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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, yet another beautiful day to fight for the American way.
Glad you are here. Hard to believe the year.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Is almost over.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
I was not supposed to do this show, but I'm very,
very happy to have a bonus show with you. We're
on vacation right now, and the commotion you hear behind
me is like our whole extended family has gathered together,
and it's wonderful. As you know, it's just the best
thing in the world. And I had chased them all
off into an upstairs bedroom a few minutes ago, but
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they have made their way back down.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
And who can blame them?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Right, It's that time of the year and we love it.
Thank you to my uncle father Roger Kaplis, who joined
us in the last segment. Catholic priest in Chicago now
for sixty seven years, he's ninety three, still going strong.
His masses are still enormously popular and very inspiring. We're
talking about the whole American pupe thing and how it's
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energized the church. I had no idea that it had
increased attendance in his parish or parish membership by one
thousand to fifty hundred people. That's remarkable and so a
lot of great things happening, which ties into a theme
of the show, which is twenty twenty six predictions, and
I've got a bunch spoiler alert. I'm, you know, bad
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at some things, good at other things. I'm particularly good
at predictions. So so I will take a lot of
the suspense out of twenty six for you in this hour,
anxious to get yours as well, including these Colorado political races.
I know most people think, hey, they're in the bag,
they're already decided. If it has a blue jersey on,
it's going to win. But I do think there's an
opening there in the governor's race, maybe the Senate race,
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also because of the weakness of the Democrat candidates, and
the GOP has a lot of talent, and we've seen
a lot of GOP talent, including great talent, lose, but
there's a lot of talent out there. So I think
it'd be a mistake to write this one off. Three
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great Texas afternoon, and we'll get back to a bunch
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of those also. So in terms of predictions, fire away
some of mine. I just think there are so many
great things ahead. And it comes back to I think
there are a few big engines, a few big forces
at work right now nationally and in the world, and
one of those is Donald Trump, right, and I think
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that no matter what somebody may think of him politically, obviously,
I'm very happy he got a lot did twice, but
there is no question about the impact he is having.
And we've talked about the reasons why, but no question
about the impact. And so whether or not he has
a Republican House after the midterms, I don't think he will.
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He may have a Republican Senate to a certain extent,
that isn't going to matter because he's still going to
have his superpower is world shaping power, which comes through
his role as commander in chief. And there's no way
that this US Supreme Court, which is the best US
sub Marine Corps fderal lifetime, there's no way that this
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US Supreme Court is going to improperly rein in his
powers as commander in chief. And it is those powers
that are reshaping America in the world in a way
that hopefully will last four generations. And so I see
some great things happening in twenty six because of the
Trump effect, you know, there will be peace in Ukraine,
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and I mean outrageous obviously that Satan and that's who
Putin is will gain territory as part of this peace agreement.
But don't blame Trump for that. You have to blame
Europe for that. Europe did not stand up to Putin
in a meaningful way, and so Putin's going to be
allowed to get some territory. But it's Trump who's going
to stop the bleeding and bring some peace. And so
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it will be obviously great for Ukraine in the world
to have that resolved. And I strongly believe that's going
to happen in twenty six. And I think that you've
already seeing Trump's gains in the Mideast. There's still trouble there,
but big gains, and I think those gains, with some
ups and downs, will extend through twenty six with the
real opportunity for those to get a foothold and again
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be generational, because we all know, right once you can
defeat evil in these core pockets and you can allow
people to start pursuing what we're all born to pursue,
and we all love and we all want to do,
you know, starting with family and starting with some freedom,
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hopefully maximum freedom, and having a life that you can build.
If people want to do that, that's what we're designed
to do. And Trump is very effectively progressing against evil
on multiple fronts right now, including in the Middle East,
and this country is going to benefit from that. What
he's doing right now in Venezuela, we haven't talked about
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a whole lot, but I do think it's brilliant and
important and very very important too. And it's been one
of his great traits over the years, his ability to
think fresh and to think outside the box and do
things others really hadn't thought of or had the guts
to do. Maybe both and Venezuela, you know, just looking
at our hemisphere and looking at threats to us within
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that and opportunities, you know, to head off building threats
within that. That's what's obviously going on with Venezuela. And
it's part of the chemical weapons attack in this country,
which has been coming from China, it's been coming from Mexico,
it's been coming from Venezuela. But that's what drug running is.
It's a chemical weapons attack and it's just in a
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particular form, but you know the stats. We all know
the stats and the mass death that's caused by this,
and we focus on the death as we should. But
for those who do survive, there's so much carnage, right
there are so many people who just become shadows of themselves,
you know, particularly kids, shells, They kind of you know,
lose motivation and give up on if these are chemical
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weapons attacks in our country. And I love it that
we have a president who says, I'm not going to
let you do that to our people. And a disproportionate
effect has been in the Midwest, but there's been a
huge effect lots and lots of places, and so I'm
glad that he's standing up to that. And then as
long as we can get a Republican elected again in
twenty eight the right kind of Republican, then you know
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these policies are going to continue. Now, hey, the next
Republican president will Will he or she be able to
take office with the same kind of effect of Donald Trump. No, no,
but they're going to be a whole lot better than
the Democrat would be and at least have a chance
to continue these good things because with Trump, and it's
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hard earned, and part of it was earned, you know,
in that field in Butler, Pennsylvania. You know, it is
hard earned. It's a deterrent effect. It's you know, the
enemies are afraid of him, the mad dog factor, afraid
of what he might do, and so there's a real
deterrence there. And then he also has the strength to
act when action needs to happen, you know, such as
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obviously the bombings in Iran, which you know, and there
may be another round of those. It's another reason to
be optimistic about twenty six is. And it's just popped
up in the last few days again. But I can
remember being on air in two thousand and nine. Then
I was broadcasting remotely from Montana because I had a
big case up there in Montana. And remember that Arab
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spring in two thousand and nine, if you were even
alive then. And there was that moment when the people
were taking to the streets in Iran and they were
actually crying out for Obama. Obama help us. And Obama
betrayed them. He turned his back on the people of
Iran and he sided with the mulahs in the Iatola
and that rebellion was crush. Now who knows. You know
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how much steam this current effort has. I won't call
it an uprising, it hasn't reached that point, but that
this current effort has in Iran. But let's hope and
pray it's a lot, because what better world it's going
to be when Iran is free again? Three oh three
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all the reasons to be optimistic in twenty six, I'm
not putting Iran in that category because it isn't quite
there yet. But consider it second tier, you know, just
on the outside looking in, and something really good and
powerful for the entire world let alone this country could
be happening there. But again you bring it back to
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the Trump effect. If Trump hadn't been willing to back
up the threats by sending our bombers in, I don't
think it will have would have reached the point it's
at now in Iran. Will this be enough in Iran?
Who knows, But it wouldn't have reached this moment of
hope without that. Despite the absolutely ingenious and courageous and
phenomenal work of the Great State of Israel in its
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attack on Iran, so justified and so well carried out,
still couldn't get it over the finish line without the
capability of the US military bunker busters, et cetera. And
so uh yeah, yeah, another reason to be optimistic in
twenty twenty six. But when we come back, we'll go
through that whole list. We'd love to get your take,
particularly if you disagree three O three seven to one
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Speaker 3 (09:20):
Show nothing is being done, that no one is being
held accountable, that this was just let to run rampant
is completely false.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Well, some people have been held accountable, but I think,
in the opinion of most Republicans, not nearly enough and truthfully,
until somebody in a position of power, until somebody in
a position in Minnesota elected position who was in charge
of administering this or having some oversight over it goes
to jail, it's honestly never going to stop. Look what's
going on in blue states across the country. Nine billion
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in Minnesota, seventy billion in fraud in California, cooking the
crime stats in Washington, DC. When is someone in a
position of power, going and go to jail for the round.
On a second, what I am telling you, though, is
in the case of these states and locales, this is
public money, tax payer money. People get elected there are
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they supposed to. DOJ is doing their job every sectle
day about day. All the Medicaid program is run. But
DOJ is prosecuting money they public is all life with
that time.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Scott Jennings, boy, he is so good. As I told
him on the show, I mean, he could be a
very viable presidential candidate. I don't think there's any question
about that. Three or three seven one, three eight two
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three nine. Talking about predictions for twenty twenty six overac
I'm extraordinarily optimistic about twenty twenty six, not necessarily the
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statewide elections in Colorado, though, I think it'd be a
big mistake at this point to just write those off
and assume that the Democrats are going to win the
governor and Senate race. Obviously the big favorites, but there
is an opening for a lot of reasons. But starting
with the Democratic candidates are so weak, so weak, you know,
just ideology, red blue, stuff aside, Come on, Michael Bennett
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and a very very aged, ineffective John Hickenlooper. You know,
those are targets of opportunity right now. Now, I'd take
a lot of things going right for the GOP to
win either or both.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
But first, I think it'd just be morally.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Wrong for us to give up on those races. We
don't We don't have that right, we don't have that option. Second,
I just think it'd be a political mistake. Three three seven, one,
three eight two five five the number as we look
ahead to twenty twenty six. I won't redo the whole spield,
but just been talking about all the reasons to be
optimistic nationally and internationally. A lot of that comes back
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to Trump. There's another piece of it, though, and I'd
love to get your take on this. We played some
related sound and that is, Hey, why do you think
we're seeing this big resurgence in faith in relation religion
and organized religion, particularly Christianity? And I'm sure you've seen
the same studies and polls and this and that. But
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more importantly, I think if you're a person of faith,
no matter what your faith is, and you're going to services,
you're probably seen at those services themselves. You're probably seen
it in the parking lot of those services, and it's
a great thing to see it's happening. Why do you
think it's happening now? A piece of that we played
earlier was, you know, just the open expressions of faith
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now by so many athletes. Obviously Tim Tebow was famous
for that, courageous, unapologetic, very effective, but we see so
many more athletes doing it now. And I want to
fire some sound from a running back I didn't even
know you existed last night watching We're on a vacation
right now and we're watching that Falcons Rams game, which
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I would have no interest in, but because we're on vacation,
everybody watches the game together and learn this is there's
this running back who I guarantee if the Bronx could
pick him up. You know, he's the best I've seen
since Darrell Davis, twenty three year old kid, and he
gave all the glory to Jesus after what did he have?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Jesse? Almost two hundred yards? Did you know if this
guy existed? Three? I think? Really? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Did did you know that Robinson existed before last night?
Because Jesse knows all things sports, and I did. He
was on my fantasy team.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
He's a lot of people don't know about him though,
because he plays for Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Right right? Who pays attention to Atlanta?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
But what was he this good at Texas?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
What's his first name? Last name is Robinson? Robinson? Was
he that good in Texas?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
He was on? Yeah, he was a Heisman finalist, I believe.
But yeah, he's he's a beast of a player.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Man man.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And by the way, I want to thank Jesse. Jesse
and Shannon Scott did heroic work to get this show
up today. Steve Raims, the sheriff, was going to do
the show. He's down for the count. I don't know
if it's a flu bug or whatever, but he's about
the toughest don bre I know. So whatever he's got,
you don't want to get. So we were throwing this
show together at the last minute and just really heroic
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engineering work by Jesse and Shannon Scott. But when when
do you go back to Rockies? Jesse does the Rockies broadcast.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I'm gonna head down about February twelfth, right around when
pitchers and catchers report, and then I believe our first
broadcast will be February twentieth, So it keeps happening earlier
and earlier.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Well, it should be fun, right with the changes, and
nobody expects him to win the World Series this year,
but at least there's something new, there's a new vibe.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
The culture is different, and I mean, like we were
talking the other day, they could win thirty more games
this year and still finish nine games under five hundred.
So we're just looking for him, if you put it
like that, at a pretty daunting task that they have
at hand.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, but at least there's hope. At least there's hope now.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
But but yeah, Jesse, if you don't mind fire in
the sun the.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Possession for the Rams, what were you thinking, Well, all
I gotta give other guys.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
You know, I'm like, Jesus has put us through con diversity,
but in this moment right here, you had to give
his ways. So I got to give all the board
to him.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
And you know, it's just so much beast to know that,
you know, God is in, is.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
In control of his whole team, control of all of us.
So you know, he he's drives me, he drives us
at the team, and I.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Gotta keep giving him praise on it on the bill,
but yeah, I thought he taught the ball, So.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, and I know we can hear a lot of
athletes and see a lot of athletes doing that sort
of thing. Now it's really exploded, and it's at every
level sometimes after these high school games, let alone college
and pro and different major professional sports. A. I think
it's wonderful and it creates a kind of snowball effect
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because athletes are role models for kids, whether they want
to be or not. And and I think you see
so much more of this good role modeling now than
you do of the bad. And I think that's been
kind of a sea change. And so I think it's
part of this whole resurgence of faith, resurgence of religion.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
What do you think is causing that?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And I raise it in the context again of the
twenty twenty six predictions. It's one of the main reasons
I think twenty twenty six is overall, You're always going
to have the ups and downs, right, it's a human endeavor.
But overall, twenty twenty six I think is going to
be an awesome year. Three h three seven three eight
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want to get to some of our great textures. Dan
predictions there will not be more than one or two
Colorado Republicans that will win a race on the state, federal,
and local levels in twenty twenty six. One as smart
as you, Dan should realize that the amount of liberal
locusts that have invaded this one's great state in the
last ten years has completely destroyed our conservatism and freedom.
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I've never heard that expression liberal locus, probably won't use it,
but thank you for being creative. No, the demographics and
the state have shifted, and the left has spent a
ton of money and they've been call it diabolical, but
they've been ingenious about their plan for Colorado legalization of
marijuana as part of that part of attracting people here
for that who would then push the demographic change and
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Dems have spent a lot of money well and right
now it is a long long roadback for the GOP.
All I'm saying is it is not impossible, and for
a few reasons. One of course, is that Democrats are
running the place into the ground. But I don't believe
that the Democrats can ever make Colorado so bad that
it then causes people to then just vote Republican. I
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don't think it's going to work that way. I think
the GOP is going to have to knock down the
stereotype by doing some really smart things with just the
right candidates and organizations and catching some luck and getting
that breakthrough candidate who wins on a statewide level becomes
the face of the party and then people say, Okay,
well it's a different GOP. Let me take a look
at him. George Brockler at a great point on the
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show last week, which is, you've got almost all the
energy in the Democratic Party now with the solst wing
of the Colorado Democratic Party. If we could somehow get
some of those Democratic socialists on the ballot and the
statewide races siphoned ten to fifteen percent of the vote
away from the Michael Bennetts and Hickenloopers of the world,
that would open up those races much more ahead your predictions.
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On the Dan Kapla Show, we're having some fun this afternoon.
Glad you're here for at three or three seven one
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five seven seven three And now I'll get back to
these great texts in a second. Let's go to the
phone lines. First, We'll start with Kevin. You're on the
Dan Caplis Show. Welcome.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Hey, Hey, I have your Christmas gifts for you.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
I told you about my stroke.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I can Yeah, we talked about it on the show.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
How are you doing?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I'm talking clear and locking.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
You sound better?
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Yeah? So I need it's sixty seconds for this, yes, sir, okay,
it's called Copson Robbers. You have the thing for tops
Compson Robbers. Did you know? Okay? Did you know Whyder
and Doc Holliday lived in Denver when it was only
a few square blocks in size. Did you know that
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Bat Masterson, the daptor lawman who carried a cane and
top hat, was sheriff of Trinidad. Did you know on
the Andy Griffiths show The Hillbillies that came from the
mountains and played music with Andy? The girl in that
family is from a town near Reeley. Did you know
(19:49):
that Ken Curtis, who played Fencis on Gun Smoke, was
raised in Los Angeles in the two or three story
brick building which also had the jail in it and
is still there. He later after acting, he taught speech
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speech to actors. How to change their voices, et cetera
like he did. Okay, did you know that Ken Osmond,
who played Eddie Haskell on Leave to Beaver, quit acting
and joined the LA Police Force. He was shot on
three occasions and lived. Did you know that Robert Conrad,
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who played James West on The Wild Wild West Western
James Bond TV Show, after he quit acting, he joined
the California State Highway Patrol. Did you know that David
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Lee Ross, singer for van Halen, who came from a
family of well known, if not famous surgeons in Chicago.
I believe after van Halen broke up, David was a
EMT for a few years in New York.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
City that I did not know that they had to
freak out some patients in a good way. Maybe they
thought it was a hallucination. Well, thank you for that, man,
and I'm glad to hear you sounding better.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Thanks, yeah, yeah, and wish you all the best. I'm
really encouraged by the progress. Thank you. Kevin.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Yeah, Kevin called us. Kevin has been a caller in
the past, and he called us about a week ago
and he was really fighting through the effects of a stroke.
So so happy to see that please keep him in
your prayers, and he mentioned Doc Holiday. Jesse Thomas on
the show today. Jesse, of course, produces the Rockies games
and is helping us out today while Ryan's on vacation.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Jesse, the Doc Holiday thing. You probably knew this.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I didn't until I had the pleasure of trying that
big case up in Glenwood for the month of most
of the month of September. But Doc Holliday died in
their big hotel up there. I think it was a
Hotel Colorado at the time now Maxwell Anderson, where we
stayed during trial.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
But it tuberculosis hotels. That's what he was up there for.
I think. Yeah. So they had those beds outside so
they could all breathe the fresh, rocky mountain air, I
guess was the idea. There's a name for him. I
just scaring it out of me right now. Also, can
you imagine David Lee Roth pulling up in an ambulance.
I'm palling nine one one again if that happened.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
No, that's right, you think you're hallucinating, right, But I
will tell you about Glenwood Springs, which I had never
spent a whole lot of time in before this long trial,
I came away. It's one of my favorite places on Earth,
and people really do need to get up there. We
were up there in the summer early fall, and it
was spectacular. I'm sure it is other times of the year,
but so much great stuff going on up there. In
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the Hotel Maxwell Anderson, where trial team stayed, because it
was literally a block from the courthouse, it seemed very
very convenient to and from the courthouse, but was a
great hotel as well. Three oh three someone three eight
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Thanks also to Shannon Scott, who, along with Jesse overcame
some big engineering challenges to get the show on air today.
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I'm remote from Florida. I wasn't going to be doing
the show today. We've got a big family reunion going.
But then, as you know, we have these world class
folks who do the show when I'm out and Sheriff
Frames who is going to do it today, is under
the weather and he is the toughest Tom Brano, so
you don't want whatever bug he's got right now. But
the guy scrambled got us on air and we've had
a fun show today, including my uncle father Roger Kaplis
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ninety three year old, prix sixty seven years as a
priest in Chicago's still doing a lot of masses talking
about the American Pope. And then of course Jesse Tomorrow,
you and Stephan Tubbs. It's going to be great to
have the legend Stephan Tubbs back on our airy.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Even got the show.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Even though he's a Padres fan, We're going to let
him on the air. I'm still a lot he die hard.
Oh man, he bothers me every time, but they've had
great success, so I'm kind of happy for him.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah, and hey, if you're new to the area, Stephen
is a tremendous talent and he's been on air for
a lot of years locally and nationally. And yeah, he's
going to choral last day of the year.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
What a great win.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
End it was Stephan Tubbs behind the mic. And then
hopefully he'll become a regular in twenty twenty six. And
because when I'm in trial, that's really one of the
great things about this show is when I am in trial.
And this year, jeez, I think I went to trial
in jury trial six different times this year, which may
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not sound like much, but in my profession, there are
a lot of you know, trial lawyers, civil trial lawyers
who don't get to trial at all in a year,
or may get to trial once. So six times is
a lot, and I'm grateful for it and very grateful
for how the year went. And I'll be in trial
bunch again next year. But we always have these world
class folks taking the show when I'm in trial, and
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Stephan Tubbs will be one of them fortunately as we enter.
As we wrap up twenty five and enter twenty six, Jesse,
you have any big predictions for twenty twenty six?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Oh no, I mean personally, I'll do a personal prediction.
This will be godn't be the year that I break eighty. Dan,
I'm so close to breaking eighty in my golf game. Nope,
no golf, golf.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Oh golf.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I can break eighty bowling barely, but I can do that.
I think this is the year I break eighty. So yes,
a little selfish prediction, but prediction none last.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, but you know, once you break eighty, once you
break eighty, then you're gonna be shooting seventy two seventy three.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Right, it's hard to huddle people like a four minute.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Mile, right then, you're trying to be a tin of
scratch golfer and the whole nine.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
No, But truly, I think once people get through that barrier.
And yeah, I though I guess I disprove that right
because I had this miracle round with my dad where
I I think I shot a seventy two or seventy three.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
On a tough Air Force course.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Sure, and I don't think I broke gadie again after that,
So maybe I just blew up my own theory. But
do you get to play a bunch on these road trips?
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yeah, we play any chance we get. If we have
an off day on the road, it was a pretty
good chance. We're at the golf course, so, which is
nice to see.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
That's that it is a little break, so you can
bring your sticks and everything, and do many players travel
with clubs. Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
There are moments when we get to our hotel and
it looks like the PGA tours in town with the
amount of golf bags that they are taking off the
equipment truck. It's just part of the gig.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
It's nice, yeah, and it to me, it's always made
sense for baseball players because you want to keep your
mind fresh. You want to keep the body moving everything
else and people say, I go to plate's, I do this,
I do that. I'm like Gumby Man. And for me,
it's when I can get out and swing a golf club.
It loosens everything.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Up baseball that makes sense to me. Yes, Ondred percent
and baseball players. I think baseball is one of the
hardest sports going and they really like the challenge of
the It challenges world class athletes like nobody's business. So
being able to play with some of those guys, they
can hit the ball a mile as you would imagine.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Oh yeah, that's got to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
And hey, when we come back, it's weird to say,
but the last segment, at least for me, of this year.
Want to come back with some predictions, some of our
great texters and some of the hopes for twenty twenty
six as well.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
You're on the Dame Kapla show. Wow, hard to believe.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Last segment of twenty twenty five. Stephan Tubbs has the
show tomorrow. How great it will be to get him
back on our air. I hope it's been a great
year for you. I know in everybody's life there's a
mix there's a mix of things. But I hope it's
been a great year for you. I really think twenty
twenty six is going to be a tremendous year for
America and the world.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Colorado.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Hey, plenty of good things will happen, right but we
are stuck. We are stuck right now with the hardcore
far secular left control in the state. And as long
as they are, then a lot of bad things are
going to happen. A lot of unnecessary things are going
to happen. But it's our job to figure out a
way to break that hold in twenty twenty six. I'm
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not sitting here trying to tell you I'm sure Republicans
going to win the governor's office or the US Senate.
It'd be crazy to tell you that. But I do
think there's a path, there's a chance, in part because
the Democratic candidates are so weak, and there's an awful
lot of talent out there on the GOP side. And
I know we've all sat here together and watched a
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lot of really talented GOP candidates get beat sometimes get
beat by a lot, But he just can't quit, can't
stop trying. That would be a moral given the fact
that there are so many flat evil things that the
Left does in Colorado. Doesn't mean they're evil people, but
they do some evil things with the power they have,
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so morally, we don't have the option to just quit
and give up and go home. There's a chance, and
it's more than a dumb and dumber you're saying, I
got a chance. There's a chance. But yeah, that's going
to be a tough slog I do think that nationally
there are Internationally, there are lots of good things that
are going to happen because of the Trump effect. I
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do think will lose the midterms. The GOP will lose
the mid terms, but it won't have that much of
an impact because so much of what President Trump is
doing is in his role as Commander in chief, executive orders,
et cetera. And then obviously the executive orders have to
be tested by the courts, but very little that the
President's doing depends on legislation, and he's still having a
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tremendous impact. Three or three seven, one, three, eight, two,
five five the number. I say that more out of
habit than anything else, since we're coming up.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
On the end of the show.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
But another reason I'm really optimistic for twenty six is
the resurgence of faith of religion, and you see it.
It shows in lots of different ways, polling, anecdotally, etc.
But it is real and it is happening within the
Catholic Church. And my uncle father Roger, a priest for
sixty seven years, still doing many masses and funerals and
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weddings in Chicago and as popular as he's ever been.
But he was on the show earlier talking about how
they've added maybe a thousand additional members of their parish
since Pope Leo, the American Pope became pope. So that's
certainly helping in America. But beyond that, there's this research.
And so I happened to be a Catholic Christian. There's
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a resurgence in Christianity in America, in Europe, around the world,
and so yeah, another reason I'm optimistic for twenty twenty six.
No matter what your faith may be, I think the
more people who practice their faith and are true to
their faith, the better off the world's going to be.
And historically that's been proven true as well. Jesse, are
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you optimistic, pessimistic, neutral for twenty six?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Oh, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic. To
go optimistic.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah, yeah, well, lots of good reasons and the Rockies,
the Rockies have made some changes. Thinks they're going to
be better there.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Well I hate to say it, but that'd be tough
for them to get any wars. So yeah, good things ahead.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
And you yeah, yeah, no, I think there are and
some real hope, Dan says a Texter. I hope you're
right about peace in Ukraine, but highly disappointed that Trump
seems to give the mass murderer Putin credit and then
goes on to site some statements. Let me end with that,
because it really is. One of the major reasons I'm
optimistic for twenty six is I do think there will
be peace in Ukraine. This nation will benefit. The entire
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world will benefit. Unfortunately Putin, who I believe is Satan
on Earth. You know, Putin will benefit. Putin will get
territory he should not have. He's a rapist, he's a murderer.
He's a mass murder he's a mass rapist. He raped
and pillaged Ukraine and it's flat evil. He shouldn't get
an extra inch of territory, but he's going to get
it because of Trump. He's going to get it because
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of Europe, and Europe did not stand up to him.
Europe needed to put boots on the ground in Ukraine,
not to start World War three, but to stop it,
to make it clear that Europe was prepared to defend Ukraine.
Putin bet that Europe would not do that.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
He bet right.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
And so now evil is going to be awarded with
some territory. But blessed are the peacemakers. And Trump's coming
in and is using his influence and his skills to
forge a piece where others never even got close. So
I understand the texture is concerned about positive statements Trump
makes about Putin. But Trump has had an approach. He
has had an approach to those who have to be
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dealt with, including the evil ones in the world. He's
had an approach that has been effective in different places
where no one else has been effective. And if he's
able to manage Putin to the point where you know,
he can get a piece there, he can serve America's
interest in the world's interest, you know, by managing Putin,
you know, so be it, as long as it all
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stays within the bounds of the law. And Trump and
he has and he's had an approach to Putin that
I believe is going to bear fruit in twenty twenty six.
What would you rather have Biden's approach? You know where
Biden sits there and you know he speaks the truth
about how evil Putin is, but he enables Putin in
fifteen different ways. Biden did through his own weakness. You know,
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i'd Trump manage Putin's best. Putin can be managed and
forged the best possible piece there, because in the end
Europe isn't willing to step up and save Ukraine, and
at that point Trump has to do the best he can.
So I think Trump is emerging as a historic peacemaker.
It's another reason I'm encouraged for twenty six. So wow,
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what a year and can't wait for the next one again, Jesse,
you and I were talking about and how great to
end this year with Stephan Tubbs returning to our airwaves.
He'll fill in for me tomorrow. I'm in Florida at
a big family trip that's turned into a big family reunion,
which has been wonderful. And you and Stephan go back
quite a while.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Oh yeah, I've done. Stephan Tubbs remotes from long time.
I've known him forever. So we go back to like
twenty fifteen, twenty fourteen, So tomorrow will be fun looking
forward to it.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Oh, that will be fun, and just how great to
have Stepan back on our airways. If you're new to
the area. Stephan enormously talented and knowledgeable. You know, he's
been national, he's been local, always with success, and so
it'll be great tom back on air, and then have
him back on air throughout you know, twenty twenty six
as well. So what are we ending the show with.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
We got a little Paul Simon here slips on sliding
away since this will be your last show.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Oh, thank you, my friend for that.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
And hey, have a wonderful New Year's Eve. Can't wait
for twenty twenty six. Can't wait to do twenty twenty
six with you. Thanks for being with me in twenty
twenty five. Very grateful for that. And let's go out
and make next year spectacular. Thanks for your time here
on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
I know
Oh, yet another beautiful day to fight for the American way.
Glad you are here. Hard to believe the year.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Is almost over.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
I was not supposed to do this show, but I'm very,
very happy to have a bonus show with you. We're
on vacation right now, and the commotion you hear behind
me is like our whole extended family has gathered together,
and it's wonderful. As you know, it's just the best
thing in the world. And I had chased them all
off into an upstairs bedroom a few minutes ago, but
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they have made their way back down.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
And who can blame them?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Right, It's that time of the year and we love it.
Thank you to my uncle father Roger Kaplis, who joined
us in the last segment. Catholic priest in Chicago now
for sixty seven years, he's ninety three, still going strong.
His masses are still enormously popular and very inspiring. We're
talking about the whole American pupe thing and how it's
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energized the church. I had no idea that it had
increased attendance in his parish or parish membership by one
thousand to fifty hundred people. That's remarkable and so a
lot of great things happening, which ties into a theme
of the show, which is twenty twenty six predictions, and
I've got a bunch spoiler alert. I'm, you know, bad
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at some things, good at other things. I'm particularly good
at predictions. So so I will take a lot of
the suspense out of twenty six for you in this hour,
anxious to get yours as well, including these Colorado political races.
I know most people think, hey, they're in the bag,
they're already decided. If it has a blue jersey on,
it's going to win. But I do think there's an
opening there in the governor's race, maybe the Senate race,
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also because of the weakness of the Democrat candidates, and
the GOP has a lot of talent, and we've seen
a lot of GOP talent, including great talent, lose, but
there's a lot of talent out there. So I think
it'd be a mistake to write this one off. Three
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great Texas afternoon, and we'll get back to a bunch
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of those also. So in terms of predictions, fire away
some of mine. I just think there are so many
great things ahead. And it comes back to I think
there are a few big engines, a few big forces
at work right now nationally and in the world, and
one of those is Donald Trump, right, and I think
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that no matter what somebody may think of him politically, obviously,
I'm very happy he got a lot did twice, but
there is no question about the impact he is having.
And we've talked about the reasons why, but no question
about the impact. And so whether or not he has
a Republican House after the midterms, I don't think he will.
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He may have a Republican Senate to a certain extent,
that isn't going to matter because he's still going to
have his superpower is world shaping power, which comes through
his role as commander in chief. And there's no way
that this US Supreme Court, which is the best US
sub Marine Corps fderal lifetime, there's no way that this
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US Supreme Court is going to improperly rein in his
powers as commander in chief. And it is those powers
that are reshaping America in the world in a way
that hopefully will last four generations. And so I see
some great things happening in twenty six because of the
Trump effect, you know, there will be peace in Ukraine,
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and I mean outrageous obviously that Satan and that's who
Putin is will gain territory as part of this peace agreement.
But don't blame Trump for that. You have to blame
Europe for that. Europe did not stand up to Putin
in a meaningful way, and so Putin's going to be
allowed to get some territory. But it's Trump who's going
to stop the bleeding and bring some peace. And so
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it will be obviously great for Ukraine in the world
to have that resolved. And I strongly believe that's going
to happen in twenty six. And I think that you've
already seeing Trump's gains in the Mideast. There's still trouble there,
but big gains, and I think those gains, with some
ups and downs, will extend through twenty six with the
real opportunity for those to get a foothold and again
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be generational, because we all know, right once you can
defeat evil in these core pockets and you can allow
people to start pursuing what we're all born to pursue,
and we all love and we all want to do,
you know, starting with family and starting with some freedom,
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hopefully maximum freedom, and having a life that you can build.
If people want to do that, that's what we're designed
to do. And Trump is very effectively progressing against evil
on multiple fronts right now, including in the Middle East,
and this country is going to benefit from that. What
he's doing right now in Venezuela, we haven't talked about
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a whole lot, but I do think it's brilliant and
important and very very important too. And it's been one
of his great traits over the years, his ability to
think fresh and to think outside the box and do
things others really hadn't thought of or had the guts
to do. Maybe both and Venezuela, you know, just looking
at our hemisphere and looking at threats to us within
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that and opportunities, you know, to head off building threats
within that. That's what's obviously going on with Venezuela. And
it's part of the chemical weapons attack in this country,
which has been coming from China, it's been coming from Mexico,
it's been coming from Venezuela. But that's what drug running is.
It's a chemical weapons attack and it's just in a
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particular form, but you know the stats. We all know
the stats and the mass death that's caused by this,
and we focus on the death as we should. But
for those who do survive, there's so much carnage, right
there are so many people who just become shadows of themselves,
you know, particularly kids, shells, They kind of you know,
lose motivation and give up on if these are chemical
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weapons attacks in our country. And I love it that
we have a president who says, I'm not going to
let you do that to our people. And a disproportionate
effect has been in the Midwest, but there's been a
huge effect lots and lots of places, and so I'm
glad that he's standing up to that. And then as
long as we can get a Republican elected again in
twenty eight the right kind of Republican, then you know
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these policies are going to continue. Now, hey, the next
Republican president will Will he or she be able to
take office with the same kind of effect of Donald Trump. No, no,
but they're going to be a whole lot better than
the Democrat would be and at least have a chance
to continue these good things because with Trump, and it's
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hard earned, and part of it was earned, you know,
in that field in Butler, Pennsylvania. You know, it is
hard earned. It's a deterrent effect. It's you know, the
enemies are afraid of him, the mad dog factor, afraid
of what he might do, and so there's a real
deterrence there. And then he also has the strength to
act when action needs to happen, you know, such as
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obviously the bombings in Iran, which you know, and there
may be another round of those. It's another reason to
be optimistic about twenty six is. And it's just popped
up in the last few days again. But I can
remember being on air in two thousand and nine. Then
I was broadcasting remotely from Montana because I had a
big case up there in Montana. And remember that Arab
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spring in two thousand and nine, if you were even
alive then. And there was that moment when the people
were taking to the streets in Iran and they were
actually crying out for Obama. Obama help us. And Obama
betrayed them. He turned his back on the people of
Iran and he sided with the mulahs in the Iatola
and that rebellion was crush. Now who knows. You know
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how much steam this current effort has. I won't call
it an uprising, it hasn't reached that point, but that
this current effort has in Iran. But let's hope and
pray it's a lot, because what better world it's going
to be when Iran is free again? Three oh three
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all the reasons to be optimistic in twenty six, I'm
not putting Iran in that category because it isn't quite
there yet. But consider it second tier, you know, just
on the outside looking in, and something really good and
powerful for the entire world let alone this country could
be happening there. But again you bring it back to
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the Trump effect. If Trump hadn't been willing to back
up the threats by sending our bombers in, I don't
think it will have would have reached the point it's
at now in Iran. Will this be enough in Iran?
Who knows, But it wouldn't have reached this moment of
hope without that. Despite the absolutely ingenious and courageous and
phenomenal work of the Great State of Israel in its
(08:52):
attack on Iran, so justified and so well carried out,
still couldn't get it over the finish line without the
capability of the US military bunker busters, et cetera. And
so uh yeah, yeah, another reason to be optimistic in
twenty twenty six. But when we come back, we'll go
through that whole list. We'd love to get your take,
particularly if you disagree three O three seven to one
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to three eight one six eighth the number takes da
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Speaker 3 (09:20):
Show nothing is being done, that no one is being
held accountable, that this was just let to run rampant
is completely false.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Well, some people have been held accountable, but I think,
in the opinion of most Republicans, not nearly enough and truthfully,
until somebody in a position of power, until somebody in
a position in Minnesota elected position who was in charge
of administering this or having some oversight over it goes
to jail, it's honestly never going to stop. Look what's
going on in blue states across the country. Nine billion
(09:51):
in Minnesota, seventy billion in fraud in California, cooking the
crime stats in Washington, DC. When is someone in a
position of power, going and go to jail for the round.
On a second, what I am telling you, though, is
in the case of these states and locales, this is
public money, tax payer money. People get elected there are
(10:12):
they supposed to. DOJ is doing their job every sectle
day about day. All the Medicaid program is run. But
DOJ is prosecuting money they public is all life with
that time.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Scott Jennings, boy, he is so good. As I told
him on the show, I mean, he could be a
very viable presidential candidate. I don't think there's any question
about that. Three or three seven one, three eight two
five five the number text d an five seven seven
three nine. Talking about predictions for twenty twenty six overac
I'm extraordinarily optimistic about twenty twenty six, not necessarily the
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statewide elections in Colorado, though, I think it'd be a
big mistake at this point to just write those off
and assume that the Democrats are going to win the
governor and Senate race. Obviously the big favorites, but there
is an opening for a lot of reasons. But starting
with the Democratic candidates are so weak, so weak, you know,
just ideology, red blue, stuff aside, Come on, Michael Bennett
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and a very very aged, ineffective John Hickenlooper. You know,
those are targets of opportunity right now. Now, I'd take
a lot of things going right for the GOP to
win either or both.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
But first, I think it'd just be morally.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Wrong for us to give up on those races. We
don't We don't have that right, we don't have that option. Second,
I just think it'd be a political mistake. Three three seven, one,
three eight two five five the number as we look
ahead to twenty twenty six. I won't redo the whole spield,
but just been talking about all the reasons to be
optimistic nationally and internationally. A lot of that comes back
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to Trump. There's another piece of it, though, and I'd
love to get your take on this. We played some
related sound and that is, Hey, why do you think
we're seeing this big resurgence in faith in relation religion
and organized religion, particularly Christianity? And I'm sure you've seen
the same studies and polls and this and that. But
(12:07):
more importantly, I think if you're a person of faith,
no matter what your faith is, and you're going to services,
you're probably seen at those services themselves. You're probably seen
it in the parking lot of those services, and it's
a great thing to see it's happening. Why do you
think it's happening now? A piece of that we played
earlier was, you know, just the open expressions of faith
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now by so many athletes. Obviously Tim Tebow was famous
for that, courageous, unapologetic, very effective, but we see so
many more athletes doing it now. And I want to
fire some sound from a running back I didn't even
know you existed last night watching We're on a vacation
right now and we're watching that Falcons Rams game, which
(12:51):
I would have no interest in, but because we're on vacation,
everybody watches the game together and learn this is there's
this running back who I guarantee if the Bronx could
pick him up. You know, he's the best I've seen
since Darrell Davis, twenty three year old kid, and he
gave all the glory to Jesus after what did he have?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Jesse? Almost two hundred yards? Did you know if this
guy existed? Three? I think? Really? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Did did you know that Robinson existed before last night?
Because Jesse knows all things sports, and I did. He
was on my fantasy team.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
He's a lot of people don't know about him though,
because he plays for Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Right right? Who pays attention to Atlanta?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
But what was he this good at Texas?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
What's his first name? Last name is Robinson? Robinson? Was
he that good in Texas?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
He was on? Yeah, he was a Heisman finalist, I believe.
But yeah, he's he's a beast of a player.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Man man.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And by the way, I want to thank Jesse. Jesse
and Shannon Scott did heroic work to get this show
up today. Steve Raims, the sheriff, was going to do
the show. He's down for the count. I don't know
if it's a flu bug or whatever, but he's about
the toughest don bre I know. So whatever he's got,
you don't want to get. So we were throwing this
show together at the last minute and just really heroic
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engineering work by Jesse and Shannon Scott. But when when
do you go back to Rockies? Jesse does the Rockies broadcast.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I'm gonna head down about February twelfth, right around when
pitchers and catchers report, and then I believe our first
broadcast will be February twentieth, So it keeps happening earlier
and earlier.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Well, it should be fun, right with the changes, and
nobody expects him to win the World Series this year,
but at least there's something new, there's a new vibe.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
The culture is different, and I mean, like we were
talking the other day, they could win thirty more games
this year and still finish nine games under five hundred.
So we're just looking for him, if you put it
like that, at a pretty daunting task that they have
at hand.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, but at least there's hope. At least there's hope now.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
But but yeah, Jesse, if you don't mind fire in
the sun the.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Possession for the Rams, what were you thinking, Well, all
I gotta give other guys.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
You know, I'm like, Jesus has put us through con diversity,
but in this moment right here, you had to give
his ways. So I got to give all the board
to him.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
And you know, it's just so much beast to know that,
you know, God is in, is.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
In control of his whole team, control of all of us.
So you know, he he's drives me, he drives us
at the team, and I.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Gotta keep giving him praise on it on the bill,
but yeah, I thought he taught the ball, So.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, and I know we can hear a lot of
athletes and see a lot of athletes doing that sort
of thing. Now it's really exploded, and it's at every
level sometimes after these high school games, let alone college
and pro and different major professional sports. A. I think
it's wonderful and it creates a kind of snowball effect
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because athletes are role models for kids, whether they want
to be or not. And and I think you see
so much more of this good role modeling now than
you do of the bad. And I think that's been
kind of a sea change. And so I think it's
part of this whole resurgence of faith, resurgence of religion.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
What do you think is causing that?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And I raise it in the context again of the
twenty twenty six predictions. It's one of the main reasons
I think twenty twenty six is overall, You're always going
to have the ups and downs, right, it's a human endeavor.
But overall, twenty twenty six I think is going to
be an awesome year. Three h three seven three eight
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want to get to some of our great textures. Dan
predictions there will not be more than one or two
Colorado Republicans that will win a race on the state, federal,
and local levels in twenty twenty six. One as smart
as you, Dan should realize that the amount of liberal
locusts that have invaded this one's great state in the
last ten years has completely destroyed our conservatism and freedom.
(16:48):
I've never heard that expression liberal locus, probably won't use it,
but thank you for being creative. No, the demographics and
the state have shifted, and the left has spent a
ton of money and they've been call it diabolical, but
they've been ingenious about their plan for Colorado legalization of
marijuana as part of that part of attracting people here
for that who would then push the demographic change and
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Dems have spent a lot of money well and right
now it is a long long roadback for the GOP.
All I'm saying is it is not impossible, and for
a few reasons. One of course, is that Democrats are
running the place into the ground. But I don't believe
that the Democrats can ever make Colorado so bad that
it then causes people to then just vote Republican. I
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don't think it's going to work that way. I think
the GOP is going to have to knock down the
stereotype by doing some really smart things with just the
right candidates and organizations and catching some luck and getting
that breakthrough candidate who wins on a statewide level becomes
the face of the party and then people say, Okay,
well it's a different GOP. Let me take a look
at him. George Brockler at a great point on the
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show last week, which is, you've got almost all the
energy in the Democratic Party now with the solst wing
of the Colorado Democratic Party. If we could somehow get
some of those Democratic socialists on the ballot and the
statewide races siphoned ten to fifteen percent of the vote
away from the Michael Bennetts and Hickenloopers of the world,
that would open up those races much more ahead your predictions.
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On the Dan Kapla Show, we're having some fun this afternoon.
Glad you're here for at three or three seven one
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five seven seven three And now I'll get back to
these great texts in a second. Let's go to the
phone lines. First, We'll start with Kevin. You're on the
Dan Caplis Show. Welcome.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Hey, Hey, I have your Christmas gifts for you.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
I told you about my stroke.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I can Yeah, we talked about it on the show.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
How are you doing?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I'm talking clear and locking.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
You sound better?
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Yeah? So I need it's sixty seconds for this, yes, sir, okay,
it's called Copson Robbers. You have the thing for tops
Compson Robbers. Did you know? Okay? Did you know Whyder
and Doc Holliday lived in Denver when it was only
a few square blocks in size. Did you know that
(19:23):
Bat Masterson, the daptor lawman who carried a cane and
top hat, was sheriff of Trinidad. Did you know on
the Andy Griffiths show The Hillbillies that came from the
mountains and played music with Andy? The girl in that
family is from a town near Reeley. Did you know
(19:49):
that Ken Curtis, who played Fencis on Gun Smoke, was
raised in Los Angeles in the two or three story
brick building which also had the jail in it and
is still there. He later after acting, he taught speech
(20:11):
speech to actors. How to change their voices, et cetera
like he did. Okay, did you know that Ken Osmond,
who played Eddie Haskell on Leave to Beaver, quit acting
and joined the LA Police Force. He was shot on
three occasions and lived. Did you know that Robert Conrad,
(20:34):
who played James West on The Wild Wild West Western
James Bond TV Show, after he quit acting, he joined
the California State Highway Patrol. Did you know that David
(20:54):
Lee Ross, singer for van Halen, who came from a
family of well known, if not famous surgeons in Chicago.
I believe after van Halen broke up, David was a
EMT for a few years in New York.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
City that I did not know that they had to
freak out some patients in a good way. Maybe they
thought it was a hallucination. Well, thank you for that, man,
and I'm glad to hear you sounding better.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Thanks, yeah, yeah, and wish you all the best. I'm
really encouraged by the progress. Thank you. Kevin.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Yeah, Kevin called us. Kevin has been a caller in
the past, and he called us about a week ago
and he was really fighting through the effects of a stroke.
So so happy to see that please keep him in
your prayers, and he mentioned Doc Holiday. Jesse Thomas on
the show today. Jesse, of course, produces the Rockies games
and is helping us out today while Ryan's on vacation.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Jesse, the Doc Holiday thing. You probably knew this.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I didn't until I had the pleasure of trying that
big case up in Glenwood for the month of most
of the month of September. But Doc Holliday died in
their big hotel up there. I think it was a
Hotel Colorado at the time now Maxwell Anderson, where we
stayed during trial.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
But it tuberculosis hotels. That's what he was up there for.
I think. Yeah. So they had those beds outside so
they could all breathe the fresh, rocky mountain air, I
guess was the idea. There's a name for him. I
just scaring it out of me right now. Also, can
you imagine David Lee Roth pulling up in an ambulance.
I'm palling nine one one again if that happened.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
No, that's right, you think you're hallucinating, right, But I
will tell you about Glenwood Springs, which I had never
spent a whole lot of time in before this long trial,
I came away. It's one of my favorite places on Earth,
and people really do need to get up there. We
were up there in the summer early fall, and it
was spectacular. I'm sure it is other times of the year,
but so much great stuff going on up there. In
(22:56):
the Hotel Maxwell Anderson, where trial team stayed, because it
was literally a block from the courthouse, it seemed very
very convenient to and from the courthouse, but was a
great hotel as well. Three oh three someone three eight
two five five text d an five seven seven three nine.
Thanks also to Shannon Scott, who, along with Jesse overcame
some big engineering challenges to get the show on air today.
(23:17):
I'm remote from Florida. I wasn't going to be doing
the show today. We've got a big family reunion going.
But then, as you know, we have these world class
folks who do the show when I'm out and Sheriff
Frames who is going to do it today, is under
the weather and he is the toughest Tom Brano, so
you don't want whatever bug he's got right now. But
the guy scrambled got us on air and we've had
a fun show today, including my uncle father Roger Kaplis
(23:41):
ninety three year old, prix sixty seven years as a
priest in Chicago's still doing a lot of masses talking
about the American Pope. And then of course Jesse Tomorrow,
you and Stephan Tubbs. It's going to be great to
have the legend Stephan Tubbs back on our airy.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Even got the show.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Even though he's a Padres fan, We're going to let
him on the air. I'm still a lot he die hard.
Oh man, he bothers me every time, but they've had
great success, so I'm kind of happy for him.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah, and hey, if you're new to the area, Stephen
is a tremendous talent and he's been on air for
a lot of years locally and nationally. And yeah, he's
going to choral last day of the year.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
What a great win.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
End it was Stephan Tubbs behind the mic. And then
hopefully he'll become a regular in twenty twenty six. And
because when I'm in trial, that's really one of the
great things about this show is when I am in trial.
And this year, jeez, I think I went to trial
in jury trial six different times this year, which may
(24:43):
not sound like much, but in my profession, there are
a lot of you know, trial lawyers, civil trial lawyers
who don't get to trial at all in a year,
or may get to trial once. So six times is
a lot, and I'm grateful for it and very grateful
for how the year went. And I'll be in trial
bunch again next year. But we always have these world
class folks taking the show when I'm in trial, and
(25:05):
Stephan Tubbs will be one of them fortunately as we enter.
As we wrap up twenty five and enter twenty six, Jesse,
you have any big predictions for twenty twenty six?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Oh no, I mean personally, I'll do a personal prediction.
This will be godn't be the year that I break eighty. Dan,
I'm so close to breaking eighty in my golf game. Nope,
no golf, golf.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Oh golf.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I can break eighty bowling barely, but I can do that.
I think this is the year I break eighty. So yes,
a little selfish prediction, but prediction none last.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, but you know, once you break eighty, once you
break eighty, then you're gonna be shooting seventy two seventy three.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Right, it's hard to huddle people like a four minute.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Mile, right then, you're trying to be a tin of
scratch golfer and the whole nine.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
No, But truly, I think once people get through that barrier.
And yeah, I though I guess I disprove that right
because I had this miracle round with my dad where
I I think I shot a seventy two or seventy three.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
On a tough Air Force course.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Sure, and I don't think I broke gadie again after that,
So maybe I just blew up my own theory. But
do you get to play a bunch on these road trips?
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yeah, we play any chance we get. If we have
an off day on the road, it was a pretty
good chance. We're at the golf course, so, which is
nice to see.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
That's that it is a little break, so you can
bring your sticks and everything, and do many players travel
with clubs. Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
There are moments when we get to our hotel and
it looks like the PGA tours in town with the
amount of golf bags that they are taking off the
equipment truck. It's just part of the gig.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
It's nice, yeah, and it to me, it's always made
sense for baseball players because you want to keep your
mind fresh. You want to keep the body moving everything
else and people say, I go to plate's, I do this,
I do that. I'm like Gumby Man. And for me,
it's when I can get out and swing a golf club.
It loosens everything.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Up baseball that makes sense to me. Yes, Ondred percent
and baseball players. I think baseball is one of the
hardest sports going and they really like the challenge of
the It challenges world class athletes like nobody's business. So
being able to play with some of those guys, they
can hit the ball a mile as you would imagine.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Oh yeah, that's got to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
And hey, when we come back, it's weird to say,
but the last segment, at least for me, of this year.
Want to come back with some predictions, some of our
great texters and some of the hopes for twenty twenty
six as well.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
You're on the Dame Kapla show. Wow, hard to believe.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Last segment of twenty twenty five. Stephan Tubbs has the
show tomorrow. How great it will be to get him
back on our air. I hope it's been a great
year for you. I know in everybody's life there's a
mix there's a mix of things. But I hope it's
been a great year for you. I really think twenty
twenty six is going to be a tremendous year for
America and the world.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Colorado.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Hey, plenty of good things will happen, right but we
are stuck. We are stuck right now with the hardcore
far secular left control in the state. And as long
as they are, then a lot of bad things are
going to happen. A lot of unnecessary things are going
to happen. But it's our job to figure out a
way to break that hold in twenty twenty six. I'm
(28:13):
not sitting here trying to tell you I'm sure Republicans
going to win the governor's office or the US Senate.
It'd be crazy to tell you that. But I do
think there's a path, there's a chance, in part because
the Democratic candidates are so weak, and there's an awful
lot of talent out there on the GOP side. And
I know we've all sat here together and watched a
(28:33):
lot of really talented GOP candidates get beat sometimes get
beat by a lot, But he just can't quit, can't
stop trying. That would be a moral given the fact
that there are so many flat evil things that the
Left does in Colorado. Doesn't mean they're evil people, but
they do some evil things with the power they have,
(28:54):
so morally, we don't have the option to just quit
and give up and go home. There's a chance, and
it's more than a dumb and dumber you're saying, I
got a chance. There's a chance. But yeah, that's going
to be a tough slog I do think that nationally
there are Internationally, there are lots of good things that
are going to happen because of the Trump effect. I
(29:16):
do think will lose the midterms. The GOP will lose
the mid terms, but it won't have that much of
an impact because so much of what President Trump is
doing is in his role as Commander in chief, executive orders,
et cetera. And then obviously the executive orders have to
be tested by the courts, but very little that the
President's doing depends on legislation, and he's still having a
(29:38):
tremendous impact. Three or three seven, one, three, eight, two,
five five the number. I say that more out of
habit than anything else, since we're coming up.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
On the end of the show.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
But another reason I'm really optimistic for twenty six is
the resurgence of faith of religion, and you see it.
It shows in lots of different ways, polling, anecdotally, etc.
But it is real and it is happening within the
Catholic Church. And my uncle father Roger, a priest for
sixty seven years, still doing many masses and funerals and
(30:11):
weddings in Chicago and as popular as he's ever been.
But he was on the show earlier talking about how
they've added maybe a thousand additional members of their parish
since Pope Leo, the American Pope became pope. So that's
certainly helping in America. But beyond that, there's this research.
And so I happened to be a Catholic Christian. There's
(30:33):
a resurgence in Christianity in America, in Europe, around the world,
and so yeah, another reason I'm optimistic for twenty twenty six.
No matter what your faith may be, I think the
more people who practice their faith and are true to
their faith, the better off the world's going to be.
And historically that's been proven true as well. Jesse, are
(30:54):
you optimistic, pessimistic, neutral for twenty six?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Oh, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic. To
go optimistic.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah, yeah, well, lots of good reasons and the Rockies,
the Rockies have made some changes. Thinks they're going to
be better there.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Well I hate to say it, but that'd be tough
for them to get any wars. So yeah, good things ahead.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
And you yeah, yeah, no, I think there are and
some real hope, Dan says a Texter. I hope you're
right about peace in Ukraine, but highly disappointed that Trump
seems to give the mass murderer Putin credit and then
goes on to site some statements. Let me end with that,
because it really is. One of the major reasons I'm
optimistic for twenty six is I do think there will
be peace in Ukraine. This nation will benefit. The entire
(31:40):
world will benefit. Unfortunately Putin, who I believe is Satan
on Earth. You know, Putin will benefit. Putin will get
territory he should not have. He's a rapist, he's a murderer.
He's a mass murder he's a mass rapist. He raped
and pillaged Ukraine and it's flat evil. He shouldn't get
an extra inch of territory, but he's going to get
it because of Trump. He's going to get it because
(32:02):
of Europe, and Europe did not stand up to him.
Europe needed to put boots on the ground in Ukraine,
not to start World War three, but to stop it,
to make it clear that Europe was prepared to defend Ukraine.
Putin bet that Europe would not do that.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
He bet right.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
And so now evil is going to be awarded with
some territory. But blessed are the peacemakers. And Trump's coming
in and is using his influence and his skills to
forge a piece where others never even got close. So
I understand the texture is concerned about positive statements Trump
makes about Putin. But Trump has had an approach. He
has had an approach to those who have to be
(32:38):
dealt with, including the evil ones in the world. He's
had an approach that has been effective in different places
where no one else has been effective. And if he's
able to manage Putin to the point where you know,
he can get a piece there, he can serve America's
interest in the world's interest, you know, by managing Putin,
you know, so be it, as long as it all
(33:00):
stays within the bounds of the law. And Trump and
he has and he's had an approach to Putin that
I believe is going to bear fruit in twenty twenty six.
What would you rather have Biden's approach? You know where
Biden sits there and you know he speaks the truth
about how evil Putin is, but he enables Putin in
fifteen different ways. Biden did through his own weakness. You know,
(33:24):
i'd Trump manage Putin's best. Putin can be managed and
forged the best possible piece there, because in the end
Europe isn't willing to step up and save Ukraine, and
at that point Trump has to do the best he can.
So I think Trump is emerging as a historic peacemaker.
It's another reason I'm encouraged for twenty six. So wow,
(33:47):
what a year and can't wait for the next one again, Jesse,
you and I were talking about and how great to
end this year with Stephan Tubbs returning to our airwaves.
He'll fill in for me tomorrow. I'm in Florida at
a big family trip that's turned into a big family reunion,
which has been wonderful. And you and Stephan go back
quite a while.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Oh yeah, I've done. Stephan Tubbs remotes from long time.
I've known him forever. So we go back to like
twenty fifteen, twenty fourteen, So tomorrow will be fun looking
forward to it.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Oh, that will be fun, and just how great to
have Stepan back on our airways. If you're new to
the area. Stephan enormously talented and knowledgeable. You know, he's
been national, he's been local, always with success, and so
it'll be great tom back on air, and then have
him back on air throughout you know, twenty twenty six
as well. So what are we ending the show with.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
We got a little Paul Simon here slips on sliding
away since this will be your last show.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Oh, thank you, my friend for that.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
And hey, have a wonderful New Year's Eve. Can't wait
for twenty twenty six. Can't wait to do twenty twenty
six with you. Thanks for being with me in twenty
twenty five. Very grateful for that. And let's go out
and make next year spectacular. Thanks for your time here
on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
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