time for the teamsters they're part of the community programming initiative put a few shekels in the door on the way in and we'll talk about your town your community your union whatever it is doesn't cost that much and it allows us to talk about specific areas and right now we're tame you guys were late and i walked outside and it was nice out and i remember i'm just kind of sitting there and all the sudden you see this big black s u v come around the corner like i thought the cops were doing you know i'm going to turn my down because sometimes people think i get off at nine and they start calling now i'll be the one dollar and i know that's not going to happen to be able to get turned off and who's with you across the table here alex hey listen i want to make a deal with you if if we if you could reimburse us for today's show all shovel your doorway you know what you know i got to be nobody's listening so i'll just be straight with you cotton balls taped to the mike well you know what the deal is that the sidewalks down the street are probably all nice and clear and everything they're just and dissipating to move and just ready to go so it's all my stuff on there and it's all i did i went down there and shoveled off some of the things we're going to be but we don't get we don't get the keys for another you know what you are talking about is the lord put it there you can wait til lord takes it away you know now that you've brought it up we're going to have to get out there and i shovel it but  a hold on a second having to get your second thing out mark we've got a lot of background ok the second thing is i'd like you guys to talk about global trade agreements and if you think that you're that you're  partnership you know we see that nafta didn't get didn't work so i don't see how any help is transpacific partnership going to work what is that exactly it's basically dealing with we're going i call it the top percent pay raise yeah that's exactly right you know i've said it before jim that all these trade agreements and i don't care what a true trade agreement we have when we go to their stores we need to start demanding american made products in just demand there's there's no reason why if you got an american made product on a shelf in the summer a product made some in a some other country that we're not buying the american made product and that would that would country once forty dollars ones twenty dollars everybody buys a twenty dollar one not realizing the one at forty dollars because i got insurance it gives them a pension feeds that local economy there there's a lot of things that we can do ourselves  that this product is beating united states you know wal mart at first was was jet was just a wall was claim to fame was every day merican made now you go there you can hardly find anything there now on the super bowl i noticed that somebody did a big you know bought a big commercial of their products being american  yeah you have them and explain that commercial like i'm just i was at a party and hey you know what i mean my memory still comes down to the same thing i was talking about well the the ad for whether tech which they're made here in illinois over here in illinois the ad for whether tech for me dispelled any myths of oh you're going to use american workers you'll never survive oh you're going to use american made you know materials clean you're never going to survive while these guys have grown i've watched them grow i've paid attention to these guys for a long time they're huge they're floor mats are in my truck they didn't cost me much more than any other high tech format on the market is made in china or taiwan or honduras or anywhere else in the world and how's the quality i'll never buy anything else i think any vehicle i own will have weather weather tech i have weather tech mudflaps floor liners i love them they can if you look under my under my weather techs my carpets look like brain you from day one and the point is they're investing in american labor there's making sure that the floor mats that they sell benefit them they're making millions of dollars but also they're creating jobs in their local economy and i guarantee you that everybody that works out whether tech mean you know they're supporting their local business let's go back to that ad and i thought this was an important thing and i'm glad i think as one next week but i'm glad you're on today because they came on and they said hey listen it was  they're making jokes like oh you can't find anything american made that's good and they had a whole series of jokes and then it comes down to yes you can but really what happens in that situation is that you have to look that you're getting an american made products and that is what i thought was a big term we default by just walking into the big box store and buying what is given to us on the shelf that's what we default to i go the extra mile and it doesn't take much and actually saves me a little bit of money i find out what's american made my work boots are american made union made ok thurgood's great boots ok i have genes that are made in america texas jeans there are thirty dollars for a pair of jeans if you go the extra mile and it's not that long of a mile you'll find really great stuff made in america that you can you can feel good about buying but where do you buy throw goods you can get them at  what's the poll and sons imported you can get them at the bookstore here on kennedy i can't remember the name of his mariel the area brothers on boulevard yeah and you know what there's more expensive boots on their shelves made in china just are cheaper than most of their most of their boots