January 15, 2025 • 34 mins
In the second hour of today's edition of The Dan Caplis Show, Dan discusses how the confirmation hearings for Donald Trump's presidential cabinet are currently going. Dan also explains why the latest updates from the confirmation hearings should provide a lot of optimism about Donald Trump's second presidential term to the American people.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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be an American. It's a great time to be alive
in America. You can see it each and every day.
There's a concrete example of how things are getting better
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because Donald Trump was elected and obviously he doesn't get
sworn into noon on Monday, but so many reasons to
be optimistic, and every honest person would acknowledge that, even
somebody in the Biden administration did, though Biden wouldn't that.
You know, it's because of Trump. This deal is happening,
and you know Trump threatened Amas and Hamas folded. It's
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that simple. Now, A Texter says, Dan, do you understand
what a disproportionate number of Hamas prisoners are going to
be let go from Israel? I don't understand. I do,
and it infuriates me. But that's up to Israel to
decide the idea that three thousand of these prisoners a
large number of murders are going to be let go
just so innocent and Israeli captives can be returned. Yeah,
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it drives me crazy, but I'm not criticizing Israel or
net and Yahoo. He has to make those decisions for Israel.
My guess is that the Israeli people are probably more
willing to do this because they have done what a
sane nation needs to do. They have stepped up, they
have fought for their own survival. They have largely defeated
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an enemy determined to destroy them. Israel has been a
very important message to their enemies all over the world.
They will fight for their survival, they will defeat you.
And so Israel probably feels as if you know, Hamas,
it's really iron right what we've been say, Hamas is
less of a threat to take future hostages because of
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you know that, the how valiantly and effectively Israel has
fought for its freedom. It doesn't mean that it's in
survival that at this point, okay, you know how everything
is made right or everything's going to be fine. Not
at all. I'm talking relatively speaking, but thank you for
that text state five to five for zero five eight
two five to five d an five seven seven thirty nine. Also,
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there's more benefit to these confirmation hearings than just the
GOP nominees being confirmed. The benefit is the way they're performing,
and to a person, they're performing at a very high level,
and they're fighting. They're fighting, and that is so critical
because the reality of today's Democratic party controlled by the
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modern left is they don't play by any rules at all.
There is very very little opportunity to cooperate with them
on anything. There are some exceptions, I mean, for example,
some senators are going to be forced to cross over
now and support the Lake and Riley Act, which everybody
should support because they want to win reelection in swing states.
But largely, this secular radical left is so awful that
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you just have to go out and fight them, and
I'm talking about electorally. Fight them at the ballot box,
fight them in confirmation hearings, expose who they really are,
take them head on, and defeat them. And that's what
serves America. There was a day right when there was
a different kind of democratic party, and there'd be much
more opportunity to work across the aisle, etc. And try
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to strike deals in a different tone and everything else.
But this radical left this is an extraordinarily destructive animal
that lies through its teeth, you know, if not every
waking moment, every waking hour, and engages in lots of
evil policy pursuits and so no, it's this is how
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the GOP needs to to fight for America by fighting.
So I want to bring you some of that sound here,
which is so interesting. You know, it ranges from the
subtle and Hegseth just delivered this line so perfectly. But
tell me this Ryan, how does Senator Elizabeth Warren walk
into this one? How does she walk into this one?
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But I'm glad she did?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
And other words, you're quite sure that every general who
serves should not go directly into the defense industry for
ten years. Are you not willing to make that same pledge?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I'm not a general, Senator.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Just perfect and it's really the delivery that made it
right now, Senator Tim Kane, and I want to get
your reaction to this. When he goes after Hegseth in
such a personal way and involves hegcess seven year old
child in it, I want to bring you that exchange
the obvious hypocrisy when it comes to Kane, We'll have
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some fun with. But and I do want to get
your take on is this fair game? Somebody's infidelity, etcetera?
Is it fair game? And a confirmation hearing like this, Can.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
You so casually cheat on a second wife and sheep
on the mother of a child been born two months
before and you tell us you were completely cleared?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
How is that a complete clear Senator?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Her child's name is Gwendolen Hope Hegseeth and she's a
child of God and she's seven years old. And she
was like, and you cheated on the mother of that
child less than two months after that.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Daughter was born, didn't you? Those were false charges?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Well, no, Jully investigated and I was completely cleared.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah. And who was Tim Kaine a running mate with Yeah? Yeah,
in twenty sixteen and it was her husband know that
without hearing it, but it's fun to hear.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Second Gentleman Doug Mhoff.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Here we are in Annadale, Virginia, where the Biden Harris
campaign just opened the first coordinated campaign office in Virginia.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
And we are going to one win this election. Senator
Caine is going to go back to the Senate and
we're all going to do this thing together.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, cheats with the nanny reportedly gets her pregnant, right,
and then Doug the bruiser, who's accused of it, and
again that this is why much of the media's life
lost all credibility. You know, he's credibly accused of and
I don't know, I wasn't an eyewitness to it, of
physically abusing that this woman he was involved with, and
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you know, the corporate media just stays away from it completely. Yeah,
but listen, nobody's surprised, right, right, and people expect at
this point you can't even call a hypocrisy, it's dishonesty.
A hypocrisy is too nice a word. Dishonesty from the left.
And in terms of whether this personal stuff is fair
game for a confirmation hearing, listen, I think in a
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situation like this, somebody wants to be Secretary of Defense,
and there has been this documented business about cheating on
several occasions, et cetera. You can make an argument that
it's it's fair to inquire about that in a certain
way to a certain extent, in order to question a
witness on whether in the future they can be relied on,
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be relied on to tell the truth be a person
of integrity. I think there's a certain way that can
be approached in an appropriate way, But this was not that.
This was screen therapy for the left, which at this
point knows that it's been it's been thrashed, it's been humiliated,
even worse in their minds right now. Great for America
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is that they are trending down, that the future just
looks even worse for them, assuming the GOP governs will
and I believe it will, and so that they're just
at this point lashing out. So I think that was
highly inappropriate and again helps heg seth and hurts.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
The left, do you think, and this will be a
warped motivation, but could be what explains almost all of
these Mazy Herono, Kristen gillibrand, et cetera. That they said
simply were signaling to their base in order to save
face in the wake of this election disaster for.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Them, oh, to try to have some sort of relevance
right right, because can you imagine what morale is like
on the left right now?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Not great?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
No, and deservedly so. So yeah, No, I think it's
all of that, but again, it's what's been going on
for a long time now. It just helps Republicans, it
helps Trump, it helps Egset, it helps these nominees, because
that's not where America is at right. The Democratic Party
now has this wildly radical, out of control, a narrow
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little base that's controlling the party, the party apparatus, and
most places other than Colorado, that's sink in the ship,
some places faster than others. Hey, what point is it
going to sink them here? Or is it just impossible?
Is Colorado just out of reach now for Republicans? I
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do not believe that it is, but Democrats act like
it is.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Well, we've seen in this last election, Dan Kamala Harris
did not flip any county in the United States, and
further than that point, in the very blue state of California,
even bluer than this one, Donald Trump picked up some
counties in California. So if he can do it there,
if the Republicans can make gains there, they certainly can
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do it here in Colorado.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Oh, I think they can. And I think Republicans can
win in Colorado. Again, that the key is now, and
we are in a magic moment right now, right, It's
like when you're on a video game and all of
a sudden you're going to get these bonus points, like
one hundred x bonus points. This is the window for
the GOP and Trump has done a masterful job of
taking advantage of it so far. Do the job well,
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govern well, govern well right now, and that that is
what's going to position the GOP to become dominant. Govern
well right now, and that's what's going to give the
GOP a real chance to win In Colorado, a Texter,
says Dan Denversity Council bans flavored tobacco, but flavored marijuana
and giving out tools to do drugs is acceptable. Yes,
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it's insane, but it's who they are. But here's the madness.
They do this on purpose because what the Left knows
is a more drugged population is more dependent on government.
That's what this legalization of marijuana is all about. Hook
him young, hook him forever. The more people on drugs
in Colorado, the more people on this high potency Krakawana
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can't even call it marijuana, the more people dependent on government,
which means the more people who are going to vote
for Democrats. That's their logic, that's their plan. It's the
same reason they open up the Southern border flood the
nation with unvetted people, knowing it's going to lead to
a lot of carnage. They don't care about the carnage.
All these ruined kids, all these raped women, all these
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murdered people. In the eyes of the left, they are
an acceptable casualty rate. You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast, cam Bond.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Will you protect churches and agnancy care centers when they
are targeted for violence, when they are targeted for intimidation,
when their members or parishioners are threatened with violence or
other acts of illegal.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Behavior, Yes, Senator.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
Will you stop the disparate treatment of Americans on the basis.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Of religious faith.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Will you stop the deliberate persecution of pro life Americans
for nothing more than their pro life beliefs.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yes, Senator.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Will you ensure that nothing like the Mark how case
happens again, that Americans do not have swat teams arriving
on their front doors with armed weapons to terrorize their
children and their spouses, only in the end, of course,
to have the case loss because there was nothing to it.
Will you put an end to that kind of deliberate
intimidation of the good American citizens on the basis.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Of their religious belief Yes, Senator, I'm.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
Glad to hear you say that, because we need it.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
We need it. That was one of the most important
exchanges today in one of the many reasons to be
so optimistic about what's to come in a new Trump administration,
because this is one of the most heinous chapters in
American history, the way that the quote devout Catholic Joe
Biden weaponized his doj to persecute Catholics and other Christians.
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And it is almost unimaginable that that could have happened
in modern America. But it did. It did, and so
thank God, and hey, look at it.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Trump had to get all sorts of support to win, right.
But the reality is, as we talked about a long
time before election day, as the Catholic vote goes, it's
a big group of people. As the Catholic vote goes,
likely so goes the election. We saw that in sixteen
in the Upper Midwest, when enough Catholics turned against Hillary
Clinton that she lost Blue Wall States. So Biden won
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Catholics according to exit polls, by about five points. Exit
polls now say Trump won Catholics by eighteen and no surprise,
why right? So eight five y five for Zoe five
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interesting conversation with folks who happen to be Catholic Siam
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who voted for Biden. I would love to have that
conversation because listen, I know some amazingly impressive Catholics, far
more impressive a Catholic than I am, who are Democrats,
and I don't get that, but I see them live
life so well in so many other ways. But I
don't get it, and I don't know how they could
rationalize it. But no Catholics turned out big for Trump.
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He knows that. I think kamalas skipping the Al Smith
dinner probably not a great move. And listen, the only
reason she does that, right, and if you're not familiar
with El Smith a big annual dinner both candidates aperit
a hosted Pytho Cardinal of New York. And so I
think Ryan she knew before that dinner she had lost
the race, because the only other explanation for skipping it
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is a what's the polite word? That she despises Catholics
so much that she was unwilling to go to a
Catholic event even if it was necessary to win the presidency.
I think she knew she had lost by that. Now.
I think there's a lot of antithropy toward Catholics there,
and I think the video she cut and sent instead
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his further evidence of that. But all I'm saying going
forward is how does the GOP win in the toughest
of places now? Right, and this nation is turning toward
the GOP quite obviously, Colorado's a tough nut to crack.
How do you win in the toughest of places like Colorado. Well,
part of it is you got to get these voting
groups that normally vote Democrat in big numbers in this state.
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You've got to get that to start shifting. You don't
need to win a majority, but you need to peel
away enough to be able to turn things around and
vote win state wide. Because, as you know, if you
got somebody out there, say this person happens to be black,
let Tino, Catholic, whatever, who just is habitually voting Democrat,
if you can actually flip that person to a Republican,
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then then your gain there is very very large. When
you start to talk about, Okay, we've got a ten
point spread Colorado's D plus twelve whatever statewide, Well, all
of a sudden you flip one person or one percentage
point to you as opposed to just somebody staying home,
and you've made a very big gain there. So you know,
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for example, Catholics in Colorado, there is a real opportunity
with Catholics and Christians in Colorado, those of whom habitually
vote Democrat, because the left in Colorado's reached the point
where there can be no denying the open hostility toward faith,
the open hostility toward Catholicism, the open hostility toward Christianity,
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and so there are opportunities there with people of color.
There can be no question in Colorado that the left
right now gravely disrespects people of color in Colorado and
does many many things that harm communities of color in Colorado.
That there can be no question about that. And so
that's where the big hope lies in Colorado, and the
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right candidate, the right campaign, the right funding, etc. Though
the funding ryan at this point not many big money
people are going to get on GOP statewide candidates in
Colorado until they show that they've got a real chance
to win. So the money is going to follow the
other hard work it takes to be in a position
where they think, yeah, that Galler guy can win.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Confirmation of the name of the second person to die
as a result of the serial killer on the mall.
Nicholas Burquette, thirty four years old, is the person who
was killed on Sunday night. Now, keep in mind, by
six point thirty Saturday night or so, the Denver, the
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Johnston administration knew that they have a serial killer targeting
the mall, and so Nicholas Burquette and every other Colorado
and every other person in Colorado deserved a five alarm
fire Amberler type of warning that there was a serial
serial killer targeting the mall, and the Johnston administration had
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to know right that that was the only way to
protect people. You could put our great men and women
in blue every five feet on the mall, and you
could not protect people on the mall from a psycho
serial killer with a knife determined to kill. The Johnston
administration had to know that. Somebody had to make a decision,
in my opinion, to not warn the people, and by
doing so. My belief is someone in that administration made
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a decision to put those people in danger because the
only way to protect him was to warn them. I
want to learn more about Nicholas Burkett. I want to
be able to tell his story. We're trying to reach
out to his father, who has appeared on Twitter, but
Nicholas Burkeett probably a pretty good chance he'd be alive
today if the Johnson administration had done its job.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
It would not be appropriate for a prosecutor to start
with a name and look for us.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
You know. That's a great cut that I was about
to play, and then I thought, I'm not going to
play a cut when we have a chance to talk
with Big L. Alfred Williams a true Colorado legend in
so many different ways, and his amazing exploits on college
and pro football fields are just a part of that.
Big L. Welcome to the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Dan, my man, how you doing, Buddy? Has yet?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I am living the dream in my life is much
better having not talked to you today, my friend, because
I don't think there has been a ray of human
sunshine as bright as you and Colorade for many, many decades,
but but Coach Mack would be close. Coach Mack would
be close. So what a privilege to be able to
talk to you about your experiences with Coach Mack now
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that he's he's gone to his true home. Because you know,
Tom Roon was on the show the other night and
he was saying, you know what it was when Coach
Mack landed Alfred and Canavis that everything really began to
turn around. So if you don't mind, please just share
some of those memories.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yeah, I mean, my recruiting process Dan was was really unique.
It was all the big time football and basketball recruit
in Houston, and at the time in the eighties when
I was getting recruited back in nineteen eighty five and
eighty six, was there was this this hint of illegal
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movement throughout the entire process. And so my high school coach,
my high school told my high school coach told me
that if anybody offers you money, that means that they're
trying to buy you. And so the first time they
offer you money, then eliminate them. So there was so
many schools that I started talking to and money came
up and they were eliminated. And with Mac, what made
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him so special and made him so awesome for me
was his integrity. Just everything about him was awesome. And
but what really stood out to me was his integrity
and his states and his family values. And it's something
that I'll always remember. He never offered me a dime
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to come to the University of Colorado. As a matter
of fact, my last year at the University of Colorado,
I asked the Red Shirt rather than playing my senior
year of the national championship year, because I want to
stick around one more year, because I just loved the
man so much, loved school, loved the environment, loved voter
and I just want to stay one more year. And uh,
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he talked me into playing my senior year in history.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Wow, what a story. Alfred Williams our special guest. Do
you have a couple of favorite Max stories?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Yeah, I just think the I think my stories, you know, uh,
most of my most of my stories with Mac were
really about hanging out with him and his wife is wonderful,
beautiful and intelligent wife, Lindy. It was, you know, my
summer jobs at when my first couple of years at
the University of Colorada's. I used to cut the grass
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for all the coaches and yeah, so yeah I cut.
I cut Coach Max Grass, coach Coach Coach Hanklets Grass,
Coach Simmons Grass. I mean, if there was a coach
who had a lawn, then I had a little pickup
truck and a lawnmower and I went over and did
that for my money. And what would have ended up happening, Dan,
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is that I would go in. Of course, you know,
you got this guy, this uh, this big old hunk
of a young man playing football for you. And after
every nit, every time I cut the grass on every
last time, I got a meal.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
So I got a meal every single time. And so
I sat there and talked to mom McCartney, and I
talked to of course coach mac Away from football and
Stage for me were the ones that really stood out
because it really brought family feel to it. You know,
I made like thirty or forty bucks for cutting the grass,
and uh, and and I got a great meal, and
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I was hanging out with the families. I got to
know all the coaches families and the administrator's families, and
it was it was, it was amazing. It was. It
was I had a regular, regular, you know, little little
little root that I had to cut, grass man, and
it was. It was good.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Alfred Williams their special guest, obviously all American College and
and all pro and Alfred. Is there any particular inspirational
speech pregame speech by Mac that sticks out? I mean
he was just known, at least to so outing fandom
as just being this this tremendous motivational coach. But anything
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that stands.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Out, oh my goodness, I have so many that stand
out that were motivational. But I'll give you the one
that I love the most because it's the corniest one
that he had. And it was against Iowa State, and
we were ranked number one at the time, and I
think this was right before we were playing Nebraska, and
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he was talking about playing against Iowa State. And you know,
when you are the king of the jungle, you have
to rule, let everybody know that you're there. And now
you got to remember, now, back in the day, man,
the seniors all sat in the front row. So we
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are all sitting in the front row, and he said raw,
and we looked left, we looked right, and we bucked
up laughing. He looked at us, saying he looked at
us and smiled and say, let's go get them. He
didn't say another word. He knew that he knew it.
He had missed on that one because he has had
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so many in previous years about guys and their opportunities
and ways that they could uh you know, connect with
their teammates and their families, and how it would make
the community feel and always had Nebraska circle and red
because he needed, he told me once we were done,
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is that, uh he needed we needed a common foe
that we could all look forward to, and they had
to be the best team in the conference so that
that could galvanize us. And I remember around maybe it
was around four years ago, we were sitting in a
spring practice. I think it was called the Rail was
the head coach, and I said, coach, which one is it?
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Because in pro football, Dan, the talent is pretty comparable,
It really is pretty comparable. So coaching really matters in
professional football. So I said to him, I said, well,
which one really matters in college football? Is it coaching
or is it the players? He said, it's seventy thirty
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players to coaches at the collegiate level. He said, that's
why we always had to recruit well and made sure
that the coffers were never empty.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Boy, fascinating, Alfred Williams, so kind of spend time with us.
I want to shift gears if you don't mind. This
will sound like a weird question, but I've always wondered
this because you truly have been just a standout personality,
just a force for good in this community from the
day you arrived on that SEU campus. And so I
don't know you will. I'm just curious, how did you
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become that way and and what do you attribute that to?
Because whatever it is, we need more of it.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Well, I tell you, you know, early on in my career,
I had a great defensive coordinator. He started off as
my position coach. His name was Mike Hankowitz. And I
have to credit him for this because he told me
early on in the process, I was really moody. I'd
have these really great days and these really haover days
and these wild swings, and uh, he told me when
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I was a sophomore, he said, Alfred, you know, he said,
now you're really in control of your days. When you're
having great days, everybody wants to be around you when
you're having terrible days. Nobody wants to be around you.
He said, you just have to make your mind up
what kind of person you're going to be, and just
remember that, you know, everybody is a teted to good
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energy and the negative energy nobody is. And so I've
always tried to surround myself with people who smile a lot,
people who say thank you and and and shake your hand,
look you in the face, and and people that are
upstanding people. I've always prided myself in not necessarily everything
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that I've done, but the things that I haven't done
that I am really great.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Point because I got to I can't think of a
single Colorado with more positive energy than you, and and
just relentlessly. So so you've been a gift to the state,
my friend, and really appreciate your time today.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Damn man, don't forget man. We're gonna get out there
on the link. Rember.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I finally learned how to hit the ball after forty
years of playing. Yeah, we got to play now.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Yeah, yeah, do you know where it's going?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Oh, finally for the first time in my life. So
we have got to get out there now, and you
won't have to wear a helmet.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
My friend, you take care. Thank you, entire audience, my friend,
thank you, Big l.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
We all love you. Wow, what a man he is
the best state five five for zero five A two
five five you're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
And now back to the dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
There. That certainly applies to big Al Alfred Williams, who
joined us in the last segment to talk about Coach Mack.
What a Colorado treasure. Both of those men have been
eight five five for zero five A two five five
takes d a N five seven seven three nine. So uh,
this big banner headline on the Denver Post. At least
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they've taken down the Phil Weiser announcements for governor, right,
no question of the Post is back in there. They
left that banner up for quite a while that even though,
I mean, has one person had that conversation around the water? Hey,
do you hear Phil Wiser's running for governor? I mean
he's he's at eight percent in the DEM polls. Though
I wouldn't be surprised if he ended up the nominee.
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Uh lawless Mike Johnston wouldn't like that, but it would
be interesting to see how all that plays out. You've
got to believe, don't you, at this point, Ryan, that
that lawless Mike, even even if he has mega hard
left billionaire support, he's gonna have a real hard time
getting that nomination. I mean, he's he's just making bad
move after bad move, and and we are going to
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get to the bottom of it. I mean, we have
filed our core request really quick though.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Yeah, he did veto the Denver City Council move for
the needle exchange site.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
That's like saying he didn't murder anybody last night, right,
isn't it.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
It's a layup.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
It should be, but it's Denver, So yeah, yeah, and
uh and no, but we are we are going to
use I've used CORA before, I've used CORA for a
lot of years. I've gone to court to enforce CORA,
and and so we will do everything possible under the
law to get to the bottom of this. Because listen,
the Johnston administration knew by Saturday night, probably about six
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thirty six forty five, that you had a serial killer,
a psycho serial killer, targeting the mall and somebody right
that there was no five alarm fire warning to the
people who were in Colorado at the time that there's
a serial killer on the loose targeting the mall who
just slit somebody's throat and tried to kill two other
people with a knife. Why was there not that warning?
(30:34):
Why didn't the mayor warn the people? And you know,
we filed our court today. We're going to fight to
get to the bottom of it because to me, that
would be an automatic disqualifier. You could not remain in office,
you could never hold another office, because you know, the
only way to protect the public people going onto the
mall is to tell them, because all the law enforcement
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of the world can't protect them against a psycho killer
with a knife determined to kill. On a lighter note,
date night tonight at the Nuggets, So looking forward to that.
My wife and I try to make that a regular thing.
The date night and the Nuggets have heated up, so
they're getting a little something going. It'd be great to
see them make another run of championship. The Avs have two.
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Let me get back to some of the text. It's
been a while day. If you just joined us, thank you.
There's so much going on in the world and so
much positive as well, right because I mean, you can
see Trump changing America in the world for the better
even before he takes office. Today's obvious example is Trump
threatened Hamas and Hamas folded. So now there's going to
be a deal. I'm not saying it's the greatest deal
in the world. I al said the deal is his idea.
(31:39):
Oh yeah, spring And so the timing is just a coincidence.
That's amazing, all this coincidental timing, right, yeah, shade of
the hostage return right just after Reagan got inaugurated. But
you know what was really cool today and very telling,
and again it's more than Trump effect, is you saw
I don't know it might have been a Pentagon spokesperson,
(32:00):
this spokesperson, this is a Biden administration spokesperson coming out
and they were asked at the press or you know
it was Trump involved. And this is yeah, Trump was
vital to this. Trump was a key part of getting
this done. And in fact, there was a Trump envoy
in the negotiations. I mean like literally at the table.
(32:20):
But oh and I just saw this popped up on CNN.
Biden gives his farewell address to the nation tonight. Who's
going to know who's going to watch that?
Speaker 5 (32:32):
He needs to spike the football on this this whole deal.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah, I mean, you know, this is one of the
great things. And I don't mean this in wishing him
ill at all. This is about something bigger than him.
This is about the country. It's very helpful to the
country that Biden is going out at this point, such
an obvious loser and so thoroughly defeated because we can't
repeat this, We can't have this happen again. So everybody
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watching has to see that no America rejects this. You
can't do the things he's done. You can't act the
way he's acted. And that's separate apart from the fact
he obviously isn't mentally qualified to be president and hasn't
for some time. So this is another part of the
positive move forward for America what you do want to
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see happen. And Trump right now obviously so much better
prepared to take office, and he had a really good
first term anyway, but making so many great moves already,
So excited on the positive side for the good stuff
that's being done right, and very excited that the bad
guys and gales not as much as they should be,
but they're getting exposed so that the message is sent
(33:43):
that no, this is not who America is, This is
not the way we want to act. All of this
from Biden, It'd take too long to go through the list, right,
which is one of the big reasons he's losing leaving
office and shame and defeat. The other thing is to
see these CNN headlines. They spend half time newscast now
talking about the miracle of the blue VW van that
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was unscorched by the fires, and they devote like ours
to that. Ryan. How many stories have we seen now
of statues of Mary, statues of Jesus that stand untouched
when everything surrounding them in LA was burned. But I
don't think we get the CNN stories on that. But
the van that survives, Yeah, it's worth ours, It's worth ours. Wow,
(34:31):
what a day, and what are day Tomorrow is going
to be? Thank you, Ryn for all your great hard
work as well, Kelly, you are human sunshine also, and
thank you for warming and brightening every day. I can't
wait till tomorrow. This is so much fun. It's so exciting.
All the good things happening because Trump won. And we'll
look forward now to inauguration day. On the dan Kapla show.
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There's a concrete example of how things are getting better
(00:23):
because Donald Trump was elected and obviously he doesn't get
sworn into noon on Monday, but so many reasons to
be optimistic, and every honest person would acknowledge that, even
somebody in the Biden administration did, though Biden wouldn't that.
You know, it's because of Trump. This deal is happening,
and you know Trump threatened Amas and Hamas folded. It's
(00:45):
that simple. Now, A Texter says, Dan, do you understand
what a disproportionate number of Hamas prisoners are going to
be let go from Israel? I don't understand. I do,
and it infuriates me. But that's up to Israel to
decide the idea that three thousand of these prisoners a
large number of murders are going to be let go
just so innocent and Israeli captives can be returned. Yeah,
(01:07):
it drives me crazy, but I'm not criticizing Israel or
net and Yahoo. He has to make those decisions for Israel.
My guess is that the Israeli people are probably more
willing to do this because they have done what a
sane nation needs to do. They have stepped up, they
have fought for their own survival. They have largely defeated
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an enemy determined to destroy them. Israel has been a
very important message to their enemies all over the world.
They will fight for their survival, they will defeat you.
And so Israel probably feels as if you know, Hamas,
it's really iron right what we've been say, Hamas is
less of a threat to take future hostages because of
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you know that, the how valiantly and effectively Israel has
fought for its freedom. It doesn't mean that it's in
survival that at this point, okay, you know how everything
is made right or everything's going to be fine. Not
at all. I'm talking relatively speaking, but thank you for
that text state five to five for zero five eight
two five to five d an five seven seven thirty nine. Also,
(02:12):
there's more benefit to these confirmation hearings than just the
GOP nominees being confirmed. The benefit is the way they're performing,
and to a person, they're performing at a very high level,
and they're fighting. They're fighting, and that is so critical
because the reality of today's Democratic party controlled by the
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modern left is they don't play by any rules at all.
There is very very little opportunity to cooperate with them
on anything. There are some exceptions, I mean, for example,
some senators are going to be forced to cross over
now and support the Lake and Riley Act, which everybody
should support because they want to win reelection in swing states.
But largely, this secular radical left is so awful that
(02:58):
you just have to go out and fight them, and
I'm talking about electorally. Fight them at the ballot box,
fight them in confirmation hearings, expose who they really are,
take them head on, and defeat them. And that's what
serves America. There was a day right when there was
a different kind of democratic party, and there'd be much
more opportunity to work across the aisle, etc. And try
(03:20):
to strike deals in a different tone and everything else.
But this radical left this is an extraordinarily destructive animal
that lies through its teeth, you know, if not every
waking moment, every waking hour, and engages in lots of
evil policy pursuits and so no, it's this is how
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the GOP needs to to fight for America by fighting.
So I want to bring you some of that sound here,
which is so interesting. You know, it ranges from the
subtle and Hegseth just delivered this line so perfectly. But
tell me this Ryan, how does Senator Elizabeth Warren walk
into this one? How does she walk into this one?
(04:03):
But I'm glad she did?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
And other words, you're quite sure that every general who
serves should not go directly into the defense industry for
ten years. Are you not willing to make that same pledge?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I'm not a general, Senator.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Just perfect and it's really the delivery that made it
right now, Senator Tim Kane, and I want to get
your reaction to this. When he goes after Hegseth in
such a personal way and involves hegcess seven year old
child in it, I want to bring you that exchange
the obvious hypocrisy when it comes to Kane, We'll have
(04:44):
some fun with. But and I do want to get
your take on is this fair game? Somebody's infidelity, etcetera?
Is it fair game? And a confirmation hearing like this, Can.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
You so casually cheat on a second wife and sheep
on the mother of a child been born two months
before and you tell us you were completely cleared?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
How is that a complete clear Senator?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Her child's name is Gwendolen Hope Hegseeth and she's a
child of God and she's seven years old. And she
was like, and you cheated on the mother of that
child less than two months after that.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Daughter was born, didn't you? Those were false charges?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Well, no, Jully investigated and I was completely cleared.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah. And who was Tim Kaine a running mate with Yeah? Yeah,
in twenty sixteen and it was her husband know that
without hearing it, but it's fun to hear.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Second Gentleman Doug Mhoff.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Here we are in Annadale, Virginia, where the Biden Harris
campaign just opened the first coordinated campaign office in Virginia.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
And we are going to one win this election. Senator
Caine is going to go back to the Senate and
we're all going to do this thing together.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, cheats with the nanny reportedly gets her pregnant, right,
and then Doug the bruiser, who's accused of it, and
again that this is why much of the media's life
lost all credibility. You know, he's credibly accused of and
I don't know, I wasn't an eyewitness to it, of
physically abusing that this woman he was involved with, and
(06:10):
you know, the corporate media just stays away from it completely. Yeah,
but listen, nobody's surprised, right, right, and people expect at
this point you can't even call a hypocrisy, it's dishonesty.
A hypocrisy is too nice a word. Dishonesty from the left.
And in terms of whether this personal stuff is fair
game for a confirmation hearing, listen, I think in a
(06:32):
situation like this, somebody wants to be Secretary of Defense,
and there has been this documented business about cheating on
several occasions, et cetera. You can make an argument that
it's it's fair to inquire about that in a certain
way to a certain extent, in order to question a
witness on whether in the future they can be relied on,
(06:57):
be relied on to tell the truth be a person
of integrity. I think there's a certain way that can
be approached in an appropriate way, But this was not that.
This was screen therapy for the left, which at this
point knows that it's been it's been thrashed, it's been humiliated,
even worse in their minds right now. Great for America
(07:20):
is that they are trending down, that the future just
looks even worse for them, assuming the GOP governs will
and I believe it will, and so that they're just
at this point lashing out. So I think that was
highly inappropriate and again helps heg seth and hurts.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
The left, do you think, and this will be a
warped motivation, but could be what explains almost all of
these Mazy Herono, Kristen gillibrand, et cetera. That they said
simply were signaling to their base in order to save
face in the wake of this election disaster for.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Them, oh, to try to have some sort of relevance
right right, because can you imagine what morale is like
on the left right now?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Not great?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
No, and deservedly so. So yeah, No, I think it's
all of that, but again, it's what's been going on
for a long time now. It just helps Republicans, it
helps Trump, it helps Egset, it helps these nominees, because
that's not where America is at right. The Democratic Party
now has this wildly radical, out of control, a narrow
(08:23):
little base that's controlling the party, the party apparatus, and
most places other than Colorado, that's sink in the ship,
some places faster than others. Hey, what point is it
going to sink them here? Or is it just impossible?
Is Colorado just out of reach now for Republicans? I
(08:44):
do not believe that it is, but Democrats act like
it is.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Well, we've seen in this last election, Dan Kamala Harris
did not flip any county in the United States, and
further than that point, in the very blue state of California,
even bluer than this one, Donald Trump picked up some
counties in California. So if he can do it there,
if the Republicans can make gains there, they certainly can
(09:08):
do it here in Colorado.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Oh, I think they can. And I think Republicans can
win in Colorado. Again, that the key is now, and
we are in a magic moment right now, right, It's
like when you're on a video game and all of
a sudden you're going to get these bonus points, like
one hundred x bonus points. This is the window for
the GOP and Trump has done a masterful job of
taking advantage of it so far. Do the job well,
(09:31):
govern well, govern well right now, and that that is
what's going to position the GOP to become dominant. Govern
well right now, and that's what's going to give the
GOP a real chance to win In Colorado, a Texter,
says Dan Denversity Council bans flavored tobacco, but flavored marijuana
and giving out tools to do drugs is acceptable. Yes,
(09:53):
it's insane, but it's who they are. But here's the madness.
They do this on purpose because what the Left knows
is a more drugged population is more dependent on government.
That's what this legalization of marijuana is all about. Hook
him young, hook him forever. The more people on drugs
in Colorado, the more people on this high potency Krakawana
(10:16):
can't even call it marijuana, the more people dependent on government,
which means the more people who are going to vote
for Democrats. That's their logic, that's their plan. It's the
same reason they open up the Southern border flood the
nation with unvetted people, knowing it's going to lead to
a lot of carnage. They don't care about the carnage.
All these ruined kids, all these raped women, all these
(10:38):
murdered people. In the eyes of the left, they are
an acceptable casualty rate. You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast, cam Bond.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Will you protect churches and agnancy care centers when they
are targeted for violence, when they are targeted for intimidation,
when their members or parishioners are threatened with violence or
other acts of illegal.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Behavior, Yes, Senator.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
Will you stop the disparate treatment of Americans on the basis.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Of religious faith.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Will you stop the deliberate persecution of pro life Americans
for nothing more than their pro life beliefs.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yes, Senator.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Will you ensure that nothing like the Mark how case
happens again, that Americans do not have swat teams arriving
on their front doors with armed weapons to terrorize their
children and their spouses, only in the end, of course,
to have the case loss because there was nothing to it.
Will you put an end to that kind of deliberate
intimidation of the good American citizens on the basis.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Of their religious belief Yes, Senator, I'm.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
Glad to hear you say that, because we need it.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
We need it. That was one of the most important
exchanges today in one of the many reasons to be
so optimistic about what's to come in a new Trump administration,
because this is one of the most heinous chapters in
American history, the way that the quote devout Catholic Joe
Biden weaponized his doj to persecute Catholics and other Christians.
(12:16):
And it is almost unimaginable that that could have happened
in modern America. But it did. It did, and so
thank God, and hey, look at it.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Trump had to get all sorts of support to win, right.
But the reality is, as we talked about a long
time before election day, as the Catholic vote goes, it's
a big group of people. As the Catholic vote goes,
likely so goes the election. We saw that in sixteen
in the Upper Midwest, when enough Catholics turned against Hillary
Clinton that she lost Blue Wall States. So Biden won
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Catholics according to exit polls, by about five points. Exit
polls now say Trump won Catholics by eighteen and no surprise,
why right? So eight five y five for Zoe five
two five five the number text d A N five
seven seven three nine. I think it be a very
interesting conversation with folks who happen to be Catholic Siam
(13:13):
who voted for Biden. I would love to have that
conversation because listen, I know some amazingly impressive Catholics, far
more impressive a Catholic than I am, who are Democrats,
and I don't get that, but I see them live
life so well in so many other ways. But I
don't get it, and I don't know how they could
rationalize it. But no Catholics turned out big for Trump.
(13:35):
He knows that. I think kamalas skipping the Al Smith
dinner probably not a great move. And listen, the only
reason she does that, right, and if you're not familiar
with El Smith a big annual dinner both candidates aperit
a hosted Pytho Cardinal of New York. And so I
think Ryan she knew before that dinner she had lost
the race, because the only other explanation for skipping it
(13:58):
is a what's the polite word? That she despises Catholics
so much that she was unwilling to go to a
Catholic event even if it was necessary to win the presidency.
I think she knew she had lost by that. Now.
I think there's a lot of antithropy toward Catholics there,
and I think the video she cut and sent instead
(14:21):
his further evidence of that. But all I'm saying going
forward is how does the GOP win in the toughest
of places now? Right, and this nation is turning toward
the GOP quite obviously, Colorado's a tough nut to crack.
How do you win in the toughest of places like Colorado. Well,
part of it is you got to get these voting
groups that normally vote Democrat in big numbers in this state.
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You've got to get that to start shifting. You don't
need to win a majority, but you need to peel
away enough to be able to turn things around and
vote win state wide. Because, as you know, if you
got somebody out there, say this person happens to be black,
let Tino, Catholic, whatever, who just is habitually voting Democrat,
if you can actually flip that person to a Republican,
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then then your gain there is very very large. When
you start to talk about, Okay, we've got a ten
point spread Colorado's D plus twelve whatever statewide, Well, all
of a sudden you flip one person or one percentage
point to you as opposed to just somebody staying home,
and you've made a very big gain there. So you know,
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for example, Catholics in Colorado, there is a real opportunity
with Catholics and Christians in Colorado, those of whom habitually
vote Democrat, because the left in Colorado's reached the point
where there can be no denying the open hostility toward faith,
the open hostility toward Catholicism, the open hostility toward Christianity,
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and so there are opportunities there with people of color.
There can be no question in Colorado that the left
right now gravely disrespects people of color in Colorado and
does many many things that harm communities of color in Colorado.
That there can be no question about that. And so
that's where the big hope lies in Colorado, and the
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right candidate, the right campaign, the right funding, etc. Though
the funding ryan at this point not many big money
people are going to get on GOP statewide candidates in
Colorado until they show that they've got a real chance
to win. So the money is going to follow the
other hard work it takes to be in a position
where they think, yeah, that Galler guy can win.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Confirmation of the name of the second person to die
as a result of the serial killer on the mall.
Nicholas Burquette, thirty four years old, is the person who
was killed on Sunday night. Now, keep in mind, by
six point thirty Saturday night or so, the Denver, the
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Johnston administration knew that they have a serial killer targeting
the mall, and so Nicholas Burquette and every other Colorado
and every other person in Colorado deserved a five alarm
fire Amberler type of warning that there was a serial
serial killer targeting the mall, and the Johnston administration had
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to know right that that was the only way to
protect people. You could put our great men and women
in blue every five feet on the mall, and you
could not protect people on the mall from a psycho
serial killer with a knife determined to kill. The Johnston
administration had to know that. Somebody had to make a decision,
in my opinion, to not warn the people, and by
doing so. My belief is someone in that administration made
(17:44):
a decision to put those people in danger because the
only way to protect him was to warn them. I
want to learn more about Nicholas Burkett. I want to
be able to tell his story. We're trying to reach
out to his father, who has appeared on Twitter, but
Nicholas Burkeett probably a pretty good chance he'd be alive
today if the Johnson administration had done its job.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
It would not be appropriate for a prosecutor to start
with a name and look for us.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
You know. That's a great cut that I was about
to play, and then I thought, I'm not going to
play a cut when we have a chance to talk
with Big L. Alfred Williams a true Colorado legend in
so many different ways, and his amazing exploits on college
and pro football fields are just a part of that.
Big L. Welcome to the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Dan, my man, how you doing, Buddy? Has yet?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I am living the dream in my life is much
better having not talked to you today, my friend, because
I don't think there has been a ray of human
sunshine as bright as you and Colorade for many, many decades,
but but Coach Mack would be close. Coach Mack would
be close. So what a privilege to be able to
talk to you about your experiences with Coach Mack now
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that he's he's gone to his true home. Because you know,
Tom Roon was on the show the other night and
he was saying, you know what it was when Coach
Mack landed Alfred and Canavis that everything really began to
turn around. So if you don't mind, please just share
some of those memories.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yeah, I mean, my recruiting process Dan was was really unique.
It was all the big time football and basketball recruit
in Houston, and at the time in the eighties when
I was getting recruited back in nineteen eighty five and
eighty six, was there was this this hint of illegal
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movement throughout the entire process. And so my high school coach,
my high school told my high school coach told me
that if anybody offers you money, that means that they're
trying to buy you. And so the first time they
offer you money, then eliminate them. So there was so
many schools that I started talking to and money came
up and they were eliminated. And with Mac, what made
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him so special and made him so awesome for me
was his integrity. Just everything about him was awesome. And
but what really stood out to me was his integrity
and his states and his family values. And it's something
that I'll always remember. He never offered me a dime
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to come to the University of Colorado. As a matter
of fact, my last year at the University of Colorado,
I asked the Red Shirt rather than playing my senior
year of the national championship year, because I want to
stick around one more year, because I just loved the
man so much, loved school, loved the environment, loved voter
and I just want to stay one more year. And uh,
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he talked me into playing my senior year in history.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Wow, what a story. Alfred Williams our special guest. Do
you have a couple of favorite Max stories?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Yeah, I just think the I think my stories, you know, uh,
most of my most of my stories with Mac were
really about hanging out with him and his wife is wonderful,
beautiful and intelligent wife, Lindy. It was, you know, my
summer jobs at when my first couple of years at
the University of Colorada's. I used to cut the grass
(21:36):
for all the coaches and yeah, so yeah I cut.
I cut Coach Max Grass, coach Coach Coach Hanklets Grass,
Coach Simmons Grass. I mean, if there was a coach
who had a lawn, then I had a little pickup
truck and a lawnmower and I went over and did
that for my money. And what would have ended up happening, Dan,
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is that I would go in. Of course, you know,
you got this guy, this uh, this big old hunk
of a young man playing football for you. And after
every nit, every time I cut the grass on every
last time, I got a meal.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
So I got a meal every single time. And so
I sat there and talked to mom McCartney, and I
talked to of course coach mac Away from football and
Stage for me were the ones that really stood out
because it really brought family feel to it. You know,
I made like thirty or forty bucks for cutting the grass,
and uh, and and I got a great meal, and
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I was hanging out with the families. I got to
know all the coaches families and the administrator's families, and
it was it was, it was amazing. It was. It
was I had a regular, regular, you know, little little
little root that I had to cut, grass man, and
it was. It was good.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Alfred Williams their special guest, obviously all American College and
and all pro and Alfred. Is there any particular inspirational
speech pregame speech by Mac that sticks out? I mean
he was just known, at least to so outing fandom
as just being this this tremendous motivational coach. But anything
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that stands.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Out, oh my goodness, I have so many that stand
out that were motivational. But I'll give you the one
that I love the most because it's the corniest one
that he had. And it was against Iowa State, and
we were ranked number one at the time, and I
think this was right before we were playing Nebraska, and
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he was talking about playing against Iowa State. And you know,
when you are the king of the jungle, you have
to rule, let everybody know that you're there. And now
you got to remember, now, back in the day, man,
the seniors all sat in the front row. So we
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are all sitting in the front row, and he said raw,
and we looked left, we looked right, and we bucked
up laughing. He looked at us, saying he looked at
us and smiled and say, let's go get them. He
didn't say another word. He knew that he knew it.
He had missed on that one because he has had
(24:25):
so many in previous years about guys and their opportunities
and ways that they could uh you know, connect with
their teammates and their families, and how it would make
the community feel and always had Nebraska circle and red
because he needed, he told me once we were done,
(24:46):
is that, uh he needed we needed a common foe
that we could all look forward to, and they had
to be the best team in the conference so that
that could galvanize us. And I remember around maybe it
was around four years ago, we were sitting in a
spring practice. I think it was called the Rail was
the head coach, and I said, coach, which one is it?
(25:09):
Because in pro football, Dan, the talent is pretty comparable,
It really is pretty comparable. So coaching really matters in
professional football. So I said to him, I said, well,
which one really matters in college football? Is it coaching
or is it the players? He said, it's seventy thirty
(25:29):
players to coaches at the collegiate level. He said, that's
why we always had to recruit well and made sure
that the coffers were never empty.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Boy, fascinating, Alfred Williams, so kind of spend time with us.
I want to shift gears if you don't mind. This
will sound like a weird question, but I've always wondered
this because you truly have been just a standout personality,
just a force for good in this community from the
day you arrived on that SEU campus. And so I
don't know you will. I'm just curious, how did you
(26:06):
become that way and and what do you attribute that to?
Because whatever it is, we need more of it.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Well, I tell you, you know, early on in my career,
I had a great defensive coordinator. He started off as
my position coach. His name was Mike Hankowitz. And I
have to credit him for this because he told me
early on in the process, I was really moody. I'd
have these really great days and these really haover days
and these wild swings, and uh, he told me when
(26:39):
I was a sophomore, he said, Alfred, you know, he said,
now you're really in control of your days. When you're
having great days, everybody wants to be around you when
you're having terrible days. Nobody wants to be around you.
He said, you just have to make your mind up
what kind of person you're going to be, and just
remember that, you know, everybody is a teted to good
(27:01):
energy and the negative energy nobody is. And so I've
always tried to surround myself with people who smile a lot,
people who say thank you and and and shake your hand,
look you in the face, and and people that are
upstanding people. I've always prided myself in not necessarily everything
(27:23):
that I've done, but the things that I haven't done
that I am really great.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Point because I got to I can't think of a
single Colorado with more positive energy than you, and and
just relentlessly. So so you've been a gift to the state,
my friend, and really appreciate your time today.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Damn man, don't forget man. We're gonna get out there
on the link. Rember.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I finally learned how to hit the ball after forty
years of playing. Yeah, we got to play now.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Yeah, yeah, do you know where it's going?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Oh, finally for the first time in my life. So
we have got to get out there now, and you
won't have to wear a helmet.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
My friend, you take care. Thank you, entire audience, my friend,
thank you, Big l.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
We all love you. Wow, what a man he is
the best state five five for zero five A two
five five you're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
And now back to the dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
There. That certainly applies to big Al Alfred Williams, who
joined us in the last segment to talk about Coach Mack.
What a Colorado treasure. Both of those men have been
eight five five for zero five A two five five
takes d a N five seven seven three nine. So uh,
this big banner headline on the Denver Post. At least
(28:46):
they've taken down the Phil Weiser announcements for governor, right,
no question of the Post is back in there. They
left that banner up for quite a while that even though,
I mean, has one person had that conversation around the water? Hey,
do you hear Phil Wiser's running for governor? I mean
he's he's at eight percent in the DEM polls. Though
I wouldn't be surprised if he ended up the nominee.
(29:10):
Uh lawless Mike Johnston wouldn't like that, but it would
be interesting to see how all that plays out. You've
got to believe, don't you, at this point, Ryan, that
that lawless Mike, even even if he has mega hard
left billionaire support, he's gonna have a real hard time
getting that nomination. I mean, he's he's just making bad
move after bad move, and and we are going to
(29:32):
get to the bottom of it. I mean, we have
filed our core request really quick though.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Yeah, he did veto the Denver City Council move for
the needle exchange site.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
That's like saying he didn't murder anybody last night, right,
isn't it.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
It's a layup.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
It should be, but it's Denver, So yeah, yeah, and
uh and no, but we are we are going to
use I've used CORA before, I've used CORA for a
lot of years. I've gone to court to enforce CORA,
and and so we will do everything possible under the
law to get to the bottom of this. Because listen,
the Johnston administration knew by Saturday night, probably about six
(30:11):
thirty six forty five, that you had a serial killer,
a psycho serial killer, targeting the mall and somebody right
that there was no five alarm fire warning to the
people who were in Colorado at the time that there's
a serial killer on the loose targeting the mall who
just slit somebody's throat and tried to kill two other
people with a knife. Why was there not that warning?
(30:34):
Why didn't the mayor warn the people? And you know,
we filed our court today. We're going to fight to
get to the bottom of it because to me, that
would be an automatic disqualifier. You could not remain in office,
you could never hold another office, because you know, the
only way to protect the public people going onto the
mall is to tell them, because all the law enforcement
(30:55):
of the world can't protect them against a psycho killer
with a knife determined to kill. On a lighter note,
date night tonight at the Nuggets, So looking forward to that.
My wife and I try to make that a regular thing.
The date night and the Nuggets have heated up, so
they're getting a little something going. It'd be great to
see them make another run of championship. The Avs have two.
(31:17):
Let me get back to some of the text. It's
been a while day. If you just joined us, thank you.
There's so much going on in the world and so
much positive as well, right because I mean, you can
see Trump changing America in the world for the better
even before he takes office. Today's obvious example is Trump
threatened Hamas and Hamas folded. So now there's going to
be a deal. I'm not saying it's the greatest deal
in the world. I al said the deal is his idea.
(31:39):
Oh yeah, spring And so the timing is just a coincidence.
That's amazing, all this coincidental timing, right, yeah, shade of
the hostage return right just after Reagan got inaugurated. But
you know what was really cool today and very telling,
and again it's more than Trump effect, is you saw
I don't know it might have been a Pentagon spokesperson,
(32:00):
this spokesperson, this is a Biden administration spokesperson coming out
and they were asked at the press or you know
it was Trump involved. And this is yeah, Trump was
vital to this. Trump was a key part of getting
this done. And in fact, there was a Trump envoy
in the negotiations. I mean like literally at the table.
(32:20):
But oh and I just saw this popped up on CNN.
Biden gives his farewell address to the nation tonight. Who's
going to know who's going to watch that?
Speaker 5 (32:32):
He needs to spike the football on this this whole deal.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah, I mean, you know, this is one of the
great things. And I don't mean this in wishing him
ill at all. This is about something bigger than him.
This is about the country. It's very helpful to the
country that Biden is going out at this point, such
an obvious loser and so thoroughly defeated because we can't
repeat this, We can't have this happen again. So everybody
(33:01):
watching has to see that no America rejects this. You
can't do the things he's done. You can't act the
way he's acted. And that's separate apart from the fact
he obviously isn't mentally qualified to be president and hasn't
for some time. So this is another part of the
positive move forward for America what you do want to
(33:21):
see happen. And Trump right now obviously so much better
prepared to take office, and he had a really good
first term anyway, but making so many great moves already,
So excited on the positive side for the good stuff
that's being done right, and very excited that the bad
guys and gales not as much as they should be,
but they're getting exposed so that the message is sent
(33:43):
that no, this is not who America is, This is
not the way we want to act. All of this
from Biden, It'd take too long to go through the list, right,
which is one of the big reasons he's losing leaving
office and shame and defeat. The other thing is to
see these CNN headlines. They spend half time newscast now
talking about the miracle of the blue VW van that
(34:05):
was unscorched by the fires, and they devote like ours
to that. Ryan. How many stories have we seen now
of statues of Mary, statues of Jesus that stand untouched
when everything surrounding them in LA was burned. But I
don't think we get the CNN stories on that. But
the van that survives, Yeah, it's worth ours, It's worth ours. Wow,
(34:31):
what a day, and what are day Tomorrow is going
to be? Thank you, Ryn for all your great hard
work as well, Kelly, you are human sunshine also, and
thank you for warming and brightening every day. I can't
wait till tomorrow. This is so much fun. It's so exciting.
All the good things happening because Trump won. And we'll
look forward now to inauguration day. On the dan Kapla show.
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