In a sitdown interview with Kyle Clark of 9 News, Denver mayor Mike Johnston makes no apologies for spending $250 million on temporary housing for homeless and access to services for illegal aliens in the city. Instead, he defers blame to the Trump administration pulling federal funding and on tariffs imposed by President Trump overseas. He also speaks of creating 'moments of joy' on 16th Street and in the downtown vicinity. How does he plan to go about doing that?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Do you think we need to change that? Open? Think
about all the w's in the past year, right, and humbly,
I'd suggest our w's go back way before that, but
including what was it a year and a half before
Kamala Harris entered the race? Ofer go today? I said,
Joe Biden will not be the nominee and the Left
is going to lose. And that was pretty easy to
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see coming, right, But even I did not see my
friend and I know we put it on our button
bar because it is so true. You know, we're going
to get tired of winning. Right, Even I did not
see all of these wins, so many wins this fast coming.
So when will that come to Colorado? Love your take
on that? Three or three seven to one three A
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seven seven three nine is Mike Johnston takes a victory
lap on top of all the bodies accumulated on the
sixteenth Street, Mall. You know, how long is it going
to be before they have a Republican mayor in Denver?
Now we know they'll never be a technically, you know,
GOP mayor. There'll be somebody who calls themselves an affiliated
or calls themselves a Democrat, but they have conservative ideas
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and they are in practice a Republican. You know that
day is going to come right and it's going to
We know this because of self preservation. You know it,
you know you were born with it. You know it's
built in this desire. It's more than a desire. It
consumes you to protect your family, protect those you love.
As part of that, protect and defend yourself. It is
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built into you. It's built into you for positive purposes,
and that will eventually take over in Denver, and Denver
will have a Republican by another name mayor. It has
to right now, how soon do you think that will be?
If you disagree with the premise, We love premise disagreeers
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d A N five seven seven three nine. So much
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fun today, including Hunter Biden going after the left, and
that's just pure enjoyment right there. The kind of joy.
Mike Johnston says in an interview with KUSA has to
be brought back, and he says is coming back to
the sixteenth Street. Mall, do you believe that? Listen. I
want them all to succeed. I want them all to succeed.
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I want Denver to succeed. I want everything to succeed.
I want the Rockies to succeed. I'm just realistic about
what's stopping them from succeeding. Now. So the people who
are not honest about the problems, you have to conclude,
do not want those places to succeed. That they think
something else is a higher priority, Like the left thinks
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that the left not admitting fault and holding under power
is a higher priority than Denver being safe and prosperous. Okay,
that's a bummer, but at least we know where they're at.
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the number Let me squeeze in a couple of texts
before we get to some of the highlights. Sound of
the day, Texter Dan, aren't leftists always the victims? Regardless
of their failures being self inflicted. Stephen Littleton. Yes, because
they're dishonest. That's the problem. I'm not saying Democrats are
dishonest by nature, but leftists are. They're proud of it.
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It's it's, you know, page one or two of their playbook.
Dan is a native of Colorado thirty years ago. Love
going to downtown Denver. Now you couldn't pay me to
go there, including for the AVS Day night. Sad just said,
I'll spend my dollars elsewhere. Texter. I wish you'd call
the show because I'd try to talk you into going
to AVS games, because you can go to ball Arena
without really going downtown, and so try to talk you
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into those. And they're going to be so good this year, Ryan,
I think there's a realistic chance that you get a
Cup in an NBA Championship in the same year. Here
this year, you got to stay healthy, but I think
they've got that real shot. Texter. When I turned sixteen
got my driver's license, me and my friends would go
to the Sixteenth Street mall packing a mom's station wagon.
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Couldn't go into most of the shops, but the target
used to be a media play and we could check
out CDs. It was fun to go to the mall.
Would never do that today, And that's one of the
things that bums me out, you know, it just bums
me out that the kids don't have the opportunity to
go and enjoy a bunch of stuff that people used
to be able to do. And I thought it was
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so poignant when I was talking to our son Joe
a while back, and and you know, he was bummed
about the Rockies being so historically bad, and he just said,
you know, so sad that kids don't get what I
had because he and Caroline lived through, you know, that
October and that big run and all the fun they
had painting brooms purple and going to the park with
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brooms bigger than they were. And yeah, it's just kind
of sad kids don't get that three L three someone
three A two five five the number. Ryan not too
moved by that, but I get it. It's it's different
things for different folks. Dan, I believe it do better.
Denver posted that even though homicides maybe down, shootings were
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up something like three d and twenty percent, some more
shootings but less accuracy. That from Alexa that that could
be the new city slogan. Right, more shootings, less accuracy,
that's progress. Yeah, ponder that. Can you think it'd be
too big for a billboard? Let's go out to Lakewood,
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Colorado talk to Mike. You're on the Dan Kaplis show. Welcome, Hi. Dan.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Let me start by saying that I can't think of
absolutely anything that I would ever go downtown or to
the mall for. But the main reason for my call is,
could you imagine in the impact if the Denver Police
Department took those at a minimum forty Denver police officers
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that are over protecting them all and dropped them out
into the districts as let's say, a task force and
rotated them around with the broken doors or broken windows attitude.
What a difference that would make, Mike.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Let me extend your point, imagine what a difference it
would make if Mike Johnston wasn't cutting the City of
Denver budget in order to pursue his his leftist dreams
right of just warehousing everybody. And beyond that, Mike, something
I've been talking about for years, if there was actually
a bold initiative to double the number of police officers,
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have you know, the best funded police force in America.
Imagine what that would do for Denver. Imagine how it
would transform the bottom line, upboard, the quality of life,
everything right, But the Left could never do that because
they're so anti cop.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Absolutely. The last time I called the din Or police
or a crime in progress, it took them five hours
to get there.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
What kind of crime?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Somebody trying to steal a catalytic converter?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah, you know, we hand we've heard similar reports. And
I would bet you and you may know some DPT yourself,
but if you talk to them, it frustrates the hell
out of them too. I mean, I would say maybe
three out of the last five times I've called nine
to one one, And I don't call it frivolously, but
I'll call it for really dangerous things on the highway
because then my law practice, I can see how what
I'm seeing in front of me, you know, ends up
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with dead people. I've been put on hold. Right, You
call nine to one one and you get that recording,
and sometimes I just leave it on to see how
long it'll go. And and you know that's got to
drive police officers themselves crazy. Hey man, Thanks to the
call appreciate that, appreciate that very much, and it isn't
a wild rind. Same reason why the left opposes good
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guys and good gals with guns in schools because the
Left would rather leave those kids at the mercy of
mass shooters than endorse a policy that involves more guns,
even though the guns would be in the hands of
good guys and gals. So they are more anti gun
than they are children's lives pro children's lives. I mean,
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it's to me a mentality I can never ever begin
to wrap my mind around, and I don't want to
start getting philosophical, but I just come back to because
I really do try to understand people who disagree with
me for a couple of reasons. First, I think I've
proven it in decades on air. If I'm wrong about something,
I'll admit it. I want to know it, and I'll
admit it because life should be a search for the truth, right,
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So I want to know that. The other reason I
want to understand why people disagree with me is I
want to defeat their arguments if I'm right, and I
almost always am. And I don't mean that in a
personal kind of way, you know, But if I'm right.
I want to be able to defeat the best argument
the other side has, so I always try to understand
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the other side's argument. I can't begin to understand their
argument against good guys and girls with guns in schools
because they know the people making that argument against those protectors.
They know the next school shootings in Colorado are being
planned as we speak. But they would knowingly deliberately play
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Russian Roulette with the lives of those students. Whoever is
soon going to be targeted, then they would protect them.
If protect them meanings means endorsing good guys and gals
with guns, I mean, I cannot even begin to comprehend
that mentality. And it's deadly. It is absolutely deadly, has
proven far too often. Three or three someone three A
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two fo Hey, when we come back, we'll lighten it up,
both with textures and also Hunter Biden tearing apart the left,
including church cloting. You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
But these guys think that we need to run away
from all values in order for us to lead.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I say you, how are we.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Getting those people back from El Salvador?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Because I'll tell you what if I.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Became president in two years from now or four years
from now or three years from now, I would pick
up the phone and call the president of El Salvador
and say, you either send them back or I'm going
to invade. It's a crime what they're doing. He is
a dictator, thugrump both.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Joe Biden's starting to understand how Joe Biden got to
be the way he is a little bit better three
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Speaker 4 (10:58):
Three nights smartest Manny knows Dan.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, no, that's right. But it and again I don't
mean to get philosophical about this, but but if you
look at American history, and obviously the founders met everything
undivine providence, but you look at how how we have
received the leaders we needed at these critical pivot points
in American history. Sometimes they've been Democrats FDR. Often they've
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been Republicans, you know, be it Lincoln, Reagan, Trump. There
are obviously other examples. George Washington was the very start
of all this. So to me, that's one of the many,
many reasons to be so optimistic about this country. I mean,
you had a guy like Joe Biden, so we were
without a president for so long. I won't religate that.
We talked about it a lot on the show. But
you're learning now, we're all learning together now how it
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was even more nuts and even more dangerous than we thought.
And the beautiful thing is we're learning that now right
and the rest of America is too, which makes it
more likely we can keep winning at a big level
even after Trump is term limited three or three seven
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three ninety If you just joined us, thank you. Lots
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going on in the news today, so we're kind of
spanning the globe. I touched earlier on the Latest with
you know that the deaths at Holy Family Catholic Church
and Gods of the Pope coming out over the weekend,
and I just think he's an amazingly awesome pope and
calling it an attack by the Israeli army on that
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Catholic parish and Prime Minister net and Yah, who had
wisely called the Pope Donald Trump had called Yaho. Bottom
line is, listen, we need that the proof on this.
We know the name of Israel is not going to
attack the church did somebody go rogue? How did this happen?
But the Catholic Church deserves the truth. America that supports
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Israel deserves the truth. Israel remains our great ally and
a pillar of freedom in the world and a very
courageous one. But this completely unacceptable. And you know, one
important way to show respect talks cheap right the truth.
You gotta present the full truth on how that happened?
Three or three seven, one, three eight two five five?
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The number got to hit me a little more of
that Hunter Biden's sound before we get to the next
best thing, which is a mayor Mike Johnston in Denver.
What do you like better? Hunter calling out Carvil and
Axelrod or Hunter calling out George Clooney. Ryan, Do you
have a personal favorite? I think Clooney Clooney. It's got
to be Clooney cutting.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Him Kim Kim and everybody around him would have to
be nice.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Number one. I agree with Quentin Tarantino.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
George Clooney is not an actor.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
He is a like I don't know what he is.
He's a brand.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
And by the way, and God bless him, you know
what he forbly treats his friends really well. You know
what I mean, buys them things, and he's got a
really great place in Lake Como, and he's great friends
with Barack Obama. You what do you have to do
with anything?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Why do I have to listen to you?
Speaker 5 (14:01):
What right do you have to step on a man
who's given fifty two years of his life to the
service of this country and decide that you, George Clooney,
are going to take out basically a full page ad
in the.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
New York Times. Here is my premise. I don't think
anythinking person can disagree with that, not an honest thinking person.
I don't think Joe Biden has given one day of
his life to the service of this country. And maybe
I'm wrong, and forgive me if I am, but I
don't think he has. I think it's been a selfish
endeavor from day one. I'm not saying he hasn't shown
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up and gone to work as a center, etc. But
I think that was all for Joe Biden. And if
you follow his career and you look at what he's done,
and you look at the horrible things he's done to people,
and you look at all the fundamentally dishonest things that
he has done, you look at the way he's betrayed
what he claims to be his core beliefs and values.
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I personally don't think he's given one day of public
service to this nation. There are plenty of Democrats who
have who believe in things opposite to what I believe in,
who just sincerely believe they were right when they were
horrifically and tragically wrong. So I think there are plenty
of Democrats who have actually gone to serve this nation
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and unfortunately did harm in the meantime. But I don't
think Joe Biden has shown up to serve this nation
one single day three or three someone three eight two
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But at least we know where the Joe Biden you know,
God love Them thing came from. It came from a Hunter, right,
because after what was it, twenty two f bombs? Then
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Hunter slips in the God love them you know, gotta
love George cliney, Right, But this business about not an
actor brand Tell that to my wife. I mean, I
think there are many many women who think he's a
very good actor, though he is kind of aging out.
Don't you think how old is he? How old is Clooney.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Clooney was sixty something.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Got right, does Kelly find him attract Well, let's see
what she says.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I do not?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
No, okay, right to the point.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Sixty four. He's sixty four.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Who is your favorite male actor, Kelly.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Oh, it's a very good question. I liked Val Kilmer
a lot.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
He's only eighty, right, Well, he's deceased.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
He's deceased. Yeah, he died of cancer. But he was
wonderful in the Maverick reboot. Yeah, but so I definitely
liked him a lot before he went, uh to the
crazy side. I did like John Cusack, Oh, same, but
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he just went a little bit too crazy. I've never
been a George Cleany fan, but I am a Brad
Pitt fan.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
One.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah, and he did a great Super Bowl commercial. Oh
have you seen one? Right?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
No, but I've heard it's very good. My sister saw it.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Don't mention that to Hunter Biden.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Adam Adam saw it. He highly recommends it.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Oh, good, good, good. No, Yeah, I've wanted to see that.
But hey, do we have time to squeeze in Hunter
going off on Carvil and axel Rod. Okay, we'll do
it after the break. So much fun stuff. We'll get
Mike Johnston talking about how every dime of that two
hundred and fifty million, you know, and it sent amount
that matches Denver's deficit now, but every dime of that
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two hundred and fifty million for you know, the migrants,
including illegal immigrants, and the warehouse homeless, every dime of
it's been worth it to of course, none of his
money that all the people have been laid off or
can't get in the gym. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
You mentioned Glane Maxwell. She's still got an appeal. I'm
tracking at the Supreme Court. But in the meantime, you
suggest she should be potentially offered a congressional immunity to
go and testify. Do you think that would happen? And
what kind of information would you had that we haven't seen.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
She knows everything. She is the Rosetta Stone. She knows everything.
She arranged every single trip with everybody. She knows everything.
And if she were just given you summunity, she could
be compelled to testify. I'm told that she actually would
be willing to testify and there'd be no reason for
her to withhold any information. So I don't see any
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negative in giving her the kind of use community.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
That would compel her to testify.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
So she ought to be someone in front of a
congressional committee.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
You know, I'm stunned Ellen say that. I'm going to
try to get him on the show to talk about that, because, hey,
I would pay to see that, right, you might be
able to my people to pay off the national debt
by by selling cable rights to Glene Maxwell testimony. But
I'm just thinking about fundamental fairness and if you have
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Glene Maxwell do what Ellen's suggesting, what's to stop her
from lying? Because she'd be in a position with that
platform to destroy anybody she wanted to with a false allegation.
And what consequences would she be facing, Right, She's got
so many years in prison ahead, so that, Yeah, I'm
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going to try to get Allan on and find out
what he's thinking with that one. I think part of
what he's thinking is, you know, Allan's been falsely accused
in this Epstein thing from everything I've been able to see,
and so you probably just want that messaging out there. Hey,
bring her forward, put her on, let her tell the
full story, and the implicit message is because it won't
involve me. And I believe Alan that he's been defamed
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here by some accusers. But what do you think, Ryan,
I mean, if she's allowed to testify before Congress, and
believe me, I would watch it, I would cover it,
I'd broadcast it on this show. But what would stop
her from line?
Speaker 9 (19:55):
And that goes to credibility of the witness, Dan, which
I know is something you deal with on a regular
basis in the courtroom yourself, and coming in she's going
to have her credibility question because of what she was
involved with and who she might be trying to protect
and who she might have a vendetta set out against.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
And you're right, it's a great point. She could say anything.
Speaker 9 (20:13):
She's got nothing to lose at that point, she's still
going to be in prison. She's just you know, maybe
getting a little bit more in terms of fame and exposure.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, and the more salacious the lies if she's lying,
you know that, the more she's probably going to get
for a book deal. Right, So so yeah, i'd watch
it or report it, all that good stuff. But boy,
you're setting potentially setting some innocent people up to be destroyed. Listen,
anybody who helped Epstein and she's exhibit A right, anybody
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who helped Epstein, you know, rape these young girls. You know,
I've got no sympathy for them, and i want the
full force of the law breught down on their heads.
But as we all know, especially when it comes to
this sex stuff, completely innocent people can be ruined with
the false allegation with no chance to recover. And so
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that's how do you guard against that? There three three
someone three eight two five five A lot of Texters
at d an five seven seven three nine, Ryan, let
me read a couple of text while you rack up
twenty nine. Please, we've got to get back to Mike
Johnston talking about bringing joy, moments of joy to the mall.
Texter Dan Hunter soundstoned. What a foul mouthed person, Dan Hunter,
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Biden sounds like unhinged as ever, I don't care if
he's calling out the left. He sounds like a lunatic
DK in Broomfield. All true, right though some of the
things he says, and I'll get to that clip in
a second on Carvel and Xelrod. Is he speaking the
truth there? Dan? You're correct? In my opinion, Joe Biden
has done nothing but take from day one, Dan Hunter
completely unhinged. Why is he ranting now to the FBI
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visit him. I think he's I think he's trying to
become relevant, get some kind of gig, some other way
of money, getting money, whether it's this is a podcast
edition or what else. Dan on the Avs saying no thanks,
as you quoted, if you knew where you were going
to die, you'd never go there. I've always given Peter
Boyle's credit for that, because that's his line, just saying, yeah,
not going to Avs games, and all I was trying
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to tell that Texter was listen, Ballerina. I think is
very very safe to go to. We go down there
to Avs and Nuggets games and other stuff without a
second thought. So that's not like going to downtown. And
by the way, we do go to downtown for certain things.
I worry about it. I take suitable precautions, but we
still go to downtown for certain things. It's obviously everybody's
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got to make their own decision. Dan Denver mall no
interest to me because of crime, not kit friendly, outrageous
parking fees. If you find a spot homeless, et cetera.
Thanks Patrick, I'd be a little more precise there, and
Patrick knows his own experience. But Ryan, this comes back
to the left and leftist policies are always going to
undermine that area until the Left changes their pro criminal stuff.
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Because there's some of those brave restaurants taurists pointed out,
it's not so much the homeless as it is the
drug addicts and the left's pro drug policy, legalization of drugs, etc.
Hands off, You know that the drug users down there,
that's what's really undermining things. And it started with legalization
of marijuana. The mall was completely lost after that, and
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no name change is going to fix that. You want
to fix downtown, well, and I'll just reverse Amendment sixty
four and in the meantime strictly enforce the law down there,
including on open use. Dan, you just said the Left
is more anti gun than pro children's lives, more anti
gun than pro life. Let's get kids killed in the womb,
let's get kids killed in school makes sense by their ideology.
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I would say that what you've got now at the
heart of the left's ideology is simply a lack of
respect for life, and that then permeates almost all of
their policies. Dan the left wants to disarm everyone so
they will have total control. Let's squeeze in this, Mike
Johnston joy sound please cut twenty nine.
Speaker 10 (24:07):
And the third really is moments of joy like we
will have to create incentives to lure you back down right.
The Fisher concert we had outdoors on sixteenth Street, first time.
My sixteen year old son has begged me to come
to sixteenth Street.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
That was the success for us.
Speaker 10 (24:19):
We'll keep doing those things outside fast, a lot of
those that invite people back, because we do think those
moments give you a new memory of Denver. Because a
lot of folks will say to me, I don't come downtown.
I say when did you come to the last time, and
they'll say twenty twenty And I say, okay, you got to.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
You get it. So you get why they don't have
a good memory.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I get why they don't have it.
Speaker 10 (24:36):
I remember that too, I was working downtown every day
that it wasn't a good memory.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
So we got to make new ones. That's never going
to work. I mean, first people have to feel safe, right,
and then you have to have something that they want
to go to and what did you say, the Fisher
concert And I'm sure whoever they are, they're fine. But
you know, unless you have the stones down there or something, no,
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that's not what's going to turn people back on to
the mall. And Denver has a bigger problem than the mall.
They've got to address this stuff I just talked about.
And again, don't blame law enforcement. None of this is
law enforcement's fault. And the political hierarchy is undermining Denver
law enforcement to begin with. I think they do a
great job with what they're allowed to do. The moment's
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of joy thing though, that's interesting to me. How do
you think you could create joy in going down to
I think we just called sixteenth Street now, right. Well,
one thing that struck me this morning, Ryan, and it
made me wonder because you know, I've always lived in
cities and I've just been literally grateful for every day
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of my life. But as you know, I'm working out
of the cabin now for much of a month, getting
ready for big trials. So I was up in you know,
a Mountain community courthouse today and from the moment I
walked in, everything I saw. Everything I saw in the
courtroom the Jrrors everything else. There was so much happiness.
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There was so much joy. There were so many smiles,
And I just wonder if people are happier in the mountains,
if maybe, you know, the urban living just sorts of
sort of weares us down in ways we're not even
aware of, you know what I mean. And I'm not
saying there isn't a ton of joy. I mean I
feel a ton of joy all the time, but it
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was it was just so striking. Just so if you
ever spend any any like block time in the mountains,
I wish I.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Could spend more. I know what you're describing, and it's marvelous.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Yeah. The one bummer for me is, you know, we
love having this deer come by and listen to the show,
But there are no deer at all now because the
bear are running wild. I mean they're just all over there.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Wild bears run around up there.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
All over the place. So where there are bears, you're
not gonna have deer, right, They're going to skid as. Yeah,
I would hope they would be called self preservation. Hey,
when we come back, lots of fun sound. I will
get in some more of these texts, but some more
fascinating stuff from Mayor Johnston, who does not seem in
any way constrained by the truth Hunter Biden on his rants,
(27:15):
and some interesting stuff also from Dershowitz on Epstein, you're
on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
And James Carville, who hasn't run a race in forty years.
And David Axelrod, who had one success in his political
life and that was Barack Obama.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
And that was because of Barack Obama, not.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Because of David Axelrod and David Pluff and all of
these guys in the pod Save America, guys who were.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Junior speech writers in.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
On Barack Obama's Senate staff, who've been dining out on
the relationship with him for years, making millions of dollars,
The Anita Dunns of the world, who's made forty fifty
million dollars off the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
See, it's so interesting to me all of these people
have actually succeeded in the Democratic Party. Yeah, Hunter Biden says,
they're all blank words, right, yeah, three at three someone
three eight two five five text d A N five
seven seven three nine. Hard to believe. It was a
year ago today, the Kamala Harrison or the race of
year go today, we told you she had no chance
(28:18):
of winning. And remember those days. I mean she got
on a roll, right, Remember those poll numbers were going
up and Trump's lead eroding, et cetera, et cetera, and
I kept saying, no, no, no, this is sugar high.
It's all going to reverse. And it did. But remember
that the second part of that prediction is coming true
right now. The Trump victory vital. We had to have that.
(28:39):
But just as important, well close second, is the left
exposing itself for what it is because of America. Can
see that now, then that's going to pay long, long
term dividends long after President Trump is term limited. Dan.
I remember when you announced that Michelle Obama would not
campaign for Joe Biden. She knew she did not want
any affiliate ation. Dan. The more Trump wins, the more
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tyrannical the leftist get in the Blue States. It's intentional,
I think, gets a cause and effect, right, and it's
this insanity. We saw the left start to reveal itself
down the stretch in the campaign as it was slipping away,
and then afterwards and the more successful Trump is the
more we will see the mask drop on the left,
which will mean even more success for President Trump. What
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is the opposite of a vicious cycle. It's a victorious cycle.
And that is what we're in right now. Trademark that please,
Ryan Dan who is profiting from the decline of Denver
and Colorado as a whole? What a penetrating question from
this Texter? Ryan, who is profiting from the decline of
Denver and Colorado as a whole? I've got my answer.
(29:49):
But what say you to borrow a bill O'Reilly phrase? Right?
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Who is profiting off the decline of demise.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Of Yes, that's such a brilliant question. Hm, it is,
I'm stump and that's why you repeated it. Yeah, the left,
the left, that's the great irony because the more Colorado declines,
the more people are dependent on government, which the left
assumes means the more people vote for the left. Now,
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of course you ask, well, aren't people going to vote
against the left because Colorado is declining? The left has
done the math and concluded people will not. And exhibit
A for the left is well, take twenty twenty Take
the twenty twenty two cycle. The left does not seem
to get punished at the polls for trash in Colorado.
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But they benefit right. The more people who have to
become dependent on government, that the more who are likely
to vote for the left is their rationale. Fascinating, Thank
you Texter, great insight. Dan. I thought I was wrong once,
but I was mistaken. I'd like to meet that person, Dan.
Thank god Trump defunded PBS. Our kids don't need to
learn learn how to read. Trump will tell us everything
(31:02):
he wants to know. I'd love to hear somebody call
this show and make the argument for the public funding
of PBS. I would love to have that conversation. Yeah,
so much of that Ryan. Some have asked, my friend,
why aren't we covering the Aurora dentist accused of drugging
his wife, Because you know, I made my bones at first,
(31:24):
hopefully made my bones covering big trials here and around
the country. I'm a trial lawyer. That's what I do.
But the reason I'm not interested in that case is
I don't see any suspense. I don't see any question.
I don't see you know, these other big trials we've covered,
it seemed to me there was some real fight over
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who'd done it.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
And this and that two things.
Speaker 9 (31:48):
There are angles here, and this dentist keeps coming out
of the woodwork with these bizarre kind of machiavellian moves
to try to manipulate everyone and everything around him. It
truly is Brad taking the story of his daughter taking
the stand saying that he handed a note to a
fellow inmate, told her to bail him out of jail
because it was her distant cousin. The inmate gets bailed
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out hands of the letter. The letter instructs her how
to operate on the dark web and get a laptop
that you could later destroy to create a deep fake
video that would show his deceased wife on camera, saying
that he only got the materials for her to commit
suicide at her request because she was suicidal. That's a
nutshell version. And then also, if you're interested, Dan Stephan
(32:31):
Tubbs was a patient of this dentist.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Yeah, so if you wanted to have him on, he's
got some insights too.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
I want to have Stephan on for anything and everything.
Isn't Stephan going to fill in one of these days
because I'll be in trial for almost.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
A month, isn't it could be?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Yeah, they too yeah, yeah, No, And that's a good point, Ryan,
That's that's a fascinating angle there. I guess I'm just
I guess I'm just so used to covering that the
big fight over over guilt in these trials, you know
what I mean In the answer, It's been hard for
me to fire up on this one, But if people
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want to talk about it, I'm happy to dive in
and we can get into the legalities of it. But
I think this is one the prosecution's assuming they're going
to win. So wow, Well they talk about deep diving.
One thing I'd like to get a little bit deeper
into tomorrow. We did it today in outline form is
the administration's case. And President Trump put out a video
(33:28):
this weekend, you know, AI generated of President Obama being
arrested while Trump sat there and laughed. The administration appears
to be very serious about its claims that Obama engineered
a coup attempt, and I'll deep dive that evidence, among
many other things tomorrow. Thank you again, Ryan for your
great job. Kelly Human Sunshine always appreciate you. Join us
tomorrow on The Dan Kapla Show.
This is Dan Caples and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Do you think we need to change that? Open? Think
about all the w's in the past year, right, and humbly,
I'd suggest our w's go back way before that, but
including what was it a year and a half before
Kamala Harris entered the race? Ofer go today? I said,
Joe Biden will not be the nominee and the Left
is going to lose. And that was pretty easy to
(00:35):
see coming, right, But even I did not see my
friend and I know we put it on our button
bar because it is so true. You know, we're going
to get tired of winning. Right, Even I did not
see all of these wins, so many wins this fast coming.
So when will that come to Colorado? Love your take
on that? Three or three seven to one three A
two five five The number text d A N five
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seven seven three nine is Mike Johnston takes a victory
lap on top of all the bodies accumulated on the
sixteenth Street, Mall. You know, how long is it going
to be before they have a Republican mayor in Denver?
Now we know they'll never be a technically, you know,
GOP mayor. There'll be somebody who calls themselves an affiliated
or calls themselves a Democrat, but they have conservative ideas
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and they are in practice a Republican. You know that
day is going to come right and it's going to
We know this because of self preservation. You know it,
you know you were born with it. You know it's
built in this desire. It's more than a desire. It
consumes you to protect your family, protect those you love.
As part of that, protect and defend yourself. It is
(01:43):
built into you. It's built into you for positive purposes,
and that will eventually take over in Denver, and Denver
will have a Republican by another name mayor. It has
to right now, how soon do you think that will be?
If you disagree with the premise, We love premise disagreeers
three or three seven one three two five five text
d A N five seven seven three nine. So much
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fun today, including Hunter Biden going after the left, and
that's just pure enjoyment right there. The kind of joy.
Mike Johnston says in an interview with KUSA has to
be brought back, and he says is coming back to
the sixteenth Street. Mall, do you believe that? Listen. I
want them all to succeed. I want them all to succeed.
(02:26):
I want Denver to succeed. I want everything to succeed.
I want the Rockies to succeed. I'm just realistic about
what's stopping them from succeeding. Now. So the people who
are not honest about the problems, you have to conclude,
do not want those places to succeed. That they think
something else is a higher priority, Like the left thinks
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that the left not admitting fault and holding under power
is a higher priority than Denver being safe and prosperous. Okay,
that's a bummer, but at least we know where they're at.
Texters in Fuego as they sh be d A N
five seven seven three nine and the old fashioned way
three oh three seven one three eight two five five
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the number Let me squeeze in a couple of texts
before we get to some of the highlights. Sound of
the day, Texter Dan, aren't leftists always the victims? Regardless
of their failures being self inflicted. Stephen Littleton. Yes, because
they're dishonest. That's the problem. I'm not saying Democrats are
dishonest by nature, but leftists are. They're proud of it.
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It's it's, you know, page one or two of their playbook.
Dan is a native of Colorado thirty years ago. Love
going to downtown Denver. Now you couldn't pay me to
go there, including for the AVS Day night. Sad just said,
I'll spend my dollars elsewhere. Texter. I wish you'd call
the show because I'd try to talk you into going
to AVS games, because you can go to ball Arena
without really going downtown, and so try to talk you
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into those. And they're going to be so good this year, Ryan,
I think there's a realistic chance that you get a
Cup in an NBA Championship in the same year. Here
this year, you got to stay healthy, but I think
they've got that real shot. Texter. When I turned sixteen
got my driver's license, me and my friends would go
to the Sixteenth Street mall packing a mom's station wagon.
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Couldn't go into most of the shops, but the target
used to be a media play and we could check
out CDs. It was fun to go to the mall.
Would never do that today, And that's one of the
things that bums me out, you know, it just bums
me out that the kids don't have the opportunity to
go and enjoy a bunch of stuff that people used
to be able to do. And I thought it was
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so poignant when I was talking to our son Joe
a while back, and and you know, he was bummed
about the Rockies being so historically bad, and he just said,
you know, so sad that kids don't get what I
had because he and Caroline lived through, you know, that
October and that big run and all the fun they
had painting brooms purple and going to the park with
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brooms bigger than they were. And yeah, it's just kind
of sad kids don't get that three L three someone
three A two five five the number. Ryan not too
moved by that, but I get it. It's it's different
things for different folks. Dan, I believe it do better.
Denver posted that even though homicides maybe down, shootings were
(05:19):
up something like three d and twenty percent, some more
shootings but less accuracy. That from Alexa that that could
be the new city slogan. Right, more shootings, less accuracy,
that's progress. Yeah, ponder that. Can you think it'd be
too big for a billboard? Let's go out to Lakewood,
(05:41):
Colorado talk to Mike. You're on the Dan Kaplis show. Welcome, Hi. Dan.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Let me start by saying that I can't think of
absolutely anything that I would ever go downtown or to
the mall for. But the main reason for my call is,
could you imagine in the impact if the Denver Police
Department took those at a minimum forty Denver police officers
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that are over protecting them all and dropped them out
into the districts as let's say, a task force and
rotated them around with the broken doors or broken windows attitude.
What a difference that would make, Mike.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Let me extend your point, imagine what a difference it
would make if Mike Johnston wasn't cutting the City of
Denver budget in order to pursue his his leftist dreams
right of just warehousing everybody. And beyond that, Mike, something
I've been talking about for years, if there was actually
a bold initiative to double the number of police officers,
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have you know, the best funded police force in America.
Imagine what that would do for Denver. Imagine how it
would transform the bottom line, upboard, the quality of life,
everything right, But the Left could never do that because
they're so anti cop.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Absolutely. The last time I called the din Or police
or a crime in progress, it took them five hours
to get there.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
What kind of crime?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Somebody trying to steal a catalytic converter?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah, you know, we hand we've heard similar reports. And
I would bet you and you may know some DPT yourself,
but if you talk to them, it frustrates the hell
out of them too. I mean, I would say maybe
three out of the last five times I've called nine
to one one, And I don't call it frivolously, but
I'll call it for really dangerous things on the highway
because then my law practice, I can see how what
I'm seeing in front of me, you know, ends up
(07:48):
with dead people. I've been put on hold. Right, You
call nine to one one and you get that recording,
and sometimes I just leave it on to see how
long it'll go. And and you know that's got to
drive police officers themselves crazy. Hey man, Thanks to the
call appreciate that, appreciate that very much, and it isn't
a wild rind. Same reason why the left opposes good
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guys and good gals with guns in schools because the
Left would rather leave those kids at the mercy of
mass shooters than endorse a policy that involves more guns,
even though the guns would be in the hands of
good guys and gals. So they are more anti gun
than they are children's lives pro children's lives. I mean,
(08:35):
it's to me a mentality I can never ever begin
to wrap my mind around, and I don't want to
start getting philosophical, but I just come back to because
I really do try to understand people who disagree with
me for a couple of reasons. First, I think I've
proven it in decades on air. If I'm wrong about something,
I'll admit it. I want to know it, and I'll
admit it because life should be a search for the truth, right,
(08:58):
So I want to know that. The other reason I
want to understand why people disagree with me is I
want to defeat their arguments if I'm right, and I
almost always am. And I don't mean that in a
personal kind of way, you know, But if I'm right.
I want to be able to defeat the best argument
the other side has, so I always try to understand
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the other side's argument. I can't begin to understand their
argument against good guys and girls with guns in schools
because they know the people making that argument against those protectors.
They know the next school shootings in Colorado are being
planned as we speak. But they would knowingly deliberately play
(09:39):
Russian Roulette with the lives of those students. Whoever is
soon going to be targeted, then they would protect them.
If protect them meanings means endorsing good guys and gals
with guns, I mean, I cannot even begin to comprehend
that mentality. And it's deadly. It is absolutely deadly, has
proven far too often. Three or three someone three A
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two fo Hey, when we come back, we'll lighten it up,
both with textures and also Hunter Biden tearing apart the left,
including church cloting. You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
But these guys think that we need to run away
from all values in order for us to lead.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I say you, how are we.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Getting those people back from El Salvador?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Because I'll tell you what if I.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Became president in two years from now or four years
from now or three years from now, I would pick
up the phone and call the president of El Salvador
and say, you either send them back or I'm going
to invade. It's a crime what they're doing. He is
a dictator, thugrump both.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Joe Biden's starting to understand how Joe Biden got to
be the way he is a little bit better three
or three someone three eight two five five takes d
a n five seven seven.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Three nights smartest Manny knows Dan.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, no, that's right. But it and again I don't
mean to get philosophical about this, but but if you
look at American history, and obviously the founders met everything
undivine providence, but you look at how how we have
received the leaders we needed at these critical pivot points
in American history. Sometimes they've been Democrats FDR. Often they've
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been Republicans, you know, be it Lincoln, Reagan, Trump. There
are obviously other examples. George Washington was the very start
of all this. So to me, that's one of the many,
many reasons to be so optimistic about this country. I mean,
you had a guy like Joe Biden, so we were
without a president for so long. I won't religate that.
We talked about it a lot on the show. But
you're learning now, we're all learning together now how it
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was even more nuts and even more dangerous than we thought.
And the beautiful thing is we're learning that now right
and the rest of America is too, which makes it
more likely we can keep winning at a big level
even after Trump is term limited three or three seven
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three ninety If you just joined us, thank you. Lots
(12:04):
going on in the news today, so we're kind of
spanning the globe. I touched earlier on the Latest with
you know that the deaths at Holy Family Catholic Church
and Gods of the Pope coming out over the weekend,
and I just think he's an amazingly awesome pope and
calling it an attack by the Israeli army on that
(12:25):
Catholic parish and Prime Minister net and Yah, who had
wisely called the Pope Donald Trump had called Yaho. Bottom
line is, listen, we need that the proof on this.
We know the name of Israel is not going to
attack the church did somebody go rogue? How did this happen?
But the Catholic Church deserves the truth. America that supports
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Israel deserves the truth. Israel remains our great ally and
a pillar of freedom in the world and a very
courageous one. But this completely unacceptable. And you know, one
important way to show respect talks cheap right the truth.
You gotta present the full truth on how that happened?
Three or three seven, one, three eight two five five?
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The number got to hit me a little more of
that Hunter Biden's sound before we get to the next
best thing, which is a mayor Mike Johnston in Denver.
What do you like better? Hunter calling out Carvil and
Axelrod or Hunter calling out George Clooney. Ryan, Do you
have a personal favorite? I think Clooney Clooney. It's got
to be Clooney cutting.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Him Kim Kim and everybody around him would have to
be nice.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Number one. I agree with Quentin Tarantino.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
George Clooney is not an actor.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
He is a like I don't know what he is.
He's a brand.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
And by the way, and God bless him, you know
what he forbly treats his friends really well. You know
what I mean, buys them things, and he's got a
really great place in Lake Como, and he's great friends
with Barack Obama. You what do you have to do
with anything?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Why do I have to listen to you?
Speaker 5 (14:01):
What right do you have to step on a man
who's given fifty two years of his life to the
service of this country and decide that you, George Clooney,
are going to take out basically a full page ad
in the.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
New York Times. Here is my premise. I don't think
anythinking person can disagree with that, not an honest thinking person.
I don't think Joe Biden has given one day of
his life to the service of this country. And maybe
I'm wrong, and forgive me if I am, but I
don't think he has. I think it's been a selfish
endeavor from day one. I'm not saying he hasn't shown
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up and gone to work as a center, etc. But
I think that was all for Joe Biden. And if
you follow his career and you look at what he's done,
and you look at the horrible things he's done to people,
and you look at all the fundamentally dishonest things that
he has done, you look at the way he's betrayed
what he claims to be his core beliefs and values.
(14:55):
I personally don't think he's given one day of public
service to this nation. There are plenty of Democrats who
have who believe in things opposite to what I believe in,
who just sincerely believe they were right when they were
horrifically and tragically wrong. So I think there are plenty
of Democrats who have actually gone to serve this nation
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and unfortunately did harm in the meantime. But I don't
think Joe Biden has shown up to serve this nation
one single day three or three someone three eight two
five five text d A N five seven seven three nine.
But at least we know where the Joe Biden you know,
God love Them thing came from. It came from a Hunter, right,
because after what was it, twenty two f bombs? Then
(15:36):
Hunter slips in the God love them you know, gotta
love George cliney, Right, But this business about not an
actor brand Tell that to my wife. I mean, I
think there are many many women who think he's a
very good actor, though he is kind of aging out.
Don't you think how old is he? How old is Clooney.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Clooney was sixty something.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Got right, does Kelly find him attract Well, let's see
what she says.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I do not?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
No, okay, right to the point.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Sixty four. He's sixty four.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Who is your favorite male actor, Kelly.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Oh, it's a very good question. I liked Val Kilmer
a lot.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
He's only eighty, right, Well, he's deceased.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
He's deceased. Yeah, he died of cancer. But he was
wonderful in the Maverick reboot. Yeah, but so I definitely
liked him a lot before he went, uh to the
crazy side. I did like John Cusack, Oh, same, but
(16:41):
he just went a little bit too crazy. I've never
been a George Cleany fan, but I am a Brad
Pitt fan.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
One.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah, and he did a great Super Bowl commercial. Oh
have you seen one? Right?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
No, but I've heard it's very good. My sister saw it.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Don't mention that to Hunter Biden.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Adam Adam saw it. He highly recommends it.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Oh, good, good, good. No, Yeah, I've wanted to see that.
But hey, do we have time to squeeze in Hunter
going off on Carvil and axel Rod. Okay, we'll do
it after the break. So much fun stuff. We'll get
Mike Johnston talking about how every dime of that two
hundred and fifty million, you know, and it sent amount
that matches Denver's deficit now, but every dime of that
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two hundred and fifty million for you know, the migrants,
including illegal immigrants, and the warehouse homeless, every dime of
it's been worth it to of course, none of his
money that all the people have been laid off or
can't get in the gym. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
You mentioned Glane Maxwell. She's still got an appeal. I'm
tracking at the Supreme Court. But in the meantime, you
suggest she should be potentially offered a congressional immunity to
go and testify. Do you think that would happen? And
what kind of information would you had that we haven't seen.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
She knows everything. She is the Rosetta Stone. She knows everything.
She arranged every single trip with everybody. She knows everything.
And if she were just given you summunity, she could
be compelled to testify. I'm told that she actually would
be willing to testify and there'd be no reason for
her to withhold any information. So I don't see any
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negative in giving her the kind of use community.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
That would compel her to testify.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
So she ought to be someone in front of a
congressional committee.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
You know, I'm stunned Ellen say that. I'm going to
try to get him on the show to talk about that, because, hey,
I would pay to see that, right, you might be
able to my people to pay off the national debt
by by selling cable rights to Glene Maxwell testimony. But
I'm just thinking about fundamental fairness and if you have
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Glene Maxwell do what Ellen's suggesting, what's to stop her
from lying? Because she'd be in a position with that
platform to destroy anybody she wanted to with a false allegation.
And what consequences would she be facing, Right, She's got
so many years in prison ahead, so that, Yeah, I'm
(19:15):
going to try to get Allan on and find out
what he's thinking with that one. I think part of
what he's thinking is, you know, Allan's been falsely accused
in this Epstein thing from everything I've been able to see,
and so you probably just want that messaging out there. Hey,
bring her forward, put her on, let her tell the
full story, and the implicit message is because it won't
involve me. And I believe Alan that he's been defamed
(19:39):
here by some accusers. But what do you think, Ryan,
I mean, if she's allowed to testify before Congress, and
believe me, I would watch it, I would cover it,
I'd broadcast it on this show. But what would stop
her from line?
Speaker 9 (19:55):
And that goes to credibility of the witness, Dan, which
I know is something you deal with on a regular
basis in the courtroom yourself, and coming in she's going
to have her credibility question because of what she was
involved with and who she might be trying to protect
and who she might have a vendetta set out against.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
And you're right, it's a great point. She could say anything.
Speaker 9 (20:13):
She's got nothing to lose at that point, she's still
going to be in prison. She's just you know, maybe
getting a little bit more in terms of fame and exposure.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, and the more salacious the lies if she's lying,
you know that, the more she's probably going to get
for a book deal. Right, So so yeah, i'd watch
it or report it, all that good stuff. But boy,
you're setting potentially setting some innocent people up to be destroyed. Listen,
anybody who helped Epstein and she's exhibit A right, anybody
(20:43):
who helped Epstein, you know, rape these young girls. You know,
I've got no sympathy for them, and i want the
full force of the law breught down on their heads.
But as we all know, especially when it comes to
this sex stuff, completely innocent people can be ruined with
the false allegation with no chance to recover. And so
(21:04):
that's how do you guard against that? There three three
someone three eight two five five A lot of Texters
at d an five seven seven three nine, Ryan, let
me read a couple of text while you rack up
twenty nine. Please, we've got to get back to Mike
Johnston talking about bringing joy, moments of joy to the mall.
Texter Dan Hunter soundstoned. What a foul mouthed person, Dan Hunter,
(21:28):
Biden sounds like unhinged as ever, I don't care if
he's calling out the left. He sounds like a lunatic
DK in Broomfield. All true, right though some of the
things he says, and I'll get to that clip in
a second on Carvel and Xelrod. Is he speaking the
truth there? Dan? You're correct? In my opinion, Joe Biden
has done nothing but take from day one, Dan Hunter
completely unhinged. Why is he ranting now to the FBI
(21:50):
visit him. I think he's I think he's trying to
become relevant, get some kind of gig, some other way
of money, getting money, whether it's this is a podcast
edition or what else. Dan on the Avs saying no thanks,
as you quoted, if you knew where you were going
to die, you'd never go there. I've always given Peter
Boyle's credit for that, because that's his line, just saying, yeah,
not going to Avs games, and all I was trying
(22:12):
to tell that Texter was listen, Ballerina. I think is
very very safe to go to. We go down there
to Avs and Nuggets games and other stuff without a
second thought. So that's not like going to downtown. And
by the way, we do go to downtown for certain things.
I worry about it. I take suitable precautions, but we
still go to downtown for certain things. It's obviously everybody's
(22:34):
got to make their own decision. Dan Denver mall no
interest to me because of crime, not kit friendly, outrageous
parking fees. If you find a spot homeless, et cetera.
Thanks Patrick, I'd be a little more precise there, and
Patrick knows his own experience. But Ryan, this comes back
to the left and leftist policies are always going to
undermine that area until the Left changes their pro criminal stuff.
(22:58):
Because there's some of those brave restaurants taurists pointed out,
it's not so much the homeless as it is the
drug addicts and the left's pro drug policy, legalization of drugs, etc.
Hands off, You know that the drug users down there,
that's what's really undermining things. And it started with legalization
of marijuana. The mall was completely lost after that, and
(23:20):
no name change is going to fix that. You want
to fix downtown, well, and I'll just reverse Amendment sixty
four and in the meantime strictly enforce the law down there,
including on open use. Dan, you just said the Left
is more anti gun than pro children's lives, more anti
gun than pro life. Let's get kids killed in the womb,
let's get kids killed in school makes sense by their ideology.
(23:45):
I would say that what you've got now at the
heart of the left's ideology is simply a lack of
respect for life, and that then permeates almost all of
their policies. Dan the left wants to disarm everyone so
they will have total control. Let's squeeze in this, Mike
Johnston joy sound please cut twenty nine.
Speaker 10 (24:07):
And the third really is moments of joy like we
will have to create incentives to lure you back down right.
The Fisher concert we had outdoors on sixteenth Street, first time.
My sixteen year old son has begged me to come
to sixteenth Street.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
That was the success for us.
Speaker 10 (24:19):
We'll keep doing those things outside fast, a lot of
those that invite people back, because we do think those
moments give you a new memory of Denver. Because a
lot of folks will say to me, I don't come downtown.
I say when did you come to the last time, and
they'll say twenty twenty And I say, okay, you got to.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
You get it. So you get why they don't have
a good memory.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I get why they don't have it.
Speaker 10 (24:36):
I remember that too, I was working downtown every day
that it wasn't a good memory.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
So we got to make new ones. That's never going
to work. I mean, first people have to feel safe, right,
and then you have to have something that they want
to go to and what did you say, the Fisher
concert And I'm sure whoever they are, they're fine. But
you know, unless you have the stones down there or something, no,
(25:00):
that's not what's going to turn people back on to
the mall. And Denver has a bigger problem than the mall.
They've got to address this stuff I just talked about.
And again, don't blame law enforcement. None of this is
law enforcement's fault. And the political hierarchy is undermining Denver
law enforcement to begin with. I think they do a
great job with what they're allowed to do. The moment's
(25:23):
of joy thing though, that's interesting to me. How do
you think you could create joy in going down to
I think we just called sixteenth Street now, right. Well,
one thing that struck me this morning, Ryan, and it
made me wonder because you know, I've always lived in
cities and I've just been literally grateful for every day
(25:44):
of my life. But as you know, I'm working out
of the cabin now for much of a month, getting
ready for big trials. So I was up in you know,
a Mountain community courthouse today and from the moment I
walked in, everything I saw. Everything I saw in the
courtroom the Jrrors everything else. There was so much happiness.
(26:05):
There was so much joy. There were so many smiles,
And I just wonder if people are happier in the mountains,
if maybe, you know, the urban living just sorts of
sort of weares us down in ways we're not even
aware of, you know what I mean. And I'm not
saying there isn't a ton of joy. I mean I
feel a ton of joy all the time, but it
(26:27):
was it was just so striking. Just so if you
ever spend any any like block time in the mountains,
I wish I.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Could spend more. I know what you're describing, and it's marvelous.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Yeah. The one bummer for me is, you know, we
love having this deer come by and listen to the show,
But there are no deer at all now because the
bear are running wild. I mean they're just all over there.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Wild bears run around up there.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
All over the place. So where there are bears, you're
not gonna have deer, right, They're going to skid as. Yeah,
I would hope they would be called self preservation. Hey,
when we come back, lots of fun sound. I will
get in some more of these texts, but some more
fascinating stuff from Mayor Johnston, who does not seem in
any way constrained by the truth Hunter Biden on his rants,
(27:15):
and some interesting stuff also from Dershowitz on Epstein, you're
on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
And James Carville, who hasn't run a race in forty years.
And David Axelrod, who had one success in his political
life and that was Barack Obama.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
And that was because of Barack Obama, not.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Because of David Axelrod and David Pluff and all of
these guys in the pod Save America, guys who were.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Junior speech writers in.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
On Barack Obama's Senate staff, who've been dining out on
the relationship with him for years, making millions of dollars,
The Anita Dunns of the world, who's made forty fifty
million dollars off the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
See, it's so interesting to me all of these people
have actually succeeded in the Democratic Party. Yeah, Hunter Biden says,
they're all blank words, right, yeah, three at three someone
three eight two five five text d A N five
seven seven three nine. Hard to believe. It was a
year ago today, the Kamala Harrison or the race of
year go today, we told you she had no chance
(28:18):
of winning. And remember those days. I mean she got
on a roll, right, Remember those poll numbers were going
up and Trump's lead eroding, et cetera, et cetera, and
I kept saying, no, no, no, this is sugar high.
It's all going to reverse. And it did. But remember
that the second part of that prediction is coming true
right now. The Trump victory vital. We had to have that.
(28:39):
But just as important, well close second, is the left
exposing itself for what it is because of America. Can
see that now, then that's going to pay long, long
term dividends long after President Trump is term limited. Dan.
I remember when you announced that Michelle Obama would not
campaign for Joe Biden. She knew she did not want
any affiliate ation. Dan. The more Trump wins, the more
(29:02):
tyrannical the leftist get in the Blue States. It's intentional,
I think, gets a cause and effect, right, and it's
this insanity. We saw the left start to reveal itself
down the stretch in the campaign as it was slipping away,
and then afterwards and the more successful Trump is the
more we will see the mask drop on the left,
which will mean even more success for President Trump. What
(29:25):
is the opposite of a vicious cycle. It's a victorious cycle.
And that is what we're in right now. Trademark that please,
Ryan Dan who is profiting from the decline of Denver
and Colorado as a whole? What a penetrating question from
this Texter? Ryan, who is profiting from the decline of
Denver and Colorado as a whole? I've got my answer.
(29:49):
But what say you to borrow a bill O'Reilly phrase? Right?
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Who is profiting off the decline of demise.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Of Yes, that's such a brilliant question. Hm, it is,
I'm stump and that's why you repeated it. Yeah, the left,
the left, that's the great irony because the more Colorado declines,
the more people are dependent on government, which the left
assumes means the more people vote for the left. Now,
(30:18):
of course you ask, well, aren't people going to vote
against the left because Colorado is declining? The left has
done the math and concluded people will not. And exhibit
A for the left is well, take twenty twenty Take
the twenty twenty two cycle. The left does not seem
to get punished at the polls for trash in Colorado.
(30:40):
But they benefit right. The more people who have to
become dependent on government, that the more who are likely
to vote for the left is their rationale. Fascinating, Thank
you Texter, great insight. Dan. I thought I was wrong once,
but I was mistaken. I'd like to meet that person, Dan.
Thank god Trump defunded PBS. Our kids don't need to
learn learn how to read. Trump will tell us everything
(31:02):
he wants to know. I'd love to hear somebody call
this show and make the argument for the public funding
of PBS. I would love to have that conversation. Yeah,
so much of that Ryan. Some have asked, my friend,
why aren't we covering the Aurora dentist accused of drugging
his wife, Because you know, I made my bones at first,
(31:24):
hopefully made my bones covering big trials here and around
the country. I'm a trial lawyer. That's what I do.
But the reason I'm not interested in that case is
I don't see any suspense. I don't see any question.
I don't see you know, these other big trials we've covered,
it seemed to me there was some real fight over
(31:45):
who'd done it.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
And this and that two things.
Speaker 9 (31:48):
There are angles here, and this dentist keeps coming out
of the woodwork with these bizarre kind of machiavellian moves
to try to manipulate everyone and everything around him. It
truly is Brad taking the story of his daughter taking
the stand saying that he handed a note to a
fellow inmate, told her to bail him out of jail
because it was her distant cousin. The inmate gets bailed
(32:10):
out hands of the letter. The letter instructs her how
to operate on the dark web and get a laptop
that you could later destroy to create a deep fake
video that would show his deceased wife on camera, saying
that he only got the materials for her to commit
suicide at her request because she was suicidal. That's a
nutshell version. And then also, if you're interested, Dan Stephan
(32:31):
Tubbs was a patient of this dentist.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Yeah, so if you wanted to have him on, he's
got some insights too.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
I want to have Stephan on for anything and everything.
Isn't Stephan going to fill in one of these days
because I'll be in trial for almost.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
A month, isn't it could be?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Yeah, they too yeah, yeah, No, And that's a good point, Ryan,
That's that's a fascinating angle there. I guess I'm just
I guess I'm just so used to covering that the
big fight over over guilt in these trials, you know
what I mean In the answer, It's been hard for
me to fire up on this one, But if people
(33:05):
want to talk about it, I'm happy to dive in
and we can get into the legalities of it. But
I think this is one the prosecution's assuming they're going
to win. So wow, Well they talk about deep diving.
One thing I'd like to get a little bit deeper
into tomorrow. We did it today in outline form is
the administration's case. And President Trump put out a video
(33:28):
this weekend, you know, AI generated of President Obama being
arrested while Trump sat there and laughed. The administration appears
to be very serious about its claims that Obama engineered
a coup attempt, and I'll deep dive that evidence, among
many other things tomorrow. Thank you again, Ryan for your
great job. Kelly Human Sunshine always appreciate you. Join us
tomorrow on The Dan Kapla Show.
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