WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.520 This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast 2 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:05.719 edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to 3 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:08.240 give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind, 4 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:11.599 and to subscribe, download, and listen to the show every 5 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:16.239 single day on your favorite podcast platform. Beautiful Bay, to 6 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:18.760 fight that fight. Glad you're here, man. Spring is in 7 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:19.960 the air. And I thought it was going to be 8 00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:22.839 snow again, probably four or five times. But this time 9 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:25.239 of year, Yeah, it's just gorgeous. The snow mellets, it 10 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:27.879 goes away, and then we get days like this. This 11 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:30.280 is what it's all about. Glad you are here. A 12 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:32.439 lot of interesting stuff to kick around today, a lot 13 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:36.000 of it local as well. I do, though, I do 14 00:00:36.119 --> 00:00:38.960 want to start national, and because I think this is 15 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:41.479 such a fascinating issue in one of the many really 16 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:44.439 really good things that Trump is doing right now. And hey, 17 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:46.679 I get it, I get that there is a lot 18 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:49.399 of upset nationally right now about the economy. I don't 19 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:52.840 think you're surprised. I'm surprised anybody's surprised to see the 20 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:56.719 president upside down in the polls right now on the economy. 21 00:00:57.240 --> 00:01:01.119 Everybody's hurting, right, I mean, everybody's hirement fund et cetera. 22 00:01:01.159 --> 00:01:03.200 Has taken a hit in the last week or so. 23 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:07.319 But it's one of the reasons I respect Trump so 24 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:09.599 much because, and this is a great thing to throw 25 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:13.920 out there to you, how many politicians, either party and 26 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:18.599 in our lives have been willing to go through this, 27 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:22.239 this pain and this unpopularity while while the people are 28 00:01:22.319 --> 00:01:25.920 hurting in order to get the long term gain. When's 29 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:28.280 the last time we had that? I'd love to get 30 00:01:28.359 --> 00:01:31.280 your take on that. You can text Dam five seven 31 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:34.280 seven three nine. Dan five seven seven three nine. But 32 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:39.319 when in our lifetime is the last time we had that? 33 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:42.599 And the fact Trump's willing to do it right now 34 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:47.239 to me super impressive. And because he is. He he's 35 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:50.920 suffering in the polls right now on this not necessarily overall, 36 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:53.200 though that's going to follow right. I mean, economy is 37 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:55.280 one or two on pretty much everybody's list. He's going 38 00:01:55.319 --> 00:01:57.920 to be very popular now, as he should be for 39 00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:01.200 you know, enforcing the border way it should be enforced, 40 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:04.319 et cetera. But he's willing to take that hit for 41 00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:06.680 the long term, and I really respect that. Would have 42 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:08.759 been so easy, as we talked about yesterday, right just 43 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:12.599 to do the sugar high thing, just to command and again, 44 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:17.879 you know, to just spend our grandchildren's money. Make this 45 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:20.439 an easy term for him. But I respect what he's 46 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:23.280 trying to do. I don't know enough about tariffs to 47 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:25.919 say that it's going to work, but I trust him. 48 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:29.759 I trust him. I trust him on the economy three 49 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:32.120 or three someone three eight two five five, the number 50 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:35.439 techs d A N five seven seven three nine. But 51 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:38.759 this is another reason I trust him. I just love 52 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:40.759 what he's doing on this front. I love what Marco 53 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:43.800 Ruby is doing and Marco Rubio, this is going to 54 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:45.800 be so much fun to watch right as we hit 55 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:48.360 twenty six and had to the presidential in twenty eight 56 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:52.400 because you have all these all this young conservative talent 57 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:55.319 and so much of it now Trump has on his 58 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:58.800 team that's just getting better all the time with this experience, 59 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:01.000 Like Rubio, I think it's been really good for a while, 60 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:04.599 just growing. I think before our eyes. In this Secretary 61 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:09.199 of State role here he's talking about this Hamas supporter 62 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:12.240 who wants to stay on a student visa and a 63 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:12.960 green car. 64 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:15.840 When you come to the United States as a visitor, 65 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:17.800 which is what a visa is, which is how this 66 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:21.240 individual entered this country as on a visitor's visa. Okay, 67 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:23.719 you are here as a visitor. We can deny you 68 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:26.280 that visa. We can deny you that if you tell 69 00:03:26.360 --> 00:03:28.560 us when you apply, Hi, I'm trying to get into 70 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:30.719 the United States on a student visa. I am a 71 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:35.400 big supporter of Hamas, a murderous, barbaric group that kidnaps children, 72 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:38.800 that rapes the teenage girls, that takes hostages, that allows 73 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:42.199 them to die in captivity, that returns more bodies. 74 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:42.840 Than live hostages. 75 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:44.599 If you tell us that you are in favor of 76 00:03:44.639 --> 00:03:46.520 a group like this, and if you tell us when 77 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:48.199 you apply for your visa, and by the way, I 78 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:50.479 intend to come to your country as a student and 79 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:54.719 rile up all kinds of anti Jewish student anti Semitic activities. 80 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:57.400 I intend to shut down your universities. If you told 81 00:03:57.439 --> 00:03:59.120 us all these things when you apply for a visa, 82 00:03:59.120 --> 00:03:59.599 we would. 83 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:00.919 Deny your visa. I hope we would. 84 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:04.000 If you actually end up doing that once you're in 85 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:06.439 this country on such a visa, we will revoke it. 86 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:09.360 And if you end up having a green card, not citizenship, 87 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:11.360 but a green card as a result of that visa, 88 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:13.639 while you're here in those activities, we're going to kick 89 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:14.080 you out. 90 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:18.079 Or beautifully said, right, hey, why is this even an issue? 91 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:20.279 But this is the beauty of it, right, is part 92 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:23.240 of Trump's magic, Scott Jenny said, it is that you 93 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:26.560 got the left now, the Democratic Party right, just glombing 94 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:29.319 onto the twenty side of all these eighty twenty issues. 95 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:34.079 So this humas what do we call them here, hamas holes, 96 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:36.800 this amass hole is going to be the new poster 97 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:39.399 boy for the left, which is a beautiful thing, right 98 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:42.120 because eighty percent of the population is going to say, 99 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:44.759 you guys are nuts. It's going to be right up 100 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:49.120 there with men in women's sports. Right. That's now I 101 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:51.279 think it is. It's an eighty one to nineteen issue. 102 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:53.439 We like to say eighty twenty that that's an eighty 103 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:58.240 one nineteen. So you got that going for you? Three 104 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:00.439 or three someone three eight two five five the number 105 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:03.720 text d A N five seven seven three nine. Ryan 106 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:06.360 Schuling does a great show in the Denver market two 107 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:09.360 to four each day, and when I come in and 108 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:11.720 do it from the Denver studio, I see his text. 109 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:15.759 So Ryan, what is the backstory on this? Ryan? Add 110 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:19.560 Danielle Jerinsky to the list of conservative women. Kyle goes 111 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:23.879 after that from Alexa is Zach Kyle, what was the 112 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:26.360 name of that Bronco quarterback Tim t Boyd to sit 113 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:30.360 behind him for four games? Kyle Orton? Orton, Yeah, are 114 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:31.959 we doing another Kyle Orton show? 115 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:35.920 That was Kelly Coucheri's perdue Boilermaker Kyle Orton, by the way, No, 116 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:39.040 it was Kyle Clark who had Darcy Shaning. 117 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:40.040 On his program. 118 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:42.040 I believe nine next he's interviewing. 119 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:44.800 All the candidates for Colorado gop share and I think, 120 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:47.319 much to his glee, that there's a lot of kind 121 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:49.920 of infighting going on and there seems to be a 122 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:50.800 disturbing trend. 123 00:05:50.839 --> 00:05:52.199 I observed that. 124 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:55.839 Whether it's Heidie Ganall or Representative Lauren Bobert or Danielle 125 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:58.399 Jerinsky or we'll see what happens with Darcy, that Kyle 126 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:02.319 Clark has an affinity or a propensity to really target 127 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:03.639 conservative women. 128 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:05.879 Doesn't he target all conservatives? No? 129 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:08.680 No, no, no, that's a little bit different on the women front. 130 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:13.360 Polist, I think is a very obvious problem a Polis. 131 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:16.439 It's more of an animosity for Kyle. It's more like 132 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:20.040 an obsession or compulsion it's just weird. And I'll just 133 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:23.199 say this once again that he's been very, let's say, 134 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:25.759 eager to get a sit down one on one interview 135 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:28.519 with Lauren Bolbert and she was resistant. 136 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:29.000 To that, didn't want to do it. 137 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:32.240 And then he moderated a debate for the fourth Congressional 138 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:34.920 district in which he really just won in like a 139 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:37.839 bulldog after and he ended up getting highlighted and featured 140 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:40.519 on Jimmy Kimme Alive and getting some national notoriety out 141 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:40.680 of it. 142 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:44.800 Yeah, but it just seems to me he does that 143 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:47.439 to all conservatives, right, I mean, he's got his stick 144 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:49.439 for the left in this. 145 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:51.120 Dan, why don't you ask Hidig and all that, or 146 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:54.240 Lauren Bobert that or Danielle Jerensky that absolutely. 147 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:57.879 I mean I'm not doubting their experience, but what conservative 148 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:01.800 man could could we get on air who would say 149 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:03.800 I was treated fairly by Kyle Clark. 150 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:06.800 Well, when you put it that way, true, I'm saying 151 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:10.439 that his pursuit of these conservative women is much nastier, 152 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:12.959 It has a harder edge to it, it's much more rabid. 153 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:15.199 And I don't think I'm alone in saying that or 154 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:16.920 observing that at all. 155 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:19.720 Well, no doubt it's in the eyes of the Boulder. 156 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:22.839 But now Polis, on the other hand, I mean, I 157 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:25.319 think that's just clear to anybody watching. And that was 158 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:28.120 one of the beautiful things about the last gubernatorial campaign, right. 159 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:30.800 I wish the results had been the opposite. But Heidi 160 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:33.600 just schooled him, just took him, you know, to the woodshed, 161 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:36.439 and every one of those debates she really did, Yeah, 162 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:41.240 and exposed him. And yeah, I don't think I don't 163 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:45.279 think Heidi just beating up on Polis in those debates 164 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:49.920 had any impact on Polis's inability to gain traction nationally. 165 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:52.879 But I think she exposed a weakness of his right. 166 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:57.519 And wow, three or three someone three two five five 167 00:07:57.639 --> 00:08:02.439 the number speaking of local and not planned out this way, 168 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:04.480 but we in fact, and I'll do this after the breaks, 169 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:07.079 I can play it in full. I want to play 170 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:11.920 this ironically Kyle Clark's story about the Sixteenth Street Mall. 171 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:14.160 And I understand you may well be listening to the 172 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:17.240 show somewhere outside of the Denver metro area. But as 173 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:20.480 we talk about the abject failure, kind of the death 174 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:23.439 spiral of the Sixteenth Street Mall in Denver, no matter 175 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:26.360 how much taxpayer money and other money, private money they 176 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:29.759 pour into it, there are I think really important lessons 177 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:32.960 there for all of us, everywhere in the state and 178 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:37.240 beyond Colorado. And so I think it's very very useful 179 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:39.159 to study this because how many years now You've been 180 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:40.840 here five or six years now, right, Ryan? 181 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:41.080 Six? 182 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:45.159 Yep, Yeah, and I've been here I think going on 183 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:48.519 close to fifty. But the point is, it's just this 184 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:53.879 never ending battle, this money pit to somehow turn the 185 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:56.399 sixteen Street mall around. In the sixteenth you know, that 186 00:08:56.399 --> 00:08:58.320 whole area was a whole lot better at one point. 187 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:00.960 But the bottom line is, and what we'll get into 188 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:04.799 more detail, the bottom line is that once they decided 189 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:08.919 to make Denver that literally the drug capital of the world, 190 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:11.879 that the fate of the sixteenth Street wall was sealed. 191 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:14.440 And there is no way you are ever going to 192 00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:19.320 turn that around unless Colorado reversus legalized marijuana just does 193 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:23.279 a one to eighty on this whole glorification of recreational 194 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:26.679 drug thing. It is just going to be the magnet, 195 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:30.960 the hangout, the backyard, the gathering place for young homeless, 196 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:33.799 for attics for for a lot of sad, sad stories, 197 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:35.840 from around the country and a lot of homegrown ones 198 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:39.480 who would have had good, healthy, successful lives if not 199 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:43.000 for the drugs. But hey, as long as the left 200 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:45.600 is getting what it wants, not illlegalized drugs and adults 201 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:47.600 are making a lot of money, what do they care 202 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:50.320 about the kids? Right, you're on the dan Kapla Show. 203 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:58.840 And now back to the dan Kaplas Show podcast. 204 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:00.720 Pressure on. 205 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:04.840 It complicates Putin's position a little bit. I don't think, frankly, 206 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:08.759 a ceasefires in Ukraine's interest. I think if you freeze 207 00:10:08.759 --> 00:10:13.360 the conflict along the existing front lines and start negotiations 208 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:16.879 in Geneva or Vienna or some neutral capital that drag 209 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:19.960 on and on, the ceasefire line could become a new 210 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:22.919 de facto Ukraine Russian border, which. 211 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:25.440 Wait, wait a second, John Bolton, and listen. I respect 212 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:27.919 John Bolton, and John Bolton sat three feet from me 213 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:30.759 in the studio when he was US Ambassador to the 214 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:34.480 United Nations. But I think what's happened to John Bolton, 215 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:37.360 and it's happened to some other conservatives I really respect, 216 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:39.480 is they get into a pissot pardon me, they get 217 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:42.360 into a urinating match with Trump and then it becomes 218 00:10:42.440 --> 00:10:45.320 personal and then all the principle goes out the window. 219 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:49.480 So what is your alternative here, John Bolton? The people 220 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:52.720 of Ukraine have been raped and pillaged by Putin. Europe 221 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:56.399 refused to step up and save them. I know, John's 222 00:10:56.440 --> 00:10:58.879 not suggesting that there'll be American boots on the ground 223 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:02.360 in Ukraine. The only way evil Putin was ever going 224 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:05.120 to be defeated is if Europe put boots on the 225 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:09.080 ground in Ukraine. This is not complicated and Europe would 226 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:12.639 not save Ukraine. So at that point, how do you 227 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:15.799 move these lines now? John? How do you do that? 228 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:20.759 This isn't etra sketch, No, I mean, this is Trump 229 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:23.639 coming in to stop the bloodshed. Don't blame Trump. Nobody 230 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:29.000 invaded Ukraine when Trump was president. Yeah, I hate to 231 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:32.960 see Putin get one inch of territory, But don't blame Trump. 232 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:36.440 Blame Europe for not stepping off. Three h three someone 233 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:38.600 three eight two five five the number real quick on 234 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:41.200 that topic, Dan, how do you think Russia is going 235 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:43.240 to respond now that the ball is in their court? 236 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:47.279 So to speak? It's wired. This thing's totally wired. There 237 00:11:47.320 --> 00:11:49.360 is no way Russia. I mean, there may be a 238 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:54.200 little whaling nation of teeth, pretending, But there is no 239 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:58.120 way the Trump administration would have asked Ukraine to agree 240 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:00.519 to that unless it was certain was going to get 241 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:04.320 Russia's agreement. And again, it may take a few days, 242 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:06.000 it may look like it was a fight, but I 243 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:09.600 think the fights already happened. I think Trump's already won 244 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:13.200 that fight, both Lensky and I mean with Russia. I 245 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:16.720 think he's already won it with Putin. And so whether 246 00:12:17.320 --> 00:12:21.360 whether Russia pretends to be debating this whatever, and they 247 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:23.720 probably will pretend they're going to agree to it right 248 00:12:23.799 --> 00:12:25.159 first show they're going to agree to it. 249 00:12:25.399 --> 00:12:27.840 Interesting that then what happens if the ceasefires agreed to 250 00:12:27.879 --> 00:12:30.960 by Russia is that, for all intents and purposes, the 251 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:32.159 end of the war, at the beginning of. 252 00:12:32.120 --> 00:12:35.080 The end of the war. I think. So that's amazing, Yeah, 253 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:37.440 And I think that's why this has been so tough 254 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:39.919 right now. And I'm really interested in the reports they 255 00:12:40.200 --> 00:12:42.720 there appears to be credibility to him that you had 256 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:46.559 a number of big operators from the Obama administration trying 257 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:49.759 to get Selensky to reject the Trump deal, the mineral 258 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:52.840 rights deal. So but but I think what's happened here 259 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:57.480 is that Trump has succeeded in getting what he wanted 260 00:12:57.519 --> 00:13:02.440 from Ukraine, which wasn't agree into these lines. And who knows, 261 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:05.320 maybe baked in the cake is Russia gives up something 262 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:07.440 on that territory. But you've got to believe, don't you 263 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:09.159 sit here right now? The final deal is going to 264 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:13.159 look something like that. Maybe Russia gives up here and there, 265 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:15.919 and again I hate to see Putin get anything, but 266 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:19.360 that's not Trump's fault. That's that's Europe's fault. And if 267 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:21.639 you think I'm wrong on that, as Prime says, I 268 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:24.440 ain't hard to find three out three someone three eight 269 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:27.480 two five five text d An five seven seven three 270 00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:30.240 nine Dan just joined the show. You may have already 271 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:32.159 mentioned it, but there's an interesting article on the Wall 272 00:13:32.200 --> 00:13:35.960 Street Journal this morning about how cannabis industry is failing 273 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:38.639 in Pueblo and it suggests a lot of its homeless 274 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:41.120 problems due to young people who came to Colorado in 275 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:44.919 fourteen for marijuana from DK and Brumfield. Yeah, tremendous piece 276 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:46.480 in the Wall Street Journal. But here's what you want 277 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:49.320 to notice. You want to notice you see these pieces 278 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:54.600 now consistently popping up where on the right, on the left, 279 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:57.879 whether it's New York Times, Wall Street Journal, et cetera, 280 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:00.639 you see these pieces popping up that are starting to 281 00:14:00.679 --> 00:14:05.360 tell the truth about the hell being wrought by legalized marijuana. 282 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:08.600 And so you know why, you know why those pieces 283 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:11.039 are popping off because normally most of these outlets and 284 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:13.879 Wall Street Journal editorial pages, real good but news pages, 285 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:17.279 they've gone left the Yeah, I think the reason you're 286 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:20.600 seeing these on the left isn't politics, right, because legalization 287 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.440 of marijuana is a really important saying to the Democratic Party, 288 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:27.120 because the more stoners you have, the more people you 289 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:30.039 have dependent on government, the more people voting for the left. 290 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:33.720 But here's what I always banked on because you know 291 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:36.039 it's true, and I know it's true, and that is 292 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:41.799 that people love their children more than they love their 293 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:48.039 political party. And marijuana is wrecking so many kids across 294 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:54.039 party lines. It's an equal opportunity destroyer. And if someone's 295 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:56.799 lucky enough that their kids haven't been wrecked by dope, 296 00:14:56.840 --> 00:14:59.879 like I thank god every day our kids have avoided that. 297 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:03.799 So many great kids, kids of great character, kids of 298 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:08.759 great strengths, kids with great parents. So many kids have 299 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:11.919 fallen into it. And of course what the left does, 300 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:14.519 right with Polus's full blessing and everybody in the lefts 301 00:15:14.519 --> 00:15:17.559 full blessing, is they crank the potency up so high 302 00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:20.360 that you can't even call it marijuana anymore. It's krakawana. 303 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:23.039 And you know, the old stuff that did so much damage, 304 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:26.200 you know, up two to four percent THHC in the leaf, 305 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:29.240 et cetera. Not now the left's cranking this stuff over 306 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:32.279 eighty ninety percent. And of course that's the stuff the 307 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:35.320 kids want and get most right, because you can smuggle that, 308 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:37.120 you can hide that from your parents, you can do 309 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:39.799 it in class, whatever. So what the left wants to 310 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:41.759 do is they want to hook them young, hook them forever. 311 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:44.720 And I think what's happening now, and the reason you 312 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:47.200 see this coming up even through the New York Times 313 00:15:47.200 --> 00:15:51.279 and elsewhere, is that people love their kids. And these reporters, 314 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:55.200 these editors, these managers, these newspaper owners, if it hasn't 315 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:57.399 happened to their kid, it's happened to someone close to them. 316 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:00.399 And everybody listening has had that experience. And it's right 317 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:02.279 if you have kids. And again, we've been very blessed. 318 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:05.879 Our kids have been spared all that and avoided all that, 319 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:12.240 but some of their friends absolutely heartbreaking stuff. And everybody 320 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:14.080 listening to the show can tell those stories. So I 321 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:15.840 think we're going to see more and more stories like that. 322 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:19.000 The big question is where's the tipping point. What's it 323 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:23.039 going to take, say, to reverse AMENDMUS sixty four in Colorado? 324 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:25.759 How and when does that happen? I'd love your thoughts 325 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:27.679 on that. Three oh three someone three eight two five 326 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:32.960 five text d An five seven seven three nine, because 327 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:35.480 I do think it's going to happen someday. I mean, 328 00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:37.799 the only place Ryan ever stupid enough to do this 329 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:42.320 before Colorado did was Alaska. And then what they do 330 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:45.080 up in Alaska, Well, the dead bodies mounted because you 331 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:47.919 get so many dead bodies from this stuff, and they say, oh, 332 00:16:47.960 --> 00:16:51.720 no overdoses. How yeah, but they're no less dead, like 333 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:54.039 right out there on two twenty five, they're no less 334 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:57.159 dead from these marijuana crashes. They're sure as hell, no 335 00:16:57.279 --> 00:17:00.720 less dead from what what's the latest person? I have 336 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:05.079 read so many hundreds, I think hundreds, but so many 337 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:11.039 autopsies of teenagers and children, you know, studying the role 338 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:13.680 of marijuana in those suicides, because We've had this big 339 00:17:13.720 --> 00:17:17.000 spike in teen suicide in Colorado since legalization of marijuana, 340 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:20.039 and right now, I think the most recent numbers are 341 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:23.000 out double check, somewhere near half of all the kids 342 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:27.119 who commit suicide have marijuana in their system. And by 343 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:30.000 the way, those numbers are understated because think about this, Ryan, 344 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:31.519 Think about what I found out when I was doing 345 00:17:31.519 --> 00:17:34.240 that research and I was talking to coroners, and that 346 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:38.279 was you've got some counties in Colorado they're not even 347 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:42.039 reporting it. You can have these kids who commit suicide 348 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:46.880 with really significant levels of THHC. It's not even making 349 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:49.079 it into the autopsy, so it's not making it into 350 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:54.400 the public stats until it gets over a really high level. 351 00:17:55.359 --> 00:17:58.920 So yeah, it's it is a scourage. It is just 352 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:03.640 causing so much devastation across the country. That's why you're 353 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:06.599 seeing these stories percolate up now. But let's throw it 354 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:08.680 out there. What would it take and we'll get to 355 00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:10.960 the story about the Sixteenth Street All. The reason we 356 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:13.839 got off today on all the harm caused by legalized 357 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:16.960 dope is because we're about to talk about the Sixteenth 358 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:19.680 Street mall and what a money pit it is and 359 00:18:19.720 --> 00:18:21.759 the only way it can ever really be saved is 360 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:25.680 to reverse legalization of drugs. We'll play that story after 361 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:29.440 the break. Also quick drop with Richard Haltorf. Really respected guy. 362 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:32.920 He's now entering the race for GOP chair here on 363 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:33.920 the Dan Kaplas Show. 364 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:47.319 You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast Spring Afternoon. 365 00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:48.640 Let's go to the VIP line. 366 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:52.680 Welcome Richard Holtorf, Colorado State Rep. To the show. Now 367 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:57.079 running for Colorado GOP chair. Richard, Welcome to the program. 368 00:18:57.799 --> 00:19:01.799 Well, thank you Dan for the invitation. Greatly appreciate this opportunity. 369 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:04.920 Well, it is our pleasure. I think everybody understands how 370 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:09.400 important a healthy and thriving COLORADOGP is, especially in this 371 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:11.880 kind of election year. But so tell us what why'd 372 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:19.440 you decide to get in and why are you the man, sir. 373 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:26.559 That I just announced. I just announced on Saturday. I've 374 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:31.440 been watching the field and really haven't seen the right 375 00:19:31.519 --> 00:19:34.039 kind of leadership that we need to move this party forward. 376 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:39.279 So I just decided to saddle up and make a 377 00:19:39.319 --> 00:19:43.880 difference because of the leadership experience I have. So the 378 00:19:43.920 --> 00:19:46.559 main reason I'm running is because I know that Colorado 379 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:50.680 needs a strategic projectory that is very different than the 380 00:19:50.680 --> 00:19:54.920 one we have now. And I have a vision and 381 00:19:54.960 --> 00:19:57.519 a plan to move Colorado Republicans forward. 382 00:19:58.039 --> 00:19:59.440 And what is that vision, my friend? 383 00:20:01.240 --> 00:20:04.400 Well, I can't share all of it with you today, 384 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:07.359 but I will give you some teasers, because if I 385 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:11.359 tell you my vision, there's about five other people that 386 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:14.079 are running for this race that I guarantee you will 387 00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:17.519 beg borrow and steal from me and it will immediately 388 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:20.119 be put into their platform. 389 00:20:20.039 --> 00:20:21.359 As they run for this office. 390 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:23.359 But I think I'm going to. 391 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:25.880 Say, pardon that would be a compliment. 392 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:31.319 Oh absolutely, they say. My mother used to say that 393 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:35.279 imitation is the highest form of flattery, and I saw 394 00:20:35.279 --> 00:20:37.799 a lot of that on in my race for CD 395 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:41.000 four as I presented my platform over the six months 396 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:43.960 I was running in that race. But what I want 397 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:46.799 to tell Colorado One I want to tell Colorado Republicans 398 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:51.279 is we have to unify our party. We absolutely cannot 399 00:20:51.319 --> 00:20:54.920 continue down this fractured highway where we're broken into three 400 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:58.480 or four different factions and we forget that the radical 401 00:20:58.559 --> 00:21:03.079