946: Solid Bits

[Keith]

"If you're not uncomfortable, you're not a comedy fan."


Christian Finnegan

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Love Christian Finnegan on the show everytime! Great show, guys, really solid!

P.S.: All Paul Stanley jokes are funny.

[dzagama]

Liberal arts != college.

[Junkenstein]

The Paul Stanley bit almosted killed me. Oh lord... Christian Finegan is great (and his CD is awesome!!!)

[Blitzgal]

I love Christian Finnegan! I know nothing about Kiss songs (except for a few of their most popular ones), but I was rolling with your impersonations of Paul Stanley. And that commercial clip makes me laugh every time.

I'm so glad my uncle's a mechanic. He has his own shop so the whole family uses him exclusively. We use him to look over any car we're thinking about buying, too.

I do have to disagree with Christian that the problem in the manufacturing industry is that no one knows how to build things. It's actually that the companies that provide jobs to these people have pulled up stakes and are operating in other countries. All the car factories are shutting down. My brother worked for a company that builds semi trailers and that place has shut down. He's now working for the local university hospital. The problem isn't that no one knows how to do the blue collar work, it's that blue collar work is largely disappearing in this country. We need to rebuild our manufacturing sector.

[hayroob]

Originally Posted by dzagama

Liberal arts != college.

You're a douche.

[Sparrow]

Originally Posted by Blitzgal

The problem isn't that no one knows how to do the blue collar work, it's that blue collar work is largely disappearing in this country. We need to rebuild our manufacturing sector.

I second this so fucking hard. I remember my Daddy losing several jobs to outsourcing as I was growing up. It's not just grunt work, there are highly skilled machinists, mechanics, and craftsmen out there with absolutely no demand for their talents. There's rapidly becoming no incentive to have these kinds of jobs. It's alienating to those on whose shoulders our country is yoked.

[hayroob]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

I second this so fucking hard. I remember my Daddy losing several jobs to outsourcing as I was growing up. It's not just grunt work, there are highly skilled machinists, mechanics, and craftsmen out there with absolutely no demand for their talents. There's rapidly becoming no incentive to have these kinds of jobs. It's alienating to those on whose shoulders our country is yoked.

I think the real problem is that up until the last few decades nobody could build anything to the scale or quality that we could. If you wanted a lot of something built well you had to build it here. Things went sideways when China and India started to come into parity with our manufacturing capacity as far as quality (not equivalent, but good enough) and they've got 1/3 of the worlds population and a rapidly growing middle class eager to do the work. If we want to be a manufacturing power we need to regain the technological edge that made us better manufacturers because we can't win on a level playing field where numbers are the deciding factor.

Basically things that can be outsourced will be, but if we could get organized and use the skilled labor we have in abundance we could give manufacturing in America the edge it used to have.

[punk'n]

I like to graphically design things.

God I love Christian Finnegan.

[hayroob]

I like Christian's story about the college lesbian.

I dated a bi (read dummy whore) girl in high school that was hyper sensitive about anything gay. There was a Les Claypool album that was new at the time with a song about people being abused by their peers and some of the lyrics were the bullies saying nigger boy to the black kid and faggot to the gay kid. Even though this song was written in defense of these people she insisted that it was horrible and offensive. I insisted she was a dumb bitch and we didn't date a whole lot longer.