Josh Smith (7:12)

All right, so I hear that Amazon is going to put a number next to the price of a product on their website to designate how much the tariff is of whatever you're buying on their website. At Montana Knife Company, we're going to do the same thing. We're going to put a number next to the price as well. And that number is going to look a lot like the shape of this goose egg because we've been preaching this all along. We're American made. Buy American. You don't have to worry about this. Buy American make, American made. And you have to worry about this shit.

Tim Miller (7:48)

0 goose egg Mr. Smith said about the Montana Knife Company goose egg. The tariffs will not impact him. In fact, he is having a lot of success. Knife companies growing, which is great. We love an American brand. I love entrepreneurship here at the Borg. We. Everything's going well for him. He's expanding. Here's the trouble, though. He's expanding on to scale up, you know, do it so many other entrepreneurs have done over the decades, over the generations. You know, start. Look at Jeff Bezos. He started just with books. Look at him now as a penis rocket wedding in Venice. I forgot. Don't tell. I forgot. My nephew's birthday was today, so I already overnighted him a present. Thanks to Jeff Bezos. Right. So this was Mr. Josh Smith saw the Bezos plan for him. Start with knives, expand. So he builds a factory and a factory though has equipment and. Well, I have an update for you. I have another video. Let's play what happened. And I appreciate our guy Die Workwear over on X for grabbing this because he's deleted some of these videos. But let's see what's happened to kind of the cost and the inputs for The Montana Knife Company since the tariffs went into place.

Josh Smith (9:02)

July 17, 2024, base price 519. July 23, 2025, base price 612. The thermocouple interface upgrade 14,900. 16,700. The loader 10,200. The loader 11,400. So this is my point. This is what I'm getting at. We're trying to build American manufacturing. This is American made equipment. 100% made in America. This stuff has an effect. Again, I'm questioning why is the cost of equipment to manufacture in America going up that drastically in one year. I'm not hating on the Trump administration again. I'm trying to point out that their policies need some adjustment.

Tim Miller (9:57)

That was. Yeah, that was. That's like a sticky little fact that he hadn't thought about when he did the goose egg video. Right. Which was his is an American made company, so he doesn't have anything to worry about. And if you are a MAGA patriot who loves America and makes all your goods in America and buys all your goods from America, the tariffs won't impact you at all. In fact, they might be a good thing. They might help. They might bring about a golden age, golden egg. The problem with that was, yeah, it just kind of slipped his mind that he had bought all this equipment. Now as he's trying to expand the business and where was the equipment made? Not America. Hmm. Sounds going up that. And you saw that six figures, 100,000 plus maybe 200,000 just in this one little invoice. Think about how much that adds up when you start thinking about the other equipment. Hmm, not great. Turns out it's not going to be a goose egg. Actually, the tariffs impact on his customers. He's going to have to raise the prices or maybe slow the expansion, not hire as many jobs. I thought we were trying to make manufacturing jobs here. That is something that Josh Smith pointed out. Now, I would love to play you the video of that, but after Ryan Bussey at the Montana Dispatch posted the video, he deleted it. Embarrassed. A little embarrassed. So I'm Just going to do a dramatic reading. I'm not, I'm not going to do the he haw voice. I can't do that. But do a little dramatic reading here from this is this was Mr. Josh Smith, the Montana knife company who has got a pinned photo of him and Donald Trump Jr. On his Instagram. All right, Donald Trump, I've got a bone to pick with you and your administration. I'm off about your tariffs. Why am I paying tariffs on manufacturing equipment? It makes no sense. It's about as dumb of a government policy as government policies get. You cannot buy that equipment here. He goes on, why are we talking so much about Epstein now? Granted, he's a piece of shit and I'm also not happy with Trump about that. But maybe call me Mr. Trump because the bigger problem is the tariffs and what it's doing to MAGA business owners who are trying to create jobs here in America. Sympathetic with Josh, you know, his company. I guess I should mention Josh's company seemed to boom, kind of skyrocket during the Biden years. He doesn't kind of mention that or not it. But he was on the way up. On the way up, had a good product, was growing, was expanding during the Biden administration. There was no government policy or regulation that was limiting him. He's in Montana, good tax base there, good client base. Everything was going good. And I'm sure he had some disagreements with Joe Biden about various policies. But if you just look at the Montana Knife Company, if you just look at his interests, might even call it a golden age of the Montana Knife Company during the, during the Biden administration. And here we are, Donald Trump comes in and puts in, let me get this quote one more time, about as dumb of a government policy as government policies get. Well, we'll see how it goes. I don't know. I'm not a knife purchaser. I don't exactly know the competitive set out there with the quality, etc. I'm sure that he's going to find ways. You know, entrepreneurs are agile. They find ways to overcome the burdens put on them by the government. But it is important just to remember in the case of Montana Knife Co. That the burden put upon him was by the Republican MAGA president. And I haven't, I haven't heard any. Have you heard, I haven't heard any of the Republican Montana elected officials that are supposed to represent him criticizing that because technically they could fix this. I do think it'd be worth noting Tim Sheehy and Steve Dane, Senators from Montana. They could. They could take back the power of the purse. They could say, Mr. President, Guy, I got to look out for my guy in Montana. You know, you hear about this. Lisa Murkowski's always like, I'm looking out for Alaska first. I gotta do that. You have some Montana Republicans look out for Montana first. Montana knife companies haven't heard anything from them. So maybe, I don't know, shoot them a call Montana Knife Company Josh Smith might be something for you to think about. Shoot Tim Sheehy and Steve Dane Zakoski, where are you? And using your power to ensure that plucky maga small business owners aren't just crushed by the dumbest policy imaginable put in place by Donald Trump. All right, so there you go. Little schadenfreude to Saturday. We'll be keeping our eye out. What else is happening out there? I should say we got some serious material. I mean, this is serious. These are serious consequences. But, you know, coming up later today, make sure to check all that stuff out. All right? 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