And it starts with copper, the mineral copper. Theres copper in brass. Theres copper in bronze. The Statue Of Liberty is sheathed in a layer of copper. Thats about the thickness of two pennies. Pennies themselves used to be copper, but now theyre just coppercovered zinc, which sort of seems sad. It makes financial sense, because copper over time became too valuable to use in something as cheap as a penny, because most of what we use copper for now is conducting electricity. We use copper for wiring. There is a massive global appetite for copper. And the Worlds Largest producer of copper is an american company. Its a company that used to be based in new orleans but now the Mining Company freeport is based in phoenix, arizona. And the freeport Mining Company of phoenix, arizona, they do still mine copper in arizona and
they mine copper in new mexico and in colorado. But they are a gigantic firm. And theyre a global operation. In south america, they mine copper in chile, peru. In indonesi
republican guests consistently outnumber the democrats. we rtalking about the five major political shows that air every sunday morning. starting in 2013 steve started compiling a list of every guess on every sunday show, lo and behold, turns out republicans took up 10 of the top 13 spots. leading the way former house intelligence committee chairman republican congressman mike rogers. he made 27 appearances that same year. did the same list again in 2014. mike rogers came out on top. in 2014, not a single democrat featured in the top ten. 2015, mike rogers retired. replacing him at the top of the sunday show rankings was donald trump. but the pattern of republican dominance continued. 2015, out of the top 20 guests on the sunday shows, 4 of the 20 were democrats. four. an that brings us to 2016. steve has again gone through the process of crunching the numbers so the rest of us can just relax and yell at the tv.
behold, turns out republicans took up 10 of the top 13 spots. leading the way former house intelligence committee chairman republican congressman mike rogers. he made 27 appearances that same year. did the same list again in 2014. mike rogers came out on top. in 2014, not a single democrat featured in the top ten. 2015, mike rogers retired. replacing him at the top of the sunday show rankings was donald trump. but the pattern of republican dominance continued. 2015, out of the top 20 guests on the sunday shows, 4 of the 20 were democrats. four. an that brings us to 2016. steve has again gone through the process of crunching the numbers so the rest of us can just relax and yell at the tv. again, turns out republicans were overrepresented on the shows, took up 12 of the top 16 spots in 2016. this time we got a new leader and it was not a republican. first time it s happened.
did the same list again in 2014. mike rogers came out on top. in 2014, not a single democrat featured in the top ten. 2015, mike rogers retired. replacing him at the top of the sunday show rankings was donald trump. but the pattern of republican dominance continued. 2015, out of the top 20 guests on the sunday shows, 4 of the 20 were democrats. four. an that brings us to 2016. steve has again gone through the process of crunching the numbers so the rest of us can just relax and yell at the tv. again, turns out republicans were overrepresented on the shows, took up 12 of the top 16 spots in 2016. this time we got a new leader and it was not a republican. first time it s happened. except, of course, it went a democrat, either. number one spot, first time ever, bernie sanders. independent senator from vermont. 2016, bernie sanders blew the competition out of the water,