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March 21, 2025 • 33 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Best radio ever. Chance could come back anytime.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thanks John Dragon. Oh that was awesome.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Hey, I'm John Caldera filling in for the recuperating recovering
root Canalish Michael Brown.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah. That.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Our last guest was none other than my own son,
Chance Caldera, who has Down syndrome. He's twenty years old,
and I was able to coax him onto the mic
by saying, Hey, do you want to go on the
radio and he.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Said, yeah, John, Because that's that's it.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
So today's is Down Syndrome Day because it's three twenty
one and people with Down syndrome have three of chromosome
twenty one. Get it, Yeah, go figure it's it's It's
pretty awesome. A couple of these couple ofes texts down

(01:02):
syndrome like having a perpetual mushroom trip like that one. John,
the story is about your son are magical.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
He is a blessing. Oh man, ain't that the truth? Hey,
my son identifies as.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
A race car. You heard in the interview.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Hey, John, better not let Governor mcpheefee here that your
son identifies as a car, otherwise will be forced to
get special plates for him.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
I like this one from Alexa. I think they have
down syndrome plates too, so they I think so, I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
They've got they don't have, they.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
Don't have identify as a race car.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, they have down syndrome plates perhaps, but not racecar.
And my son is a race car, which is cool.
Would you want to be a race car? Heck yeah,
I mean yeah, he's a race car. He's not a
Ford Pinto. He's a race car. Alexis says, I believe
you would have been a way differ in person if

(02:00):
chance was not in your life.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
That is an understatement.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah, it's it's a it's a lot of work having uh,
someone with Down syndrome, and they're all so ridiculously different.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
So on down syndrome day, people.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Wear mixed matched socks or really bold socks. And it's
because one guy with Down syndrome and his father started
a crazy sock business and they sell crazy socks and
it's kind of turned into a thing.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
I guess, So put on some put on some wild
socks for today. I love this little switch gears here.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
John A text says, will people who are damaging Tesla's
or trying to intimidate Tesla drivers get charged? With a
hate crime addition to their other criminal charges. That's a
great question. It sounds like a stupid question at first,
and then I thought about it. The idea of a
hate crime is that you do a crime not just

(03:08):
to that person, but by doing that, you intimidate an
entire group of people.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Now, Tesla drivers who have forever been.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Snooty, rich people now hate the idea that they bought
Elon's cars. Elon was this incredible, absolutely incredible icon.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
For the left.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Look, he's he's sending people to Mars, he's an innovator,
he's gonna get rid of combustion engines, he's bringing the future.
And then as soon as he agrees with Trump, he's
he's a Nazi. And when he points to people, you
say it's a Nazi salute.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Great. Yeah, I think he's too autistic to be a Nazi.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
So when you're seeing these tesla's burn up, is it
really to attack Elon or is it to intimidate other
people who have Tesla's.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
What a superb question.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
Well, I can tell you me driving around my Nissan,
I'm not scared at all. So maybe if I were
driving a Tesla, I think twice about especially going downtown
today with Bernie and AOC showing up.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
That's a good that's a good point.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
By by all means, By all means, let's uh give
me your Tesla.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
So get this.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
I'll trade you straight up from my you know two
thousand and seven Nissan.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
You got a two thousand and seven Well, I got
a two ten Nissan Ultima.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
You know why I drive a Ultima because I know
what chicks like uh.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
As protest against doze head must spread across the country,
a website called doze Quest has reportedly published personal details
of Tesla owners, leading to concerns about privacy and safety.
The site reveals the names, addresses, and phone numbers of

(05:20):
Tesla owners on an interactive map, and uses the image
of a Molotov cocktail as.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
A cursor.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Really think about this for just a second, if you want.
We've got we've got violence, violence going out to Tesla owners.
We've got violence going to people who just bought a car.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Isn't that? Isn't that crazy?

Speaker 3 (06:06):
The left, the left who say they poor violence, are
throwing molotov cocktails. And these the people who are the
people who are doing this are doing it.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
And I think the guy's right to.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Intimidate people they wish, they wish to intimidate people not
to buy Tesla's.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Personally, I absolutely love it.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
I absolutely love how owning a Tesla is now a
thing you have to explain. The left loves to virtue signal.
They love virtue signaling. That's why they have things like
trash cans that say we recycle.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
We care if you recycle, that's you thing.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Then then oh, I'm seeing somebody on the screen here
draw out with his Tesla. Don't buy a Tesla. Ah,
how cute is that? And so people like to put
out their emotive in this home. We believe love is love,

(07:23):
science is real. They have to emote what they believe.
And those people, as a stereotype, are the ones who
buy Tesla's. They buy Tesla's because they thought this was
a way to show how much they love the planet.
Instead it's showing that they like, they have like they

(07:50):
they hate, they hate elon. So they they've got to
do something. You spend one hundred grand for a car,
and now you've got to put on a sticker to say,
don't hurt me. That says I bought this Tesla before
he went crazy. I've seen that bumper sticker. I've seen
the f elon which spells out Fellon. Get it very clever,

(08:15):
and you put that on your Tesla as a way
to emote and say I am not with those people,
I am anti Elon.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Now, oh, give me a break.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
So now there's a website that details where Tesla owners live.
How does that make you feel? Tesla owners the cow
the cursor turns into a Molotov cocktail. The operators of
the site have stated they will only remove the information

(08:51):
of Tesla owners who have sold their cars. This is
where the left is. Mind just implodes, all right, it
just absolutely implodes. There is no logical consistency. So let
me see if I got this right.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
You'll remove.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
The detail of who owns that Tesla on this interactive
map that has Molotov cocktails as the cursor and shows
the name, address, phone number of Tesla owners. But if
those people can prove they have sold their cars, then
you'll remove them from that website. The economist Henry Hazlett

(09:43):
used to have a little saying, finish the equation.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
So let's finish the equation.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
If you own a Tesla and you sell your Tesla,
what does that mean it means someone else bought your tesla.
You cannot sell your Tesla without someone buying your tesla.
That is finishing the equation, which means now that that

(10:14):
person is going to be on this interactive website where
people can find out that he owns a Tesla, and
the only way for him to get off that website.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Is to sell his tesla.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
But second, when you sell the Tesla, it means somebody
else has to buy the Tesla.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
Do you understand how corrupt.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
The mind of these people are, how disfunctional their logic
circuits are.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
I'll give you a case in point.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
There is a house bill in the state legislature that
would put a warning label on any product that combusts
fossil fuel.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
That's right, it's going to have this.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
So if you have a lawnmower or propane tank, or
you go up to a gas pump, it's going to
say this product causes combustion of fossil fuels, which leads
to global warming and health dangers or something like that.
It's just forced virtue signaling by gunpoint. So people who

(11:30):
want to sell these products will need to slap warning
labels on them.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
You know, that's why you need to get an electric vehicle.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
But wait, two thirds of our electricity in Colorado comes
from you guessed it, fossil fuel. A third comes from
so called renewables, the rest comes from coal and natural gas,

(12:01):
otherwise known as fossil fuels. So a car should have
that label. Gas tanks need to have that label. Gas
pumps need to have that label. But logically speaking, so
should Tesla's and Nissan Leafs and every other electric vehicle

(12:22):
because they are fossil fuel cars. If you see a
coal train, you should look at it and go, oh, look,
that's a train full of Tesla fuel, because it's used
to make electricity to charge your Tesla. This is what

(12:45):
I mean by the insane lack of consistency with the
left that they refuse to see and.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Basic logic is un important. It doesn't phase them.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
None of it phases them.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
They just want what they want.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
So a gas car is bad, but a coal powered
car is good.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
How does that make sense? I don't know, because in
their minds it does.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Three oh three seven one three eight two five five
seven one three Talk the operators of this site, which
reveals the name, addresses, and phone numbers. Of Tesla owners
say they will only remove the information of Tesla owners
who prove they have sold their cars. They have sold

(13:44):
their cars, so they're dosing. That's the clever name for
throwing out, throwing out people's personal information, putting out the
documents on them. Incredible three oh three seven one three

(14:06):
eight two five five. So this person who up in
Lovelin threw molotov cocktails at Tesla spray preated a swastika
on a Tesla dealership. I love how they reported her

(14:27):
in the news and then you looked at the picture
of her and it's a hymn. It's a hymn. So
he's a guy with pink hair who formerly was a
man and still is a man, but identifies as a woman.

(14:47):
It's it's pretty, it's pretty incredible, and this is happening
all over. The Left is having a panic attack because
they bought the wrong product. For years, the Tesla was
the image of smug arrogant, elite superiority for people who

(15:11):
have lots of money. And then they bought their cyber trucks,
which are almost one hundred grand to buy, and now
they've got to be embarrassed about driving it. Guess what

(15:31):
that's the shame you tried to put on everybody else.
That is the shame you gave pickup truck drivers.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
How dare you drive that? How dare you drive that?
How about? How about this? Why? I love the term
Gulf of America.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Now, Gulf of America is just a stupid, ridiculous, needless,
annoying thing to do.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Let's rename this Gulf of America. Now the Left is
going crazy. It's this dumb thing to do. That said.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
I love it, I absolutely love it. I love Golf
of America. Why because after years decades of the Left
changing names of everything to match their ideology of changing
Mount Evans to Mount Blue Sky, how wonderful is it

(16:44):
to have Golf of America? Because when you say Gulf
of America, there's this implied second part, which is yep,
that's right back at you. That's how it feels. This
is a taste of your own medicine. And they're feeling

(17:04):
that now.

Speaker 5 (17:05):
Driving a Tesla back after this, you're on khow Gooder
one one zero six, John Caldera, it was wonderful for
you to introduce us to.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Lightning Chance McQueen.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
On the radio this morning.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
You you're You're a heck of a dad. And UH
just got to say, Chance rock On, you're a rock
star man.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
Chance is a rock star. Actually he's a rock star.
I'm just his entourage. I just have to follow him
around and clean up his mess. Rock Star race car,
rock Star race Car.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
I was over at a friend's house. This is a
couple of years back, and we're out back having having.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
A barbecue or something, and it's just this friend and
her husband and Chance and I are there. And I
turned around and and how to put this, Chances urinating
on his house on the garage door, so he just
has to be and so he's peeing on the side

(18:21):
of the house. I kind of slapped my forehead and
I go, sorry, guys, my son's peeing on your house.
And we all have a good laugh at it. And
then to find out later my friend said her husband
had to had to uh at dinner. Yeah, well, I

(18:45):
pee outside all the time. And then the sun said,
oh yeah, whenever I'm mowing the lawn, I just pee
outside it until my until my son pete on her house.
She she just had no idea that every man in
proximity apparently urinates in her backyard.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yeah, it's just a guy thing, it is. It's just
a wonderful guy thing.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
So basically, my son lives the life you want to live,
but norms and conformity stop you. That's that's how to
live the life. Today is National Down or World Down
Syndrome Day because it's three twenty one and trisomy twenty

(19:30):
one is the diagnosis of Down syndrome.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Anyway, wear some crazy socks.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
That's the thing they do. I was wondering why in
the world is crazy socks, bold, weird, mismatched socks the thing?
And there was a guy with Down syndrome and his
dad that started a business selling wacky socks and they
give five percent of their profits. I think it's Dave's
Crazy Socks to special Olympics and other things. Go go figure,

(20:01):
go figure that. Hey, I wanted to let you know that,
Actually it was John's Crazy Socks. Everybody's name is John
John's Crazy Socks. The organization I run Independence Institute. Please
go to thinkfreedom dot org, Think freedom dot org, and uh,

(20:23):
get on our mailing list. Just check it out on
one of our folks, Kathleen Chandler does this incredible thing
called a Citizen and Involvement Project, and it's how to
get involved instead of just you know, whining like I
do when I go on radio. How do you get involved?

(20:43):
How do you take part of activism? How do you
know that there's you know, five thousand governments up and
down the mountains here and each one needs people to
be on boards and commissions and you can do something.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
And she says, stop complaining and do something.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
So she's got another class coming up on April tenth,
and it's online. You don't even have to get out
of your underwear. That sounds awful. Let's try it again.
You can even stay in your underwear and do it
at home. So just go to thinkfreedom dot org. Thinkfreedom
dot org look under the join us an events page

(21:25):
and you'll see it and it's it's just one of
these great, wonderful classes.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
You can do online where she lays.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Out how local government works, where you can get involved,
where you can be influential, and if nothing else, you'll
learn anything. Spend two hours and be part of the solution.
Otherwise we just let the Tesla burners run the world,
and I don't.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Want to do that.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
Again.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Go to Thinkfreedom dot org.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
This story has not gotten a whole lot of attention.
CBS News Brian Moss breaks the story. Good work to Brian.
Denver mayor and staff use encryption app to discuss migrant crisis,
then auto delete messages.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
I don't know if you know this.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
In Colorado, we have something called open records, our Open
Records Act called KORRA for Colorado Open Records Act. CORA
means that our elected officials, when they're doing their job,
have to let us see what's going on, and that

(22:44):
those records are open to inspection, with a whole lot
of exceptions, you know, personnel records, things along those lines.
That's why you're supposed to retain your emails and your texts.
Text messages from elected officials and governmental employees are open

(23:11):
to public examination. Well, it's kind of hard examine public
records when they disappear.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
When they disappear.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
That's exactly what this guy who claimed who claimed he
was going to be, who claimed he was going to
be a transparent mayor, our transparency mayor has been using
secret encryption to talk with his employees and then having

(23:55):
those messages self delete. Imagine if a Republican did this
imagine if they found out Donald Trump or some Republican
was deleting his messages and avoiding our open records laws.

(24:23):
Our mayor is doing this, and he wouldn't go on TELUV,
none of his staff would go on to tell us
why he's doing this.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Here's the story.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Denver Mayor Mike Johnson and fourteen of his top advisors,
appointees and lawyers nick named themselves Strikeforce, and communicated about
the city's migrant crisis through an end to end encryption app,
the app Signal, which by the way, is a good app.
You all should use it to keep government from spying

(24:59):
on you. You and now they're using it to keep
people away from their government.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
It's a whole different thing.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
The app Signal proceeded to automatically delete their conversations. A
spokesman for Johnson said the Signal messaging was prompted by
President Trump and how his administration could have significant impacts
on how Denver operates. Let me let me see if
I got this right. The mayor and the mayor's staff

(25:30):
are breaking the law. They are breaking the law. It
is against the law to have self deleting apps on
state issued phones.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
And when asked why.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Just like regular progressives, they scream oppression. Remember the oppression
is the answer to everything you know? Would forget love?
Love is not the answer. Why did Jesus do this?

Speaker 5 (26:01):
Love?

Speaker 2 (26:02):
No?

Speaker 3 (26:02):
No. The left's answer to every question is oppression. Help.
I'm being oppressed. So Donald Trump and his administration quote
could have significant impacts on how Denver operates. Therefore, we
have to break the law and not let people see

(26:23):
what we're doing. The use of such messaging acts I'm
reading the story by Brian Moss of Channel seven by
government officials has been controversial and viewed as a way
to avoid public disclosure of government decision making. In Michigan,
after state police leaders were found to be using signal
on state issued phones, state lawmakers outlawed the use of.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
Encrypted messaging on state phones.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
Steve Sandsberg, who is a First Amendment lawyer and a
guy works for transparentancy. He says, quote, it's lawful, and
it's breaking the law. Jeff Roberts, a guy with a
Colorado Freedom of Information coalition, characterize what Brian Moss found

(27:15):
as an intentional effort to undermine Colorado's open records law. Quote,
this is not transparent According to Johnson's daily camelendar obtained
through open records, he convened a Strikeforce introduction meeting the

(27:39):
following day. Text messages obtained by CBS News showed Johnson's
director of Strategic Initiatives sent an identical text to multiple
members of the administration saying, quote, we are going to
use signal to communicate with Strikeforce so that communication remains

(27:59):
in encrypted and secure and messages auto delete. They're doing
it so that we the people can't see what's going
on in our government, and then those messages delete.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Hmm wow, think of this.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Why does Nixon go down in history because he kept
the truth from us. He had tapes, he wouldn't hand over,
he wouldn't let people inspect the work product, he would

(28:53):
not let people look.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
At the texts.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
I mean, for that time it was tapes, but today
it's texts, and he almost got impeached.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
He had to leave office because of that.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Here we are fifty years later, and our mayor is
doing complete Nixon crapola. He and his people are deleting
messages using encrypted apps to keep you and I and
every reporter out there from knowing what their decision making

(29:31):
process is Jeff Roberts from the Colorado Freedom of Information
Coalition said, the internal text messages and move to signals
show quote, they are giving the impression that we are
doing something we don't want the public to see. The
city is saying at the get go, these are records,

(29:55):
these that the public should never see.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
They're intentionally concealing and hiding. Zandsburg. The lawyer.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
Says what was done was unlawful and breaking the law
and deprives us of the rights we have, as Colin
Rawden's to conduct public business. So typically there's a three
year standard records retention, which is not even at that.

(30:28):
Every single naughty text and email that I've sent to
a woman, Google still has it.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
This stuff gets deleted in forty days.

Speaker 3 (30:40):
Something's wrong here three or three seven, one, three, eight, two,
five five In for the big man, I'm John Kelderic.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
Keep it here. You're on six thirty K How hi, Dragon?
Does Chance have a dog? Wow?

Speaker 3 (30:55):
What a great question. I'm John Kelderic. Chances my son.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
He has down syndrome. We brought him on a little
bit in the last hour.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
Let me tell you the story of Chance's dog, the
worst dog ever and it has to do with his sister.
So Chance's older sister, Piper, was begging us for a dog.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
I want a dog. I want a dog. I want
a dog. I want a dog.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
And we kept saying, we'll get a dog when your
little brother Chance is finally toilet trained, because we just
have too much going on. But instead of getting her
a dog, we got her a divorce, which we thought
she would like even more. Surprisingly, no, not so much.

(31:43):
And so as a single dad, I still got the
I want a dog.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
You guys promised a dog. I want a dog.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
And I don't know if you know this, but fathers
cannot say no to daughters. It's in the constitution or something.
So I got her a fish, hoping that would tie
her off. No, and I got her a gerbil, and
then then a guinea pig. And one day the sitter calls,

(32:09):
screaming in the background there's something wrong.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
With the gerbil.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
I go home, and just like Frankenstein hugging the little
boy too hard and killing him, a Chance killed the gerbil.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Hey look gerbil, and my daughter's screaming and crying.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
Chance comes up to me and says, nibbles broken, nibbles broken,
Call Mimi, my mother's grandma, because somehow his grandma can
fix anything. So yeah, she'll just fix nibbles. And my
daughter's like, you promise a dog. And so here was

(32:48):
a perfect storm.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
But I held strong, did not buy the dog. Oh
thought I was clear.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
And then like a year later, I was going to
be out of town, even out of the country on
her birthday.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
This was the opportunity.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
She took out a lightsaber, started beating me up with
guilt about not getting a dog, and then cut off
my head with her lightsaber by saying, no.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
I would rather cuddle a dog than a boy.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
So five minutes later we're at the dog shelter to
get Gary the dog.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Gary the world's only truly racist dog. And I was like,
where do you need this dog?

Speaker 3 (33:43):
Now?

Speaker 2 (33:43):
I came home, my son has his hand around the
dog and says, Gary my brother. So yes, we still
have Gary the dog.
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