Speaker 1: This is Dan Caples and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 1: look around, this is a great time to be alive.
Speaker 1: I some apologies to Hamilton right to you. Remember that
Speaker 1: song I wish I could sing one say.
Speaker 2: Look around and look around?
Speaker 1: What a wonderful time to be alive right now?
Speaker 3: But it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're getting tired of winning yet Look what's
Speaker 1: happening in California. Trump is clearly winning, which means America's winning,
Speaker 1: and the left just can't give it up. So we'll
Speaker 1: have some of this sound just because it's so much fun.
Speaker 1: I don't want anybody to get hurt, obviously, but every
Speaker 1: day this lunacy goes on, with the Democrats lining up
Speaker 1: behind the riders and the rest of America lining up
Speaker 1: behind Trump and law and order and actually enforcing our laws. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that's a good day for America and certainly a
Speaker 1: very good day for President Trump. I know that not
Speaker 1: all the polls are the same right now, Ryan, but
Speaker 1: he's really he's really spiking in in a couple of them.
Speaker 1: I mean, his numbers are good across the board, but
Speaker 1: he's really I thought I saw him up around fifty five,
Speaker 1: fifty six percent.
Speaker 2: This is such a losing hill for Gavin Newsom. He's
Speaker 2: coming out with these videos. He's thinking he can position himself,
Speaker 2: posture himself against Trump and that'll gain him some traction
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party. This after he tried to moderate on
Speaker 2: issues like trans girls and female sports. Doesn't know where
Speaker 2: to go politically. He's such a chameleon and trying to
Speaker 2: insinuate that these riots are Trump's fault instead of coming
Speaker 2: out this is where Democrats are so weak, Dan, It's
Speaker 2: the perception of them, it's the reality of them. They
Speaker 2: are weak on crime, they don't mind these riots, they
Speaker 2: aren't committed to stopping them. And Gavin Newsom instead of
Speaker 2: talking in those terms, it's like Trump is sending in
Speaker 2: the military.
Speaker 3: We don't want that.
Speaker 1: Let me respectfully disagree here in this sense, Okay, and
Speaker 1: again I put this in the category of great for America, right,
Speaker 1: because if Gavin Newsom is going to be the Democrats nominee,
Speaker 1: then whether it's JD. Mart go. Whichever of the group
Speaker 1: can can start measuring for the hot til break now.
Speaker 1: But here's the point. I think it's a really smart
Speaker 1: move by Newsome within the Democratic Party, right because what
Speaker 1: do they got? They got nothing? Right, at least he
Speaker 1: has a platform right now. Now he's saying things that
Speaker 1: just make him look silly to most of America and
Speaker 1: a lot of Democrats, but compared to all these other Democrats,
Speaker 1: at least he's got a platform and at least he's
Speaker 1: out there. So I think this is great for him
Speaker 1: within the Democratic Party, and I think it'll be great
Speaker 1: for the GOP nominee for president if he's their nominee.
Speaker 2: Let me pain in a scenario for a guy that
Speaker 2: you and I both respect, politically disagree with but think
Speaker 2: he'd be strong and dangerous, and that is Josh Shapiro,
Speaker 2: governor Pennsylvania. What if Dan he came out in a
Speaker 2: fetterman like way and said, look, whatever's happening in Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: whoever's fault it is, he can't even give himself that
Speaker 2: cover say it will not be happening in Pittsburgh. It
Speaker 2: will not be happening in Philadelphia. We will not tolerate
Speaker 2: violence against our police officer officers. What if a Democrat
Speaker 2: governor like Josh Shapiro came out and said something.
Speaker 1: Like that, Yeah, you're right, it'd be brilliant. But here's
Speaker 1: the problem. His hands are tied right now because he's
Speaker 1: in a party where a lot of the people in
Speaker 1: power don't like Jewish people. Right or he would have
Speaker 1: been he would have been the nominee when or at
Speaker 1: least on a ticket with Whitmer after they pulled the
Speaker 1: coup on Biden. So that's his problem. So if he
Speaker 1: was to come out right now and say something smart
Speaker 1: like that, right, well, all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 1: he's already got this big problem with the big faction
Speaker 1: of the leadership of his party that doesn't like Jewish people,
Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden he's gone against you know,
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party quote mainstream support for illegal immigrants overall elsewell,
Speaker 1: second to abortion right the Democratic Party right now lives
Speaker 1: for abortion up to the moment of delivery. And second
Speaker 1: to support folks here illegally who want to go out
Speaker 1: and commit other crimes. That's what they live for. And
Speaker 1: the Maryland man, but I guess he falls into the
Speaker 1: second category three or three, I'm one, three, eight, two, five,
Speaker 1: five and men in girl showers. That's the act of
Speaker 1: a party, right there. Not a party I'd want to
Speaker 1: go to, and a lot of people are leaving that party,
Speaker 1: didn't I hear? Was it Caldera or was it you?
Speaker 1: Somebody was talking about Demo registration being down. Maybe it
Speaker 1: was Michael Brown as a great show in the mornings. Yeah,
Speaker 1: on six pot thirty kis w and Denver, somebody who's
Speaker 1: saying Demo registration is down in Colorado.
Speaker 2: That would be one point of encouragement for us. Yes, well,
Speaker 2: aren't there a.
Speaker 1: Lot of points of encouragement in Colorado right now?
Speaker 2: I mean, in evidence, there's a lot of anecdotal evidence
Speaker 2: that would suggest that people that are truly in the
Speaker 2: middle should be a gas where the Democrats are leading us.
Speaker 2: But it doesn't seem to be connecting.
Speaker 1: Well, right because of what I said earlier. Right as
Speaker 1: as a former Democrat, I know these things, which is,
Speaker 1: you got so many Democrats repulsed by the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: right now, but they can't even imagine voting for Republicans.
Speaker 1: So the challenge of the Republicans is not beating the Democrats.
Speaker 1: That the challenge of the Republicans. Is is convincing enough
Speaker 1: Democrats and Democrat leaning voters that it's different. Now, it's
Speaker 1: a different GOP. You know, I'm she is. You are
Speaker 1: a candidate you can support in good conscience because we're
Speaker 1: not losing these races on principles or ideas or facts
Speaker 1: or logic or morality. We're losing these races, particularly the
Speaker 1: closer ones, on the stereotype of the GOP, which is
Speaker 1: largely false, very outdated. But you know, God, understand that
Speaker 1: there are so many good people who just grew up Democrat,
Speaker 1: right they're born into a family of Democrats. And if
Speaker 1: you're born into a family of Democrats like I was,
Speaker 1: and wonderful people of deep principle and different ideas on
Speaker 1: different subjects. But but the view of the Republican Party,
Speaker 1: and this particularly goes back twenty thirty forty years, so
Speaker 1: very negative and so deeply branded into the minds of
Speaker 1: so many good, smart people. That's what we got to beat.
Speaker 1: And then that is a different critter, Ryan than sitting
Speaker 1: here and saying, you know, we gotta win these races
Speaker 1: on this issue and that issue, and there's truth in
Speaker 1: all of that, but you gotta beat the stereotype. And
Speaker 1: when you beat the stereotype, do you play pinball? Do
Speaker 1: you ever play pinball?
Speaker 2: Yeah? But not with the who.
Speaker 1: Do you ever play a game called xenon?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay? So you know, when you beat the stereotype, it's
Speaker 1: like you're getting those eight X points because you beat
Speaker 1: the stereotype all of a sudden, you're not just picking
Speaker 1: up a vote, You're taking a vote away from them,
Speaker 1: and you may very well be taking a family member
Speaker 1: of the voter who just flipped for you away from them. Selling.
Speaker 1: That's where it's at. That's where it's at is defying
Speaker 1: the stereotype and overcoming the stereotype, which leads to the
Speaker 1: logical question, how does one do that? So I'd love
Speaker 1: to hear from our incredibly diverse and talented audience three
Speaker 1: or three someone three, two, five, five, text d an five, seven,
Speaker 1: seven through nine. My guess is Ryan has a thought,
Speaker 1: But how do GOP candidates overcome the stereotype? Because, yeah,
Speaker 1: your Democrat opponent, you got to deal with that, but
Speaker 1: your biggest opponent is the negative stereotype of the GOP.
Speaker 1: What do you do about that? Mister Funk, I shouldn't
Speaker 1: have done that.
Speaker 2: That was pretty severe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just caused five crashes.
Speaker 2: Oh my lord. Yeah. It's difficult, Dan, because there are
Speaker 2: a few outlets, this being one of them, I show
Speaker 2: that procedures and Denver being another. But we're in the
Speaker 2: distinct minority of platforms that as fou as conservative views
Speaker 2: and are friendly to conservative opinions, Whereas I think a
Speaker 2: lot of the local media in Denver has a filter
Speaker 2: on and has a lot of the eyeballs on them watching,
Speaker 2: and there are certain stories that don't get the coverage,
Speaker 2: like the Aurora apartment takeover by Trendy Aragua. That's a
Speaker 2: key example where Kyle Clark ignored the story despite Cindy
Speaker 2: Rameiro reaching out directly to him personally. He ignored it
Speaker 2: because it was not a convenient story for the narrative
Speaker 2: he wanted to advance. That would be one example, right.
Speaker 1: And if we zero in on and I'm sorry to
Speaker 1: be obsessed with this, but I do think it's the
Speaker 1: secret sauce. It's the key to the GOP winning races.
Speaker 1: People think they have no chance to race when if
Speaker 1: you're focused on defeating the stereotype. Defeating the stereotype, there
Speaker 1: are certain things I think you do as a candidate,
Speaker 1: and to your point, Ryan, one of those is you
Speaker 1: do everything humanly possible to go all those places and
Speaker 1: to get on that air. All right, let's do a
Speaker 1: sit down. Is there any question you have? And then
Speaker 1: just be sure to record the whole thing yourself in
Speaker 1: case they edit it dishonestly. But you go do that,
Speaker 1: You go in front of every major Democrat group out there.
Speaker 1: There are all sorts of creative things you do to
Speaker 1: try to overcome the stereotype, because that is what we're
Speaker 1: losing to. Not always right, there are certain issues that
Speaker 1: sometimes take over a race. I gets that are certain personalities,
Speaker 1: but so often we end up losing to the stereotype.
Speaker 1: So I'd love your thoughts. So, how do conservative candidates
Speaker 1: overcome the negative stereotype of the GOP? And I know
Speaker 1: that question may be offensive to you because you're sitting
Speaker 1: there thinking, wait a second, there's no negative stereotype of
Speaker 1: the GOP, and there certainly shouldn't be one because I
Speaker 1: do and we do all these good things. So no,
Speaker 1: that's nonsense. But I'm just telling you the reality, growing
Speaker 1: up a Democrat, having been a Democrat, there is and
Speaker 1: it's very very unfair and it's very untrue and it's
Speaker 1: very outdated, but it is as real. It is as
Speaker 1: real as that brick wall over there, and we ignore it. Well,
Speaker 1: we're going to get smashed against that wall. You're on
Speaker 1: the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 2: And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Who is that our guide again?
Speaker 2: Brian Wilson, founder and primary songwriter for The Beach Boys eighty.
Speaker 1: Two transformational kind of music.
Speaker 2: Oh, big time? Yeah, define the sixties in a lot
Speaker 2: of ways. And this song was Caroline No, which I
Speaker 2: picked out because your daughter's name is Caroline for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I haven't everybody listening who is fortunate enough
Speaker 1: to work with one of their kids knows. It's just
Speaker 1: one of the great joys in life. So we're lucky
Speaker 1: to have her at our firm right now.
Speaker 2: And kind of work is she doing there, Dan.
Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely brilliant work. I don't go to trial without her,
Speaker 1: I mean really wow. Yeah, she has been. She's been
Speaker 1: working with me on trial since she was like fourteen,
Speaker 1: thirteen or fourteen. She just does a great mind for
Speaker 1: that stuff. Yeah, I do not go to trial without her.
Speaker 1: So she's preparing now for a big one. We have
Speaker 1: coming up. That's right, yeah, three or three someone three
Speaker 1: eight two five five text or Dan, your tattoo should
Speaker 1: be a cyber truck. It is a smart texter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: cyber truck.
Speaker 4: On.
Speaker 1: Hold though they're they're making up right, as predicted. We
Speaker 1: predicted it here, everybody predicted it, but they are making up.
Speaker 1: What do you think? What form will the big public
Speaker 1: reconciliation come in?
Speaker 2: Elon will attend the two hundred and fiftieth Celebration of
Speaker 2: our Armed Forces, the parade that Donald Trump is throwing,
Speaker 2: and they'll make knights there. That's my prediction.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay. Interesting and tonight there's all this controversy. I
Speaker 1: put it in quotes because it's you know, fake news
Speaker 1: in the left, but of Trump, you know, taking control
Speaker 1: as he should of the Kennedy Center programming and things
Speaker 1: like that. Did you see him? He's there today, red carpet.
Speaker 1: How do you say that? I've never seen the show
Speaker 1: lame as lame A's around.
Speaker 2: Yeah you got it? Okay, okay, thank you, la, Miss
Speaker 2: Lams Short.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen it?
Speaker 2: I have.
Speaker 1: I've refused to go every single time because I hear
Speaker 1: it's sad. Well, it is sad and you know, Jean Valjehn,
Speaker 1: Hugh Jackman. Yeah, if I'm going out, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? If I'm going out right, I want to
Speaker 1: be happy.
Speaker 2: Wait, Amy has it like insistent this one.
Speaker 1: She is so well informed and cultured and everything else.
Speaker 1: It's a wonderful thing and it's wonderful for our kids.
Speaker 1: But I want to be happy. So if I'm going
Speaker 1: out to do something fun, I want it to be fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1: So why would you go to something that is miserable?
Speaker 5: In the name Kelly, I've seen it nine times, nine
Speaker 5: man in four different cities.
Speaker 2: What do you think of Hugh Jackman?
Speaker 1: Wasn't he in the movie?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, he did pretty good, made fun of his singing.
Speaker 1: Does it have a does it have a spoiler alert? Now?
Speaker 1: Because I may say it some day? Does it have
Speaker 1: a happy ending? M? Yes and no? Well no, So
Speaker 1: why would you go?
Speaker 2: How many times?
Speaker 1: Feeling so good? Let's go? Be said?
Speaker 5: The music is phenomenal And I saw the original Broadway
Speaker 5: cast which it was fun in New York with my dad,
Speaker 5: and I've also seen it twice in Chicago four times
Speaker 5: in law.
Speaker 1: You're hooked, It's like us in Taylor Swift my dog
Speaker 1: twice here. Yeah, did you see that Denver guy getting
Speaker 1: busted or at least a restraining order for stalking Taylor Swift?
Speaker 2: It was not anybody we know, No, No, it wasn't Dan.
Speaker 1: We have had excellent GOP candidates in the past and
Speaker 1: still ended up with the likes of Polist Coker. Who's Cocher?
Speaker 1: Anybody heard of a cocher An office around here? Polis, Cocher, Frow, Patterson,
Speaker 1: et cetera. The voters here have not suffered enough pain
Speaker 1: for how they voted. Steve is right. We have had
Speaker 1: some great GOP candidates and you're right, no, they lost
Speaker 1: and and obviously it's not going to be easy. But
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, yeah, a great candidate is not enough
Speaker 1: in and of itself. You know, other things need to happen.
Speaker 1: And when you think of some of the great candidates,
Speaker 1: and I would put my now law partner John Keller
Speaker 1: certainly among that group of great candidates. I look at
Speaker 1: all those races, there's simply nothing any of them could
Speaker 1: have done to win that race period in retrospect. Now
Speaker 1: that's clear. But you cannot step in the same river twice.
Speaker 1: You know who said that Ryan doesn't know that that,
Speaker 1: which is really odd. Nice. Yeah, yeah, who was that?
Speaker 2: I've heard of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an ancient Native American saying you cannot step
Speaker 1: in the same river twice. You know when I use
Speaker 1: that to great effect. I was covering Rodney King and
Speaker 1: I was covering it for a national audience at that time,
Speaker 1: and we were talking about the trial. I remember I
Speaker 1: was sitting in the NBC studios and one of the
Speaker 1: anchors had asked about had asked about the trial. Well,
Speaker 1: there was this first trial and then this and that,
Speaker 1: and then I pulled out this line. Well you cannot say.
Speaker 1: I pulled out this line and said, you know, Native
Speaker 1: Americans have a saying you cannot step in the same
Speaker 1: river twice. You cannot try the same case twice. And
Speaker 1: they just went, whoa, that's deep.
Speaker 2: It was a great moment.
Speaker 1: It was a really great moment. That was a really
Speaker 1: great moment.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know the other great moment, and feel free
Speaker 1: to turn off your radio, but I'm having fun right
Speaker 1: now at the other great moment was and I didn't
Speaker 1: know what was happened at the time they sent me
Speaker 1: the tape, but Jesse Jackson when he was really big,
Speaker 1: really hot. Jesse was on with the Big LA anchor
Speaker 1: and NBC anchor in La and they were doing an
Speaker 1: interview on set and it was during Rodney King, and
Speaker 1: the interview was about Rodney King. And then the anchor
Speaker 1: said to Reverend Jackson. He said, sorry, Reverend, I have
Speaker 1: to interrupt. I understand that that that we have a
Speaker 1: special bulletin from Dan Kaplis. Look, God, Jesse Jackson's face.
Speaker 1: I think I still have that come up. I'm going
Speaker 1: to find that it's on a tape somewhere.
Speaker 2: I'm going to find alive, hope, alive man capitalist.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just oh man, life's funny, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Glad you're here. You may not be, but I'm really
Speaker 1: glad you're here. Three or three someone three A two
Speaker 1: five five the number text d an five seven seven
Speaker 1: three nine if you missed it earlier, humbly, I laid
Speaker 1: out the way to save Denver, and a big part
Speaker 1: of that is actually solving the homeless problem, which is
Speaker 1: so easy to do and it's such a great fix
Speaker 1: for everybody. So I laid that out a bit earlier.
Speaker 1: I'll touch on it when we come back, but I
Speaker 1: want to play this story because Denver, even if you
Speaker 1: never come here right if you're happening to listen in
Speaker 1: the Rocky Mountain region right now, it's really important to
Speaker 1: you because what happens in Denver doesn't stay in Denver,
Speaker 1: and is Denver continues in kind of this subtle and
Speaker 1: sometimes not so subtle doom loop. It's going to be
Speaker 1: bad for everybody. So I want to play this CBS
Speaker 1: story about this really dangerous financial situation Denver's in and
Speaker 1: then talk in concrete terms about the fix. And we'll
Speaker 1: do much more than that as well. But Ryan, in
Speaker 1: these few seconds, we have hopefully not in life, but
Speaker 1: in this segment. Yeah, wow, what what do you think
Speaker 1: Denver's going to look like in ten years? Oh? Man?
Speaker 2: I still think there's a bottoming out that needs to happen.
Speaker 2: I believe we're in the process of that politically, and
Speaker 2: it will not turn around until at least part of
Speaker 2: the state. I think the Republicans need to get back
Speaker 2: at least one of the branches of the General Assembly
Speaker 2: to get some traction. Until then, we're going to run
Speaker 2: rough shot off the grails and off the cliff to
Speaker 2: the left.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we know one thing for sure, right Denver
Speaker 1: is going to have a Republican mayor. And we know
Speaker 1: another thing for sure is they won't call themselves republican,
Speaker 1: they won't have an R. But they're going to be
Speaker 1: a conservative mayor who pursues he or she of conservative
Speaker 1: Republican principles. That will happen. I think it's going to
Speaker 1: happen sooner than later. It has to happen. You're on
Speaker 1: the den Capitol Shop.
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 3: What is your favorite features? Oh?
Speaker 2: Such a loaded question. It probably is the one I'm
Speaker 2: going to say for last here coming up, and it's
Speaker 2: God only knows bro that is so good? That sounds
Speaker 2: by Brian Wilson.
Speaker 1: Yeah. For me, it's probably Little Gto Yeah, just because
Speaker 1: it ties into a degrimative moment.
Speaker 2: My young child picked another song about a car, Little
Speaker 2: Deuce Coop there for you, But I guessed wrong because
Speaker 2: you you prefer the other one. But that's that's a
Speaker 2: good choice, wouldn't it be nice? It is probably right
Speaker 2: up there too.
Speaker 1: I've got a question, how can we never play their
Speaker 1: music when these people are alive?
Speaker 2: I play this kind of stuff all the time.
Speaker 1: You got to die to get on this show. That's
Speaker 1: people are dying to get on this show.
Speaker 2: That's good clause I fake news is a little bit true,
Speaker 2: but it's a little bit false.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I do play a lot of this stuff from time
Speaker 2: to time when it fits some of our topics.
Speaker 1: No, that's true, and truly nobody has ever been better
Speaker 1: at that. Hey, I want to play this CBS four
Speaker 1: story out of Denver. It's just about how serious that
Speaker 1: the financial problems of Denver are right now and how
Speaker 1: much they threaten, and the point being, they're only going
Speaker 1: to get worse, right because once Johnston committed Denver to
Speaker 1: this insane and unsustainable and bad for everybody, promise to
Speaker 1: everyone in the world, come to Denver and we will
Speaker 1: get you a home.
Speaker 3: We will get you a home. We will get you
Speaker 3: a home.
Speaker 1: At that point, then it's just a matter of time
Speaker 1: before the city runs out of money. Right, you cannot
Speaker 1: sustain that. So you see fewer people on the street,
Speaker 1: but homelessness is increasing, right because of course people are
Speaker 1: going to come to where the mayra's promise to get
Speaker 1: you a home using taxpayer dollars. And so we're in
Speaker 1: this doom loop and now we're seeing friends and neighbors
Speaker 1: being laid off by the city services, COT, etc. And
Speaker 1: it's only going to get worse. So I want to
Speaker 1: play this story not to curse the darkness, but as
Speaker 1: I talked about earlier in the show, so there is
Speaker 1: a solution, and it's simple and it's straightforward and it
Speaker 1: will work, and it starts with a solution to homelessness.
Speaker 1: But Johnston in the left would have no interest in
Speaker 1: this because like everything else, they want to use homelessness
Speaker 1: to their own advantage.
Speaker 4: When you see that you have less money, you have
Speaker 4: to balance the budget to make it work. That's what
Speaker 4: every business in the city does. It's what every family
Speaker 4: in the city does. That's what this government should do.
Speaker 1: And why do you have less money. You don't have
Speaker 1: less money. You have less money to spend on the
Speaker 1: citizens of Denver because you've decided to invite the entire
Speaker 1: world to come here and get a home a taxpayer expense.
Speaker 1: That's why you have less money.
Speaker 6: There's Mayor announcing major cuts, furloughs, and potential layoffs for
Speaker 6: city workers today as a city looks to cut its
Speaker 6: general budget by twelve percent.
Speaker 7: That's more than what we saw during the pandemic when
Speaker 7: it was slashed by ten percent. Mayor Mike Johnson, also
Speaker 7: indicating there is more pain ahead is the city faces
Speaker 7: massive revenue gaps this year and next year.
Speaker 1: So you think that'll be his bumper sticker for his
Speaker 1: next race? More pain ahead should be. I mean, if
Speaker 1: it's going to be an honest campaign, it should be.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and the thing we have to remember as
Speaker 1: I let this story roll out, the thing we have
Speaker 1: to remember is what Johnston is doing is bad for
Speaker 1: everybody except for Mike Johnston's political ambitions. Because he believes
Speaker 1: he just gets people off the streets, he can claim victory,
Speaker 1: et cetera, while the city spirals down and then it
Speaker 1: doesn't botom out till after he's gone. But here's the point.
Speaker 1: Like almost everything the left does, it's horrible for the
Speaker 1: people they claim to want to help. In this example,
Speaker 1: the homeless. How is warehousing the homeless. You're not attacking
Speaker 1: the root cause problems. They're just going to get dumped
Speaker 1: back onto the street. At some point those problems will
Speaker 1: even be worse. How does that help them at all?
Speaker 1: And obviously it's very bad for the city. It's like
Speaker 1: the left's approach to illegal immigration. They obviously don't care
Speaker 1: a bit. I was going to say a different word,
Speaker 1: they don't care a bit about illegal immigrants as humans,
Speaker 1: or they wouldn't pursue the policies that they do, which
Speaker 1: lead to so much harm for so many people here illegally.
Speaker 1: And here's the drop of the mic proof is if
Speaker 1: these lefties cured at all about illegal immigrants as humans,
Speaker 1: then they would not be devoted to the protection of
Speaker 1: people here illegally or are committing other crimes, because often
Speaker 1: those crimes are committed against whom other people here illegally.
Speaker 1: So now the Left just doesn't care about these people
Speaker 1: they claim to want to help. They are using them
Speaker 1: and hurting the rest of us. In the meantime.
Speaker 7: You're investigator Brian Moss has been working on these budget
Speaker 7: issues for weeks.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Brian joins us live in Denver tonight, So Brian,
Speaker 6: how deep is this hole?
Speaker 8: Denver is definitely behind the eight ball here. The whole
Speaker 8: is pretty deep, according to The Mirror, due to stagnan
Speaker 8: revenue growth for the city and increasing costs of running
Speaker 8: city government.
Speaker 1: The Mirror increasing. Yeah, I mean it comes back almost
Speaker 1: always to Johnston spending all this money on providing quote,
Speaker 1: housing for the homeless. And listen, I'm a Christian, I'm
Speaker 1: a Catholic. I believe as Archbishop Shep Hugh used to say,
Speaker 1: that we will be judged on how we help the poor.
Speaker 1: I believe that to my core. I don't claim to
Speaker 1: be doing it all what I should, but I believe
Speaker 1: it to my core. But the point there isn't that
Speaker 1: society government then bankrupts itself and undermines the rest of
Speaker 1: the citizenry doing things for the poor that are bad
Speaker 1: for the poor and bad for everybody else in the meantime.
Speaker 1: And that's what we have going on right now. And
Speaker 1: by the way, this commitment to the poor, I believe
Speaker 1: for all of us needs to start personally. And I
Speaker 1: renew my challenge to Mike Johnston and Jared Polis and
Speaker 1: Michael Bennett and John Hickenlooper, open the checkbook, show us
Speaker 1: the money you're spending out of your docket to help
Speaker 1: these poor, to help the newcomers, et cetera. I don't
Speaker 1: think they're going to take me up on that.
Speaker 8: Said today that for the remainder of twenty twenty five,
Speaker 8: the city is facing a fifty million dollars gap in revenues.
Speaker 1: That's the magic number, right, So Ryan three guesses fifty
Speaker 1: million dollar gap in revenue. So now you have all
Speaker 1: these good people being laid off, services cut, et cetera.
Speaker 1: What do you think Mike Johnston is spending now putting
Speaker 1: the homeless up in hotels?
Speaker 2: It is like pouring water in a bucket full of holes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but think of the magic number fifty million O
Speaker 1: O zero has So we've got this fifty million revenue shortfall,
Speaker 1: and what's he spending now? Keeping this insane and by
Speaker 1: the way, destructive to the homeless. Ultimately promise we.
Speaker 3: Will get you a home. We will get you a home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fifty to seventy five million. Now, if the truth is,
Speaker 1: if Johnston is telling you they're spending fifty to seventy
Speaker 1: five million, you can probably double that.
Speaker 8: And for twenty twenty six, a two hundred million dollar
Speaker 8: projected deficit for the city of Denver, and with that,
Speaker 8: an immediate hiring freeze for the city started today and
Speaker 8: the city workers will start taking furlough days in June.
Speaker 1: So you know what you can conclude from that is
Speaker 1: the number that Johnston is actually spending on warehousing the
Speaker 1: homeless is at least fifty to seventy five million, but
Speaker 1: likely much higher. And you just heard it projected deficit
Speaker 1: two hundred million last year. You can bet that number
Speaker 1: is going up and up and up. We know it.
Speaker 1: We know homelessness is increasing because people are coming here
Speaker 1: to take advantage of Johnston's promise.
Speaker 3: Too, we will get you a home. Yeah. The truth
Speaker 3: is this is hard, and this is going to be hard.
Speaker 8: The first to feel the budget squeeze, city workers will
Speaker 8: have to take between two and seven furlough days off,
Speaker 8: depending on how much they make. What are you going
Speaker 8: to cut?
Speaker 4: Oh well, I'm going to first take the most furloughs
Speaker 4: of any employee in the city. I mean our senior
Speaker 4: appointees will I'll take seven furloughs. I'll writ a check
Speaker 4: back to the city for those days, and then I'm
Speaker 4: gonna look at every single dollar we spend in the
Speaker 4: Mayor's office, in terms of travel, in terms of food,
Speaker 4: in terms of contracts. So we'll look at all those
Speaker 4: where were doing the same thing. Ever the department does.
Speaker 4: How are we gonna make cuts? And we'll start with
Speaker 4: all those discressionary spending. So we'll start that tomorrow city.
Speaker 8: Hi.
Speaker 1: Yeah, check back with him, right what two months? Three months?
Speaker 1: See you see how that's going bringing.
Speaker 8: Free starts now and layoffs said the mayor are inevitable. Well,
Speaker 8: there's been much criticism of how much Johnston has spent
Speaker 8: on homelessness and if that's contributed to this budget pinch.
Speaker 8: The mayor batted that away, saying that's been an investment
Speaker 8: in city growth.
Speaker 1: So he doesn't deny he spent it, and he doesn't
Speaker 1: deny it's the Roy Mee go on to deny it
Speaker 1: in this piece. But that's not believable. But it's an investment.
Speaker 1: What's it an investment in? It's an investment in what
Speaker 1: his political future in appealing to some big money people
Speaker 1: on the left, what's it an investment in? It's certainly
Speaker 1: not good for these homeless people who you are not
Speaker 1: You are not attacking the root cause we.
Speaker 4: Do not have any encampments in our city center. We
Speaker 4: don't have any large encampments anywhere in the city. If
Speaker 4: you are running a business in the city or have
Speaker 4: a home in the city, that is a transformational change
Speaker 4: that makes you more likely to do business here or
Speaker 4: live here.
Speaker 1: But it's completely unsustainable. That's the point. We're getting people
Speaker 1: laid off, we're having city services cut, and it's only
Speaker 1: going to get worse because more and more homeless are
Speaker 1: coming here. Why because Johnston will get you a home.
Speaker 1: It is not sustainable. You can have a sugar high, right,
Speaker 1: you can go out right now. Any of us could
Speaker 1: do certain things in our life to create this just
Speaker 1: amazing environment for what period of time. Maybe it's a day,
Speaker 1: maybe it's a week, maybe it's a month. But you
Speaker 1: know what they say about bankruptcy, it comes very slowly
Speaker 1: and then all at once.
Speaker 8: Along the same lines, he was hopeful, but revitalizing downtown,
Speaker 8: we'll bring back visitors willing to spend money and buff
Speaker 8: up the city's bottom line.
Speaker 3: We have to do two things.
Speaker 4: As I said, you have flattening revenue, you have increasing costs.
Speaker 3: You have to do two things.
Speaker 4: You have to both drive increases in your revenue to
Speaker 4: recover and you have to drive reductions in your costs
Speaker 4: to make those two lines meeting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he's not willing to do the big things
Speaker 1: that are necessary to do that right because they violate
Speaker 1: leftist orthodoxy. And one is you've got to crack down
Speaker 1: on this drug culture. I mean you trace you trace
Speaker 1: the bottoming out of the Sixteenth Street mall. You can
Speaker 1: trace it right back to legalization of marijuana and all
Speaker 1: these permissive attitudes of the left on drug use and
Speaker 1: public drug use, et cetera. The left will not crack
Speaker 1: down on that right because their far left ideology comes first.
Speaker 1: And you can put all the perfume on the pig
Speaker 1: you want to put on it, but it's still.
Speaker 2: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Brian Wilson, right, you got it, gone.
Speaker 2: Eighty two. He was suffering under the throes of dementia
Speaker 2: and he had been placed in a conservatorship. I don't
Speaker 2: know how cognitively aware he was toward the end, but
Speaker 2: a genius during his life.
Speaker 1: That is so hard. Yeah, Hey, pigs get fat, hogs
Speaker 1: get voted out right, you see that. Yeah, David Hogg,
Speaker 1: the vice chair of the DNC. They're going to hold
Speaker 1: a new vote because get this Democratic National Committee. There
Speaker 1: are gender requirements. So it's it's not just merit based.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have to have so many people of
Speaker 1: a certain gender. So there's been this decision that when
Speaker 1: Hogg was elected, those gender requirements are violated. So they're
Speaker 1: having a new election. Now, doesn't that just tell you
Speaker 1: everything you need to know about how easy the Democrats
Speaker 1: should be to beat?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: I mean, there's supposed to be an American political party.
Speaker 1: What could be more anti what America stands for? More
Speaker 1: and die what Doctor King lived for? Then saying oh no,
Speaker 1: this election not merit based. It depends on your plumbing.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's that's how crazy they've become. But I
Speaker 1: think they're using it to try to send old Hog
Speaker 1: out to the meat packing plant. Three h three seOne
Speaker 1: three eight two five five useless information because we're coming
Speaker 1: up on the end of the show and we have
Speaker 1: some potentially important news to talk about, too early to tell.
Speaker 1: In fact, we just cut the promo about twenty minutes
Speaker 1: ago for tomorrow, and the promo I cut was is
Speaker 1: the US getting ready to mount a surgical strike to
Speaker 1: take out Iron's nukes? Or are these preparations we see
Speaker 1: happening part of a piece through strength maneuver. And you know,
Speaker 1: we obviously see a personnel, non military personnel being moved
Speaker 1: out of the Mid East, et cetera. And when President
Speaker 1: Trump was asked about it tonight at the Kennedy center.
Speaker 1: He just said, you know, you'll have to wait and see,
Speaker 1: so or is it Ryan as some are speculating now
Speaker 1: in Israeli strike that is expected soon.
Speaker 2: Those are some of the reports I'm seeing. Like you said, Dan,
Speaker 2: nothing's been confirmed, but something's happening because we are evacuating
Speaker 2: personnel out of that region, right.
Speaker 1: And you know, hey, blessed are the peacemakers. And there
Speaker 1: are different ways to make peace, and you always hope
Speaker 1: to be able to make peace without any form of violence,
Speaker 1: and you're most likely to do that through two things,
Speaker 1: through prayer and strength. And then you know, when it's
Speaker 1: impossible to make peace that way, then you have to
Speaker 1: you have to stand up to the Hitler's of the world,
Speaker 1: and you have to do it in the most surgical
Speaker 1: way possible. Obviously, what you have in the Iatolis in
Speaker 1: Iran is is you have a version of Hitler, right,
Speaker 1: and you have an extraordinarily dangerous version of Hitler, and
Speaker 1: you have a regime that's holding its own people hostage
Speaker 1: while preparing. I don't think there's any doubt to commit
Speaker 1: the next Holocaust, and so nobody can expect Israel to
Speaker 1: just stand down and allow that to happen, and President
Speaker 1: Trump has made it clear to Iran, Okay, we can
Speaker 1: do this the easy way or the hard way around now,
Speaker 1: at least publicly defying him. And I don't think anybody
Speaker 1: would expect President Trump to just sit back endlessly and
Speaker 1: take that defiance. So yeah, something is brewing right now.
Speaker 1: I hope that it is a piece through strength maneuver.
Speaker 1: But in the end, we've talked about it on air
Speaker 1: for how many years now twenty years. Iran can't have nukes,
Speaker 1: This regime can't have nukes. It's that simple. And so
Speaker 1: we'll see. We'll see if the appearance of a pending
Speaker 1: strike is meant to force iron to do a deal
Speaker 1: which will not allow it to enrich in country, or
Speaker 1: if there's actually going to be a strike. So we
Speaker 1: will follow that together. Texter is Dan grateful to DPD
Speaker 1: handling the protests yesterday. Besides the Capitol, it looks like
Speaker 1: DPD stop protesters from shutting down I two five and Broadway.
Speaker 1: Also look like they stop protesters trying to shut down
Speaker 1: I twenty five in a area that from Alexa, you
Speaker 1: know why that is so telling. Thank you, Alexa. First,
Speaker 1: DPD allowed to do what the officers want to do
Speaker 1: is it's going to do the right thing. But you've
Speaker 1: got political control now over DPD. So what's so telling
Speaker 1: about that yesterday, Ryan, is that clearly Mike Johnston decided
Speaker 1: that was going to happen, decided he was going to
Speaker 1: allow law enforcement to do what law enforcement always wants
Speaker 1: to do, which is enforce the law. No doubt in
Speaker 1: my mind that Mike Johnston made that decision to actually
Speaker 1: let law enforcement enforce the law real quickly.
Speaker 2: What do you remember the press conference at sixteenth Street
Speaker 2: where the guy was yelling at Johnston and the sign
Speaker 2: greatest performance ever maintain the sign language through the person
Speaker 2: yelling and spraying out Yeah. Then Chief Ron Thomas and
Speaker 2: his facial expression through all of.
Speaker 1: That classic, classic great moment, and we should have that
Speaker 1: signer on. He was awesome. But no, I think Johnston
Speaker 1: he did the math. He looked at it and said, no,
Speaker 1: it's going to be very bad for Mike Johnston in
Speaker 1: the left if the protesters are allowed to do the
Speaker 1: things are being allowed to do in LA. So I
Speaker 1: think he allowed the police to do what the police
Speaker 1: would always want to do and do. So well, Ryan,
Speaker 1: thank you, Kelly, You're the best. Please join us tomorrow
Speaker 1: on the Dan Kapla Show.