consular of consular dot com author of a new book which is very timely living in the long emergency james howard kunstler welcome back i'm max nice to see you virtually well you know you predicted it you've been talking about it you've been writing about it and now we're here we're in the long emerge and say and trump wants to make a short a merge and say your thoughts on the disintegration of the economy and all of our quote just in time supply chains jam with your thoughts i don't know kind of hard to blame to blame trump for a long thing to make it a short emergency but you know whether he can or not is another matter and it seems to me that we really come to an inflection point where an awful lot of the arrangements that have made us comfortable are probably going to have to change and we really don't know how we're going to do that because you know we're really kind of stuck in the myth and operations that we're used to and we haven't even begun to imagine making new arrangements for things it's like when i hear tom say that he wants to be a short pandemic it's like watching charlton heston as moses you kno