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Chapter 1: Who is Dave Smith and what is the focus of this episode?
What's up, everybody? Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem. I am Dave Smith. I am rolling solo for this episode. And I will start by saying I apologize. I know our schedule's been messed up. I do try my best, as many of you may have seen. I was just in Austin, Texas, just did another episode of the Joe Rogan Experience.
So once again, thank you very much to Joe Rogan, who has obviously been the... the biggest booster of mine by far. It was a great time. I thought, I thought it was a really great episode. I, I always have a great time hanging out there and there in, in Austin. And this one, I thought, I thought it was really great. And I've gotten an unbelievable,
positive response from it so thank you to everybody for that uh i really still do appreciate that very much i had a good time down as i mentioned on the show i got to have a dinner with scott horton and daryl cooper the night before i did the episode which was a great time um so it was great to see my bros down there great to hang out at the mothership and see rogan and all of that um yeah so anyway great time and i've got a lot more traveling coming up
I will do my best to keep to the schedule, but just bear with me. The next week is going to be another busy one, but you guys will be happy with the reason why. Okay. So in between that, I do have a show down in Nashville at the Zanies in Nashville, which is one of my favorite comedy clubs in the world. If you guys, if you're in the Nashville area, forget my show.
If you haven't been to Zanies, go by there. It's one of the best comedy clubs out there. April 6th. I believe there are still some tickets available, but this show is going to sell out. So make sure you grab those tickets now if you want to come by and see me on Sunday night, April 6th, right? Yep. I think, yes, Sunday night. Okay.
Was there one more thing that I wanted to mention before we get into the show? Okay, no, let's jump into it. Okay, so the only criticism that I saw, and I haven't seen everything. I'm sure there's other criticism out there. But one of the things that I saw that people were upset that me and Rogan didn't talk about on this last podcast was the Trump tariffs.
And I would have loved to get into them, but it's the Joe Rogan experience. And we ended up talking a bunch about war stuff, which
has i guess become you know what i uh kind of specialize in and what i talk about the most and i there's good reason for that i think that we are um actually right now closer to a war with iran than we've probably been since the end of the bush administration and that's really really bad and i'd like to avoid that and i mean it's like it's it will be such a catastrophe
that it's hard to overstate it will be worse than any of the terror wars um so far and it given the x factor of what russia might do what china might do just a truly a um
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Chapter 2: What are the basics of trade and tariffs?
They based it, the formula has been cracked now. They based it just on trade deficits. So if we have a big trade deficit with you, that's how they judge whether we're going to implement tariffs on you. And that, again, like I said before, this is goofy. This is like there's just no debate here. This is goofy, goofy economics.
If you want to make the argument for reciprocal tariffs, then the only sound economic argument you could make for that would be that Again, they're charging us 15% on our cars, and that's making our auto manufacturers hurt. That's making them hurt.
So we're going to charge that and make their auto companies hurt, even though it's going to make our consumers hurt too, in an attempt to bring all of these down, to get them to go, okay, fine, we'll stop charging you tariffs, and then everybody is better off when there's none. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is sheath underwear.
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It should also be pointed out that Donald Trump did flirt with this idea. It was back in his first term. It was at the G20 or at the G6, G7, whatever. I'm sorry, I can't keep up with all this stuff. But it was at one of these G meetings. And Donald Trump, I think it was in 2018 or 19, he threw it out to the room. He goes, well, how about this? How about we all just eliminate tariffs?
And then I'll agree to do that too. So it's like, His mind is there sometimes, but then it's often this other place where he's judged. Like, OK, there is an argument to that. I don't exactly agree with it, but OK, you can make an argument.
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