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Speaker 2: Yeah, and a really.
Speaker 1: Important but sad question to ask, how soon until Denver
Speaker 1: just completely falls apart? And the reason I phrase it
Speaker 1: that way is we're talking about this very important letter
Speaker 1: to the mayor of Denver, and whether or not you
Speaker 1: care about Denver, that the principle applies, right, It's just
Speaker 1: things fall apart under the left, some sooner, some take longer.
Speaker 1: But in Denver's case, how long until it all falls apart?
Speaker 1: Because these very prominent restaurant owners who sent this letter
Speaker 1: to the mayor, and you're going to want to hear
Speaker 1: certain parts of it. You know, this isn't a bunch
Speaker 1: of conservatives, you know, this is a bunch of restaurant
Speaker 1: owners in downtown Denver, part of the core of Denver,
Speaker 1: a critical part of the core of Denver. And those
Speaker 1: are their words, downtown is completely falling apart. And then,
Speaker 1: of course we're not darkness cursors. We're candlelighters. So what
Speaker 1: is the fix? So want to talk about that. We
Speaker 1: know what the fix is not, which is Denver Mayor
Speaker 1: Mike Johnston's twenty percent service charge to tackle restaurant woes.
Speaker 2: And who would be paying that?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's the customers. And yeah, that's going
Speaker 1: to get more people downtown.
Speaker 2: Right. So we'll get to that in a second.
Speaker 1: But Ryan, what would you guess before we get into
Speaker 1: the meat of this story, pun intended?
Speaker 2: What would how many.
Speaker 1: Restaurants do you think have closed since twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4: That's interesting you bring that up, Dan, because in debt right,
Speaker 4: I just brought this to the attention of Chris Fusela,
Speaker 4: who used to run Blake Street tavern right by Corsfield there.
Speaker 4: I loved going there after games, and it was real
Speaker 4: tragedy that he had to close down. A lot had
Speaker 4: to do with the COVID restrictions in the aftermath of
Speaker 4: the pandemic U and he just didn't want to go
Speaker 4: public with commentary on this. He's kind of laying low
Speaker 4: and he wants to keep it that way. That's what
Speaker 4: he told me. But in addition to that one, Dan,
Speaker 4: I got to believe it's in the.
Speaker 2: Dozens four and twenty five.
Speaker 5: That's four score and seven years ago.
Speaker 1: That is a city that's falling apart, and it's falling
Speaker 1: apart because of leftist rule.
Speaker 2: It doesn't work.
Speaker 1: And i'd love and you're going to hear it in
Speaker 1: this story what one of the restaurant owners said. And
Speaker 1: again this isn't coming from the right, it's just right.
Speaker 1: And that is that that, Hey, this isn't a homeless problem,
Speaker 1: this is an addiction problem. And that's his quote. And
Speaker 1: it goes back to what I said long before we
Speaker 1: legalize marijuana. Listen, if you are going to now as
Speaker 1: the left, as as the left state widing in Denver,
Speaker 1: if you're now going to make Denver and Colorado the
Speaker 1: drug capital of the world, well you know what's coming,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be very, very ugly. And that
Speaker 1: is exactly what we have going on. So listen to this.
Speaker 1: I can't read the whole thing. Restaurant tours to cry
Speaker 1: a downtown that's quote completely falling apart.
Speaker 2: Downtown Denver.
Speaker 1: Restaurant tours say the area is completely falling apart quote
Speaker 1: unquote in an email letter sent to Mayor Mike Johnston,
Speaker 1: Jack's Fishouse, an oyster bar owner Dave Query, in a
Speaker 1: message co signed by others, it was actually fourteen others
Speaker 1: big timers ask how many more restaurants and small businesses
Speaker 1: need to close before your quota alarm is triggered. Quote
Speaker 1: you ran your entire campaign platform on restoring our downtown
Speaker 1: Denver business districts, said Query, founder of Big Red f
Speaker 1: Restaurant Group. Quote it has gotten worse since you took
Speaker 1: the position of mayor. Query cited unchecked fentanyl use enabled
Speaker 1: by soft policing legislation has reasons for a declining mile
Speaker 1: High food scene, which has lost twenty two percent of
Speaker 1: its restaurants since twenty twenty one. Thirteen other downtown operators
Speaker 1: co signed Query's letter, including then it goes into a
Speaker 1: long list of real big timers, including Troy Guard of
Speaker 1: tag Rush Group. And that's about as big as it gets.
Speaker 1: So it goes on to say, between the out of
Speaker 1: control minimum wage increases, over the top property tax hikes,
Speaker 1: and the complete loss and seeming care for our valuable
Speaker 1: and unique business districts, we are struggling for our lives
Speaker 1: to keep these restaurants alive. Query called downtown's traffic situation
Speaker 1: a quote catastrophic disaster, and then it goes on from
Speaker 1: there real quick.
Speaker 4: Addundant to that, Dan, I also reached out directly to
Speaker 4: Dave Query, who you were just quoting there by email
Speaker 4: all with free There you go with.
Speaker 5: An interview request to join the program. So I'll keep
Speaker 5: you updated on that as well.
Speaker 1: No, I'll look forward to that, because obviously this is
Speaker 1: nothing political. These are pillars of our community fighting for
Speaker 1: their economic survival. And what do you think happens when
Speaker 1: it reaches the tipping point? And all of that just
Speaker 1: starts to collapse?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: And as they write in the letter you got in interviews, okay,
Speaker 1: the people used to go downtown to restaurants and everything else.
Speaker 1: Now they're spreading out to other areas. And then they
Speaker 1: give some grot epic examples and everybody can picture it
Speaker 1: of some of the horrific things you see downtown. And
Speaker 1: I love his point that it's not a homeless problem,
Speaker 1: it's an addiction problem. And that's what the left doesn't
Speaker 1: want to talk about, right, is they talk about the homeless.
Speaker 1: And now we've just been one hundred million of your
Speaker 1: taxpayer money to throw some homeless in a motel for
Speaker 1: a few weeks. But what they don't want to talk
Speaker 1: about is how they got there. And it's the left's
Speaker 1: addiction to legalized drugs, because the left knows that the
Speaker 1: more drug depopulation is, the more dependent it is on government,
Speaker 1: and the more it's going to vote left. So that's
Speaker 1: what's unfolding here. Denver, Colorado did something back in twenty
Speaker 1: twelve that that no other city, I may be in
Speaker 1: human history, but but no other city in modern times
Speaker 1: had done Colorado did in legalizing marijuana the way it
Speaker 1: did it. And you then make this state the drug
Speaker 1: capital of America and Denver very proudly leading the charge,
Speaker 1: what haven't they legalized?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: And the latest was like mushrooms?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: Yea right to So yeah, so what do you think's
Speaker 2: going to happen?
Speaker 1: And that is what's happening because the drugs aren't going
Speaker 1: to stop with and even if they stopped with marijuana,
Speaker 1: it's more like Krakawana now due to the high potency,
Speaker 1: it's not going to stop there. You're going to get
Speaker 1: known for being a drug capital, a drug friendly capital,
Speaker 1: and that's who you're going to attract. And then good
Speaker 1: people here are going to get green lighted, and they're
Speaker 1: going to get into all that crap and then it
Speaker 1: just goes downhill the way it is. So, but Mayor
Speaker 1: Johnston is a fix. This is the Gazette, and boy,
Speaker 1: the Denver Gazette does great work. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston
Speaker 1: floats twenty percent service charge to tackle restaurant woes. Denver
Speaker 1: Mayor Mike Johnston wants to add a twenty percent service
Speaker 1: charge to local restaurant tabs and then tax it to
Speaker 1: help restaurants cope with the city's minimum wage and promote
Speaker 1: what he calls pay equity among tipped and non tipped employees. Well,
Speaker 1: that's the thing with the left, right, they're so determined
Speaker 1: to get equity and they're going to get it because
Speaker 1: everybody's going to be poor that that's the equity that
Speaker 1: they're going to get. And in a lot of ways
Speaker 1: that they probably don't mind, because what is the left? No, Ryan,
Speaker 1: They're not good at many things, but they're good at math,
Speaker 1: and they know that once people start making more than
Speaker 1: I think the current number is probably sixty five grand,
Speaker 1: then a majority are going to vote Republican. So the
Speaker 1: left has a vested interest in keeping lots of people
Speaker 1: from prospering. On Monday, Johnston told a Citycast Denver popular
Speaker 1: podcast that he has already been discussing the idea with
Speaker 1: restaurant owners. He didn't say whether they are on board.
Speaker 1: He also did not discuss if increasing people's dinner cost
Speaker 1: would decrease restaurant visits. Well, let's think about that for
Speaker 1: a second. You're going to increase their dinner costs by
Speaker 1: twenty percent, and then you're going to tax it on
Speaker 1: top of that. You know, I think that's going to
Speaker 1: cause a lot more people to want to go downtown
Speaker 1: to eat, right because I mean where else is, say, Ryan,
Speaker 1: say you go out to the Shooling Estate or you
Speaker 1: go out to Cherry Creek or somewhere like that to eat.
Speaker 1: You're not going to get to see naked people running
Speaker 1: around doing naked people's things outside the restaurant.
Speaker 2: You're not going to get.
Speaker 1: To see just like public urination and defecation and all
Speaker 1: that other stuff. So you're not going to go out
Speaker 1: to Cherry Creek or Northlands or anything else. You're heading
Speaker 1: right downtown to pay that extra twenty five percent.
Speaker 4: It makes no sense whatsoever, and it explains why in
Speaker 4: the Denveright article and seems like they like doing favors
Speaker 4: for Mayor Mike Johnson. I might add that he's backpedaling
Speaker 4: off of that and trying to put it on the businesses.
Speaker 4: They No, I just want to give them the option
Speaker 4: to do that, and you know, I'm just trying to
Speaker 4: help and empower them to make that decision and choice,
Speaker 4: which sounded a lot different than his initial salvo on
Speaker 4: the issue.
Speaker 1: But we see so much of this goofiness for him,
Speaker 1: and I pose this question not with any kind of negativity,
Speaker 1: just a very fair question. And it's it's kind of
Speaker 1: like during the campaign when I kept saying to people
Speaker 1: who said Joe Biden is Joe Bidenett, and I kept saying,
Speaker 1: obviously he's not going to be there, He's not going
Speaker 1: to be their candidate and election day and people looked
Speaker 1: at me like I was crazy. Is it fair right
Speaker 1: now to ask whether elected officials in cities and states
Speaker 1: that have legalized marijuana are using Is that a fair question,
Speaker 1: especially when they say goofy stuff like we're sending the
Speaker 1: cops out to fight the Feds at the border Tenneman Square.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's just get twenty percent more tax on restaurants?
Speaker 2: Is that a fair question?
Speaker 1: I'd like to hear from people three h three someone
Speaker 1: three eight two five five text d an five seven
Speaker 1: seven three nine. I don't know whether Mike Johnston uses
Speaker 1: THC or not. I truly don't, But is it a
Speaker 1: fair question when you're mayor of a city where it's
Speaker 1: legalized and glorified and you keep saying all this bat.
Speaker 2: Bat playing crazy stuff. You're on the Dankplas Show.
Speaker 5: And now back to the dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Did you ever have that happen? Round?
Speaker 5: What happened? What do you talk to a song?
Speaker 2: And how did that song pop into your head?
Speaker 4: From the earlier story about the strippers getting ripped off
Speaker 4: by their employers allegedly, yeah.
Speaker 1: Kind of a delayed reaction, but that's okay, better late
Speaker 1: than never. Yeah, we were talking about this story the
Speaker 1: auditor in Denver saying the strippers have been ripped off
Speaker 1: to the tune of fourteen million.
Speaker 2: The club's saying absolutely not.
Speaker 1: Audit are saying strippers have to pay to work there
Speaker 1: and that that ain't right. So we'll see how all
Speaker 1: of this unfolds for everyone to see. But at the moment,
Speaker 1: we're talking about this very prominent group of Denver restaurant tours.
Speaker 1: We're not talking about some conservative organization just saying it's
Speaker 1: falling apart, that Denver is falling apart around them, and
Speaker 1: we have some more quotes from that. But then we're
Speaker 1: also talking about Mike Johnston's brilliant idea for a fix,
Speaker 1: which is increase everybody's tax by twenty percent and then
Speaker 1: text that increase, you know, to help offset some of
Speaker 1: the revenue loss for the restaurants. And you have to
Speaker 1: wonder what school of economics did these lefties study yet,
Speaker 1: I mean, or is the idea that they're going to
Speaker 1: pass the law forcing people to go to these downtown
Speaker 1: Denver restaurants to eat under threat of criminal prosecution, kind
Speaker 1: of like you have to lie on medical forms now
Speaker 1: about whether somebody's a male or female, or you're going
Speaker 1: to get charged under this new bill. Texter says, then
Speaker 1: I'll get to a will in Evergreen, Dan. I think
Speaker 1: you just don't get it, because you cannot think as
Speaker 1: brilliantly as a liberal does. If they raise taxes and
Speaker 1: charges enough on everybody, they'll be bringing in huge amounts
Speaker 1: of revenue and then they can have that money to
Speaker 1: give back to everybody and we will all have wealth
Speaker 1: beyond measure. Yeah, now I think you nail that they're Texter, Dan.
Speaker 1: That just means when I go to eating Denver, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to bother leaving a tip. It will save
Speaker 1: me five percent. That's one of the saddest texts I've
Speaker 1: seen in a long time. I personally think is a
Speaker 1: guy who worked for tips as a caddy, as a
Speaker 1: bartender and everything else. That it's I really think, don't
Speaker 1: you Ryan. It's it's almost the very best money any
Speaker 1: of us can ever spend. Because the people were tipping,
Speaker 1: we know they're out there working hard. You know, well
Speaker 1: at least some of it goes directly to them, So
Speaker 1: I know that Texter is in jest.
Speaker 5: Kind of man.
Speaker 4: They one additional thing to that too, Dan, That made
Speaker 4: me think about this. If they're tacking on twenty percent,
Speaker 4: I have no say in it. You know, tip is
Speaker 4: earned and it's not automatically given, nor should it be
Speaker 4: in my view, because, like you, I have worked for
Speaker 4: tips and busting my rear in and I like when
Speaker 4: that's rewarded. But if somebody provides less than adequate service,
Speaker 4: then I think the consumers should have a right to
Speaker 4: either not tip or tip a lower amount as well. Now,
Speaker 4: in addition to that, I've had conversations with delivery drivers.
Speaker 5: I've even spoken to my own brother.
Speaker 4: Who works for Domino's Pizza Corporate and in Arbor, Michigan,
Speaker 4: they're slapping on these delivery fees like three four five dollars,
Speaker 4: And I tell the drivers that makes me less inclined
Speaker 4: to tip on top of that number, because what's going
Speaker 4: on here. I'm paying for it much.
Speaker 5: For the tip as I am for the pizza itself.
Speaker 2: And a lot of people just can't afford that.
Speaker 1: But I think what they sense, and I think they're right,
Speaker 1: is this major shift in society now where so many
Speaker 1: of us have been conditioned to paying these enormous fees
Speaker 1: to have food delivered because then it saves our time, right,
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people are just making
Speaker 1: the calculation that that's worth it. This texture says, but eventually, right,
Speaker 1: that's going to stop because it's too expensive. You can't
Speaker 1: do that indefinitely. This texture says no sympathy for the
Speaker 1: Denver restaurant owners. They voted for it. I have zero sympathy,
Speaker 1: and it's been years since I've been downtown.
Speaker 2: I have a ton of sympathy for these Denver restaurant
Speaker 2: owners because I've never owned a restaurant.
Speaker 1: But anybody knows that industry, knows that you won't find
Speaker 1: harder working people anywhere, and there's such they're so critical
Speaker 1: just to enjoyment of any area, in this case downtown,
Speaker 1: And so I've got a lot of sympathy for them.
Speaker 1: And they deliver, right, And isn't this America right?
Speaker 3: Ryan?
Speaker 1: If you're a restaurant, if you're a restaurant and you're
Speaker 1: not the only restaurant in town, you've got to be
Speaker 1: good and you've got to deliver. You got to keep
Speaker 1: delivering or you'll be out of business quickly.
Speaker 2: So I have a lot of respect for these folks,
Speaker 2: no matter what their politics are. They've been in a
Speaker 2: dog eat dog business. Hopefully not serving no. No, they've
Speaker 2: been in.
Speaker 1: This dog eat dog business and they have made it
Speaker 1: because they've delivered a good product year after year after year.
Speaker 2: But they can't help it. Listen to this quote.
Speaker 1: This is from the restaurant owner Jax, who led the
Speaker 1: charge and the other fourteen signed the letter. Restaurant owners
Speaker 1: talking about how when they started in nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 1: No one got stabbed on the sixteenth Street mall in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six. We were not cleaning human blank off our
Speaker 1: patios in front door vestibules every morning. We didn't have
Speaker 1: fentanyl zombies walking around scaring and threatening our guests and tourists.
Speaker 2: And that's the reality of Denver. And I got to
Speaker 2: tell you, my brother.
Speaker 1: Then the city responds, well, we're doing this five hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy million cash infusion downtown. That is wasted money
Speaker 1: until you get rid of the drug issue. You made
Speaker 1: Denver the drug capital of the world. Until you reverse that,
Speaker 1: you could spend five hundred and seventy billion, and you're
Speaker 1: not going to get people down there. And I've been
Speaker 1: talking about that for years, so they can keep deluting themselves.
Speaker 1: Denials not just a river in Egypt. Will and Evergreen.
Speaker 1: You're on the Dan Caplis show.
Speaker 3: Welcome, Good after, Mila Wan, How are you?
Speaker 2: I am living the dream? How about you?
Speaker 3: Likewise? My friend? Likewise listen. I want to thank both
Speaker 3: you and I and for the coverage of the Jefferson
Speaker 3: County school debacle. That is, and as a dad of
Speaker 3: three teenagers that are currently in the Jefferson County school System.
Speaker 3: Obviously got some concerns, But my question is kind of
Speaker 3: two part for you specific thanks so much. As you've
Speaker 3: got a superintendent that serves at the pleasure of and
Speaker 3: I think if that's an empty word, pleasure of the
Speaker 3: school board, and then you've got a school board that
Speaker 3: quite frankly is in the pocket of.
Speaker 2: The teachers' union.
Speaker 3: It creates a bit of a conundrum that what I'm
Speaker 3: calling and wanting to ask of you, sir, is you
Speaker 3: know what options do we have outside of recalling the
Speaker 3: school board of essentially holding you know, these officials accountable.
Speaker 3: You know the the unfortunate nature obviously, and you know
Speaker 3: the stories that have been coming out recently, and I've
Speaker 3: been following Mendsey Dato, who's done amazing work. Thank you
Speaker 3: for providing that is as a concerned parent, again, back
Speaker 3: to anything short of recalling the school board, is what
Speaker 3: can we do as parents to start holding these officials accountable? Because,
Speaker 3: as the cliche goes, the fish stands from the head
Speaker 3: to the tail, not the opposite. Yeah, and I just
Speaker 3: feel powerless as to what's going on right now. I
Speaker 3: don't know what options we have.
Speaker 1: Well, that's a great question. And the good news is
Speaker 1: I think there's lots that parents can do. The bad
Speaker 1: news is it's a monstrous amount of work, but it
Speaker 1: can succeed. And I've got some specific things in mind.
Speaker 1: I'll get you right after this news break, very concrete things,
Speaker 1: step by step. But Lindsey Detco and her group have
Speaker 1: proven you can succeed out there, right. I mean, look
Speaker 1: what they accomplished when it came to the mask and
Speaker 1: that whole tragedy in Jeffco. What was being done to
Speaker 1: kids out there during COVID. They've succeeded on lots of
Speaker 1: different issues. But I think there is a roadmap here
Speaker 1: to success. It's just going to take a ton of work.
Speaker 1: And in the few seconds we have before this break
Speaker 1: or do we have left?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: Okay, yep, in it, I'm remote, so I'm not hearing
Speaker 2: the outro music here, so I'll get into some of
Speaker 2: the specifics after the break. And by the way, we
Speaker 2: have we have the mother of.
Speaker 1: That fifteen year old girl who that teacher at Columbine
Speaker 1: went after and then others in the school helped to
Speaker 1: have her declared homeless so she could move in with
Speaker 1: the teacher.
Speaker 2: The mother will be in studio with us on Monday,
Speaker 2: so please be with us.
Speaker 1: And when we come back, step by step concrete what
Speaker 1: can be done to overcome?
Speaker 2: And Jeff go, you're on the Dan caps Show.
Speaker 5: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Well, kid, are we going to see who is on
Speaker 2: the flights? Are we going to see any evidence from
Speaker 2: what he recorded? Because he had all of his homes.
Speaker 5: Wired with recording devices.
Speaker 6: What you're going to see, hopefully tomorrow is a lot
Speaker 6: of flight logs, a lot of names at a lot
Speaker 6: of information. But it's pretty sick what that man did. Okay,
Speaker 6: well along with his co defendant.
Speaker 4: Absolutely and he had help, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Did Yeah, that's Jesse Waters with Pam Bondi And we
Speaker 1: expected a lot of Epstein file release today and there
Speaker 1: appeared to be just kind of a smattering distributed in
Speaker 1: kind of an awkward way. So Pam Bondi writes a
Speaker 1: letter to cash Betel's FBI demanding that the full files
Speaker 1: be turned over quickly. This is not a cash Ptel issue.
Speaker 1: This is apparently an issue with some other offices in
Speaker 1: the FBI. But he's in charge now, so I expect
Speaker 1: we'll get to the bottom of it. So on Epstein, listen.
Speaker 1: I think the key is the full truth has to
Speaker 1: be out there because one of the things, there are
Speaker 1: only very few things that can take America down right,
Speaker 1: and it can only be done from the inside. But
Speaker 1: if you have if people lose confidence in the justice system,
Speaker 1: believe there are two justice systems, one for the rich
Speaker 1: and powerful, the people on the left, and then the
Speaker 1: other for the rest of us. That's how a country
Speaker 1: can fall apart.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: The election of Donald Trump for a second term was
Speaker 1: part of a pushback against this Banana Republic thing. So
Speaker 1: the full truth about Epstein has to be told. With
Speaker 1: two exceptions. You have got to be able to fully
Speaker 1: protect the victims. So you've got to go through those
Speaker 1: files and make sure you're not releasing any victim identities
Speaker 1: unless they want it out there. And then two, you've
Speaker 1: got to make sure that if there are innocent people
Speaker 1: whose names just pop up in some other context, that
Speaker 1: they're protected because that's just basic human decency, right. Anybody
Speaker 1: involved in this mass rape of children, well they've got
Speaker 1: to be fully exposed and fully prosecuted. So and all
Speaker 1: that needs to happen quickly, but it has to be
Speaker 1: done right. I don't think it makes a difference if
Speaker 1: it's in a week or if it's in a month,
Speaker 1: as long as it happens fully and it's done right.
Speaker 1: Three oh three someone three eight two five five text
Speaker 1: d A N five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2: Hey. Just before the break it a great color guy
Speaker 2: named Will from Evergreen a.
Speaker 1: Jeffco's school parent, and he was calling to say, man,
Speaker 1: I feel helpless.
Speaker 2: I mean, what can we do as parents?
Speaker 1: And his take was, the school board is in the
Speaker 1: pocket of the teachers' unions and it's a it's one
Speaker 1: big and I'm paraphrasing loosely lefty kind of thing. What
Speaker 1: can parents do? And I understand the frustration because you know, obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, voting the wrong people out of office, the
Speaker 1: right people in all of that, But that takes a
Speaker 1: lot of time, and it can be really tough in
Speaker 1: some areas.
Speaker 2: Is but obviously got to try to do it.
Speaker 1: But short term, I would suggest that people do what
Speaker 1: Lindsay Detcow has done, and what some others have done,
Speaker 1: and what the brave mother of this child, this fifteen
Speaker 1: year old who was set upon by this female teacher
Speaker 1: over twenty thousand texts, and then the female teacher working
Speaker 1: with others at the school to have this child from
Speaker 1: a wonderful home declared.
Speaker 2: Homeless so she could be moved in with the teacher
Speaker 2: is sees on that issue.
Speaker 1: Do everything in your power within the system to put
Speaker 1: pressure on the school board, on the school district, on
Speaker 1: the DA's office to fully investigate and reveal their findings
Speaker 1: and to the extent no actions taken. Explain why why
Speaker 1: haven't there been any criminal charges brought? You know, why
Speaker 1: hasn't anybody been fired? I think you've got to keep
Speaker 1: the pressure on this issue because this is an issue
Speaker 1: that crosses party lines. Right, this isn't left or right,
Speaker 1: it's just right or wrong. And everybody can see how
Speaker 1: wrong this is. The principles admitted it was very wrong
Speaker 1: and that it haunts them. Well, then why is everybody
Speaker 1: still there? And for every one of these young ladies
Speaker 1: or men that we find out about, how many other
Speaker 1: victims are there we never find out about? So yeah,
Speaker 1: please seize on that issue. Do everything you can within
Speaker 1: the system to force full investigation and a full public report,
Speaker 1: and if there should be prosecutions, and I think most
Speaker 1: of us looking from the outside. Think, boy there really
Speaker 1: should be make sure they happen.
Speaker 2: That's the kind of accountability that I think can help
Speaker 2: break through, because this is an issue that is broken through.
Speaker 2: Hopefully Sean Boyd, who did a tremendous story on it
Speaker 2: at News for really great journalists, you know, hopefully Channel
Speaker 2: four stays on the story. Others pick it up. We'll
Speaker 2: have the mother.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned of this girl, and it was fifteen
Speaker 1: when this started. She was fifteen star students, star athlete,
Speaker 1: and it just got so bad that now the mother's
Speaker 1: just trying to get her back home. You know that
Speaker 1: this young lady ends up and I view the young
Speaker 1: lady my own constitutionally protected opinion. I view the young
Speaker 1: lady as a victim. You know, she ends up moving
Speaker 1: in with this teacher right after she graduates. The teacher
Speaker 1: moves out of state. If the mom just wants to
Speaker 1: get her baby home, and the mother of this girl
Speaker 1: will be with us in studio on Monday, I hope
Speaker 1: you join us then three three someone three eight two
Speaker 1: five five text d An five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 1: A couple of texts here. I have to disagree with Ryan, one,
Speaker 1: says Dan. The word is not restaurant tours. It's restaurant tours.
Speaker 1: That seems a little picky to me. Plus it's Chicago.
Speaker 4: Right in your accent really resembles mine in the Upper Midwest.
Speaker 4: But what I would say to that is, I think
Speaker 4: there are two different terms restaurant tour. Like you're saying,
Speaker 4: is somebody that runs a restaurant a restaurant, or would
Speaker 4: be somebody that frequents her dines.
Speaker 5: At a restaurant.
Speaker 2: I would think, right, no, it's not restaurant or even I.
Speaker 5: Know that well, is that what they're saying in the text?
Speaker 1: Yea, that it should be restaurant or not restaurant tour.
Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to be fancy saying restaurant tour.
Speaker 2: That's just the word.
Speaker 4: Kelly has right now. I'm not sure why Kelly gus
Speaker 4: she's getting really ornery.
Speaker 2: First of all, I worked in hospitality for almost nine years.
Speaker 5: It's restaurant tour.
Speaker 2: Right, it is exactly exactly correct, correct, thank you.
Speaker 1: That's one of my few regrets in life is that
Speaker 1: I've never worked as a waiter. I mean, I worked
Speaker 1: as a janitor, cleaning bathrooms and a chemical plant years
Speaker 1: as a cat he one of the greatest jobs on
Speaker 1: the planet. But I never worked as a waiter, and
Speaker 1: I really do want to do that.
Speaker 2: One of these days. So yeah, but.
Speaker 1: I might have to do it out of town. You know,
Speaker 1: it might shake the confidence of my client if all
Speaker 1: of a sudden I'm their waiter.
Speaker 2: It's center.
Speaker 5: You talked about driving uber and doing the same thing, all.
Speaker 2: The same thing. I really want to do that. I
Speaker 2: know you do some of that, right, I.
Speaker 4: Have in the past. Yeah, thankfully I haven't had two
Speaker 4: of late.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and our son, our son Joe, has done some
Speaker 1: of that too. Still getting through law school, doing a
Speaker 1: heck of a job with it. Dan It Oh, here's
Speaker 1: a text I strongly disagree with. Seem like you are
Speaker 1: almost promoting those places, referring to the downtown Denver restaurants
Speaker 1: complaining about Mike Johnston. Maybe they should have been paid more,
Speaker 1: but I hope they are all shut down, the owners
Speaker 1: of the lowest of the low That that is the
Speaker 1: most bizarre text I think we've ever received, because you
Speaker 1: look at these downtown Denver restaurant owners and they're they're courageous,
Speaker 1: and they're coming out and they're speaking out, and they're
Speaker 1: saying it's completely falling apart down here. You're not talking
Speaker 1: about a bunch of conservatives or anything, but my goodness,
Speaker 1: I mean talk about a group of folks we should admire, right,
Speaker 1: And I assume that they're most are, if not all,
Speaker 1: our Democrats and this and that. I'm just saying, these
Speaker 1: are people who who succeed based on merit. Because if
Speaker 1: you have a restaurant in any kind of competitive place
Speaker 1: and you aren't real good, you aren't lasting. So year
Speaker 1: after year after year, they have competed, they provided this
Speaker 1: great service, they provided a lot of jobs. And let's
Speaker 1: face it, Ryan, a city of town whatever, you can
Speaker 1: lose a lot of different types of businesses and maybe
Speaker 1: keep going. You cannot lose your good restaurants, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: who's going to go there? So no, I admire the
Speaker 1: heck out of these people because they compete, they win,
Speaker 1: they prove it, they work hard, and they are pillars
Speaker 1: of the community no matter what their politics are. So
Speaker 1: the fact they're standing up and saying it's all falling apart, man,
Speaker 1: and I.
Speaker 5: Just don't understand the logic here, Dan, I mean, I
Speaker 5: go downtown.
Speaker 4: I was downtown last night to see Ari Shaffer the
Speaker 4: comedian comedy works downtown, and there's a couple of nice bars.
Speaker 4: I like, going downtown is a little bit more of
Speaker 4: a hassle, the parking, etc.
Speaker 5: The other kind of extracurriculars.
Speaker 4: Shall we say that you sometimes encounter that we talked
Speaker 4: about earlier in the program. But you're right, it needs
Speaker 4: to be an incentive to come downtown for those of
Speaker 4: us that live out in the burbs like you and me.
Speaker 4: I live in Greenwood Village, and you know, I got
Speaker 4: Ocean Prime right there, I got Del Frisco's right there,
Speaker 4: I got Shanahan's right there.
Speaker 5: You know, why not just go there? I do?
Speaker 1: And well, I think the big difference is you don't
Speaker 1: have the young people, right I mean.
Speaker 5: Where I am, or downtown, well.
Speaker 2: In the tech center, I mean downtown, you do.
Speaker 1: But listen, if I was you know, if I was
Speaker 1: still thirty or thirty five or whatever, I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: hanging out in the suburbs.
Speaker 2: Right, you know, I'd want to be downtown.
Speaker 1: I'd want to be downtown where people my own age
Speaker 1: and everything else.
Speaker 4: But what I'm saying is if you tack on the
Speaker 4: twenty percent crap, then people are going to be even
Speaker 4: less likely to go down town, not more likely.
Speaker 2: No, that that's right.
Speaker 1: And then there's another story that ties into it, maybe
Speaker 1: for tomorrow, which is, you know, Mayor Johnston still won't
Speaker 1: order the city workers back into their.
Speaker 2: Offices full time.
Speaker 1: So you've got this floundering inner city, this floundering downtown
Speaker 1: Denver and he won't even order the workers back in.
Speaker 1: But you know, here's an interesting text, and we got
Speaker 1: to pop this break.
Speaker 3: Dan.
Speaker 2: This is referring to the strippers Denver claiming they've been
Speaker 2: underpaid fourteen million DAN workers in other situations pay to
Speaker 2: work at a location, barber's, hairdressers and new salon workers,
Speaker 2: why not the strippers, and then making the allegation these
Speaker 2: places are front for sex trafficking, which which I have
Speaker 2: no evidence to support, but I am not making that claim.
Speaker 2: So that's interesting, is it is it wrong to charge strippers?
Speaker 2: And that's the allegation clubs haven't admitted it to pay
Speaker 2: to work there. You're on the Dan Capla.
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Speaker 7: Then being for that, we're going to need you voice
Speaker 7: there because with this and we're seeing that, you know,
Speaker 7: I see the what's wrong?
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, lord boy, what a bullet we dodged?
Speaker 2: Can you what do you think it would look like
Speaker 2: right now? If somehow, and it was never going to happen,
Speaker 2: but if somehow Harrison Walls had won, what do you
Speaker 2: think it would look like?
Speaker 5: Like Soviet Russia? A little bit?
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, yeah, I mean, but but think about
Speaker 1: think about how looney you have to be to say
Speaker 1: what he just said?
Speaker 2: Right, I mean? But anyway eight.
Speaker 1: Five five zero five eight two five five the number
Speaker 1: text d A N five seven seven three nine. The
Speaker 1: good news for America is that most of the left,
Speaker 1: including in very high ranking positions like his, is just
Speaker 1: as looney, and a lot of them have done a
Speaker 1: better job of hiding it. But now they're starting to
Speaker 1: come out into the open right because they're getting pressured
Speaker 1: by the big money on the left to quote fight back, well, well,
Speaker 1: how by taking these twenty positions eighty twenty issues against you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what the big money left is insisting on.
Speaker 2: And that's great because it's opening more eyes to just
Speaker 2: how goofy the left is.
Speaker 1: Now how long do you think it's going to take
Speaker 1: in Colorado? And it's a recurring team here, but it's
Speaker 1: going to be on the docket.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow as well. Is how long is it going to take.
Speaker 1: Till Republicans start winning big again in Colorado?
Speaker 2: If ever? And what would it take? And do you
Speaker 2: think we'll ever have.
Speaker 1: A Republican mayor of Denver because obviously Denver is failing
Speaker 1: and there are plenty of great people there, etc.
Speaker 2: But it's failing. I mean, these restaurant owners said it.
Speaker 1: Downtown's completely falling apart. Do you think we'll ever have
Speaker 1: a Republican mayor?
Speaker 5: Doubtful, but maybe a less bad Democrat one.
Speaker 4: I can name one in Detroit, Mike Duggan, who's done
Speaker 4: a really good job in Detroit and he's pondering a
Speaker 4: run as an independent for governor there. So maybe somebody
Speaker 4: along those lines.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet you we will have a Republican meyrit.
Speaker 1: They just won't say the Republican there you go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I bet you we will.
Speaker 2: We have to right eventually, because obviously it just keeps
Speaker 2: crumbling under the left, and so that's gonna have to happen.
Speaker 2: And I think something like these courageous restaurant owners speaking
Speaker 2: out is kind of a tipping point moment, because you
Speaker 2: know you're going to have people like that get together
Speaker 2: and they're going to seek out their own candidate, et cetera.
Speaker 2: And then you really will have somebody.
Speaker 1: Who's going to, you know, just not register as a Republican,
Speaker 1: but be that, be that in philosophy, be that in approach,
Speaker 1: et cetera.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think that day's coming state wide.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll keep talking about that and speaking about you know,
Speaker 1: lefties are under pressure now to reveal how kooky they
Speaker 1: really are this business. Check it out at Dan Caplos
Speaker 1: on Twitter where you've got Hickey Looper.
Speaker 2: He's up in Colorado.
Speaker 1: Right, there's no buzz about this Senate race right now,
Speaker 1: but Hicckenlooper's up in Colorado in this cycle, and he's
Speaker 1: pushing a bill that would prevent ice from detaining illegal
Speaker 1: immigrants at polling places. Right, So I mean talk about
Speaker 1: exhibit A and if you don't believe me, you can
Speaker 1: actually see the bill at Dan Caplis at Twitter.
Speaker 2: So what do you think his campaign's going to look like? Okay,
Speaker 2: how old is John?
Speaker 1: Not unless he is a nice fella, he's nice to
Speaker 1: be around. But even when he was young, he was
Speaker 1: old I mean, how old is he now, and what
Speaker 1: is that campaign going to look.
Speaker 4: Like he turns seventy three on February seventh or nineteen
Speaker 4: fifty two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, wow.
Speaker 1: Be very You think he'll get challenged, You think he'll
Speaker 1: get challenged by one of these younger Democrats because they've
Speaker 1: got to realize at this point they've been played for fools,
Speaker 1: right is you got all of this morally superior talk
Speaker 1: about Dei and everything else.
Speaker 2: From the left, and then look at Colorado.
Speaker 1: Three of the four top jobs are held by boring,
Speaker 1: old white guys, and then you got Jenna Riswald. So yeah,
Speaker 1: do you think anybody's going to take them on and say,
Speaker 1: wait a second, we're just being played for fool.
Speaker 4: If there is a primary challenge to John Hickenlooper, dan
Speaker 4: I guarantee it'll to come from his left. Politically, it
Speaker 4: will not be a moderate Democrat he claims.
Speaker 5: To be that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, right, And you know, I understand he gets
Speaker 1: away with that more than most of these Democrats anymore.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it'll be very interesting to see that, interesting
Speaker 1: to see it in the governor's race too. Have any
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember any Democrats announced for governor.
Speaker 2: At this point, I think Bill Weiser, oh, Phil Wise,
Speaker 2: yeah right right, oh yeah, that's big water cooler talk.
Speaker 5: Right, How could you forget failed on the life?
Speaker 2: How could you possibly?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And just like Phil Wiser has forgotten the students of
Speaker 1: Colorado or being sexually abused by teachers, right, shouldn't that
Speaker 1: be like a five alarm fire? And most of the
Speaker 1: teachers are wonderful, it's no reflection on them, but we
Speaker 1: do have a crisis of sexual abuse of students in
Speaker 1: our schools. And Phil Weiser won't touch it. Polish won't
Speaker 1: touch it. Why because the teachers' unions are the sacred
Speaker 1: cow of the Democratic parties, so you can see where
Speaker 1: their priorities are.
Speaker 2: But yeah, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Commonly assumed that if Joe no Goose wants it, he's
Speaker 1: going to be the Democrat nominee.
Speaker 5: He'd be tough. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think that's just the common assumption. So maybe everybody's
Speaker 2: just waiting to see what he does. Anyway, let's do tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Please don't forget that the courageous mom of that Columbine
Speaker 1: student she's trying to get back, will join us Monday
Speaker 1: in studio.
Speaker 2: We'll have a Fun Show tomorrow. Thank you Ryan, Thank
Speaker 2: you Kelly. Be safe tonight. Join us together please tomorrow
Speaker 2: on The Dan Kapla Show