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In another insightful hour, John Rush sheds light on a couple’s tumultuous dispute with a Mexican resort over a timeshare, unraveling the complexities and risks involved in international contracts. Listeners are urged to consider consumer protections and the legal implications of financial disputes overseas, as John shares cautionary tales that emphasize due diligence and the boundaries of U.S. law abroad.
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All right, hour number three, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Several of you texting in after our last segment, which I didn’t, I mean, I guess I didn’t really think about it striking a nerve, but several of you, I reminded you now what soap tastes like. Because I guess I wasn’t the only one, nor was Charlie, that got his or her mouth washed out with soap when we were younger. So several of you reminding me that, yes, I know what dial soap or lava soap or whatever soap tastes like because, yeah, we had the same experience as young men and women as, I guess, Charlie and I did. So we’re not the only ones. Now, I do think that’s probably a dying thing. I don’t know if parents still do that, or is that now considered child abuse to wash your kid’s mouth out with soap if they… Charlie said it’s probably attempted murder. I don’t know. I… I have some stories along these lines. Charlie said, yeah, it’s because you’re trying to poison them with soap. I’ve got some stories along these lines. And I may have told this one on air, but I’ll tell it again. And I, okay, I get it that, you know, people use colorful language, okay? And I am not one of those prude types that runs around if somebody’s saying something in a tongue that they shouldn’t be. No, I’m not one to correct. Now, I will say this. All the businesses I’ve run and so on, I’ve never allowed my people, when speaking to customers and things along those lines, to use foul language. Just not allowed in my companies, period. I think there’s better ways to communicate than using all of the colorful language that’s now out in the world. So that’s just a policy that I’ve had for years and years and years. And you guys all know me, and Charlie knows this. He can attest to this. You never have to worry about the dump button with me on air by myself. Now, sometimes callers and so on, those things can happen. And, yes, we’re always careful to make sure that something doesn’t slip out and we don’t want a fine or anything from the FCC for having colorful language go out over the air. But for me personally, it’s never an issue. I mean, I don’t swear. It’s just not in my vocabulary. It’s the way I was raised and we weren’t allowed to. And even if we got close to even swearing as kids, we got our mouths washed out with soap. That’s probably why to this day, I don’t swear because that’s what happened to us. So I was at one time in a mall, and I don’t go to the mall very often. This has been a long time ago. This has been decades ago. And it was around Christmas time. And I don’t know exactly what I was there for. I guess shopping for the wife or whatever for Christmas. And I wasn’t really thinking much about things. And so I’m walking around. And as I’m walking, and there wasn’t a lot of people around. This must have been one evening because it wasn’t a super busy evening. And there wasn’t a ton of people around. I mean, there were a few, but not a lot. And there was a young man, and this is, you know, I’m 60 now, so I was probably in my, I don’t know, 40s. I don’t consider myself to be an old guy at that point, but, you know, younger than I am now, but still old, I guess, in the eyes of a lot of people. Anyways, there was a young man that was having a, I guess you could call a disagreement with his, I’m guessing, girlfriend. I didn’t see any rings on, so I’m guessing it was the girlfriend. And he’s using all sorts of colorful language, including the F word. And he’s calling her basically everything under the book. And I was one of those individuals at the time where and I still am where, you know, I can listen to a little bit of that. But after a point, I’m not going to listen any longer. And in this particular situation, I actually walked up to the young man and I said, do you kiss your mouth with that? Do you kiss your mother with that mouth? He kind of looks at me kind of strange. I’m like, I’m being serious. I’m like, do you kiss your mother with that mouth and all of that garbage that’s spewing out of her right now against your girlfriend? And by the way, she needs treated better than that. And he looked at me like he was totally shocked somebody would even call him out on it. And so what I got back, though, in return was mind your own business, old man. And I’m like, well, I am minding my business. I don’t like the way you’re treating your girlfriend. I don’t like the language that you’re using. And by the way, it’s offensive to everybody else that’s here now. So I would kindly ask you to shut your mouth, shut your trap. And he kind of looks at me like, what are you going to do about it? And I stood my ground and basically said, well, probably a lot more than you will. So bottom line, move along. Shut your trap. I don’t want to hear it any longer because to me it was being very offensive at that point in time. So that’s probably one of the few times I’ve ever said anything along those lines. There was one other time I can remember where I was at a ball game and I had my boys with me. And I think we were at a CU game and had my boys with me. And there were some guys behind us that were just every other word was the F word. And it was getting to the point where, you know, one every now and again, you know, you can put up with. And yes, I know my boys are still going to get some experience around that. And they’re still going to hear some of that. And my one son went to the military. So absolutely, he’s heard those words and so on. So I wasn’t trying to, you know, keep them sheltered from the world in regards to that. But, you know, that just becomes a point in time where it’s like, you know, I’ve heard enough of this. I get it. You don’t like what’s going on or you don’t like what the coach is doing or you don’t like what that player is doing. But, you know, I don’t need to hear the F word every single time something is said. So, yes, I’m one of those guys is one of my downfalls where I had to turn around and say, you know, there are kids present. Could you kindly use a different word? And again, you get the immediate, you know, shocked look. But then you usually get some smart aleck response of, you know, well, why? And no, I can say whatever I want and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And yes, you know, I understand there’s free speech and so on. But, you know, when you’re being offensive. To all of those that are around you, and there are young kids present, I do think you need to be – you have some couth, I guess you could say. Be better than that. And, yes, I am one of those persons that if I hear that and it goes on long enough, yes, I will say something. I don’t know. Again, I guess, guys, it’s just the way I was raised. I go back to the bar of soap conversation we were having in the last hour before we ended that particular hour. And again, just the way I was raised. And I think you can do better. And no, you don’t need to talk like that. And there’s better ways to communicate. And that’s my take on those things. Now, will I run around and be a goody two shoes and tell anybody that ever swears they shouldn’t? No, I’m not that person. But if I’m in public and there are others around, especially young people and women especially around, and there are people being so foul-mouthed that even I get tired of it, yes, I’m going to say something and I’m going to call that person out on it. And so far, I’ve never been in a fistfight over it. You know, I will still say what needs to be said when that time comes. And my feeling is not enough of us do that. Thereby, these people feel like they have an open ticket to act like that all of the time. And it’s not a problem ever. And the reality is it is. 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This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. All right, another interesting story that I read today, which some of you could probably care less about, but I found it interesting. And this was a, is, not was, is a couple that had a dispute over a timeshare that they had bought from Palace Resorts in Mexico. And evidently, there were some things that weren’t the way they were supposed to be. And I don’t know all the details of that. But evidently, they had a dispute over the amount owed to Palace Resorts. And they took it up with Amex. They must have put it on their credit card or the payments of or something. And in turn, American Express sided with them, gave them their money back. And I guess at that point in time, they felt like, OK, this is a done deal. You know, the dispute is settled. We don’t owe them any more money. Enough said. Well, they went to Mexico a couple of different times. No problems. Until about a week or so ago. Might even be longer than that. Might be two weeks now. They were arrested upon coming through customs at the airport for fraud. for essentially defrauding palace resorts, and are now in a Mexican prison. awaiting a trial that might take up to six months to actually happen because that’s how long the government has given Palace Resorts to come up with their side of the story as to why this couple owes them the money, which now Palace Resorts and the Mexican government is asking for $250,000 and a formal public apology because they feel like they were also defamed. online and elsewhere by what this couple had put out there about palace resorts here in america and it’s a mess uh i guess the uh these are this is an older couple i think they’re both in their early 60s she’s down like 20 pounds so they’ve been there for a couple of weeks i want to say she’s down about 20 pounds she won’t eat any of the food that they are giving her because she’s allergic to what they’re trying to feed her she’s got a major rash all sorts of other things going on and they have now gotten their local representative i think they’re from michigan so they’ve got a representative from michigan trying to discuss things with the white house to then try to discuss things with the mexican government and here’s my moral of that story if you’re going to buy any kind of a timeshare which anymore i wouldn’t but if you’re going to buy a timeshare don’t buy one out of the country They don’t have the same laws and so forth that we do here in America, no matter what the paperwork says. It’s not the same. And no, you’re not being bound by U.S. law. You’re going to be bound by whatever that country’s law is, in this case, Mexican law. And at the end of the day, this could happen. So for those of you that are out there and you go to any of those presentations or things like that, and I have been to a lot of those over the years because you get all sorts of goodies when you go. That’s a whole other conversation or show topic I could probably cover is what kind of timeshare goodies can you get and what’s the fastest you’ve ever been in and out of one. My record is 15 minutes, by the way. That’s my wife and I’s record. I’ve been in and out of a timeshare presentation in 15 minutes. Most take 90. I’ve been in and out in 15 minutes, yes. And I’m not lying. My wife can verify that. 15 minutes. So, point being, there are ways to go through those things, still get the free stuff, still say no, still not get roped into doing anything, and still get out of it what you need, which… in some cases you can get up to 500 bucks depending upon the presentation. That’s a whole nother, you know, that’s a whole nother segment in and of itself that maybe I’ll do at some point in time on, you know, how to, how to do those, how to not do them. And you get offered those things all over the place. Every time you travel, you get offered one in most hotels, you know, anymore, a lot of them, Marriott’s, et cetera, Hilton, they’re all timeshare owned. And even if you’re just going and staying at a regular hotel, you may be offered one. So any, anyways, long story, uh, Don’t buy one out of country. If you do, you better make sure you got all your I’s dotted and T’s crossed. In this particular couple’s situation, they’ve been gone. This is also, I believe he’s a veteran. He’s an ex, I think it’s, I can’t remember the armed service he was in, but he’s a vet, served his country. And so now the kids are asking, hey, what kind of help do we get to get my folks out of this Mexican prison they’re in over something that’s just over a, They didn’t kill anybody. They weren’t running drugs. They weren’t running contraband into Mexico. They didn’t have a luggage full of whatever that they got caught for. I mean, that would be a whole different situation. No, no, no, that’s not the issue. The issue is Palace Resorts feels like they have been defrauded. They have pressed charges. This couple then was arrested at the airport. There’s video of them being taken away at the airport. And the family’s only talked to the husband, I think, once or twice since all of this happened. So you’ll read about it. It’s all over the news. If you haven’t seen it, you will. If you don’t know, just go look up what I just said. Just go Google what I just said, and you’ll find the articles out there. It’s a very interesting read. For some of you that travel and do things along those lines, it’s probably in your best interest to actually read this particular article and not make the same mistakes these folks made. Now, how would you have avoided that? I mean, in their defense, they went to Mexico a couple of times, no problems, went back the third time, and then got arrested. So, again, I don’t know all the details. I’m sure more of it will come out as time goes by. But very interesting story. And one that, let’s just say, I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes. I would not want to be in their shoes. You know, I have had this. I think I’ve said this many times on air. You know, I was raised by never go to jail. Always have a roof over your head. Those two things always stick in the front of my mind at all times. Keep a roof over your head. Don’t go to jail. Keep a roof over your head. Don’t go to jail. Keep a roof over your head. Don’t go to jail. You get the drift in the front of my mind. It’s always there. So at any rate, I would not want to be in jail outside of the U.S. especially. I have another story where I almost went to prison. Yes, me. I almost went to jail, went to prison. Was at an was at a Ethiopian police station or jail, if you would, for about 14 hours one day. And I started the night before. That’s a whole story in and of itself. that I could tell on air at some point in time. Not a good position to be in. Let’s just say that. At that time, and make a long story short, and I can tell the story more later, but I was accused of running into somebody with the car and killing them. That’s what I was being accused of in Ethiopia. Not a good place to be, by the way. Not a fun place to be, because the last thing you want to be is in some foreign jail and not get out. And yes, that was going through my mind the entire time. Am I going to get out of this? Am I going to get out of this? And by the way, no, I hadn’t done any of that, but that’s what I was being accused of. So at any rate, that’s another story for another day. Delaware, they just passed a billionaire’s bill. Keep in mind, this is Joe’s home state, Joe Biden’s home state. A billionaire’s bill to keep Zuckerberg and others from following Musk out the door. In other words, Delaware lawmakers Tuesday night passed a bill restructuring its corporate code as the state tries to prevent companies like Meta from exiting the state. The bill was designed with hopes of preventing a so-called Dexit. where companies hypothetically rushed to incorporate somewhere else out of Delaware into another state, such as Texas, Nevada. Some 2.2 million entities are incorporated in Delaware, and the state was home to 81% of all U.S. initial public offerings. Delaware is the best place in the world to incorporate your business, and Senate Bill 21 will help keep it that way, ensuring clarity and predictability, balancing the interests of stockholders and corporate boards, says Governor Matt Meyer in a statement after signing. So evidently they understand the importance of keeping companies there. I’m not sure the whole Democrat Party understands that. In fact, what I would tell you is the Democrat Party doesn’t understand that end of things because what they keep trying to do when it comes to corporations and taxes and so on, the whole tax the rich scheme, which is exactly what it is, directly targets these sorts of companies. So while Delaware has figured this out, they need to send a message to the rest of the Democrat Party that, hey, we should do the same thing in the rest of the party. Otherwise, we’re going to have people exiting the country because of your bad policies. If we continue after this whole mantra of tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich, which, by the way, is what Bernie and AOC were talking about even when they were here in Denver last Friday, they continue down that mantra, it’s not going to bode well for them as a party. And I mean that with all sincerity. So somebody in the party should further that message along and let them know that that’s not waning very well when it comes to those that have resources, because what they’ll do is just move them other places when it’s all said and done. Roof Savers of Colorado coming up next. And yes. Take care of your roof. It will take care of you. Like I was talking earlier, I always want a roof over my head. And I don’t just want a roof over my head. I want a good roof over my head that, by the way, at the end of the day, is saving me money and not costing me money in all sorts of forms of maintenance and repairs and so on. 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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Charlie’s getting Scott Garlis rounded up here. We’ll have him in just a moment. Several of you texting in, by the way, especially on the whole Mexico thing with that couple of you messaging in that, yeah, I wouldn’t have gone back there. I would have picked other places to vacation to just to double, you know, just to make sure that I didn’t end up in that same place. And again, I’m not them. I don’t know what their rationale was. I don’t know what was going on in their mind. I don’t know all of the details that went into this particular situation. All I know is, and those of you texting know the exact same thing that I’m talking about, you’re not in America. You’re not under the same laws. You don’t have the same freedoms there that you have here. While you’re an American citizen, that’s great. but you still got to find somebody that’s going to come and help you out when it’s all said and done. Scott Garlis joining us now. Scott, welcome.
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Hey, John, how are you today?
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I am good. Good to hear you. Glad to be back together again. Lots and always lots happening, whether we talk or not. Bottom line, there’s been a lot of things that have happened since you and I talked last.
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Yes, there have been. It’s never a dull moment.
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No, it never is. And, you know, even with tariffs and all the different things that are happening along those lines and reality is that while people and I think the globalists especially get all bent out of shape and nervous over the tariffs so far and correct me if I’m wrong. But so far, we haven’t seen huge inflationary increases out of them. In fact, they’ve been used as a negotiating tool on the Trump side to get other countries to do what’s necessary. In fact, I think they’ve worked very well up to this point. I guess time will tell how much better they continue to work. But there hasn’t been these huge inflationary things that the Fed and others are worried about, or am I wrong?
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Yeah, I mean, no, we haven’t seen it show up in the numbers yet. As a matter of fact… if you look at the headline numbers on PCE and CPI the last couple of months, they’ve actually started coming back down. So it’s the old, well, just wait until a couple of months down the road, just wait until a couple of months down the road. Maybe, we’ll see. I mean, we heard that last time around, and inflation never really materialized. So I’m kind of right now in the camp of, You know, bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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Well, you know, and you know my feelings on all this, of course. You know, I’m a lot like you in regards to these things, and I am not a globalist, and I have to remind folk at different times, whether they’re listeners or even family members at times, you know, be careful of what you read, be careful of all of the naysayers, because globalists hate… not only tariffs, but frankly, Scott, I don’t think they even like us being super competitive, because at the end of the day, that affects the whole global end of things, because the better we do, sometimes the worse other countries do. We’ll get into China here in a moment, but at the end of the day, the globalists hate what we’re doing right now, and they hate Donald Trump, because they ruin, or he ruins what they want.
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Yeah, I mean, you know, these countries are happy to take money from the U.S. and sort of kick… kick us in the back and walk all over us. I mean, I just feel like a lot of the stuff going on right now is people are being called out for what they’ve been doing for years. And it’s, you know, I’m sorry, but if you’ve been doing something wrong and you get called out for it, you’re getting called out for it.
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Right.
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And it’s probably you hate it because you’re getting shown out to everybody what you’ve been doing, but it’s just sort of the way it is. Don’t do it, and we won’t have this problem.
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That’s right. That’s exactly right. And, you know, again, we’ll get into China in a moment, but let’s talk about some of those, you know, I guess you could call them the fear gauges and maybe what’s going on behind them. Are they really as bad as some think? Are some of those easing? What are your thoughts?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, so, excuse me, sorry. We saw a couple of the fear gauges really accelerate to the extreme fear category, and that sort of happened recently. I think last week was when we saw peak levels. We saw the Chicago Board of Option Exchanges Volatility Index. It got north of 27.5, got up to 30. Usually, during this bull market run, whenever it has gone above that level, it’s been a great buying opportunity. Since that time, the stock market has bounced back like 5%. We saw the CNN Fear and Greed Index. it dropped to levels we haven’t seen since the COVID pandemic and when everything was shut down. And again, that’s seen a big bounce back. And then something else, the put-call ratio, which is it measures the amount of puts being bought versus calls, and puts are downside protection versus calls, or what you might call upside protection. And that got over one, and meaning… it’s just the ratio of puts was way higher than the ratio of calls. And that’s also a sign of extreme fear. And that’s backed off, too. So some of the things we’ve seen from the White House that have also helped this is Trump has made commentary along the lines of, you know, these tariffs, reciprocal tariffs aren’t going to be as punitive or the stories have leaked out that they’re not going to be as punitive as, as maybe people have thought. And then this afternoon he actually made that statement. He said, there’ll be far less than what people expect. So I think wall street has felt a little bit better and investors have felt a little bit better because we’ve gone from, Hey, all this uncertainty about what may or may not happen to you’re starting to get some concrete detail that is removing that. And once they understand that better, They can start to money managers can start to invest more.
SPEAKER 13 :
Let’s talk China for just a moment, because that’s the biggest thing people talk about and investors even talk about. And there’s some reports coming out. I was reading an article today from Bloomberg talking about the China shock to or now China, China, China shock 300. meaning China’s struggling across the board. Their manufacturing side of things is really dropping. They lost, I want to say, let me read this here. They lost from 99 to 2011, they lost 2.4 million U.S. jobs at that point. And the reality is there’s more to come this time around. So bottom line, Scott, they are not in great shape. And the point of this article is they make all of these goods. If they’re going to keep their economy up, those goods have to go somewhere. And if we’re not going to be the country buying them, who is?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, that’s a great question. I would think Europe’s going to buy some, but Europe’s economy is struggling right now.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, and GDP-wise, I don’t think most people really realize this, you can take all of Europe combined, they still don’t scratch the surface to what we do, GDP.
SPEAKER 15 :
No, I mean, I believe it’s like 20% of the global economy, maybe 25%.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, because between us and China, we’re half.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes, yes, and the U.S. being the bulk of that.
SPEAKER 13 :
That’s right. We’re almost $30 trillion a year GDP. The next closest is China, and they’re way below that.
SPEAKER 15 :
If you take the Eurozone and aggregate, they’re actually bigger than China.
SPEAKER 13 :
Right. That’s right.
SPEAKER 15 :
But they’re still second to the U.S.
SPEAKER 13 :
That’s right. That’s right. Yeah. And that’s where, I mean, I think, just to put things in perspective, when folks start talking about tariffs and they get mad at this and they get mad at that, and this might go up and that might go up, yeah, it may. You know, the cost of a TV, yeah, you know, it may go up. Your flat screen, you know, that you can buy right now, that 85-inch flat screen that’s, you know, $9.99, you know what, Scott, at the end of the day, it might go to $14.99. And the way I look at, you know, Sorry, maybe I’m wrong in saying this, but the way I look at that is, yeah, oh well, so what? No offense, but that flat screen TV is not putting food on the table for me. So at the end of the day, does it really matter? No, it doesn’t. If that’s some of the little bit of sacrifice that I as a consumer have to make to get things back on track, I’m fine with that.
SPEAKER 15 :
You know, I have a flat screen up in my bedroom to Sony TV. And I don’t know, it’s 15 years old. It still works great. I mean, I just gave it the kiss of death. But you sound like you’re running out to buy things like flat screens every day either, right?
SPEAKER 13 :
No, you’re not. I mean, that’s my point. But, yeah, that’s when we start talking tariffs and things, that’s one of the first things that you’ll see some of the media especially talk about is, well, you know, that electronic device or that flat screen TV or that whatever, you know, yeah, it’s going to go up in price. Well, okay, yeah. It will. But at the end of the day, the reality is there’s a lot of other things that we’re getting killed on, you know, cars, for example. You know, we’ve allowed cars to come into this country for very, very, very little tariffs. And yet when we try to export one to Germany, they nail us. So why aren’t we doing the same thing with German cars?
SPEAKER 15 :
And exactly. And so that’s that’s been one of Trump’s big, big fights or big points. He’s like, hey, look, if you want free trade, that’s great. Tear down the tariffs you’re putting on our exports that go to your country. And like one of his beats with Europe is. You’re happy to sell agricultural goods here, but you won’t buy any of our stuff because you’re saying it doesn’t meet your standards. It’s got to be a two-way relationship. It can’t be all one-sided.
SPEAKER 13 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 15 :
You know, last time I checked, when you date somebody and you find you’re in a one-way relationship, you usually get out.
SPEAKER 13 :
Hmm. That’s true. That’s true. Yeah. No, by the way, that’s a great point. And that’s kind of what we’re doing right now as a country. That’s what Trump is doing. And the reality is some of these countries will either figure out how to play ball correctly, get things back in line, which, by the way, then helps us as Americans, or they can keep those tariffs high. We’ll keep ours high. And you just won’t see as many German cars running around. If you do, they’re going to cost more.
SPEAKER 15 :
So what you hit on another point that it really frustrates me as Americans, So an investor and then talking to friends that are retail investors and just the anxiety that’s being created by a lot of the misrepresentation in the media. Like tonight, Trump announced 25 percent auto tariffs this afternoon. I’m sure you saw that. But he said we’re going to start at 2.5 percent and they’re going to be incremental moving forward. And they could get to 25 percent. But, I mean, I don’t know the exact detail, and you probably know more than me on this, but I’m assuming he’s saying, because he’s talked about this before, and Scott Besson has talked about this before, we want to start at 2.5% and give everybody the chance to opt out. treat us fairly, and we won’t go down that road. But if they’re not, then we will dial it up. But the media isn’t reporting that.
SPEAKER 13 :
No, they don’t say that. Again, the media is not going to tell you that when we export a car to Germany, there’s X tariff on it, and there always has been, and yet we’ve only tariffed, I think, German cars at like 2% or something is where, in fact, he might be raising it from that, but I think they’ve been 2% for quite some time.
SPEAKER 15 :
And then the other thing, too, like you’re asking, well, where are Chinese goods going to be bought? You know, Europe’s having a problem with China trying to dump goods into their country. And they’re pushing Chinese goods back. They don’t want them anymore because they’re fed up with it. So I was reading an interesting article the other day that China is actually debating doing something Japan did in the 80s when there was a trade fight going on with Reagan. Japan said, well, what if we start shipping less goods to your country to sort of to nullify everything that’s going on? And But that goes back to China dumping, and it’s the exact thing that Trump has been fighting to stop because it hurts American workers and companies.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, and then you’ve got announcements, and I’m sure you’ve seen some of these as well. You’ve got Hyundai that’s agreeing to spend $25 billion over here putting a plant in. And by the way, that won’t just be a one-term president plant. That thing will be here for decades. You’ve got the UAE agreeing to put in $1.4 trillion worth of investment. You’ve got… chip company down in Arizona agreeing to build another huge plant down there, TSMC. I mean, the reality, Scott, is all of these things happening, this is exactly what we want as a country because these are not, you know, things that are just going to affect us over the next year or even four. These are things that will affect us for decades.
SPEAKER 15 :
For decades. And it’s, yes, there’s going to be some stuff up front that might feel a little discomforting to get there. But once we get there, it’s, yeah, I mean, it’s going to be great for the U.S. economy for a long time to come. And then if you put all the technology efficiencies we’ve been talking about for some time now on top of that, just think about what that can do from a profitability and maybe even a GDP standpoint. Like I’ve read some people that are saying you could see what the AI capabilities we’re seeing right now, what that could do for business, and if business really booms in the U.S., you could see GDP pick up 2X, maybe even 3X.
SPEAKER 13 :
Right. You know, the other thing, too, that we could go off for a long time on, even the textile industry and so on, and, you know, you’re a guy like me to where I understand, and I think most of my listeners understand, the value of a product. And what I mean by that is, you know, Scott, I can spend, you know, $20 on a, you know, button-down, you know, collared shirt, or I can spend $100 on a button-down collared shirt. And for some of you listening, you’re thinking, geez, that’s a big difference in price. Hear me out. Scott, if I spend $100 or even $120 on a really good quality button-down shirt, I can literally, and I’m not exaggerating, I can wear that thing for the next five-plus years and most likely donate it when I’m done because it’s still in decent shape, whereby I buy that $20 shirt, I might get a year or two out of it. So at the end of the day, which one am I better off buying? My point is… Yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER 15 :
I agree. I mean, the biggest problem China ran into is that China got all this business over there and tried to use it and lever it against all the countries all over the world and try to steal all their technology. and now people are fed up with it.
SPEAKER 13 :
And, Scott, at the end of the day, and this is one thing that, again, the press doesn’t tell you, you can buy whatever. I mean, I can go down the list. Pick your poison. Whatever widget you can think of. I’m talking to a microphone right now that is a very high-quality microphone, and I’m looking at it. This is probably a $450 to $500 microphone if it’s a nickel. Yes, we as a station could go to China. Probably find a substitute, a clone, if you would, Scott, that is probably a tenth of that price. But at the end of the day, it won’t sound the same, it won’t last as long, and it’s not the same microphone at the end of the day. And yet that cheap Chinese crap is all over the world.
SPEAKER 15 :
It is all over the world. That’s right.
SPEAKER 13 :
And I’m for one, I’m said, you know what, as an American and maybe again, maybe I’m looking at this the wrong way. And I get that some people need cheap goods. But some of the things I’ve just described to you, you’re not better off buying the cheap crap. You’re actually hurting yourself by buying it. And yet Americans are addicted to it. Well said. So I’m one that says, let’s clean that stuff up. Maybe that’s what Trump’s trying to do as well. And some of what I just got done talking about is what’s in the back of his mind. I don’t know.
SPEAKER 15 :
Completely. Along the lines of some of the other stuff he’s doing, too, he’s trying to get rid of ridiculous expenses. There was an interview I saw the other day that Besant and one of the guys from Doge was talking to a reporter, and this guy from Doge said the IRS should have The same IT department about the size of a mid-sized bank, which is about 1 to 200 people, and they should have an IT budget annually of a mid-sized bank, which is about $20 million. He said they had 8,000 people working in the IT department at the IRS. Wow. In a budget of $3.2 billion.
SPEAKER 13 :
Again, Scott, that could be done, and I’m not exaggerating, folks. That could be done on probably 1% of that number if everything was updated, done correctly, AI being initiated into some of that. And I’m not joking. You literally could do that with 1% of that amount of people.
SPEAKER 15 :
He said they are finding $20, $30, $50 million contracts and going back to people that work there and saying, why do we have these contracts? And they’re saying, I don’t know. And so they’re cutting off these contracts, and they’re finding nothing’s changing.
SPEAKER 13 :
Surprise! I mean, I’m not shocked. I’m not surprised. Scott, I mean, this is stuff that the problem, and I say this a lot, and I mean this. Government is a lot like church. Let me explain. When you get something going on in church, a committee, a picture hanging on the wall, the color of the carpet, you name it, Scott. It takes literally an act of God himself to change some of those things in a church because once it’s there, it’s always going to be there because some person is attached to it. the same darn thing happens in government.
SPEAKER 15 :
That’s right. That’s a great analogy.
SPEAKER 13 :
And somehow, someway, that needs shaken up, and that’s what they’re doing right now. And what really kills me, Scott, is yet we’ve got an entire party that is upset over the shakeup that’s getting rid of waste, fraud, and abuse.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, I think if you go back to what we were talking about before, about other countries being caught out for the money they’re taking from the U.S. and the way they’re treating us… I think people, there are some people in D.C. that are getting called out for exactly what you just said, waste, fraud, and abuse, and it’s being exposed, and they don’t like being exposed when they’ve done the wrong things.
SPEAKER 13 :
Nope, they do not. They do not. All right, Scott, how do folks find you and get updates and follow along?
SPEAKER 15 :
Sure, yeah, follow me on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Substack, C. Scott Garlis.
SPEAKER 13 :
Scott, as always, I appreciate you, sir.
SPEAKER 15 :
Hey, John, thanks for your time.
SPEAKER 13 :
You bet, man. Have a great night. And yeah, follow Scott. He’s always got great tips and tricks and things, especially if you guys do some trading on your own. Follow Scott. He’s always got some great advice on things. Affordable interest mortgages next. Speaking of rates and mortgages and so on, talk to Kurt Rogers today. Find out exactly what he can do for you on a mortgage. 720-895-0500.
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SPEAKER 13 :
All right. Lots of you texted in. I read as many of those through the break and responded as quickly as I could. If I didn’t get to you, I still read your text message. And a lot of you talking about that segment with Scott and talking about the cheap products, the addiction to what you get in quality. Some of you even asking what type of things do I buy and how often do I replace a television set, for example, or a flat screen. I’ll be honest until it dies. Yeah. I mean, I guess if there’s something that I really want to update or remodel or there’s something along those lines that I’m doing, I may go ahead and change something out at that time, and then you pass one off to the kids or the friends or you relocate it or put it out in the shop or whatever the case might be. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I’m not somebody that’s out buying a new TV every time a new model comes out. That’s not that important to me. It’s not that big of a deal. Clothing, yeah, I mean, I buy high-quality shoes. I buy high-quality shirts. I gave you the reason why a few minutes ago. I feel like at the end of the day, you actually spend less when it’s all said and done because I can get a longer wear. out of those particular items than I would otherwise. And I’m a guy that my kids make fun of me, but I wear a collared shirt, either short or long sleeve, pretty much all year long because it’s cold in the studio. Even in the summertime, we’ll wear a long sleeve shirt, might change into a short sleeve shirt at night when I get home. But I’m a collared shirt kind of guy, I guess. I don’t know. I just kind of always have been. I rarely ever wear a T-shirt. I mean, if I’m doing an oil change or something like that, I might stick a T-shirt or something on. But even then, typically I’ve got some older collared shirts I keep around just for that one reason. And I’m just as comfortable in a collared shirt as I am a T-shirt. And, again, I buy high-quality shirts and shoes and things along those lines, and I get good longevity out of those in doing so. It’s just – I don’t know. I just kind of have – well – And this is going to probably not shock some of you. Charlie, it won’t shock. I’ve been buying my own clothes since I was 13 years of age. I had income, I had a paper route, I had other money, and when it came time to go to school, I didn’t want the same clothing that everybody else had to wear or that my mom and dad even wanted to choose for me to wear because they were on a much tighter budget than what I could even afford at the time. So I literally have been buying, washing, and caring for my own clothes since I was 13 years of age. I know I’m a weirdo. I get that all the time. Most kids are not buying their own clothes at that age. Their parents are. But that was just me. And it’s because I felt like, A, I could help my folks out. B, I wanted to buy what I wanted to buy and wear. C, I learned to take care of them that way. And so I learned how to do laundry and iron and all of that at a very young age because I wanted to make sure my stuff was well cared for. at the end of the day I’ve done that since and I learned at an early age if I spend a little more money on something I got longer wearability out of it and at the end of the day actually saved money over what some others were doing the way they were doing it so just my own personal experiences along those lines and no folks I was asked do I shop at Kohl’s no I do not shop at Kohl’s I do not buy their dress shirts or anything along those lines sorry Kohl’s just not my vibe All right, that’s it for today. Guys, have a great night. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
