January 16, 2025 • 35 mins
Democrats are flailing in the confirmation hearings for Donald Trump's cabinet nominees, proving once again he is the elusive Road Runner making a fool of their embodiement of Wile E. Coyote.
Meanwhile, CNN reports approval for Trump's transition has reached 55% with Americans.
Meanwhile, CNN reports approval for Trump's transition has reached 55% with Americans.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast
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It's always fun, particularly since Trump one. All right, now
there's a rap song right there. Ryan. We should be
able to We should be able to finish this thing
in the next five minutes. Hi, It's always right. It's
always fun since Trump one. See, oh there you go going.
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I mean no, no, no, we need to we need to.
Let's put it together. Maybe some people can give us
some help with that. Lord knows we need a d
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you know, this show has been leading the way on
trying to get to the truth about what happened and
when that serial killer targeted the mall and slaughtered these
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innocent people over the course of two days, but slit
the throat of a flight attendant in broad daylight on
the mall on Saturday, and by Saturday night at about
six forty five at the latest, the Johnston administration knew.
They knew that they had a psycho serial killer targeting
the mall. Somebody, in my opinion, made the decision not
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to inform the public. Now they issued some sort of
tweet or some sort of this or that. I'm not
talking about that. I'm talking about the warning the public
the way you would if your own family was going
to the mall, because any type of security professional would
know and the mayor should know that the only way
to protect the people was to warn them that there
was a serial killer targeting them all. Because you could
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flood the mall with cops and it wouldn't matter. That's
no criticism of police. But when you have a psycho
killer with a knife doing what that psycho serial killer
was doing, then all they'd have to do is pull
the knife out and stab somebody. There wouldn't be any
way for police to stop that. So the only way
to protect the people was to warn them. Somebody made
the decision not to issue a real five alarm fire
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type warning. Who did I think we know the why, right,
and there's no justification whatsoever. Whoever decided not to warn
the people should not hold any position of responsibility anywhere,
let alone the office of mayor. So We've been leading
the way on that story. I've submitted, and I've been
doing CORA requests for years. I've gone to court when
I have to, and I think I'll have to on
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this one, even though I shouldn't have to because I
think the Johnston administration will Stonewallas on this. Hopefully I'm wrong,
because we need the truth. What did the mayor know?
When did he know it? So that is a prelude
to the fact that that thirty four year old victim
who was slaughtered with this butcher knife on Sunday night,
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more than twenty four hours after the Johnston administration knew
they had a serial killer targeting them all young man
with all of life ahead of him. We will have
his father with us at five point thirty six, So
please don't miss that. In the meantime, let's get back
to Let's get back to all of these positive things
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that are happening because Trump won and we have not
seen confirmation hearings like this before. Right, certainly not as
a group, and this is contributing to the momentum, the
positivity of the Trump administration, which is essentially in many
ways been directing things in this nation since election Day,
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particularly in the vacuum created by Joe Biden not being
mentally competent to function. And so what we see in
these confirmation hearings, and you're going to enjoy this sound
I'm about to play, is just like the last few
days of sound. You see these Trump nominees fighting back
and making the Democrats look stupid. And that is so important.
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Not on a personal level or a red Jersey better
than blue Jersey kind of thing, no, but because of
the Democratic Party, because it's controlled by the far left. Now,
the Democratic Party is harming this country greatly and their
true nature of the Democratic Party, because as a former Democrat,
I can guarantee you this that there are a very
large number of people voting Democrat who have no idea
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that their party has become this crazy, that it's gone
so far left. And I know that's hard to understand
if maybe you're a Republican right now, but as a
guy who is a Democrat for a lot of years,
you got a lot of people voting Democrat A because
they have this very negative stereotype of the Republican and
Republicans in their mind. And B they just focus on
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what they want to focus on. It's human nature, right,
So they like that they habitually vote Democrat. Their parents,
their grandparents voted Democrat, and they look at the things
that they like within the Democratic Party and they are
there aren't aware of or they block out the crazy
radical psycho stuff. It's very important at every opportunity, including
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these confirmation hearings, that these Trump nominees expose the Democrats
for who they really are, because that's your best chance
to keep peeling off more Democrats and more unaffiliated. And
the nominees started doing a great job. The other reason
that it encourages me so much is part of this
great job they're doing is the quality of the nominees.
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But you know it from your own life, right, whatever
you do for a living, there is preparation involved. And
what I do for a living, I'm a trial lawyer.
There's a lot of preparation involved. There's believe it or not,
doesn't always sound like it, a lot of preparation involved
with this show. So what you hear from these Trump
nominees is clearly a lot of preparation. I think that
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speaks well to the level of competence, professionalism, focus, etc.
Of this second Trump administration. I mean, it's almost amazing
that he accomplished everything he did in the first administration
against the coup attempt and everything else, but also coming
in with with an on disciplined White House. You had
goofballs like tom Erosa and Scaremucci running around. You had
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all sorts of goofy stuff happening. But Trump was still
able to get a lot done. He had four years
to think about what he'd do next, and now you
see it in action. So yeah, these confirmation hearings very
encouraging to me. So one who I want to get
to some of that sound Trump Scott percent, Trump nominee
for Secretary of Treasury.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
We do not have a revenue problem in the United
States of America. We have a spending problem that historically,
for the past forty or fifty years, revenues federal government
revenues have averaged about seventeen to seventeen and a half
percent of GDP and spending has been slightly over that,
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leading us to a three and a half percent budget deficit,
which is manageable because we have roughly three point eight
percent nominal growth one point eight percent real growth of
two percent inflation.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And I know they can be a little bit boring,
but you kind of want a boring guy in that job, right,
You want a boring, highly competent guy or gale. But
clearly the focus of the Trump administration is that we
have to grow our way out of this I'm not
expecting and I know you may well not agree with that,
and I respect that, but I'm not expecting the Trump
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administration to start cutting stuff. I mean, they'll do the
doge thing, which is great. Any fraud you can eliminate
any of this goofy spending on how rats made or whatever. Yeah,
get rid of that. But in terms of really get
getting a grip and getting us back to some sort
of financial balance, Trump's plan is to grow our way
out of this jam. And I think that focus is
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clear in a lot of different ways, including these confirmation hearings.
Maybe the best part of scott Descent was this exchange
with Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
The three billionaires who you listed the all made the
money themselves. That mister Musk came to the country as
an immigrant.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I understand that.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
But what I'm asking you is when you have a
handful of people like Musk who will soon be part
of the Trump administration and others, when you have three
people owing more wealth than the bottom half of American society,
when these people have enormous influence over the media, when
they spend huge amounts of money in both political parties
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to elect candidates. What Biden said last line is we're
moving toward an oligarchy. I'm asking you that question. Do
you think, forget how they made their money. Do you
think that when so few people have so much wealth
and so much economic and.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Political power, that that is an oligarchic form of society?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Well, I wouldn't note that the president Biden gave the
presidential metal freedom to two people who I think would
qualify for his oligarchs.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Including George Soros. How do does Bernie Sanders walk into that? Listen,
Bernie Sanders is wrong on virtually everything, but he's not
a dumb guy. He's not wrong because he's dumb. He's
wrong because he's wrong. How does he walk into that?
Just like Elizabeth Warren, she's no dummy, she's just wrong.
On things. How did she walk into that with hegseeth?
So I'd love your theory on that as well. But
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however they get there, I'm glad they're walking into this.
I mean time after time after time. It's like a
combination of cartoons. Right, It's like Roadrunner, right with Wiley Coyote.
You know, it just keeps getting the endvil dropped on
him and then what else? Ryan, There are other cartoons,
but you got to start with Roadrunner, and you get
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Charlie Brown and Lucy pulling out the football. I mean,
you got all sorts of stuff going on here. Yes,
certainly have some Three Stooges moments, right, and we'll get
to some of that sound as well. But the Trump
nominees on the on the positive side of all of this,
and the DEM's just digging the hole deeper and deeper
and deeper, which is for America that they're exposing themselves
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this way. It's not pretty. It's hard to look at
right now, but it's good for America. You're on the
Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
If you're on a highway road run, it goes beat.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Beside road run a road, running runs on the road,
a holiday, even the coyote again make a change his way?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Oh I love that? So which cartoons best apply now
to the modern Democratic Party and everything unfolding before us?
The confirmation Herean's right, now, you've got to start with Roadrunner, right,
just dropping the envila on Wiley Coyote, like twenty times
a day you talked about Charlie Brown pulling the football out.
But but what other cartoons would apply? I was a
big cartoon kid growing up, which goes to Einstein's point, right, yeah,
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if if, what's the exact what's the verbatim on that
quote about Hey, if you want your kid to to
be a genius, tell her fairy tales? Yeah, and if
you want, oh, if you want to be smart, tell
her fairy tales. If you want to be a genius,
tell her more fairy tales. You know, that's a rough paraphrase.
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Obviously I didn't hear enough fairy tales, which I did.
But back in that day, which wasn't that long ago.
It's funny how those things were different, right. There were
like a lot of spooky ones more and a lot
of songs with an edge, like old Hogan's.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Goat baby's falling out of a crazy stuff. Toughen you up,
I guess, tough you up. Yeah, a little red riding hood,
three little pigs, even a big bad wolf.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
And you know Wizard of Oz Man. That's like the
scariest movie of all time. Dan, my brother, Yeah, forty
seven years old to this day. Yeah, scared out of
his mind over the flying that witch, the flying monkeys.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
But but because the combination, right to the witch and
the flying monkeys. Oh man, but you're right if they've
just been flying monkeys on their own, but when you
combine them with the witch, they're the witch sending them.
Oh that was so well done, very well, Yeahne, and
your point on the road Runner.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I was a big Warner Brothers cartoon watcher growing up
on Saturday mornings. This was it right, And it was
often while e Coyote doing it to himself, like he
had all these great tools and weapons from hack me
and they would all backfire on him. That is the Democratic.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Party is right. It is right now. But it just
we've we've got to keep it up. We've got to
get to the point where where all of America sees
it right because listen, there could be a version of
the Democratic Party that wouldn't be this psycho, wouldn't be
this whack, wouldn't be this hatefully anti Catholic, anti Christian,
wouldn't just be slavishly devoted to killing mass numbers of
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people disproportionately of color before birth. You know that there
is a version of the Democratic Party that I think
will eventually emerge from this. But you just have to
thoroughly do away with the current version at the voting booth,
you know, just for the good of the country. But
obviously a very good start and Trump and the nominees
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doing their point. You know, it goes back to the hole.
It takes a village, so much collective wisdom in our
audience because we're trying to put together this. We want
it to be number one on the charts. This kind
of wrap plane into all the good that's happening right
now with Trump and I had some accidental brilliance in
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the in the opening segment where I kind of got
this thing going. But now listeners picking up on it.
You can text SDA and five, seven, seven through nine.
This text Mike and Henderson says, it's right to be
right it's right to have fun. We're doing both now
the Trump's won. I mean, there's you got something going there.
You got something going there, So what would you add
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to that? Texter dan per DPD Fifteen hours ago, there
was a stabbing in the area of twentieth and Larimer.
Meyor Mic told a syst type of crime was extremely rare.
He would be wrong, Alexa, and a bigger issue than
even lawless Mike, which is a really big issue because
the evidence may well end up showing that decisions made
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by lawless Mike Johnston after the serial killer targeted the
mall may very well have have ended up causing the
horrific death of a young man, thirty four year old
man who died twenty four hours after the Johnston administration
knew there was a serial killer targeting the mall who had,
among other things, slashed a flight attendant's throat. This thirty
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four year old, thirty four year old young man was
butchered on the mall and after the Johnston administration, apparently
we're trying to get the full facts, made a decision
not to put out the kind of five alarm fire
warnings the public deserved at that point so we're going
to get to the bottom of that. But we will
have that young man's father with us at five thirty six.
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So the the other victim to die from this butchering, Yeah,
thirty four, and his dad will be with us at
five thirty six. All righty, let's get back to a
text and calls Dan. I completely agree the young man's
death on Sunday night is on Mike's hands. He and
his team made the choice to not warn the public
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beyond horrible and preventable. Alexa, you know I am. I
am not going to the point of saying right now
that his death is on Mayor Mike Johnston's hands. It
may very well end up there, and I suspect it will.
But before I'm going to say that, I just want
to have all the facts. And that's why I've submitted
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this corre request. Under Colorado law, I should not have
to go to court to enforce it. The Johnston administration
should not stonewall They should simply provide the public records
I've requested, which are simply the records showing the records
showing when Mayor Johnston was informed of these attacks on
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them all. And I have related questions. But that's the
heart of it. And who made the decision not to
warn the public in a real way. They put out
like a little news thing. But we all know what
the public needed and deserved at that point is what
the Johnston administration would have done for their own family members,
which is tell him, don't go to the mall. Public
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needed to know that, And so who made the decision
not to put out in wanting what were those conversations?
What were those discussions, because you got to know, Ryan,
wouldn't you be just shocked out of your mind if
nobody in the whole administration had said, hey, five alarmed fire,
you know, amber alert type stuff. We got to tell
everybody we got a serial killer targeting the mall who
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is on the loose, because any idiot would know the
way he had killed. You didn't have him yet he
was going to kill on the all again, and yet
the public they didn't do everything in their power to
alert the public. Who made that decision? I think we
know the why right sure would have made Mayor Johnston
look bad. I wouldn't have been good for his run
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for governor. So who made that decision? We're going to
keep drilling down on that. And again, the father of
the thirty four year old victim who was killed by
that serial killer more than twenty four hours after the
Johnston administration knew what they had on their hands, that
father will be with us at five thirty six, Ryan,
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so much to choose from from these confirmation hearings. Do
you have a particular favorite moment? I just think all
these nominees and kesh Betel's tomorrow rightly caw Fasteners felt
for that one.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Yeah, yeah, I loved every answer that Pam Bondi gave,
as much as I was impressed by Pete Hegseeth the
day before. She seemed like Dan she had a specific
retort ready for every single Democrat senator that came after her.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
And this goes back to what I talked about earlier.
And listen, it's obvious it goes far, far, far beyond
lawyers who who, when they're doing it right, prepare very
well for every possible question this or that. But I
think you could see, you know, her litigation experience, her
lawyer experience at least at work there. But yeah, all
the nominees, lawyer or not, have been very very well prepared.
(18:11):
So how about BONDI with Adam Schiff certainly one of
the highlights, and we'll get to that after we come
back from this break. So again, I know your afternoon
is probably real busy. If you can be here live
when we have the father of the thirty four year
old who was butchered to death on them all full
twenty four hours after the Johnston administration knew they had
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that serial killer targeting them all and didn't give the
public the kind of warnings the public deserved. The father
of that young man will join us at five point
thirty six. I hope you can be her live, if
not live obviously to be on the podcast. You're on
the Dan Capla show.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Just stop bit outside of life right now. Bob you
grew passing away? Will miss him? Yeah, died at ninety.
Does it seem like everybody's dying in the past week.
What do you think that is? Do you think people
are just maybe if they're toward the end, they're very
determined to hang on, you know, through Christmas, through the holidays,
and then you just get a whole bunch of deaths
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in January. I think that could be a thing.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Bob Buker worked right up until the end of this
past season. Dan did he really and he was in
failing health even then, But what great memories he left
us with, right, Oh.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Man, Yeah, I mean, but I was just thinking about that,
not to be at all morbid, but you know, my parents,
such strong, phenomenally strong people, both passed away in January,
you know, my dad January two and my mom January five.
And I know in their cases they were bravely hanging
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on and fighting against my dad cancer, my mom me physema,
and they they wanted to have that last Christmas with everybody.
So I wonder if that's just if that you just
see a lot of that with all these deaths happening now.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
My mom's dad passed away on January fifth, nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
It was very hard on her.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
And not to mention that her birthday was January eleven,
so it was six days before on birthday her father
passed away.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, yeah, oh that's so hard. Eight five five for
zero five eight two five to five The number text
da N five seven seven three nice. This was so
much fun. During the break CNN, I had to lead
with a headline Trump approval, Trump approval of how he's
handling the transition, which mirrors I think approval for him
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fifty five percent in the CNN poll fifty five percent.
So and that's so encouraging to me because at that
kind of numbers, you're getting a pretty significant number of Dems.
You're not getting a majority of Dems, obviously, but you're
starting to get a pretty significant number of Dems. And
that's one of the reasons I'm so optimistic for the
future of the country is that I think we're approaching
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this tipping point. You just saw Trump tip it when
it came to you know, Latino voters, Black voters, a
significant move in his direction, but Latino voters were reaching
that tipping point where so many people, enough people who
have traditionally voted dem are going to switch. And that's
going to that's going to build on the saving of
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the nation that we just experienced. And then we've got
this weird thing going with what cartoons. You know what
cartoon characters are the Democrats right now as they spin
and flop and dig their whole deeper. Texter says, Dan
Boris and Natasha are the Dems today? D A n five, seven,
seven through nine. Vaguely familiar with that. I'm more Fred Flintstone. Guy.
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What's the context of Boris and Natasha? They were afoot
of Rocky and Bullwinkle. Ah, okay, okay about Popeye? For
the Dems, it would be I'll gladly pay you Tuesday
for Hamburger today the Republicans would use Popeyes. That's all
I can stand. I can't stand no more. Or okay, Dan,
Dudley do right? How would Dudley do right? Apply? Who
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would that apply to? And then Alexi says Tom and
Jerry another Texter getting a little more serious. We respect that, Dan,
you say they are wrong, but the truth is they
just have a different opinion or way of doing things
than you do. Text or please call this show. That
would be a great gift to humanity, because no, that
the fact that somebody has a different opinion doesn't mean
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they aren't wrong. And that's one of the biggest challenges
we face in society anymore. Right, just the way what
the left's been trying to pound into people through schooling
and everything else is there's no objective right and wrong. Yeah,
there is objective right and wrong. Are there some things
reasonable people can differ on. Yeah, but there's some things
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reasonable people can't differ on. Reasonable people could not differ
on slavery. There is objective right and wrong. So Texter
or please do call the show another person disagreeing, and
we are so grateful for that. Always here, Dan, I
wholeheartedly disagree. Elizabeth Warren is a dingbat and a waste
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of protoplasm that from Ralph. Appreciate the expanded vocabulary. We
don't give many protoplasm references on the show. I was
kind of conditioned to doze off with that word, you know,
in one of my classes at CU did not serve
me well. Might have been the only class I ever
dropped at CU anyway, Elizabeth Warren a dingbat. No, No,
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I think it's just so important that we understand our opponents, right.
You have to be honest about the strengths and weaknesses
of your opponents in order to defeat them. And you've
got an awful lot of these lefties who are smart
people doing dumb things. Now we can talk about their
motive or how they got from being a smart person
to doing dumb things. But if we just sit back
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here and assume they're dingbats. Well, then we're kind of
being a dingbat because then you're not going to be
ready for the kind of clever, diabolical stuff they do. Ryan,
what's the origin of dingbat? Where did that come? Wow?
I love this origin. No, look, unfortunately we have AI.
Let me check that real quick origin of dingbat while
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we play some more Pam BONDI. I'd wanted to get
to we're talking about the Trump nominees have been doing
so great, and then you got cash Ptel coming up.
Can't wait for that. You might retire half the national
debt if you made that pay per view. But yeah,
let me get to Bondy with Adam Schiff. I've got
that as twenty seven, but I can't reach twenty seven.
(24:44):
Can you reach twenty seven? I'm trying to what do
you think? I don't know to scroll down. The thing's
not scrolling down. If we had a piece of equipment
from the twenty first century, then I might be able
to scroll down.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
So let me start with an easy truth that you
could speak to the president.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Can you tell us?
Speaker 8 (25:02):
Can you tell him that Donald Trump lost the twenty
twenty election?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Can you say that?
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Do you have the.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
Independence to say that you have the gravitas, the statue
of the Testament fortitude to say, Donald Trump, you lost
the twenty twenty election. Can you tell us that here today?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Senator. What I can tell you is I will never
play politics. You're trying to engage me in a gotcha.
I lost question, speak truth with any ongoing. You did
member a beautiful see she was ready right. And I
love it how the entire Trump cabinet has been trained
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to go on the attack. Now Marco Rubio, he had
a different kind of confirmation here and they treated him differently.
But they're trained to go on the attack. And I
love that because the left's not used to that. The
lefts just used to being able to bat Republicans around,
except for Trump. But but no, I love it. They're
going on the attack. But here's the thing. You gotta
sear a smart punches, not wild punches. They're going on
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the attack in a very well planned out kind of way.
And the challenge of that format where you know you've
just got a few minutes for each questioner and the questioner.
It's not like you know you're in court and you
know that the judge can control things. You know the
questioner can disrespect the witness, interrupt the witness, et cetera.
So that's really hard on the witness, and I think
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the Trump nominees have handled it great eight five five
four zero five eight two five five text DA and
five seven seventy three nine helped me out with this.
Has there been a decision yet on whether the Colorado
flag is going to be at full staff for the inauguration?
I assume that it is. It better be.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
I don't know about Colorado, but Speaker Johnson said on
inauguration day, I'll way back to full staff, and then
it'll go back.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
To recognizing President Rny Carter the day after. Even California
now is going to have it at full staff, right,
So I assume Colorado is well, yeah, and they'll assume yeah.
We'll try to get that confirmed real quick.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
On Dingbat, our listener Steve Chatter had the same thought
I did. First I ever heard that was Archie bunker
On All in the family calling Edith you ding Bat.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah. I just wondered if there was some I don't know,
like meaningful origin that would be meaningful Carol O'Connor's portrayal large.
I know that, but you know how a lot of
these different phrases we use every day have some historic origin.
I mean, the meaning has an origin. It didn't just
come out of Archie Bunker's head. But why don't we
have more Archie Bunker bites here? I take you on
(27:30):
your show, Ryan does a great show two to four
each afternoon, six thirty Kitsch w Denver. Hey, when we
come back, lots of ground tocover, please put five thirty
six on your calendar. It'll be very hard, sad, but
very important. The father of that thirty four year old
man who was butchered to death on the mall Sunday night,
a full twenty four hours after the Johnston administration knew
(27:51):
they had a serial killer targeting the mall twenty four
hours later after no five alarm fire warnings to the public.
This man's butchered on the mall. His father will be
with us at five thirty six here on the Dan
Capla Show.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I love that. Why don't we have more meat loaf
arout here? Seriously? I love meat loaf. How come meat
loaf is so underappreciated, under remembered.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
Because he kind of came in did his thing. My
mom had this album Bad out of Hell in the seventies.
He disappeared for a while, came back with Bad Out
of the Health Too in the nineties and was a
big hit all over again, but he like disappeared throughout
the entire eighties.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I think, good stuff. Hey, we're having a lot of
fun with these confirmation hearings because it's helping the Trump
administration itself get off to such a fast start because
you know nominees who the laft just cackling, going crazy.
They're not getting confirmed. Not only are they getting confirmed,
but they're going in with momentum because they were so
impressive in their hearings, including hag Seth. At the same time,
(28:54):
a lot of Democrats have really shamed themselves in the hearing,
which is great. Not individually. I don't wish him anything.
I just want them out of office because they're terrible
for America. So the more people get to see the
reality of these lefties, the better, because the less likely
they are to stay in office. Mazie Herono from Hawaii,
and she may just you know, the so deep blue there.
(29:16):
She may stay as long as she wants, but it's
still good for America to see that there's something not
right here. So she's going after Doug Burgham as part.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
Of my responsibilities to ensure the fitness of nominees before
any of the committees, so much, I said, I asked
the following two initial questions. First, sus, since she became
a legal adult, have you ever made a wanted requests
for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment
or assault of a sexual nature?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
No, Senator, I have not.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Have you ever faced discipline or entered into a settlement
related to this kind of conduct, I have not.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
So I cannot imagine Doug Bergham would give those unequivocal
answers if she had a hammer, if she does not
have the hammer, If if those things she just implicitly
accused him of have never happened, she should be thrown
out of the Senate for that. Absolutely thrown out of
the Senate for that. Yeah, eight five five or zero
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five eight two five five, the number takes d an
five seven seven through nine. Listen, I'm not naive. I
don't mean to sound shocked because I understand that the
left itself, it doesn't have morals. I mean, I'm going
to talk about Democrats, I'm talking about the far left,
which she's part of. Morals aren't relevant that they view
honesty as weakness. That's what controls the Democratic Party right now.
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And so all I'm saying is that the American standard
should be that people who do that should not remain
in office. And I'm not naive. I know, Hawaii you
can stay probably as long as you want. But we see,
we see the rest of the country, you know, changing
in very significant ways. So I just think, as we
sit here right now, I've always been an optimist. I
(31:02):
was blessed with these great parents and by example in
in other ways just caused us to believe to our core,
and it's proven true that anything's possible. But I have
never been in my young life. I have never been
more optimistic for the future of the country. And you
see it again playing out in concrete ways every day.
Texter not as impressed. Dan. Again, you always think you
(31:25):
are reasonable and everyone else of the different opinion is unreasonable. Now, Ryan,
I've been on air somewhere around thirty years. I don't
think the Texter could cite anything specific to back that up,
So I would ask them neither text or call back
it up or pack it up, just be specific.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
It seems like they're over generalizing. So they're saying that
you insist that you are always reasonable. I mean, to you,
you are reasonable, but that all callers are all guests
are unreasonable.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
I don't say anybody with the different opinions and unreasonable.
But the beautiful thing is true. I get well and
thank you for that. But I can prove it's not true.
I mean, one hundred percent proven. I'm going to do
it in the next thirty seconds, and not one person
on the face of the earth can say anything other
than Dan. Yeah, you just proved that is not true.
Because when I started on air, I was a Democrat.
(32:21):
I was a Democrat, and I had these discussions with callers,
and the callers would say things I disagreed with, and
then what happened. I came to realize the people I
disagreed with were right, and so I changed and I
(32:44):
wasn't a Democrat anymore. Drop the mic, Drop the mic.
So if somebody thinks that I'm being that I'm wrong,
we don't hide I don't from anybody. I'm here, God
willing every afternoon for two hours. Kelly, do you censor anybody,
(33:06):
do you. I mean you barely screen people, and that's
a compliment. But yeah, I mean no, anybody who thinks
they got me, anybody who thinks I'm wrong. No, I
word of finding. I said it before Coach Prime. Did
I hate hard to find? Yeah? I allow all callers on,
no matter how much they canother me or whether they Yeah,
(33:28):
there is one there's no qualifications to call this show.
That's not one of the beautiful things about Kelly.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
There's one who I won't name, but is currently in
like purgatory status are suspended. But that was because you know,
there are points I believe where a caller can cross
the line with you or just in general, and then
you can't just not anything goes on the air. Over
the air on a show like this, not anything goes.
(33:55):
You got to draw the line.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
If we know somebody's lying, Yeah, yeah, I mean, we
just know they're lying, and we're not gonna put a
liar on air. But somebody who disagrees, please, thirty years
we have sent the hypothetical limo.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
Not only that rhetorical limo, and ruled out the red
carpet for the likes of Eerie Mic for instance.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Oh my lord. And over the decades for we are
always looking for the very best to come on this
show and disagree. I mean, how do you think Craig
Silverman ended up part of Capitalists and Silman. Craig Silman
was a very sharp prosecutor, disagreed on all sorts of things.
I'm the one who wanted that show. I'm the one
who went to management and said let's do this show.
(34:39):
People looked at me like I was crazy, and it
went on to be one of the most important shows
we've had in decades in Colorado. Not because of me,
but because of the format and the mix and the disagreement.
And yeah, I wanted that.
Speaker 6 (34:52):
I had so many people have told me going way
back that I was listening to Capitalists and Silverman when
this that or the other thing.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, because that that whole format of
having that constant disagreement, that that whole format was great
for the community, you know, and mixed a lot of
investigative reporting into the show and everything else. It. This
town needs a show like that, it really does. And
and that show was that for how many years until
(35:22):
it wasn't right. It wasn't until it wasn't until the
legendary Hey can you meet me at Starbucks for a
cup of coffee? Yeah, what's up boss? Oh it's your
last show? Oh my god. Yeah, that's all went well.
We were privileged to get a last show, right. Not
everybody gets them, Not everybody gets seven and a half years,
and not everybody gets that last show. So they trusted
(35:43):
us to do a last show, and I was always
grateful for that. Maybe this is our last show, right?
Can you check in with somebody? I'll check Maybe it
should be eight five to five or zero five eight
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more of what winning sounds like. And it's always fresh.
It's always fun, particularly since Trump one. All right, now
there's a rap song right there. Ryan. We should be
able to We should be able to finish this thing
in the next five minutes. Hi, It's always right. It's
always fun since Trump one. See, oh there you go going.
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I mean no, no, no, we need to we need to.
Let's put it together. Maybe some people can give us
some help with that. Lord knows we need a d
an five seven seven three nine two text. And as
you know, this show has been leading the way on
trying to get to the truth about what happened and
when that serial killer targeted the mall and slaughtered these
(01:06):
innocent people over the course of two days, but slit
the throat of a flight attendant in broad daylight on
the mall on Saturday, and by Saturday night at about
six forty five at the latest, the Johnston administration knew.
They knew that they had a psycho serial killer targeting
the mall. Somebody, in my opinion, made the decision not
(01:26):
to inform the public. Now they issued some sort of
tweet or some sort of this or that. I'm not
talking about that. I'm talking about the warning the public
the way you would if your own family was going
to the mall, because any type of security professional would
know and the mayor should know that the only way
to protect the people was to warn them that there
was a serial killer targeting them all. Because you could
(01:49):
flood the mall with cops and it wouldn't matter. That's
no criticism of police. But when you have a psycho
killer with a knife doing what that psycho serial killer
was doing, then all they'd have to do is pull
the knife out and stab somebody. There wouldn't be any
way for police to stop that. So the only way
to protect the people was to warn them. Somebody made
the decision not to issue a real five alarm fire
(02:11):
type warning. Who did I think we know the why, right,
and there's no justification whatsoever. Whoever decided not to warn
the people should not hold any position of responsibility anywhere,
let alone the office of mayor. So We've been leading
the way on that story. I've submitted, and I've been
doing CORA requests for years. I've gone to court when
I have to, and I think I'll have to on
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this one, even though I shouldn't have to because I
think the Johnston administration will Stonewallas on this. Hopefully I'm wrong,
because we need the truth. What did the mayor know?
When did he know it? So that is a prelude
to the fact that that thirty four year old victim
who was slaughtered with this butcher knife on Sunday night,
(02:53):
more than twenty four hours after the Johnston administration knew
they had a serial killer targeting them all young man
with all of life ahead of him. We will have
his father with us at five point thirty six, So
please don't miss that. In the meantime, let's get back
to Let's get back to all of these positive things
(03:14):
that are happening because Trump won and we have not
seen confirmation hearings like this before. Right, certainly not as
a group, and this is contributing to the momentum, the
positivity of the Trump administration, which is essentially in many
ways been directing things in this nation since election Day,
(03:34):
particularly in the vacuum created by Joe Biden not being
mentally competent to function. And so what we see in
these confirmation hearings, and you're going to enjoy this sound
I'm about to play, is just like the last few
days of sound. You see these Trump nominees fighting back
and making the Democrats look stupid. And that is so important.
(03:57):
Not on a personal level or a red Jersey better
than blue Jersey kind of thing, no, but because of
the Democratic Party, because it's controlled by the far left. Now,
the Democratic Party is harming this country greatly and their
true nature of the Democratic Party, because as a former Democrat,
I can guarantee you this that there are a very
large number of people voting Democrat who have no idea
(04:19):
that their party has become this crazy, that it's gone
so far left. And I know that's hard to understand
if maybe you're a Republican right now, but as a
guy who is a Democrat for a lot of years,
you got a lot of people voting Democrat A because
they have this very negative stereotype of the Republican and
Republicans in their mind. And B they just focus on
(04:41):
what they want to focus on. It's human nature, right,
So they like that they habitually vote Democrat. Their parents,
their grandparents voted Democrat, and they look at the things
that they like within the Democratic Party and they are
there aren't aware of or they block out the crazy
radical psycho stuff. It's very important at every opportunity, including
(05:02):
these confirmation hearings, that these Trump nominees expose the Democrats
for who they really are, because that's your best chance
to keep peeling off more Democrats and more unaffiliated. And
the nominees started doing a great job. The other reason
that it encourages me so much is part of this
great job they're doing is the quality of the nominees.
(05:23):
But you know it from your own life, right, whatever
you do for a living, there is preparation involved. And
what I do for a living, I'm a trial lawyer.
There's a lot of preparation involved. There's believe it or not,
doesn't always sound like it, a lot of preparation involved
with this show. So what you hear from these Trump
nominees is clearly a lot of preparation. I think that
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speaks well to the level of competence, professionalism, focus, etc.
Of this second Trump administration. I mean, it's almost amazing
that he accomplished everything he did in the first administration
against the coup attempt and everything else, but also coming
in with with an on disciplined White House. You had
goofballs like tom Erosa and Scaremucci running around. You had
(06:04):
all sorts of goofy stuff happening. But Trump was still
able to get a lot done. He had four years
to think about what he'd do next, and now you
see it in action. So yeah, these confirmation hearings very
encouraging to me. So one who I want to get
to some of that sound Trump Scott percent, Trump nominee
for Secretary of Treasury.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
We do not have a revenue problem in the United
States of America. We have a spending problem that historically,
for the past forty or fifty years, revenues federal government
revenues have averaged about seventeen to seventeen and a half
percent of GDP and spending has been slightly over that,
(06:48):
leading us to a three and a half percent budget deficit,
which is manageable because we have roughly three point eight
percent nominal growth one point eight percent real growth of
two percent inflation.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And I know they can be a little bit boring,
but you kind of want a boring guy in that job, right,
You want a boring, highly competent guy or gale. But
clearly the focus of the Trump administration is that we
have to grow our way out of this I'm not
expecting and I know you may well not agree with that,
and I respect that, but I'm not expecting the Trump
(07:23):
administration to start cutting stuff. I mean, they'll do the
doge thing, which is great. Any fraud you can eliminate
any of this goofy spending on how rats made or whatever. Yeah,
get rid of that. But in terms of really get
getting a grip and getting us back to some sort
of financial balance, Trump's plan is to grow our way
out of this jam. And I think that focus is
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clear in a lot of different ways, including these confirmation hearings.
Maybe the best part of scott Descent was this exchange
with Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
The three billionaires who you listed the all made the
money themselves. That mister Musk came to the country as
an immigrant.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I understand that.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
But what I'm asking you is when you have a
handful of people like Musk who will soon be part
of the Trump administration and others, when you have three
people owing more wealth than the bottom half of American society,
when these people have enormous influence over the media, when
they spend huge amounts of money in both political parties
(08:30):
to elect candidates. What Biden said last line is we're
moving toward an oligarchy. I'm asking you that question. Do
you think, forget how they made their money. Do you
think that when so few people have so much wealth
and so much economic and.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Political power, that that is an oligarchic form of society?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Well, I wouldn't note that the president Biden gave the
presidential metal freedom to two people who I think would
qualify for his oligarchs.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Including George Soros. How do does Bernie Sanders walk into that? Listen,
Bernie Sanders is wrong on virtually everything, but he's not
a dumb guy. He's not wrong because he's dumb. He's
wrong because he's wrong. How does he walk into that?
Just like Elizabeth Warren, she's no dummy, she's just wrong.
On things. How did she walk into that with hegseeth?
So I'd love your theory on that as well. But
(09:20):
however they get there, I'm glad they're walking into this.
I mean time after time after time. It's like a
combination of cartoons. Right, It's like Roadrunner, right with Wiley Coyote.
You know, it just keeps getting the endvil dropped on
him and then what else? Ryan, There are other cartoons,
but you got to start with Roadrunner, and you get
(09:41):
Charlie Brown and Lucy pulling out the football. I mean,
you got all sorts of stuff going on here. Yes,
certainly have some Three Stooges moments, right, and we'll get
to some of that sound as well. But the Trump
nominees on the on the positive side of all of this,
and the DEM's just digging the hole deeper and deeper
and deeper, which is for America that they're exposing themselves
(10:03):
this way. It's not pretty. It's hard to look at
right now, but it's good for America. You're on the
Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
If you're on a highway road run, it goes beat.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Beside road run a road, running runs on the road,
a holiday, even the coyote again make a change his way?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Oh I love that? So which cartoons best apply now
to the modern Democratic Party and everything unfolding before us?
The confirmation Herean's right, now, you've got to start with Roadrunner, right,
just dropping the envila on Wiley Coyote, like twenty times
a day you talked about Charlie Brown pulling the football out.
But but what other cartoons would apply? I was a
big cartoon kid growing up, which goes to Einstein's point, right, yeah,
(10:54):
if if, what's the exact what's the verbatim on that
quote about Hey, if you want your kid to to
be a genius, tell her fairy tales? Yeah, and if
you want, oh, if you want to be smart, tell
her fairy tales. If you want to be a genius,
tell her more fairy tales. You know, that's a rough paraphrase.
(11:14):
Obviously I didn't hear enough fairy tales, which I did.
But back in that day, which wasn't that long ago.
It's funny how those things were different, right. There were
like a lot of spooky ones more and a lot
of songs with an edge, like old Hogan's.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Goat baby's falling out of a crazy stuff. Toughen you up,
I guess, tough you up. Yeah, a little red riding hood,
three little pigs, even a big bad wolf.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
And you know Wizard of Oz Man. That's like the
scariest movie of all time. Dan, my brother, Yeah, forty
seven years old to this day. Yeah, scared out of
his mind over the flying that witch, the flying monkeys.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
But but because the combination, right to the witch and
the flying monkeys. Oh man, but you're right if they've
just been flying monkeys on their own, but when you
combine them with the witch, they're the witch sending them.
Oh that was so well done, very well, Yeahne, and
your point on the road Runner.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I was a big Warner Brothers cartoon watcher growing up
on Saturday mornings. This was it right, And it was
often while e Coyote doing it to himself, like he
had all these great tools and weapons from hack me
and they would all backfire on him. That is the Democratic.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Party is right. It is right now. But it just
we've we've got to keep it up. We've got to
get to the point where where all of America sees
it right because listen, there could be a version of
the Democratic Party that wouldn't be this psycho, wouldn't be
this whack, wouldn't be this hatefully anti Catholic, anti Christian,
wouldn't just be slavishly devoted to killing mass numbers of
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people disproportionately of color before birth. You know that there
is a version of the Democratic Party that I think
will eventually emerge from this. But you just have to
thoroughly do away with the current version at the voting booth,
you know, just for the good of the country. But
obviously a very good start and Trump and the nominees
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doing their point. You know, it goes back to the hole.
It takes a village, so much collective wisdom in our
audience because we're trying to put together this. We want
it to be number one on the charts. This kind
of wrap plane into all the good that's happening right
now with Trump and I had some accidental brilliance in
(13:29):
the in the opening segment where I kind of got
this thing going. But now listeners picking up on it.
You can text SDA and five, seven, seven through nine.
This text Mike and Henderson says, it's right to be
right it's right to have fun. We're doing both now
the Trump's won. I mean, there's you got something going there.
You got something going there, So what would you add
(13:49):
to that? Texter dan per DPD Fifteen hours ago, there
was a stabbing in the area of twentieth and Larimer.
Meyor Mic told a syst type of crime was extremely rare.
He would be wrong, Alexa, and a bigger issue than
even lawless Mike, which is a really big issue because
the evidence may well end up showing that decisions made
(14:12):
by lawless Mike Johnston after the serial killer targeted the
mall may very well have have ended up causing the
horrific death of a young man, thirty four year old
man who died twenty four hours after the Johnston administration
knew there was a serial killer targeting the mall who had,
among other things, slashed a flight attendant's throat. This thirty
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four year old, thirty four year old young man was
butchered on the mall and after the Johnston administration, apparently
we're trying to get the full facts, made a decision
not to put out the kind of five alarm fire
warnings the public deserved at that point so we're going
to get to the bottom of that. But we will
have that young man's father with us at five thirty six.
(14:58):
So the the other victim to die from this butchering, Yeah,
thirty four, and his dad will be with us at
five thirty six. All righty, let's get back to a
text and calls Dan. I completely agree the young man's
death on Sunday night is on Mike's hands. He and
his team made the choice to not warn the public
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beyond horrible and preventable. Alexa, you know I am. I
am not going to the point of saying right now
that his death is on Mayor Mike Johnston's hands. It
may very well end up there, and I suspect it will.
But before I'm going to say that, I just want
to have all the facts. And that's why I've submitted
(15:39):
this corre request. Under Colorado law, I should not have
to go to court to enforce it. The Johnston administration
should not stonewall They should simply provide the public records
I've requested, which are simply the records showing the records
showing when Mayor Johnston was informed of these attacks on
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them all. And I have related questions. But that's the
heart of it. And who made the decision not to
warn the public in a real way. They put out
like a little news thing. But we all know what
the public needed and deserved at that point is what
the Johnston administration would have done for their own family members,
which is tell him, don't go to the mall. Public
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needed to know that, And so who made the decision
not to put out in wanting what were those conversations?
What were those discussions, because you got to know, Ryan,
wouldn't you be just shocked out of your mind if
nobody in the whole administration had said, hey, five alarmed fire,
you know, amber alert type stuff. We got to tell
everybody we got a serial killer targeting the mall who
(16:40):
is on the loose, because any idiot would know the
way he had killed. You didn't have him yet he
was going to kill on the all again, and yet
the public they didn't do everything in their power to
alert the public. Who made that decision? I think we
know the why right sure would have made Mayor Johnston
look bad. I wouldn't have been good for his run
(17:01):
for governor. So who made that decision? We're going to
keep drilling down on that. And again, the father of
the thirty four year old victim who was killed by
that serial killer more than twenty four hours after the
Johnston administration knew what they had on their hands, that
father will be with us at five thirty six, Ryan,
(17:24):
so much to choose from from these confirmation hearings. Do
you have a particular favorite moment? I just think all
these nominees and kesh Betel's tomorrow rightly caw Fasteners felt
for that one.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Yeah, yeah, I loved every answer that Pam Bondi gave,
as much as I was impressed by Pete Hegseeth the
day before. She seemed like Dan she had a specific
retort ready for every single Democrat senator that came after her.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
And this goes back to what I talked about earlier.
And listen, it's obvious it goes far, far, far beyond
lawyers who who, when they're doing it right, prepare very
well for every possible question this or that. But I
think you could see, you know, her litigation experience, her
lawyer experience at least at work there. But yeah, all
the nominees, lawyer or not, have been very very well prepared.
(18:11):
So how about BONDI with Adam Schiff certainly one of
the highlights, and we'll get to that after we come
back from this break. So again, I know your afternoon
is probably real busy. If you can be here live
when we have the father of the thirty four year
old who was butchered to death on them all full
twenty four hours after the Johnston administration knew they had
(18:33):
that serial killer targeting them all and didn't give the
public the kind of warnings the public deserved. The father
of that young man will join us at five point
thirty six. I hope you can be her live, if
not live obviously to be on the podcast. You're on
the Dan Capla show.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Just stop bit outside of life right now. Bob you
grew passing away? Will miss him? Yeah, died at ninety.
Does it seem like everybody's dying in the past week.
What do you think that is? Do you think people
are just maybe if they're toward the end, they're very
determined to hang on, you know, through Christmas, through the holidays,
and then you just get a whole bunch of deaths
(19:16):
in January. I think that could be a thing.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Bob Buker worked right up until the end of this
past season. Dan did he really and he was in
failing health even then, But what great memories he left
us with, right, Oh.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Man, Yeah, I mean, but I was just thinking about that,
not to be at all morbid, but you know, my parents,
such strong, phenomenally strong people, both passed away in January,
you know, my dad January two and my mom January five.
And I know in their cases they were bravely hanging
(19:50):
on and fighting against my dad cancer, my mom me physema,
and they they wanted to have that last Christmas with everybody.
So I wonder if that's just if that you just
see a lot of that with all these deaths happening now.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
My mom's dad passed away on January fifth, nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
It was very hard on her.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
And not to mention that her birthday was January eleven,
so it was six days before on birthday her father
passed away.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, yeah, oh that's so hard. Eight five five for
zero five eight two five to five The number text
da N five seven seven three nice. This was so
much fun. During the break CNN, I had to lead
with a headline Trump approval, Trump approval of how he's
handling the transition, which mirrors I think approval for him
(20:38):
fifty five percent in the CNN poll fifty five percent.
So and that's so encouraging to me because at that
kind of numbers, you're getting a pretty significant number of Dems.
You're not getting a majority of Dems, obviously, but you're
starting to get a pretty significant number of Dems. And
that's one of the reasons I'm so optimistic for the
future of the country is that I think we're approaching
(20:59):
this tipping point. You just saw Trump tip it when
it came to you know, Latino voters, Black voters, a
significant move in his direction, but Latino voters were reaching
that tipping point where so many people, enough people who
have traditionally voted dem are going to switch. And that's
going to that's going to build on the saving of
(21:20):
the nation that we just experienced. And then we've got
this weird thing going with what cartoons. You know what
cartoon characters are the Democrats right now as they spin
and flop and dig their whole deeper. Texter says, Dan
Boris and Natasha are the Dems today? D A n five, seven,
seven through nine. Vaguely familiar with that. I'm more Fred Flintstone. Guy.
(21:42):
What's the context of Boris and Natasha? They were afoot
of Rocky and Bullwinkle. Ah, okay, okay about Popeye? For
the Dems, it would be I'll gladly pay you Tuesday
for Hamburger today the Republicans would use Popeyes. That's all
I can stand. I can't stand no more. Or okay, Dan,
Dudley do right? How would Dudley do right? Apply? Who
(22:05):
would that apply to? And then Alexi says Tom and
Jerry another Texter getting a little more serious. We respect that, Dan,
you say they are wrong, but the truth is they
just have a different opinion or way of doing things
than you do. Text or please call this show. That
would be a great gift to humanity, because no, that
the fact that somebody has a different opinion doesn't mean
(22:29):
they aren't wrong. And that's one of the biggest challenges
we face in society anymore. Right, just the way what
the left's been trying to pound into people through schooling
and everything else is there's no objective right and wrong. Yeah,
there is objective right and wrong. Are there some things
reasonable people can differ on. Yeah, but there's some things
(22:52):
reasonable people can't differ on. Reasonable people could not differ
on slavery. There is objective right and wrong. So Texter
or please do call the show another person disagreeing, and
we are so grateful for that. Always here, Dan, I
wholeheartedly disagree. Elizabeth Warren is a dingbat and a waste
(23:14):
of protoplasm that from Ralph. Appreciate the expanded vocabulary. We
don't give many protoplasm references on the show. I was
kind of conditioned to doze off with that word, you know,
in one of my classes at CU did not serve
me well. Might have been the only class I ever
dropped at CU anyway, Elizabeth Warren a dingbat. No, No,
(23:39):
I think it's just so important that we understand our opponents, right.
You have to be honest about the strengths and weaknesses
of your opponents in order to defeat them. And you've
got an awful lot of these lefties who are smart
people doing dumb things. Now we can talk about their
motive or how they got from being a smart person
to doing dumb things. But if we just sit back
(24:01):
here and assume they're dingbats. Well, then we're kind of
being a dingbat because then you're not going to be
ready for the kind of clever, diabolical stuff they do. Ryan,
what's the origin of dingbat? Where did that come? Wow?
I love this origin. No, look, unfortunately we have AI.
Let me check that real quick origin of dingbat while
(24:22):
we play some more Pam BONDI. I'd wanted to get
to we're talking about the Trump nominees have been doing
so great, and then you got cash Ptel coming up.
Can't wait for that. You might retire half the national
debt if you made that pay per view. But yeah,
let me get to Bondy with Adam Schiff. I've got
that as twenty seven, but I can't reach twenty seven.
(24:44):
Can you reach twenty seven? I'm trying to what do
you think? I don't know to scroll down. The thing's
not scrolling down. If we had a piece of equipment
from the twenty first century, then I might be able
to scroll down.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
So let me start with an easy truth that you
could speak to the president.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Can you tell us?
Speaker 8 (25:02):
Can you tell him that Donald Trump lost the twenty
twenty election?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Can you say that?
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Do you have the.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
Independence to say that you have the gravitas, the statue
of the Testament fortitude to say, Donald Trump, you lost
the twenty twenty election. Can you tell us that here today?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Senator. What I can tell you is I will never
play politics. You're trying to engage me in a gotcha.
I lost question, speak truth with any ongoing. You did
member a beautiful see she was ready right. And I
love it how the entire Trump cabinet has been trained
(25:40):
to go on the attack. Now Marco Rubio, he had
a different kind of confirmation here and they treated him differently.
But they're trained to go on the attack. And I
love that because the left's not used to that. The
lefts just used to being able to bat Republicans around,
except for Trump. But but no, I love it. They're
going on the attack. But here's the thing. You gotta
sear a smart punches, not wild punches. They're going on
(26:01):
the attack in a very well planned out kind of way.
And the challenge of that format where you know you've
just got a few minutes for each questioner and the questioner.
It's not like you know you're in court and you
know that the judge can control things. You know the
questioner can disrespect the witness, interrupt the witness, et cetera.
So that's really hard on the witness, and I think
(26:23):
the Trump nominees have handled it great eight five five
four zero five eight two five five text DA and
five seven seventy three nine helped me out with this.
Has there been a decision yet on whether the Colorado
flag is going to be at full staff for the inauguration?
I assume that it is. It better be.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
I don't know about Colorado, but Speaker Johnson said on
inauguration day, I'll way back to full staff, and then
it'll go back.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
To recognizing President Rny Carter the day after. Even California
now is going to have it at full staff, right,
So I assume Colorado is well, yeah, and they'll assume yeah.
We'll try to get that confirmed real quick.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
On Dingbat, our listener Steve Chatter had the same thought
I did. First I ever heard that was Archie bunker
On All in the family calling Edith you ding Bat.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah. I just wondered if there was some I don't know,
like meaningful origin that would be meaningful Carol O'Connor's portrayal large.
I know that, but you know how a lot of
these different phrases we use every day have some historic origin.
I mean, the meaning has an origin. It didn't just
come out of Archie Bunker's head. But why don't we
have more Archie Bunker bites here? I take you on
(27:30):
your show, Ryan does a great show two to four
each afternoon, six thirty Kitsch w Denver. Hey, when we
come back, lots of ground tocover, please put five thirty
six on your calendar. It'll be very hard, sad, but
very important. The father of that thirty four year old
man who was butchered to death on the mall Sunday night,
a full twenty four hours after the Johnston administration knew
(27:51):
they had a serial killer targeting the mall twenty four
hours later after no five alarm fire warnings to the public.
This man's butchered on the mall. His father will be
with us at five thirty six here on the Dan
Capla Show.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I love that. Why don't we have more meat loaf
arout here? Seriously? I love meat loaf. How come meat
loaf is so underappreciated, under remembered.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
Because he kind of came in did his thing. My
mom had this album Bad out of Hell in the seventies.
He disappeared for a while, came back with Bad Out
of the Health Too in the nineties and was a
big hit all over again, but he like disappeared throughout
the entire eighties.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I think, good stuff. Hey, we're having a lot of
fun with these confirmation hearings because it's helping the Trump
administration itself get off to such a fast start because
you know nominees who the laft just cackling, going crazy.
They're not getting confirmed. Not only are they getting confirmed,
but they're going in with momentum because they were so
impressive in their hearings, including hag Seth. At the same time,
(28:54):
a lot of Democrats have really shamed themselves in the hearing,
which is great. Not individually. I don't wish him anything.
I just want them out of office because they're terrible
for America. So the more people get to see the
reality of these lefties, the better, because the less likely
they are to stay in office. Mazie Herono from Hawaii,
and she may just you know, the so deep blue there.
(29:16):
She may stay as long as she wants, but it's
still good for America to see that there's something not
right here. So she's going after Doug Burgham as part.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
Of my responsibilities to ensure the fitness of nominees before
any of the committees, so much, I said, I asked
the following two initial questions. First, sus, since she became
a legal adult, have you ever made a wanted requests
for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment
or assault of a sexual nature?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
No, Senator, I have not.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Have you ever faced discipline or entered into a settlement
related to this kind of conduct, I have not.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
So I cannot imagine Doug Bergham would give those unequivocal
answers if she had a hammer, if she does not
have the hammer, If if those things she just implicitly
accused him of have never happened, she should be thrown
out of the Senate for that. Absolutely thrown out of
the Senate for that. Yeah, eight five five or zero
(30:16):
five eight two five five, the number takes d an
five seven seven through nine. Listen, I'm not naive. I
don't mean to sound shocked because I understand that the
left itself, it doesn't have morals. I mean, I'm going
to talk about Democrats, I'm talking about the far left,
which she's part of. Morals aren't relevant that they view
honesty as weakness. That's what controls the Democratic Party right now.
(30:40):
And so all I'm saying is that the American standard
should be that people who do that should not remain
in office. And I'm not naive. I know, Hawaii you
can stay probably as long as you want. But we see,
we see the rest of the country, you know, changing
in very significant ways. So I just think, as we
sit here right now, I've always been an optimist. I
(31:02):
was blessed with these great parents and by example in
in other ways just caused us to believe to our core,
and it's proven true that anything's possible. But I have
never been in my young life. I have never been
more optimistic for the future of the country. And you
see it again playing out in concrete ways every day.
Texter not as impressed. Dan. Again, you always think you
(31:25):
are reasonable and everyone else of the different opinion is unreasonable. Now, Ryan,
I've been on air somewhere around thirty years. I don't
think the Texter could cite anything specific to back that up,
So I would ask them neither text or call back
it up or pack it up, just be specific.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
It seems like they're over generalizing. So they're saying that
you insist that you are always reasonable. I mean, to you,
you are reasonable, but that all callers are all guests
are unreasonable.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
I don't say anybody with the different opinions and unreasonable.
But the beautiful thing is true. I get well and
thank you for that. But I can prove it's not true.
I mean, one hundred percent proven. I'm going to do
it in the next thirty seconds, and not one person
on the face of the earth can say anything other
than Dan. Yeah, you just proved that is not true.
Because when I started on air, I was a Democrat.
(32:21):
I was a Democrat, and I had these discussions with callers,
and the callers would say things I disagreed with, and
then what happened. I came to realize the people I
disagreed with were right, and so I changed and I
(32:44):
wasn't a Democrat anymore. Drop the mic, Drop the mic.
So if somebody thinks that I'm being that I'm wrong,
we don't hide I don't from anybody. I'm here, God
willing every afternoon for two hours. Kelly, do you censor anybody,
(33:06):
do you. I mean you barely screen people, and that's
a compliment. But yeah, I mean no, anybody who thinks
they got me, anybody who thinks I'm wrong. No, I
word of finding. I said it before Coach Prime. Did
I hate hard to find? Yeah? I allow all callers on,
no matter how much they canother me or whether they Yeah,
(33:28):
there is one there's no qualifications to call this show.
That's not one of the beautiful things about Kelly.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
There's one who I won't name, but is currently in
like purgatory status are suspended. But that was because you know,
there are points I believe where a caller can cross
the line with you or just in general, and then
you can't just not anything goes on the air. Over
the air on a show like this, not anything goes.
(33:55):
You got to draw the line.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
If we know somebody's lying, Yeah, yeah, I mean, we
just know they're lying, and we're not gonna put a
liar on air. But somebody who disagrees, please, thirty years
we have sent the hypothetical limo.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
Not only that rhetorical limo, and ruled out the red
carpet for the likes of Eerie Mic for instance.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Oh my lord. And over the decades for we are
always looking for the very best to come on this
show and disagree. I mean, how do you think Craig
Silverman ended up part of Capitalists and Silman. Craig Silman
was a very sharp prosecutor, disagreed on all sorts of things.
I'm the one who wanted that show. I'm the one
who went to management and said let's do this show.
(34:39):
People looked at me like I was crazy, and it
went on to be one of the most important shows
we've had in decades in Colorado. Not because of me,
but because of the format and the mix and the disagreement.
And yeah, I wanted that.
Speaker 6 (34:52):
I had so many people have told me going way
back that I was listening to Capitalists and Silverman when
this that or the other thing.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, because that that whole format of
having that constant disagreement, that that whole format was great
for the community, you know, and mixed a lot of
investigative reporting into the show and everything else. It. This
town needs a show like that, it really does. And
and that show was that for how many years until
(35:22):
it wasn't right. It wasn't until it wasn't until the
legendary Hey can you meet me at Starbucks for a
cup of coffee? Yeah, what's up boss? Oh it's your
last show? Oh my god. Yeah, that's all went well.
We were privileged to get a last show, right. Not
everybody gets them, Not everybody gets seven and a half years,
and not everybody gets that last show. So they trusted
(35:43):
us to do a last show, and I was always
grateful for that. Maybe this is our last show, right?
Can you check in with somebody? I'll check Maybe it
should be eight five to five or zero five eight
two five five text d An five seven, seventh through nine.
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