Dan and Ryan laugh down Memory Lane recalling John Hickenlooper incinerating his run for President in 2020 answering CNN's Dana Bash on why he took his mother to see the pornographic film 'Deep Throat.'
Brita Horn joins the program to discuss why running to be chair of the Colorado Republican Party is important to her - and a winning choice for Colorado GOP voters.
Brita Horn joins the program to discuss why running to be chair of the Colorado Republican Party is important to her - and a winning choice for Colorado GOP voters.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (01:01):
Maybe, unless it's a landline, you still have old service.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
But this, like you said, I don't know, yeah, and
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So lots to do today, but my goodness, what a
great group of guests. Britta Horn will join us at
four thirty six quid hit. She's running for Colorado GOP chair.
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And then Gabe Evans. What a critical win that was
for the United States of America right when Gabe one
CD eight. He will join us at five oh six.
As you know from the campaign, Gabe, a great new congressman,
is also at black Hawk helicopter pilot and so we'll
be talking about this horrific crash at Reagan and get
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his insight, Gabe's insight as a former black Hawk pilot
as to you know, how everything works when you're in
the cockpit there, what can you see and not see?
What's your frame of view and especially at night, night vision,
et cetera. And get his take on what may have
gone so horribly wrong there, And then you will not
want to miss this guest as well. Five thirty six,
(02:07):
Grady Block is going to be with us and Grady
blocks from the Mountain States Legal Foundation, and the Mountain
States Legal Foundation has been leading the way on this
very important lawsuit Brigida v. Dot, BRI I, G I,
d A. If you want to pull up the Pleadings v. Dot.
This is a class action against Department of Transportation for
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allegedly discriminating on the basis of race in hiring of
air traffic controllers and discriminating against Caucasian people. So that
suit has been in the works for quite a while,
and obviously with President Trump saying that the cause of
this horror was DEI, you know, wanted to talk with
Mountain States Legal Foundations. So Grady will join us at
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five thirty six. So well, yeah, that going for us,
which is nice. Yes, boy, you did see that movie,
didn't you?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Many times?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Probably not as often as you have though, Cady, I
watched that movie than oh, I couldn't even begin to count.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I asked me about Gone with the Wind or something
like that. I never saw, never saw, no, but Caddy Shack, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
In fact, it was on. I can show you pictures,
but my wife wouldn't approve. It was on as Joe
was born. It's awesome yeah, in the hospital helped to
explain his great caddy abilities and a wonderful golfer. Totally.
Was your dad a fan of that movie? Oh? We
never We would never talk about that movie because of
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the nudity. Oh yeah, I mean I unimaginable to me
to ever watch any kind of TV show, movie, et
cetera where there was any of that stuff going on.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I said with your mom, But it's a little different
with your dad, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Like I would either do there as my mom. No, No,
I know that. What I'm saying is it was either
I grew up in Chicago, Irish Catholic, all of us
one hundred percent through and through. I would I mean,
we used to get the ratings for movies that would
come out from the Catholic church, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I would be one thousand percent more mortified to see
something like that with my mom than my dad. If
I watch him, my dad be like I I'm not
a big fan of that, but my mom. Oh I
don't want to see him my mom.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, Oh, I got you. But understand my dad. You know,
six three and a half maybe six four, two hundred
and forty pound tremendous athlete, college basketball player, Chicago police officer.
I never heard him swear his entire life, never heard
him swear a lot of discipline, Yeah, a lot is
so yeah, that would you know? No, that that's just
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not something you would do, which again comes back to
John Hickenlooper and why I predicted once he ran for
president it would be it would last a minute, right
because once people heard he took his mother to deep throat,
automatic disqualify. And in this Senate campaign, whoever the GOP
senate nominee is needs to hammer on that point because
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hick and Looper and I love hanging out with him.
He is a blast to hang out with. Then I've
had that happen a few times. But the guy's living
a lie in terms of who he is political and
everything else. Right, Oh, it's moderate, John, can you moderate
compared to what? Okay, compared to maybe mixing waters? Even then,
I don't think he's a moderate, But yeah, taking your
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mom to deep throat and not just like walking in
by accident. Oh, I thought we're gonna be in Mary Poppins,
get out of here, sitting there and watching the whole thing,
like after the first time it happened. Don't you think
you got the gist.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I've been stunned by how many of your production predictions
have come true, Dan, But I've never been sound like
my wife, but as shocked at how specifically accurate that
prediction was. Because Dana bash was the one that brought
it up. On seeing I'm like, oh my god, remember yes.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And we should pull up the video because you remember
she brings it up. And then CNN cuts to people
in the crowd and it's like they've just seen a
ghost and not a friendly ghost. I mean, like the
MOUs get and these were Democrats in the crowd. Oh yeah,
MOUs gaping wide open. Yeah. I mean that's the end
right there. Yeah. You could have had a crowd full
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of people who do nothing all day except watch porn
and they would have been shocked. You watched it with
who with who? Oh? Right?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Uh huh?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I mean how many of these people say a prayer form?
How many these people who sit there and watch porn
all day would bring their mother in to watch it?
I would hope none or none to it zero. So no,
it's a disqualifier. So the GOP candidate has to hammer
that there'll be lots more to hammer because Hick and
Looper has been so far out there in protecting criminally
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legals folks here illegally then commit serious criminal offenses. He
is way way, way, way way left of where the
people of Colorado and the American people are right now
on that. So I just think he's vulnerable on multiple fronts.
But pro tip to candidates, start with taking your mom
to deep throat. Yeah, I mean, don't do that yourself.
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Start with that line of attack on Hickey. Is that
movie still even out anywhere? I mean, yeah, you can
find it online if you were to search you I won't.
I won't. I know you won't. I won't. And for
the record, I have not seen it. And that's god
not because I'm prude. I'm furthest thing from a prude.
I have not seen that movie. And I won't even
insult Alexa with the question. But I'll thank her for
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being here today and for Kelly. How many seconds would
you have been in that theater with your own mother
if that came on the screen before you bolted out
of there, Well, I I would have been dead. I
mean literally, my heart would have stopped beating, or she
would have stopped it from beating one way or the other,
I I would be done with this life. It's just
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so unimaginable.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Ryan.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
That's that's why Dana Bash brought it up, right. They
just wanted to get Hickenlooper out of the way, get
him out of the race, have a little fun. Make
that point. Boom, silver bullet. He's gone. Alrighty, how about
this one, guys? Oh my goodness, And what can we
do as a community, peacefully, within the bounds of the law,
respectfully to stop this mutilation? This headline in the Denver
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Post Denver Health pauses gender affirming surgeries for youth to
comply with Trump order and preserve federal funds. This is
in the Denver Post today, gender affirming surgeries for youth.
So as I just tweeted and I posted the story.
If you want to pull it up, you can pull
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it off off my Twitter at dan Kaplis, I posted,
wth how many kids have they mutilated? There? We're talking
about kids. And then you get into this and this
is at Denver Health, and then you get into this
story and it's just like Alice in Wonderland. First, the
term gender affirming surgeries. Wait a second, If you are
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cutting off a female child's breast, that is not gender affirming.
That is gender mutilating. Where did this term gender affirming
never come from. It's the opposite gender affirming care would be.
If it happens to be a girl, it would be hey,
you know so sorry, let's work this through together. You
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are a female, and let's just let's care for you
and care for your needs and work through whatever is
causing you to get to the point where somebody has
convinced you to cut off your breast. No, that would
be gender affirming. You are a female. We're going to
affirm your a female. We're going to address whatever issues
are tormenting you. Because so many of these kids are tormented.
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That part is real. But the source of their torment,
which is heartbreaking and deserves every resource we have, the
source of their torment is not the fact that they
are in fact a female or they are in fact
a male. And so for Denver Health to be removing
the breasts of able bodied, physically healthy teenage girls, that's
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beyond insane. But then you get further into this story
and we're out of time now, but I'll get to
it when we come back on the other side, the
language that's used in this story to try to somehow
make this acceptable and normal. This is the sort of
thing that America rejected on election Day, across party lines,
rejected on election day. And the language in this story
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and the acts, these acts of mutilation of able bodied
teenage girls and boys, those are soon, thank god, going
to be a thing of the past, because America is
not going to put up with this kind of insanity anymore,
and it shouldn't. You're on the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
You know, and you have a lot of interesting stories
in that book. One of them is about the time
you went to see an X rated.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
Movie with your mother.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Than you out the floors her.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Thank you so much for that question.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Anytime, I thought it was better to write a book
to let people really see who you were and the
dumb things you did as well as the smart things.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
And where is that on the.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
On the dumb side, I was the youngest of four,
and I said, my dad died right after I turned eight,
and my mother and I had a pretty tempestuous relationship.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
She was just the most amazing person.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
And I went off to college, and for the first
time she was alone in the house. And I didn't
realize how powerful that was until I got home and
Thanksgiving I promised. I called a friend in Philadelphia, and
these were extually.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I didn't know what next movie was.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
We thought it was a little naughty, but we didn't
think it was that bad. Teaking deeper again, you gotta understand,
I was eighteen years old, and.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
So when I came home, my mother hated to cook.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
I mean she she was just a strong, powerful woman
who got stuff done in her own right. And I
got home and she'd had this huge dinner laid out,
and I said, I promised, you know, I promised Jedi
we would go to the movie theater.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
And so this makes it better for him. Okay, he's eighteen,
so he doesn't really understand what deep throw us about. Listen,
when you're an eighteen year old mail, that's all you're
thinking about, right, And so he gets he gets home
now and his mother, who's alone, right because father is
passed and he's gone to school. His mother is alone
at Thanksgiving. She's put all this work in, she's made
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this big, beautiful meal, and he says, oh, sorry, Mom,
I'm going to go to a porn flick instead of
stay home and have food with you. So that's how
the mother ends up going with him. So it just
gets worse for him. So the point is, and if
you just joined us and you wonder what we're talking about,
we're talking about John Ay and Lupert because he's up
for reelection this year. And that's what as I predicted
(12:38):
in advance, and it is presidential campaign that he took
his mom to see Deep Throat. But it's even worse.
You know, wouldn't stay home to have Thanksgiving dinner with
her instead, was going to a porn flick and then
just took her along. So I just hope whoever the
GOP nominee is uses that heavily because it does tell
you something about the guy. I like spending time with him.
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I enjoy John Hickenlooper, but he is not politically you
know what they make him out to be. I mean
that goes way way way beyond quirky eight five five
forour zero five eight two five five the number text
d A N five seven seven three nine. And listen, hey,
we all we're just human, right, we all make mistakes,
we all do some crazy things. At some point, Lord
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knows we do more crazier things when we're young like that,
But to put it in a book, and it's like
Christy gnome right, he put this in the book because
he thought it would help him. Shouldn't that disqualify him anyway?
Before we get back to this really important story in
the Denver Post today, important in two ways. One just
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informing the community that Denver Health and listen, there are
a lot of great doctors at Denver Health, and Denver
Health does invaluable work for this state, absolutely invaluable work,
and it's critical to us that we have a well funded,
healthy Denver Health. And that is why it is beyond insane.
(14:04):
It is institutionally suicidal for Denver Health to be engaging
in this mutilation of teenage girls. And that's what we
learned today through this Denver Post story headline, Denver Health
pauses gender affirming surgeries for youth to comply with Trump
order and preserve federal funds. So listen to the language
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they use. What they're doing at Denver Health is so
bad that the Denver Post, which is trying to write
the most sympathetic story imaginable, starting with using this backwards
bizarre term gender affirming surgeries. So the way to affirm
the gender of a female with female breasts is to
cut her breasts off. No, now that's the polar opposite
and it's just mutilation. But listen to the language they use.
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You know, it's kind of like, now that people know
the reality of abortion, all of these pro abortion people
can't call it abortion anymore. They have to call it
reproductive rights, right because they know abortion is so horrible.
If they just mention it's abortion, most people say, of course,
not so anyway, here's the example of that for this.
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Here's what the Post story says. It says, but guidelines
for treating patients allow surgeries to remove mammary tissue and
create masculine chest appearance. So this is how the Denver
Post is describing what Denver Health is doing. When they
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cut the breasts off able bodied teenage girls. They're removing
mammary tissue to create a masculine chest appearance. Wow. And
then it goes on to say, in cases where the
patient has the mental capacity to decide and is particularly
distressed by their breasts, wow, Listen, we should not this
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should not be happening anywhere in Colorado, right, And it's
sure as heck shouldn't be happening at an institution that's
so critical to the health of this state as Denver Health.
So whoever is in charge over there, whoever is in
a position to influence, whoever is in charge, please stop
the madness, protect the children. And I think we've seen
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a sea change in America. Actually, America, I think has
always seen this as insane. But the left to you
cancel culture, everything else. If you come out and you
speak the truth about this or other things, then they'll
personally destroy you. You'll be banned from civilized society. And
America broke those chains on election Day, and America is
once again standing up for sanity, standing up for kids.
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So if you want to read that story at Dan
Kaplis on Twitter. When we come back, I do want
to talk about, and I'll talk about later in the show.
A really wonderful piece done in the Post today on
Daniel Ritchie. And if you're new to the area, you're
not familiar with Daniel Ritchie. He has to be one
of the top five greatest Coloradens of all time. And
(17:01):
you know one question I'd throw out there for people
who are familiar with Daniel Ritchie. You know, I'll pass
along some details as we work our way through the show.
Is is Colorado going to have another Daniel Ritchie? Or
men and women of that stature who just do so
much good for the communities. They're not running for office
saying elect me governor, elect me centers so people can
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kiss my behind. They're just they're incredibly unselfish. They give
up so much of their own money, their own time
just to help others and make the community better. Yeah,
who's the next Daniel Richie going to be? Or Danielle Ritchie?
I mean, who is that going to be? But dead
at ninety three? What an amazing human. And there isn't
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time in the rest of this segment to go into
even the start of his accomplishments. But you know, I
can remember sitting down with him and needing some advice
on something and I'm nobody right, and he just makes
the time in his schedule he sits down, could not
have been more gracious, just shares his wisdom. And you know,
just who's the next Daniel Ritchie? Eight five five or
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zero five A two five five? The number? Next time
I do that? Slap me would you rite and Alexa
certainly has permission to do that. We're going to our
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They will do a quick drop on the other side.
But Freda Horne as well, who's running for GOP chair.
You're on the Dankplas Show.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
So MSNBC has this panel all the candidates for DNC chair.
They're voting tomorrow, and they ask this vital question. Then
come a little loose because she's black and a woman,
and you're gonna love the answer. If if you want
Republicans to keep winning, you're going to love the answer.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
So I'm going to have a show of hands.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
How many of you believe that racism and misogyny played
a role in Vice President Harris's defeating?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
All the hands go up, keep talking.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Like that, So that's good. You all passed.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
That he is perfect? Please just denials, not just a
river in Egypt.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
You always want you always want your opponent politically to
be from one particular state, right, the state of delusion.
And they are, and please keep convincing yourself. Britta, We're
off to a great start. You laughed at a joke
of mine. I never get that at home, but thank
you for that. You got my vote. Yeah, yeah, I
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am living the dream. I am living the dream. Britta
Horn kind enough to be with us. She is, of course,
running for GOP chair and the great State of Colorado. Yeah, so, Britta,
you are a fire chief as well? Right? So is
that the proper title? Like when we have you on,
do we have to say a welcome chief?
Speaker 7 (20:11):
No, you're welcome to but you can call me anything
but done not late for dinner.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Okay, I'm with that. I'm with that. So yeah. Hey,
for the folks who may not know you at this point,
can you give them a little bio and then talk
about why this whole gop chare thing's so critical? Right now?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Thanks? Yeah, so you said, Britta Horn, and our ranch
is halfway between the steamboats Rais and Vail. They'd love
to be married to my husband of thirty four years.
Two daughters, adult daughters. One's a farmer and out in
Nebraska with her husband and our first grand baby and
our other one is an attorney.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
That raised one exactly to be critical. Yeah, we tought
it to be a critical thinkers. So she think Kansas and
just got elected as county attorney to that too. So
besides that, we started a volunteer fire department twenty years ago,
right after nine to eleven, and I was like, but
we're able to put together an apartment because there wasn't
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any department here halfway teams sea Boat, Springs and Vail.
And we also don't even still today don't have self service.
So we call it God Country.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Wow. It has to be incredibly beautiful and probably a
little chilly this time of year. But the GOP Okay,
So I think you got a lot of people, Britta,
if I'm right, and I'm no insider or activist or anything,
but if I'm right, I think you got a lot
of people right now who are sitting back saying, Hey,
I like this person from the GOP or that person
from the GOP, but I don't think we have a
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chance to win. So I'm really not going all in.
So what do you say to those folks? And how
do you how do you win here? How do you
win here statewide?
Speaker 7 (21:48):
I think we had to win here because state wide,
because we have to have common sense, to get back
to common sense, and we have to be honest with everybody,
and we have to be transparent, and we have to
make sure that they understand that we know what the
job is. I mean, the job, I'm going to be
honest with you is simple. I've done hard stuff and
we can talk about hard stuff and sad stuff as
a fire cheason, a first responder, and a firefighter. But
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it's easy. The job is to be an organization, which
the GOP organization is, which is a community activist organization
to elect more Republicans, grow the party, and then get
raise massive amounts of money to do those things. So
we need to get back to the business of the
job and the business of the corporation the organization, because
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not only do we have the answer to our members,
we need to answer to all of Colorado. Because right now, Dan,
you know this, only twenty two points seventy nine percent
are Republicans in Colorado that are active Republicans. So to me,
that's over seventy percent are not Republicans. We have a
lot of work to do.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Yeah, and it seems to me that a GOP candidate
cannot win statewide without overwhelmed in support from GOP voters
to start with. And that doesn't guarantee you anything other
than you're in the game. But if you can't get
GOP voters united behind you mathematically, I don't think you
have any chance at all.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
Well, and that's true. We have to unite, and that's
what I've been saying. I have the fire to lead,
to unite the future party of the GOP and to
get involved. If people are like and all listening in,
they're like, how do we get involved? They have to
go to their county GOP reorganization meetings that are starting
tomorrow February one to the fifteenth, and you have to
be a bonus member or at least run for office
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if you don't like who's run on the office or
chair or bias the secretary. We need to get everybody
back involved and be a part of this because we're
on a great wave right now with everything going by nationwide.
It's ridiculous that we can't go with that same wave too.
Of common sense.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, Britta Horn our guest running for GOP chair, and
Britta can the gop win statewide in this cycle, this
twenty six cycle, I see an opening for it.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
I see we can it's gonna be it's going to
be a bright future. But we have to be able
to unite and collaborate and then focus on those three
things I talked about. That's what the job is. Let's
do the job this time and see how we fare.
I think we have some really good opportunities. The way
the state is going, in the way everybody's unhappy with
the way things are going.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Now, how can people reach you? Learn more about you
all that? Oh?
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Oh yeah, Just go to my website. It's my name
Bretta Horn b R I T A h O r
N dot com and you can reach out to me there.
I happy to answer any questions. I'm also on x
at real Bretta Horn, and I'm also on Facebook, So
find me and we can chat and let's let's.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Win wonderful way. Thank you, Bretta, That's what it's all about.
Appreciate the time.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
Thank you for the time.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I take care. Yeah, boy, it's it's gonna be wild
this twenty six cycle. I don't think people are really
dialed into that yet in Colorado, other than the folks
actively involved because you know, hey, this great victory. Trump
just had this great victory, et cetera. I think for
a lot of folks it seems soon to be you know,
they're they're burned out in a good way, right, exhausted,
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left it all on the field, had this big win.
But once people start focusing on these opportunities in twenty six,
I think there's going to be a lot of excitement.
I mean, you got that governor's office open, right, No
incumbent there let alone, and incumbent will spend one hundred
million dollars if he has to to swamp the race
so police can't run again. And then the Senate seat
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Phil Wiser's running no dead, Oh man, I'm sorry, it's over,
no chance, it's a no hoper. But isn't Jenna Griswold
going to knock them off in the primary? Well? No,
But do you think she'll even run? I mean, I
do what else? What else is she going to do?
Not that we'll put some passwords online? What you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Anybody advising her who tells her it's a good idea
to run for governor is not looking out for her
best interest.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I'm just saying that as honestly as I can, I
know you'd be a very logical person. So please let's
take step one first.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Let's do that.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
What else is she going to do? Be a county
clerk somewhere? I don't know. That's the point. Listen, Once
these people get and there are some noble exceptions, but
for the most part, once these people get used to
everybody kissing up to them and all the perks of
high office and everything else, you think they want to
go back and do regular jobs like we do. Way
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And once you know, you get the chatter going by
yes men and yes women about governor, this governor, that
you'd be a great governor, and they start to know,
picturing the inaugural ball and all this and that. No, no,
she's running, and you know what, she may well be
their nominee. I mean, think about it. That party right now,
is you just heard it? I played the sound. It
is so obsessed with identity politics, right, it's so obsessed
(26:44):
with identity politics. And she's a woman, and Lord knows
we need a female governor, but not her. It has
to be it has to be doctor King's core principle.
It has to be based on merit not anything else,
but yes, So if I had to bet your burger
right now, I would bet you that she is their
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nominee and that would be the best possible news any
of us could have.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Again, I feel anybody advising her is simply grifting for
money if they tell her to get into the race
and believe that she can be. If there are three
people on a stage, Dan and one is Phil Wiser,
Phil none the wiser as I call him, and the
other that's original, but the other ones I called him that,
nobody else called him before I did.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
And Jose bro No, he's been called that since pre
k but Jose on a stage debating which griswold you
can't even handle. Comrade Kyle, my friend think thank you,
and that is a fair correction. I stand corrected. Well, no, No,
here's the point I am assuming no Joanah Goose. If
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Jonah Goose is in the race, then we got nothing
to talk about. He's the nominee. He is exponentially their
strongest possible candidate. So thank you for reminding me. I
need qualifier. If Joe No Goose is not in the race,
who else is it going to be?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I still think Wiser is a stronger candidate than Grismolk. Okay,
well by a lot.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
The one thing we know for sure is nobody listening
right now cares about any of this. You and I do.
I find it fascinating. You find it fast and care
about it eventually. I just think it's early for people
right now. Don't you think we need change?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
We need it now in Colorado's spiraling downward. And I
think there is an opportunity Dan, Oh my goodness, are
you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (28:32):
For a Republican candidate. It's not easy, but there's an
opportunity shot there, there is a path. I agree with
Bretta on that. Yes, yes, you would need the right candidate,
doing the right things, hitting on all cylinders. They won't
have big money up front, but if all of a
sudden it looks like they have a chance to win,
the money will start to follow it. There's definitely an
opportunity Governors. I think there's a much bigger opportunity in
(28:53):
the Senate race. Then people understand right now eight five
five eight two five five for the reasons we have discussed.
And do you think Polis is in the process of
running Hickenlooper out of that race? You're on the Dan Capla.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Show and now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 9 (29:12):
This was Biden's FAA just two years ago.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
We need a diverse group of air traffic controllers to
bring distinct perspectives to handle the ever changing aerospace landscape.
I'm calling on students and alumni from HBCU's Hispanic serving
institutions and tribal collegists to apply now to become air
traffic controllers.
Speaker 9 (29:36):
Primetime also found this little slide show from the Biden
FAA titled Rethinking Diversity and it says, quote diversity plus
inclusion equals better performance.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Is that true? Hey, five point thirty six, Grady Block
will join us from Mountain State's Legal Foundation. They've been
leading the way on a very important lawsuit that's been
in the works for a while. It's a c action
brig it up Brig I DA v DOT, and it's
a large number of people who are seeking controller jobs,
(30:10):
air traffic controller jobs, and are alleging that they were disqualified,
simply dropped off the list because of their race. So
and listen, any sane person understands that the very best
air traffic controller in America may well be black, may
well be Latino, may well be a woman, and and
(30:31):
there may be lots of people of color and lots
of females who are the very best at air traffic control.
But the point being that nobody should ever be hired
for that job or any job based on skin color
or disadvantage based on skin color. Right height five five
for is a five A two five five the number.
(30:52):
You will not want to miss that five thirty six
interview because they've been at this for a long time.
This case has been in the works for a while.
They gained Class A status. I think they have over
a thousand planineiffs who say they couldn't get their air
traffic controller job because of the color of their skin. Yeah, now, Ryan,
is this a small plane crash in Philly right now?
Do we have those details? Details are just coming in.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
You can see it on Fox News where you are
right now, and it just says that an aircraft reportedly
strikes a mall. It's a smaller plane and details are sketchy,
but again, this is happening on the heels of what
just happened on the Potomac River.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Yeah. Yeah, and eight five five zero five two five
five the number. The latest on that today. I don't
think is that far beyond the state of the news yesterday.
It's just been confirmed today that A that there was
one controller for the two stations, and quote ideally there
should be two. Well, it seems that when you're dealing
(31:48):
with something like air traffic control in a busy area,
the ideally has to be your standard, your bottom. And
then also report today that the supervisor had been allowed
to leave early eight five Z five eight two five
five the number text d A N five seven seven
three nine. We have a lot of hot take sound
(32:08):
obviously responding to the President's position on this. Gabe Evans
is going to join us as well. Gabe's coming up,
and he of course won that critical c D eight
seat which allows the GOP now to have this majority,
this very ten majority in the House, and thank god
they do. But he was also a black Hawk pilot,
and so Gabe will join us at five oh six
(32:29):
to offer his perspective. Of course he doesn't know what
costs his crash, but just as a black Hawk pilot,
what do you see when you're in there at night?
How much can you see up down sideways? All that
good stuff. So we look forward to that visit if
you want even more reason to believe as I do,
that as long as the GOP delivers now, and I
believe they will, and Trump will make sure that that
(32:51):
we're looking at the best opportunity in our lifetime for
this long lasting, major c change in americaly. Practically day
in and day out in American life, but politically, and
the two are obviously intertwined. Just listen to this. This
is This is Jonathan K. Bard from MSNBC. He has
all of the candidates for d NC chair on the
(33:14):
same stage. They're elections tomorrow, and he asked them this question.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
So I'm going to have a show of hands.
Speaker 8 (33:25):
How many of you believe that racism and misogyny played
a role in Vice President Harris's defeat? Okay, so that's good.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
You all passed.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Yeah, that's the answer I wanted to hear. They all,
they all, Oh, yeah, it was racism, it was sexism. Oh,
it couldn't have possibly been wanted to use taxpayer dollars
to have transgender surgeries in prison, or possibly been men
and women's sports, or possibly have been yeah, abortion right
up to the moment of birth, or possibly have ben
(34:03):
you go right on down the list right, open borders,
just allowing people to flown couldn't have been any of that.
So please keep diluting yourselves. The Nile is not just
a river in Egypt, and let's hope they stay in
that state. Now, this Ryan, this was kind of cute.
This was a And Michael Bennett, do you think he
likes this nickname? Kyle Clark just gave him Colorado's Democratic senater.
(34:26):
Michael Bennett is like a cicada of confrontation, relatively dormant
and unheard of for years at a time, and then
all of a sudden, boom, he emerges and just unleashes
on some Is that a compliment? That's no, it's good,
But cicada. That is good. That is good cicada. Now,
I think what followed, which is Clark came claiming the
(34:49):
pennet head of this great victory. I disagree with that,
and I think we'll see that in the results. But
I do like that sakata of confrontation.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
It is great.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Disappearing for years at a time.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
You've mentioned this, and people all, Dan, you're being too
hard on him, But you mentioned Senator Bennett is somebody
that hides under his desk, he shows up for elections.
Who's this guy? Oh, I guess I'll vote for him.
There's a D next to his name. He wins Colorado
and then he goes about like Kyle describe. That's very accurate.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
For years at a time, you don't hear a peep,
and then all of a sudden that he is out,
and you sure enjoyed that in a campaign.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Hey, even his leftist allies call him a cicada. You
know what his nickname is among the left, the cicada.
Is that who you want is your US senator? A cicada?
And that's one of the ways both tickular Brin Bennett
can be beat is is you're gonna have suppressed support
on the left because they just don't do anything. These
(35:42):
guys don't do anything. They're just kind of like air there.
Kay Bevan's next on The Dan Caplas Show.
This is Dan Caples and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind,
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oh five, Well get another mantle, right, that's easy. Hey,
introducing a new number today because we have been plagued
with probably the worst phone number for the best show. Though.
A man can't sit on his own jury, right, so
you left to decide that three oh three someone three
eight two five five the number feels good to say.
It said that for a lot of years on this show.
(00:43):
And then, you know, because we're fortunate to be syndicated
to some other great stations in Colorado, we had to
go with this toll free number. But I don't think
anybody gets charged for any calls. Don't count on me
for that. But does anybody get charged for any calls
anymore on their cell phone? I mean, unless you're calling
you know, Sweden.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Maybe, unless it's a landline, you still have old service.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
But this, like you said, I don't know, yeah, and
it'd be worth it if you did get charged three
oh three seven one three A two five five the
number text d A N five seven seven three nine.
So lots to do today, but my goodness, what a
great group of guests. Britta Horn will join us at
four thirty six quid hit. She's running for Colorado GOP chair.
(01:25):
And then Gabe Evans. What a critical win that was
for the United States of America right when Gabe one
CD eight. He will join us at five oh six.
As you know from the campaign, Gabe, a great new congressman,
is also at black Hawk helicopter pilot and so we'll
be talking about this horrific crash at Reagan and get
(01:46):
his insight, Gabe's insight as a former black Hawk pilot
as to you know, how everything works when you're in
the cockpit there, what can you see and not see?
What's your frame of view and especially at night, night vision,
et cetera. And get his take on what may have
gone so horribly wrong there, And then you will not
want to miss this guest as well. Five thirty six,
(02:07):
Grady Block is going to be with us and Grady
blocks from the Mountain States Legal Foundation, and the Mountain
States Legal Foundation has been leading the way on this
very important lawsuit Brigida v. Dot, BRI I, G I,
d A. If you want to pull up the Pleadings v. Dot.
This is a class action against Department of Transportation for
(02:29):
allegedly discriminating on the basis of race in hiring of
air traffic controllers and discriminating against Caucasian people. So that
suit has been in the works for quite a while,
and obviously with President Trump saying that the cause of
this horror was DEI, you know, wanted to talk with
Mountain States Legal Foundations. So Grady will join us at
(02:52):
five thirty six. So well, yeah, that going for us,
which is nice. Yes, boy, you did see that movie,
didn't you?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Many times?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Probably not as often as you have though, Cady, I
watched that movie than oh, I couldn't even begin to count.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I asked me about Gone with the Wind or something
like that. I never saw, never saw, no, but Caddy Shack, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
In fact, it was on. I can show you pictures,
but my wife wouldn't approve. It was on as Joe
was born. It's awesome yeah, in the hospital helped to
explain his great caddy abilities and a wonderful golfer. Totally.
Was your dad a fan of that movie? Oh? We
never We would never talk about that movie because of
(03:28):
the nudity. Oh yeah, I mean I unimaginable to me
to ever watch any kind of TV show, movie, et
cetera where there was any of that stuff going on.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I said with your mom, But it's a little different
with your dad, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Like I would either do there as my mom. No, No,
I know that. What I'm saying is it was either
I grew up in Chicago, Irish Catholic, all of us
one hundred percent through and through. I would I mean,
we used to get the ratings for movies that would
come out from the Catholic church, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I would be one thousand percent more mortified to see
something like that with my mom than my dad. If
I watch him, my dad be like I I'm not
a big fan of that, but my mom. Oh I
don't want to see him my mom.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, Oh, I got you. But understand my dad. You know,
six three and a half maybe six four, two hundred
and forty pound tremendous athlete, college basketball player, Chicago police officer.
I never heard him swear his entire life, never heard
him swear a lot of discipline, Yeah, a lot is
so yeah, that would you know? No, that that's just
(04:28):
not something you would do, which again comes back to
John Hickenlooper and why I predicted once he ran for
president it would be it would last a minute, right
because once people heard he took his mother to deep throat,
automatic disqualify. And in this Senate campaign, whoever the GOP
senate nominee is needs to hammer on that point because
(04:49):
hick and Looper and I love hanging out with him.
He is a blast to hang out with. Then I've
had that happen a few times. But the guy's living
a lie in terms of who he is political and
everything else. Right, Oh, it's moderate, John, can you moderate
compared to what? Okay, compared to maybe mixing waters? Even then,
I don't think he's a moderate, But yeah, taking your
(05:11):
mom to deep throat and not just like walking in
by accident. Oh, I thought we're gonna be in Mary Poppins,
get out of here, sitting there and watching the whole thing,
like after the first time it happened. Don't you think
you got the gist.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I've been stunned by how many of your production predictions
have come true, Dan, But I've never been sound like
my wife, but as shocked at how specifically accurate that
prediction was. Because Dana bash was the one that brought
it up. On seeing I'm like, oh my god, remember yes.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And we should pull up the video because you remember
she brings it up. And then CNN cuts to people
in the crowd and it's like they've just seen a
ghost and not a friendly ghost. I mean, like the
MOUs get and these were Democrats in the crowd. Oh yeah,
MOUs gaping wide open. Yeah. I mean that's the end
right there. Yeah. You could have had a crowd full
(06:00):
of people who do nothing all day except watch porn
and they would have been shocked. You watched it with
who with who? Oh? Right?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Uh huh?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I mean how many of these people say a prayer form?
How many these people who sit there and watch porn
all day would bring their mother in to watch it?
I would hope none or none to it zero. So no,
it's a disqualifier. So the GOP candidate has to hammer
that there'll be lots more to hammer because Hick and
Looper has been so far out there in protecting criminally
(06:32):
legals folks here illegally then commit serious criminal offenses. He
is way way, way, way way left of where the
people of Colorado and the American people are right now
on that. So I just think he's vulnerable on multiple fronts.
But pro tip to candidates, start with taking your mom
to deep throat. Yeah, I mean, don't do that yourself.
(06:52):
Start with that line of attack on Hickey. Is that
movie still even out anywhere? I mean, yeah, you can
find it online if you were to search you I won't.
I won't. I know you won't. I won't. And for
the record, I have not seen it. And that's god
not because I'm prude. I'm furthest thing from a prude.
I have not seen that movie. And I won't even
insult Alexa with the question. But I'll thank her for
(07:13):
being here today and for Kelly. How many seconds would
you have been in that theater with your own mother
if that came on the screen before you bolted out
of there, Well, I I would have been dead. I
mean literally, my heart would have stopped beating, or she
would have stopped it from beating one way or the other,
I I would be done with this life. It's just
(07:37):
so unimaginable.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Ryan.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
That's that's why Dana Bash brought it up, right. They
just wanted to get Hickenlooper out of the way, get
him out of the race, have a little fun. Make
that point. Boom, silver bullet. He's gone. Alrighty, how about
this one, guys? Oh my goodness, And what can we
do as a community, peacefully, within the bounds of the law,
respectfully to stop this mutilation? This headline in the Denver
(08:01):
Post Denver Health pauses gender affirming surgeries for youth to
comply with Trump order and preserve federal funds. This is
in the Denver Post today, gender affirming surgeries for youth.
So as I just tweeted and I posted the story.
If you want to pull it up, you can pull
(08:21):
it off off my Twitter at dan Kaplis, I posted,
wth how many kids have they mutilated? There? We're talking
about kids. And then you get into this and this
is at Denver Health, and then you get into this
story and it's just like Alice in Wonderland. First, the
term gender affirming surgeries. Wait a second, If you are
(08:42):
cutting off a female child's breast, that is not gender affirming.
That is gender mutilating. Where did this term gender affirming
never come from. It's the opposite gender affirming care would be.
If it happens to be a girl, it would be hey,
you know so sorry, let's work this through together. You
(09:05):
are a female, and let's just let's care for you
and care for your needs and work through whatever is
causing you to get to the point where somebody has
convinced you to cut off your breast. No, that would
be gender affirming. You are a female. We're going to
affirm your a female. We're going to address whatever issues
are tormenting you. Because so many of these kids are tormented.
(09:25):
That part is real. But the source of their torment,
which is heartbreaking and deserves every resource we have, the
source of their torment is not the fact that they
are in fact a female or they are in fact
a male. And so for Denver Health to be removing
the breasts of able bodied, physically healthy teenage girls, that's
(09:52):
beyond insane. But then you get further into this story
and we're out of time now, but I'll get to
it when we come back on the other side, the
language that's used in this story to try to somehow
make this acceptable and normal. This is the sort of
thing that America rejected on election Day, across party lines,
rejected on election day. And the language in this story
(10:14):
and the acts, these acts of mutilation of able bodied
teenage girls and boys, those are soon, thank god, going
to be a thing of the past, because America is
not going to put up with this kind of insanity anymore,
and it shouldn't. You're on the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
You know, and you have a lot of interesting stories
in that book. One of them is about the time
you went to see an X rated.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
Movie with your mother.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Than you out the floors her.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Thank you so much for that question.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Anytime, I thought it was better to write a book
to let people really see who you were and the
dumb things you did as well as the smart things.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
And where is that on the.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
On the dumb side, I was the youngest of four,
and I said, my dad died right after I turned eight,
and my mother and I had a pretty tempestuous relationship.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
She was just the most amazing person.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
And I went off to college, and for the first
time she was alone in the house. And I didn't
realize how powerful that was until I got home and
Thanksgiving I promised. I called a friend in Philadelphia, and
these were extually.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I didn't know what next movie was.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
We thought it was a little naughty, but we didn't
think it was that bad. Teaking deeper again, you gotta understand,
I was eighteen years old, and.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
So when I came home, my mother hated to cook.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
I mean she she was just a strong, powerful woman
who got stuff done in her own right. And I
got home and she'd had this huge dinner laid out,
and I said, I promised, you know, I promised Jedi
we would go to the movie theater.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
And so this makes it better for him. Okay, he's eighteen,
so he doesn't really understand what deep throw us about. Listen,
when you're an eighteen year old mail, that's all you're
thinking about, right, And so he gets he gets home
now and his mother, who's alone, right because father is
passed and he's gone to school. His mother is alone
at Thanksgiving. She's put all this work in, she's made
(12:15):
this big, beautiful meal, and he says, oh, sorry, Mom,
I'm going to go to a porn flick instead of
stay home and have food with you. So that's how
the mother ends up going with him. So it just
gets worse for him. So the point is, and if
you just joined us and you wonder what we're talking about,
we're talking about John Ay and Lupert because he's up
for reelection this year. And that's what as I predicted
(12:38):
in advance, and it is presidential campaign that he took
his mom to see Deep Throat. But it's even worse.
You know, wouldn't stay home to have Thanksgiving dinner with
her instead, was going to a porn flick and then
just took her along. So I just hope whoever the
GOP nominee is uses that heavily because it does tell
you something about the guy. I like spending time with him.
(13:00):
I enjoy John Hickenlooper, but he is not politically you
know what they make him out to be. I mean
that goes way way way beyond quirky eight five five
forour zero five eight two five five the number text
d A N five seven seven three nine. And listen, hey,
we all we're just human, right, we all make mistakes,
we all do some crazy things. At some point, Lord
(13:22):
knows we do more crazier things when we're young like that,
But to put it in a book, and it's like
Christy gnome right, he put this in the book because
he thought it would help him. Shouldn't that disqualify him anyway?
Before we get back to this really important story in
the Denver Post today, important in two ways. One just
(13:43):
informing the community that Denver Health and listen, there are
a lot of great doctors at Denver Health, and Denver
Health does invaluable work for this state, absolutely invaluable work,
and it's critical to us that we have a well funded,
healthy Denver Health. And that is why it is beyond insane.
(14:04):
It is institutionally suicidal for Denver Health to be engaging
in this mutilation of teenage girls. And that's what we
learned today through this Denver Post story headline, Denver Health
pauses gender affirming surgeries for youth to comply with Trump
order and preserve federal funds. So listen to the language
(14:26):
they use. What they're doing at Denver Health is so
bad that the Denver Post, which is trying to write
the most sympathetic story imaginable, starting with using this backwards
bizarre term gender affirming surgeries. So the way to affirm
the gender of a female with female breasts is to
cut her breasts off. No, now that's the polar opposite
and it's just mutilation. But listen to the language they use.
(14:50):
You know, it's kind of like, now that people know
the reality of abortion, all of these pro abortion people
can't call it abortion anymore. They have to call it
reproductive rights, right because they know abortion is so horrible.
If they just mention it's abortion, most people say, of course,
not so anyway, here's the example of that for this.
(15:10):
Here's what the Post story says. It says, but guidelines
for treating patients allow surgeries to remove mammary tissue and
create masculine chest appearance. So this is how the Denver
Post is describing what Denver Health is doing. When they
(15:35):
cut the breasts off able bodied teenage girls. They're removing
mammary tissue to create a masculine chest appearance. Wow. And
then it goes on to say, in cases where the
patient has the mental capacity to decide and is particularly
distressed by their breasts, wow, Listen, we should not this
(15:57):
should not be happening anywhere in Colorado, right, And it's
sure as heck shouldn't be happening at an institution that's
so critical to the health of this state as Denver Health.
So whoever is in charge over there, whoever is in
a position to influence, whoever is in charge, please stop
the madness, protect the children. And I think we've seen
(16:18):
a sea change in America. Actually, America, I think has
always seen this as insane. But the left to you
cancel culture, everything else. If you come out and you
speak the truth about this or other things, then they'll
personally destroy you. You'll be banned from civilized society. And
America broke those chains on election Day, and America is
once again standing up for sanity, standing up for kids.
(16:39):
So if you want to read that story at Dan
Kaplis on Twitter. When we come back, I do want
to talk about, and I'll talk about later in the show.
A really wonderful piece done in the Post today on
Daniel Ritchie. And if you're new to the area, you're
not familiar with Daniel Ritchie. He has to be one
of the top five greatest Coloradens of all time. And
(17:01):
you know one question I'd throw out there for people
who are familiar with Daniel Ritchie. You know, I'll pass
along some details as we work our way through the show.
Is is Colorado going to have another Daniel Ritchie? Or
men and women of that stature who just do so
much good for the communities. They're not running for office
saying elect me governor, elect me centers so people can
(17:22):
kiss my behind. They're just they're incredibly unselfish. They give
up so much of their own money, their own time
just to help others and make the community better. Yeah,
who's the next Daniel Richie going to be? Or Danielle Ritchie?
I mean, who is that going to be? But dead
at ninety three? What an amazing human. And there isn't
(17:45):
time in the rest of this segment to go into
even the start of his accomplishments. But you know, I
can remember sitting down with him and needing some advice
on something and I'm nobody right, and he just makes
the time in his schedule he sits down, could not
have been more gracious, just shares his wisdom. And you know,
just who's the next Daniel Ritchie? Eight five five or
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zero five A two five five? The number? Next time
I do that? Slap me would you rite and Alexa
certainly has permission to do that. We're going to our
new number. We're going to a good number. Three oh
three seven one three eight two five five a good
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A N five seven seven three nine. Great lineup of guests.
(18:28):
They will do a quick drop on the other side.
But Freda Horne as well, who's running for GOP chair.
You're on the Dankplas Show.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
So MSNBC has this panel all the candidates for DNC chair.
They're voting tomorrow, and they ask this vital question. Then
come a little loose because she's black and a woman,
and you're gonna love the answer. If if you want
Republicans to keep winning, you're going to love the answer.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
So I'm going to have a show of hands.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
How many of you believe that racism and misogyny played
a role in Vice President Harris's defeating?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
All the hands go up, keep talking.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Like that, So that's good. You all passed.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
That he is perfect? Please just denials, not just a
river in Egypt.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
You always want you always want your opponent politically to
be from one particular state, right, the state of delusion.
And they are, and please keep convincing yourself. Britta, We're
off to a great start. You laughed at a joke
of mine. I never get that at home, but thank
you for that. You got my vote. Yeah, yeah, I
(19:53):
am living the dream. I am living the dream. Britta
Horn kind enough to be with us. She is, of course,
running for GOP chair and the great State of Colorado. Yeah, so, Britta,
you are a fire chief as well? Right? So is
that the proper title? Like when we have you on,
do we have to say a welcome chief?
Speaker 7 (20:11):
No, you're welcome to but you can call me anything
but done not late for dinner.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Okay, I'm with that. I'm with that. So yeah. Hey,
for the folks who may not know you at this point,
can you give them a little bio and then talk
about why this whole gop chare thing's so critical? Right now?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Thanks? Yeah, so you said, Britta Horn, and our ranch
is halfway between the steamboats Rais and Vail. They'd love
to be married to my husband of thirty four years.
Two daughters, adult daughters. One's a farmer and out in
Nebraska with her husband and our first grand baby and
our other one is an attorney.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
That raised one exactly to be critical. Yeah, we tought
it to be a critical thinkers. So she think Kansas and
just got elected as county attorney to that too. So
besides that, we started a volunteer fire department twenty years ago,
right after nine to eleven, and I was like, but
we're able to put together an apartment because there wasn't
(21:10):
any department here halfway teams sea Boat, Springs and Vail.
And we also don't even still today don't have self service.
So we call it God Country.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Wow. It has to be incredibly beautiful and probably a
little chilly this time of year. But the GOP Okay,
So I think you got a lot of people, Britta,
if I'm right, and I'm no insider or activist or anything,
but if I'm right, I think you got a lot
of people right now who are sitting back saying, Hey,
I like this person from the GOP or that person
from the GOP, but I don't think we have a
(21:39):
chance to win. So I'm really not going all in.
So what do you say to those folks? And how
do you how do you win here? How do you
win here statewide?
Speaker 7 (21:48):
I think we had to win here because state wide,
because we have to have common sense, to get back
to common sense, and we have to be honest with everybody,
and we have to be transparent, and we have to
make sure that they understand that we know what the
job is. I mean, the job, I'm going to be
honest with you is simple. I've done hard stuff and
we can talk about hard stuff and sad stuff as
a fire cheason, a first responder, and a firefighter. But
(22:10):
it's easy. The job is to be an organization, which
the GOP organization is, which is a community activist organization
to elect more Republicans, grow the party, and then get
raise massive amounts of money to do those things. So
we need to get back to the business of the
job and the business of the corporation the organization, because
(22:33):
not only do we have the answer to our members,
we need to answer to all of Colorado. Because right now, Dan,
you know this, only twenty two points seventy nine percent
are Republicans in Colorado that are active Republicans. So to me,
that's over seventy percent are not Republicans. We have a
lot of work to do.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Yeah, and it seems to me that a GOP candidate
cannot win statewide without overwhelmed in support from GOP voters
to start with. And that doesn't guarantee you anything other
than you're in the game. But if you can't get
GOP voters united behind you mathematically, I don't think you
have any chance at all.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
Well, and that's true. We have to unite, and that's
what I've been saying. I have the fire to lead,
to unite the future party of the GOP and to
get involved. If people are like and all listening in,
they're like, how do we get involved? They have to
go to their county GOP reorganization meetings that are starting
tomorrow February one to the fifteenth, and you have to
be a bonus member or at least run for office
(23:34):
if you don't like who's run on the office or
chair or bias the secretary. We need to get everybody
back involved and be a part of this because we're
on a great wave right now with everything going by nationwide.
It's ridiculous that we can't go with that same wave too.
Of common sense.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, Britta Horn our guest running for GOP chair, and
Britta can the gop win statewide in this cycle, this
twenty six cycle, I see an opening for it.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
I see we can it's gonna be it's going to
be a bright future. But we have to be able
to unite and collaborate and then focus on those three
things I talked about. That's what the job is. Let's
do the job this time and see how we fare.
I think we have some really good opportunities. The way
the state is going, in the way everybody's unhappy with
the way things are going.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Now, how can people reach you? Learn more about you
all that? Oh?
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Oh yeah, Just go to my website. It's my name
Bretta Horn b R I T A h O r
N dot com and you can reach out to me there.
I happy to answer any questions. I'm also on x
at real Bretta Horn, and I'm also on Facebook, So
find me and we can chat and let's let's.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Win wonderful way. Thank you, Bretta, That's what it's all about.
Appreciate the time.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
Thank you for the time.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I take care. Yeah, boy, it's it's gonna be wild
this twenty six cycle. I don't think people are really
dialed into that yet in Colorado, other than the folks
actively involved because you know, hey, this great victory. Trump
just had this great victory, et cetera. I think for
a lot of folks it seems soon to be you know,
they're they're burned out in a good way, right, exhausted,
(25:05):
left it all on the field, had this big win.
But once people start focusing on these opportunities in twenty six,
I think there's going to be a lot of excitement.
I mean, you got that governor's office open, right, No
incumbent there let alone, and incumbent will spend one hundred
million dollars if he has to to swamp the race
so police can't run again. And then the Senate seat
(25:27):
Phil Wiser's running no dead, Oh man, I'm sorry, it's over,
no chance, it's a no hoper. But isn't Jenna Griswold
going to knock them off in the primary? Well? No,
But do you think she'll even run? I mean, I
do what else? What else is she going to do?
Not that we'll put some passwords online? What you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Anybody advising her who tells her it's a good idea
to run for governor is not looking out for her
best interest.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I'm just saying that as honestly as I can, I
know you'd be a very logical person. So please let's
take step one first.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Let's do that.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
What else is she going to do? Be a county
clerk somewhere? I don't know. That's the point. Listen, Once
these people get and there are some noble exceptions, but
for the most part, once these people get used to
everybody kissing up to them and all the perks of
high office and everything else, you think they want to
go back and do regular jobs like we do. Way
(26:20):
And once you know, you get the chatter going by
yes men and yes women about governor, this governor, that
you'd be a great governor, and they start to know,
picturing the inaugural ball and all this and that. No, no,
she's running, and you know what, she may well be
their nominee. I mean, think about it. That party right now,
is you just heard it? I played the sound. It
is so obsessed with identity politics, right, it's so obsessed
(26:44):
with identity politics. And she's a woman, and Lord knows
we need a female governor, but not her. It has
to be it has to be doctor King's core principle.
It has to be based on merit not anything else,
but yes, So if I had to bet your burger
right now, I would bet you that she is their
(27:05):
nominee and that would be the best possible news any
of us could have.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Again, I feel anybody advising her is simply grifting for
money if they tell her to get into the race
and believe that she can be. If there are three
people on a stage, Dan and one is Phil Wiser,
Phil none the wiser as I call him, and the
other that's original, but the other ones I called him that,
nobody else called him before I did.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
And Jose bro No, he's been called that since pre
k but Jose on a stage debating which griswold you
can't even handle. Comrade Kyle, my friend think thank you,
and that is a fair correction. I stand corrected. Well, no, No,
here's the point I am assuming no Joanah Goose. If
(27:50):
Jonah Goose is in the race, then we got nothing
to talk about. He's the nominee. He is exponentially their
strongest possible candidate. So thank you for reminding me. I
need qualifier. If Joe No Goose is not in the race,
who else is it going to be?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I still think Wiser is a stronger candidate than Grismolk. Okay,
well by a lot.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
The one thing we know for sure is nobody listening
right now cares about any of this. You and I do.
I find it fascinating. You find it fast and care
about it eventually. I just think it's early for people
right now. Don't you think we need change?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
We need it now in Colorado's spiraling downward. And I
think there is an opportunity Dan, Oh my goodness, are
you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (28:32):
For a Republican candidate. It's not easy, but there's an
opportunity shot there, there is a path. I agree with
Bretta on that. Yes, yes, you would need the right candidate,
doing the right things, hitting on all cylinders. They won't
have big money up front, but if all of a
sudden it looks like they have a chance to win,
the money will start to follow it. There's definitely an
opportunity Governors. I think there's a much bigger opportunity in
(28:53):
the Senate race. Then people understand right now eight five
five eight two five five for the reasons we have discussed.
And do you think Polis is in the process of
running Hickenlooper out of that race? You're on the Dan Capla.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Show and now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 9 (29:12):
This was Biden's FAA just two years ago.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
We need a diverse group of air traffic controllers to
bring distinct perspectives to handle the ever changing aerospace landscape.
I'm calling on students and alumni from HBCU's Hispanic serving
institutions and tribal collegists to apply now to become air
traffic controllers.
Speaker 9 (29:36):
Primetime also found this little slide show from the Biden
FAA titled Rethinking Diversity and it says, quote diversity plus
inclusion equals better performance.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Is that true? Hey, five point thirty six, Grady Block
will join us from Mountain State's Legal Foundation. They've been
leading the way on a very important lawsuit that's been
in the works for a while. It's a c action
brig it up Brig I DA v DOT, and it's
a large number of people who are seeking controller jobs,
(30:10):
air traffic controller jobs, and are alleging that they were disqualified,
simply dropped off the list because of their race. So
and listen, any sane person understands that the very best
air traffic controller in America may well be black, may
well be Latino, may well be a woman, and and
(30:31):
there may be lots of people of color and lots
of females who are the very best at air traffic control.
But the point being that nobody should ever be hired
for that job or any job based on skin color
or disadvantage based on skin color. Right height five five
for is a five A two five five the number.
(30:52):
You will not want to miss that five thirty six
interview because they've been at this for a long time.
This case has been in the works for a while.
They gained Class A status. I think they have over
a thousand planineiffs who say they couldn't get their air
traffic controller job because of the color of their skin. Yeah, now, Ryan,
is this a small plane crash in Philly right now?
Do we have those details? Details are just coming in.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
You can see it on Fox News where you are
right now, and it just says that an aircraft reportedly
strikes a mall. It's a smaller plane and details are sketchy,
but again, this is happening on the heels of what
just happened on the Potomac River.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Yeah. Yeah, and eight five five zero five two five
five the number. The latest on that today. I don't
think is that far beyond the state of the news yesterday.
It's just been confirmed today that A that there was
one controller for the two stations, and quote ideally there
should be two. Well, it seems that when you're dealing
(31:48):
with something like air traffic control in a busy area,
the ideally has to be your standard, your bottom. And
then also report today that the supervisor had been allowed
to leave early eight five Z five eight two five
five the number text d A N five seven seven
three nine. We have a lot of hot take sound
(32:08):
obviously responding to the President's position on this. Gabe Evans
is going to join us as well. Gabe's coming up,
and he of course won that critical c D eight
seat which allows the GOP now to have this majority,
this very ten majority in the House, and thank god
they do. But he was also a black Hawk pilot,
and so Gabe will join us at five oh six
(32:29):
to offer his perspective. Of course he doesn't know what
costs his crash, but just as a black Hawk pilot,
what do you see when you're in there at night?
How much can you see up down sideways? All that
good stuff. So we look forward to that visit if
you want even more reason to believe as I do,
that as long as the GOP delivers now, and I
believe they will, and Trump will make sure that that
(32:51):
we're looking at the best opportunity in our lifetime for
this long lasting, major c change in americaly. Practically day
in and day out in American life, but politically, and
the two are obviously intertwined. Just listen to this. This
is This is Jonathan K. Bard from MSNBC. He has
all of the candidates for d NC chair on the
(33:14):
same stage. They're elections tomorrow, and he asked them this question.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
So I'm going to have a show of hands.
Speaker 8 (33:25):
How many of you believe that racism and misogyny played
a role in Vice President Harris's defeat? Okay, so that's good.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
You all passed.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Yeah, that's the answer I wanted to hear. They all,
they all, Oh, yeah, it was racism, it was sexism. Oh,
it couldn't have possibly been wanted to use taxpayer dollars
to have transgender surgeries in prison, or possibly been men
and women's sports, or possibly have been yeah, abortion right
up to the moment of birth, or possibly have ben
(34:03):
you go right on down the list right, open borders,
just allowing people to flown couldn't have been any of that.
So please keep diluting yourselves. The Nile is not just
a river in Egypt, and let's hope they stay in
that state. Now, this Ryan, this was kind of cute.
This was a And Michael Bennett, do you think he
likes this nickname? Kyle Clark just gave him Colorado's Democratic senater.
(34:26):
Michael Bennett is like a cicada of confrontation, relatively dormant
and unheard of for years at a time, and then
all of a sudden, boom, he emerges and just unleashes
on some Is that a compliment? That's no, it's good,
But cicada. That is good. That is good cicada. Now,
I think what followed, which is Clark came claiming the
(34:49):
pennet head of this great victory. I disagree with that,
and I think we'll see that in the results. But
I do like that sakata of confrontation.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
It is great.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Disappearing for years at a time.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
You've mentioned this, and people all, Dan, you're being too
hard on him, But you mentioned Senator Bennett is somebody
that hides under his desk, he shows up for elections.
Who's this guy? Oh, I guess I'll vote for him.
There's a D next to his name. He wins Colorado
and then he goes about like Kyle describe. That's very accurate.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
For years at a time, you don't hear a peep,
and then all of a sudden that he is out,
and you sure enjoyed that in a campaign.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Hey, even his leftist allies call him a cicada. You
know what his nickname is among the left, the cicada.
Is that who you want is your US senator? A cicada?
And that's one of the ways both tickular Brin Bennett
can be beat is is you're gonna have suppressed support
on the left because they just don't do anything. These
(35:42):
guys don't do anything. They're just kind of like air there.
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