WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.520 This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast 2 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:05.719 edition of The Dan 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 --> 00:00:15.800 single day on your favorite podcast platform. Threell three seven 6 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:19.519 one three eight two five five the number text DA 7 00:00:19.719 --> 00:00:22.120 and five seven seven three nine. Thank you to Sheriff 8 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:25.679 Steve Reims for anchoring the show the first three days 9 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:28.079 of the week. I was out of state doing trial 10 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:31.000 prep and so happy to be back with you today 11 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:33.759 and for the weekend. And then I start a trial 12 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:37.920 on Monday, so we'll have another great cast of all 13 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:40.640 stars in next week. Three all three someone three eight 14 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:43.520 two five five the number. Then this trial run, this 15 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:46.600 will have been, if I'm counting right, my fourth jury 16 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:50.880 trial in eight weeks, and then I'll I'll be off 17 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:53.119 Jerry trials for about a month and a half and 18 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:55.520 then I'll have one that'll go about a month in September. 19 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:59.159 So really looking forward to this time with you now. 20 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:02.799 And the timing is pretty perfect, right. This is a 21 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:06.560 big deal today with the big beautiful bill passing and 22 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:08.879 on so many different levels. But one of the things 23 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:11.599 I want to kick around with you today is what 24 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:14.079 do you like what don't you like in the Big 25 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:16.959 Beautiful Bill? If there's anything you don't like, but really 26 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:19.200 anxious to get your take on it. Now, Listen. When 27 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:22.239 I consider myself an expert in something, I tell you 28 00:01:22.319 --> 00:01:24.000 and then you can decide whether I am or not. 29 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:27.239 And when I'm not, I tell you that too, and 30 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:29.120 then we can all agree on that. And I'm not 31 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:32.519 an expert on the Big Beautiful Bill. I'm just not. 32 00:01:33.879 --> 00:01:36.000 I've been paying attention to a lot of different stuff, 33 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:40.200 including Supreme Court, big Supreme Court rulings, et cetera. As 34 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:42.920 I've been balancing trial prep and this show. But I 35 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:45.799 have just not done a deep dive on the bills, 36 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:49.879 so but anxious to have the conversation. I'm reading probably 37 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:52.280 the same stuff you're reading, and trying to learn as 38 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:55.599 much as I can about it. I have a general impression, 39 00:01:56.200 --> 00:01:58.439 and you can tell me whether you share it or not. 40 00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:02.599 But we'll have some hot sound from plenty of other 41 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:05.319 things going on in the world locally and nationally. I 42 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:07.200 do want to throw a few kind of over our 43 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:09.800 questions out there for you. We'll kick around during the 44 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:12.599 show whenever you feel like it. And one of those is, 45 00:02:13.960 --> 00:02:15.919 you know, America. Obviously, we're going to be, you know, 46 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:19.960 talking a lot about America the fourth tomorrow, but I 47 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:23.199 wanted to throw this question out there other than freedom, 48 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:26.520 because I think we'd all answer this question freedom initially. 49 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:31.680 What's the best thing about America other than freedom? And obviously, 50 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:33.439 you know, there's a lot of criticism out there, and 51 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:36.240 we talk about that criticism, etc. We live in a 52 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:38.199 country right now. What a weird place to be right 53 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:41.560 where you have one of the two major political parties 54 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:45.479 that is separated from an awful lot of its voters, 55 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:48.319 and that the people who control the party just really 56 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:51.400 don't like this country and they want to fundamentally change 57 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:55.199 it in awful ways. That's a weird place to be, right. 58 00:02:55.319 --> 00:02:59.199 Probably probably a first in American history. I'm trying to 59 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:02.080 think through that, but yeah, probably a first in American 60 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:06.439 history since the Civil War where you have one major 61 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:10.319 political party trying to fundamentally change the nation in bad 62 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:13.080 ways because the people who own and operate the party 63 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:16.520 just don't like this country very much. That's a weird deal. 64 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:19.840 Makes the stakes real high, right, which then brings us 65 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:22.800 to the importance of the big, beautiful bill beyond what's 66 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:24.439 in it, And I'll get to that in a second, 67 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:29.360 but yeah, what do you most like about America other 68 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:35.000 than freedom? Would love your take on that. Who's the 69 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:39.639 one person in America? You know? And obviously God's not 70 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:44.719 a person, but who's the one person who we most 71 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:45.919 owe our freedom to? 72 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:46.719 Now? 73 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:49.680 I was tempted to exclude George Washington from this because 74 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:51.439 I think most of us will just go back to writing, 75 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:54.439 I mean, you commanded the revolutionary armies. But I'll open 76 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:58.039 it up more broadly. Who's the one person we most 77 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:00.960 owe our freedom to? The greatest president ever? I know 78 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:04.759 we talk about that sometimes, but inappropriate day to revisit it, 79 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:08.680 I imagine that the current president, President Trump, will get 80 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:12.719 some additional votes today based on this legislative accomplishment. Because 81 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:15.599 whether you like the bill or not, and this is 82 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:17.439 what I was alluding to a second ago, whether you 83 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:21.000 like the bill or not, I think every honest person 84 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:24.720 would have to acknowledge the fact that the president and 85 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:28.279 the Republican Party were able to get this bill passed 86 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:34.839 extraordinarily impressive, particularly given the very narrow margins and the 87 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:39.560 very large scope of the bill. And so that is 88 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:43.439 really impressive and really encouraging as to where things can 89 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:45.680 go from here. Three h three someone three eight two 90 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:48.600 five five The number takes d A N five seven 91 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:52.360 seven three nine. Thank you to our first Texter, Dan. 92 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:54.920 I happy thirty first anniversary. I hope you and Amy 93 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:59.240 have something fun planned that from Alexa. Thank you Alexa, 94 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:02.759 very thoughtful. We have more than one fun thing planned. 95 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:05.680 And yeah, it's amazing, isn't it. And I don't know 96 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:10.040 how old you are whatever, but it's amazing how time works. 97 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:13.120 Like I'm thinking of sitting there in the bar Exam 98 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:16.680 and you know that was forty plus years ago, but 99 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:19.639 sitting there in the bar Exam and that first day 100 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:22.639 went like literally it went like five minutes. And I've 101 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:24.560 been preparing for it for months and months. I'm sure 102 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:26.800 you can relate to things in your life, and then 103 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:29.399 there can be other things in life where literally a 104 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:32.480 minute can seem like an hour, like if it's something 105 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:35.399 really awful or you're in physical pain whatever. So it's 106 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:40.160 this concept of time. Phenomena of time is really amazing 107 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:43.319 because these thirty one years and if you're married, I 108 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:46.439 don't know how long, but if you're sitting there in 109 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:49.439 that first year of marriage. It may seem like a 110 00:05:49.439 --> 00:05:52.120 long time because it's such a big change in your life, 111 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:57.920 but holy cow, I mean after year one, it's literally flown. 112 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:02.839 I mean it really feels like maybe five years and 113 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:06.839 it's thirty one. I mean that's that's kind of thrilling 114 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:09.040 and scary at the same time, right, I mean scary 115 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:12.759 in terms of I'm sitting here right now feeling really young, 116 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:16.959 and you know, but thirty one years goes pretty fast, 117 00:06:17.079 --> 00:06:19.079 and I won't be young in thirty one years. So 118 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:22.079 three all three, seOne, three eight, two five five, texts 119 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:24.839 d an five seven seven three nine. I get my 120 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:27.079 wife on the show today, but she'll never come on 121 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:32.160 the show. She is so mediashye, which is remarkable because 122 00:06:32.199 --> 00:06:36.160 she was just such a stellar, world class news anchor, 123 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:41.360 but loves her privacy and I do not I do 124 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:44.959 not impose on that. We did have this opportunity. I'm 125 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:49.560 trying to remember whichever was whatever the biggest satellite radio 126 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:54.000 not work was at the time. It contacted us about 127 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:57.120 doing a show together, and I have no doubt that 128 00:06:57.160 --> 00:06:58.920 would have been a hit show, and not because of me, 129 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:02.199 But that thing never got off the ground. That's zero 130 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:06.120 interest in that whatsoever. But what an amazing thirty one years. 131 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:08.839 I'm so grateful for that. I wonder what I'll look 132 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:12.560 it up in the break. How long the average marriage lasts? 133 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:15.519 Because you get a lot of different variables, right, I mean, 134 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:18.879 we've been so blessed with health. He get a lot 135 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:22.040 of great couples deeply in love, and then somebody gets ill. 136 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:25.480 Obviously you have some marriages that don't quite make it. 137 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:31.000 But yeah, I wonder how long the average marriage lasts? Really, 138 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:31.639 Thank you, Zack. 139 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:35.279 Zach is on top of it, Zach, I didn't think 140 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:36.839 that over the are twenty one years in America? 141 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:39.240 Thank you. Oh you didn't say that. So people thought 142 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:42.839 I was talking to myself and I had imagine oury friend, Zach. Now, 143 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:44.800 I've got to tell you, Zach would be a great 144 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:47.879 real friend. Right, Tell people a little about yourself. Zach 145 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:52.519 Ryan is off a what bars he in? He's off, 146 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:57.319 it's not a sandbar. He is in Michigan. Okay, Yeah, 147 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:00.720 they've got a couple there, but Zack, Okay, yeah, tell 148 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:02.560 people about yourself. Thanks. 149 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:03.199 Yeah. 150 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:06.759 Twenty five here from Colorado born and race fellow uh 151 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:10.920 Colorado at Boulder grat No buffs and uh yeah, enjoying 152 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:13.360 the radio biz, mainly on the sports side, but always 153 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:14.000 fun to hop. 154 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:17.160 Over here too. Yeah, what's your degree in journalism? 155 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:17.480 Oh? 156 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:21.720 Minor sports convenience. That's convenient. Yeah, well, great to have 157 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:24.279 you here. Yeah, Zach, Zach is a wonderful cat. It 158 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:26.879 started out sounding there like one of those dating shows. 159 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:28.759 Are you single? Are you married? What's your star? 160 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:33.600 I've been in a relationship for eight years now eight Yeah, 161 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:36.519 getting doing the mask, being ready to follow question here? 162 00:08:36.799 --> 00:08:39.559 Since Wow, does she know? I guess she does now. 163 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:42.120 Hopefully she's not listening right now. Hopefully she's working. 164 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:46.000 Yeah, that's a good way to put it, A good 165 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:48.399 way to put it, since we're not three all three 166 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:51.279 someone three eight two five five text d an five seven, 167 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:54.000 seven thirty nine. So you guys met when you were seventeen, 168 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:55.679 So you meet in high school. 169 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:57.679 I didn't go to the same high school. We had 170 00:08:57.679 --> 00:09:01.360 a mutual friend. I was in at Fairview, she was 171 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:02.639 at Ralston Valley in Nevada. 172 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:04.960 Wow, how do those two meet? 173 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:10.200 I don't even know. Actually, I think it goes back 174 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:11.480 to uh hockey. 175 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:14.440 She was a figure skater for a lot of her youth, 176 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:17.559 and I think he had a mutual friend who was 177 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:20.000 a hockey player who I actually stole her from. 178 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:22.320 Oh no, and then yeah, you know, we've been together 179 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:22.879 eight years, son. 180 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:24.879 That's a great way to start. No, it really is. 181 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:29.679 I mean, if you've got to compete for it just 182 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:30.360 feels better. 183 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:32.120 I wouldn't be telling the story if I didn't win. 184 00:09:32.240 --> 00:09:36.399 Yeah, I know that is true. I feel the same way. Man, 185 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:40.399 Holy cow, hotly cow. The battles. I had to fight 186 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:45.159 competition for my bride as well. So congratulations, my friend 187 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:47.799 and Sacks are real keeper three or three someone three 188 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:50.399 eight two five five text d A N five seven 189 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:52.399 seven three nine. So we got all that going on. 190 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:54.519 We'll come back if you've got to take on the 191 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:58.360 big beautiful bill. And again, without knowing, I'd like to say, 192 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:00.159 I don't know all the details. I don't even know 193 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:02.600 that many, but I'll tell you when we come back. 194 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:04.720 The reason I'm excited about it and why I think 195 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:09.399 President Trump, broadly speaking here is right to be doing this. 196 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:10.879 You're on the Dan Capitla Show. 197 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:19.720 And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast. 198 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:21.519 Glad you're here. 199 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:30.440 Perhaps year after year after year, as a result of 200 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:33.360 the Republican assault on the healthcare. 201 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:35.279 Of the American people. 202 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:35.840 I'm sad. 203 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:38.840 I never thought I'd be on the House floor saying 204 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:41.279 that this is a crime scene. 205 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:43.200 At House. 206 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:46.279 Democrats want no part of it. 207 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:52.200 Kim Jeffrey spoke for over eight hours. I mean he had, 208 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:55.879 you know, as that Democrat leader, he had the privilege 209 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:59.399 of speaking, and decided to extend it about eight hours 210 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:01.960 just to try to make things more difficult for the 211 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:05.320 Republicans hope there would be some defections on the Big 212 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:08.279 Beautiful Bill, and he failed. He did succeed though, in 213 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:10.639 taking off a fair number of Democrats in the meantime 214 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:13.080 because they hadn't been given a heads up that he 215 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:14.600 was going to do this, and then people had to 216 00:11:14.679 --> 00:11:18.559 change flights and plans and everything else. So that makes 217 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:21.639 this even sweeter. Three oh three you seven one three 218 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:24.519 eight two five five the number tex DA N five 219 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:27.320 seven seven three nine. You'd love to get your take 220 00:11:27.960 --> 00:11:30.039 on the Big Beautiful Bill, and there are a number 221 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:32.679 of things going on there right, individual pieces of it. 222 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:35.960 Your take on that, but also on the significance, which 223 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:39.320 I think is monumental of Trump and the GOP being 224 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:41.720 able to marshal this bill through. I mean when you 225 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:44.519 step back and look at it, it has to vote 226 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:47.360 very well for the future, send a great broader message 227 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:51.720 to the nation about the GOP in terms of competence, competence, 228 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:54.960 of leadership, coherence, et cetera. Because you can be darn 229 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:58.960 sure right, there had to be something House Senate for 230 00:11:59.080 --> 00:12:01.200 any voting member, there had to be something. And to 231 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:04.320 build this big and scope that had to really upset 232 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:09.000 every single person who voted for it, and people were 233 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:12.600 able to still keep that party in that this effort 234 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:16.519 together and recognize you don't let the perfect be the 235 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:19.440 enemy of the great and do what they needed to 236 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:22.480 do to get all the good stuff. And that's that's 237 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:25.679 not easy when your margins are that small, right, it 238 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:29.279 is not easy. And so yeah, you have to give 239 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:31.320 an awful lot of credit at this point to the 240 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:34.200 leaders in both you know, a House and Senate John 241 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:38.639 Thune on the Senate side, and obviously Speaker Johnson on 242 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:41.000 the House side, and even more so on the House side. 243 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:44.799 Can you imagine trying to herd cats like that? And 244 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:48.159 President Trump was obviously the glue, He was the big stick. 245 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:52.120 And the fact that he's on such a role right now, 246 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:56.200 which is not accidental obviously, you know, was kind of 247 00:12:56.200 --> 00:12:59.080 the secret sauce that made all this work in the end. 248 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:00.519 But want to get your take on all that, And 249 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:04.279 then we're weaving in, Hey, what's the best thing about 250 00:13:04.399 --> 00:13:07.519 America this Fourth of July weekend? Other than freedom? Because 251 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:10.000 we'd all say freedom, right, I mean, that's the starting point. 252 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:14.440 That's what God intended founders America divine intervention. They were 253 00:13:14.440 --> 00:13:16.240 able to make all that work and at least have 254 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:19.559 this one nation where we've got a shot at true freedom. 255 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:24.200 But other than freedom, what is the best thing about America? 256 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:29.799 And who? What one person do we most owe our 257 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:32.480 freedom too? And I know that the default is probably 258 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:35.600 George Washington. I don't blame you, but but who's the 259 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:38.759 one person we most owe our freedom to? And the 260 00:13:38.759 --> 00:13:41.559 greatest president? So we'll start with all that I do 261 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:45.799 have to throw in here, though. You know, we talked 262 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:48.799 a week or two ago when the President publicly used 263 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:51.399 the F word. I think we a lot of people 264 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:54.440 understood his peak at that moment. But I don't like 265 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:57.639 presidents and other elective officials using the F word publicly. 266 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:02.759 But holy I was sitting there this morning and I 267 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:07.960 was watching ESPN during breakfast and at snooze, and all 268 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:10.720 of a sudden, up on the screen, up on the 269 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:13.039 screen here, let me put up So I quoted for batam, 270 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:16.720 but not obviously the word in question. But up on 271 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:20.960 the screen, I see this big chiron, this big headline 272 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:25.240 that read and it's the title of a new segment 273 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:30.200 that's good s word S word spelled out. So this 274 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:33.000 is an ESPN segment. And then they talk about something 275 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:36.600 good that happened in sports. Are you kidding me? That's 276 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:40.200 good s word? I mean, I've heard the word before. 277 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:43.720 I've used the word before. But the point being, what 278 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:48.399 about the kids? And any mainstream network but a sports 279 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:51.960 network and ESPN that owns Disney, to me, that just 280 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:54.320 proofs they don't care at all about your kids. This 281 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:56.720 happened to be on the Pat McAfee show. I got 282 00:14:56.759 --> 00:15:00.600 in on a flight late late last night, and so 283 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:03.440 I was having a later breakfast today on my way 284 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:07.000 in and Pat McAfee shows, So, but what do you 285 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:09.960 think about that? Am I overreacting to that? Am I 286 00:15:10.039 --> 00:15:13.279 the only person concerned about it? Does it signal something 287 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:17.360 bigger and more important? See? I think it does, because 288 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:20.879 clearly they just don't care about kids. I mean, i'm 289 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:22.799 sure Pat McAfee, and I don't know if he has 290 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:24.679 kids or not. I like him, I like your show, 291 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:28.720 but I'm sure Pat McAfee would would not want his 292 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:32.639 children using that word. I can't think of any sane 293 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:36.679 person who'd want their children using that word. So for 294 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:40.039 ESPN to name a feature after that, I'd love to 295 00:15:40.039 --> 00:15:41.799 get your take on that. Three or three someone three 296 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:45.840 eight two five five text d A N five seven 297 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:49.720 seven three nine. All right, let's get back to the 298 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:52.759 we'll get to phones, we'll get to text, and I 299 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:54.919 want to get some of this hot take sound. But 300 00:15:55.679 --> 00:15:58.759 one one quick thing on the big beautiful bill, and 301 00:15:58.840 --> 00:16:01.120 I want to acronymic, but I just like saying it. 302 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:04.039 I think everybody likes saying it. That may be one 303 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:08.679 reason it passed. But here is what's at work. I mean, 304 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:11.159 there's no doubt, and President Trump has spoken to it. 305 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:13.440 But it doesn't get headlines that much, and it may 306 00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:16.600 not be that that much in the bloodstream right now 307 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:22.159 in terms of understanding his approach. But President Trump has 308 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:26.240 clearly staked out the position and he believes it to 309 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:33.039 his core that the only way to fiscal stability for 310 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:35.600 the United States of America because obviously, these debts and 311 00:16:35.639 --> 00:16:39.919 deficits are crazy, right, they're crazy scary that the only 312 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:45.159 way to fiscal stability is gross. And I'm not quoting 313 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:47.240 the president verbatim at all. I'm just giving you my 314 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:49.600 read on his approach, And my read on his approach 315 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:53.600 is is he doesn't believe we can cut our way 316 00:16:54.600 --> 00:17:00.519 to prosperity, that we can cut our way to eliminating 317 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:03.799 these deficits. Now, obviously he's taken some pretty dramatic steps 318 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:07.920 through Doze, et cetera, to try to actually get serious 319 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:11.359 about cutting out waste. And that's important and appreciated, not 320 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:13.240 just for the money it saves now, but also the 321 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:18.920 mindset that the mindset mechanically functionally of the administration moving 322 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:22.799 forward and then hoping and at this point assuming that 323 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:25.440 there'll be a GOP president in twenty eight as well 324 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:31.440 and hopefully thirty two. So but clearly he is committed 325 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:34.359 to growth as the answer. Now, everybody likes growth, right, 326 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:36.839 you're growing or you're dying. But I'm just talking about 327 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:40.119 this cliff we're staring at right now with the debt, 328 00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:43.599 the deficit, spending, et cetera. And you know, obviously the 329 00:17:43.640 --> 00:17:46.799 debt service going up with these interest rates. So so 330 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:49.839 he is committed to growing our way out of trouble 331 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:53.079 and this bill, and I don't claim to be an 332 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:55.839 expert on it at all, but this bill is built 333 00:17:55.839 --> 00:18:00.720 around that premise, and it's intended as rocket fuel the economy. 334 00:18:01.480 --> 00:18:04.799 The idea obviously being that the more the economy grows 335 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:08.319 and people earn and work and prosper, then the more 336 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:11.160 revenue there's going to be to the government. And it 337 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:15.839 also is consistent with the really dramatic contrast that has 338 00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:18.599 developed over the years between the GOP and the Democratic Party. 339 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:20.920 And I used to be a Democrat for years, but 340 00:18:21.240 --> 00:18:23.759 the Democratic Party, which used to be the party, and 341 00:18:23.799 --> 00:18:25.160 when I was part of it, I sure saw it 342 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:28.960 that way of working men and women is not anymore. 343 00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:31.480 And as I've said for years, the GOP must be 344 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:34.400 not only to win, but to be meaningful and relevant. 345 00:18:35.240 --> 00:18:39.160 But the Democratic Party has become a party that's a 346 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:42.359 fight over scraps party. They want everybody fighting over scraps 347 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:45.160 and depending on government. Trump's committed to this growth, and 348 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:46.720 I think he's got the fuel. 349 00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:57.680 Now you're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast. 350 00:18:58.759 --> 00:18:59.880 It's better than expected. 351 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:01.319 Yeah, Sarah, it is. 352 00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:04.000 Look, this jobs market is like the energizer bunny. 353 00:19:04.119 --> 00:19:07.200 Every single time we expected to run out of steam, 354 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:09.440 it just keeps going and going. So these new numbers 355 00:19:09.440 --> 00:19:11.839 show that the US economy added one hundred and forty 356 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:15.599 seven thousand jobs in June. That was well ahead of 357 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:18.720 the expectation of about one hundred and eighteen thousand, well 358 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:20.839 ahead of some whispers that we heard on Wall Street 359 00:19:20.839 --> 00:19:23.640 of a sub one hundred thousand number. So this is 360 00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:28.079 indeed beating expectations. We were also expecting a slowdown we 361 00:19:28.160 --> 00:19:29.119 did not get that. 362 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:32.599 This is basically in line with May, which was revised higher. 363 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:33.519 It's also good news. 364 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:37.039 The unemployment rate was expected to go up, it didn't. 365 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:40.359 It went down to four point one percent. That is 366 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:45.440 a very healthy number. This is still relatively historically low, 367 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:47.559 and again it's below the four point three percent that 368 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:48.359 we had expected. 369 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:52.119 Yeah, so, you know, I think it's got to become 370 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:54.640 clear to a lot of people by now, and obviously 371 00:19:54.880 --> 00:19:58.880 was on election Day that that President Trump really does 372 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:01.880 know what he's doing when when it comes to the economy, 373 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:06.039 and you know, we saw that in the first term. Unfortunately, 374 00:20:06.279 --> 00:20:10.839 you know, the COVID and how China chose to handle COVID, 375 00:20:10.880 --> 00:20:12.720 which made it much worse than it needed to be 376 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:19.680 and cost President Trump that consecutive term. But he really 377 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:23.279 does get it, and any human endeavor, nobody's going to 378 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:26.039 be perfect. If that's the standard, that no American president 379 00:20:26.039 --> 00:20:28.759 can never meet it, including Trump. But boy, he is 380 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:32.079 really really good, really really good on this economic stuff, 381 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:36.160 really really good on national security, world security and stability 382 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:38.759 and some other things too. Three h three someone three 383 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:41.599 two five five The number tags d A N five 384 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:44.799 seven seven three ninety. And that sound ties very nicely 385 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:49.119 into our conversation about this really historic day to day 386 00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:53.200 with a bill as broad and vast as the big 387 00:20:53.240 --> 00:20:56.880 beautiful bill being passed in the coherence and it took 388 00:20:57.640 --> 00:21:00.359 the GOP about the House and Senate side get that 389 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:05.480 bill through such little margin for error and so much opposition, 390 00:21:05.559 --> 00:21:09.279 And yeah, it ditches. Bodes very very well, and I 391 00:21:09.279 --> 00:21:11.000 think it's just going to do so much for the 392 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:13.920 image of the GOP. And by contrast, if this bill 393 00:21:13.960 --> 00:21:16.279 had fallen apart and all of a sudden people start 394 00:21:16.319 --> 00:21:20.200 getting these surprise tax increases because the Trump tax cuts 395 00:21:20.359 --> 00:21:24.039 are suddenly expiring, et cetera, politically I think it would 396 00:21:24.039 --> 00:21:27.200 have been disastrous for the GOP, but really really bad 397 00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:30.119 for the country more importantly, So I don't claim to 398 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:32.079 know everything that's in it, and I'm just learning stuff. 399 00:21:32.440 --> 00:21:34.599 I just learned this thing during the break. I don't 400 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:37.079 know if anybody else knew this, but I love the idea. 401 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:42.000