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Speaker 1: these Mondays have been interesting going back about seven eight years,
Speaker 1: but this one really good. I mean we have all
Speaker 1: that garbage from the Super Bowl yesterday, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: just you got this event. They pour so much money
Speaker 1: into They make it bigger and better in every way
Speaker 1: every year except the halftime show, which is going backwards
Speaker 1: in a hurry. So what do you think is behind that?
Speaker 1: Because with the NFL, none of this is an accident, right,
Speaker 1: I mean NFL these are smart people. They understand that
Speaker 1: that was a mediocre at best act yesterday. That just
Speaker 1: isn't a household name for most Americans. Hey, you can't
Speaker 1: please everybody's musical taste. But it's a super Bowl. It's
Speaker 1: supposed to be big and grand, you know that, the
Speaker 1: biggest thing around. So you got to have a household
Speaker 1: name that guy I don't know these household naming his
Speaker 1: own household. And the show was boring. It was like
Speaker 1: Carrie Oki, I'd rather it had been controversial, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, do something controversial. It was just a waste.
Speaker 1: So why is the NFL allowing the halftime show to
Speaker 1: go backwards? It used to be the big names, whether
Speaker 1: you liked him or not, the big names. How do
Speaker 1: you beat Bruno Mars? I kept saying that to my
Speaker 1: wife and the Caroline, we were watching it together. You say,
Speaker 1: where's Bruno Mars? You know where's Prince unfortunately is gone,
Speaker 1: but well you know where Bruno Mars is. He's in Vegas.
Speaker 1: Get him over there. And yeah, So I don't get
Speaker 1: that so weird and just so bad and boring. And
Speaker 1: then so we're talking about that, and also we've got
Speaker 1: some Super Bowl commercials. I thought there were some really
Speaker 1: good ones. So we love doing that on the Monday
Speaker 1: after super Bowl. We obviously have the fun sound of
Speaker 1: Trump being cheered. Why didn't Fox show him more often?
Speaker 1: So first sitting president to go to a super Bowl,
Speaker 1: He's on this big high right now, and he got
Speaker 1: cheered wildly whenever people could, So why did Fox downplay that?
Speaker 1: And then Taylor Swift getting booed. Everybody wants to hear that,
Speaker 1: so we'll keep playing it. We do have some of
Speaker 1: these big serious issues going on. King Supers president joined us.
Speaker 1: Pardon me, the Union president joined us to talk about. Sorry,
Speaker 1: not emotional at all. In fact, I've never had less emotion.
Speaker 1: It's peanut butter. But this goes my point. I normally
Speaker 1: get this great peanut butter from King Supers. It's where
Speaker 1: I've shop forever. Excuse me, Ryan, do you know the heimlick?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: You know, doctor Heimlich, but you're not willing to do it.
Speaker 1: I had to do the heimlick on Amy once in church.
Speaker 1: She was choking on the host we went to and
Speaker 1: the host. This gets really tough because the host literally
Speaker 1: is the body of Christ. It's it's God right there.
Speaker 1: And we went to a church that used kind of
Speaker 1: chunks of consecrated bread, and so she's choking, so you
Speaker 1: don't want to just you can't just spit it out. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it was, it all worked out. Obviously she's still with us,
Speaker 1: thank god. So anyway, yeah, so I normally have this
Speaker 1: great peanut butter. I get a King Soupers. I'm honoring
Speaker 1: the strike, so I had to instacart some replacement and
Speaker 1: the stuff. It's just literally choking me. You can hear
Speaker 1: it for yourself. Eight five five for zero five eight
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Speaker 1: We do have some really serious issues, you know. We're
Speaker 1: we're talking unfortunately about the obvious abuse of the Israeli
Speaker 1: hostages by Satan on Earth Moss and the possibility that
Speaker 1: that deal at this point may break down. So we'll
Speaker 1: keep you updated on that. And then that the terrible
Speaker 1: news today that Kelly's father passed away and just heartbreaking,
Speaker 1: and the whole situation has been so very hard. Is
Speaker 1: that Kelly with us right now? Ryan, Yeah, she'd like
Speaker 1: to speak to you during the break if you okay, okay, sure?
Speaker 1: Did Kelly want to talk off air during the break?
Speaker 2: Thinks?
Speaker 1: Okay, I think, so okay, I'll talk to Kelly off air,
Speaker 1: but Pata, so just prayers please for Kelly's father in
Speaker 1: the entire family. Just so very hard. And then on
Speaker 1: the political front, you have and it's funny and productive
Speaker 1: in a way because America can see I'm not there,
Speaker 1: but you have the Democrats right now to just creating
Speaker 1: this falsehood, this fiction, this fantasy that somehow jd. Vance
Speaker 1: is threatening that the Trump administration will not follow court orders.
Speaker 1: The Trump administration has not threatened any such thing. Jadvance
Speaker 1: has not said any such thing, And the Trump administration
Speaker 1: has been rigorous about following court orders. Then what frustrates
Speaker 1: the Democrats The Trump administration is then working its way
Speaker 1: through the court process and is going to prevail. If
Speaker 1: they don't prevail on everything, they'll prevail on darn close
Speaker 1: to everything. So this is just more Democrat national nervous
Speaker 1: breakdown time. And it's good that Americans can see who
Speaker 1: the Dems really are. But for those who have heard
Speaker 1: all of this whaling and nashing of teeth from the Democrats,
Speaker 1: be assured. No. Jd Vance did not imply threatened nor
Speaker 1: state that the Trump administration is going to defy court orders.
Speaker 1: They're going to fight the court orders, and I think
Speaker 1: in the vast majority of these situations they are going
Speaker 1: to win. Got a text about a shooting, Dan, How
Speaker 1: about the shooting at the main event in Highland's Ranch.
Speaker 1: I have no idea if there's been a shooting or
Speaker 1: anything like that. But have you heard a news story there? Ryan, No,
Speaker 1: because we can't control the texts that come in, so.
Speaker 2: I don't know the newsroom yeah.
Speaker 1: I asked the newsroom if you would, because if there's
Speaker 1: not been a shooting, I want to correct that right away.
Speaker 1: That came in from a Texter. Let's see, I can't
Speaker 1: even understand that task. Dan. You talk about tough questions
Speaker 1: and follow up questions and you pitch up that softball
Speaker 1: interview with the union rep. Surprise, you didn't ask her
Speaker 1: what ice creams you low? I forgot that was my
Speaker 1: next question. Oh it happens Saturday, Okay, shoot her in
Speaker 1: court today. Shooting at the main event in the Highlands Ranch.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I missed that. We were dealing Saturday, and
Speaker 1: I'm sorry this sounds so very trite, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: to us. We were dealing Saturday with a very very
Speaker 1: very scary medical emergency for our daughter's amazing, phenomenal dog, Maisie,
Speaker 1: who is just beloved by all. She's just one of
Speaker 1: the coolest creatures to ever live, and a very very
Speaker 1: very scary event with her. I got the call at
Speaker 1: my office at about eleven thirty Saturday, and then we
Speaker 1: all rushed over to the emergency vat and it was
Speaker 1: just it went until about one in the morning, and
Speaker 1: then by then she'd been through all the scopings and
Speaker 1: everything else and was stable and we took her home
Speaker 1: and she seems to be doing well right now. To
Speaker 1: that note, and I won't take a lot of just
Speaker 1: so I'm sorry. I was completely out of the news
Speaker 1: cycle for that entire time on Saturday. So I'll follow
Speaker 1: up on that and see what's there. But allow me
Speaker 1: a thirty second done this, And this is just because
Speaker 1: I got to tell you this is one of the
Speaker 1: most impressive companies, organizations, group of people I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: This company called Veterinary Emergency Group, and I've never been
Speaker 1: there before. We ended up there because it was Hamden
Speaker 1: Night twenty five, and thank god we did. I mean
Speaker 1: because I deal with a lot of companies. You do too,
Speaker 1: just in everyday life. It is so extraordinarily impressive. It's
Speaker 1: like one of the top five experiences I've ever had
Speaker 1: as a consumer. And obviously this is a very tense,
Speaker 1: worrisome situation, but the people there were all spectacular. It
Speaker 1: was extremely well staffed, and you could tell walking in
Speaker 1: that it was a very well high end, well funded
Speaker 1: kind of operation. And I found out later they've got
Speaker 1: nash All big corporate ownership money it's just incredibly impressive,
Speaker 1: and the people so knowledgeable, and one thing they did
Speaker 1: Ryan and I won't go on and on about it,
Speaker 1: but I'm so impressed with them. They've got they operate
Speaker 1: all out in the open, so you know how you
Speaker 1: go into some emergency VET clinics and everything happens behind
Speaker 1: closed doors. Everything's out in the open, and so we
Speaker 1: could sit in as Maisie was being put under and
Speaker 1: as they were, you know, doing their thing and scoping
Speaker 1: or and everything else. We could sit in. We could
Speaker 1: watch it all unfold. That's how confident they are and
Speaker 1: their people and the quality of the work and their doctors.
Speaker 1: I just could not be more impressed, and so thank
Speaker 1: you to everybody at Veteran Veterinary Emergency Group. When we
Speaker 1: were on our way over, we weren't absolutely certain we'd
Speaker 1: be taking our dog home, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And so it was very very impressed. Eight five to
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Speaker 1: some more details on that shooting that apparently occurred on Saturday. Listen.
Speaker 1: In terms of the Union rep. If you're aware of
Speaker 1: some tough questions that I could have asked her then
Speaker 1: let me know and we'll get her back on. I'm
Speaker 1: happy to do that. I mean, what am I concerned about?
Speaker 1: They won't check me out at King Soupers. I'm checking
Speaker 1: myself out now anyway, which, by the way, I hate
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And I don't know why
Speaker 1: I do hard things all day, but when I'm checking
Speaker 1: out groceries, I just I want to roll up my
Speaker 1: basket and check out my groceries. I don't want to
Speaker 1: go self check and there's more and more self check on.
Speaker 1: I like talking to the checker. I like doing this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but anyway, Yeah, if you can think of some tough
Speaker 1: questions for please let me know. We'll get her back on.
Speaker 1: She's very available and accessible to us, and I like
Speaker 1: asking tough questions. I just couldn't think of any for
Speaker 1: What would a good tough question be there for?
Speaker 2: Ryan?
Speaker 3: Well, I think the consensus of our texters here is
Speaker 3: how could they improve or increase wages for workers? Get
Speaker 3: more workers? In what she said, there's a shortage, and
Speaker 3: I believe her, having shopped there myself at the Greenwood
Speaker 3: Village location many many times. I go there every time
Speaker 3: I go grocery shopping, and how you'll be able to
Speaker 3: keep prices down if the expense of employees and the
Speaker 3: number of employees goes up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and forgive me, I should have asked that, but
Speaker 1: I thought it was pretty obvious, right because she was
Speaker 1: talking to and that's not a comment on you at all,
Speaker 1: but she was talking about their profits. And listen, I'm
Speaker 1: a big believer, first of all, that you can do
Speaker 1: all of that and actually increase your profits by a
Speaker 1: improving the customer experience and be keeping happy, healthy employees
Speaker 1: because turnovers so expensive. So I think you can do
Speaker 1: all that and increase your bottom line. I mean, I've
Speaker 1: got to tell you our business, and I'm so glad
Speaker 1: we do that at our law firm. We pride ourselves
Speaker 1: on paying top of market, on treating people incredibly well
Speaker 1: in every way, and you want to be that way
Speaker 1: as a human. But it's also good business. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it increases that line on your overhead a bunch, But
Speaker 1: at the end of the year, you're way ahead because
Speaker 1: you have great people. You've been able to attract, you've
Speaker 1: been able to keep them, you've been able to keep
Speaker 1: them happy. So I think you can accomplish all that,
Speaker 1: but yeah, let's get her beck on. Look, why don't
Speaker 1: we open it up. Toughest questions you can take up
Speaker 1: for the Union president. We'll write them all down. We'll
Speaker 1: get her beck on. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 2: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the crowd going crazy as they showed Trump on
Speaker 1: the big screen during the national anthem and when he
Speaker 1: went down on the field earlier. Taylor Swift not so much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, damn you can see.
Speaker 3: Has she ever been booed before ever venue, for any
Speaker 3: reason by any crowd?
Speaker 1: I have to believe No. No, physically impossible. Yeah, physically impossible.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so wild day yesterday we've been talking about,
Speaker 1: and I don't think we'll have a whole lot more
Speaker 1: time for it unless you insist. But what we've been
Speaker 1: talking about just how awful the halftime show was. And
Speaker 1: I know I don't think a single caller would disagree
Speaker 1: with that, But I'm more intrigued by why is the
Speaker 1: super Bowl letting the halftime shows get worse and smaller
Speaker 1: and not big national acts that everybody's familiar with, whether
Speaker 1: they like the music or not, When they put so
Speaker 1: much effort into making the game so grand, and the
Speaker 1: NFL does a great job of making the game a
Speaker 1: grand event for the whole country. Why are they letting
Speaker 1: the halftime show gets smaller and smaller and smaller. So
Speaker 1: eight five five or is there a five A two
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Speaker 1: day and the halftime show targeted the young soccer crowd
Speaker 1: and normally don't watch dangerous football. Dan, I need to
Speaker 1: write this down. Dan says the Trump administration won't defy
Speaker 1: any quarteror and will win all the legal challenges. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1: Is there another Dan doing a show out there, Ryan,
Speaker 1: because must have listened to that show. I certainly said,
Speaker 1: and it's one hundred percent true. The Trump administration is
Speaker 1: not defined court orders, will not defy court orders. But
Speaker 1: I did not say they will win all legal challenges.
Speaker 1: What I said is I expect them to win. I
Speaker 1: said something like the vast majority or most or almost all. Yeah, Dan,
Speaker 1: the Democrats spent four years talking about enlargely in the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court. I think Donald Trump should throw them a
Speaker 1: bone by expanding the Supreme Court. Juicy, three more justices, beautiful,
Speaker 1: Alexa kind of right, So sad about Kelly's father passing you.
Speaker 1: I was talking to Kelly during the break. Wonderful Kelly
Speaker 1: from our shown. I don't care what age your dad is,
Speaker 1: you know this is true, right, or whether your dad
Speaker 1: is a healthy thirty five year old or somebody who's
Speaker 1: battling illnesses at eighty. When your dad dies, you're always
Speaker 1: eight years old and your dad's always thirty. That's just
Speaker 1: the way it is. Nobody's ever ready to lose their father.
Speaker 1: And it's just yeah, it's just brutal. By the way,
Speaker 1: this news story breaking all over the place, and this
Speaker 1: spins off the interview President Trump gave to Fox. Trump
Speaker 1: reveals he doesn't view JD. Vance as his successor in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight quote, no, but he's very capable. Now,
Speaker 1: if you think this is just you know, the usual
Speaker 1: liars on left wing media, this this story came out
Speaker 1: of the New York Post, and it does appear to
Speaker 1: be an accurate quote the question, do you view Vice
Speaker 1: President J. D. Vance as your successor the Republican nominee
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty eight answer, no, but he's very capable.
Speaker 1: Trump replied, I think you have a lot of very
Speaker 1: capable people. The president added, so far. I think he's
Speaker 1: doing a fantastic job. It's too early, We're just starting.
Speaker 1: By the time we get to the midterms, Bear interjected,
Speaker 1: is going to be looking for an endorsement, and Trump responded,
Speaker 1: a lot of people have said that this has been
Speaker 1: the greatest opening almost three weeks in the history of
Speaker 1: the presidency, Trump deflected, According to The Post, Ryan, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think jd Vance is doing great, with one notable exception,
Speaker 1: which we discussed on the show. I think I'm very talented,
Speaker 1: he's very smart, he's very tough. I think he'd probably
Speaker 1: be a great American president. But you know why this
Speaker 1: is so intriguing to me and in a way exciting,
Speaker 1: because I think I'm the guy who's been saying it's junior,
Speaker 1: it's junior.
Speaker 2: Well there might be something to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, on these comments, Dan, Yeah, and so yeah.
Speaker 3: Can I ask you a question, sir? Yes, yes, all right.
Speaker 3: It's a Republican primary twenty twenty eight. Yeah, you have
Speaker 3: three choices on the ballot. Yeah, they are jd Vance,
Speaker 3: Don Junior, and ro DeSantis.
Speaker 2: Who do you choose and why?
Speaker 1: Whoever at that time appears to have the best chance
Speaker 1: to win.
Speaker 2: So you're not predisposed for any of.
Speaker 1: The throw you just got to win now. Assuming they're
Speaker 1: all pro life, they are, and you know, oh and
Speaker 1: DeSantis and Vance are I know that for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and assuming yeah, assuming they're right on the core issues,
Speaker 1: and listen, they're always going to be a much better
Speaker 1: choice than the Democrat at the presidential level, right, particularly
Speaker 1: Supreme Court appointments, et cetera. Yeah, whoever looks like they
Speaker 1: have the best chance to win.
Speaker 3: For me, you're going to be shocked to hear it's
Speaker 3: Ronnie d not shocked. I like ged Vance a lot. Absolutely,
Speaker 3: I would vote for him over any Democrat. I still
Speaker 3: think there's certain things, and you kind of pointed out
Speaker 3: one of them.
Speaker 2: He's a little green.
Speaker 3: He's a little wet behind the ears when it comes
Speaker 3: to having that judgment and command of the issues the
Speaker 3: way that you know Ron DeSantis does. As a two
Speaker 3: term governor of the third most populous state, he's been
Speaker 3: brilliant in that role. He won reelection by a s
Speaker 3: forty margin in a purple state. I think he's the guy.
Speaker 1: Still, My god, there are so many reasons I'm optimistic
Speaker 1: about what's to come in this country, and you look
Speaker 1: at the incredibly loaded bench of the GOP. And that's
Speaker 1: a big one, right because if you get it wrong
Speaker 1: at the presidential level, everything else gets a lot tougher.
Speaker 1: But the Dems are just bear right, they're just a
Speaker 1: mess and you know their pants have been dropped and
Speaker 1: it's not pretty. The GOP uber talented and so But
Speaker 1: right now, listen, if you're betting the car, if you're
Speaker 1: betting the car right now, you'd have to bet on
Speaker 1: Junior right now. Don't you think I think.
Speaker 3: He's a dark horse? Pick agree. I think it's a
Speaker 3: good pick, a savvy pick by you, Dan, But that's
Speaker 3: a dark horse.
Speaker 1: But wait a second, assuming President Trump continues to be successful,
Speaker 1: and he will be right in the face all that
Speaker 1: he had a very successful first term, he's off to
Speaker 1: a far better start here, much better team everything else. So,
Speaker 1: assuming a successful presidency, President Trump has such a personal
Speaker 1: loyalty from such a big swath of voters, and don
Speaker 1: Junior I've interviewed, he is absolutely whipped smart. I think
Speaker 1: he's the favorite. Right now, you're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
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Speaker 1: Very sad news about Kelly's father passing, So prayers for
Speaker 1: all of them, please, And then pretty dramatic political news,
Speaker 1: President Trum coming out and saying that no, he does
Speaker 1: not view jd Vance as his successor in twenty eight
Speaker 1: He's not ruling that out. Said good things about jd Vance.
Speaker 1: But I think that's I think that's kind of earth
Speaker 1: shaking stuff because I've wondered all along if part of
Speaker 1: this deal, because remember it was Don Junior who brought
Speaker 1: in JD Vance and pushed him to his father, and
Speaker 1: I'm glad he did. Jadvance has been fantastic. Who's one
Speaker 1: notable exception we've talked about on air, but I think
Speaker 1: Jadvance has been tremendous in every other way. The debate
Speaker 1: was phenomenally great, and I think it'd be a superb president.
Speaker 1: But I've always wondered, wait a second, isn't it a
Speaker 1: logical line of succession, particularly if the President's success continues.
Speaker 1: Every reason to believe it will to have Junior be
Speaker 1: the candidate in twenty eight. And I've interviewed Junior on
Speaker 1: air I think a few times, and super sharp obviously,
Speaker 1: and seen him speak and everything else, And there is
Speaker 1: this loyalty that's very specific to President Trump. So in
Speaker 1: terms of winning office in twenty eight, much better chance
Speaker 1: that all of that support and outsized, oversized turnout would
Speaker 1: translate and transfer to to Junior. Though jd vance so
Speaker 1: impressive in so many ways, he may build all of
Speaker 1: that up by that, And I think that's you know,
Speaker 1: and president wise to wait at this point and see
Speaker 1: how all of that shapes up. But right now I
Speaker 1: think it is. I think the smart money is on
Speaker 1: Junior three h three someone three eight two five five.
Speaker 3: If I may just as allow me to retort Samuel
Speaker 3: Jackson style, he was in the halftime show there A
Speaker 3: little bits un the same. So the Trump thing, No,
Speaker 3: we love Donald Trump. He has a following unlike any other.
Speaker 3: But you and I have discussed this many times, Dan, it.
Speaker 2: Is unique to him.
Speaker 3: Trump Ism is not transferable, particularly to the likes of
Speaker 3: Kerry Lake in Arizona or Mark Robinson in North Carolina.
Speaker 2: He tried to be really trumpy. He got obliterated. I
Speaker 2: think there might be a level, not to the.
Speaker 3: Same degree that there was Bush fatigue, but do you
Speaker 3: know that there was Herbert Walker. Bush was president, w
Speaker 3: was president for two terms. Jeb Bush never struck the
Speaker 3: imagination of Republican voters. They had had enough. I think
Speaker 3: the Bushes and the Clinton's. What I'm saying is, I
Speaker 3: believe there's a new way forward that maintains the principles
Speaker 3: of trump Ism, but does it in a different way.
Speaker 3: And it might be jd. Vance, and it might be
Speaker 3: Ronda Santis. I just don't think the majority of voters
Speaker 3: are going to have an appetite for another Trump, for
Speaker 3: Trump Junior, for that brand. I think people are ready
Speaker 3: for a different route.
Speaker 2: From me.
Speaker 1: That is going to be so interesting to see because
Speaker 1: to me, it seems quite the opposite that people want success.
Speaker 1: As I tweeted yesterday and please do follow me if
Speaker 1: you get a second day. If Dane Capitalist on Twitter,
Speaker 1: you know I posted that CBS poll and just said, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is how success unifies. This is how we unified
Speaker 1: the nation through success. And Trump is off to such
Speaker 1: a great start there. In fact, I want to play
Speaker 1: some sound on that poll in a second. So listen.
Speaker 1: If things are going great, I think people are going
Speaker 1: to want more of it, right, And if it's a
Speaker 1: Trump who's been delivering that, I think people are going
Speaker 1: to be very open to the possibility of a Trump.
Speaker 1: You're so right Ryan about the Bush fatigue. But things
Speaker 1: weren't going that great, right And Bill Clinton would have
Speaker 1: won a third term. I wouldn't have voted for him.
Speaker 1: He would have won a third time if he was
Speaker 1: eligible for one. So text, and please give Kelly my
Speaker 1: deepest sympathy. My dad was ninety eight when he passed
Speaker 1: suddenly three years ago, and I still talked to him
Speaker 1: about music, sports, big snowflakes, floating down, you name it.
Speaker 1: Enjoy your memories, Donna, Yeah, thank you, Donna beautifully said.
Speaker 1: And Kelly, you know, just very close to her father,
Speaker 1: and it's just it's just absolutely brutal. So please keep
Speaker 1: Kelly and her dad in your prayer, so.
Speaker 3: Real quick aside, and Kelly may have more to say,
Speaker 3: you know, when she is able to talk about him.
Speaker 3: But what I knew, and I did not know him personally,
Speaker 3: but the stories she would tell her dad was a
Speaker 3: brilliant man ohn It, a tremendous intellect, a published author,
Speaker 3: a man of science. And he did very well in
Speaker 3: his life. He was very accomplished. His name's Steve Root.
Speaker 3: You can still find his book on Amazon. And you
Speaker 3: know that Kelly absolutely adored her father, thought the world
Speaker 3: of him, and this is a very tough time for her.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, and he had to be brilliant, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, Kelly's one of the most interesting people ever.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and no matter what the circumstance, right when
Speaker 1: somebody loses their dad or loses their mom, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just devastating, no matter what. And on the on the
Speaker 1: more mundane news front breaking news reportedly Trump's DOJ dropping
Speaker 1: the case against Mayor Adams, so that, you know, we'll
Speaker 1: get you more details as that becomes available.
Speaker 2: What do you think about that.
Speaker 1: I always suspected from the beginning that there might be
Speaker 1: more lawfare at work. You know, Adams was calling out
Speaker 1: the Biden administration on this immigration, illegal immigration run amok,
Speaker 1: and I always wondered whether that was what was behind
Speaker 1: the sudden prosecution of him, just because we've seen that
Speaker 1: tactic from the left. So if it was a politically
Speaker 1: motivated prosecution, then I would get it because it comes
Speaker 1: back to this principle that you've got to have equal
Speaker 1: justice under the law, and politically motivated prosecutions by definition,
Speaker 1: are in equal justice. Somebody's only being prosecuted because of
Speaker 1: their politics. You can't have that. You cannot have that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't even know all the underlying details
Speaker 1: of that allegation, but I always did suspect that improper motive.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 1: Here's, you know, again, this great news from and it
Speaker 1: ties into the breaking news we're talking about, which is
Speaker 1: the President saying that he does not view JD. Vance
Speaker 1: as the successor. President Trump's success at this point would certainly,
Speaker 1: if it continues at this rate, right, would set up
Speaker 1: his son well.
Speaker 4: Our CBS poll finds that a majority of Americans fifty
Speaker 4: three percent approve of the job he's doing. That's a
Speaker 4: better approval number than he ever reached during his first
Speaker 4: term in the White House. Joining us with more is
Speaker 4: our executive director of Elections and Surveys, Anthony Salvonto. Good
Speaker 4: to see you, Anthony, what's driving this?
Speaker 5: I will keep it simple, Margaret.
Speaker 6: He is doing, in the eyes of the public what
Speaker 6: he said he would do in the campaign.
Speaker 5: There's political value in that.
Speaker 6: In fact, seventy percent of people say he's doing what
Speaker 6: he promised.
Speaker 5: That's whether they approve of him or not.
Speaker 6: Now there's another part of this that continues over from
Speaker 6: the campaign. There were words that he was described as
Speaker 6: being tough, being energetic, and he still is today in.
Speaker 5: Big majority numbers.
Speaker 6: So as people take a look in these first few weeks,
Speaker 6: there's been a.
Speaker 5: Lot of activity.
Speaker 6: They're getting that general sense of governance, and that's being
Speaker 6: reflected in these early numbers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're trying to downplay it as much as
Speaker 1: they can, right, but the numbers are so dramatic. I mean,
Speaker 1: first the approval, yeah, it's much better than it ever was.
Speaker 1: But on the individual traits, just awesome.
Speaker 4: So that's perception.
Speaker 6: What about the actual policies, Well, let's start with the
Speaker 6: ones that are popular, and again these echo a lot
Speaker 6: of what we saw in the campaign.
Speaker 5: The idea of deporting those.
Speaker 6: In the country illegally continues to be popular. We saw
Speaker 6: that in the campaign, sending troops to the US Mexico
Speaker 6: border again majority in favor.
Speaker 5: We've seen that in the campaign for his.
Speaker 6: Supporters, in particular, the focus on ending DEI is popular.
Speaker 6: We have seen in the campaign a lot of them
Speaker 6: thought those processes had gone.
Speaker 1: To for In other words, the stuff he's doing is
Speaker 1: really popular and to these and this is the CBS poll.
Speaker 1: Sixty nine percent describe him as tough, sixty three percent energetic,
Speaker 1: sixty percent focused, fifty eight percent effective. Those are really
Speaker 1: good numbers. And beyond Red Jersey, Blue Jersey. All of that,
Speaker 1: though obviously the modern Democratic Party a disaster for America.
Speaker 1: The Republican Party, though not perfect, the key to success.
Speaker 1: We're in a golden moment right now. There are so
Speaker 1: many good things happening. No matter what you think of
Speaker 1: President Trump personally, so many good things happening. And he
Speaker 1: is emerging, he's already been in the first term. Is
Speaker 1: this transformational leader who really has a shot to unify
Speaker 1: the country around success. So let's enjoy it together. And
Speaker 1: again the news today he said that no, he does
Speaker 1: not view Vance as his successor. Is that paving the
Speaker 1: way for Junior? You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 2: And now back to The Dan Kaplas Show podcast ed You're.
Speaker 1: With us three or three someone three eight two five
Speaker 1: five the number text d A N five seven seven
Speaker 1: three nine. Tomorrow we're going to dig into whether boys
Speaker 1: and men should be allowed to play girls high school
Speaker 1: sports in Colorado. The answer is obvious, right, no, no way,
Speaker 1: not in any civilized world. But CHASSA declining to comment
Speaker 1: on whether it's going to follow President Trump's executive orders,
Speaker 1: so we'll be talking about that tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Let me just set the stage here.
Speaker 3: The NCAA has already announced they will comply with Trump's
Speaker 3: executive order, but no, not Chassa.
Speaker 2: Explain that one for wow.
Speaker 1: Wow, Well my explanation, yeah, I'm not sure you want
Speaker 1: that part of it. Part of it I think crying
Speaker 1: is in full disclosure. I litigated against Chassa years ago
Speaker 1: on behalf of a young man who had been not
Speaker 1: allowed to participate in high school football in Colorado, and
Speaker 1: at that point in time, the law allowed a chass
Speaker 1: A decision a Chasis suspension to be appealed through an arbitrator,
Speaker 1: which was a good fair approach, and so we went
Speaker 1: to a highly respected retired judge, had our own version
Speaker 1: of a trial the arbitrator ruled in the young man's favor,
Speaker 1: and it was very important to the young men because
Speaker 1: a he should have, based on the merits, been allowed
Speaker 1: to play, and then he was, and then it allowed
Speaker 1: him to, you know, get a scholarship to UCLA and
Speaker 1: go on and better himself. And so I'm not the
Speaker 1: most objective when it comes to chess. I know there
Speaker 1: are a lot of good, good people in the organization
Speaker 1: who deserve a ton of praise, But I may not
Speaker 1: be the most objective. And in terms of politics, you know,
Speaker 1: you look at Colorado and you look at who controls
Speaker 1: Colorado politics, the far far, far left, and so it
Speaker 1: may be a political decision. But what I'd say is
Speaker 1: listen to anybody and anybody anywhere. If you're going to
Speaker 1: take on that sacred responsibility, that sacred responsibility of being
Speaker 1: involved in youth sports, including high school sports, at that point,
Speaker 1: you better be able to put politics aside and do
Speaker 1: what's right for the child, do what's right for the teenager,
Speaker 1: do what's right for the high school student. If you
Speaker 1: can't do that, if you're going to worry about politics,
Speaker 1: get out of there, get out of there, because some
Speaker 1: things should be sacred, and when we're talking about kids,
Speaker 1: including high school kids, it should all be about what
Speaker 1: is best for that kid. And there's not one sane
Speaker 1: person in the world who could look anybody in the
Speaker 1: eye and say, oh, yes, it's best for those girls
Speaker 1: in girls' high school sports to have boys and men
Speaker 1: playing in their sports. Nobody could honestly say that. So
Speaker 1: get the hell out of here. If you want to
Speaker 1: put politics ahead of what's best for the kids, that's
Speaker 1: what I'd say.
Speaker 2: I like that, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Dan says a Texter Trump doesn't get to pick his
Speaker 1: successor registered Republicans do. Yeah, I've never said otherwise. What
Speaker 1: I've said is I would expect tremendous support for Junior,
Speaker 1: for Don Junior among registered Republicans at multiple levels, assuming
Speaker 1: President Trump's success continues, and there's every reason to believe
Speaker 1: it will, right. I mean, look at the first term,
Speaker 1: he was up against a coup attempt. He had all
Speaker 1: those head wins he had, and he admits it not
Speaker 1: done a great job of staffing. He was new to
Speaker 1: all that, and he's still got great stuff done. And
Speaker 1: the peace and prosperity this time around. You can tell
Speaker 1: it is a machine. They're organized, they're smart, they're sophisticated.
Speaker 1: They've got strategies on every front, including their legal strategies,
Speaker 1: their political strategies, or legislative strategies. So there are no
Speaker 1: guarantees in anything in life, right, but talk about peace
Speaker 1: or strength. Nobody doubts his strength around the world, and
Speaker 1: so they'll be ups and downs. But I think the
Speaker 1: trend line's going to be consistently up. And when it
Speaker 1: gets to two years down the road and people are
Speaker 1: talking about, Okay, who do they want in twenty eight,
Speaker 1: I think the fact Don Junior is Don Junior, And
Speaker 1: by the way, with Don Jor, he is also whip smart,
Speaker 1: very articulate, very disciplined. And yeah, so I know nobody
Speaker 1: wants to start talking about twenty eight right now. The
Speaker 1: only reason we're doing it is because this news just broke.
Speaker 1: President Trump saying that he does not view JD. Vance
Speaker 1: as the successor, at least not at this point, while
Speaker 1: saying deservedly so, plenty of positive things about Vance, who
Speaker 1: I think in every way one mistake we've talked about,
Speaker 1: but in every other way, starting with the debate, has
Speaker 1: been extraordinarily good and every reason I think Vance would
Speaker 1: make a superb president. A lot of texts coming in
Speaker 1: offering prayers and sympathy to Kelly. Are wonderful Kelly whose
Speaker 1: father died this afternoon. So yeah, and I expect well
Speaker 1: next week Kelly back in here, maybe in a week
Speaker 1: or two, but in the meantime, Yeah, lots of prayers
Speaker 1: for Kelly. You know what I want to do Ryan
Speaker 1: with excuse me. By the way, another texter or asked Dan,
Speaker 1: what is your favorite peanut butter?
Speaker 2: I can bring that up.
Speaker 1: I was complaining today that I've had to Instacurt in
Speaker 1: a poor substitute since I'm honoring the King super Strike.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if you disagree with Man the
Speaker 1: King super Strike, please let me know text call if
Speaker 1: you think I'm missing something. I've made my case for
Speaker 1: why I'm honoring the picket lines. I'm very comfortable with that.
Speaker 1: But if you think I'm missing something, tell me it's
Speaker 1: Santa Cruz peanut butter. If you had Santa Cruz peanut.
Speaker 2: Butter, I have a lot of time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very good, very good, especially the no stir
Speaker 1: I've never liked the stuff where there's like a lake
Speaker 1: on top of who would want that? Be sure to
Speaker 1: get the no stir Hey, Thanks Bro, and thanks for
Speaker 1: doing double duty back there today. I do want to
Speaker 1: use some of this great Super Bowl commercial sounds sprinkled
Speaker 1: in during the week because I thought there were some
Speaker 1: great ones. As awful as a halftime show was, I
Speaker 1: thought commercials were awesome. Prayers for Kelly and her day
Speaker 1: join us tomorrow on The Dan Kapla Show.