#2373 - Dave Landau

Joe Rogan (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Dave Landau (0:06)

Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

SPEAKER_3 (0:13)

Yeah, bro.

SPEAKER_4 (0:14)

There we go.

Dave Landau (0:15)

How you doing?

SPEAKER_4 (0:15)

Good to see you, brother.

Dave Landau (0:16)

Good to see you, sir.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

Let's crack a whack on him.

Dave Landau (0:18)

Not much. Just rocking the Shinola.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

We're talking about your Shinola watch. I'm glad Detroit's coming back, you know, and I like how Shinola represents.

Dave Landau (0:29)

Shinola is definitely one of the things that's great about Detroit.

Joe Rogan (0:31)

Yeah, they say it like made in Detroit. They're proud.

Dave Landau (0:33)

Yes. Which we didn't have for a long time.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

Dude, like, Detroit is the craziest story. If you know the story about Detroit, like in the 1950s and 60s, it was the third richest city in the world.

Dave Landau (0:46)

Well, yeah, it was called the Paris of the Midwest. And it's a city that's still built for seven million people with supposedly 700,000 living in it. I mean, so you do see a lot of like, how is there like a million dollar condo in the same place that has like eight abandoned other apartments? It's when you go downtown, it makes no sense logistically.

Joe Rogan (1:04)

You ever watch that show Top Gear? Oh, yeah. Jeremy Clarkson. I think it was easier. Top Gear was maybe the one they did after that, that they did for Amazon. But they went to Detroit and they bought a house for $500.

Dave Landau (1:18)

Yeah, you can. And there's also the people that buy them and open the door and get mulled by pit bulls. Or you see the ones that, like, they'll put a, like a pumpkin, like they'll do an urban farm, which is hysterical. And you'll see, like, these hippies on the news, like, they cut my face and stole my plums and I'm scared. It's like, yeah, but you're in a crack neighborhood. Nobody wants your farm.

Joe Rogan (1:39)

No, we're gentrifying.

SPEAKER_4 (1:40)

Yeah.

Dave Landau (1:40)

Isn't that what you guys want? It's like they don't want that at all.

SPEAKER_4 (1:44)

There's some delusional fucking people out there, dude.

Joe Rogan (1:46)

And what they did to Detroit, like anybody that thinks that you should allow corporations to just take all the jobs and move them overseas. Well, it's also just like corporate decision making, and it's a prudent financial decision making. And look at Detroit. Look what they did.

Dave Landau (2:06)

It's a prime example of like, that was the American dream. And then they're like, we'll just, we'll assemble them in Mexico. Look, but we'll write Made in America on your door. So you're going to feel good about it.

Joe Rogan (2:17)

Do they even write Made in America on the door?

Dave Landau (2:19)

Sometimes they do. Like, I prefer like the 80s and 90s, where if you bought a car and it was made on a Friday, you knew a drunk guy did it. So you're like, give me one from a Wednesday. Like those were the days of American automaking.

Joe Rogan (2:31)

See, that's part of the problem too. A friend of mine who was in the union told me that the automakers union just got out of control. They were making so much money and they were constantly in negotiations, there were strikes impending.

SPEAKER_4 (2:46)

And then they were like, hey, but fuck you. We'll just go to Mexico. Yeah, they offed Hoffa, right? That's right.

Dave Landau (2:52)

Yeah, that's just part of it. But no, like later on, like you said in the 80s and 90s, like you're grandfathered in and it really doesn't matter what you do wrong. But that's part of the deal.

Joe Rogan (3:01)

Yeah, you can't get fired.

Dave Landau (3:02)

No, it was great. I mean, it's great for the worker.

Joe Rogan (3:04)

But yeah, there seems to be like a middle balance that could be reached.

Dave Landau (3:10)

Like don't be fully hammered when you're trying to put a door on an F-150.

Joe Rogan (3:14)

I mean, they should make good money because the corporation makes good money. I mean, they were doing well. It was a very profitable business. The worker should share in those profits.

Dave Landau (3:25)

Well, unlike the electric ones, it just didn't work for them either. They pushed it out too soon, too. Because I know people that work on the line, you have like the electric F-150. It's like F-150s, everybody wants one. They love it as a work truck. But as an electric truck, you put the thing down in South America where it's hot all the time, it's just going to catch fire. So it's like it's not really working out.