Denver mayor Mike Johnston misspeaks during the grand re-introduction of '16th Street Mall' as simply '16th Street,' after paying a London consulting firm $100,000 of city taxpayer money for the name change.
Dan revisits the classic, outlandish demand by Senator John Hickenlooper (D-CO) in a television interview, 'you guys should be protecting me' against allegations of impropriety by his office.
Dan revisits the classic, outlandish demand by Senator John Hickenlooper (D-CO) in a television interview, 'you guys should be protecting me' against allegations of impropriety by his office.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Governor pull us on with Ross Kaminski, and we'll get
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back to that in a second. But I've counted at
least six different just major falsehoods and one pretty tight bite,
as well as at least four different major groups deeply insulted,
starting with African Americans. So we'll get to that shortly.
Which does make you wonder where does he intend to
go next politically? Because Ryan, I can't imagine that he's
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ready to just go back into let's say, the business
world where you actually have to compete, right and where
you don't get this automatic kissing of for kissing up
of the press and everything else. Hard for me to
imagine he's ready to go back to real life.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So where do you think he goes from here?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I've said it before, and I believe he's going to
be a Fox News commentator on the Sunday shows with
either Shannon Breem or Dana Prino and or both. I
think he has good relationships with either one of those too.
He's appeared many times with them, and it gives him
this pretense of being a kind of moderate, reasonable, libertarian
minded person that we know he's not.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
And how long do you think that gig would last?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Less than a year?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
It lasted as long as Ken Bucks did, right, And
you know, no disrespect to ken who had a great
relationship with for many years and hopefully will again.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
But CNN was.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Clearly using ken you know, holding that carried out so
he'd come on and say bad things about Trump and Republicans,
and then when they were done with him, they were
done with him. They never intended to give him some
big gig. And same with Governor Poulis. It ain't no
offense to Governor Polis. He's he's good at certain things
in his life. Being governor isn't one of them. But
being a DV I wouldn't be one of them either,
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because truly, who's going to sit there and be compelled
by Governor Polis?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I mean, there are some other.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Hardcore lefties you can be compelled by but you're not
going to be compelled by Governor Polis. So yeah, it'll
be interesting to see, interesting to see, but we all
know anything National isn't going anywhere.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Though.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
He'll have a bit longer shelf life because he can
toss around so much money. But it'll lend the same
way that we accurately predicted Bennett's did and Hickeloopers did,
and all of these Colorado lefties do right because they're
in the bubble here, man, how many bubble states are
left right now? How many bubble states where you can
be as whack go far left as you want to be.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Most of the media.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Will We'll just kiss up incessantly and you can get
away with virtually anything as a lefty. You got Colorado?
Where else where else you have? You got most parts
of California? There aren't that many left Well, like that
New York Time piece, did you see it? It is
remarkable and I'll get to the details in tomorrow's show.
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But to sum it up in credit the New York Times,
they're doing this breakdown. They didn't do it as a
pr spot for the GOP. They did it as a
warning to the Dems, Hey wake up. But they traced
in this last election the number of counties in America
that trended red in a significant way. They had some
metrics that seemed to make sense, and the numbers that
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trended blue and Republicans like thousands of counties where they gained,
including in a lot of traditionally blue areas.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Democrats had like twenty eight. Right.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
So but Colorado, man, it's just one of their last bubbles.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And to that point, Dan, it's important to mention in
the twenty twenty four election historic for many reasons, but
not the least of which Kamala Harris. Dan did not
flip a single county from blue from red to blue.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
How could she? She didn't? Well, right, how could you not?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
One? Now, the numbers you sided.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
That's like saying, oh, you know, Ryan Schuling didn't get
any hits in that Rockies Cubs game yesterday, How could you?
I wasn't there right right, same with yeah, that was never.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Gonna didn't flip a single county, meaning you know, there
may have been a few blue counties that got bluer,
and there might even been a reddish county that got
a little bit less red, but none of them. Dan
flipped not one county in one state in the fifty
states of the United States.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, for all the reasons we talked about and predicted, right,
But what I'd like to know is, and I'd love
to hear from folks on this, why is Colorado one
of those last remaining bubbles?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You know? Why is that? Why is that? Because?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I mean, I remember those years. In fact, I think
I was a Democrat at the.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Time when.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, well we had the governor Owens. I think the
GOP had both the House and Senate. I don't remember
the exact timing, But why is Colorado one of these
last hold out lefty bubbles?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And will it be the very last one? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Three or three someone three eight two five five text
d A N five seven seven three nine Texter. Dan
did Ross ask any follow up questions of substance?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Didn't think so.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I didn't hear the interview. I was in trial, but
I bet he did. I think Ross is a very
good to show host, and.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
That actually was one of them, and I thought he
did a good job in two separate instances of kind
of trying to focus pull this in on a particular point.
What I'll do Dan is after the show today I'll
send you all the clips because I broke it down
and cut it all up last week, and then you
can go through and there's anything else of note that
catches your ear.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You know.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
We'll go over that tomorrow too.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah. No, I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
But no, I think Ross is really one of the
better radio guys in a long time, even though we
obviously disagree on some issues. Dan the new movie Colorado, Storry,
Michael Pennett as the Invisible Man, Johnny hickylooper is how
Do You Do? And Jared Poulis as the Artful Dodger
coming to an obscure theater in the most liberal city
near you. I mean, when you just go through that lineup,
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I mean just brings me back to how ludicrous this
whole thing is, where this far lefty bubble right and
the far left is supposed to be about all diversity, equity, inclusion,
and all your big office holders are boring all white guys.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I mean, how long.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Are people on the left going to put up with that?
It really is crazy. Fortunately, they're relatively unaccomplished. And I
don't mean that as a personal digs, It's just a
matter of fact. Can you imagine if we had lefties
in these positions who were like on fire, and they
were out there and they were really effective and accomplishing
a lot of their stuff. I mean, don't get me wrong,
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Polis and the left are accomplishing way too much bad
stuff in Colorado. But think what the level of that
idiocy would be if he was actually.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Better at this. But I don't know. I hold out
some hope, Brian, I hold out some hope.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
That thirteen twelve was a bridge too far, that it
was a bridge too far, and it's going to be
a real eye opener for a lot of people in Colorado,
and that some of this other crazy stuff they're doing.
But right now, they're one of the few remaining bubbles,
you know, just dark blue bubbles that seems to be
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hanging on in America. Dan, this is a crazy comparison
by Polis, since transenderism is a subjective feeling, whereas being
black is objective fact.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Well, it is so much more than that.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Right, we're going back to if you just joined us,
we'll play the sound later in the in the hour
again where Polus has compared the plight of transgender people
to the plight of African Americans, And while can you
imagine being an African American Democrat right now, and you're
looking at a party where nobody can argue this point,
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right You're looking at a party that now clearly prioritizes
transgender folks over African Americans. How can any rational person
ever get to that point to begin with? When you
look at the history of oppression in this country faced
by African Americans, and we're talking about literally in chains,
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children ripped away from their parents and sold, mass rape
and torture, we're't looking at that kind of history compared
to a very protected class status that the Democratic Party
has created for our transgender friends. I mean, it's not
only profoundly insulting to African Americans, but it's just ignorant.
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So yeah, I wonder why the Democratic Party is losing
people of color.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Let me get back to some more of these texts.
Uh Dan, just.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Go ahead and pull out that you guys are supposed
to protect me. Quote you guys me, do you have
that sound?
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I think I can at least get it on the
other side of this time.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Out, and we should have it on the button bar.
What this very informed text is referring to one time
hicken Looper was under an ethics investigation, and uh, there'k
some stuff there and I don't remember all the details,
but there were some stuff there. And then he's in
an interview with Kyle Clark and he just says the
quiet part out loud. Hey, you guys are supposed to
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protect me from stuff like this. It was one of
the great moments in Denver TV history. Three out three
seven three eight two five five text d A N
five seven seven three nine You're on the Dankapler Show.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Hick and Looper complained that journalists should be defending his actions.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
You guys should be protecting me on stuff like this where.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
There's no clear how could they meet.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
What's the confusion that I that I had a private meeting. No,
there were no private meetings, that I somehow saved money myself.
I wasn't gonna play for that pay for that plane ticket.
I saved the state money. You know, I'll be very
surprised if they come back and say, in any way
this is unethical.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You guys should be protecting me. Said that to Kyle Clark, Right, yeah, yeah, no,
that's right. Take glad you're here. Three or three someone
three A two five five texts DA, Yeah, protecting me
on stuff like this, that's right. That's which is of
course exactly what happens.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
And that's why when a Hickenlooper or a bandit or
a police ventures out in the national competition, they get
crushed instantly because if they ever had the skill set right,
if they ever had the muscle to be able to
go out and hold their own in a debate, defend
their positions, et cetera, they lost it while they lived
in the bubble. Because they just anybody who's going to
ask them the tough follow up questions, they lose their
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access right. They never get polis On or Hicckenlooper or
any of them. So yet that that's why these guys
are toast the second they step across state lines in any.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Kind of national competition.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Three or three someone three A two five five text
DA in five seven seven three nine lot, it's a
great text. I want to get right to him, but
I do want to squeeze this in. We haven't talked
about this much. We should be because I think there's
something big about to happen.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Cut forty two please, you.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Know President Trump, he has, he said in that tweet,
that comment, I've always had a good relationship with Vladimir Putsin.
I think it's important to remember that Pruden's never thought
that about President Trump. When people try to appease them,
when they treat him and they praise him, he sees
that as signs of weakness, not strength. And I would
say that's true with all leaders for the last twenty
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five years. And so now he's just calling his bluff.
He's like, you're a tough guy on social media, you
won't do anything. And I think his calculation is President
Trump will eventually walk away, he'll stop providing assistance to Ukraine.
And that's exactly what Vladimir Putin wants because he wants
to continue this war. I don't think he's really interested
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and negotiating an.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
End to this warm. This is John Heilman on MSNBC.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I assume he's a smart guy in the sense he
has intellectually intellectual capacity, neurons firing, et cetera. But he's
either knowingly lying or it's just hate interrupts brain function, right,
which we talk about all the time on the show,
because hey, you're kind of missing exhibit A, right, which is, hmm,
Obama in office, Putin takes crimea Biden in office Putin
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rapes and pillages Ukraine?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
What came between Obama and Biden?
Speaker 7 (12:35):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, Trump? When did that invasion of Ukraine happen while
Trump was president? I must have missed it. No, it
never happened.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
So you know, you'd love to get a guy like
Hilman in court, right. He just kind of slink out
of the courtroom after cross. But here's the point, here's
what they're really missing, which is, you would not want
to be Vladimir Putin right now because the whole idea
that the Donald Trump is going to allow himself to
be embarrassed by Putin, it's just silly. It's an impossibility.
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It's not going to happen. This guy Heilman. See, the
left they hate so much, they hate so much that
they underestimate us on the right because and that's why
Trump's in office now right for a second term kind
of not by an inch but a mile.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And so they're doing it again.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
They ignore the evidence of Trump's peace through strength working
in his first term, and now they just assume he'll
slink away. There is no chance of that, And so yeah,
I expect, and we may never We may never be
able to trace it to Trump. We may not see
it as blatantly as a public policy pronouncement. But I
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think there are bad things about to happen to Vladimer
Putin and to this Russian army because of Putin now
publicly define Trump. Yeah, so it'll it'll be interesting to
see what comes next.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Listen. I know we're going to get.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Some sanctioned type stuff, right, but that's not where the
real action is. The real action in terms of Trump
hurting Putin is going to be on another level, and
maybe a level that we never even know about, can
never even be traced to Trump. Three h three someone
three eight two five five text d A N five
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seven seven three nine. I don't think whatever the President
decides to do that he's going to be doing it
with the intent of ending Putin. I think he's going
to be doing it with the intent of forcing a deal.
But right, I mean, how could anybody for a second
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think that Donald Trump's going to allow himself to be
humiliated by Putin.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
It's inconceivable, And you got.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
To believe that there's some kind of psychological chess warfare
going on.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Here Putin v.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Trump, and that Putin knows that too.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
You know, Trump's not going to lose face here anymore
than Putin wants to lose face on the world stage
with regard to this showdown in Ukraine. And there's got
to be an off ramp, and that's what Trump is
pursuing in these talks. But I like about what President
Trump has been saying recently, Dan is that he has
no qualms about mentioning that he's not very happy with
Vladimir Putin right now, and he's.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Telling the media that. And there's a purpose to that.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Why he's saying what he's saying, how he's saying it,
and when he's choosing to say it, which is to
the American media, and no doubt that's to send a
message to Putin himself.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Well, the silver lining here is that it because Putin
is evil, right and was this was a raping and
pillaging of Ukraine, that Putin should not.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Be rewarded for it all.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
But unfortunately he will be because Europe's not willing to
put boots on the ground and threaten to fight in
Ukraine and America should not.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
But Europe should.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
And if Europe would just show that kind of resolve,
I think we'd see peace through strength and we'd avoid
in on go war in Ukraine. But Putin knows Europe
will not put boots on the ground in Ukraine to
save Ukraine. So unfortunately, evil is going to gain some
territory in some final deal. Not because of the US,
not because of Trump. It's going to be because Europe
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wasn't willing to stand up. Obviously it was Biden's weakness
that initially triggered this evil man to invade. But in
the end, no, it is good that that Trump, now
I have no doubt it is going to do certain
things that caused Putin and this Russian army a lot
of pain. That is good because Ukraine the Edison victim here,
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and there needs to be there needs to be a deal.
But since Putin has been this bloodthirsty and this pig
haded and this demonic, then there needs to be very
very hard pushback. And I think that's what Trump's about
to give him.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
What form do you think it's going to take? Form? Yeah?
What do you think that's going to look like? And
do you think we'll or no? I mean do you
think we'll know it came from Trump?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Something to ponder for sure?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, well that's what we're here for, the ponderers.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Has there ever been a you would know this if
there's ever been a group called the pond comes.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
No, not that's been on the national stage.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
But I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Garage, that's right, which is why they stayed in the garage.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Hey, when we come back, Jared polus On with.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Ross Kaminski manages to deeply offend African Americans, Christians, lots
of other good people.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
You're on the Dan Capli Show.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
We dropped the mall because it is so much more
than just one retail location or one block.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
It is an entire mall of experience, a mile of experience.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Like, JA say, that's gonna do it? That's the ticket, right,
the sixteenth Street moment. I love the texture who wrote Dan,
it's the sixteenth Street mul Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
No, the only thing that's ever going to.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Fix it is reverse legalization of marijuana. It go back
and trace it to the beginning. As long as you
have that place occupied by druggies, nothing's gonna fix it.
Nothing's gonna fix it. It could be paved in gold,
the paved in gold, cheerleaders on every corner. People aren't
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gonna go down there as long as the Left is
still just all pro drug which means the mall is
going to be covered with people with addictions, whom my
heart breaks for, by the way, could be any of
us people with addictions who the left just lets run wild.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It's not gonna work.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And the day they announced this, Dan Mike Johnson going
from Sixteenth Street Mall to just sixteenth Street for the
low cost of one hundred thousand dollars to Denver taxpayers
through a London consulting firm.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
They already done it for fifty oh exactly.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
There was another stabbing at the end of the mall
on Broadway.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
I got an email notification on that on that very day.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah, and what do you want to bet that stabbing
was related to drugs?
Speaker 8 (19:14):
Right?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I mean there's a reason the old saying, ay, it's
like that guy's on drugs. It just people act differently
and then of course they get addicted. Because what is
the left devoted to? Right legalize marijuana, but it's really
Krakawana because the old style two to four percent THC
marijuana was really devastating, which is why no city in
the world had legalized it the way we did back
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in twenty twelve. And then what happens, You know what happens.
They then immediately execute their long term plan and they
crank it up to eighty ninety plus potency. So you're
hooking people young, you're hooking them forever. You're getting these
psychotic breaks because people get it wrong. They think, Okay,
those higher levels, you're more intoxicated. Yeah, that's an issue
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for sure, But where you see all this really crazy
stuff happen is usually not people who are so high
on dope, though sometimes it's because of the psychotic breaks
that come, the psychosis that develops, and the fact that marijuana,
even at two to four percent but certainly high potency,
then magnifies underlying mental illness and other type of psychoses,
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and so you end up with this big spike and
teen suicide and we've never come back down from that.
More than half the teen suicide victims have dope in
their system. But then you end up with these crimes
as well, and then you end up with the zombies,
I mean, as those restaurant owners, right, Ryan, as they
said to Johnston, Listen, this isn't about the homeless ruining
the mall in downtown. This is about the addicts, and
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a bunch of them become homeless. But the addicts who,
because of lefty policies A become addicts and b are
then allowed to just roam around. And who's going to
want to go down there? I mean, how many.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Addicts our studios.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I'm remote today, but our studios happen to be in
the tech center area. You wander over, Ryan, to one
of those local bars or restaurants where your groupies gather
for their daily fix. How many zombies are you going
to find wandering around your your suburban mall of choice tonight?
Speaker 4 (21:14):
How many times do you go downtown these days? Dan?
For entertainment, dining, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Those types of purposes, Well, let me count them up.
Different us et none, none, none, We just don't. I mean, Ryan,
look at I had to go down for a meeting
the other day. I had to not the other day,
but I had to drive home drop off valuables. I
had to reverse course, come home and drop off valuables
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before I.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Went downtown because I was going to be parking somewhere.
You can't. You can't do that now. Listen, it's a
tell of two cities, right.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
You've got your gleaming part of downtown, and then you've
got what the rest of us are subjected to. I
love going to court down there. I never have any
issues there. But if you're talking about you going into
the main city, who does I mean I go down
to games.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
All the time, right, but that'd probably be the exception, right,
just oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
And then it's not like we say, oh, man, hey,
after the game, let's pop into downtown. Yeah right, you know,
because you know we're so socially active, we might say,
oh let's you know, stop here or stop there, but
it's not downtown.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
All right, Let's go to the phone lines three or
three someone three eight two five five the number, text
da N five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Let's go to Jack in beautiful Littleton, Colorado. You're on
the Dame Kaplas. Sh'll welcome.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Thank you, Dan. I tell you I've got a comment
about the sixteenth Street mall renaming.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
But real quick, I I echo.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
Kind of where you're at. It's uh, he used to
go downtown for business lunches for dinners four or five
times a week. I avoid it like the plague. And
it's just one bad policy after the next, whether it's
homeless drugs. They've made it gar near impossible to drive
through that city by closing off lanes for like gouter lanes.
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It's just miserable getting in and.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Out of there.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
And I'll tell you, I watched Mike Johnson, who is
an absolute.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
Case study and failed leadership, counting his you know, rebranding
of sixteen sixteenth Street, which it isn't even really a
street anymore. But he says, we've dropped the mall that
now come on down and ride the mall ride. You know,
the guy is so confused and so terrible at his job.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
He can't even get that right.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
No, No, Mike is a lot.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
He has a lot of talents, but he has a
lot of problems. And I think his biggest problem is
he has separated from the truth. Because I knew Mike
back when he was connected to the truth and we
had honest disagreements on policy, and he was delightful and
he'd come on air all the time, and he was
smart and he was quick, and he would defend those
lefty policies as well as anybody out there could. And
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then I don't know whether it was an advisor or whatever,
but the day came when, in my humble opinion, he
just decided to separate from the truth. And once you
do that, right, I mean, none of us are perfect humans.
But once you just decide, just as a matter of
m that you're going to separate from the truth, you
end up where where Mike is right now, where you
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separate from the truth. So you're not acting logically, you're
not acting consistently. You figure you can do anything you want,
no matter how horrible. Is like a flight attendant almost
gets decapitated on the ball on a weekend. Many others
are stabbed and killed, and you stand pretty close to
where she was killed, and you just proclaim victory. Proclaim victory.
I mean, just that kind of craziness.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Now, you you might have seen telling him at one
time from somebody on the outside looking in, I would
I would run that guy out.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
Of my boardroom as fast as I could.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
Everything from the disheveled way he looks to you know,
during his campaign it was I have a moral obligation
to house the homeless and it's just completely disconnected from
anything that resembles leadership. I don't want bleeding heart. I
want a queen safe city. It's friendly to commerce and
that's the bottom line.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Now, wait a second, this disheveled thing. How much do
you think he pays for that haircut? I mean, it's
a really good haircut, but that's the look right now?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Is disheveled right? Well, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
That looks like you've been rolled out of a gutter.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
And I just I don't see an ounce.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
I don't see an.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
Ounce of leadership in that guy. And I grew up
in this city. It's sickening to me to even see it.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
I used to love going to a vibrant, diverse downtown.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Where you saw all walks of.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
Life, businessmen, recreators, tourism.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
And it's a ghost town and it sucks being down there.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
There's nothing fun or it just feels eerie, almost post apocalyptic.
It's depressing.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Hey, I got to ask you, Jack first. I would
vote for you, but but just that generally, what do
you do for a living? Because you're really good at this.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
Now I'm owned an engineering company that I sold a
couple of years ago. I've called you many times back
to the Soberman days.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Oh yeah, I uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Okay, I thought you sounded familiar, but you are really
good at this. So you run, my friend, and I'll
vote for you. Well, I mean that Denver needs somebody
like you, and eventually Denver is going to have somebody
like you, whoever you are.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (26:17):
I get told that a lot, but I appreciate that,
and uh, we'll see maybe one day.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Okay, I'll look forward to one day. Okay, my friend,
I appreciate the call. Good caller.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
We need.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
We didn't make Jack a regular because we've got another
regular name Jack, nice guy, but we need this Jack
to be a regular.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Three or three someone three eight.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Two five five text d A N five seven seven
three nine when we come back one more time by
popular demand or not. Jared Polus with Ross Kaminski managing
to assault African Americans, Christians all same people, uh and
tell five big whoppers.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
In one tight bite. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
You know I got the World Cup and I got
the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
The two hundred and fifty years is not mine. I'd
like to take credit.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
But I got the Olympics, I got the World Cup
when I was president, and I said, well, it's too
bad I won't be president.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Then look what happened.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
I turned out. Now we're gonna have a great time.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
We're going to have a great celebration.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
But most important of all, it was the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
That blows everything away, including the World Cup and including
the Olympics as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Wow, Yeah, President Trump.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Within all of that, he was talking about how maybe
it's good that he got the second term now rather
than back in twenty twenty. Someday, let's devote maybe a
segment or two to that. How would the world have
been different? And do you think it's going to be
better long term for America that he had the stagger
term instead of consecutive terms. I think it's kind of
a fun over a six pack kind of conversation. But
(27:54):
if I'm on a game show and I've got to
give an immediate answer, man, when you look at all
the devastation in the world because he did not get
consecutive terms, it'd be hard, it'd be hard to vote
against consecutive terms. I mean, we never have the rape
and pillaging of Ukraine. If he gets that second term,
(28:14):
we don't have October seven, the horror of October seven.
If he gets that second term consecutively, I mean, and
then what happens if he gets the consecutive term. Obviously,
he was doing so very well except for COVID right
that he was cruising toward a massive reelection because of
all the success and if he'd got a consecutive term
(28:35):
that success continues, then almost certain he has a conservative successor.
So I think the world would have been far better
off if he had the consecutive terms.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I'm really glad he's.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
There now, but a lot of the problems he's trying
to solve right now wouldn't even exist if he'd head
back to back terms.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Is there any flaw in that logic? My friend?
Speaker 4 (28:55):
No, chemo sabi?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Okay, thank you? What does chemo sabi mean? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I think we had this discussion once before in the
program when we were wrong.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I'm gonna look it up right now while I go
to Rusty and Steadil. Though, I do have to tell you,
I think one of the best callers of the year
was Jack from Littleton, who was at the end of
the last segment. If somebody's listening to the podcast, be
sure you hear Jack from Littleton.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Rusty, no pressure, you're on the dan Kapla. Sh'll welcome.
Speaker 8 (29:23):
You know, I'm gonna be better than him, gonna but
I'm gonna.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
Be real short.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
I love it. So what I'm gonna say is, I
think they ought to encompass fifteenth Street and seventeenth Street
into the downtown area and call it the Stench Quarter.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Okay, appreciate the call, Rusty. You know, being short is magnificent,
I'll tell you right.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
I sometimes I fantasize about getting into a political race
or something, and one of the things I dream about
is just giving the shortest speeches ever. I mean, wouldn't
that just be your straight path to the nomination and popularity?
Because everybody they go to these dinners and short of
the Good Lord himself coming down, you know, there's only
(30:10):
so much you can listen to, and then everybody they
get their shot at the mic, and you know we're
all guilty of it. We just want to blow everybody away, yeh,
blow them away by being short. Tell a couple of
good jokes, make make an interesting point, go home sounds
a lot.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Well. You described like Ronald Reagan. He was good at
that kind.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Of that quick quip and an anecdote, and you couldn't
help but love him, and then famously in that debate
with Walter Mondale got him cracking up.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Well, it's like I go back to my seminary days
and high school seminary days, and I still remember. Man,
It's like it was ten minutes ago, father Augustine and
I'm a sophomore, and I think we were talking about
homilies or something, and he just said always leave him
wanting more.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
And not recommending that for marriage.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
But when you're talking about hobbiies and things like that,
I just thought it was.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
My mind just drifted.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Oh I did it?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Now, Dan, you have to.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Understand, I've been in trial when I went straight from
trial to the cabin to prepare for the next two trials,
so I haven't seen my wife for like ten days.
Speaker 8 (31:21):
Now.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
You're not going to turn into like Jack from The Shining,
are you, because it's kind of a similar circumstance here.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
No no, no, no, no no no. I've got the wildlife
and I shave every few days.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Hey, do you have your number one fan there in
the form of the bear today.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah, came back today.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah, yeah, that time of year, there's a there's a
deer must be deaf that comes by and we'll sit
outside and listen.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
To the show.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Probably wondering if I'm some kind of wounded animal.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
But you should post that on X a photo of
said deer.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Oh I already did that. Well, I will do that. Yeah, yeah,
I will do that. And I saw, I saw.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I grew up in the city, right, so I'm I'm
an expert. But I saw a baby elk yesterday that
was smaller than a small dog and yet was still
walking and everything. I wonder how big those things are
when they're born. M because Amy was telling me a
story a month or two ago about how how elk
(32:20):
when they're delivering will chew on trees. And that's why
you look at some of these trees around here in
the bark's kind of torn that there's something in the
bark then that will be a pain killer. But anyway, yeah,
I saw a baby elk, I mean, smaller than a
small dog.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
So yeah, no, it's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
But all I'm saying is it's been a long time
since I've seen my wife. Yeah, which is just what
everybody tuned in for, right, So all right, well, great show.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Other than the ending, No, I think the ending made it.
You like spiked the football? There is she gonna go
and see you? Are you remote tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Here's the plan. Everything pecked up as soon as this
show ends. Okay, be a minute too soon. Under the car,
got a conference call. I'll be home by seven point thirty.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Oh and then oh and then on with life.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
So you'll have dinner with Amy then, I hope too. No,
for sure okay.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Oh, by the way, I just looked this up. Chemo Sabby.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Yeah, yeah, there is a term of endearment, often translated
as faithful friend or trusty scout.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Okay, that's what I thought. And somebody called us out
on that.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
You remember that, right, like like it was some kind
of insult, yes or not? PC, No, Keemo Sabi is
a good thing. You want to be a chemo sabi? Yes, yes,
that's my goal in life now, just to be my
wife's chemo Sabby. Let's get out of here while we
(33:49):
still can. Hey, thank you, Kelly, thank you Ryan. Join
us tomorrow on the Dencapla Show
This is Dan Kaplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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Governor pull us on with Ross Kaminski, and we'll get
(00:22):
back to that in a second. But I've counted at
least six different just major falsehoods and one pretty tight bite,
as well as at least four different major groups deeply insulted,
starting with African Americans. So we'll get to that shortly.
Which does make you wonder where does he intend to
go next politically? Because Ryan, I can't imagine that he's
(00:44):
ready to just go back into let's say, the business
world where you actually have to compete, right and where
you don't get this automatic kissing of for kissing up
of the press and everything else. Hard for me to
imagine he's ready to go back to real life.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So where do you think he goes from here?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I've said it before, and I believe he's going to
be a Fox News commentator on the Sunday shows with
either Shannon Breem or Dana Prino and or both. I
think he has good relationships with either one of those too.
He's appeared many times with them, and it gives him
this pretense of being a kind of moderate, reasonable, libertarian
minded person that we know he's not.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
And how long do you think that gig would last?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Less than a year?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
It lasted as long as Ken Bucks did, right, And
you know, no disrespect to ken who had a great
relationship with for many years and hopefully will again.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
But CNN was.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Clearly using ken you know, holding that carried out so
he'd come on and say bad things about Trump and Republicans,
and then when they were done with him, they were
done with him. They never intended to give him some
big gig. And same with Governor Poulis. It ain't no
offense to Governor Polis. He's he's good at certain things
in his life. Being governor isn't one of them. But
being a DV I wouldn't be one of them either,
(02:01):
because truly, who's going to sit there and be compelled
by Governor Polis?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I mean, there are some other.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Hardcore lefties you can be compelled by but you're not
going to be compelled by Governor Polis. So yeah, it'll
be interesting to see, interesting to see, but we all
know anything National isn't going anywhere.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Though.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
He'll have a bit longer shelf life because he can
toss around so much money. But it'll lend the same
way that we accurately predicted Bennett's did and Hickeloopers did,
and all of these Colorado lefties do right because they're
in the bubble here, man, how many bubble states are
left right now? How many bubble states where you can
be as whack go far left as you want to be.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Most of the media.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Will We'll just kiss up incessantly and you can get
away with virtually anything as a lefty. You got Colorado?
Where else where else you have? You got most parts
of California? There aren't that many left Well, like that
New York Time piece, did you see it? It is
remarkable and I'll get to the details in tomorrow's show.
(03:05):
But to sum it up in credit the New York Times,
they're doing this breakdown. They didn't do it as a
pr spot for the GOP. They did it as a
warning to the Dems, Hey wake up. But they traced
in this last election the number of counties in America
that trended red in a significant way. They had some
metrics that seemed to make sense, and the numbers that
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trended blue and Republicans like thousands of counties where they gained,
including in a lot of traditionally blue areas.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Democrats had like twenty eight. Right.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
So but Colorado, man, it's just one of their last bubbles.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And to that point, Dan, it's important to mention in
the twenty twenty four election historic for many reasons, but
not the least of which Kamala Harris. Dan did not
flip a single county from blue from red to blue.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
How could she? She didn't? Well, right, how could you not?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
One? Now, the numbers you sided.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
That's like saying, oh, you know, Ryan Schuling didn't get
any hits in that Rockies Cubs game yesterday, How could you?
I wasn't there right right, same with yeah, that was never.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Gonna didn't flip a single county, meaning you know, there
may have been a few blue counties that got bluer,
and there might even been a reddish county that got
a little bit less red, but none of them. Dan
flipped not one county in one state in the fifty
states of the United States.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, for all the reasons we talked about and predicted, right,
But what I'd like to know is, and I'd love
to hear from folks on this, why is Colorado one
of those last remaining bubbles?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You know? Why is that? Why is that? Because?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I mean, I remember those years. In fact, I think
I was a Democrat at the.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Time when.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, well we had the governor Owens. I think the
GOP had both the House and Senate. I don't remember
the exact timing, But why is Colorado one of these
last hold out lefty bubbles?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And will it be the very last one? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Three or three someone three eight two five five text
d A N five seven seven three nine Texter. Dan
did Ross ask any follow up questions of substance?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Didn't think so.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I didn't hear the interview. I was in trial, but
I bet he did. I think Ross is a very
good to show host, and.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
That actually was one of them, and I thought he
did a good job in two separate instances of kind
of trying to focus pull this in on a particular point.
What I'll do Dan is after the show today I'll
send you all the clips because I broke it down
and cut it all up last week, and then you
can go through and there's anything else of note that
catches your ear.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You know.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
We'll go over that tomorrow too.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah. No, I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
But no, I think Ross is really one of the
better radio guys in a long time, even though we
obviously disagree on some issues. Dan the new movie Colorado, Storry,
Michael Pennett as the Invisible Man, Johnny hickylooper is how
Do You Do? And Jared Poulis as the Artful Dodger
coming to an obscure theater in the most liberal city
near you. I mean, when you just go through that lineup,
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I mean just brings me back to how ludicrous this
whole thing is, where this far lefty bubble right and
the far left is supposed to be about all diversity, equity, inclusion,
and all your big office holders are boring all white guys.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I mean, how long.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Are people on the left going to put up with that?
It really is crazy. Fortunately, they're relatively unaccomplished. And I
don't mean that as a personal digs, It's just a
matter of fact. Can you imagine if we had lefties
in these positions who were like on fire, and they
were out there and they were really effective and accomplishing
a lot of their stuff. I mean, don't get me wrong,
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Polis and the left are accomplishing way too much bad
stuff in Colorado. But think what the level of that
idiocy would be if he was actually.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Better at this. But I don't know. I hold out
some hope, Brian, I hold out some hope.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
That thirteen twelve was a bridge too far, that it
was a bridge too far, and it's going to be
a real eye opener for a lot of people in Colorado,
and that some of this other crazy stuff they're doing.
But right now, they're one of the few remaining bubbles,
you know, just dark blue bubbles that seems to be
(07:27):
hanging on in America. Dan, this is a crazy comparison
by Polis, since transenderism is a subjective feeling, whereas being
black is objective fact.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Well, it is so much more than that.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Right, we're going back to if you just joined us,
we'll play the sound later in the in the hour
again where Polus has compared the plight of transgender people
to the plight of African Americans, And while can you
imagine being an African American Democrat right now, and you're
looking at a party where nobody can argue this point,
(08:01):
right You're looking at a party that now clearly prioritizes
transgender folks over African Americans. How can any rational person
ever get to that point to begin with? When you
look at the history of oppression in this country faced
by African Americans, and we're talking about literally in chains,
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children ripped away from their parents and sold, mass rape
and torture, we're't looking at that kind of history compared
to a very protected class status that the Democratic Party
has created for our transgender friends. I mean, it's not
only profoundly insulting to African Americans, but it's just ignorant.
(08:45):
So yeah, I wonder why the Democratic Party is losing
people of color.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Let me get back to some more of these texts.
Uh Dan, just.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Go ahead and pull out that you guys are supposed
to protect me. Quote you guys me, do you have
that sound?
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I think I can at least get it on the
other side of this time.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Out, and we should have it on the button bar.
What this very informed text is referring to one time
hicken Looper was under an ethics investigation, and uh, there'k
some stuff there and I don't remember all the details,
but there were some stuff there. And then he's in
an interview with Kyle Clark and he just says the
quiet part out loud. Hey, you guys are supposed to
(09:25):
protect me from stuff like this. It was one of
the great moments in Denver TV history. Three out three
seven three eight two five five text d A N
five seven seven three nine You're on the Dankapler Show.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Hick and Looper complained that journalists should be defending his actions.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
You guys should be protecting me on stuff like this where.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
There's no clear how could they meet.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
What's the confusion that I that I had a private meeting. No,
there were no private meetings, that I somehow saved money myself.
I wasn't gonna play for that pay for that plane ticket.
I saved the state money. You know, I'll be very
surprised if they come back and say, in any way
this is unethical.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You guys should be protecting me. Said that to Kyle Clark, Right, yeah, yeah, no,
that's right. Take glad you're here. Three or three someone
three A two five five texts DA, Yeah, protecting me
on stuff like this, that's right. That's which is of
course exactly what happens.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
And that's why when a Hickenlooper or a bandit or
a police ventures out in the national competition, they get
crushed instantly because if they ever had the skill set right,
if they ever had the muscle to be able to
go out and hold their own in a debate, defend
their positions, et cetera, they lost it while they lived
in the bubble. Because they just anybody who's going to
ask them the tough follow up questions, they lose their
(10:43):
access right. They never get polis On or Hicckenlooper or
any of them. So yet that that's why these guys
are toast the second they step across state lines in any.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Kind of national competition.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Three or three someone three A two five five text
DA in five seven seven three nine lot, it's a
great text. I want to get right to him, but
I do want to squeeze this in. We haven't talked
about this much. We should be because I think there's
something big about to happen.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Cut forty two please, you.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Know President Trump, he has, he said in that tweet,
that comment, I've always had a good relationship with Vladimir Putsin.
I think it's important to remember that Pruden's never thought
that about President Trump. When people try to appease them,
when they treat him and they praise him, he sees
that as signs of weakness, not strength. And I would
say that's true with all leaders for the last twenty
(11:38):
five years. And so now he's just calling his bluff.
He's like, you're a tough guy on social media, you
won't do anything. And I think his calculation is President
Trump will eventually walk away, he'll stop providing assistance to Ukraine.
And that's exactly what Vladimir Putin wants because he wants
to continue this war. I don't think he's really interested
(12:00):
and negotiating an.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
End to this warm. This is John Heilman on MSNBC.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I assume he's a smart guy in the sense he
has intellectually intellectual capacity, neurons firing, et cetera. But he's
either knowingly lying or it's just hate interrupts brain function, right,
which we talk about all the time on the show,
because hey, you're kind of missing exhibit A, right, which is, hmm,
Obama in office, Putin takes crimea Biden in office Putin
(12:31):
rapes and pillages Ukraine?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
What came between Obama and Biden?
Speaker 7 (12:35):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, Trump? When did that invasion of Ukraine happen while
Trump was president? I must have missed it. No, it
never happened.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
So you know, you'd love to get a guy like
Hilman in court, right. He just kind of slink out
of the courtroom after cross. But here's the point, here's
what they're really missing, which is, you would not want
to be Vladimir Putin right now because the whole idea
that the Donald Trump is going to allow himself to
be embarrassed by Putin, it's just silly. It's an impossibility.
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It's not going to happen. This guy Heilman. See, the
left they hate so much, they hate so much that
they underestimate us on the right because and that's why
Trump's in office now right for a second term kind
of not by an inch but a mile.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And so they're doing it again.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
They ignore the evidence of Trump's peace through strength working
in his first term, and now they just assume he'll
slink away. There is no chance of that, And so yeah,
I expect, and we may never We may never be
able to trace it to Trump. We may not see
it as blatantly as a public policy pronouncement. But I
(13:49):
think there are bad things about to happen to Vladimer
Putin and to this Russian army because of Putin now
publicly define Trump. Yeah, so it'll it'll be interesting to
see what comes next.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Listen. I know we're going to get.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Some sanctioned type stuff, right, but that's not where the
real action is. The real action in terms of Trump
hurting Putin is going to be on another level, and
maybe a level that we never even know about, can
never even be traced to Trump. Three h three someone
three eight two five five text d A N five
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seven seven three nine. I don't think whatever the President
decides to do that he's going to be doing it
with the intent of ending Putin. I think he's going
to be doing it with the intent of forcing a deal.
But right, I mean, how could anybody for a second
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think that Donald Trump's going to allow himself to be
humiliated by Putin.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
It's inconceivable, And you got.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
To believe that there's some kind of psychological chess warfare
going on.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Here Putin v.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Trump, and that Putin knows that too.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
You know, Trump's not going to lose face here anymore
than Putin wants to lose face on the world stage
with regard to this showdown in Ukraine. And there's got
to be an off ramp, and that's what Trump is
pursuing in these talks. But I like about what President
Trump has been saying recently, Dan is that he has
no qualms about mentioning that he's not very happy with
Vladimir Putin right now, and he's.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Telling the media that. And there's a purpose to that.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Why he's saying what he's saying, how he's saying it,
and when he's choosing to say it, which is to
the American media, and no doubt that's to send a
message to Putin himself.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Well, the silver lining here is that it because Putin
is evil, right and was this was a raping and
pillaging of Ukraine, that Putin should not.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Be rewarded for it all.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
But unfortunately he will be because Europe's not willing to
put boots on the ground and threaten to fight in
Ukraine and America should not.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
But Europe should.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
And if Europe would just show that kind of resolve,
I think we'd see peace through strength and we'd avoid
in on go war in Ukraine. But Putin knows Europe
will not put boots on the ground in Ukraine to
save Ukraine. So unfortunately, evil is going to gain some
territory in some final deal. Not because of the US,
not because of Trump. It's going to be because Europe
(16:14):
wasn't willing to stand up. Obviously it was Biden's weakness
that initially triggered this evil man to invade. But in
the end, no, it is good that that Trump, now
I have no doubt it is going to do certain
things that caused Putin and this Russian army a lot
of pain. That is good because Ukraine the Edison victim here,
(16:39):
and there needs to be there needs to be a deal.
But since Putin has been this bloodthirsty and this pig
haded and this demonic, then there needs to be very
very hard pushback. And I think that's what Trump's about
to give him.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
What form do you think it's going to take? Form? Yeah?
What do you think that's going to look like? And
do you think we'll or no? I mean do you
think we'll know it came from Trump?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Something to ponder for sure?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, well that's what we're here for, the ponderers.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Has there ever been a you would know this if
there's ever been a group called the pond comes.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
No, not that's been on the national stage.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
But I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Garage, that's right, which is why they stayed in the garage.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Hey, when we come back, Jared polus On with.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Ross Kaminski manages to deeply offend African Americans, Christians, lots
of other good people.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
You're on the Dan Capli Show.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
We dropped the mall because it is so much more
than just one retail location or one block.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
It is an entire mall of experience, a mile of experience.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Like, JA say, that's gonna do it? That's the ticket, right,
the sixteenth Street moment. I love the texture who wrote Dan,
it's the sixteenth Street mul Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
No, the only thing that's ever going to.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Fix it is reverse legalization of marijuana. It go back
and trace it to the beginning. As long as you
have that place occupied by druggies, nothing's gonna fix it.
Nothing's gonna fix it. It could be paved in gold,
the paved in gold, cheerleaders on every corner. People aren't
(18:30):
gonna go down there as long as the Left is
still just all pro drug which means the mall is
going to be covered with people with addictions, whom my
heart breaks for, by the way, could be any of
us people with addictions who the left just lets run wild.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It's not gonna work.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And the day they announced this, Dan Mike Johnson going
from Sixteenth Street Mall to just sixteenth Street for the
low cost of one hundred thousand dollars to Denver taxpayers
through a London consulting firm.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
They already done it for fifty oh exactly.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
There was another stabbing at the end of the mall
on Broadway.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
I got an email notification on that on that very day.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah, and what do you want to bet that stabbing
was related to drugs?
Speaker 8 (19:14):
Right?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I mean there's a reason the old saying, ay, it's
like that guy's on drugs. It just people act differently
and then of course they get addicted. Because what is
the left devoted to? Right legalize marijuana, but it's really
Krakawana because the old style two to four percent THC
marijuana was really devastating, which is why no city in
the world had legalized it the way we did back
(19:37):
in twenty twelve. And then what happens, You know what happens.
They then immediately execute their long term plan and they
crank it up to eighty ninety plus potency. So you're
hooking people young, you're hooking them forever. You're getting these
psychotic breaks because people get it wrong. They think, Okay,
those higher levels, you're more intoxicated. Yeah, that's an issue
(19:57):
for sure, But where you see all this really crazy
stuff happen is usually not people who are so high
on dope, though sometimes it's because of the psychotic breaks
that come, the psychosis that develops, and the fact that marijuana,
even at two to four percent but certainly high potency,
then magnifies underlying mental illness and other type of psychoses,
(20:19):
and so you end up with this big spike and
teen suicide and we've never come back down from that.
More than half the teen suicide victims have dope in
their system. But then you end up with these crimes
as well, and then you end up with the zombies,
I mean, as those restaurant owners, right, Ryan, as they
said to Johnston, Listen, this isn't about the homeless ruining
the mall in downtown. This is about the addicts, and
(20:42):
a bunch of them become homeless. But the addicts who,
because of lefty policies A become addicts and b are
then allowed to just roam around. And who's going to
want to go down there? I mean, how many.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Addicts our studios.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I'm remote today, but our studios happen to be in
the tech center area. You wander over, Ryan, to one
of those local bars or restaurants where your groupies gather
for their daily fix. How many zombies are you going
to find wandering around your your suburban mall of choice tonight?
Speaker 4 (21:14):
How many times do you go downtown these days? Dan?
For entertainment, dining, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Those types of purposes, Well, let me count them up.
Different us et none, none, none, We just don't. I mean, Ryan,
look at I had to go down for a meeting
the other day. I had to not the other day,
but I had to drive home drop off valuables. I
had to reverse course, come home and drop off valuables
(21:38):
before I.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Went downtown because I was going to be parking somewhere.
You can't. You can't do that now. Listen, it's a
tell of two cities, right.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
You've got your gleaming part of downtown, and then you've
got what the rest of us are subjected to. I
love going to court down there. I never have any
issues there. But if you're talking about you going into
the main city, who does I mean I go down
to games.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
All the time, right, but that'd probably be the exception, right,
just oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
And then it's not like we say, oh, man, hey,
after the game, let's pop into downtown. Yeah right, you know,
because you know we're so socially active, we might say,
oh let's you know, stop here or stop there, but
it's not downtown.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
All right, Let's go to the phone lines three or
three someone three eight two five five the number, text
da N five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Let's go to Jack in beautiful Littleton, Colorado. You're on
the Dame Kaplas. Sh'll welcome.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Thank you, Dan. I tell you I've got a comment
about the sixteenth Street mall renaming.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
But real quick, I I echo.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
Kind of where you're at. It's uh, he used to
go downtown for business lunches for dinners four or five
times a week. I avoid it like the plague. And
it's just one bad policy after the next, whether it's
homeless drugs. They've made it gar near impossible to drive
through that city by closing off lanes for like gouter lanes.
(23:01):
It's just miserable getting in and.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Out of there.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
And I'll tell you, I watched Mike Johnson, who is
an absolute.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
Case study and failed leadership, counting his you know, rebranding
of sixteen sixteenth Street, which it isn't even really a
street anymore. But he says, we've dropped the mall that
now come on down and ride the mall ride. You know,
the guy is so confused and so terrible at his job.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
He can't even get that right.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
No, No, Mike is a lot.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
He has a lot of talents, but he has a
lot of problems. And I think his biggest problem is
he has separated from the truth. Because I knew Mike
back when he was connected to the truth and we
had honest disagreements on policy, and he was delightful and
he'd come on air all the time, and he was
smart and he was quick, and he would defend those
lefty policies as well as anybody out there could. And
(23:51):
then I don't know whether it was an advisor or whatever,
but the day came when, in my humble opinion, he
just decided to separate from the truth. And once you
do that, right, I mean, none of us are perfect humans.
But once you just decide, just as a matter of
m that you're going to separate from the truth, you
end up where where Mike is right now, where you
(24:12):
separate from the truth. So you're not acting logically, you're
not acting consistently. You figure you can do anything you want,
no matter how horrible. Is like a flight attendant almost
gets decapitated on the ball on a weekend. Many others
are stabbed and killed, and you stand pretty close to
where she was killed, and you just proclaim victory. Proclaim victory.
I mean, just that kind of craziness.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Now, you you might have seen telling him at one
time from somebody on the outside looking in, I would
I would run that guy out.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
Of my boardroom as fast as I could.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
Everything from the disheveled way he looks to you know,
during his campaign it was I have a moral obligation
to house the homeless and it's just completely disconnected from
anything that resembles leadership. I don't want bleeding heart. I
want a queen safe city. It's friendly to commerce and
that's the bottom line.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Now, wait a second, this disheveled thing. How much do
you think he pays for that haircut? I mean, it's
a really good haircut, but that's the look right now?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Is disheveled right? Well, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
That looks like you've been rolled out of a gutter.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
And I just I don't see an ounce.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
I don't see an.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
Ounce of leadership in that guy. And I grew up
in this city. It's sickening to me to even see it.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
I used to love going to a vibrant, diverse downtown.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Where you saw all walks of.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
Life, businessmen, recreators, tourism.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
And it's a ghost town and it sucks being down there.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
There's nothing fun or it just feels eerie, almost post apocalyptic.
It's depressing.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Hey, I got to ask you, Jack first. I would
vote for you, but but just that generally, what do
you do for a living? Because you're really good at this.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
Now I'm owned an engineering company that I sold a
couple of years ago. I've called you many times back
to the Soberman days.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Oh yeah, I uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Okay, I thought you sounded familiar, but you are really
good at this. So you run, my friend, and I'll
vote for you. Well, I mean that Denver needs somebody
like you, and eventually Denver is going to have somebody
like you, whoever you are.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (26:17):
I get told that a lot, but I appreciate that,
and uh, we'll see maybe one day.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Okay, I'll look forward to one day. Okay, my friend,
I appreciate the call. Good caller.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
We need.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
We didn't make Jack a regular because we've got another
regular name Jack, nice guy, but we need this Jack
to be a regular.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Three or three someone three eight.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Two five five text d A N five seven seven
three nine when we come back one more time by
popular demand or not. Jared Polus with Ross Kaminski managing
to assault African Americans, Christians all same people, uh and
tell five big whoppers.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
In one tight bite. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
You know I got the World Cup and I got
the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
The two hundred and fifty years is not mine. I'd
like to take credit.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
But I got the Olympics, I got the World Cup
when I was president, and I said, well, it's too
bad I won't be president.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Then look what happened.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
I turned out. Now we're gonna have a great time.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
We're going to have a great celebration.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
But most important of all, it was the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
That blows everything away, including the World Cup and including
the Olympics as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Wow, Yeah, President Trump.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Within all of that, he was talking about how maybe
it's good that he got the second term now rather
than back in twenty twenty. Someday, let's devote maybe a
segment or two to that. How would the world have
been different? And do you think it's going to be
better long term for America that he had the stagger
term instead of consecutive terms. I think it's kind of
a fun over a six pack kind of conversation. But
(27:54):
if I'm on a game show and I've got to
give an immediate answer, man, when you look at all
the devastation in the world because he did not get
consecutive terms, it'd be hard, it'd be hard to vote
against consecutive terms. I mean, we never have the rape
and pillaging of Ukraine. If he gets that second term,
(28:14):
we don't have October seven, the horror of October seven.
If he gets that second term consecutively, I mean, and
then what happens if he gets the consecutive term. Obviously,
he was doing so very well except for COVID right
that he was cruising toward a massive reelection because of
all the success and if he'd got a consecutive term
(28:35):
that success continues, then almost certain he has a conservative successor.
So I think the world would have been far better
off if he had the consecutive terms.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I'm really glad he's.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
There now, but a lot of the problems he's trying
to solve right now wouldn't even exist if he'd head
back to back terms.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Is there any flaw in that logic? My friend?
Speaker 4 (28:55):
No, chemo sabi?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Okay, thank you? What does chemo sabi mean? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I think we had this discussion once before in the
program when we were wrong.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I'm gonna look it up right now while I go
to Rusty and Steadil. Though, I do have to tell you,
I think one of the best callers of the year
was Jack from Littleton, who was at the end of
the last segment. If somebody's listening to the podcast, be
sure you hear Jack from Littleton.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Rusty, no pressure, you're on the dan Kapla. Sh'll welcome.
Speaker 8 (29:23):
You know, I'm gonna be better than him, gonna but
I'm gonna.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
Be real short.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
I love it. So what I'm gonna say is, I
think they ought to encompass fifteenth Street and seventeenth Street
into the downtown area and call it the Stench Quarter.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Okay, appreciate the call, Rusty. You know, being short is magnificent,
I'll tell you right.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
I sometimes I fantasize about getting into a political race
or something, and one of the things I dream about
is just giving the shortest speeches ever. I mean, wouldn't
that just be your straight path to the nomination and popularity?
Because everybody they go to these dinners and short of
the Good Lord himself coming down, you know, there's only
(30:10):
so much you can listen to, and then everybody they
get their shot at the mic, and you know we're
all guilty of it. We just want to blow everybody away, yeh,
blow them away by being short. Tell a couple of
good jokes, make make an interesting point, go home sounds
a lot.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Well. You described like Ronald Reagan. He was good at
that kind.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Of that quick quip and an anecdote, and you couldn't
help but love him, and then famously in that debate
with Walter Mondale got him cracking up.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Well, it's like I go back to my seminary days
and high school seminary days, and I still remember. Man,
It's like it was ten minutes ago, father Augustine and
I'm a sophomore, and I think we were talking about
homilies or something, and he just said always leave him
wanting more.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
And not recommending that for marriage.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
But when you're talking about hobbiies and things like that,
I just thought it was.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
My mind just drifted.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Oh I did it?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Now, Dan, you have to.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Understand, I've been in trial when I went straight from
trial to the cabin to prepare for the next two trials,
so I haven't seen my wife for like ten days.
Speaker 8 (31:21):
Now.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
You're not going to turn into like Jack from The Shining,
are you, because it's kind of a similar circumstance here.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
No no, no, no, no no no. I've got the wildlife
and I shave every few days.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Hey, do you have your number one fan there in
the form of the bear today.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah, came back today.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah, yeah, that time of year, there's a there's a
deer must be deaf that comes by and we'll sit
outside and listen.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
To the show.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Probably wondering if I'm some kind of wounded animal.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
But you should post that on X a photo of
said deer.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Oh I already did that. Well, I will do that. Yeah, yeah,
I will do that. And I saw, I saw.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I grew up in the city, right, so I'm I'm
an expert. But I saw a baby elk yesterday that
was smaller than a small dog and yet was still
walking and everything. I wonder how big those things are
when they're born. M because Amy was telling me a
story a month or two ago about how how elk
(32:20):
when they're delivering will chew on trees. And that's why
you look at some of these trees around here in
the bark's kind of torn that there's something in the
bark then that will be a pain killer. But anyway, yeah,
I saw a baby elk, I mean, smaller than a
small dog.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
So yeah, no, it's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
But all I'm saying is it's been a long time
since I've seen my wife. Yeah, which is just what
everybody tuned in for, right, So all right, well, great show.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Other than the ending, No, I think the ending made it.
You like spiked the football? There is she gonna go
and see you? Are you remote tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Here's the plan. Everything pecked up as soon as this
show ends. Okay, be a minute too soon. Under the car,
got a conference call. I'll be home by seven point thirty.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Oh and then oh and then on with life.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
So you'll have dinner with Amy then, I hope too. No,
for sure okay.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Oh, by the way, I just looked this up. Chemo Sabby.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Yeah, yeah, there is a term of endearment, often translated
as faithful friend or trusty scout.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Okay, that's what I thought. And somebody called us out
on that.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
You remember that, right, like like it was some kind
of insult, yes or not? PC, No, Keemo Sabi is
a good thing. You want to be a chemo sabi? Yes, yes,
that's my goal in life now, just to be my
wife's chemo Sabby. Let's get out of here while we
(33:49):
still can. Hey, thank you, Kelly, thank you Ryan. Join
us tomorrow on the Dencapla Show
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