thomas friedman is "the new york times" foreign affairs columnist. he's here with insight. thomas, great to see. you. >> great to be to here. >> you said when you come to dinner parties, it's not much fun nowadays. >> the thought was just occurring to me last week. what if, this isn't just your typical market episode, but what if this is really being propelled box a whole bunch of eras come in at the same time the era of 10% of the year chinese growth. for last 30 years. the era of high oil prices between $80 and $100. since the mid-'90s, we've gotten used to that. the era of the american two-party system. the era of the european union. these are pillar, pillars geef yo politics and geo economics. if luke at all four, i don't want to exaggerate, they're not collapsing, but there's some cement falling off, you know, of these pillars and a true cracks appearing. where i'm wondering if that is what's rallying the market. what if all of this happens at the time when america isn't the dominant power it was. and the traditional adult that can fix all of these things. you know, mig

thomas friedman is here with his insight on what is happening. >> you wrote this week that when it comes to dinner parties you're not much fun these days. >> i can ruin your dinner party, breakfast, or take out for your in-laws. this is not your typical market episode, what if it is really being propelled because so many eras are ending a the same time. the end of 10% a year chinese growth. the era of high oil prices. between $80 and $100. since the mid '90s we have gotten used to that. the era of the american two-party system. the american union. these are real bill lars. . not collapsing. but there is cement falling off of the pillars and there are a few cracks. i'm wondering if that is not what is rattling the market so much. what if all of this happens at a time when america is not the dominant power it was, and the traditional adult that can fix all of these things, you know, might not be available. >> let's talk through a couple of those things. $80 to $90 oil. that is terrible for consumers, but it seems like it should be fantastic. countries that are importers of oil, it should b

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thomas. >> i'm kate friedman. >> i'm katie o'brien. >> i'm katie. >> i watched the pilot. very bad, bad, teachers but funny. >> your little posse or are you totally shutting others out. >> we did have one member named beth and we shut her out. >> kate, you're an actual teacher? >> yes. >> what happened? you were doing standup at night and teaching elementary school during the day. you loved it? >> i loved teaching. i miss it. really, if anything, i would just want my former students to see miss barlow worked very hard and her dreams came true and their dreams can come true, too. >> how did you-all get together. we've been together seven years, improv, web series and fortunate enough to have tv land to pick up a series. >> it wasn't picked up at first. you all were really down and bummed out, then what happened? >> we don't need this. >> we all moved to l.a. over a period of time to shoot the pilot and keep our fingers crossed. it got picked up and we shot nine more episodes >> can we show you the pictures of when you were kids. raise your hand kate lambert. >> i want to se