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Speaker 2: Blessed are the peacemakers. Glad you are here.
Speaker 1: Three oh three seven one three A two five five
Speaker 1: the number text d A N five seven seven three
Speaker 1: nine Jared Polus for once in his life actually building bridges.
Speaker 2: But this one is meant to be a monument to.
Speaker 1: Him, and I guess it would be kind of a
Speaker 1: fitting one, right because it's a total waste, But.
Speaker 2: We have some fun sound and that's what matters.
Speaker 1: Three oh three seven one three A two five five
Speaker 1: the number. We'll talk about that right out of the gate,
Speaker 1: and then I really want to dig back into this
Speaker 1: Epstein thing with you because the Democrats, obviously they are
Speaker 1: trying to make.
Speaker 2: A big deal out of it now.
Speaker 1: They don't have a good explanation for why they didn't
Speaker 1: make any of it public of four years they could have,
Speaker 1: but I think everybody knows the reason for that. Right
Speaker 1: begins with the initials BC and probably goes way beyond that.
Speaker 1: But in any case that you know that the Democrat's duplicity, dishonesty, etc.
Speaker 1: Doesn't change the fact that this is a bit of
Speaker 1: an issue for President Trump right now. And I suggested
Speaker 1: I think a very sensible solution to it, and it
Speaker 1: looks like that may be in the process of happening,
Speaker 1: and so we'll get into those details. But I really
Speaker 1: would like your take on what you think the president
Speaker 1: should do with the so called Epstein files, whether or
Speaker 1: not there is a quote unquote client list, what about
Speaker 1: the files themselves. So we'll be talking about that. We
Speaker 1: also have to stay on this story because it's it's
Speaker 1: so important to you, right and it's to me is
Speaker 1: kind of shocking. I didn't even know we had this
Speaker 1: fatal gap in Colorado law until this story started to
Speaker 1: percolate about two weeks ago. But this business where the
Speaker 1: Left is now put in this provision where if somebody's knots,
Speaker 1: if they're just insane, say you got some violent, insane guy,
Speaker 1: Say some guy who's out there trying to kidnap a
Speaker 1: kid from an elementary school in Aurora while.
Speaker 2: He's a convicted sex offender.
Speaker 1: So the left's putting this law that if you got
Speaker 1: somebody who's violent and they're insane, they're so insane that
Speaker 1: you can't even put them on trial. They're not competent
Speaker 1: to stand trial. Well, guess what, that's their get out
Speaker 1: of jail free card. And if they can bring in
Speaker 1: some strength to convince everybody that they're.
Speaker 2: Not restorable, they might just end up back on the street.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's.
Speaker 1: Psycho crazy, suicidal stuff for society. But now we're hearing
Speaker 1: about all these real life examples that I guarantee you,
Speaker 1: as you're driving home today or wherever you are right now,
Speaker 1: you're thinking to yourself, they're but for the grace of God,
Speaker 1: go on as the victim. And if that ever happened
Speaker 1: to me, my loved one gets killed and the killer
Speaker 1: just gets put right back out on the street because
Speaker 1: the lefts say, hey, we're going to reward you. If
Speaker 1: you're really nuts and you're violent, you know, you'd lose
Speaker 1: your mind. You'd lose your mind.
Speaker 2: I fear to.
Speaker 1: Think what someone would do in that situation is victims.
Speaker 1: So we have other examples. We want to get to
Speaker 1: you today as well, not to raise your blood pressure,
Speaker 1: but to try to enlighten all of us on this
Speaker 1: so we can take the action we need to change
Speaker 1: this and hopefully elect people who won't make laws like this.
Speaker 1: Three or three seven, one, three eight, two five five
Speaker 1: the number Ryan Jared Polis. And you know there's this tombstone.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever read about it. I
Speaker 1: did not see it the one time I was at
Speaker 1: Saint Andrews playing golf, which is a great story in
Speaker 1: and of itself, because you know, I was young kid,
Speaker 1: riding planes, trains, all of that stuff to get up there,
Speaker 1: had no money in my pocket when I got to
Speaker 1: the first t week before the British Open started and
Speaker 1: just found some saint of a starter who let me
Speaker 1: out on the course. But there's a tombstone near Saint
Speaker 1: Andrews that says, of all the words of tongue and
Speaker 1: pen the Saddes Star, what might have been?
Speaker 2: And as we play the sound.
Speaker 1: Of Polish right now, I think about that because obviously
Speaker 1: as politics is different, right and are different, and we're
Speaker 1: going to have our disagreements on big issues. But he's
Speaker 1: a smart, talented guy who had parents who who built
Speaker 1: this really successful created company. He then did some good
Speaker 1: things himself in business, so he has all these resources.
Speaker 1: He could have stepped in and he could have been
Speaker 1: a really dynamic, important governor for Colorado, and he's just
Speaker 1: he's just been kind of a waste of space. I
Speaker 1: think everybody'd have to agree on that. What do you
Speaker 1: think Jared Polis's legacy is?
Speaker 2: Right? What do you think he's known for?
Speaker 1: And it's all because all those skills and talents and
Speaker 1: intelligence and everything else, there was never anything he was
Speaker 1: willing to fight and die for, right, Ryan, Isn't that
Speaker 1: where the great leaders come from? Whether I agree with
Speaker 1: their ideology or not. They have things they care deeply
Speaker 1: about that they're willing to fight and die for. And
Speaker 1: if the public doesn't agree with him, they're willing to
Speaker 1: die on that. He'll try to persuade the public.
Speaker 3: What's the first thing?
Speaker 2: That's where the great leaders come from.
Speaker 3: What's the first thing you think of a Jared Poulis?
Speaker 4: I'll tell you mine, wear a damn mask and selfish
Speaker 4: bastards during COVID. That's the first thing I think of
Speaker 4: a Jared Polis And that's what I will remember him for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember him for abandoning his post because that's
Speaker 1: just so bizarre, right, you've got mobs taking over downtown
Speaker 1: Denver and you literally disappear. But your stuff's a close second.
Speaker 1: But the other part of it I'm serious about. I
Speaker 1: know he and I always got along grade he came
Speaker 1: on the show a bunch. We'd have our disagreements, but
Speaker 1: all in good spirit. And then with Covid is when
Speaker 1: he changed, right because he knew if he came on air,
Speaker 1: I'd ask him the good questions he wouldn't have answers,
Speaker 1: And that's when that all changed. But such a talented guy,
Speaker 1: he could have been so much, But why wasn't he
Speaker 1: willing to do that? It may just be that at
Speaker 1: his core, he just doesn't have those causes that he
Speaker 1: cares that much about. But now it's the bridge, So
Speaker 1: let's launch into some of that sound. And this is
Speaker 1: if you haven't heard about this scoofiness, which is never
Speaker 1: going to happen. Obviously, it's just about twenty eight to
Speaker 1: thirty million dollar bridge that would really hurt the look
Speaker 1: of Civic Center Park and the Capitol Lawn, and it
Speaker 1: would be built over Broadway and you'd have some art
Speaker 1: up there, and lord knows all the things that'd be
Speaker 1: happening on and under that bridge, and rather than just
Speaker 1: clean up downtown by dealing with the problems his policies
Speaker 1: has created, he wants to now build this bridge over
Speaker 1: the top of them.
Speaker 2: And so that's the idea with it.
Speaker 1: Nobody likes it, it's never going to happen, and yet
Speaker 1: he's convinced that it's created this big conversation in society.
Speaker 2: Let's go with cut nine. Let's talk about the Vestering bridge.
Speaker 2: Let's do it. Has the project changed. So here's where
Speaker 2: we're launching today.
Speaker 5: We are trying to figure out whether people want to
Speaker 5: see a pedestrian bridge at the Capitol and so we
Speaker 5: are launching a survey today State White Survey COEO one
Speaker 5: fifty walkway dot com, so we describe the project takes
Speaker 5: less than five minutes, so walkway dot com, I encourage
Speaker 5: you to fill it out. It'll be up through Monday nights.
Speaker 5: So we're hoping to get thousands, tens of thousands of
Speaker 5: people to say whether they want to see this done
Speaker 5: or not, because we.
Speaker 3: Now's the time when we need to figure out.
Speaker 2: It's one hundred fifthday next year.
Speaker 5: What we're asking people should want to do the walkway
Speaker 5: do not want to do the walkway, we're describing it.
Speaker 2: I'm we're even gonna put up your.
Speaker 5: Video what people are saying so people can see how
Speaker 5: you don't like it and you know, make their decision.
Speaker 5: And then if they don't want it, what do they
Speaker 5: want to see the state doing. Should we do smaller
Speaker 5: projects in other parts of the state. Should we do
Speaker 5: nothing for one hundred and fifty birthday? So we just
Speaker 5: ask four or five questions, we get a quick sense
Speaker 5: of where people are. We want to make it as
Speaker 5: unobtrusive as easy as possible to have your voice count.
Speaker 2: Well, wait a second, don't you think he should have
Speaker 2: done that before?
Speaker 1: It just goes back to how they operate now they
Speaker 1: don't care what the people think. But it also goes
Speaker 1: back to my point about this is an intelligent guy.
Speaker 1: He has intelligence. He has a lot of intelligence because
Speaker 1: think about this. Okay, he launched this thing so it
Speaker 1: would be a monument to him, maybe named polis Bridge
Speaker 1: or something like that.
Speaker 2: Nobody wanted it. He knew that.
Speaker 1: So now that he's been called out on it and
Speaker 1: he has to back off it, now he's going to
Speaker 1: try to make it a w by claiming that he
Speaker 1: just turned it over to the will of the people.
Speaker 1: He's just a man of the people. Turned it over
Speaker 1: to the will of the people, and obviously didn't give
Speaker 1: a darn about the will of the people in the beginning,
Speaker 1: or he never would have suggested wasting twenty eight million
Speaker 1: dollars of their money on this. So yeah, So it's
Speaker 1: kind of a slick maneuver now to try to turn
Speaker 1: an L into a W and we all know where
Speaker 1: this is headed. But Ryan, before we play the rest
Speaker 1: of this sound, I know we got to pop a
Speaker 1: heart break. I'd like to know from folks, what do
Speaker 1: you want to see Colorado actually do to celebrate our
Speaker 1: one hundred and fiftieth birthday. I mean, that should be
Speaker 1: a big deal, something big should happen, but obviously not
Speaker 1: this boondoggle. So I wonder where that word comes from.
Speaker 1: I'll find out during the break. But what do you
Speaker 1: want to see happen? How should the one hundred and
Speaker 1: fiftieth be commemorated?
Speaker 2: Love snow? So if you've got some something snarky.
Speaker 1: For that text, it to daan five seven, seven, three nine,
Speaker 1: something serious.
Speaker 2: We're always open to that possibility.
Speaker 1: Three O three seven one three eight two five five
Speaker 1: The number but what should that actually look like? Would
Speaker 1: love your take on that, and then we'll come back.
Speaker 1: Some of the best parts of this sound still ahead,
Speaker 1: when when Polus talks about how this debate over the
Speaker 1: pedestrian bridge is just raging down at the corner bar
Speaker 1: whatever that is.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Gapla.
Speaker 3: Show and now back to the Dan Kaplass Show podcast.
Speaker 1: So your pole is trying to find a graceful way
Speaker 1: to lose now on this pedestrian bridge over Broadway that
Speaker 1: was supposed to be a monument to himself. But the
Speaker 1: sound is fun and it leads to I think a
Speaker 1: really big question for us, what do you want to
Speaker 1: do to commend Colorado's one hundred and fiftieth birthday? That
Speaker 1: is a really big deal. What should we be doing
Speaker 1: to commemorate that? But some more of this exchange between
Speaker 1: Kyle Clark and Governor Police cut ten Police.
Speaker 5: So online survey, I can't tell if you're looking for
Speaker 5: a justification, we'll looking for an escape route. Well, I'm
Speaker 5: hoping it's clear one way or the other, Kyle, right, Like,
Speaker 5: what I would hate to see is fifty point one
Speaker 5: to forty nine point nine. I'm really hoping sixty seventy
Speaker 5: percent of people want to see a walkway. Sixty seventy
Speaker 5: percent of people don't want to see a walkway, want
Speaker 5: to see something else. If it is a walkway, I
Speaker 5: need to get to work, as you know, I need
Speaker 5: to raise a lot of the money for that. It's
Speaker 5: about eight and a half a million public, about ten
Speaker 5: twelve million private, So I would need to raise that
Speaker 5: if we go that way. If we go other away
Speaker 5: and do smaller projects in other areas of the state,
Speaker 5: we can see if there's local matching funds we can
Speaker 5: raise for those.
Speaker 3: But now's really the time to figure that out.
Speaker 5: Our birthday is next year, and we want to make
Speaker 5: sure the Colorado is celebrate in a way where where
Speaker 5: we're proud.
Speaker 2: To do that.
Speaker 1: If your ownership of it, you know, if he really
Speaker 1: wants it, and I know you raised this, Ryan, but
Speaker 1: it's a great question. If he really wants it, why
Speaker 1: doesn't he gift it to the state?
Speaker 2: Right? Why doesn't he just gift it to the state?
Speaker 1: I mean for him, and we can do the math,
Speaker 1: but that kind of contribution to the state, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure he could find all sorts of legal ways to
Speaker 1: write it off pro public actually did an expos on
Speaker 1: him on that nothing illegal, but left him if I
Speaker 1: remember the story, right, I want to double check. Maybe
Speaker 1: paying the same tax rate as somebody working out heart
Speaker 1: out there right now as a waitress, but I will
Speaker 1: double check that.
Speaker 2: But pro public who is not happy with police on that.
Speaker 1: So he could donate it to the state, name it
Speaker 1: after himself whatever, if he really cared about it that much.
Speaker 2: But with his worse and hey, that's wonderful.
Speaker 1: I celebrate prosperity for everybody, as long as it's legally earned.
Speaker 1: And his husband, you know, with his net worth, what
Speaker 1: would that be if he was to say, contribute this
Speaker 1: thing to the state thirty million bucks or whatever, which
Speaker 1: would be probably less than he spent on any of
Speaker 1: his campaigns. You know, that'd be like couch cushion money
Speaker 1: for him. But it's so interesting with these lefties, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, like we saw these big sob stories about okay,
Speaker 1: because Trump went in court, Now planned paranoide can't use
Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars to kill more babies. Well, but you don't
Speaker 1: see planned paranoids stepping up and saying we'll pay for
Speaker 1: that ourselves, right, And how much money do they have
Speaker 1: and god, they don't do that, right, I mean, every
Speaker 1: baby saved is a tremendous thing. But yeah, the left
Speaker 1: never seems to put its own money where its mouth
Speaker 1: is unless you're seeing something different out there. Let's let's
Speaker 1: get in this instant classic cut twelve please, Ryan, cut twelve.
Speaker 6: Is this what you should have done months ago before
Speaker 6: you announced that you were going forward with a bridge?
Speaker 5: Well, we couldn't because there was no bridge for people
Speaker 5: to vote on, right, So I mean it has to
Speaker 5: be in sequence. People would have not known what we
Speaker 5: were talking about had we done this three months ago,
Speaker 5: because there was no visuals, there was no project. So
Speaker 5: thanks to that, which is all very recent. This is
Speaker 5: all what about a month or two. People have been
Speaker 5: out there, people have been talking about it.
Speaker 2: You know, it's great. You go down a corner bar.
Speaker 5: People saying they love it, people say they hated it's great.
Speaker 5: People have one ownership and passion about this.
Speaker 3: So what does that all mean?
Speaker 5: And how do we kind of decipher that into whether
Speaker 5: we do.
Speaker 2: This or not? Now right, I've got to ask you
Speaker 2: a question.
Speaker 1: You're okay, why would he lie about something like that?
Speaker 2: Really? I mean, first of all, it's never.
Speaker 1: Good to lie. People shouldn't lie. But why would he
Speaker 1: lie about something like that? Everybody knows it. He knows
Speaker 1: it when he said it, that everybody will know it's
Speaker 1: to lie. Is it a power play?
Speaker 2: Oh? Look, I'm big and powerful. I can lie.
Speaker 1: There's not one person in one corner bar by the way,
Speaker 1: what is a corner bar anywhere? Who is sitting there
Speaker 1: talking about this bridge to nowhere? No?
Speaker 3: Right, not happening.
Speaker 2: But yeah, why anyway? It's just.
Speaker 1: Fortunately that tenure is near an end. Not that the
Speaker 1: next one is going to be any better if it's
Speaker 1: a Democrat, but it is near an end. And someday
Speaker 1: we'll have that conversation if it is a Democrat, you know,
Speaker 1: holding that governor's office again next time around?
Speaker 2: Is it going to be better or worse?
Speaker 1: Police has just been like nondescript, Right, He's just been
Speaker 1: so nondescript, So not only low impact, but no impact
Speaker 1: except for the obvious negatives. And I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: of a single category. Can you think of a single
Speaker 1: category major stuff that affects quality of life in Colorado
Speaker 1: where it's anything other than worse, much worse since he
Speaker 1: took office.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's a great question, because.
Speaker 1: I can't truly and I'm trying to be really intellectually
Speaker 1: honest with this and generous. It's charitable one category because
Speaker 1: what are the biggiest, right, the biggies or what prices
Speaker 1: comper living?
Speaker 2: Traffic? You know that the environment, all of that is there. Housing.
Speaker 1: Is there one category where things are better? Is there
Speaker 1: one category where things are not dramatically worse than they
Speaker 1: were when he took office.
Speaker 2: About eight years ago? Yeah? Well, for another show, I guess.
Speaker 2: But one thing I do want to zero.
Speaker 1: Went on is what should we be doing to celebrate
Speaker 1: the States one hundred and fiftieth. I know we have
Speaker 1: some text on that. I'll get to those.
Speaker 2: Dan.
Speaker 1: Let's celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth by reversing legislation that
Speaker 1: put us in last place the last ten years.
Speaker 2: Dan, first eate one hundred and fiftieth.
Speaker 1: Perhaps bring the roads up to a standard different than
Speaker 1: they were one hundred and fifty years ago.
Speaker 2: That is beautiful.
Speaker 4: Yeah, compare the roads now to what they were in
Speaker 4: eighteen seventy six.
Speaker 1: Dan, maybe Powthole Polis could finally and actually spend some
Speaker 1: money on.
Speaker 2: Our horrible roads. Daddy is so true Ryan, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it is, it's just so bad. And I've been
Speaker 2: on the road.
Speaker 1: I'm always having road a bunch, but I've been on
Speaker 1: the road a lot lately and the roads really are rough.
Speaker 1: And then you know the difference between Democrat controlled areas
Speaker 1: and Republican controlled areas. Well.
Speaker 2: On that note, Dan, I just have reversus the suburbs
Speaker 2: that too.
Speaker 4: But I saw a video somebody took and went viral
Speaker 4: on X of the highway I seventy coming from Kansas
Speaker 4: into Colorado, and it is stark. The visual on the
Speaker 4: camera starts shaking from the smooth freeway of Kansas to
Speaker 4: the patched up work in Colorado as soon as you
Speaker 4: cross the border.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is mind blowing, right because think about it,
Speaker 1: and Kansas, great people, great work ethic. I have a
Speaker 1: lot of tremendous relatives there who are kind enough often
Speaker 1: to listen to the show. I wish they'd call in June.
Speaker 1: But but then you get into Colorado and how many states,
Speaker 1: and I'd love to hear from people on this, how
Speaker 1: many states in this kind have been a blessed as Colorado.
Speaker 1: All of these amazing natural advantages, you know, the location,
Speaker 1: the rocky mountains, the climate, and as a result of
Speaker 1: all of that, the ability to attract all of this
Speaker 1: talent and everything else, you know, protected from the severe
Speaker 1: disasters you sometimes get on the coasts and things like that.
Speaker 1: What state has been more blessed and perfectly set up
Speaker 1: than Colorado? And then you look at how awful things
Speaker 1: are in so many different categories. You got to work
Speaker 1: really hard to take a place like this and have
Speaker 1: it be that awful in so many different categories. Right,
Speaker 1: how does that even happen?
Speaker 4: I just think Jared paul is that to me, in
Speaker 4: a quick summation, just doesn't really care that much. He's
Speaker 4: so detached from the way that every day regular Colorado's
Speaker 4: live their lives that it just doesn't affect him and
Speaker 4: it won't and therefore he doesn't care about it, not really.
Speaker 2: And that may be Ryan.
Speaker 1: But then you take a guy like Mike Johnston, right,
Speaker 1: and Johnson Sten he's well off, but he doesn't have
Speaker 1: Polus's money, But Johnston's appears to be completely detached and
Speaker 1: uncaring about what happens to your typical person here. Legally,
Speaker 1: I just think that's more a product of the left,
Speaker 1: and we can dive into that sum But yeah, what
Speaker 1: do you think Colorado should do to celebrate its one
Speaker 1: hundred and fiftieth We'll talk about that much more here
Speaker 1: on the Dan Capitol Show.
Speaker 3: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1: A little fun as Polis's pet project, this bridge to nowhere, right,
Speaker 1: that would be over Broadway in downtown Denver and really
Speaker 1: mess up the look of the front of the Capitol
Speaker 1: and Civic Center Park. Is that whole thing falls apart
Speaker 1: Now he's trying to turn it into a w by
Speaker 1: putting it out there to a survey of the people.
Speaker 1: But that's that's just a starting point for Hey, what
Speaker 1: should we do to celebrate Colorado's one hundred and fiftieth
Speaker 1: birthday next year? That was ostensibly the reason for this
Speaker 1: this bridge. I think Polis had probably planned to have
Speaker 1: it named after him. Do you think anything will be
Speaker 1: named after Polis? And really, we need to do something
Speaker 1: big for this one hundred and fiftieth three or three
Speaker 1: seven one three eight two five five The number text
Speaker 1: d A N five seven seven three nine. Ryan, As
Speaker 1: I go to the text, any any great ideas for
Speaker 1: celebrating one hundred and fiftieth?
Speaker 4: Well, I think when you bring it together, what will
Speaker 4: be named after Polis? It would fit right in with
Speaker 4: the ethos of this show. Blucifer could be renamed for
Speaker 4: Jared Poulis out by the airport.
Speaker 1: Wow, that is really good, thank you. Or he could
Speaker 1: just do a tremendous favor to this state by leaning
Speaker 1: on Denver to have that monstrosity taken down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, do you think anything will be named
Speaker 1: after Poulis? It's it's very odd that we don't have
Speaker 1: anything named after Bill Owens, right since he was actually
Speaker 1: a very successful governor. And I'm not big on naming
Speaker 1: stuff after living politicians at all, but since they're doing
Speaker 1: it for Democrats, you would think a guy who actually
Speaker 1: succeeded should get something named But there's nothing I can
Speaker 1: think of after Owens.
Speaker 4: If you go online and complete the survey and notice
Speaker 4: that some of our listeners did and have texted about it.
Speaker 3: I did it, Kelly did it as well. Maybe Dan
Speaker 3: you can.
Speaker 4: There are options you can choose from a little bit
Speaker 4: of a menu, and that should we do this whole
Speaker 4: bridge to nowhere, walkway to wherever over the Denver or
Speaker 4: should we do maybe some other little projects throughout the state.
Speaker 3: And Governor Polus mentioned that in passing.
Speaker 4: I think that's a lot better idea because now you're
Speaker 4: localizing it a bit. You're celebrating all of Colorado, everything
Speaker 4: that the state has to offer, all of its rich
Speaker 4: history dating back to the wild West, and are founding
Speaker 4: in eighteen seventy six.
Speaker 3: And I'd be behind that idea a little bit more well.
Speaker 1: But it shouldn't be an either or right, I mean,
Speaker 1: and that's the whole thing. Man, life is short. We've
Speaker 1: ben all of this incredible stuff. We're like powerball winners here,
Speaker 1: and we're talking about some goofy as, some goofy little
Speaker 1: bridge over Broadway as a monument to our one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty. That's the problem right now with the left.
Speaker 1: They're a fighting over scraps party. And I like your
Speaker 1: idea of the celebrations in individual towns which have had
Speaker 1: their own different one hundred and fifty year journey. But man,
Speaker 1: you know it should mean something to be a Colorado.
Speaker 1: More is expected of those two whom more is given.
Speaker 1: So let's do something monumental for the one hundred and fiftieth.
Speaker 1: And we've got a governor who's so weak his idea
Speaker 1: of monumental as a little, you know, pedestrian bridge. And
Speaker 1: then when the people aren't buying it, rather than go
Speaker 1: out and try to persuade them, Oh, we're going to
Speaker 1: put it out to a vote to the people. No.
Speaker 2: Hey, it's time we start thinking big again, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, if it wasn't for the pioneers who came here,
Speaker 1: you know, and if those pioneers have said, okay, well,
Speaker 1: let's just set something up out in the field near Nebraska.
Speaker 1: Never go too near the mountains because we might get
Speaker 1: altitude sickness, right, I mean, what's happened to the spirit
Speaker 1: of this state? That's a really important question. What has
Speaker 1: happened to the spirit of this state?
Speaker 2: Now? The mere fact we.
Speaker 1: Have all these crazy socialist lefties running the place tells
Speaker 1: you something really bad has happened to the spirit of
Speaker 1: this state. Can we ever get it back? I'd love
Speaker 1: your take on that. Three three seven, one, three eight,
Speaker 1: two five five.
Speaker 4: I kind of dropped a ball on this one, Dan,
Speaker 4: but you wanted to come back with cut twenty. I
Speaker 4: think it's apropos here because Laura Ingram talked about Colorado
Speaker 4: last night, and of course a very ignominious reason with
Speaker 4: the rogues going on in Aurar with Solomon Gallaghan.
Speaker 3: But she mentioned several factors here.
Speaker 2: But you didn't think it was worthy enough to bump backwards.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: But now, well now I've convinced you, well, okay.
Speaker 4: But this is a this is a key topic that
Speaker 4: she brings up that's right in your wheelhouse.
Speaker 1: And I want to know what has happened to the
Speaker 1: spirit of this state. Are we ever going to be
Speaker 1: able to get it back? Got twenty please?
Speaker 6: There are a lot of issues going on in Colorado,
Speaker 6: and immigration has changed this state, Dante. I've spent so
Speaker 6: much time over the years, one of my favorite states
Speaker 6: in the United States.
Speaker 2: It is a beautiful state. But it's changed. Everything changes.
Speaker 6: I get that, But legalization of marijuana has led to
Speaker 6: real problems psychotic behavior, violent psychotic disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia.
Speaker 6: All chances of contracting or developing those symptoms are encouraged
Speaker 6: by young use and persistent use of marijuana. That's been
Speaker 6: scientifically shown multiple studies. So you got that going on,
Speaker 6: But then you have you know, I think that they
Speaker 6: don't have room for how psychotics. Sadly, some of these individuals,
Speaker 6: many of them, we started on soft drugs and then.
Speaker 2: Cook their brains.
Speaker 6: There's no place to put them.
Speaker 2: No, that's right, and you want to sit down.
Speaker 1: You want to come up with a plan to ruin
Speaker 1: a state that it'd be very hard to ruin, right,
Speaker 1: and a state like Colorado with all the gifts we have. Well,
Speaker 1: you're going to start. You're going to start with a
Speaker 1: couple of things. Right, You're going to start with legalizing drugs.
Speaker 1: You're going to start with legalizing drugs because you know,
Speaker 1: there's a reason that no other state in the world
Speaker 1: legalized drugs the way we did before we did it, right,
Speaker 1: there's a reason for that, because it's idiotic, it's suicidal.
Speaker 1: So you start by doing that. So right off the bat,
Speaker 1: you go from a state of health to a state
Speaker 1: of drugs. Our identity and our reality. Right, So you
Speaker 1: start with that, and then what do you do next?
Speaker 1: What you do next is you encourage massy legal immigration.
Speaker 1: And because you know that a certain number of the
Speaker 1: people who come here vast majority are going to be
Speaker 1: otherwise law abiding folks, not not you know, just seeking
Speaker 1: a better life, but still probably overrunning your infrastructure. And
Speaker 1: then you're going to get a certain number of hardened criminals.
Speaker 1: But that's that's the next thing you would do if
Speaker 1: you're on the left and you're trying to ruin this state,
Speaker 1: you know, for your own ideological reasons, which we can
Speaker 1: talk more about, is you'd have this combination of legalizing drugs.
Speaker 1: You would encourage massy legal immigration with no vetting, so
Speaker 1: you know, you're encouraging a certain percentage of people with
Speaker 1: criminal backgrounds to come here. You would do that. What
Speaker 1: are some of the other things you do, Well, you'd
Speaker 1: legalize crime, right, which is which is essentially what the
Speaker 1: left has been doing. You know, they call it lessening
Speaker 1: penalties and creating restorative justice garbage.
Speaker 2: They've been legalizing crime.
Speaker 1: Remember our show took the lead in fighting back against
Speaker 1: a bill that literally was designed to legalize crime, major
Speaker 1: crime across Colorado for anybody in a public school. And
Speaker 1: this show was able to lead the charge in getting
Speaker 1: that killed. So those are the things you do, right Ryan,
Speaker 1: if you wanted to try to ruin a state. So
Speaker 1: why would the left want to try to ruin a
Speaker 1: state for the same reason it wants.
Speaker 2: To ruin America?
Speaker 1: Because then the state gets control big state, little citizens.
Speaker 1: You got all of a sudden, you separate people from
Speaker 1: traditional values, you undercut, you undercut states the way I
Speaker 1: just describe, many more people then dependent on government, which
Speaker 1: means many more people are going to vote habitually for
Speaker 1: the left. You're going to move very steadily toward a
Speaker 1: socialistic society because people have to have that kind of support.
Speaker 2: That's their grand design.
Speaker 1: They just got the toe hold in Colorado and we're
Speaker 1: actually able to implement this garbage.
Speaker 2: Is there any flaw in that line?
Speaker 4: Now, that's the roadmap to disaster, And like you said, yeah,
Speaker 4: the blueprint right, and the impetus for them to get
Speaker 4: the control that you talk about, and a dependent citizenry
Speaker 4: that wants to turn to government for all the answers
Speaker 4: and government is a force for good and basically just
Speaker 4: build a dependent class, which is something Russian bah talked about.
Speaker 1: And they got to know that that most Americans would
Speaker 1: never want that, but they might have to. Right, you know,
Speaker 1: if the left successful enough in undermining society and undermining
Speaker 1: our economy, undermining capitalism to the point where okay, you
Speaker 1: want to feed your family, well, then we're going to
Speaker 1: have to have a European socialist kind of government. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's their grand design. Nobody, nobody could be stupid enough
Speaker 1: to be doing all this stuff unless that was their plan.
Speaker 1: And obviously it's a horrific plan, but it's clearly their plan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why else would you do all this? Three or three?
Speaker 1: Someone three, A, two, five, five the number. And while
Speaker 1: we're talking about all this, you tell me. I'm going
Speaker 1: to offer you my answer. How does a state like
Speaker 1: Colorado power ball winners, all of these blessings we have,
Speaker 1: how come we don't have more employers and we have some, right,
Speaker 1: thank God for them, how come we don't have more
Speaker 1: four hundred companies? When we come back, I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you about a state smaller than we are that
Speaker 1: has twice the fortune five hundred companies and there's no
Speaker 1: re than you should right, it's not going to be
Speaker 1: one of those states where you say, yeah, yeah, that'd
Speaker 1: be a great place to live.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 3: And now back to the Dan Kaplass Show podcast.
Speaker 6: I mean, we have a lack of lack of facts
Speaker 6: that in Yeah, there's there's a lot of there's a
Speaker 6: lot of factors. But we're going back to British common law.
Speaker 6: And we saw this with the Reagan assassination of town. Remember,
Speaker 6: but in that famous case, you can't convict somebody of
Speaker 6: a crime if he was if he's determined to be
Speaker 6: unable to conform his behavior to kind of a reasonable
Speaker 6: set of circumstances. In this case, I mean, that's what
Speaker 6: they've determined. So I'm not sure there's anything you can.
Speaker 2: Do about that now.
Speaker 6: So that's that's a that's a constitutional.
Speaker 1: Issua were Ingram's larger conversation about how awful it's become
Speaker 1: in Colorado. And and this is elemental, right, and and
Speaker 1: you legalize drugs, you are immediately going to make magnify
Speaker 1: your mental health crisis by a factor of ten minimum,
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to kids. We have been and
Speaker 1: this as a matter of fact, go google it up.
Speaker 1: This isn't political. We've been in an ongoing mental health
Speaker 1: crisis for the children of Colorado since legalization of marijuana.
Speaker 2: That's no surprise, right.
Speaker 1: You overlay old fashioned two to four percent THHC on
Speaker 1: top of depression and certain other mental illnesses, it's going
Speaker 1: to make it a lot worse for most people. You
Speaker 1: throw in this Krakawana that these so called legal drug
Speaker 1: dealers are peddling throughout Colorado more marijuana stores than Starbucks
Speaker 1: and McDonald's combined.
Speaker 2: And what are you going to get.
Speaker 1: You're going to get this severe mental health crisis for
Speaker 1: the children in the state and others. And that's what
Speaker 1: we have here and it makes everything worse. So somebody
Speaker 1: explained to me, would you how this is possibly worth it?
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about legalization of marijuana is some kind
Speaker 2: of moral issue with this or that.
Speaker 1: I'm just talking about a society that cares about its
Speaker 1: children and wants to preserve itself. How are whatever the
Speaker 1: benefits are of legalized marijuana worth the harm? Can somebody
Speaker 1: make that case for me? Because I don't think it exists.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the phone lines. Talk to Stella in Windsor.
Speaker 1: You're on the Dan Kapla show.
Speaker 7: Welcome, Hi Dan. I just had a comment on the
Speaker 7: Polish Bridge.
Speaker 6: Yes, I hate it.
Speaker 7: What it's the ugliest thing I've ever seen that it
Speaker 7: does not represent Colorado at all or one hundred and
Speaker 7: fiftieth anniversary. It's what should I say, Polish memorial?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well, but Stella, that's so interesting, isn't it to say
Speaker 1: it doesn't represent Colorado because arguably, in a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: it represents what the left is done to Colorado. And
Speaker 1: maybe that's what he likes about it, because God gave
Speaker 1: us one of the most beautiful places in the world,
Speaker 1: and look at all the many concrete ways the left
Speaker 1: has trashed that This bridge would be one more. And
Speaker 1: then the bridge is a bridge that's being built over
Speaker 1: the devastation that the left has brought to Colorado. Have
Speaker 1: you been down to I was there a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago. Have you been down to that area right
Speaker 1: in front of the Capitol.
Speaker 7: I have avoided downtown Denver for years. Okay, well, I
Speaker 7: guess will continue.
Speaker 2: I get that.
Speaker 1: But obviously legalization of drugs, legalization of crime, etc.
Speaker 2: They've trashed that whole area.
Speaker 1: So now his legacy project is to take thirty million
Speaker 1: bucks and build a bridge over the wreckage he's created.
Speaker 1: So maybe in some ways that is fitting. But what
Speaker 1: would you do for the one hundred and fifty Estella, I.
Speaker 7: Would do some smaller memorials, he asked, around the state
Speaker 7: or whatever. I'm thinking represent our heritage, not partisanship. But
Speaker 7: you know, the homesteaders, the Indians, the ranchers, mining, wildlife,
Speaker 7: dis so many things to represent Colorado, not personal. I
Speaker 7: don't know what memorial issue, well, I hope not.
Speaker 1: A memorial, but stella, thank you, thank you for your call.
Speaker 1: Always great to get a call from Windsor Hey. I
Speaker 1: mentioned before the break And this is just another symptom,
Speaker 1: right of the sickness that the left has brought to
Speaker 1: Colorado with their popicis. But how in the world does
Speaker 1: a place like this only have by by latest account,
Speaker 1: I think it's ten Fortune five hundred companies And that
Speaker 1: number can bounce around upper down, one or two here
Speaker 1: and there anywhere. But Colorado has been stuck in this
Speaker 1: morass under leftist rule for a long time.
Speaker 2: How does the state like this only have ten?
Speaker 1: Take Minnesota, and we're bigger population wise by a couple
Speaker 1: hundred thousand than Minnesota, and knock on our friends up there,
Speaker 1: a lot of fine people, But how does a state
Speaker 1: like Minnesota have about double what we have in fortune
Speaker 1: five hundred companies?
Speaker 2: Can somebody explain that? Ran? Can you explain that? Again?
Speaker 1: A lot of good people in Minnesota, But but you
Speaker 1: could actually ride one of those mosquitos to work, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you want to compare. Yeah, if you want to
Speaker 1: compare where would people rather live? Yeah, I want to
Speaker 1: explain that.
Speaker 4: I was just back in Michigan for the fourth of
Speaker 4: July and the weather they're in the Upper Midwest, similar
Speaker 4: in Minnesota, is very humid and very full of bugs,
Speaker 4: deer flies, they really bomb your head, some black flies.
Speaker 4: And further north you go Mosquitos to your point, and
Speaker 4: that's a big trade off. And that's the thing I've
Speaker 4: noticed here in Colorado that I'm very thankful for having
Speaker 4: relocated is there's no bugs.
Speaker 3: None, not really.
Speaker 1: Oh, there are so many blessings here, you know, But
Speaker 1: so how do we have half the number of fourteen
Speaker 1: five hundred companies? I guess, Hey, we probably lead American
Speaker 1: bud right, Yeah, yeah, that's something to brag about. Texters
Speaker 1: on one hundred and fiftieth and there's gold in them our.
Speaker 2: Hills, that's true.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure where that leads Dan one fifty Pike's
Speaker 1: peak or bust. I think Polish should fix the roads
Speaker 1: and he should challenge every city in Colorado to create
Speaker 1: something in honor of the state.
Speaker 2: Hey, why didn't this start a few years ago? Right?
Speaker 1: I mean, your governor of the state. You're coming up
Speaker 1: on the one hundred and fiftieth. Why not have a vision
Speaker 1: and build something really grand and impressive, or just say,
Speaker 1: you know what we're going to do.
Speaker 2: We're going to stake out this project.
Speaker 1: We're going to dramatically improve our roads by the one
Speaker 1: to fifty, but something big and grand, which goes back
Speaker 1: to my question, has this state? Has the state of
Speaker 1: Colorado lost its spirit? And you know, the Left obviously
Speaker 1: has been trying to crush the traditional spirit of the
Speaker 1: state of Colorado, as it's trying to crush traditional families,
Speaker 1: traditional family values, separate people from their faith. But has
Speaker 1: the state law spirit? Has it lost it for good?
Speaker 1: And has the Left been able to accomplish that here?
Speaker 1: If it's gone, what does it take to get it back? Hey,
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