Speaker 1: This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 1: fighting for, right, and that's why Trump's going down this
Speaker 1: tariff road. Now. I'm no expert on tariffs, but I
Speaker 1: trust Trump on this for lots of different reasons, including
Speaker 1: the fact that the present trajectory is going to crash
Speaker 1: us and the American way depends on making stuff here
Speaker 1: and not depending on other countries, let alone some of
Speaker 1: our enemies. So what we're doing now isn't working. So
Speaker 1: I think this is worth trying. So let's go back
Speaker 1: to the phone lines. It's been fascinating, just an explosion
Speaker 1: of tremendous callers. Not all agree, obviously, that wouldn't be
Speaker 1: any fun, but boy, I can't wait for this call.
Speaker 1: Let's go to a Dan in Denver because the rumor
Speaker 1: on the street is that this is Dan Johnson who
Speaker 1: sold me and I'm still grateful for it to this day.
Speaker 1: The amazingly beautiful Corvette that I had for too short
Speaker 1: a time because our too small garage required it to
Speaker 1: to go away so my wife could park inside. My decision,
Speaker 1: not hers, Dan, is this you it is? How the
Speaker 1: heck you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great? And I sold that corvette to a
Speaker 2: dear friend of mine in Austin, so it's it's home.
Speaker 1: Oh. I am so glad to hear that, curly one
Speaker 1: of the most beautiful pieces of art I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Not even get into the car thing. It was just
Speaker 1: beautiful to sit there and look at My wife was
Speaker 1: the same way. She loved looking at it. It's just amazing.
Speaker 1: Does your buddy still have it?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I talked to them all the time. He
Speaker 2: loves it.
Speaker 1: Well, I hope you understand. So my wife and I
Speaker 1: sat down together, we came up with that color scheme
Speaker 1: and everything else because you were so kind to allow
Speaker 1: us to order one from you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't know whether you remember, but you
Speaker 2: had a Tahoe from me too for.
Speaker 1: Well yes, oh well, and more than that. More than that.
Speaker 1: That doesn't just a couple of them, you know, one
Speaker 1: of the greatest cars. And I know this sounds unbelievable,
Speaker 1: but true. We talk about it all the time. That
Speaker 1: Traverse that we had from you was one of the
Speaker 1: yes cars we ever had.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I forgot about that. And yeah, yeah, you're talking
Speaker 2: about the tariffs, and I'm no expert either that I
Speaker 2: understand that Mexico and Canada isn't affected right away, which
Speaker 2: is probably good for you know, the you know, because
Speaker 2: a lot of General Motors and Ford I think the
Speaker 2: f one fifty Rions cars built in Mexico. I think, okay,
Speaker 2: and you know, hopefully that's not affected too badly. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, but we all have a lot of stock
Speaker 2: right now, so you know, it's a hopefully it'll even
Speaker 2: out and it's a short term problem that you know,
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know what to think. It's it's
Speaker 2: very interesting.
Speaker 1: Well, I know you're an expert and I'm not. And
Speaker 1: now I assume you're still withll In Lyle. I am,
Speaker 1: and I just want to put in a plugged everybody,
Speaker 1: not a paid plug, but len Lyle Chevrolet out and Aurora.
Speaker 1: Where As Dan mentioned, I've had the Tahoe, the Corvette
Speaker 1: had that Traverse for a while, and I know there
Speaker 1: were more just a phenomenal My experiences with the dealership
Speaker 1: always phenomenal, So Dan on the tiff. Then for people
Speaker 1: sitting here today saying, Okay, the headlines say twenty five
Speaker 1: tax on foreign imports, you're saying it's more complicated.
Speaker 2: Than that, I think. So, Yeah, there's so many parts
Speaker 2: that are built here, there and everywhere that you know,
Speaker 2: go to Mexico, go to you know, wherever. You know,
Speaker 2: we have cars that come from Korea. We have two
Speaker 2: of our smaller cars that come for Korea. Not when
Speaker 2: I'm a little worried about because I don't know how
Speaker 2: he's going to handle that, But yeah, it's going to
Speaker 2: be interesting.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: General Motors hasn't really talked about it at this point
Speaker 2: what they're going to do. I'm sure I'll hear something
Speaker 2: in the near future, but I guess we wait and
Speaker 2: see him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, i'd love to have you back on as
Speaker 1: this becomes reality and we see the impact on the ground.
Speaker 2: Well, you're welcome to call me anytime, Dan, You have myself,
Speaker 2: so yeah, tell me anytime.
Speaker 1: I will do that, my friend. Thank you, thanks for
Speaker 1: being on today.
Speaker 2: You bet take care, you take care.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Dan Johnson. I've got to tell you just
Speaker 1: you know, I have never met a better person in
Speaker 1: the car business. Is separate apart from the car business.
Speaker 1: You talk about a solid guy, always good to his word,
Speaker 1: always going out of his way. Yeah, yeah, real deal
Speaker 1: right there.
Speaker 3: Just to clarify, although I respect that Dan thinks that
Speaker 3: I drive a Ford F one fifty, I wish it
Speaker 3: is actually a Ford Focus manufactured in Michigan.
Speaker 1: But your focus is on the F one fifty. Okay, Yes,
Speaker 1: so we're clear.
Speaker 4: That's exactly to tell you.
Speaker 1: I absolutely loved my F one fi. Yes it is.
Speaker 4: It's the original pickup truck.
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to remember why I got rid of it.
Speaker 1: I can't even remember why I got rid of it,
Speaker 1: but I absolutely loved it, and everybody in the family
Speaker 1: loved it. There was no downside to that vehicle. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Dean and Arvada. You're on the Dan Kaplis,
Speaker 1: so'll welcome.
Speaker 5: Hey Dan, good afternoon. Uh. I just I guess I'm an.
Speaker 6: I don't understand how people think the reciprocal TEARFF isn't fair.
Speaker 6: You know, the guy from Kentucky Ram police put us
Speaker 6: in a recession.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but how how is it then that they put put.
Speaker 6: Two hundred three hundred percent tariffs on us? But that
Speaker 6: didn't put them in a recession.
Speaker 2: M hm, I mean don't.
Speaker 6: There's no explanations or like if we're going to collect
Speaker 6: the same amount of tear of money from them, and
Speaker 6: we are kind of like the big bully on the playground.
Speaker 6: We should be able to dictate our economics to the
Speaker 6: countries that need us. I mean, I think the USA
Speaker 6: could be self sufficient without any trade partners. I think
Speaker 6: they need us more than we need them, especially like
Speaker 6: in Vietnam. I mean we kind of could bully them around.
Speaker 6: I mean, I hate to use that terminology, but you know,
Speaker 6: we do have the biggest wallet, and you know it's okay.
Speaker 6: I think if we can dictate some of these terms.
Speaker 1: Deane appreciate the call. Thank you, my friend, trying to
Speaker 1: get everybody in. You know, I'm glad Dean mentioned Rent
Speaker 1: Paul because I have a lot of respect for Rent Paul,
Speaker 1: and I take his concerns seriously, and I have no
Speaker 1: doubt they're sincere. On the other side of the ledger,
Speaker 1: you have Dean's point and everything else we've been talking about,
Speaker 1: and clearly what we're doing now is not working, and
Speaker 1: we are on a trajectory toward a very, very bad
Speaker 1: place on multiple levels, right, whether you're talking the deficit,
Speaker 1: the debt, whether you're talking something that I think is
Speaker 1: even more important, which is the cohesion of America. Because
Speaker 1: to have a cohesive America, and it's never going to
Speaker 1: be all puppies and rainbows and unicorns, but to have
Speaker 1: a cohesive enough America, right, we cannot have this ginormous
Speaker 1: gulf between the economic haves and have nots. And we
Speaker 1: are trending toward that. And so I trust in Trump
Speaker 1: on this, I really do. And I understand there's risk involved.
Speaker 1: But can you think, in your life, or in America's life,
Speaker 1: has there ever been anything great accomplished without enormous risk.
Speaker 1: I'll take it a step further, Ryan, I challenge you.
Speaker 1: I challenged Kelly for an example. Has there ever been
Speaker 1: anything great accomplished without significant pain?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: I mean this is going to be something that will
Speaker 3: be studied for history many years from now, Dan, and
Speaker 3: that it's really unprecedented, certainly in this century, and I
Speaker 3: would say even going back to most of not all,
Speaker 3: of the twentieth century. As to whether this tariff policy
Speaker 3: will have its intended effect, whether Trump will win on
Speaker 3: this bet on himself, I mean This is his analysis
Speaker 3: of the world trade market and America's place in it.
Speaker 4: And I have to agree with all of our callers here, Dan, I.
Speaker 3: Don't see how it's unfair for us to reciprocate tariffs.
Speaker 3: I might add, many of these are not as high
Speaker 3: as Donald Trump wanted to go. He wanted to go
Speaker 3: tit for tat you tariff as fifty percent, will teariff
Speaker 3: you fifty percent. But he went down the list. He
Speaker 3: had a sign a poster and it was about half.
Speaker 3: So whatever China tariffs us, we're tariffing about half in return.
Speaker 3: And I think that kind of tips his hand a
Speaker 3: little bit as to where he wants to go with this,
Speaker 3: which is not he doesn't want to have these tariffs
Speaker 3: last forever. They're intended to bring down the tariffs that
Speaker 3: other countries are putting on us. And this is the
Speaker 3: best tactic, bully tactic that he has arrow in his
Speaker 3: quiver to make that happen, to force that to happen.
Speaker 1: No, I appreciate that, and I expect a little more
Speaker 1: credit from my philosophical point about but what great things
Speaker 1: in life ever happened without some pain? I think it's
Speaker 1: built into it's built into kind of the human condition.
Speaker 1: I mean, what's the greatest thing that happens in life, right,
Speaker 1: the birth Ryan Schuling, the birth of Kelly Cusera, the
Speaker 1: birth of everybody listening. Well, those things don't happen without pain.
Speaker 1: And so I'm just glad we have a leader. Whether
Speaker 1: this works or not, and I think it's going to
Speaker 1: or he wouldn't be doing it. I'm glad we have
Speaker 1: a leader who's willing to suffer some political pain for
Speaker 1: himself to try to break the cycle we're in, because again,
Speaker 1: the cycle we're in does not end in a good place.
Speaker 1: But I would also predict to you, and we could
Speaker 1: bet another Tomahawk, and I would predict to you that
Speaker 1: this is this victory is one much faster than people expect,
Speaker 1: because I think there are going to be a lot
Speaker 1: of deals cut because of what our last caller referred
Speaker 1: to the economic might of America. And once Trump commits
Speaker 1: to okay, I'm willing to suffer some political pain in
Speaker 1: order to get fairness for the American people. Well, the
Speaker 1: American might is going to be such economically that you're
Speaker 1: going to get a lot of actors who then cut deals.
Speaker 1: And and so I think the gain is going to
Speaker 1: be quicker than people expect. How about Mike in Beautiful Denver, Colorado.
Speaker 1: You're under Dan Caplish. Oh Ryan is ordering a break, Mike,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I just work here. Three or three someone
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Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 7: Nobody wants pain for their constituents. I don't want pain
Speaker 7: for the people of Florida.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump said, there will be.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 1: You are.
Speaker 7: But you are making an assumption without knowing the details.
Speaker 1: I'm not making the assumption. Donald Trump himself said there
Speaker 1: was pain, and you're making an assumption.
Speaker 7: You are making an assumption, an economic assumption. Right now,
Speaker 7: Let's be very clear. The real pain economically has been
Speaker 7: the massive blow inflation coming from bloated overspending here in Washington,
Speaker 7: d C. That is the real pain that the American
Speaker 7: people have felt the last four years. Well, what President
Speaker 7: Trump is trying to do now is bring industries back
Speaker 7: to the United States.
Speaker 1: Boy, he is good and he's going to be a
Speaker 1: great governor of Florida. Byron, Donald's glad you're with us.
Speaker 1: We're talking about tariffs. I don't claim to be an
Speaker 1: expert for the reasons we've talked about. I trust in
Speaker 1: Trump on this and believe me, I share his goals
Speaker 1: and the current trajectory we're on, Yeah, n ain't gonna work.
Speaker 1: So let's have the conversation tying into that twenty five
Speaker 1: percent tariffs on American non foreign cars. Pardon me, as
Speaker 1: of tonight, so we're talking about the best American made
Speaker 1: cars in different price categories. Thank you Ryan for the
Speaker 1: bump music on Broncos. I can tell you we absolutely
Speaker 1: love our Bronco, which must be what two years old
Speaker 1: now because it was one of the first to come
Speaker 1: off the line and it must see it must be
Speaker 1: about two years old. But we love it. We've never
Speaker 1: had a single problem with it. A text rass before
Speaker 1: we go back to the phone lines, if you want
Speaker 1: to call three oh three, seOne three A two F
Speaker 1: I five have had tremendous callers today and text D
Speaker 1: A N five, seven, seven through nine, Dan says a texter.
Speaker 1: Why do you think Trump didn't do this tariff thing
Speaker 1: in his first term? Well, one initial two times see
Speaker 1: and see the coup and COVID right, he's up against
Speaker 1: a coup attempt in the Russian hoax, and then of
Speaker 1: course we had COVID. But but yeah, if you're gonna
Speaker 1: do it, this is a perfect time, I think, and
Speaker 1: opportunity to do it. Where are we going next? Young Ryan?
Speaker 1: Is it Mike in Denver, Colorado? You're on the Dan
Speaker 1: Kaplis Show. Welcome?
Speaker 5: Yeah, how are you doing this?
Speaker 1: Then? Live in the dream, my friend?
Speaker 5: All right, I have to say, see, I'm on the
Speaker 5: down people. I guess the Democrats think, I don't think,
Speaker 5: or what the American people don't think. But I'm sure
Speaker 5: these other creations truf saying, hey, we're gonna do a
Speaker 5: little shift. I know we got probably share that they
Speaker 5: have to have too. You know, we may need products,
Speaker 5: but wish you all that you're chaffing us, so we
Speaker 5: don't care if you the stuff you need to So
Speaker 5: you either you want your stuff from us. You're gonna
Speaker 5: be fair with your chair. We'll be fair with our chair.
Speaker 5: And I don't know why of the American people or nobody,
Speaker 5: maybe I'm the only one. I think the people who
Speaker 5: listen to this show, they know your taking just listening
Speaker 5: to people weren't hearing, but definitely fair. I'm going to
Speaker 5: do to you, the same thing you're gonna do me.
Speaker 5: You wanna be thair of me, I'm gonna be thair
Speaker 5: to you. But Trump's even taking on one step further.
Speaker 5: He's saying, look, I'm not gonna hit you full blessed.
Speaker 5: Yet he didn't say that, but he's saying, I'm giving
Speaker 5: you a chance. So how are we going to do this?
Speaker 5: Are we going to be fair with each other? Or
Speaker 5: do we have to renegotiate some more? And that's really
Speaker 5: not all I have.
Speaker 1: Hey, thanks, Mike, appreciate the call. We've had such tremendous
Speaker 1: callers today. And listen, we all understand, right, there are
Speaker 1: a bunch of foreign countries now that don't need our
Speaker 1: stuff as much as we need their stuff, in part
Speaker 1: because they make stuff a lot because of cheaper labor,
Speaker 1: and also because America has lost so much of our
Speaker 1: manufacturing base. Now, I know there is some stuff we
Speaker 1: make here people desperately need. I'm talking more broadly. Trump
Speaker 1: obviously is taking bold action. That's what he was elected
Speaker 1: to do to try to reverse this decline in American manufacturing.
Speaker 1: And you talk about a worthy goal on lots of
Speaker 1: levels and the economic Yes, it's enormous, but also for
Speaker 1: the cohesion of this nation, the need for a very
Speaker 1: very strong manufacturing base because of the type of quality
Speaker 1: jobs and the benefits and enduring jobs that that provides,
Speaker 1: and that goes to just the core stability of our society.
Speaker 1: Because I guarantee you this, and you know it's true.
Speaker 1: If we keep going down this road and there's this
Speaker 1: enlarging separation between the economic haves and the economic have notts,
Speaker 1: that's horrific for the cohesion of this nation. That's not
Speaker 1: going to work long term. That's going to lead to
Speaker 1: a lot of very very bad things on a societal level,
Speaker 1: a political level, an economic level. And it's also not
Speaker 1: consistent with most people's faiths. So no, I really appreciate
Speaker 1: what the president's doing. I don't claim to be an
Speaker 1: expert in it all. I trust him on this. And
Speaker 1: the other point is, wait a second. This guy he
Speaker 1: wants to win, right, He defines himself as a winner.
Speaker 1: It is his very persona and personal identity, and so
Speaker 1: he has such an easy option to all this that
Speaker 1: he's not taking. He's only doing this because he's convinced
Speaker 1: it's best for this nation and that it's going to succeed.
Speaker 1: I think he's earned the trust in that, and Lord knows,
Speaker 1: his political opponents have earned zero trust on any level.
Speaker 1: They're incompetent liars, most of them three or three seOne,
Speaker 1: three eight, two five five text d An five seven, seven,
Speaker 1: three nine. Let's get to us some more of our texters, Dan,
Speaker 1: Why do so many people think Trump is stupid and
Speaker 1: wants to fail. I don't know if there's anybody who
Speaker 1: truly believes Trump is stupid. I don't think there's anybody
Speaker 1: who truly believes Trump wants to fail. I think the
Speaker 1: Democrats are hysterical about the tariffs, not because they think
Speaker 1: they will fail, but because they think they will succeed.
Speaker 1: Because Democrats know the math. Once people start making seventy
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars in this country, they vote Republican by
Speaker 1: a significant margin. So Democrats are terrified. Tariffs are going
Speaker 1: to work. Trump is going to and the Republican Party
Speaker 1: extend its support among working people. And at that point,
Speaker 1: our biggest question is when do we plan the electoral
Speaker 1: funeral for the Democratic Party? Dan, You got to correct,
Speaker 1: all auto parts are foreign made, majory majority of auto
Speaker 1: parts until we get American companies to make them. Six
Speaker 1: months two years is how long we pay twenty five
Speaker 1: percent plus more for parts we normally get. Here's my
Speaker 1: big point that I think you're going to see deals
Speaker 1: cut quickly. So just for example, when it comes to
Speaker 1: to be I pick any foreign manufacturer of automobiles BMW
Speaker 1: is a bad example because they make so many cars
Speaker 1: here already. But you know we don't have to wait
Speaker 1: two or three years until they have their plants built
Speaker 1: here and everything else. I think Trump is going to
Speaker 1: cut deals and in exchange for this assurance that they're
Speaker 1: going to build this, this, this, this and that in
Speaker 1: America and some way to you know, verify and confirm
Speaker 1: and hold them to all that, you're going to see
Speaker 1: the tariffs lifted soon in exchange for those guarantees. I
Speaker 1: think that's the sort of thing that you're going to see.
Speaker 1: And so I don't think it's going to take all
Speaker 1: that long for this to succeed. Brian, my friend, sir,
Speaker 1: I know we only have a few seconds before this break.
Speaker 1: Then we'll get back to our calls and textures. But
Speaker 1: if the car ferry waved a wand right now and said, Brian,
Speaker 1: you have been a great citizen of this country and
Speaker 1: a superb iHeart employee. Wow, you can have any American
Speaker 1: made car. You have to choose it in the next
Speaker 1: five seconds. What would it be.
Speaker 3: Nineteen eighty two Chevrolet Corvette as driven by Tom Sellek
Speaker 3: and Magnum.
Speaker 4: Pi taker of a frat.
Speaker 2: Giddy.
Speaker 4: Well then I'm wrong, okay, but that's the car I want.
Speaker 1: That's okay. Well, I don't blame it. You're on the
Speaker 1: Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 4: You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast. So it's
Speaker 4: not so much pain.
Speaker 7: You might have some temporary adjustments in our economy, but
Speaker 7: that is for the growth of the American economy, long
Speaker 7: term stability and jobs over the long term for the
Speaker 7: American people and American workers. And that is actually a
Speaker 7: good way to take our economy as opposed to following
Speaker 7: the same terrible policies of the previous administration and the
Speaker 7: Democrats written large of just subsidizing industries and raising the
Speaker 7: debt of the United States. That is not the way
Speaker 7: that you that you actually build an economy.
Speaker 1: Byron Donald's talking about tariffs, and we've had a lot
Speaker 1: of great callers on tariffs. Obviously, a lot of different perspectives,
Speaker 1: but would love yours because it's real today, right. Trump
Speaker 1: put them on, as you heard in the newscast, ten
Speaker 1: percent generally, but China I think thirty four percent, Japan
Speaker 1: twenty percent. And then within the tariffs, you know, there
Speaker 1: are some different permeations there as well, so but generally speaking, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's on now, So I want to get your react.
Speaker 1: The reason Ryan's playing this great American car music is
Speaker 1: because we've had this big tariff put on foreign cars,
Speaker 1: and so we're talking about the best American cars, the
Speaker 1: best American cars for the money and hopefully and it's
Speaker 1: a big, big purpose of the tariffs, right is to
Speaker 1: bring back manufacturing to America. Car manufacturing front and center
Speaker 1: along with other categories. So yeah, talking about best American
Speaker 1: cars for the money, other issues pertaining to American cars
Speaker 1: as well. And you know, in the Denver market, we
Speaker 1: just heard a Sean Hannity spot for something called burn
Speaker 1: Up by RNA, which is a non lethal alternative. It
Speaker 1: essentially is a sophisticated is it pepper spray kind of gun? Ryan,
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at a.
Speaker 3: Non lethal gun for self defense, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1: And can you remind me let's make that a talk
Speaker 1: topic for a different day. I know we're doing tariffs today,
Speaker 1: but I'd really like to have that conversation because I'm
Speaker 1: going to go ahead and order one. And yeah, I've
Speaker 1: got my array of firearms, and if you saw me
Speaker 1: right now, i'm broadcasting remotely, I've got one sitting right
Speaker 1: here next to me. But I really don't want to
Speaker 1: kill anybody unless I have to. And I would guess
Speaker 1: ninety nine point nine percent of the audience agrees. And
Speaker 1: so if you're in a situation where a non lethal
Speaker 1: option will get the job done, I would very very
Speaker 1: much prefer to have that. It's also consistent with the law.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, let's do another show on that. At
Speaker 1: some point, maybe Sean had come out and talk with us. Interesting.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he has a few of them around, but
Speaker 1: I like the idea. So let's get back to our
Speaker 1: calls and our texters on tariffs. Let's start with how
Speaker 1: about Denville. Let's go to Mary. You're on the Dan
Speaker 1: Kaplis Show. Welcome Mary. Hello, Mary, what a great name.
Speaker 1: I have a sister Mary' so wonderful, amazing.
Speaker 3: We're going to check you in on her. I thought
Speaker 3: I heard some background noise there, but.
Speaker 1: Okay, we look out for our people. Make sure she's okay. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: we could talk about my sister in the meantime. Just
Speaker 1: a tremendous She's a school teacher in the Chicago area
Speaker 1: and kind of opposite of me politically, very good human. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go to some more calls and text Dan. Did
Speaker 1: you see Ice arrested for deportation? The legal truck driver
Speaker 1: that was released this week after serving allows a year
Speaker 1: for the truck driving accident that killed people in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. Finally some justice. A couple of quick notes
Speaker 1: didn't even serve a year, which is just such a
Speaker 1: horrific miscarriage of justice. Was sentenced to a year. Don't
Speaker 1: blame the court. Don't blame the court. It was the
Speaker 1: DA's office that did that deal. But yeah, no, I
Speaker 1: saw that story. I cross examined him for five hours
Speaker 1: last week in jail. I deposed him. I have the privilege,
Speaker 1: alone with John Kellner and another colleague of ours, of
Speaker 1: representing the amazing, amazing woman who was married to Scott
Speaker 1: who was killed when steel pipe was dropped on him
Speaker 1: on two eighty five. And it's just it's one of
Speaker 1: the worst things you can possibly imagine. But like so many,
Speaker 1: his wife is standing up to try to protect others
Speaker 1: and waging a very very valiant fight to try to
Speaker 1: make our roads safer. So I, along with my colleagues,
Speaker 1: represent her in the civil case and we want a
Speaker 1: court order to be able to go in and to
Speaker 1: pose him in jail before he was to be discharged
Speaker 1: from jail on Sunday. So got about five hours with
Speaker 1: him last week, and so yeah, we're grateful for that time.
Speaker 1: It was an important it was an important examination under oaths.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, Ice was there at the jail and
Speaker 1: Jeff go when he was released on Sunday. And by
Speaker 1: the way, I do want to mention and I did
Speaker 1: that day briefly, but boy, the Jeff Co Sheriff's deputies
Speaker 1: who run that jail and who were involved that day
Speaker 1: incredibly impressive humans on every level the operation of the facility,
Speaker 1: but also just the quality of the people we interacted
Speaker 1: with because it was a bit production. You know, a
Speaker 1: lot of lawyers, reporter, videographers, staff, everything else, including our
Speaker 1: cent obviously front and center, and the jail just the
Speaker 1: way it was able to accommodate all that and make
Speaker 1: it work was extremely impressive and in the interest of justice,
Speaker 1: no question. Our text and phone notes we're talking about
Speaker 1: we're talking about these terroriffs today. An awful lot of
Speaker 1: car texts, but they get pretty darn long. This not
Speaker 1: directly related, but Dan, proper title for our steam governor
Speaker 1: pothole Polus. And then it goes into the rationale for
Speaker 1: trying to get rid of taber. Do you think that
Speaker 1: one's going to stick pothole Polus? I don't think and
Speaker 1: that's from Mountain grandparents. Thank you, Mountain grandparents. I don't
Speaker 1: think any nickname is going to stick for the governor
Speaker 1: right now. And I don't mean to be disrespectful in
Speaker 1: any way, but I don't think he's relevant to almost
Speaker 1: anybody right now. And that's not meant personally. I think
Speaker 1: it's just a political reality. Am I missing something?
Speaker 3: No, There's just so many different angles by which you
Speaker 3: can attack him. I guess the latest one, though, Dan,
Speaker 3: I think the one that will go down is the
Speaker 3: stone around his neck of his legacy is this gun
Speaker 3: grab bill. He's either going to let it oh without
Speaker 3: his signature and then automatically enter into law, or he's
Speaker 3: going to sign it.
Speaker 4: I don't think he's going to veto it.
Speaker 1: What what a total first, and not to get off
Speaker 1: our tariff topic too far, but what a total first.
Speaker 1: This whole idea now of requiring gun safety training in
Speaker 1: order to exercise your Second Amendment right as pertains to
Speaker 1: these particular weapons, it's so ridiculous in so many ways. Right,
Speaker 1: So now you're going to make it harder for poorer
Speaker 1: people or people of less economic means to exercise their
Speaker 1: Second Amendment? Right? How does that make any sense? But
Speaker 1: then also the starting point is that nobody can logically
Speaker 1: claim that that requirement, that burden is somehow now going
Speaker 1: to accomplish the alleged purpose of the bill. Really, do
Speaker 1: you think any of these masks killers out there are
Speaker 1: going to say, oh man, yeah, I got to go
Speaker 1: get my training before I get that weapon, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: give me a break. It is obviously this this political
Speaker 1: distortion right to try to somehow get this piece of
Speaker 1: legislation through that was never going to accomplish it's it's
Speaker 1: intended purpose. Well, it's claimed public purpose. So yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you're right, Ryan, I think that that is really going
Speaker 1: to hurt him because I think there is a ton
Speaker 1: of support in Colorado for gun rights. I think it's
Speaker 1: going to hurt him as he tries to go out
Speaker 1: there into this con job lane of some kind of
Speaker 1: moderate Democrat that he's trying to carve out nationally correct. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: But my broader point with regard to Polis is simply
Speaker 1: that at this point in his term, and given you
Speaker 1: know the nature of his time in office, I just
Speaker 1: don't think he's relevant enough for any nickname to catch on. Heck,
Speaker 1: we can't even get anybody interested in talking about the
Speaker 1: race for governor or the race for Senate, right, No,
Speaker 1: I mean I think people have just tuned out. I
Speaker 1: think they just assume some Democrats are going to win.
Speaker 1: All Democrats are the same. They're all going to do
Speaker 1: the far left, crazy radical stuff. It doesn't matter which
Speaker 1: one you put in there. And I don't think we're
Speaker 1: going to get any interest, at least in terms of
Speaker 1: this talk show in the governor of Senate race until
Speaker 1: something happens to cause people to believe a Republican can
Speaker 1: win one or both races. Am I missing something there?
Speaker 3: Well, I could easily finish that sentence for you, Dan,
Speaker 3: until Dan Kaplis centers one of those races.
Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah, thank you my friend. Here you are.
Speaker 1: I thought you liked me. But anyway, hey, we will
Speaker 1: come back and we'll talk about well, we'll continue this
Speaker 1: tariff talk, but since big impact on autos, twenty five
Speaker 1: percent on foreign cars starting tonight, let's come back and
Speaker 1: including the next segment, what are those best made American cars?
Speaker 1: Best cars for the money or for you know, some
Speaker 1: of the people listening they don't care about how much
Speaker 1: it costs, just the very best American car you can buy,
Speaker 1: regardless of expense. Here on the Dankapla Show.
Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Fascinating, isn't it the way the Big Guy made us
Speaker 1: all of us? Just music can immediately like transport you
Speaker 1: back to all of these places and experiences, just a
Speaker 1: song like that. So we're talking cars today obviously because
Speaker 1: tariffs is the big issue. They're real now, honest today,
Speaker 1: and at twenty five percent tariff on foreign cars, there
Speaker 1: are some you know, exceptions, permeations within that, differences within that,
Speaker 1: but it's got us talking about, Okay, what are the
Speaker 1: best American cars for the money and for those people
Speaker 1: who don't care about the money, what's just the best
Speaker 1: American car you can buy, since obviously big thrust of
Speaker 1: this U pun intended is to bring manufacturing back to America,
Speaker 1: grow manufacturing in America, including you know, auto manufacturing, and
Speaker 1: so that's why we're having that conversation. So I love
Speaker 1: your thoughts on that text d A N five seven
Speaker 1: seven three nine three or three seven three eight two
Speaker 1: five five text? What model Corvette did you have? Very
Speaker 1: sad to think about it, because it's the greatest car
Speaker 1: I've ever owned, twenty twenty three Chevrolet Corvette three LT.
Speaker 1: And it it was a convertible. It was a convertible,
Speaker 1: and it's just one of the most beautiful pieces of
Speaker 1: art I've ever seen. Dan Johnson was on with us
Speaker 1: earlier from Lyn Leile's Chevrolet, who was kind enough to
Speaker 1: sell us that car, to sell us a build slot.
Speaker 1: So Amy and I together designed it white black trim,
Speaker 1: and one of the cool things about that Corvette is
Speaker 1: it as the black gloss trim, which against the white
Speaker 1: was just stunning and you know, not overstated though I've
Speaker 1: never mind it overstated, but then had the black you know,
Speaker 1: gloss retractable convertible top and just fantastic in every way car.
Speaker 1: We just needed a bigger garage because I just could
Speaker 1: not stand She never said a word about it. That's
Speaker 1: what a great woman I married. But but watching her
Speaker 1: park outside while I parked the Corvette inside just didn't
Speaker 1: feel right and threatened self threatened revocation of the man cards.
Speaker 1: So that's why I don't have it now. But if
Speaker 1: I can find it, and you could not keep that outside,
Speaker 1: right Ryan, I mean that would no, that would disrupt
Speaker 1: the universe. Yes that but no, no, I'll tell ya.
Speaker 1: So anyway, someday, someday we'll have that car. Glad you
Speaker 1: are here. We're going to talk some more about Tariff's tomorrow.
Speaker 1: This is going to be such a big deal, and
Speaker 1: it's interesting because I'm going to be talking about it
Speaker 1: more from the very hopeful, optimistic side. And I really
Speaker 1: trust my instinct I'm sure everybody listening does, right, or
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be your instincts. But I really trust my instincts,
Speaker 1: and my spider sense is telling me this is going
Speaker 1: to end up being a very good thing for America.
Speaker 1: And not getting back into the nitty gritty, we've talked
Speaker 1: about the whole show, but one thing I think you
Speaker 1: can boil it down to right. Is Trump is a winner.
Speaker 1: He's determined to succeed. He wants to be popular, not unpopular.
Speaker 1: He wants to be successful, not unsuccessful. He would not
Speaker 1: be going down this road unless he had a plan.
Speaker 1: He at a high level of confidence in. And he's
Speaker 1: also proven himself in different sectors, public and private, to
Speaker 1: be very adept, not perfect nobody's ever been, but very
Speaker 1: adept economically. So that's why I have confidence in all this.
Speaker 1: Without claiming to be an expert in tariffs, I'm an
Speaker 1: expert in my own four oh one k. And I
Speaker 1: know it hurts when you see the market drop. It
Speaker 1: hurts me when I see the market drop, But I
Speaker 1: keep reminding myself I haven't lost a dime yet in
Speaker 1: the market. I don't lose any of that money until
Speaker 1: I sell. And if this works, and for the reasons
Speaker 1: I've said earlier, I believe it will, then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you don't end up making money on this.
Speaker 1: But Ryan, one of my favorite calls in years, and
Speaker 1: it captures such a critical point was a call earlier
Speaker 1: from a woman named Carle and Hyland's ranch, and what
Speaker 1: she said was that, Hey, wait a second, She's willing
Speaker 1: to accept some pain. She's willing to accept some economic
Speaker 1: pain right now if it gets this country on track,
Speaker 1: if it gets this country where it needs to be,
Speaker 1: if it helps lots of other people end up with
Speaker 1: these good manufacturing jobs, etc. I think she captures the
Speaker 1: real heart of America, the real heart of America, because
Speaker 1: the greatest parents in the world, the greatest upbringing ever,
Speaker 1: and we're very fortunate have roof over heads, plenty to eat.
Speaker 1: We never lacked for any of that. My dad was
Speaker 1: a cop, my mom stayed home with us. But that
Speaker 1: has always been the spirit, right it was a spirit
Speaker 1: of our family. I think it's the spirit of working America,
Speaker 1: which is people aren't obsessed with getting every dime they
Speaker 1: can that they're they value what matters most, and so
Speaker 1: people are willing to sacrifice if it's going to lead
Speaker 1: to a better America, and it's going to lead to
Speaker 1: a fairer America and better long term prospects for America.
Speaker 1: And that is what Trump intends with this. So for
Speaker 1: what it's worth with is nothing, which is nothing. I'm
Speaker 1: willing to back that play. I'm willing to back it
Speaker 1: with my four oh one K to a point right,
Speaker 1: But I am so we'll get into more depth tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Final words of wisdom from you, my friend.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm just looking forward to seeing your bright, shining,
Speaker 3: smiling face tomorrow.
Speaker 4: You're in mean studio, right, Yes, yes, that.
Speaker 1: Is the current plan, though I'm deeply disturbed at the
Speaker 1: moment because, as you know, I like to get away
Speaker 1: to this cabin to prepare for trial, and it's been
Speaker 1: incredibly productive this week. And part of the reason is
Speaker 1: there's nobody around. Oh wow, it's just total silence, and
Speaker 1: then any noise is usually from wildlife. But they just
Speaker 1: came over and put a for sale sign on this
Speaker 1: structure across the street. Who's gonna move in there?
Speaker 4: You don't know?
Speaker 1: Could could be? Could be the grateful dad. Are they
Speaker 1: still around.
Speaker 4: Some of them?
Speaker 1: Man? Hold on, do you have your dad? That's yeah?
Speaker 4: What about your dear buddy?
Speaker 1: Hopefully always? Who knows? Who knows what they'll do to
Speaker 1: my dear Yeah. This is a little scary, yeah, because
Speaker 1: it's so productive, right when you can get that block
Speaker 1: time and you lock away and there's no noise and
Speaker 1: nobody around, but with it for sale sign, that could
Speaker 1: change soon. Brian, you're the best Thank you Kelly and Hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a great, in depth discussion tomorrow on
Speaker 1: these tariffs. Thanks for joining us today on The Dan
Speaker 1: Kapla Show.