WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.520 This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast 2 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:05.879 edition of The Dankplas Show. Please be sure to give 3 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:08.240 us a five star rating if you'd be so kind, 4 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:11.599 and to subscribe, download and listen to the show every 5 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:15.519 single day on your favorite podcast platform. And a lot 6 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:17.920 of fun fighting for the American way these days. Right, 7 00:00:18.039 --> 00:00:20.600 We're always going to fight, whether it's fun, whether it's not. 8 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:23.679 But we are on a roll right now, so let 9 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:26.719 the celebration continue. Want to get back to the phone lines. 10 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:29.199 We're talking at the end of the last hour with 11 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:32.640 a gentleman, Dean from Arvada. He tells us that he's 12 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:36.280 a small business owner and he takes some bridge with 13 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:39.600 the King superstrike. We had the union president on earlier 14 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:42.799 to talk about the resolution of the strike, so Dean, 15 00:00:43.159 --> 00:00:44.640 thanks for hanging in there. Then we have a lot 16 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:48.280 more to get to this hour, including very prominent restaurant 17 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:52.119 owners in Denver sending a letter to Mayor Mike Johnston 18 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:55.479 saying the city is falling around a part around us, 19 00:00:55.479 --> 00:00:58.560 the city is falling apart around us, and giving very 20 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:02.240 graphic examples, and they are right. So how courageous and 21 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:05.760 how important for them to be speaking truth to power 22 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:09.000 since bag Dad Mike, you know, just just loves to 23 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:11.159 stand up there and say all these things that aren't true. 24 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:13.359 So I want to get into that letter from the 25 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:16.879 restaurant owners. But Dean, thanks for hanging in there. Man, 26 00:01:17.159 --> 00:01:18.159 please say your piece. 27 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:22.120 Okay, Phil, just the last couple of things. So I 28 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:24.719 used to be a union curpenter, and you know, the 29 00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:28.400 union would come out and blah blah blah and all 30 00:01:28.439 --> 00:01:30.560 this that and the other thing, and I never got 31 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:33.200 any more help. They just want more members to pay 32 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:36.359 union dues. So now I own two construction companies, one 33 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:39.599 in Border and one here, and I don't like people. 34 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:43.719 I'm not a union contractor. I don't want someone from 35 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:44.519 the outside coming. 36 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:45.040 Hey, you got it. 37 00:01:45.079 --> 00:01:47.159 You need to hire ten more curpenters do that job 38 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:48.480 that you know five are doing right now. 39 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:49.239 Like, well, my. 40 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:51.680 Overhead's going to go up and I'm gonna make less profit. Well, 41 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:53.120 King Summer is going to be in the same boat. 42 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:55.280 If they have to hire a bunch more staff, their 43 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:57.760 fables are going to go down and your prices are 44 00:01:57.760 --> 00:01:59.319 going to go up. Now, if you don't like the 45 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:01.799 customer service there, your option is to go somewhere else. 46 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:06.239 In shop and then then the thankingsomers will say, guess 47 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:08.879 what we need better STRECS service, so we as we 48 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:10.199 actually have to hire more people. 49 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:11.439 Yeah. 50 00:02:11.479 --> 00:02:13.439 Yeah, that's all I got to say, Daan, thanks for having. 51 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:16.159 Yeah, but please stay with us, Please stay with this team, 52 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:20.240 because I agree as a business owner myself who built 53 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:23.479 it from the ground up with a lot of great people, 54 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:28.919 I completely agree with everything you said there in the beginning, 55 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:34.120 because yeah, you don't want some outside organization coming in 56 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:37.000 and forcing you to do things that don't make any 57 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:40.520 sense just because it benefits that organization. I agree with 58 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:45.039 you completely. I think the question is whether here that's 59 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:48.240 what's happening. So the way you look at things, you're 60 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:51.080 looking at this and saying you believe King Soopers is 61 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:55.360 not understaffed, and you think the workers are not underpaid, 62 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:58.159 et cetera. You may be right in the end. I'm 63 00:02:58.159 --> 00:03:01.159 not sitting here telling you, but I have the facts 64 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:03.560 to know whether the union is right or wrong in 65 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:06.759 its claims. Not at all. What I'm relying on is 66 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:07.120 I don't know. 67 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:10.039 I don't know if they're overpaid or underpaid. They might 68 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:13.439 be underpaid, that's one thing. They might deserve a pay 69 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:15.800 increase I'm not arguing at that point. 70 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:20.479 Yeah, But all I'm saying is and I'm just one guy, right, 71 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:22.960 I'm not calling on public policy or the public to 72 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:25.719 follow me or anything else. All I'm saying is one 73 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:28.280 guy who shopped at King Soopers for a lot of 74 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:31.120 years and really like the people who work there. If 75 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:34.520 the people who work there decide it's worth walking out 76 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:37.800 of work, then for me personally, I'm going to go 77 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:40.400 buy my peanut butter somewhere else. I'm just talking as 78 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:44.879 one guy. I can't possibly know who's right or wrong 79 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:48.520 on the underlying facts. I'm just basing it on that. 80 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:51.439 I don't either. I mean, all I heard is the 81 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:53.759 union rep. I don't know the underlyings either, and I'm 82 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:56.360 not going to point fingers and say all the doings wrong. 83 00:03:56.680 --> 00:03:58.439 But I just think what she said and maybe me 84 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:01.120 kind of turning me out and like pretty more statlite. No, 85 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:03.400 you're not the ones running the puff and lost statements 86 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:07.120 and running the store. You're you're running the union. So 87 00:04:07.879 --> 00:04:10.199 I'm just kind of being the devils auvogate myself. 88 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:13.439 Yeah, and you know, I'd love to hear from actual 89 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:16.360 King Supers workers. The reason I supported the strike was 90 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:19.639 not to support the union. I think unions are like people. 91 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:21.959 There are good ones, there are bad ones, there are 92 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:24.079 ones in between. So I didn't support the strike to 93 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:27.519 support the union. I supported the strike to support the 94 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:30.439 workers that I come in contact with in King Supers. 95 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:34.480 But but no, man Hey, really appreciate your perspective and 96 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:35.519 hope you call again. 97 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:37.879 Well, I'd like talking to you. I mean, you're you're 98 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:41.079 a great radio host. So I've just listened every day 99 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:44.079 and ninety nine percent of stuff one hundred percent agree 100 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:45.040 with Well. 101 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:47.079 I sure appreciate that. But be sure to call me 102 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:48.879 when you think I'm wrong, okay, because I may be. 103 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:53.160 Well, you like a fight, and I can't call and 104 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:53.800 fight with you. 105 00:04:57.160 --> 00:04:59.800 It is it is your verbal bites. 106 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:00.959 Well, I know that. 107 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:04.040 Thank you, man Hey, really appreciate the kind words. Call 108 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:08.759 again soon. You take care. Yeah, and I know we 109 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:11.480 have some text on the strike as well. We were 110 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:13.600 talking to the union president as I'm sure you picked 111 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:16.879 up on this text or kind of echoing Dean. As 112 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:18.639 a small business owner, I have a hard time with 113 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:21.600 Kim Cordova and unions in general. I think they're doing 114 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:24.240 an admirable job trying to ensure the hard working people 115 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:27.040 at King Soopers aren't being taken advantage of. But it's 116 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:29.360 tough for all of us. I've been working much harder, 117 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:32.519 says the Texter, and much more for a third less 118 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:36.199 pay since twenty twenty one. Nobody is working on my behalf. 119 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:38.399 I need to do what I need to do to survive, 120 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:42.120 which I am doing. Miss Corde, who's talking points are 121 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:45.319 a hollow to a lot of us, Wow, what a 122 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:49.279 compelling text. So how do you react to that? Right? 123 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:51.360 I mean the logic there and I had the texture 124 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:54.360 is one thousand percent correct. There are so many people 125 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:59.720 working harder in the last few years for less so 126 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:03.839 that made this texture less sympathetic to workers. It probably 127 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:07.120 makes some other Texters, I think, more sympathetic to the 128 00:06:07.199 --> 00:06:08.279 King Soupers workers. 129 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:11.600 I'll give you my only experience working as part of 130 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:13.600 a union, Dan, and it was interesting because it was 131 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:16.759 my very first job in broadcasting right out of college. 132 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:20.040 It was for TV nine to ten in Cadillac Traverse City, Michigan. 133 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:23.279 And I was sitting down with my boss at the time, 134 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:26.120 John Michael Carter, and he says, this is the position, 135 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:27.360 this is what you'll be paid. 136 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:29.040 He goes, I might want to pay you more. 137 00:06:29.079 --> 00:06:31.759 I think you're good, but this is what your union's 138 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:33.800 negotiated for you, and so that's the wage. 139 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:34.879 We can't negotiate it. 140 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:37.199 So he kind of framed it like, Hey, I'd like 141 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:40.160 to pay you more, but that's just not in the 142 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:44.199 cards for you here. I didn't like that that was negotiated. 143 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:46.199 On my behalf. I felt like I was my own. 144 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:48.639 Best advocate, even at that young age, and I still 145 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:49.639 feel that way now. 146 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:49.959 Dan. 147 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:51.879 I would not want to be a part of a 148 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:54.759 union here. I know it's different in different professions. Things 149 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:57.600 like the IBW, I think are tremendous because they're certified 150 00:06:57.600 --> 00:06:59.800 and you know that they're guaranteed quality and the standard 151 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:03.519 of the work is assured for those that are purchasing it. 152 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:06.160 But when it comes to King Supers, I described it 153 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:08.600 this way, Dan, like we were kids either in a 154 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:11.600 divorce or mom and dad weren't getting along. It wasn't 155 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:15.600 our fault as consumers as shoppers there, and I didn't 156 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:17.759 really want to take sides, like you said, unless I 157 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:20.399 knew the nitty gritty details, which I didn't know. 158 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:22.920 And it's not like I want to take sides. 159 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:25.680 Against King super Workers, but I don't want to automatically 160 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:29.000 default to a union position that that might not be 161 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:29.639 fair either. 162 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:32.399 And I think for me, the key at least is 163 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:36.079 that for me, it wasn't a pro union position. It 164 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:38.680 was a I like the people I've run into at 165 00:07:38.759 --> 00:07:41.439 King Soupers over the last forty years. Sure, and if 166 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:43.360 they think it's worth going out in the cold in 167 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:45.879 front of the store and leaving work to do that, 168 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:48.439 then you know, I'll go shop somewhere else. So that's 169 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:52.600 just me. But in terms of unions, Ryan, you know, 170 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:56.160 I don't think I've worked a union job. I supported 171 00:07:56.279 --> 00:08:00.360 United farm Workers Union in Chicago when I would as 172 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:02.680 a high school kid, I told you be the shill 173 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:06.639 who would pretend to honor the picket lines at jewels 174 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:11.000 and stuff like that. I really really was happy that 175 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:14.759 my dad had the protections he had with the Chicago 176 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:17.439 Police Department, and I believe that was through a union. 177 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:20.879 So I was really glad that he had that, and 178 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:24.800 I think the police officers needed that From everything I 179 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:28.720 remember that. I look around right now, and obviously I 180 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:32.519 have a big problem with those teachers unions that at 181 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:36.360 this point, you know, obviously put other things ahead of 182 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:38.360 the kids. Even though there are a lot of great 183 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:41.000 people in those unions. The unions themselves, I don't think 184 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:43.440 the kids are their priority for a lot of these 185 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:47.440 teachers unions. So yeah, I a King super Strike. I 186 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:51.440 don't have a broad approach to unions overall. King Superstrike. 187 00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:53.360 It just came down to the people, the people who 188 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:55.759 work at King Supers, who I've really liked. But as 189 00:08:55.799 --> 00:08:57.360 I've said over and over again, and you know me, 190 00:08:57.480 --> 00:09:00.240 I don't try to straddle the fence on anything. I 191 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:03.200 hate that for obvious reasons, especially if you're a male. 192 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:07.000 But on the King super Strike, I like King Supers. 193 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:08.879 I like the operation. I like the way they run 194 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:11.639 their stores. I like the stuff they have on the shelves. 195 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:15.000 So I like King Supers the company. I know it's Kroger, 196 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:17.519 but I also like the workers. And I just in 197 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:20.879 the end, if hard working people are willing to walk 198 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:24.679 out that then I'm just going to support them. I 199 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:27.559 know a lot of people don't agree with that. Texter Dan, 200 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:30.120 the head of King Soupers, said the exact opposite of 201 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:32.360 what this union rep is saying. He says there are 202 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:36.039 not staffing problems or taking money from their retirement plans. 203 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:40.080 And so who is lying? I think the Union says 204 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:43.840 this Texter. For me, I don't know. I don't have 205 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:46.320 subpoena power. It's not one of my cases. I don't 206 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:48.120 have the ability to go in and drill down and 207 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:49.759 get to the bottom of it. For me, it's as 208 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:52.559 simple as what I just explained eight five five for 209 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:55.840 zero five eight two five five text d an five 210 00:09:55.960 --> 00:10:04.879 seven seven three nine. 211 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:07.000 And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast. 212 00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:15.000 Do you think Jesse that establishment media figures like Brennan 213 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:18.679 are laying the groundwork for further speech restrictions under the 214 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:20.799 guise of preventing harm. 215 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:26.360 They tried and failed, and now Trump is gonna usher 216 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:29.080 in a golden age of free speech in America, whether 217 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:32.919 the Democrats like it or not. The Nazis abolished free speech. 218 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:35.759 You weren't even allowed to criticize the Nazi Party. You 219 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:38.759 couldn't even make a joke about Hitler, and he had 220 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:41.480 a stupid looking mustache and one testicle. 221 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:44.240 Plenty of material there. 222 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:51.879 Books were burned, radio stations were censored, newspapers were shut down. 223 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:56.000 You actually got put to death in Germany for listening 224 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:58.279 to the BBC. That happened a couple of times. 225 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:01.600 Boy, I'll tell you know who's in a golden age 226 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:05.759 or phase is Jesse Waters. I mean, he just really 227 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:09.399 keeps getting better. Don't agree with everything single thing he said, 228 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:12.360 but boy, and Ryan, it seems like yesterday. You know, 229 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:15.679 he was the kid just starting at Fox booking for 230 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:18.879 Bill O'Reilly. I'd get these calls from Jesse and everything else. 231 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:21.159 But even back then you could tell he had a spark. 232 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:24.759 But the critical substantive point there is that, Yeah, the 233 00:11:24.919 --> 00:11:28.919 entire left depends on censoring free speech because they can't 234 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:31.360 win a fair fight. They can't win a fair argument, 235 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:35.320 and so Trump one of the many lasting gifts from 236 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:39.200 Donald Trump is defeating this effort to cens for us. Now, 237 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:41.919 obviously people saw it, which is one of the reasons 238 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:45.080 they voted for Trump. But yeah, the left cannot win 239 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:48.919 if there's true free speech and freedom of religion, particularly 240 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:51.279 if people actually vote their faith. Let's go to the 241 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:53.879 phone lines. We've had just an explosion of calls and 242 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:57.399 text surrounding the King superstrike. The end of the strike. 243 00:11:57.440 --> 00:12:00.480 I had the union president on in the last I 244 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:03.600 want to get to some really thoughtful, compelling texts, all 245 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:06.000 of which by the way oddly disagree with me. But 246 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:08.960 let's start with Holly in Aurora. You're on the Dan 247 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:09.720 Kaplos Show. 248 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:16.559 Welcome Holly, Yeah, Man, thanks. I'm thinking that the Team 249 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:21.440 Troopers union workers are in a unique situation that like 250 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:26.440 the caller before and yourself we're talking about, they have 251 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:32.000 to deal with the public and so when there isn't 252 00:12:32.120 --> 00:12:39.600 enough staff, Yeah, they find themselves hurting for being able 253 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:43.840 to see what the what the public is doing, mostly 254 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:49.919 a ka theeft and and shop lifting and that sort 255 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:55.440 of stuff. When there's not enough staff on the floor there, 256 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:59.320 it's just harder to see if somebody is trying to 257 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:04.840 steal things, where if there is some staff available, kids 258 00:13:04.919 --> 00:13:05.600 much easier. 259 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:07.759 Yeah, that's so interesting. And you know, we had a 260 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:10.200 number of members of the King Supers five who, in 261 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:13.799 my opinion, were treated so horribly by King Supers after 262 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:16.480 they stopped that. Robert, thank you Holly for your call. 263 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:19.039 Let's go to Keith in Denver, Colorado. You're on the 264 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:22.120 Dan Kaplis Show. Welcome, Hi, Dan. 265 00:13:23.159 --> 00:13:25.320 I had an opportunity to talk to one of the 266 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:31.240 strikers when they first went out, and he said that 267 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:34.480 he said two things. One they were fighting for more hours. 268 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:37.799 And two they were fighting for more security. And one 269 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:40.679 of the things that King Supers was not allowing them 270 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:43.919 to do is hire more security guards. So if they 271 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:48.919 had one officer in the store, the officers themselves said, 272 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:51.519 we want a second officer. We don't want to be 273 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:54.480 here alone. And you know, and I thought, well, those 274 00:13:54.480 --> 00:13:57.799 are fair things to argue for. But my point is, 275 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:01.000 and this is what my response to him, was, well, 276 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:06.240 have you voted Democrat because the Democrats undermined all of 277 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:10.480 your all the security issues that you're voting because of 278 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:15.279 the Democrats? Then I said, I said, you wouldn't have 279 00:14:15.399 --> 00:14:18.279 the security problem if you didn't defund the police and 280 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:22.159 if you didn't constantly basically enable criminal behavior. 281 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:23.559 So what a great point. 282 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:25.759 And when it comes to the and when it comes 283 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:29.879 to the working hours, I said, these you know, these 284 00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:32.320 stores work on you know, they're operating on two to 285 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:34.720 three percent margins, like you know, I think it's been 286 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:39.399 reiterated a thousand times. But they wouldn't they wouldn't let 287 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:41.600 you work more. They'd let you work more hours if 288 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:45.159 they if you weren't voting for more and higher wages 289 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:47.840 all the time, which is cutting into their bottom line, 290 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:51.440 I said, this is entirely your fault if you voted Democrat. 291 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:54.559 What a great point about the Democrat thing. Hey, thank 292 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:57.080 you man. Appreciate that call from Keith in Denver. And 293 00:14:57.440 --> 00:15:01.000 that ties into something else. On Thursday Show, we're going 294 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:03.879 to have John Kellner. He was recently, up until recently, 295 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:07.639 the elected DA of Arepo, Douglas, Lincoln, and Elbert Counties 296 00:15:08.200 --> 00:15:12.600 and had been the GOP candidate for Attorney General in Colorado. 297 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:15.279 John is now my law partner, and he wrote a 298 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:19.440 very compelling piece that was published in Sunday's Gazette going 299 00:15:19.480 --> 00:15:22.639 to our last caller's point about how the Democrats that 300 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:27.399 the legislature once again have now given criminals a gift 301 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:32.559 and have undermined the efforts of local municipalities and towns 302 00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:37.159 to strengthen the penalties against theft, etc. And the lefties 303 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:40.320 at the state level are stepping in and saying, no, Aurora, 304 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:43.799 no you other cities, you can't do that. So you've 305 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:48.440 got all of these local governments trying to protect their communities, 306 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:52.519 protect their people by toughening the theft laws and other laws, 307 00:15:53.080 --> 00:15:55.120 and now polis in the left are saying, oh, no, 308 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:58.480 you can't do that, so it's so wrong, but it 309 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:00.919 ties into the last caller's point. And John Kellner will 310 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:03.840 be with us Thursday. He'd be with us tomorrow, except 311 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:08.039 tomorrow is this annual father daughter thing the Caroline and Caroline, 312 00:16:08.120 --> 00:16:11.399 our daughter and I do together every year and been 313 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:13.360 looking forward to it all year. We'll be doing that 314 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:17.440 together and Christy Burton Brown will have the show tomorrow. 315 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:19.559 I want to get to some of these texts as well. 316 00:16:19.559 --> 00:16:21.840 Three oh three seven one three eight two five five 317 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:26.159 the phone text d An five seven seven three nine. 318 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:30.080 Texter says DAN, unions have outlived their purpose. In the beginning, 319 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:34.159 it was about worker safety and forty hour weeks all achieved. 320 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:37.720 Safety is now the purview of OSHA. Now unions are 321 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:43.840 nothing more than democratic money machines based on outdated ideas Texter. 322 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:47.799 And by the way, that text is echoed by many others, Dan, 323 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:50.399 I was in the restaurant industry for fifty years. People 324 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:53.639 don't work harder today, not compared to the sixties, seventies 325 00:16:53.679 --> 00:16:56.919 and eighties. Would love your thoughts on that. And obviously 326 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:59.720 you know different people, different stuff, But what do you think, Brian, 327 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:05.319 in general? People working harder now or harder ten years ago. 328 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:08.880 Well, I know that people are working for less now 329 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:11.359 in terms of the spending power, the buying power of 330 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:13.599 the dollar and what you're earning and how that measures 331 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:17.079 up against the consumer price indexes et cetera. As far 332 00:17:17.119 --> 00:17:19.759 as it's hard to gauge you know, what craft you're in, 333 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:21.440 what line of work you're in. 334 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:23.279 I'm sure there are a lot of people are listening. 335 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:25.240 Audience right now that would say they work very hard 336 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:27.160 or just as hard as they did that amount of 337 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:31.000 time ago. But general work ethic, Dan I would say this, 338 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:33.279 I think a lot of younger people coming into the 339 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:36.400 workforce have a lot more in terms of entitlement and 340 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:39.079 expectations about what they're going to get rather than what 341 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:41.240 they're going to contribute and how they're going to earn it. 342 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:43.440 Kind of the old JFK thing. What are you willing 343 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:43.680 to do? 344 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:45.759 You know, as not what your country will do for you, 345 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:47.599 but what you will do for your country. I think 346 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:52.039 it applies to your endeavors in the workplace. Are you 347 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:56.720 willing to work hard, to excel, to achieve and to 348 00:17:56.759 --> 00:17:59.640 be excellent? And I don't know if there's that amount 349 00:17:59.640 --> 00:18:01.519 of dry that maybe we saw that time ago. 350 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:04.559 Now, Ryan, are you saying ask not what King Soopers 351 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:06.519 will do for you, to ask what you will do 352 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:07.920 for King Supers. 353 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:09.960 Well, I think that's the whole point of this conversation 354 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:12.119 that you had with Kim Kordova. And I'm not saying 355 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:16.240 I disagree with everything she says. I generally am very 356 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:19.279 hesitant to support unions because I wanted to negotiate on 357 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:22.119 my own behalf. But you're right, I think there's there's 358 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:23.640 something to be said on both sides of that one. 359 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:25.920 Well, and when we come back, we've got more calls 360 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:28.319 and text on the King super Strike will take those. 361 00:18:28.359 --> 00:18:30.640 We have much more to talk about as well, locally 362 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:35.000 and nationally, and have to comment on this pivotal moment 363 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:36.880 in Ukraine. You're on the Dan Kapla. 364 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:48.240 Show, you're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast. 365 00:18:50.119 --> 00:18:53.279 Ukrainians and the Europeans suggested that they go very sidelined 366 00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:55.400 without the process has laid out so far. 367 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:59.680 How you intentionally address their concerns equality? 368 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:04.000 Well, the comment I would have on that is that 369 00:19:04.039 --> 00:19:06.240 for three and a half years while this conflict is raged, 370 00:19:06.359 --> 00:19:08.440 or three years while it is raged, no one else 371 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:10.359 has been able to bring something together like what we 372 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:13.160 saw today, because Donald Trump is the only leader in. 373 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:15.720 The world it can. So no one is being sidelined here. 374 00:19:16.039 --> 00:19:18.400 But President Trump is in a position that he campaigned 375 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:20.640 on to initiate a process that could bring about an 376 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:23.359 end of this conflict, and from that could emerge some 377 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:26.519 very positive things for the United States, for Europe, for Ukraine, 378 00:19:26.519 --> 00:19:28.480 for the world. But first it begins by the end 379 00:19:28.519 --> 00:19:29.640 of this conflict. 380 00:19:30.039 --> 00:19:33.519 Oh, beautifully said by Rubio. Yeah, all this griping now 381 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:36.440 from Europe. Yeah, where was Europe for the last three years? 382 00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:39.519 Because this should tick you off, It should take everybody off, 383 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:44.480 because Putin is evil. Putin is evil. And you know, 384 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:47.880 Trump is doing a tremendous service to the world right now. 385 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:51.480 He's doing the best he can with this horrific situation, 386 00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:55.680 which is not of his making. This horror, this horror, 387 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:58.519 this unleashing of raw evil in the form of Putin, 388 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:01.799 was brought to you by so Biden and the Left 389 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:05.079 and their weakness and their weakness in Afghanistan and their 390 00:20:05.119 --> 00:20:09.720 weakness with Putin. Trump is just stopping the bleeding. But 391 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:14.359 my goodness, the way Europe abandoned Ukraine. Putin knew from 392 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:18.079 day one right, Putin is looking through the lens of evil, 393 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:23.039 and so morality doesn't factor in. Nothing factors and accept 394 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:28.160 evil devouring, evil, raping, evil, pillaging. And Putin looked at 395 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:32.079 Europe and he sized Europe is weak. He sized Biden 396 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:35.559 is weak. And he went and he devoured and he 397 00:20:35.640 --> 00:20:39.640 sized them upright. So Europe, as someone earlier today said, 398 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:44.519 you know, Ukraine needed warriors, and they got cheerleaders. Right, 399 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:50.599 the brave people of Ukraine fought valiantly, historically brave. But 400 00:20:50.680 --> 00:20:53.640 what did Europe give them, you know, just applause and 401 00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:56.039