After blowing out the Denver city budget housing the homeless and providing refuge for illegal aliens, Mayor Mike Johnston announces the anticipated layoffs of city employees will begin in mid-August. Dan breaks down why these workers don't seem to matter to 'Diamond Mike.'
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
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American way is we respect people's jobs. We understand that's
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core to a person's life, to their family. And you
don't mess with somebody's job unless you absolutely have to.
And few things are more revealing, more revealing about Mike Johnston,
the mayor of Denver, more revealing about the left than
the very cavalier way. Now, the very cavalier way they're
announcing the oh yeah, a lot of people in Denver
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City government, they're not going to have jobs soon, right,
But Mayor Johnston is so proud, so proud of his
socialist he doesn't call it that initiative to promise everybody
a home, we will get you a home. Come to Denver,
we will get you a home. And openly inviting people
to come here illegally from all over the world. He
is so proud of that, right. And you look at
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the price that's being paid now. A whole lot of
people with kids, with families. They aren't going to have
jobs soon. Ryan Roll the tape please is from KUSA
cut double zero.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Every employee at the City of Denver got an email
today from the mayor told them that layoffs will begin
on August eighteenth. The city is facing a two hundred
and fifty million dollars budget shortfall over the next two years.
That's bad, and we still don't know exactly how many
people would lose their jobs because of it. The mayor
says all layoff notifications will be made over a one
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week period beginning in mid August. As soon as they're
laid off, they'll be sent home. Employees will receive a
thirty day paid administrative leave and severance based on how
long they've worked with the city. The big question, of course,
that remains is how many people will lose their jobs
because of this.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
We're asking, but.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
The mayor still says even the city doesn't know. Here's
what he told Kyle earlier this month.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
We're really do there is make layoffs the absolute last
option in any of those scenarios. So I'm sitting down
with every single one of our twenty seven cabinet heads
and saying, what does your department do that is the most.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Core public service we can't step back on.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
But what's the number, because here's my question, how much
of the fix is going to fall on the backs
of city employees.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Yeah, so right now, we won't know the final number
until we have all twenty seven budgets balanced because if
one budget doesn't balance, the other twenty six don't balance either.
So we are working through each of those. We'll know
by end of August, you know, kind of or mid
September when the budget comes out. What I can tell
you is, in every one of those conversations, the goal
is to make sure that we do everything possible to
make sure it isn't balanced on a city employee.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
And now we know that they'll likely know that number
by August eighteenth. City also just changed the rules for
who is laid off first. Before it was solely based
on seniority. With the new standards, however, passed just a
couple of weeks ago, performance metrics are now weighed more heavily.
Union representing city workers says it's a way to fire
older workers who've been with the city for a long
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time and make more money.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, I'd love to know what those performance metrics are right,
I mean in theory that makes sense, right, But but
you just can't trust Mayor Johnston.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I'm sorry. I like the guy.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I've had amount a ton in the past, but something
happened to him. He changed big time in my opinion.
But think about this, Think about this, and you know
the talk about Okay, now there's two hundred and fifty
million dollar budget shortfall.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Which is a direct result.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I mean, it matches up, as Kusa pointed out to Johnston,
it matches up with what he's been spending on his
homelessness initiative and on attracting all these folks to come
to denvery legally, right, So that number matches up, and
you can bet that numbers a lot higher, right, I mean,
who really thinks that number is going to be lower
in the end, But it's it's on the backs of
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these people who need to support their families. You know,
jobs are foundational to a person's life. But to the left,
you think these individual employees matter. Give me a break.
But then ultimately who also pays the price. It's the
taxpayers of Denver, the citizens of Denver, the people who
come into Denver to do different things because already they're
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having services cut back, and when all those people aren't
there to do their jobs, well, you know who's ultimately
going to also be harmed for that by that. So yeah,
that is the reality of the left. And that's the
broader point. Okay, we know what we have in Mayor Johnston.
As I said in the very beginning, he's a guy
Denver is a stepping stone. He's a guy already running
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for higher office. And we know that he doesn't really
care that much about what the people of Denver think, etc.
Because all these lefties in Colorado, they know that all
it takes to keep climbing the ladder is please the
hardcore secular left, much of it out of state that
provides the big money for primary campaigns, because the belief
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among Colorado Democrat is if you win the primary, you're
going to win the general. So it's all about tacking
as hard left as you can, as fast as you
can to get that big hard left money and be
able to win a primary and screw the people in
the meantime. And that's exactly what's happening in Denver. Three
or three seven, one, three eight two five five. The
number text D A N five, seven, seven, three nine.
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So take your calls and thoughts on that, but it
ties into this this other issue that really concerns me.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
There's a tremendous website out there.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I follow them on X called Do Better Denver, and
I'd suggest you follow it. They do whoever they are,
do really good, hard work and they just post videos
and other facts. It appears to me to be a
very very fact based service. And what they do is
they document these many, many failures in Denver, many of
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them going back to the Johnston administration. And now Do
Better Denver is very concerned about a Denver Post piece
that's about to come out. So here is their statement
on that. This is the official statement from Do Better Denver.
This is from our friend Mandy Connell, who's been all
over this story. Official statement Do Better Denver. This is
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the social media account that shines a light on the
issues in Denver. This is in response to an article
that is allegedly going to be in the Denver Post
where three contributors to Do Better Denver are going to
be outed against their will. The statement says, I am
Do Better Denver and my mission is to champion transparency, accountability,
and positive change in Denver by amplifying the voices of
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concerned citizens and exposing issues that affect our community. Founded
in July twenty twenty three, at Do Better Denver is
a platform for Denver residents to share their experiences, evidence,
and concerns about critical issues, including government accountability, public safety, crime,
and public drug use. Is to raise awareness, share compelling
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stories through videos and first hand accounts, and advocate for
solutions that restored Denver to the city we all once loved.
And then it goes on and says in part, I
am alarmed, says the writer that Shelley Bradberry, a reporter
with the Denver Post, plans to publish a story naming
at least three private citizens as do Better Denver contributors
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based on their submissions and information requests. Naming them risk
jeopardizing their personal safety, livelihoods, and privacy, a move that
contradicts journalistic ethics and the principles of free expression. Instead
of investigating the systemic issues I raise, such as government
transparency or public safety, the Denver Post appears to be
doing Mayor Johnston's bidding, prioritizing the silencing of dissenting voices
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over the pursuit of truth. This underminds journalism's role in
holding the powerful accountable and threatens the well being of
innocent residence. I urged the Denver Post I'm Shelley Bradbury
to reconsider this approach and focus on investigating this substantive
issues our community has raised. I also call on Denver
residents and supporters to stand with us in defending free
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speech and protecting those who contribute to my mission.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Sincerely, Do Better, Denver? What do you make of that?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Three or three seven one three eight two five five
text d A N five seven seven three nine. I
think Do Better Denver from everything I've seen on the site,
and I have no idea who's behind it. I think
it's an extremely valuable resource. And what do you think,
I mean, whether it's a Denver Post or somebody else.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
What do you think of the idea of.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Doing a story you know, outing the people behind Do
Better Denver?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Ryan?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Your quick take? I know we're up against a heartbreak.
What do you think?
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Well, I generally am on the side of I'm going
to put my takes out there, my name, my faces
with it.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Come at me.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
I challenge all comers, but you and I Dan, We've
chosen to enter the public space as public figures, as talks,
and that comes with the territory, and not everybody's familiar
with that or comfortable with that. And they're trying to
do this work behind the scenes, I think, to elucidate
at a lot of people as to what's really going on
in Denver and not to fall for these narratives that
were being fed. And so they choose to do that
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on their kind of cloak and dagger means. I don't
know that doxing them, which is what the Denver Post
apparently is attempting to do, solves anything or what the
motive or purpose is behind that other than acting as
the heavy hand on behalf of Mike Johnston, the mayor's
office and those Democrats that run Denver. This shows I
think the Denver Post to be the partisan rag that
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all of us have kind of assumed that it is.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
This is just out in the open, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And it's interesting when I go to the Do Better
Denver website and I need to pop this break. But
when I went there to follow this story, I saw
all these posts I have not had the chance to
independently verify, but I saw all these posts purporting to
document that the Denver Post. What is it that the
Denver Post has been paid over twenty million dollars by
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the City of Denver to rent space in the Denver
Post building.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Is that right? And I'm not saying there's anything wrong on.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
The surface with that, but if those facts are correct,
if that claim is correct, you know that the Denver
Post has paid the City of Denver over twenty million dollars.
Or let me reverse that, that the City of Denver
has paid the Denver Post over twenty million dollars.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Then at that point you know there's at least an.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Appearance there when the Denver Post starts going after a
critic of the city, who I think has been very
effective in documenting the failures of the Johnston administration. Love
your thoughts on this, We'll get into some more depth.
Three or three seven one three eight two five five
text da n five seven seven three nine You're on
the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah, a lot of real people about to be laid
on by the City of Denver, so Mike Johnston can
pursue these these far left dreams.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Of getting everybody home right. He flat out promised it.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
So he's driving Denver into this impossible financial hole and
now real people with real kids and real families to
feed are about to lose their jobs to pay for
Mike Johnston's ego trip three or three someone three A
two five five textda in five seven seven three nine.
At the same time, a great website, do better Denver,
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I follow him on X says the Denver Post is
about to do a story outing some of their contributors.
So how do you feel about that? Why do you
think that's happening. We'll start with Razor in Denver. You're
on the Dankapitlis Show.
Speaker 8 (11:43):
Welcome, Hey Dan, how you doing today?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I am living the dream. My friend is Razor? You really?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
It absolutely is.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
I showed you the girl who answers your phone my
picture one day and I'm an ex hair dresser. I
was going to be Denver's heavy little hairdresser.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Wow, that's my name.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
After a night of cocaine and strippers and way over drinking,
and she convinced me to change it.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
So I did and just never changed it back.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
It's too fun to change it back.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, why would you change it? I mean, it's such
a cool name and a great conversation starter. Now, now
let me ask you, are you single or were you
single at any point while having the name raisor.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
Well, I was dating a stripper back in the eighties
and she convinced me to change it. Okay, being a hairdresser,
it's a great pickup line for girls.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
So I dated a lot when I was younger, and
now I'm.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
Old, bald and ugly, and girls don't like me anymore.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Well, but but not.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
To be personal, but I'm just curious when you moved on,
I assume from the exotic dancer and started dating others.
Was the name or plus or minus in getting dates?
Speaker 9 (12:53):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (12:55):
It was a good conversation starter, like you said, Okay, okay,
it was a fat talking about hair. You talked to
a girl about her hair. You can go anywhere in the.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
World with her.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, well, there's only one girl who I want to
talk to about her hair, but I will.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I will do that tonight, my friend, what'd you call it?
Speaker 8 (13:14):
So I'm having a hard time getting anybody who get
me an answer on this. I've talked to people in
the mayor's office, I've talked to friends and you're the
only person.
Speaker 10 (13:22):
I have left.
Speaker 8 (13:24):
If the Bible bond failed, will property taxes go down
two hundred dollars because the last bond is paid for
out of property taxes and it's gonna.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I got that answer? Absolutely not right. I mean, well,
and I'm guessing right. I haven't researched this at all,
but when's when's the last time a lefty run government
refunded money? I mean that they didn't have to, that
they weren't ordered to by laws. So yeah, that's just
my gut reaction. But I honestly don't know the legally
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correct answer.
Speaker 8 (13:59):
Because he claims aren't going to go up because of
this bond, but that's because the other bond is expiring.
It will take the place of that bond, right, So
you would think that if it fails, everybody gets two
hundred dollars off on their tent on their property factors,
right like those ain't going to do nothing.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, well, Razor, thanks for the heads up on that.
That issue is not on my radar, but Razor has
put it there. Hope we hear from you, Offen, my friend.
Thank you, Thank you you too. Thank you Ryan.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
What about that? Will you will you name a child. Razor.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
I mean, I like Razor Ramone from back in the
Scott Hall per wrestling days. It's a fun name, and
my name starts with an R, so that would be
kind of fun.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Ryan and Razor.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I got to tell you, I'm a big believer and
I'd love to hear from folks on this. You can
text U S d A N five, seven, seven through
nine are call I think names to a certain extent
shape children. I think they're they're a self fulfilling prophecy
in some ways, not completely, not all the time, but
I think the right name can really be a huge plus.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
The wrong name. Hey, it's like a boy named Sue,
right it uh? I don't think it's kind of toughing
them up, raise a sharp, you know, cut something.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
It's you know, you got rock or you got Stone Phillips.
Remember him from the NBC News Days.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Let me tell you my Stone Phillips story. Yeah, oh yeah, no, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
You have a stone Fellows story.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Well yeah, but but that that and not a good one.
But the names, I mean, the names to me, and
you apply it to products. You know, if under Armour
had been named sports underwear, you never hear about it. Right,
good point, and and you know you got that great
name for it. All of a sudden, everybody's buying it.
I want under armour, you know, even if I've been
to the gym in the year. But but yeah, so
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I think those names are so cool, like for our kids.
I just think their names fit them perfectly. But nobody
believes me when we talk about and the kids talk
about it all the time. I was pushing Goliath for Joe,
you know, I mean, can you image and you who's
going to mess with that guy on the playground to
shape him?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Damn, I'm joking.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
I'm my Biblical studies.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I'm joking.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I'm trying to lighten this show up, right, I'm trying
to lighten this show up.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
On that note, though, I know several people.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
I went to school with a guy that lived on
my floor at Michigan State my freshman year named Cain
c Ai n.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I'll wait a minute, Cain killed da. Yeah, I don't know.
That's a great one, but I don't know, no, no,
not the best. But I'd love to hear from people
on the name thing.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Because I I do think those names can really matter,
and I think you know how one's self perception at
any age, but especially when you're a little kid, et cetera,
and the name can play into that. I'd love to
hear from folks on some of the best and worst
names out there.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
But you know what, what kid named rock yes, has
ever failed? Good? One? I like that. I mean, that's
a good question.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
We did actually, obviously Joe, but we I pushed at
least some I thought pretty manly in creative names for Joe.
But I'm so glad we ended up where we did
because I think it's just perfect. I think Joe is
just like a perfect boy's name anyway, no matter our son.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Joseph, the father of Jesus, you know all that sort
of stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah, all of that. Yeah, three or three seOne, three eight, two,
five five the number.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
So Denver about to lay off a bunch of people,
and what do you think of do Better Denver? Now,
says the Denver Post is about to do a story
outing some of their contributors. So why would they do
that story? I mean, I'm not aware of any any
criticism of do Better Denver. And he claimed that they're
doing anything wrong. And remember it wasn't that long ago
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Colorado Court of appeal said, wait a second, if a
teacher acts to shut down a school through some mass
sick out, then their names are.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Public under Colorado law. Remember that?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
And then so what happened? Then you had left and
I'd have to double check, but I'm pretty darn sure
the posts supported this. Then you had the left get
together and say, oh, no, Court of Appeals is wrong.
We've got to change that law so that if you
get a whole bunch of teachers who gather together to
lock tens of thousands of kids out of school, they
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can be anonymous. So you've got the left pushing that
right that a block of teachers who want to shut kids.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Out of school can remain anonymous.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
But then you've got a group like do Better Denver
that I'm not aware of any legitimate criticism of the
people behind that have to be identified. I'd love to
know the logic of the left on that. Have you
ever heard those words together with the logic of the left.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
You know what it is.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
It's to diffuse and destroy inconvenient narratives. And that the
Denver Post and whoever this journalist so called is are
willing to do the bedding and carry the water for
Mayor Johnston and Denver, for whom this is very inconvenient.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Dan Well, and I'd love to get Shelley Bradbury on.
I know Ande, like plenty of reporters at the Denver Post,
though we may disagree. I don't happen to know Shelley,
but I'd like to get around. Can you have Kelly
try to reach her. There's probably an email on her byline.
See if you can join us and explain what this
is all about. And because I look at Do Better
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Denver and it looks like they're doing a lot of
really good work, my guess is the mayor is not
at all happy with that, so why out them?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
You're on the den Kapla Show.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplass Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, Mike Johnston's vanity projects about to cost a lot
of people their jobs in Denver, and citizens and others
who travel to Denver, you know, good luck getting quality service.
So it's just what we said, right. The city cannot
possibly sustain this. You can't do what Johnston did and
for his own gratification and glorification politically come out and say,
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come to Denver, we will get you a home. And
then essentially illegal immigrants from all over the world without
any vetting, without just driving the city off a financial cliff.
And that's what he's doing. So an awful lot of
layoffs are now coming up in August. Hey, let's go
to the phone line. So we've got a lot of
things going on this afternoon, including interesting conversation about names
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for boys.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Mark and Arvada. You're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 11 (20:21):
Welcome, Hey Dan, this is Mark.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Hey, I got it.
Speaker 11 (20:24):
My best friend is he's half Irish, half German and
his wife is almost all Italian.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (20:30):
But he swears to this day and his last name
is Fox. But he swears to this day he should
have given his son a middle name of Running, so
that his name would be Simon Running Fox because he
thinks he'd be able to get scholarships.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Work for Ward Churchill and he didn't even need that.
But yeah, well thanks man.
Speaker 11 (20:51):
Yeah, okay, I thought it was funny. So it's a
fun We've done it. But it's a funny story.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Yeah, no, it's a great time.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I just a big believer that names can help shape kids,
and so yeah, yeah, what do you think happens if
that kid is then named you know Mark running Fox,
He's probably the fastest kid on the playground.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Right, So much of it is just belief and visualization.
Speaker 11 (21:12):
His kids are great runners. As a matter of fact,
they get they have got state of words for running.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
So wow. See.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Anyway, and the last name of Fox right and last
names can help shape too. And I've known some people
with some challenging last names, and I was telling one
of the kids the other night, I just respect the
heck out of them for not changing the name and
just living with it because it was a family name.
At the same time, I have other friends who had
tough last names who changed him, and I absolutely respect that.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
But how cool a last name is Fox? Right?
Speaker 11 (21:45):
Is that cool?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I bet most kids, if they were given a choice, Hey,
what last name do you want? If Fox is on
the list, a bunch of people are going to take that.
Are they all good looking?
Speaker 11 (21:55):
It's good looking batch that he had six kids?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, and you see, they're probably better look And then
they would have been without the last name, don't you think.
Speaker 11 (22:06):
Since they're all runners, I just wonder if that's where
they got their name way back when.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah, Oh, that is a great point. Wow, And think
about it. If your last name is Fox, just kind
of that self fulfilling thing. I bet on a lot
of different conscious and subconscious levels that's going to operate
to make somebody, you know, maybe more aware of the
appearance thing and everything else.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
But hey, great call man, appreciate that. Thank you, you too,
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
As we go to the next caller, Ryan, If you
could have picked any first or last name on the planet,
what would it be for myself?
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Yeah, well, my mom was gonna name me Clayton, and
I think I prefer that just because it's.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
A lot more rare.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
You talking about Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
No, you're ready, And clay Clay's a cool name.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
That is a great, very very manly name. But how
would the name clay have shaped you differently?
Speaker 7 (22:55):
I see what you did there.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
To and castle ride here and the Dan caplis show welcome.
Speaker 12 (23:03):
Oh hi, Yes, my son will be thirty years old
in October and I named him Cannon.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Oh man, put that on the list.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
He's six and he's a medic in the army.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
What a great name. You did such a favor for
him with that name.
Speaker 12 (23:26):
He sort of he surely grew into it, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Yeah, how do you think it affected him as a kid.
Speaker 12 (23:35):
You know, he was a big kid. He wasn't tall
until after high school he grew, but he always wished
he was taller in high school and as muscular built
as he is now because he's so dedicated.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
To the gym.
Speaker 12 (23:51):
Yeah, but he was a big boy. I mean, nobody
was going to mess with him, for sure, but.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
He was.
Speaker 12 (23:57):
He's just a very kind, sweet man.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Well, you did him a great favor with that name,
because it's all upside in that name, but especially yeah,
for a boy, and it would only be for a boy, right,
But hey, thank you, Becky, appreciate that.
Speaker 12 (24:12):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Okay, cool as that cannon sholing. How about Fred in
long line here on the day Capitalos Show. That is
a great name, Fred.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
Welcome, Hi Dan Ryan. I'd like to talk about the
Denver Post, but before that, I'd like to give you
a name thing. When I was in the US Air Force,
there was a major on my command. His last name
was Savage, so he was known as Major Savage.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Oh man, that's beautiful.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
Yeah, and it hit him perfectly too.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Oh man, boy, you know I was just imagining, you know,
like I'm a trial lawyer. Can you imagine a trial
lawyer with the last name of Savage?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I mean, holy cow, that is a beautiful Now what
what first name would you match with that?
Speaker 9 (25:04):
Well, that's a great question. I'd have to give some
real thought to that.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah, what, I don't know. It was Savage?
Speaker 9 (25:10):
How about Hulk Hogan? Savage?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Boy, there's something out there that's perfect right now, I
think Savage could work for a woman as well.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
Fuzzy Savage was television anchor, right, can Linda Savage?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Who that was?
Speaker 6 (25:26):
What was the name the television anchor from the eighties?
And I think that's a Savage, right.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I think that's right. Can you imagine like Susie Savage? Wow? Well,
thanks Fred Well.
Speaker 9 (25:40):
On a more serious note in regards to this Denver
Post outing of this group gets at the newspaper reporters
and media reporters who are always claiming that their sources
to be unnamed, and they've actually gone to court and
litigated that issue.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Great point.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
You know, Denver Post wants to out people. If they'll
be the first people when they have an article and
they don't want to name the source, they're going to
protect it. So I just want to see the real
hypocrisy in the Denver Post.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
That's a great point.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I just want to hear from the Denver Post on this, right,
because I really like this do Better Denver website. But
but at this point what we have is do Better
Denver saying the Post has contacted them about a story.
I'd really like to get the Post take on this.
I don't doubt for a second what do Better Denver
is saying, but I'd like to get the post take
because to your point, what would the idea behind that be?
Speaker 10 (26:31):
Right?
Speaker 9 (26:32):
Well, I think the other question you would you would
ask him if I would offer a thought, is why
do you protect your sources? Yeah, and yet you won't
let somebody else protect their sources. They're the real hypocrisy
in that, considering they're both media.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Or great point, man, Hey, really appreciate that.
Speaker 9 (26:51):
Thank Dany, and thanks for the names. Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Danny Savage. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I love my last name, you know, and I'm proud
of it, my dad and my grandfather and the whole
family history in Ireland and America.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
But Danny Savage. Yeah, if I.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Had to choose another name, say they outlawed my name,
might have to go with Danny savage, What would you go.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
With my on air name because my last name is
so hard to spell. It's Dutch and it's weird. It's
got the extra ball. I was going to be ron Clayton.
Ron Clayton, yeah, because.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
My middle name is Clayton.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
You were making fun of it earlier, but it was I.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I wasn't making fun of it. I was just trying
to work a little pun in there. But but I
did say you dodged a bullets.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
I took that back. I take that back.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
But honestly, Ryan, it sounds way too boring for you.
That sounds like a generic name. It was going to
be Ronnie Clayton or something Ronnie.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
I mean just ron Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yeah, I'm sorry. Man.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
To me, that's like the most generic name possible, and
you are the.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
Op I'm not generic.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
No, you're right about that part.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, So now I think you got to do better
another pun three or three seven one three A two
five five text d A N five seven seven three
nine one sure.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Rule of life. If you have to tell.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Somebody it's a pun, it's not a good pun. Right,
Let's go to a rick in Boon. You're on the
Dan kaplish'll welcome.
Speaker 10 (28:22):
What are you saying, Dan, Hey, Rick?
Speaker 3 (28:24):
How you doing?
Speaker 10 (28:27):
I am well water kettle trying to get water to
them before the still news happens. If the weather matters
right now, where are.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
We at in that?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
The calendar here? For like the cow caff combos? Are
we late for that?
Speaker 8 (28:44):
Now?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Now I'll say it again, the cow caff combinations.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
My understanding has always been, there's a particular season where
you have the calviing and you have this cow calf
combo that's so cool to look at as you do right,
uh and everything else, it might probably real hard work
for you.
Speaker 10 (29:05):
Well, certain people do it different, okay, Uh sometimes or
some folks have their cows and breed them, so it
will time out to me. Oh gosh, uh January, what
(29:25):
my whole but so do it? Uh sprunning more in
line with uh.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah, hell, I apologize for taking you off track. I
apologize for taking off track. Let me do this.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I know you called on a serious issue. Let me
pop this break lineser jams want to get everybody on.
And we're talking in part about names. Names that are
a self fulfilling prophecy for kids. The very best and
worst names you're on the Den Kapitala Show.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
And now to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
All right, let's go back to the phone lines. Who
is our next victim? Here? Is it?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Chris and Loveland? Oh oh my goodness, My apologies to
Rick and Boone. Thank you Rick for hanging in there.
My friend Rick and Boone is just of such great
water ranch. Yeah yeah, hard working man, hard working man, Rick.
What before we get into the serious thing.
Speaker 10 (30:29):
Back between the ditches and road this morning route. Yeah, yeah,
so I kind of appreciate your saying with the last names.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Appreciate Well, what's the most manly name you've ever heard?
What the most manly first name you've ever heard? Because
I'm a big believer that names helped shape kids manly
like tough, rough, masculine first name. Like a lady just
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called and said she named your kid Can. Now that's
a gift that that's going to do a lot of great.
Speaker 10 (31:13):
Rick.
Speaker 8 (31:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
We've got a little bit of wind on the line,
and it I think to people in their car, sounds
like their car is about to explode.
Speaker 10 (31:27):
You know, it's one one hands in my ear.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Oh man, okay, oh it's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Okay, what do you think.
Speaker 10 (31:46):
The first name?
Speaker 1 (31:51):
And we can skip that and go right to your
serious topic if you want.
Speaker 10 (31:58):
Okay, I was thinking about that. What has just come
to the forefront in Colorado experience? Of course that's northwest
maybe Belcaster County to six twenty, and the school board
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has got an initiative and the naysayers have already come
out and started protesting on the streets and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
What is it? My friend?
Speaker 10 (32:37):
I was saying, leave it to the professionals.
Speaker 13 (32:40):
Don't be messing with the perfecticals, which to me is
really ridiculous because it's a perfecticals and governess into this
situation where kids cannot read.
Speaker 14 (32:56):
They came out right, they cannot the subtract. Yeah, I
just here here the suber board is they're elected, correct,
They're elected to do what they should be doing. Yeah,
(33:16):
and they're trying to take back control.
Speaker 13 (33:19):
Now I don't know details and all that offsets.
Speaker 10 (33:24):
Yeah, however, I figured you could probably do it. It
just showed up on the local TV stations. Yeah, right away,
right away, I mean almost immediately there are protesters out.
They're saying leave it to professionals, Heyrick.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Can I do this, my friend there and forgive my ignorance.
Let me do this if you don't mind, because I'm
not familiar with this story. Let me look at it
the next break which is coming up soon, and then
I'll be able to talk about it right out of
the top. But but appreciate it, my friend, hardest working
man we know, Rick and Boone, and I'll look into
that story during the news break. I about Chris and Loveland.
(34:09):
You're on the Dan capitalist shall welcome Chris.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Wow. Hi, great to talk to you guys again. Always,
thank you, Dan. I wanted to kick it off straight
away with just saying that I appreciate everything that you
do for your day job. That's a really good thing
to do. Thank you some of us folks, it's a
huge thing.
Speaker 10 (34:28):
So thank you.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Just get that appreciated that the way there, even though
it is true. But yeah, so I just wanted to
get into a little quick, uh diet tribe about my
son's name and where it came from. Yeah, but my
son's name is Henry Elijah White m And the first
(34:51):
t so the first name was my best friend back
home in western North Carolina, Hazel, North Carolina, Charity County,
Clay County. Yeah, shout out to y'all. Bless y'all. All
the boys on the Red keep doing great. But he
was my best friend from my freshman year until I
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lost him a few years ago.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
It's a heart attack.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
He didn't take care of himself, but he was my
only guy friend who wrote me when I deployed to Afghanistan.
Really yeah, and he just would keep me up in
motocross news and what was going on. This is like
that very early two thousands. I was actually in basic
when nine to eleven happened, so it is a pretty
(35:38):
wild time.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
To be in actually service. But thanks I ended up at.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Charlie Company, third Ranger Battalion under the tutelage of First
Ordan James Pippins. The absolutely incredible time. He just got
industed into Ranger Hall of Fame this last year. Awesome,
awesome guy video.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
I apologize, Well, where did Elijah?
Speaker 5 (35:59):
It was a different time. Yeah, So my brother in
law and I named them after my brother in law
because he helped me come back to my faith and
it's just such an impact. Like my wife that I've
been married for nine years now, Henry is a year
and a month old and a week James twenty four.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
He's got a great monument.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
I appreciate it. Yeah, it was very purposeful, like we
didn't want. Like I watched a lot of my dear
friends from the early two thousands graduating high school and
college naming their kids. Some just random mix of names
and things Braxton, Braden, Jaden's and that kind of stuff,
and I'm like, no, I really want It's kind of
like tattoos are for me. Me personally, I should say,
(36:52):
it's very personal. So it should be personal. It should
mean something. It should have some representation of something that
you're proud of or want to rend them. Not in
that fairly, you know, just oh I got a you
know what I mean. I think you can agree on.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Chris. Really appreciate the calling, the kind words. Music means.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
I have to scram and make way for news here,
but but good to hear from you.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
I hope we hear from you often. Thank you, my
friend Doug.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
When we come back, we'll continue this conversation best boys'
names for shaping boys and then also Mayor Johnston laying
off a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
What comes next
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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American way is we respect people's jobs. We understand that's
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core to a person's life, to their family. And you
don't mess with somebody's job unless you absolutely have to.
And few things are more revealing, more revealing about Mike Johnston,
the mayor of Denver, more revealing about the left than
the very cavalier way. Now, the very cavalier way they're
announcing the oh yeah, a lot of people in Denver
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City government, they're not going to have jobs soon, right,
But Mayor Johnston is so proud, so proud of his
socialist he doesn't call it that initiative to promise everybody
a home, we will get you a home. Come to Denver,
we will get you a home. And openly inviting people
to come here illegally from all over the world. He
is so proud of that, right. And you look at
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the price that's being paid now. A whole lot of
people with kids, with families. They aren't going to have
jobs soon. Ryan Roll the tape please is from KUSA
cut double zero.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Every employee at the City of Denver got an email
today from the mayor told them that layoffs will begin
on August eighteenth. The city is facing a two hundred
and fifty million dollars budget shortfall over the next two years.
That's bad, and we still don't know exactly how many
people would lose their jobs because of it. The mayor
says all layoff notifications will be made over a one
(01:36):
week period beginning in mid August. As soon as they're
laid off, they'll be sent home. Employees will receive a
thirty day paid administrative leave and severance based on how
long they've worked with the city. The big question, of course,
that remains is how many people will lose their jobs
because of this.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
We're asking, but.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
The mayor still says even the city doesn't know. Here's
what he told Kyle earlier this month.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
We're really do there is make layoffs the absolute last
option in any of those scenarios. So I'm sitting down
with every single one of our twenty seven cabinet heads
and saying, what does your department do that is the most.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Core public service we can't step back on.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
But what's the number, because here's my question, how much
of the fix is going to fall on the backs
of city employees.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Yeah, so right now, we won't know the final number
until we have all twenty seven budgets balanced because if
one budget doesn't balance, the other twenty six don't balance either.
So we are working through each of those. We'll know
by end of August, you know, kind of or mid
September when the budget comes out. What I can tell
you is, in every one of those conversations, the goal
is to make sure that we do everything possible to
make sure it isn't balanced on a city employee.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
And now we know that they'll likely know that number
by August eighteenth. City also just changed the rules for
who is laid off first. Before it was solely based
on seniority. With the new standards, however, passed just a
couple of weeks ago, performance metrics are now weighed more heavily.
Union representing city workers says it's a way to fire
older workers who've been with the city for a long
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time and make more money.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, I'd love to know what those performance metrics are right,
I mean in theory that makes sense, right, But but
you just can't trust Mayor Johnston.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I'm sorry. I like the guy.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I've had amount a ton in the past, but something
happened to him. He changed big time in my opinion.
But think about this, Think about this, and you know
the talk about Okay, now there's two hundred and fifty
million dollar budget shortfall.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Which is a direct result.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I mean, it matches up, as Kusa pointed out to Johnston,
it matches up with what he's been spending on his
homelessness initiative and on attracting all these folks to come
to denvery legally, right, So that number matches up, and
you can bet that numbers a lot higher, right, I mean,
who really thinks that number is going to be lower
in the end, But it's it's on the backs of
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these people who need to support their families. You know,
jobs are foundational to a person's life. But to the left,
you think these individual employees matter. Give me a break.
But then ultimately who also pays the price. It's the
taxpayers of Denver, the citizens of Denver, the people who
come into Denver to do different things because already they're
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having services cut back, and when all those people aren't
there to do their jobs, well, you know who's ultimately
going to also be harmed for that by that. So yeah,
that is the reality of the left. And that's the
broader point. Okay, we know what we have in Mayor Johnston.
As I said in the very beginning, he's a guy
Denver is a stepping stone. He's a guy already running
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for higher office. And we know that he doesn't really
care that much about what the people of Denver think, etc.
Because all these lefties in Colorado, they know that all
it takes to keep climbing the ladder is please the
hardcore secular left, much of it out of state that
provides the big money for primary campaigns, because the belief
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among Colorado Democrat is if you win the primary, you're
going to win the general. So it's all about tacking
as hard left as you can, as fast as you
can to get that big hard left money and be
able to win a primary and screw the people in
the meantime. And that's exactly what's happening in Denver. Three
or three seven, one, three eight two five five. The
number text D A N five, seven, seven, three nine.
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So take your calls and thoughts on that, but it
ties into this this other issue that really concerns me.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
There's a tremendous website out there.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I follow them on X called Do Better Denver, and
I'd suggest you follow it. They do whoever they are,
do really good, hard work and they just post videos
and other facts. It appears to me to be a
very very fact based service. And what they do is
they document these many, many failures in Denver, many of
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them going back to the Johnston administration. And now Do
Better Denver is very concerned about a Denver Post piece
that's about to come out. So here is their statement
on that. This is the official statement from Do Better Denver.
This is from our friend Mandy Connell, who's been all
over this story. Official statement Do Better Denver. This is
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the social media account that shines a light on the
issues in Denver. This is in response to an article
that is allegedly going to be in the Denver Post
where three contributors to Do Better Denver are going to
be outed against their will. The statement says, I am
Do Better Denver and my mission is to champion transparency, accountability,
and positive change in Denver by amplifying the voices of
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concerned citizens and exposing issues that affect our community. Founded
in July twenty twenty three, at Do Better Denver is
a platform for Denver residents to share their experiences, evidence,
and concerns about critical issues, including government accountability, public safety, crime,
and public drug use. Is to raise awareness, share compelling
(07:02):
stories through videos and first hand accounts, and advocate for
solutions that restored Denver to the city we all once loved.
And then it goes on and says in part, I
am alarmed, says the writer that Shelley Bradberry, a reporter
with the Denver Post, plans to publish a story naming
at least three private citizens as do Better Denver contributors
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based on their submissions and information requests. Naming them risk
jeopardizing their personal safety, livelihoods, and privacy, a move that
contradicts journalistic ethics and the principles of free expression. Instead
of investigating the systemic issues I raise, such as government
transparency or public safety, the Denver Post appears to be
doing Mayor Johnston's bidding, prioritizing the silencing of dissenting voices
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over the pursuit of truth. This underminds journalism's role in
holding the powerful accountable and threatens the well being of
innocent residence. I urged the Denver Post I'm Shelley Bradbury
to reconsider this approach and focus on investigating this substantive
issues our community has raised. I also call on Denver
residents and supporters to stand with us in defending free
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speech and protecting those who contribute to my mission.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Sincerely, Do Better, Denver? What do you make of that?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Three or three seven one three eight two five five
text d A N five seven seven three nine. I
think Do Better Denver from everything I've seen on the site,
and I have no idea who's behind it. I think
it's an extremely valuable resource. And what do you think,
I mean, whether it's a Denver Post or somebody else.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
What do you think of the idea of.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Doing a story you know, outing the people behind Do
Better Denver?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Ryan?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Your quick take? I know we're up against a heartbreak.
What do you think?
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Well, I generally am on the side of I'm going
to put my takes out there, my name, my faces
with it.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Come at me.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
I challenge all comers, but you and I Dan, We've
chosen to enter the public space as public figures, as talks,
and that comes with the territory, and not everybody's familiar
with that or comfortable with that. And they're trying to
do this work behind the scenes, I think, to elucidate
at a lot of people as to what's really going on
in Denver and not to fall for these narratives that
were being fed. And so they choose to do that
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on their kind of cloak and dagger means. I don't
know that doxing them, which is what the Denver Post
apparently is attempting to do, solves anything or what the
motive or purpose is behind that other than acting as
the heavy hand on behalf of Mike Johnston, the mayor's
office and those Democrats that run Denver. This shows I
think the Denver Post to be the partisan rag that
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all of us have kind of assumed that it is.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
This is just out in the open, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And it's interesting when I go to the Do Better
Denver website and I need to pop this break. But
when I went there to follow this story, I saw
all these posts I have not had the chance to
independently verify, but I saw all these posts purporting to
document that the Denver Post. What is it that the
Denver Post has been paid over twenty million dollars by
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the City of Denver to rent space in the Denver
Post building.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Is that right? And I'm not saying there's anything wrong on.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
The surface with that, but if those facts are correct,
if that claim is correct, you know that the Denver
Post has paid the City of Denver over twenty million dollars.
Or let me reverse that, that the City of Denver
has paid the Denver Post over twenty million dollars.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Then at that point you know there's at least an.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Appearance there when the Denver Post starts going after a
critic of the city, who I think has been very
effective in documenting the failures of the Johnston administration. Love
your thoughts on this, We'll get into some more depth.
Three or three seven one three eight two five five
text da n five seven seven three nine You're on
the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yeah, a lot of real people about to be laid
on by the City of Denver, so Mike Johnston can
pursue these these far left dreams.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Of getting everybody home right. He flat out promised it.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
So he's driving Denver into this impossible financial hole and
now real people with real kids and real families to
feed are about to lose their jobs to pay for
Mike Johnston's ego trip three or three someone three A
two five five textda in five seven seven three nine.
At the same time, a great website, do better Denver,
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I follow him on X says the Denver Post is
about to do a story outing some of their contributors.
So how do you feel about that? Why do you
think that's happening. We'll start with Razor in Denver. You're
on the Dankapitlis Show.
Speaker 8 (11:43):
Welcome, Hey Dan, how you doing today?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I am living the dream. My friend is Razor? You really?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
It absolutely is.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
I showed you the girl who answers your phone my
picture one day and I'm an ex hair dresser. I
was going to be Denver's heavy little hairdresser.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Wow, that's my name.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
After a night of cocaine and strippers and way over drinking,
and she convinced me to change it.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
So I did and just never changed it back.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
It's too fun to change it back.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, why would you change it? I mean, it's such
a cool name and a great conversation starter. Now, now
let me ask you, are you single or were you
single at any point while having the name raisor.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
Well, I was dating a stripper back in the eighties
and she convinced me to change it. Okay, being a hairdresser,
it's a great pickup line for girls.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
So I dated a lot when I was younger, and
now I'm.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
Old, bald and ugly, and girls don't like me anymore.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Well, but but not.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
To be personal, but I'm just curious when you moved on,
I assume from the exotic dancer and started dating others.
Was the name or plus or minus in getting dates?
Speaker 9 (12:53):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (12:55):
It was a good conversation starter, like you said, Okay, okay,
it was a fat talking about hair. You talked to
a girl about her hair. You can go anywhere in the.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
World with her.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, well, there's only one girl who I want to
talk to about her hair, but I will.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I will do that tonight, my friend, what'd you call it?
Speaker 8 (13:14):
So I'm having a hard time getting anybody who get
me an answer on this. I've talked to people in
the mayor's office, I've talked to friends and you're the
only person.
Speaker 10 (13:22):
I have left.
Speaker 8 (13:24):
If the Bible bond failed, will property taxes go down
two hundred dollars because the last bond is paid for
out of property taxes and it's gonna.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I got that answer? Absolutely not right. I mean, well,
and I'm guessing right. I haven't researched this at all,
but when's when's the last time a lefty run government
refunded money? I mean that they didn't have to, that
they weren't ordered to by laws. So yeah, that's just
my gut reaction. But I honestly don't know the legally
(13:57):
correct answer.
Speaker 8 (13:59):
Because he claims aren't going to go up because of
this bond, but that's because the other bond is expiring.
It will take the place of that bond, right, So
you would think that if it fails, everybody gets two
hundred dollars off on their tent on their property factors,
right like those ain't going to do nothing.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, well, Razor, thanks for the heads up on that.
That issue is not on my radar, but Razor has
put it there. Hope we hear from you, Offen, my friend.
Thank you, Thank you you too. Thank you Ryan.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
What about that? Will you will you name a child. Razor.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
I mean, I like Razor Ramone from back in the
Scott Hall per wrestling days. It's a fun name, and
my name starts with an R, so that would be
kind of fun.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Ryan and Razor.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I got to tell you, I'm a big believer and
I'd love to hear from folks on this. You can
text U S d A N five, seven, seven through
nine are call I think names to a certain extent
shape children. I think they're they're a self fulfilling prophecy
in some ways, not completely, not all the time, but
I think the right name can really be a huge plus.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
The wrong name. Hey, it's like a boy named Sue,
right it uh? I don't think it's kind of toughing
them up, raise a sharp, you know, cut something.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
It's you know, you got rock or you got Stone Phillips.
Remember him from the NBC News Days.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Let me tell you my Stone Phillips story. Yeah, oh yeah, no, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
You have a stone Fellows story.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Well yeah, but but that that and not a good one.
But the names, I mean, the names to me, and
you apply it to products. You know, if under Armour
had been named sports underwear, you never hear about it. Right,
good point, and and you know you got that great
name for it. All of a sudden, everybody's buying it.
I want under armour, you know, even if I've been
to the gym in the year. But but yeah, so
(15:45):
I think those names are so cool, like for our kids.
I just think their names fit them perfectly. But nobody
believes me when we talk about and the kids talk
about it all the time. I was pushing Goliath for Joe,
you know, I mean, can you image and you who's
going to mess with that guy on the playground to
shape him?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Damn, I'm joking.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
I'm my Biblical studies.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I'm joking.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I'm trying to lighten this show up, right, I'm trying
to lighten this show up.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
On that note, though, I know several people.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
I went to school with a guy that lived on
my floor at Michigan State my freshman year named Cain
c Ai n.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I'll wait a minute, Cain killed da. Yeah, I don't know.
That's a great one, but I don't know, no, no,
not the best. But I'd love to hear from people
on the name thing.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Because I I do think those names can really matter,
and I think you know how one's self perception at
any age, but especially when you're a little kid, et cetera,
and the name can play into that. I'd love to
hear from folks on some of the best and worst
names out there.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
But you know what, what kid named rock yes, has
ever failed? Good? One? I like that. I mean, that's
a good question.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
We did actually, obviously Joe, but we I pushed at
least some I thought pretty manly in creative names for Joe.
But I'm so glad we ended up where we did
because I think it's just perfect. I think Joe is
just like a perfect boy's name anyway, no matter our son.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Joseph, the father of Jesus, you know all that sort
of stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah, all of that. Yeah, three or three seOne, three eight, two,
five five the number.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
So Denver about to lay off a bunch of people,
and what do you think of do Better Denver? Now,
says the Denver Post is about to do a story
outing some of their contributors. So why would they do
that story? I mean, I'm not aware of any any
criticism of do Better Denver. And he claimed that they're
doing anything wrong. And remember it wasn't that long ago
(17:45):
Colorado Court of appeal said, wait a second, if a
teacher acts to shut down a school through some mass
sick out, then their names are.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Public under Colorado law. Remember that?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
And then so what happened? Then you had left and
I'd have to double check, but I'm pretty darn sure
the posts supported this. Then you had the left get
together and say, oh, no, Court of Appeals is wrong.
We've got to change that law so that if you
get a whole bunch of teachers who gather together to
lock tens of thousands of kids out of school, they
(18:18):
can be anonymous. So you've got the left pushing that
right that a block of teachers who want to shut kids.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Out of school can remain anonymous.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
But then you've got a group like do Better Denver
that I'm not aware of any legitimate criticism of the
people behind that have to be identified. I'd love to
know the logic of the left on that. Have you
ever heard those words together with the logic of the left.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
You know what it is.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
It's to diffuse and destroy inconvenient narratives. And that the
Denver Post and whoever this journalist so called is are
willing to do the bedding and carry the water for
Mayor Johnston and Denver, for whom this is very inconvenient.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Dan Well, and I'd love to get Shelley Bradbury on.
I know Ande, like plenty of reporters at the Denver Post,
though we may disagree. I don't happen to know Shelley,
but I'd like to get around. Can you have Kelly
try to reach her. There's probably an email on her byline.
See if you can join us and explain what this
is all about. And because I look at Do Better
(19:16):
Denver and it looks like they're doing a lot of
really good work, my guess is the mayor is not
at all happy with that, so why out them?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
You're on the den Kapla Show.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplass Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, Mike Johnston's vanity projects about to cost a lot
of people their jobs in Denver, and citizens and others
who travel to Denver, you know, good luck getting quality service.
So it's just what we said, right. The city cannot
possibly sustain this. You can't do what Johnston did and
for his own gratification and glorification politically come out and say,
(19:56):
come to Denver, we will get you a home. And
then essentially illegal immigrants from all over the world without
any vetting, without just driving the city off a financial cliff.
And that's what he's doing. So an awful lot of
layoffs are now coming up in August. Hey, let's go
to the phone line. So we've got a lot of
things going on this afternoon, including interesting conversation about names
(20:18):
for boys.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Mark and Arvada. You're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 11 (20:21):
Welcome, Hey Dan, this is Mark.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Hey, I got it.
Speaker 11 (20:24):
My best friend is he's half Irish, half German and
his wife is almost all Italian.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (20:30):
But he swears to this day and his last name
is Fox. But he swears to this day he should
have given his son a middle name of Running, so
that his name would be Simon Running Fox because he
thinks he'd be able to get scholarships.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Work for Ward Churchill and he didn't even need that.
But yeah, well thanks man.
Speaker 11 (20:51):
Yeah, okay, I thought it was funny. So it's a
fun We've done it. But it's a funny story.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Yeah, no, it's a great time.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I just a big believer that names can help shape kids,
and so yeah, yeah, what do you think happens if
that kid is then named you know Mark running Fox,
He's probably the fastest kid on the playground.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Right, So much of it is just belief and visualization.
Speaker 11 (21:12):
His kids are great runners. As a matter of fact,
they get they have got state of words for running.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
So wow. See.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Anyway, and the last name of Fox right and last
names can help shape too. And I've known some people
with some challenging last names, and I was telling one
of the kids the other night, I just respect the
heck out of them for not changing the name and
just living with it because it was a family name.
At the same time, I have other friends who had
tough last names who changed him, and I absolutely respect that.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
But how cool a last name is Fox? Right?
Speaker 11 (21:45):
Is that cool?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I bet most kids, if they were given a choice, Hey,
what last name do you want? If Fox is on
the list, a bunch of people are going to take that.
Are they all good looking?
Speaker 11 (21:55):
It's good looking batch that he had six kids?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, and you see, they're probably better look And then
they would have been without the last name, don't you think.
Speaker 11 (22:06):
Since they're all runners, I just wonder if that's where
they got their name way back when.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah, Oh, that is a great point. Wow, And think
about it. If your last name is Fox, just kind
of that self fulfilling thing. I bet on a lot
of different conscious and subconscious levels that's going to operate
to make somebody, you know, maybe more aware of the
appearance thing and everything else.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
But hey, great call man, appreciate that. Thank you, you too,
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
As we go to the next caller, Ryan, If you
could have picked any first or last name on the planet,
what would it be for myself?
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Yeah, well, my mom was gonna name me Clayton, and
I think I prefer that just because it's.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
A lot more rare.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
You talking about Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
No, you're ready, And clay Clay's a cool name.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
That is a great, very very manly name. But how
would the name clay have shaped you differently?
Speaker 7 (22:55):
I see what you did there.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
To and castle ride here and the Dan caplis show welcome.
Speaker 12 (23:03):
Oh hi, Yes, my son will be thirty years old
in October and I named him Cannon.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Oh man, put that on the list.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
He's six and he's a medic in the army.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
What a great name. You did such a favor for
him with that name.
Speaker 12 (23:26):
He sort of he surely grew into it, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Yeah, how do you think it affected him as a kid.
Speaker 12 (23:35):
You know, he was a big kid. He wasn't tall
until after high school he grew, but he always wished
he was taller in high school and as muscular built
as he is now because he's so dedicated.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
To the gym.
Speaker 12 (23:51):
Yeah, but he was a big boy. I mean, nobody
was going to mess with him, for sure, but.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
He was.
Speaker 12 (23:57):
He's just a very kind, sweet man.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Well, you did him a great favor with that name,
because it's all upside in that name, but especially yeah,
for a boy, and it would only be for a boy, right,
But hey, thank you, Becky, appreciate that.
Speaker 12 (24:12):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Okay, cool as that cannon sholing. How about Fred in
long line here on the day Capitalos Show. That is
a great name, Fred.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
Welcome, Hi Dan Ryan. I'd like to talk about the
Denver Post, but before that, I'd like to give you
a name thing. When I was in the US Air Force,
there was a major on my command. His last name
was Savage, so he was known as Major Savage.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Oh man, that's beautiful.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
Yeah, and it hit him perfectly too.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Oh man, boy, you know I was just imagining, you know,
like I'm a trial lawyer. Can you imagine a trial
lawyer with the last name of Savage?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I mean, holy cow, that is a beautiful Now what
what first name would you match with that?
Speaker 9 (25:04):
Well, that's a great question. I'd have to give some
real thought to that.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah, what, I don't know. It was Savage?
Speaker 9 (25:10):
How about Hulk Hogan? Savage?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Boy, there's something out there that's perfect right now, I
think Savage could work for a woman as well.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
Fuzzy Savage was television anchor, right, can Linda Savage?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Who that was?
Speaker 6 (25:26):
What was the name the television anchor from the eighties?
And I think that's a Savage, right.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I think that's right. Can you imagine like Susie Savage? Wow? Well,
thanks Fred Well.
Speaker 9 (25:40):
On a more serious note in regards to this Denver
Post outing of this group gets at the newspaper reporters
and media reporters who are always claiming that their sources
to be unnamed, and they've actually gone to court and
litigated that issue.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Great point.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
You know, Denver Post wants to out people. If they'll
be the first people when they have an article and
they don't want to name the source, they're going to
protect it. So I just want to see the real
hypocrisy in the Denver Post.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
That's a great point.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I just want to hear from the Denver Post on this, right,
because I really like this do Better Denver website. But
but at this point what we have is do Better
Denver saying the Post has contacted them about a story.
I'd really like to get the Post take on this.
I don't doubt for a second what do Better Denver
is saying, but I'd like to get the post take
because to your point, what would the idea behind that be?
Speaker 10 (26:31):
Right?
Speaker 9 (26:32):
Well, I think the other question you would you would
ask him if I would offer a thought, is why
do you protect your sources? Yeah, and yet you won't
let somebody else protect their sources. They're the real hypocrisy
in that, considering they're both media.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Or great point, man, Hey, really appreciate that.
Speaker 9 (26:51):
Thank Dany, and thanks for the names. Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Danny Savage. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I love my last name, you know, and I'm proud
of it, my dad and my grandfather and the whole
family history in Ireland and America.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
But Danny Savage. Yeah, if I.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Had to choose another name, say they outlawed my name,
might have to go with Danny savage, What would you go.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
With my on air name because my last name is
so hard to spell. It's Dutch and it's weird. It's
got the extra ball. I was going to be ron Clayton.
Ron Clayton, yeah, because.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
My middle name is Clayton.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
You were making fun of it earlier, but it was I.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I wasn't making fun of it. I was just trying
to work a little pun in there. But but I
did say you dodged a bullets.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
I took that back. I take that back.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
But honestly, Ryan, it sounds way too boring for you.
That sounds like a generic name. It was going to
be Ronnie Clayton or something Ronnie.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
I mean just ron Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yeah, I'm sorry. Man.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
To me, that's like the most generic name possible, and
you are the.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
Op I'm not generic.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
No, you're right about that part.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, So now I think you got to do better
another pun three or three seven one three A two
five five text d A N five seven seven three
nine one sure.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Rule of life. If you have to tell.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Somebody it's a pun, it's not a good pun. Right,
Let's go to a rick in Boon. You're on the
Dan kaplish'll welcome.
Speaker 10 (28:22):
What are you saying, Dan, Hey, Rick?
Speaker 3 (28:24):
How you doing?
Speaker 10 (28:27):
I am well water kettle trying to get water to
them before the still news happens. If the weather matters
right now, where are.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
We at in that?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
The calendar here? For like the cow caff combos? Are
we late for that?
Speaker 8 (28:44):
Now?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Now I'll say it again, the cow caff combinations.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
My understanding has always been, there's a particular season where
you have the calviing and you have this cow calf
combo that's so cool to look at as you do right,
uh and everything else, it might probably real hard work
for you.
Speaker 10 (29:05):
Well, certain people do it different, okay, Uh sometimes or
some folks have their cows and breed them, so it
will time out to me. Oh gosh, uh January, what
(29:25):
my whole but so do it? Uh sprunning more in
line with uh.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah, hell, I apologize for taking you off track. I
apologize for taking off track. Let me do this.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I know you called on a serious issue. Let me
pop this break lineser jams want to get everybody on.
And we're talking in part about names. Names that are
a self fulfilling prophecy for kids. The very best and
worst names you're on the Den Kapitala Show.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
And now to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
All right, let's go back to the phone lines. Who
is our next victim? Here? Is it?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Chris and Loveland? Oh oh my goodness, My apologies to
Rick and Boone. Thank you Rick for hanging in there.
My friend Rick and Boone is just of such great
water ranch. Yeah yeah, hard working man, hard working man, Rick.
What before we get into the serious thing.
Speaker 10 (30:29):
Back between the ditches and road this morning route. Yeah, yeah,
so I kind of appreciate your saying with the last names.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Appreciate Well, what's the most manly name you've ever heard?
What the most manly first name you've ever heard? Because
I'm a big believer that names helped shape kids manly
like tough, rough, masculine first name. Like a lady just
(31:05):
called and said she named your kid Can. Now that's
a gift that that's going to do a lot of great.
Speaker 10 (31:13):
Rick.
Speaker 8 (31:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
We've got a little bit of wind on the line,
and it I think to people in their car, sounds
like their car is about to explode.
Speaker 10 (31:27):
You know, it's one one hands in my ear.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Oh man, okay, oh it's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Okay, what do you think.
Speaker 10 (31:46):
The first name?
Speaker 1 (31:51):
And we can skip that and go right to your
serious topic if you want.
Speaker 10 (31:58):
Okay, I was thinking about that. What has just come
to the forefront in Colorado experience? Of course that's northwest
maybe Belcaster County to six twenty, and the school board
(32:22):
has got an initiative and the naysayers have already come
out and started protesting on the streets and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
What is it? My friend?
Speaker 10 (32:37):
I was saying, leave it to the professionals.
Speaker 13 (32:40):
Don't be messing with the perfecticals, which to me is
really ridiculous because it's a perfecticals and governess into this
situation where kids cannot read.
Speaker 14 (32:56):
They came out right, they cannot the subtract. Yeah, I
just here here the suber board is they're elected, correct,
They're elected to do what they should be doing. Yeah,
(33:16):
and they're trying to take back control.
Speaker 13 (33:19):
Now I don't know details and all that offsets.
Speaker 10 (33:24):
Yeah, however, I figured you could probably do it. It
just showed up on the local TV stations. Yeah, right away,
right away, I mean almost immediately there are protesters out.
They're saying leave it to professionals, Heyrick.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Can I do this, my friend there and forgive my ignorance.
Let me do this if you don't mind, because I'm
not familiar with this story. Let me look at it
the next break which is coming up soon, and then
I'll be able to talk about it right out of
the top. But but appreciate it, my friend, hardest working
man we know, Rick and Boone, and I'll look into
that story during the news break. I about Chris and Loveland.
(34:09):
You're on the Dan capitalist shall welcome Chris.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Wow. Hi, great to talk to you guys again. Always,
thank you, Dan. I wanted to kick it off straight
away with just saying that I appreciate everything that you
do for your day job. That's a really good thing
to do. Thank you some of us folks, it's a
huge thing.
Speaker 10 (34:28):
So thank you.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Just get that appreciated that the way there, even though
it is true. But yeah, so I just wanted to
get into a little quick, uh diet tribe about my
son's name and where it came from. Yeah, but my
son's name is Henry Elijah White m And the first
(34:51):
t so the first name was my best friend back
home in western North Carolina, Hazel, North Carolina, Charity County,
Clay County. Yeah, shout out to y'all. Bless y'all. All
the boys on the Red keep doing great. But he
was my best friend from my freshman year until I
(35:14):
lost him a few years ago.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
It's a heart attack.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
He didn't take care of himself, but he was my
only guy friend who wrote me when I deployed to Afghanistan.
Really yeah, and he just would keep me up in
motocross news and what was going on. This is like
that very early two thousands. I was actually in basic
when nine to eleven happened, so it is a pretty
(35:38):
wild time.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
To be in actually service. But thanks I ended up at.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Charlie Company, third Ranger Battalion under the tutelage of First
Ordan James Pippins. The absolutely incredible time. He just got
industed into Ranger Hall of Fame this last year. Awesome,
awesome guy video.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
I apologize, Well, where did Elijah?
Speaker 5 (35:59):
It was a different time. Yeah, So my brother in
law and I named them after my brother in law
because he helped me come back to my faith and
it's just such an impact. Like my wife that I've
been married for nine years now, Henry is a year
and a month old and a week James twenty four.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
He's got a great monument.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
I appreciate it. Yeah, it was very purposeful, like we
didn't want. Like I watched a lot of my dear
friends from the early two thousands graduating high school and
college naming their kids. Some just random mix of names
and things Braxton, Braden, Jaden's and that kind of stuff,
and I'm like, no, I really want It's kind of
like tattoos are for me. Me personally, I should say,
(36:52):
it's very personal. So it should be personal. It should
mean something. It should have some representation of something that
you're proud of or want to rend them. Not in
that fairly, you know, just oh I got a you
know what I mean. I think you can agree on.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Chris. Really appreciate the calling, the kind words. Music means.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
I have to scram and make way for news here,
but but good to hear from you.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
I hope we hear from you often. Thank you, my
friend Doug.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
When we come back, we'll continue this conversation best boys'
names for shaping boys and then also Mayor Johnston laying
off a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
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For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activists, and politicians. Michael Caine, Glenn Close, JJ Abrams, Steve McQueen, Victoria and David Beckham, and Lily Allen, are just some of the people who love to call The River Cafe home. On River Cafe Table 4, Rogers sits down with her customers—who have become friends—to talk about food memories. Table 4 explores how food impacts every aspect of our lives. “Foods is politics, food is cultural, food is how you express love, food is about your heritage, it defines who you and who you want to be,” says Rogers. Each week, Rogers invites her guest to reminisce about family suppers and first dates, what they cook, how they eat when performing, the restaurants they choose, and what food they seek when they need comfort. And to punctuate each episode of Table 4, guests such as Ralph Fiennes, Emily Blunt, and Alfonso Cuarón, read their favourite recipe from one of the best-selling River Cafe cookbooks. Table 4 itself, is situated near The River Cafe’s open kitchen, close to the bright pink wood-fired oven and next to the glossy yellow pass, where Ruthie oversees the restaurant. You are invited to take a seat at this intimate table and join the conversation. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to https://shoptherivercafe.co.uk/ Web: https://rivercafe.co.uk/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/therivercafelondon/ Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/therivercafelondon/ For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iheartradio app, apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Dateline NBC
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