This is Dan Kaples and welcome to today's online podcast edition of The Dan Kaplis
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power bar? What are you doing that for? Because I want to be
a fighting strength. So I need a little protein here and an hour to
go? Can you do it? No, that's long shift. I can't
do it. It's two hour shift, Sir. Man was not made to
work two hours. Oh he need a break. M Hey, I'm John
Keldare give me a call? Three oh three seven to one three eight two
five five In an hour, actually less than an hour, Our commander in
chief takes to an Oval office speech to explain why he's dropping out of the
race. Oh and by the way, it's not because he's old. Mm
hmm. According to The Hill, President Biden's decision to step aside was as
was the expected Democratic nominee. Quote has nothing to do with his health.
Let me say it again, his top spokesperson said today ahead of his primetime
speech. The decision had nothing to do with the health with his health.
The president is going to speak directly to the American people in prime time.
Okay. In his letter, he talked about the country, he talked about
the party, he talked about the moment we're in right now. She said
it is not about his health. I can say, no, that's not
the reason. But hear him out tonight. Really, how you have to
be the spokesman for basically any president and spin this kind of BS is a
talent that I never really want to have. Go to the phones, three
or three, seven to one, three eight, two five, five.
Let's talk to Faith out in Thornton. Hey, Faith, glad to have
you. Hey, how are you? Thank you for mine? Thank you?
What do you got to say? Sam Terris, I don't know how
people are so dumb to vote, Oh, because she's a woman, she's
black, whatever, vote on the merit, not on the secret service or
ooh right. It is so frustrated right now, don't get frustrated. Let
me see if I can articulate what I think you're trying to say, which
is to vote for someone because of the identity politics boxes they check is pure
racism. It is ugly and we should say no to it. To say,
oh, look, we need the first person who has female genitals as
president because that matters. We need to have the first person with this skin
color because that matters. No, it doesn't matter. There are positions on
policy matter. You need to know the policies and you need to be able
to run the country. And I know one thing Trump can't because I live
the days of him, and I live them better than I have lived last
four years. I think that's true with most. There's a wonderful piece in
the Wall Street Journal I think It'll be tomorrow. Daniel Henninger, who I
enjoyed quite a bit, really lays it on that that Kamala can win.
That in other words, Donald Trump can lose. And he had the perfect
opportunity to put this election away the night he received his nomination and did his
acceptance speech. It was a terrible speech. He did not reach out to
the middle. He instead went down his usual stump speech towards MAGA Republicans instead
of having a speech that really taught using that word. But I am not
kidding you. I think he missed a terrible I think he missed a huge
opportunity that night, and I think he could have put away the election.
I think it would have been sewned up no matter who the Democrats put up
if if he if he didn't go down the path he went. That long,
meandering, ninety two minute speech was not a good plan. If he
stayed on the script, I think this election would be a slam dunk.
And you just report John that the dump button was reached in time, just
so you know. Yeah, good, good, good to know. So
you don't don't don't swear we're big boys and girls. We can come up
with better words. I do believe Trump missed an opportunity. It was not
a great speech, and it didn't have it didn't have that come together feel
that that we were told it might have. And that was a shame.
It was a missed opportunity. But it shows that Trump cannot help himself.
He just cannot help himself. He cannot help himself. But to say things
like crazy Nancy Pelosi, true as it might be, it doesn't help you
get those swing voters. You desperately need those swing voters who have up until
that point a considerable amount of empathy because you got shot, you were almost
killed. And to have a speech where he he said I'm going to be
a president for all and instead of going on a tear against his critics to
say, here's what we're going to do. If he just kept to the
script, I think he'd be spiking the football in the end zone right now.
So, in about forty five minutes or so, the president takes the
air to talk about why he decided not to run. Wouldn't it be refreshing?
Wouldn't it be refreshing if he said, listen, guys, I really
wanted to run again, but I'm just not remembering things. You know.
I just I'm not mentally agile enough to be president. Now he cannot say
that, because if he does, it leads to the very next question,
then why don't you resign? Shouldn't you resign? If you're incapable of doing
the job, you should resign now. Now, all of us who have
dealt with people who have Alzheimer's or dementia or even just getting old, understand
that things do not get better. It's not like it's not like Biden is
going to get sharper as he gets older, that he's gonna get more sane
and make more sense and be able to think more clearly. He's only going
to do it less and for his press spokesman spoke Lady to say, Oh,
it's not about his health. Yeah, it's not about his health.
It's about his mental acuity, which has something to do with his health.
She also rejected the idea I'm reading from the Hill that she and White House
aides were engaged in a cover up to mask Biden's decline from the public.
There's been no cover up, want to be very clear about that, she
said. No. The real villain in this is the mainstream media. Yes,
of course, those people around Biden tried to cover up how incredibly frail
and mentally checked out he was. That was their job. I don't blame
them for that. The people I blame are the media who knew this,
who've seen it, who've talked about it privately. But it wasn't until the
debate where we Americans got to see this guy for ninety minutes unplugged to find
out really what's going on or not going on in his brain. At that
point, the media turned on him like a bunch of jackals, absolute jackals.
They turned on him as part of a very well coordinated pressure campaign to
get him out. Every rumor, every every story of people who were asking
him to leave shot up to the front page. Where in the world were
they for the last three and a half years while the guy was losing his
marbles? They were complicit. They were complicit in the cover up of his
failed mental health. And as soon as the secret was out and everyone knew
it, well, then they just jumped on the bandwagon to get rid of
them. Even people. It's funny that some of the leftists I know had
no idea how bad he was. You and I know we listened to his
clips. They really thought all these clips that we have and all the silliness
that we played, or just you know, Fox News and talk radio coming
up with with with deep fake stuff and pulling this out of the out of
thin air. No, once they got ninety minutes alone with Biden, they're
like, oh my god, this guy, this guy has the nuclear codes.
You could you could launch the weapons. And he can't find his way
off a stage anyway. Three or three seven, one, three eight,
two five five. Why wasn't Kamala at this joint meeting of Congress? This
is big stuff. She wasn't there because it was a no win situation for
her, Because the left is turning its back on Israel and so she can't
be seen as supporting Israel. But a bad time to be her. Oh
and also what is the man gonna say tonight? Is there any bit of
news that he's gonna give that you might be surprised if you were If you
were Biden, what would you say in your speech tonight? Three or three
seven one, three eight two five five? I'm John and keldera and for
the big man, keep it right here six point thirty k how and now
back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast. I know JJ's first albums. It
was put out on the Beatles recordly Oh Yes, and this song was on
it. It was faster tempo, this one omens and I think it was
Peter Asher who introduced him to Paul McCartney. Peter Asher was Jane Asher's brother
and that was the girl he was he was dating. There. There you
have it. You heard it here first. Now there's a couple comparisons here,
and I want to get your thoughts on it as a noted Beatles historian,
as I know you are, John, and I fancy myself a big
fan as well. But what you just said about Carolina in my mind,
and slowing the tempo or having it be a faster tempo reminds me of John
Lennon's original compost composition of Revolution and how he wanted Revolution one correct slower and
then they sped it up, and I think I'm not a mistaken Tom Hanks
mimicked that can kind of conflict with that thing you do, and that the
John Lennon type character that was featured in that film. Not sure if you
saw it, I imagine you would have. No. I love that song.
I wanted that song to be slower, and then they sped it up
and it became their one hit wonder exactly. Yeah, that thing you do,
I think that was the name of the song. And the drummer hit
it at a faster beat and it's d yeah. Yeah, But do you
like the slower version of Revolution better or the faster one? I like the
faster. The stinging guitar by Harrison stinging, yeah, the stinging guitar just
hits it. And of course every now and then you've got to pull out
Revolution nine from the White album just to go I don't I don't get it,
man, I just don't get it. Number nine, number nine,
number nine, and that was from one of the guys and some other I
took it from a tape of this is tape number nine, number nine.
Yeah, they were not Asseid or anything, right. He was on Heroin.
Who's doing a lot of Heroin then? And if you've ever seen the
Get Back documentary that's on Disney's right, which was taken from all the old
Let It Be film footage, he was He and Yoko were on Heroin quite
a bit during all that. Oh my yeah. Yeah, and Yoko is
like ninety. I think she's ninety years old now, no one's seen her
and I'm you know how when when someone dies, you have to say all
the nice things, right, I'm just wondering how many people are going to
say the nice things when when Yoko finally he's this world. I just she's
a cringe worthy individual. Well, the more the more I learn about her,
the more I realized she she was not a nice lady. No.
But on the opposite side of that, maybe same coin John, And maybe
you've seen this on Twitter slash x. Their son Sean, who's about the
same age as I am. He's I think like you. I think he's
a libertarian though when I noticed him tweeting he is not a leftist and knew
my friend so John's first son, Julian, is my age ye, and
he seems to be pretty sane from what I can tell. Right when I
saw Sean Lennon doing a bunch of anti petroleum, anti fracking stuff with his
mother, this was years ago. Maybe he's changed. I think she has.
I think he has changed. Yeah, Oh, that would be that
would be delightful. One of the things he's hinted at too, and maybe
this will also please you. And the audience was that he's not so sure
his dad would be a committed leftist in today's climate. He's not at all
convinced of that. I don't think he was a committed leftist. Then.
I think he was just out of his gourd, and I think people took
advantage of him. Lenin had just so many demons. You know, he
was abandoned by his father, he was abandoned by his mother. Then his
mother dies and then he's raised by this very stuffy uh and you know it's
just he had he had demons of the wazoo. And that's why when Yogo
came along, you know, this this very authoritarian figure to you know,
to be the mom he never had. He just walked right into it.
No, he just Oh that poor guy was was was messed up. It's
it's sad. It's sad, and it's amazing to be able for those of
us who are real Beatles fans, you can just dive into this stuff for
years and years and years and years and just keep going. I do like
so when Yoko goes, and everyone's gonna have to go, oh, she
was such a wonderful person. It reminds me of what happened with Trump recently
that for the last eight years, the left has been screaming, he is
Hitler, He's a threat to democracy, and especially after January sixth, he
has to he has to be stopped by any means possible because he's Hitler.
He is Hitler. He will destroy our nation, destroy our freedom, destroy
our democracy because he's Hitler. He's Hitler. He's Hitler. And then he
gets shot, and the very same people are basically saying, are thought and
prayers go out to the family and loved ones of Hitler. We hope,
we hope, we hope Hitler has a a speedy recovery, and we hope
Hitler gets backed into the world soon. You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show
podcast. I love that movie. I think it was Tom hanks first directorial
movie, and it was about this little band that had a one hit wonder.
As a guy who's a no hit wonder, I would love to be
a one hit wonder, even if you were part of the on Eaters.
That's part of the on Eaters I used to do back when I had a
real job. I used to do a lot of stage lighting, a lot
of rock and roll concerts. And there's a group called the Fornicators and they
were just a great, old, funny cover band. But if if if
they had to go to some place that was polite, they would just go
by the four Nicoteurs. That's good, it worked. Hey, three oh
three seven one three eight two five five is my telephone number, Give me
a call. Let's go out to Eurie and talk to Mike. Mike,
welcome, Hey, thanks, Hey. The kind of partying shot at the
bottom of the hour there was directed toward folks that are probably like me,
who who do feel like Trump is dangerous and a danger to our future democracy
or constitutional republic, whatever you want. To say, but I don't think
it's fair to characterize people like me and maybe being happy that he got shot
or hoping that he would have gotten shot. Yeh, I didn't say that.
I said it was fascinating that the people who kept calling him Hitler then
had to basically say, we wish Hitler a speedy recovery. You know,
it was just so ridiculous that all these people who compared him to Hitler,
who who created a created a tone that this guy was Hitler, and my
god, who wouldn't kill Hitler to to save to save millions and millions of
lives? And then there's say, oh, well, you know, we
hope Hitler gets better. It's it's it's it's doing two different things, setting
a tone that this guy is Hitler and then saying I'm I'm sorry Hitler got
shot. I find it, well, I think funny. I think the
comparisons to Hitler are relative to early Hitler. I don't think anybody is you're
you're splitting hair saying this is early Hitler. Well, I mean, I
think with the comparisons are his strategy is similar to what Hitler's strategy was in
terms of gaining power. I don't think there are people are saying he's killed
six million twos. We all know that that's still its strategy and gaining power
is very similar to how Hitler gained power. I think it'd be hard to
argue is that. Yeah, it's very easy to argue against that. And
first of all, to say that this was this was some sort of that
this is early Hitler. Listen, for eight years I have heard people call
this man Hitler and a tyrant and a threat to democracy. There they sowed
the seeds of this shooting. They made it palatable to think this way,
and then when somebody actually pulls the trigger, they're like, oh, I'm
really sorry he got shot. You're like, no, I don't believe it.
You know you are happy, you are happy he not you personally,
but I think a lot of people, a lot of people set the tone.
Did you ever compare him to Hitler? You just did recently? Uh?
I no. I think he has a similar strategy that Hitler had,
But I didn't call him Hitler like JD. Vance did. And Vance Vance
pulled that one back, uh a long time ago, and I think that
other folks on the left never did. So do you believe that that the
media who's been calling him a tyrant and Hitler and people like you who've been
comparing him to Hitler bear any sort of responsibility for the shooting. Of course
not, of course not. There's a sick a sick young kid who who
knows what what is? Uh, you know what his reasoning was, But
a sick young kid did that. He bears the responsibility. So setting the
tone, do you think it was wise to constantly compare this man to Hitler?
I don't know. It don't depends on the context, right, I
mean, if somebody's saying, yeah, he killed killed millions of people,
of course not that would be silly. But if you wanted to say,
well, it's strategy to get the power by blaming other people, you know,
through nationalism, well yeah, that's a similar strategy. So yeah,
and that's the same strategy from socialists who continue to blame problems to the wealthy
or the white people or a systematic racism. You know, they're they're blaming
other people and doing the same sort of power trip. It's not I'm not
listen, I'm not a I'm not a Trump, I'm not a Trump fan,
but it is it's amazing to see how many people from the left are
now stepping back from their attacks, the personal attacks on Trump as as a
death spot. Well, would you have preferred that people like me would say,
damn, I wish say that he'd just hit him it right in the
head and killed him. Would you prefer us to say that? Yeah?
I think I would. I think I would because it would be honest,
because I think there's a whole bunch of people out there who really do wish
that. Do you disagree with that? I would never wish somebody getting shot.
I would not wish that upon anybody. Do you believe that there's a
whole bunch of people out there who wish that he was killed during that assassination?
I would be happy if he died tonight. I didn't ask you let
me try it again for a third time. Do you, Mike, think
that there are a whole lot of Trump hating people out there who would have
been happy if he was killed during that assassination attempt. I'm sure there are
people out there like that. I'm sure there's a whole bunch of them,
including Jack Black's partner in a group called Tenacious d and including our very own
state legislator who said, oh, look at this sympathy for the devil.
You know, I think I think there's a ton Now we can't know us
in people's minds, but we can't take the words that they've been using for
the last eight years and and project some of that. Sure, but but
we don't know. You don't know, and I don't know. So there's
no sense in really debating that, I guess. No, I think there's
a lot of sense in debating it because it is interesting how the language has
changed after the assassination attempt and how it really puts it really puts Trump haters
in in a bizarre spot. After eight years of calling him hitler, now
they really can't call him hitler. I think I think it's just showing that
people have some compassion and that when they when they talk about comparing him to
suck to some despot, it's not necessarily on the exact same level. So
I think I think you're I think you're stretching it. Then you're just trying
to create some good radio get it. No, I don't think that's it
at all. I truly believe many many Trump haters would have liked to see
this guy dead. All right, Bye, that's what you believe. Great,
don't put me in that, I guess. Is my point. You
compared him to hit that, and I just you compared him to Hitler,
and that comparison brings certain certain consequences. Yeah, there, there might compare
you to Hitler if I wanted to. I can compare anybody to Hitler.
Sure what, But when it's done on mass as a way to scare people,
you know, there, it's amazing that no one is taking responsibility for
for this. Yes, crazed kid did this, but you can't tell me
there was there was a that there was that no one set the stage for
it was. It was not a surprise, It was not Was it a
surprise that someone was going to take a shot at Trump? No? Really,
why was it not a surprise? The reporting is is that he also
googled up potentially Biden. You're very good at answering questions. I didn't ask
why wasn't it a surprise to people that Trump was shot? Well, we
have more guns in the nation than we have people, so it's easy to
take a shot at him if you wanted to. Really, that's what you
want to go with. It was easy. So you so when it took
from uh, twenty year old kid? Did it? Indeed? Indeed?
So? So that's that was it. It's just because there's more guns,
toy. Do you feel a little ashamed of trying to push one of your
issues gun control? As as the reason for this. This gun was purchased
legally and it was taken by dude. Dude, I own guns, so
I'm not. Gun control isn't an issue for me. You asked me if
it was, you know, you asked me how difficult it was. It's
not difficult. Of course, lots of people are crazy and lots of that
wasn't. That wasn't really the question. Let's let's try this again. People
weren't surprised by the assassination attempt because the culture against Donald Trump has been so
vicious and vitriolic that it's set a stage that we all we all weren't surprised
when this happened. It wasn't. It wasn't like Reagan getting shot. It
wasn't. I don't none of us expected George w to get shot. But
I think a lot of us were not at all surprised because of the tone
set against Trump that something like this was going to happen. Well, look,
our history states that there are crazy people that try to assassinate our president.
That means that's clear. And so whether it's it's more likely that Trump
or somebody else would get shot, I don't. It's beyond it doesn't matter.
It happened. It happened many times. So why would you even worry
about it? Why are you thinking that? Yeah, I know what you're
trying to say that the rhetoric that the mainstream media and people like me create
some kind of a victorol of people that go shoot Trump. Come on,
you don't believe that the victory all from the mainstream media and people like you
had any bearing in this. I don't, Okay, I think he was
a crazy kid. He's a crazy kid. Man, he's a crazy kid.
And and also, yeah, there was an opportunity there, But we
weren't surprised. You weren't surprised. At least we both can agree that there
are many people who wanted to see him dead. And I think a lot
of people were saying, in the privacy of their own homes and privacy over
over a few beers, if only that bullet was just a little farther over.
Not you, of course, not you. Thanks for the call,
Mike. Three O three seven one three eight two five five. I'm John
kelderic keep it here six point thirty k how and now back to the Dan
Kapla Show podcast. One of the worst lyrics ever JFK blown away? What
else do I have to say? There is no question that Trump derangement syndrome
has dialed up the rhetoric so much that none of us were surprised that someone
took a shot at at Donald Trump. Yep, people have tried to kill
president. It's it's not that unusual. But there's no question in my mind
that when you constantly compare a guy to Hitler as a as a tactic to
scare people, it means that people want to see him dead. That's,
you know, the great question. You have the time machine and you could
strangle Hitler in his crib? Would you do so? I hope so?
Three or three seven, one three eight two five five seven to one three
talk in for Dan Caplis. I'm John Kelder. Let's go down to the
springs and talk to David. Hey, David, glad to have you.
Hey, how are you there? Man? I'm great coeople. Think.
First off, First off, I'm going to invest my own money. I'm
going to find a virtual drug testing program so you can test these people that
call you my god. Really, that guy was just down there. Yeah,
he's If he gets any more dumber, they're going to have to do
a study on him. Man, I couldn't believe it. He must be
Kamala. I think he's Kamala's nephew. Anyway, why do you think I
want to dive in that? Just real fast. We don't have much time.
But what makes them dumb? What makes them crazy? Because two things.
First off, he's a typical liberal because you asked him the question that
any that a ten year old would have understood, and he has to come
back with it answer not even close. And he keeps trying to push it
back on you when you're right, and you haven't. You haven't taken one
side. You're being a neutral guy. Now. People who love Trump hate
me. People who hate Trump hate me because I'm not. I'm yeah,
I'm not a hardcore trumpy, but you know I would much prefer Trump as
president then Biden. You know what's sad is the young kids are the ones
that are going to get the worst out of I'm older, year older.
These young kids, I don't know what their future is going to be,
like my nephews, my kids, I don't know, and that's what scares
me. My god, you're kidding me. Anyway, Thanks and keep up
the good work. Man, Well done, well, thank you very much.
Will do so. In about three minutes, the President will go on
a national speech, which I don't think many people are going to watch,
and he's going to say why he's he's dropping out of the race, and
it's going to be for the good of the country. It's going to be
to help Kamala. There'll be a lot of passing the torch to a younger
generation, and Kamala is the one who can do that. It will be
deflection after deflection after deflection, which you know, of course, is going
to happen instead of the honesty of listen. I'm old. I've been pressured
and pressured and pressured, and finally I have come to the conclusion I don't
have a path to victory and therefore I'm not gonna run for president. Wouldn't
that just be refreshing, wouldn't it be refreshing? Just? Yeah, I
was convinced I can't win. That's why I'm not running, because I can't
win. Hey, check out the Independence Institute. Go to thinkfreedom dot org,
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