Dan Reacts To SNAP Benefits Expiring

In the first hour of today's edition of the show, Dan Caplis reacts to the impending expiration of SNAP benefits funding.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caplis, and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
And really big going on right.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Now, and I think a ful lot of people don't
see it. Come and what do we do about A
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nine talking about the fact that, of course everybody's aware
that these food stamp benefits are set to expire in November. First,
I believe a federal judge out of Boston is probably

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going to enter an order that will divert about five
billion out of reserve emergency funds into funding partially funding SNAP.
You need almost twice that much per month to fund,
you know, the food stamps right now nationwide. So I
think you're going to see that mitigation happen here pretty

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quick via court. But even then folks won't be getting
their full benefits, So there's going to be a lot
of pain. And then you layer that on top of
federal workers at this point too. Obviously aren't getting paid
some federal workers. So what I think is happening out
there right now, part of it's anecdotal, but a lot
of it is just evidentiary, is that there's a combination

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of real need that goes far beyond what we're aware of.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
And that's because of I think.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
A potentially fatal flaw in our society right now, driven
by Democrat Party policies. But no matter what you think
it's from, there can be no denying that there is
this thin veneer of civilization. You know, we're lucky to
live in the greatest nation in the history of the world,
right and many of the least among us are more

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prosperous than many fairly well off people across the globe.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
We all know that.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
But given the American standard of living, we're about to
hit a wall with these snap benefits expiring, these food
stamps expiring, and so what do we do? What gives?
At this point? We know the Democrats have caused it.
The Democratic Party has caused it by trying to take
America hostage with this government shutdown.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
So do the Republicans just.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Stand one hundred percent firm at this point and say
we're not giving an inch on anything, knowing that it's
going to mean there's an awful lot of suffering coming
for the next month or two. If the Republicans do that,
how quickly do you think the Democrats cave? And that's
an interesting question because if we accept the reality, and

(02:41):
it is a sad reality that the people who own
and operate the Democratic Party truly don't care about human life,
that they don't care about other people, they don't care
about the hungary, they don't care about the poor, they
lie when.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
They say they do. Talking about the people.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Who run the party, Well, at that point it could
go on a lot longer than one might.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
So what do we do about this?

Speaker 1 (03:02):
But the point being, make no mistake about it, and
you may be seeing it yourself, depending on how your
life is and where it takes you. Maybe you're one
of these people right now who is really in trouble
and desperate. If that's the case, I'm very sorry for you,
and I really want your input because I've got some
solutions in mind.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
But make no mistake about it.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
There is an enormous problem I mentioned a week or
two ago on the show. My wife works at a
volunteers at a food bank, and she's just been reporting
to me just the craziness going on right now with
so many people hurting and so many people trying to
prepare for food stamps going away. And she was working

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there again today and she said it was exponentially larger
than the last time we talked. And that's just one example,
but you can see it around the country. If you
heard the newscast leading into the show. We have two newscasts.
One is good and one is terrible. And the good
one is local, our local newsroom, and you can rely
on them. They're accurate, they're great journalists. The other is

(04:05):
total garbage propaganda from the left. ABC News National News at.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Top and on the reliable local.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Newscast, you heard the tape of Mayor Mike Johnston calling
on people to give money to food banks, etc. One
thing I'd like to know is how much the mayor
is given, how much police is given. Polus is very wealthy,
and hey give them credit for his prosperity. Hickenlopper is
very wealthy, Bennett's very wealthy. How much have they given
to food banks?

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Would really like to know.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
I completely respect folks who say, you know what, that's personal.
I don't want to tell you, and maybe they've given
a ton and they just don't want it to be
public because of their own beliefs. Fine, just say that,
But there are others, especially in positions like that, and
I think it's the better argument. Who would say, no,
I'm going to tell you because i want to let

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you know that I'm leading and I'm setting that example,
and I'm putting my money where my mouth is is.
And I think that would be the far more expected
and understandable approach from a pollis Abanite Hick and Lubra Johnston,
because then their generosity, if it is happening, their generosity

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could multiply.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Many times because people would see the.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Example not just another politician talking, they're actually writing checks.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
So how much have each of these guys given?

Speaker 1 (05:27):
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Speaker 2 (05:33):
And what is the solution here?

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Do you think the GOP should do a carve out
for snap benefits? Do you think the GOP should do
some kind of deal now to avoid what what truly
will be a crisis when these.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Food stamps stop.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
What percentage of Coloraden's if you know the answer, Ryan,
don't tell me.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
If you're going to guess, I'd love your guests.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
What percentage of coloradens do you believe are on food stamps?

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Person? Interesting? Interesting, guess it's actually about ten percent, and
I think that's what is and listen that number. That
number is.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
An embarrassment, but it's a number that shared pretty much
every state across the country, red state or blue state,
and that number comes from Democrat Party policies. That number
is an admission of failure it to have entire population,
a population of this country overall in this country. It's

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it's a little more than ten percent. There is no
excuse for that. But it can be traced directly back
to Democrat policies that we've talked about before and we
will again. But the question is, right now, how do
you feed the hungry? What do you do right now?
What's your plan? I've got one three oh three seven,
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seventh through nine. We'll take texts on that. A lot
of other great topics on the show. Today, we're going
to be talking about JD. Vance Man.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
There is no doubt, is there that he's going to
be the GOP nominee.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
He's going to win. He's going to be a great president.
Hopefully Mark will be his VP and then be in line.
But he was in Fuego last night at ole Miss.
You know where our son Joe went, graduated from Ole
Miss with the highest honors, straight a student now in
law school is Sergeria Law School. But yeah, vance on
fire with Charlie Kirk's widow at ole Miss last night,

(07:27):
and he had a tremendous riff on living in a
mixed marriage, religion, mixed marriage, and how he manages that.
So I want to do a segment or two on
would you marry somebody with a different faith and how would.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
You manage that?

Speaker 1 (07:45):
If you're in one of those marriages right now, how
do you manage that? I feel, I mean, obviously incredibly
blessed for so many different reasons, but the fact that
my wife shares my faith and deeply she's a very
devout Catholic, you know, just been like a lottery when
for me from day one, it is just made life
so much easier and better. But I know there are

(08:06):
a lot of couples who they manage that, and they
manage it very well and I'd love to hear from
them on how they do it, because listen, if it's
your faith, Yeah, if it's your faith, and you're sitting
there saying, you know, a, I believe in God and
I believe in the Catholic faith. In this example, it
would have to be extraordinarily challenging to be married to

(08:28):
somebody who you deeply love in marriage is biblical and sacramental,
and then have that person, you know, not believe what
you believe. How do you manage that?

Speaker 3 (08:38):
How difficult would that have been for you personally?

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Dan, if you had to navigate that? What a great question.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
I'm not sure I could have really, Yeah, I mean,
and maybe it's just I'm spoiled because you know, Amy
is such a great Catholic. I wish I was as
good as Catholic as she is. So maybe it's just
because I'm spoiled. Because you must know a lot of people,
right who do manage that, so they find a way.
So I'd like to believe that I could have found

(09:04):
a way. But when you're sitting there and first of all,
you know God is the center of your life, right,
if you have that faith, I have to believe everybody
who believes in God. God's the center of their life,
and then the thing they value most on the face
of the earth is their children. The thought of then
their children not being raised in their faith?

Speaker 2 (09:24):
How do you deal with that?

Speaker 1 (09:25):
So jd Vance talked about it very eloquently. We'll get
to that as well. Three oh three seven one three
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five seven seven three nine. And what do you do
if one of the people in the relationship is an atheist?

Speaker 2 (09:40):
How do you balance that?

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Does the relationship have a prayer? You're on the Dankaplas Show.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
And now back to the dan Kaplass Show podcast.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Of course, how did I not why you know you
were really listening to grunge back then the midnight?

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Did I not know that Holy Cow Thirday Saturday?

Speaker 5 (10:05):
More than six hundred thousand Colorados who depend on SNAP
benefits will not receive any funds to help them buy
food snap stands for the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program.

Speaker 6 (10:16):
Colorado Congressman Joe Nago says that's illegal and the USDA
is required by law to send that money regardless of
the shutdown.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Good question, Well, here's what I want to know.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
And good news our friend John Hickenlooper apparently still with us,
or at least still has an X account. But listen
to this post and talk about phoning it in? Is
this I can in turn in their first day? Who
came up with this one? Listen to Hickenlooper's post, because

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right now, I mean, we've got the sound of John
Thune and John Thune everybody knows is as mild mannered
as it comes. And John Thune losing it on the
floor of the Senate, barking back at Democrats who are
playing powers with all these real people, some of whom
are hungry now and many of whom are soon going
to be hungry. And these lefties they truly couldn't care less,

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and Thune lose it is on the floor. But but Hickenlooper,
here's all they were able to squeeze out of weekend
at Bernie's John Snap benefits expire this Saturday. Over six
hundred thousand Colorados will go hungry. It's not right. No
exclamation point, no caps, it's not right. Republicans already voted

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to gut Snap this summer, and now they have the
power to stop this. Has there ever been a more
melktoast post in the history of the US senec Does
this tell you that he's afraid that he might be
in danger in this race and he doesn't want to
tick off Trump supporters because there are a lot more
of him now, including independence. Here's the actual tone of

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this ridge the verbatim again, no exclamation points, nothing capitalized
except the acronym snap. Here's the real tone, John Hickenlooper.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
And you know how many likes this has?

Speaker 1 (12:09):
The guys, a US senator, this has been up for
five hours on a major pressing issue.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
How many likes do you think this has? Eleven thirty four?
I'm not far off.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
You know, my dead dog, God rest his canine soul
could put up a post on favorite dog bones and
it would have ten times at But here's the real
tone of it. Snap benefits expire this Saturday. Over six
hundred thousand Colorados will go hungry.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
It's not right.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Republicans already voted to gout Snap this summer. Now they
have the power.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
To stop this.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
How can he How can he not muster up more
than that? But that's the point, and that's the point
about what the Republicans need to do right now, because
in a situation like this, where you have all these
real people who are going to go hungry. In about
half of them most places, are kids, it is not
an option to have them go hungry.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
It's just not.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
If you disagree with me on that, let's start there.
It is not an option to have them go hungry
and then just blame the Democrats. It's also not an
option to cave into the Democrats. If you have a
father who is saying, I'm not going to feed my
children unless you give me a Porsche.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Are you giving him the Porsche? No hope not. Are
you letting his children go hungry, No hope not. So
you're going to.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Find a way to get those kids fed, but you're
not going to give them the Porsche. So what is
that way here? Because that's a challenge for the GOP.
And I don't want to hear any whinting. You know,
you run for office, you want these high titles everything else. Well,
this is where you're in your money. When you've got
a real tough one. You cannot cave to the Democrats.
That's a starting point, right, You cannot cave to them.

(13:56):
The people who own and operate that party, they do
so many evil things, and this is one of them.
Right now, all these people they're hurting just so they
have leverage power. They can't win at the ballot box.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
No, you can't let them win.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
But it is not an option to let these people
go hungry, especially not let these kids go hungry. So
what do you do? Three oh three someone three eight
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Speaker 2 (14:23):
You will be shocked to hear that. I've got my
suggestion for this. But it won't be easy. It won't
be easy.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
But you know, people don't make history doing easy things.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
That's the reality.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
And so I think what needs to be happening right now,
and it's overdue, it should have been happening now for
at least weeks, is the GOP needs to be out there.
I'm not talking about staffers, though you need them too,
because you'll need numbers. I'm talking about all the top dogs,
the top dogs of the top dogs.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
They need to be out there.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
They need to be out there there in their sweats,
in their jeans, in their T shirts or if they
don't look good in a T shirt with their sleeves
rolled up, and there has to be the GOP is
so great at this mass organizing. There needs to be
mass organized food drives right now, and the people need

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to be out in the street, out in the street
the way you would be if you're campaigning in the
very last days of the campaign in late October with
an early November election, but out where people can see you.
They don't care what you know until they know that
you care, and talk is cheap. You know, actions speak
louder than words. So we should be seeing GOP officials
at every level, not in some ten minute photo op

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and then you go off to.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Shanahan's for a stake.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
No, in a around the clock, organized, successful way running.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
You know.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Food banks. We did it when I was in the
seminary in high school. We would go door to door
through the neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago, having
people donate cans of food or bags of food or whatever,
and then we take it back to school and then
we distribute it to the poor. That's what needs to
be happening right now. The GOP needs to show America

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it cares about the poor. And even though it's the
Democrats who are hurting the Hungary, the GOP is going
to step up and without hurting America more by giving
the hostage taking democrats what they want. The GOP is
going to take action to make sure people get fed.
That's what needs to be happening right now, at the

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micro level in Colorado all the way up to the
national level.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
You got a better idea.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Tell me if you see a hole in that one,
tell me that too. Three oh three seven one three
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the power to reopen the government. Every single one of
them is voted to reopen the government. You're right, the
Republicans do have the power to reopen the government if

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they give into the hostage takers, which you cannot do.
For the good of this nation, you cannot do that.
So then the challenge is, Okay, how do you feed
the hungry in the meantime?

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Again, that's what you get the big bucks for.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
I just put out what I think is a fantastic
idea that would do the most important thing, which has
helped keep people fed, but it would also transform the
image of the GOP. Because as a fellow Democrat, I
can tell you before I became a Republican. My image
of the GOP was just a bunch of rich white

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people who don't care about poor people or people in pain.
And then what I came to discover is the OP
is it is true and right now it's a democratic
party owned and operated by the secular left and really
can't give a darn about hungry people. And it's conservatives
who truly do care. But I wouldn't have learned that
unless I left one party, moved to another party, and

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then took a third step actually got involved, started.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Going to meetings things like that. I would not have
known these things.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
So if the GOP, which loses much more often to
the stereotype than the issues, the GOP needs to get
out there a do what needs to be done right
now to feed people and b let people know who
we really are as conservatives.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
What do you think of that idea?

Speaker 1 (18:19):
I love your thoughts three oh three seven one three
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Don't curse the darkness, light a candle, or if you
have to curse the darkness, and at least also light
a candle, And would you give food somebody came to
your door, would you go out and collect food as
part of a GOP led effort.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
You're on the Dan Kapitla Show.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast, and.

Speaker 7 (18:51):
You voted no thirteen times. This isn't a political game.
These are real people's lives that we're talking about, and
you all figured out twenty nine days in that though
there might be some consequences there are, people will run
out of money. Yeah, we're twenty nine days in and
they've done their best to make sure that a lot

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of these programs are funded. But at some point the
government runs out of money.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Thirteen times.

Speaker 7 (19:21):
People over here at fund voted a fun snap thirteen
times they voted a fund which I aching back finally
realize this thing has consequences.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Well, you know.

Speaker 7 (19:33):
What what Democrats are doing here. They're making plans to
keep the shutdown going.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, John Tune firing up like that. That's I don't
think I've ever been seen before.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Baking back. But yeah, but it you.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Know, it goes to the point I was making before
the break, where I laid out my plan for how
the GOP should deal with this hostage taking by Democrats
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Speaker 2 (20:04):
Want to get your reaction to that.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
We have other topics going as well, Dan, our congressman
and senator are still getting paid, Yes they are. I
feel bad for essential employees that have to wait in
food lines, like federal police ATCs et cetera. Yeah, I
agree completely and understand that there is a much bigger
problem brewing than most of us are aware of, and

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food banks are being overwhelmed right now, and these food
stamps haven't even been cut off yet.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Dan, who do we know.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Gets the food that's concerning to me? I want to
get it to the people who most need it. I'm
with you, but we have to understand while we work
toward zero abuse, zero fraud, zero waste, the reality is
in any large program like food stamps, you're going to
have some people abusing it and some people who desperately
rely on it.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
But most states red or blue.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
It's at least ten percent of the people in the
state are on it. And that's because of failed Democrat
policies nationwide.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
That's the reality we have right now. Texter or Dan
Newsworthy to mention the performance of minor league call up.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
Trey Y Savage and in decay incinerating the Dodgers last
night with fourteen strikeouts. See, this is the beauty of sports, right,
because sports is about more than sports. The lessons go
way beyond sports. This is a guy minor league er
fifty two thousand dollars contract because he was called up late,
and he blows away the Dodgers with you know, the

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highest payroll in baseball.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
I think.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
So that is a beautiful thing and a lot of
great life lessons all about.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
That is why we watch.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
The team lesson though, Dan and baseball, especially where the
Blue Jays go to eighteen innings, lose that heartbreaker in
Game three, they're bullpen spent, they come back and win
the next two games in Los Angeles love it.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
And I think everybody in America outside LA is reading
for the Blue Jays. Yes, and they're not even from America.
I assume most of the players are. But let me
let me just qualify that quickly, and that is I
think baseball is getting close to the point now of
lots of other sports where once your team's knocked out,
nobody's watching except the people in the two cities still

(22:08):
in it. I know the World Series goes a bit
beyond that, but it's not like it used to.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Be where we watched it in class.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
I can remember the nuns rolling in the TV and
we'd all sit there and watch the World Series together
in class.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
It was one of the sweet things in life. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
But by the way, as I go to the phone
lines now and other Texters, just a public service announcement
if you're interested in basketball, and I understand it's not
everybody's thing, but if you are interested in basketball, go
out and see a Nuggets game, or watch them on TV,
or do something, but enjoy them while we've got them.
This team, assuming it stays healthy, it's not only a

(22:44):
championship team, it's the championship team. And mark my words
that if this team stays healthy, the only downside to
this year's team is there's not going to be any
suspense in the playoffs. If this team stays healthy, they
will roll through the postseason. I don't even think it'll
be close, kind of like when they wanted a couple
of years ago. But there's so much better as a

(23:05):
team than the team that won the championship a few
years ago. I just hope you get a chance to
watch him if you care about basketball. We were there
last night, and who goes on a twenty nine to
two run. You know, they ended the first half a
little bit.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Sloppy and went on a twenty nine to two.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
It's just it's just one of those teams you want
to see before it all comes to an end. Well, Dan,
what if, says a Texter to DN five seven seven
three nine, What if the Senate Republicans were to vote
to temporarily eliminate the filibuster and approve the CR and
open the government? I think text a great question. That
would be a disaster. We don't want to do that.
You know, the Democrats have been chomping at the bit

(23:43):
to get rid of the filibuster, and they will. I
think it'll be a long time before they have the
White House unless the GOP just blows it, but they
may very well have the Senate sometime soon. We don't
want to set that precedent of doing away with the filibuster. Dan,
next you will be handing out food on Halloween. Jesus
would not help lazy frauds.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
You know what that text is useful for, Ryan.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
There is a fairly high percentage of Texters who do
not believe what they write, and then you've got the
other Texters who believe it sincerely.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
And it's easy to tell the difference.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
This texture does not believe what he or she is writing,
just trying to get the goat, and I appreciate the compliment.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
David and Windsor, you're on the Dan Kaplis Show. Welcome.

Speaker 8 (24:28):
How are you doing.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
I'm living the dream, David. How about you? How's Windsor today?

Speaker 8 (24:33):
Oh it's beautiful here.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
Now are the pelicans up there right now?

Speaker 1 (24:36):
A lot of people don't know Windsor is an amazing
flock of pelicans.

Speaker 8 (24:41):
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Speaker 2 (24:43):
There all right. Good for them.

Speaker 8 (24:46):
I wanted to talk about the Nicks Sarages.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yes, sir, we're talking about religion. Mixed on religion.

Speaker 8 (24:52):
Yeah. Well. I met my wife's back in nineteen sixty
three the Jersey Shore and she was going to Day
University and I was going to Maland University. She went
back to school, came back to find summer with David.

(25:15):
She went back to school and I went back to school.
Then we were separated for the next thirty eight years.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (25:24):
And her father, her son had put her on classmates
dot com and she found me and I.

Speaker 8 (25:36):
Came back to visit and we got married and we
were married for twenty two years. At what age did
you marry fifty seven? Fifty eight?

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Oh, so you're still young. Now different religions.

Speaker 8 (25:50):
Yes, she's Episcopalian and I was Jewish.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
Wow, how'd that work? Well?

Speaker 8 (25:56):
So, like I say, we got married and married for
twenty two years. She recently passed away three months ago.
Sorry to mention, but we had a beautiful marriage and
my dearly so I just passed it.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Thank you, David.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
Sure appreciate that call, and sounds like a great love story.
You know, at fifty seven, I would imagine they were
past the point of then that issue of how you
raised the kids and and what's got us on this
topic is JD. Vance very eloquent on this last night
at Old Miss. He was speaking at a turning Point

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event with Charlie Kirk's wife, and as Charlie Kirk did
so heroically, Vance very open and courageous about his faith.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
And it's led to this question of Okay, are.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
You in a mixed religion marriage or maybe one of
the one of the spouses is an atheist. How do
you handle that. How do you manage it? How do
you handle the kid part of it?

Speaker 9 (27:01):
Yes, my wife did not grow up Christian. I think
it's fair to say that she grew up in a
Hindu family, but not a particularly religious family in either direction.
In fact, when I met my wife, we were both
I would consider myself an agnostic or an atheist, and
that's what I think she would have considered herself as well.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
You know, everybody has to come.

Speaker 9 (27:18):
To their own arrangement.

Speaker 8 (27:19):
Here.

Speaker 9 (27:20):
The way that we've come to our arrangement is she's
my best friend. We talk to each other about this stuff.
So we decided to raise our kids Christian. Our two
oldest kids who go to school, they go to a
Christian school. Our eight year old did his first communion
about a year ago. That's the way that we have
come to our arrangement. But thank you, my eight year

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old was also very proud of this first communion.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Thank you, guys. I'll tell the old miss which is
in the best.

Speaker 9 (27:48):
But I think everybody has to have this own conversation
when you're in a marriage. I mean, it's true for
friends of mine who are in Protestant and Catholic marriages,
friends of mine who are in you know, atheists and
Christian marriages.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
You just got to talk to you.

Speaker 9 (28:02):
The only advice I can give is you just got
to talk to the person that God has put you with,
and you've got to make those decisions as a family unit.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
For us, it works out.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
And Vance is so good and he was in Fuego
last night, and like Rubio and some others, you just
see him getting better over time. So you know the
I think part of Trump's overall plan was Vance's VP,
so he would actually continue Mega and then this other
talent evolving and emerging, so Mega would would live beyond him.

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And I think you see that plan working. But what
about marriages where people are from different faiths? If you've
had one of those loved here, how you handle it, particularly,
you know the kid part of it? Three oh three
seven one three eight two five five text d A
N five seven seven three nine. And what do you
think of the capitalist plan on how the GOP should

(28:52):
handle the upcoming loss of the food stamp program. It's
November first, the money goes, A federal judge is probably
going to order that five billion in reserves be used
to fund it, But that'll only fund half of.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
It and only for a month. There's a great way
for the GOP to deal with this. You're on the
Dan Caplass.

Speaker 4 (29:10):
Show and now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast todays.

Speaker 9 (29:21):
Usha will come with me to church, as I've told
her and I've said publicly, and I'll say now in
front of ten thousand of my closest friends. Do I
hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same
thing that I was moved in by church? Yeah, I
honestly I do wish that because I believe in the
Christian Gospel, and I hope eventually my wife comes to see.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
It the same way.

Speaker 9 (29:42):
But if she doesn't, then God says everybody has free will,
and so that doesn't cause a problem for me. That's
something you work out with your friends, with your family,
with the person that you love again the most one
of the most important Christian principles is that you respect
free will. Whosha's closer to the priests you baptize me,
then maybe I am.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
They talk about this stuff.

Speaker 9 (30:03):
My attitude is you figure this stuff out as a family,
and you trust in God to have a plan and
you try to follow it as best as you can,
and that's what I try to do.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Van sendfuego and the bigger thing that's happening HERI ties
into this top topic we have, which is, hey, are
you in one of these mixed marriages, mixed religion marriages.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
How do you manage that? You know, I've been.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
So lucky in so many different ways in life, but
one of the biggest is my soulmate, who you know,
I wasn't didn't meet until I was thirty six, but
it was worth the wait.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
I mean, my soulmate just happened.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
To be a devout Catholic herself, and so that just
made a kind of easy street for me.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
But a lot of good, loving people they're.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
In those marriages where much different views of God and
faith in the afterlife. How do you manage that? Let's
go to the phone lines first, though, I want to
give you a follow up on this texture earlier that
this texter was pulling our legs and didn't really believe
what he or she was saying. The text was, Dan,

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next you will be handing out food on Halloween.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
Jesus would not help lazy frauds.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
And then the texter wrote me back to say no,
they truly are saying what they believe.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Writes Dan. I believe every word I write. I walk
miles and miles every election.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
For real conservatives. I can't afford a Nuggets tickets. How
about donating one to me?

Speaker 6 (31:28):
Be a.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Sure pal? Three out three seven, one, three, eight, two
five five the number I will Yeah, I will just
get a hold of me. Call Ryan, give him your
cell number, because that's how I can know it's you.
I can match up the cell numbers and we'll make
sure you get a Nuggets ticket. Because truly, this will

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be this year's team will be one of the greatest
teams from any of the major sports to ever grace
Colorado as long as they stay healthy.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
So you're going to want to see this team while
we still have them.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
Josh and beautiful weak wretch Colorado, you're on the Dan
Capitals Show.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
Welcome, Hey, Dann, thanks.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
For having me.

Speaker 10 (32:15):
You know, I at the time when I was dating
my wife, she was atheist agnostics. I was raised Catholic,
and so you know, I knew, you know, because we
have it spelled out for us that any kids, if
you know, even when we got married, any kids would
be raised Catholic. Thankfully, you know, two years into its dating,

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she came to me one day and said, hey, I
signed up for OCIA.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (32:40):
And and that was before I proposed to her. So
I was like, well, you know, I think I got
the answer right.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
There what I need to do. Man.

Speaker 10 (32:48):
But I will say for us Catholics, I mean it
was kind of easy for us.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
I mean we haven't spelled.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
Out for us right there in the Catechism.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
Yeah, yeah, no, I aim into that. Well, hey, and
that's a tribute to you, my friends, So congrats on that.
Three oh three seven one three eight two five five
text d An five seven seven three nine Dan says
a Texter Charlie Kirk did not follow the teachings of
Jesus dispute, hatred and division from his altar right Paulpit

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another Texter who I'm sure doesn't believe what they're writing.
And if I'm wrong, Texter, call the show. I just
don't know how any sane or rational person could write that.
I understand that hate interferes with brain function, and sometimes
people become anti Trump and then their brains stop working,
and then they see things differently and they're not just

(33:38):
making it up.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
They're just way wrong. But please do call this show.
We will.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
We will make you the first caller. But I'd love
to hear you try to back up that case and
you can't. So around here, it's back it up or
pack it up. Dan, Your plan is good, but I
believe they should donate money to the food banks instead
of going out there and making a political appearance. I
don't want to see those guys and eyes either side
of the fence. Makes me sad. Dan, Thank you Texter.

(34:03):
What I'm talking about is I think an absolutely brilliant
plan for the GOP right now to deal with the
end of the food stamp benefits that's coming up, and
again a federal judge's order it's expected in the next day,
will probably order five billion in emergency food reserves to
go to the foodstamp program come November first. But that's

(34:24):
only what they half of what they need for a month.
So I think the GOP needs to stand firm. Cannot
give the hostage taking Democrats what they want here, because
then that creates even more problems for the poor, for
the hungry, for all of America. But the GOP cannot
let these people go hungry. These are real people with

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real needs. And real hunger.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
So what should have been.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
Happening and needs to start now is highly organized. The
GOP is very good at that. Highly organized in Colorado
and around the country immediately around the clock, starting with
the top most recognizable GOP officials, but staffers, family members, volunteers,
just going door to door, door to door for cans

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of food, for bags of food, for donations. Have your
ability for people to venmo in or PayPal in or
whatever money to donate to buy food, and then you
get food, and then you're staffing the food banks and
delivering it to the poor. That's what the GOP should do.
Because I'm telling you as a former Democrat, people have
no idea that the GOP has made up largely of

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very compassion at carrying people.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
They buy into this stereotype. It's that the far left.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
Democrats now who truly don't care about the hungry. The
GOP needs to walk the talk. You can't give into
the hostage taking Dems, but you can't let these people
go hungry. In the meantime, you're on the Dan Kapla show,