Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen in this corner from the University of
Speaker 1: Colorado for thirty years in the rain, fighting for truth,
Speaker 1: justice and the American way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look at the celebration continue.
Speaker 3: It seems like every day there's another new reason to
Speaker 3: continue the celebration. Is if the original one wasn't enough, right,
Speaker 3: the gift that keeps on giving America, saving American once
Speaker 3: again through the election of Donald J.
Speaker 2: Trump. But you see this momentum and you see it
Speaker 2: taking concrete form, and the latest today well actually on
Speaker 2: multiple fronts, but the headliner today is this absolute farce
Speaker 2: in Georgia getting more and more fully exposed. Is thank
Speaker 2: goodness the appellate court level and Georgia stepping in and
Speaker 2: disqualifying Fannie Willis from prosecuting that case as it should.
Speaker 2: And listen, we know that case is not coming back
Speaker 2: against Donald Trump. The underlying case hasn't been dismissed at
Speaker 2: this point. But it's a farce. It's always been a farce,
Speaker 2: and it you know, you think about how close we came.
Speaker 2: Imagine if Trump had lost this election and now these
Speaker 2: legal hyenas just abusing the system and tearing him apart,
Speaker 2: you know, all over the country. But thank god, you know,
Speaker 2: he saved himself, the American voters saved him, and in
Speaker 2: the process, you know, saved America for now and let's
Speaker 2: hope forever. Eight five five or zero five eight two
Speaker 2: five five the number. But if you have not been
Speaker 2: following that story, I'd ask which planet are you from?
Speaker 2: And have you been on one of those drones? But
Speaker 2: but you know, you've got this obviously politically motivated prosecution
Speaker 2: of Trump and Georgia, which really strikes at the foundation
Speaker 2: of our nation as a people. We can never be
Speaker 2: destroyed from the outside, right, we can only be destroyed
Speaker 2: from the inside. But this sort of thing is the
Speaker 2: kind of thing that can destroy us. So you've got
Speaker 2: Fannie Willis and to her lover, Nathan Wade, who she
Speaker 2: brought in to be the special prosecutor exposed. But what
Speaker 2: my point today is a that how great it is
Speaker 2: for America that the Georgia Appellate Court stepped in and
Speaker 2: people can see, yeah, no, wait a second. You know,
Speaker 2: there are checks and balances, and we're not going to
Speaker 2: go down to the Banana Republic road. But the other
Speaker 2: point I want to make is one that's not getting
Speaker 2: talked about and it really needs to be. And I'm
Speaker 2: not saying this because I'm a lawyer. I've been a
Speaker 2: lawyer for forty years. I'm a trial lawyer, but because
Speaker 2: it's true, and that is all of this, that the
Speaker 2: destruction of that farce of a case in Georgia, all
Speaker 2: of this was triggered by one great lawyer doing things
Speaker 2: that great lawyers do. And there's no talk about that
Speaker 2: out there, and that really it concerns me because I
Speaker 2: think heroic efforts like this, this lawyer, Ashley Merchant, and
Speaker 2: she was even Trump's lawyer. Remember that this abusive process
Speaker 2: down in Georgia, they charged about everybody they could think
Speaker 2: of charging, because part of their broader goal with this
Speaker 2: perversion of a prosecution in Georgia was to just try
Speaker 2: to intimidate people out of even thinking of getting involved
Speaker 2: in conservative politics, criminalizing conservative politics, and that's part of
Speaker 2: the lefts overall playbook. They can't win an argument based
Speaker 2: on the law, facts, morals, etc. They just have to
Speaker 2: have this politics of personal destruction. So was not even
Speaker 2: Trump's lawyer. It was a lawyer for a co defendant
Speaker 2: who was doing what great lawyers do, which is the
Speaker 2: real dirty work. You know, a big part of my
Speaker 2: job is detective work, and I happen to love it.
Speaker 2: My dad was a detective Chicago Police Department. I happened
Speaker 2: to love it. But she got worried that, hey, wait
Speaker 2: a second, there might have been something going on between
Speaker 2: Fannie Willison Wade. And she dug in and she investigated,
Speaker 2: and she pushed and she put and she finally got
Speaker 2: somebody to give her an affidavit saying this was true,
Speaker 2: this happened, and that then earned her a hearing. Then
Speaker 2: she got subpoena power. Then she got to start to
Speaker 2: unravel this thing and in the meantime, save Donald Trump
Speaker 2: from that farce of a prosecution. So yeah, kids, if
Speaker 2: you're thinking about what you want to do with your life,
Speaker 2: if you got the right morals, you got the right principles,
Speaker 2: you got the right aims and ambitions, you get that
Speaker 2: ability to walk in front of the bar and practice law.
Speaker 2: Somebody like this Ashley Merchant just changed the trajectory of America.
Speaker 2: And that's just great work by one lawyer. And then
Speaker 2: I'm just love to get her on the show, Kelly,
Speaker 2: can you do that? Call up Ashley Merchant, try to
Speaker 2: get her on the show no relation, by the way
Speaker 2: to the judge. Close to Christmas. Now, if there's anything
Speaker 2: fun you want to talk about, you know, not that
Speaker 2: this serious stuff isn't fun, but just fire away and
Speaker 2: everything's fair game. What privilege Jesse Thomas in today? Jesse
Speaker 2: who big time guy normally does the Rockies? And is
Speaker 2: this a disciplinary action? How'd you end up on this show?
Speaker 4: Well, like I said, I tried to change my number
Speaker 4: during the off season, but they find me.
Speaker 2: They sent a telegram to the house. So here I am. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're just with me. You are just magnetic. Thank you. Well,
Speaker 2: it is a great privilege. Yeah, place i'd be well,
Speaker 2: and you're a good liar, but I appreciate that. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's the sentiment that counts, right, Yeah, I think you'd
Speaker 2: rather be maybe in Game seven of the World Series.
Speaker 4: Yep, that's the Rockies up a couple of years away, Yeah, Dan,
Speaker 4: a couple of years away?
Speaker 2: How far? Now? Tell me this, my friend. Are the
Speaker 2: Rockies going to be contenders again?
Speaker 4: And if so, well, there is hope for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4: They're going to make some significant steps with some younger
Speaker 4: players this year, and then if everything goes their way
Speaker 4: and they catch lightning in a bottle. Twenty twenty six
Speaker 4: is looking promising, Okay.
Speaker 2: So twenty five will just kind of enjoy the popcorn
Speaker 2: and every everything else.
Speaker 4: And it's all about development, work in progress, under construction,
Speaker 4: if you will. That's the way I'm referring to it,
Speaker 4: or under construction.
Speaker 2: And it's so interesting to me. And we won't talk
Speaker 2: baseball day to day, but it's so interesting to me
Speaker 2: because my love partner, Barbara Wahi, and I we were
Speaker 2: sitting around and were saying, Okay, do we renew our
Speaker 2: Rockies tickets again? Because we we have these good Rockies
Speaker 2: tickets that we use for clients and our wonderful staff.
Speaker 2: And I may make it to two or three games here.
Speaker 2: I love going. I'm just busy, So do we renew
Speaker 2: them again? Because they're really expensive. And we were sitting
Speaker 2: there thinking, you know what, people love them. You know,
Speaker 2: we have such clients love them, our staff loves them.
Speaker 2: And even though it's probably the worst team in baseball,
Speaker 2: people love going out to the park. And I think
Speaker 2: so many of us, you know, kind of grew up
Speaker 2: that way, you know, with our moms and dads taking
Speaker 2: us to games. It is that history behind.
Speaker 4: It hard to have a bad time on a summer,
Speaker 4: nice summer evening at Coursfield at the corner on any of.
Speaker 2: Them blake And in a weird kind of way, I'd
Speaker 2: rather much rather have a winner. But in a weird
Speaker 2: kind of way, if you're not gonna have a winner,
Speaker 2: it's almost better to have a team you know is
Speaker 2: gonna lose, because then your evening isn't affected if they lose.
Speaker 2: Like we we correct. I get what you're saying. We
Speaker 2: go to a Bronco game, or we go to a
Speaker 2: Nuggets game, we go to a Navs game, we're bummed
Speaker 2: out if our team loses. We go to a Rockies game,
Speaker 2: we expect them to lose. It's it's all about the environment.
Speaker 4: And this year it's all about the development of the
Speaker 4: younger players.
Speaker 2: So you're gonna have to they do have some good
Speaker 2: young talent. And so Jesse Thomas with us today A
Speaker 2: five five for zero five A two five five text
Speaker 2: D A N five seven, seventh through nine. Jesse, I
Speaker 2: know you don't need me to say this, but anytime
Speaker 2: you want to chime in with would love your thoughts
Speaker 2: on any of this. I'm not quite sure what this
Speaker 2: is going to be because there's so much going on
Speaker 2: in the world. It's going to be kind of a
Speaker 2: free form show. But some of the things I want
Speaker 2: to kick around with you today and we'll keep you posted.
Speaker 2: The House is about to vote on a Trump backed
Speaker 2: bill to avert a shutdown is as you know, Mike Johnson,
Speaker 2: and I think my interview with him is still up.
Speaker 2: Mike Johnson. It had a plan and then Elon Musk
Speaker 2: came in and said, you know, this doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2: It's not good enough, and so that got shot down
Speaker 2: and I was personally happy to see that. And now
Speaker 2: they're trying to put something together to keep the government
Speaker 2: open this weekend. So we'll keep you posted as this
Speaker 2: vote will happen, likely sometime during the show. A few
Speaker 2: things I want to talk to you about, though, that
Speaker 2: go beyond the headlines. Obviously, there are all these headlines
Speaker 2: about Stephanopoulos and ABC having to pay the fifteen million,
Speaker 2: some say sixteen million, and that's fantastic, But I want
Speaker 2: to go beneath the headlines into wait a second, all
Speaker 2: these stories now that ABC staffers in full revolt, etc.
Speaker 2: Why would they be. I do want to touch on
Speaker 2: that because it goes back to my premise, and I
Speaker 2: think if you pause to look around at it, you'll
Speaker 2: see many examples and some I have even thought of,
Speaker 2: which is the modern Democratic Party in a lot of
Speaker 2: places nationally start with, and certainly here in Colorado, in
Speaker 2: my opinion, has become at its core lawless. I mean,
Speaker 2: it doesn't mean every single thing they do violate some statute, no,
Speaker 2: But what it means is, at its core, the powers
Speaker 2: that be in the Demococratic Party don't feel tethered to
Speaker 2: the law. They don't feel the law applies to them.
Speaker 2: They're very confident they won't be prosecuted if they do
Speaker 2: violate the law. And that's where you get to the
Speaker 2: point somebody like Mike Johnston, the mayor of Denver, lawless.
Speaker 2: Mike would come out and openly call for insurrection, openly
Speaker 2: call for promise to use his police to physically take
Speaker 2: on federal law enforcement to stop federal law enforcement from
Speaker 2: enforcing federal immigration law. There's this feeling as if the
Speaker 2: law doesn't apply to them, and they act that way.
Speaker 2: So that's what brings me back to these news stories
Speaker 2: about ABC staffers in full revolt for ABC settling a
Speaker 2: case where they're clearly liable. Goes back to that attitude
Speaker 2: among those in power on the left that the law
Speaker 2: does not apply to them, defamation law, that doesn't apply
Speaker 2: to us. We can do whatever we want to do.
Speaker 2: We're Democrats, we're lefties. Prosecutors aren't going to prosecute us.
Speaker 2: If we're sued, they're not going to win. But conservatives,
Speaker 2: they don't even have to violate the law, and we
Speaker 2: can successfully ruin them. I mean, that's just the mentality,
Speaker 2: and it takes a lot of different forms, and it's
Speaker 2: something that has to be defeated, which is one reason
Speaker 2: I'm so happy to see Trump prevailing the ABC case.
Speaker 2: Because the left lies into fames locally and nationally all
Speaker 2: the time, and it's time that we start rising up
Speaker 2: against that and holding them accountable. You're on the dan
Speaker 2: Kaplace Show.
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Speaker 2: Hockeys games with us today and why we've got some
Speaker 2: red hot Son. We're going to be firing for you
Speaker 2: this afternoon with the left melting down. Well, what was that?
Speaker 2: The left melting down over the Fannie Willis being disqualified
Speaker 2: in that first of a Georgia case. So we'll be
Speaker 2: following up on that as well. Let me get a
Speaker 2: couple of text and by the way, we expect a
Speaker 2: vote very soon on a funding bill to keep the
Speaker 2: government open, so we'll keep you posted on that, Dan
Speaker 2: says a Texter to DA n five seven, seven thirty nine.
Speaker 2: So fun watching the left meltdown about Elon and Vivic.
Speaker 2: They post that no one voted for them. They seem
Speaker 2: to forget no one voted for Kamala in the primary,
Speaker 2: and they did not have a problem with that from
Speaker 2: Alexa and I argue with the idea that nobody voted
Speaker 2: for Elon Musk. Wait a second, everybody knew that what
Speaker 2: they were getting he wasn't behind the scenes, and I
Speaker 2: think that's the awful lot of people voted for Trump
Speaker 2: because They wanted very smart people like Elon Musk involved
Speaker 2: in the administration instead of you look at the cast
Speaker 2: of knuckleheads and losers surrounding Kamala Harrison, Joe Biden. You know,
Speaker 2: people want excellence, they want competence, They want the trains
Speaker 2: to run on time, they want it to work. And
Speaker 2: you look at a guy like Elon Musk, you know,
Speaker 2: in a brain that can light stuff on fire, and
Speaker 2: all the success he's had, Yeah, people want more of
Speaker 2: that in government. That was part of Trump's appeal. He'd
Speaker 2: had a lot of success in business. The occasional failure,
Speaker 2: but my goodness, have you ever known anybody to succeed
Speaker 2: at the highest level of anything who didn't have a
Speaker 2: fair amount of failure along the way. That's just part
Speaker 2: of the learning process. That that's part of the toughening process.
Speaker 2: So no people wanted Elon Musk was openly campaigning for
Speaker 2: Trump giving away a million dollars per event, and maybe
Speaker 2: I should try that, Jesse. I could draw a krowd, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: so if you would loan me twenty million bucks, Jesse,
Speaker 2: I will go do twenty events in the next thirty days. Anyway,
Speaker 2: now people knew what they were getting there, they wanted it,
Speaker 2: and it is a good thing. I'm not saying he's perfect.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying that he brings a lot of good
Speaker 2: things to the table and Trump is smart to tap him.
Speaker 2: The other thing we were talking about this last night
Speaker 2: with Elon is think about that superpower with the money
Speaker 2: because at this point, yeah, okay, if for publican senators
Speaker 2: for example, are going to take Trump on in confirmation,
Speaker 2: well okay, they put the word out Elon Musk is
Speaker 2: going to fund up primary challenger, and that means you're
Speaker 2: going to have a tough time in that primary. And
Speaker 2: so that ability to just target and fund these battles,
Speaker 2: these causes, etc. That is kind of a super power
Speaker 2: for Trump right now. And the left doesn't like that
Speaker 2: at all because they've been the ones printing money right
Speaker 2: whether it's here in Colorado or nationally, the Democrats basically
Speaker 2: can print money and have all the money they need
Speaker 2: to fund this wacko stuff. Well now, at least where
Speaker 2: Trump's involved, conservatives have all the money they need to
Speaker 2: fund the good stuff. That's that's good for America. Alexa,
Speaker 2: Oh is this our Alexa? You're on the den Kapitlis Show.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Alexa?
Speaker 6: I am great, jan How are you well?
Speaker 2: Wonderful? Thank you. Last I can remember we were sitting
Speaker 2: here on the show praying for your survival and health.
Speaker 2: But but you're thriving.
Speaker 6: I I am fine. Yeah I got chest eyes for
Speaker 6: walking around with a broken necks for six days. Then
Speaker 6: now I'm I am.
Speaker 2: Where'd you grow up.
Speaker 6: Here?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: In Colorado? That's impressive.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's impressed.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, people in Littleton they walk around with broken
Speaker 2: necks all the time. They're tough, Littleton, tough, Littleton strong.
Speaker 6: Yet you have to be so. I have a suggestion
Speaker 6: for people who don't know what to get someone who
Speaker 6: has everything or need a last minute present that ties
Speaker 6: into your driving tips, since that's my husband and I
Speaker 6: have both had our cards destroyed in the last couple
Speaker 6: of months. Yes, gas cams. You do not have a
Speaker 6: dash camp. Have get someone you love a dash camp.
Speaker 6: It's not that expensive. A car kicked up a three
Speaker 6: foot bar and hit my husband's windshield and we have
Speaker 6: it all on dash cam to prove what happened. But
Speaker 6: it also going on the dan Chip way. It makes
Speaker 6: you more aware of your driving and it makes you
Speaker 6: not want to react to other people's bad driving because
Speaker 6: you know it's all on camera, so it probably actually makes.
Speaker 7: You a better driver.
Speaker 6: That's my suggestion. Beside the visage spa day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how can you miss on that? Well, Alexa, thank
Speaker 2: you for that. If we don't talk, have a great Christmas.
Speaker 6: You have a very merry Christmas with your lovely family.
Speaker 2: Thank you. We sure will. And I got to tell
Speaker 2: you that is brilliance from Alexa because I push this
Speaker 2: all the time, and you know the kind of work
Speaker 2: I do. My real job is representing people in death cases,
Speaker 2: in catastrophic injury cases, representing victims. And I just encourage
Speaker 2: you to get that dash cam. And in fact, I
Speaker 2: was in at the dealership believe it or not. Yeah,
Speaker 2: my car's back in the shop, right And so I
Speaker 2: was saying, hey, do you guys have something through the
Speaker 2: dealership where you can hardwire all this? And they say, noh,
Speaker 2: you got to go after market. But I'm going to
Speaker 2: go after market and get that dash cam because you
Speaker 2: know how every second or third show I should do
Speaker 2: At every show, three times I say don't go when
Speaker 2: the light turns green because so many people are running
Speaker 2: red lights. Right now, I probably have that happening three
Speaker 2: or four times a week. But you want to get
Speaker 2: the dash cam so that if anything bad does happen,
Speaker 2: you've got the proof right there. Somebody tries to lie
Speaker 2: about what happens, you got the proof because I'll tell
Speaker 2: you forty years of representing victims and catastrophic injury cases,
Speaker 2: people on the other side lie all the time that
Speaker 2: they you know, I'm not saying every defendant in every
Speaker 2: civil case lies, of course, not that it'd be ludicrous,
Speaker 2: but it is very, very common that people on the
Speaker 2: other side lie about what happened. And my job is
Speaker 2: to prove the lie. And we've been able to do
Speaker 2: that each and every time, and that actually ends up
Speaker 2: helping us in the end because guess what, juries don't
Speaker 2: like liars, and when I can prove that somebody on
Speaker 2: the other side is lying, that really helps my case.
Speaker 2: But it it sure be nice to just have that
Speaker 2: video right and just put all that to rest. Let's
Speaker 2: go to beautiful Fort Collins. We'll talk to Don. You're
Speaker 2: on the Dan Caplis. Sh'll welcome.
Speaker 7: Hey, Dan, Hi, Merry Christmas, you too, your crew.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 8: I have a question.
Speaker 7: Before the election, you were saying that you were convinced
Speaker 7: that Biden wanted Trump to win. So following that kind
Speaker 7: of logic, here's my question. It's been said that Biden
Speaker 7: is going to pardon a lot of these people that
Speaker 7: were problems in his administration, like Liz Cheney and Adam
Speaker 7: Schiff and some of those people. Do you think that
Speaker 7: Biden is not going to pardon those people because he
Speaker 7: sees them as being the people that kept him from
Speaker 7: running for presidency.
Speaker 2: What a great question, Don. It depends on who you're
Speaker 2: talking about. There isn't time to do it justice right now,
Speaker 2: but I want to follow up on that when we
Speaker 2: come back. We do have a special guest on the
Speaker 2: other side. But in the next segment, I want to
Speaker 2: follow up on Don's great question because I think President Trump.
Speaker 2: President Trump will benefit greatly from a number of the
Speaker 2: pardons Joe Biden is considering, and I want to explain
Speaker 2: that as well, special folks, Not that everybody isn't right
Speaker 2: to start the segment, but this time of the year,
Speaker 2: you may be thinking about, Okay, you want to do
Speaker 2: some end of the year given maybe it's five bucks,
Speaker 2: maybe it's five million, whatever it is, but you're probably
Speaker 2: not wanting to just rute to check. You're wanting the
Speaker 2: best bang for the buck. You want to do the
Speaker 2: most good you can and if you're kind enough to
Speaker 2: listen to that show, you know for me that means
Speaker 2: Catholic Charities and Catholic Charities of Denver does this really
Speaker 2: nitty gritty type work. Without it, the city would literally
Speaker 2: fall apart. But wanted to introduce you to a couple
Speaker 2: of folks here and you hear a little bit about
Speaker 2: what they do over at Little Flower Assistance Center in Aurora.
Speaker 2: My wife volunteers there and said, you've got to get
Speaker 2: these people on air. It is unbelievable the good they do.
Speaker 2: So I want to drop on for a minute or two.
Speaker 2: Donna Parter at Donna Parter forgive me, and Frank Lanrick
Speaker 2: and Donna Potter. Let's start with you. Welcome to the
Speaker 2: Dan Kaplis Show, and tell people a little bit about
Speaker 2: what you do.
Speaker 9: Please, Hi, Dan, thanks for having us. Actually I'm the
Speaker 9: site director over at the Little Flower and we provide
Speaker 9: a lot of different services to the community and that
Speaker 9: includes food, clothing, resource and referrals, employment search, senior assistance.
Speaker 9: That's about twenty five percent of our population and we
Speaker 9: provide a huge joy drive at Christmas, and it's for
Speaker 9: school age kids, king parents, and our elderly adults.
Speaker 2: And how would you describe say that the folks who
Speaker 2: most often come to you for help.
Speaker 9: Oh my, it's hard to put them in a few
Speaker 9: words because they're so diverse because we serve all populations.
Speaker 9: So I would say, you know, twenty five percent are
Speaker 9: adult seniors. Most of the folks that come to us
Speaker 9: are people that do not have employment. I would say
Speaker 9: that they are recently unemployed or they are searching for
Speaker 9: new directions in employment, so we're able to assist a
Speaker 9: little bit. Most of them are in need of food
Speaker 9: because of the rising prices and food, and so that's
Speaker 9: that's one huge area of service that we offer. I
Speaker 9: think it was around twenty five thousand people we have
Speaker 9: last year with food alone, and we're only open three
Speaker 9: days a week, and we have over one hundred volunteers.
Speaker 9: So that's what keeps us ticking over here.
Speaker 2: And that number of volunteers, I mean, obviously really says
Speaker 2: something about what you do and the quality of how
Speaker 2: you do it. Donna Potter again is a director over
Speaker 2: at Little Flower Assistance Center, and so tell folks who
Speaker 2: are listening, Donna, if they donate money to help your cause,
Speaker 2: what is that money going to translate into? Just just
Speaker 2: on a very base level. And I appreciate the description
Speaker 2: of the categories you just gave, but give an example
Speaker 2: of how somebody's twenty dollars might be used to help.
Speaker 9: Okay, basically a lot of our money goes to food
Speaker 9: or personal care items. And with the food items were
Speaker 9: able to purchase from generally Food Bank of the Rockies
Speaker 9: or on sale, you know, extra food products that we need.
Speaker 9: We try to do a very balanced product when we distribute.
Speaker 9: So we're doing, you know, not only can foods, but
Speaker 9: we're also providing meats, fruits, vegetables, berries, you know, those
Speaker 9: types of things, and not all the time can you
Speaker 9: you know, do those come in with can food drives?
Speaker 2: And what you're doing is so real because I know
Speaker 2: my wife Amy, when she came back, she said she
Speaker 2: could not believe. And she's worked in some pretty high
Speaker 2: level places, including some network TV time, and and you know,
Speaker 2: she came back and said, I cannot believe the level
Speaker 2: of organization. It is so highly organized, it's so efficiently operated.
Speaker 2: You know, it was just so very impressive, and she
Speaker 2: was telling the story about I think it was a family.
Speaker 2: She said, there must have been seven or eight kids,
Speaker 2: you know, and they came in and they were all
Speaker 2: in a very very efficient, organized, helpful way, given you know,
Speaker 2: what they needed, what they needed to feed the kids,
Speaker 2: what they needed to close the kids. And she just
Speaker 2: left thinking, you know, it doesn't get a whole lot
Speaker 2: better than that.
Speaker 9: Well, and it's the volunteers, I mean, without a doubt.
Speaker 9: You know, we only have two part time paid staff here.
Speaker 9: So it's all the volunteers that keeps the place ticking
Speaker 9: and running smoothly. And they each have their set things
Speaker 9: that they do, and they work in teams of you know,
Speaker 9: in many different areas, whether it's picking up the food
Speaker 9: or transporting the food or unloading it. As I said,
Speaker 9: the Joy Drive for Christmas is huge. We serve about
Speaker 9: six hundred kids in the downtown original Aurora area and
Speaker 9: the teachers have picked those children out, and then we
Speaker 9: do about one hundred seniors during that time and then
Speaker 9: the teen parent program also, So it's a lot of
Speaker 9: extra work to this time of year also.
Speaker 2: And how could people help Right now, Say somebody's driving
Speaker 2: home and they're thinking I like that, I want to help.
Speaker 2: I want to help right now, what can they do well.
Speaker 9: They would go into They can definitely go to Catholic
Speaker 9: Charities online to cc Denver dot org and find the
Speaker 9: Little Flower and then they can, you know, donate online.
Speaker 9: They can also donate directly to us at the center
Speaker 9: here at one one one four nine East fourteenth Avenue,
Speaker 9: and you know, any amount, we try to make sure
Speaker 9: that it's double. I can pinch a penny pretty.
Speaker 2: Hard, I bet you can. And I think Frank's with
Speaker 2: us as well. Can you introduce Frank and tell people
Speaker 2: a little about him.
Speaker 9: Yeah, this is Fred and he's one of our great volunteers.
Speaker 9: He is also on our advisory board, but he also
Speaker 9: is a team leader for distribution of our food when
Speaker 9: it comes in. So I'll let Fred say a couple
Speaker 9: of boards here.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Hey Fred, Hey thanks Dan.
Speaker 2: Sure no.
Speaker 8: I started about eight years ago and it's just kind
Speaker 8: of you know, you can donate and for myself, I
Speaker 8: just I wanted to meet the people and I've done
Speaker 8: intake here over the time. In the back office. If
Speaker 8: you will arrange the food packages and getting you know,
Speaker 8: the volunteers organized when the food truck comes in because
Speaker 8: we're going to get that food into the cold storage
Speaker 8: and things like that. So it's just for me, it's
Speaker 8: just you're actually feeling like you're really doing something and
Speaker 8: meeting people and seeing how it works. And to Donna's
Speaker 8: crested and all the volunteers here, I've never seen somebody
Speaker 8: use so much space inside of a building efficiently. Is
Speaker 8: there's not a vacant space here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's what Amy was saying, is it's
Speaker 2: it's incredibly high level in terms of the organization and
Speaker 2: the precision and maximizing everything. But then going back to
Speaker 2: where you started, Fred, just how real it is. I mean,
Speaker 2: you are meeting people, you know, with the greatest need,
Speaker 2: you know, right there at street level and just just
Speaker 2: accomplishing something fundamental for people each and every day. And
Speaker 2: like you say, it's got to be incredibly fulfilling, but
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's also very hard and at times sad,
Speaker 2: and without folks like you and Donna doing what you do,
Speaker 2: this community just kind of unravels.
Speaker 8: I mean, it is very touching, and you know, it's
Speaker 8: just amazing that Donna's earlier comme at the diversity of
Speaker 8: people here and a lot of times if we didn't
Speaker 8: have Google Translate, we would be able to help these people.
Speaker 8: Some of the people coming in, it's like you want
Speaker 8: to help them, and you know what the nice part is,
Speaker 8: without a doubt, you know there's a ninety nine point
Speaker 8: ninety nine percent of them are very accommodating and polite
Speaker 8: and coming in and you know know that you're trying
Speaker 8: to help them, whether whether that's closed. We talk a
Speaker 8: lot about food, but it's also you know, kind of
Speaker 8: a search assistance for jobs and other community services that
Speaker 8: are out there. Yeah, whether that's legal issues or things
Speaker 8: like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And it's also I mean it's like literally biblical, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're just helping these people who are in
Speaker 2: great need, and you're helping them in very practical ways,
Speaker 2: and it's that's what it's all about. But Donna Potter
Speaker 2: and Fred lengrek Kate really appreciate what you do and
Speaker 2: appreciate your time today, and hope folks think about supporting you.
Speaker 8: Thank you very much, Dan, and God bless h Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, Donna, thank you, you take care.
Speaker 2: Thank thanks for all the great work. Wow. So please
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Speaker 2: if somebody could be of no faith at all and
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Speaker 2: come back, we'll talk to Don. He had this great
Speaker 2: question before we entered this segment about, Okay, all these
Speaker 2: pardons Biden is considering, including Liz Cheney, how does this
Speaker 2: affect Trump? And Don has more on that, But I
Speaker 2: believe Trump will actually benefit from a lot of these
Speaker 2: pardons being offered, and he probably thinks he will too.
Speaker 2: So let's kick that around. You're on the Dan Kapla
Speaker 2: Show seven seventh through nine. Have a couple of Texters
Speaker 2: unhappy with me, very grateful for that. I want to
Speaker 2: get there in a second. Don from Beautiful Fort Collins
Speaker 2: has been kind enough told Don, why don't you reset
Speaker 2: since there was a segment in between your great question
Speaker 2: about pardons.
Speaker 7: And I'm glad to and I'll just review a little
Speaker 7: bit with you and your listeners. You said quite some
Speaker 7: time ago before the election that you thought Jordan Biden
Speaker 7: Biden wanted to win the election, yes, and that he
Speaker 7: was doing everything he can behind the scenes to make
Speaker 7: that happen. And I think that becomes apparent now. So
Speaker 7: my question is, following that kind of trend of thought,
Speaker 7: does Joe Biden really want to pardon any of the
Speaker 7: people who he believes stood in his way and sabotaged
Speaker 7: his run for the presidency?
Speaker 2: Great question, I would say no. I would say right now,
Speaker 2: Joe Biden would be happy to just drive a steamroll
Speaker 2: or over them if he was capable of driving a steamroller.
Speaker 2: I mean, put yourself in issues, right Don, and listen.
Speaker 2: I think he's in many ways not all a terrible person.
Speaker 2: I think he was a horrific president, but he is
Speaker 2: a guy who went out and he won the presidency
Speaker 2: and then he was the victim of a coup, and
Speaker 2: of course he wanted everybody who humiliated him that way
Speaker 2: to lose and to fail. And no, I do not
Speaker 2: think he would want to pardon any of those people.
Speaker 2: I think he would want terrible things to happen to
Speaker 2: those people. So that's being the starting point. I don't
Speaker 2: think Liz Cheney is in that category. I haven't heard
Speaker 2: of Liz Cheney being involved in the coup at all.
Speaker 2: Is there somebody else you think he may be pardoning
Speaker 2: who was involved in the coup?
Speaker 7: Well, I think if you start at the top, it
Speaker 7: would be probably Nancy Pelosi, and then you could work
Speaker 7: your way down. Yeah, Dan, you could work your way
Speaker 7: kind of down from there. All the people that tried
Speaker 7: to stab Joe Biden in the back on his presidency
Speaker 7: run right, And I'm just curious. I do think that
Speaker 7: there may be some positive things, because I think if
Speaker 7: he does pardon any of those kinds of people, that
Speaker 7: it lays Trump open to be able to pardon the
Speaker 7: people that he wants to without a lot of pushback
Speaker 7: from the lawns or from the press.
Speaker 2: My brother, I think that door was opened as wide
Speaker 2: as it could be when he pardoned Hunter Biden. When
Speaker 2: Joe Biden pardoned Hunter Biden, that green lighted Trump. But
Speaker 2: she'd probably do anyway. But it made it so much
Speaker 2: easier to pardon anybody he wants to, you know, including
Speaker 2: the Jay six folks that he's talked about pardoning. But
Speaker 2: getting back to your good point, and I wondered if
Speaker 2: you were thinking most about Nancy Pelosi, obviously, if she
Speaker 2: was a key engineer of the coup. And I think
Speaker 2: you may be right. I think we may see Biden
Speaker 2: if he goes ahead with these preemptive pardons not include Pelosi.
Speaker 2: And I'm not suggesting she committed a crime. I think
Speaker 2: she's done a lot of awful things that have hurt
Speaker 2: America and cost a lot of innocent lives. But I'm
Speaker 2: not saying she's committed a crime. But I wouldn't be
Speaker 2: surprised if he does go on this pardon binge with
Speaker 2: you know, Fauci and Cheney and other people. If he
Speaker 2: leaves her out.
Speaker 7: Interesting to find out just what he's going to do with.
Speaker 2: That, then yeah, will be thanks to the great call man,
Speaker 2: I look forward to watching this unfold. I am sitting
Speaker 2: here hoping that he issues all of these preemptive pardons. Again,
Speaker 2: I don't know if any of these people have committed crimes.
Speaker 2: I know they've done some things that have been really
Speaker 2: bad for America. But I just will enjoy watching it
Speaker 2: all unfold because everybody receives a preemptive pardon knows that
Speaker 2: they are convicted by that pardon, that the message from
Speaker 2: the pardon to the American people is, yeah, these people
Speaker 2: committed crimes. That's why they need a parton And so
Speaker 2: it'll be so much fun to watch if that comes
Speaker 2: down and to see who accepts. But this Liz Cheney stuff,
Speaker 2: I'm going to play some sound from her in a bit.
Speaker 2: But think about how Trump benefits from these pardons. And
Speaker 2: I think that part of the reason he's saying some
Speaker 2: of the things he's saying is to try to force
Speaker 2: Biden's hand on some of these pardons, and that is
Speaker 2: it will benefit Trump if there is not the ability
Speaker 2: to go out and investigate and prosecute Liz Cheney, for example,
Speaker 2: and I'm not suggesting she's committed crime. She betrayed the
Speaker 2: life and death pro life cause. And you know, to me,
Speaker 2: that's one of the worst things that people a person
Speaker 2: can do to sell out large numbers of children. They're
Speaker 2: very lives in exchange for political power. She engaged in
Speaker 2: that with Kamala Harris. Yeah, I'm not saying it's a
Speaker 2: criminal activity. It's not, but it's one of the worst
Speaker 2: things a person can do. But yeah, if he pardons
Speaker 2: the Faucis and Liz Cheney's of the world, that takes
Speaker 2: those kind of prosecutions off the table for the Trump administration,
Speaker 2: which I think would benefit the Trump administration because the
Speaker 2: American people are more focused on Hey, DJT, you did
Speaker 2: a great job in your first term. We elected you
Speaker 2: for peace and prosperity and brilliance and the next Golden Age.
Speaker 2: We didn't elect you because we want to see Fauci
Speaker 2: and Liz Cheney prosecuted, whether they deserve it or not.
Speaker 2: So I think Trump will benefit from a slew of
Speaker 2: those pardons. So we'll find out together. It couldn't be
Speaker 2: any more interesting than it is right now. By the way,
Speaker 2: that interim spending bill is in the process of being
Speaker 2: voted down. Everybody's trying to well, I can't say that,
Speaker 2: but there are efforts to offert a government shut down,
Speaker 2: and this particular bill on the table right now is
Speaker 2: not going to pass. So we'll keep you posted throughout
Speaker 2: the rest of the show this afternoon. I'm sure it'll
Speaker 2: carry into tomorrow, and then just a quick preview of
Speaker 2: what's coming up in the five o'clock hour. I want
Speaker 2: to open the five o'clock hour kind of rapid fire
Speaker 2: lightning docket with a few different interesting things that are
Speaker 2: going on and maybe next step these things. Elton John,
Speaker 2: Sir Elton John, you know coming out and saying legalizing
Speaker 2: marijuana in the United States is one of the greatest
Speaker 2: mistakes ever. And I knew there was a reason I
Speaker 2: like that guy. Did you go to his last show here, Jesse,
Speaker 2: the one at ball I did not.
Speaker 4: I wanted to. Yeah, it's a little steep for my
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, it was crazy. He made the most
Speaker 4: of it. Was crazy, but it was It was a
Speaker 4: heck of a show. I bet it was just a
Speaker 4: heck of it. That's a buckets show. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 4: you got to see him once and he had.
Speaker 2: To kind of scooter around the stage, you know, on
Speaker 2: this they made it look like a piano bench, but
Speaker 2: it was. Yeah, it was a fun show. But yeah,
Speaker 2: politically I probably disagree with him on everything, but he
Speaker 2: had the courage to come out and say this, and
Speaker 2: he's right. Legalizing marijuana in the US one of the
Speaker 2: greatest mistakes ever. Also want to touch on this cowardly
Speaker 2: murderer who gunned down the United Healthcare CEO. The latest
Speaker 2: on him. You're on the Dancapita Show.