afternoon, ali. this is just one of those industries you mentioned. when you re looking at lobsters here in maine, this is a $1.5 billion industry. you go up and down the coast here, you have small port towns with 1,000 people lined up where it s fishermen, distributors, the truck drivers that drive the lobsters to and from these different towns. this industry is key. what is key to that industry are the exports to china. about 20% of the exported lobsters here from maine go to china. i want to introduce you to one gentleman, tom adams. he runs one of the major distributing outlets here. he exports lobsters that he gets from over 100 lobstermen as well as different coops around the state. he sends them to 29 different countries and 20% of those go directly to china. i asked him, i said what is the consequence of this and are you feeling it right now? this is what he told us just yesterday. the message i would give
but i have to ask how you first found out about them. when i first heard about the beatles, it was at london airport, with an enormous crowd of kids gathered around. sylvia and i asked them what was going on, and they said the beatles were here. we didn t even know who the beatles were, never heard of them. and that night, i booked ringo starr, paul mccartney, george harrison and john lennon for three shows for $10,000. you know, for four white guys who are british, to come out of nowhere and be everywhere was quite unbelievable. the beatles are a bunch of guys from liverpool. i mean, people in london would have looked down at liverpool back then, but liverpool was a port town, and these port towns become places where all sorts of contraband gets exchanged, and one of them at that point was great music. a lot of the sailors and people that were coming back from america were bringing back these records. some were pop records, some were called race records because they were by