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John Gardner

John Gardner

John Gardner is a California manufacturing entrepreneur and founder of CNC Broach Tools, author of "Manufacture Local" and creator of the "External Revenue Service" tariff concept.

Oct 1, 2026

33:47
Where, where does that come from? How do we know that's gonna be real?
33:51
Well, 65% of manufacturers say that finding employees that know the skillsets, that, that will work in the industry is their number one problem.
34:01
Number one problem.
34:02
65% of them.
34:03
And so, you know, w- we m- President Trump is growing US manufacturing.
34:09
Uh, I, you know, even, you know, Biden with his CHIPS Act and y- you know, it's becoming a hot topic again for both sides of the political aisle.
34:17
And, uh, so we see that the im- you know, how much we've lost by China growing their manufacturing sector so much, and we're not really enlightening our youth as to the opportunities to build a family, uh, and to have a secure job in the manufacturing industry.

11 MINS LATER

46:03
What is it? Why do you think it misleads us on, uh, on manufacturing data, sir?
79:48
Where does that come from? How do we know that's going to be real?
79:52
Well, 65% of manufacturers say that finding employees that know the skill sets that will work in the industry is their number one problem.
80:02
Number one problem.
80:03
65% of them.
80:04
And so, you know, President Trump is growing U.S. manufacturing, even Biden with his CHIPS Act.
80:14
It's becoming a hot topic again for both sides of the political aisle.
80:20
We see how much we've lost by China growing their manufacturing sector so much.

10 MINS LATER

90:35
What is it? Why do you think it misleads us on manufacturing data, sir?
26:25
John, kicking off with you, what's your reaction to today's announcement?
26:29
I think it's fantastic news.
26:31
The real story is this is the first new source of clean iron in a generation.
26:39
And what I mean by that is 70% of America's steel is a recycled steel.
26:46
And recycled steel has tramp elements like copper and nickel and tin and chromium.
26:52
And copper weakens steel and defense grades can't take those tramp elements.
26:59
So for armor plating and ship holes and aviation landing gear, you need really clean steel.
28:50
So I want to get your thoughts overall on the tariff strategy.

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