August 14, 2025 • 35 mins
President Trump laying down the law in Washington, D.C. is going over well with American citizens and voters, and Democrats just can't get their footing trying to fight on the losing side of stopping crime.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caples and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Kaplis Show. Please be sure to
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single day on your favorite podcast platform. Yeah, a lot
of fighting is still left to do. Glad you're here.
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Thank you to the sheriff. Sheriff Steve Reims filling in
the last couple of days when I was important. Then
we rolled into a great experience. And the only reason
I mentioned is I think it applies to all of
our lives, no matter what we happen to do for
a living, and that is you know, we rolled straight
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from court into the trial prep cabin and locked ourselves
away and we just worked all the rest of the day,
most of the night, and through the day today up
till showtime, totally focused on the case. And the broader
point obviously is not my case. The broader point is
just said, as you know, life is so fast, they're
just rarely I would bet in your life, in any
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life these days, is there time just to stop block
everything out and focus on one thing. So thank you
to Sheriff Steve for doing the show for a couple
of days so that we could do that, and it
was just fantastic and incredibly productive. But I think everybody
listening just knows in their own life there just isn't
that kind of time, and I think everybody misses it
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like a lot, right, I mean, some really cool stuff
going on with what Trump is doing in DC. We
have some fun sound from that. I mean, it's it's
funn in two ways. It's it's fun in the sense
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that something bold and smart is being done that that's
likely to save innocent life. That's fun. It's fun to
watch more lefty heads explode. Because long term, you know,
can't just ride the Trump to victory every time. You know,
this is the last term he can serve, and so
it's going to be a matter of exposing the Democratic
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Party for what it has truly become in Colorado and nationally.
To have that long term benefit, combined with the great
bench we talk about all the time for the GOP.
But yeah, DEM's getting exposed on this one in DC two.
And part of the big problem, you know it if
you're listening to the show in Colorado, is that the
modern Democratic Party, unlike a lot of Democrats, the modern
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Democratic Party has become so openly pro criminal, so it
just can't help itself and going after Trump on this.
So we'll have some fun sound from that. There's there's
a bunch of stuff going on locally. I want to
get into with you and this story I find fascinating.
I hope you do, and if you do, give me
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a call. Three oh three seven one three A two
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you know, because it goes to this broader point of
government and power and how much is too much and
freedom of speech and kind of a fresh context. This
is a seth claiman piece in the Denver Post. I'll
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give you the pertinent pieces Petter. Social media companies sue
Colorado over new pop up warnings law aimed at young users.
So as you'll hear the gist of it is, you know,
Colorado legislature passed alawn. There was significant bipartisan support for
this passed a law that just said, hey, social media companies,
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you know, if somebody is under eighteen and then you
know they've been on a certain period of time or
on overnight, you got to give them some warnings. And
here's what the warnings have to say. So that's the
gist of it. And you've got all these big hitters.
You know Meta, which owns as you probably know, Facebook
and Instagram. You got x you got Google, you got Reddit.
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They've all joined together to sue to try to stop
the requirements of this bill. And what they're saying is, hey,
this is unconstitutional. This is a violation of our freedom
of speech because the government is forcing us to say something,
and it's forcing us to express the government's opinion on
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something that's still in dispute. So i'll give you a
quote from the lawsuit. At its core, this case is
about one thing, compelled speech. Colorado is trying to force
private websites to act as a mouthpiece for its preferred message.
The state is free to share it to you on
any topic it wishes, but it cannot force private businesses
to speak for it. So would love your take on this.
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I mean, listen, I think any sane person knows right
that social media is bad for these kids, and it's
bad in so many different ways. If you disagree with
the premise, we'll send the limo. Make you the first
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I mean, you don't even have to have kids at
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age whatever. It's just bad, I think, and I'd love
to know your experience. I think it actually affects our brains.
I mean, just the whole screen thing. You know, I'm
not a teenager anymore, but the kids call me screenager.
And I'm not sitting there looking at some goofy game
that I'm trying to beat a billion people out at.
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I'm looking at stuff for work, I'm prepping for this show, etc.
And sometimes I'm looking at fun things. But but the
screen addicts you. The screen addicts you. There's something about
the effect on the brain. Whether it's the lights that
colors the information, but there's a rush that comes with it.
You know, you're probably the same as me, because you know,
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like me, you're listening to a show like this, and
so for me, part of the part of the rush,
part of the high, is just the information I just
crave information on interesting things, and I'm sure part of
it's the light that colors everything else. But then kids,
I mean, so much more susceptible, right, just the human
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anatomy and the physiology of the brain, et cetera. And
then that's before you even get to the emotional piece.
And you know, it's hard for me to even imagine.
And you know, it's not like I'm agent or anything,
but it's hard for me to even imagine being back
in those years, like you know, grammar school, high school,
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and having to deal with all the emotional part of
social media and all that. So from a policy standpoint,
I agree with the people who say this stuff is
bad for you and really want kids to be worn.
But where it gets tough is at what point do
you let the government compel the speech. I do think
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there are certain situations where you've got to let the
government warrant right when something is one hundred percent black
and white when it comes to the science, the cause
of the harm, et cetera, such as cigarettes, such as marijuana.
But the question is have we In my mind, I
think the analysis is have we reached that point? On
social media? I think from a common sense standpoint, the
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University of Real Life. Yeah, we all know it's true.
And is that enough then to justify in your mind,
just from a policy standpoint, justify the government forcing this
speech on these companies or when it comes to something
as radical and dramatic as the government compelling speech, do
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you need more? Do you need more to do that? Now?
Obviously you know this bill was bipartisan. We've seen this
an incredibly illegal, dangerous on American conduct by the Democrats
in Colorado, led by police and the rest of the bunch,
you know, to crush faith and to compel people of
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faith to speak the way poll us in the left
wants want them to speak and to speak their message.
And that's hideous. I mean, that is so absolutely one
hundred percent anti American. And then you look at a
scenario like this where you don't have the government compelling
that kind of speech against somebody's core religious beliefs, but
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you have a government compelling a business to take a
position on an issue, on a debated issue. And do
you think it's right? Is the first question. Then the
second question, of course, is, no matter what any of
us think about the right and wrong, is it actually constitutional?
So I would love to get your take on that.
And I'd also really like to expand, as we're kicking
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around other things, expand this conversation about social media and screens.
And I'd love to know parents suggestions out there. You know,
we're blessed with like the two greatest kids in the world,
and they're, you know, twenty five and as of Tuesday,
I can't believe it, Joe will be twenty eight. So
they're through those more perilous when it comes to screens
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and influence, et cetera early years. But just wonder, you know,
if they're growing up now, you know, well, what do
you do about cell phones for kids? And can we
all just agree on this? Can we all just agree
that every single school in Colorado should ban cell phones
high school and below that the cell phone should not
be in class I mean hallway. Yeah, maybe I have
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to have them in a hallway, but there shouldn't be
any live cell phone, in my opinion, allowed in any
high school classroom anywhere. And there shouldn't be any live
cell phone allowed any on any student, on any student
on their person below high school, in any school in Colorado.
What do you think? Three or three? Seven? One? Three
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Speaker 2 (09:51):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Trump looks at the city visually like a real estate agent.
He wants to be we outify the city, like he's
doing at the White House with that ridiculous ballroom he's
putting in and getting rid of the rose garden. That's
trunk work. But I think it shows strength. I agree
with you. I think this is a strength move against
the big cities who are a difficult situation on crime
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and the murder rate. You can't keep saying violent crime
is down, with the murder rates up to the average person.
The murder RUP's about life and death. You don't brag
about a rising murder rate. And the Democrats are I
agree with you, Migan, they're falling into the trap of
defending what's indefensible.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Boy, that is so true, right, But getting back to
the really important starting point, which is wait, Trump is
making things better. Trump is saving lives. And that the
reason I think it matters to you and me here
is obviously Colorado, which, with all our natural blessings, Colorado,
which should be the lowest crime state in America? Can
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anybody make any kind of logical argument as to why
the UTTER should be anything other than the lowest crime
state in the USA. And yet we have exploding crime
all over the place, right, And when lefties say, well,
the crime rate in Denver is down x this year,
that that's like saying some guy who is going one
hundred and twenty through a school zone is now going
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one hundred. It doesn't make the kids anymore safe. That's
not an original point, but I really like that one.
And so yeah, so that's the craziness and everybody knows it.
But I think politically and more important in terms of policy,
that can break through and make us safer. Politically, what
it's going to take for the GOP is just something,
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a really dramatic fix. And you know, I've been pushing
this for years on air. I think it's going to
take a ballot measure in the end. But can you
imagine we know this works, right. I call it the
capitalist Plan, which is probably a little obnoxious, but nobody
else has claimed it. But if we took take an
individual city, I'd love to see it be statewide harder
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to off. But take Denver and if all of a sudden,
Denver just instantly just doubled Now I'd like to see more,
but just doubled the size of the police force. And
Denver was paying people fully and fully staffed. Imagine the
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ways that would pay off, pay off economically in terms
of keeping business, keeping people, attracting business, attracting people, but
pay off in the way that matters a thousand times
more than that, which is just quality of life and
the ability to just enjoy life. Because people talk about
the cost of crime, and democrats always try to limit
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that to the people who get whacked or god forbid that,
you know, the people who get raped. But the cost
of crime in a city left he controlled city like Denver.
Don't blame law enforcement. If you let law enforcement do
their job, they'll do their job. Blame the politicians who
handcuff law enforcement. But the point being that the victims
of crime go way beyond the people who get the
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bullet put in their head or the people who get
mugged or whatever. Everybody who has to alter their lifestyle
unnaturally is a victim of this high crime. And whether
there's a little less high crime this year than the
high crime last year, that's not the standard. So at
least double the police force pay fully, have the reputation
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across America, the very best police are going to want
to stay on the force and come and join the force,
and that includes support staff as well, and then watch
it pay for itself over and over again. And it
would cost less than what Mike Johnston is spending on
this misbegotten program for the homeless, which which is not
going to help the homeless long term. So yeah, that's
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how you make places safer. It's within our reach. And
the fact that the Democrats are so anti cop obviously,
but just the fact that we haven't done that yet
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five seven seven three nine. And the other thing we
have to keep in mind in DC. And we'll play
some of that founding sound because it is so important,
but it also helps reveal the Democrats. Right. So here's
another example that this guy, this Anthony Coley cuts seven.
He's on MSNBC and here's what he says. I live
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in Washington. This is personal for me.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Many people are frustrated with crime that we see, particularly
committed by juveniles in the In the city of Washington,
people are frustrated Willie that they when they go to
CBS to buy the odorant, that they have to get
it from behind locked plexiglass.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Right.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
But the response here, and you know, let me say this, right,
this is not these are not just random man. Does
what we see in Washington Post polling among others, is
that roughly half of DC residents, mostly half of DC
resident view this as a serious problem or an extremely
serious problem.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah, in the other half are probably running from criminals
and can't be polled. But when you love to see
that in Colorado? When'd you love to see just that
investment again? I think it can only happen through a bond,
pardon me, through a ballot measure. But that's where you
could really start to make some big, big progress. And
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can you imagine if there's a city, particularly larger one
that could accommodate the infrastructure, city gets the reputation as
being like the safest city in America or one of
the safest, particularly if it has all the other advantages
of being in Colorado. You'd have to fight off the
fortune one hundred companies with the stick, and Denver would
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no longer be the magnet for bud tenders, you know,
and that sort of thing. I mean, it's within our grasps.
So good to see Trump leading the way. And for
those who say, oh, it's illegal, this is that that
you know my understanding the law here, and you know
there will be lawsuits and everything else if the President
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pushes it beyond the thirty days. But my understanding is
that d C has home rule more or less by
the grace of the US Congress. That the US Congress
could convert that into a federal district and there just
wouldn't be any local home rule Washington, d C. And
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what do you think do you think it should be?
Do you think that the DC that should be ended
and that it should just become a federal district. I
have a hard time seeing the downside of that, And
obviously it could be fully justified consistent with you know,
the purpose of the US Constitution. I mean, how can
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you have the seat of federal government in a place
where the ability to walk down the street is controlled
by a local government that may be hostile to the
federal government. I mean, that's madness and really bad for
the people some Texters. This is a nice one. Thank you.
Dan's so glad to have you back, but gone again
in September. Sure, your clients need you, but this year
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you've been gone so much and we miss you. That
is so thoughtful. Thank you. And yeah, I have been
gone a lot. You know that's not like me. But
I'm a trial lawyer and when you run into a
run of trials like this, that's the priority. And as
everybody knows, in your own job, you got to do it.
You got to do it well, you got to do
the prep you need to do. I can tell you
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calendar wise that after this month long trial in September
it will not be this heavy, so I won't miss
as much time and air. But thank you to everybody
for bearing with it. But I already know what you're thinking, right,
which is it's better when I'm gone because the people
who fill in are so good, good, and it's great
to have that variety as well. You would agree with that,
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right Ryan. I'm just checking to make.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Sure I'm just sending that wheel.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
And yeah, I think Sheriff Steve Reims had really come
into his own as a host too.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah, yeah, I think he's always been in his own.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Not in his zone, come into his own.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
That's what I said. I think he's always been in
his own. That's like philosophy in his zone.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Though he might do that too.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Who's that too? What do you think the key is
to getting in the zone? Good question. Everybody's been in
the zone right in different ways in their life. That's
so interesting to me, because, yeah, when we all get
out of our way right and just get into that zone,
it's almost unlimited what you can do. Three or three
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Dave Kapitlas Show.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
October was an effort to destroy the State of Israel,
the largest loss of Jewish life since.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
The Holy Gospel.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
And here we are almost two years later, and Israel's
the bad guy.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Israel is not the bad guy, They're the good guy.
The bad guys so the rag wal Islamis who would
kill everybody in this room.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
They could.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
So I haven't lost my vision of right and wrong.
When it comes to foreign policy. President Trump has stood
up for all the right things, and he stood up
against wrong things death.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Light Rago.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Lindsey Graham, who then goes on to say that God
will pull the plug on us, says Lindsay Graham if
we don't support Israel. So what do you think about that?
It's such an interesting concept, right, and yeah, you know
Abraham Lincoln famously quoted on that. You know, when asked
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if God is on our side? His response, so, I say,
we just need to be worried about being on God's side.
But do you ever think about that? Do you ever
think about Okay? Obviously, I mean if if you agree
with the Founders and I do, that we exist because
of divine providence, because they really couldn't have accomplished what
they did without that, despite their heroism and courage. You know,
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what would it take? What would it take for quote,
as Lindsey Graham said, God to pull the plug on
us three oh three seven to one three eight two
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seven three nine. Obviously that'd be horrible for us, horrible
for the world. Because Ryan, you are the great student
of history, at least Woodrow Wilson history. But I don't
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think there's any doubt in any historian's mind that if
not for the United States of America, that the world
would right now be be in darkness and rule by evil,
I mean, just thoroughly everywhere.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
If the United States had continued to stay out of
World War Two, which there was considerable pushback against it
because of what happened with our boys in World War
One and how many were lost. There was a real
reticence for Americans to get behind a war effort that
was so many miles away that we didn't feel it
affected us until, of course, Pearl Harbor was struck. But
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Winston Churchill was begging Franklin Delano Roosevelt to join on
behalf of the British military, and they were barely able
to stave off the Germans. And you figure if the
Americans had not joined in, not only would the war
have been lost, Britain probably would have been conquered as well,
that whole continent would have been under Nazi rule.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah, right. And then obviously evil gains such strengths right
materially and otherwise, and develops militarily nuclear weapons not far behind, right,
that even the great, mighty, courageous United States of America
probably then gets rolled by a fully empowered you conquering evil.
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So yeah, so I'm with the founders on this. Divine
providence allowed this nation to be formed and to continue
and to work through.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
You know, it's really really hard problems and failures, and
the world is free because of it right now. But what,
if anything, would it take do you think to lose that?
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on President Trump in this meeting with Putin nutruly as
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Satan on Earth. A couple of more texts Dan, Yes,
I d C should be a federal district. No more
blanking home rule for them. I just want to know,
does anybody have a compelling case to have Washington d
C continue to exist as a home rule jurisdiction. I mean,
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what would that compelling case be? Yeah, it seems to
me such an obvious case, you know, for federal jurisdiction
that particular district, right, that federalizing that district because the
US Constitution itself grants the power for obvious reasons. So
why the way things have developed? What reason would there
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be not to. I'd love to get somebody's take on that. Dan,
We need to tell the entire population of Colorado that
Colorado is second in crime. Disgusting, and we know it's
all because of the Democrats and their policies. Time to
take our state back from the sellouts. Well, there can
be no doubt about that, because again with Colorado, you know,
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you think of all the natural advantages that we've been
given that there's no no reason for Colorado, I think,
to be anything other than maybe top What would you
argue three four lowest crime rates in the country. I mean,
what reason would there be for it to be any
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higher than that? Yeah? And yet again, and I think
there's a direct line connection. I'd be surprised if anybody
argue otherwise. How do you explain that crime other than
lefty policies? But then again, excuse me, how do you
explain the people of Colorado putting up with it? Is
that just a complete rejection of Republicans in Colorado, of
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which I'm one, you know, used to be a Democrat,
then unaffiliated than Republican, But how do you explain that?
How do you explain the people of Colorado putting up
with all of this crime without just throwing the bums out,
without just throwing the Democrats out of office. What is
the explanation? Because if we can figure out the explanation,
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we can change it. I think I know, but we'll
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dan out. Colorado's crime stats now compare to when the
Hell's Angels Heyday in the eighties I was around. I
don't remember any Hells in oh Heyday here in the
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eighties or any other time. And Ryan, I know you
are not around. But again, being a student, did we
have a Hell's Angels Heyday here?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Heyday here in Colorado?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah? I don't think so. I don't know. I don't
remember where. I remember some rough surges in crime. Didn't
they originate?
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Ian Kelly might know better than this in southern California
the Hell's Angels Kelly or I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You're thinking of California the Stones concert from northern California. Okay,
But I will tell you this. And you know, Colorado,
Denver in particular, was going through this big, big gun
violence thing back in ninety three, and a big explosion
in gun violence in Denver, and then you know, the
Pope came to Colorado and he did this amazing, amazing appearance,
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Pope John Paul the Great down at mile High, Oh,
mile High. And there's never been a natural explanation for it,
but violent crime in Denver, that just it continued, right,
but the surge stopped on a dime, and the rates
went down, and it changed dramatically from the time of
the Pope's visit forward. No, obviously lefty policies have driven
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crime back up, but I've always believed there was a
direct connection there. And Ryan, you know, you know how
these things you just can't get out of your mind.
And one of the really cool images I'll never get
out of my mind is, you know, nineteen ninety three,
I'm in Loto and there's a group of young kids
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walking toward another group of young kids, and it was
during that summer of violence, and it just looked like
something bad was going to happen. And this was you know,
I can't remember if it was during it right after
the Pope's visit, but all of a sudden, these two
groups that looked like they were headed for trouble, they
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just started smiling and high five in each other and
then just went on their way, And it was one
of the most amazing things I've ever seen. And I
don't know what else you attribute something like that to,
but hope we see more of it. You think we'll
get Pope Leo here, You think we'll be on the itinerary.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Well, I know you have been steadfast and wanting to
get him on the program, but I think your best
point of contact on that Dan is going to be
your uncle.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, he doesn't know him. I can't believe that I
never met him. He's never met I mean, we were
in high school seminary at the same time, and his
parish was just a few miles from my seminary, but
he chose to go to a different high school seminary,
so I never met him. Oh okay, okay, yeah, yeah.
He was probably a lot more serious about it at
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that time because ours was a day seminary. You'd go
to high school like you go anywhere else. We had
this big, beautiful church and we did our seminary kind
of things, but we also had more, you know, typical
high school things, and the Pope went to a very serious,
you know seminary where you actually lived there during your
high school years. But yeah, never met him. Just seems
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like an amazing guy. So I hope that Colorado is
one of his stops. No US trip planned yet, right.
I think he'll probably have to make that one of
his later trips, just you know, because he is from America.
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you think of the capitalist plan and would you be
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willing would you be willing to pay anything toward it
in terms of attacks increased be at sales tax or
anything else. And that is just double the size of
law enforcement, double the size of law enforcement in whatever
community you are in, and become dedicated to Colorado becoming
the safest state in the nation and all of the
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enormous benefits that would come from that. You're on the
Dan Caplas.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Show and now back to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
I would also say, miss the President, you've named other
cities New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Oakland, all cities.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
With black men.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
Is that your calculus, mister President? Why you don't see
people are hurting in the and I named some cities
that are white and say let's go in these cities.
I'll meet you to that, mister president. Why are you
only having a segregated intervention?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Oh man, please keep talking dirty like that, rever Now,
I mean that is going to drive so many people
away from the Democratic Party, starting with black people, right,
I mean that this is just crazy. People are not dumb.
And that's the thing took me so long to understand,
right growing up as a Democrat. When the Democratic Party,
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I mean, at least in my earlier years as a
little kid, and then then Pete amblevote is a Democrat.
You know, Democratic Party still seem to be a party
that respected working people and regular people. Now it's become
a party of just such cartoonish elitists. I can't even
get mad at them because they're the joke, not us,
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but just academically just fascinated with how they can think
we're so stupid when they're the ones who are. I mean,
it's not like they're intellectually dumb, they're just stupid. They
just for whatever reasons you know, heye, blocking brain function
or whatever it is, or echo chamber, they just think
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the rest of us are stupid. They really think working
people are dumb. So yeah, people like Al Sharpton that
they don't get it. It's, you know, the University of
real life and the rest of us are getting a's
and a plus is in the University of real life
and the fancy people like Sharpton are getting f's. They
just don't know it. Yeah, fun to watch three all
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three seven one three eight two five five the number
text d A N five seven seven three now. But again,
whether it's Mike Johnston or Al Sharpton or whatever, you know,
they all have their private protection. They all live in
their elitist bubbles. And so yeah, yeah, what do they
care if the crime is exploding all around them unless
it's going to hurt them politically or whatever. But Democrats
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have done the math and they just believe that, Hey,
as long as they can raise the money to win
a Democrat primary, they are going to win statewide no
matter how bad they make things. And so far they've
been proven right. So I'd love to know your thoughts
on why and how to change that. Three or three
seven one three eight two five five takes a dam
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five seven seven three nine dan Our motorcycle gang was
called the Sons of Silence and they were bad. Dad
is ringing a bell. Now, the Sons of Silence thing
don't know a lot of the details. I was not
a prosecutor. I started my legal career as a civil
trial lawyer, so I never like prosecuted criminals. I wanted
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to be. I wanted to be and Ryan, I ever
tell you that story about the DA job I was
about to get and I was so excited to get it.
And it was in a rural jurisdiction. I won't name
it because I don't want to embarrass anybody was involved,
and I was so excited I was going to start.
I couldn't wait to be in court every day. And then,
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you know, I was a kid right out of law school.
I mean it's not like I was some crazy party
or anything. But I was a kid right out of
law school and had a girlfriend. And the DA called
me in and he said, oh, one more thing, Dan,
He said, until you get married, you can't have an
overnight female guest. And I just thought, wait a second,
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you know, and hey, it's again. I tried. I always
tried to live a moral life. I'm not saying that
before I got married, I was all perfect, But you're
saying you can't even have a female in the house overnight,
no matter what does or does not happen inside. Yet
no female all overnight guests. Now, Ryan, would you have
taken that job?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
No, I don't think.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
My moral stance is that's my business and not yours.
And it's just interesting because of the time. It would
have been about forty years ago. Down, I can't imagine that. Yeah,
any district attorney's office or any law office making that
kind of rule for its employees.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
That's like the firm almost yeah eighty three. Yeah, and listen,
I mean I respected his right to do it. I
wish it had come up a little earlier in the
interview process, right, I mean, but I respected his right
to do it. He had to be true to his
values and the community and all that. But yeah, that's
so I never did. I always wanted to be a
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prosecutor and never had that opportunity. But yeah, so I'm
not familiar with these sons of silence other than through
the newspapers, et cetera. Dan, our problem is not having
electoral college voting in our states. Forty one counties out
of sixty four voted for Trump in the last election.
That's two third of Colorado, and yet we lost. There
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is our answer. You know, sorry, my friend, I can't
be too sympathetic there because just like you know, they
tried to rig it so we couldn't even vote for Trump.
I don't think we should restructure our states so that
a minority gets to pick our presidential electors. That that's
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just me. I think what is the problem. What is
the problem for Republicans in Colorado? Because I'm not just
saying this to kiss up, because I don't need to.
There's so much Republican talent, right, and you get some knuckleheads, right,
we all know who they are. You get some knuckleheads,
But any aspect to life, any organization, you're going to
get some knuckleheads. There is so much talent in the
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Colorado GOP, every sector of the Colorado GOP what some
people would describe as establishment, what some people would describe
as grassroots. There is a ton of talent. So what
is it? You know, Why why does the GOP statewide
at least just keep getting trounced. I'd love to get
your take on that. Three three, seven, two, five, five, five, seven,
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seven through nine. And of course what your fix is.
We we don't curse the darkness around here. We like candles.
We do actually curse the darkness, but we also light
the candles, and that includes the life issue where more
and more people are seeing the light. And we'll have
our weekly segment next on The Dan Caplis Show.
This is Dan Caples and welcome to today's online podcast
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and to subscribe, download and listen to the show every
single day on your favorite podcast platform. Yeah, a lot
of fighting is still left to do. Glad you're here.
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Thank you to the sheriff. Sheriff Steve Reims filling in
the last couple of days when I was important. Then
we rolled into a great experience. And the only reason
I mentioned is I think it applies to all of
our lives, no matter what we happen to do for
a living, and that is you know, we rolled straight
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from court into the trial prep cabin and locked ourselves
away and we just worked all the rest of the day,
most of the night, and through the day today up
till showtime, totally focused on the case. And the broader
point obviously is not my case. The broader point is
just said, as you know, life is so fast, they're
just rarely I would bet in your life, in any
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life these days, is there time just to stop block
everything out and focus on one thing. So thank you
to Sheriff Steve for doing the show for a couple
of days so that we could do that, and it
was just fantastic and incredibly productive. But I think everybody
listening just knows in their own life there just isn't
that kind of time, and I think everybody misses it
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because it is so valuable and fun three all three
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five seven seven three nine What I miss well looks
like a lot, right, I mean, some really cool stuff
going on with what Trump is doing in DC. We
have some fun sound from that. I mean, it's it's
funn in two ways. It's it's fun in the sense
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that something bold and smart is being done that that's
likely to save innocent life. That's fun. It's fun to
watch more lefty heads explode. Because long term, you know,
can't just ride the Trump to victory every time. You know,
this is the last term he can serve, and so
it's going to be a matter of exposing the Democratic
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Party for what it has truly become in Colorado and nationally.
To have that long term benefit, combined with the great
bench we talk about all the time for the GOP.
But yeah, DEM's getting exposed on this one in DC two.
And part of the big problem, you know it if
you're listening to the show in Colorado, is that the
modern Democratic Party, unlike a lot of Democrats, the modern
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Democratic Party has become so openly pro criminal, so it
just can't help itself and going after Trump on this.
So we'll have some fun sound from that. There's there's
a bunch of stuff going on locally. I want to
get into with you and this story I find fascinating.
I hope you do, and if you do, give me
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a call. Three oh three seven one three A two
five five text d A N five seven seven three nine,
you know, because it goes to this broader point of
government and power and how much is too much and
freedom of speech and kind of a fresh context. This
is a seth claiman piece in the Denver Post. I'll
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give you the pertinent pieces Petter. Social media companies sue
Colorado over new pop up warnings law aimed at young users.
So as you'll hear the gist of it is, you know,
Colorado legislature passed alawn. There was significant bipartisan support for
this passed a law that just said, hey, social media companies,
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you know, if somebody is under eighteen and then you
know they've been on a certain period of time or
on overnight, you got to give them some warnings. And
here's what the warnings have to say. So that's the
gist of it. And you've got all these big hitters.
You know Meta, which owns as you probably know, Facebook
and Instagram. You got x you got Google, you got Reddit.
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They've all joined together to sue to try to stop
the requirements of this bill. And what they're saying is, hey,
this is unconstitutional. This is a violation of our freedom
of speech because the government is forcing us to say something,
and it's forcing us to express the government's opinion on
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something that's still in dispute. So i'll give you a
quote from the lawsuit. At its core, this case is
about one thing, compelled speech. Colorado is trying to force
private websites to act as a mouthpiece for its preferred message.
The state is free to share it to you on
any topic it wishes, but it cannot force private businesses
to speak for it. So would love your take on this.
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I mean, listen, I think any sane person knows right
that social media is bad for these kids, and it's
bad in so many different ways. If you disagree with
the premise, we'll send the limo. Make you the first
caller three or three seven one, three, eight, two five
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I mean, you don't even have to have kids at
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age whatever. It's just bad, I think, and I'd love
to know your experience. I think it actually affects our brains.
I mean, just the whole screen thing. You know, I'm
not a teenager anymore, but the kids call me screenager.
And I'm not sitting there looking at some goofy game
that I'm trying to beat a billion people out at.
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I'm looking at stuff for work, I'm prepping for this show, etc.
And sometimes I'm looking at fun things. But but the
screen addicts you. The screen addicts you. There's something about
the effect on the brain. Whether it's the lights that
colors the information, but there's a rush that comes with it.
You know, you're probably the same as me, because you know,
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like me, you're listening to a show like this, and
so for me, part of the part of the rush,
part of the high, is just the information I just
crave information on interesting things, and I'm sure part of
it's the light that colors everything else. But then kids,
I mean, so much more susceptible, right, just the human
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anatomy and the physiology of the brain, et cetera. And
then that's before you even get to the emotional piece.
And you know, it's hard for me to even imagine.
And you know, it's not like I'm agent or anything,
but it's hard for me to even imagine being back
in those years, like you know, grammar school, high school,
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and having to deal with all the emotional part of
social media and all that. So from a policy standpoint,
I agree with the people who say this stuff is
bad for you and really want kids to be worn.
But where it gets tough is at what point do
you let the government compel the speech. I do think
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there are certain situations where you've got to let the
government warrant right when something is one hundred percent black
and white when it comes to the science, the cause
of the harm, et cetera, such as cigarettes, such as marijuana.
But the question is have we In my mind, I
think the analysis is have we reached that point? On
social media? I think from a common sense standpoint, the
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University of Real Life. Yeah, we all know it's true.
And is that enough then to justify in your mind,
just from a policy standpoint, justify the government forcing this
speech on these companies or when it comes to something
as radical and dramatic as the government compelling speech, do
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you need more? Do you need more to do that? Now?
Obviously you know this bill was bipartisan. We've seen this
an incredibly illegal, dangerous on American conduct by the Democrats
in Colorado, led by police and the rest of the bunch,
you know, to crush faith and to compel people of
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faith to speak the way poll us in the left
wants want them to speak and to speak their message.
And that's hideous. I mean, that is so absolutely one
hundred percent anti American. And then you look at a
scenario like this where you don't have the government compelling
that kind of speech against somebody's core religious beliefs, but
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you have a government compelling a business to take a
position on an issue, on a debated issue. And do
you think it's right? Is the first question. Then the
second question, of course, is, no matter what any of
us think about the right and wrong, is it actually constitutional?
So I would love to get your take on that.
And I'd also really like to expand, as we're kicking
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around other things, expand this conversation about social media and screens.
And I'd love to know parents suggestions out there. You know,
we're blessed with like the two greatest kids in the world,
and they're, you know, twenty five and as of Tuesday,
I can't believe it, Joe will be twenty eight. So
they're through those more perilous when it comes to screens
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and influence, et cetera early years. But just wonder, you know,
if they're growing up now, you know, well, what do
you do about cell phones for kids? And can we
all just agree on this? Can we all just agree
that every single school in Colorado should ban cell phones
high school and below that the cell phone should not
be in class I mean hallway. Yeah, maybe I have
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to have them in a hallway, but there shouldn't be
any live cell phone, in my opinion, allowed in any
high school classroom anywhere. And there shouldn't be any live
cell phone allowed any on any student, on any student
on their person below high school, in any school in Colorado.
What do you think? Three or three? Seven? One? Three
eight two five five text d An five seven seven
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three nine. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Trump looks at the city visually like a real estate agent.
He wants to be we outify the city, like he's
doing at the White House with that ridiculous ballroom he's
putting in and getting rid of the rose garden. That's
trunk work. But I think it shows strength. I agree
with you. I think this is a strength move against
the big cities who are a difficult situation on crime
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and the murder rate. You can't keep saying violent crime
is down, with the murder rates up to the average person.
The murder RUP's about life and death. You don't brag
about a rising murder rate. And the Democrats are I
agree with you, Migan, they're falling into the trap of
defending what's indefensible.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Boy, that is so true, right, But getting back to
the really important starting point, which is wait, Trump is
making things better. Trump is saving lives. And that the
reason I think it matters to you and me here
is obviously Colorado, which, with all our natural blessings, Colorado,
which should be the lowest crime state in America? Can
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anybody make any kind of logical argument as to why
the UTTER should be anything other than the lowest crime
state in the USA. And yet we have exploding crime
all over the place, right, And when lefties say, well,
the crime rate in Denver is down x this year,
that that's like saying some guy who is going one
hundred and twenty through a school zone is now going
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one hundred. It doesn't make the kids anymore safe. That's
not an original point, but I really like that one.
And so yeah, so that's the craziness and everybody knows it.
But I think politically and more important in terms of policy,
that can break through and make us safer. Politically, what
it's going to take for the GOP is just something,
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a really dramatic fix. And you know, I've been pushing
this for years on air. I think it's going to
take a ballot measure in the end. But can you
imagine we know this works, right. I call it the
capitalist Plan, which is probably a little obnoxious, but nobody
else has claimed it. But if we took take an
individual city, I'd love to see it be statewide harder
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to off. But take Denver and if all of a sudden,
Denver just instantly just doubled Now I'd like to see more,
but just doubled the size of the police force. And
Denver was paying people fully and fully staffed. Imagine the
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ways that would pay off, pay off economically in terms
of keeping business, keeping people, attracting business, attracting people, but
pay off in the way that matters a thousand times
more than that, which is just quality of life and
the ability to just enjoy life. Because people talk about
the cost of crime, and democrats always try to limit
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that to the people who get whacked or god forbid that,
you know, the people who get raped. But the cost
of crime in a city left he controlled city like Denver.
Don't blame law enforcement. If you let law enforcement do
their job, they'll do their job. Blame the politicians who
handcuff law enforcement. But the point being that the victims
of crime go way beyond the people who get the
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bullet put in their head or the people who get
mugged or whatever. Everybody who has to alter their lifestyle
unnaturally is a victim of this high crime. And whether
there's a little less high crime this year than the
high crime last year, that's not the standard. So at
least double the police force pay fully, have the reputation
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across America, the very best police are going to want
to stay on the force and come and join the force,
and that includes support staff as well, and then watch
it pay for itself over and over again. And it
would cost less than what Mike Johnston is spending on
this misbegotten program for the homeless, which which is not
going to help the homeless long term. So yeah, that's
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how you make places safer. It's within our reach. And
the fact that the Democrats are so anti cop obviously,
but just the fact that we haven't done that yet
as a SAI society is crazy three or three someone
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five seven seven three nine. And the other thing we
have to keep in mind in DC. And we'll play
some of that founding sound because it is so important,
but it also helps reveal the Democrats. Right. So here's
another example that this guy, this Anthony Coley cuts seven.
He's on MSNBC and here's what he says. I live
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in Washington. This is personal for me.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Many people are frustrated with crime that we see, particularly
committed by juveniles in the In the city of Washington,
people are frustrated Willie that they when they go to
CBS to buy the odorant, that they have to get
it from behind locked plexiglass.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Right.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
But the response here, and you know, let me say this, right,
this is not these are not just random man. Does
what we see in Washington Post polling among others, is
that roughly half of DC residents, mostly half of DC
resident view this as a serious problem or an extremely
serious problem.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah, in the other half are probably running from criminals
and can't be polled. But when you love to see
that in Colorado? When'd you love to see just that
investment again? I think it can only happen through a bond,
pardon me, through a ballot measure. But that's where you
could really start to make some big, big progress. And
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can you imagine if there's a city, particularly larger one
that could accommodate the infrastructure, city gets the reputation as
being like the safest city in America or one of
the safest, particularly if it has all the other advantages
of being in Colorado. You'd have to fight off the
fortune one hundred companies with the stick, and Denver would
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no longer be the magnet for bud tenders, you know,
and that sort of thing. I mean, it's within our grasps.
So good to see Trump leading the way. And for
those who say, oh, it's illegal, this is that that
you know my understanding the law here, and you know
there will be lawsuits and everything else if the President
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pushes it beyond the thirty days. But my understanding is
that d C has home rule more or less by
the grace of the US Congress. That the US Congress
could convert that into a federal district and there just
wouldn't be any local home rule Washington, d C. And
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what do you think do you think it should be?
Do you think that the DC that should be ended
and that it should just become a federal district. I
have a hard time seeing the downside of that, And
obviously it could be fully justified consistent with you know,
the purpose of the US Constitution. I mean, how can
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you have the seat of federal government in a place
where the ability to walk down the street is controlled
by a local government that may be hostile to the
federal government. I mean, that's madness and really bad for
the people some Texters. This is a nice one. Thank you.
Dan's so glad to have you back, but gone again
in September. Sure, your clients need you, but this year
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you've been gone so much and we miss you. That
is so thoughtful. Thank you. And yeah, I have been
gone a lot. You know that's not like me. But
I'm a trial lawyer and when you run into a
run of trials like this, that's the priority. And as
everybody knows, in your own job, you got to do it.
You got to do it well, you got to do
the prep you need to do. I can tell you
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calendar wise that after this month long trial in September
it will not be this heavy, so I won't miss
as much time and air. But thank you to everybody
for bearing with it. But I already know what you're thinking, right,
which is it's better when I'm gone because the people
who fill in are so good, good, and it's great
to have that variety as well. You would agree with that,
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right Ryan. I'm just checking to make.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Sure I'm just sending that wheel.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
And yeah, I think Sheriff Steve Reims had really come
into his own as a host too.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah, yeah, I think he's always been in his own.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Not in his zone, come into his own.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
That's what I said. I think he's always been in
his own. That's like philosophy in his zone.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Though he might do that too.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Who's that too? What do you think the key is
to getting in the zone? Good question. Everybody's been in
the zone right in different ways in their life. That's
so interesting to me, because, yeah, when we all get
out of our way right and just get into that zone,
it's almost unlimited what you can do. Three or three
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Dave Kapitlas Show.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
October was an effort to destroy the State of Israel,
the largest loss of Jewish life since.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
The Holy Gospel.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
And here we are almost two years later, and Israel's
the bad guy.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Israel is not the bad guy, They're the good guy.
The bad guys so the rag wal Islamis who would
kill everybody in this room.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
They could.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
So I haven't lost my vision of right and wrong.
When it comes to foreign policy. President Trump has stood
up for all the right things, and he stood up
against wrong things death.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Light Rago.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Lindsey Graham, who then goes on to say that God
will pull the plug on us, says Lindsay Graham if
we don't support Israel. So what do you think about that?
It's such an interesting concept, right, and yeah, you know
Abraham Lincoln famously quoted on that. You know, when asked
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if God is on our side? His response, so, I say,
we just need to be worried about being on God's side.
But do you ever think about that? Do you ever
think about Okay? Obviously, I mean if if you agree
with the Founders and I do, that we exist because
of divine providence, because they really couldn't have accomplished what
they did without that, despite their heroism and courage. You know,
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what would it take? What would it take for quote,
as Lindsey Graham said, God to pull the plug on
us three oh three seven to one three eight two
five five the number text d A N five seven
seven three nine. Obviously that'd be horrible for us, horrible
for the world. Because Ryan, you are the great student
of history, at least Woodrow Wilson history. But I don't
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think there's any doubt in any historian's mind that if
not for the United States of America, that the world
would right now be be in darkness and rule by evil,
I mean, just thoroughly everywhere.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
If the United States had continued to stay out of
World War Two, which there was considerable pushback against it
because of what happened with our boys in World War
One and how many were lost. There was a real
reticence for Americans to get behind a war effort that
was so many miles away that we didn't feel it
affected us until, of course, Pearl Harbor was struck. But
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Winston Churchill was begging Franklin Delano Roosevelt to join on
behalf of the British military, and they were barely able
to stave off the Germans. And you figure if the
Americans had not joined in, not only would the war
have been lost, Britain probably would have been conquered as well,
that whole continent would have been under Nazi rule.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah, right. And then obviously evil gains such strengths right
materially and otherwise, and develops militarily nuclear weapons not far behind, right,
that even the great, mighty, courageous United States of America
probably then gets rolled by a fully empowered you conquering evil.
(22:00):
So yeah, so I'm with the founders on this. Divine
providence allowed this nation to be formed and to continue
and to work through.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
You know, it's really really hard problems and failures, and
the world is free because of it right now. But what,
if anything, would it take do you think to lose that?
Three all three seven, one three eight two five five
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ground we want to cover to day before I touch
on President Trump in this meeting with Putin nutruly as
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Satan on Earth. A couple of more texts Dan, Yes,
I d C should be a federal district. No more
blanking home rule for them. I just want to know,
does anybody have a compelling case to have Washington d
C continue to exist as a home rule jurisdiction. I mean,
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what would that compelling case be? Yeah, it seems to
me such an obvious case, you know, for federal jurisdiction
that particular district, right, that federalizing that district because the
US Constitution itself grants the power for obvious reasons. So
why the way things have developed? What reason would there
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be not to. I'd love to get somebody's take on that. Dan,
We need to tell the entire population of Colorado that
Colorado is second in crime. Disgusting, and we know it's
all because of the Democrats and their policies. Time to
take our state back from the sellouts. Well, there can
be no doubt about that, because again with Colorado, you know,
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you think of all the natural advantages that we've been
given that there's no no reason for Colorado, I think,
to be anything other than maybe top What would you
argue three four lowest crime rates in the country. I mean,
what reason would there be for it to be any
(23:54):
higher than that? Yeah? And yet again, and I think
there's a direct line connection. I'd be surprised if anybody
argue otherwise. How do you explain that crime other than
lefty policies? But then again, excuse me, how do you
explain the people of Colorado putting up with it? Is
that just a complete rejection of Republicans in Colorado, of
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which I'm one, you know, used to be a Democrat,
then unaffiliated than Republican, But how do you explain that?
How do you explain the people of Colorado putting up
with all of this crime without just throwing the bums out,
without just throwing the Democrats out of office. What is
the explanation? Because if we can figure out the explanation,
(24:41):
we can change it. I think I know, but we'll
find out. Three or three someone three eight two five
five text d A N five seven seven three nine
dan out. Colorado's crime stats now compare to when the
Hell's Angels Heyday in the eighties I was around. I
don't remember any Hells in oh Heyday here in the
(25:02):
eighties or any other time. And Ryan, I know you
are not around. But again, being a student, did we
have a Hell's Angels Heyday here?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Heyday here in Colorado?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah? I don't think so. I don't know. I don't
remember where. I remember some rough surges in crime. Didn't
they originate?
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Ian Kelly might know better than this in southern California
the Hell's Angels Kelly or I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You're thinking of California the Stones concert from northern California. Okay,
But I will tell you this. And you know, Colorado,
Denver in particular, was going through this big, big gun
violence thing back in ninety three, and a big explosion
in gun violence in Denver, and then you know, the
Pope came to Colorado and he did this amazing, amazing appearance,
(25:53):
Pope John Paul the Great down at mile High, Oh,
mile High. And there's never been a natural explanation for it,
but violent crime in Denver, that just it continued, right,
but the surge stopped on a dime, and the rates
went down, and it changed dramatically from the time of
the Pope's visit forward. No, obviously lefty policies have driven
(26:16):
crime back up, but I've always believed there was a
direct connection there. And Ryan, you know, you know how
these things you just can't get out of your mind.
And one of the really cool images I'll never get
out of my mind is, you know, nineteen ninety three,
I'm in Loto and there's a group of young kids
(26:39):
walking toward another group of young kids, and it was
during that summer of violence, and it just looked like
something bad was going to happen. And this was you know,
I can't remember if it was during it right after
the Pope's visit, but all of a sudden, these two
groups that looked like they were headed for trouble, they
(27:00):
just started smiling and high five in each other and
then just went on their way, And it was one
of the most amazing things I've ever seen. And I
don't know what else you attribute something like that to,
but hope we see more of it. You think we'll
get Pope Leo here, You think we'll be on the itinerary.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Well, I know you have been steadfast and wanting to
get him on the program, but I think your best
point of contact on that Dan is going to be
your uncle.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, he doesn't know him. I can't believe that I
never met him. He's never met I mean, we were
in high school seminary at the same time, and his
parish was just a few miles from my seminary, but
he chose to go to a different high school seminary,
so I never met him. Oh okay, okay, yeah, yeah.
He was probably a lot more serious about it at
(27:48):
that time because ours was a day seminary. You'd go
to high school like you go anywhere else. We had
this big, beautiful church and we did our seminary kind
of things, but we also had more, you know, typical
high school things, and the Pope went to a very serious,
you know seminary where you actually lived there during your
high school years. But yeah, never met him. Just seems
(28:09):
like an amazing guy. So I hope that Colorado is
one of his stops. No US trip planned yet, right.
I think he'll probably have to make that one of
his later trips, just you know, because he is from America.
Three h three someone three A two five five texts
D A N five seven, seven through nine. What do
you think of the capitalist plan and would you be
(28:31):
willing would you be willing to pay anything toward it
in terms of attacks increased be at sales tax or
anything else. And that is just double the size of
law enforcement, double the size of law enforcement in whatever
community you are in, and become dedicated to Colorado becoming
the safest state in the nation and all of the
(28:51):
enormous benefits that would come from that. You're on the
Dan Caplas.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Show and now back to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
I would also say, miss the President, you've named other
cities New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Oakland, all cities.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
With black men.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
Is that your calculus, mister President? Why you don't see
people are hurting in the and I named some cities
that are white and say let's go in these cities.
I'll meet you to that, mister president. Why are you
only having a segregated intervention?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Oh man, please keep talking dirty like that, rever Now,
I mean that is going to drive so many people
away from the Democratic Party, starting with black people, right,
I mean that this is just crazy. People are not dumb.
And that's the thing took me so long to understand,
right growing up as a Democrat. When the Democratic Party,
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I mean, at least in my earlier years as a
little kid, and then then Pete amblevote is a Democrat.
You know, Democratic Party still seem to be a party
that respected working people and regular people. Now it's become
a party of just such cartoonish elitists. I can't even
get mad at them because they're the joke, not us,
(30:09):
but just academically just fascinated with how they can think
we're so stupid when they're the ones who are. I mean,
it's not like they're intellectually dumb, they're just stupid. They
just for whatever reasons you know, heye, blocking brain function
or whatever it is, or echo chamber, they just think
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the rest of us are stupid. They really think working
people are dumb. So yeah, people like Al Sharpton that
they don't get it. It's, you know, the University of
real life and the rest of us are getting a's
and a plus is in the University of real life
and the fancy people like Sharpton are getting f's. They
just don't know it. Yeah, fun to watch three all
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three seven one three eight two five five the number
text d A N five seven seven three now. But again,
whether it's Mike Johnston or Al Sharpton or whatever, you know,
they all have their private protection. They all live in
their elitist bubbles. And so yeah, yeah, what do they
care if the crime is exploding all around them unless
it's going to hurt them politically or whatever. But Democrats
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have done the math and they just believe that, Hey,
as long as they can raise the money to win
a Democrat primary, they are going to win statewide no
matter how bad they make things. And so far they've
been proven right. So I'd love to know your thoughts
on why and how to change that. Three or three
seven one three eight two five five takes a dam
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five seven seven three nine dan Our motorcycle gang was
called the Sons of Silence and they were bad. Dad
is ringing a bell. Now, the Sons of Silence thing
don't know a lot of the details. I was not
a prosecutor. I started my legal career as a civil
trial lawyer, so I never like prosecuted criminals. I wanted
(31:59):
to be. I wanted to be and Ryan, I ever
tell you that story about the DA job I was
about to get and I was so excited to get it.
And it was in a rural jurisdiction. I won't name
it because I don't want to embarrass anybody was involved,
and I was so excited I was going to start.
I couldn't wait to be in court every day. And then,
(32:21):
you know, I was a kid right out of law school.
I mean it's not like I was some crazy party
or anything. But I was a kid right out of
law school and had a girlfriend. And the DA called
me in and he said, oh, one more thing, Dan,
He said, until you get married, you can't have an
overnight female guest. And I just thought, wait a second,
(32:42):
you know, and hey, it's again. I tried. I always
tried to live a moral life. I'm not saying that
before I got married, I was all perfect, But you're
saying you can't even have a female in the house overnight,
no matter what does or does not happen inside. Yet
no female all overnight guests. Now, Ryan, would you have
taken that job?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
No, I don't think.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
My moral stance is that's my business and not yours.
And it's just interesting because of the time. It would
have been about forty years ago. Down, I can't imagine that. Yeah,
any district attorney's office or any law office making that
kind of rule for its employees.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
That's like the firm almost yeah eighty three. Yeah, and listen,
I mean I respected his right to do it. I
wish it had come up a little earlier in the
interview process, right, I mean, but I respected his right
to do it. He had to be true to his
values and the community and all that. But yeah, that's
so I never did. I always wanted to be a
(33:43):
prosecutor and never had that opportunity. But yeah, so I'm
not familiar with these sons of silence other than through
the newspapers, et cetera. Dan, our problem is not having
electoral college voting in our states. Forty one counties out
of sixty four voted for Trump in the last election.
That's two third of Colorado, and yet we lost. There
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is our answer. You know, sorry, my friend, I can't
be too sympathetic there because just like you know, they
tried to rig it so we couldn't even vote for Trump.
I don't think we should restructure our states so that
a minority gets to pick our presidential electors. That that's
(34:25):
just me. I think what is the problem. What is
the problem for Republicans in Colorado? Because I'm not just
saying this to kiss up, because I don't need to.
There's so much Republican talent, right, and you get some knuckleheads, right,
we all know who they are. You get some knuckleheads,
But any aspect to life, any organization, you're going to
get some knuckleheads. There is so much talent in the
(34:48):
Colorado GOP, every sector of the Colorado GOP what some
people would describe as establishment, what some people would describe
as grassroots. There is a ton of talent. So what
is it? You know, Why why does the GOP statewide
at least just keep getting trounced. I'd love to get
your take on that. Three three, seven, two, five, five, five, seven,
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seven through nine. And of course what your fix is.
We we don't curse the darkness around here. We like candles.
We do actually curse the darkness, but we also light
the candles, and that includes the life issue where more
and more people are seeing the light. And we'll have
our weekly segment next on The Dan Caplis Show.
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