February 27, 2025 • 34 mins
In the second hour of today's edition of The Dan Caplis Show, Dan reacts to the crazy headline out of Loveland, Colorado about a deranged string of attacks on a Tesla dealership and the subsequent arrest of the perpetrator.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, and a really.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Important but sad question to ask, how soon until Denver
just completely falls apart? And the reason I phrase it
that way is we're talking about this very important letter
to the mayor of Denver, and whether or not you
care about Denver, that the principle applies, right, It's just
things fall apart under the left, some sooner, some take longer.
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But in Denver's case, how long until it all falls apart?
Because these very prominent restaurant owners who sent this letter
to the mayor, and you're going to want to hear
certain parts of it. You know, this isn't a bunch
of conservatives, you know, this is a bunch of restaurant
owners in downtown Denver, part of the core of Denver,
a critical part of the core of Denver. And those
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are their words, downtown is completely falling apart. And then,
of course we're not darkness cursors. We're candlelighters. So what
is the fix? So want to talk about that. We
know what the fix is not, which is Denver Mayor
Mike Johnston's twenty percent service charge to tackle restaurant woes.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And who would be paying that?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, I think it's the customers. And yeah, that's going
to get more people downtown.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Right. So we'll get to that in a second.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
But Ryan, what would you guess before we get into
the meat of this story, pun intended?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
What would how many.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Restaurants do you think have closed since twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
That's interesting you bring that up, Dan, because in debt right,
I just brought this to the attention of Chris Fusela,
who used to run Blake Street tavern right by Corsfield there.
I loved going there after games, and it was real
tragedy that he had to close down. A lot had
to do with the COVID restrictions in the aftermath of
the pandemic U and he just didn't want to go
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public with commentary on this. He's kind of laying low
and he wants to keep it that way. That's what
he told me. But in addition to that one, Dan,
I got to believe it's in the.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Dozens four and twenty five.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
That's four score and seven years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
That is a city that's falling apart, and it's falling
apart because of leftist rule.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And i'd love and you're going to hear it in
this story what one of the restaurant owners said. And
again this isn't coming from the right, it's just right.
And that is that that, Hey, this isn't a homeless problem,
this is an addiction problem. And that's his quote. And
it goes back to what I said long before we
legalize marijuana. Listen, if you are going to now as
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the left, as as the left state widing in Denver,
if you're now going to make Denver and Colorado the
drug capital of the world, well you know what's coming,
and it's going to be very, very ugly. And that
is exactly what we have going on. So listen to this.
I can't read the whole thing. Restaurant tours to cry
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a downtown that's quote completely falling apart.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Downtown Denver.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Restaurant tours say the area is completely falling apart quote
unquote in an email letter sent to Mayor Mike Johnston,
Jack's Fishouse, an oyster bar owner Dave Query, in a
message co signed by others, it was actually fourteen others
big timers ask how many more restaurants and small businesses
need to close before your quota alarm is triggered. Quote
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you ran your entire campaign platform on restoring our downtown
Denver business districts, said Query, founder of Big Red f
Restaurant Group. Quote it has gotten worse since you took
the position of mayor. Query cited unchecked fentanyl use enabled
by soft policing legislation has reasons for a declining mile
High food scene, which has lost twenty two percent of
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its restaurants since twenty twenty one. Thirteen other downtown operators
co signed Query's letter, including then it goes into a
long list of real big timers, including Troy Guard of
tag Rush Group. And that's about as big as it gets.
So it goes on to say, between the out of
control minimum wage increases, over the top property tax hikes,
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and the complete loss and seeming care for our valuable
and unique business districts, we are struggling for our lives
to keep these restaurants alive. Query called downtown's traffic situation
a quote catastrophic disaster, and then it goes on from
there real quick.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Addundant to that, Dan, I also reached out directly to
Dave Query, who you were just quoting there by email
all with free There you go with.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
An interview request to join the program. So I'll keep
you updated on that as well.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
No, I'll look forward to that, because obviously this is
nothing political. These are pillars of our community fighting for
their economic survival. And what do you think happens when
it reaches the tipping point? And all of that just
starts to collapse?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Right?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
And as they write in the letter you got in interviews, okay,
the people used to go downtown to restaurants and everything else.
Now they're spreading out to other areas. And then they
give some grot epic examples and everybody can picture it
of some of the horrific things you see downtown. And
I love his point that it's not a homeless problem,
it's an addiction problem. And that's what the left doesn't
want to talk about, right, is they talk about the homeless.
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And now we've just been one hundred million of your
taxpayer money to throw some homeless in a motel for
a few weeks. But what they don't want to talk
about is how they got there. And it's the left's
addiction to legalized drugs, because the left knows that the
more drug depopulation is, the more dependent it is on government,
and the more it's going to vote left. So that's
what's unfolding here. Denver, Colorado did something back in twenty
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twelve that that no other city, I may be in
human history, but but no other city in modern times
had done Colorado did in legalizing marijuana the way it
did it. And you then make this state the drug
capital of America and Denver very proudly leading the charge,
what haven't they legalized?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And the latest was like mushrooms?
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yea right to So yeah, so what do you think's
going to happen?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And that is what's happening because the drugs aren't going
to stop with and even if they stopped with marijuana,
it's more like Krakawana now due to the high potency,
it's not going to stop there. You're going to get
known for being a drug capital, a drug friendly capital,
and that's who you're going to attract. And then good
people here are going to get green lighted, and they're
going to get into all that crap and then it
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just goes downhill the way it is. So, but Mayor
Johnston is a fix. This is the Gazette, and boy,
the Denver Gazette does great work. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston
floats twenty percent service charge to tackle restaurant woes. Denver
Mayor Mike Johnston wants to add a twenty percent service
charge to local restaurant tabs and then tax it to
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help restaurants cope with the city's minimum wage and promote
what he calls pay equity among tipped and non tipped employees. Well,
that's the thing with the left, right, they're so determined
to get equity and they're going to get it because
everybody's going to be poor that that's the equity that
they're going to get. And in a lot of ways
that they probably don't mind, because what is the left? No, Ryan,
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They're not good at many things, but they're good at math,
and they know that once people start making more than
I think the current number is probably sixty five grand,
then a majority are going to vote Republican. So the
left has a vested interest in keeping lots of people
from prospering. On Monday, Johnston told a Citycast Denver popular
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podcast that he has already been discussing the idea with
restaurant owners. He didn't say whether they are on board.
He also did not discuss if increasing people's dinner cost
would decrease restaurant visits. Well, let's think about that for
a second. You're going to increase their dinner costs by
twenty percent, and then you're going to tax it on
top of that. You know, I think that's going to
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cause a lot more people to want to go downtown
to eat, right because I mean where else is, say, Ryan,
say you go out to the Shooling Estate or you
go out to Cherry Creek or somewhere like that to eat.
You're not going to get to see naked people running
around doing naked people's things outside the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
You're not going to get.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
To see just like public urination and defecation and all
that other stuff. So you're not going to go out
to Cherry Creek or Northlands or anything else. You're heading
right downtown to pay that extra twenty five percent.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
It makes no sense whatsoever, and it explains why in
the Denveright article and seems like they like doing favors
for Mayor Mike Johnson. I might add that he's backpedaling
off of that and trying to put it on the businesses.
They No, I just want to give them the option
to do that, and you know, I'm just trying to
help and empower them to make that decision and choice,
which sounded a lot different than his initial salvo on
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the issue.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
But we see so much of this goofiness for him,
and I pose this question not with any kind of negativity,
just a very fair question. And it's it's kind of
like during the campaign when I kept saying to people
who said Joe Biden is Joe Bidenett, and I kept saying,
obviously he's not going to be there, He's not going
to be their candidate and election day and people looked
at me like I was crazy. Is it fair right
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now to ask whether elected officials in cities and states
that have legalized marijuana are using Is that a fair question,
especially when they say goofy stuff like we're sending the
cops out to fight the Feds at the border Tenneman Square.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, let's just get twenty percent more tax on restaurants?
Is that a fair question?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I'd like to hear from people three h three someone
three eight two five five text d an five seven
seven three nine. I don't know whether Mike Johnston uses
THC or not. I truly don't, But is it a
fair question when you're mayor of a city where it's
legalized and glorified and you keep saying all this bat.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Bat playing crazy stuff. You're on the Dankplas Show.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
And now back to the dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Did you ever have that happen? Round?
Speaker 5 (10:04):
What happened? What do you talk to a song?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
And how did that song pop into your head?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
From the earlier story about the strippers getting ripped off
by their employers allegedly, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Kind of a delayed reaction, but that's okay, better late
than never. Yeah, we were talking about this story the
auditor in Denver saying the strippers have been ripped off
to the tune of fourteen million.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
The club's saying absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Audit are saying strippers have to pay to work there
and that that ain't right. So we'll see how all
of this unfolds for everyone to see. But at the moment,
we're talking about this very prominent group of Denver restaurant tours.
We're not talking about some conservative organization just saying it's
falling apart, that Denver is falling apart around them, and
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we have some more quotes from that. But then we're
also talking about Mike Johnston's brilliant idea for a fix,
which is increase everybody's tax by twenty percent and then
text that increase, you know, to help offset some of
the revenue loss for the restaurants. And you have to
wonder what school of economics did these lefties study yet,
(11:07):
I mean, or is the idea that they're going to
pass the law forcing people to go to these downtown
Denver restaurants to eat under threat of criminal prosecution, kind
of like you have to lie on medical forms now
about whether somebody's a male or female, or you're going
to get charged under this new bill. Texter says, then
I'll get to a will in Evergreen, Dan. I think
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you just don't get it, because you cannot think as
brilliantly as a liberal does. If they raise taxes and
charges enough on everybody, they'll be bringing in huge amounts
of revenue and then they can have that money to
give back to everybody and we will all have wealth
beyond measure. Yeah, now I think you nail that they're Texter, Dan.
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That just means when I go to eating Denver, I'm
not going to bother leaving a tip. It will save
me five percent. That's one of the saddest texts I've
seen in a long time. I personally think is a
guy who worked for tips as a caddy, as a
bartender and everything else. That it's I really think, don't
you Ryan. It's it's almost the very best money any
of us can ever spend. Because the people were tipping,
we know they're out there working hard. You know, well
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at least some of it goes directly to them, So
I know that Texter is in jest.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Kind of man.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
They one additional thing to that too, Dan, That made
me think about this. If they're tacking on twenty percent,
I have no say in it. You know, tip is
earned and it's not automatically given, nor should it be
in my view, because, like you, I have worked for
tips and busting my rear in and I like when
that's rewarded. But if somebody provides less than adequate service,
then I think the consumers should have a right to
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either not tip or tip a lower amount as well. Now,
in addition to that, I've had conversations with delivery drivers.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
I've even spoken to my own brother.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Who works for Domino's Pizza Corporate and in Arbor, Michigan,
they're slapping on these delivery fees like three four five dollars,
And I tell the drivers that makes me less inclined
to tip on top of that number, because what's going
on here. I'm paying for it much.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
For the tip as I am for the pizza itself.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And a lot of people just can't afford that.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
But I think what they sense, and I think they're right,
is this major shift in society now where so many
of us have been conditioned to paying these enormous fees
to have food delivered because then it saves our time, right,
And I think a lot of people are just making
the calculation that that's worth it. This texture says, but eventually, right,
that's going to stop because it's too expensive. You can't
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do that indefinitely. This texture says no sympathy for the
Denver restaurant owners. They voted for it. I have zero sympathy,
and it's been years since I've been downtown.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I have a ton of sympathy for these Denver restaurant
owners because I've never owned a restaurant.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
But anybody knows that industry, knows that you won't find
harder working people anywhere, and there's such they're so critical
just to enjoyment of any area, in this case downtown,
And so I've got a lot of sympathy for them.
And they deliver, right, And isn't this America right?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Ryan?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
If you're a restaurant, if you're a restaurant and you're
not the only restaurant in town, you've got to be
good and you've got to deliver. You got to keep
delivering or you'll be out of business quickly.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
So I have a lot of respect for these folks,
no matter what their politics are. They've been in a
dog eat dog business. Hopefully not serving no. No, they've
been in.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
This dog eat dog business and they have made it
because they've delivered a good product year after year after year.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
But they can't help it. Listen to this quote.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
This is from the restaurant owner Jax, who led the
charge and the other fourteen signed the letter. Restaurant owners
talking about how when they started in nineteen ninety six.
No one got stabbed on the sixteenth Street mall in
nineteen ninety six. We were not cleaning human blank off our
patios in front door vestibules every morning. We didn't have
fentanyl zombies walking around scaring and threatening our guests and tourists.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
And that's the reality of Denver. And I got to
tell you, my brother.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Then the city responds, well, we're doing this five hundred
and seventy million cash infusion downtown. That is wasted money
until you get rid of the drug issue. You made
Denver the drug capital of the world. Until you reverse that,
you could spend five hundred and seventy billion, and you're
not going to get people down there. And I've been
talking about that for years, so they can keep deluting themselves.
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Denials not just a river in Egypt. Will and Evergreen.
You're on the Dan Caplis show.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Welcome, Good after, Mila Wan, How are you?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I am living the dream? How about you?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Likewise? My friend? Likewise listen. I want to thank both
you and I and for the coverage of the Jefferson
County school debacle. That is, and as a dad of
three teenagers that are currently in the Jefferson County school System.
Obviously got some concerns, But my question is kind of
two part for you specific thanks so much. As you've
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got a superintendent that serves at the pleasure of and
I think if that's an empty word, pleasure of the
school board, and then you've got a school board that
quite frankly is in the pocket of.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
The teachers' union.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
It creates a bit of a conundrum that what I'm
calling and wanting to ask of you, sir, is you
know what options do we have outside of recalling the
school board of essentially holding you know, these officials accountable.
You know the the unfortunate nature obviously, and you know
the stories that have been coming out recently, and I've
been following Mendsey Dato, who's done amazing work. Thank you
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for providing that is as a concerned parent, again, back
to anything short of recalling the school board, is what
can we do as parents to start holding these officials accountable? Because,
as the cliche goes, the fish stands from the head
to the tail, not the opposite. Yeah, and I just
feel powerless as to what's going on right now. I
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don't know what options we have.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Well, that's a great question. And the good news is
I think there's lots that parents can do. The bad
news is it's a monstrous amount of work, but it
can succeed. And I've got some specific things in mind.
I'll get you right after this news break, very concrete things,
step by step. But Lindsey Detco and her group have
proven you can succeed out there, right. I mean, look
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what they accomplished when it came to the mask and
that whole tragedy in Jeffco. What was being done to
kids out there during COVID. They've succeeded on lots of
different issues. But I think there is a roadmap here
to success. It's just going to take a ton of work.
And in the few seconds we have before this break
or do we have left?
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Right?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Okay, yep, in it, I'm remote, so I'm not hearing
the outro music here, so I'll get into some of
the specifics after the break. And by the way, we
have we have the mother of.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
That fifteen year old girl who that teacher at Columbine
went after and then others in the school helped to
have her declared homeless so she could move in with
the teacher.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
The mother will be in studio with us on Monday,
so please be with us.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
And when we come back, step by step concrete what
can be done to overcome?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
And Jeff go, you're on the Dan caps Show.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Well, kid, are we going to see who is on
the flights? Are we going to see any evidence from
what he recorded? Because he had all of his homes.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Wired with recording devices.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
What you're going to see, hopefully tomorrow is a lot
of flight logs, a lot of names at a lot
of information. But it's pretty sick what that man did. Okay,
well along with his co defendant.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Absolutely and he had help, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Did Yeah, that's Jesse Waters with Pam Bondi And we
expected a lot of Epstein file release today and there
appeared to be just kind of a smattering distributed in
kind of an awkward way. So Pam Bondi writes a
letter to cash Betel's FBI demanding that the full files
be turned over quickly. This is not a cash Ptel issue.
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This is apparently an issue with some other offices in
the FBI. But he's in charge now, so I expect
we'll get to the bottom of it. So on Epstein, listen.
I think the key is the full truth has to
be out there because one of the things, there are
only very few things that can take America down right,
and it can only be done from the inside. But
if you have if people lose confidence in the justice system,
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believe there are two justice systems, one for the rich
and powerful, the people on the left, and then the
other for the rest of us. That's how a country
can fall apart.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
The election of Donald Trump for a second term was
part of a pushback against this Banana Republic thing. So
the full truth about Epstein has to be told. With
two exceptions. You have got to be able to fully
protect the victims. So you've got to go through those
files and make sure you're not releasing any victim identities
unless they want it out there. And then two, you've
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got to make sure that if there are innocent people
whose names just pop up in some other context, that
they're protected because that's just basic human decency, right. Anybody
involved in this mass rape of children, well they've got
to be fully exposed and fully prosecuted. So and all
that needs to happen quickly, but it has to be
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done right. I don't think it makes a difference if
it's in a week or if it's in a month,
as long as it happens fully and it's done right.
Three oh three someone three eight two five five text
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Speaker 2 (20:30):
Hey. Just before the break it a great color guy
named Will from Evergreen a.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Jeffco's school parent, and he was calling to say, man,
I feel helpless.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I mean, what can we do as parents?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
And his take was, the school board is in the
pocket of the teachers' unions and it's a it's one
big and I'm paraphrasing loosely lefty kind of thing. What
can parents do? And I understand the frustration because you know, obviously,
you know, voting the wrong people out of office, the
right people in all of that, But that takes a
lot of time, and it can be really tough in
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some areas.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Is but obviously got to try to do it.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
But short term, I would suggest that people do what
Lindsay Detcow has done, and what some others have done,
and what the brave mother of this child, this fifteen
year old who was set upon by this female teacher
over twenty thousand texts, and then the female teacher working
with others at the school to have this child from
a wonderful home declared.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Homeless so she could be moved in with the teacher
is sees on that issue.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Do everything in your power within the system to put
pressure on the school board, on the school district, on
the DA's office to fully investigate and reveal their findings
and to the extent no actions taken. Explain why why
haven't there been any criminal charges brought? You know, why
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hasn't anybody been fired? I think you've got to keep
the pressure on this issue because this is an issue
that crosses party lines. Right, this isn't left or right,
it's just right or wrong. And everybody can see how
wrong this is. The principles admitted it was very wrong
and that it haunts them. Well, then why is everybody
still there? And for every one of these young ladies
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or men that we find out about, how many other
victims are there we never find out about? So yeah,
please seize on that issue. Do everything you can within
the system to force full investigation and a full public report,
and if there should be prosecutions, and I think most
of us looking from the outside. Think, boy there really
should be make sure they happen.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
That's the kind of accountability that I think can help
break through, because this is an issue that is broken through.
Hopefully Sean Boyd, who did a tremendous story on it
at News for really great journalists, you know, hopefully Channel
four stays on the story. Others pick it up. We'll
have the mother.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
As I mentioned of this girl, and it was fifteen
when this started. She was fifteen star students, star athlete,
and it just got so bad that now the mother's
just trying to get her back home. You know that
this young lady ends up and I view the young
lady my own constitutionally protected opinion. I view the young
lady as a victim. You know, she ends up moving
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in with this teacher right after she graduates. The teacher
moves out of state. If the mom just wants to
get her baby home, and the mother of this girl
will be with us in studio on Monday, I hope
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A couple of texts here. I have to disagree with Ryan, one,
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says Dan. The word is not restaurant tours. It's restaurant tours.
That seems a little picky to me. Plus it's Chicago.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Right in your accent really resembles mine in the Upper Midwest.
But what I would say to that is, I think
there are two different terms restaurant tour. Like you're saying,
is somebody that runs a restaurant a restaurant, or would
be somebody that frequents her dines.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
At a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I would think, right, no, it's not restaurant or even I.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Know that well, is that what they're saying in the text?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yea, that it should be restaurant or not restaurant tour.
And I'm not trying to be fancy saying restaurant tour.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
That's just the word.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Kelly has right now. I'm not sure why Kelly gus
she's getting really ornery.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
First of all, I worked in hospitality for almost nine years.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
It's restaurant tour.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Right, it is exactly exactly correct, correct, thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
That's one of my few regrets in life is that
I've never worked as a waiter. I mean, I worked
as a janitor, cleaning bathrooms and a chemical plant years
as a cat he one of the greatest jobs on
the planet. But I never worked as a waiter, and
I really do want to do that.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
One of these days. So yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I might have to do it out of town. You know,
it might shake the confidence of my client if all
of a sudden I'm their waiter.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
It's center.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
You talked about driving uber and doing the same thing, all.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
The same thing. I really want to do that. I
know you do some of that, right, I.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Have in the past. Yeah, thankfully I haven't had two
of late.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, and our son, our son Joe, has done some
of that too. Still getting through law school, doing a
heck of a job with it. Dan It Oh, here's
a text I strongly disagree with. Seem like you are
almost promoting those places, referring to the downtown Denver restaurants
complaining about Mike Johnston. Maybe they should have been paid more,
but I hope they are all shut down, the owners
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of the lowest of the low That that is the
most bizarre text I think we've ever received, because you
look at these downtown Denver restaurant owners and they're they're courageous,
and they're coming out and they're speaking out, and they're
saying it's completely falling apart down here. You're not talking
about a bunch of conservatives or anything, but my goodness,
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I mean talk about a group of folks we should admire, right,
And I assume that they're most are, if not all,
our Democrats and this and that. I'm just saying, these
are people who who succeed based on merit. Because if
you have a restaurant in any kind of competitive place
and you aren't real good, you aren't lasting. So year
after year after year, they have competed, they provided this
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great service, they provided a lot of jobs. And let's
face it, Ryan, a city of town whatever, you can
lose a lot of different types of businesses and maybe
keep going. You cannot lose your good restaurants, right, I mean,
who's going to go there? So no, I admire the
heck out of these people because they compete, they win,
they prove it, they work hard, and they are pillars
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of the community no matter what their politics are. So
the fact they're standing up and saying it's all falling apart, man,
and I.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Just don't understand the logic here, Dan, I mean, I
go downtown.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I was downtown last night to see Ari Shaffer the
comedian comedy works downtown, and there's a couple of nice bars.
I like, going downtown is a little bit more of
a hassle, the parking, etc.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
The other kind of extracurriculars.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Shall we say that you sometimes encounter that we talked
about earlier in the program. But you're right, it needs
to be an incentive to come downtown for those of
us that live out in the burbs like you and me.
I live in Greenwood Village, and you know, I got
Ocean Prime right there, I got Del Frisco's right there,
I got Shanahan's right there.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
You know, why not just go there? I do?
Speaker 1 (27:13):
And well, I think the big difference is you don't
have the young people, right I mean.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Where I am, or downtown, well.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
In the tech center, I mean downtown, you do.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
But listen, if I was you know, if I was
still thirty or thirty five or whatever, I wouldn't be
hanging out in the suburbs.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Right, you know, I'd want to be downtown.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I'd want to be downtown where people my own age
and everything else.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
But what I'm saying is if you tack on the
twenty percent crap, then people are going to be even
less likely to go down town, not more likely.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
No, that that's right.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
And then there's another story that ties into it, maybe
for tomorrow, which is, you know, Mayor Johnston still won't
order the city workers back into their.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Offices full time.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
So you've got this floundering inner city, this floundering downtown
Denver and he won't even order the workers back in.
But you know, here's an interesting text, and we got
to pop this break.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Dan.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
This is referring to the strippers Denver claiming they've been
underpaid fourteen million DAN workers in other situations pay to
work at a location, barber's, hairdressers and new salon workers,
why not the strippers, and then making the allegation these
places are front for sex trafficking, which which I have
no evidence to support, but I am not making that claim.
(28:29):
So that's interesting, is it is it wrong to charge strippers?
And that's the allegation clubs haven't admitted it to pay
to work there. You're on the Dan Capla.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Show and now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcasts.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
Then being for that, we're going to need you voice
there because with this and we're seeing that, you know,
I see the what's wrong?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Oh, thank you, lord boy, what a bullet we dodged?
Can you what do you think it would look like
right now? If somehow, and it was never going to happen,
but if somehow Harrison Walls had won, what do you
think it would look like?
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Like Soviet Russia? A little bit?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Oh my goodness, yeah, I mean, but but think about
think about how looney you have to be to say
what he just said?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Right, I mean? But anyway eight.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Five five zero five eight two five five the number
text d A N five seven seven three nine. The
good news for America is that most of the left,
including in very high ranking positions like his, is just
as looney, and a lot of them have done a
better job of hiding it. But now they're starting to
come out into the open right because they're getting pressured
by the big money on the left to quote fight back, well, well,
(29:57):
how by taking these twenty positions eighty twenty issues against you?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yeah, that's what the big money left is insisting on.
And that's great because it's opening more eyes to just
how goofy the left is.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Now how long do you think it's going to take
in Colorado? And it's a recurring team here, but it's
going to be on the docket.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Tomorrow as well. Is how long is it going to take.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Till Republicans start winning big again in Colorado?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
If ever? And what would it take? And do you
think we'll ever have.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
A Republican mayor of Denver because obviously Denver is failing
and there are plenty of great people there, etc.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
But it's failing. I mean, these restaurant owners said it.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Downtown's completely falling apart. Do you think we'll ever have
a Republican mayor?
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Doubtful, but maybe a less bad Democrat one.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
I can name one in Detroit, Mike Duggan, who's done
a really good job in Detroit and he's pondering a
run as an independent for governor there. So maybe somebody
along those lines.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Yeah, I bet you we will have a Republican meyrit.
They just won't say the Republican there you go. Yeah,
I bet you we will.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
We have to right eventually, because obviously it just keeps
crumbling under the left, and so that's gonna have to happen.
And I think something like these courageous restaurant owners speaking
out is kind of a tipping point moment, because you
know you're going to have people like that get together
and they're going to seek out their own candidate, et cetera.
And then you really will have somebody.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Who's going to, you know, just not register as a Republican,
but be that, be that in philosophy, be that in approach,
et cetera.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
So yeah, I think that day's coming state wide.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, we'll keep talking about that and speaking about you know,
lefties are under pressure now to reveal how kooky they
really are this business. Check it out at Dan Caplos
on Twitter where you've got Hickey Looper.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
He's up in Colorado.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Right, there's no buzz about this Senate race right now,
but Hicckenlooper's up in Colorado in this cycle, and he's
pushing a bill that would prevent ice from detaining illegal
immigrants at polling places. Right, So I mean talk about
exhibit A and if you don't believe me, you can
actually see the bill at Dan Caplis at Twitter.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
So what do you think his campaign's going to look like? Okay,
how old is John?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Not unless he is a nice fella, he's nice to
be around. But even when he was young, he was
old I mean, how old is he now, and what
is that campaign going to look.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Like he turns seventy three on February seventh or nineteen
fifty two.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, yeah, wow.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Be very You think he'll get challenged, You think he'll
get challenged by one of these younger Democrats because they've
got to realize at this point they've been played for fools,
right is you got all of this morally superior talk
about Dei and everything else.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
From the left, and then look at Colorado.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Three of the four top jobs are held by boring,
old white guys, and then you got Jenna Riswald. So yeah,
do you think anybody's going to take them on and say,
wait a second, we're just being played for fool.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
If there is a primary challenge to John Hickenlooper, dan
I guarantee it'll to come from his left. Politically, it
will not be a moderate Democrat he claims.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
To be that.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Oh yeah, right, And you know, I understand he gets
away with that more than most of these Democrats anymore.
But yeah, it'll be very interesting to see that, interesting
to see it in the governor's race too. Have any
I'm trying to remember any Democrats announced for governor.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
At this point, I think Bill Weiser, oh, Phil Wise,
yeah right right, oh yeah, that's big water cooler talk.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Right, How could you forget failed on the life?
Speaker 2 (33:39):
How could you possibly?
Speaker 5 (33:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:42):
And just like Phil Wiser has forgotten the students of
Colorado or being sexually abused by teachers, right, shouldn't that
be like a five alarm fire? And most of the
teachers are wonderful, it's no reflection on them, but we
do have a crisis of sexual abuse of students in
our schools. And Phil Weiser won't touch it. Polish won't
touch it. Why because the teachers' unions are the sacred
(34:02):
cow of the Democratic parties, so you can see where
their priorities are.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
But yeah, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Commonly assumed that if Joe no Goose wants it, he's
going to be the Democrat nominee.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
He'd be tough. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
I think that's just the common assumption. So maybe everybody's
just waiting to see what he does. Anyway, let's do tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Please don't forget that the courageous mom of that Columbine
student she's trying to get back, will join us Monday
in studio.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
We'll have a Fun Show tomorrow. Thank you Ryan, Thank
you Kelly. Be safe tonight. Join us together please tomorrow
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, and a really.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Important but sad question to ask, how soon until Denver
just completely falls apart? And the reason I phrase it
that way is we're talking about this very important letter
to the mayor of Denver, and whether or not you
care about Denver, that the principle applies, right, It's just
things fall apart under the left, some sooner, some take longer.
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But in Denver's case, how long until it all falls apart?
Because these very prominent restaurant owners who sent this letter
to the mayor, and you're going to want to hear
certain parts of it. You know, this isn't a bunch
of conservatives, you know, this is a bunch of restaurant
owners in downtown Denver, part of the core of Denver,
a critical part of the core of Denver. And those
(00:59):
are their words, downtown is completely falling apart. And then,
of course we're not darkness cursors. We're candlelighters. So what
is the fix? So want to talk about that. We
know what the fix is not, which is Denver Mayor
Mike Johnston's twenty percent service charge to tackle restaurant woes.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And who would be paying that?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, I think it's the customers. And yeah, that's going
to get more people downtown.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Right. So we'll get to that in a second.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
But Ryan, what would you guess before we get into
the meat of this story, pun intended?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
What would how many.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Restaurants do you think have closed since twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
That's interesting you bring that up, Dan, because in debt right,
I just brought this to the attention of Chris Fusela,
who used to run Blake Street tavern right by Corsfield there.
I loved going there after games, and it was real
tragedy that he had to close down. A lot had
to do with the COVID restrictions in the aftermath of
the pandemic U and he just didn't want to go
(01:55):
public with commentary on this. He's kind of laying low
and he wants to keep it that way. That's what
he told me. But in addition to that one, Dan,
I got to believe it's in the.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Dozens four and twenty five.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
That's four score and seven years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
That is a city that's falling apart, and it's falling
apart because of leftist rule.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And i'd love and you're going to hear it in
this story what one of the restaurant owners said. And
again this isn't coming from the right, it's just right.
And that is that that, Hey, this isn't a homeless problem,
this is an addiction problem. And that's his quote. And
it goes back to what I said long before we
legalize marijuana. Listen, if you are going to now as
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the left, as as the left state widing in Denver,
if you're now going to make Denver and Colorado the
drug capital of the world, well you know what's coming,
and it's going to be very, very ugly. And that
is exactly what we have going on. So listen to this.
I can't read the whole thing. Restaurant tours to cry
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a downtown that's quote completely falling apart.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Downtown Denver.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Restaurant tours say the area is completely falling apart quote
unquote in an email letter sent to Mayor Mike Johnston,
Jack's Fishouse, an oyster bar owner Dave Query, in a
message co signed by others, it was actually fourteen others
big timers ask how many more restaurants and small businesses
need to close before your quota alarm is triggered. Quote
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you ran your entire campaign platform on restoring our downtown
Denver business districts, said Query, founder of Big Red f
Restaurant Group. Quote it has gotten worse since you took
the position of mayor. Query cited unchecked fentanyl use enabled
by soft policing legislation has reasons for a declining mile
High food scene, which has lost twenty two percent of
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its restaurants since twenty twenty one. Thirteen other downtown operators
co signed Query's letter, including then it goes into a
long list of real big timers, including Troy Guard of
tag Rush Group. And that's about as big as it gets.
So it goes on to say, between the out of
control minimum wage increases, over the top property tax hikes,
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and the complete loss and seeming care for our valuable
and unique business districts, we are struggling for our lives
to keep these restaurants alive. Query called downtown's traffic situation
a quote catastrophic disaster, and then it goes on from
there real quick.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Addundant to that, Dan, I also reached out directly to
Dave Query, who you were just quoting there by email
all with free There you go with.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
An interview request to join the program. So I'll keep
you updated on that as well.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
No, I'll look forward to that, because obviously this is
nothing political. These are pillars of our community fighting for
their economic survival. And what do you think happens when
it reaches the tipping point? And all of that just
starts to collapse?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Right?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
And as they write in the letter you got in interviews, okay,
the people used to go downtown to restaurants and everything else.
Now they're spreading out to other areas. And then they
give some grot epic examples and everybody can picture it
of some of the horrific things you see downtown. And
I love his point that it's not a homeless problem,
it's an addiction problem. And that's what the left doesn't
want to talk about, right, is they talk about the homeless.
(05:13):
And now we've just been one hundred million of your
taxpayer money to throw some homeless in a motel for
a few weeks. But what they don't want to talk
about is how they got there. And it's the left's
addiction to legalized drugs, because the left knows that the
more drug depopulation is, the more dependent it is on government,
and the more it's going to vote left. So that's
what's unfolding here. Denver, Colorado did something back in twenty
(05:37):
twelve that that no other city, I may be in
human history, but but no other city in modern times
had done Colorado did in legalizing marijuana the way it
did it. And you then make this state the drug
capital of America and Denver very proudly leading the charge,
what haven't they legalized?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And the latest was like mushrooms?
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yea right to So yeah, so what do you think's
going to happen?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And that is what's happening because the drugs aren't going
to stop with and even if they stopped with marijuana,
it's more like Krakawana now due to the high potency,
it's not going to stop there. You're going to get
known for being a drug capital, a drug friendly capital,
and that's who you're going to attract. And then good
people here are going to get green lighted, and they're
going to get into all that crap and then it
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just goes downhill the way it is. So, but Mayor
Johnston is a fix. This is the Gazette, and boy,
the Denver Gazette does great work. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston
floats twenty percent service charge to tackle restaurant woes. Denver
Mayor Mike Johnston wants to add a twenty percent service
charge to local restaurant tabs and then tax it to
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help restaurants cope with the city's minimum wage and promote
what he calls pay equity among tipped and non tipped employees. Well,
that's the thing with the left, right, they're so determined
to get equity and they're going to get it because
everybody's going to be poor that that's the equity that
they're going to get. And in a lot of ways
that they probably don't mind, because what is the left? No, Ryan,
(07:04):
They're not good at many things, but they're good at math,
and they know that once people start making more than
I think the current number is probably sixty five grand,
then a majority are going to vote Republican. So the
left has a vested interest in keeping lots of people
from prospering. On Monday, Johnston told a Citycast Denver popular
(07:24):
podcast that he has already been discussing the idea with
restaurant owners. He didn't say whether they are on board.
He also did not discuss if increasing people's dinner cost
would decrease restaurant visits. Well, let's think about that for
a second. You're going to increase their dinner costs by
twenty percent, and then you're going to tax it on
top of that. You know, I think that's going to
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cause a lot more people to want to go downtown
to eat, right because I mean where else is, say, Ryan,
say you go out to the Shooling Estate or you
go out to Cherry Creek or somewhere like that to eat.
You're not going to get to see naked people running
around doing naked people's things outside the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
You're not going to get.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
To see just like public urination and defecation and all
that other stuff. So you're not going to go out
to Cherry Creek or Northlands or anything else. You're heading
right downtown to pay that extra twenty five percent.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
It makes no sense whatsoever, and it explains why in
the Denveright article and seems like they like doing favors
for Mayor Mike Johnson. I might add that he's backpedaling
off of that and trying to put it on the businesses.
They No, I just want to give them the option
to do that, and you know, I'm just trying to
help and empower them to make that decision and choice,
which sounded a lot different than his initial salvo on
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the issue.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
But we see so much of this goofiness for him,
and I pose this question not with any kind of negativity,
just a very fair question. And it's it's kind of
like during the campaign when I kept saying to people
who said Joe Biden is Joe Bidenett, and I kept saying,
obviously he's not going to be there, He's not going
to be their candidate and election day and people looked
at me like I was crazy. Is it fair right
(09:05):
now to ask whether elected officials in cities and states
that have legalized marijuana are using Is that a fair question,
especially when they say goofy stuff like we're sending the
cops out to fight the Feds at the border Tenneman Square.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, let's just get twenty percent more tax on restaurants?
Is that a fair question?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I'd like to hear from people three h three someone
three eight two five five text d an five seven
seven three nine. I don't know whether Mike Johnston uses
THC or not. I truly don't, But is it a
fair question when you're mayor of a city where it's
legalized and glorified and you keep saying all this bat.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Bat playing crazy stuff. You're on the Dankplas Show.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
And now back to the dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Did you ever have that happen? Round?
Speaker 5 (10:04):
What happened? What do you talk to a song?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
And how did that song pop into your head?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
From the earlier story about the strippers getting ripped off
by their employers allegedly, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Kind of a delayed reaction, but that's okay, better late
than never. Yeah, we were talking about this story the
auditor in Denver saying the strippers have been ripped off
to the tune of fourteen million.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
The club's saying absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Audit are saying strippers have to pay to work there
and that that ain't right. So we'll see how all
of this unfolds for everyone to see. But at the moment,
we're talking about this very prominent group of Denver restaurant tours.
We're not talking about some conservative organization just saying it's
falling apart, that Denver is falling apart around them, and
(10:46):
we have some more quotes from that. But then we're
also talking about Mike Johnston's brilliant idea for a fix,
which is increase everybody's tax by twenty percent and then
text that increase, you know, to help offset some of
the revenue loss for the restaurants. And you have to
wonder what school of economics did these lefties study yet,
(11:07):
I mean, or is the idea that they're going to
pass the law forcing people to go to these downtown
Denver restaurants to eat under threat of criminal prosecution, kind
of like you have to lie on medical forms now
about whether somebody's a male or female, or you're going
to get charged under this new bill. Texter says, then
I'll get to a will in Evergreen, Dan. I think
(11:28):
you just don't get it, because you cannot think as
brilliantly as a liberal does. If they raise taxes and
charges enough on everybody, they'll be bringing in huge amounts
of revenue and then they can have that money to
give back to everybody and we will all have wealth
beyond measure. Yeah, now I think you nail that they're Texter, Dan.
(11:49):
That just means when I go to eating Denver, I'm
not going to bother leaving a tip. It will save
me five percent. That's one of the saddest texts I've
seen in a long time. I personally think is a
guy who worked for tips as a caddy, as a
bartender and everything else. That it's I really think, don't
you Ryan. It's it's almost the very best money any
of us can ever spend. Because the people were tipping,
we know they're out there working hard. You know, well
(12:11):
at least some of it goes directly to them, So
I know that Texter is in jest.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Kind of man.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
They one additional thing to that too, Dan, That made
me think about this. If they're tacking on twenty percent,
I have no say in it. You know, tip is
earned and it's not automatically given, nor should it be
in my view, because, like you, I have worked for
tips and busting my rear in and I like when
that's rewarded. But if somebody provides less than adequate service,
then I think the consumers should have a right to
(12:40):
either not tip or tip a lower amount as well. Now,
in addition to that, I've had conversations with delivery drivers.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
I've even spoken to my own brother.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Who works for Domino's Pizza Corporate and in Arbor, Michigan,
they're slapping on these delivery fees like three four five dollars,
And I tell the drivers that makes me less inclined
to tip on top of that number, because what's going
on here. I'm paying for it much.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
For the tip as I am for the pizza itself.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And a lot of people just can't afford that.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
But I think what they sense, and I think they're right,
is this major shift in society now where so many
of us have been conditioned to paying these enormous fees
to have food delivered because then it saves our time, right,
And I think a lot of people are just making
the calculation that that's worth it. This texture says, but eventually, right,
that's going to stop because it's too expensive. You can't
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do that indefinitely. This texture says no sympathy for the
Denver restaurant owners. They voted for it. I have zero sympathy,
and it's been years since I've been downtown.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I have a ton of sympathy for these Denver restaurant
owners because I've never owned a restaurant.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
But anybody knows that industry, knows that you won't find
harder working people anywhere, and there's such they're so critical
just to enjoyment of any area, in this case downtown,
And so I've got a lot of sympathy for them.
And they deliver, right, And isn't this America right?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Ryan?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
If you're a restaurant, if you're a restaurant and you're
not the only restaurant in town, you've got to be
good and you've got to deliver. You got to keep
delivering or you'll be out of business quickly.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
So I have a lot of respect for these folks,
no matter what their politics are. They've been in a
dog eat dog business. Hopefully not serving no. No, they've
been in.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
This dog eat dog business and they have made it
because they've delivered a good product year after year after year.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
But they can't help it. Listen to this quote.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
This is from the restaurant owner Jax, who led the
charge and the other fourteen signed the letter. Restaurant owners
talking about how when they started in nineteen ninety six.
No one got stabbed on the sixteenth Street mall in
nineteen ninety six. We were not cleaning human blank off our
patios in front door vestibules every morning. We didn't have
fentanyl zombies walking around scaring and threatening our guests and tourists.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
And that's the reality of Denver. And I got to
tell you, my brother.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Then the city responds, well, we're doing this five hundred
and seventy million cash infusion downtown. That is wasted money
until you get rid of the drug issue. You made
Denver the drug capital of the world. Until you reverse that,
you could spend five hundred and seventy billion, and you're
not going to get people down there. And I've been
talking about that for years, so they can keep deluting themselves.
(15:15):
Denials not just a river in Egypt. Will and Evergreen.
You're on the Dan Caplis show.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Welcome, Good after, Mila Wan, How are you?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I am living the dream? How about you?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Likewise? My friend? Likewise listen. I want to thank both
you and I and for the coverage of the Jefferson
County school debacle. That is, and as a dad of
three teenagers that are currently in the Jefferson County school System.
Obviously got some concerns, But my question is kind of
two part for you specific thanks so much. As you've
(15:51):
got a superintendent that serves at the pleasure of and
I think if that's an empty word, pleasure of the
school board, and then you've got a school board that
quite frankly is in the pocket of.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
The teachers' union.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
It creates a bit of a conundrum that what I'm
calling and wanting to ask of you, sir, is you
know what options do we have outside of recalling the
school board of essentially holding you know, these officials accountable.
You know the the unfortunate nature obviously, and you know
the stories that have been coming out recently, and I've
been following Mendsey Dato, who's done amazing work. Thank you
(16:31):
for providing that is as a concerned parent, again, back
to anything short of recalling the school board, is what
can we do as parents to start holding these officials accountable? Because,
as the cliche goes, the fish stands from the head
to the tail, not the opposite. Yeah, and I just
feel powerless as to what's going on right now. I
(16:52):
don't know what options we have.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Well, that's a great question. And the good news is
I think there's lots that parents can do. The bad
news is it's a monstrous amount of work, but it
can succeed. And I've got some specific things in mind.
I'll get you right after this news break, very concrete things,
step by step. But Lindsey Detco and her group have
proven you can succeed out there, right. I mean, look
(17:15):
what they accomplished when it came to the mask and
that whole tragedy in Jeffco. What was being done to
kids out there during COVID. They've succeeded on lots of
different issues. But I think there is a roadmap here
to success. It's just going to take a ton of work.
And in the few seconds we have before this break
or do we have left?
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Right?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Okay, yep, in it, I'm remote, so I'm not hearing
the outro music here, so I'll get into some of
the specifics after the break. And by the way, we
have we have the mother of.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
That fifteen year old girl who that teacher at Columbine
went after and then others in the school helped to
have her declared homeless so she could move in with
the teacher.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
The mother will be in studio with us on Monday,
so please be with us.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
And when we come back, step by step concrete what
can be done to overcome?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
And Jeff go, you're on the Dan caps Show.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Well, kid, are we going to see who is on
the flights? Are we going to see any evidence from
what he recorded? Because he had all of his homes.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Wired with recording devices.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
What you're going to see, hopefully tomorrow is a lot
of flight logs, a lot of names at a lot
of information. But it's pretty sick what that man did. Okay,
well along with his co defendant.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Absolutely and he had help, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Did Yeah, that's Jesse Waters with Pam Bondi And we
expected a lot of Epstein file release today and there
appeared to be just kind of a smattering distributed in
kind of an awkward way. So Pam Bondi writes a
letter to cash Betel's FBI demanding that the full files
be turned over quickly. This is not a cash Ptel issue.
(19:04):
This is apparently an issue with some other offices in
the FBI. But he's in charge now, so I expect
we'll get to the bottom of it. So on Epstein, listen.
I think the key is the full truth has to
be out there because one of the things, there are
only very few things that can take America down right,
and it can only be done from the inside. But
if you have if people lose confidence in the justice system,
(19:26):
believe there are two justice systems, one for the rich
and powerful, the people on the left, and then the
other for the rest of us. That's how a country
can fall apart.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
The election of Donald Trump for a second term was
part of a pushback against this Banana Republic thing. So
the full truth about Epstein has to be told. With
two exceptions. You have got to be able to fully
protect the victims. So you've got to go through those
files and make sure you're not releasing any victim identities
unless they want it out there. And then two, you've
(19:55):
got to make sure that if there are innocent people
whose names just pop up in some other context, that
they're protected because that's just basic human decency, right. Anybody
involved in this mass rape of children, well they've got
to be fully exposed and fully prosecuted. So and all
that needs to happen quickly, but it has to be
(20:16):
done right. I don't think it makes a difference if
it's in a week or if it's in a month,
as long as it happens fully and it's done right.
Three oh three someone three eight two five five text
d A N five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Hey. Just before the break it a great color guy
named Will from Evergreen a.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Jeffco's school parent, and he was calling to say, man,
I feel helpless.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I mean, what can we do as parents?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
And his take was, the school board is in the
pocket of the teachers' unions and it's a it's one
big and I'm paraphrasing loosely lefty kind of thing. What
can parents do? And I understand the frustration because you know, obviously,
you know, voting the wrong people out of office, the
right people in all of that, But that takes a
lot of time, and it can be really tough in
(20:59):
some areas.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Is but obviously got to try to do it.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
But short term, I would suggest that people do what
Lindsay Detcow has done, and what some others have done,
and what the brave mother of this child, this fifteen
year old who was set upon by this female teacher
over twenty thousand texts, and then the female teacher working
with others at the school to have this child from
a wonderful home declared.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Homeless so she could be moved in with the teacher
is sees on that issue.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Do everything in your power within the system to put
pressure on the school board, on the school district, on
the DA's office to fully investigate and reveal their findings
and to the extent no actions taken. Explain why why
haven't there been any criminal charges brought? You know, why
(21:50):
hasn't anybody been fired? I think you've got to keep
the pressure on this issue because this is an issue
that crosses party lines. Right, this isn't left or right,
it's just right or wrong. And everybody can see how
wrong this is. The principles admitted it was very wrong
and that it haunts them. Well, then why is everybody
still there? And for every one of these young ladies
(22:12):
or men that we find out about, how many other
victims are there we never find out about? So yeah,
please seize on that issue. Do everything you can within
the system to force full investigation and a full public report,
and if there should be prosecutions, and I think most
of us looking from the outside. Think, boy there really
should be make sure they happen.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
That's the kind of accountability that I think can help
break through, because this is an issue that is broken through.
Hopefully Sean Boyd, who did a tremendous story on it
at News for really great journalists, you know, hopefully Channel
four stays on the story. Others pick it up. We'll
have the mother.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
As I mentioned of this girl, and it was fifteen
when this started. She was fifteen star students, star athlete,
and it just got so bad that now the mother's
just trying to get her back home. You know that
this young lady ends up and I view the young
lady my own constitutionally protected opinion. I view the young
lady as a victim. You know, she ends up moving
(23:11):
in with this teacher right after she graduates. The teacher
moves out of state. If the mom just wants to
get her baby home, and the mother of this girl
will be with us in studio on Monday, I hope
you join us then three three someone three eight two
five five text d An five seven seven three nine.
A couple of texts here. I have to disagree with Ryan, one,
(23:33):
says Dan. The word is not restaurant tours. It's restaurant tours.
That seems a little picky to me. Plus it's Chicago.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Right in your accent really resembles mine in the Upper Midwest.
But what I would say to that is, I think
there are two different terms restaurant tour. Like you're saying,
is somebody that runs a restaurant a restaurant, or would
be somebody that frequents her dines.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
At a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I would think, right, no, it's not restaurant or even I.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Know that well, is that what they're saying in the text?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yea, that it should be restaurant or not restaurant tour.
And I'm not trying to be fancy saying restaurant tour.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
That's just the word.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Kelly has right now. I'm not sure why Kelly gus
she's getting really ornery.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
First of all, I worked in hospitality for almost nine years.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
It's restaurant tour.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Right, it is exactly exactly correct, correct, thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
That's one of my few regrets in life is that
I've never worked as a waiter. I mean, I worked
as a janitor, cleaning bathrooms and a chemical plant years
as a cat he one of the greatest jobs on
the planet. But I never worked as a waiter, and
I really do want to do that.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
One of these days. So yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I might have to do it out of town. You know,
it might shake the confidence of my client if all
of a sudden I'm their waiter.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
It's center.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
You talked about driving uber and doing the same thing, all.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
The same thing. I really want to do that. I
know you do some of that, right, I.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Have in the past. Yeah, thankfully I haven't had two
of late.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, and our son, our son Joe, has done some
of that too. Still getting through law school, doing a
heck of a job with it. Dan It Oh, here's
a text I strongly disagree with. Seem like you are
almost promoting those places, referring to the downtown Denver restaurants
complaining about Mike Johnston. Maybe they should have been paid more,
but I hope they are all shut down, the owners
(25:26):
of the lowest of the low That that is the
most bizarre text I think we've ever received, because you
look at these downtown Denver restaurant owners and they're they're courageous,
and they're coming out and they're speaking out, and they're
saying it's completely falling apart down here. You're not talking
about a bunch of conservatives or anything, but my goodness,
(25:46):
I mean talk about a group of folks we should admire, right,
And I assume that they're most are, if not all,
our Democrats and this and that. I'm just saying, these
are people who who succeed based on merit. Because if
you have a restaurant in any kind of competitive place
and you aren't real good, you aren't lasting. So year
after year after year, they have competed, they provided this
(26:08):
great service, they provided a lot of jobs. And let's
face it, Ryan, a city of town whatever, you can
lose a lot of different types of businesses and maybe
keep going. You cannot lose your good restaurants, right, I mean,
who's going to go there? So no, I admire the
heck out of these people because they compete, they win,
they prove it, they work hard, and they are pillars
(26:30):
of the community no matter what their politics are. So
the fact they're standing up and saying it's all falling apart, man,
and I.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Just don't understand the logic here, Dan, I mean, I
go downtown.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I was downtown last night to see Ari Shaffer the
comedian comedy works downtown, and there's a couple of nice bars.
I like, going downtown is a little bit more of
a hassle, the parking, etc.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
The other kind of extracurriculars.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Shall we say that you sometimes encounter that we talked
about earlier in the program. But you're right, it needs
to be an incentive to come downtown for those of
us that live out in the burbs like you and me.
I live in Greenwood Village, and you know, I got
Ocean Prime right there, I got Del Frisco's right there,
I got Shanahan's right there.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
You know, why not just go there? I do?
Speaker 1 (27:13):
And well, I think the big difference is you don't
have the young people, right I mean.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Where I am, or downtown, well.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
In the tech center, I mean downtown, you do.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
But listen, if I was you know, if I was
still thirty or thirty five or whatever, I wouldn't be
hanging out in the suburbs.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Right, you know, I'd want to be downtown.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I'd want to be downtown where people my own age
and everything else.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
But what I'm saying is if you tack on the
twenty percent crap, then people are going to be even
less likely to go down town, not more likely.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
No, that that's right.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
And then there's another story that ties into it, maybe
for tomorrow, which is, you know, Mayor Johnston still won't
order the city workers back into their.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Offices full time.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
So you've got this floundering inner city, this floundering downtown
Denver and he won't even order the workers back in.
But you know, here's an interesting text, and we got
to pop this break.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Dan.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
This is referring to the strippers Denver claiming they've been
underpaid fourteen million DAN workers in other situations pay to
work at a location, barber's, hairdressers and new salon workers,
why not the strippers, and then making the allegation these
places are front for sex trafficking, which which I have
no evidence to support, but I am not making that claim.
(28:29):
So that's interesting, is it is it wrong to charge strippers?
And that's the allegation clubs haven't admitted it to pay
to work there. You're on the Dan Capla.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Show and now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcasts.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
Then being for that, we're going to need you voice
there because with this and we're seeing that, you know,
I see the what's wrong?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Oh, thank you, lord boy, what a bullet we dodged?
Can you what do you think it would look like
right now? If somehow, and it was never going to happen,
but if somehow Harrison Walls had won, what do you
think it would look like?
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Like Soviet Russia? A little bit?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Oh my goodness, yeah, I mean, but but think about
think about how looney you have to be to say
what he just said?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Right, I mean? But anyway eight.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Five five zero five eight two five five the number
text d A N five seven seven three nine. The
good news for America is that most of the left,
including in very high ranking positions like his, is just
as looney, and a lot of them have done a
better job of hiding it. But now they're starting to
come out into the open right because they're getting pressured
by the big money on the left to quote fight back, well, well,
(29:57):
how by taking these twenty positions eighty twenty issues against you?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yeah, that's what the big money left is insisting on.
And that's great because it's opening more eyes to just
how goofy the left is.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Now how long do you think it's going to take
in Colorado? And it's a recurring team here, but it's
going to be on the docket.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Tomorrow as well. Is how long is it going to take.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Till Republicans start winning big again in Colorado?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
If ever? And what would it take? And do you
think we'll ever have.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
A Republican mayor of Denver because obviously Denver is failing
and there are plenty of great people there, etc.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
But it's failing. I mean, these restaurant owners said it.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Downtown's completely falling apart. Do you think we'll ever have
a Republican mayor?
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Doubtful, but maybe a less bad Democrat one.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
I can name one in Detroit, Mike Duggan, who's done
a really good job in Detroit and he's pondering a
run as an independent for governor there. So maybe somebody
along those lines.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Yeah, I bet you we will have a Republican meyrit.
They just won't say the Republican there you go. Yeah,
I bet you we will.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
We have to right eventually, because obviously it just keeps
crumbling under the left, and so that's gonna have to happen.
And I think something like these courageous restaurant owners speaking
out is kind of a tipping point moment, because you
know you're going to have people like that get together
and they're going to seek out their own candidate, et cetera.
And then you really will have somebody.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Who's going to, you know, just not register as a Republican,
but be that, be that in philosophy, be that in approach,
et cetera.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
So yeah, I think that day's coming state wide.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, we'll keep talking about that and speaking about you know,
lefties are under pressure now to reveal how kooky they
really are this business. Check it out at Dan Caplos
on Twitter where you've got Hickey Looper.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
He's up in Colorado.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Right, there's no buzz about this Senate race right now,
but Hicckenlooper's up in Colorado in this cycle, and he's
pushing a bill that would prevent ice from detaining illegal
immigrants at polling places. Right, So I mean talk about
exhibit A and if you don't believe me, you can
actually see the bill at Dan Caplis at Twitter.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
So what do you think his campaign's going to look like? Okay,
how old is John?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Not unless he is a nice fella, he's nice to
be around. But even when he was young, he was
old I mean, how old is he now, and what
is that campaign going to look.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Like he turns seventy three on February seventh or nineteen
fifty two.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, yeah, wow.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Be very You think he'll get challenged, You think he'll
get challenged by one of these younger Democrats because they've
got to realize at this point they've been played for fools,
right is you got all of this morally superior talk
about Dei and everything else.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
From the left, and then look at Colorado.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Three of the four top jobs are held by boring,
old white guys, and then you got Jenna Riswald. So yeah,
do you think anybody's going to take them on and say,
wait a second, we're just being played for fool.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
If there is a primary challenge to John Hickenlooper, dan
I guarantee it'll to come from his left. Politically, it
will not be a moderate Democrat he claims.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
To be that.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Oh yeah, right, And you know, I understand he gets
away with that more than most of these Democrats anymore.
But yeah, it'll be very interesting to see that, interesting
to see it in the governor's race too. Have any
I'm trying to remember any Democrats announced for governor.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
At this point, I think Bill Weiser, oh, Phil Wise,
yeah right right, oh yeah, that's big water cooler talk.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Right, How could you forget failed on the life?
Speaker 2 (33:39):
How could you possibly?
Speaker 5 (33:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:42):
And just like Phil Wiser has forgotten the students of
Colorado or being sexually abused by teachers, right, shouldn't that
be like a five alarm fire? And most of the
teachers are wonderful, it's no reflection on them, but we
do have a crisis of sexual abuse of students in
our schools. And Phil Weiser won't touch it. Polish won't
touch it. Why because the teachers' unions are the sacred
(34:02):
cow of the Democratic parties, so you can see where
their priorities are.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
But yeah, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Commonly assumed that if Joe no Goose wants it, he's
going to be the Democrat nominee.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
He'd be tough. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
I think that's just the common assumption. So maybe everybody's
just waiting to see what he does. Anyway, let's do tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Please don't forget that the courageous mom of that Columbine
student she's trying to get back, will join us Monday
in studio.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
We'll have a Fun Show tomorrow. Thank you Ryan, Thank
you Kelly. Be safe tonight. Join us together please tomorrow
on The Dan Kapla Show
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