige of integrity by dishonestly “reporting” on violent riots and rampaging thugs. We have had too few trials, too little application of due process to the violence that has occurred in our cities over the past two years. I want to see every street shooting end up in court. What we have now is a situation where violence is mischaracterized as something else, something somehow excusable, and swept under the carpet. That’s gone on too long.
Rittenhouse happens to have skin insufficiently dark to satisfy the moral midgets of the racist left and its lapdog press, and so he ends up in court. The tragedy isn’t that he did end up in court, but rather than hundreds or thousands of others did not.
That is what Rob said, starting at 6:30 in the podcast, as I indicated previously to yeti who also denied Rob said it.
I think it’s rather foolish and… something, getting things backwards maybe… to put Kyle Rittenhouse on trial the same way as those who actually burned and looted and such, should have been put on trial.
That is because they are flight risks? If you don’t believe me, give me their name and I will look them up.
He killed two people and wounded a third. How about them?
I would have prosecuted all of those rioters.
Was the pedophile rapist with the illegal gun, who started fires and threatened people, charged with anything?
What a shame that the president you voted for, and those around him, don’t share that view.
Do you feel that way about everyone who shoots anyone at a riot? Or are you basing that position on particulars of the Rittenhouse shooting that you think are sufficiently clear and obvious that they warranted never going to trial in the first place? My own view is that most cases of people going out in public and shooting multiple other people should probably end up in court, unless circumstances exonerate the shooter in some very unusual way.
The prosecutor’s office apparently had all of the video evidence etc, within days if not hours of the event. DAs are supposed to not just take everything to court and let judges/juries decide. Especially considering this DA’s background, it seems pretty clear that they just didn’t want to be blamed for not prosecuting Rittenhouse, likely based on claims of “racism” although everyone he shot was also white.
Okay. Given that understanding, it would be reasonable to take the position that this case should never have gone to trial. If, at the end of the trial, it is obvious that there was never any basis for a trial, I’ll revise my opinion. Until then, I’m happy to see Mr. Rittenhouse get his day in court.
A “day in court” is better than just being thrown in prison without trial, but it’s not that either-or.
Ok, guess there is no transcript. So after reading the comments I started listening to the show about the time they started interviewing the guest. I have to admit that Rob was not too bad from there to the end of the show.
What’s your point?
They charged him within 36 hours. That doesn’t sound very sensible to me.
Would you say we are having problems with the institutions we depend on? Like all of them?
The more I learn about this stuff, the more disgusted I get.
Just an interesting fact about container ships and the environment. There are over 5,000 large container ships, and it only take the top 15 biggest container ships in the world to equal the pollution of all the cars in the world. Getting rid of cars for public transportation, is a drop in the bucket.
One more reason to bring back as much manufacturing to the US as possible.
I’ve heard this before.
Government is too stupid to understand this.
Part of why our carbon and pollution metrics are so good is because we sent it all to China.
Government is dumb. The End.
Can you quantify that claim? It seems unreasonable.
I’ve heard it before. The way I remember it is, 5% of the container ships generate a staggering amount of pollution.
I first heard this on a YouTube about nuclear vehicles, and research done for the nuclear freighter NS Savannah. There are numerous articles about it. Here’s one NS https://newatlas.com/shipping-pollution/11526/