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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Armstrong and Getty.

And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

We've gone cold turkey.

That means that we're not losing, you know, we lost a trillion dollars to China.

A trillion dollars.

That means we're not losing a trillion dollars when we go cold turkey because we're not doing business with them right now.

And they want to make a deal.

They want to make a deal very badly.

We'll see how that all turns out, but it's got to be a fair deal.

But what about my never-ending lust for pencils?

So we got our trade war going on with China.

And Trump says to meet the press yesterday.

Your kids have too many dolls.

You have too many pencils, which is an odd thing to say.

I don't know what that's all about.

And I think telling Americans they have too much stuff is not the best message in the world.

We got this text, though.

Regarding the dolls and pencils, don't you think we need to buy fewer nicer things that are American made since wages are higher here?

It's the tradeoff of decoupling from China.

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