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Speaker 1 (00:00):
No, Ryan, I seen your playing verbs that I'm not
in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
But I tell you what.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Last week I was up in the mountains working on
a resolution between the wolves and the cows. The cows
are really afraid of.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
The wolves, and I told him not to be.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
The wolves are gonna stop because I asked him to,
cause they're gonna do what I ask them, what I say.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Okay, you know, things really took off for me personally
here when I hitched my wagon to Michael Danger Brown,
Ryan Schuling filling in on this Wednesday edition. Is he
back tomorrow? Is that the plan?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
To the best of my knowledge, Unless he doesn't get
shot in Chicago, He.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Don't say that is Chicago. He might happen.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Chances are good. Yeah, what are the chances he's carrying
slim because he had to fly to get out there.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Oh yeah, that's a process that does a process. That's trag.
You heard on the other side of the glass. Leave
those talkbacks, keep them coming hot and heavy. We'll get
them played and you can send your texts along to
three three one zero three. But what I was saying,
my time here at iHeart Denver took off when I
was paired with Michael Brown. It was a plan in
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the making, a clandestine kind of pairing. It wasn't planned
from the beginning. And what happened. I'll give the lowdown,
because what do I care anymore. I was hired over
the phone. I never visited Denver before I took this
job and before I moved here. Think about how crazy
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that is. This is fall of twenty eighteen, and there
was a new show that was going to be airing
between four and seven pm here on six point thirty
K how called Capitalis and Kafer and it would be
Dan Kapls in his triumphant return to these airwaves on
this station. He had been away for a time. Capitalist
and Silverman had been unceremoniously, in my opinion, canceled. It
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was a very successful radio program during its run with
Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman, who has since gone insane.
That's a personal opinion, but check it out for yourself
on the Twitter on the X. Anyway, Dan for a
time went over to our competitor seven to ten K
in US and then that was coming to an end,
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but he wanted to keep his radio prisons going and
he was in talks with I heard Denver here and
with Lord Spence Worthy as it were at the time.
Tim Spence, who was running the station, and Dan wanted
somebody who could come in hit the ground running, so
instead they turned to me. I was a sports guy
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working in Lansing, Michigan, and at that time had been
kind of spinning off and doing my own thing called
The Great Lakes Divide. Was a website, it was a podcast.
It was a source for sports information, specifically college sports
Michigan Michigan State. So I have a series of phone calls,
one of them with Dan Kaplis, several of them with
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Tim Spence. They decided to make the hire based on
a mutual acquaintance of mine. His name is Greg Henson,
for whatever it's worth. And then I came here, and
within a couple months of coming here, Kapalis and k
for Christa Kaefer that had split off and they were
both doing their own thing for a time. Dan was
on four to six, Christa was on six to eight.
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I stayed on and helped with her show that lasted
from about the first of the year in twenty nineteen
to April somewhere in there, and then it was just
Dan four to six. Well, you know, I couldn't necessarily
feel comfortable and my role here at iHeart if I
was just producing one two hour show and that was it.
That was the totality of my work duties here. So
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they were looking to fill the two to four pm slot,
and it would, as fate would have it, Michael Brown returned.
He had been on KOA that ended, and then they
were going to plug him back in at two to
four prior to Dan's show. And I'm thinking, well, wait
a minute, you know, they don't need to sign a
totally different producer to that, and you know, intelligent me
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decides to speak and go, hey, you volunteered. I certainly
did you more. I know how stupid was I. But
I went to Tim Spence and you should have saw
the look on his face with It's kind of a
common look for for him. It was one of bewilderment
and puzzling what you want to do? What kind of
like dragon just did? I just think, you know, long term,
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it's probably the best thing, as long as it's not
taken away from my duties, my focus with Dan. You know,
I'm producing two hours for Dan. I'll do two hours
for Brown. I had one meeting with Brown, and he
kind of gave me the Michael Brown Seal of endorsement,
which was, oh, I think that was the sum total
of his response. I guess he'll do for now, right,
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And so we launched into a bromance, as I like
to call it. I don't think he would characterize it
from his perspective as that, but it was a lot
of fun for the time that it lasted. And then
he moved to the mornings and I didn't, And lucky
for him, Dragon Redbeard came along said I'll do it.
You did the same thing I did. You're like, i'll
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do it. Why why would you subject yourself to that punishment?
And you had to put up with it for four hours,
not just two. That's true, he said this, or Colors
Morning News, you made the right Okay, upon further reflection,
upon further review, you did the right thing.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I mean, I'm looking at it going, hey, well, Colin's
Morning News probably one of the bigger morning shows building.
They throw a whole lot of money in it, and
it'll be really big and important. Being the producer or
being the technical producer or Michael Brown, Michael Brown, Macra.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Browny, I'm in Oklahoma, what do you want? And we
came up at the moment of Biden and all this
to say, I think I'm just don't shoot the messenger
preparing for worst case scenarios if Michael Bennett is elected
as the next governor of Colorado. Brothers and Sisters, we
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are going to have a whole hell of a lot
of fun with that because I am going to introduce
a bit that will probably inject what dragon's been playing
good from Counselor Mackie south Park, because that's Michael Bennett.
Whenever you hear him get flustered, I'll play that sound again.
But I got one other one here. I got a
lot of tricks at my sleeve. This morning.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
There were a lot of requests to play the Counselor
Mackie song, but no, it's got tons of swear words
in it, so i'd have to edit all that out.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And you don't get paid enough to edit out all
those profanities. You know what, I'll get the dragons for you.
I'll do it. I'm serious. I'll do it when I'll
do it. When we're done here, we'll do a live
I'll go through and I'll put it together and I'll
do you one better. I'll send it to you and
then you'll have it. I'm that kind of guy. I'm
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actually a nice guy. Don't listen to what Kelly says.
Say that's not even closer to what Kelly's no. I
know it. She said things. Oh I hear them because
she says them to my face. To her credit, there's
not a whole lot she says behind my back that
she doesn't say directly to my face. Makes me cry
some days. She is vicious. She is so tiny and
so evil, terrifying, she's terrifying. Anyway, she'll be here like
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an hour. I'm gonna have to hide. But Michael Bennett
deserves his own bit. And it just for those of
you just tuning in. I know the seven o'clock hour
is a big one. And in case you didn't hear
it during the six am hour, well that's for the
true ones. That's for the real believers. You tune into
six am. You know what you're doing, you know what
you're getting. This is Michael Bennett work. Racist. Well, I
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think there's a joke here, and I don't know. I can't,
I can't, I can't. I think you can fill in
the joke from here. It involves Michael Bennett and what
Dragon just said, and that okay, his father lost anyway.
Caylen Collins CNN asks him a very simple, direct question,
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should be easy to answer. Michael Bennett then stumbles and
bumbles and tulibusters and slides and sloops for a good
thirty seconds. Listen to the question he has to answer.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
You would not accept donations from billionaires going forward?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Good, well, I.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Have I'm one of the very few members of the
Senate who does not accept corporate pack money. For example,
I don't accept I don't, so I'm not I if
you're asking about independent expenditures of billionaires, I haven't thought
that through because I'm not in a position to be
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able to make a judgment about that. I'm not sure
I'm missing your misunderstanding your question.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I think, how how how do you misunderstand the question?
It wasn't like rocket science or something about quantum physics,
plain and simple.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Are you going to take money from billionaires?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
There's nothing complicated about it.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
It's a yes or a no. And he gave some
version of maybe, I think so I want you to
conduct the following exercise. And I hate to do this
to your class, but as the substitute teacher, the alternative
is to roll in the av unit and to have
you watch a movie the rest of the time. I
know that sounds really appealing, even if it's just over
the airwaves and you can only hear it and not
see it. But you can send those texts along three three,
(09:24):
one zero three. What I want you to do is
if again, parish the thought, but let's roll with it.
If Michael Bennett becomes our next governor, ranked the following
three governors in Colorado history, John Hickenlooper, Jared Poulis, Michael
Bennett rank them. It's terrifying. I know it's terrible, but
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hear me out. This is why I think Bennett might
be the least bad. He might do nothing. You heard
him bumble and stumble there. He hasn't done anything in
his entire tenure in the Senate except for one thing
that I'm about to play you, which is iconic, but
not for the reasons he wishes it were. Even Comrade Kyle,
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who I affectionately call Kyle Clark nine News, who is
a lefty and he just needs to admit it. That's
just admitut it. Just like I am right of center,
I give my opinions an analysis on this program on
my own and when I'm anchoring news coverage and we're
on KOA, I mute it and I present that as
a play by play announcer, so to speak. But Kyle
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Clark kind of cloaks his political opinions in his news
coverage and that's not okay anyway. Kyle Clark compared Senator
Michael Bennett to cicadas, and the reason he compared Bennett
to cicadas is not because of the annoying noise that
they make, but because they come around only once every
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thirteen years to reproduce and die like that crickets cicadas exactly.
So when even Kyle Clark is making fun of you
because you're a do nothing senator, what is this guy
going to do or accomplish as governor? And that sound
bite was horrid as you heard. And I got to
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give Jared Polis this, although he just signed the most
destructive gun bill in the history of the state, and
that will be the stain on his legacy, one of many,
along with his COVID draconian behavior and policies. We're a
damn mask selfish bastards. Yeah, Facebook post right there. But
the gun bill's worse, I think because at least you
look back on the masks and the crap and the
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vaccinations forced for medical personnel and the stay at Colorado
or else they be fired. That was that was absolutely terrible.
But we got through it, and it's over in the
rear view mirror. This gun law, if it's not overturned
by the Supreme Court of the United States, is going
to stick, and it is egregious. But at least Jared
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Polis he gave a nonsensical answer, but he wouldn't be
caught off guard like that. I mean, that's Caitlin Collins.
That's a friendly for Michael Bennett. Could you imagine him
trying to do an interview with Jesse Waters or Sean
Hannity or Laura Ingram or even Brett Baar on Fox News.
I don't know that he's gonna dare do that now.
I think he used to go on with Neil Cavudo,
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who I think is a personal friend of Michael Brown's.
But Cavodo was notorious for being kind of never Trump
anti Trump, not pro Trump. So a lot of Democrats
that go on there and knows the Norwegian. This was
an interesting theory that he sent me via text. Can
you say, Senator Polis, how about that sweetheart deal? But
I don't know what that does for Bennett. I see
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what it does for Polis. But when you're talking about earlier,
Senator Bennett is refusing to relinquish his Senate seat as
he pursues the governor's chair. Now what you resign that seat?
Allow Jared Poulis to appoint your successor and move on
with your life because you know you're a Democrat in Colorado,
you're gonna win, and you're the highest profile name. And
apparently you accept donations from billionaires because you didn't say
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no to Caitlyn Collins. So you got all this going
for you, which is nice, complete and total consciousness. Why
would you Why would you hold on to that Senate seat?
It's so he can appoint his own successor as the
governor elect of Colorado once he's sworn in. But who
would he promise that seat to if Jared Poulis said, oh, okay,
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how about me? I mean that'd be a nice favor
and tip of the cap to Polis. But what does
it do for Bennett. The reason why I think it's
Joan no Goose and mark this tape, don't doubt me.
As L. Rushbo once said, is to clear the field
so that the goose doesn't enter the governor's race where
he would be a viable threat. Not fill none the wiser,
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not fill none the wiser. The Goose is an up
and comer. He's a star in the Democratic Party. He
is well regarded within his own ranks in the House,
and it would be a natural progression for him to
ascend to a Senate seat. Now, I think Representative No
Goose would prefer to win it. But hey, if it's
there for the taking and Governor Bennett is willing to
appoint you to that position, well maybe you'll keep your
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powdered dry and stay out of the race and not
get in the middle of it and let Bennett sail
to victory. That does something for Michael Bennett. Got to
look at this politically. What's the motivation here, Senator Michael Bennett.
Let's go back to twenty nineteen. This is an Aldheimer
from the floor of the Senate. Senator Ted Cruz trying
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to lead a shutdown of the government over budget reconciliation.
Kind of inside baseball on that front. But this is
the one time the Cicada Senator Michael Bennett came out
to play and he got a little riled up. Might
have to have a lot okays ready over there, Dragon,
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Betiphras I seldom, as you know, rise on this floor
to contradict somebody on the other side, and worked very
hard over the years to work in a bipartisan way
with the Presiding Officer or with my Republican colleagues.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
But these crocodile tears that the.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Center from Texas is crying for first responders are too
hard for me to take.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Good.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
They're too hard for me to take because when you
when the Center from Texas shut this government.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
Down in twenty thirteen, my state was shotted good, it
was underwater o Good people were killed.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Good people's houses were destroyed. Good, their small businesses were ruined.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Good forever. And because of.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
The Center from Texas, this government was shut down. Good
for politics, good that he served to a second place finish.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
In Iowa caucuses. But we're of no help.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
To the first responders, to the teachers to the students
whose schools were closed.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
O God, with a federal.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Government that was shut down because of the junior senator
from Texas. Now it's his business, not my business. Why
he supports a president who wants to erect a medieval
barrier on the border of Texas, who wants to use
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eminent domain to build that wall, who wants to declare
an unconstitutional emergency to build that wall. That's the business
of the senator from Texas. I can assure you, okay,
that in Colorado, if a president said he was going
to use eminent domain to erect the barrier across the
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state of Colorado, across the.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Rocky mountains of Colorado, he was going to steal the
property of our farmers and ranchers to build his medieval wall,
there wouldn't be an let I did leader.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
From our state do it support that idea, which goes
to my final point. How ludicrous it is that this
government is shut down over a promise the President of
the United States couldn't.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Keep good and that America is not interested in having
him keep. Okay, so many things to unpack there, and
I'll try to do it as quickly as I can.
Because we we're short on time. But how cold was
that take over the border wall a medieval barrier? I
mean that is far left wacko talk. Of course we
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need a wall. Deportations are now front and center in
the news, and the amount of illegals that float over
the border on Joe Biden's watch was criminal. It was
literally criminal, and he supports that. In terms of the
farmers and ranchers, I know we have a lot of
farmers and ranchers in our audience. Do you feel that
Senator Michael Bennett is your friend, your ally About the
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Democrats that supported the reintroduction of wolves that are killing
all of your livestock, Well that'd be Senator Michael Bennett.
Oko take Crocodi tears tick Cruz. The more worked up
he gets, the more he loses his enunciation more after.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
This, Michael Bennett, I want to be governor and Kuy,
I'm the most exciting thing going on Coral today.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Don't worry. Won't legalize anything for Crack. I will spend
all your money, gotness, give him all heck, won't even
give a Mexican a check. You say it's easy. I'm Cuy.
That was clever because it was set to the tune
I believe of the song that had been requested. Yep,
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got to remove the profanity. Yes, thank you, so very
well done. Talkbacker, And if you would like to submit
your impersonation of Michael Bennett by all me, Senator the
thirty three one o three good. Somebody's got to give
this guy elocution lessons. How do you enunciate your verbiage,
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Senator Bennett? Because Buddy gets.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
Worked up, he really starts, so his words it can't stack.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Is Senator tech Cruz is a total bad guy. Good?
Now you think, Okay, when I do an impression, I
do many they are caricatures, so there's sketches, you know,
and they're slight, slight exaggerations. But I think, as you've
heard in several clips this morning, is not entirely off
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the mark good. He is Counselor Mackie from South Park,
and he might be our next governor. And we've got
to brace ourselves for that. We hope for the best.
You know, got a Republican field that's growing in number
and the quality of the candidates, and Greg Lopez just
entered the race, and there could be others, and I
don't know if he broke news yesterday, but this is
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my opinion. I always want to separate this. As the
producer for Dan Kaplis, I'm gonna put some puzzle pieces
out there. You can put them together as you choose.
Dan has spoke openly, not just with me off the record,
but on his own show that he has strongly considered
running for office statewide office I think specifically senate or governor,
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one of those two. I had asked him at one point,
why don't you run for house. You got the juice,
you got the means behind you, you got the name recognition,
you know, the reputation, integrity, et cetera. Maybe to get in,
like say the sixth congressional district race against Jason Crowe.
We've had some solid candidates, including John Fabricatory the last
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time around, Steve Monahan before that, who I really liked
Steve House. He had the name for it, House for
the House. But Dan, it didn't seem interested in that
level of even for Congress in a house race. He
had visited the Senate. He had been kind of shown
on a tour by I think it was Senator John
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Corny in Texas at the time. His wife Amy was
with him for this visit. He was seriously considering a
run at one point. Now this is several years ago,
many years ago, but within the last ten I want
to say, and then he just decided, you know, it
wasn't the right time, his family being what it was,
his son and his daughter still I think we're still
in school at that point, but now they're not in school.
I'm not putting words in Dan's mouth. I'm just giving
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you my analysis of what might happen and would I
support Dan one hundred percent? Would he run this time around?
He was asked that question yesterday and dragon he did
not say no. He did not say no, and he
made very clear and he didn't want to do a
Michael Bennett with Caitlyn Collins as we heard, like stumbling around.
But that's still a decision, I think. And again this
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is my interpretation that he was mulling and probably discussing
with Amy and whether or not this is the time.
It's getting to be that point though, I believe as
young as Dan is both in terms of his physical
condition for his age, but if not now, then maybe
it ain't gonna happen. This is my personal opinion I'd
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welcome your input on this as well, thirty three to
one oh three. If you feel that Dan Caplis would
be a viable, strong candidate for statewide office, whether that
be governor or Senate. That one's coming up to John
Hickenlooper seat. You guys should be protecting me. He said
that in a sit down interview. There was the budget
controversy when it came to him, and he was just
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mystified as to why the mainstream media wasn't covering his
tracks for him. That was his insinuation. These are the
clowns that are leading us here in Colorado. It's crazy
and I would just I would just personally love to
see a debate where it were Mono Imano Dan Caplis
versus Michael Bennett, because we all know how that would go.
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Oh wow, Senator Bennett, I don't think you mean what
you just said.
Speaker 8 (23:04):
Well, you know, I I've been there a while, and
I don't like Rob Dawson's question. I've been all over
the state of Colorado, and everybody knows who I am from.
AS's been alling on Grand Junction and I drive on
I seventy.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Okay, yeah, this one says I was at a town
hall with Bennett and several people publicly in the Q
and A session, it admitted that they didn't know his
track record or who he actually was. Here's a question.
What legislation has Senator Michael Bennett written or co authored
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that has made it through the Senate and the House
and been signed into law by the President of the
United States? No matter who that president was, was his
name on any piece of legislation? Go the the think
I can name one, maybe you can send us along
thirty three three alexis Is. I think Lauren Bobert has
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spent much more time in Colorado, especially rural Colorado, as
a state wide elected official. Well, here's the thing, she's
not even a state wide elected official. She has represented
the third district now represented by Jeff Hurd, and now
she represents the fourth district. But you're right, she's been
all over the state. People know who she is. They
might not like her for certain reasons, but she is
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a woman of principle, and she speaks her mind, and
she does help garner support for legislation and is very
active in that role. And I've discussed that with her
many times. And this goes back to Nil's the Norwegian's point. Ryan.
If Bennett wins the governor's race, he'll appoint Polis. Oh God, okay.
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I'm a person that I will faithfully and honestly participate
in the game. Would you rather okay? I'm like, ugh, neither,
like I know, neither okay, But let's play the game.
Would I rather it be Senator Polis or Senator no
Goose without batting an eyelash or hesitating one ounce? Senator
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no Goose. Jared Poulis is a schemer. He's a schemer
like the Joker in the dark. Knight says, I don't
trust him. I don't like him. He's a completely political
animal who is animated by whatever forces benefit him personally.
I'm not a naive to suggest that every politician is
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like that. To some degree, I get it. But I
think Joe Nogose is just a better quality human. That's
just my personal opinion. You could disagree thirty three one
oh three, but yeah, given that choice, no Goose one
hundred percent. Next topic, Next question. Alexis says this is interesting.
Craig Silverman has not posted it on x since November fifth,
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twenty twenty four, when he posted about voting for Kamala.
Speaker 9 (25:50):
What happened on November fifth, twenty twenty four. Oh, that's right,
the Orange Man won and it sent Craig apparently into oblivion.
That's sad. It's very sad, very sad. He's a troll
on ex that's what he does. Now, that's his job.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
What is it? Michael Ryan, Dan and Craig Dan and Craig.
Craig goes crazy, Dan and Christa Christa goes crazy. Ryan.
Protect yourself, You're our only Oh, Patty, now wait a minute.
Just because Dan's the common denominator in the equations you
just posed, which I acknowledged. That's true and a very
good point. It's those individuals that have gone off the rails.
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Craig Silverman, obviously we talked about. Christ is a good person.
She's a dear friend. But when she attached her name
coach joining that lawsuit that Mary On Nicholas and others
authored to remove Donald Trump from the Republican primary ballot,
that was it. That was it. I don't know to
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what end she was doing that. Perhaps she just firmly
believed in that from a principal standpoint, but that did
two things for christ A kay, from my friend, it
alienated everybody on our side of the aisle from her
having anything to do with these shows, because to me,
it completely obliterated her credibility. I've said many times to
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be intellectually honest and consistent. If there were some kind
of measure based on let's say, Hillary's emails or Whitewater
or any of the other conspiracies against Hillary Clinton, that
she did nefarious things, okay, okay. If there was a
potential petition to the court in a lawsuit that said,
we are going to keep Hillary Clinton off the Democratic
primary ballot so that Democratic voters or those who are
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unaffiliated that might vote in that primary do not have
the option of voting for her, never would I ever
join and join that lawsuit. If people want to sink
to the bottom of the ocean by voting for Hillary Clinton,
then we deserve that. It's not up to me to
play god and act like I'm superior to everybody else
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in my ivory tower from on high to dictate to
the common folk that you're too stupid to realize you
shouldn't be voting for Hillary Clinton. I feel that way,
but Hillary Clinton should absolutely be on the ballot. If
that's who the Democrats choose, or anybody else, Kamala Harris,
Joe Biden, go down the list. Never would I ever
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support an effort to remove a person from the ballot
because of my personal political animus toward that person, or
any kind of convoluted interpretation of the Constitution, which the
bottom line would be, you don't get to pick Donald Trump,
you stupid orange man loving rubes who live in rural Colorado.
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That's what she was saying to you. That's the only explanation.
Because if he's so awful, if Donald Trump is so terrible,
such a bad candidate, such an obvious criminal felon well,
that he's not going to win, then he's going to
be easy to beat, then you should want him on
the ballot. So why don't you want him on the ballot? Christa,
She never agreed to come on the program to answer
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that question. The other side of that coin, does she
think this endears her to the left? Now they've forgotten
about her. She's a rumor now once she was no
longer useful. This is the whole Liz Cheney, Adam Kinsinger Lane,
Then you don't matter. So what have you done? You've
blown up your whole presence in the public sphere, and
(29:28):
for what all you had to do was be like, look,
Donald Trump's terrible. I think he's terrible. I think he
incited an insurrection. I think that's the most awful thing
a person could do in politics. And therefore I'm gonna
be supporting Nicky Haley or Ron DeSantis and leading the
effort to run against Trump in the primary, or leading
the effort. I'm gonna flip. I'm gonna pull up Bill Crystal.
(29:49):
I'm gonna vote for Kamala Harris. We need to defeat
Donald Trump. How did that all work out? Well, maybe
it made Christa's point that we're just all too stupid
to realize that we shouldn't be voting for Donald Trump.
Because offer me another explanation as to why somebody who
is not a Trump supporter would insist through going through
those legal channels, weaponizing the justice system to remove a
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candidate from the ballot. Why would you do that. I'm
trying to figure out why I would do that for
Hillary Clinton or anybody else. I would not do that.
I'm not a Democrat. I'm not going to tell Democrats
who they can and can't have on the ballot. If
they want to put BTK killer guy on the ballot,
that's up to them. God to take a break, but
I'd like you to pounder that question during the break.
(30:30):
That's your assignment class, the substitute teacher. Yeah, I'm in
a homework. I'm your least favorite substitute. Thirty three one
oh three. Back with more the situation with Michael Brown after.
Speaker 10 (30:39):
This, look at him. On the bright side, if Bennett
wins governor and appoints a senator, we can blame everything
in Colorado and the nation on him.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, I mean that's one way to look at it.
It just I can't get over this holding onto one
Senate seat while you're running for a governor's race, that
you you hope you win, you think you're going to win,
but that the primary motivation would be two fold. That
Jared Polis as the acting governor, who would have the
authority to appoint Bennett's replacement should he relinquish the seat,
that Bennett denies Jared Polis, that a couple of textures
(31:16):
have posited the theory that well, maybe as a kind
of thank you, Bennett would a point Polis, But that
takes the whole point and purpose away. Then you would
just you know, have Polis maybe a point himself. I
don't know, but wait, wait, wait, wait, wait until Bennett
wins and has sworn in, and then Bennett gets to
a point to fill in the blank. Would it be Polis?
And if it were Polis, why would Bennett do that?
(31:37):
What would that do for Bennett? Don't know unless Polis said, Hey,
I'll be locked up with your agenda in DC. I'm
going to pick up where you left off. I'm going
to do whatever you would do. Just you know, you
have a pipeline to me. I mean, there's that, But
getting somebody like a Jonah Goose to stay out of
the race, that does something for Michael Bennett. And you
got to look at where the cost benefit analysis. Alexa
(32:01):
asks Ryan, can we please have Rob Dawson go and
ask people outside Cherry Creek or Park Medal's Mall if
they know who the person in the picture is with
Michael Bennett's picture shown, what percentage of those shoppers, Let's
say in those districts there Cherry Creeker, Park Medals Mall,
if you showed them an eight x ten photo of
Michael Bennett would know who that is what percentage would
(32:23):
be one out of ten, maybe not one out of ten,
one on twenty I think it'd be pretty low. What
do you think? Thirty three? One oh three? Send those along.
As for Dan being a candidate for office, this one says,
I enjoy Dan's show. He's an intelligent man, and I'd
like to see him in office. But I think his
no middle ground whatsoever pro life views make him unelectable.
(32:44):
He's heard that before. He will not relinquish his stance
on that issue, and the challenge would be, you're right
is to bring unaffiliateds over on a variety of other issues.
Eighty twenty ones like deportation of illegal immigrants. We've seen
it all unfold and Aurora were ground zero for a
lot of that. Transing the kids, This House Bill twenty
(33:05):
five thirteen twelve that'll take parental rights away, take children
away from homes if the parent doesn't affirm a gender
dysphoric child's decision to identify as the opposite gender. Now
you can still, as a parent, prevent them or at
least not allow them legally to buy alcohol, to purchase cigarettes,
to get a tattoo, to serve in the military. Until
(33:28):
they turn eighteen to make all these other decisions. They
can't vote. They can't vote, but they can vote with
their body parts and get those chopped off without parental consent.
According to House Built twenty five, thirteen twelve, it's madness,
absolute insanity. Another Texter echoing the previous sentiment, Brian, I
think that Dan Caplis's opinion on abortion would not allow
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him to be elected governor of Colorado. Well, it would
be interesting to test that theory out. I think the
pro life position, if articulated correctly, is a winning position,
especially on late term abortion, but in this state it
has been codified in the state constitution, so that would
be a sticky, wicked, indeed, a time out. We're halfway
through situation without Michael Brown continues after this
No, Ryan, I seen your playing verbs that I'm not
in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
But I tell you what.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Last week I was up in the mountains working on
a resolution between the wolves and the cows. The cows
are really afraid of.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
The wolves, and I told him not to be.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
The wolves are gonna stop because I asked him to,
cause they're gonna do what I ask them, what I say.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Okay, you know, things really took off for me personally
here when I hitched my wagon to Michael Danger Brown,
Ryan Schuling filling in on this Wednesday edition. Is he
back tomorrow? Is that the plan?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
To the best of my knowledge, Unless he doesn't get
shot in Chicago, He.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Don't say that is Chicago. He might happen.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Chances are good. Yeah, what are the chances he's carrying
slim because he had to fly to get out there.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Oh yeah, that's a process that does a process. That's trag.
You heard on the other side of the glass. Leave
those talkbacks, keep them coming hot and heavy. We'll get
them played and you can send your texts along to
three three one zero three. But what I was saying,
my time here at iHeart Denver took off when I
was paired with Michael Brown. It was a plan in
(01:17):
the making, a clandestine kind of pairing. It wasn't planned
from the beginning. And what happened. I'll give the lowdown,
because what do I care anymore. I was hired over
the phone. I never visited Denver before I took this
job and before I moved here. Think about how crazy
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that is. This is fall of twenty eighteen, and there
was a new show that was going to be airing
between four and seven pm here on six point thirty
K how called Capitalis and Kafer and it would be
Dan Kapls in his triumphant return to these airwaves on
this station. He had been away for a time. Capitalist
and Silverman had been unceremoniously, in my opinion, canceled. It
(02:01):
was a very successful radio program during its run with
Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman, who has since gone insane.
That's a personal opinion, but check it out for yourself
on the Twitter on the X. Anyway, Dan for a
time went over to our competitor seven to ten K
in US and then that was coming to an end,
(02:23):
but he wanted to keep his radio prisons going and
he was in talks with I heard Denver here and
with Lord Spence Worthy as it were at the time.
Tim Spence, who was running the station, and Dan wanted
somebody who could come in hit the ground running, so
instead they turned to me. I was a sports guy
(02:44):
working in Lansing, Michigan, and at that time had been
kind of spinning off and doing my own thing called
The Great Lakes Divide. Was a website, it was a podcast.
It was a source for sports information, specifically college sports
Michigan Michigan State. So I have a series of phone calls,
one of them with Dan Kaplis, several of them with
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Tim Spence. They decided to make the hire based on
a mutual acquaintance of mine. His name is Greg Henson,
for whatever it's worth. And then I came here, and
within a couple months of coming here, Kapalis and k
for Christa Kaefer that had split off and they were
both doing their own thing for a time. Dan was
on four to six, Christa was on six to eight.
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I stayed on and helped with her show that lasted
from about the first of the year in twenty nineteen
to April somewhere in there, and then it was just
Dan four to six. Well, you know, I couldn't necessarily
feel comfortable and my role here at iHeart if I
was just producing one two hour show and that was it.
That was the totality of my work duties here. So
(03:49):
they were looking to fill the two to four pm slot,
and it would, as fate would have it, Michael Brown returned.
He had been on KOA that ended, and then they
were going to plug him back in at two to
four prior to Dan's show. And I'm thinking, well, wait
a minute, you know, they don't need to sign a
totally different producer to that, and you know, intelligent me
(04:09):
decides to speak and go, hey, you volunteered. I certainly
did you more. I know how stupid was I. But
I went to Tim Spence and you should have saw
the look on his face with It's kind of a
common look for for him. It was one of bewilderment
and puzzling what you want to do? What kind of
like dragon just did? I just think, you know, long term,
(04:33):
it's probably the best thing, as long as it's not
taken away from my duties, my focus with Dan. You know,
I'm producing two hours for Dan. I'll do two hours
for Brown. I had one meeting with Brown, and he
kind of gave me the Michael Brown Seal of endorsement,
which was, oh, I think that was the sum total
of his response. I guess he'll do for now, right,
(04:54):
And so we launched into a bromance, as I like
to call it. I don't think he would characterize it
from his perspective as that, but it was a lot
of fun for the time that it lasted. And then
he moved to the mornings and I didn't, And lucky
for him, Dragon Redbeard came along said I'll do it.
You did the same thing I did. You're like, i'll
(05:15):
do it. Why why would you subject yourself to that punishment?
And you had to put up with it for four hours,
not just two. That's true, he said this, or Colors
Morning News, you made the right Okay, upon further reflection,
upon further review, you did the right thing.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I mean, I'm looking at it going, hey, well, Colin's
Morning News probably one of the bigger morning shows building.
They throw a whole lot of money in it, and
it'll be really big and important. Being the producer or
being the technical producer or Michael Brown, Michael Brown, Macra.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Browny, I'm in Oklahoma, what do you want? And we
came up at the moment of Biden and all this
to say, I think I'm just don't shoot the messenger
preparing for worst case scenarios if Michael Bennett is elected
as the next governor of Colorado. Brothers and Sisters, we
(06:05):
are going to have a whole hell of a lot
of fun with that because I am going to introduce
a bit that will probably inject what dragon's been playing
good from Counselor Mackie south Park, because that's Michael Bennett.
Whenever you hear him get flustered, I'll play that sound again.
But I got one other one here. I got a
lot of tricks at my sleeve. This morning.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
There were a lot of requests to play the Counselor
Mackie song, but no, it's got tons of swear words
in it, so i'd have to edit all that out.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And you don't get paid enough to edit out all
those profanities. You know what, I'll get the dragons for you.
I'll do it. I'm serious. I'll do it when I'll
do it. When we're done here, we'll do a live
I'll go through and I'll put it together and I'll
do you one better. I'll send it to you and
then you'll have it. I'm that kind of guy. I'm
(06:55):
actually a nice guy. Don't listen to what Kelly says.
Say that's not even closer to what Kelly's no. I
know it. She said things. Oh I hear them because
she says them to my face. To her credit, there's
not a whole lot she says behind my back that
she doesn't say directly to my face. Makes me cry
some days. She is vicious. She is so tiny and
so evil, terrifying, she's terrifying. Anyway, she'll be here like
(07:17):
an hour. I'm gonna have to hide. But Michael Bennett
deserves his own bit. And it just for those of
you just tuning in. I know the seven o'clock hour
is a big one. And in case you didn't hear
it during the six am hour, well that's for the
true ones. That's for the real believers. You tune into
six am. You know what you're doing, you know what
you're getting. This is Michael Bennett work. Racist. Well, I
(07:37):
think there's a joke here, and I don't know. I can't,
I can't, I can't. I think you can fill in
the joke from here. It involves Michael Bennett and what
Dragon just said, and that okay, his father lost anyway.
Caylen Collins CNN asks him a very simple, direct question,
(07:59):
should be easy to answer. Michael Bennett then stumbles and
bumbles and tulibusters and slides and sloops for a good
thirty seconds. Listen to the question he has to answer.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
You would not accept donations from billionaires going forward?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Good, well, I.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Have I'm one of the very few members of the
Senate who does not accept corporate pack money. For example,
I don't accept I don't, so I'm not I if
you're asking about independent expenditures of billionaires, I haven't thought
that through because I'm not in a position to be
(08:41):
able to make a judgment about that. I'm not sure
I'm missing your misunderstanding your question.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I think, how how how do you misunderstand the question?
It wasn't like rocket science or something about quantum physics,
plain and simple.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Are you going to take money from billionaires?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
There's nothing complicated about it.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
It's a yes or a no. And he gave some
version of maybe, I think so I want you to
conduct the following exercise. And I hate to do this
to your class, but as the substitute teacher, the alternative
is to roll in the av unit and to have
you watch a movie the rest of the time. I
know that sounds really appealing, even if it's just over
the airwaves and you can only hear it and not
see it. But you can send those texts along three three,
(09:24):
one zero three. What I want you to do is
if again, parish the thought, but let's roll with it.
If Michael Bennett becomes our next governor, ranked the following
three governors in Colorado history, John Hickenlooper, Jared Poulis, Michael
Bennett rank them. It's terrifying. I know it's terrible, but
(09:48):
hear me out. This is why I think Bennett might
be the least bad. He might do nothing. You heard
him bumble and stumble there. He hasn't done anything in
his entire tenure in the Senate except for one thing
that I'm about to play you, which is iconic, but
not for the reasons he wishes it were. Even Comrade Kyle,
(10:11):
who I affectionately call Kyle Clark nine News, who is
a lefty and he just needs to admit it. That's
just admitut it. Just like I am right of center,
I give my opinions an analysis on this program on
my own and when I'm anchoring news coverage and we're
on KOA, I mute it and I present that as
a play by play announcer, so to speak. But Kyle
(10:33):
Clark kind of cloaks his political opinions in his news
coverage and that's not okay anyway. Kyle Clark compared Senator
Michael Bennett to cicadas, and the reason he compared Bennett
to cicadas is not because of the annoying noise that
they make, but because they come around only once every
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thirteen years to reproduce and die like that crickets cicadas exactly.
So when even Kyle Clark is making fun of you
because you're a do nothing senator, what is this guy
going to do or accomplish as governor? And that sound
bite was horrid as you heard. And I got to
(11:14):
give Jared Polis this, although he just signed the most
destructive gun bill in the history of the state, and
that will be the stain on his legacy, one of many,
along with his COVID draconian behavior and policies. We're a
damn mask selfish bastards. Yeah, Facebook post right there. But
the gun bill's worse, I think because at least you
look back on the masks and the crap and the
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vaccinations forced for medical personnel and the stay at Colorado
or else they be fired. That was that was absolutely terrible.
But we got through it, and it's over in the
rear view mirror. This gun law, if it's not overturned
by the Supreme Court of the United States, is going
to stick, and it is egregious. But at least Jared
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Polis he gave a nonsensical answer, but he wouldn't be
caught off guard like that. I mean, that's Caitlin Collins.
That's a friendly for Michael Bennett. Could you imagine him
trying to do an interview with Jesse Waters or Sean
Hannity or Laura Ingram or even Brett Baar on Fox News.
I don't know that he's gonna dare do that now.
I think he used to go on with Neil Cavudo,
(12:18):
who I think is a personal friend of Michael Brown's.
But Cavodo was notorious for being kind of never Trump
anti Trump, not pro Trump. So a lot of Democrats
that go on there and knows the Norwegian. This was
an interesting theory that he sent me via text. Can
you say, Senator Polis, how about that sweetheart deal? But
I don't know what that does for Bennett. I see
(12:40):
what it does for Polis. But when you're talking about earlier,
Senator Bennett is refusing to relinquish his Senate seat as
he pursues the governor's chair. Now what you resign that seat?
Allow Jared Poulis to appoint your successor and move on
with your life because you know you're a Democrat in Colorado,
you're gonna win, and you're the highest profile name. And
apparently you accept donations from billionaires because you didn't say
(13:01):
no to Caitlyn Collins. So you got all this going
for you, which is nice, complete and total consciousness. Why
would you Why would you hold on to that Senate seat?
It's so he can appoint his own successor as the
governor elect of Colorado once he's sworn in. But who
would he promise that seat to if Jared Poulis said, oh, okay,
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how about me? I mean that'd be a nice favor
and tip of the cap to Polis. But what does
it do for Bennett. The reason why I think it's
Joan no Goose and mark this tape, don't doubt me.
As L. Rushbo once said, is to clear the field
so that the goose doesn't enter the governor's race where
he would be a viable threat. Not fill none the wiser,
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not fill none the wiser. The Goose is an up
and comer. He's a star in the Democratic Party. He
is well regarded within his own ranks in the House,
and it would be a natural progression for him to
ascend to a Senate seat. Now, I think Representative No
Goose would prefer to win it. But hey, if it's
there for the taking and Governor Bennett is willing to
appoint you to that position, well maybe you'll keep your
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powdered dry and stay out of the race and not
get in the middle of it and let Bennett sail
to victory. That does something for Michael Bennett. Got to
look at this politically. What's the motivation here, Senator Michael Bennett.
Let's go back to twenty nineteen. This is an Aldheimer
from the floor of the Senate. Senator Ted Cruz trying
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to lead a shutdown of the government over budget reconciliation.
Kind of inside baseball on that front. But this is
the one time the Cicada Senator Michael Bennett came out
to play and he got a little riled up. Might
have to have a lot okays ready over there, Dragon,
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Betiphras I seldom, as you know, rise on this floor
to contradict somebody on the other side, and worked very
hard over the years to work in a bipartisan way
with the Presiding Officer or with my Republican colleagues.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
But these crocodile tears that the.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Center from Texas is crying for first responders are too
hard for me to take.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Good.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
They're too hard for me to take because when you
when the Center from Texas shut this government.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
Down in twenty thirteen, my state was shotted good, it
was underwater o Good people were killed.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Good people's houses were destroyed. Good, their small businesses were ruined.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Good forever. And because of.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
The Center from Texas, this government was shut down. Good
for politics, good that he served to a second place finish.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
In Iowa caucuses. But we're of no help.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
To the first responders, to the teachers to the students
whose schools were closed.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
O God, with a federal.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Government that was shut down because of the junior senator
from Texas. Now it's his business, not my business. Why
he supports a president who wants to erect a medieval
barrier on the border of Texas, who wants to use
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eminent domain to build that wall, who wants to declare
an unconstitutional emergency to build that wall. That's the business
of the senator from Texas. I can assure you, okay,
that in Colorado, if a president said he was going
to use eminent domain to erect the barrier across the
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state of Colorado, across the.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Rocky mountains of Colorado, he was going to steal the
property of our farmers and ranchers to build his medieval wall,
there wouldn't be an let I did leader.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
From our state do it support that idea, which goes
to my final point. How ludicrous it is that this
government is shut down over a promise the President of
the United States couldn't.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Keep good and that America is not interested in having
him keep. Okay, so many things to unpack there, and
I'll try to do it as quickly as I can.
Because we we're short on time. But how cold was
that take over the border wall a medieval barrier? I
mean that is far left wacko talk. Of course we
(17:38):
need a wall. Deportations are now front and center in
the news, and the amount of illegals that float over
the border on Joe Biden's watch was criminal. It was
literally criminal, and he supports that. In terms of the
farmers and ranchers, I know we have a lot of
farmers and ranchers in our audience. Do you feel that
Senator Michael Bennett is your friend, your ally About the
(18:02):
Democrats that supported the reintroduction of wolves that are killing
all of your livestock, Well that'd be Senator Michael Bennett.
Oko take Crocodi tears tick Cruz. The more worked up
he gets, the more he loses his enunciation more after.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
This, Michael Bennett, I want to be governor and Kuy,
I'm the most exciting thing going on Coral today.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Don't worry. Won't legalize anything for Crack. I will spend
all your money, gotness, give him all heck, won't even
give a Mexican a check. You say it's easy. I'm Cuy.
That was clever because it was set to the tune
I believe of the song that had been requested. Yep,
(18:49):
got to remove the profanity. Yes, thank you, so very
well done. Talkbacker, And if you would like to submit
your impersonation of Michael Bennett by all me, Senator the
thirty three one o three good. Somebody's got to give
this guy elocution lessons. How do you enunciate your verbiage,
(19:16):
Senator Bennett? Because Buddy gets.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
Worked up, he really starts, so his words it can't stack.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Is Senator tech Cruz is a total bad guy. Good?
Now you think, Okay, when I do an impression, I
do many they are caricatures, so there's sketches, you know,
and they're slight, slight exaggerations. But I think, as you've
heard in several clips this morning, is not entirely off
(19:41):
the mark good. He is Counselor Mackie from South Park,
and he might be our next governor. And we've got
to brace ourselves for that. We hope for the best.
You know, got a Republican field that's growing in number
and the quality of the candidates, and Greg Lopez just
entered the race, and there could be others, and I
don't know if he broke news yesterday, but this is
(20:03):
my opinion. I always want to separate this. As the
producer for Dan Kaplis, I'm gonna put some puzzle pieces
out there. You can put them together as you choose.
Dan has spoke openly, not just with me off the record,
but on his own show that he has strongly considered
running for office statewide office I think specifically senate or governor,
(20:26):
one of those two. I had asked him at one point,
why don't you run for house. You got the juice,
you got the means behind you, you got the name recognition,
you know, the reputation, integrity, et cetera. Maybe to get in,
like say the sixth congressional district race against Jason Crowe.
We've had some solid candidates, including John Fabricatory the last
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time around, Steve Monahan before that, who I really liked
Steve House. He had the name for it, House for
the House. But Dan, it didn't seem interested in that
level of even for Congress in a house race. He
had visited the Senate. He had been kind of shown
on a tour by I think it was Senator John
(21:08):
Corny in Texas at the time. His wife Amy was
with him for this visit. He was seriously considering a
run at one point. Now this is several years ago,
many years ago, but within the last ten I want
to say, and then he just decided, you know, it
wasn't the right time, his family being what it was,
his son and his daughter still I think we're still
in school at that point, but now they're not in school.
I'm not putting words in Dan's mouth. I'm just giving
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you my analysis of what might happen and would I
support Dan one hundred percent? Would he run this time around?
He was asked that question yesterday and dragon he did
not say no. He did not say no, and he
made very clear and he didn't want to do a
Michael Bennett with Caitlyn Collins as we heard, like stumbling around.
But that's still a decision, I think. And again this
(21:54):
is my interpretation that he was mulling and probably discussing
with Amy and whether or not this is the time.
It's getting to be that point though, I believe as
young as Dan is both in terms of his physical
condition for his age, but if not now, then maybe
it ain't gonna happen. This is my personal opinion I'd
(22:16):
welcome your input on this as well, thirty three to
one oh three. If you feel that Dan Caplis would
be a viable, strong candidate for statewide office, whether that
be governor or Senate. That one's coming up to John
Hickenlooper seat. You guys should be protecting me. He said
that in a sit down interview. There was the budget
controversy when it came to him, and he was just
(22:37):
mystified as to why the mainstream media wasn't covering his
tracks for him. That was his insinuation. These are the
clowns that are leading us here in Colorado. It's crazy
and I would just I would just personally love to
see a debate where it were Mono Imano Dan Caplis
versus Michael Bennett, because we all know how that would go.
(22:58):
Oh wow, Senator Bennett, I don't think you mean what
you just said.
Speaker 8 (23:04):
Well, you know, I I've been there a while, and
I don't like Rob Dawson's question. I've been all over
the state of Colorado, and everybody knows who I am from.
AS's been alling on Grand Junction and I drive on
I seventy.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Okay, yeah, this one says I was at a town
hall with Bennett and several people publicly in the Q
and A session, it admitted that they didn't know his
track record or who he actually was. Here's a question.
What legislation has Senator Michael Bennett written or co authored
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that has made it through the Senate and the House
and been signed into law by the President of the
United States? No matter who that president was, was his
name on any piece of legislation? Go the the think
I can name one, maybe you can send us along
thirty three three alexis Is. I think Lauren Bobert has
(24:00):
spent much more time in Colorado, especially rural Colorado, as
a state wide elected official. Well, here's the thing, she's
not even a state wide elected official. She has represented
the third district now represented by Jeff Hurd, and now
she represents the fourth district. But you're right, she's been
all over the state. People know who she is. They
might not like her for certain reasons, but she is
(24:22):
a woman of principle, and she speaks her mind, and
she does help garner support for legislation and is very
active in that role. And I've discussed that with her
many times. And this goes back to Nil's the Norwegian's point. Ryan.
If Bennett wins the governor's race, he'll appoint Polis. Oh God, okay.
(24:43):
I'm a person that I will faithfully and honestly participate
in the game. Would you rather okay? I'm like, ugh, neither,
like I know, neither okay, But let's play the game.
Would I rather it be Senator Polis or Senator no
Goose without batting an eyelash or hesitating one ounce? Senator
(25:04):
no Goose. Jared Poulis is a schemer. He's a schemer
like the Joker in the dark. Knight says, I don't
trust him. I don't like him. He's a completely political
animal who is animated by whatever forces benefit him personally.
I'm not a naive to suggest that every politician is
(25:26):
like that. To some degree, I get it. But I
think Joe Nogose is just a better quality human. That's
just my personal opinion. You could disagree thirty three one
oh three, but yeah, given that choice, no Goose one
hundred percent. Next topic, Next question. Alexis says this is interesting.
Craig Silverman has not posted it on x since November fifth,
(25:46):
twenty twenty four, when he posted about voting for Kamala.
Speaker 9 (25:50):
What happened on November fifth, twenty twenty four. Oh, that's right,
the Orange Man won and it sent Craig apparently into oblivion.
That's sad. It's very sad, very sad. He's a troll
on ex that's what he does. Now, that's his job.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
What is it? Michael Ryan, Dan and Craig Dan and Craig.
Craig goes crazy, Dan and Christa Christa goes crazy. Ryan.
Protect yourself, You're our only Oh, Patty, now wait a minute.
Just because Dan's the common denominator in the equations you
just posed, which I acknowledged. That's true and a very
good point. It's those individuals that have gone off the rails.
(26:36):
Craig Silverman, obviously we talked about. Christ is a good person.
She's a dear friend. But when she attached her name
coach joining that lawsuit that Mary On Nicholas and others
authored to remove Donald Trump from the Republican primary ballot,
that was it. That was it. I don't know to
(26:57):
what end she was doing that. Perhaps she just firmly
believed in that from a principal standpoint, but that did
two things for christ A kay, from my friend, it
alienated everybody on our side of the aisle from her
having anything to do with these shows, because to me,
it completely obliterated her credibility. I've said many times to
(27:19):
be intellectually honest and consistent. If there were some kind
of measure based on let's say, Hillary's emails or Whitewater
or any of the other conspiracies against Hillary Clinton, that
she did nefarious things, okay, okay. If there was a
potential petition to the court in a lawsuit that said,
we are going to keep Hillary Clinton off the Democratic
primary ballot so that Democratic voters or those who are
(27:40):
unaffiliated that might vote in that primary do not have
the option of voting for her, never would I ever
join and join that lawsuit. If people want to sink
to the bottom of the ocean by voting for Hillary Clinton,
then we deserve that. It's not up to me to
play god and act like I'm superior to everybody else
(28:02):
in my ivory tower from on high to dictate to
the common folk that you're too stupid to realize you
shouldn't be voting for Hillary Clinton. I feel that way,
but Hillary Clinton should absolutely be on the ballot. If
that's who the Democrats choose, or anybody else, Kamala Harris,
Joe Biden, go down the list. Never would I ever
(28:25):
support an effort to remove a person from the ballot
because of my personal political animus toward that person, or
any kind of convoluted interpretation of the Constitution, which the
bottom line would be, you don't get to pick Donald Trump,
you stupid orange man loving rubes who live in rural Colorado.
(28:47):
That's what she was saying to you. That's the only explanation.
Because if he's so awful, if Donald Trump is so terrible,
such a bad candidate, such an obvious criminal felon well,
that he's not going to win, then he's going to
be easy to beat, then you should want him on
the ballot. So why don't you want him on the ballot? Christa,
She never agreed to come on the program to answer
(29:07):
that question. The other side of that coin, does she
think this endears her to the left? Now they've forgotten
about her. She's a rumor now once she was no
longer useful. This is the whole Liz Cheney, Adam Kinsinger Lane,
Then you don't matter. So what have you done? You've
blown up your whole presence in the public sphere, and
(29:28):
for what all you had to do was be like, look,
Donald Trump's terrible. I think he's terrible. I think he
incited an insurrection. I think that's the most awful thing
a person could do in politics. And therefore I'm gonna
be supporting Nicky Haley or Ron DeSantis and leading the
effort to run against Trump in the primary, or leading
the effort. I'm gonna flip. I'm gonna pull up Bill Crystal.
(29:49):
I'm gonna vote for Kamala Harris. We need to defeat
Donald Trump. How did that all work out? Well, maybe
it made Christa's point that we're just all too stupid
to realize that we shouldn't be voting for Donald Trump.
Because offer me another explanation as to why somebody who
is not a Trump supporter would insist through going through
those legal channels, weaponizing the justice system to remove a
(30:10):
candidate from the ballot. Why would you do that. I'm
trying to figure out why I would do that for
Hillary Clinton or anybody else. I would not do that.
I'm not a Democrat. I'm not going to tell Democrats
who they can and can't have on the ballot. If
they want to put BTK killer guy on the ballot,
that's up to them. God to take a break, but
I'd like you to pounder that question during the break.
(30:30):
That's your assignment class, the substitute teacher. Yeah, I'm in
a homework. I'm your least favorite substitute. Thirty three one
oh three. Back with more the situation with Michael Brown after.
Speaker 10 (30:39):
This, look at him. On the bright side, if Bennett
wins governor and appoints a senator, we can blame everything
in Colorado and the nation on him.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, I mean that's one way to look at it.
It just I can't get over this holding onto one
Senate seat while you're running for a governor's race, that
you you hope you win, you think you're going to win,
but that the primary motivation would be two fold. That
Jared Polis as the acting governor, who would have the
authority to appoint Bennett's replacement should he relinquish the seat,
that Bennett denies Jared Polis, that a couple of textures
(31:16):
have posited the theory that well, maybe as a kind
of thank you, Bennett would a point Polis, But that
takes the whole point and purpose away. Then you would
just you know, have Polis maybe a point himself. I
don't know, but wait, wait, wait, wait, wait until Bennett
wins and has sworn in, and then Bennett gets to
a point to fill in the blank. Would it be Polis?
And if it were Polis, why would Bennett do that?
(31:37):
What would that do for Bennett? Don't know unless Polis said, Hey,
I'll be locked up with your agenda in DC. I'm
going to pick up where you left off. I'm going
to do whatever you would do. Just you know, you
have a pipeline to me. I mean, there's that, But
getting somebody like a Jonah Goose to stay out of
the race, that does something for Michael Bennett. And you
got to look at where the cost benefit analysis. Alexa
(32:01):
asks Ryan, can we please have Rob Dawson go and
ask people outside Cherry Creek or Park Medal's Mall if
they know who the person in the picture is with
Michael Bennett's picture shown, what percentage of those shoppers, Let's
say in those districts there Cherry Creeker, Park Medals Mall,
if you showed them an eight x ten photo of
Michael Bennett would know who that is what percentage would
(32:23):
be one out of ten, maybe not one out of ten,
one on twenty I think it'd be pretty low. What
do you think? Thirty three? One oh three? Send those along.
As for Dan being a candidate for office, this one says,
I enjoy Dan's show. He's an intelligent man, and I'd
like to see him in office. But I think his
no middle ground whatsoever pro life views make him unelectable.
(32:44):
He's heard that before. He will not relinquish his stance
on that issue, and the challenge would be, you're right
is to bring unaffiliateds over on a variety of other issues.
Eighty twenty ones like deportation of illegal immigrants. We've seen
it all unfold and Aurora were ground zero for a
lot of that. Transing the kids, This House Bill twenty
(33:05):
five thirteen twelve that'll take parental rights away, take children
away from homes if the parent doesn't affirm a gender
dysphoric child's decision to identify as the opposite gender. Now
you can still, as a parent, prevent them or at
least not allow them legally to buy alcohol, to purchase cigarettes,
to get a tattoo, to serve in the military. Until
(33:28):
they turn eighteen to make all these other decisions. They
can't vote. They can't vote, but they can vote with
their body parts and get those chopped off without parental consent.
According to House Built twenty five, thirteen twelve, it's madness,
absolute insanity. Another Texter echoing the previous sentiment, Brian, I
think that Dan Caplis's opinion on abortion would not allow
(33:50):
him to be elected governor of Colorado. Well, it would
be interesting to test that theory out. I think the
pro life position, if articulated correctly, is a winning position,
especially on late term abortion, but in this state it
has been codified in the state constitution, so that would
be a sticky, wicked, indeed, a time out. We're halfway
through situation without Michael Brown continues after this
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