January 30, 2025 • 34 mins
In the second hour of today's edition of The Dan Caplis Show, Dan talks about why Donald Trump's blunt comments about the disaster plane and helicopter crash in Washington DC were actually well warranted. Caplis also discusses the latest on Trump's confirmation hearings, the drama surrounding Colorado's 'Sanctuary State' label, and Colorado's attempted gun magazine ban.
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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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single day on your favorite podcast platform. In the American way,
is not this kind of fatal mediocrity that we see
in so many different areas of government and life in general.
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That's not who we are. That much of that, not
all is a product of the left and lots of
things the left does and doesn't do. And hopefully Americans
are at the point, and I think the election was
part of this, at the point of saying no, we're
not going to accept that anymore. We're not accepting your
new quote normal, which is the opposite of normal. Eight
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And so I think Americans and across party lines someone
would never admit it. Probably very happy to see President
Trump and his team react strongly, react in anger, react
and say no, we're not going to put up with
this now. Whether the President's right or wrong about DEI
being a part of it, we have to wait for
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those facts, you know. Presumably he knows stuff. At this point,
he has access to information that we don't. We know
that he does, and so we'll follow those facts. But
this we do know that just accepting this kind of mediocrity,
and because this kind of thing can't happen right without
just disastrous incompetence, It just can't happen. And you hear
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about these near misses all over the country, and Trump
has exposed lots of other institutions and things in life
where we all thought, yeah, they're probably not perfect, but
you know that they're probably solid, and then he's exposed
him as being having major, major problems, to be kind,
So no, I like the fact he reacted strongly said
this is not going to be our standard. And then
we'll see if he's right on the DEI stuff. But
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whatever led to this, And there are some published reports
now that there was one air traffic controller covering two stations.
If those reports are true, as I said earlier, whoever
made the decision to allow that should go to jail.
If if the evidence is that it takes two air
traffic controllers to man two stations in order to safely
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operate that airport, you cannot allow that airport to operate
without that. So if that's where the evidence comes in,
it's not enough to fire people. Somebody has to go
to jail for criminal recklessness if that's what happens. So
let's follow the facts and then that goes to a
text I'm getting here. Then I'll get back to the
phone lines eight five five forour zero five eight two
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five five the number text d an five seven seven
three nine dan. If your son or daughter was an
air traffic controller or that helicopter pilot, would you be
angry at Trump that Trump is blaming them before the
black boxes have been examined. You know, listen, any parent
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would be angry at anybody who is blaming their child
for something like that, no matter what the facts were.
But the important point here is that President Trump's obligation
is to the nation as a whole, not to the
feelings of any particular individual. And the nation as a
whole this morning needed to hear that, no, this is
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not going to be tolerated. If it had been just
the typical that you might get from both parties in
the past, this is so said, we're going to investigate,
we'll get to the bottom of it, etc. That's not leadership.
That's not what people elected Trump to do. But Trump
getting up and saying no, this makes me angry. We
are not going to tolerate this. That's what people want
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to hear. Now, if it turns out he's wrong about
the deipiece, well then you shouldn't have said it. But
I've got to believe he doesn't say it unless he
has access to certain information. I don't know sitting here
what caused that recklessness, that fatal intence. But I like
a president who gets angry about something like this and
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says no, this is not going to be our standard.
I want to get some more texts DA N five
seven seven thirty nine. Dan, If Trump is lying about
this being a d I hire, what consequences do you
think he should face? See, that's a beautiful thing about
the American political system is let's say he's wrong about that,
Well then there are political consequences. Right. People can speak
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out in a lot of different ways, including the midterms,
et cetera. So's that's the beauty of our system, Dan.
One controller running two positions is not uncommon. It happens
in the Denver area where we have three major general
aviation airports, Dia, Buckley Air Force Base, and several private airstrips.
It's amazing how many planes are flying over Denver and
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we have had very few incidents, So thank you, Jim.
I assume you have some expertise there. But if it's
true that the standard is that one controller cannot rate
two positions in very busy airspace as a layman, that
would surprise me. But if that's the case and it
can be done safely, so be it we rule that
out as the cause doesn't seem to make much sense
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to me. If one can run too, why do you
have two? And how can one run too?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Dan?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
If Bennett has been exposed, I hope it's not when
he is aroused per Chuckie Schumer. I shouldn't have read that.
That goes back to Schumer's people have never been so
roused common a couple of days ago, which goes back
to this bigger issue. Is a fair now to ask
these elected officials in areas where dope is now legal
whether they use it? Yeah? So, Dan, remember when John Edwards,
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who's getting four hundred dollars haircuts during his primary run
for president, Maybe Mayor Mike Johnston is following Edwards's lead
that from Alexa yet do you remember that video? Edwards
say he was fixing his hair up and he didn't
realize there was a camera on the other side of
that mirror.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
He did have perfect hair. I remember him well. He
disappeared though, Ye.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, he hurry. Oh okay, let's let's go back to
the phone lines, Rick and Boone. You're on the Dan
Capitalist Show.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Welcome, Hey Dan, Rick.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
How's the herd?
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Yeah? Uh, they are doing better as one top. Oh yeah,
oh yeah. My heart glows up all those affected by
this terrible tragedy.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
You know my own Yeah, can you imagine anybody?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Uh? When I do get in the house, I'm listening
to you and then I monitor CBS News with caps
on zone known it happened, But what happened to No Donald?
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Thirty hours She's gone. They got two dudes in there,
a brown news set beyond Rian and what happened in
CNN moment and then.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Get rid of people.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Regear because your eyes weren't trust for the year. One
must do him on there.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Yeah, it's a good question, Rick, And in fact, because
Kelly put it on the board, I researched a little
bit online and to my knowledge, Nora o'donald left CBS
Evening News of her own volition. She's fifty euros old,
just like I am, and maybe just wanted to do
something else. I don't think she went full of Jim
Acosta though, like she was being threatened with a reassignment
to the graveyard.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Shift like he was. But I'm not sure what's next.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
For I haven't seen anything online. Maybe she's just taken
a hiatus first a little while.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
And now that we have Ricky for those who have
not heard Rick on the show before, he's just a
marvelous resource. And Rick, can you tell us because I've
always said the impression cows are extremely smart? How how
would you compare the intelligence of cows to say, like
a domestic dog, dog dog? The dogs. I know, I'm
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from Chicago. I don't say that word very well.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I don't know why they're telling me. I wouldn't say
they're extremely smart. Okay, they have their moments, there's sayings
they do that I'm just a surprise. I had to
come down to most.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
People, what's the most surprising thing you've seen a cow do?
And then I'll let you get back to you're incredibly
hard work, hardest working guy in Colorado is Rick.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Well back in the house early. So okay, gosh, most surprising. Okay,
here we go years and years ago and then this
still happens. But if calf gets separated from the cow
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because of the plan or whatever reason that you take
a calf away from the cow, and it could be
two years later when that calf is becoming a cow herself.
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These animals know their daughters, they know their sisters, they
know their aunts, and they will hang out together and
learn the crowd together, separated across the fence, they will
community with each other.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
That's cool.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
If they know you're saying that I haven't figured it
out yet. I assume it's I guess that has to
do something to smell.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, Rick, that that is you know.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
That calf wants and you're gonna know it for your life.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Fan, Hey, do me a favorite. I'm sorry we're up
against a heartbreak. But did you get into the Denver
area at all?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I want to school?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Four gongs? Sounds really well because some man stayed up
there and woods well, let's I always figured that it
was about this time you were in Boulder. But if
you say you're fifty. Yeah, I guess I I.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Think my shoes are rick. I've got to hit this
heart break. But but what I'd love to do sometime
And yeah, we're at ca Co l up in Fort Collins,
CASEYSJ down in Springs, Pueblo. So whether it's Denver or
one of those other two, let's let's get together, get
you in the studio, get you on air sometime. Appreciate
the call. Hey Texter, unhappy with me? Will start there
on the Dane Capla.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Show and now back to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
And then when I left office and Biden took over,
he changed them back to lower than ever before. I
put safety first. Obama, Biden and the Democrats put policy first.
Then they put politics at a level that nobody's ever seen.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Because this was the lowest level.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
Their policy was horrible, then their politics was even worse. So,
as you know, last week, long before the crash, I
signed an executive order restoring our highest standards for air
traffic controllers and other important jobs throughout the country.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So it was very interesting.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
About a week ago, almost upon entering office, I signed
something last week that was an executive board, a very
powerful one.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Restoring the highest standards of air traffic controller.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah. President Trump very direct this morning, hitting hard. He
says it's a DEI. He says it's hiring based on
something other than merit? Is he right? What do you
think about that? Eight five five for zero five eight
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I have some angry Texters. I'll get their next.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
I got the break FAA's diversity, pushing focus on.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
High round over breaking news. What's the breaking news?
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Well, I think you would find this interesting and our
listeners would too. This is from Colorado Peak Politics Within
the Hour reporting Mayor Mike Johnston grudgingly admits he will
testify before Congress on sanctuary city policies.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Grudgingly. I bet it hits the old Peter Boyles line. Right,
if you knew where you were going to die, you
wouldn't go there. And I don't want to overstate that
because listen the format he'll be in, that's not a
true cross examination format, right, Like I fired the privilege
of having a twenty minute true cross examination of Mike Johnston,
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then all truth would be revealed. But when you get
into this congressional setting and you've got the questioner's limited
decks number of minutes, and then Johnston can fill a
buster in this and that. Yeah, it's lower your expectations
if your expectations are that there's going to be a
true opportunity to question him, follow up questions, hold his
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feet to the fire, show him documents, get to the
full truth. It's not going to be that kind of hearing.
It will still be fun.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
People with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities that is amazing,
and there says FAA says people with severe disabilities the
most underrepresented segment of the workforce, and they want them
in and they want them they can be air traffic controllers.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Well.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
This was.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
In January fourteenth, so that was a week before I
entered office. They put a big push to put diversity
into the FAA's program.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, so we'll see where the facts lead. You have
to believe, I mean, President Trump obviously has access to
information that very few people have, so I have to
believe that that's informed. You know what he's doing here,
But we'll find out together, right. I do like the
fact that he's come out very strong in general and
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just said we're not going to tolerate this. This is
not going to be our standard. This isn't going to
be our new normal. And let's face it, under the left,
the standards were dropping and dropping and dropping. They were
dropping morally, they were dropping in terms of performance, they
were dropping in terms of expectations. Look, is that true
that only six percent of the federal workforce in DC
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is in the office each week or in the office
full time. No, Americans don't want don't want mediocrity. Hey,
we don't want people to nailing it in literally, Yeah, yeah, Dan.
The aircraft crash in DC is a real tragedy. But
thank goodness it happened before Trump got his hands on
the FA budget. Now hopefully its budget will be increased,
not cut. Listen this, this cannot, in any way, shape
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or form, be blamed on Trump. And it doesn't matter
how much money you spend on something, if if the
standards aren't high, if it isn't being run right. Take education, right,
you got all these lefties like Bennett and Hickenlooper, they
fight to the death to stop true school choice. So
you spend more and more money in a public education
system that is not subject to true competition, so you
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can spend that additional money, but you're not going to
get the additional results because the Democrats are all about
feathering their nest with the teachers Union, et cetera, and
not about maximizing performance for students. So spending more money
isn't going to solve anything unless you fix the rest
of it. Dan, I wonder when you'll stop defending this
horrible man and even pretend like he knows the facts
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as a joke. He is an absolute joke every day,
total embarrassment. This goes back to the point he made earlier,
quoting a Wall Street journal guy. It's the Democrats are
in concussion protocol, like this texter right now is just
kind of flailing wildly because they see it all slipping
away from the left. They know that Trump is winning,
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they're losing. And the worst part for the left is
one of the ways Trump's winning is he is exposing
the left for who they are and showing very quickly
that America doesn't have to be this way, it can
be better. Every time we see one of these criminal illegals,
meaning an illegal immigrant who's committed another crime here deported
at that point, because a person deported was committing crime
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we're safer, So this kind of screen therapy from this
text or they just see it all slipping away and
they know it ain't coming back because America is not
going back. America is not going back to boy and
men in girls showers. It's not going back to open borders,
and along with the good people you get hordes of
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criminals coming in. It's not going back to Jared Polis
and Mike Johnston and all these other lefties protecting illegal
immigrants who then commit other crimes. It's not going back
to that. So we'll probably get a lot of text
like that Dan Fox News reporting the night before the crash,
another airliner nearly collided with a helicopter, And we're hearing
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these near mess stories all the time, right all the time.
And then when we come back, there's a textures particularly
upset with me, and I want to get into it
because it goes to a deeper point that a lot
of us probably don't think about every day. But we
really need to eight five five for zero five A
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seven three nine, and we'll have the sound of Michael
Bennett was he impaired during this questioning on the Hill.
You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
The FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buddhachek.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
A real winner, that's the guy's a real winner.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Badly?
Speaker 7 (18:19):
Everything's run since he's run this Department of Transportation. He's
a disaster. He was a disaster as a mayor. He
ran his city into the ground, and he's a disaster now.
He's just got a good line of bullshit. The Department
of Transportation his government agency charged with regulating civil aviation. Well,
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he runs it forty five thousand people and he's run
it right into the ground with his diversity.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Eight five two five five the number text d an
five seven seven three nine. Obviously that the usual gang
of suspects in the media claiming Trump's line about that
no evidence, et cetera, et cetera. My belief is he
has access to information we don't about what happened in
that control tower. Now, is he right about DEI being
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behind this? I don't know. We'll find out together, right,
But I do think Americans are happy to see the
president react strongly, to see the president angry because we
can't be accepting this stuff. And anybody paying attention knows
that Pete Buddha Judge wasn't chosen for that position based
on merit, right, And everybody knows that under Buddha Judge,
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our transportation systems were not the envy of the world.
So I think that's Trump's bigger and broader point. We
got to get America back to being committed to excellence
and having these critical positions filled based on merit. That
doesn't mean if there were fatal mistakes as there appeared
to be made in that control tower, that it was
because of anybody's race or gender. But it does mean
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that hiring needs to be based on merit. That that
should be a principle we can all agree to, not
on political patronage or whether somebody's a Democrat or Republican
or anything else. Let's get to the phone line. Let's
start in beautiful Larksburg, Colorado with Steve. You're on the
Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Welcome, Hi there, Dan, thank you. Listen. You were ammeron
pretty heavy on Mayor Johnston and actually admiring is in
his new quoff. I think he went out to have
a newsome him and Newsom had a spa day, is
what I think, Captain and they shared some notes back
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and forth. But I have a comment about you.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
How much time before we get to that stuff? How
much time do you think those guys spend on their hair?
And listen, they're both good looking guys. I'm not talking
disparagingly about anybody's looks. I'm the last guy to do that.
But how much time do you think they spend on
their hair? I mean, Denver has all these problems, and
Mike Johnson is a good looking guy, but you can
tell he's now gone from having a haircut to a
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hair style.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Right.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Oh yeah, how much time do you think that takes?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
That big swoop and everything else? There's probably a team
of people. How many city and employees have to have
to poof that thing every day?
Speaker 5 (21:15):
I had a thought the other day, and half of
it was a serious thought. There were there were two thoughts. Actually.
Number one, I had to go look this up because
I thought we were getting another nepotism thing like Pelosi
and Newsom. I actually thought for a moment that Johnston
was either Bennett's brother or son. There's sort of a
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there's sort of a potential, you know, a resemblance there.
But and then the other thing about Johnson. I don't
know if anybody else has noticed this. And the media
is terrible on picking headshots when they put people's pictures
in the newspaper or the you know, social media. He's
got that. How do I say it? He reminds me
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of the guy on the TV show the Young Boy,
who is a genius doctor, but you know he's he's
sort of on the spectrum and he's not all there,
but in fact a genius. That's what Johnston reminds me of.
Because his eyes don't track.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
No, no, no, no no. All I'm doing is he
is making a joke about this fancy new hairstyle. Now, hey,
I don't want to talk about somebody's eyes tracking, and
I'm happy to talk about all the I'm happy to
raise the very fair question does he use THHC. I
think that's a very fair question, giving a lot of
the weird things he's been doing and saying such a
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no no underal police out to the county line, take
on the Feds and their invaders, talking about law enforcement.
So I think that's a fair question. I think how
much time he spends on this fancy new it's like
a boy band thing. But no, I don't want to
talk about ice tracking or anything.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
I understand. I apologize to that. No web and it's
not dhc oh that.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
No, I wouldn't go that far. But but listen, any
if you're living in a city now where that stuff
is quote legal, and you've got elected officials saying and
doing like really really strange goofy things, isn't that a
fair question? Now? Well, people have a right to know.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Into your lead about benefit Bennett being impaired on the floor,
so you can, oh, let me play that.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Sound Yeah, thanks to the reminder there and no, let
me and listen. Isn't that a fair question now from
from these elected officials from states where it's legal, and
don't voters have a right to know? I mean, isn't
it relevant in a campaign if somebody running for office
is a regular dope user. I have no idea if
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Johnston is, no idea if Bennett is. I just know
you look at some of the crazy stuff Johnston's been
doing and saying, and I think it's a fair question.
Here's Michael Bennett to day, and as you listen to
this keep in mind he apparently has this pre prepared
line of attack and bellowing, but he's not letting her
answer the question, Oh, we lost Steve okay, and that's
too bad for everybody.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
Do you believe, as the chairman of this committee believes,
as the vast majority of members of our intelligence agencies believe,
that Edward Snowden was a traitor to the United States
of America.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Senator of confirms.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
They're not moscial media. It's not a moment to propagate theories,
conspiracy theories, or or or attacks on journalism in the
United States. This is when you need to answer the
questions of the people whose votes you're asking for to
be confirmed as the chief intelligence officer of this nation.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Sorry, but if you just close your eyes, don't do that.
If you're driving, doesn't it just sound like you've been
at a party and it's like one thirty in the morning.
Isn't that how people talk?
Speaker 8 (25:14):
As my colleague said, this is not about you. It's
about the people that serve the intelligence agencies of the
United States. Is Edward snowed In a trader to the
United States of America?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Let her answer?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
That is not a hard.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Question to answer.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
When the stakes are this high?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Is it just the stakes that are high? Ryan? Doesn't
that sound like the guy at the on the stool
at the end of the bar.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Well, it's that, and he's always sounded like Counselor MACKI
from South Park.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Okay, Edward Snowden's band, Okay, Josey Gamiga, you.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Give me a trader.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
There as someone who has yes or no?
Speaker 8 (26:01):
Is Edward Snowden a trader through the United States of America.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I don't need to cast someone who has on nform.
I'm sorry. Yeah, eight five five or zero five A
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How about Jim in beautiful Denver, Colorado. You're on the
Dan kapla shall welcome.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Jim, Oh Dan, how are you doing?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I am angry tonight. Thank you. These people should all
be alive. That crash never should have happened.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Yeah, I agree, it never should have happened.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Oh, Jim, I can tell the you are one of
our favorite calls ever because you disagree with me. Right,
we're up against a break. Do you want to start
on the other side? So you have plenty of time.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Hey, thank you, Dan, I sure will.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Okay, okay, yeah, let's hold Jim so he can take
his best shot eight five five or zero five A
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Speaker 3 (27:06):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Kim kind enough to call off and disagrees. Let's hope
he does tonight. Welcome my friend.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Thanks for keeping me on, Dan. Yeah, I saw that
this afternoon at the same You've played a lot of
Trump part of his press conference today, but there was
another question during it. I believe it was from Caitlin Collins,
and she asked him if he had any evidence that
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VEI was involved in this, and he did say, no,
I have no evidence, but it's just common sense. I
have a lot of that, and I think it's you
don't have any evidence, you shouldn't exploit a tragedy just
hours after it happens to take a political cheap shop.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Well, I certainly agree with you that nobody from either
side should exploit a tragedy by taking a political cheap shot.
So we can agree on that, and then the question
becomes was this a political cheap shot? Is Trump writer
wrong about this? And so we'll find the answer to
that out together.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
Yeah, but we do know he had no evidence. He
said that himself.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Okay, well, and I didn't hear that, Jim, but I'll
take your word for it. But here's the point, isn't it,
my friend? That The point is you and your life.
You and your life make a lot of critical, even
life and death decisions based on instinct, based on your
own common sense. President Trump has access to a whole
lot of information that I don't, and I think his
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instincts have been proven true in lots of different situations
that surprised me. And so at this point, if he's
willing to get up there as president of the United
States and say this is what I believe happened, and
then it sounds like if he was asked if when
he was asked if he had direct evidence, he said no,
but it is my instinct. Well, then let's see if
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his instinct is correct, and if it's not, then he'll
be criticized for that. He may pay a political price.
But his instincts have proven true a lot of times
when neither you or I thought they would. Right.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Yes, I'd agree with that. Yeah, so let's create political instincts.
Speaker 9 (29:27):
Well, but beyond that, I think he said, but you
know what, then he says he wants to be a unifier,
you know, and he wants to bring this country back together.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
His first reaction to something like this, a real tragedy,
is to turn, is to politicize it. It's way too early.
He didn't have to say that. He could just wait
and see what the evidence, you know, provides, And I
think that's what a responsible president to do.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Well, Jim, I disagree to this extent, Okay, on the
individual issue of his belief that the cause is going
to be DEI Hey, if he's wrong about that, then
he shouldn't have said it, and he'll be proven wrong
about that. But his broader point, I think, Jim, which
was to stand up and be angry about what happened
and say we are not going to tolerate this. To me,
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that is real leadership. That is unifying. Americans don't want
another president from either party who just gets up and says, oh,
what a tragedy. Now let's talk about the stock market.
They want somebody to get up and say, hell, no,
we're not accepting this. Our standards are hirer in America,
and we're going to get to the bottom of this
and all hiring is going to be merit based. I
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think that's what America wants. I think that is unifying.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
I agree with you, Dan, and it's great if all
hiring is merit based and that we've got a commitment
to excellence, as you say. But you know, when you're
not Matt Gates to be attorney general, the number one
law enforcement person in the country, and you put an
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anti vaxer into the you know, the chief health officer
in the country, I mean, this doesn't seem to me
to be a commitment to axcellence.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Well, let me address both, Okay, fair questions start with
Gates that it blamed the left for the fact Trump
wanted to appoint Gates because when the left perverted DOJ
and weaponized it, and all of a sudden, Trump realized,
wait a second, I've got to have I've got to
have an attorney general who I know is loyal to me,
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because that attorney general can can kill me politically. He
can end my presidency in a heartbeat by making a
false accusation against me. So that's why Trump needed a
loyalist there in that position. In terms of Kennedy, I
respectfully disagree with you. While I disagree with Kennedy on
certain things, I think he's very right on on some
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enormous things that matter. And when you talk about oh,
anti VAX's goofy anti vax, and I'm you know, I'm
not with Kennedy on that, but but it is, it
is no less goofy and no less destructive than all
of these lefties who line up and say, oh, yeah,
that baby's nine month old, you can dismember it, right.
I mean, that's that's the goofiest damn thing scientifically we
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have ever heard in our life. So if you want
to talk about anti science, all these democrats who line
up to say you can kill that baby at nine months,
that's as anti science as you get. It's far more
anti science than anything RFK Junior has ever said.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Well, I'd like to talk to you about abortion at
a later time.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Okay, most people would, Jim. It's great to hear from you.
Why don't you we need you hear more often?
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Well, Dan, I'll try and call more often.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Please do that. You know you are always welcome the debate. Yeah,
you're always welcome here, my friend, call soon, Thank you,
Thank you? Yeah, Ryan, we only have a couple more
minutes left. I want to get to this text. Daniel
would be screaming bloody murder if Biden started blaming integrading
people before the investigation was completed. Let's mourn the victims first.
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I completely disagree with that last statement. Let's mourn the
victims first. And here's why. Forty years I've had the
privilege of and I still do, obviously represent people going
through the worst nightmare imaginable on the face of the earth,
having a loved one killed, and having any loved one
killed suddenly. Sometimes it's a husband or a wife, or
a child, or a brother or sister. And I will
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tell you universally, the people who have had the loved
one wrongfully taken, they what they want is action to
make sure no other innocent person is killed that way.
They don't want to see anybody else suffer like this.
So if you ask the people going through these true,
unimaginable tragedies, no, they want immediate action to protect others.
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They want immediate action to get to the bottom of
what wrongfully took their loved one's life. And yes they
want to mourn, and yes they need to mourn, but
they want action, and everybody understands the way life is
so fast anymore. The general public. Yeah, people may mourn
for a day or two or a week, but then
the world just moves on that the victims don't want
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that that. The victims want others saved, They want immediate action.
So I like the fact Trump took immediate action, and
we'll find out together whether he's right or wrong about
the cause. But he made it clear we're not putting
up with mediocrity. Brian, great job, Kelly, You're the best.
Join us tomorrow on The Dan Kapla Show.
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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is not this kind of fatal mediocrity that we see
in so many different areas of government and life in general.
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That's not who we are. That much of that, not
all is a product of the left and lots of
things the left does and doesn't do. And hopefully Americans
are at the point, and I think the election was
part of this, at the point of saying no, we're
not going to accept that anymore. We're not accepting your
new quote normal, which is the opposite of normal. Eight
five five four zero five eight two five five the number.
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And so I think Americans and across party lines someone
would never admit it. Probably very happy to see President
Trump and his team react strongly, react in anger, react
and say no, we're not going to put up with
this now. Whether the President's right or wrong about DEI
being a part of it, we have to wait for
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those facts, you know. Presumably he knows stuff. At this point,
he has access to information that we don't. We know
that he does, and so we'll follow those facts. But
this we do know that just accepting this kind of mediocrity,
and because this kind of thing can't happen right without
just disastrous incompetence, It just can't happen. And you hear
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about these near misses all over the country, and Trump
has exposed lots of other institutions and things in life
where we all thought, yeah, they're probably not perfect, but
you know that they're probably solid, and then he's exposed
him as being having major, major problems, to be kind,
So no, I like the fact he reacted strongly said
this is not going to be our standard. And then
we'll see if he's right on the DEI stuff. But
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whatever led to this, And there are some published reports
now that there was one air traffic controller covering two stations.
If those reports are true, as I said earlier, whoever
made the decision to allow that should go to jail.
If if the evidence is that it takes two air
traffic controllers to man two stations in order to safely
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operate that airport, you cannot allow that airport to operate
without that. So if that's where the evidence comes in,
it's not enough to fire people. Somebody has to go
to jail for criminal recklessness if that's what happens. So
let's follow the facts and then that goes to a
text I'm getting here. Then I'll get back to the
phone lines eight five five forour zero five eight two
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five five the number text d an five seven seven
three nine dan. If your son or daughter was an
air traffic controller or that helicopter pilot, would you be
angry at Trump that Trump is blaming them before the
black boxes have been examined. You know, listen, any parent
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would be angry at anybody who is blaming their child
for something like that, no matter what the facts were.
But the important point here is that President Trump's obligation
is to the nation as a whole, not to the
feelings of any particular individual. And the nation as a
whole this morning needed to hear that, no, this is
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not going to be tolerated. If it had been just
the typical that you might get from both parties in
the past, this is so said, we're going to investigate,
we'll get to the bottom of it, etc. That's not leadership.
That's not what people elected Trump to do. But Trump
getting up and saying no, this makes me angry. We
are not going to tolerate this. That's what people want
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to hear. Now, if it turns out he's wrong about
the deipiece, well then you shouldn't have said it. But
I've got to believe he doesn't say it unless he
has access to certain information. I don't know sitting here
what caused that recklessness, that fatal intence. But I like
a president who gets angry about something like this and
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says no, this is not going to be our standard.
I want to get some more texts DA N five
seven seven thirty nine. Dan, If Trump is lying about
this being a d I hire, what consequences do you
think he should face? See, that's a beautiful thing about
the American political system is let's say he's wrong about that,
Well then there are political consequences. Right. People can speak
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out in a lot of different ways, including the midterms,
et cetera. So's that's the beauty of our system, Dan.
One controller running two positions is not uncommon. It happens
in the Denver area where we have three major general
aviation airports, Dia, Buckley Air Force Base, and several private airstrips.
It's amazing how many planes are flying over Denver and
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we have had very few incidents, So thank you, Jim.
I assume you have some expertise there. But if it's
true that the standard is that one controller cannot rate
two positions in very busy airspace as a layman, that
would surprise me. But if that's the case and it
can be done safely, so be it we rule that
out as the cause doesn't seem to make much sense
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to me. If one can run too, why do you
have two? And how can one run too?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Dan?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
If Bennett has been exposed, I hope it's not when
he is aroused per Chuckie Schumer. I shouldn't have read that.
That goes back to Schumer's people have never been so
roused common a couple of days ago, which goes back
to this bigger issue. Is a fair now to ask
these elected officials in areas where dope is now legal
whether they use it? Yeah? So, Dan, remember when John Edwards,
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who's getting four hundred dollars haircuts during his primary run
for president, Maybe Mayor Mike Johnston is following Edwards's lead
that from Alexa yet do you remember that video? Edwards
say he was fixing his hair up and he didn't
realize there was a camera on the other side of
that mirror.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
He did have perfect hair. I remember him well. He
disappeared though, Ye.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, he hurry. Oh okay, let's let's go back to
the phone lines, Rick and Boone. You're on the Dan
Capitalist Show.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Welcome, Hey Dan, Rick.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
How's the herd?
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Yeah? Uh, they are doing better as one top. Oh yeah,
oh yeah. My heart glows up all those affected by
this terrible tragedy.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
You know my own Yeah, can you imagine anybody?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Uh? When I do get in the house, I'm listening
to you and then I monitor CBS News with caps
on zone known it happened, But what happened to No Donald?
(07:08):
Thirty hours She's gone. They got two dudes in there,
a brown news set beyond Rian and what happened in
CNN moment and then.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Get rid of people.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Regear because your eyes weren't trust for the year. One
must do him on there.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Yeah, it's a good question, Rick, And in fact, because
Kelly put it on the board, I researched a little
bit online and to my knowledge, Nora o'donald left CBS
Evening News of her own volition. She's fifty euros old,
just like I am, and maybe just wanted to do
something else. I don't think she went full of Jim
Acosta though, like she was being threatened with a reassignment
to the graveyard.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Shift like he was. But I'm not sure what's next.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
For I haven't seen anything online. Maybe she's just taken
a hiatus first a little while.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
And now that we have Ricky for those who have
not heard Rick on the show before, he's just a
marvelous resource. And Rick, can you tell us because I've
always said the impression cows are extremely smart? How how
would you compare the intelligence of cows to say, like
a domestic dog, dog dog? The dogs. I know, I'm
(08:23):
from Chicago. I don't say that word very well.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I don't know why they're telling me. I wouldn't say
they're extremely smart. Okay, they have their moments, there's sayings
they do that I'm just a surprise. I had to
come down to most.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
People, what's the most surprising thing you've seen a cow do?
And then I'll let you get back to you're incredibly
hard work, hardest working guy in Colorado is Rick.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Well back in the house early. So okay, gosh, most surprising. Okay,
here we go years and years ago and then this
still happens. But if calf gets separated from the cow
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because of the plan or whatever reason that you take
a calf away from the cow, and it could be
two years later when that calf is becoming a cow herself.
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These animals know their daughters, they know their sisters, they
know their aunts, and they will hang out together and
learn the crowd together, separated across the fence, they will
community with each other.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
That's cool.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
If they know you're saying that I haven't figured it
out yet. I assume it's I guess that has to
do something to smell.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, Rick, that that is you know.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
That calf wants and you're gonna know it for your life.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Fan, Hey, do me a favorite. I'm sorry we're up
against a heartbreak. But did you get into the Denver
area at all?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I want to school?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Four gongs? Sounds really well because some man stayed up
there and woods well, let's I always figured that it
was about this time you were in Boulder. But if
you say you're fifty. Yeah, I guess I I.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Think my shoes are rick. I've got to hit this
heart break. But but what I'd love to do sometime
And yeah, we're at ca Co l up in Fort Collins,
CASEYSJ down in Springs, Pueblo. So whether it's Denver or
one of those other two, let's let's get together, get
you in the studio, get you on air sometime. Appreciate
the call. Hey Texter, unhappy with me? Will start there
on the Dane Capla.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Show and now back to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
And then when I left office and Biden took over,
he changed them back to lower than ever before. I
put safety first. Obama, Biden and the Democrats put policy first.
Then they put politics at a level that nobody's ever seen.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Because this was the lowest level.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
Their policy was horrible, then their politics was even worse. So,
as you know, last week, long before the crash, I
signed an executive order restoring our highest standards for air
traffic controllers and other important jobs throughout the country.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So it was very interesting.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
About a week ago, almost upon entering office, I signed
something last week that was an executive board, a very
powerful one.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Restoring the highest standards of air traffic controller.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah. President Trump very direct this morning, hitting hard. He
says it's a DEI. He says it's hiring based on
something other than merit? Is he right? What do you
think about that? Eight five five for zero five eight
two five five text d an five seven seven three nine.
I have some angry Texters. I'll get their next.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
I got the break FAA's diversity, pushing focus on.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
High round over breaking news. What's the breaking news?
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Well, I think you would find this interesting and our
listeners would too. This is from Colorado Peak Politics Within
the Hour reporting Mayor Mike Johnston grudgingly admits he will
testify before Congress on sanctuary city policies.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Grudgingly. I bet it hits the old Peter Boyles line. Right,
if you knew where you were going to die, you
wouldn't go there. And I don't want to overstate that
because listen the format he'll be in, that's not a
true cross examination format, right, Like I fired the privilege
of having a twenty minute true cross examination of Mike Johnston,
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then all truth would be revealed. But when you get
into this congressional setting and you've got the questioner's limited
decks number of minutes, and then Johnston can fill a
buster in this and that. Yeah, it's lower your expectations
if your expectations are that there's going to be a
true opportunity to question him, follow up questions, hold his
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feet to the fire, show him documents, get to the
full truth. It's not going to be that kind of hearing.
It will still be fun.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
People with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities that is amazing,
and there says FAA says people with severe disabilities the
most underrepresented segment of the workforce, and they want them
in and they want them they can be air traffic controllers.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Well.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
This was.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
In January fourteenth, so that was a week before I
entered office. They put a big push to put diversity
into the FAA's program.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, so we'll see where the facts lead. You have
to believe, I mean, President Trump obviously has access to
information that very few people have, so I have to
believe that that's informed. You know what he's doing here,
But we'll find out together, right. I do like the
fact that he's come out very strong in general and
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just said we're not going to tolerate this. This is
not going to be our standard. This isn't going to
be our new normal. And let's face it, under the left,
the standards were dropping and dropping and dropping. They were
dropping morally, they were dropping in terms of performance, they
were dropping in terms of expectations. Look, is that true
that only six percent of the federal workforce in DC
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is in the office each week or in the office
full time. No, Americans don't want don't want mediocrity. Hey,
we don't want people to nailing it in literally, Yeah, yeah, Dan.
The aircraft crash in DC is a real tragedy. But
thank goodness it happened before Trump got his hands on
the FA budget. Now hopefully its budget will be increased,
not cut. Listen this, this cannot, in any way, shape
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or form, be blamed on Trump. And it doesn't matter
how much money you spend on something, if if the
standards aren't high, if it isn't being run right. Take education, right,
you got all these lefties like Bennett and Hickenlooper, they
fight to the death to stop true school choice. So
you spend more and more money in a public education
system that is not subject to true competition, so you
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can spend that additional money, but you're not going to
get the additional results because the Democrats are all about
feathering their nest with the teachers Union, et cetera, and
not about maximizing performance for students. So spending more money
isn't going to solve anything unless you fix the rest
of it. Dan, I wonder when you'll stop defending this
horrible man and even pretend like he knows the facts
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as a joke. He is an absolute joke every day,
total embarrassment. This goes back to the point he made earlier,
quoting a Wall Street journal guy. It's the Democrats are
in concussion protocol, like this texter right now is just
kind of flailing wildly because they see it all slipping
away from the left. They know that Trump is winning,
(16:23):
they're losing. And the worst part for the left is
one of the ways Trump's winning is he is exposing
the left for who they are and showing very quickly
that America doesn't have to be this way, it can
be better. Every time we see one of these criminal illegals,
meaning an illegal immigrant who's committed another crime here deported
at that point, because a person deported was committing crime
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we're safer, So this kind of screen therapy from this
text or they just see it all slipping away and
they know it ain't coming back because America is not
going back. America is not going back to boy and
men in girls showers. It's not going back to open borders,
and along with the good people you get hordes of
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criminals coming in. It's not going back to Jared Polis
and Mike Johnston and all these other lefties protecting illegal
immigrants who then commit other crimes. It's not going back
to that. So we'll probably get a lot of text
like that Dan Fox News reporting the night before the crash,
another airliner nearly collided with a helicopter, And we're hearing
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these near mess stories all the time, right all the time.
And then when we come back, there's a textures particularly
upset with me, and I want to get into it
because it goes to a deeper point that a lot
of us probably don't think about every day. But we
really need to eight five five for zero five A
two five five the number text d an five seven
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seven three nine, and we'll have the sound of Michael
Bennett was he impaired during this questioning on the Hill.
You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
The FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buddhachek.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
A real winner, that's the guy's a real winner.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Badly?
Speaker 7 (18:19):
Everything's run since he's run this Department of Transportation. He's
a disaster. He was a disaster as a mayor. He
ran his city into the ground, and he's a disaster now.
He's just got a good line of bullshit. The Department
of Transportation his government agency charged with regulating civil aviation. Well,
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he runs it forty five thousand people and he's run
it right into the ground with his diversity.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Eight five two five five the number text d an
five seven seven three nine. Obviously that the usual gang
of suspects in the media claiming Trump's line about that
no evidence, et cetera, et cetera. My belief is he
has access to information we don't about what happened in
that control tower. Now, is he right about DEI being
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behind this? I don't know. We'll find out together, right,
But I do think Americans are happy to see the
president react strongly, to see the president angry because we
can't be accepting this stuff. And anybody paying attention knows
that Pete Buddha Judge wasn't chosen for that position based
on merit, right, And everybody knows that under Buddha Judge,
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our transportation systems were not the envy of the world.
So I think that's Trump's bigger and broader point. We
got to get America back to being committed to excellence
and having these critical positions filled based on merit. That
doesn't mean if there were fatal mistakes as there appeared
to be made in that control tower, that it was
because of anybody's race or gender. But it does mean
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that hiring needs to be based on merit. That that
should be a principle we can all agree to, not
on political patronage or whether somebody's a Democrat or Republican
or anything else. Let's get to the phone line. Let's
start in beautiful Larksburg, Colorado with Steve. You're on the
Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Welcome, Hi there, Dan, thank you. Listen. You were ammeron
pretty heavy on Mayor Johnston and actually admiring is in
his new quoff. I think he went out to have
a newsome him and Newsom had a spa day, is
what I think, Captain and they shared some notes back
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and forth. But I have a comment about you.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
How much time before we get to that stuff? How
much time do you think those guys spend on their hair?
And listen, they're both good looking guys. I'm not talking
disparagingly about anybody's looks. I'm the last guy to do that.
But how much time do you think they spend on
their hair? I mean, Denver has all these problems, and
Mike Johnson is a good looking guy, but you can
tell he's now gone from having a haircut to a
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hair style.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Right.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Oh yeah, how much time do you think that takes?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
That big swoop and everything else? There's probably a team
of people. How many city and employees have to have
to poof that thing every day?
Speaker 5 (21:15):
I had a thought the other day, and half of
it was a serious thought. There were there were two thoughts. Actually.
Number one, I had to go look this up because
I thought we were getting another nepotism thing like Pelosi
and Newsom. I actually thought for a moment that Johnston
was either Bennett's brother or son. There's sort of a
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there's sort of a potential, you know, a resemblance there.
But and then the other thing about Johnson. I don't
know if anybody else has noticed this. And the media
is terrible on picking headshots when they put people's pictures
in the newspaper or the you know, social media. He's
got that. How do I say it? He reminds me
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of the guy on the TV show the Young Boy,
who is a genius doctor, but you know he's he's
sort of on the spectrum and he's not all there,
but in fact a genius. That's what Johnston reminds me of.
Because his eyes don't track.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
No, no, no, no no. All I'm doing is he
is making a joke about this fancy new hairstyle. Now, hey,
I don't want to talk about somebody's eyes tracking, and
I'm happy to talk about all the I'm happy to
raise the very fair question does he use THHC. I
think that's a very fair question, giving a lot of
the weird things he's been doing and saying such a
(22:43):
no no underal police out to the county line, take
on the Feds and their invaders, talking about law enforcement.
So I think that's a fair question. I think how
much time he spends on this fancy new it's like
a boy band thing. But no, I don't want to
talk about ice tracking or anything.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
I understand. I apologize to that. No web and it's
not dhc oh that.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
No, I wouldn't go that far. But but listen, any
if you're living in a city now where that stuff
is quote legal, and you've got elected officials saying and
doing like really really strange goofy things, isn't that a
fair question? Now? Well, people have a right to know.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Into your lead about benefit Bennett being impaired on the floor,
so you can, oh, let me play that.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Sound Yeah, thanks to the reminder there and no, let
me and listen. Isn't that a fair question now from
from these elected officials from states where it's legal, and
don't voters have a right to know? I mean, isn't
it relevant in a campaign if somebody running for office
is a regular dope user. I have no idea if
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Johnston is, no idea if Bennett is. I just know
you look at some of the crazy stuff Johnston's been
doing and saying, and I think it's a fair question.
Here's Michael Bennett to day, and as you listen to
this keep in mind he apparently has this pre prepared
line of attack and bellowing, but he's not letting her
answer the question, Oh, we lost Steve okay, and that's
too bad for everybody.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
Do you believe, as the chairman of this committee believes,
as the vast majority of members of our intelligence agencies believe,
that Edward Snowden was a traitor to the United States
of America.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Senator of confirms.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
They're not moscial media. It's not a moment to propagate theories,
conspiracy theories, or or or attacks on journalism in the
United States. This is when you need to answer the
questions of the people whose votes you're asking for to
be confirmed as the chief intelligence officer of this nation.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Sorry, but if you just close your eyes, don't do that.
If you're driving, doesn't it just sound like you've been
at a party and it's like one thirty in the morning.
Isn't that how people talk?
Speaker 8 (25:14):
As my colleague said, this is not about you. It's
about the people that serve the intelligence agencies of the
United States. Is Edward snowed In a trader to the
United States of America?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Let her answer?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
That is not a hard.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Question to answer.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
When the stakes are this high?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Is it just the stakes that are high? Ryan? Doesn't
that sound like the guy at the on the stool
at the end of the bar.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Well, it's that, and he's always sounded like Counselor MACKI
from South Park.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Okay, Edward Snowden's band, Okay, Josey Gamiga, you.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Give me a trader.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
There as someone who has yes or no?
Speaker 8 (26:01):
Is Edward Snowden a trader through the United States of America.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I don't need to cast someone who has on nform.
I'm sorry. Yeah, eight five five or zero five A
two five five the number text d A N five
seven seven three nine. Let's go back to the phone lines.
How about Jim in beautiful Denver, Colorado. You're on the
Dan kapla shall welcome.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Jim, Oh Dan, how are you doing?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I am angry tonight. Thank you. These people should all
be alive. That crash never should have happened.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Yeah, I agree, it never should have happened.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Oh, Jim, I can tell the you are one of
our favorite calls ever because you disagree with me. Right,
we're up against a break. Do you want to start
on the other side? So you have plenty of time.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Hey, thank you, Dan, I sure will.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Okay, okay, yeah, let's hold Jim so he can take
his best shot eight five five or zero five A
two five five. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Kim kind enough to call off and disagrees. Let's hope
he does tonight. Welcome my friend.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Thanks for keeping me on, Dan. Yeah, I saw that
this afternoon at the same You've played a lot of
Trump part of his press conference today, but there was
another question during it. I believe it was from Caitlin Collins,
and she asked him if he had any evidence that
(27:37):
VEI was involved in this, and he did say, no,
I have no evidence, but it's just common sense. I
have a lot of that, and I think it's you
don't have any evidence, you shouldn't exploit a tragedy just
hours after it happens to take a political cheap shop.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Well, I certainly agree with you that nobody from either
side should exploit a tragedy by taking a political cheap shot.
So we can agree on that, and then the question
becomes was this a political cheap shot? Is Trump writer
wrong about this? And so we'll find the answer to
that out together.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
Yeah, but we do know he had no evidence. He
said that himself.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Okay, well, and I didn't hear that, Jim, but I'll
take your word for it. But here's the point, isn't it,
my friend? That The point is you and your life.
You and your life make a lot of critical, even
life and death decisions based on instinct, based on your
own common sense. President Trump has access to a whole
lot of information that I don't, and I think his
(28:47):
instincts have been proven true in lots of different situations
that surprised me. And so at this point, if he's
willing to get up there as president of the United
States and say this is what I believe happened, and
then it sounds like if he was asked if when
he was asked if he had direct evidence, he said no,
but it is my instinct. Well, then let's see if
(29:08):
his instinct is correct, and if it's not, then he'll
be criticized for that. He may pay a political price.
But his instincts have proven true a lot of times
when neither you or I thought they would. Right.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Yes, I'd agree with that. Yeah, so let's create political instincts.
Speaker 9 (29:27):
Well, but beyond that, I think he said, but you
know what, then he says he wants to be a unifier,
you know, and he wants to bring this country back together.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
His first reaction to something like this, a real tragedy,
is to turn, is to politicize it. It's way too early.
He didn't have to say that. He could just wait
and see what the evidence, you know, provides, And I
think that's what a responsible president to do.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Well, Jim, I disagree to this extent, Okay, on the
individual issue of his belief that the cause is going
to be DEI Hey, if he's wrong about that, then
he shouldn't have said it, and he'll be proven wrong
about that. But his broader point, I think, Jim, which
was to stand up and be angry about what happened
and say we are not going to tolerate this. To me,
(30:22):
that is real leadership. That is unifying. Americans don't want
another president from either party who just gets up and says, oh,
what a tragedy. Now let's talk about the stock market.
They want somebody to get up and say, hell, no,
we're not accepting this. Our standards are hirer in America,
and we're going to get to the bottom of this
and all hiring is going to be merit based. I
(30:43):
think that's what America wants. I think that is unifying.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
I agree with you, Dan, and it's great if all
hiring is merit based and that we've got a commitment
to excellence, as you say. But you know, when you're
not Matt Gates to be attorney general, the number one
law enforcement person in the country, and you put an
(31:09):
anti vaxer into the you know, the chief health officer
in the country, I mean, this doesn't seem to me
to be a commitment to axcellence.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Well, let me address both, Okay, fair questions start with
Gates that it blamed the left for the fact Trump
wanted to appoint Gates because when the left perverted DOJ
and weaponized it, and all of a sudden, Trump realized,
wait a second, I've got to have I've got to
have an attorney general who I know is loyal to me,
(31:41):
because that attorney general can can kill me politically. He
can end my presidency in a heartbeat by making a
false accusation against me. So that's why Trump needed a
loyalist there in that position. In terms of Kennedy, I
respectfully disagree with you. While I disagree with Kennedy on
certain things, I think he's very right on on some
(32:01):
enormous things that matter. And when you talk about oh,
anti VAX's goofy anti vax, and I'm you know, I'm
not with Kennedy on that, but but it is, it
is no less goofy and no less destructive than all
of these lefties who line up and say, oh, yeah,
that baby's nine month old, you can dismember it, right.
I mean, that's that's the goofiest damn thing scientifically we
(32:24):
have ever heard in our life. So if you want
to talk about anti science, all these democrats who line
up to say you can kill that baby at nine months,
that's as anti science as you get. It's far more
anti science than anything RFK Junior has ever said.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Well, I'd like to talk to you about abortion at
a later time.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Okay, most people would, Jim. It's great to hear from you.
Why don't you we need you hear more often?
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Well, Dan, I'll try and call more often.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Please do that. You know you are always welcome the debate. Yeah,
you're always welcome here, my friend, call soon, Thank you,
Thank you? Yeah, Ryan, we only have a couple more
minutes left. I want to get to this text. Daniel
would be screaming bloody murder if Biden started blaming integrading
people before the investigation was completed. Let's mourn the victims first.
(33:14):
I completely disagree with that last statement. Let's mourn the
victims first. And here's why. Forty years I've had the
privilege of and I still do, obviously represent people going
through the worst nightmare imaginable on the face of the earth,
having a loved one killed, and having any loved one
killed suddenly. Sometimes it's a husband or a wife, or
a child, or a brother or sister. And I will
(33:35):
tell you universally, the people who have had the loved
one wrongfully taken, they what they want is action to
make sure no other innocent person is killed that way.
They don't want to see anybody else suffer like this.
So if you ask the people going through these true,
unimaginable tragedies, no, they want immediate action to protect others.
(33:58):
They want immediate action to get to the bottom of
what wrongfully took their loved one's life. And yes they
want to mourn, and yes they need to mourn, but
they want action, and everybody understands the way life is
so fast anymore. The general public. Yeah, people may mourn
for a day or two or a week, but then
the world just moves on that the victims don't want
(34:19):
that that. The victims want others saved, They want immediate action.
So I like the fact Trump took immediate action, and
we'll find out together whether he's right or wrong about
the cause. But he made it clear we're not putting
up with mediocrity. Brian, great job, Kelly, You're the best.
Join us tomorrow on The Dan Kapla Show.
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