WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.640 Yeah, And I don't know if the fighting's ever been 2 00:00:02.839 --> 00:00:04.160 more fun than it is right now. 3 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:04.879 Glad you're here. 4 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:07.559 Three O three seven one three eight two five five 5 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:11.439 The number text d an five seven seven three nine. 6 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:14.560 So weird to be starting the week on a Tuesday, right, 7 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:17.920 And because Ryan yesterday, I mean pretty much everybody worked 8 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:20.559 this holiday yesterday, right. Did you know anybody who had 9 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:23.039 it off other than government workers and us? 10 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:24.320 That's it? Yeah, right? 11 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:24.640 Right? 12 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:26.079 So what was that all about? 13 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:28.800 But anyway, we're glad to be back with you now, 14 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:32.000 and Lord knows, there is plenty to talk about and 15 00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:35.759 plenty of fun stuff, right because Trump is on a roll, 16 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:37.359 there is no question about that. 17 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:38.600 And you know how it is. 18 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:43.719 You know, momentum begets momentum, and success begets success, and 19 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:46.280 you're seeing all of that right now. Not perfect, It's 20 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:49.280 never going to be in any human endeavor. That's not 21 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:51.320 the way it works. You look at all the great 22 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:54.640 figures in American history, all the great figures in world history, 23 00:00:54.920 --> 00:00:59.399 other than Jesus Christ himself, literally nobody has ever been perfect. 24 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:03.719 And so that is even pain often and of itself, right, 25 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:07.040 because the left is losing its mind for all the 26 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:10.439 obvious reasons. But on top of that, because of Trump's 27 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:13.799 success and this feeling of impotence and this feeling of 28 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:17.439 helplessness that the left has right now, so as the 29 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:21.959 constituency on the left, though it's obviously shrinking, the constituency 30 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:23.959 on the left gets more and more hyped up. 31 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:25.280 You're having more and. 32 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:29.400 Stupid stuff done by the leaders on the left, including 33 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:32.319 their media arm which makes every day fun for us 34 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:35.280 on this show, because we've got the receipts, we've got 35 00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:37.799 the sound, and we'll play some of that today. So 36 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:41.560 we got that going for us. And locally, meaning here 37 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:45.239 in Colorado, it's so great to see a number of 38 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:49.480 really prominent restaurant owners step up and just send this 39 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:53.680 letter to Mayor Mike Johnston aka Lawless Mike, aka bag 40 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:57.319 Dad Bob or should it be Bagdad Mike, but who 41 00:01:57.319 --> 00:01:59.680 goes out and just just says all these things that 42 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:03.879 aren't and just pretends that everything's okay when a lot 43 00:02:03.879 --> 00:02:07.040 of it's falling apart. So so great to see these 44 00:02:07.079 --> 00:02:11.560 prominent restaurant owners right to Johnston and say things are 45 00:02:11.639 --> 00:02:15.719 falling apart, because it's not like, you know, the Colorado 46 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:19.759 Republican Party writing to Mike Johnston. These are restaurant owners 47 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:24.199 in Denver saying it's falling apart around us and giving 48 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:25.599 very vivid examples. 49 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:27.120 So it's great to do two things. 50 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:30.520 One is the more attention you call to the problem, 51 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:32.280 that the better chance it gets fixed. 52 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:36.680 But also just to fully expose lawless Mike for who 53 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:37.159 he is. 54 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:40.479 He's a guy who's just out there paddling these deceptions 55 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:45.000 while things literally fall apart around him, So that gives 56 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:47.879 us more hope for a fix in the future. Three 57 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:50.400 or three someone three eight two five five text d 58 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:54.120 An five seven seven three nine. As much as we 59 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:58.240 love keeping it local, got to start on the world 60 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:01.240 stage today, right because this is one of those moments 61 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:05.520 in world history, American history that is going to be 62 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:08.280 a bit of a pivot point. And we've talked about 63 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:12.280 Ukraine all along, we talked about it before Putin and 64 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:12.879 he's Satan. 65 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:14.080 Why do we even say putin? 66 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:14.319 Ryan? 67 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:18.840 Can we set up maybe an internal fine system where 68 00:03:18.919 --> 00:03:22.240 every time somebody says Putin instead of Satan, they get 69 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:23.639 fined because. 70 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:25.159 What's the difference between the two. 71 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:28.360 I mean, the guy is Satan on Earth and that's 72 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:30.919 the reality of Putin. I know he wears a nice 73 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:33.439 watch and nice suits, and he can look like the 74 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:36.240 accountant down the street. No offense to the accountants down 75 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:39.000 the street. 76 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:38.879 Right, But he is satan. 77 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:42.520 He is a megalomaniac, to put it mildly. And Dan, 78 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:45.159 I want to ask you the question because you lived 79 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:48.000 through this history just like I did. There was tremendous 80 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:51.280 hope in the early nineties when Gorbaschev and the Soviet 81 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:54.080 Union fell and Boris Yeltsen assumed power, and there were 82 00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:57.879 talks between him and President Clinton at the time. How 83 00:03:57.879 --> 00:04:01.639 do we get from Yeltsin and that Russia to this 84 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:04.360 one under the dictatorship of Vladimir Putin. 85 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:07.039 Because we went from Reagan to Biden, right, we went 86 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:10.960 from peace through strength to the ultimate weakness. I mean, 87 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:14.400 for all practical purposes, the US did not have a 88 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:19.120 president during the Biden presidency, and maybe even worse than that, 89 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:22.800 because there actually was an individual there who evil in 90 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:25.279 the world, led by Putin could size up, and they 91 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:28.480 sized him up correctly and realized they could have their 92 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:31.360 way with the world. And that's why we got what 93 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:33.480 we got in Afghanistan. That's why we got what we 94 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:35.639 got in Ukraine. That's we got what we got on 95 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:40.759 the horrors of October seven. And so now that strength 96 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:43.759 is back. Right now that strength is back, that war's 97 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:46.240 going to be ended. But the very sad thing, and 98 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:50.120 it's not Trump's fault, is that Evil is going to win. 99 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:52.560 To a point, Trump is going to cut the losses. 100 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:55.480 This never would have happened if Trump was in office. 101 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:58.600 But right now, Evil Putin is going to be rewarded 102 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:01.800 with some territory and he's going to be viewed as 103 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:04.519 the winner. And that's sick. But you've got to blame Biden. 104 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:06.519 You got to blame the left and Ryan, this is 105 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:08.959 a point I wanted to start the show with. You 106 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:12.800 gotta blame Europe. I mean, this doesn't happen without Biden's weakness. 107 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:19.160 But Europe absolutely failed Ukraine. Europe had its moment of 108 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:23.079 testing and it decided it was going to surrender to Putin. 109 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:26.639 And that is one of the saddest chapters in modern 110 00:05:26.680 --> 00:05:30.160 world history. You know, somebody had the great line. I'm 111 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:34.920 sure you saw it. Ukraine needed fighters from Europe and 112 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:38.839 it got cheerleaders. It got cheerleaders instead of fighters. Somebody 113 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:42.279 else said that, and that's true. You know, the European 114 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:47.560 leaders and countries. Yeah, Gozolinsky's standing ovation. You know, hey, 115 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:51.839 here's a big, nice Crepe. But they wouldn't give him fighters. 116 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:54.680 And from day one it was clear unless Europe put 117 00:05:54.720 --> 00:05:58.360 boots on the ground, Russia was going to win. And 118 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:03.439 Europe decided not to do it, and so Europe failed Ukraine. 119 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:05.639 There should never be an American boot on the ground 120 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:08.759 in Ukraine. But Europe failed Ukraine. And I didn't want 121 00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:12.439 World War three and Ukraine. Who would? But the only 122 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:14.879 way to stop Putin is to prove that Europe would fight, 123 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:17.680 and Europe made it cleared from day one it would 124 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:18.199 not fight. 125 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:22.519 And I think Dan too, where people have to pump 126 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:25.120 the brakes on this, and I think you've done that effectively. 127 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:29.920 Here is Trump has to unblank what Biden blanked up, 128 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:32.839 and in particular on this front with the war in Ukraine. 129 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:36.120 Like you said, like I agree, like Donald Trump says 130 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:38.560 it would never have happened on his watch, but it 131 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:40.639 wasn't on his watch, and it happened, and it happened 132 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:43.279 on Biden's watch. So there's a degree of kind of 133 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:46.040 clean up on Aisle nine that has to happen here 134 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:48.439 where yeah, Putin's going to get some stuff, and he 135 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:50.519 shouldn't have gotten it. But if we want to end 136 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:53.639 this war and bring it to a resolution, then yeah, 137 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:55.600 he's going to have to talk to both sides. Trump, 138 00:06:55.639 --> 00:06:59.319 his administration, Secretary of State Rubio, He's got an entire 139 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:01.920 envoy in team there. And I think there's a real 140 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:04.800 momentum here toward peace dand that we did not have 141 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:06.800 and there was no hope of it when Joe Biden 142 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:07.399 was president. 143 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:08.360 Well, I think. 144 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:11.079 There's more than momentum, Ryan, I think it is certain 145 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:14.279 at this point this war is going to end. And 146 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:17.079 then whether it can be fairly labeled peace or not, 147 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:20.680 only time will tell. But Trump will will do the 148 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:23.000 job the world needs done that only he can do 149 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:26.120 right now, which is to end the war. And I 150 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:30.160 love what Mike Waltz, the National Security Advisor said that, 151 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:34.199 wait a second. Until Trump was elected, you know, there 152 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:38.959 was no talk of ending this war. You know, no 153 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:41.639 real talk of ending this war, and any talk was 154 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:45.360 about how the war might end. Now that Trump's been elected, 155 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:48.759 all the talk has shifted, total paradigm shift to win. 156 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:52.560 The war will end, and that's all because of Trump. 157 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:56.680 So he's doing his job. Let's go, Ryan, with cut four, 158 00:07:57.199 --> 00:07:59.920 where Rubio I think lays it out clearly for Europe 159 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:01.279 and the world got four. 160 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:02.519 The Ukraine and the. 161 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:05.519 European passages that they feel very sidelined without how the 162 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:08.800 process has laid out so far, How you intentionally address 163 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:13.839 their concerns and equiality incorporated and be treating and multiplay. 164 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:14.120 Well. 165 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:15.800 The comment I would have on that is that for 166 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:17.879 three and a half years while this conflict is raged, 167 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.079 or three years while it is raged, no one else 168 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:22.000 has been able to bring something together like what we 169 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:24.720 saw today because Donald Trump is the only leader in 170 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:25.360 the world that can. 171 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:27.360 So no one is being sidelined here. 172 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:30.040 But President Trump is in a position that he campaigned 173 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:32.279 on to initiate a process that could bring about an 174 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:35.000 end of this conflict, and from that could emerge some 175 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:38.159 very positive things for the United States, for Europe, for Ukraine, 176 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:40.120 for the world. But first it begins by the end 177 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:40.840 of this conflict. 178 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:42.200 Yeah, that's right. 179 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:44.440 Europe had three and a half or three years and 180 00:08:44.840 --> 00:08:49.440 couldn't accomplish anything because the European leaders didn't have any 181 00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:54.000 credibility because Putin could see it was all talk. They 182 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:56.919 and some money, but money's money, you know. Until you're 183 00:08:56.960 --> 00:08:58.840 willing to put boots on the ground. Evil is going 184 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:02.399 to win, and Putin could see that good was surrendering 185 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:04.960 to evil and he took advantage of it. Now there's 186 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:08.720 a new sheriff in town. Now there's strength, and Prutin's 187 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:12.000 going to have to come to the table. Unfortunately, evil 188 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:15.039 will win because of Joe Biden, because of the Left, 189 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:18.960 because of European weakness. But Trump will have accomplished the 190 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:21.399 best that could be done. Right now eight fi' five 191 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:24.080 four zero five eight two five five text d A 192 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:26.440 N five seven seven three nine. And then at four 193 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:29.919 thirty six, Kim Cordova from the Union will join us 194 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:32.320 to talk about the end of the King super Strike 195 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:36.080 and who was it? Did Jimmy Sangenberger or maybe a 196 00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:39.639 listener challenged me to ask her some tougher questions, And 197 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:41.960 I'm going to take that challenge up. That that was 198 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:45.120 an excellent suggestion, looking forward to that interview. You're on 199 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:46.200 the Dan Kapla show. 200 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:01.000 This is gonna yet again raised. 201 00:10:00.679 --> 00:10:06.639 A concern about FAA staffing air traffic control staffing. Now, 202 00:10:06.759 --> 00:10:09.679 this is a Canadian air traffic control tower and this 203 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:11.320 is under Canadian authority. 204 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:12.519 Once across the border. 205 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:15.080 And yet, as you know, there has been this talk 206 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:19.120 about maybe staff cuts at the FAA as a part 207 00:10:19.159 --> 00:10:21.960 of President Trump's effort to trim down the federal workforce. 208 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:25.120 And yet, as you also know, the FAA has been 209 00:10:25.159 --> 00:10:30.399 complaining for years that they are understaffed and critical job positions, especially. 210 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:30.879 Air traffic control. 211 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:34.679 I was having a conversation with somebody today about whether 212 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:37.000 air traffic control in America is being affected by the 213 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:40.600 staff cuts so far, not to their knowledge, and yet 214 00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:44.519 other positions related to maintaining critical equipment appaired to have 215 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:46.960 been cuts. So this is going to feed into all 216 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:50.240 of these recent incidents, and the safety of the total 217 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:52.759 air traffic system is going to be very much a 218 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:55.399 part of the conversation as we go forward, at least 219 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:57.559 on this side of the country of the border. 220 00:10:57.559 --> 00:11:00.840 I should say, yeah, you see, Trump has completely broken 221 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:03.480 the media arm of the Democratic Party, and I'd say 222 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:06.519 that's exhibit A. But we already have a through Z. 223 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:08.559 We're going to have to create some new letters for 224 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:13.320 the alphabet. That's Tom Costello from NBC News and I 225 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:16.759 remember Tom well, we were contemporaries. I think at the 226 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:19.639 time he was at Channel nine. Liked Tom he was 227 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:24.240 a good reporter, and so it's too bad right that 228 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:28.279 he's now part of the propaganda arm of NBC News. 229 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:31.480 But he's doing Trump an enormous favor, right, because that's 230 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:35.120 so goofy on its face, it's just going to cause 231 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:38.240 people to distrust the media even more. But I don't 232 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:41.919 know that that's physically possible, Ryan, because at this point, 233 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:46.639 I don't know that there's any significant level of trust 234 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:49.200 in the national media at all anywhere. 235 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:53.600 No, so their popularity, Dan and Ryan, are you hearing me? 236 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:54.000 Okay? 237 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:54.320 Oh? 238 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:56.679 I certainly am, Yes, I am. Can you hear me? 239 00:11:57.360 --> 00:11:57.519 Oh? 240 00:11:57.559 --> 00:11:59.120 Yeah, I just got you back? Sorry there. 241 00:11:59.559 --> 00:12:02.559 You see, this is what happens, right when Ryan goes 242 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:05.799 out and he gets a new Ferrari or Bugatti, then 243 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:08.440 everybody expects him to go zero to one hundred and 244 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:10.639 two blocks. But you know, you got to let the 245 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:14.519 engine warm up and everything else. We've got new remote 246 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:18.679 broadcasting equipment. Today I'm hold away doing trial prep and 247 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:23.039 so we're using some new fancy broadcasting equipment that literally 248 00:12:23.080 --> 00:12:25.039 costs more than the house I grew up in. And 249 00:12:25.080 --> 00:12:28.000 I grew up in the most wonderful home you could 250 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:31.759 ever imagine. But of course, the better the equipment, the 251 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:34.639 worse it works. So sorry for that little glitch there, 252 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:38.240 but I think people got my point right that all 253 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:43.679 this leftist craziness, media craziness only helps Trump, only undermines 254 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:47.000 the media credibility further. But the question I had on 255 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:50.759 the table, Ryan, I don't think there's any meaningful credibility 256 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:54.240 left with the national media, at least with the people 257 00:12:54.279 --> 00:12:57.320 in the middle. I don't think people trust them as 258 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:03.039 kind of neutral arbitrators anymore, or neutral reporters anymore. I 259 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:04.320 think that's all gone now. 260 00:13:04.399 --> 00:13:07.639 Their approval ratings are somewhere around Mitch McConnell's and those 261 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:10.639 members of Congress that are well despised by both sides. 262 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:13.120 I think the media, like you said, it, has burned 263 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:16.879 through all of its political capital by jumping at every 264 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:20.679 single Trump narrative and taking the opposite position side, even 265 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:24.519 when that was not prudent for their coverage, for their ratings, 266 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:27.039 for their viewers or listeners. And what we just heard 267 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:29.519 there from Tom Costello, I mean, that's the stuff of parody. 268 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:29.759 Dan. 269 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:35.559 This is absolute his hysteriousness. Because this plane landed in Toronto. 270 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:39.919 The FAA had nothing to do with this plane. Descending landing, 271 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:42.519 et cetera. And to try to tie this to Trump 272 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:44.600 just makes them all the more ridiculous. 273 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:46.279 They can't pick their battles. 274 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:49.799 It really does. But listen, Tom's a smart guy. I 275 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:53.279 knew him from his days here and NBC. Those are 276 00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:55.759 smart people, right. I mean, they have a lot of 277 00:13:55.879 --> 00:13:59.360 wrong leftist ideas things like that, but they're smart people intellectually. 278 00:13:59.679 --> 00:14:01.799 I think what's going on, Ryan, and I'm not privy 279 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:04.639 to their daily ratings breakdown and all of that. I 280 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:09.159 think what's going on is they're under tremendous pressure from 281 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:13.360 their their viewership, you know which which is losing hope, right, 282 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:19.000 under tremendous pressure from their viewership implicitly to go on 283 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:21.639 the attack, to give them some reason to hope, to 284 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:24.399 give them some reason to hope that Trump's going to fail, 285 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:27.360 or those viewers are going to stop watching, right because 286 00:14:27.399 --> 00:14:29.960 if all they're ever going to see is the success 287 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:32.639 of Donald Trump, which is ninety nine percent of the 288 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:36.679 true news, they're going to stop watching. So that's what 289 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:40.320 I think is going on. It's no less dishonest, it's 290 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:42.440 and it's no less helpful to Trump. But I think 291 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:46.000 that's what's behind this lunacy three oh three SEVENE three 292 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:48.320 A two five five the number text d A N 293 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:50.919 five seven seven three nine. 294 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:53.200 Kim Cordova, president. 295 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:55.960 Of the union that's been behind the King super strike, 296 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:58.360 will join us at four thirty six. We'll get into 297 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:02.120 the reasons to strike ended. And thank goodness it did. 298 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:06.159 I saw there's a text today celebrating the fact that 299 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:08.519 I can go back to King Soupers and get back 300 00:15:08.559 --> 00:15:09.720 to my regular peanut butter. 301 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:10.960 So thank you to that texter. 302 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:14.240 I know that seems small to most people, which kind 303 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:16.879 of baffles me, because everybody has a favorite food, right 304 00:15:17.559 --> 00:15:20.559 and if you can't access that favorite food because of 305 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:23.000 a strike, that's a little frustrating. 306 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:24.559 What's your favorite food? 307 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:27.399 Well, it's not peanut butter, and certainly not right before 308 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:29.519 I go on the air, Dan, you really tempt fade 309 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:33.399 every single day, and I admire your dedication to the 310 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:34.639 peanut butter cause. 311 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:36.039 Bro, it's a challenge. 312 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:39.600 We all need that extra I mean, listen, when you've 313 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:41.519 been on air almost thirty years, and maybe it's more 314 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:43.679 than thirty years someday, can you figure that out for me? 315 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:46.080 Sure? Okay, but you need. 316 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:48.440 New challenges because you know the stuff you're bad at, 317 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:51.000 you're not going to get better at. True, the stuff 318 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:53.360 you're good at, you're probably as good as you're going 319 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:57.480 to get. So you need some new challenges. So maybe 320 00:15:57.519 --> 00:15:59.799 like duct tape over the mouth, eating peanut butter? 321 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:02.120 Are you going? I want to welcome Kelly back. 322 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:05.600 Kelly's back from just one of the toughest things anybody 323 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:08.639 ever has to do, which is burying her beloved father. 324 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:11.159 But so glad to have Kelly back with us. 325 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:14.080 Thank you, Dan, It's good to be back. 326 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:15.480 Yeah. 327 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:20.879 Yeah, returning one more time a week from Friday to 328 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:28.480 do the celebration of life reception. And but it was, yes, 329 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:31.559 probably the worst week of my life. 330 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:35.879 Oh yeah, yeah, everybody's right, everybody's when they lose a 331 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:37.639 parent and then God forbid a child. 332 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:39.720 I mean just yeah, the worst thing in the world. 333 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:44.399 But so glad you're back with us. And it really 334 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:46.559 is interesting, isn't it, Kelly? And I think it's great 335 00:16:46.600 --> 00:16:49.960 how things have changed and now often there's more time 336 00:16:50.039 --> 00:16:52.120 to plan that big celebration of life. 337 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:53.120 It used to be that. 338 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:56.480 Like clockwork, right, I mean, those weeks were going to 339 00:16:56.559 --> 00:16:58.720 happen in the first few days. The funeral had to 340 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:01.519 happen within four or five days. But I think it's 341 00:17:01.559 --> 00:17:03.080 great now that there's more time. 342 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:07.519 Well, he definitely. Both my parents made it very easy 343 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:11.680 on all of us because they had pre planned this 344 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:17.960 in twenty fourteen, so we didn't have to do a 345 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:19.799 whole heck of a lot. 346 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:20.640 Except for the. 347 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:27.839 Picking out the burial clothes and you know, helping my 348 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:32.599 mom with I thing. She's eighty one, so she's also, 349 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:37.519 you know, not a sprite person to get around, and 350 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:40.759 so it was good that Adam and I and the 351 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:43.640 kids were there to help her go to the market 352 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:46.400 and help her, you know, get herself. 353 00:17:47.559 --> 00:17:50.599 Boy, that is so true. Yeah, that is so true. 354 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:53.720 And so YEAHM so so glad you're back. 355 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:58.880 And Andy, after this break in Cordova, head of the union, 356 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:02.200 will give you her tape on why the strike ended 357 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:05.279 and whether there's another one coming down the pike. And 358 00:18:05.319 --> 00:18:08.720 then want to talk about these brave prominent restaurant owners 359 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:11.839 in Denver who are saying to Mayor Johnston, this place 360 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:26.440 is falling apart. Here on the Dan Kaplra show, get 361 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:29.559 down close to zero, We'll keep you warm here at 362 00:18:29.559 --> 00:18:31.519 three oh three sevenon one three eight two five five 363 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:35.920 text Dan five seven seven three nine. Hey, President of 364 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:39.759 UFCW seven, Kim Cordova joins us talk about the end 365 00:18:40.279 --> 00:18:43.519 of the King super strike. We're hoping for quite a while. Kim, 366 00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:44.599 welcome back to the show. 367 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:47.319 Hi damn, thank you for having me on. 368 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:50.880 Well, sure thing, I think the big question people have 369 00:18:51.079 --> 00:18:54.599 is what ended the strike and is this just buying 370 00:18:54.799 --> 00:18:57.400 time or can we expect to be able to go 371 00:18:57.440 --> 00:18:59.920 to King soupers now for a long time to. 372 00:19:01.559 --> 00:19:05.680 Well, what happened was, in my opinion that what got 373 00:19:05.759 --> 00:19:09.880 us back together was we were successful in the restraining 374 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:14.559 order case where the company attempted to well, they filed 375 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:19.960 a complaint to seek a restraining order to limit the 376 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:23.039 you know, how many people can strike or the strikers 377 00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:26.359 in general, and we were successful. So we went to 378 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:29.160 court on Thursday last week. We got a decision late 379 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:33.880 Friday evening and by Saturday, King sent a letter asking 380 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:36.720 to go back to the table, which had not happened prior. 381 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:42.039 But we negotiated over what that would look like, and 382 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:45.319 so we didn't accept our offer, and we've set in 383 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:48.400 terms of things that needed to be done in order 384 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:50.920 for us to come back to the table. And so 385 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:53.119 now we have an agreement to try to you know, 386 00:19:53.400 --> 00:19:58.480 hopefully work through you know, our proposals, and I'm hoping 387 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:01.440 that the company negotiates with us. 388 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:05.920 So, so, kid, is this a pause where we may 389 00:20:05.960 --> 00:20:08.400 see strikers back on the line in another week or 390 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:11.440 two if the union doesn't feel the companies negotiating in 391 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:12.039 good faith? 392 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:14.880 Or is this a strike that has really ended? 393 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:18.960 A strike is not? It's not totally ended for this 394 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:24.480 particularly those particular ulps. That strike is over, but the 395 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:27.920 we're you know, we're far from reaching the deal. We're 396 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:31.720 so far apart. So right now, the parties have agreed 397 00:20:31.799 --> 00:20:34.480 that for at least one hundred dates they could not 398 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:38.359 lock out the workers. So you know, they had the 399 00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:41.160 option to lock out, which we understand they were threatening 400 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:46.599 to do. We can't strike for one hundred days and 401 00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:49.920