October 14, 2025 • 35 mins
Vic Lombardi is well-known for his work on Altitude TV sports, but is also a proud Italian-American with very passionate feelings and thoughts on the importance of Columbus Day. He joins Dan to discuss his family's history on this topic.
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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. Nothing more American
than Vic Lombardi is going to open the show with us.
And I'm so happy to be able to say that
because Vic is a Colorado icon and well known. Of
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course is worked Colorado sports, taking so many different forms,
so many.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Big awards, all that good stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And obviously mister Nugget known very well for his work
with Altitude Sports and the Denver Nuggets, etc.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
But if you haven't had a.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Chance to see Vic's work, or or run into Vic,
or connect with him at a charity event which he
does a million of, he is just one of the
really good people ever in Denver media. And so looking
forward to have this conversation with Vic. Let me know
when we have them, guys. Oh that's a beautiful thing.
Ask and you shall receive. And Vic knows that reference
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as a deeply faithful man as well. Hey, Vic, thanks
for coming on. Really appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Danny quite the honor to come on the raid.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Do with you, my man?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
How you doing Holy col Well? Better since you're here?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And Vic and I spent some time together yesterday and
we were talking about Columbus Day because yesterday was Columbus Day,
and I just thought who better to come on air
and talk about that? Because I got called out quite
appropriately by some listeners yesterday because I was talking about
yesterday's Mother Cabrini Day, and obviously, you know, she's so
very worthy of every kind of praise, but it was
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pointed out to me I'd fallen into, you know, the
whole Jared Polist thing of renaming Columbus Day. So Vic
as the single most Italian person I've ever known, and
I've known a lot of one hundred percent Italian people
on the South side of Chicago, can you give us
your take on Columbus Day.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Well, we've gone through this for many years here in Denver.
There was a Columbus Day and a Columbus Day parade
and everything that went with it for many years, and
of course it started phasing out and it became contentious.
What was once celebratory became a contentious item in Denver,
and it became no more. What's ironic about it, Dan,
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is that the Columbus Day holiday was actually put forth
here in Denver, Colorado, by an Italian immigrant by the
name of the Angelo Notche way back in the late
eighteen hundreds. He arrived and in the early nineteen hundred
he suggested it to a Colorado senator. We need to
do something for the Denver and the Colorado Italian American community.
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So he suggested Christopher Columbus for whatever reason, and that's
the day. And that's when it became first a holiday
in Colorado, and then the rest of the country adopted it.
But it started in Colorado and then sadly it ended
in Colon VI.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
You're just making that up right, work.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
It cannot be your Columbus Day actually started in Denver.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Oh, that is a wild story. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
The history, you know, because people have to understand, you know,
every heritage, every immigrant group came through this country and
face some difficult times. And you know, being a little
bit of a student of Italian heritage, if you do
little history, looking back in the eighteen hundreds, Italians helped
build this country and.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
They did it a lot.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Of blood, sweat and tears, and they weren't highly regarded
among the folks who lived here, it was it was
some tough floding. There was very many indications that they
were not even wanted here. And you know, we every
every ethnic group seems to go through this. Italians went
through it. Italian Americans in the eighteen and early nineteen hundreds.
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And in Denver, Colorado, if you go back and do
the history there, a lot of a lot of Wellby
was immigrated by Italians. A lot of the salt mines here,
a lot of the mining towns were all Italian Americans
who came here to become US citizens and to become
better in life. And that that's the American story, to
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chase the dream here in the United States. And you
know Mother Cabrini, of all people who came here and
started some great work in Denver, she made many stops.
You haven't seen the movie Cabrini, you should watch it.
He's the one who pointed it out that these impoverished
Italian communities need better, need more. And that's when they
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sort of banded together and started Columbus Days.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And is that what brought Mother Cabrini to Colorado was
ministering to the Italian immigrants in particular.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well, she chased immigrants, but she came to start schools,
you know, for foster kids. She did that her passion
with kids, Her passion was making sure that kids were
taken care of. Heck, she played a big role in
my high school. I went to Holy Family High School
in grade school. She made a stop there. She you know,
she left her indelible imprint on many different communities in Denver.
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But you have to understand the Italian American community here.
It's not what it is in other cities. If you
go to Chicago, you're from Chicago, New York. Go to Boston,
you know, they're still having Columbus State parades. It's still
part of the fabric of those communities. Why because the
Italian American community is pretty vibrant there. It's just not
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the same in Denver, Colorado anymore.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Bick Lombardi our guest. You can follow Vic on acxit
at Vick Lombardi. Now, Vic, is it that our Italian
American community isn't that big and vibrant or have we
all all right thinking people just been swamped by the
crazy left at this point.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I think it's a little bit of both. I think,
you know, you're sort of painted into a corner and
told told what to do, rather than not not asked
what to do, but told what to do. And that's
what's difficult. All you're trying to do. If people need
to understand something. Italian Americans are bowing at the altar
of the man Christopher Columbus. You know, I don't care
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about the mat. I don't know the guy. He was
an explorer, he did some great things. It's just a
way to celebrate the culture. It's a way to celebrate
the heritage and what it was, what was given to us.
So now you move on to a different type of name.
That's Mother Cabrini Day, which is perfect, right, Mother Cabrini.
But you tell me, does it hit the same as
it does in other parts of the country when they
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celebrate Columbus Day. I mean they're having parades or having well,
just try to pass it by.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Like it doesn't mean anything, right, because it got canceled, right,
I mean, the Italian community here got canceled by the left,
just like so many other communities have been canceled by
the left. So you're right, it's it's not going to
feel the same because the left came in and took
something away.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
No, I remember going to some of those early parades
twenty twenty five years when I returned to Denver, you know,
when I made my run and I came back home,
and I was so fun. It was, you know, get
together with my tiny community. And I actually jumped on
a float with my parents in downtown Denver and we
had aids thrown at us, and I said, Okay, enough
of this, We're not doing this anymore. So, you know,
it's just it got ugly and it got contentious again.
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And what was born out of love and what was
born out of eagerness by a community to sort of
shape its way here, turned into an ugly thing. And
I think it happened for all the wrong reasons. It
was forced upon us. Nobody was asked you you do this.
This is what he's gonna do, and you're gonna like it. Now.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I was in that same parade, different float. And if
I'm remembering the year right, because that's when war Turtill
and and his acolytes were attacking the parade. And and again,
what really ticks me off is, you know, and I know,
a fraction of the history of Italians in Colorado. That
you do, obviously, but you have this great history, this
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great Italian community in Colorado that has worked so hard
and built so much, and then you have the Left
in and take power, and through intimidation and canceling, then
all of a sudden, something gets taken away from all
of us, something honoring the Italian community. That just pisses
me off, That's all I'm saying. So I'm embarrassed that
I fell into that yesterday and just talked about it
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as Mother Cabrini Day.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Hey, she's a saint. You know, all honored to Mother Cabrini.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
But we do have to remember the Left came in
and took that away from everybody.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
You know. It's funny because if you look across the
sports schedule, my co host and my radio station, Mark Moser,
he did a hockey game yesterday and the hockey game
was at ten thirty in the morning, and all these
hockey games were scheduled early, and people around the office
are like, why is everything happening early?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Columbus.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
That's right, people in Chicago they still celebrated. Wow, we
don't we make we pretend it's there, but it's not there.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
That is such a great point, Vic, because Vic and
I happened to meet up at Ballerini yesterday. I noticed
on one of the screens an avalanche came and I
thought it had to be a replay, right, because it's
like Monday morning. But you're right, because Columbus Stay is
getting celebrated all these other places where the Left wasn't
able to take it away, and let's hope they're not.
(09:24):
But hey, Vic, so great to have you. And let
me ask, how else can people follow you? I know
we've got you on exit at Vic Lombardi.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Sure, well, if you want to taste of heritage, I
guess follow me more on Instagram. For those who want
a little insight, look at an immigrant family from Italy
because I'm always posting about my parents. My parents, to
me are my greatest role models. They came to this
country with nothing, with sixth grade education, and they built
something big. They sent all their kids to high school
and college, they paid for their tuitions, and they did
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something that I could never hope to achieve. So I
honor them as much as it possibly can, and I
do it on social media. And I know there are
a lot of other people out there, other immigrants, from
all the type of nationalities all of us. All of
us are immigrants at some point, and we all chase
this American dream. And that's what I like to do
on social media. Show how my parents did it?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Man, I'll tell you and your family such a great
Colorado story, and now obviously your family continuing that your
son a budding superstar young lawyer. That the whole saying
there needs to be a book. There needs to be
a reality show. And I know, I hope I'm not
talking our school. I know a lot of people have
pitched you and your family on a reality show, but
all I can tell you is I would watch that religiously.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
So hey, appreciate the time today, my friend Daniel the best,
appreciate your support.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
That is Vic Lombardi. Man, there's only one Vic Lombardi.
Do you know Vic Ryan personally?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Do you know?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
I wish I knew him better because he sounds so
like iconic in terms of Italian heritage and the passion
with which he speaks. I mean, we're talking about Chicago Italians.
I can tell you about Detroit Serbs and that my
grandparents here in the same story. My mom was an
immigrant proud to be Americans, wanted to have success in
this country, but wanted to be Americans. And I love
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the passion of which Bok speaks. You got to go
have lunch with them. He is one of a kind.
He is a Colorado treasurer. Thank you to Vic Lombardi.
You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
And now back to the Dankapla Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Vick Lombardi joined us in the first segment talking about Columbus.
A lot of reaction from Texter's Dan, holy blank, Columbus
Day was started in Colorado.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah, yeah, we did not know it until we talked
to our friend Vick Lombardi. The locals ended it, but
still big nationally and in pockets. But the locals didn't
end it. The Left ended it. And that's why I'm
so glad the Texter made the point yesterday. You know
that the left ended it here it's still being celebrated.
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As Vic pointed out to the point where yesterday the
ABS played a morning game Colorado timeh because in another
sty who did they play?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Was it Columbus Blue Jackets? But they played somebody? I
think they did. They played somebody. Well, think about that
then in an area where they still celebrate it, which
is apparently everywhere else, and it should be here too.
It's right there in the name Columbus, right, blue jackets, Columbus,
o Hio.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Are they going to rename the city?
Speaker 5 (12:17):
I mean, this is the thing, Dan, I used to
be on the train of Okay, I see redskins.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
That's offensive. Maybe change that now.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
I'm like, you know what, No, No, I want to
push back all the way on this because you open
that door and now you get Guardians instead of Indians,
and now you want the love.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Maybe to rename the city of Columbus.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Well, and then you're pawing down all the George Washington statues.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
You can go right, No, it's and that's the thing.
It goes back to what we were talking about last week.
How did we get rolled in Colorado? And how did
people of faith get rolled in Colorado?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
It's and I hope, I hope people start to push
back at the ballot box, put pushback through the political
process because it is not right.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
People like yourself, Vic Lombardi, Knights of Columbus, you know,
pro Italian groups here in the state of Colorado. Dan,
what if we decided to do a Columbus Day parade anyway, Now,
why does it have to be canceled by the left?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Don't let them cancel us?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Well, no, good point obviously, starting point is, you know,
the left gets to decide because they have all the power,
whether it's a state holiday and you get all the
benefits and everything else of a state holiday. You're right,
you could still have the parade, you could still do
that stuff. But it's just yeah, it's extremely maddening on
that level. Just the latest example, you know, Italians in Colorado,
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the disrespect to them. But then the broader point, right,
I mean, we are all being rolled.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
By the left, and that this to the point the
US Supreme Court steps in and says, whoa wait a second,
we see you Colorado, We see this, this hostility toward faith,
this hostility toward Christianity.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Right, and how did that ever happen in Colorado?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
How did and I understand the whole blueprint thing I
left took over Colorado, we know that story. But but
did how did this open direct hostility toward faith, in
particular the Christian faith? How did Colorado become ground zero
for that? To the point where the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I think they just have a they set aside three
or four cases a year just to do out of
Colorado because it's so gross, and another one's coming and
oh yeah, along those lines, as long as the lefts
in power, yea. It's what makes the whole Jimmy Kimmel
fiasco such a joke, Dan, that they're all concerned about
free speech. They were canceling people taking the President of
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the United States off of Facebook and Twitter, silencing a
story that The New York Post wrote because it was
politically inconvenient for them, the Hunter Biden laptop story, looking
to get so many conservative comedians, actors, musicians canceled. They're
the ones that want to silence us to the point
of even assassination in the form of Charlie Kirk. The
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rhetoric that comes toward the right that's incendiary and the
greenlight that they're the ones doing the canceling, not us.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah, and that's why you can't even call him hypocrits
or just dishonest Texter, says Dan vic Lombardi, also known
as mister north Side.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, that's great and so much more than that.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
He gotten political like this before, Dan, because I have
to imagine. You know, he's in that sports sphere and
I've been there for altitude and covering the nuggets and such.
He does a great job, as you said, But is
he at risk by well being public?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
If he's I wouldn't personally, I wouldn't call Vic political.
He's not. I don't think he's ever been.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
And I honestly don't know Democrat, Republican, left, you know,
red or blue kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Vic is just he's a man's man.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I love.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
He's going to speak the truth as he sees it.
He's not going to be censored. So I really don't
see it as political. But I don't know the answer
to your question. I don't even know if he's a
registered anything.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Is he just at a point then or he's accumulated
enough street cred and let's say capital, however he chooses
to spend that that a Vick Lombardy can say something
like what he just did, and I'm very happy that
he did. He is very pro Columbus day and very
passionate about it.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
And they're not going to come from him.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Why he well them, I mean like the cancel culture
mob and all that.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Well, and again I think This goes back to being
just a strong person of conviction. I don't think Vic
is sitting there processing whether they're going to come after
him or not. I think he's saying what's true, what isn't,
what's right, what's wrong, and he's just speaking the truth.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
You can do that, though, and then be boxed out
or canceled or sideline by maybe somebody that runs I'm
not just thinking out loud here, somebody runs Altitude that
doesn't like what he said about Columbus Day.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
You know, they're just I mean, one of the very
admirable things about VIC is there are just some people
who are willing to take that risk. You know, they
understand it's a very short trip on this third rock
from the sun, and you're either going to sit here
and be a slave, or you're going to sit here
and you're going to speak the truth is as you
know it well.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
And something I want to say on behalf of iHeart
here is never have they ever, to my knowledge, whether
it's you, me, Michael Brown, Ross Kaminski, Mandy Connell, ever
told us what.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
We know or couldn't say.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Oh my goodness, it's been about thirty years for me.
I remember and they've never done that. I mean, I
can remember some vivid examples, very big corporation that did
their largest advertiser, for sure. And I was relatively new
on air and I was helping out on Tom Martino's
show and I did some reporting on something I was
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one hundred percent right on consumer angle. Corporation didn't like it.
They came into Lee Larson and said, get rid of him,
or we're pulling our advertising. And I was nothing zero
in the scope of things at the station, and they
were the biggest advertiser, and Lee said, show me where
he's wrong, and they couldn't do it because I was right,
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and Lee back me up and they're advertising.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Let me tell you why that was the smart move
even back then. Were they Clear Channel then or was
it iHeart Channel Clear Channel back then? But even so,
you stand by your on air personality in that case,
because once you open that door, you invite more of
it and it'll never stop.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Well right, And for a guy like Lee Larson, and
this is kind of a Vic Lombardi comparison.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
It goes back to you stand by the truth.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
If you're going to be in broadcast and you're going
to be in media, you stand by the truth, and
you can't let anybody intimidate.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
You out of reporting the truth.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
You know, that's one reason why Lee Larson was a
giant in this business. And there have been other examples
as well. You're one hundred percent right about that. You're
on the Dan Kaplas.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Show, you're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
We have.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Tell them we want disarmed, and they will disarm, and
if they don't disarm, we will disarm them, and it'll
happen quickly and perhaps violently said they will disarmed. Do
you understand me, because you always ever says, oh, well,
they won't disome, they will disarm.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
And I spoke to Hummas.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
And I said, you're going to disarm, right, yes, sir,
We're going to disarm.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
That's what they tell me. They will disarm or we
will disarm them. Got it? Okay, what you said quickly,
But what is the deadline you're going to.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Put on pretty quickly?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
A reasonable You know, we're never going to have another
president like this in our lifetime. Right, He's talking about
something deadly serious and I want to get to the
meat of it in a second. But but just the
whole Yeah, I spoke to Hummas said, you're going to disarm, Yes.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Sir, we're going to dis I mean, it's just.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
It's so interesting, it's so entertaining, it's so humorous.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
But here it's deadly serious.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
But you know Trump, Trump talks like a guy who
has the cards, because he has the cards. Because the
only way you know the return of the hostage is
you can't fake that, right, So at that point, that's
all the leverage these demon monsters have is the hostages.
They don't give it up unless they're done. They don't
give it up unless Trump has maneuvered in a historically
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brilliant way to the point where the Arab countries willingly say.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
No, Hamas, you're out options. And they pulled the plug
on Hamas.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
So that's why he can be that confident, right because
the Arab countries, which got an awful lot in exchange
for this, the Arab countries have assured him that they're
going to disarm Hamas.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Now the US.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Shouldn't and won't you know, send troops in there to
disarm Hamas. But you're going to see an awful lot
of Hamas people killed in the middle of the night.
If it's necessary to make it disarm and they won't
be killed by the US. They'll be killed, I think,
on the instruction of President Trump, but the instruction will
be to these Arab countries which just did a deal
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that's very good for them.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
He's built a coalition of the willing.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
As George W. Bush used to say in the War
on Terror.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
But he has done it, like you said, in a
brilliant maneuver to broaden this appeal. And it's not just
US and Israel against Hamas. It is a coalition, like
I said, of Katars, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, other
nations in the region. And it's in their best interests,
as Trump has expressed to them. And it could be anything,
could be variations of carrot and stick approach, but Hamas
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will be disarmed. And what I think about when I
hear him Dan in that circumstance, he means business.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
We know that that's the least of it.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Yeah, but imagine if somehow a Democrat president were able
to get to this point, either Joe Biden or Kamala Harris,
them trying to talk tough like that, it would be
a punch light and they could never get to this point, right,
it's peace through strength and the modern Democratic parties.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
You have pined me of weakness.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Listen, We've had as many or more Democrats die for
this country as we have Republicans die in battle for
this country. But when it comes to that, the phar
secular left that's anti American in ways, that's taken over
this country. Yeah, that their weakness. They project weakness, they
advertise weakness. Quote lead from behind, right means get subjugated.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Barack Obama here it is. I keep this.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Nobody on air has played this sound more over the
years because this Joe's goes right to the heart of
Obama and the Democratic Party. They want an America that
is no stronger than any other nation on earth.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Think about that.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
No world order that elevates one nation or group of
people over another will succeed.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
No balance of power among nations will hold.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, and they didn't like catch him on a hidden
tape with a bunch of Lefti's everybody's doing a bong
in the middle of the night.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
That was at the United Nations. He was proud of that.
That's his ideology.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
That is that the left that owns the Democratic Party,
that's their ideology the opposite of Trump. That's why he
has the meat, he has the results, and he can
be absolutely certain yes, Hamas will be disarmed. And listen,
these Arab countries didn't get taken for a ride by Trump.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
They got a deal that's very very good for them
and their people.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
And Israel had to give things up as part of
this deal as well. Right, there's not going to be
annexation of the West Bank, and you know, Bbe gave
up some other things also, But for a deal that's
great for everybody. Three oh three seven one three eight
two five five texts dam five seven seven three nine. Hey,
I want to shift gears talked to you about something
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close to home.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Two things.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
One is Trump administration just minutes ago revoked the visas
of six people who celebrated the killing of Charlie Kirk.
And the statement from the White House is the United
States has no obligation to host foreigners who wished death
on Americans. Now, this just happened, right, so i'ven't had
time to do legal research on it.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I like this. I don't know if it's legal or not.
I assume it is because they did it. I like
the idea behind it.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah, if you're gonna have a visa, you're going to
be in this country, you know, at the grace of
the American people. Then yeah, any anybody here who is
wishing death on Americans shouldn't be here, right?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Am I missing something in all of this?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Again, caveat haven't had time to do the legal research.
I don't know if there's a Supreme Court case out
there that says this or that, but the basic idea.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Who could argue with that?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
If somebody could, we'll probably hear from if you can
text us DN five seven seven, three nine or three
oh three seven one, three eight two five five.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
My stances goes right to the root of what you
just said. Dan. It is a privilege to be here.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Nobody has a right to be here on a work
visa or anything else student visa that is allotted to
an individual as a privilege, and you will do as
the United States want you to do in this country.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
I don't know why that's complicated.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Well, the way I'd put it is, obviously, as Americans say,
we have this birthright to say whatever we want within
the framework of the Amendment time place manner restrictions. But
thanks to our current Supreme Court that that's broad and
getting broader.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
If the Left has its way, it'll be narrow, narrow, narrow, narrow.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
But yeah, if you are not an American citizen and
you are allowed into this country by the American people
through the visa process, it seems to me at that
point that do we want to be people have people
thrown out because they don't like the party that's in
power at the time and they speak out about American politics. No,
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I don't think you throw people out for that. I
think if you have people who are advocating violence, celebrating violence,
celebrating violence against Americans, I think you have every right
to kick them out.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Yeah, you are here by the good graces of the
American people, and under no circumstances, as you just elucidated,
is the American government obligated to furnish anyone with a
visa of any kind to be in this country. We
don't owe anybody that you're not owed, that you're not
entitled to that to come into our country.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
And I think we've got to get away from that mindset.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
You're certainly and you're certainly not entitled to come into
this country and celebrate the killing of an American. You're
not entitled to come into this country and advocate violence,
advocate lawlessness.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
You're not entitled to do any of that.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Again, I would draw the line at somebody here on
a visa wants to say President Trump's a bad president.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You don't throw them out over that. No, No, but
that's not what they're doing here as I understand it.
And again the details just starting to come down. But
Wall Street Journal reporting six visa's revoked over people celebrating
the death of Charlie Kirk Texter Dan. President Trump matter
of fact, tired of bs and we need devis back.
MSM is still trying to vilify and gotcha Hitler. Yeah,
(26:44):
and again, as the Bebylon b pointed out, you know
the Israeli legislatures celebrating what the Democrats called Hitler yesterday.
Dan vic Lombardi is an Italian with the facts.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Exclamation point.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Time to fight, fight, fight, encourage redistricting in red states,
educate about local, state and federal issues. Cannot rely on
MSM either. What I want to hear from somebody, and
we are blessed with a brilliant audience is all right,
how do we do that?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
In Colorado. Right, we have been rolled in Colorado.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You know, the the far left, secular, anti faith, anti
Christian radicals have come in and that machine has taken
over this day. And you have seen what they have
done to people of faith, to the point the US
Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Has pointed it out and over and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Slaps down, you know, Jared Polis and the left for
violating the constitutional rights of Colorado's of faith. So what
are we going to do within the electoral process about
that here? Or have people just given up? Do they
just think it's hopeless? THO three seven three eight two
five five.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
When we come back, I told you yesterday we've had
these duy checkpoints over the weekend in our Epo and
Douglas counties.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
I'll give you the results when we come back. I
think they'll shock you.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
What percent of the people just stopped randomly, not for
any driving stuff, just randomly stop. What percentage turned out
to be driving impaired. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Breaking right now.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
As we just mentioned, Narco Terrace and Mexico are reportedly
working in coordination with domestic extremist groups to place bounties
or thousands of dollars on the heads of federal immigration
officers in Chicago. That is according to DHS, who are
now slamming what they're calling an organized campaign of terror
against agents just.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Trying to do their jobs.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah, well, obviously pray for ICE agents. But if they
make the mistake of doing that, anybody on the left,
anybody on the planet, makes a mistake of doing that,
of harming an ICE agent on the words of Trump,
all hell is going to break loose. And having grown
up in Chicago and watching some of what's happening there now,
my dad an officer for thirty years in Chicago, Great
(29:00):
Chicago cup. If this lawlessness, this lefty driven lawlessness that's
going on another police force, you know where the great
men and women are having their hands, you know, handcuffed
behind their backs, not being allowed to enforce the law
because they're lefty. You know, politicians in that city won't
(29:22):
allow law enforcement to do its job.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
That is an extraordinarily dangerous state of affairs.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
And God forbid, should anything happen to one of those
ICE agents, you can imagine what the federal response to
that is going to be three oh three seven one
three eight two five five takes d a N five
seven seven three nine, And I do want to get
to the story of the DUI checkpoints. But as I
was thinking about that, Ryan and I think about my dad,
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who was He is just a prototypical perfect cup you know,
thirty years most of us spent on really really ted
tough streets in Chicago, rose to the level of sergeant.
Just a tremendous law enforcement officer in every way, perfectly clean.
In fact, he transferred to the youth division at one
point because in the youth division there's no funny business
(30:10):
at all, right, I mean, nobody's trying to bribe anybody
in the youth division.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
And my dad was just the perfect cop, totally.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Law abiding, just what you would want. And so this
next short story doesn't have anything to do with him.
But there was an officer from the neighborhood who was
killed in the line. And then there were as I
remember it, I was relatively young at the time, but
not that young. There were I think like six or
seven prime suspects, maybe eight, and then there was some
(30:42):
kind of technicality that led to the prosecution being dropped.
I think it was or charges vastly reduced. And how
long do you think it took Ryan before all of
them were dead?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
How long do you think it took. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I'd have to call my sister to get the exact timing,
but it didn't take long. Yeah, And I'm not advocating that.
I'm not saying that that's good at all. I'm just
saying that, you know, law enforcement traditionally has law enforcements back.
And to see the great police officers of Chicago handcuffed
(31:23):
by the lefty mayor and police chief and being told
they can't respond and help ice officers who are being
attacked and threatened, that's just that's not going to last.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
It is so wrong. That is not going to last.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Three or three seOne, three eight, two, five five the
number we have our local example right, the way that
Mike Johnston has tied the hands of the great Denver
Police Department at times very sad, has to be very
frustrating for those wonderful officers. What about this checkpoint business?
Do you think we should have more of them or
do you have a problem with them? This is a
Fox thirty one story. Douglas or Eppo Counties do I checkpoints.
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See twenty one drivers arrested over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
How many stops? And you know how these checkpoints.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Work, right, They just they set up and they're not
stopping people for probable causes. I understand the operation of
checkpoints or just randomly stopping vehicles. Somebody correct man that
if I'm wrong, that the story doesn't contradict that this
was a team consisting of CSP Pike's Peak do UI team,
(32:28):
Colorado State Patrol statewide do UI team, and the wonderful
Douglas County Sheriff's Office positioned at each location two hundred
and three people being contacted. Out of that, you have
nineteen DUI arrests. Is that surprising to you? That seems
like a stunningly high number to me. One out of ten.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
It's a lot.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Yeah, Yeah, it makes you wonder like kind of extending
your point there, Dan, if we saw this more previlently
throughout the state of Colorado, would that be a good thing?
Would that be infringing upon our rights, freedom's liberties, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
You should have a talk show.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Ryan does have a great Touch show two to four
Monday through Friday, six thirty.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Kids in Denver.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
But yeah, I really want to hear from people on
this because what percentage of the folks in time of
day matters, right, I'll tell you this. My law practice,
we do catastrophic injury and death cases. We represent victims,
and I've been doing it forty one years. The first
maybe thirty years, twenty five years. I can count on
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one hand the number of horrific you know, UI type
fatalities or horrible injuries we had before late afternoon or evening.
Now it's common because now you've got so many people,
so many people who are stoned twenty four to seven.
So many people who get up in the morning, they
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get on this krakawana, you know, they vape it whatever.
So we have all sorts of cases now where people
are stoned in the early morning hours, stoned on their
way into work. Most of the alcohol impairment is still
later in the day. But that's the thing. And I'm
not speaking to this checkpoint because I would guess all
of those officers out there were highly trained and drug recognition,
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et cetera. But it's still so much harder to nail
somebody for driving while impaired by marijuana. They are getting nailed,
and they're getting nailed in larger numbers, and the stats
aren't broken down here. How many of these arrests were
alcohol impairment, how many were drug impairment, how many were
the dreaded mix of the two.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
But we know, I mean, you look at it.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
You look at the way the traffic desks have gone
up dramatically since legalization of marijuana and Colorado, which doesn't
surprise you, right, Yeah, it's just common sense. You're gonna
have a lot more people doing drugs. You're gonna have
a lot more dead bodies on the roadway. That's just
basic common sense, which is a reason we shouldn't have this,
right And the big skyrocket and teen suicides after legalization
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of marijuana, well, Dan, they can't soul the kids.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yeah, give me a break, Give me a break.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
You have a state that legalizes marijuana, puts up more
marijuana stores and Starbucks and McDonald's combined.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
And you don't think the message to kids is, hey,
this stuff's good for you.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
In fact, Rian, do you remember John Hickenlooper's Health Department
marijuana Don't be a labrat? A tremendous campaign they began
to around Hickenlooper changed it under pressure from the marijuana industry.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
You know what the slogan was, I'm not making this up.
Look it up. This from the left. Marijuana. It's good
to know. Yeah, until it kills you.
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. Nothing more American
than Vic Lombardi is going to open the show with us.
And I'm so happy to be able to say that
because Vic is a Colorado icon and well known. Of
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course is worked Colorado sports, taking so many different forms,
so many.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Big awards, all that good stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And obviously mister Nugget known very well for his work
with Altitude Sports and the Denver Nuggets, etc.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
But if you haven't had a.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Chance to see Vic's work, or or run into Vic,
or connect with him at a charity event which he
does a million of, he is just one of the
really good people ever in Denver media. And so looking
forward to have this conversation with Vic. Let me know
when we have them, guys. Oh that's a beautiful thing.
Ask and you shall receive. And Vic knows that reference
(01:02):
as a deeply faithful man as well. Hey, Vic, thanks
for coming on. Really appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Danny quite the honor to come on the raid.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Do with you, my man?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
How you doing Holy col Well? Better since you're here?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And Vic and I spent some time together yesterday and
we were talking about Columbus Day because yesterday was Columbus Day,
and I just thought who better to come on air
and talk about that? Because I got called out quite
appropriately by some listeners yesterday because I was talking about
yesterday's Mother Cabrini Day, and obviously, you know, she's so
very worthy of every kind of praise, but it was
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pointed out to me I'd fallen into, you know, the
whole Jared Polist thing of renaming Columbus Day. So Vic
as the single most Italian person I've ever known, and
I've known a lot of one hundred percent Italian people
on the South side of Chicago, can you give us
your take on Columbus Day.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Well, we've gone through this for many years here in Denver.
There was a Columbus Day and a Columbus Day parade
and everything that went with it for many years, and
of course it started phasing out and it became contentious.
What was once celebratory became a contentious item in Denver,
and it became no more. What's ironic about it, Dan,
(02:19):
is that the Columbus Day holiday was actually put forth
here in Denver, Colorado, by an Italian immigrant by the
name of the Angelo Notche way back in the late
eighteen hundreds. He arrived and in the early nineteen hundred
he suggested it to a Colorado senator. We need to
do something for the Denver and the Colorado Italian American community.
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So he suggested Christopher Columbus for whatever reason, and that's
the day. And that's when it became first a holiday
in Colorado, and then the rest of the country adopted it.
But it started in Colorado and then sadly it ended
in Colon VI.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
You're just making that up right, work.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
It cannot be your Columbus Day actually started in Denver.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Oh, that is a wild story. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
The history, you know, because people have to understand, you know,
every heritage, every immigrant group came through this country and
face some difficult times. And you know, being a little
bit of a student of Italian heritage, if you do
little history, looking back in the eighteen hundreds, Italians helped
build this country and.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
They did it a lot.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Of blood, sweat and tears, and they weren't highly regarded
among the folks who lived here, it was it was
some tough floding. There was very many indications that they
were not even wanted here. And you know, we every
every ethnic group seems to go through this. Italians went
through it. Italian Americans in the eighteen and early nineteen hundreds.
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And in Denver, Colorado, if you go back and do
the history there, a lot of a lot of Wellby
was immigrated by Italians. A lot of the salt mines here,
a lot of the mining towns were all Italian Americans
who came here to become US citizens and to become
better in life. And that that's the American story, to
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chase the dream here in the United States. And you
know Mother Cabrini, of all people who came here and
started some great work in Denver, she made many stops.
You haven't seen the movie Cabrini, you should watch it.
He's the one who pointed it out that these impoverished
Italian communities need better, need more. And that's when they
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sort of banded together and started Columbus Days.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And is that what brought Mother Cabrini to Colorado was
ministering to the Italian immigrants in particular.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well, she chased immigrants, but she came to start schools,
you know, for foster kids. She did that her passion
with kids, Her passion was making sure that kids were
taken care of. Heck, she played a big role in
my high school. I went to Holy Family High School
in grade school. She made a stop there. She you know,
she left her indelible imprint on many different communities in Denver.
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But you have to understand the Italian American community here.
It's not what it is in other cities. If you
go to Chicago, you're from Chicago, New York. Go to Boston,
you know, they're still having Columbus State parades. It's still
part of the fabric of those communities. Why because the
Italian American community is pretty vibrant there. It's just not
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the same in Denver, Colorado anymore.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Bick Lombardi our guest. You can follow Vic on acxit
at Vick Lombardi. Now, Vic, is it that our Italian
American community isn't that big and vibrant or have we
all all right thinking people just been swamped by the
crazy left at this point.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I think it's a little bit of both. I think,
you know, you're sort of painted into a corner and
told told what to do, rather than not not asked
what to do, but told what to do. And that's
what's difficult. All you're trying to do. If people need
to understand something. Italian Americans are bowing at the altar
of the man Christopher Columbus. You know, I don't care
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about the mat. I don't know the guy. He was
an explorer, he did some great things. It's just a
way to celebrate the culture. It's a way to celebrate
the heritage and what it was, what was given to us.
So now you move on to a different type of name.
That's Mother Cabrini Day, which is perfect, right, Mother Cabrini.
But you tell me, does it hit the same as
it does in other parts of the country when they
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celebrate Columbus Day. I mean they're having parades or having well,
just try to pass it by.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Like it doesn't mean anything, right, because it got canceled, right,
I mean, the Italian community here got canceled by the left,
just like so many other communities have been canceled by
the left. So you're right, it's it's not going to
feel the same because the left came in and took
something away.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
No, I remember going to some of those early parades
twenty twenty five years when I returned to Denver, you know,
when I made my run and I came back home,
and I was so fun. It was, you know, get
together with my tiny community. And I actually jumped on
a float with my parents in downtown Denver and we
had aids thrown at us, and I said, Okay, enough
of this, We're not doing this anymore. So, you know,
it's just it got ugly and it got contentious again.
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And what was born out of love and what was
born out of eagerness by a community to sort of
shape its way here, turned into an ugly thing. And
I think it happened for all the wrong reasons. It
was forced upon us. Nobody was asked you you do this.
This is what he's gonna do, and you're gonna like it. Now.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I was in that same parade, different float. And if
I'm remembering the year right, because that's when war Turtill
and and his acolytes were attacking the parade. And and again,
what really ticks me off is, you know, and I know,
a fraction of the history of Italians in Colorado. That
you do, obviously, but you have this great history, this
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great Italian community in Colorado that has worked so hard
and built so much, and then you have the Left
in and take power, and through intimidation and canceling, then
all of a sudden, something gets taken away from all
of us, something honoring the Italian community. That just pisses
me off, That's all I'm saying. So I'm embarrassed that
I fell into that yesterday and just talked about it
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as Mother Cabrini Day.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Hey, she's a saint. You know, all honored to Mother Cabrini.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
But we do have to remember the Left came in
and took that away from everybody.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
You know. It's funny because if you look across the
sports schedule, my co host and my radio station, Mark Moser,
he did a hockey game yesterday and the hockey game
was at ten thirty in the morning, and all these
hockey games were scheduled early, and people around the office
are like, why is everything happening early?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Columbus.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
That's right, people in Chicago they still celebrated. Wow, we
don't we make we pretend it's there, but it's not there.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
That is such a great point, Vic, because Vic and
I happened to meet up at Ballerini yesterday. I noticed
on one of the screens an avalanche came and I
thought it had to be a replay, right, because it's
like Monday morning. But you're right, because Columbus Stay is
getting celebrated all these other places where the Left wasn't
able to take it away, and let's hope they're not.
(09:24):
But hey, Vic, so great to have you. And let
me ask, how else can people follow you? I know
we've got you on exit at Vic Lombardi.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Sure, well, if you want to taste of heritage, I
guess follow me more on Instagram. For those who want
a little insight, look at an immigrant family from Italy
because I'm always posting about my parents. My parents, to
me are my greatest role models. They came to this
country with nothing, with sixth grade education, and they built
something big. They sent all their kids to high school
and college, they paid for their tuitions, and they did
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something that I could never hope to achieve. So I
honor them as much as it possibly can, and I
do it on social media. And I know there are
a lot of other people out there, other immigrants, from
all the type of nationalities all of us. All of
us are immigrants at some point, and we all chase
this American dream. And that's what I like to do
on social media. Show how my parents did it?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Man, I'll tell you and your family such a great
Colorado story, and now obviously your family continuing that your
son a budding superstar young lawyer. That the whole saying
there needs to be a book. There needs to be
a reality show. And I know, I hope I'm not
talking our school. I know a lot of people have
pitched you and your family on a reality show, but
all I can tell you is I would watch that religiously.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
So hey, appreciate the time today, my friend Daniel the best,
appreciate your support.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
That is Vic Lombardi. Man, there's only one Vic Lombardi.
Do you know Vic Ryan personally?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Do you know?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
I wish I knew him better because he sounds so
like iconic in terms of Italian heritage and the passion
with which he speaks. I mean, we're talking about Chicago Italians.
I can tell you about Detroit Serbs and that my
grandparents here in the same story. My mom was an
immigrant proud to be Americans, wanted to have success in
this country, but wanted to be Americans. And I love
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the passion of which Bok speaks. You got to go
have lunch with them. He is one of a kind.
He is a Colorado treasurer. Thank you to Vic Lombardi.
You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
And now back to the Dankapla Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Vick Lombardi joined us in the first segment talking about Columbus.
A lot of reaction from Texter's Dan, holy blank, Columbus
Day was started in Colorado.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah, yeah, we did not know it until we talked
to our friend Vick Lombardi. The locals ended it, but
still big nationally and in pockets. But the locals didn't
end it. The Left ended it. And that's why I'm
so glad the Texter made the point yesterday. You know
that the left ended it here it's still being celebrated.
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As Vic pointed out to the point where yesterday the
ABS played a morning game Colorado timeh because in another
sty who did they play?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Was it Columbus Blue Jackets? But they played somebody? I
think they did. They played somebody. Well, think about that
then in an area where they still celebrate it, which
is apparently everywhere else, and it should be here too.
It's right there in the name Columbus, right, blue jackets, Columbus,
o Hio.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Are they going to rename the city?
Speaker 5 (12:17):
I mean, this is the thing, Dan, I used to
be on the train of Okay, I see redskins.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
That's offensive. Maybe change that now.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
I'm like, you know what, No, No, I want to
push back all the way on this because you open
that door and now you get Guardians instead of Indians,
and now you want the love.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Maybe to rename the city of Columbus.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Well, and then you're pawing down all the George Washington statues.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
You can go right, No, it's and that's the thing.
It goes back to what we were talking about last week.
How did we get rolled in Colorado? And how did
people of faith get rolled in Colorado?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
It's and I hope, I hope people start to push
back at the ballot box, put pushback through the political
process because it is not right.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
People like yourself, Vic Lombardi, Knights of Columbus, you know,
pro Italian groups here in the state of Colorado. Dan,
what if we decided to do a Columbus Day parade anyway, Now,
why does it have to be canceled by the left?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Don't let them cancel us?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Well, no, good point obviously, starting point is, you know,
the left gets to decide because they have all the power,
whether it's a state holiday and you get all the
benefits and everything else of a state holiday. You're right,
you could still have the parade, you could still do
that stuff. But it's just yeah, it's extremely maddening on
that level. Just the latest example, you know, Italians in Colorado,
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the disrespect to them. But then the broader point, right,
I mean, we are all being rolled.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
By the left, and that this to the point the
US Supreme Court steps in and says, whoa wait a second,
we see you Colorado, We see this, this hostility toward faith,
this hostility toward Christianity.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Right, and how did that ever happen in Colorado?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
How did and I understand the whole blueprint thing I
left took over Colorado, we know that story. But but
did how did this open direct hostility toward faith, in
particular the Christian faith? How did Colorado become ground zero
for that? To the point where the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I think they just have a they set aside three
or four cases a year just to do out of
Colorado because it's so gross, and another one's coming and
oh yeah, along those lines, as long as the lefts
in power, yea. It's what makes the whole Jimmy Kimmel
fiasco such a joke, Dan, that they're all concerned about
free speech. They were canceling people taking the President of
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the United States off of Facebook and Twitter, silencing a
story that The New York Post wrote because it was
politically inconvenient for them, the Hunter Biden laptop story, looking
to get so many conservative comedians, actors, musicians canceled. They're
the ones that want to silence us to the point
of even assassination in the form of Charlie Kirk. The
(15:03):
rhetoric that comes toward the right that's incendiary and the
greenlight that they're the ones doing the canceling, not us.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah, and that's why you can't even call him hypocrits
or just dishonest Texter, says Dan vic Lombardi, also known
as mister north Side.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, that's great and so much more than that.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
He gotten political like this before, Dan, because I have
to imagine. You know, he's in that sports sphere and
I've been there for altitude and covering the nuggets and such.
He does a great job, as you said, But is
he at risk by well being public?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
If he's I wouldn't personally, I wouldn't call Vic political.
He's not. I don't think he's ever been.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
And I honestly don't know Democrat, Republican, left, you know,
red or blue kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Vic is just he's a man's man.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I love.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
He's going to speak the truth as he sees it.
He's not going to be censored. So I really don't
see it as political. But I don't know the answer
to your question. I don't even know if he's a
registered anything.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Is he just at a point then or he's accumulated
enough street cred and let's say capital, however he chooses
to spend that that a Vick Lombardy can say something
like what he just did, and I'm very happy that
he did. He is very pro Columbus day and very
passionate about it.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
And they're not going to come from him.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Why he well them, I mean like the cancel culture
mob and all that.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Well, and again I think This goes back to being
just a strong person of conviction. I don't think Vic
is sitting there processing whether they're going to come after
him or not. I think he's saying what's true, what isn't,
what's right, what's wrong, and he's just speaking the truth.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
You can do that, though, and then be boxed out
or canceled or sideline by maybe somebody that runs I'm
not just thinking out loud here, somebody runs Altitude that
doesn't like what he said about Columbus Day.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
You know, they're just I mean, one of the very
admirable things about VIC is there are just some people
who are willing to take that risk. You know, they
understand it's a very short trip on this third rock
from the sun, and you're either going to sit here
and be a slave, or you're going to sit here
and you're going to speak the truth is as you
know it well.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
And something I want to say on behalf of iHeart
here is never have they ever, to my knowledge, whether
it's you, me, Michael Brown, Ross Kaminski, Mandy Connell, ever
told us what.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
We know or couldn't say.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Oh my goodness, it's been about thirty years for me.
I remember and they've never done that. I mean, I
can remember some vivid examples, very big corporation that did
their largest advertiser, for sure. And I was relatively new
on air and I was helping out on Tom Martino's
show and I did some reporting on something I was
(17:36):
one hundred percent right on consumer angle. Corporation didn't like it.
They came into Lee Larson and said, get rid of him,
or we're pulling our advertising. And I was nothing zero
in the scope of things at the station, and they
were the biggest advertiser, and Lee said, show me where
he's wrong, and they couldn't do it because I was right,
(17:58):
and Lee back me up and they're advertising.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Let me tell you why that was the smart move
even back then. Were they Clear Channel then or was
it iHeart Channel Clear Channel back then? But even so,
you stand by your on air personality in that case,
because once you open that door, you invite more of
it and it'll never stop.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Well right, And for a guy like Lee Larson, and
this is kind of a Vic Lombardi comparison.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
It goes back to you stand by the truth.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
If you're going to be in broadcast and you're going
to be in media, you stand by the truth, and
you can't let anybody intimidate.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
You out of reporting the truth.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
You know, that's one reason why Lee Larson was a
giant in this business. And there have been other examples
as well. You're one hundred percent right about that. You're
on the Dan Kaplas.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Show, you're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
We have.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Tell them we want disarmed, and they will disarm, and
if they don't disarm, we will disarm them, and it'll
happen quickly and perhaps violently said they will disarmed. Do
you understand me, because you always ever says, oh, well,
they won't disome, they will disarm.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
And I spoke to Hummas.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
And I said, you're going to disarm, right, yes, sir,
We're going to disarm.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
That's what they tell me. They will disarm or we
will disarm them. Got it? Okay, what you said quickly,
But what is the deadline you're going to.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Put on pretty quickly?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
A reasonable You know, we're never going to have another
president like this in our lifetime. Right, He's talking about
something deadly serious and I want to get to the
meat of it in a second. But but just the
whole Yeah, I spoke to Hummas said, you're going to disarm, Yes.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Sir, we're going to dis I mean, it's just.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
It's so interesting, it's so entertaining, it's so humorous.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
But here it's deadly serious.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
But you know Trump, Trump talks like a guy who
has the cards, because he has the cards. Because the
only way you know the return of the hostage is
you can't fake that, right, So at that point, that's
all the leverage these demon monsters have is the hostages.
They don't give it up unless they're done. They don't
give it up unless Trump has maneuvered in a historically
(20:14):
brilliant way to the point where the Arab countries willingly say.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
No, Hamas, you're out options. And they pulled the plug
on Hamas.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
So that's why he can be that confident, right because
the Arab countries, which got an awful lot in exchange
for this, the Arab countries have assured him that they're
going to disarm Hamas.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Now the US.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Shouldn't and won't you know, send troops in there to
disarm Hamas. But you're going to see an awful lot
of Hamas people killed in the middle of the night.
If it's necessary to make it disarm and they won't
be killed by the US. They'll be killed, I think,
on the instruction of President Trump, but the instruction will
be to these Arab countries which just did a deal
(20:55):
that's very good for them.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
He's built a coalition of the willing.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
As George W. Bush used to say in the War
on Terror.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
But he has done it, like you said, in a
brilliant maneuver to broaden this appeal. And it's not just
US and Israel against Hamas. It is a coalition, like
I said, of Katars, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, other
nations in the region. And it's in their best interests,
as Trump has expressed to them. And it could be anything,
could be variations of carrot and stick approach, but Hamas
(21:23):
will be disarmed. And what I think about when I
hear him Dan in that circumstance, he means business.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
We know that that's the least of it.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Yeah, but imagine if somehow a Democrat president were able
to get to this point, either Joe Biden or Kamala Harris,
them trying to talk tough like that, it would be
a punch light and they could never get to this point, right,
it's peace through strength and the modern Democratic parties.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
You have pined me of weakness.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Listen, We've had as many or more Democrats die for
this country as we have Republicans die in battle for
this country. But when it comes to that, the phar
secular left that's anti American in ways, that's taken over
this country. Yeah, that their weakness. They project weakness, they
advertise weakness. Quote lead from behind, right means get subjugated.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Barack Obama here it is. I keep this.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Nobody on air has played this sound more over the
years because this Joe's goes right to the heart of
Obama and the Democratic Party. They want an America that
is no stronger than any other nation on earth.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Think about that.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
No world order that elevates one nation or group of
people over another will succeed.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
No balance of power among nations will hold.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, and they didn't like catch him on a hidden
tape with a bunch of Lefti's everybody's doing a bong
in the middle of the night.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
That was at the United Nations. He was proud of that.
That's his ideology.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
That is that the left that owns the Democratic Party,
that's their ideology the opposite of Trump. That's why he
has the meat, he has the results, and he can
be absolutely certain yes, Hamas will be disarmed. And listen,
these Arab countries didn't get taken for a ride by Trump.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
They got a deal that's very very good for them
and their people.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
And Israel had to give things up as part of
this deal as well. Right, there's not going to be
annexation of the West Bank, and you know, Bbe gave
up some other things also, But for a deal that's
great for everybody. Three oh three seven one three eight
two five five texts dam five seven seven three nine. Hey,
I want to shift gears talked to you about something
(23:29):
close to home.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Two things.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
One is Trump administration just minutes ago revoked the visas
of six people who celebrated the killing of Charlie Kirk.
And the statement from the White House is the United
States has no obligation to host foreigners who wished death
on Americans. Now, this just happened, right, so i'ven't had
time to do legal research on it.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I like this. I don't know if it's legal or not.
I assume it is because they did it. I like
the idea behind it.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah, if you're gonna have a visa, you're going to
be in this country, you know, at the grace of
the American people. Then yeah, any anybody here who is
wishing death on Americans shouldn't be here, right?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Am I missing something in all of this?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Again, caveat haven't had time to do the legal research.
I don't know if there's a Supreme Court case out
there that says this or that, but the basic idea.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Who could argue with that?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
If somebody could, we'll probably hear from if you can
text us DN five seven seven, three nine or three
oh three seven one, three eight two five five.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
My stances goes right to the root of what you
just said. Dan. It is a privilege to be here.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Nobody has a right to be here on a work
visa or anything else student visa that is allotted to
an individual as a privilege, and you will do as
the United States want you to do in this country.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
I don't know why that's complicated.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Well, the way I'd put it is, obviously, as Americans say,
we have this birthright to say whatever we want within
the framework of the Amendment time place manner restrictions. But
thanks to our current Supreme Court that that's broad and
getting broader.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
If the Left has its way, it'll be narrow, narrow, narrow, narrow.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
But yeah, if you are not an American citizen and
you are allowed into this country by the American people
through the visa process, it seems to me at that
point that do we want to be people have people
thrown out because they don't like the party that's in
power at the time and they speak out about American politics. No,
(25:31):
I don't think you throw people out for that. I
think if you have people who are advocating violence, celebrating violence,
celebrating violence against Americans, I think you have every right
to kick them out.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Yeah, you are here by the good graces of the
American people, and under no circumstances, as you just elucidated,
is the American government obligated to furnish anyone with a
visa of any kind to be in this country. We
don't owe anybody that you're not owed, that you're not
entitled to that to come into our country.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
And I think we've got to get away from that mindset.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
You're certainly and you're certainly not entitled to come into
this country and celebrate the killing of an American. You're
not entitled to come into this country and advocate violence,
advocate lawlessness.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
You're not entitled to do any of that.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Again, I would draw the line at somebody here on
a visa wants to say President Trump's a bad president.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You don't throw them out over that. No, No, but
that's not what they're doing here as I understand it.
And again the details just starting to come down. But
Wall Street Journal reporting six visa's revoked over people celebrating
the death of Charlie Kirk Texter Dan. President Trump matter
of fact, tired of bs and we need devis back.
MSM is still trying to vilify and gotcha Hitler. Yeah,
(26:44):
and again, as the Bebylon b pointed out, you know
the Israeli legislatures celebrating what the Democrats called Hitler yesterday.
Dan vic Lombardi is an Italian with the facts.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Exclamation point.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Time to fight, fight, fight, encourage redistricting in red states,
educate about local, state and federal issues. Cannot rely on
MSM either. What I want to hear from somebody, and
we are blessed with a brilliant audience is all right,
how do we do that?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
In Colorado. Right, we have been rolled in Colorado.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You know, the the far left, secular, anti faith, anti
Christian radicals have come in and that machine has taken
over this day. And you have seen what they have
done to people of faith, to the point the US
Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Has pointed it out and over and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Slaps down, you know, Jared Polis and the left for
violating the constitutional rights of Colorado's of faith. So what
are we going to do within the electoral process about
that here? Or have people just given up? Do they
just think it's hopeless? THO three seven three eight two
five five.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
When we come back, I told you yesterday we've had
these duy checkpoints over the weekend in our Epo and
Douglas counties.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
I'll give you the results when we come back. I
think they'll shock you.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
What percent of the people just stopped randomly, not for
any driving stuff, just randomly stop. What percentage turned out
to be driving impaired. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Breaking right now.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
As we just mentioned, Narco Terrace and Mexico are reportedly
working in coordination with domestic extremist groups to place bounties
or thousands of dollars on the heads of federal immigration
officers in Chicago. That is according to DHS, who are
now slamming what they're calling an organized campaign of terror
against agents just.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Trying to do their jobs.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah, well, obviously pray for ICE agents. But if they
make the mistake of doing that, anybody on the left,
anybody on the planet, makes a mistake of doing that,
of harming an ICE agent on the words of Trump,
all hell is going to break loose. And having grown
up in Chicago and watching some of what's happening there now,
my dad an officer for thirty years in Chicago, Great
(29:00):
Chicago cup. If this lawlessness, this lefty driven lawlessness that's
going on another police force, you know where the great
men and women are having their hands, you know, handcuffed
behind their backs, not being allowed to enforce the law
because they're lefty. You know, politicians in that city won't
(29:22):
allow law enforcement to do its job.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
That is an extraordinarily dangerous state of affairs.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
And God forbid, should anything happen to one of those
ICE agents, you can imagine what the federal response to
that is going to be three oh three seven one
three eight two five five takes d a N five
seven seven three nine, And I do want to get
to the story of the DUI checkpoints. But as I
was thinking about that, Ryan and I think about my dad,
(29:48):
who was He is just a prototypical perfect cup you know,
thirty years most of us spent on really really ted
tough streets in Chicago, rose to the level of sergeant.
Just a tremendous law enforcement officer in every way, perfectly clean.
In fact, he transferred to the youth division at one
point because in the youth division there's no funny business
(30:10):
at all, right, I mean, nobody's trying to bribe anybody
in the youth division.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
And my dad was just the perfect cop, totally.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Law abiding, just what you would want. And so this
next short story doesn't have anything to do with him.
But there was an officer from the neighborhood who was
killed in the line. And then there were as I
remember it, I was relatively young at the time, but
not that young. There were I think like six or
seven prime suspects, maybe eight, and then there was some
(30:42):
kind of technicality that led to the prosecution being dropped.
I think it was or charges vastly reduced. And how
long do you think it took Ryan before all of
them were dead?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
How long do you think it took. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I'd have to call my sister to get the exact timing,
but it didn't take long. Yeah, And I'm not advocating that.
I'm not saying that that's good at all. I'm just
saying that, you know, law enforcement traditionally has law enforcements back.
And to see the great police officers of Chicago handcuffed
(31:23):
by the lefty mayor and police chief and being told
they can't respond and help ice officers who are being
attacked and threatened, that's just that's not going to last.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
It is so wrong. That is not going to last.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Three or three seOne, three eight, two, five five the
number we have our local example right, the way that
Mike Johnston has tied the hands of the great Denver
Police Department at times very sad, has to be very
frustrating for those wonderful officers. What about this checkpoint business?
Do you think we should have more of them or
do you have a problem with them? This is a
Fox thirty one story. Douglas or Eppo Counties do I checkpoints.
(32:00):
See twenty one drivers arrested over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
How many stops? And you know how these checkpoints.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Work, right, They just they set up and they're not
stopping people for probable causes. I understand the operation of
checkpoints or just randomly stopping vehicles. Somebody correct man that
if I'm wrong, that the story doesn't contradict that this
was a team consisting of CSP Pike's Peak do UI team,
(32:28):
Colorado State Patrol statewide do UI team, and the wonderful
Douglas County Sheriff's Office positioned at each location two hundred
and three people being contacted. Out of that, you have
nineteen DUI arrests. Is that surprising to you? That seems
like a stunningly high number to me. One out of ten.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
It's a lot.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Yeah, Yeah, it makes you wonder like kind of extending
your point there, Dan, if we saw this more previlently
throughout the state of Colorado, would that be a good thing?
Would that be infringing upon our rights, freedom's liberties, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
You should have a talk show.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Ryan does have a great Touch show two to four
Monday through Friday, six thirty.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Kids in Denver.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
But yeah, I really want to hear from people on
this because what percentage of the folks in time of
day matters, right, I'll tell you this. My law practice,
we do catastrophic injury and death cases. We represent victims,
and I've been doing it forty one years. The first
maybe thirty years, twenty five years. I can count on
(33:33):
one hand the number of horrific you know, UI type
fatalities or horrible injuries we had before late afternoon or evening.
Now it's common because now you've got so many people,
so many people who are stoned twenty four to seven.
So many people who get up in the morning, they
(33:54):
get on this krakawana, you know, they vape it whatever.
So we have all sorts of cases now where people
are stoned in the early morning hours, stoned on their
way into work. Most of the alcohol impairment is still
later in the day. But that's the thing. And I'm
not speaking to this checkpoint because I would guess all
of those officers out there were highly trained and drug recognition,
(34:17):
et cetera. But it's still so much harder to nail
somebody for driving while impaired by marijuana. They are getting nailed,
and they're getting nailed in larger numbers, and the stats
aren't broken down here. How many of these arrests were
alcohol impairment, how many were drug impairment, how many were
the dreaded mix of the two.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
But we know, I mean, you look at it.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
You look at the way the traffic desks have gone
up dramatically since legalization of marijuana and Colorado, which doesn't
surprise you, right, Yeah, it's just common sense. You're gonna
have a lot more people doing drugs. You're gonna have
a lot more dead bodies on the roadway. That's just
basic common sense, which is a reason we shouldn't have this,
right And the big skyrocket and teen suicides after legalization
(35:05):
of marijuana, well, Dan, they can't soul the kids.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yeah, give me a break, Give me a break.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
You have a state that legalizes marijuana, puts up more
marijuana stores and Starbucks and McDonald's combined.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
And you don't think the message to kids is, hey,
this stuff's good for you.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
In fact, Rian, do you remember John Hickenlooper's Health Department
marijuana Don't be a labrat? A tremendous campaign they began
to around Hickenlooper changed it under pressure from the marijuana industry.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
You know what the slogan was, I'm not making this up.
Look it up. This from the left. Marijuana. It's good
to know. Yeah, until it kills you.
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