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Speaker 1: fighting in the daylight. Isn't it nice to see it
Speaker 1: light out at five oh six oh five? It is wonderful.
Speaker 1: And it's this weekend? Isn't it that we spring forward?
Speaker 1: Is that right? Is it this weekend? News to me?
Speaker 1: I've been keeping up. Oh, Kelly's shaking her head. Yes,
Speaker 1: she knows stuff. Yeah, we'll can hate that for you.
Speaker 1: We don't want to mislead you there, I like. But
Speaker 1: you like having that extra daylight at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, right, Yeah? I do. So that's the thing, Dan.
Speaker 2: Would you rather we keep things at spring forward forever
Speaker 2: or at fall back forever and not do daylight savings?
Speaker 1: Wow? I'd have to think about that, all I know.
Speaker 1: It's easy. I don't have to think about it. I
Speaker 1: want it light out later in the summer plan because
Speaker 1: there's some plan out there that would have it dark
Speaker 1: at Colorado at seven on a summer evening.
Speaker 2: I forget that bang it fall back, and I'm with you.
Speaker 2: I want to stay at spring forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm all for that. I'm all for that, my friend. Hey,
Speaker 1: we got a lot to talk about. Let's see, Dan,
Speaker 1: please explain why lesbians should not be banned with trans
Speaker 1: men from women's sports and locker rooms. Both seek sex
Speaker 1: from women, no difference, banned them. I cannot believe that's
Speaker 1: a serious text, first of all, And we open the
Speaker 1: first hour this way because it is so encouraging, right,
Speaker 1: And that's what we've been predicting for a long time,
Speaker 1: that eventually the tipping point would come on this transceanity,
Speaker 1: this whole crazy idea of allowing men in women's locker
Speaker 1: rooms and showers and men in women's sports and all
Speaker 1: of that. It's so ludicrous that that eventually it was
Speaker 1: going to collapse of its own weight. And with the
Speaker 1: election of President Trump, it's collapsing fast. And the latest
Speaker 1: example is Gavin newsom Ner of California, who really could
Speaker 1: have helped himself if he'd shown a little political courage
Speaker 1: on this a year or so ago. But he waits
Speaker 1: until right after the Democrats get thumped on November four
Speaker 1: on this issue, and comes out and says, yeah, it
Speaker 1: is unfair. It is unfair to have men playing in
Speaker 1: women's sports. So how soon will the rest of the
Speaker 1: lemmings follow him? Now? It's so obvious, right, is it
Speaker 1: even worth discussion when you're talking about lesbians, you're talking
Speaker 1: about females, you're talking about biological females. So again, this
Speaker 1: cannot be a serious text. Obviously, biological females should be
Speaker 1: allowed in women's sports, no matter what their sexual preference is.
Speaker 1: You know, this issue of Okay, then you've got somebody
Speaker 1: in a shower, whether it's a male attracted man or
Speaker 1: a female attracted to females in the shower. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: understand that's awkward. I'm not promoting or anything else, you know, homosexuality.
Speaker 1: That's not the point. Of the point is if anybody's
Speaker 1: talking about banning people from sports, that's illogical. And then
Speaker 1: the shower thing, the locker room thing, Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: don't think there's anything that can be done about that.
Speaker 1: Have you had that experience? Ryan, like being in and
Speaker 1: I think there are fewer and fewer showers right now
Speaker 1: that are just like big barn, wide open kind of showers.
Speaker 1: But like back when I was in college, they were
Speaker 1: all that way, and so I'd go to the Cux Center,
Speaker 1: you know, and because you go there and I just
Speaker 1: couldn't believe it, coming here from Chicago's big, beautiful Rex Center,
Speaker 1: and you play basketball, you do this, you do that,
Speaker 1: and then you'd go into like this big barn shower
Speaker 1: right where everybody's in there buck naked. And yeah, there
Speaker 1: was far more than one occasion where where you face
Speaker 1: the reality of somebody in there taking an interest in you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've encountered this thing. Oh maybe I'm now Listen, we're
Speaker 1: talking about back in the day. We're talking about college.
Speaker 1: I know, in the big wide open showers at the
Speaker 1: CU Rec Center. I bet they don't even have that now.
Speaker 1: I bet it's all like individual stall stuff.
Speaker 2: Now when I go to the fitness center where I
Speaker 2: work out, it is individual stalls, and they're much higher grade,
Speaker 2: higher class.
Speaker 1: You get.
Speaker 2: You know, everybody wants their privacy. This is why I
Speaker 2: never understood. You know, women in their restrooms get stalls,
Speaker 2: and that's great. And then for us men, a lot
Speaker 2: of times you talk about the barnyard showers, how about
Speaker 2: the bathtub urinals? Like I don't want to oh really,
Speaker 2: you don't Wrigley Field.
Speaker 1: Steam sores all the day. Whiskey Park, Yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 1: I'd go back in there when I didn't have to go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was the highlight of every game.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then Comisky Park they would have this sign over
Speaker 1: there that would say future White Sox players only, and uh, okay,
Speaker 1: and my dad I went in there with them. My dad, Hey,
Speaker 1: you know, go over there. And I said, I can't
Speaker 1: do that. I'm not sure I'm going to make the team,
Speaker 1: you know, I think.
Speaker 2: Okay, in all seriousness to the Texter's point, if they
Speaker 2: are serious, and I don't think they.
Speaker 1: Are, not a disingenuous one.
Speaker 2: But there's an obvious reason why a woman in a
Speaker 2: vulnerable setting and situation they've got all of their clothes off.
Speaker 2: Why in intact male in that environment is much different. Ah,
Speaker 2: my little biological lesbian themes.
Speaker 1: Total madness right in American reject America rejected that on
Speaker 1: election day. But are there a you know, can you
Speaker 1: take any like these big burn showers around anymore?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: I wonder if there are. They're outdated, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: somewhere do.
Speaker 2: But in my experience, you're right, it's changed it's evolved
Speaker 2: where yeah, men want privacy too. I mean I do, anyway,
Speaker 2: I don't know about the rest of the men out there,
Speaker 2: and they're not.
Speaker 1: Oh that's that's a great question. That's I'm kind of
Speaker 1: out of that loop right now obviously. But because yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean anywhere I would go to shower right now
Speaker 1: would be why I didn't want to get too personally.
Speaker 1: But I just mean most showers now, for most married couples,
Speaker 1: I mean most master bath showers have multiple shower heads
Speaker 1: in there, but that's obviously for the spouses. But yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not in any situation now that I can think of,
Speaker 1: and I'd remember if I was where it was just
Speaker 1: the old big barn shower kind of thing. But look,
Speaker 1: you see in Revenge of the Nerds and movies like that.
Speaker 1: You know that I never thought twice about it in
Speaker 1: high school, and there was never any kind of incident
Speaker 1: in high school. And listen, I've got anybody who just
Speaker 1: joined us. I am so grateful for every day I
Speaker 1: head at CU Boulder, and I love that place, and
Speaker 1: I still love that place, and any kid who gets
Speaker 1: to go there, I think is lucky. We have so
Speaker 1: many great schools in the state. You look at everything
Speaker 1: CSU is doing. So don't take any of this as
Speaker 1: anti SeeU. I think it is just a gem. But
Speaker 1: the problem in those situations back there was when a
Speaker 1: guy was interested in you. You knew it, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It was It's just the visual on
Speaker 1: the other side of that.
Speaker 2: So you know, I'm watching stranger things and it's right
Speaker 2: up my alley. It's the gen X childhood experience of
Speaker 2: the eighties, and one of those was being terrified of
Speaker 2: going into the gym room showers that you're describing, and
Speaker 2: you had to keep your head on a swivel. And
Speaker 2: it wasn't because of what you just mentioned, but it
Speaker 2: was because you get whipped with these towels, you know,
Speaker 2: these guys that are take a snap right at your
Speaker 2: back side, Like I don't want to deal with that.
Speaker 1: But you would feel so bad, right, you'd feel so
Speaker 1: bad for those kids who, you know, for whatever reason
Speaker 1: they just physically or whatever, it was just so terrifying
Speaker 1: for them to go into those situations in high school.
Speaker 1: I felt so bad for him. Oh yeah, and yeah.
Speaker 1: So anyway. Texter Dan on the Colorado Governor's race as
Speaker 1: a Colorado Native the Republicans have proven themselves capable of
Speaker 1: grasping defeat repeatedly. I'd love to have someone actually fire
Speaker 1: up to conversation, but none have stepped up. So I
Speaker 1: think the point of this Texter explains why nobody wants
Speaker 1: wants to talk about the Colorado governor's race. I just
Speaker 1: think throughout the Democratic Party at pardon me, the Republican
Speaker 1: Party in Colorado, there's a widespread assumption that the GOP
Speaker 1: just can't win stay wide, and that's why nobody wants
Speaker 1: to talk about it because I think it's a waste
Speaker 1: of their time to talk about it. I disagree with that.
Speaker 1: I think there is a window now, but again, I
Speaker 1: think that's why we just don't get action on that topic.
Speaker 1: And yeah, maybe it'll be different as we get closer. Conversely,
Speaker 1: I think the other reason we don't get action on
Speaker 1: it is the Democrats are so sure that they could
Speaker 1: they could run a goat, and I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: a good goat, you know, like a Tom Brady goat.
Speaker 1: They could just run a goat and win. I think
Speaker 1: is the Democrats attitude they could run anybody and win.
Speaker 1: Don't you think that's their attitude? Grind that they're politically bulletproof.
Speaker 2: They don't fear losing or being challenged, and that's dangerous
Speaker 2: one party rule. I don't even say it in a
Speaker 2: lot of cases, maybe on the other side in ruby
Speaker 2: red states where maybe things get a little out of
Speaker 2: hand and too far to the right, but especially in
Speaker 2: Democrat only states, because they become drunk with power, they
Speaker 2: feel invincible.
Speaker 1: Like you just said, that's exactly right.
Speaker 2: They're not held accountable because they're not even run against
Speaker 2: in a primary. There was some few exceptions, like with
Speaker 2: the two Communists who got booted out of their state
Speaker 2: house districts. Yeah, this past election, but it's rare.
Speaker 1: It doesn't happen a lot. But it's another reason why
Speaker 1: the GOP really has a chance. And I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about a dumb and dumber chance. I think the GOP
Speaker 1: really is a chance in both the governor's race and
Speaker 1: the center race. And part of it is that Democrats
Speaker 1: are so confident. So yeah, I think stars are aligning
Speaker 1: there to create at least that possibility. Three or three
Speaker 1: someone three eight two five five text D five seven
Speaker 1: seven three nine. When we come back, Ye're going to
Speaker 1: get you some more of that really fun sound. We
Speaker 1: didn't have enough time with it yesterday from that really
Speaker 1: major political event. Can't even quote a speech on Tuesday
Speaker 1: night some of the great questioning of Mike Johnston, Mayor
Speaker 1: of Denver by members of our congressional delegate. And I
Speaker 1: do want to get your take on this. What was
Speaker 1: behind this enormous Ash Wednesday turnout? I mean, it's always big, right,
Speaker 1: but if you're somebody went for ashes in your particular
Speaker 1: Christian denomination, you probably saw it. It was and it
Speaker 1: looks like it was across the country. Just this explosion
Speaker 1: of turnout on Ash Wednesday. What do you think is
Speaker 1: driving that? You're on the Dan Capla.
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Speaker 4: Trump said many times tariffs is his favorite word. I
Speaker 4: would say the reciprocal is probably the second favorite way.
Speaker 4: And I think we have to be open to the idea.
Speaker 4: If you want to be a numbskull like justin trade
Speaker 4: and say oh we're going to do this, then it's
Speaker 4: gonna Terriffs are going to go up. But if you
Speaker 4: want to sit back, have a discussion with the Commerce
Speaker 4: Department US two. Are they all have my phone number?
Speaker 6: Two?
Speaker 4: I am happy to have a discussion with our foreign
Speaker 4: counterparts that says that here's what we think you were doing,
Speaker 4: and the tariffs are the actual easier part.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and listen, I'm not going to claim to be
Speaker 1: an expert on tariffs. I'm not. But I do trust
Speaker 1: President Trump. I trust him on this economic stuff. But
Speaker 1: what I trust even more broadly than that is is
Speaker 1: he is somebody with the boldness and the vision to
Speaker 1: have a real chance to break the cycle and to
Speaker 1: reshape things for the better. And he is absolutely convinced
Speaker 1: that tariffs are the way to do that. Now, obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, his plan may very well be the threat
Speaker 1: of tariff's here gets you this over there, and then
Speaker 1: tariffs staying in place here means something long term. Whatever
Speaker 1: it is, I just trust the guy on it. But
Speaker 1: this I also know this. I also know that we
Speaker 1: need some kind of major disruption and to get to
Speaker 1: where we need to go right because the reality of
Speaker 1: this nation economically is we are becoming to Americas because
Speaker 1: of lefty policies. We're becoming the haves and the have
Speaker 1: nots because of lefty policies, and a healthy nation cannot
Speaker 1: move forward that way. And I think President Trump sees that.
Speaker 1: I think you see his commitment to working people. I
Speaker 1: think you see his commitment to very concrete things to
Speaker 1: change the art and listen, Yeah, there's going to be
Speaker 1: some pain in the meantime. Can anybody think of anything
Speaker 1: there might be something out there? Can anybody think of
Speaker 1: any great change that comes without some pain? Can anybody
Speaker 1: think of anything there? I'd love your take on that.
Speaker 1: Da n five seven seven three nine three or three
Speaker 1: seven three eight two five five. And that's one of
Speaker 1: the reasons we're in such a mess. The biggest reason
Speaker 1: is this lefty stuff. The other reason crosses party lines,
Speaker 1: and that is that, you know, get power, they want
Speaker 1: to keep power, especially the higher up the jobs, and
Speaker 1: then they don't want to do the things that can
Speaker 1: really lead to big, lasting change because there's pain that
Speaker 1: comes first. And Joe when he was playing football, he
Speaker 1: had this great strength and conditioning coach whose favorite saying was,
Speaker 1: everybody wants to go to heaven, nobody wants to die, right.
Speaker 1: And so I think Trump, though, is maybe the only
Speaker 1: figure political figure in my lifetime who is willing to
Speaker 1: undergo that short term pain for long term gain. And
Speaker 1: he's even a better position to do it now in
Speaker 1: this second term, right because he doesn't have to stand
Speaker 1: for re election again. But I have no doubt in
Speaker 1: my mind at all about the sincerity of his motives.
Speaker 1: That what he cares about most right now he doesn't
Speaker 1: have to worry about when another election, is his legacy
Speaker 1: about really making this change and being regarded as somebody
Speaker 1: who really plish these things. That's why Ryan, I've got
Speaker 1: to laugh when people talk about Putin's Patsy this and
Speaker 1: that and way beyond the Well, wait a second, Putin
Speaker 1: didn't invade when he was president, way beyond that, Because
Speaker 1: does anybody really think Trump is going to go cut
Speaker 1: a deal for Ukraine that you know it makes Putin
Speaker 1: the obvious winner, a deal that is way out of
Speaker 1: whack and imbalanced against Ukraine. Of course not, for a
Speaker 1: lot of different reasons. First, I think that Trump wants
Speaker 1: something that's truly fair, and Trump understands that Putin is
Speaker 1: the aggressor here, the invader, etc. I think President Trump
Speaker 1: is saying what he needs to say publicly to try
Speaker 1: to get the parties to the table and do a deal.
Speaker 1: And he's obviously got his own way of managing Putin
Speaker 1: which worked before. But No, Trump is going to want
Speaker 1: there to be a lot of respect for Trump after
Speaker 1: this deal, and that only happens if the deal appears
Speaker 1: fair and reasonable. So no bottom line on tariffs and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I don't claim to be an expert
Speaker 1: on it, but I just trust Trump on it, and
Speaker 1: he has earned that trust, I think, through the first
Speaker 1: term and much more. Let's go up to beautiful Boulder, Colorado.
Speaker 1: I started a trial up there a week from Monday.
Speaker 1: Cannot wait. Some of the greatest memories of my life
Speaker 1: in Boulder, Kevin. You're on the Dan Kapla show. Will
Speaker 1: you be another one of those great memories, Kevin?
Speaker 6: Pertaining to what?
Speaker 1: Oh it was more joke, but now welcome to the show.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm always a great memory anyway, So no need
Speaker 6: to worry about that. This wouldn't work most likely with
Speaker 6: Trump's mandate. But I am in favor of mixed teams
Speaker 6: as long as the official rules allow it, and it
Speaker 6: can be reasonably proven none that not one of the
Speaker 6: players on it, any team, were co worced or forced
Speaker 6: into it. Go to any beach, you know, speaking non professionally,
Speaker 6: Go to any beach or private club, you'll find mixed
Speaker 6: and you'll find male females playing racquetball, volleyball, billiards, nice rolling,
Speaker 6: target shooting.
Speaker 1: What about girls high school sports? Should men be able
Speaker 1: to play?
Speaker 6: Well, I don't like the idea myself, but speaking constitutionally,
Speaker 6: I it's a hard call because you have Because I'm speaking,
Speaker 6: there are several factors. Financially, personally, I don't know. I'd
Speaker 6: have to think about that.
Speaker 1: I'm against.
Speaker 6: I'm against people being forced to accept it, well, girls
Speaker 6: forced to accept it. I'm total, which.
Speaker 1: Means he would be opposed to it, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: because there's no constitutional right of a male to walk
Speaker 1: into a girl's shower or a male to play a
Speaker 1: girl's sport, which often involves being in the shower.
Speaker 6: Well, I would rule something like that out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I've got to hit this hard break here.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised that Kevin hesitated on that at all. I
Speaker 1: think it's one of the clearest things in the history
Speaker 1: of the planet. But fortunately a vast majority of Americans agree,
Speaker 1: And that's part of the news of the day if
Speaker 1: you just joined us. Even Gavin Newsom now says it's
Speaker 1: unfair to have boys and men playing in girls and
Speaker 1: women's sports. So the damn is breaking there. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: political courage you know, says it after election day when
Speaker 1: Democrats get thumped over it. Hey, when we come back,
Speaker 1: we're going to play some more of that fun sound.
Speaker 1: Members of the GOP Congressional delegation Calraud are doing such
Speaker 1: a great job, great job with Mike Johnston, mayor of Denver.
Speaker 1: Will savor some of that, some of the greatest hits
Speaker 1: from Trump's triumph and Tuesday Night as well in this
Speaker 1: big broom on ash Wednesday, the big turnout of churches.
Speaker 1: What do you think, Drovitch, you're on the Dankplas Show.
Speaker 5: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1: See that's interesting. Is there any place on Earth where
Speaker 1: you've been and you look at it and say, yeah,
Speaker 1: that that's heaven right there. That must be what heaven
Speaker 1: looks like.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 2: I could think of several places. My grandfather's cabins in Ontario,
Speaker 2: Canada very much reflective of that. And I would imagine
Speaker 2: for you Dan playing the masters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but interesting question. Thanks for that bump. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: like a place on Earth where you just i mean,
Speaker 1: just based on the way it looks, the beauty of it,
Speaker 1: you just say yeah, I bet you that's what heaven
Speaker 1: looks like. Do you spend much time thinking about what
Speaker 1: heaven looks like? What hell looks like?
Speaker 2: I think about it, and I think about a lot
Speaker 2: more since my mom passed away, Dan, And you probably
Speaker 2: think about that too, being reunited.
Speaker 1: With your parents, right, Oh my god, I think it
Speaker 1: kind of sharpens the focus of those thoughts. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness. Yeah. And eight five five or zer
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Speaker 1: N five seven, seventh through nine. It was going to
Speaker 1: go down a different road there probably another date. But
Speaker 1: I had mentioned earlier on the show that there are
Speaker 1: some really to me exciting, concrete paths to victory here
Speaker 1: when it comes to these enormous issues facing the state, right,
Speaker 1: and I'll do a longer form show on it, but
Speaker 1: they're they are there. And one of those, for example,
Speaker 1: is what do you think what do you think the
Speaker 1: vote would be in Colorado if you had a ballot
Speaker 1: issue and these are you know, it takes a couple
Speaker 1: of million to get it on the ballot at least,
Speaker 1: but what do you think the vote would be if
Speaker 1: people Colorado had a chance to vote on whether they
Speaker 1: want a new law that says people can sue sanctuary
Speaker 1: cities if they get hurt there by somebody here illegally.
Speaker 1: What do you think the vote on that would be?
Speaker 1: Three or three? Someone three eight two five five text
Speaker 1: d an five seven seven three nine. We had Christy
Speaker 1: Burton Brown from Advanced Colorado yesterday. I'm just saying there
Speaker 1: are a lot of things I think we could get
Speaker 1: passed through ballot measures that could profoundly transform this state
Speaker 1: for the better. And I do hold out home maybe
Speaker 1: in this cycle there we'll see some Republicans win statewide,
Speaker 1: but the ballot, yeah, I think they're an awful lot
Speaker 1: of Colorado's who would go with us on some of
Speaker 1: those really kind of seminal issues. Let's go to Denver, Colorado.
Speaker 1: We'll start with Chris. You're on the Dan Kapli Show.
Speaker 7: Welcome Chris, Thanks Dan So. I work for large US company,
Speaker 7: multinational debt manufacturers all over the place, Israel, China, Mexico,
Speaker 7: all over the place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the.
Speaker 7: Division that I work in is primarily manufactured in Mexico.
Speaker 7: And if the tariff's going to the place, then well
Speaker 7: obviously there's going to be effectively a twenty five percent
Speaker 7: pump on the product.
Speaker 1: It just will end up.
Speaker 7: Being paid by the consumers should they choose to continue buying.
Speaker 7: But as much as I would love to have competitive
Speaker 7: US factories that could turn out all these products, we
Speaker 7: just don't have the supply chains right now. So it's
Speaker 7: just really just a comment I kind of wanted to make.
Speaker 1: Well, thanks Chris, and you've called before. You're always a
Speaker 1: great caller. Here's my quick take on that. Admittedly no
Speaker 1: expert on tariffs, right I try to read on it,
Speaker 1: but I'm no expert. But my take is this, First
Speaker 1: of all, we're never going to have to find out
Speaker 1: the long term impact of the tariffs because Trump's going
Speaker 1: to get what he wants just through imposing them for
Speaker 1: a shorter term and using the Mexico example, I think
Speaker 1: we could all agree at this point that we are
Speaker 1: under chemical attack, a chemical weapons attack out of Mexico
Speaker 1: on this nation in the form of fetanol. And it's
Speaker 1: not a reflection of the Meica on the Mexican people broadly,
Speaker 1: but it's a reflection on the government that permits it
Speaker 1: and those who are launching it. So I think Trump
Speaker 1: should use tariffs, should use the military, should use everything
Speaker 1: in his power to stop this chemical attack on America
Speaker 1: dead in its tracks. So that's where I start with
Speaker 1: tariffs when it comes to Mexico. More broadly, Chris, when
Speaker 1: you talk about, okay, it'd take too long to gear
Speaker 1: up the supply chains, etc. To return a healthier manufacturing
Speaker 1: base to the US, I can't claim to know one
Speaker 1: way or the other. But I agree with President Trump
Speaker 1: when he talks about the soul of America. I really
Speaker 1: think it's critical to the long term soul of America
Speaker 1: that we have much more manufacturing here, that we're less
Speaker 1: reliant on China and other nations, and that we have
Speaker 1: that reliable, good high pain jobs with good benefits infrastructure
Speaker 1: here in America.
Speaker 7: So yeah, So, by the way, I'm a first time caller,
Speaker 7: must be a.
Speaker 1: Difference, Really, what do you have? A brother? A twin?
Speaker 7: An impossible, an impostor could be exactly. But I don't
Speaker 7: disagree with you at all on doing what we can
Speaker 7: to bolster US manufacturing. I'm also from the Midwest with
Speaker 7: you know, auto factory relatives, and so I'm with you.
Speaker 7: But it's going to be a shock to the system
Speaker 7: because I can tell you we're not going to pay
Speaker 7: people in the US what we're paying them abroad. So
Speaker 7: I'm not disagreeing with you. I just it's just some
Speaker 7: important factors to take into consideration. I really hope that
Speaker 7: we can work it out so that we don't end
Speaker 7: up in a trade war, because I think we all
Speaker 7: know that nobody wins, and I do think we have
Speaker 7: to be respectful of the fact that, you know, Mexicans
Speaker 7: and Canadians they're proud of their country and they you know,
Speaker 7: they don't want to get pushed around either. At a
Speaker 7: certain point, you know, I'm a little worried that they
Speaker 7: might just tell us to pound Sam. So I'd just
Speaker 7: like to see this thing not devolved into, you know,
Speaker 7: a major war in your trade work, because I don't
Speaker 7: think any of us are going to benefit from that.
Speaker 7: And Chris and other than that, enjoy the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks man, really do appreciate that. Thank you, Chris.
Speaker 1: And I know this is simplistic, but it's an important
Speaker 1: concept that that, you know, the breaking eggs to get
Speaker 1: an omlet. And I think one of the reasons that
Speaker 1: we're stuck in a rut and a vicious cycle in
Speaker 1: so many different parts of public policy is people haven't
Speaker 1: had the courage to break those eggs and have that
Speaker 1: short term pain for long term gain. Ryan, I haven't
Speaker 1: seen a single text or call on this. I thought
Speaker 1: it was a great question. Can anybody think of anything
Speaker 1: in life, your life, anybody's life where you have major
Speaker 1: long term gain without some short term pain, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe winning powerball or something like that. But but no,
Speaker 1: that's just the nature of it, and politics is so
Speaker 1: geared against it. But Trump as a disruptor is one
Speaker 1: of the few people who might be willing to do
Speaker 1: that and then actually have the knowledge to come up
Speaker 1: with the concept that can work. You know. Interesting text here.
Speaker 1: Let me get to this one, Dan, can you speak
Speaker 1: to the position of Amy Coney Barrett in the latest
Speaker 1: Scotis ruling. Would love to hear your thoughts. Sorry if
Speaker 1: you already address this, I'm grateful, Yes, thank you. It
Speaker 1: absolutely intrigued me because I and I think almost every
Speaker 1: other observer expected the Supreme Court to go the other
Speaker 1: way on this. And I won't take into the weeds.
Speaker 1: Say it's pretty straightforward deal where you had a sitting
Speaker 1: in federal court judge individual jurist who ordered the Trump
Speaker 1: administration to pay two billion in four and eight that
Speaker 1: the Trump administration at froze and now listen, when it
Speaker 1: comes to you know, foreign affairs, etc. That's the sole
Speaker 1: purview of the presidency. And I think that that virtually
Speaker 1: everybody expected the Supreme Court, you know, to overturn the
Speaker 1: trial court, federal court part may on that. And so
Speaker 1: the fact that Justice Barrett, I think it was what
Speaker 1: the Chief and Justice Barrett maybe broke with the other
Speaker 1: four conservatives on that really big surprise to me. But
Speaker 1: here's my and I think it explains why we only
Speaker 1: saw four Supreme Court justices sitting justices at the President's
Speaker 1: address the other night. I think you had a lot
Speaker 1: of the conservatives just flat angry at the Court going
Speaker 1: against Trump, and that not because it's Trump, but just
Speaker 1: because I agree with the other four. I think it
Speaker 1: was an incorrect ruling. But where I come down on
Speaker 1: Justice Barrett is I don't think there's one chance in
Speaker 1: a billion that she's one of those originalist justices who
Speaker 1: gets on the court and then starts to care more
Speaker 1: about what the East Coast elites say about the justice. No,
Speaker 1: I think you've got a person who is courageous, of
Speaker 1: very strong mind and faith. The person who is determined
Speaker 1: to follow that the law and the facts as she
Speaker 1: sees them, no matter where they lead, and every now
Speaker 1: and then they lead her to a place that I
Speaker 1: might disagree with, but I have total confidence in her
Speaker 1: integrity as a human and as a jurist. And I'm
Speaker 1: glad she's on the bench. And yeah, I just think
Speaker 1: she got this one wrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, question, Dan, because you're a legal mind that I
Speaker 2: very much respect, and you know the history of this.
Speaker 2: But I can name for you a handful David Suitor,
Speaker 2: Anthony Kennedy, Sandrede O'Connor, and then also John Roberts and
Speaker 2: now i Amy Cony Barrett. These are all nominated by
Speaker 2: Republican presidents, and they drifted left toward the middle kind
Speaker 2: of that nearer another region. Not once in that same period,
Speaker 2: even going back to Carter, has a leftist.
Speaker 1: Right been nominated. I'm going to move to the toward
Speaker 1: the right. That is true when it comes to the chief.
Speaker 1: Really give him some credit on Dobbs though, okay, because
Speaker 1: you want to talk about right on that one, well,
Speaker 1: but but on Dobbs in the end, he sided with
Speaker 1: the majority right, and.
Speaker 2: He's kind of split the ticket with the two competing well,
Speaker 2: he was just entirely lockstep with the right of senator.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, you know, in his concurrence. But what I'm
Speaker 1: saying is that he signed down to that majority opinion,
Speaker 1: and I think that's worth a lot. But I think
Speaker 1: the bigger point, I know, we have to pop this
Speaker 1: break and then I come back getting a lot of
Speaker 1: text on this big explosion here and across the country
Speaker 1: of church attendance on ASH Wednesday. What's driving it? I
Speaker 1: think I got a guess, and I think it's a
Speaker 1: very positive sign. But there isn't time to finish this.
Speaker 1: I do want to pursue that thing on Chief Justice
Speaker 1: Roberts and Dobbs a little bit further after the break.
Speaker 1: But please give President Trump credit because lots of pro
Speaker 1: life GOP presidents never got it there. But Trump delivered,
Speaker 1: and he delivered by getting the correct justices appointed and confirmed.
Speaker 1: Here on the Dan Kaplush.
Speaker 5: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Glad you're here. Wow, explosion of attendance on ASH Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and it's always crowded, right, but this year and it
Speaker 1: appears to have been across the country. So a lot
Speaker 1: of text on what's driving that. Dan take Ash Wednesday,
Speaker 1: add in the pope's illness, and boom, you get a
Speaker 1: large turnout for Ash Wednesday. Dan, my prediction is it
Speaker 1: probably has to do with the fact that the Pope
Speaker 1: could be on his deathbed. God forbid. Dan, I always
Speaker 1: wore a rope soap on a rope in the barn showers.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Does that?
Speaker 2: Well, so the soap didn't find its way onto the floor.
Speaker 1: Well, then you know you're going to pick it up
Speaker 1: and oh that's horrible. Anyway, Yeah, that's fascinating and I
Speaker 1: could definitely see where the Pope being in danger might
Speaker 1: very well increase the out of Nash Wednesday. My guests,
Speaker 1: respectfully would be that we're living through a really cool
Speaker 1: moment in American and world history right now, and the
Speaker 1: Trump election in part as a result of that and
Speaker 1: part as a cause, but it is a it's just
Speaker 1: an explosion of optimism and belief in God and faith
Speaker 1: and lots and lots of good things. And I think,
Speaker 1: I know it's not puppies and rainbows and unicorns always now,
Speaker 1: but I think we're really seeing a major shift in
Speaker 1: the right direction. So I think it's all part of
Speaker 1: that and every reason to believe it's going to continue.
Speaker 1: Becky in Colorado Springs here on the dan KAPLA show, welcome,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 3: I know that you would like to praise Roberts on
Speaker 3: the dab's decision. My position is that Roberts betrayed the
Speaker 3: people and his word to President George W. Bush when
Speaker 3: he said he would just call balls and strikes. There
Speaker 3: is no way that the executive of the nation the
Speaker 3: Article two authority can be countermanded by Article three in
Speaker 3: executing funds. Now, if Congress, in the Article one role
Speaker 3: told Trumps stop it, that's a different thing. So I'm
Speaker 3: trying to see a trend or Amy Cony Barrett. I
Speaker 3: think she's being courted into some of these bad decisions
Speaker 3: with Roberts, so he gets some cover. He's going left.
Speaker 3: He's doing wrong things so good, even a blind squirrel
Speaker 3: gets a nut every once in a while, and so
Speaker 3: praise him on the Dobbs thing. I don't think Amy
Speaker 3: komit Berry was mature enough to be on the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3: I mean it was. She's a Catholic, she has kids,
Speaker 3: that's great, right should have been a jurist that's pro life,
Speaker 3: that has demonstrated those skills in the courtroom. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: I'm not ready for the court and I'm sorry to
Speaker 3: see every time she does one of these bad decisions,
Speaker 3: and it's almost always when Roberts is doing a bad decision,
Speaker 3: and I can't help but say, if it walks like
Speaker 3: a duck, wells like a duck, is bad a duck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Becky, appreciate the call, Thank you for that. I
Speaker 1: know there's a lot of frustration with Justice Barrett. I
Speaker 1: think it's misplaced myself, and I think Becky really did
Speaker 1: not tell the full story of Justice Barrett. Justice Bartt
Speaker 1: yes developed, Cathy can. I respect the hell out of that, obviously,
Speaker 1: But Justice Barrett an incredibly accomplished constitutional scholar and attorney
Speaker 1: and so and you know, professor at Notre Dame, etcetera.
Speaker 1: So deep, deep, deep legal roots and accomplishments. So no,
Speaker 1: I think Justice Barrett was a tremendous pick and I
Speaker 1: think that she's human, right. And by the way, I
Speaker 1: agree with a caller. I think this Supreme Court decision
Speaker 1: yesterday which upheld a federal court order forcing the Trump
Speaker 1: administration to expend two billion in foreign aid, I think
Speaker 1: it's one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in many years.
Speaker 1: But I don't draw any long term conclusions about that
Speaker 1: when it comes to Justice Barrett or anybody else. And
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be at all surprised if this decision portends
Speaker 1: that there are a lot of big decisions coming in
Speaker 1: President Trump's favor. And I just believe Justice Barrett is
Speaker 1: somebody who sincerely just tries to be truly honest, independent
Speaker 1: legal thinker in her entire life as a constitutional scholar
Speaker 1: and jurist. That's led her almost always to what I
Speaker 1: view as these correct decisions. But just because I disagree
Speaker 1: with her strongly on a decision or two, I don't
Speaker 1: think is a basis to draw conclusions. But I think
Speaker 1: justice is everybody's human too, right, and some stuff can
Speaker 1: work its way in. And I just have a feeling
Speaker 1: there are some really big decisions coming down the pike
Speaker 1: in President Trump's favor, not because he's President Trump or
Speaker 1: President or anything else, because he was right and he's
Speaker 1: right on these issues. So don't be surprised if that's
Speaker 1: what's about to come after this surprising decision against him.
Speaker 1: Tremendous job. Ryan is always thanking my friend Kelly, You're
Speaker 1: the best. Please join us tomorrow on the Dan Kapla Show.