WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.520 This is Dan Kaples and welcome to today's online podcast 2 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:05.759 edition of The Dan Kaplis 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 --> 00:00:14.400 single day on your favorite podcast platform. 6 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:17.120 Blessed are the peacemakers. Glad you are here. 7 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:19.600 Three oh three seven one three A two five five 8 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:22.519 the number text d A N five seven seven three 9 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:27.960 nine Jared Polus for once in his life actually building bridges. 10 00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:29.600 But this one is meant to be a monument to. 11 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:31.839 Him, and I guess it would be kind of a 12 00:00:31.879 --> 00:00:36.119 fitting one, right because it's a total waste, But. 13 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:38.439 We have some fun sound and that's what matters. 14 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:40.520 Three oh three seven one three A two five five 15 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:42.759 the number. We'll talk about that right out of the gate, 16 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:45.520 and then I really want to dig back into this 17 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:49.039 Epstein thing with you because the Democrats, obviously they are 18 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:49.479 trying to make. 19 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:50.359 A big deal out of it now. 20 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:53.520 They don't have a good explanation for why they didn't 21 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:56.240 make any of it public of four years they could have, 22 00:00:56.920 --> 00:00:59.359 but I think everybody knows the reason for that. Right 23 00:00:59.479 --> 00:01:03.399 begins with the initials BC and probably goes way beyond that. 24 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:08.000 But in any case that you know that the Democrat's duplicity, dishonesty, etc. 25 00:01:08.519 --> 00:01:11.680 Doesn't change the fact that this is a bit of 26 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:14.599 an issue for President Trump right now. And I suggested 27 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:16.760 I think a very sensible solution to it, and it 28 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:19.280 looks like that may be in the process of happening, 29 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:21.760 and so we'll get into those details. But I really 30 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:24.599 would like your take on what you think the president 31 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:27.799 should do with the so called Epstein files, whether or 32 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:30.799 not there is a quote unquote client list, what about 33 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:33.920 the files themselves. So we'll be talking about that. We 34 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:36.719 also have to stay on this story because it's it's 35 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:40.079 so important to you, right and it's to me is 36 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:42.840 kind of shocking. I didn't even know we had this 37 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:46.640 fatal gap in Colorado law until this story started to 38 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:49.920 percolate about two weeks ago. But this business where the 39 00:01:50.239 --> 00:01:53.799 Left is now put in this provision where if somebody's knots, 40 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:57.439 if they're just insane, say you got some violent, insane guy, 41 00:01:57.840 --> 00:01:59.920 Say some guy who's out there trying to kidnap a 42 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:03.000 kid from an elementary school in Aurora while. 43 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:04.280 He's a convicted sex offender. 44 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:06.959 So the left's putting this law that if you got 45 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:10.960 somebody who's violent and they're insane, they're so insane that 46 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:13.080 you can't even put them on trial. They're not competent 47 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:16.120 to stand trial. Well, guess what, that's their get out 48 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:19.000 of jail free card. And if they can bring in 49 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:21.479 some strength to convince everybody that they're. 50 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:24.800 Not restorable, they might just end up back on the street. 51 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:25.560 I mean, it's. 52 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:30.280 Psycho crazy, suicidal stuff for society. But now we're hearing 53 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:33.120 about all these real life examples that I guarantee you, 54 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:35.639 as you're driving home today or wherever you are right now, 55 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:39.400 you're thinking to yourself, they're but for the grace of God, 56 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:41.800 go on as the victim. And if that ever happened 57 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:44.319 to me, my loved one gets killed and the killer 58 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:47.319 just gets put right back out on the street because 59 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:49.360 the lefts say, hey, we're going to reward you. If 60 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:54.960 you're really nuts and you're violent, you know, you'd lose 61 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:56.759 your mind. You'd lose your mind. 62 00:02:56.960 --> 00:02:57.560 I fear to. 63 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:00.479 Think what someone would do in that situation is victims. 64 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:02.319 So we have other examples. We want to get to 65 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:05.599 you today as well, not to raise your blood pressure, 66 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:08.120 but to try to enlighten all of us on this 67 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:10.680 so we can take the action we need to change 68 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:14.280 this and hopefully elect people who won't make laws like this. 69 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.199 Three or three seven, one, three eight, two five five 70 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:22.719 the number Ryan Jared Polis. And you know there's this tombstone. 71 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:24.240 I don't know if you've ever read about it. I 72 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:25.840 did not see it the one time I was at 73 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:28.159 Saint Andrews playing golf, which is a great story in 74 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:31.919 and of itself, because you know, I was young kid, 75 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:35.479 riding planes, trains, all of that stuff to get up there, 76 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:38.000 had no money in my pocket when I got to 77 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:41.159 the first t week before the British Open started and 78 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:44.719 just found some saint of a starter who let me 79 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:48.039 out on the course. But there's a tombstone near Saint 80 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:50.319 Andrews that says, of all the words of tongue and 81 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:52.360 pen the Saddes Star, what might have been? 82 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:54.400 And as we play the sound. 83 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:57.039 Of Polish right now, I think about that because obviously 84 00:03:57.080 --> 00:04:00.560 as politics is different, right and are different, and we're 85 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:04.680 going to have our disagreements on big issues. But he's 86 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:08.840 a smart, talented guy who had parents who who built 87 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:12.719 this really successful created company. He then did some good 88 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:16.600 things himself in business, so he has all these resources. 89 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:19.480 He could have stepped in and he could have been 90 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:23.959 a really dynamic, important governor for Colorado, and he's just 91 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:27.040 he's just been kind of a waste of space. I 92 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:29.079 think everybody'd have to agree on that. What do you 93 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:30.759 think Jared Polis's legacy is? 94 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:32.600 Right? What do you think he's known for? 95 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:36.720 And it's all because all those skills and talents and 96 00:04:36.759 --> 00:04:41.639 intelligence and everything else, there was never anything he was 97 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:44.120 willing to fight and die for, right, Ryan, Isn't that 98 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:46.199 where the great leaders come from? Whether I agree with 99 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:49.240 their ideology or not. They have things they care deeply 100 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:51.959 about that they're willing to fight and die for. And 101 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:54.800 if the public doesn't agree with him, they're willing to 102 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:56.959 die on that. He'll try to persuade the public. 103 00:04:57.079 --> 00:04:57.720 What's the first thing? 104 00:04:57.759 --> 00:04:59.240 That's where the great leaders come from. 105 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:01.120 What's the first thing you think of a Jared Poulis? 106 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:04.680 I'll tell you mine, wear a damn mask and selfish 107 00:05:04.759 --> 00:05:07.240 bastards during COVID. That's the first thing I think of 108 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:09.360 a Jared Polis And that's what I will remember him for. 109 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:15.800 Yeah, I remember him for abandoning his post because that's 110 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:18.879 just so bizarre, right, you've got mobs taking over downtown 111 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:23.120 Denver and you literally disappear. But your stuff's a close second. 112 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:26.560 But the other part of it I'm serious about. I 113 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:28.680 know he and I always got along grade he came 114 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:31.120 on the show a bunch. We'd have our disagreements, but 115 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:35.120 all in good spirit. And then with Covid is when 116 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:37.000 he changed, right because he knew if he came on air, 117 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:39.319 I'd ask him the good questions he wouldn't have answers, 118 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:43.199 And that's when that all changed. But such a talented guy, 119 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:46.639 he could have been so much, But why wasn't he 120 00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:48.800 willing to do that? It may just be that at 121 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:51.879 his core, he just doesn't have those causes that he 122 00:05:52.839 --> 00:05:55.680 cares that much about. But now it's the bridge, So 123 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:58.920 let's launch into some of that sound. And this is 124 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:01.319 if you haven't heard about this scoofiness, which is never 125 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:04.279 going to happen. Obviously, it's just about twenty eight to 126 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:09.720 thirty million dollar bridge that would really hurt the look 127 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:12.800 of Civic Center Park and the Capitol Lawn, and it 128 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:15.920 would be built over Broadway and you'd have some art 129 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:18.560 up there, and lord knows all the things that'd be 130 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:21.160 happening on and under that bridge, and rather than just 131 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:25.120 clean up downtown by dealing with the problems his policies 132 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:27.439 has created, he wants to now build this bridge over 133 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:28.720 the top of them. 134 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:30.680 And so that's the idea with it. 135 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:34.399 Nobody likes it, it's never going to happen, and yet 136 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:38.879 he's convinced that it's created this big conversation in society. 137 00:06:39.399 --> 00:06:42.399 Let's go with cut nine. Let's talk about the Vestering bridge. 138 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:46.759 Let's do it. Has the project changed. So here's where 139 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:47.920 we're launching today. 140 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:50.759 We are trying to figure out whether people want to 141 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:52.959 see a pedestrian bridge at the Capitol and so we 142 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:55.680 are launching a survey today State White Survey COEO one 143 00:06:55.720 --> 00:06:58.399 fifty walkway dot com, so we describe the project takes 144 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:01.439 less than five minutes, so walkway dot com, I encourage 145 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:04.720 you to fill it out. It'll be up through Monday nights. 146 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:07.120 So we're hoping to get thousands, tens of thousands of 147 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:09.600 people to say whether they want to see this done 148 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:10.720 or not, because we. 149 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:12.240 Now's the time when we need to figure out. 150 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:13.680 It's one hundred fifthday next year. 151 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:16.000 What we're asking people should want to do the walkway 152 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:17.639 do not want to do the walkway, we're describing it. 153 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:19.439 I'm we're even gonna put up your. 154 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:21.199 Video what people are saying so people can see how 155 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:23.920 you don't like it and you know, make their decision. 156 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:25.639 And then if they don't want it, what do they 157 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:27.680 want to see the state doing. Should we do smaller 158 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:29.240 projects in other parts of the state. Should we do 159 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:31.120 nothing for one hundred and fifty birthday? So we just 160 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:33.360 ask four or five questions, we get a quick sense 161 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:34.959 of where people are. We want to make it as 162 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:37.439 unobtrusive as easy as possible to have your voice count. 163 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:39.639 Well, wait a second, don't you think he should have 164 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:40.360 done that before? 165 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:44.240 It just goes back to how they operate now they 166 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:46.480 don't care what the people think. But it also goes 167 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:48.879 back to my point about this is an intelligent guy. 168 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:52.560 He has intelligence. He has a lot of intelligence because 169 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:55.319 think about this. Okay, he launched this thing so it 170 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:58.639 would be a monument to him, maybe named polis Bridge 171 00:07:58.720 --> 00:07:59.399 or something like that. 172 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:01.160 Nobody wanted it. He knew that. 173 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:03.800 So now that he's been called out on it and 174 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:06.079 he has to back off it, now he's going to 175 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:09.319 try to make it a w by claiming that he 176 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:11.279 just turned it over to the will of the people. 177 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:13.279 He's just a man of the people. Turned it over 178 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:15.040 to the will of the people, and obviously didn't give 179 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:17.040 a darn about the will of the people in the beginning, 180 00:08:17.480 --> 00:08:20.079 or he never would have suggested wasting twenty eight million 181 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:23.480 dollars of their money on this. So yeah, So it's 182 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:25.959 kind of a slick maneuver now to try to turn 183 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:28.600 an L into a W and we all know where 184 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:30.959 this is headed. But Ryan, before we play the rest 185 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:32.360 of this sound, I know we got to pop a 186 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:36.960 heart break. I'd like to know from folks, what do 187 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:40.840 you want to see Colorado actually do to celebrate our 188 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:44.200 one hundred and fiftieth birthday. I mean, that should be 189 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:48.399 a big deal, something big should happen, but obviously not 190 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:51.919 this boondoggle. So I wonder where that word comes from. 191 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:54.320 I'll find out during the break. But what do you 192 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:56.480 want to see happen? How should the one hundred and 193 00:08:56.600 --> 00:08:58.600 fiftieth be commemorated? 194 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:02.480 Love snow? So if you've got some something snarky. 195 00:09:02.039 --> 00:09:05.440 For that text, it to daan five seven, seven, three nine, 196 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:06.639 something serious. 197 00:09:06.679 --> 00:09:08.519 We're always open to that possibility. 198 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:11.519 Three O three seven one three eight two five five 199 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:15.759 The number but what should that actually look like? Would 200 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:17.639 love your take on that, and then we'll come back. 201 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:20.559 Some of the best parts of this sound still ahead, 202 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:25.240 when when Polus talks about how this debate over the 203 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:29.480 pedestrian bridge is just raging down at the corner bar 204 00:09:29.799 --> 00:09:30.879 whatever that is. 205 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:32.879 You're on the Dan Gapla. 206 00:09:32.600 --> 00:09:41.919 Show and now back to the Dan Kaplass Show podcast. 207 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:47.000 So your pole is trying to find a graceful way 208 00:09:47.080 --> 00:09:50.879 to lose now on this pedestrian bridge over Broadway that 209 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:53.960 was supposed to be a monument to himself. But the 210 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:56.639 sound is fun and it leads to I think a 211 00:09:56.679 --> 00:09:59.279 really big question for us, what do you want to 212 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:03.320 do to commend Colorado's one hundred and fiftieth birthday? That 213 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:06.159 is a really big deal. What should we be doing 214 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:10.559 to commemorate that? But some more of this exchange between 215 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:24.600 Kyle Clark and Governor Police cut ten Police. 216 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:23.240 So online survey, I can't tell if you're looking for 217 00:10:23.320 --> 00:10:25.960 a justification, we'll looking for an escape route. Well, I'm 218 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:28.000 hoping it's clear one way or the other, Kyle, right, Like, 219 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:30.279 what I would hate to see is fifty point one 220 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:33.279 to forty nine point nine. I'm really hoping sixty seventy 221 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:36.120 percent of people want to see a walkway. Sixty seventy 222 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:38.200 percent of people don't want to see a walkway, want 223 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:40.240 to see something else. If it is a walkway, I 224 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:41.480 need to get to work, as you know, I need 225 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:42.879 to raise a lot of the money for that. It's 226 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:44.519 about eight and a half a million public, about ten 227 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:46.679 twelve million private, So I would need to raise that 228 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:48.879 if we go that way. If we go other away 229 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:51.159 and do smaller projects in other areas of the state, 230 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:53.279 we can see if there's local matching funds we can 231 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:53.799 raise for those. 232 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:55.360 But now's really the time to figure that out. 233 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:58.000 Our birthday is next year, and we want to make 234 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:00.240 sure the Colorado is celebrate in a way where where 235 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:00.879 we're proud. 236 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:00.960 To do that. 237 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:03.600 If your ownership of it, you know, if he really 238 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:05.559 wants it, and I know you raised this, Ryan, but 239 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:08.360 it's a great question. If he really wants it, why 240 00:11:08.360 --> 00:11:09.879 doesn't he gift it to the state? 241 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:12.720 Right? Why doesn't he just gift it to the state? 242 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:15.279 I mean for him, and we can do the math, 243 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:18.600 but that kind of contribution to the state, and I'm 244 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:21.759 sure he could find all sorts of legal ways to 245 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:24.240 write it off pro public actually did an expos on 246 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:28.480 him on that nothing illegal, but left him if I 247 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:30.639 remember the story, right, I want to double check. Maybe 248 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:34.039 paying the same tax rate as somebody working out heart 249 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:36.080 out there right now as a waitress, but I will 250 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:36.799 double check that. 251 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:39.840 But pro public who is not happy with police on that. 252 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:43.399 So he could donate it to the state, name it 253 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.399 after himself whatever, if he really cared about it that much. 254 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:50.679 But with his worse and hey, that's wonderful. 255 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:54.159 I celebrate prosperity for everybody, as long as it's legally earned. 256 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:58.320 And his husband, you know, with his net worth, what 257 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:01.679 would that be if he was to say, contribute this 258 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:04.360 thing to the state thirty million bucks or whatever, which 259 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:06.679 would be probably less than he spent on any of 260 00:12:06.679 --> 00:12:11.600 his campaigns. You know, that'd be like couch cushion money 261 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:14.840 for him. But it's so interesting with these lefties, right, 262 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:18.919 I mean, like we saw these big sob stories about okay, 263 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:21.879 because Trump went in court, Now planned paranoide can't use 264 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:25.279 taxpayer dollars to kill more babies. Well, but you don't 265 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:27.679 see planned paranoids stepping up and saying we'll pay for 266 00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:30.360 that ourselves, right, And how much money do they have 267 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:33.399 and god, they don't do that, right, I mean, every 268 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:37.039 baby saved is a tremendous thing. But yeah, the left 269 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:39.840 never seems to put its own money where its mouth 270 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:45.519 is unless you're seeing something different out there. Let's let's 271 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:49.159 get in this instant classic cut twelve please, Ryan, cut twelve. 272 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:51.559 Is this what you should have done months ago before 273 00:12:51.559 --> 00:12:53.120 you announced that you were going forward with a bridge? 274 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:56.360 Well, we couldn't because there was no bridge for people 275 00:12:56.399 --> 00:12:58.200 to vote on, right, So I mean it has to 276 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:01.919 be in sequence. People would have not known what we 277 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:04.600 were talking about had we done this three months ago, 278 00:13:04.679 --> 00:13:07.759 because there was no visuals, there was no project. So 279 00:13:08.159 --> 00:13:10.039 thanks to that, which is all very recent. This is 280 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:12.519 all what about a month or two. People have been 281 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:13.960 out there, people have been talking about it. 282 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:16.279 You know, it's great. You go down a corner bar. 283 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:18.039 People saying they love it, people say they hated it's great. 284 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:20.399 People have one ownership and passion about this. 285 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:21.519 So what does that all mean? 286 00:13:21.559 --> 00:13:23.440 And how do we kind of decipher that into whether 287 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:23.799 we do. 288 00:13:23.799 --> 00:13:26.240 This or not? Now right, I've got to ask you 289 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:26.679 a question. 290 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:30.720 You're okay, why would he lie about something like that? 291 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:34.600 Really? I mean, first of all, it's never. 292 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:37.840 Good to lie. People shouldn't lie. But why would he 293 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:41.639 lie about something like that? Everybody knows it. He knows 294 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:43.600 it when he said it, that everybody will know it's 295 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:45.519 to lie. Is it a power play? 296 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:47.840 Oh? Look, I'm big and powerful. I can lie. 297 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:50.679 There's not one person in one corner bar by the way, 298 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:53.919 what is a corner bar anywhere? Who is sitting there 299 00:13:53.960 --> 00:13:57.080 talking about this bridge to nowhere? No? 300 00:13:58.120 --> 00:13:59.080 Right, not happening. 301 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:01.759 But yeah, why anyway? It's just. 302 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:06.960 Fortunately that tenure is near an end. Not that the 303 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:08.559 next one is going to be any better if it's 304 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:12.600 a Democrat, but it is near an end. And someday 305 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:15.279 we'll have that conversation if it is a Democrat, you know, 306 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:17.799 holding that governor's office again next time around? 307 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:19.399 Is it going to be better or worse? 308 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:25.480 Police has just been like nondescript, Right, He's just been 309 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:30.039 so nondescript, So not only low impact, but no impact 310 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:34.120 except for the obvious negatives. And I'm trying to think 311 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:36.399 of a single category. Can you think of a single 312 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:40.440 category major stuff that affects quality of life in Colorado 313 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:44.080 where it's anything other than worse, much worse since he 314 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:44.799 took office. 315 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:47.240 Oh, that's a great question, because. 316 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:50.159 I can't truly and I'm trying to be really intellectually 317 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:53.399 honest with this and generous. It's charitable one category because 318 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:56.840 what are the biggiest, right, the biggies or what prices 319 00:14:57.360 --> 00:14:57.960 comper living? 320 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:05.679 Traffic? You know that the environment, all of that is there. Housing. 321 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:10.679 Is there one category where things are better? Is there 322 00:15:10.759 --> 00:15:14.559 one category where things are not dramatically worse than they 323 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:15.919 were when he took office. 324 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:21.360 About eight years ago? Yeah? Well, for another show, I guess. 325 00:15:21.600 --> 00:15:23.200 But one thing I do want to zero. 326 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:26.720 Went on is what should we be doing to celebrate 327 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:28.840 the States one hundred and fiftieth. I know we have 328 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:30.519 some text on that. I'll get to those. 329 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:32.639 Dan. 330 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:36.200 Let's celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth by reversing legislation that 331 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:40.360 put us in last place the last ten years. 332 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:42.279 Dan, first eate one hundred and fiftieth. 333 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:44.879 Perhaps bring the roads up to a standard different than 334 00:15:44.919 --> 00:15:46.759 they were one hundred and fifty years ago. 335 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:48.240 That is beautiful. 336 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:50.440 Yeah, compare the roads now to what they were in 337 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:51.720 eighteen seventy six. 338 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:55.000 Dan, maybe Powthole Polis could finally and actually spend some 339 00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:56.360 money on. 340 00:15:56.360 --> 00:16:01.120 Our horrible roads. Daddy is so true Ryan, I mean, 341 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:05.399 it's it is, it's just so bad. And I've been 342 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:05.840 on the road. 343 00:16:05.879 --> 00:16:07.639 I'm always having road a bunch, but I've been on 344 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:11.840 the road a lot lately and the roads really are rough. 345 00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:16.360 And then you know the difference between Democrat controlled areas 346 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:18.000 and Republican controlled areas. Well. 347 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:20.840 On that note, Dan, I just have reversus the suburbs 348 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:21.519 that too. 349 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:24.759 But I saw a video somebody took and went viral 350 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:29.279 on X of the highway I seventy coming from Kansas 351 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:32.720 into Colorado, and it is stark. The visual on the 352 00:16:32.759 --> 00:16:37.039 camera starts shaking from the smooth freeway of Kansas to 353 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:40.000 the patched up work in Colorado as soon as you 354 00:16:40.039 --> 00:16:40.759 cross the border. 355 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:44.360 Yeah, which is mind blowing, right because think about it, 356 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:47.039 and Kansas, great people, great work ethic. I have a 357 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:49.840 lot of tremendous relatives there who are kind enough often 358 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:52.720 to listen to the show. I wish they'd call in June. 359 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:56.919 But but then you get into Colorado and how many states, 360 00:16:56.919 --> 00:16:58.960 and I'd love to hear from people on this, how 361 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:01.720 many states in this kind have been a blessed as Colorado. 362 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:06.519 All of these amazing natural advantages, you know, the location, 363 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:10.640 the rocky mountains, the climate, and as a result of 364 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:12.839 all of that, the ability to attract all of this 365 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:17.440 talent and everything else, you know, protected from the severe 366 00:17:17.480 --> 00:17:20.359 disasters you sometimes get on the coasts and things like that. 367 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:23.640 What state has been more blessed and perfectly set up 368 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:27.920 than Colorado? And then you look at how awful things 369 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:30.440 are in so many different categories. You got to work 370 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:34.480 really hard to take a place like this and have 371 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:39.400 it be that awful in so many different categories. Right, 372 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:41.160 how does that even happen? 373 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:44.160 I just think Jared paul is that to me, in 374 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:47.440 a quick summation, just doesn't really care that much. He's 375 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:51.079 so detached from the way that every day regular Colorado's 376 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:53.359 live their lives that it just doesn't affect him and 377 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:55.519 it won't and therefore he doesn't care about it, not really. 378 00:17:56.039 --> 00:17:56.960 And that may be Ryan. 379 00:17:57.240 --> 00:17:59.400 But then you take a guy like Mike Johnston, right, 380 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:01.440 and Johnson Sten he's well off, but he doesn't have 381 00:18:01.480 --> 00:18:06.240 Polus's money, But Johnston's appears to be completely detached and 382 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:10.200 uncaring about what happens to your typical person here. Legally, 383 00:18:11.400 --> 00:18:14.240 I just think that's more a product of the left, 384 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:16.960 and we can dive into that sum But yeah, what 385 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:19.039 do you think Colorado should do to celebrate its one 386 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:21.759 hundred and fiftieth We'll talk about that much more here 387 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:24.480 on the Dan Capitol Show. 388 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:38.519 You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast. 389 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:44.079 A little fun as Polis's pet project, this bridge to nowhere, right, 390 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:47.559 that would be over Broadway in downtown Denver and really 391 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:50.359 mess up the look of the front of the Capitol 392 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:53.640 and Civic Center Park. Is that whole thing falls apart 393 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:56.200 Now he's trying to turn it into a w by 394 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:58.680 putting it out there to a survey of the people. 395 00:18:58.759 --> 00:19:02.319 But that's that's just a starting point for Hey, what 396 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:05.480 should we do to celebrate Colorado's one hundred and fiftieth 397 00:19:05.480 --> 00:19:09.480 birthday next year? That was ostensibly the reason for this 398 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:12.000 this bridge. I think Polis had probably planned to have 399 00:19:12.079 --> 00:19:14.119 it named after him. Do you think anything will be 400 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:17.559 named after Polis? And really, we need to do something 401 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:20.039