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Speaker 2: We do celebration continue, and let's celebrate even harder today
Speaker 2: because it's a Friday, and because it's happening right and
Speaker 2: you don't have to like every pick. I don't have
Speaker 2: to like every pick. That's not the point. The point
Speaker 2: is Trump is delivering on what he promised, and we
Speaker 2: know the last words he's going to say on his
Speaker 2: last day in office. We know those already write him down.
Speaker 2: Promise is made, Promise is kept. And that's what we're
Speaker 2: getting right now is it's not more of the same,
Speaker 2: it's something completely different. It is disruptive because the people
Speaker 2: don't like the status quo, and so there is a
Speaker 2: lot to celebrate, even if you don't approve of every
Speaker 2: pick eight five five zero five A two to five
Speaker 2: five The number text d an five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2: So it's Friday treated as open lines. Of course, We've
Speaker 2: been training every show as open lines for as far
Speaker 2: as I can remember, because that's the nature of the
Speaker 2: world right now, right that the old days of talk radio,
Speaker 2: and I'm blessed to be going on about thirty years.
Speaker 2: I've got this weekend around, I'm going to count up
Speaker 2: the number of years so that if if it is
Speaker 2: like closing in on thirty, maybe we just passed thirty.
Speaker 2: But we'll have some kind of thirtieth anniversary show, right,
Speaker 2: and which will probably cost the show to get canceled immediately.
Speaker 2: That's just the way those things work. The last time
Speaker 2: we won Colorado Broadcaster of the Year whatever they gave us,
Speaker 2: right the big award, Yeah, they canceled the show like
Speaker 2: two weeks later. So we've got to avoid those big
Speaker 2: impressive milestones. But all I can say is this is
Speaker 2: as much fun as talk radio gets eight five five
Speaker 2: for zero five eight two five five text d an
Speaker 2: five seven seven three nine. Not just because America one, right,
Speaker 2: Not just because America one. Because there are always going to
Speaker 2: be ups and downs in a human endeavor, that's just
Speaker 2: the way it is. But because this was a hinge election,
Speaker 2: and because there's so much reason to believe there are
Speaker 2: great things ahead and the chance for that to be
Speaker 2: long term. So got to enjoy this stuff when you
Speaker 2: get it. I had one of those epiphanies last night,
Speaker 2: one of those political epiphanies. And I'm always so grateful
Speaker 2: when those happen, because whenever I get like a really
Speaker 2: really good idea or understanding or awakening, I know it
Speaker 2: has nothing to do with me, right, and it's just
Speaker 2: it's something crystallizes. And it just really crystallized for me
Speaker 2: last night. And it happened to be about Matt Gates.
Speaker 2: And I'll get to that in a second, which is
Speaker 2: really interesting because I've got to tell you he has
Speaker 2: been just from a distance. I've never met the guy.
Speaker 2: I know some people have met him and really like him.
Speaker 2: I've never met him, But from a distance he's been.
Speaker 2: You know, he has been one of my least favorite
Speaker 2: people in politics, just watching it on the stage. And
Speaker 2: I really do blame him for all that disruption that
Speaker 2: led to the ouster of McCarthy. And it's not that
Speaker 2: I love McCarthy, but the point is all of that
Speaker 2: disruption was bad for the conservative cost, et cetera. So
Speaker 2: I haven't been sitting around being a Gates fan by
Speaker 2: any stretch of the imagination, but I do have to
Speaker 2: tell you admit to it. The more the Left loses
Speaker 2: its mind, the more I like them. But on a
Speaker 2: deeper level, And this is one of those kind of
Speaker 2: beyond the obvious things. And when are we going to
Speaker 2: rename the show? Because we did that for a week.
Speaker 2: We did a topic on Hey, let's come up with
Speaker 2: a new name for the show, and we had this
Speaker 2: caller had the great idea of beyond the obvious, because
Speaker 2: that's what we strive for here, is to you add
Speaker 2: value to your day by making points that are beyond
Speaker 2: the obvious. We all just our minds now, and this
Speaker 2: has happened. I think over the last five years, have
Speaker 2: just become programmed to turn off when we start hearing
Speaker 2: talking points, unless it's the Good Lord himself come down
Speaker 2: to give us some talking points. Yeah, our minds just
Speaker 2: turn off. So beyond the obvious. But here's the point
Speaker 2: I want to make before we go into our phone
Speaker 2: lines and our texts. Though I don't know that my
Speaker 2: text can rival. I'm saying about forty texts here on
Speaker 2: deer hunting to Ryan, and I cannot compete with that
Speaker 2: because growing up on the South Side of Chicago, we
Speaker 2: never saw a deer. Let alone hunted one. I saw hunting,
Speaker 2: but it was hunting of humans, and so I'm not
Speaker 2: sure that qualifies. But here's the point before we go
Speaker 2: to the phone lines on this Matt Gates stuff. And
Speaker 2: I know it's along the lines that I've been talking
Speaker 2: about since that nomination was announced during our airtime. But
Speaker 2: here's what it comes down to. Because the Democrats unleashed
Speaker 2: hell literally on this nation when they opened that Pandora's
Speaker 2: box and decided that the modern Democratic Party was now
Speaker 2: going to pervert the legal system to try to destroy
Speaker 2: and jail their political opponents who they could not beat
Speaker 2: at the pole. So I mean, that's the sort of
Speaker 2: stuff that can undermine a nation. We can never be
Speaker 2: defeated from the outside. We can be badly wounded, we
Speaker 2: can be staggered, we can be set back decades, never
Speaker 2: be defeated from the outside. Only from the inside, and
Speaker 2: from the inside. There are only a few ways to
Speaker 2: defeat us. But that is in the top two or three,
Speaker 2: if not number one. Is this whole Banana Republic law
Speaker 2: fair jail your political opponent things. Okay, Once the Democrats
Speaker 2: decided to unleash that, they forever changed the nature of
Speaker 2: the attorney general's office, And no longer can any president,
Speaker 2: certainly not any Republican president, have a typical attorney general
Speaker 2: who is first and foremost chosen for her or his
Speaker 2: you know, particular legal skills and abilities and administrative etc.
Speaker 2: They simply literally don't have that option because now that
Speaker 2: the Democrats have unleashed these demons of banana republic lawfare,
Speaker 2: any Republican president must have in that position somebody they
Speaker 2: know to be completely thoroughly, incorruptively loyal to them, because
Speaker 2: that's the one position that can kill them, can end
Speaker 2: them politically the very first day of their term or
Speaker 2: any other date during their term, all they have to
Speaker 2: do is announce they're appointing a special prosecutor. All they
Speaker 2: have to do is is give in to one of
Speaker 2: these politically motivated plays from the left. That's all they
Speaker 2: have to do. And so it is the left that
Speaker 2: has forever changed the nature of these appointments. And I
Speaker 2: think that's a profoundly sad thing, profoundly said. And so
Speaker 2: since we're in that reality, what I would I completely
Speaker 2: understand why Trump would want Gates because Trump was almost
Speaker 2: destroyed politically and almost put in prison during his first
Speaker 2: term because of what the Democrats unleashed done him with
Speaker 2: the Russia hoax and then what the Democrats followed up
Speaker 2: with in abusing our legal system. So would I compare
Speaker 2: it to And this is kind of the epiphany I
Speaker 2: had last night, because this first point had been crystallizing
Speaker 2: and I'd been talking about it on air, and that
Speaker 2: it's the Democrats have forever changed the nature of this appointment,
Speaker 2: at least for Republican presidents, just for survival and so
Speaker 2: they can fulfill their promises to the nation and their
Speaker 2: obligation to the nation. They simply can't afford to have
Speaker 2: their very next political breath and every political breath after
Speaker 2: that at the whim of whoever happens to be attorney general.
Speaker 2: They have to have a loyalist. But it occurred to
Speaker 2: me overnight. It would be similar to if there was
Speaker 2: a position in government where the job of that person
Speaker 2: was to sit next to the president's bed as the
Speaker 2: president slept every night, and that person would get to
Speaker 2: decide whether to euthanize the president or not. That was
Speaker 2: just in their job description, and they would have such
Speaker 2: broad discretion that if they decided to euthanize the president
Speaker 2: they're probably going to be fine in terms of their
Speaker 2: job and everything else. And if there was such a
Speaker 2: position deciding that the president did not have any control over,
Speaker 2: who would hold that position because of what the Democrats
Speaker 2: have done in abusing the attorney general's position, what the
Speaker 2: Democrats have done in terms of the Russia hoax is
Speaker 2: they've created that kind of threat to Donald Trump and
Speaker 2: every Republican president because that's what an attorney general could do.
Speaker 2: They could euthanize Trump politically in a heartbeat. So he
Speaker 2: has to have a loyalist because if you're going to
Speaker 2: choose who holds that position of the person who sits
Speaker 2: by your bed and while you're sleeping every night can
Speaker 2: decide whether to euthanize you or not, you're gonna want
Speaker 2: a loyalist in that position. Let's go to a beautiful
Speaker 2: Boulder color, I don't. We'll kick it off with David.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 3: Welcome, it's been too long, Dan, congrats. I know it's
Speaker 3: been an exciting couple of weeks for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you. More to come.
Speaker 3: But first I want to ask, as an old boxing guy,
Speaker 3: you're leading music always?
Speaker 4: Uh you know?
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you for asking that question. Can you actually
Speaker 2: bet on this fight tonight?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: I'm sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh well, I'm in this next break. Let's take this
Speaker 2: break early because I'm gonna go bet everything I have
Speaker 2: on Mike Tyson. Really well, listen, man, I I don't
Speaker 2: know Mike Tyson, but I studied Mike Tyson in great
Speaker 2: depth because I covered his rape trial for NBC and
Speaker 2: and I was in the courtroom sitting three rows behind
Speaker 2: Mike Tyson and his aunt gourage to that entire trial
Speaker 2: in Indianapolis. After reading everything you could read on Tyson,
Speaker 2: Remember Don King, David, Mike Tyson's Yeah, Don King. Literally
Speaker 2: as the verdict was being read, Don King's leg was
Speaker 2: touching mine. We were sitting next to each other in
Speaker 2: the courtroom as the verdict was being that bet all
Speaker 2: the big hair, the whole thing. Yeah. And so all
Speaker 2: I'm telling you is a guy who has studied Tyson
Speaker 2: in depth. I mean to the point, well, I don't
Speaker 2: want to go there. It's a family show, but things
Speaker 2: that are written about him and in the most personal
Speaker 2: kind of ways, there is no doubt that unless he
Speaker 2: for some reason wants to throw this fight tonight. And
Speaker 2: I don't think he will, that he's going to destroy
Speaker 2: this guy.
Speaker 3: He's a fifty eight year old man. I'm in agreement.
Speaker 3: I want to see Tyson wins this, you know, online
Speaker 3: influencer to screw him, right, but take it.
Speaker 2: I don't care if Mike Tyson was fighting another contender
Speaker 2: right now. And you're welcome to hand David. We have
Speaker 2: to hit this mandatory break, but I'm going to go
Speaker 2: somewhere and legally bet on that fight right now and
Speaker 2: I'll see after the break. You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 6: And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Rocky Knows.
Speaker 7: If you remember, the first image was the picture of
Speaker 7: Jesus as a resurrection ac club. I found a church
Speaker 7: that had been converted to a boxing ring, so the
Speaker 7: image pans down from Jesus onto Rocky being hid. And
Speaker 7: at that moment he was a chosen person and that's
Speaker 7: how I began the journey. Something was going to happen.
Speaker 7: This man was going to go through a.
Speaker 8: Metamorphosis and change lives, just like President Trump. Piven last night, Hold,
Speaker 8: I do you that we are in the presence of
Speaker 8: a really mythical character. I love mythology, and this individual
Speaker 8: does not exist on this planet. Nobody in the world
Speaker 8: could have pulled off what he pulled off. So I'm
Speaker 8: in awe and I'll just say this and I mean it.
Speaker 7: Well, George Washington defended his country.
Speaker 9: He had no idea that he was going to change
Speaker 9: the world, because without him, you can imagine what.
Speaker 2: The world would look like.
Speaker 9: Guess what we got the second George Washington Congress issues.
Speaker 2: Yeah, mythical figure. I don't think there's any doubt about that.
Speaker 2: I mean that that Donald Trump is that larger than life,
Speaker 2: just just beyond anything that anybody, any type of president
Speaker 2: that we would have imagined. I don't think there's any
Speaker 2: doubt about that. Now, you got the people like me
Speaker 2: who say he's historically great in terms of policy. You
Speaker 2: got other people who would see at one't eighty. But
Speaker 2: in terms of kind of a mythical stature, Yeah, this
Speaker 2: is this is one of one.
Speaker 10: Think about this, Dan, four generations from now. Let's say
Speaker 10: in a hundred years and there's a middle school or
Speaker 10: high school history student reading about Donald Trump. They're not
Speaker 10: going to believe that all this happened to him, or
Speaker 10: happened for him, or happened by him. I mean I
Speaker 10: think at that point he may be a bit of
Speaker 10: a mythical character.
Speaker 2: Well, one of the things I think he's clearly already
Speaker 2: One of the things that makes him mythical is he
Speaker 2: wasn't crushed by all that he had a major setback
Speaker 2: in twenty but he was able to overcome it all.
Speaker 2: And listen, anybody who looks at it and looks at
Speaker 2: what what are the odds that he survives at assassin's bullet,
Speaker 2: that he turns his head at just that instant, and
Speaker 2: then he's able to overcome everything to win this second term.
Speaker 2: And I have no doubt the second term is going
Speaker 2: to be a very good term. Yeah, I don't think
Speaker 2: there's any doubt about the mythical status. By the way,
Speaker 2: I could not find that fight. I could not find
Speaker 2: a place to bet on that fight tonight. Is there
Speaker 2: a legal place to bet on that fight? A caller
Speaker 2: in the first segment had brought up the Tyson fight.
Speaker 2: One of my take on who is going to win?
Speaker 10: I'll either go ask the sports guy's myself all for
Speaker 10: have Kelly doing yeah.
Speaker 2: Because I if I can bet on it legally, I
Speaker 2: want to do that because I studied Tyson in depth,
Speaker 2: that I doubt very few people have ever done. Because
Speaker 2: I was covering his rape trial for NBC Nationals as
Speaker 2: well as a lot of their affiliates, and then local
Speaker 2: media here and and of course our radio stations and
Speaker 2: Channel four. So I had to study every aspect of
Speaker 2: his life. I was very close to him in the courtroom,
Speaker 2: not close personally, but physically close to him during the trial.
Speaker 2: Overheard conversations with his entourage. Boy, yeah, no, he's this
Speaker 2: guy is going to be lucky if he survives the
Speaker 2: fight tonight whoever he's fighting. But yeah, so please do
Speaker 2: let me know if there's a place to legally bet
Speaker 2: all proceeds to charity. That's that's a cold I'm not Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's go to Karmendale. What a beautiful place that is. Richard.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 11: Welcome, Hey Dan, I'm the beyond the obvious guy.
Speaker 2: Oh my lord, thank you to you. Richard. What a
Speaker 2: great show.
Speaker 11: Now you use it a couple of times in just
Speaker 11: in dialogue as the show goes. That's the way. About
Speaker 11: six months ago or more of that, Ryan was still
Speaker 11: your producer. He's great on his show, by.
Speaker 2: The way, is Yeah, I listened every day he's doing great.
Speaker 2: I don't get any work done. I just listened for
Speaker 2: those two hours.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I know, it's great. So that's it. I
Speaker 11: wanted just quick glad you brought that up, and just
Speaker 11: some quick comments. I think the Kennedy appointment wonderful. I mean,
Speaker 11: the implications of that, him taking poison out of our
Speaker 11: food is great. And also the and uh vega, I mean,
Speaker 11: I'm sorry, you know what. Yeah, thank yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 11: a tough one. I'm sure all his life he had
Speaker 11: to save that. But anyway, I think government spending, don't
Speaker 11: you think it's how many? How many duplications of government
Speaker 11: work are you know is going on? And I was
Speaker 11: hearing today it may have been on Ryan shows. Some
Speaker 11: one was talking about all the stupid you know, government
Speaker 11: finances of badger fighting in Uruguay or something, you know
Speaker 11: what I mean, Just hundreds of thousands, if not millions
Speaker 11: of dollars on stupid things.
Speaker 2: So well said my friend, Well said, you think.
Speaker 11: It'll be great to clear I think the government is
Speaker 11: way too big, and and the health issues that Kennedy
Speaker 11: will bring, I think those are all good things. And
Speaker 11: so there you go.
Speaker 2: Hey, appreciate the cause yes, you and your family.
Speaker 11: I think you show you do good stuff real quick.
Speaker 11: One quick dad joke for you. Okay, a pair of
Speaker 11: jumper cables going to a bar. Bar just says okay,
Speaker 11: you can come in, but don't start anything.
Speaker 2: I love it. I love it. Thank you Richard, We
Speaker 2: love we love Richard great ideas. He had suggested the
Speaker 2: name Beyond the Obvious for this show, which it took
Speaker 2: us a great compliment, very much pre so you know,
Speaker 2: I think, yes, dose is a great thing, and need
Speaker 2: to go out and save all those billions and try
Speaker 2: to create a new mindset of actually treating the money
Speaker 2: like it's it is what it is right, which is
Speaker 2: our money, hard working people who hand them those dollars.
Speaker 2: And because we have to and we're good Americans, we
Speaker 2: follow the law. But I think the far greater value
Speaker 2: in terms of the pocketbook of each and every American
Speaker 2: is going to come from the overall influence of Elon Musk.
Speaker 2: I just think the more super smart people you can
Speaker 2: get in government who've actually been successful in the real
Speaker 2: life business world, the better. Not that each and every
Speaker 2: one is going to be useful to you, because it
Speaker 2: depends on what their values are and everything else. But
Speaker 2: I think Musk is going to turn out to be
Speaker 2: just a tremendous influence on policy overall. And I'm sure
Speaker 2: there are some things I disagree with them on, but
Speaker 2: I think he's going to be awesome. Let me squeeze
Speaker 2: this in from rfk jor.
Speaker 12: Since two thousand and five, I's been thirty minutes praying
Speaker 12: every day when I get out of bed, and my
Speaker 12: prayer is this, I ask God for nineteen years to
Speaker 12: put me in a position where I could end the
Speaker 12: chronic disease epidemic and bring.
Speaker 2: Help back to our children. And I don't doubt for
Speaker 2: one second that every word he said is just true.
Speaker 2: But it also tells me that he knows abortion is wrong,
Speaker 2: and that, like so many Democrats, he's just decided he's
Speaker 2: going to put up with it so he can get
Speaker 2: and keep power.
Speaker 6: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Ever tell you my stick story? And don't worry, I
Speaker 2: won't tell it to you. Now? Did I ever tell
Speaker 2: you that story?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 10: Yeah, Okay, You've had some brushes with some big time
Speaker 10: musical artists in between them and the who oh.
Speaker 2: Lots of them? Yeah, lots, but yeah, Styx. That was
Speaker 2: really special because I was in the seminary and we
Speaker 2: weren't known for like hosting a lot of dances or concerts.
Speaker 2: So I walked into Father Fahee's office. He was the director.
Speaker 2: I was student body president. Said Father, I think we
Speaker 2: should have a dance. You know, there's a band down
Speaker 2: the block. There's a band on the next block, a
Speaker 2: lot of people like him, and we can raise money
Speaker 2: for I can't remember what cause we were raising money for,
Speaker 2: but it was very worthy cause. And father, you know,
Speaker 2: we got long well he trusted me. He said, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: just you know, as long as you can set it
Speaker 2: up and get it organized. So Styx had grown up
Speaker 2: down on Colon, further down Colon, yes, believe it or not,
Speaker 2: our street was named Colon, And so we got sticks
Speaker 2: and we had thousands and thousands of people who couldn't
Speaker 2: even get into the school. Raised a lot of money
Speaker 2: for whatever our cause was. But I'll never forget just
Speaker 2: sitting there in my high school gym thinking this is surreal,
Speaker 2: you know, as they opened the show with that theme
Speaker 2: song and then went into Lady and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: it was really cool. So hopefully we'll get some Lady
Speaker 2: Bumper music here soon, let's go to beautiful Colorado Springs.
Speaker 2: Talk to a Warren. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 2: Welcome Warren.
Speaker 13: Yeah, Dan, once again, I got a couple of questions
Speaker 13: for you. But before I asked the question that we'll
Speaker 13: let you know what I was happy about the way
Speaker 13: the election tour, he springing about ninety percent of everybody
Speaker 13: I know was happy the way elections turned out.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and that's why I mean there is a
Speaker 2: new coalition now, so you know, there's more happiness in
Speaker 2: America because his victory was was spread across a lot
Speaker 2: of different groups in our society. It's really a cool thing, Warren.
Speaker 2: I know you probably called the talk.
Speaker 13: Ukraine, right, and well, yeah, there's two questions the core
Speaker 13: of the Internet. Well, first of all, the Warsaw Pact
Speaker 13: dissolved in Teborluary of nineteen ninety one, but in the
Speaker 13: Eastern Europe corner of the internet before, like in the
Speaker 13: midute during the Cold War Wars.
Speaker 2: I've got to here. Here's why I have to stop you, okay,
Speaker 2: because if it was you and me and we were
Speaker 2: having a couple of beers and we were talking in
Speaker 2: history I would enjoy it, but I'm sorry. I'd love
Speaker 2: to the only reason I'm laughing is my wife's been
Speaker 2: out of town, you know, ever since Election Day. She
Speaker 2: fled the country, and you would think that I would
Speaker 2: have had. All I'm saying is I am so busy
Speaker 2: in my law practice right now. I don't think I've
Speaker 2: watched a game while she's been out of town.
Speaker 13: Maybe the scene I apologize.
Speaker 2: I am so just and I'm very happily busy in
Speaker 2: my law practice right now. How old am I? You
Speaker 2: mean the chronological age I kind of my driver's license
Speaker 2: or my real age. No, I'm serious, because that number,
Speaker 2: it's totally meaningless. Well, chronological age on the driver's license
Speaker 2: is sixty seven. My functional age, like, if you were
Speaker 2: to bring my PCP on right now doctor Levinson and
Speaker 2: have him talk to you about test results and everything else,
Speaker 2: my functional age is probably thirty four.
Speaker 13: Well that's great, Yeah, I was. I was twenty two
Speaker 13: years old when the Acuban dis crisis happened. I had relatives.
Speaker 13: I lived in Los Angeles, I was raised in LA
Speaker 13: and I had relatives that moved out into the desert.
Speaker 13: So these people say that we're closer to the Third
Speaker 13: World War than we've ever been.
Speaker 5: A wrong.
Speaker 13: We were closer then, well actually closer than we've been
Speaker 13: since nineteen ninety one. But we're closer in nineteen sixty two,
Speaker 13: believe me.
Speaker 2: Oh, I remember it as a little kid. I remember it.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, well, how could we get together to have
Speaker 13: a beer?
Speaker 2: So I sometimes as soon as things calm down, I
Speaker 2: would love to do that. Do me a favorite for
Speaker 2: would hold the line and just give Kelly your info
Speaker 2: because I would love to do that it. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: I did watch that buff game. By the way, Ryan's Terry.
Speaker 2: Kelly was telling me, you can bet that Tyson fight tonight. Okay,
Speaker 2: because well I don't know about that.
Speaker 10: Our resident gambling expert, and I don't think he has
Speaker 10: a personal problem with it. But Benjamin Albright over on KOA,
Speaker 10: who is an intrepid reporter, he tells me that, yes,
Speaker 10: you can place a bet on the fight. However, Big
Speaker 10: caveat Colorado is not one of the states in which
Speaker 10: you can do that. There are several states restricting betting
Speaker 10: on the Tyson Paul fight, including Colorado, New York, and Pennsylvania.
Speaker 10: I think it's because of its status, like you mentioned,
Speaker 10: not a real fight as an exhibition rather than a
Speaker 10: sanctioned fight.
Speaker 6: And that's something a text or said.
Speaker 2: I am a very very very controlled sports better right.
Speaker 2: I don't bet big. I don't do this. I didn't
Speaker 2: do that, but my betting average is very very good.
Speaker 2: And I hope anybody who does have access to betting
Speaker 2: this fight tonight does not take a thing I say
Speaker 2: seriously about it. But I have never been more sure
Speaker 2: a sporting event. Mike Tyson is a real boxer. And
Speaker 2: I learned a lot about Mike Tyson covering his trial.
Speaker 2: Funny thing. I'll go back to the phone lines in
Speaker 2: a second, but what was so striking to me covering
Speaker 2: that Tyson trial for NBC? And I was I was
Speaker 2: in Indianapolis for the whole thing, and I was sitting
Speaker 2: there in the courtroom just a short distance behind Tyson.
Speaker 2: When he would talk with when he would talk with
Speaker 2: his unentourage and his lawyers and everything else, it was
Speaker 2: like you were talking to an English major, like perfect everything,
Speaker 2: perfect grammar, perfect everything. He's a deep thinking guy all
Speaker 2: in the way was so impressive. And then when he
Speaker 2: you know, when you would hear him talk in other settings.
Speaker 2: How about the clip I cut for you there, Oh yeah, here,
Speaker 2: let me play them out. This is this is one
Speaker 2: of the most interesting interviews ever. And while I disagree
Speaker 2: with what Mike Tyson's saying, I want to play it
Speaker 2: for you right now.
Speaker 6: It's a young girl reporter.
Speaker 2: That's why it's so interesting. It's one of these kid
Speaker 2: reporter deals. So You've got this girl standing next to him.
Speaker 2: I'm guessing she's ten or twelve, maybe thirteen or fourteen,
Speaker 2: but it's a kid reporter, a child interviewing Mike Tyson
Speaker 2: on the issue of legacy.
Speaker 14: Well, in your return to the ring for this fight,
Speaker 14: you are setting a monumental opportunity for kids my age
Speaker 14: to see the legend Mike Tyson in the ring for
Speaker 14: the first time. So, after such a successful career, what
Speaker 14: type of legacy would you like to leave behind when
Speaker 14: it's all said and done.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know.
Speaker 15: I don't believe in the word legacy. I think that's
Speaker 15: another word for ego. Legacy doesn't mean nothing. That's just
Speaker 15: some word everybody grabbed on to. Some one said that word,
Speaker 15: and everyone grabbed on the words, and I was used
Speaker 15: every five seconds.
Speaker 2: It means absolutely nothing to me. I'm just passing through.
Speaker 15: I'm gonna die and it's going to be over. Who
Speaker 15: cares about a legacy after that? What a big ego?
Speaker 15: So I'm gonna die. I want people to think that
Speaker 15: I'm this, I'm great, I'm not wain nothing. Well, you're
Speaker 15: dead with dust, absolutely nothing. Our legacy is nothing.
Speaker 2: A look at her face. Well, thank you so much
Speaker 2: for sharing that.
Speaker 14: That is something that I have not heard before someone
Speaker 14: say that as answered.
Speaker 15: Can you really imagine? And somebody say I want my
Speaker 15: legacy to be this way when I get dead? Well
Speaker 15: you want to think point, I really want to think
Speaker 15: about you.
Speaker 5: How was that that thing?
Speaker 2: I want you to think about me when I'm gone?
Speaker 2: Who the kids about me when I'm gone?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: My kids named grandkids. It was so interesting because the
Speaker 2: young girl handled it so well.
Speaker 6: She did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was You've got to see the video when
Speaker 2: you get home tonight. It was really striking and your point, Ryan,
Speaker 2: It did bring back some memories about Tyson and just
Speaker 2: being around him in the courtroom and listening to talk
Speaker 2: to his group because he was so thoughtful. Listen, I
Speaker 2: think he was properly convicted of rape. I think he
Speaker 2: did rape. Desiree was Washington. I think what happened was
Speaker 2: he believed it was consensual, but it definitely was not.
Speaker 2: And I think he believed it was consensual because there
Speaker 2: were individual days where he would sleep with ten, fifteen,
Speaker 2: twenty women and you know there was I mean, and
Speaker 2: this is documented in one of the books as well,
Speaker 2: that you know, there was one day sleup to almost
Speaker 2: thirty women in a day, and so, you know, women
Speaker 2: often wanted to be with him, and he just assumed
Speaker 2: when she came out to meet him at the limo,
Speaker 2: she'd been up in her hotel room and then they
Speaker 2: had met somewhere and you know, he it's about eleven
Speaker 2: thirty midnight, and she said, yeah, I'll come out, and
Speaker 2: he said, we're's something loose and that was all undisputed,
Speaker 2: and she came out and jumped in the limo. He
Speaker 2: took that as consent. Just in his life, he thought
Speaker 2: that was consent. There's no way this young girl was
Speaker 2: consenting or intended to consent. So yeah, so that's why
Speaker 2: he got convicted. But I think he really believed it
Speaker 2: was consensual.
Speaker 10: One final note here, as we go to break Beagemin
Speaker 10: Albright said the following about this betting he said, Honestly,
Speaker 10: I wager a lot, and I wouldn't wager on that
Speaker 10: fight in quotes fight, but I don't think that any
Speaker 10: entity should be able to block what any American wants
Speaker 10: to wager on. It's their money and they should be
Speaker 10: able to do what they want.
Speaker 2: Well, the only reason I would bet on that fight
Speaker 2: if I could, is knowing what I know about Tyson
Speaker 2: and then you just hearing them in that interview, you
Speaker 2: think he's going in tonight to do anything other than
Speaker 2: be a champion fighter. And as everybody knows, it is
Speaker 2: a true science when it's done right. He was a scientist.
Speaker 2: He was a killer, yeah, but also abramsk scientist. I
Speaker 2: know we have to hit this break back in a flash.
Speaker 2: Oh new press secretary just got named. You're on the
Speaker 2: Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 6: And now back to the Dankapla Show podcast.
Speaker 2: I was just texting with Tom Martine. He was talking
Speaker 2: about how he had interviewed Styx as a young reporter,
Speaker 2: and I just as we were sitting there, I flashed
Speaker 2: back and it's probably nineteen seventy five and I'm in
Speaker 2: the seminary and I'm student body president. I talked Father
Speaker 2: Faye and letting us have a local band. Guys who
Speaker 2: grew up down Colin Avenue, we grew up on Colon
Speaker 2: come in and it just happened to be. And how
Speaker 2: weird to see them. I can picture man like it
Speaker 2: was lunchtime today, you know, just just singing lady. I
Speaker 2: think it was Dennis de Young was that his name?
Speaker 2: Singing lady right there? It's right in our gym. It
Speaker 2: was phenomenal and a heck of a fundraiser. Christopher Eng Sorry,
Speaker 2: youry know that they listened to. None of us are
Speaker 2: going to make you know, but I'm Mike Tyson mode.
Speaker 2: Now Hey, we're all ashes dashes dust to dust or
Speaker 2: Chris Berman, We're all day to day. Hey, Christopher, are
Speaker 2: you doing? Sorry I coughed in your ear there.
Speaker 4: Not at all, Dan, Hey, just calling to let you
Speaker 4: know some of the I don't want to get political,
Speaker 4: I'm an independent, but some of the unintended baby consequences
Speaker 4: of the new term. I work as an appoyment specialist.
Speaker 4: I helped disable people get and retain employment up here
Speaker 4: in the greedy Evans area. Cool and yeah, I've been
Speaker 4: doing it ten years here and I did it eight
Speaker 4: years in Florida. Previously, I've been an educator special ed
Speaker 4: and social work, mental life.
Speaker 5: So it's one. Oh, I love it. But I just
Speaker 5: wanted to mention that I work under the Colorado Department
Speaker 5: of Labor Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. We are all private
Speaker 5: contractors because obviously they want to save money on pensions
Speaker 5: and they're like, you know, benefits. So yeah, we actually
Speaker 5: get people off the dole and on the tax wols.
Speaker 4: Cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but one of the problems is over seventy percent
Speaker 5: of our funding comes from the United States Department of Education.
Speaker 2: Okay, and you're so you're concern that's about to end.
Speaker 5: We are our livelihood. I'm fifty five years old.
Speaker 4: You know this was going to be it till I retire.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I just unintended consequence.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, no, no, no, no, you're right, And I get
Speaker 2: the concern, Christopher. I would have to believe that if
Speaker 2: President Trump is successful in getting rid of Department of Education,
Speaker 2: that it's not going to happen overnight, and that there
Speaker 2: there are going to be provisions in place to make
Speaker 2: sure that essential programs and your sure sounds like one
Speaker 2: you know, are protected. I mean, listen, what does Trump
Speaker 2: really want at the end of the day, he wants
Speaker 2: to go down with among the great American presidents and
Speaker 2: and he he right, and economy is very high on
Speaker 2: the list there, and so he's going to be very
Speaker 2: smart about the impact that his actions have on the economy.
Speaker 2: And then I don't know you and I don't I
Speaker 2: don't know the details of what you describe, but what
Speaker 2: you describe sounds wonderful and essential and something that's that's
Speaker 2: very important to a healthy economy. So I get the concern,
Speaker 2: believe me, but I'm I'm optimistic. Isn't going to be
Speaker 2: any sudden shock there it speaking of sudden shock, not
Speaker 2: one here with the new press secretary, new press secretary
Speaker 2: just announcing, there was talk about, Hey, would it be
Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson, Would it be Atlanta Haba, his attorney, would
Speaker 2: it be Megan Kelly? In fact, it's going to be
Speaker 2: Caroline with A K levitt L E A V I
Speaker 2: T T. You've seen her before she was press secretary.
Speaker 2: There were several who filled the role, but she was
Speaker 2: the main one during the campaign. And yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: very solid, smart, articulate, physically attractive. Yeah, So I'd say
Speaker 2: a conventional kind of pick for Press secretary and nothing
Speaker 2: wrong with that. And again Trump nosary can trust her,
Speaker 2: she's been in battle with him. But that's the development
Speaker 2: there today. Doug burgham obviously Interior. Yeah, I mean, there's
Speaker 2: no question that's a great pick. I know we haven't
Speaker 2: talked about Gates since the beginning of the show today.
Speaker 2: I'm sure we will before the end. Even though you
Speaker 2: know there aren't going to be any big developments on
Speaker 2: that today. You know we may know more by Monday. Obviously,
Speaker 2: they're trying to force release of that House Ethics Committee report.
Speaker 2: Big question that, right is Hey, if in fact an
Speaker 2: underline if innocent until proven guilty and they didn't charge him,
Speaker 2: If in fact he had sex with an underage girl
Speaker 2: and took her across state lines as part of that,
Speaker 2: all of that, then then yeah, I think he'd be
Speaker 2: disqualified and he couldn't be ag Short of that, I
Speaker 2: expect to be confirmed. But eight FI five five two
Speaker 2: five five text d A N five seven seven through nine. Hey,
Speaker 2: all these ads we see, all these ads we see
Speaker 2: for big pharmas stuff on TV? Should they go away?
Speaker 2: Should they be ended? With RFK Junior coming in Health
Speaker 2: and Human Services that a big question because he's talked
Speaker 2: about wanting to do that, so you think we'd all
Speaker 2: be better off? And could it be legally done to
Speaker 2: just say no, those can't AIRR on TV. You're on
Speaker 2: the Dan Kaepla Show.