Speaker 1: This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 1: single day on your favorite podcast platform. Donald Trump be
Speaker 1: officially certified today. What a great way to get back
Speaker 1: into the swing of things. It seems like one hundred
Speaker 1: years since I've been on air, Ryan. It really it's
Speaker 1: funny how time works, right. All the mine process is
Speaker 1: time because it's only been what maybe ten twelve days,
Speaker 1: but it really seems like maybe two or three months
Speaker 1: since I saw you, since we were in here, since
Speaker 1: we were doing all of this. But wow, what a
Speaker 1: great day to come back to.
Speaker 2: Happy New Year.
Speaker 1: Yeah you as well, I mean everything that's happened in between.
Speaker 1: But of course today Jay six the ironies, right, and
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about a lot of stuff locally
Speaker 1: here as well, including some real hope for the GOP
Speaker 1: in Colorado, which means, by extension, some real hope for
Speaker 1: Colorado to come back as a great state. But you
Speaker 1: think about the obvious irony here as we're talking about
Speaker 1: January sixth and President Trump being certified. And obviously, you
Speaker 1: know with Kamala Harris, you know, being the one to announce,
Speaker 1: and we'll certainly play that sound for you because it's
Speaker 1: very fun sound. But you think of the irony, because
Speaker 1: she was among this group of people who was trying
Speaker 1: to literally destroy him personally, you know, trying to have
Speaker 1: him put in prison, trying to have him die in prison,
Speaker 1: all all of this law hair and then all of
Speaker 1: these horrific things they were saying about him, knowing that
Speaker 1: those things were likely to increase the danger even after
Speaker 1: multiple assassinations. So to watch her have to get up
Speaker 1: there and declare him today to be certified, the Electoral
Speaker 1: College votes to be certified. That was such a great thing,
Speaker 1: such a rich thing, such a great thing for America
Speaker 1: because of everything he had been subjected to by them.
Speaker 1: That would become.
Speaker 3: Hers of American democracy as much as any other principle,
Speaker 3: it is what distinguishes our system of government from monarchy
Speaker 3: or tyranny. Today, at the United States Capital, I will
Speaker 3: perform my constitutional duty as Vice President of the United
Speaker 3: States to certify the results of the twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 1: No, and she did not like she had any choice.
Speaker 3: The state of The vote for the President of the
Speaker 3: United States as delivered to the President of the Senate
Speaker 3: is as follows. The whole number of the electors appointed
Speaker 3: to vote for President of the United States is five
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty eight. Within that whole number, the majority
Speaker 3: is two hundred and seventy true. The votes for President
Speaker 3: of the United States are as follows.
Speaker 1: Donald J.
Speaker 3: Trump of the state of Florida has received three hundred
Speaker 3: and twelve votes.
Speaker 4: Kamala d Harris Kamala D.
Speaker 3: Harris of the state of California has received two hundred
Speaker 3: and twenty six votes.
Speaker 1: Wow, it had to be really tough to do, right,
Speaker 1: But yeah, with everything he's been subjected to, what a
Speaker 1: great moment that was today for America and for him personally.
Speaker 1: I mean, imagine imagine what he was facing had he lost.
Speaker 1: I imagine how the rest of his life is going
Speaker 1: to go. So yeah, great triumphant story and beautiful day
Speaker 1: for America. Eight five to five for zero five eight
Speaker 1: two five to five, the number techs d an five
Speaker 1: seven seven three nine. Of course, now Americans are fully
Speaker 1: expecting him to deliver, and they should be, and I
Speaker 1: have no doubt that he wills. So I think that.
Speaker 1: You know, we've got to be realistic, right, He's really
Speaker 1: got this two year window, and we all know the
Speaker 1: first hundred days et cetera, et cetera are usually prime
Speaker 1: time for a president elect. They've got that political capital,
Speaker 1: they've got it rolling. I think opponents feel that, hey,
Speaker 1: the American people wants to give this guy a chance.
Speaker 1: We don't want to look like we're not. And so
Speaker 1: this is his window right now. Short term, yeah, the
Speaker 1: one hundred, one hundred and twenty days, but certainly not
Speaker 1: beyond the two years. We'll be fortunate to have him
Speaker 1: as commander in chief for all four But in terms
Speaker 1: of legislative agenda, et cetera, we all know once we
Speaker 1: get to those twenty eight midterms twenty six, pardon me,
Speaker 1: and then everybody's attention is turned to the twenty eight
Speaker 1: presidential cycle. This is really his window legislatively. So it's
Speaker 1: going to be fun to watch, and I think a
Speaker 1: lot of good things ahead. I know a lot of
Speaker 1: good things to head in terms of things he can control,
Speaker 1: such as the commander in chief role, executive vorders, things
Speaker 1: like that. But legislatively, it's going to be wild with
Speaker 1: the GOP with this very slim majority eight five five
Speaker 1: four zero five two five five takes d an five
Speaker 1: seven seven three nine. And then of course that brings
Speaker 1: us locally as we talk about twenty six in the
Speaker 1: twenty six midterms, because it's what everybody was talking about.
Speaker 1: I'm sure at your water cooler today, probably your kid's school,
Speaker 1: wherever you went over the weekend. I would imagine at
Speaker 1: the Bronco game. You were at the Bronco game, right, Ryan,
Speaker 1: the case game. Yep, there could have been nothing being
Speaker 1: discussed in the stands other than Phil Wiser declaring for
Speaker 1: governor in Colorado.
Speaker 2: Right, that's talking.
Speaker 1: About so Nicks. He's eighteen for eighteen in the first
Speaker 1: half until and in completion at the end of night.
Speaker 1: Nobody's talking about that. They're talking about Phil Wiser, Whereas
Speaker 1: I like to say Phil blanket Wiser, Right, I.
Speaker 5: Call him Phil none the Wiser. Yeah, well, it's just
Speaker 5: a little not original. H I think it's extremely original.
Speaker 5: I'm the only one that I've ever heard call him that.
Speaker 1: You need to get out more. Yeah, eight five five
Speaker 1: for zero five eight two five five texs d an
Speaker 1: five seven seven three nine. And I think we've been
Speaker 1: talking about it all year how yeah, oh Nix, Okay,
Speaker 1: he was going to be the man. He is the man,
Speaker 1: just keeps getting better, fun to watch, and we won't
Speaker 1: do sports today. We'll do that during commercial breaks. But listen,
Speaker 1: if I'm betting the house, yeah, I mean Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: best player in the NFL, Denver has always had a
Speaker 1: hard time in Buffalo, even under the best of conditions
Speaker 1: with the best of teams. So yeah, if you're betting
Speaker 1: the house, which I would not advise, yeah, you are
Speaker 1: not betting on a Denver victory Sunday. But it is
Speaker 1: not at all out of the question, mister, break pass
Speaker 1: rush Denver has with Nick's playing better and better, and
Speaker 1: everybody can have an off Dake. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: all the pressures on Buffalo on Sunday.
Speaker 5: And I'm not just saying this in retrospect or hindsight
Speaker 5: with the benefit of that being twenty twenty. You remember, though,
Speaker 5: and I distinctly remember, Josh Allen played just to the
Speaker 5: north in the University of Wyoming and the Broncos passed
Speaker 5: on him in the draft.
Speaker 1: Don't give me the Broncos did not pass on Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: Let's correct the record on that. Mind seemed friend. No, No,
Speaker 1: John Elway passed on Josh Allen. Listen, John Elway is
Speaker 1: underrated as a quarterback. You know, he's I don't know
Speaker 1: that there's ever been a better arm in the NFL. Toughness,
Speaker 1: all that great stuff. I mean, I'd put him in
Speaker 1: the top two or three in NFL history as a GM.
Speaker 1: He let his ego get in the way. It's how
Speaker 1: we lost Tebou and it's how we lost Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: And that is just too darn bad because can you
Speaker 1: imagine the Broncs with either Tabau or Josh Allen. Oh my,
Speaker 1: so that's unfortunate. But Elway, he will just personally as
Speaker 1: a guy who has really enjoyed living here for a
Speaker 1: long time. I will always be grateful to John Elway
Speaker 1: for his great play as a quarterback and to me,
Speaker 1: that overshadows monumental errors as a GM, the Bronc particulator
Speaker 1: with t Bow and Josh Allen.
Speaker 2: John Elway, I'm correcting myself.
Speaker 5: John Elway selected Bradley Chubb defensive NC State with the
Speaker 5: fifth pick in that twenty eighteen draft, and Josh Allen
Speaker 5: went two picks later.
Speaker 1: At least he didn't pass on Michael Jordan right, and
Speaker 1: take Samboui or whatever that guy. Thank you. You know
Speaker 1: it's not all not all rock eight five five for
Speaker 1: zero five eight two five five text d an five
Speaker 1: seven seven through nine. But I do want to get
Speaker 1: your take on Colorado, because listen, I get it. Everybody
Speaker 1: gets it right. Everybody can see the math for whatever reasons.
Speaker 1: We can talk about how it got here, we know
Speaker 1: that Colorado right now when it comes statewide, say the
Speaker 1: governor's race is probably what D plus ten, D plus twelve.
Speaker 1: Some smart people I respect say D plus fifteen. So
Speaker 1: the Democrats have this enormous advantage. It may be as
Speaker 1: some say that Democrats could run a dead dog and
Speaker 1: win then no matter how good the GOP candidate is.
Speaker 1: Some believe that maybe that's true. But I got to
Speaker 1: tell you, if Phil Wiser is the Democrats nominee for governor,
Speaker 1: I think a strong GOP candidate as a real chance
Speaker 1: to win. And it's nothing personal. A couple of times
Speaker 1: I've had him on air, seems like a nice fellow.
Speaker 1: I'm sure to enjoy going out to have a beer
Speaker 1: with him, whatever, But absolutely nothing to recommend him for governor.
Speaker 1: Nothing to get anybody excited about Phil Wiser for governor
Speaker 1: and the Democrats own polling, he's polling about nine percent
Speaker 1: for governor, even Jenna Griswolds ahead of him. But there's
Speaker 1: a pretty good chance he ends up being the Democrats
Speaker 1: nominee for governor, right because on the left it's all
Speaker 1: about who's going to get that big uber lefty money,
Speaker 1: and that big uber lefty money is really really far
Speaker 1: left money, and so he could end up being their nominee.
Speaker 1: And when we come back, I want to get your
Speaker 1: take on does a good Republican beat Phil Wiser? Who
Speaker 1: do you think the Democrats will nominate? So I want
Speaker 1: to mix that into the conversation today. Will it be
Speaker 1: will it be lawless? Mike Johnston of Denver? Because we
Speaker 1: all know that play promising an insurrection, send the Denver
Speaker 1: police out to fight the Feds to protect people here illegally.
Speaker 1: That whole play was Johnston trying to get big lefty
Speaker 1: money for his governor's right. So is Johnston going to
Speaker 1: beat Wiser in a primary identity politics? Does it have
Speaker 1: to be Griswold for the Democrats? At some point are
Speaker 1: people of color on the left going to rise up
Speaker 1: and say, hey, wait a second, you guys are absolute
Speaker 1: liars and hypocrites. You claim to be so woke and
Speaker 1: care so much about people of color, and then all
Speaker 1: the top jobs are held by boring, old white guys.
Speaker 1: You know, So, how's this going to play out on
Speaker 1: the left? So we'll mix it in eight five four zero
Speaker 1: five eight two five five in the number. Does the
Speaker 1: Republican a good Republican beat Wiser? You're on the Dan
Speaker 1: Capla Show.
Speaker 2: And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Is this your next governor, Phil Wiser?
Speaker 6: After someone commits a third or fourth car theft in
Speaker 6: say three months, they should be kept in with a
Speaker 6: really high bond, because you got a sense they're gonna
Speaker 6: get out, they're gonna commit more crime.
Speaker 1: This is the guy who just announced for governor. The
Speaker 1: Attorney general says, wait a second. When they get to
Speaker 1: their third or fourth stolen car, then we have to
Speaker 1: take it. I mean, come on, And I think maybe
Speaker 1: the Democrats nominate this guy just to kind of test
Speaker 1: the theory that the Colorado's at the point where Democrats
Speaker 1: could nominate a dead dog. And I'm not comparing Phil
Speaker 1: Wiser to a dead dog, but to test that theory
Speaker 1: because because they're going to run for governor if he
Speaker 1: wins the nomination, a guy who has presided over Colorado
Speaker 1: becoming much more dangerous by virtually every metric. And a
Speaker 1: guy who's on tape is saying, yeah, the first two
Speaker 1: or three car thefts they're on the house. Yeah, eight
Speaker 1: five five for zero five A two five to five
Speaker 1: the number text d A N five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 1: Do you think Colorado is that far gone where the
Speaker 1: Democrats could just run anybody and win for a for
Speaker 1: a state wide office like that? Would love your take
Speaker 1: on that. And Ryan, I'm starting suspect because I've been
Speaker 1: blessed to be on air now almost three decades. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's longer than three decades. My New Year's resolutions were many,
Speaker 1: one of which is to figure out how long I've
Speaker 1: been on air. Not that anybody cares about that, but
Speaker 1: I just want to get the number right and save
Speaker 1: us some time. But in all those years, I've never
Speaker 1: seen this phenomena before. But I think, tell me if
Speaker 1: you're getting the same reaction. Ryan does a great show
Speaker 1: on six point thirty Kitchen w in Denver. Just before
Speaker 1: this show each day for the very first time in
Speaker 1: all my decades on air, it appears to me pretty
Speaker 1: official at this point that no Republican has any interest
Speaker 1: in this governor's race. Nobody wants to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Every time we have a topic pop up because here,
Speaker 1: you know, Wiser decides he's going to announce something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it used to be in the past, people say, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's an important news development, let's talk about that. I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody on the conservative side, except maybe folks
Speaker 1: looking at running the race, has any interest in talking
Speaker 1: about this governor's race because I don't think Republicans believe
Speaker 1: a Republican can win.
Speaker 5: I think there is a dearth of hope, like you're
Speaker 5: talking about Dan, especially coming out of and I think
Speaker 5: we need to keep this perspective in mind. It's something
Speaker 5: I've spoken about at length with Heidi Ganal, who was
Speaker 5: the nominee the last time around. The money that Jared
Speaker 5: Polis brought to the table in the last two goodnatorial
Speaker 5: elections twenty eighteen, which is when you and I first
Speaker 5: launched the show. It was right after that and then
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty two, and just how much that distorts
Speaker 5: a race now following that like you said, is phil
Speaker 5: wiser And I was just talking about this with George
Speaker 5: Brockler earlier today. Is he going to be able to
Speaker 5: tap into the types of resources that will make it
Speaker 5: just an imbalanced playing field against any Republican nominee?
Speaker 1: Well? Is sure he is right, because I mean the
Speaker 1: money follows a winner. And you know, we saw Elon Musk, right,
Speaker 1: he played such a tremendous role in the presidential race.
Speaker 1: And I don't know does President Trump win without Elon
Speaker 1: Musks two hundred and fifty to three hundred million. I'm
Speaker 1: glad we didn't have to find out, right, So, yeah,
Speaker 1: money follows a winner. Right now, the big money does
Speaker 1: not believe the Republican can win in Colorado. The big
Speaker 1: money believes the Democrats going to win. So you're gonna
Speaker 1: have just virtually any amount of money you want. Picture
Speaker 1: this big printing press of you know, one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: bills available to whatever Democrat looks like they're going to
Speaker 1: be the nominee. So and once they are the nominee, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have all the money they want. Now, it'll
Speaker 1: because of the way Colorado laws are set up. It'll
Speaker 1: be through the form as you know, Ryan, of these
Speaker 1: outside groups, right, the outside groups can accomplish so much
Speaker 1: as Musk proofed. I mean he was not only involved,
Speaker 1: I think in funding you know spots, including that phenomenal spot,
Speaker 1: the greatest spot in modern times that exposed Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: as the true wacko lefty she is on this crazy
Speaker 1: trans stuff. But also I think Elon Musk was involved
Speaker 1: in get out the vote stuff and funding and helping
Speaker 1: to direct some of that. So yeah, my belief is
Speaker 1: the Democrat is going to have more money than they
Speaker 1: could possibly imagine being spent on their behalf to follow.
Speaker 2: On what you're saying.
Speaker 5: Then, not only conservative circles talk show audiences like ours
Speaker 5: just not having a real fire or interest in talking
Speaker 5: about this.
Speaker 2: But is there a nominee even?
Speaker 5: Is there somebody that's gonna, like Phil Wiser did on
Speaker 5: the Democratic side, on the Republican side, throw their hat
Speaker 5: into the ring and do it soon.
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be plenty of really good
Speaker 1: accomplished you know GOP types throw their hat into the
Speaker 1: ring in the primary. Yeah, I would expect that, don't you.
Speaker 1: But but WHN But that's a great question too. I
Speaker 1: would imagine there'll be some in the next few weeks,
Speaker 1: and then there'll be some that come later. Right.
Speaker 5: So yeah, well, I think Phil Wiser did this so
Speaker 5: early and did you just want to, oh very much
Speaker 5: jump on everybody else in Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Don't you think that's very wise? Because listen, I still
Speaker 1: believe I said it at the time that the some
Speaker 1: in the leftist media started going after Jenna Griswold hard,
Speaker 1: when in fact it should have been Polish and Wiser
Speaker 1: going after her heart and insisting she resigned over not
Speaker 1: only the posting of those passwords, but also then deciding
Speaker 1: to hide it from the county clerks. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: think he's getting out heead of Griswold. He's trying to
Speaker 1: get out there while she's still been roughed up by
Speaker 1: this story. And I said it at the time that
Speaker 1: I thought that story was being pushed by leftist media
Speaker 1: because they wanted Griswold out of the race, because she'd
Speaker 1: be even easier to beat than Wiser. Right, but the
Speaker 1: Democrats are so tied up in identity politics, the opposite
Speaker 1: of Doctor King. Right, So Doctor King was all about this,
Speaker 1: but not so much the Democrats.
Speaker 2: Poor little children.
Speaker 5: One day live in a nation where they will not
Speaker 5: be judged by the color of.
Speaker 1: Mask skin, but by the content of that character. I
Speaker 1: have a dream except for put a color out of
Speaker 1: Democratic Party. It has nothing to do with the content
Speaker 1: of your character, the quality of your ideas, or merit
Speaker 1: the Colorado Democratic Party. It's all about identity politics. So,
Speaker 1: after being hypocritical on this flat out phony and dishonest
Speaker 1: for so many years, because all the big jobs right
Speaker 1: are held by boring old white guys, and Wiser wants
Speaker 1: to be the next one of those, then all of
Speaker 1: the sudden, Jenna Griswold's a little harder to get rid
Speaker 1: of being FEMA. And so, you know, I think he's
Speaker 1: trying to get a hot out ahead of all that.
Speaker 1: I think he's trying to get ahead of Mike Johnston
Speaker 1: lawless Mike you know who you know, had that unfortunate
Speaker 1: call for an insurrection, wanted the Denver police to go
Speaker 1: out and fight the Faces in order to protect people
Speaker 1: here illegally. Yeah, so I think he's very very wise
Speaker 1: to be out there right now. And you want to say,
Speaker 1: I mean, who do you want if you want the
Speaker 1: Republican to win, who do you want the dem nominee
Speaker 1: to be if you want it to be wiser God
Speaker 1: to believe Chriswold would be the easiest to be. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'm wrong about that, Mike Johnston. So we'll mix that
Speaker 1: into the conversation. But when we come back, big story
Speaker 1: just came out Denver as the biggest surge in traffic
Speaker 1: delays of any city in the nation. Why do you
Speaker 1: think that's happening.
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Boy, that's perfect for this. So we're looking at what
Speaker 1: Denver probably two to five starting tonight, late tonight and
Speaker 1: then through Tuesday morning. Now it's supposed to clear out
Speaker 1: by late morning tomorrow Tuesday in the metro area, and
Speaker 1: then this varies a little bit as we get north
Speaker 1: or south of the Denver metro. So and also cold,
Speaker 1: I mean not like Chicago cold, but I think the
Speaker 1: high is going to be twenty four or so. What
Speaker 1: would you say, and you also be in Michigan. I
Speaker 1: grew up in Chicago. Twenty degrees here feels like what
Speaker 1: in Chicago? Twenty degrees in Chicago probably feels like what here?
Speaker 1: I would say, twenty degrees in Chicago feels like five
Speaker 1: or ten below here. Don't you think.
Speaker 5: I've been in Chicago in the middle of winter walking
Speaker 5: down the Magnificent Mile and that wind cuts you like
Speaker 5: a knife. You come around a building corner right off
Speaker 5: of Lake Michigan there and you could not be more right. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's a bone chilling cold.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember as a college kid, like home for Christmas,
Speaker 1: walking back from the bowling Alley, which is about a
Speaker 1: mile to our house. I remember having to huddle down
Speaker 1: behind garbage cans in an alley, like literally curled up
Speaker 1: in a ball behind garbage cans to block the wind
Speaker 1: just long in e to try to get out of pain,
Speaker 1: to get back up and keep going. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: whole different kind of called. One of the many reasons
Speaker 1: we're blessed to be here, right, because here you can
Speaker 1: be outside. It can be below zero, and as long
Speaker 1: as you don't have a big wind blowing, you can
Speaker 1: be outside. You can be wearing anything you.
Speaker 2: Want to chrispy. But yeah, it's a dryer cold on
Speaker 2: all that effects.
Speaker 1: Whole different critter. But yeah, so you can't really call
Speaker 1: it cold. But I think a high of twenty four
Speaker 1: maybe tomorrow, So yeah, please do be careful I'm a
Speaker 1: firm believer this kind of storm is more dangerous, you know,
Speaker 1: than the twelve fifteen, twenty inch type storms, right because
Speaker 1: we all figure we can just keep going. And I
Speaker 1: know I see it in my practice, because we do
Speaker 1: all this catastrophic stuff that Yeah, I think the kind
Speaker 1: of roads we're going to see in the morning rush
Speaker 1: are going to be about the most dangerous you get,
Speaker 1: depending on when that snow starts. And say five five
Speaker 1: for zero five eight two five five the number. Talking
Speaker 1: about all that good stuff, interesting, Denver drivers hit with
Speaker 1: the nation's biggest surge in traffic delays, a Bruce Finley
Speaker 1: Denver Post story. So what they did is, you've got
Speaker 1: now this new data out on traffic congestion around America,
Speaker 1: and Denver has had the largest increased in travel time.
Speaker 1: So Denver is the biggest increase in delays, ranks fifteenth
Speaker 1: among the most congested US cities. But it's getting worse
Speaker 1: in a hurry, and it's getting worse faster than any
Speaker 1: other city in America. So why do you think that's
Speaker 1: so eight five five for zero five A two five
Speaker 1: five the number text d an five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 1: Let me give you a quick context on this. Drivers
Speaker 1: here over the past year faced the fastest increasing traffic
Speaker 1: delays in the nation, according to a global transportation data
Speaker 1: firm's latest analysis. While Denver ranks fifteenth among the most
Speaker 1: congested US cities, New York, chicag I'll go in La
Speaker 1: top the list. The delays increase by nineteen percent between
Speaker 1: twenty three and twenty four. Nineteen percent. It's almost twenty percent.
Speaker 1: Drivers on metro for roads steering twenty four lost in
Speaker 1: average of forty four hours to traffic jamsh my goodness,
Speaker 1: So what do you think? What do you think is
Speaker 1: causing this downward spiral when it comes to our traffic
Speaker 1: eight five to five for zero five eight two five
Speaker 1: five takes d an five seven seven three nine. The
Speaker 1: average speed of a vehicle moving toward downtown Denver decreased
Speaker 1: to what would you say, Ryan, and I have that
Speaker 1: number in front of me and it's direct from inricks.
Speaker 5: The speed decreased during what what do you think the
Speaker 5: average speed of a vehicle moving toward downtown Denver.
Speaker 2: Is at what time of day or any time of day?
Speaker 5: Well, it's just it takes everything into account. If it's everything,
Speaker 5: forty five miles an hour.
Speaker 1: What does Kelly think, Keller issue awake, she's over there.
Speaker 1: I am about no. I just wanted to be courteous.
Speaker 1: Try not to assume anything.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say forty thirteen Come on, yeah, I'll pull
Speaker 5: the other.
Speaker 1: Speed of a vehicle moving toward downtown Denver increased by
Speaker 1: about seven percent to thirteen miles per hour, said Bob
Speaker 1: Pishu and Bob Pishue never lies, senior analyst for in
Speaker 1: RES and an author of a report released Monday morning.
Speaker 2: Gotta rush hour traffic then, right, Well, I.
Speaker 1: Mean you're they're averaging in right those times when it's
Speaker 1: like one mile an hour, but they're comparing this nationwide,
Speaker 1: So yeah, what do you think is behind that? While
Speaker 1: you ponder that? And you're probably not moving at all
Speaker 1: moving toward Denver right now. So you may feel comfortable
Speaker 1: calling the show, but please don't do anything unsafe. Texters Dan,
Speaker 1: events like the loss of my friend George Mumma to
Speaker 1: a leftist in HD twenty five caused me to doubt
Speaker 1: the larger picture success of conservatives in Colorado. That from
Speaker 1: Steve in Littleton, Thank you, Steve Dan. If Jenna Griswold
Speaker 1: gets into the governor's race, and there is a primary
Speaker 1: end of debate. I can't wait to see how Phil
Speaker 1: Wiser goes after her on the whole password issue. That
Speaker 1: ought to be interesting. Yeah, because a total dereliction of
Speaker 1: duty by Wiser and Polis and other top deems not
Speaker 1: to step up demand a true independent council investigation with
Speaker 1: subpoena power in a public report, and then to demand
Speaker 1: her resignation. Dan, I think we should let Wiser try
Speaker 1: to steal the governor's job three times before we take
Speaker 1: them seriously. Now, that may be the leader in the
Speaker 1: clubhouse for text of the year. Admittedly we're an hour
Speaker 1: and fifteen minutes into the year, but that's a pretty
Speaker 1: darn good one, Dan, What is more American than getting
Speaker 1: drunk tell big brother to go to hell? That I
Speaker 1: think came in while And thank you so much to
Speaker 1: Heidigenall and Christy Burton Brown who did various shows while
Speaker 1: we're gone on our annual Well Family vacation. So thank
Speaker 1: you to them, because there was a big stories everybody
Speaker 1: knows about Biden administration coming out and saying that alcohol
Speaker 1: major cause of cancer, et cetera. Are you going to
Speaker 1: cut down on how much you drink.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay.
Speaker 5: In fact, that's kind of tied into I don't know
Speaker 5: all resolution I've made to myself.
Speaker 2: I don't know if people do those.
Speaker 5: Anymore in your's resolution, Yeah, that's a yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 5: think it would be. I feel better, clear minded, you
Speaker 5: know what. I kind of follow the dan capitalist path. Well,
Speaker 5: you know, you occasionally might have a beer here or there,
Speaker 5: maybe rarely.
Speaker 1: Which is a waste of talent.
Speaker 7: It is.
Speaker 1: Because truly I can drink more than anybody I know
Speaker 1: without being affected by it, but dangerous. But in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, how many beers do you think you had
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: A couple of hundred okay, maybe that's not bad at all.
Speaker 1: Or three hundred and sixty five days? Not that many,
Speaker 1: great restraint.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, less than that between probably around one hundred.
Speaker 1: How many glasses of wine?
Speaker 2: A dozen or so?
Speaker 1: Really, that's all Scotch? Oh, A lot of that, okay.
Speaker 5: A few glasses on the rocks? That one. That one
Speaker 5: will be tougher to give out.
Speaker 1: Trying to figure out why I was given this talent
Speaker 1: that I do not use because I and listen, I
Speaker 1: love it. I love to drink it. I love the
Speaker 1: taste of it. I love all that good stuff, but
Speaker 1: I feel like it just doles me a little bit.
Speaker 1: And I just you know, I don't have anything to
Speaker 1: spare there, you.
Speaker 2: Know, I mean, so I gs.
Speaker 1: I just don't want to lose any gun edge. But
Speaker 1: but yeah, I probably had in twenty twenty four, I
Speaker 1: probably had three beers.
Speaker 2: Is that get older? Here?
Speaker 5: My tolerance for the after effects. Let let's say I
Speaker 5: have a moderate amount and there's a hangover there. You know,
Speaker 5: you feel sluggish all these things that there's that great
Speaker 5: and I don't think the benefit outweighs that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to me, my New Year's of solution is to
Speaker 1: drink more. I mean not drink, but you know I
Speaker 1: have a few more.
Speaker 2: I'll drink less. You drink more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, see that's America. But why these traffic delays?
Speaker 1: Why is it getting worse? That is fascinating to me.
Speaker 1: I mean, we all feel it getting worse, but why
Speaker 1: is it getting worse? Eight five to five or zero
Speaker 1: five two to five five? Welcome back, Happy Patriots to day.
Speaker 1: Thank you for that message, And yeah, we'll work in
Speaker 1: some more of the national stuff because it's obviously a
Speaker 1: really significant day when Kamala Harris has to do this,
Speaker 1: which was really sweet. And I say that because she
Speaker 1: was part of I believe that whole cabal, that whole
Speaker 1: cabal that tried to wrongfully jail Trump, wanted him to
Speaker 1: die in jail, wanted to personally destroy him because they
Speaker 1: knew they couldn't beat him at the ballot box. And
Speaker 1: so how sweet that she would have to say this
Speaker 1: on this very day.
Speaker 3: The state of the vote for the President of the
Speaker 3: United States, as delivered to the President of the Senate
Speaker 3: is as follows. The whole number of the electors appointed
Speaker 3: to vote for President of the United States is five
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty eight. Within that whole number, the majority
Speaker 3: is two hundred and seventy. The votes for President of
Speaker 3: the United States are as follows.
Speaker 1: Donald J.
Speaker 3: Trump of the state of Florida has received three hundred
Speaker 3: and twelve votes. Kamala de Harris, that's something that's true about.
Speaker 1: I would have set up thirteen seventy two seventy one
Speaker 1: to be saved.
Speaker 3: Kamala De Harris of the state of California has received
Speaker 3: two hundred and twenty six votes.
Speaker 1: That ought to be harder to say than Trump's total
Speaker 1: don't you think. Hey, when we come back, I want
Speaker 1: to tell you, not that you'll care, but I want
Speaker 1: to tell you about something absolutely crazy that just happened
Speaker 1: with my car and it's life changing. You're on the
Speaker 1: Dan Capitler Show.
Speaker 2: And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, thanks Ryan for that. I'm still trying to
Speaker 1: figure this out. Last I maybe did this story showing
Speaker 1: that Denver now has the largest increase in traffic delays
Speaker 1: of nineteen percent. Delays have gotten twenty percent worse just
Speaker 1: in the last year. So this entire nation, we are
Speaker 1: getting worse faster than anybody and we weren't that good
Speaker 1: to begin with. So what do you think is behind that?
Speaker 1: And I've just been pondering it since I read that story.
Speaker 1: I mean, we all know traffic's bad, and we all
Speaker 1: know some of the basic causes, But why do you
Speaker 1: think it's gotten so much worse so fast, gotten worse
Speaker 1: faster than any place in the country. What do you
Speaker 1: think is behind that? Eighty five to five or zero
Speaker 1: five eight two five to five text DN five seven
Speaker 1: seven three nine. Locally, we're also talking about Phil Wiser,
Speaker 1: the Attorney General. I wonder how many Colorados could tell
Speaker 1: you that Phil Wiser is the Attorney general of the state,
Speaker 1: probably very, very few, because it just he's kind of
Speaker 1: a nonfactor. And no, he's not a non factor in reality,
Speaker 1: and in reality, the state has gotten more dangerous because
Speaker 1: of things he's failed to do. But but yeah, if
Speaker 1: he's the DEM nominee, yeah, you know, I'd like to
Speaker 1: say the GPS the best shot they could. I think
Speaker 1: they'd have an even better shot if it was Jennet Griswold.
Speaker 1: But but Wiser polls worse than her. On the DEM side, Ryan,
Speaker 1: if he is the DEM nominee and the DEM nominee
Speaker 1: is going to be whoever the real big money on
Speaker 1: the left gets behind, then do you think you're gonna
Speaker 1: have a lot of dem apathy?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Do you think you're gonna have a lot of dem apathy?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna have a bunch of Dems who just
Speaker 1: don't turn out for him?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think that's a great point that he doesn't inspire
Speaker 5: a lot of energy from anybody but the left and
Speaker 5: Democrats in general. I don't know that Polis really did either,
Speaker 5: but he was at least effective and getting his message
Speaker 5: out in a fund his own funded campaign.
Speaker 2: And you know, he's a sharp enough guy.
Speaker 5: I think politically his acumen is pretty high, I all know,
Speaker 5: Polish Yeah for Wiser, No, I mean he says things
Speaker 5: like the third or fourth car theft thing, and that's
Speaker 5: not an isolated incident. In fact, George Brockler told me
Speaker 5: earlier that he just thought he was mediocre Wiser in
Speaker 5: terms of his ability to debate, to formulate points, you know.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and my good friend John Keller, who I'm
Speaker 1: biased right because of the friendship and other in fact,
Speaker 1: going to be a big announcement in that front soon.
Speaker 1: But John Keller was the top GOP vote getter in
Speaker 1: the last statewide cycle and just absolutely thrashed Wiser in
Speaker 1: those debates, and I think got to within like eight
Speaker 1: and a half points of him, which in Colorado is
Speaker 1: a pretty impressive showing in these modern times where anything
Speaker 1: with the red jersey gets trampled by the electric But yeah,
Speaker 1: this instant classic from Phil Wiser.
Speaker 6: After someone commits a third or fourth car theft in
Speaker 6: say three months, they should be kept in with a
Speaker 6: really high bond because you got a sense they're gonna
Speaker 6: get out, They're gonna commit more crimes.
Speaker 1: So think about that. It's not just okay, the first
Speaker 1: two car thefts, the first two or three really are
Speaker 1: free in phil Wiser's world as attorney general. But within
Speaker 1: three months, you know, so yeah, hey, if it's three
Speaker 1: car thefts, if you commit a fourth within three months,
Speaker 1: then yeah, we may have to keep it. Listen, he
Speaker 1: is an intelligent person. So that was not a dumb statement.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a terrible policy position, a very
Speaker 1: destructive policy position. But he didn't say something that awful
Speaker 1: out of stupidity. He said something that awful out of radicalism.
Speaker 1: Because Phil Wiser is a smart man who understands the
Speaker 1: radical left controls the Democratic Party in Colorado in most places,
Speaker 1: and if he wants to be, if he wants to be,
Speaker 1: in that instance, the attorney general, I'll get all that
Speaker 1: leftist money. If he wants to be governor, he's got
Speaker 1: to be a far left guy. And now they'll let
Speaker 1: him get away with saying something so he can try
Speaker 1: to pull off the moderate con in certain channels. But no,
Speaker 1: I don't think he made such an awful statement out
Speaker 1: of stupidity. Again, it's this radicalism that now owns and
Speaker 1: operates the Democratic Party speaking of which really has to
Speaker 1: make you happy as you see that starting to fail
Speaker 1: now across America and other places, which is another reason
Speaker 1: there might be this window of opportunity in Colorado when
Speaker 1: this radical Trudeau and we don't talk much or care
Speaker 1: much about Canada, but the fact that he's now run out,
Speaker 1: that's another positive sign for the arc of the world.
Speaker 7: I intend to resign as party leader as Prime minister
Speaker 7: after the party selects its next leader through a robust
Speaker 7: nationwide competitive process.
Speaker 1: Boy, so Trump really got I'm right with all that
Speaker 1: first state stuff. A text to da in five seven,
Speaker 1: seven thirty nine. Oh, I got to tell you that
Speaker 1: car story. I tease Dan, you said in regards to
Speaker 1: Kamala certifying the election results, like she had a choice,
Speaker 1: while I agree and am no fan of Biden or Harris.
Speaker 1: A quick reminder of what your political hero tweeted four
Speaker 1: years ago, Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do
Speaker 1: what should have been done to protect our country and
Speaker 1: our constitution, giving states a chance to certify a corrected
Speaker 1: set of facts, not the fraudulent, inaccurate ones which they
Speaker 1: were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth that
Speaker 1: from Steve in Centennial. Steve, I think what's so telling
Speaker 1: there is is that the Democrats. The Democrats built their
Speaker 1: campaign around two things. They built their campaign around January
Speaker 1: sixth and around abortion, and they lost miserably. So I
Speaker 1: think it is so fitting that you have President Trump
Speaker 1: today not only certified, but certified by Kamala Harris, who
Speaker 1: was among those I believe who tried to put him
Speaker 1: in jail wrongfully through this lawfare.
Speaker 2: And so the.
Speaker 1: American people have spoken on that. Steve. The other thing
Speaker 1: and it's for another day, though I've mentioned it before,
Speaker 1: and this is another reason the GOP has a real
Speaker 1: chance in Colorado, I believe, and it's continuing to get
Speaker 1: better for the GOP across the country. You know, the
Speaker 1: Democrats have just clung to this slavish commitment to mass
Speaker 1: killing on demand to try to win elections, and clearly
Speaker 1: that did not work for them in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: and there are really concrete reasons it didn't work for them,
Speaker 1: reasons are likely to extend into the future, so more
Speaker 1: and more reason for the GOP to be optimistic. You're
Speaker 1: on the Dan Kapla Show.