December 2, 2025 • 34 mins
Alicia Garcia is one of Colorado's premiere advocates for gun rights, currently nominated for 'Most Influential Female of the Year' by The Gundies. She joins Sheriff Reams to discuss Colorado concealed carry laws, what they mean to you, and how you can protect and defend your right to bear arms.
Also, Stephanie Gauch of Weld County Food Bank joins the program to promote giving to those in need this holiday season.
Also, Stephanie Gauch of Weld County Food Bank joins the program to promote giving to those in need this holiday season.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caples and welcome to today's online podcast edition
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome back to the Dan Caples Show, our two of
two with Well County Sheriff Steve Riems as your guest
host today. And it's a pleasure to get to this
next guest. She's coming on a little early with us,
earlier than I had scheduled because of some shake ups here,
but thank you for your flexibility. Alicia. I would like
to have you have an opportunity to tell the listening
audience exactly what it is that you do to support
(00:38):
the Second Amendment, and you can probably tell them way
better than I can. So welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Hi Steve, how are you doing, Shriff?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I'm doing great.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I really appreciate you guys having me on, so thank you,
first and foremost, I really appreciate this platform. So what
I do is my name is Alicia Garcia. I am
my own first responder. Literally, I am the plaintiff in
Garcia versus Polis So I am suing the state of
Colorado over the three day waiting period to obtain your firearm,
so I started that since twenty twenty three. I also
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have a Consilt Carry Training and consulting company, so anything,
I do everything. So if you want to learn just
basic pistol or rifle or techniques like that.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Can I can teach you.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
If you want to do more dynamic shooting such as
defensive pistol, I am one of the highest rated defensive
pistol instructors in the nation. I'm actually one of only
five women that have ever completed USACA's defensive pistol program
and I'm in the top.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Three for that.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
There's only fifty people in the nation that have ever
passed that qualification, so it's a very very high level qualification.
So I got y'all if you want to learn how
to shoot. The name of my Consil Carry company is
Consil Carry Classes of Denver. We have two classrooms. We
have one in Thwornton, Colorado and one in South Denver,
and I mainly teach out of the Thornton location. So
if you want to renew your Cansil Carry or you know,
(01:58):
get your Consil Carry anything having to do with firearms.
I'm there to help you. I also have a nonprofit
called the Second Syndicate, which today is the day forgiving,
So if you guys want to donate to my nonprofit,
I'd really appreciate it. You can also go to our website,
the Second Syndicate, the two and D Syndicate dot com.
And what we do is essentially help the fight and
protect the Second Amendment here in the state of Colorado.
(02:19):
As we all know, it's under dire straits because being
attacks left and right. So that's what I do. It's
me and my business partner's Spartan Defense, created the Second
Syndicate so we can help educate and mobilized people in
protection and.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Defense at the Second Amendment.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I'm also on the founding board member, the acting Secretary
and Director of the Colorado Federal Farms Licensee Association, so
we help oversee and protect and guide Federal Firearms Licensee
so gun shops here in the state of Colorado. And
I also, you know, I'm on the radio every Friday
morning on the Kim Monthson Show. So I do a lot.
(02:55):
There's nothing I really don't do when it comes to
the Second Amendment.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, and That's why I wanted you to introduce yourself,
because you know your background way better than I do.
But why we've had while we have you on the show.
We're going to have you on for a couple of segments.
Would you be one to take calls and texts from
from the listeners out there?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Absolutely great, I love it.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
All of you. You can always text in and at
five seven seven three nine, start your text with Dan
and hopefully I'll get it before before we're done with
these segments. Also, you can call in at three o
three seven one, three eight two five five, and I
want to get to I want to get with you
on a specific topic, and that's the passage of house
built twenty four eleven seventy four and that how that's
impacted your business. But before we do that, we already
(03:34):
have a caller on the line that wants to ask
a question about his hunter safety class and how that
kind of works here in the state of Colorado. Will
that help him with a I believe the background is
will that help him with a CCW? So his name's
from Justin, Justin from Littleton. Are you on with us?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Yeah, hey, guys, not quite the question.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
The screams.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
But I'm glad I called. I was actually gonna call
about this anyways, real good time. I have a CCW
and irctually you know, was about to hunt last year,
had a tag and everything may or may not have gone.
Won't specify that. But out of the online course, getting
an in person conclusive class on your hunter's safety course
is almost impossible. They're only eat in Colorado, Spring's Grand Junction.
(04:19):
There's nothing around Denver. I think there's like one every
several months. They're sold out. Do you have any information
on that, because I believe you have to have one
hundred safety class to now bias something out of firm
as of August next year. Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Well, you're no, that is not correct. What is correct
is SB twenty five zero zero three.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Pass the legislative body this year.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
And what that does is a portion of that has
already enacted, a portion of that is already law, which
is the force reset triggers or you know triggers that
basically make you.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
You know, binary triggers that make.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You get a faster on your follow up shot. Because
in misconception that the Left has is that it makes
it into a quote unquote automatic firearm, which is absolutely
not who you need a type seven soot through the
federal government to have a fully automatic firearm.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
But I digress, that's not the language that they speak.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
As of August first, twenty twenty six, s B. Twenty
five zero zero three will require you to get up
to twelve hours of education in order to get your
permit to purchase. So what it is is basically then
it's a ban on all semi automatic magazine bad gas
powered firearms as well as the force free triggers. The
classes and the requirements have yet to be divulged to us,
(05:36):
and that is something that I find quite disturbing because
of course this legislature is kind of running rampant and
they're making things up as they go because they're making.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Law based on things they have zero experience on. I digress.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
The hunter Safety what work, but me and from friends
are basically pegged it as what we call the COID card,
So it is a permit to purchase. So it's a
firearms you know, card that you have to go get
this hunter safety and it's through the Department of Wildlife,
So the curriculum hasn't even been created yet. So I
commend you one wanting to get education in hunter safety,
(06:11):
that's great, but it is not There's nothing that is
saying what the requirements are going to be. And just
to touch on that a little bit more, since the
requirement is to get the education through the Department of Wildlife,
that is a subtlely funded program. So essentially the state
of Colorado is creating a felony because they are using
federal funds to impose gun control on the state of Colorado.
(06:32):
Well and yet nothing is being done about that.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And step two to that, even once you go take
that class, then you're going to have to go to
your local sheriff and say, okay, here's the information I have.
You're going to have to go get a background from
a private entity, show up to the sheriff's office and
say I need a permit saying that I can now
go buy this semi automatic weapon. So it's a multi
step process. It's to Alicia's point, it's a de facto
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gunband for a lot of folks. There is no uh,
there is no price set for these classes. There's no
we don't even know what the classes are going to
consist of. My best advice to you at this point
is hold on because it's only going to get uglier.
But if you're looking at buying a weapon that you
haven't purchased already, go do it now.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Go ahead to touch on recently what the sheriff said, No,
go ahead, sir, it's very Lestyeh. I bought several recently
and I'm a CCW holder. I assume I'd probably need
another background check. But I just want to clarify the
hunter safety course day is not going to be the
same hunter safety course from to purchase some my auto
and interesting I did not.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Is it'll be a completely different process.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
And it's with that is also depending on the county
that you live in and who your sheriff is. And god,
a lot of people have some good sheriffs out there,
but there are counties that don't have good sheriff there
are there's an issue that create that's created with this
that it turns it into a may issue. They can
actually deny you based on your personal recognis.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
So if somebody and I mean, let's just be honest here,
I'm the notorious gun girl of Colorado, right, I'm the
bad girl of the Saxon Amendment here. So when you
search me and you google me, all you're going to
see is images of me with guns, educating people with guns,
pushing back against the government, and that could literally hinder me.
The thing I moved, I moved to a different county.
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But they can literally deny you based on your personal recognance,
and it turns it into a may issue. So one
of the things that I really don't think people understand
is that this allows them to exercise extreme bias if
they want to let you have these firearms.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
That is a constitutionally protected right. So this is a
very very.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Ugly and egregious bill and it is being lidicated against
right now. The Coloro State Shooting Association THESSA has filed
suit against this bill.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
They have a.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Handful of plaintiffs. One of the main ones is a
very good friend of mine name is Israel Delterro. He's
a motivational speaker of a heart VET Bronz Star ward winner,
He's won the Pat Hilton Award, and he is talking
about how this is difficult for him because being such
an accolade VET and such a renowned member of our military,
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you still have to be subject to these rules. So
this is a huge problem. For the state and people
don't realize how far this is getting in. And we
have rumors right now that there are bills that are
going to be proposed on the first legislation that is
going to be an armory bill, which is basically going
to be saying, hey, we're going to put limitations on
how many guns you can own and purchase. As well
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as we've heard rumors that Stephen Woodrow, who's notoriously anti gun,
wants to propose a bill that it should ban silence
for his suppressors in the state of Colorado. So we
have a huge battle against us, guys. So this is
why it's so important to get involved in local government
now and exercise your right to push back and be
very cautious who you are.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Voting into these.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Offices and both these bad, bad politicians out.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
On that note, Alicia, thank you for that information. Justin
thank you for the phone call. We're going to take
a quick break here. Stick with us, because when we
come back, we're going to talk about what it looks
like like to get a CCW renewed or issued if
you don't have one yet in the state of Colorado
that conceal weapons permit we're going to go to break.
You're listening to the Dan Capless Show here on six
point thirty k how with Well County Sheriff Steve Dreams.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Welcome back to the Dan Capleas Show here with Well
County Sheriff Steve Riams and our special guest Alicia Garcia.
You know, when we were going to break, we were
talking a little bit about, you know, some of the
gun laws, that draconian gun laws have been passed. But
I want to get to one that is really impacting
people right now, and that's House Built twenty four DASH
eleven seventy four. That's kind of the remake of the
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Concealed Weapon permit, and you know exactly what has that
done to you and your business in trying to get
people through the process in the state of Colorado. But first,
if you would, Alicia, outline what that process looks like
now for the for the folks out there that are listening.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
So that eleven seventy four went into effect this year
in July, so it took effect of Life First twenty
twenty five. And what that means is you now are
required if you want to get a new concealed.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Handgun permit to attend a.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Class with a verified instructor. And I'll get to that
here in that detail here in a second. So it
has to be a verified instructor certified course. It has
to be eight hours long that includes a written exam as.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Well as a live fire portion. You need to pass
the written exam with a seventy.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Percent, and I believe the live fire is eighty percent sometimes.
I mean, I get those inversed all the time, but
I hold my students pretty accountable and I kind of
help them along the way as well. But so the renewal,
it also requires that you go to a two hour class,
You take the written exam and the live fire portion. Now,
one of the things I do like to make very clear,
(11:46):
I don't know how other instructors run this, but in
my class, participation in the classes not guarantee.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
You the certificate.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
If you can't make your target and you can't place
defensive rounds on a target that's twenty one feet in
front of you in different position or you know, different distances,
I can't put my name on it, right, I can't say, hey,
you know, yeah, here's your participation trophy and you get
to walk around carrying all day long. Because what I
have found since this law has changed is that a
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lot of people were unfamiliar with a lot has changed
in the first place, and they have no idea what
the concept is when it comes to consult caring. And
they also made sure that the state of Colorado put
requirements on me as an instructor. So what they said is,
not only do you have to as people who want
a concealed handgun permit, fall in line with these new requirements,
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instructors also now have to go through a state certified
permitting process through a county, any county in the state
of Colorado to get approved as a verified instructor. So
I had to petition the state and say, here's my credentials.
Can I please, you know, state be able to teach
firearm safety and education.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
So that was one of the processes.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
And as far as what I've seen is, I mean,
it sounds bad because it's good for business right because
now people are required to show up and take this class,
And I mean that's good for me right as a
business owner and as a capitalist. At the same time,
I don't agree with this at all, and I avidly
testified against this, to which, of course I was shut
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down plenty of times. But what this has created is
a false narrative that that is all the training that
you need as somebody who's walking around carrying a gun
on your appendix or three o'clock every day. Because by
imposing these requirements and saying, hey, the state is telling
you you need eight hours of a classroom time, a
live fire portion, and written exam one, what that's doing
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is telling people that's all that's required then, because that's
exactly what people get.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
In that mindset. Well, if that's what the state.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Says I need to do, then that's all I need
to do, which is an absolute farce. This is a
martial art, This is a skill set. It should be
cultivated and treated with attention and dedication. Secondly, issue is
is that a lot of these people are restricted from
being able to exercise a constitutional right based on requirements
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that the state imposes. So, for example, I do my
best to keep my prices pretty competitive and lower than
everybody else.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Me and my business partner go round and around about
this to.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
See how we can offset the cost to our students.
That it is accessible to people because being able to
afford the class shouldn't hinder you from being able to
exercise a constitutional right. There's a lot of poverty stricten
people out there that are like, Hey, I need this
training and I need this education, but I can't afford it. Right,
So does that mean that those people don't deserve a
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fighting chance of staying alive? I don't think that that
is right. Secondly, what if English is your second language,
or what if you're illiterate, or what if you don't
take tests, well, things of that nature. That shouldn't hinder
you from exercising a constitutional right either. And you know,
I'm very honest and I'm very transparent. I do the
very basic minimum of what the state asks me to do.
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When it comes to the written exam, I have a
thirty thirty question exam that I have written. I give
my students a six to eight page handout with all
this information that they could take home. You know, we
work on the test together as a class. We go
through everything in class. I do everything I can to
make my students successful. That way, they have the knowledge
and the skill set to apply. But unfortunately, people are
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becoming very apathetic. And when you tell what's the best
way to make people not want to do something, to
tell them that they have to right, So by imposing
these restrictions, people are like, well, I don't want to
do this.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Just for clarifications sake. Anybody who wanted to have a
consill weapon permit in the past had to go take
a class for that initial class. Now, they didn't necessarily
mean it had to be eight hours long. Some people
didn't even do live fire in those classes. So the
level of training that you were going to get it
was definitely questionable at times. But there was a class
class requirement that's always been in place for going getting
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your CCW in the state of Colorado. What's dramatically changed
is the number of hours that the the test that
has to be given and passing at a certain point,
live fire, all that kind of stuff. And now to
renew your permit you have to go take this class
that you didn't have before. Once you got your permit,
you just you kept it in, you know, for as
long as you wanted is as long as you kept
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coming in every five years and renewing the permit. So
the reason I ask you about what impacts you've had
on your class is because we've seen a drop in
Weld County of people applying for that initial CCW or
even getting that renewed CCW, just because of the hindrance
of having to go to a class for an eight
hour day or whatever the case may be. And before
you dive into talking about that, we have a question
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here about if someone wants to schedule a class with you,
what's the best way of doing that.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Alicia, Well, fantastic, I really appreciate the support of my business.
You can go to consil Carry class Denver dot com.
That's our website and there is a session there that
you can book that class. You can also find us
on event right for consil Carry Classes of Denver. If
you're having trouble finding that, just feel free to reach
out to me. My email is Alicia A. L I
C I A at Boomstickbabe dot com just as it
(17:05):
sounds boomstick like a shotgun babe like the baby Jesus
dot com.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
And are you seeing an uptick in your classes at
staying neutral? We only have about thirty seconds left. Are
you staying right on par or really not?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Actually, this is a very very low season right now.
We canceled classes I had a class, and I had
a class this weekend that we canceled because I mean.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
There's just no attendance.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah, and I have to believe a lot of that is.
One it's the cost barrier. Two it's the time barrier,
and it's just difficult for people. Alicia, I can't thank
you enough for coming on. You're a wealth of information
and I hope people will go check out your website,
take your class. It's always good to see a female
in the Second Amendment realm. And again, thank you for
being on the show. I appreciate it so much.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
We're going to go to break see you, guy.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Blessed you bet we're gonna go to break you. Listen
to the Dan Cafleis Show here on six thirty KHW
with Well Kenny Sheriff Steve RNs.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Welcome back to the Dankaplass Show here with Weillcounty Sheriff
Steve Raims as your guest host. And I just want
to make one more plug for our last guest that
was on, Alicia Garcia. She is currently up for the
Gundhi Award. And for those of you that aren't big
in the Gun community. She's trying to become the most
influential female of the year, and she's asking for you,
for all the listeners out there, if you could go
(18:28):
to the website the gundhies dot Com slash vote and
vote for her as the Boomstick Babe as the most
influential person of the year free mail of the Year
in the Second Amendment space. I'm sure she would appreciate that.
I'm gonna shift gears hard here because today is the
day of Giving, December second, twenty twenty five, and every
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day at work or every day when I'm going to work,
I drive past the Weld Food Bank and I see
the line of cars that are going into the Weld
Food Bank. In fact, I've dealt with the folks that
run the food bank and trying to figure out how
to mitigate the traffic that is frequenting their establishment right now.
But it shows a need that is existing in not
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just Weld County, but across the state of Colorado. And
I couldn't think of a better way of kind of
expressing what that need is without just having someone from
the Weld Food Bank on and with us. Is Stephanie Gousch. Stephanie,
could you well, first, thanks for being on the show
with us.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
It's good to be here. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
You bet. And we talked a little while ago and
you were explaining to me just how much the need
for food assistance has gone up in Weld County and
you were giving me some stats that were Weld County based,
but also Colorado based, and if you would, can you
share that with the listeners, a little bit of just
you know, what the what the Weld Food Bank does.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
Yeah. Absolutely, And I think what we're seeing here in
Weld is certainly being mirrored with food banks across the
state of Colorado and across the United States. And what
we're experiencing is that, you know, more people in our
commun unity right now need some temporary food assistance. And
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you know, what we're seeing is that the cost of inflation, food, inflation, housing,
those types of hard costs have continued to go up,
and people's paychecks have remained relatively stagnant. And as a result,
when households are having you know, an unexpected expense, you know,
you need a new set of tires, or your kid
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got injured, and now you have a thousand dollars hospital
bill or whatever it might be. They don't have the
bandwidth in their in their bank accounts to handle those
types of expenditures, and so that's when they're turning to
the food bank. And we're seeing that line continue to grow,
and that line that you see every day on your
way to work. You know, I've worked here almost seventeen years,
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and it still continues to shock me. I mean, we're
serving almost seventeen hundred individuals each and every day, and
those are mostly people who will come here, you know,
six or seven times this year. They will get temporary
food assistants and hopefully go on their way. But it's
a real indicator that there is an issue in our
community that the cost of living is not matching you know,
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self sufficiency and what people are earning and what they
need to live. And so when those things don't match up,
we see that line continue to grow here at the
food banks.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
And you said, that's seventeen hundred a day.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
Correct, correct, And to put that into perspective, five years ago,
we actually that we were serving that many people in
a week, So it really has increased dramatically. And then,
you know, when we saw the pause and snap Benefits.
We saw that jump up about another five hundred individuals
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a day, and fortunately that was very brief. When Snap
Benefits came back online, those folks got out of the
line here. But it still is an overwhelming, unprecedented amount
of need for community. And as we continue to grow
and we welcome more people into Weald County, and as
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Colorado continues to grow, one of the things we really
need to look at is our community affordable to the
people who live and work here.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, that's a huge topic. We've been interviewing governor candidates
and affordability is at the top of the list for
many people. As people are going through this holiday season,
a lot of people want to help out their fellow neighbor.
They want to help out these nonprofits. Today's that day
of giving. If people want to help the Weld Food Bank,
what's the best way they can do. I know we
see food drives at different places of employment and those
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kind of things. But if they want to give to
their local food bank or the Weld Food Bank, what's
the best way for people to help you out.
Speaker 8 (22:44):
I would say, hands down, the best way to support
your local food bank is with the financial donation I
mean that allows the food bank to determine what is
that highest need in that moment and to allocate the
funds to that highest need. And for us here and Well,
that need is meat, it's dairy, it's eggs, it's those
fresh perishable staples that are really missing in people's diets
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and tend to be most expensive, you know. And that's
where the majority of our funding right now is going.
And food banks really do have because we work as
a network across the country and we share donated food
and we you know, have existed for many years on
the excess waste that would otherwise be waste in the
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food system, and so we leverage that with our bulk
purchasing power to really be able to stretch that money
to the furthest And I would say, you know, a
dollar here at Welled Food Bank can provide six dollars
worth of groceries from your grocery store. So it is
a great financial investment, you know. But if money is
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if you'd like to, you know, put your put your
heart into it. We love having volunteers. We are powered
by people over here and it's the community that makes
that happen. We only have thirty people here and we
will seed one in four people in our community this year.
And the way that works is that neighbors care about
neighbors and they give up their time and they come
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to the food bank and volunteer. And it's kids, it's families,
it's retired adults. So we welcome people of all abilities
to come give their time at the food bank here
in Welb County. And I know that other food banks
feel the same. We are truly driven by the power
of community.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
And what's a website that people could look up to
donate too if they choose to.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
It's Weldfoodbank dot org. We try to make it as
simple as possible for you to donate.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
That's amazing, Stephanie. I can't thank you enough. I know
that you're very busy. This is a busy time of
the year. I see the line building every morning. Luckily
we've kind of tackled a little bit of the traffic concern.
Speaker 8 (24:55):
But I appreciate your help to that. I sure do well.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Much rather that line didn't have to exist. But you
know your information to the listeners is invaluable, and you
know you provide a service to the community that I
don't think a lot of people understand. You know, you'll
oftentimes hear people make some kind of comment about, well,
the guy that's driving through there has a nicer car
than me, why should I give to the food bank.
You hear that from time to time too. What's your
(25:21):
response to that?
Speaker 8 (25:23):
Yeah, absolutely, that might be one of the most frequent
thinks we hear. And you know, part of what's been
really eye opening working here at the food bank is
having the opportunity to speak with people when they come through.
And I have seen a car too in here that
I'm like, oh, that's nice. But what people don't understand
is that when people visit the food bank, oftentimes they're
(25:45):
car pooling. They might be borrowing a car or I mean,
I don't know about you, Steve, but I bought a
car last year and I still owe on it for
four more years. And if I you know, if hunger
were solved tomorrow and I lost my job, I would
not go and sell my car. I would need it
for the next job I find, and I would need
that reliable transportation. So I would work my hard if
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you fed that car and keep my family fed until
I could, you know, find that next employment. Opportunity, and
so I think that, you know, there's a lot of
preconceived notions about when folks are utilizing the food bank,
and part of our job is to let the listeners
know that, like, it's you and me that are here.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
At this food bank.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
It you know, most of us are one you know,
medical incident, one emergency away from needing help. And if
we're lucky, we have a family member who might be
able to loane us, you know, five hundred bucks. But
if we're not, we might end up here at the
food bank. And so would I would urge our listeners
not to you know, have preconceived notions about, you know,
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who is utilizing these services, because when you talk to people,
it's predominantly families. It's moms that are skipping meals so
they make sure they can feed their kids. It's dads
that have a small business that have had a hard month.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
You know.
Speaker 8 (26:58):
It's people that that I see myself in and I
really identify with, and I think most of the listeners
would too. And I think that's why we've seen such
a tremendous response from our community when we came out
last month and said we need help, because they understand
and they see themselves in this line and they know
that they can give back through time or money or
(27:21):
a donation of food and all of that goes a
long way.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Stephanie, if you would give that website one.
Speaker 8 (27:25):
More time, absolutely, it's Weldfoodbank dot org.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Well again, I can't thank you enough for being on
the show and bring attention to this matter. Thanks, thanks
for your time and we really appreciate your service to
the community.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
Well, I just want to thank you all of Weld
County and beyond who have helped a Weld Food Bank
and all the other food providers out there. We couldn't
do it without that support. And thank you to all
the listeners. But you guys have a great evening.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Great thank you. With that, we're going to cut the break.
When we come back, we'll clean up the last few
texts we have and maybe get to a couple of
colors on the Dan Capless Show here on six point
thirty k how with well Kenny Sheriff, Steve Roams.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Welcome back to the Dankaplas Show and our last segment
of the final hour, and we've had Kevin and Boulder,
waiting for quite some time to make some comments about
the economy. Kevin, thanks for hanging on the line. Are
you with us?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Now?
Speaker 6 (28:20):
What's that Kevin?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
You had a comment about the economy. I know you've
been waiting for a little while you're down in Boulder.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
Is that correct, right?
Speaker 6 (28:29):
But I'd also like you to call me after the show.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah, I've got your message there. Yeah, I can do that, Okay.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
Yeah. All these politicians, et cetera, and even people such
as you who say they agree with me, I never
hear it brought up in the media by anybody. And
that's that there's a very simple answer to all this
(28:57):
spending and by the government. And it would restrict the
government and how much they can borrow, how much they
can print and coin and money, and it would greatly
restrict the banks from doing what they've been doing since
(29:17):
nineteen thirteen when they still the gold standard away from us.
It's probably the most important economic aspect that could be
dealt with, that should be dealt with to greatly fix
the economy.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I don't disagree with you, Kevin. I think one of
the big the big hurdles there is getting these same
state legislators to put legislators to put restrictions on themselves,
and you've seen how successful that's been. I mean, especially
at the federal level, which is where this needs to occur.
They tend to not want to put reins on themselves
because well, then how do I promise my pork project
(29:56):
to my constituents in a particular area. But Kevin, I
have appreciate the comment, and I appreciate you standing on
with us. We just got a little bit of time
here in the last bit, so I want to get
to our text but I'll call you as soon as
the show's over. I've got your numbers, So thank you boy.
We definitely had a fiery day on the text wall here.
One of these it's personal to me, but says, hey,
can I join the Well County Sheriff's posse without living
(30:19):
in Weld County. I live in Adams County, but I
have no desire to join their posse. Yes, we have
a volunteer posse that exists in the Well County Sheriff's Office.
If you want to join that, you can get on
weldshaff dot com and find a link to apply for that.
We always encourage volunteerism within our agency, and it's kind
of the way that we do our search and rescue
efforts and how we secure a lot of crime scenes.
(30:42):
So we welcome people who want to be a volunteer
member of our agency. Switching gears here a little bit.
Some more feedback about our governor's candidate. This one. I
don't think they're very supportive. It says so Bottoms wants
us to be the greatest oil gas, et cetera state,
which we have been, and then he wants to sacrifice
our water to be the AI capital of the country.
(31:03):
Makes no sense to me. Not happening. Another one here.
I love Steve and Littleton. He's retired l EO. He
just says, Sheriff Steve, always good to hear you on
the air. Well, I'm always glad to be here, So
thank you for that feedback, Steve. Ryan, this one's at you.
We'll see what you have to say about this one.
It says three times now I've heard Ryan dump on
Victor Marx on his show.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
Hey, whoa, whoa, WHOA?
Speaker 2 (31:24):
I mean only three times, is what he's saying. Republicans
are a kin to an hoa knitting circle, deciding who
has the best Christmas Tree. Scott Bottoms just said data centers,
does he even know how much water these consume? Republicans
without Marx are smoked and Colorado is done.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
What say you, Ryan, Well, I don't think I've ever
said anything on the air that wasn't true or in
Victor Marx's own words. So I played a lot of
clips from him, including an Instagram reel in which he
claims to have commandeered a vehicle from a guy that
tried to kill him and then he was pulled over
by p Again, these are all in his own words.
It's still up on Instagram. He said it was a
righteous stop. He fails to mention in the three minute
(32:06):
video that it was a vehicle belonging to his brother
in law. That's a relevant detail. Why omit that? Or
if you didn't want to talk about that, which he
kind of indicated to you in his interview with you,
Sheriff Rames, he said he acknowledged it was his brother
in law. Okay, then why omit that detail from the video,
or if you don't want to talk about it, why
(32:28):
go there at all? Why put the video on Instagram
at all? Knowing at some point people are going to
ask you got the guy's vehicle. It's in his name,
the registration, the police let you go, who the hell's
vehicle is it and why do you have it?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Well, I have to say. He put up a video today.
I don't know if it was TikTok, Instagram wherever it
got shared to me, and this is Victor Marx. He's
kind of doing this walk thing where there's bagpipes playing.
Then it goes to heavy metal. I can't think of
the name of the song, but I think it's playing
through this speakers of his vehicle, and he's kind of
doing this strut walk and he shows his gun and
(33:05):
a knife and then says, you know, he can't wait
to he can't he's looking forward to walking into essentially
the state capitol and you know, reaffirming that Republicans are
there or something to that point. But the video is
just I don't know. It seems weird to me, and
I showed it to a couple of people at work,
and a lady that is completely agnostic to politics said, well,
(33:29):
he looks like he's trying to get clicks on TikTok,
but I don't know what that has to do with
running for governor, which I think to your point, Ryan
kind of is where you've been on a few of
these things. Some of his his videos and comments aren't
necessarily what you would see from a governor's cap.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
It's okay to get traction, want to get clicks and views.
I mean, that's part of the game, right, is getting
that brand out there and the recognition, et cetera. Established that.
I mean, I want him to run with the call
Mountain Junior thing from Talladega Knights, because he sounds just
like William c Riley from that movie.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yeah, I listened to you the other day. I was dying, Well,
that's true, comparing to trash well, so it was entertaining.
I'll just say that, you know, these governor's candidates are interesting. Tomorrow,
we're gonna have a couple more on and I'll save
their names for tomorrow so that you can hear everything
nice and fresh. But get back with us tomorrow. We're
(34:19):
gonna have some some fire on the show, and we'll
keep interviewing these governor candidates and figuring out can a
Republican win this state? With that, you're listening to the
Dan Caplas Show here on six point thirty k how
with well Kenny Sheriff Steve Rams as your guest
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome back to the Dan Caples Show, our two of
two with Well County Sheriff Steve Riems as your guest
host today. And it's a pleasure to get to this
next guest. She's coming on a little early with us,
earlier than I had scheduled because of some shake ups here,
but thank you for your flexibility. Alicia. I would like
to have you have an opportunity to tell the listening
audience exactly what it is that you do to support
(00:38):
the Second Amendment, and you can probably tell them way
better than I can. So welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Hi Steve, how are you doing, Shriff?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I'm doing great.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I really appreciate you guys having me on, so thank you,
first and foremost, I really appreciate this platform. So what
I do is my name is Alicia Garcia. I am
my own first responder. Literally, I am the plaintiff in
Garcia versus Polis So I am suing the state of
Colorado over the three day waiting period to obtain your firearm,
so I started that since twenty twenty three. I also
(01:10):
have a Consilt Carry Training and consulting company, so anything,
I do everything. So if you want to learn just
basic pistol or rifle or techniques like that.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Can I can teach you.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
If you want to do more dynamic shooting such as
defensive pistol, I am one of the highest rated defensive
pistol instructors in the nation. I'm actually one of only
five women that have ever completed USACA's defensive pistol program
and I'm in the top.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Three for that.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
There's only fifty people in the nation that have ever
passed that qualification, so it's a very very high level qualification.
So I got y'all if you want to learn how
to shoot. The name of my Consil Carry company is
Consil Carry Classes of Denver. We have two classrooms. We
have one in Thwornton, Colorado and one in South Denver,
and I mainly teach out of the Thornton location. So
if you want to renew your Cansil Carry or you know,
(01:58):
get your Consil Carry anything having to do with firearms.
I'm there to help you. I also have a nonprofit
called the Second Syndicate, which today is the day forgiving,
So if you guys want to donate to my nonprofit,
I'd really appreciate it. You can also go to our website,
the Second Syndicate, the two and D Syndicate dot com.
And what we do is essentially help the fight and
protect the Second Amendment here in the state of Colorado.
(02:19):
As we all know, it's under dire straits because being
attacks left and right. So that's what I do. It's
me and my business partner's Spartan Defense, created the Second
Syndicate so we can help educate and mobilized people in
protection and.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Defense at the Second Amendment.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I'm also on the founding board member, the acting Secretary
and Director of the Colorado Federal Farms Licensee Association, so
we help oversee and protect and guide Federal Firearms Licensee
so gun shops here in the state of Colorado. And
I also, you know, I'm on the radio every Friday
morning on the Kim Monthson Show. So I do a lot.
(02:55):
There's nothing I really don't do when it comes to
the Second Amendment.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, and That's why I wanted you to introduce yourself,
because you know your background way better than I do.
But why we've had while we have you on the show.
We're going to have you on for a couple of segments.
Would you be one to take calls and texts from
from the listeners out there?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Absolutely great, I love it.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
All of you. You can always text in and at
five seven seven three nine, start your text with Dan
and hopefully I'll get it before before we're done with
these segments. Also, you can call in at three o
three seven one, three eight two five five, and I
want to get to I want to get with you
on a specific topic, and that's the passage of house
built twenty four eleven seventy four and that how that's
impacted your business. But before we do that, we already
(03:34):
have a caller on the line that wants to ask
a question about his hunter safety class and how that
kind of works here in the state of Colorado. Will
that help him with a I believe the background is
will that help him with a CCW? So his name's
from Justin, Justin from Littleton. Are you on with us?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Yeah, hey, guys, not quite the question.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
The screams.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
But I'm glad I called. I was actually gonna call
about this anyways, real good time. I have a CCW
and irctually you know, was about to hunt last year,
had a tag and everything may or may not have gone.
Won't specify that. But out of the online course, getting
an in person conclusive class on your hunter's safety course
is almost impossible. They're only eat in Colorado, Spring's Grand Junction.
(04:19):
There's nothing around Denver. I think there's like one every
several months. They're sold out. Do you have any information
on that, because I believe you have to have one
hundred safety class to now bias something out of firm
as of August next year. Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Well, you're no, that is not correct. What is correct
is SB twenty five zero zero three.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Pass the legislative body this year.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
And what that does is a portion of that has
already enacted, a portion of that is already law, which
is the force reset triggers or you know triggers that
basically make you.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
You know, binary triggers that make.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You get a faster on your follow up shot. Because
in misconception that the Left has is that it makes
it into a quote unquote automatic firearm, which is absolutely
not who you need a type seven soot through the
federal government to have a fully automatic firearm.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
But I digress, that's not the language that they speak.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
As of August first, twenty twenty six, s B. Twenty
five zero zero three will require you to get up
to twelve hours of education in order to get your
permit to purchase. So what it is is basically then
it's a ban on all semi automatic magazine bad gas
powered firearms as well as the force free triggers. The
classes and the requirements have yet to be divulged to us,
(05:36):
and that is something that I find quite disturbing because
of course this legislature is kind of running rampant and
they're making things up as they go because they're making.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Law based on things they have zero experience on. I digress.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
The hunter Safety what work, but me and from friends
are basically pegged it as what we call the COID card,
So it is a permit to purchase. So it's a
firearms you know, card that you have to go get
this hunter safety and it's through the Department of Wildlife,
So the curriculum hasn't even been created yet. So I
commend you one wanting to get education in hunter safety,
(06:11):
that's great, but it is not There's nothing that is
saying what the requirements are going to be. And just
to touch on that a little bit more, since the
requirement is to get the education through the Department of Wildlife,
that is a subtlely funded program. So essentially the state
of Colorado is creating a felony because they are using
federal funds to impose gun control on the state of Colorado.
(06:32):
Well and yet nothing is being done about that.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And step two to that, even once you go take
that class, then you're going to have to go to
your local sheriff and say, okay, here's the information I have.
You're going to have to go get a background from
a private entity, show up to the sheriff's office and
say I need a permit saying that I can now
go buy this semi automatic weapon. So it's a multi
step process. It's to Alicia's point, it's a de facto
(06:58):
gunband for a lot of folks. There is no uh,
there is no price set for these classes. There's no
we don't even know what the classes are going to
consist of. My best advice to you at this point
is hold on because it's only going to get uglier.
But if you're looking at buying a weapon that you
haven't purchased already, go do it now.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Go ahead to touch on recently what the sheriff said, No,
go ahead, sir, it's very Lestyeh. I bought several recently
and I'm a CCW holder. I assume I'd probably need
another background check. But I just want to clarify the
hunter safety course day is not going to be the
same hunter safety course from to purchase some my auto
and interesting I did not.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Is it'll be a completely different process.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
And it's with that is also depending on the county
that you live in and who your sheriff is. And god,
a lot of people have some good sheriffs out there,
but there are counties that don't have good sheriff there
are there's an issue that create that's created with this
that it turns it into a may issue. They can
actually deny you based on your personal recognis.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
So if somebody and I mean, let's just be honest here,
I'm the notorious gun girl of Colorado, right, I'm the
bad girl of the Saxon Amendment here. So when you
search me and you google me, all you're going to
see is images of me with guns, educating people with guns,
pushing back against the government, and that could literally hinder me.
The thing I moved, I moved to a different county.
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But they can literally deny you based on your personal recognance,
and it turns it into a may issue. So one
of the things that I really don't think people understand
is that this allows them to exercise extreme bias if
they want to let you have these firearms.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
That is a constitutionally protected right. So this is a
very very.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Ugly and egregious bill and it is being lidicated against
right now. The Coloro State Shooting Association THESSA has filed
suit against this bill.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
They have a.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Handful of plaintiffs. One of the main ones is a
very good friend of mine name is Israel Delterro. He's
a motivational speaker of a heart VET Bronz Star ward winner,
He's won the Pat Hilton Award, and he is talking
about how this is difficult for him because being such
an accolade VET and such a renowned member of our military,
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you still have to be subject to these rules. So
this is a huge problem. For the state and people
don't realize how far this is getting in. And we
have rumors right now that there are bills that are
going to be proposed on the first legislation that is
going to be an armory bill, which is basically going
to be saying, hey, we're going to put limitations on
how many guns you can own and purchase. As well
(09:28):
as we've heard rumors that Stephen Woodrow, who's notoriously anti gun,
wants to propose a bill that it should ban silence
for his suppressors in the state of Colorado. So we
have a huge battle against us, guys. So this is
why it's so important to get involved in local government
now and exercise your right to push back and be
very cautious who you are.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Voting into these.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Offices and both these bad, bad politicians out.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
On that note, Alicia, thank you for that information. Justin
thank you for the phone call. We're going to take
a quick break here. Stick with us, because when we
come back, we're going to talk about what it looks
like like to get a CCW renewed or issued if
you don't have one yet in the state of Colorado
that conceal weapons permit we're going to go to break.
You're listening to the Dan Capless Show here on six
point thirty k how with Well County Sheriff Steve Dreams.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Welcome back to the Dan Capleas Show here with Well
County Sheriff Steve Riams and our special guest Alicia Garcia.
You know, when we were going to break, we were
talking a little bit about, you know, some of the
gun laws, that draconian gun laws have been passed. But
I want to get to one that is really impacting
people right now, and that's House Built twenty four DASH
eleven seventy four. That's kind of the remake of the
(10:37):
Concealed Weapon permit, and you know exactly what has that
done to you and your business in trying to get
people through the process in the state of Colorado. But first,
if you would, Alicia, outline what that process looks like
now for the for the folks out there that are listening.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
So that eleven seventy four went into effect this year
in July, so it took effect of Life First twenty
twenty five. And what that means is you now are
required if you want to get a new concealed.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Handgun permit to attend a.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Class with a verified instructor. And I'll get to that
here in that detail here in a second. So it
has to be a verified instructor certified course. It has
to be eight hours long that includes a written exam as.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Well as a live fire portion. You need to pass
the written exam with a seventy.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Percent, and I believe the live fire is eighty percent sometimes.
I mean, I get those inversed all the time, but
I hold my students pretty accountable and I kind of
help them along the way as well. But so the renewal,
it also requires that you go to a two hour class,
You take the written exam and the live fire portion. Now,
one of the things I do like to make very clear,
(11:46):
I don't know how other instructors run this, but in
my class, participation in the classes not guarantee.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
You the certificate.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
If you can't make your target and you can't place
defensive rounds on a target that's twenty one feet in
front of you in different position or you know, different distances,
I can't put my name on it, right, I can't say, hey,
you know, yeah, here's your participation trophy and you get
to walk around carrying all day long. Because what I
have found since this law has changed is that a
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lot of people were unfamiliar with a lot has changed
in the first place, and they have no idea what
the concept is when it comes to consult caring. And
they also made sure that the state of Colorado put
requirements on me as an instructor. So what they said is,
not only do you have to as people who want
a concealed handgun permit, fall in line with these new requirements,
(12:36):
instructors also now have to go through a state certified
permitting process through a county, any county in the state
of Colorado to get approved as a verified instructor. So
I had to petition the state and say, here's my credentials.
Can I please, you know, state be able to teach
firearm safety and education.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
So that was one of the processes.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
And as far as what I've seen is, I mean,
it sounds bad because it's good for business right because
now people are required to show up and take this class,
And I mean that's good for me right as a
business owner and as a capitalist. At the same time,
I don't agree with this at all, and I avidly
testified against this, to which, of course I was shut
(13:21):
down plenty of times. But what this has created is
a false narrative that that is all the training that
you need as somebody who's walking around carrying a gun
on your appendix or three o'clock every day. Because by
imposing these requirements and saying, hey, the state is telling
you you need eight hours of a classroom time, a
live fire portion, and written exam one, what that's doing
(13:42):
is telling people that's all that's required then, because that's
exactly what people get.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
In that mindset. Well, if that's what the state.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Says I need to do, then that's all I need
to do, which is an absolute farce. This is a
martial art, This is a skill set. It should be
cultivated and treated with attention and dedication. Secondly, issue is
is that a lot of these people are restricted from
being able to exercise a constitutional right based on requirements
(14:08):
that the state imposes. So, for example, I do my
best to keep my prices pretty competitive and lower than
everybody else.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Me and my business partner go round and around about
this to.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
See how we can offset the cost to our students.
That it is accessible to people because being able to
afford the class shouldn't hinder you from being able to
exercise a constitutional right. There's a lot of poverty stricten
people out there that are like, Hey, I need this
training and I need this education, but I can't afford it. Right,
So does that mean that those people don't deserve a
(14:38):
fighting chance of staying alive? I don't think that that
is right. Secondly, what if English is your second language,
or what if you're illiterate, or what if you don't
take tests, well, things of that nature. That shouldn't hinder
you from exercising a constitutional right either. And you know,
I'm very honest and I'm very transparent. I do the
very basic minimum of what the state asks me to do.
(14:59):
When it comes to the written exam, I have a
thirty thirty question exam that I have written. I give
my students a six to eight page handout with all
this information that they could take home. You know, we
work on the test together as a class. We go
through everything in class. I do everything I can to
make my students successful. That way, they have the knowledge
and the skill set to apply. But unfortunately, people are
(15:22):
becoming very apathetic. And when you tell what's the best
way to make people not want to do something, to
tell them that they have to right, So by imposing
these restrictions, people are like, well, I don't want to
do this.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Just for clarifications sake. Anybody who wanted to have a
consill weapon permit in the past had to go take
a class for that initial class. Now, they didn't necessarily
mean it had to be eight hours long. Some people
didn't even do live fire in those classes. So the
level of training that you were going to get it
was definitely questionable at times. But there was a class
class requirement that's always been in place for going getting
(15:54):
your CCW in the state of Colorado. What's dramatically changed
is the number of hours that the the test that
has to be given and passing at a certain point,
live fire, all that kind of stuff. And now to
renew your permit you have to go take this class
that you didn't have before. Once you got your permit,
you just you kept it in, you know, for as
long as you wanted is as long as you kept
(16:16):
coming in every five years and renewing the permit. So
the reason I ask you about what impacts you've had
on your class is because we've seen a drop in
Weld County of people applying for that initial CCW or
even getting that renewed CCW, just because of the hindrance
of having to go to a class for an eight
hour day or whatever the case may be. And before
you dive into talking about that, we have a question
(16:38):
here about if someone wants to schedule a class with you,
what's the best way of doing that.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Alicia, Well, fantastic, I really appreciate the support of my business.
You can go to consil Carry class Denver dot com.
That's our website and there is a session there that
you can book that class. You can also find us
on event right for consil Carry Classes of Denver. If
you're having trouble finding that, just feel free to reach
out to me. My email is Alicia A. L I
C I A at Boomstickbabe dot com just as it
(17:05):
sounds boomstick like a shotgun babe like the baby Jesus
dot com.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
And are you seeing an uptick in your classes at
staying neutral? We only have about thirty seconds left. Are
you staying right on par or really not?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Actually, this is a very very low season right now.
We canceled classes I had a class, and I had
a class this weekend that we canceled because I mean.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
There's just no attendance.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah, and I have to believe a lot of that is.
One it's the cost barrier. Two it's the time barrier,
and it's just difficult for people. Alicia, I can't thank
you enough for coming on. You're a wealth of information
and I hope people will go check out your website,
take your class. It's always good to see a female
in the Second Amendment realm. And again, thank you for
being on the show. I appreciate it so much.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
We're going to go to break see you, guy.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Blessed you bet we're gonna go to break you. Listen
to the Dan Cafleis Show here on six thirty KHW
with Well Kenny Sheriff Steve RNs.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Welcome back to the Dankaplass Show here with Weillcounty Sheriff
Steve Raims as your guest host. And I just want
to make one more plug for our last guest that
was on, Alicia Garcia. She is currently up for the
Gundhi Award. And for those of you that aren't big
in the Gun community. She's trying to become the most
influential female of the year, and she's asking for you,
for all the listeners out there, if you could go
(18:28):
to the website the gundhies dot Com slash vote and
vote for her as the Boomstick Babe as the most
influential person of the year free mail of the Year
in the Second Amendment space. I'm sure she would appreciate that.
I'm gonna shift gears hard here because today is the
day of Giving, December second, twenty twenty five, and every
(18:48):
day at work or every day when I'm going to work,
I drive past the Weld Food Bank and I see
the line of cars that are going into the Weld
Food Bank. In fact, I've dealt with the folks that
run the food bank and trying to figure out how
to mitigate the traffic that is frequenting their establishment right now.
But it shows a need that is existing in not
(19:09):
just Weld County, but across the state of Colorado. And
I couldn't think of a better way of kind of
expressing what that need is without just having someone from
the Weld Food Bank on and with us. Is Stephanie Gousch. Stephanie,
could you well, first, thanks for being on the show
with us.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
It's good to be here. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
You bet. And we talked a little while ago and
you were explaining to me just how much the need
for food assistance has gone up in Weld County and
you were giving me some stats that were Weld County based,
but also Colorado based, and if you would, can you
share that with the listeners, a little bit of just
you know, what the what the Weld Food Bank does.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
Yeah. Absolutely, And I think what we're seeing here in
Weld is certainly being mirrored with food banks across the
state of Colorado and across the United States. And what
we're experiencing is that, you know, more people in our
commun unity right now need some temporary food assistance. And
(20:05):
you know, what we're seeing is that the cost of inflation, food, inflation, housing,
those types of hard costs have continued to go up,
and people's paychecks have remained relatively stagnant. And as a result,
when households are having you know, an unexpected expense, you know,
you need a new set of tires, or your kid
(20:27):
got injured, and now you have a thousand dollars hospital
bill or whatever it might be. They don't have the
bandwidth in their in their bank accounts to handle those
types of expenditures, and so that's when they're turning to
the food bank. And we're seeing that line continue to grow,
and that line that you see every day on your
way to work. You know, I've worked here almost seventeen years,
(20:49):
and it still continues to shock me. I mean, we're
serving almost seventeen hundred individuals each and every day, and
those are mostly people who will come here, you know,
six or seven times this year. They will get temporary
food assistants and hopefully go on their way. But it's
a real indicator that there is an issue in our
community that the cost of living is not matching you know,
(21:14):
self sufficiency and what people are earning and what they
need to live. And so when those things don't match up,
we see that line continue to grow here at the
food banks.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
And you said, that's seventeen hundred a day.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
Correct, correct, And to put that into perspective, five years ago,
we actually that we were serving that many people in
a week, So it really has increased dramatically. And then,
you know, when we saw the pause and snap Benefits.
We saw that jump up about another five hundred individuals
(21:48):
a day, and fortunately that was very brief. When Snap
Benefits came back online, those folks got out of the
line here. But it still is an overwhelming, unprecedented amount
of need for community. And as we continue to grow
and we welcome more people into Weald County, and as
(22:08):
Colorado continues to grow, one of the things we really
need to look at is our community affordable to the
people who live and work here.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah, that's a huge topic. We've been interviewing governor candidates
and affordability is at the top of the list for
many people. As people are going through this holiday season,
a lot of people want to help out their fellow neighbor.
They want to help out these nonprofits. Today's that day
of giving. If people want to help the Weld Food Bank,
what's the best way they can do. I know we
see food drives at different places of employment and those
(22:38):
kind of things. But if they want to give to
their local food bank or the Weld Food Bank, what's
the best way for people to help you out.
Speaker 8 (22:44):
I would say, hands down, the best way to support
your local food bank is with the financial donation I
mean that allows the food bank to determine what is
that highest need in that moment and to allocate the
funds to that highest need. And for us here and Well,
that need is meat, it's dairy, it's eggs, it's those
fresh perishable staples that are really missing in people's diets
(23:08):
and tend to be most expensive, you know. And that's
where the majority of our funding right now is going.
And food banks really do have because we work as
a network across the country and we share donated food
and we you know, have existed for many years on
the excess waste that would otherwise be waste in the
(23:28):
food system, and so we leverage that with our bulk
purchasing power to really be able to stretch that money
to the furthest And I would say, you know, a
dollar here at Welled Food Bank can provide six dollars
worth of groceries from your grocery store. So it is
a great financial investment, you know. But if money is
(23:53):
if you'd like to, you know, put your put your
heart into it. We love having volunteers. We are powered
by people over here and it's the community that makes
that happen. We only have thirty people here and we
will seed one in four people in our community this year.
And the way that works is that neighbors care about
neighbors and they give up their time and they come
(24:16):
to the food bank and volunteer. And it's kids, it's families,
it's retired adults. So we welcome people of all abilities
to come give their time at the food bank here
in Welb County. And I know that other food banks
feel the same. We are truly driven by the power
of community.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
And what's a website that people could look up to
donate too if they choose to.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
It's Weldfoodbank dot org. We try to make it as
simple as possible for you to donate.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
That's amazing, Stephanie. I can't thank you enough. I know
that you're very busy. This is a busy time of
the year. I see the line building every morning. Luckily
we've kind of tackled a little bit of the traffic concern.
Speaker 8 (24:55):
But I appreciate your help to that. I sure do well.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Much rather that line didn't have to exist. But you
know your information to the listeners is invaluable, and you
know you provide a service to the community that I
don't think a lot of people understand. You know, you'll
oftentimes hear people make some kind of comment about, well,
the guy that's driving through there has a nicer car
than me, why should I give to the food bank.
You hear that from time to time too. What's your
(25:21):
response to that?
Speaker 8 (25:23):
Yeah, absolutely, that might be one of the most frequent
thinks we hear. And you know, part of what's been
really eye opening working here at the food bank is
having the opportunity to speak with people when they come through.
And I have seen a car too in here that
I'm like, oh, that's nice. But what people don't understand
is that when people visit the food bank, oftentimes they're
(25:45):
car pooling. They might be borrowing a car or I mean,
I don't know about you, Steve, but I bought a
car last year and I still owe on it for
four more years. And if I you know, if hunger
were solved tomorrow and I lost my job, I would
not go and sell my car. I would need it
for the next job I find, and I would need
that reliable transportation. So I would work my hard if
(26:06):
you fed that car and keep my family fed until
I could, you know, find that next employment. Opportunity, and
so I think that, you know, there's a lot of
preconceived notions about when folks are utilizing the food bank,
and part of our job is to let the listeners
know that, like, it's you and me that are here.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
At this food bank.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
It you know, most of us are one you know,
medical incident, one emergency away from needing help. And if
we're lucky, we have a family member who might be
able to loane us, you know, five hundred bucks. But
if we're not, we might end up here at the
food bank. And so would I would urge our listeners
not to you know, have preconceived notions about, you know,
(26:46):
who is utilizing these services, because when you talk to people,
it's predominantly families. It's moms that are skipping meals so
they make sure they can feed their kids. It's dads
that have a small business that have had a hard month.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
You know.
Speaker 8 (26:58):
It's people that that I see myself in and I
really identify with, and I think most of the listeners
would too. And I think that's why we've seen such
a tremendous response from our community when we came out
last month and said we need help, because they understand
and they see themselves in this line and they know
that they can give back through time or money or
(27:21):
a donation of food and all of that goes a
long way.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Stephanie, if you would give that website one.
Speaker 8 (27:25):
More time, absolutely, it's Weldfoodbank dot org.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Well again, I can't thank you enough for being on
the show and bring attention to this matter. Thanks, thanks
for your time and we really appreciate your service to
the community.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
Well, I just want to thank you all of Weld
County and beyond who have helped a Weld Food Bank
and all the other food providers out there. We couldn't
do it without that support. And thank you to all
the listeners. But you guys have a great evening.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Great thank you. With that, we're going to cut the break.
When we come back, we'll clean up the last few
texts we have and maybe get to a couple of
colors on the Dan Capless Show here on six point
thirty k how with well Kenny Sheriff, Steve Roams.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Welcome back to the Dankaplas Show and our last segment
of the final hour, and we've had Kevin and Boulder,
waiting for quite some time to make some comments about
the economy. Kevin, thanks for hanging on the line. Are
you with us?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Now?
Speaker 6 (28:20):
What's that Kevin?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
You had a comment about the economy. I know you've
been waiting for a little while you're down in Boulder.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
Is that correct, right?
Speaker 6 (28:29):
But I'd also like you to call me after the show.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah, I've got your message there. Yeah, I can do that, Okay.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
Yeah. All these politicians, et cetera, and even people such
as you who say they agree with me, I never
hear it brought up in the media by anybody. And
that's that there's a very simple answer to all this
(28:57):
spending and by the government. And it would restrict the
government and how much they can borrow, how much they
can print and coin and money, and it would greatly
restrict the banks from doing what they've been doing since
(29:17):
nineteen thirteen when they still the gold standard away from us.
It's probably the most important economic aspect that could be
dealt with, that should be dealt with to greatly fix
the economy.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I don't disagree with you, Kevin. I think one of
the big the big hurdles there is getting these same
state legislators to put legislators to put restrictions on themselves,
and you've seen how successful that's been. I mean, especially
at the federal level, which is where this needs to occur.
They tend to not want to put reins on themselves
because well, then how do I promise my pork project
(29:56):
to my constituents in a particular area. But Kevin, I
have appreciate the comment, and I appreciate you standing on
with us. We just got a little bit of time
here in the last bit, so I want to get
to our text but I'll call you as soon as
the show's over. I've got your numbers, So thank you boy.
We definitely had a fiery day on the text wall here.
One of these it's personal to me, but says, hey,
can I join the Well County Sheriff's posse without living
(30:19):
in Weld County. I live in Adams County, but I
have no desire to join their posse. Yes, we have
a volunteer posse that exists in the Well County Sheriff's Office.
If you want to join that, you can get on
weldshaff dot com and find a link to apply for that.
We always encourage volunteerism within our agency, and it's kind
of the way that we do our search and rescue
efforts and how we secure a lot of crime scenes.
(30:42):
So we welcome people who want to be a volunteer
member of our agency. Switching gears here a little bit.
Some more feedback about our governor's candidate. This one. I
don't think they're very supportive. It says so Bottoms wants
us to be the greatest oil gas, et cetera state,
which we have been, and then he wants to sacrifice
our water to be the AI capital of the country.
(31:03):
Makes no sense to me. Not happening. Another one here.
I love Steve and Littleton. He's retired l EO. He
just says, Sheriff Steve, always good to hear you on
the air. Well, I'm always glad to be here, So
thank you for that feedback, Steve. Ryan, this one's at you.
We'll see what you have to say about this one.
It says three times now I've heard Ryan dump on
Victor Marx on his show.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
Hey, whoa, whoa, WHOA?
Speaker 2 (31:24):
I mean only three times, is what he's saying. Republicans
are a kin to an hoa knitting circle, deciding who
has the best Christmas Tree. Scott Bottoms just said data centers,
does he even know how much water these consume? Republicans
without Marx are smoked and Colorado is done.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
What say you, Ryan, Well, I don't think I've ever
said anything on the air that wasn't true or in
Victor Marx's own words. So I played a lot of
clips from him, including an Instagram reel in which he
claims to have commandeered a vehicle from a guy that
tried to kill him and then he was pulled over
by p Again, these are all in his own words.
It's still up on Instagram. He said it was a
righteous stop. He fails to mention in the three minute
(32:06):
video that it was a vehicle belonging to his brother
in law. That's a relevant detail. Why omit that? Or
if you didn't want to talk about that, which he
kind of indicated to you in his interview with you,
Sheriff Rames, he said he acknowledged it was his brother
in law. Okay, then why omit that detail from the video,
or if you don't want to talk about it, why
(32:28):
go there at all? Why put the video on Instagram
at all? Knowing at some point people are going to
ask you got the guy's vehicle. It's in his name,
the registration, the police let you go, who the hell's
vehicle is it and why do you have it?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Well, I have to say. He put up a video today.
I don't know if it was TikTok, Instagram wherever it
got shared to me, and this is Victor Marx. He's
kind of doing this walk thing where there's bagpipes playing.
Then it goes to heavy metal. I can't think of
the name of the song, but I think it's playing
through this speakers of his vehicle, and he's kind of
doing this strut walk and he shows his gun and
(33:05):
a knife and then says, you know, he can't wait
to he can't he's looking forward to walking into essentially
the state capitol and you know, reaffirming that Republicans are
there or something to that point. But the video is
just I don't know. It seems weird to me, and
I showed it to a couple of people at work,
and a lady that is completely agnostic to politics said, well,
(33:29):
he looks like he's trying to get clicks on TikTok,
but I don't know what that has to do with
running for governor, which I think to your point, Ryan
kind of is where you've been on a few of
these things. Some of his his videos and comments aren't
necessarily what you would see from a governor's cap.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
It's okay to get traction, want to get clicks and views.
I mean, that's part of the game, right, is getting
that brand out there and the recognition, et cetera. Established that.
I mean, I want him to run with the call
Mountain Junior thing from Talladega Knights, because he sounds just
like William c Riley from that movie.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yeah, I listened to you the other day. I was dying, Well,
that's true, comparing to trash well, so it was entertaining.
I'll just say that, you know, these governor's candidates are interesting. Tomorrow,
we're gonna have a couple more on and I'll save
their names for tomorrow so that you can hear everything
nice and fresh. But get back with us tomorrow. We're
(34:19):
gonna have some some fire on the show, and we'll
keep interviewing these governor candidates and figuring out can a
Republican win this state? With that, you're listening to the
Dan Caplas Show here on six point thirty k how
with well Kenny Sheriff Steve Rams as your guest
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