October 24, 2025 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
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single day on your favorite podcast platform. Wait to be
happy on a Friday afternoon. I sure hope you are
a beautiful weather looks what a weekend ahead? Oh my goodness,
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Front Range of Colorado. If you happen to be there,
it's where I am right now. Seventy one degrees tomorrow,
seventy on Sunday. Monday dips a little bit, but my goodness,
are coming up on Halloween, and dip means sixty two.
Doesn't look like we're going to get that usual Halloween crash.
So the kiddy should be a nice and comfortable when
they got in trick or treat and then it just
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stays nice and pretty much the same across the state.
Obviously going to be cooler up in the mountains, but
just a glorious fall weekend. Three oh three seven one
three eight two five five. The number text d an
five seven seven three nine, So imagine how pretty it's
going to be for Broncos Cowboys and what a total waste,
you know. And I don't blame ownership. We now have
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the best ownership in the NFL. But I blame the city.
I mean, Ryan, think about it, all the money you
spend on Chamber of Commerce stuff and everything else. And
picture Sunday afternoon. If you've been at Mile High Stadium,
you've been at a Bronco game, you know the view,
you know, the view looking west you know from that
stadium is magnificent. And so how has this city I've
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been calling for for decades? How has the city of Denver,
the state of Colorado not spend a few bucks to
put a high quality camera right on top of the
west side of that stadium and just feed that, feed
that to the networks. Let them use that as their
comeout shot instead of what do we get Now you
always get a picture of your over ie twenty five
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and you know into downtown, and that isn't exactly going
to boost tourism. So anyway, it's going to be a
glorious afternoon. And hey, if the lessons are learned from
last week's Bronco game, and they turn bo Nicks and
the offense loose and let athletes be athletes and play
football instead being over mechanized, overmanaged robots.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Then we're going to.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
See a tremendous Bronco game on Sunday three or three seven, one,
three eight, two five five text d an five seven, seven,
three nine. This is one of those Fridays where we've
had so many amazing things going on all week. I'd
be very happy to spend the day just chewing on
the best stuff, the best of the week. To me,
there are a few issues that really pop out from
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the more serious stuff to the less serious stuff. But
I got the Supreme Court case right where the US
Supreme Court is going to decide whether regular marijuana users
lose their Second Amendment rights.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
That's the issue squarely in front of the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Obviously, big consequences for the state of Colorado that made
the disastrous mistake of legalizing marijuana.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So we got that going for us, as Bill Murray
would say.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
And then this business of the ballroom one of my
favorite topics of all time. You know that Trump doing
this great service to America and putting this big, beautiful
ballroom in. I love it because the Left has no
idea how much they're hurting themselves as they go out
now and try to turn this into armageddon. And so
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anybody who wants to talk about that, I would love to.
In fact, we have a texture here, Dan, can you
explain why President Trump, it says said the new ballroom
quote won't interfere with the current building.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It will be near it, but not touching it.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
It pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm
the biggest fan of. It's my favorite place. I love it.
That fair questions from Victor. Victor, I believe the President
thought that was true at the time he said it,
and then things changed.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
And my guess is Victor, like.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You Ryan, with at least three or four of the
different shooling estates and me and my own modest way,
we've all had contact with some kind of construction project, right,
and things change.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
They change all the time. They change in the concept phase,
they change.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
As soon as the project starts, they change when the
project's over.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
They just always change.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
So, yeah, I think he believed that to be true
when he said it, and then something changed. I think
people will find that it changed for the better. But
love to have that conversation because when you talk about
the East Wing, Yeah, White House.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It's part of the White House. So it's awesome because
it's part of the White House.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You know, the garbage room is part of the White House.
It's awesome because it's part of the White House. But
the East Wing nothing special other than being part of
the White House and really needs to be much more
than it currently is.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Can you think about this the center of power.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
On the planet in terms of anyone building and the
East Wing?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
What can they hold up? My guess having been in
there is probably one hundred people or so.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Maybe trumpets at seventy nine when they got the tables
in there.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, yeah, he did right. He got a big ballroom
at the White House.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And there's nothing else really distinguishable about the East Wing. Obviously,
so many changes have been made to the White House
over time. This is more Trump derangements syndrome. And I
love it because again it hurts the left and helps
us prepare for more victories after Trump leaves. The other
thing is it's going to be great to have there,
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can you How can you have a White House where
when you have a big event you have to put
tents out on the lawn.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Well, the funny parts and is when there's gonna there's
going to be another Democrat president at some point helped
very very long time from now. I don't know at
the present time. I can't see it, but it will happen.
Like Bill Clinton. Nobody thought after Jimmy Carter there'd be
another Republican president or Democrat president for like thirty years.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
But Bill Clinton broke through that mold.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
And my point is, Democrat president comes in, enjoys this
constructed ballroom, Yes, and they'll have no choice but to
kind of eat crow and grin and Barrett never admitted that.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
No, they weren't. We never admitted. But that is an
interesting question.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
When do you think we'll have the next Democrat Party president?
Because it's very clear and it's one of the fun
issues from the week. I'd love to kick around with
you a little bit. This Mom Donnie thing in New York.
Talk about a gift to the GOP and talk about
an anchor around the necks of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, he's going to win in New York.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
He is going to win in New York, and he
is going to do so much more to open eyes
to what the modern Democratic Party has really become. Because
he's not going to be treated as some kind of
outcast or pariah. He's he's going to be treated as
the future of the party because guess what, he is
the future of the party. But the future of the
party's at the bottom of the ocean. So he's the
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future of the party the way that Titanic was the
future of cruise lines.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
But that's where they're going. Look at it here in Colorado.
We're going to.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Play that sound from Phil Wiser today, and it's like Phil,
he hardly knew ye.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I mean, because Phil Wes he's.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
A lefty right so we're always going to disagree on
big issues. And I'm not going to vote from because
of the ideological stuff. But I said plenty of good
things about him on air because in contrast to Michael Bennett,
Phil Wiser is an accomplished guy. And you know, I
hope we don't have any lefty as our governor, but
if we end up with the lefty as governor, you
want it to be somebody who's actually accomplished, has gotten
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things done, et cetera, not a bump on the log
like Bennett. But Wiser today a complete intellectual sellout. When
Wiser today comes out and he calls for Colorado to
start redistricting oh Republicans out of their districts. That is
absolutely raked, right, But you know why he does it. First,
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he doesn't believe it. And this goes back to the
core truth people have to understand about the vast majority
of elected Democrats. They're living a lie, and they know
it because a vast majority of elected Democrats know abortion
as a matter of physiology, as a matter of medicine.
In fact, abortion is the violent taking of an innocent
human life, which just can't be morally justified as a
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public policy. They know that, but they decide to support
it so they can get and keep power. So that's
the truth about the vast majority Wiser, Poliss, Johnston, Biden,
all of them.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
But on this one you.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Can also be one thousand percent sure. Phil Wiser knows
that it would be fundamentally wrong for Colorado now to
start jerry mandarin so that they can come up with
new congressional districts that knock the Republicans out of their seats.
He knows that is wrong on every single level. Why
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is he supporting it. He's supporting it because he's way
behind in the governor's race. He's supporting it. And this
goes to the point I was just making about Mom, Donnie.
He's supporting it because he knows the crazy wacko looney left,
the openly socialist, if not communists left, is the future
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of the Democratic Party in Colorado and across America. And
that's why the future of the Democratic Party is at
the bottom of the ocean.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
But Phil Wiser wants power, so he's willing at this.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Point to grovel, to grovel before the hard left and say, hey,
look at me. It's kind of like that Madonna phase
we often talk about in the show Meeting Madonna in
his youth, who reached that phase? Remember that point, Ryan,
where just to get attention, everything she did was naked
and she got into the naked posing with animals face.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Even at the beginning, like her like a virgin performance.
It banned MTV in my household by my mom right
after we saw.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
That that serious stuff. But Phil has jumped the shark. He's
moved into the Madonna naked with animals phase. Phil Wiser
now wants to redistrict the Republicans out of office in Colorado.
You're on the Dan Capitliss Show.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
You think Colorado should redraw its map to create more
democratic seats.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Here's what I like to see happen, Kyle.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
I'd like to see us and we have to change
our constitution to do this, a break glass in case
of emergency. If you see other states breaking the norm
doing mid decade redistricting, give a mechanism so that we
can match it. And the important thing, by the way,
is by creating the possible mechanism, we also created a
determin effect. It will only happen if we need to
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because other states are doing it. Colorado can wait if
other states wait, But if other states are moving ahead,
we shouldn't put ourselves on the sidelines.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
We need to do our partner the worst of both worlds,
right A bozo?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, But and this is what's said to me because again,
unlike Bennett, who is just kind of an unaccomplished political blob,
Wiser is an accomplished guy. He has done some good
things at his office. I'm gonna talk about the ideological stuff.
I'm just saying he's a smart, accomplished guy. You don't
get to be a US Supreme Court clerk unless you
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are and so you watch people, and he's not the
only one in politics just sort of diminish themselves by
coming out and supporting things that that no honest person
would support, such as this kind of jerrymanderin right in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Because here's the point.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
You look at Colorado districts, and we know that Colorado
districts have not been politically jerry mandered against either party.
Now you can go to some other states and you
can make very credible arguments that the lines there have
been unfairly drawn against Republicans. You can make that argument
in an awful lot of states, but not in Colorado.
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So what Wiser is telling you is that he supports
doing something patently, blatantly unfair in order to benefit his
political party. That's what he's telling you. And he tries
to put this caveat on oh if other states do it,
But guess what, there are some other states where redrawing
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lines would be the proper, legal and just thing to do,
because they've been drawn in an artificial way to minimize
the representation of Republicans in Congress. So it's just it's
so beneath Wiser, it's so beneath accomplished people and we
just see it happen in politics all the time, and
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it's not going to work for him.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
If it would work for him, it wouldn't justify it.
But it's not going to work for him.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
He is the chief law enforcement officer attorney general in
this state. So if his mind Dan is on fairness
and he feels that what these Republican states are doing
is unfair, is unjust, his point then is two wrongs
make a right.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Well, sure, but he.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Knows better than that, because he knows when we talk
about the places where Republicans are seeking redistricting, there's a
very strong argument in favor of the redistricting. If we
go back to this fairness point and fair representation based
upon population and population distribution, then in Colorado you have
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to start with there's no beef in Colorado. It was
done by an independent board commission. You got the eighth district,
which is evenly drawn, and you can argue this should
be this or that should be that, but nobody can
argue that Colorado's lines have been politically drawn. No whereas
you go to some other states, you look at all
the states where you know forty percent.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Of the voters are GOP and they have no.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Republican Chusetts representatives Massachusetts, like.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Connecticut, your home state of Illinois is a joke. It
looks like a drunk person made a jigsaw puzzle. Yeah,
it's ridiculous. And it's before the Supreme Court in the
state of Louisiana because it's the same thing. In order
to get two majority black districts, they had to draw
this like long, convoluted kind of jigsaw puzzle piece in
order to join where there are black populations, some.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Of which are rural, some of which are urban.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
But because they are black, and only because they are black,
is the representation dictated. That is fundamentally unconstitutional in my mind,
and I believe the Supreme Court is going to find
that way as well.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
And this isn't going to work for Wiser. I mean,
it's not going to work for him. He's done in
this governor's race, and so again I think all he's
doing is diminishing himself.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Did you see, though, Dan, the money, the money raised,
He has raised more money than Michael Bennett.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Could you hand me your new coke?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Oh, that's right, you're not drinking it. No, Do you
know how much they spent to market coke. How much
did Jeff bushchev? But the money's deceptive, right, because you're correct, Ryan,
you're correct, you are a master of these facts. But
while he is reporting more of this publicly donated money
on hand, the big, big money, that the dark money
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is coming into Bennett. O great Bloomberg, didn't he just give.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
A half million to Bennett or or to one of
these packs supporting Bennett.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yes, So Bennett's going to have more money than he
can possibly spend, and if he spends it wisely, like
an organizational door knocking type stuff, I just don't see
how he loses. I'm not sure the endorsements matter the
way it has, but you look at the very cynical way,
and it's presumed legal, but it should be illegal that
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Bennett has been able to take this Senate seat which
belongs to the people, not to Michael Bennett, and he's
been able to use it as this lure to keep
people in line right here here, like holding a piece
of meat up above a pack you.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Know here here, Oh you want this, you want this? Well, behave,
behave and you might get this.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Behave and you might get this Senate seat that I'm
Michael Bennett, not the people. I'm going to decide who
gets this Senate seat once I'm elected governor. That's the
first of a thousand reasons he should not be elected governor.
Even the Denver Post ripped him on that. But that's
what he's doing, right, to try to keep people in
line so they have a shot at that Senate seat. Yeah,
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five text d an five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And you want to know, it's so revealing.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
About Bennett and about hicken Looper, who they really are,
right that they pretend to be so enlightened and so
caring about women and people of color, and yet they
stand in the schoolhouse door. You know, we could have
we could have a US Senator of color. Now wouldn't
be the ideology I like, but would be a highly
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qualified person such as Joan the Goose. You would have
a US Senator of color today. If Michael Bennett would
do the right thing and just say no, I'm going
to step down while I run for governor. Joan the
Goose would almost certainly get the appointment. If he didn't,
then Britney Petterson probably would, and then you'd have, you know,
your first woman US senator. So you got this old
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white guy who's done absolutely nothing with all the power
he's been given for all these years, standing in the
schoolhouse door, blocking, you know, and ideologically wrong but otherwise
qualified woman or racial minority from being a US senator.
And then you got Hick and Luper doing the same thing.
All he does is take up space. I don't know where,
because I don't know if he even shows up at
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his office, but all he does is take up space. So, yeah,
these phonies who pretend to care so much about equity
and equality while they just put their boots on the
neck of people trying to come up the latter people
who are far more competent and qualified than they are.
They're all wrong on ideology, but yeah, that's who they
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really are. Three all three seven one three eight two
five five the number techs d an five seven seven
three nine. I also want to talk to you about
what's going on at Casa Benita, because to me this
is so fascinating. Again, you've got a couple of guys
on the political left, the creators of South Park.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Oh, I don't know that they're on the left.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
They they've been kind of defined the term has been
south Park Libertarians.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Okay, so they take in the past at least they
take a chance of President Trump, not at all.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Okay, so very in there, just really quick. This is important.
I was trying to compliment them in Team America.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
They take aim at all the Hollywood actors that are
self important.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I can't stand. Okay, I was trying to compliment them. Anyway.
The point I was leading to was, Okay, I may.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Not agree with these guys politically, but they've done a
lot of good for Denver and a lot of good
for the area by resurrecting Casabanita.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
They bought it for three point one million. They put
about forty million into it.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
It's been a great service to our state. And now
the union's after them. There's some kind of irony here, right.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
The details will make you laugh. You're on the Dan
Capla Shop.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
And Brooke Shields is right in the middle of this
labor beef with Casita, and I'd love your thoughts on
this one because the way I look at it, like
I was saying before the break, is these South Park creators, right,
and they're no fans of Trump, so I'm sure we're
in opposite sides of most things.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Politically.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
They do this great service and they put forty million
into bringing Cassa Benita back and then they decide to
cut a few characters and all help breaksclusion. They're under
fire now from the union and you've got Brooks Shields.
How did Ryan? How did Brooke Shields get.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
In the middle all this? But they gotten out? They
got Brooke Shields after them. Let's find out.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Hey, Matt, and trying nice to meet you. As you know,
I'm the president of Actors and the Association, the union
that represents the performers who work for you at Casablanita.
You probably know that he's been in bargaining for their
first Gamian contracts for quite a while now, but maybe
you don't know that your restaurant management has been playing
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really fast and loose with this bargaining process, and it's
just not respectful to performers who put their all into
making Kasabunia the one of a kind destination that it
is and that you created. And things are kind of escalating,
and I just want to say that these workers are
not making a living made the actually not and in fact,
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they are being paid less than their co workers who
are actually serving the food.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
And you know that's before you factor in tips.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
So they've not only been harder arc entertaining Cassabanina guests
and spending their volunteer hours and bargaining, they've also been
putting their names on a petition. So I hope you
see that petition, and I do hope you take a
serious and take seriously their requests for you to accept
the proposed contract so that we can all put this
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chapter way behind us, because without the performers who bring
Cassibanita to life, it's.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Just a big pain restaurant. It's time to do the
right thing. Please agree to a full contract.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
And so he's enabled these performers to focus on providing
the world class experience Calsabonita's guests expect, I deserve, and
have them get him.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Let me be the first to say the performers are
great at Cassabanita. I mean like really really good, and
I wish nothing but the best for him. But I
think the guys who put forty mili into redoing the
restaurant should get to make the call on how they
want to staff it. So as I understand the beef,
and this is just what I'm pulling from some research.
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You've got that union Actor's Equity Association and accusing the
South Park Creators of illegally cutting over one thousand hours
of shift for character performers without engaging in bargaining. Now
here's the key rine it removes. Characters like Captain Isabella
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and Sheriff are now being removed.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
And so that's a little bit hard to stomach.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
But these guys owned it. These guys put the forty
mili into it. Seems to me they should get to
make that decision.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I'm reading to you.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I'm reading to you from the website of Actors' Equity
and it says, in part management at Ksubanita faces a
rapidly unionizing workforce. In the last year, IATSE has organized
arcade workers and crew and they are preparing for an
upcoming election for one hundred and fifty plus servers, bussers,
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front of house and guest service workers managers retaliation against
the unionized.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Roaming character performers.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
So they're saying they're retaliating against black Bird, Captain Isabella,
Amazon Annie.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
And the Sheriff.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Apparently so well, you would think that black Bard, Captain
Isabella Amazon, Annie and the sheriff could defend himself. Right,
last people should try to retaliate against Dan.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
How many times have you been to the newly refurbished
Casabanita with Matt and Trey in charge?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Once? One time? Yep? What did you think? Loved it?
You enjoyed it? Yeah? Who are you there with Amy
and the kids? Amy?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Caroline a friend of Caroline's. Joe was at school. But
Amy's been taken Joe and Caroline since they were born. Right, Hey,
this is a big part of Amy's youth is Casabanita.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
But will she say or will you say, having compared
this version to the old one, that it's markedly better now?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
No? No, he is She and the kids would say
that absolutely right? Had you got this old one before?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I mean, what the food was mostly good for was
taking home and using as a hammers. But I thought
the food was good. I thought it was quite nowhere,
the food's really good. Have you been to this new
La Loma right down the street here?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Well, I don't want to give away too much information,
but it's very close to me.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Oh, you're still in your stunt.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
No, No, I've been there actually what they're your buddies,
Brackler and Reems not that long ago courtesy of Alexa.
Thanks to still There, I would have never left. I mean,
it's a phenomenal place and it's.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Packed very good. Oh my yeh goodness.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
No, it's top notch and really good beef for the money. Agree,
And this is more my speed than yours, I think.
But they've got really high end tequila for the margaritas
and such.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Really nice. Yeah, it is more your speed. And the
sad thing is I could drink you and everybody else
under the table. I just don't. Don't two beers all year. Well, see,
beers and tequila's are one of different animals. But Ryan, I.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Had a mentor in the law business. I were Roth Gerber, great, great,
great man. He was very close to Justice White, so
I got to spend some quality time around Justice White.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah. Nice.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
And I really liked Scotch and so I you can
bring me all the Scotch in Denver, all thet and
I could do it during the next hour and you
probably would no effect. Yeah, it's weird. I just don't
like you know, I love drinking it. I love drinking beer.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
The problem I have is this.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I can do it without any visible signs of intoxication,
which doesn't mean I would drive. I don't drink and
drive because I don't drink, and I wouldn't drove if
I drink.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
But here's the point.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
The next day, when I get up, I feel a
little sluggish. Yeah, and I feel like I lose maybe
about five percent sure, and I don't want.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
To lose five percent. I get it. You're right, you
are correct.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
I need every bit of horsepower I have on the
wish I had more or I don't.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Want to lose five percent. Was the last time you
had a margarita? That would have been? Do you believe
in reincarnation? I don't. But do you think you've had
prior lives? Because I have not had one. I'm an agnostic.
I don't really have not had one in this life.
I've been, I've been beer wine.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
You've not had you have not in your X years.
I won't say to the public, had ever? Have you
ever had a margarita?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Know ed Margarita? Have an out?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
In my own amy hasn't got well the latter, okay,
But to Margarita man in Mexico, you.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Know my new year's resolution is to drink more, and
I hope to fulfill that next year.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Okay, okay, well you never meant.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, you and Amy go to a nice Mexican restaurant
like ploma and.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Maybe Amy has a Margarita. She goes, hey, Dan, when
I'm margarita too, and you serve for life? Oh? I
tell her to mine. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
But all I'm saying is this Lo Loma. And we're
in the Denver studio today, so it's out in the
Denver Tech Center. But the new Lo Loma out there
is really good. But to bring us back to our
friends at cost Beita. So you got the union talking
about how they're unionizing everybody, right ye, And I wonder
if you have the Casa Beanita owners, the South Park
creators sitting there thinking no good deed goes unpunished.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Yeah. Yeah, And listen, I'm not trying to fault these
hard working people.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Because when we're at Casabanita, it ran great, and I
assume every single person working there from the front door
to washing dishes is doing a great job. And so
I I want working people paid fully right of people
like you and me and the people at Casabanita. So
I'm not criticizing them. I'm just saying the guys who
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put the forty million into the place are probably feeling
a little squeezed right now. When Brooks shield says you
can't fire black Bart, that's a great comment. Captain Isabella
on the Instagram video post that Brookshield's had, I think
this user is correct.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
He says, well, you just.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Wrote the next episode of South Park, So I think
Brookshields may have written herself into a targets of their
animated aims.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I wonder if she'll.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
End up on South Park in bed with Donald Trump, right,
because that's their latest thing, is putting people in bedver Trump.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Good Dan, that's right. Usually Satan though.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Texter, Dan, get over yourself. You're not immune to alcohol.
I never claim to be holy col Yeah, yeah, Dan, careful.
Boots on the Neck is from Ken Salazar. Always give
him credit. I'm not sure of that reference. Dan is
an East Denver longtime resident. I'm still devastated by the
billups allegations.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Do you have an update?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I do not that big an update, but to me
an interesting one. We'll get to that after the break.
And I do want to ask you this question. We're
covering all this all these interesting topics of the week today,
Chauncey billups. Should there be some visible show of support
from him from the people of Denver? Assuming I'm guilty
and he's presumed innocent, but assume he's guilty, and I
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don't even if he is guilty, Should there be some
visible show of support not for his bad behavior if
he's guilty, but for all the good he's done.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
You're on the Dan Caplas Show.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Very very direct.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I thought one of the more articulate denials we've seen
from counsel for an accused in a while, because he
got into detail and I'm paraphrasing, but he just said, hey,
wait a second, you think Chauncey Phillips is going to
risk everything, including his.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Freedom for this? Really? So you have very very.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Direct denial, at least from council at this point. Now,
at the same time, you know, there's growing analysis suggesting
that Phillips may have been involved in feeding information on
the basketball side to gamblers, but nothing charged on that front.
And so my question to you is is more of
a kind of general philosophical one, and I do presume
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him innocent, truly until we see the evidence against him
roll out pun not intended, but assume for a second
that he is guilty of these charges of, you know,
using his celebrity status to lure victims into fixed card games.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
On behalf of the mop, do you.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Think that Denver and Colorado should express its in some tangible, coordinated,
organized way, express support for all the good things he's done,
not of course for any bad acts, but for all
the good things he's done. Three oh three seven one
three A two five five the number text d A
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N five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I think it was Zach Seegers, who works with the
sometimes filling on this show on this side of the Glass.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, and also were at KOA.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
He's plugged in the sports scene reportedly and apparently Dan
following up at what you just said, Chauncey Bellops while
exiting the court was wearing Lebron James gear of some sort,
and some people were taking that as kind of a
hint that maybe a warning shot to Lebron, like maybe
come have my back on this or you might go
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down with me.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I don't know, That's just.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
What I was like, kind of Stephen A. Smith analysis
or trying to not Zach. Zach is a sharp cat. Way,
Zach is a sharp cat, but yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
And Stephen A.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Smith trying to blame this on Trump, but hey, the
investigation started under Biden. Ryan, how generous of you. I'm
sure this is you. Pentagon accepts anonymous one hundred and
thirty million dollars donation to help pay the military during
government shutdowns.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Apparently I should do some.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Friend of President Trumps, and I'm a good friend of his,
I would like to take some calls and text on
this whole East wing business, because again, I think it's
so much helps Trump and hurts the left. But if
somebody disagrees, love to have the conversation. I truly can't
even begin to wrap my mind around what the objection is.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I know it's jarring to see any.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Part of the White House get demolished, right because I
think on a visceral level, it brings back imagery from
say nine to eleven or other times when we've seen
very important buildings get destroyed.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
But this is so different.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I mean, what Trump is doing is smart, and it's
great for America, and it's all being funded with private money.
It's like all upside, and then you get the laugh
treating the East wing as if it's some sort of
hallowed ground where anybody who's ever been there knows it's not.
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It's not the Oval Office, it's not the West Wing.
It's it's just kind of there, and it's undersized, and
it doesn't really fulfill the role. Dan, I'm as privacy
oriented as it gets, but the I seventy quarter must
have cameras for the sake of law enforcement and first responders.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yeah. That one of the interesting issues from the week is.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
It's all of a sudden, now you're loosing a bunch
of those cameras along the Mountain Corridor. And then Ryan,
as you know, we've had some of our textures and
callers are very suspicious that those are being pulled politically
by the left that runs this state because of concerns
that ICE may be able to use these cameras. I'm
not aware of any evidence backing that up, but maybe
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there's something out there that I missed. All I know
is this, it is incredibly dumb and dangerous not to
have those cameras up and running. They're critical to safety, Dan,
Mom Dommy, like the Titanic is a real stinger.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
I expect to hear that more.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I'd love to talk about Donny Moore, but Mom, Donny Moore,
But I don't see the angle. I don't see the
tough angle. He's so obviously horrible for New York. He's
so obviously great for Republicans across the country, he's so
obviously bad for the Democratic Party across the country. I'm
just not sure I see the angle. But I'll talk
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about him as much as you want to, because this
is going to be this is going to be the
terrain wreck of all train wrecks. But this is what
the Democrats nationwide are emulating. This is where their energy is.
This is where their youth is. And by youth, I
say like uptage forty forty five and some older. This
is where they see their future. And they're going to
(34:08):
try to pedal socialism slash communism under the guise of
quote affordability. Right, that's their new messaging for socialism slash
communism is affordability. Yeah, it's going to cost a lot
less if you make Ryan pay for it, if you
make Ryan pay for your house and your car and
your transportation. Yeah, it's going to be a lot more
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affordable for you. But guess what, the golden goose isn't
going to last that long. And then where are we at?
Where with all those other places that are in the
dust bin of history? But wai, that is the future
of the Democratic Party, which is great news for America
in a lot of ways because it means the modern
Democratic Party will go away sooner as any kind of
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political force because they see the writing on the wall
on the left now, which is why they're resorting to
more and more of this violent imagery. Is they can
see they're not going to be winning at the ballot
box where they need to be. And yeah, so uh,
they see this as their future. And do you really
think Americans enough Americans are going to go there? And
they're betting on the kids, right, they're betting on two things.
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They're betting on use and they're betting on old people
who are understandably scared.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
So that's what they're betting on.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
That people will say at the end of the day,
they'll hold their nose and they'll go for socialism because
they're so concerned about their own situation.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
But they're betting wrong.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
I'd love to get your take on that, particularly if
you disagree three oh three seven one three eight two
five five takes d an five seven seven three nine.
I think the vast majority of senior citizens are so
committed that many are scared, understandably, but so committed to
the American ideal, and so many youth now are turning conservative.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Good thing.
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happy on a Friday afternoon. I sure hope you are
a beautiful weather looks what a weekend ahead? Oh my goodness,
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Front Range of Colorado. If you happen to be there,
it's where I am right now. Seventy one degrees tomorrow,
seventy on Sunday. Monday dips a little bit, but my goodness,
are coming up on Halloween, and dip means sixty two.
Doesn't look like we're going to get that usual Halloween crash.
So the kiddy should be a nice and comfortable when
they got in trick or treat and then it just
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stays nice and pretty much the same across the state.
Obviously going to be cooler up in the mountains, but
just a glorious fall weekend. Three oh three seven one
three eight two five five. The number text d an
five seven seven three nine, So imagine how pretty it's
going to be for Broncos Cowboys and what a total waste,
you know. And I don't blame ownership. We now have
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the best ownership in the NFL. But I blame the city.
I mean, Ryan, think about it, all the money you
spend on Chamber of Commerce stuff and everything else. And
picture Sunday afternoon. If you've been at Mile High Stadium,
you've been at a Bronco game, you know the view,
you know, the view looking west you know from that
stadium is magnificent. And so how has this city I've
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been calling for for decades? How has the city of Denver,
the state of Colorado not spend a few bucks to
put a high quality camera right on top of the
west side of that stadium and just feed that, feed
that to the networks. Let them use that as their
comeout shot instead of what do we get Now you
always get a picture of your over ie twenty five
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and you know into downtown, and that isn't exactly going
to boost tourism. So anyway, it's going to be a
glorious afternoon. And hey, if the lessons are learned from
last week's Bronco game, and they turn bo Nicks and
the offense loose and let athletes be athletes and play
football instead being over mechanized, overmanaged robots.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Then we're going to.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
See a tremendous Bronco game on Sunday three or three seven, one,
three eight, two five five text d an five seven, seven,
three nine. This is one of those Fridays where we've
had so many amazing things going on all week. I'd
be very happy to spend the day just chewing on
the best stuff, the best of the week. To me,
there are a few issues that really pop out from
(02:30):
the more serious stuff to the less serious stuff. But
I got the Supreme Court case right where the US
Supreme Court is going to decide whether regular marijuana users
lose their Second Amendment rights.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
That's the issue squarely in front of the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Obviously, big consequences for the state of Colorado that made
the disastrous mistake of legalizing marijuana.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So we got that going for us, as Bill Murray
would say.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
And then this business of the ballroom one of my
favorite topics of all time. You know that Trump doing
this great service to America and putting this big, beautiful
ballroom in. I love it because the Left has no
idea how much they're hurting themselves as they go out
now and try to turn this into armageddon. And so
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anybody who wants to talk about that, I would love to.
In fact, we have a texture here, Dan, can you
explain why President Trump, it says said the new ballroom
quote won't interfere with the current building.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It will be near it, but not touching it.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
It pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm
the biggest fan of. It's my favorite place. I love it.
That fair questions from Victor. Victor, I believe the President
thought that was true at the time he said it,
and then things changed.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
And my guess is Victor, like.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You Ryan, with at least three or four of the
different shooling estates and me and my own modest way,
we've all had contact with some kind of construction project, right,
and things change.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
They change all the time. They change in the concept phase,
they change.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
As soon as the project starts, they change when the
project's over.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
They just always change.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
So, yeah, I think he believed that to be true
when he said it, and then something changed. I think
people will find that it changed for the better. But
love to have that conversation because when you talk about
the East Wing, Yeah, White House.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It's part of the White House. So it's awesome because
it's part of the White House.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You know, the garbage room is part of the White House.
It's awesome because it's part of the White House. But
the East Wing nothing special other than being part of
the White House and really needs to be much more
than it currently is.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Can you think about this the center of power.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
On the planet in terms of anyone building and the
East Wing?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
What can they hold up? My guess having been in
there is probably one hundred people or so.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Maybe trumpets at seventy nine when they got the tables
in there.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, yeah, he did right. He got a big ballroom
at the White House.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And there's nothing else really distinguishable about the East Wing. Obviously,
so many changes have been made to the White House
over time. This is more Trump derangements syndrome. And I
love it because again it hurts the left and helps
us prepare for more victories after Trump leaves. The other
thing is it's going to be great to have there,
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can you How can you have a White House where
when you have a big event you have to put
tents out on the lawn.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Well, the funny parts and is when there's gonna there's
going to be another Democrat president at some point helped
very very long time from now. I don't know at
the present time. I can't see it, but it will happen.
Like Bill Clinton. Nobody thought after Jimmy Carter there'd be
another Republican president or Democrat president for like thirty years.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
But Bill Clinton broke through that mold.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
And my point is, Democrat president comes in, enjoys this
constructed ballroom, Yes, and they'll have no choice but to
kind of eat crow and grin and Barrett never admitted that.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
No, they weren't. We never admitted. But that is an
interesting question.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
When do you think we'll have the next Democrat Party president?
Because it's very clear and it's one of the fun
issues from the week. I'd love to kick around with
you a little bit. This Mom Donnie thing in New York.
Talk about a gift to the GOP and talk about
an anchor around the necks of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, he's going to win in New York.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
He is going to win in New York, and he
is going to do so much more to open eyes
to what the modern Democratic Party has really become. Because
he's not going to be treated as some kind of
outcast or pariah. He's he's going to be treated as
the future of the party because guess what, he is
the future of the party. But the future of the
party's at the bottom of the ocean. So he's the
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future of the party the way that Titanic was the
future of cruise lines.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
But that's where they're going. Look at it here in Colorado.
We're going to.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Play that sound from Phil Wiser today, and it's like Phil,
he hardly knew ye.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I mean, because Phil Wes he's.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
A lefty right so we're always going to disagree on
big issues. And I'm not going to vote from because
of the ideological stuff. But I said plenty of good
things about him on air because in contrast to Michael Bennett,
Phil Wiser is an accomplished guy. And you know, I
hope we don't have any lefty as our governor, but
if we end up with the lefty as governor, you
want it to be somebody who's actually accomplished, has gotten
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things done, et cetera, not a bump on the log
like Bennett. But Wiser today a complete intellectual sellout. When
Wiser today comes out and he calls for Colorado to
start redistricting oh Republicans out of their districts. That is
absolutely raked, right, But you know why he does it. First,
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he doesn't believe it. And this goes back to the
core truth people have to understand about the vast majority
of elected Democrats. They're living a lie, and they know
it because a vast majority of elected Democrats know abortion
as a matter of physiology, as a matter of medicine.
In fact, abortion is the violent taking of an innocent
human life, which just can't be morally justified as a
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public policy. They know that, but they decide to support
it so they can get and keep power. So that's
the truth about the vast majority Wiser, Poliss, Johnston, Biden,
all of them.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
But on this one you.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Can also be one thousand percent sure. Phil Wiser knows
that it would be fundamentally wrong for Colorado now to
start jerry mandarin so that they can come up with
new congressional districts that knock the Republicans out of their seats.
He knows that is wrong on every single level. Why
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is he supporting it. He's supporting it because he's way
behind in the governor's race. He's supporting it. And this
goes to the point I was just making about Mom, Donnie.
He's supporting it because he knows the crazy wacko looney left,
the openly socialist, if not communists left, is the future
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of the Democratic Party in Colorado and across America. And
that's why the future of the Democratic Party is at
the bottom of the ocean.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
But Phil Wiser wants power, so he's willing at this.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Point to grovel, to grovel before the hard left and say, hey,
look at me. It's kind of like that Madonna phase
we often talk about in the show Meeting Madonna in
his youth, who reached that phase? Remember that point, Ryan,
where just to get attention, everything she did was naked
and she got into the naked posing with animals face.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Even at the beginning, like her like a virgin performance.
It banned MTV in my household by my mom right
after we saw.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
That that serious stuff. But Phil has jumped the shark. He's
moved into the Madonna naked with animals phase. Phil Wiser
now wants to redistrict the Republicans out of office in Colorado.
You're on the Dan Capitliss Show.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
You think Colorado should redraw its map to create more
democratic seats.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Here's what I like to see happen, Kyle.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
I'd like to see us and we have to change
our constitution to do this, a break glass in case
of emergency. If you see other states breaking the norm
doing mid decade redistricting, give a mechanism so that we
can match it. And the important thing, by the way,
is by creating the possible mechanism, we also created a
determin effect. It will only happen if we need to
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because other states are doing it. Colorado can wait if
other states wait, But if other states are moving ahead,
we shouldn't put ourselves on the sidelines.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
We need to do our partner the worst of both worlds,
right A bozo?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, But and this is what's said to me because again,
unlike Bennett, who is just kind of an unaccomplished political blob,
Wiser is an accomplished guy. He has done some good
things at his office. I'm gonna talk about the ideological stuff.
I'm just saying he's a smart, accomplished guy. You don't
get to be a US Supreme Court clerk unless you
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are and so you watch people, and he's not the
only one in politics just sort of diminish themselves by
coming out and supporting things that that no honest person
would support, such as this kind of jerrymanderin right in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Because here's the point.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
You look at Colorado districts, and we know that Colorado
districts have not been politically jerry mandered against either party.
Now you can go to some other states and you
can make very credible arguments that the lines there have
been unfairly drawn against Republicans. You can make that argument
in an awful lot of states, but not in Colorado.
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So what Wiser is telling you is that he supports
doing something patently, blatantly unfair in order to benefit his
political party. That's what he's telling you. And he tries
to put this caveat on oh if other states do it,
But guess what, there are some other states where redrawing
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lines would be the proper, legal and just thing to do,
because they've been drawn in an artificial way to minimize
the representation of Republicans in Congress. So it's just it's
so beneath Wiser, it's so beneath accomplished people and we
just see it happen in politics all the time, and
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it's not going to work for him.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
If it would work for him, it wouldn't justify it.
But it's not going to work for him.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
He is the chief law enforcement officer attorney general in
this state. So if his mind Dan is on fairness
and he feels that what these Republican states are doing
is unfair, is unjust, his point then is two wrongs
make a right.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Well, sure, but he.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Knows better than that, because he knows when we talk
about the places where Republicans are seeking redistricting, there's a
very strong argument in favor of the redistricting. If we
go back to this fairness point and fair representation based
upon population and population distribution, then in Colorado you have
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to start with there's no beef in Colorado. It was
done by an independent board commission. You got the eighth district,
which is evenly drawn, and you can argue this should
be this or that should be that, but nobody can
argue that Colorado's lines have been politically drawn. No whereas
you go to some other states, you look at all
the states where you know forty percent.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Of the voters are GOP and they have no.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Republican Chusetts representatives Massachusetts, like.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Connecticut, your home state of Illinois is a joke. It
looks like a drunk person made a jigsaw puzzle. Yeah,
it's ridiculous. And it's before the Supreme Court in the
state of Louisiana because it's the same thing. In order
to get two majority black districts, they had to draw
this like long, convoluted kind of jigsaw puzzle piece in
order to join where there are black populations, some.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Of which are rural, some of which are urban.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
But because they are black, and only because they are black,
is the representation dictated. That is fundamentally unconstitutional in my mind,
and I believe the Supreme Court is going to find
that way as well.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
And this isn't going to work for Wiser. I mean,
it's not going to work for him. He's done in
this governor's race, and so again I think all he's
doing is diminishing himself.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Did you see, though, Dan, the money, the money raised,
He has raised more money than Michael Bennett.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Could you hand me your new coke?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Oh, that's right, you're not drinking it. No, Do you
know how much they spent to market coke. How much
did Jeff bushchev? But the money's deceptive, right, because you're correct, Ryan,
you're correct, you are a master of these facts. But
while he is reporting more of this publicly donated money
on hand, the big, big money, that the dark money
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is coming into Bennett. O great Bloomberg, didn't he just give.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
A half million to Bennett or or to one of
these packs supporting Bennett.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yes, So Bennett's going to have more money than he
can possibly spend, and if he spends it wisely, like
an organizational door knocking type stuff, I just don't see
how he loses. I'm not sure the endorsements matter the
way it has, but you look at the very cynical way,
and it's presumed legal, but it should be illegal that
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Bennett has been able to take this Senate seat which
belongs to the people, not to Michael Bennett, and he's
been able to use it as this lure to keep
people in line right here here, like holding a piece
of meat up above a pack you.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Know here here, Oh you want this, you want this? Well, behave,
behave and you might get this.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Behave and you might get this Senate seat that I'm
Michael Bennett, not the people. I'm going to decide who
gets this Senate seat once I'm elected governor. That's the
first of a thousand reasons he should not be elected governor.
Even the Denver Post ripped him on that. But that's
what he's doing, right, to try to keep people in
line so they have a shot at that Senate seat. Yeah,
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three at three he seven one three eight two five
five text d an five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And you want to know, it's so revealing.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
About Bennett and about hicken Looper, who they really are,
right that they pretend to be so enlightened and so
caring about women and people of color, and yet they
stand in the schoolhouse door. You know, we could have
we could have a US Senator of color. Now wouldn't
be the ideology I like, but would be a highly
(16:41):
qualified person such as Joan the Goose. You would have
a US Senator of color today. If Michael Bennett would
do the right thing and just say no, I'm going
to step down while I run for governor. Joan the
Goose would almost certainly get the appointment. If he didn't,
then Britney Petterson probably would, and then you'd have, you know,
your first woman US senator. So you got this old
(17:01):
white guy who's done absolutely nothing with all the power
he's been given for all these years, standing in the
schoolhouse door, blocking, you know, and ideologically wrong but otherwise
qualified woman or racial minority from being a US senator.
And then you got Hick and Luper doing the same thing.
All he does is take up space. I don't know where,
because I don't know if he even shows up at
(17:23):
his office, but all he does is take up space. So, yeah,
these phonies who pretend to care so much about equity
and equality while they just put their boots on the
neck of people trying to come up the latter people
who are far more competent and qualified than they are.
They're all wrong on ideology, but yeah, that's who they
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really are. Three all three seven one three eight two
five five the number techs d an five seven seven
three nine. I also want to talk to you about
what's going on at Casa Benita, because to me this
is so fascinating. Again, you've got a couple of guys
on the political left, the creators of South Park.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Oh, I don't know that they're on the left.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
They they've been kind of defined the term has been
south Park Libertarians.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Okay, so they take in the past at least they
take a chance of President Trump, not at all.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Okay, so very in there, just really quick. This is important.
I was trying to compliment them in Team America.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
They take aim at all the Hollywood actors that are
self important.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I can't stand. Okay, I was trying to compliment them. Anyway.
The point I was leading to was, Okay, I may.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Not agree with these guys politically, but they've done a
lot of good for Denver and a lot of good
for the area by resurrecting Casabanita.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
They bought it for three point one million. They put
about forty million into it.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
It's been a great service to our state. And now
the union's after them. There's some kind of irony here, right.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
The details will make you laugh. You're on the Dan
Capla Shop.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
And Brooke Shields is right in the middle of this
labor beef with Casita, and I'd love your thoughts on
this one because the way I look at it, like
I was saying before the break, is these South Park creators, right,
and they're no fans of Trump, so I'm sure we're
in opposite sides of most things.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Politically.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
They do this great service and they put forty million
into bringing Cassa Benita back and then they decide to
cut a few characters and all help breaksclusion. They're under
fire now from the union and you've got Brooks Shields.
How did Ryan? How did Brooke Shields get.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
In the middle all this? But they gotten out? They
got Brooke Shields after them. Let's find out.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Hey, Matt, and trying nice to meet you. As you know,
I'm the president of Actors and the Association, the union
that represents the performers who work for you at Casablanita.
You probably know that he's been in bargaining for their
first Gamian contracts for quite a while now, but maybe
you don't know that your restaurant management has been playing
(20:09):
really fast and loose with this bargaining process, and it's
just not respectful to performers who put their all into
making Kasabunia the one of a kind destination that it
is and that you created. And things are kind of escalating,
and I just want to say that these workers are
not making a living made the actually not and in fact,
(20:34):
they are being paid less than their co workers who
are actually serving the food.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
And you know that's before you factor in tips.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
So they've not only been harder arc entertaining Cassabanina guests
and spending their volunteer hours and bargaining, they've also been
putting their names on a petition. So I hope you
see that petition, and I do hope you take a
serious and take seriously their requests for you to accept
the proposed contract so that we can all put this
(21:06):
chapter way behind us, because without the performers who bring
Cassibanita to life, it's.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Just a big pain restaurant. It's time to do the
right thing. Please agree to a full contract.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
And so he's enabled these performers to focus on providing
the world class experience Calsabonita's guests expect, I deserve, and
have them get him.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Let me be the first to say the performers are
great at Cassabanita. I mean like really really good, and
I wish nothing but the best for him. But I
think the guys who put forty mili into redoing the
restaurant should get to make the call on how they
want to staff it. So as I understand the beef,
and this is just what I'm pulling from some research.
(21:57):
You've got that union Actor's Equity Association and accusing the
South Park Creators of illegally cutting over one thousand hours
of shift for character performers without engaging in bargaining. Now
here's the key rine it removes. Characters like Captain Isabella
(22:18):
and Sheriff are now being removed.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
And so that's a little bit hard to stomach.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
But these guys owned it. These guys put the forty
mili into it. Seems to me they should get to
make that decision.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I'm reading to you.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I'm reading to you from the website of Actors' Equity
and it says, in part management at Ksubanita faces a
rapidly unionizing workforce. In the last year, IATSE has organized
arcade workers and crew and they are preparing for an
upcoming election for one hundred and fifty plus servers, bussers,
(22:56):
front of house and guest service workers managers retaliation against
the unionized.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Roaming character performers.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
So they're saying they're retaliating against black Bird, Captain Isabella,
Amazon Annie.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
And the Sheriff.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Apparently so well, you would think that black Bard, Captain
Isabella Amazon, Annie and the sheriff could defend himself. Right,
last people should try to retaliate against Dan.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
How many times have you been to the newly refurbished
Casabanita with Matt and Trey in charge?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Once? One time? Yep? What did you think? Loved it?
You enjoyed it? Yeah? Who are you there with Amy
and the kids? Amy?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Caroline a friend of Caroline's. Joe was at school. But
Amy's been taken Joe and Caroline since they were born. Right, Hey,
this is a big part of Amy's youth is Casabanita.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
But will she say or will you say, having compared
this version to the old one, that it's markedly better now?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
No? No, he is She and the kids would say
that absolutely right? Had you got this old one before?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I mean, what the food was mostly good for was
taking home and using as a hammers. But I thought
the food was good. I thought it was quite nowhere,
the food's really good. Have you been to this new
La Loma right down the street here?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Well, I don't want to give away too much information,
but it's very close to me.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Oh, you're still in your stunt.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
No, No, I've been there actually what they're your buddies,
Brackler and Reems not that long ago courtesy of Alexa.
Thanks to still There, I would have never left. I mean,
it's a phenomenal place and it's.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Packed very good. Oh my yeh goodness.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
No, it's top notch and really good beef for the money. Agree,
And this is more my speed than yours, I think.
But they've got really high end tequila for the margaritas
and such.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Really nice. Yeah, it is more your speed. And the
sad thing is I could drink you and everybody else
under the table. I just don't. Don't two beers all year. Well, see,
beers and tequila's are one of different animals. But Ryan, I.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Had a mentor in the law business. I were Roth Gerber, great, great,
great man. He was very close to Justice White, so
I got to spend some quality time around Justice White.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah. Nice.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
And I really liked Scotch and so I you can
bring me all the Scotch in Denver, all thet and
I could do it during the next hour and you
probably would no effect. Yeah, it's weird. I just don't
like you know, I love drinking it. I love drinking beer.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
The problem I have is this.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I can do it without any visible signs of intoxication,
which doesn't mean I would drive. I don't drink and
drive because I don't drink, and I wouldn't drove if
I drink.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
But here's the point.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
The next day, when I get up, I feel a
little sluggish. Yeah, and I feel like I lose maybe
about five percent sure, and I don't want.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
To lose five percent. I get it. You're right, you
are correct.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
I need every bit of horsepower I have on the
wish I had more or I don't.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Want to lose five percent. Was the last time you
had a margarita? That would have been? Do you believe
in reincarnation? I don't. But do you think you've had
prior lives? Because I have not had one. I'm an agnostic.
I don't really have not had one in this life.
I've been, I've been beer wine.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
You've not had you have not in your X years.
I won't say to the public, had ever? Have you
ever had a margarita?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Know ed Margarita? Have an out?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
In my own amy hasn't got well the latter, okay,
But to Margarita man in Mexico, you.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Know my new year's resolution is to drink more, and
I hope to fulfill that next year.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Okay, okay, well you never meant.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, you and Amy go to a nice Mexican restaurant
like ploma and.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Maybe Amy has a Margarita. She goes, hey, Dan, when
I'm margarita too, and you serve for life? Oh? I
tell her to mine. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
But all I'm saying is this Lo Loma. And we're
in the Denver studio today, so it's out in the
Denver Tech Center. But the new Lo Loma out there
is really good. But to bring us back to our
friends at cost Beita. So you got the union talking
about how they're unionizing everybody, right ye, And I wonder
if you have the Casa Beanita owners, the South Park
creators sitting there thinking no good deed goes unpunished.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Yeah. Yeah, And listen, I'm not trying to fault these
hard working people.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Because when we're at Casabanita, it ran great, and I
assume every single person working there from the front door
to washing dishes is doing a great job. And so
I I want working people paid fully right of people
like you and me and the people at Casabanita. So
I'm not criticizing them. I'm just saying the guys who
(27:38):
put the forty million into the place are probably feeling
a little squeezed right now. When Brooks shield says you
can't fire black Bart, that's a great comment. Captain Isabella
on the Instagram video post that Brookshield's had, I think
this user is correct.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
He says, well, you just.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Wrote the next episode of South Park, So I think
Brookshields may have written herself into a targets of their
animated aims.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I wonder if she'll.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
End up on South Park in bed with Donald Trump, right,
because that's their latest thing, is putting people in bedver Trump.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Good Dan, that's right. Usually Satan though.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Texter, Dan, get over yourself. You're not immune to alcohol.
I never claim to be holy col Yeah, yeah, Dan, careful.
Boots on the Neck is from Ken Salazar. Always give
him credit. I'm not sure of that reference. Dan is
an East Denver longtime resident. I'm still devastated by the
billups allegations.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Do you have an update?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I do not that big an update, but to me
an interesting one. We'll get to that after the break.
And I do want to ask you this question. We're
covering all this all these interesting topics of the week today,
Chauncey billups. Should there be some visible show of support
from him from the people of Denver? Assuming I'm guilty
and he's presumed innocent, but assume he's guilty, and I
(28:53):
don't even if he is guilty, Should there be some
visible show of support not for his bad behavior if
he's guilty, but for all the good he's done.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
You're on the Dan Caplas Show.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Very very direct.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I thought one of the more articulate denials we've seen
from counsel for an accused in a while, because he
got into detail and I'm paraphrasing, but he just said, hey,
wait a second, you think Chauncey Phillips is going to
risk everything, including his.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Freedom for this? Really? So you have very very.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Direct denial, at least from council at this point. Now,
at the same time, you know, there's growing analysis suggesting
that Phillips may have been involved in feeding information on
the basketball side to gamblers, but nothing charged on that front.
And so my question to you is is more of
a kind of general philosophical one, and I do presume
(29:57):
him innocent, truly until we see the evidence against him
roll out pun not intended, but assume for a second
that he is guilty of these charges of, you know,
using his celebrity status to lure victims into fixed card games.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
On behalf of the mop, do you.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Think that Denver and Colorado should express its in some tangible, coordinated,
organized way, express support for all the good things he's done,
not of course for any bad acts, but for all
the good things he's done. Three oh three seven one
three A two five five the number text d A
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N five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I think it was Zach Seegers, who works with the
sometimes filling on this show on this side of the Glass.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, and also were at KOA.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
He's plugged in the sports scene reportedly and apparently Dan
following up at what you just said, Chauncey Bellops while
exiting the court was wearing Lebron James gear of some sort,
and some people were taking that as kind of a
hint that maybe a warning shot to Lebron, like maybe
come have my back on this or you might go
(31:10):
down with me.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I don't know, That's just.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
What I was like, kind of Stephen A. Smith analysis
or trying to not Zach. Zach is a sharp cat. Way,
Zach is a sharp cat, but yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
And Stephen A.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Smith trying to blame this on Trump, but hey, the
investigation started under Biden. Ryan, how generous of you. I'm
sure this is you. Pentagon accepts anonymous one hundred and
thirty million dollars donation to help pay the military during
government shutdowns.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Apparently I should do some.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Friend of President Trumps, and I'm a good friend of his,
I would like to take some calls and text on
this whole East wing business, because again, I think it's
so much helps Trump and hurts the left. But if
somebody disagrees, love to have the conversation. I truly can't
even begin to wrap my mind around what the objection is.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I know it's jarring to see any.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Part of the White House get demolished, right because I
think on a visceral level, it brings back imagery from
say nine to eleven or other times when we've seen
very important buildings get destroyed.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
But this is so different.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I mean, what Trump is doing is smart, and it's
great for America, and it's all being funded with private money.
It's like all upside, and then you get the laugh
treating the East wing as if it's some sort of
hallowed ground where anybody who's ever been there knows it's not.
(32:29):
It's not the Oval Office, it's not the West Wing.
It's it's just kind of there, and it's undersized, and
it doesn't really fulfill the role. Dan, I'm as privacy
oriented as it gets, but the I seventy quarter must
have cameras for the sake of law enforcement and first responders.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yeah. That one of the interesting issues from the week is.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
It's all of a sudden, now you're loosing a bunch
of those cameras along the Mountain Corridor. And then Ryan,
as you know, we've had some of our textures and
callers are very suspicious that those are being pulled politically
by the left that runs this state because of concerns
that ICE may be able to use these cameras. I'm
not aware of any evidence backing that up, but maybe
(33:10):
there's something out there that I missed. All I know
is this, it is incredibly dumb and dangerous not to
have those cameras up and running. They're critical to safety, Dan,
Mom Dommy, like the Titanic is a real stinger.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
I expect to hear that more.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I'd love to talk about Donny Moore, but Mom, Donny Moore,
But I don't see the angle. I don't see the
tough angle. He's so obviously horrible for New York. He's
so obviously great for Republicans across the country, he's so
obviously bad for the Democratic Party across the country. I'm
just not sure I see the angle. But I'll talk
(33:46):
about him as much as you want to, because this
is going to be this is going to be the
terrain wreck of all train wrecks. But this is what
the Democrats nationwide are emulating. This is where their energy is.
This is where their youth is. And by youth, I
say like uptage forty forty five and some older. This
is where they see their future. And they're going to
(34:08):
try to pedal socialism slash communism under the guise of
quote affordability. Right, that's their new messaging for socialism slash
communism is affordability. Yeah, it's going to cost a lot
less if you make Ryan pay for it, if you
make Ryan pay for your house and your car and
your transportation. Yeah, it's going to be a lot more
(34:29):
affordable for you. But guess what, the golden goose isn't
going to last that long. And then where are we at?
Where with all those other places that are in the
dust bin of history? But wai, that is the future
of the Democratic Party, which is great news for America
in a lot of ways because it means the modern
Democratic Party will go away sooner as any kind of
(34:51):
political force because they see the writing on the wall
on the left now, which is why they're resorting to
more and more of this violent imagery. Is they can
see they're not going to be winning at the ballot
box where they need to be. And yeah, so uh,
they see this as their future. And do you really
think Americans enough Americans are going to go there? And
they're betting on the kids, right, they're betting on two things.
(35:14):
They're betting on use and they're betting on old people
who are understandably scared.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
So that's what they're betting on.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
That people will say at the end of the day,
they'll hold their nose and they'll go for socialism because
they're so concerned about their own situation.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
But they're betting wrong.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
I'd love to get your take on that, particularly if
you disagree three oh three seven one three eight two
five five takes d an five seven seven three nine.
I think the vast majority of senior citizens are so
committed that many are scared, understandably, but so committed to
the American ideal, and so many youth now are turning conservative.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Good thing.
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