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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're on the Dan Kaplis Show. I'm Christy Burton Brown.
Thanks for joining us for this second hour. I was
excited when I read on Twitter earlier this week about
how many hour minutes actually I think of sunshine we're
going to gay over the next thirty days. It was
like fifty four minutes over the next thirty days. So
I'm always excited about that. In the middle of winter,
when you hit like the darkest night of the year,
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and then from there it builds back. I think, you know,
it's why a lot of people choose to live here
in Colorado. We love the sunshine. We like to be outside.
So I am looking forward to that growing and getting
even better, especially since we're now past Christmas and into
a new year, which is some of the best time
of the year. But we'll take our sunshine back. That'd
be a good thing. Speaking of good things, a thing
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that's not so good is the swearing in of zoron
MOMDAMMI in New York City. It was definitely a hit
on by a lot of media today. I mean, if
you turn on Fox News right now, it's what they're
talking about. CNN, you know, of course, is talking about
Trump Epstein dots. You see a big divergence in topics
of conversation if you look at the different news channels.
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But I think one of the questions out there is
will twenty twenty six be the year for democrat socialists
to take power in more races and more things, or
will it be the year that democratic socialism is actually
seen as the friend to communism that it actually is.
And I think despite Zorn mam Dami getting, you know,
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a pretty decent vote count in New York City, being
pretty persuasive to the voters up there, I think New
York City is not going to see a successful era
with Democrats, socialism, and really communism taking control of one
of America's major cities. He may be charismatic, he may
be a good speaker, but his way of governing is
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not an American way of governing governing. It just isn't.
I'm going to play you this clip where he basically
criticizes one of the key factors of Americanism, which is individualism.
He prefers collectivism, which is a big word communists love
to use the world over. You've heard so many dictators,
so many heroes that communism would claim as heroes. Americans
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would call them dictators and oppressors using that word, so
hear it for yourself from his own lips.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
We will draw this city closer together. We will replace
the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.
If our campaign demonstrated that the people of New York
yearn for solidarity, then let this government foster it. Because
no matter what you eat, how you pray, or where
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you come from, the words that most define us are
the two we all share New Yorkers.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, what's funny. That's a side note is he said
in there no matter what you eat. But the New
York Post had an article today. Our may have been
late yesterday after his swearing in, and the headline said,
zoron mom Dommy fans disappointed by disastrous block party with
no food or bathrooms. So his swearing in, which did
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attract thousands of people in a giant city, had no
food anywhere and no bathrooms anywhere. And this whole article
by the New York Post goes goes into quoting his
supporters saying, Oh, if I'd known that there was no food,
no bathrooms it was going to be this cold, I
would have just watched it from home. It talked about
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how many people it couldn't even get a close up
view and had to go away in the back and
literally just did it out in the freezing cold to
hear him give a speech. So I just think it's
funny when I don't necessarily think you have to have
food that you're swearing in, but it's just funny when
you're basically a communist and you like to talk about
government run grocery stores and government feeding people, and no
matter what food you eat, were on your side, you
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talk about food all the time, but there's no food
at your party and your supporter are complaining about it.
I just think that's funny because hello, of his supporters
are expecting the government to feed them based on his
own claims, and he can't even feed them at his
own swearing and way to start, which is a perfect
illustration of communism itself. It always promises bread, right like,
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we're gonna feed you, we're gonna take care of you,
and then you create the Soviet breadlines, where like no
one is actually getting what government is promising to them. So,
you know, Bernie Sanders spent some of his time at
the swearing end ceremony talking about, you know, how much
he loves government run grocery stores. I just I can't
even believe this is what we're talking about in one
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of America's biggest cities, the government running a grocery store. Like,
come on, Like, where are we coming up with these ideas?
Like the government can't even run healthcare well, the government
can't even run schools well, and now we want it
to run the basic necessities of life and be the
one to give people or not give people food. I
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just can't even believe that this is what we're talking
about in one of America's biggest cities. But hey, when
people fail to do their own historical research, when people
aren't educated well by the public school system and think that,
you know, let's just believe what a charismatic politician tells
us he's going to do for us, and rely on
the government to provide our lives and our basic necessities
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for us. I guess New York City gets to be
the example to the nation and let everyone get an
inside view to what, at least communism light looks like
in New York City. If you have thoughts, you can
call in any time. Three Zho three seven, one, three eight,
two five five or texture thoughts to Dan at five
seven seven three nine. I'm Christy Burton Brown, happy that
you're joining today. Let's listen to another clip from zoron
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mom Dami. Here he openly admits that he will definitely
be ruling New York City as a socialist.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We will govern without shame and insecurity, making no apology
for what we believe. Elected as a democratic socialist, and
I will govern as a democratic socialist. I will not
abandon my principles for fear of being deemed radical. As
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the great Senator from Vermont once said, what's radical is
a system which gives so much to so few and
denies so many people the basic necessities of life.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Hmmm, Well, the only way that you think the system
denies people the basic necessities of life is if you
think it's a government's responsibility to give people the basic
necessities of life. And that just isn't how we've ever
run our nation as Americans. Is that, Oh, the government
has to be the one to feed you, to put
clothes on your back. No, go out there and get
a job and work for what you have, Go provide
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for your family. And if you are having a tough
time doing it. There are plenty of churches, communities and
non profits who step alongside you and do give that
to you when you're going through a hard time. And
as I've said before, and I said a little bit
earlier on the show, I think one of the biggest
misconceptions about conservatives is that we don't think people should
be taken care of who are poor. We absolutely do.
We just don't think government is the best one to
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do it, because government wrecks what they try to build,
and government just simply isn't the best at giving people
what their needs are. Communities do that a lot better. Nonprofits,
charity donations do that a whole lot better. And then
I do think it's very interesting when you have the
Democrat socialists or the communists whatever they want to call
themselves today and tomorrow and whatever. You know, they call
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themselves by different names depending on what country they're in.
You can't really call yourself a communist in America and
expect to get elected, But you can have the exact
same principles and call yourself a democratic socialist and occasionally
get elected. But they do always love to claim that
the rich don't pay their fair share. Well, the Tax
Foundation has put out some really interesting numbers on federal
income tax levels and who actually is paying federal taxes.
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I think this is important to actually understand the numbers.
So it's you know, facts matter a whole lot more
than claims that people love to make. So here are
some of the basic facts. Ninety seven percent of federal
individual income taxes are paid by the top fifty percent
of earners. Only three percent of federal individual income tax
is paid by the bottom fifty percent only three percent,
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and then the top one percent in the United States
pay a tax rate at the federal level six times
higher than the bottom fifty percent. You cannot take those
numbers and say that wealthy people are not paying taxes
in America. Like literally, if you look at the income
individual income structure tax structure, your percentage goes up with
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your level of income. Like that is actually how federal
taxes work. It doesn't work that way in a state
like Colorado. We have a flat tax that applies to everyone.
And actually think that's a better system. But you can't
actually claim that rich people aren't paying more than their
fair share. Isn't true. It sounds nice. I guess to
people like zoron Mom Dommy who want to talk about
claims instead of facts. But he should actually get his
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facts straight and stop claiming the people who have money
aren't paying for other people's lives because they actually are.
All right, I'm on the You're on the dan Capla Show.
I'm Christy Burton Brout. I'm gonna take a break. You
can call it if you'd like three oh three seven
one three eight two five five Brown. Good to have
you on with us again. You can call in any
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time three oh three seven one three eight two five
five or text your thoughts to five seven seven three nine.
We've been talking about democratic socialism or communism in New
York City with their new mayor who just got sworn in.
And I'm gonna go to the phone lines now and
talk to let's see, I'm gonna talk to Mike on
line one. Welcome to the dan CAPLA Show. Mike, are
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you there?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
There you are?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
You can hear me?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Sorry.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I actually was gonna bring up the Excel power shutdowns.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Oh yeah, and I wanted to bounce.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Something of you for people who have people who have
health issues that require electricity. You know oxygen or other
health issues, doesn't. Doesn't the fact that Excel has a
monopoly give them a duty to provide reliable electric service
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to people like that?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I mean, I think that's a big question that a
lot of people have asked, and they definitely do have
a monopoly in a lot of areas of the state.
I think, you know, they would claim that they don't
have that responsibility because people can get generators, they can
get back up oxygen. That's what they always say whenever
they're asked about it. But you know, I think it's
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really roughish.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Yeah, And I mean, to me, I think the expectation,
certainly with the public, since you give monopoly power, is
that it needs to be reliable power to this standard
that has been set for generations is we don't just
get our power turned off when it's windy, right, And
so to that point, couldn't I just install a whole
house backup generator and then send Excel the invoice and
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then when they refuse to pay it, take a small
claims court.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I mean, I think there's a lot of people who
feel like they should be able to do that. To
be honest with you, I don't think it would work
in court because I think, you know, they don't necessarily
have the responsibility to provide backups for people. I think
the coursesm would most likely see that people you know,
are probably responsible for their own backups. But I think
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the problem is that people don't have multiple choices that
I think that's probably kind of what you're talking about.
Whenever there's a monopoly, people have to accept the service
they're given, whether it's a good service or not. And
that's why technically our government isn't supposed to be allowing
monopolies on anything, and certainly not on energy.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Well, I think it makes sense economically to have to
have a big electricity producer, but the expectation and the
duty of that monopoly what goes along with it is
you have to be reliable and you have to provide
it to the expected level of service that people have
become accustomed to. So to me, I would just encourage
anybody who's in that situation at least by a battery backup.
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You know, I spend a couple hundred bucks, send excel,
the send Excel the bill, and when they refuse it,
if they get enough small claims courts, I mean, what's
to stop a small claims court from saying, hey, Excel,
you got to pay these guys four hundred dollars to me. Yeah,
it seems like a judge might find that to be reasonable.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I mean, you know, I think you never really know
until you try and see what different judges think. But
but I do think in general, there's probably a difference
between what a court might see as reliable energy and
what the expectation is. Like that's kind of the question,
like does reliable energy come with an expectation that a
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company can't shut it off if they think the wind
is a wildfire risk that would put even more people
in danger. And I'm not saying that I think Excel
did the right thing or handled it right. I actually
have a lot of problems with the way that they
handle things. But I think I'm saying those are like
the analysis that a court would go through. It's like,
what does it mean to be reliable? What expectations do
people actually have? And are they required to provide energy
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one hundred percent of the time even when there is
a potentially bigger danger out there? And who gets to
decide the danger, who gets to measure it? It's probably
an open ended question. That hasn't really been answered, and
how does.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
It get answered except for if it's going to be
in front of a judge. So people need to start,
you know, complaining because we have time on our side.
How many decades has Colorado provided reliable electric service even
when it's windy, And now all of a sudden they're
changing the rules to the game, and it's not cool.
It's affecting people's lives, you know, especially people who are vulnerable. Who.
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That's who democrats particularly pick out is Oh sure who?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
So to me, it's just I would encourage people to
think about to whatever degree they're capable, you know, to
get to excel one way or another with a lawsuit
in small claims court or or however it comes about.
And that's uh, thank you very much for your take
on that. I wanted to hear it from from an
attorney who could provide a little more insight.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
No, thanks Mike for calling in. Appreciate your thoughts, and
I think a lot of people share your concerns. All right,
You've bet on the Dan Kapla show and I'm going
to go to Joe online too. Welcome.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Hey, how you doing today, I'm good?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
How are you good.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Yeah, I think the problem Per's gonna run into with
taking a small claims court. You don't have a contract
with your provider. It's just an agreement.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
And what would you see as the difference in the
contract and agreement.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
I'm curious, Well, it's all legal, Uh right, don't have
They don't have.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
A duty to provide you with like they would for
the contract. They just have an agreement they're going to
charge you for the power you use.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, it's like a service provider basically, where they tend
to hold all the power in the contract. Yeah, that's
typically true. Mm hmmm. Yeah, And I honestly I haven't
reviewed like what people sign when they sign up for Excel,
but I do think you know, almost always when you're
dealing with a monopoly or or a company that covers
the majority of the state and you don't really have
other options for services, they do have big nancy lawyers
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that write all those agreements for them and give them
a whole lot of loopholes, which is why I think
we did see them shut off power and say they
could do it for wind reasons. I had those kind
of exceptions tend to be built into their contracts or
agreements that they have with people.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Well, they did it to protect and sells from liability.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Right, because I think of the big lawsuits that have
come out from like wildfires and other things like that.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Oh California and the one up your Superior. Yeah, we're
talking bill millions of dollars. If they're putting out, they're
just going power off.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
So don't happen again, right, No, exactly, And I think
it does put people in a really rough spot. And
I mean I think in all fairness it probably it's
a company in a rough spot too, because like you
keep getting tons of billion dollar judgments against you and
you're not gonna be able to operate anymore. And then
do people even where does their power come from? So
it is this kind of gray area of like how
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far is too far? So I think that's a you know,
it'll open in a question that maybe will get solved
in courts and maybe it won't. But thanks to Joe
and Mike for calling in. All right, Eric, I will
bring you in online one. Welcome to the Dan Kapla show.
We have like exactly one minute before I have to
go to a hard break.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
I'll make it fast as far as that goes with
the power I work up in Evergreen, they shut down
the power. The problem is they need to put in
protections for these power companies. Because of a natural event
causing a fire, it's not their fault. Sue them for
net legs. Do not sue them because the tree fells.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Right.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
If that's the case, then maybe they'll let people cut
down temper so that doesn't cause a fire, mitigate the forest.
That would be.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Nice to the number two.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Then they would have to shut down everything. People have
pro paint tanks up there left and right. If we're
gonna have a lightning storm, should that person now remove
their pro paint tank or eat? What about people that
smoke cigarettes? Are you gonna ban those? There's gotta be
a point where at least these power companies have protections
to provide service full time. If they're negligentsume them. If
they're not negligent, they shouldn't be hell liable.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, I think it's a very balanced physician. Thank you
for calling in and offering that. I appreciate it. I
think you're right on that, and that's what we see
with a lot of medical malpractice too. It's the same
kind of idea when you can get these giant and
giant judgments, then people pay more and get worse services
or service gets cut off. So just like there should
be like tort reform and their medical malpractice reform, there
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should be a whole lot of energy reform as well.
So good points. Thanks all for calling in if you
have thoughts, calling over the break through A three seven
one three eight two five five or text Dan at
five seven seven three nine. I'm Christy Burton Brown. You're
on the Dan Kaplo Show. Burton Brown. Thanks for our
callers who called in last segment to talk about the
energy shut off from Excel, and I think what the
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implications of that are. Will the court ever decide what
their responsibility is and do some of the laws need
to be changed as for ours suing energy companies, which
often leads to them doing these proactive shut offs, which
puts people in a rough scenario, so complicated situation all around.
What I think what it reminds me of, though, is
the recent rules guidelines what everyone call them, from the PUC,
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the Public Utilities Commission that targeted natural gas. I think
in the same way that a lot of people have
reactions to what Excel does in shutting off power on
people for days because of you know, supposed wind and
wildfire risk, and they're taking extra caution to make sure
they won't be liable for billions of dollars. And like
I said, putting people in a rough place a whole
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their energy issue is going to come up I think
for the people of Colorado over the next few years
with natural gas. A lot of us have natural gas
that powers at least some of our homes heating, perhaps
your stove, fireplaces. Natural gas is definitely used throughout Colorado,
and the Public Utilities Commission put out or ruling just
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a couple of weeks ago that said, over the next
ten years, utility companies that provide the natural gas have
to you know, reduce emissions carbon emissions decarbonization by forty
one percent, which is a very high target, and then
it has to be completely eliminated by twenty fifty so
this is in another within twenty five years, they have
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to completely eliminate it. What that means, in effect, is
that the Public Utilities Commission is banning natural gas in
Colorado because you'll see, you know, maybe some companies hold
out and hope that well, you know, since it is
until twenty to fifty, maybe this will get reversed, maybe
it'll get changed, and so they'll push until the very
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end to you know, push customers into a change. But
what you'll actually see, probably from far more companies, is
a push to get consumers and homeowners onto a switch
from natural gas much much sooner in order to meet
these targets, because the forty one percent target is quite
difficult according to a number of companies and utilities as well,
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and that has to be instituted in the next ten years.
This isn't something that happens overnight, and in order to
change it, you literally have to either replace the heating device,
the stove, the range, the fireplace, or the connectors. And
if you look into how much this costs, it costs
the average person between twelve and twenty five thousand dollars
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to replace this in their home. And when you look
at some of the older homes in Colorado, which is
where a lot of the poorer working class people live,
it costs thirty to fifty thousand dollars to make it
change because of the current connections and equipment that they have.
And so I think this is really going to come
up as a huge energy issue in Colorado. Excel shutoffs
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are a big issue where people feel very passionately about.
They think it puts people in a really tough spot.
But banning natural gas in Colorado is going to be
a giant issue now. The voters of Washington State saw
this as a big issue coming up in their state
and with their Utilities Commission recently, and in twenty twenty four,
they actually passed a ballot measure that stopped their Public
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Utilities Commission from banning natural gas. They actually gave the
people the state of Washington a right to use natural
gas as it is a common energy source, and so
they basically stopped the state from restricting people and saying, oh,
you can only use like electricity that's powered by solar
and wind, which is that's kind of what they're trying
to do here in Colorado now. But Washington, which is
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even more liberal state than Colorado if you look at
voting records, and people of the state actually passed a
bill giving themselves as consumers the right to use natural
gas this past I think it only passed by like
two or three percentage points, but it's still passed in Washington,
which is a very like environmentally focused state. You say,
it's a very green state, very liberal state. But when
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the issue was drove home for people and they said, oh, like,
our utilities Commission and our states and our governments, our
local governments are actually going to stop us from heating
our homes with natural gas, from cooking with natural gas.
And if you remember back a few years, like natural
gas was actually supported by environmentalists as a very clean
form of energy. This is a flip that they've made
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saying that, oh, now we can't even use natural gas.
It used to be recognized as like the clean form
of energy, and now the definition of clean energy and
renewables like consistently turns over and changes, which should be
one reason that it can't really be relied on. But
the real point is the impact this is going to
make to people. If we think power shutoffs that happen
over a period of days have a real impact on people,
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and they absolutely do. Banning natural gas in the state,
which is what the Public Utilities Commission has put us
on the road to and basically said, by twenty fifty
it's going to be banned. You're not gonna be able
to use it anymore. In your home. I think when
that is really driven home for people and they see
the cost implications, and you know, there's probably gonna be
some utility companies, some energy companies that say they're going
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to be the ones to pick up the cost. Do
you really think they pay the cost for you without
passing it on to you in your monthly bill? Like
they don't. And so if you're a customer who doesn't
have natural gas and your utility company or your energy
company decides to cover the cost to replace gas pumps
with electric pumps for some of their customers, but you
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already have an electric pump, like, your bill is going
to go higher because you're going to be paying for
the change for all the other customers on the list.
So basically, in effect, banning natural gas is going to
make everyone's energy bills go up in Colorado. And you know,
we're already are top of the nation for like home
insurance premiums and healthcare costs and crime and all these
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other metrics that Colorado doesn't you shouldn't want to be
top of the nation for, but we are in the
top you know, five to ten to two states depending
on the issue. Our energy prices are about to soar
to with the Public Utilities Commission practical ban on natural gas.
So you know, since we were talking about energy in
the last segment, I think in natural gas is going
to be the new thing to really talk about in
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energy because it's going to have a big impact on people,
and as always impacting, I think middle class and working
families the worst, which are the people who the Liberal
party in charge, who appointed the people all the Public
Utilities Commission, all of them were appointed by Governor Polis.
They claim to want to be on the side of
working class people to make life more affordable in Colorado,
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and then their appointees on commissions past rules that make
life far harder to afford for people in Colorado. Like
I said, it is a twelve to twenty five thousand
dollars cost for the average home in Colorado to make
this switch, a thirty to fifty thousand dollars increased cost
to make the switch away from natural gas for the
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older homes where a lot of working class families live
in Colorado. And again, if you think your utility or
energy company is gonna pick up the cost, they may
say that, but it's gonna be passed on to you
in monthly bills. Whether or not you're one of the
people with natural gas, you're gonna be paying for everyone
else to make this switch in Colorado. If a change
doesn't happen, You're on the Dan Kapli Show. I'm Christy
Burton Brown. Thanks for tuning in. We've covered quite the
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range of issues today, from public safety at the beginnings
of predictions for the legislative session, Zoron mom Dami's swearing
in in New York City, and the rise of democratic
socialism really just another name for communism in one of
the biggest cities in the United States, and then now energy.
I did find this this, I guess passage written by
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Bishop Robert Baron that I thought was really interesting in
the context of Zoron Mamdami's inaugural address. So I'm actually
going to read it to you and then we're going
to take a break. Here's what he says. He says,
there was a line from Zoron Mandami's inaugural address yesterday
that took my breath away. He said he intended to
replace quote the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth
of collectivism end quote. Collectivism in its various forms is
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responsible for the deaths of at least one hundred million
people in the last century. Socialist and communist forms of
government around the world today Venezuela, Cuban, North Korea, etc.
Are disastrous. Catholic social teaching has consistently condemned socialism and
has embraced the market economy, which people like Mayor Mamdami
caricature as rugged individualism. In fact, it is the economic
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system that is based upon the rights, freedom, and dignity
of the human person. For God's sake, spare me the
warmth of collectivism, which I think is a powerful statement
from a religious leader. I would, of course argue that
that's like the American view, not uniquely a Catholic view,
but the American view. Evangelical subscribe to it. Americans actually
have all or no religion, subscribe to it because it's
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part of just being an American. But I certainly appreciate
when religious leaders are willing to stand up there and say, hey,
here's one of the many reasons this is a dangerous
perspective for a mayor of the biggest city in the
US to have. I'm Christy Burton Brown, You're on the
dan capla show calling over the break three oh three seven, one,
three eight, two five five. Welcome back to the Dan
Capla Show. I'm Christy Burton Brown, and you're tuning into
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the last segment of our show today. I'm going to
go to the phone lines and bring in Michael. Thank
you for calling into Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Hello.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
I got to tell you it's much more pleasant listening.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
To you than Dan, so kept my hat to you.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
I got three issues, and I wasn't going to call
my very last.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Thing, and now you call us.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
I got three points I would like to make it.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
So okay, let's see if we through them.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Most important is this issue about this communism that's kind
of creeping into our whole system. These judges, these lawyers,
the politicians. I roll it back to way back when
I listened to you know, started listening to talk radio
when Alan Berg was still on. And I'll never forget
(28:23):
Mike Rosen came on sometime in the middle nineties and
he says Colorado University when they surveyed and researched the
records on the professors all across the board and Colorado
University at that time, there was ninety three percent of
them were registered Democrats. And there's our problem because as
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long as our university keeps cranking out these lawyers that
are liberals become district attorneys that let the criminals back
out on the street. We got the people that run Congress.
Half of those guys are you know. That's until we
change that setup. We're going to get everything from elementary
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teachers teaching our children and help from elementary school all
the way to the college. And you've heard so many
times that when their children go to college, that's when
they flipped from being mom and dad and maybe at
least on the conservative side a little bit. That's when
they flip them over and they come out and they're
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transgender Democrats.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Oh sure, well, and there was to your point. There
was a recent study that was breaking down the political
affiliation of professors across the nation and it's in some
of the Ivy League colleges that people are like, ohmst
send my kid there. They're going to get a great
education and be a really successful person. There's not a
single Republican or Conservative who's a professor at some of them.
And so I do think there is a lot of
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and they tend to not just be like Democrats, but
like very far left democrat socialists. So that's a big problem.
I agree.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
So hold on to that point. I got it. Since
we've been talking about this energy thing, the other thing
I want to point out. I've worked in the water
hydro electric business for the last forty years. Wow, long time,
and basically the one thing, the point that you have
to make. Also, everybody should make this point, especially you
talk show hosts. This can just talk about natural gas
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compared to our electrical The coast of owning your home
is three times higher if you have electrical all electric house.
Because my wife was a former My former wife was realator,
a successful relataire, and I point I had I pointed
that out to people over and over again. I grew up.
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When I went to college, he come for brand new
solar panels are brand news. I watched CSU decide that
winding turbans. I watched them do the experiments on the
campus with the wind turbine wind turbine design, and CSU said, no,
these are not viable. We cannot use these things. And
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then that's what happened ten or fifteen years later. The
only reason we use them is because everyone every wind
turbine that gets cut up is subsidized. Otherwise I could
not do it. So all this taxpayers already paying. And
this guy that called in with the goofy idea to say, hey,
we should be able to see the excel now. Well, No,
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I grew up in Colorado and we used to have
ice storms, and I when I was working, we had
lines go down in between twenty five all the way
out to Fort Morgan, and I had to go by.
I told my boss, I said, I got a plan.
I said, but it's gonna cost you some money. He says,
(31:55):
what do you want? What do you need to do?
And I said, I can go get twelve oat batteries
and I can fix everything to run for a week
on twelve vote batteries. And I went, and he said,
go ahead and do whatever you have to do. I
went and I bought twelve boat batteries like forty or
fifty twelve vote batteries from all the battery stores on
the east of I twenty five. You get through if
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if your life is going to depend on your electricity
being on or your gas natural gas being on, right, yeah, there,
you got to take that into your own hands because.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Right life in many ways.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
When Texas had that.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
There's another point.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
I got to clear this this talking point up. People say, yeah,
two hundred people died five years ago when the ice
storm hit Texas. When it was all said and done,
more than five hundred people. More than two hundred people died.
It was seven hundred. More than seven hundred people died
when that waste ice storm happened. And that just drives
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home the point. Yeah, you could see all the people
you want, but if you're soon from your coffin, is
it isn't going to be much good?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
So right, no, and you have to be prepared, unfortunately
for yourself.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Yep. One last thing I want to say. So I'm
not a talk show nut, but KOA had Tony Manus
and when he finished up The Nose News he would
close out it say, and that's the latest. I'm Tony Mainis.
So now when they say that's the latest.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
You're a lawyer.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
If you're a lawyer, yeah, and lawyers, but let's look
at that wording. Is it really the latest? I heard
the same Mountain Lions story now forty eight times in
the last twenty four hours. No new information. What's the
name of the lady. Was she mentioned on donuts and
she didn't see the lions sneak up behind her? Or
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was she running?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
I don't know. We'll see what new information they come
up with.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Yeah, so I'll get off the line. You can finish
up your show. I know it's time, So God bless
you and roll on and cray for our country.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Thanks for calling in, Michael, appreciate your comments. All right,
you're on the Dan Kaplo Show. I'm Christy Burton Brown.
We are indeed wrapping up our show today, and I
think you know, I hope you are left with motivation
to fight for the American way of life. When we
have someone like Zora and Mom Dommy as the New
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York City mayor who's going to push collectivism instead of
the frigidness of individualism that is actually risking the entire
American system. I think he's going to fail spectacularly, but
we'll get a front row seat to that. And we
have to just make sure we do speak out and
make sure people know why America is America and why
that matters, especially in twenty twenty six, the year of
our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Thanks for listening today.
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I hope you have a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I know
You're on the Dan Kaplis Show. I'm Christy Burton Brown.
Thanks for joining us for this second hour. I was
excited when I read on Twitter earlier this week about
how many hour minutes actually I think of sunshine we're
going to gay over the next thirty days. It was
like fifty four minutes over the next thirty days. So
I'm always excited about that. In the middle of winter,
when you hit like the darkest night of the year,
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and then from there it builds back. I think, you know,
it's why a lot of people choose to live here
in Colorado. We love the sunshine. We like to be outside.
So I am looking forward to that growing and getting
even better, especially since we're now past Christmas and into
a new year, which is some of the best time
of the year. But we'll take our sunshine back. That'd
be a good thing. Speaking of good things, a thing
(00:44):
that's not so good is the swearing in of zoron
MOMDAMMI in New York City. It was definitely a hit
on by a lot of media today. I mean, if
you turn on Fox News right now, it's what they're
talking about. CNN, you know, of course, is talking about
Trump Epstein dots. You see a big divergence in topics
of conversation if you look at the different news channels.
(01:07):
But I think one of the questions out there is
will twenty twenty six be the year for democrat socialists
to take power in more races and more things, or
will it be the year that democratic socialism is actually
seen as the friend to communism that it actually is.
And I think despite Zorn mam Dami getting, you know,
(01:27):
a pretty decent vote count in New York City, being
pretty persuasive to the voters up there, I think New
York City is not going to see a successful era
with Democrats, socialism, and really communism taking control of one
of America's major cities. He may be charismatic, he may
be a good speaker, but his way of governing is
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not an American way of governing governing. It just isn't.
I'm going to play you this clip where he basically
criticizes one of the key factors of Americanism, which is individualism.
He prefers collectivism, which is a big word communists love
to use the world over. You've heard so many dictators,
so many heroes that communism would claim as heroes. Americans
(02:12):
would call them dictators and oppressors using that word, so
hear it for yourself from his own lips.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
We will draw this city closer together. We will replace
the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.
If our campaign demonstrated that the people of New York
yearn for solidarity, then let this government foster it. Because
no matter what you eat, how you pray, or where
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you come from, the words that most define us are
the two we all share New Yorkers.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, what's funny. That's a side note is he said
in there no matter what you eat. But the New
York Post had an article today. Our may have been
late yesterday after his swearing in, and the headline said,
zoron mom Dommy fans disappointed by disastrous block party with
no food or bathrooms. So his swearing in, which did
(03:13):
attract thousands of people in a giant city, had no
food anywhere and no bathrooms anywhere. And this whole article
by the New York Post goes goes into quoting his
supporters saying, Oh, if I'd known that there was no food,
no bathrooms it was going to be this cold, I
would have just watched it from home. It talked about
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how many people it couldn't even get a close up
view and had to go away in the back and
literally just did it out in the freezing cold to
hear him give a speech. So I just think it's
funny when I don't necessarily think you have to have
food that you're swearing in, but it's just funny when
you're basically a communist and you like to talk about
government run grocery stores and government feeding people, and no
matter what food you eat, were on your side, you
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talk about food all the time, but there's no food
at your party and your supporter are complaining about it.
I just think that's funny because hello, of his supporters
are expecting the government to feed them based on his
own claims, and he can't even feed them at his
own swearing and way to start, which is a perfect
illustration of communism itself. It always promises bread, right like,
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we're gonna feed you, we're gonna take care of you,
and then you create the Soviet breadlines, where like no
one is actually getting what government is promising to them. So,
you know, Bernie Sanders spent some of his time at
the swearing end ceremony talking about, you know, how much
he loves government run grocery stores. I just I can't
even believe this is what we're talking about in one
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of America's biggest cities, the government running a grocery store. Like,
come on, Like, where are we coming up with these ideas?
Like the government can't even run healthcare well, the government
can't even run schools well, and now we want it
to run the basic necessities of life and be the
one to give people or not give people food. I
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just can't even believe that this is what we're talking
about in one of America's biggest cities. But hey, when
people fail to do their own historical research, when people
aren't educated well by the public school system and think that,
you know, let's just believe what a charismatic politician tells
us he's going to do for us, and rely on
the government to provide our lives and our basic necessities
(05:22):
for us. I guess New York City gets to be
the example to the nation and let everyone get an
inside view to what, at least communism light looks like
in New York City. If you have thoughts, you can
call in any time. Three Zho three seven, one, three eight,
two five five or texture thoughts to Dan at five
seven seven three nine. I'm Christy Burton Brown, happy that
you're joining today. Let's listen to another clip from zoron
(05:46):
mom Dami. Here he openly admits that he will definitely
be ruling New York City as a socialist.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We will govern without shame and insecurity, making no apology
for what we believe. Elected as a democratic socialist, and
I will govern as a democratic socialist. I will not
abandon my principles for fear of being deemed radical. As
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the great Senator from Vermont once said, what's radical is
a system which gives so much to so few and
denies so many people the basic necessities of life.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Hmmm, Well, the only way that you think the system
denies people the basic necessities of life is if you
think it's a government's responsibility to give people the basic
necessities of life. And that just isn't how we've ever
run our nation as Americans. Is that, Oh, the government
has to be the one to feed you, to put
clothes on your back. No, go out there and get
a job and work for what you have, Go provide
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for your family. And if you are having a tough
time doing it. There are plenty of churches, communities and
non profits who step alongside you and do give that
to you when you're going through a hard time. And
as I've said before, and I said a little bit
earlier on the show, I think one of the biggest
misconceptions about conservatives is that we don't think people should
be taken care of who are poor. We absolutely do.
We just don't think government is the best one to
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do it, because government wrecks what they try to build,
and government just simply isn't the best at giving people
what their needs are. Communities do that a lot better. Nonprofits,
charity donations do that a whole lot better. And then
I do think it's very interesting when you have the
Democrat socialists or the communists whatever they want to call
themselves today and tomorrow and whatever. You know, they call
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themselves by different names depending on what country they're in.
You can't really call yourself a communist in America and
expect to get elected, But you can have the exact
same principles and call yourself a democratic socialist and occasionally
get elected. But they do always love to claim that
the rich don't pay their fair share. Well, the Tax
Foundation has put out some really interesting numbers on federal
income tax levels and who actually is paying federal taxes.
(07:59):
I think this is important to actually understand the numbers.
So it's you know, facts matter a whole lot more
than claims that people love to make. So here are
some of the basic facts. Ninety seven percent of federal
individual income taxes are paid by the top fifty percent
of earners. Only three percent of federal individual income tax
is paid by the bottom fifty percent only three percent,
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and then the top one percent in the United States
pay a tax rate at the federal level six times
higher than the bottom fifty percent. You cannot take those
numbers and say that wealthy people are not paying taxes
in America. Like literally, if you look at the income
individual income structure tax structure, your percentage goes up with
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your level of income. Like that is actually how federal
taxes work. It doesn't work that way in a state
like Colorado. We have a flat tax that applies to everyone.
And actually think that's a better system. But you can't
actually claim that rich people aren't paying more than their
fair share. Isn't true. It sounds nice. I guess to
people like zoron Mom Dommy who want to talk about
claims instead of facts. But he should actually get his
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facts straight and stop claiming the people who have money
aren't paying for other people's lives because they actually are.
All right, I'm on the You're on the dan Capla Show.
I'm Christy Burton Brout. I'm gonna take a break. You
can call it if you'd like three oh three seven
one three eight two five five Brown. Good to have
you on with us again. You can call in any
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time three oh three seven one three eight two five
five or text your thoughts to five seven seven three nine.
We've been talking about democratic socialism or communism in New
York City with their new mayor who just got sworn in.
And I'm gonna go to the phone lines now and
talk to let's see, I'm gonna talk to Mike on
line one. Welcome to the dan CAPLA Show. Mike, are
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you there?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
There you are?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
You can hear me?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Sorry.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I actually was gonna bring up the Excel power shutdowns.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Oh yeah, and I wanted to bounce.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Something of you for people who have people who have
health issues that require electricity. You know oxygen or other
health issues, doesn't. Doesn't the fact that Excel has a
monopoly give them a duty to provide reliable electric service
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to people like that?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I mean, I think that's a big question that a
lot of people have asked, and they definitely do have
a monopoly in a lot of areas of the state.
I think, you know, they would claim that they don't
have that responsibility because people can get generators, they can
get back up oxygen. That's what they always say whenever
they're asked about it. But you know, I think it's
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really roughish.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Yeah, And I mean, to me, I think the expectation,
certainly with the public, since you give monopoly power, is
that it needs to be reliable power to this standard
that has been set for generations is we don't just
get our power turned off when it's windy, right, And
so to that point, couldn't I just install a whole
house backup generator and then send Excel the invoice and
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then when they refuse to pay it, take a small
claims court.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I mean, I think there's a lot of people who
feel like they should be able to do that. To
be honest with you, I don't think it would work
in court because I think, you know, they don't necessarily
have the responsibility to provide backups for people. I think
the coursesm would most likely see that people you know,
are probably responsible for their own backups. But I think
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the problem is that people don't have multiple choices that
I think that's probably kind of what you're talking about.
Whenever there's a monopoly, people have to accept the service
they're given, whether it's a good service or not. And
that's why technically our government isn't supposed to be allowing
monopolies on anything, and certainly not on energy.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Well, I think it makes sense economically to have to
have a big electricity producer, but the expectation and the
duty of that monopoly what goes along with it is
you have to be reliable and you have to provide
it to the expected level of service that people have
become accustomed to. So to me, I would just encourage
anybody who's in that situation at least by a battery backup.
(12:22):
You know, I spend a couple hundred bucks, send excel,
the send Excel the bill, and when they refuse it,
if they get enough small claims courts, I mean, what's
to stop a small claims court from saying, hey, Excel,
you got to pay these guys four hundred dollars to me. Yeah,
it seems like a judge might find that to be reasonable.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I mean, you know, I think you never really know
until you try and see what different judges think. But
but I do think in general, there's probably a difference
between what a court might see as reliable energy and
what the expectation is. Like that's kind of the question,
like does reliable energy come with an expectation that a
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company can't shut it off if they think the wind
is a wildfire risk that would put even more people
in danger. And I'm not saying that I think Excel
did the right thing or handled it right. I actually
have a lot of problems with the way that they
handle things. But I think I'm saying those are like
the analysis that a court would go through. It's like,
what does it mean to be reliable? What expectations do
people actually have? And are they required to provide energy
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one hundred percent of the time even when there is
a potentially bigger danger out there? And who gets to
decide the danger, who gets to measure it? It's probably
an open ended question. That hasn't really been answered, and
how does.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
It get answered except for if it's going to be
in front of a judge. So people need to start,
you know, complaining because we have time on our side.
How many decades has Colorado provided reliable electric service even
when it's windy, And now all of a sudden they're
changing the rules to the game, and it's not cool.
It's affecting people's lives, you know, especially people who are vulnerable. Who.
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That's who democrats particularly pick out is Oh sure who?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
So to me, it's just I would encourage people to
think about to whatever degree they're capable, you know, to
get to excel one way or another with a lawsuit
in small claims court or or however it comes about.
And that's uh, thank you very much for your take
on that. I wanted to hear it from from an
attorney who could provide a little more insight.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
No, thanks Mike for calling in. Appreciate your thoughts, and
I think a lot of people share your concerns. All right,
You've bet on the Dan Kapla show and I'm going
to go to Joe online too. Welcome.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Hey, how you doing today, I'm good?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
How are you good.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Yeah, I think the problem Per's gonna run into with
taking a small claims court. You don't have a contract
with your provider. It's just an agreement.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
And what would you see as the difference in the
contract and agreement.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
I'm curious, Well, it's all legal, Uh right, don't have
They don't have.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
A duty to provide you with like they would for
the contract. They just have an agreement they're going to
charge you for the power you use.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, it's like a service provider basically, where they tend
to hold all the power in the contract. Yeah, that's
typically true. Mm hmmm. Yeah, And I honestly I haven't
reviewed like what people sign when they sign up for Excel,
but I do think you know, almost always when you're
dealing with a monopoly or or a company that covers
the majority of the state and you don't really have
other options for services, they do have big nancy lawyers
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that write all those agreements for them and give them
a whole lot of loopholes, which is why I think
we did see them shut off power and say they
could do it for wind reasons. I had those kind
of exceptions tend to be built into their contracts or
agreements that they have with people.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Well, they did it to protect and sells from liability.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Right, because I think of the big lawsuits that have
come out from like wildfires and other things like that.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Oh California and the one up your Superior. Yeah, we're
talking bill millions of dollars. If they're putting out, they're
just going power off.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
So don't happen again, right, No, exactly, And I think
it does put people in a really rough spot. And
I mean I think in all fairness it probably it's
a company in a rough spot too, because like you
keep getting tons of billion dollar judgments against you and
you're not gonna be able to operate anymore. And then
do people even where does their power come from? So
it is this kind of gray area of like how
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far is too far? So I think that's a you know,
it'll open in a question that maybe will get solved
in courts and maybe it won't. But thanks to Joe
and Mike for calling in. All right, Eric, I will
bring you in online one. Welcome to the Dan Kapla show.
We have like exactly one minute before I have to
go to a hard break.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
I'll make it fast as far as that goes with
the power I work up in Evergreen, they shut down
the power. The problem is they need to put in
protections for these power companies. Because of a natural event
causing a fire, it's not their fault. Sue them for
net legs. Do not sue them because the tree fells.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Right.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
If that's the case, then maybe they'll let people cut
down temper so that doesn't cause a fire, mitigate the forest.
That would be.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Nice to the number two.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Then they would have to shut down everything. People have
pro paint tanks up there left and right. If we're
gonna have a lightning storm, should that person now remove
their pro paint tank or eat? What about people that
smoke cigarettes? Are you gonna ban those? There's gotta be
a point where at least these power companies have protections
to provide service full time. If they're negligentsume them. If
they're not negligent, they shouldn't be hell liable.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, I think it's a very balanced physician. Thank you
for calling in and offering that. I appreciate it. I
think you're right on that, and that's what we see
with a lot of medical malpractice too. It's the same
kind of idea when you can get these giant and
giant judgments, then people pay more and get worse services
or service gets cut off. So just like there should
be like tort reform and their medical malpractice reform, there
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should be a whole lot of energy reform as well.
So good points. Thanks all for calling in if you
have thoughts, calling over the break through A three seven
one three eight two five five or text Dan at
five seven seven three nine. I'm Christy Burton Brown. You're
on the Dan Kaplo Show. Burton Brown. Thanks for our
callers who called in last segment to talk about the
energy shut off from Excel, and I think what the
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implications of that are. Will the court ever decide what
their responsibility is and do some of the laws need
to be changed as for ours suing energy companies, which
often leads to them doing these proactive shut offs, which
puts people in a rough scenario, so complicated situation all around.
What I think what it reminds me of, though, is
the recent rules guidelines what everyone call them, from the PUC,
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the Public Utilities Commission that targeted natural gas. I think
in the same way that a lot of people have
reactions to what Excel does in shutting off power on
people for days because of you know, supposed wind and
wildfire risk, and they're taking extra caution to make sure
they won't be liable for billions of dollars. And like
I said, putting people in a rough place a whole
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their energy issue is going to come up I think
for the people of Colorado over the next few years
with natural gas. A lot of us have natural gas
that powers at least some of our homes heating, perhaps
your stove, fireplaces. Natural gas is definitely used throughout Colorado,
and the Public Utilities Commission put out or ruling just
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a couple of weeks ago that said, over the next
ten years, utility companies that provide the natural gas have
to you know, reduce emissions carbon emissions decarbonization by forty
one percent, which is a very high target, and then
it has to be completely eliminated by twenty fifty so
this is in another within twenty five years, they have
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to completely eliminate it. What that means, in effect, is
that the Public Utilities Commission is banning natural gas in
Colorado because you'll see, you know, maybe some companies hold
out and hope that well, you know, since it is
until twenty to fifty, maybe this will get reversed, maybe
it'll get changed, and so they'll push until the very
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end to you know, push customers into a change. But
what you'll actually see, probably from far more companies, is
a push to get consumers and homeowners onto a switch
from natural gas much much sooner in order to meet
these targets, because the forty one percent target is quite
difficult according to a number of companies and utilities as well,
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and that has to be instituted in the next ten years.
This isn't something that happens overnight, and in order to
change it, you literally have to either replace the heating device,
the stove, the range, the fireplace, or the connectors. And
if you look into how much this costs, it costs
the average person between twelve and twenty five thousand dollars
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to replace this in their home. And when you look
at some of the older homes in Colorado, which is
where a lot of the poorer working class people live,
it costs thirty to fifty thousand dollars to make it
change because of the current connections and equipment that they have.
And so I think this is really going to come
up as a huge energy issue in Colorado. Excel shutoffs
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are a big issue where people feel very passionately about.
They think it puts people in a really tough spot.
But banning natural gas in Colorado is going to be
a giant issue now. The voters of Washington State saw
this as a big issue coming up in their state
and with their Utilities Commission recently, and in twenty twenty four,
they actually passed a ballot measure that stopped their Public
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Utilities Commission from banning natural gas. They actually gave the
people the state of Washington a right to use natural
gas as it is a common energy source, and so
they basically stopped the state from restricting people and saying, oh,
you can only use like electricity that's powered by solar
and wind, which is that's kind of what they're trying
to do here in Colorado now. But Washington, which is
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even more liberal state than Colorado if you look at
voting records, and people of the state actually passed a
bill giving themselves as consumers the right to use natural
gas this past I think it only passed by like
two or three percentage points, but it's still passed in Washington,
which is a very like environmentally focused state. You say,
it's a very green state, very liberal state. But when
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the issue was drove home for people and they said, oh, like,
our utilities Commission and our states and our governments, our
local governments are actually going to stop us from heating
our homes with natural gas, from cooking with natural gas.
And if you remember back a few years, like natural
gas was actually supported by environmentalists as a very clean
form of energy. This is a flip that they've made
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saying that, oh, now we can't even use natural gas.
It used to be recognized as like the clean form
of energy, and now the definition of clean energy and
renewables like consistently turns over and changes, which should be
one reason that it can't really be relied on. But
the real point is the impact this is going to
make to people. If we think power shutoffs that happen
over a period of days have a real impact on people,
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and they absolutely do. Banning natural gas in the state,
which is what the Public Utilities Commission has put us
on the road to and basically said, by twenty fifty
it's going to be banned. You're not gonna be able
to use it anymore. In your home. I think when
that is really driven home for people and they see
the cost implications, and you know, there's probably gonna be
some utility companies, some energy companies that say they're going
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to be the ones to pick up the cost. Do
you really think they pay the cost for you without
passing it on to you in your monthly bill? Like
they don't. And so if you're a customer who doesn't
have natural gas and your utility company or your energy
company decides to cover the cost to replace gas pumps
with electric pumps for some of their customers, but you
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already have an electric pump, like, your bill is going
to go higher because you're going to be paying for
the change for all the other customers on the list.
So basically, in effect, banning natural gas is going to
make everyone's energy bills go up in Colorado. And you know,
we're already are top of the nation for like home
insurance premiums and healthcare costs and crime and all these
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other metrics that Colorado doesn't you shouldn't want to be
top of the nation for, but we are in the
top you know, five to ten to two states depending
on the issue. Our energy prices are about to soar
to with the Public Utilities Commission practical ban on natural gas.
So you know, since we were talking about energy in
the last segment, I think in natural gas is going
to be the new thing to really talk about in
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energy because it's going to have a big impact on people,
and as always impacting, I think middle class and working
families the worst, which are the people who the Liberal
party in charge, who appointed the people all the Public
Utilities Commission, all of them were appointed by Governor Polis.
They claim to want to be on the side of
working class people to make life more affordable in Colorado,
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and then their appointees on commissions past rules that make
life far harder to afford for people in Colorado. Like
I said, it is a twelve to twenty five thousand
dollars cost for the average home in Colorado to make
this switch, a thirty to fifty thousand dollars increased cost
to make the switch away from natural gas for the
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older homes where a lot of working class families live
in Colorado. And again, if you think your utility or
energy company is gonna pick up the cost, they may
say that, but it's gonna be passed on to you
in monthly bills. Whether or not you're one of the
people with natural gas, you're gonna be paying for everyone
else to make this switch in Colorado. If a change
doesn't happen, You're on the Dan Kapli Show. I'm Christy
Burton Brown. Thanks for tuning in. We've covered quite the
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range of issues today, from public safety at the beginnings
of predictions for the legislative session, Zoron mom Dami's swearing
in in New York City, and the rise of democratic
socialism really just another name for communism in one of
the biggest cities in the United States, and then now energy.
I did find this this, I guess passage written by
(26:01):
Bishop Robert Baron that I thought was really interesting in
the context of Zoron Mamdami's inaugural address. So I'm actually
going to read it to you and then we're going
to take a break. Here's what he says. He says,
there was a line from Zoron Mandami's inaugural address yesterday
that took my breath away. He said he intended to
replace quote the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth
of collectivism end quote. Collectivism in its various forms is
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responsible for the deaths of at least one hundred million
people in the last century. Socialist and communist forms of
government around the world today Venezuela, Cuban, North Korea, etc.
Are disastrous. Catholic social teaching has consistently condemned socialism and
has embraced the market economy, which people like Mayor Mamdami
caricature as rugged individualism. In fact, it is the economic
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system that is based upon the rights, freedom, and dignity
of the human person. For God's sake, spare me the
warmth of collectivism, which I think is a powerful statement
from a religious leader. I would, of course argue that
that's like the American view, not uniquely a Catholic view,
but the American view. Evangelical subscribe to it. Americans actually
have all or no religion, subscribe to it because it's
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part of just being an American. But I certainly appreciate
when religious leaders are willing to stand up there and say, hey,
here's one of the many reasons this is a dangerous
perspective for a mayor of the biggest city in the
US to have. I'm Christy Burton Brown, You're on the
dan capla show calling over the break three oh three seven, one,
three eight, two five five. Welcome back to the Dan
Capla Show. I'm Christy Burton Brown, and you're tuning into
(27:29):
the last segment of our show today. I'm going to
go to the phone lines and bring in Michael. Thank
you for calling into Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Hello.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
I got to tell you it's much more pleasant listening.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
To you than Dan, so kept my hat to you.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
I got three issues, and I wasn't going to call
my very last.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Thing, and now you call us.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
I got three points I would like to make it.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
So okay, let's see if we through them.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Most important is this issue about this communism that's kind
of creeping into our whole system. These judges, these lawyers,
the politicians. I roll it back to way back when
I listened to you know, started listening to talk radio
when Alan Berg was still on. And I'll never forget
(28:23):
Mike Rosen came on sometime in the middle nineties and
he says Colorado University when they surveyed and researched the
records on the professors all across the board and Colorado
University at that time, there was ninety three percent of
them were registered Democrats. And there's our problem because as
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long as our university keeps cranking out these lawyers that
are liberals become district attorneys that let the criminals back
out on the street. We got the people that run Congress.
Half of those guys are you know. That's until we
change that setup. We're going to get everything from elementary
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teachers teaching our children and help from elementary school all
the way to the college. And you've heard so many
times that when their children go to college, that's when
they flipped from being mom and dad and maybe at
least on the conservative side a little bit. That's when
they flip them over and they come out and they're
(29:33):
transgender Democrats.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Oh sure, well, and there was to your point. There
was a recent study that was breaking down the political
affiliation of professors across the nation and it's in some
of the Ivy League colleges that people are like, ohmst
send my kid there. They're going to get a great
education and be a really successful person. There's not a
single Republican or Conservative who's a professor at some of them.
And so I do think there is a lot of
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and they tend to not just be like Democrats, but
like very far left democrat socialists. So that's a big problem.
I agree.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
So hold on to that point. I got it. Since
we've been talking about this energy thing, the other thing
I want to point out. I've worked in the water
hydro electric business for the last forty years. Wow, long time,
and basically the one thing, the point that you have
to make. Also, everybody should make this point, especially you
talk show hosts. This can just talk about natural gas
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compared to our electrical The coast of owning your home
is three times higher if you have electrical all electric house.
Because my wife was a former My former wife was realator,
a successful relataire, and I point I had I pointed
that out to people over and over again. I grew up.
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When I went to college, he come for brand new
solar panels are brand news. I watched CSU decide that
winding turbans. I watched them do the experiments on the
campus with the wind turbine wind turbine design, and CSU said, no,
these are not viable. We cannot use these things. And
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then that's what happened ten or fifteen years later. The
only reason we use them is because everyone every wind
turbine that gets cut up is subsidized. Otherwise I could
not do it. So all this taxpayers already paying. And
this guy that called in with the goofy idea to say, hey,
we should be able to see the excel now. Well, No,
(31:34):
I grew up in Colorado and we used to have
ice storms, and I when I was working, we had
lines go down in between twenty five all the way
out to Fort Morgan, and I had to go by.
I told my boss, I said, I got a plan.
I said, but it's gonna cost you some money. He says,
(31:55):
what do you want? What do you need to do?
And I said, I can go get twelve oat batteries
and I can fix everything to run for a week
on twelve vote batteries. And I went, and he said,
go ahead and do whatever you have to do. I
went and I bought twelve boat batteries like forty or
fifty twelve vote batteries from all the battery stores on
the east of I twenty five. You get through if
(32:16):
if your life is going to depend on your electricity
being on or your gas natural gas being on, right, yeah, there,
you got to take that into your own hands because.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Right life in many ways.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
When Texas had that.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
There's another point.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
I got to clear this this talking point up. People say, yeah,
two hundred people died five years ago when the ice
storm hit Texas. When it was all said and done,
more than five hundred people. More than two hundred people died.
It was seven hundred. More than seven hundred people died
when that waste ice storm happened. And that just drives
(32:57):
home the point. Yeah, you could see all the people
you want, but if you're soon from your coffin, is
it isn't going to be much good?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
So right, no, and you have to be prepared, unfortunately
for yourself.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Yep. One last thing I want to say. So I'm
not a talk show nut, but KOA had Tony Manus
and when he finished up The Nose News he would
close out it say, and that's the latest. I'm Tony Mainis.
So now when they say that's the latest.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
You're a lawyer.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
If you're a lawyer, yeah, and lawyers, but let's look
at that wording. Is it really the latest? I heard
the same Mountain Lions story now forty eight times in
the last twenty four hours. No new information. What's the
name of the lady. Was she mentioned on donuts and
she didn't see the lions sneak up behind her? Or
(33:53):
was she running?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
I don't know. We'll see what new information they come
up with.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Yeah, so I'll get off the line. You can finish
up your show. I know it's time, So God bless
you and roll on and cray for our country.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Thanks for calling in, Michael, appreciate your comments. All right,
you're on the Dan Kaplo Show. I'm Christy Burton Brown.
We are indeed wrapping up our show today, and I
think you know, I hope you are left with motivation
to fight for the American way of life. When we
have someone like Zora and Mom Dommy as the New
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York City mayor who's going to push collectivism instead of
the frigidness of individualism that is actually risking the entire
American system. I think he's going to fail spectacularly, but
we'll get a front row seat to that. And we
have to just make sure we do speak out and
make sure people know why America is America and why
that matters, especially in twenty twenty six, the year of
our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Thanks for listening today.
(34:50):
I hope you have a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
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