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Speaker 1: of the week. I was out of state doing trial
Speaker 1: prep and so happy to be back with you today
Speaker 1: and for the weekend. And then I start a trial
Speaker 1: on Monday, so we'll have another great cast of all
Speaker 1: stars in next week. Three all three someone three eight
Speaker 1: two five five the number. Then this trial run, this
Speaker 1: will have been, if I'm counting right, my fourth jury
Speaker 1: trial in eight weeks, and then I'll I'll be off
Speaker 1: Jerry trials for about a month and a half and
Speaker 1: then I'll have one that'll go about a month in September.
Speaker 1: So really looking forward to this time with you now.
Speaker 1: And the timing is pretty perfect, right. This is a
Speaker 1: big deal today with the big beautiful bill passing and
Speaker 1: on so many different levels. But one of the things
Speaker 1: I want to kick around with you today is what
Speaker 1: do you like what don't you like in the Big
Speaker 1: Beautiful Bill? If there's anything you don't like, but really
Speaker 1: anxious to get your take on it. Now, Listen. When
Speaker 1: I consider myself an expert in something, I tell you
Speaker 1: and then you can decide whether I am or not.
Speaker 1: And when I'm not, I tell you that too, and
Speaker 1: then we can all agree on that. And I'm not
Speaker 1: an expert on the Big Beautiful Bill. I'm just not.
Speaker 1: I've been paying attention to a lot of different stuff,
Speaker 1: including Supreme Court, big Supreme Court rulings, et cetera. As
Speaker 1: I've been balancing trial prep and this show. But I
Speaker 1: have just not done a deep dive on the bills,
Speaker 1: so but anxious to have the conversation. I'm reading probably
Speaker 1: the same stuff you're reading, and trying to learn as
Speaker 1: much as I can about it. I have a general impression,
Speaker 1: and you can tell me whether you share it or not.
Speaker 1: But we'll have some hot sound from plenty of other
Speaker 1: things going on in the world locally and nationally. I
Speaker 1: do want to throw a few kind of over our
Speaker 1: questions out there for you. We'll kick around during the
Speaker 1: show whenever you feel like it. And one of those is,
Speaker 1: you know, America. Obviously, we're going to be, you know,
Speaker 1: talking a lot about America the fourth tomorrow, but I
Speaker 1: wanted to throw this question out there other than freedom,
Speaker 1: because I think we'd all answer this question freedom initially.
Speaker 1: What's the best thing about America other than freedom? And obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of criticism out there, and
Speaker 1: we talk about that criticism, etc. We live in a
Speaker 1: country right now. What a weird place to be right
Speaker 1: where you have one of the two major political parties
Speaker 1: that is separated from an awful lot of its voters,
Speaker 1: and that the people who control the party just really
Speaker 1: don't like this country and they want to fundamentally change
Speaker 1: it in awful ways. That's a weird place to be, right.
Speaker 1: Probably probably a first in American history. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think through that, but yeah, probably a first in American
Speaker 1: history since the Civil War where you have one major
Speaker 1: political party trying to fundamentally change the nation in bad
Speaker 1: ways because the people who own and operate the party
Speaker 1: just don't like this country very much. That's a weird deal.
Speaker 1: Makes the stakes real high, right, which then brings us
Speaker 1: to the importance of the big, beautiful bill beyond what's
Speaker 1: in it, And I'll get to that in a second,
Speaker 1: but yeah, what do you most like about America other
Speaker 1: than freedom? Would love your take on that. Who's the
Speaker 1: one person in America? You know? And obviously God's not
Speaker 1: a person, but who's the one person who we most
Speaker 1: owe our freedom to?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: I was tempted to exclude George Washington from this because
Speaker 1: I think most of us will just go back to writing,
Speaker 1: I mean, you commanded the revolutionary armies. But I'll open
Speaker 1: it up more broadly. Who's the one person we most
Speaker 1: owe our freedom to? The greatest president ever? I know
Speaker 1: we talk about that sometimes, but inappropriate day to revisit it,
Speaker 1: I imagine that the current president, President Trump, will get
Speaker 1: some additional votes today based on this legislative accomplishment. Because
Speaker 1: whether you like the bill or not, and this is
Speaker 1: what I was alluding to a second ago, whether you
Speaker 1: like the bill or not, I think every honest person
Speaker 1: would have to acknowledge the fact that the president and
Speaker 1: the Republican Party were able to get this bill passed
Speaker 1: extraordinarily impressive, particularly given the very narrow margins and the
Speaker 1: very large scope of the bill. And so that is
Speaker 1: really impressive and really encouraging as to where things can
Speaker 1: go from here. Three h three someone three eight two
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Speaker 1: seven three nine. Thank you to our first Texter, Dan.
Speaker 1: I happy thirty first anniversary. I hope you and Amy
Speaker 1: have something fun planned that from Alexa. Thank you Alexa,
Speaker 1: very thoughtful. We have more than one fun thing planned.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's amazing, isn't it. And I don't know
Speaker 1: how old you are whatever, but it's amazing how time works.
Speaker 1: Like I'm thinking of sitting there in the bar Exam
Speaker 1: and you know that was forty plus years ago, but
Speaker 1: sitting there in the bar Exam and that first day
Speaker 1: went like literally it went like five minutes. And I've
Speaker 1: been preparing for it for months and months. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you can relate to things in your life, and then
Speaker 1: there can be other things in life where literally a
Speaker 1: minute can seem like an hour, like if it's something
Speaker 1: really awful or you're in physical pain whatever. So it's
Speaker 1: this concept of time. Phenomena of time is really amazing
Speaker 1: because these thirty one years and if you're married, I
Speaker 1: don't know how long, but if you're sitting there in
Speaker 1: that first year of marriage. It may seem like a
Speaker 1: long time because it's such a big change in your life,
Speaker 1: but holy cow, I mean after year one, it's literally flown.
Speaker 1: I mean it really feels like maybe five years and
Speaker 1: it's thirty one. I mean that's that's kind of thrilling
Speaker 1: and scary at the same time, right, I mean scary
Speaker 1: in terms of I'm sitting here right now feeling really young,
Speaker 1: and you know, but thirty one years goes pretty fast,
Speaker 1: and I won't be young in thirty one years. So
Speaker 1: three all three, seOne, three eight, two five five, texts
Speaker 1: d an five seven seven three nine. I get my
Speaker 1: wife on the show today, but she'll never come on
Speaker 1: the show. She is so mediashye, which is remarkable because
Speaker 1: she was just such a stellar, world class news anchor,
Speaker 1: but loves her privacy and I do not I do
Speaker 1: not impose on that. We did have this opportunity. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to remember whichever was whatever the biggest satellite radio
Speaker 1: not work was at the time. It contacted us about
Speaker 1: doing a show together, and I have no doubt that
Speaker 1: would have been a hit show, and not because of me,
Speaker 1: But that thing never got off the ground. That's zero
Speaker 1: interest in that whatsoever. But what an amazing thirty one years.
Speaker 1: I'm so grateful for that. I wonder what I'll look
Speaker 1: it up in the break. How long the average marriage lasts?
Speaker 1: Because you get a lot of different variables, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: we've been so blessed with health. He get a lot
Speaker 1: of great couples deeply in love, and then somebody gets ill.
Speaker 1: Obviously you have some marriages that don't quite make it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I wonder how long the average marriage lasts? Really,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Zack.
Speaker 3: Zach is on top of it, Zach, I didn't think
Speaker 3: that over the are twenty one years in America?
Speaker 1: Thank you. Oh you didn't say that. So people thought
Speaker 1: I was talking to myself and I had imagine oury friend, Zach. Now,
Speaker 1: I've got to tell you, Zach would be a great
Speaker 1: real friend. Right, Tell people a little about yourself. Zach
Speaker 1: Ryan is off a what bars he in? He's off,
Speaker 1: it's not a sandbar. He is in Michigan. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've got a couple there, but Zack, Okay, yeah, tell
Speaker 1: people about yourself. Thanks.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Twenty five here from Colorado born and race fellow uh
Speaker 3: Colorado at Boulder grat No buffs and uh yeah, enjoying
Speaker 3: the radio biz, mainly on the sports side, but always
Speaker 3: fun to hop.
Speaker 1: Over here too. Yeah, what's your degree in journalism?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Minor sports convenience. That's convenient. Yeah, well, great to have
Speaker 1: you here. Yeah, Zach, Zach is a wonderful cat. It
Speaker 1: started out sounding there like one of those dating shows.
Speaker 1: Are you single? Are you married? What's your star?
Speaker 3: I've been in a relationship for eight years now eight Yeah,
Speaker 3: getting doing the mask, being ready to follow question here?
Speaker 1: Since Wow, does she know? I guess she does now.
Speaker 4: Hopefully she's not listening right now. Hopefully she's working.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good way to put it, A good
Speaker 1: way to put it, since we're not three all three
Speaker 1: someone three eight two five five text d an five seven,
Speaker 1: seven thirty nine. So you guys met when you were seventeen,
Speaker 1: So you meet in high school.
Speaker 3: I didn't go to the same high school. We had
Speaker 3: a mutual friend. I was in at Fairview, she was
Speaker 3: at Ralston Valley in Nevada.
Speaker 1: Wow, how do those two meet?
Speaker 4: I don't even know. Actually, I think it goes back
Speaker 4: to uh hockey.
Speaker 3: She was a figure skater for a lot of her youth,
Speaker 3: and I think he had a mutual friend who was
Speaker 3: a hockey player who I actually stole her from.
Speaker 4: Oh no, and then yeah, you know, we've been together
Speaker 4: eight years, son.
Speaker 1: That's a great way to start. No, it really is.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you've got to compete for it just
Speaker 1: feels better.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be telling the story if I didn't win.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that is true. I feel the same way. Man,
Speaker 1: Holy cow, hotly cow. The battles. I had to fight
Speaker 1: competition for my bride as well. So congratulations, my friend
Speaker 1: and Sacks are real keeper three or three someone three
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Speaker 1: seven three nine. So we got all that going on.
Speaker 1: We'll come back if you've got to take on the
Speaker 1: big beautiful bill. And again, without knowing, I'd like to say,
Speaker 1: I don't know all the details. I don't even know
Speaker 1: that many, but I'll tell you when we come back.
Speaker 1: The reason I'm excited about it and why I think
Speaker 1: President Trump, broadly speaking here is right to be doing this.
Speaker 1: You're on the Dan Capitla Show.
Speaker 5: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Glad you're here.
Speaker 6: Perhaps year after year after year, as a result of
Speaker 6: the Republican assault on the healthcare.
Speaker 4: Of the American people.
Speaker 1: I'm sad.
Speaker 6: I never thought I'd be on the House floor saying
Speaker 6: that this is a crime scene.
Speaker 4: At House.
Speaker 5: Democrats want no part of it.
Speaker 1: Kim Jeffrey spoke for over eight hours. I mean he had,
Speaker 1: you know, as that Democrat leader, he had the privilege
Speaker 1: of speaking, and decided to extend it about eight hours
Speaker 1: just to try to make things more difficult for the
Speaker 1: Republicans hope there would be some defections on the Big
Speaker 1: Beautiful Bill, and he failed. He did succeed though, in
Speaker 1: taking off a fair number of Democrats in the meantime
Speaker 1: because they hadn't been given a heads up that he
Speaker 1: was going to do this, and then people had to
Speaker 1: change flights and plans and everything else. So that makes
Speaker 1: this even sweeter. Three oh three you seven one three
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Speaker 1: seven seven three nine. You'd love to get your take
Speaker 1: on the Big Beautiful Bill, and there are a number
Speaker 1: of things going on there right, individual pieces of it.
Speaker 1: Your take on that, but also on the significance, which
Speaker 1: I think is monumental of Trump and the GOP being
Speaker 1: able to marshal this bill through. I mean when you
Speaker 1: step back and look at it, it has to vote
Speaker 1: very well for the future, send a great broader message
Speaker 1: to the nation about the GOP in terms of competence, competence,
Speaker 1: of leadership, coherence, et cetera. Because you can be darn
Speaker 1: sure right, there had to be something House Senate for
Speaker 1: any voting member, there had to be something. And to
Speaker 1: build this big and scope that had to really upset
Speaker 1: every single person who voted for it, and people were
Speaker 1: able to still keep that party in that this effort
Speaker 1: together and recognize you don't let the perfect be the
Speaker 1: enemy of the great and do what they needed to
Speaker 1: do to get all the good stuff. And that's that's
Speaker 1: not easy when your margins are that small, right, it
Speaker 1: is not easy. And so yeah, you have to give
Speaker 1: an awful lot of credit at this point to the
Speaker 1: leaders in both you know, a House and Senate John
Speaker 1: Thune on the Senate side, and obviously Speaker Johnson on
Speaker 1: the House side, and even more so on the House side.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine trying to herd cats like that? And
Speaker 1: President Trump was obviously the glue, He was the big stick.
Speaker 1: And the fact that he's on such a role right now,
Speaker 1: which is not accidental obviously, you know, was kind of
Speaker 1: the secret sauce that made all this work in the end.
Speaker 1: But want to get your take on all that, And
Speaker 1: then we're weaving in, Hey, what's the best thing about
Speaker 1: America this Fourth of July weekend? Other than freedom? Because
Speaker 1: we'd all say freedom, right, I mean, that's the starting point.
Speaker 1: That's what God intended founders America divine intervention. They were
Speaker 1: able to make all that work and at least have
Speaker 1: this one nation where we've got a shot at true freedom.
Speaker 1: But other than freedom, what is the best thing about America?
Speaker 1: And who? What one person do we most owe our
Speaker 1: freedom too? And I know that the default is probably
Speaker 1: George Washington. I don't blame you, but but who's the
Speaker 1: one person we most owe our freedom to? And the
Speaker 1: greatest president? So we'll start with all that I do
Speaker 1: have to throw in here, though. You know, we talked
Speaker 1: a week or two ago when the President publicly used
Speaker 1: the F word. I think we a lot of people
Speaker 1: understood his peak at that moment. But I don't like
Speaker 1: presidents and other elective officials using the F word publicly.
Speaker 1: But holy I was sitting there this morning and I
Speaker 1: was watching ESPN during breakfast and at snooze, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, up on the screen, up on the
Speaker 1: screen here, let me put up So I quoted for batam,
Speaker 1: but not obviously the word in question. But up on
Speaker 1: the screen, I see this big chiron, this big headline
Speaker 1: that read and it's the title of a new segment
Speaker 1: that's good s word S word spelled out. So this
Speaker 1: is an ESPN segment. And then they talk about something
Speaker 1: good that happened in sports. Are you kidding me? That's
Speaker 1: good s word? I mean, I've heard the word before.
Speaker 1: I've used the word before. But the point being, what
Speaker 1: about the kids? And any mainstream network but a sports
Speaker 1: network and ESPN that owns Disney, to me, that just
Speaker 1: proofs they don't care at all about your kids. This
Speaker 1: happened to be on the Pat McAfee show. I got
Speaker 1: in on a flight late late last night, and so
Speaker 1: I was having a later breakfast today on my way
Speaker 1: in and Pat McAfee shows, So, but what do you
Speaker 1: think about that? Am I overreacting to that? Am I
Speaker 1: the only person concerned about it? Does it signal something
Speaker 1: bigger and more important? See? I think it does, because
Speaker 1: clearly they just don't care about kids. I mean, i'm
Speaker 1: sure Pat McAfee, and I don't know if he has
Speaker 1: kids or not. I like him, I like your show,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure Pat McAfee would would not want his
Speaker 1: children using that word. I can't think of any sane
Speaker 1: person who'd want their children using that word. So for
Speaker 1: ESPN to name a feature after that, I'd love to
Speaker 1: get your take on that. Three or three someone three
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Speaker 1: seven three nine. All right, let's get back to the
Speaker 1: we'll get to phones, we'll get to text, and I
Speaker 1: want to get some of this hot take sound. But
Speaker 1: one one quick thing on the big beautiful bill, and
Speaker 1: I want to acronymic, but I just like saying it.
Speaker 1: I think everybody likes saying it. That may be one
Speaker 1: reason it passed. But here is what's at work. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt, and President Trump has spoken to it.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't get headlines that much, and it may
Speaker 1: not be that that much in the bloodstream right now
Speaker 1: in terms of understanding his approach. But President Trump has
Speaker 1: clearly staked out the position and he believes it to
Speaker 1: his core that the only way to fiscal stability for
Speaker 1: the United States of America because obviously, these debts and
Speaker 1: deficits are crazy, right, they're crazy scary that the only
Speaker 1: way to fiscal stability is gross. And I'm not quoting
Speaker 1: the president verbatim at all. I'm just giving you my
Speaker 1: read on his approach, And my read on his approach
Speaker 1: is is he doesn't believe we can cut our way
Speaker 1: to prosperity, that we can cut our way to eliminating
Speaker 1: these deficits. Now, obviously he's taken some pretty dramatic steps
Speaker 1: through Doze, et cetera, to try to actually get serious
Speaker 1: about cutting out waste. And that's important and appreciated, not
Speaker 1: just for the money it saves now, but also the
Speaker 1: mindset that the mindset mechanically functionally of the administration moving
Speaker 1: forward and then hoping and at this point assuming that
Speaker 1: there'll be a GOP president in twenty eight as well
Speaker 1: and hopefully thirty two. So but clearly he is committed
Speaker 1: to growth as the answer. Now, everybody likes growth, right,
Speaker 1: you're growing or you're dying. But I'm just talking about
Speaker 1: this cliff we're staring at right now with the debt,
Speaker 1: the deficit, spending, et cetera. And you know, obviously the
Speaker 1: debt service going up with these interest rates. So so
Speaker 1: he is committed to growing our way out of trouble
Speaker 1: and this bill, and I don't claim to be an
Speaker 1: expert on it at all, but this bill is built
Speaker 1: around that premise, and it's intended as rocket fuel the economy.
Speaker 1: The idea obviously being that the more the economy grows
Speaker 1: and people earn and work and prosper, then the more
Speaker 1: revenue there's going to be to the government. And it
Speaker 1: also is consistent with the really dramatic contrast that has
Speaker 1: developed over the years between the GOP and the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: And I used to be a Democrat for years, but
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party, which used to be the party, and
Speaker 1: when I was part of it, I sure saw it
Speaker 1: that way of working men and women is not anymore.
Speaker 1: And as I've said for years, the GOP must be
Speaker 1: not only to win, but to be meaningful and relevant.
Speaker 1: But the Democratic Party has become a party that's a
Speaker 1: fight over scraps party. They want everybody fighting over scraps
Speaker 1: and depending on government. Trump's committed to this growth, and
Speaker 1: I think he's got the fuel.
Speaker 5: Now you're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1: It's better than expected.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Sarah, it is.
Speaker 1: Look, this jobs market is like the energizer bunny.
Speaker 7: Every single time we expected to run out of steam,
Speaker 7: it just keeps going and going. So these new numbers
Speaker 7: show that the US economy added one hundred and forty
Speaker 7: seven thousand jobs in June. That was well ahead of
Speaker 7: the expectation of about one hundred and eighteen thousand, well
Speaker 7: ahead of some whispers that we heard on Wall Street
Speaker 7: of a sub one hundred thousand number. So this is
Speaker 7: indeed beating expectations. We were also expecting a slowdown we
Speaker 7: did not get that.
Speaker 1: This is basically in line with May, which was revised higher.
Speaker 1: It's also good news.
Speaker 7: The unemployment rate was expected to go up, it didn't.
Speaker 7: It went down to four point one percent. That is
Speaker 7: a very healthy number. This is still relatively historically low,
Speaker 7: and again it's below the four point three percent that
Speaker 7: we had expected.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, you know, I think it's got to become
Speaker 1: clear to a lot of people by now, and obviously
Speaker 1: was on election Day that that President Trump really does
Speaker 1: know what he's doing when when it comes to the economy,
Speaker 1: and you know, we saw that in the first term. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: you know, the COVID and how China chose to handle COVID,
Speaker 1: which made it much worse than it needed to be
Speaker 1: and cost President Trump that consecutive term. But he really
Speaker 1: does get it, and any human endeavor, nobody's going to
Speaker 1: be perfect. If that's the standard, that no American president
Speaker 1: can never meet it, including Trump. But boy, he is
Speaker 1: really really good, really really good on this economic stuff,
Speaker 1: really really good on national security, world security and stability
Speaker 1: and some other things too. Three h three someone three
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Speaker 1: seven seven three ninety. And that sound ties very nicely
Speaker 1: into our conversation about this really historic day to day
Speaker 1: with a bill as broad and vast as the big
Speaker 1: beautiful bill being passed in the coherence and it took
Speaker 1: the GOP about the House and Senate side get that
Speaker 1: bill through such little margin for error and so much opposition,
Speaker 1: And yeah, it ditches. Bodes very very well, and I
Speaker 1: think it's just going to do so much for the
Speaker 1: image of the GOP. And by contrast, if this bill
Speaker 1: had fallen apart and all of a sudden people start
Speaker 1: getting these surprise tax increases because the Trump tax cuts
Speaker 1: are suddenly expiring, et cetera, politically I think it would
Speaker 1: have been disastrous for the GOP, but really really bad
Speaker 1: for the country more importantly, So I don't claim to
Speaker 1: know everything that's in it, and I'm just learning stuff.
Speaker 1: I just learned this thing during the break. I don't
Speaker 1: know if anybody else knew this, but I love the idea.
Speaker 1: There's forty million in there for the National Garden of Heroes.
Speaker 1: And this is an idea President Trump had when he
Speaker 1: went back and he visited Mount Rushmore in this and
Speaker 1: then you had all this cancel culture stuff and people
Speaker 1: tearing down statues and he wants I think it's a
Speaker 1: brilliant idea. I think Colorado should have its own version
Speaker 1: this talk about that bit. Can you maybe I should
Speaker 1: take that back right now? Ahilthough Goofy left still in charge,
Speaker 1: can you imagine they'd put in a Garden of Heroes.
Speaker 1: But if you've got a Republican in charge in DC,
Speaker 1: I mean, what a great idea because it goes back
Speaker 1: to the idea. It's one of the reasons that I've
Speaker 1: been so ticked for so long about old maths, that
Speaker 1: that hideous Satan Steed blue monstrosity out by DIA and
Speaker 1: no offense to the sculptor I'm sure loved it before.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately it took his life, a horrific irony. But anyway,
Speaker 1: that the whole idea is public art like that, like
Speaker 1: other stuff we do, but public art like that should
Speaker 1: send a loud, clear, tangible message to our kids, and
Speaker 1: by our kids I mean our individual children, but the
Speaker 1: community as a whole. What do we value? What are
Speaker 1: those character traits as virtues that we value? And what
Speaker 1: does old Meths say? Not good things? Right? You don't
Speaker 1: I end up looking like that. But you get a
Speaker 1: garden of heroes. You get a garden of heroes where okay,
Speaker 1: the kids now take their field trips and they wander
Speaker 1: through and they see these life size that's the premise,
Speaker 1: life size statues of these great figures in American history.
Speaker 1: And then of course you'll have the interactive stuff. You
Speaker 1: can read about them, probably have some holograms so you
Speaker 1: can play pick a ball with them or something if
Speaker 1: you want to. But but just this whole idea of hey, kids,
Speaker 1: this is what we value and why, and learn something
Speaker 1: about them here and then you know how it is.
Speaker 1: We're all so visual now, right, and if it's real
Speaker 1: and it's tangible and it's life size. Particularly if it's
Speaker 1: done well, you know, then yeah, it has a real impact.
Speaker 1: I love the idea. So anyway, there's forty million in
Speaker 1: the bill for that. That won't be enough for the
Speaker 1: whole thing, but it'll be enough to get it started.
Speaker 1: So yeah, two hundred and fifty of those? What do
Speaker 1: you think it costs? Does anybody know? I have no clue?
Speaker 1: What do you think it costs for a really good
Speaker 1: life size, say, bronze. And I don't think they're going
Speaker 1: to requy. I don't think these statues are all going
Speaker 1: to have to be, you know, a bronze. But what
Speaker 1: do you think that costs a full life size bronze statue?
Speaker 1: And if you're going to put a statue up anywhere
Speaker 1: in this state of anybody, who would it be and
Speaker 1: where would you put it? It's an interesting thought. Three
Speaker 1: or three someone three eight two five five text d
Speaker 1: an five seven seventh three not hopefully it's interesting to
Speaker 1: somebody besides me. But that's a real interesting thought. If
Speaker 1: I had one statue that I could put up anywhere,
Speaker 1: who would it be of and where would I put it?
Speaker 1: I might just take the rest of the show off
Speaker 1: and think about that. I'm really intrigued about that. All right,
Speaker 1: let me get us some of our texters, and it
Speaker 1: is going to be a beautiful weekend across the state
Speaker 1: this weekend, no surprise in the fourth right. Memorial Days,
Speaker 1: as you know, can just turn into winter some years
Speaker 1: and other years be perfect. Same for Labor Days. But
Speaker 1: fourth of July, I think is almost always great, and
Speaker 1: it will be across the state.
Speaker 8: Dan.
Speaker 1: Obviously Trump looks at the national debt like his own companies. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the US can't declare bankruptcy or shouldn't. Bitter beer face text,
Speaker 1: I wish you'd call the show. I'd like to know
Speaker 1: what's made you so sad? I mean, my goodness, and
Speaker 1: I'd love to ask the texture the Siamos throwback. I've
Speaker 1: been decades on air now and I just love callers
Speaker 1: and text will do and I understand you can do
Speaker 1: it rapid fire, move through it quickly. It leads you
Speaker 1: in a lot of different directions. That's cool. But with
Speaker 1: the texts you can have a follow up, you can
Speaker 1: get to understand why somebody believes the way they do,
Speaker 1: and you can talk it through. But my goodness, hasn't
Speaker 1: this texture seen at this point incontrovertible proof that the
Speaker 1: comes to the finances of this nation and the economic
Speaker 1: healths of this nation. Trump is really good. Carly in
Speaker 1: Beautiful Highlands Rancher on the Dan Kaplis Show, Welcome.
Speaker 8: Hi Dane and happy Forest if you too.
Speaker 1: Thank you well, how about happy third It's my thirty
Speaker 1: first wedding anniversary, and maybe condolences for my wife, but
Speaker 1: I'm very happy.
Speaker 9: I just want to say, along with the border money
Speaker 9: all of this other stuff, I've come to realize there's
Speaker 9: always going to be stuff in there you don't want. However,
Speaker 9: and I just tuned in, so I'm sorry if you've
Speaker 9: already talked about this. I am so thrilled that Planned
Speaker 9: Parenthood Oh she funded? Yes, yes, yes, I mean it's
Speaker 9: worth it for that.
Speaker 1: Oh my lord, I mean.
Speaker 8: Can you believe finally Yeah, No, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 1: And what I've been trying to do for I've been
Speaker 1: thank you for that. I've been trying to find the
Speaker 1: specifics before deep diving that. But yeah, those are the
Speaker 1: headlines Planned Parenthood defunded as part of this. I just
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of my lawyer training. I want
Speaker 1: to see the actual document to see exactly what that means,
Speaker 1: because that would be such an important thing. I just
Speaker 1: want to make sure I've got all those particulars down.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's what the headlines are saying. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Robert in Denver. You're on the Dan Kaplis Show. Welcome.
Speaker 8: Hey, I was just wanting to make a comment about
Speaker 8: the big beautiful tax film. Yes, sir, I just want
Speaker 8: to say that they're saying the debt is going to
Speaker 8: go up in the next four or five years three
Speaker 8: point five trillion dollars. Okay, Yeah, so I'm glad it past.
Speaker 8: I think they did a lot of good things. I'm
Speaker 8: a Republican. But still, if you remember when Reagan ran
Speaker 8: for office in nineteen eighty, there were thirteen million years, okay,
Speaker 8: and today there are over nine hundred Now in nineteen eighty,
Speaker 8: if you go to Official Data dot com, which is
Speaker 8: a government watchdog, it'll tell you that if you put
Speaker 8: in the calculator, have a billion dollars in nineteen eighty,
Speaker 8: but today the only worth are not only only three
Speaker 8: hundred and eighty million dollars. So when you print all
Speaker 8: this Fiat money, just like we did during COVID, it's
Speaker 8: going to cause inflation. Your member during COVID, we all
Speaker 8: got stimulus checks.
Speaker 1: Robert may ask you his favor and I'm so sorry
Speaker 1: interrupt for just up against a hard break. How do
Speaker 1: you bottom line all this and then I'll be happy
Speaker 1: to tackle it on the other side.
Speaker 8: Well, I just think that if you look at the figures,
Speaker 8: what we're doing is trying to excite ourselves out of
Speaker 8: the debt, because as we as the dollar becomes wortheless,
Speaker 8: the debt becomes worth less.
Speaker 1: And Robert, sorry, I have to break there, but thank
Speaker 1: you for bringing it to that bottom line. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's what's going on here, but I appreciate your
Speaker 1: perspective on it. And that point about increasing the deficit
Speaker 1: by three trillion. This I think you can be real
Speaker 1: confident of. If President Trump, for any of the Republicans
Speaker 1: voting for this bill really believed it was going to
Speaker 1: increase the deficit by three trillion, they would not be
Speaker 1: supporting it. The concept is this will fuel growth, increase
Speaker 1: government revenues, and reduce the deficit.
Speaker 5: You're on the Dan Caplash and now back to the
Speaker 5: Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 6: You may even get time I heard up winning and
Speaker 6: you'll say, please, please, it's too much winning.
Speaker 1: We can't take.
Speaker 6: It anymore, mister President, it's too much. And I'll say, no,
Speaker 6: it isn't. We have to keep winning. We have to
Speaker 6: win more. We're gonna win more.
Speaker 1: That's Trump and its best. I mean, we are really
Speaker 1: going to miss this guy when he's gone right now.
Speaker 1: Obviously he's not perfect, none of us are. But that's
Speaker 1: that's great stuff. And it's also true, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: you talk about the winning this big, beautiful bill, and
Speaker 1: I don't claim to know everything that's in it, but
Speaker 1: my goodness, just the accomplishment to get it passed, that
Speaker 1: broad a bill with those narrow margins in the House
Speaker 1: and Senate, that's a monumental accomplishment pun intended because part
Speaker 1: of it that has me intrigued, and it's part of
Speaker 1: what I didn't know was in there, but I love
Speaker 1: it is this garden of heroes. This this garden of
Speaker 1: American Heroes going to be two hundred and fifty life
Speaker 1: sized statues of American hero and they're still working on
Speaker 1: a site. But there was forty million in this bill
Speaker 1: to kick it off, and obviously the price is going
Speaker 1: to go up from there? But who would you want
Speaker 1: to see? Let's say we had a Colorado Garden of heroes.
Speaker 1: Who would you want to see in there? That's going
Speaker 1: to Mark in Denver on this gorgeous afternoon. I want
Speaker 1: to say Friday afternoon because it feels that way, but
Speaker 1: it's a thursday. How you doing, Mark?
Speaker 2: I'll do well, Dan? Thank you? Sure?
Speaker 1: What are you thinking?
Speaker 2: Well? You were asking what it costs to build a
Speaker 2: sculpture that I don't negotiate anywhere near as well as
Speaker 2: our president. But having recently commissioned a life of life
Speaker 2: size of Kit Carson, about fifty grand.
Speaker 1: Fifty grand and that's bronze high quality, that is bronze. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: and now Kit Carson? How tall was he? How much
Speaker 1: did he waste? So what does life size mean?
Speaker 2: Oh? You know? Life size in this case is about
Speaker 2: five seven, five eight.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, let me ask the question everybody is asking
Speaker 1: in their car right now. Why did you commission a
Speaker 1: life size statue of Kit Carson?
Speaker 2: I have a business in San Diego and recently building
Speaker 2: new building for it, and San Diego County requires either
Speaker 2: a half a point of the building permit fee to
Speaker 2: go into a general Fund for art of their choosing,
Speaker 2: or a full point if we do art of our choosing.
Speaker 2: I didn't like the idea of Bureaucraft's telling you what
Speaker 2: sort of art i'd papers, so I chose to go
Speaker 2: for the one percent option.
Speaker 1: That is so cool man, Thank you and thank you
Speaker 1: for that call. That is awesome. Three or three? He said, one, three, eight, two, five,
Speaker 1: five the number? Can you imagine if right now we
Speaker 1: had that, you know, Garden of Heroes in Colorado, say
Speaker 1: it was down around the capitol somewhere, and given what
Speaker 1: the left has allowed to be done to downtown, can
Speaker 1: you imagine what would then happen to the statues? But
Speaker 1: can you imagine who the left would put in there?
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness. But if we could
Speaker 1: do it right, who would you want to see in
Speaker 1: a Garden of Heroes for Colorado? Sence, it's now going
Speaker 1: to be reality for America, which I think is fantastic.
Speaker 1: And where do you think the American Garden of Heroes
Speaker 1: should be? Now? At this point? You know, Mount Rushmore,
Speaker 1: the Mountain Rushmore District is making a pitch for it.
Speaker 1: I'm certain it's gonna end up in DC though, right
Speaker 1: and I've got no problem with that because all the
Speaker 1: school kids who go on tours there, and they go
Speaker 1: from all over America. I think it'd be so critical
Speaker 1: that they get to walk through a garden like that,
Speaker 1: and I think it would have real impact. Three or
Speaker 1: three someone three eight two, five five text D A
Speaker 1: N five seven seven through nine D and happy anniversary
Speaker 1: to you and Amy. We're in our fifty sixth year. Wow.
Speaker 1: Now please stay happy Independence Day, not happy fourth of July.
Speaker 1: After all, we don't say happy December twenty fifth or
Speaker 1: happy February fourteenth. What an interesting question that is. But
Speaker 1: the common the common, I mean Christmas. That's not a
Speaker 1: good comparison, right, Maybe it is because obviously Christmas is
Speaker 1: about Christ's birth of Christ. February fourteenth Valentine's Day. I
Speaker 1: want to go back to, wasn't I thought Ben Franklin
Speaker 1: himself referred to the fourth of July. Yes, to celebrate
Speaker 1: our independence. But I don't think there's anything disrespectful or
Speaker 1: vague about happy fourth of July. But I get the point.
Speaker 1: Thank you for that, Texter. I get the point. And
Speaker 1: you know what you're The more I think about it,
Speaker 1: you're right because and it's not the common usage. But
Speaker 1: you're right because obviously we only have this freedom because
Speaker 1: a lot of people died for it. And they didn't
Speaker 1: die for a date on the calendar. They died for independence.
Speaker 1: So I think you've got a winning argument there. Dana's
Speaker 1: statue of John Denver where the horse Blucifer is a
Speaker 1: dia interesting suggestion. John Denver would he be in a
Speaker 1: Colorado Garden of Heroes like we're about to get an
Speaker 1: American Garden of Heroes in DC. I don't know. And
Speaker 1: I'm a big John Denver fan. One of the great
Speaker 1: nights of my life was John Denver at Red Rocks,
Speaker 1: and still play his stuff all the time. Maybe the
Speaker 1: reason I ended up in Colorado. I'll tell that story sometimes.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't think so. I don't think John
Speaker 1: Denver would go into a Colorado Garden of Heroes now
Speaker 1: if you're doing a music thing or whatever, certainly, and
Speaker 1: nothing negative about John Denver in my mind, But no,
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying everybody in the Garden of Heroes
Speaker 1: has to be somebody who risked their life or gave
Speaker 1: their life for our state. But what do you think
Speaker 1: three or three someone three eight two five five the
Speaker 1: number who would be your first choice for that garden. Again,
Speaker 1: we don't need a garden of heroes. We have Fort Logan,
Speaker 1: a fantastic place to think all the heroes that have
Speaker 1: defended this Countryman, I'll tell you right about Fort Logan,
Speaker 1: and that I know Amy was there for a funeral.
Speaker 1: I'm an amazing man a week ago. I've been there
Speaker 1: for a few It is a powerful experience. But no,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a substance for the Garden of heroes.
Speaker 1: Then you want the life size statues. You want the
Speaker 1: kids to hear all about them and the rest of us.
Speaker 1: You're on the Dan Gaplo Show.