WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.520 This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast 2 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:05.719 edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to 3 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:08.240 give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind, 4 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:11.599 and to subscribe, download, and listen to the show every 5 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:19.559 single day on your favorite podcast platform. Oh, the sky 6 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:22.640 is falling. The sky is falling, Ryan, Wow, get your 7 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:23.640 football helmet on. 8 00:00:23.879 --> 00:00:24.519 Is this just. 9 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:28.359 Fascinating to watch, isn't it? And the reason I can 10 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:30.920 laugh about it and kind of enjoy it is there 11 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:32.719 is no doubt in my mind this is all going 12 00:00:32.759 --> 00:00:34.960 to end very, very well. But you heard at the top. 13 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:38.560 We just didn't get the usual propaganda from ABC News today. 14 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:41.840 Oh no, we got the special report. You notice that 15 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:45.399 it was ABC News special report of the Martians land. 16 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:48.000 If the Martians just landed, you know, is there a 17 00:00:48.119 --> 00:00:51.159 nuclear war somewhere? Oh no, no, no, it's the stock 18 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:53.280 markets down today, right, national crisis. 19 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:55.200 Right see, we were right all along. 20 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:59.039 Trump's Trump's horrible, Tamala should be president. And I thought, 21 00:00:59.119 --> 00:01:01.320 you know, I'm I was in court today, the privilege 22 00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:04.599 of being in court in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and I thought, well, 23 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:05.680 you know, okay, it's going. 24 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:06.159 To be a rough day. 25 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:08.840 Stocks are down ten or twenty percent, you know, Black Monday, 26 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:11.359 all this stuff, and so I checked and it looks 27 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:12.920 like about a five percent hit today. 28 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:15.280 Right as a guy with the four oh one K, 29 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:16.400 I don't like to see that. 30 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:21.560 But it's it's not like Black Monday or Black Friday 31 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:24.920 or the market crash or anything like that. It's just that, 32 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:28.200 and everybody sees it. And that's where the left. You know, 33 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:32.680 they're not stupid, they're s'mrons. They're smart people doing moronic 34 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:37.079 things because hate interrupts brain function and they just don't 35 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:40.239 see that everybody can see right now, they're rooting for 36 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:43.599 America to fail. They're rooting for our economy to crash. 37 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:47.359 Does anybody have any doubt that whatsoever that Jared Polis 38 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:49.400 would want to see We just want to see it 39 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:53.079 all crash tomorrow or Chuck Schumer or anybody else, Not 40 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:56.680 that anybody cares, but Polis now echoing the line, and 41 00:01:56.719 --> 00:01:58.359 it wasn't a very good one. It was something that 42 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:01.480 you know, probably a first year in turn wrote somebody 43 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:03.560 still in college. 44 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:06.239 From a king Jeffries. But Jared Paulie had to pick. 45 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:09.680 Up on this is one of the biggest tax hikes 46 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:10.879 in American history. 47 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:13.599 It's not liberation day, it's recession day. 48 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:15.960 Yeah, boy, that's creative, right. 49 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:19.639 So do you really think Jared Paulis wants to see 50 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:22.240 the economy store right now? Do you think Jared Poulis 51 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:25.599 wants to see your four oh one k go up 52 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:28.319 or down? Do you think he wants to see you 53 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:31.919 get paid more or less in your job? Do you 54 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:34.360 think he wants to see your family right now doing 55 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:37.520 better or worse? How about Michael Bennett? How about John 56 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:41.039 hick and Lopper? How about Chuck Schumer? Everybody knows the answer, right, 57 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:43.159 which just prouves they don't care about you at all. 58 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:47.759 But the beautiful thing here is that it's like road Runner, right, 59 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:50.400 Wiley Coyote, I mean, or you want to think about 60 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:53.680 the football being pulled away from Charlie Brown. It's going 61 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:55.759 to happen to them on this and it's just a 62 00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:59.879 matter of whether it's sooner or later. So and again, 63 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:02.240 you don't want to take stock advice from me, believe me, 64 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:06.960 But you haven't lost a dime until you sell. So 65 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:12.439 all these headlines about trillions and market value wiped out yet, 66 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:17.879 but nobody loses a dime until they sell And remember COVID. 67 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:19.879 And I'm not saying there's an all fours comparison to 68 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:25.120 COVID here at all, but remember COVID. And you know, again, 69 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:28.120 I do not consider myself a great stock picker or 70 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:32.199 anything like that. All I know, even in dummy like me, 71 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:36.919 was able to do, you know, relatively speaking for my 72 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:41.919 modest investments very well, you know, just just not giving 73 00:03:41.919 --> 00:03:43.360 into the panic during COVID. 74 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:45.120 So I think this is. 75 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:47.800 Going to be a great buying opportunity, whether it's today, tomorrow, 76 00:03:47.879 --> 00:03:50.479 week from now, months from now, whatever. But does anybody 77 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:53.120 truly in their right mind, And I appreciate the fact, 78 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:57.599 and this is physiological that the Trump haters their brains 79 00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:00.800 don't work correctly. And that's not meant as a it's 80 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:05.360 just literal, it's clinical. Their brains don't work correctly because 81 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:07.919 you know from your life, I know from mine that 82 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:14.639 hate interrupts brain function. Anger interrupts brain function. And they 83 00:04:14.719 --> 00:04:17.279 hate Trump so much their brains don't work. 84 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:17.560 Right. 85 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:23.319 Can any thinking person believe that Donald Trump, who just 86 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:26.079 overcame more than anybody I can think of right off 87 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:29.439 the bat in the history of America to become president 88 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:33.480 again for a second term, that Donald Trump is going 89 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:39.720 to stumble into some kind of economic disaster. Not a chance, 90 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:44.759 not a chance. So I just start from that simple 91 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:49.160 common sense point, right, there is no way in the 92 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:52.480 world he's going to blow up his own presidency. And 93 00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:55.040 then you look at the economic success he has had 94 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:57.759 in his own life and critically and maybe even more 95 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:01.279 importantly in his first term in office. And then you 96 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:04.600 look at the track record of his critics and who 97 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:07.959 you're going to trust ghostbusters, Yeah, three or three someone 98 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:11.519 three eight two five five takes d an five seven seven, 99 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:13.959 three nine. And the starting point is right. This is 100 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:16.199 coming from a guy I have not spent my life 101 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:19.920 studying tariffs. I do not claim to be a tariff 102 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:23.399 expert of any kind. I do claim to be an 103 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:26.360 expert in common sense, and I have been around a 104 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:29.639 little while. And so that's what leaves me with great 105 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:32.399 comfort right now that this is going to end very well. 106 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:33.800 But we want to bring you both sides. So I 107 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:35.800 want to bring you a lot of sound on different 108 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:39.360 sides of this whole tariff thing today, and then we'll 109 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:42.199 continue the conversation as it rolls out toward what I 110 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:44.279 expect to be a very happy conclusion. 111 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:46.319 Sooner than later. 112 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:49.639 And that's the other thing that people forget in this conversation, right, 113 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:52.160 American might. 114 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:54.920 And I'm just talking clinically now. 115 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:58.319 I'm not even talking about the pride you probably feel 116 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:02.240 in your chest, the pride you feel for the United 117 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:04.759 States of America, how we're all lottery winners to even 118 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:09.639 be born here. I'm not even talking about those justifiable emotions. 119 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:16.199 I'm just talking clinically here, American might. And when America 120 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:20.120 takes a position on the world economic stage, that now 121 00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:22.439 all of a sudden things are going to have to 122 00:06:22.439 --> 00:06:23.079 be more fair. 123 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:26.360 Now. Is it really as if all these other nations 124 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:27.160 in the world can. 125 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:30.959 Just double middle finger America and laugh at us and say, oh, 126 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:32.319 you're going down now, big boy. 127 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:34.639 I don't think so. I don't think that's the way 128 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:35.120 it works. 129 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:38.279 So there are a lot of reasons to believe, just 130 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:41.839 starting with basic common sense reasons that I know this 131 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:44.120 is going to end well. But I come back to 132 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:46.279 this other premise, and I'd love to get your take 133 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:48.079 on this. You can text us, as you know, da 134 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:50.560 N five seven seven three nine, or call, which I 135 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:53.720 really enjoy three h three someone three eight two five five. 136 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:56.279 But but just broadening it out, and we could talk 137 00:06:56.360 --> 00:07:00.160 of course economically as well, but broadening it out. How 138 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:04.279 many things are there in life where you get great progress, 139 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:09.319 great breakthrough, break great solutions to a big problem without 140 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:14.279 some pain, without some sacrifice. That's just not the human condition, 141 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:17.319 that's not the way it works. I know, Ryan, you've 142 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:19.839 been thinking all night Kellys two about some exception, and 143 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:21.759 I know some exception. 144 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:27.319 Out there exists. But whether it's childbirth itself. 145 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:30.199 Right, the greatest thing that can happen in all of humankind, 146 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:34.759 whether it's childbirth itself or something in business, or it's 147 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:40.040 something in sports, or it's something in a relationship, what 148 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:46.279 great breakthrough, particularly, what kind of problem solving ever happens 149 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:48.959 without some pain, without some sacrifice. 150 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:52.079 And that's you know why this country. 151 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:54.759 Has gotten into such big trouble now, right, just whether 152 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:58.319 it's Republicans Democrats, there's been very little tolerance to the 153 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:02.759 point of about zero or any kind of pain while 154 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:07.399 somebody's in office, because that their first priority is protecting 155 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:10.199 themselves and protecting their power and their grip on power 156 00:08:10.199 --> 00:08:12.160 and their influence, and if they're up for reelection, their 157 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:13.480 chance for reelection, et cetera. 158 00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:16.600 So none of these elected people. 159 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:20.000 Very few on either side both sides are willing to 160 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:22.600 do anything that's going to inflict any pain, even though 161 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:25.160 they know it just keeps the. 162 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:26.800 Car moving toward the cliff. 163 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:31.319 I respect the heck out of Trump for being willing 164 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:33.000 to say, no, we're going to have to endure some 165 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:39.200 pain to break this cycle that is headed us, heading 166 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:41.360 us toward a very very bad end. 167 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:44.639 So hey, I think it's going to work. 168 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:49.120 And that's the other thing is people are analyzing this, 169 00:08:49.720 --> 00:08:51.440 and people who know a lot more about tariffs than 170 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:54.519 I do are analyzing this in kind of a traditional 171 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:57.960 tariff sense of Okay, you know, what's the long term 172 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:01.000 impact of terriffs that they're not in it in. 173 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:05.039 A deal making sense, and a deal making. 174 00:09:04.799 --> 00:09:08.200 Sense whereby okay, what's the long term impact and so 175 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:12.840 what is the price to everybody involved in that, and 176 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:16.240 what kind of leverage does that then create four deals, 177 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:21.000 some in the relatively short term. So yeah, what Democrats, 178 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:23.360 I'll say it again only because it's a profound truth 179 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:25.320 we all have to keep in mind during this period 180 00:09:25.399 --> 00:09:29.480 of pain. But but what Democrats are so terrified of 181 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:32.320 is not the tariffs are going to fail, but the 182 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:35.080 tariffs are going to work. So they have to spook 183 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:41.000 Trump off the tariffs before they work, because the left 184 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:45.080 knows once these tariffs work, the left is toast. I mean, 185 00:09:45.080 --> 00:09:47.679 they'll hang on in a few hardcore lefty type spots, 186 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:49.320 but they know once these. 187 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:52.360 Tariffs work and people see. 188 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:54.759 You know, the tremendous thing that's going to come from 189 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:57.679 you know, all of the benefits more manufacturing and home 190 00:09:57.679 --> 00:10:00.720 et cetera, who's going to have any interest these Democrats? 191 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:03.559 And we know mathematically, and I don't mean to be redundant, 192 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:05.320 but it's a number of people need to keep in 193 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:08.360 mind once people start making seventy five grand or more 194 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:12.519 strong majority vote Republicans. So that's what the Democrats are 195 00:10:12.519 --> 00:10:14.440 so freaked about, that these things are going to work. 196 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:16.519 We have much more ahead in the show as well. 197 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:20.039 Today we have sound from the legislature, actually elected Democrats 198 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:25.240 comparing parents groups that have an interest in these transcendity 199 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:26.759 issues to the KKK. 200 00:10:27.399 --> 00:10:28.720 We'll play that sound for you. 201 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:31.440 We'll have the state legislator who is in that hearing, 202 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:33.840 and then we'll talk about, you know, what does that 203 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:38.000 mean for where Colorado's headed, the chances of the GOP, etc. 204 00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:39.759 You're on the Dankapla Show. 205 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:49.080 And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast. 206 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:53.039 Without some pain. I'd really like to get folks take 207 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:53.200 on that. 208 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:56.639 I'm sure there's something somewhere, but the universal truth, right 209 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:01.919 is that almost every great property, almost every great breakthrough, 210 00:11:02.039 --> 00:11:07.080 almost every great healing act, fixing a major problem comes 211 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:09.440 with some significant pain. I'd love to hear about the 212 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:12.000 exceptions here is Senator rand Paul. 213 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:15.480 Tariffs have also led to political decimation. 214 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:19.360 When McKinley most famously put tariffs on in eighteen ninety, 215 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:21.279 they lost fifty percent. 216 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:22.360 Of their seats in the next selection. 217 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:25.320 When Hot smoothly put on their tariff in their early 218 00:11:25.399 --> 00:11:26.480 nineteen thirties. 219 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:29.080 And lost the House in the Senate for sixty years. 220 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:32.840 So they're not only bad economically or they're bad politically. 221 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:38.200 And listen, it's not just the Democrats. They're really prominent Republicans, 222 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:41.039 some not a majority or close to it, really prominent 223 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:46.480 Republicans very concerned about these tariffs. The difference is the Democrats, 224 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:48.240 I think to a person, at least the ones we've 225 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:52.200 talked about, want the economy to fail. The Republicans wanted 226 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:55.080 to succeed. If you think there's a hole in that logic. 227 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:57.120 As Prime says, you know where to find me three 228 00:11:57.240 --> 00:11:59.360 or three someone three eight, two, five, five The number 229 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:02.200 texts DA in five, seven, seven through nine before I 230 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:05.240 go to the phone lines, and we'll start in wheat Ridge, Colorado. 231 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:07.559 One of my favorite texts in a long time. 232 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:11.039 Dan, Maybe you should stop lying to your audience and 233 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:12.919 tell them who pays tariffs. 234 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:17.480 I'll wait for your answer. You're not worth calling, and it's. 235 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:22.440 Disgusting how you're covering Trump's tariff's stupidity. Every economist from 236 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:26.039 left to right says it's an idiotic move. Well, the 237 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:30.799 reason this guy's not calling is because he knows that 238 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:35.080 he would get decimated in a conversation. As polite and 239 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:38.519 as nice and respectful as I am, he would lose. 240 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:41.879 And it's not because of me. It's just because of 241 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:45.720 the facts. But here's what I'm curious about. You're not 242 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:48.399 worth calling, but I'm worth texting. 243 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:49.639 Huh. 244 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:52.480 That's kind of interesting because more people these days just 245 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:55.360 prefer to text. I guess to right is to think, 246 00:12:55.399 --> 00:12:59.559 and everybody's busy. But think about how little he thinks 247 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:03.399 of you. You should stop lying to your audience. Tell 248 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:07.039 them who pays tariffs. Well, there's no question about who 249 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:11.879 pays tariffs. Everybody knows who pays tariffs, and obviously I've 250 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:15.159 never said anything to the contrary. That's why we've spent 251 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:18.919 the last two days talking about pain and talking about 252 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:23.600 the pain that we're willing to endure to save this country, 253 00:13:23.679 --> 00:13:26.879 to advance this country. We wouldn't be talking about the 254 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:31.120 pain if we all didn't understand that these tariffs cost 255 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:34.759 us short term because we're going to be paying more 256 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:39.519 for imported goods. They cost us because our efforts to 257 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:43.840 sell goods overseas are going to then run into higher tariffs. 258 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:44.799 We all get that. 259 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:50.279 But my question to this individual, and it's the reason 260 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:55.080 I think she didn't call, is because, Okay, well, who 261 00:13:55.120 --> 00:13:56.960 pays for. 262 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:00.000 What sickens America right now? 263 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:04.919 Who pays for these big structural problems we have in 264 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:10.679 America right now that's heading this country toward a cliff economically? 265 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:13.919 Who pays for that? What about that pain? 266 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:18.639 Just because you have a sugar high before you have 267 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:23.879 an absolutely hillacious, enduring amount of pain, doesn't mean that 268 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:26.480 pain's any less. In fact, that pain's going to be more. 269 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:29.879 But nobody wants to talk about that pain. They just 270 00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:33.240 want to talk about the pain that Trump is causing 271 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:38.679 right now. By trying to heal these problems, heal what 272 00:14:38.840 --> 00:14:42.639 ails us which could potentially be fatal three or three 273 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:44.720 someone three eight two five five text d A N 274 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:49.080 five seven seven three nine. Let's go to beautiful weak Ridge, Colorado. Craig, 275 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:50.799 you're on the Dame Kaplis, sh'll welcome. 276 00:14:51.799 --> 00:14:52.240 Hey, Dan. 277 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:54.919 I want to preface what I'm about to say by 278 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:57.120 saying that I voted. I've voted for Trump in the 279 00:14:57.159 --> 00:15:04.120 past three elections, but I don't what there will not 280 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:05.480 be the next one. He's not going to get a 281 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:06.960 third term. 282 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:10.120 But let me finish, Okay, he is. 283 00:15:10.919 --> 00:15:13.120 I agree with his policy that we need to get 284 00:15:13.159 --> 00:15:16.919 manufacturing back in the United States first of all, but 285 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:19.120 tariffs is trying to kind of force the hand nowt 286 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:24.279 For example, in his speech yesterday, he targeted Japan. And 287 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:28.960 the facts are that Japan ninety ninety five percent opinion 288 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:32.080 on who you want to talk to of cars being 289 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:35.919 driven in Japan are manufactured in Japan. Well that yeah, 290 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:38.440 that's a tremendous trade imbalance. And we do buy a 291 00:15:38.440 --> 00:15:41.960 lot of Japanese cars in the United States. 292 00:15:42.279 --> 00:15:42.960 Some of those. 293 00:15:42.759 --> 00:15:46.240 Companies have manufacturing plants in the United States which employ 294 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:50.399 United States workers. But why do you target Japan with 295 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:55.279 tariffs when the reason people in Japan do not buy 296 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:58.919 American cars is because the quality they have a perceived 297 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:04.000 opinion of the quality of their cars are better than 298 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:08.720 American cars. Big SUVs, pickups do not fit on Japanese 299 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:09.600 narrow roads. 300 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:12.600 Get bigger roads. 301 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:16.440 Well, okay, you cannot expand. 302 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:19.480 Roads, Craig, I was joking. I was joking, my friend. 303 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:23.600 Here's my core question too. I'm not dismissing anything you 304 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:25.399 have to say. I'm the first one to say I'm 305 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:27.600 no expert on tariffs. I'm also the first one to 306 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:32.919 say I trust Trump. I trust his view of the economy, 307 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:35.960 I trust his economic impulses. I trust that he's not 308 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:41.080 self destructive. So are you sitting there believing that he 309 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:44.240 just threw a dart at the wall in the West 310 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:46.960 wing and came up with that number for Japan, or 311 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:49.759 that he has some rationale, some rationale that you may 312 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:54.200 well disagree with, but I trust that he has a rationale. 313 00:16:55.399 --> 00:16:58.080 Well, the American percentage of cars being driven in Japan 314 00:16:58.200 --> 00:17:05.680 is one percent. Has I'm just specifically we probably import 315 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:09.680 more Japanese automobiles than we do anything from Japan. That's 316 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:12.079 probably the biggest when you want to talk about the 317 00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:15.480 total number of the deficits between what is purchased from 318 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:18.680 the United States and Japan and vice versa, the biggest 319 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:23.359 portion of that money is probably in the automotive industry. Now, 320 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:26.519 if they're only buying one percent of our automobiles and 321 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:30.960 they're buying four percent from German or European car makers, 322 00:17:32.039 --> 00:17:35.720 you can't Consumers will buy. They will spend their money 323 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:38.000 where they want to spend their money, where they precede 324 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:41.960 the quality to be the best. Force and putting tariffs 325 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:47.000 on automobiles is trying to force Americans to buy American 326 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:50.880 cars maybe when they don't want to. Maybe they want 327 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:53.240 to buy a Japanese car because they precede the quality 328 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:56.640 to be better, whether it be a Toyota, Honda, Accurate, whatever. 329 00:17:57.519 --> 00:18:01.359 Well eight, I have no question that that is true 330 00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:05.559 for some American buyers, no question whatsoever. And I respect 331 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:13.039 their free choice, their ability to make that choice. 332 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:16.839 You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast. 333 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:24.279 In a historic Executive order instituting reciprocal tariffs on countries 334 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:25.160 throughout the world. 335 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:28.599 Reciprocal. That means they do it to us and we 336 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:29.680 do it to them. 337 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:36.319 Very simple. Can't get any simpler than that. This is 338 00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:39.480 one of the most important days, in my opinion, in 339 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:46.160 American history. It's our declaration of economic independence. For years, 340 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:49.160 hard working American citizens were forced to sit on the 341 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:53.599 sidelines as other nations got rich and powerful, much of 342 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:57.160 it at our expense. But now it's our turn to 343 00:18:57.279 --> 00:19:01.240 prosper and in so doing, use treaty and trillions of 344 00:19:01.319 --> 00:19:04.880 dollars to reduce our taxes and pay down our national debt. 345 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:07.119 And it'll all happen very quickly. 346 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:10.759 With today's action, we are finally going to be able 347 00:19:10.839 --> 00:19:14.839 to make America great again, greater than ever before. 348 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:17.240 And I want to play some more of the sound 349 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:19.359 of Trump's explanation, because you don't get much of that 350 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:21.480 out there, right. I mean, most of the mainstream media 351 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:24.640 is an extension of the Democratic Party, and you're getting 352 00:19:24.640 --> 00:19:28.119 the hysteria and you're getting their cheerleading for calamity, right, 353 00:19:28.200 --> 00:19:32.240 because obviously the left wants the economy to crash. They're 354 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:36.440 going to be sorely disappointed. But tying into this related 355 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:40.400 issue is Tesla and the terrorist attacks on Tesla, and 356 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:42.720 George Brockler, the DA and the twenty third will join 357 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:45.079 us at five point thirty six to talk about what 358 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:49.039 those penalties should look like criminally. I also I'm intrigued 359 00:19:49.079 --> 00:19:51.279 by a civil lawsuit that was just filed for a 360 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:56.240 very large amount of money against a Tesla terrorist, and 361 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:57.359 so I want to look at some. 362 00:19:57.319 --> 00:19:58.839 Of the civil possibilities as well. 363 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:01.839 But that got me into talk talking about Okay, I'm 364 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:05.079 starting to think about getting a cyber truck just to 365 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:08.799 make a statement, just to stand up against the terrorist. 366 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:10.920 And so as I thought about that, I thought, you know, 367 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:12.680 I don't like any of their colors. It's not a 368 00:20:12.759 --> 00:20:15.519 very good looking car to begin with. I don't like 369 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:19.359 any of the colors. So I started to research online 370 00:20:19.400 --> 00:20:21.960 and there's some really cool wraps out there where they 371 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:24.720 wrap a vehicle. So we've been talking about that, and 372 00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:28.119 then I got this nice text from a company. Get 373 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:32.799 Doug with Quantum Raps in Canyon City. Looking at the website, 374 00:20:32.920 --> 00:20:34.359 I mean, some of the stuff I saw on the 375 00:20:34.359 --> 00:20:36.400 website should be in the loof. 376 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:37.799 It's just a work of art. 377 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:40.119 So I thought we'd do a quick pop with Doug 378 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:42.960 just to get a feel for what's possible and what 379 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:46.240 this stuff costs. Hey, Doug, welcome to the Dan Kapla Show. 380 00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:48.799 Oh, thank you, Dan. How are you doing well. 381 00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:51.799 I'm doing great and appreciate the time. I'm really excited 382 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:54.839 about this REP possibility but know nothing about it. 383 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:58.279 So first tell folks a little bit about your business. 384 00:20:58.279 --> 00:21:02.039 But then also everybody's question is what does it cost 385 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:04.960 to say rep an s U V REP, A pick 386 00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:05.799 up REP A car? 387 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:10.640 Okay, yeah, I can explain. Some of that business is 388 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:17.880 basically graphic design marketing type of products. We do vehicle wraps, 389 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:23.359 we do science banners, web design, graphic design pretty much 390 00:21:23.640 --> 00:21:27.640 one stop shop, but we do we do a lot 391 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:34.079 of vehicle wraps. We there's a lot of box with 392 00:21:34.200 --> 00:21:38.079 a vehicle wrap. Either do a color change that's just 393 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:41.559 simply changing the color of your vehicle. There's a lot 394 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:44.960 of options to look to that are available. Then we 395 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:48.640 also do full print. That's a we can do custom design. 396 00:21:49.920 --> 00:21:54.200 We can do this personal uh personal use of businesses 397 00:21:55.400 --> 00:21:58.480 and uh yeah, it's just a great way to h 398 00:21:58.799 --> 00:22:01.839 give your vehicle a new and feel or hope if 399 00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:04.920 you don't like the color change that and it also 400 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:06.000 helps save your paints. 401 00:22:06.839 --> 00:22:09.480