WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.520 This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast 2 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:05.719 edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to 3 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:08.240 give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind, 4 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:11.599 and to subscribe, download, and listen to the show every 5 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:14.439 single day on your favorite podcast platform. 6 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:17.559 What a beautiful day to fight? Huh. 7 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:21.399 It's just something like spring. I mean, every nice days nice, right, 8 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:25.000 but there's something like those first few really nice days, 9 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:27.600 and yeah, it's going to cool off over the weekend, 10 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:30.000 but at least we're getting some of these now, right. 11 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:32.439 So I think we're falling into that time of you're right, 12 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:34.719 where it's going to pop up and down and then 13 00:00:34.759 --> 00:00:37.240 the trend line will gradually get better and it's light 14 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:40.079 out every day and my life is good. Eight five 15 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:42.799 five four zero five eight two five five The number 16 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:45.119 text d A N five seven seven through nine. If 17 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:48.280 you just joined, thank you. We're talking at the moment 18 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:52.159 about the Sixteenth Street Mall and kind of the doom 19 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:56.479 spiral it's been in since Colorado legalized marijuana and since 20 00:00:56.520 --> 00:01:00.439 other lefty pro criminal policies, et cetera made it a 21 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:03.200 place people don't want to go, and the left just 22 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:06.120 won't face that reality, right, So they keep trying to 23 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:09.400 put perfume on a pig with taxpayer money and other monies, 24 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:12.400 and then it reaches kind of a new level of 25 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:17.319 enjoyable absurdity. Can you go trademark that for me? Enjoyable absurdity? 26 00:01:17.879 --> 00:01:19.640 Should that be the new name of the show? But 27 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:24.280 see it reaches this new level in this story. We're 28 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:28.040 about to play you off of KUSA where they try 29 00:01:28.079 --> 00:01:31.719 to blame the failure of the mall on the right. 30 00:01:31.879 --> 00:01:35.599 On conservatives for misleading people. 31 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:40.519 That's the implication misleading people into believing it's dangerous down there. 32 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:44.079 And I know, I mean, you'd never conclude that from 33 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:46.760 the flight attendant him in her throat slit and broad 34 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:49.519 daylight and dying on the mall on a Saturday as 35 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:50.599 she visits from Phoenix. 36 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:52.519 It never concluded from any of. 37 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:56.359 That kind of stuff, right, So it's fascinating that they 38 00:01:56.519 --> 00:02:00.200 just won't admit the root cause and they continue you 39 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:01.120 to just try. 40 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:02.439 To put perfume on the pig. 41 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:05.120 And one of the questions I'll have for you at 42 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:06.680 the end of this so I play this more for 43 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:09.680 your own enjoyment on the way home, But at the. 44 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:12.439 End of the day, is it ever going to change, or. 45 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:16.400 Will it just be this downhill spiral until it all 46 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:21.599 is just like Armageddon? Or at some point is Denver 47 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:23.919 going to elect a Republican? Now it won't be somebody 48 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:26.039 who's labeled a Republican, right, it would have to be 49 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:29.319 somebody who says they're unaffiliated but they're really a conservative. 50 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:32.520 Is Denver ever going to be willing to. 51 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:33.919 Do that to save itself? 52 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:38.080 So enjoy the story, Denver Sixteenth Street Mall has some 53 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:43.240 real problems. First off, Americans general disinterest in spaces like 54 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:45.080 that that used to be far more popular. 55 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:50.479 Do you mind if I stop you there, Ryan? 56 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:55.199 I just did a quick little mental survey of all 57 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:59.879 the places I've been on cases and on vacation where 58 00:02:59.919 --> 00:03:02.680 there are areas like the sixteen Street. 59 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:05.280 Mall that are thriving. Can I name one day? You 60 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:08.759 could name twenty the Riverwalk in San Antonio? There's one 61 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:11.639 for you. There's one for you. I mean, I'm trying 62 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:15.840 to think of a city that doesn't have one. I 63 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:18.599 mean that they're thriving all over America. 64 00:03:18.719 --> 00:03:21.400 The Magmiele and Chicago still even well say. 65 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:22.759 I would quitval with you on that. 66 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:26.199 I think the lefty policies have it's worst destroyed that. 67 00:03:26.479 --> 00:03:29.000 I think they have had the pro crime stuff and 68 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:31.479 not great. Yeah, I think they've destroyed that one. But 69 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:34.879 but yeah, no, there are plenty of these that are thriving. 70 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:37.840 You cannot take Denver off the hook once you decide. 71 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:39.800 I mean, what did Denver used to be known as? 72 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:43.520 How did you envision Denver before you actually came here? 73 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:44.319 Oh? 74 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:46.960 Like it used to be, right, and I it was 75 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:50.599 thirty years ago, might maybe much more like Billings, Montana was, 76 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:51.960 And that's what I was described like. 77 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:53.960 It'd be like a bigger version of Billings where I 78 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:54.520 had worked before. 79 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:55.439 And I'm like, well, that's great. 80 00:03:55.520 --> 00:03:55.759 Yeah. 81 00:03:56.759 --> 00:03:59.800 Envisioned it as a city of great use and health, 82 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:02.840 and Colorado was known as the state of health, and 83 00:04:02.840 --> 00:04:05.280 now it's known as the state of drugs, and Denver's 84 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:06.800 known as the drug capital of the world. 85 00:04:07.159 --> 00:04:07.800 I remember as a. 86 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:09.800 Little kid and walking to the basement and my dad 87 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:11.639 on this little TV is watching a game and it 88 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:15.240 says mile high stadium, And I pictured this stadium literally, 89 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:17.839 you know, straight up at the top of a mile, 90 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:19.839 you know, and then it's a mile drop off. 91 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:20.279 On either side. 92 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:22.959 I was young then, but you always picture Denver as 93 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:26.800 healthy and all about health, and then the left decided 94 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:28.839 to make it all about drugs, and then the mall 95 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:31.759 started going downhill. But they don't want to admit that. 96 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:34.319 They say, oh no, no, not all these spaces around 97 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:35.720 the country are plagued like this. 98 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:36.680 Not true. 99 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:41.120 Then you layer on vacant storefronts, long term construction, some 100 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:45.160 high profile crimes, and a political narrative that cities are 101 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:48.000 to be feared political narrative. 102 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:50.519 So the reason people aren't going down there is not 103 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:53.199 because they are to be feared because of lefty policies, 104 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:56.240 which mean any sane person would fear them. I bet 105 00:04:56.279 --> 00:05:00.319 the family of the flight attendant or throat slit noon 106 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:02.920 on the mall when she's just down there shopping wish 107 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:04.040 that they. 108 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:04.560 Had feared it. 109 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:08.839 Oh no, but it's really conservatives misleading people. And think 110 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:12.279 of that worldview of this report, that people are dumb 111 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:15.040 sheep who can't figure out for themselves what's safe and 112 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:15.480 what's not. 113 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:19.319 As construction finally wraps up, our Mark Salinger looks at 114 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:22.160 Denver's next challenge, convincing people to come back to the 115 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:27.839 Sixteenth Street mall. 116 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:28.839 After spending one hundred and seventy five million dollars on 117 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:33.000 construction on the sixteenth Street mall. The concern now is 118 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:35.519 making sure people actually come back to enjoy it. 119 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:37.959 The experience today is not the ultimate experience that we 120 00:05:37.959 --> 00:05:39.519 want on sixteenth, and we need to do a lot 121 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:40.480 to change that perception. 122 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:43.680 The price tag for new art activities and marketing was 123 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:46.279 set at one point nine million dollars today in Denver 124 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:50.000 City Council money the Johnson Administration and the Downtown Denver 125 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:51.720 Partnership argue. 126 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:53.839 Is vital to mat I'm sure if people return to a. 127 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:57.839 Street that's been filled with fences and hard hats for years, how. 128 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:00.399 Do we bring drug caller to the spaces that just 129 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:02.079 feel like someone's taking care of it. 130 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:04.680 The nearly two million dollars would go towards trying to 131 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:08.199 get people to visit downtown again. It would fund events 132 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:11.000 like live music and street markets. It would pay for 133 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:13.439 security to make people feel safe in an area that's 134 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:17.160 seen several high profile crimes recently, and it would allocate 135 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:20.560 money for art to cover up empty storefronts where businesses 136 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:21.600 have moved out. 137 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:22.600 This is part of. 138 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:26.920 High profile crimes like al Capone or what are we 139 00:06:26.920 --> 00:06:29.839 talking about here. It's a high profile crime. 140 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:32.040 This is just part of covering up for the left. 141 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:35.319 Yeah, like, oh, the stabbing spree, right, the flight attendant 142 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:37.480 with the throat slit, and then even though the city. 143 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:39.480 Knew about this, they didn't put up this five of 144 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:41.800 our morning to the public. So you know, a guy 145 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:43.240 gets stabbed and killed the next day. 146 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:48.199 No, it's not about a couple of high profile crimes. 147 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:51.600 It's about policies of the left, pro drug, pro criminal 148 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:55.560 policies that have made this a place people don't want 149 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:56.000 to go. 150 00:06:56.600 --> 00:06:59.000 And I'm sorry I up two million bucks with that. 151 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:02.199 You could put fIF fifty million bucks worth of art 152 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:05.079 and guess what people are going to see? What's your 153 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:08.839 favorite artwork? Ryan ever? Not like the Rocky statue? 154 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:09.560 Yeah? 155 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:11.319 Really, that's my favorite. 156 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:16.040 Statue of liberty. Maybe be another way, Yeah, Mona Lisa Okay, okay, 157 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:17.160 you could put the. 158 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:20.160 Mona Lisa on the sixteen Street mall. 159 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:21.959 Sure right now. 160 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:24.000 Maybe if it heavy, heavy security, you get people to 161 00:07:24.040 --> 00:07:25.959 go down there for a little bit. But what people 162 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:28.800 are going to see is they're going to see the zombies. 163 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:32.600 They're going to see the zombies, right, like the zombie 164 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:35.959 who who slashed that flight attendant's throat and killed all 165 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:38.480 those others. They're going to see all these zombies who 166 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:41.279 at one time were healthy, little kids, and they were 167 00:07:41.319 --> 00:07:45.399 people with the future, and they've been made zombies by drugs. 168 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:47.040 They've been made zombies by alcohol. 169 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:49.519 You throw in mental illness, and then policies of the 170 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:53.519 left that protect criminals. Even with the Mona Lisa down there, 171 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:55.519 that's what people are going to see because guess what, 172 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:58.319 the Mona Lisa ain't worth dying for. 173 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:03.519 Broader strategy for downtown. Council members had concerns. 174 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:05.199 Just it pains me to see what it currently is. 175 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:08.160 And serious questions about how to move forward from the 176 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:11.800 challenges that the area has faced since the construction started. 177 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:15.879 Doesn't matter how you make something, if it still brings 178 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:18.800 up memories for people, we're never going. 179 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:19.439 To break through that. 180 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:22.560 Downtown Denver has seen a thirty five percent decrease in 181 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:25.480 property and sales tax revenue since the beginning of the 182 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:28.560 pandemic that'scrossed the city forty pandemic. 183 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:33.639 Go back to legalization in marijuana, Go back to every 184 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:38.600 important stat in Colorado starting with the legalization of marijuana. 185 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:42.360 And what do you see, more bad stuff less good stuff. 186 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:47.440 I've million dollars. Vacant dark retail space is not good 187 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:47.960 for anyone. 188 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:51.000 The money has already been spent on construction. Now the 189 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:53.320 city needs to convince people to come back. 190 00:08:53.519 --> 00:08:55.600 This is about how do we really make the most 191 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:59.360 of this infrastructure investment by being able to show how 192 00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:03.639 is there no discussion whatsoever is piece about drugs and 193 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:05.799 about legalization of drugs. 194 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:08.320 And about all of these drug. 195 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:11.799 Addicted people particularly, And they're all said cases my heart 196 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:15.639 breaks from true. But when you've just had fourteen very 197 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:19.200 prominent restaurant tours who have walked the talk, put their heart, 198 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:22.200 their soul, their money into their restaurants down there, and 199 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:24.840 they're saying, mister Mayor, it's falling apart. 200 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:26.080 You're making it worse. 201 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:29.279 You know, people aren't going to come down here and 202 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:32.840 watch somebody defecate in the street outside the restaurant. And 203 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:36.720 it all goes back to these pro drug, pro crime policies. 204 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:39.320 Clean it up and clear it out. That's the answer. 205 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:41.600 I mean, there's about all these ancillary issues and that 206 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:43.000 the construction. 207 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:45.279 And people don't want to come down because the businesses 208 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:46.720 aren't there the tax revenues. 209 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:49.679 Now, why are all those things happening It's exactly what 210 00:09:49.720 --> 00:09:50.759 you're talking about. 211 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:54.120 And they will never change. The Left will never change 212 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:56.639 those policies. So where does it end? I would love 213 00:09:56.679 --> 00:09:59.080 your take, what is the fix? Where does it end? 214 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:02.720 Because we aren't darkess cursors were candle lighters three or 215 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:05.240 three someone three eight two five five text d an 216 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:07.120 five seven seven three nine. 217 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:08.600 You're on the Dan Kapla Show. 218 00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:13.720 And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast. 219 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:19.360 BOMBI yeah, and please I don't. I hope nobody ever 220 00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:22.000 thinks when I talk about the reality of downtown Tenver 221 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:25.320 now and just so many people who act like zombies, 222 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:26.919 that I'm ever making fun of any of. 223 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:29.080 Those people or denigrating them or anything. 224 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:29.600 Not at all. 225 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:33.399 My heart breaks for all of them. And you know 226 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:36.080 I said thereby but for the grace of God go I. 227 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:36.879 Kind of thing. 228 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:39.960 And and because no matter how strong willed the person 229 00:10:40.080 --> 00:10:43.039 is or anything else, you talk about the the you know, 230 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:45.360 you talk about this Krakawana or so now you talk 231 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:47.879 about other drugs, talk about this fent, and all the 232 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:50.399 Left is let pour into the country. I mean that 233 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:54.559 stuff can can grab and ruin the strongest willed person 234 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:59.480 in a heartbeat. So this human disaster. You see in 235 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:02.919 downtown Denver, you see eating away at downtown Denver. Look 236 00:11:02.919 --> 00:11:06.039 at what the restaurant tours wrote, you know, to Johnston. 237 00:11:06.120 --> 00:11:09.080 Mike Johnson very critical of him, saying it's all falling apart. 238 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:11.480 No, I'm never ever. 239 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:15.679 Doing anything other than being sad and respectful and praying 240 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:19.120 for you know, the people in that situation. What drives 241 00:11:19.159 --> 00:11:22.559 me crazy are these lefties who pass all these policies 242 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:24.960 because they have their own political motives and they know 243 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:27.639 it's going to wreak this kind of human devastation, but 244 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:30.080 they don't care at all about these people as long 245 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:33.399 as it furthers their political ends. And so that the 246 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:36.759 perfect example of that is now that you have a 247 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:39.960 six Streen Street mall, it ain't coming back until they 248 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:43.720 do away with these pro drug, pro crime lefty policies. 249 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:46.159 The mall isn't going to come back. You know, you 250 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:50.000 can put Mona Lisa down there. I've seen Mona Lisa. 251 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:51.840 I'm glad I saw Mona Lisa, but she ain't worth 252 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:54.120 dying for. So you can do anything you want to. 253 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:57.360 It ain't coming back until they change those policies. But 254 00:11:57.399 --> 00:11:59.279 then you get these stories that try to blame it 255 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:02.639 on the right for saying there's crime in the cities. 256 00:12:02.679 --> 00:12:05.720 No people can figure that out. So what is the fix? 257 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:06.240 Right? 258 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:08.759 What is the fix? 259 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:11.399 Three h three someone three eight two five five The 260 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:14.200 number takes d A N five seven seven three nine. 261 00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:15.000 I'm giving you mine. 262 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:18.080 They've got to and this doesn't take any rocket science 263 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:21.440 or archaeologist or anything like that. You go back and 264 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:23.360 look at when it was better than this. Oh when 265 00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:25.799 was that, well before you legalize drugs and put all 266 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:31.440 these pro criminal laws in Yeah, right, yes, so yeah, 267 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:33.039 So what do you think the fix is? 268 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:37.039 D A N five seven seven three nine. 269 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:40.799 Dan, you should contact Google and why the Dame Kaplis 270 00:12:40.840 --> 00:12:42.559 show does not come up? 271 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:43.720 Interesting? 272 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:43.919 Not? 273 00:12:44.759 --> 00:12:48.399 It comes up as Kaplin kp l I N. The 274 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:50.639 Google is smarter than that. You're a fighter. Don't stand 275 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:53.000 for this. I will not stand for this another minute. 276 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:55.080 So no, we would thank you. Thank you for that 277 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:56.960 heads up, Chexter, really do appreciate that. 278 00:12:57.919 --> 00:12:59.960 I just googled it and the first thing comes up 279 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:02.879 is Dan Kaplis. Okay, high heart, it's at the top 280 00:13:02.919 --> 00:13:03.559 of the bab. 281 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:06.120 Well that's that's progress. They've listened to our Texter. 282 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:09.440 Dan, I was down in downtown Denver yesterday and saw 283 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:12.120 at least five people shooting up drugs right there in 284 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:14.679 the middle of the park. There's no way I'd bring 285 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:17.200 my family down there. And I was thinking, how sad 286 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:19.559 it is. I mentioned it Tamy the other day. We 287 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:21.600 used to go down to the mall. We used to 288 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:24.039 go down to the mall, like before all of this 289 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:27.559 legalized drug and legalized crime. 290 00:13:27.399 --> 00:13:29.000 Or you know, pro criminal laws. 291 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:31.519 We used to love. We took the kids down there. 292 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:34.480 We'd go Remember they used to have big ESPN zone 293 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:35.039 on the mall. 294 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:36.360 I think that's what it called. 295 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:38.799 We go there and we get a pizza in we'd 296 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:41.919 you know, play some of their arcade games. Yeah, you 297 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:44.360 can drag me down there right now. I mean every 298 00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:45.840 now and there I have to go down there for 299 00:13:45.879 --> 00:13:46.240 a case. 300 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:46.840 I love the. 301 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:48.399 Courthouse down there by the way, But every now and 302 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:50.320 then I got a meeting on the mall or something. 303 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:53.759 I just absolutely dreaded Dan. 304 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:56.720 Denver's trying to put lipstick on a pig and make 305 00:13:56.799 --> 00:13:59.440 you think all is well in downtown that from Alexa. 306 00:13:59.519 --> 00:14:03.360 There ain't enough lipstick in all of America for that one. 307 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:04.960 So why do you think they keep doing this? 308 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:08.480 They just keep pouring millions and millions and millions into 309 00:14:08.919 --> 00:14:11.159 redoing this and that, and then the people don't come, 310 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:14.279 and they keep doing more of it. They denial is 311 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:16.519 not just a river in Egypt, right. I mean, they 312 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:20.360 will not admit what is at the heart of all this, Dan. 313 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:23.279 They're all thriving pertaining tom al like areas, except the 314 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:26.440 ones run over by crime, like Santa Monica Promenade. Oh, 315 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:28.759 that is so true in Santa Monica, you know. And 316 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:35.759 again it just comes back to those lefty policies. So, Dan, 317 00:14:35.879 --> 00:14:38.799 While I regret my vote for the legalization of recreational 318 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:41.480 marijuana in Colorado, mostly because I believe it put a 319 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:45.519 destination target on Colorado for stoners from around the country 320 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:49.080 and many of the issues that accompany them, I would 321 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:51.759 still consider voting for national legalization. 322 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:53.039 Wow. 323 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:55.559 I would love to hear the rationale behind that, because 324 00:14:55.559 --> 00:14:57.840 I to say that aside. I also believe that while 325 00:14:57.840 --> 00:15:01.639 marijuana may contribute to suicide rates teen and others, and 326 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:04.159 then it gets into much bigger issues. Whoa wait a second, 327 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:07.759 shouldn't that be the end of the conversation. I mean, 328 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:11.639 once the society acknowledges and people in Colorado just don't 329 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:14.519 know it right now, right because much, not all, much 330 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:20.000 of the media buries these marijuana horror stories because I mean, 331 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:22.720 I think the media has a vested interest in getting 332 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:26.000 that cash someday. But that aside, and much of the 333 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:29.080 media right is just affiliated with the left that wants 334 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:31.600 more drugs, wants more stoners because then they're more dependent 335 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:36.960 on government and they vote left. But once the people 336 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:38.600 of the state of Colorado would tell me, if you 337 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:45.159 agree with this premise, ride, if every voting Colorado now 338 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:51.480 for a fact that teen suicide has dramatically increased his 339 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:55.559 legalization of marijuana and almost half the kids who kill 340 00:15:55.639 --> 00:15:58.320 themselves in marijuana in their system, what do you think 341 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:00.840 the vote would be to repeal Amendments six four if every. 342 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:03.000 Voter knew that, if they knew that and were informed, 343 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:06.159 then yeah, I mean, that would be overwhelming sixty forty, Elisa. 344 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:09.679 People are good in Colorado. Vast majority of people are good. 345 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:12.360 I don't care what party they're with. And if they 346 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:15.279 knew that fact, yeah, people would say that's too high 347 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:18.480 a price to pay. That is too high a price 348 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:20.879 to pay, and there are a lot more prices than that. 349 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:25.240 So three or three someone three eight two five five 350 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:29.519 text d an five seven seven three nine. We have 351 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:33.960 another candidate for GOP chair coming up right, Darcy Shanning's 352 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:35.879 going to join us at five thirty six yep. 353 00:16:35.919 --> 00:16:38.559 And she just appeared with Kyle Clark online next. 354 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:41.200 And the reason that we keep doing these hits with 355 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:46.080 GOP chair candidates is I think it's really really important 356 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:49.000 to saving the state that we elect Republicans to these 357 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:52.240 big state wide offices, and that's not going to happen 358 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:54.200 without a healthy Colorado or GOP. 359 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:55.879 Maybe there's some math out there. 360 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:57.679 I'm not familiar with, Ryan, but I. 361 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:02.200 Don't see how a Republican candidate wins statewide without a 362 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:06.880 unified GOP in Colorado and a unified GOP electorate. 363 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:07.599 It. 364 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:10.039 If somebody's wearing some new math, hey turn me on 365 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:12.279 to it. But I think that's what it's gonna take. 366 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:14.359 So that's why I think this party chair race is 367 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:19.079 so important, and so that's why we keep popping these 368 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:22.519 candidates on. And I thought the last interview was absolutely 369 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:25.680 fascinating and hopefully you'll tune into that. 370 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:28.480 Uh one of the something else I want. 371 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:30.599 To discuss here, some else I want to dis Guy 372 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:33.480 and I know it's not local, but it is so important, 373 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:35.880 and it's local in that sense, right, affects all of us. 374 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:37.759 I don't have time to play this hit right now. 375 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:40.279 But John Bolton, who has sat here in studio with 376 00:17:40.359 --> 00:17:43.400 me when he was the US Ambassador to the United Nations, 377 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:48.079 and John Bolton coming out and seeing this ceasefire is 378 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:49.039 bad for Ukraine. 379 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:52.920 What in the world's the alternative. 380 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:54.880 Trump's just say? See. 381 00:17:54.880 --> 00:17:57.279 I think John Bolton hates Trump so much right now 382 00:17:57.720 --> 00:17:59.599 that's getting in the way of his thinking. And it's 383 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:02.880 a person think between John Bolton and Trump. Trump's just 384 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:06.480 trying to stop the bloodshed. It's Europe that abandoned Ukraine 385 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:08.039 and allowed evil Putin. 386 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:09.799 To gain territory. 387 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:13.319 So you're gonna tell Ukraine to just keep fighting and dying. 388 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:14.680 You're on the Dan Caplis Show. 389 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:20.200 You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast. 390 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:25.759 Like current up Chairman Williams, like President Trump, use name 391 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:28.559 calling as a political strategy, right. I mean, you've called 392 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:31.039 former President Joe Biden a pedophile. You've called the mayor 393 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:34.039 pro tem of monumental terrorists, You've called the governor communist, 394 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:36.920 You've called the Attorney general communists, You've called me a communist, 395 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:39.440 which is fine because we get along. But why is 396 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:42.440 name calling a winning political strategy in this state? 397 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:45.039 You know, I don't think it's always I don't think 398 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:48.480 it's always correct. It's not always a winning strategy. 399 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:49.680 Sometimes it is. 400 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:51.920 Sometimes it helps us because you know, you've got. 401 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:54.759