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Speaker 2: Well, it's a Trump doctrine.
Speaker 1: From Middle East, announced in no uncertain terms today, major
Speaker 1: address in Saudi Arabia, and so we'll get you a
Speaker 1: lot of that hot sound. I think it may be
Speaker 1: viewed looking back in what two, three, five, ten, twenty
Speaker 1: years as one of those standout, maybe even pivotal days
Speaker 1: in American foreign policy. But the president clearly making a
Speaker 1: break with the past in no uncertain terms. Picture the
Speaker 1: setting for this. You know, you're in Riod and you've
Speaker 1: got the Crown, Prince MBS front and center. Obviously a
Speaker 1: lot of this has been pre wired, and you have
Speaker 1: this very high tech looks like a modified ballroom but
Speaker 1: about as fancy and tech savvy as you can get.
Speaker 1: And the President is up there alone, he's making this
Speaker 1: major address. And here is I think one of the
Speaker 1: points at the heart of it.
Speaker 3: I believe it is God's job to sit in judgment,
Speaker 3: my job to defend America and to promote the fundamental
Speaker 3: interest of stability, prosperity, and peace.
Speaker 2: That's what I really want to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I think obviously the presidents saying, hey, do
Speaker 1: you know the human rights issues? And I'm sure he
Speaker 1: means within reason, but the human rights issues are not
Speaker 1: going to be the priority issues at this point. You know,
Speaker 1: let God sit in judgment of that. I'm here to
Speaker 1: protect America's interest, referring to America's you know, peace and
Speaker 1: prosperity interest. So that I think a key part of
Speaker 1: the Trump doctrine. There were some others as well. Can't
Speaker 1: play all the sound because there was so much. I mean,
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm normally just pulling in Ryan as
Speaker 1: the highlight bites, but there are a lot of highlight
Speaker 1: bites today. I think this is another of those those
Speaker 1: key foundational pieces to the new Trump Mideast doctrine.
Speaker 3: Before our eyes, a new generation of leaders is transcending
Speaker 3: the ancient conflicts of tired divisions of the past and
Speaker 3: forging a future where the Middle East is defined by
Speaker 3: commerce not chaos, where it exports technology not terrorism, and
Speaker 3: where people of different nations, religions, and creeds are building
Speaker 3: cities together, not bombing each other out of existence.
Speaker 4: We don't want that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And obviously part of that's aspirational, but part of
Speaker 1: it's real, and it's happening, and not in its purest form,
Speaker 1: but nothing happening on a human level. It's in its
Speaker 1: purest form. But here's the point. There are some bastions.
Speaker 1: There are some throwback bastions where they have no interest
Speaker 1: in prosperity, that they have no interest in peace. They
Speaker 1: exist to kill, and that is the Iranian regime, not
Speaker 1: the Iranian people. They're prisoners of the Iranian regime, but
Speaker 1: the Iranian regime. They exist to kill, is to commit
Speaker 1: the next Holocaust. And I think one of the things
Speaker 1: that President Trump is wisely doing here is he's building
Speaker 1: and you'll hear.
Speaker 4: Some of his.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even call him concessions, but some of his
Speaker 1: major strategic moves to build this coalition in the Mideast
Speaker 1: to isolate Iran. Because Iran isn't the only bad actor,
Speaker 1: right but in terms of the worst of the bad
Speaker 1: actors and the one posing the most immediate threat to
Speaker 1: this nation and our Ali Israel, great Ali Israel, it
Speaker 1: would be Iran. So I think part of this whole
Speaker 1: play is to isolate Iran and to I'm sure the
Speaker 1: President hopes be able to resolve that peacefully, but I'll
Speaker 1: play some sounds you'll hear. He makes it very clear
Speaker 1: that in the end he will obliterate Iran if he
Speaker 1: has to.
Speaker 3: Before our eyes, a new generation of leaders is transcending.
Speaker 1: That it's really good, but not good enough to play twice.
Speaker 1: Here's the follow up to that, And that was on me, honest.
Speaker 2: Crucial for the wider world to note.
Speaker 3: This great transformation has not come from Western intervention no less,
Speaker 3: or flying people and beautiful planes giving you lectures on
Speaker 3: how to live and how to govern your own affairs. No,
Speaker 3: the gleaming marvels of Riad and Abu Dhabi were not
Speaker 3: created by the so called nation builders, neocons or liberal
Speaker 3: nonprofits like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars
Speaker 3: failing to develop Kabbal Baghdad so many other cities.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's another pillar of the new Trump
Speaker 1: doctrine for the Mid East. You know, all the Americans
Speaker 1: who've been flying over here, and it's implied, not stated,
Speaker 1: from both parties, you know, who've been telling you how
Speaker 1: to live. No, those those days are over. And again
Speaker 1: this ties back into the President making it clear that
Speaker 1: human rights are not going to be the focus again
Speaker 1: and drawing the line when it comes to Iran.
Speaker 4: And I'll get to some of that specifically.
Speaker 3: Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been
Speaker 3: brought by the people of the region themselves, the people
Speaker 3: that are right here, the people that have lived here
Speaker 3: all their lives, Developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your
Speaker 3: own unique visions and charting your own destinies in your
Speaker 3: own way. It's really incredible what you've done. In the end,
Speaker 3: the so called nation builders wrecked far more nations than
Speaker 3: they built, and the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies.
Speaker 2: That they did not even understand themselves.
Speaker 3: They told you how to do it, but they had
Speaker 3: no idea how to do it themselves. Peace, prosperity, and
Speaker 3: progress ultimately came not from a radical rejection of your heritage,
Speaker 3: but rather from embracing your national traditions and embracing that
Speaker 3: same heritage that you love Earlier.
Speaker 1: And obviously the message being very well received. Again, I
Speaker 1: think it's part of a bigger strategy to try to
Speaker 1: get that widespread and starting in Saudi Arabia, right, because
Speaker 1: not all of those countries are created equal, and the
Speaker 1: King pain of Saudi Arabia to again try to isolate Iran.
Speaker 1: Now here's where the President turns to Iran. And there's
Speaker 1: no question Iran clear and present danger to this nation,
Speaker 1: to our great Ali Israel, to this nation's economy, to
Speaker 1: to world health. Economically, Iran simply cannot have a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 4: I want to make a deal with Iran.
Speaker 3: If I can make a deal with Iran, I'll be
Speaker 3: very happy if we're going to make your region and
Speaker 3: the world's.
Speaker 4: A safer place.
Speaker 3: But if Iran's leadership rejects this olive branch and continues
Speaker 3: to attack their neighbors, then we will have no choice
Speaker 3: but to inflict massive maximum pressure drive Iranian oil exports
Speaker 3: to zero.
Speaker 4: Like I did before. If you know that they were a.
Speaker 3: Virtually banged crypt country because of what I did, they
Speaker 3: had no money for terror, they had no money for
Speaker 3: Hamas or Hezbollah, and take all action required to stop
Speaker 3: the regime from ever having a nuclear weapon. Iran will
Speaker 3: never have a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 1: Ye, and Trump walked the talk. He had a run
Speaker 1: on the ropes. Remember and one of the first things
Speaker 1: Biden did when he got into office was to empower Aran.
Speaker 4: Trump says no more that.
Speaker 3: But with that said, Iran can have a much brighter future,
Speaker 3: but will never allow America and his allies to be
Speaker 3: threatened with terrorism or nuclear attack.
Speaker 5: The choices there is to make.
Speaker 3: We really want them to be a successful country. We
Speaker 3: want them to be a wonderful, safe, great country, but
Speaker 3: they cannot have a nuclear weapon. This is an offer
Speaker 3: that will not last forever. The time is right now
Speaker 3: for them to choose.
Speaker 5: Right now.
Speaker 4: We don't have a lot of time to wait.
Speaker 1: And then the President making it very clear, and we'll
Speaker 1: play a bunch of that sound but this one kind
Speaker 1: of summarizes it that if necessary, he'll do what he
Speaker 1: has to do militarily to end that regime. If the
Speaker 1: regime pursues further.
Speaker 3: The nuclear weapon, I will never hesitate to wield American
Speaker 3: power if it's necessary to defend the United States or
Speaker 3: to help defend our allies. And there will be no
Speaker 3: mercy for any foe who tries.
Speaker 2: To do us or them harm.
Speaker 4: We will have no mercy. They understand that. That's why
Speaker 4: I've been pretty lucky. A lot of people think, you know.
Speaker 3: He's looking to fight, he's looking to fight, and things
Speaker 3: get settled.
Speaker 5: It's an amazing thing.
Speaker 4: When they really think you mean it.
Speaker 2: But we do.
Speaker 5: We have the.
Speaker 3: Greatest military, the strongest military, stronger.
Speaker 4: Than any nobody's even close.
Speaker 3: We have the best weapons in the world, but we
Speaker 3: don't want to use them. If you threaten America or
Speaker 3: our partners, however, then you'll be faced with overwhelming strength
Speaker 3: and deva stating for us. We have things that you
Speaker 3: don't even know about, you don't hear about, and if.
Speaker 5: You did, you say, wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the Trump doctrine announced today in the Mid East.
Speaker 1: This is the start of a multi day swing. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I love the play in lots of different respects, and
Speaker 1: starting with the fact that Iran is a clear and
Speaker 1: present danger. The clock is ticking, has to be dealt
Speaker 1: with very very soon. And I think a lot of
Speaker 1: what the President had to say when he talked about
Speaker 1: the Mid East parts of it transforming now and being
Speaker 1: more concerned with prosperity than with terrorism true, and I
Speaker 1: think the President's in a perfect position now to try
Speaker 1: to advance that further while isolating around.
Speaker 4: So come back, get your take on that much more.
Speaker 4: You're on the Dan Capla.
Speaker 2: Show and now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 3: Far too many American presidents have been afflicted with the
Speaker 3: notion that it's our job to look into the souls
Speaker 3: of foreign leaders and use US policy to dispense justice
Speaker 3: for this sins they loved using our very powerful military.
Speaker 3: And now it's really the most powerful it's ever been.
Speaker 3: We just are getting a budget approof one trillion dollars,
Speaker 3: highest budget we've ever had in history for military, one
Speaker 3: trillion dollars, and we're getting the greatest missiles, the greatest weapons,
Speaker 3: And you know, I hate, I hate to do it,
Speaker 3: but you have to do it because we believe in
Speaker 3: peace through strength. You have to have the strength otherwise
Speaker 3: bad things could happen. But hopefully we'll never have to
Speaker 3: use any of those weapons. Seems to be an awfully
Speaker 3: big waste of money if you're never going to use them,
Speaker 3: But hopefully we'll never have to use them, because the
Speaker 3: destructive power of some of those weapons are like nobody's
Speaker 3: seen before.
Speaker 4: If you just joined us, thank you. What a beautiful day.
Speaker 1: The Trump doctrine announced today in riodd and it is powerful.
Speaker 1: It is clear, it is bold, we're talking it through.
Speaker 1: I think it's fair to say the President making it
Speaker 1: very clear that the US will will not be addressing
Speaker 1: human rights issues, you know, with with its Mid East allies.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'll play this this clip. Trump just
Speaker 1: comes right out and says it. You know, it's it's
Speaker 1: God's job to sit in judgment. Was I think one
Speaker 1: of the key pillars of this Trump doctor Now in return,
Speaker 1: and obviously Trump wants a lot in return, not just
Speaker 1: for this, but you know, there were some other policy
Speaker 1: pronouncements today that were really significant and including you know,
Speaker 1: removing at this point the sanctions on Syria, which the
Speaker 1: host MBS, Saudi Arabia, Turkey others have been pushing hard for.
Speaker 1: But the but the point of the President is that,
Speaker 1: you know, he wants this to be a very prosperous relationship.
Speaker 1: He wants to run isolated, and he wants those Midiest
Speaker 1: countries that are trying at this point and some are succeeding,
Speaker 1: you know, in developing technologically, et cetera, to be able
Speaker 1: to continue to do that and human rights. And he
Speaker 1: didn't say it in these terms, but clearly the message
Speaker 1: human rights is not going to be the US focus.
Speaker 3: I believe it is God's job to sit in judgment,
Speaker 3: my job to defend America and to promote the fundamental
Speaker 3: interest of stability, prosperity, and peace.
Speaker 2: That's what I really want to do.
Speaker 4: And so we'll get to much more from that.
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Speaker 1: Jake Tapper uncovers startling evidence that Biden's decline was covered
Speaker 1: up by Jake Tapper.
Speaker 6: So true, right, yeah, and we've got sound of that
Speaker 6: effect as well, where you attempt to shift the blame saying, hey,
Speaker 6: we were lied to. The people on the inside of
Speaker 6: the Biden administration were covering this.
Speaker 2: I'm not telling us.
Speaker 1: So anybody stupid enough to believe what they were being
Speaker 1: told rather than what they were seen, right, you know
Speaker 1: at that point shouldn't have their job to begin with that.
Speaker 1: I don't believe these are stupid people. I think Jake
Speaker 1: Tepper is a smart person who decided to engage in
Speaker 1: one of the worst cover ups in American political history,
Speaker 1: probably this single worst offense, the single worst defense by
Speaker 1: journalists in American history, to cover up the fact that,
Speaker 1: as we talked about every day on the show, I've
Speaker 1: been talking about for two and a half years, you know,
Speaker 1: we do not have a president, we have a non
Speaker 1: functional president, we have no president. And yet these people
Speaker 1: were willing to continue to peddle alike to the American people.
Speaker 4: So they're party won.
Speaker 7: You have an entire White House press corps though, following
Speaker 7: him around, and I'm just curious as to whether or
Speaker 7: not this kind of trying to hide what was happening
Speaker 7: with the president at the time had an impact on
Speaker 7: the press corps, like why didn't we hear some of
Speaker 7: these details from what they actually saw? And we're dealing
Speaker 7: with trying to get information.
Speaker 8: Well, Alex Thompson and I were on the case, as
Speaker 8: were lots of other reporters trying to figure out what
Speaker 8: was going on behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: If you weren't able to figure that out, you should
Speaker 1: not have your job. They figured it out. They were
Speaker 1: part of the cover.
Speaker 6: Well, and the ultimate slam on the media came from
Speaker 6: Saturday Night Live, Dan, which is, you know, a friend
Speaker 6: to the Biden administration or should be, And they kept
Speaker 6: running this bit about behind closed doors, he's a maniac,
Speaker 6: he crawls off the ceilings. Keen and Todd's, they're all
Speaker 6: doing that. But it didn't have to be to your point, then,
Speaker 6: behind the scenes. It was right in front of our faces,
Speaker 6: him falling down at the Air Force graduation ceremony, right.
Speaker 1: And the best of journalism is investigative reporting, right. And
Speaker 1: it wouldn't have taken Woodward and Bernstein right. It was
Speaker 1: right there in front of your eyes. And if they
Speaker 1: had been motivated to serve America and to report the
Speaker 1: truth to America, they could have had an intern go
Speaker 1: out and do the things you'd need to do to
Speaker 1: get more layers of proof that we had an incapacitated president.
Speaker 8: But the bottom line is the White House was lying
Speaker 8: not only to the press, not only to the public,
Speaker 8: but they were lying to members.
Speaker 2: Of their own cabinet.
Speaker 8: They were lying to White House staffers, they were lying
Speaker 8: to Democratic members of Congress, to donors about how bad
Speaker 8: things had gotten.
Speaker 1: Wait a second to say, their line assumes that everybody
Speaker 1: you just mentioned could not see this for themselves. They could,
Speaker 1: and they were all part of the lie. They were
Speaker 1: all part of the cover up that includes Michael Bennett,
Speaker 1: and includes Jared Polis, and includes John Hickenlooper Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: One of the many reasons she should have lost is
Speaker 1: she was a key player in lying to the American people.
Speaker 1: She betrayed the American people. Everybody I just mentioned who
Speaker 1: was in a position of power and knew they betrayed
Speaker 1: the American people by not putting America first, putting America
Speaker 1: at a party and standing up and saying no, that
Speaker 1: this is a situation. Our president, God love them, is
Speaker 1: not able to function physically and mentally. And even that's
Speaker 1: what they should have done, and they paid the price
Speaker 1: right what they ended up losing the election.
Speaker 2: Their selfish interest.
Speaker 6: Let's put aside any moral obligation to the American people,
Speaker 6: which there is that. But did they really think this
Speaker 6: was going to play out what they were seeing that
Speaker 6: they would just talk themselves into Joe Biden is still
Speaker 6: cognitively sufficient and coherent enough to beat a completely lucid
Speaker 6: Donald Trump in a debate, in a campaign and energy
Speaker 6: on the road where you would have to go out
Speaker 6: and do appearances. You couldn't hide in the basement like
Speaker 6: you did during the COVID campaign of twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Did they really think this would play out?
Speaker 6: This is what I'm asking and that Biden would somehow
Speaker 6: win reelection If they wanted Trump to lose, shouldn't they
Speaker 6: have done dogged journalism to dig this up and get
Speaker 6: this out in the open and get Biden off the ticket.
Speaker 1: They were all acting in their selfish interests. They were
Speaker 1: doing their own selfish calculation that hey, wait a second ticket.
Speaker 1: J're at Polish right, who wanted to be president?
Speaker 4: Yeah? And I want to be the Broncos quarterback.
Speaker 1: But as and I said it at the time, if
Speaker 1: Polis had just had the courage to come out and say, hey,
Speaker 1: wait a second, love him, but he's not functional, that
Speaker 1: the president is not mentally functional, I'm going to get
Speaker 1: in this race, you know, Polus would have elevated his
Speaker 1: stock so much. But he did the calculation, just as
Speaker 1: they all did the calculation. And they just bet they
Speaker 1: do more harm to themselves politically than good in standing
Speaker 1: up and speaking the truth to the American people. That's
Speaker 1: why none of them should be in office. None of
Speaker 1: them should be in office because they made a premeditated,
Speaker 1: deliberate decision to act against the best interest of America
Speaker 1: in order to pursue their own.
Speaker 2: Selfish best course.
Speaker 1: And of course the irony is that they all end
Speaker 1: up losing to one degree or another, as they should.
Speaker 1: One of the most just outcomes in America. Now, Hey,
Speaker 1: American in the world suffered a great deal in the process, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at the rape and pillage of Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Look at October seven, Look at all the horrible things
Speaker 1: that happened in America and across the globe because all
Speaker 1: of these people were talking about decide I did to
Speaker 1: become part of the big lie to the American people.
Speaker 4: But you know what, the American people knew they were
Speaker 4: being lied.
Speaker 1: To, right, and in the end, they spoke loudly and
Speaker 1: clearly on election Day. Let's hope that that carries over
Speaker 1: now into this cycle, this cycle in Colorado and beyond.
Speaker 4: Hey, if you just joined us, thank you.
Speaker 1: So many interesting things going on today, including the President
Speaker 1: announcing the Trump Doctrine in Riot and we'll have some
Speaker 1: of that powerful sound and more on the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 3: Secretary Marco Rubio will be meeting with the New Syria
Speaker 3: and Foreign Minister in Turkey later this week, and very importantly,
Speaker 3: after discussing the situation in Syria with the Crown Prince
Speaker 3: you're a crown prince, and also with President Ernigan of
Speaker 3: Turkey who called me the other day and asked for
Speaker 3: a very similar thing, among others and friends of mine
Speaker 3: well that I have a lot of respect for in
Speaker 3: the Middle East. I will be ordering the cessation of
Speaker 3: sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance.
Speaker 1: Act rate this bold moved by the President part of
Speaker 1: the Trump doctrine announced today in Saudi Arabia, a doctrine
Speaker 1: for the entire Mid East. I think I labeled a
Speaker 1: Trump doctrine, not exactly creative, but I think it's accurate,
Speaker 1: and I think it's a really big deal, particularly if
Speaker 1: there's the follow through, and I expect that there will
Speaker 1: be now as part of this or at Saudi Arabia
Speaker 1: promising six hundred billion dollars. In fact, I think they
Speaker 1: appear to be pretty concrete deal, six hundred with a
Speaker 1: B billion in terms of everything from arms purchases to
Speaker 1: other involvements in American business. But the President, I think,
Speaker 1: very wisely and clearly trying to rally the Mid East
Speaker 1: to isolate the Iranian leadership. I won't say iron because
Speaker 1: the Iranian people are prisoners of the Iranian leadership, but
Speaker 1: they do and I know it does and feel like
Speaker 1: it day to day on the street. But they do
Speaker 1: pose a clear and present danger to you, your family, me,
Speaker 1: my family, our country, our great Ali Israel, and the world.
Speaker 1: So I do think the Mid East is changing in
Speaker 1: many ways for the better. I think Trump was not
Speaker 1: just aspirational but pretty accurate on that today in some senses.
Speaker 1: But in the middle of that, and they aren't the
Speaker 1: only bad actors. You have that Iranian regime right now
Speaker 1: that lives to kill, they live to spread death, whereas
Speaker 1: you do have other parts of the Mideast that are
Speaker 1: better focused more now on peace, prosperity, etc.
Speaker 4: So play some of that hot sound.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of different topics bouncing around today,
Speaker 1: which is always fun. We are talking about professional sports ownership,
Speaker 1: not in the X and O sense. I know we're
Speaker 1: not a sports show, though we'd be a darn good
Speaker 1: one if we were, but just in this bigger question
Speaker 1: of is professional sports team ownership not legally I'm just
Speaker 1: talking right and wrong, which should matter even more right,
Speaker 1: right and wrong. Should it be viewed as a public true.
Speaker 1: I believe clearly it should be, because it's not like
Speaker 1: any other type of business. There's only one. It's not like, oh,
Speaker 1: you don't like the Colorado Rockies, you can go down
Speaker 1: the street tomorrow and watch the Colorado Zombies.
Speaker 2: You can't.
Speaker 1: And then you get back to the history and tradition
Speaker 1: of a city, sometimes a state, so wrapped up in
Speaker 1: that particular team, And then you get to the kids,
Speaker 1: because the kids only have this short window when they're kids, right,
Speaker 1: and you know, the kids opportunity to enjoy, you know,
Speaker 1: that extra pleasure of a team that's competitive, and in
Speaker 1: the case of baseball, you're watching, you know the results
Speaker 1: every day, and it becomes a bonding thing with your
Speaker 1: parents and your family. And let's face it, we have
Speaker 1: a whole called a generation of kids who are being
Speaker 1: deprived of that in Colorado, who are not going to
Speaker 1: experience that in Colorado when it comes to baseball. Now,
Speaker 1: very fortunate, right when it comes to the other major sports.
Speaker 1: But I just think it should be viewed as more
Speaker 1: of a public trust than just what happens to work
Speaker 1: best with the X and o's and listen, I happened to.
Speaker 4: I don't know them, know them, but been around them
Speaker 4: a little bit.
Speaker 1: I've been like the Montforts personally, and they've done some
Speaker 1: wonderful things for charity. I'd love to see them win
Speaker 1: a world championship in Denver. I'd love to see all
Speaker 1: of that. But obviously this isn't working. And it's similar Ryan.
Speaker 1: You take the beautiful shoelin of state right. In many,
Speaker 1: many places, the beautiful shoeling of State.
Speaker 4: Would be the gem of the block.
Speaker 1: But if you're competing in let's say a best homes
Speaker 1: competition and you're in the NL West, well you got
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, you got the Giants, etc. I'm sorry, you
Speaker 1: can't just howl at the moon.
Speaker 5: You got to.
Speaker 4: Acknowledge that reality.
Speaker 1: And the reality when it comes to baseball in Colorado,
Speaker 1: in my humble opinion, is that it's going to take
Speaker 1: a gazillionaire who does not care if she or he
Speaker 1: loses money on the team. And there are a ton
Speaker 1: of gazillionaires, and sure they like to make money, that's
Speaker 1: why they're gazillionaires. But you got a ton of gazillionaires
Speaker 1: who are willing to lose money or make less money
Speaker 1: each year in order to win, and more importantly, they
Speaker 1: have a gazillion to spend to go out and chase
Speaker 1: what they view as their legacy winning a championship.
Speaker 2: And this simple.
Speaker 1: Reality is it's going to require that kind of owner,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, for the Rockies to get there and
Speaker 1: be consistently there.
Speaker 4: If that's going to be the Montforts, uh huh. I
Speaker 4: like them.
Speaker 1: I'd love to see them be the people who hoist
Speaker 1: the trophy and win these world championships.
Speaker 4: But something's got to change, quick straps.
Speaker 2: Shot take. You're exactly right.
Speaker 6: But the NL West has been the best overall division
Speaker 6: for how many years in a row now? And it
Speaker 6: is an arms race literally arms pitching. And you have
Speaker 6: the Dodgers, the Giants. They can post these big bids
Speaker 6: for these Japanese stars, millions upon millions of dollars.
Speaker 2: You got Arizona. They've got a great farm system.
Speaker 6: They develop a lot of great young players, and Colorado
Speaker 6: has not been able to do either one of those things.
Speaker 6: Signed the big name free agent pitcher, develop the talent
Speaker 6: from within. This goes beyond just Bud Black and the
Speaker 6: dugout and the manager for sure.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it just comes back to the money, right,
Speaker 1: It just comes back to the money now, and you've
Speaker 1: got to make some good decisions this and that. But listen,
Speaker 1: nobody's going to make good decisions all the time. The
Speaker 1: difference is when the Dodgers blow it. Ah, Okay, we
Speaker 1: just blew two hundred million on a guy, or maybe
Speaker 1: three hundred million. That's okay, We'll spend four hundred million
Speaker 1: on the next guy, right and it it just doesn't
Speaker 1: matter to them. And I understand you have some major
Speaker 1: market economics, but what it all really comes back to
Speaker 1: is there've been an awful lot of money people who
Speaker 1: have made more money than it's even hard to than
Speaker 1: you can even imagine calculating over the last twenty years
Speaker 1: or so, and a lot of those people want to
Speaker 1: buy major league franchises, and I just think it's going
Speaker 1: to take that kind of ownership. And if the Montforts
Speaker 1: can swing it again, I like them. I'd love to
Speaker 1: see him raise the trophy. But something should change in Colorado.
Speaker 1: Three or three someone three eight two five five TEXTDA
Speaker 1: and five seven seven three nine. Let me get to
Speaker 1: the phone lines that will say this. Still absolutely love
Speaker 1: going to the park. It's tremendous experience when you get
Speaker 1: to the ballpark. The customer service is great, the park's beautiful,
Speaker 1: the park's clean, the people who work there are wonderful.
Speaker 1: We keep our season tickets, and we're going to keep
Speaker 1: our season tickets, and we enjoy going. I'm just talking
Speaker 1: about what should happen, what should happen here. By the way,
Speaker 1: as we go to the phone lines, allow me one
Speaker 1: other sports note, because it is so true, and that
Speaker 1: is what should happen tonight and won't is it the Nuggets?
Speaker 1: And I just admire, I so admire just this maximum
Speaker 1: effort we've seen in the postseason. But if the Nuggets,
Speaker 1: if the Nuggets would just rest their starters tonight, I
Speaker 1: think they should give the double middle digits to the NBA,
Speaker 1: which has absolutely undermined them in scheduling, and give in
Speaker 1: playoff scheduling and just rest their starters tonight. Nuggets should
Speaker 1: bench their starters tonight, let them rest up for Thursday
Speaker 1: and go in win that home game and then go
Speaker 1: grab a Game seven. But the NBA has been extremely
Speaker 1: unfair to this Denver Nuggets team, and that's what I
Speaker 1: think they should do. One other bit of advice for
Speaker 1: the Nuggets, Ryan, and I know you will instantly agree.
Speaker 4: You have heard this nowhere else.
Speaker 1: What they need to do because Jokich is so abused,
Speaker 1: and the league won't protect them, the refs won't protect them.
Speaker 1: What the Nuggets need to do. And I'm dead serious
Speaker 1: on this. Have you met his brother in the stands? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: if you've been around his brother. For those who have
Speaker 1: not been around Jokich's brother, he is a specimen. He
Speaker 1: is one of the largest humans you've ever seen and
Speaker 1: appears to be tremendously fit and appears to have an edge,
Speaker 1: let's call it a competitive edge. And they need to
Speaker 1: sign his brother. And he doesn't come to practices. He
Speaker 1: just comes to games. He puts on the uniform, he
Speaker 1: sits on the bench, he gets six fowls to give,
Speaker 1: and somebody cheap shots Jokich. You put him in the game,
Speaker 1: you make it clear that isn't going to be tolerated,
Speaker 1: and then you put him back on the bench. Is
Speaker 1: there any flaw in that logic? Let's start Nervada. You're
Speaker 1: on the Dan Kaplas show.
Speaker 9: Well, oh my god, you're making me Joe.
Speaker 4: I'm serious, I'm dead serious.
Speaker 9: No, you know what I want to say one thing.
Speaker 5: I want to say.
Speaker 9: One thing about Jokis brothers. You know what, they harassed
Speaker 9: probably the coolest guy on the planet. And Jack Nicholson
Speaker 9: what eighty some years old and their rash.
Speaker 4: I didn't hear about that.
Speaker 9: That was Yeah, that was when when a year or
Speaker 9: two ago, when when the Nuggets were in LA, well,
Speaker 9: you know, playing the Lakers.
Speaker 1: But that's the kind of enforcer you need on your bench.
Speaker 1: That the Nuggets an enforcer.
Speaker 9: Okay, I understand, I understand. Okay, So I'm going to
Speaker 9: give you that, and then so I have a well, yeah,
Speaker 9: I'll give you the enforcer part, but please agree that
Speaker 9: you don't pick on an old man, cool old man
Speaker 9: like no. So first I was going to tell you, Joe,
Speaker 9: but you know what, how can you say, Dan that
Speaker 9: they they're starters and give up the game. I think
Speaker 9: whoever wins the game tonight will ultimately win the series
Speaker 9: because it's been back and forth. You don't give up game, Dan,
Speaker 9: Come on your ear, smarter, Internet.
Speaker 4: My friend.
Speaker 1: I'm serious about what I'm saying the NBA. First of all,
Speaker 1: I hope I'm wrong on this, Okay. I really do
Speaker 1: like this team and I like this coach, I like
Speaker 1: what they're doing, I like where they're headed. But the
Speaker 1: NBA had that late game Friday followed by an early
Speaker 1: game Sunday. They have burned this team out. So and
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a we're a believer in divine intervention, but
Speaker 1: it will take divine intervention for them to win tonight.
Speaker 1: What I'm talking about is if you can give them
Speaker 1: some quality rest and have them rested for the last
Speaker 1: two games of this series, they could absolutely win this series.
Speaker 9: Okay, can I make two more quick points?
Speaker 1: Sure? Would you be kind enough to hold though, Joe,
Speaker 1: because we're at the end of a hard break segment
Speaker 1: and none of us will be here at the end
Speaker 1: of this break if I don't paw, You're on the
Speaker 1: Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 2: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Lines in Fuego text exploding, We'll go back to Joe
Speaker 1: and Hervetti was completing but hadn't quite made it there.
Speaker 4: Not his fault, Joe, final.
Speaker 9: Thoughts on Okay, final fall. So I have two quick things,
Speaker 9: give me fifty seconds. Number One, Major League Baseball needs
Speaker 9: to look at like the NFL model. So like in
Speaker 9: the NFL, most of the revenue is shared league.
Speaker 2: Why right, brilliant.
Speaker 9: Teams like Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Denver can compete with the
Speaker 9: LAS and the New Yorks you know, of the country.
Speaker 1: So may I respectfully disagree on the second part. I
Speaker 1: think you're right about the brilliance of the NFL model, right,
Speaker 1: but it's not necessary in baseball right now because you
Speaker 1: have so many gazillionaires who don't care how much money
Speaker 1: they spend. They just want to chase the trophy. They
Speaker 1: don't care if they lose money every year in the franchise.
Speaker 1: So you don't need that right now to have the
Speaker 1: small market teams be competitive.
Speaker 4: I'd still like to see what you want.
Speaker 9: Okay, Well, let's hopefully we can get these. Okay, So
Speaker 9: I got a good it's a clean topical joke. Okay, yeah, okay,
Speaker 9: So here we go. What do the Rockies, the Avs,
Speaker 9: the Nuggets, and the Broncos all have in common?
Speaker 4: Dan, I don't know.
Speaker 9: None of them can play baseball.
Speaker 5: That's good.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: I love Joe's calls because he has the family friendly jokes,
Speaker 1: that Thanksgiving jokes.
Speaker 4: I love that. Paul and Denver, you're on the Dan
Speaker 4: Caplis show Welcome.
Speaker 5: Then a couple of things as far as being able
Speaker 5: to follow a team when you're when you're a kid,
Speaker 5: I know all about it. I grew up in New
Speaker 5: York as a Mets fan. I was there in sixty nine,
Speaker 5: but I was actually too young to really appreciate the
Speaker 5: whole thing. And then out of wait till nineteen eighty
Speaker 5: six for another A Championship, and I was in England
Speaker 5: with the Air Force.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he doesn't, but it became a big part of
Speaker 4: your life.
Speaker 5: Right, absolutely.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And if you don't think money will change the Rockies,
Speaker 5: look what Steve Cohener's done for the newt Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, clearly it will, right because you can everybody's
Speaker 1: going to make mistakes, right, but you can afford those mistakes. Okay,
Speaker 1: I just blew two hundred million on that guy. Well
Speaker 1: I'll spend three hundred million on the next guy, and it's.
Speaker 4: All right off five million or so, exactly exactly.
Speaker 5: And you know, if Mark four wants to argue your
Speaker 5: point about public trust, he can pay for the stadium
Speaker 5: and reimburse the tax payers who you know who dope
Speaker 5: the stadium for him?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Hey, Paul really appreciate the call.
Speaker 1: Thank you for that, and it just brought back fond
Speaker 1: memories of Jerry mc morris, a prior Rockies owner, just
Speaker 1: just a great, great guy.
Speaker 4: And again, I like them onforts. I'd love to see
Speaker 4: them hoist the trophy.
Speaker 1: I'm just living in the real world now, where the
Speaker 1: reality is that that you got all these gazillionaires, and
Speaker 1: the ownerships that are the only ownerships that are going
Speaker 1: to win consistently are going to be those gazillionaire ownerships
Speaker 1: that can paper over their mistakes by spending another three
Speaker 1: or four hundred million on a player. And I just
Speaker 1: think the people of Colorado so devoted to their sports team,
Speaker 1: so supportive. I just think that there is a not legally,
Speaker 1: but there's a public trust aspect. And I just want
Speaker 1: to see the kids who are kids right now see
Speaker 1: competitive baseball, because there's something special about that football. It's glorious, right,
Speaker 1: but you got one game a week over the summer.
Speaker 1: Baseball so over the summer, and a pennant raise, and
Speaker 1: if you're competitive, that's pretty much the whole season. You know,
Speaker 1: you're following every game with your mom or your dad
Speaker 1: or both, which was the case for me. And it's
Speaker 1: a uniting thing for the family. It's a uniting thing
Speaker 1: at school, it's a uniting thing in the neighborhood. It's
Speaker 1: uniting things citywide and statewide. It's a big blanket deal,
Speaker 1: and Colorado should not be without that. We're too good
Speaker 1: for that. We shouldn't have to be without that text
Speaker 1: or Dan. The problem is Coursfield keeps selling tickets. Rockies
Speaker 1: fans have talked about boycotting, but we still have a
Speaker 1: lot of transplants that want to see visiting teams. So
Speaker 1: you'd have to convince people to boycott. That's never going
Speaker 1: to happen. And I would not want to try to
Speaker 1: convince people to boycott. We still love going to games.
Speaker 1: We have our season tickets. You know, the folks in
Speaker 1: our office, our clients, everybody, they still love the experience.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to try to talk people into not going.
Speaker 1: I would rather just see the ownership group either spend
Speaker 1: what it has to spend to be able to compete
Speaker 1: in the No West, or you know, just be heroes,
Speaker 1: to just be absolute heroes in this community and sell
Speaker 1: the team to one of the one hundred gazillionaires lined
Speaker 1: up for Miles to buy that team. Who who would
Speaker 1: not need or want, well, they'd want to write who
Speaker 1: wouldn't but would not need to make money off?
Speaker 4: That's all all.
Speaker 1: Right, the other Texters. To end the show, every pro
Speaker 1: team should copy and paste the Green Bay Packers?
Speaker 2: Did Kelly text that into herself?
Speaker 1: There we also learned Biden did not recognize George Clooney
Speaker 1: at that fundraise of that from Alexa Wright. Another thing
Speaker 1: that was hidden from us, right, And so I hope
Speaker 1: every Democrat on the ballot in the twenty six and
Speaker 1: twenty eight cyclone for a long time to come, every
Speaker 1: one of them, including you know, a Hick and Looper Bennett,
Speaker 1: the whole rest of them, who were just part of
Speaker 1: this big lie to the American people on a pretty
Speaker 1: big thing, right, Yeah, like whether you have a functional president. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they should be made to pay an electoral price for that.
Speaker 1: Ryan tremendous job is always behind the glass. And Doug Kelly,
Speaker 1: you are bottled human sunshine.
Speaker 4: Wherever she went? Where did you go?
Speaker 2: Uber? Oh?
Speaker 4: Uber?
Speaker 2: Well, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 1: Enjoy this glorious evening and we'll get together tomorrow at
Speaker 1: four h six on the Dan Capla Show.