March 12, 2025 • 34 mins
Darcy Schoening, current Director of Special Initiatives for the Colorado Republican Party, joins Dan to recap her interview in the lion's den with Kyle Clark on '9 Next.'
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
What a beautiful day to fight? Huh.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
It's just something like spring. I mean, every nice days nice, right,
but there's something like those first few really nice days,
and yeah, it's going to cool off over the weekend,
but at least we're getting some of these now, right.
So I think we're falling into that time of you're right,
where it's going to pop up and down and then
the trend line will gradually get better and it's light
out every day and my life is good. Eight five
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five four zero five eight two five five The number
text d A N five seven seven through nine. If
you just joined, thank you. We're talking at the moment
about the Sixteenth Street Mall and kind of the doom
spiral it's been in since Colorado legalized marijuana and since
other lefty pro criminal policies, et cetera made it a
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place people don't want to go, and the left just
won't face that reality, right, So they keep trying to
put perfume on a pig with taxpayer money and other monies,
and then it reaches kind of a new level of
enjoyable absurdity. Can you go trademark that for me? Enjoyable absurdity?
Should that be the new name of the show? But
see it reaches this new level in this story. We're
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about to play you off of KUSA where they try
to blame the failure of the mall on the right.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
On conservatives for misleading people.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
That's the implication misleading people into believing it's dangerous down there.
And I know, I mean, you'd never conclude that from
the flight attendant him in her throat slit and broad
daylight and dying on the mall on a Saturday as
she visits from Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
It never concluded from any of.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
That kind of stuff, right, So it's fascinating that they
just won't admit the root cause and they continue you
to just try.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
To put perfume on the pig.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And one of the questions I'll have for you at
the end of this so I play this more for
your own enjoyment on the way home, But at the.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
End of the day, is it ever going to change, or.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Will it just be this downhill spiral until it all
is just like Armageddon? Or at some point is Denver
going to elect a Republican? Now it won't be somebody
who's labeled a Republican, right, it would have to be
somebody who says they're unaffiliated but they're really a conservative.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Is Denver ever going to be willing to.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Do that to save itself?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
So enjoy the story, Denver Sixteenth Street Mall has some
real problems. First off, Americans general disinterest in spaces like
that that used to be far more popular.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Do you mind if I stop you there, Ryan?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I just did a quick little mental survey of all
the places I've been on cases and on vacation where
there are areas like the sixteen Street.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Mall that are thriving. Can I name one day? You
could name twenty the Riverwalk in San Antonio? There's one
for you. There's one for you. I mean, I'm trying
to think of a city that doesn't have one. I
mean that they're thriving all over America.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
The Magmiele and Chicago still even well say.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I would quitval with you on that.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I think the lefty policies have it's worst destroyed that.
I think they have had the pro crime stuff and
not great. Yeah, I think they've destroyed that one. But
but yeah, no, there are plenty of these that are thriving.
You cannot take Denver off the hook once you decide.
I mean, what did Denver used to be known as?
How did you envision Denver before you actually came here?
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Like it used to be, right, and I it was
thirty years ago, might maybe much more like Billings, Montana was,
And that's what I was described like.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
It'd be like a bigger version of Billings where I
had worked before.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
And I'm like, well, that's great.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Envisioned it as a city of great use and health,
and Colorado was known as the state of health, and
now it's known as the state of drugs, and Denver's
known as the drug capital of the world.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I remember as a.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Little kid and walking to the basement and my dad
on this little TV is watching a game and it
says mile high stadium, And I pictured this stadium literally,
you know, straight up at the top of a mile,
you know, and then it's a mile drop off.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
On either side.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I was young then, but you always picture Denver as
healthy and all about health, and then the left decided
to make it all about drugs, and then the mall
started going downhill. But they don't want to admit that.
They say, oh no, no, not all these spaces around
the country are plagued like this.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Not true.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Then you layer on vacant storefronts, long term construction, some
high profile crimes, and a political narrative that cities are
to be feared political narrative.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So the reason people aren't going down there is not
because they are to be feared because of lefty policies,
which mean any sane person would fear them. I bet
the family of the flight attendant or throat slit noon
on the mall when she's just down there shopping wish
that they.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Had feared it.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Oh no, but it's really conservatives misleading people. And think
of that worldview of this report, that people are dumb
sheep who can't figure out for themselves what's safe and
what's not.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
As construction finally wraps up, our Mark Salinger looks at
Denver's next challenge, convincing people to come back to the
Sixteenth Street mall.
Speaker 8 (05:25):
After spending one hundred and seventy five million dollars on
construction on the sixteenth Street mall. The concern now is
making sure people actually come back to enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
The experience today is not the ultimate experience that we
want on sixteenth, and we need to do a lot
to change that perception.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
The price tag for new art activities and marketing was
set at one point nine million dollars today in Denver
City Council money the Johnson Administration and the Downtown Denver
Partnership argue.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Is vital to mat I'm sure if people return to a.
Speaker 8 (05:53):
Street that's been filled with fences and hard hats for years, how.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Do we bring drug caller to the spaces that just
feel like someone's taking care of it.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
The nearly two million dollars would go towards trying to
get people to visit downtown again. It would fund events
like live music and street markets. It would pay for
security to make people feel safe in an area that's
seen several high profile crimes recently, and it would allocate
money for art to cover up empty storefronts where businesses
have moved out.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
This is part of.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
High profile crimes like al Capone or what are we
talking about here. It's a high profile crime.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
This is just part of covering up for the left.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, like, oh, the stabbing spree, right, the flight attendant
with the throat slit, and then even though the city.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Knew about this, they didn't put up this five of
our morning to the public. So you know, a guy
gets stabbed and killed the next day.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
No, it's not about a couple of high profile crimes.
It's about policies of the left, pro drug, pro criminal
policies that have made this a place people don't want
to go.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
And I'm sorry I up two million bucks with that.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
You could put fIF fifty million bucks worth of art
and guess what people are going to see? What's your
favorite artwork? Ryan ever? Not like the Rocky statue?
Speaker 8 (07:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Really, that's my favorite.
Speaker 9 (07:11):
Statue of liberty. Maybe be another way, Yeah, Mona Lisa Okay, okay,
you could put the.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Mona Lisa on the sixteen Street mall.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Sure right now.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Maybe if it heavy, heavy security, you get people to
go down there for a little bit. But what people
are going to see is they're going to see the zombies.
They're going to see the zombies, right, like the zombie
who who slashed that flight attendant's throat and killed all
those others. They're going to see all these zombies who
at one time were healthy, little kids, and they were
people with the future, and they've been made zombies by drugs.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
They've been made zombies by alcohol.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
You throw in mental illness, and then policies of the
left that protect criminals. Even with the Mona Lisa down there,
that's what people are going to see because guess what,
the Mona Lisa ain't worth dying for.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Broader strategy for downtown. Council members had concerns.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Just it pains me to see what it currently is.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
And serious questions about how to move forward from the
challenges that the area has faced since the construction started.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Doesn't matter how you make something, if it still brings
up memories for people, we're never going.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
To break through that.
Speaker 8 (08:19):
Downtown Denver has seen a thirty five percent decrease in
property and sales tax revenue since the beginning of the
pandemic that'scrossed the city forty pandemic.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Go back to legalization in marijuana, Go back to every
important stat in Colorado starting with the legalization of marijuana.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And what do you see, more bad stuff less good stuff.
I've million dollars. Vacant dark retail space is not good
for anyone.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
The money has already been spent on construction. Now the
city needs to convince people to come back.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
This is about how do we really make the most
of this infrastructure investment by being able to show how
is there no discussion whatsoever is piece about drugs and
about legalization of drugs.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
And about all of these drug.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Addicted people particularly, And they're all said cases my heart
breaks from true. But when you've just had fourteen very
prominent restaurant tours who have walked the talk, put their heart,
their soul, their money into their restaurants down there, and
they're saying, mister Mayor, it's falling apart.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
You're making it worse.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You know, people aren't going to come down here and
watch somebody defecate in the street outside the restaurant. And
it all goes back to these pro drug, pro crime policies.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Clean it up and clear it out. That's the answer.
I mean, there's about all these ancillary issues and that
the construction.
Speaker 9 (09:42):
And people don't want to come down because the businesses
aren't there the tax revenues.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Now, why are all those things happening It's exactly what
you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
And they will never change. The Left will never change
those policies. So where does it end? I would love
your take, what is the fix? Where does it end?
Because we aren't darkess cursors were candle lighters three or
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Speaker 3 (10:07):
You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
BOMBI yeah, and please I don't. I hope nobody ever
thinks when I talk about the reality of downtown Tenver
now and just so many people who act like zombies,
that I'm ever making fun of any of.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Those people or denigrating them or anything.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Not at all.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
My heart breaks for all of them. And you know
I said thereby but for the grace of God go I.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
And and because no matter how strong willed the person
is or anything else, you talk about the the you know,
you talk about this Krakawana or so now you talk
about other drugs, talk about this fent, and all the
Left is let pour into the country. I mean that
stuff can can grab and ruin the strongest willed person
in a heartbeat. So this human disaster. You see in
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downtown Denver, you see eating away at downtown Denver. Look
at what the restaurant tours wrote, you know, to Johnston.
Mike Johnson very critical of him, saying it's all falling apart.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
No, I'm never ever.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Doing anything other than being sad and respectful and praying
for you know, the people in that situation. What drives
me crazy are these lefties who pass all these policies
because they have their own political motives and they know
it's going to wreak this kind of human devastation, but
they don't care at all about these people as long
as it furthers their political ends. And so that the
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perfect example of that is now that you have a
six Streen Street mall, it ain't coming back until they
do away with these pro drug, pro crime lefty policies.
The mall isn't going to come back. You know, you
can put Mona Lisa down there. I've seen Mona Lisa.
I'm glad I saw Mona Lisa, but she ain't worth
dying for. So you can do anything you want to.
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It ain't coming back until they change those policies. But
then you get these stories that try to blame it
on the right for saying there's crime in the cities.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
No people can figure that out. So what is the fix?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Right?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
What is the fix?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
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Speaker 2 (12:14):
I'm giving you mine.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
They've got to and this doesn't take any rocket science
or archaeologist or anything like that. You go back and
look at when it was better than this. Oh when
was that, well before you legalize drugs and put all
these pro criminal laws in Yeah, right, yes, so yeah,
So what do you think the fix is?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
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Speaker 1 (12:38):
Dan, you should contact Google and why the Dame Kaplis
show does not come up?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Interesting?
Speaker 10 (12:43):
Not?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
It comes up as Kaplin kp l I N. The
Google is smarter than that. You're a fighter. Don't stand
for this. I will not stand for this another minute.
So no, we would thank you. Thank you for that
heads up, Chexter, really do appreciate that.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
I just googled it and the first thing comes up
is Dan Kaplis. Okay, high heart, it's at the top
of the bab.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Well that's that's progress. They've listened to our Texter.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Dan, I was down in downtown Denver yesterday and saw
at least five people shooting up drugs right there in
the middle of the park. There's no way I'd bring
my family down there. And I was thinking, how sad
it is. I mentioned it Tamy the other day. We
used to go down to the mall. We used to
go down to the mall, like before all of this
legalized drug and legalized crime.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Or you know, pro criminal laws.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
We used to love. We took the kids down there.
We'd go Remember they used to have big ESPN zone
on the mall.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I think that's what it called.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
We go there and we get a pizza in we'd
you know, play some of their arcade games. Yeah, you
can drag me down there right now. I mean every
now and there I have to go down there for
a case.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
I love the.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Courthouse down there by the way, But every now and
then I got a meeting on the mall or something.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I just absolutely dreaded Dan.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Denver's trying to put lipstick on a pig and make
you think all is well in downtown that from Alexa.
There ain't enough lipstick in all of America for that one.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
So why do you think they keep doing this?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
They just keep pouring millions and millions and millions into
redoing this and that, and then the people don't come,
and they keep doing more of it. They denial is
not just a river in Egypt, right. I mean, they
will not admit what is at the heart of all this, Dan.
They're all thriving pertaining tom al like areas, except the
ones run over by crime, like Santa Monica Promenade. Oh,
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that is so true in Santa Monica, you know. And
again it just comes back to those lefty policies. So, Dan,
While I regret my vote for the legalization of recreational
marijuana in Colorado, mostly because I believe it put a
destination target on Colorado for stoners from around the country
and many of the issues that accompany them, I would
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still consider voting for national legalization.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I would love to hear the rationale behind that, because
I to say that aside. I also believe that while
marijuana may contribute to suicide rates teen and others, and
then it gets into much bigger issues. Whoa wait a second,
shouldn't that be the end of the conversation. I mean,
once the society acknowledges and people in Colorado just don't
know it right now, right because much, not all, much
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of the media buries these marijuana horror stories because I mean,
I think the media has a vested interest in getting
that cash someday. But that aside, and much of the
media right is just affiliated with the left that wants
more drugs, wants more stoners because then they're more dependent
on government and they vote left. But once the people
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of the state of Colorado would tell me, if you
agree with this premise, ride, if every voting Colorado now
for a fact that teen suicide has dramatically increased his
legalization of marijuana and almost half the kids who kill
themselves in marijuana in their system, what do you think
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the vote would be to repeal Amendments six four if every.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
Voter knew that, if they knew that and were informed,
then yeah, I mean, that would be overwhelming sixty forty, Elisa.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
People are good in Colorado. Vast majority of people are good.
I don't care what party they're with. And if they
knew that fact, yeah, people would say that's too high
a price to pay. That is too high a price
to pay, and there are a lot more prices than that.
So three or three someone three eight two five five
text d an five seven seven three nine. We have
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another candidate for GOP chair coming up right, Darcy Shanning's
going to join us at five thirty six yep.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
And she just appeared with Kyle Clark online next.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
And the reason that we keep doing these hits with
GOP chair candidates is I think it's really really important
to saving the state that we elect Republicans to these
big state wide offices, and that's not going to happen
without a healthy Colorado or GOP.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Maybe there's some math out there.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I'm not familiar with, Ryan, but I.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Don't see how a Republican candidate wins statewide without a
unified GOP in Colorado and a unified GOP electorate.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
It.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
If somebody's wearing some new math, hey turn me on
to it. But I think that's what it's gonna take.
So that's why I think this party chair race is
so important, and so that's why we keep popping these
candidates on. And I thought the last interview was absolutely
fascinating and hopefully you'll tune into that.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Uh one of the something else I want.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
To discuss here, some else I want to dis Guy
and I know it's not local, but it is so important,
and it's local in that sense, right, affects all of us.
I don't have time to play this hit right now.
But John Bolton, who has sat here in studio with
me when he was the US Ambassador to the United Nations,
and John Bolton coming out and seeing this ceasefire is
bad for Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
What in the world's the alternative.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Trump's just say? See.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I think John Bolton hates Trump so much right now
that's getting in the way of his thinking. And it's
a person think between John Bolton and Trump. Trump's just
trying to stop the bloodshed. It's Europe that abandoned Ukraine
and allowed evil Putin.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
To gain territory.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
So you're gonna tell Ukraine to just keep fighting and dying.
You're on the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 11 (18:22):
Like current up Chairman Williams, like President Trump, use name
calling as a political strategy, right. I mean, you've called
former President Joe Biden a pedophile. You've called the mayor
pro tem of monumental terrorists, You've called the governor communist,
You've called the Attorney general communists, You've called me a communist,
which is fine because we get along. But why is
name calling a winning political strategy in this state?
Speaker 12 (18:42):
You know, I don't think it's always I don't think
it's always correct. It's not always a winning strategy.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Sometimes it is.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
Sometimes it helps us because you know, you've got.
Speaker 12 (18:51):
That you get that attention online, you get that media
around you, and that, by and large a lot of
the time is what affects Shange.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
That's Darcy Shine.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
In our next guest with Kyle Clark, Darcy of course
running for GOP chair.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Welcome back, Darcy. How you doing.
Speaker 10 (19:08):
I'm good. How are you? Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Dan, Oh, my pleasure anytime. How goes the battle?
Speaker 9 (19:14):
Good?
Speaker 10 (19:14):
I'm having so much fun. So just going out seeing
everybody and you know, getting in the media and I'm
enjoying interacting with everybody. It's been great.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
It looks like you're having fun.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
And I mean your decision to go on with Kyle Clark,
I think that's great. I mean, that's the difference right
between the right and left. You know, it's left scared
of its own shadow. You know, it won't come on
a show like this or anything else. And conservatives, Eh,
you want to talk, let's sit down.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
If it's a fair fight, we'll win exactly.
Speaker 10 (19:43):
Yeah, No, it was so much fun. When he was
originally texting me about the Tina Peters comments that I
had made on Jeff and Bill. You know that I
called on Pam Bonny to look into the judge and
so then he said, Hey, I'm going to have everybody on.
Do you want to come on? And I was like, yeah,
I do, and I want.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
To take that spot too, And so tell everybody what
at this point the election is, when, and how's it
shaping up?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And above all, I think everybody agrees, right, you have to.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Have a unified GOP to have a chance to win
the state wide races, and how do you get it there?
Speaker 10 (20:16):
Yeah, So the election is March twenty ninth, and that
is nine o'clock in the morning. It's a hybrid online
and then in the spring. I can't remember the exact location,
they just I think figured out the location because it
was moved from Castrock, but we'll post that it actually
posted everywhere anyways. So yeah, unified DOP. I mean, listen,
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like I've said in the past, we're never nobody's ever
going to be totally unified. But I've been working really
hard to build an infrastructure and build fundraising already that
we can be proud of. So about going into the
twenty twenty five school board races with my Build our
Benches initiative, We're able to have momentum, donor confidence, volunteer confidence.
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We're going to launch SUD into twenty two twenty six
and take back state seats and can We're going to
We're building something so I believe candidates and elected officials
and volunteers and activists and everyday voters can be proud of.
And that's what I'm most proud of right now. That's
why I'm having so much fun going around seeing everybody
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at the meetings, because I mean, I just can't imagine
doing anything else right now. This is like this is
we have to build something that we can take Colorado
back with.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
You know, I'm glad you used that Prouder phrase because
I really do think it's important that you know, and
you're right, Listen, you're never going to have short of heaven.
You're never going to have pertinent, perfect unity or coherence.
But I think you got to get the color or
gop to the point right where where the vast majority
of Republicans, at least in the state are proud of
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the Colorado GOP because I don't with the maths, I
don't know how any of our candidates win statewide without
a roll bust, you know, lovel of support from Republican.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
Voters exactly exactly, And that's why we have to have,
Like I said, when I stay building, I mean everything
from our g O TV efforts, our outreach, our Hispanic outreach,
our black outreach, going into the high schools, capturing the
young Republicans. I mean, it's everything. It's having on point
data and right now we just we don't have any
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of those things. So that's what I want to work
really hard to build to that. You know, whether I
am eventually taken out one day or get hit by
a bus or whatever, that when I'm not share anymore,
the GP can look back and say, you know what,
like she lest it better than she found it, and
I say the same thing about the state of Colorado
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in our country. That's that's our duty.
Speaker 13 (22:46):
That's what we do as leaders, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I mean, that's what we're put on the planet for,
right So yeah, how can people learn more about you.
Speaker 10 (22:55):
So you can go to my website Rcy for chair.
That's THEA r C y f O rshare dot com.
Twitter is Darcy and then the number four CEO. But
if you just start typing my name and Google like
Darcy sc h O E M I n G, I
come right up because I have such an uncommon name.
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And listen, you guys have heard me for a month
and a half now talk about my platform. But it's
not all about me. Everyone is welcome in my Colorado gup,
our Colorado gup. So I want to sit down and
talk to you, have a phone call, you know, go
out to coffee, whatever it may be. So send me
a text and we'll get together. And I want to
hear everyone's vision for our state.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
You are the energizer, Darcy. There is no doubt about that.
So yeah, yeah, no, Well.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I appreciate the time.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I'm sure we'll talk again soon.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
Thank you, Dan, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Have a good night, sure saying you too.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
That is at Darcy Shanan And now it's great to
have these chair candidates on because it's really really going
to matter, right if the GP is going to have a.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Chance, and it should have a chance. The way these
things are shaping up, it should have a chance. Wow,
if you just joined us.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Thank you nice to have it so light out and
warm and sunny this time of night. It just makes
everything better, doesn't it. Hey, let me get to this.
This is Representative Keith's self and he's the Republican.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Committee chair.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
I believe when he introduces this Representative Sarah McBride is
mister McBride, and everything goes crazy. And what would you
have done if you were chair? How do you think
this situation should be handled? When you have a male
who is identifying as female and wants to be referred
(24:43):
to as a woman, and it's in a congressional setting
like this, how do you think it should be handled?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Three?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Or three? Someone three eight two five five takes d
an five seven.
Speaker 11 (24:53):
Seven three Now Hena's the representative from Delaware, mister McBride, Thank.
Speaker 12 (24:59):
You, madam, Chair ranking Member Keating also wonderful Chairman.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Could you repeat your instruction again, please?
Speaker 9 (25:07):
Yes, we have set the standard on the floor of
the House, and I'm simply what.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Is that standard? Mister chairman? Would you repeat what you
just said?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
You introduced a duly elected representative from the United States
of America, Please, I will Does the fact that the
individual is a duly elected congressperson change biology?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Does it change science? Right now?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I think there's a solution here and I want to
get to it. But is that the suggestion from this
democrat here that because somebody rises to a certain rank
of power, you have to lie about what their gender is?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
The representative from Delaware mister mcbriene.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Mister chairman, you are out of order. That's a shaman.
Have you no decency?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
The original I mean, I have come to know you
a little bit, but this is not decent.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
We will continue this. You will not continue it with me.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Unless you introduce a duly elected.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Representative the right way.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
The right way.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
This hearing is adjourned.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
It's obviously just childishness because you couldn't describe. But what
is the right way? Listen, don't you avoid this whole
thing by first? You can't lie, right. I'm never going
to say any committee chair or anybody else should ever
ever ever be required to lie and say that east
is west, or north is south, or black is white
(26:38):
or anything like that. So nobody should ever be forced
to lie and say that man's a woman or that
woman's a man. No, this is America. You can't force
somebody to do that. Now, don't you just avoid all
of that or just avoid the gender reference. Just you
can use the name.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I don't think there's anything wrong with you in the name,
but you can't require people to lie. And that's to
me Ryan, that that's what's.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Behind ninety nine percent of this transcendity from the left,
because the trans people I know, Like, how many trans people.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Do you know? Personally? Four or five more than I do.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
But but the trans people I know every single good people.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
They just want to live their life.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
They they're not looking to change our politics or change.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
The world or anything like that. I think what's happened here.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Is is you've got these lefties who have seized on
this issue so they can establish the precedent that's necessary
for the left win, which is that that people are
at through this issue willing to say things they are
(27:50):
they know are not true in order to avoid being canceled,
in order to avoid the different penalties the left wants
to win fly. I think the left has seized on
this issue and they're losing it. Thank Heavens. They've seized
on this issue to try to force Americans to bend
the knee and.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Be willing to.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Separate from the way they were.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Raised as children, separate from their core values, separate from
their faith, and be willing to lie, be willing to
say things that they know are not true in order
to avoid being canceled and otherwise punished. That's why I
think the left has seized this issue, and thank god,
(28:36):
people have risen up against it. Not against trans people,
that's not the point, but that risen up against being
forced to say things you are no, we're not true,
being forced to say things that are against your faith.
People have risen up against that, and it's beautiful to see.
And that's why this whole play by the left is
crumbling before our eyes.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
You're on the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Barado Springs, Colorado. Chris, you're on the Dankaplas Show.
Speaker 13 (29:07):
Welcome, Hey Dan, thanks for having me back on. You
know three things that a state party should chair should
do is raise money, fine candidates for open seats, and
not think you're in charge of anything. Pardon I was
just run. I was just out there walking.
Speaker 10 (29:28):
No.
Speaker 13 (29:30):
Yeah, they've off the grabber, my friends. But my point
is is that they party chairs not in charge of anything.
The people who actually get elected to office and receive
votes or in charge of the things.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Truly, and you know one of the things.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
And you get to a good point, Chris, is the
up in Colorado is going to come back. And I
think the key is going to be winning that one
big statewide race because then that elected official, that senator
or governor, becomes the face of the party. And here
he you know, right, I mean that they become the
de facto leader of the party, no matter how good
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your GOP chair is.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
That person's not getting elected statewide unless you've got a
really well functioning Colorado GOP and all the grassroots support.
Because you and I both know, I'm assuming you know
this that it is those grassroots folks working real hard
in the trenches all the time, who you know, never
show up in the headlines. If you don't have that
in place, you're not winning.
Speaker 13 (30:38):
Yeah. Well, you know who's not going to help us
win at that, Darcy lady, Because you know I've got
texts her from her to me calling me disgusting. She
called me something about I took blood money from somebody?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
What's what's behind all this? What's the issue?
Speaker 13 (30:55):
All right?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
What's what's the issue? I mean why she.
Speaker 13 (31:01):
Was Darcy is holy and she doesn't have the state
party or any party chair of anything. Yea, he is.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Basically there's something going.
Speaker 13 (31:12):
On her congressional distort.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I can tell you that she obviously has a beef
with your I was just trying to get a better
understanding of what what's underlying that. But but Chris appreciated, Well,
it's not just me that she called disgusting and part
of the Pueblo mafia whatever that is.
Speaker 13 (31:28):
But she's called a number of other people these sort
of things. And she's wholly she's wholly unqual unqualified. But
she doesn't have the temper in charge you can, I mean,
you know, I mean, she's think leader from the edge
of the counting telling me that I'm disgusting and that
(31:49):
I've taken bloody What kind of party leader is that?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
What's behind the blood money thing?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 13 (31:56):
You have to ask her.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Okay, well yeah, but I wasn't aware of this. So
the next thing, know, yeah.
Speaker 13 (32:01):
Next thing you know is I go to I go
to a U a debate between uh her uh pray
Williams and that way. You start screaming at me, Well, it.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Sounds like there's something between you two. Can you educate
us on that? What's what's the underlying beat?
Speaker 13 (32:20):
But she starts screaming to me at such an extent
that the police had to come over and separate her.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Okay, Chris, I would love to eat.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
I'm not trying to shut you down.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I just want to know what's underlying this is anybody
listening once to know, and if you're willing to tell me, great,
If you're not, I respect that, But otherwise we don't
know what you're talking about.
Speaker 13 (32:41):
What's underlying is that? I mean, you don't have to
ask her?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Well, okay, you're telling me you've never met her before. Boss,
You have no idea who she has, no idea what
she's talking about, So we have to ask her.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
I mean, okay, then what is it?
Speaker 2 (32:57):
What's what's underlying all this?
Speaker 13 (32:59):
What's the youn't have to ask her?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Okay, Okay, my friend.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
It's grateful for the call, but we are.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Getting a little circular because I've got to ask the
questions that people in the car would be asking, and
they want to know what the beef is so they
can weigh this and evaluate it. Chris, welcome to give
us a call back text or Dan. Can the GOP
win without being more libertarian than conservative Christian? The latter
is a turn off to a good chunk of the
middle and wants government out of personal lives and decisions.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Boy, I'd love to have.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
That conversation, Texter, because my belief is this that if
Colorado's vote their faith, and that doesn't mean Catholic voting
for Catholic or anything like that, but if they vote
for candidates who who are going to act consistent with
the core principles of one's faith, that's how the GOP
wins for the Democrats to win in Colorado right now,
(33:49):
And I think Polis has implicitly acknowledged it that the
Democrats have to separate voters from their faith. So I
don't think the GOP should be striving to move away
from people of faith or people voting their faith. I
think the GOP should be trying to convince everybody in
the state, no matter what party they're in, no matter
(34:10):
what faith they have, Hey, if you vote your faith,
which you really should, right if it's really your faith,
you can't vote for the left, but they were left
ended on that note.
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
What a beautiful day to fight? Huh.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
It's just something like spring. I mean, every nice days nice, right,
but there's something like those first few really nice days,
and yeah, it's going to cool off over the weekend,
but at least we're getting some of these now, right.
So I think we're falling into that time of you're right,
where it's going to pop up and down and then
the trend line will gradually get better and it's light
out every day and my life is good. Eight five
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five four zero five eight two five five The number
text d A N five seven seven through nine. If
you just joined, thank you. We're talking at the moment
about the Sixteenth Street Mall and kind of the doom
spiral it's been in since Colorado legalized marijuana and since
other lefty pro criminal policies, et cetera made it a
(01:00):
place people don't want to go, and the left just
won't face that reality, right, So they keep trying to
put perfume on a pig with taxpayer money and other monies,
and then it reaches kind of a new level of
enjoyable absurdity. Can you go trademark that for me? Enjoyable absurdity?
Should that be the new name of the show? But
see it reaches this new level in this story. We're
(01:24):
about to play you off of KUSA where they try
to blame the failure of the mall on the right.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
On conservatives for misleading people.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
That's the implication misleading people into believing it's dangerous down there.
And I know, I mean, you'd never conclude that from
the flight attendant him in her throat slit and broad
daylight and dying on the mall on a Saturday as
she visits from Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
It never concluded from any of.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
That kind of stuff, right, So it's fascinating that they
just won't admit the root cause and they continue you
to just try.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
To put perfume on the pig.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And one of the questions I'll have for you at
the end of this so I play this more for
your own enjoyment on the way home, But at the.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
End of the day, is it ever going to change, or.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Will it just be this downhill spiral until it all
is just like Armageddon? Or at some point is Denver
going to elect a Republican? Now it won't be somebody
who's labeled a Republican, right, it would have to be
somebody who says they're unaffiliated but they're really a conservative.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Is Denver ever going to be willing to.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Do that to save itself?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
So enjoy the story, Denver Sixteenth Street Mall has some
real problems. First off, Americans general disinterest in spaces like
that that used to be far more popular.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Do you mind if I stop you there, Ryan?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I just did a quick little mental survey of all
the places I've been on cases and on vacation where
there are areas like the sixteen Street.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Mall that are thriving. Can I name one day? You
could name twenty the Riverwalk in San Antonio? There's one
for you. There's one for you. I mean, I'm trying
to think of a city that doesn't have one. I
mean that they're thriving all over America.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
The Magmiele and Chicago still even well say.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I would quitval with you on that.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I think the lefty policies have it's worst destroyed that.
I think they have had the pro crime stuff and
not great. Yeah, I think they've destroyed that one. But
but yeah, no, there are plenty of these that are thriving.
You cannot take Denver off the hook once you decide.
I mean, what did Denver used to be known as?
How did you envision Denver before you actually came here?
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Like it used to be, right, and I it was
thirty years ago, might maybe much more like Billings, Montana was,
And that's what I was described like.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
It'd be like a bigger version of Billings where I
had worked before.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
And I'm like, well, that's great.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Envisioned it as a city of great use and health,
and Colorado was known as the state of health, and
now it's known as the state of drugs, and Denver's
known as the drug capital of the world.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I remember as a.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Little kid and walking to the basement and my dad
on this little TV is watching a game and it
says mile high stadium, And I pictured this stadium literally,
you know, straight up at the top of a mile,
you know, and then it's a mile drop off.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
On either side.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I was young then, but you always picture Denver as
healthy and all about health, and then the left decided
to make it all about drugs, and then the mall
started going downhill. But they don't want to admit that.
They say, oh no, no, not all these spaces around
the country are plagued like this.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Not true.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Then you layer on vacant storefronts, long term construction, some
high profile crimes, and a political narrative that cities are
to be feared political narrative.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So the reason people aren't going down there is not
because they are to be feared because of lefty policies,
which mean any sane person would fear them. I bet
the family of the flight attendant or throat slit noon
on the mall when she's just down there shopping wish
that they.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Had feared it.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Oh no, but it's really conservatives misleading people. And think
of that worldview of this report, that people are dumb
sheep who can't figure out for themselves what's safe and
what's not.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
As construction finally wraps up, our Mark Salinger looks at
Denver's next challenge, convincing people to come back to the
Sixteenth Street mall.
Speaker 8 (05:25):
After spending one hundred and seventy five million dollars on
construction on the sixteenth Street mall. The concern now is
making sure people actually come back to enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
The experience today is not the ultimate experience that we
want on sixteenth, and we need to do a lot
to change that perception.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
The price tag for new art activities and marketing was
set at one point nine million dollars today in Denver
City Council money the Johnson Administration and the Downtown Denver
Partnership argue.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Is vital to mat I'm sure if people return to a.
Speaker 8 (05:53):
Street that's been filled with fences and hard hats for years, how.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Do we bring drug caller to the spaces that just
feel like someone's taking care of it.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
The nearly two million dollars would go towards trying to
get people to visit downtown again. It would fund events
like live music and street markets. It would pay for
security to make people feel safe in an area that's
seen several high profile crimes recently, and it would allocate
money for art to cover up empty storefronts where businesses
have moved out.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
This is part of.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
High profile crimes like al Capone or what are we
talking about here. It's a high profile crime.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
This is just part of covering up for the left.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, like, oh, the stabbing spree, right, the flight attendant
with the throat slit, and then even though the city.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Knew about this, they didn't put up this five of
our morning to the public. So you know, a guy
gets stabbed and killed the next day.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
No, it's not about a couple of high profile crimes.
It's about policies of the left, pro drug, pro criminal
policies that have made this a place people don't want
to go.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
And I'm sorry I up two million bucks with that.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
You could put fIF fifty million bucks worth of art
and guess what people are going to see? What's your
favorite artwork? Ryan ever? Not like the Rocky statue?
Speaker 8 (07:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Really, that's my favorite.
Speaker 9 (07:11):
Statue of liberty. Maybe be another way, Yeah, Mona Lisa Okay, okay,
you could put the.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Mona Lisa on the sixteen Street mall.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Sure right now.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Maybe if it heavy, heavy security, you get people to
go down there for a little bit. But what people
are going to see is they're going to see the zombies.
They're going to see the zombies, right, like the zombie
who who slashed that flight attendant's throat and killed all
those others. They're going to see all these zombies who
at one time were healthy, little kids, and they were
people with the future, and they've been made zombies by drugs.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
They've been made zombies by alcohol.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
You throw in mental illness, and then policies of the
left that protect criminals. Even with the Mona Lisa down there,
that's what people are going to see because guess what,
the Mona Lisa ain't worth dying for.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Broader strategy for downtown. Council members had concerns.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Just it pains me to see what it currently is.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
And serious questions about how to move forward from the
challenges that the area has faced since the construction started.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Doesn't matter how you make something, if it still brings
up memories for people, we're never going.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
To break through that.
Speaker 8 (08:19):
Downtown Denver has seen a thirty five percent decrease in
property and sales tax revenue since the beginning of the
pandemic that'scrossed the city forty pandemic.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Go back to legalization in marijuana, Go back to every
important stat in Colorado starting with the legalization of marijuana.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And what do you see, more bad stuff less good stuff.
I've million dollars. Vacant dark retail space is not good
for anyone.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
The money has already been spent on construction. Now the
city needs to convince people to come back.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
This is about how do we really make the most
of this infrastructure investment by being able to show how
is there no discussion whatsoever is piece about drugs and
about legalization of drugs.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
And about all of these drug.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Addicted people particularly, And they're all said cases my heart
breaks from true. But when you've just had fourteen very
prominent restaurant tours who have walked the talk, put their heart,
their soul, their money into their restaurants down there, and
they're saying, mister Mayor, it's falling apart.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
You're making it worse.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You know, people aren't going to come down here and
watch somebody defecate in the street outside the restaurant. And
it all goes back to these pro drug, pro crime policies.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Clean it up and clear it out. That's the answer.
I mean, there's about all these ancillary issues and that
the construction.
Speaker 9 (09:42):
And people don't want to come down because the businesses
aren't there the tax revenues.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Now, why are all those things happening It's exactly what
you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
And they will never change. The Left will never change
those policies. So where does it end? I would love
your take, what is the fix? Where does it end?
Because we aren't darkess cursors were candle lighters three or
three someone three eight two five five text d an
five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
BOMBI yeah, and please I don't. I hope nobody ever
thinks when I talk about the reality of downtown Tenver
now and just so many people who act like zombies,
that I'm ever making fun of any of.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Those people or denigrating them or anything.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Not at all.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
My heart breaks for all of them. And you know
I said thereby but for the grace of God go I.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
And and because no matter how strong willed the person
is or anything else, you talk about the the you know,
you talk about this Krakawana or so now you talk
about other drugs, talk about this fent, and all the
Left is let pour into the country. I mean that
stuff can can grab and ruin the strongest willed person
in a heartbeat. So this human disaster. You see in
(11:00):
downtown Denver, you see eating away at downtown Denver. Look
at what the restaurant tours wrote, you know, to Johnston.
Mike Johnson very critical of him, saying it's all falling apart.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
No, I'm never ever.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Doing anything other than being sad and respectful and praying
for you know, the people in that situation. What drives
me crazy are these lefties who pass all these policies
because they have their own political motives and they know
it's going to wreak this kind of human devastation, but
they don't care at all about these people as long
as it furthers their political ends. And so that the
(11:33):
perfect example of that is now that you have a
six Streen Street mall, it ain't coming back until they
do away with these pro drug, pro crime lefty policies.
The mall isn't going to come back. You know, you
can put Mona Lisa down there. I've seen Mona Lisa.
I'm glad I saw Mona Lisa, but she ain't worth
dying for. So you can do anything you want to.
(11:54):
It ain't coming back until they change those policies. But
then you get these stories that try to blame it
on the right for saying there's crime in the cities.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
No people can figure that out. So what is the fix?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Right?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
What is the fix?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
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number takes d A N five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I'm giving you mine.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
They've got to and this doesn't take any rocket science
or archaeologist or anything like that. You go back and
look at when it was better than this. Oh when
was that, well before you legalize drugs and put all
these pro criminal laws in Yeah, right, yes, so yeah,
So what do you think the fix is?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
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Speaker 1 (12:38):
Dan, you should contact Google and why the Dame Kaplis
show does not come up?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Interesting?
Speaker 10 (12:43):
Not?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
It comes up as Kaplin kp l I N. The
Google is smarter than that. You're a fighter. Don't stand
for this. I will not stand for this another minute.
So no, we would thank you. Thank you for that
heads up, Chexter, really do appreciate that.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
I just googled it and the first thing comes up
is Dan Kaplis. Okay, high heart, it's at the top
of the bab.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Well that's that's progress. They've listened to our Texter.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Dan, I was down in downtown Denver yesterday and saw
at least five people shooting up drugs right there in
the middle of the park. There's no way I'd bring
my family down there. And I was thinking, how sad
it is. I mentioned it Tamy the other day. We
used to go down to the mall. We used to
go down to the mall, like before all of this
legalized drug and legalized crime.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Or you know, pro criminal laws.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
We used to love. We took the kids down there.
We'd go Remember they used to have big ESPN zone
on the mall.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I think that's what it called.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
We go there and we get a pizza in we'd
you know, play some of their arcade games. Yeah, you
can drag me down there right now. I mean every
now and there I have to go down there for
a case.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
I love the.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Courthouse down there by the way, But every now and
then I got a meeting on the mall or something.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I just absolutely dreaded Dan.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Denver's trying to put lipstick on a pig and make
you think all is well in downtown that from Alexa.
There ain't enough lipstick in all of America for that one.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
So why do you think they keep doing this?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
They just keep pouring millions and millions and millions into
redoing this and that, and then the people don't come,
and they keep doing more of it. They denial is
not just a river in Egypt, right. I mean, they
will not admit what is at the heart of all this, Dan.
They're all thriving pertaining tom al like areas, except the
ones run over by crime, like Santa Monica Promenade. Oh,
(14:26):
that is so true in Santa Monica, you know. And
again it just comes back to those lefty policies. So, Dan,
While I regret my vote for the legalization of recreational
marijuana in Colorado, mostly because I believe it put a
destination target on Colorado for stoners from around the country
and many of the issues that accompany them, I would
(14:49):
still consider voting for national legalization.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I would love to hear the rationale behind that, because
I to say that aside. I also believe that while
marijuana may contribute to suicide rates teen and others, and
then it gets into much bigger issues. Whoa wait a second,
shouldn't that be the end of the conversation. I mean,
once the society acknowledges and people in Colorado just don't
know it right now, right because much, not all, much
(15:14):
of the media buries these marijuana horror stories because I mean,
I think the media has a vested interest in getting
that cash someday. But that aside, and much of the
media right is just affiliated with the left that wants
more drugs, wants more stoners because then they're more dependent
on government and they vote left. But once the people
(15:36):
of the state of Colorado would tell me, if you
agree with this premise, ride, if every voting Colorado now
for a fact that teen suicide has dramatically increased his
legalization of marijuana and almost half the kids who kill
themselves in marijuana in their system, what do you think
(15:58):
the vote would be to repeal Amendments six four if every.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
Voter knew that, if they knew that and were informed,
then yeah, I mean, that would be overwhelming sixty forty, Elisa.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
People are good in Colorado. Vast majority of people are good.
I don't care what party they're with. And if they
knew that fact, yeah, people would say that's too high
a price to pay. That is too high a price
to pay, and there are a lot more prices than that.
So three or three someone three eight two five five
text d an five seven seven three nine. We have
(16:29):
another candidate for GOP chair coming up right, Darcy Shanning's
going to join us at five thirty six yep.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
And she just appeared with Kyle Clark online next.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
And the reason that we keep doing these hits with
GOP chair candidates is I think it's really really important
to saving the state that we elect Republicans to these
big state wide offices, and that's not going to happen
without a healthy Colorado or GOP.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Maybe there's some math out there.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I'm not familiar with, Ryan, but I.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Don't see how a Republican candidate wins statewide without a
unified GOP in Colorado and a unified GOP electorate.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
It.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
If somebody's wearing some new math, hey turn me on
to it. But I think that's what it's gonna take.
So that's why I think this party chair race is
so important, and so that's why we keep popping these
candidates on. And I thought the last interview was absolutely
fascinating and hopefully you'll tune into that.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Uh one of the something else I want.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
To discuss here, some else I want to dis Guy
and I know it's not local, but it is so important,
and it's local in that sense, right, affects all of us.
I don't have time to play this hit right now.
But John Bolton, who has sat here in studio with
me when he was the US Ambassador to the United Nations,
and John Bolton coming out and seeing this ceasefire is
bad for Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
What in the world's the alternative.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Trump's just say? See.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I think John Bolton hates Trump so much right now
that's getting in the way of his thinking. And it's
a person think between John Bolton and Trump. Trump's just
trying to stop the bloodshed. It's Europe that abandoned Ukraine
and allowed evil Putin.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
To gain territory.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
So you're gonna tell Ukraine to just keep fighting and dying.
You're on the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 11 (18:22):
Like current up Chairman Williams, like President Trump, use name
calling as a political strategy, right. I mean, you've called
former President Joe Biden a pedophile. You've called the mayor
pro tem of monumental terrorists, You've called the governor communist,
You've called the Attorney general communists, You've called me a communist,
which is fine because we get along. But why is
name calling a winning political strategy in this state?
Speaker 12 (18:42):
You know, I don't think it's always I don't think
it's always correct. It's not always a winning strategy.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Sometimes it is.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
Sometimes it helps us because you know, you've got.
Speaker 12 (18:51):
That you get that attention online, you get that media
around you, and that, by and large a lot of
the time is what affects Shange.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
That's Darcy Shine.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
In our next guest with Kyle Clark, Darcy of course
running for GOP chair.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Welcome back, Darcy. How you doing.
Speaker 10 (19:08):
I'm good. How are you? Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Dan, Oh, my pleasure anytime. How goes the battle?
Speaker 9 (19:14):
Good?
Speaker 10 (19:14):
I'm having so much fun. So just going out seeing
everybody and you know, getting in the media and I'm
enjoying interacting with everybody. It's been great.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
It looks like you're having fun.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
And I mean your decision to go on with Kyle Clark,
I think that's great. I mean, that's the difference right
between the right and left. You know, it's left scared
of its own shadow. You know, it won't come on
a show like this or anything else. And conservatives, Eh,
you want to talk, let's sit down.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
If it's a fair fight, we'll win exactly.
Speaker 10 (19:43):
Yeah, No, it was so much fun. When he was
originally texting me about the Tina Peters comments that I
had made on Jeff and Bill. You know that I
called on Pam Bonny to look into the judge and
so then he said, Hey, I'm going to have everybody on.
Do you want to come on? And I was like, yeah,
I do, and I want.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
To take that spot too, And so tell everybody what
at this point the election is, when, and how's it
shaping up?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And above all, I think everybody agrees, right, you have to.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Have a unified GOP to have a chance to win
the state wide races, and how do you get it there?
Speaker 10 (20:16):
Yeah, So the election is March twenty ninth, and that
is nine o'clock in the morning. It's a hybrid online
and then in the spring. I can't remember the exact location,
they just I think figured out the location because it
was moved from Castrock, but we'll post that it actually
posted everywhere anyways. So yeah, unified DOP. I mean, listen,
(20:36):
like I've said in the past, we're never nobody's ever
going to be totally unified. But I've been working really
hard to build an infrastructure and build fundraising already that
we can be proud of. So about going into the
twenty twenty five school board races with my Build our
Benches initiative, We're able to have momentum, donor confidence, volunteer confidence.
(20:58):
We're going to launch SUD into twenty two twenty six
and take back state seats and can We're going to
We're building something so I believe candidates and elected officials
and volunteers and activists and everyday voters can be proud of.
And that's what I'm most proud of right now. That's
why I'm having so much fun going around seeing everybody
(21:19):
at the meetings, because I mean, I just can't imagine
doing anything else right now. This is like this is
we have to build something that we can take Colorado
back with.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
You know, I'm glad you used that Prouder phrase because
I really do think it's important that you know, and
you're right, Listen, you're never going to have short of heaven.
You're never going to have pertinent, perfect unity or coherence.
But I think you got to get the color or
gop to the point right where where the vast majority
of Republicans, at least in the state are proud of
(21:50):
the Colorado GOP because I don't with the maths, I
don't know how any of our candidates win statewide without
a roll bust, you know, lovel of support from Republican.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
Voters exactly exactly, And that's why we have to have,
Like I said, when I stay building, I mean everything
from our g O TV efforts, our outreach, our Hispanic outreach,
our black outreach, going into the high schools, capturing the
young Republicans. I mean, it's everything. It's having on point
data and right now we just we don't have any
(22:24):
of those things. So that's what I want to work
really hard to build to that. You know, whether I
am eventually taken out one day or get hit by
a bus or whatever, that when I'm not share anymore,
the GP can look back and say, you know what,
like she lest it better than she found it, and
I say the same thing about the state of Colorado
(22:45):
in our country. That's that's our duty.
Speaker 13 (22:46):
That's what we do as leaders, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I mean, that's what we're put on the planet for,
right So yeah, how can people learn more about you.
Speaker 10 (22:55):
So you can go to my website Rcy for chair.
That's THEA r C y f O rshare dot com.
Twitter is Darcy and then the number four CEO. But
if you just start typing my name and Google like
Darcy sc h O E M I n G, I
come right up because I have such an uncommon name.
(23:16):
And listen, you guys have heard me for a month
and a half now talk about my platform. But it's
not all about me. Everyone is welcome in my Colorado gup,
our Colorado gup. So I want to sit down and
talk to you, have a phone call, you know, go
out to coffee, whatever it may be. So send me
a text and we'll get together. And I want to
hear everyone's vision for our state.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
You are the energizer, Darcy. There is no doubt about that.
So yeah, yeah, no, Well.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I appreciate the time.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I'm sure we'll talk again soon.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
Thank you, Dan, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Have a good night, sure saying you too.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
That is at Darcy Shanan And now it's great to
have these chair candidates on because it's really really going
to matter, right if the GP is going to have a.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Chance, and it should have a chance. The way these
things are shaping up, it should have a chance. Wow,
if you just joined us.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Thank you nice to have it so light out and
warm and sunny this time of night. It just makes
everything better, doesn't it. Hey, let me get to this.
This is Representative Keith's self and he's the Republican.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Committee chair.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
I believe when he introduces this Representative Sarah McBride is
mister McBride, and everything goes crazy. And what would you
have done if you were chair? How do you think
this situation should be handled? When you have a male
who is identifying as female and wants to be referred
(24:43):
to as a woman, and it's in a congressional setting
like this, how do you think it should be handled?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Three?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Or three? Someone three eight two five five takes d
an five seven.
Speaker 11 (24:53):
Seven three Now Hena's the representative from Delaware, mister McBride, Thank.
Speaker 12 (24:59):
You, madam, Chair ranking Member Keating also wonderful Chairman.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Could you repeat your instruction again, please?
Speaker 9 (25:07):
Yes, we have set the standard on the floor of
the House, and I'm simply what.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Is that standard? Mister chairman? Would you repeat what you
just said?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
You introduced a duly elected representative from the United States
of America, Please, I will Does the fact that the
individual is a duly elected congressperson change biology?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Does it change science? Right now?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I think there's a solution here and I want to
get to it. But is that the suggestion from this
democrat here that because somebody rises to a certain rank
of power, you have to lie about what their gender is?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
The representative from Delaware mister mcbriene.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Mister chairman, you are out of order. That's a shaman.
Have you no decency?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
The original I mean, I have come to know you
a little bit, but this is not decent.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
We will continue this. You will not continue it with me.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Unless you introduce a duly elected.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Representative the right way.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
The right way.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
This hearing is adjourned.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
It's obviously just childishness because you couldn't describe. But what
is the right way? Listen, don't you avoid this whole
thing by first? You can't lie, right. I'm never going
to say any committee chair or anybody else should ever
ever ever be required to lie and say that east
is west, or north is south, or black is white
(26:38):
or anything like that. So nobody should ever be forced
to lie and say that man's a woman or that
woman's a man. No, this is America. You can't force
somebody to do that. Now, don't you just avoid all
of that or just avoid the gender reference. Just you
can use the name.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I don't think there's anything wrong with you in the name,
but you can't require people to lie. And that's to
me Ryan, that that's what's.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Behind ninety nine percent of this transcendity from the left,
because the trans people I know, Like, how many trans people.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Do you know? Personally? Four or five more than I do.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
But but the trans people I know every single good people.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
They just want to live their life.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
They they're not looking to change our politics or change.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
The world or anything like that. I think what's happened here.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Is is you've got these lefties who have seized on
this issue so they can establish the precedent that's necessary
for the left win, which is that that people are
at through this issue willing to say things they are
(27:50):
they know are not true in order to avoid being canceled,
in order to avoid the different penalties the left wants
to win fly. I think the left has seized on
this issue and they're losing it. Thank Heavens. They've seized
on this issue to try to force Americans to bend
the knee and.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Be willing to.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Separate from the way they were.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Raised as children, separate from their core values, separate from
their faith, and be willing to lie, be willing to
say things that they know are not true in order
to avoid being canceled and otherwise punished. That's why I
think the left has seized this issue, and thank god,
(28:36):
people have risen up against it. Not against trans people,
that's not the point, but that risen up against being
forced to say things you are no, we're not true,
being forced to say things that are against your faith.
People have risen up against that, and it's beautiful to see.
And that's why this whole play by the left is
crumbling before our eyes.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
You're on the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Barado Springs, Colorado. Chris, you're on the Dankaplas Show.
Speaker 13 (29:07):
Welcome, Hey Dan, thanks for having me back on. You
know three things that a state party should chair should
do is raise money, fine candidates for open seats, and
not think you're in charge of anything. Pardon I was
just run. I was just out there walking.
Speaker 10 (29:28):
No.
Speaker 13 (29:30):
Yeah, they've off the grabber, my friends. But my point
is is that they party chairs not in charge of anything.
The people who actually get elected to office and receive
votes or in charge of the things.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Truly, and you know one of the things.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
And you get to a good point, Chris, is the
up in Colorado is going to come back. And I
think the key is going to be winning that one
big statewide race because then that elected official, that senator
or governor, becomes the face of the party. And here
he you know, right, I mean that they become the
de facto leader of the party, no matter how good
(30:13):
your GOP chair is.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
That person's not getting elected statewide unless you've got a
really well functioning Colorado GOP and all the grassroots support.
Because you and I both know, I'm assuming you know
this that it is those grassroots folks working real hard
in the trenches all the time, who you know, never
show up in the headlines. If you don't have that
in place, you're not winning.
Speaker 13 (30:38):
Yeah. Well, you know who's not going to help us
win at that, Darcy lady, Because you know I've got
texts her from her to me calling me disgusting. She
called me something about I took blood money from somebody?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
What's what's behind all this? What's the issue?
Speaker 13 (30:55):
All right?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
What's what's the issue? I mean why she.
Speaker 13 (31:01):
Was Darcy is holy and she doesn't have the state
party or any party chair of anything. Yea, he is.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Basically there's something going.
Speaker 13 (31:12):
On her congressional distort.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I can tell you that she obviously has a beef
with your I was just trying to get a better
understanding of what what's underlying that. But but Chris appreciated, Well,
it's not just me that she called disgusting and part
of the Pueblo mafia whatever that is.
Speaker 13 (31:28):
But she's called a number of other people these sort
of things. And she's wholly she's wholly unqual unqualified. But
she doesn't have the temper in charge you can, I mean,
you know, I mean, she's think leader from the edge
of the counting telling me that I'm disgusting and that
(31:49):
I've taken bloody What kind of party leader is that?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
What's behind the blood money thing?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 13 (31:56):
You have to ask her.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Okay, well yeah, but I wasn't aware of this. So
the next thing, know, yeah.
Speaker 13 (32:01):
Next thing you know is I go to I go
to a U a debate between uh her uh pray
Williams and that way. You start screaming at me, Well, it.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Sounds like there's something between you two. Can you educate
us on that? What's what's the underlying beat?
Speaker 13 (32:20):
But she starts screaming to me at such an extent
that the police had to come over and separate her.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Okay, Chris, I would love to eat.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
I'm not trying to shut you down.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I just want to know what's underlying this is anybody
listening once to know, and if you're willing to tell me, great,
If you're not, I respect that, But otherwise we don't
know what you're talking about.
Speaker 13 (32:41):
What's underlying is that? I mean, you don't have to
ask her?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Well, okay, you're telling me you've never met her before. Boss,
You have no idea who she has, no idea what
she's talking about, So we have to ask her.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
I mean, okay, then what is it?
Speaker 2 (32:57):
What's what's underlying all this?
Speaker 13 (32:59):
What's the youn't have to ask her?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Okay, Okay, my friend.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
It's grateful for the call, but we are.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Getting a little circular because I've got to ask the
questions that people in the car would be asking, and
they want to know what the beef is so they
can weigh this and evaluate it. Chris, welcome to give
us a call back text or Dan. Can the GOP
win without being more libertarian than conservative Christian? The latter
is a turn off to a good chunk of the
middle and wants government out of personal lives and decisions.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Boy, I'd love to have.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
That conversation, Texter, because my belief is this that if
Colorado's vote their faith, and that doesn't mean Catholic voting
for Catholic or anything like that, but if they vote
for candidates who who are going to act consistent with
the core principles of one's faith, that's how the GOP
wins for the Democrats to win in Colorado right now,
(33:49):
And I think Polis has implicitly acknowledged it that the
Democrats have to separate voters from their faith. So I
don't think the GOP should be striving to move away
from people of faith or people voting their faith. I
think the GOP should be trying to convince everybody in
the state, no matter what party they're in, no matter
(34:10):
what faith they have, Hey, if you vote your faith,
which you really should, right if it's really your faith,
you can't vote for the left, but they were left
ended on that note.
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