August 19, 2025 • 35 mins
In the first hour of today's show, Dr. Matt Dunn fills in for Dan Caplis and shares his thoughts on the latest headlines in Colorado politics.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Capless Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 3 (00:15):
Unfortunately, not Dan Capless today, but it is a friend
of Dan Caplis, a fan of Dan Caplis. My name
is Matt Dunn. Had a great chance to visit with
Ryan in that last segment listen to his two hour program,
and I have to admit I was fist pumping.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
All the way through that.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Gosh, we kind of see the world in a very
similar way, do Ryan and I. And yes, maybe I
should introduce myself just very briefly before I get onto
you very.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Serious topical matters, maybe some of them not so serious.
But again, name is Matt.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Donn, and I've actually been knocking around the talk radio
world for.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
A couple of decades, hard to believe.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Host of a program called Backbone Radio, which I did
conclude last year last summer. So been a year since
I've been hanging out here. And I will say one thing.
I'm already honored that somebody has sent in a text
message saying, hey, I miss that guy. It's good to
have Matt Dunn show up in here and I'm trying
to Oh, here's how I scrolled down on the screen. Yeah,
(01:22):
someone says that they missed me, and I thought, actually,
it was a public service for me to take a
little vacation from talk radio.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
But I am honored by that.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
And background wise, just I'm from Colorado, Colorado kid, Colorado native,
grew up not far from where the iHeart studios are located.
Cherry Creek High School graded all of my schooling outside
of the state, where I went on to become a dentist.
I practiced dentistry just down the road from here and Centennial.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I have four young.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Kiddos, which is my life, my fascination, my joy, and
they're they're pretty little. My youngest is four, and so
I'm blessed to have a minivan and I load those
kids in there and we go all around town soccer
tournaments and swim meets and piano recitals in school.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I dropped them off this morning.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
At school, which is kind of tough because they all
start at the same exact time and it's three different schools.
So I'm trying to navigate that just a little bit
and figure out, Okay, which one's going to be the
late one today, which one gets to drop off early
and kind of sit around with nothing to do for
like fifteen minutes before school starts. And I do admit, yeah,
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having a minivan that was something that I never thought
would happen.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
To me in life.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
It's maybe not the coolest thing you could ever imagine.
I don't claim to be anything on the cool spectrum,
but once you know, you get into the family formation,
the minivan starts seeming very very practical. I mean, you
can make that case that you really need to have one.
Anybody out there who might be listening and does not
have a mini van, I encourage you to take.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
That leap, to take that step.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It won't increase your cool factor, but it's still a
net plus when it comes to convenience.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I guess I should add that extreme skier.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
That's one thing that I've done since basically age three,
and we get up there, we do an awful lot
of skiing. I've gotten into the uphill skiing skiing some
of the fourteen ers, even in the winter, where you
climb uphill and then you ski down it, and it
takes about ninety nine percent longer to climb up the
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fourteen er than it does to ski down the fourteen er,
so you.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Have to enjoy the uphill part.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
But I love our Colorado mountains and for years I've
been blessed to be able to talk about family life
in Colorado and Colorado scenery. Yes, Colorado Mountain and what
a joy to be back in here saying a little
hello to some friends around here. And I do have
if you're interested in calling in at some point three
(04:10):
oh three seven one three eight two five five the
text message line five seven seven three nine, consider yourselves
invited to touch base at any point.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And yes, I do have. You know, I'm always a
bit of a deep diver.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I've got a little bit of a fascination with political
details only since I was a nerd in seventh grade
reading William F. Buckley's National Review, which unfortunately, unfortunately has.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Fallen very far.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I don't know if Ryan is a big fan of
National Review or not, but it used to be great
back before your time.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Okay, Well, what I'm hearing with you, doctor Don is
that you were basically Alex P. Keaton from Family Ties,
watching mcneilair.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, in middle school, yep, exactly, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And I even had my little bookshelf as middle schooler
when I would get my Bill Buckley books and all that.
And funny how you just accumulate a bunch of those
over time, and now I have a man cave in
all of its glory.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Full of books.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
So, doctor Dunn, I do have a question, Yes, ma'am,
you mentioned swimming.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Swimming?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Yes, do you ever think of giving your children diving lessons?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Diving lessons?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
We have not done that, okay, but they swim, but
they do not dive. But I'm a big respector of diving. Okay,
but as a parent, you know, you see your little
kid get up there on the diving board, and don't
you think that would make me, as a proud dad,
a little nervous to see them? You know, do the
backflips and the cannon balls you haves?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
No, No, it's not belly flops and cannonballs. It's you know,
front three and a half and back two and a
half pike half gainers.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Isn't there something called a gainer?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
There is a gainer. Yeah, that's a reverse dive where
your head is spinning toward uh. And the only reason
I bring this up was because I was a diver.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
You are a diver. Were a diver.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
I was a diver. Yes, I got a d one
scholarship to Purdue.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Oh my goodness, that's big time diving. That's that's where
it's at.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
I was, okay, I it's still scared the crap out
of me. But you know, it was one of those
things where you don't have a lot of people that
you meet in the universe that are divers because you
have to be kind of crazy in order to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh totally.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
And I've barely just met you, but I can tell
you you've got that covered just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Just kidding, of course. But wow.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
So your parents probably didn't have to pay for Purdue
then because you got the scholarship.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I got an in state scholarships, so they had to
pay out of state tuition, which wasn't that much.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
And yeah, it was. It was a really good ride
and takes a lot of courage. I mean, I salute
you for being able to do that. That's like I got.
That's more than swimming.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
It is a dive and you got to have the
judges there holding up the cards, right.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
And because here's the thing, this is the funny thing
about swimming and diving. Swimmers were always about speed. Divers
were always mentioned for their.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Grace, grace, do it gently.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
We had grace, and you had to basically be pretty
when you entered the pool.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I bet I could do a fairly pretty cannonball like
right in, you know, just grab your knees, tried to
splash the people that are standing by the side of
the pool. I guess that's the extent of my diving capacities.
But oh wow, Kelly, that's a that's quite a quite
a career. And again, Matt Dunn guest hosting for dan
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Capliss here today. And one thing I should mention, I
got accused the other day of having hair a little
bit too much like Gavin Newsom, the governor of California,
and I was I took that personally, and I think
I might need to dial back the amount of product
I need to. Well, you've got to stopping product altogether.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
We haven't seen him attempt this, but if he's trying
to really truly go heal turned villain the goatee that
you got.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
He can't do that. He can't do that. No, I
don't think he could pull that off. Okay, yeah, well I.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Got that, So maybe that's at least one thing I've
got going driving around in the mini van. But at
any rate, I wanted to unfurl a topic at two
or two.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
And again you're invited three oh.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Three seven one three eight two five five text line
five seven seven three nine. Obviously you're going to be
hearing a lot about Ukraine. Is that going to happen
a little bit of a peace deal? I wanted to
go into the tariff issue. I've been following the financial
media on Trump's tariffs, and I'm a big fan of tariffs.
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I love tariffs. The bigger the tariffs, the better they
get me full of excitement. But the media has been saying,
I mean, get ready for inflation and the end of
the American economy and the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
They started saying.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
That back in January, right, and it just hasn't happened yet.
And so now the stories that you're seeing in the
media are like, hmm, the inflation hasn't happened yet, but
it's going to at some point.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It's going too soon.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
And then pretty soon we're going to be reading stories
from the financial media, which is every bit as biased
as the political media, as I've discovered, and they're going
to be saying, well that, hm, why didn't the inflation
actually happen? And you'll remember that under Joe Biden, the
leadership of Joe Biden, I was never a big fan.
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I do have to admit I doubt Ryan was either.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
What do you talk about there, pal, Oh he's your guy? No,
okay at all? I just need to do some Joe
Biden voice. Therefore, yeah I did.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I was not above accusing him of being a vegetable
a few times on air, and it was a little
unprofessional of me. But it seems like, you know, now
that Jake Tapper has come out and done his Apaulahia
tour and said, oh wow, somehow we miss that one.
It seems like it's you know, that's pretty much proven.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Any information, if it's true. That's what Dan always says.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
But we we and I wanted to go into this
ms NOW branding. Does anybody like this. It's not going
to be MSNBC anymore. It's gonna be ms NOW.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I have a few.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Friends actually out there who are suffering from some kind
of a Trump panic thing where they kind of were
thinking that the world is coming to an end for
some reason, and it's causing like a great deal of
mental disturbance and distress for some people who are close
to me. And I'm trying to get to the root
of this and just wondering if is this like a
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widespread thing or is this for a certain subset. I mean,
his approvals are pretty darn high. I saw fifty four
percent very recently, and I don't know if Joe Biden
ever achieved that in his four year career. All right,
I got this and more, let's continue after a break.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
It is Matt dunn guest hosting for Dan Capless.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
We will become ms NOW, which stands for my Source
for News, opinion and the world. And look, Andrew, they
even have a graphic up.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I like there it is Actually it looks very sporty. Wow.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
That is Joe Scarborough unveiling ms NOW, the new branding,
the new logo for MSNBC. And by the way, Matt
Dunnan for Dan Caplis here, honored to be in here
sharing a few words, and I don't know, I'm a
little underwhelmed by the ms NOW branding. But I will
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say I've been looking for signs of cracking in the
mainstream media.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Their track record.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Of having gotten essentially everything wrong for how many years
in a row, at least a decade. We got to
go back till at least Trump came down the escalator.
When was that summer twenty fifteen. I remember that did
a very good show on that, and I said, this
guy's going to be our next president.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
This guy is actually going to win. Believe it or not.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
That was a controversial thing to say at the time,
but by golly, I was right on that one. And yeah,
ms or NBC apparently is feeling like they've got a
little brand confusion going on between NBC and MSNBC, And
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I think when it comes down to it, they've got
to be a little bit embarrassed about MSNBC and the
MSNBC track record. I don't see any evidence that the
NBC track record is any better, never have seen any
of that. But if you want to learn the sum
total content of what MSNBC had to say during the
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first term of Donald Trump, and this is the sum
total of it right here.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
And do we have that clip Ryan Russia v Putin,
Russia off Russia, Russia, Russia hates Russia, Russia, Russia, Putin,
Russia's Russa Russia, Russia, Russia, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russia
rush off Russia.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
For one second, we'll go right back to that.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
But that is all that MSNBC talked about for all
those years. And it turns out, of course, since Tulci Gabbard,
the DNI has been releasing stuff, digging into silos, the
bureaucratic silos that they want to keep contained, which Stemied
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Durham and Stemied ag Barr. All this stuff is coming out.
It's making Komin nervous, It's making Brennan nervous. The rest
of it, the Russia hoax, hoax hoax has been blown
sky high. But this do we have more of what
Rachel matters was.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
Russia, Russian pro Russians, Russian Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, the Russians,
Russan rush, Russian Russians, Russians, Russian Russians, Russian Russian, Russian,
Russian Russia.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
You get the idea. That's all they did. And guess what,
None of it was true. It was all a manufactured hoax.
There was never anything to any of that, as some
of us said all the way along and getting prouder
and prouder by the day of that. It is nice
to have that one being put to bed. But one
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thing that maybe should be happening is little bit of
prosecution of certain individuals for how they behave during all
that and what they did, the stunts they pulled trying
to undermine the Trump first term, and to a certain extent,
it did undermine Trump's first term, but he still accomplished
way more than basically any other president and reset the
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tone in this country. And he's doing it again, of course.
But that to me makes me think NBC should not
be associated with all of that, and where do they
go from there?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
The people that you took all that in.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Is there a moment where the casual listener to mainstream
media might step back and.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Say, wow, you know, none of that stuff was true.
None of that stuff ever added up.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
And one of my big themes and one of my
big points of advice that I like to offer is
people need to free their minds from media propaganda. It
is insidious. It is every where we are in a
device culture. We've got devices all around us at all times,
TV screens, phone screens, you name it. And we are
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living in a blizzard of propaganda design to influence our
minds and get us to go along with what the
power corridors want.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Us to think.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Okay, they want us to go along with their agendas
and line up and be good citizens and support the
people in power and what they want. And essentially it's
you know, their wallets are open and we can contribute
to them, and they think that that is our job
and our duty.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
However, you know, if.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
You were to take it seriously, what I was queuing
up a minute ago about Trump's tariffs are going to
ruin the economy and create all kinds of massive inflation
across the board in this country. And you do know
some people that pulled out of the markets all together,
They disinvested. They they didn't want anything to do with
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being exposed to the Trump economy. And I don't know, Ryan,
how many record highs have we had in the stock
market since January.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I don't know if you have that on the top
of your head.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Oh I don't, but I just keep celebrating them when
they happen.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah, So the inflation again, has not happened yet. Will
it happened? I guess it's an open question. I'm not
an economist. I don't know anything about stock markets, but
I do know that people can tend to hurt themselves,
their own best interest, their own well being if they
can't somehow pierce that veil and get through that propaganda.
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That's part of why the Dan Kaplis show exists as
part of what I mean, talk radio is a very
healthy environment in my opinion, to crack through some of
those dominant themes that frankly are harmful for people and
cause them lots of anxiety. You know, people have a
hard time sleeping at night. And I talked to them
and I asked them, wait, what is it about the
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current administration that is causing so much turmoil in your
mind or making you, you know, feel like psychologically unstable
and all that. And sometimes it's hard to get like
a specific answer, a specific point that you.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Can go on. But it's always like this blanket.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Oh, it's just everything, it's you know, it's just all
of it, you know, which is how I know that's
the effect of propaganda on people's minds. And it reminds
me back in the day. Yeah, and I'll continue this thought.
Back in the day, people will say, oh, Trump lies
all the time, as can you give me an example,
Let's have a specific, a specific lie.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
And they said, well, it's just everything everything.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Well, it would be helpful to have something to go
on concretely.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
There so it could be discussed.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Right, We're going to talk to Alexa on the phone
lines when we come back. It is Matt Dunn in
for Dan Capless. You're listening to the Dan Caplis Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Dan capitalist this evening afternoon, and hey, who chooses the
music around here? That's that's just good. It's just a
positive vibe, very wholesome. Is that is that Ryan?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Is that Dan? Or? How does that work? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
That's Alexis theme song down Easter Alexa by Billy Joel,
her favorite, I believe, oh in the artists at least
I don't know about the song. She might get sick
of that.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Very well done.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
We're off to the phone lines in one second. One
quick note, I just saw this on Twitter. Can I
still call it Twitter? Or do we need to call
it something else?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
These days?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Looks out there you kind of get stuck, you know,
all thirty two NFL teams will again this year be
forced to stencil a social justice message in their end zones.
They must choose from the following options, and there are
five options. Quote end racism, quote, stop hate, quote, choose love, quote,
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inspired change quote. It takes all of us one of
those five.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
And I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
When I saw that, I kind of thought, does that
remind you a bit of more of the Biden era?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Is?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Does it seem like a little bit of a throwback
to a different era? And I don't know, I don't
have any special comment on that, but that's that's I guess,
you know what the NFL wants to do.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And so good for them.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
But I was just noticing, you know, the mores change,
and I think, I think there's just a.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Different vibe in this country.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
And of course the country wants to, you know, be
inspiring on all of those points, but I don't know,
it feels different now. In my humble opinion, phone lines
three three seven, one, three eight two five five the
text line five seven seven three nine, Let's bring Alexa up. Alexa,
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thank you very much for touching base. On the Dan
Kaplis Show, Matt Dunn sitting in.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Well, great to hear your voice. Three hundred and ninety
four days. I've been waiting for this that I have
so much I want to talk to you about.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
We're not counting, are we I'm at three three ninety
four that we are. We are counting.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Okay, that's that was a streak.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
That was a lot of days.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
I'm glad you broke that streak.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
It's not quite a cal Ripka or a lou Gerrigg streak,
but it's it's not bad.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Yeah, in twenty years of being on the radio, just
over a year of being off, it's okay. Twenty twenty
was so painful, the election everything else. However, now that
we're in twenty twenty five, I think hindsight is twenty
twenty imperfects. But I don't think Trump would have been effective.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
From twenty twenty to twenty twenty four because of all
the corruption in DC and et cetera. So I'm really
glad looking back that he didn't when twenty twenty it's
painful and as corrupt as everything was, but I really
wanted to know on election night in twenty twenty four,
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how did you receive the news that Donald Trump was
elected president? And how excited were you.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
How did I.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Receive that news, Alexa, Yeah, that was shall we say
a good night, It was a good night.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
It was an expected night.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I had just come to the conclusion, my gosh, that
the Democrats had gotten too.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Crazy to hold on to power. Go down the list.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
You know, we talked about all the pathologies of the
people in power that were somehow just so off base,
so off kilter, so not connecting with the American people
at Democrats just they've lost the connection with the American voter,
middle class, working class, any class. And I think, you know,
they have ways to be strong in elections, shall we say,
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when they don't necessarily deserve it.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I figured that the edge was just going to be
too big.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
After the assassination attempt plural on Donald Trump, I figured that.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
There's no way, I mean, they missed, they missed.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
And by the way, I still like to know more
about that assassin and what was really going on there.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I'm a little.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Surprised we haven't had more of a deep dive on that.
I hope that's going to be forthcoming. But I'll tell
you what, Alexa, you make a point. You remember all
we went through, right twenty sixteen to twenty twenty, And
then you step back and you think about the arc
of history that man was that ever contentious right twenty
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sixteen to twenty twenty, and people still gave the benefit
of the.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Doubt to the mainstream media.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
They still kind of believed that stuff at a little
higher rate than today, maybe even a lot higher rate.
Distrust in media is only snowballing basically since then. Hence
it's like MS now or whatever, no more ms NBC.
So then we got four years of Biden, after four
years of trying, and I mean he just blew it
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in every conceivable way and alienated the Democratic Party and
their leadership from the American He just cemented that in Stone,
and I mean, how long will it be before they
can even recover from that? I mean, it could be that,
you know, the Republicans do well in the midterms, even
which is unusual to happen, you know, for a for
a sitting president of the same party, Right, but it
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might actually be so bad. We actually might have a
good midterm election cycle. But think about how much more
effective Trump is in this term now, after those four
years of Biden and the whole arc of this history
and him deciding to you know, go through the brain
damage of running again to do that. How many presidential
campaigns does he run? You know, he's running the last
three in a row, right, And not an easy decision
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because you know, people would rather not have him still
being president or.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
You know, even being alive. Right. Took a lot of
courage to do that.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
He did it, and I think doesn't it feel a
lot better about America right now.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Than it sort of used to? Alexa?
Speaker 8 (25:02):
You notice that absolutely. I mean, and Ryan touched on
this the other day too, that just you know, can
you imagine Biden or Kamala doing anything of the last
six months? The meet was meeting with all the European
leaders yesterday. I mean, Trump is just a powerhouse to
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go twenty plus hours a day and be juggling all
he does. And he learned his lesson from the first term,
and he has a lot less trust of certain people,
which is really a good thing.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
And Ukraine has never been popular, It's never been as advertised.
I was very unpopular the time by saying, hey, I
don't like anything about this Ukraine thing.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
From day one, this is going to be a bad deal.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
It's a wrong geopolitical move. It's mistaken foreign policy interpretations
that's going to cause this to be a negative. And
oh man, you know a million people have died since
then and we've had have we spent a trillion dollars yet?
I mean, where are we on those numbers? I haven't
even been keeping track. And he gets to come in
and clean it up. And Alexa, did you see the photos?
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Right?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I mean there's Trump striding around, bigger, taller, more colorful
than all these European leaders who look so tiny in
his presence. They look like, you know, like little kind
of docile people. Leaders like sitting there looking a little
bit like they're kind of excited to meet Donald Trump.
You know, they're they're you can you can see that
(26:36):
he has way more respect from even world leaders than
you know, the media would ever.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Let you know about.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Right, makes you feel a little absolutely?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (26:47):
Does it?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Does it give you just a little bit of a
different feeling about the country when you have this you know,
Trump guy who's kind of running this show and doing
these negotiations, and they're complicated.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
This Ukraine thing is so complicated.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
I still I don't know how it's going to turn out,
But it seems like progress is being made.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Do you think we should get a Nobel Peace Prize
coming up if this does resolve?
Speaker 8 (27:11):
I hope so. And he the biggest thing about Trump
that we need to constantly remember. And he's going to
make the steps and do I love everything he says
or does know but almost he is almost almost. So
he has four Americans, and he has for the United
States of America, and that is important. He cares about
(27:35):
other countries. He cares. Yes, you want to stand ward's
cause he's six people dying. Yes, why else should we
on wars? Yeah, that's a great thing in Malania's letter
to put in that with fabulous Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
So, and we have to watch the mastering media rooting
against him, rooting against peace, rooting for more war and
spending more billions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
In Ukraine, and even the Ukraine people seventy.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Percent of them want a negotiated deal now.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
They want this to be done there, they're done with it.
And so it.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Seems like Trump's the right guy to show up at
the right time, and he's got enhanced credibility, prestige, respect
the whole deal given this arc of history. Interm out
of term and then back in there, and I think
the world was ready at least a majority, right, maybe
not MS.
Speaker 8 (28:27):
Now have a well no, but we have a great VP.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yes we do, right on.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
Great to have you back and love hearing you, and
hopefully we will hear you in September when Dan goes
and pretends to his day job.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Well, Alexa, it is wonderful to hear your voice me,
I say, we've chatted.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
A bit over the years.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Again, thank you for being being on here right now
in the Dan Kapla Show, it is Matt Dunn filling
in for Dan.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
And now back to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast, Matt.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Don in for Dan caplis today did anybody know besides
me that back in nineteen forty five?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Today?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
In nineteen forty five, the book Animal Farm, written by
George Orwell was published, and I talk about arming and
defending our minds against mainstream media propaganda, basically anything that
comes in through our screens and our devices. A solid
knowledge of George Orwell's nineteen eighty four and Animal Farm,
(29:38):
I think are things you should have in your armamentarium.
And that got me thinking about Animal Farm. I won't
go into it now, but do make sure that one
is on your man cave bookshelf. Little advice for me,
it'll it'll do you good to understand what we have
been up against and actually how we are now winning
(29:59):
enjoying that in this second Trump term. Let's say a
little hello to Carly in Hyland's ranch. Carly Simon is
actually calling. It's not Carly Simon, but Carly welcome.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
I cannot tell you how great it was to hear
you when I turned the radio on today. I couldn't
believe my ears. I actually was thinking about you on Sunday.
I'm going gosh, I wish he'd get another show on
the radio.
Speaker 8 (30:27):
And here you are.
Speaker 10 (30:28):
Is so good to hear you.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Well, a three hundred and ninety four day hiatus, and hey,
Dan Caplis was nice enough to say, what's Matt doing?
Speaker 10 (30:37):
And so I hope you fill in for him as
much as possible.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Well, I would be honored to do so. If they
sometimes have a window for some guy to show up
and beloviate a little bit about whatever nonsense you know
is going on.
Speaker 10 (30:52):
People learn a lot from your show. I mean, seriously,
they do. I wanted to say, because you left your
show stopped a few months before the election. Yes, And
I mean, can you believe everything he's gotten done since he.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Got in It is remarkable.
Speaker 10 (31:11):
Car and his stamina and I just can't believe it.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Is anyone sleeping the four hours a night and doing
all that and staying on.
Speaker 10 (31:19):
Top of us sleeps that much.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Is he juggling one hundred balls, a thousand balls and
somehow stays on top.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Of all of them. It's been a marvel. You can't
explain this like normal, not first time around.
Speaker 10 (31:30):
The Neil Alexa was talking about JD. How about Marco?
I can't get over Marco Rubio.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Spot on Carly. There's a couple of surprises.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
You know, when you saw Marco Rubio become Secretary of State,
were you a little bit like okay, you know, I
was just kind.
Speaker 10 (31:47):
Of questioning it. Yeah, I'll tell you what he's learned
from the master, because the way he takes on the
press is so good.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
He is He's a very pleasant surprise.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
This Marco Rubio, and you know Tulca Gabbard as well,
has been phenomenal that some of these people, for whatever
reason whatever boot was holding Marco Rubio down during his
senate careers.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
It's been lifted off.
Speaker 10 (32:11):
Like I said, and he is maga right, he is
total mind.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
He's going for it.
Speaker 10 (32:15):
I wanted to say, I know Alexis mentioned the Nobel
Peace Prize just in my personal opinion, once they gave
it to Obama, it greatly diminished in my view, what
I want to see. I would love to see him
on Mount Rushmore, and I think he deserves it. I'm serious.
I'm gonna start campaign.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
You know, I'm just gonna have to say, you're right.
Is there a room up there for there is?
Speaker 10 (32:41):
I've looked at it.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Could they make it like a little bigger than Lincoln
and Washington? Like there's like twice the size of the
other presidents. You know, there's Trump there.
Speaker 8 (32:51):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 10 (32:52):
But anyway, it's so great to hear you. It's we're
in such a bitter place in this country.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Yeah, you enjoy that election night twenty twenty four, Carly.
And by the way, we have chatted a bit over
the years. Oh yeah, And boy, if I enjoyed you
checking in and touching base with your insights and you're
still out there doing it.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Wonderful.
Speaker 10 (33:12):
That's try. That's right, worked on that campaign.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
And still in Highland's ranch. I see good, yep, yep.
Speaker 10 (33:18):
So well, anyway, we love hearing you, and I hope
to hear you again.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Well, so honored Carly, and let's let's make a point
of that chatting again on air at some point or another.
Thank you Carly for touching base.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
And do we get to say hello to d D
D d up.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
In Indian Hills. Welcome aboard, d D. Are you on
the on the line here?
Speaker 10 (33:44):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (33:44):
I am okay.
Speaker 11 (33:46):
How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I'm doing all right. Hope you're doing well?
Speaker 11 (33:50):
Oh yeah. I just wanted to say, there's really no
choice for Democrats out there. They don't want to be
Democrats anymore. They don't want to be part of the
party of the communists. They want to be part of
the patriots, successful party that's taking back the country and
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also helping save the world and making peace among the nations.
Democrats have no excuse for not becoming part of the
Republican Party.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
Now.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Well, it seems like the Democrat Party has lost its way.
And maybe you could even make the case it's kind
of imploding that I saw I saw a pulse somewhere,
and I was trying to find it before I came
into the studio that their approvals are at nineteen percent.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Can that be right? Am I right or wrong in this?
I shouldn't float.
Speaker 8 (34:40):
That would say negative nineteen?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Okay, you have to work to get to negative nineteen.
But you know, their approvals are kind of like, you know,
at the bottom of the barrel.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
And they don't seem to have solutions, do they.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
And I think they're kind of realizing that what they've
been exposed to a lot of propaganda that was malicious
and false and harmful and shall.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
We say not true. I don't know, d D.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
I think you're onto something here and I'd keep going
if we could.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
But thank you for checking in. Matt Dunn in for
Dan Capitalist
This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Capless Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 3 (00:15):
Unfortunately, not Dan Capless today, but it is a friend
of Dan Caplis, a fan of Dan Caplis. My name
is Matt Dunn. Had a great chance to visit with
Ryan in that last segment listen to his two hour program,
and I have to admit I was fist pumping.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
All the way through that.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Gosh, we kind of see the world in a very
similar way, do Ryan and I. And yes, maybe I
should introduce myself just very briefly before I get onto
you very.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Serious topical matters, maybe some of them not so serious.
But again, name is Matt.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Donn, and I've actually been knocking around the talk radio
world for.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
A couple of decades, hard to believe.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Host of a program called Backbone Radio, which I did
conclude last year last summer. So been a year since
I've been hanging out here. And I will say one thing.
I'm already honored that somebody has sent in a text
message saying, hey, I miss that guy. It's good to
have Matt Dunn show up in here and I'm trying
to Oh, here's how I scrolled down on the screen. Yeah,
(01:22):
someone says that they missed me, and I thought, actually,
it was a public service for me to take a
little vacation from talk radio.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
But I am honored by that.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
And background wise, just I'm from Colorado, Colorado kid, Colorado native,
grew up not far from where the iHeart studios are located.
Cherry Creek High School graded all of my schooling outside
of the state, where I went on to become a dentist.
I practiced dentistry just down the road from here and Centennial.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I have four young.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Kiddos, which is my life, my fascination, my joy, and
they're they're pretty little. My youngest is four, and so
I'm blessed to have a minivan and I load those
kids in there and we go all around town soccer
tournaments and swim meets and piano recitals in school.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I dropped them off this morning.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
At school, which is kind of tough because they all
start at the same exact time and it's three different schools.
So I'm trying to navigate that just a little bit
and figure out, Okay, which one's going to be the
late one today, which one gets to drop off early
and kind of sit around with nothing to do for
like fifteen minutes before school starts. And I do admit, yeah,
(02:42):
having a minivan that was something that I never thought
would happen.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
To me in life.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
It's maybe not the coolest thing you could ever imagine.
I don't claim to be anything on the cool spectrum,
but once you know, you get into the family formation,
the minivan starts seeming very very practical. I mean, you
can make that case that you really need to have one.
Anybody out there who might be listening and does not
have a mini van, I encourage you to take.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
That leap, to take that step.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It won't increase your cool factor, but it's still a
net plus when it comes to convenience.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I guess I should add that extreme skier.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
That's one thing that I've done since basically age three,
and we get up there, we do an awful lot
of skiing. I've gotten into the uphill skiing skiing some
of the fourteen ers, even in the winter, where you
climb uphill and then you ski down it, and it
takes about ninety nine percent longer to climb up the
(03:43):
fourteen er than it does to ski down the fourteen er,
so you.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Have to enjoy the uphill part.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
But I love our Colorado mountains and for years I've
been blessed to be able to talk about family life
in Colorado and Colorado scenery. Yes, Colorado Mountain and what
a joy to be back in here saying a little
hello to some friends around here. And I do have
if you're interested in calling in at some point three
(04:10):
oh three seven one three eight two five five the
text message line five seven seven three nine, consider yourselves
invited to touch base at any point.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And yes, I do have. You know, I'm always a
bit of a deep diver.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I've got a little bit of a fascination with political
details only since I was a nerd in seventh grade
reading William F. Buckley's National Review, which unfortunately, unfortunately has.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Fallen very far.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I don't know if Ryan is a big fan of
National Review or not, but it used to be great
back before your time.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Okay, Well, what I'm hearing with you, doctor Don is
that you were basically Alex P. Keaton from Family Ties,
watching mcneilair.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, in middle school, yep, exactly, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And I even had my little bookshelf as middle schooler
when I would get my Bill Buckley books and all that.
And funny how you just accumulate a bunch of those
over time, and now I have a man cave in
all of its glory.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Full of books.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
So, doctor Dunn, I do have a question, Yes, ma'am,
you mentioned swimming.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Swimming?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Yes, do you ever think of giving your children diving lessons?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Diving lessons?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
We have not done that, okay, but they swim, but
they do not dive. But I'm a big respector of diving. Okay,
but as a parent, you know, you see your little
kid get up there on the diving board, and don't
you think that would make me, as a proud dad,
a little nervous to see them? You know, do the
backflips and the cannon balls you haves?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
No, No, it's not belly flops and cannonballs. It's you know,
front three and a half and back two and a
half pike half gainers.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Isn't there something called a gainer?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
There is a gainer. Yeah, that's a reverse dive where
your head is spinning toward uh. And the only reason
I bring this up was because I was a diver.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
You are a diver. Were a diver.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
I was a diver. Yes, I got a d one
scholarship to Purdue.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Oh my goodness, that's big time diving. That's that's where
it's at.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
I was, okay, I it's still scared the crap out
of me. But you know, it was one of those
things where you don't have a lot of people that
you meet in the universe that are divers because you
have to be kind of crazy in order to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh totally.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
And I've barely just met you, but I can tell
you you've got that covered just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Just kidding, of course. But wow.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
So your parents probably didn't have to pay for Purdue
then because you got the scholarship.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I got an in state scholarships, so they had to
pay out of state tuition, which wasn't that much.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
And yeah, it was. It was a really good ride
and takes a lot of courage. I mean, I salute
you for being able to do that. That's like I got.
That's more than swimming.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
It is a dive and you got to have the
judges there holding up the cards, right.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
And because here's the thing, this is the funny thing
about swimming and diving. Swimmers were always about speed. Divers
were always mentioned for their.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Grace, grace, do it gently.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
We had grace, and you had to basically be pretty
when you entered the pool.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I bet I could do a fairly pretty cannonball like
right in, you know, just grab your knees, tried to
splash the people that are standing by the side of
the pool. I guess that's the extent of my diving capacities.
But oh wow, Kelly, that's a that's quite a quite
a career. And again, Matt Dunn guest hosting for dan
(08:16):
Capliss here today. And one thing I should mention, I
got accused the other day of having hair a little
bit too much like Gavin Newsom, the governor of California,
and I was I took that personally, and I think
I might need to dial back the amount of product
I need to. Well, you've got to stopping product altogether.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
We haven't seen him attempt this, but if he's trying
to really truly go heal turned villain the goatee that
you got.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
He can't do that. He can't do that. No, I
don't think he could pull that off. Okay, yeah, well I.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Got that, So maybe that's at least one thing I've
got going driving around in the mini van. But at
any rate, I wanted to unfurl a topic at two
or two.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
And again you're invited three oh.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Three seven one three eight two five five text line
five seven seven three nine. Obviously you're going to be
hearing a lot about Ukraine. Is that going to happen
a little bit of a peace deal? I wanted to
go into the tariff issue. I've been following the financial
media on Trump's tariffs, and I'm a big fan of tariffs.
(09:16):
I love tariffs. The bigger the tariffs, the better they
get me full of excitement. But the media has been saying,
I mean, get ready for inflation and the end of
the American economy and the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
They started saying.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
That back in January, right, and it just hasn't happened yet.
And so now the stories that you're seeing in the
media are like, hmm, the inflation hasn't happened yet, but
it's going to at some point.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It's going too soon.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
And then pretty soon we're going to be reading stories
from the financial media, which is every bit as biased
as the political media, as I've discovered, and they're going
to be saying, well that, hm, why didn't the inflation
actually happen? And you'll remember that under Joe Biden, the
leadership of Joe Biden, I was never a big fan.
(10:07):
I do have to admit I doubt Ryan was either.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
What do you talk about there, pal, Oh he's your guy? No,
okay at all? I just need to do some Joe
Biden voice. Therefore, yeah I did.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I was not above accusing him of being a vegetable
a few times on air, and it was a little
unprofessional of me. But it seems like, you know, now
that Jake Tapper has come out and done his Apaulahia
tour and said, oh wow, somehow we miss that one.
It seems like it's you know, that's pretty much proven.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Any information, if it's true. That's what Dan always says.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
But we we and I wanted to go into this
ms NOW branding. Does anybody like this. It's not going
to be MSNBC anymore. It's gonna be ms NOW.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I have a few.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Friends actually out there who are suffering from some kind
of a Trump panic thing where they kind of were
thinking that the world is coming to an end for
some reason, and it's causing like a great deal of
mental disturbance and distress for some people who are close
to me. And I'm trying to get to the root
of this and just wondering if is this like a
(11:12):
widespread thing or is this for a certain subset. I mean,
his approvals are pretty darn high. I saw fifty four
percent very recently, and I don't know if Joe Biden
ever achieved that in his four year career. All right,
I got this and more, let's continue after a break.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
It is Matt dunn guest hosting for Dan Capless.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
We will become ms NOW, which stands for my Source
for News, opinion and the world. And look, Andrew, they
even have a graphic up.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I like there it is Actually it looks very sporty. Wow.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
That is Joe Scarborough unveiling ms NOW, the new branding,
the new logo for MSNBC. And by the way, Matt
Dunnan for Dan Caplis here, honored to be in here
sharing a few words, and I don't know, I'm a
little underwhelmed by the ms NOW branding. But I will
(12:20):
say I've been looking for signs of cracking in the
mainstream media.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Their track record.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Of having gotten essentially everything wrong for how many years
in a row, at least a decade. We got to
go back till at least Trump came down the escalator.
When was that summer twenty fifteen. I remember that did
a very good show on that, and I said, this
guy's going to be our next president.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
This guy is actually going to win. Believe it or not.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
That was a controversial thing to say at the time,
but by golly, I was right on that one. And yeah,
ms or NBC apparently is feeling like they've got a
little brand confusion going on between NBC and MSNBC, And
(13:07):
I think when it comes down to it, they've got
to be a little bit embarrassed about MSNBC and the
MSNBC track record. I don't see any evidence that the
NBC track record is any better, never have seen any
of that. But if you want to learn the sum
total content of what MSNBC had to say during the
(13:32):
first term of Donald Trump, and this is the sum
total of it right here.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
And do we have that clip Ryan Russia v Putin,
Russia off Russia, Russia, Russia hates Russia, Russia, Russia, Putin,
Russia's Russa Russia, Russia, Russia, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russia
rush off Russia.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
For one second, we'll go right back to that.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
But that is all that MSNBC talked about for all
those years. And it turns out, of course, since Tulci Gabbard,
the DNI has been releasing stuff, digging into silos, the
bureaucratic silos that they want to keep contained, which Stemied
(14:11):
Durham and Stemied ag Barr. All this stuff is coming out.
It's making Komin nervous, It's making Brennan nervous. The rest
of it, the Russia hoax, hoax hoax has been blown
sky high. But this do we have more of what
Rachel matters was.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
Russia, Russian pro Russians, Russian Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, the Russians,
Russan rush, Russian Russians, Russians, Russian Russians, Russian Russian, Russian,
Russian Russia.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
You get the idea. That's all they did. And guess what,
None of it was true. It was all a manufactured hoax.
There was never anything to any of that, as some
of us said all the way along and getting prouder
and prouder by the day of that. It is nice
to have that one being put to bed. But one
(14:58):
thing that maybe should be happening is little bit of
prosecution of certain individuals for how they behave during all
that and what they did, the stunts they pulled trying
to undermine the Trump first term, and to a certain extent,
it did undermine Trump's first term, but he still accomplished
way more than basically any other president and reset the
(15:21):
tone in this country. And he's doing it again, of course.
But that to me makes me think NBC should not
be associated with all of that, and where do they
go from there?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
The people that you took all that in.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Is there a moment where the casual listener to mainstream
media might step back and.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Say, wow, you know, none of that stuff was true.
None of that stuff ever added up.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
And one of my big themes and one of my
big points of advice that I like to offer is
people need to free their minds from media propaganda. It
is insidious. It is every where we are in a
device culture. We've got devices all around us at all times,
TV screens, phone screens, you name it. And we are
(16:10):
living in a blizzard of propaganda design to influence our
minds and get us to go along with what the
power corridors want.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Us to think.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Okay, they want us to go along with their agendas
and line up and be good citizens and support the
people in power and what they want. And essentially it's
you know, their wallets are open and we can contribute
to them, and they think that that is our job
and our duty.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
However, you know, if.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
You were to take it seriously, what I was queuing
up a minute ago about Trump's tariffs are going to
ruin the economy and create all kinds of massive inflation
across the board in this country. And you do know
some people that pulled out of the markets all together,
They disinvested. They they didn't want anything to do with
(16:59):
being exposed to the Trump economy. And I don't know, Ryan,
how many record highs have we had in the stock
market since January.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I don't know if you have that on the top
of your head.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Oh I don't, but I just keep celebrating them when
they happen.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah, So the inflation again, has not happened yet. Will
it happened? I guess it's an open question. I'm not
an economist. I don't know anything about stock markets, but
I do know that people can tend to hurt themselves,
their own best interest, their own well being if they
can't somehow pierce that veil and get through that propaganda.
(17:34):
That's part of why the Dan Kaplis show exists as
part of what I mean, talk radio is a very
healthy environment in my opinion, to crack through some of
those dominant themes that frankly are harmful for people and
cause them lots of anxiety. You know, people have a
hard time sleeping at night. And I talked to them
and I asked them, wait, what is it about the
(17:56):
current administration that is causing so much turmoil in your
mind or making you, you know, feel like psychologically unstable
and all that. And sometimes it's hard to get like
a specific answer, a specific point that you.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Can go on. But it's always like this blanket.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Oh, it's just everything, it's you know, it's just all
of it, you know, which is how I know that's
the effect of propaganda on people's minds. And it reminds
me back in the day. Yeah, and I'll continue this thought.
Back in the day, people will say, oh, Trump lies
all the time, as can you give me an example,
Let's have a specific, a specific lie.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
And they said, well, it's just everything everything.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Well, it would be helpful to have something to go
on concretely.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
There so it could be discussed.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Right, We're going to talk to Alexa on the phone
lines when we come back. It is Matt Dunn in
for Dan Capless. You're listening to the Dan Caplis Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Dan capitalist this evening afternoon, and hey, who chooses the
music around here? That's that's just good. It's just a
positive vibe, very wholesome. Is that is that Ryan?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Is that Dan? Or? How does that work? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
That's Alexis theme song down Easter Alexa by Billy Joel,
her favorite, I believe, oh in the artists at least
I don't know about the song. She might get sick
of that.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Very well done.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
We're off to the phone lines in one second. One
quick note, I just saw this on Twitter. Can I
still call it Twitter? Or do we need to call
it something else?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
These days?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Looks out there you kind of get stuck, you know,
all thirty two NFL teams will again this year be
forced to stencil a social justice message in their end zones.
They must choose from the following options, and there are
five options. Quote end racism, quote, stop hate, quote, choose love, quote,
(19:56):
inspired change quote. It takes all of us one of
those five.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
And I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
When I saw that, I kind of thought, does that
remind you a bit of more of the Biden era?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Is?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Does it seem like a little bit of a throwback
to a different era? And I don't know, I don't
have any special comment on that, but that's that's I guess,
you know what the NFL wants to do.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And so good for them.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
But I was just noticing, you know, the mores change,
and I think, I think there's just a.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Different vibe in this country.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
And of course the country wants to, you know, be
inspiring on all of those points, but I don't know,
it feels different now. In my humble opinion, phone lines
three three seven, one, three eight two five five the
text line five seven seven three nine, Let's bring Alexa up. Alexa,
(20:49):
thank you very much for touching base. On the Dan
Kaplis Show, Matt Dunn sitting in.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Well, great to hear your voice. Three hundred and ninety
four days. I've been waiting for this that I have
so much I want to talk to you about.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
We're not counting, are we I'm at three three ninety
four that we are. We are counting.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Okay, that's that was a streak.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
That was a lot of days.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
I'm glad you broke that streak.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
It's not quite a cal Ripka or a lou Gerrigg streak,
but it's it's not bad.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Yeah, in twenty years of being on the radio, just
over a year of being off, it's okay. Twenty twenty
was so painful, the election everything else. However, now that
we're in twenty twenty five, I think hindsight is twenty
twenty imperfects. But I don't think Trump would have been effective.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
From twenty twenty to twenty twenty four because of all
the corruption in DC and et cetera. So I'm really
glad looking back that he didn't when twenty twenty it's
painful and as corrupt as everything was, but I really
wanted to know on election night in twenty twenty four,
(22:08):
how did you receive the news that Donald Trump was
elected president? And how excited were you.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
How did I.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Receive that news, Alexa, Yeah, that was shall we say
a good night, It was a good night.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
It was an expected night.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I had just come to the conclusion, my gosh, that
the Democrats had gotten too.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Crazy to hold on to power. Go down the list.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
You know, we talked about all the pathologies of the
people in power that were somehow just so off base,
so off kilter, so not connecting with the American people
at Democrats just they've lost the connection with the American voter,
middle class, working class, any class. And I think, you know,
they have ways to be strong in elections, shall we say,
(22:53):
when they don't necessarily deserve it.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I figured that the edge was just going to be
too big.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
After the assassination attempt plural on Donald Trump, I figured that.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
There's no way, I mean, they missed, they missed.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
And by the way, I still like to know more
about that assassin and what was really going on there.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I'm a little.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Surprised we haven't had more of a deep dive on that.
I hope that's going to be forthcoming. But I'll tell
you what, Alexa, you make a point. You remember all
we went through, right twenty sixteen to twenty twenty, And
then you step back and you think about the arc
of history that man was that ever contentious right twenty
(23:35):
sixteen to twenty twenty, and people still gave the benefit
of the.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Doubt to the mainstream media.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
They still kind of believed that stuff at a little
higher rate than today, maybe even a lot higher rate.
Distrust in media is only snowballing basically since then. Hence
it's like MS now or whatever, no more ms NBC.
So then we got four years of Biden, after four
years of trying, and I mean he just blew it
(24:00):
in every conceivable way and alienated the Democratic Party and
their leadership from the American He just cemented that in Stone,
and I mean, how long will it be before they
can even recover from that? I mean, it could be that,
you know, the Republicans do well in the midterms, even
which is unusual to happen, you know, for a for
a sitting president of the same party, Right, but it
(24:22):
might actually be so bad. We actually might have a
good midterm election cycle. But think about how much more
effective Trump is in this term now, after those four
years of Biden and the whole arc of this history
and him deciding to you know, go through the brain
damage of running again to do that. How many presidential
campaigns does he run? You know, he's running the last
three in a row, right, And not an easy decision
(24:46):
because you know, people would rather not have him still
being president or.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
You know, even being alive. Right. Took a lot of
courage to do that.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
He did it, and I think doesn't it feel a
lot better about America right now.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Than it sort of used to? Alexa?
Speaker 8 (25:02):
You notice that absolutely. I mean, and Ryan touched on
this the other day too, that just you know, can
you imagine Biden or Kamala doing anything of the last
six months? The meet was meeting with all the European
leaders yesterday. I mean, Trump is just a powerhouse to
(25:27):
go twenty plus hours a day and be juggling all
he does. And he learned his lesson from the first term,
and he has a lot less trust of certain people,
which is really a good thing.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
And Ukraine has never been popular, It's never been as advertised.
I was very unpopular the time by saying, hey, I
don't like anything about this Ukraine thing.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
From day one, this is going to be a bad deal.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
It's a wrong geopolitical move. It's mistaken foreign policy interpretations
that's going to cause this to be a negative. And
oh man, you know a million people have died since
then and we've had have we spent a trillion dollars yet?
I mean, where are we on those numbers? I haven't
even been keeping track. And he gets to come in
and clean it up. And Alexa, did you see the photos?
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Right?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I mean there's Trump striding around, bigger, taller, more colorful
than all these European leaders who look so tiny in
his presence. They look like, you know, like little kind
of docile people. Leaders like sitting there looking a little
bit like they're kind of excited to meet Donald Trump.
You know, they're they're you can you can see that
(26:36):
he has way more respect from even world leaders than
you know, the media would ever.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Let you know about.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Right, makes you feel a little absolutely?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (26:47):
Does it?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Does it give you just a little bit of a
different feeling about the country when you have this you know,
Trump guy who's kind of running this show and doing
these negotiations, and they're complicated.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
This Ukraine thing is so complicated.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
I still I don't know how it's going to turn out,
But it seems like progress is being made.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Do you think we should get a Nobel Peace Prize
coming up if this does resolve?
Speaker 8 (27:11):
I hope so. And he the biggest thing about Trump
that we need to constantly remember. And he's going to
make the steps and do I love everything he says
or does know but almost he is almost almost. So
he has four Americans, and he has for the United
States of America, and that is important. He cares about
(27:35):
other countries. He cares. Yes, you want to stand ward's
cause he's six people dying. Yes, why else should we
on wars? Yeah, that's a great thing in Malania's letter
to put in that with fabulous Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
So, and we have to watch the mastering media rooting
against him, rooting against peace, rooting for more war and
spending more billions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
In Ukraine, and even the Ukraine people seventy.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Percent of them want a negotiated deal now.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
They want this to be done there, they're done with it.
And so it.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Seems like Trump's the right guy to show up at
the right time, and he's got enhanced credibility, prestige, respect
the whole deal given this arc of history. Interm out
of term and then back in there, and I think
the world was ready at least a majority, right, maybe
not MS.
Speaker 8 (28:27):
Now have a well no, but we have a great VP.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yes we do, right on.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
Great to have you back and love hearing you, and
hopefully we will hear you in September when Dan goes
and pretends to his day job.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Well, Alexa, it is wonderful to hear your voice me,
I say, we've chatted.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
A bit over the years.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Again, thank you for being being on here right now
in the Dan Kapla Show, it is Matt Dunn filling
in for Dan.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
And now back to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast, Matt.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Don in for Dan caplis today did anybody know besides
me that back in nineteen forty five?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Today?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
In nineteen forty five, the book Animal Farm, written by
George Orwell was published, and I talk about arming and
defending our minds against mainstream media propaganda, basically anything that
comes in through our screens and our devices. A solid
knowledge of George Orwell's nineteen eighty four and Animal Farm,
(29:38):
I think are things you should have in your armamentarium.
And that got me thinking about Animal Farm. I won't
go into it now, but do make sure that one
is on your man cave bookshelf. Little advice for me,
it'll it'll do you good to understand what we have
been up against and actually how we are now winning
(29:59):
enjoying that in this second Trump term. Let's say a
little hello to Carly in Hyland's ranch. Carly Simon is
actually calling. It's not Carly Simon, but Carly welcome.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
I cannot tell you how great it was to hear
you when I turned the radio on today. I couldn't
believe my ears. I actually was thinking about you on Sunday.
I'm going gosh, I wish he'd get another show on
the radio.
Speaker 8 (30:27):
And here you are.
Speaker 10 (30:28):
Is so good to hear you.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Well, a three hundred and ninety four day hiatus, and hey,
Dan Caplis was nice enough to say, what's Matt doing?
Speaker 10 (30:37):
And so I hope you fill in for him as
much as possible.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Well, I would be honored to do so. If they
sometimes have a window for some guy to show up
and beloviate a little bit about whatever nonsense you know
is going on.
Speaker 10 (30:52):
People learn a lot from your show. I mean, seriously,
they do. I wanted to say, because you left your
show stopped a few months before the election. Yes, And
I mean, can you believe everything he's gotten done since he.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Got in It is remarkable.
Speaker 10 (31:11):
Car and his stamina and I just can't believe it.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Is anyone sleeping the four hours a night and doing
all that and staying on.
Speaker 10 (31:19):
Top of us sleeps that much.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Is he juggling one hundred balls, a thousand balls and
somehow stays on top.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Of all of them. It's been a marvel. You can't
explain this like normal, not first time around.
Speaker 10 (31:30):
The Neil Alexa was talking about JD. How about Marco?
I can't get over Marco Rubio.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Spot on Carly. There's a couple of surprises.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
You know, when you saw Marco Rubio become Secretary of State,
were you a little bit like okay, you know, I
was just kind.
Speaker 10 (31:47):
Of questioning it. Yeah, I'll tell you what he's learned
from the master, because the way he takes on the
press is so good.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
He is He's a very pleasant surprise.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
This Marco Rubio, and you know Tulca Gabbard as well,
has been phenomenal that some of these people, for whatever
reason whatever boot was holding Marco Rubio down during his
senate careers.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
It's been lifted off.
Speaker 10 (32:11):
Like I said, and he is maga right, he is
total mind.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
He's going for it.
Speaker 10 (32:15):
I wanted to say, I know Alexis mentioned the Nobel
Peace Prize just in my personal opinion, once they gave
it to Obama, it greatly diminished in my view, what
I want to see. I would love to see him
on Mount Rushmore, and I think he deserves it. I'm serious.
I'm gonna start campaign.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
You know, I'm just gonna have to say, you're right.
Is there a room up there for there is?
Speaker 10 (32:41):
I've looked at it.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Could they make it like a little bigger than Lincoln
and Washington? Like there's like twice the size of the
other presidents. You know, there's Trump there.
Speaker 8 (32:51):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 10 (32:52):
But anyway, it's so great to hear you. It's we're
in such a bitter place in this country.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Yeah, you enjoy that election night twenty twenty four, Carly.
And by the way, we have chatted a bit over
the years. Oh yeah, And boy, if I enjoyed you
checking in and touching base with your insights and you're
still out there doing it.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Wonderful.
Speaker 10 (33:12):
That's try. That's right, worked on that campaign.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
And still in Highland's ranch. I see good, yep, yep.
Speaker 10 (33:18):
So well, anyway, we love hearing you, and I hope
to hear you again.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Well, so honored Carly, and let's let's make a point
of that chatting again on air at some point or another.
Thank you Carly for touching base.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
And do we get to say hello to d D
D d up.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
In Indian Hills. Welcome aboard, d D. Are you on
the on the line here?
Speaker 10 (33:44):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (33:44):
I am okay.
Speaker 11 (33:46):
How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I'm doing all right. Hope you're doing well?
Speaker 11 (33:50):
Oh yeah. I just wanted to say, there's really no
choice for Democrats out there. They don't want to be
Democrats anymore. They don't want to be part of the
party of the communists. They want to be part of
the patriots, successful party that's taking back the country and
(34:10):
also helping save the world and making peace among the nations.
Democrats have no excuse for not becoming part of the
Republican Party.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
Now.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Well, it seems like the Democrat Party has lost its way.
And maybe you could even make the case it's kind
of imploding that I saw I saw a pulse somewhere,
and I was trying to find it before I came
into the studio that their approvals are at nineteen percent.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Can that be right? Am I right or wrong in this?
I shouldn't float.
Speaker 8 (34:40):
That would say negative nineteen?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Okay, you have to work to get to negative nineteen.
But you know, their approvals are kind of like, you know,
at the bottom of the barrel.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
And they don't seem to have solutions, do they.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
And I think they're kind of realizing that what they've
been exposed to a lot of propaganda that was malicious
and false and harmful and shall.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
We say not true. I don't know, d D.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
I think you're onto something here and I'd keep going
if we could.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
But thank you for checking in. Matt Dunn in for
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