Speaker 1: This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 1: single day on your favorite podcast platform. A great time
Speaker 1: to be alive, right, I mean, so many things going well,
Speaker 1: so many things going better, and everything's not perfect. It's
Speaker 1: not going to be puppies and rainbows and unicorns, but boy,
Speaker 1: the world ever since November four, seems to be heading
Speaker 1: overall in a better direction now. Obviously, as a Catholic,
Speaker 1: as a Christian, just as an American and a person
Speaker 1: who lives on this third rock from the Sun, I
Speaker 1: just could not be more excited about the new pope.
Speaker 1: And even you know, immediately yesterday based on everything we knew,
Speaker 1: but overnight that's just strengthened, and I think a lot
Speaker 1: of very good, concrete reasons to believe it's going to
Speaker 1: be good for America, good for the world. As a Catholic,
Speaker 1: I'm very happy that it's going to be very very
Speaker 1: good for the Catholic Church. Eight five five for zero
Speaker 1: five eight two five five you can text Dan Dan
Speaker 1: five seven seven, three nine. A lot of ground to
Speaker 1: cover this afternoon, but jump in anytime on anything you'd like.
Speaker 1: You're going to love this guest at four twenty this afternoon,
Speaker 1: let's make it four twenty one. I hate that four
Speaker 1: twenty number. But my uncle Roger Caplis's father, Roger Capitalis's
Speaker 1: going to join us. He's been a priest in Chicago
Speaker 1: now for sixty something years. He's ninety three years old,
Speaker 1: still does three messes a week, as I was telling you,
Speaker 1: still packs the house because he's so good at it.
Speaker 1: But he's going to give us his perspective on the
Speaker 1: new Pope, and so I'm anxious to get that from
Speaker 1: him for a lot of different reasons. First, he's been
Speaker 1: a Catholic priest for a long time, and you know
Speaker 1: he's also from Chicago. I don't think he knows the
Speaker 1: new Pope personally, but still want to get his take
Speaker 1: on that. So that'll be at four twenty one. A
Speaker 1: lot going on when it comes to the new Pope,
Speaker 1: but also in the news otherwise locally and nationally. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry I've got to start with this because it is
Speaker 1: one of the greatest nine to one one calls I
Speaker 1: have ever heard in my life. And I think it's
Speaker 1: it's going so viral. I think it's going to start
Speaker 1: just a new uh just kind of a new phrase
Speaker 1: of its own. I know I plan to use it.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to figure out how you'll know what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about when you.
Speaker 2: Hear this this nine one one call, raise some eyebrassne.
Speaker 3: What's your emergency?
Speaker 1: Yeah, my wat got attacked by a warthog, real.
Speaker 4: Bad, and I need someone to come up with ambulance
Speaker 4: and pick her up.
Speaker 3: Okay, sir, can you give me your draft?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're at one eight two five. Eucalyptus drive.
Speaker 5: Okay, could you spell.
Speaker 6: That for me?
Speaker 3: Sir? I'm gonna drag her on over to Oak Street
Speaker 3: and you can pick her up there.
Speaker 1: It's like the greatest ever, right, who could spell eucalyptus.
Speaker 1: I couldn't spell eucalyptics. I see, I can't even say it.
Speaker 1: But uh but yeah, I think I'll drag her over
Speaker 1: to Oak oh a, K see, Ryan, that that's gotta
Speaker 1: become like that the new phrase for everything, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, if somebody asks you something you
Speaker 1: don't know, I think I'll drag her over to Oak.
Speaker 1: It's easier to spell.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it makes me think of locally here in Denver,
Speaker 5: Dan I think there's a road, and correct me if
Speaker 5: I'm wrong, because everything I say around here apparently Denver
Speaker 5: rights have changed it. For instance, like Alameda is Alameda,
Speaker 5: and then Galapagos I think is Gallapagos instead.
Speaker 7: So it'd be like that street it you know, not
Speaker 7: easy to spell.
Speaker 3: And this guy you.
Speaker 7: Kind of see his point.
Speaker 5: He pot says, He's like, tell you what, I'm just
Speaker 5: gonna drag her over to Oaks Street.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just gonna drag her over to Oak. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean that just I gotta I could sit here
Speaker 1: all afternoon and just play that and have a great afternoon.
Speaker 1: Attacked by a wart hog?
Speaker 7: Wart hog?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I remember getting chased? Was it a wart hog?
Speaker 1: After I left ask Gamy, I'll left ask game. He
Speaker 1: talk about your safari. No no, no, no no no,
Speaker 1: this was this was off a golf course and a
Speaker 1: remote location. Oh my yeah yeah, and uh and getting
Speaker 1: chased I left tasker. If that was a wardhog, I
Speaker 1: can't remember. I just remember running really really fast. But yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah three h three someone three eight two five five
Speaker 1: You enjoyed yourself yesterday. Right, the Tiger has nothing to
Speaker 1: brag about beating the Rockies twice? What they outscore them
Speaker 1: like twenty three to two.
Speaker 5: Well, what I learned Dan and watching is might Detroit
Speaker 5: Tigers are a very good team.
Speaker 1: They are.
Speaker 5: Yeah, wow, the Rockies, Dan, they are. It's bad news bears,
Speaker 5: but at a professional level. And there's really no one
Speaker 5: simple explanation for It's just they show up and even
Speaker 5: when things look like they might be going the Rockies way,
Speaker 5: it always finds a way to reverse course on them.
Speaker 5: And the Tigers just pounded them for two games there. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: tend to two and eleven to one.
Speaker 1: Well, there's an easy fix. There's an easy fix that
Speaker 1: would be great for everybody. And they're going to buy
Speaker 1: the Rockies. Yeah, that would be something. Right. You know
Speaker 1: what's interesting though, Ryan is, as you know, there have
Speaker 1: been I think at this point fear to say countless
Speaker 1: billionaires offered to pay a gazillion dollars for that team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, yeah, it's not for lack of big
Speaker 1: money interest.
Speaker 5: I think if you and Tom Martino went in on
Speaker 5: it together, you could get done.
Speaker 1: Yeah boy, Tom, what boy? What a strong cat he is? Incredible, right,
Speaker 1: just phenomenal, so impressive, Yeah, overcoming impressive.
Speaker 5: A cancer and would appear to be a dire diagnosis.
Speaker 5: Knock on wood and send out your prayers for Tom.
Speaker 5: He's a great man, a legend in this market, and
Speaker 5: he appears to be doing quite well well.
Speaker 1: And he gave me my starting radio right, you know,
Speaker 1: because we ran into each other. I was on air
Speaker 1: Channel four. He'd been there forever. Everybody knew Tom, and
Speaker 1: he was doing his radio show, Troubleshooter Show yep, and
Speaker 1: he brought me over on his panel of experts, and
Speaker 1: then I started filling in and then I had my
Speaker 1: own show, creatively named Troubleshooter two to the sequel. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he gave me great opportunities there. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm thinking about you as the Rockies owner right now, Dani,
Speaker 5: allow me to have this because I think you'd be
Speaker 5: a great owner, because you'd be fair, you'd have the
Speaker 5: fans in mine first, and you'd want to feel a
Speaker 5: competitive team.
Speaker 1: Oh, there is no doubt about it. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's interesting. You won't even believe this, but it is true.
Speaker 1: I can't remember how many years ago. It was a
Speaker 1: while back when I got a call from this guy
Speaker 1: who I happened to meet through the law practice, super
Speaker 1: uber wealthy guy, and he just said, Hey, I'm going
Speaker 1: to try to buy the Rockies, and would you run
Speaker 1: it if I buy the team? WHOA And I said, well,
Speaker 1: of course I would, But don't you want somebody qualified?
Speaker 1: You know? But I do think in the sports world,
Speaker 1: and I think we've seen this a lot, right, so
Speaker 1: often you end up with these executives not base necessarily
Speaker 1: on their expertise in the sport, but how much the
Speaker 1: owner can trust them, right, Yeah, And just that kind
Speaker 1: of thing.
Speaker 5: Here's my fear about the Rockies. And I love them, Dan,
Speaker 5: It's the only team in town pro team that I
Speaker 5: can afford to buy even a baseline entry level partial
Speaker 5: season ticket package for. And they're very good to their fans,
Speaker 5: to me in particular, and I've been on that list,
Speaker 5: and I go to these games. But what I've noticed, Dan,
Speaker 5: is the incentive to win is blunted somewhat in this market, because,
Speaker 5: like I was there yesterday, if there were no Detroit
Speaker 5: Tigers fans in the crowd for Game two, there would
Speaker 5: have been like a couple hundred people there. And these
Speaker 5: other teams fans, whether it's the Red Sox, the Yankees,
Speaker 5: the Dodgers, the Cardinals, the Tigers, they all come into
Speaker 5: town and the Montforts.
Speaker 1: Look around and well, the stadium's full. We must be
Speaker 1: doing okay, yeah, you know, because it is such a
Speaker 1: great experience to go. It is. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: we still shell out for season tickets, and we shell out,
Speaker 1: you know, for good season tickets. Our you know, folks
Speaker 1: love them at the office, our clients love them. We
Speaker 1: still do that and we'll continue to do it. It's
Speaker 1: a great experience even when it's an awful team. But
Speaker 1: just think about the gift it would be to the community.
Speaker 1: I mean that literally, if all of the sudden there
Speaker 1: was either new ownership that spends at the level that
Speaker 1: multi billionaires would spend, or if the current ownership decides
Speaker 1: to take a different approach. But the gift it would
Speaker 1: be to this community to have competitive baseball game because
Speaker 1: you know it, right, I mean, when you've got competitive
Speaker 1: baseball and pennant races and everything else, then you've got
Speaker 1: that opportunity where okay, you've got a team in the hunt,
Speaker 1: and like you say, you know, the ticket prices are
Speaker 1: you know, because there are more seats there, you know,
Speaker 1: the ticket prices are more approachable. That is just a
Speaker 1: great thing for a community in every way. The current
Speaker 1: status right now is not great for a community.
Speaker 5: And what makes it even worse for the Rockies is
Speaker 5: dan is being demonstrated by all three other major pro
Speaker 5: sports teams that you can win in Denver, the Avalanche,
Speaker 5: then the Broncos. They're all top level franchises that compete
Speaker 5: at the highest level, that get free agents to come here.
Speaker 5: And I know it's hard to get free agent pitchers
Speaker 5: to pitch half their games at course Field.
Speaker 7: It's a launching pad, but I think it can be done.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 1: You can win the other way, right, because yeah, what
Speaker 1: free agent picture in the right mind is going to
Speaker 1: come here, right, You're going to have to grow those,
Speaker 1: but you can buy a whole bunch of sluggers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you can win the way they used to win.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, it will happen. It will happen someday,
Speaker 1: and it will be a fantastic thing for this community.
Speaker 1: We have so much interesting sound this afternoon, local and
Speaker 1: national stuff and all sorts of stuff with the new
Speaker 1: pope and whether you're religious or not, Catholic or not,
Speaker 1: Christian or not, it's still I think is really going
Speaker 1: to matter to you because this pope, this pope, I
Speaker 1: think is really going to matter to the world in
Speaker 1: a very positive way. Will there be friction with President Trump?
Speaker 1: Will start with that when we come back here on
Speaker 1: the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 7: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1: More Chicago than my uncle Roger Kapli's lifetime chicagoan has
Speaker 1: done about everything you can possibly imagine. And a priest
Speaker 1: now in Chicago for how many years? Father urge, I
Speaker 1: think it's sixty seven?
Speaker 6: Sixty seven?
Speaker 1: Holy cow. And that reference to Harry Carey intended because
Speaker 1: we just found out the new pope, though, is a
Speaker 1: Sox fan? Is that right? Is that where this thing settled?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm certain of it because of what his brother
Speaker 8: said and the people who in fact, we got a
Speaker 8: picture of him at the two o five the World Series.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, he was there, Yeah, yeah, and wow, Well
Speaker 1: you were the first guy who came to mind when
Speaker 1: we heard about all this And were you watching when
Speaker 1: he came down when he was named.
Speaker 8: Well, somebody called me right away then I was watching,
Speaker 8: you know. But anyway, I was just talking to my
Speaker 8: pastor earlier way. He is on his way out for confirmation.
Speaker 8: He had dinner with him on the south side, and
Speaker 8: he used to the Pope used to say mans to
Speaker 8: Saint Paul's out there.
Speaker 3: And then he also, you who.
Speaker 8: Quickly sell Remember seventy seventh and West, I went there,
Speaker 8: you went there. He has consistance the Augustinians have taken
Speaker 8: it over. He has said mass there when he comes
Speaker 8: into meet with the Augustinians.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is wild to think about apple.
Speaker 8: That you knew he said mass a couple of times.
Speaker 1: That's why.
Speaker 8: And also I think I got a kick out of
Speaker 8: since you'd like it. Arelio's Pizza, which is I think
Speaker 8: in Homewood. He used to go there regularly and they
Speaker 8: have a special chair for him. It looks like a
Speaker 8: papal chair set up at Ali's Pizza. A pretty normal guy,
Speaker 8: but a very bright guy.
Speaker 1: Well, that chair thing reminds me of the chair in
Speaker 1: Graham's house, your mom's house. Remember you brought over a cardinal,
Speaker 1: Cardinal Cushing, I think you brought over and then she
Speaker 1: put plastic on the chair where the cardinal that thought
Speaker 1: sat and nobody was ever allowed to sit on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Am I remembering that right now?
Speaker 6: No, you're right, Yeah, that's right, that's true. Yeah, Cardinal
Speaker 6: cut and I sat on.
Speaker 8: That chair the day after mother died.
Speaker 3: That were the same.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Cardneald Cody.
Speaker 8: Was a cardinal that sat in it as I was
Speaker 8: driving him around this outside and he ended up sitting
Speaker 8: in a chair. And then mother would never let us
Speaker 8: sit in it, put plastic on it, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Anyway, there's real excitement, of course in Chicago, and.
Speaker 8: A number of guys I have met him that I
Speaker 8: had not had the privilege, but I was in the
Speaker 8: same building with him at the same time.
Speaker 1: What did the guys you know who know him, what's
Speaker 1: their take?
Speaker 8: Well, they're really quite happy with it. They think that
Speaker 8: he's he's so even tempered and so on, that he'll
Speaker 8: do a good job and they don't see him stepping
Speaker 8: too far outside of boundaries.
Speaker 6: He uh. But the fact that he took to Leo
Speaker 6: the fourteenth, now that you know, if you remember, I
Speaker 6: used to preach on that and reream novarum of new things.
Speaker 8: So in that in cyclical we had the pulp at
Speaker 8: that time saying you should have a living wage, you
Speaker 8: should be able to own private property and things that
Speaker 8: you know, we take for granted today, he was saying,
Speaker 8: before the national social scientists.
Speaker 6: Were doing it here in the country.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so he's at least conscious of that. So no
Speaker 8: justice and care for people.
Speaker 6: Who have been deprived or anything that will be big
Speaker 6: with him.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Well, he had so many years like in Peru
Speaker 8: as well as Chicago.
Speaker 6: He's really global.
Speaker 8: He's not just Chicago, although we're taking advantage of.
Speaker 1: It, because really nobody epitomizes Chicago more than you, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, you've been there your whole life. You've been
Speaker 1: a priest there for sixty seven years. You were out
Speaker 1: at Wrigley Field and Comiskey Park is an Andy Frayne usher.
Speaker 1: You're an athlete yourself. I mean you you are Chicago,
Speaker 1: so this has to be pretty cooler you kind of.
Speaker 1: I mean, did you ever want to be pope?
Speaker 8: I never even considered a remote possibility. I have a
Speaker 8: hard enough time. I didn't even want to be a
Speaker 8: pastor at a different job. So anyway, the pope was
Speaker 8: I never even really gave it serious thought. And I
Speaker 8: suppose you've heard that. You know, when he was young,
Speaker 8: about fourth or fifth grade, one of the neighbor ladies said,
Speaker 8: you know you're going to be a pope. Yeah, she
Speaker 8: really said it, and then they would kid him about that.
Speaker 1: And here we are, Well, tell us is it like that?
Speaker 1: I mean, you've been a pret sixty seven years. And
Speaker 1: by the way, for folks who don't go to Catholic church,
Speaker 1: Father Roger is like a rock star priest. I mean
Speaker 1: he still does what do you do two or three
Speaker 1: masses a week and you still get these crowds. Do
Speaker 1: you do great homilies?
Speaker 8: Yes? And Saturday Monday, And now I will on Tuesday
Speaker 8: because our associate is.
Speaker 6: Going to India for a month, so I'm going to
Speaker 6: do more masses, so about four.
Speaker 8: Days a week, one of which would be one of
Speaker 8: the big weekends one. So I have to prepare a
Speaker 8: homily as well, and I think I do pretty well.
Speaker 1: Oh man, nobody does better with those, which is one
Speaker 1: of the reasons you pack the church. But what do
Speaker 1: you want to see most from this pope?
Speaker 8: Well, I want to see him be able to identify
Speaker 8: with people with different beliefs, even you know, because we
Speaker 8: have such a political divide, we have a bit of
Speaker 8: the same thing in the church. Now, if he can
Speaker 8: keep everybody happy and moving forward. That'll be quite an accomplishment,
Speaker 8: and I think he has the type of mentality to
Speaker 8: do it. He's not going to be raving liberal on
Speaker 8: one side or arch conservative on the other side. He's
Speaker 8: going to be right pretty well in the middle. And
Speaker 8: I think, you know, unity will be big for him
Speaker 8: and for things that are important he will speak out on.
Speaker 8: So he's already said, you know, things that immigration. He's
Speaker 8: obviously going to have some trouble with the administration, but
Speaker 8: he's not going to be a firebrand for one side
Speaker 8: or another. He just wants to take care of his people.
Speaker 8: He spent a lot of time with poor people, especially
Speaker 8: in Peru, for you know, thirty some years, so he
Speaker 8: has a missionary background and he'll never forget that. He'll
Speaker 8: always be thinking about people in need. Yes, that's what
Speaker 8: he'll be thinking about.
Speaker 1: Well, that's awesome, and hey, really appreciate your time, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll talk to you over the weekend on this.
Speaker 1: But thanks and ate. What's the what's the homily about
Speaker 1: this weekend? Have you started to write it yet?
Speaker 8: Well, I'm looking I'm trying to look for an opening
Speaker 8: story on the the different scripture things, but I'm not Yeah,
Speaker 8: I don't want to say anything because I'm talking about
Speaker 8: a change.
Speaker 1: Don't Plus, you don't want to spoiler alert. Right if
Speaker 1: they heard on the show, they may not show up
Speaker 1: on Sunday.
Speaker 6: But here you go.
Speaker 1: Well, hey, thank you really appreciate the time. You're very well, Okay,
Speaker 1: good luck. Thanks.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we're taking a lot of pride in our fellow
Speaker 8: Chicago and the Pope. It's a real it's an honor
Speaker 8: for the country, and it's an honor especially for our
Speaker 8: city boy and for the White Sox and for.
Speaker 1: The White Side. It's the only thing they got going
Speaker 1: for him except the Rockies. Right, thanks again? You too
Speaker 1: that his father O. He is really tremendous. He is great.
Speaker 5: What is in the capitalist genes that man is not
Speaker 5: ninety three years old?
Speaker 1: Ninety three man, I'm telling you no way he'll live
Speaker 1: to one hundred and ninety three. He sounds like, oh yeah, no.
Speaker 1: He's sharp as a tack. Sharp is attack. And when
Speaker 1: we get going at it on politics, he's tough. Like
Speaker 1: he said in you know, I'll do the show remote
Speaker 1: sometimes I'm on the road. So we're at this family gathering.
Speaker 1: He sat in on the show and we get through
Speaker 1: a segment or two and he looked at me and said,
Speaker 1: I thought you'd be better. He is. He's just he's
Speaker 1: a super smart guy. He's deeply cares. You know, we
Speaker 1: don't agree always politically, I mean, so it makes for
Speaker 1: some really interesting conversations. But you talk about a guy
Speaker 1: who walks to talk and he's given his whole life
Speaker 1: to caring for the poor and helping others. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: he has done that, sixty seven years of it and
Speaker 1: more to come. Three or three someone three eight two
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Speaker 2: The United States has headed in the wrong direction in
Speaker 2: terms of immigration. That this is a total injustice to
Speaker 2: these are people. It doesn't matter where they're born. They
Speaker 2: are people first, and so they need to be treated
Speaker 2: as people first.
Speaker 1: I just hope.
Speaker 9: Others, you know, here overseas and it doesn't turn political
Speaker 9: because you know, oh he's an American, he's going to
Speaker 9: screw the church up.
Speaker 1: Hopefully that doesn't happen.
Speaker 9: And it just keep the nationalities, nationalism out of it,
Speaker 9: and let's just be the Catholic Church.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Interesting. I know people are expecting friction between the
Speaker 1: President and the Pope on immigration. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: going to be a big deal at all. I think,
Speaker 1: in fact, did you see the video, Ryan, there's video
Speaker 1: of the pope, you know, as he was a cardinal recently,
Speaker 1: just just talking about how wait a second, this unfettered
Speaker 1: and I'm paraphrasing, immigration is a problem. It's a challenge.
Speaker 1: We just have to, you know, and I'm paraphrasing, just
Speaker 1: respect everybody's basic humanity, treat people humanly. And so I
Speaker 1: don't expect in any way, shape or form that we're
Speaker 1: going to have a pope who's going to say that
Speaker 1: all borders have to be open. I think we're going
Speaker 1: to have a pope who takes that the same really
Speaker 1: wise approach that the Catholic Bishops of Colorado have taken,
Speaker 1: which is respecting the inherent human dignity of everybody, regardless
Speaker 1: of whether they're here legally or not. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, society taking the steps societies allowed to take
Speaker 1: to enforce their laws, you know, insure order, safety, et cetera.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's a common sense kind of approach,
Speaker 1: and I expect this Pope will take the same thing,
Speaker 1: but the starting point will be it all comes back to, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the whole idea. And I can
Speaker 1: only speak for the Catholic Church because that's what I've
Speaker 1: been a part of all these years. Is the attitude is, hey,
Speaker 1: whether it's it's the Pope or any of the rest
Speaker 1: of us, you carry the mail. You can't change what's
Speaker 1: in the letter, and so it all comes back to
Speaker 1: what would Jesus do? What would Jesus do in this
Speaker 1: same situation. That that's whether you're the Pope, whether you're
Speaker 1: a priest like my uncle father Rogrew who just joined
Speaker 1: us in the last segment and has been a priest
Speaker 1: for sixty seven years, wherever you are in the high hierarchy.
Speaker 1: You know, it all comes down to that same simple thing.
Speaker 1: So I really don't expect I mean, listen, the Pope
Speaker 1: is going to speak and then bluntly and clearly when
Speaker 1: it comes to immigration, but I don't expect that that's
Speaker 1: going to cause any kind of rift with the President.
Speaker 1: And what it comes down to is, my Lord, I mean,
Speaker 1: you've got two people in the Pope and President Trump
Speaker 1: who have the most profound and broadest kind of common
Speaker 1: ground when it comes to Catholic teaching. You know, blessed
Speaker 1: are the peacemakers and the inherent dignity of human life.
Speaker 1: And we have not had a better president in our
Speaker 1: lifetimes when it comes to the unborn and protecting the unborn.
Speaker 1: It's the foundational issue for the church as well. And
Speaker 1: Trump has been the best pro life president in American history.
Speaker 1: And then when it comes to peacemakers, he's a piece
Speaker 1: or strength guy. But we have an edititor peacemaker and
Speaker 1: so Ano there is so much common grond between the two.
Speaker 1: So if you think I'll go to the Vatican, Ryan,
Speaker 1: oh absolutely, and he was.
Speaker 5: I think we have the sound of him expressing great
Speaker 5: celebration over the fact that we will have the first
Speaker 5: ever American pope. And of course, Dan, the first person
Speaker 5: I thought of was you, and that he's coming out
Speaker 5: of Chicago and your remarkable uncle in that previous segment,
Speaker 5: just so exciting, Like you said, such a great moment
Speaker 5: for the city.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the whole city. Yeah, And how cool that is.
Speaker 1: And in a lot of ways, I think it's really
Speaker 1: appropriate just because Chicago it's a city of workers. It's
Speaker 1: a city of working people. I know it has its
Speaker 1: crazy crime and everything else because lefty policies, but its
Speaker 1: core and its history is a city of hard workers,
Speaker 1: city of broad shoulders. And it's just it's really appropriate because,
Speaker 1: just like I've been saying for years, for the Republican
Speaker 1: Party to win and to matter, it has to be
Speaker 1: the party of the working people, and it has to
Speaker 1: truly deliver for working people. The church, you go back
Speaker 1: to the core, you go back to Jesus. I mean,
Speaker 1: who did Jesus choose to be his twelve apostles? I mean,
Speaker 1: he wasn't up there in the c suite pulling people
Speaker 1: out right. Well, no, you're talking to the workers, you
Speaker 1: guys who are out there doing the fishing and everything else.
Speaker 1: And so I'm really glad that we have a pope
Speaker 1: from that kind of background. Very similar, right, my friend
Speaker 1: to Pope John Paul the Great, Yes, and very very similar.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, I just could not be more excited,
Speaker 1: not just because hey, I think he's going to be
Speaker 1: a super good pope, and because he's from Chicago and
Speaker 1: the American thing and and all of that. I just think.
Speaker 1: I just think we're moving in the right direction when
Speaker 1: it comes to commitment to you know, working people, when
Speaker 1: it comes to a commitment to the poor, because when
Speaker 1: you look at President Trump, his policies, his policies are
Speaker 1: going to do so much more for the poor than
Speaker 1: the Democrats, because the Democratic prop policies that they have
Speaker 1: to keep a very large number of poor people. I mean,
Speaker 1: the secular left that runs the party knows that once
Speaker 1: people start making seventy grand or more, a majority are
Speaker 1: going to vote Republican. The very existence of the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party depends on keeping a lot of people from making
Speaker 1: more money. So I just and it took me a
Speaker 1: while to know that when I was a Democrat, I
Speaker 1: was a Democrat for very noble reasons, because I believe
Speaker 1: that party was the best vehicle to serve the poor
Speaker 1: and protect the weak in defense as those without a voice,
Speaker 1: and to have equal opportunity for working people, you know.
Speaker 1: And I just saw the Democratic Party as the best
Speaker 1: vehicle for that. I never in a million years, my friend,
Speaker 1: would have thought the Republican Party would be a better vehicle.
Speaker 1: Once I became a Republican, I came to understand that
Speaker 1: it is m hm. So I just like between the
Speaker 1: President and the Pope. I'm not saying in that order.
Speaker 1: I really like where the world's headed right now.
Speaker 5: I've got a text here and I got a post
Speaker 5: on X along these lines, asking about you, because I
Speaker 5: think the Texter slash listener knows that I am not
Speaker 5: Catholic personally.
Speaker 1: I'm Protestant, but I thought we changed that.
Speaker 7: No, I don't think I qualified.
Speaker 5: But please ask him, meaning your uncle, what he thinks
Speaker 5: about the Trump Pope picture. Did he get a laugh
Speaker 5: or find it unacceptable? What did you think of?
Speaker 1: Oh? You know, I'm going to call him during the
Speaker 1: break and ask him that. Sure, you know, I think
Speaker 1: I'm probably like most people who thought it was in
Speaker 1: bad taste. And I laughed my head off, you know. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I listen, President Trump has been so great for Catholics,
Speaker 1: and he's been so great for the Catholic Church. You
Speaker 1: have Joe Biden and these lefties out there literally persecuting Catholics,
Speaker 1: you know, sending the FBI to their home, rating Catholics,
Speaker 1: putting Catholics in jail. I mean that the Biden administration
Speaker 1: and the secutor left that runs a Democratic party is
Speaker 1: so openly hostile toward Catholics, the Catholic Church, religious freedom.
Speaker 5: Man, how could that be when Joe Biden was the
Speaker 5: second ever Catholic president?
Speaker 1: Oh man, Oh boy, yeah right? I mean, but it
Speaker 1: just goes back to it just goes back to so
Speaker 1: many people have sold themselves for power. So many people
Speaker 1: have been willing to betray everything for power, betray their faith,
Speaker 1: betray their God so they can get and keep power.
Speaker 1: And listen, I'm the furthest thing from a perfect Catholic.
Speaker 1: That's not the point. But when you talk about people
Speaker 1: like Joe Biden, I mean, how many people have just
Speaker 1: decided to forsake their very faith to get and keep
Speaker 1: power in the Democratic Party? Possible? There are so many
Speaker 1: you couldn't count them. I think we have some Pelosi
Speaker 1: sound here, right? We got to play that. I mean,
Speaker 1: she may be exhibited even even before Biden.
Speaker 10: Do you think that at this moment, when so many
Speaker 10: people are looking to him he could be impactful as
Speaker 10: a moral and ethical voice on that issue that we're
Speaker 10: dealing with, when so many people are being mass supported
Speaker 10: or fear it.
Speaker 4: Well, I certainly hope so. And from his comments previous
Speaker 4: to being elected the Pope. He has made clear what
Speaker 4: his values and his view of all of that is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but do you think she cares at all what
Speaker 1: the Pope's view on abortion is. She's devoted all over
Speaker 1: God given talents and opportunities and platforms and her whole
Speaker 1: professional life to undermining the core teaching of the Catholic Church.
Speaker 1: Her obsession has been abortion on demand till the moment
Speaker 1: of delivery. So you think she cares a wit about
Speaker 1: what the Pope says on the fundamental civil rights issue
Speaker 1: of our lifetime. No, but that's just the point, right,
Speaker 1: And listen, I am a very flawed Catholic and I'm
Speaker 1: the furthest thing from perfect. But when we're talking about
Speaker 1: politics and people who made that cold, deliberate decision, Okay,
Speaker 1: do I turn my back on my faith, my very
Speaker 1: faith so I can get and keep power in the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party. There are a whole lot of those. You're
Speaker 1: on the Dan Kapla.
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Speaker 1: When it was this good, right, so many reasons to
Speaker 1: be optimistic, and the new Pope just one of them.
Speaker 1: Three or three someone three or two five five takes
Speaker 1: d an five seven seven three nine. Some Texters not
Speaker 1: so much. Dan, I especially like this pope and that
Speaker 1: he was only involved in a small way with the
Speaker 1: child sex cover up. I would love to understand someday
Speaker 1: where this irrational anti Catholic hate comes from, right, And
Speaker 1: I truly what I mean that, I would love to
Speaker 1: understand it. And I'd love to have a true conversation
Speaker 1: with one of the haters because I just don't get that.
Speaker 1: But I'm pretty darn sure I could convince them otherwise
Speaker 1: if we had a chance to have the conversation. I mean,
Speaker 1: first of all, totally bogus allegation, But second, why do
Speaker 1: some people, why do some people just want to completely
Speaker 1: deny it, just and close their eyes to the overwhelming
Speaker 1: amount of good. I mean, no matter what your own
Speaker 1: religious beliefs are, and you know that's you're right, But
Speaker 1: I'm just talking about in the trench is good that
Speaker 1: the Catholic Church, including this Pope, have done for the
Speaker 1: poor over the years. And I'm not going to preach
Speaker 1: on this, but we all know it's true. Literally, Denver,
Speaker 1: Colorado would fall apart tomorrow without Catholic charities. It's just
Speaker 1: that simple. Northern Colorado right now, Catholic charity is so involved.
Speaker 1: I'm biased, I'm a board member, but it also gives
Speaker 1: me knowledge, and I'm just telling you it would fall
Speaker 1: apart without Catholic charities and Catholic charity. He's taking care
Speaker 1: of probably a whole lot more non Catholic people than
Speaker 1: Catholic people, but the poor in the trenches, the really
Speaker 1: dirty work. So yeah, I'd love to understand this hates
Speaker 1: some day because it really should be the opposite. And listen,
Speaker 1: no human institution, no human is ever going to be perfect.
Speaker 1: There's only been one human and divine. But so I'm
Speaker 1: not saying the Catholic Church has been perfect, Clearly it hasn't.
Speaker 1: No human enterprise ever has been. But you talk about
Speaker 1: the good, the massive amount of good over hundreds of years,
Speaker 1: hard to top it. Let's go to Warren in beautiful
Speaker 1: Colorado Springs. Had the pleasure of being in trial down
Speaker 1: there this week and loved every minute of it. Warren,
Speaker 1: how you doing well?
Speaker 3: Spent a lot of time since I talked. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: such a month anyway, But I've learned a lot since then.
Speaker 3: I've got the time to do it. You probably don't
Speaker 3: be in busy guys. You are, but I learned a
Speaker 3: lot of information off see me because I've got the time. Anyway,
Speaker 3: anniversary of European War in Europe brings a point I
Speaker 3: want to talk to you. Tell you about. There was
Speaker 3: approximately four hundred thousand Americans that were killed as a
Speaker 3: result of World War Two. Many of those were accidents
Speaker 3: in this country and somewhat over three hundred and some
Speaker 3: thousand in combat. But for every American that was killed
Speaker 3: as a result of World War Two, there are proximately
Speaker 3: three hundred and fifty Americans alive in nineteen forty five
Speaker 3: in this country. Now the Russians, this is going to
Speaker 3: surprise you. For every Russian that has lost his life
Speaker 3: as the result of the German army invading Russia, there
Speaker 3: was only seven Russians alive. Seven.
Speaker 1: I hadn't heard that.
Speaker 3: So the question is almost every family lost somebody, almost
Speaker 3: every family. But the question arise, is do the Russians,
Speaker 3: and I'm not talking about just Peuten, I'm talking about
Speaker 3: the overall mass of the Russian people have a reason
Speaker 3: to be paranoid about military on the boter And my
Speaker 3: answer to that is yes, they're theurotically paranoid about it,
Speaker 3: and they've got a reason to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they don't have a reason. They then go
Speaker 1: rape and pillage a neighbor.
Speaker 3: They were provoked into that, No, they weren't. You got
Speaker 3: to study it.
Speaker 1: I have studied it. You're telling me it's a provocation.
Speaker 1: It's a It's definitely in the interesting time because it's
Speaker 1: stock radio contested.
Speaker 3: Every move they made, they were protested, and they wanted
Speaker 3: to talked about it, and we just wanted to shove
Speaker 3: it down their throat because every time the country got
Speaker 3: the joy NAT or they bought, the military equivalent was
Speaker 3: produced by the industrial military complex of this country, and
Speaker 3: we provoked that.
Speaker 1: Why do you think they didn't go in when Trump
Speaker 1: was president?
Speaker 3: Why didn't they go in when Trump was president? I
Speaker 3: don't think that. I think they were relating to see
Speaker 3: what was going to.
Speaker 1: Happen, But because they knew at that point the risk
Speaker 1: was too high, Right, they weren't going to go in
Speaker 1: if if NATO was going to fight back. They weren't
Speaker 1: going to go in if America was going to fight back. Right.
Speaker 1: So the only reason they went in was the weakness
Speaker 1: of Joe Biden and the weakness of Barack Obama before him.
Speaker 8: None, no, no word.
Speaker 1: Then why And I understand that you do warrant, but
Speaker 1: it's okay to have your own opinion, you can't have
Speaker 1: your own facts. The facts are when Obama was president,
Speaker 1: they went in, they took Crimea. When Trump was president,
Speaker 1: they didn't go in at all. When Biden was president,
Speaker 1: they then went in and raked and pillaged the nation.
Speaker 1: So why didn't they go in when Trump was there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, on two eight they weren't because if you try
Speaker 3: to move NATO into the end of Ukraine, Ukraine is
Speaker 3: going to be destroyed. We want to discuss this with you,
Speaker 3: and we just shoved it down their throat. We said,
Speaker 3: you're a weak We don't care what you think. Control
Speaker 3: of that time and time again. Isn't you think there's
Speaker 3: people just touching the Wan that knew that they would
Speaker 3: do that way and wanted that war.
Speaker 1: It isn't a true warrant that The reason that Russia
Speaker 1: didn't go into Ukraine when Trump was president is that
Speaker 1: whatever perceived threat from Ukraine was not great enough to
Speaker 1: justify a military invasion unless it was going to be
Speaker 1: quick and easy like Crimea. And they thought that this
Speaker 1: was going to be quick and easy.
Speaker 3: Well, you know the only thing that I can say
Speaker 3: about that is the guy that Trump hired to an
Speaker 3: advisor to his fat tector defense was with Colonel Douglas McGregor,
Speaker 3: the other Royce whipped. He says about it, and he
Speaker 3: didn't helping Trump would change his tune to what is
Speaker 3: going on. But who knows where this is going to
Speaker 3: go now. But the other thing I was going to
Speaker 3: mention to you is the Mexican barter. Uh. I'm just
Speaker 3: going to give you a hypothetical real quickly. Remember, things
Speaker 3: are getting pretty warm when proser Reagan was that he
Speaker 3: called the Russian evil Empire, and people were, you know,
Speaker 3: the push to build this, the web, the rockets and
Speaker 3: everything was going. I'm pretty good. The Cold War was
Speaker 3: heating up. What Mexico would elected a president It was
Speaker 3: real hostile to the United States, almost like Venezuela. And
Speaker 3: they got so bad that he asked.
Speaker 1: What, Wren, We literally have fifteen seconds if the question
Speaker 1: is okay, if we have a hostile president on the
Speaker 1: other side, does that and justify invading, raping, and pillaging. No,
Speaker 1: I don't believe it does self defense, yes, but what
Speaker 1: Russia's doing is satanic evil you're on the dan Kapla show,