Dan Caplis - Hour Two - 12-23

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh man, hard to believe. Christmas Eve tomorrow and the
eve of Christmas Eve pretty exciting day. Two Glad you're
here three on three seven one three eight two five
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Because it will be my last show of the year today.
There'll be some of our all star substitute host in
next week, but my last show of the year today.

(00:21):
Well let me take that back, Jesse. Are we on Friday?
I'll have to look yeah, if we are, I'll be
on Friday. In any case, we're still going to do
Best and Worst Person of the Year today Colorado and
National and some of our other you know, normal twelve
thirty one stuff. So have it that. I also like
to know your favorite Christmas movie because we're kind of

(00:42):
planning out our day now. The Taylor Swift specials coming out.
I know, you know, for a lot of people, they're
not excited about.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
That, but you are on Friday.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Oh okay, great, So we'll do more of this on Friday.
Looking forward to that. Three at three seOne three A
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nine talk about you added. George Brockler joined us the
last two segments of the past hour, and he was
breaking down the parole system in Colorado and how we
end up with so many of these obviously dangerous, deadly

(01:12):
criminals put back on the street when they shouldn't be,
and then what a surprise, they go out and kill
other people, like these four innocent people slaughtered on that
roadway in Franktown last month, including three children for a
guy who clearly should have still been in jail. So
tremendous breakdown by George. You can pick that off the
podcast and we'll continue that conversation. We had a caller

(01:33):
just before George was going to join us who was
getting after me for my support of Catholic charities. I'm
proudly on the board of directors of Denver Catholic Charities
of Denver, And as I've often said, and it's just
flat true, Denver, much of northern Colorado just falls apart
without Catholic charities. I mean literally would fall apart, could

(01:53):
not operate because there is so much work in the
trenches being done to help the most needy, being done
by Catholic charities with an incredible level of effectiveness and
love and enjoyed, but effectiveness on the bottom line, so
I hope that gentleman calls back, and the gist of

(02:15):
his complaint was, Hey, you've got enormous money going from
the federal government into Catholic charities organizations across America, and
according to the caller, they're just helping to perpetuate illegal immigrations.
So I asked him to call back and told him
that by the end of our conversation, I would bet

(02:35):
you stake that he would be writing a check to
Catholic Charities of Denver. So hopefully he will give us
a call back and we'll talk about that whether he
does or not. But I wanted to piggy off of
the ABC News at the top. And it's remarkable to
me and kind of sad because I've had a couple
of good friends who've worked there on a national level.
One who's still there. I think Alex Stone is still there,

(02:56):
isn't he? Jesse, do you know, Alex? Are you too
young for that?

Speaker 2 (03:00):
I'm a little too young, I think.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, great great guy, great journalist, and as you know,
he was with KOWA for a long time. But ABC News,
at least the ABC News we broadcast at the top
of each hour, has really become a joke, just kind
of a propaganda arm. Fortunately, we have our own great
local newsroom that comes in right after they do and
tries to salvage that news break. But ABC News at

(03:25):
the top, they were talking about Ben Sas and you know,
I've met Ben Sas. I can't remember if we've had
him on the show, but always liked him. Good guy,
and he's dying. And so that's what they were covering
at the top is Ben SaaS dying cancer and says
he's not going to quit fighting. But what they left
out was the heart of this very moving statement that

(03:47):
he released today, which is based on his Christianity, and
ABC just completely left that out. But I won't. I
want to give you a little taste of that. It's
a long note that Ben Sas posted on x and
other social media, but I'll give you a couple of
paragraphs you can get a feel. It says, this is
a tough note to write, but since a bunch of
you have started to suspect something, I'll cut to the chase.

(04:09):
Last week, I was diagnosed with atastasized stage four pancreatic
cancer and I'm going to die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff.
It's a death sentence, but I already had a death
sentence before last week. We all do. And that's the
lead into Ben Sas talking about his Christianity. He goes

(04:30):
on in part to say, there's not a good time
to tell your peeps you're now marching to the beat
of a faster drummer. But the season of Advent isn't
the worst As a Christian. The weeks running up to
Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the
hope of what's to come. Not an abstract hope in
fanciful human goodness, not hope in vague hallmark sappy spirituality,

(04:52):
not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength priends. What
foolishness is the evaporating muscle I once prided myself in Nope.
Often we lazily say hope when what we mean is optimism.
To be clear, optimism is great, and it's absolutely necessary,
but it's insufficient. It's not the kind of thing that
holds up when you tell your daughters you're not going

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to be able to walk them down the aisle, nor
telling your mom and pops they're going to bury their son.
A well lived life demands more reality, stiffer stuff. That's
why during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we
shout out our hope, often properly, with a gravelly voice,
soldiering through tears. Such is the calling of the pilgrim,

(05:36):
and he goes on from there. So that was the
heart of his statement, and I wish ABC had included
some of that, but they wouldn't. And the reason they
wouldn't it is the same reason Polus came out the
day after he was elected governor and said, you got
to leave your faith outside the public square because the left,
and ABC is an arm of the left. What the
left knows is that if people center their life around

(05:59):
their fa faith and they vote consistently with their faith,
the left loses every time. And that's one of the
reasons I have such great confidence in the future of
this nation is, you know, be they Democrats And ninety
nine point nine percent of my extended family outside of
Colorado are Democrats. I've been married to a Democrat for many,

(06:22):
many moons. So somebody told me she's now an affiliated
I'll ask her tonight. But about the point being that
that Democrats Republicans unaffiliated, I know who are people of faith.
Their faith is real to them. It's not some box
they check for some reason. It's real to them. They

(06:43):
build their lives around it. They're betting eternity on it,
So why don't they vote that way? But eventually they will.
Eventually enough will that the grip of the left will
be broken. And I think that was a big part
of Trump's victories in sixteen and then again in twenty
four is people in the end with the help of Trump,

(07:06):
because he's a particularly effective candidate, just seeing the reality
of what the Democratic Party has become. There was a day,
and I was a member, I voted Democratic for a while,
you know, there was a day when the Democratic Party
was identified with faith and was identified with belief in
God and things like that. And there are so many

(07:27):
Democrats just voting Democrat out of habit who just wouldn't
even believe what their party has become, so secular, so
anti faith, so hostile to faith. I mean, look at Colorado.
The US Supreme Court has had to step in multiple
times and identified this active hostility on the part of
Colorado state government toward faith, in particular the Christian faith.

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So it's one of the reasons I am so confident
because when faith is central to the lives of so
many Democrat, Republican and affiliated it, eventually you're going to
get enough people who are voting consistent with their faith
that the Left gets the proper political burial it should.
Speaking of which interesting idea by George Brockler at the

(08:12):
end of that last segment, which was something I've never
heard before, But if you could get some of these
Democrats socialist candidates, and so much of the Colorado Democratic
Party is socialist at this point, whether they call themselves
head formally, but if you could get those candidates on
the ballot along with the actual Democrat nominee, those candidates

(08:37):
are going to peel off, as George said, at least
fifteen percent, allowing the GOP candidate to win. So, Jesse,
we got to find us some wackos. We got to
find us some of these Democrats socialist cabin and we
know it's a big, big part of the party. We
got to find us some of them and get them

(08:59):
on the ballot. Might know a couple, and you know
that the Democrats have done that to the GOP for years.
You know, put those kind of candidates ostensibly conservative candidates
on the ballot to siphon votes off. That was that
was great thinking by George Hey. Quick note, while we're
talking about Christmas and helping people and all of that,

(09:21):
if you are looking for a way to do it,
I don't care if you're an atheist, if you're a
person of some faith other than Christianity, if you're a Christian,
a Catholic, Christian, whatever, if you're just a person looking
to help people in the greatest need, I don't think
you can find a better delivery system than Catholic Charities
of Denver. I've seen it. I've seen it close up.
I've seen how it works. My wife volunteers at one

(09:43):
of the food banks. I mean, they have got it
down to the point where they get so much bang
for each buck, delivering straight to the people who need
it most. Please consider a gift CC Denver dot org
and if you donate now through December thirty first, your
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(10:03):
up to the first one hundred thousand dollars. You're on
the Dame Kapitlo Show. Thank you, Jesse. Hopefully that'll help
us get in the move. But it's gonna be seventy
three degrees tomorrow. That is just mind blowing for a
Christmas Eve. But you know, once you get to Christmas Eve,
I don't think that's gonna matter as much to us,
you know, because then we're all into the Christmas Eve

(10:24):
and in for most I think now, you know, Mass
is on Christmas Eve and then other services and then
Christmas date. But wow, yep, no snow this year three
or three someone three eight two five five text d
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for us. I think it's going to be like nineteen
percent of the country's gonna have snow when it's normally

(10:44):
much much higher than that. A really good piece today
in the Rocky Mountain Voice. It's a daily read for me,
and this echoes pieces on Fox News. Colorado risk twenty
four million in federal funds says thousands of commercial driver's
license were issued illegally. This is the ap version of

(11:05):
the story. The head of the US Department of Transportation
threatened money to withhold twenty four million in federal funding
from the state of Colorado for what he described as
a slow response to a major violation of federal commercial
driver's license regulations. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy pointed to a
nationwide audit conducted in October that found about twenty two

(11:26):
percent of the commercial licenses doled out by Colorado two
immigrants were done so illegally, many to Mexican nationals, a
practice that's prohibited under federal law. Duffy accused Colorado of
quote slow walking the required purge of these licenses. He said,
the state has failed to complete a full audit, provide
a complete accounting of effected drivers, or revoke the invalid

(11:49):
credentials despite being notified of non compliance. Colorado Governor Jared
Polus called it a case of quote crossed wires, saying
that if Duffy had reached out, he would have known
that the state has quote finished the investigation and we
are conducting a final review of the findings, with letters
likely going out this week to CDL holders whose credentials

(12:10):
were improperly issued. So, by the way, Sean Duffy doing
a fantastic job. And this whole issue of truckers on
our roadways who are in this country illegally can't read
our signs, et cetera, it is an enormous screaming clear
and present danger to you and to your family. This

(12:31):
is what I do for a living. I've been doing
it for decades. Is is I handle these catastrophics, semi
crash cases. And as you would imagine, when you're talking
about eighty thousand pounds guided or unguided missiles, you're talking
about the worst kind of harm, lots of death, lots
of maiming, lots of paralysis. And so you would think

(12:52):
any civilized nation that cared about human life when it
comes to who gets to operate one of those trucks,
you would have the highest stay ind But what we
have now, what we have now in this country is
we have so many people. First it's schizophrenic. You've got
this big part of the trucking industry. They're true professionals,

(13:14):
and they're run very, very very well. And when something
does go wrong and there's carelessness and there's destruction caused,
and you know, they have the means to step up
and to do justice or to be forced to do justice.
But you have about half the industry that are professionals
who should be thanked for the great job they do

(13:36):
because without it we couldn't function as a nation. Then
the other half is one of the scariest things you'll
ever encounter in your life. And trust me, I've been
doing these cases for decades now, and I'm doing many
of these cases right now. And whether you're talking about
the sector that involves folks here illegally illegal immigrants driving

(13:57):
these trucks, often with very very training, often unlicensed or
shouldn't be licensed. And always think about this. I've been
talking about it for years. Always when somebody's here ilegally
operating a truck, they have an out. If they get
in some fatal crash, they kill somebody, they can just

(14:19):
disappear back into their home country and chances are they
just get away with it. Now, some do get arrested
and incarcerated, but that's pretty rare. So it is such
a danger to you and your family, and so I'm
so glad the administration is on top of this. Heck,
I had to depose and fortunately we were able to
get in order. I was able to get into jail

(14:40):
and depose a trucker who had been involved in a
horrific fatal crash in Colorado just before he was released
from jail less than one year. Because that Democrat DA
had pursued as a misdemeanor and then he was being deported.
But all I'm telling you is this is so dangerous
to you in your family, and one of the best

(15:02):
things this administration is doing is cracking down on that.
And it doesn't surprise me at all. Polis saying, oh,
oh no, this is just we got our wires crust.
Remember this is the same Jared Polis, the same Jared
Polis rahal agualerramdra Remember that burned to death four of
our fellow citizens on the highway. He knew his breaks

(15:22):
were bad. He got back in the truck anyway, drove
right past a runaway truck ramp when he was going
almost ninety miles an hour, then made the decision not
to ditch the truck but drive it into the back
of stopped rush hour traffic in the Metro insiderating four
of our neighbors and causing many other injuries. And it's
Jared Poulis who took that away from the judge and
then just arbitrarily cut the sentence from one ten to ten,

(15:45):
so he's out in five at most. Yeah, would you
trust that Jared Polis? Would you trust that Jared Polis
now to respond to the administration to do what he
should do.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
No.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
And as I said at the time, when Polis did
that with that killer trucker, he sent a message to
every trucker driving through Colorado, in every trucker around America,
that in the Colorado controlled by Jared Polus in the left. Yeah, yeah,
the law is not going to be enforced, not going
to be enforced the way that it should be. So

(16:20):
I hope, I hope the Trump administration stays all over Polis,
all over Colorado, because some things are more important than money.
An innocent human life is at the top of that list,
and Polus in the left have shown they have no
regard for that, including the four people burned to death
on our highway by Agui Laras Madero. Who do we
have there, Jesse, Eric? Thank you, Eric, you're on the

(16:41):
Dame Capitalist Show. Welcome.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
Oh hey, Merry Christmas. Too long, too good questions for you,
just to quick follow up. In my opinion, you know,
I would think that the state should be able to
be sued when they're not following federal law in these cases,
not just the trucking companies that are allowing these people
on the street. So I'm just curious. On your end,

(17:05):
wouldn't you think that lawsuits against the state of Colorado
should be allowed when people are getting killed because they
allowed them to be driving.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
These these people, Eric, what you're saying is so brilliant,
is so brilliant. And what I've been saying for years is, listen,
if people were allowed, if people were allowed to sue
these sanctuary cities, these sanctuary states for the harm done that,
the death, the rapes, that the horrific harm done by

(17:33):
some folks who are here illegally. You have a whole
bunch of folks here illegally who just never commit any
other crime and wouldn't, but you have some hero who
commit the worst kind of crimes. If the sanctuary cities
and states could be sued for that harm, they wouldn't
be sanctuary city and states. Come tomorrow, Yeah, even with
a seventy three degree Christmas Eve, there'll be a feeling
of Christmas Glad. We are finally there. Hey, really looking

(17:57):
forward to this conversation. We're about to have an amaze,
amazing story, an amazing story of help and kindness and triumph.
And this is connected to Marisol Health, which is a
tremendous service of Catholic Charities of Denver. And again what
I've been asking is that you consider, if you're considering

(18:19):
year end giving, whether it's a dollar, a million bucks,
consider giving some money to Catholic Charities of Denver, Because,
as you're about to hear, and I could explain in
so many other ways, if you're looking to help the
people in most need and really be effective most bang
for your bucket's hard to imagine a better delivery system
than Catholic Charities of Denver Ccdenver dot org and our

(18:41):
law firm through December thirty one will match up to
a total of one hundred thousand dollars your contribution, so
a chance to double that up. But I want to
welcome a woman named ironically Marisol to the show who
was helped through Marisol Health and her story is really inspiring. Marisol,
Welcome to the Dan Kapla Show.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
Hi, thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Well, thanks for being here and for being willing to
tell people your story and please just take the floor
and explain your journey and how Marisol Health was able
to step in and help you get where you are today.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yes, of course, Well, I found out that I was
going to be a mother, a teen mother, and I
went to church and the priest actually recommended me marithol Health,
which is so ironic since my name is Marisol, and
I went and since the first appointment, it was the

(19:40):
best experience ever the Middlewife. Everyone was just so welcoming
and not judging, and towards the holidays, thanks to the
donors and everyone that donates, they helped me and my
family through the hardest times, you know, be being a
mother doing it all by myself. You know, they gave
me a present, They gave my family presents towards the

(20:03):
end of my pregnancy. They helped me with the baby registry,
and they were just always there for me. And they're
still there for me, always calling up, supporting me. It's
just the best experience I have ever received. They're so welcoming.
It's just overall the best experience.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
Wow. And I'm looking at my notes for this interview,
and there's a note about what your name means, and
given that you have the same name as Marisol Health,
what does your name mean?

Speaker 4 (20:38):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (20:39):
In Spanish, Mare, it's the sea and the sun. Yeah,
just the sea end the sun, which is so ironic.
It's solitude, a title from the Virgin Mary. It's just solitude,

(21:00):
seeing the son Mary of solitude what it means.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
And as I'm reading about your story, it sounds as
if when you got that referral from the priest to
Marisol Health, you took that as as a real sign
of hope because of the meaning of your name and
the meaning of the name of Marisol Health. And then
tell us, if you would, what the experience was like

(21:25):
after you had your child, and tell us more, little boy,
little girl, how's your baby doing?

Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yes, I have a little boy. He's eight months after
when I gave birth, and always called a bunch checked
on me. They found out that I had some complications
during delivery, and they called and always asked for pictures,
always ask how my family and I are doing. They,
you know, they asked if I if I want to

(21:52):
go get some diapers and some materials from them. Even
though I'm not really a patient anymore, They're still willing
to help me in any way that they can.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
That is so cool and so as I understand it.
How old are you know?

Speaker 3 (22:06):
I'm about to be eighteen.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Wow, and your baby boy is now healthy. What's your
boy's name Gyell. Gyelle. Yes, well what just what an
awesome story. And it's interesting because you mentioned that, Hey,
nobody judged you.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
Oh no, I've never I've always felt say if I
even liked going to appointments, I even looked forward going
to appointments just because of how well they treated me.

Speaker 4 (22:34):
There.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, and I get that completely because to me and
I'm sure to them, you know, we would be so
impressed with your courage and your commitment to life and
you your willingness to you know, go through the hard
things you had to go through to give you your

(22:56):
baby boy life when so many others would you know,
be pressured into taking that life. So my guess is
you ran into an awful lot of admiration and count
me among those because of your strengths. You know, this
boy now has life and you have all the joys
that you're going to have from being his mom.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
Oh yes, I always you know, tell the people that
when I tell them my story, that I loved Marisol
Health because they helped me understand I want what I
wanted for my future. Since they helped me so much
and in the beginning I was lost, and when I
went to Marisol, they gave me like a clear path

(23:38):
of what I wanted to do for my baby.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
And you know, it's interesting because I didn't meet my
soulmate until I was much older, and we didn't have
our first child until I was forty, so you know,
you were sixteen. I'm forty. But I bet there's a
big thing we have in common here. It just described
to people through your eyes at your age. Describe the

(24:02):
type of love you have for your son and what
every day is like with him, even the tough days.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
Oh, I conditionally I would do anything for him. Every day,
I just wake up and kiss him and I love you,
I love you, and every day it's the whole family
the same thing. We just love him unconditionally, even though
it wasn't something that we expected, but it's just unconditional
love from everyone.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
Especially for me well.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
And he has life because of your love and your
commitment to making sure he had this life. So you
are an inspiration and thank you for sharing the story.
And I guarantee you that still today our kids are
now twenty seven and twenty four and it is still
the greatest thing in life. So I think I think

(24:52):
it's going to be the center of your life. Your
boy is going to be the center of your life.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Yes, definitely. I'm doing every thing I can for him.
I do my best and I will always, always, always
have the greatest love for him.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
Well, thank you, thanks for sharing your story. You have
a great Christmas.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Thank you, Thank you for having me you too, you
take care.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
Wow, what a cool, cool kid man. And you see,
those are those are the things. And I know there
are a lot of people doing a lot of great
work out there, and a lot of fronts, not just
Catholic Charities of Denver. There are so many great people
out there, you know, who are working to to help
young ladies in situations like that, and it's just one

(25:38):
of the greatest things on earth. But I can tell
you because I have that direct experience with Catholic Charities
of Denver, that man, it's hard to imagine getting more
value for your hard earned dollar when it comes to
helping people. And that's one example of how they help.
But there's so many different ways, from homeless shelters to
food banks. My wife works at this food bank and

(26:01):
it's called Little Flower. It's out in Aurora. I've been there,
but it is phenomenal the work that they do in
the real life impact they have every single day, and
so I hope you give it some thought for your
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(26:22):
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search and you'll get to that page. But boy, she
is an inspiration and it just jesse for me. It
brings back memories because my mom, my mom used to

(26:44):
move pregnant teenage girls into the house back in Chicago,
and so because my mom was, in my view, one
of the founders of the pro life movement. But yes,
she would move these girls into the house to give
them all the tactical support they needed to be able
to have their children, and then she would support them

(27:05):
after the baby was born and all done out of
our house. And again, I grew up in the wealthiest
family in Chicago if you measure wealth the right way,
and the house wasn't very big, but it was full
of love and full of the stuff that mattered most.
But yes, she would move them into the house. And
then it was so cool because we rea at her funeral.
Have you ever been to like an Irish Catholic wake?

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Oh yeah, okay, so you.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Know yeah, I mean there's literally a bar in the
funeral home and it's just you know, are you going
to cry harder or laugh harder? I mean, it's just
it's an Irish Catholic wake. And this wonderful young lady
came up to me and said, hey, your mom saved
my life. And I said, tell me the story. And
I didn't see it coming yet. She was one of

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those kids her mom was considering an abortion, moved into
our house with my mom, and yeah, the rest was history.
So very cool stuff. And that's what Marisol Holmes is
doing with Catholic charity. So please do think about making
your end contribution. You're on the Dan Kaplo Show five
fifty two. Glad you're with us. Thanks for that, Jesse Thomas,
and thanks for doing the show this week while Ryan's

(28:12):
been on vacation. When do things gear up with the Rockies?
Jesse does the Rockies broadcast.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
I am going to head down, I think February twelfth.
In our first broadcast will be February twentieth, so not
too long.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
There's going to be a little bit of a vibe
there with the changes.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
And yeah, lots of changes. I mean, it's not going
to happen overnight, but I think the culture is changing.
It's going to take some time to get some pieces
in place, but they're saying the right thing so far,
and I think the culture world change and it's just
going to take some time.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, hopefully not too much time, because quite one of
the coolest things ever. And it makes me sad for
like all the younger kids in Colorado and around who
haven't had that experience of a true pennant race, you
know what I mean, in a winning baseball team, because
you remember two thousand and seven and some of those
other stretches. There's nothing like it. I mean football, Okay,
we got a great team in the Broncos, best ownership

(29:07):
group in the NFL, really legitimate shot to get to
the Super Bowl and maybe win it. But you got
one game a week. When you're in a baseball pennant race, man,
it is just day after day after day. So with
this great fan base, yeah, they should get back to
that and hopefully this is the first step. So wow.

(29:28):
And speaking of the Broncos, and we're not a sports show,
so we just do that stuff during breaks, but we're
remarkably astute when it comes to predicting outcomes, et cetera.
I kind of enjoy all the overreaction to that loss
on Sunday. But to me, I'm just as high on
this team after the lost Sunday as I was after
the win against the Packers the week before. And it's

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interesting me with sports, and this is when we talk
about sports, when it transcends sports, that people forget the
human element. I don't care if it's eighteen to twenty
five year olds playing college. Sure, if it's you know,
the guy's playing pros, it's still a human process and
there are going to be off days and when you're
up against credible competition, you know, a game like Sunday

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can happen. And by the way, I like that Jacksonville
team for a long time.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
They're playing really well right now and.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Trevor Lawrence is the real deal, just like Nix is
the real deal. So yes, So no, I'm just as
high in the Broncos as I was before, and it's
fun right because now it sets up that January what
is it four game maybe against the Chargers.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
As that could be a game that could be huge.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Well, it's and maybe the difference between being the number
one seed and being a wildcard you bet? Yes, So
fun times gooding for the division, Fun times ahead, and
I think it's going to be exciting to watch Prime
rebuild CU looks like you may have to start roughly
from scratch, but I have confidence in Prime. And then
you gotta be psyched for CSU with Jim Mora.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yeah, that was a really good Hi Raid higher. What
he did at Yukon was incredible.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yeah, I've always been a Mora fan, but but it'll
be great to have him in the States. So on
the sports end, and I mean, come on, the Avs,
it speaks for itself. They're just on another plane right now.
They're just a best team in hockey by mile. Doesn't
guarantee anything, but it's nice to be able to say that.
And the Nuggets best player in the world and a

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legit shot at the Championships. So from a sports fan standpoint,
what a beautiful time to be alive in Colorado and
surrounding areas politically more of a challenge, Bud. Hey, that's
where greatness comes from, right, I mean, that's how the
legends are made, finding a way to win in the
face of these long, long odds. So any big predictions

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for twenty six politically wise, anything, anything at all?

Speaker 3 (31:50):
Hm?

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Not, it tops my head. We'll think about it.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Are you doing Friday Show with me?

Speaker 2 (31:55):
I'm not. I'm headed out to Vegas actually go see
the Avalanche to play the gold Knight. So I'm gonna
go out there and watch them play Saturday.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
You're not going to be in Vegas for Christmas?

Speaker 2 (32:04):
No, I'm going the day after. Like you know what
I mean is.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
You'd have to spend like all day in confession. Do
they have all day confessions?

Speaker 2 (32:11):
They might?

Speaker 1 (32:12):
I might need it after that time.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
See.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
Oh man, I always feel a little self conscious in
the confessional if it starts to go on too long,
I'm thinking, you know, like the person out behind me,
So then I have to weigh eternal life being embarrassed
when I come out after an hour. Yeah, yes, so yeah,
Well that should be a fun game. Are the Golden
Knights any good times?

Speaker 2 (32:37):
I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, they're always pretty good
and they play the avalanche tough, so I'm looking forward
to It'll be fun.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
Wow. I think twenty six is going to be one
of the most amazing years we've had in the last
hundred and the starting point with that, I think is Trump,
because Trump is' is just one of the greatest presidents
we've ever had. And I know he does some stuff
I don't like and we call him out out on it,
and his personality can be very strong and that accounts

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for some bad moments, but a lot of really good moments.
And so I think with that kind of energy and
intensity and he's a man in a hurry and peace
or strength, I think there are a lot of great
things that are going to happen in twenty six. There
are always ups and downs, but I think we're going
to see a trend line up. I think we're going
to see a trend lined up economically again. With some

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ups and downs. You see I happen to be a Christian.
You see Christianity expanding at such a rapid rate, particularly
among young kids, and I think that's going to fuel
a lot of tremendous things in twenty six. So excited
for it, so I'll be back on Friday. I hope
everybody has a tremendous Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Look

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forward to joining you Friday, Jesse, thank you for helping out,
and I hope you have a tremendous Christmas and catch
you that on The Dan Kapla Show