WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.520 This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast 2 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:05.759 edition of The Dank Caplis Show. Please be sure to 3 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:08.240 give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind, 4 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:11.599 and to subscribe, download, and listen to the show every 5 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:15.640 single day on your favorite podcast platform. A great time 6 00:00:15.679 --> 00:00:19.280 to be alive, right, I mean, so many things going well, 7 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:23.320 so many things going better, and everything's not perfect. It's 8 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:26.160 not going to be puppies and rainbows and unicorns, but boy, 9 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:29.160 the world ever since November four, seems to be heading 10 00:00:29.239 --> 00:00:33.880 overall in a better direction now. Obviously, as a Catholic, 11 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:37.399 as a Christian, just as an American and a person 12 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:40.439 who lives on this third rock from the Sun, I 13 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:43.359 just could not be more excited about the new pope. 14 00:00:43.399 --> 00:00:47.439 And even you know, immediately yesterday based on everything we knew, 15 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:50.439 but overnight that's just strengthened, and I think a lot 16 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:53.560 of very good, concrete reasons to believe it's going to 17 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:57.000 be good for America, good for the world. As a Catholic, 18 00:00:57.079 --> 00:00:59.119 I'm very happy that it's going to be very very 19 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:02.240 good for the Catholic Church. Eight five five for zero 20 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:05.599 five eight two five five you can text Dan Dan 21 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:08.560 five seven seven, three nine. A lot of ground to 22 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:11.480 cover this afternoon, but jump in anytime on anything you'd like. 23 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:15.400 You're going to love this guest at four twenty this afternoon, 24 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:17.239 let's make it four twenty one. I hate that four 25 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:21.879 twenty number. But my uncle Roger Caplis's father, Roger Capitalis's 26 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:24.560 going to join us. He's been a priest in Chicago 27 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:28.079 now for sixty something years. He's ninety three years old, 28 00:01:28.120 --> 00:01:30.480 still does three messes a week, as I was telling you, 29 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:33.000 still packs the house because he's so good at it. 30 00:01:33.519 --> 00:01:36.879 But he's going to give us his perspective on the 31 00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:40.400 new Pope, and so I'm anxious to get that from 32 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:42.840 him for a lot of different reasons. First, he's been 33 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:45.640 a Catholic priest for a long time, and you know 34 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:48.280 he's also from Chicago. I don't think he knows the 35 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:51.280 new Pope personally, but still want to get his take 36 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:55.000 on that. So that'll be at four twenty one. A 37 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:56.799 lot going on when it comes to the new Pope, 38 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:00.200 but also in the news otherwise locally and nationally. I'm 39 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:03.000 sorry I've got to start with this because it is 40 00:02:03.079 --> 00:02:05.319 one of the greatest nine to one one calls I 41 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:07.959 have ever heard in my life. And I think it's 42 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:10.599 it's going so viral. I think it's going to start 43 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:14.560 just a new uh just kind of a new phrase 44 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:17.039 of its own. I know I plan to use it. 45 00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:18.759 I'm just trying to figure out how you'll know what 46 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:19.960 I'm talking about when you. 47 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:27.319 Hear this this nine one one call, raise some eyebrassne. 48 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:26.719 What's your emergency? 49 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:30.680 Yeah, my wat got attacked by a warthog, real. 50 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:32.599 Bad, and I need someone to come up with ambulance 51 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:33.319 and pick her up. 52 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:35.319 Okay, sir, can you give me your draft? 53 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:36.039 Uh? 54 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:39.159 Yeah, we're at one eight two five. Eucalyptus drive. 55 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:40.960 Okay, could you spell. 56 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:41.080 That for me? 57 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:46.039 Sir? I'm gonna drag her on over to Oak Street 58 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:47.120 and you can pick her up there. 59 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:54.319 It's like the greatest ever, right, who could spell eucalyptus. 60 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:57.680 I couldn't spell eucalyptics. I see, I can't even say it. 61 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:00.000 But uh but yeah, I think I'll drag her over 62 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:04.719 to Oak oh a, K see, Ryan, that that's gotta 63 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:07.840 become like that the new phrase for everything, right. Yeah, 64 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:10.039 you know, you know, if somebody asks you something you 65 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:11.800 don't know, I think I'll drag her over to Oak. 66 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:14.000 It's easier to spell. 67 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:16.800 So yeah, it makes me think of locally here in Denver, 68 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:18.719 Dan I think there's a road, and correct me if 69 00:03:18.759 --> 00:03:21.800 I'm wrong, because everything I say around here apparently Denver 70 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:26.199 rights have changed it. For instance, like Alameda is Alameda, 71 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:31.520 and then Galapagos I think is Gallapagos instead. 72 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:33.240 So it'd be like that street it you know, not 73 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:34.240 easy to spell. 74 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:35.159 And this guy you. 75 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:35.919 Kind of see his point. 76 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:37.719 He pot says, He's like, tell you what, I'm just 77 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:39.000 gonna drag her over to Oaks Street. 78 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:41.599 Yeah, I'm just gonna drag her over to Oak. Yeah. 79 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:44.360 I mean that just I gotta I could sit here 80 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:47.240 all afternoon and just play that and have a great afternoon. 81 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:49.000 Attacked by a wart hog? 82 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:49.680 Wart hog? 83 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:52.479 Yeah? I remember getting chased? Was it a wart hog? 84 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:55.800 After I left ask Gamy, I'll left ask game. He 85 00:03:55.879 --> 00:03:58.560 talk about your safari. No no, no, no no no, 86 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:01.360 this was this was off a golf course and a 87 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:05.199 remote location. Oh my yeah yeah, and uh and getting 88 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:07.199 chased I left tasker. If that was a wardhog, I 89 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:11.599 can't remember. I just remember running really really fast. But yeah, 90 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:14.319 yeah three h three someone three eight two five five 91 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:18.199 You enjoyed yourself yesterday. Right, the Tiger has nothing to 92 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:20.680 brag about beating the Rockies twice? What they outscore them 93 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:21.560 like twenty three to two. 94 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:23.839 Well, what I learned Dan and watching is might Detroit 95 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:25.079 Tigers are a very good team. 96 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:25.439 They are. 97 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:31.360 Yeah, wow, the Rockies, Dan, they are. It's bad news bears, 98 00:04:31.399 --> 00:04:34.439 but at a professional level. And there's really no one 99 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:38.360 simple explanation for It's just they show up and even 100 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:40.720 when things look like they might be going the Rockies way, 101 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:44.160 it always finds a way to reverse course on them. 102 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:48.319 And the Tigers just pounded them for two games there. Yeah, yeah, 103 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:49.680 tend to two and eleven to one. 104 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:53.079 Well, there's an easy fix. There's an easy fix that 105 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:56.759 would be great for everybody. And they're going to buy 106 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:00.240 the Rockies. Yeah, that would be something. Right. You know 107 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:02.439 what's interesting though, Ryan is, as you know, there have 108 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:06.160 been I think at this point fear to say countless 109 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:10.120 billionaires offered to pay a gazillion dollars for that team. Yeah, 110 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:14.439 and so yeah, yeah, it's not for lack of big 111 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:15.040 money interest. 112 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:16.920 I think if you and Tom Martino went in on 113 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:18.319 it together, you could get done. 114 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:24.319 Yeah boy, Tom, what boy? What a strong cat he is? Incredible, right, 115 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:28.519 just phenomenal, so impressive, Yeah, overcoming impressive. 116 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:30.439 A cancer and would appear to be a dire diagnosis. 117 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:32.839 Knock on wood and send out your prayers for Tom. 118 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:35.800 He's a great man, a legend in this market, and 119 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:37.600 he appears to be doing quite well well. 120 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:39.480 And he gave me my starting radio right, you know, 121 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:41.319 because we ran into each other. I was on air 122 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:44.199 Channel four. He'd been there forever. Everybody knew Tom, and 123 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:47.399 he was doing his radio show, Troubleshooter Show yep, and 124 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:50.240 he brought me over on his panel of experts, and 125 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:52.199 then I started filling in and then I had my 126 00:05:52.240 --> 00:06:01.680 own show, creatively named Troubleshooter two to the sequel. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 127 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:04.720 he gave me great opportunities there. Yeah. 128 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:07.720 Well, I'm thinking about you as the Rockies owner right now, Dani, 129 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:09.759 allow me to have this because I think you'd be 130 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:12.199 a great owner, because you'd be fair, you'd have the 131 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:14.920 fans in mine first, and you'd want to feel a 132 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:15.720 competitive team. 133 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:17.680 Oh, there is no doubt about it. But you know, 134 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:20.319 it's interesting. You won't even believe this, but it is true. 135 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:22.600 I can't remember how many years ago. It was a 136 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:25.639 while back when I got a call from this guy 137 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:29.040 who I happened to meet through the law practice, super 138 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:32.279 uber wealthy guy, and he just said, Hey, I'm going 139 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:34.279 to try to buy the Rockies, and would you run 140 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:37.920 it if I buy the team? WHOA And I said, well, 141 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:41.160 of course I would, But don't you want somebody qualified? 142 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:44.279 You know? But I do think in the sports world, 143 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:46.279 and I think we've seen this a lot, right, so 144 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:50.839 often you end up with these executives not base necessarily 145 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:53.040 on their expertise in the sport, but how much the 146 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:56.480 owner can trust them, right, Yeah, And just that kind 147 00:06:56.519 --> 00:06:56.839 of thing. 148 00:06:57.040 --> 00:06:59.199 Here's my fear about the Rockies. And I love them, Dan, 149 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:01.279 It's the only team in town pro team that I 150 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:05.560 can afford to buy even a baseline entry level partial 151 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:09.040 season ticket package for. And they're very good to their fans, 152 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:11.120 to me in particular, and I've been on that list, 153 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:13.480 and I go to these games. But what I've noticed, Dan, 154 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:18.480 is the incentive to win is blunted somewhat in this market, because, 155 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:20.959 like I was there yesterday, if there were no Detroit 156 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:23.240 Tigers fans in the crowd for Game two, there would 157 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:25.759 have been like a couple hundred people there. And these 158 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:28.240 other teams fans, whether it's the Red Sox, the Yankees, 159 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:31.000 the Dodgers, the Cardinals, the Tigers, they all come into 160 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:32.759 town and the Montforts. 161 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:34.560 Look around and well, the stadium's full. We must be 162 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:36.959 doing okay, yeah, you know, because it is such a 163 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:39.079 great experience to go. It is. I mean, you know, 164 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:43.720 we still shell out for season tickets, and we shell out, 165 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:48.519 you know, for good season tickets. Our you know, folks 166 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:51.120 love them at the office, our clients love them. We 167 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:53.319 still do that and we'll continue to do it. It's 168 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:57.720 a great experience even when it's an awful team. But 169 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:00.560 just think about the gift it would be to the community. 170 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:04.319 I mean that literally, if all of the sudden there 171 00:08:04.439 --> 00:08:08.120 was either new ownership that spends at the level that 172 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:11.680 multi billionaires would spend, or if the current ownership decides 173 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:14.120 to take a different approach. But the gift it would 174 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:17.000 be to this community to have competitive baseball game because 175 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:19.920 you know it, right, I mean, when you've got competitive 176 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:23.120 baseball and pennant races and everything else, then you've got 177 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:26.120 that opportunity where okay, you've got a team in the hunt, 178 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:28.639 and like you say, you know, the ticket prices are 179 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:30.759 you know, because there are more seats there, you know, 180 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:33.919 the ticket prices are more approachable. That is just a 181 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:36.919 great thing for a community in every way. The current 182 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:39.240 status right now is not great for a community. 183 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:41.039 And what makes it even worse for the Rockies is 184 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:44.559 dan is being demonstrated by all three other major pro 185 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:47.399 sports teams that you can win in Denver, the Avalanche, 186 00:08:47.399 --> 00:08:51.399 then the Broncos. They're all top level franchises that compete 187 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:53.919 at the highest level, that get free agents to come here. 188 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:55.720 And I know it's hard to get free agent pitchers 189 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:57.399 to pitch half their games at course Field. 190 00:08:57.399 --> 00:09:00.360 It's a launching pad, but I think it can be done. 191 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:00.559 Well. 192 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:02.679 You can win the other way, right, because yeah, what 193 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:05.360 free agent picture in the right mind is going to 194 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:07.440 come here, right, You're going to have to grow those, 195 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:10.159 but you can buy a whole bunch of sluggers. Yeah, 196 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:12.240 and then you can win the way they used to win. 197 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:16.840 And so yeah, it will happen. It will happen someday, 198 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:19.440 and it will be a fantastic thing for this community. 199 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:22.840 We have so much interesting sound this afternoon, local and 200 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:25.240 national stuff and all sorts of stuff with the new 201 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:28.039 pope and whether you're religious or not, Catholic or not, 202 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:30.799 Christian or not, it's still I think is really going 203 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:34.159 to matter to you because this pope, this pope, I 204 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:36.519 think is really going to matter to the world in 205 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:39.840 a very positive way. Will there be friction with President Trump? 206 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:41.399 Will start with that when we come back here on 207 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:42.639 the Dan Kapla Show. 208 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:52.039 And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast. 209 00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:57.519 More Chicago than my uncle Roger Kapli's lifetime chicagoan has 210 00:09:57.559 --> 00:10:00.759 done about everything you can possibly imagine. And a priest 211 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:03.720 now in Chicago for how many years? Father urge, I 212 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:05.039 think it's sixty seven? 213 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:05.960 Sixty seven? 214 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:10.360 Holy cow. And that reference to Harry Carey intended because 215 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:12.159 we just found out the new pope, though, is a 216 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:14.480 Sox fan? Is that right? Is that where this thing settled? 217 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:17.639 Yeah, I'm certain of it because of what his brother 218 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:20.360 said and the people who in fact, we got a 219 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:23.759 picture of him at the two o five the World Series. 220 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:28.200 Oh okay, he was there, Yeah, yeah, and wow, Well 221 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:30.679 you were the first guy who came to mind when 222 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:32.840 we heard about all this And were you watching when 223 00:10:32.840 --> 00:10:34.600 he came down when he was named. 224 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:38.759 Well, somebody called me right away then I was watching, 225 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:42.120 you know. But anyway, I was just talking to my 226 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:44.759 pastor earlier way. He is on his way out for confirmation. 227 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:47.759 He had dinner with him on the south side, and 228 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:51.120 he used to the Pope used to say mans to 229 00:10:51.159 --> 00:10:52.720 Saint Paul's out there. 230 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:54.600 And then he also, you who. 231 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:57.440 Quickly sell Remember seventy seventh and West, I went there, 232 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:03.120 you went there. He has consistance the Augustinians have taken 233 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:05.600 it over. He has said mass there when he comes 234 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:07.480 into meet with the Augustinians. 235 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:10.639 Yeah, that is wild to think about apple. 236 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:13.799 That you knew he said mass a couple of times. 237 00:11:14.200 --> 00:11:14.759 That's why. 238 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:16.960 And also I think I got a kick out of 239 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:20.759 since you'd like it. Arelio's Pizza, which is I think 240 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:23.559 in Homewood. He used to go there regularly and they 241 00:11:23.559 --> 00:11:26.279 have a special chair for him. It looks like a 242 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:32.519 papal chair set up at Ali's Pizza. A pretty normal guy, 243 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:33.720 but a very bright guy. 244 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:36.840 Well, that chair thing reminds me of the chair in 245 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:40.840 Graham's house, your mom's house. Remember you brought over a cardinal, 246 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:44.120 Cardinal Cushing, I think you brought over and then she 247 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:46.919 put plastic on the chair where the cardinal that thought 248 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:51.559 sat and nobody was ever allowed to sit on it. Yeah, 249 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:52.720 Am I remembering that right now? 250 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:56.480 No, you're right, Yeah, that's right, that's true. Yeah, Cardinal 251 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:58.120 cut and I sat on. 252 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:00.519 That chair the day after mother died. 253 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:01.360 That were the same. 254 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:03.120 Yeah, Cardneald Cody. 255 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:05.639 Was a cardinal that sat in it as I was 256 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:08.960 driving him around this outside and he ended up sitting 257 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:11.000 in a chair. And then mother would never let us 258 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:15.000 sit in it, put plastic on it, you know. Yeah. 259 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:19.039 Anyway, there's real excitement, of course in Chicago, and. 260 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:25.960 A number of guys I have met him that I 261 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:27.679 had not had the privilege, but I was in the 262 00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:29.360 same building with him at the same time. 263 00:12:29.720 --> 00:12:31.879 What did the guys you know who know him, what's 264 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:32.399 their take? 265 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:36.399 Well, they're really quite happy with it. They think that 266 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:40.240 he's he's so even tempered and so on, that he'll 267 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:43.679 do a good job and they don't see him stepping 268 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:45.320 too far outside of boundaries. 269 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:48.399 He uh. But the fact that he took to Leo 270 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:51.519 the fourteenth, now that you know, if you remember, I 271 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:55.759 used to preach on that and reream novarum of new things. 272 00:12:56.200 --> 00:12:59.000 So in that in cyclical we had the pulp at 273 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:01.759 that time saying you should have a living wage, you 274 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:04.679 should be able to own private property and things that 275 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:08.320 you know, we take for granted today, he was saying, 276 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:12.159 before the national social scientists. 277 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:13.799 Were doing it here in the country. 278 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:17.799 Yeah, so he's at least conscious of that. So no 279 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:20.080 justice and care for people. 280 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:22.200 Who have been deprived or anything that will be big 281 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:22.559 with him. 282 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:27.000 Yeah. Well, he had so many years like in Peru 283 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:28.240 as well as Chicago. 284 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:29.440 He's really global. 285 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:33.440 He's not just Chicago, although we're taking advantage of. 286 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:38.960 It, because really nobody epitomizes Chicago more than you, right, 287 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:40.960 I mean, you've been there your whole life. You've been 288 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:43.399 a priest there for sixty seven years. You were out 289 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:46.440 at Wrigley Field and Comiskey Park is an Andy Frayne usher. 290 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:49.759 You're an athlete yourself. I mean you you are Chicago, 291 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:52.159 so this has to be pretty cooler you kind of. 292 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:56.320 I mean, did you ever want to be pope? 293 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:01.399 I never even considered a remote possibility. I have a 294 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:02.960 hard enough time. I didn't even want to be a 295 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:07.480 pastor at a different job. So anyway, the pope was 296 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:10.320 I never even really gave it serious thought. And I 297 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:13.360 suppose you've heard that. You know, when he was young, 298 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:16.480 about fourth or fifth grade, one of the neighbor ladies said, 299 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:19.720 you know you're going to be a pope. Yeah, she 300 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:21.960 really said it, and then they would kid him about that. 301 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:25.919 And here we are, Well, tell us is it like that? 302 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:27.919 I mean, you've been a pret sixty seven years. And 303 00:14:27.960 --> 00:14:31.240 by the way, for folks who don't go to Catholic church, 304 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:34.039 Father Roger is like a rock star priest. I mean 305 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:36.279 he still does what do you do two or three 306 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:38.759 masses a week and you still get these crowds. Do 307 00:14:38.840 --> 00:14:39.840 you do great homilies? 308 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:44.240 Yes? And Saturday Monday, And now I will on Tuesday 309 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:46.519 because our associate is. 310 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:48.200 Going to India for a month, so I'm going to 311 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:50.240 do more masses, so about four. 312 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:52.080 Days a week, one of which would be one of 313 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:54.399 the big weekends one. So I have to prepare a 314 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:57.840 homily as well, and I think I do pretty well. 315 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:01.279 Oh man, nobody does better with those, which is one 316 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:03.600 of the reasons you pack the church. But what do 317 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:06.000 you want to see most from this pope? 318 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:11.639 Well, I want to see him be able to identify 319 00:15:12.120 --> 00:15:15.799 with people with different beliefs, even you know, because we 320 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:18.399 have such a political divide, we have a bit of 321 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:20.840 the same thing in the church. Now, if he can 322 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:26.080 keep everybody happy and moving forward. That'll be quite an accomplishment, 323 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:28.840 and I think he has the type of mentality to 324 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:33.039 do it. He's not going to be raving liberal on 325 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:36.720 one side or arch conservative on the other side. He's 326 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:38.679 going to be right pretty well in the middle. And 327 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:42.279 I think, you know, unity will be big for him 328 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:48.399 and for things that are important he will speak out on. 329 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:51.840 So he's already said, you know, things that immigration. He's 330 00:15:51.879 --> 00:15:55.120 obviously going to have some trouble with the administration, but 331 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:57.759 he's not going to be a firebrand for one side 332 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:00.879 or another. He just wants to take care of his people. 333 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:04.559 He spent a lot of time with poor people, especially 334 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:07.720 in Peru, for you know, thirty some years, so he 335 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:11.360 has a missionary background and he'll never forget that. He'll 336 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:14.559 always be thinking about people in need. Yes, that's what 337 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:15.879 he'll be thinking about. 338 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:18.919 Well, that's awesome, and hey, really appreciate your time, and 339 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:21.279 I'm sure we'll talk to you over the weekend on this. 340 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:25.159 But thanks and ate. What's the what's the homily about 341 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:27.039 this weekend? Have you started to write it yet? 342 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:32.120 Well, I'm looking I'm trying to look for an opening 343 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:39.279 story on the the different scripture things, but I'm not Yeah, 344 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:41.039 I don't want to say anything because I'm talking about 345 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:41.679 a change. 346 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:44.039 Don't Plus, you don't want to spoiler alert. Right if 347 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:45.679 they heard on the show, they may not show up 348 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:46.200 on Sunday. 349 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:46.840 But here you go. 350 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:51.440 Well, hey, thank you really appreciate the time. You're very well, Okay, 351 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:52.799 good luck. Thanks. 352 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:57.519 Yeah, we're taking a lot of pride in our fellow 353 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:00.600 Chicago and the Pope. It's a real it's an honor 354 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:03.879 for the country, and it's an honor especially for our 355 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:07.160 city boy and for the White Sox and for. 356 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:09.160 The White Side. It's the only thing they got going 357 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:15.920 for him except the Rockies. Right, thanks again? You too 358 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:20.799 that his father O. He is really tremendous. He is great. 359 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:23.319 What is in the capitalist genes that man is not 360 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:24.359 ninety three years old? 361 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:27.519 Ninety three man, I'm telling you no way he'll live 362 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:30.119 to one hundred and ninety three. He sounds like, oh yeah, no. 363 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:33.319 He's sharp as a tack. Sharp is attack. And when 364 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:37.839 we get going at it on politics, he's tough. Like 365 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:40.680 he said in you know, I'll do the show remote 366 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:43.559 sometimes I'm on the road. So we're at this family gathering. 367 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:46.039 He sat in on the show and we get through 368 00:17:46.039 --> 00:17:48.279 a segment or two and he looked at me and said, 369 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:58.680 I thought you'd be better. He is. He's just he's 370 00:17:58.680 --> 00:18:02.559 a super smart guy. He's deeply cares. You know, we 371 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:05.319 don't agree always politically, I mean, so it makes for 372 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:07.799 some really interesting conversations. But you talk about a guy 373 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:09.880 who walks to talk and he's given his whole life 374 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:13.759 to caring for the poor and helping others. Yeah, that's 375 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:17.240 he has done that, sixty seven years of it and 376 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:19.559 more to come. Three or three someone three eight two 377 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:22.359 five five text d An five seven seven three nine 378 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:24.039 the single greatest nine to one one call you have 379 00:18:24.119 --> 00:18:26.480 ever heard. Next on the Dan Caplass Show. 380 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:36.680 You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast. 381 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:39.680 The United States has headed in the wrong direction in 382 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:43.160 terms of immigration. That this is a total injustice to 383 00:18:43.359 --> 00:18:47.240 these are people. It doesn't matter where they're born. They 384 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:50.400 are people first, and so they need to be treated 385 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:51.880 as people first. 386 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:53.279 I just hope. 387 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:58.519 Others, you know, here overseas and it doesn't turn political 388 00:18:58.680 --> 00:19:01.680 because you know, oh he's an American, he's going to 389 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:02.599 screw the church up. 390 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:05.519 Hopefully that doesn't happen. 391 00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:10.880 And it just keep the nationalities, nationalism out of it, 392 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:13.400 and let's just be the Catholic Church. 393 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:17.599 Yeah. Interesting. I know people are expecting friction between the 394 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:20.160 President and the Pope on immigration. I don't think that's 395 00:19:20.200 --> 00:19:22.200 going to be a big deal at all. I think, 396 00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:25.880 in fact, did you see the video, Ryan, there's video 397 00:19:26.519 --> 00:19:29.720 of the pope, you know, as he was a cardinal recently, 398 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:34.359 just just talking about how wait a second, this unfettered 399 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:37.799 and I'm paraphrasing, immigration is a problem. It's a challenge. 400 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:40.920 We just have to, you know, and I'm paraphrasing, just 401 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:45.519