August 30, 2025 • 34 mins
In this hour of The Dan Caplis Show, Matt Dunn fills in and reacts to the latest nonsense from the liberals.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
And alas and a lack.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
It is not Dan Caplis on board today, but it
is a fan of Dan Caplis getting to sit in today.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
My name is Matt Dunn, and I've been involved in.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Talk radio a bit over the years, but normally by
day I am a very mild mannered mini van driving
dentist in the Denver.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Suburbs, Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
And you know, to the extent that I follow political
events and turmoil, I've always enjoyed a bit of a
hobby of paying very close attention from my nerdy days
in seventh grade reading Bill Buckley's National Review. And I'm
honored from time to time to be able to show
up and share whatever thoughts, whatever wisdom might pop into
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my head at any given time. And uh, you know,
the quality of it, that's that's debatable, highly debatable, But
we try to have a lot of fun and as
we head into Labor Day weekend, traffic a little bit
lighter out there. I think some folks are already enjoying
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their labor Day weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
We might just take it a little easier.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I don't know, a little fluffier, Ryan and Kelly back
there is fluffy, okay?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Or do we do we need to.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Be like on point and not for serious at all times.
We can do coffee today, all right, let's do a
little bit of that, just just enough to keep host
Matt Dunn happy again.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Honored to be in here.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
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any of that input. And sometimes you know, Host likes
to be kept on track by observant listeners.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Who who are very helpful in that regard.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
And I do have a history of like mispronouncing basic
names and people's names or geographical locations.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And I noticed that over the years.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Whenever I have done that, boy, the smart people out
there correct me. Sometimes they don't do it like gently,
but that is okay. You know, you don't have to
be gentle. And you know, talk radio a little bit
of a free for all type environment, and we like
to think one of the last vestiges of free speech
out there on the fruited playane in the United States
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of America, and we try to make the most of it.
At any rate, I've got many a topic on my
mind today. I do want to get into Robert de
Niro here in a minute or two, and what's going
on with that guy. I've been watching him for years
and it's a little concerning that the sort of trajectory
of this guy's mindset lately. Gavin Newsom, by the way,
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governor of California, seems to be thinking about twenty twenty
eight and he seems to be making his pitch to
become the front runner to run in the next election
cycle Democrat right from California. And he's kind of going
around imitating Donald Trump. And I heard a clip or
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two of Newsom speaking recently and I thought, boy, he
doesn't sound like himself at all, the kind of boring,
you know, governor of California, kind of a failing state,
some might say, I might say, and trying to act
like some thing entirely other than himself, imitating President Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
And does that work? I mean, can you do that?
I mean, I think I heard an imitator of.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Donald Trump on this show, not like twenty minutes ago,
fifteen minutes ago, and that's that's a different kind of thing.
That was very, very good, by the way, Ryan, But
what does it mean if the Democrats are at a
point where they feel like they need to imitate Donald Trump?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Well, the point that I was going over with Steven L. Miller.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
He's read Steves on X and he does the Versus
Media podcast is what you're referencing. The imitation of online
is done by interns on his social media feed on X.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
So it's very much in the style of Trump's.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
You read it like, I could imagine Trump sounding like that,
but it's Gavin Newsom instead. But Newsom doesn't do the
Trump voice or imitation himself in public. He's just out
there kind of complaining about Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Complaint, whining, about Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, and there's something about the hats that end up
and maybe we could we could hear that real quick.
Let's let's play that clip of Gavin knew some a
little unhappy about the things he's been receiving of late.
I'm sick and tired of Democrats being on the losing
end in this country and.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Our democracy being on the losing end.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
We have got to fight fire with fire. But I understand,
I understand that's in Prop fifty.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
But you're not saying you think they're going to Republicans
they're going to stop.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I don't think Donald Trump wants another election. Do you
think for a second you one, I have two dozen
Trump twenty twenty eight hats his folks keep sending me.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
You and you think he's going to run again, Well,
sounds like Gavin Newsom. I'm not interested in wearing any
of those hats. And maybe some Trump supporters out there
could send Gavin Newsom the hats that say, you know,
Trump is right about everything.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Trump was right about everything. And you know you had.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Trump last week talking to Emmanuel Macron of Fransei and
Zelensi of Ukraine, showing them in the merch room in
the White House, those hats, and I just get a
kick out of that Trump showing off. The Trump was
always right hats. But I've noticed that there's a bit
of that edge in newsome of Leith, and you hear
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that edge in that voice doesn't sound like vocally he's
trying to go all the way there and sound like
Donald Trump. But I think when a party starts to
lose its way and starts to not know which way
is up, where it is going. And my opinion is
twenty twenty four, the voters decided that the Democrats were
a little bit too crazy, too unstable to stay in power.
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A lot of doubts about Joe Biden's mental capacity. It
w was just interestingly coming to light now, as you
just heard Ryan Schuling discuss at length in the last
couple of hours.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
A little bit. But I and.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
The Kamala Harris not your most wonderful candidate you've ever seen.
But what works, like, why would somebody vote for a candidate?
Why was somebody vote for a president? Would it boil
down to their personality only in the style, or would
it boil down fundamentally to the policies that you're pursuing
advocating fighting.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
For and style wise, you might see.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
The Democrats start to pivot towards a more Trump like
mindset and a trump like approach. But my thinking is
that if they don't shift gears on policies, is that
going to get anywhere? Is that going to make any
progress for the Democrats at all?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Whatsoever?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
You know, some people think, well, I'd like to go
out and have a lot of money. I'd like to
earn a lot of money, And you think.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Okay, well, how are you going to do that?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
If you want to earn money, normally you would have
to provide some sort of a service, some sort of
something that would be useful to people so that they
might spend money on you, towards you, direct towards you,
because you've been useful to them. You've been beneficial to
them in some way. So how it works in a
free market economy we still have that to a considerable
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extent in this country.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
But if you just think it's just going to appear.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Out of nowhere and you're going to earn that without
somehow providing a valuable service, yeah, that's maybe not going
to go anywhere. But if you're going to convey some
kind of a style on the political front and say hey, hey,
you vote for me because I have this sort of style,
this sort of approach to politics, But you don't adopt
the policies and you don't back up the policies that
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the American people want, that the voters want.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I don't see that necessarily going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
And it makes me think, to what extent does the
Democrat Party not have a core anymore, a core set
of issues, a core set of beliefs, a core set
of principles that motivates them and animates them, Or to
what extent is most of their messaging some species of
propaganda that doesn't actually connect and might seem out of
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touch to a great many millions of Americans. And that's
I think where the Democrat Party is. If you look
at their poll data, where their approvals are right now,
you see that they're obviously like kind of down near
the bottom of the barrel, worst they've ever had in
some time after math of what you have to say
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as a disastrous Joe Biden presidency. But is anybody out
there seeing any signs of a learning curve happening?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
A learning curve?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Maybe, you know, just saying that Hey, we actually don't
think crime is a good thing.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You hear Democrats vocalizing that. Do you think Democrats might
come out.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And say, you know, hey, the open borders situation that
we've been having, you know, the inviting the entire world
into this country under the Biden era, it seems like
they're not pivoting off of some of the fundamental policy
positions that that alienated that party from the American electorate,
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as you saw so clearly in the twenty twenty four
election cycle. All right, that, I guess we will take
a break in just a minute. But if anybody is
seeing any signs of a learning curve, I am all
ears and I would like to hear about it, but.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I I'm not seeing it yet.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
And the you know, shifting your style, changing your approach,
complaining about Trump hats coming your way, your way, I
don't know if that's going to get us there, Ladies
and gentlemen, all right, is Matt done.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I'm sitting in for Dan Capliss.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
You're invited to check in three O three seven, one,
three eight, two five five.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
And now back to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
It is Matt Dunn sitting in for Dan Caplis today
and was that something about radio gaga or radio maga.
I wasn't quite good be either, okay.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Either one?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
All right, well we are a little bit maga around here,
is your host?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Truly?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
At least I wasn't maga before Trump came down the escalator.
Before then I was something a little bit different. Just
you know, you're just standard run of the mill Republican type.
A lot of learning curve has happened about politics since
twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I will say, you've.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Learned about some of the people that you kind of
thought you really liked and you were on their side
and they were looking out for you, and then you realize, hmm,
maybe not so much like maybe a Mitch McConnell kind
of individual. Maybe even the Wall Street Journal globalist outlet there,
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maybe even the Bush family. Yeah, a lot of learning curve.
I might go into that at some point in time.
But hey, there is of course the news. I know,
it's maybe a day or two old news now, Taylor
Swift getting engaged to Travis Kelsey, and I notice that
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when these things come out, it gets discussed politically through
a bit of a political filter, and sometimes you see
people get a little cynical or a little skeptical, or
they want to somehow cast aspersions upon this situation, and
I just thought I might offer my advice as to
how to approach this, and I think jd. Vance is
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following my advice. Of course he did not hear my advice,
but good instincts, I like to think. And obviously, Taylor
Swift one of the most famous people in the world,
some people saying the most famous woman in the world.
I have a couple of teenage daughters, one of whom
very much likes Taylor Swift, so I will never say
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a negative word about Taylor Swift. One time, I think
I did make some aspersion upon us that I thought.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
That's not a very good song.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
My daughter heard me say that, and I was kind
of in the doghouse. You know how dads of teenagers
can end up in the doghouse once in a while.
While I was in that dog I said, I'm never
going to do that again. I'm going to find a way.
I won't maybe go full on swifty like James Comy
has become a full on swifty, but I will I
will be positive. And congratulations to Taylor Swift on her
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engagement and do we have do we have what jd Vance?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
What his approach is on this.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I'd like to hear that if at all, if at
all possible, back there, jd Vance very charitable, very encouraging,
praising the romance, the romance going on, and you know
he likes to see it. Oh we don't have that.
We don't have that clip yet, but sometimes you'll see.
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And I noticed that political because you know, Taylor Swift
has gotten involved in politics, and there's maybe in a
way encouraged her name.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
To be used and.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Her reputation to be used to support left leaning candidates.
And I think she was pretty cagey about some of
the actual endorsing. I don't know if it ever actually
did it actually come to it, did she actually endorse
Kamala Harris back at.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Twenty twenty fourty vocal about it?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Actually she was seemed to me a little muted, but
it could be kind of knew where she was coming from.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I do have that club now, by the way.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Oh you do, okay, But my as we head into that,
I remember one day I was reading on Twitter and
I saw a mild mannered conservative commentator and of course
it was not me just offered some sort of criticism
of Taylor Swift. And this was a fairly small account guy,
and he put out this little note that was critical
of Taylor Swift, and that tweet or do you call
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it an x now, that tweet blew up and it
got millions upon millions impressions, and a lot of the
Taylor Swift fans were responding by the millions and very
critical of this conservative commentator. And his comment was fairly innocuous.
I don't even remember what it was, but I remember
kind of being pretty wowed at the fan base of
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a Taylor Swift kind of thing. And I think that
that commentator learned a few lessons about that. I don't
think ever responded to it or acknowledged all of that,
but a lot of the responses from the swifties I
thought were pretty funny and pretty amusing. And so that
is a real cultural force. And do I say I
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like every single song. I wouldn't quite go there. But
let's hear jd Vance's approach to this. Jd Vance, I
think this is the right way to handle this kind
of thing.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Right here. I a question I have to ask you.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
The biggest news of the last twenty four hours, Kansas
City Chiefs Travis Kelsey Taylor Swift getting engaged.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
She endorsed your opponent in the last selection.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Do you think that Americans just want celebrities to buy
out of politics?
Speaker 6 (16:12):
You know, I think by and large, people want politicians
to focus on politics, and they want celebrities to focus
on whatever it is that made them famous, whether it's
singing or dancing or acting.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
But you know, I'm a romantic.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
When I see two people who love getting married, I
just wish them the best and I congratulate them, and
I hope they have a very long and healthy and
happy life together.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I will say as.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
A football fan, as a Cincinnati Bengals fan, I hope
that the NFL does not put a thumb on the
scale for the Kansas City Chiefs just because Travis Kelcey
is now getting married to maybe the most famous woman
in the world. You guys can't sort of have this.
I'm where they're going to have like a Super Bowl
wedding thing this season. Can't do it. The Kansas City
Chiefs have to follow the same rules as everybody else.
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So if we see the refs being particularly friendly to
Kansas City Chiefs players that I think all football fans
should be willing to push back on the NFL and.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Say, look, you guys got to be fair.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Just because Travis is getting married to Taylor, you still
can't put your thumb on the scale for the Kansas
City Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Thank you so much for your time. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
And I think that is pretty a plus commentary. And
you know, he doesn't say that, you know, we need
to listen to celebrities for our political opinions. But he
doesn't offer any cynical contribution to the discussion. He doesn't
go there on the you know, any kind of political
attack at all on Taylor Swift. And I just think
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he says, you know, hey, I'm a romantic and I
salute these young people being in love and all that,
and that that would just be my recommendation is how
you do it, because you know, you don't need to
go picking a fight there, in my opinion, not unless
you just don't really have to. And you know, who knows,
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maybe Taylor Swift will be so impressed by the results
of the Trump administration's successful policies, the endorsement might.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Be different next time around. Hey, it's Matt Dunn and
for Dan Caples.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Be right back.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
You're listening to the Dan Caplis Show podcast Afternoon Friday.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Wow, Labor Day coming up.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
And yeah, I'm just sitting here listening to men singing
falsetto there. That was a pretty good tune, kind of rocking.
Honored to be in here as a longtime fan of
the work of Dan Caplis on the radio. By the way,
did you know that Clarence Thomas is now the sixth,
number six, longest serving Supreme Court judge in the United
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States history? Number six, and he happens to be my
favorite Supreme Court judge. One little question mark, I mean,
Clarence is getting any younger. I'd love him to just
keep on staying on forever. But should at some point
while Donald Trump is in office, should he decide to
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bow out at some point and allow the chance to
appoint perhaps another Clarence Thomas. I don't know's that's a debate,
but they do not get better than Clarence Thomas. If
you care about the American founding the principles of natural law,
natural right. He is number one, well, six, number six,
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I remember when he was appointed. I guess that means
I'm getting a little older myself. I was I in college.
I think I was in college at that time. And
by the way, tariff revenue. Guess what tariffs have brought
in as of August twenty second, that's several days, that's
a week ago, thirty billion dollars into the United States.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Thirty billion.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I've gotten more on tariff's what a d all this
money just coming in because we have levied tariffs on
all those people trying to sell us stuff and we
buy stuff, and you know, they can do a little
tariff action, and that I am very much in favor of,
and a lot of the folks that care about the
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national debt and so forth. Four billion or four trillion
dollar long term impact. Look at the CBO report. I'll
go into that after bit. But let's say hello to
Carol and Aurora checking in honor to have Carol touch base.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Welcome at board. Carrol, how are you.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
I haven't talked to you for a long time.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Yeah, I performed a public service and stayed out of
talk radio for.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
A little while.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
I wouldn't say that's a public service, I'll tell you,
but I was so happy to hear your voice.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Wow. Yeah, A bit of a surprise.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I bet you know, hey, that guy's alive and everything.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
Yeah, exactly, exactly, yes, exactly. I even called our youngest
son and let him know that you were on the air.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Okay, well, yeah he is your young Is that at
Denver Metro person or some other state somewhere.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
Some other state somewhere.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Okay, yeah, you can. You can find us there too. Yes.
The reach of the Dan Kapla show National Global so.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
Oh yes, here's been some really good guest hosts. Yeah,
and I'm really.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Impressed it is.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
It is a great crew that comes in and you know,
carries the torch, keeps the flag hoisted high around here,
and I'm glad to to do my little part.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Oh yes, and give us the information and let us
talk about relevant national news and local news and promises
made and promises kept.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
That sounds kind of a little maga that Carroll. You're
you're you're still in that category.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
Actually, yeah, we go back a ways to the point
when it was pretty controversial to to think that maga
was maybe a good idea, and now now it is ascendence.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Isn't it kind of nice to see that? Carol it's ascendance.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
Oh you know it, do you know it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
The worm turns politically and what was once like, you know, unthinkable.
How how on earth could we put America first? That's
that's not acceptable. We have to put the rest of
the world first and America last, and then now it's
kind of the other way around. And I'm okay with us.
So it's like you are too, Carol, Oh, of course, yes,
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you know it.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
I do miss listening to you and Randy fair enough
on different days and on the weekends. Yes, I do miss,
you know, but I have found a programs to listen to,
and I have my favorites, and Kajow is one of them.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Well, yes, you're staying informed, and you know, thank goodness,
you know that we we we have a talk radio
in America. I've been a huge fan of it my
whole life long. I grew up listening to you know,
the Mike Rosens of the world and Peter Boyles, of course,
Rush Limbab and a lot of even Alan Berg. I
remember listening to Alan Berg as a kid and thinking
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that he was a little a little wild and loud
for me. But you couldn't not listen to everything that
that guy was saying, right, And so I'm a Colorado
kid and a Colorado product and kind of crazy to
be able to come in and share a few things
from behind a microphone exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:50):
Yes, Well, always listened to Chicago radio because I grew
up in Illinois.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
You're an Illinoisan. Okay, Chicago suburbs.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
Formerly form.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Small town south of Chicago.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Okay, Well, it seems like you know an awful lot
of people from Chicago that found their way to Colorado.
And I think maybe that's just just the smart ones
did that. No, nothing against Chicago. I'm a Northwestern man.
I went there, I went spent four years in Chicago.
But I can't imagine that their radio is as good
as ours. But you know, maybe they've got some stuff.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Well this is back in the day, you know, in
the sixties.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Well, yeah, well, I'm glad you found your way here.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And our winners are probably too mild for you, but
you've got a very thick skin.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
You're fine.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Well, Carroll, may I just say to you, yeah, I'm
going to do that, and yeah, stay close with us,
Stay stay close with the Dan Chapliss Show, and we
love it when you take a moment to say hello
to us and let us know you're still out there.
I'm glad you're still out there and still as well
informed as always. And you know, if I can get
back in here at some point, let's let's debate on
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something at some point.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
That would be fun.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, but we might find we agree a lot anyway.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
I know it would be more of agreement than a debate.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
And maybe even with your son, I don't know, but
please please pass on warm hellos to your son as
well from a from.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
A competing state in the Union.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
But Carol, okay, I say, delighted to hear your voice,
such a familiar voice, and all the best to you.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
And yes it is.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Yep, yep, we'll do enjoy that long one. Matt Don's
sitting in for Dan Kaplis. And yeah, I love it
when when friends get to check in having spent a
little time, you know, just chatting on this, that and
the other.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Issue over the years.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
It's it's honoring when folks you know, might remember a
thing or two you've said, or at least the general
gist of it from a body of work over the years.
But let me just queue up a little bit about
you know, the tariffs.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
And the economy.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I guess we'll head to a break in just a second,
but I don't know. The financial media was pretty rough.
You know, when Trump came into office, is going to
be dire. The tariffs are going to be the worst
thing ever for the economy.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
But guess what.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
The numbers keep coming out and they keep looking pretty
darned good. And I've just mentioned the tariff revenues already
thirty billion dollars as of August twenty second, just for
the month, just for the month of August. There's a
great CBO Congressional Budget Office, which, by the way, they
never do anything good, but this is like the first
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good thing I've ever seen from the CBO. And I
remember back when I had my internship in Washington, d C.
I occasionally would pop in over there at the Congressional
Budget Office and they didn't seem to like anything, you know,
kind of Republican y at that time. But they seem
to be getting to the point on tariffs. But GDP
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revised up to three point three percent. We've had the
best quarter since twenty twenty three under Maga leadership. Inflation
revised down to two percent. Wow, two percent and we
were hearing the most dire inflation forecast ever.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
That might put some pressure on the FED.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
To say it's okay to cut rates.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
What do you think.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Speaking of the Fed, Lisa Cook, fed governor recently fired.
We might get into that dynamic in a little bit
when we get a chance to come back. Hey, it's
Matt don I'm sitting in for Dan Caplas.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Let's take a little break, but stay close if you would.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
And now back to the Dankapless Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Fan of Dan caplis Matt Dunn guest hosting today again.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Honored to be in here and yet doing my best
to carry that horch.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Some text messages coming in, Very honored to see them.
Alexisens En, Doctor Dunn. Trump and Clarence Thomas should see
how things look in twenty twenty seven to see if
it would make sense for him to retire. Still can
picture the confirmation hearings with Biden for Clarence Biden was horrific.
You remember the days, right, You remember those days. Biden
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really pulled out all the stops to try to keep
Clarence Thomas out of the Supreme Court, who, as I
mentioned last segment, is now number six in longest serving
Supreme Court justices in American history. God bless him, God
bless Clarence Thomas. And yeah, we might need to just
get a couple more maga senators in there to help
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make a nice confirmation process. I think one of the
little kidden secrets about Mitch McConnell is that he doesn't
necessarily choose the best people. Amy Cony Barrett, many people
having some strong disappointments with her tenures so far on
the Supreme Court, and that was a McConnell concept. But
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we might need a little more maga in there. So yeah,
how about agreeing with Alexa. Let's see what the lay
of the land looks like perhaps after the mid terms.
And daw daw checks in just saying, hey dog, great
to hear you on the air.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
We miss you. That is so honoring. And another one here.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
If I can scroll the right way, love that you're back, Matt.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
That's really really honored.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
If you wanted to text in five seven, seven, three
nine about this or that topic, one thing I wanted
to point out that on the tariffs, in the back
of your mind, you have to admit you've heard nothing
but negative about tariffs and how bad they are, right,
And all my econ classes I ever took, we're always
telling me about how bad tariffs are. Then I went
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b and sat down and I read my Adam Smith
and my David Ricardo and the rest of that, and
I said, no, no, no, you can actually find anti
tarff sentiment or I mean pro tearff sentiment in Adam Smith,
the original economic capitalist, someone said, the founder of capitalism,
and also even David Ricardo, the you know, the progenitor
of a competitive advantage and so forth, and you know
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kind of what the globalists always use those names to
justify this kind of free trade concept that ends up
essentially starving out the working classes of industrialized nations. The
CBO says this, and this, this is actually mind blowing numbers.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
And how come you're not hearing this report at elsewhere?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
How come you're not hearing this in the Wall Street
Journal globalist publication.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Why is this not leading in the.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
New York Times, of the Washington Post, CNBC, NBCCBS, you
know the rest of the mainstream propaganda media. Here's the
CBO report. Quote, we project that increases in tariffs implemented
during the period from January sixth twenty twenty five to
August nineteenth, which is the Trump tenure term two, will
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decrease primary deficits by three point three trillion dollars if
the higher tariffs persist for the twenty twenty five to
twenty thirty five period. By reducing the need for federal borrowing,
Those tariff collections will also reduce federal outlays for interest
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by an additional additional zero point seven trillion dollars. As
a result, the changes in tariffs will reduce total deficits
by four point zero trillion dollars altogether. Okay, I don't
remember ever liking a CBO anything before, but here I
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am liking this one. This is this is good. Can
you imagine an extra four trillion dollars into our economy?
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Is it?
Speaker 7 (32:01):
What?
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Inflation? Inflation? Oh? But inflation is sitting here at two percent.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
And tariffs started on January sixth, twenty twenty five. And
by the way, they're not even quite in finished mode yet.
I believe a bunch of the pending tariffs with a
handful of countries are still to be worked out, and
maybe could be a little bit rough on a few
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of the folks that in my opinion, are taking advantage
of our middle and working classes of this country.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Of course, with the.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Complicity of some of our ruling classes in this country
that I think derive advantage from the globalist model, which
helps a lot of the folks on top, the ones
with the deeper pockets that only get deeper via.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
The globalist trade scenario.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
But again, nutshell, if you want to preserve this nation,
the United States of America, the most glory nation in
the history of this world, you have got to find
a way to preserve its middle class and its working class.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
If that is not done, we are.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Headed towards third world economic distribution models where the only
the top one half of one percent has anything, and
the other ninety nine point five percent essentially have nothing.
And the folks that essentially have nothing and you know,
harder shot at lifting themselves up by their own bootstraps,
(33:31):
because yeah, the system is completely rigged against them. Well,
then that's where Marxism comes from. The appeal of Marxism,
the sirens song and the ear of the masses about
how they can improve themselves. And so let us avoid that,
you know, why don't we just try to avoid that scenario?
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And I think that MAGA putting America first, and the
tariff concept is a big part of how that is
done in the practical real world.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
I think there's just.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Kind of this sense that free trade has been overrated,
overrated for however.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Long, a very long time.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
And like I said, it's in all the econ textbooks,
and people who've taken a little bit of economics, they
will go out and they'll they'll have a quote or
two from David Ricardo or Adam Smith and so forth,
and they'll think that maybe they're actually knowing something.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
But I would just submit, look a.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Little bit deeper, look a little bit deeper, and see
think this one through just a little bit, and save
this country.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Man. It is so great that we're put in America first.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Right now, Hey, it is Matt Dunn sitting in for
Dan Kaplis. Let's be back in a flash.
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It is not Dan Caplis on board today, but it
is a fan of Dan Caplis getting to sit in today.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
My name is Matt Dunn, and I've been involved in.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Talk radio a bit over the years, but normally by
day I am a very mild mannered mini van driving
dentist in the Denver.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Suburbs, Okay.
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And you know, to the extent that I follow political
events and turmoil, I've always enjoyed a bit of a
hobby of paying very close attention from my nerdy days
in seventh grade reading Bill Buckley's National Review. And I'm
honored from time to time to be able to show
up and share whatever thoughts, whatever wisdom might pop into
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the quality of it, that's that's debatable, highly debatable, But
we try to have a lot of fun and as
we head into Labor Day weekend, traffic a little bit
lighter out there. I think some folks are already enjoying
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their labor Day weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
We might just take it a little easier.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I don't know, a little fluffier, Ryan and Kelly back
there is fluffy, okay?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Or do we do we need to.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Be like on point and not for serious at all times.
We can do coffee today, all right, let's do a
little bit of that, just just enough to keep host
Matt Dunn happy again.
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And I noticed that over the years.
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Whenever I have done that, boy, the smart people out
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of America, and we try to make the most of it.
At any rate, I've got many a topic on my
mind today. I do want to get into Robert de
Niro here in a minute or two, and what's going
on with that guy. I've been watching him for years
and it's a little concerning that the sort of trajectory
of this guy's mindset lately. Gavin Newsom, by the way,
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governor of California, seems to be thinking about twenty twenty
eight and he seems to be making his pitch to
become the front runner to run in the next election
cycle Democrat right from California. And he's kind of going
around imitating Donald Trump. And I heard a clip or
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two of Newsom speaking recently and I thought, boy, he
doesn't sound like himself at all, the kind of boring,
you know, governor of California, kind of a failing state,
some might say, I might say, and trying to act
like some thing entirely other than himself, imitating President Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
And does that work? I mean, can you do that?
I mean, I think I heard an imitator of.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Donald Trump on this show, not like twenty minutes ago,
fifteen minutes ago, and that's that's a different kind of thing.
That was very, very good, by the way, Ryan, But
what does it mean if the Democrats are at a
point where they feel like they need to imitate Donald Trump?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Well, the point that I was going over with Steven L. Miller.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
He's read Steves on X and he does the Versus
Media podcast is what you're referencing. The imitation of online
is done by interns on his social media feed on X.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
So it's very much in the style of Trump's.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
You read it like, I could imagine Trump sounding like that,
but it's Gavin Newsom instead. But Newsom doesn't do the
Trump voice or imitation himself in public. He's just out
there kind of complaining about Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Complaint, whining, about Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, and there's something about the hats that end up
and maybe we could we could hear that real quick.
Let's let's play that clip of Gavin knew some a
little unhappy about the things he's been receiving of late.
I'm sick and tired of Democrats being on the losing
end in this country and.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Our democracy being on the losing end.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
We have got to fight fire with fire. But I understand,
I understand that's in Prop fifty.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
But you're not saying you think they're going to Republicans
they're going to stop.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I don't think Donald Trump wants another election. Do you
think for a second you one, I have two dozen
Trump twenty twenty eight hats his folks keep sending me.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
You and you think he's going to run again, Well,
sounds like Gavin Newsom. I'm not interested in wearing any
of those hats. And maybe some Trump supporters out there
could send Gavin Newsom the hats that say, you know,
Trump is right about everything.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Trump was right about everything. And you know you had.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Trump last week talking to Emmanuel Macron of Fransei and
Zelensi of Ukraine, showing them in the merch room in
the White House, those hats, and I just get a
kick out of that Trump showing off. The Trump was
always right hats. But I've noticed that there's a bit
of that edge in newsome of Leith, and you hear
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that edge in that voice doesn't sound like vocally he's
trying to go all the way there and sound like
Donald Trump. But I think when a party starts to
lose its way and starts to not know which way
is up, where it is going. And my opinion is
twenty twenty four, the voters decided that the Democrats were
a little bit too crazy, too unstable to stay in power.
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A lot of doubts about Joe Biden's mental capacity. It
w was just interestingly coming to light now, as you
just heard Ryan Schuling discuss at length in the last
couple of hours.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
A little bit. But I and.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
The Kamala Harris not your most wonderful candidate you've ever seen.
But what works, like, why would somebody vote for a candidate?
Why was somebody vote for a president? Would it boil
down to their personality only in the style, or would
it boil down fundamentally to the policies that you're pursuing
advocating fighting.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
For and style wise, you might see.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
The Democrats start to pivot towards a more Trump like
mindset and a trump like approach. But my thinking is
that if they don't shift gears on policies, is that
going to get anywhere? Is that going to make any
progress for the Democrats at all?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Whatsoever?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
You know, some people think, well, I'd like to go
out and have a lot of money. I'd like to
earn a lot of money, And you think.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Okay, well, how are you going to do that?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
If you want to earn money, normally you would have
to provide some sort of a service, some sort of
something that would be useful to people so that they
might spend money on you, towards you, direct towards you,
because you've been useful to them. You've been beneficial to
them in some way. So how it works in a
free market economy we still have that to a considerable
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extent in this country.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
But if you just think it's just going to appear.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Out of nowhere and you're going to earn that without
somehow providing a valuable service, yeah, that's maybe not going
to go anywhere. But if you're going to convey some
kind of a style on the political front and say hey, hey,
you vote for me because I have this sort of style,
this sort of approach to politics, But you don't adopt
the policies and you don't back up the policies that
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the American people want, that the voters want.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I don't see that necessarily going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
And it makes me think, to what extent does the
Democrat Party not have a core anymore, a core set
of issues, a core set of beliefs, a core set
of principles that motivates them and animates them, Or to
what extent is most of their messaging some species of
propaganda that doesn't actually connect and might seem out of
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touch to a great many millions of Americans. And that's
I think where the Democrat Party is. If you look
at their poll data, where their approvals are right now,
you see that they're obviously like kind of down near
the bottom of the barrel, worst they've ever had in
some time after math of what you have to say
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as a disastrous Joe Biden presidency. But is anybody out
there seeing any signs of a learning curve happening?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
A learning curve?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Maybe, you know, just saying that Hey, we actually don't
think crime is a good thing.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You hear Democrats vocalizing that. Do you think Democrats might
come out.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And say, you know, hey, the open borders situation that
we've been having, you know, the inviting the entire world
into this country under the Biden era, it seems like
they're not pivoting off of some of the fundamental policy
positions that that alienated that party from the American electorate,
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as you saw so clearly in the twenty twenty four
election cycle. All right, that, I guess we will take
a break in just a minute. But if anybody is
seeing any signs of a learning curve, I am all
ears and I would like to hear about it, but.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I I'm not seeing it yet.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
And the you know, shifting your style, changing your approach,
complaining about Trump hats coming your way, your way, I
don't know if that's going to get us there, Ladies
and gentlemen, all right, is Matt done.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I'm sitting in for Dan Capliss.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
You're invited to check in three O three seven, one,
three eight, two five five.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
And now back to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
It is Matt Dunn sitting in for Dan Caplis today
and was that something about radio gaga or radio maga.
I wasn't quite good be either, okay.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Either one?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
All right, well we are a little bit maga around here,
is your host?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Truly?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
At least I wasn't maga before Trump came down the escalator.
Before then I was something a little bit different. Just
you know, you're just standard run of the mill Republican type.
A lot of learning curve has happened about politics since
twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I will say, you've.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Learned about some of the people that you kind of
thought you really liked and you were on their side
and they were looking out for you, and then you realize, hmm,
maybe not so much like maybe a Mitch McConnell kind
of individual. Maybe even the Wall Street Journal globalist outlet there,
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maybe even the Bush family. Yeah, a lot of learning curve.
I might go into that at some point in time.
But hey, there is of course the news. I know,
it's maybe a day or two old news now, Taylor
Swift getting engaged to Travis Kelsey, and I notice that
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when these things come out, it gets discussed politically through
a bit of a political filter, and sometimes you see
people get a little cynical or a little skeptical, or
they want to somehow cast aspersions upon this situation, and
I just thought I might offer my advice as to
how to approach this, and I think jd. Vance is
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following my advice. Of course he did not hear my advice,
but good instincts, I like to think. And obviously, Taylor
Swift one of the most famous people in the world,
some people saying the most famous woman in the world.
I have a couple of teenage daughters, one of whom
very much likes Taylor Swift, so I will never say
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a negative word about Taylor Swift. One time, I think
I did make some aspersion upon us that I thought.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
That's not a very good song.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
My daughter heard me say that, and I was kind
of in the doghouse. You know how dads of teenagers
can end up in the doghouse once in a while.
While I was in that dog I said, I'm never
going to do that again. I'm going to find a way.
I won't maybe go full on swifty like James Comy
has become a full on swifty, but I will I
will be positive. And congratulations to Taylor Swift on her
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engagement and do we have do we have what jd Vance?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
What his approach is on this.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I'd like to hear that if at all, if at
all possible, back there, jd Vance very charitable, very encouraging,
praising the romance, the romance going on, and you know
he likes to see it. Oh we don't have that.
We don't have that clip yet, but sometimes you'll see.
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And I noticed that political because you know, Taylor Swift
has gotten involved in politics, and there's maybe in a
way encouraged her name.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
To be used and.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Her reputation to be used to support left leaning candidates.
And I think she was pretty cagey about some of
the actual endorsing. I don't know if it ever actually
did it actually come to it, did she actually endorse
Kamala Harris back at.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Twenty twenty fourty vocal about it?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Actually she was seemed to me a little muted, but
it could be kind of knew where she was coming from.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I do have that club now, by the way.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Oh you do, okay, But my as we head into that,
I remember one day I was reading on Twitter and
I saw a mild mannered conservative commentator and of course
it was not me just offered some sort of criticism
of Taylor Swift. And this was a fairly small account guy,
and he put out this little note that was critical
of Taylor Swift, and that tweet or do you call
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it an x now, that tweet blew up and it
got millions upon millions impressions, and a lot of the
Taylor Swift fans were responding by the millions and very
critical of this conservative commentator. And his comment was fairly innocuous.
I don't even remember what it was, but I remember
kind of being pretty wowed at the fan base of
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a Taylor Swift kind of thing. And I think that
that commentator learned a few lessons about that. I don't
think ever responded to it or acknowledged all of that,
but a lot of the responses from the swifties I
thought were pretty funny and pretty amusing. And so that
is a real cultural force. And do I say I
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like every single song. I wouldn't quite go there. But
let's hear jd Vance's approach to this. Jd Vance, I
think this is the right way to handle this kind
of thing.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Right here. I a question I have to ask you.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
The biggest news of the last twenty four hours, Kansas
City Chiefs Travis Kelsey Taylor Swift getting engaged.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
She endorsed your opponent in the last selection.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Do you think that Americans just want celebrities to buy
out of politics?
Speaker 6 (16:12):
You know, I think by and large, people want politicians
to focus on politics, and they want celebrities to focus
on whatever it is that made them famous, whether it's
singing or dancing or acting.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
But you know, I'm a romantic.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
When I see two people who love getting married, I
just wish them the best and I congratulate them, and
I hope they have a very long and healthy and
happy life together.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I will say as.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
A football fan, as a Cincinnati Bengals fan, I hope
that the NFL does not put a thumb on the
scale for the Kansas City Chiefs just because Travis Kelcey
is now getting married to maybe the most famous woman
in the world. You guys can't sort of have this.
I'm where they're going to have like a Super Bowl
wedding thing this season. Can't do it. The Kansas City
Chiefs have to follow the same rules as everybody else.
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So if we see the refs being particularly friendly to
Kansas City Chiefs players that I think all football fans
should be willing to push back on the NFL and.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Say, look, you guys got to be fair.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Just because Travis is getting married to Taylor, you still
can't put your thumb on the scale for the Kansas
City Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Thank you so much for your time. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
And I think that is pretty a plus commentary. And
you know, he doesn't say that, you know, we need
to listen to celebrities for our political opinions. But he
doesn't offer any cynical contribution to the discussion. He doesn't
go there on the you know, any kind of political
attack at all on Taylor Swift. And I just think
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he says, you know, hey, I'm a romantic and I
salute these young people being in love and all that,
and that that would just be my recommendation is how
you do it, because you know, you don't need to
go picking a fight there, in my opinion, not unless
you just don't really have to. And you know, who knows,
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maybe Taylor Swift will be so impressed by the results
of the Trump administration's successful policies, the endorsement might.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Be different next time around. Hey, it's Matt Dunn and
for Dan Caples.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Be right back.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
You're listening to the Dan Caplis Show podcast Afternoon Friday.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Wow, Labor Day coming up.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
And yeah, I'm just sitting here listening to men singing
falsetto there. That was a pretty good tune, kind of rocking.
Honored to be in here as a longtime fan of
the work of Dan Caplis on the radio. By the way,
did you know that Clarence Thomas is now the sixth,
number six, longest serving Supreme Court judge in the United
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States history? Number six, and he happens to be my
favorite Supreme Court judge. One little question mark, I mean,
Clarence is getting any younger. I'd love him to just
keep on staying on forever. But should at some point
while Donald Trump is in office, should he decide to
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bow out at some point and allow the chance to
appoint perhaps another Clarence Thomas. I don't know's that's a debate,
but they do not get better than Clarence Thomas. If
you care about the American founding the principles of natural law,
natural right. He is number one, well, six, number six,
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I remember when he was appointed. I guess that means
I'm getting a little older myself. I was I in college.
I think I was in college at that time. And
by the way, tariff revenue. Guess what tariffs have brought
in as of August twenty second, that's several days, that's
a week ago, thirty billion dollars into the United States.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Thirty billion.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I've gotten more on tariff's what a d all this
money just coming in because we have levied tariffs on
all those people trying to sell us stuff and we
buy stuff, and you know, they can do a little
tariff action, and that I am very much in favor of,
and a lot of the folks that care about the
(20:19):
national debt and so forth. Four billion or four trillion
dollar long term impact. Look at the CBO report. I'll
go into that after bit. But let's say hello to
Carol and Aurora checking in honor to have Carol touch base.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Welcome at board. Carrol, how are you.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
I haven't talked to you for a long time.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Yeah, I performed a public service and stayed out of
talk radio for.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
A little while.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
I wouldn't say that's a public service, I'll tell you,
but I was so happy to hear your voice.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Wow. Yeah, A bit of a surprise.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I bet you know, hey, that guy's alive and everything.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
Yeah, exactly, exactly, yes, exactly. I even called our youngest
son and let him know that you were on the air.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Okay, well, yeah he is your young Is that at
Denver Metro person or some other state somewhere.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
Some other state somewhere.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Okay, yeah, you can. You can find us there too. Yes.
The reach of the Dan Kapla show National Global so.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
Oh yes, here's been some really good guest hosts. Yeah,
and I'm really.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Impressed it is.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
It is a great crew that comes in and you know,
carries the torch, keeps the flag hoisted high around here,
and I'm glad to to do my little part.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Oh yes, and give us the information and let us
talk about relevant national news and local news and promises
made and promises kept.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
That sounds kind of a little maga that Carroll. You're
you're you're still in that category.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
Actually, yeah, we go back a ways to the point
when it was pretty controversial to to think that maga
was maybe a good idea, and now now it is ascendence.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Isn't it kind of nice to see that? Carol it's ascendance.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
Oh you know it, do you know it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
The worm turns politically and what was once like, you know, unthinkable.
How how on earth could we put America first? That's
that's not acceptable. We have to put the rest of
the world first and America last, and then now it's
kind of the other way around. And I'm okay with us.
So it's like you are too, Carol, Oh, of course, yes,
(22:46):
you know it.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
I do miss listening to you and Randy fair enough
on different days and on the weekends. Yes, I do miss,
you know, but I have found a programs to listen to,
and I have my favorites, and Kajow is one of them.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Well, yes, you're staying informed, and you know, thank goodness,
you know that we we we have a talk radio
in America. I've been a huge fan of it my
whole life long. I grew up listening to you know,
the Mike Rosens of the world and Peter Boyles, of course,
Rush Limbab and a lot of even Alan Berg. I
remember listening to Alan Berg as a kid and thinking
(23:28):
that he was a little a little wild and loud
for me. But you couldn't not listen to everything that
that guy was saying, right, And so I'm a Colorado
kid and a Colorado product and kind of crazy to
be able to come in and share a few things
from behind a microphone exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:50):
Yes, Well, always listened to Chicago radio because I grew
up in Illinois.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
You're an Illinoisan. Okay, Chicago suburbs.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
Formerly form.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Small town south of Chicago.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Okay, Well, it seems like you know an awful lot
of people from Chicago that found their way to Colorado.
And I think maybe that's just just the smart ones
did that. No, nothing against Chicago. I'm a Northwestern man.
I went there, I went spent four years in Chicago.
But I can't imagine that their radio is as good
as ours. But you know, maybe they've got some stuff.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Well this is back in the day, you know, in
the sixties.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Well, yeah, well, I'm glad you found your way here.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And our winners are probably too mild for you, but
you've got a very thick skin.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
You're fine.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Well, Carroll, may I just say to you, yeah, I'm
going to do that, and yeah, stay close with us,
Stay stay close with the Dan Chapliss Show, and we
love it when you take a moment to say hello
to us and let us know you're still out there.
I'm glad you're still out there and still as well
informed as always. And you know, if I can get
back in here at some point, let's let's debate on
(25:03):
something at some point.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
That would be fun.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, but we might find we agree a lot anyway.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
I know it would be more of agreement than a debate.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
And maybe even with your son, I don't know, but
please please pass on warm hellos to your son as
well from a from.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
A competing state in the Union.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
But Carol, okay, I say, delighted to hear your voice,
such a familiar voice, and all the best to you.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
And yes it is.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Yep, yep, we'll do enjoy that long one. Matt Don's
sitting in for Dan Kaplis. And yeah, I love it
when when friends get to check in having spent a
little time, you know, just chatting on this, that and
the other.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Issue over the years.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
It's it's honoring when folks you know, might remember a
thing or two you've said, or at least the general
gist of it from a body of work over the years.
But let me just queue up a little bit about
you know, the tariffs.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
And the economy.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I guess we'll head to a break in just a second,
but I don't know. The financial media was pretty rough.
You know, when Trump came into office, is going to
be dire. The tariffs are going to be the worst
thing ever for the economy.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
But guess what.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
The numbers keep coming out and they keep looking pretty
darned good. And I've just mentioned the tariff revenues already
thirty billion dollars as of August twenty second, just for
the month, just for the month of August. There's a
great CBO Congressional Budget Office, which, by the way, they
never do anything good, but this is like the first
(26:36):
good thing I've ever seen from the CBO. And I
remember back when I had my internship in Washington, d C.
I occasionally would pop in over there at the Congressional
Budget Office and they didn't seem to like anything, you know,
kind of Republican y at that time. But they seem
to be getting to the point on tariffs. But GDP
(26:57):
revised up to three point three percent. We've had the
best quarter since twenty twenty three under Maga leadership. Inflation
revised down to two percent. Wow, two percent and we
were hearing the most dire inflation forecast ever.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
That might put some pressure on the FED.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
To say it's okay to cut rates.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
What do you think.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Speaking of the Fed, Lisa Cook, fed governor recently fired.
We might get into that dynamic in a little bit
when we get a chance to come back. Hey, it's
Matt don I'm sitting in for Dan Caplas.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Let's take a little break, but stay close if you would.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
And now back to the Dankapless Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Fan of Dan caplis Matt Dunn guest hosting today again.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Honored to be in here and yet doing my best
to carry that horch.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Some text messages coming in, Very honored to see them.
Alexisens En, Doctor Dunn. Trump and Clarence Thomas should see
how things look in twenty twenty seven to see if
it would make sense for him to retire. Still can
picture the confirmation hearings with Biden for Clarence Biden was horrific.
You remember the days, right, You remember those days. Biden
(28:25):
really pulled out all the stops to try to keep
Clarence Thomas out of the Supreme Court, who, as I
mentioned last segment, is now number six in longest serving
Supreme Court justices in American history. God bless him, God
bless Clarence Thomas. And yeah, we might need to just
get a couple more maga senators in there to help
(28:48):
make a nice confirmation process. I think one of the
little kidden secrets about Mitch McConnell is that he doesn't
necessarily choose the best people. Amy Cony Barrett, many people
having some strong disappointments with her tenures so far on
the Supreme Court, and that was a McConnell concept. But
(29:09):
we might need a little more maga in there. So yeah,
how about agreeing with Alexa. Let's see what the lay
of the land looks like perhaps after the mid terms.
And daw daw checks in just saying, hey dog, great
to hear you on the air.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
We miss you. That is so honoring. And another one here.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
If I can scroll the right way, love that you're back, Matt.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
That's really really honored.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
If you wanted to text in five seven, seven, three
nine about this or that topic, one thing I wanted
to point out that on the tariffs, in the back
of your mind, you have to admit you've heard nothing
but negative about tariffs and how bad they are, right,
And all my econ classes I ever took, we're always
telling me about how bad tariffs are. Then I went
(29:59):
b and sat down and I read my Adam Smith
and my David Ricardo and the rest of that, and
I said, no, no, no, you can actually find anti
tarff sentiment or I mean pro tearff sentiment in Adam Smith,
the original economic capitalist, someone said, the founder of capitalism,
and also even David Ricardo, the you know, the progenitor
of a competitive advantage and so forth, and you know
(30:23):
kind of what the globalists always use those names to
justify this kind of free trade concept that ends up
essentially starving out the working classes of industrialized nations. The
CBO says this, and this, this is actually mind blowing numbers.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
And how come you're not hearing this report at elsewhere?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
How come you're not hearing this in the Wall Street
Journal globalist publication.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Why is this not leading in the.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
New York Times, of the Washington Post, CNBC, NBCCBS, you
know the rest of the mainstream propaganda media. Here's the
CBO report. Quote, we project that increases in tariffs implemented
during the period from January sixth twenty twenty five to
August nineteenth, which is the Trump tenure term two, will
(31:12):
decrease primary deficits by three point three trillion dollars if
the higher tariffs persist for the twenty twenty five to
twenty thirty five period. By reducing the need for federal borrowing,
Those tariff collections will also reduce federal outlays for interest
(31:32):
by an additional additional zero point seven trillion dollars. As
a result, the changes in tariffs will reduce total deficits
by four point zero trillion dollars altogether. Okay, I don't
remember ever liking a CBO anything before, but here I
(31:52):
am liking this one. This is this is good. Can
you imagine an extra four trillion dollars into our economy?
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Is it?
Speaker 7 (32:01):
What?
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Inflation? Inflation? Oh? But inflation is sitting here at two percent.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
And tariffs started on January sixth, twenty twenty five. And
by the way, they're not even quite in finished mode yet.
I believe a bunch of the pending tariffs with a
handful of countries are still to be worked out, and
maybe could be a little bit rough on a few
(32:27):
of the folks that in my opinion, are taking advantage
of our middle and working classes of this country.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Of course, with the.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Complicity of some of our ruling classes in this country
that I think derive advantage from the globalist model, which
helps a lot of the folks on top, the ones
with the deeper pockets that only get deeper via.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
The globalist trade scenario.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
But again, nutshell, if you want to preserve this nation,
the United States of America, the most glory nation in
the history of this world, you have got to find
a way to preserve its middle class and its working class.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
If that is not done, we are.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Headed towards third world economic distribution models where the only
the top one half of one percent has anything, and
the other ninety nine point five percent essentially have nothing.
And the folks that essentially have nothing and you know,
harder shot at lifting themselves up by their own bootstraps,
(33:31):
because yeah, the system is completely rigged against them. Well,
then that's where Marxism comes from. The appeal of Marxism,
the sirens song and the ear of the masses about
how they can improve themselves. And so let us avoid that,
you know, why don't we just try to avoid that scenario?
(33:51):
And I think that MAGA putting America first, and the
tariff concept is a big part of how that is
done in the practical real world.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
I think there's just.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Kind of this sense that free trade has been overrated,
overrated for however.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Long, a very long time.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
And like I said, it's in all the econ textbooks,
and people who've taken a little bit of economics, they
will go out and they'll they'll have a quote or
two from David Ricardo or Adam Smith and so forth,
and they'll think that maybe they're actually knowing something.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
But I would just submit, look a.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Little bit deeper, look a little bit deeper, and see
think this one through just a little bit, and save
this country.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Man. It is so great that we're put in America first.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Right now, Hey, it is Matt Dunn sitting in for
Dan Kaplis. Let's be back in a flash.
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