February 24, 2025 • 33 mins
In the second hour of today's edition of The Dan Caplis Show, Dan and Heidi Ganahl take turns in the host chair, with the duo looking at America's deficit crisis, how the Democrats created it, and how the Republicans can fix it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
No, no, it's heidiganoll here in for Dan Caples. It's
five o'clock on a Monday, Monday, Monday. It's going to
be a crazy week as usual. As I said in
the beginning, Ryan, every day is like Christmas with all
the stuff rolling out from Trump.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
For those of us that are on that side.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Merry Christmas, everyone, Merry Christmas, God bless us everyone.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Jeez.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
If you'd like to call in and chat about we
were talking about the Republican Party and in this opt
out situation called three oh three seven one three eight
two five five, or you can text five seven seven
three nine to Dan and I.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Will see the message.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
And we're talking about the difference between a semi open
primary where on a phil can vote in the primary
like they do now, and we also have a caucus
process so you can get on the ballot in various
ways to go up against the Democrats. If you're a
Republican and then the opt out of the primary completely,
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where we'll opt out of how we do it now
and not have petitioning on and it'll be very different
caucus process and candidates will have to go through the
caucus to an assembly and only one person will come
out of it.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
And that's potentially what the.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
New chair will decide if we're going to vote on
which would affect the twenty twenty six elections.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
So we're going to go to Ken and Aurora. Who
has a comment on this?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (01:40):
Ken, how are you okay? I didn't really understand this
court case. I got to the program late. But the
whole thing it kind of sounds like a tax form.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
You know.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yes, that is a great analogy.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Yeah, you know, and so but anyway might say, is
you know a couple of comments on the party. I
heard that there was just a convicted felon that's running it,
and I'm thinking, well, if he's anything like Trump, he's
my guy.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Right, Well, not the state GOP. I think you're referencing
one of the counties.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
But yeah, oh yes, Jeff go I think, yeah, But
by the way, do you know what he's a felon from?
Do you know what he did. I mean, it's got
to be more than parking tickets.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I know part of the story.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I don't know the details you can probably google and
figure out. But Rich Rich has a very different side
of the story, the one who is the new Rich White,
who's the new Jefferson County Chair. So I would suggest
you give Rich a call and let him explain, because
obviously he explained it well enough that he got elected
chair of Jefferson County. But I think, you know, on
the state GOP, what's your take there, what do you
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think is going to happen?
Speaker 6 (02:54):
You know, I don't know. But my thing is the
Republican Party. I've heard time and again they know how
to do nothing but lose. Now, granted we're surrounded by Democrats,
but so was Trump, which proves you can be victorious
even when things seem bad. And my comment to any
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Republican in the state, be it county, state or if
they want to represent us in Congress, I want you
to win. You know, It's pretty simple. It's like I
saw this Super Bowl once and the coach is like
he just told his guys, like at halftime, he goes
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go out there and just win, you know, emphatically, And
I don't know what it is that they get in
their own way. If the fix is in, honestly, they
should be in my opinion, and I don't know the
ins and outs, but it's shameful. This state used to
be red. We shifted over to purple and then blue.
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It is and that can and will be ultimately the
destruction of any economy and society. The chases that thing
too far?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Got it?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
I mean, does that sound too radical?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
No.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I think what you're saying is you just want to win,
You want to do well. You want the old Colorado back,
the wild West that we all grew.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Up with that we miss And a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Of it has to do with the four billionaires that
got together and invested in turning the state around, one
of which was Jared Poulis. It's called the Blueprint. So
you know, I think there's a lot of headwinds, there's
a lot of things against us, but there's a lot
of ways to win too, And that's why I was
trying to lay out the numbers in the first part
of this the show, where we talk about the number
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of unaffiliated voters, we talk about how many we need
to bring over to vote for.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Us in order to win statewide.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And that's the big discussion going on in the party
right now, like how do we change the way we
get candidates up against the Democrats or do we change
it in order to win elections again, So thanks for
your comments, Ken, I really appreciate it. I'm going to
read a comment because this is a valid point that
I need to clarify. So she says, can how do
you please clarify her statement about only a few thousand
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Republicans getting to decide in the caucus system. It starts
at the precinct level, moves to the county and district levels,
then to the state level, and then to the national level.
Every registered Republican has the ability to weigh in on
the candidate, So the statement needs a little more explanation.
I agree with you if it's done in the same
way it's done now, where you run for precinct chair
or district captain, and then we elect bonus members and
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the heads of our county parties. But I don't think
it's clear yet how this is going to work. I
don't think I haven't heard an explanation of how this
is going to work. If there's one assembly that decides
where all the candidates are. I've heard they're going to
open it up to many more people. I've heard they
might limit it. I've heard all kinds of things. So
as it stands right now, if you go through the
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caucus process, yes, you elect your precinc person, which very
few people do that, or get involved. That's why I
like to tell people, be the leader in your neighborhood.
Go get involved as a precinct leader or help at
the precinct level, and that allows you to have a
say and who is going to represent you and decide
who the candidates are. But right now, so few people
are involved in that process. It concerns me. So that's
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where I was coming from. The Other thing is this
is very very expensive. If all of a sudden we
are going to host assemblies all over the state for
our counties and for the big ones the state wides.
I want to understand how we're going to pay for
this too as a party. So those two things I
need to understand better, how it's tactically going to work,
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and how we're going to pay for it. Let's go
to Steve and Arvada, who also has a comment on
the open primary.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Steve, Welcome to the show. This is heidiganal Hie.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
I was just going to say, back when they change
the election to allow in the pans to vote in
the primaries, I've been so tired of the Republican Party.
I changed to independent thinking.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
That I could do one of two things.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Let them get the hint supposedly, and then also be
able to vote for the least likely Democrat to win
so in the primary.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
So yeah, I've heard a lot about that, And when
I was running for governor, we did a lot of
digging to try and figure out if that was a
real thing or not, and we decided it really wasn't
like not a lot of people were taking going to
the effort like you did to vote like to actually
or not like you did, because some people actually change
parties in order to do that and mess with the
other primary. I don't think that's a huge issue. But
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what did happen is the Polists and the Democrats spent
three million dollars helping my opponent in the primary because
they thought they had a better chance of beating that person.
And so that was unfortunate. And that's playing in the primaries.
So money plays a part in this too. So I
think the end of the day, it's a decision about,
you know, how do we bring in unaffiliated voters, but
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yet make a decision on who our candidate is as
a party. And we've got to figure out those nuances
and figure out how to navigate that.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Steve, thanks for coming on and your comment. Let's go to.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Kevin in Boulder. Kevin, what would you like to chat
about today? This is how to get own.
Speaker 8 (08:21):
Well, I'm not calling about so maybe you don't want
to hear what I have to say today.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
It's up It's up to you.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
Okay. Well, I'm calling about two things, chemtrails and the
Federal Reserve. Now. I suspect that Trump maybe planning and
doing things right now to go after the Federal Reserve
and abolish it.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
But I don't know, can.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I think, Kevin? I think we talked about this before
when I was on once. Explain to people why okay,
why okay?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Just briefly, because we don't have a lot of time.
We got to go to break in like one minute
us the quick downlow in the Federal Reserve.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Feder Reserve was created in nineteen thirteen in secret by
the banks, the Big banks, and it was meant to
take away our constitutional money and give the banks the
ability to treat us and enslave us financially, which leads
to enslavement in all kinds of things, including politics. An
ounce of gold today buys the same amount of goods
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bought one hundred and fifty years ago. Gold standard value
doesn't change. The amount of money you needed to buy
the same things is increased. The Federal Reserve notes aren't
worth as much, and the sole dictator of inflation is
the banks, and they make it mandatory that you have
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to pay more in Federal Reserve notes than you would
with an ounce of gold. It's enslavement and it's evil,
and it's even outlawed by God in the Old Testament.
We need every state has the constitutional ability to print
or coin it its own money, and the states need
to be doing that right now, so FED won't because
we need to get rid of this Federal Reserve which
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has been around since nineteen thirteen and destroyed people's lives
and killed people and cheated all of us out of
our valued money. This is not money, this is counterfeit
currency that the banks put out.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
All right, Kevin, we got to run to break.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
But that was a great lesson on the federal Reserve,
and I'd like to learn a little bit more about
it at some other point.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I did hear that, Ryan, I don't know that you
heard that.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Elon and Trump are going to go tour Fort Knox
to see our gold.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Bring geraldo so we could see at the al Capone's Well.
The only thing I'll say on Covin's behalf nineteen thirteen
federal Reserve, it almost aligns perfectly with the institution of
the federal income.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
Tax nineteen nine or so around the same time.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
And that as the money has spent so well on
our behalf, isn't well?
Speaker 10 (10:55):
I know, I trust them trust the government to spend
my money.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
You're so funny, funny guy today.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I know.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Do you trust the Colorado government to spend your money?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah, me?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Neither me neither. That's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
The government has grown so much in the last decade.
I think our budget's gone from like twenty five twenty
five billion to forty billion over the last you know,
a couple of terms, and uh, it's it's done not
much to help Colorado.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
So there's that. All right, Well, we are we are
going to head to a break.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
This is Heidi get all filling in for Dan Kaplis,
and I will wrap up around five point thirty and
hand it off to Ryan, and I believe Dan will
be in at that point.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
All right, we'll see you after the break, and.
Speaker 10 (11:44):
Now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
My show had value and that.
Speaker 11 (11:53):
I'm sorry that what I was doing I value and
value and in the end, I'm sorry. I'm not trying
not to cry on TV. And I say, this is
kind of like me on TV. So I apologize, and
then and then it kind of and then it mattered.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Oh my gosh, Ryan, liberal tears.
Speaker 10 (12:14):
They're delicious.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
They're delicious, They're very tasty.
Speaker 10 (12:20):
Her show mattered. It had value, Heidi.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Then how come it's getting canceled.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Terrible ratings and it was just constant race baiting hate
from her?
Speaker 10 (12:29):
Oh you know she's from around here, right?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
No?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I did not know that.
Speaker 10 (12:32):
Yes she is. Where where they look it up? Specifically?
What I got to look it up?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Hold on a second, it's all right, it's all right,
I know I'll find it quick. I read that she
doesn't feel guilty about going hard on issues like BLM
Asian Americans targeted immigrants just trying to make a life,
the immigrants just trying to make a life, like right
here in a Laura, Colorado. Yeah, like trendar a trendate
a ragwack. Yeah, goodness, gracious, it says here she.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Was raised mostly in Denver, Colorado, until the age of seventeen. Wow,
she moved to Flatbush, Brooklyn to live with an.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Ent Well, New York rubbed off on her.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Yeah, well, let me see, she was born in sixty eight,
so she's fifty six, So until age seventeen, that would
have been about nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
The best years.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Well, that's right, so she should have remembered those years
about her upbringing an experience living here in Colorado.
Speaker 10 (13:25):
But no, you're right she got tainted by Brooklyn and
New York.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
I think I.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Grew up in Monument, Colorado, just down the road by
the Air Force Academy. And when I moved here when
I was twelve, there were I mean, there were like
ninety kids in my class, and I mean we did
all the things like rode our bikes everywhere, stayed out,
you know, like just like the typical eighties meme, you know,
drank out of the water hose, and it was an
amazing experience.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I gotta give it to monument.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
And I got to I've just discovered this, and I don't know.
I'm really late to the party, especially as a gen
xer like you, Heidi, but stranger, thanks have you at.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yes, my daughter loves it. My freshman in high school. Yes,
she was obsessed for a while. So I got to
see quite a bit of it.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
See, I did the math on the characters, and so
those that have seen it, you'll know. Those that haven't
just bear with me, and oh, by the way, watch it.
But Lucas's little sister, Erica, would be about my age,
so she was younger than kind of the younger kids
that were nerds, which would have been born about seventy one.
And then the older kids that were driving around and
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doing the things in Nancy with the mystery solving and stuff,
they were born about sixty eight.
Speaker 10 (14:36):
Yeah, seventy sixty eight, seventy one, and then I was
born in seventy four.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
You're a pup. I was born in sixty six.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Well, yeah, you would be like kind of the older
kids on that show that were driving and leading the
charge on stuff, which I could see obviously.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
I love seeing the clothes.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
And you know what, I loved watching Cobra Kai during
COVID because of all the car like the transams and like,
oh the old school cars in all the eighties references
the cool part too.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
My gen z niece Mila, who's now in eighth grade,
watched Cobra Kai, then wanted to watch The Karate Kid
like back from Our Day eighty four, and then developed
a big crush on Ralph Maccio.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Wait isn't he a little older?
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Well yeah, but she likes young Ralph Macchio and he's
kind of frozen in time in The Karate Kid in
nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
So you know what we watched Sunday? Dad was yesterday
my husband put on Goonies.
Speaker 10 (15:29):
Love it.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
I know it's a good.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Yeah, Sean Aston, I don't want to spoil anything, but
he has a prominent role in season two.
Speaker 10 (15:37):
I believe it is of Stranger Things.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Yes, that's accurate.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
Yeah, and he was, of course of the lead and Goonies.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Yes, yes, what was your favorite eighties movie?
Speaker 9 (15:44):
Mine was?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I think mine was Top Gun.
Speaker 10 (15:47):
Back of the Future is right up there.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I just saw that at the Bule it was such
a great play.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Oh my gosh, it was on Well you saw the
stage of the theater versionage version, Yeah, Breakfast Club. I
mean all those John Hughes movies from the eighties that
weird science, love weird science. That's in that realm.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
That was that when they say he said give me
the keys, Lisa, Yes, I.
Speaker 10 (16:10):
Gotta get Kelly on this conversation. She's of this generation
as well.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
Kelley.
Speaker 12 (16:14):
Of course, eighties movie though everything John Hughes.
Speaker 10 (16:18):
Yeah, sure, of course.
Speaker 12 (16:20):
But I would have to say, well, this one was
actually in the seventies, but Jaws is my favorite movie.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Got Kelly. Why didn't I terrify you?
Speaker 12 (16:30):
It did and didn't, although I was convinced, like we
used to play a game in California called Jaws and
somebody was in the pool's Jaws and we would pull
you would basically it was completely dark and somebody who
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was Jaws would pull you under and then you got out.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
So that is creepy.
Speaker 10 (16:58):
It was the eighties movie Veil give us your favorite.
I know what it is. It's that one, right.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I like top Gun No, No, no, not a Lotach
the Beach.
Speaker 10 (17:09):
Real Genius, that's the one. Real genius, kind of a
under the radar hit.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
It was yeah that I mean, there were so many
Steelers day off.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
Oh yeah, so much fun.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
That was more your years. Like I think that was
passed a little bet.
Speaker 10 (17:24):
Yeah, maybe a little, but I remember it and I
worshiped him.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Do you remember America American Werewolf?
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Well, teen Wolf and American Werewolf in London was hilarious.
Speaker 11 (17:33):
Big.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
That was the scary movie that I liked. I thought
that was really.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Because there was a lot of humor involved in that too,
so it made a little more palatable.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
And what about the Friday the thirteenth and Halloween and
the horror movie genre in its peak and night Mary.
Speaker 10 (17:47):
And elm Street.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Halloween scared me more than Josh.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah, walk into the dark closet where you know, the
mass murgery you're yelling at the screen.
Speaker 10 (17:56):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
It was great hanging out with you guys today. I'm
sorry I have to take off a little early.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
But I hope you have a wonderful week. This is
hiding and All handing it off to Ryan and Dan.
We'll be in just a few minutes.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Have a wonderful week everyone.
Speaker 10 (18:27):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Wow, Happy Monday everybody. Thank you to Heidi Ganall for
doing the show today. I've been in a Catholic Charities
board meeting and so joining you a little bit late,
but so much to talk about.
Speaker 9 (18:42):
Ryan, why don't we come right out of.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
The gate with Governor Polis on weather biological mouse. So
let's just say mouse, Okay, just save everybody sometime should
participate in girls' sports cut thirteen.
Speaker 13 (18:55):
Please, as governors, we've our prior initiative that we continue
our work on it to disagree better. We always hope
that people can disagree in a way that elevates the
discourse and tries to come to a common solution around
around what the issue is.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
I don't think that that disagreement was necessarily.
Speaker 10 (19:13):
A model of that.
Speaker 9 (19:14):
I don't think a lot of us went.
Speaker 10 (19:15):
In really even aware of what the conflict was about.
Speaker 13 (19:19):
But look, if there's a conflict there, I encourage everybody
to get together and work it out. Obviously, one way
to do that is through the courts if it comes
to that, but if there's other ways to understand where
folks are coming from, I would encourage everybody to do that.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
What a leader profiles Encourage right Volume two.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Wait a second, No, no, no, no, no no. The
goal isn't to disagree better. The goal is to agree
on the things you should agree on. And any seene
person should agree that males should not play girls sports
and so pull us. And you know these Colorado Democrats, Ryan,
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they wonder why they can never get any tracks. And
once they get outside of the love bubble in Colorado, right,
this bubble of protection that these Democrats, whether it's Polis
or Hickenlooper or Bennett, that they build with the media, right,
because they'll cut off access if the media don't protect them.
And then they get outside that bubble and wonder why
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they don't go anywhere.
Speaker 9 (20:18):
Well, who would vote for that?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I mean, your last name could be Pollss and you
wouldn't vote for that, because you know, you embarrass yourself
if you vote for that, because there's no leadership. I
think a lot of people vote for people they disagree
with on big issues because they respect the fact that
person has the courage of their own convictions.
Speaker 9 (20:38):
Will tell you what they really.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Believe, and we'll show you the respect of telling you
they disagree.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
With you and why. But who would vote for that?
You'd rather vote for the couch.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Well, it's just such like you said, Dan, it's a
mealy mouthed answer on an eighty twent'th.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
An insult to Millie Mouse.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Well, here, Martina Navratalova is a hard leftist, lives here,
Dan in Colorado. I might add, I've been trying to
get her on your show, and mind it's a work
in progress. But nevertheless, she's sides with JK Rowling, with gays,
against groomers, with preventing biological males from entering female sports
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and spaces, Martina and Arbertilova. So she's taken that stand,
but Jared Polus can't.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Well, and again, here's the thing. If Polus wanted to
come out and just say directly, because it's the way
he's ruled and governed, right, just say it directly, Okay,
I think males should be able to participate in girls' sports.
Speaker 9 (21:35):
And here's why.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Well, he's going to be on the wrong side of
it for eighty percent of the people, but at least
some people.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Could respect him from making his case correct.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
But this kind of garbage, No nobody wants any of that.
But of course we all know the reason he won't
come out and try and make the case because it's
an indefensible, unmakable case, and he apparently still harbors these
delusions of being president. And the truth is, I still
hope to be quarterback for the Broncos next year. I
don't tell Bo Nicks because I think our law firm
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sponsors his show and that could be a.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
Bit of a conflict.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yes, but you could see it, right, I mean, which
could you see more easily, Polis's president or me qb one.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
I think you just as like a charity event, getting
to play for one play has a better chance of
happening than Polis ever becoming president.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yes, yeah, but wow, So thank you for that sound.
That is a gift today because again I do think
there's a shot in Colorado. There's a shot to get
the governor's office. There's a shot to knock off Hickenlooper
or whoever ends up, and that maybe Polis who pushes
Hickenlooper out and runs for that. But there's a shot,
and you'd have to do what Trump did, and it's
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the right thing to do, and you'd have to use
this as a lead issue, and people say, oh, the
lead issues, they have to be economic. They have to
be bread and butter. Yeah, bread and butter count, no
doubt about it. But it's always been Ryan, I think,
and you know this as a blue collar guy like me,
it's been a.
Speaker 9 (22:59):
Fundamental misunderstanding of working people.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
That because we may have less money than some other people,
that all we care about is money. And that is
a fundamental, arrogant, elitest, disparaging way to look at working people.
I grew up in the greatest family a kid could
ever grow up, and we were the richest people in
the world. My dad was a Chicago cop, my mom
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stayed home with us. But in all the ways that matter,
we were the richest people in the world. We didn't
sit around and you didn't sit around Ryan and Michigan.
You didn't sit around envious of people who had more money.
You just you wanted your fair shot. And if you
made money a priority, you wanted a fair shot to
go make your money. And so, no, it's about the
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things that matter most. It's about you know, the core
values and principle and morality and family and all that.
So Trump led with and in the end may very
well have won on this whole idea that no, you
cannot have men in women's sports. You can't have men
in women's safe places, and anybody who says you can.
Speaker 9 (24:07):
There are two nuts to be in office on any issue.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
And that's the same thing Colorado candidates for governor and
Senate need to do. They need to press the hell
out of it, stick it in the face of the
Democrat at every turn, every event, every debate, everywhere.
Speaker 10 (24:23):
It's just such a slam dunk.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Dan.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
I mean, if let's say you were to debate Polis
on this issue, it goes to your earlier point. Even
those on a far lunatic fringe left, you would express
a very clear, concise, direct opinion on whether or not
males of any kind of any background originally born that
way should participate in female sports, and you would say no,
and they want all okay.
Speaker 10 (24:44):
At least we know where Dan stands. Polis's answer right there.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
I don't think that's satisfying to the hard left either,
So he's winning anybody over.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
And don't have to go way beyond the debates, because
the Democrats only agree to debate now with Democrat moderators
who then protect them in debates. So we'd have to
go way beyond the debates. You'd have to raise the
money to be like Trump did with Musk money, pounding
the Democrats on TV. Colorado is still small enough you
can go retail. You'd have to pound them in every group, everywhere.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
And it's not the only issue you do.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
But it's one of those issues that just forces the
mask to drop. It reveals who these Democrats really are.
And they will never break with it, right. They will
never take the position that, oh, no, girls' sports and
locker rooms and showers and bathrooms should only be limited
to girls. They will never ever take that position.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
No.
Speaker 10 (25:34):
And they're checkmate it on the chessboard because of it.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
And that's not the only issue that that's the case,
Dan as I have on your sheet, and maybe we'll
get to this when we come back. James Carville is saying,
point blank, you guys are better off just staying silent,
playing possum, staying out of the news and not even
uttering a word, and letting the Republicans counting on Republicans
and the Trump administration to destroy themselves, rather than having
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anything on offense as an issue.
Speaker 9 (25:58):
Well, you must mean cut sick. Yes, let's play cut SIGs.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
But what I've said very publiclyid Democrats need to play possum.
Speaker 9 (26:08):
This whole thing is collapsing.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
It doesn't need Elizabeth Warren and somebody's screaming to pacify
some progressive adversing groups in Washington, which, by the way,
I wish these people were just useless.
Speaker 9 (26:22):
They're actually worse than useless.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
That they're detrimental and they never ever learned to shut up.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Now I love listening to James Carville. It doesn't matter
how wrong he is. Do you think he's doing dope?
And I don't mean that in a disparaging kind of way.
It's you know, but I really wonder and it's one
of the reasons I love watching guys. So this whole
thing's collapsing, right, James. Yeah. And so let me get
this straight. This Trump presidency, which is by almost every
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metric on a role right now, is about to collapse.
When it didn't collapse the first time around when he
was up against the coup attempt, up against all of
that other garbage, when he was up against COVID, it
didn't collapse. Then he lost a very very very very narrow,
razor thin race, but it never collapsed. Now he is
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multiples better has a multiples better team, is off to
a tremendous start, is admired and respected around the world
for lots of reasons, and including how he handled the
assassination attempt. And so now he's going to collapse. Here's
what we've got, Ryan, right, And you and I see
it all the time, you know, it's it's called camera horse.
And I don't mean it in a bad way with
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Carville because I love watching him and he just helps
turn more people to conservatism and he's interesting.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
Right, But James Carvill, how old is the guy?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Now?
Speaker 9 (27:46):
I mean he and Moses have.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Got to be neck and neck, right, So you got
you got Carvil's right.
Speaker 9 (27:52):
Now, he's like Madonna.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
As she turned forty five, you know, willing to do
anything to be in the public eye and taking off
all the clothes that no longer gets attention for either
Madonna or Carville. So now they got to light their
hair on fire and run around naked. And yeah, he
took power to him.
Speaker 10 (28:11):
He just turned eighty in October.
Speaker 9 (28:14):
Madonna or Carvill?
Speaker 10 (28:15):
Hey, no Carvel, oh Carvil?
Speaker 9 (28:17):
Okay, Now I was serious about Madonna. D A N
five seven seven three ninety.
Speaker 10 (28:29):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 11 (28:33):
My show had valued and that.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
I'm sorry that what I was doing.
Speaker 11 (28:44):
Value and value and in the end, I'm sorry, I'm
not I trying not to cry on on TV, and
I say, this is kind of like me on TV.
So I apologize and then and then it kind of
and then it mattered.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You know, I'm not going to make fun of her
for crying about the end of her show. I mean, hey,
I shed a tear when Capitalists and Silverman ended after
seven or eight great years, whatever it was, because you know,
you put your heart and soul into a show. The
difference is our show had value. It did a lot
of great things in those seven or eight years, and
(29:18):
a lot of great things for the community. Her show
was toxic, you know her. It is great for America
that her show has gone, because I don't care what
color the host is, white, black, some other color. If
your show revolves around being racially divisive, it shouldn't be
on air. I mean, you know, you shouldn't be on
(29:39):
the I mean, you have a write of freedom of speech.
That's not my point, but there's no value in that
other than exposing how we should not be.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
And I didn't watch her sho much.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I'm sure she occasionally did a useful segment, but overall,
what was she known for. She was known for that
racial toxicity, you know, and so you got anybody regardless
of color, when that's their stick. No, it speaks well
of America that there is not a market for that
eight five five for zero five A two five five
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the number techs d an five seven seven three nine.
So weird to do a half an hour Hudi Ganah
was great to do most of the show today. I
was in a Catholic Charities board meeting, so I've got
the last half hour. Ryan, there's something to these half
hour shows. I hope the listeners wouldn't agree with that, but.
Speaker 10 (30:28):
It's literally a dead sprint for you.
Speaker 9 (30:29):
Yeah, it cuts down on the prep, that's for darn sure.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Now, So is this right that because you have to
be outside of his wife, the biggest DeSantis fan in America?
Speaker 9 (30:40):
Is he really not.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Supporting Byron Donalds, who I think is a superstar for
governor in Florida because his wife may run.
Speaker 9 (30:48):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (30:48):
I didn't know the latter part of that, but he
made a very big point about saying that, Hey, Iron
Donalds didn't help do anything down here in Florida while
we were making things happen over the eight years he
was governor.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Wow, well, yeah, that means his wife's running, really think,
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, wow.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
I mean Casey, she's got a lot of the Q
score factor. You know, she's been on television. She's got
that presence. You know, some might say the same for
an amy kaplis potentially making a run like that too.
Speaker 9 (31:18):
Oh my lord, are you kidding me? I can't even
get her on air? Did I tell you once that
I can't remember which of.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
The big but when satellite radio was huge that they
approached us about doing a show.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
Together, that would have been incredible.
Speaker 10 (31:34):
Chance zero Because she didn't want to do it.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
She could have done it, I mean I oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Oh my god, yes, yet he had been a superstar.
Speaker 9 (31:43):
This political stuff, no appetite for it.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
If I earned it up in that arena, she'd be
a good wife and she would do the things that
we all do for spouses, right, whether we like to
or not. But not that that is not her arena,
I get it.
Speaker 11 (31:58):
Not.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
In fact, one of the great joys for her in
leaving TV. She loved the people she worked with. She
was at the top of her game, had a lot
of great offers, could have gone national, but she just
loved no longer being in the spotlight.
Speaker 9 (32:11):
She loves people.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
People still come up to her king soupers or whatever
when they're not striking. You know, she loves people. But
just yeah, just very happy to lead a nice private life.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Do you think a Casey DeSantis would stand a chance
of winning the nomination? I think there's a lot of
even though that Ron Desantless loved sixty forty, isn't there
some level of fatigue because you talk about this with
Donald Junior?
Speaker 10 (32:35):
Two?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Let me put it this way, Casey DeSantis will have
a lot better chance than Marlon will in Colorado or
would in.
Speaker 9 (32:42):
Colorado fair if he was so interested.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
No, listen, I mean just you know, for Governor DeSantis
to go that hard after Donald's when Donald's I think
is a star. That tells me Casey DeSantis must be
very interesting or DeSantis has somebody else. But that brings
us back to that brings us back to Junior right right,
and the sea PEC poll over the weekend, and what
I've been saying all along, If Junior wants it. He's
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probably going to be the nominee or at least have
the inside track. I wonder if there's something in the
works where he would be jd Vance's VP.
Speaker 10 (33:18):
Could be. Could but
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
No, no, it's heidiganoll here in for Dan Caples. It's
five o'clock on a Monday, Monday, Monday. It's going to
be a crazy week as usual. As I said in
the beginning, Ryan, every day is like Christmas with all
the stuff rolling out from Trump.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
For those of us that are on that side.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Merry Christmas, everyone, Merry Christmas, God bless us everyone.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Jeez.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
If you'd like to call in and chat about we
were talking about the Republican Party and in this opt
out situation called three oh three seven one three eight
two five five, or you can text five seven seven
three nine to Dan and I.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Will see the message.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
And we're talking about the difference between a semi open
primary where on a phil can vote in the primary
like they do now, and we also have a caucus
process so you can get on the ballot in various
ways to go up against the Democrats. If you're a
Republican and then the opt out of the primary completely,
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where we'll opt out of how we do it now
and not have petitioning on and it'll be very different
caucus process and candidates will have to go through the
caucus to an assembly and only one person will come
out of it.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
And that's potentially what the.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
New chair will decide if we're going to vote on
which would affect the twenty twenty six elections.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
So we're going to go to Ken and Aurora. Who
has a comment on this?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (01:40):
Ken, how are you okay? I didn't really understand this
court case. I got to the program late. But the
whole thing it kind of sounds like a tax form.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
You know.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yes, that is a great analogy.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Yeah, you know, and so but anyway might say, is
you know a couple of comments on the party. I
heard that there was just a convicted felon that's running it,
and I'm thinking, well, if he's anything like Trump, he's
my guy.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Right, Well, not the state GOP. I think you're referencing
one of the counties.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
But yeah, oh yes, Jeff go I think, yeah, But
by the way, do you know what he's a felon from?
Do you know what he did. I mean, it's got
to be more than parking tickets.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I know part of the story.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I don't know the details you can probably google and
figure out. But Rich Rich has a very different side
of the story, the one who is the new Rich White,
who's the new Jefferson County Chair. So I would suggest
you give Rich a call and let him explain, because
obviously he explained it well enough that he got elected
chair of Jefferson County. But I think, you know, on
the state GOP, what's your take there, what do you
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think is going to happen?
Speaker 6 (02:54):
You know, I don't know. But my thing is the
Republican Party. I've heard time and again they know how
to do nothing but lose. Now, granted we're surrounded by Democrats,
but so was Trump, which proves you can be victorious
even when things seem bad. And my comment to any
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Republican in the state, be it county, state or if
they want to represent us in Congress, I want you
to win. You know, It's pretty simple. It's like I
saw this Super Bowl once and the coach is like
he just told his guys, like at halftime, he goes
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go out there and just win, you know, emphatically, And
I don't know what it is that they get in
their own way. If the fix is in, honestly, they
should be in my opinion, and I don't know the
ins and outs, but it's shameful. This state used to
be red. We shifted over to purple and then blue.
(04:05):
It is and that can and will be ultimately the
destruction of any economy and society. The chases that thing
too far?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Got it?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
I mean, does that sound too radical?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
No.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I think what you're saying is you just want to win,
You want to do well. You want the old Colorado back,
the wild West that we all grew.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Up with that we miss And a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Of it has to do with the four billionaires that
got together and invested in turning the state around, one
of which was Jared Poulis. It's called the Blueprint. So
you know, I think there's a lot of headwinds, there's
a lot of things against us, but there's a lot
of ways to win too, And that's why I was
trying to lay out the numbers in the first part
of this the show, where we talk about the number
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of unaffiliated voters, we talk about how many we need
to bring over to vote for.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Us in order to win statewide.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And that's the big discussion going on in the party
right now, like how do we change the way we
get candidates up against the Democrats or do we change
it in order to win elections again, So thanks for
your comments, Ken, I really appreciate it. I'm going to
read a comment because this is a valid point that
I need to clarify. So she says, can how do
you please clarify her statement about only a few thousand
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Republicans getting to decide in the caucus system. It starts
at the precinct level, moves to the county and district levels,
then to the state level, and then to the national level.
Every registered Republican has the ability to weigh in on
the candidate, So the statement needs a little more explanation.
I agree with you if it's done in the same
way it's done now, where you run for precinct chair
or district captain, and then we elect bonus members and
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the heads of our county parties. But I don't think
it's clear yet how this is going to work. I
don't think I haven't heard an explanation of how this
is going to work. If there's one assembly that decides
where all the candidates are. I've heard they're going to
open it up to many more people. I've heard they
might limit it. I've heard all kinds of things. So
as it stands right now, if you go through the
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caucus process, yes, you elect your precinc person, which very
few people do that, or get involved. That's why I
like to tell people, be the leader in your neighborhood.
Go get involved as a precinct leader or help at
the precinct level, and that allows you to have a
say and who is going to represent you and decide
who the candidates are. But right now, so few people
are involved in that process. It concerns me. So that's
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where I was coming from. The Other thing is this
is very very expensive. If all of a sudden we
are going to host assemblies all over the state for
our counties and for the big ones the state wides.
I want to understand how we're going to pay for
this too as a party. So those two things I
need to understand better, how it's tactically going to work,
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and how we're going to pay for it. Let's go
to Steve and Arvada, who also has a comment on
the open primary.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Steve, Welcome to the show. This is heidiganal Hie.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
I was just going to say, back when they change
the election to allow in the pans to vote in
the primaries, I've been so tired of the Republican Party.
I changed to independent thinking.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
That I could do one of two things.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Let them get the hint supposedly, and then also be
able to vote for the least likely Democrat to win
so in the primary.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
So yeah, I've heard a lot about that, And when
I was running for governor, we did a lot of
digging to try and figure out if that was a
real thing or not, and we decided it really wasn't
like not a lot of people were taking going to
the effort like you did to vote like to actually
or not like you did, because some people actually change
parties in order to do that and mess with the
other primary. I don't think that's a huge issue. But
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what did happen is the Polists and the Democrats spent
three million dollars helping my opponent in the primary because
they thought they had a better chance of beating that person.
And so that was unfortunate. And that's playing in the primaries.
So money plays a part in this too. So I
think the end of the day, it's a decision about,
you know, how do we bring in unaffiliated voters, but
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yet make a decision on who our candidate is as
a party. And we've got to figure out those nuances
and figure out how to navigate that.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Steve, thanks for coming on and your comment. Let's go to.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Kevin in Boulder. Kevin, what would you like to chat
about today? This is how to get own.
Speaker 8 (08:21):
Well, I'm not calling about so maybe you don't want
to hear what I have to say today.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
It's up It's up to you.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
Okay. Well, I'm calling about two things, chemtrails and the
Federal Reserve. Now. I suspect that Trump maybe planning and
doing things right now to go after the Federal Reserve
and abolish it.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
But I don't know, can.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I think, Kevin? I think we talked about this before
when I was on once. Explain to people why okay,
why okay?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Just briefly, because we don't have a lot of time.
We got to go to break in like one minute
us the quick downlow in the Federal Reserve.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Feder Reserve was created in nineteen thirteen in secret by
the banks, the Big banks, and it was meant to
take away our constitutional money and give the banks the
ability to treat us and enslave us financially, which leads
to enslavement in all kinds of things, including politics. An
ounce of gold today buys the same amount of goods
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bought one hundred and fifty years ago. Gold standard value
doesn't change. The amount of money you needed to buy
the same things is increased. The Federal Reserve notes aren't
worth as much, and the sole dictator of inflation is
the banks, and they make it mandatory that you have
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to pay more in Federal Reserve notes than you would
with an ounce of gold. It's enslavement and it's evil,
and it's even outlawed by God in the Old Testament.
We need every state has the constitutional ability to print
or coin it its own money, and the states need
to be doing that right now, so FED won't because
we need to get rid of this Federal Reserve which
(10:07):
has been around since nineteen thirteen and destroyed people's lives
and killed people and cheated all of us out of
our valued money. This is not money, this is counterfeit
currency that the banks put out.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
All right, Kevin, we got to run to break.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
But that was a great lesson on the federal Reserve,
and I'd like to learn a little bit more about
it at some other point.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I did hear that, Ryan, I don't know that you
heard that.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Elon and Trump are going to go tour Fort Knox
to see our gold.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Bring geraldo so we could see at the al Capone's Well.
The only thing I'll say on Covin's behalf nineteen thirteen
federal Reserve, it almost aligns perfectly with the institution of
the federal income.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
Tax nineteen nine or so around the same time.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
And that as the money has spent so well on
our behalf, isn't well?
Speaker 10 (10:55):
I know, I trust them trust the government to spend
my money.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
You're so funny, funny guy today.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I know.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Do you trust the Colorado government to spend your money?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah, me?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Neither me neither. That's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
The government has grown so much in the last decade.
I think our budget's gone from like twenty five twenty
five billion to forty billion over the last you know,
a couple of terms, and uh, it's it's done not
much to help Colorado.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
So there's that. All right, Well, we are we are
going to head to a break.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
This is Heidi get all filling in for Dan Kaplis,
and I will wrap up around five point thirty and
hand it off to Ryan, and I believe Dan will
be in at that point.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
All right, we'll see you after the break, and.
Speaker 10 (11:44):
Now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
My show had value and that.
Speaker 11 (11:53):
I'm sorry that what I was doing I value and
value and in the end, I'm sorry. I'm not trying
not to cry on TV. And I say, this is
kind of like me on TV. So I apologize, and
then and then it kind of and then it mattered.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Oh my gosh, Ryan, liberal tears.
Speaker 10 (12:14):
They're delicious.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
They're delicious, They're very tasty.
Speaker 10 (12:20):
Her show mattered. It had value, Heidi.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Then how come it's getting canceled.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Terrible ratings and it was just constant race baiting hate
from her?
Speaker 10 (12:29):
Oh you know she's from around here, right?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
No?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I did not know that.
Speaker 10 (12:32):
Yes she is. Where where they look it up? Specifically?
What I got to look it up?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Hold on a second, it's all right, it's all right,
I know I'll find it quick. I read that she
doesn't feel guilty about going hard on issues like BLM
Asian Americans targeted immigrants just trying to make a life,
the immigrants just trying to make a life, like right
here in a Laura, Colorado. Yeah, like trendar a trendate
a ragwack. Yeah, goodness, gracious, it says here she.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Was raised mostly in Denver, Colorado, until the age of seventeen. Wow,
she moved to Flatbush, Brooklyn to live with an.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Ent Well, New York rubbed off on her.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Yeah, well, let me see, she was born in sixty eight,
so she's fifty six, So until age seventeen, that would
have been about nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
The best years.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Well, that's right, so she should have remembered those years
about her upbringing an experience living here in Colorado.
Speaker 10 (13:25):
But no, you're right she got tainted by Brooklyn and
New York.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
I think I.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Grew up in Monument, Colorado, just down the road by
the Air Force Academy. And when I moved here when
I was twelve, there were I mean, there were like
ninety kids in my class, and I mean we did
all the things like rode our bikes everywhere, stayed out,
you know, like just like the typical eighties meme, you know,
drank out of the water hose, and it was an
amazing experience.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I gotta give it to monument.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
And I got to I've just discovered this, and I don't know.
I'm really late to the party, especially as a gen
xer like you, Heidi, but stranger, thanks have you at.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yes, my daughter loves it. My freshman in high school. Yes,
she was obsessed for a while. So I got to
see quite a bit of it.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
See, I did the math on the characters, and so
those that have seen it, you'll know. Those that haven't
just bear with me, and oh, by the way, watch it.
But Lucas's little sister, Erica, would be about my age,
so she was younger than kind of the younger kids
that were nerds, which would have been born about seventy one.
And then the older kids that were driving around and
(14:31):
doing the things in Nancy with the mystery solving and stuff,
they were born about sixty eight.
Speaker 10 (14:36):
Yeah, seventy sixty eight, seventy one, and then I was
born in seventy four.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
You're a pup. I was born in sixty six.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Well, yeah, you would be like kind of the older
kids on that show that were driving and leading the
charge on stuff, which I could see obviously.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
I love seeing the clothes.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
And you know what, I loved watching Cobra Kai during
COVID because of all the car like the transams and like,
oh the old school cars in all the eighties references
the cool part too.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
My gen z niece Mila, who's now in eighth grade,
watched Cobra Kai, then wanted to watch The Karate Kid
like back from Our Day eighty four, and then developed
a big crush on Ralph Maccio.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Wait isn't he a little older?
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Well yeah, but she likes young Ralph Macchio and he's
kind of frozen in time in The Karate Kid in
nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
So you know what we watched Sunday? Dad was yesterday
my husband put on Goonies.
Speaker 10 (15:29):
Love it.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
I know it's a good.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Yeah, Sean Aston, I don't want to spoil anything, but
he has a prominent role in season two.
Speaker 10 (15:37):
I believe it is of Stranger Things.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Yes, that's accurate.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
Yeah, and he was, of course of the lead and Goonies.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Yes, yes, what was your favorite eighties movie?
Speaker 9 (15:44):
Mine was?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I think mine was Top Gun.
Speaker 10 (15:47):
Back of the Future is right up there.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I just saw that at the Bule it was such
a great play.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Oh my gosh, it was on Well you saw the
stage of the theater versionage version, Yeah, Breakfast Club. I
mean all those John Hughes movies from the eighties that
weird science, love weird science. That's in that realm.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
That was that when they say he said give me
the keys, Lisa, Yes, I.
Speaker 10 (16:10):
Gotta get Kelly on this conversation. She's of this generation
as well.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
Kelley.
Speaker 12 (16:14):
Of course, eighties movie though everything John Hughes.
Speaker 10 (16:18):
Yeah, sure, of course.
Speaker 12 (16:20):
But I would have to say, well, this one was
actually in the seventies, but Jaws is my favorite movie.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Got Kelly. Why didn't I terrify you?
Speaker 12 (16:30):
It did and didn't, although I was convinced, like we
used to play a game in California called Jaws and
somebody was in the pool's Jaws and we would pull
you would basically it was completely dark and somebody who
(16:51):
was Jaws would pull you under and then you got out.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
So that is creepy.
Speaker 10 (16:58):
It was the eighties movie Veil give us your favorite.
I know what it is. It's that one, right.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I like top Gun No, No, no, not a Lotach
the Beach.
Speaker 10 (17:09):
Real Genius, that's the one. Real genius, kind of a
under the radar hit.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
It was yeah that I mean, there were so many
Steelers day off.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
Oh yeah, so much fun.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
That was more your years. Like I think that was
passed a little bet.
Speaker 10 (17:24):
Yeah, maybe a little, but I remember it and I
worshiped him.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Do you remember America American Werewolf?
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Well, teen Wolf and American Werewolf in London was hilarious.
Speaker 11 (17:33):
Big.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
That was the scary movie that I liked. I thought
that was really.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Because there was a lot of humor involved in that too,
so it made a little more palatable.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
And what about the Friday the thirteenth and Halloween and
the horror movie genre in its peak and night Mary.
Speaker 10 (17:47):
And elm Street.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Halloween scared me more than Josh.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah, walk into the dark closet where you know, the
mass murgery you're yelling at the screen.
Speaker 10 (17:56):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
It was great hanging out with you guys today. I'm
sorry I have to take off a little early.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
But I hope you have a wonderful week. This is
hiding and All handing it off to Ryan and Dan.
We'll be in just a few minutes.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Have a wonderful week everyone.
Speaker 10 (18:27):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Wow, Happy Monday everybody. Thank you to Heidi Ganall for
doing the show today. I've been in a Catholic Charities
board meeting and so joining you a little bit late,
but so much to talk about.
Speaker 9 (18:42):
Ryan, why don't we come right out of.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
The gate with Governor Polis on weather biological mouse. So
let's just say mouse, Okay, just save everybody sometime should
participate in girls' sports cut thirteen.
Speaker 13 (18:55):
Please, as governors, we've our prior initiative that we continue
our work on it to disagree better. We always hope
that people can disagree in a way that elevates the
discourse and tries to come to a common solution around
around what the issue is.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
I don't think that that disagreement was necessarily.
Speaker 10 (19:13):
A model of that.
Speaker 9 (19:14):
I don't think a lot of us went.
Speaker 10 (19:15):
In really even aware of what the conflict was about.
Speaker 13 (19:19):
But look, if there's a conflict there, I encourage everybody
to get together and work it out. Obviously, one way
to do that is through the courts if it comes
to that, but if there's other ways to understand where
folks are coming from, I would encourage everybody to do that.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
What a leader profiles Encourage right Volume two.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Wait a second, No, no, no, no, no no. The
goal isn't to disagree better. The goal is to agree
on the things you should agree on. And any seene
person should agree that males should not play girls sports
and so pull us. And you know these Colorado Democrats, Ryan,
(19:57):
they wonder why they can never get any tracks. And
once they get outside of the love bubble in Colorado, right,
this bubble of protection that these Democrats, whether it's Polis
or Hickenlooper or Bennett, that they build with the media, right,
because they'll cut off access if the media don't protect them.
And then they get outside that bubble and wonder why
(20:17):
they don't go anywhere.
Speaker 9 (20:18):
Well, who would vote for that?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I mean, your last name could be Pollss and you
wouldn't vote for that, because you know, you embarrass yourself
if you vote for that, because there's no leadership. I
think a lot of people vote for people they disagree
with on big issues because they respect the fact that
person has the courage of their own convictions.
Speaker 9 (20:38):
Will tell you what they really.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Believe, and we'll show you the respect of telling you
they disagree.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
With you and why. But who would vote for that?
You'd rather vote for the couch.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Well, it's just such like you said, Dan, it's a
mealy mouthed answer on an eighty twent'th.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
An insult to Millie Mouse.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Well, here, Martina Navratalova is a hard leftist, lives here,
Dan in Colorado. I might add, I've been trying to
get her on your show, and mind it's a work
in progress. But nevertheless, she's sides with JK Rowling, with gays,
against groomers, with preventing biological males from entering female sports
(21:16):
and spaces, Martina and Arbertilova. So she's taken that stand,
but Jared Polus can't.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Well, and again, here's the thing. If Polus wanted to
come out and just say directly, because it's the way
he's ruled and governed, right, just say it directly, Okay,
I think males should be able to participate in girls' sports.
Speaker 9 (21:35):
And here's why.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Well, he's going to be on the wrong side of
it for eighty percent of the people, but at least
some people.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Could respect him from making his case correct.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
But this kind of garbage, No nobody wants any of that.
But of course we all know the reason he won't
come out and try and make the case because it's
an indefensible, unmakable case, and he apparently still harbors these
delusions of being president. And the truth is, I still
hope to be quarterback for the Broncos next year. I
don't tell Bo Nicks because I think our law firm
(22:05):
sponsors his show and that could be a.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
Bit of a conflict.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yes, but you could see it, right, I mean, which
could you see more easily, Polis's president or me qb one.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
I think you just as like a charity event, getting
to play for one play has a better chance of
happening than Polis ever becoming president.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yes, yeah, but wow, So thank you for that sound.
That is a gift today because again I do think
there's a shot in Colorado. There's a shot to get
the governor's office. There's a shot to knock off Hickenlooper
or whoever ends up, and that maybe Polis who pushes
Hickenlooper out and runs for that. But there's a shot,
and you'd have to do what Trump did, and it's
(22:44):
the right thing to do, and you'd have to use
this as a lead issue, and people say, oh, the
lead issues, they have to be economic. They have to
be bread and butter. Yeah, bread and butter count, no
doubt about it. But it's always been Ryan, I think,
and you know this as a blue collar guy like me,
it's been a.
Speaker 9 (22:59):
Fundamental misunderstanding of working people.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
That because we may have less money than some other people,
that all we care about is money. And that is
a fundamental, arrogant, elitest, disparaging way to look at working people.
I grew up in the greatest family a kid could
ever grow up, and we were the richest people in
the world. My dad was a Chicago cop, my mom
(23:25):
stayed home with us. But in all the ways that matter,
we were the richest people in the world. We didn't
sit around and you didn't sit around Ryan and Michigan.
You didn't sit around envious of people who had more money.
You just you wanted your fair shot. And if you
made money a priority, you wanted a fair shot to
go make your money. And so, no, it's about the
(23:46):
things that matter most. It's about you know, the core
values and principle and morality and family and all that.
So Trump led with and in the end may very
well have won on this whole idea that no, you
cannot have men in women's sports. You can't have men
in women's safe places, and anybody who says you can.
Speaker 9 (24:07):
There are two nuts to be in office on any issue.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
And that's the same thing Colorado candidates for governor and
Senate need to do. They need to press the hell
out of it, stick it in the face of the
Democrat at every turn, every event, every debate, everywhere.
Speaker 10 (24:23):
It's just such a slam dunk.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Dan.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
I mean, if let's say you were to debate Polis
on this issue, it goes to your earlier point. Even
those on a far lunatic fringe left, you would express
a very clear, concise, direct opinion on whether or not
males of any kind of any background originally born that
way should participate in female sports, and you would say no,
and they want all okay.
Speaker 10 (24:44):
At least we know where Dan stands. Polis's answer right there.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
I don't think that's satisfying to the hard left either,
So he's winning anybody over.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
And don't have to go way beyond the debates, because
the Democrats only agree to debate now with Democrat moderators
who then protect them in debates. So we'd have to
go way beyond the debates. You'd have to raise the
money to be like Trump did with Musk money, pounding
the Democrats on TV. Colorado is still small enough you
can go retail. You'd have to pound them in every group, everywhere.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
And it's not the only issue you do.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
But it's one of those issues that just forces the
mask to drop. It reveals who these Democrats really are.
And they will never break with it, right. They will
never take the position that, oh, no, girls' sports and
locker rooms and showers and bathrooms should only be limited
to girls. They will never ever take that position.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
No.
Speaker 10 (25:34):
And they're checkmate it on the chessboard because of it.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
And that's not the only issue that that's the case,
Dan as I have on your sheet, and maybe we'll
get to this when we come back. James Carville is saying,
point blank, you guys are better off just staying silent,
playing possum, staying out of the news and not even
uttering a word, and letting the Republicans counting on Republicans
and the Trump administration to destroy themselves, rather than having
(25:56):
anything on offense as an issue.
Speaker 9 (25:58):
Well, you must mean cut sick. Yes, let's play cut SIGs.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
But what I've said very publiclyid Democrats need to play possum.
Speaker 9 (26:08):
This whole thing is collapsing.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
It doesn't need Elizabeth Warren and somebody's screaming to pacify
some progressive adversing groups in Washington, which, by the way,
I wish these people were just useless.
Speaker 9 (26:22):
They're actually worse than useless.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
That they're detrimental and they never ever learned to shut up.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Now I love listening to James Carville. It doesn't matter
how wrong he is. Do you think he's doing dope?
And I don't mean that in a disparaging kind of way.
It's you know, but I really wonder and it's one
of the reasons I love watching guys. So this whole
thing's collapsing, right, James. Yeah. And so let me get
this straight. This Trump presidency, which is by almost every
(26:51):
metric on a role right now, is about to collapse.
When it didn't collapse the first time around when he
was up against the coup attempt, up against all of
that other garbage, when he was up against COVID, it
didn't collapse. Then he lost a very very very very narrow,
razor thin race, but it never collapsed. Now he is
(27:14):
multiples better has a multiples better team, is off to
a tremendous start, is admired and respected around the world
for lots of reasons, and including how he handled the
assassination attempt. And so now he's going to collapse. Here's
what we've got, Ryan, right, And you and I see
it all the time, you know, it's it's called camera horse.
And I don't mean it in a bad way with
(27:36):
Carville because I love watching him and he just helps
turn more people to conservatism and he's interesting.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
Right, But James Carvill, how old is the guy?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Now?
Speaker 9 (27:46):
I mean he and Moses have.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Got to be neck and neck, right, So you got
you got Carvil's right.
Speaker 9 (27:52):
Now, he's like Madonna.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
As she turned forty five, you know, willing to do
anything to be in the public eye and taking off
all the clothes that no longer gets attention for either
Madonna or Carville. So now they got to light their
hair on fire and run around naked. And yeah, he
took power to him.
Speaker 10 (28:11):
He just turned eighty in October.
Speaker 9 (28:14):
Madonna or Carvill?
Speaker 10 (28:15):
Hey, no Carvel, oh Carvil?
Speaker 9 (28:17):
Okay, Now I was serious about Madonna. D A N
five seven seven three ninety.
Speaker 10 (28:29):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 11 (28:33):
My show had valued and that.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
I'm sorry that what I was doing.
Speaker 11 (28:44):
Value and value and in the end, I'm sorry, I'm
not I trying not to cry on on TV, and
I say, this is kind of like me on TV.
So I apologize and then and then it kind of
and then it mattered.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You know, I'm not going to make fun of her
for crying about the end of her show. I mean, hey,
I shed a tear when Capitalists and Silverman ended after
seven or eight great years, whatever it was, because you know,
you put your heart and soul into a show. The
difference is our show had value. It did a lot
of great things in those seven or eight years, and
(29:18):
a lot of great things for the community. Her show
was toxic, you know her. It is great for America
that her show has gone, because I don't care what
color the host is, white, black, some other color. If
your show revolves around being racially divisive, it shouldn't be
on air. I mean, you know, you shouldn't be on
(29:39):
the I mean, you have a write of freedom of speech.
That's not my point, but there's no value in that
other than exposing how we should not be.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
And I didn't watch her sho much.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I'm sure she occasionally did a useful segment, but overall,
what was she known for. She was known for that
racial toxicity, you know, and so you got anybody regardless
of color, when that's their stick. No, it speaks well
of America that there is not a market for that
eight five five for zero five A two five five
(30:11):
the number techs d an five seven seven three nine.
So weird to do a half an hour Hudi Ganah
was great to do most of the show today. I
was in a Catholic Charities board meeting, so I've got
the last half hour. Ryan, there's something to these half
hour shows. I hope the listeners wouldn't agree with that, but.
Speaker 10 (30:28):
It's literally a dead sprint for you.
Speaker 9 (30:29):
Yeah, it cuts down on the prep, that's for darn sure.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Now, So is this right that because you have to
be outside of his wife, the biggest DeSantis fan in America?
Speaker 9 (30:40):
Is he really not.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Supporting Byron Donalds, who I think is a superstar for
governor in Florida because his wife may run.
Speaker 9 (30:48):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (30:48):
I didn't know the latter part of that, but he
made a very big point about saying that, Hey, Iron
Donalds didn't help do anything down here in Florida while
we were making things happen over the eight years he
was governor.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Wow, well, yeah, that means his wife's running, really think,
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, wow.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
I mean Casey, she's got a lot of the Q
score factor. You know, she's been on television. She's got
that presence. You know, some might say the same for
an amy kaplis potentially making a run like that too.
Speaker 9 (31:18):
Oh my lord, are you kidding me? I can't even
get her on air? Did I tell you once that
I can't remember which of.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
The big but when satellite radio was huge that they
approached us about doing a show.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
Together, that would have been incredible.
Speaker 10 (31:34):
Chance zero Because she didn't want to do it.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
She could have done it, I mean I oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Oh my god, yes, yet he had been a superstar.
Speaker 9 (31:43):
This political stuff, no appetite for it.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
If I earned it up in that arena, she'd be
a good wife and she would do the things that
we all do for spouses, right, whether we like to
or not. But not that that is not her arena,
I get it.
Speaker 11 (31:58):
Not.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
In fact, one of the great joys for her in
leaving TV. She loved the people she worked with. She
was at the top of her game, had a lot
of great offers, could have gone national, but she just
loved no longer being in the spotlight.
Speaker 9 (32:11):
She loves people.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
People still come up to her king soupers or whatever
when they're not striking. You know, she loves people. But
just yeah, just very happy to lead a nice private life.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Do you think a Casey DeSantis would stand a chance
of winning the nomination? I think there's a lot of
even though that Ron Desantless loved sixty forty, isn't there
some level of fatigue because you talk about this with
Donald Junior?
Speaker 10 (32:35):
Two?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Let me put it this way, Casey DeSantis will have
a lot better chance than Marlon will in Colorado or
would in.
Speaker 9 (32:42):
Colorado fair if he was so interested.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
No, listen, I mean just you know, for Governor DeSantis
to go that hard after Donald's when Donald's I think
is a star. That tells me Casey DeSantis must be
very interesting or DeSantis has somebody else. But that brings
us back to that brings us back to Junior right right,
and the sea PEC poll over the weekend, and what
I've been saying all along, If Junior wants it. He's
(33:09):
probably going to be the nominee or at least have
the inside track. I wonder if there's something in the
works where he would be jd Vance's VP.
Speaker 10 (33:18):
Could be. Could but
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