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Dan contemplates the angry nature of left-wing late-night hosts, asking whether liberal viewers really want to go to bed all worked up and have bitter dreams.
Dan contemplates the angry nature of left-wing late-night hosts, asking whether liberal viewers really want to go to bed all worked up and have bitter dreams.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Three or three?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Someone three two five five text D seven.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Seven three nine. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Vick Lombardi opened this show talking about Columbus Day and
if if you're new to the area, you don't know
Vic yet.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Vick is a Colorado icon.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
He is a phenomenal, you know, sportscaster, but he's so
much more than that as well, kind of mister nugget,
all his work with the Denver Nuggets being part of that.
He's also just a great human and he's brilliant, and
he's playing spoken and he's down to earth's he's the
nicest guy you'll ever meet. You're running to him tonight
some restaurants somewhere. He'll, you know, treat you like you're
(00:53):
the Queen of Sheba or the King of Sheep, if
there is such a thing.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Now.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Just a great guy and he was on to talk.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
About because he is a one hundred percent Italian, great
Italian family and you can follow him on Instagram where
he documents his family and their journey. It's a wonderful
American success story. But Vic on to talk about Columbus
Day and about how, hey, it was just taken away
from us here, but it has celebrated many many other
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places around the country, and talking about the origin, which
none of us knew until we talked to Vic, that
Columbus Day began in Denver, Colorado. That's where it originated,
and how terribly ironic that that's where the Left would.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Take it away from us.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Steve in Littleton, You're on the Dan Kapla show, and
that doesn't have it doesn't have anything to do with oh,
Christopher Columbus, greatest guy ever lived. I'd never say that,
but it has to do with honoring Italians of Colorado,
and they chose, you know, Christopher Columbus, Columbus Day parade,
et cetera, and the Left taking that way, which they
have no right to do.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Steven, what do you think?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
And my friend, well, I didn't.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Call to talk about Columbus Day, but you don't have to.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Free country all right.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
I'm really skeptical.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
About this entire.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Piece thing. And I'm not an anti Trump, I'm on
his side and such. But if I was Hamas and
the background supporters, I would just do what they did
and just sit back. Let Trump finish his term and
with the big push for Democrats socialism in the country,
(02:41):
they might be wanting to go. You know, maybe JD.
Vance gets eight years, but eventually they they're gonna It's
not over. It's not over at all. And I've debated
this with many people, and they're all more knowledgeable than
me about the deep clagmire of the Middle East. But
(03:05):
every time they tell me how complicated it is, they
support my position, which is somebody's got to win and somebody's.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Got to lose.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Otherwise this ain't quit.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
It's going to go on forever, and.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
One of the two sides needs to be defeated. That's
my opinion. And I's skeptical that this this thing will last.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Hey, Stephen, thanks to the call.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
This is such a valuable call and an important conversation
to have because nothing's guaranteed, right, I mean, as Chris
Berman says, we're all day to day. Some of the
people listening to this show may not be alive for tomorrow.
Show that that's just the reality of life. And Stephen
leads us to a critical point. This doesn't happen without Trump, right,
(03:55):
and if the left takes power again in America in
eight then things could start to unwind. So here's the key,
and here's part of I think not only the lasting
legacy of Trump a thousand times more important than that,
the lasting practical gift from Trump, which is changing the
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Republican Party. That the personality of the Republican Party, the attitude,
the approach has fundamentally changed in the Trump era. And
so now what we have on the bench are a
bunch of men and women who are fighters, and who
are ready to fight, and who are ready to do
their very best to pursue these things the same way
(04:41):
Trump does. And that's one reason he chose jd Vance,
A big reason, right, because Glenn Elkin would have been
the safer choice, right in terms of locking up this
and locking up that.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Marco Rubio a safer choice.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And you know, I think the world of Rubio, But
he chose jd Vance in part because fans would be
a bet bet to continue MAGA and so you're right,
Stephen's right. You know, if America makes a mistake in
twenty eight of electing a lefty, yeah, this whole thing
could start to unravel. But if America looks at all
(05:14):
of this success and looks at the progress and looks
at the payoff of having this Republican presidency and says, yeah,
I'll take more of that than it continues three or
three someone three eight, two, five, five text d An five, seven,
seventh through nine, Because it all boils down to peace
through strength, and you've got to have the strength at
the core, and you've got to have the strength in
(05:36):
that American president along with the abilities.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
And I think we see Bose in this a great
that this great stable of potential presidential and vice presidential candidates,
that that the new Republican Party under Donald Trump is cultivating.
Dan Okay solution for Colorado challenge, writes a text or
(06:01):
very long text. I can only get to part of it,
but part of it goes down to the machines, mail
in ballots, no idea required, etc. And this is a
constant refrain I get from certain texters and callers who
I enjoy and I invite and I'm glad we have
the conversation because we shouldn't have any fraud in Colorado.
There should be zero tolerance for any kind of voter fraud.
(06:22):
But anybody who thinks the GOP's get its tail kicked
in Colorado because a massive voter fraud is I think,
doing themselves and this state of disservice. Until we recognize
the real reasons we're losing, then it's going to take
even longer to win. And so that doesn't mean we
don't keep pushing in every way we can for zero fraud,
(06:47):
and that doesn't mean that any of their concerns are unfounded.
But let's just be honest about why we're losing. That
gives us the best chance to come back and win.
Dan taking visas is great. What that's referring to talked
about it in the first hour, is the administration today
revoke the visas of six people in the country. You
celebrated the death of Charlie Kirk, the murder, of the assassination,
(07:10):
the killing, the brutally violent killing of Charlie Kirk, and
the administration says nobody has nobody celebrates the death of.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Americans, has a right to be in this country.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
And then the Texter goes under to say, now Trump
should simply say this bad Bunny person will not play
at the super Bowl. And then the Texter goes on
to say he's anti white, anti Christian, anti American.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
And now I do not agree with that.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I think that, as we talked about that day, it's
absolutely ludicrous that this bad buddy is going to play
at the super Bowl. It's you know, the NFL given
the double middle finger to probably eighty to ninety percent
of its fans, right, But that's what we've come to
expect when it comes to the stuff like that from
the NFL. But it's not going to stop me from
(07:58):
watching the super Bowl. I'll do something else at halftime,
or maybe I'll just watch it. I guess I'll have
to watch because I do this show. But yeah, I
do not want Trump to try to stop bad Bunny
from performing at the super Bowl, because all that will
do is repeat the Jimmy Kimmel mistake. And yeah, he's
a historically great president, b he's human and he's going
(08:20):
to make some mistakes. And you know, calling on the
network to fire Jimmy Kimmel only gave Jimmy Kimmel that
last gasp in the sun, and I don't want the
president to do the same thing for bad Bunny.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Kimmel's ratings, I assume have fallen back to about.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Zero, back to where they were before the whole dust up.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, so he got kind of the train wreck, you know,
bumped for one night.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
And again, if he had been smart, you pivot on
that point and you bring back maybe an audience that
had abandoned you, and you build that base of support, ratings,
advertisers that wasn't important.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
To Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
But he's not funny, yeah, Mark again, I mean, they
throw a political commentator in at ten thirty at night.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Well, Greg got fell, but he's funny.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Oh, he's funny.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
But if you're just going to throw a political commentator
in here, are there that many?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Are there that many.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Lefties who just want to get angry before they go
to bed. I try to do the opposite. That's why
I watch things that make me happy. Dan, You're not
a lefty, right, But that's what I'm wondering. I know
a lot of lefties they and I can't imagine they want.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
To go to bed angry and bitter.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Every night.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
What kind of dreams do they have? I think I've
had four bad dreams in forty years.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
What kind of dreams do these people have?
Speaker 6 (09:35):
They reside in that headspace, Dan, they thrive, They live
for their hatred of Trump. That is inherently Trump derangement syndrome.
I know, I was going to go.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Down a different road, but I won't because it's a
family show. But obviously that time of night, you have
couples who are about to maybe rest together. Perhaps you
want to go to bed bitter and angry. No, yeah,
I mean who wants bitter beer face?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
So I don't get it. I don't get the whole concept.
Obviously America doesn't either.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, So that's why it kind of bugged me.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
He got the attention, you know, because all these idiots
who just say these intentionally gross and inflammatory things that
are obviously false. Why do you think they do it?
It's like mcdona, It's like Madonna with her naked with
animals face. They're so desperate for attention. They'll say anything,
they'll do anything to get talked about. Just ignore them
(10:34):
and they'll go away. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Can you Educator Sarah Pion Ryan, Oh.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Dan, you said bitter beer Face?
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Since I couldn't find a song that was entitled bitter
beer Face, you had to settle for Bittersweet.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Symphony by the Verse.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Don Do they still make Keystone?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I know, I knew you'd go back to that commercial.
Do they think you're still out there? Yeah? I would
never drink it.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Speaking of commercials, when are we going to start getting
the Wednesday home Day?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Weren't we going to add that to the repertoire?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Well, starry to be bid? You know it's Tuesday, so
I still have time. We got a day, we got
a day, we got a day. Yeah, I'll have it
for you.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
I'll have it for you right there on that computer
you're looking at and you.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Can't have my bud light that we should play that
more often.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Puts a smile on it. The father son Fish. That's
a good one. It's a really good one.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
This is one of the stranger critical text I've received
over the decades, though we've only been doing text now
for what ten years or so, But nice innovation. I'd
rather people call Dan. It's nice to know that, contrary
to what you say, when Biden and Obama were in office,
you weren't bothered at all. Apparently you slept like a baby,
(11:53):
just like you do now. So now I'm getting ripped
on because I don't have nightmares. Oh yeah, I just
made the comment the last break that you know, all
these Jimmy Kimmel watchers they want to go to bed angry.
What kind of dreams do they have? And I just
made the comment I've had like four bed dreams in
forty years. So I got a text ripping on me.
(12:14):
Oh that means that you really weren't upset about Biden
and Obama like you said you were, or you'd be
having nightmares like the.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Rest of us.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
No, I'm sorry, No, it's the opposite. It's the opposite.
When when my head hits the pillow, I normally feel like,
for all my flaws, I've done everything I could that
day right, or at least tried.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
We don't want to be dan the mirror image reflection
of the left with the Trump derangement syndrome and be
obsessed in every week and moment.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I tell people this all the time.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Had Hillary Clinton won in twenty sixteen, I would have
been really bummed out. But Dan, you know, I went
voted that day in Michigan. You're welcome, America, because I
helped Trump win in a state that was crucial to
him doing so. But I went home that and like, hey,
Hillary's gonna win. But at least I voted for Trump,
and I was expecting Hillary to win. I was kind
of girding my loins for that and like, you know,
(13:08):
try and prepare myself for, you know, living through her presidency.
So the pleasant surprise of Trump winning was all that
more enjoyable. But my point is I wasn't going to
spend those next four years or these last four years
of Biden just consumed and obsessed with the guy or
with her.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Well, you know, like four or five different points there. First,
you should have listened to my show on election Day
twenty sixteen. I spent the All Show explaining why Trump
was going to win that night. And here, even as
his own people, I know, we're bawling on him, correct
and you know, telling the press we lost because to
this guy that can. But here's the bigger point to
the texture. And I wish you'd call the show so
we could talk about this. And I don't mean to
(13:49):
get all cosmic here, but but the reason that I
sleep so well at night is and I don't let
this political stuff keep me up at night. Is we
all we've already won, right, We all know who wins
in the end. You know, the evil's going to have
its day here and there, but we know who wins
(14:09):
in the end. And that's why Ryan, you know, you
see all these experts. It's very good advice. Please follow
their advice, not mine, But they say, don't look at
screens for an hour before you go to bed at night.
If you were to be at our house at night,
when I go to bed, I am. I am looking
at news stories for the next day until my eyes close,
(14:30):
like right up to the moment I fall asleep, and
then I sleep like a baby. Puppies and rainbows and
all sorts of great images in my head. Yeah, because
we know who wins in the end. Three or three seven, one,
three eight, two five five the number. You just want
to know you're doing everything you can. If you get
all caught up, and you know, bad people doing bad things,
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and they don't always get stopped immediately, and sometimes bad
prevail for a while. How are you going to help
the cause if you don't sleep or if you have nightmares?
What's the worst nightmare you ever had?
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Oh, all my teeth fell out. I think a lot
of people have had that nightmare. It's tied to something psychological. Yeah,
I think other people in our listening audience have probably
had that one. Oh man, that was a bummer deal man,
and it felt real. It's one of those dreams like
you wake up like, wait a minute, Yeah, that didn't
really happen.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I could have sworn it was real.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Isn't that such a relief. Yeah, it's such a relief
when you have a bad dream. And again I've had
a handful, but they've been bad. And then you wake
up and it's like, thank you God, that's right, that
that didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
That is such a great feeling.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
It's uh uh Dan refresh my memory and maybe other
listeners Why the GOP fails in Colorado?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
And then I'll get to the other parts of this text.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Thank you for the text, Why does the GOP fail
in Colorado? I'd love to get your take on that.
I'd really like to hear from people on these DUI checkpoints.
You know, we just documented one big one in a
repo in Douglas County. Ten percent of the cars they
stop had an impaired driver in there. You know we
should we have more of these checkpoints. Should they become
a normal thing? Love your take? Three oh three someone
(16:15):
three eight two five five d A N five seven
seven three nine. Why does the GOP fail in Colorado?
Let me tee that up for the next segment. I'd
love your take on it. The same numbers will work
for really anything. DA N five seven seven three nine
three oh three seOne three A two five five. Let
me give you my quick take. It would take more
than the twenty seconds we have right now. Why the
(16:37):
GOP fails in Colorado? It starts right here. Don't shoot
the messenger starts right here. We have had for years
in Colorado a badly divided GOP. You look at the
math of this state. The GOP cannot win in Colorado
(16:59):
with United GOP. And I'm not blaming anybody on either
side or any side of the divided GOP. I'm just
saying you start with that, You start with the math,
and then it goes on from there. GOP losing in Colorado.
As a former Democrat. I'm one thousand percent convinced we
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lose in Colorado much more often to the stereotype of
Republicans than we do on the issues.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
That's one big thing.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
The GOP loses in Colorado because it gets in part,
grossly outspent.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Right in the money.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
If the money people thought the GOP was going to win,
of course the money would be there.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
But the GOP gets grossly outspent.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Those are a few starting points why the GOP loses
in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I'll tell you more when we come back.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
But there is hope, there is a path to victory,
and want to focus on that.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Also, you're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I always like talking about dreams. It's such a big
part of.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
People's lives, and there's nowhere you can go on air
to talk about dreams. There must be a thousand different
dream related topics. And now I'm getting ripped by a
text or and are having good dreams? He says, it
means I don't really care.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Enough for real.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Oh my lord, to the phone lines, Mike in Northeast Colorado.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
That narrows it down here on the dan caplis.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
She'll welcome.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
How you doing today?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I am living the dream? How are you, my friend?
Are you rancher Farmer?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Yes, sir, farmer ranch I'm actually sitting out here in
my swath right now in the hazeie, listening to your program.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And uh, you know, I admire that the hell out
of the men and women who do that. I mean,
it's just it is hard, hard work.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
It's a lot of work. But in my opinion, there's
no better way to make a living. If you can
make a living doing it, there, it's the best life
I could ever imagine.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I can tell us.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Why, Well, you don't have to punch a clock. You
don't have somebody looking over your shoulders saying well you
got to be here at this time or that time,
or uh, if I take in mind, I want to
go fishing some afternoon, I park the tractor, take saddle
(19:28):
off my horse, I go fishing.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
So you're not.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Married, no, sir, and not tomorrow and the next day
in the following week. Yeah, pay for going fishing this afternoon,
because I have to work a lot harder for the
next three or four days to catch up. But that's
the way life is. It's a freedom that Okay, my
(19:53):
understanding is you're in a trial attorney, am I correct, yes.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Sir, But but I want to talk about what you're
talking about because it's so fascinating to me. Plus, we've
got women texting us wanting to meet you, and we've
got guys texting us wanting to see if you'll hire them.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Oh well, I'm a small time outfit. I'm only running
about forty pair of cows and I'm only farming about
three half sections of ground, so I got enough equipment too,
and I'm still I am pretty well handled myself, and
(20:31):
the cattle are doing good. But the farm commodities the
last few years, last couple of three years have been
pretty slim picking as far as the payoffs. Why commodity prices?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yeah, what's driving that?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Well? That I don't honestly know. There's a lot of factors.
Government involvement in the farming industry. Farmers have been over
the last fifty or sixty years. Are you familiar with
(21:10):
what they call the FSA office?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
You know, sir, I'm really not.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I should be.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I represent a lot of farmers and ranchers, but that's
in their injury stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
But no, I mean it. It sounds like.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
You work really really hard, but you love the life.
And obviously you're outdoors and you're close to nature, and
that's that's going to be worth a lot.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
And farmers and ranchers, for the most part, don't do
this life to get rich. They do it because they
enjoy the work. For me, and this is just me
when my cows are having jazz in February and March. Yeah,
(21:52):
I put in unbelievable amount of hours. If I figured
the dollars I get for the hours I put in,
I'd probably be working for bucking a half ouf and hour.
But to me, there's a few things on this earth.
You go out, you watch a cow have a baby calf.
He says up, looks around like what just happened to me?
(22:13):
Mama cleans him up. Two hours later he's up nursing,
all fuzzy, and.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Uh, that's us.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Three or four days he's jumping around and running and
bucking and kicking, and I don't have words to describe us.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
See, this is one of the greatest calls I've ever heard,
because it's it's all about quality of life, right, And
you're just describing a great quality of life.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Yeah, it's it's not a way to get rich, it's
a way of life.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
What does rich mean?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Rich?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Rich means how much you're enjoying your life, right, and
you're enjoying your life a lot.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
When okay, when I said that, made the statement it's
not a good one. You're not going to get rich
good And I was thinking dollars. A huge, huge percentage
of people out there, they think they're rich if they've
got half a million dollars, a million, dollars, a billion,
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whatever their bank account is, according to their viewpoint, is rich.
But I guess I'm just simple minded.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Well, no, you got to figure out that.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
You've got to figured out. I mean, if you heard
of this guy, Tony Robbins, he's a Tony Robbins.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
He's wondering.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I've heard the name.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
He's a life coach guy. I think he's a real
smart guy. And what Tony Robbins says is is you're
wealthy if you're able to get the most enjoyment out
of every moment in life. And I think he's right
about that because how many people do you know who
have the big numbers in a bank account and they're miserable.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
And I've seen a lot of people in my travels
that they're out there scrapping day in and day out
for another dollar and they're just miserable as the day
is long.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
They but figured out if you got good friends. And
an old man told me and my what in my
youth you got, and find something you love to do
and enjoy doing every day, You'll never work a day
in your life.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Amy and I have Amy and I our kids have
heard that since the day they could understand words, because
it is it is so very true. Don't don't chase
the dollar, don't get the golden handcuffs. You know, find
what you love to do, which means that that's probably
what you were created to do, and then just have
a fulfilling life.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Okay, I'm still living on the home place my granddad
moved there in nineteen thirty eight.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Wow, that's cool. That is cool.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
And yah, him and his family lived at their days there.
Mom and dad lived up their days there. And now
I'm still working out of the same year they set
up camping and thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
That is so cool, just that connection to the past.
And hey, man, appreciate the call and sharing your story.
I know you called on a different topic. What are
you thinking?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Well, you ask for opinions on dui checkpoints, right, okay,
And don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of
driving drunk, and I'm even less of a fan of
driving high.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
This dui checkpoints, the way they're doing it, in my opinion,
is starting to crowd the Fourth Amendment of unreasonable search
and seizure because they have no call to pull these
people in. They have given them no indication of wrongdoing
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or i min or civil violations of any law.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
You know, I'm really glad.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yeah, and let me continue. And so that is in
my opinion, And I'm not a legal scholar anything else,
but that's crowding the limits of the Fourth Amendment and
probable cause. And I also believe that that is a
(26:31):
very slippery slope because if we set back and all right,
we don't want drunk drivers, we don't want high drivers. Well,
that's fine. I'm not going to argue that point with
you at all. But how long before Okay, Poulis and
his band passed a bunch of very Dryconian gun laws
(26:56):
this past legislative session. How long before where they to
be set up and say, well, there's a lot of
people running around with the guns that are not secured
in their vehicles, and they set up a checkpoint for
guys don't have their side arm locked up in a
(27:18):
safe while they're driving down the road or big a
subject kid. Yeah, this, in my opinion, could turn into
a very slippery slope.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Well man, great, great call, and you raise a lot
of very legitimate issues. I've been texting back and forth
with George Brockler, who's the DA in Douglas County, talking
about the legality of checkpoints, et cetera. And he's going
to pop on the show sometime in the next couple
of days and we'll get into those issues. But real
fair questions, Mike can appreciate the time.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
And then he made one other we're asking about one
other subject and I can't remember what it was. Joy.
We've had about had two subjects.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, we've had about ten on the show today. I
have to hit this heartbreak, Mike. But I tell you,
we'd love to hear from you every day, my friends.
So we're going to be talking about this more in
the next few days. We're going to get George on
to talk about the laws that surround those stops, and
for example, he was texting me about there has to
be certain notice, there has to be an opportunity to
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exit before the checkpoint. Things like that that that go
to I think you're very legitimate questions about constitutionality. But
thank you, Mike, and hope we hear from them often.
Cool guy, Yeah, cool guy. And that is farmers ranchers
in Colorado. That is a phenomenal community. You are on
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the Dan Capla.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Show and now back to the Dan Kaplass Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
It's just a tremendous calum.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
The last segment, if you didn't hear it to, might
want to pick it off the podcast. A rancher out
in northeastern Colorado. You know, I take a life story
and then take on DUI checkpoints. His concern was infringing
on the Fourth Amendment. Made it clear he has no
tolerance for drunk or drug driving. Dan the Rancher made
excellent points as a Texter crowding the Fourth Amendment. It's
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a slippery slope, and I believe they have us on
skis already. All tie it back to elections as well.
And then I've been texting with our friend George Brockler.
He's going to come on the show soon and talk
about it. These DUI checkpoints in the news. Now we're
out in Douglas and Arapa ho in ten percent of
the people stopped got busted for impair driving. Think about that.
(29:34):
Do you think that's kind of the average on the
roadway at night? And George texted me to say, there
are a number of rules for the checkpoints, including they
have to be advertised in advance and provide signs for
those approaching, and give those approaching an opportunity to exit beforehand.
So I haven't studied this body case because I do
catastrophic injury and death cases, not criminal defense. But clearly
(29:57):
I would think that there's a body of law that
has said there has to be these certain warnings. Trying
to balance the Fourth Amendments. Try to squeeze in a
call or two before the buzzer. Let's go to one
of my favorite places on Earth, Glenwood Springs. What an
incredibly beautiful place. We just spent almost four weeks there
preparing for an in trial. Joel from Glenwood Springs, Welcome
(30:17):
to the show.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
Hey, Dan, thanks for taking my call. I absolutely worked
on these on these rides up here at the caverns.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Oh wow. The reason we didn't do.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
The mind drop was because we had two other bids
of the contracts have been asked and we couldn't fit
that in.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
And wild do you mean installation you mean the installation project.
Speaker 7 (30:43):
No, I'm actually doing the whole project digging down. Oh yeah, yeah,
that was part of the thing.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
And yeah, you know.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
The contract out there. And like I said, we had
two contracts. We're trying to you know, juggle a bunch
of stuff going on at that point. But it's really
sad because I lost my son to a neglige and
you know death at that point, about fifteen years ago.
So that kind of kids old man. And what's really
sad is the way they trained people up here. They'll
(31:12):
they'll let any of any kids up here, you know,
they'll train them or whatever. And I know they went,
you know, beyond the whatever hit the button, but I'm
kind of nervous. But yeah, it's like the way they
come up there and they don't do drug testing or
anything up here.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Well, I'm I'm so very sorry about your son and
and because it's just the worst thing imaginable on Earth.
And I will tell you if you're interested in some
more details, Joel, and I was contacted by a reporter
on this and the way over to the show. The
court in the case issued and order order on felonious
(31:49):
killing where the court made a lot of formal detailed
findings about about what happened there and about how little
one Gell got killed, and then the or found it
to be a felonious killing as it's referred to in
the law. But the order is very very thorough and
full of a lot of detail on anybody who wants
(32:11):
to really just get the detail in this case. That
explains so much of it. It's in this incredibly thorough
order from the court, and that's that's available publicly. Joel,
I am so sorry to hear about what happened to
your son, and thank you for the call. Yeah, that's
just something right. I mean, it's as we talked about
(32:33):
in that trial. As one of my colleagues pointed out
to me, you stop and you think about it. There's
a word for every other kind of death, but nowhere
in the world is there a word for the.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Loss of a child.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Because it's so that the killing of a child, it's
so unimaginable. It's it's just beyond any horror person could imagine.
Like somebody's wife dies, they're a widower, right If if
somebody's parent dies, you know they're an orphan.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
And these are horrible, horrible things.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
But there is no word for it when a child dies,
because it's so horrible and unimaginable. So I feel so
bad for our last caller, Brian. Tomorrow we're going to talk.
We've already got a lot of things in the mix
for tomorrow. Why is the Denver Post pushing people to
get stoned? Why did you see that story? Did you
(33:27):
say that story which was if there's a news story
talking about these drinks out now where you can get
ten milligrams of dope in your drink and a bit
different high it'll give you, I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Familiar with those I don't like it. There's no corollary
for alcohol.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I mean with alcohol, they'll talk about, hey, this wine
tastes good. They won't say, hey, this wine will get
your wasted faster.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
You know so, But that's the.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Whole point, right, I'm not judging any adult who does marijuana.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
What do I care.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
What I'm judging is a legalization that undermines the kids
of the state.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Leads to all these dead bodies on the roadway. But
why do we have a major paper pushing people to
get stone?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Great question, man, Why does the Springs Airport shut down
the Christy Nome video at TSA checkpoints?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Have they gone woke or are they just winging it?
What's up with that?
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Yeah, well we're going to find out tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Have a great evening, Kelly, Human Sunshine, hope you have
a great night as well. Thanks for your time today.
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Three or three?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Someone three two five five text D seven.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Seven three nine. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Vick Lombardi opened this show talking about Columbus Day and
if if you're new to the area, you don't know
Vic yet.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Vick is a Colorado icon.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
He is a phenomenal, you know, sportscaster, but he's so
much more than that as well, kind of mister nugget,
all his work with the Denver Nuggets being part of that.
He's also just a great human and he's brilliant, and
he's playing spoken and he's down to earth's he's the
nicest guy you'll ever meet. You're running to him tonight
some restaurants somewhere. He'll, you know, treat you like you're
(00:53):
the Queen of Sheba or the King of Sheep, if
there is such a thing.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Now.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Just a great guy and he was on to talk.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
About because he is a one hundred percent Italian, great
Italian family and you can follow him on Instagram where
he documents his family and their journey. It's a wonderful
American success story. But Vic on to talk about Columbus
Day and about how, hey, it was just taken away
from us here, but it has celebrated many many other
(01:20):
places around the country, and talking about the origin, which
none of us knew until we talked to Vic, that
Columbus Day began in Denver, Colorado. That's where it originated,
and how terribly ironic that that's where the Left would.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Take it away from us.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Steve in Littleton, You're on the Dan Kapla show, and
that doesn't have it doesn't have anything to do with oh,
Christopher Columbus, greatest guy ever lived. I'd never say that,
but it has to do with honoring Italians of Colorado,
and they chose, you know, Christopher Columbus, Columbus Day parade,
et cetera, and the Left taking that way, which they
have no right to do.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Steven, what do you think?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
And my friend, well, I didn't.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Call to talk about Columbus Day, but you don't have to.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Free country all right.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
I'm really skeptical.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
About this entire.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Piece thing. And I'm not an anti Trump, I'm on
his side and such. But if I was Hamas and
the background supporters, I would just do what they did
and just sit back. Let Trump finish his term and
with the big push for Democrats socialism in the country,
(02:41):
they might be wanting to go. You know, maybe JD.
Vance gets eight years, but eventually they they're gonna It's
not over. It's not over at all. And I've debated
this with many people, and they're all more knowledgeable than
me about the deep clagmire of the Middle East. But
(03:05):
every time they tell me how complicated it is, they
support my position, which is somebody's got to win and somebody's.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Got to lose.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Otherwise this ain't quit.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
It's going to go on forever, and.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
One of the two sides needs to be defeated. That's
my opinion. And I's skeptical that this this thing will last.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Hey, Stephen, thanks to the call.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
This is such a valuable call and an important conversation
to have because nothing's guaranteed, right, I mean, as Chris
Berman says, we're all day to day. Some of the
people listening to this show may not be alive for tomorrow.
Show that that's just the reality of life. And Stephen
leads us to a critical point. This doesn't happen without Trump, right,
(03:55):
and if the left takes power again in America in
eight then things could start to unwind. So here's the key,
and here's part of I think not only the lasting
legacy of Trump a thousand times more important than that,
the lasting practical gift from Trump, which is changing the
(04:17):
Republican Party. That the personality of the Republican Party, the attitude,
the approach has fundamentally changed in the Trump era. And
so now what we have on the bench are a
bunch of men and women who are fighters, and who
are ready to fight, and who are ready to do
their very best to pursue these things the same way
(04:41):
Trump does. And that's one reason he chose jd Vance,
A big reason, right, because Glenn Elkin would have been
the safer choice, right in terms of locking up this
and locking up that.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Marco Rubio a safer choice.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And you know, I think the world of Rubio, But
he chose jd Vance in part because fans would be
a bet bet to continue MAGA and so you're right,
Stephen's right. You know, if America makes a mistake in
twenty eight of electing a lefty, yeah, this whole thing
could start to unravel. But if America looks at all
(05:14):
of this success and looks at the progress and looks
at the payoff of having this Republican presidency and says, yeah,
I'll take more of that than it continues three or
three someone three eight, two, five, five text d An five, seven,
seventh through nine, Because it all boils down to peace
through strength, and you've got to have the strength at
the core, and you've got to have the strength in
(05:36):
that American president along with the abilities.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
And I think we see Bose in this a great
that this great stable of potential presidential and vice presidential candidates,
that that the new Republican Party under Donald Trump is cultivating.
Dan Okay solution for Colorado challenge, writes a text or
(06:01):
very long text. I can only get to part of it,
but part of it goes down to the machines, mail
in ballots, no idea required, etc. And this is a
constant refrain I get from certain texters and callers who
I enjoy and I invite and I'm glad we have
the conversation because we shouldn't have any fraud in Colorado.
There should be zero tolerance for any kind of voter fraud.
(06:22):
But anybody who thinks the GOP's get its tail kicked
in Colorado because a massive voter fraud is I think,
doing themselves and this state of disservice. Until we recognize
the real reasons we're losing, then it's going to take
even longer to win. And so that doesn't mean we
don't keep pushing in every way we can for zero fraud,
(06:47):
and that doesn't mean that any of their concerns are unfounded.
But let's just be honest about why we're losing. That
gives us the best chance to come back and win.
Dan taking visas is great. What that's referring to talked
about it in the first hour, is the administration today
revoke the visas of six people in the country. You
celebrated the death of Charlie Kirk, the murder, of the assassination,
(07:10):
the killing, the brutally violent killing of Charlie Kirk, and
the administration says nobody has nobody celebrates the death of.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Americans, has a right to be in this country.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
And then the Texter goes under to say, now Trump
should simply say this bad Bunny person will not play
at the super Bowl. And then the Texter goes on
to say he's anti white, anti Christian, anti American.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
And now I do not agree with that.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I think that, as we talked about that day, it's
absolutely ludicrous that this bad buddy is going to play
at the super Bowl. It's you know, the NFL given
the double middle finger to probably eighty to ninety percent
of its fans, right, But that's what we've come to
expect when it comes to the stuff like that from
the NFL. But it's not going to stop me from
(07:58):
watching the super Bowl. I'll do something else at halftime,
or maybe I'll just watch it. I guess I'll have
to watch because I do this show. But yeah, I
do not want Trump to try to stop bad Bunny
from performing at the super Bowl, because all that will
do is repeat the Jimmy Kimmel mistake. And yeah, he's
a historically great president, b he's human and he's going
(08:20):
to make some mistakes. And you know, calling on the
network to fire Jimmy Kimmel only gave Jimmy Kimmel that
last gasp in the sun, and I don't want the
president to do the same thing for bad Bunny.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Kimmel's ratings, I assume have fallen back to about.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Zero, back to where they were before the whole dust up.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, so he got kind of the train wreck, you know,
bumped for one night.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
And again, if he had been smart, you pivot on
that point and you bring back maybe an audience that
had abandoned you, and you build that base of support, ratings,
advertisers that wasn't important.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
To Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
But he's not funny, yeah, Mark again, I mean, they
throw a political commentator in at ten thirty at night.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Well, Greg got fell, but he's funny.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Oh, he's funny.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
But if you're just going to throw a political commentator
in here, are there that many?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Are there that many.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Lefties who just want to get angry before they go
to bed. I try to do the opposite. That's why
I watch things that make me happy. Dan, You're not
a lefty, right, But that's what I'm wondering. I know
a lot of lefties they and I can't imagine they want.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
To go to bed angry and bitter.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Every night.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
What kind of dreams do they have? I think I've
had four bad dreams in forty years.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
What kind of dreams do these people have?
Speaker 6 (09:35):
They reside in that headspace, Dan, they thrive, They live
for their hatred of Trump. That is inherently Trump derangement syndrome.
I know, I was going to go.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Down a different road, but I won't because it's a
family show. But obviously that time of night, you have
couples who are about to maybe rest together. Perhaps you
want to go to bed bitter and angry. No, yeah,
I mean who wants bitter beer face?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
So I don't get it. I don't get the whole concept.
Obviously America doesn't either.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, So that's why it kind of bugged me.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
He got the attention, you know, because all these idiots
who just say these intentionally gross and inflammatory things that
are obviously false. Why do you think they do it?
It's like mcdona, It's like Madonna with her naked with
animals face. They're so desperate for attention. They'll say anything,
they'll do anything to get talked about. Just ignore them
(10:34):
and they'll go away. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Can you Educator Sarah Pion Ryan, Oh.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Dan, you said bitter beer Face?
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Since I couldn't find a song that was entitled bitter
beer Face, you had to settle for Bittersweet.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Symphony by the Verse.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Don Do they still make Keystone?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I know, I knew you'd go back to that commercial.
Do they think you're still out there? Yeah? I would
never drink it.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Speaking of commercials, when are we going to start getting
the Wednesday home Day?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Weren't we going to add that to the repertoire?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Well, starry to be bid? You know it's Tuesday, so
I still have time. We got a day, we got
a day, we got a day. Yeah, I'll have it
for you.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
I'll have it for you right there on that computer
you're looking at and you.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Can't have my bud light that we should play that
more often.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Puts a smile on it. The father son Fish. That's
a good one. It's a really good one.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
This is one of the stranger critical text I've received
over the decades, though we've only been doing text now
for what ten years or so, But nice innovation. I'd
rather people call Dan. It's nice to know that, contrary
to what you say, when Biden and Obama were in office,
you weren't bothered at all. Apparently you slept like a baby,
(11:53):
just like you do now. So now I'm getting ripped
on because I don't have nightmares. Oh yeah, I just
made the comment the last break that you know, all
these Jimmy Kimmel watchers they want to go to bed angry.
What kind of dreams do they have? And I just
made the comment I've had like four bed dreams in
forty years. So I got a text ripping on me.
(12:14):
Oh that means that you really weren't upset about Biden
and Obama like you said you were, or you'd be
having nightmares like the.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Rest of us.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
No, I'm sorry, No, it's the opposite. It's the opposite.
When when my head hits the pillow, I normally feel like,
for all my flaws, I've done everything I could that
day right, or at least tried.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
We don't want to be dan the mirror image reflection
of the left with the Trump derangement syndrome and be
obsessed in every week and moment.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I tell people this all the time.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Had Hillary Clinton won in twenty sixteen, I would have
been really bummed out. But Dan, you know, I went
voted that day in Michigan. You're welcome, America, because I
helped Trump win in a state that was crucial to
him doing so. But I went home that and like, hey,
Hillary's gonna win. But at least I voted for Trump,
and I was expecting Hillary to win. I was kind
of girding my loins for that and like, you know,
(13:08):
try and prepare myself for, you know, living through her presidency.
So the pleasant surprise of Trump winning was all that
more enjoyable. But my point is I wasn't going to
spend those next four years or these last four years
of Biden just consumed and obsessed with the guy or
with her.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Well, you know, like four or five different points there. First,
you should have listened to my show on election Day
twenty sixteen. I spent the All Show explaining why Trump
was going to win that night. And here, even as
his own people, I know, we're bawling on him, correct
and you know, telling the press we lost because to
this guy that can. But here's the bigger point to
the texture. And I wish you'd call the show so
we could talk about this. And I don't mean to
(13:49):
get all cosmic here, but but the reason that I
sleep so well at night is and I don't let
this political stuff keep me up at night. Is we
all we've already won, right, We all know who wins
in the end. You know, the evil's going to have
its day here and there, but we know who wins
(14:09):
in the end. And that's why Ryan, you know, you
see all these experts. It's very good advice. Please follow
their advice, not mine, But they say, don't look at
screens for an hour before you go to bed at night.
If you were to be at our house at night,
when I go to bed, I am. I am looking
at news stories for the next day until my eyes close,
(14:30):
like right up to the moment I fall asleep, and
then I sleep like a baby. Puppies and rainbows and
all sorts of great images in my head. Yeah, because
we know who wins in the end. Three or three seven, one,
three eight, two five five the number. You just want
to know you're doing everything you can. If you get
all caught up, and you know, bad people doing bad things,
(14:54):
and they don't always get stopped immediately, and sometimes bad
prevail for a while. How are you going to help
the cause if you don't sleep or if you have nightmares?
What's the worst nightmare you ever had?
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Oh, all my teeth fell out. I think a lot
of people have had that nightmare. It's tied to something psychological. Yeah,
I think other people in our listening audience have probably
had that one. Oh man, that was a bummer deal man,
and it felt real. It's one of those dreams like
you wake up like, wait a minute, Yeah, that didn't
really happen.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I could have sworn it was real.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Isn't that such a relief. Yeah, it's such a relief
when you have a bad dream. And again I've had
a handful, but they've been bad. And then you wake
up and it's like, thank you God, that's right, that
that didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
That is such a great feeling.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
It's uh uh Dan refresh my memory and maybe other
listeners Why the GOP fails in Colorado?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
And then I'll get to the other parts of this text.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Thank you for the text, Why does the GOP fail
in Colorado? I'd love to get your take on that.
I'd really like to hear from people on these DUI checkpoints.
You know, we just documented one big one in a
repo in Douglas County. Ten percent of the cars they
stop had an impaired driver in there. You know we
should we have more of these checkpoints. Should they become
a normal thing? Love your take? Three oh three someone
(16:15):
three eight two five five d A N five seven
seven three nine. Why does the GOP fail in Colorado?
Let me tee that up for the next segment. I'd
love your take on it. The same numbers will work
for really anything. DA N five seven seven three nine
three oh three seOne three A two five five. Let
me give you my quick take. It would take more
than the twenty seconds we have right now. Why the
(16:37):
GOP fails in Colorado? It starts right here. Don't shoot
the messenger starts right here. We have had for years
in Colorado a badly divided GOP. You look at the
math of this state. The GOP cannot win in Colorado
(16:59):
with United GOP. And I'm not blaming anybody on either
side or any side of the divided GOP. I'm just
saying you start with that, You start with the math,
and then it goes on from there. GOP losing in Colorado.
As a former Democrat. I'm one thousand percent convinced we
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lose in Colorado much more often to the stereotype of
Republicans than we do on the issues.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
That's one big thing.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
The GOP loses in Colorado because it gets in part,
grossly outspent.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Right in the money.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
If the money people thought the GOP was going to win,
of course the money would be there.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
But the GOP gets grossly outspent.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Those are a few starting points why the GOP loses
in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I'll tell you more when we come back.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
But there is hope, there is a path to victory,
and want to focus on that.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Also, you're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I always like talking about dreams. It's such a big
part of.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
People's lives, and there's nowhere you can go on air
to talk about dreams. There must be a thousand different
dream related topics. And now I'm getting ripped by a
text or and are having good dreams? He says, it
means I don't really care.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Enough for real.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Oh my lord, to the phone lines, Mike in Northeast Colorado.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
That narrows it down here on the dan caplis.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
She'll welcome.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
How you doing today?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I am living the dream? How are you, my friend?
Are you rancher Farmer?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Yes, sir, farmer ranch I'm actually sitting out here in
my swath right now in the hazeie, listening to your program.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And uh, you know, I admire that the hell out
of the men and women who do that. I mean,
it's just it is hard, hard work.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
It's a lot of work. But in my opinion, there's
no better way to make a living. If you can
make a living doing it, there, it's the best life
I could ever imagine.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I can tell us.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Why, Well, you don't have to punch a clock. You
don't have somebody looking over your shoulders saying well you
got to be here at this time or that time,
or uh, if I take in mind, I want to
go fishing some afternoon, I park the tractor, take saddle
(19:28):
off my horse, I go fishing.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
So you're not.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Married, no, sir, and not tomorrow and the next day
in the following week. Yeah, pay for going fishing this afternoon,
because I have to work a lot harder for the
next three or four days to catch up. But that's
the way life is. It's a freedom that Okay, my
(19:53):
understanding is you're in a trial attorney, am I correct, yes.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Sir, But but I want to talk about what you're
talking about because it's so fascinating to me. Plus, we've
got women texting us wanting to meet you, and we've
got guys texting us wanting to see if you'll hire them.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Oh well, I'm a small time outfit. I'm only running
about forty pair of cows and I'm only farming about
three half sections of ground, so I got enough equipment too,
and I'm still I am pretty well handled myself, and
(20:31):
the cattle are doing good. But the farm commodities the
last few years, last couple of three years have been
pretty slim picking as far as the payoffs. Why commodity prices?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yeah, what's driving that?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Well? That I don't honestly know. There's a lot of factors.
Government involvement in the farming industry. Farmers have been over
the last fifty or sixty years. Are you familiar with
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what they call the FSA office?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
You know, sir, I'm really not.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I should be.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I represent a lot of farmers and ranchers, but that's
in their injury stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
But no, I mean it. It sounds like.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
You work really really hard, but you love the life.
And obviously you're outdoors and you're close to nature, and
that's that's going to be worth a lot.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
And farmers and ranchers, for the most part, don't do
this life to get rich. They do it because they
enjoy the work. For me, and this is just me
when my cows are having jazz in February and March. Yeah,
(21:52):
I put in unbelievable amount of hours. If I figured
the dollars I get for the hours I put in,
I'd probably be working for bucking a half ouf and hour.
But to me, there's a few things on this earth.
You go out, you watch a cow have a baby calf.
He says up, looks around like what just happened to me?
(22:13):
Mama cleans him up. Two hours later he's up nursing,
all fuzzy, and.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Uh, that's us.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Three or four days he's jumping around and running and
bucking and kicking, and I don't have words to describe us.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
See, this is one of the greatest calls I've ever heard,
because it's it's all about quality of life, right, And
you're just describing a great quality of life.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Yeah, it's it's not a way to get rich, it's
a way of life.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
What does rich mean?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Rich?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Rich means how much you're enjoying your life, right, and
you're enjoying your life a lot.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
When okay, when I said that, made the statement it's
not a good one. You're not going to get rich
good And I was thinking dollars. A huge, huge percentage
of people out there, they think they're rich if they've
got half a million dollars, a million, dollars, a billion,
(23:12):
whatever their bank account is, according to their viewpoint, is rich.
But I guess I'm just simple minded.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Well, no, you got to figure out that.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
You've got to figured out. I mean, if you heard
of this guy, Tony Robbins, he's a Tony Robbins.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
He's wondering.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I've heard the name.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
He's a life coach guy. I think he's a real
smart guy. And what Tony Robbins says is is you're
wealthy if you're able to get the most enjoyment out
of every moment in life. And I think he's right
about that because how many people do you know who
have the big numbers in a bank account and they're miserable.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
And I've seen a lot of people in my travels
that they're out there scrapping day in and day out
for another dollar and they're just miserable as the day
is long.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
They but figured out if you got good friends. And
an old man told me and my what in my
youth you got, and find something you love to do
and enjoy doing every day, You'll never work a day
in your life.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Amy and I have Amy and I our kids have
heard that since the day they could understand words, because
it is it is so very true. Don't don't chase
the dollar, don't get the golden handcuffs. You know, find
what you love to do, which means that that's probably
what you were created to do, and then just have
a fulfilling life.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Okay, I'm still living on the home place my granddad
moved there in nineteen thirty eight.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Wow, that's cool. That is cool.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
And yah, him and his family lived at their days there.
Mom and dad lived up their days there. And now
I'm still working out of the same year they set
up camping and thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
That is so cool, just that connection to the past.
And hey, man, appreciate the call and sharing your story.
I know you called on a different topic. What are
you thinking?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Well, you ask for opinions on dui checkpoints, right, okay,
And don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of
driving drunk, and I'm even less of a fan of
driving high.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
This dui checkpoints, the way they're doing it, in my opinion,
is starting to crowd the Fourth Amendment of unreasonable search
and seizure because they have no call to pull these
people in. They have given them no indication of wrongdoing
(25:58):
or i min or civil violations of any law.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
You know, I'm really glad.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yeah, and let me continue. And so that is in
my opinion, And I'm not a legal scholar anything else,
but that's crowding the limits of the Fourth Amendment and
probable cause. And I also believe that that is a
(26:31):
very slippery slope because if we set back and all right,
we don't want drunk drivers, we don't want high drivers. Well,
that's fine. I'm not going to argue that point with
you at all. But how long before Okay, Poulis and
his band passed a bunch of very Dryconian gun laws
(26:56):
this past legislative session. How long before where they to
be set up and say, well, there's a lot of
people running around with the guns that are not secured
in their vehicles, and they set up a checkpoint for
guys don't have their side arm locked up in a
(27:18):
safe while they're driving down the road or big a
subject kid. Yeah, this, in my opinion, could turn into
a very slippery slope.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Well man, great, great call, and you raise a lot
of very legitimate issues. I've been texting back and forth
with George Brockler, who's the DA in Douglas County, talking
about the legality of checkpoints, et cetera. And he's going
to pop on the show sometime in the next couple
of days and we'll get into those issues. But real
fair questions, Mike can appreciate the time.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
And then he made one other we're asking about one
other subject and I can't remember what it was. Joy.
We've had about had two subjects.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, we've had about ten on the show today. I
have to hit this heartbreak, Mike. But I tell you,
we'd love to hear from you every day, my friends.
So we're going to be talking about this more in
the next few days. We're going to get George on
to talk about the laws that surround those stops, and
for example, he was texting me about there has to
be certain notice, there has to be an opportunity to
(28:22):
exit before the checkpoint. Things like that that that go
to I think you're very legitimate questions about constitutionality. But
thank you, Mike, and hope we hear from them often.
Cool guy, Yeah, cool guy. And that is farmers ranchers
in Colorado. That is a phenomenal community. You are on
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the Dan Capla.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Show and now back to the Dan Kaplass Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
It's just a tremendous calum.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
The last segment, if you didn't hear it to, might
want to pick it off the podcast. A rancher out
in northeastern Colorado. You know, I take a life story
and then take on DUI checkpoints. His concern was infringing
on the Fourth Amendment. Made it clear he has no
tolerance for drunk or drug driving. Dan the Rancher made
excellent points as a Texter crowding the Fourth Amendment. It's
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a slippery slope, and I believe they have us on
skis already. All tie it back to elections as well.
And then I've been texting with our friend George Brockler.
He's going to come on the show soon and talk
about it. These DUI checkpoints in the news. Now we're
out in Douglas and Arapa ho in ten percent of
the people stopped got busted for impair driving. Think about that.
(29:34):
Do you think that's kind of the average on the
roadway at night? And George texted me to say, there
are a number of rules for the checkpoints, including they
have to be advertised in advance and provide signs for
those approaching, and give those approaching an opportunity to exit beforehand.
So I haven't studied this body case because I do
catastrophic injury and death cases, not criminal defense. But clearly
(29:57):
I would think that there's a body of law that
has said there has to be these certain warnings. Trying
to balance the Fourth Amendments. Try to squeeze in a
call or two before the buzzer. Let's go to one
of my favorite places on Earth, Glenwood Springs. What an
incredibly beautiful place. We just spent almost four weeks there
preparing for an in trial. Joel from Glenwood Springs, Welcome
(30:17):
to the show.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
Hey, Dan, thanks for taking my call. I absolutely worked
on these on these rides up here at the caverns.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Oh wow. The reason we didn't do.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
The mind drop was because we had two other bids
of the contracts have been asked and we couldn't fit
that in.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
And wild do you mean installation you mean the installation project.
Speaker 7 (30:43):
No, I'm actually doing the whole project digging down. Oh yeah, yeah,
that was part of the thing.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
And yeah, you know.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
The contract out there. And like I said, we had
two contracts. We're trying to you know, juggle a bunch
of stuff going on at that point. But it's really
sad because I lost my son to a neglige and
you know death at that point, about fifteen years ago.
So that kind of kids old man. And what's really
sad is the way they trained people up here. They'll
(31:12):
they'll let any of any kids up here, you know,
they'll train them or whatever. And I know they went,
you know, beyond the whatever hit the button, but I'm
kind of nervous. But yeah, it's like the way they
come up there and they don't do drug testing or
anything up here.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Well, I'm I'm so very sorry about your son and
and because it's just the worst thing imaginable on Earth.
And I will tell you if you're interested in some
more details, Joel, and I was contacted by a reporter
on this and the way over to the show. The
court in the case issued and order order on felonious
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killing where the court made a lot of formal detailed
findings about about what happened there and about how little
one Gell got killed, and then the or found it
to be a felonious killing as it's referred to in
the law. But the order is very very thorough and
full of a lot of detail on anybody who wants
(32:11):
to really just get the detail in this case. That
explains so much of it. It's in this incredibly thorough
order from the court, and that's that's available publicly. Joel,
I am so sorry to hear about what happened to
your son, and thank you for the call. Yeah, that's
just something right. I mean, it's as we talked about
(32:33):
in that trial. As one of my colleagues pointed out
to me, you stop and you think about it. There's
a word for every other kind of death, but nowhere
in the world is there a word for the.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Loss of a child.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Because it's so that the killing of a child, it's
so unimaginable. It's it's just beyond any horror person could imagine.
Like somebody's wife dies, they're a widower, right If if
somebody's parent dies, you know they're an orphan.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
And these are horrible, horrible things.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
But there is no word for it when a child dies,
because it's so horrible and unimaginable. So I feel so
bad for our last caller, Brian. Tomorrow we're going to talk.
We've already got a lot of things in the mix
for tomorrow. Why is the Denver Post pushing people to
get stoned? Why did you see that story? Did you
(33:27):
say that story which was if there's a news story
talking about these drinks out now where you can get
ten milligrams of dope in your drink and a bit
different high it'll give you, I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Familiar with those I don't like it. There's no corollary
for alcohol.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I mean with alcohol, they'll talk about, hey, this wine
tastes good. They won't say, hey, this wine will get
your wasted faster.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
You know so, But that's the.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Whole point, right, I'm not judging any adult who does marijuana.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
What do I care.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
What I'm judging is a legalization that undermines the kids
of the state.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Leads to all these dead bodies on the roadway. But
why do we have a major paper pushing people to
get stone?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Great question, man, Why does the Springs Airport shut down
the Christy Nome video at TSA checkpoints?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Have they gone woke or are they just winging it?
What's up with that?
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Yeah, well we're going to find out tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Have a great evening, Kelly, Human Sunshine, hope you have
a great night as well. Thanks for your time today.
Please join us tomorrow on The Dan Kapla Show.
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