March 6, 2025 • 34 mins
In the second hour of today's edition of the Dan Caplis Show, Dan looks at how terrible economic policies from the Democrats are turning us into "haves" and "have nots"
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast edition
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single day on your favorite podcast platform. Yeah. Yeah, and
fighting in the daylight. Isn't it nice to see it
light out at five oh six oh five? It is wonderful.
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And it's this weekend? Isn't it that we spring forward?
Is that right? Is it this weekend? News to me?
I've been keeping up. Oh, Kelly's shaking her head. Yes,
she knows stuff. Yeah, we'll can hate that for you.
We don't want to mislead you there, I like. But
you like having that extra daylight at the end of
the day, right, Yeah? I do. So that's the thing, Dan.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Would you rather we keep things at spring forward forever
or at fall back forever and not do daylight savings?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Wow? I'd have to think about that, all I know.
It's easy. I don't have to think about it. I
want it light out later in the summer plan because
there's some plan out there that would have it dark
at Colorado at seven on a summer evening.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I forget that bang it fall back, and I'm with you.
I want to stay at spring forward.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, I'm all for that. I'm all for that, my friend. Hey,
we got a lot to talk about. Let's see, Dan,
please explain why lesbians should not be banned with trans
men from women's sports and locker rooms. Both seek sex
from women, no difference, banned them. I cannot believe that's
a serious text, first of all, And we open the
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first hour this way because it is so encouraging, right,
And that's what we've been predicting for a long time,
that eventually the tipping point would come on this transceanity,
this whole crazy idea of allowing men in women's locker
rooms and showers and men in women's sports and all
of that. It's so ludicrous that that eventually it was
going to collapse of its own weight. And with the
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election of President Trump, it's collapsing fast. And the latest
example is Gavin newsom Ner of California, who really could
have helped himself if he'd shown a little political courage
on this a year or so ago. But he waits
until right after the Democrats get thumped on November four
on this issue, and comes out and says, yeah, it
is unfair. It is unfair to have men playing in
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women's sports. So how soon will the rest of the
lemmings follow him? Now? It's so obvious, right, is it
even worth discussion when you're talking about lesbians, you're talking
about females, you're talking about biological females. So again, this
cannot be a serious text. Obviously, biological females should be
allowed in women's sports, no matter what their sexual preference is.
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You know, this issue of Okay, then you've got somebody
in a shower, whether it's a male attracted man or
a female attracted to females in the shower. Yeah, I
understand that's awkward. I'm not promoting or anything else, you know, homosexuality.
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That's not the point. Of the point is if anybody's
talking about banning people from sports, that's illogical. And then
the shower thing, the locker room thing, Yeah, I just
don't think there's anything that can be done about that.
Have you had that experience? Ryan, like being in and
I think there are fewer and fewer showers right now
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that are just like big barn, wide open kind of showers.
But like back when I was in college, they were
all that way, and so I'd go to the Cux Center,
you know, and because you go there and I just
couldn't believe it, coming here from Chicago's big, beautiful Rex Center,
and you play basketball, you do this, you do that,
and then you'd go into like this big barn shower
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right where everybody's in there buck naked. And yeah, there
was far more than one occasion where where you face
the reality of somebody in there taking an interest in you. Yeah,
you've encountered this thing. Oh maybe I'm now Listen, we're
talking about back in the day. We're talking about college.
I know, in the big wide open showers at the
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CU Rec Center. I bet they don't even have that now.
I bet it's all like individual stall stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Now when I go to the fitness center where I
work out, it is individual stalls, and they're much higher grade,
higher class.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
You get.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You know, everybody wants their privacy. This is why I
never understood. You know, women in their restrooms get stalls,
and that's great. And then for us men, a lot
of times you talk about the barnyard showers, how about
the bathtub urinals? Like I don't want to oh really,
you don't Wrigley Field.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Steam sores all the day. Whiskey Park, Yeah, I loved it.
I'd go back in there when I didn't have to go. Yeah,
that was the highlight of every game.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And then Comisky Park they would have this sign over
there that would say future White Sox players only, and uh, okay,
and my dad I went in there with them. My dad, Hey,
you know, go over there. And I said, I can't
do that. I'm not sure I'm going to make the team,
you know, I think.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Okay, in all seriousness to the Texter's point, if they
are serious, and I don't think they.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Are, not a disingenuous one.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
But there's an obvious reason why a woman in a
vulnerable setting and situation they've got all of their clothes off.
Why in intact male in that environment is much different. Ah,
my little biological lesbian themes.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Total madness right in American reject America rejected that on
election day. But are there a you know, can you
take any like these big burn showers around anymore?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I wonder if there are. They're outdated, and I'm sure
somewhere do.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
But in my experience, you're right, it's changed it's evolved
where yeah, men want privacy too. I mean I do, anyway,
I don't know about the rest of the men out there,
and they're not.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Oh that's that's a great question. That's I'm kind of
out of that loop right now obviously. But because yeah,
I mean anywhere I would go to shower right now
would be why I didn't want to get too personally.
But I just mean most showers now, for most married couples,
I mean most master bath showers have multiple shower heads
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in there, but that's obviously for the spouses. But yeah, no,
I'm not in any situation now that I can think of,
and I'd remember if I was where it was just
the old big barn shower kind of thing. But look,
you see in Revenge of the Nerds and movies like that.
You know that I never thought twice about it in
high school, and there was never any kind of incident
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in high school. And listen, I've got anybody who just
joined us. I am so grateful for every day I
head at CU Boulder, and I love that place, and
I still love that place, and any kid who gets
to go there, I think is lucky. We have so
many great schools in the state. You look at everything
CSU is doing. So don't take any of this as
anti SeeU. I think it is just a gem. But
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the problem in those situations back there was when a
guy was interested in you. You knew it, you know
what I mean. It was It's just the visual on
the other side of that.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
So you know, I'm watching stranger things and it's right
up my alley. It's the gen X childhood experience of
the eighties, and one of those was being terrified of
going into the gym room showers that you're describing, and
you had to keep your head on a swivel. And
it wasn't because of what you just mentioned, but it
was because you get whipped with these towels, you know,
these guys that are take a snap right at your
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back side, Like I don't want to deal with that.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
But you would feel so bad, right, you'd feel so
bad for those kids who, you know, for whatever reason
they just physically or whatever, it was just so terrifying
for them to go into those situations in high school.
I felt so bad for him. Oh yeah, and yeah.
So anyway. Texter Dan on the Colorado Governor's race as
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a Colorado Native the Republicans have proven themselves capable of
grasping defeat repeatedly. I'd love to have someone actually fire
up to conversation, but none have stepped up. So I
think the point of this Texter explains why nobody wants
wants to talk about the Colorado governor's race. I just
think throughout the Democratic Party at pardon me, the Republican
Party in Colorado, there's a widespread assumption that the GOP
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just can't win stay wide, and that's why nobody wants
to talk about it because I think it's a waste
of their time to talk about it. I disagree with that.
I think there is a window now, but again, I
think that's why we just don't get action on that topic.
And yeah, maybe it'll be different as we get closer. Conversely,
I think the other reason we don't get action on
it is the Democrats are so sure that they could
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they could run a goat, and I'm not talking about
a good goat, you know, like a Tom Brady goat.
They could just run a goat and win. I think
is the Democrats attitude they could run anybody and win.
Don't you think that's their attitude? Grind that they're politically bulletproof.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
They don't fear losing or being challenged, and that's dangerous
one party rule. I don't even say it in a
lot of cases, maybe on the other side in ruby
red states where maybe things get a little out of
hand and too far to the right, but especially in
Democrat only states, because they become drunk with power, they
feel invincible.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Like you just said, that's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
They're not held accountable because they're not even run against
in a primary. There was some few exceptions, like with
the two Communists who got booted out of their state
house districts. Yeah, this past election, but it's rare.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
It doesn't happen a lot. But it's another reason why
the GOP really has a chance. And I'm not talking
about a dumb and dumber chance. I think the GOP
really is a chance in both the governor's race and
the center race. And part of it is that Democrats
are so confident. So yeah, I think stars are aligning
there to create at least that possibility. Three or three
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someone three eight two five five text D five seven
seven three nine. When we come back, Ye're going to
get you some more of that really fun sound. We
didn't have enough time with it yesterday from that really
major political event. Can't even quote a speech on Tuesday
night some of the great questioning of Mike Johnston, Mayor
of Denver by members of our congressional delegate. And I
do want to get your take on this. What was
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behind this enormous Ash Wednesday turnout? I mean, it's always big, right,
but if you're somebody went for ashes in your particular
Christian denomination, you probably saw it. It was and it
looks like it was across the country. Just this explosion
of turnout on Ash Wednesday. What do you think is
driving that? You're on the Dan Capla.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Show and now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Trump said many times tariffs is his favorite word. I
would say the reciprocal is probably the second favorite way.
And I think we have to be open to the idea.
If you want to be a numbskull like justin trade
and say oh we're going to do this, then it's
gonna Terriffs are going to go up. But if you
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want to sit back, have a discussion with the Commerce
Department US two. Are they all have my phone number?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Two?
Speaker 4 (11:02):
I am happy to have a discussion with our foreign
counterparts that says that here's what we think you were doing,
and the tariffs are the actual easier part.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, and listen, I'm not going to claim to be
an expert on tariffs. I'm not. But I do trust
President Trump. I trust him on this economic stuff. But
what I trust even more broadly than that is is
he is somebody with the boldness and the vision to
have a real chance to break the cycle and to
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reshape things for the better. And he is absolutely convinced
that tariffs are the way to do that. Now, obviously,
you know, his plan may very well be the threat
of tariff's here gets you this over there, and then
tariffs staying in place here means something long term. Whatever
it is, I just trust the guy on it. But
this I also know this. I also know that we
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need some kind of major disruption and to get to
where we need to go right because the reality of
this nation economically is we are becoming to Americas because
of lefty policies. We're becoming the haves and the have
nots because of lefty policies, and a healthy nation cannot
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move forward that way. And I think President Trump sees that.
I think you see his commitment to working people. I
think you see his commitment to very concrete things to
change the art and listen, Yeah, there's going to be
some pain in the meantime. Can anybody think of anything
there might be something out there? Can anybody think of
any great change that comes without some pain? Can anybody
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think of anything there? I'd love your take on that.
Da n five seven seven three nine three or three
seven three eight two five five. And that's one of
the reasons we're in such a mess. The biggest reason
is this lefty stuff. The other reason crosses party lines,
and that is that, you know, get power, they want
to keep power, especially the higher up the jobs, and
then they don't want to do the things that can
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really lead to big, lasting change because there's pain that
comes first. And Joe when he was playing football, he
had this great strength and conditioning coach whose favorite saying was,
everybody wants to go to heaven, nobody wants to die, right.
And so I think Trump, though, is maybe the only
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figure political figure in my lifetime who is willing to
undergo that short term pain for long term gain. And
he's even a better position to do it now in
this second term, right because he doesn't have to stand
for re election again. But I have no doubt in
my mind at all about the sincerity of his motives.
That what he cares about most right now he doesn't
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have to worry about when another election, is his legacy
about really making this change and being regarded as somebody
who really plish these things. That's why Ryan, I've got
to laugh when people talk about Putin's Patsy this and
that and way beyond the Well, wait a second, Putin
didn't invade when he was president, way beyond that, Because
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does anybody really think Trump is going to go cut
a deal for Ukraine that you know it makes Putin
the obvious winner, a deal that is way out of
whack and imbalanced against Ukraine. Of course not, for a
lot of different reasons. First, I think that Trump wants
something that's truly fair, and Trump understands that Putin is
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the aggressor here, the invader, etc. I think President Trump
is saying what he needs to say publicly to try
to get the parties to the table and do a deal.
And he's obviously got his own way of managing Putin
which worked before. But No, Trump is going to want
there to be a lot of respect for Trump after
this deal, and that only happens if the deal appears
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fair and reasonable. So no bottom line on tariffs and
all that stuff. I don't claim to be an expert
on it, but I just trust Trump on it, and
he has earned that trust, I think, through the first
term and much more. Let's go up to beautiful Boulder, Colorado.
I started a trial up there a week from Monday.
Cannot wait. Some of the greatest memories of my life
in Boulder, Kevin. You're on the Dan Kapla show. Will
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you be another one of those great memories, Kevin?
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Pertaining to what?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Oh it was more joke, but now welcome to the show.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Well, I'm always a great memory anyway, So no need
to worry about that. This wouldn't work most likely with
Trump's mandate. But I am in favor of mixed teams
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as long as the official rules allow it, and it
can be reasonably proven none that not one of the
players on it, any team, were co worced or forced
into it. Go to any beach, you know, speaking non professionally,
Go to any beach or private club, you'll find mixed
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and you'll find male females playing racquetball, volleyball, billiards, nice rolling,
target shooting.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
What about girls high school sports? Should men be able
to play?
Speaker 6 (16:28):
Well, I don't like the idea myself, but speaking constitutionally,
I it's a hard call because you have Because I'm speaking,
there are several factors. Financially, personally, I don't know. I'd
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have to think about that.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I'm against.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
I'm against people being forced to accept it, well, girls
forced to accept it. I'm total, which.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Means he would be opposed to it, right, I mean,
because there's no constitutional right of a male to walk
into a girl's shower or a male to play a
girl's sport, which often involves being in the shower.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Well, I would rule something like that out.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah, yeah, I've got to hit this hard break here.
I'm surprised that Kevin hesitated on that at all. I
think it's one of the clearest things in the history
of the planet. But fortunately a vast majority of Americans agree,
And that's part of the news of the day if
you just joined us. Even Gavin Newsom now says it's
unfair to have boys and men playing in girls and
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women's sports. So the damn is breaking there. Yeah, what
political courage you know, says it after election day when
Democrats get thumped over it. Hey, when we come back,
we're going to play some more of that fun sound.
Members of the GOP Congressional delegation Calraud are doing such
a great job, great job with Mike Johnston, mayor of Denver.
Will savor some of that, some of the greatest hits
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from Trump's triumph and Tuesday Night as well in this
big broom on ash Wednesday, the big turnout of churches.
What do you think, Drovitch, you're on the Dankplas Show.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
See that's interesting. Is there any place on Earth where
you've been and you look at it and say, yeah,
that that's heaven right there. That must be what heaven
looks like.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I could think of several places. My grandfather's cabins in Ontario,
Canada very much reflective of that. And I would imagine
for you Dan playing the masters.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, but interesting question. Thanks for that bump. Yeah, just
like a place on Earth where you just i mean,
just based on the way it looks, the beauty of it,
you just say yeah, I bet you that's what heaven
looks like. Do you spend much time thinking about what
heaven looks like? What hell looks like?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I think about it, and I think about a lot
more since my mom passed away, Dan, And you probably
think about that too, being reunited.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
With your parents, right, Oh my god, I think it
kind of sharpens the focus of those thoughts. Yeah, yeah,
oh my goodness. Yeah. And eight five five or zer
five x two five five the number text d A
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go down a different road there probably another date. But
I had mentioned earlier on the show that there are
some really to me exciting, concrete paths to victory here
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when it comes to these enormous issues facing the state, right,
and I'll do a longer form show on it, but
they're they are there. And one of those, for example,
is what do you think what do you think the
vote would be in Colorado if you had a ballot
issue and these are you know, it takes a couple
of million to get it on the ballot at least,
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but what do you think the vote would be if
people Colorado had a chance to vote on whether they
want a new law that says people can sue sanctuary
cities if they get hurt there by somebody here illegally.
What do you think the vote on that would be?
Three or three? Someone three eight two five five text
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d an five seven seven three nine. We had Christy
Burton Brown from Advanced Colorado yesterday. I'm just saying there
are a lot of things I think we could get
passed through ballot measures that could profoundly transform this state
for the better. And I do hold out home maybe
in this cycle there we'll see some Republicans win statewide,
but the ballot, yeah, I think they're an awful lot
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of Colorado's who would go with us on some of
those really kind of seminal issues. Let's go to Denver, Colorado.
We'll start with Chris. You're on the Dan Kapli Show.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
Welcome Chris, Thanks Dan So. I work for large US company,
multinational debt manufacturers all over the place, Israel, China, Mexico,
all over the place.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yeah, and the.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
Division that I work in is primarily manufactured in Mexico.
And if the tariff's going to the place, then well
obviously there's going to be effectively a twenty five percent
pump on the product.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
It just will end up.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Being paid by the consumers should they choose to continue buying.
But as much as I would love to have competitive
US factories that could turn out all these products, we
just don't have the supply chains right now. So it's
just really just a comment I kind of wanted to make.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Well, thanks Chris, and you've called before. You're always a
great caller. Here's my quick take on that. Admittedly no
expert on tariffs, right I try to read on it,
but I'm no expert. But my take is this, First
of all, we're never going to have to find out
the long term impact of the tariffs because Trump's going
to get what he wants just through imposing them for
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a shorter term and using the Mexico example, I think
we could all agree at this point that we are
under chemical attack, a chemical weapons attack out of Mexico
on this nation in the form of fetanol. And it's
not a reflection of the Meica on the Mexican people broadly,
but it's a reflection on the government that permits it
and those who are launching it. So I think Trump
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should use tariffs, should use the military, should use everything
in his power to stop this chemical attack on America
dead in its tracks. So that's where I start with
tariffs when it comes to Mexico. More broadly, Chris, when
you talk about, okay, it'd take too long to gear
up the supply chains, etc. To return a healthier manufacturing
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base to the US, I can't claim to know one
way or the other. But I agree with President Trump
when he talks about the soul of America. I really
think it's critical to the long term soul of America
that we have much more manufacturing here, that we're less
reliant on China and other nations, and that we have
that reliable, good high pain jobs with good benefits infrastructure
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here in America.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
So yeah, So, by the way, I'm a first time caller,
must be a.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Difference, Really, what do you have? A brother? A twin?
Speaker 7 (23:12):
An impossible, an impostor could be exactly. But I don't
disagree with you at all on doing what we can
to bolster US manufacturing. I'm also from the Midwest with
you know, auto factory relatives, and so I'm with you.
But it's going to be a shock to the system
because I can tell you we're not going to pay
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people in the US what we're paying them abroad. So
I'm not disagreeing with you. I just it's just some
important factors to take into consideration. I really hope that
we can work it out so that we don't end
up in a trade war, because I think we all
know that nobody wins, and I do think we have
to be respectful of the fact that, you know, Mexicans
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and Canadians they're proud of their country and they you know,
they don't want to get pushed around either. At a
certain point, you know, I'm a little worried that they
might just tell us to pound Sam. So I'd just
like to see this thing not devolved into, you know,
a major war in your trade work, because I don't
think any of us are going to benefit from that.
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And Chris and other than that, enjoy the show.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah, thanks man, really do appreciate that. Thank you, Chris.
And I know this is simplistic, but it's an important
concept that that, you know, the breaking eggs to get
an omlet. And I think one of the reasons that
we're stuck in a rut and a vicious cycle in
so many different parts of public policy is people haven't
had the courage to break those eggs and have that
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short term pain for long term gain. Ryan, I haven't
seen a single text or call on this. I thought
it was a great question. Can anybody think of anything
in life, your life, anybody's life where you have major
long term gain without some short term pain, you know,
maybe winning powerball or something like that. But but no,
that's just the nature of it, and politics is so
geared against it. But Trump as a disruptor is one
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of the few people who might be willing to do
that and then actually have the knowledge to come up
with the concept that can work. You know. Interesting text here.
Let me get to this one, Dan, can you speak
to the position of Amy Coney Barrett in the latest
Scotis ruling. Would love to hear your thoughts. Sorry if
you already address this, I'm grateful, Yes, thank you. It
absolutely intrigued me because I and I think almost every
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other observer expected the Supreme Court to go the other
way on this. And I won't take into the weeds.
Say it's pretty straightforward deal where you had a sitting
in federal court judge individual jurist who ordered the Trump
administration to pay two billion in four and eight that
the Trump administration at froze and now listen, when it
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comes to you know, foreign affairs, etc. That's the sole
purview of the presidency. And I think that that virtually
everybody expected the Supreme Court, you know, to overturn the
trial court, federal court part may on that. And so
the fact that Justice Barrett, I think it was what
the Chief and Justice Barrett maybe broke with the other
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four conservatives on that really big surprise to me. But
here's my and I think it explains why we only
saw four Supreme Court justices sitting justices at the President's
address the other night. I think you had a lot
of the conservatives just flat angry at the Court going
against Trump, and that not because it's Trump, but just
because I agree with the other four. I think it
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was an incorrect ruling. But where I come down on
Justice Barrett is I don't think there's one chance in
a billion that she's one of those originalist justices who
gets on the court and then starts to care more
about what the East Coast elites say about the justice. No,
I think you've got a person who is courageous, of
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very strong mind and faith. The person who is determined
to follow that the law and the facts as she
sees them, no matter where they lead, and every now
and then they lead her to a place that I
might disagree with, but I have total confidence in her
integrity as a human and as a jurist. And I'm
glad she's on the bench. And yeah, I just think
she got this one wrong.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah, question, Dan, because you're a legal mind that I
very much respect, and you know the history of this.
But I can name for you a handful David Suitor,
Anthony Kennedy, Sandrede O'Connor, and then also John Roberts and
now i Amy Cony Barrett. These are all nominated by
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Republican presidents, and they drifted left toward the middle kind
of that nearer another region. Not once in that same period,
even going back to Carter, has a leftist.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Right been nominated. I'm going to move to the toward
the right. That is true when it comes to the chief.
Really give him some credit on Dobbs though, okay, because
you want to talk about right on that one, well,
but but on Dobbs in the end, he sided with
the majority right, and.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
He's kind of split the ticket with the two competing well,
he was just entirely lockstep with the right of senator.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Well yeah, you know, in his concurrence. But what I'm
saying is that he signed down to that majority opinion,
and I think that's worth a lot. But I think
the bigger point, I know, we have to pop this
break and then I come back getting a lot of
text on this big explosion here and across the country
of church attendance on ASH Wednesday. What's driving it? I
think I got a guess, and I think it's a
very positive sign. But there isn't time to finish this.
(28:40):
I do want to pursue that thing on Chief Justice
Roberts and Dobbs a little bit further after the break.
But please give President Trump credit because lots of pro
life GOP presidents never got it there. But Trump delivered,
and he delivered by getting the correct justices appointed and confirmed.
Here on the Dan Kaplush.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Glad you're here. Wow, explosion of attendance on ASH Wednesday,
and it's always crowded, right, but this year and it
appears to have been across the country. So a lot
of text on what's driving that. Dan take Ash Wednesday,
add in the pope's illness, and boom, you get a
large turnout for Ash Wednesday. Dan, my prediction is it
probably has to do with the fact that the Pope
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could be on his deathbed. God forbid. Dan, I always
wore a rope soap on a rope in the barn showers.
What does that mean? Does that?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Well, so the soap didn't find its way onto the floor.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well, then you know you're going to pick it up
and oh that's horrible. Anyway, Yeah, that's fascinating and I
could definitely see where the Pope being in danger might
very well increase the out of Nash Wednesday. My guests,
respectfully would be that we're living through a really cool
(30:07):
moment in American and world history right now, and the
Trump election in part as a result of that and
part as a cause, but it is a it's just
an explosion of optimism and belief in God and faith
and lots and lots of good things. And I think,
(30:30):
I know it's not puppies and rainbows and unicorns always now,
but I think we're really seeing a major shift in
the right direction. So I think it's all part of
that and every reason to believe it's going to continue.
Becky in Colorado Springs here on the dan KAPLA show, welcome,
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thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I know that you would like to praise Roberts on
the dab's decision. My position is that Roberts betrayed the
people and his word to President George W. Bush when
he said he would just call balls and strikes. There
is no way that the executive of the nation the
Article two authority can be countermanded by Article three in
(31:17):
executing funds. Now, if Congress, in the Article one role
told Trumps stop it, that's a different thing. So I'm
trying to see a trend or Amy Cony Barrett. I
think she's being courted into some of these bad decisions
with Roberts, so he gets some cover. He's going left.
(31:40):
He's doing wrong things so good, even a blind squirrel
gets a nut every once in a while, and so
praise him on the Dobbs thing. I don't think Amy
komit Berry was mature enough to be on the Supreme Court.
I mean it was. She's a Catholic, she has kids,
that's great, right should have been a jurist that's pro life,
(32:02):
that has demonstrated those skills in the courtroom. Yeah, but
I'm not ready for the court and I'm sorry to
see every time she does one of these bad decisions,
and it's almost always when Roberts is doing a bad decision,
and I can't help but say, if it walks like
a duck, wells like a duck, is bad a duck.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah, Becky, appreciate the call, Thank you for that. I
know there's a lot of frustration with Justice Barrett. I
think it's misplaced myself, and I think Becky really did
not tell the full story of Justice Barrett. Justice Bartt
yes developed, Cathy can. I respect the hell out of that, obviously,
But Justice Barrett an incredibly accomplished constitutional scholar and attorney
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and so and you know, professor at Notre Dame, etcetera.
So deep, deep, deep legal roots and accomplishments. So no,
I think Justice Barrett was a tremendous pick and I
think that she's human, right. And by the way, I
agree with a caller. I think this Supreme Court decision
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yesterday which upheld a federal court order forcing the Trump
administration to expend two billion in foreign aid, I think
it's one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in many years.
But I don't draw any long term conclusions about that
when it comes to Justice Barrett or anybody else. And
(33:28):
I wouldn't be at all surprised if this decision portends
that there are a lot of big decisions coming in
President Trump's favor. And I just believe Justice Barrett is
somebody who sincerely just tries to be truly honest, independent
legal thinker in her entire life as a constitutional scholar
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and jurist. That's led her almost always to what I
view as these correct decisions. But just because I disagree
with her strongly on a decision or two, I don't
think is a basis to draw conclusions. But I think
justice is everybody's human too, right, and some stuff can
work its way in. And I just have a feeling
there are some really big decisions coming down the pike
(34:16):
in President Trump's favor, not because he's President Trump or
President or anything else, because he was right and he's
right on these issues. So don't be surprised if that's
what's about to come after this surprising decision against him.
Tremendous job. Ryan is always thanking my friend Kelly, You're
the best. Please join us tomorrow on the Dan Kapla Show.
This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast edition
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single day on your favorite podcast platform. Yeah. Yeah, and
fighting in the daylight. Isn't it nice to see it
light out at five oh six oh five? It is wonderful.
(00:22):
And it's this weekend? Isn't it that we spring forward?
Is that right? Is it this weekend? News to me?
I've been keeping up. Oh, Kelly's shaking her head. Yes,
she knows stuff. Yeah, we'll can hate that for you.
We don't want to mislead you there, I like. But
you like having that extra daylight at the end of
the day, right, Yeah? I do. So that's the thing, Dan.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Would you rather we keep things at spring forward forever
or at fall back forever and not do daylight savings?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Wow? I'd have to think about that, all I know.
It's easy. I don't have to think about it. I
want it light out later in the summer plan because
there's some plan out there that would have it dark
at Colorado at seven on a summer evening.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I forget that bang it fall back, and I'm with you.
I want to stay at spring forward.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, I'm all for that. I'm all for that, my friend. Hey,
we got a lot to talk about. Let's see, Dan,
please explain why lesbians should not be banned with trans
men from women's sports and locker rooms. Both seek sex
from women, no difference, banned them. I cannot believe that's
a serious text, first of all, And we open the
(01:32):
first hour this way because it is so encouraging, right,
And that's what we've been predicting for a long time,
that eventually the tipping point would come on this transceanity,
this whole crazy idea of allowing men in women's locker
rooms and showers and men in women's sports and all
of that. It's so ludicrous that that eventually it was
going to collapse of its own weight. And with the
(01:54):
election of President Trump, it's collapsing fast. And the latest
example is Gavin newsom Ner of California, who really could
have helped himself if he'd shown a little political courage
on this a year or so ago. But he waits
until right after the Democrats get thumped on November four
on this issue, and comes out and says, yeah, it
is unfair. It is unfair to have men playing in
(02:15):
women's sports. So how soon will the rest of the
lemmings follow him? Now? It's so obvious, right, is it
even worth discussion when you're talking about lesbians, you're talking
about females, you're talking about biological females. So again, this
cannot be a serious text. Obviously, biological females should be
allowed in women's sports, no matter what their sexual preference is.
(02:38):
You know, this issue of Okay, then you've got somebody
in a shower, whether it's a male attracted man or
a female attracted to females in the shower. Yeah, I
understand that's awkward. I'm not promoting or anything else, you know, homosexuality.
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That's not the point. Of the point is if anybody's
talking about banning people from sports, that's illogical. And then
the shower thing, the locker room thing, Yeah, I just
don't think there's anything that can be done about that.
Have you had that experience? Ryan, like being in and
I think there are fewer and fewer showers right now
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that are just like big barn, wide open kind of showers.
But like back when I was in college, they were
all that way, and so I'd go to the Cux Center,
you know, and because you go there and I just
couldn't believe it, coming here from Chicago's big, beautiful Rex Center,
and you play basketball, you do this, you do that,
and then you'd go into like this big barn shower
(03:41):
right where everybody's in there buck naked. And yeah, there
was far more than one occasion where where you face
the reality of somebody in there taking an interest in you. Yeah,
you've encountered this thing. Oh maybe I'm now Listen, we're
talking about back in the day. We're talking about college.
I know, in the big wide open showers at the
(04:03):
CU Rec Center. I bet they don't even have that now.
I bet it's all like individual stall stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Now when I go to the fitness center where I
work out, it is individual stalls, and they're much higher grade,
higher class.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
You get.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You know, everybody wants their privacy. This is why I
never understood. You know, women in their restrooms get stalls,
and that's great. And then for us men, a lot
of times you talk about the barnyard showers, how about
the bathtub urinals? Like I don't want to oh really,
you don't Wrigley Field.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Steam sores all the day. Whiskey Park, Yeah, I loved it.
I'd go back in there when I didn't have to go. Yeah,
that was the highlight of every game.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And then Comisky Park they would have this sign over
there that would say future White Sox players only, and uh, okay,
and my dad I went in there with them. My dad, Hey,
you know, go over there. And I said, I can't
do that. I'm not sure I'm going to make the team,
you know, I think.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Okay, in all seriousness to the Texter's point, if they
are serious, and I don't think they.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Are, not a disingenuous one.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
But there's an obvious reason why a woman in a
vulnerable setting and situation they've got all of their clothes off.
Why in intact male in that environment is much different. Ah,
my little biological lesbian themes.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Total madness right in American reject America rejected that on
election day. But are there a you know, can you
take any like these big burn showers around anymore?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I wonder if there are. They're outdated, and I'm sure
somewhere do.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
But in my experience, you're right, it's changed it's evolved
where yeah, men want privacy too. I mean I do, anyway,
I don't know about the rest of the men out there,
and they're not.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Oh that's that's a great question. That's I'm kind of
out of that loop right now obviously. But because yeah,
I mean anywhere I would go to shower right now
would be why I didn't want to get too personally.
But I just mean most showers now, for most married couples,
I mean most master bath showers have multiple shower heads
(06:06):
in there, but that's obviously for the spouses. But yeah, no,
I'm not in any situation now that I can think of,
and I'd remember if I was where it was just
the old big barn shower kind of thing. But look,
you see in Revenge of the Nerds and movies like that.
You know that I never thought twice about it in
high school, and there was never any kind of incident
(06:28):
in high school. And listen, I've got anybody who just
joined us. I am so grateful for every day I
head at CU Boulder, and I love that place, and
I still love that place, and any kid who gets
to go there, I think is lucky. We have so
many great schools in the state. You look at everything
CSU is doing. So don't take any of this as
anti SeeU. I think it is just a gem. But
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the problem in those situations back there was when a
guy was interested in you. You knew it, you know
what I mean. It was It's just the visual on
the other side of that.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
So you know, I'm watching stranger things and it's right
up my alley. It's the gen X childhood experience of
the eighties, and one of those was being terrified of
going into the gym room showers that you're describing, and
you had to keep your head on a swivel. And
it wasn't because of what you just mentioned, but it
was because you get whipped with these towels, you know,
these guys that are take a snap right at your
(07:25):
back side, Like I don't want to deal with that.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
But you would feel so bad, right, you'd feel so
bad for those kids who, you know, for whatever reason
they just physically or whatever, it was just so terrifying
for them to go into those situations in high school.
I felt so bad for him. Oh yeah, and yeah.
So anyway. Texter Dan on the Colorado Governor's race as
(07:48):
a Colorado Native the Republicans have proven themselves capable of
grasping defeat repeatedly. I'd love to have someone actually fire
up to conversation, but none have stepped up. So I
think the point of this Texter explains why nobody wants
wants to talk about the Colorado governor's race. I just
think throughout the Democratic Party at pardon me, the Republican
Party in Colorado, there's a widespread assumption that the GOP
(08:11):
just can't win stay wide, and that's why nobody wants
to talk about it because I think it's a waste
of their time to talk about it. I disagree with that.
I think there is a window now, but again, I
think that's why we just don't get action on that topic.
And yeah, maybe it'll be different as we get closer. Conversely,
I think the other reason we don't get action on
it is the Democrats are so sure that they could
(08:34):
they could run a goat, and I'm not talking about
a good goat, you know, like a Tom Brady goat.
They could just run a goat and win. I think
is the Democrats attitude they could run anybody and win.
Don't you think that's their attitude? Grind that they're politically bulletproof.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
They don't fear losing or being challenged, and that's dangerous
one party rule. I don't even say it in a
lot of cases, maybe on the other side in ruby
red states where maybe things get a little out of
hand and too far to the right, but especially in
Democrat only states, because they become drunk with power, they
feel invincible.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Like you just said, that's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
They're not held accountable because they're not even run against
in a primary. There was some few exceptions, like with
the two Communists who got booted out of their state
house districts. Yeah, this past election, but it's rare.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
It doesn't happen a lot. But it's another reason why
the GOP really has a chance. And I'm not talking
about a dumb and dumber chance. I think the GOP
really is a chance in both the governor's race and
the center race. And part of it is that Democrats
are so confident. So yeah, I think stars are aligning
there to create at least that possibility. Three or three
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someone three eight two five five text D five seven
seven three nine. When we come back, Ye're going to
get you some more of that really fun sound. We
didn't have enough time with it yesterday from that really
major political event. Can't even quote a speech on Tuesday
night some of the great questioning of Mike Johnston, Mayor
of Denver by members of our congressional delegate. And I
do want to get your take on this. What was
(10:03):
behind this enormous Ash Wednesday turnout? I mean, it's always big, right,
but if you're somebody went for ashes in your particular
Christian denomination, you probably saw it. It was and it
looks like it was across the country. Just this explosion
of turnout on Ash Wednesday. What do you think is
driving that? You're on the Dan Capla.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Show and now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Trump said many times tariffs is his favorite word. I
would say the reciprocal is probably the second favorite way.
And I think we have to be open to the idea.
If you want to be a numbskull like justin trade
and say oh we're going to do this, then it's
gonna Terriffs are going to go up. But if you
(10:55):
want to sit back, have a discussion with the Commerce
Department US two. Are they all have my phone number?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Two?
Speaker 4 (11:02):
I am happy to have a discussion with our foreign
counterparts that says that here's what we think you were doing,
and the tariffs are the actual easier part.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, and listen, I'm not going to claim to be
an expert on tariffs. I'm not. But I do trust
President Trump. I trust him on this economic stuff. But
what I trust even more broadly than that is is
he is somebody with the boldness and the vision to
have a real chance to break the cycle and to
(11:35):
reshape things for the better. And he is absolutely convinced
that tariffs are the way to do that. Now, obviously,
you know, his plan may very well be the threat
of tariff's here gets you this over there, and then
tariffs staying in place here means something long term. Whatever
it is, I just trust the guy on it. But
this I also know this. I also know that we
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need some kind of major disruption and to get to
where we need to go right because the reality of
this nation economically is we are becoming to Americas because
of lefty policies. We're becoming the haves and the have
nots because of lefty policies, and a healthy nation cannot
(12:18):
move forward that way. And I think President Trump sees that.
I think you see his commitment to working people. I
think you see his commitment to very concrete things to
change the art and listen, Yeah, there's going to be
some pain in the meantime. Can anybody think of anything
there might be something out there? Can anybody think of
any great change that comes without some pain? Can anybody
(12:44):
think of anything there? I'd love your take on that.
Da n five seven seven three nine three or three
seven three eight two five five. And that's one of
the reasons we're in such a mess. The biggest reason
is this lefty stuff. The other reason crosses party lines,
and that is that, you know, get power, they want
to keep power, especially the higher up the jobs, and
then they don't want to do the things that can
(13:05):
really lead to big, lasting change because there's pain that
comes first. And Joe when he was playing football, he
had this great strength and conditioning coach whose favorite saying was,
everybody wants to go to heaven, nobody wants to die, right.
And so I think Trump, though, is maybe the only
(13:28):
figure political figure in my lifetime who is willing to
undergo that short term pain for long term gain. And
he's even a better position to do it now in
this second term, right because he doesn't have to stand
for re election again. But I have no doubt in
my mind at all about the sincerity of his motives.
That what he cares about most right now he doesn't
(13:50):
have to worry about when another election, is his legacy
about really making this change and being regarded as somebody
who really plish these things. That's why Ryan, I've got
to laugh when people talk about Putin's Patsy this and
that and way beyond the Well, wait a second, Putin
didn't invade when he was president, way beyond that, Because
(14:12):
does anybody really think Trump is going to go cut
a deal for Ukraine that you know it makes Putin
the obvious winner, a deal that is way out of
whack and imbalanced against Ukraine. Of course not, for a
lot of different reasons. First, I think that Trump wants
something that's truly fair, and Trump understands that Putin is
(14:36):
the aggressor here, the invader, etc. I think President Trump
is saying what he needs to say publicly to try
to get the parties to the table and do a deal.
And he's obviously got his own way of managing Putin
which worked before. But No, Trump is going to want
there to be a lot of respect for Trump after
this deal, and that only happens if the deal appears
(14:58):
fair and reasonable. So no bottom line on tariffs and
all that stuff. I don't claim to be an expert
on it, but I just trust Trump on it, and
he has earned that trust, I think, through the first
term and much more. Let's go up to beautiful Boulder, Colorado.
I started a trial up there a week from Monday.
Cannot wait. Some of the greatest memories of my life
in Boulder, Kevin. You're on the Dan Kapla show. Will
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you be another one of those great memories, Kevin?
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Pertaining to what?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Oh it was more joke, but now welcome to the show.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Well, I'm always a great memory anyway, So no need
to worry about that. This wouldn't work most likely with
Trump's mandate. But I am in favor of mixed teams
(15:50):
as long as the official rules allow it, and it
can be reasonably proven none that not one of the
players on it, any team, were co worced or forced
into it. Go to any beach, you know, speaking non professionally,
Go to any beach or private club, you'll find mixed
(16:13):
and you'll find male females playing racquetball, volleyball, billiards, nice rolling,
target shooting.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
What about girls high school sports? Should men be able
to play?
Speaker 6 (16:28):
Well, I don't like the idea myself, but speaking constitutionally,
I it's a hard call because you have Because I'm speaking,
there are several factors. Financially, personally, I don't know. I'd
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have to think about that.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I'm against.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
I'm against people being forced to accept it, well, girls
forced to accept it. I'm total, which.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Means he would be opposed to it, right, I mean,
because there's no constitutional right of a male to walk
into a girl's shower or a male to play a
girl's sport, which often involves being in the shower.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Well, I would rule something like that out.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah, yeah, I've got to hit this hard break here.
I'm surprised that Kevin hesitated on that at all. I
think it's one of the clearest things in the history
of the planet. But fortunately a vast majority of Americans agree,
And that's part of the news of the day if
you just joined us. Even Gavin Newsom now says it's
unfair to have boys and men playing in girls and
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women's sports. So the damn is breaking there. Yeah, what
political courage you know, says it after election day when
Democrats get thumped over it. Hey, when we come back,
we're going to play some more of that fun sound.
Members of the GOP Congressional delegation Calraud are doing such
a great job, great job with Mike Johnston, mayor of Denver.
Will savor some of that, some of the greatest hits
(17:59):
from Trump's triumph and Tuesday Night as well in this
big broom on ash Wednesday, the big turnout of churches.
What do you think, Drovitch, you're on the Dankplas Show.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
See that's interesting. Is there any place on Earth where
you've been and you look at it and say, yeah,
that that's heaven right there. That must be what heaven
looks like.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I could think of several places. My grandfather's cabins in Ontario,
Canada very much reflective of that. And I would imagine
for you Dan playing the masters.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, but interesting question. Thanks for that bump. Yeah, just
like a place on Earth where you just i mean,
just based on the way it looks, the beauty of it,
you just say yeah, I bet you that's what heaven
looks like. Do you spend much time thinking about what
heaven looks like? What hell looks like?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I think about it, and I think about a lot
more since my mom passed away, Dan, And you probably
think about that too, being reunited.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
With your parents, right, Oh my god, I think it
kind of sharpens the focus of those thoughts. Yeah, yeah,
oh my goodness. Yeah. And eight five five or zer
five x two five five the number text d A
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go down a different road there probably another date. But
I had mentioned earlier on the show that there are
some really to me exciting, concrete paths to victory here
(19:26):
when it comes to these enormous issues facing the state, right,
and I'll do a longer form show on it, but
they're they are there. And one of those, for example,
is what do you think what do you think the
vote would be in Colorado if you had a ballot
issue and these are you know, it takes a couple
of million to get it on the ballot at least,
(19:47):
but what do you think the vote would be if
people Colorado had a chance to vote on whether they
want a new law that says people can sue sanctuary
cities if they get hurt there by somebody here illegally.
What do you think the vote on that would be?
Three or three? Someone three eight two five five text
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d an five seven seven three nine. We had Christy
Burton Brown from Advanced Colorado yesterday. I'm just saying there
are a lot of things I think we could get
passed through ballot measures that could profoundly transform this state
for the better. And I do hold out home maybe
in this cycle there we'll see some Republicans win statewide,
but the ballot, yeah, I think they're an awful lot
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of Colorado's who would go with us on some of
those really kind of seminal issues. Let's go to Denver, Colorado.
We'll start with Chris. You're on the Dan Kapli Show.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
Welcome Chris, Thanks Dan So. I work for large US company,
multinational debt manufacturers all over the place, Israel, China, Mexico,
all over the place.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yeah, and the.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
Division that I work in is primarily manufactured in Mexico.
And if the tariff's going to the place, then well
obviously there's going to be effectively a twenty five percent
pump on the product.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
It just will end up.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Being paid by the consumers should they choose to continue buying.
But as much as I would love to have competitive
US factories that could turn out all these products, we
just don't have the supply chains right now. So it's
just really just a comment I kind of wanted to make.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Well, thanks Chris, and you've called before. You're always a
great caller. Here's my quick take on that. Admittedly no
expert on tariffs, right I try to read on it,
but I'm no expert. But my take is this, First
of all, we're never going to have to find out
the long term impact of the tariffs because Trump's going
to get what he wants just through imposing them for
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a shorter term and using the Mexico example, I think
we could all agree at this point that we are
under chemical attack, a chemical weapons attack out of Mexico
on this nation in the form of fetanol. And it's
not a reflection of the Meica on the Mexican people broadly,
but it's a reflection on the government that permits it
and those who are launching it. So I think Trump
(22:17):
should use tariffs, should use the military, should use everything
in his power to stop this chemical attack on America
dead in its tracks. So that's where I start with
tariffs when it comes to Mexico. More broadly, Chris, when
you talk about, okay, it'd take too long to gear
up the supply chains, etc. To return a healthier manufacturing
(22:37):
base to the US, I can't claim to know one
way or the other. But I agree with President Trump
when he talks about the soul of America. I really
think it's critical to the long term soul of America
that we have much more manufacturing here, that we're less
reliant on China and other nations, and that we have
that reliable, good high pain jobs with good benefits infrastructure
(23:03):
here in America.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
So yeah, So, by the way, I'm a first time caller,
must be a.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Difference, Really, what do you have? A brother? A twin?
Speaker 7 (23:12):
An impossible, an impostor could be exactly. But I don't
disagree with you at all on doing what we can
to bolster US manufacturing. I'm also from the Midwest with
you know, auto factory relatives, and so I'm with you.
But it's going to be a shock to the system
because I can tell you we're not going to pay
(23:35):
people in the US what we're paying them abroad. So
I'm not disagreeing with you. I just it's just some
important factors to take into consideration. I really hope that
we can work it out so that we don't end
up in a trade war, because I think we all
know that nobody wins, and I do think we have
to be respectful of the fact that, you know, Mexicans
(23:58):
and Canadians they're proud of their country and they you know,
they don't want to get pushed around either. At a
certain point, you know, I'm a little worried that they
might just tell us to pound Sam. So I'd just
like to see this thing not devolved into, you know,
a major war in your trade work, because I don't
think any of us are going to benefit from that.
(24:18):
And Chris and other than that, enjoy the show.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah, thanks man, really do appreciate that. Thank you, Chris.
And I know this is simplistic, but it's an important
concept that that, you know, the breaking eggs to get
an omlet. And I think one of the reasons that
we're stuck in a rut and a vicious cycle in
so many different parts of public policy is people haven't
had the courage to break those eggs and have that
(24:40):
short term pain for long term gain. Ryan, I haven't
seen a single text or call on this. I thought
it was a great question. Can anybody think of anything
in life, your life, anybody's life where you have major
long term gain without some short term pain, you know,
maybe winning powerball or something like that. But but no,
that's just the nature of it, and politics is so
geared against it. But Trump as a disruptor is one
(25:03):
of the few people who might be willing to do
that and then actually have the knowledge to come up
with the concept that can work. You know. Interesting text here.
Let me get to this one, Dan, can you speak
to the position of Amy Coney Barrett in the latest
Scotis ruling. Would love to hear your thoughts. Sorry if
you already address this, I'm grateful, Yes, thank you. It
absolutely intrigued me because I and I think almost every
(25:27):
other observer expected the Supreme Court to go the other
way on this. And I won't take into the weeds.
Say it's pretty straightforward deal where you had a sitting
in federal court judge individual jurist who ordered the Trump
administration to pay two billion in four and eight that
the Trump administration at froze and now listen, when it
(25:47):
comes to you know, foreign affairs, etc. That's the sole
purview of the presidency. And I think that that virtually
everybody expected the Supreme Court, you know, to overturn the
trial court, federal court part may on that. And so
the fact that Justice Barrett, I think it was what
the Chief and Justice Barrett maybe broke with the other
(26:10):
four conservatives on that really big surprise to me. But
here's my and I think it explains why we only
saw four Supreme Court justices sitting justices at the President's
address the other night. I think you had a lot
of the conservatives just flat angry at the Court going
against Trump, and that not because it's Trump, but just
because I agree with the other four. I think it
(26:32):
was an incorrect ruling. But where I come down on
Justice Barrett is I don't think there's one chance in
a billion that she's one of those originalist justices who
gets on the court and then starts to care more
about what the East Coast elites say about the justice. No,
I think you've got a person who is courageous, of
(26:53):
very strong mind and faith. The person who is determined
to follow that the law and the facts as she
sees them, no matter where they lead, and every now
and then they lead her to a place that I
might disagree with, but I have total confidence in her
integrity as a human and as a jurist. And I'm
glad she's on the bench. And yeah, I just think
she got this one wrong.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah, question, Dan, because you're a legal mind that I
very much respect, and you know the history of this.
But I can name for you a handful David Suitor,
Anthony Kennedy, Sandrede O'Connor, and then also John Roberts and
now i Amy Cony Barrett. These are all nominated by
(27:35):
Republican presidents, and they drifted left toward the middle kind
of that nearer another region. Not once in that same period,
even going back to Carter, has a leftist.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Right been nominated. I'm going to move to the toward
the right. That is true when it comes to the chief.
Really give him some credit on Dobbs though, okay, because
you want to talk about right on that one, well,
but but on Dobbs in the end, he sided with
the majority right, and.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
He's kind of split the ticket with the two competing well,
he was just entirely lockstep with the right of senator.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Well yeah, you know, in his concurrence. But what I'm
saying is that he signed down to that majority opinion,
and I think that's worth a lot. But I think
the bigger point, I know, we have to pop this
break and then I come back getting a lot of
text on this big explosion here and across the country
of church attendance on ASH Wednesday. What's driving it? I
think I got a guess, and I think it's a
very positive sign. But there isn't time to finish this.
(28:40):
I do want to pursue that thing on Chief Justice
Roberts and Dobbs a little bit further after the break.
But please give President Trump credit because lots of pro
life GOP presidents never got it there. But Trump delivered,
and he delivered by getting the correct justices appointed and confirmed.
Here on the Dan Kaplush.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Glad you're here. Wow, explosion of attendance on ASH Wednesday,
and it's always crowded, right, but this year and it
appears to have been across the country. So a lot
of text on what's driving that. Dan take Ash Wednesday,
add in the pope's illness, and boom, you get a
large turnout for Ash Wednesday. Dan, my prediction is it
probably has to do with the fact that the Pope
(29:31):
could be on his deathbed. God forbid. Dan, I always
wore a rope soap on a rope in the barn showers.
What does that mean? Does that?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Well, so the soap didn't find its way onto the floor.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well, then you know you're going to pick it up
and oh that's horrible. Anyway, Yeah, that's fascinating and I
could definitely see where the Pope being in danger might
very well increase the out of Nash Wednesday. My guests,
respectfully would be that we're living through a really cool
(30:07):
moment in American and world history right now, and the
Trump election in part as a result of that and
part as a cause, but it is a it's just
an explosion of optimism and belief in God and faith
and lots and lots of good things. And I think,
(30:30):
I know it's not puppies and rainbows and unicorns always now,
but I think we're really seeing a major shift in
the right direction. So I think it's all part of
that and every reason to believe it's going to continue.
Becky in Colorado Springs here on the dan KAPLA show, welcome,
(30:51):
thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I know that you would like to praise Roberts on
the dab's decision. My position is that Roberts betrayed the
people and his word to President George W. Bush when
he said he would just call balls and strikes. There
is no way that the executive of the nation the
Article two authority can be countermanded by Article three in
(31:17):
executing funds. Now, if Congress, in the Article one role
told Trumps stop it, that's a different thing. So I'm
trying to see a trend or Amy Cony Barrett. I
think she's being courted into some of these bad decisions
with Roberts, so he gets some cover. He's going left.
(31:40):
He's doing wrong things so good, even a blind squirrel
gets a nut every once in a while, and so
praise him on the Dobbs thing. I don't think Amy
komit Berry was mature enough to be on the Supreme Court.
I mean it was. She's a Catholic, she has kids,
that's great, right should have been a jurist that's pro life,
(32:02):
that has demonstrated those skills in the courtroom. Yeah, but
I'm not ready for the court and I'm sorry to
see every time she does one of these bad decisions,
and it's almost always when Roberts is doing a bad decision,
and I can't help but say, if it walks like
a duck, wells like a duck, is bad a duck.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah, Becky, appreciate the call, Thank you for that. I
know there's a lot of frustration with Justice Barrett. I
think it's misplaced myself, and I think Becky really did
not tell the full story of Justice Barrett. Justice Bartt
yes developed, Cathy can. I respect the hell out of that, obviously,
But Justice Barrett an incredibly accomplished constitutional scholar and attorney
(32:46):
and so and you know, professor at Notre Dame, etcetera.
So deep, deep, deep legal roots and accomplishments. So no,
I think Justice Barrett was a tremendous pick and I
think that she's human, right. And by the way, I
agree with a caller. I think this Supreme Court decision
(33:07):
yesterday which upheld a federal court order forcing the Trump
administration to expend two billion in foreign aid, I think
it's one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in many years.
But I don't draw any long term conclusions about that
when it comes to Justice Barrett or anybody else. And
(33:28):
I wouldn't be at all surprised if this decision portends
that there are a lot of big decisions coming in
President Trump's favor. And I just believe Justice Barrett is
somebody who sincerely just tries to be truly honest, independent
legal thinker in her entire life as a constitutional scholar
(33:53):
and jurist. That's led her almost always to what I
view as these correct decisions. But just because I disagree
with her strongly on a decision or two, I don't
think is a basis to draw conclusions. But I think
justice is everybody's human too, right, and some stuff can
work its way in. And I just have a feeling
there are some really big decisions coming down the pike
(34:16):
in President Trump's favor, not because he's President Trump or
President or anything else, because he was right and he's
right on these issues. So don't be surprised if that's
what's about to come after this surprising decision against him.
Tremendous job. Ryan is always thanking my friend Kelly, You're
the best. Please join us tomorrow on the Dan Kapla Show.
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