438 - Tariffs, China & The Chocolate Factory

The Tim Dillon Show

News, News Commentary, Comedy

4.8 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Tim discusses the recent market downturn due to Donald Trump’s tariffs taking effect. He reflects on the loss of American industry, a not-so-new way of life we need to accept, and how our economy was a chocolate factory that Charlie sold to China.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon Show, recorded on the day the market is dipping, crashing.
0:07.6	There's blood in the water. The tariffs have arrived.
0:12.2	Donald Trump is putting tariffs on many countries to bring back manufacturing to America. It's a gambit. It's a risky gambit.
0:25.4	We are primarily a podcasting-based economy. We are a hot-take economy. We are an opinion-driven
0:33.4	economy. We do not make anything anymore except takes. We are a grievance-based economy. We are a
0:43.2	rage-based economy. And that is, we're shifting now. And it's painful from an economy based on
0:53.2	people's thoughts and feelings to an economy now,
1:01.1	hopefully based on people manufacturing things and going back to the factory, get back
1:07.1	in the factory is what Trump's hoping.
1:09.9	He's hoping that people will walk back into the factories and start making stuff made in the
1:16.0	USA.
1:17.6	You know, people be, they're proud.
1:20.0	They work with their hands again.
1:21.8	They get into it again.
1:23.6	They get on that assembly line again.
1:25.9	And I don't know.
1:26.8	I mean, maybe that happens.
1:28.8	I'm skeptical.
1:30.4	I'm a little skeptical.
1:32.5	But you know what?
1:34.4	Maybe it happens.
1:35.7	Maybe we learn to live with less.
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