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Speaker 1: oh five on Valentine's Day. Spring is right around the corner.
Speaker 1: May not feel like it today, but glad you are here.
Speaker 1: We were talking earlier. We're mixing in some of the
Speaker 1: usual serious topics with some lighter stuff. We're talking about
Speaker 1: affordable great Valentine State restaurants. And we thought we were
Speaker 1: going to be up in the mountains and then, you know,
Speaker 1: we go to a place that's twenty minutes west of
Speaker 1: veil Ish and got a call from buddy up there
Speaker 1: and said, hey, there's so much snow. You don't want
Speaker 1: to mess with this. It's too dangerous. So we tried
Speaker 1: to get a res at the last minute and got
Speaker 1: one at is it my neighbor Felix? Yeah, okay, which
Speaker 1: we really like. And I put that in a category
Speaker 1: of really good but still affordable places. And you know,
Speaker 1: the places you think of the big steakhouses like for
Speaker 1: special occasions have just become so expensive. I mean, we'll
Speaker 1: still do it some big business thing or special occasion thing,
Speaker 1: but those have become so crazy expensive. It's sometimes I
Speaker 1: think it's hard to even enjoy when you I mean,
Speaker 1: even if you're a trillionaire, right just man, for the
Speaker 1: cost of this dinner, it could have bought another big
Speaker 1: screen TV or Ryan's Tomawk two big screen TVs. But
Speaker 1: then we're talking about some of this more serious stuff
Speaker 1: of the day as well. And then Eerie Mike had
Speaker 1: called and he challenged me, how can you, as a
Speaker 1: Catholic support Donald Trump? The Pope so critical of Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: et cetera. And that got us off on a really
Speaker 1: legitimate conversation, which is the folks who want to say,
Speaker 1: wait a second, the Pope's critical of Trump on immigration,
Speaker 1: how can you support Trump's immigration policies? Fair interesting conversation
Speaker 1: that we've been enjoying. We could not enjoy it with
Speaker 1: Eerie Mike because he just evolved quickly into the usual
Speaker 1: Mike's stuff. But we're continuing that conversation with others right now,
Speaker 1: and I do think it's absolutely fascinating and something I
Speaker 1: think about all the time on the immigration issue, the
Speaker 1: broader issue of how as as a Catholic I can
Speaker 1: support Donald Trump. That's the easiest thing I'll do all day, right,
Speaker 1: because first of all, you look at all the great
Speaker 1: things he does for religious freedom and religious liberty and
Speaker 1: protecting innocent life, and then you compare it to the alternative,
Speaker 1: which is about as bad as it can get on
Speaker 1: every single count. Yeah, that's the easiest thing I'll do
Speaker 1: all day is support Donald Trump over the Modern Democratic Party.
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Speaker 1: beautiful Frederick, Colorado. Doug, you're on the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 2: Welcome, Hey, Dan. I don't want to stay on the
Speaker 2: pulp thing. I mean, I have my thoughts to actually
Speaker 2: was born and raised Catholic when Saint Paul's School in Missouri.
Speaker 2: But wonderful, I'll just say, I'll say one thing, a
Speaker 2: preface of one thing. When we all know about Pope
Speaker 2: Pias in World War two, But we don't need to
Speaker 2: go there. I really called about something else.
Speaker 1: Did you have nuns. Did you have nuns in school?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Oh, thank god for the nuns. How old
Speaker 1: are you?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: I had none?
Speaker 1: Yeah, how old are you?
Speaker 2: I remember Sister Mary Magdalen's sister Teresa.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, I literally I thank god I
Speaker 1: had nuns as teachers in school. But go ahead, my friend,
Speaker 1: I know it's a different topic.
Speaker 2: Well one more thing on that. I do believe that
Speaker 2: what the Catholic upbringing gave me was a sense of
Speaker 2: what we're missing so much in society nowadays. And I'm
Speaker 2: you know, whether you where, if you come down on
Speaker 2: religion or politics, we're missing a sense of ethics, the
Speaker 2: sense of decency, and the sense of something higher than ourselves.
Speaker 2: And that's that's proving out everywhere. And that's proving out
Speaker 2: with Donald Trump because he's destroying the left. What they're all,
Speaker 2: They all they balanced a of government and he's destroying that. Well,
Speaker 2: he's showing how infallible and how through they are. But
Speaker 2: that brings me to my point with reconciliation, Dan, with
Speaker 2: all the executive orders, with the vajority I agree with,
Speaker 2: would reconciliation be a better rally? You only need fifty
Speaker 2: month because we're not going to get sixty or can
Speaker 2: someone else come back in and just sign a bunch
Speaker 2: of executive orders because that's the last thing I want
Speaker 2: to see. And yeah, I just all taking your thoughts
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 1: Thank you, what great questions. Thank you Doug for that.
Speaker 1: Let's start with executive orders, okay, because we all know, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. If Lefty comes in in twenty eight, they
Speaker 1: can just undo the executive orders. So the solution to
Speaker 1: that is win again in twenty eight, right, And I'm
Speaker 1: not being facetious. That the whole point of this, and
Speaker 1: it's it's part of the brilliance of Trump and his
Speaker 1: whole team. If you look at these executive orders, and
Speaker 1: I haven't looked at each and every one, but the
Speaker 1: big ones I've looked at, they are so thoughtfully done,
Speaker 1: and they're so thought through. They're thought through from legal standpoint,
Speaker 1: and so the idea here is wait a second, to
Speaker 1: keep these actions in place by continuing to win beyond
Speaker 1: Trump because these orders go to issues the American people
Speaker 1: care about and support, and so you've got majority support
Speaker 1: on all of these that I'm aware of, which makes
Speaker 1: it more likely that this term will succeed. And it
Speaker 1: already has right, and that a Republican gets elected in
Speaker 1: twenty eight and you can continue these policies. And the
Speaker 1: longer you continue these policies, the less likely that a
Speaker 1: Democrat is going to be able to take office and
Speaker 1: overturn them. And if a Democrat does win, less likely
Speaker 1: there'll be one of these far lefties who would undo
Speaker 1: all of them, at least because they probably wouldn't have
Speaker 1: won if that's what they were running on. So good
Speaker 1: point by Doug on that, But then you've got to
Speaker 1: come back to the reality that as a practical matter,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of this stuff that you would not
Speaker 1: be able to get through Congress right now. And Doug's
Speaker 1: referring to recation, that process by which you can get
Speaker 1: stuff through with the simple majority. And I don't claim
Speaker 1: to be the world's greatest reconciliation expert. We should get
Speaker 1: Joe on our son, Joe who worked in Senator Gardner's
Speaker 1: office and Senator Toomey's office, because he did learn a
Speaker 1: ton about that. But my understanding is that reconciliation is
Speaker 1: limited to fiscal matters, or at least largely but maybe exclusively,
Speaker 1: fiscal matters, and that that Yeah, you can get some
Speaker 1: of this big stuff through, but but you can't get
Speaker 1: a whole lot. So I think as a practical matter,
Speaker 1: eos and certainly getting it into the bloodstream quickly, you know,
Speaker 1: far better through the eos. But Ran, am I wrong.
Speaker 1: I can't think of a single Trump EO that doesn't
Speaker 1: have strong majority support. Can you think anything? I mean,
Speaker 1: it's all the stuff that you want on. Well, that's true.
Speaker 5: But if a Democrat were to get an office, is
Speaker 5: Doug's point, Even if it didn't have or the Democrat position,
Speaker 5: they'd still overturn it. So I think the legislative action
Speaker 5: is the way to put that in Congress.
Speaker 1: Sure, if you can get it right, if you can
Speaker 1: do sure.
Speaker 5: I mean they got Republican majorities in both houses, the
Speaker 5: House and the Senate.
Speaker 1: Right, but then in the Senate, as you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: you have to get sixty to get it to the floor.
Speaker 1: Etsaid are certain things all, and it takes longer, right,
Speaker 1: it just takes longer. But I like the fact he's
Speaker 1: getting it into the bloodstream quickly because he's right on
Speaker 1: these things. It shows action, there's tangible progress. You get
Speaker 1: that momentum and you make things better. In the meantime, Well,
Speaker 1: then you hope to get And what's our legislative majority
Speaker 1: right now in Congress? Is it one or two? As
Speaker 1: a practical matter, so they fill some of those seats.
Speaker 1: So I really like the approach he's taken in Yeah,
Speaker 1: believe me, I'd love to have it in legislation. And
Speaker 1: I'd love to have a Bugatti when I go out
Speaker 1: there tonight instead of my latest loaner. But Dan Eerie
Speaker 1: might conflates illegal immigrants with immigrants. Also, the Pope only
Speaker 1: spoke about immigrants, not illegal immigrants. And again, when you
Speaker 1: look at the Pope's comments, the Pope was talking in
Speaker 1: terms of a mass deportation, and we don't have mass
Speaker 1: deportation going on right now. I do think the Pope's
Speaker 1: staff may not have gotten him all of the pertinent,
Speaker 1: accurate facts as to what's actually going on in America
Speaker 1: right now. But this commitment, this commitment on the part
Speaker 1: of the Pope and others in the Catholic Church to listen,
Speaker 1: you got to approach this if you're a Catholic in
Speaker 1: terms of what would Jesus do. I buy into that
Speaker 1: one thousand percent. Now I can remember one of the
Speaker 1: greatest Catholics ever in my opinion, Archbishop Charles Shepew sitting
Speaker 1: right over there, you know, about five feet away from here,
Speaker 1: talking about now, of course a nation has a right
Speaker 1: to its borders and control its borders. And you look
Speaker 1: at the brilliant statement just issued by Archibi Bishops Amaquilla
Speaker 1: and the Catholic Bishops of Colorado where they talk about, yes,
Speaker 1: you know, viewing each person here as someone who's human
Speaker 1: created in the image of God. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I think the Catholic bishops in Colorado talked about the
Speaker 1: rampant increase in crime and public safety and the need
Speaker 1: for society to be able to act on that and
Speaker 1: to act on you know, illegal immigrants who are committing crimes.
Speaker 1: So I think there's there's an awful lot of wisdom
Speaker 1: in what you're hearing from a lot of people in
Speaker 1: the Catholic hierarchy. There's absolutely a balance that can be struck.
Speaker 1: And with all of that said, I fully support what
Speaker 1: President Trump is doing right now. It is targeting the
Speaker 1: folks here illegally or are committing other crimes, and I'd
Speaker 1: really love to talk to anybody who opposes that and
Speaker 1: try to understand their rationale. I think it would quickly
Speaker 1: fall apart eight five or zero five A two five
Speaker 1: five text d A N five seven seven thirty nine.
Speaker 1: Surprising number of calls and text on the Gulf of America,
Speaker 1: which I think is a brilliant move on Trump Party
Speaker 1: came up today because looks like AP is going to
Speaker 1: be banned from the White House press room. Not the
Speaker 1: White House, but the press room because it refuses to
Speaker 1: use Golf of America. White House says it's engaging in
Speaker 1: disinformation and is no longer entitled to that seat. Is
Speaker 1: the latest there? What do you think of that? You're
Speaker 1: on the Dan Kapla Show and now back to the
Speaker 1: Dan Kaplas Show podcast. CNN reporting the White House bans
Speaker 1: the AP indefinitely over use of quote Golf of Mexico. No,
Speaker 1: not an accurate headline. It's over the refusal to use
Speaker 1: Golf of America, the story in pertinent part Trump White
Speaker 1: House said Friday, the Associated Press is banned from the
Speaker 1: Oval Office and Air Force one indefinitely. And then it
Speaker 1: goes into the Gulf of America stuff. And then the
Speaker 1: administration just coming back and saying, you know, I hate
Speaker 1: they're committed to disinformation, So no, they lose their privileges.
Speaker 1: Now AP still allowed in the White House, et cetera.
Speaker 1: But obviously what's going on here, it's not really over
Speaker 1: the Gulf of America, right because I mean, who would
Speaker 1: not agree that the Gulf of America. That's brilliance and
Speaker 1: it makes sense. And no, what it's over is AP.
Speaker 1: And it's really sad, right because I can remember not
Speaker 1: that long ago when AP was a really important, respected,
Speaker 1: roughly down the middle source of news information in America.
Speaker 1: I remember, for some reason it pops into my head,
Speaker 1: you know, when I was covering the Tyson trial in
Speaker 1: Indianapolis for NBC. At the time, I think it was
Speaker 1: you know, AP was just a source of tremendous reporting there.
Speaker 1: But over the years it's just become political hackery most
Speaker 1: of the time. And so I don't blame the Trump
Speaker 1: administration for pushing back against AP in general, because it
Speaker 1: needs to get back to what it was before, you know, credible,
Speaker 1: balanced reporting that the nation needs from a national wire service.
Speaker 1: And Trump doesn't have to just sit there, you know,
Speaker 1: being a punching bag for AP. But in this case,
Speaker 1: the whole Gulf of America thing I've got a texture,
Speaker 1: says Dan. I keep saying, you like the name of
Speaker 1: Golf of America, But what is so brilliant about it?
Speaker 1: Thank you that that is such a good text to me.
Speaker 1: Here's what's so brilliant about it. It's when Trump said
Speaker 1: its best and it's what we need more of, you know,
Speaker 1: long after President Trump is gone, and that is we
Speaker 1: need more of this big, bold, fresh outside the box thinking.
Speaker 1: It's like wheels on a suitcase.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: I was talking with my love partners today, Barbara Rohead
Speaker 1: and John Keller about this. And you think about all
Speaker 1: those years that we're lugging suitcases through airports? Do you
Speaker 1: ever do that?
Speaker 3: Ryan?
Speaker 1: Just log suitcases through airports? Right, So we're all doing that,
Speaker 1: and then how did none of us realize over all
Speaker 1: those years, Oh, you can put wheels on the Now.
Speaker 1: I understand they're not that manly, but you can put
Speaker 1: wheels on these things. I'd rather not madly and think
Speaker 1: about all these smart pears people going through all these
Speaker 1: airports all these years, and nobody thought about that. And
Speaker 1: Trump is great at these wheels on a suitcase moments
Speaker 1: where he and or his staff just see fresh things
Speaker 1: that make perfect sense, and then they want to go
Speaker 1: do them. And then even if you think some things
Speaker 1: maybe aren't going to work out quite that way in
Speaker 1: the end, like us taken over Gaza, the fact that
Speaker 1: he thinks outside the box and he dares to think big.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what America needs, that's what Colorado needs,
Speaker 1: that's what the world needs. And so that's what I
Speaker 1: love so much about Gulf of America is not that
Speaker 1: it's going to change my life or yours or whatever,
Speaker 1: excuse me, but that it's just brilliant outside fresh thinking
Speaker 1: and it makes sense. We've got most of the shoreline
Speaker 1: and the United States, no disrespect to Mexico, but the
Speaker 1: United States is the greatest nation in the history of
Speaker 1: the world. The only reason the world is free right
Speaker 1: now is the United States of America. There are other
Speaker 1: Greek peoples and nations who sacrifice to make the world free,
Speaker 1: but without the United States of America leading the charge,
Speaker 1: their sacrifice would have been in vain. So when you
Speaker 1: have the greatest nation in the history of the world,
Speaker 1: you got this big body of water right off at chores,
Speaker 1: it's got most of the shoreline, it makes perfect sense
Speaker 1: that be the name.
Speaker 5: He's a master at driving the conversation, at churning the
Speaker 5: news cycle, at making liberals headspin, at changing the narrative
Speaker 5: and making them have to keep up with him. And
Speaker 5: so when he stays ahead of that curve, Dan and
Speaker 5: an example is like this one, or with the comments
Speaker 5: about I.
Speaker 1: Guess we'll just take over Gaza, We'll just do it.
Speaker 1: And now did you see the reaction to that.
Speaker 5: There are Arab nations including Egypt, that are going, look,
Speaker 5: we don't want Trump in the US to do that.
Speaker 5: So we're going to step up our game and organize
Speaker 5: and maybe do that.
Speaker 1: Ourselves, right, right, And that's what we're talking about the
Speaker 1: other day on the show, right, the art of the
Speaker 1: deal and just changing the arc. And so I think
Speaker 1: President Trump has always understood that the US woul not
Speaker 1: going to actually own Gaza and take Gaza over. But
Speaker 1: think about what happened that this big, bold proposal has
Speaker 1: now led to a paradigm shift, a change in thinking.
Speaker 1: You're no longer operating in this very narrow, limited tunnel
Speaker 1: when it comes to Gaza. And there's some fresh thinking
Speaker 1: that's going to lead to something really good. Speaking of fresh,
Speaker 1: we're getting some text on the whole affordable, nice Valentine
Speaker 1: Day restaurant things. I wonder how many people just stay
Speaker 1: home right because Amy and I I can't remember how
Speaker 1: long into our relationship we stopped doing the whole go
Speaker 1: out on Valentine's Day kind of obligatory thing and just
Speaker 1: started having these real nice dinners at home. Dan five
Speaker 1: spices and faux Asian cuisine best Chinese and foe Ryan,
Speaker 1: educate me here a little bit. I get the Chinese
Speaker 1: piecea there all the time. I ate a great Chinese
Speaker 1: place last night on the way home from work. But
Speaker 1: what is full pho?
Speaker 5: I think it's technically pronounced fa fah. Okay, get the
Speaker 5: fae out of here. And it's kind of like they
Speaker 5: have a lot of fun with the names on a
Speaker 5: lot of these places.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Alexa might be a little bit more knowledgeable. No,
Speaker 1: not at all? Okay, good No.
Speaker 5: I turned to her and she gave me nothing, so
Speaker 5: hyah not full fuh fah, I think fah. And it's
Speaker 5: a specialized form of Asian cuisine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's Here's an interesting text that I
Speaker 1: believe is a lie. I don't believe it's true for
Speaker 1: a second. And if I'm wrong text or please call
Speaker 1: the show. Let's have the conversation. Dan. I grew up
Speaker 1: Catholic and confirm, but I stopped following the Catholic religion
Speaker 1: when they started covering up for pedophiles, just like DPS
Speaker 1: public schools. The pope is just some guy to me.
Speaker 1: You know, God forgive me if I'm wrong, But I
Speaker 1: think that's a lie. I may be wrong. But what
Speaker 1: I've experienced, right, is that people actually grew up in
Speaker 1: the Catholic Church and knew that, know the goodness and
Speaker 1: greatness priest and everything else. Your hearts were broken when
Speaker 1: you saw the absolute satanic evil committed by those who
Speaker 1: would abuse a child. But one was too many. But
Speaker 1: that was a very small handful of all the priests
Speaker 1: out there, so actual practicing Catholics, I never met one
Speaker 1: who said that, oh, because that guy is a monster,
Speaker 1: I'm leaving my church. It's totally illogical, right, totally illogical.
Speaker 1: And I heard somebody say it, great ones, because all
Speaker 1: I saw through to that terrible ordeal, you know, when
Speaker 1: that wrongdoing was exposed on the part of some a
Speaker 1: relatively small number. All I saw through that was churches
Speaker 1: get more and more crowded, and they're still getting more
Speaker 1: and more crowded. But I heard this great bit of
Speaker 1: wisdom from somebody who said, wait a second, I don't
Speaker 1: come to the Catholic Church because I believe the priest
Speaker 1: is perfect. I come to the Catholic Church because I
Speaker 1: believe God is perfect, Jesus Christ is perfect. I just
Speaker 1: thought that was so beautifully put. At the same time, again,
Speaker 1: the point being, anybody active in the Catholic Church, I
Speaker 1: think they'd see that vast majority of priests are truly heroes.
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Speaker 4: We've reached heights, authored achievements, pushed progress, not alone but together.
Speaker 1: In ways that have lifted the world and one another. Well,
Speaker 1: we need to reinforce here and here.
Speaker 4: The huddle is a metaphor for our history, for the
Speaker 4: power found in our shared purpose. It's in the will
Speaker 4: to imagine flight and then sore skyward.
Speaker 1: You know, it's so interesting. The week got so crazy.
Speaker 1: We never even got to talk about the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: commercials and features and stuff. And I thought so many
Speaker 1: of them are so good and and you know, the
Speaker 1: whole Brad Pitt thing they did in the beginning, I
Speaker 1: thought was beautifully done. Why do you think they chose
Speaker 1: Brad Pitt for that? I thought he did a great
Speaker 1: job with it. Yeah, but Joe, why do you think
Speaker 1: they chose him?
Speaker 5: He's kind of a unifying voice that most people agree on,
Speaker 5: A handsome man who's a pretty highly heralded actor that
Speaker 5: hasn't done a lot of crazy stuff to make people
Speaker 5: angry at him.
Speaker 1: So I think that's that's h I'm going to start
Speaker 1: calling you AI instead of Ryan. Yeah, okay, hey, I?
Speaker 1: Or how would we pronounce that? Alexa alexin for Kelly?
Speaker 1: Keep Kelly and her family in your prayers for you know,
Speaker 1: bearying her father? I would pronounce it E. You don't
Speaker 1: want to say Ai? Should we just call you I? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Maybe just I? Good Texter? Dan Foh that's how you
Speaker 1: pronounce it, right, Ryan? pH? Yeah? Right?
Speaker 5: And it's a Vietnamese cuisine And I did some research
Speaker 5: during the break.
Speaker 1: Says it's a Vietnamese soup. It comes with many different
Speaker 1: ingredients and broth. It's delicious, fascinating. Do you like that
Speaker 1: kind of food? My last bowl of soup was probably
Speaker 1: forty years ago. Oh my god, are you serious? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Not even like Campbell's or chunky soup. And that was
Speaker 1: my last bowl of soup was Campbell's. I can't imagine
Speaker 1: there's one person in America who cares about that. But
Speaker 1: did you throw it up? Oh? Not at all? No,
Speaker 1: what made you never have soup again?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Man, I'm so sorry I got myself into this. Here's
Speaker 1: the situation. Okay, Oh here, long story, very short. When
Speaker 1: I was in law school, developed ulcers maybe a little
Speaker 1: before law school, and so then certain foods I couldn't
Speaker 1: really eat. And then we went out to play first
Speaker 1: year versus second year of football game, had a great game,
Speaker 1: feeling great about myself. Well up the next morning bleeding
Speaker 1: internally like a stuck pig. Missed the last month or
Speaker 1: so law school. They cut out a bunch of my
Speaker 1: stomach and and they did. They did a great job.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been like one hundred percent since. That's incredible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's why the whole soup thing didn't work so great.
Speaker 1: But now it's as if nothing ever happened. I mean,
Speaker 1: just tremendous. I like all those Asians. Its like dim
Speaker 1: song I think is one sorry you asked? Yeah? So yeah,
Speaker 1: because we got talking about reasonably priced places for Valentine's Day,
Speaker 1: What is the most romantic restaurant you've ever been to? Oh? Wow,
Speaker 1: at any price? Just didn't you say you're taking your
Speaker 1: fiance to Del Frisco. Yeah, that's local and convenient Orchard.
Speaker 5: I've never been there, but her favorite, and she's a local,
Speaker 5: she's a Colorado and born and raised is Steakhouse ten.
Speaker 1: That's such a great place. We went there for Amy's
Speaker 1: fortieth birthday. Greek, right, Yeah, yeah, I think it's a Greek. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a steakhouse, but a Greek. It's unique.
Speaker 5: It's got a very cozy, uh decorum and set up
Speaker 5: and it's really special and I really really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: So that was That's a great one. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: wet her fortieth birthday there. Yeah, that's a cool place.
Speaker 1: And we were just talking earlier about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these big steakhouses, not Steakhouse ten, but these other
Speaker 1: big steakhouses are phenomenal, right, but they become so expensive.
Speaker 1: I just you wonder where that breakpoint is right where
Speaker 1: it's just going to be too much and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden it won't be as crowded and all that.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, they'll adjust when they hit it, But what
Speaker 1: do you think that is? Because because right now, I mean,
Speaker 1: Dick and I went over there for burgers the other
Speaker 1: night when Amy was traveling, and where was that again? Well,
Speaker 1: we went to Shanian's, which I love, I love the people,
Speaker 1: all of this and that. I'm just talking about all
Speaker 1: the big steakhouses. Now they're the same, right, steaks are
Speaker 1: approaching one hundred bucks. I mean, you just do that?
Speaker 1: What how much is too much? What is that price
Speaker 1: point for let's say a good New York where huh
Speaker 1: where all of a sudden you're not going to be
Speaker 1: able to fill those restaurants for the average consumer. No,
Speaker 1: I'm just talking about like filling those restaurants right in
Speaker 1: New York City here.
Speaker 5: Oh, you're I don't know what we're getting over three
Speaker 5: hundred dollars for a dinner. I mean unless it's a
Speaker 5: really special occasion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, report back to us when you and your
Speaker 1: amazing fiance dying at del Frisco's. Uh huh, because that's
Speaker 1: a fantastic place. We went there after winning a big
Speaker 1: trial and know stuff like that, tremendous food, great people
Speaker 1: and looking forward to it. But the price tag oh
Speaker 1: to be steep.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I need a few to cushion the blow, if
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. She doesn't drink, so I do.
Speaker 1: You might need a few one Scotch cocktails. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: ginger as, I'm sure those are free. They're changing the
Speaker 1: name of the golf is his asinine and Woke is
Speaker 1: changing the name of the Redskins. But since you're on board,
Speaker 1: I assume you have no issue with my changing my
Speaker 1: name and pronoun. Shaking my head, kimberly shaking, shake it off.
Speaker 1: I don't know why the strong reaction to the golf.
Speaker 1: I mean, it makes perfect sense. It'd be Golf of America.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Ryan, I know we heard it,
Speaker 1: not in our local newscasts. They're fantastic, but another national
Speaker 1: newscast at the top where they're talking about Trump's executive
Speaker 1: order on and then a judge reinstating quote gender affirming care.
Speaker 1: Do they understand how silly they sound when they say that,
Speaker 1: like a reporter, because when you say gender affirming care,
Speaker 1: by definition, that means if somebody is a girl or
Speaker 1: if somebody is a boy, biologically, the care would affirm
Speaker 1: their true gender. So how can you say that cutting
Speaker 1: off their body parts is gender affirming. I mean, but
Speaker 1: it's the same thing with abortion, right, when the underlying
Speaker 1: truth is so awful, they have to change the words
Speaker 1: because if you identify it correctly, everybody will say no way.
Speaker 1: Like with abortion. You know, once people started getting altarsounds,
Speaker 1: you know that the pro abortion movement had to change
Speaker 1: it to reproductive rights because once you say abortion, people say, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's killing babies. I mean, it's but they I think
Speaker 1: they can hide the awful and the evil behind the language.
Speaker 1: I think America's made a clearer America is smarter than that. Right.
Speaker 1: Let's just look at election Day twenty twenty four eight
Speaker 1: five five for five two five five the number tex
Speaker 1: da N five seven seven through nine. Speaking of which,
Speaker 1: this ad, though it was entertaining and well done, really
Speaker 1: bothered me, just for the negative stereotypes and kind of
Speaker 1: the underlying the underlying attack on boys playing high school
Speaker 1: football all over America. And now back to the Dan
Speaker 1: Kapla Show podcast. I was just watching that video again
Speaker 1: and the guy getting swallowed by the whale. Oh no,
Speaker 1: oh man, what an experience. But how do you say
Speaker 1: job bin Spanish strike? Because he's from perue. But that's
Speaker 1: all He's going to be called the rest of his life, right.
Speaker 1: But man, amazing to watch that Dan Bernard's Steakhouse in
Speaker 1: Tampa best in the country one hundred and seventy five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars bottle of wine. Would that be like a
Speaker 1: straight trip to hell if you spend one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy five thousand on a bottle of wine?
Speaker 5: When got people starving all over the world. What if
Speaker 5: the money went to charity?
Speaker 1: Oh? Different deal. Yeah, but I don't think that steakhouse
Speaker 1: is a nope, Yeah, five oh one C three or anything.
Speaker 1: John in Colorado Springs, Happy Valentine's Day. You're on the
Speaker 1: Dan Kapli.
Speaker 3: Show Happy Valentine's Day U two, and you're a call screener.
Speaker 3: She's wonderful.
Speaker 1: She is that and a tough ombras. My lord, weren't
Speaker 1: we saying prayers for you on air a few days ago?
Speaker 1: Kelly hat Is convinced you were on deaths doorstep. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Lexicon worked very badly, and I think she was at
Speaker 1: work two days later. What are you thinking, John.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking back to my high school days and like
Speaker 3: you got, you have to understand that I'm a grandfather. Now,
Speaker 3: So I'm remembering back when I was a young wrestler
Speaker 3: and I was paired up against a female and refused
Speaker 3: to wrestle her because I was brought up a different way.
Speaker 3: Wrestling is a brutal sport and that did not sit
Speaker 3: right with me. Also, with that, this whole gender affirming care,
Speaker 3: I wonder if it goes the other way, if I
Speaker 3: wanted to be a big, big bad man and get
Speaker 3: testosterone treatment, would they also do gender affirming care for that?
Speaker 1: Hm hmm. Interesting, So accentuate your gender.
Speaker 3: And it's just one sided, yeah, because it's affirming. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm I'm a pale and I'm happy.
Speaker 1: About it, right, right, No, I don't expect the Democrats
Speaker 1: would want to fund that, right, I mean, hasn't there
Speaker 1: been you know, you want to say there's been this
Speaker 1: constant attack by the left on masculinity, which there has been,
Speaker 1: but there's been this constant attack by the left on
Speaker 1: women and in the most brutal sort of ways, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, the left's responsible for pushing these policies that
Speaker 1: have killed how many women at this point twenty eight
Speaker 1: million women? And you know, to just gotting women's sports
Speaker 1: and taking away women safe spaces. I mean, it's this
Speaker 1: constant war on women from the left. But John, appreciate
Speaker 1: your call. Man. Sorry, we're running out of time on
Speaker 1: the show today. But it's just this whole gender affirming
Speaker 1: care labeled that they try to put on the opposite
Speaker 1: of that. Right. It's gender distorting, its gender destroying care.
Speaker 1: And the good thing is America sees that. Now. Election
Speaker 1: Day twenty twenty four made that very clear. America sees that.
Speaker 1: So the reason we're talking about it today is you're
Speaker 1: going to see headlines about various court orders today putting
Speaker 1: on hold, you know, and enjoining various Trump executive orders,
Speaker 1: et cetera. But I hope you don't get too frustrated
Speaker 1: by that because this administration, which has been I think,
Speaker 1: so well planned out, so thoughtful, so sophisticated, sophisticated in
Speaker 1: its legal strategy, it has certainly expected this right because
Speaker 1: in a great, big nation like this, you know that
Speaker 1: the chance of you know, a federal court somewhere in
Speaker 1: joining an EO is pretty high. But the whole idea
Speaker 1: I think behind the strategy is act quickly with these
Speaker 1: important executive orders. And if a court's going to enjoin one.
Speaker 1: Get it done quickly so you can get it through
Speaker 1: the Federal Court of Appeals known as as the circuits,
Speaker 1: and get it to the Supreme Court as quickly as possible.
Speaker 1: Certainly get it to the Supreme Court during this term.
Speaker 1: So I think that that's their overall strategy. And listen,
Speaker 1: I don't claimed to be an expert on the fine
Speaker 1: points of each and every executive order, but from everything
Speaker 1: I've seen so far, I would rough guess is I
Speaker 1: hope Trump wins on all of them when it eventually
Speaker 1: gets to the Supreme Court. But I expect he's going
Speaker 1: to win on at least eighty percent of them. Just
Speaker 1: got to get him through the system as quickly as possible.
Speaker 1: So part of the brilliance of the administration flooding the
Speaker 1: zone with these early so you get them onto that
Speaker 1: judicial fast track, and I think the US Supreme Court
Speaker 1: will fast track a number of these Ryan Deep thoughts
Speaker 1: from the newly engaged Ryan shooting as we head into
Speaker 1: Valentine's Night.
Speaker 5: I'm just glad you were able to call Peyton a
Speaker 5: manning audible at the line of scrimmage for.
Speaker 1: Your dinner tonight and land somewhere and that's really solid.
Speaker 1: That's not easy to do. No, the short notice.
Speaker 5: I mean, I was lucky to get a nine pm
Speaker 5: reservation a couple weeks in advance.
Speaker 1: I learned my lesson the hard way there.
Speaker 5: But I hope everybody has a fun time tonight and
Speaker 5: enjoys it with their significant other, or if you don't
Speaker 5: have one, you pull a Shannon Scott the icon here
Speaker 5: he is going to Golden Corral and he said he
Speaker 5: requested the river view.
Speaker 1: I bet more and more people are staying home on
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day. Oh sure, you know what I mean. Part
Speaker 1: of it's the cost, part of it's a hassle, the crowds,
Speaker 1: everything else. But what's the point of Valentine's Day? Is
Speaker 1: just your significant other? Right?
Speaker 5: If Kelsey had her way, I think she would have
Speaker 5: stayed home today. Come on, I want to show you
Speaker 5: something good dinner, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like Amy wanted to stay home and cook and
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, they got to take you out. Good move, Dan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But the whole stay and home thing, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of appeal to that. Sure, a
Speaker 1: lot of appeal to that. But hey, apparently no shows
Speaker 1: on Monday for President, right, We'll be back on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: but I hope everybody has a wonderful, warm weekend. There's
Speaker 1: going to be some snow across much of the Front
Speaker 1: Range and the mountains tomorrow, so stay safe, drive slow,
Speaker 1: have a wonderful, warm, romantic Valentine's weekend. Let's not call
Speaker 1: it Valentine's Day on Time's weekend. Alexa, thank you for
Speaker 1: philling in for Kelly. Catch you Tuesday.