that we sell and in addition to that we plant NUMBER_TOKEN trees and in addition to that we help to cap abandoned methane spewing oil wells with our friends at the well done foundation don't forget to use our promo code holiday season to save NUMBER_TOKEN off your purchase at ecoware well we're so fortunate to have sandy monroe with us right now uh we have some questions for you sandy we're talking about china coming and this kind of reminds me of the NUMBER_TOKENs with japan i remember all of a sudden all these japanese models were on the market a lot of americans were like what is nissan what is honda they seem like joke cars and yet they took over the market do you remember back in the NUMBER_TOKENs like what was the car that was most impactful to you the brand that was most impactful as the japanese car market started to ramp up here in america i remember everything crystal clear because i was your age then the japanese invasion happened really quickly much faster than anybody could possibly imagine and i was working at ford at that time ford had a real miserable time trying to put out a small car that wouldn't fall apart you know on your way to the uh to the drugstore these vehicles were absolutely pure crap they had taken the um nba philosophy if you like to the max and what they were doing was anything that got out the door was good to sell and uh and profit well we're gonna make our profit on spare parts when i was at ford i listened to a speech from henry ii henry the deuce is what they called them there and he said the japanese can have the small car market we don't need it we don't want it let them have it they'll they'll never make any money at it and they'll never understand the big car market or the luxury car market or the pickup truck market and sitting right next to him right beside him was lee iacocca because he was still there at the time what i remember was seeing the very first toyota live and in person so i had a morgan super sport and it was a really fast english hand-built sports car and i was racing it and things like that and i pulled into the parking lot i was working as a tool maker pulled into the parking lot at valiant machine tool and a guy pulled in next to me and i looked at it and i said what in the world is that he says i just bought it and it was like my my car let's say was x this this uh this toyota was probably one-tenth x and i said how do they make it so cheap and he says i don't know but uh but i bought it and blah blah works good and yak yak yak and i looked around and i said can you mind if i look underneath and i looked underneath and it had a chain drive this was one of the very first toyotas that came across it was a chain drive i said you're an idiot this thing will never last some of the car companies had already entered the market but under motorcycle names so uh and you meet the nicest people on a honda you
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