Speaker 1: This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 1: of fun fighting for the American way these days. Right,
Speaker 1: We're always going to fight, whether it's fun, whether it's not.
Speaker 1: But we are on a roll right now, so let
Speaker 1: the celebration continue. Want to get back to the phone lines.
Speaker 1: We're talking at the end of the last hour with
Speaker 1: a gentleman, Dean from Arvada. He tells us that he's
Speaker 1: a small business owner and he takes some bridge with
Speaker 1: the King superstrike. We had the union president on earlier
Speaker 1: to talk about the resolution of the strike, so Dean,
Speaker 1: thanks for hanging in there. Then we have a lot
Speaker 1: more to get to this hour, including very prominent restaurant
Speaker 1: owners in Denver sending a letter to Mayor Mike Johnston
Speaker 1: saying the city is falling around a part around us,
Speaker 1: the city is falling apart around us, and giving very
Speaker 1: graphic examples, and they are right. So how courageous and
Speaker 1: how important for them to be speaking truth to power
Speaker 1: since bag Dad Mike, you know, just just loves to
Speaker 1: stand up there and say all these things that aren't true.
Speaker 1: So I want to get into that letter from the
Speaker 1: restaurant owners. But Dean, thanks for hanging in there. Man,
Speaker 1: please say your piece.
Speaker 2: Okay, Phil, just the last couple of things. So I
Speaker 2: used to be a union curpenter, and you know, the
Speaker 2: union would come out and blah blah blah and all
Speaker 2: this that and the other thing, and I never got
Speaker 2: any more help. They just want more members to pay
Speaker 2: union dues. So now I own two construction companies, one
Speaker 2: in Border and one here, and I don't like people.
Speaker 2: I'm not a union contractor. I don't want someone from
Speaker 2: the outside coming.
Speaker 3: Hey, you got it.
Speaker 2: You need to hire ten more curpenters do that job
Speaker 2: that you know five are doing right now.
Speaker 4: Like, well, my.
Speaker 2: Overhead's going to go up and I'm gonna make less profit. Well,
Speaker 2: King Summer is going to be in the same boat.
Speaker 2: If they have to hire a bunch more staff, their
Speaker 2: fables are going to go down and your prices are
Speaker 2: going to go up. Now, if you don't like the
Speaker 2: customer service there, your option is to go somewhere else.
Speaker 2: In shop and then then the thankingsomers will say, guess
Speaker 2: what we need better STRECS service, so we as we
Speaker 2: actually have to hire more people.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all I got to say, Daan, thanks for having.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but please stay with us, Please stay with this team,
Speaker 5: because I agree as a business owner myself who built
Speaker 5: it from the ground up with a lot of great people,
Speaker 5: I completely agree with everything you said there in the beginning,
Speaker 5: because yeah, you don't want some outside organization coming in
Speaker 5: and forcing you to do things that don't make any
Speaker 5: sense just because it benefits that organization. I agree with
Speaker 5: you completely. I think the question is whether here that's
Speaker 5: what's happening. So the way you look at things, you're
Speaker 5: looking at this and saying you believe King Soopers is
Speaker 5: not understaffed, and you think the workers are not underpaid,
Speaker 5: et cetera. You may be right in the end. I'm
Speaker 5: not sitting here telling you, but I have the facts
Speaker 5: to know whether the union is right or wrong in
Speaker 5: its claims. Not at all. What I'm relying on is
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they're overpaid or underpaid. They might
Speaker 2: be underpaid, that's one thing. They might deserve a pay
Speaker 2: increase I'm not arguing at that point.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But all I'm saying is and I'm just one guy, right,
Speaker 5: I'm not calling on public policy or the public to
Speaker 5: follow me or anything else. All I'm saying is one
Speaker 5: guy who shopped at King Soopers for a lot of
Speaker 5: years and really like the people who work there. If
Speaker 5: the people who work there decide it's worth walking out
Speaker 5: of work, then for me personally, I'm going to go
Speaker 5: buy my peanut butter somewhere else. I'm just talking as
Speaker 5: one guy. I can't possibly know who's right or wrong
Speaker 5: on the underlying facts. I'm just basing it on that.
Speaker 2: I don't either. I mean, all I heard is the
Speaker 2: union rep. I don't know the underlyings either, and I'm
Speaker 2: not going to point fingers and say all the doings wrong.
Speaker 2: But I just think what she said and maybe me
Speaker 2: kind of turning me out and like pretty more statlite. No,
Speaker 2: you're not the ones running the puff and lost statements
Speaker 2: and running the store. You're you're running the union. So
Speaker 2: I'm just kind of being the devils auvogate myself.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know, I'd love to hear from actual
Speaker 5: King Supers workers. The reason I supported the strike was
Speaker 5: not to support the union. I think unions are like people.
Speaker 5: There are good ones, there are bad ones, there are
Speaker 5: ones in between. So I didn't support the strike to
Speaker 5: support the union. I supported the strike to support the
Speaker 5: workers that I come in contact with in King Supers.
Speaker 5: But but no, man Hey, really appreciate your perspective and
Speaker 5: hope you call again.
Speaker 2: Well, I'd like talking to you. I mean, you're you're
Speaker 2: a great radio host. So I've just listened every day
Speaker 2: and ninety nine percent of stuff one hundred percent agree
Speaker 2: with Well.
Speaker 5: I sure appreciate that. But be sure to call me
Speaker 5: when you think I'm wrong, okay, because I may be.
Speaker 2: Well, you like a fight, and I can't call and
Speaker 2: fight with you.
Speaker 5: It is it is your verbal bites.
Speaker 2: Well, I know that.
Speaker 5: Thank you, man Hey, really appreciate the kind words. Call
Speaker 5: again soon. You take care. Yeah, and I know we
Speaker 5: have some text on the strike as well. We were
Speaker 5: talking to the union president as I'm sure you picked
Speaker 5: up on this text or kind of echoing Dean. As
Speaker 5: a small business owner, I have a hard time with
Speaker 5: Kim Cordova and unions in general. I think they're doing
Speaker 5: an admirable job trying to ensure the hard working people
Speaker 5: at King Soopers aren't being taken advantage of. But it's
Speaker 5: tough for all of us. I've been working much harder,
Speaker 5: says the Texter, and much more for a third less
Speaker 5: pay since twenty twenty one. Nobody is working on my behalf.
Speaker 5: I need to do what I need to do to survive,
Speaker 5: which I am doing. Miss Corde, who's talking points are
Speaker 5: a hollow to a lot of us, Wow, what a
Speaker 5: compelling text. So how do you react to that? Right?
Speaker 5: I mean the logic there and I had the texture
Speaker 5: is one thousand percent correct. There are so many people
Speaker 5: working harder in the last few years for less so
Speaker 5: that made this texture less sympathetic to workers. It probably
Speaker 5: makes some other Texters, I think, more sympathetic to the
Speaker 5: King Soupers workers.
Speaker 6: I'll give you my only experience working as part of
Speaker 6: a union, Dan, and it was interesting because it was
Speaker 6: my very first job in broadcasting right out of college.
Speaker 6: It was for TV nine to ten in Cadillac Traverse City, Michigan.
Speaker 6: And I was sitting down with my boss at the time,
Speaker 6: John Michael Carter, and he says, this is the position,
Speaker 6: this is what you'll be paid.
Speaker 4: He goes, I might want to pay you more.
Speaker 6: I think you're good, but this is what your union's
Speaker 6: negotiated for you, and so that's the wage.
Speaker 4: We can't negotiate it.
Speaker 6: So he kind of framed it like, Hey, I'd like
Speaker 6: to pay you more, but that's just not in the
Speaker 6: cards for you here. I didn't like that that was negotiated.
Speaker 4: On my behalf. I felt like I was my own.
Speaker 6: Best advocate, even at that young age, and I still
Speaker 6: feel that way now.
Speaker 4: Dan.
Speaker 6: I would not want to be a part of a
Speaker 6: union here. I know it's different in different professions. Things
Speaker 6: like the IBW, I think are tremendous because they're certified
Speaker 6: and you know that they're guaranteed quality and the standard
Speaker 6: of the work is assured for those that are purchasing it.
Speaker 6: But when it comes to King Supers, I described it
Speaker 6: this way, Dan, like we were kids either in a
Speaker 6: divorce or mom and dad weren't getting along. It wasn't
Speaker 6: our fault as consumers as shoppers there, and I didn't
Speaker 6: really want to take sides, like you said, unless I
Speaker 6: knew the nitty gritty details, which I didn't know.
Speaker 4: And it's not like I want to take sides.
Speaker 6: Against King super Workers, but I don't want to automatically
Speaker 6: default to a union position that that might not be
Speaker 6: fair either.
Speaker 5: And I think for me, the key at least is
Speaker 5: that for me, it wasn't a pro union position. It
Speaker 5: was a I like the people I've run into at
Speaker 5: King Soupers over the last forty years. Sure, and if
Speaker 5: they think it's worth going out in the cold in
Speaker 5: front of the store and leaving work to do that,
Speaker 5: then you know, I'll go shop somewhere else. So that's
Speaker 5: just me. But in terms of unions, Ryan, you know,
Speaker 5: I don't think I've worked a union job. I supported
Speaker 5: United farm Workers Union in Chicago when I would as
Speaker 5: a high school kid, I told you be the shill
Speaker 5: who would pretend to honor the picket lines at jewels
Speaker 5: and stuff like that. I really really was happy that
Speaker 5: my dad had the protections he had with the Chicago
Speaker 5: Police Department, and I believe that was through a union.
Speaker 5: So I was really glad that he had that, and
Speaker 5: I think the police officers needed that From everything I
Speaker 5: remember that. I look around right now, and obviously I
Speaker 5: have a big problem with those teachers unions that at
Speaker 5: this point, you know, obviously put other things ahead of
Speaker 5: the kids. Even though there are a lot of great
Speaker 5: people in those unions. The unions themselves, I don't think
Speaker 5: the kids are their priority for a lot of these
Speaker 5: teachers unions. So yeah, I a King super Strike. I
Speaker 5: don't have a broad approach to unions overall. King Superstrike.
Speaker 5: It just came down to the people, the people who
Speaker 5: work at King Supers, who I've really liked. But as
Speaker 5: I've said over and over again, and you know me,
Speaker 5: I don't try to straddle the fence on anything. I
Speaker 5: hate that for obvious reasons, especially if you're a male.
Speaker 5: But on the King super Strike, I like King Supers.
Speaker 5: I like the operation. I like the way they run
Speaker 5: their stores. I like the stuff they have on the shelves.
Speaker 5: So I like King Supers the company. I know it's Kroger,
Speaker 5: but I also like the workers. And I just in
Speaker 5: the end, if hard working people are willing to walk
Speaker 5: out that then I'm just going to support them. I
Speaker 5: know a lot of people don't agree with that. Texter Dan,
Speaker 5: the head of King Soupers, said the exact opposite of
Speaker 5: what this union rep is saying. He says there are
Speaker 5: not staffing problems or taking money from their retirement plans.
Speaker 5: And so who is lying? I think the Union says
Speaker 5: this Texter. For me, I don't know. I don't have
Speaker 5: subpoena power. It's not one of my cases. I don't
Speaker 5: have the ability to go in and drill down and
Speaker 5: get to the bottom of it. For me, it's as
Speaker 5: simple as what I just explained eight five five for
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Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 7: Do you think Jesse that establishment media figures like Brennan
Speaker 7: are laying the groundwork for further speech restrictions under the
Speaker 7: guise of preventing harm.
Speaker 8: They tried and failed, and now Trump is gonna usher
Speaker 8: in a golden age of free speech in America, whether
Speaker 8: the Democrats like it or not. The Nazis abolished free speech.
Speaker 8: You weren't even allowed to criticize the Nazi Party. You
Speaker 8: couldn't even make a joke about Hitler, and he had
Speaker 8: a stupid looking mustache and one testicle.
Speaker 4: Plenty of material there.
Speaker 8: Books were burned, radio stations were censored, newspapers were shut down.
Speaker 8: You actually got put to death in Germany for listening
Speaker 8: to the BBC. That happened a couple of times.
Speaker 5: Boy, I'll tell you know who's in a golden age
Speaker 5: or phase is Jesse Waters. I mean, he just really
Speaker 5: keeps getting better. Don't agree with everything single thing he said,
Speaker 5: but boy, and Ryan, it seems like yesterday. You know,
Speaker 5: he was the kid just starting at Fox booking for
Speaker 5: Bill O'Reilly. I'd get these calls from Jesse and everything else.
Speaker 5: But even back then you could tell he had a spark.
Speaker 5: But the critical substantive point there is that, Yeah, the
Speaker 5: entire left depends on censoring free speech because they can't
Speaker 5: win a fair fight. They can't win a fair argument,
Speaker 5: and so Trump one of the many lasting gifts from
Speaker 5: Donald Trump is defeating this effort to cens for us. Now,
Speaker 5: obviously people saw it, which is one of the reasons
Speaker 5: they voted for Trump. But yeah, the left cannot win
Speaker 5: if there's true free speech and freedom of religion, particularly
Speaker 5: if people actually vote their faith. Let's go to the
Speaker 5: phone lines. We've had just an explosion of calls and
Speaker 5: text surrounding the King superstrike. The end of the strike.
Speaker 5: I had the union president on in the last I
Speaker 5: want to get to some really thoughtful, compelling texts, all
Speaker 5: of which by the way oddly disagree with me. But
Speaker 5: let's start with Holly in Aurora. You're on the Dan
Speaker 5: Kaplos Show.
Speaker 9: Welcome Holly, Yeah, Man, thanks. I'm thinking that the Team
Speaker 9: Troopers union workers are in a unique situation that like
Speaker 9: the caller before and yourself we're talking about, they have
Speaker 9: to deal with the public and so when there isn't
Speaker 9: enough staff, Yeah, they find themselves hurting for being able
Speaker 9: to see what the what the public is doing, mostly
Speaker 9: a ka theeft and and shop lifting and that sort
Speaker 9: of stuff. When there's not enough staff on the floor there,
Speaker 9: it's just harder to see if somebody is trying to
Speaker 9: steal things, where if there is some staff available, kids
Speaker 9: much easier.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's so interesting. And you know, we had a
Speaker 5: number of members of the King Supers five who, in
Speaker 5: my opinion, were treated so horribly by King Supers after
Speaker 5: they stopped that. Robert, thank you Holly for your call.
Speaker 5: Let's go to Keith in Denver, Colorado. You're on the
Speaker 5: Dan Kaplis Show. Welcome, Hi, Dan.
Speaker 2: I had an opportunity to talk to one of the
Speaker 2: strikers when they first went out, and he said that
Speaker 2: he said two things. One they were fighting for more hours.
Speaker 2: And two they were fighting for more security. And one
Speaker 2: of the things that King Supers was not allowing them
Speaker 2: to do is hire more security guards. So if they
Speaker 2: had one officer in the store, the officers themselves said,
Speaker 2: we want a second officer. We don't want to be
Speaker 2: here alone. And you know, and I thought, well, those
Speaker 2: are fair things to argue for. But my point is,
Speaker 2: and this is what my response to him, was, well,
Speaker 2: have you voted Democrat because the Democrats undermined all of
Speaker 2: your all the security issues that you're voting because of
Speaker 2: the Democrats? Then I said, I said, you wouldn't have
Speaker 2: the security problem if you didn't defund the police and
Speaker 2: if you didn't constantly basically enable criminal behavior.
Speaker 5: So what a great point.
Speaker 2: And when it comes to the and when it comes
Speaker 2: to the working hours, I said, these you know, these
Speaker 2: stores work on you know, they're operating on two to
Speaker 2: three percent margins, like you know, I think it's been
Speaker 2: reiterated a thousand times. But they wouldn't they wouldn't let
Speaker 2: you work more. They'd let you work more hours if
Speaker 2: they if you weren't voting for more and higher wages
Speaker 2: all the time, which is cutting into their bottom line,
Speaker 2: I said, this is entirely your fault if you voted Democrat.
Speaker 5: What a great point about the Democrat thing. Hey, thank
Speaker 5: you man. Appreciate that call from Keith in Denver. And
Speaker 5: that ties into something else. On Thursday Show, we're going
Speaker 5: to have John Kellner. He was recently, up until recently,
Speaker 5: the elected DA of Arepo, Douglas, Lincoln, and Elbert Counties
Speaker 5: and had been the GOP candidate for Attorney General in Colorado.
Speaker 5: John is now my law partner, and he wrote a
Speaker 5: very compelling piece that was published in Sunday's Gazette going
Speaker 5: to our last caller's point about how the Democrats that
Speaker 5: the legislature once again have now given criminals a gift
Speaker 5: and have undermined the efforts of local municipalities and towns
Speaker 5: to strengthen the penalties against theft, etc. And the lefties
Speaker 5: at the state level are stepping in and saying, no, Aurora,
Speaker 5: no you other cities, you can't do that. So you've
Speaker 5: got all of these local governments trying to protect their communities,
Speaker 5: protect their people by toughening the theft laws and other laws,
Speaker 5: and now polis in the left are saying, oh, no,
Speaker 5: you can't do that, so it's so wrong, but it
Speaker 5: ties into the last caller's point. And John Kellner will
Speaker 5: be with us Thursday. He'd be with us tomorrow, except
Speaker 5: tomorrow is this annual father daughter thing the Caroline and Caroline,
Speaker 5: our daughter and I do together every year and been
Speaker 5: looking forward to it all year. We'll be doing that
Speaker 5: together and Christy Burton Brown will have the show tomorrow.
Speaker 5: I want to get to some of these texts as well.
Speaker 5: Three oh three seven one three eight two five five
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Speaker 5: Texter says DAN, unions have outlived their purpose. In the beginning,
Speaker 5: it was about worker safety and forty hour weeks all achieved.
Speaker 5: Safety is now the purview of OSHA. Now unions are
Speaker 5: nothing more than democratic money machines based on outdated ideas Texter.
Speaker 5: And by the way, that text is echoed by many others, Dan,
Speaker 5: I was in the restaurant industry for fifty years. People
Speaker 5: don't work harder today, not compared to the sixties, seventies
Speaker 5: and eighties. Would love your thoughts on that. And obviously
Speaker 5: you know different people, different stuff, But what do you think, Brian,
Speaker 5: in general? People working harder now or harder ten years ago.
Speaker 6: Well, I know that people are working for less now
Speaker 6: in terms of the spending power, the buying power of
Speaker 6: the dollar and what you're earning and how that measures
Speaker 6: up against the consumer price indexes et cetera. As far
Speaker 6: as it's hard to gauge you know, what craft you're in,
Speaker 6: what line of work you're in.
Speaker 4: I'm sure there are a lot of people are listening.
Speaker 6: Audience right now that would say they work very hard
Speaker 6: or just as hard as they did that amount of
Speaker 6: time ago. But general work ethic, Dan I would say this,
Speaker 6: I think a lot of younger people coming into the
Speaker 6: workforce have a lot more in terms of entitlement and
Speaker 6: expectations about what they're going to get rather than what
Speaker 6: they're going to contribute and how they're going to earn it.
Speaker 4: Kind of the old JFK thing. What are you willing
Speaker 4: to do?
Speaker 6: You know, as not what your country will do for you,
Speaker 6: but what you will do for your country. I think
Speaker 6: it applies to your endeavors in the workplace. Are you
Speaker 6: willing to work hard, to excel, to achieve and to
Speaker 6: be excellent? And I don't know if there's that amount
Speaker 6: of dry that maybe we saw that time ago.
Speaker 5: Now, Ryan, are you saying ask not what King Soopers
Speaker 5: will do for you, to ask what you will do
Speaker 5: for King Supers.
Speaker 6: Well, I think that's the whole point of this conversation
Speaker 6: that you had with Kim Kordova. And I'm not saying
Speaker 6: I disagree with everything she says. I generally am very
Speaker 6: hesitant to support unions because I wanted to negotiate on
Speaker 6: my own behalf. But you're right, I think there's there's
Speaker 6: something to be said on both sides of that one.
Speaker 5: Well, and when we come back, we've got more calls
Speaker 5: and text on the King super Strike will take those.
Speaker 5: We have much more to talk about as well, locally
Speaker 5: and nationally, and have to comment on this pivotal moment
Speaker 5: in Ukraine. You're on the Dan Kapla.
Speaker 4: Show, you're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Ukrainians and the Europeans suggested that they go very sidelined
Speaker 2: without the process has laid out so far.
Speaker 10: How you intentionally address their concerns equality?
Speaker 3: Well, the comment I would have on that is that
Speaker 3: for three and a half years while this conflict is raged,
Speaker 3: or three years while it is raged, no one else
Speaker 3: has been able to bring something together like what we
Speaker 3: saw today, because Donald Trump is the only leader in.
Speaker 5: The world it can. So no one is being sidelined here.
Speaker 3: But President Trump is in a position that he campaigned
Speaker 3: on to initiate a process that could bring about an
Speaker 3: end of this conflict, and from that could emerge some
Speaker 3: very positive things for the United States, for Europe, for Ukraine,
Speaker 3: for the world. But first it begins by the end
Speaker 3: of this conflict.
Speaker 5: Oh, beautifully said by Rubio. Yeah, all this griping now
Speaker 5: from Europe. Yeah, where was Europe for the last three years?
Speaker 5: Because this should tick you off, It should take everybody off,
Speaker 5: because Putin is evil. Putin is evil. And you know,
Speaker 5: Trump is doing a tremendous service to the world right now.
Speaker 5: He's doing the best he can with this horrific situation,
Speaker 5: which is not of his making. This horror, this horror,
Speaker 5: this unleashing of raw evil in the form of Putin,
Speaker 5: was brought to you by so Biden and the Left
Speaker 5: and their weakness and their weakness in Afghanistan and their
Speaker 5: weakness with Putin. Trump is just stopping the bleeding. But
Speaker 5: my goodness, the way Europe abandoned Ukraine. Putin knew from
Speaker 5: day one right, Putin is looking through the lens of evil,
Speaker 5: and so morality doesn't factor in. Nothing factors and accept
Speaker 5: evil devouring, evil, raping, evil, pillaging. And Putin looked at
Speaker 5: Europe and he sized Europe is weak. He sized Biden
Speaker 5: is weak. And he went and he devoured and he
Speaker 5: sized them upright. So Europe, as someone earlier today said,
Speaker 5: you know, Ukraine needed warriors, and they got cheerleaders. Right,
Speaker 5: the brave people of Ukraine fought valiantly, historically brave. But
Speaker 5: what did Europe give them, you know, just applause and
Speaker 5: cheers and a little bit of money. Putin knew from
Speaker 5: day one. If Europe would not put boots on the ground,
Speaker 5: Putin would get whatever he wanted. And Europe would not
Speaker 5: put boots in the ground. There should never be an
Speaker 5: American boot on the ground in Ukraine. That was Europe's fight.
Speaker 5: America should support it financially in ways it makes sense
Speaker 5: because it serves the world to stop evil in the
Speaker 5: form of Putin. But it was Europe's fight. They wouldn't
Speaker 5: do it, they wouldn't put boots on the ground. So
Speaker 5: Putin was destined to win. And now what Trump's doing
Speaker 5: is serving the world by just stopping the madness and
Speaker 5: to the extent listen, to the extent he had kind
Speaker 5: of good relations with Putin, that then further America's interest
Speaker 5: and prevent further wars. Then yeah, sure, don't compromise our values,
Speaker 5: don't compromise our principles. But what do you want to
Speaker 5: do with that sort of wild animal who threatens the
Speaker 5: peace and stability of the world. If you contame him,
Speaker 5: if you can bring him under control, then you want
Speaker 5: to do that. If you can, you don't just want
Speaker 5: to run off to war. You want to end wars
Speaker 5: where you can. So, yeah, Europe abandoned Ukraine, so evil
Speaker 5: now wins to a certain extent, and Trump heroically now
Speaker 5: will stop the bloodshed eight five five or zero five
Speaker 5: A two five five text d an five seven seven
Speaker 5: three nine. You know, it's like somebody said earlier, Ryan,
Speaker 5: I think it was Mike Waltz, the National Security advisor.
Speaker 5: He said, before Trump was elected, everybody was just talking
Speaker 5: about is there a way to end the war? Now
Speaker 5: that Trump's been elected, everybody's talking about when the war
Speaker 5: will end because they know Trump's about to end it.
Speaker 5: Have we seen in our lifetime? In our lifetime an
Speaker 5: individual have is immediate and dramatic effect for the good
Speaker 5: on the world. Obviously, John Kennedy probably saved America in
Speaker 5: the world in the Cuban missile crisis. You know, Ronald
Speaker 5: Reagan did a great service or peace for strength. But
Speaker 5: in terms of one individual this kind of impact, I
Speaker 5: don't think we've seen that in our lifetime.
Speaker 6: If I may present Dan to you, Woodrow Wilson, we
Speaker 6: won't go down that road yet. Good, but apostulate from
Speaker 6: a guy that I respect in this industry but is
Speaker 6: a liberal and is comparing what's going on right now
Speaker 6: with the bilateral talks that the United States, Marco Rubio,
Speaker 6: Mike Waltz and others are having with.
Speaker 4: Fidermir Putin in Russia.
Speaker 6: Comparing that to Neville Chamberlain and Great Britain trying to
Speaker 6: negotiate a piece with Adolph Hitler before he invaded Czechoslovakia
Speaker 6: and Poland.
Speaker 4: What would you say about that comparison?
Speaker 5: Total bs, total, totally false. But that's what we get
Speaker 5: from the left right. That's why they want to silence
Speaker 5: free speech because they lie all the time, and if
Speaker 5: people are free to point out that they're lying, the
Speaker 5: left loses utter garbage. Trump comes to the table with
Speaker 5: consummate strength, consummate strength, and Putin knows that if Trump
Speaker 5: came in whole hog on the side of Ukraine right now,
Speaker 5: it ends one of two ways, either Russia losing or
Speaker 5: a nuclear war. So Trump comes to the table with strength,
Speaker 5: right and there's not going to be any appeasement whatsoever here.
Speaker 5: What there's going to be is a practical recognition of
Speaker 5: what the weakness of the left and the weakness of
Speaker 5: European leadership has wrought. And there's going to be a
Speaker 5: practical recognition of that that the choice now is World
Speaker 5: War III or cut a deal that maintains Ukraine's sovereignty,
Speaker 5: keeps its government intact, and ends the bloodshed. That seems
Speaker 5: like a pretty easy choice, doesn't it.
Speaker 4: It does.
Speaker 6: And my counter to that, for my friend online would be, Okay,
Speaker 6: what does victory look like? To find that and describe that,
Speaker 6: you can't get the left or one of these Ukraine.
Speaker 4: Hawks to answer that question.
Speaker 6: And then secondly, as a means of achieving that end,
Speaker 6: are you willing to put American forces boots on the
Speaker 6: ground in Ukraine to help win that war?
Speaker 4: You got to answer that one way or the other.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and of course they wouldn't be. But this just
Speaker 5: goes back, right, This just goes back to the Trump
Speaker 5: derangement syndrome. And how now it is shortening the lifespan
Speaker 5: of the left because the people look at all this
Speaker 5: success from Trump and they look at increasing lunacy and
Speaker 5: irrationality from the left and guess which direction more people
Speaker 5: are moving. You don't have to guess, just look at
Speaker 5: the poles. And now it's just up to the rest
Speaker 5: of the GOP to get it right. But I think
Speaker 5: the rest of the GOP is doing a pretty good
Speaker 5: job with that. Now we have to see if Colorado
Speaker 5: can start to turn right. And I know they'll be
Speaker 5: the subject of other shows and other guests, but I
Speaker 5: want to get to some of these great texts. And
Speaker 5: isn't this going to be one of the great moments
Speaker 5: ever when the left to has to watch Donald Trump
Speaker 5: get the Nobel Peace Prize. I mean, now, who knows.
Speaker 5: If he doesn't get it, it's just a total farce.
Speaker 5: But he's been subjected to those total farce as many
Speaker 5: times before. But if he does get it, which he should, yeah,
Speaker 5: that'll be a very fun moment. First of all, because
Speaker 5: there will be this. I don't know if you'll be
Speaker 5: able to call what's coming peace or just cessation of war,
Speaker 5: but whatever it is, it'll be far better than what
Speaker 5: we have right now, Dan your guest. And this goes
Speaker 5: back to the King super strike issue that we've been
Speaker 5: talking about. We have the union president on talking about
Speaker 5: the conclusion of it. Dan your guest said, most of
Speaker 5: our members are part time. Oh you mean they aren't
Speaker 5: the bread winner in the home. They need to stop
Speaker 5: demanding higher wages and benefits on a part time job.
Speaker 5: I think the Texter probably misunderstands. I think there are
Speaker 5: probably a lot of people who want to be full time,
Speaker 5: but the only jobs they can get are part time.
Speaker 5: There are some really compelling Texters who disagree with me here.
Speaker 5: Let me get to one longer than we like, but
Speaker 5: it's so well done. I'm afraid you're looking at this
Speaker 5: whole King super Strike through your rose colored Chicago Democrat
Speaker 5: big labor glasses. Labor unions have long outlived their usefulness
Speaker 5: and now are just a tool to extract more from
Speaker 5: businesses that are already tight. Nobody is holding a gun
Speaker 5: to these people's heads to make them work. There. If
Speaker 5: I have a job and don't like the work environment,
Speaker 5: I can go talk to my supervisor, and he talked
Speaker 5: to his supervisor to either get it resolved or I leave.
Speaker 5: We're not in the days of Upton Sinclair the Jungle
Speaker 5: meat packing businesses, where businesses were giving away with just
Speaker 5: about it, getting away with just about anything. There are
Speaker 5: already way too many restrictions and controls in place for labor,
Speaker 5: with OSHA and the Labor Relations Board. My guess is Ryan,
Speaker 5: probably about ninety nine percent of our audience agrees whole
Speaker 5: hog upunintended with that. Texter and De Texter appreciate that. Dan.
Speaker 5: Two questions for your guest. Is it appropriate or inappropriate
Speaker 5: for strikers to stand right in front of the doors?
Speaker 5: Is it appropriate or inappropriate for a striker to tell
Speaker 5: me to shop elsewhere? Ryan, what do you think I
Speaker 5: honored the King super strike, as I've mentioned on air,
Speaker 5: because I've always liked the people who worked there, and
Speaker 5: if they were going to strike, I'll go shop somewhere else.
Speaker 5: I wasn't doing it to support the union. I wasn't
Speaker 5: doing it because I decided King Soupers was wrong. I
Speaker 5: was doing it because I liked the people who worked there.
Speaker 5: But I went to a liquor store next to my
Speaker 5: local King superstore, and I did notice that the strikers
Speaker 5: were lined up right in front of the store, right
Speaker 5: in front of the store entrance. And I also noticed
Speaker 5: there were almost no cars in the parking lot. So
Speaker 5: how do you feel about folks who are picketing lined
Speaker 5: up right in front of the entrance.
Speaker 6: They got a little belligerent with Kelsey, and I wasn't
Speaker 6: a fan of that.
Speaker 4: And that was kel No, my fiance, Kelsey.
Speaker 5: Oh, your fiance. Nobody would be ware.
Speaker 4: There was a woman who did that much.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 6: They brought out a security guard. I'm going to try
Speaker 6: to keep this short because I know we got to
Speaker 6: go to break.
Speaker 5: Do you want to do it in the next segment?
Speaker 5: I could sum it up the secure Kelsey story people.
Speaker 4: No, no, no.
Speaker 6: The security guard told me that he simply explained to
Speaker 6: the strikers that you know, you can pick it outside,
Speaker 6: but don't try to intimidate or yell at the customers
Speaker 6: coming in. And by the same token, I'm going to
Speaker 6: make sure that I protect you from any customers that
Speaker 6: might be harassing you. And he said that that had
Speaker 6: been happening and reversed. There's some shoppers are on the
Speaker 6: way in yelling at the strikers. I just think tempers
Speaker 6: were short, that's to be sure.
Speaker 5: Hey, when we come back, lots more to talk about.
Speaker 5: Want to preview a really important story for tomorrow here
Speaker 5: on The Dan Caplas Show.
Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 10: Well, he was standing in a country where free speech
Speaker 10: was weaponized to entuct a genocide, and he met with
Speaker 10: the head of a political party that has far right
Speaker 10: views and some historic ties to extreme groups. The context
Speaker 10: of that was changing the tone of it, and you
Speaker 10: know that that the censorship.
Speaker 3: I disagree with you specifically about the right. Now, I
Speaker 3: have to disagree with you.
Speaker 4: Boy.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you that is one of the top five
Speaker 5: stupidest things ever said on television anywhere right. And Margaret
Speaker 5: Brennan is not a stupid person. She has a lot
Speaker 5: of bad ideas, bad leftist ideas, but she's intellectually very gifted.
Speaker 5: So why would somebody smart say something that's stupid that
Speaker 5: it was free speech that caused the Holocaust? Of course
Speaker 5: it was not. But the reason she said that is
Speaker 5: because the left is they're saying the quiet part out loud. Now,
Speaker 5: the left knows that free speech means the end of
Speaker 5: the left. That's why they've worked so hard to end
Speaker 5: free speech in America. Cancel culture. If you speak an
Speaker 5: opinion they don't like, You're a racist, you're a bigot,
Speaker 5: you're a sexist. You have to be canceled, driven from
Speaker 5: normal society because the left knows if people are free
Speaker 5: to speak the truth, the left loses. And now they
Speaker 5: are driven to this absurdity. Oh, it was free speech
Speaker 5: that caused the Holocaust. So the encouragement in that is
Speaker 5: that one of the great lasting gifts of the Trump
Speaker 5: victories is the preservation of free speech in America. And
Speaker 5: as long as we have it, the left will lose.
Speaker 5: And she's just now displaying it for all to see.
Speaker 5: That is their platform. Free speech equals evil unless it's
Speaker 5: their free speech. Hey, let's go to the phone lines.
Speaker 5: Welcome Kathy to the Dan Kaplis Show. Hey, Kathy, Oh,
Speaker 5: she just dropped. I hope she's okay. Technical term dropped, right.
Speaker 6: She called nine one one, did not physically drop that
Speaker 6: I could call her Paul drop from the phone unfortunately.
Speaker 5: Good, excellent, excellent. Let's get back to our texters here Dan,
Speaker 5: with the last couple of hours, Trump said Ukraine should
Speaker 5: never have started the war with all the great work
Speaker 5: coming from this administration. This is a black mark, extremely ignorant,
Speaker 5: and a complete embarrassment. And I am a DJT supporter.
Speaker 5: I saw that text come in during the break. I'm
Speaker 5: checking the news feeds. I never take what a CNN
Speaker 5: or NBC report as true. The initial reporting appears to
Speaker 5: be that President Trump did say something along those lines.
Speaker 5: It was more in the context of firing back at Zelensky,
Speaker 5: who was criticizing President Trump today, which is really bizarre, right,
Speaker 5: But it was more in that context. So I am
Speaker 5: very very confident that President Trump does not perceive Ukraine
Speaker 5: as starting this war, and that if he made some
Speaker 5: comments on the fly that came across that way, that
Speaker 5: those will be clarified. And again, I think Trump deserves
Speaker 5: a lot of credit for soon ending the bloodshed, because
Speaker 5: it's not Trump Trump's fault that Putin, who is Satan
Speaker 5: on Earth, went into rape and pillage Ukraine. That's Biden's fault.
Speaker 5: It's the left's fault. Putin did not go into Ukraine
Speaker 5: when Trump was president. He went in when Obama was president,
Speaker 5: he went in. When Biden was president, he didn't go
Speaker 5: in when Trump was president. If Trump had that second term,
Speaker 5: then Putin would not have gone into Ukraine. I think
Speaker 5: any honest person would have to admit that. So Trump
Speaker 5: deserves none of the blame for its starting. He deserves
Speaker 5: the credit for it ending because, as one of his
Speaker 5: people said earlier today, before Trump was elected, people were
Speaker 5: talking about is there a way to solve the war?
Speaker 5: Now because of Trump, they're talking about when it will end,
Speaker 5: because it's certain now it will end. Why because of Trump?
Speaker 5: So yes, if he made a comment in anger when
Speaker 5: he was responding to Zelensky's bizarre criticism, then yeah that
Speaker 5: I'm sure he will clarify that over the next few days.
Speaker 5: There is no question that this war was completely unnecessary.
Speaker 5: It was invited by Biden's weakness and the Left's weakness.
Speaker 5: But the cause of it is the evil of Vladimir
Speaker 5: Putin and Europe being unwilling to step up and put
Speaker 5: boots on the ground in Ukraine. And I didn't want
Speaker 5: World War three, obviously, but if Europe was not willing
Speaker 5: to put boots on the ground in Ukraine, and there
Speaker 5: should never be American boots there. Then Putin was destined
Speaker 5: to win. The only way to stop Putin was Europe
Speaker 5: putting boots on the ground. The people of Ukraine fought
Speaker 5: heroically and bravely, beyond all measure, but they were not
Speaker 5: going to be able to defeat Russia without Europe being
Speaker 5: willing to put boots on the ground. And hopefully Europe
Speaker 5: being willing to put boots on the ground would have
Speaker 5: deterred Putin, but Putin saw it clearly early. Biden was
Speaker 5: pathetically weak. European leaders, pathetically weak and evil took advantage
Speaker 5: of that. Thank god, Trump's going to stop the bloodshed now. Ryan,
Speaker 5: great job, Kelly, you as well. Great to have you back.
Speaker 5: Kelly and Christy Burton Brown in the house tomorrow. Thanks
Speaker 5: for being here today on The Dan Caplis Show.