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Speaker 1: Three oh three seven one three eight two five five
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Speaker 1: nine on Liberation Day?
Speaker 2: Are you feeling liberated? I sure hope so.
Speaker 1: President Trump labeling today that April two, twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: because that today is the day the tariff's kicked in,
Speaker 1: right and listen. Full disclosure, I'm no expert on tariffs.
Speaker 1: I haven't thought about tariffs much in my entire life,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to get up to speed as quickly
Speaker 1: as i can. But obviously, you know this is a
Speaker 1: president who ran on this, he's committed to this, promise
Speaker 1: is made, promise is kept.
Speaker 2: So I want to get your reaction to it.
Speaker 1: And I don't expect and you may well be an
Speaker 1: expert on tariffs if you are, great, but I don't
Speaker 1: don't expect that you are so looking in part for
Speaker 1: just this this reaction. Do you trust Trump on this?
Speaker 1: Are you afraid? What do you think the effect is
Speaker 1: going to be? Economically and politically? Three oh three someone
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Speaker 1: N five seven seven three nine. Quick summary. This from
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal. They headlined it, Trump imposes ten
Speaker 1: percent baseline tariff, higher rates for quote bad actors. Boy, Ryan,
Speaker 1: I hope we're not considered bad actors. President Trump announced
Speaker 1: a sweeping new tariff plan at a Rose Garden ceremony.
Speaker 2: A stark shift in US trade policy.
Speaker 1: US will impose a ten percent tariff on all imports
Speaker 1: and much higher rates for some nations, Trump said, and
Speaker 1: veiling a series of moves the declared Liberation Day for
Speaker 1: US trade policy. The plan combines two concepts debated by AIDS,
Speaker 1: a universal tariff and a nation and nation specific duties.
Speaker 2: A couple of.
Speaker 1: Quick notes and I know you're driving someone throw so
Speaker 1: many numbers out there, because last thing we need are
Speaker 1: more crashes out there.
Speaker 2: Here's what to know.
Speaker 1: Ten percent baseline tariff across the board on all imports,
Speaker 1: effective April five. Other nations will be hit with trump
Speaker 1: What caused Trump called the discounted reciprocal tariff. The higher
Speaker 1: rates are for nations the White House considers bad actors
Speaker 1: on trade.
Speaker 2: Who are those bad actors?
Speaker 1: Added, duties will be thirty four percent on China, twenty
Speaker 1: four percent on Japan, and twenty percent on the e
Speaker 1: U auto tariffs So Ryan, just a small window now
Speaker 1: for that Bugatti auto tariffs will take effect to night.
Speaker 1: Trump said he's imposing twenty five percent tariffs on all
Speaker 1: foreign made autos.
Speaker 2: As of midnight, US DOC.
Speaker 1: Futures declined in post close trading, reflecting fears the tariffs
Speaker 1: will slow growth, boost inflation, and further ratto. Global markets
Speaker 1: indexes drop between one percent and three percent, and popular
Speaker 1: stocks such as Wow not the only ones I own, Apple,
Speaker 1: Amazon were among the Larchester traders, dropping four percent or more.
Speaker 3: You like Dan Kaplis, buy American.
Speaker 2: Cars the That is a great thing.
Speaker 1: I mean I have bought some foreign cars for sure,
Speaker 1: and yeah, but that's a great conversation for today as well.
Speaker 1: You know, with these tariffs, now, what are the best
Speaker 1: American cars?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: And hey, well you know I was just going to say, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie I drive a foreign car now too. Also,
Speaker 1: but I'm trying to figure out whether I have, and
Speaker 1: I think it's one of the safest cars in the world,
Speaker 1: and it's a really fun car to drive. I have
Speaker 1: a Mercedes coup Suv and it but I'm trying to
Speaker 1: figure out whether it was made here or made there?
Speaker 3: And Dan, is this the one that you have to
Speaker 3: take the shop every other week?
Speaker 2: It's in the shop half the time, That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: Literally, But when it and the guys at the shop
Speaker 1: are great, don't blame them right now, you know, blame
Speaker 1: whoever built the darn thing. But but the point being
Speaker 1: that it is such a great car and it's so safe,
Speaker 1: and I'm a little hyper sensitive to that, since that's
Speaker 1: what I do for a living, is catastrophic injury cases.
Speaker 1: You know. I just look at all the stuff and
Speaker 1: listen to all the experts we hire and cases and
Speaker 1: everything else, and I figure, it's just the safest thing
Speaker 1: that I.
Speaker 2: Can be in.
Speaker 1: And if I could, if my whole family would ride
Speaker 1: in them, I'd eat dog food if I had to
Speaker 1: get my whole family in them, but they won't be
Speaker 1: seen in it. So but yeah, I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: figure out whether it's made over there or made here
Speaker 1: or made half there or half here because so many
Speaker 1: of these foreign cars, now right, they make some of them.
Speaker 3: Here or some parts of them here.
Speaker 2: Well that's a different critic, right, that's why. And I
Speaker 2: don't know how that where where do the tariffs have
Speaker 2: the cutoff on that?
Speaker 1: That's like if fifty one percent of the car is
Speaker 1: made over there and it's hit with the tariff if
Speaker 1: it's made here.
Speaker 2: Yes, So we'll get that figured out.
Speaker 1: But I would like to get everybody's take on the
Speaker 1: best made, safest to American cars truck Dan, which I
Speaker 1: have owned and loved my friend absolutely and and you know, my.
Speaker 2: Favorite car ever was at Corvette obviously. Oh man, so
Speaker 2: sad we just did up.
Speaker 1: You know, we have a very small garage and it
Speaker 1: just broke my heart to walk out there and see
Speaker 1: my wife's car purpose well, the Corvette, and it was
Speaker 1: a beautiful work of art just sat there in the garage.
Speaker 1: But and she didn't ask me to move it. She
Speaker 1: didn't say, hey, can you get rid of that Corvette
Speaker 1: so I can park my car inside? She'd which you know,
Speaker 1: just shows what a great, great soulmate she is and.
Speaker 3: A smart man that you are.
Speaker 1: But well, hey, and one who loves intimacy. But anyway,
Speaker 1: three or three someone three eight five five takes d
Speaker 1: an five seven, seven, three nine. So glad you are here.
Speaker 1: So we're talking all things tariff without knowing what the
Speaker 1: heck we're talking about. But it's a it's a big
Speaker 1: deal today, So would love to get your take on that.
Speaker 1: And we have much more on the agenda, also a team.
Speaker 1: Jeffrey's not very impressed, but then again he's not very impressive.
Speaker 2: How about to cut three? Please?
Speaker 4: This is not liberation day, It's recession day. What's some
Speaker 4: in turn right there in the United States of America.
Speaker 3: That's what the Trump tariffs are going to do.
Speaker 4: Crash the economy, which has been happening since January twentieth.
Speaker 3: Of this year, and the.
Speaker 4: American people are taking note really of it. I intrommunity
Speaker 4: in the poles after community after community.
Speaker 2: Does he sound like even believes what he's saying?
Speaker 3: And a lot of pauses there.
Speaker 1: Now you know, I'm no doctor, but I would prescribe
Speaker 1: jeffine for him, right or is he is he trying
Speaker 1: to affect something here?
Speaker 2: But come on, he's got no credibility.
Speaker 1: The Dems, you know, outside of Blue Pocket, have no credibility,
Speaker 1: but you know, hey, what has come down to and
Speaker 1: it's always what you want ryan Right, Like when I
Speaker 1: used to play softball. Okay, I was a decent softball player,
Speaker 1: and I used to feel like and we'd play until
Speaker 1: I got married. We'd play one hundred games a year,
Speaker 1: and I used to feel like, Okay, if I go
Speaker 1: out and have a great game, we're going to win.
Speaker 2: Now that wasn't.
Speaker 1: True, but I always like to feel that way because
Speaker 1: I felt that, Hey, if I'm really on, if I'm
Speaker 1: really doing my thing, we're going to win that game.
Speaker 1: And I think it's all about Trump right now. It
Speaker 1: is all about Trump. It's all about the Republicans. The
Speaker 1: Democrats are irrelevant. It's all about whether the Republicans deliver,
Speaker 1: whether Trump delivers. And that's one reason that I sleep
Speaker 1: easily right now, even though I see my four oh
Speaker 1: one k bouncing around. Is I just trust Trump on this.
Speaker 1: I know he's human, every human's fallible, but I trust
Speaker 1: Trump on this because you know he wants to succeed,
Speaker 1: right and he could have had an easy first class
Speaker 1: trip to.
Speaker 2: The top here.
Speaker 1: Just keep spending a ton of money, don't do anything risky,
Speaker 1: and just ride this thing right to the top of
Speaker 1: popularity in four years. But he's he's making a big
Speaker 1: move here because he truly believes it's going to work.
Speaker 2: And I'm going to trust him on that.
Speaker 3: And his expertise.
Speaker 5: Dan I talked about this his background obviously in business
Speaker 5: and industry and real estate, and he was talking about this,
Speaker 5: going back to his appearances on the Oprah Winfrey Show,
Speaker 5: that if he ever ran for president, if he ever
Speaker 5: became president, what would he do differently? This is what
Speaker 5: he was talking about, Dan, this very issue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know what I'd like to hear from
Speaker 1: people on this too, which is I think he has
Speaker 1: as much or more of a commitment to working people
Speaker 1: in America as any president in my lifetime. And I'd
Speaker 1: be hard pressed to point to a single president in
Speaker 1: my lifetime who's had a more obvious, overt commitment to
Speaker 1: working people in America. And I think where that's where
Speaker 1: this whole tariff things come from. I think he believes
Speaker 1: in it on other levels as well. But for the
Speaker 1: working people of America, you know, those are the folks
Speaker 1: who have the most to gain, and so America has
Speaker 1: the most gained because America without that you know, strong
Speaker 1: working you know class in America, that strong middle class
Speaker 1: in America.
Speaker 2: You know, America is not going to be America.
Speaker 5: And we saw some of the people in attendance at
Speaker 5: his address today, Dan, we see this kind of realignment politically.
Speaker 5: Sean Fain, the very far left Democrat president of the
Speaker 5: UAW came out in favor of these tariffs. He had
Speaker 5: a longtime autoworker from Mcombe County in Michigan talk about
Speaker 5: fighting for like you said, the working class, the auto workers,
Speaker 5: for fair trade rather than just outright wild West style
Speaker 5: free trade. And there's an interesting shift and the dichotomy
Speaker 5: of American politics and the Democrats they don't really know
Speaker 5: how to react right now because the working class, the
Speaker 5: blue collar, the unions that represent them. You look at
Speaker 5: the teamsters as well, with Sean O'Brien, I mean, they
Speaker 5: are very much aligned with Trump on this.
Speaker 3: So what do the Democrats do?
Speaker 1: Hope for the Republicans to fail, right because they have
Speaker 1: no answer and they've been exposed, They've been pansed and
Speaker 1: tied to the goalposts. They have no answer. Now it's
Speaker 1: about the Republicans. All about the Republicans, you know, will
Speaker 1: they succeed or will they fail. I believe they're going
Speaker 1: to succeed, but I'd like to get everybody else's take,
Speaker 1: and then we'll play a lot of sound different takes
Speaker 1: on tariffs and other big issues of the day. Three
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Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Caplis Show.
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Speaker 6: Little concerned we all are. At the end of the day.
Speaker 6: We got to have faith in our leadership. Our country
Speaker 6: is going in our wrong direction thirty seven tree and
Speaker 6: in debt. We've got to get manufacturers back to the
Speaker 6: country we go back to work. Better way to do
Speaker 6: that is tariffs. So let's give it a shot and
Speaker 6: see what happens.
Speaker 1: Boy, I think Tommy Tubberville just nailed it, right, former
Speaker 1: football coach now senator from the great State of Alabama.
Speaker 1: I think he just nailed it.
Speaker 2: And that's kind of exactly the way I feel too.
Speaker 1: Without claiming to be an expert on tariffs, right, And
Speaker 1: I don't just say that to give myself an out
Speaker 1: if they don't work. I just I'm not an expert
Speaker 1: on tariff's but I do trust Trumpet.
Speaker 2: And you know, it's interesting.
Speaker 1: There's a legal concept to and it ties into hearsay
Speaker 1: exceptions and everything else. But when somebody is saying things
Speaker 1: against their own interest, then that's a hearsay exception, often
Speaker 1: because they don't have any reason to make it up. Right,
Speaker 1: President Trump here, he has no reason to be doing
Speaker 1: this unless he is convinced that it's going to work
Speaker 1: and be best for America, because it's so risky for him,
Speaker 1: and he has such an easy alternative to high popularity
Speaker 1: and cruise through the term playing golf and getting adulation.
Speaker 1: So I just have that trust, and then you combine
Speaker 1: his financial expertise, etc.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: I can tell you though, my attention at the moment
Speaker 1: is divided between the issue of tariffs and the future
Speaker 1: of America and my excitement over getting my vehicle wrapped,
Speaker 1: whether it's a cyber truck or what. Because Ryan, did
Speaker 1: you see that text come in? We have a text
Speaker 1: come in from Doug at Quantum Raps in Canyon City
Speaker 1: because oh wow, we've been talking on the show in
Speaker 1: connection with the Tesla terrorism. And I hope they round
Speaker 1: them all up and they prosecute them to the max.
Speaker 1: And I'm confident they will. But I've been talking about
Speaker 1: wanting to get a cyber truck just to stand up
Speaker 1: to the terrorists. And then I said, well, I want
Speaker 1: to get a wrap because I don't like any of
Speaker 1: the current collers. So Doug, we should get him on
Speaker 1: for a segment sometime. But he offered to do the
Speaker 1: rep for me. Obviously I'd be pain in full, but
Speaker 1: he sent me his website. Unbelievable what they can do
Speaker 1: with wraps, and like I said, this cheap that has
Speaker 1: this really artistic, cool faded American flag on the hood,
Speaker 1: but then on the side it has a US Constitution.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can do some really artistic stuff. They
Speaker 1: have an American flag repped hardly it's and then they
Speaker 1: have some commercial stuff.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So this whole concept of being able to turn your
Speaker 1: vehicle into a piece of art beyond the color and
Speaker 1: shape is really exciting to me.
Speaker 5: I'm going to reach out to Doug here via text
Speaker 5: and I can do that and see if you'll join you.
Speaker 3: Maybe for the next segment.
Speaker 1: Oh, anytime, anytime, because this opens up a whole new
Speaker 1: world for everybody listening to us, right, Because I have
Speaker 1: to figure if you're nice enough to listen to the show.
Speaker 1: Chances are pretty high you're in the car. You were
Speaker 1: in the car or truck or suv or something sometime today.
Speaker 1: So for everybody listening, you know, there's this opportunity to
Speaker 1: turn your transport into this work of art, into this statement.
Speaker 1: It can be a political statement, artistic statement, combination of
Speaker 1: the two. Now, hey, the caveat right. I have no
Speaker 1: idea what this costs. It may be prohibitive, but it's
Speaker 1: at least an interesting idea. And then what would you
Speaker 1: put on the cyber truck? Like somebody texted me, let
Speaker 1: me get this, So I quoted verbatim on the cyber truck.
Speaker 1: He was talking about Dan, wrap it in the second
Speaker 1: Amendment vandal deterrent.
Speaker 2: And then it said, and you might want to conceal carry.
Speaker 1: Which of course I wouldn't, but but yeah, he says,
Speaker 1: wrap it in the second Amendment is vandal to turn.
Speaker 1: What do you think the odds are if I get
Speaker 1: that cyber truck that it will be vandalized?
Speaker 3: Depends on where you drive it, Dan, Well, okay, pick this.
Speaker 1: Where's the safest place you can imagine other than the
Speaker 1: church parking lot? I would say, any which is safe
Speaker 1: when everybody's leaving mass.
Speaker 3: Weld County with Sheriff Steve Reems tailing.
Speaker 1: Yah, yeah, yeah, no, that would be that would be
Speaker 1: pretty burned safe. Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: But what do you think theats are of the old
Speaker 2: cyber truck getting Vanda?
Speaker 5: Are you going to go downtown Denver because I got
Speaker 5: to live your life? Well, I would say it's in
Speaker 5: the seventy five percent.
Speaker 2: Do you know what's really sad?
Speaker 1: Like I had to go downtown Denver for a deal,
Speaker 1: and then I had to turn around, drive home, take
Speaker 1: the valuables out of the car, put them in the garage,
Speaker 1: and then stop back at home on my way back
Speaker 1: to the office.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's sad, right.
Speaker 1: But because our office, we have offices in a bunch
Speaker 1: of places, but we've got this main office in the
Speaker 1: Tech Center. But I actually had to go home and
Speaker 1: put my good stuff away so I could drive down
Speaker 1: to a meeting in downtown Denver.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's sad. Do you think that's an overreaction?
Speaker 1: I just almost being prudent, very prudent, because there's certain
Speaker 1: stuff like okay, you take my golf clubs that'll hurt,
Speaker 1: it'll help some homeowners. But you know, you can you
Speaker 1: can go out and good bye another golf clubs, but
Speaker 1: if somebody pulls a computer out of the car or
Speaker 1: something else, you can't have that happen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you heard on the side of caution. Okay,
Speaker 5: smart move. So we'd love to hear from people.
Speaker 1: By the way, we're talking tariffs if you can tell,
Speaker 1: and the president putting twenty five percent on autos starting
Speaker 1: tonight from foreign countries. So let's talk about American cars.
Speaker 1: What are the best made, what are the safest you
Speaker 1: know what for those people who may normally buy a
Speaker 1: foreign car, you know, what are the best American alternatives?
Speaker 1: So I think we should have that conversation three or
Speaker 1: three someone three eight, two.
Speaker 2: Five, five the number. You know. I'm kind of with Ryan.
Speaker 1: My my favorite American cars have been probably well, the
Speaker 1: Corvette number one favorite car ever of any kind. The
Speaker 1: F one fifty just a tremendous machine, you know, the
Speaker 1: F one fifty.
Speaker 2: You know, So what are and like, what is the
Speaker 2: best American car out there? Right now?
Speaker 1: Let's say you have somebody listening and they're just uber
Speaker 1: rich not like, well, you know what, how much do
Speaker 1: uber drivers make?
Speaker 7: It?
Speaker 2: Depends on the way. They'd be literally uber rich if
Speaker 2: you drive and tip Uber drivers.
Speaker 3: Depends on the length of this drive.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, three to five bucks is a
Speaker 5: nice cup. I think for the most part.
Speaker 1: Well, they may be uber rich from driving Uber, or
Speaker 1: they may be uber rich from owning Uber. But let's
Speaker 1: say somebody is uber rich in the audience right now
Speaker 1: and they just they're not going to buy a foreign
Speaker 1: car because of the tariffs are moral objection. What's the
Speaker 1: very best American made car they could get. Let's say
Speaker 1: that you've got somebody there just isn't discretionary income right now,
Speaker 1: and they just have to get the best possible American
Speaker 1: car that they can afford, and it's going to be
Speaker 1: lower on the price scale. What's what's the best American
Speaker 1: car option there? Because they love to hear from people
Speaker 1: on that three or three someone three eight two five
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Speaker 5: Three nights You drive both an old school and a
Speaker 5: rebooted Ford Bronco.
Speaker 1: Oh my lord, yes, well yeah, well we own a
Speaker 1: Bronco right now.
Speaker 3: Ah, there you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have we have a four Bronco right now
Speaker 2: and it is a blast.
Speaker 1: But I got to be honest, the Corvette's better car,
Speaker 1: and I think the F one fifty as well.
Speaker 2: This is a close call. Ryan. Is the Bronco we
Speaker 2: have now better than the F one fifty. Huh.
Speaker 1: It's a great talk topic. You're on the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 3: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1: That's right, twenty five percent tariff on foreign made vehicles
Speaker 1: starting tonight.
Speaker 2: So what are the.
Speaker 1: Best made American vehicles in different categories? We're talking about
Speaker 1: that and so much more as we dig into tariffs.
Speaker 1: Let's start that digging in beautiful Highlands Ranch of Colorado.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to Carly. You're on the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 1: Welcome Carly.
Speaker 2: Hi, Dan.
Speaker 8: As Kelly agrees with me. And I'm just calling to
Speaker 8: ask you what am I missing? If it's not harmful,
Speaker 8: because I've been paying as much as attention as I
Speaker 8: can of this. But if it's not harmful, in fact
Speaker 8: beneficial for other countries to charge the US tariff, and
Speaker 8: why in the world shouldn't we reciprocate with tariff's of
Speaker 8: her own. I don't get it. What am I missing?
Speaker 1: It seems like solid logic to me. Admittedly, no expert
Speaker 1: on it, but it seems like solid logic to me.
Speaker 2: Obviously. The concern, right is, I mean, what kind of
Speaker 2: TVs do you have in the house.
Speaker 8: Oh my gosh, I couldn't even tell you right now
Speaker 8: because you.
Speaker 2: Have so many, right, because they're low priced.
Speaker 1: Right, because I remember my grandfather passed away, one of
Speaker 1: the greatest men to ever live. He made his priority
Speaker 1: what really matters, not money, and so you know, it's
Speaker 1: not like he left everybody millions of dollars. But I
Speaker 1: took what he gave me, and I bought one of
Speaker 1: the first big screen TVs. So I had a chair,
Speaker 1: one plate, one spoon, one knife, and my big screen TV.
Speaker 1: But that's a are probably cost as many as ten
Speaker 1: would right now. Right, So I think the concern is, Okay,
Speaker 1: you slide of terrify on the Chinese and Japanese goods
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Carly's TVs are going to
Speaker 1: go way up in price. Carly's going to be ticked,
Speaker 1: and the Republicans are going to lose. I think that's
Speaker 1: the concern.
Speaker 8: You know, as much pain and suffering as we went
Speaker 8: through over the past four years, I can do with
Speaker 8: some more as it means that manufacturing jobs are going
Speaker 8: to be coming back to the US, Companies are going
Speaker 8: to be moving back to the US. I mean our
Speaker 8: economy will go through the roof.
Speaker 1: Well, to quote the late Joe Biden, and I think
Speaker 1: you're still with that. God love you, God love you,
Speaker 1: And thank you for saying that, because I've been telling
Speaker 1: people this forever. Right, I grew up with the greatest parents,
Speaker 1: the greatest childhood ever. And now we didn't have a
Speaker 1: lot of money, but we had what mattered more. But
Speaker 1: here's the point. Everybody, all these elitists and everything else,
Speaker 1: think that working people are just all about more money
Speaker 1: for working people. No, working people are disproportionately going to
Speaker 1: be about values and about what really matters because money
Speaker 1: is not their god.
Speaker 2: And so what do you have happened?
Speaker 1: Then a lot of people like you who say, wait
Speaker 1: a second, Okay, I'm willing to.
Speaker 2: Pay some more.
Speaker 1: I'm willing to suff if it's going to make this
Speaker 1: great nation better and give everybody.
Speaker 2: A fair shot.
Speaker 8: Exactly.
Speaker 2: No, that is such a beautiful point you make.
Speaker 8: Okay, I haven't really missed anything. Okay, I'm miss enormous.
Speaker 2: I don't think care, but I think you just added
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Kelly said he's going to come on here and
Speaker 8: say she agreed with me. Okay, well Carly, all right,
Speaker 8: thank you guys.
Speaker 1: I hope Adam's not listening. Thank you, Carly. Let's go
Speaker 1: to a Jennifer in Denver. You're on the Dan kaplis
Speaker 1: so welcome.
Speaker 9: Hey, Dan, thanks for having Tommy tuverbill on. I think
Speaker 9: that you know, a lot of us who don't really
Speaker 9: understand terrs like you were talking about, are to the
Speaker 9: point of saying, let's just see what happens. Of course,
Speaker 9: you've got Democrats there that are saying it's going to
Speaker 9: be like Smoot Holly, which was the legislation passed in
Speaker 9: nineteen thirty signed by Herbert Hoover, which a lot of
Speaker 9: economists say, you know, made the Great Depression even worse.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they said Trump was going to start World War three, right.
Speaker 9: Yeah, But what they don't understand is our economy was,
Speaker 9: our global economy was much different back then. And this
Speaker 9: is a this is a negotiation tactic. So I'm to
Speaker 9: the point, like that last caller, let's just see what happens.
Speaker 9: I imagine about six months we're going to see, you know,
Speaker 9: American industry just take off.
Speaker 1: You know, if Jarrett Polish or some other Democrat really
Speaker 1: wanted to gain credibility with the American people, they'd come
Speaker 1: out and say what you just said. They would say,
Speaker 1: wait a second, you know, let's give this a chance.
Speaker 1: Let's see see if it works. We know the working
Speaker 1: people in America are hurting, but they're all just such
Speaker 1: cheap right If Trump wanted, well.
Speaker 2: Must be bad.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, no, I appreciate the call. I'm with you, Jennifer.
Speaker 1: And again I do not claim to be an expert
Speaker 1: on tariffs, but for the reason stated, I trust in
Speaker 1: Trump on this. How about Lynn also in Denver, you're
Speaker 1: on the dankapush you'll welcome Lynn.
Speaker 10: Hi.
Speaker 11: Well, they picked the words right out of my mouth.
Speaker 11: Both callers I agree wholeheartedly with. And I wish that
Speaker 11: people would calm the heck down. And these these career
Speaker 11: government hacks that don't run businesses and don't understand the
Speaker 11: mindset of a businessman. It's not going to be perfect,
Speaker 11: but I think every I think short term pain excuse me, yeah,
Speaker 11: for long term gain. And so I am totally on
Speaker 11: board with this for now.
Speaker 8: I trust this process.
Speaker 11: And there's a lot a bigger picture here. As a
Speaker 11: side note for fun, there was a commercial back in
Speaker 11: the Sick back in the day, do I see the
Speaker 11: USA in your Chevrolet?
Speaker 7: And I and.
Speaker 8: I did have.
Speaker 11: I did have a Camaro sixty seven which was super
Speaker 11: fun and really like those and really liked Jeeps and
Speaker 11: really like Fords.
Speaker 9: And so it's not the end of the world.
Speaker 7: People can can buy here.
Speaker 9: You can buy cars made an American.
Speaker 10: That's what we want.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, we do.
Speaker 1: And yeah, my first car was a sixty four Chevy
Speaker 1: Nova I bought in nineteen seventy five for seventy five
Speaker 1: bucks and only car I ever made any money on.
Speaker 1: But no, I'm with you on that. And you know,
Speaker 1: the Ford Bronco we have now is a tremendous vehicle.
Speaker 1: But hey, let me ask you something, lind here's my theory.
Speaker 1: Tell me if there's a flaw in it. My theory
Speaker 1: is that Democrats aren't flipping out about tariffs because they
Speaker 1: think they're going to fail. They're flipping out about tariffs
Speaker 1: because they think they're going to succeed. And what the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party knows is if Americans make seventy five thousand
Speaker 1: dollars or more, a majority are going to vote Republicans.
Speaker 1: So I think Democrats are scared to death of a
Speaker 1: more prosperous America, particularly a more prosperous community of color,
Speaker 1: a more prosperous working class America, because that's the end
Speaker 1: of the modern Democratic party. Just look at the maths.
Speaker 11: That makes total sense. And I think we've been slogging
Speaker 11: along for so long with the status quo that I've
Speaker 11: said this before about another.
Speaker 9: Subject, but if not now, when this.
Speaker 11: Is really shaking things up and it's sluggish and it's overgrown,
Speaker 11: bloated government and all the things. So I think this
Speaker 11: is a really good strategy. And Trump has a proven
Speaker 11: a successful person, So yeah, I agree with what you
Speaker 11: just said, though I do agree with with that concept.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Lynn, appreciate the call. Thank you so much,
Speaker 2: and Ryan, and we'll take.
Speaker 1: More callers after this break. But Ryan, what's so interesting
Speaker 1: to us? And it could just be a statistic collaboration,
Speaker 1: but I don't think so, particularly when you listen to
Speaker 1: these great callers and the content of their calls.
Speaker 2: But in talk radio, which tends to be male dominated, to.
Speaker 1: Get three female callers together on any topic, what would
Speaker 1: anecdotally tell you something very important, and I think there's
Speaker 1: rationale for it as well. But I've got my theory.
Speaker 1: But in the minute we have before this break, why
Speaker 1: do you think we just got three female callers in
Speaker 1: a hurry together on the issue of tariffs.
Speaker 5: I think there are still a lot of traditional households
Speaker 5: DAN where the women run the pocket book and they
Speaker 5: keep track of expenses and you know, I'll operate the
Speaker 5: credit cards and know what's coming in and what's going out,
Speaker 5: and they have a better understanding of that than many
Speaker 5: men do.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: I think that's that's an excellent part of this. My
Speaker 1: own theory would extend to and listen, I love our
Speaker 1: children more than I can imagine loving anything right other
Speaker 1: than God himself. I think women, women who give birth
Speaker 1: to children, et cetera. I think women have as a
Speaker 1: group just this powerful, powerful fixation.
Speaker 2: On the long term.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm out there trying to kill the next
Speaker 1: beast right to to you know, feed the family, I think,
Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to, you know, stereotype, but I
Speaker 1: think women have this powerful focus on the long term.
Speaker 2: And I think our.
Speaker 1: Callers just epitomize, you know, you know, these these smart
Speaker 1: women who just are looking toward the future and they
Speaker 1: want the best for the future, and they know we're
Speaker 1: in a cycle now that cannot continue, right, This cannot
Speaker 1: continue with the big deficits and everything else, and it
Speaker 1: cannot continue with kind of the core of America being
Speaker 1: hollowed out, you know, as manufacturing goes to these other
Speaker 1: countries that are competing with us economically, if not militarily.
Speaker 1: And so I think that's where a lot of that
Speaker 1: comes from. So really interesting to see that. But again
Speaker 1: my belief is Democrats are freaking because they think it's
Speaker 1: going to work, and that would be the end of
Speaker 1: the modern Democratic Party.
Speaker 2: Look at the maths.
Speaker 1: When people start to make it's not even seventy five thousand.
Speaker 1: I'm married on the high side. When they start to
Speaker 1: make seventy five thousand or more, they vote Republican in
Speaker 1: significant numbers.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 3: And now back to the Dan Caplis Show podcast.
Speaker 4: The works is not liberation Day, It's recession day in
Speaker 4: the United.
Speaker 1: That is Jeffries, Democrat House Leader Jeffries. Hey, here's what's
Speaker 1: really going on that the Democrats aren't afraid that the
Speaker 1: tariffs are going to cause a recession, that Democrats are
Speaker 1: petrified that the tariffs are going to succeed, because if
Speaker 1: the tariffs succeed, the Democrats in America are done. It's
Speaker 1: the math once people start making. In fact, it's less
Speaker 1: than seventy five thousand, once people start making that, they're
Speaker 1: voting Republican in significant majorities. So let's go back to
Speaker 1: the phone lines. They've been exploding on the tariff's issue.
Speaker 1: Full disclaimer. I'm not an expert. I've not spent my
Speaker 1: life reading about tariff studying tariffs. I trust Trump on
Speaker 1: this for the reasons I explained. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: phone lines. Let's go up to Beautiful Boulder, Color. I
Speaker 1: don't talk to David. You're on the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 10: Welcome, Hey Dan, it's been way too long month.
Speaker 2: Hit. When do you get out?
Speaker 10: That's my own personal prison, sir.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, happy to visit.
Speaker 10: He I did like you to bumper music too, before
Speaker 10: the Little Red Corvette. What is it? That's something new?
Speaker 10: I haven't been as an avid of listeners I usually am.
Speaker 1: I had no idea what that was. I was about
Speaker 1: to call nine one one. What was that?
Speaker 2: Ryan? And why did we play it before? Little red
Speaker 2: corvette because I.
Speaker 3: Got ten thousand things going on back.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so I messed up.
Speaker 3: I apologize. That's never happened personally to David and Boulder.
Speaker 2: It marked the date. This is a first, but but
Speaker 2: David caught it. Go ahead, my friend, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: an abbot.
Speaker 10: But so nonetheless, I built a lot.
Speaker 7: Of carbons and stuff for the last twenty five years.
Speaker 10: And on March first, all the parts costs went up.
Speaker 7: About twenty five percent.
Speaker 10: It is going to be an absolutely brutal slug.
Speaker 7: This is the second biggest piece of our economy after healthcare.
Speaker 2: And these are foreign industry. These are foreign.
Speaker 10: Parts, right that exactly parts parts, parts, so they cooked
Speaker 10: all over the world.
Speaker 7: Okay, and it's going to be ugly for everybody involved, sadly.
Speaker 7: And it's that for how long?
Speaker 10: You know, we're going to guess for six months because
Speaker 10: we're hoping, wishing, you know know what they say, hope
Speaker 10: in one hand and do something in.
Speaker 2: The other hand.
Speaker 10: See which one fills up first when the truth sir?
Speaker 1: Who now, David, let's get back to parts. So for
Speaker 1: how long are we going to be hurting like that?
Speaker 1: Because the whole idea, right is get that stuff made here.
Speaker 7: It's not going to ever be made here because that
Speaker 7: twenty five percent tariffs not strong enough, because the labor
Speaker 7: costs in Vietnam are like seventy five percent less than
Speaker 7: the cost So.
Speaker 2: Do you think Trump's stupid?
Speaker 7: Cool?
Speaker 10: You know, I'm not a big Trumpet, right right?
Speaker 2: But do you think he's Do you think he's stupid?
Speaker 2: Do you think he wants to fail his alma mater, which.
Speaker 7: Is considered the greatest business school in the country, if
Speaker 7: not the world. They don't like it.
Speaker 10: Experts are telling you something that book now different than
Speaker 10: Larry and Greely saying let's just give him a chance.
Speaker 2: Well, well, David, this.
Speaker 1: Is how our relationship frazzles because you avoid direct questions.
Speaker 1: I don't remember a president Wharton. I know of a
Speaker 1: President Trump. So Trump got elected president for a reason,
Speaker 1: and one reason was the economy was really good when
Speaker 1: he was president until COVID. So, so you tell me,
Speaker 1: do you think he's stupid? Do you think he wants
Speaker 1: to fail? Now, obviously he's not stupid. Obviously he wants
Speaker 1: to succeed. Doesn't guarantee this will, but but it brings
Speaker 1: me back to my point. Okay, how long before these
Speaker 1: parts start getting made in the US and and you
Speaker 1: talk about the price of tea in China. Now, let's
Speaker 1: let's bring it back to Trump not being stupid. So, okay,
Speaker 1: Trump wants these parts made in the US. Right, do
Speaker 1: you think Trump is going to require let's pick what's
Speaker 1: your favorite foreign car?
Speaker 7: I'm a BMW guy.
Speaker 1: Okay, wow, I was going to say that, But let's
Speaker 1: pick BMW. Let no, no, no, and no knock on BMW.
Speaker 1: But but let's say BMW. Okay, do you really think
Speaker 1: that President Trump is going to say there and sit
Speaker 1: there and say, okay, BMW, it's a twenty five percent
Speaker 1: tariff forever. No BMW comes in and they commit to okay,
Speaker 1: here's what we're going to open in the US, and
Speaker 1: here's when we're going to open it. And then there's
Speaker 1: some kind of verification put in place, and then boom,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the tariff's taken off of BMW.
Speaker 7: From BMW specifically, their advantages they went from like KMAT
Speaker 7: they sund like eight of their cars in the US,
Speaker 7: or SUV's, which.
Speaker 2: Are also they make a lot of them here already.
Speaker 10: Right, take all of them here for the world. Basically,
Speaker 10: I'm made in South Carolina. Yeah, yeah, side on sided,
Speaker 10: it's all the parts that go in the car, all
Speaker 10: the chips that come from Taiwan to go in the car.
Speaker 7: So so it's fifty five percent domestic forty five percent,
Speaker 7: or maybe it's the other way, forty five percent domestics
Speaker 7: and fifty four in parts in an American made car.
Speaker 10: Man, just say, David up on the twenty five verse.
Speaker 7: On the fifty five percent of parts.
Speaker 1: And David, respectfully, weren't you one of the people called
Speaker 1: the show saying Trump was going to start World War
Speaker 1: three when he got elected in sixteen. So hey, listen,
Speaker 1: I understand the fair questions out there about terriff.
Speaker 10: I know Ukraine one on day one, there's gonna be
Speaker 10: peace in the Middle East, that's yeah. And you know
Speaker 10: I'm in Ukraine. I'm a Ukrainian pulish man. I would
Speaker 10: psyche for that to be over. I'm a little bit
Speaker 10: creshfalling that it.
Speaker 7: Didn't happen on day one the way of promise in
Speaker 7: the campaign. But yeah, yes, you and I both knew
Speaker 7: that was the reality of the scenario.
Speaker 2: Well it's listen. The date Trump became elected President.
Speaker 1: The conversation shift from can there be peace to when
Speaker 1: will be piece? That's a pretty big day one shift. Hey,
Speaker 1: appreciate the call, my friend. Thank you, David, and listen,
Speaker 1: I understand there are a lot of really smart people
Speaker 1: out there, including some people I really respect, who disagree
Speaker 1: on tariffs, and you know, they believe tariffs won't work.
Speaker 1: They have logic behind them. I'm not calling them idiots
Speaker 1: or Trump haters or anything like that. I'm just explaining
Speaker 1: why I have confidence in Trump on this and why
Speaker 1: I think the goal he's trying to pursue is worth
Speaker 1: some substantial risk. Three all three someone three eight two
Speaker 1: five five text dam five seven seven three nine lines
Speaker 1: lighten up on this. We'll get to the text as well.
Speaker 1: But tying into it because of the tariffs, what are
Speaker 1: now the best American made cay alternatives?
Speaker 2: You're on the Dankapli Show.