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Speaker 1: every day's open lines now right. It's just it's amazing
Speaker 1: how the world has changed that way, that part of it,
Speaker 1: you know, social media, twenty four to seven news cycle,
Speaker 1: et cetera. But you've got so much going on all
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Speaker 1: on my mind to throw out there, and then anything
Speaker 1: else you want to talk about. Interesting. Associated press looks
Speaker 1: like they may be barred from the White House press room.
Speaker 1: We'll get into the details of that, but I understand
Speaker 1: the story. It goes back a little bit to AP
Speaker 1: refusing to call the Golf of America the Gulf of America. Correct,
Speaker 1: and it is the Golf of Even Google now calls
Speaker 1: it the Gulf of America. Right, everybody's doing it, yeah,
Speaker 1: even us, Yes, and so AP refusing to And I
Speaker 1: think the premise of the Trump administration is that, well, okay,
Speaker 1: if you're peddling disinformation, you know, you can't be in
Speaker 1: the press room. So we'll follow that story. And it
Speaker 1: really is. It's stunny to me, Ryan, because when I
Speaker 1: think of AP, I think of the days where AP
Speaker 1: was the credible source, right. I mean there might have
Speaker 1: been what twenty thirty years ago, maybe more, you know,
Speaker 1: there might have been a few different media outlets which
Speaker 1: were generally viewed as credible, not everybody, but generally accepted,
Speaker 1: and AP was one of those and then just became
Speaker 1: political hackery over the years. And that's sad because America
Speaker 1: could really use a good, honest, balanced AP. But it
Speaker 1: has become what it has become. So Trump administration fighting
Speaker 1: back on that. Have you picked up kind of on
Speaker 1: Gulf of America using that kind of commonly everyday life
Speaker 1: now and I like it. I mean it took some
Speaker 1: getting used to, but the more I say it, the
Speaker 1: more I like it. You know, It's funny because for
Speaker 1: me it didn't take any getting used to it all.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of natural. It makes sense, right because hey,
Speaker 1: look at the shoreline and it just makes sense. And
Speaker 1: obviously the greatest nation in the history of the world,
Speaker 1: it makes sense that it'd be. And that's no knock
Speaker 1: on Mexico. But wesed, you know, we've got more coastline
Speaker 1: eight five five A two five five the number or
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Speaker 1: five five the number, new and better version. So Valentine's Day,
Speaker 1: I hope to get some calls and texts just on
Speaker 1: the best affordable place to go to Valentine's Day dinner.
Speaker 1: And it's remarkable because we were going to be up
Speaker 1: at the Caen today. I was going to go out there.
Speaker 1: Too much snow. Oh you'll be shocked. Here, my car's
Speaker 1: in the shop and the loaner did not have snow tires.
Speaker 1: Uh oh and so and then it apparently there's a
Speaker 1: bunch of snow. Check wherever you're going up there because
Speaker 1: it may be different different places. You know, we're about
Speaker 1: twenty minutes west of Vail in that area, about twenty
Speaker 1: minutes west of Vale, and apparently the road's really tough
Speaker 1: up there today. So yeah, safety first, right, and part
Speaker 1: of it is my real job, where you just see
Speaker 1: man people's lives changing a heartbeat with a crash, and
Speaker 1: so we just tend to err on the safe side there.
Speaker 1: So we'll go up tomorrow morning, hopefully. But good to
Speaker 1: be with you here today. But I'm surprised we're able
Speaker 1: to score a last minute reservation at my neighbor Felix.
Speaker 1: Have you been there?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: And that's so she has Oh yeah, yeah, well you
Speaker 1: like it, right, I mean you're still with us, right, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I put that into the really nice but still
Speaker 1: affordable category, certainly not inexpensive. Neighbor Felix. That's a funny name. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And if you happen to have a neighbor named Felix,
Speaker 1: don't go there. This is like a commercial establishment, hey, Felix,
Speaker 1: unless he invites you, And if he doesn't, then we'll
Speaker 1: read about it in the Denver Post, I think. But
Speaker 1: but yeah, no, it's it's a great Mexican place. And
Speaker 1: so I'm just surprised that at the last minute, because
Speaker 1: we realized about noon, you know, wouldn't be able to
Speaker 1: I had to get there through the snow, that we
Speaker 1: were able to get a reservation.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: So, but some of these places they've just flat become unaffordable. Right, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got good news and bad news.
Speaker 4: So Kelsey, who everybody met on Wednesday, you're still engaged
Speaker 4: my intended Yes, I like that word. The good news
Speaker 4: is we got a reservation at Del Frisco's. They're off Orchard.
Speaker 4: The bad news is is at nine.
Speaker 1: Oh well, the bad news is that you're gonna need
Speaker 1: a mask and a gun. Yeah, right, I mean, and listen,
Speaker 1: I love that place, great people, great stuff. But I'm
Speaker 1: just oh, I'm serious, it's crazy, right, that's crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And this is Dan.
Speaker 4: Kappls talking, which you know, you're lucky enough to do
Speaker 4: very well, but you're not gonna go waste in your
Speaker 4: money at a place.
Speaker 1: Well and part of it. And honestly, I mean, the
Speaker 1: food's so good. You take any of those places, right,
Speaker 1: like any of any of those big steakhouses, they do
Speaker 1: it great. The food's so good, the people are great,
Speaker 1: all of that, so I never feel like it's a
Speaker 1: waste of money. What I honestly, what I struggle with
Speaker 1: is how do you justify right? And and you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's what I struggle with because when we sat
Speaker 1: down the other day, you know, Dick Wattums and I
Speaker 1: went over to grab a couple of burgers and he
Speaker 1: was out a town visiting your mom. And you look
Speaker 1: at the menu and like, typical. Still, that's a nice tune.
Speaker 1: You can dance to it, American bandstand. Anybody remember American dancing.
Speaker 1: But anyway, yeah, so you and like a typical steak
Speaker 1: over ninety bucks, Now, I mean, that's just yeah. So
Speaker 1: I think it just a lot of that just has
Speaker 1: flat become unaffordable. And even if yeah, I mean I could,
Speaker 1: I could pay for it, but it just when you
Speaker 1: stop and think about it just doesn't feel right. Special
Speaker 1: occasion you bet. I'm not saying I'll ever go to
Speaker 1: most places special occasion business stuff, yeah, I'll be there. So,
Speaker 1: but we're talking about my neighbor Felix. Though I gotta
Speaker 1: get well, my neighbor Felix is really nice. It's not cheap,
Speaker 1: but it's not in that kind of range. So what
Speaker 1: what would be a typical dan Kaplis order? In my mind,
Speaker 1: there's no typical There isn't every time order. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're amazing, some of the best beef I've ever had. Nice,
Speaker 1: But there's the thing. Okay, so it's still real expensive,
Speaker 1: like real expensive, but it's a it's some of the
Speaker 1: best beef I've ever had, and B it's going to
Speaker 1: be about forty eight bucks instead of ninety eight bucks
Speaker 1: for the beef. Yep, so still real expensive, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like obscenity, you know what when you
Speaker 1: see it? Yeah, and this is not obscene.
Speaker 4: Don't you enjoy it more when you know, like you know,
Speaker 4: I'm not paying an arm mental league, but it's delicious
Speaker 4: and I'm getting a good deal, you know, rather than
Speaker 4: you know, the Tomahawk steaks that I owe you.
Speaker 1: Oh my lord? Yeah, because I checked. I was thinking
Speaker 1: to you. And in the town hard I think is
Speaker 1: uptown in seventy five hundred and eighty bucks, that's about ballpark.
Speaker 1: So anyway, we'd love to hear from you on the
Speaker 1: best affordable places for Valentine. Mean, it doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be McDonald you know what I mean? But just common
Speaker 1: sense kind of stuff. So we'll talk about that. We'll
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Speaker 1: thought on this one of the great mysteries of the universe.
Speaker 1: And I'm not a picky kind of guy at all,
Speaker 1: but what is it with the plate stabbing? That's what
Speaker 1: I don't get. And I've never seen it accept at breakfast,
Speaker 1: but so often at breakfast, like every day on the
Speaker 1: way to work, I'll stop for breakfast. Yeah, if you
Speaker 1: you haven't noticed it, the people who will just like
Speaker 1: stab the plate over and over again, like tune them out.
Speaker 1: It's dead. It's you don't have to kill it, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Somebody listening knows what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: What I'm wondering. Is is it regional? Is it geographic?
Speaker 1: Is it is there a place where people grow up
Speaker 1: in America where where a certain large group of people
Speaker 1: just keep stabbing the plate. Maybe it's just me. I
Speaker 1: don't do that, by the way. Three or three someone
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Speaker 1: Kaplas Show podcast j D getting after it in Germany.
Speaker 5: And expressing opinions? Is it election interference? Even when people
Speaker 5: express views outside your own country, and even when those
Speaker 5: people are very influential and trust me, I say this
Speaker 5: with all humor. If American democracy can survive ten years
Speaker 5: of Thunberg scolding you guys can survive a few months
Speaker 5: of Elon Musk, where's the laugh with German democracy? What
Speaker 5: no democracy, American, German or European will survive is telling
Speaker 5: millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations
Speaker 5: they're pleased for relief, are invalid or unworthy of even
Speaker 5: being considered.
Speaker 1: Boy, I'm glad he went after that. I mean, we
Speaker 1: haven't talked about it much on the show, but this bizarre,
Speaker 1: weird growing censorship in democracies in Europe and really freaking.
Speaker 4: Cars are driving into people totally unoccupied totally with no
Speaker 4: driver whatsoever. And did you just ask Germans to have
Speaker 4: a sense of humor, because that in itself is a punchline.
Speaker 1: There was a Mike.
Speaker 4: Myers sketch on SNL for years that was hilarious, culled sprockets.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, remember that. Oh, now's the time on Sprockets
Speaker 1: when we dance. Yeah, yeah it. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: phone lines three or three seven, one, three, eight, two
Speaker 1: five five, start with Joe in Colorado. Springs are on
Speaker 1: the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 6: Welcome, Ahi, Dan, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1: Sure thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was just calling on this Gulf of America
Speaker 6: beating and the way people are taking to the name
Speaker 6: of it. It's not like he named it the United
Speaker 6: States Goal. He named it the Gulf of America, which
Speaker 6: is our continent. It's Mexico doesn't get a right to
Speaker 6: it any more than anybody else. So I think it's
Speaker 6: a good compromise when you call it America versus the
Speaker 6: US goal. And it's the only golf in our continent,
Speaker 6: so why not?
Speaker 1: Hey, good thinking man, Hey do appreciate that. And the
Speaker 1: other thing is, listen, we are the greatest nation in
Speaker 1: the history of the world right, and so not perfect obviously,
Speaker 1: but one of the things that makes us great is
Speaker 1: we've got a pretty good track record of fixing our stuff.
Speaker 1: And sometimes it takes way too long, but we've always
Speaker 1: been able to get there. And so as the greatest
Speaker 1: nation in the history of the world, it shouldn't be
Speaker 1: viewed as an insult to Mexico or anything else. But
Speaker 1: when you get this huge body of water and the
Speaker 1: most of the shoreline is ours, that it be called
Speaker 1: Gulf of America. So I love it personally, Suzanne here
Speaker 1: on the Dan Kaplis Show, welcome.
Speaker 3: Yes on the Golf of America.
Speaker 6: Yes. Remember one bet.
Speaker 3: When Biden said there'd be no drilling in the Golf
Speaker 3: of Mexico. Hmmm, he said that, okay with all the
Speaker 3: other places. Yeah, and Trump kind of took care of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good points, and thanks for the call three or
Speaker 1: threes that went three eight two five five takes d
Speaker 1: a n five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Trump coming out and calling Vance brilliant today as as
Speaker 1: he was. I mean, it's strong leadership. Strong leadership. Vance
Speaker 1: brought it to Germany. Here's some more.
Speaker 5: And unfortunately, when I look at Europe today, it's sometimes
Speaker 5: not so clear what happened to some of the Cold
Speaker 5: Wars winners. I looked to Brussels, where EU commissars warned
Speaker 5: citizens that they intend to shut down social media during
Speaker 5: times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they've
Speaker 5: judged to be quote, hateful content. Or to this very
Speaker 5: country where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected
Speaker 5: of posting anti feminist comments online as part of quote
Speaker 5: combating misogyny on the Internet a day of action.
Speaker 1: I looked to Sweden. We're two weeks.
Speaker 5: Ago the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in
Speaker 5: Kuran burnings that resulted in his friend's murder, and as
Speaker 5: the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden's laws to
Speaker 5: supposedly protect free expression do not in fact grant and
Speaker 5: I'm quoting a free pass to do or say anything
Speaker 5: without risking affair the group that holds that belief.
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, I am so glad he's speaking out on it,
Speaker 1: because again, you know, I think we've been a bit
Speaker 1: oblivious to that here. It just hasn't been high on
Speaker 1: our radar. But I'd love your thoughts on how garbage
Speaker 1: like that even starts and how it starts in free nations.
Speaker 1: And now, obviously a reason Trump got a second term
Speaker 1: is that there's been a major censorship effort here. You
Speaker 1: see it in Colorado. You see it in Colorado all
Speaker 1: the time from the left, the effort to intimidate politics
Speaker 1: of personal destruction, etc. People out of speaking the truth.
Speaker 1: And you're gonna get canceled, you're gonna get labeled, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get this that. And that's because the left, including
Speaker 1: you know, their media arm the left doesn't have good answers.
Speaker 1: They can't win an honest debate, so they have to
Speaker 1: censor you. Vinton, the first Vinton ever called the show
Speaker 1: in Parker. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 7: Welcome, Hey, Dan, I wanted to comment on your restaurant thing. Yes, sir,
Speaker 7: my neighborhood Felix. If you haven't had that, their award
Speaker 7: winning tacos there, Oh my goodness, you've got to try
Speaker 7: those those things are unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite, Well.
Speaker 7: It's it's I can't remember what they're called, but it's
Speaker 7: the very first listen say, their award winning and stuff,
Speaker 7: but the flavor in those things are probably the best
Speaker 7: tacos I've ever heard.
Speaker 4: Appreciate the heads up. We're going there tonight BARBARICOA. Have
Speaker 4: Amy get those, then you can try.
Speaker 1: I was just going to say to Vinton that that
Speaker 1: Amy will get the tacos. She gets the tacos everywhere
Speaker 1: there you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah for me. You know,
Speaker 1: I I'm a fajita guy. We go to the Mexican place,
Speaker 1: I get just the smell of it coming out. I'm
Speaker 1: the sizzling grill. You know, it's heaven. But I'm just
Speaker 1: telling you that is some of the top three beef
Speaker 1: I've ever had in my life there at that particular restaurant. Well,
Speaker 1: any any mine, my cousin Felix or neighbor I can't remember,
Speaker 1: my neighbor Felix, whatever is my cousin Vinie, my neighbor Felix, Felix,
Speaker 1: but whatever it is, Yeah, any of the Felixes we
Speaker 1: go to, because they've got one down in Lohigh as
Speaker 1: well whatever they call it place. Yeah, yeah, they got
Speaker 1: it down there too, But it's good wherever it is. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: we should do a restaurant review show. I think it
Speaker 1: would go over well. So if you've got any suggestions
Speaker 1: for really good affordable places for Valentine's Day. Again, we
Speaker 1: thought we were going to be in the mountains and
Speaker 1: then snowing up there, so just they told us in
Speaker 1: the area we were headed to the roads a real
Speaker 1: bad so we're just staying down here. And yeah, we
Speaker 1: were able to get a Felix reservation at the last minute,
Speaker 1: so we'll go to some tech suggestions on that. And
Speaker 1: also there's some real fun sound of the week we
Speaker 1: didn't get to because of all of these different breaking
Speaker 1: news stories each day. And by the way, Ryan, we
Speaker 1: are following up and let's put our heads together because
Speaker 1: I want to follow up in every possible way on
Speaker 1: this bizarre story out of Columbine that we were talking
Speaker 1: about yesterday, and we played the Sean Boyd story on
Speaker 1: a administrator got together with the teacher to falsely say
Speaker 1: that a student was homeless so she could move in
Speaker 1: with the teacher. And she wasn't homeless, she had a
Speaker 1: family and she had a home and then she ends
Speaker 1: up moving away with the teacher as soon as she
Speaker 1: turns eighteen. I mean, just bizarre stuff. We've we got
Speaker 1: to get to the bottom of that. That's just one
Speaker 1: of those where public pressure the right thing has to
Speaker 1: be done eventually there But it just goes back to
Speaker 1: this issue. Right, so many heroic teachers, so many great teachers,
Speaker 1: so many people in public schools, but we have a
Speaker 1: blank and epidemic of sex assault on kids in the
Speaker 1: public school system. And so why doesn't it get more attention?
Speaker 1: Well because her allies of the Democratic Party. That's wrong.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast and Anderson
Speaker 1: Cooper's head exploding email money for migrants that's okay. Now no,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's so. I'm not saying it's okay.
Speaker 1: So would you stop?
Speaker 8: That?
Speaker 1: Would stop that process? Don't be the portray on. What
Speaker 1: I'm saying is the trail by him is just not
Speaker 1: factually accurate. You bleep that? Do we have to bleep that? No,
Speaker 1: because it's the guy's name. But it's funnier when I
Speaker 1: bleep it though it is, and I think everybody got
Speaker 1: the idea. But but again, this just goes to this
Speaker 1: beautiful moment wherein where the left is gettings and some
Speaker 1: coupreson normally so cool and calm and everything else. Right,
Speaker 1: the whole charade not like him personally, but just the
Speaker 1: whole charade. He's hardcore lefty and and now he's losing
Speaker 1: his mind. I mean, can you ever have imagined that?
Speaker 1: And some guy making a very valid point it don't
Speaker 1: be up Richard Mike in Eerie A Ka Eerie, Mike,
Speaker 1: welcome back to the Dan Kaplis Show. Where you been.
Speaker 3: No traveling working?
Speaker 1: You know? Nothing wrong with that?
Speaker 3: So yeah, he I thought about you today. I was
Speaker 3: reading I wonder how Dan feels about that? Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: I wonder how Dan feels about this.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: I read an article about called Francis criticizing doesn't Trump's immigration.
Speaker 3: That's some pretty tough things to say about it. I
Speaker 3: know you're a practicing Norman Catholic. I was curious, is
Speaker 3: how how have you squared those things? You know, the
Speaker 3: Pope giving direction? Actually, I exhort all the faithful of
Speaker 3: the Catholic Church, et cetera, cetera.
Speaker 1: And do you want to finish that quote, Mike, because
Speaker 1: you're you're fairly famous in most circles for kind of
Speaker 1: half fabricating quotes. You want to finish the rest of
Speaker 1: that quote?
Speaker 3: I'm happy to this is on Reutter's all the faithful,
Speaker 3: the Catholic Church not to get into the narratives that
Speaker 3: discriminate against him, called unnecessarily suffering to our migrant and
Speaker 3: refugee Brooks and sisters, unquote said the pompous Well, that's
Speaker 3: a quote, Danton.
Speaker 1: You're leader.
Speaker 3: Thank you now.
Speaker 1: Now you've read this so carefully.
Speaker 3: I don't make things up.
Speaker 1: Did you read other parts as well? Have you read
Speaker 1: other parts where the Pope and the bishops of Colorado
Speaker 1: and other bishops around the country, you know, and Pope Benedict,
Speaker 1: et cetera, I have talked about that the right of
Speaker 1: a population to have borders and control immigration and to
Speaker 1: control crime, et cetera. I'm sure you read all that.
Speaker 3: Too, right, I'm reading this quote, oh.
Speaker 1: Terry picking the Pope. I'll tell you, my friend, are
Speaker 1: you Catholic?
Speaker 3: Well, Dan, he's infallible or are you Catholic?
Speaker 1: You're obviously not Catholic. If you don't, well listen, and
Speaker 1: I don't mean to be that way because the doctrine
Speaker 1: of infallibility is limited. But that aside for a second,
Speaker 1: my friend. Yeah, so you have had all of these
Speaker 1: Catholic leaders, including the Pope, acknowledge that the right of
Speaker 1: nations to control their borders, the right of nations to
Speaker 1: protect themselves, et cetera. So when the Pope talks about
Speaker 1: you know, at the same time, you know, we need
Speaker 1: to recognize. Oh I see, so you don't I see
Speaker 1: you don't want a counter argument? Is that right? Eerie?
Speaker 3: Well no, you quote.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm giving you. I'm giving you many many examps.
Speaker 1: And what's the what's Michael have? Are you imbibing for
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day? Is this an impaired call? Because yeah, it's
Speaker 1: not illegal. I'm just wondering because you're acting very oddly.
Speaker 1: You're acting very oddly, Mike.
Speaker 3: Here's the point, Dodge you accuse others of being imbibing.
Speaker 1: Really okay, Michael, Well, here's how I'm going to defend
Speaker 1: my point. Michael, Okay, okay, I'm going to put Michael
Speaker 1: on hold because this is what he does. Each time
Speaker 1: he's being defeated. He interrupts constantly, so you can't make
Speaker 1: the points that defeat him. Here's the point, and then
Speaker 1: don't bring him back up. If he can rebut this
Speaker 1: in any way, he's welcome to. But here's the point.
Speaker 1: Whether you're talking about the bishops of Colorado, you're talking
Speaker 1: about the Pope, predecessor, Pope, bishops around the country. They
Speaker 1: all make this point that, yes, okay, you have folks
Speaker 1: here illegally, but they are children of God. They have
Speaker 1: basic human dignity and need to be treated as such.
Speaker 1: Absolutely true. But at the same time, you have all
Speaker 1: of the same people I've just mentioned, all of these important,
Speaker 1: powerful people in the Catholic Church over and over again
Speaker 1: making the point that countries have a right to their borders,
Speaker 1: Countries have a right to protect themselves from crime, countries
Speaker 1: have a right to control who comes in and out
Speaker 1: of the country. The point that you'll often hear from
Speaker 1: Catholic bishops, popes, etc. Is that we need to have
Speaker 1: an immigration policy that is as humane as we can
Speaker 1: make it while still preserving our borders, preserving society, etc.
Speaker 1: So Mike Cherry picks a quote, and that quote, by
Speaker 1: the way, didn't really get him fired. And so now
Speaker 1: that Mike can't rebut anything I just said, he falls
Speaker 1: back on this illogical Well, you give me a quote, Dan,
Speaker 1: You give me a quote, Dan, which I'm certainly happy
Speaker 1: to do. I've done it on the show many times before.
Speaker 1: Can I give them a verbatim quote off the top
Speaker 1: of my head right now in this segment. Sure if
Speaker 1: you give me two minutes to get into my phone
Speaker 1: and find the different things the bishops have written, and
Speaker 1: then I can give it to you when we come
Speaker 1: back on the other side. But the core point is no, no,
Speaker 1: that I believe in the Catholic teaching that we have
Speaker 1: to view everyone, We have to view everyone and treat
Speaker 1: everyone as Christwood, and we have to be as humane
Speaker 1: as we can possibly be. But we are entitled to
Speaker 1: our borders. We're entitled to decide who comes into the country.
Speaker 1: And I believe in that Catholic teaching. Do you have
Speaker 1: some disagreement with that teaching?
Speaker 3: Mike Man, you're the Roman Catholic, not me. I'm asking you,
Speaker 3: how do you square the Pope, the infallible Pope, the
Speaker 3: leader of the Catholic Church, with your belief support of Trump?
Speaker 3: That's all I'm asking.
Speaker 1: Oh that's my brother. Are you kidding me? Ask me
Speaker 1: a tough question? Come on now, no, low hanging fruit. Today,
Speaker 1: that's the easiest thing I'll ever do in my life,
Speaker 1: my brother. Listen, Well, sure, where do you want me
Speaker 1: to start? How about here? Let's start with the core
Speaker 1: as the Pope over and over against states the core
Speaker 1: foundational principle, which is life comes first, respect for life,
Speaker 1: protection of life. Donald Trump is infinitely, like a million
Speaker 1: times better for protecting innocent human life, which is a
Speaker 1: core teaching of the Catholic Church than any of his
Speaker 1: Democrat opponents. So the easiest thing I could possibly do
Speaker 1: is support Donald Trump over Joe Biden so that there
Speaker 1: is no issue there when it comes to immigration. Listen,
Speaker 1: I think, honestly, I think the Pope has not received
Speaker 1: full information, perhaps from his staff and people around him.
Speaker 1: Oh Dad, bring him in. Who are you talking to?
Speaker 1: We want to meet the rest of the eerie family. Okay, no,
Speaker 1: we'd like to someday. So yeah, I think that in
Speaker 1: some of these comments, when you get to some of
Speaker 1: the factual stuff, I think maybe the Pope isn't getting
Speaker 1: the full information from his staff. But in terms of
Speaker 1: how does a Catholic support Donald Trump? You know, that's
Speaker 1: that's the easiest thing I'll do all day.
Speaker 3: That's not the question. You are great, it deflected. You
Speaker 3: are really really skilled. You're really skilled at it.
Speaker 1: Well, and you're you're skilled at making stuff up except
Speaker 1: nobody buys it. Mike, there wasn't an ounce of deflection
Speaker 1: in there, So what else is it you'd like to know?
Speaker 3: You just don't answer my uly. It's okay, Dan's I understand.
Speaker 3: When you're a Roman Catholic and you have an infallible
Speaker 3: pope and then you're supporting President Trump, they are diametrically
Speaker 3: opposed on this particular issue and you can't defend it,
Speaker 3: and that's okay. Just I can't descend it.
Speaker 1: Just do it, Michael May, I ask your age. I'm
Speaker 1: no seriously, because you call this show and we get
Speaker 1: some of the most immature, dishonest, disjointed stuff I've ever
Speaker 1: heard in my life. Yet I like you and I
Speaker 1: wish you well. And what's Donald Trump's famous line there?
Speaker 1: Ryan to the Afghan reporter, I don't understand a word
Speaker 1: you say, but living peace? What did he say? Living piece,
Speaker 1: living piece? Right? Living piece? Oh my goodness, classic Trump? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, classic Trump. So eerie, mic always very impaired.
Speaker 1: I was hoping for a more I was hoping for
Speaker 1: a more coherent discussion of a very fair and legitimate topic.
Speaker 1: The Pope has been critical of President Trump on immigration,
Speaker 1: and that's a fair and legitimate topic for conversation.
Speaker 4: As a Protestant who can stop going to get there
Speaker 4: with Erie, as a neutral Protestant who can step in here,
Speaker 4: because I think, if I've got to guess Eerie, Mike's an.
Speaker 1: Atheist, I wouldn't guess that.
Speaker 4: I would, and I would challenge him to call you
Speaker 4: probably say No, Ryan's right, the Pope is not infaillible.
Speaker 4: I don't know where he's getting that. He said that
Speaker 4: several times. And I wanted to make clear that no
Speaker 4: human is infailable from the Pope on doubt, correct, priest,
Speaker 4: et cetera, Nuns.
Speaker 1: There's a doctrine of infallibility for certain very limited pronouncements
Speaker 1: of the Pope. This was not one of those. This
Speaker 1: wasn't claimed to be one of those, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So no, And I don't fault I don't fault Mike
Speaker 1: for not knowing the doctrine of infallibility. And listen, the
Speaker 1: core question is the core question is a good one
Speaker 1: and a fun one to talk about. But come on,
Speaker 1: when it comes to how is a Catholic? Can you
Speaker 1: be comfortable supporting Trump? That's one of the real ironies,
Speaker 1: isn't it.
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 1: I remember this guy of mine, I remember this mentor
Speaker 1: of mine, a Jewish man, wonderful, wonderful man, I wrote
Speaker 1: Roth Gerber, and I remember telling him one day, and
Speaker 1: he was Jewish and I'm Catholic, and I remember tone
Speaker 1: the one day. You know, you're one of the most
Speaker 1: Catholic people I know because of the way he treated
Speaker 1: people so well, and and he so lived. And he
Speaker 1: was Jewish sheep, but he so lived the teachings of Christ.
Speaker 1: And listen. To be Catholic, right, you have to sincerely
Speaker 1: to your core believe in and to be Christian, to
Speaker 1: believe in Christ's divinity, to be Catholic, to believe that
Speaker 1: the Holy eu Christ is in fact the body and
Speaker 1: blood of Christ. But in terms of the way he
Speaker 1: treated people, Ira was just treated people in such a
Speaker 1: very Christian way. But let's come back. I'm happy to
Speaker 1: talk about the legitimate underlying issue of the Pope's criticism
Speaker 1: of Trump. Too bad, we couldn't do that with Mike.
Speaker 1: You're on the Dan Kapla Show. And now back to
Speaker 1: the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2: I got house worse for the Pope, the Catholic church.
Speaker 2: I'm saying this is a lifelong Catholic. I was baptized
Speaker 2: guy I was first communing to this cafe A confirmation
Speaker 2: is Catholic, A fis Catholic Church, and constrict on his
Speaker 2: work and lead border enforcement us. He wants to attack
Speaker 2: us from securing our border. He's got a wall around
Speaker 2: the Vatican, does he not? So he's got a wall
Speaker 2: around protect his people and himself. Well, we can't have
Speaker 2: a wrong line in the United States. So I wish
Speaker 2: he'd stick to the Catholic Church and fix that and
Speaker 2: lead borderenforcement with us.
Speaker 1: You know what part of that is a fair point,
Speaker 1: and part of that is garbage. And you know, Tom Holman,
Speaker 1: who I respect in a lot of ways, have praised
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways this knee jerk garbage of
Speaker 1: oh go fix the Catholic Church. Well, guess what, Tom Hooman,
Speaker 1: You're doing a lot of great work, and I respect
Speaker 1: that and I appreciate you for it. But the Pope
Speaker 1: and the Catholic Church are doing a lot of great
Speaker 1: work around the world. And so when you use that
Speaker 1: kind of line that you so often hear anti Catholic
Speaker 1: bigots use, oh yeah, go fix the Catholic Church, that's
Speaker 1: beneath you. It's beneath your effort. It's beneath the administration,
Speaker 1: and it's a cheap shot. You want to make the
Speaker 1: point that the Vatican, as Waltz, the Vatican doesn't allow
Speaker 1: a rampant immigration into Vatican City. That's a fair point,
Speaker 1: fair policy point. But that other snarky, little cheap shot
Speaker 1: that you hear from all the Catholic caters. No, No,
Speaker 1: that's that's beneath you. And I praise Tom Homan a lot,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to call him out when he steps
Speaker 1: up to the line and engages in and encourages that
Speaker 1: anti Catholic garbage. The policy difference is fair game and listen.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and again I'm an outsider. I want to
Speaker 1: preface this.
Speaker 4: I don't think Pope Francis holds a candle to Pope
Speaker 4: John Paul the second Well.
Speaker 1: Is Saint John Paul the Great, I mean, one of
Speaker 1: the greatest figures in human history, right, And so yeah,
Speaker 1: what bothers me is, again, the administration has such a strong,
Speaker 1: such strong argument. It's on policy, public protection, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Every now and then you get one of these, one
Speaker 1: of these statements that just echoes what you hear from
Speaker 1: the Catholic haters and it's just beneath the administration.
Speaker 4: Why wouldn't the Vatican put their money where their mouths
Speaker 4: are dan and bring in the tired the poor the Vatican.
Speaker 1: Well, wait a second, if you're if you're talking, and
Speaker 1: we'll talk about Vatican City itself, but if you're talking
Speaker 1: about the Catholic Church, there is no organization on the
Speaker 1: finale of the earth now or ever that has done
Speaker 1: more for the tired, the poor of the unwashed, and
Speaker 1: is doing so right now all over the all over
Speaker 1: the world, including the Vatican that's funding it and supporting it.
Speaker 1: But Ryan, that's why I started by saying, hey, fair
Speaker 1: point in terms of immigration policy, because Vatican City is
Speaker 1: not going to allow unlimited immigration into Vatican City. That's
Speaker 1: why I say fair policy points. But don't start throwing
Speaker 1: out those those lines that you hear from anti Catholic bigots,
Speaker 1: like just go fix the problems in the Catholic Church.
Speaker 1: Now you know that the Pope has his right to
Speaker 1: free speech as well and the personal cheap shots. So
Speaker 1: it bothers me. Homan made some good policy points, but
Speaker 1: you know, and then you get back to the Catholic
Speaker 1: bishops and take the Catholic bishops in Colorado. Okay, the
Speaker 1: Catholic bishops in Colorado have been very clear that a
Speaker 1: country has a right to regulate its borders and control immigration,
Speaker 1: and a country must regulate its borders with justice and mercy.
Speaker 1: Who would disagree with that? And then you look at
Speaker 1: the Catholic bishops who who get very very specific quote.
Speaker 1: Since twenty twenty, the US immigration system has grown more unlawful.
Speaker 1: The open border immigration policies restrict ICE's ability to investigate,
Speaker 1: arrest or to port spies, terrorists, and felons. This has
Speaker 1: resulted in the loss of life and situations of unrest
Speaker 1: and violence, including in Aurora, Colorado, where sixteen recent migrant
Speaker 1: members of the Venezuelan gang TDA were taken into custody
Speaker 1: following an armed home invasion and kidnapping. And it goes
Speaker 1: on from there. That's from the Catholic bishops. So yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go to the phone line. So let's talk to
Speaker 1: Bert in Highland's ranch. You're on the dan Kaplas show welcome.
Speaker 8: Well, you're right, he is infallible when he speaks as cathedral,
Speaker 8: so only on matters of faith and morals and such.
Speaker 8: So other than that, he's not infallible, and he as
Speaker 8: well as many people need to read Aquinas, say, Thomas
Speaker 8: Aquinas is assuma. He talks about immigration and people that
Speaker 8: come essentially in a nutshell is they come legally and
Speaker 8: they want to be part of the side of society
Speaker 8: they're going into.
Speaker 1: Well, and again, I think the Pope's staff probably has
Speaker 1: not given him full information when you look at some
Speaker 1: of the factual predicates for for some of what the
Speaker 1: Pope perceives is happening in the United States, where as
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, the Trump administration is targeting people
Speaker 1: here illegally who have committed other crimes. The Catholic bishops
Speaker 1: in Colorado don't agree with that, disagree with that. I
Speaker 1: have to believe that every Catholic bishop in America probably
Speaker 1: agrees with that, with targeting criminals and getting them off
Speaker 1: the streets. So yeah, yeah, And I'm proud of the
Speaker 1: way that the Catholic bishops in Colorado have spoken out
Speaker 1: on this, and I'll try to get their peace posted
Speaker 1: as well. I think it's so beautifully done. You're on
Speaker 1: the Dan Kapitala show.