President Trump announces the first federal co-opting of law enforcement in Washington, DC since the advent of the Civil War - is he right to do this?
Heidi Ganahl, founder of Rocky Mountain Voice joins to discuss comments by Governor Jared Polis in a private setting telling Colorado's energy executives he wants to put them out of business.
Heidi Ganahl, founder of Rocky Mountain Voice joins to discuss comments by Governor Jared Polis in a private setting telling Colorado's energy executives he wants to put them out of business.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caples and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind,
and to subscribe, download, and listen to the show every
single day on your favorite podcast platform. So much to
talk about, obviously, with President Trump, you know, taking over
the DC Police Force.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
We'll get into the.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Particulars it causes us to focus on Colorado and how
much more we can be doing about crime here and
my fix for it, which is probably something you have
not heard anywhere else but would actually work. So we'll
get into all that. I hope you had a great weekend.
I had about the perfect weekend. Our amazing, incredible daughter,
Caroline turned twenty five, which is just mind blowing to me.
(00:44):
I mean, I can remember her in this studio like
two and three and she'd be in all the time
and on air, and I just can't believe she's twenty five.
And so we just had Amy put together this surprise
party for and it was just the coolest thing to see.
It made He's so proud as a dad because she
had all these friends show up from all these different
walks of life, and I was sitting there talking to
(01:07):
her son Joe, who's now back from his summer job.
He's in town for a couple of weeks before going
back to law school. And I'm looking at these kids,
and you know, you see all the kids from k Life,
this wonderful Christian group. And then you see all the
kids from the Babcock Acting Studio, this great group, really
creative kids. And then you see your group of nursing
friends who are brilliant and great nurses. And then just
(01:28):
go out and have a lot of fun, you see,
and of course you're do you friends, you know, Hannah
and the whole crew, pull off the surprise or boyfriend Jack.
And you see all these different friend groups. And I
turned to Joe and I said, when I was twenty five,
I didn't have friend groups. I was lucky if I
had a friend or two. So just makes you really
feel good as a parent. And then Ryan, I've seen
(01:50):
the future, my friend. I've seen the future not only
a Major League Baseball, but major league sports. And it
is the Savannah Bananas. So we were out there and
said he did you go?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
But I heard it was sold out there.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Oh my lord, Well, Harlem Globetrotters a baseball right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And this is not a sports segment. This is just
more of a pop culture see the Future deal.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
But we went, Caroline or boyfriend Jack.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I mean we went and you know, we're like twenty
minutes early, and we thought, hey, this is great, we're early.
Everybody was already in the ballpark. It was more crowded
than it was for the World Series. Believe it or not.
It was everybody's in the park. The park's rocket. It
sounds like when Matt Holliday hit that home run at
Course Field during the World Series and it or was
(02:38):
that during the NL Champion I can't remember. Anyway, it
was really loud and it's twenty minutes before game time
and then we get in there and the place was rocking.
But it was yeah, Harlem Globetrotters. It was all entertainment,
great music going all the time. They always had some
kind of act or side show. The players are good
minor league baseball players and they played real baseball. But
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then they're doing flips while they catch the ball and
all that stuff. And we were saying to ourselves walking out,
you know, all these little kids who went to that
game when they come back to a Rockies game, it
could be it could be Rockies playing the best team
in baseball. Those kids are going to be bored out
of their minds compared to the Bananas game.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So I bet major League Baseball changes.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
And I'm not saying they're gonna have a guy on stilts,
because like they had this guy, he was on stilts.
He had to be ten to fifteen feet in the air,
and he was throwing hummers, i mean right down his
strike zone. Great pitcher, he hit all that stuff. So
I'm not saying they're gonna have people on stilts pitching,
but all the action, the side show, like the Nuggets
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do a great job of having all this stuff going on,
you know, during the timeouts.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
On a visual stimulation.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
I was, however, Dan at the Monster Truck rail oh
on Saturday, and they were all kinds of tired of that.
A lot of little Chitlin's there, they loved it. Oh,
it was kind of watching them.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah, And that was kind of the coolest thing about
Bananas is that there were so many kids there. And
then like the Rockies, they I'm sure they're going to
start doing a bunch of this stuff like baby races.
You know, just between innings they bring ten babies out
and they put them down and then they have to race,
and you know, just stuff like that, but really cool
to see and just great to see everybody having so
(04:15):
much fun. So hope you had a good weekend before
we dive back into all this stuff. My self esteem
is a little bit shattered because I send one text
in my entire life to a radio show and the
host does not read it on air, and.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I'm thinking, what I'm thinking, you know, what are you
talking about?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I would expect Ryan would read MYO yours I texted
your show.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
It isn't defamation if it's true. Irish Dad, that's right,
that's right, Irish. We were talking about.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
That, you know, they were talking about name changes for
the Washington Redskins and how the Irish never complained about
fighting Irish for Notre Dame because we're proud of it. Yeah.
And I'm one of the few people who can say
I am one hundred per one hundred your sinaris. Oh yeah,
and you've been back to the old country. Oh yes,
oh yes, I have. And they wish I hadn't been,
but I had a great, great time. Three oh three
(05:07):
someone three, eight, two, five, five numbers.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Oh I was not any part of that.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I just oh no, you didn't even see right, Okay, yeah, okay,
what was I talking about?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yeah I didn't so not the renal the text ball.
It's because it came in like right as we were
signing off it.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Dad's, in all fairness, you had about a minute left
in the show.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
But but yeah, no, Old Country Ireland wanted an image
I'll never get out of my mind. A priest swearing
his head off as he sliced the ball into the
woods off the first tea at Tipperary Country Club. And
I mean, like the locals like literally covering their ears
and running good.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
But he happened to be my uncle, so it wasn't
that shocking to me.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
But Dan, is it a long way to Tipperary.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
And he would it was, but it was worth it.
But yeah, he would wear the collar and you know it. Yeah,
so great guy, great priest, still doing three masses a
week at age nine. Unpacked in the house. You know why,
as we then get off into our topics of the day,
you know why he packs the house.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
He he gets it. He gets it. Every homily, no
more than eight minutes.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You got a joke, you got a really great theological
point that you can practically apply to life.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And then he gets out of there and people love that.
All right.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
The President will of course talk about the president taking
over law enforcement in d C. And of course the
obvious question is, wow, we haven't heard that happen before yet,
because it's never happened before.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It is allowed. It is legal under the Home Rule
Act for DC.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And it makes sense that it would be legal, right
because it's also the nation's capital. But it has to
be an emergency circumstance. So of course there'll be a
battle in the courts now about whether it is an
emergency circumstance. And so yeah, this is kind of fun
and the sounds kind of fun because because we're all
living it, right, we're living it here in Colorado, crime
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is crazy high compared to where it should be, and
this is ryan. This is one of the things that
drives me crazy about DC's defense on this now, which
is that oh no, no, no, wait a second, our
crime rate's going down. Who cares if it's going down?
You know, Charlie Manson had a lower crime rate some years.
(07:25):
Charlie Manson's murder rate was half of the prior year.
Oh yeah, we'll leave Charlie.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Out there, right.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
No, No, the question is how high is it? And
so I think Trump's going to win any emergency argument.
Twenty twenty four, DC homicide rate twenty seven point three
per one hundred thousand residents, fourth highest homicide rate in
the country, nearly six times higher than New York City.
(07:56):
Also higher in Chicago. How's that even possible? And higher
than Atlanta. If Washington, d C. Was a state, where
do you think it's homicide rate would.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Rank as a state? Fifth highest? Number one?
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Number one?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Wow, yes, numero.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Uno, yeah, and so yeah, they've got a lot of
bad stuff going on. DC. Plus it's the nation's capital.
It's kind of like Colorado, right Moore? Is expected of
those two more is given. We're giving all this great
stuff in Colorado, this beautiful spot protected by our geography,
all this other stuff. We shouldn't have a fraction of
(08:34):
the crime rate we have right now. So when you
hear a Polish or Democrats saying, well, it's lower than
last year, so the blank what it never should have
been a third of what it was last year or
this year or the year before whatever. Don't fall into
that trap, you know, the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Don't don't fall into that trap, you know, think about
(08:56):
what should be. And so that's why I'd love to
see Trump's opening there.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
The president who has been historically great, and any honest
person would have to agree, historically impactful whether you agree
with him or not. But I agree with him almost
all the time. The President on the verge of making
a major mistake that he will regret. Let's hope and
pray he changes his mind. We'll do that next on
(09:23):
the Dan Caplas Show.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Good move by President Trump here, then I'll talk about
a rare bad move.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital
from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse. This is
Liberation Day in DC, and we're.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Going to take our capital back.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
We're taking it back under the authorities vested in me
as the President of the United States. I'm officially invoking
Section seventy forty of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act,
you know what that is, and placing the DC Metropolitan
Police department under direct federal control, and you'll be meeting
the people that will be directly involved with that. Very
(10:14):
good people, but they're tough and they know what's happening
and they've done it before. In addition, I'm deploying the
National Guard to help re establish law order of public
safety in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And they're going to be allowed to do their job properly.
That's the key. Just let them do their job.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
See, that's what's got to drive you crazy is we
have all these great men and women here and across
the country doing law enforcement right, and.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
In so many places they're not being allowed to do
their job.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Exhibite is Denver is Denver, And so then what happens
then you lose some of the good people in law enforcement.
It makes it harder to get more good people into
law enforcement. All it can be is bad for community.
So the only reason that law enforcement is getting handcuffed
in Denver and other lefty control places in Colorado is
(11:08):
because lefties are in charge in these places and they
have become And it's bizarre, right, It's like this weird
phase we went through that ended on November four where
all of a sudden, if you weren't willing to lie
and say that that man really is a woman. Then
you're banished from civilized society, you're canceled. All these horrible
things happen to you. And then it's like we have
(11:29):
the election and the bubble burst, and everybody wakes up
and says.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Wait a second, that was insanity. That was insanity.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Same thing here, insanity that elected officials become pro criminal
just because a bunch of the huge money, the huge
national money on the left is now pro criminal because
those are people who just want to undermine America and
rebuild it the way they want it. I mean, it's
it truly is insane. So Trump's right, you just got
(11:57):
to let law enforcement to the job. Doesn't mean every
CoP's perfect, No, every lawyer is not perfect, every everything's
not perfect, but my goodness, it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And that's the whole idea of America.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
The whole literal idea of America is unleash, unleash the
good in people, unleash the ability of people, and then
you unleash the prosperity and all these other good things.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
The Left is all about leashing, leashing, leash. The cops
put handcuffs on the cop. You know, it's Lee sh Us.
Lee sh Us put muzzles on us.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
So we can't speak things that are true, right because
they're criminalizing truth. If you're a parent and you want
to say to your little boy, you know you really
are a little boy, then at that point they want
to take your kid away from you. I mean, it's
insane stuff. You're a psychologist or a psychiatrist. You're trying
to help this kid who's going through gender confusion. You
speak the truth to the kid, they'll try to pull
(12:53):
your license. I mean, it's that kind of madness. Fortunately,
America is pushing back against it. Colorado. It's going to
be a tougher sled. Got to get there, right, I mean,
that's our job, but it's going to be a tougher sled.
The president who has been historically great both in sixteen
term and in this one already and clearly right, I
do hope and life gets busy for all of us, right, So,
(13:15):
but I do hope we all just allow ourselves a
minute now, you know, because you know how quick a
couple of years goes.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Now to appreciate.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
What we're living through. I mean, all the Americans to
ever live. Some have lived through very consequential presidencies. Many
have lived through kind of milk toast, you know, presidencies.
We are living through one of the most consequential presidencies
in American history right now, and I do hope we
savor it, not just that part, but certainly by a
(13:44):
mile the funniest president. I mean Lincoln, you know, he
was funny in a lot of ways, and they'll only
be one a B Lincoln. But Trump is hilarious. I mean,
just like off the cough hilarious.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
So so he's.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Done all these great things, but he's talking about making
I would argue, I don't know where you'd place it, Ryan,
because he's you know, he's had so many ws. He's
talking about maybe the single biggest mistake of his presidency,
either presidency, if he goes ahead and does it. He's
talking about lowering the federal classification.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Of marijuana, and.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
What a seismic mistake that will have ramifications for generations,
that will undermine America in ways that will undo a
lot of the greatness he's unleashing right now. And so
I just sit here and think, Okay, he's such a
smart person, and he's accomplished so much in so many ways,
(14:46):
and he's just getting started in this second term, right,
Why would he even be thinking of doing this.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
When when look what it does.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Look at it does all the It robs so many
kids of their future. It rubs so many kids of
their motivation, It rubs so many kids of their mental health.
It accentuates and magnifies existing mental health issues. It causes
more carnage on the roadways. Teachers can't detect it because,
of course, the diabolical industry has now come up with
(15:18):
all these ways for kids to ingest this super high
potency TNC thch so much more than Cheech and Chong
used to do. Right, and that stuff was horrible, And
now you can deceive teachers because you can ingest it
in so many other ways.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
It would be a massive mistake by Trump.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
So let's hope very smart guy cares about America.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
He's done so many good things for America.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Let's hope that he gets straight on this one and
does not follow through.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Bigger mistake than Operation Warp Speed And what turned out
to be Oh.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Yeah you think so, oh yeah, yeah yeahs and yeah that's.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
You should have a talk show. Oh a great topic.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
We have one right here, and we have it's a
great topic.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
And Capul's preview nolit Hey, there's no pride of authorship.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I just wanted to be good, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Three oh three seven one three A two five five
the number text d A N five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
No.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, which do you think is.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
A bigger mistake warp speed with the vaccine or if
the president was to declassify, I dropped the classification of dope,
which would have the effect of legalizing at the federal levels.
So no, And here's why, Ryan, Because the vaccine there
was what the experts call right, the teachers would call
social utility. Right, there was some good in that. It
(16:39):
did save some lives. I obviously wish I've talked about
it in an error. I wish I never got it.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
But it it was.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Well intended by the people who it was well intended
by not saying you didn't have some people behind it
who were not well intended.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Trump was.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
It was well intended, and there's no doubt it saved
a lot of lives. It's with vulnerable people, but I
don't think there's any doubt it also did a lot
of harm with dope.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
There is almost no social utility. Listen, adults who.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Like to, in the privacy their own home, get high
and listen to medical that's what I meant, like for
glaucoma and stuff like that. Listen that stuff I've never
had a beef with, and nobody will, even though I
understand it's not, you know, medically justified according to medical analysis,
et cetera. My point is, if you've got somebody in
true chronic pain, if you've got somebody who's who's suffering
(17:33):
from cancer, if you've got somebody who has a really
serious condition and they say marijuana makes them feel better.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I have no issue with that.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
But we all knew that medical marijuana, you know, was
just being misused by the industry as a stalking horse
for recreational and so no, the truly the people are
in true pain whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Not literally knock yourselves out with it.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
The prayers and sympathy, but the rest of it that
that's just same old drug dealing, blood money. That's just
destroying kids, destroying lives to go buy another ferrari. And
for political parties, it's to get that political money.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Trump doesn't need this political money. I can't believe for
one second, he's doing it for money.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
So let's hope.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Let's hope that the President realizes that this is a
mistake and he does not follow through on this, because
there's no doubt in my mind all the great things
he's accomplishing. You want to make America great again, you
do not make America great again by having more stoners.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
How many stoners can you have and still be a
great state? You know who asked that question, Jerry.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Brown about as far left as you can get back
in the day in California. We're talking about President Trump,
who has been historically great about to make a big mistake,
which is to drop the CLI classification for legal dope.
So let's hope he he understands how devastating this would
be for America and reverse his course on that. So
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in the meantime, let's go to the VIP line and
welcome to the show. A tremendous force for good in
Colorado in so many different ways, Heidi ganaal and of
course Rocky Mountain Voice one of those many ways and
a fascinating piece. Heidi really wanted to get you on
on this. His piece on Jared Polis promised to destroy
Kevin Kaufman's oil company and then weaponized Colorado's bureaucracy to
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do it. So, hey, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Well, thanks Dan, it's great to be here. And wow,
Jared Polus is uncovered here he's he's showing his true colors.
And this is a story of how an unelected state
commission is using obscure rules and shifting standards to target
a family owned company that's operating in Colorado for decades.
And this is a story that every Colorado and should
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care about. When you think about if they can do
it to this incredible citizen of Colorado who's done amazing
good for our state and runs a great business, they
can do it to anybody.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Tell us the story.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
So in a three part series, we reveal our Jen Schuman,
our editor who's done a great job on this reveals
how the Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission, which is
the ECMC, worked with two different towns, Dakono and Frederick,
to use a regulation called Rule two one one in
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a way that it's never been used before to actively
shut down producing wells oil wells, and even commissioners called
it the first of its kind, and originally the move
was sold as environmental protection, but the town's own filings
talk about barriers to development and difficulties encouraging growth. This
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wasn't about cleanup. It was about clearing land and the
target was kept. Kaufman and his company kp K, which
is a family rent operator, employed about three hundred Colorado's
at its peak, and according to the federal complaint that
Kevin filed, and there were other observers who saw police
do this, he told Kevin the founder, I want you
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and your industry out of business, starting with you in
front of a bunch of oil.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
And gas execution. Well what could have possibly prompted that,
because it's obviously so wrong.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Well, I think it's police's love affair with the climate
change agenda green energy, and he's been very blatantly, you know,
he's blatantly said I want this industry out of Colorado,
and he wanted to start by setting an example with
Kaufman and get this in. Since twenty twenty three, the
agency has hit the ec MC I think I got
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that right, has hit KPK with more than fifty notices
of alleged violations a month something Sometimes for nothing more
than a paperwork timing, while they gave Chevron a pass
after a blowout that injured a worker in displaced residents.
So this was a clear message to smaller operators. I
don't even think about it. And we can control the
big guys, but we can't control all of you.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Wow, Heid, you can all with us. And again you
can read this in Rocky Mountain voice. So and obviously
everybody listening understands it. It's just fundamentally wrong to do
this to target this individual operator, let alone target this
industry and try to obliterate it. But where does it
go from here for Kevin Kaufman.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Yeah, my understanding from Jen is that Kevin and his
firm have filed lawsuits and or a complaint. I'm not
you're the attorney, you're probably clear on what that is.
But Jared Polus is not happy about this, and I
understand he's pretty upset about this coming to light. But ultimately,
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this isn't just about oil and gas, right, It's about
whether Colorado is a state where the rules are applied
evenly or the government decides who wins and loses. And
we know he's done this to the egg industry, with
the wolves like so many other ways, and his bureaucracy
is kind of his hammer, right, and that's why we
talk so much about the negative aspects of building the
(23:19):
government into a bigger, stronger, powerful weapon for him, which
he's done a great job of. I think it's grown
by forty percent since he took office.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah, you know, it's interesting how his animus and the
animosity of the left, you know, plays out in these
horrible ways. I don't know the particular of this case,
but you see a play out through Police's Civil Rights
Commission right where they go after Jack Phillips and just
try to destroy him and you know, for practicing his faith.
Even though the Supreme Court slaps him down repeatedly, there
(23:51):
is just this animosity the police doesn't seem to hesitate
to act on. And so I'm glad to hear that
in this case, somebody's in court and holding him to account.
But obviously there are an awful lot of victims who
can't afford to do that. Jack Phillips was fortunate to
have alliance defending freedom and some contributions to them, But
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think about, well, you know this, Heidi, how many people
he in the left can just steamroll because they can't
afford to fight.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
I mean that plays out in our politics right We
don't have enough money to go up against the four
billionaires in their machine.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
And it's been one of the reasons.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
That we've lost Colorado over the last couple decades. And
our donors are tired on the conservative side. They're tired
of not being able to fight with the same resources
or have the people stand up and fight with them.
And so we're at a weird juncture right now, and we've
got to get some small wins to get some confidence
back with the grassroots, with various candidates, with the donors
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in Colorado, and we've got to send a signal to
the rest of the country that this is coming for
you if you don't help us here in Colorado, like
we need some help here. And I I've been meeting
with folks nationally to try and get the word out
like this is a blueprint. It's a blueprint for other states.
And if you don't pay attention, it's going to hit
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you before you know it, and you're going to say, oh,
that's what they did in Colorado. Should have paid attention
more when they told us.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
And I'm sure glad you're out there, you know, spreading
that word. Do you think people get it or just
could never see it happening where they.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Are now, they're all so confident that this is just
a Colorado thing, or it's just because of all the
Californians moved in, it's because of pot, it's because of this,
or that, it's because of the four billionaires. You know,
it's a perfect storm in a lot of ways. But
politics swings, and if we can start to expose stories
like this and just keep hitting them and exposing how
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bad things have gotten in Colorado, I call it frogs
and boiling water. Like over the last two decades, the
temperature just kept going up and up and up, and
it's got to get to a point where it's boiling
where people are like, okay enough.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
And off enough.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
I will work it.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
I don't know if we're there yet or not. What
do you think?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
And the reason why is to your point, I think
along the way the left, because most of the media,
I think is in lockstep with it. If nothing else
for access, you know that the left is able to
I think convince a lot of people know this is
just a new normal. So You're just going to have
to get used to X, You're gonna have to get
used to Y. Yeah, this is just a new normal.
And then when you see, for example, do Better Denver,
(26:25):
you know, out there just exposing the truth about the
failures of the left. Then you get the biggest newspaper
in the state, you know, going after these these three women,
just you know, private people contributing to do Better Denver.
So just the power, right that, the power of the
machine to convince people, hey, there's nothing you can do
about it.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
This is going to be the new normal.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Yeah, Dan, And that's I think what we're up against.
And hopefully how Rocky Mountain Boys can help is you know,
we've got forty to fifty citizen journalists around the state
that right for us consistently, that are willing to be
our voice on the ground. It's scary. One of our
contributors like he's afraid for his job, but he writes
beautifully and has helped us build us a series about
(27:12):
the COVID response. And you know, we can't let that die.
We've got to keep it alive. We've got to hold
them accountable. So we have what's called the COVID chronicles
which come out every couple of weeks and chronicle what
happened exactly during this time of COVID right at this
point of the year. That's a really interesting series too,
that we're going to start highlighting more. But we've just
got to start telling these stories and sooner or later,
(27:35):
hopefully they'll break through the liberal media and with you know,
with shocking clarity.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yeah, and on had you got all our special guest
Rocky Mountain Voice.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Please follow it. If you don't already, please follow it.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
If you do, get some friends too, because I think
you're operating on two levels. On the logical level, which is,
you're right, we need these small wins, and they're not
small to the people involved, but we need every win
we can get, you know, just to keep making that
progress on the road to that bigger victory. And then
the other part of it's biblical. I think we have
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an obligation to do what we can to fight back
against wrong.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
And this is the epitome of wrong.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Yeah, it is the epitome of wrong. And I don't
know if you saw what's happening to Drip Coffee. They're
getting attacked. We've got another restaurant who is hosting a
Republican event. They've hosted lots of Democrat events, and I'm
not going to say their name because they're under attack
from the left. We're trying to help them navigate that.
It's really really ugly right now, and I think the
left is so frustrated that Trump is having these successes
(28:39):
and making a difference in doing the right things. They
don't know how to fight back, and so they're just getting.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
More and more mean right, And the meanness that you
encounter doing this great service through rocomound voice that the
meanness and intimidation do better Denver encounters, tells me they're
really starting to worry. They're really starting to worry. The
wait a second, Maybe there's a point at which we
can't screw this state up any worse or people.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Will start voting against us.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
So I do think they're starting to worry, just anecdotally,
and our job is to make them worry more and
then beat them.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
That's true, Dan, that's true, And I think you know
you've got a lot of work to do, but it's doable.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Well, thanks for all you're doing, because you walk the talk.
You know, a lot of us talk. You go out
and you act so Thank you, Heidi Ganal and hope
everybody follows Rocky Mountain voice.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Thanks Dan, have a great afternoon.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You take care of that is Heidi Ganal. Hey when
we come back, another reason to be hopeful that you
probably haven't heard yet anywhere and you're going to find exciting.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
It's got a public safety crisis. Deem is directly from
the abject failures of the city's local leadership. The radical
left city Council adopted no cash bail. By the way,
every place in the country where you have no cash
bail is a disaster. That's what started the problem in
New York, and they don't change it. They don't want
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to change it. That's what started it in Chicago. I mean,
bad politicians started and bad leadership started it. But that
was the one thing that's central. No cash bail. Somebody
murders somebody and they're out or no cash bail before
the day is out. We're going to end that in Chicago.
We're going to change the statute. I spoke with Pam
(30:31):
and Todd and everybody.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
We're going to change the statue, and I'm going.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
To have to get the Republicans to vote because the
Democrats are weak on crime totally.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
We can Oh, man, that's generous. I mean, look at
Colorado right now, where the left that controls Colorado, and
I think, personally, my belief is many many of the
people on the left to control Colorado don't even live
here when you look at all the big out of
state donors. That's the only reason we have this scourge
of legalized dope is the people of Colorado had turned
it down twice. Then the left got to get they
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came up with their plan. They flooded the state with
largely out of state money, they buried the opposition, and
they got legal dope through and so a lot of
kids have paid with it, paid for it, and a
lot of adults in so many ways since then. But yeah, no, Trump,
I think is so very wise at this point to
take over law enforcement in DC. Now, that's only a
(31:23):
thirty day deal. If he wants to go beyond that,
he's got to go to Congress. So it's not like
he can do this forever. But I'm glad, if nothing else,
he's making the point and making the statement that we
should not get used to this level of crime as
a new normal. That's what the left wants, right, that
they want us to get used to that level of
crime as the new normal.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
And my prior point.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
That this out of state left money as some of
the Colorado left, he's they are actively pro criminal, actively
pro criminal. How else do you end up with the
law so insane and suicidal and self destructive as to
say that, hey, you could have this this horrific violent criminal,
and if that person is so nuts, if they are
(32:05):
so mentally incompetent that they can't stand trial and you're
never gonna be able.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
To fix them, you gotta let them out.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Ooh, in the right mind would do that unless they
are trying to undermine society. That's what the left. I'm
not saying democrats, that's what the left is trying to do.
They're trying to undermine this society so they can rebuild
it the way they want it. Big state, little citizen,
everybody dependent on government, and just undermining our fundamental institutions,
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creating this chaos, undermining the traditional family.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
That's all part of this.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
And if you're going to sit down and you're going
to map out. Let's say you decided to become evil
and you wanted to map out how do I undermine
the greatest nation this world has ever known. Well, you
would sit down and you start with all the stuff
the left is doing right now, including being pro criminal,
including legal drugs. Right because, as Jerry Brown, the lefty
(33:02):
governor of California said, has he resisted that, how many
stoners can you have and still be a great state. Yeah,
let's go to the phone lines, and I do want
to deliver on that tea. Something very positive may be
happening right now that's probably not on your radar at all,
and I want to make sure you have a heads
up so you can follow it and cheer if it
does happen.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Lynn, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 8 (33:24):
Hi again. On two points, I really agree with Trump
doing this in DC, and I wish he could do
it in every liberal state to get it back on track,
because if our leaders don't, including Colorado, don't try to
keep us safe, then I wish somebody would. So I
agree with that. The other thing is I'm in complete
agreement with you when you spoke about the pot issue,
because I don't want a reason to be disappointed in Trump,
(33:47):
and this would be my first in all the years
i've supported him, a disappointment. I hope he gets it right.
It was a gateway drug in the sixties that led
to bad things, and it's really bad now for kids.
They've proven it. I've listened to your show a lot
about it, but other statistics that I've read and it's
not good. So I really hope he switches gears on
that well.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
And Lynn, by the way, if you're listening, how old
do you think Lynn is? And I only mention this
because she brought it up on the show the other day.
If you're listening to that voice Ryan, how old do
you think Lynn is?
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Thirty five?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Right?
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Right?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
And how old are you?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Lynn? Only because you mentioned it, that is you should
go out and do voice lessons.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yeah, but just I think a lot of people would
like to sound like that. And we'll get back to
that topic as well. President Trump talking about declassifying or
at least dropping the classification at the federal level of dope,
which would do enormous harm to this country. But I
wanted to give your heads up on this. We'll continue
(34:48):
to follow it. This is the Wall Street Journal, version
of the story. Two big TV broadcasters in advanced deal talks.
So here's the deal. Next Star is talking about buying Tegna.
Why should any of us care who owns KUSA and
Denver Tegna? And if Nextstar buys Tegna, it can't get worse,
(35:11):
and it likely gets a lot better because Nextstar owns
News Nation and KUSA, and there's so many great professionals there.
But KUSA, in my constitutionally protected opinion, has just become
an extension of the Colorado Democratic Party. And so I
would love to see Nextstar takeover Tegna. But we'll keep
(35:33):
an eye on that much more ahead. You're on the
Dan Kapla Show.
This is Dan Caples and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind,
and to subscribe, download, and listen to the show every
single day on your favorite podcast platform. So much to
talk about, obviously, with President Trump, you know, taking over
the DC Police Force.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
We'll get into the.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Particulars it causes us to focus on Colorado and how
much more we can be doing about crime here and
my fix for it, which is probably something you have
not heard anywhere else but would actually work. So we'll
get into all that. I hope you had a great weekend.
I had about the perfect weekend. Our amazing, incredible daughter,
Caroline turned twenty five, which is just mind blowing to me.
(00:44):
I mean, I can remember her in this studio like
two and three and she'd be in all the time
and on air, and I just can't believe she's twenty five.
And so we just had Amy put together this surprise
party for and it was just the coolest thing to see.
It made He's so proud as a dad because she
had all these friends show up from all these different
walks of life, and I was sitting there talking to
(01:07):
her son Joe, who's now back from his summer job.
He's in town for a couple of weeks before going
back to law school. And I'm looking at these kids,
and you know, you see all the kids from k Life,
this wonderful Christian group. And then you see all the
kids from the Babcock Acting Studio, this great group, really
creative kids. And then you see your group of nursing
friends who are brilliant and great nurses. And then just
(01:28):
go out and have a lot of fun, you see,
and of course you're do you friends, you know, Hannah
and the whole crew, pull off the surprise or boyfriend Jack.
And you see all these different friend groups. And I
turned to Joe and I said, when I was twenty five,
I didn't have friend groups. I was lucky if I
had a friend or two. So just makes you really
feel good as a parent. And then Ryan, I've seen
(01:50):
the future, my friend. I've seen the future not only
a Major League Baseball, but major league sports. And it
is the Savannah Bananas. So we were out there and
said he did you go?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
But I heard it was sold out there.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Oh my lord, Well, Harlem Globetrotters a baseball right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And this is not a sports segment. This is just
more of a pop culture see the Future deal.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
But we went, Caroline or boyfriend Jack.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I mean we went and you know, we're like twenty
minutes early, and we thought, hey, this is great, we're early.
Everybody was already in the ballpark. It was more crowded
than it was for the World Series. Believe it or not.
It was everybody's in the park. The park's rocket. It
sounds like when Matt Holliday hit that home run at
Course Field during the World Series and it or was
(02:38):
that during the NL Champion I can't remember. Anyway, it
was really loud and it's twenty minutes before game time
and then we get in there and the place was rocking.
But it was yeah, Harlem Globetrotters. It was all entertainment,
great music going all the time. They always had some
kind of act or side show. The players are good
minor league baseball players and they played real baseball. But
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then they're doing flips while they catch the ball and
all that stuff. And we were saying to ourselves walking out,
you know, all these little kids who went to that
game when they come back to a Rockies game, it
could be it could be Rockies playing the best team
in baseball. Those kids are going to be bored out
of their minds compared to the Bananas game.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So I bet major League Baseball changes.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
And I'm not saying they're gonna have a guy on stilts,
because like they had this guy, he was on stilts.
He had to be ten to fifteen feet in the air,
and he was throwing hummers, i mean right down his
strike zone. Great pitcher, he hit all that stuff. So
I'm not saying they're gonna have people on stilts pitching,
but all the action, the side show, like the Nuggets
(03:39):
do a great job of having all this stuff going on,
you know, during the timeouts.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
On a visual stimulation.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
I was, however, Dan at the Monster Truck rail oh
on Saturday, and they were all kinds of tired of that.
A lot of little Chitlin's there, they loved it. Oh,
it was kind of watching them.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah, And that was kind of the coolest thing about
Bananas is that there were so many kids there. And
then like the Rockies, they I'm sure they're going to
start doing a bunch of this stuff like baby races.
You know, just between innings they bring ten babies out
and they put them down and then they have to race,
and you know, just stuff like that, but really cool
to see and just great to see everybody having so
(04:15):
much fun. So hope you had a good weekend before
we dive back into all this stuff. My self esteem
is a little bit shattered because I send one text
in my entire life to a radio show and the
host does not read it on air, and.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I'm thinking, what I'm thinking, you know, what are you
talking about?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I would expect Ryan would read MYO yours I texted
your show.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
It isn't defamation if it's true. Irish Dad, that's right,
that's right, Irish. We were talking about.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
That, you know, they were talking about name changes for
the Washington Redskins and how the Irish never complained about
fighting Irish for Notre Dame because we're proud of it. Yeah.
And I'm one of the few people who can say
I am one hundred per one hundred your sinaris. Oh yeah,
and you've been back to the old country. Oh yes,
oh yes, I have. And they wish I hadn't been,
but I had a great, great time. Three oh three
(05:07):
someone three, eight, two, five, five numbers.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Oh I was not any part of that.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I just oh no, you didn't even see right, Okay, yeah, okay,
what was I talking about?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yeah I didn't so not the renal the text ball.
It's because it came in like right as we were
signing off it.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Dad's, in all fairness, you had about a minute left
in the show.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
But but yeah, no, Old Country Ireland wanted an image
I'll never get out of my mind. A priest swearing
his head off as he sliced the ball into the
woods off the first tea at Tipperary Country Club. And
I mean, like the locals like literally covering their ears
and running good.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
But he happened to be my uncle, so it wasn't
that shocking to me.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
But Dan, is it a long way to Tipperary.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
And he would it was, but it was worth it.
But yeah, he would wear the collar and you know it. Yeah,
so great guy, great priest, still doing three masses a
week at age nine. Unpacked in the house. You know why,
as we then get off into our topics of the day,
you know why he packs the house.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
He he gets it. He gets it. Every homily, no
more than eight minutes.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You got a joke, you got a really great theological
point that you can practically apply to life.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And then he gets out of there and people love that.
All right.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
The President will of course talk about the president taking
over law enforcement in d C. And of course the
obvious question is, wow, we haven't heard that happen before yet,
because it's never happened before.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It is allowed. It is legal under the Home Rule
Act for DC.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And it makes sense that it would be legal, right
because it's also the nation's capital. But it has to
be an emergency circumstance. So of course there'll be a
battle in the courts now about whether it is an
emergency circumstance. And so yeah, this is kind of fun
and the sounds kind of fun because because we're all
living it, right, we're living it here in Colorado, crime
(07:04):
is crazy high compared to where it should be, and
this is ryan. This is one of the things that
drives me crazy about DC's defense on this now, which
is that oh no, no, no, wait a second, our
crime rate's going down. Who cares if it's going down?
You know, Charlie Manson had a lower crime rate some years.
(07:25):
Charlie Manson's murder rate was half of the prior year.
Oh yeah, we'll leave Charlie.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Out there, right.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
No, No, the question is how high is it? And
so I think Trump's going to win any emergency argument.
Twenty twenty four, DC homicide rate twenty seven point three
per one hundred thousand residents, fourth highest homicide rate in
the country, nearly six times higher than New York City.
(07:56):
Also higher in Chicago. How's that even possible? And higher
than Atlanta. If Washington, d C. Was a state, where
do you think it's homicide rate would.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Rank as a state? Fifth highest? Number one?
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Number one?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Wow, yes, numero.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Uno, yeah, and so yeah, they've got a lot of
bad stuff going on. DC. Plus it's the nation's capital.
It's kind of like Colorado, right Moore? Is expected of
those two more is given. We're giving all this great
stuff in Colorado, this beautiful spot protected by our geography,
all this other stuff. We shouldn't have a fraction of
(08:34):
the crime rate we have right now. So when you
hear a Polish or Democrats saying, well, it's lower than
last year, so the blank what it never should have
been a third of what it was last year or
this year or the year before whatever. Don't fall into
that trap, you know, the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Don't don't fall into that trap, you know, think about
(08:56):
what should be. And so that's why I'd love to
see Trump's opening there.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
The president who has been historically great, and any honest
person would have to agree, historically impactful whether you agree
with him or not. But I agree with him almost
all the time. The President on the verge of making
a major mistake that he will regret. Let's hope and
pray he changes his mind. We'll do that next on
(09:23):
the Dan Caplas Show.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Good move by President Trump here, then I'll talk about
a rare bad move.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital
from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse. This is
Liberation Day in DC, and we're.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Going to take our capital back.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
We're taking it back under the authorities vested in me
as the President of the United States. I'm officially invoking
Section seventy forty of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act,
you know what that is, and placing the DC Metropolitan
Police department under direct federal control, and you'll be meeting
the people that will be directly involved with that. Very
(10:14):
good people, but they're tough and they know what's happening
and they've done it before. In addition, I'm deploying the
National Guard to help re establish law order of public
safety in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And they're going to be allowed to do their job properly.
That's the key. Just let them do their job.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
See, that's what's got to drive you crazy is we
have all these great men and women here and across
the country doing law enforcement right, and.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
In so many places they're not being allowed to do
their job.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Exhibite is Denver is Denver, And so then what happens
then you lose some of the good people in law enforcement.
It makes it harder to get more good people into
law enforcement. All it can be is bad for community.
So the only reason that law enforcement is getting handcuffed
in Denver and other lefty control places in Colorado is
(11:08):
because lefties are in charge in these places and they
have become And it's bizarre, right, It's like this weird
phase we went through that ended on November four where
all of a sudden, if you weren't willing to lie
and say that that man really is a woman. Then
you're banished from civilized society, you're canceled. All these horrible
things happen to you. And then it's like we have
(11:29):
the election and the bubble burst, and everybody wakes up
and says.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Wait a second, that was insanity. That was insanity.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Same thing here, insanity that elected officials become pro criminal
just because a bunch of the huge money, the huge
national money on the left is now pro criminal because
those are people who just want to undermine America and
rebuild it the way they want it. I mean, it's
it truly is insane. So Trump's right, you just got
(11:57):
to let law enforcement to the job. Doesn't mean every
CoP's perfect, No, every lawyer is not perfect, every everything's
not perfect, but my goodness, it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And that's the whole idea of America.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
The whole literal idea of America is unleash, unleash the
good in people, unleash the ability of people, and then
you unleash the prosperity and all these other good things.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
The Left is all about leashing, leashing, leash. The cops
put handcuffs on the cop. You know, it's Lee sh Us.
Lee sh Us put muzzles on us.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
So we can't speak things that are true, right because
they're criminalizing truth. If you're a parent and you want
to say to your little boy, you know you really
are a little boy, then at that point they want
to take your kid away from you. I mean, it's
insane stuff. You're a psychologist or a psychiatrist. You're trying
to help this kid who's going through gender confusion. You
speak the truth to the kid, they'll try to pull
(12:53):
your license. I mean, it's that kind of madness. Fortunately,
America is pushing back against it. Colorado. It's going to
be a tougher sled. Got to get there, right, I mean,
that's our job, but it's going to be a tougher sled.
The president who has been historically great both in sixteen
term and in this one already and clearly right, I
do hope and life gets busy for all of us, right, So,
(13:15):
but I do hope we all just allow ourselves a
minute now, you know, because you know how quick a
couple of years goes.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Now to appreciate.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
What we're living through. I mean, all the Americans to
ever live. Some have lived through very consequential presidencies. Many
have lived through kind of milk toast, you know, presidencies.
We are living through one of the most consequential presidencies
in American history right now, and I do hope we
savor it, not just that part, but certainly by a
(13:44):
mile the funniest president. I mean Lincoln, you know, he
was funny in a lot of ways, and they'll only
be one a B Lincoln. But Trump is hilarious. I mean,
just like off the cough hilarious.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
So so he's.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Done all these great things, but he's talking about making
I would argue, I don't know where you'd place it, Ryan,
because he's you know, he's had so many ws. He's
talking about maybe the single biggest mistake of his presidency,
either presidency, if he goes ahead and does it. He's
talking about lowering the federal classification.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Of marijuana, and.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
What a seismic mistake that will have ramifications for generations,
that will undermine America in ways that will undo a
lot of the greatness he's unleashing right now. And so
I just sit here and think, Okay, he's such a
smart person, and he's accomplished so much in so many ways,
(14:46):
and he's just getting started in this second term, right,
Why would he even be thinking of doing this.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
When when look what it does.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Look at it does all the It robs so many
kids of their future. It rubs so many kids of
their motivation, It rubs so many kids of their mental health.
It accentuates and magnifies existing mental health issues. It causes
more carnage on the roadways. Teachers can't detect it because,
of course, the diabolical industry has now come up with
(15:18):
all these ways for kids to ingest this super high
potency TNC thch so much more than Cheech and Chong
used to do. Right, and that stuff was horrible, And
now you can deceive teachers because you can ingest it
in so many other ways.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
It would be a massive mistake by Trump.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
So let's hope very smart guy cares about America.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
He's done so many good things for America.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Let's hope that he gets straight on this one and
does not follow through.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Bigger mistake than Operation Warp Speed And what turned out
to be Oh.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Yeah you think so, oh yeah, yeah yeahs and yeah that's.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
You should have a talk show. Oh a great topic.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
We have one right here, and we have it's a
great topic.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
And Capul's preview nolit Hey, there's no pride of authorship.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I just wanted to be good, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Three oh three seven one three A two five five
the number text d A N five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
No.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, which do you think is.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
A bigger mistake warp speed with the vaccine or if
the president was to declassify, I dropped the classification of dope,
which would have the effect of legalizing at the federal levels.
So no, And here's why, Ryan, Because the vaccine there
was what the experts call right, the teachers would call
social utility. Right, there was some good in that. It
(16:39):
did save some lives. I obviously wish I've talked about
it in an error. I wish I never got it.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
But it it was.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Well intended by the people who it was well intended
by not saying you didn't have some people behind it
who were not well intended.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Trump was.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
It was well intended, and there's no doubt it saved
a lot of lives. It's with vulnerable people, but I
don't think there's any doubt it also did a lot
of harm with dope.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
There is almost no social utility. Listen, adults who.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Like to, in the privacy their own home, get high
and listen to medical that's what I meant, like for
glaucoma and stuff like that. Listen that stuff I've never
had a beef with, and nobody will, even though I
understand it's not, you know, medically justified according to medical analysis,
et cetera. My point is, if you've got somebody in
true chronic pain, if you've got somebody who's who's suffering
(17:33):
from cancer, if you've got somebody who has a really
serious condition and they say marijuana makes them feel better.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I have no issue with that.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
But we all knew that medical marijuana, you know, was
just being misused by the industry as a stalking horse
for recreational and so no, the truly the people are
in true pain whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Not literally knock yourselves out with it.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
The prayers and sympathy, but the rest of it that
that's just same old drug dealing, blood money. That's just
destroying kids, destroying lives to go buy another ferrari. And
for political parties, it's to get that political money.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Trump doesn't need this political money. I can't believe for
one second, he's doing it for money.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
So let's hope.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Let's hope that the President realizes that this is a
mistake and he does not follow through on this, because
there's no doubt in my mind all the great things
he's accomplishing. You want to make America great again, you
do not make America great again by having more stoners.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
How many stoners can you have and still be a
great state? You know who asked that question, Jerry.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Brown about as far left as you can get back
in the day in California. We're talking about President Trump,
who has been historically great about to make a big mistake,
which is to drop the CLI classification for legal dope.
So let's hope he he understands how devastating this would
be for America and reverse his course on that. So
(19:10):
in the meantime, let's go to the VIP line and
welcome to the show. A tremendous force for good in
Colorado in so many different ways, Heidi ganaal and of
course Rocky Mountain Voice one of those many ways and
a fascinating piece. Heidi really wanted to get you on
on this. His piece on Jared Polis promised to destroy
Kevin Kaufman's oil company and then weaponized Colorado's bureaucracy to
(19:34):
do it. So, hey, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Well, thanks Dan, it's great to be here. And wow,
Jared Polus is uncovered here he's he's showing his true colors.
And this is a story of how an unelected state
commission is using obscure rules and shifting standards to target
a family owned company that's operating in Colorado for decades.
And this is a story that every Colorado and should
(20:00):
care about. When you think about if they can do
it to this incredible citizen of Colorado who's done amazing
good for our state and runs a great business, they
can do it to anybody.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Tell us the story.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
So in a three part series, we reveal our Jen Schuman,
our editor who's done a great job on this reveals
how the Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission, which is
the ECMC, worked with two different towns, Dakono and Frederick,
to use a regulation called Rule two one one in
(20:35):
a way that it's never been used before to actively
shut down producing wells oil wells, and even commissioners called
it the first of its kind, and originally the move
was sold as environmental protection, but the town's own filings
talk about barriers to development and difficulties encouraging growth. This
(20:55):
wasn't about cleanup. It was about clearing land and the
target was kept. Kaufman and his company kp K, which
is a family rent operator, employed about three hundred Colorado's
at its peak, and according to the federal complaint that
Kevin filed, and there were other observers who saw police
do this, he told Kevin the founder, I want you
(21:18):
and your industry out of business, starting with you in
front of a bunch of oil.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
And gas execution. Well what could have possibly prompted that,
because it's obviously so wrong.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Well, I think it's police's love affair with the climate
change agenda green energy, and he's been very blatantly, you know,
he's blatantly said I want this industry out of Colorado,
and he wanted to start by setting an example with
Kaufman and get this in. Since twenty twenty three, the
agency has hit the ec MC I think I got
(21:54):
that right, has hit KPK with more than fifty notices
of alleged violations a month something Sometimes for nothing more
than a paperwork timing, while they gave Chevron a pass
after a blowout that injured a worker in displaced residents.
So this was a clear message to smaller operators. I
don't even think about it. And we can control the
big guys, but we can't control all of you.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Wow, Heid, you can all with us. And again you
can read this in Rocky Mountain voice. So and obviously
everybody listening understands it. It's just fundamentally wrong to do
this to target this individual operator, let alone target this
industry and try to obliterate it. But where does it
go from here for Kevin Kaufman.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Yeah, my understanding from Jen is that Kevin and his
firm have filed lawsuits and or a complaint. I'm not
you're the attorney, you're probably clear on what that is.
But Jared Polus is not happy about this, and I
understand he's pretty upset about this coming to light. But ultimately,
(22:57):
this isn't just about oil and gas, right, It's about
whether Colorado is a state where the rules are applied
evenly or the government decides who wins and loses. And
we know he's done this to the egg industry, with
the wolves like so many other ways, and his bureaucracy
is kind of his hammer, right, and that's why we
talk so much about the negative aspects of building the
(23:19):
government into a bigger, stronger, powerful weapon for him, which
he's done a great job of. I think it's grown
by forty percent since he took office.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah, you know, it's interesting how his animus and the
animosity of the left, you know, plays out in these
horrible ways. I don't know the particular of this case,
but you see a play out through Police's Civil Rights
Commission right where they go after Jack Phillips and just
try to destroy him and you know, for practicing his faith.
Even though the Supreme Court slaps him down repeatedly, there
(23:51):
is just this animosity the police doesn't seem to hesitate
to act on. And so I'm glad to hear that
in this case, somebody's in court and holding him to account.
But obviously there are an awful lot of victims who
can't afford to do that. Jack Phillips was fortunate to
have alliance defending freedom and some contributions to them, But
(24:11):
think about, well, you know this, Heidi, how many people
he in the left can just steamroll because they can't
afford to fight.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
I mean that plays out in our politics right We
don't have enough money to go up against the four
billionaires in their machine.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
And it's been one of the reasons.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
That we've lost Colorado over the last couple decades. And
our donors are tired on the conservative side. They're tired
of not being able to fight with the same resources
or have the people stand up and fight with them.
And so we're at a weird juncture right now, and we've
got to get some small wins to get some confidence
back with the grassroots, with various candidates, with the donors
(24:50):
in Colorado, and we've got to send a signal to
the rest of the country that this is coming for
you if you don't help us here in Colorado, like
we need some help here. And I I've been meeting
with folks nationally to try and get the word out
like this is a blueprint. It's a blueprint for other states.
And if you don't pay attention, it's going to hit
(25:10):
you before you know it, and you're going to say, oh,
that's what they did in Colorado. Should have paid attention
more when they told us.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
And I'm sure glad you're out there, you know, spreading
that word. Do you think people get it or just
could never see it happening where they.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Are now, they're all so confident that this is just
a Colorado thing, or it's just because of all the
Californians moved in, it's because of pot, it's because of this,
or that, it's because of the four billionaires. You know,
it's a perfect storm in a lot of ways. But
politics swings, and if we can start to expose stories
like this and just keep hitting them and exposing how
(25:48):
bad things have gotten in Colorado, I call it frogs
and boiling water. Like over the last two decades, the
temperature just kept going up and up and up, and
it's got to get to a point where it's boiling
where people are like, okay enough.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
And off enough.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
I will work it.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
I don't know if we're there yet or not. What
do you think?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
And the reason why is to your point, I think
along the way the left, because most of the media,
I think is in lockstep with it. If nothing else
for access, you know that the left is able to
I think convince a lot of people know this is
just a new normal. So You're just going to have
to get used to X, You're gonna have to get
used to Y. Yeah, this is just a new normal.
And then when you see, for example, do Better Denver,
(26:25):
you know, out there just exposing the truth about the
failures of the left. Then you get the biggest newspaper
in the state, you know, going after these these three women,
just you know, private people contributing to do Better Denver.
So just the power, right that, the power of the
machine to convince people, hey, there's nothing you can do
about it.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
This is going to be the new normal.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Yeah, Dan, And that's I think what we're up against.
And hopefully how Rocky Mountain Boys can help is you know,
we've got forty to fifty citizen journalists around the state
that right for us consistently, that are willing to be
our voice on the ground. It's scary. One of our
contributors like he's afraid for his job, but he writes
beautifully and has helped us build us a series about
(27:12):
the COVID response. And you know, we can't let that die.
We've got to keep it alive. We've got to hold
them accountable. So we have what's called the COVID chronicles
which come out every couple of weeks and chronicle what
happened exactly during this time of COVID right at this
point of the year. That's a really interesting series too,
that we're going to start highlighting more. But we've just
got to start telling these stories and sooner or later,
(27:35):
hopefully they'll break through the liberal media and with you know,
with shocking clarity.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yeah, and on had you got all our special guest
Rocky Mountain Voice.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Please follow it. If you don't already, please follow it.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
If you do, get some friends too, because I think
you're operating on two levels. On the logical level, which is,
you're right, we need these small wins, and they're not
small to the people involved, but we need every win
we can get, you know, just to keep making that
progress on the road to that bigger victory. And then
the other part of it's biblical. I think we have
(28:09):
an obligation to do what we can to fight back
against wrong.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
And this is the epitome of wrong.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Yeah, it is the epitome of wrong. And I don't
know if you saw what's happening to Drip Coffee. They're
getting attacked. We've got another restaurant who is hosting a
Republican event. They've hosted lots of Democrat events, and I'm
not going to say their name because they're under attack
from the left. We're trying to help them navigate that.
It's really really ugly right now, and I think the
left is so frustrated that Trump is having these successes
(28:39):
and making a difference in doing the right things. They
don't know how to fight back, and so they're just getting.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
More and more mean right, And the meanness that you
encounter doing this great service through rocomound voice that the
meanness and intimidation do better Denver encounters, tells me they're
really starting to worry. They're really starting to worry. The
wait a second, Maybe there's a point at which we
can't screw this state up any worse or people.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Will start voting against us.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
So I do think they're starting to worry, just anecdotally,
and our job is to make them worry more and
then beat them.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
That's true, Dan, that's true, And I think you know
you've got a lot of work to do, but it's doable.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Well, thanks for all you're doing, because you walk the talk.
You know, a lot of us talk. You go out
and you act so Thank you, Heidi Ganal and hope
everybody follows Rocky Mountain voice.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Thanks Dan, have a great afternoon.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You take care of that is Heidi Ganal. Hey when
we come back, another reason to be hopeful that you
probably haven't heard yet anywhere and you're going to find exciting.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
It's got a public safety crisis. Deem is directly from
the abject failures of the city's local leadership. The radical
left city Council adopted no cash bail. By the way,
every place in the country where you have no cash
bail is a disaster. That's what started the problem in
New York, and they don't change it. They don't want
(30:08):
to change it. That's what started it in Chicago. I mean,
bad politicians started and bad leadership started it. But that
was the one thing that's central. No cash bail. Somebody
murders somebody and they're out or no cash bail before
the day is out. We're going to end that in Chicago.
We're going to change the statute. I spoke with Pam
(30:31):
and Todd and everybody.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
We're going to change the statue, and I'm going.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
To have to get the Republicans to vote because the
Democrats are weak on crime totally.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
We can Oh, man, that's generous. I mean, look at
Colorado right now, where the left that controls Colorado, and
I think, personally, my belief is many many of the
people on the left to control Colorado don't even live
here when you look at all the big out of
state donors. That's the only reason we have this scourge
of legalized dope is the people of Colorado had turned
it down twice. Then the left got to get they
(31:00):
came up with their plan. They flooded the state with
largely out of state money, they buried the opposition, and
they got legal dope through and so a lot of
kids have paid with it, paid for it, and a
lot of adults in so many ways since then. But yeah, no, Trump,
I think is so very wise at this point to
take over law enforcement in DC. Now, that's only a
(31:23):
thirty day deal. If he wants to go beyond that,
he's got to go to Congress. So it's not like
he can do this forever. But I'm glad, if nothing else,
he's making the point and making the statement that we
should not get used to this level of crime as
a new normal. That's what the left wants, right, that
they want us to get used to that level of
crime as the new normal.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
And my prior point.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
That this out of state left money as some of
the Colorado left, he's they are actively pro criminal, actively
pro criminal. How else do you end up with the
law so insane and suicidal and self destructive as to
say that, hey, you could have this this horrific violent criminal,
and if that person is so nuts, if they are
(32:05):
so mentally incompetent that they can't stand trial and you're
never gonna be able.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
To fix them, you gotta let them out.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Ooh, in the right mind would do that unless they
are trying to undermine society. That's what the left. I'm
not saying democrats, that's what the left is trying to do.
They're trying to undermine this society so they can rebuild
it the way they want it. Big state, little citizen,
everybody dependent on government, and just undermining our fundamental institutions,
(32:34):
creating this chaos, undermining the traditional family.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
That's all part of this.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
And if you're going to sit down and you're going
to map out. Let's say you decided to become evil
and you wanted to map out how do I undermine
the greatest nation this world has ever known. Well, you
would sit down and you start with all the stuff
the left is doing right now, including being pro criminal,
including legal drugs. Right because, as Jerry Brown, the lefty
(33:02):
governor of California said, has he resisted that, how many
stoners can you have and still be a great state. Yeah,
let's go to the phone lines, and I do want
to deliver on that tea. Something very positive may be
happening right now that's probably not on your radar at all,
and I want to make sure you have a heads
up so you can follow it and cheer if it
does happen.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Lynn, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 8 (33:24):
Hi again. On two points, I really agree with Trump
doing this in DC, and I wish he could do
it in every liberal state to get it back on track,
because if our leaders don't, including Colorado, don't try to
keep us safe, then I wish somebody would. So I
agree with that. The other thing is I'm in complete
agreement with you when you spoke about the pot issue,
because I don't want a reason to be disappointed in Trump,
(33:47):
and this would be my first in all the years
i've supported him, a disappointment. I hope he gets it right.
It was a gateway drug in the sixties that led
to bad things, and it's really bad now for kids.
They've proven it. I've listened to your show a lot
about it, but other statistics that I've read and it's
not good. So I really hope he switches gears on
that well.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
And Lynn, by the way, if you're listening, how old
do you think Lynn is? And I only mention this
because she brought it up on the show the other day.
If you're listening to that voice Ryan, how old do
you think Lynn is?
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Thirty five?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Right?
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Right?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
And how old are you?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Lynn? Only because you mentioned it, that is you should
go out and do voice lessons.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yeah, but just I think a lot of people would
like to sound like that. And we'll get back to
that topic as well. President Trump talking about declassifying or
at least dropping the classification at the federal level of dope,
which would do enormous harm to this country. But I
wanted to give your heads up on this. We'll continue
(34:48):
to follow it. This is the Wall Street Journal, version
of the story. Two big TV broadcasters in advanced deal talks.
So here's the deal. Next Star is talking about buying Tegna.
Why should any of us care who owns KUSA and
Denver Tegna? And if Nextstar buys Tegna, it can't get worse,
(35:11):
and it likely gets a lot better because Nextstar owns
News Nation and KUSA, and there's so many great professionals there.
But KUSA, in my constitutionally protected opinion, has just become
an extension of the Colorado Democratic Party. And so I
would love to see Nextstar takeover Tegna. But we'll keep
(35:33):
an eye on that much more ahead. You're on the
Dan Kapla Show.
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