Statewide Union Conventions to get the big crowd and then you have on the other side, the early mornings that 4 00 a. M. Wakeup calls that you can catch a plane. The early stage, are easy to get to so from ohio gotta go to chicago and then to iowa somehow or another charlotte and then into South Carolina or atlanta. So the travels, the packing and unpacking of the bags. Being away from the family. Thats really the hard part. The one thing thats been interesting, is almost like the consensus in the country, not just how screwed up washington is but the challenges of the country. You can be in a Manufacturing Center in youngstown, the hospitals close, they lost jobs. The challenges with opiates of some kind of drug addiction, and shes around the environment. Water whatever. And you can go into the rural and is the same thing. They are losing their maternity board, the hospital and they are dealing with methane and phentermine issues. They are losing manufacturing in their downtown needs
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Excited for this conversation i just want to share that during my own book tour for my book i my book is American Made what happens to people when work disappears and i wanted to wear American Made clothing and i was, i remember standing in the dressing room of nordstroms saying why, cant i find one thing that looks good on me that made in america . And i wondered where all those companies went. So, so thank you for answering my question. So just just to kick us off, can you tell us a little bit about the characters, your main characters, this wonderful couple you follow and their company. What are they all about . And what was what were they trying to create . Just introduce us, bring us into this world. Absolutely so id like to introduce. To the world. Ben whitney waxman, they are a husband and wife team. They are from portland, maine, where they live in portland, maine, actually, whitney not from maine. Shes she has lived around the world. And when they met they were both at a momen