WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.520 This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast 2 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:05.759 edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to 3 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:08.240 give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind, 4 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:11.599 and to subscribe, download and listen to the show every 5 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:15.839 single day on your favorite podcast platform. Oh so nice 6 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:18.519 to look outside and see some daylight still right five 7 00:00:18.559 --> 00:00:22.440 oh five on Valentine's Day. Spring is right around the corner. 8 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:25.079 May not feel like it today, but glad you are here. 9 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:27.480 We were talking earlier. We're mixing in some of the 10 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:31.199 usual serious topics with some lighter stuff. We're talking about 11 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:35.920 affordable great Valentine State restaurants. And we thought we were 12 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:37.920 going to be up in the mountains and then, you know, 13 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:40.039 we go to a place that's twenty minutes west of 14 00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:43.200 veil Ish and got a call from buddy up there 15 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:45.320 and said, hey, there's so much snow. You don't want 16 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:47.920 to mess with this. It's too dangerous. So we tried 17 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:49.920 to get a res at the last minute and got 18 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:53.960 one at is it my neighbor Felix? Yeah, okay, which 19 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:56.520 we really like. And I put that in a category 20 00:00:56.719 --> 00:01:00.520 of really good but still affordable places. And you know, 21 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:02.880 the places you think of the big steakhouses like for 22 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:07.560 special occasions have just become so expensive. I mean, we'll 23 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:10.000 still do it some big business thing or special occasion thing, 24 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:14.799 but those have become so crazy expensive. It's sometimes I 25 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:17.239 think it's hard to even enjoy when you I mean, 26 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:21.359 even if you're a trillionaire, right just man, for the 27 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:24.400 cost of this dinner, it could have bought another big 28 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:27.719 screen TV or Ryan's Tomawk two big screen TVs. But 29 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:31.000 then we're talking about some of this more serious stuff 30 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:34.680 of the day as well. And then Eerie Mike had 31 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:37.359 called and he challenged me, how can you, as a 32 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:41.239 Catholic support Donald Trump? The Pope so critical of Donald Trump, 33 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:43.760 et cetera. And that got us off on a really 34 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:47.000 legitimate conversation, which is the folks who want to say, 35 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:49.400 wait a second, the Pope's critical of Trump on immigration, 36 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:54.079 how can you support Trump's immigration policies? Fair interesting conversation 37 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:56.280 that we've been enjoying. We could not enjoy it with 38 00:01:56.319 --> 00:01:59.879 Eerie Mike because he just evolved quickly into the usual 39 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:04.920 Mike's stuff. But we're continuing that conversation with others right now, 40 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:07.799 and I do think it's absolutely fascinating and something I 41 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:10.319 think about all the time on the immigration issue, the 42 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:14.199 broader issue of how as as a Catholic I can 43 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:17.639 support Donald Trump. That's the easiest thing I'll do all day, right, 44 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:20.879 because first of all, you look at all the great 45 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:24.599 things he does for religious freedom and religious liberty and 46 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:28.560 protecting innocent life, and then you compare it to the alternative, 47 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:31.479 which is about as bad as it can get on 48 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:34.840 every single count. Yeah, that's the easiest thing I'll do 49 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:39.120 all day is support Donald Trump over the Modern Democratic Party. 50 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:41.520 A FI five for zero five A two five five 51 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:44.360 the number or our new better number three oh three 52 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:47.159 seven one three A two five five. You can text 53 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:50.159 da N five seven seven three nine. We'll start in 54 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:53.479 beautiful Frederick, Colorado. Doug, you're on the Dan Kaplis Show. 55 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:58.599 Welcome, Hey, Dan. I don't want to stay on the 56 00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:00.479 pulp thing. I mean, I have my thoughts to actually 57 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:03.280 was born and raised Catholic when Saint Paul's School in Missouri. 58 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:06.400 But wonderful, I'll just say, I'll say one thing, a 59 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:09.199 preface of one thing. When we all know about Pope 60 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:12.080 Pias in World War two, But we don't need to 61 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:14.240 go there. I really called about something else. 62 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:18.240 Did you have nuns. Did you have nuns in school? 63 00:03:18.479 --> 00:03:18.639 Oh? 64 00:03:18.719 --> 00:03:21.120 Yeah, yeah, Oh, thank god for the nuns. How old 65 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:21.680 are you? 66 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:23.319 Oh? 67 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:23.879 I had none? 68 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:25.280 Yeah, how old are you? 69 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:27.680 I remember Sister Mary Magdalen's sister Teresa. 70 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:31.400 Oh yeah, oh yeah, I literally I thank god I 71 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:35.000 had nuns as teachers in school. But go ahead, my friend, 72 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:36.080 I know it's a different topic. 73 00:03:36.439 --> 00:03:39.439 Well one more thing on that. I do believe that 74 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:42.800 what the Catholic upbringing gave me was a sense of 75 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:46.039 what we're missing so much in society nowadays. And I'm 76 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:47.800 you know, whether you where, if you come down on 77 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:50.680 religion or politics, we're missing a sense of ethics, the 78 00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:53.599 sense of decency, and the sense of something higher than ourselves. 79 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:56.840 And that's that's proving out everywhere. And that's proving out 80 00:03:56.879 --> 00:04:00.000 with Donald Trump because he's destroying the left. What they're all, 81 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:04.520 They all they balanced a of government and he's destroying that. Well, 82 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:07.840 he's showing how infallible and how through they are. But 83 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:12.000 that brings me to my point with reconciliation, Dan, with 84 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:16.240 all the executive orders, with the vajority I agree with, 85 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:20.319 would reconciliation be a better rally? You only need fifty 86 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:22.319 month because we're not going to get sixty or can 87 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:24.079 someone else come back in and just sign a bunch 88 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:26.199 of executive orders because that's the last thing I want 89 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:28.639 to see. And yeah, I just all taking your thoughts 90 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:28.839 on that. 91 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:31.160 Thank you, what great questions. Thank you Doug for that. 92 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:34.319 Let's start with executive orders, okay, because we all know, right, yeah, 93 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:38.040 that's right. If Lefty comes in in twenty eight, they 94 00:04:38.079 --> 00:04:40.600 can just undo the executive orders. So the solution to 95 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:43.439 that is win again in twenty eight, right, And I'm 96 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:46.000 not being facetious. That the whole point of this, and 97 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:49.480 it's it's part of the brilliance of Trump and his 98 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:52.360 whole team. If you look at these executive orders, and 99 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:54.199 I haven't looked at each and every one, but the 100 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:57.680 big ones I've looked at, they are so thoughtfully done, 101 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:01.279 and they're so thought through. They're thought through from legal standpoint, 102 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:05.040 and so the idea here is wait a second, to 103 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:09.319 keep these actions in place by continuing to win beyond 104 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:14.079 Trump because these orders go to issues the American people 105 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:17.920 care about and support, and so you've got majority support 106 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:20.800 on all of these that I'm aware of, which makes 107 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:24.120 it more likely that this term will succeed. And it 108 00:05:24.199 --> 00:05:28.000 already has right, and that a Republican gets elected in 109 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:30.639 twenty eight and you can continue these policies. And the 110 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:34.439 longer you continue these policies, the less likely that a 111 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:36.920 Democrat is going to be able to take office and 112 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:40.040 overturn them. And if a Democrat does win, less likely 113 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:43.040 there'll be one of these far lefties who would undo 114 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:45.639 all of them, at least because they probably wouldn't have 115 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:48.240 won if that's what they were running on. So good 116 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:51.920 point by Doug on that, But then you've got to 117 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:54.240 come back to the reality that as a practical matter, 118 00:05:54.279 --> 00:05:56.879 there's a lot of this stuff that you would not 119 00:05:56.920 --> 00:05:59.040 be able to get through Congress right now. And Doug's 120 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:03.519 referring to recation, that process by which you can get 121 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:06.839 stuff through with the simple majority. And I don't claim 122 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:09.560 to be the world's greatest reconciliation expert. We should get 123 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:13.680 Joe on our son, Joe who worked in Senator Gardner's 124 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:16.720 office and Senator Toomey's office, because he did learn a 125 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:21.920 ton about that. But my understanding is that reconciliation is 126 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:26.839 limited to fiscal matters, or at least largely but maybe exclusively, 127 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:30.639 fiscal matters, and that that Yeah, you can get some 128 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:33.800 of this big stuff through, but but you can't get 129 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:37.279 a whole lot. So I think as a practical matter, 130 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:41.040 eos and certainly getting it into the bloodstream quickly, you know, 131 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:43.920 far better through the eos. But Ran, am I wrong. 132 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:47.360 I can't think of a single Trump EO that doesn't 133 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:51.879 have strong majority support. Can you think anything? I mean, 134 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:54.680 it's all the stuff that you want on. Well, that's true. 135 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:56.959 But if a Democrat were to get an office, is 136 00:06:57.120 --> 00:07:01.040 Doug's point, Even if it didn't have or the Democrat position, 137 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:03.800 they'd still overturn it. So I think the legislative action 138 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:05.759 is the way to put that in Congress. 139 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:08.399 Sure, if you can get it right, if you can 140 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:09.000 do sure. 141 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:11.439 I mean they got Republican majorities in both houses, the 142 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:12.639 House and the Senate. 143 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:15.199 Right, but then in the Senate, as you know, I mean, 144 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:17.439 you have to get sixty to get it to the floor. 145 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:20.839 Etsaid are certain things all, and it takes longer, right, 146 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:24.920 it just takes longer. But I like the fact he's 147 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:28.120 getting it into the bloodstream quickly because he's right on 148 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:32.240 these things. It shows action, there's tangible progress. You get 149 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:34.959 that momentum and you make things better. In the meantime, Well, 150 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:38.360 then you hope to get And what's our legislative majority 151 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:40.600 right now in Congress? Is it one or two? As 152 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:42.759 a practical matter, so they fill some of those seats. 153 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:45.959 So I really like the approach he's taken in Yeah, 154 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:48.160 believe me, I'd love to have it in legislation. And 155 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:50.160 I'd love to have a Bugatti when I go out 156 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:56.480 there tonight instead of my latest loaner. But Dan Eerie 157 00:07:56.560 --> 00:07:59.839 might conflates illegal immigrants with immigrants. Also, the Pope only 158 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:05.759 spoke about immigrants, not illegal immigrants. And again, when you 159 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:09.439 look at the Pope's comments, the Pope was talking in 160 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:14.319 terms of a mass deportation, and we don't have mass 161 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:16.920 deportation going on right now. I do think the Pope's 162 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:20.519 staff may not have gotten him all of the pertinent, 163 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:24.199 accurate facts as to what's actually going on in America 164 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:27.399 right now. But this commitment, this commitment on the part 165 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:32.039 of the Pope and others in the Catholic Church to listen, 166 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:34.799 you got to approach this if you're a Catholic in 167 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:37.679 terms of what would Jesus do. I buy into that 168 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:40.799 one thousand percent. Now I can remember one of the 169 00:08:40.799 --> 00:08:44.600 greatest Catholics ever in my opinion, Archbishop Charles Shepew sitting 170 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:46.960 right over there, you know, about five feet away from here, 171 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:49.440 talking about now, of course a nation has a right 172 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:51.639 to its borders and control its borders. And you look 173 00:08:51.639 --> 00:08:55.679 at the brilliant statement just issued by Archibi Bishops Amaquilla 174 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:58.879 and the Catholic Bishops of Colorado where they talk about, yes, 175 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:02.559 you know, viewing each person here as someone who's human 176 00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:05.200 created in the image of God. But at the same time, 177 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:08.519 I think the Catholic bishops in Colorado talked about the 178 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:12.840 rampant increase in crime and public safety and the need 179 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:15.799 for society to be able to act on that and 180 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:19.879 to act on you know, illegal immigrants who are committing crimes. 181 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:24.080 So I think there's there's an awful lot of wisdom 182 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:26.879 in what you're hearing from a lot of people in 183 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:30.480 the Catholic hierarchy. There's absolutely a balance that can be struck. 184 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:33.159 And with all of that said, I fully support what 185 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:37.000 President Trump is doing right now. It is targeting the 186 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:40.519 folks here illegally or are committing other crimes, and I'd 187 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:43.799 really love to talk to anybody who opposes that and 188 00:09:44.120 --> 00:09:46.799 try to understand their rationale. I think it would quickly 189 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:50.240 fall apart eight five or zero five A two five 190 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:53.360 five text d A N five seven seven thirty nine. 191 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:57.720 Surprising number of calls and text on the Gulf of America, 192 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:00.360 which I think is a brilliant move on Trump Party 193 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:03.039 came up today because looks like AP is going to 194 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:04.720 be banned from the White House press room. Not the 195 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:07.720 White House, but the press room because it refuses to 196 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:10.440 use Golf of America. White House says it's engaging in 197 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:13.960 disinformation and is no longer entitled to that seat. Is 198 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:16.960 the latest there? What do you think of that? You're 199 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:20.559 on the Dan Kapla Show and now back to the 200 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:25.320 Dan Kaplas Show podcast. CNN reporting the White House bans 201 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:31.039 the AP indefinitely over use of quote Golf of Mexico. No, 202 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:35.639 not an accurate headline. It's over the refusal to use 203 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:41.080 Golf of America, the story in pertinent part Trump White 204 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:43.519 House said Friday, the Associated Press is banned from the 205 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:48.279 Oval Office and Air Force one indefinitely. And then it 206 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:52.519 goes into the Gulf of America stuff. And then the 207 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:57.759 administration just coming back and saying, you know, I hate 208 00:10:57.759 --> 00:11:02.480 they're committed to disinformation, So no, they lose their privileges. 209 00:11:02.519 --> 00:11:04.919 Now AP still allowed in the White House, et cetera. 210 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:09.440 But obviously what's going on here, it's not really over 211 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:12.120 the Gulf of America, right because I mean, who would 212 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:14.759 not agree that the Gulf of America. That's brilliance and 213 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:17.960 it makes sense. And no, what it's over is AP. 214 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:20.840 And it's really sad, right because I can remember not 215 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:24.200 that long ago when AP was a really important, respected, 216 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:28.159 roughly down the middle source of news information in America. 217 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:30.399 I remember, for some reason it pops into my head, 218 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:32.840 you know, when I was covering the Tyson trial in 219 00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:36.080 Indianapolis for NBC. At the time, I think it was 220 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:40.519 you know, AP was just a source of tremendous reporting there. 221 00:11:40.919 --> 00:11:44.399 But over the years it's just become political hackery most 222 00:11:44.440 --> 00:11:46.919 of the time. And so I don't blame the Trump 223 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:51.639 administration for pushing back against AP in general, because it 224 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:55.080 needs to get back to what it was before, you know, credible, 225 00:11:55.200 --> 00:11:58.799 balanced reporting that the nation needs from a national wire service. 226 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:01.600 And Trump doesn't have to just sit there, you know, 227 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:05.799 being a punching bag for AP. But in this case, 228 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:08.720 the whole Gulf of America thing I've got a texture, 229 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:11.200 says Dan. I keep saying, you like the name of 230 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:14.159 Golf of America, But what is so brilliant about it? 231 00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:16.679 Thank you that that is such a good text to me. 232 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:20.720 Here's what's so brilliant about it. It's when Trump said 233 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:23.519 its best and it's what we need more of, you know, 234 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:27.279 long after President Trump is gone, and that is we 235 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:31.120 need more of this big, bold, fresh outside the box thinking. 236 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:32.519 It's like wheels on a suitcase. 237 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:32.679 Right. 238 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:35.480 I was talking with my love partners today, Barbara Rohead 239 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:37.919 and John Keller about this. And you think about all 240 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:40.799 those years that we're lugging suitcases through airports? Do you 241 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:41.240 ever do that? 242 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:41.559 Ryan? 243 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:46.039 Just log suitcases through airports? Right, So we're all doing that, 244 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:50.200 and then how did none of us realize over all 245 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:52.919 those years, Oh, you can put wheels on the Now. 246 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:55.480 I understand they're not that manly, but you can put 247 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:58.879 wheels on these things. I'd rather not madly and think 248 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:01.399 about all these smart pears people going through all these 249 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:05.759 airports all these years, and nobody thought about that. And 250 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:09.440 Trump is great at these wheels on a suitcase moments 251 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:13.360 where he and or his staff just see fresh things 252 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:16.559 that make perfect sense, and then they want to go 253 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:18.799 do them. And then even if you think some things 254 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:21.159 maybe aren't going to work out quite that way in 255 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:24.120 the end, like us taken over Gaza, the fact that 256 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:29.080 he thinks outside the box and he dares to think big. 257 00:13:29.159 --> 00:13:31.879 I mean, that's what America needs, that's what Colorado needs, 258 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:35.720 that's what the world needs. And so that's what I 259 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:38.960 love so much about Gulf of America is not that 260 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:41.279 it's going to change my life or yours or whatever, 261 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:47.039 excuse me, but that it's just brilliant outside fresh thinking 262 00:13:47.639 --> 00:13:50.519 and it makes sense. We've got most of the shoreline 263 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:53.320 and the United States, no disrespect to Mexico, but the 264 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:55.759 United States is the greatest nation in the history of 265 00:13:55.759 --> 00:13:58.440 the world. The only reason the world is free right 266 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:01.720 now is the United States of America. There are other 267 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:05.519 Greek peoples and nations who sacrifice to make the world free, 268 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:08.799 but without the United States of America leading the charge, 269 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:11.720 their sacrifice would have been in vain. So when you 270 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:13.519 have the greatest nation in the history of the world, 271 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:15.840 you got this big body of water right off at chores, 272 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:19.000 it's got most of the shoreline, it makes perfect sense 273 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:19.840 that be the name. 274 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:23.399 He's a master at driving the conversation, at churning the 275 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:28.919 news cycle, at making liberals headspin, at changing the narrative 276 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:30.879 and making them have to keep up with him. And 277 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:33.240 so when he stays ahead of that curve, Dan and 278 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:35.600 an example is like this one, or with the comments 279 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:36.200 about I. 280 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:38.440 Guess we'll just take over Gaza, We'll just do it. 281 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:40.679 And now did you see the reaction to that. 282 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:43.879 There are Arab nations including Egypt, that are going, look, 283 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:45.720 we don't want Trump in the US to do that. 284 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:48.159 So we're going to step up our game and organize 285 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:48.879 and maybe do that. 286 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:51.559 Ourselves, right, right, And that's what we're talking about the 287 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:53.440 other day on the show, right, the art of the 288 00:14:53.480 --> 00:14:56.879 deal and just changing the arc. And so I think 289 00:14:56.919 --> 00:15:00.279 President Trump has always understood that the US woul not 290 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:03.120 going to actually own Gaza and take Gaza over. But 291 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:09.080 think about what happened that this big, bold proposal has 292 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:13.279 now led to a paradigm shift, a change in thinking. 293 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:17.639 You're no longer operating in this very narrow, limited tunnel 294 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:20.519 when it comes to Gaza. And there's some fresh thinking 295 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:23.399 that's going to lead to something really good. Speaking of fresh, 296 00:15:23.399 --> 00:15:27.559 we're getting some text on the whole affordable, nice Valentine 297 00:15:27.639 --> 00:15:30.480 Day restaurant things. I wonder how many people just stay 298 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:34.159 home right because Amy and I I can't remember how 299 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:37.440 long into our relationship we stopped doing the whole go 300 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:41.919 out on Valentine's Day kind of obligatory thing and just 301 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:46.960 started having these real nice dinners at home. Dan five 302 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:51.960 spices and faux Asian cuisine best Chinese and foe Ryan, 303 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:54.840 educate me here a little bit. I get the Chinese 304 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:56.960 piecea there all the time. I ate a great Chinese 305 00:15:56.960 --> 00:15:59.360 place last night on the way home from work. But 306 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:01.919 what is full pho? 307 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:05.720 I think it's technically pronounced fa fah. Okay, get the 308 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:07.440 fae out of here. And it's kind of like they 309 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:08.840 have a lot of fun with the names on a 310 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:09.679 lot of these places. 311 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:12.519 Okay, okay, Alexa might be a little bit more knowledgeable. No, 312 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:13.759 not at all? Okay, good No. 313 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:15.600 I turned to her and she gave me nothing, so 314 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:22.120 hyah not full fuh fah, I think fah. And it's 315 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:24.279 a specialized form of Asian cuisine. 316 00:16:24.360 --> 00:16:29.559 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's Here's an interesting text that I 317 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:32.440 believe is a lie. I don't believe it's true for 318 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:34.720 a second. And if I'm wrong text or please call 319 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:37.320 the show. Let's have the conversation. Dan. I grew up 320 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:40.240 Catholic and confirm, but I stopped following the Catholic religion 321 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:43.679 when they started covering up for pedophiles, just like DPS 322 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:45.919 public schools. The pope is just some guy to me. 323 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:49.039 You know, God forgive me if I'm wrong, But I 324 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:54.480 think that's a lie. I may be wrong. But what 325 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:57.159 I've experienced, right, is that people actually grew up in 326 00:16:57.200 --> 00:16:59.320 the Catholic Church and knew that, know the goodness and 327 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:03.639 greatness priest and everything else. Your hearts were broken when 328 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:07.640 you saw the absolute satanic evil committed by those who 329 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:12.039 would abuse a child. But one was too many. But 330 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:14.680 that was a very small handful of all the priests 331 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:18.319 out there, so actual practicing Catholics, I never met one 332 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:23.319 who said that, oh, because that guy is a monster, 333 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:28.720 I'm leaving my church. It's totally illogical, right, totally illogical. 334 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:31.680 And I heard somebody say it, great ones, because all 335 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:36.240 I saw through to that terrible ordeal, you know, when 336 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:38.920 that wrongdoing was exposed on the part of some a 337 00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:43.039 relatively small number. All I saw through that was churches 338 00:17:43.079 --> 00:17:46.359 get more and more crowded, and they're still getting more 339 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:48.720 and more crowded. But I heard this great bit of 340 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:55.680 wisdom from somebody who said, wait a second, I don't 341 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:59.000 come to the Catholic Church because I believe the priest 342 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:01.920 is perfect. I come to the Catholic Church because I 343 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:05.920 believe God is perfect, Jesus Christ is perfect. I just 344 00:18:05.960 --> 00:18:08.680 thought that was so beautifully put. At the same time, again, 345 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:11.279 the point being, anybody active in the Catholic Church, I 346 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:14.799 think they'd see that vast majority of priests are truly heroes. 347 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:23.240 Here on the Dan Caplas Show. You're listening to the 348 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:24.839 Dan Kaplis Show podcast. 349 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:33.440 We've reached heights, authored achievements, pushed progress, not alone but together. 350 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:38.759 In ways that have lifted the world and one another. Well, 351 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:40.880 we need to reinforce here and here. 352 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:46.039 The huddle is a metaphor for our history, for the 353 00:18:46.119 --> 00:18:50.559 power found in our shared purpose. It's in the will 354 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:55.279 to imagine flight and then sore skyward. 355 00:18:56.079 --> 00:18:58.759 You know, it's so interesting. The week got so crazy. 356 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:01.279 We never even got to talk about the Super Bowl 357 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:04.839 commercials and features and stuff. And I thought so many 358 00:19:04.839 --> 00:19:07.000 of them are so good and and you know, the 359 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:09.400 whole Brad Pitt thing they did in the beginning, I 360 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:12.079 thought was beautifully done. Why do you think they chose 361 00:19:12.119 --> 00:19:14.359 Brad Pitt for that? I thought he did a great 362 00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:17.680 job with it. Yeah, but Joe, why do you think 363 00:19:17.720 --> 00:19:18.799 they chose him? 364 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:22.799 He's kind of a unifying voice that most people agree on, 365 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:26.160 A handsome man who's a pretty highly heralded actor that 366 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:28.200 hasn't done a lot of crazy stuff to make people 367 00:19:28.240 --> 00:19:28.920 angry at him. 368 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:31.880 So I think that's that's h I'm going to start 369 00:19:31.880 --> 00:19:35.559 calling you AI instead of Ryan. Yeah, okay, hey, I? 370 00:19:35.839 --> 00:19:38.559 Or how would we pronounce that? Alexa alexin for Kelly? 371 00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:41.519 Keep Kelly and her family in your prayers for you know, 372 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:46.240 bearying her father? I would pronounce it E. You don't 373 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:51.480 want to say Ai? Should we just call you I? Yeah? 374 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:55.160 Maybe just I? Good Texter? Dan Foh that's how you 375 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:57.440 pronounce it, right, Ryan? pH? Yeah? Right? 376 00:19:57.599 --> 00:20:01.119 And it's a Vietnamese cuisine And I did some research 377 00:20:01.160 --> 00:20:01.839 during the break. 378 00:20:01.720 --> 00:20:04.599 Says it's a Vietnamese soup. It comes with many different 379 00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:08.480 ingredients and broth. It's delicious, fascinating. Do you like that 380 00:20:08.559 --> 00:20:11.000 kind of food? My last bowl of soup was probably 381 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:15.119 forty years ago. Oh my god, are you serious? Yeah? 382 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:17.920 Not even like Campbell's or chunky soup. And that was 383 00:20:17.960 --> 00:20:21.319 my last bowl of soup was Campbell's. I can't imagine 384 00:20:21.319 --> 00:20:23.599 there's one person in America who cares about that. But 385 00:20:23.640 --> 00:20:25.319 did you throw it up? Oh? Not at all? No, 386 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:27.319 what made you never have soup again? 387 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:27.640 Oh? 388 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:30.720 Man, I'm so sorry I got myself into this. Here's 389 00:20:30.759 --> 00:20:37.599 the situation. Okay, Oh here, long story, very short. When 390 00:20:37.640 --> 00:20:41.559 I was in law school, developed ulcers maybe a little 391 00:20:41.599 --> 00:20:44.799 before law school, and so then certain foods I couldn't 392 00:20:44.799 --> 00:20:47.559 really eat. And then we went out to play first 393 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:50.599 year versus second year of football game, had a great game, 394 00:20:50.680 --> 00:20:54.119 feeling great about myself. Well up the next morning bleeding 395 00:20:54.279 --> 00:20:57.759 internally like a stuck pig. Missed the last month or 396 00:20:57.799 --> 00:20:59.599 so law school. They cut out a bunch of my 397 00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:02.640 stomach and and they did. They did a great job. 398 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:05.839 I mean, I've been like one hundred percent since. That's incredible. Yeah, 399 00:21:05.920 --> 00:21:08.519 but that's why the whole soup thing didn't work so great. 400 00:21:08.799 --> 00:21:10.880 But now it's as if nothing ever happened. I mean, 401 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:13.319