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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind,
and to subscribe, download and listen to the show every
single day on your favorite podcast platform. Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hello, it's Heidi Ganal filling in for Dan Kaplis.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Ryan, it's been a crazy show so far. I feel
like we've been all over the place talking really intensely
about politics and the party and the governor's race. And
I have a challenge for the governor's candidates. I think
this might be helpful as we get closer to the Assembly.
I think it would be helpful for someone to do
a very unbiased poll of the various candidates that have
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raised the most money, maybe the top five candidates that
have raised a decent amount of money, because I think
that'll spread the crowd quite a bit and actually bump
them up against Wiser and Bennett to see who performs
the best, and to balance the poll with unaffiliated voters
with the right number of Republicans Democrats. You've got to
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have a really talented polster do it, who probably knows
the ins and outs of Colorado politics really well, and
let's see before we vote at the Assembly, who does
the best against Wiser and Bennett, because that's what really
this is all about, is who is going to be
able to beat Wiser and Bennett And then perhaps that'll
give us some good information on who should come out
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of that primary and maybe we can come together. It's
if it's resoundingly one candidate, then maybe we can come together.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
So that's an idea I have.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I do think my prediction, like I said earlier in
the show, is that the consultants are going to root
for Bottoms and mark Marks to both make the primary
ballot through the Assembly, and kirk Meyer will petition on
and Bottoms of mark Our probably Marks are probably going
to split the vote, and Kirkmeyer will probably win the
primary and go up against Wiser and Bennett. And it's
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all going to come down to how much money she
has or while she connects to the unaffiliated voters, and
if she can handle the liberal media, because they're going
to come after her very very hard and twist everything
she says. Hello Furries, So oh boy, I know I
don't want to open that candid worms never mind, but
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I am I am worried about the four congressional seats,
and I want to keep harping on that, and I'm
so worried about it that I'm launching a pack just
to help them. It's called the Red Peaks Pack, and
it has nothing to do with the campaigns. We cannot
coordinate with the campaigns, but I believe we have some
really incredible technology that we've developed through the Road to
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Read project around voters and defining how voters are going
to play in the certain races, how they're going to
turn out, and we have some really cool data that
we've developed that can help the various congressional candidates win
or have a little bit of an advantage against the Democrats.
So I'm really excited about the Red Peaks Pack. We're
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going to launch that in January and do whatever we
can to help the four congressional candidates, which is likely
to be Jeff Hurd, Jeff Crank, Lauren Bobert, and gab Evans.
Of course, Gabe's going to be in for just a
street fight, Lauren. I think Douglas County has turning so blue.
I am so worried about Douglas County, especially after seeing.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
What happened in these school board elections.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
We lost those by six to eight points each, and
everybody did a pretty darn good job of working together
and raising money and helping the candidates. The candidates did
a good job, and so that was a shocker. Loveland
and Windsor are also in CD four, which I think
Loveland's city council just went red if I remember correctly.
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I don't have every race memorized in my brain, but
that's a good sign. And so I think I think
it's going to be a tough race. But Lauren's a fighter.
She's a fighter, and she's gonna she's gonna put the
Democrat to the test. Whoever they try and put up
against Lauren. They do have this gal who is a veteran,
a previous military person who has a lot of money
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and a lot of resources. And I like Tricia Calvary's
like as a person and like as a Democrat Canada,
And I know Ryan, she talks to you quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
So, but I just don't think she's going to be
able to fend off this other candidate. Do you have
any thoughts on that?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Well, I'm Tricia smart in that she gets it if
she's going to win four, she got to come on
on a show like mine, and she does so willingly.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And I got to tell you, I can count of.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
One hand the number of Democrats in this entire state
that are willing to come on my show or even
Dan's show.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
So she does that. She does the work, she does
the groundwork.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
She's disciplined in that way, and she's knowledgeable on issues
and on message. But you're right, she's in for a
pretty stiff primary fight.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah, And I think again it comes down to money.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
And then if the Democrat Party, the machine here in Colorado,
has millions and millions of dollars at it back and
call decides that this other guy I think her name
is Eileen will be the candidate, then that's probably how
it's going to go. But Jeff Hurd, he's got hope
Scheblman primary in him. I my prediction is Jeff will
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be okay and come out of the primary strong and ready.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
To fight the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
But the Democrats will take any battle that we have
in the primary in that race and use it against
us in the general.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
What do you make of the primary battle that's shaping
up in the eighth between Gabe Evans and Adam Derito.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Oh, Gabe will be fine.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I mean I'm not taking Adam maybe
as seriously as I should have, but I think Gabe's
gonna be fine. I think Gabe has done a darn
good job with the issues that he's.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Been dealt with.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I disagree with him on like the immigration bill, but overall,
he's done a good job.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
He's a good candidate.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
He works hard, and he raises a lot of money,
and he has a lot of backing by the big,
big donors across the country. Jeff Crank, he's a great guy.
I've known Jeff for many, many years. He's a sweetheart
and he's a hard worker.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
He and I talked at an event we were at
a couple of weeks ago, and he said, you know,
they're just chipping away.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
We've got to stay strong. We've got to raise money.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Even in CD five in El Paso County, which is
an R plus five districts, so it's actually it's R
plus five with the you know, the national folks say
CD three is an R plus seven and CD four
is an R plus nine. So actually Jeff's is the
most at risk after CDY eight.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Believe it or not.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Interesting, Yeah, if you go by the rankings, I can't
remember which firm it is that does that, but that's
a little freaky. I grew up in Monument in nel
Passo County used to be a stronghold for the Republicans.
But Jeff's doing a good job. He's a good candidate,
he has Trump's backing. He should be fine, but we've
got to watch this. We're slipping just a little bit
every cycle every two years.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
And I'm really really worried about Douglas County.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I hope I'll talk to Lord about it, but I
do think they're coming hard after Douglas County. They're coming
hard after State Senator John Carson, who I was on
the regent board with down there. And Bob Marshall is
the only Democrat down there that has a state seat.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Oh, he's a piece of work. We've got to flip
Bob Marshall.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And Nate is the new is the candidate running down
there against him so far, and you'll probably have a primary.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
But I think he's a good candidate. I think he
has a good chance.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And then I'm really excited about Dana Charles down in
Pueblo in Senate District three. I think she's a great
candidate and can do a good job and you know,
get us that seat in the scent in the state Senate.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
So it's going to be it's going to be a
rough year next year.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But it really does come down to appealing to those
unaffiliated voters who are tending more and more to vote Democrat.
In Colorado, it used to be sixty forty.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I think the latest data I looked.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
At, we're closer to sixty five percent of unaffiliated voters
are voting Democrat. So that's a lot of voters we've
got to win. If you break it down for a
statewide race, we've got about four million registered voters one
million about one million Republicans, about one million Democrats registered,
and then about two million that are registered unaffiliated. And
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if they break sixty five thirty five, that makes it
even tougher. So we've got to get more than five
hundred thousand voters that typically vote the other way to
vote our way. And that's something I would ask each
of the candidates, Ryan, as you interview them, how are
you going to bring five hundred thousand voters from Democrat
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to Republican.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
What is your strategy? What is your message? They've got
to be really dialed in on that.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I want to hear it. Scott Bottoms said about that.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Sure, he said, through his internal polling, if I'm not mistaken,
and I could be mistaken, because the numbers are floating
around my head right now, I'm working like twenty hours
a day, but not complaining Merry Christmas everybody, But I
believe he said his internal polling was showing, first of all,
that he was somewhere in the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Of seventy five to eighty percent, and that Barb.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Kirkmeyer was the only other candidate even in double digits,
and that Victor Marx was in single digits.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
His words, Oh my gosh, I'm seeing some behind the
scenes pulling.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Nowhere near that.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
It's all over the place.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, and everybody does these push poles, That's what I mean.
Like the Forbes article he talked a little bit about that.
That was a push pole for George Brockler. I love George,
he's a great guy. But that was a push pole.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
That's where you.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Asked the question so that you get the answers you
want interesting. So when I talk about doing a poll
before the Assembly, I'm not talking about a push pole.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I'm talking about a real, live head.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
To head a battle with Bennett and.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Wiser and you've got it.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
But just real quick, we got to go to break here.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Yeah, Representative Bottom said that he was out performing you
by about two hundred thousand votes.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I don't buy that for a minute. I'd like to
see that poll.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Bring it on, put the poll public, show me how
you came up with that data.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
And I'd like to see how Scott Bottoms is doing
on fundraising.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
He says he's doing quite well.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
We'll see January fifteenth, the report comes out there.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It is if he doesn't have at least a million
dollars in the bank, then I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
It's a free for all.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
If anybody doesn't come out with a million dollars in
the bank, then it's kind of a level playing field.
But you're going to have to have You're gonna have
to raise at least five million dollars on the campaign
side and then have another Like I said, twenty five
to fifty million dollars in a pack. I don't even
know of a pack for Scott Bottoms. Maybe there is,
maybe there isn't, but that takes some big, big dollars
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to make that happen in big donors, and you've got
to you've got to have that ready to go, like
for the general election. So all right, Ryan, this is
Heidiganal filling in for Dan Kaplis. Thanks for helping me
out today too and going back and forth with me,
and we've had a lot going on, so we'll talk
more after the break.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I love that song.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I love the texter who said I had too much
caffeine today.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Man, I am fired up.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Like, stop fighting each other and fight the actual enemy.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Bennett and Wiser are the enemy.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Governor candidates, keep your eye focused on them and let's
just have a good old fashioned race to see who
can win the governor's primary. Okay, Now, I talked a
little bit about issues that are important in the race,
like raising money and reaching the general population, the unaffiliated voters,
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the voters who don't pay attention till the last minute.
But there's also election integrity that's becoming a very very
important issue here in Colorado, and it's something that's a
group Colorado, Colorado for Fair Election Gosh, I always mess
up the name of group. Coffee is the nickname for
the group. It's a group of great guys that are
working on making our elections more fair in Colorado, and
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they are working on improving our audits. They're working on
holding Jenna and the Secretary of State's office accountable for
what they say is the gold standard election here in
our state. There's also problems with the US Post Office
that need to be addressed that we brought out in
the work that we did in Douglas County and some
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of the other counties, we found over thirty thousand undeliverable
ballots that no one could explain where they were. Because
what happens is you have voter rolls and the ballots
are printed off of those voter rolls, and there's evidence
that shows that the voter roles in Colorado are not
on the up and up. They have a lot of
question marks about those. In fact, Judici will Watch one
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a lawsuit here and got a settlement from Jennick Griswold
about that. And so they print the ballots, the Post
Office sends them out and then they come back if
they have a bad address or they're undeliverable, and then
they are supposed to be invoiced or tracked and accounted
for to the clerk's office. And that's not happening in
a lot of counties in Colorado. So the clerks are
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not holding the post office accountable for what's happening to
the undeliverable ballots. Then we have drop boxes that are
not monitored appropriately. The cameras aren't pointed in the right direction,
and they are not monitored, like nobody's looking at the footage,
and anything can happen at those drop boxes. We have
over four hundred of them around the state. And then
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we had Matt Crane, a Republican. He says he's a
Republican who heads up the clerk's association. Finally, have to
admit that Jenni Griswold lied to us about their being
remote Wi FI access in some of the county's machines.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Twelve counties to be exact.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
One of those was Douglas County, which the clerk had
told me Sherry Davis had told me that was not
the case, but it was. And here's why that's important,
you guys. If they have remote Wi Fi access. Even
if you don't buy into the dominion machines flipping votes,
which we're seeing a lot coming out of Venezuela and
the Stolen Elections Book.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
If you haven't read that, it's a really good read.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Perhaps perhaps it's important to make sure that we have
transparency and that we can see what's happening in our elections,
and that if our Secretary of State was honest with
us and not lying to us about their being remote
Wi Fi access in the machines, or about a leak
of six hundred BIOS passwords, or why they're keeping Tina
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Peters in jail.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
So long.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I just it's really really hard to trust our elections,
which is part of the problem here in Colorado with
our turnout. So seventy percent of Republicans typically vote in
off years or like midterm years, which we're coming up
in twenty twenty six eighty percent in presidential years. If
we have a million registered Republican voters, that's three hundred
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thousand people who are leaving their ballots at home on
their counter, not turning them in.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Three hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
So if we need five hundred thousand votes to win
a statewide election, versus what how we've performed in the past.
That's a lot of Republicans that need to turn out
to vote. They need to trust that the elections can
be trusted. They need to trust their vote matters. And
so one way you can help with that is going
to Colorado dropbox dot com and becoming a volunteer for
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watching the drop boxes, for going to your county commissioner
meetings and speaking out to have them hold the clerks
accountable for what they can do at the local level
because the county commissioners, I think about sixty percent of
our county commissioners around Colorado are Republican. So we actually
have a majority of our county commissioners a Republican in Colorado.
And if there's a county commissioner meeting, you get two
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minutes to speak. We have five things you can ask
the commissioners to ask the clerk to do. I'm happy
to send that to you if you want to reach
out to me Heidi at rockymount Voice dot com. I'll
send that to you and you can go ask them
to hold their clerks accountable. They also hire and fire
the county attorneys. The county attorneys are very important in
this whole conversation around elections. So there's a lot of
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things that county commissioners can do to help improve our
elections at the county level, and that's where we've got
to go because we don't control anything statewide. Now, we
do have an audit committee that could make some changes
around how the audits are done in Colorado.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Did you know Ryan, that the Secretary.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Of State's office actually is responsible for auditing our elections
When we have a perfectly good audit department at the
State of Colorado that could do it, It would make
us feel more confident they won't give up that control.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Why is that, Well, why do you think?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Well, you and I probably share that concern. But guys,
if there are shenanigans going on in our elections, then
we need to fix that as well in order to
win again in Colorado and in order to win in
twenty twenty six. So I would suggest we remove any
Wi Fi remote access from many of our machines across Colorado,
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that we make sure that our drop boxes are monitored
and the footage is reviewed, and that they are secure.
We make sure that our US Post Office is held
accountable by our county clerk's office and then they get
a full accounting of undeliverable ballots. We make sure that
the voter rolls are clean and that we know that
they're reliable. We also want to make sure that non
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citizens aren't voting. Hello, DMV there's a whole list, But
I digress. This is Heidi gon All filling in for
Dan Kaplis. We're gonna have a fun segment coming up
about Christmas. We're gonna get off politics, hang with.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Usstening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Dang, Ryan, We're gonna get Romeo Void back on the airwaves.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I'm making to interview her. I never knew about this connection.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Never.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
I'll try and look it up. I'll try it.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Amazing, Okay, Ryan, I'm gonna switch gears a little bit. Okay,
I have to admit I have only purchased a few
gifts for one of my children.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
What is wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Yo?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
And I am forgids a minute. You got for one
of your children? Would that be your favorite child?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
No, no, there one of them which is sitting here
because she.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Sent me this meme that had this girl crying saying,
I sent.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
My mom a power point a month ahead with all
the things I wanted. It's gonna wait and everything's gonna
be sold out. And I was like, oh no, that's true.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
So anyway, Jenna and Sophia bell are her best friend
and she's like a daughter to me, are sitting in
the studio with me, and we didn't have time to
put headphones on them, so hopefully they can hear me
or hear the background. You can't, well you can just
speak into a microphone then, because I'm really struggling with
what to buy teenagers for Christmas right now. If any
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of you are struggling to you can call in and
I'll try and get you on three oh three seven
one three eight two five five because we've got two
experts here. So Fia Bella and Jenna. Jenna is thirteen, Sophiabella,
you are sixteen.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
You're fifteen? Now I was mess it up.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
So Sophia is a high schooler. Jenna is in eighth
grade about to go to high school? Girls, Why why
don't we start with you, Sophia Bella? What is on
the hot list for teenagers for Christmas this year?
Speaker 6 (19:44):
The main thing is close up?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
We cloring? Okay, well ram closed? Is there any like.
Are there any hot brands?
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Yes? To start off, everybody always goes to PACs on
Pacific swere own them all. Everybody loves it and it's
good for boys and girls.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Okay, good to know, Good to know, Jenna. What about shoes?
Are there any popular shoes? We made a list talking
to the mic.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Ada's Nikes, Gordon's New Balances, and Converse.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
That's a lot of shoes. How do you figure out
as a parent which shoe your child likes? I mean
without asking him and giving it away?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Good question.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
They guess, Take a guess, or she's a Melda Marcos
remember those?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Oh yeah, I don't know who Marcus?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
You do?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
I do?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
I do? She was in charge of what she was
like Queen of the Philippines or stuff.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Marcus's wife.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Yeah, and she had so many.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Shoes, notoriously, so it took up like a whole house.
It was like in People magazine, as I recall back
in the eighties.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
That's right, that's right, Jenna.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
One of the other things I noticed on your PowerPoint
is you guys are going for experiences, like you want
to go on a trip, or you want to have
you want to go to a concert.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Concerts are so expensive.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Now, who's the next one big coming up that you
wanted tickets for?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Fry Sky Frey a Sky frayskuy? Who else is really
hot that's going to be on tour next year?
Speaker 6 (21:09):
All I know is Cardi b is coming. But I
don't think anybody our age wants to go to that.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Yeah, I don't know. Benson Boone is really popular, right yeah?
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Who else? Who else?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Give me some other take Cray, Oh my gosh. And
Taylor Swift's done right, she's not on tour anymore. What
about Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
I don't know if she's on tour. She finished tour
because we went to the tour.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Okay, but concert tickets are a good gift, right, yes,
but they're really expensive.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Yeah, okay, probably the best gift.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
The best gift, better than clothes, I'd say, So, okay,
give me.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Some other ideas. What about electronics or toys? I know
everybody wants the new iPhone?
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Right, yeah, we have electronics on our list, yes, I
think Also it kind of goes into experiences, but like
scooters and bikes, like, yes, a lot of people like
e bikes and electric scooters.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
As long as you wear helmet. Yes, you gotta have
looking helmet.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, there's been too many accidents with kids on like
e bikes and scooters and stuff, so just be safe. Okay, girls, Okay?
What on the digital list? The electronics list?
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Jenna, the new iPhone that's ridiculous. Yeah, probably yeah, the
new or new just computers for school mostly and for
fun in for roadbox.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Oh, no, roadbox is bad. That's where bad people hang out. Anyway,
We'll move on from that. Okay, what other else, like
what other electronics are there? Any other fun toys or
anything different, like a karaoke machine or I don't know.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Personally, I wantn't own a karaoke.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Machine, but why not because I can't sing? Oh your
sister can't?
Speaker 5 (22:52):
You?
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Both your sisters cant Tory and Holly? All right, what
else is on the list? You guys? What's another hot topic?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Hot?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (23:01):
The Boo Boo and sawny angels are pretty popular.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I have no idea what those are.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
They're like, Oh, boo boo is like a furry. It's
like a mini stuffed like like furreey, Like.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
It's fluffy.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
It's like a little fluffy like stuffed grown looking Okay.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
So just tell where do parents get La Boo boos?
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Mind? Yes, that's like the brand name i'd say online online.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
How do you spell La boo boo?
Speaker 6 (23:36):
L A be you be you?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Okay, that is not what I would have thought. What
was the other thing you mentioned?
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Sonny Angels?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
What's that?
Speaker 6 (23:44):
It's kind of the you know, the surprise rap things
you unwrap and you got like a surprise thing. That's that.
And it's basically a little naked baby what and it's
it doesn't show anything though on it's just like a
little naked baby. And then there's like different themes of it,
like there's animals and there's different dressed up ones and people.
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They're like sticky and people can put them on their phones.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
So like aunts and uncles could really impress their nieces
and nephews by getting a So what is it as
sawny Angel, sawny Angel or a La Boo boo?
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Yeah, and they're not that expensive really, they're like, what.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Is not expensive to you? Fifty year?
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Like under oh my under thirty. La Booboos might be more,
but Sawny Angels are probably under thirty.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, okay, So I was looking at tennis shoes for
Jack my son, Jena's twin brother. And the tennis shoes
are like five hundred dollars for these special tennis shoes.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
What is up with that, you guys?
Speaker 6 (24:42):
I don't know. Well, they're probably like Jordan's or something,
Jordan's four there are four hundred dollars? Are the easy ones?
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Yeezy? That's what it was there?
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Because they're a Kanye West brand.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Choose Why does that make them worth five hundred dollars.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Because it's Kanye West.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Oh, I don't know about that.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
That's because he's like cuckoo.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
So, oh, Sophia, that's funny, all right.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
If you were going to go on a trip, like
get a trip in Colorado, so make it kind of
affordable for a teenager, where would they want to go?
Speaker 4 (25:14):
What would they want to do?
Speaker 6 (25:16):
Say it, oh, veil, veil expensive?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
What I think it is to go skiing or snowmobiling
or snowboarding or wrapping shopping Emma, So that's the easiest
gift is probably a gift card so you guys can shop.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Play material girl.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
When we a lot of teenagers like, oh haven't you
seen all these funny memes about like how ridiculous. All
the wants are for Christmas from teenagers right now. You
guys are very high maintenance. We love you, but you're
high maintenance. What about giving back? Are you guys thinking
about volunteering your time, going to a soup kitchen anything
(25:53):
like that.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
My friend is wrapping presents right now for little kids.
Good to help you.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Like, are are your churches doing anything that you can
get involved with or help out in the community. I
think that's a really good way to spend your time
over Christmas. Break box thing, but yeah, that little boxes
for the children.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
Bonding, your team bonding. We put reefs on graves.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Oh yeah at the Veterans Cemetery, right yeah, Yeah, that's
a really special place, and that's really neat because a
lot of people are hurting this Christmas.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
So I'm glad to hear you guys are doing that.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Any final words, like any gift that you would just
freak out over if you saw under the Christmas tree
on Christmas morning?
Speaker 6 (26:40):
I think we should just explain our Christmas list.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Well, you got about more minutes, so hurry up.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
A lot of teenagers, I think just like want clothes
like the easiest present, but if you get them one
type of like maybe like shoes or like like hoodie
that they've been really wanting it.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Hoodies are very popular, right.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Yes, hoodies are very popular and they'd wear it every day.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Ugs are really popular, right.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Yes, keeping your titsies warm.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
And so yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
If for parents who don't want to spend a lot
of money on eggs, there's lots of nice fake ones.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Right, yes, yes, it's really good fake ones.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Is it better to get ugs shoes or ug slippers?
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Slippers? Me too?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Okay, what's the what is what would a boy say
would be his big wish?
Speaker 4 (27:18):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
We said Colone cologne, Probably not that or probably the
bikes E bikes?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Got it? Okay? Yeah I did.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I did go shopping for some cologne for a young
man recently, and the prices were outrageous.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Like minimum of two hundred dollars.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
You can get like normal ones like Target.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Yeah, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
We put de orangeanell though for the voice that's their dream.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Oh dear?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
All right, well, thank you ladies for joining us. Merry
Merry Christmas. I hope you get everything you want under
the stocking and we appreciate you filling in us parents
on what we should do to.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Make our teens very very happy this Christmas.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
But most of all, you just should enjoy being around
your families and the people that you love.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
How does that sound?
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Yes, okay, all.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Right, well we're gonna get to break and afterwards we'll
wrap up about politics and Christmas and all the things.
Thanks Sophia, Bella and Jenna for your input. And this
is Heidigan All I'm filling in for Dan Kaplas and
we'll be back after the break.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
And now back to the Dan Kaplass Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
A White Song for me is that from the eighties?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Quit essential?
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Yeah, like Madonna is the eighties.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Remember the video she was dressed up as Marilyn Monroe
in the big dress.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
That was so like tribute there.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
That was really really good. Man, she looks weird lately.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
She looked great back then. Yeah, she's saying as an
eleven year old boy, I was like what but I
gotta say, am I GM I Bryan?
Speaker 3 (28:56):
I didn't know what to do? Like she's pretty.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
But anyway, this song, as she reflected back on it,
you know, she kind of got labeled.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
She was the material girl. If you remember back in
the mid eighties.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Yeah, but this is actually kind of a sarcastic song
that she wasn't really like that. She was making fun
of all the grandiosity of the eighties, the excess of
the eighties, you.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Know, and what a grand time it was, though. I
loved growing up.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
In the eighties.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Yeah, And I wanted to bring this up with you
too as we're closing out the show today, because I
know you're a fan of Stranger Things like I am.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
In the last scene.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
I mean, I watched it in the background because my
kids are obsessed with it.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
But well, that's the bridge heightie between their generation and ours.
They can see what it was like to grow up
with arcades and no cell phones, and they have to
kind of insert these kids must have been like upper
middle class because they all have these CB radios they're
communicating with.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
I didn't have that growing up.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
I was like, Hey, or ride my bike to my
buddy's house in the subdivision.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Hey, you want to go play baseball? You know, stuff
like that.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
But you know, it was it's like, well, we'll either
make plans or I guess I'll see you on Monday,
you know, or call on the phone from the house.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
You know, or did you ever play kick the can
in the neighborhood All the kids would get out in the.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Cul de sac, And absolutely, yes, it was so fun.
I don't know, it was so simple back then.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
I am so glad, Heidi, that I grew up in
the eighties. I wouldn't trade it for anything. Those those
are absolutely helcionic days.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
I agree, And I'm sad for our young people that
they don't have such simplicity in their life.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
But man, I was just.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Reading an article by Elon Musk was interviewed about how
he thinks AI is going to eliminate poverty and that
people aren't aren't going to want for anything, And I
think that's kind of a bummer in a way, because
then what do you drive for?
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Like how you motivate yourself? And I think one of
the problems with kids.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
These days is that they don't have a lot of
ambition or hope or really clear drive like grit.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Do you agree?
Speaker 5 (30:54):
Well, what I remember from that time, too, Heidi, is
we had a sense of national identity and pride. We
would watch Rocky four and root for Rocky against Ivan
Drago and the evil Soviet Union. We would root for
Red Dawn for the American kids. That was set in Colorado.
By the way, it's an amazing movie, right, Leah Thompson
and the whole gang, and we all were united, and
(31:15):
at least most sane people loved Ronald Reagan. We were
unified at that time. He went forty nine states, reaganing
throughout the eighties, you know, doing well everybody. I mean,
it was such a different time when you compare it
to now what the kids are going through now, the
online bullying, the catfishing. You know, we just saw this
testimony on Congress. You may have seen too of a mom.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
This poor kid. He was victimized online.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
He was tempted to send nude photos of himself and
then he was extorted and exploited for that, and he
felt hopeless and he ended up committing suicide.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
It's horrible.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
It is horrible, and we've got to take care of
our kids and our youth and keep them engaged, to
have conversations with them. And I am so excited tomorrow morning,
I am headed to Arizona for America Fest with like
thirty thousand young people at turning point, and I'm it.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Just energizes me.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
It makes me feel like there's hope for our country
and that the kids have got it right. I do
think that they've got it right, and we've got to
support them and have their back however we can. So,
you know, I would love to see everybody that listens
to this program reach out to their local high school,
find out if the high school has a Turning Point chapter,
if they do, volunteer to bring food, to get them
(32:27):
a speaker, to do whatever you need to do to
support them and help them grow their group.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
And if they don't have a chapter.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Then find a student that's willing to start one and
a faculty member and get that going. You can just
go to the Turning Point website and get involved and
they will connect you. They will connect the dots for
you here in Colorado. And I know we've got we're
headed up to eighty chapters here in Colorado, but there's
seven hundred high schools in Colorado that need chapters, and
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I truly think that's the way back for the American
Dream and to get our construct movement back on track.
I'm super excited about the next few days. Everybody's going
to be down there. I hope they keep us safe
and I'm really encouraged by how passionate people are about
turning point and keeping that movement alive and.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Helping young people.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
And I think American Conservation Coalition that I've talked a
little bit about too, is another great way to get
involved if you care about the environment. They are growing
their membership all over the country. Hunter Rivera who is
the chair for Weald County and a young Dynamo, is
also the chair in the head of American Conservation Coalition
in Colorado. I think their website is acc dot Eco.
(33:38):
Check out that movement as well. And then of course
our Colorado Young Republicans are doing a great job. They
have fourteen fifteen chapters around the state. That's more for
young professionals who are out of college and so young
people have a place to go whether they're in high school,
college or afterwards. And all three of those organizations are
doing fantastic work. So let's support them. However, we can
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great thing to do. If you're tired of the noise
and the adult politics, go help the young people. They've
got a whole fresh perspective. This is Heidiganal I filled
in for Dan Kaplas today, So blessed to be with you.
And Ryan, thanks for a great back and forth. Christ
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays, Happy Honukah. Have
(34:21):
a wonderful holiday season to all of you.
This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast
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single day on your favorite podcast platform. Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hello, it's Heidi Ganal filling in for Dan Kaplis.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Ryan, it's been a crazy show so far. I feel
like we've been all over the place talking really intensely
about politics and the party and the governor's race. And
I have a challenge for the governor's candidates. I think
this might be helpful as we get closer to the Assembly.
I think it would be helpful for someone to do
a very unbiased poll of the various candidates that have
(00:44):
raised the most money, maybe the top five candidates that
have raised a decent amount of money, because I think
that'll spread the crowd quite a bit and actually bump
them up against Wiser and Bennett to see who performs
the best, and to balance the poll with unaffiliated voters
with the right number of Republicans Democrats. You've got to
(01:05):
have a really talented polster do it, who probably knows
the ins and outs of Colorado politics really well, and
let's see before we vote at the Assembly, who does
the best against Wiser and Bennett, because that's what really
this is all about, is who is going to be
able to beat Wiser and Bennett And then perhaps that'll
give us some good information on who should come out
(01:26):
of that primary and maybe we can come together. It's
if it's resoundingly one candidate, then maybe we can come together.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
So that's an idea I have.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I do think my prediction, like I said earlier in
the show, is that the consultants are going to root
for Bottoms and mark Marks to both make the primary
ballot through the Assembly, and kirk Meyer will petition on
and Bottoms of mark Our probably Marks are probably going
to split the vote, and Kirkmeyer will probably win the
primary and go up against Wiser and Bennett. And it's
(01:59):
all going to come down to how much money she
has or while she connects to the unaffiliated voters, and
if she can handle the liberal media, because they're going
to come after her very very hard and twist everything
she says. Hello Furries, So oh boy, I know I
don't want to open that candid worms never mind, but
(02:19):
I am I am worried about the four congressional seats,
and I want to keep harping on that, and I'm
so worried about it that I'm launching a pack just
to help them. It's called the Red Peaks Pack, and
it has nothing to do with the campaigns. We cannot
coordinate with the campaigns, but I believe we have some
really incredible technology that we've developed through the Road to
(02:42):
Read project around voters and defining how voters are going
to play in the certain races, how they're going to
turn out, and we have some really cool data that
we've developed that can help the various congressional candidates win
or have a little bit of an advantage against the Democrats.
So I'm really excited about the Red Peaks Pack. We're
(03:02):
going to launch that in January and do whatever we
can to help the four congressional candidates, which is likely
to be Jeff Hurd, Jeff Crank, Lauren Bobert, and gab Evans.
Of course, Gabe's going to be in for just a
street fight, Lauren. I think Douglas County has turning so blue.
I am so worried about Douglas County, especially after seeing.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
What happened in these school board elections.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
We lost those by six to eight points each, and
everybody did a pretty darn good job of working together
and raising money and helping the candidates. The candidates did
a good job, and so that was a shocker. Loveland
and Windsor are also in CD four, which I think
Loveland's city council just went red if I remember correctly.
(03:47):
I don't have every race memorized in my brain, but
that's a good sign. And so I think I think
it's going to be a tough race. But Lauren's a fighter.
She's a fighter, and she's gonna she's gonna put the
Democrat to the test. Whoever they try and put up
against Lauren. They do have this gal who is a veteran,
a previous military person who has a lot of money
(04:09):
and a lot of resources. And I like Tricia Calvary's
like as a person and like as a Democrat Canada,
And I know Ryan, she talks to you quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
So, but I just don't think she's going to be
able to fend off this other candidate. Do you have
any thoughts on that?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Well, I'm Tricia smart in that she gets it if
she's going to win four, she got to come on
on a show like mine, and she does so willingly.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And I got to tell you, I can count of.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
One hand the number of Democrats in this entire state
that are willing to come on my show or even
Dan's show.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
So she does that. She does the work, she does
the groundwork.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
She's disciplined in that way, and she's knowledgeable on issues
and on message. But you're right, she's in for a
pretty stiff primary fight.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah, And I think again it comes down to money.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
And then if the Democrat Party, the machine here in Colorado,
has millions and millions of dollars at it back and
call decides that this other guy I think her name
is Eileen will be the candidate, then that's probably how
it's going to go. But Jeff Hurd, he's got hope
Scheblman primary in him. I my prediction is Jeff will
(05:16):
be okay and come out of the primary strong and ready.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
To fight the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
But the Democrats will take any battle that we have
in the primary in that race and use it against
us in the general.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
What do you make of the primary battle that's shaping
up in the eighth between Gabe Evans and Adam Derito.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Oh, Gabe will be fine.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I mean I'm not taking Adam maybe
as seriously as I should have, but I think Gabe's
gonna be fine. I think Gabe has done a darn
good job with the issues that he's.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Been dealt with.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I disagree with him on like the immigration bill, but overall,
he's done a good job.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
He's a good candidate.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
He works hard, and he raises a lot of money,
and he has a lot of backing by the big,
big donors across the country. Jeff Crank, he's a great guy.
I've known Jeff for many, many years. He's a sweetheart
and he's a hard worker.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
He and I talked at an event we were at
a couple of weeks ago, and he said, you know,
they're just chipping away.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
We've got to stay strong. We've got to raise money.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Even in CD five in El Paso County, which is
an R plus five districts, so it's actually it's R
plus five with the you know, the national folks say
CD three is an R plus seven and CD four
is an R plus nine. So actually Jeff's is the
most at risk after CDY eight.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Believe it or not.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Interesting, Yeah, if you go by the rankings, I can't
remember which firm it is that does that, but that's
a little freaky. I grew up in Monument in nel
Passo County used to be a stronghold for the Republicans.
But Jeff's doing a good job. He's a good candidate,
he has Trump's backing. He should be fine, but we've
got to watch this. We're slipping just a little bit
every cycle every two years.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
And I'm really really worried about Douglas County.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I hope I'll talk to Lord about it, but I
do think they're coming hard after Douglas County. They're coming
hard after State Senator John Carson, who I was on
the regent board with down there. And Bob Marshall is
the only Democrat down there that has a state seat.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Oh, he's a piece of work. We've got to flip
Bob Marshall.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And Nate is the new is the candidate running down
there against him so far, and you'll probably have a primary.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
But I think he's a good candidate. I think he
has a good chance.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And then I'm really excited about Dana Charles down in
Pueblo in Senate District three. I think she's a great
candidate and can do a good job and you know,
get us that seat in the scent in the state Senate.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
So it's going to be it's going to be a
rough year next year.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But it really does come down to appealing to those
unaffiliated voters who are tending more and more to vote Democrat.
In Colorado, it used to be sixty forty.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I think the latest data I looked.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
At, we're closer to sixty five percent of unaffiliated voters
are voting Democrat. So that's a lot of voters we've
got to win. If you break it down for a
statewide race, we've got about four million registered voters one
million about one million Republicans, about one million Democrats registered,
and then about two million that are registered unaffiliated. And
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if they break sixty five thirty five, that makes it
even tougher. So we've got to get more than five
hundred thousand voters that typically vote the other way to
vote our way. And that's something I would ask each
of the candidates, Ryan, as you interview them, how are
you going to bring five hundred thousand voters from Democrat
(08:38):
to Republican.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
What is your strategy? What is your message? They've got
to be really dialed in on that.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I want to hear it. Scott Bottoms said about that.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Sure, he said, through his internal polling, if I'm not mistaken,
and I could be mistaken, because the numbers are floating
around my head right now, I'm working like twenty hours
a day, but not complaining Merry Christmas everybody, But I
believe he said his internal polling was showing, first of all,
that he was somewhere in the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Of seventy five to eighty percent, and that Barb.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Kirkmeyer was the only other candidate even in double digits,
and that Victor Marx was in single digits.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
His words, Oh my gosh, I'm seeing some behind the
scenes pulling.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Nowhere near that.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
It's all over the place.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, and everybody does these push poles, That's what I mean.
Like the Forbes article he talked a little bit about that.
That was a push pole for George Brockler. I love George,
he's a great guy. But that was a push pole.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
That's where you.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Asked the question so that you get the answers you
want interesting. So when I talk about doing a poll
before the Assembly, I'm not talking about a push pole.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I'm talking about a real, live head.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
To head a battle with Bennett and.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Wiser and you've got it.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
But just real quick, we got to go to break here.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Yeah, Representative Bottom said that he was out performing you
by about two hundred thousand votes.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I don't buy that for a minute. I'd like to
see that poll.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Bring it on, put the poll public, show me how
you came up with that data.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
And I'd like to see how Scott Bottoms is doing
on fundraising.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
He says he's doing quite well.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
We'll see January fifteenth, the report comes out there.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It is if he doesn't have at least a million
dollars in the bank, then I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
It's a free for all.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
If anybody doesn't come out with a million dollars in
the bank, then it's kind of a level playing field.
But you're going to have to have You're gonna have
to raise at least five million dollars on the campaign
side and then have another Like I said, twenty five
to fifty million dollars in a pack. I don't even
know of a pack for Scott Bottoms. Maybe there is,
maybe there isn't, but that takes some big, big dollars
(10:46):
to make that happen in big donors, and you've got
to you've got to have that ready to go, like
for the general election. So all right, Ryan, this is
Heidiganal filling in for Dan Kaplis. Thanks for helping me
out today too and going back and forth with me,
and we've had a lot going on, so we'll talk
more after the break.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I love that song.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I love the texter who said I had too much
caffeine today.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Man, I am fired up.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Like, stop fighting each other and fight the actual enemy.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Bennett and Wiser are the enemy.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Governor candidates, keep your eye focused on them and let's
just have a good old fashioned race to see who
can win the governor's primary. Okay, Now, I talked a
little bit about issues that are important in the race,
like raising money and reaching the general population, the unaffiliated voters,
(11:44):
the voters who don't pay attention till the last minute.
But there's also election integrity that's becoming a very very
important issue here in Colorado, and it's something that's a
group Colorado, Colorado for Fair Election Gosh, I always mess
up the name of group. Coffee is the nickname for
the group. It's a group of great guys that are
working on making our elections more fair in Colorado, and
(12:07):
they are working on improving our audits. They're working on
holding Jenna and the Secretary of State's office accountable for
what they say is the gold standard election here in
our state. There's also problems with the US Post Office
that need to be addressed that we brought out in
the work that we did in Douglas County and some
(12:28):
of the other counties, we found over thirty thousand undeliverable
ballots that no one could explain where they were. Because
what happens is you have voter rolls and the ballots
are printed off of those voter rolls, and there's evidence
that shows that the voter roles in Colorado are not
on the up and up. They have a lot of
question marks about those. In fact, Judici will Watch one
(12:50):
a lawsuit here and got a settlement from Jennick Griswold
about that. And so they print the ballots, the Post
Office sends them out and then they come back if
they have a bad address or they're undeliverable, and then
they are supposed to be invoiced or tracked and accounted
for to the clerk's office. And that's not happening in
a lot of counties in Colorado. So the clerks are
(13:11):
not holding the post office accountable for what's happening to
the undeliverable ballots. Then we have drop boxes that are
not monitored appropriately. The cameras aren't pointed in the right direction,
and they are not monitored, like nobody's looking at the footage,
and anything can happen at those drop boxes. We have
over four hundred of them around the state. And then
(13:33):
we had Matt Crane, a Republican. He says he's a
Republican who heads up the clerk's association. Finally, have to
admit that Jenni Griswold lied to us about their being
remote Wi FI access in some of the county's machines.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Twelve counties to be exact.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
One of those was Douglas County, which the clerk had
told me Sherry Davis had told me that was not
the case, but it was. And here's why that's important,
you guys. If they have remote Wi Fi access. Even
if you don't buy into the dominion machines flipping votes,
which we're seeing a lot coming out of Venezuela and
the Stolen Elections Book.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
If you haven't read that, it's a really good read.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Perhaps perhaps it's important to make sure that we have
transparency and that we can see what's happening in our elections,
and that if our Secretary of State was honest with
us and not lying to us about their being remote
Wi Fi access in the machines, or about a leak
of six hundred BIOS passwords, or why they're keeping Tina
(14:30):
Peters in jail.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
So long.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I just it's really really hard to trust our elections,
which is part of the problem here in Colorado with
our turnout. So seventy percent of Republicans typically vote in
off years or like midterm years, which we're coming up
in twenty twenty six eighty percent in presidential years. If
we have a million registered Republican voters, that's three hundred
(14:56):
thousand people who are leaving their ballots at home on
their counter, not turning them in.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Three hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
So if we need five hundred thousand votes to win
a statewide election, versus what how we've performed in the past.
That's a lot of Republicans that need to turn out
to vote. They need to trust that the elections can
be trusted. They need to trust their vote matters. And
so one way you can help with that is going
to Colorado dropbox dot com and becoming a volunteer for
(15:26):
watching the drop boxes, for going to your county commissioner
meetings and speaking out to have them hold the clerks
accountable for what they can do at the local level
because the county commissioners, I think about sixty percent of
our county commissioners around Colorado are Republican. So we actually
have a majority of our county commissioners a Republican in Colorado.
And if there's a county commissioner meeting, you get two
(15:48):
minutes to speak. We have five things you can ask
the commissioners to ask the clerk to do. I'm happy
to send that to you if you want to reach
out to me Heidi at rockymount Voice dot com. I'll
send that to you and you can go ask them
to hold their clerks accountable. They also hire and fire
the county attorneys. The county attorneys are very important in
this whole conversation around elections. So there's a lot of
(16:11):
things that county commissioners can do to help improve our
elections at the county level, and that's where we've got
to go because we don't control anything statewide. Now, we
do have an audit committee that could make some changes
around how the audits are done in Colorado.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Did you know Ryan, that the Secretary.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Of State's office actually is responsible for auditing our elections
When we have a perfectly good audit department at the
State of Colorado that could do it, It would make
us feel more confident they won't give up that control.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Why is that, Well, why do you think?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Well, you and I probably share that concern. But guys,
if there are shenanigans going on in our elections, then
we need to fix that as well in order to
win again in Colorado and in order to win in
twenty twenty six. So I would suggest we remove any
Wi Fi remote access from many of our machines across Colorado,
(17:05):
that we make sure that our drop boxes are monitored
and the footage is reviewed, and that they are secure.
We make sure that our US Post Office is held
accountable by our county clerk's office and then they get
a full accounting of undeliverable ballots. We make sure that
the voter rolls are clean and that we know that
they're reliable. We also want to make sure that non
(17:28):
citizens aren't voting. Hello, DMV there's a whole list, But
I digress. This is Heidi gon All filling in for
Dan Kaplis. We're gonna have a fun segment coming up
about Christmas. We're gonna get off politics, hang with.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Usstening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Dang, Ryan, We're gonna get Romeo Void back on the airwaves.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I'm making to interview her. I never knew about this connection.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Never.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
I'll try and look it up. I'll try it.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Amazing, Okay, Ryan, I'm gonna switch gears a little bit. Okay,
I have to admit I have only purchased a few
gifts for one of my children.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
What is wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Yo?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
And I am forgids a minute. You got for one
of your children? Would that be your favorite child?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
No, no, there one of them which is sitting here
because she.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Sent me this meme that had this girl crying saying,
I sent.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
My mom a power point a month ahead with all
the things I wanted. It's gonna wait and everything's gonna
be sold out. And I was like, oh no, that's true.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
So anyway, Jenna and Sophia bell are her best friend
and she's like a daughter to me, are sitting in
the studio with me, and we didn't have time to
put headphones on them, so hopefully they can hear me
or hear the background. You can't, well you can just
speak into a microphone then, because I'm really struggling with
what to buy teenagers for Christmas right now. If any
(19:16):
of you are struggling to you can call in and
I'll try and get you on three oh three seven
one three eight two five five because we've got two
experts here. So Fia Bella and Jenna. Jenna is thirteen, Sophiabella,
you are sixteen.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
You're fifteen? Now I was mess it up.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
So Sophia is a high schooler. Jenna is in eighth
grade about to go to high school? Girls, Why why
don't we start with you, Sophia Bella? What is on
the hot list for teenagers for Christmas this year?
Speaker 6 (19:44):
The main thing is close up?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
We cloring? Okay, well ram closed? Is there any like.
Are there any hot brands?
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Yes? To start off, everybody always goes to PACs on
Pacific swere own them all. Everybody loves it and it's
good for boys and girls.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Okay, good to know, Good to know, Jenna. What about shoes?
Are there any popular shoes? We made a list talking
to the mic.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Ada's Nikes, Gordon's New Balances, and Converse.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
That's a lot of shoes. How do you figure out
as a parent which shoe your child likes? I mean
without asking him and giving it away?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Good question.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
They guess, Take a guess, or she's a Melda Marcos
remember those?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Oh yeah, I don't know who Marcus?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
You do?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
I do?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
I do? She was in charge of what she was
like Queen of the Philippines or stuff.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Marcus's wife.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Yeah, and she had so many.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Shoes, notoriously, so it took up like a whole house.
It was like in People magazine, as I recall back
in the eighties.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
That's right, that's right, Jenna.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
One of the other things I noticed on your PowerPoint
is you guys are going for experiences, like you want
to go on a trip, or you want to have
you want to go to a concert.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Concerts are so expensive.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Now, who's the next one big coming up that you
wanted tickets for?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Fry Sky Frey a Sky frayskuy? Who else is really
hot that's going to be on tour next year?
Speaker 6 (21:09):
All I know is Cardi b is coming. But I
don't think anybody our age wants to go to that.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Yeah, I don't know. Benson Boone is really popular, right yeah?
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Who else? Who else?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Give me some other take Cray, Oh my gosh. And
Taylor Swift's done right, she's not on tour anymore. What
about Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
I don't know if she's on tour. She finished tour
because we went to the tour.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Okay, but concert tickets are a good gift, right, yes,
but they're really expensive.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Yeah, okay, probably the best gift.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
The best gift, better than clothes, I'd say, So, okay,
give me.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Some other ideas. What about electronics or toys? I know
everybody wants the new iPhone?
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Right, yeah, we have electronics on our list, yes, I
think Also it kind of goes into experiences, but like
scooters and bikes, like, yes, a lot of people like
e bikes and electric scooters.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
As long as you wear helmet. Yes, you gotta have
looking helmet.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, there's been too many accidents with kids on like
e bikes and scooters and stuff, so just be safe. Okay, girls, Okay?
What on the digital list? The electronics list?
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Jenna, the new iPhone that's ridiculous. Yeah, probably yeah, the
new or new just computers for school mostly and for
fun in for roadbox.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Oh, no, roadbox is bad. That's where bad people hang out. Anyway,
We'll move on from that. Okay, what other else, like
what other electronics are there? Any other fun toys or
anything different, like a karaoke machine or I don't know.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Personally, I wantn't own a karaoke.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Machine, but why not because I can't sing? Oh your
sister can't?
Speaker 5 (22:52):
You?
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Both your sisters cant Tory and Holly? All right, what
else is on the list? You guys? What's another hot topic?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Hot?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (23:01):
The Boo Boo and sawny angels are pretty popular.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I have no idea what those are.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
They're like, Oh, boo boo is like a furry. It's
like a mini stuffed like like furreey, Like.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
It's fluffy.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
It's like a little fluffy like stuffed grown looking Okay.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
So just tell where do parents get La Boo boos?
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Mind? Yes, that's like the brand name i'd say online online.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
How do you spell La boo boo?
Speaker 6 (23:36):
L A be you be you?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Okay, that is not what I would have thought. What
was the other thing you mentioned?
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Sonny Angels?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
What's that?
Speaker 6 (23:44):
It's kind of the you know, the surprise rap things
you unwrap and you got like a surprise thing. That's that.
And it's basically a little naked baby what and it's
it doesn't show anything though on it's just like a
little naked baby. And then there's like different themes of it,
like there's animals and there's different dressed up ones and people.
(24:07):
They're like sticky and people can put them on their phones.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
So like aunts and uncles could really impress their nieces
and nephews by getting a So what is it as
sawny Angel, sawny Angel or a La Boo boo?
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Yeah, and they're not that expensive really, they're like, what.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Is not expensive to you? Fifty year?
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Like under oh my under thirty. La Booboos might be more,
but Sawny Angels are probably under thirty.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, okay, So I was looking at tennis shoes for
Jack my son, Jena's twin brother. And the tennis shoes
are like five hundred dollars for these special tennis shoes.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
What is up with that, you guys?
Speaker 6 (24:42):
I don't know. Well, they're probably like Jordan's or something,
Jordan's four there are four hundred dollars? Are the easy ones?
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Yeezy? That's what it was there?
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Because they're a Kanye West brand.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Choose Why does that make them worth five hundred dollars.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Because it's Kanye West.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Oh, I don't know about that.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
That's because he's like cuckoo.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
So, oh, Sophia, that's funny, all right.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
If you were going to go on a trip, like
get a trip in Colorado, so make it kind of
affordable for a teenager, where would they want to go?
Speaker 4 (25:14):
What would they want to do?
Speaker 6 (25:16):
Say it, oh, veil, veil expensive?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
What I think it is to go skiing or snowmobiling
or snowboarding or wrapping shopping Emma, So that's the easiest
gift is probably a gift card so you guys can shop.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Play material girl.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
When we a lot of teenagers like, oh haven't you
seen all these funny memes about like how ridiculous. All
the wants are for Christmas from teenagers right now. You
guys are very high maintenance. We love you, but you're
high maintenance. What about giving back? Are you guys thinking
about volunteering your time, going to a soup kitchen anything
(25:53):
like that.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
My friend is wrapping presents right now for little kids.
Good to help you.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Like, are are your churches doing anything that you can
get involved with or help out in the community. I
think that's a really good way to spend your time
over Christmas. Break box thing, but yeah, that little boxes
for the children.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
Bonding, your team bonding. We put reefs on graves.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Oh yeah at the Veterans Cemetery, right yeah, Yeah, that's
a really special place, and that's really neat because a
lot of people are hurting this Christmas.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
So I'm glad to hear you guys are doing that.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Any final words, like any gift that you would just
freak out over if you saw under the Christmas tree
on Christmas morning?
Speaker 6 (26:40):
I think we should just explain our Christmas list.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Well, you got about more minutes, so hurry up.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
A lot of teenagers, I think just like want clothes
like the easiest present, but if you get them one
type of like maybe like shoes or like like hoodie
that they've been really wanting it.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Hoodies are very popular, right.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Yes, hoodies are very popular and they'd wear it every day.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Ugs are really popular, right.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Yes, keeping your titsies warm.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
And so yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
If for parents who don't want to spend a lot
of money on eggs, there's lots of nice fake ones.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Right, yes, yes, it's really good fake ones.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Is it better to get ugs shoes or ug slippers?
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Slippers? Me too?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Okay, what's the what is what would a boy say
would be his big wish?
Speaker 4 (27:18):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
We said Colone cologne, Probably not that or probably the
bikes E bikes?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Got it? Okay? Yeah I did.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I did go shopping for some cologne for a young
man recently, and the prices were outrageous.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Like minimum of two hundred dollars.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
You can get like normal ones like Target.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Yeah, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
We put de orangeanell though for the voice that's their dream.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Oh dear?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
All right, well, thank you ladies for joining us. Merry
Merry Christmas. I hope you get everything you want under
the stocking and we appreciate you filling in us parents
on what we should do to.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Make our teens very very happy this Christmas.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
But most of all, you just should enjoy being around
your families and the people that you love.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
How does that sound?
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Yes, okay, all.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Right, well we're gonna get to break and afterwards we'll
wrap up about politics and Christmas and all the things.
Thanks Sophia, Bella and Jenna for your input. And this
is Heidigan All I'm filling in for Dan Kaplas and
we'll be back after the break.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
And now back to the Dan Kaplass Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
A White Song for me is that from the eighties?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Quit essential?
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Yeah, like Madonna is the eighties.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Remember the video she was dressed up as Marilyn Monroe
in the big dress.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
That was so like tribute there.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
That was really really good. Man, she looks weird lately.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
She looked great back then. Yeah, she's saying as an
eleven year old boy, I was like what but I
gotta say, am I GM I Bryan?
Speaker 3 (28:56):
I didn't know what to do? Like she's pretty.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
But anyway, this song, as she reflected back on it,
you know, she kind of got labeled.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
She was the material girl. If you remember back in
the mid eighties.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Yeah, but this is actually kind of a sarcastic song
that she wasn't really like that. She was making fun
of all the grandiosity of the eighties, the excess of
the eighties, you.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Know, and what a grand time it was, though. I
loved growing up.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
In the eighties.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Yeah, And I wanted to bring this up with you
too as we're closing out the show today, because I
know you're a fan of Stranger Things like I am.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
In the last scene.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
I mean, I watched it in the background because my
kids are obsessed with it.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
But well, that's the bridge heightie between their generation and ours.
They can see what it was like to grow up
with arcades and no cell phones, and they have to
kind of insert these kids must have been like upper
middle class because they all have these CB radios they're
communicating with.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
I didn't have that growing up.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
I was like, Hey, or ride my bike to my
buddy's house in the subdivision.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Hey, you want to go play baseball? You know, stuff
like that.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
But you know, it was it's like, well, we'll either
make plans or I guess I'll see you on Monday,
you know, or call on the phone from the house.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
You know, or did you ever play kick the can
in the neighborhood All the kids would get out in the.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Cul de sac, And absolutely, yes, it was so fun.
I don't know, it was so simple back then.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
I am so glad, Heidi, that I grew up in
the eighties. I wouldn't trade it for anything. Those those
are absolutely helcionic days.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
I agree, And I'm sad for our young people that
they don't have such simplicity in their life.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
But man, I was just.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Reading an article by Elon Musk was interviewed about how
he thinks AI is going to eliminate poverty and that
people aren't aren't going to want for anything, And I
think that's kind of a bummer in a way, because
then what do you drive for?
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Like how you motivate yourself? And I think one of
the problems with kids.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
These days is that they don't have a lot of
ambition or hope or really clear drive like grit.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Do you agree?
Speaker 5 (30:54):
Well, what I remember from that time, too, Heidi, is
we had a sense of national identity and pride. We
would watch Rocky four and root for Rocky against Ivan
Drago and the evil Soviet Union. We would root for
Red Dawn for the American kids. That was set in Colorado.
By the way, it's an amazing movie, right, Leah Thompson
and the whole gang, and we all were united, and
(31:15):
at least most sane people loved Ronald Reagan. We were
unified at that time. He went forty nine states, reaganing
throughout the eighties, you know, doing well everybody. I mean,
it was such a different time when you compare it
to now what the kids are going through now, the
online bullying, the catfishing. You know, we just saw this
testimony on Congress. You may have seen too of a mom.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
This poor kid. He was victimized online.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
He was tempted to send nude photos of himself and
then he was extorted and exploited for that, and he
felt hopeless and he ended up committing suicide.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
It's horrible.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
It is horrible, and we've got to take care of
our kids and our youth and keep them engaged, to
have conversations with them. And I am so excited tomorrow morning,
I am headed to Arizona for America Fest with like
thirty thousand young people at turning point, and I'm it.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Just energizes me.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
It makes me feel like there's hope for our country
and that the kids have got it right. I do
think that they've got it right, and we've got to
support them and have their back however we can. So,
you know, I would love to see everybody that listens
to this program reach out to their local high school,
find out if the high school has a Turning Point chapter,
if they do, volunteer to bring food, to get them
(32:27):
a speaker, to do whatever you need to do to
support them and help them grow their group.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
And if they don't have a chapter.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Then find a student that's willing to start one and
a faculty member and get that going. You can just
go to the Turning Point website and get involved and
they will connect you. They will connect the dots for
you here in Colorado. And I know we've got we're
headed up to eighty chapters here in Colorado, but there's
seven hundred high schools in Colorado that need chapters, and
(32:55):
I truly think that's the way back for the American
Dream and to get our construct movement back on track.
I'm super excited about the next few days. Everybody's going
to be down there. I hope they keep us safe
and I'm really encouraged by how passionate people are about
turning point and keeping that movement alive and.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Helping young people.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
And I think American Conservation Coalition that I've talked a
little bit about too, is another great way to get
involved if you care about the environment. They are growing
their membership all over the country. Hunter Rivera who is
the chair for Weald County and a young Dynamo, is
also the chair in the head of American Conservation Coalition
in Colorado. I think their website is acc dot Eco.
(33:38):
Check out that movement as well. And then of course
our Colorado Young Republicans are doing a great job. They
have fourteen fifteen chapters around the state. That's more for
young professionals who are out of college and so young
people have a place to go whether they're in high school,
college or afterwards. And all three of those organizations are
doing fantastic work. So let's support them. However, we can
(34:00):
great thing to do. If you're tired of the noise
and the adult politics, go help the young people. They've
got a whole fresh perspective. This is Heidiganal I filled
in for Dan Kaplas today, So blessed to be with you.
And Ryan, thanks for a great back and forth. Christ
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays, Happy Honukah. Have
(34:21):
a wonderful holiday season to all of you.
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Betrayal Weekly is back for a brand new season. Every Thursday, Betrayal Weekly shares first-hand accounts of broken trust, shocking deceptions, and the trail of destruction they leave behind. Hosted by Andrea Gunning, this weekly ongoing series digs into real-life stories of betrayal and the aftermath. From stories of double lives to dark discoveries, these are cautionary tales and accounts of resilience against all odds. From the producers of the critically acclaimed Betrayal series, Betrayal Weekly drops new episodes every Thursday. Please join our Substack for additional exclusive content, curated book recommendations and community discussions. Sign up FREE by clicking this link Beyond Betrayal Substack. Join our community dedicated to truth, resilience and healing. Your voice matters! Be a part of our Betrayal journey on Substack. And make sure to check out Seasons 1-4 of Betrayal, along with Betrayal Weekly Season 1.