February 10, 2025 • 35 mins
In this hour of today's edition of The Dan Caplis Show, Dan looks at the recent approval rating poll that showed Trump receiving a massive amount of support. Dan also shares his thoughts on Donald Trump's comments about the U.S. taking over the Gaza Strip, and his opinion on what those comments really meant.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Kaplis and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dankplis Show. Please be sure to give
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and to subscribe, download, and listen to the show every
single day on your favorite podcast platform. Wow, all of
these Mondays have been interesting going back about seven eight years,
but this one really good. I mean we have all
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that garbage from the Super Bowl yesterday, right, I mean,
just you got this event. They pour so much money
into They make it bigger and better in every way
every year except the halftime show, which is going backwards
in a hurry. So what do you think is behind that?
Because with the NFL, none of this is an accident, right,
I mean NFL these are smart people. They understand that
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that was a mediocre at best act yesterday. That just
isn't a household name for most Americans. Hey, you can't
please everybody's musical taste. But it's a super Bowl. It's
supposed to be big and grand, you know that, the
biggest thing around. So you got to have a household
name that guy I don't know these household naming his
own household. And the show was boring. It was like
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Carrie Oki, I'd rather it had been controversial, you know
what I mean, do something controversial. It was just a waste.
So why is the NFL allowing the halftime show to
go backwards? It used to be the big names, whether
you liked him or not, the big names. How do
you beat Bruno Mars? I kept saying that to my
wife and the Caroline, we were watching it together. You say,
where's Bruno Mars? You know where's Prince unfortunately is gone,
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but well you know where Bruno Mars is. He's in Vegas.
Get him over there. And yeah, So I don't get
that so weird and just so bad and boring. And
then so we're talking about that, and also we've got
some Super Bowl commercials. I thought there were some really
good ones. So we love doing that on the Monday
after super Bowl. We obviously have the fun sound of
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Trump being cheered. Why didn't Fox show him more often?
So first sitting president to go to a super Bowl,
He's on this big high right now, and he got
cheered wildly whenever people could, So why did Fox downplay that?
And then Taylor Swift getting booed. Everybody wants to hear that,
so we'll keep playing it. We do have some of
these big serious issues going on. King Supers president joined us.
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Pardon me, the Union president joined us to talk about. Sorry,
not emotional at all. In fact, I've never had less emotion.
It's peanut butter. But this goes my point. I normally
get this great peanut butter from King Supers. It's where
I've shop forever. Excuse me, Ryan, do you know the heimlick?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
You know, doctor Heimlich, but you're not willing to do it.
I had to do the heimlick on Amy once in church.
She was choking on the host we went to and
the host. This gets really tough because the host literally
is the body of Christ. It's it's God right there.
And we went to a church that used kind of
chunks of consecrated bread, and so she's choking, so you
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don't want to just you can't just spit it out. Anyway,
it was, it all worked out. Obviously she's still with us,
thank god. So anyway, yeah, so I normally have this
great peanut butter. I get a King Soupers. I'm honoring
the strike, so I had to instacart some replacement and
the stuff. It's just literally choking me. You can hear
it for yourself. Eight five five for zero five eight
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two five five takes d an five seven seven three nine.
We do have some really serious issues, you know. We're
we're talking unfortunately about the obvious abuse of the Israeli
hostages by Satan on Earth Moss and the possibility that
that deal at this point may break down. So we'll
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keep you updated on that. And then that the terrible
news today that Kelly's father passed away and just heartbreaking,
and the whole situation has been so very hard. Is
that Kelly with us right now? Ryan, Yeah, she'd like
to speak to you during the break if you okay, okay, sure?
Did Kelly want to talk off air during the break?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Thinks?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Okay, I think, so okay, I'll talk to Kelly off air,
but Pata, so just prayers please for Kelly's father in
the entire family. Just so very hard. And then on
the political front, you have and it's funny and productive
in a way because America can see I'm not there,
but you have the Democrats right now to just creating
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this falsehood, this fiction, this fantasy that somehow jd. Vance
is threatening that the Trump administration will not follow court orders.
The Trump administration has not threatened any such thing. Jadvance
has not said any such thing, And the Trump administration
has been rigorous about following court orders. Then what frustrates
the Democrats The Trump administration is then working its way
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through the court process and is going to prevail. If
they don't prevail on everything, they'll prevail on darn close
to everything. So this is just more Democrat national nervous
breakdown time. And it's good that Americans can see who
the Dems really are. But for those who have heard
all of this whaling and nashing of teeth from the Democrats,
be assured. No. Jd Vance did not imply threatened nor
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state that the Trump administration is going to defy court orders.
They're going to fight the court orders, and I think
in the vast majority of these situations they are going
to win. Got a text about a shooting, Dan, How
about the shooting at the main event in Highland's Ranch.
I have no idea if there's been a shooting or
anything like that. But have you heard a news story there? Ryan, No,
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because we can't control the texts that come in, so.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I don't know the newsroom yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I asked the newsroom if you would, because if there's
not been a shooting, I want to correct that right away.
That came in from a Texter. Let's see, I can't
even understand that task. Dan. You talk about tough questions
and follow up questions and you pitch up that softball
interview with the union rep. Surprise, you didn't ask her
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what ice creams you low? I forgot that was my
next question. Oh it happens Saturday, Okay, shoot her in
court today. Shooting at the main event in the Highlands Ranch.
I'm sorry I missed that. We were dealing Saturday, and
I'm sorry this sounds so very trite, but it wasn't
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to us. We were dealing Saturday with a very very
very scary medical emergency for our daughter's amazing, phenomenal dog, Maisie,
who is just beloved by all. She's just one of
the coolest creatures to ever live, and a very very
very scary event with her. I got the call at
my office at about eleven thirty Saturday, and then we
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all rushed over to the emergency vat and it was
just it went until about one in the morning, and
then by then she'd been through all the scopings and
everything else and was stable and we took her home
and she seems to be doing well right now. To
that note, and I won't take a lot of just
so I'm sorry. I was completely out of the news
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cycle for that entire time on Saturday. So I'll follow
up on that and see what's there. But allow me
a thirty second done this, And this is just because
I got to tell you this is one of the
most impressive companies, organizations, group of people I've ever seen.
This company called Veterinary Emergency Group, and I've never been
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there before. We ended up there because it was Hamden
Night twenty five, and thank god we did. I mean
because I deal with a lot of companies. You do too,
just in everyday life. It is so extraordinarily impressive. It's
like one of the top five experiences I've ever had
as a consumer. And obviously this is a very tense,
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worrisome situation, but the people there were all spectacular. It
was extremely well staffed, and you could tell walking in
that it was a very well high end, well funded
kind of operation. And I found out later they've got
nash All big corporate ownership money it's just incredibly impressive,
and the people so knowledgeable, and one thing they did
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Ryan and I won't go on and on about it,
but I'm so impressed with them. They've got they operate
all out in the open, so you know how you
go into some emergency VET clinics and everything happens behind
closed doors. Everything's out in the open, and so we
could sit in as Maisie was being put under and
as they were, you know, doing their thing and scoping
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or and everything else. We could sit in. We could
watch it all unfold. That's how confident they are and
their people and the quality of the work and their doctors.
I just could not be more impressed, and so thank
you to everybody at Veteran Veterinary Emergency Group. When we
were on our way over, we weren't absolutely certain we'd
be taking our dog home, you know what I mean,
And so it was very very impressed. Eight five to
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five for zero five eight two five five text d
A N five seven seven three nine. So we'll get
some more details on that shooting that apparently occurred on Saturday. Listen.
In terms of the Union rep. If you're aware of
some tough questions that I could have asked her then
let me know and we'll get her back on. I'm
happy to do that. I mean, what am I concerned about?
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They won't check me out at King Soupers. I'm checking
myself out now anyway, which, by the way, I hate
you know what I mean? And I don't know why
I do hard things all day, but when I'm checking
out groceries, I just I want to roll up my
basket and check out my groceries. I don't want to
go self check and there's more and more self check on.
I like talking to the checker. I like doing this. Yeah,
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but anyway, Yeah, if you can think of some tough
questions for please let me know. We'll get her back on.
She's very available and accessible to us, and I like
asking tough questions. I just couldn't think of any for
What would a good tough question be there for?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Ryan?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Well, I think the consensus of our texters here is
how could they improve or increase wages for workers? Get
more workers? In what she said, there's a shortage, and
I believe her, having shopped there myself at the Greenwood
Village location many many times. I go there every time
I go grocery shopping, and how you'll be able to
keep prices down if the expense of employees and the
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number of employees goes up.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yeah, and forgive me, I should have asked that, but
I thought it was pretty obvious, right because she was
talking to and that's not a comment on you at all,
but she was talking about their profits. And listen, I'm
a big believer, first of all, that you can do
all of that and actually increase your profits by a
improving the customer experience and be keeping happy, healthy employees
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because turnovers so expensive. So I think you can do
all that and increase your bottom line. I mean, I've
got to tell you our business, and I'm so glad
we do that at our law firm. We pride ourselves
on paying top of market, on treating people incredibly well
in every way, and you want to be that way
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as a human. But it's also good business. And yeah,
it increases that line on your overhead a bunch, But
at the end of the year, you're way ahead because
you have great people. You've been able to attract, you've
been able to keep them, you've been able to keep
them happy. So I think you can accomplish all that,
but yeah, let's get her beck on. Look, why don't
we open it up. Toughest questions you can take up
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for the Union president. We'll write them all down. We'll
get her beck on. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah, the crowd going crazy as they showed Trump on
the big screen during the national anthem and when he
went down on the field earlier. Taylor Swift not so much.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah, damn you can see.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Has she ever been booed before ever venue, for any
reason by any crowd?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I have to believe No. No, physically impossible. Yeah, physically impossible.
But yeah, so wild day yesterday we've been talking about,
and I don't think we'll have a whole lot more
time for it unless you insist. But what we've been
talking about just how awful the halftime show was. And
I know I don't think a single caller would disagree
with that, But I'm more intrigued by why is the
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super Bowl letting the halftime shows get worse and smaller
and not big national acts that everybody's familiar with, whether
they like the music or not, When they put so
much effort into making the game so grand, and the
NFL does a great job of making the game a
grand event for the whole country. Why are they letting
the halftime show gets smaller and smaller and smaller. So
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eight five five or is there a five A two
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day and the halftime show targeted the young soccer crowd
and normally don't watch dangerous football. Dan, I need to
write this down. Dan says the Trump administration won't defy
any quarteror and will win all the legal challenges. Stay tuned.
Is there another Dan doing a show out there, Ryan,
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because must have listened to that show. I certainly said,
and it's one hundred percent true. The Trump administration is
not defined court orders, will not defy court orders. But
I did not say they will win all legal challenges.
What I said is I expect them to win. I
said something like the vast majority or most or almost all. Yeah, Dan,
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the Democrats spent four years talking about enlargely in the
Supreme Court. I think Donald Trump should throw them a
bone by expanding the Supreme Court. Juicy, three more justices, beautiful,
Alexa kind of right, So sad about Kelly's father passing you.
I was talking to Kelly during the break. Wonderful Kelly
from our shown. I don't care what age your dad is,
you know this is true, right, or whether your dad
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is a healthy thirty five year old or somebody who's
battling illnesses at eighty. When your dad dies, you're always
eight years old and your dad's always thirty. That's just
the way it is. Nobody's ever ready to lose their father.
And it's just yeah, it's just brutal. By the way,
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this news story breaking all over the place, and this
spins off the interview President Trump gave to Fox. Trump
reveals he doesn't view JD. Vance as his successor in
twenty twenty eight quote, no, but he's very capable. Now,
if you think this is just you know, the usual
liars on left wing media, this this story came out
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of the New York Post, and it does appear to
be an accurate quote the question, do you view Vice
President J. D. Vance as your successor the Republican nominee
in twenty twenty eight answer, no, but he's very capable.
Trump replied, I think you have a lot of very
capable people. The president added, so far. I think he's
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doing a fantastic job. It's too early, We're just starting.
By the time we get to the midterms, Bear interjected,
is going to be looking for an endorsement, and Trump responded,
a lot of people have said that this has been
the greatest opening almost three weeks in the history of
the presidency, Trump deflected, According to The Post, Ryan, yeah,
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I think jd Vance is doing great, with one notable exception,
which we discussed on the show. I think I'm very talented,
he's very smart, he's very tough. I think he'd probably
be a great American president. But you know why this
is so intriguing to me and in a way exciting,
because I think I'm the guy who's been saying it's junior,
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it's junior.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Well there might be something to that.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah, yeah, on these comments, Dan, Yeah, and so yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Can I ask you a question, sir? Yes, yes, all right.
It's a Republican primary twenty twenty eight. Yeah, you have
three choices on the ballot. Yeah, they are jd Vance,
Don Junior, and ro DeSantis.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Who do you choose and why?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Whoever at that time appears to have the best chance
to win.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So you're not predisposed for any of.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
The throw you just got to win now. Assuming they're
all pro life, they are, and you know, oh and
DeSantis and Vance are I know that for you. Yeah,
and assuming yeah, assuming they're right on the core issues,
and listen, they're always going to be a much better
choice than the Democrat at the presidential level, right, particularly
Supreme Court appointments, et cetera. Yeah, whoever looks like they
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have the best chance to win.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
For me, you're going to be shocked to hear it's
Ronnie d not shocked. I like ged Vance a lot. Absolutely,
I would vote for him over any Democrat. I still
think there's certain things, and you kind of pointed out
one of them.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
He's a little green.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
He's a little wet behind the ears when it comes
to having that judgment and command of the issues the
way that you know Ron DeSantis does. As a two
term governor of the third most populous state, he's been
brilliant in that role. He won reelection by a s
forty margin in a purple state. I think he's the guy.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Still, My god, there are so many reasons I'm optimistic
about what's to come in this country, and you look
at the incredibly loaded bench of the GOP. And that's
a big one, right because if you get it wrong
at the presidential level, everything else gets a lot tougher.
But the Dems are just bear right, they're just a
mess and you know their pants have been dropped and
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it's not pretty. The GOP uber talented and so But
right now, listen, if you're betting the car, if you're
betting the car right now, you'd have to bet on
Junior right now. Don't you think I think.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
He's a dark horse? Pick agree. I think it's a
good pick, a savvy pick by you, Dan, But that's
a dark horse.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
But wait a second, assuming President Trump continues to be successful,
and he will be right in the face all that
he had a very successful first term, he's off to
a far better start here, much better team everything else. So,
assuming a successful presidency, President Trump has such a personal
loyalty from such a big swath of voters, and don
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Junior I've interviewed, he is absolutely whipped smart. I think
he's the favorite. Right now, you're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast feedback.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
We had the Union president on talking about the King
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Very sad news about Kelly's father passing, So prayers for
all of them, please, And then pretty dramatic political news,
President Trum coming out and saying that no, he does
not view jd Vance as his successor in twenty eight
He's not ruling that out. Said good things about jd Vance.
But I think that's I think that's kind of earth
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shaking stuff because I've wondered all along if part of
this deal, because remember it was Don Junior who brought
in JD Vance and pushed him to his father, and
I'm glad he did. Jadvance has been fantastic. Who's one
notable exception we've talked about on air, but I think
Jadvance has been tremendous in every other way. The debate
was phenomenally great, and I think it'd be a superb president.
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But I've always wondered, wait a second, isn't it a
logical line of succession, particularly if the President's success continues.
Every reason to believe it will to have Junior be
the candidate in twenty eight. And I've interviewed Junior on
air I think a few times, and super sharp obviously,
and seen him speak and everything else, And there is
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this loyalty that's very specific to President Trump. So in
terms of winning office in twenty eight, much better chance
that all of that support and outsized, oversized turnout would
translate and transfer to to Junior. Though jd vance so
impressive in so many ways, he may build all of
that up by that, And I think that's you know,
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and president wise to wait at this point and see
how all of that shapes up. But right now I
think it is. I think the smart money is on
Junior three h three someone three eight two five five.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
If I may just as allow me to retort Samuel
Jackson style, he was in the halftime show there A
little bits un the same. So the Trump thing, No,
we love Donald Trump. He has a following unlike any other.
But you and I have discussed this many times, Dan, it.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Is unique to him.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Trump Ism is not transferable, particularly to the likes of
Kerry Lake in Arizona or Mark Robinson in North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
He tried to be really trumpy. He got obliterated. I
think there might be a level, not to the.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Same degree that there was Bush fatigue, but do you
know that there was Herbert Walker. Bush was president, w
was president for two terms. Jeb Bush never struck the
imagination of Republican voters. They had had enough. I think
the Bushes and the Clinton's. What I'm saying is, I
believe there's a new way forward that maintains the principles
of trump Ism, but does it in a different way.
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And it might be jd. Vance, and it might be
Ronda Santis. I just don't think the majority of voters
are going to have an appetite for another Trump, for
Trump Junior, for that brand. I think people are ready
for a different route.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
From me.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
That is going to be so interesting to see because
to me, it seems quite the opposite that people want success.
As I tweeted yesterday and please do follow me if
you get a second day. If Dane Capitalist on Twitter,
you know I posted that CBS poll and just said, Hey,
this is how success unifies. This is how we unified
the nation through success. And Trump is off to such
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a great start there. In fact, I want to play
some sound on that poll in a second. So listen.
If things are going great, I think people are going
to want more of it, right, And if it's a
Trump who's been delivering that, I think people are going
to be very open to the possibility of a Trump.
You're so right Ryan about the Bush fatigue. But things
weren't going that great, right And Bill Clinton would have
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won a third term. I wouldn't have voted for him.
He would have won a third time if he was
eligible for one. So text, and please give Kelly my
deepest sympathy. My dad was ninety eight when he passed
suddenly three years ago, and I still talked to him
about music, sports, big snowflakes, floating down, you name it.
Enjoy your memories, Donna, Yeah, thank you, Donna beautifully said.
And Kelly, you know, just very close to her father,
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and it's just it's just absolutely brutal. So please keep
Kelly and her dad in your prayer, so.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Real quick aside, and Kelly may have more to say,
you know, when she is able to talk about him.
But what I knew, and I did not know him personally,
but the stories she would tell her dad was a
brilliant man ohn It, a tremendous intellect, a published author,
a man of science. And he did very well in
his life. He was very accomplished. His name's Steve Root.
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You can still find his book on Amazon. And you
know that Kelly absolutely adored her father, thought the world
of him, and this is a very tough time for her.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Oh yeah, yeah, and he had to be brilliant, right,
I mean, Kelly's one of the most interesting people ever.
But yeah, and no matter what the circumstance, right when
somebody loses their dad or loses their mom, Yeah, it's
just devastating, no matter what. And on the on the
more mundane news front breaking news reportedly Trump's DOJ dropping
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the case against Mayor Adams, so that, you know, we'll
get you more details as that becomes available.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
What do you think about that.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I always suspected from the beginning that there might be
more lawfare at work. You know, Adams was calling out
the Biden administration on this immigration, illegal immigration run amok,
and I always wondered whether that was what was behind
the sudden prosecution of him, just because we've seen that
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tactic from the left. So if it was a politically
motivated prosecution, then I would get it because it comes
back to this principle that you've got to have equal
justice under the law, and politically motivated prosecutions by definition,
are in equal justice. Somebody's only being prosecuted because of
their politics. You can't have that. You cannot have that.
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But yeah, I don't even know all the underlying details
of that allegation, but I always did suspect that improper motive.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
There.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Here's, you know, again, this great news from and it
ties into the breaking news we're talking about, which is
the President saying that he does not view JD. Vance
as the successor. President Trump's success at this point would certainly,
if it continues at this rate, right, would set up
his son well.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Our CBS poll finds that a majority of Americans fifty
three percent approve of the job he's doing. That's a
better approval number than he ever reached during his first
term in the White House. Joining us with more is
our executive director of Elections and Surveys, Anthony Salvonto. Good
to see you, Anthony, what's driving this?
Speaker 5 (26:35):
I will keep it simple, Margaret.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
He is doing, in the eyes of the public what
he said he would do in the campaign.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
There's political value in that.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
In fact, seventy percent of people say he's doing what
he promised.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
That's whether they approve of him or not.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Now there's another part of this that continues over from
the campaign. There were words that he was described as
being tough, being energetic, and he still is today in.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Big majority numbers.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
So as people take a look in these first few weeks,
there's been a.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Lot of activity.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
They're getting that general sense of governance, and that's being
reflected in these early numbers.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, and they're trying to downplay it as much as
they can, right, but the numbers are so dramatic. I mean,
first the approval, yeah, it's much better than it ever was.
But on the individual traits, just awesome.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
So that's perception.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
What about the actual policies, Well, let's start with the
ones that are popular, and again these echo a lot
of what we saw in the campaign.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
The idea of deporting those.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
In the country illegally continues to be popular. We saw
that in the campaign, sending troops to the US Mexico
border again majority in favor.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
We've seen that in the campaign for his.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Supporters, in particular, the focus on ending DEI is popular.
We have seen in the campaign a lot of them
thought those processes had gone.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
To for In other words, the stuff he's doing is
really popular and to these and this is the CBS poll.
Sixty nine percent describe him as tough, sixty three percent energetic,
sixty percent focused, fifty eight percent effective. Those are really
good numbers. And beyond Red Jersey, Blue Jersey. All of that,
though obviously the modern Democratic Party a disaster for America.
(28:17):
The Republican Party, though not perfect, the key to success.
We're in a golden moment right now. There are so
many good things happening. No matter what you think of
President Trump personally, so many good things happening. And he
is emerging, he's already been in the first term. Is
this transformational leader who really has a shot to unify
(28:40):
the country around success. So let's enjoy it together. And
again the news today he said that no, he does
not view Vance as his successor. Is that paving the
way for Junior? You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
And now back to The Dan Kaplas Show podcast ed You're.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
With us three or three someone three eight two five
five the number text d A N five seven seven
three nine. Tomorrow we're going to dig into whether boys
and men should be allowed to play girls high school
sports in Colorado. The answer is obvious, right, no, no way,
not in any civilized world. But CHASSA declining to comment
(29:27):
on whether it's going to follow President Trump's executive orders,
so we'll be talking about that tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Let me just set the stage here.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
The NCAA has already announced they will comply with Trump's
executive order, but no, not Chassa.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Explain that one for wow.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Wow, Well my explanation, yeah, I'm not sure you want
that part of it. Part of it I think crying
is in full disclosure. I litigated against Chassa years ago
on behalf of a young man who had been not
allowed to participate in high school football in Colorado, and
at that point in time, the law allowed a chass
(30:08):
A decision a Chasis suspension to be appealed through an arbitrator,
which was a good fair approach, and so we went
to a highly respected retired judge, had our own version
of a trial the arbitrator ruled in the young man's favor,
and it was very important to the young men because
a he should have, based on the merits, been allowed
(30:28):
to play, and then he was, and then it allowed
him to, you know, get a scholarship to UCLA and
go on and better himself. And so I'm not the
most objective when it comes to chess. I know there
are a lot of good, good people in the organization
who deserve a ton of praise, But I may not
be the most objective. And in terms of politics, you know,
(30:50):
you look at Colorado and you look at who controls
Colorado politics, the far far, far left, and so it
may be a political decision. But what I'd say is
listen to anybody and anybody anywhere. If you're going to
take on that sacred responsibility, that sacred responsibility of being
involved in youth sports, including high school sports, at that point,
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you better be able to put politics aside and do
what's right for the child, do what's right for the teenager,
do what's right for the high school student. If you
can't do that, if you're going to worry about politics,
get out of there, get out of there, because some
things should be sacred, and when we're talking about kids,
including high school kids, it should all be about what
is best for that kid. And there's not one sane
(31:35):
person in the world who could look anybody in the
eye and say, oh, yes, it's best for those girls
in girls' high school sports to have boys and men
playing in their sports. Nobody could honestly say that. So
get the hell out of here. If you want to
put politics ahead of what's best for the kids, that's
what I'd say.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I like that, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Dan says a Texter Trump doesn't get to pick his
successor registered Republicans do. Yeah, I've never said otherwise. What
I've said is I would expect tremendous support for Junior,
for Don Junior among registered Republicans at multiple levels, assuming
President Trump's success continues, and there's every reason to believe
(32:19):
it will, right. I mean, look at the first term,
he was up against a coup attempt. He had all
those head wins he had, and he admits it not
done a great job of staffing. He was new to
all that, and he's still got great stuff done. And
the peace and prosperity this time around. You can tell
it is a machine. They're organized, they're smart, they're sophisticated.
(32:42):
They've got strategies on every front, including their legal strategies,
their political strategies, or legislative strategies. So there are no
guarantees in anything in life, right, but talk about peace
or strength. Nobody doubts his strength around the world, and
so they'll be ups and downs. But I think the
trend line's going to be consistently up. And when it
gets to two years down the road and people are
(33:04):
talking about, Okay, who do they want in twenty eight,
I think the fact Don Junior is Don Junior, And
by the way, with Don Jor, he is also whip smart,
very articulate, very disciplined. And yeah, so I know nobody
wants to start talking about twenty eight right now. The
only reason we're doing it is because this news just broke.
President Trump saying that he does not view JD. Vance
(33:27):
as the successor, at least not at this point, while
saying deservedly so, plenty of positive things about Vance, who
I think in every way one mistake we've talked about,
but in every other way, starting with the debate, has
been extraordinarily good and every reason I think Vance would
make a superb president. A lot of texts coming in
offering prayers and sympathy to Kelly. Are wonderful Kelly whose
(33:51):
father died this afternoon. So yeah, and I expect well
next week Kelly back in here, maybe in a week
or two, but in the meantime, Yeah, lots of prayers
for Kelly. You know what I want to do Ryan
with excuse me. By the way, another texter or asked Dan,
what is your favorite peanut butter?
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I can bring that up.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
I was complaining today that I've had to Instacurt in
a poor substitute since I'm honoring the King super Strike.
And by the way, if you disagree with Man the
King super Strike, please let me know text call if
you think I'm missing something. I've made my case for
why I'm honoring the picket lines. I'm very comfortable with that.
But if you think I'm missing something, tell me it's
Santa Cruz peanut butter. If you had Santa Cruz peanut.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Butter, I have a lot of time. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yeah, it's very good, very good, especially the no stir
I've never liked the stuff where there's like a lake
on top of who would want that? Be sure to
get the no stir Hey, Thanks Bro, and thanks for
doing double duty back there today. I do want to
use some of this great Super Bowl commercial sounds sprinkled
in during the week because I thought there were some
great ones. As awful as a halftime show was, I
thought commercials were awesome. Prayers for Kelly and her day
(35:00):
join us tomorrow on The Dan Kapla Show.
This is Dan Kaplis and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dankplis Show. Please be sure to give
us a five star rating if you'd be so kind,
and to subscribe, download, and listen to the show every
single day on your favorite podcast platform. Wow, all of
these Mondays have been interesting going back about seven eight years,
but this one really good. I mean we have all
(00:22):
that garbage from the Super Bowl yesterday, right, I mean,
just you got this event. They pour so much money
into They make it bigger and better in every way
every year except the halftime show, which is going backwards
in a hurry. So what do you think is behind that?
Because with the NFL, none of this is an accident, right,
I mean NFL these are smart people. They understand that
(00:43):
that was a mediocre at best act yesterday. That just
isn't a household name for most Americans. Hey, you can't
please everybody's musical taste. But it's a super Bowl. It's
supposed to be big and grand, you know that, the
biggest thing around. So you got to have a household
name that guy I don't know these household naming his
own household. And the show was boring. It was like
(01:04):
Carrie Oki, I'd rather it had been controversial, you know
what I mean, do something controversial. It was just a waste.
So why is the NFL allowing the halftime show to
go backwards? It used to be the big names, whether
you liked him or not, the big names. How do
you beat Bruno Mars? I kept saying that to my
wife and the Caroline, we were watching it together. You say,
where's Bruno Mars? You know where's Prince unfortunately is gone,
(01:29):
but well you know where Bruno Mars is. He's in Vegas.
Get him over there. And yeah, So I don't get
that so weird and just so bad and boring. And
then so we're talking about that, and also we've got
some Super Bowl commercials. I thought there were some really
good ones. So we love doing that on the Monday
after super Bowl. We obviously have the fun sound of
(01:50):
Trump being cheered. Why didn't Fox show him more often?
So first sitting president to go to a super Bowl,
He's on this big high right now, and he got
cheered wildly whenever people could, So why did Fox downplay that?
And then Taylor Swift getting booed. Everybody wants to hear that,
so we'll keep playing it. We do have some of
these big serious issues going on. King Supers president joined us.
(02:11):
Pardon me, the Union president joined us to talk about. Sorry,
not emotional at all. In fact, I've never had less emotion.
It's peanut butter. But this goes my point. I normally
get this great peanut butter from King Supers. It's where
I've shop forever. Excuse me, Ryan, do you know the heimlick?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
You know, doctor Heimlich, but you're not willing to do it.
I had to do the heimlick on Amy once in church.
She was choking on the host we went to and
the host. This gets really tough because the host literally
is the body of Christ. It's it's God right there.
And we went to a church that used kind of
chunks of consecrated bread, and so she's choking, so you
(03:00):
don't want to just you can't just spit it out. Anyway,
it was, it all worked out. Obviously she's still with us,
thank god. So anyway, yeah, so I normally have this
great peanut butter. I get a King Soupers. I'm honoring
the strike, so I had to instacart some replacement and
the stuff. It's just literally choking me. You can hear
it for yourself. Eight five five for zero five eight
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two five five takes d an five seven seven three nine.
We do have some really serious issues, you know. We're
we're talking unfortunately about the obvious abuse of the Israeli
hostages by Satan on Earth Moss and the possibility that
that deal at this point may break down. So we'll
(03:42):
keep you updated on that. And then that the terrible
news today that Kelly's father passed away and just heartbreaking,
and the whole situation has been so very hard. Is
that Kelly with us right now? Ryan, Yeah, she'd like
to speak to you during the break if you okay, okay, sure?
Did Kelly want to talk off air during the break?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Thinks?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Okay, I think, so okay, I'll talk to Kelly off air,
but Pata, so just prayers please for Kelly's father in
the entire family. Just so very hard. And then on
the political front, you have and it's funny and productive
in a way because America can see I'm not there,
but you have the Democrats right now to just creating
(04:26):
this falsehood, this fiction, this fantasy that somehow jd. Vance
is threatening that the Trump administration will not follow court orders.
The Trump administration has not threatened any such thing. Jadvance
has not said any such thing, And the Trump administration
has been rigorous about following court orders. Then what frustrates
the Democrats The Trump administration is then working its way
(04:48):
through the court process and is going to prevail. If
they don't prevail on everything, they'll prevail on darn close
to everything. So this is just more Democrat national nervous
breakdown time. And it's good that Americans can see who
the Dems really are. But for those who have heard
all of this whaling and nashing of teeth from the Democrats,
be assured. No. Jd Vance did not imply threatened nor
(05:11):
state that the Trump administration is going to defy court orders.
They're going to fight the court orders, and I think
in the vast majority of these situations they are going
to win. Got a text about a shooting, Dan, How
about the shooting at the main event in Highland's Ranch.
I have no idea if there's been a shooting or
anything like that. But have you heard a news story there? Ryan, No,
(05:33):
because we can't control the texts that come in, so.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I don't know the newsroom yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I asked the newsroom if you would, because if there's
not been a shooting, I want to correct that right away.
That came in from a Texter. Let's see, I can't
even understand that task. Dan. You talk about tough questions
and follow up questions and you pitch up that softball
interview with the union rep. Surprise, you didn't ask her
(05:57):
what ice creams you low? I forgot that was my
next question. Oh it happens Saturday, Okay, shoot her in
court today. Shooting at the main event in the Highlands Ranch.
I'm sorry I missed that. We were dealing Saturday, and
I'm sorry this sounds so very trite, but it wasn't
(06:18):
to us. We were dealing Saturday with a very very
very scary medical emergency for our daughter's amazing, phenomenal dog, Maisie,
who is just beloved by all. She's just one of
the coolest creatures to ever live, and a very very
very scary event with her. I got the call at
my office at about eleven thirty Saturday, and then we
(06:40):
all rushed over to the emergency vat and it was
just it went until about one in the morning, and
then by then she'd been through all the scopings and
everything else and was stable and we took her home
and she seems to be doing well right now. To
that note, and I won't take a lot of just
so I'm sorry. I was completely out of the news
(07:02):
cycle for that entire time on Saturday. So I'll follow
up on that and see what's there. But allow me
a thirty second done this, And this is just because
I got to tell you this is one of the
most impressive companies, organizations, group of people I've ever seen.
This company called Veterinary Emergency Group, and I've never been
(07:23):
there before. We ended up there because it was Hamden
Night twenty five, and thank god we did. I mean
because I deal with a lot of companies. You do too,
just in everyday life. It is so extraordinarily impressive. It's
like one of the top five experiences I've ever had
as a consumer. And obviously this is a very tense,
(07:43):
worrisome situation, but the people there were all spectacular. It
was extremely well staffed, and you could tell walking in
that it was a very well high end, well funded
kind of operation. And I found out later they've got
nash All big corporate ownership money it's just incredibly impressive,
and the people so knowledgeable, and one thing they did
(08:07):
Ryan and I won't go on and on about it,
but I'm so impressed with them. They've got they operate
all out in the open, so you know how you
go into some emergency VET clinics and everything happens behind
closed doors. Everything's out in the open, and so we
could sit in as Maisie was being put under and
as they were, you know, doing their thing and scoping
(08:28):
or and everything else. We could sit in. We could
watch it all unfold. That's how confident they are and
their people and the quality of the work and their doctors.
I just could not be more impressed, and so thank
you to everybody at Veteran Veterinary Emergency Group. When we
were on our way over, we weren't absolutely certain we'd
be taking our dog home, you know what I mean,
And so it was very very impressed. Eight five to
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five for zero five eight two five five text d
A N five seven seven three nine. So we'll get
some more details on that shooting that apparently occurred on Saturday. Listen.
In terms of the Union rep. If you're aware of
some tough questions that I could have asked her then
let me know and we'll get her back on. I'm
happy to do that. I mean, what am I concerned about?
(09:13):
They won't check me out at King Soupers. I'm checking
myself out now anyway, which, by the way, I hate
you know what I mean? And I don't know why
I do hard things all day, but when I'm checking
out groceries, I just I want to roll up my
basket and check out my groceries. I don't want to
go self check and there's more and more self check on.
I like talking to the checker. I like doing this. Yeah,
(09:35):
but anyway, Yeah, if you can think of some tough
questions for please let me know. We'll get her back on.
She's very available and accessible to us, and I like
asking tough questions. I just couldn't think of any for
What would a good tough question be there for?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Ryan?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Well, I think the consensus of our texters here is
how could they improve or increase wages for workers? Get
more workers? In what she said, there's a shortage, and
I believe her, having shopped there myself at the Greenwood
Village location many many times. I go there every time
I go grocery shopping, and how you'll be able to
keep prices down if the expense of employees and the
(10:12):
number of employees goes up.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yeah, and forgive me, I should have asked that, but
I thought it was pretty obvious, right because she was
talking to and that's not a comment on you at all,
but she was talking about their profits. And listen, I'm
a big believer, first of all, that you can do
all of that and actually increase your profits by a
improving the customer experience and be keeping happy, healthy employees
(10:39):
because turnovers so expensive. So I think you can do
all that and increase your bottom line. I mean, I've
got to tell you our business, and I'm so glad
we do that at our law firm. We pride ourselves
on paying top of market, on treating people incredibly well
in every way, and you want to be that way
(11:00):
as a human. But it's also good business. And yeah,
it increases that line on your overhead a bunch, But
at the end of the year, you're way ahead because
you have great people. You've been able to attract, you've
been able to keep them, you've been able to keep
them happy. So I think you can accomplish all that,
but yeah, let's get her beck on. Look, why don't
we open it up. Toughest questions you can take up
(11:22):
for the Union president. We'll write them all down. We'll
get her beck on. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah, the crowd going crazy as they showed Trump on
the big screen during the national anthem and when he
went down on the field earlier. Taylor Swift not so much.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah, damn you can see.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Has she ever been booed before ever venue, for any
reason by any crowd?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I have to believe No. No, physically impossible. Yeah, physically impossible.
But yeah, so wild day yesterday we've been talking about,
and I don't think we'll have a whole lot more
time for it unless you insist. But what we've been
talking about just how awful the halftime show was. And
I know I don't think a single caller would disagree
with that, But I'm more intrigued by why is the
(12:25):
super Bowl letting the halftime shows get worse and smaller
and not big national acts that everybody's familiar with, whether
they like the music or not, When they put so
much effort into making the game so grand, and the
NFL does a great job of making the game a
grand event for the whole country. Why are they letting
the halftime show gets smaller and smaller and smaller. So
(12:45):
eight five five or is there a five A two
five five text? D An five seven seven through nine
day and the halftime show targeted the young soccer crowd
and normally don't watch dangerous football. Dan, I need to
write this down. Dan says the Trump administration won't defy
any quarteror and will win all the legal challenges. Stay tuned.
Is there another Dan doing a show out there, Ryan,
(13:06):
because must have listened to that show. I certainly said,
and it's one hundred percent true. The Trump administration is
not defined court orders, will not defy court orders. But
I did not say they will win all legal challenges.
What I said is I expect them to win. I
said something like the vast majority or most or almost all. Yeah, Dan,
(13:27):
the Democrats spent four years talking about enlargely in the
Supreme Court. I think Donald Trump should throw them a
bone by expanding the Supreme Court. Juicy, three more justices, beautiful,
Alexa kind of right, So sad about Kelly's father passing you.
I was talking to Kelly during the break. Wonderful Kelly
from our shown. I don't care what age your dad is,
you know this is true, right, or whether your dad
(13:49):
is a healthy thirty five year old or somebody who's
battling illnesses at eighty. When your dad dies, you're always
eight years old and your dad's always thirty. That's just
the way it is. Nobody's ever ready to lose their father.
And it's just yeah, it's just brutal. By the way,
(14:10):
this news story breaking all over the place, and this
spins off the interview President Trump gave to Fox. Trump
reveals he doesn't view JD. Vance as his successor in
twenty twenty eight quote, no, but he's very capable. Now,
if you think this is just you know, the usual
liars on left wing media, this this story came out
(14:31):
of the New York Post, and it does appear to
be an accurate quote the question, do you view Vice
President J. D. Vance as your successor the Republican nominee
in twenty twenty eight answer, no, but he's very capable.
Trump replied, I think you have a lot of very
capable people. The president added, so far. I think he's
(14:52):
doing a fantastic job. It's too early, We're just starting.
By the time we get to the midterms, Bear interjected,
is going to be looking for an endorsement, and Trump responded,
a lot of people have said that this has been
the greatest opening almost three weeks in the history of
the presidency, Trump deflected, According to The Post, Ryan, yeah,
(15:17):
I think jd Vance is doing great, with one notable exception,
which we discussed on the show. I think I'm very talented,
he's very smart, he's very tough. I think he'd probably
be a great American president. But you know why this
is so intriguing to me and in a way exciting,
because I think I'm the guy who's been saying it's junior,
(15:40):
it's junior.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Well there might be something to that.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah, yeah, on these comments, Dan, Yeah, and so yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Can I ask you a question, sir? Yes, yes, all right.
It's a Republican primary twenty twenty eight. Yeah, you have
three choices on the ballot. Yeah, they are jd Vance,
Don Junior, and ro DeSantis.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Who do you choose and why?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Whoever at that time appears to have the best chance
to win.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So you're not predisposed for any of.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
The throw you just got to win now. Assuming they're
all pro life, they are, and you know, oh and
DeSantis and Vance are I know that for you. Yeah,
and assuming yeah, assuming they're right on the core issues,
and listen, they're always going to be a much better
choice than the Democrat at the presidential level, right, particularly
Supreme Court appointments, et cetera. Yeah, whoever looks like they
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have the best chance to win.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
For me, you're going to be shocked to hear it's
Ronnie d not shocked. I like ged Vance a lot. Absolutely,
I would vote for him over any Democrat. I still
think there's certain things, and you kind of pointed out
one of them.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
He's a little green.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
He's a little wet behind the ears when it comes
to having that judgment and command of the issues the
way that you know Ron DeSantis does. As a two
term governor of the third most populous state, he's been
brilliant in that role. He won reelection by a s
forty margin in a purple state. I think he's the guy.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Still, My god, there are so many reasons I'm optimistic
about what's to come in this country, and you look
at the incredibly loaded bench of the GOP. And that's
a big one, right because if you get it wrong
at the presidential level, everything else gets a lot tougher.
But the Dems are just bear right, they're just a
mess and you know their pants have been dropped and
(17:27):
it's not pretty. The GOP uber talented and so But
right now, listen, if you're betting the car, if you're
betting the car right now, you'd have to bet on
Junior right now. Don't you think I think.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
He's a dark horse? Pick agree. I think it's a
good pick, a savvy pick by you, Dan, But that's
a dark horse.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
But wait a second, assuming President Trump continues to be successful,
and he will be right in the face all that
he had a very successful first term, he's off to
a far better start here, much better team everything else. So,
assuming a successful presidency, President Trump has such a personal
loyalty from such a big swath of voters, and don
(18:09):
Junior I've interviewed, he is absolutely whipped smart. I think
he's the favorite. Right now, you're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast feedback.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
We had the Union president on talking about the King
Super Strike. I get some more text on that, and
if you disagree with me, because I'm honoring the strike
for the reasons I've said. If you disagree, please call
the show. You know me. If I'm missing something, I'll
be the first to admit it. But I don't think
I'm missing anything. Here it five five. Pardon me. We're
getting rid of that horrible number. Yeah, worst number ever
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in Colorado, are bases in Denver on six point thirty
KTCH a W. But because we're syndicated, we've been using
this eight five to five number. But it's a horrible
number and nobody can remember it and it has to
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who needs a toll free number anyway, right, I mean,
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we dialing inside the country. So it's three oh three
seven one three eight two five five. I think the
fear was that, Okay, if you don't have a toll
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Very sad news about Kelly's father passing, So prayers for
all of them, please, And then pretty dramatic political news,
President Trum coming out and saying that no, he does
not view jd Vance as his successor in twenty eight
He's not ruling that out. Said good things about jd Vance.
But I think that's I think that's kind of earth
(20:14):
shaking stuff because I've wondered all along if part of
this deal, because remember it was Don Junior who brought
in JD Vance and pushed him to his father, and
I'm glad he did. Jadvance has been fantastic. Who's one
notable exception we've talked about on air, but I think
Jadvance has been tremendous in every other way. The debate
was phenomenally great, and I think it'd be a superb president.
(20:36):
But I've always wondered, wait a second, isn't it a
logical line of succession, particularly if the President's success continues.
Every reason to believe it will to have Junior be
the candidate in twenty eight. And I've interviewed Junior on
air I think a few times, and super sharp obviously,
and seen him speak and everything else, And there is
(20:58):
this loyalty that's very specific to President Trump. So in
terms of winning office in twenty eight, much better chance
that all of that support and outsized, oversized turnout would
translate and transfer to to Junior. Though jd vance so
impressive in so many ways, he may build all of
that up by that, And I think that's you know,
(21:20):
and president wise to wait at this point and see
how all of that shapes up. But right now I
think it is. I think the smart money is on
Junior three h three someone three eight two five five.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
If I may just as allow me to retort Samuel
Jackson style, he was in the halftime show there A
little bits un the same. So the Trump thing, No,
we love Donald Trump. He has a following unlike any other.
But you and I have discussed this many times, Dan, it.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Is unique to him.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Trump Ism is not transferable, particularly to the likes of
Kerry Lake in Arizona or Mark Robinson in North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
He tried to be really trumpy. He got obliterated. I
think there might be a level, not to the.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Same degree that there was Bush fatigue, but do you
know that there was Herbert Walker. Bush was president, w
was president for two terms. Jeb Bush never struck the
imagination of Republican voters. They had had enough. I think
the Bushes and the Clinton's. What I'm saying is, I
believe there's a new way forward that maintains the principles
of trump Ism, but does it in a different way.
(22:30):
And it might be jd. Vance, and it might be
Ronda Santis. I just don't think the majority of voters
are going to have an appetite for another Trump, for
Trump Junior, for that brand. I think people are ready
for a different route.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
From me.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
That is going to be so interesting to see because
to me, it seems quite the opposite that people want success.
As I tweeted yesterday and please do follow me if
you get a second day. If Dane Capitalist on Twitter,
you know I posted that CBS poll and just said, Hey,
this is how success unifies. This is how we unified
the nation through success. And Trump is off to such
(23:07):
a great start there. In fact, I want to play
some sound on that poll in a second. So listen.
If things are going great, I think people are going
to want more of it, right, And if it's a
Trump who's been delivering that, I think people are going
to be very open to the possibility of a Trump.
You're so right Ryan about the Bush fatigue. But things
weren't going that great, right And Bill Clinton would have
(23:30):
won a third term. I wouldn't have voted for him.
He would have won a third time if he was
eligible for one. So text, and please give Kelly my
deepest sympathy. My dad was ninety eight when he passed
suddenly three years ago, and I still talked to him
about music, sports, big snowflakes, floating down, you name it.
Enjoy your memories, Donna, Yeah, thank you, Donna beautifully said.
And Kelly, you know, just very close to her father,
(23:54):
and it's just it's just absolutely brutal. So please keep
Kelly and her dad in your prayer, so.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Real quick aside, and Kelly may have more to say,
you know, when she is able to talk about him.
But what I knew, and I did not know him personally,
but the stories she would tell her dad was a
brilliant man ohn It, a tremendous intellect, a published author,
a man of science. And he did very well in
his life. He was very accomplished. His name's Steve Root.
(24:21):
You can still find his book on Amazon. And you
know that Kelly absolutely adored her father, thought the world
of him, and this is a very tough time for her.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Oh yeah, yeah, and he had to be brilliant, right,
I mean, Kelly's one of the most interesting people ever.
But yeah, and no matter what the circumstance, right when
somebody loses their dad or loses their mom, Yeah, it's
just devastating, no matter what. And on the on the
more mundane news front breaking news reportedly Trump's DOJ dropping
(24:56):
the case against Mayor Adams, so that, you know, we'll
get you more details as that becomes available.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
What do you think about that.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I always suspected from the beginning that there might be
more lawfare at work. You know, Adams was calling out
the Biden administration on this immigration, illegal immigration run amok,
and I always wondered whether that was what was behind
the sudden prosecution of him, just because we've seen that
(25:26):
tactic from the left. So if it was a politically
motivated prosecution, then I would get it because it comes
back to this principle that you've got to have equal
justice under the law, and politically motivated prosecutions by definition,
are in equal justice. Somebody's only being prosecuted because of
their politics. You can't have that. You cannot have that.
(25:50):
But yeah, I don't even know all the underlying details
of that allegation, but I always did suspect that improper motive.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
There.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Here's, you know, again, this great news from and it
ties into the breaking news we're talking about, which is
the President saying that he does not view JD. Vance
as the successor. President Trump's success at this point would certainly,
if it continues at this rate, right, would set up
his son well.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Our CBS poll finds that a majority of Americans fifty
three percent approve of the job he's doing. That's a
better approval number than he ever reached during his first
term in the White House. Joining us with more is
our executive director of Elections and Surveys, Anthony Salvonto. Good
to see you, Anthony, what's driving this?
Speaker 5 (26:35):
I will keep it simple, Margaret.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
He is doing, in the eyes of the public what
he said he would do in the campaign.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
There's political value in that.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
In fact, seventy percent of people say he's doing what
he promised.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
That's whether they approve of him or not.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Now there's another part of this that continues over from
the campaign. There were words that he was described as
being tough, being energetic, and he still is today in.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Big majority numbers.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
So as people take a look in these first few weeks,
there's been a.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Lot of activity.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
They're getting that general sense of governance, and that's being
reflected in these early numbers.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, and they're trying to downplay it as much as
they can, right, but the numbers are so dramatic. I mean,
first the approval, yeah, it's much better than it ever was.
But on the individual traits, just awesome.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
So that's perception.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
What about the actual policies, Well, let's start with the
ones that are popular, and again these echo a lot
of what we saw in the campaign.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
The idea of deporting those.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
In the country illegally continues to be popular. We saw
that in the campaign, sending troops to the US Mexico
border again majority in favor.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
We've seen that in the campaign for his.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Supporters, in particular, the focus on ending DEI is popular.
We have seen in the campaign a lot of them
thought those processes had gone.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
To for In other words, the stuff he's doing is
really popular and to these and this is the CBS poll.
Sixty nine percent describe him as tough, sixty three percent energetic,
sixty percent focused, fifty eight percent effective. Those are really
good numbers. And beyond Red Jersey, Blue Jersey. All of that,
though obviously the modern Democratic Party a disaster for America.
(28:17):
The Republican Party, though not perfect, the key to success.
We're in a golden moment right now. There are so
many good things happening. No matter what you think of
President Trump personally, so many good things happening. And he
is emerging, he's already been in the first term. Is
this transformational leader who really has a shot to unify
(28:40):
the country around success. So let's enjoy it together. And
again the news today he said that no, he does
not view Vance as his successor. Is that paving the
way for Junior? You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
And now back to The Dan Kaplas Show podcast ed You're.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
With us three or three someone three eight two five
five the number text d A N five seven seven
three nine. Tomorrow we're going to dig into whether boys
and men should be allowed to play girls high school
sports in Colorado. The answer is obvious, right, no, no way,
not in any civilized world. But CHASSA declining to comment
(29:27):
on whether it's going to follow President Trump's executive orders,
so we'll be talking about that tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Let me just set the stage here.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
The NCAA has already announced they will comply with Trump's
executive order, but no, not Chassa.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Explain that one for wow.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Wow, Well my explanation, yeah, I'm not sure you want
that part of it. Part of it I think crying
is in full disclosure. I litigated against Chassa years ago
on behalf of a young man who had been not
allowed to participate in high school football in Colorado, and
at that point in time, the law allowed a chass
(30:08):
A decision a Chasis suspension to be appealed through an arbitrator,
which was a good fair approach, and so we went
to a highly respected retired judge, had our own version
of a trial the arbitrator ruled in the young man's favor,
and it was very important to the young men because
a he should have, based on the merits, been allowed
(30:28):
to play, and then he was, and then it allowed
him to, you know, get a scholarship to UCLA and
go on and better himself. And so I'm not the
most objective when it comes to chess. I know there
are a lot of good, good people in the organization
who deserve a ton of praise, But I may not
be the most objective. And in terms of politics, you know,
(30:50):
you look at Colorado and you look at who controls
Colorado politics, the far far, far left, and so it
may be a political decision. But what I'd say is
listen to anybody and anybody anywhere. If you're going to
take on that sacred responsibility, that sacred responsibility of being
involved in youth sports, including high school sports, at that point,
(31:13):
you better be able to put politics aside and do
what's right for the child, do what's right for the teenager,
do what's right for the high school student. If you
can't do that, if you're going to worry about politics,
get out of there, get out of there, because some
things should be sacred, and when we're talking about kids,
including high school kids, it should all be about what
is best for that kid. And there's not one sane
(31:35):
person in the world who could look anybody in the
eye and say, oh, yes, it's best for those girls
in girls' high school sports to have boys and men
playing in their sports. Nobody could honestly say that. So
get the hell out of here. If you want to
put politics ahead of what's best for the kids, that's
what I'd say.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I like that, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Dan says a Texter Trump doesn't get to pick his
successor registered Republicans do. Yeah, I've never said otherwise. What
I've said is I would expect tremendous support for Junior,
for Don Junior among registered Republicans at multiple levels, assuming
President Trump's success continues, and there's every reason to believe
(32:19):
it will, right. I mean, look at the first term,
he was up against a coup attempt. He had all
those head wins he had, and he admits it not
done a great job of staffing. He was new to
all that, and he's still got great stuff done. And
the peace and prosperity this time around. You can tell
it is a machine. They're organized, they're smart, they're sophisticated.
(32:42):
They've got strategies on every front, including their legal strategies,
their political strategies, or legislative strategies. So there are no
guarantees in anything in life, right, but talk about peace
or strength. Nobody doubts his strength around the world, and
so they'll be ups and downs. But I think the
trend line's going to be consistently up. And when it
gets to two years down the road and people are
(33:04):
talking about, Okay, who do they want in twenty eight,
I think the fact Don Junior is Don Junior, And
by the way, with Don Jor, he is also whip smart,
very articulate, very disciplined. And yeah, so I know nobody
wants to start talking about twenty eight right now. The
only reason we're doing it is because this news just broke.
President Trump saying that he does not view JD. Vance
(33:27):
as the successor, at least not at this point, while
saying deservedly so, plenty of positive things about Vance, who
I think in every way one mistake we've talked about,
but in every other way, starting with the debate, has
been extraordinarily good and every reason I think Vance would
make a superb president. A lot of texts coming in
offering prayers and sympathy to Kelly. Are wonderful Kelly whose
(33:51):
father died this afternoon. So yeah, and I expect well
next week Kelly back in here, maybe in a week
or two, but in the meantime, Yeah, lots of prayers
for Kelly. You know what I want to do Ryan
with excuse me. By the way, another texter or asked Dan,
what is your favorite peanut butter?
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I can bring that up.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
I was complaining today that I've had to Instacurt in
a poor substitute since I'm honoring the King super Strike.
And by the way, if you disagree with Man the
King super Strike, please let me know text call if
you think I'm missing something. I've made my case for
why I'm honoring the picket lines. I'm very comfortable with that.
But if you think I'm missing something, tell me it's
Santa Cruz peanut butter. If you had Santa Cruz peanut.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Butter, I have a lot of time. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yeah, it's very good, very good, especially the no stir
I've never liked the stuff where there's like a lake
on top of who would want that? Be sure to
get the no stir Hey, Thanks Bro, and thanks for
doing double duty back there today. I do want to
use some of this great Super Bowl commercial sounds sprinkled
in during the week because I thought there were some
great ones. As awful as a halftime show was, I
thought commercials were awesome. Prayers for Kelly and her day
(35:00):
join us tomorrow on The Dan Kapla Show.
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