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Speaker 1: Governor pull us on with Ross Kaminski, and we'll get
Speaker 1: back to that in a second. But I've counted at
Speaker 1: least six different just major falsehoods and one pretty tight bite,
Speaker 1: as well as at least four different major groups deeply insulted,
Speaker 1: starting with African Americans. So we'll get to that shortly.
Speaker 1: Which does make you wonder where does he intend to
Speaker 1: go next politically? Because Ryan, I can't imagine that he's
Speaker 1: ready to just go back into let's say, the business
Speaker 1: world where you actually have to compete, right and where
Speaker 1: you don't get this automatic kissing of for kissing up
Speaker 1: of the press and everything else. Hard for me to
Speaker 1: imagine he's ready to go back to real life.
Speaker 2: So where do you think he goes from here?
Speaker 3: I've said it before, and I believe he's going to
Speaker 3: be a Fox News commentator on the Sunday shows with
Speaker 3: either Shannon Breem or Dana Prino and or both. I
Speaker 3: think he has good relationships with either one of those too.
Speaker 3: He's appeared many times with them, and it gives him
Speaker 3: this pretense of being a kind of moderate, reasonable, libertarian
Speaker 3: minded person that we know he's not.
Speaker 2: And how long do you think that gig would last?
Speaker 4: Less than a year?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: It lasted as long as Ken Bucks did, right, And
Speaker 1: you know, no disrespect to ken who had a great
Speaker 1: relationship with for many years and hopefully will again.
Speaker 2: But CNN was.
Speaker 1: Clearly using ken you know, holding that carried out so
Speaker 1: he'd come on and say bad things about Trump and Republicans,
Speaker 1: and then when they were done with him, they were
Speaker 1: done with him. They never intended to give him some
Speaker 1: big gig. And same with Governor Poulis. It ain't no
Speaker 1: offense to Governor Polis. He's he's good at certain things
Speaker 1: in his life. Being governor isn't one of them. But
Speaker 1: being a DV I wouldn't be one of them either,
Speaker 1: because truly, who's going to sit there and be compelled
Speaker 1: by Governor Polis?
Speaker 2: I mean, there are some other.
Speaker 1: Hardcore lefties you can be compelled by but you're not
Speaker 1: going to be compelled by Governor Polis. So yeah, it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see, interesting to see, but we all
Speaker 1: know anything National isn't going anywhere.
Speaker 4: Though.
Speaker 1: He'll have a bit longer shelf life because he can
Speaker 1: toss around so much money. But it'll lend the same
Speaker 1: way that we accurately predicted Bennett's did and Hickeloopers did,
Speaker 1: and all of these Colorado lefties do right because they're
Speaker 1: in the bubble here, man, how many bubble states are
Speaker 1: left right now? How many bubble states where you can
Speaker 1: be as whack go far left as you want to be.
Speaker 2: Most of the media.
Speaker 1: Will We'll just kiss up incessantly and you can get
Speaker 1: away with virtually anything as a lefty. You got Colorado?
Speaker 1: Where else where else you have? You got most parts
Speaker 1: of California? There aren't that many left Well, like that
Speaker 1: New York Time piece, did you see it? It is
Speaker 1: remarkable and I'll get to the details in tomorrow's show.
Speaker 1: But to sum it up in credit the New York Times,
Speaker 1: they're doing this breakdown. They didn't do it as a
Speaker 1: pr spot for the GOP. They did it as a
Speaker 1: warning to the Dems, Hey wake up. But they traced
Speaker 1: in this last election the number of counties in America
Speaker 1: that trended red in a significant way. They had some
Speaker 1: metrics that seemed to make sense, and the numbers that
Speaker 1: trended blue and Republicans like thousands of counties where they gained,
Speaker 1: including in a lot of traditionally blue areas.
Speaker 2: Democrats had like twenty eight. Right.
Speaker 1: So but Colorado, man, it's just one of their last bubbles.
Speaker 3: And to that point, Dan, it's important to mention in
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty four election historic for many reasons, but
Speaker 3: not the least of which Kamala Harris. Dan did not
Speaker 3: flip a single county from blue from red to blue.
Speaker 2: How could she? She didn't? Well, right, how could you not?
Speaker 4: One? Now, the numbers you sided.
Speaker 1: That's like saying, oh, you know, Ryan Schuling didn't get
Speaker 1: any hits in that Rockies Cubs game yesterday, How could you?
Speaker 1: I wasn't there right right, same with yeah, that was never.
Speaker 3: Gonna didn't flip a single county, meaning you know, there
Speaker 3: may have been a few blue counties that got bluer,
Speaker 3: and there might even been a reddish county that got
Speaker 3: a little bit less red, but none of them. Dan
Speaker 3: flipped not one county in one state in the fifty
Speaker 3: states of the United States.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for all the reasons we talked about and predicted, right,
Speaker 1: But what I'd like to know is, and I'd love
Speaker 1: to hear from folks on this, why is Colorado one
Speaker 1: of those last remaining bubbles?
Speaker 2: You know? Why is that? Why is that? Because?
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember those years. In fact, I think
Speaker 1: I was a Democrat at the.
Speaker 2: Time when.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well we had the governor Owens. I think the
Speaker 1: GOP had both the House and Senate. I don't remember
Speaker 1: the exact timing, But why is Colorado one of these
Speaker 1: last hold out lefty bubbles?
Speaker 2: And will it be the very last one? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Three or three someone three eight two five five text
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Speaker 1: did Ross ask any follow up questions of substance?
Speaker 2: Didn't think so.
Speaker 1: I didn't hear the interview. I was in trial, but
Speaker 1: I bet he did. I think Ross is a very
Speaker 1: good to show host, and.
Speaker 3: That actually was one of them, and I thought he
Speaker 3: did a good job in two separate instances of kind
Speaker 3: of trying to focus pull this in on a particular point.
Speaker 3: What I'll do Dan is after the show today I'll
Speaker 3: send you all the clips because I broke it down
Speaker 3: and cut it all up last week, and then you
Speaker 3: can go through and there's anything else of note that
Speaker 3: catches your ear.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: We'll go over that tomorrow too.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: But no, I think Ross is really one of the
Speaker 1: better radio guys in a long time, even though we
Speaker 1: obviously disagree on some issues. Dan the new movie Colorado, Storry,
Speaker 1: Michael Pennett as the Invisible Man, Johnny hickylooper is how
Speaker 1: Do You Do? And Jared Poulis as the Artful Dodger
Speaker 1: coming to an obscure theater in the most liberal city
Speaker 1: near you. I mean, when you just go through that lineup,
Speaker 1: I mean just brings me back to how ludicrous this
Speaker 1: whole thing is, where this far lefty bubble right and
Speaker 1: the far left is supposed to be about all diversity, equity, inclusion,
Speaker 1: and all your big office holders are boring all white guys.
Speaker 2: I mean, how long.
Speaker 1: Are people on the left going to put up with that?
Speaker 1: It really is crazy. Fortunately, they're relatively unaccomplished. And I
Speaker 1: don't mean that as a personal digs, It's just a
Speaker 1: matter of fact. Can you imagine if we had lefties
Speaker 1: in these positions who were like on fire, and they
Speaker 1: were out there and they were really effective and accomplishing
Speaker 1: a lot of their stuff. I mean, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: Polis and the left are accomplishing way too much bad
Speaker 1: stuff in Colorado. But think what the level of that
Speaker 1: idiocy would be if he was actually.
Speaker 2: Better at this. But I don't know. I hold out
Speaker 2: some hope, Brian, I hold out some hope.
Speaker 1: That thirteen twelve was a bridge too far, that it
Speaker 1: was a bridge too far, and it's going to be
Speaker 1: a real eye opener for a lot of people in Colorado,
Speaker 1: and that some of this other crazy stuff they're doing.
Speaker 1: But right now, they're one of the few remaining bubbles,
Speaker 1: you know, just dark blue bubbles that seems to be
Speaker 1: hanging on in America. Dan, this is a crazy comparison
Speaker 1: by Polis, since transenderism is a subjective feeling, whereas being
Speaker 1: black is objective fact.
Speaker 2: Well, it is so much more than that.
Speaker 1: Right, we're going back to if you just joined us,
Speaker 1: we'll play the sound later in the in the hour
Speaker 1: again where Polus has compared the plight of transgender people
Speaker 1: to the plight of African Americans, And while can you
Speaker 1: imagine being an African American Democrat right now, and you're
Speaker 1: looking at a party where nobody can argue this point,
Speaker 1: right You're looking at a party that now clearly prioritizes
Speaker 1: transgender folks over African Americans. How can any rational person
Speaker 1: ever get to that point to begin with? When you
Speaker 1: look at the history of oppression in this country faced
Speaker 1: by African Americans, and we're talking about literally in chains,
Speaker 1: children ripped away from their parents and sold, mass rape
Speaker 1: and torture, we're't looking at that kind of history compared
Speaker 1: to a very protected class status that the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: has created for our transgender friends. I mean, it's not
Speaker 1: only profoundly insulting to African Americans, but it's just ignorant.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I wonder why the Democratic Party is losing
Speaker 1: people of color.
Speaker 2: Let me get back to some more of these texts.
Speaker 2: Uh Dan, just.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and pull out that you guys are supposed
Speaker 1: to protect me. Quote you guys me, do you have
Speaker 1: that sound?
Speaker 4: I think I can at least get it on the
Speaker 4: other side of this time.
Speaker 1: Out, and we should have it on the button bar.
Speaker 1: What this very informed text is referring to one time
Speaker 1: hicken Looper was under an ethics investigation, and uh, there'k
Speaker 1: some stuff there and I don't remember all the details,
Speaker 1: but there were some stuff there. And then he's in
Speaker 1: an interview with Kyle Clark and he just says the
Speaker 1: quiet part out loud. Hey, you guys are supposed to
Speaker 1: protect me from stuff like this. It was one of
Speaker 1: the great moments in Denver TV history. Three out three
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Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Hick and Looper complained that journalists should be defending his actions.
Speaker 5: You guys should be protecting me on stuff like this where.
Speaker 2: There's no clear how could they meet.
Speaker 5: What's the confusion that I that I had a private meeting. No,
Speaker 5: there were no private meetings, that I somehow saved money myself.
Speaker 5: I wasn't gonna play for that pay for that plane ticket.
Speaker 5: I saved the state money. You know, I'll be very
Speaker 5: surprised if they come back and say, in any way
Speaker 5: this is unethical.
Speaker 2: You guys should be protecting me. Said that to Kyle Clark, Right, yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: that's right. Take glad you're here. Three or three someone
Speaker 2: three A two five five texts DA, Yeah, protecting me
Speaker 2: on stuff like this, that's right. That's which is of
Speaker 2: course exactly what happens.
Speaker 1: And that's why when a Hickenlooper or a bandit or
Speaker 1: a police ventures out in the national competition, they get
Speaker 1: crushed instantly because if they ever had the skill set right,
Speaker 1: if they ever had the muscle to be able to
Speaker 1: go out and hold their own in a debate, defend
Speaker 1: their positions, et cetera, they lost it while they lived
Speaker 1: in the bubble. Because they just anybody who's going to
Speaker 1: ask them the tough follow up questions, they lose their
Speaker 1: access right. They never get polis On or Hicckenlooper or
Speaker 1: any of them. So yet that that's why these guys
Speaker 1: are toast the second they step across state lines in any.
Speaker 2: Kind of national competition.
Speaker 1: Three or three someone three A two five five text
Speaker 1: DA in five seven seven three nine lot, it's a
Speaker 1: great text. I want to get right to him, but
Speaker 1: I do want to squeeze this in. We haven't talked
Speaker 1: about this much. We should be because I think there's
Speaker 1: something big about to happen.
Speaker 2: Cut forty two please, you.
Speaker 6: Know President Trump, he has, he said in that tweet,
Speaker 6: that comment, I've always had a good relationship with Vladimir Putsin.
Speaker 6: I think it's important to remember that Pruden's never thought
Speaker 6: that about President Trump. When people try to appease them,
Speaker 6: when they treat him and they praise him, he sees
Speaker 6: that as signs of weakness, not strength. And I would
Speaker 6: say that's true with all leaders for the last twenty
Speaker 6: five years. And so now he's just calling his bluff.
Speaker 6: He's like, you're a tough guy on social media, you
Speaker 6: won't do anything. And I think his calculation is President
Speaker 6: Trump will eventually walk away, he'll stop providing assistance to Ukraine.
Speaker 6: And that's exactly what Vladimir Putin wants because he wants
Speaker 6: to continue this war. I don't think he's really interested
Speaker 6: and negotiating an.
Speaker 2: End to this warm. This is John Heilman on MSNBC.
Speaker 1: I assume he's a smart guy in the sense he
Speaker 1: has intellectually intellectual capacity, neurons firing, et cetera. But he's
Speaker 1: either knowingly lying or it's just hate interrupts brain function, right,
Speaker 1: which we talk about all the time on the show,
Speaker 1: because hey, you're kind of missing exhibit A, right, which is, hmm,
Speaker 1: Obama in office, Putin takes crimea Biden in office Putin
Speaker 1: rapes and pillages Ukraine?
Speaker 2: What came between Obama and Biden?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Trump? When did that invasion of Ukraine happen while
Speaker 2: Trump was president? I must have missed it. No, it
Speaker 2: never happened.
Speaker 1: So you know, you'd love to get a guy like
Speaker 1: Hilman in court, right. He just kind of slink out
Speaker 1: of the courtroom after cross. But here's the point, here's
Speaker 1: what they're really missing, which is, you would not want
Speaker 1: to be Vladimir Putin right now because the whole idea
Speaker 1: that the Donald Trump is going to allow himself to
Speaker 1: be embarrassed by Putin, it's just silly. It's an impossibility.
Speaker 1: It's not going to happen. This guy Heilman. See, the
Speaker 1: left they hate so much, they hate so much that
Speaker 1: they underestimate us on the right because and that's why
Speaker 1: Trump's in office now right for a second term kind
Speaker 1: of not by an inch but a mile.
Speaker 2: And so they're doing it again.
Speaker 1: They ignore the evidence of Trump's peace through strength working
Speaker 1: in his first term, and now they just assume he'll
Speaker 1: slink away. There is no chance of that, And so yeah,
Speaker 1: I expect, and we may never We may never be
Speaker 1: able to trace it to Trump. We may not see
Speaker 1: it as blatantly as a public policy pronouncement. But I
Speaker 1: think there are bad things about to happen to Vladimer
Speaker 1: Putin and to this Russian army because of Putin now
Speaker 1: publicly define Trump. Yeah, so it'll it'll be interesting to
Speaker 1: see what comes next.
Speaker 2: Listen. I know we're going to get.
Speaker 1: Some sanctioned type stuff, right, but that's not where the
Speaker 1: real action is. The real action in terms of Trump
Speaker 1: hurting Putin is going to be on another level, and
Speaker 1: maybe a level that we never even know about, can
Speaker 1: never even be traced to Trump. Three h three someone
Speaker 1: three eight two five five text d A N five
Speaker 1: seven seven three nine. I don't think whatever the President
Speaker 1: decides to do that he's going to be doing it
Speaker 1: with the intent of ending Putin. I think he's going
Speaker 1: to be doing it with the intent of forcing a deal.
Speaker 1: But right, I mean, how could anybody for a second
Speaker 1: think that Donald Trump's going to allow himself to be
Speaker 1: humiliated by Putin.
Speaker 2: It's inconceivable, And you got.
Speaker 3: To believe that there's some kind of psychological chess warfare
Speaker 3: going on.
Speaker 2: Here Putin v.
Speaker 4: Trump, and that Putin knows that too.
Speaker 3: You know, Trump's not going to lose face here anymore
Speaker 3: than Putin wants to lose face on the world stage
Speaker 3: with regard to this showdown in Ukraine. And there's got
Speaker 3: to be an off ramp, and that's what Trump is
Speaker 3: pursuing in these talks. But I like about what President
Speaker 3: Trump has been saying recently, Dan is that he has
Speaker 3: no qualms about mentioning that he's not very happy with
Speaker 3: Vladimir Putin right now, and he's.
Speaker 4: Telling the media that. And there's a purpose to that.
Speaker 3: Why he's saying what he's saying, how he's saying it,
Speaker 3: and when he's choosing to say it, which is to
Speaker 3: the American media, and no doubt that's to send a
Speaker 3: message to Putin himself.
Speaker 1: Well, the silver lining here is that it because Putin
Speaker 1: is evil, right and was this was a raping and
Speaker 1: pillaging of Ukraine, that Putin should not.
Speaker 2: Be rewarded for it all.
Speaker 1: But unfortunately he will be because Europe's not willing to
Speaker 1: put boots on the ground and threaten to fight in
Speaker 1: Ukraine and America should not.
Speaker 2: But Europe should.
Speaker 1: And if Europe would just show that kind of resolve,
Speaker 1: I think we'd see peace through strength and we'd avoid
Speaker 1: in on go war in Ukraine. But Putin knows Europe
Speaker 1: will not put boots on the ground in Ukraine to
Speaker 1: save Ukraine. So unfortunately, evil is going to gain some
Speaker 1: territory in some final deal. Not because of the US,
Speaker 1: not because of Trump. It's going to be because Europe
Speaker 1: wasn't willing to stand up. Obviously it was Biden's weakness
Speaker 1: that initially triggered this evil man to invade. But in
Speaker 1: the end, no, it is good that that Trump, now
Speaker 1: I have no doubt it is going to do certain
Speaker 1: things that caused Putin and this Russian army a lot
Speaker 1: of pain. That is good because Ukraine the Edison victim here,
Speaker 1: and there needs to be there needs to be a deal.
Speaker 1: But since Putin has been this bloodthirsty and this pig
Speaker 1: haded and this demonic, then there needs to be very
Speaker 1: very hard pushback. And I think that's what Trump's about
Speaker 1: to give him.
Speaker 2: What form do you think it's going to take? Form? Yeah?
Speaker 2: What do you think that's going to look like? And
Speaker 2: do you think we'll or no? I mean do you
Speaker 2: think we'll know it came from Trump?
Speaker 4: Something to ponder for sure?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's what we're here for, the ponderers.
Speaker 1: Has there ever been a you would know this if
Speaker 1: there's ever been a group called the pond comes.
Speaker 4: No, not that's been on the national stage.
Speaker 2: But I'm sure.
Speaker 1: Garage, that's right, which is why they stayed in the garage.
Speaker 2: Hey, when we come back, Jared polus On with.
Speaker 1: Ross Kaminski manages to deeply offend African Americans, Christians, lots
Speaker 1: of other good people.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Capli Show.
Speaker 4: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 6: We dropped the mall because it is so much more
Speaker 6: than just one retail location or one block.
Speaker 5: It is an entire mall of experience, a mile of experience.
Speaker 1: Like, JA say, that's gonna do it? That's the ticket, right,
Speaker 1: the sixteenth Street moment. I love the texture who wrote Dan,
Speaker 1: it's the sixteenth Street mul Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, the only thing that's ever going to.
Speaker 1: Fix it is reverse legalization of marijuana. It go back
Speaker 1: and trace it to the beginning. As long as you
Speaker 1: have that place occupied by druggies, nothing's gonna fix it.
Speaker 1: Nothing's gonna fix it. It could be paved in gold,
Speaker 1: the paved in gold, cheerleaders on every corner. People aren't
Speaker 1: gonna go down there as long as the Left is
Speaker 1: still just all pro drug which means the mall is
Speaker 1: going to be covered with people with addictions, whom my
Speaker 1: heart breaks for, by the way, could be any of
Speaker 1: us people with addictions who the left just lets run wild.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna work.
Speaker 3: And the day they announced this, Dan Mike Johnson going
Speaker 3: from Sixteenth Street Mall to just sixteenth Street for the
Speaker 3: low cost of one hundred thousand dollars to Denver taxpayers
Speaker 3: through a London consulting firm.
Speaker 2: They already done it for fifty oh exactly.
Speaker 3: There was another stabbing at the end of the mall
Speaker 3: on Broadway.
Speaker 4: I got an email notification on that on that very day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and what do you want to bet that stabbing
Speaker 2: was related to drugs?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean there's a reason the old saying, ay, it's
Speaker 1: like that guy's on drugs. It just people act differently
Speaker 1: and then of course they get addicted. Because what is
Speaker 1: the left devoted to? Right legalize marijuana, but it's really
Speaker 1: Krakawana because the old style two to four percent THC
Speaker 1: marijuana was really devastating, which is why no city in
Speaker 1: the world had legalized it the way we did back
Speaker 1: in twenty twelve. And then what happens, You know what happens.
Speaker 1: They then immediately execute their long term plan and they
Speaker 1: crank it up to eighty ninety plus potency. So you're
Speaker 1: hooking people young, you're hooking them forever. You're getting these
Speaker 1: psychotic breaks because people get it wrong. They think, Okay,
Speaker 1: those higher levels, you're more intoxicated. Yeah, that's an issue
Speaker 1: for sure, But where you see all this really crazy
Speaker 1: stuff happen is usually not people who are so high
Speaker 1: on dope, though sometimes it's because of the psychotic breaks
Speaker 1: that come, the psychosis that develops, and the fact that marijuana,
Speaker 1: even at two to four percent but certainly high potency,
Speaker 1: then magnifies underlying mental illness and other type of psychoses,
Speaker 1: and so you end up with this big spike and
Speaker 1: teen suicide and we've never come back down from that.
Speaker 1: More than half the teen suicide victims have dope in
Speaker 1: their system. But then you end up with these crimes
Speaker 1: as well, and then you end up with the zombies,
Speaker 1: I mean, as those restaurant owners, right, Ryan, as they
Speaker 1: said to Johnston, Listen, this isn't about the homeless ruining
Speaker 1: the mall in downtown. This is about the addicts, and
Speaker 1: a bunch of them become homeless. But the addicts who,
Speaker 1: because of lefty policies A become addicts and b are
Speaker 1: then allowed to just roam around. And who's going to
Speaker 1: want to go down there? I mean, how many.
Speaker 2: Addicts our studios.
Speaker 1: I'm remote today, but our studios happen to be in
Speaker 1: the tech center area. You wander over, Ryan, to one
Speaker 1: of those local bars or restaurants where your groupies gather
Speaker 1: for their daily fix. How many zombies are you going
Speaker 1: to find wandering around your your suburban mall of choice tonight?
Speaker 4: How many times do you go downtown these days? Dan?
Speaker 4: For entertainment, dining, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Those types of purposes, Well, let me count them up.
Speaker 1: Different us et none, none, none, We just don't. I mean, Ryan,
Speaker 1: look at I had to go down for a meeting
Speaker 1: the other day. I had to not the other day,
Speaker 1: but I had to drive home drop off valuables. I
Speaker 1: had to reverse course, come home and drop off valuables
Speaker 1: before I.
Speaker 2: Went downtown because I was going to be parking somewhere.
Speaker 2: You can't. You can't do that now. Listen, it's a
Speaker 2: tell of two cities, right.
Speaker 1: You've got your gleaming part of downtown, and then you've
Speaker 1: got what the rest of us are subjected to. I
Speaker 1: love going to court down there. I never have any
Speaker 1: issues there. But if you're talking about you going into
Speaker 1: the main city, who does I mean I go down
Speaker 1: to games.
Speaker 3: All the time, right, but that'd probably be the exception, right,
Speaker 3: just oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And then it's not like we say, oh, man, hey,
Speaker 1: after the game, let's pop into downtown. Yeah right, you know,
Speaker 1: because you know we're so socially active, we might say,
Speaker 1: oh let's you know, stop here or stop there, but
Speaker 1: it's not downtown.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to the phone lines three or
Speaker 1: three someone three eight two five five the number, text
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Jack in beautiful Littleton, Colorado. You're on
Speaker 2: the Dame Kaplas. Sh'll welcome.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Dan. I tell you I've got a comment
Speaker 8: about the sixteenth Street mall renaming.
Speaker 7: But real quick, I I echo.
Speaker 8: Kind of where you're at. It's uh, he used to
Speaker 8: go downtown for business lunches for dinners four or five
Speaker 8: times a week. I avoid it like the plague. And
Speaker 8: it's just one bad policy after the next, whether it's
Speaker 8: homeless drugs. They've made it gar near impossible to drive
Speaker 8: through that city by closing off lanes for like gouter lanes.
Speaker 8: It's just miserable getting in and.
Speaker 2: Out of there.
Speaker 7: And I'll tell you, I watched Mike Johnson, who is
Speaker 7: an absolute.
Speaker 8: Case study and failed leadership, counting his you know, rebranding
Speaker 8: of sixteen sixteenth Street, which it isn't even really a
Speaker 8: street anymore. But he says, we've dropped the mall that
Speaker 8: now come on down and ride the mall ride. You know,
Speaker 8: the guy is so confused and so terrible at his job.
Speaker 7: He can't even get that right.
Speaker 2: No, No, Mike is a lot.
Speaker 1: He has a lot of talents, but he has a
Speaker 1: lot of problems. And I think his biggest problem is
Speaker 1: he has separated from the truth. Because I knew Mike
Speaker 1: back when he was connected to the truth and we
Speaker 1: had honest disagreements on policy, and he was delightful and
Speaker 1: he'd come on air all the time, and he was
Speaker 1: smart and he was quick, and he would defend those
Speaker 1: lefty policies as well as anybody out there could. And
Speaker 1: then I don't know whether it was an advisor or whatever,
Speaker 1: but the day came when, in my humble opinion, he
Speaker 1: just decided to separate from the truth. And once you
Speaker 1: do that, right, I mean, none of us are perfect humans.
Speaker 1: But once you just decide, just as a matter of
Speaker 1: m that you're going to separate from the truth, you
Speaker 1: end up where where Mike is right now, where you
Speaker 1: separate from the truth. So you're not acting logically, you're
Speaker 1: not acting consistently. You figure you can do anything you want,
Speaker 1: no matter how horrible. Is like a flight attendant almost
Speaker 1: gets decapitated on the ball on a weekend. Many others
Speaker 1: are stabbed and killed, and you stand pretty close to
Speaker 1: where she was killed, and you just proclaim victory. Proclaim victory.
Speaker 1: I mean, just that kind of craziness.
Speaker 8: Now, you you might have seen telling him at one
Speaker 8: time from somebody on the outside looking in, I would
Speaker 8: I would run that guy out.
Speaker 7: Of my boardroom as fast as I could.
Speaker 8: Everything from the disheveled way he looks to you know,
Speaker 8: during his campaign it was I have a moral obligation
Speaker 8: to house the homeless and it's just completely disconnected from
Speaker 8: anything that resembles leadership. I don't want bleeding heart. I
Speaker 8: want a queen safe city. It's friendly to commerce and
Speaker 8: that's the bottom line.
Speaker 1: Now, wait a second, this disheveled thing. How much do
Speaker 1: you think he pays for that haircut? I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a really good haircut, but that's the look right now?
Speaker 2: Is disheveled right? Well, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 8: That looks like you've been rolled out of a gutter.
Speaker 7: And I just I don't see an ounce.
Speaker 8: I don't see an.
Speaker 7: Ounce of leadership in that guy. And I grew up
Speaker 7: in this city. It's sickening to me to even see it.
Speaker 8: I used to love going to a vibrant, diverse downtown.
Speaker 7: Where you saw all walks of.
Speaker 8: Life, businessmen, recreators, tourism.
Speaker 7: And it's a ghost town and it sucks being down there.
Speaker 8: There's nothing fun or it just feels eerie, almost post apocalyptic.
Speaker 8: It's depressing.
Speaker 1: Hey, I got to ask you, Jack first. I would
Speaker 1: vote for you, but but just that generally, what do
Speaker 1: you do for a living? Because you're really good at this.
Speaker 8: Now I'm owned an engineering company that I sold a
Speaker 8: couple of years ago. I've called you many times back
Speaker 8: to the Soberman days.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I uh yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, I thought you sounded familiar, but you are really
Speaker 1: good at this. So you run, my friend, and I'll
Speaker 1: vote for you. Well, I mean that Denver needs somebody
Speaker 1: like you, and eventually Denver is going to have somebody
Speaker 1: like you, whoever you are.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I get told that a lot, but I appreciate that,
Speaker 8: and uh, we'll see maybe one day.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll look forward to one day. Okay, my friend,
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. Good caller.
Speaker 2: We need.
Speaker 1: We didn't make Jack a regular because we've got another
Speaker 1: regular name Jack, nice guy, but we need this Jack
Speaker 1: to be a regular.
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Speaker 1: popular demand or not. Jared Polus with Ross Kaminski managing
Speaker 1: to assault African Americans, Christians all same people, uh and
Speaker 1: tell five big whoppers.
Speaker 2: In one tight bite. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1: You know I got the World Cup and I got
Speaker 1: the Olympics.
Speaker 2: The two hundred and fifty years is not mine. I'd
Speaker 2: like to take credit.
Speaker 1: But I got the Olympics, I got the World Cup
Speaker 1: when I was president, and I said, well, it's too
Speaker 1: bad I won't be president.
Speaker 2: Then look what happened.
Speaker 4: I turned out. Now we're gonna have a great time.
Speaker 2: We're going to have a great celebration.
Speaker 6: But most important of all, it was the two hundred
Speaker 6: and fiftieth anniversary.
Speaker 4: That blows everything away, including the World Cup and including
Speaker 4: the Olympics as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 2: Wow, Yeah, President Trump.
Speaker 1: Within all of that, he was talking about how maybe
Speaker 1: it's good that he got the second term now rather
Speaker 1: than back in twenty twenty. Someday, let's devote maybe a
Speaker 1: segment or two to that. How would the world have
Speaker 1: been different? And do you think it's going to be
Speaker 1: better long term for America that he had the stagger
Speaker 1: term instead of consecutive terms. I think it's kind of
Speaker 1: a fun over a six pack kind of conversation. But
Speaker 1: if I'm on a game show and I've got to
Speaker 1: give an immediate answer, man, when you look at all
Speaker 1: the devastation in the world because he did not get
Speaker 1: consecutive terms, it'd be hard, it'd be hard to vote
Speaker 1: against consecutive terms. I mean, we never have the rape
Speaker 1: and pillaging of Ukraine. If he gets that second term,
Speaker 1: we don't have October seven, the horror of October seven.
Speaker 1: If he gets that second term consecutively, I mean, and
Speaker 1: then what happens if he gets the consecutive term. Obviously,
Speaker 1: he was doing so very well except for COVID right
Speaker 1: that he was cruising toward a massive reelection because of
Speaker 1: all the success and if he'd got a consecutive term
Speaker 1: that success continues, then almost certain he has a conservative successor.
Speaker 1: So I think the world would have been far better
Speaker 1: off if he had the consecutive terms.
Speaker 2: I'm really glad he's.
Speaker 1: There now, but a lot of the problems he's trying
Speaker 1: to solve right now wouldn't even exist if he'd head
Speaker 1: back to back terms.
Speaker 2: Is there any flaw in that logic? My friend?
Speaker 4: No, chemo sabi?
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you? What does chemo sabi mean? Anyway?
Speaker 3: I think we had this discussion once before in the
Speaker 3: program when we were wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look it up right now while I go
Speaker 1: to Rusty and Steadil. Though, I do have to tell you,
Speaker 1: I think one of the best callers of the year
Speaker 1: was Jack from Littleton, who was at the end of
Speaker 1: the last segment. If somebody's listening to the podcast, be
Speaker 1: sure you hear Jack from Littleton.
Speaker 2: Rusty, no pressure, you're on the dan Kapla. Sh'll welcome.
Speaker 8: You know, I'm gonna be better than him, gonna but
Speaker 8: I'm gonna.
Speaker 7: Be real short.
Speaker 8: I love it. So what I'm gonna say is, I
Speaker 8: think they ought to encompass fifteenth Street and seventeenth Street
Speaker 8: into the downtown area and call it the Stench Quarter.
Speaker 2: Okay, appreciate the call, Rusty. You know, being short is magnificent,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you right.
Speaker 1: I sometimes I fantasize about getting into a political race
Speaker 1: or something, and one of the things I dream about
Speaker 1: is just giving the shortest speeches ever. I mean, wouldn't
Speaker 1: that just be your straight path to the nomination and popularity?
Speaker 1: Because everybody they go to these dinners and short of
Speaker 1: the Good Lord himself coming down, you know, there's only
Speaker 1: so much you can listen to, and then everybody they
Speaker 1: get their shot at the mic, and you know we're
Speaker 1: all guilty of it. We just want to blow everybody away, yeh,
Speaker 1: blow them away by being short. Tell a couple of
Speaker 1: good jokes, make make an interesting point, go home sounds
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 4: Well. You described like Ronald Reagan. He was good at
Speaker 4: that kind.
Speaker 3: Of that quick quip and an anecdote, and you couldn't
Speaker 3: help but love him, and then famously in that debate
Speaker 3: with Walter Mondale got him cracking up.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: Well, it's like I go back to my seminary days
Speaker 1: and high school seminary days, and I still remember. Man,
Speaker 1: It's like it was ten minutes ago, father Augustine and
Speaker 1: I'm a sophomore, and I think we were talking about
Speaker 1: homilies or something, and he just said always leave him
Speaker 1: wanting more.
Speaker 2: And not recommending that for marriage.
Speaker 1: But when you're talking about hobbiies and things like that,
Speaker 1: I just thought it was.
Speaker 2: My mind just drifted.
Speaker 4: Oh I did it?
Speaker 2: Now, Dan, you have to.
Speaker 1: Understand, I've been in trial when I went straight from
Speaker 1: trial to the cabin to prepare for the next two trials,
Speaker 1: so I haven't seen my wife for like ten days.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 3: You're not going to turn into like Jack from The Shining,
Speaker 3: are you, because it's kind of a similar circumstance here.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no no no. I've got the wildlife
Speaker 2: and I shave every few days.
Speaker 4: Hey, do you have your number one fan there in
Speaker 4: the form of the bear today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, came back today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that time of year, there's a there's a
Speaker 1: deer must be deaf that comes by and we'll sit
Speaker 1: outside and listen.
Speaker 2: To the show.
Speaker 4: It's amazing.
Speaker 2: Probably wondering if I'm some kind of wounded animal.
Speaker 4: But you should post that on X a photo of
Speaker 4: said deer.
Speaker 2: Oh I already did that. Well, I will do that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I will do that. And I saw, I saw.
Speaker 1: I grew up in the city, right, so I'm I'm
Speaker 1: an expert. But I saw a baby elk yesterday that
Speaker 1: was smaller than a small dog and yet was still
Speaker 1: walking and everything. I wonder how big those things are
Speaker 1: when they're born. M because Amy was telling me a
Speaker 1: story a month or two ago about how how elk
Speaker 1: when they're delivering will chew on trees. And that's why
Speaker 1: you look at some of these trees around here in
Speaker 1: the bark's kind of torn that there's something in the
Speaker 1: bark then that will be a pain killer. But anyway, yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw a baby elk, I mean, smaller than a
Speaker 1: small dog.
Speaker 2: So yeah, no, it's wonderful.
Speaker 1: But all I'm saying is it's been a long time
Speaker 1: since I've seen my wife. Yeah, which is just what
Speaker 1: everybody tuned in for, right, So all right, well, great show.
Speaker 3: Other than the ending, No, I think the ending made it.
Speaker 3: You like spiked the football? There is she gonna go
Speaker 3: and see you? Are you remote tomorrow?
Speaker 1: Here's the plan. Everything pecked up as soon as this
Speaker 1: show ends. Okay, be a minute too soon. Under the car,
Speaker 1: got a conference call. I'll be home by seven point thirty.
Speaker 2: Oh and then oh and then on with life.
Speaker 3: So you'll have dinner with Amy then, I hope too. No,
Speaker 3: for sure okay.
Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, I just looked this up. Chemo Sabby.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there is a term of endearment, often translated
Speaker 1: as faithful friend or trusty scout.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's what I thought. And somebody called us out
Speaker 4: on that.
Speaker 1: You remember that, right, like like it was some kind
Speaker 1: of insult, yes or not? PC, No, Keemo Sabi is
Speaker 1: a good thing. You want to be a chemo sabi? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that's my goal in life now, just to be my
Speaker 1: wife's chemo Sabby. Let's get out of here while we
Speaker 1: still can. Hey, thank you, Kelly, thank you Ryan. Join
Speaker 1: us tomorrow on the Dencapla Show