July 18, 2025 • 35 mins
Stephen Colbert stuns his audience with the announcement that CBS is cancelling The Late Show entirely, with his final program airing in May 2026. Why are so many late night shows failing in the age of Trump? Dan thinks we know the answer.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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doing both, but especially this afternoon, this glorious summer Friday afternoon,
and looks like a warm, dry weekend ahead across some
most of the rocky mountains. So if you're listening in Colorado,
you are in for another great one three or three
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to laugh listening. I was listening to the local new
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six point thirty kitch at w and Denver, and they
had Denver Mayor Mike Johnston on, and he was talking
about how he's going to be cracking down on crime
now with law enforcement and not letting people just walk
out of stores with all this stuff. It's like, aren't
you the guy who's like cutting the police budget a
whole lot right now so that you can pay to
house more homeless people.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I mean, he is that very same guy.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
But it's this ability to lie shamelessly, which is so
kind of intriguing to me clinically because I just don't
know how humans get to that point, right, And I'm
far from a perfect being. But you know, if say
Ryan Ever came in with a bad haircut, which is
inconceivable to me because he never takes his hat off,
but say he did, and he said, what do you think?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
And I say, oh, man, that's a great haircut.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I feel guilty for three weeks and listen, I got
you know, I got a lot of problems in my
negative column. But I think most people and probably vast
majority of people listening, just don't lie. But the left
right now, it's like a requirement you be able to lie.
But so Mike Johnson, Yeah, he's going to be cracking
down on crime. Do not hold your breath. But it
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ties into kind of a funny little combo pack we
put together here for you and if fast Moving show
today We're in cover a million million different topics, but
I wanted to get to this one right out of
the gate.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You know, this mom, Donnie guy, this this communist.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
In New York who it looks like they're about to
elect mayor and he's just very open about it, right,
He's just very open.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
No, we'll do whatever we have to do, do.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Away with private property rights, whatever, to make sure we
can give everybody a home. Well, question I have for
you among many today three oh three seven one three
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is there, between Mike Johnston and this self identified socialist
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but really more of a communist in New York, this mom, Donnie.
How much of a difference is there really? I understand
the difference in how upfront about it, how open they
are about it. But listen to this clip and then
tell me how much of a difference is there really
or is it just the packaging for the local audience?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Cut sixteen place right?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
My platform is that every single person should have housed.
And I think, faced with these two options, the system,
the system has hundreds of thousands of people unhoused, right
for what and if if there was any system that
could guarantee each person housing, whether you call it the
abolition of private property or you call it, you know,
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just a state wide house and guarantee it is preferable
to what is going on right now. And I think
that people try and play like gotcha games about these
kinds of things, and it's like, look, I care more
about whether somebody has a home.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
We will get you a home. We will get you
a home. We will get you a home.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, how much of a difference is there? The first
was Mandani and the second is Johnston. It is inaugural address,
same thing, right, and Mike Johnston stood up and said, Hey,
you don't have a home. You come to Denver, we
will get you a home. So is there really any
difference there?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I understand Johnston is present himself differently and he would
not call himself a socialist, etc. But in terms of
the approach, is there any difference there? Once you just
say to the world you come to Denver, we will
get you home. And then, of course, as we predicted,
look at the position it puts the good people of
Denver in right now, where all of a sudden you
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have people being furloughed, you have budgets being caught, you
have services being curtailed. So Mike Johnston can fulfill his
promise of getting a home for anybody who wants one
in Denver. I mean, what kind of difference is there really?
And the broader point, and I'm sure there are some
on some policy issues, but the broader point is this
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is today's democratic party and can even call it a
democratic party anymore?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Does it have to be called a socialist party?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
But this is where it's going, whether it dresses up
like Johnston or Mandani, this is where it's going.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Which is to this kind of socialism.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Okay, everybody else in Denver, you work hard for the city,
you pay your taxes, you need to be protected by police.
Now we're cutting the police budget, we're laying you off,
and we're cutting services over at the park and our intersections, Ryan,
have you seen our intersections in Denver? It looks like
worse than Third World? And so everybody's told no, you're
going to have a lesser quality of life, or you're
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going to lose hours at your job, or you're not going.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
To be protected by police.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
So that we can provide housing for anybody around America
who wants to come here and.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Ask for it. What's the difference there? Three or three?
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Speaker 6 (05:36):
Well, there's also a couple of nuggets in there with
mom Donnie that you're right, it's just varying shades of
the same color from Mike Johnston. These guaranteed outcomes Dan
that are so dangerous and why I know that we
wanted to create a safety net coming out of the
Great Depression, and that was the whole basis for Social Security.
And these government funded ponzi schemes, and that's what they are.
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You pay into them, you don't get out necessarily what
you pay in. If you die before retirement age, you
don't collect. And if you don't live long enough for
the amount that you contributed, you don't collect an equal
amount or more. It's a bad investment just from that
model standpoint. But when when Donnie says everybody has a
right to a home, well, nothing in life is free.
There's no such thing as a free lunch, and there's
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certainly no such thing as a free home.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
So somebody's paying for that.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
It's government subsidized, it's government controlled, eliminating private property. I mean,
try telling that to somebody who has rural land here
in Colorado.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Well, take the government out of there and just say
us right, because it's us paying for that end. Listen,
when it comes to and I would get I'd love
to hear from folks on this DA n five seven
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to this show, who I think are a microcosm of
just good people out there across the spectrum, vast majority
I think would say, of course, we have to have
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a safety net for those people truly in crisis, who
are in a situation where they need a home short
term whatever, or maybe they have some kind of long
term disability they're going to need longer term help. Yeah,
a true safety net like that, I think the vast
majority of us would support and would feel good about
paying for through our taxes, as long as the money
spent well. But that's what Johnston's talking about, And this
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is at the heart of my comparison on Donnie. When
you listen to what Mike Johnston promised in that inaugural address,
you know he's not putting those kind of conditions on it.
You know, come to Denver, we will get you a home.
You know you're unhoused. We will get you a home.
And a society can't support itself like that right, it's
the old Hey, when the mask drops out of the
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ceiling on a plane, you know, put it on yourself first,
before the kids, so you can help the kid. Society
cannot afford to do what Mike Johnston has pledged to do,
and that's why Denver right now is going through all
these layoffs and cutbacks and cutbacks and cops. But Ryan,
do you disagree? This is where the Democratic Party is going.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
This is the failure of the party and the why
cities nationwide are crumbling under the weight of themselves because businesses,
business owners, restaurant tours, people that would want to set
up shop in a metro area, they don't want to
pay the taxes required. Look at New York City and
where it will go if Momdannie does take over, that
money's going to flee. The very tax space that you
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need to support these communist socialist programs is going to
be gone.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
So where are youre going to get the money from?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
You're not right, and you know what you might be
able to hold onto those job creators, big tax payers
if you are providing this tremendous quality of life. But
hand in hand with this leftist ideology is pro criminal
and anti cop. So at the same time you're doing
this awful stuff with the right hand, you are recruiting
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criminals to your city with the left hand, just like
Johnston now and polists and the Democrats are out there
recruiting people that come here illegally from all over the world.
And now, of course there'll be many who aren't otherwise criminals,
but they're not vetting. They're recruiting everybody to come here illegally.
Come here illegally, you can get a driver's license first day,
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you can use an ID that's inspired nine years, three
hundred and sixty days. And then of course the way
they coddle and protect criminals with the other changes they've
made in the law. So that's the double whemming. I mean,
I could see a scenario, Ryan, I wouldn't support it
and wouldn't want it, but a scenario where they could
pull off some of their socialist stuff if there were
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if they were taking advantage of this beauty God's given
us here in Colorado and everything, and they were creating
this tremendous quality of life. But because they're so pro criminal,
you see the way it just deteriorates. So yeah, they're
killing the place the left is killing Denver. How long
do you think that's going to take? Three O three
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much more than that ahead today as well. We have
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some breaking news from the Trump administration. Has Obama been
caught red handed? But here's a bigger one. Barack Obama.
Barack Obama saying that, hey, every kid, every kid needs
a gay person in their life. Every kid needs a
gay person in their life to give that kid feedback
on whether their own parents a good parent or not. Yeah,
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you can't make this stuff up. You're on the Dan
Kapla Show.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Thank you very much. Yeah, we worked hard. It's a
very important actor genius act. They named it after me,
and I want to thank you. I want to thank you.
This is a hell of an act.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
He I don't think we'll ever have a president this
funny again. No, but by the way, I think we
pulled this sound. Did you hear jd Vance ripping on Reagan?
Cut eighteen jd Vance ripping on Reagan?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
This is on Rogan? I think right, and we saw this.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
Look I'm like a Reagan guy, right, I'm a conservative Republican.
But Reagan screwed up a lot up mental health in
this country. People don't talk nearly enough about that. He
really screwed up amnesty thing. He really screwed up.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah, and people always say, well, you know Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 8 (11:08):
You know, when they critics of Donald Trump will say, well,
look at how Reagan talked about immigration. Because of what
Ronald Reagan did at the nineteen eighty six amnesty California
is now effectively permanently blue state except.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
When Arnold won.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
But Arnold ran as a super moderate Republican. He was
a major celebrity, right, he was at the height of
his celebrity power. And he's he's still won barely, even
though California had been mismanaged. California is a one party
state because of Ronald Reagan's ambassy. And that's the fear,
is that the entire country could become When the entire
country becomes.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
That, yeah, so interesting and really kind of fun to watch,
you know. JD Vance growing the job, Rubio growing the job,
and it's just going to be a blast quick twenty six.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
This will all be out in the open right.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
A fact check on JD. Vance there and the few
times that he needs one. But he's a little younger
than Kelly and I are. And Kelly lived through the
governor's race back then were great Davis, great out Davis,
as Russe Limbaugh called him. And the recall election there
he didn't win by a little bit, Arnold Swarzenegger, Dawn,
he won by a lot. Schwarzenegger cleared the field. It
was pretty emphatic from the voters of California. And that's
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the last time it happened.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
The interesting thing though, when you think about Reagan, I'm
not going to spend the show on President Reagan. Is
greatness is obvious, and we all owe him a debt
of gratitude. But another thing that he mishandled was the
life issue. And we had a chance to save an
awful lot of lives during his term, and he kept appointing.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
People who were, you know, justices who.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Were not originalist justices, justices who were going to legislate
on the issue of abortions.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
So rowe would have.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Been gone a long long time ago if President Reagan
had had done a better job of nominating Supreme Court justices.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
But well, it was kind of the first dee.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
I hied when he nominated Sanderdale O'Connor was like he
was dedicated to nominating a woman.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And she was a fine justice, but like you said,
very middle of the road.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
And then antonin Scalia an all time great, the lion
of the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I mean, that's that's top of the charts.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
But then Robert Bork would have been a phenomenal justice,
tremendous legal mind. And that whole process happened. He got
Borke to become a verb. And then Anthony Kennedy comes
in and he was much like Sanderdy O'Connor, right down
the middle kind of thing, like that.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Justice Roberts name.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I would disagree on O'Connor being a DEI higher.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I don't think she was.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I mean what I mean, she had plenty of merit.
She had plenty of merit, you know, coming out of Arizona,
very distinguished. But she was not pro life and she
was going to be an activist judge on abortion. And
all you have to do is interpret the darn Constitution
and rogue gets overturned. But the Reagan Whitehouse did not
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investigate her. They would have found out that she had
pushed all this pro abortion legislation, but I respectfully disagree.
I think she was very qualified. She was just kind
of a pro abortion activist. Three or three someone three
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today Colbert his show being canceled, and and what is
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your take on this? What is your take? I want
to open this up to everybody to Colbert being canceled.
Here's a bear announcing it yesterday. Cut to please Ryan.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
Before we start the show, I want to let you
know something that I found out just last night. Next
year will be our last season. The network will be
ending the Late Show in May. And yeah, Jailing, it's
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not just the end of our show, but it's the
end of the Late Show on CBS.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I'm not being replaced. This is all just going away.
And I do want to say.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
I do want to say that the folks at CBS have.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Been great partners.
Speaker 9 (15:04):
I'm so grateful to the Tiffany Network for giving me
this chair and this beautiful theater.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
To call home.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Thanks and of course thanks Stephen. Yeah, and he's just
been ripping on him for the last few days. And
then some feedback from the left on that. See if
you agree or disagree with this, let's go to cut
five this John Heilman and b C News.
Speaker 10 (15:24):
I think there's a consensus in the television business that
this generation of late night hosts Stephen, Jimmy, Jimmy and
Seth Myers, we're going to be the last. That they
would not that the economics for the reasons you were
talking about, because so much of the revenue and the
viewership is now moving into social platforms notto, YouTube, that
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you wouldn't you wouldn't find us a success or to
any of those guys.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
This would be the.
Speaker 10 (15:51):
Last generation in those traditional seats.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, thanks, Aran, But wait a second.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
The only reason they don't have the revenue is they
don't have a large enough audience because they've become such
hardcore lefties. You're trying to tell me that that a true,
funny late night show could not make it. Of course
it could for the same reason it has for so
many years until these guys ruined it.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
And you know. My take on this, though, is listen
to Colbert.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I obviously disagree with him politically, and I think he's
often very dishonest, but the fact that he chose to
take this show and instead of doing comedy, you know,
use it to try to advance political causes.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
He believes in.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I'm not critical of him for that because I and
I never watch him right for all the obvious reasons.
But I personally believe, and I would guess you do too,
that Hey, we're put on this earth to make the
biggest impact we can on the things that we believe in.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Stop bad things, do good things.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Now, I have an opposite view of Colbert on what
that means, but I'm never going to fault the guy
or Gale for trying to use their platform to advance causes.
They truly believe it, even if I disagree with their causes. Now,
his show's going away, and the others will too, because
they're just not funny. They've they've turned into bitter lefties,
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and they're only going to get more bitter beer faces.
Keystone is still around, Ryan, Did you ever drink Keystone?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Absolutely not. That's a horrible beer, but yeah, it's still around.
I believe.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Well, that's where bitter beer face comes from, That's right, Yeah,
from that, I mean, they're only going to get more
bitter beer faced. You know, has all of this conservative
success continues, so if nothing else, maybe leave.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Them on just to enjoy that.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
But but yeah, I'm surprised they're gonna leave colberta now.
As long as they have or as long as they will.
I mean, I've fault them for just canceling the thing
right now.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Give them a soft landing.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
You know, May is when the live shows typically end anyway,
So they're letting him play out the string in the season.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Then that'll be it.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, and maybe they figure they'll get the train wreck,
you know, bumping ratings right as as people tune into
see the very end of it. Hey, whant to come
back to the First thing I want to do is
play this sound of Barack Obama talking about how every
kid needs a gay person in their life and in
part to keep a check on their own parent.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Wow. Three someone three eight two five five On the Dan.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Kaplish you're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 11 (18:40):
People say he'll never take a serious controversy.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Well I have an answer to that.
Speaker 11 (18:45):
I said, no, tell me the last time that Jack.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Benny red Skelton.
Speaker 11 (18:51):
Benny comedian use his show to do serious issues.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
That's not what I'm there for. Can't they see that.
Speaker 11 (18:59):
But you and I they think that just because you
have it tonight show that you must deal in serious issues.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
That's a danger. It's a real danger.
Speaker 11 (19:08):
Once you start that, do you start to get that
self important feeling. That's what you say has great import
and you know, strangely enough, you could use that show
as a form you could sway people, and I don't
think you should as an entertainer.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
See, Kerson had it right, and I mean had it
right in terms of what worked for him, but also
what worked commercially. And that's why these you know, late
night lefties right now, they're not working. And Colbert's just
the first to fall. But Ryan, just as you played
that music right now, I understand that you know, many
people listening you've never heard of Johnny Carson an age thing.
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But the concept's pretty simple. Just a funny late night
show devoted to comedy, and you can have political comedy.
It just has to be even handed. So when you
get these guys who are just far left, you know,
as a Texter says Dan, Colbert is a late night
Rachel Maddow. Everyone is tired of arrogance and smug superior attitudes. Yeah,
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but if you had a truly funny show and then
I'll go to the phone. So if you had a
truly funny show, it'd be an enormous hit, in part because,
I mean, what happens at the end of the day, right,
We all want to kind of wind down and relax
as we go to bed, and humor's great for that. Also,
it's a time of day. You know, a lot of
couples are together that time of night, and humor's just
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just a great thing for a couple to enjoy together.
It's also much more conducive to you know, romance than
just bitter, lefty stuff. So there's a huge market for
that kind of show. And when this smug, dishonest Colbert says,
oh no, CBS is doing away with a show like
this entirely. They may say that now, but I bet
you had a hawk that they end up with an
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actually funny late show because there's a screaming market for it.
Let's go out to meet Colorado. You can bet they
have some good tomahawk donators there. Tom you're on the
Dan Kaplis show.
Speaker 12 (20:58):
Welcome and you know what, that was a great thing
that your partner did putting up that Johnny Cupperson deal.
That interview was great, you know, Stephen Colbert. I feel
sorry for him. He's had a rough life. But you
know what, the guy is filled with hate. I can't
believe this guy and all he does is go after
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conservatives and stuff. And look, you take like Bill Maher.
I love Bill Maher. I watched the show all the time,
you know, because he attacks everybody. He does it evenly,
you know, Yeah, and much more surprised me at all.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Much more lately.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Well, yeah, no, I mean, there's just not going to
be the market. It's it's why you don't hear many
lefty talk radio stations, right, they're just you have some
you have some talented lefties who've tried to do talk,
but but there's not the market there for it.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Yeah, he appreciate that.
Speaker 12 (21:52):
Nobody. There's no market for negativity, no market for that.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Hey appreciate the call, Thank you, my friend, very much
so and listen, I respectfully disagree with the last point
on no market for negativity. I think that market is
there depending on what you're being negative about. If you're
being negative about truly bad things, then there's going to
be a pretty big market for that. Because most people
are good and they want to stop bad things. But
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the left just being constantly negative about good things, starting
with America. Yeah, yeah, there's not. And let's hope there's
never going to be a big enough market for that.
Speaking of negativity, negati, negator in chief?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Is that a word? It is now? Barack Obama.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Ryan, let's go to cut fourteen, Barack Obama saying young
boys need a gay man in their life for guidance.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Cut fourteen place.
Speaker 13 (22:47):
One of the most valuable things I learned as a
guy was I had a gay professor in college at
a time when openly gay folks still weren't out of
life who became one of my favorite professors and was
a great guy and would call me out when I
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started saying stuff that was ignorant. Do you need that?
They show empathy and kindness, And by the way, you
need that person in your friend group so that if
you then have a boy who is who's who's who's gay,
or Don Binder or they had somebody that they can go, Okay,
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I'm not.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Alone in this, and then I'll get you.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I meant to get you another cut, Ryan, there's this
other cut where he's talking about how you need gays.
You need a gay in your child's life, so the
child's not dependent on the parent, and the gay person
can keep the parent and check. I'll get you that bite.
But let me tackle what he just said right there.
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First of all, he was in college at a time
when when gay people couldn't be open.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
What is he talking about?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
And I know the guy just lies, but what in
the world is he talking about?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
How old is Obama?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Uh, he's a little bit younger than you, but not
a lot.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Yeah, yeah, right, But the point is he's not older
than me. No, no, And listen, when I was in college.
When I was in college, you know, at first I'm
a student senator, then I'm a student body president. When
I was a student senator, I had an openly gay roommate.
He came and he presented to the student Senate. We
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called it the Executive Council, the Budget for Gay Liberation.
And I'm there introducing him to everybody as my roommate.
What's Obama talking about? When I was student body president then,
and I was part of a tri executive and then
I ran for president of my own When I was
student body president, my campaign manager was an openly gay
guy named Walt Bloher one of the great humans you
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will ever meet. And by the way, when the mob
came to beat me up, he was the only.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
One who stood with me. So what is Obama talking about?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
There were a lot of gays way out in the open, then, yeah,
but that's just what they do, right, They play holier.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Than now and then they make this stuff up. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
And I've been very, very happily heterosexual my entire life.
But I wouldn't have a second thought about having a
gay roommate, as I did several times if they were,
you know, just great people and people of character, and
you know, they kept their sex life to themselves and
I kept mind to myself. Of course I didn't have one,
so that wasn't hurt. But I thought I thought I
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was going back to the seminary then, right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Plus if you look at where he went, and I
had to look this up, but he's a graduate undergrad
for his bachelor's degree at Columbia University in New York
City and at Harvard just outside of Boston. His JD
as Juris doctorate. Dan pretty sure when he went to college.
So he was born in nineteen sixty one sixty three
years old, so that puts them in college right around
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nineteen eighty. Yeah, lots of gays out in the open,
especially on college campus, isn't, especially in New York and Boston.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah, just bizarre.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Then I do want to I will get you that
cut and we'll talk about it a little later where
he talks about, oh, no, you need you need a
gay person in your child's life so that they have
somebody other than their parent to go to and help
keep the parent in check.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
What a bunch of nonsense.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
But it's just so consistent with that leftist ideology, right
that they're not your kids, just like Obama says, no,
you didn't. You didn't create that success, you didn't create
those jobs. It's the attitude of the left. These are
not your kids. And that's why you get people like
Poulists who come out the day after he's elected governor saying,
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hey have to keep your faith out of the public square, right,
because if they've got to, they've got to separate people
from their faith. They have to separate children from their
parents in order to be able to ingrain the leftist
ideology because it's so counter to most people's faith and
it's so counter to what most parents believe, and they're
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they're pretty blatant about it.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
The only question is whether society is going to go
for it or not. I think in this last election,
most places in America anyway, that the country made a
pretty strong statement it does not want to go down
that road. Three or three seven three two five five
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Speaker 2 (27:28):
Hey when we come back.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Yeah, we'll pull that other Obama sound. But this is
hilarious and you're really going to enjoy it. As all
of these Biden nights, all these key Democrats now take
the fifth when they're asked under oath, was Joe Biden
mentally competent to be president?
Speaker 2 (27:46):
You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 14 (27:52):
From the optics standpoint, the timing could not be worse
for CBS. Colbert is such an outspoken Trump critic, he's
just back from vacation, and as you showed there on
Monday on his first night back from vacation, he's also
a thorn in his parent company's side. So this looks
to a lot of Colbert's fans like another form of
capitulation by CBS to the President the United States.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Well, wait a second, are you capitulating to the president
or are you capitulating to reality? And the reality is
this is not the the leftist America that the left
thought it had achieved and that several of these networks
better and thought the left was about to achieve it.
That's not the country anymore, and that's not where the
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country's headed. So that's not where the audience is. So
if you want to call that capitulation, so be it
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One thing we know for sure, right is that these
networks still care at least a little bit about money,
and that is why we are going to end up
with what we should have. It's the great thing, the
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power of the marketplace right and demand. Is we're going
to end up with the truly funny late night show again,
which means sometimes it'll offend me, sometimes I'll love the
political humor, but it's going to be balanced and down
the middle, and the priority is going to be funny
stuff no matter which way the attack goes. And then
plenty of stuff that isn't even political. There will be
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another show like The Carson Show again, because there's money
to be.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Made doing a show like this.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
These hardcore lefty late night shows were an extension of
the politics.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Of the networks that hosted them.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
And Dan, this texter is right on the money. I
think my only concern is would a network have the
money to pay it? And if they did, I think
it would pay off it, says Dan. Could you imagine
a Dave Chappelle late night show?
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yeah, anything funny, man, Don't people get it? God created
us to laugh.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yes, I mean humor cuts through.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Humor cuts through and opens hearts and minds in a
way that maybe nothing else on the face of the
earth does.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Created to do that.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
But these networks have become so caught up in their
own politics they've just sacrificed a truly funny show.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
And Dave Chappelle, there's a fascinating interview Dave Letterman does
this series. I think you can find on one of
the streaming platforms that that's basically my guest needs no introduction.
He used to introduce a lot of his guests that way.
Letterman tries to get political, and he's in Dave Chappelle's
hometown in Ohio. And Dave Chappelle is in the hometown
that he grew up in with his dad. It's rural Ohio.
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It is Trump country, and he is not a Trumper,
but he understands it and he gets it, and he
refuses to condemn Trump voters or even Trump himself.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
And I'm gonna dig that sound up too, Dan.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
There was an iconic Saturday Night Live monologue that Dave
Chappelle did in which he said, I get it. I
understand why people like Donald Trump. And here's why.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, And the key is are you someone who disagrees
or are you a hater? There you go, because yeah,
and if you disagree with Trump, fine, you can still
do humor and everything else. But many of these people
in all these late nights.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
They're haters. They're actual haters.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
And Chappelle does not hate Trump.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
And who wants to go to bed at night hating
r Right, It's the opposite of what we've been taught,
you know, growing up, which is, hey, you know, you
got some beef with your wife or whatever, then you
work it out before you go to bed at night.
That you who wants to go to bed hating, and
that's what they try to get you to do in
these lefty shows, go to sleep at night hating. Yeah,
(31:27):
there will be another great And who do you think
that comedian will be. You think it'll be a Chappelle's show,
You think it'll be somebody else, But.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
There will be one, and before too long.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
I think, well Chappelle would be phenomenal. But again, you're
gonna have to pay big money and is a net
We're going to feel it's worth it, and is Chappelle
is gonna be willing to do it because he bailed
on Chappelle's show, which was genius. It was pure genius
on Comedy Central about twenty years ago. But he flaked
out and he went to Africa for a while. It
was really weird. But I think one guy we just
witnessed him host The SPS, Shane Gillis. If he hosted
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a show like that, it'd be kind of free wheeling fun.
I don't know that he has the chops the host,
that's a different element altogether, but he's got the humor
and he's got the pulse of America Dan because he
killed it on the SP's as the MC for that.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Now tell me about fallon because I sort of tuned
out all the late night shows.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
But but he's not a hater, is he?
Speaker 6 (32:16):
He's not, But he shied away from it when he
had that iconic episode himself where Donald Trump was on
the air he must up his hair and he took
a lot of heat for that from the left, and
then he capitulated, He capitulated, he surrendered, and then the
woke mob got him and now he falls in line
and so now he's like just everybody else, like Seth Myers,
like Jimmy Kimmel, like Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
And that was so disappointing.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, that show will be coming three or three seven, one,
three eight two five five the number TEXTDA and five seven,
seventh through nine.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Speaking of which, we've got to schedule.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
That show where I'm going to do the whole show,
the serious topics, but it's all going to be humorous
and well, you know, need a day or two to
prepare for that.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
I'm working on pulling up some of these clips.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
I got another Carson one coming up just for our
listeners and knowledge out there, and I'm gonna pull that,
Like I said, the Chappelle SNL, the portion where he
talks about Donald Trump and try to get a concise question.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
But what I'm talking about in the show that we're
planning to do is that the challenge for me just
is it'd be a challenge for you on your great
show if you're going to try to do a humorous
take on all the serious topics of the day without
just doing Rodney danger Phil jokes.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
And we can do that. But speaking of.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Which, you want to hear something funny, Yeah, let's do
these back to back. Let's do first a little bit
of another top Biden official taking the fifth and then
we'll do kind of the funny spin on that cut.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Thirty three.
Speaker 15 (33:34):
Please Thomas Thomas advised President Biden on the handling of
classified documents found in his garage.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
On the advice of counsel, I respectfully, respectfully declined to
answer the question pursuing to my fifth Man rights under
the Constitution.
Speaker 15 (33:54):
The record will reflect that Miss thomasin he has invoked
the Fifth Amendment right against self and at Lasini.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Please do be very clear.
Speaker 15 (34:01):
Are you declining to answer the question put to you
solely on the ground that you believe the answer will
incriminate you on.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
The Advisive Council, I respectfully decline to answer the question
pursuing to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
Speaker 15 (34:14):
Miss Thomasini, did President Joe Biden or anyone else in
the White House instruct you to conceal or destroy classified
material found at President Biden's home or office on.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
The Advisive Council, I respectfully declined to.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Answer the questions to make And there's been a lot
of this going on now, right, So I'm really glad
they're drilling down on that. This scandal has to be exposed.
But then here's a kind of a fun take on
all of the Biden people taking the fifth cup thirty please,
so many.
Speaker 16 (34:45):
Amendment in the Constitution of the United States, me the film,
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me the FIBB.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Golden Threefold, A lot of that, A.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Lot of that.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Yeah, I hope they drill down and identify everybody involved
in that scandal. Hey, texture said, Dan, how about that
other Obama story that his ties to Russia Gate.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
I'll talk about that on the other side as well
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to laugh listening. I was listening to the local new
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six point thirty kitch at w and Denver, and they
had Denver Mayor Mike Johnston on, and he was talking
about how he's going to be cracking down on crime
now with law enforcement and not letting people just walk
out of stores with all this stuff. It's like, aren't
you the guy who's like cutting the police budget a
whole lot right now so that you can pay to
house more homeless people.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I mean, he is that very same guy.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
But it's this ability to lie shamelessly, which is so
kind of intriguing to me clinically because I just don't
know how humans get to that point, right, And I'm
far from a perfect being. But you know, if say
Ryan Ever came in with a bad haircut, which is
inconceivable to me because he never takes his hat off,
but say he did, and he said, what do you think?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
And I say, oh, man, that's a great haircut.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I feel guilty for three weeks and listen, I got
you know, I got a lot of problems in my
negative column. But I think most people and probably vast
majority of people listening, just don't lie. But the left
right now, it's like a requirement you be able to lie.
But so Mike Johnson, Yeah, he's going to be cracking
down on crime. Do not hold your breath. But it
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ties into kind of a funny little combo pack we
put together here for you and if fast Moving show
today We're in cover a million million different topics, but
I wanted to get to this one right out of
the gate.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You know, this mom, Donnie guy, this this communist.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
In New York who it looks like they're about to
elect mayor and he's just very open about it, right,
He's just very open.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
No, we'll do whatever we have to do, do.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Away with private property rights, whatever, to make sure we
can give everybody a home. Well, question I have for
you among many today three oh three seven one three
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is there, between Mike Johnston and this self identified socialist
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but really more of a communist in New York, this mom, Donnie.
How much of a difference is there really? I understand
the difference in how upfront about it, how open they
are about it. But listen to this clip and then
tell me how much of a difference is there really
or is it just the packaging for the local audience?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Cut sixteen place right?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
My platform is that every single person should have housed.
And I think, faced with these two options, the system,
the system has hundreds of thousands of people unhoused, right
for what and if if there was any system that
could guarantee each person housing, whether you call it the
abolition of private property or you call it, you know,
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just a state wide house and guarantee it is preferable
to what is going on right now. And I think
that people try and play like gotcha games about these
kinds of things, and it's like, look, I care more
about whether somebody has a home.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
We will get you a home. We will get you
a home. We will get you a home.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, how much of a difference is there? The first
was Mandani and the second is Johnston. It is inaugural address,
same thing, right, and Mike Johnston stood up and said, Hey,
you don't have a home. You come to Denver, we
will get you a home. So is there really any
difference there?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I understand Johnston is present himself differently and he would
not call himself a socialist, etc. But in terms of
the approach, is there any difference there? Once you just
say to the world you come to Denver, we will
get you home. And then, of course, as we predicted,
look at the position it puts the good people of
Denver in right now, where all of a sudden you
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have people being furloughed, you have budgets being caught, you
have services being curtailed. So Mike Johnston can fulfill his
promise of getting a home for anybody who wants one
in Denver. I mean, what kind of difference is there really?
And the broader point, and I'm sure there are some
on some policy issues, but the broader point is this
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is today's democratic party and can even call it a
democratic party anymore?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Does it have to be called a socialist party?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
But this is where it's going, whether it dresses up
like Johnston or Mandani, this is where it's going.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Which is to this kind of socialism.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Okay, everybody else in Denver, you work hard for the city,
you pay your taxes, you need to be protected by police.
Now we're cutting the police budget, we're laying you off,
and we're cutting services over at the park and our intersections, Ryan,
have you seen our intersections in Denver? It looks like
worse than Third World? And so everybody's told no, you're
going to have a lesser quality of life, or you're
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going to lose hours at your job, or you're not going.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
To be protected by police.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
So that we can provide housing for anybody around America
who wants to come here and.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Ask for it. What's the difference there? Three or three?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
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Speaker 6 (05:36):
Well, there's also a couple of nuggets in there with
mom Donnie that you're right, it's just varying shades of
the same color from Mike Johnston. These guaranteed outcomes Dan
that are so dangerous and why I know that we
wanted to create a safety net coming out of the
Great Depression, and that was the whole basis for Social Security.
And these government funded ponzi schemes, and that's what they are.
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You pay into them, you don't get out necessarily what
you pay in. If you die before retirement age, you
don't collect. And if you don't live long enough for
the amount that you contributed, you don't collect an equal
amount or more. It's a bad investment just from that
model standpoint. But when when Donnie says everybody has a
right to a home, well, nothing in life is free.
There's no such thing as a free lunch, and there's
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certainly no such thing as a free home.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
So somebody's paying for that.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
It's government subsidized, it's government controlled, eliminating private property. I mean,
try telling that to somebody who has rural land here
in Colorado.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Well, take the government out of there and just say
us right, because it's us paying for that end. Listen,
when it comes to and I would get I'd love
to hear from folks on this DA n five seven
seven thirty nine. But when it comes to folks listening
to this show, who I think are a microcosm of
just good people out there across the spectrum, vast majority
I think would say, of course, we have to have
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a safety net for those people truly in crisis, who
are in a situation where they need a home short
term whatever, or maybe they have some kind of long
term disability they're going to need longer term help. Yeah,
a true safety net like that, I think the vast
majority of us would support and would feel good about
paying for through our taxes, as long as the money
spent well. But that's what Johnston's talking about, And this
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is at the heart of my comparison on Donnie. When
you listen to what Mike Johnston promised in that inaugural address,
you know he's not putting those kind of conditions on it.
You know, come to Denver, we will get you a home.
You know you're unhoused. We will get you a home.
And a society can't support itself like that right, it's
the old Hey, when the mask drops out of the
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ceiling on a plane, you know, put it on yourself first,
before the kids, so you can help the kid. Society
cannot afford to do what Mike Johnston has pledged to do,
and that's why Denver right now is going through all
these layoffs and cutbacks and cutbacks and cops. But Ryan,
do you disagree? This is where the Democratic Party is going.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
This is the failure of the party and the why
cities nationwide are crumbling under the weight of themselves because businesses,
business owners, restaurant tours, people that would want to set
up shop in a metro area, they don't want to
pay the taxes required. Look at New York City and
where it will go if Momdannie does take over, that
money's going to flee. The very tax space that you
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need to support these communist socialist programs is going to
be gone.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
So where are youre going to get the money from?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
You're not right, and you know what you might be
able to hold onto those job creators, big tax payers
if you are providing this tremendous quality of life. But
hand in hand with this leftist ideology is pro criminal
and anti cop. So at the same time you're doing
this awful stuff with the right hand, you are recruiting
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criminals to your city with the left hand, just like
Johnston now and polists and the Democrats are out there
recruiting people that come here illegally from all over the world.
And now, of course there'll be many who aren't otherwise criminals,
but they're not vetting. They're recruiting everybody to come here illegally.
Come here illegally, you can get a driver's license first day,
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you can use an ID that's inspired nine years, three
hundred and sixty days. And then of course the way
they coddle and protect criminals with the other changes they've
made in the law. So that's the double whemming. I mean,
I could see a scenario, Ryan, I wouldn't support it
and wouldn't want it, but a scenario where they could
pull off some of their socialist stuff if there were
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if they were taking advantage of this beauty God's given
us here in Colorado and everything, and they were creating
this tremendous quality of life. But because they're so pro criminal,
you see the way it just deteriorates. So yeah, they're
killing the place the left is killing Denver. How long
do you think that's going to take? Three O three
seven one three eight two five five. But we have
much more than that ahead today as well. We have
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some breaking news from the Trump administration. Has Obama been
caught red handed? But here's a bigger one. Barack Obama.
Barack Obama saying that, hey, every kid, every kid needs
a gay person in their life. Every kid needs a
gay person in their life to give that kid feedback
on whether their own parents a good parent or not. Yeah,
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you can't make this stuff up. You're on the Dan
Kapla Show.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Thank you very much. Yeah, we worked hard. It's a
very important actor genius act. They named it after me,
and I want to thank you. I want to thank you.
This is a hell of an act.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
He I don't think we'll ever have a president this
funny again. No, but by the way, I think we
pulled this sound. Did you hear jd Vance ripping on Reagan?
Cut eighteen jd Vance ripping on Reagan?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
This is on Rogan? I think right, and we saw this.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
Look I'm like a Reagan guy, right, I'm a conservative Republican.
But Reagan screwed up a lot up mental health in
this country. People don't talk nearly enough about that. He
really screwed up amnesty thing. He really screwed up.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah, and people always say, well, you know Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 8 (11:08):
You know, when they critics of Donald Trump will say, well,
look at how Reagan talked about immigration. Because of what
Ronald Reagan did at the nineteen eighty six amnesty California
is now effectively permanently blue state except.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
When Arnold won.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
But Arnold ran as a super moderate Republican. He was
a major celebrity, right, he was at the height of
his celebrity power. And he's he's still won barely, even
though California had been mismanaged. California is a one party
state because of Ronald Reagan's ambassy. And that's the fear,
is that the entire country could become When the entire
country becomes.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
That, yeah, so interesting and really kind of fun to watch,
you know. JD Vance growing the job, Rubio growing the job,
and it's just going to be a blast quick twenty six.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
This will all be out in the open right.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
A fact check on JD. Vance there and the few
times that he needs one. But he's a little younger
than Kelly and I are. And Kelly lived through the
governor's race back then were great Davis, great out Davis,
as Russe Limbaugh called him. And the recall election there
he didn't win by a little bit, Arnold Swarzenegger, Dawn,
he won by a lot. Schwarzenegger cleared the field. It
was pretty emphatic from the voters of California. And that's
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the last time it happened.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
The interesting thing though, when you think about Reagan, I'm
not going to spend the show on President Reagan. Is
greatness is obvious, and we all owe him a debt
of gratitude. But another thing that he mishandled was the
life issue. And we had a chance to save an
awful lot of lives during his term, and he kept appointing.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
People who were, you know, justices who.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Were not originalist justices, justices who were going to legislate
on the issue of abortions.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
So rowe would have.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Been gone a long long time ago if President Reagan
had had done a better job of nominating Supreme Court justices.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
But well, it was kind of the first dee.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
I hied when he nominated Sanderdale O'Connor was like he
was dedicated to nominating a woman.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And she was a fine justice, but like you said,
very middle of the road.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
And then antonin Scalia an all time great, the lion
of the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I mean, that's that's top of the charts.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
But then Robert Bork would have been a phenomenal justice,
tremendous legal mind. And that whole process happened. He got
Borke to become a verb. And then Anthony Kennedy comes
in and he was much like Sanderdy O'Connor, right down
the middle kind of thing, like that.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Justice Roberts name.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I would disagree on O'Connor being a DEI higher.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I don't think she was.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I mean what I mean, she had plenty of merit.
She had plenty of merit, you know, coming out of Arizona,
very distinguished. But she was not pro life and she
was going to be an activist judge on abortion. And
all you have to do is interpret the darn Constitution
and rogue gets overturned. But the Reagan Whitehouse did not
(13:54):
investigate her. They would have found out that she had
pushed all this pro abortion legislation, but I respectfully disagree.
I think she was very qualified. She was just kind
of a pro abortion activist. Three or three someone three
eight two five five text d A N five seven
seven three nine. So much more to get here to
today Colbert his show being canceled, and and what is
(14:18):
your take on this? What is your take? I want
to open this up to everybody to Colbert being canceled.
Here's a bear announcing it yesterday. Cut to please Ryan.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
Before we start the show, I want to let you
know something that I found out just last night. Next
year will be our last season. The network will be
ending the Late Show in May. And yeah, Jailing, it's
(14:50):
not just the end of our show, but it's the
end of the Late Show on CBS.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I'm not being replaced. This is all just going away.
And I do want to say.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
I do want to say that the folks at CBS have.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Been great partners.
Speaker 9 (15:04):
I'm so grateful to the Tiffany Network for giving me
this chair and this beautiful theater.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
To call home.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Thanks and of course thanks Stephen. Yeah, and he's just
been ripping on him for the last few days. And
then some feedback from the left on that. See if
you agree or disagree with this, let's go to cut
five this John Heilman and b C News.
Speaker 10 (15:24):
I think there's a consensus in the television business that
this generation of late night hosts Stephen, Jimmy, Jimmy and
Seth Myers, we're going to be the last. That they
would not that the economics for the reasons you were
talking about, because so much of the revenue and the
viewership is now moving into social platforms notto, YouTube, that
(15:47):
you wouldn't you wouldn't find us a success or to
any of those guys.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
This would be the.
Speaker 10 (15:51):
Last generation in those traditional seats.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, thanks, Aran, But wait a second.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
The only reason they don't have the revenue is they
don't have a large enough audience because they've become such
hardcore lefties. You're trying to tell me that that a true,
funny late night show could not make it. Of course
it could for the same reason it has for so
many years until these guys ruined it.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
And you know. My take on this, though, is listen
to Colbert.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I obviously disagree with him politically, and I think he's
often very dishonest, but the fact that he chose to
take this show and instead of doing comedy, you know,
use it to try to advance political causes.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
He believes in.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I'm not critical of him for that because I and
I never watch him right for all the obvious reasons.
But I personally believe, and I would guess you do too,
that Hey, we're put on this earth to make the
biggest impact we can on the things that we believe in.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Stop bad things, do good things.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Now, I have an opposite view of Colbert on what
that means, but I'm never going to fault the guy
or Gale for trying to use their platform to advance causes.
They truly believe it, even if I disagree with their causes. Now,
his show's going away, and the others will too, because
they're just not funny. They've they've turned into bitter lefties,
(17:16):
and they're only going to get more bitter beer faces.
Keystone is still around, Ryan, Did you ever drink Keystone?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Absolutely not. That's a horrible beer, but yeah, it's still around.
I believe.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Well, that's where bitter beer face comes from, That's right, Yeah,
from that, I mean, they're only going to get more
bitter beer faced. You know, has all of this conservative
success continues, so if nothing else, maybe leave.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Them on just to enjoy that.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
But but yeah, I'm surprised they're gonna leave colberta now.
As long as they have or as long as they will.
I mean, I've fault them for just canceling the thing
right now.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Give them a soft landing.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
You know, May is when the live shows typically end anyway,
So they're letting him play out the string in the season.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Then that'll be it.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, and maybe they figure they'll get the train wreck,
you know, bumping ratings right as as people tune into
see the very end of it. Hey, whant to come
back to the First thing I want to do is
play this sound of Barack Obama talking about how every
kid needs a gay person in their life and in
part to keep a check on their own parent.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Wow. Three someone three eight two five five On the Dan.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Kaplish you're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 11 (18:40):
People say he'll never take a serious controversy.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Well I have an answer to that.
Speaker 11 (18:45):
I said, no, tell me the last time that Jack.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Benny red Skelton.
Speaker 11 (18:51):
Benny comedian use his show to do serious issues.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
That's not what I'm there for. Can't they see that.
Speaker 11 (18:59):
But you and I they think that just because you
have it tonight show that you must deal in serious issues.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
That's a danger. It's a real danger.
Speaker 11 (19:08):
Once you start that, do you start to get that
self important feeling. That's what you say has great import
and you know, strangely enough, you could use that show
as a form you could sway people, and I don't
think you should as an entertainer.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
See, Kerson had it right, and I mean had it
right in terms of what worked for him, but also
what worked commercially. And that's why these you know, late
night lefties right now, they're not working. And Colbert's just
the first to fall. But Ryan, just as you played
that music right now, I understand that you know, many
people listening you've never heard of Johnny Carson an age thing.
(19:41):
But the concept's pretty simple. Just a funny late night
show devoted to comedy, and you can have political comedy.
It just has to be even handed. So when you
get these guys who are just far left, you know,
as a Texter says Dan, Colbert is a late night
Rachel Maddow. Everyone is tired of arrogance and smug superior attitudes. Yeah,
(20:03):
but if you had a truly funny show and then
I'll go to the phone. So if you had a
truly funny show, it'd be an enormous hit, in part because,
I mean, what happens at the end of the day, right,
We all want to kind of wind down and relax
as we go to bed, and humor's great for that. Also,
it's a time of day. You know, a lot of
couples are together that time of night, and humor's just
(20:25):
just a great thing for a couple to enjoy together.
It's also much more conducive to you know, romance than
just bitter, lefty stuff. So there's a huge market for
that kind of show. And when this smug, dishonest Colbert says,
oh no, CBS is doing away with a show like
this entirely. They may say that now, but I bet
you had a hawk that they end up with an
(20:46):
actually funny late show because there's a screaming market for it.
Let's go out to meet Colorado. You can bet they
have some good tomahawk donators there. Tom you're on the
Dan Kaplis show.
Speaker 12 (20:58):
Welcome and you know what, that was a great thing
that your partner did putting up that Johnny Cupperson deal.
That interview was great, you know, Stephen Colbert. I feel
sorry for him. He's had a rough life. But you
know what, the guy is filled with hate. I can't
believe this guy and all he does is go after
(21:19):
conservatives and stuff. And look, you take like Bill Maher.
I love Bill Maher. I watched the show all the time,
you know, because he attacks everybody. He does it evenly,
you know, Yeah, and much more surprised me at all.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Much more lately.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Well, yeah, no, I mean, there's just not going to
be the market. It's it's why you don't hear many
lefty talk radio stations, right, they're just you have some
you have some talented lefties who've tried to do talk,
but but there's not the market there for it.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Yeah, he appreciate that.
Speaker 12 (21:52):
Nobody. There's no market for negativity, no market for that.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Hey appreciate the call, Thank you, my friend, very much
so and listen, I respectfully disagree with the last point
on no market for negativity. I think that market is
there depending on what you're being negative about. If you're
being negative about truly bad things, then there's going to
be a pretty big market for that. Because most people
are good and they want to stop bad things. But
(22:20):
the left just being constantly negative about good things, starting
with America. Yeah, yeah, there's not. And let's hope there's
never going to be a big enough market for that.
Speaking of negativity, negati, negator in chief?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Is that a word? It is now? Barack Obama.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Ryan, let's go to cut fourteen, Barack Obama saying young
boys need a gay man in their life for guidance.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Cut fourteen place.
Speaker 13 (22:47):
One of the most valuable things I learned as a
guy was I had a gay professor in college at
a time when openly gay folks still weren't out of
life who became one of my favorite professors and was
a great guy and would call me out when I
(23:09):
started saying stuff that was ignorant. Do you need that?
They show empathy and kindness, And by the way, you
need that person in your friend group so that if
you then have a boy who is who's who's who's gay,
or Don Binder or they had somebody that they can go, Okay,
(23:30):
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Alone in this, and then I'll get you.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I meant to get you another cut, Ryan, there's this
other cut where he's talking about how you need gays.
You need a gay in your child's life, so the
child's not dependent on the parent, and the gay person
can keep the parent and check. I'll get you that bite.
But let me tackle what he just said right there.
(23:54):
First of all, he was in college at a time
when when gay people couldn't be open.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
What is he talking about?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
And I know the guy just lies, but what in
the world is he talking about?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
How old is Obama?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Uh, he's a little bit younger than you, but not
a lot.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Yeah, yeah, right, But the point is he's not older
than me. No, no, And listen, when I was in college.
When I was in college, you know, at first I'm
a student senator, then I'm a student body president. When
I was a student senator, I had an openly gay roommate.
He came and he presented to the student Senate. We
(24:30):
called it the Executive Council, the Budget for Gay Liberation.
And I'm there introducing him to everybody as my roommate.
What's Obama talking about? When I was student body president then,
and I was part of a tri executive and then
I ran for president of my own When I was
student body president, my campaign manager was an openly gay
guy named Walt Bloher one of the great humans you
(24:53):
will ever meet. And by the way, when the mob
came to beat me up, he was the only.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
One who stood with me. So what is Obama talking about?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
There were a lot of gays way out in the open, then, yeah,
but that's just what they do, right, They play holier.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Than now and then they make this stuff up. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
And I've been very, very happily heterosexual my entire life.
But I wouldn't have a second thought about having a
gay roommate, as I did several times if they were,
you know, just great people and people of character, and
you know, they kept their sex life to themselves and
I kept mind to myself. Of course I didn't have one,
so that wasn't hurt. But I thought I thought I
(25:38):
was going back to the seminary then, right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Plus if you look at where he went, and I
had to look this up, but he's a graduate undergrad
for his bachelor's degree at Columbia University in New York
City and at Harvard just outside of Boston. His JD
as Juris doctorate. Dan pretty sure when he went to college.
So he was born in nineteen sixty one sixty three
years old, so that puts them in college right around
(26:03):
nineteen eighty. Yeah, lots of gays out in the open,
especially on college campus, isn't, especially in New York and Boston.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah, just bizarre.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Then I do want to I will get you that
cut and we'll talk about it a little later where
he talks about, oh, no, you need you need a
gay person in your child's life so that they have
somebody other than their parent to go to and help
keep the parent in check.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
What a bunch of nonsense.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
But it's just so consistent with that leftist ideology, right
that they're not your kids, just like Obama says, no,
you didn't. You didn't create that success, you didn't create
those jobs. It's the attitude of the left. These are
not your kids. And that's why you get people like
Poulists who come out the day after he's elected governor saying,
(26:46):
hey have to keep your faith out of the public square, right,
because if they've got to, they've got to separate people
from their faith. They have to separate children from their
parents in order to be able to ingrain the leftist
ideology because it's so counter to most people's faith and
it's so counter to what most parents believe, and they're
(27:08):
they're pretty blatant about it.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
The only question is whether society is going to go
for it or not. I think in this last election,
most places in America anyway, that the country made a
pretty strong statement it does not want to go down
that road. Three or three seven three two five five
The number text d A N five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Hey when we come back.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Yeah, we'll pull that other Obama sound. But this is
hilarious and you're really going to enjoy it. As all
of these Biden nights, all these key Democrats now take
the fifth when they're asked under oath, was Joe Biden
mentally competent to be president?
Speaker 2 (27:46):
You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 14 (27:52):
From the optics standpoint, the timing could not be worse
for CBS. Colbert is such an outspoken Trump critic, he's
just back from vacation, and as you showed there on
Monday on his first night back from vacation, he's also
a thorn in his parent company's side. So this looks
to a lot of Colbert's fans like another form of
capitulation by CBS to the President the United States.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Well, wait a second, are you capitulating to the president
or are you capitulating to reality? And the reality is
this is not the the leftist America that the left
thought it had achieved and that several of these networks
better and thought the left was about to achieve it.
That's not the country anymore, and that's not where the
(28:36):
country's headed. So that's not where the audience is. So
if you want to call that capitulation, so be it
three or three SEVENE three A two five five The
number text d A N five seven seven three nine.
One thing we know for sure, right is that these
networks still care at least a little bit about money,
and that is why we are going to end up
with what we should have. It's the great thing, the
(28:58):
power of the marketplace right and demand. Is we're going
to end up with the truly funny late night show again,
which means sometimes it'll offend me, sometimes I'll love the
political humor, but it's going to be balanced and down
the middle, and the priority is going to be funny
stuff no matter which way the attack goes. And then
plenty of stuff that isn't even political. There will be
(29:18):
another show like The Carson Show again, because there's money
to be.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Made doing a show like this.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
These hardcore lefty late night shows were an extension of
the politics.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Of the networks that hosted them.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
And Dan, this texter is right on the money. I
think my only concern is would a network have the
money to pay it? And if they did, I think
it would pay off it, says Dan. Could you imagine
a Dave Chappelle late night show?
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yeah, anything funny, man, Don't people get it? God created
us to laugh.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yes, I mean humor cuts through.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Humor cuts through and opens hearts and minds in a
way that maybe nothing else on the face of the
earth does.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Created to do that.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
But these networks have become so caught up in their
own politics they've just sacrificed a truly funny show.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
And Dave Chappelle, there's a fascinating interview Dave Letterman does
this series. I think you can find on one of
the streaming platforms that that's basically my guest needs no introduction.
He used to introduce a lot of his guests that way.
Letterman tries to get political, and he's in Dave Chappelle's
hometown in Ohio. And Dave Chappelle is in the hometown
that he grew up in with his dad. It's rural Ohio.
(30:30):
It is Trump country, and he is not a Trumper,
but he understands it and he gets it, and he
refuses to condemn Trump voters or even Trump himself.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
And I'm gonna dig that sound up too, Dan.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
There was an iconic Saturday Night Live monologue that Dave
Chappelle did in which he said, I get it. I
understand why people like Donald Trump. And here's why.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, And the key is are you someone who disagrees
or are you a hater? There you go, because yeah,
and if you disagree with Trump, fine, you can still
do humor and everything else. But many of these people
in all these late nights.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
They're haters. They're actual haters.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
And Chappelle does not hate Trump.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
And who wants to go to bed at night hating
r Right, It's the opposite of what we've been taught,
you know, growing up, which is, hey, you know, you
got some beef with your wife or whatever, then you
work it out before you go to bed at night.
That you who wants to go to bed hating, and
that's what they try to get you to do in
these lefty shows, go to sleep at night hating. Yeah,
(31:27):
there will be another great And who do you think
that comedian will be. You think it'll be a Chappelle's show,
You think it'll be somebody else, But.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
There will be one, and before too long.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
I think, well Chappelle would be phenomenal. But again, you're
gonna have to pay big money and is a net
We're going to feel it's worth it, and is Chappelle
is gonna be willing to do it because he bailed
on Chappelle's show, which was genius. It was pure genius
on Comedy Central about twenty years ago. But he flaked
out and he went to Africa for a while. It
was really weird. But I think one guy we just
witnessed him host The SPS, Shane Gillis. If he hosted
(31:57):
a show like that, it'd be kind of free wheeling fun.
I don't know that he has the chops the host,
that's a different element altogether, but he's got the humor
and he's got the pulse of America Dan because he
killed it on the SP's as the MC for that.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Now tell me about fallon because I sort of tuned
out all the late night shows.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
But but he's not a hater, is he?
Speaker 6 (32:16):
He's not, But he shied away from it when he
had that iconic episode himself where Donald Trump was on
the air he must up his hair and he took
a lot of heat for that from the left, and
then he capitulated, He capitulated, he surrendered, and then the
woke mob got him and now he falls in line
and so now he's like just everybody else, like Seth Myers,
like Jimmy Kimmel, like Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
And that was so disappointing.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, that show will be coming three or three seven, one,
three eight two five five the number TEXTDA and five seven,
seventh through nine.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Speaking of which, we've got to schedule.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
That show where I'm going to do the whole show,
the serious topics, but it's all going to be humorous
and well, you know, need a day or two to
prepare for that.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
I'm working on pulling up some of these clips.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
I got another Carson one coming up just for our
listeners and knowledge out there, and I'm gonna pull that,
Like I said, the Chappelle SNL, the portion where he
talks about Donald Trump and try to get a concise question.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
But what I'm talking about in the show that we're
planning to do is that the challenge for me just
is it'd be a challenge for you on your great
show if you're going to try to do a humorous
take on all the serious topics of the day without
just doing Rodney danger Phil jokes.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
And we can do that. But speaking of.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Which, you want to hear something funny, Yeah, let's do
these back to back. Let's do first a little bit
of another top Biden official taking the fifth and then
we'll do kind of the funny spin on that cut.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Thirty three.
Speaker 15 (33:34):
Please Thomas Thomas advised President Biden on the handling of
classified documents found in his garage.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
On the advice of counsel, I respectfully, respectfully declined to
answer the question pursuing to my fifth Man rights under
the Constitution.
Speaker 15 (33:54):
The record will reflect that Miss thomasin he has invoked
the Fifth Amendment right against self and at Lasini.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Please do be very clear.
Speaker 15 (34:01):
Are you declining to answer the question put to you
solely on the ground that you believe the answer will
incriminate you on.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
The Advisive Council, I respectfully decline to answer the question
pursuing to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
Speaker 15 (34:14):
Miss Thomasini, did President Joe Biden or anyone else in
the White House instruct you to conceal or destroy classified
material found at President Biden's home or office on.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
The Advisive Council, I respectfully declined to.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Answer the questions to make And there's been a lot
of this going on now, right, So I'm really glad
they're drilling down on that. This scandal has to be exposed.
But then here's a kind of a fun take on
all of the Biden people taking the fifth cup thirty please,
so many.
Speaker 16 (34:45):
Amendment in the Constitution of the United States, me the film,
(35:05):
me the FIBB.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Golden Threefold, A lot of that, A.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Lot of that.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Yeah, I hope they drill down and identify everybody involved
in that scandal. Hey, texture said, Dan, how about that
other Obama story that his ties to Russia Gate.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
I'll talk about that on the other side as well
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