January 14, 2025 • 34 mins
In the second hour of today's edition of the Dan Caplis Show, Dan reacts to the Democrats' embarrassing attacks on Pete Hegseth from Hegseth's Secretary of Defense confirmation hearing earlier today and discusses what this says about the party.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
A lot of fighting left to do.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Hey, let the celebration continue though, because of the big
victory one obviously, Yeah, the inauguration coming up on Monday.
But Trump already improving America in the world in so
many concrete ways, and we'll have the.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Latest of those today.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And I have shifted from predicting that Pete Hegseth is
going to get confirmed to predicting that Pete Hegseth is
going to go into office with great momentum. Not only
will he be confirmed, he's going into office with great momentum,
and I think he's going to be a great change agent.
Really shined in a lot of ways that the hearing today.
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I can watch a wire to wire busy getting ready
for a trial. But the video that I've seen, both
the pro and con sponsored video, I think he's done
really well, including this.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
The wokness comes not from the uniform ranked senator, from
the political class on day one on January twentieth, when
President Trump is sworn in, he.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Will issue a new set of lawful orders, and.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
The leadership of our services will have an opportunity to
follow those lawful orders or not. Those lawful orders will
not be based on politics. They will be based on readiness, accountability, standards,
and lethality. That is the process by which leaders will
be judged. And accountability is coming, because everybody in this
room knows.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
If you're a rifleman and you lose.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Your rifle, they're throwing the book at you. But if
you're a general who loses a war, you get a promotion.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
See that is perfect, and that's inspiring. That helps America.
And here's the point that when you have the skill
set he has first he had in the military, right,
he walk the talk. But then you know his on
air stuff which the left tries to use against him.
All Wait a second, not all, but many of the
great figures in history have accomplished tremendous things for the
free world are people with superior communication skills.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
He has those. That's important.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
That was on display today and that went a long
way towards short circuiting. You know, his hysterical opposition eight
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Speaker 2 (02:25):
But so much.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Locally that we need to talk about, right, because we
have this horrific situation where we had a serial killer,
a serial mass killer loose on the mall. The fact
that two of us three stabbing victims survived on Saturday
doesn't change the fact he meant to kill all of them,
and he grotesquely, gruesomely slit the throat of a flight
attendant so by at the latest, early Saturday night, the
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City of Denver officials they knew they had a mass killer,
a serial mass killer loose who was targeting them all.
Somebody in my count seriously protected opinion. But it's not
a stretch, right, somebody made the decision not to warn
the public about that. I'm not saying they didn't issue
some kind of statement. I'm telling listen, you want to
warn the public, say their own sons and daughters, mothers
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and fathers, uncles and aunts, we're going to be down
on the mall. You think they would have settled for
some little tweet they send out or some little statement. No,
it would have been a five line far get your
ass off the mall, don't go anywhere near there. We
got a serial killer loose on the wall. Any decent human,
any decent human, would have used every means of communication
possible to warn everybody, everybody in America, but certainly everybody
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in Colorado. We have a serial killer loose on the mall.
But they didn't. And why didn't they? You know why
they didn't. But it's unforgivable, it's inexcusable, and it's a
disqualifier for whatever position they hold. And if the mayor
did not know, if he's that out of the loop,
he shouldn't be mayor. If he did know, and then.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
He decided not to warn the public, he not.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Only should be mayor, he should just he shouldn't be
in any position anywhere.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So we need the truth here. And what did we
get yesterday?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
We got a grotesque, perverse, obscene victory lap taken by
Mayor Mike Johnston down on the mall of all places,
after a few seconds of lip service to the victims,
he did what he'd come to do. He took a
victory lap because he obviously doesn't care about innocent victims,
or else he would have warned everybody, and you sure
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wouldn't go to that spot, and how obscene, how disrespectful
to the victims and their families to go down to
the mall and then do a victory lap about how
great Denver is, you know, where the blood had probably
barely been cleaned up, you know, from the mass killer
targeting the mall. And so then we get one of
the instant classic moments in Denver history. And then we'll
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get to the next way that they're making the Democrats
are making Denver and Colorado less safe.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
But we get one of these great moments.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Right because this twisted sister kind of move of going
down to the mall to declare victory after this carnage.
He's then doing this presser and if you go watch
the video, we'll get the whole video posted. It's it's
unbelievably informative because first you hear Johnston repeatedly have to
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call on the chief to come up, and then you
watch the chiefs sort of reluctantly drag himself up there.
He wanted no part of that, he wanted no part
of that, and then Johnston insists he comes up, and
then the guy who's doing the signing, and God love him.
I don't fault the guy who's doing the signing, you know,
because that's that's like his big moment, right, he's on
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camera and everything else, and it's clear that he's got
this big smile on his face and he's doing all this.
The whole thing was bizarre. The whole thing was absolutely bizarre.
And then finally some sanity introduced into the event when
this guy walks by and he just starts yelling at
Johnston and you have bleeped this right, extensive law man.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
You must have carpel tunnel for leaping this right.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
I saw you in the Great Tower, Mayor. This is
your fault, Prime woman.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Democrats are burning the city down.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Short talk city.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, and then I've read today you couldn't see it
on camera that he was the administration did have moved
out by police. And so this brings us to you
talk about crime loving democrats burning the city down. We
see it in so many different forms, right, And here's
another one. This absolute madness of the needle exchange programs.
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I mean, why don't you just take full page ads
out everywhere in the country and plaster social media with
the big ad blitz saying all drug addicts please come
to Denver. Please come to Denver and listen. I have
great compassion for people or addicts. Any of us could
become an addict at any minute if we exposed ourselves
to that stuff. You know, these chemical dependencies are very sad,
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and when people share needles and terrible things happen, that's
very sad. But the answer isn't to undermine the community.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
As a whole.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
The answer is to get people who have addictions help
so they don't have addictions anymore. The answer is not
to encourage and facilitate and green light it and to
track more people with addictions to Denver.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
But that is what they have done.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And now now these these crazy lefty democrats in Denver
want to expand it.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Here's the KUSA store right now.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Denver City Council is still discussing whether to increase access
for needle exchange programs in the city. City councils considering
lifting the limit on how many providers can operate and
getting rid of a ban on needle exchanges less than
a thousand feet from.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
A school or daycare.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Our Angela McCall's been listening in on this debate which
continues Angeline.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
While this has been a topic that's divided council and
one the mayor has expressed his own hesitancy about. Right now,
Denver has three needle exchange programs. One of them is mobile,
two fixed locations where people can swap out dirty syringes
for clean ones. One of those service providers needs to
move and they say they can't find a new location
due to the restrictions that have been in place in
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large parts, due to that one thousand requirement from being
from a school or daycare. The sponsors of the bill
say overdose deaths have doubled since the pandemic, when they
were already high. They have data that suggests seven thousand
people each month use these needle exchange sites.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
And we'll get to the rest of this after a break.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
You know why overdose deaths are going up because the
Democrats are encouraging drug use in many, many different ways.
You've just green lighted drug use, and somebody has a
call to call marijuana a soft drug, give me a break,
even the old marijuana. But you look at the potency
levels of the new stuff. You know, the left in Colorado.
Democrats in Colorado have done just about everything imaginable to
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encourage more drug use. That's why overdose deaths are going up.
Yet they want to further encourage more drug use. What
do you think the real endgame is here?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Right?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Because any moron can see that these needle exchange programs
are going to further drug use and they're going to
attract more addicts to Colorado. So why does the left
want to do that? You tell me when we come
back from this break. You can text as well. Da
N five seven seven three nine. Why does the left
want to do this? Why does it want more drug
use in Colorado? Why does it want to attract more
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drug users to Colorado? Why does it want a green
light and try to normalize this drug use? But we
know this is right, bottom line, very bad for the community.
But guess what, you can't stop it because Democrats control Denver.
When do you think that will change? I've got a theory.
You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, you can be sure this.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Somebody in that administration in Denver knew there was a
serial killer loose on the mall, and every reasona believe
he was going to keep killing. Somebody made that decision
not to tell you, not to tell the public. I'm
not talking about some little statement. I'm talking about making
sure people are warned. If you go down on that mall,
if you go down on that mall, you got to
know there's a serial killer may very well be down
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there looking for a victim right now.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Because they knew this.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
They knew this, you could have police walled wall down
the mall, and unless you had warned people, then everybody
was in danger. Because the very best police force in
the world, and we have so many great officers in Denver,
so many great officers in Denver.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
You can't stop You can't stop.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
A serial killer like this one who they know had
just cut the throat of a flight attendant on the mall,
and it stabbed two others all within an hour, meaning
to kill all three. You knew a few things for sure.
You can't stop them. You can a police everywhere in
somebody that determined to kill that psycho. All they have
to do they walk down the mall. They could be
walking right next to two police officers and they just
pull out that knife and they stab that victim in
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front of them. So the only way This is the point, right,
they knew this. The Denver administration knew this. The only
way to protect the people is to warn them so
they don't go there, or they make a choice whether
to go there or not. But somebody in that Denver
administration made the decision not to warn the people, and
that is completely obscene and unforgivable.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And you know why they did it too.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Right, But we're going to do everything in our power
under the law to get to the bottom of who
made that decision. Now, you have to believe the mayor
was told. Right, you have a serial killer loose on
the mall's just cut the throat of an out of
state flight attendant, shopping on the mall and a layover,
and you don't think they're going to tell the mayor.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Well, if the mayor.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Did know, then it was his responsibility to warn the
people or give the order to warn the people.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
He's not camera shy.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
He proved that last night when he did his obscene
victory lap with the blood barely cleaned up.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
So we're going to do everything we can under the
law to get to the bottom.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Of what the mayor knew, when he knew it, and
who made that decision not to tell the people. Now,
if the mayor knew, well, then doesn't it seem logical
that he made the decision not to tell the people
because he's the mayor and once he knows, he has
the power to tell the people or order somebody to. Now,
this is a disqualifier. Nobody should hold any job, any
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public responsibility whatsoever if they were involved in the decision
not to warn the people, because the only way to
protect the people was to warn the people. And then
we're talking about other craziness in Denver, which affects the
whole state, right because when you put out a sign
saying drug users please come to Denver.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Whose song was that, Ryan, Please come to Denver for
the springtime?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
When you put out that sign drug users please come
to Denver, it endangers everybody. But that's what they have done.
And now they want to expand the needle exchange program.
Let's go to Mead, Colorado. We'll talk to Tom. You're
on the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
Welcome Tom, Hi Dan, how are you.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I'm living the dream, my friend? Thank you? Not on
them all right?
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Okay, So here's the thing with the needle exchange deal.
I do think the homeless crisis in Denver is part
of a very large grift. They could edit if they
wanted to, But they want to promote more drug use,
to promote more homelessness. And I'd like to get your
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taken that am I wrong on this? I mean, who's
making money on this? Because somebody is well, you're.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Right, but I respectfully disagree. I think the motivation and
there is a clear perverse motivation on the part of
the elected left to promote more drug use.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
But that's because the more drug.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Users you have, the more people you have dependent on government,
which means the more votes for the left.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
That's their motivation in my humble opinion.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Well, I think we do agree on that. But I
mean it's just like, uh, you know, you got you know,
you subsidize something, you get more of it.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Right, Well, listen, there's no doubt you're right. We've talked
about it on the show Tom. Obviously, the left is
motivated to attract more homeless to Denver, and they've done
so many different things, starting with the most obvious, right,
which is Johnston on his inauguration day saying, come to Denver,
we will get you a home. You can't be any
more blatant th neck. So you are right, they want
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to attract more homeless to Denver.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
Right exactly. And that's and you know, you throw in
the very lax drug lads, and you get even more
subsidize it, you get more. So I'm just kind of
curious who's benefiting from this because it's not us.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, no, right, it completely.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
It so undermines just the people of the state, you know,
both part these all parties, no parties at all. It
undermines the rest of the state to be attracting more
homeless to Colorado. And listen, any of us could be
that homeless person. So I'm not sitting here judging, criticizing,
viewing as less or any homeless person, because everybody has
a story and whether and you know the drill, right,
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whether it's drugs, alcohol, mental illness, a combination, yeah, you have.
Because the left is encouraging that too. You have a
new wave of folks who just want to live on
the street. But I think that's a relatively small percentage.
So those are all very sad stories and they could
all be us. But the answer is not to encourage
more of it, not to were house them in taxpayer
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funded hotels. The answer is not to undermine the quality
of life and to a certain extent, safety of everybody
else in society.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
That's not the answer.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You've just got a Democratic party controlled by the left,
which clearly their game plan is for survival and thrival.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
New word, please copyright it.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Their game plan is open borders, let everybody flow in
from everywhere in the world, because we're betting they're going
to be Democrat voters, most of them, and attract the
homeless to Denver in large numbers because eventually, you know
a certain number of them, they're going to get registered
to vote, and they're going to vote for us because
they're going to be dependent on government. That's their plan
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to win. It's not serving the interest of the people.
That is their plan to win in Colorado, and so
far they've been getting.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Away with it. What does that tell you?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Eight five to five or zero five A two five
five texters Dan how to clean needles prevent overdoses. Seems
to me it would encourage more usage because now they
don't have to look around to find a needle. It
obviously encourages more uses. It normalizes this hard drug use.
But marijuana has become a hard drug, look at the
potency and it always was really so.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah, that's what they want to do.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Judge their intent by their actions, right, that's what they
want to do. As I always tell Jerry's, you know,
don't expect them to get up on the stand and
break down, crying and admit it. This ain't Perry though
I have had those moments. It is judged their intentions
by their actions.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
As the son of an alcoholic, Dan, would you go
up to an alcohol because they hear here's a free shot,
Take a shot. I don't understand this mentality of we're
just going to enable their addiction. Give them free clean needles. Hey,
at least they're clean, get them help. Well, you all
just want to clarify the record.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I'm not the son of an alcoholic, but but they
don't care about those people, Ryan right, right, right, And.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
I am the son of an alcoholic Dan right, No,
And I know that really infers me and a lot
of people in our audience who have family members who
are addicts don't want those addictions enable.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
The point is they don't care about the addicts. They
don't care about these people. They don't care about the
weekend defenses. They don't care about anybody except themselves. They
don't care about individual human lives. It's just a completely
different worldview than a guy like you, Ryan, and so
many people listening who see the inherent value and dignity
in each human life, they don't view They view most
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human lives as and acceptable casualty.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Rate. You're on the Dan Kaplas.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Show, you're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Good pull combination of Seeger and that message, because you know,
no matter where you are in Colorado, but you are
endangered by what's going on in Denvert right now. When
you've got the left actively trying to recruit more drug
users to Colorado, that affects everybody, and you've got to start.
You've got to start with these poor souls who are addicted.
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Right It could be any of us. It could be
any of us, It could be anybody.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
We know.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
It's a great sadness, but that sadness shouldn't lead us
to make mistakes that are at least as likely to
end up harming those poor souls and certainly undermine the community.
Think about what the left is trying to do right now.
They're not only trying to add more of these needle
exchange locations when they should be get rid of all
of them. They're trying to change the laws. We can
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have them right next to schools and daycares. Schools and daycares.
What does that tell you? And Ryan, let's pull the sound.
We had sound ready to go a couple of weeks ago.
Do you remember the person had an unusual name, but
it was some leader in Denver saying, no kids need
to see people using drugs. I'm not making this up.
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We'll find that sound. But that's what's going on in
Denver right now. That's on the heels of my personal
belief and I'm doing everything I can to use the
law to gather the facts to prove what I believe
to be true. Is that somebody in Denver, at a
very high level, made the decision not to warn the
public that there was a serial killer loose on the
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mall who may very well kill again. And they knew that.
They knew that at the latest early Saturday evening in Denver.
So what did the mayor know and when did he
know it? Because at that point, obviously it was his
responsibility to warn everybody or give the order, because you know,
from a public safety standpoint, the the only way to
protect people is to warn them, because when you've got
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a psycho serial killer, they're not going to be deterred
by police.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
They're a psycho.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Serial killer, and the only way to protect people is
to warn them so they can make the decision whether
or not to go downtown Denver. And then again, totally predictable,
totally expected the serial killer kills again, and obviously they
already knew from the mo he was highly likely to
kill again. But it's also very clear he intended to
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get caught.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
So the only way.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
That you can protect the public is to warn them
before he kills again. So what did the mayor know
and why didn't he warn the public? Who made the
decision not to warn the public. So we're going to
continue to dig on that. On a far less serious
but still very important note, Coach Prime, as I said
when we were first on this show, at least in Colorado,
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to call for Coach Prime to come to Colorado to
Coach as I said.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
The day he arrived, that he's so good.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
We know that he will leave at some point, and
we just got to be grateful for every day we
have with him.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
It's not some deaty or anything.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
He's just been a tremendously powerful force for good in
Colorado and that time could be now right, it could
be to the Dallas Cowboys. If I'm betting you Ryan,
if I am betting you the Family Truckster, I bet
that he stays, and that these communications with Terry Jones
right now with your national.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
News s I just put out a piece a.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Few minutes ago saying it's very real possibility he'll be
leaving for Dallas. If I'm betting the Family Truckster, I
bet that he stays and that these conversations are intended
to help secure a big, long term deal in Boulder.
Could be yeah, which doesn't mean he's going to stay forever.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
But there's two things.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
And I'm not deon sanders personal confident on or anything,
but just as a long time sports fan and member
of sports media, there's two things that should keep on
Sanders here. One, he is king of the Castle and Boulder.
He'll never be run out of town. He owns it.
And secondly, I think by virtue of like you said,
this negotiation, he can set himself up for whatever he
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wants down the road and you have to be careful
with somebody like Jerry Jones. I don't think there's enough
room in that building at and T Stadium for the
two egos that are Jerry Jones and Dion Sanders. It'll
be very similar to when Jimmy Johnson was there. They
were successful at first, but Jerry ended up running him off.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yeah, but he was a young man then. And here's
my point.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
And then we'll get back to the nonsports stuff and
we'll save sports for our commercial breaks.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
But here's the point.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Jones was much younger then, right, He's much older now,
and I think he really wants another trophy before he
goes to the Great Gridiron in the sky. And so
now I think I think he realizes we had this
problem in Denver, Right, we had this problem in Denver
when Elway was GM. And I admire John Elway tremendously
for everything he's done for the community on a charitable
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level and as a quarterback. But because of on Elway's
ego in Denver, we were always going to have milk
toast coaches because no big personality, big ego, big figure
head coach like most top coaches was going to come
to Denver and be second fiddle to John Elway. John
Elway was always going to be the face of the Broncos.
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So we had the John Foxes of the world, right
And so that's the way it's been in Dallas. But
now Jerry Jones, I think Ryan I don't know him,
but he may be at the point where he's willing
to back off a little bit to get another trophy.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Said that before.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
I don't think he can help himself the minute beyond
the minute Dion had, you know, an issue, a roadblock,
a losing streak, Jerry Jones would have to say something
he couldn't contain himself, and that would get I think
on a guy like Deon Sanders, with his gravitas, with
his skill, he'd get.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
On his nerves.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
No, but you understand you're bringing in the face of
the franchise. It's no longer going to be Jerry Jones.
It's going to be Deon Sanders. You only do that
if you view him as your best chance to win.
Would be wise to view him as your best chance
to reinvigorate the fan base to be America's team again,
Colorado's America's college football.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Team now because of Dion said, You're exactly right.
Speaker 9 (24:10):
All I'm going to point to is history and look
at every head coaching hire by Jerry Jones in Dallas
since Jimmy Johnson.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
They've all been subservient to him.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
Barry's what's happened, Jason Garrett, I know they Well, they's.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
A choice, right, and I think his choices. He wants
to win, I hope, and I.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Predict with rose colored classes, Prime's choice will be to
stay in Boulder.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
He's gonna made again.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
He's got it made here.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yeah, he does, he does.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
And I think this conversation may be it's beneficial to both, right,
because it helps generate interest in the Cowboys and get
people excited about the cowboys at a time there's no
other reason to be excited about the Cowboys. But it
probably helps Land Dion because listen, see you right now
is probably after a lot of deep pocket donors to
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come up with the money to get d on what
one hundred and fifty million over ten years or something
like that, and.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
This will help get that money. Dan.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
One thing for sure, says a Texter, is that the
mayor's wife wasn't hanging around the mall at the time.
The serial killer was present. This goes to a point
I made earlier.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
You can be.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Darnshure, darnshure that if if the mayor anybody in command
in Denver knew that their loved one was thinking of
going to the mall, that they were worned not to
because the mayor had to know. Right maybe he was
out of the loop, which would be even worse. But
Denver administration, somebody knew by six thirty Saturday night they
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had a psycho serial killer on the loose on the
mall because he meant to kill all three. It's like
if you shoot three people on the mall, you mean
to kill all three, and he'd slit the throat of
the flight attendant. So I don't mean to personalize this
in a family sense for the mayor, but this is
one of the few occasions when there's a practical, concrete
point to be made. Be sure that nobody in the
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know was letting any family member go to the mall
because there was every reason to believe that that psycho
serial killer was going to kill again on the mall.
Uh Dan, Enough of the ed drug ads. Please explaining
those to my kids during prime hours is sick.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Get rid of? Do we have those?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Ryan, I don't get to listen to the commercial breaks,
the ED drug ads.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I don't know what ED means. But do you know
do we have such ads?
Speaker 9 (26:26):
I think maybe on our own station we do for Denver,
for Denver, Okay, yeah, listen where?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
I believe me.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I completely understand the concern because especially when, like Joe
was young and we've sitting there any ballgame, we're watching
those ads come on. I remember the first time he
turned to me and he said, I wish I could
do the voice because he's twenty seven. Now, Dad, what's
what's viagra? And said, I don't know, Son, I don't know.
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That's the only good answer there now.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Literally, Trevor asked us, why is that guy throwing a
football through a hoof?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Not the whole thing? Dan?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Why is it called a needle exchange program when in
fact drug addict is not required to exchange an old
needle for a new needle.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Andy, Because they don't want.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
To call it a drug users, please come to Colorado program. Right,
they don't want to call it a drug use encouragement program.
And I understand you've got some people in the program.
We're well intentioned and they want to make sure addicts
don't infect others get infected, et cetera. But even if
somebody's well intentioned involved in this, I think there's a
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broader purpose on the left and they don't. The broader left,
the political left doesn't care about these drug users at all.
They're using them like they use everybody else. But one
thing they all know right is it has the impact
of encouraging drug use, promoting drug use, and attracting drug
use to Colorado. No honest person can deny that effect.
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Eight five zero five two five five will come back.
Text are exploding right now and they should be here
on the Dan Caplas Show.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah it's shining today.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
The focus comes not from the uniform ranked senator from
the political class. On day one on January twentieth, when
President Trump is sworn in, he will issue a new
set of lawful orders, and the leadership of our services
will have an opportunity to follow those lawful orders or not.
Those lawful orders will not be based on politics. They
will be based on readiness, accountability, standards, and lethality. That
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is the process by which leaders will be judged and
accountability is coming. Because everybody in this room knows. If
you're a rifleman and you lose your rifle, they're throwing
the book at you. But if you're a general who
loses a war or you get a.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Promotion, great point great communicator, and a great communicator has
a better chance to be a great leader. So I'd
predicted all along access would be confirmed. Now I believe he's
not only going to be confirmed, he's going to hit
the ground running with a lot of momentum and a
chance to really be great in the job.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Glad you're with us. We're talking about the one of.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
The biggest scandals in Denver history, which is that somebody
made the decision not to warn the public there was
a serial killer loose on the mall, knowing that decision
not to give the people what they deserved and had
a right to this warning. This information could very well
lead to somebody being killed. Probably would lead to somebody
being killed, But they made that decision. Anyway, Who made
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that decision? What did the mayor know? When did he
know it? And we're doing everything we can within the law,
within the power of the law gives us to get
to the bottom of that, because that should be a
disqualifier for any office. If it's the mayor, as I suspect,
I can't prove it, but as I suspect it was
at that point, he shouldn't be allowed to continue a
single additional day in office. There can be no greater
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scandal for a mayor of Denver than to know that
there's a serial killer loose in a very specific area
and make a decision not to warn the public. Right
you think if one of his family members was going
to the mall, they would have been warned.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
So let's follow the facts see where they lead.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
But can somebody give me a scenario where the mayor
would not have been informed? Maybe he wasn't, which would
be even worse. Right, would speak so poorly of him
and end of the entire chain of command. But is
it even imaginable that he wasn't informed. If he wasn't,
we need to know that too. If he wasn't informed,
somebody else made the decision not to warn the public.
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That person should not be in a position of public
responsibility as I go to the phone lines, Because here's
the undernoabl truth. The only way to protect the public
was to warn him. You could put every one of
Denver's finest in they are great men and women in blue.
You could put every one of them on the mall,
and you could not protect the unknowing members of the public,
unknowing that there's a serial killer loose targeting them all.
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You couldn't protect him because by definition, a psycho serial
killer isn't worried about being caught, as this one clearly was,
and he wanted to be caught. They caught him because
he was running down the mall with the big butcher
knife after killing somebody else, after somebody in the administration
decided not to warn the public. That is one of
the worst scandals in Denver history. Let's go to the
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phone lines. We'll go to Joe in Arvada. You're on
the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Welcome, Hey, Dan, Yeah, yeah, I couldn't agree more on
this Denver thing. But also, hey, thanks for your praise
for Pete. Hegsas as a as a former marine, well
once a marina. O. H. I mean, he's just he
is such the best choice, such the best choice. But anyway,
the reason I called, I'm sure your call Springer told you.
(31:59):
I thought you know, clothes show up with some levity.
So you were talking about ED ED, right, I was dysfunction.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Well, what what do you got for us?
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Okay? So this is Easter at the church, right, And
you go to the church, and you know many churches
the one I go to as all the little kids
come to the front, and you know, the preacher or
priest talks to him and so he's asking these little
boys and girls what they know about their resurrection. And
a little boy raises his hand. But this is wholesome, ame.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Okay, I could tell.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Little boy raises his hand and he says, I'm sorry
for a resurrection lasting more than four hours. You should
call your doctor.
Speaker 7 (32:49):
Joe.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I'd say, appreciate the call, but I'm not sure i'd
mean it. No, thank you, Joe, appreciate the call.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Yeah, And this all springs off a texture earlier who
was upset that apparently the worst some ED spots in
the prior break. So, and believe me, I told him,
as having been the parent of young kids at one time,
I share his concern.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Dan says a text.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
How about holding the police departments responsible for not towing
and writing for unregistered and expired tags. Obviously, you don't
blame the men and women on the street for that.
Those decisions are made at the political level.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
You can be.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Sure dan On behalf of the tens of millions that
will be watching the inauguration. It's only feelings of joy
and relief that we don't have to see. Oh and
then it goes on to some choice words about Michelle Obama. Listen,
the fact that she's chosen to skip the inauguration is
a very good thing. It is a very good thing
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because it is the ultimate ultimate victory over the left right,
and you know, and she epitomizes the left, though she
tried to present a different front, and so it is
an ultimate victory over the left when she won't even appear,
and it hurts her, which is a good thing because
she is the best the left has in terms of
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a candidate, So it hurts her for any future race.
Speaker 7 (34:10):
With her gone. Do you think the bromance between Barack
Obama and Donald.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Trumpkins that is a great point, And I hope it
does because it's good for the country. That video was
very good for the country. Apologies to everybody who didn't
get through. You can call us tomorrow. And we promised
to start the show with you Texters as well. I'll
try to get in some of these evergreen texts tomorrow
as well. No, you're right, Ryan, that video Barack Obama
and President Trump laughing together, talking, sitting very closely. That's
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good for the country. So you're right, better chance we
see that at the inauguration.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Thank you, Ryan, Thank you. Kelly. Join us tomorrow please
on the Dan Keplish
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
A lot of fighting left to do.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Hey, let the celebration continue though, because of the big
victory one obviously, Yeah, the inauguration coming up on Monday.
But Trump already improving America in the world in so
many concrete ways, and we'll have the.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Latest of those today.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And I have shifted from predicting that Pete Hegseth is
going to get confirmed to predicting that Pete Hegseth is
going to go into office with great momentum. Not only
will he be confirmed, he's going into office with great momentum,
and I think he's going to be a great change agent.
Really shined in a lot of ways that the hearing today.
(00:51):
I can watch a wire to wire busy getting ready
for a trial. But the video that I've seen, both
the pro and con sponsored video, I think he's done
really well, including this.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
The wokness comes not from the uniform ranked senator, from
the political class on day one on January twentieth, when
President Trump is sworn in, he.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Will issue a new set of lawful orders, and.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
The leadership of our services will have an opportunity to
follow those lawful orders or not. Those lawful orders will
not be based on politics. They will be based on readiness, accountability, standards,
and lethality. That is the process by which leaders will
be judged. And accountability is coming, because everybody in this
room knows.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
If you're a rifleman and you lose.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Your rifle, they're throwing the book at you. But if
you're a general who loses a war, you get a promotion.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
See that is perfect, and that's inspiring. That helps America.
And here's the point that when you have the skill
set he has first he had in the military, right,
he walk the talk. But then you know his on
air stuff which the left tries to use against him.
All Wait a second, not all, but many of the
great figures in history have accomplished tremendous things for the
free world are people with superior communication skills.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
He has those. That's important.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
That was on display today and that went a long
way towards short circuiting. You know, his hysterical opposition eight
five five for zero five two five to five the
number text d an five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
But so much.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Locally that we need to talk about, right, because we
have this horrific situation where we had a serial killer,
a serial mass killer loose on the mall. The fact
that two of us three stabbing victims survived on Saturday
doesn't change the fact he meant to kill all of them,
and he grotesquely, gruesomely slit the throat of a flight
attendant so by at the latest, early Saturday night, the
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City of Denver officials they knew they had a mass killer,
a serial mass killer loose who was targeting them all.
Somebody in my count seriously protected opinion. But it's not
a stretch, right, somebody made the decision not to warn
the public about that. I'm not saying they didn't issue
some kind of statement. I'm telling listen, you want to
warn the public, say their own sons and daughters, mothers
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and fathers, uncles and aunts, we're going to be down
on the mall. You think they would have settled for
some little tweet they send out or some little statement. No,
it would have been a five line far get your
ass off the mall, don't go anywhere near there. We
got a serial killer loose on the wall. Any decent human,
any decent human, would have used every means of communication
possible to warn everybody, everybody in America, but certainly everybody
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in Colorado. We have a serial killer loose on the mall.
But they didn't. And why didn't they? You know why
they didn't. But it's unforgivable, it's inexcusable, and it's a
disqualifier for whatever position they hold. And if the mayor
did not know, if he's that out of the loop,
he shouldn't be mayor. If he did know, and then.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
He decided not to warn the public, he not.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Only should be mayor, he should just he shouldn't be
in any position anywhere.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So we need the truth here. And what did we
get yesterday?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
We got a grotesque, perverse, obscene victory lap taken by
Mayor Mike Johnston down on the mall of all places,
after a few seconds of lip service to the victims,
he did what he'd come to do. He took a
victory lap because he obviously doesn't care about innocent victims,
or else he would have warned everybody, and you sure
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wouldn't go to that spot, and how obscene, how disrespectful
to the victims and their families to go down to
the mall and then do a victory lap about how
great Denver is, you know, where the blood had probably
barely been cleaned up, you know, from the mass killer
targeting the mall. And so then we get one of
the instant classic moments in Denver history. And then we'll
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get to the next way that they're making the Democrats
are making Denver and Colorado less safe.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
But we get one of these great moments.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Right because this twisted sister kind of move of going
down to the mall to declare victory after this carnage.
He's then doing this presser and if you go watch
the video, we'll get the whole video posted. It's it's
unbelievably informative because first you hear Johnston repeatedly have to
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call on the chief to come up, and then you
watch the chiefs sort of reluctantly drag himself up there.
He wanted no part of that, he wanted no part
of that, and then Johnston insists he comes up, and
then the guy who's doing the signing, and God love him.
I don't fault the guy who's doing the signing, you know,
because that's that's like his big moment, right, he's on
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camera and everything else, and it's clear that he's got
this big smile on his face and he's doing all this.
The whole thing was bizarre. The whole thing was absolutely bizarre.
And then finally some sanity introduced into the event when
this guy walks by and he just starts yelling at
Johnston and you have bleeped this right, extensive law man.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
You must have carpel tunnel for leaping this right.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
I saw you in the Great Tower, Mayor. This is
your fault, Prime woman.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Democrats are burning the city down.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Short talk city.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, and then I've read today you couldn't see it
on camera that he was the administration did have moved
out by police. And so this brings us to you
talk about crime loving democrats burning the city down. We
see it in so many different forms, right, And here's
another one. This absolute madness of the needle exchange programs.
(06:47):
I mean, why don't you just take full page ads
out everywhere in the country and plaster social media with
the big ad blitz saying all drug addicts please come
to Denver. Please come to Denver and listen. I have
great compassion for people or addicts. Any of us could
become an addict at any minute if we exposed ourselves
to that stuff. You know, these chemical dependencies are very sad,
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and when people share needles and terrible things happen, that's
very sad. But the answer isn't to undermine the community.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
As a whole.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
The answer is to get people who have addictions help
so they don't have addictions anymore. The answer is not
to encourage and facilitate and green light it and to
track more people with addictions to Denver.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
But that is what they have done.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And now now these these crazy lefty democrats in Denver
want to expand it.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Here's the KUSA store right now.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Denver City Council is still discussing whether to increase access
for needle exchange programs in the city. City councils considering
lifting the limit on how many providers can operate and
getting rid of a ban on needle exchanges less than
a thousand feet from.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
A school or daycare.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Our Angela McCall's been listening in on this debate which
continues Angeline.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
While this has been a topic that's divided council and
one the mayor has expressed his own hesitancy about. Right now,
Denver has three needle exchange programs. One of them is mobile,
two fixed locations where people can swap out dirty syringes
for clean ones. One of those service providers needs to
move and they say they can't find a new location
due to the restrictions that have been in place in
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large parts, due to that one thousand requirement from being
from a school or daycare. The sponsors of the bill
say overdose deaths have doubled since the pandemic, when they
were already high. They have data that suggests seven thousand
people each month use these needle exchange sites.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
And we'll get to the rest of this after a break.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
You know why overdose deaths are going up because the
Democrats are encouraging drug use in many, many different ways.
You've just green lighted drug use, and somebody has a
call to call marijuana a soft drug, give me a break,
even the old marijuana. But you look at the potency
levels of the new stuff. You know, the left in Colorado.
Democrats in Colorado have done just about everything imaginable to
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encourage more drug use. That's why overdose deaths are going up.
Yet they want to further encourage more drug use. What
do you think the real endgame is here?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Right?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Because any moron can see that these needle exchange programs
are going to further drug use and they're going to
attract more addicts to Colorado. So why does the left
want to do that? You tell me when we come
back from this break. You can text as well. Da
N five seven seven three nine. Why does the left
want to do this? Why does it want more drug
use in Colorado? Why does it want to attract more
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drug users to Colorado? Why does it want a green
light and try to normalize this drug use? But we
know this is right, bottom line, very bad for the community.
But guess what, you can't stop it because Democrats control Denver.
When do you think that will change? I've got a theory.
You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, you can be sure this.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Somebody in that administration in Denver knew there was a
serial killer loose on the mall, and every reasona believe
he was going to keep killing. Somebody made that decision
not to tell you, not to tell the public. I'm
not talking about some little statement. I'm talking about making
sure people are warned. If you go down on that mall,
if you go down on that mall, you got to
know there's a serial killer may very well be down
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there looking for a victim right now.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Because they knew this.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
They knew this, you could have police walled wall down
the mall, and unless you had warned people, then everybody
was in danger. Because the very best police force in
the world, and we have so many great officers in Denver,
so many great officers in Denver.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
You can't stop You can't stop.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
A serial killer like this one who they know had
just cut the throat of a flight attendant on the mall,
and it stabbed two others all within an hour, meaning
to kill all three. You knew a few things for sure.
You can't stop them. You can a police everywhere in
somebody that determined to kill that psycho. All they have
to do they walk down the mall. They could be
walking right next to two police officers and they just
pull out that knife and they stab that victim in
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front of them. So the only way This is the point, right,
they knew this. The Denver administration knew this. The only
way to protect the people is to warn them so
they don't go there, or they make a choice whether
to go there or not. But somebody in that Denver
administration made the decision not to warn the people, and
that is completely obscene and unforgivable.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And you know why they did it too.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Right, But we're going to do everything in our power
under the law to get to the bottom of who
made that decision. Now, you have to believe the mayor
was told. Right, you have a serial killer loose on
the mall's just cut the throat of an out of
state flight attendant, shopping on the mall and a layover,
and you don't think they're going to tell the mayor.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Well, if the mayor.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Did know, then it was his responsibility to warn the
people or give the order to warn the people.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
He's not camera shy.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
He proved that last night when he did his obscene
victory lap with the blood barely cleaned up.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
So we're going to do everything we can under the
law to get to the bottom.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Of what the mayor knew, when he knew it, and
who made that decision not to tell the people. Now,
if the mayor knew, well, then doesn't it seem logical
that he made the decision not to tell the people
because he's the mayor and once he knows, he has
the power to tell the people or order somebody to. Now,
this is a disqualifier. Nobody should hold any job, any
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public responsibility whatsoever if they were involved in the decision
not to warn the people, because the only way to
protect the people was to warn the people. And then
we're talking about other craziness in Denver, which affects the
whole state, right because when you put out a sign
saying drug users please come to Denver.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Whose song was that, Ryan, Please come to Denver for
the springtime?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
When you put out that sign drug users please come
to Denver, it endangers everybody. But that's what they have done.
And now they want to expand the needle exchange program.
Let's go to Mead, Colorado. We'll talk to Tom. You're
on the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
Welcome Tom, Hi Dan, how are you.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I'm living the dream, my friend? Thank you? Not on
them all right?
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Okay, So here's the thing with the needle exchange deal.
I do think the homeless crisis in Denver is part
of a very large grift. They could edit if they
wanted to, But they want to promote more drug use,
to promote more homelessness. And I'd like to get your
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taken that am I wrong on this? I mean, who's
making money on this? Because somebody is well, you're.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Right, but I respectfully disagree. I think the motivation and
there is a clear perverse motivation on the part of
the elected left to promote more drug use.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
But that's because the more drug.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Users you have, the more people you have dependent on government,
which means the more votes for the left.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
That's their motivation in my humble opinion.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Well, I think we do agree on that. But I
mean it's just like, uh, you know, you got you know,
you subsidize something, you get more of it.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Right, Well, listen, there's no doubt you're right. We've talked
about it on the show Tom. Obviously, the left is
motivated to attract more homeless to Denver, and they've done
so many different things, starting with the most obvious, right,
which is Johnston on his inauguration day saying, come to Denver,
we will get you a home. You can't be any
more blatant th neck. So you are right, they want
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to attract more homeless to Denver.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
Right exactly. And that's and you know, you throw in
the very lax drug lads, and you get even more
subsidize it, you get more. So I'm just kind of
curious who's benefiting from this because it's not us.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, no, right, it completely.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
It so undermines just the people of the state, you know,
both part these all parties, no parties at all. It
undermines the rest of the state to be attracting more
homeless to Colorado. And listen, any of us could be
that homeless person. So I'm not sitting here judging, criticizing,
viewing as less or any homeless person, because everybody has
a story and whether and you know the drill, right,
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whether it's drugs, alcohol, mental illness, a combination, yeah, you have.
Because the left is encouraging that too. You have a
new wave of folks who just want to live on
the street. But I think that's a relatively small percentage.
So those are all very sad stories and they could
all be us. But the answer is not to encourage
more of it, not to were house them in taxpayer
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funded hotels. The answer is not to undermine the quality
of life and to a certain extent, safety of everybody
else in society.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
That's not the answer.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You've just got a Democratic party controlled by the left,
which clearly their game plan is for survival and thrival.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
New word, please copyright it.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Their game plan is open borders, let everybody flow in
from everywhere in the world, because we're betting they're going
to be Democrat voters, most of them, and attract the
homeless to Denver in large numbers because eventually, you know
a certain number of them, they're going to get registered
to vote, and they're going to vote for us because
they're going to be dependent on government. That's their plan
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to win. It's not serving the interest of the people.
That is their plan to win in Colorado, and so
far they've been getting.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Away with it. What does that tell you?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Eight five to five or zero five A two five
five texters Dan how to clean needles prevent overdoses. Seems
to me it would encourage more usage because now they
don't have to look around to find a needle. It
obviously encourages more uses. It normalizes this hard drug use.
But marijuana has become a hard drug, look at the
potency and it always was really so.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah, that's what they want to do.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Judge their intent by their actions, right, that's what they
want to do. As I always tell Jerry's, you know,
don't expect them to get up on the stand and
break down, crying and admit it. This ain't Perry though
I have had those moments. It is judged their intentions
by their actions.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
As the son of an alcoholic, Dan, would you go
up to an alcohol because they hear here's a free shot,
Take a shot. I don't understand this mentality of we're
just going to enable their addiction. Give them free clean needles. Hey,
at least they're clean, get them help. Well, you all
just want to clarify the record.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I'm not the son of an alcoholic, but but they
don't care about those people, Ryan right, right, right, And.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
I am the son of an alcoholic Dan right, No,
And I know that really infers me and a lot
of people in our audience who have family members who
are addicts don't want those addictions enable.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
The point is they don't care about the addicts. They
don't care about these people. They don't care about the
weekend defenses. They don't care about anybody except themselves. They
don't care about individual human lives. It's just a completely
different worldview than a guy like you, Ryan, and so
many people listening who see the inherent value and dignity
in each human life, they don't view They view most
(17:58):
human lives as and acceptable casualty.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Rate. You're on the Dan Kaplas.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Show, you're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Good pull combination of Seeger and that message, because you know,
no matter where you are in Colorado, but you are
endangered by what's going on in Denvert right now. When
you've got the left actively trying to recruit more drug
users to Colorado, that affects everybody, and you've got to start.
You've got to start with these poor souls who are addicted.
(18:34):
Right It could be any of us. It could be
any of us, It could be anybody.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
We know.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
It's a great sadness, but that sadness shouldn't lead us
to make mistakes that are at least as likely to
end up harming those poor souls and certainly undermine the community.
Think about what the left is trying to do right now.
They're not only trying to add more of these needle
exchange locations when they should be get rid of all
of them. They're trying to change the laws. We can
(19:00):
have them right next to schools and daycares. Schools and daycares.
What does that tell you? And Ryan, let's pull the sound.
We had sound ready to go a couple of weeks ago.
Do you remember the person had an unusual name, but
it was some leader in Denver saying, no kids need
to see people using drugs. I'm not making this up.
(19:20):
We'll find that sound. But that's what's going on in
Denver right now. That's on the heels of my personal
belief and I'm doing everything I can to use the
law to gather the facts to prove what I believe
to be true. Is that somebody in Denver, at a
very high level, made the decision not to warn the
public that there was a serial killer loose on the
(19:42):
mall who may very well kill again. And they knew that.
They knew that at the latest early Saturday evening in Denver.
So what did the mayor know and when did he
know it? Because at that point, obviously it was his
responsibility to warn everybody or give the order, because you know,
from a public safety standpoint, the the only way to
protect people is to warn them, because when you've got
(20:03):
a psycho serial killer, they're not going to be deterred
by police.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
They're a psycho.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Serial killer, and the only way to protect people is
to warn them so they can make the decision whether
or not to go downtown Denver. And then again, totally predictable,
totally expected the serial killer kills again, and obviously they
already knew from the mo he was highly likely to
kill again. But it's also very clear he intended to
(20:30):
get caught.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
So the only way.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
That you can protect the public is to warn them
before he kills again. So what did the mayor know
and why didn't he warn the public? Who made the
decision not to warn the public. So we're going to
continue to dig on that. On a far less serious
but still very important note, Coach Prime, as I said
when we were first on this show, at least in Colorado,
(20:54):
to call for Coach Prime to come to Colorado to
Coach as I said.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
The day he arrived, that he's so good.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
We know that he will leave at some point, and
we just got to be grateful for every day we
have with him.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
It's not some deaty or anything.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
He's just been a tremendously powerful force for good in
Colorado and that time could be now right, it could
be to the Dallas Cowboys. If I'm betting you Ryan,
if I am betting you the Family Truckster, I bet
that he stays, and that these communications with Terry Jones
right now with your national.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
News s I just put out a piece a.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Few minutes ago saying it's very real possibility he'll be
leaving for Dallas. If I'm betting the Family Truckster, I
bet that he stays and that these conversations are intended
to help secure a big, long term deal in Boulder.
Could be yeah, which doesn't mean he's going to stay forever.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
But there's two things.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
And I'm not deon sanders personal confident on or anything,
but just as a long time sports fan and member
of sports media, there's two things that should keep on
Sanders here. One, he is king of the Castle and Boulder.
He'll never be run out of town. He owns it.
And secondly, I think by virtue of like you said,
this negotiation, he can set himself up for whatever he
(22:12):
wants down the road and you have to be careful
with somebody like Jerry Jones. I don't think there's enough
room in that building at and T Stadium for the
two egos that are Jerry Jones and Dion Sanders. It'll
be very similar to when Jimmy Johnson was there. They
were successful at first, but Jerry ended up running him off.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yeah, but he was a young man then. And here's
my point.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
And then we'll get back to the nonsports stuff and
we'll save sports for our commercial breaks.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
But here's the point.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Jones was much younger then, right, He's much older now,
and I think he really wants another trophy before he
goes to the Great Gridiron in the sky. And so
now I think I think he realizes we had this
problem in Denver, Right, we had this problem in Denver
when Elway was GM. And I admire John Elway tremendously
for everything he's done for the community on a charitable
(22:56):
level and as a quarterback. But because of on Elway's
ego in Denver, we were always going to have milk
toast coaches because no big personality, big ego, big figure
head coach like most top coaches was going to come
to Denver and be second fiddle to John Elway. John
Elway was always going to be the face of the Broncos.
(23:18):
So we had the John Foxes of the world, right
And so that's the way it's been in Dallas. But
now Jerry Jones, I think Ryan I don't know him,
but he may be at the point where he's willing
to back off a little bit to get another trophy.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Said that before.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
I don't think he can help himself the minute beyond
the minute Dion had, you know, an issue, a roadblock,
a losing streak, Jerry Jones would have to say something
he couldn't contain himself, and that would get I think
on a guy like Deon Sanders, with his gravitas, with
his skill, he'd get.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
On his nerves.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
No, but you understand you're bringing in the face of
the franchise. It's no longer going to be Jerry Jones.
It's going to be Deon Sanders. You only do that
if you view him as your best chance to win.
Would be wise to view him as your best chance
to reinvigorate the fan base to be America's team again,
Colorado's America's college football.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Team now because of Dion said, You're exactly right.
Speaker 9 (24:10):
All I'm going to point to is history and look
at every head coaching hire by Jerry Jones in Dallas
since Jimmy Johnson.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
They've all been subservient to him.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
Barry's what's happened, Jason Garrett, I know they Well, they's.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
A choice, right, and I think his choices. He wants
to win, I hope, and I.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Predict with rose colored classes, Prime's choice will be to
stay in Boulder.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
He's gonna made again.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
He's got it made here.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yeah, he does, he does.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
And I think this conversation may be it's beneficial to both, right,
because it helps generate interest in the Cowboys and get
people excited about the cowboys at a time there's no
other reason to be excited about the Cowboys. But it
probably helps Land Dion because listen, see you right now
is probably after a lot of deep pocket donors to
(25:00):
come up with the money to get d on what
one hundred and fifty million over ten years or something
like that, and.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
This will help get that money. Dan.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
One thing for sure, says a Texter, is that the
mayor's wife wasn't hanging around the mall at the time.
The serial killer was present. This goes to a point
I made earlier.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
You can be.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Darnshure, darnshure that if if the mayor anybody in command
in Denver knew that their loved one was thinking of
going to the mall, that they were worned not to
because the mayor had to know. Right maybe he was
out of the loop, which would be even worse. But
Denver administration, somebody knew by six thirty Saturday night they
(25:39):
had a psycho serial killer on the loose on the
mall because he meant to kill all three. It's like
if you shoot three people on the mall, you mean
to kill all three, and he'd slit the throat of
the flight attendant. So I don't mean to personalize this
in a family sense for the mayor, but this is
one of the few occasions when there's a practical, concrete
point to be made. Be sure that nobody in the
(26:02):
know was letting any family member go to the mall
because there was every reason to believe that that psycho
serial killer was going to kill again on the mall.
Uh Dan, Enough of the ed drug ads. Please explaining
those to my kids during prime hours is sick.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Get rid of? Do we have those?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Ryan, I don't get to listen to the commercial breaks,
the ED drug ads.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I don't know what ED means. But do you know
do we have such ads?
Speaker 9 (26:26):
I think maybe on our own station we do for Denver,
for Denver, Okay, yeah, listen where?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
I believe me.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I completely understand the concern because especially when, like Joe
was young and we've sitting there any ballgame, we're watching
those ads come on. I remember the first time he
turned to me and he said, I wish I could
do the voice because he's twenty seven. Now, Dad, what's
what's viagra? And said, I don't know, Son, I don't know.
(26:59):
That's the only good answer there now.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Literally, Trevor asked us, why is that guy throwing a
football through a hoof?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Not the whole thing? Dan?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Why is it called a needle exchange program when in
fact drug addict is not required to exchange an old
needle for a new needle.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Andy, Because they don't want.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
To call it a drug users, please come to Colorado program. Right,
they don't want to call it a drug use encouragement program.
And I understand you've got some people in the program.
We're well intentioned and they want to make sure addicts
don't infect others get infected, et cetera. But even if
somebody's well intentioned involved in this, I think there's a
(27:40):
broader purpose on the left and they don't. The broader left,
the political left doesn't care about these drug users at all.
They're using them like they use everybody else. But one
thing they all know right is it has the impact
of encouraging drug use, promoting drug use, and attracting drug
use to Colorado. No honest person can deny that effect.
(28:01):
Eight five zero five two five five will come back.
Text are exploding right now and they should be here
on the Dan Caplas Show.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah it's shining today.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
The focus comes not from the uniform ranked senator from
the political class. On day one on January twentieth, when
President Trump is sworn in, he will issue a new
set of lawful orders, and the leadership of our services
will have an opportunity to follow those lawful orders or not.
Those lawful orders will not be based on politics. They
will be based on readiness, accountability, standards, and lethality. That
(28:43):
is the process by which leaders will be judged and
accountability is coming. Because everybody in this room knows. If
you're a rifleman and you lose your rifle, they're throwing
the book at you. But if you're a general who
loses a war or you get a.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Promotion, great point great communicator, and a great communicator has
a better chance to be a great leader. So I'd
predicted all along access would be confirmed. Now I believe he's
not only going to be confirmed, he's going to hit
the ground running with a lot of momentum and a
chance to really be great in the job.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Glad you're with us. We're talking about the one of.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
The biggest scandals in Denver history, which is that somebody
made the decision not to warn the public there was
a serial killer loose on the mall, knowing that decision
not to give the people what they deserved and had
a right to this warning. This information could very well
lead to somebody being killed. Probably would lead to somebody
being killed, But they made that decision. Anyway, Who made
(29:43):
that decision? What did the mayor know? When did he
know it? And we're doing everything we can within the law,
within the power of the law gives us to get
to the bottom of that, because that should be a
disqualifier for any office. If it's the mayor, as I suspect,
I can't prove it, but as I suspect it was
at that point, he shouldn't be allowed to continue a
single additional day in office. There can be no greater
(30:06):
scandal for a mayor of Denver than to know that
there's a serial killer loose in a very specific area
and make a decision not to warn the public. Right
you think if one of his family members was going
to the mall, they would have been warned.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
So let's follow the facts see where they lead.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
But can somebody give me a scenario where the mayor
would not have been informed? Maybe he wasn't, which would
be even worse. Right, would speak so poorly of him
and end of the entire chain of command. But is
it even imaginable that he wasn't informed. If he wasn't,
we need to know that too. If he wasn't informed,
somebody else made the decision not to warn the public.
(30:49):
That person should not be in a position of public
responsibility as I go to the phone lines, Because here's
the undernoabl truth. The only way to protect the public
was to warn him. You could put every one of
Denver's finest in they are great men and women in blue.
You could put every one of them on the mall,
and you could not protect the unknowing members of the public,
unknowing that there's a serial killer loose targeting them all.
(31:10):
You couldn't protect him because by definition, a psycho serial
killer isn't worried about being caught, as this one clearly was,
and he wanted to be caught. They caught him because
he was running down the mall with the big butcher
knife after killing somebody else, after somebody in the administration
decided not to warn the public. That is one of
the worst scandals in Denver history. Let's go to the
(31:32):
phone lines. We'll go to Joe in Arvada. You're on
the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Welcome, Hey, Dan, Yeah, yeah, I couldn't agree more on
this Denver thing. But also, hey, thanks for your praise
for Pete. Hegsas as a as a former marine, well
once a marina. O. H. I mean, he's just he
is such the best choice, such the best choice. But anyway,
the reason I called, I'm sure your call Springer told you.
(31:59):
I thought you know, clothes show up with some levity.
So you were talking about ED ED, right, I was dysfunction.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Well, what what do you got for us?
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Okay? So this is Easter at the church, right, And
you go to the church, and you know many churches
the one I go to as all the little kids
come to the front, and you know, the preacher or
priest talks to him and so he's asking these little
boys and girls what they know about their resurrection. And
a little boy raises his hand. But this is wholesome, ame.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Okay, I could tell.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Little boy raises his hand and he says, I'm sorry
for a resurrection lasting more than four hours. You should
call your doctor.
Speaker 7 (32:49):
Joe.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I'd say, appreciate the call, but I'm not sure i'd
mean it. No, thank you, Joe, appreciate the call.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Yeah, And this all springs off a texture earlier who
was upset that apparently the worst some ED spots in
the prior break. So, and believe me, I told him,
as having been the parent of young kids at one time,
I share his concern.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Dan says a text.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
How about holding the police departments responsible for not towing
and writing for unregistered and expired tags. Obviously, you don't
blame the men and women on the street for that.
Those decisions are made at the political level.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
You can be.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Sure dan On behalf of the tens of millions that
will be watching the inauguration. It's only feelings of joy
and relief that we don't have to see. Oh and
then it goes on to some choice words about Michelle Obama. Listen,
the fact that she's chosen to skip the inauguration is
a very good thing. It is a very good thing
(33:44):
because it is the ultimate ultimate victory over the left right,
and you know, and she epitomizes the left, though she
tried to present a different front, and so it is
an ultimate victory over the left when she won't even appear,
and it hurts her, which is a good thing because
she is the best the left has in terms of
(34:06):
a candidate, So it hurts her for any future race.
Speaker 7 (34:10):
With her gone. Do you think the bromance between Barack
Obama and Donald.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Trumpkins that is a great point, And I hope it
does because it's good for the country. That video was
very good for the country. Apologies to everybody who didn't
get through. You can call us tomorrow. And we promised
to start the show with you Texters as well. I'll
try to get in some of these evergreen texts tomorrow
as well. No, you're right, Ryan, that video Barack Obama
and President Trump laughing together, talking, sitting very closely. That's
(34:36):
good for the country. So you're right, better chance we
see that at the inauguration.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Thank you, Ryan, Thank you. Kelly. Join us tomorrow please
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