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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Kaplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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good news Today. Denver can be saved, there is no
doubt about it. If you disagree, we'll make you the
first caller or Texter three oh three seven one three
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A two five five the number techs d an five
seven seven three nine. Not only can it be saved,
it must be saved because well, first of all, Denver's Denver, right,
but what happens in Denver does not stay in Denver,
and so very critical to the state and the region
that Denver be saved, no question, it's in need of saving.
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The current trajectory we know is kind of straight down.
Do we have kind of that flushing sound effect where
that go used to be in the button bar. There's
no doubt about that, which should be insane, right because
of all the places in the world that should fail,
Denver should be among the last of them. Right when
you look at you know, God's gifts, the great beauty,
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the location in the country, the climate, everything else at
Denver should be you know, kind of among the very
elite cities in the world. And yet we're going fast
in the other direction. The reason is obvious, right, but
it can be saved, and we'll get into that today.
That ties into the solution of homelessness because one of
the reasons that Denver is tanking right now is it's
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on a simply unsustainable trajectory where Mike Johnston, for his
own political reasons, has committed to and actually, you know,
we've been pointed it out since his inaugural address, has
said to the world, come here, we will get you
a home. I mean literally, he.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Said that we will get you a home.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah. And and so when you do that, when you
go out and you say, hey, yeah, come here, we
will get you a home. That then guess what's going
to happen.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
We will get you a home.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
What's happening, which is smart people from everywhere are going
to say, yeah, I'd like one of those. And whether
the taxpayers pay for it than me. So, if you're
a homeless person across America, so many good people, whether
it's been illness, drugs, etc. And I understand there's also
a segment of homeless where some choose it as a lifestyle.
That's not most of it, but it's some of it.
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And you've got enough for a bus ticket or whatever,
you're going to say, Yeah, I'm I'm going to Denver
where the mayor has promised.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
We will get you a home.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And he's been true to that promise. So that's why
he's spending your money, taxpayer money to put people up
pretty much everybody who comes here and says they're homeless
up in a hotel or some other expensive kind of
lodging to get them off the street. And it's nice
to have them off the street, right, but it's unsustainable.
No city can afford that. Beverly Hills couldn't afford it,
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Denver can't afford it, No city can afford it long term.
So at the same time, right now we're having all
these good people laid off their jobs by Denver, services cut, etc.
Because the city simply can't afford that. But Johnston has
his choice. That's the priority for him because that's what's
going to be best for him politically. Nationwide, Hey, look
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at I got the people off the street. Look at
they're not on the street. Yeah, but you're bankrupt in
your city. But what he knows is that the final
bloat of the city won't come until after he's gone
and moved on to his next elected office or big
think tech job or whatever. So that's the doom loop
that Johnston has put Denver in right now. And it's
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also not very good for the homeless people either, because
warehousing is not a long term solution. It will you know,
bleed the taxpayers dry. But it's not a long term solution.
It's not getting to the root causes. It's just temporarily
getting off the street. So Mike Johnston looks good and
can advance where he wants to advance, and then the
homeless people eventually, when somebody says we can't afford this anymore,
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you know, will not have had the root cause problems addressed.
Whereas there's such an easy fix. So we'll talk about
all that. We'll talk about the easy, very doable on
homelessness in Denver and elsewhere, as well as how to
save Denver, and saving Denver goes beyond the immediate you know,
fiscal threats. There are other issues as well. Right as
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as Denver has gone from in Colorado, from the state
of health to the state of drugs, as the left
has has tried to make Denver the epicenter in Colorado
the recreational drug capital of the world. And I put
recreational in quotes because there ain't nothing recreational about what
it does to a lot of people and and all
the harm it causes. Three or three seven, three eight,
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two five five takes dam five seven seven three nine, rune,
so many other reasons for optimism. And let's see where
do we start. I think you have to start with
Mayor Bass of LA I want to share the CBS pull.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
It shows fifty four percent of Americans approve of the
Trump administration's program to deport illegal immigrants, and minority forty
six percent disapprove.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Are Democrats out of touch on this issue? Well, I
think if you did the polling in Los Angeles, I'm
not sure it would be that way, considering we are
a city of immigrants. She doesn't sound that confident about
the polling, by the way, does she. She's not sure
it would be that way. It might be a couple
of points worse, and then people might approve that policy.
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But do people really approve the federal government coming in
and seizing power from a.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
State and from a city. So I drilled down a
little further on that poll.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah, thank you Mayor Bass and Gavin Newsom, et cetera.
So the many reasons to be optimistic about the future
of this country is that the left just won't give
this up, right, And what do you think in LA
for example, what do you think the majority of people want,
let alone, across the country, they want law and order.
They don't want another George Floyd post George Floyd death summer.
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They don't want that. And people across America, including a
lot who would never tell it to a polster, they
want the immigration laws in force. Yes, like me that
they know some tremendous people who are here illegally, some
of the best people they've ever known, but they know
this country can't sustain it. And they know along with
the good people who have come in illegally are some
really awful, heinous rapists and murderers. And America's reached a
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tipping point on it. So the longer the left holds
onto that, the better for America. Because the longer the
left holds onto this resistance against Trump and federal law
and immigration. The fewer lefties are going to be in
public office. So Ryan Putt, I am bringing with optimism today,
I am every day, but this may be reaching a
new zenith, don't you.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Your buddy and mine, Harry Enton. CNN just keeps rolling
out the data, the polling numbers, showing that this is
the ultimate, to me, the coup de gras to the
Democrats holding on to this illegal alien defense narrative, which
is the legal immigrants in this country themselves support Donald
Trump's mass deportation.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Play yeah, and at what point does CNN dom Perryanton.
I love them, right, but he's got to be driving
their people. It's crazy because the a he gives you
these numbers, which for so long the left is buried,
but second, he seems really happy doing it.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
And this is.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Where it all kind of comes together, Kate Paul, when
look at this the net favorable rating immigrants who are
here illegally among immigrants citizens again those registered to vote
in twenty twenty look at this plus twenty three points
on the net favorable rating. But look at where we
were in twenty twenty four minus six points underwater. So
immigrant citizens have become increasingly unfavorable in their views of
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those immigrants who are here illegally. So I think it's
so important when we're talking about this debate from a
political angle to separate those out who are undocumented immigrants
versus those who are here legally and those who are
citizens and those who are voters, because that group of
voters has felt increasingly distant.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
From those immigrants who are here i legally.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
And so again, when we're talking about this, at least
from a political angle, this is why Donald Trump feels
so comfortable because in fact, amongst the group that you
would think that would be most opposed to this, in fact,
they become increasingly favorable not just towards Donald Trum, but
tow it's a Republican point of view on immigration, and
becoming distant from those immigrants who.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Are here illegally an important baseline to consider as this
As this plays out.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
We'll see where we are in a few weeks.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, thank you so much. Important. Important, that's the understatement
of a millennium.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Well, there's the reason why I kept Kate Boldwin or
whatever her name is or voice in there. You could
hear you heard Harry Anton's enthusiasm, You heard her utter discipplin.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I thought I heard her hit the floor. I mean, yeah,
because this changes everything, right, I mean, look at Colorado,
toughest not to correct right in Colorado. Listen, the Democrats
for years and years and years have have been catering,
catering to Latino voters with their position favoring illegal immigration,
which never made any sense to me, and we always
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kept saying that. But now it's showing up in the numbers,
and it's showing up nationwide, and it's magnifying now for
very good reason, right, because when all these lefties decided
to go a whole hog and just flat open the
border and recruit everybody in regardless, no vetting, regardless of
whatever horrible crimes they'd committed, along with the good people.
At that point, it doesn't matter who you are, what
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your race is, what your origin is, immigrant, legal immigrant
or not. You don't want that because you're not suicidal.
That that's a policy only doctor Kovorkian could recommend, And
so across every identifiable group out there, including legal immigrants.
And then you've got another dynamic with legal immigrants right
underlying the word legal. They went through the process which
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probably often involves sacrifice and difficulty, etc. So you can't
blame them for sort of resenting, you know, Polis and
Johnston and Bennett and na can Lou burn the rest
of them just bringing everybody in. Hey, forget the law.
We only found thet the laws we want to follow
where the insurrectionist party say the Dems. A lot of
people don't like that. You're on the Dancaplat Show.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
And now back to the Dan Taplass Show podcast. There
is criticism that seeks to suggest that the President.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Responded the way he did because it was a deliberate,
calculated attempt to sort of shipped focus away from.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
His feud with Musk.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
How would you respond to that?
Speaker 6 (10:08):
So that the president responded to the LA riots condemning
the violence, muss That's an incredibly disingenuous attack. The president
saw images of border patrol and ice agents being hailed
with rocks and molotov cocktails. He saw vehicles being burned
to the ground with illegal aliens flying foreign flags, and
that's what prompted the President to have this response that
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has clearly worked because last night in Los Angeles you
didn't see many of those images. And I would add
the governor and the mayor need to actually do more.
I know Gavin Newsom had a big address to the
nation last night. I guess he thought that's what it
was for, maybe his future political ambitions, But he spoke
a lot of words we haven't seen action. California has
been a mess for years because of the incompetence of
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Gavin Newsom. So the President was responding to.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That only a man and the left can't help itself.
It just sets up so well for Trump and for
America because the Left is being exposed. And we've been
talking about that for over a year, right before the
twenty twenty four election, We've been talking about, Yeah, we
got two things we got to do. You got to
get Trump elected, but also have to expose the left
for who they really are, because Trump won't be there forever,
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but the left will be unless they get exposed right now.
And they've been exposing themselves in very very helpful ways.
What a political party, Ryan, But what does it say
about the GOP right, Because it says there's a lot
of work for the GOP to do because so many
of these voters are Trump voters, not GOP voters. But
you've got a Democratic party now that its foundation is
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built around a Maryland man who's committed how many different
forms of crime and is here illegally. Everybody agrees, but
he's their idol. And now it's built around, you know,
protecting the good people who are out on the streets
of La cramming the highways, burning cars, everything else, protecting
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all of those folks in La. So Trump, who brings
in law and order is somehow the bad guy, and
the violent people are the good guys. So I mean,
they're upside down in so many ways. And we're not
even getting yet to their just passionate religious devotion to
allowing men into girls bathrooms and locker rooms and sports.
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Look at what that party's built.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Around right now and right here in Colorado, Amy pad
In eighteenth giving probation to the fifteen year old illegal
alien who plowed into a twenty four year old Caitlin Weaver,
killing her in a vehicle that wasn't his, that he
wasn't licensed to drive, that he wasn't insured for it,
he was in this country illegally, gives some probation so
that Ice won't deport him, got him anyway. And then
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Phil Wiser, talking about the family of the fire bombing
terrorists who threw a Molotov cocktail at an eighty eight year
old Holocaust survivor saying, well, his.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Family might be eligible for asylum.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah no, And but what does it say about the GOP.
What does it say about the GOP when you've got
a Democrat party that's so obviously out of touch with
most Democrats loan the rest of America, But yet there
are so plenty of places the GOP is not winning.
I'm telling you, as a former Democrat what it says
about the GOP. And we have to realize that, whether
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you're part of the GOP or not, if you want
a good America, you got to realize there are so
many Democrats who are either not tied at all to
the Democrat Party or it's a very very thin thin thread,
but they can just never imagine being a Republican. The
stereotype from the time they were born is burned so
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deeply into their brain, you know, this negative imagery of Republicans.
That's what we've got to overcome. So there needs to
be a whole lot more focus in the GOP on
overcoming these largely unfair, untrue, negative is an understatement stereotypes,
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because that's the challenge. The Democrats at this point are
a gift. They're so goofy and dangerous and destructive.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
And they're telling us.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I mean, they're insulting not only their constituents, the citizens
of California Los Angeles, but the viewers of America.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Brian Stelter's in on this. Don't believe you're lying. Eyes.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
The cars aren't really burning, the rocks aren't being really
thrown at the LAPD. This isn't really violence, accord to
Maxine Waters. I mean, this is just buffoonery.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Dan.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
They're supporting and defending this, whereas only John Fetterman has
come out and said, no, that's not what my party
should be all about, and we're losing because of it.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Well, I would suggest they're not offending Americans with that,
They are entertaining Americans with that, right, Well, Am, because
well and a lot of Americans, Ryan, I mean, people
see it, right, there's certain stuff that cuts through the noise.
I mean, you know, we have these jobs that were
so grateful for, and so we got to dial in
on this stuff. Normal people, you know, who have normal
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lives and just kind of check in on this stuff.
This is one of those things that cuts through the noise.
Oh yeah, all these fires and riots in LA what's
going Okay, there are two sides. Let's say Republicans want
law and order, Democrats want the riots. That's an easy choice.
I mean, so they're entertaining people. I do think ryme
outside of the hardest, hardest core base. Oh and I
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got to do something before the break that the Democrats
are persuading anybody right now, even some of the hardest core,
drugged up lefties are probably thinking, Man, I don't like this.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Blame it's eighty twenty.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
At least you had this conversation with Scott Jennings of CNN.
He's got a feast up for himself here, all these
topics all these weeks, including this one that yeah, maybe
you're appealing with red meat for the twenty percent that
are going to buy that somehow. These riots in Los
Angeles are Trump's fault and the National Guard's fault.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
That's another thing.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
You're blaming the National Guard and the Marines that they
don't know how to handle that situation.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Again, who's gonna buy that? But I would suggest it's
not red meat. It's poisoned meat for their base, right,
because yeah, this kind of meeting, eat it up, and
then die shortly thereafter. Politically, we wish them along in
healthy lives as long as they stop committing crimes. Speaking
of which, I posted it on X and if you
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can help identify the person who Jeff Hunt, good man,
Jeff Hunt says kicked him in the back, and I
believe anything Jeff says. And then you can see on
the video of something very consistent with that. But Jeff says,
this guy kicked him in the back. I personally absolutely
believe Jeff and would have no reason not to. And
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then you see Jeff follow the guy and get him
on camera full frontal, so him, well, why do you
let me go on and on and on? Why did
you just stop me?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
I was doing one hundred thousand thanks?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Okay, Well good they I did him. Well, yeah, I'm
glad to hear that, because justice must be done.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
The power of X the Internet on our side of
it is we have smart people on our side of it,
very perceptive people. And this woman, I don't know how
she did it. Maybe facial recognition to anology.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
That's the first thing I was thinking.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, zoomed in on him, got his face and his
brother are their picture together and graduation. It's obviously him.
So I can only hope for Jeff's sake. We like
Jeff a lot. He's a competitor, but you know we
are of like minds on so many issues, good man,
And that this person is found and this person is prosecuting.
Because you watched the half of the video, the guy
just drop kicked him from behind, blindsided him.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
No reason. Jeff didn't provoke it.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
It is not at all. No, he can't go around
kicking people, right, And so I'm so glad that Jeff
posted that. It's up on my ex if you want
to see it. Very very glad to hear they've identified
the person. So I'll look into that some more during
the break and see if we have anything to report.
Do you know if that person has been arrested.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
That's where I left it was they had a pretty
darn good idea who it was. I can text Jeff
right now, see.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I'll do that. Okay, please do that, because that that
is so wrong, so wrong and good. I'm glad the
community came together on that. So we'll have an update
on that, hopefully after the break. And it's amazing, isn't it.
Three or three by the way, seven one, three eight
two five five, No matter where you are in the
world text DA in five seven seven three nine. But
it's amazing how so many on the left think they
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can just get away with any kind of violence, any
kind of lawlessness. It's a remarkable state of mind. But
but it's you look at the top right. You look
at the Mike Johnston's of the world, who talk openly
about using the Denver police to stop federal law enforcement
from enforcing federal law, talks openly about getting tens of
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thousands of people in the street to stop federal law
enforcement from enforcing federal law. You see such blatant disregard
for the law from so many elected officials on the left. Yeah,
the contagion effect is real, but must be stopped. Three
or three someone three eight two five five texts DA
and five seven seven three nine. You're on the Dan
Capla show.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Podcasts have warned that any protests on Saturday would be
met with force.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Can you clarify what kind of protest President Trump does
support or find acceptable?
Speaker 6 (19:11):
President absolutely supports peaceful protests. He supports the First Amendment,
He supports the right of Americans to make their voices heard.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
He does not.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Support violence of any kind. He does not support assaulting
law enforcement officers who are simply trying to do their job.
It's very clear for the president what he supports and
what he does not. Unfortunately, for Democrats, that line has
not been made clear, and they've allowed this unrest, in
this violence to continue, and the President has had to
step in. So if there were peaceful protests on Saturday
for the militate parade, President Trump would allow that. Of course,
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the President supports peaceful protest.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
What a stupid question, boy she is. She's a firepap
and you know that it's worth mentioning in. One of
the big question marks heading into the president's second term was, Okay,
is there going to be more stability in his staff
than the first time around? And and he has obviously
learned so many lessons, and he had a historically great
(20:05):
first term in so many ways. Obviously COVID underminded at
the end, but but his so much talent, so much
stability in the administration. Obviously, he's a very smart guy
who had a long time to think about what he
do differently when he got that second term, and and
doing so much of that well three or three seven
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A N five seven seven three nine Texter Jeff who
talking about our friend Jeff Hunt, who's on a competing
radio station, but a good man. And he was kicked
in the back at a at one of these ice
protests yesterday, and then I'm glad he went after the
guy got him on video, nothing physical. And I am
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told now that he's been identified. You sent me a instagram.
I think Ryan of the alleged perpetrator.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
That's correct, and that sure.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Looks like him. I mean, I'm not going to name
him right now because I want authorities to verify. I
also know that, but but I think I got an update.
Good news for humanity. I think there's probably only one
person who looks that way.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Wow, Dan, that's about as vicious as you get.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
That was vicious by your standards, yes, but no, let
me verify. I saw the photo the kid with his
brother graduation, and I agree with your assessment.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
However, I got an update. Jeff Hunt just texted me.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
And I was asking him about it's like Ferris Buehler,
Pray for Ferris. Jeff saved.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yes, I mean, it's fortunate that it was only a
kick in the back.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
But anyway, Jeff said, I asked him if this is
advancing through the legal process, and he responded, yes, going
to DPD tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
I have to file in person. He's filing charges.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Good, good, No, you need to. You need to and Jeff, no,
I mean you need to do that for the benefit
of everybody, including the perpetrate.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
That's exactly right, including that young man needs an learn
a lesson.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
He's got terrible parents obviously, the moderenforced discipline. No, he
doesn't have boundaries. What kind of fool goes around kicking
people randomly in public?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
You know what my first thought was, I don't know
this individual, and I don't know whether he was on
drugs or not. I simply don't know. But my first
thought when I watched that tape was that's somebody on drugs. Again,
I don't know whether he is or not. But that's
where I come back to the parent thing, Ryan, because
you can have parents who are the very best parents imaginable,
right from any walk of life, and if a kid
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gets hooked on chemicals, anything can happen at that point.
I don't know if that's what happened out, you know,
with what happened to Jeff, But I'm just saying it would.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Be the kindest explanation because otherwise that's demonic you go
around doing that. Dan, I gotta tell you you had
parents like mine, very old school. If I had done
that at that age, my dad would have kicked my
ass well.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
And what he would have done, what your dad would
have done, I think any of us would have done.
Would have went and got Jeff and said, okay, now
it's your turn. Ye, no, right there.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Yes, my dad.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Wouldn't have done it, but he would probably thought about it.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Do you think how you would you have handled You?
Never would have done that, but if you.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Had, you know, Can I tell you a short story?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Absolutely? Okay, please do.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
The arena is full overflowing standing room ontely. It's a vicious,
violent basketball game between two big rivals, and some guy
comes up and could have killed me the way he
chep shotted me on the court. I walked up to
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him center court, squared him up nothing from behind, face
to face, and I laid him out one punch. He
was done. The place exploded, exploded, that riot may still
be going on, and so and all of this was
eighth grade. So then I remember walking into the house
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and you know, my dad six foot three, six foot four,
two hundred and forty pound, you know, just buff, former
college basketball player, Chicago police officer. All of a sudden,
dark living room chair turns around. He's sitting in the
chair and he just looks at me and he said,
you're real proud of yourself, aren't you. And that was
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more devastating to me than his tone, his look. He
accomplished everything he needed to with that, and I changed.
I changed after that, yep, because you know, he was
just such a great man, and I had disappointed him
and embarrassed the family.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
And that point right there, Dan, because your mom used
to say, I remember these stories.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Well, you know you're a capitalist.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
You're better than that.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
You're better than that.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
And I kept trying to tell her I wasn't my captains.
That did not not go that did not go over well.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I tried that once.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I tried, Yeah, but that was the same, that's the
same thought I would have again, You're right, best parents
in the world. Kids can turn out bad, but vast
majority of the time kids raised right, they're going to
think about, you know, what does my action in this
moment reflect upon my family?
Speaker 4 (25:22):
How does it make my parents look? How does it
make me look?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
That that level of self awareness, which this kid clearly
had not. And to your point, Dan, the most charitable
explanation would have been.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Well, maybe he's jacked up on drugs.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
But that is my point, Ryan, because when I was
growing up, and again I won the lottery, I had
the greatest parents in the world.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
But when I was growing up, drugs were not a thing. Okay,
Obviously violence was that, that kind of fighting was that
was just part of growing up in Chicago. But drugs
weren't insane. So you can't get better parents than I had.
But if somehow, you know, like if drugs were the
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kind of thing back then that they are now, who knows,
you know, pure pressure everything else. You try something, then
you get hooked, That's what I think changes the whole equation.
And again I don't know whether that the the guy
who did this to Jeff and hopefully will face the
full force of justice now, was on drugs. Or not.
He just looked like it to me. And that's that's
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that's why I think it's so undermined society. So that's
that's why I make that comment of parenting, because man,
I've seen it. I've seen some of the greatest parents
you could ever imagine, and then their kid gets gets
into chemicals through friends or something else, and that was
That's one of the really heinous things about the legalization
of marijuana in Colorado. I don't care about some adult
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going out and in their own house doing whatever they
want to do, as long as they're not hurting anybody else.
But you cannot have legalized marijuana the way we have
it in Colorado without hurting the kids. You just can't
because of the increased availability combined with the green light effect.
And everybody behind legalization knew that it was going to
mean a lot more stoned kids, and that that is
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a crime. It's a crime against humanity, it's a crime
against these children. It devastates families and communities and ways
large and small. That's all I'm saying is you introduce
those chemicals into society and particularly you know, into you know,
the kids in high school and even now you know
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the kids in junior high and you have just done
a world of harm for for a lifetime. Three or
three someone three A two five five text d an
five seven seven three nine on that much brighter note,
Alexa Wrights Dan, never get a tattoo on your forearm
and roll up your sleeves if you don't want to
be identified. Thank you, Alexa. Very good advice. But it
ties into what you and I were talking about yesterday
(27:47):
on the elevator. Maybe it was Kelly and me that
it's time to get a tattoo.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
You were not talking about that with me.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
That must have been Kelly.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Was that you Kelly as a havr of no tattoos myself?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Did we make a decision on is it going to
be a sleeve? Two sleeves? Do I have to pay
double because of my guns? Do you do you remember
what my suggestion was too, no scales of just Oh
that's a very good suggestion. It is very good suggestion.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I would have suggested your Irish family crest for capitalists.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
We don't have one.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
You gotta be kiddnamed.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
We don't have a crest. Do you have a crest?
Rich on under a bridge?
Speaker 4 (28:28):
What are you talking.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
No, we don't have a crest. Every Irish family, rich
people have crests. No serious was a crest? What working
person as a crest? Irish people all over the place
brag about it. I'll call my sister during the break,
do it. She is the family historian.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I'll find the crest during the order.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
The spelling of your family name has changed.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Oh my goodness. You had to protect the family. Yeah,
it was k A p l E S. And then
my grandfather and his brother were very active in the IRA,
back when it was a legit organization, and so the
family name was changed to protect the well. Their names
changed to c A p l I S to protect
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the extended family. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not sure it worked.
Here on the here on the Dan c A p
l I sh.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast The
Beach Boy Die. Oh Dan, yeah, Brian, Well that's.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
All we've had today is beach really? Oh that's sad.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Brian Wilson passed away at the age of eighty two today.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Such great music, oh.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Endless supply of it.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
I don't even have enough musical breaks to come back
from to play.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
All the great roll stuff. Well, Chris Berman says, we're
all day to day, right, that's right. Yeah, Hey, if
you just joined us, thank you. So much going on
in the world, and we're covering all of it today,
including Jeff Haunt, who's you know on radio and Colorado
got kicked in the back at an anti ice rele yesterday.
Do it nothing other than covering the rally and really
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cool to see people come together in the exosphere and
elsewhere and identify the alleged purp and so hopefully DPD
will bring the full force of the law down. I mean,
very very important statement needs to be made there. So
we're talking about all that, and that leads to other issues.
It led to the question of parenting, and you know,
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can the very best parents and in this society, now
that the left has intentionally flooded with dangerous drugs, can
the very best parents then have kids who just go
completely off the rails because they get hooked on chemicals.
My premise is, yet, I do want to say that
we have been so incredibly blessed in our family that
we've been spared that heartache, completely spared that heartache. There's
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just none of that going on with our kids. But
I know so many great parents who, despite them doing
everything right as parents, you know, their kids got introduced
to it and those chemicals are so powerful it just
kind of takes over. So we're talking about that, We're
talking about how to save Denver, because that's the crazy thing, right,
It's so easily saved, so easily saved, and it starts
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with the right fix to the homeless problem. Because what
we've got now is Denver in a doom loop because
Mike Johnston has decided that that his own political prospects
are more important than Denver surviving financially. And so what
he's done is he has committed, and he committed publicly
on day one. Doesn't matter where you are anywhere in
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the world, come here and we will get you a home.
With taxpayer money.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
We will get you a home. We will get you
a home.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Set it over and over again, and people are taking
them up on it. So even though you see fewer
people on the streets, homelessness is up for obvious reasons. Right,
anybody who can get a bus ticket, they're going to
go where the mayor is promised to get them a home.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
We will get you a home.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
The problem is as nice as it is to have
folks off the street, the city can't afford it. It
just can't afford it long term do we have now?
As a result, we have these big budget cuts. We
have really good, hardworking people being laid off their city
jobs as we speak, we have services being caught and
it's only going to get worse. Law enforcement, public safety
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being undermined because Mike Johnston, for his own political purposes,
is committed to using your money to get a home.
For anybody who wants to come to Denver and claim.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
One, we will get you a home.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Unsustainable. It would be like Grian. Let's say that that
you're out at one of the shoeling estates and you've
got some neighbors, and you know the places are kind
of run down. You don't like the way they look,
you don't like the lawn. You want them to look nicer.
So you say, Okay, I'm going to go out. I'm
going to paint their homes, I'm going to buy new windows,
I'm going to do all this stuff for all the
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homes on my block so that it all looks better. Well,
it's all going to look better, but you're going to
go broke and then you're going to have to sell
the shoeling estate because it's unsustainable. That's what Mike Johnston's do.
The difference is he's doing it with other people's money.
I eat taxpayers. But it can be saved. And the
key to saving Denver is to solve the homeless problem
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in an intelligent way. And as I said at the
time he launched this, it would end up where it's
ending up today, unsustainable and counterproductive for the homeless folks
because they're not getting their problems fixed. They're getting warehoused
out of public view at a very high cost of
your dollars, but they're not getting their underlying problems fixed.
So as soon as the money eventually runs out, and
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Johnston will probably be out of town before then, yeah,
they're going to go back on the street with their
problems unfixed. As I said back then, the obvious solution
here is you have to make it loud and clear
to every homeless person in Colorado and every homeless person
across the country, if you come to Denver and you
violate our laws, you will lose your freedom. Period. That
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right off the bat is going to deter virtually all
and chase most away because universally, homeless people want their freedom,
and we've talked about the underlying causes. So anyway, what
you do is you send that message, but then you
have to back it up. You have to deliver on it.
But the way they lose their freedom isn't going into
our jails. You take a fraction of the money you're
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spending right now on these Mike Johnston taxpayer funded hotels,
and what you do is you set up long term,
long term housing and rehab centers where people go to
serve their sentences. So they lose their freedom. They can't
just bop in and out like they do right now.
With Johnston funded taxpayer funded housing. They lose their freedom,
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but they're not rotten away in some jails somewhere. You know,
they're in a safe, clean facility. It's not the four seasons,
but one where they can get rehab, help, etc. That's
how you solve your homeless problem at a fraction of
the cost and much long term benefit, whereas right now
there's no long term benefit this. There are long term
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townsides on every front. Texter Dan, I agree about the
cannabis issue in Colorado. My son's life has been radically
changed in a negative way. I'm part of an advocacy
group called Johnny's Ambassadors. We are bringing awareness around cannabis
and deuced psychosis. I got to tell you, Johnny's Ambassadors
is incredibly impressive. I follow them on x I read
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their stuff all the time. In fact, Ryan, would you
remind me I want to start getting somebody from that
organization because they have this very compelling series going of
moms who are doing videos for the Johnny's Ambassador's site,
and they're telling the stories of what's happened to their
sons because of marijuana use. And it's raw and it's true,
(35:44):
and it's something everybody has to see. Let's start getting
some of those moms on like one a week. Maybe
you're on the Dancapit Show.
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A two five five the number techs d an five
seven seven three nine. Not only can it be saved,
it must be saved because well, first of all, Denver's Denver, right,
but what happens in Denver does not stay in Denver,
and so very critical to the state and the region
that Denver be saved, no question, it's in need of saving.
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The current trajectory we know is kind of straight down.
Do we have kind of that flushing sound effect where
that go used to be in the button bar. There's
no doubt about that, which should be insane, right because
of all the places in the world that should fail,
Denver should be among the last of them. Right when
you look at you know, God's gifts, the great beauty,
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the location in the country, the climate, everything else at
Denver should be you know, kind of among the very
elite cities in the world. And yet we're going fast
in the other direction. The reason is obvious, right, but
it can be saved, and we'll get into that today.
That ties into the solution of homelessness because one of
the reasons that Denver is tanking right now is it's
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on a simply unsustainable trajectory where Mike Johnston, for his
own political reasons, has committed to and actually, you know,
we've been pointed it out since his inaugural address, has
said to the world, come here, we will get you
a home. I mean literally, he.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Said that we will get you a home.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah. And and so when you do that, when you
go out and you say, hey, yeah, come here, we
will get you a home. That then guess what's going
to happen.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
We will get you a home.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
What's happening, which is smart people from everywhere are going
to say, yeah, I'd like one of those. And whether
the taxpayers pay for it than me. So, if you're
a homeless person across America, so many good people, whether
it's been illness, drugs, etc. And I understand there's also
a segment of homeless where some choose it as a lifestyle.
That's not most of it, but it's some of it.
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And you've got enough for a bus ticket or whatever,
you're going to say, Yeah, I'm I'm going to Denver
where the mayor has promised.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
We will get you a home.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And he's been true to that promise. So that's why
he's spending your money, taxpayer money to put people up
pretty much everybody who comes here and says they're homeless
up in a hotel or some other expensive kind of
lodging to get them off the street. And it's nice
to have them off the street, right, but it's unsustainable.
No city can afford that. Beverly Hills couldn't afford it,
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Denver can't afford it, No city can afford it long term.
So at the same time, right now we're having all
these good people laid off their jobs by Denver, services cut, etc.
Because the city simply can't afford that. But Johnston has
his choice. That's the priority for him because that's what's
going to be best for him politically. Nationwide, Hey, look
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at I got the people off the street. Look at
they're not on the street. Yeah, but you're bankrupt in
your city. But what he knows is that the final
bloat of the city won't come until after he's gone
and moved on to his next elected office or big
think tech job or whatever. So that's the doom loop
that Johnston has put Denver in right now. And it's
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also not very good for the homeless people either, because
warehousing is not a long term solution. It will you know,
bleed the taxpayers dry. But it's not a long term solution.
It's not getting to the root causes. It's just temporarily
getting off the street. So Mike Johnston looks good and
can advance where he wants to advance, and then the
homeless people eventually, when somebody says we can't afford this anymore,
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you know, will not have had the root cause problems addressed.
Whereas there's such an easy fix. So we'll talk about
all that. We'll talk about the easy, very doable on
homelessness in Denver and elsewhere, as well as how to
save Denver, and saving Denver goes beyond the immediate you know,
fiscal threats. There are other issues as well. Right as
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as Denver has gone from in Colorado, from the state
of health to the state of drugs, as the left
has has tried to make Denver the epicenter in Colorado
the recreational drug capital of the world. And I put
recreational in quotes because there ain't nothing recreational about what
it does to a lot of people and and all
the harm it causes. Three or three seven, three eight,
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two five five takes dam five seven seven three nine, rune,
so many other reasons for optimism. And let's see where
do we start. I think you have to start with
Mayor Bass of LA I want to share the CBS pull.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
It shows fifty four percent of Americans approve of the
Trump administration's program to deport illegal immigrants, and minority forty
six percent disapprove.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Are Democrats out of touch on this issue? Well, I
think if you did the polling in Los Angeles, I'm
not sure it would be that way, considering we are
a city of immigrants. She doesn't sound that confident about
the polling, by the way, does she. She's not sure
it would be that way. It might be a couple
of points worse, and then people might approve that policy.
(05:18):
But do people really approve the federal government coming in
and seizing power from a.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
State and from a city. So I drilled down a
little further on that poll.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah, thank you Mayor Bass and Gavin Newsom, et cetera.
So the many reasons to be optimistic about the future
of this country is that the left just won't give
this up, right, And what do you think in LA
for example, what do you think the majority of people want,
let alone, across the country, they want law and order.
They don't want another George Floyd post George Floyd death summer.
(05:50):
They don't want that. And people across America, including a
lot who would never tell it to a polster, they
want the immigration laws in force. Yes, like me that
they know some tremendous people who are here illegally, some
of the best people they've ever known, but they know
this country can't sustain it. And they know along with
the good people who have come in illegally are some
really awful, heinous rapists and murderers. And America's reached a
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tipping point on it. So the longer the left holds
onto that, the better for America. Because the longer the
left holds onto this resistance against Trump and federal law
and immigration. The fewer lefties are going to be in
public office. So Ryan Putt, I am bringing with optimism today,
I am every day, but this may be reaching a
new zenith, don't you.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Your buddy and mine, Harry Enton. CNN just keeps rolling
out the data, the polling numbers, showing that this is
the ultimate, to me, the coup de gras to the
Democrats holding on to this illegal alien defense narrative, which
is the legal immigrants in this country themselves support Donald
Trump's mass deportation.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Play yeah, and at what point does CNN dom Perryanton.
I love them, right, but he's got to be driving
their people. It's crazy because the a he gives you
these numbers, which for so long the left is buried,
but second, he seems really happy doing it.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
And this is.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Where it all kind of comes together, Kate Paul, when
look at this the net favorable rating immigrants who are
here illegally among immigrants citizens again those registered to vote
in twenty twenty look at this plus twenty three points
on the net favorable rating. But look at where we
were in twenty twenty four minus six points underwater. So
immigrant citizens have become increasingly unfavorable in their views of
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those immigrants who are here illegally. So I think it's
so important when we're talking about this debate from a
political angle to separate those out who are undocumented immigrants
versus those who are here legally and those who are
citizens and those who are voters, because that group of
voters has felt increasingly distant.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
From those immigrants who are here i legally.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
And so again, when we're talking about this, at least
from a political angle, this is why Donald Trump feels
so comfortable because in fact, amongst the group that you
would think that would be most opposed to this, in fact,
they become increasingly favorable not just towards Donald Trum, but
tow it's a Republican point of view on immigration, and
becoming distant from those immigrants who.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Are here illegally an important baseline to consider as this
As this plays out.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
We'll see where we are in a few weeks.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, thank you so much. Important. Important, that's the understatement
of a millennium.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Well, there's the reason why I kept Kate Boldwin or
whatever her name is or voice in there. You could
hear you heard Harry Anton's enthusiasm, You heard her utter discipplin.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I thought I heard her hit the floor. I mean, yeah,
because this changes everything, right, I mean, look at Colorado,
toughest not to correct right in Colorado. Listen, the Democrats
for years and years and years have have been catering,
catering to Latino voters with their position favoring illegal immigration,
which never made any sense to me, and we always
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kept saying that. But now it's showing up in the numbers,
and it's showing up nationwide, and it's magnifying now for
very good reason, right, because when all these lefties decided
to go a whole hog and just flat open the
border and recruit everybody in regardless, no vetting, regardless of
whatever horrible crimes they'd committed, along with the good people.
At that point, it doesn't matter who you are, what
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your race is, what your origin is, immigrant, legal immigrant
or not. You don't want that because you're not suicidal.
That that's a policy only doctor Kovorkian could recommend, And
so across every identifiable group out there, including legal immigrants.
And then you've got another dynamic with legal immigrants right
underlying the word legal. They went through the process which
(09:31):
probably often involves sacrifice and difficulty, etc. So you can't
blame them for sort of resenting, you know, Polis and
Johnston and Bennett and na can Lou burn the rest
of them just bringing everybody in. Hey, forget the law.
We only found thet the laws we want to follow
where the insurrectionist party say the Dems. A lot of
people don't like that. You're on the Dancaplat Show.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
And now back to the Dan Taplass Show podcast. There
is criticism that seeks to suggest that the President.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Responded the way he did because it was a deliberate,
calculated attempt to sort of shipped focus away from.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
His feud with Musk.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
How would you respond to that?
Speaker 6 (10:08):
So that the president responded to the LA riots condemning
the violence, muss That's an incredibly disingenuous attack. The president
saw images of border patrol and ice agents being hailed
with rocks and molotov cocktails. He saw vehicles being burned
to the ground with illegal aliens flying foreign flags, and
that's what prompted the President to have this response that
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has clearly worked because last night in Los Angeles you
didn't see many of those images. And I would add
the governor and the mayor need to actually do more.
I know Gavin Newsom had a big address to the
nation last night. I guess he thought that's what it
was for, maybe his future political ambitions, But he spoke
a lot of words we haven't seen action. California has
been a mess for years because of the incompetence of
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Gavin Newsom. So the President was responding to.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That only a man and the left can't help itself.
It just sets up so well for Trump and for
America because the Left is being exposed. And we've been
talking about that for over a year, right before the
twenty twenty four election, We've been talking about, Yeah, we
got two things we got to do. You got to
get Trump elected, but also have to expose the left
for who they really are, because Trump won't be there forever,
(11:16):
but the left will be unless they get exposed right now.
And they've been exposing themselves in very very helpful ways.
What a political party, Ryan, But what does it say
about the GOP right, Because it says there's a lot
of work for the GOP to do because so many
of these voters are Trump voters, not GOP voters. But
you've got a Democratic party now that its foundation is
(11:38):
built around a Maryland man who's committed how many different
forms of crime and is here illegally. Everybody agrees, but
he's their idol. And now it's built around, you know,
protecting the good people who are out on the streets
of La cramming the highways, burning cars, everything else, protecting
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all of those folks in La. So Trump, who brings
in law and order is somehow the bad guy, and
the violent people are the good guys. So I mean,
they're upside down in so many ways. And we're not
even getting yet to their just passionate religious devotion to
allowing men into girls bathrooms and locker rooms and sports.
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Look at what that party's built.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Around right now and right here in Colorado, Amy pad
In eighteenth giving probation to the fifteen year old illegal
alien who plowed into a twenty four year old Caitlin Weaver,
killing her in a vehicle that wasn't his, that he
wasn't licensed to drive, that he wasn't insured for it,
he was in this country illegally, gives some probation so
that Ice won't deport him, got him anyway. And then
(12:42):
Phil Wiser, talking about the family of the fire bombing
terrorists who threw a Molotov cocktail at an eighty eight year
old Holocaust survivor saying, well, his.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Family might be eligible for asylum.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah no, And but what does it say about the GOP.
What does it say about the GOP when you've got
a Democrat party that's so obviously out of touch with
most Democrats loan the rest of America, But yet there
are so plenty of places the GOP is not winning.
I'm telling you, as a former Democrat what it says
about the GOP. And we have to realize that, whether
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you're part of the GOP or not, if you want
a good America, you got to realize there are so
many Democrats who are either not tied at all to
the Democrat Party or it's a very very thin thin thread,
but they can just never imagine being a Republican. The
stereotype from the time they were born is burned so
(13:39):
deeply into their brain, you know, this negative imagery of Republicans.
That's what we've got to overcome. So there needs to
be a whole lot more focus in the GOP on
overcoming these largely unfair, untrue, negative is an understatement stereotypes,
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because that's the challenge. The Democrats at this point are
a gift. They're so goofy and dangerous and destructive.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
And they're telling us.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I mean, they're insulting not only their constituents, the citizens
of California Los Angeles, but the viewers of America.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Brian Stelter's in on this. Don't believe you're lying. Eyes.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
The cars aren't really burning, the rocks aren't being really
thrown at the LAPD. This isn't really violence, accord to
Maxine Waters. I mean, this is just buffoonery.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Dan.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
They're supporting and defending this, whereas only John Fetterman has
come out and said, no, that's not what my party
should be all about, and we're losing because of it.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Well, I would suggest they're not offending Americans with that,
They are entertaining Americans with that, right, Well, Am, because
well and a lot of Americans, Ryan, I mean, people
see it, right, there's certain stuff that cuts through the noise.
I mean, you know, we have these jobs that were
so grateful for, and so we got to dial in
on this stuff. Normal people, you know, who have normal
(14:56):
lives and just kind of check in on this stuff.
This is one of those things that cuts through the noise.
Oh yeah, all these fires and riots in LA what's
going Okay, there are two sides. Let's say Republicans want
law and order, Democrats want the riots. That's an easy choice.
I mean, so they're entertaining people. I do think ryme
outside of the hardest, hardest core base. Oh and I
(15:17):
got to do something before the break that the Democrats
are persuading anybody right now, even some of the hardest core,
drugged up lefties are probably thinking, Man, I don't like this.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Blame it's eighty twenty.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
At least you had this conversation with Scott Jennings of CNN.
He's got a feast up for himself here, all these
topics all these weeks, including this one that yeah, maybe
you're appealing with red meat for the twenty percent that
are going to buy that somehow. These riots in Los
Angeles are Trump's fault and the National Guard's fault.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
That's another thing.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
You're blaming the National Guard and the Marines that they
don't know how to handle that situation.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Again, who's gonna buy that? But I would suggest it's
not red meat. It's poisoned meat for their base, right,
because yeah, this kind of meeting, eat it up, and
then die shortly thereafter. Politically, we wish them along in
healthy lives as long as they stop committing crimes. Speaking
of which, I posted it on X and if you
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can help identify the person who Jeff Hunt, good man,
Jeff Hunt says kicked him in the back, and I
believe anything Jeff says. And then you can see on
the video of something very consistent with that. But Jeff says,
this guy kicked him in the back. I personally absolutely
believe Jeff and would have no reason not to. And
(16:33):
then you see Jeff follow the guy and get him
on camera full frontal, so him, well, why do you
let me go on and on and on? Why did
you just stop me?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
I was doing one hundred thousand thanks?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Okay, Well good they I did him. Well, yeah, I'm
glad to hear that, because justice must be done.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
The power of X the Internet on our side of
it is we have smart people on our side of it,
very perceptive people. And this woman, I don't know how
she did it. Maybe facial recognition to anology.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
That's the first thing I was thinking.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, zoomed in on him, got his face and his
brother are their picture together and graduation. It's obviously him.
So I can only hope for Jeff's sake. We like
Jeff a lot. He's a competitor, but you know we
are of like minds on so many issues, good man,
And that this person is found and this person is prosecuting.
Because you watched the half of the video, the guy
just drop kicked him from behind, blindsided him.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
No reason. Jeff didn't provoke it.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
It is not at all. No, he can't go around
kicking people, right, And so I'm so glad that Jeff
posted that. It's up on my ex if you want
to see it. Very very glad to hear they've identified
the person. So I'll look into that some more during
the break and see if we have anything to report.
Do you know if that person has been arrested.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
That's where I left it was they had a pretty
darn good idea who it was. I can text Jeff
right now, see.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I'll do that. Okay, please do that, because that that
is so wrong, so wrong and good. I'm glad the
community came together on that. So we'll have an update
on that, hopefully after the break. And it's amazing, isn't it.
Three or three by the way, seven one, three eight
two five five, No matter where you are in the
world text DA in five seven seven three nine. But
it's amazing how so many on the left think they
(18:12):
can just get away with any kind of violence, any
kind of lawlessness. It's a remarkable state of mind. But
but it's you look at the top right. You look
at the Mike Johnston's of the world, who talk openly
about using the Denver police to stop federal law enforcement
from enforcing federal law, talks openly about getting tens of
(18:32):
thousands of people in the street to stop federal law
enforcement from enforcing federal law. You see such blatant disregard
for the law from so many elected officials on the left. Yeah,
the contagion effect is real, but must be stopped. Three
or three someone three eight two five five texts DA
and five seven seven three nine. You're on the Dan
Capla show.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Podcasts have warned that any protests on Saturday would be
met with force.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Can you clarify what kind of protest President Trump does
support or find acceptable?
Speaker 6 (19:11):
President absolutely supports peaceful protests. He supports the First Amendment,
He supports the right of Americans to make their voices heard.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
He does not.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Support violence of any kind. He does not support assaulting
law enforcement officers who are simply trying to do their job.
It's very clear for the president what he supports and
what he does not. Unfortunately, for Democrats, that line has
not been made clear, and they've allowed this unrest, in
this violence to continue, and the President has had to
step in. So if there were peaceful protests on Saturday
for the militate parade, President Trump would allow that. Of course,
(19:41):
the President supports peaceful protest.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
What a stupid question, boy she is. She's a firepap
and you know that it's worth mentioning in. One of
the big question marks heading into the president's second term was, Okay,
is there going to be more stability in his staff
than the first time around? And and he has obviously
learned so many lessons, and he had a historically great
(20:05):
first term in so many ways. Obviously COVID underminded at
the end, but but his so much talent, so much
stability in the administration. Obviously, he's a very smart guy
who had a long time to think about what he
do differently when he got that second term, and and
doing so much of that well three or three seven
one three eight two five five the number text d
(20:26):
A N five seven seven three nine Texter Jeff who
talking about our friend Jeff Hunt, who's on a competing
radio station, but a good man. And he was kicked
in the back at a at one of these ice
protests yesterday, and then I'm glad he went after the
guy got him on video, nothing physical. And I am
(20:48):
told now that he's been identified. You sent me a instagram.
I think Ryan of the alleged perpetrator.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
That's correct, and that sure.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Looks like him. I mean, I'm not going to name
him right now because I want authorities to verify. I
also know that, but but I think I got an update.
Good news for humanity. I think there's probably only one
person who looks that way.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Wow, Dan, that's about as vicious as you get.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
That was vicious by your standards, yes, but no, let
me verify. I saw the photo the kid with his
brother graduation, and I agree with your assessment.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
However, I got an update. Jeff Hunt just texted me.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
And I was asking him about it's like Ferris Buehler,
Pray for Ferris. Jeff saved.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yes, I mean, it's fortunate that it was only a
kick in the back.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
But anyway, Jeff said, I asked him if this is
advancing through the legal process, and he responded, yes, going
to DPD tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
I have to file in person. He's filing charges.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Good, good, No, you need to. You need to and Jeff, no,
I mean you need to do that for the benefit
of everybody, including the perpetrate.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
That's exactly right, including that young man needs an learn
a lesson.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
He's got terrible parents obviously, the moderenforced discipline. No, he
doesn't have boundaries. What kind of fool goes around kicking
people randomly in public?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
You know what my first thought was, I don't know
this individual, and I don't know whether he was on
drugs or not. I simply don't know. But my first
thought when I watched that tape was that's somebody on drugs. Again,
I don't know whether he is or not. But that's
where I come back to the parent thing, Ryan, because
you can have parents who are the very best parents imaginable,
right from any walk of life, and if a kid
(22:33):
gets hooked on chemicals, anything can happen at that point.
I don't know if that's what happened out, you know,
with what happened to Jeff, But I'm just saying it would.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Be the kindest explanation because otherwise that's demonic you go
around doing that. Dan, I gotta tell you you had
parents like mine, very old school. If I had done
that at that age, my dad would have kicked my
ass well.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
And what he would have done, what your dad would
have done, I think any of us would have done.
Would have went and got Jeff and said, okay, now
it's your turn. Ye, no, right there.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Yes, my dad.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Wouldn't have done it, but he would probably thought about it.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Do you think how you would you have handled You?
Never would have done that, but if you.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Had, you know, Can I tell you a short story?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Absolutely? Okay, please do.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
The arena is full overflowing standing room ontely. It's a vicious,
violent basketball game between two big rivals, and some guy
comes up and could have killed me the way he
chep shotted me on the court. I walked up to
(23:44):
him center court, squared him up nothing from behind, face
to face, and I laid him out one punch. He
was done. The place exploded, exploded, that riot may still
be going on, and so and all of this was
eighth grade. So then I remember walking into the house
(24:06):
and you know, my dad six foot three, six foot four,
two hundred and forty pound, you know, just buff, former
college basketball player, Chicago police officer. All of a sudden,
dark living room chair turns around. He's sitting in the
chair and he just looks at me and he said,
you're real proud of yourself, aren't you. And that was
(24:31):
more devastating to me than his tone, his look. He
accomplished everything he needed to with that, and I changed.
I changed after that, yep, because you know, he was
just such a great man, and I had disappointed him
and embarrassed the family.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
And that point right there, Dan, because your mom used
to say, I remember these stories.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Well, you know you're a capitalist.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
You're better than that.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
You're better than that.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
And I kept trying to tell her I wasn't my captains.
That did not not go that did not go over well.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I tried that once.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I tried, Yeah, but that was the same, that's the
same thought I would have again, You're right, best parents
in the world. Kids can turn out bad, but vast
majority of the time kids raised right, they're going to
think about, you know, what does my action in this
moment reflect upon my family?
Speaker 4 (25:22):
How does it make my parents look? How does it
make me look?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
That that level of self awareness, which this kid clearly
had not. And to your point, Dan, the most charitable
explanation would have been.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Well, maybe he's jacked up on drugs.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
But that is my point, Ryan, because when I was
growing up, and again I won the lottery, I had
the greatest parents in the world.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
But when I was growing up, drugs were not a thing. Okay,
Obviously violence was that, that kind of fighting was that
was just part of growing up in Chicago. But drugs
weren't insane. So you can't get better parents than I had.
But if somehow, you know, like if drugs were the
(26:02):
kind of thing back then that they are now, who knows,
you know, pure pressure everything else. You try something, then
you get hooked, That's what I think changes the whole equation.
And again I don't know whether that the the guy
who did this to Jeff and hopefully will face the
full force of justice now, was on drugs. Or not.
He just looked like it to me. And that's that's
(26:23):
that's why I think it's so undermined society. So that's
that's why I make that comment of parenting, because man,
I've seen it. I've seen some of the greatest parents
you could ever imagine, and then their kid gets gets
into chemicals through friends or something else, and that was
That's one of the really heinous things about the legalization
of marijuana in Colorado. I don't care about some adult
(26:43):
going out and in their own house doing whatever they
want to do, as long as they're not hurting anybody else.
But you cannot have legalized marijuana the way we have
it in Colorado without hurting the kids. You just can't
because of the increased availability combined with the green light effect.
And everybody behind legalization knew that it was going to
mean a lot more stoned kids, and that that is
(27:05):
a crime. It's a crime against humanity, it's a crime
against these children. It devastates families and communities and ways
large and small. That's all I'm saying is you introduce
those chemicals into society and particularly you know, into you know,
the kids in high school and even now you know
(27:26):
the kids in junior high and you have just done
a world of harm for for a lifetime. Three or
three someone three A two five five text d an
five seven seven three nine on that much brighter note,
Alexa Wrights Dan, never get a tattoo on your forearm
and roll up your sleeves if you don't want to
be identified. Thank you, Alexa. Very good advice. But it
ties into what you and I were talking about yesterday
(27:47):
on the elevator. Maybe it was Kelly and me that
it's time to get a tattoo.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
You were not talking about that with me.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
That must have been Kelly.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Was that you Kelly as a havr of no tattoos myself?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Did we make a decision on is it going to
be a sleeve? Two sleeves? Do I have to pay
double because of my guns? Do you do you remember
what my suggestion was too, no scales of just Oh
that's a very good suggestion. It is very good suggestion.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I would have suggested your Irish family crest for capitalists.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
We don't have one.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
You gotta be kiddnamed.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
We don't have a crest. Do you have a crest?
Rich on under a bridge?
Speaker 4 (28:28):
What are you talking.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
No, we don't have a crest. Every Irish family, rich
people have crests. No serious was a crest? What working
person as a crest? Irish people all over the place
brag about it. I'll call my sister during the break,
do it. She is the family historian.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I'll find the crest during the order.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
The spelling of your family name has changed.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Oh my goodness. You had to protect the family. Yeah,
it was k A p l E S. And then
my grandfather and his brother were very active in the IRA,
back when it was a legit organization, and so the
family name was changed to protect the well. Their names
changed to c A p l I S to protect
(29:10):
the extended family. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not sure it worked.
Here on the here on the Dan c A p
l I sh.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast The
Beach Boy Die. Oh Dan, yeah, Brian, Well that's.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
All we've had today is beach really? Oh that's sad.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Brian Wilson passed away at the age of eighty two today.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Such great music, oh.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Endless supply of it.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
I don't even have enough musical breaks to come back
from to play.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
All the great roll stuff. Well, Chris Berman says, we're
all day to day, right, that's right. Yeah, Hey, if
you just joined us, thank you. So much going on
in the world, and we're covering all of it today,
including Jeff Haunt, who's you know on radio and Colorado
got kicked in the back at an anti ice rele yesterday.
Do it nothing other than covering the rally and really
(30:03):
cool to see people come together in the exosphere and
elsewhere and identify the alleged purp and so hopefully DPD
will bring the full force of the law down. I mean,
very very important statement needs to be made there. So
we're talking about all that, and that leads to other issues.
It led to the question of parenting, and you know,
(30:25):
can the very best parents and in this society, now
that the left has intentionally flooded with dangerous drugs, can
the very best parents then have kids who just go
completely off the rails because they get hooked on chemicals.
My premise is, yet, I do want to say that
we have been so incredibly blessed in our family that
we've been spared that heartache, completely spared that heartache. There's
(30:48):
just none of that going on with our kids. But
I know so many great parents who, despite them doing
everything right as parents, you know, their kids got introduced
to it and those chemicals are so powerful it just
kind of takes over. So we're talking about that, We're
talking about how to save Denver, because that's the crazy thing, right,
It's so easily saved, so easily saved, and it starts
(31:09):
with the right fix to the homeless problem. Because what
we've got now is Denver in a doom loop because
Mike Johnston has decided that that his own political prospects
are more important than Denver surviving financially. And so what
he's done is he has committed, and he committed publicly
on day one. Doesn't matter where you are anywhere in
(31:30):
the world, come here and we will get you a home.
With taxpayer money.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
We will get you a home. We will get you
a home.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Set it over and over again, and people are taking
them up on it. So even though you see fewer
people on the streets, homelessness is up for obvious reasons. Right,
anybody who can get a bus ticket, they're going to
go where the mayor is promised to get them a home.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
We will get you a home.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
The problem is as nice as it is to have
folks off the street, the city can't afford it. It
just can't afford it long term do we have now?
As a result, we have these big budget cuts. We
have really good, hardworking people being laid off their city
jobs as we speak, we have services being caught and
it's only going to get worse. Law enforcement, public safety
(32:13):
being undermined because Mike Johnston, for his own political purposes,
is committed to using your money to get a home.
For anybody who wants to come to Denver and claim.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
One, we will get you a home.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Unsustainable. It would be like Grian. Let's say that that
you're out at one of the shoeling estates and you've
got some neighbors, and you know the places are kind
of run down. You don't like the way they look,
you don't like the lawn. You want them to look nicer.
So you say, Okay, I'm going to go out. I'm
going to paint their homes, I'm going to buy new windows,
I'm going to do all this stuff for all the
(32:46):
homes on my block so that it all looks better. Well,
it's all going to look better, but you're going to
go broke and then you're going to have to sell
the shoeling estate because it's unsustainable. That's what Mike Johnston's do.
The difference is he's doing it with other people's money.
I eat taxpayers. But it can be saved. And the
key to saving Denver is to solve the homeless problem
(33:10):
in an intelligent way. And as I said at the
time he launched this, it would end up where it's
ending up today, unsustainable and counterproductive for the homeless folks
because they're not getting their problems fixed. They're getting warehoused
out of public view at a very high cost of
your dollars, but they're not getting their underlying problems fixed.
So as soon as the money eventually runs out, and
(33:31):
Johnston will probably be out of town before then, yeah,
they're going to go back on the street with their
problems unfixed. As I said back then, the obvious solution
here is you have to make it loud and clear
to every homeless person in Colorado and every homeless person
across the country, if you come to Denver and you
violate our laws, you will lose your freedom. Period. That
(33:55):
right off the bat is going to deter virtually all
and chase most away because universally, homeless people want their freedom,
and we've talked about the underlying causes. So anyway, what
you do is you send that message, but then you
have to back it up. You have to deliver on it.
But the way they lose their freedom isn't going into
our jails. You take a fraction of the money you're
(34:16):
spending right now on these Mike Johnston taxpayer funded hotels,
and what you do is you set up long term,
long term housing and rehab centers where people go to
serve their sentences. So they lose their freedom. They can't
just bop in and out like they do right now.
With Johnston funded taxpayer funded housing. They lose their freedom,
(34:40):
but they're not rotten away in some jails somewhere. You know,
they're in a safe, clean facility. It's not the four seasons,
but one where they can get rehab, help, etc. That's
how you solve your homeless problem at a fraction of
the cost and much long term benefit, whereas right now
there's no long term benefit this. There are long term
(35:02):
townsides on every front. Texter Dan, I agree about the
cannabis issue in Colorado. My son's life has been radically
changed in a negative way. I'm part of an advocacy
group called Johnny's Ambassadors. We are bringing awareness around cannabis
and deuced psychosis. I got to tell you, Johnny's Ambassadors
is incredibly impressive. I follow them on x I read
(35:22):
their stuff all the time. In fact, Ryan, would you
remind me I want to start getting somebody from that
organization because they have this very compelling series going of
moms who are doing videos for the Johnny's Ambassador's site,
and they're telling the stories of what's happened to their
sons because of marijuana use. And it's raw and it's true,
(35:44):
and it's something everybody has to see. Let's start getting
some of those moms on like one a week. Maybe
you're on the Dancapit Show.
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