Dr. Matt Dunn fills in for Dan and enjoys a musical interlude conversation with caller, and country music singer, Tracy from Longmont.
Matt is also a big fan of the Harry Potter series and goes to bat for author J.K. Rowling in her stance in support of biological women, even though the very ungrateful Emma Watson had no problem calling out her essential benefactor's so-called 'anti-trans' viewpoints.
Matt is also a big fan of the Harry Potter series and goes to bat for author J.K. Rowling in her stance in support of biological women, even though the very ungrateful Emma Watson had no problem calling out her essential benefactor's so-called 'anti-trans' viewpoints.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
And good evening afternoon. I'll ask not Dan Capless here
this afternoon. Matt Donn, friend and fan of Dan Caples,
honored to be sitting in and enjoying the chance to
visit with you three oh three seven one, three eight
two five five if you would have a moment to
call and check in about whatever topic might be piquing
(00:39):
your interest. The text line five seven seven three nine
big batch of those here today one says quote, I
grew up fourteen miles from Jerry Lee Lewis, Jeryl Lee.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I have to pronounce it like that, jeral Lee.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Up.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It just popped on.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I'm going to there we go, Dan, and I guess
the text start with Dan, Dan, I grew up fourteen
miles from Jerry Lee Lewis and four miles from Elvis.
Dolly giving I will always love you to Whitney instead
of Elvis is historic beyond belief. I'll tell you this
Texter growing up so close to Jerry Lee and Elvis.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Thank him, Mama, thank you Dollin.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That's some pretty good Heart of America kind of place
to grow up there, if I may say, more texts
coming further and now, I'll try not to play that
Rosie O'donald clip again. Ryan might try to make me
play it, because I think he kind of really liked
that clip.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Kelly probably wants to hear it too, but.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I'm going to try. I'm going to do everything I
can to not.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Play that again.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
By the way, just had a text from one of
my daughters who is telling me age eleven, she wants
to be a vampire grim Reaper for Halloween.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
That sounds awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'm sitting here, Let's do we do that? We do that?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
That?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Wait, as the dad? Yes, Can I have a vampire
grim Reaper?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
With me a Halloween Yes? Okay, I guess consider it
done settled. I'm going to have to find a vampire
grim Reaper costume. I just don't have one of those
sitting around the house right now at any rate. I
want to get into uh, well, we have to hear
the sombrero stuff. I mean, the government shut down there's
(02:30):
all these memes about Hakeem Jeffries, the head Democrat and
all this who wanted to shut down the government some
say to preserve health care spending from the taxpayers bestowed
upon illegal immigrants into this country. And the sombrero memes
are have got Representative Jeffrees a little bit distraught, a
(02:53):
little bit upset, and JD Vance has said these sombrero
memes will stop forthwith if you would just get around
to opening the government back up again. And let's let's
hear JD say it.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
The president's been posting some images of Leader Jeffries and
Sandra Schumer. You've said that you're interested in good faith
negotiations with these leaders, but you know what message is
that's and isn't helpful to post pictures of Leader Jeffries
and sombrero if you're trying to have put faith talks
with him.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
Oh, I think it's funny.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
The President's joking and we're having a good time. You
can negotiate in good faith while also poking a little
bit of fun at some of the absurdities of the
Democrats positions, and even you know, poking some fun at
the absurdity of the Democrats themselves. I mean, I'll tell
Hakeem Jeffries right now, I make this solemn promise to
you that if you help us reopen the government, the
sombrero memes will stop. And I talked to the President
(03:46):
of the United States about that.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Hey, now is that a deal.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I mean, that is our vice president putting the foot
forward and saying, hey, let's open this government back up again,
and no more sombrero means. What do you say, forties,
I think you should take that, because those memes, there's
probably gonna be a lot more of those on the way.
The longer this shutdown goes on, which I am on
(04:12):
record saying they don't really bother me, these shutdowns, and
the longer they went on, frankly.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
The better. When I go so far as to say
that I think.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I would, yes, Yes, I do again a tool that
the establishment uses to control our political system and get
whatever they want and bring any kind of maga or
tea party or principled conservative kind of movement to be
brought to heal and always keep growing the government bigger
(04:43):
and bigger and bigger. My whole life, how I have
suffered watching our government get bigger and bigger and bigger
by the day.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
And I don't know this russ Vat guy over at.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Omb he's of a little bit sterner stuff, and you
might start to see the government start to shrink a
little bit with that fellow around.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
At any rate, why don't we visit the phone lines
for a moment.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
We might be getting some commentary on some country singers here.
And welcome to Tracy in Longmont. Thanks for checking in.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Tracy.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Hey, hey, what's going on? Man? I ain't heard your
voice in quite a while? Man as well?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Uh, yeah, I was. I was feeling like I was
getting a little too much exposure. So now you know
you want to avoid that.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Right, So yeah, so you came back into the darkness then, well, you.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Know, hard to put your past behind you once in
a while. But honored to be in here. And Tracy,
it's great to hear your voice. I remember visiting with
you a bit over the years. But yeah, what thoughts
here today? Why?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Well, you mentioned Jerry Lee Lewis. He's my second cousin.
So I want to give you a realm to look up.
It's called It's called The Man Standing Here.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I've got it. I've got that album, My.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Grand you do. Yeah, great album. My grandma my grandma
was his aunt. Really, my mother's dad was Jared Lee
Lewis's aunt. Yeah. Well you look at Great Balls of Fire.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You come from noble stock Man, you come from very
noble stock May I say.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yeah, it's called dirt.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
One thing can I say about Yeah, okay, lose the
anne and you're supposed to pronounce it jeral Lee, Jared Lee.
It's not Jerry Lee. It's Gerald Lee.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Just so you know, well, you know what you know
I've been I've been looking through some encyclopedias from nineteen
twenty one that I have, and you know it actually
depicts this place is Louisiana, so you know, you guys
can't escape it.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
You know, interesting but generally mean. Old Man was one
of his albums. I love his honky Tonk rockabilly Fayz.
Of course he was huge in the fifties with Great
Balls of Fire and the Top Gun movies brought that
song back to life.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
But one thing I'll just.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Say, I wish Jerry real Quick would have done more
gospel music. Nobody can sing the old Rugged Cross and
the rest of those is like jeral Lee, and he
only has a handful of gospel.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I wish he would have done a couple albums of it.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Right well, you know, Jimmy Swaggert, I'm related to him,
and Mickey Jelous also and Jimmy swagger he was quite,
he was he was something else man, you know. But
everybody gets hung up into stuff, you know. So we're
back to Rosie o'donald and Trump again, you know, in
the theological disputes that are going on amongst everybody. And
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you know, I had Rosie o'donald. I don't know a
whole lot about her, but she seems like she's got
a good heart. And Trump he's a really tough guy,
you know. And you know as far as moral and Veno,
you know, can fashion is gonna take a lot of
work for both of them, you know. So I don't
know how it's going to come out. Yeah, I hope
(08:05):
the best for all. I hope the best for all
of them.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Now, me too, we want the best. We want joy,
good cheer, happiness. And Rosie o'donald just she just seems
a little unhappy right now. I think she's working through
some stuff with her therapist and all. Who is maybe
counseling her to dial it down on the Trump hatred
and all that, which I just I just think kind
(08:28):
of makes sense, you know, you know, you cultivate attachment.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
How about that?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Man? If it wasn't for all her spousand and things,
you know, I mean, what would you you and Ryan
and Kelly have to talk about today?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You know?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
So so you know, I mean, there's a lot of
truth to both sides of it, and they got it.
They got a long term relationship between each other, and
and backbiting isn't yeah, and that uh yeah, you know,
I mean, it's not something that they're not unaware of.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Well, I hear you, Tracy, and I'll tell you we
keep on visiting if we weren't up against a break.
Let me say thank you for checking in and sharing
your noble family tree with us. Boy, you come from
a solid bunch of citizenry here, and at any rate
(09:21):
we will maybe venture into other territory as we come back.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
It is Matt Dunn. I am sitting in for.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Dan Kaplis and now back to the Dan Kapless Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Will jeral Lee bringing us back in here great balls
of fire Boy. When I was a little kid, I
love that song. One of my sons has the curly
hair and is really good at the piano. One of
these days I'm going to try to get him to
play some Jerry Lee on there, maybe sing along with it.
But right now he has to do his Bach and
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his Beethoven, his Chopin and a few other of those
the classical genre. You don't want to start with Jerry Lee.
I mean, you want to wait till you can handle
that kind of stuff. In my opinion, Matt Dunn in
for Dan Kaplis today one quick point and then onto
other points. I am a believer that tariffs Trump tariffs
(10:21):
do not cause inflation. That is my opinion. I'm sticking
to it. They did not cause inflation when Trump did
tariffs between twenty sixteen and twenty twenty, as everybody now knows,
and there's been a big economic push to try to
convince the American people that Trump's tariffs will cause huge
(10:43):
inflation this time around, which has not materialized, by the way,
and I don't think it ever will.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
That's my opinion.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Respected investor head of macro strategy at the Missho Financial Group,
Dominick Khan says this quote. It is becoming increasingly clear
that tariffs are not producing the inflation response that so
many economists feared, including the FED. The issue is not
even a one off rise in prices. People are starting
(11:17):
to realize that it's just not happening, the inflation from tariffs. Okay,
and I just I put this out there that everywhere
you look you're gonna hear the financial media even still
say well, the inflation's coming, it's coming, it's gonna get here.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
But then what if it doesn't. And I don't think
it's ever gonna So I just want that out there
in the record.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
And all these texts from text to studio are coming in,
and many of these are hilarious. So we're sitting around
chuckling over these. One says the hands down great Balls
of Fire. Best movie is Memphis entertainer Jason D.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Williams. Haven't heard that version, doctor Dunn.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I love jd Vance, Okay, play more of him and
not Rosie O'Donnell again over here, laughing my blank off
and I can't say that word blank on air?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Blank? What does a blank fill in the blank?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Another Texas studio shutting down, and it popped up there
shutting down approximately twenty percent of the government is a
good start.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, the government is shut down.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Everybody okay out there, anybody feeling weird, different, jittery, panicky,
or you just kind of like going on with your
day pretty much. I think it is the latter in
almost every case. But Russ Vought Claremont rooted director of
the Omb. Boy, it's great to have some people like
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that around. I mean, if you spend your whole life
watching government grow, I mean, do we have a chance
to shrink a little bit, Let money be in the
hands of the people who earned it, the taxpayer, the
noble American middle class, working class, rather than hand it
over to the predators in the government in the Beltway,
who love nothing more to think of the money you
earn as theirs.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
It belongs to them, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Thomas Jefferson said, you know, the fruits of our labor.
In the Declaration of Independence, we're entitled to the fruits
of our own labor. But back in Washington, d C.
They have these big fruit baskets, and they take the
fruits of your labor and put it in their fruit basket,
which ends up in their wallet.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
And they like it better that way.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Okay, So they decide where your money belongs and where
it gets to go. And you know, to a certain extent,
you know, you got to have the government. You got
to have the taxes, some of it not it just
less less, nothing wrong with that, right, ladies and gentlemen.
Russ Vought, what does he have to say on this
potential shutdown?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
This clip is from yesterday.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
But he might go around cutting a few jobs up
to three hundred thousand, let's hear it.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Then you have the authority to reduce the federal employee
count by roughly how much.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
Well, I'm gonna let that those kinds of questions extend
until tomorrow in the days after. Right now, where we are,
we have hours to go before a government shutdown, and
it can be avoided, and then we'll get in tomorrow.
The preparation is all done. We have many options. But
we're going to get in tomorrow and see where we are,
and we're going to manage this shutdown and try to
(14:38):
keep the American people from the havoc that the Democrats
have caused on with their crazy demands. But let it
be said, there are all manner of authorities to be
able to keep this administration's policy agenda moving forward, and
that includes reducing the size and scope of the federal government,
and we will be looking for the opportunities to do.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
That, and you've made that there clear to mister Schumer.
It doesn't seem to move him russ vote. That's what
I don't understand. It will be worse. I mean, if
I were he, and I'm most certainly not, But if
I were he, I would want to continuing resolution and
discuss all this stuff. I wouldn't want to hand the
circular over to you, and he'll have to take some
(15:19):
measures that he's not going to like one darn bit.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
Well, I think he's got some time over the next
several hours to come back from the brink to work
with his moderates to get a continuing resolution passed. We'll
see how these votes come up, and then we'll see
where we are.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
In the morning.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
And where we were in the morning as in this morning,
is the government got itself shut down, and the Democrats
are going to say, oh, it's because of the bad Republicans,
and the Republicans are going to say it's because of
the bad Democrats. And in my opinion, the Republicans would
be right on that that said, just enjoy the posturing.
(15:55):
And the way these things go is usually the establishment
ends up getting what it wants, okay, and will that
happen again? Usually the government ends up growing bigger, stronger.
Will that happen this time? We'll see how it plays
out in the media. I think these sombrero memes are
highly effective, and just thinking about them kind of makes
(16:20):
me laugh a little bit, But they're very effective against
what the Democrats are trying to do here and again,
to the extent it can even be aired in terms
of what actually is at stake. Here are the Democrats
trying to shut down the government in order to preserve
American middle class and working class taxpayer dollars being handed
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over for healthcare for people who have.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Come here illegally.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
And I suppose I could say more on that subject,
which I will hold off on, and that I did
spend about what six seven years how many years was it?
I was on the State Medical Services here in the
state of Colorado, which did have oversight over the state
Medicaid program, And so actually I know quite a bit
about that program and how that all works, if I
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remember some of those details.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
It's been a few years, but.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I think something's got to be done in this sphere,
and you might as well do it now, you know,
might as well do today. It's better to do today
what you could put off till tomorrow, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Ben Franklin, a founder, said.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
That, all right, one last Texas Studio before we come back,
and I'll head off to the decline of England and
some JK Rowling gender business.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Texas Studio. I'm in the shipping business.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I'm in the shipping container business in northern New Mexico,
and we are seeing less supplies of shipping containers for
wholesale purchase out of China. So I do think China
might suffer a little bit under this terraf regime. And
I think that that is good. Let's see the American
working class come out on top of Matt Dunn for
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Dan Capless.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Welcome back to the Dan Capless Show.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
It is Matt Dunn sitting in guest hosting, keeping the
torch aloft as best I can.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Who was that singing? Just so I know, I just
am trying.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
To recently departed Oz that was that? Must have been
young Ozzy Black Sabbath. Ozzy Nooice was a little different
the Wizard and uh oh, listen up a little prayer
to Ozzy Osbourne the oz Man.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
The day he passed away.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I did listen to Crazy Train, I think probably twenty
five times. And I will say that is like the
perfect metal song. I don't know if that has been
surpassed but anyone. Yeah, maybe not even by Iron Maiden.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I don't know. I could be wrong at any rate.
You know, great Texas studio.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Before I got up to JK Rowling from Alexa quote,
Remember the longest shutdown was thirty five days in December
twenty eighteen to January twenty nineteen overfunding the border wall.
Remember how we supposedly could not afford five billion for
the border wall, yet we gave over one hundred billion
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to Ukraine. Oh yes, I remember this, Alexa. I do
also how many tens of billions did the Biden administration waste?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Thank you, Alexa.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Great points, and that just proves my point, which is
great when texts do that, as they sometimes do that.
You see, the politicians all came out there, and I
remember Lindsey Graham coming out there and saying Republican rhino,
Lindsey Graham. I wish that fellow were not in the Senate.
Is there any way that he could go do something else?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Please? Sooner the better, Lindsey, go do something else.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Anyway, you can always count on that rhino to step
up and just cause trouble in those key moments. Anyway,
we could not spend five billion on a border wall.
Five billion. Oh, they all said, we don't have that
kind of money, Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
He was saying that we do not have money for
the border wall.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
But lo and behold, like right after that, we've got
one hundred billion to give to Ukraine and more. That's
actually low balling at ALEXA. There's been more than that
to Ukraine by like magnitudes.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
So it's a way.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
The shutdown ploy is a way for the establishment to
control policy in this country by using the brinkmanship get
the full power the mainstream media brought to bear upon
any ideas that are not approved by the mainstream media,
and then that's what they do. And I would just
kind of like to not see that happen this time.
All right, more texts coming soon. I thought I would
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get into something that this is a because I have
read again all of the Harry Potter books out loud
to my little kiddos. And yes, one year I did
dress up as a Harry Potter. Care, what's the hairy one?
Why am I drawing the name the big giant Harry
prid Hagrid? I was Hagrid one year, And that was
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kind of it was kind of a warm night. I
remember I had all the hair all over my body
and it was hot. That was a hot night to
be trick or treating, and you got to move fast
to keep up with all your little ones. But JK. Rowling,
the author of these books, the brilliant books, by the way,
the seventh book I think is an absolute masterpiece. I
mean they're all, I think excellent books, but the seventh
book I thought was so excellent, every word of that anyway.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
So JK.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Rowling has taken a principled stand against a lot of
the cliche gender identity issues of the day. And she's
not in favor of kids, you know, doing the gender
transitioning business. And she's very articulat and very clear about that.
And it has become so strange to me that two
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of the like the big stars from the Harry Potter
movies and then Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Radcliffe
playing Harry Hotter and Emma Watson playing Hermione. I mean
they're they're very good actors. I don't think Radcliffe is
that good of an actor, but Emma Watson is very good.
The jog, the jog, the dog, the dog. Yeah, like
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he had a dog or something. Was that the Oh yeah,
that was the dog that was like actually his godfather,
So it wasn't really a dog, but his godfather would
turn into a dog.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
You know, I don't either. Okay, my kids are old enough.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I haven't read these in a while, and uh, you
know the member, I need a little more coffee. But
the big black dog right with fang? Yeah was it fang?
That's Jack London. You're going to Jack London.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
My gosh, that's awesome, it says.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Right here in the AI.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
That's actually a perfect cat name.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Fang.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah for a cat.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
There was a cat in the Harry Potter series. Can't
remember the name of the cat.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Yeah, I don't. I know, my kids could tell me
the name.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
They're if they're listening, they're gonna be dad. But yeah,
the cat, it was it was Hermione cat anyway, the
point I was making. But the actors that jk Rowling
made famous, we're constantly attacking jk Rowling for her principled
and articulate stand on the gender debate. And you know,
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these are kids, you know, they're they're probably in their
twenties now, are they older than that?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I don't know how old they are. They started probably
around the age of ten something like that.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
But is that appropriate that these people become millionaires, famous,
famous actors actresses? I guess you just say actors these days,
you don't say actress, right, But Emma Watson, Daniel Ratcliffe
become world famous, multi multi millionaires on these Harry Potter
films that they were in each of them, and they
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for years can't stop criticizing jk Rowling for her viewpoints.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
And that has always bothered me.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
That just doesn't It seems so ungrateful, that it seems
so unprofessional and so immature, and that there could be
a dignified way to have like a discussion and a
disagreement on those issues.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
And I know that they're.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Very contentious issues, but jk Rowling, I thought, you know
yesterday or was this from earlier today issued a statement,
and I think again, she's such a good writer, and
I do recommend reading those books out loud to your kiddos.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
All of them. She says this quote.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Emma Watson and her co stars have every right to
embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and
I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with
loss of work or violence or death because of them. However,
Emma and Dan in partic both made it clear over
the last few years that they think our former professional
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association gives them a particular right, nay obligation, to critique me.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
And my views in public.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to
assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the Harry
Potter world I created.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
And here's here's here's the kicker for me.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Jk Rowling writes this, I wasn't a multi millionaire at
the age of fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing
the book that made Emma Watson famous. I therefore understand
from my own life experience what the trashing of women's
rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to
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women and girls without her privileges.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Ouch and let's.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
JK Rowling had a tough life, single mom. She had
her first child in the stroller with her. She was
living in complete and total poverty. She'd bring the baby
with her to like a coffeehouse, a cafe and sit
there and try to write on this book, Struggling, Struggling, struggling.
And these books obviously are brilliant, and they became hugely successful.
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And I'm sure she's a billionaire plus today and probably
like right up there with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates
and those kind of people because of sheer talent. And
she did it basically with nothing. And don't you think
that'd be kind of a at least the appropriate perspective
for these British actors to give a gesture of appreciation
(26:42):
on that one last quote from JK Rowling quote. Like
other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth
and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life.
She's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need
a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on
a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if
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she's been in a high street changing room since childhood.
Her public bathroom is single occupancy and comes with a
security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had
to strip off in a newly mixed sex changing room
at a council run swimming pool. Is she ever likely
to need a state run rape crisis center that refuses
(27:27):
to guarantee an all female service to find herself sharing
a prison cell with a male rapist who is identified
into the women's prison. And that's that's kind of the
way it goes. But it segues me into thinking that,
you know, does it seem ungrateful for these millionaire actors
built by the talent of JK Rowling to be so
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critical of her for so long? How does that seem?
A bit more on this when we come back. It
is Matt Dunn sitting in for Dan Kaplis after.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
This and now back to the Dan Kapless Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
And welcome back to the Dan Caplis Show. It is
Matt Dunn sitting in here today. And guess what, there's
a rumor I'm going to be back in here tomorrow
from four to six pm. And I just heard a
very deflating sound going on everywhere, But yes, I get
to be back in here, and I have left so
(28:42):
much on the table here I didn't get to today
that I'll I'll just have it all ready to go,
but there might be other stuff I want to be
getting into.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
You know, you never know.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
And thank you so much, Kelly Ryan for the hospitality
to have me on board.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
And yes I'm the I'm a.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Dentist here in Centennial with a kind of a strange
habit of doing radio programs from time to time, driving
my minivan around with the little kiddos, all these text
to studio and just a few days before I get
into the Decline.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
And Fall of the United Kingdom.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Uh, doctor Dunn, thank you for telling everybody about the JK.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Rowling. That's why your shows. And then the text just
ends right there.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
I thought they were they were working up to a compliment,
but they just couldn't quite do it. I think that's why.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
That's why your shows.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
And then it just stops, and I'm like, could be
anything anyway I was. I was like, oh good, good,
go oh okay, anyway, Sometimes you know it's hard to
do that.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Doctor Dunn.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
The reason all of us love you, You are the.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Epitome of a man.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Heck yeah you hey tell you you love your family,
you protect your family.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
And I didn't mean to laugh at that, but uh hey,
thank you for touch and base and uh you know,
I yeah trying, just trying. You get up and you try,
you hop in your minivan. I think in a minivan
you are the epitome of a man. That's my opinion.
Matt white Thing was Soupy Sales. Now I don't know,
(30:30):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (30:31):
White Thing was.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I'm talking this is fang fang fang. Yeah, the dog
Harry Potter dog.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
White Thing was Jack London, but maybe Sup Sales did
something on that back what show was that?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
He was on some.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Show and that was actually in Detroit television where it originated.
He was funny, right, Super Sero was funny. Yeah, and
white Thing was one of his characters.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Okay, okay, which comes out of Jack London. By the way,
Jack London.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I've been to his cabin out there you'd call the
wild and all that and somewhere in the uh napa
excuse me, a valley area they rent that out or what.
And he died awfully young. I think he had tuberculosis.
Or no, it might have been a liver problem, that
kind of thing. But boy, he wrote some good books,
did that guy. Unfortunately he was a socialist. Did you
(31:16):
know that Jack London was a socialist. I didn't know
that until it was kind of an old guy, and
then I was like, oh, I wish I would have
known that sooner.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Martin Eden is his sort.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Of autobiographical novel, which was a there's a pretty good
movie Italian movie on that. And before I go off
on film trivia, here's one, doctor Donn. That's why I
love you and most of us do. You're right about
Lindsay blanking Graham And yeah, boy, Lindsay, if he could
(31:46):
find another line of work, you know, maybe a golf
caddy something, you know, just do something different. There's something
about those South Carolina Republicans too. They're a strange breed.
They got him, Tim Scott, there was some wishy watching us.
He endorses Lisa Kowski. Wasn't a fan of that. Jim
Scott is total Mitch McConnell establishment, right, but trying to
pretend otherwise. And you gotta your a Republican voter, you
(32:09):
gotta watch out for the pretenders who are rhinos. Deep down. Yeah,
but then you know they talked tough once in a while.
Trey Goudy was another one, talk tough, Yeah, Rooster And
now I don't know, I want to believe And she's
one of my favorites for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Nancy Mace.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Yeah, she's kind of come along down the Maga trail.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
I think you're right. Yeah, And you know I was
earlier on You're like, oh, which way is all this
gonna go?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
But I think she's doing some real political courage, has
Nancy Mace Late, he's taken some real heat and come
through that. And was it she took on was it
Stephanopoulos snuffle Upagus?
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Oh yeah, and got.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
The better Estephalopagus and he was ambushing her and she
she came out very well on that.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
And by the way, Stephalopagus did have to cough up
ABC News. Was it like twenty some million dollars for
the some Trump library somewhere on a little lawsuit issue. Stephiallepicus,
by the way, he's the guy he's like sitting there
on the Sunday Show and he's interviewing people doing all
of his left wing propaganda talking.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Points and you can it.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
What's ra though, show like under the table and his
feet are not touching the ground. There's like these little
they're like they're like he's kicking his legs back and forth.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
They're like a foot off anyway, kill enough.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Anyway, Yeah he maybe he wouldn't be allowed on the
roller coaster Eddie litch Is anyway, I don't think so.
Yeah not you George, Go go do the go do
the spinning teacups, George.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
You can do that one anyway.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
But I am positing that the United Kingdom is in
decline and some of it it just ties into you know,
j k rawling and why would these young British act
British actors actresses I think are the best the world
has ever produced. And that goes back to the Shakespearean
tradition and they're vocalizing everything do is so brilliant, Such
(34:01):
good actors. Thank Kenneth, Branda, Ray Fines, Anthony Hopkins, go
down the list.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
But what's up these days? It's just a whole different
sort of mindset.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
And they used to have, you know, people like Winston Churchill,
kind of pretty tough dude with his cigar in his mouth,
taking his bath managing World War two. People like Richard
Francis Burton, a great burly scholar, traveler, Anthony Trollope you
read his books, very famous books from the nineteen or
late eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Tough burly stuff. But now it's like, you know, there's
no free speech there anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
And kurst Armer says, well, immigrants are coming here because
of climate change. He's the PM and it's just hard
to take that country. Luckily, Nigel Farage is the most
popular politician.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
In the UK now, so there is hope.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Well, thank you both for the hospitality, thank you for
allowing me to come in, Matt dun for Dan Caplis,
and guess what I will come back to morraw
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
And good evening afternoon. I'll ask not Dan Capless here
this afternoon. Matt Donn, friend and fan of Dan Caples,
honored to be sitting in and enjoying the chance to
visit with you three oh three seven one, three eight
two five five if you would have a moment to
call and check in about whatever topic might be piquing
(00:39):
your interest. The text line five seven seven three nine
big batch of those here today one says quote, I
grew up fourteen miles from Jerry Lee Lewis, Jeryl Lee.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I have to pronounce it like that, jeral Lee.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Up.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It just popped on.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I'm going to there we go, Dan, and I guess
the text start with Dan, Dan, I grew up fourteen
miles from Jerry Lee Lewis and four miles from Elvis.
Dolly giving I will always love you to Whitney instead
of Elvis is historic beyond belief. I'll tell you this
Texter growing up so close to Jerry Lee and Elvis.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Thank him, Mama, thank you Dollin.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That's some pretty good Heart of America kind of place
to grow up there, if I may say, more texts
coming further and now, I'll try not to play that
Rosie O'donald clip again. Ryan might try to make me
play it, because I think he kind of really liked
that clip.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Kelly probably wants to hear it too, but.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I'm going to try. I'm going to do everything I
can to not.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Play that again.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
By the way, just had a text from one of
my daughters who is telling me age eleven, she wants
to be a vampire grim Reaper for Halloween.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
That sounds awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'm sitting here, Let's do we do that? We do that?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
That?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Wait, as the dad? Yes, Can I have a vampire
grim Reaper?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
With me a Halloween Yes? Okay, I guess consider it
done settled. I'm going to have to find a vampire
grim Reaper costume. I just don't have one of those
sitting around the house right now at any rate. I
want to get into uh, well, we have to hear
the sombrero stuff. I mean, the government shut down there's
(02:30):
all these memes about Hakeem Jeffries, the head Democrat and
all this who wanted to shut down the government some
say to preserve health care spending from the taxpayers bestowed
upon illegal immigrants into this country. And the sombrero memes
are have got Representative Jeffrees a little bit distraught, a
(02:53):
little bit upset, and JD Vance has said these sombrero
memes will stop forthwith if you would just get around
to opening the government back up again. And let's let's
hear JD say it.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
The president's been posting some images of Leader Jeffries and
Sandra Schumer. You've said that you're interested in good faith
negotiations with these leaders, but you know what message is
that's and isn't helpful to post pictures of Leader Jeffries
and sombrero if you're trying to have put faith talks
with him.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
Oh, I think it's funny.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
The President's joking and we're having a good time. You
can negotiate in good faith while also poking a little
bit of fun at some of the absurdities of the
Democrats positions, and even you know, poking some fun at
the absurdity of the Democrats themselves. I mean, I'll tell
Hakeem Jeffries right now, I make this solemn promise to
you that if you help us reopen the government, the
sombrero memes will stop. And I talked to the President
(03:46):
of the United States about that.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Hey, now is that a deal.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I mean, that is our vice president putting the foot
forward and saying, hey, let's open this government back up again,
and no more sombrero means. What do you say, forties,
I think you should take that, because those memes, there's
probably gonna be a lot more of those on the way.
The longer this shutdown goes on, which I am on
(04:12):
record saying they don't really bother me, these shutdowns, and
the longer they went on, frankly.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
The better. When I go so far as to say
that I think.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I would, yes, Yes, I do again a tool that
the establishment uses to control our political system and get
whatever they want and bring any kind of maga or
tea party or principled conservative kind of movement to be
brought to heal and always keep growing the government bigger
(04:43):
and bigger and bigger. My whole life, how I have
suffered watching our government get bigger and bigger and bigger
by the day.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
And I don't know this russ Vat guy over at.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Omb he's of a little bit sterner stuff, and you
might start to see the government start to shrink a
little bit with that fellow around.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
At any rate, why don't we visit the phone lines
for a moment.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
We might be getting some commentary on some country singers here.
And welcome to Tracy in Longmont. Thanks for checking in.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Tracy.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Hey, hey, what's going on? Man? I ain't heard your
voice in quite a while? Man as well?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Uh, yeah, I was. I was feeling like I was
getting a little too much exposure. So now you know
you want to avoid that.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Right, So yeah, so you came back into the darkness then, well, you.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Know, hard to put your past behind you once in
a while. But honored to be in here. And Tracy,
it's great to hear your voice. I remember visiting with
you a bit over the years. But yeah, what thoughts
here today? Why?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Well, you mentioned Jerry Lee Lewis. He's my second cousin.
So I want to give you a realm to look up.
It's called It's called The Man Standing Here.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I've got it. I've got that album, My.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Grand you do. Yeah, great album. My grandma my grandma
was his aunt. Really, my mother's dad was Jared Lee
Lewis's aunt. Yeah. Well you look at Great Balls of Fire.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You come from noble stock Man, you come from very
noble stock May I say.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yeah, it's called dirt.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
One thing can I say about Yeah, okay, lose the
anne and you're supposed to pronounce it jeral Lee, Jared Lee.
It's not Jerry Lee. It's Gerald Lee.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Just so you know, well, you know what you know
I've been I've been looking through some encyclopedias from nineteen
twenty one that I have, and you know it actually
depicts this place is Louisiana, so you know, you guys
can't escape it.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
You know, interesting but generally mean. Old Man was one
of his albums. I love his honky Tonk rockabilly Fayz.
Of course he was huge in the fifties with Great
Balls of Fire and the Top Gun movies brought that
song back to life.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
But one thing I'll just.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Say, I wish Jerry real Quick would have done more
gospel music. Nobody can sing the old Rugged Cross and
the rest of those is like jeral Lee, and he
only has a handful of gospel.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I wish he would have done a couple albums of it.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Right well, you know, Jimmy Swaggert, I'm related to him,
and Mickey Jelous also and Jimmy swagger he was quite,
he was he was something else man, you know. But
everybody gets hung up into stuff, you know. So we're
back to Rosie o'donald and Trump again, you know, in
the theological disputes that are going on amongst everybody. And
(07:44):
you know, I had Rosie o'donald. I don't know a
whole lot about her, but she seems like she's got
a good heart. And Trump he's a really tough guy,
you know. And you know as far as moral and Veno,
you know, can fashion is gonna take a lot of
work for both of them, you know. So I don't
know how it's going to come out. Yeah, I hope
(08:05):
the best for all. I hope the best for all
of them.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Now, me too, we want the best. We want joy,
good cheer, happiness. And Rosie o'donald just she just seems
a little unhappy right now. I think she's working through
some stuff with her therapist and all. Who is maybe
counseling her to dial it down on the Trump hatred
and all that, which I just I just think kind
(08:28):
of makes sense, you know, you know, you cultivate attachment.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
How about that?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Man? If it wasn't for all her spousand and things,
you know, I mean, what would you you and Ryan
and Kelly have to talk about today?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You know?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
So so you know, I mean, there's a lot of
truth to both sides of it, and they got it.
They got a long term relationship between each other, and
and backbiting isn't yeah, and that uh yeah, you know,
I mean, it's not something that they're not unaware of.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Well, I hear you, Tracy, and I'll tell you we
keep on visiting if we weren't up against a break.
Let me say thank you for checking in and sharing
your noble family tree with us. Boy, you come from
a solid bunch of citizenry here, and at any rate
(09:21):
we will maybe venture into other territory as we come back.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
It is Matt Dunn. I am sitting in for.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Dan Kaplis and now back to the Dan Kapless Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Will jeral Lee bringing us back in here great balls
of fire Boy. When I was a little kid, I
love that song. One of my sons has the curly
hair and is really good at the piano. One of
these days I'm going to try to get him to
play some Jerry Lee on there, maybe sing along with it.
But right now he has to do his Bach and
(09:56):
his Beethoven, his Chopin and a few other of those
the classical genre. You don't want to start with Jerry Lee.
I mean, you want to wait till you can handle
that kind of stuff. In my opinion, Matt Dunn in
for Dan Kaplis today one quick point and then onto
other points. I am a believer that tariffs Trump tariffs
(10:21):
do not cause inflation. That is my opinion. I'm sticking
to it. They did not cause inflation when Trump did
tariffs between twenty sixteen and twenty twenty, as everybody now knows,
and there's been a big economic push to try to
convince the American people that Trump's tariffs will cause huge
(10:43):
inflation this time around, which has not materialized, by the way,
and I don't think it ever will.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
That's my opinion.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Respected investor head of macro strategy at the Missho Financial Group,
Dominick Khan says this quote. It is becoming increasingly clear
that tariffs are not producing the inflation response that so
many economists feared, including the FED. The issue is not
even a one off rise in prices. People are starting
(11:17):
to realize that it's just not happening, the inflation from tariffs. Okay,
and I just I put this out there that everywhere
you look you're gonna hear the financial media even still
say well, the inflation's coming, it's coming, it's gonna get here.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
But then what if it doesn't. And I don't think
it's ever gonna So I just want that out there
in the record.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
And all these texts from text to studio are coming in,
and many of these are hilarious. So we're sitting around
chuckling over these. One says the hands down great Balls
of Fire. Best movie is Memphis entertainer Jason D.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Williams. Haven't heard that version, doctor Dunn.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I love jd Vance, Okay, play more of him and
not Rosie O'Donnell again over here, laughing my blank off
and I can't say that word blank on air?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Blank? What does a blank fill in the blank?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Another Texas studio shutting down, and it popped up there
shutting down approximately twenty percent of the government is a
good start.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, the government is shut down.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Everybody okay out there, anybody feeling weird, different, jittery, panicky,
or you just kind of like going on with your
day pretty much. I think it is the latter in
almost every case. But Russ Vought Claremont rooted director of
the Omb. Boy, it's great to have some people like
(12:55):
that around. I mean, if you spend your whole life
watching government grow, I mean, do we have a chance
to shrink a little bit, Let money be in the
hands of the people who earned it, the taxpayer, the
noble American middle class, working class, rather than hand it
over to the predators in the government in the Beltway,
who love nothing more to think of the money you
earn as theirs.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
It belongs to them, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Thomas Jefferson said, you know, the fruits of our labor.
In the Declaration of Independence, we're entitled to the fruits
of our own labor. But back in Washington, d C.
They have these big fruit baskets, and they take the
fruits of your labor and put it in their fruit basket,
which ends up in their wallet.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
And they like it better that way.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Okay, So they decide where your money belongs and where
it gets to go. And you know, to a certain extent,
you know, you got to have the government. You got
to have the taxes, some of it not it just
less less, nothing wrong with that, right, ladies and gentlemen.
Russ Vought, what does he have to say on this
potential shutdown?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
This clip is from yesterday.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
But he might go around cutting a few jobs up
to three hundred thousand, let's hear it.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Then you have the authority to reduce the federal employee
count by roughly how much.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
Well, I'm gonna let that those kinds of questions extend
until tomorrow in the days after. Right now, where we are,
we have hours to go before a government shutdown, and
it can be avoided, and then we'll get in tomorrow.
The preparation is all done. We have many options. But
we're going to get in tomorrow and see where we are,
and we're going to manage this shutdown and try to
(14:38):
keep the American people from the havoc that the Democrats
have caused on with their crazy demands. But let it
be said, there are all manner of authorities to be
able to keep this administration's policy agenda moving forward, and
that includes reducing the size and scope of the federal government,
and we will be looking for the opportunities to do.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
That, and you've made that there clear to mister Schumer.
It doesn't seem to move him russ vote. That's what
I don't understand. It will be worse. I mean, if
I were he, and I'm most certainly not, But if
I were he, I would want to continuing resolution and
discuss all this stuff. I wouldn't want to hand the
circular over to you, and he'll have to take some
(15:19):
measures that he's not going to like one darn bit.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
Well, I think he's got some time over the next
several hours to come back from the brink to work
with his moderates to get a continuing resolution passed. We'll
see how these votes come up, and then we'll see
where we are.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
In the morning.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
And where we were in the morning as in this morning,
is the government got itself shut down, and the Democrats
are going to say, oh, it's because of the bad Republicans,
and the Republicans are going to say it's because of
the bad Democrats. And in my opinion, the Republicans would
be right on that that said, just enjoy the posturing.
(15:55):
And the way these things go is usually the establishment
ends up getting what it wants, okay, and will that
happen again? Usually the government ends up growing bigger, stronger.
Will that happen this time? We'll see how it plays
out in the media. I think these sombrero memes are
highly effective, and just thinking about them kind of makes
(16:20):
me laugh a little bit, But they're very effective against
what the Democrats are trying to do here and again,
to the extent it can even be aired in terms
of what actually is at stake. Here are the Democrats
trying to shut down the government in order to preserve
American middle class and working class taxpayer dollars being handed
(16:42):
over for healthcare for people who have.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Come here illegally.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
And I suppose I could say more on that subject,
which I will hold off on, and that I did
spend about what six seven years how many years was it?
I was on the State Medical Services here in the
state of Colorado, which did have oversight over the state
Medicaid program, And so actually I know quite a bit
about that program and how that all works, if I
(17:11):
remember some of those details.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
It's been a few years, but.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I think something's got to be done in this sphere,
and you might as well do it now, you know,
might as well do today. It's better to do today
what you could put off till tomorrow, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Ben Franklin, a founder, said.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
That, all right, one last Texas Studio before we come back,
and I'll head off to the decline of England and
some JK Rowling gender business.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Texas Studio. I'm in the shipping business.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I'm in the shipping container business in northern New Mexico,
and we are seeing less supplies of shipping containers for
wholesale purchase out of China. So I do think China
might suffer a little bit under this terraf regime. And
I think that that is good. Let's see the American
working class come out on top of Matt Dunn for
(18:04):
Dan Capless.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Welcome back to the Dan Capless Show.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
It is Matt Dunn sitting in guest hosting, keeping the
torch aloft as best I can.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Who was that singing? Just so I know, I just
am trying.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
To recently departed Oz that was that? Must have been
young Ozzy Black Sabbath. Ozzy Nooice was a little different
the Wizard and uh oh, listen up a little prayer
to Ozzy Osbourne the oz Man.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
The day he passed away.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I did listen to Crazy Train, I think probably twenty
five times. And I will say that is like the
perfect metal song. I don't know if that has been
surpassed but anyone. Yeah, maybe not even by Iron Maiden.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I don't know. I could be wrong at any rate.
You know, great Texas studio.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Before I got up to JK Rowling from Alexa quote,
Remember the longest shutdown was thirty five days in December
twenty eighteen to January twenty nineteen overfunding the border wall.
Remember how we supposedly could not afford five billion for
the border wall, yet we gave over one hundred billion
(19:18):
to Ukraine. Oh yes, I remember this, Alexa. I do
also how many tens of billions did the Biden administration waste?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Thank you, Alexa.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Great points, and that just proves my point, which is
great when texts do that, as they sometimes do that.
You see, the politicians all came out there, and I
remember Lindsey Graham coming out there and saying Republican rhino,
Lindsey Graham. I wish that fellow were not in the Senate.
Is there any way that he could go do something else?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Please? Sooner the better, Lindsey, go do something else.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Anyway, you can always count on that rhino to step
up and just cause trouble in those key moments. Anyway,
we could not spend five billion on a border wall.
Five billion. Oh, they all said, we don't have that
kind of money, Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
He was saying that we do not have money for
the border wall.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
But lo and behold, like right after that, we've got
one hundred billion to give to Ukraine and more. That's
actually low balling at ALEXA. There's been more than that
to Ukraine by like magnitudes.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
So it's a way.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
The shutdown ploy is a way for the establishment to
control policy in this country by using the brinkmanship get
the full power the mainstream media brought to bear upon
any ideas that are not approved by the mainstream media,
and then that's what they do. And I would just
kind of like to not see that happen this time.
All right, more texts coming soon. I thought I would
(20:48):
get into something that this is a because I have
read again all of the Harry Potter books out loud
to my little kiddos. And yes, one year I did
dress up as a Harry Potter. Care, what's the hairy one?
Why am I drawing the name the big giant Harry
prid Hagrid? I was Hagrid one year, And that was
(21:08):
kind of it was kind of a warm night. I
remember I had all the hair all over my body
and it was hot. That was a hot night to
be trick or treating, and you got to move fast
to keep up with all your little ones. But JK. Rowling,
the author of these books, the brilliant books, by the way,
the seventh book I think is an absolute masterpiece. I
mean they're all, I think excellent books, but the seventh
book I thought was so excellent, every word of that anyway.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
So JK.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Rowling has taken a principled stand against a lot of
the cliche gender identity issues of the day. And she's
not in favor of kids, you know, doing the gender
transitioning business. And she's very articulat and very clear about that.
And it has become so strange to me that two
(21:54):
of the like the big stars from the Harry Potter
movies and then Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Radcliffe
playing Harry Hotter and Emma Watson playing Hermione. I mean
they're they're very good actors. I don't think Radcliffe is
that good of an actor, but Emma Watson is very good.
The jog, the jog, the dog, the dog. Yeah, like
(22:19):
he had a dog or something. Was that the Oh yeah,
that was the dog that was like actually his godfather,
So it wasn't really a dog, but his godfather would
turn into a dog.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
You know, I don't either. Okay, my kids are old enough.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I haven't read these in a while, and uh, you
know the member, I need a little more coffee. But
the big black dog right with fang? Yeah was it fang?
That's Jack London. You're going to Jack London.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
My gosh, that's awesome, it says.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Right here in the AI.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
That's actually a perfect cat name.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Fang.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah for a cat.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
There was a cat in the Harry Potter series. Can't
remember the name of the cat.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Yeah, I don't. I know, my kids could tell me
the name.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
They're if they're listening, they're gonna be dad. But yeah,
the cat, it was it was Hermione cat anyway, the
point I was making. But the actors that jk Rowling
made famous, we're constantly attacking jk Rowling for her principled
and articulate stand on the gender debate. And you know,
(23:30):
these are kids, you know, they're they're probably in their
twenties now, are they older than that?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I don't know how old they are. They started probably
around the age of ten something like that.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
But is that appropriate that these people become millionaires, famous,
famous actors actresses? I guess you just say actors these days,
you don't say actress, right, But Emma Watson, Daniel Ratcliffe
become world famous, multi multi millionaires on these Harry Potter
films that they were in each of them, and they
(24:01):
for years can't stop criticizing jk Rowling for her viewpoints.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
And that has always bothered me.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
That just doesn't It seems so ungrateful, that it seems
so unprofessional and so immature, and that there could be
a dignified way to have like a discussion and a
disagreement on those issues.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
And I know that they're.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Very contentious issues, but jk Rowling, I thought, you know
yesterday or was this from earlier today issued a statement,
and I think again, she's such a good writer, and
I do recommend reading those books out loud to your kiddos.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
All of them. She says this quote.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Emma Watson and her co stars have every right to
embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and
I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with
loss of work or violence or death because of them. However,
Emma and Dan in partic both made it clear over
the last few years that they think our former professional
(25:04):
association gives them a particular right, nay obligation, to critique me.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
And my views in public.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to
assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the Harry
Potter world I created.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
And here's here's here's the kicker for me.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Jk Rowling writes this, I wasn't a multi millionaire at
the age of fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing
the book that made Emma Watson famous. I therefore understand
from my own life experience what the trashing of women's
rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to
(25:51):
women and girls without her privileges.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Ouch and let's.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
JK Rowling had a tough life, single mom. She had
her first child in the stroller with her. She was
living in complete and total poverty. She'd bring the baby
with her to like a coffeehouse, a cafe and sit
there and try to write on this book, Struggling, Struggling, struggling.
And these books obviously are brilliant, and they became hugely successful.
(26:21):
And I'm sure she's a billionaire plus today and probably
like right up there with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates
and those kind of people because of sheer talent. And
she did it basically with nothing. And don't you think
that'd be kind of a at least the appropriate perspective
for these British actors to give a gesture of appreciation
(26:42):
on that one last quote from JK Rowling quote. Like
other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth
and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life.
She's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need
a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on
a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if
(27:05):
she's been in a high street changing room since childhood.
Her public bathroom is single occupancy and comes with a
security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had
to strip off in a newly mixed sex changing room
at a council run swimming pool. Is she ever likely
to need a state run rape crisis center that refuses
(27:27):
to guarantee an all female service to find herself sharing
a prison cell with a male rapist who is identified
into the women's prison. And that's that's kind of the
way it goes. But it segues me into thinking that,
you know, does it seem ungrateful for these millionaire actors
built by the talent of JK Rowling to be so
(27:50):
critical of her for so long? How does that seem?
A bit more on this when we come back. It
is Matt Dunn sitting in for Dan Kaplis after.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
This and now back to the Dan Kapless Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
And welcome back to the Dan Caplis Show. It is
Matt Dunn sitting in here today. And guess what, there's
a rumor I'm going to be back in here tomorrow
from four to six pm. And I just heard a
very deflating sound going on everywhere, But yes, I get
to be back in here, and I have left so
(28:42):
much on the table here I didn't get to today
that I'll I'll just have it all ready to go,
but there might be other stuff I want to be
getting into.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
You know, you never know.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
And thank you so much, Kelly Ryan for the hospitality
to have me on board.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
And yes I'm the I'm a.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Dentist here in Centennial with a kind of a strange
habit of doing radio programs from time to time, driving
my minivan around with the little kiddos, all these text
to studio and just a few days before I get
into the Decline.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
And Fall of the United Kingdom.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Uh, doctor Dunn, thank you for telling everybody about the JK.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Rowling. That's why your shows. And then the text just
ends right there.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
I thought they were they were working up to a compliment,
but they just couldn't quite do it. I think that's why.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
That's why your shows.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
And then it just stops, and I'm like, could be
anything anyway I was. I was like, oh good, good,
go oh okay, anyway, Sometimes you know it's hard to
do that.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Doctor Dunn.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
The reason all of us love you, You are the.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Epitome of a man.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Heck yeah you hey tell you you love your family,
you protect your family.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
And I didn't mean to laugh at that, but uh hey,
thank you for touch and base and uh you know,
I yeah trying, just trying. You get up and you try,
you hop in your minivan. I think in a minivan
you are the epitome of a man. That's my opinion.
Matt white Thing was Soupy Sales. Now I don't know,
(30:30):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (30:31):
White Thing was.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I'm talking this is fang fang fang. Yeah, the dog
Harry Potter dog.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
White Thing was Jack London, but maybe Sup Sales did
something on that back what show was that?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
He was on some.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Show and that was actually in Detroit television where it originated.
He was funny, right, Super Sero was funny. Yeah, and
white Thing was one of his characters.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Okay, okay, which comes out of Jack London. By the way,
Jack London.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I've been to his cabin out there you'd call the
wild and all that and somewhere in the uh napa
excuse me, a valley area they rent that out or what.
And he died awfully young. I think he had tuberculosis.
Or no, it might have been a liver problem, that
kind of thing. But boy, he wrote some good books,
did that guy. Unfortunately he was a socialist. Did you
(31:16):
know that Jack London was a socialist. I didn't know
that until it was kind of an old guy, and
then I was like, oh, I wish I would have
known that sooner.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Martin Eden is his sort.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Of autobiographical novel, which was a there's a pretty good
movie Italian movie on that. And before I go off
on film trivia, here's one, doctor Donn. That's why I
love you and most of us do. You're right about
Lindsay blanking Graham And yeah, boy, Lindsay, if he could
(31:46):
find another line of work, you know, maybe a golf
caddy something, you know, just do something different. There's something
about those South Carolina Republicans too. They're a strange breed.
They got him, Tim Scott, there was some wishy watching us.
He endorses Lisa Kowski. Wasn't a fan of that. Jim
Scott is total Mitch McConnell establishment, right, but trying to
pretend otherwise. And you gotta your a Republican voter, you
(32:09):
gotta watch out for the pretenders who are rhinos. Deep down. Yeah,
but then you know they talked tough once in a while.
Trey Goudy was another one, talk tough, Yeah, Rooster And
now I don't know, I want to believe And she's
one of my favorites for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Nancy Mace.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Yeah, she's kind of come along down the Maga trail.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
I think you're right. Yeah, And you know I was
earlier on You're like, oh, which way is all this
gonna go?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
But I think she's doing some real political courage, has
Nancy Mace Late, he's taken some real heat and come
through that. And was it she took on was it
Stephanopoulos snuffle Upagus?
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Oh yeah, and got.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
The better Estephalopagus and he was ambushing her and she
she came out very well on that.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
And by the way, Stephalopagus did have to cough up
ABC News. Was it like twenty some million dollars for
the some Trump library somewhere on a little lawsuit issue. Stephiallepicus,
by the way, he's the guy he's like sitting there
on the Sunday Show and he's interviewing people doing all
of his left wing propaganda talking.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Points and you can it.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
What's ra though, show like under the table and his
feet are not touching the ground. There's like these little
they're like they're like he's kicking his legs back and forth.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
They're like a foot off anyway, kill enough.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Anyway, Yeah he maybe he wouldn't be allowed on the
roller coaster Eddie litch Is anyway, I don't think so.
Yeah not you George, Go go do the go do
the spinning teacups, George.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
You can do that one anyway.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
But I am positing that the United Kingdom is in
decline and some of it it just ties into you know,
j k rawling and why would these young British act
British actors actresses I think are the best the world
has ever produced. And that goes back to the Shakespearean
tradition and they're vocalizing everything do is so brilliant, Such
(34:01):
good actors. Thank Kenneth, Branda, Ray Fines, Anthony Hopkins, go
down the list.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
But what's up these days? It's just a whole different
sort of mindset.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
And they used to have, you know, people like Winston Churchill,
kind of pretty tough dude with his cigar in his mouth,
taking his bath managing World War two. People like Richard
Francis Burton, a great burly scholar, traveler, Anthony Trollope you
read his books, very famous books from the nineteen or
late eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Tough burly stuff. But now it's like, you know, there's
no free speech there anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
And kurst Armer says, well, immigrants are coming here because
of climate change. He's the PM and it's just hard
to take that country. Luckily, Nigel Farage is the most
popular politician.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
In the UK now, so there is hope.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Well, thank you both for the hospitality, thank you for
allowing me to come in, Matt dun for Dan Caplis,
and guess what I will come back to morraw
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