September 12, 2025 • 34 mins
Matt Dunn fills in for Dan Caplis today. In the second hour of the show, Matt reacts to the left-wing media's coverage of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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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 (00:13):
Platform capitalist today. But friend and fan of Dan Capless
in Matt Dunn and by way of introduction, Yeah, I've
been involved in talk radio for a couple of decades
here in Denver metro area. I am a super gentle,
very mild mannered dentist in the suburbs of Denver. I
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drive a minivan. I've got four little kiddos, and when
I'm not practicing dentistry, I tend to be driving my
kids around to field hockey or soccer or swimming or
piano or various kinds of activities. So I do put
the miles on and I don't claim any level of
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coolness to be a minivan driver, but but it's how
I roll. It's just how it gets done around my place.
And honored to be in here to just share a
bit of whatever thoughts are coming through my mind, and
I do want to get into I'll catch up with
text messages here in just a second, But I do
want to get into the what's going on in South
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Korea with big companies paying their employees to have babies
like a lot of money. Hmm, what's going on with that?
I mean, I don't know why, but I like having
all these kids around. I think it's great to be
a dad of a whole tribe of little people. But
somehow a lot of other countries, like South Korea, don't
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seem to be having kids anymore. Let's explore that in
a moment. I also want to go to Finland. Finland,
you know, they just the World Happiness Index came out
Happiest Countries in the World twenty twenty five, and who's
number one Finland? Who's number twenty four? USA? Apparently that's
our all time low? What goes what goes on with happiness?
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I mean, why are some countries happier than others? I
have a few thoughts on that on happiness, and maybe
they're worthwhile. We'll find out. But I'll get into a
few of those things before text messages. I saw just
thinking of the great American Eric Manning, who yes, made
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some pretty fine burritos, I will say a little too
spicy for me. I preferred. I preferred gentler on the spice,
but I ate a few of you know, Eric Manning's
great burritos, which, by the way, just wonderful. The green
chili he would make, just masterpiece stuff, but just a
little too spicy for my gentle soul. Sometimes a few
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times are like, WHOA, where's my water bottle? Anyway, that's
not a criticism, that's that's a lovingly rendered statement there
at any rate. Molly Hemingway, a fellow Lincoln Fellow from
the Claremont Institute, that's something that I did some years ago.
But Mally Hemingway has a good point and about this
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hostile political environment we are living in. In twenty sixteen,
the media and other Democrats tarred President Trump as a
fascist who must not be normalized. The media environment was
hysterical and hostile to anyone who did not parrot these lines.
Normal Americans were marginalized and made to feel scared for
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their views. Much of the establishment right played a role
in this, either by actively conspiring with left wing anti
trumpists against the MAGA movement or by doing nothing to
fight the smears. This propaganda effort has a body count
and has done horrific damage to our country. Molly Hemingway continues,
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A very small first step that must be taken ten
years too late, is tom immediately and fully admit that
Donald Trump and other Republicans and their voters are legitimate
and normal, far more legitimate and normal than leftist mobs incidentally,
and will be treated as such. End quote. And when
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I talked about the courage of Eric Manning, African American
going into the barbershops of Denver preaching the virtues of
MAGA twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, you have to remember how
much courage that kind of thing takes, and it took,
especially back then, with an absolutely hysterical, hostile media dehumanizing
their political opposition. And is that still going on today?
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Less so, I mean they're still trying to do it,
but it's just less effective. Back in twenty fifteen twenty sixteen,
there was a little bit more belief and trust in
the mainstream media. Thankfully, that has evaporated tremendously, because it
deserved to be evaporated tremendously. The loss of trust in
media is a very significant thing, and I think a
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very hopeful thing. And again you see the last gas
of a ruling class clinging to power, bitterly clinging to
power and getting a little bit weird about it. And Ryan,
you played the Matthew Dowd, you played some of the
people celebrating the death, the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I
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don't want to, you know, go into that again. But
when you see some of the left react the way
that they are reacting to this in almost a celebratory fashion,
I mean, you do, you do just get that sense of,
you know, there's there's something the matter with individuals who
who communicate in that way or have those kind of
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reactions to these tragic situations. And I think Molly Hemingway
in these points gets to the to the nuts of
it that the media environment was hysterical and hostile to
anyone who did not parrot the establishment lines. We got
to get beyond that, ladies and gentlemen, and the time
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is now to be getting beyond that. I mean, I
think the people are beyond that, but there's still some
subsets in their silos that are not quite able to
break out of it, bitterly clinging to their silos, text
messages to studio, and there's been a nice pile of
them here don't forget Eric Manning brought you burritos. Thank
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you for that, Alexa Doc, I guess that's referring to me,
doctor don doc. I'm starting to think TDS is a
mental illness. Trump derangement syndrome is a mental illness. It
blurs the difference between right and wrong, moral and immoral.
If you have different options or I think they meant opinions,
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you may as well be the devil and should be
silenced social media pushing this is the cancer and needs
to be cured. That from daw Incentennial, and I think
that's a good point. Again, the dehumanizing of anybody who
disagrees with you, and that is a phenomenon of our
time that I would submit is far more extreme than
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it ever has been for the aforementioned reasons discussed in
my philosophical interpretation of this moment. I believe at the
tail end of the last hour, here's another text to
studio quote. I think many have lost a respect for
life in general. When a woman can decide whether or
not the life in her womb is a person or not,
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it becomes easier to decide when others deserve to live
or not. End quote. Here is another text to studio.
Tyler was book smart, but obviously not street smart. He
did not use gloves. He left messages for others on
discoord about Charlie Kirk, the rifle, et cetera. He could
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not have thought he could kill someone Charlie and not
get caught. Question Mark, here's a good one. This is
a great text here, doctor done, great song, Ryan, Which
song would that have been? All of them?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
See you can, brothers.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You can't just isolate one of them. It was all there.
And by the way, kudos for the music. And I mean,
I'm a music man and I come in and uh
and I just sit here and just relish it. Well done, sir,
praise and even referring to faith for the Charlie Kirk
club that we came back with, as in the George
Michael song. That's correct, George Michael and uh yeah, big
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man of faith, George Michael. Let's see here. Uh I
guess maybe, y'all I'm talking. There's too many text messages
to get through, doctor dun while, Who's so glad you're
here this Friday? Thank you. The assassination of Charlie Kirk
is so sad and so alarming. I hope you're on
this channel more as a fill in for Dan. Yeay,
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He's had many great fill ins lately, And yes, I
love the chance to listen when Dan is here, especially IOUs.
But you know, listen, some of these fill in folks
are like amazing. Matt, so glad to hear you back
on the radio. Another one looking forward to two hours
of doctor Hey, folks, I just very honored keep them coming,
if you would keep sending some text messages in and
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again helping keep us on track. And wow, did I
fill that whole segment with all of all of this talking. Yes,
let's let's move on. Should we go to Finland next?
Or talk about how they're payned people that have babies
in Korea? I'll be thinking about that during the break
and which one I think is most like exciting at
the at the moment when we start the next segment.
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Matt Dunn in for Dan Kaplis.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
And now back to the Dan Tapless show pop.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
After the phone lines. If you're on the phones, hang
on just one second while I make one quick point.
I will get into the I think Korean babies here
in just a second, but one little point I wanted
to make I did listen to the press conference earlier
today in which Ryan, I mean, let's uh, oh, the
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name of the shooter, Tyler Robinson. Tyler Robinson was identified
as a suspect and apprehended. But the FBI people, one
after another kept going up there and talking. And I'm
not complaining about the FBI, and I salute their good work.
And here we are with an individual apprehended, but they
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all seem to go up there and talk about how
hard they're working and how they didn't sleep at all,
and they were cooperating so well with each other and
cooperating with other branches of law enforcement, and they were
saluting law enforcement and again reminding about how little they've
slept and how hard they've been working. And is it
just me or could they just keep that out of
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it and just get the points out and not I
don't know, congratulate themselves or do that kind of thing.
It seems to me that that's that's maybe one level
of like a lack of maturity. You know, when you're
in those positions, come out, let's have the information. Maybe
a little bit of the congratulatory rhetoric and all that,
but you know, hey, let's get to the point ladies
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and gentlemen, and you know, I just felt like most
of the press conference was them, you know, congratulating themselves.
So anyway, that's that's just that's critical. That's a critical thing.
I just said, so sorry about that. I should I
retract it anyway, No, I won't because I was just
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kind of annoyed. I just want the information. I don't
care how much you slept or not. It's not that's
not my thing. I'm sorry you didn't get enough sleep,
but hey, this is a moment where you know, put
in the hard hours. Good. Okay, at any rate, let's
get to some phone line action. Can we go to
line two? Tim in West Virginia honored you would check in. Tim,
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Thanks for being here with Matt Dunn on the Dan
Kapla Show and talk.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
So good to hear you back on the air. I
was surprised. I just kind of happened across your profile
on Next Today and so you're going to be on.
So it's great here.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
And you, oh, well, it is good to hear your voice.
It's been It's been at least a year or two,
hasn't it.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
I had a couple of years and you're still.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Out there doing to sit in Yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Then moved out to West Virginia. Here it's a good
place for retirees, not so much for younger people because
there's no work.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
But are you Are you in a coal mine or something?
Are you digging for coal out there?
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Okay, well that's pretty much gone now, but who knows,
maybe under JD events that might make a comeback.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Fair enough. By the way, real quick, I have been
to West Virginia. It was one of the states that
I had never been to. There's like three or four
states I'd never been to. And I was in Pennsylvania,
kind of very close to West Virginia at a family reunion,
and I asked my wife. I said, Hey, we're so
close to West Virginia. Would you mind if I just
went there and walked in across the line and walked
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around for a minute and then came back so I
can tell the world that I've been to West Virginia.
She said, you go for it, And so I hopped
in the minivan and I bolted down to West Virginia.
I think it took me like an hour to get there.
I crossed the line, I set foot over there, stepped
around for about at least nine minutes, and then I
hopped back in the menduod and came back to the reunion.
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So anyway, that's me congratulating myself, just like I was
counseling against.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
But any part of West Virginia looks a lot like
Western Pa, looks a lot like Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Okay, yeah, that's a nice country. Yeah, but yeah, what
thoughts Tim?
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Well, first of all, on that great American Eric. Gonna
miss him so much. Of course, he'd been ill for
a couple of years and we're hearing him less and
less on talk radio. But that's a big loss. And
God bless his family, and amail that great Americans in
a better place.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Amen to that. We will miss Hey.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
I just wanted to basically say hi, Doc, and I'll
let somebody else get on. But so good to hear you,
and say hi to Randy when you talk to him.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh, make a point of that. Well, Tim, all the
best to you in West Virginia. And yeah, let me
know if you get gainfully employed somewhere out there in
a minor this or that or the other. But Tim,
I'm wonderful to hear your voice. Thank you, for checking in,
very honored. Let's go on to line three. Brad Blakewood,
Brad in Lakewood. Is this the Brad that I've gotten
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to know a bit over the years.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Howdy sir, good, it's good to hear again. Are you
going to be on more often?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Well, you just never know, oh how these things go.
But I'm always gained to show up and bloviate a
little bit, as you know.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Yeah, well, I was gonna tell about the time I
actually got to meet Charlie kirk up and Boulder last
here I went to hear him speak, and at the
very end I was even lucky to get close to him,
because immediately after he left the share he was surrounded
by several hundred people, but he didn't sign my book
for me. And I had a donation for him, and
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I told him him in a scot plus or my
two people to donate to, and he tapped me on
the shoulder and said, God bless you. So it's gonna
be sad day to see him go. But uh ah,
yes I was. I wasn't going to see him next weekend,
but unfortunately that's out of the patient now. So yep,
the best thing I can do is continue to donate.
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So I got twenty five bucks out aside to donate
to him.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Well done, well done, Brad, Thank you for sharing that
that vignette, and I can hear them in your voice,
fully justified, you know as you as you think this
through and man of faith, man of courage out there,
and you know, in this disease society of ours, it's
it's uh tragic.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
It goes back many years ago because it goes back
to the days of Antonio Gramsky, who realized once the
communists took over town, they could not hold a militarily away,
so they had to come over with this cultural brainwashing
in which they would infiltrate the churches, of the schools
and the public universities. And this kid didn't get brainwashed overnight,
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neither of the other kids. This has been going on
for seventy eighty years and they were thinking long term,
and now we're paying the result for it.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Gramsky's political notebooks written in prison. He was, you know,
a Marxist communist, and he had plenty of time in
prison to develop his Marxist philosophy. And it's like the
incremental overtaking of the institutions, and it was Pete Butegig
the Secretary of Transportation under Joe Biden, whose father was
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a Gramsky scholar. If you remember that. Oh yeah, of
all things. I've been to Gramsky's grave in Rome, and
I've stepped stepped on his grave. And again, I think
one of the most lethal thinkers in American political or
the world philosophical history. And it's good to hear that
name brought up. And I do think a lot of
people on the left, the real intellectual activists, are bringing
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a lot of Gramskyism to bear in this present day
and age, and not not to the benefit of this country.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Yes, because Gramski actually wrote the words and I tell
it on toilet paper and he smuggled out of the prison.
And yeah, you're right. It was a Pete Bododage his
father that translated it into US England.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yep, it was Well. Hey, Brad, Brad and Lakewood, what
a joy to hear your voice. You keep on donating,
Thanks for sharing your venette about Charlie Kirk, and you
keep staying off in the in the politic weeds and
bringing information forward like you have always done. I just
so glad to know you're out there cranking away on
what you've been doing for so long. Salute to you.
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Matt Dunn in for Dan Kaples, be right back.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast. That's next
level yacht rock. Oh that is almost in its own category.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
It certainly is.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I have a better one, totally.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
There's not a better one. There is Lido's shuffle. Oh yeah,
that's who is that boss Gag? Yeah, Boss Gag? That's
right in there, isn't it Boz? Certainly his name was
bos It definitely is. At any rate, we're off of
the phones to talk to Carolyn. Just one second. I
was going to make one point, just so I keep
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teasing this. They're paying people to have kids in this.
In South Korea, there's a Buyong and I used to
live in South Korea for the record. Bu Yong is
a big construction company in South Korea, and not too
long ago, the CEO Lee Jung Kung announced that there
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will be a payment of seventy two thousand dollars for
every baby born to an employee, retroactively for three years.
So you work for that company and you get paid
seventy two thousand dollars for having a child. Having a baby.
I was thinking about maybe should I abandon my dental
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practice here and Centennial show up out there in South
Korea and say, hey, Matt's here, I'm reporting for duty.
Sign me up. I don't know about that. But the
fertility rate in South Korea is zero point seventy five
berths per woman, and you need to be at one
point one births per woman to break even. If that
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zero point seventy five keeps up much longer, you just
have to say there might not be a South Korea
in the future. That also applies to Japan, Italy, Spain,
and a handful of other countries where for whatever reason,
they have stopped having children. But I think I don't
know is that incentive is it? Should it be a
monetary and center for Are there other reasons to want
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to have children. I'm a big advocate of it and
a big fan of it, and I say the more
the better, and the folks that are sort of anti that,
I don't quite get it. I mean, it's like wonderful
and amazing and all that. More on that topic momentarily,
let's say hello to Carol and Aurora. Carol, thank you
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so much for touching base and I may have heard
your voice before, Carol, How are you.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Think so? I thought i'd say hi. I was glad
to hear you on the airwaves.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Amen. Great to hear you on the airwaves.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Yes, yeah, I'm not used to that. I don't do
this very often. I think you ought to have a
conversation with your wife though, before y'all moved to South Korea.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Okay, you think it might not be a total winner.
It might not be.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
I don't know. Okay, did you have to doctor her?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I hear you, Carol. I think that's a valid point.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Yeah. Oh, it's been a sad couple of weeks. I
was sad to hear about Eric. I always like that, yes,
lace on your way.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Oh yes, fresh air.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
Yes, never got to meet him, but always liked the
great American phrase.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Yep. And again, I just I don't have to keep
reinforcing how much courage it took to be doing what
that guy was doing at those times. Where again, you
know how you know how that media pressure gets, you know,
how the brainwashing goes into hyperdrive, and to have the
courage directly against that, well, anyway you can hear and
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be right.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
All along too, Yes, yes, yes, exactly well, I heard
the other day that the Speaker of the House had
wanted a moment of silence, and that some of the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Objected, is that national or is that local?
Speaker 6 (22:28):
That was national?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Okay? And it was the moment of silenced, you recall
for for what reason it was requesting that for Charlie?
Speaker 6 (22:37):
For Charlie.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah, I will say this that it seems to me
there's too much on the left of a just not
responding to this properly. I saw Barack Obama came out
and had a very direct and very blunt response saying
that there's no place for this in our society. Bad, bad, bad,
and prayers to the Kirk family. I thought Barack Obama said, right, stuff,
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But I are you seeing enough of that elsewhere? Or
are you just kind of getting that creepy feeling? Gosh,
you know, what's what's the matter with exactly these people?
Speaker 6 (23:10):
It's just, yeah, exactly I know what going off the reels,
you know, off the ditch, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I mean, we can sit here and make our pleas
for increased humanity and brotherly love and all of that,
but you know that's not going to go anywhere.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
But those are just phrases. If you know, if people
don't abide by it, right, you know, if they don't
have empathy for.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Others, right, if we could just have a little bit
more empathy, and you know, we can say that, but
it takes work to always be working on that and
refining that. And you'd like to think that moments like
these we can have an uptick in it. But I
guess I'm not seeing quite enough of that to suit
me in the mainstream media. Yeah, I would like to
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see more. So I'm putting out a formal request. Yes, well, boy,
Carol and Aurora, wonderful to hear your voice. Yes, yes,
stay close around here if you would. And you know,
you're sure, you're so good at this, you got to
like call in to talk radio more. Okay, because that's
another request I'm putting in. But Carol, thank you so much.
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Thank you for.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Checking in here.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Okay, gonna do it. Yeah, and thank you for advice,
by the way about South Korea. I'm taking that to
heart at any rate. Let's let's keep carrying on. Cynthia
in Wisconsin. Is it Wisconsin or is it Wisconsin? I'm
checking in, Hello, Cynthia, Welcome.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
Hi Matt how are you.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
I'm good right on.
Speaker 8 (24:44):
I just had a couple of things.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
I'm here with.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
My daughter in Wisconsin. I am from Colorado, though, but
I'm out here right now. I just wanted to let
you know with the seven as she has seven children
wo all the same dad. Yes, so belief in having
children and her husband is is I guess six thousand
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percent that they've had that many children and they're all
doing quite well.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Yeah, seven is way above the statistical average in any
country right now. And big salute to your daughter. And
so you're the grandma, I presume, and like, can you
keep track of all their names and the birthdays and everything?
And that's a lot of grandkids that have to spoil.
I mean, you're probably working pretty hard. Cynthia.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
Well, the names are all pretty simple. They are at
least four letters are less. So that's so. She just
wanted to make sure they could all learn how to
spell their name when they got into school. So that
was good. That was good.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
But five of them.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
Are in college right now.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Oh wow.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
They Yes, they love Charlie Kirk and so did I
and I still do so.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yes, they ever wis.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
Rallies in different places and so I just my heart
just believes for that family.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Look at those little tiny kids of Charlie Kirk's see
those pictures, those little kids.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Yes, it's just so sad.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Without a without a father's love now forevermore.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
It just breaks my heart.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I just wanted to mind too. Oh, thank you for
sharing that. It's not easy to talk about these things.
I'm about ready to grab a kleenex here myself. Yes,
that's that's that's where we are right now. Oh, prayers
to the Kirk family.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I believe Charlie Kirk's now widowed wife will be making
her first statements public statements, I guess here in a
little while today. So yes, Lord, lift her up, lift
her up. I get her through this, get those kids
through this.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
Believe I hardly hope. Thank you for.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Giving oh, Cynthia beautiful phone call. Thank you so much
for taking time for that and and getting the host
all terry eyed as well as we think this through
the situation we are in, Cynthia, bless you for checking in.
It is Matt Donnaman for Dan Capitals. Let's come back.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
After the break one more segment and now back to
the Dan Caplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
So many years I've been a big fan of Dan
Caplis and his work on the radio, and yeah, just
honored to be tapped on the shoulder to show up
and you know, talk a little bit and share some
thoughts and even have the chance to interact with some
folks checking in and sharing their wisdom. By the way, Ryan,
you're from Michigan. True. I learned that listening to your
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show earlier today. Wonderful and lover boys from Canada of course? Hot, yeah, yeah,
what brought you down from Michigan? Can you say anything?
Speaker 7 (28:11):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Was it weather related? Meteorological? Well, it's a temperate climate
here for the most part. The summer is a little
hotter and drier, although they get prettyhumid in Michigan. It's
Canada light there. Winters are a little bit longer and
darker and snow here. I came here for this opportunity
and it kind of blossomed into something much more than
I ever anticipated or expected. And it began right here
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with the Dan Kaplis show in November of twenty eighteen. Okay, wonderful,
right on, and I spent a little time in Michigan,
and I bet you're pro hockey, right, You're very pro hockey.
Well that's not real popular with the folks around these parts.
Because I purchase you can stay off record, you can
just gesture I'm going to be on the rind of
the glass. Okay, so the four professional sports teams. I
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own Nuggets gear, I own Rocky s gear, and I'm
a partial season ticket holder. I own Broncos gear. But
never will I ever in my coffin or any time
in between, were Avalanche gear. Because I'm a Red Wings fan.
I was afraid of that. That's not what I wanted
to hear.
Speaker 8 (29:11):
I know.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Yeah, many people like me in spite of that, and
men people hate me.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Because of it. So there's that. Well, fair enough, and
no understood. Loyalty is a good thing, except when it
comes to the Red Wings.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Okay, well, but of all, have you ever seen Steve Eiserman?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
No, Kelly's infatuated with the man. Okay, he's a very
good looking man. It's like he's gotten better with age too.
He really has so jealous of this guy he really
has is that a hockey player? Steve I captain? Ye.
Both Isserman and Sakic were captains of their respective teams,
and both wore number nineteen. Yes, and that was back
when they had like that Stanley Cup conflict back in
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the day. It was a war, yeah, between ninety six
and o two, right in that range. And there was
a documentary made about it. And it's a really well
done documentary and I think even Avalanche fans would enjoy it.
By the way, I met Sakig once socializing in Lodo. Sure,
and you know, I'm not the tallest guy. I guess
six one, but I felt like I was taller than
him and bigger than him. Oh you're six one, Yeah
I was, I think Okay, I was just like I
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thought he was like this big, huge dude. No, but
I was bigger. The kind of made me feel like,
you know, yeah I could. I could have made it
in hockey.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I also became a Red Wings fan, thank you. Wow,
I didn't know that. Yeah you wait a minute, we
got to get off.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Numbered because I, first of all, I was a Kings
fan because I'm from Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
I know where this is going.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
And a very popular player named Luke RUBATAI.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Also good looking guy, very hot, got traded to this
The main criteria in beginning to sense for the ladies. Yes,
and Islerman. I gotta admit is a honky guy and
he was back in the day. You got some pots
up in your cave. Oh okay, well I do not,
but maybe I will. Okay, we'll see. I'll find here
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for you see it has been planted real quick text
to studio, we should mention, thank you Alexa for this,
that there is a GoFundMe for great American Eric Eric J.
Manning to help cover the funeral expenses for Great American
Eric who we lost last week. Apparently, so far it
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has raised four thousand, seven and eighty five dollars of
a seven thousand dollars goal to cover nice funeral expenses.
And the funeral will be on October sixth, which is
a great American's birthday. So just putting that out there
again to a beloved, beloved friend of ours for many years.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
And uh.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Little text here, doctor Matt always good to hear you.
Thank you, Steve and Lyttleton retired l e O from
checking in wonderful full human being there and a couple
of points here. This is a text to studio. Charge
of aggravated allows a defense of circumstances. This is unbelievable.
Utah is really going out on a limb. Makes one
(32:15):
wonder if the family turned him in over on these terms,
turned him over on these terms. I don't quite understand
that this probably is a different individual who might know
something about legal matters more than myself. And another text
Obama being out on the matter is possibly whistling to
CIA to help scuttle a motive, sort of like other occasions. Anyway,
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thank you for keeping these texts flowing all through this program.
Very honored by that. Another text wishing you all, wishing
all of you a weekend of rest and maybe some calmness.
It has been a crappy week, says a text to studio.
And yeah, you know, somber week, heavy week. But I say,
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you know, in spite of it all, let's go out
and be living our best lives anyway, our best lives anyway,
in spite of it all. Sometimes you have to have
that perspective. And I was going to say this that
somehow another The happiest country in the World twenty twenty
five is Finland. Finland number one, Denmark to Iceland, Sweden,
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and Israel, Netherlands Norway kind of rounding out the top ten.
I was just wondering, like, does it have to be
like dark half the year and it cold and like
with a lot of polar bears running around to be happy.
I'm just I'm trying to figure this out. And I
did look up a little something about Finland is that
they have over three million saunas for only five million people.
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So maybe it's saunas that make you happy. Maybe it's
being in the dark and in the cold that makes
you happy. We're going to have to explore this at
future opportunities. At any rate, big honor to have been
in here today. Matt Dunn signing off, sitting in for
Dan Kaplis. Ryan Kelly, thank you for the hospitality.
This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Platform capitalist today. But friend and fan of Dan Capless
in Matt Dunn and by way of introduction, Yeah, I've
been involved in talk radio for a couple of decades
here in Denver metro area. I am a super gentle,
very mild mannered dentist in the suburbs of Denver. I
(00:33):
drive a minivan. I've got four little kiddos, and when
I'm not practicing dentistry, I tend to be driving my
kids around to field hockey or soccer or swimming or
piano or various kinds of activities. So I do put
the miles on and I don't claim any level of
(00:57):
coolness to be a minivan driver, but but it's how
I roll. It's just how it gets done around my place.
And honored to be in here to just share a
bit of whatever thoughts are coming through my mind, and
I do want to get into I'll catch up with
text messages here in just a second, But I do
want to get into the what's going on in South
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Korea with big companies paying their employees to have babies
like a lot of money. Hmm, what's going on with that?
I mean, I don't know why, but I like having
all these kids around. I think it's great to be
a dad of a whole tribe of little people. But
somehow a lot of other countries, like South Korea, don't
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seem to be having kids anymore. Let's explore that in
a moment. I also want to go to Finland. Finland,
you know, they just the World Happiness Index came out
Happiest Countries in the World twenty twenty five, and who's
number one Finland? Who's number twenty four? USA? Apparently that's
our all time low? What goes what goes on with happiness?
(02:06):
I mean, why are some countries happier than others? I
have a few thoughts on that on happiness, and maybe
they're worthwhile. We'll find out. But I'll get into a
few of those things before text messages. I saw just
thinking of the great American Eric Manning, who yes, made
(02:26):
some pretty fine burritos, I will say a little too
spicy for me. I preferred. I preferred gentler on the spice,
but I ate a few of you know, Eric Manning's
great burritos, which, by the way, just wonderful. The green
chili he would make, just masterpiece stuff, but just a
little too spicy for my gentle soul. Sometimes a few
(02:47):
times are like, WHOA, where's my water bottle? Anyway, that's
not a criticism, that's that's a lovingly rendered statement there
at any rate. Molly Hemingway, a fellow Lincoln Fellow from
the Claremont Institute, that's something that I did some years ago.
But Mally Hemingway has a good point and about this
(03:07):
hostile political environment we are living in. In twenty sixteen,
the media and other Democrats tarred President Trump as a
fascist who must not be normalized. The media environment was
hysterical and hostile to anyone who did not parrot these lines.
Normal Americans were marginalized and made to feel scared for
(03:31):
their views. Much of the establishment right played a role
in this, either by actively conspiring with left wing anti
trumpists against the MAGA movement or by doing nothing to
fight the smears. This propaganda effort has a body count
and has done horrific damage to our country. Molly Hemingway continues,
(03:55):
A very small first step that must be taken ten
years too late, is tom immediately and fully admit that
Donald Trump and other Republicans and their voters are legitimate
and normal, far more legitimate and normal than leftist mobs incidentally,
and will be treated as such. End quote. And when
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I talked about the courage of Eric Manning, African American
going into the barbershops of Denver preaching the virtues of
MAGA twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, you have to remember how
much courage that kind of thing takes, and it took,
especially back then, with an absolutely hysterical, hostile media dehumanizing
their political opposition. And is that still going on today?
(04:46):
Less so, I mean they're still trying to do it,
but it's just less effective. Back in twenty fifteen twenty sixteen,
there was a little bit more belief and trust in
the mainstream media. Thankfully, that has evaporated tremendously, because it
deserved to be evaporated tremendously. The loss of trust in
media is a very significant thing, and I think a
(05:08):
very hopeful thing. And again you see the last gas
of a ruling class clinging to power, bitterly clinging to
power and getting a little bit weird about it. And Ryan,
you played the Matthew Dowd, you played some of the
people celebrating the death, the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I
(05:28):
don't want to, you know, go into that again. But
when you see some of the left react the way
that they are reacting to this in almost a celebratory fashion,
I mean, you do, you do just get that sense of,
you know, there's there's something the matter with individuals who
who communicate in that way or have those kind of
(05:50):
reactions to these tragic situations. And I think Molly Hemingway
in these points gets to the to the nuts of
it that the media environment was hysterical and hostile to
anyone who did not parrot the establishment lines. We got
to get beyond that, ladies and gentlemen, and the time
(06:10):
is now to be getting beyond that. I mean, I
think the people are beyond that, but there's still some
subsets in their silos that are not quite able to
break out of it, bitterly clinging to their silos, text
messages to studio, and there's been a nice pile of
them here don't forget Eric Manning brought you burritos. Thank
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you for that, Alexa Doc, I guess that's referring to me,
doctor don doc. I'm starting to think TDS is a
mental illness. Trump derangement syndrome is a mental illness. It
blurs the difference between right and wrong, moral and immoral.
If you have different options or I think they meant opinions,
(06:56):
you may as well be the devil and should be
silenced social media pushing this is the cancer and needs
to be cured. That from daw Incentennial, and I think
that's a good point. Again, the dehumanizing of anybody who
disagrees with you, and that is a phenomenon of our
time that I would submit is far more extreme than
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it ever has been for the aforementioned reasons discussed in
my philosophical interpretation of this moment. I believe at the
tail end of the last hour, here's another text to
studio quote. I think many have lost a respect for
life in general. When a woman can decide whether or
not the life in her womb is a person or not,
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it becomes easier to decide when others deserve to live
or not. End quote. Here is another text to studio.
Tyler was book smart, but obviously not street smart. He
did not use gloves. He left messages for others on
discoord about Charlie Kirk, the rifle, et cetera. He could
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not have thought he could kill someone Charlie and not
get caught. Question Mark, here's a good one. This is
a great text here, doctor done, great song, Ryan, Which
song would that have been? All of them?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
See you can, brothers.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You can't just isolate one of them. It was all there.
And by the way, kudos for the music. And I mean,
I'm a music man and I come in and uh
and I just sit here and just relish it. Well done, sir,
praise and even referring to faith for the Charlie Kirk
club that we came back with, as in the George
Michael song. That's correct, George Michael and uh yeah, big
(08:43):
man of faith, George Michael. Let's see here. Uh I
guess maybe, y'all I'm talking. There's too many text messages
to get through, doctor dun while, Who's so glad you're
here this Friday? Thank you. The assassination of Charlie Kirk
is so sad and so alarming. I hope you're on
this channel more as a fill in for Dan. Yeay,
(09:04):
He's had many great fill ins lately, And yes, I
love the chance to listen when Dan is here, especially IOUs.
But you know, listen, some of these fill in folks
are like amazing. Matt, so glad to hear you back
on the radio. Another one looking forward to two hours
of doctor Hey, folks, I just very honored keep them coming,
if you would keep sending some text messages in and
(09:27):
again helping keep us on track. And wow, did I
fill that whole segment with all of all of this talking. Yes,
let's let's move on. Should we go to Finland next?
Or talk about how they're payned people that have babies
in Korea? I'll be thinking about that during the break
and which one I think is most like exciting at
the at the moment when we start the next segment.
(09:48):
Matt Dunn in for Dan Kaplis.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
And now back to the Dan Tapless show pop.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
After the phone lines. If you're on the phones, hang
on just one second while I make one quick point.
I will get into the I think Korean babies here
in just a second, but one little point I wanted
to make I did listen to the press conference earlier
today in which Ryan, I mean, let's uh, oh, the
(10:25):
name of the shooter, Tyler Robinson. Tyler Robinson was identified
as a suspect and apprehended. But the FBI people, one
after another kept going up there and talking. And I'm
not complaining about the FBI, and I salute their good work.
And here we are with an individual apprehended, but they
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all seem to go up there and talk about how
hard they're working and how they didn't sleep at all,
and they were cooperating so well with each other and
cooperating with other branches of law enforcement, and they were
saluting law enforcement and again reminding about how little they've
slept and how hard they've been working. And is it
just me or could they just keep that out of
(11:08):
it and just get the points out and not I
don't know, congratulate themselves or do that kind of thing.
It seems to me that that's that's maybe one level
of like a lack of maturity. You know, when you're
in those positions, come out, let's have the information. Maybe
a little bit of the congratulatory rhetoric and all that,
but you know, hey, let's get to the point ladies
(11:29):
and gentlemen, and you know, I just felt like most
of the press conference was them, you know, congratulating themselves.
So anyway, that's that's just that's critical. That's a critical thing.
I just said, so sorry about that. I should I
retract it anyway, No, I won't because I was just
(11:50):
kind of annoyed. I just want the information. I don't
care how much you slept or not. It's not that's
not my thing. I'm sorry you didn't get enough sleep,
but hey, this is a moment where you know, put
in the hard hours. Good. Okay, at any rate, let's
get to some phone line action. Can we go to
line two? Tim in West Virginia honored you would check in. Tim,
(12:14):
Thanks for being here with Matt Dunn on the Dan
Kapla Show and talk.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
So good to hear you back on the air. I
was surprised. I just kind of happened across your profile
on Next Today and so you're going to be on.
So it's great here.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
And you, oh, well, it is good to hear your voice.
It's been It's been at least a year or two,
hasn't it.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
I had a couple of years and you're still.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Out there doing to sit in Yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Then moved out to West Virginia. Here it's a good
place for retirees, not so much for younger people because
there's no work.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
But are you Are you in a coal mine or something?
Are you digging for coal out there?
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Okay, well that's pretty much gone now, but who knows,
maybe under JD events that might make a comeback.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Fair enough. By the way, real quick, I have been
to West Virginia. It was one of the states that
I had never been to. There's like three or four
states I'd never been to. And I was in Pennsylvania,
kind of very close to West Virginia at a family reunion,
and I asked my wife. I said, Hey, we're so
close to West Virginia. Would you mind if I just
went there and walked in across the line and walked
(13:22):
around for a minute and then came back so I
can tell the world that I've been to West Virginia.
She said, you go for it, And so I hopped
in the minivan and I bolted down to West Virginia.
I think it took me like an hour to get there.
I crossed the line, I set foot over there, stepped
around for about at least nine minutes, and then I
hopped back in the menduod and came back to the reunion.
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So anyway, that's me congratulating myself, just like I was
counseling against.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
But any part of West Virginia looks a lot like
Western Pa, looks a lot like Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Okay, yeah, that's a nice country. Yeah, but yeah, what
thoughts Tim?
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Well, first of all, on that great American Eric. Gonna
miss him so much. Of course, he'd been ill for
a couple of years and we're hearing him less and
less on talk radio. But that's a big loss. And
God bless his family, and amail that great Americans in
a better place.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Amen to that. We will miss Hey.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
I just wanted to basically say hi, Doc, and I'll
let somebody else get on. But so good to hear you,
and say hi to Randy when you talk to him.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh, make a point of that. Well, Tim, all the
best to you in West Virginia. And yeah, let me
know if you get gainfully employed somewhere out there in
a minor this or that or the other. But Tim,
I'm wonderful to hear your voice. Thank you, for checking in,
very honored. Let's go on to line three. Brad Blakewood,
Brad in Lakewood. Is this the Brad that I've gotten
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to know a bit over the years.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Howdy sir, good, it's good to hear again. Are you
going to be on more often?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Well, you just never know, oh how these things go.
But I'm always gained to show up and bloviate a
little bit, as you know.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Yeah, well, I was gonna tell about the time I
actually got to meet Charlie kirk up and Boulder last
here I went to hear him speak, and at the
very end I was even lucky to get close to him,
because immediately after he left the share he was surrounded
by several hundred people, but he didn't sign my book
for me. And I had a donation for him, and
(15:27):
I told him him in a scot plus or my
two people to donate to, and he tapped me on
the shoulder and said, God bless you. So it's gonna
be sad day to see him go. But uh ah,
yes I was. I wasn't going to see him next weekend,
but unfortunately that's out of the patient now. So yep,
the best thing I can do is continue to donate.
(15:49):
So I got twenty five bucks out aside to donate
to him.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Well done, well done, Brad, Thank you for sharing that
that vignette, and I can hear them in your voice,
fully justified, you know as you as you think this
through and man of faith, man of courage out there,
and you know, in this disease society of ours, it's
it's uh tragic.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
It goes back many years ago because it goes back
to the days of Antonio Gramsky, who realized once the
communists took over town, they could not hold a militarily away,
so they had to come over with this cultural brainwashing
in which they would infiltrate the churches, of the schools
and the public universities. And this kid didn't get brainwashed overnight,
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neither of the other kids. This has been going on
for seventy eighty years and they were thinking long term,
and now we're paying the result for it.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Gramsky's political notebooks written in prison. He was, you know,
a Marxist communist, and he had plenty of time in
prison to develop his Marxist philosophy. And it's like the
incremental overtaking of the institutions, and it was Pete Butegig
the Secretary of Transportation under Joe Biden, whose father was
(17:05):
a Gramsky scholar. If you remember that. Oh yeah, of
all things. I've been to Gramsky's grave in Rome, and
I've stepped stepped on his grave. And again, I think
one of the most lethal thinkers in American political or
the world philosophical history. And it's good to hear that
name brought up. And I do think a lot of
people on the left, the real intellectual activists, are bringing
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a lot of Gramskyism to bear in this present day
and age, and not not to the benefit of this country.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Yes, because Gramski actually wrote the words and I tell
it on toilet paper and he smuggled out of the prison.
And yeah, you're right. It was a Pete Bododage his
father that translated it into US England.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yep, it was Well. Hey, Brad, Brad and Lakewood, what
a joy to hear your voice. You keep on donating,
Thanks for sharing your venette about Charlie Kirk, and you
keep staying off in the in the politic weeds and
bringing information forward like you have always done. I just
so glad to know you're out there cranking away on
what you've been doing for so long. Salute to you.
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Matt Dunn in for Dan Kaples, be right back.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast. That's next
level yacht rock. Oh that is almost in its own category.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
It certainly is.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I have a better one, totally.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
There's not a better one. There is Lido's shuffle. Oh yeah,
that's who is that boss Gag? Yeah, Boss Gag? That's
right in there, isn't it Boz? Certainly his name was
bos It definitely is. At any rate, we're off of
the phones to talk to Carolyn. Just one second. I
was going to make one point, just so I keep
(18:52):
teasing this. They're paying people to have kids in this.
In South Korea, there's a Buyong and I used to
live in South Korea for the record. Bu Yong is
a big construction company in South Korea, and not too
long ago, the CEO Lee Jung Kung announced that there
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will be a payment of seventy two thousand dollars for
every baby born to an employee, retroactively for three years.
So you work for that company and you get paid
seventy two thousand dollars for having a child. Having a baby.
I was thinking about maybe should I abandon my dental
(19:34):
practice here and Centennial show up out there in South
Korea and say, hey, Matt's here, I'm reporting for duty.
Sign me up. I don't know about that. But the
fertility rate in South Korea is zero point seventy five
berths per woman, and you need to be at one
point one births per woman to break even. If that
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zero point seventy five keeps up much longer, you just
have to say there might not be a South Korea
in the future. That also applies to Japan, Italy, Spain,
and a handful of other countries where for whatever reason,
they have stopped having children. But I think I don't
know is that incentive is it? Should it be a
monetary and center for Are there other reasons to want
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to have children. I'm a big advocate of it and
a big fan of it, and I say the more
the better, and the folks that are sort of anti that,
I don't quite get it. I mean, it's like wonderful
and amazing and all that. More on that topic momentarily,
let's say hello to Carol and Aurora. Carol, thank you
(20:39):
so much for touching base and I may have heard
your voice before, Carol, How are you.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Think so? I thought i'd say hi. I was glad
to hear you on the airwaves.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Amen. Great to hear you on the airwaves.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Yes, yeah, I'm not used to that. I don't do
this very often. I think you ought to have a
conversation with your wife though, before y'all moved to South Korea.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Okay, you think it might not be a total winner.
It might not be.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
I don't know. Okay, did you have to doctor her?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I hear you, Carol. I think that's a valid point.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Yeah. Oh, it's been a sad couple of weeks. I
was sad to hear about Eric. I always like that, yes,
lace on your way.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Oh yes, fresh air.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
Yes, never got to meet him, but always liked the
great American phrase.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Yep. And again, I just I don't have to keep
reinforcing how much courage it took to be doing what
that guy was doing at those times. Where again, you
know how you know how that media pressure gets, you know,
how the brainwashing goes into hyperdrive, and to have the
courage directly against that, well, anyway you can hear and
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be right.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
All along too, Yes, yes, yes, exactly well, I heard
the other day that the Speaker of the House had
wanted a moment of silence, and that some of the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Objected, is that national or is that local?
Speaker 6 (22:28):
That was national?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Okay? And it was the moment of silenced, you recall
for for what reason it was requesting that for Charlie?
Speaker 6 (22:37):
For Charlie.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah, I will say this that it seems to me
there's too much on the left of a just not
responding to this properly. I saw Barack Obama came out
and had a very direct and very blunt response saying
that there's no place for this in our society. Bad, bad, bad,
and prayers to the Kirk family. I thought Barack Obama said, right, stuff,
(23:00):
But I are you seeing enough of that elsewhere? Or
are you just kind of getting that creepy feeling? Gosh,
you know, what's what's the matter with exactly these people?
Speaker 6 (23:10):
It's just, yeah, exactly I know what going off the reels,
you know, off the ditch, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I mean, we can sit here and make our pleas
for increased humanity and brotherly love and all of that,
but you know that's not going to go anywhere.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
But those are just phrases. If you know, if people
don't abide by it, right, you know, if they don't
have empathy for.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Others, right, if we could just have a little bit
more empathy, and you know, we can say that, but
it takes work to always be working on that and
refining that. And you'd like to think that moments like
these we can have an uptick in it. But I
guess I'm not seeing quite enough of that to suit
me in the mainstream media. Yeah, I would like to
(23:59):
see more. So I'm putting out a formal request. Yes, well, boy,
Carol and Aurora, wonderful to hear your voice. Yes, yes,
stay close around here if you would. And you know,
you're sure, you're so good at this, you got to
like call in to talk radio more. Okay, because that's
another request I'm putting in. But Carol, thank you so much.
(24:22):
Thank you for.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Checking in here.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Okay, gonna do it. Yeah, and thank you for advice,
by the way about South Korea. I'm taking that to
heart at any rate. Let's let's keep carrying on. Cynthia
in Wisconsin. Is it Wisconsin or is it Wisconsin? I'm
checking in, Hello, Cynthia, Welcome.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
Hi Matt how are you.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
I'm good right on.
Speaker 8 (24:44):
I just had a couple of things.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
I'm here with.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
My daughter in Wisconsin. I am from Colorado, though, but
I'm out here right now. I just wanted to let
you know with the seven as she has seven children
wo all the same dad. Yes, so belief in having
children and her husband is is I guess six thousand
(25:10):
percent that they've had that many children and they're all
doing quite well.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Yeah, seven is way above the statistical average in any
country right now. And big salute to your daughter. And
so you're the grandma, I presume, and like, can you
keep track of all their names and the birthdays and everything?
And that's a lot of grandkids that have to spoil.
I mean, you're probably working pretty hard. Cynthia.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
Well, the names are all pretty simple. They are at
least four letters are less. So that's so. She just
wanted to make sure they could all learn how to
spell their name when they got into school. So that
was good. That was good.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
But five of them.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
Are in college right now.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Oh wow.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
They Yes, they love Charlie Kirk and so did I
and I still do so.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yes, they ever wis.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
Rallies in different places and so I just my heart
just believes for that family.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Look at those little tiny kids of Charlie Kirk's see
those pictures, those little kids.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Yes, it's just so sad.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Without a without a father's love now forevermore.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
It just breaks my heart.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I just wanted to mind too. Oh, thank you for
sharing that. It's not easy to talk about these things.
I'm about ready to grab a kleenex here myself. Yes,
that's that's that's where we are right now. Oh, prayers
to the Kirk family.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I believe Charlie Kirk's now widowed wife will be making
her first statements public statements, I guess here in a
little while today. So yes, Lord, lift her up, lift
her up. I get her through this, get those kids
through this.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
Believe I hardly hope. Thank you for.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Giving oh, Cynthia beautiful phone call. Thank you so much
for taking time for that and and getting the host
all terry eyed as well as we think this through
the situation we are in, Cynthia, bless you for checking in.
It is Matt Donnaman for Dan Capitals. Let's come back.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
After the break one more segment and now back to
the Dan Caplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
So many years I've been a big fan of Dan
Caplis and his work on the radio, and yeah, just
honored to be tapped on the shoulder to show up
and you know, talk a little bit and share some
thoughts and even have the chance to interact with some
folks checking in and sharing their wisdom. By the way, Ryan,
you're from Michigan. True. I learned that listening to your
(28:04):
show earlier today. Wonderful and lover boys from Canada of course? Hot, yeah, yeah,
what brought you down from Michigan? Can you say anything?
Speaker 7 (28:11):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Was it weather related? Meteorological? Well, it's a temperate climate
here for the most part. The summer is a little
hotter and drier, although they get prettyhumid in Michigan. It's
Canada light there. Winters are a little bit longer and
darker and snow here. I came here for this opportunity
and it kind of blossomed into something much more than
I ever anticipated or expected. And it began right here
(28:34):
with the Dan Kaplis show in November of twenty eighteen. Okay, wonderful,
right on, and I spent a little time in Michigan,
and I bet you're pro hockey, right, You're very pro hockey.
Well that's not real popular with the folks around these parts.
Because I purchase you can stay off record, you can
just gesture I'm going to be on the rind of
the glass. Okay, so the four professional sports teams. I
(28:56):
own Nuggets gear, I own Rocky s gear, and I'm
a partial season ticket holder. I own Broncos gear. But
never will I ever in my coffin or any time
in between, were Avalanche gear. Because I'm a Red Wings fan.
I was afraid of that. That's not what I wanted
to hear.
Speaker 8 (29:11):
I know.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Yeah, many people like me in spite of that, and
men people hate me.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Because of it. So there's that. Well, fair enough, and
no understood. Loyalty is a good thing, except when it
comes to the Red Wings.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Okay, well, but of all, have you ever seen Steve Eiserman?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
No, Kelly's infatuated with the man. Okay, he's a very
good looking man. It's like he's gotten better with age too.
He really has so jealous of this guy he really
has is that a hockey player? Steve I captain? Ye.
Both Isserman and Sakic were captains of their respective teams,
and both wore number nineteen. Yes, and that was back
when they had like that Stanley Cup conflict back in
(29:51):
the day. It was a war, yeah, between ninety six
and o two, right in that range. And there was
a documentary made about it. And it's a really well
done documentary and I think even Avalanche fans would enjoy it.
By the way, I met Sakig once socializing in Lodo. Sure,
and you know, I'm not the tallest guy. I guess
six one, but I felt like I was taller than
him and bigger than him. Oh you're six one, Yeah
I was, I think Okay, I was just like I
(30:14):
thought he was like this big, huge dude. No, but
I was bigger. The kind of made me feel like,
you know, yeah I could. I could have made it
in hockey.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I also became a Red Wings fan, thank you. Wow,
I didn't know that. Yeah you wait a minute, we
got to get off.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Numbered because I, first of all, I was a Kings
fan because I'm from Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
I know where this is going.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
And a very popular player named Luke RUBATAI.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Also good looking guy, very hot, got traded to this
The main criteria in beginning to sense for the ladies. Yes,
and Islerman. I gotta admit is a honky guy and
he was back in the day. You got some pots
up in your cave. Oh okay, well I do not,
but maybe I will. Okay, we'll see. I'll find here
(31:10):
for you see it has been planted real quick text
to studio, we should mention, thank you Alexa for this,
that there is a GoFundMe for great American Eric Eric J.
Manning to help cover the funeral expenses for Great American
Eric who we lost last week. Apparently, so far it
(31:30):
has raised four thousand, seven and eighty five dollars of
a seven thousand dollars goal to cover nice funeral expenses.
And the funeral will be on October sixth, which is
a great American's birthday. So just putting that out there
again to a beloved, beloved friend of ours for many years.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
And uh.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Little text here, doctor Matt always good to hear you.
Thank you, Steve and Lyttleton retired l e O from
checking in wonderful full human being there and a couple
of points here. This is a text to studio. Charge
of aggravated allows a defense of circumstances. This is unbelievable.
Utah is really going out on a limb. Makes one
(32:15):
wonder if the family turned him in over on these terms,
turned him over on these terms. I don't quite understand
that this probably is a different individual who might know
something about legal matters more than myself. And another text
Obama being out on the matter is possibly whistling to
CIA to help scuttle a motive, sort of like other occasions. Anyway,
(32:42):
thank you for keeping these texts flowing all through this program.
Very honored by that. Another text wishing you all, wishing
all of you a weekend of rest and maybe some calmness.
It has been a crappy week, says a text to studio.
And yeah, you know, somber week, heavy week. But I say,
(33:04):
you know, in spite of it all, let's go out
and be living our best lives anyway, our best lives anyway,
in spite of it all. Sometimes you have to have
that perspective. And I was going to say this that
somehow another The happiest country in the World twenty twenty
five is Finland. Finland number one, Denmark to Iceland, Sweden,
(33:25):
and Israel, Netherlands Norway kind of rounding out the top ten.
I was just wondering, like, does it have to be
like dark half the year and it cold and like
with a lot of polar bears running around to be happy.
I'm just I'm trying to figure this out. And I
did look up a little something about Finland is that
they have over three million saunas for only five million people.
(33:49):
So maybe it's saunas that make you happy. Maybe it's
being in the dark and in the cold that makes
you happy. We're going to have to explore this at
future opportunities. At any rate, big honor to have been
in here today. Matt Dunn signing off, sitting in for
Dan Kaplis. Ryan Kelly, thank you for the hospitality.
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