November 7, 2025 • 35 mins
RFK Jr. announces Thursday's pharma agreement means Americans 'will lose 125 million pounds by this time next year.' But are cheaper, more widely available, weight loss drugs good for our country and our health?
President Obama attempts to thread the needle between Zohran Mamdani's socialist win in New York City and Abigail Spanberger - ostensibly a 'moderate' - winning the governor's race in Virginia, claiming the two share a vision for American that Democrats must unite behind.
President Obama attempts to thread the needle between Zohran Mamdani's socialist win in New York City and Abigail Spanberger - ostensibly a 'moderate' - winning the governor's race in Virginia, claiming the two share a vision for American that Democrats must unite behind.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Kaplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Whoa Happy Friday. Wow Glad the Broncos pulled that out
last night. Looked like look like it might not happen
in the end. And the reason I start with Broncos
is I want to make a point to profound truth
shared that really transcends football and goes to the broader
problems within the media. So we'll get to that in
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a second. Three or three seven one three A two
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three nine. I really want to dig into the Colorado
election results. And I know it's Friday and we'll keep
it lighter, but this is something that I just can't
get out of my mind. How how did the GOP
in Colorado get to this point? We have to be
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able to identify the causes to fix it. So this
is the absolute lowest point. I mean, this is the
bluest Colorado has ever been. So how did the Colorado
GOP the Republican Party in Colorado get to this point.
Want to throw that out there for your text. Call
on it anytime. DN five seven seven three nine. Ye.
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At the same time, it is really worrisome to see
the gross overreaction to the expected Democrat victories on Tuesday night.
Of course, the media is going to overreact to that
because the vast majority of the media is an extension
of the Democratic Party. But I hope the Republican Party
doesn't overreact to those results because when you break them down,
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Democrats won where Democrats were supposed to win. This Mom
Donnie things we've talked about. He's a cartoon character and
he was only able to win under you know, kind
of a perfect storm of weird circumstances, and for the
reasons we've discussed, he's really not a threat going forward.
So I hope the national GOP doesn't overreact to those
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expected dem wins. Colorado. I think that's a different critter Colorado.
I think it's very clear after those results at almost
every level the other night. Yeah, Colorado is now a deep,
deep blue. So how did the GOP get itself there?
And what is the path back? So that'll be among
our many topics today. Ryan, I assume you were at
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or watched that Bronco game last night, and hey, I know,
winning ugly is better than losing, and it's great to
be eight and two and all that fun stuff, But
denials not just a river in Egypt, and it, you know,
you bury your head in the sand, you get your
you know what kicks. So I think we have to
be realistic about one profound truth. And you and I
can do the X and o's during the break. But
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something that surpasses sports goes to the dysfunction of the
media is I think any honest observer would have to
look at where we're at right now and would have
to recognize that at this point in his NFL career
and this point in his career with the Broncos, Tim
Tebow was a better and more effective quarterback than bow Knicks.
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And I'm a big bow Knicks fan. I'm a fan
of his as a quarterback, I'm a fan of his
as a person, and no doubt Bo is going to
be a big winner here. But when you compare the
two and you look at what Tebo had to work with,
I mean, Knicks has a really good team around him
and a Hall of Fame head coach, and Tbo had
literally the worst team in the NFL over the prior
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eighteen months and very mediocre coaching, and Tebow was able
to accomplish an awful lot with a little So I
don't think there's any doubt at this point in the
NFL career t Bow was better. Doesn't mean Nix can't
be everything that we want him to be. Quite the contrary.
I mean, you look at Tebo and Peyton Mannie, a
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phenomenal human, phenomenal quarterback. We were lucky to have him here,
but he was going to be a short term fix.
If Tbo had just stayed in the saddle continuously, we
would have had ten or twelve years of really good,
exciting quarterback play from a quarterback who was winning early
with a very bad team and was only going to
get better. So still very optimistic about Bonix, But let's
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be honest about Tibo and the way the media just
buried Tebo because the media had been wrong about Tibo,
and the media doesn't like being proven wrong. Three h
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an five seven seven three nine. Me, on the other hand,
when I'm wrong, I really appreciate learning that and having
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that pointed out. And I think, given the fact I've
been an air almost thirty years, we take on all comers.
We don't censor our callers. Proves that I'm willing to
put it out there, and if someone can show me
where I'm wrong on something, well it is good to know,
right because you don't want to go on being wrong
about something. I thank god it hasn't happened very often
over those decades, but when it does happen, I'd rather know.
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How about you, Ryan, have you ever in your meteoric
radio career here been wrong about something? Something important? Not
wrong about Uh? Yeah, this pizza was better than that pizza.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I readily admit that I was wrong about the war
in Iraq based on what we were told. I was
very much you know, Team America when that time came around,
and now in retrospect, I have deep misgivings and doubts
about what we were told and well Colon Powell presented
in front of the United Nations and whether or not
Iraq actually had weapons of mass destruction.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
That's a big one. That's a big one. And I
was wrong on that.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Well, that's a little heavy for a fry. I know,
well you obviously can. You were going to go somewhere
like who was going to win an election night or
something like that, But no, thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I'm glad you brought that.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Thank you for that full may of copa. You may
be a little hard on yourself.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
I thought I was definitely wrong in twenty twenty. I
thought President Trump would win. I underestimated the cultivation of
ballots and states that did not have mail in balloting
established the way that Colorado did, and just the sheer numbers.
It will never add up to me, Dan, and I
can't necessarily explain it. And I know it's not what
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you can what you know, but what you can prove,
especially in a court of law or presenting this case
to the American people.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I cannot believe that Joe.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Biden got eighty one million votes, that many more votes
than Barack Obama twice around than Hillary Clinton, the first
female nominee for president to be on the ballot, and
then Kamala Harris, who was historic in her own right.
Joe Biden was historic only that he was part of history,
not that he was historic himself. And so it'll never
square to me. I don't know how the left can
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explain it that Joe Biden, of all people, got way
more votes than Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris and Barack Obama.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, And I think what it comes back to for
me at least is that when we're talking about something
as important as an American election, an American presidential election,
I think from me core principle is I have to
conclude that the president is duly elected unless I see
heart evidence that he was not. And so that's where
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I landed with this. But I have always and I've
said it on are I've always understood the roote the
cause of the concerns so many people have about the
twenty twenty election. And you know, the great irony here,
right Ryan, is the way the Democrats acted toward Trump
after that election. You know, where they tried to literally
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put him in jail so that they wouldn't get beaten
by him at the ballot box. I think that caused
a lot more people to think, Wow, maybe the Democrats
really did cheat in twenty twenty, because if they were
willing to do all this other stuff to him after that,
then wouldn't they be willing to cheat in twenty twenty.
So I understand that rationale. For me clearly consistently from
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day one, it's come down to, hey, something as important
as whether we have a duly elected president. I think
the burden is on those saying we do not to
actually prove it. And that's where I've landed, and that's
where I still sit here today and say. My belief
is that Donald Trump lost a very very very close
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race in twenty twenty, and he lost it in the
end because the media rigged it by burying the very
legitimate Hunter Biden laptop story. So you had a media
that rigged that election by censoring a very important, legitimate story.
And then of course COVID if it hadn't been for COVID,
and how China played COVID. I'm not saying China used
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it as a bio weapon, but after it it got
lab launched, I think China then made decisions to try
to influence that the US election, and so all those
things combined. But aren't we in a better place? And
that's one thing I'd like to throw out to people.
Aren't we better off today? Because President Trump did have
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that time off before for this second term, And I
think That's one reason we see him being historically great
in this second term is all the time off to
think about it, think about the people he'd have, think
about how he'd approach it. I know, and I know
we have to hit this s break. We'll come back
to text and calls in the end. If I had
the power and I had to decide whether he got
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to serve consecutive terms, I think I would have had
to use that power to have him serve consecutive terms
because the price that was paid with the rape and
pillaging of Ukraine, that invasion never would have happened if
Trump was in office, and with the horrors of October seven,
that doesn't happen if Trump's in office. Yeah, I would
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have had to have chosen those consecutive terms. But you
can see how much better he is now having had
that time. What do you think about any and all
of this? We've kind of covered the globe in one
short segment from Tim Tebow to Donald Trump and whether
he would have you know, whether it would have been
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better for America if you'd have those back to back terms.
So it's a Friday afternoon. Everything's fair game three or
three seven one three A two five five the number
text D A N five seven seven three nine. You're
on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast. Everybody
well to get this drug and it is going to
is going to say we will lose.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
The American public because of his agreement, will lose.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
One hundred and twenty five million pounds by this time
next year.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Oh, it is going to have dramatic effects on human
health in this country.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
RFK Junior talking about President Trumps striking a deal to
lower the cost of some weight loss drugs. Uh, do
you think those have been a great creation, a great discovery,
a great invention. Do you think the downsides are going
to outweigh the upsides? Pun not intended? Three or three
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and five seven seventy three nine. How about you, Ryan,
how many obviously you don't need it, but how many
people do you know who are on one of these
weight loss drugs?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I've seen it a lot.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
In fact, Charles Pain on Fox News referenced using one
of these drugs. Interestingly enough, too, there's a new ad
for these role I believe it is that Serena Williams
is now endorsing the product and using it, which I
always thought she was very solidly built, a very muscular tennis.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Player, but never would have thought she needed that.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Yeah, she's using it too, So it's become much more mainstream,
and I think, you know, as long as the health
side effects are monitored by those who are prescribing it,
it's a good thing. It's a good thing for America,
and there might be some people that need a jumpstart
to a diet and be able to maintain a weight
that's lower and get there faster, and if it can
be done in a healthy way, I think this is
good for America.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah, I'm not knocking that. I just want to make
sure that we don't mask, you know, the underlying issues, right,
I mean, how true, what's really going on? What's really
going on with our normal everyday foods that's creating all
day and creating all of this unhealthiness that is fairly
new in our history, and that you don't see a
lot of other places in the world. So I just
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hope it doesn't mask that. Yeah, I've got no beef
with it or the idea of it. Three out three
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what's the etiquette of it? I mean, I ran into
my wife and I were together. We ran into this
guy we've known for a few years, hadn't seen for
a year. It looks like he's lost about forty or
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fifty pounds. And I just said, hey, man, you look great.
You must be in the gym all the time. And
she said, she said, don't embarrass him. He's on the drug.
And how am I embarrassing him? Telling him me looks great?
But what is the etiquette of that?
Speaker 3 (12:43):
That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Do you just assume somebody's on the weight lost drug.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I don't know that that's necessarily anymore a point of
shame or anything like that, because, like I said, it's
become so much more mainstream.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
So yeah, yeah, here's.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
My biggest concern with it is You've got plenty of
people who are larger, but they're very healthy and listen,
it's their business, not mine. So I'm not going to
get in the middle any of that. But I do
worry about it with some kids out there as well,
where hey, they're just they're just created, they're just made
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to be healthy at a larger weight than you might
see if you're looking at a chart and they indicate
the normal range with those different color schemes. Yeah, you
don't have to go out and become gaunt all of
a sudden to look good. In fact, a lot of
people look better bigger.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
And that was the point I was making about Serena Williams,
that she's just a solidly built woman.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
It played to her strength as a tennis player.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
She was still very mobile and strong, I mean obviously
with their serve and the power of her backhand forehand.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
So I never really looked at her at that way.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
And like you said, Dan, healthy people do come in
various shapes and size, and now there is morbidly obese
and there's really no way around that, and that for
those people especially, you know, I think this is very beneficial.
But you're right, if it's just a fashionable thing where
somebody really doesn't mean maybe need the drug, but they
could get there through hard work, perseverance, good diet training,
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you know, working out, that is the preferable mode because
it's a lifestyle change at that point, is what you're saying,
The underlying issues are being addressed.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yeah, totally they're called, but just as a society, and
it's it's one of the things about r. FK. Junior.
I like, as a society, we have got to figure
out what's going on right with all of this unhealthy stuff.
And I'm my own personal theory is it's it's coming
out of the food. Obviously, we've got media culture in
this and that so a bunch of us aren't as
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active as people would have been a certain number of
years ago. But man, I think there's something going on
with the food. Three oh three seven one three eight
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Do you think Marjorie Taylor Green is running for president?
Let's hear cut two please.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
So when the President says that it's not that affordability
hasn't been fixed, it's that people Republicans aren't talking about
it enough, that seemed to be a takeaway of his
from Tuesday night's elections. You disagree with that sentiment.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
I think Tuesday was definitely a referendum on how leaders
in this country are leading. And I believe in America
First policies. That's why I campaign for President Trump and
have supported him as long as I have and I
do support him, but I want all of my colleagues
to come through in action in supporting America First policies.
(15:35):
And I think the American people showed that on Tuesday.
You're not going to convince them to go to the
polls and vote by bailing out Argentina.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
And you're not going to convince.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
Them to go to the polls and vote by continuing
to fund foreign wars and foreign countries and foreign causes.
You're going to get them to go to the polls
and vote when you show up to work and actually
fix the problems that they face every single day.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
So you tell me, is Marjorie Taylor Green? Right? The
Tuesday was a referend on Trump. That's what she's saying.
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Speaker 5 (16:10):
Right.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Maybe I'm missing something, which truly is entirely possible this week,
since you know, taking half days off Versification of the year.
Thank you God, thank you everyone, Thank you Ryan. But
so it's possible I missed something. But did the GOP
lose a race that was supposed to win on Tuesday night?
(16:32):
I thought Democrats just won everything they were supposed.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
To win, Whether it's the governor's races in Virginia or
New Jersey, the New York City mayor's race, or even
Prop fifty in California. All those were expected and forecast
to go the Democrats way.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah, that's why. That's what I'm not getting here, And
I sure hope Republicans don't overreact to this. My guess
is that Marjorie Taylor Green is positioning herself for a
presidential run or or some other role. And that's why
she said that, because I do not think it's supported
by the evidence, not at all. Three out three seven, one,
three eight, two five five the number so much more.
(17:07):
I want to dig into this afternoon with you. There's
just this big kind of overall issue of President Trump,
and he he added to it today. I'll get you
that sound, you know, threatening to use force, use military
force to stop the slaughter of Christians. Now Nigeria is exhibited,
right because that's just a genocide, but beyond Nigeria. So
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love your take on how far you think President Trump
should go with that, and and do you think you
should go to this kind of actually directly using US
military force. I'm for starters, just very grateful he's talking
about it because there's been this weird thing in American
worldwide where there's just sort of this attitude that Okay,
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it's okay to kill Christians, it's okay to subjugate Christians,
it's it's okay to strip Christians of their religious freedom.
Where if any of this was done to any other group,
and it shouldn't be right, shouldn't be done any group,
but everybody'd be going crazy. But with Christians, the abuse
is okay. To me that it's completely illogical, immoral, and
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it's something that attitude has to be stopped, and certainly
it's got to be stopped where it's resulting in a genocide.
So I'm very, very happy to see President Trump on
top of that. But how far do you think he
should take it? So when we come back, I'll take calls.
I'll dive into text as well, if you missed it
at the start of the show, profound truth of the day, Hey,
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Tim Tebow was playing better at this point in his
NFL career and doing better for Denver than Bo Nix is.
And I love bo Nicks as a person. As a quarterback,
I think he's going to be a great success. But
let's finally be honest about the greatness of tabo.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
I'm a traditionalist and you come up here sixty vos. Hey,
that sounds great. But we're in a different country, Steve.
This is a different time. We just saw what happened
in New York. We lost New York. It will be
completely Muslim in three or four years. That's what they want.
They're gonna have everything free there for him, and they're
just gonna spread throughout the country.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
We better wake up and smell the roses.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Senator Tommy Tuberville, do you think he's right? If he
is right, do you have a problem with that? Three
or three? He's seven one three eight two five five
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So Ryan, do you think he's right about that? Now?
I'll get to text and cause I know we have
a bunch of waiting. But do you think New York's
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going to be a most completely Muslim in a few years.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
I really shy away from the religious aspect of it.
I just think it's more about the movement of democratic socialism.
That's what really concerns me. Dan is this Marxist saying
it out loud. There will be no more rich people
or poor people from and now on. We will all
be the same, you know, from each according to his ability,
to each according to his need.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I mean, these are.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Marxist tenants, and Mamdannie is saying them proud and loud.
So that's the part that concerns me. As far as
New York City, there's a Muslim element to it. It's
a melting pot. There's a lot of Jewish people too,
a lot of Jewish people who voted from Mamdani, and
that part I'm still trying to figure out.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, and when it comes to you know, that part
of it. I mean, it's interesting you look at Chicago,
where you know, Irish started to win, and I think
that helped more Irish to Chicago. Irish voted for Irish
and eventually you had a lot of Irish mayors. And
I'm one hundred percent Irish, so I can speak to
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this with some credibility. And the great thing is that
they did a very very good job, most of them,
most of the time. And so yeah, you can see
how that dynamic intensified in Chicago, and often with very
good results. That the disaster it is Chicago now has
nothing to do with the phenomena just described. It has
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to do with with Chicago reaching that tipping point where
it just, you know, kind of cave to socialist approach
to serving his mayor of Chicago, and that certainly wasn't
the case back when you know, Dick Daly was mayor.
All that good stuff, Mom, Donnie Ryan, I know we
disagree on this. I think that people at this point
should have zero concern whatsoever about him, should be grateful
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that he's an open socialist and that he's the socialist
who's percolated at the top and become the face of
the Democratic Party because he is going to fail. It's
never worked anywhere. As you pointed out, he is going
to fail, and he's going to fail out in the open.
And so it's going to be that good reminder we
need every now and then in America, particularly to younger folks,
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that socialism is evil. It will fail, it will destroy
a nation if you let it take roots. So it's
actually a gift to a America that he wanted to
give to the GOP, because now the face of the
Democratic Party nationwide is an avowed angry socialist. What I'm
worried about, as we talked about the other day, is
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I'm worried about the closet socialist who pretend to be
Democrat moderates while pursuing these clearly socialist policies. I mean, look,
in one respect, Mayor Johnston. You know, his threats to
President Trump and Ice were even more radical than Mom Donnie.
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But Mom Donnie, he's an open socialist, etc. But you
have Johnston saying that he was going to send the
Denver police out to the county line to fight the
Feds off and call tens of thousands of moms into
the streets to stop federal law enforcement from enforcing federal law.
That's actually a more radical policy than Mom Donnie in
that area. But because Johnston doesn't declare himself to be
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a socialist, it just doesn't get the same kind of attention,
See what I mean.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yeah, I get where you're coming from on that for sure.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
And I think you know, the silver lining in the
cloud that was Tuesday is exactly what you said, that
the policies will fail on the merits and then under
the weight of themselves, they cannot be born in a
capitalistic economy, will drive out the very revenue that he's
looking to tax that the Jesus out of is going
to flee for other more business friendly states like Florida, Tennessee, Texas.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
And then'll be a result of his own policies.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Well, and it's going to be so much fun to
watch because he's such a jerk, right, It's going to
be so much fun to watch as he then blames
racism and Islamophobia and everything else, and then he becomes
a cartoon character and a caricature of himself and his socialism.
All of this is going to be a very positive
thing for America. I feel for the New Yorkers who
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are going to suffer through this, but you know, eventually
New York will be rebuilt and America will be better
off for seeing this experiment in socialists. And they don't
want to get to calls. We'll start with Tom and Meade.
You're on the Dan Kaplas Show. Welcome Tom, Hi, Dan.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
I know you're living a dream and everything else. So
look through all my recent reading and stuff like that.
Are we really are we addressing affordability?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
You know?
Speaker 8 (24:23):
Are we doing an adequate job as Republicans? Are we
doing that?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
What do you think, yes, But I don't think we're
doing an etiquette etequate job of explaining how we're doing
it and why the way we do is light years
better than the other side.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
Yeah, because I mean it's like everybody, go ahead, go ahead,
no please, no, everybody's like, uh, you know, the people
that voted for him, you know, they're not just not
doing we all these youngsters and stuff, and uh, you know,
you know you got to explain to them that, uh,
you know, you work hard, make good decisions and stuff
(25:02):
like that, but you get high interest rates and now
I don't know, we got to come up with a
plan though, because that's kind of the overriding scene is
you know, it's affordability. I mean not just living in
New York City either, it's but like anywhere, right.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Hundred percent. I mean go back to the twenty four
campaign and all the focus on inflation, which Trump has
done a really good job with. But again a lot
of people aren't aware of that. Obviously, the media is
going to bury anything that's good for Trump, and in
terms of what people are feeling day in and day out, yeah,
that price pressure is off, but overall, affordability, I don't
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think there are a lot of people just feeling they're
doing dramatically better, even though they're way ahead of where
they would have been if if Harris had one. Thank you, Tom,
really do appreciate the call, and I hope we're from
Tom Offen. You know, affordability. It's interesting because that's become
the buzzword, right, but it's also co on the left
for socialism. That doesn't mean every voter who talks about
(26:05):
affordability concerns wants socialism, not at all, not even remotely close,
but understanding that, yes, that's a word the GOP should
not run from, cannot run from. But at the same time,
so many people on the left are using that as
code for socialism, because there are a couple of different
ways to affordability, and one of those ways is to
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have income redistribution, which is what mom Donnie favors, and
he's now the face of the Democrat Party, and there
are a lot of Democrats who openly want that, and
a lot of Democrats who want that but won't talk
in those terms. So let's make things affordable by stealing
the money from that gal and giving it to this
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other gal over here who's part of the Democrats favored class. Now,
the other route to affordability, the only one that will work,
the only one that's moral and deathical and legal and
all that good stuff, is obviously the old fashioned way.
And you want to talk about the key breakthrough to affordability,
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it's no secret affordability. You have to give people a
fair opportunity to reach their full potential. And the single
biggest block to that right now in America is the
Democrats locking so many middle and lower income people into
underperforming government run and controlled schools. If you had true
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school choice and you unleashed all of that potential that
right now is being bottled up because people don't get
a fair opportunity to compete educationally. Then at that point
things are going to be more affordable because people are
going to be reaching their potential. They're going to be
earning more, You're going to have fewer society ills because
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more people are staying in school, excelling in school, prospering.
Affordability comes through grow increasing your earnings, reaching your full potential.
That's part of the solution. Want to get to some
of these texts as well, Dan, The main benefit of
GOLP one is for those of type two diabetes. It's
not always about how you look, it's about the blood work.
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That being said, I still really don't trust it. Dan.
The golp one drugs, talking obviously about the weight loss
drugs have horrific side effects, thyroid cancer, stomach prows, this blindness,
you lose muscle, including heart muscle. You have to take
them the rest of your life or the weaight comes back.
Perfect revenue model for big pharma, says our friend Alexa
three oh three seven one three eight two five five
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text d An five seven seven three nine. How did
the GOP in Colorado get to this point where the
state is now a deeper blue than anything we've seen before?
And how do we fix it? You're on the Dan Caplas.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Show and now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Your task is going to be not a not a impose.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah, litmus tests. We had Abidail.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Span Berwin and we had n Handani Win their part
of a vision for the future.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Our job is to say that.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
We want everybody engaged.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Oh my goodness, Obama, he's such a liar. He is
the ultimate litmus test. He is the king of litmus
test and the reason the Democratic Party is going down
the tubes, and you know that they're making Tuesday into
the triumph of the millennium. Where did they win where
they weren't supposed to nationally? No Colorado, different story. There's
there's no doubt about what's going on in Colorado. But
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the reason the Democratic Party is obviously trending down and
trending down toward national oblivion. Listen that they're going to
be spurs. Hopefully won't win the White House again for
a very long time, but that might, you know, might
the House at the midterms, might get the Senate at
the midterms, et cetera. But you look at the trend line,
it's clear the ultimate litmus test, you cannot be successful
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in the Democratic Party. You have no chance of leadership,
no chance of power, You have no chance of anything
unless you agree to support to the moment of delivery,
the killing of children before birth. You have to pledge
to support infanticide in order to have any opportunity for
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power in the Democratic Party. It is the ultimate worst
litmus test, and Obama's a big part of imposing and
expanding that litmus test. And the irony, of course is
that it's aborting the Democratic Party itself three or three
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be interesting to know if you can get him on
the show. Ryan, interesting to talk to Obama and ask
exactly what he meant by litmus test? How right on that? Yeah,
wide arrange are they operating in when they talk about
litmus test? I guess what he means is that you
don't have to at this point openly say that you're
a socialist or a communist in order, you know, to
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seek office in the Democratic Party. So their idea of
a litmus test is as long as you support the
socialist stuff, you can still say you're a moderate or
this or that. How generous of Barack Obama. That brings
us to Colbert and I do want to get to
more calls and text. But first, why do you think
he's out there saying this? It's obviously untrue. Cut eight
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with Stephen Colbert claiming he's more conservative than people think, Well,
it comes back to what people think about him.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
I think, you know, old, you know, people perceive me
as this sort of lefty figure.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I think I'm more conservative than people think.
Speaker 9 (31:48):
I just happen to be talking about a.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Government in extremes. Yeah, and so what I'm giving you.
Speaker 9 (31:57):
Is my reaction video to the day, and my reaction
video is like, you know, it's like the screen in
a way, but with jokes. So that makes people perceives
me as more left necessarily than I am, because I'm
not sure what other reaction would be an honest one.
It's hard to have a balanced reaction to the idea
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of troops on street of a city that actually is
not an undergoing an invasion.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Yeah, name one conservative position. He can't. What's interesting to
me is why he would feel he needed to say this.
What do you think called their feels? He needs to
make the bogus claim that he's more conservative than people think. Now,
it could just be the well, he's not a communist,
(32:46):
you know, He's just a radical far left democrat, not
a communist. Maybe that's how he defines conservative. But it's
interesting that he'd feel he needed to go there. It
also comes back to just the reality that I know
is really hard for a lot of us to grass
because we're honest people. But the reality is that you
do have a lot of people and not guessing Colbert's
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one of them. I've never met them. A lot of
people on the left who have just convinced themselves, probably
because they know they're being so intellectually dishonest in positions,
they just convince themselves that they are superior. They are
superior intellects, they're superior morally, they're superior this and that
to the rest of us, and they look down on
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us so much. He feels like he could make a
statement like that and have somebody somewhere take it seriously.
I mean, that kind of arrogance and elitism, I think
is typical of people who are underneath very insecure, and
I think most of these lefties who hold power fall
into that category. And they're insecure because they know they're
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living a lie. They know they don't believe many of
the positions they take, and then they try to justify
it in their own minds so they can look themselves
in the mirror and live with themselves morally. But they
know they're living that lie, and that causes insecurity, and
they mask that then with this arrogance, this elitism, any
flaw in that logic, my young friend, no, I think
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you would know nothing about those flaws.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
The insecurity part goes to the fact that he, Jimmy Kimmel,
even Jimmy Fallon certainly seth Myers have cleaved off half
of the country and forsaken them.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
I said, I don't want the Trump supporters watch. I
don't care.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
I mean, they've really just done an act of Harry
Carey on their own ratings because they feel that strongly
about using it as a political platform in the late
night shows.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Well, let me disagree with you on that. I think
they've actually made a very smart move in terms of
securing their place on TV, because they must know they
must get enough feedback you know, you get daily, hourly numbers, etc.
They must know they are not very good at what
they do. They're not very good comedians, that they're never
going to be able to carry a true comedy show
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late night like a Jaylen or Johnny Carson. So their
one and only way to stay on air is to
become political activists who get this small but very loyal
core following, and then they generate some earned media with
the goofiness of the positions they take in things they say.
So a guy like Kimmel, who on his best day
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as a very mediocre talent. I think he's been very
smart about how to secure a spot on late night
national TV, which obviously doesn't have the chops for Hey,
when we come back, lots to talk about, including Bachelorette
in Town. Would you ever do that show? You're on
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Whoa Happy Friday. Wow Glad the Broncos pulled that out
last night. Looked like look like it might not happen
in the end. And the reason I start with Broncos
is I want to make a point to profound truth
shared that really transcends football and goes to the broader
problems within the media. So we'll get to that in
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a second. Three or three seven one three A two
five five the number text d an five seven seven
three nine. I really want to dig into the Colorado
election results. And I know it's Friday and we'll keep
it lighter, but this is something that I just can't
get out of my mind. How how did the GOP
in Colorado get to this point? We have to be
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able to identify the causes to fix it. So this
is the absolute lowest point. I mean, this is the
bluest Colorado has ever been. So how did the Colorado
GOP the Republican Party in Colorado get to this point.
Want to throw that out there for your text. Call
on it anytime. DN five seven seven three nine. Ye.
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At the same time, it is really worrisome to see
the gross overreaction to the expected Democrat victories on Tuesday night.
Of course, the media is going to overreact to that
because the vast majority of the media is an extension
of the Democratic Party. But I hope the Republican Party
doesn't overreact to those results because when you break them down,
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Democrats won where Democrats were supposed to win. This Mom
Donnie things we've talked about. He's a cartoon character and
he was only able to win under you know, kind
of a perfect storm of weird circumstances, and for the
reasons we've discussed, he's really not a threat going forward.
So I hope the national GOP doesn't overreact to those
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expected dem wins. Colorado. I think that's a different critter Colorado.
I think it's very clear after those results at almost
every level the other night. Yeah, Colorado is now a deep,
deep blue. So how did the GOP get itself there?
And what is the path back? So that'll be among
our many topics today. Ryan, I assume you were at
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or watched that Bronco game last night, and hey, I know,
winning ugly is better than losing, and it's great to
be eight and two and all that fun stuff, But
denials not just a river in Egypt, and it, you know,
you bury your head in the sand, you get your
you know what kicks. So I think we have to
be realistic about one profound truth. And you and I
can do the X and o's during the break. But
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something that surpasses sports goes to the dysfunction of the
media is I think any honest observer would have to
look at where we're at right now and would have
to recognize that at this point in his NFL career
and this point in his career with the Broncos, Tim
Tebow was a better and more effective quarterback than bow Knicks.
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And I'm a big bow Knicks fan. I'm a fan
of his as a quarterback, I'm a fan of his
as a person, and no doubt Bo is going to
be a big winner here. But when you compare the
two and you look at what Tebo had to work with,
I mean, Knicks has a really good team around him
and a Hall of Fame head coach, and Tbo had
literally the worst team in the NFL over the prior
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eighteen months and very mediocre coaching, and Tebow was able
to accomplish an awful lot with a little So I
don't think there's any doubt at this point in the
NFL career t Bow was better. Doesn't mean Nix can't
be everything that we want him to be. Quite the contrary.
I mean, you look at Tebo and Peyton Mannie, a
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phenomenal human, phenomenal quarterback. We were lucky to have him here,
but he was going to be a short term fix.
If Tbo had just stayed in the saddle continuously, we
would have had ten or twelve years of really good,
exciting quarterback play from a quarterback who was winning early
with a very bad team and was only going to
get better. So still very optimistic about Bonix, But let's
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be honest about Tibo and the way the media just
buried Tebo because the media had been wrong about Tibo,
and the media doesn't like being proven wrong. Three h
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when I'm wrong, I really appreciate learning that and having
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that pointed out. And I think, given the fact I've
been an air almost thirty years, we take on all comers.
We don't censor our callers. Proves that I'm willing to
put it out there, and if someone can show me
where I'm wrong on something, well it is good to know,
right because you don't want to go on being wrong
about something. I thank god it hasn't happened very often
over those decades, but when it does happen, I'd rather know.
(05:02):
How about you, Ryan, have you ever in your meteoric
radio career here been wrong about something? Something important? Not
wrong about Uh? Yeah, this pizza was better than that pizza.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I readily admit that I was wrong about the war
in Iraq based on what we were told. I was
very much you know, Team America when that time came around,
and now in retrospect, I have deep misgivings and doubts
about what we were told and well Colon Powell presented
in front of the United Nations and whether or not
Iraq actually had weapons of mass destruction.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
That's a big one. That's a big one. And I
was wrong on that.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Well, that's a little heavy for a fry. I know,
well you obviously can. You were going to go somewhere
like who was going to win an election night or
something like that, But no, thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I'm glad you brought that.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Thank you for that full may of copa. You may
be a little hard on yourself.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
I thought I was definitely wrong in twenty twenty. I
thought President Trump would win. I underestimated the cultivation of
ballots and states that did not have mail in balloting
established the way that Colorado did, and just the sheer numbers.
It will never add up to me, Dan, and I
can't necessarily explain it. And I know it's not what
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you can what you know, but what you can prove,
especially in a court of law or presenting this case
to the American people.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I cannot believe that Joe.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Biden got eighty one million votes, that many more votes
than Barack Obama twice around than Hillary Clinton, the first
female nominee for president to be on the ballot, and
then Kamala Harris, who was historic in her own right.
Joe Biden was historic only that he was part of history,
not that he was historic himself. And so it'll never
square to me. I don't know how the left can
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explain it that Joe Biden, of all people, got way
more votes than Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris and Barack Obama.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, And I think what it comes back to for
me at least is that when we're talking about something
as important as an American election, an American presidential election,
I think from me core principle is I have to
conclude that the president is duly elected unless I see
heart evidence that he was not. And so that's where
(07:10):
I landed with this. But I have always and I've
said it on are I've always understood the roote the
cause of the concerns so many people have about the
twenty twenty election. And you know, the great irony here,
right Ryan, is the way the Democrats acted toward Trump
after that election. You know, where they tried to literally
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put him in jail so that they wouldn't get beaten
by him at the ballot box. I think that caused
a lot more people to think, Wow, maybe the Democrats
really did cheat in twenty twenty, because if they were
willing to do all this other stuff to him after that,
then wouldn't they be willing to cheat in twenty twenty.
So I understand that rationale. For me clearly consistently from
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day one, it's come down to, hey, something as important
as whether we have a duly elected president. I think
the burden is on those saying we do not to
actually prove it. And that's where I've landed, and that's
where I still sit here today and say. My belief
is that Donald Trump lost a very very very close
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race in twenty twenty, and he lost it in the
end because the media rigged it by burying the very
legitimate Hunter Biden laptop story. So you had a media
that rigged that election by censoring a very important, legitimate story.
And then of course COVID if it hadn't been for COVID,
and how China played COVID. I'm not saying China used
(08:37):
it as a bio weapon, but after it it got
lab launched, I think China then made decisions to try
to influence that the US election, and so all those
things combined. But aren't we in a better place? And
that's one thing I'd like to throw out to people.
Aren't we better off today? Because President Trump did have
(08:58):
that time off before for this second term, And I
think That's one reason we see him being historically great
in this second term is all the time off to
think about it, think about the people he'd have, think
about how he'd approach it. I know, and I know
we have to hit this s break. We'll come back
to text and calls in the end. If I had
the power and I had to decide whether he got
(09:20):
to serve consecutive terms, I think I would have had
to use that power to have him serve consecutive terms
because the price that was paid with the rape and
pillaging of Ukraine, that invasion never would have happened if
Trump was in office, and with the horrors of October seven,
that doesn't happen if Trump's in office. Yeah, I would
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have had to have chosen those consecutive terms. But you
can see how much better he is now having had
that time. What do you think about any and all
of this? We've kind of covered the globe in one
short segment from Tim Tebow to Donald Trump and whether
he would have you know, whether it would have been
(10:02):
better for America if you'd have those back to back terms.
So it's a Friday afternoon. Everything's fair game three or
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on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast. Everybody
well to get this drug and it is going to
is going to say we will lose.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
The American public because of his agreement, will lose.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
One hundred and twenty five million pounds by this time
next year.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Oh, it is going to have dramatic effects on human
health in this country.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
RFK Junior talking about President Trumps striking a deal to
lower the cost of some weight loss drugs. Uh, do
you think those have been a great creation, a great discovery,
a great invention. Do you think the downsides are going
to outweigh the upsides? Pun not intended? Three or three
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and five seven seventy three nine. How about you, Ryan,
how many obviously you don't need it, but how many
people do you know who are on one of these
weight loss drugs?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I've seen it a lot.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
In fact, Charles Pain on Fox News referenced using one
of these drugs. Interestingly enough, too, there's a new ad
for these role I believe it is that Serena Williams
is now endorsing the product and using it, which I
always thought she was very solidly built, a very muscular tennis.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Player, but never would have thought she needed that.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Yeah, she's using it too, So it's become much more mainstream,
and I think, you know, as long as the health
side effects are monitored by those who are prescribing it,
it's a good thing. It's a good thing for America,
and there might be some people that need a jumpstart
to a diet and be able to maintain a weight
that's lower and get there faster, and if it can
be done in a healthy way, I think this is
good for America.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah, I'm not knocking that. I just want to make
sure that we don't mask, you know, the underlying issues, right,
I mean, how true, what's really going on? What's really
going on with our normal everyday foods that's creating all
day and creating all of this unhealthiness that is fairly
new in our history, and that you don't see a
lot of other places in the world. So I just
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hope it doesn't mask that. Yeah, I've got no beef
with it or the idea of it. Three out three
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what's the etiquette of it? I mean, I ran into
my wife and I were together. We ran into this
guy we've known for a few years, hadn't seen for
a year. It looks like he's lost about forty or
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fifty pounds. And I just said, hey, man, you look great.
You must be in the gym all the time. And
she said, she said, don't embarrass him. He's on the drug.
And how am I embarrassing him? Telling him me looks great?
But what is the etiquette of that?
Speaker 3 (12:43):
That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Do you just assume somebody's on the weight lost drug.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I don't know that that's necessarily anymore a point of
shame or anything like that, because, like I said, it's
become so much more mainstream.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
So yeah, yeah, here's.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
My biggest concern with it is You've got plenty of
people who are larger, but they're very healthy and listen,
it's their business, not mine. So I'm not going to
get in the middle any of that. But I do
worry about it with some kids out there as well,
where hey, they're just they're just created, they're just made
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to be healthy at a larger weight than you might
see if you're looking at a chart and they indicate
the normal range with those different color schemes. Yeah, you
don't have to go out and become gaunt all of
a sudden to look good. In fact, a lot of
people look better bigger.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
And that was the point I was making about Serena Williams,
that she's just a solidly built woman.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
It played to her strength as a tennis player.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
She was still very mobile and strong, I mean obviously
with their serve and the power of her backhand forehand.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
So I never really looked at her at that way.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
And like you said, Dan, healthy people do come in
various shapes and size, and now there is morbidly obese
and there's really no way around that, and that for
those people especially, you know, I think this is very beneficial.
But you're right, if it's just a fashionable thing where
somebody really doesn't mean maybe need the drug, but they
could get there through hard work, perseverance, good diet training,
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you know, working out, that is the preferable mode because
it's a lifestyle change at that point, is what you're saying,
The underlying issues are being addressed.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yeah, totally they're called, but just as a society, and
it's it's one of the things about r. FK. Junior.
I like, as a society, we have got to figure
out what's going on right with all of this unhealthy stuff.
And I'm my own personal theory is it's it's coming
out of the food. Obviously, we've got media culture in
this and that so a bunch of us aren't as
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active as people would have been a certain number of
years ago. But man, I think there's something going on
with the food. Three oh three seven one three eight
two five five text d an five seven seven three nine.
Do you think Marjorie Taylor Green is running for president?
Let's hear cut two please.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
So when the President says that it's not that affordability
hasn't been fixed, it's that people Republicans aren't talking about
it enough, that seemed to be a takeaway of his
from Tuesday night's elections. You disagree with that sentiment.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
I think Tuesday was definitely a referendum on how leaders
in this country are leading. And I believe in America
First policies. That's why I campaign for President Trump and
have supported him as long as I have and I
do support him, but I want all of my colleagues
to come through in action in supporting America First policies.
(15:35):
And I think the American people showed that on Tuesday.
You're not going to convince them to go to the
polls and vote by bailing out Argentina.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
And you're not going to convince.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
Them to go to the polls and vote by continuing
to fund foreign wars and foreign countries and foreign causes.
You're going to get them to go to the polls
and vote when you show up to work and actually
fix the problems that they face every single day.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
So you tell me, is Marjorie Taylor Green? Right? The
Tuesday was a referend on Trump. That's what she's saying.
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Speaker 5 (16:10):
Right.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Maybe I'm missing something, which truly is entirely possible this week,
since you know, taking half days off Versification of the year.
Thank you God, thank you everyone, Thank you Ryan. But
so it's possible I missed something. But did the GOP
lose a race that was supposed to win on Tuesday night?
(16:32):
I thought Democrats just won everything they were supposed.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
To win, Whether it's the governor's races in Virginia or
New Jersey, the New York City mayor's race, or even
Prop fifty in California. All those were expected and forecast
to go the Democrats way.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah, that's why. That's what I'm not getting here, And
I sure hope Republicans don't overreact to this. My guess
is that Marjorie Taylor Green is positioning herself for a
presidential run or or some other role. And that's why
she said that, because I do not think it's supported
by the evidence, not at all. Three out three seven, one,
three eight, two five five the number so much more.
(17:07):
I want to dig into this afternoon with you. There's
just this big kind of overall issue of President Trump,
and he he added to it today. I'll get you
that sound, you know, threatening to use force, use military
force to stop the slaughter of Christians. Now Nigeria is exhibited,
right because that's just a genocide, but beyond Nigeria. So
(17:30):
love your take on how far you think President Trump
should go with that, and and do you think you
should go to this kind of actually directly using US
military force. I'm for starters, just very grateful he's talking
about it because there's been this weird thing in American
worldwide where there's just sort of this attitude that Okay,
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it's okay to kill Christians, it's okay to subjugate Christians,
it's it's okay to strip Christians of their religious freedom.
Where if any of this was done to any other group,
and it shouldn't be right, shouldn't be done any group,
but everybody'd be going crazy. But with Christians, the abuse
is okay. To me that it's completely illogical, immoral, and
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it's something that attitude has to be stopped, and certainly
it's got to be stopped where it's resulting in a genocide.
So I'm very, very happy to see President Trump on
top of that. But how far do you think he
should take it? So when we come back, I'll take calls.
I'll dive into text as well, if you missed it
at the start of the show, profound truth of the day, Hey,
(18:37):
Tim Tebow was playing better at this point in his
NFL career and doing better for Denver than Bo Nix is.
And I love bo Nicks as a person. As a quarterback,
I think he's going to be a great success. But
let's finally be honest about the greatness of tabo.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
I'm a traditionalist and you come up here sixty vos. Hey,
that sounds great. But we're in a different country, Steve.
This is a different time. We just saw what happened
in New York. We lost New York. It will be
completely Muslim in three or four years. That's what they want.
They're gonna have everything free there for him, and they're
just gonna spread throughout the country.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
We better wake up and smell the roses.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Senator Tommy Tuberville, do you think he's right? If he
is right, do you have a problem with that? Three
or three? He's seven one three eight two five five
the number text d A N five seven seven three nine.
So Ryan, do you think he's right about that? Now?
I'll get to text and cause I know we have
a bunch of waiting. But do you think New York's
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going to be a most completely Muslim in a few years.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
I really shy away from the religious aspect of it.
I just think it's more about the movement of democratic socialism.
That's what really concerns me. Dan is this Marxist saying
it out loud. There will be no more rich people
or poor people from and now on. We will all
be the same, you know, from each according to his ability,
to each according to his need.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I mean, these are.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Marxist tenants, and Mamdannie is saying them proud and loud.
So that's the part that concerns me. As far as
New York City, there's a Muslim element to it. It's
a melting pot. There's a lot of Jewish people too,
a lot of Jewish people who voted from Mamdani, and
that part I'm still trying to figure out.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, and when it comes to you know, that part
of it. I mean, it's interesting you look at Chicago,
where you know, Irish started to win, and I think
that helped more Irish to Chicago. Irish voted for Irish
and eventually you had a lot of Irish mayors. And
I'm one hundred percent Irish, so I can speak to
(20:43):
this with some credibility. And the great thing is that
they did a very very good job, most of them,
most of the time. And so yeah, you can see
how that dynamic intensified in Chicago, and often with very
good results. That the disaster it is Chicago now has
nothing to do with the phenomena just described. It has
(21:05):
to do with with Chicago reaching that tipping point where
it just, you know, kind of cave to socialist approach
to serving his mayor of Chicago, and that certainly wasn't
the case back when you know, Dick Daly was mayor.
All that good stuff, Mom, Donnie Ryan, I know we
disagree on this. I think that people at this point
should have zero concern whatsoever about him, should be grateful
(21:29):
that he's an open socialist and that he's the socialist
who's percolated at the top and become the face of
the Democratic Party because he is going to fail. It's
never worked anywhere. As you pointed out, he is going
to fail, and he's going to fail out in the open.
And so it's going to be that good reminder we
need every now and then in America, particularly to younger folks,
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that socialism is evil. It will fail, it will destroy
a nation if you let it take roots. So it's
actually a gift to a America that he wanted to
give to the GOP, because now the face of the
Democratic Party nationwide is an avowed angry socialist. What I'm
worried about, as we talked about the other day, is
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I'm worried about the closet socialist who pretend to be
Democrat moderates while pursuing these clearly socialist policies. I mean, look,
in one respect, Mayor Johnston. You know, his threats to
President Trump and Ice were even more radical than Mom Donnie.
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But Mom Donnie, he's an open socialist, etc. But you
have Johnston saying that he was going to send the
Denver police out to the county line to fight the
Feds off and call tens of thousands of moms into
the streets to stop federal law enforcement from enforcing federal law.
That's actually a more radical policy than Mom Donnie in
that area. But because Johnston doesn't declare himself to be
(22:56):
a socialist, it just doesn't get the same kind of attention,
See what I mean.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yeah, I get where you're coming from on that for sure.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
And I think you know, the silver lining in the
cloud that was Tuesday is exactly what you said, that
the policies will fail on the merits and then under
the weight of themselves, they cannot be born in a
capitalistic economy, will drive out the very revenue that he's
looking to tax that the Jesus out of is going
to flee for other more business friendly states like Florida, Tennessee, Texas.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
And then'll be a result of his own policies.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Well, and it's going to be so much fun to
watch because he's such a jerk, right, It's going to
be so much fun to watch as he then blames
racism and Islamophobia and everything else, and then he becomes
a cartoon character and a caricature of himself and his socialism.
All of this is going to be a very positive
thing for America. I feel for the New Yorkers who
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are going to suffer through this, but you know, eventually
New York will be rebuilt and America will be better
off for seeing this experiment in socialists. And they don't
want to get to calls. We'll start with Tom and Meade.
You're on the Dan Kaplas Show. Welcome Tom, Hi, Dan.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
I know you're living a dream and everything else. So
look through all my recent reading and stuff like that.
Are we really are we addressing affordability?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
You know?
Speaker 8 (24:23):
Are we doing an adequate job as Republicans? Are we
doing that?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
What do you think, yes, But I don't think we're
doing an etiquette etequate job of explaining how we're doing
it and why the way we do is light years
better than the other side.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
Yeah, because I mean it's like everybody, go ahead, go ahead,
no please, no, everybody's like, uh, you know, the people
that voted for him, you know, they're not just not
doing we all these youngsters and stuff, and uh, you know,
you know you got to explain to them that, uh,
you know, you work hard, make good decisions and stuff
(25:02):
like that, but you get high interest rates and now
I don't know, we got to come up with a
plan though, because that's kind of the overriding scene is
you know, it's affordability. I mean not just living in
New York City either, it's but like anywhere, right.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Hundred percent. I mean go back to the twenty four
campaign and all the focus on inflation, which Trump has
done a really good job with. But again a lot
of people aren't aware of that. Obviously, the media is
going to bury anything that's good for Trump, and in
terms of what people are feeling day in and day out, yeah,
that price pressure is off, but overall, affordability, I don't
(25:42):
think there are a lot of people just feeling they're
doing dramatically better, even though they're way ahead of where
they would have been if if Harris had one. Thank you, Tom,
really do appreciate the call, and I hope we're from
Tom Offen. You know, affordability. It's interesting because that's become
the buzzword, right, but it's also co on the left
for socialism. That doesn't mean every voter who talks about
(26:05):
affordability concerns wants socialism, not at all, not even remotely close,
but understanding that, yes, that's a word the GOP should
not run from, cannot run from. But at the same time,
so many people on the left are using that as
code for socialism, because there are a couple of different
ways to affordability, and one of those ways is to
(26:29):
have income redistribution, which is what mom Donnie favors, and
he's now the face of the Democrat Party, and there
are a lot of Democrats who openly want that, and
a lot of Democrats who want that but won't talk
in those terms. So let's make things affordable by stealing
the money from that gal and giving it to this
(26:50):
other gal over here who's part of the Democrats favored class. Now,
the other route to affordability, the only one that will work,
the only one that's moral and deathical and legal and
all that good stuff, is obviously the old fashioned way.
And you want to talk about the key breakthrough to affordability,
(27:10):
it's no secret affordability. You have to give people a
fair opportunity to reach their full potential. And the single
biggest block to that right now in America is the
Democrats locking so many middle and lower income people into
underperforming government run and controlled schools. If you had true
(27:31):
school choice and you unleashed all of that potential that
right now is being bottled up because people don't get
a fair opportunity to compete educationally. Then at that point
things are going to be more affordable because people are
going to be reaching their potential. They're going to be
earning more, You're going to have fewer society ills because
(27:52):
more people are staying in school, excelling in school, prospering.
Affordability comes through grow increasing your earnings, reaching your full potential.
That's part of the solution. Want to get to some
of these texts as well, Dan, The main benefit of
GOLP one is for those of type two diabetes. It's
not always about how you look, it's about the blood work.
(28:13):
That being said, I still really don't trust it. Dan.
The golp one drugs, talking obviously about the weight loss
drugs have horrific side effects, thyroid cancer, stomach prows, this blindness,
you lose muscle, including heart muscle. You have to take
them the rest of your life or the weaight comes back.
Perfect revenue model for big pharma, says our friend Alexa
three oh three seven one three eight two five five
(28:35):
text d An five seven seven three nine. How did
the GOP in Colorado get to this point where the
state is now a deeper blue than anything we've seen before?
And how do we fix it? You're on the Dan Caplas.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Show and now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Your task is going to be not a not a impose.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah, litmus tests. We had Abidail.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Span Berwin and we had n Handani Win their part
of a vision for the future.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Our job is to say that.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
We want everybody engaged.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Oh my goodness, Obama, he's such a liar. He is
the ultimate litmus test. He is the king of litmus
test and the reason the Democratic Party is going down
the tubes, and you know that they're making Tuesday into
the triumph of the millennium. Where did they win where
they weren't supposed to nationally? No Colorado, different story. There's
there's no doubt about what's going on in Colorado. But
(29:45):
the reason the Democratic Party is obviously trending down and
trending down toward national oblivion. Listen that they're going to
be spurs. Hopefully won't win the White House again for
a very long time, but that might, you know, might
the House at the midterms, might get the Senate at
the midterms, et cetera. But you look at the trend line,
it's clear the ultimate litmus test, you cannot be successful
(30:08):
in the Democratic Party. You have no chance of leadership,
no chance of power, You have no chance of anything
unless you agree to support to the moment of delivery,
the killing of children before birth. You have to pledge
to support infanticide in order to have any opportunity for
(30:29):
power in the Democratic Party. It is the ultimate worst
litmus test, and Obama's a big part of imposing and
expanding that litmus test. And the irony, of course is
that it's aborting the Democratic Party itself three or three
seven one three eight two five five the number text
d an five seven seven three nine. So it would
(30:50):
be interesting to know if you can get him on
the show. Ryan, interesting to talk to Obama and ask
exactly what he meant by litmus test? How right on that? Yeah,
wide arrange are they operating in when they talk about
litmus test? I guess what he means is that you
don't have to at this point openly say that you're
a socialist or a communist in order, you know, to
(31:12):
seek office in the Democratic Party. So their idea of
a litmus test is as long as you support the
socialist stuff, you can still say you're a moderate or
this or that. How generous of Barack Obama. That brings
us to Colbert and I do want to get to
more calls and text. But first, why do you think
he's out there saying this? It's obviously untrue. Cut eight
(31:33):
with Stephen Colbert claiming he's more conservative than people think, Well,
it comes back to what people think about him.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
I think, you know, old, you know, people perceive me
as this sort of lefty figure.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I think I'm more conservative than people think.
Speaker 9 (31:48):
I just happen to be talking about a.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Government in extremes. Yeah, and so what I'm giving you.
Speaker 9 (31:57):
Is my reaction video to the day, and my reaction
video is like, you know, it's like the screen in
a way, but with jokes. So that makes people perceives
me as more left necessarily than I am, because I'm
not sure what other reaction would be an honest one.
It's hard to have a balanced reaction to the idea
(32:20):
of troops on street of a city that actually is
not an undergoing an invasion.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Yeah, name one conservative position. He can't. What's interesting to
me is why he would feel he needed to say this.
What do you think called their feels? He needs to
make the bogus claim that he's more conservative than people think. Now,
it could just be the well, he's not a communist,
(32:46):
you know, He's just a radical far left democrat, not
a communist. Maybe that's how he defines conservative. But it's
interesting that he'd feel he needed to go there. It
also comes back to just the reality that I know
is really hard for a lot of us to grass
because we're honest people. But the reality is that you
do have a lot of people and not guessing Colbert's
(33:06):
one of them. I've never met them. A lot of
people on the left who have just convinced themselves, probably
because they know they're being so intellectually dishonest in positions,
they just convince themselves that they are superior. They are
superior intellects, they're superior morally, they're superior this and that
to the rest of us, and they look down on
(33:29):
us so much. He feels like he could make a
statement like that and have somebody somewhere take it seriously.
I mean, that kind of arrogance and elitism, I think
is typical of people who are underneath very insecure, and
I think most of these lefties who hold power fall
into that category. And they're insecure because they know they're
(33:49):
living a lie. They know they don't believe many of
the positions they take, and then they try to justify
it in their own minds so they can look themselves
in the mirror and live with themselves morally. But they
know they're living that lie, and that causes insecurity, and
they mask that then with this arrogance, this elitism, any
flaw in that logic, my young friend, no, I think
(34:12):
you would know nothing about those flaws.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
The insecurity part goes to the fact that he, Jimmy Kimmel,
even Jimmy Fallon certainly seth Myers have cleaved off half
of the country and forsaken them.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
I said, I don't want the Trump supporters watch. I
don't care.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
I mean, they've really just done an act of Harry
Carey on their own ratings because they feel that strongly
about using it as a political platform in the late
night shows.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Well, let me disagree with you on that. I think
they've actually made a very smart move in terms of
securing their place on TV, because they must know they
must get enough feedback you know, you get daily, hourly numbers, etc.
They must know they are not very good at what
they do. They're not very good comedians, that they're never
going to be able to carry a true comedy show
(35:02):
late night like a Jaylen or Johnny Carson. So their
one and only way to stay on air is to
become political activists who get this small but very loyal
core following, and then they generate some earned media with
the goofiness of the positions they take in things they say.
So a guy like Kimmel, who on his best day
(35:23):
as a very mediocre talent. I think he's been very
smart about how to secure a spot on late night
national TV, which obviously doesn't have the chops for Hey,
when we come back, lots to talk about, including Bachelorette
in Town. Would you ever do that show? You're on
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