November 11, 2025 • 34 mins
George Brauchler is the 23rd district attorney and features an accomplished career as a prosecutor in pursuit of justice. However, his road to success began in the Army National Guard and his service to our country is vitally important to him. He joins Dan on Veterans Day to share his stories from his Army days and why our American experiment was so dependent upon our military success.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dankplis Show. Please be sure to give
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single day on your favorite podcast platform. Wow, the American way, right,
It does not exist obviously without our veterans in their
tremendous sacrifice. And you know, we always say those words
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because they're so very true. But then as a nation,
do we deliver all that we should? Far from it?
So what more do you think we should do for
our veterans? In very concrete and specific terms, three H
three seven one three A two five five The number
takes DA N five seven seven three nine. And of
course we'll continue to talk about whether we can ever
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repay Michelle Obama for the sacrifice she made for this nation.
We played that sound earlier in the show. Have you
heard that sound? George George Brockler, obviously another brave veteran
and also the DA in Douglas.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard it. It's incredible what she
gave up for the opportunity to live in the White
House for eight years and make millions on a book
that no one's going to read.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
She's really overcome.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And speaking of making millions off a book, did you
see Joe Biden got a ten million dollar book deal? Well,
I presume it.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I presume half of that has to go to the
auto pen.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I mean writing the exactly. And but but what I'm
wondering because obviously, you know a lot of people do
that to gain political influence. He's not in a position
to help anybody anymore, or is he? Yeah? What why
would somebody pone up, pony up ten million to Biden?
I mean fewer people will read that book that have
seen Sydney Sweeney's new movie. Did you see that story?
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And I'm a big Sidney Sweeney fan? Me too, Yeah,
we doo.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And I hope this is a vehicle for her to
get some you know, credibility with the Academy and all that.
But that's only ten more people that saw that movie
than my movie. I don't have one.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Well that's it. No, that's a great point, George, because
I was trying to do the math last night. Don't
ask me what. But it made a million and a
half bucks over two thousand theaters over the weekend. So
the best math I could come up with was what
maybe two people per showing or three people?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
But how romantic? Right? You take a date out there
and you guys aren't caring about the movie. You're just
in a giant dark well you know, environmental kind of area. Popcorn,
little drink.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Boy, you're giving me some ideas.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
By the way, what was the title of Kamala Harris's book?
Didn't she get a Deal too? Is it called word salad?
Or what did she title that.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Thing you just reminded me about Kamala? I got to
play this sound while we have you, George Brockler, of
course not only veteran, but the DA out in Douglas County.
I'm sure you saw this from Kamala yesterday, how she
played three D chess against Trump's checkers.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Was aware of my opponent's strategy, and I wasn't about
to fall prey or fall into those traps. And part
of his strategy and those around him, was to try
and take me off.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Our game and message. And I wasn't about to.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Be distracted by those little those planes that he was
trying to throw to get me away from one of
my highest priority, which is talking to people about the
economy and their well being in terms of their financial
well being.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And that's so I was.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I understood the game that was being playing, and I
made a decision that I wasn't going to get played.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Cheers chest not Checkers.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, three dimensional jests.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I'm telling you you, George, are you a drinker?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I have been a drinker in college. I probably drank
way more than I should. But I'm glad you brought
that up because every time I listened to her, I
think to myself, this is a conversation you could overhear
at last call at any number of bars, you know,
in the metro area, like that same kind of sound,
you know, And I'm not gonna do it. I'm not
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playing those games. And they're like walking her out, Hey, thanks,
see you next time, Kamala.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I think it is boiled down to the question of
is it alcohol, is it legalize marijuana? Is it both?
But there's something. I personally believe there's something going on there,
and I want more of it. I think every time
she goes out in public, it helps the GOP. It
helps Trump, right even if somebody's down on Trump right now,
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they say, oh man, we yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
When she keeps flirting with running on social media, I
always retweet and say yes, please, yeah, yes, please.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
If if somebody need this told us that, okay, if
you make this contribution to Kamala Harris, she'll run. I
would make that contribution because it would guarantee a GOP victory, right,
And there is no facetiousness in that.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I think she'd be a wonderful candidate for the Democrats.
I think she can straddle all sorts of different groups
and bring them on board this time. Of course, she'd
bring on mayor Pete to try to wipe away of
past sins and all that. But I think it'd be
a wonderful ticket. Harris. Buddha Judge tells me Jadie Vance
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is going to be president in the United States.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
But what do I know, Well, any combo they can
put together other than maybe Michelle Obama, And I personally
believe she has not lost interest in that. How else
could you explain her being out on every goofy podcast,
doing her own all that other stuff. Why do you
think she's making it such a point to be.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Everywhere, Well, I sure hope it's not because she has
political ambitions. I hope it's so that she can stay
relevant and try to continue to make a bunch of
money that she doesn't need. But like her podcasts, Dan,
I think her podcast has the same number of listeners
as the DA Office podcast, and it's it's not promising
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at all.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You know, well, and it must be somebody else over
there doing that podcast, because if it was you, they
would have a lot. My friend, Hey, do you mind
if I do a hard turn here and talk to
you about something profoundly serious because I saw you quoted
in a story today and I thought it was such
an important quote. You were talking about the sentencing in
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this horrific Dui death case, and you talked about deliberately weak.
That was the quote Dui laws in Colorado, and I
was so happy to see you say that. Can you
expound on that for folks?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, I think for anyone that has tried to gauge
what's going on on our roads and with controlled substances,
and that includes alcohol, right, alcohol and drugs, what we
have seen now is a deliberate effort by the legislature
to keep those laws. And there's probably a couple different
reasons for it. Some of its philosophy, there's these harm
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reduction people, and when they say harm reduction, what they
mean is harm to the offender. They're trying to reduce that.
But these are not people who think that incarceration serves
any purpose. Whether it's punishment, rehabilitation, whether it's deterrence. They
don't think it serves any purpose. So we're now at
a place where if you get drunk tonight, pour yourself
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behind the wheel of a car and take off to
go home, and on the way you run over someone,
you could get probation. If you run over two people,
you can get probation. If you run over an entire
family and maybe plow into a home and kill that family,
you could get probation. Based on our veticular homicide charges.
That is no longer an accident that can be like, well, whoops,
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what happened? Because it keeps happening. And yesterday is a
great example. Dan, It's such a gut wrenching story. When
I was talking to the media last night afterwards, I
was getting a little choked up because this is the
story of a love affair that began between Craig and
Michelle Kazda back when they were sixteen and seventeen. They
got married when they were seventeen. They were together fifty
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one years, married fifty one years, had great kids, great grandkids.
They were coming back from a dinner and this guy
apparently is larger than life. Like everybody said, you could
you knew this guy's laugh whenever you walked in a room.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
And he didn't know any.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Strangers, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Like this was that guy.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
They're walking back in Castle Rock, in super safe Castle Rock,
walking from dinner and they end up meeting up over
a hood of a car with a twenty eight year
old who has been out out with his family and
he gets drunk. He's about a point one three one
blood alcohol level. About two hours after, he drives his
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family home and then turns around and drives back, and
on his way back he hits Craig Kasda. Doesn't kill
him immediately, but sends him to the hospital for fifty
five days, where he suffers and ultimately dies. Now, this guy,
the defendant in this case, I want to give him
credit for this dude came into court and pleaded guilty,
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didn't try to fight it, didn't try to resist it.
And I do think that has value, But I don't
think that value outweighs the requirement that if you kill
a human being in our community, especially driving drunk, a
crime that no one can be surprised. There's laws about
you got to be incarcerated for some period time.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It's just has to happen.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It has to happen. And that didn't happen yesterday, despite
the our offices, please, despite all the family members that
showed up and pleaded with the JI, she ended up
deciding to give him community corrections. And that's an option
that she has. And I said this yesterday to the
media too. I said, look, I respect our judges and
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they have a tough job. I would just like to
make it less tough by taking that option away, Right,
Like if we had a law that said you've got
to go to prison, it's not as tough for the judge.
I want to make their jobs easier.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, And I really liked I saw that in the piece.
Your focus on the legislature, because if our laws, oh yeah,
were what they should be, that then at that point, yeah,
these people are just going to jail. And so I
was so glad to see you use that deliberately weak language.
How's your time? Can you do another segment?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Okay, wonderful George Brockler kind enough to be with us,
and we'll get George's take in yours on other hot
news today. But I do want to lead with this.
Assume a billion dollar dollar, billion dollar powerball jackpot, and
we'll ask George's quest and when we come back first.
If you won that and you're a Colorado, what do
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you net? What's your take home from a billion dollar
powerball jackpot? You take the lump sum? What's your take
home if you're a Colorado resident? You're on the Dan
Caplas Show.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
And now back to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
No matter how long it may take us to overcome
this premeditated invasion, the American people in the righteous MC
will win through.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
The absolute cricular. Do you remember that our Churchill said, right,
never have so many, oh so much to so few.
We have a greade veteran with us, George Brockler, also
the DA out in Douglas County, and I work with
a couple of great veterans, John Kellner, my partner, Tom Earns,
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my wonderful colleague, both great trial lawyers, and yeah, we
had their pictures up today, you know, with their uniforms
and theater and all that. It's just boys, it's powerful.
I mean it's hard for a guy like me who
never served to even imagine, you know, the sacrifices that
go into that. But I know it's a lot. And
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so thanks to all you guys and gals. But day,
what was your what was your favorite slash most memorable
moment from your service?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Oh man, it's hard to drill down to It's really
hard to drill down to just one thing. There are
so many things that became like life lessons and also
humorous things that I've shared with the kids growing up.
There's a weird I mean, this sounds like such a
small thing. There's weird things that take place when you're
redeploying from the desert. And I think both Tom and
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John were asking veterans and I was a rack, and
there's a weird thing that takes place where we are
now going to be in transit. We're going to leave
to Crete, Iraq and head back home, and we get it.
We get out of the desert. We had okay, facilities
at Cobbspike are not that bad. But we get taken
to an air base and I think it's ali O
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salm or Ala side. I can't remember which one, but
it's air conditioned and they have a working ice cream machine.
And this is going to sound dumb for people men
down range. You can tell the mood of the entire
post whether the ice cream machine is working or not.
It was like one treat, you know what I mean
that people could go in at lunch and you would
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see people like visibly dejected, like they'd spent all day
outside doing whatever. So it worked. And it was my
team of you know, officers and enlisted from when I
ran the military judge shop out there at headquarters, and
we sat around and we ate ice cream and talked
about what are you going to do when you go back,
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you know what I mean, Like, what is life going
to hold for you? And it was at that point
where it came around to my turn on one last
and they said what are you going to do? And
I said, I'll be honest, I think I might run
for district attorney. And they were like what. And I
start telling the story about it and look, this is
going to be tough and all this, and one of
them says, maybe you just want to stay here. No, no, no,
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thank you. But that moment, it's kind of burning my
brain and sort of go around and we've made it
through our tour, and it was like, what's next, what's next?
One quick story if you can suffer through this or
the money piece. I was talking with a veterans group
in Highlands Ranch this morning and one of the things
I told them about is I said, look, there are
what makes America and Americans remarkable compared to other people
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is our resilience. And that's one hundred times fold for
the military. And I said, look, five days from right now,
we're going to celebrate the two hundred and forty ninth
anniversary of a battle nobody except historians remember, and it's
called the Battle of Fort Washington, and it was the
biggest defeat that George Washington and the Revolutionaries sustained, and
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it was at the hands of General Howe Up in
New York and they got trounced. And at that point,
I'm telling you, whether there was going to be in
America or not was an open question. It was teetering.
And about thirty days later, this same general rallies these
poorly fed, poorly dressed in the dead of winter men
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to cross the Delaware on Christmas and to take on
the Hessians in a surprise attack at the Battle of Trenton,
and they took two thirds of these guys with very
little fighting, and it turned the tide of morale for
the Revolution, and it turned the tide of the war.
We never talk about these battles because there's so many
other great things we've done afterwards. But that thirty day
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span from beginning to end, and that man a George Washington,
that's the reason you and I get to have a
veteran's Day here in twenty twenty five. And it's just incredible.
It's and that's in each of us. You don't have
to be born here to have that DNA. If you're
an American, you've got that resilience in there and that
that's what he brought to the Dayble wow wow, No.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Powerful, And it just makes you think about it. Each
critical moment in our nation's history, we seem to have
had that leader. We seem to have had that leader.
And personally, my belief in worldview goes back to the
founders with reliance on divine providence. But we have had
that leader arise. There have been other times when we
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haven't had the leader and you've seen, you know what,
horrible things happen then, but then you get to that
pivot point moment and that leader arrives to save the day.
So and obviously none of that happens without the men
and women on the front lines, you know, willing to
do what they do. And hey, George, this is a
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hard term.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Without divine providence, without devis providence.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I am on board with you, man.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
This is not accidental, yeah, not by chance. This is
a plan, and they are going to be people that
either figure out what that plan is and they give
in to it, or they're going to resist it. And
worry that too many people these days are resisting it.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah, yeah, though, there is there's something so interesting happening
in America right when when you see this surge, it
measured in very, very tangible ways. Now everything from church
attendance to so many more athletes on TV just starting
their postgame interviews, thank you God, to the explosion of
faith public faith among younger all those big crowds. Charlie
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Kirk would draw, I think there really is something happening
so real hard turn my friend, Colorado billion dollar powerball.
Somebody selects the lump sum. The winner selects the lump sum.
What do they net in Colorado? What's your guests?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Best guests?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Four thirty two sixty five. Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't mean
to disappoint you. I know you'll make the most of that.
Don't mean to disappoint you, but yeah, And I'll do
the breakdown when we confect George. Thanks for your service,
Happy veterans. They appreciate the time today. Thank you, Thank you,
my friend back in a flash on the Dan Capitla Show.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
With confidence in.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people,
we will gain the inevitable triumph.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
So help us God, so that the Sunday nineteen forty
one Fdr tremendous wartime leader that obviously following the sneak
tech at Pearl Harbor, George Brockler joined us. We're talking
about Veterans Day throughout the show today and contrasting that
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with the service of Michelle Obama and none of us,
how could us, any of us have known that it
was so very hard on her.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
I didn't really have that choice this firstly, Yeah, every day,
every time I was up, as we called it, you know,
I was up for the public, Yes, and the days
were long, so as you mentioned, to save time. Yes,
I know, having a glam team a trifecta, it feels
like a luxury, but it was a time and time necessity.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
The glam team. The trifecta, Ryan explained to us, means hair, makeup,
and wardrobe. Thank you, Ryan. I always thought it was face, body,
and hair all in one wash, which is one of
the great inventions of our lifetime. So yeah, thank you
Veteran so much for your sacrifice. I'd asked George's question
as well, and he gave the same answer I would
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have before I read this article. The question was, all right,
say you win the billion dollar powerball in Colorado. As
a Colorado resident, you take the lump sum. How much
do you actually nat off that billion dollar dollar powerball win?
I think George said somewhere around four hundred That would
have been my guess in Colorado. The exact number two
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hundred and sixty five million, five hundred and fifty nine
five eighty so fascinating. Why so quote little though I
think we'd all be very happy to get by on that.
The reason is because first, in a billion dollar powerball
lottery is, as you may well know, the if you
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take the lump some then you're just taking the present
day value of those future benefits. It's only a billion
dollar prize if you take it over thirty years, but
the present value of that billion, you know, is then
about half of that. Then you get into taxes, and
I'm sure you already know how that's all going to work,
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because you're going to be in the highest bracket. That's
why you'd end up with two sixty five five point
fifty nine five eighty and not the billion. Let's go
to the phone lines. We'll start with Kevin in beautiful Boulder, Colorado.
You're on the dan Kaplas Sho'll welcome Kevin.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Do you know what the second most leading cause of
death is in Canada?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
It's euthanasia, and they're going to make it so people
as young as twelve years old can decide on their
own whether they want to access it or not. If
I told you last spring that by PROPS states that
child sacrifice will be rampant in the nations of Israel
in the last days, and I think abortion and this
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new euthanasia saying on children is at least part of that.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Boy Kevin, I did not know that statistic out of Canada.
One of these days we'll have to have some experts
on Ryan and talk about where do all this nuttiness
come from in Canada? Has it always been there? Is
it new? It just seems like such an unlikely place
to end up with all of this crazy, extreme woke nuttiness. Well,
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in euthanasia, obviously that one of the worst forms of that.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Let me give you a through line.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
So George made the point earlier about the Battle of
Trenton and everything leading into that great knowledge of history,
and he's absolutely right. But remember the Canadians were Tories.
The Canadians were loyalists to the Brits. They never fought
for their independence. They were dependent upon the crown, the monarchy.
They've remained an entity of the United Kingdom.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
They still have the Queen and I would assume now
King Charles on their money.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
So they've never really valued independence, Dan in the same
way that we have here. We would never tolerate I
would hope, not that sort of government control over our lives.
So I guess what I'm saying is it doesn't surprise
me as much coming out of Canada as it would here.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah. No, good point, good analysis, good analysis. Do you
think today if the nation had to mount the kind
of effort that we had to mountain World War two
to stay free, to have a free world, do you
think that people of America would support that?
Speaker 8 (23:38):
The only thing we can go back to is any
similar point of reference Dan is nine to eleven.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
And I think that.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
Our people of that generation that would have been my generation,
did respond, did step up, didn't serve, did volunteer on
the war on Terror?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
And I would hope.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
So.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah. And then I wonder about the people, right, because
I think we're always going to have because of our
heritage and a lot of that DNA that just makes
for so many great people to come out of this country,
and so many brave people, because again that's part of
our heritage, right, something larger than ourselves, being willing to
die for something larger than ourselves die for others. And
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so I think we'd always have enough brave men and
women willing to step up and fight the battle, but
with the people. Would you have enough unity among the
people of the country for that kind of effort to succeed.
Let's hope we don't have to find out. You're right
about nine to eleven and the way it brought everybody together.
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But this is such a different era now, and there's
so much polarization has occurred between nine to eleven and today.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
I just think about the world we live in right now.
Zoron Mumdani getting elected as mayor of New York City.
I didn't see this in the wake of nine to eleven, Dan,
And maybe I was just to my bick and naive
and Pollyanna and raw raw America and getting my American
flag and loving my country. But I don't remember there
being any kind of clamoring on behalf of al Qaeda
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or Osama bin Laden or the forces of evil that
attacked us that day. I think there would be support
for it in this country if that were to happen.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Now, well, right, I mean, you go back to nine
to eleven, and that's how Ward Churchill gained fame, you know,
coming out and celebrating the attacks. The chickens have come
home to roost. So you're right. There was so little
of that cheering for the other side that Ward Churchill
became famous that way and very proud of the role
our show played in exposing him on multiple levels. But
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today is there with today this modern Democratic Party. I'm
not talking about your everyday Democrat, because there are so
many very patriotic Democrats, including those who serve in our
armed forces and those who support them. But the Democratic
Party has owned it, not raided by a whole different
type of political critter. I don't think the modern Democratic Party,
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today's Democratic Party would have lined up against a Republican
president in the response to nine to eleven. I think
it's a whole different power group in the Democratic Party today.
Would the American people get behind it? I think that
because most of the media is an extension of those
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who own and operate the Democratic Party. I don't think
you'd have the media support for it. I think you'd
have the media pushing, you know, actively against the administration's
narrative if everything else was the same, God forbid another
nine to eleven occurred today. Yes, sad and sad and
scary thing. The good news is. The good news is,
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as we saw in the last election, you know, the
good in America pushes back, and each time we get
to the brink. In sixteen, we were at the brink.
Our democracy was on the line in that election, and
the people of America saved America through the election of
Donald Trump. Faced another watershed type of moment in twenty
four the people of America came through. So I'm optimistic
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about that, but yeah, a danger level we haven't seen before.
The good news is, as we talked about on Wednesday,
that the election of Mom Donnie and his certain spectacular
and by that I mean very visible and obvious failure
to come is going to help you know, dampen, you
know this rising desire for socialism in America. You're on
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the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast. Man
that Cross with.
Speaker 9 (27:45):
The spreto don com an Americans, an American design, my
brothers and my sisters, our politic custam when in jeopardy
Hello with me? What ran about here on the front
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line in the very.
Speaker 10 (28:22):
Ladies, gentlemen, the President of the United States, my fellow Americans.
Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall
of Rome, I knew at that moment the troops of
the United States and our allies were crossing the channel
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in another and greater operation. It has come to pass
with success thus far. And so in this poignant hour
I asked you old join with me in prayer. Almighty God,
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our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set
upon the mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic,
our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a
suffering humanity.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Well, what a tremendous wartime leader. FDR. Could you imagine
a Democrat president uttering those words today? And not with
the radical far left secularists who have taken over the
Democratic Party. I can't imagine there is any war, major
war effort that they would support. And let's hope it's
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not necessary. Obviously, the best chance of avoiding it is
peace through strength, and that is obviously what Trump has
successfully practiced. My friend, tomorrow, we've heard so much about
to one of the GOP candidates for governor, Victor Marx.
He's going to join us on the show tomorrow at
four oh six, So looking forward to that conversation. And Yeah,
(30:13):
when do you think this whole GOP primary will really
heat up? I mean, it's after the new year. Yeah,
they get better, right right? Yeah? Well, who are the
favorites in your mind as it stands, right? Well, I
mean Barb Kirkmeyer obviously, you know, Barb's very accomplished and
(30:34):
very knowledgeable. I'm very impressed with Barb. I would think
she's a favorite. But I don't think anybody at this
point is anything locked up. You know, candidates like Victor Marx,
who you know, I have a large following outside of politics.
They come from outside of politics. I always get very,
very interested in those those candidacies. To me, one of
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the great contributions of President Trump long term, way beyond
his two terms, is is going to be kind of
shattering that model where, hey, if if you wanted to
be governor, then you had to be in the state
legislature and do this and do that, and your dues
and the party you want to be president, you come
out of governors or Congress or Senate. And it was
always so stupid, right, why limit yourself to such a
(31:16):
very small talent pool for those big jobs when other
jobs outside of politics, it can be a teacher, it
can be you know, somebody comes out of this or
that can prepare somebody so much better, and then they
come in without all those entanglements. So that's a lasting
contribution of Trump. So I always get, always get really
intrigued when somebody's coming in from having success on the outside,
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and then you just have to get to know them
and learn all about them and size them up, and
people make their own decision. But really looking forward to
that conversation tomorrow with Victor Marx and then so much
more we want to tackle. I saw something else today,
is this you sixty three percent of millennial and gen zs.
(32:01):
So if I have my math right, we're talking about
people from maybe thirteen to forty one. Sixty three percent
watch their TV with subtitles. Interesting. I was just thinking
about do that? Oh why were you thinking about it?
Because I debate whether or not to do that.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
For instance, I was going back and watching The Godfather
and there's a lot of quiet moments, or you know,
Marlon Brando's got cotton balls in his mouth or something,
or there's Italian and I want to know, you know
that I miss something right.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
But then to me, it takes away.
Speaker 8 (32:33):
A little bit from the overall film experience that you're
immersing yourself in and you're in that world, and then you.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Got these little subtitles that.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
The younger people do prefer them, though, you're right.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
And how many times now, let's say you're watching a
movie on the iPad or something, do you have to
rewind just to make sure you picked up the dialogue,
That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, that's the main reason
they do it, and they say it helps with focus
and everything else. I also wonder whether they're multitasking, because
that really is one of the destructive forces in society.
(33:04):
And I'm not saying we go backwards technologically because we're
having trouble adjusting, but it is addictive, whether it's technically addictive,
the flashing collars, the lights, everything on the screen. My
kids now call me a screenager and you know, I
got show prep to do on the phone. That's always
my answer at chill prep screener. I think so many
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people can relate to it because there's so much information
available there it just the visuals everything else. So maybe
it's that too. Maybe a lot of people in that
age group are multitasking while they try to watch a show.
But I can't remember ever watching a show with subtitles.
It was some well when I started dating Amy. I
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went to some movie with subtitles and a foreign Yeah. No,
I can't understand slish. Yeah right, but that was my
one and only. You know what the is to those,
so you never have to go back, just fall asleep.
I could see you in that get out and I get, yeah,
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that's too much work. Was she nudging you you go
to a movie? Yeah, you could call it a nudge.
It's a little more direct than that. But given that
I had taken her to Dumb and Dumber while I
was courting her, I probably the trade off is probably
some payback right there. But one of the few movies
(34:30):
I've seen twice, so Victor Marx tomorrow into four o'clock.
I we're very much looking forward to that. Thank you, Ryan,
Catch you tomorrow on The Dan Caper Show.
This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast
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single day on your favorite podcast platform. Wow, the American way, right,
It does not exist obviously without our veterans in their
tremendous sacrifice. And you know, we always say those words
(00:23):
because they're so very true. But then as a nation,
do we deliver all that we should? Far from it?
So what more do you think we should do for
our veterans? In very concrete and specific terms, three H
three seven one three A two five five The number
takes DA N five seven seven three nine. And of
course we'll continue to talk about whether we can ever
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repay Michelle Obama for the sacrifice she made for this nation.
We played that sound earlier in the show. Have you
heard that sound? George George Brockler, obviously another brave veteran
and also the DA in Douglas.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard it. It's incredible what she
gave up for the opportunity to live in the White
House for eight years and make millions on a book
that no one's going to read.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
She's really overcome.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And speaking of making millions off a book, did you
see Joe Biden got a ten million dollar book deal? Well,
I presume it.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I presume half of that has to go to the
auto pen.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I mean writing the exactly. And but but what I'm
wondering because obviously, you know a lot of people do
that to gain political influence. He's not in a position
to help anybody anymore, or is he? Yeah? What why
would somebody pone up, pony up ten million to Biden?
I mean fewer people will read that book that have
seen Sydney Sweeney's new movie. Did you see that story?
(01:47):
And I'm a big Sidney Sweeney fan? Me too, Yeah,
we doo.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And I hope this is a vehicle for her to
get some you know, credibility with the Academy and all that.
But that's only ten more people that saw that movie
than my movie. I don't have one.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Well that's it. No, that's a great point, George, because
I was trying to do the math last night. Don't
ask me what. But it made a million and a
half bucks over two thousand theaters over the weekend. So
the best math I could come up with was what
maybe two people per showing or three people?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
But how romantic? Right? You take a date out there
and you guys aren't caring about the movie. You're just
in a giant dark well you know, environmental kind of area. Popcorn,
little drink.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Boy, you're giving me some ideas.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
By the way, what was the title of Kamala Harris's book?
Didn't she get a Deal too? Is it called word salad?
Or what did she title that.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Thing you just reminded me about Kamala? I got to
play this sound while we have you, George Brockler, of
course not only veteran, but the DA out in Douglas County.
I'm sure you saw this from Kamala yesterday, how she
played three D chess against Trump's checkers.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Was aware of my opponent's strategy, and I wasn't about
to fall prey or fall into those traps. And part
of his strategy and those around him, was to try
and take me off.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Our game and message. And I wasn't about to.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Be distracted by those little those planes that he was
trying to throw to get me away from one of
my highest priority, which is talking to people about the
economy and their well being in terms of their financial
well being.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And that's so I was.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I understood the game that was being playing, and I
made a decision that I wasn't going to get played.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Cheers chest not Checkers.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, three dimensional jests.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I'm telling you you, George, are you a drinker?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I have been a drinker in college. I probably drank
way more than I should. But I'm glad you brought
that up because every time I listened to her, I
think to myself, this is a conversation you could overhear
at last call at any number of bars, you know,
in the metro area, like that same kind of sound,
you know, And I'm not gonna do it. I'm not
(04:22):
playing those games. And they're like walking her out, Hey, thanks,
see you next time, Kamala.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I think it is boiled down to the question of
is it alcohol, is it legalize marijuana? Is it both?
But there's something. I personally believe there's something going on there,
and I want more of it. I think every time
she goes out in public, it helps the GOP. It
helps Trump, right even if somebody's down on Trump right now,
(04:48):
they say, oh man, we yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
When she keeps flirting with running on social media, I
always retweet and say yes, please, yeah, yes, please.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
If if somebody need this told us that, okay, if
you make this contribution to Kamala Harris, she'll run. I
would make that contribution because it would guarantee a GOP victory, right,
And there is no facetiousness in that.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I think she'd be a wonderful candidate for the Democrats.
I think she can straddle all sorts of different groups
and bring them on board this time. Of course, she'd
bring on mayor Pete to try to wipe away of
past sins and all that. But I think it'd be
a wonderful ticket. Harris. Buddha Judge tells me Jadie Vance
(05:37):
is going to be president in the United States.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
But what do I know, Well, any combo they can
put together other than maybe Michelle Obama, And I personally
believe she has not lost interest in that. How else
could you explain her being out on every goofy podcast,
doing her own all that other stuff. Why do you
think she's making it such a point to be.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Everywhere, Well, I sure hope it's not because she has
political ambitions. I hope it's so that she can stay
relevant and try to continue to make a bunch of
money that she doesn't need. But like her podcasts, Dan,
I think her podcast has the same number of listeners
as the DA Office podcast, and it's it's not promising
(06:21):
at all.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You know, well, and it must be somebody else over
there doing that podcast, because if it was you, they
would have a lot. My friend, Hey, do you mind
if I do a hard turn here and talk to
you about something profoundly serious because I saw you quoted
in a story today and I thought it was such
an important quote. You were talking about the sentencing in
(06:44):
this horrific Dui death case, and you talked about deliberately weak.
That was the quote Dui laws in Colorado, and I
was so happy to see you say that. Can you
expound on that for folks?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, I think for anyone that has tried to gauge
what's going on on our roads and with controlled substances,
and that includes alcohol, right, alcohol and drugs, what we
have seen now is a deliberate effort by the legislature
to keep those laws. And there's probably a couple different
reasons for it. Some of its philosophy, there's these harm
(07:21):
reduction people, and when they say harm reduction, what they
mean is harm to the offender. They're trying to reduce that.
But these are not people who think that incarceration serves
any purpose. Whether it's punishment, rehabilitation, whether it's deterrence. They
don't think it serves any purpose. So we're now at
a place where if you get drunk tonight, pour yourself
(07:45):
behind the wheel of a car and take off to
go home, and on the way you run over someone,
you could get probation. If you run over two people,
you can get probation. If you run over an entire
family and maybe plow into a home and kill that family,
you could get probation. Based on our veticular homicide charges.
That is no longer an accident that can be like, well, whoops,
(08:08):
what happened? Because it keeps happening. And yesterday is a
great example. Dan, It's such a gut wrenching story. When
I was talking to the media last night afterwards, I
was getting a little choked up because this is the
story of a love affair that began between Craig and
Michelle Kazda back when they were sixteen and seventeen. They
got married when they were seventeen. They were together fifty
(08:30):
one years, married fifty one years, had great kids, great grandkids.
They were coming back from a dinner and this guy
apparently is larger than life. Like everybody said, you could
you knew this guy's laugh whenever you walked in a room.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
And he didn't know any.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Strangers, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Like this was that guy.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
They're walking back in Castle Rock, in super safe Castle Rock,
walking from dinner and they end up meeting up over
a hood of a car with a twenty eight year
old who has been out out with his family and
he gets drunk. He's about a point one three one
blood alcohol level. About two hours after, he drives his
(09:08):
family home and then turns around and drives back, and
on his way back he hits Craig Kasda. Doesn't kill
him immediately, but sends him to the hospital for fifty
five days, where he suffers and ultimately dies. Now, this guy,
the defendant in this case, I want to give him
credit for this dude came into court and pleaded guilty,
(09:30):
didn't try to fight it, didn't try to resist it.
And I do think that has value, But I don't
think that value outweighs the requirement that if you kill
a human being in our community, especially driving drunk, a
crime that no one can be surprised. There's laws about
you got to be incarcerated for some period time.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It's just has to happen.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It has to happen. And that didn't happen yesterday, despite
the our offices, please, despite all the family members that
showed up and pleaded with the JI, she ended up
deciding to give him community corrections. And that's an option
that she has. And I said this yesterday to the
media too. I said, look, I respect our judges and
(10:11):
they have a tough job. I would just like to
make it less tough by taking that option away, Right,
Like if we had a law that said you've got
to go to prison, it's not as tough for the judge.
I want to make their jobs easier.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, And I really liked I saw that in the piece.
Your focus on the legislature, because if our laws, oh yeah,
were what they should be, that then at that point, yeah,
these people are just going to jail. And so I
was so glad to see you use that deliberately weak language.
How's your time? Can you do another segment?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Okay, wonderful George Brockler kind enough to be with us,
and we'll get George's take in yours on other hot
news today. But I do want to lead with this.
Assume a billion dollar dollar, billion dollar powerball jackpot, and
we'll ask George's quest and when we come back first.
If you won that and you're a Colorado, what do
(11:06):
you net? What's your take home from a billion dollar
powerball jackpot? You take the lump sum? What's your take
home if you're a Colorado resident? You're on the Dan
Caplas Show.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
And now back to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
No matter how long it may take us to overcome
this premeditated invasion, the American people in the righteous MC
will win through.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
The absolute cricular. Do you remember that our Churchill said, right,
never have so many, oh so much to so few.
We have a greade veteran with us, George Brockler, also
the DA out in Douglas County, and I work with
a couple of great veterans, John Kellner, my partner, Tom Earns,
(12:00):
my wonderful colleague, both great trial lawyers, and yeah, we
had their pictures up today, you know, with their uniforms
and theater and all that. It's just boys, it's powerful.
I mean it's hard for a guy like me who
never served to even imagine, you know, the sacrifices that
go into that. But I know it's a lot. And
(12:23):
so thanks to all you guys and gals. But day,
what was your what was your favorite slash most memorable
moment from your service?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Oh man, it's hard to drill down to It's really
hard to drill down to just one thing. There are
so many things that became like life lessons and also
humorous things that I've shared with the kids growing up.
There's a weird I mean, this sounds like such a
small thing. There's weird things that take place when you're
redeploying from the desert. And I think both Tom and
(12:57):
John were asking veterans and I was a rack, and
there's a weird thing that takes place where we are
now going to be in transit. We're going to leave
to Crete, Iraq and head back home, and we get it.
We get out of the desert. We had okay, facilities
at Cobbspike are not that bad. But we get taken
to an air base and I think it's ali O
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salm or Ala side. I can't remember which one, but
it's air conditioned and they have a working ice cream machine.
And this is going to sound dumb for people men
down range. You can tell the mood of the entire
post whether the ice cream machine is working or not.
It was like one treat, you know what I mean
that people could go in at lunch and you would
(13:41):
see people like visibly dejected, like they'd spent all day
outside doing whatever. So it worked. And it was my
team of you know, officers and enlisted from when I
ran the military judge shop out there at headquarters, and
we sat around and we ate ice cream and talked
about what are you going to do when you go back,
(14:02):
you know what I mean, Like, what is life going
to hold for you? And it was at that point
where it came around to my turn on one last
and they said what are you going to do? And
I said, I'll be honest, I think I might run
for district attorney. And they were like what. And I
start telling the story about it and look, this is
going to be tough and all this, and one of
them says, maybe you just want to stay here. No, no, no,
(14:26):
thank you. But that moment, it's kind of burning my
brain and sort of go around and we've made it
through our tour, and it was like, what's next, what's next?
One quick story if you can suffer through this or
the money piece. I was talking with a veterans group
in Highlands Ranch this morning and one of the things
I told them about is I said, look, there are
what makes America and Americans remarkable compared to other people
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is our resilience. And that's one hundred times fold for
the military. And I said, look, five days from right now,
we're going to celebrate the two hundred and forty ninth
anniversary of a battle nobody except historians remember, and it's
called the Battle of Fort Washington, and it was the
biggest defeat that George Washington and the Revolutionaries sustained, and
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it was at the hands of General Howe Up in
New York and they got trounced. And at that point,
I'm telling you, whether there was going to be in
America or not was an open question. It was teetering.
And about thirty days later, this same general rallies these
poorly fed, poorly dressed in the dead of winter men
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to cross the Delaware on Christmas and to take on
the Hessians in a surprise attack at the Battle of Trenton,
and they took two thirds of these guys with very
little fighting, and it turned the tide of morale for
the Revolution, and it turned the tide of the war.
We never talk about these battles because there's so many
other great things we've done afterwards. But that thirty day
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span from beginning to end, and that man a George Washington,
that's the reason you and I get to have a
veteran's Day here in twenty twenty five. And it's just incredible.
It's and that's in each of us. You don't have
to be born here to have that DNA. If you're
an American, you've got that resilience in there and that
that's what he brought to the Dayble wow wow, No.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Powerful, And it just makes you think about it. Each
critical moment in our nation's history, we seem to have
had that leader. We seem to have had that leader.
And personally, my belief in worldview goes back to the
founders with reliance on divine providence. But we have had
that leader arise. There have been other times when we
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haven't had the leader and you've seen, you know what,
horrible things happen then, but then you get to that
pivot point moment and that leader arrives to save the day.
So and obviously none of that happens without the men
and women on the front lines, you know, willing to
do what they do. And hey, George, this is a
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hard term.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Without divine providence, without devis providence.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I am on board with you, man.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
This is not accidental, yeah, not by chance. This is
a plan, and they are going to be people that
either figure out what that plan is and they give
in to it, or they're going to resist it. And
worry that too many people these days are resisting it.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah, yeah, though, there is there's something so interesting happening
in America right when when you see this surge, it
measured in very, very tangible ways. Now everything from church
attendance to so many more athletes on TV just starting
their postgame interviews, thank you God, to the explosion of
faith public faith among younger all those big crowds. Charlie
(17:35):
Kirk would draw, I think there really is something happening
so real hard turn my friend, Colorado billion dollar powerball.
Somebody selects the lump sum. The winner selects the lump sum.
What do they net in Colorado? What's your guests?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Best guests?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Four thirty two sixty five. Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't mean
to disappoint you. I know you'll make the most of that.
Don't mean to disappoint you, but yeah, And I'll do
the breakdown when we confect George. Thanks for your service,
Happy veterans. They appreciate the time today. Thank you, Thank you,
my friend back in a flash on the Dan Capitla Show.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
With confidence in.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people,
we will gain the inevitable triumph.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
So help us God, so that the Sunday nineteen forty
one Fdr tremendous wartime leader that obviously following the sneak
tech at Pearl Harbor, George Brockler joined us. We're talking
about Veterans Day throughout the show today and contrasting that
(19:11):
with the service of Michelle Obama and none of us,
how could us, any of us have known that it
was so very hard on her.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
I didn't really have that choice this firstly, Yeah, every day,
every time I was up, as we called it, you know,
I was up for the public, Yes, and the days
were long, so as you mentioned, to save time. Yes,
I know, having a glam team a trifecta, it feels
like a luxury, but it was a time and time necessity.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
The glam team. The trifecta, Ryan explained to us, means hair, makeup,
and wardrobe. Thank you, Ryan. I always thought it was face, body,
and hair all in one wash, which is one of
the great inventions of our lifetime. So yeah, thank you
Veteran so much for your sacrifice. I'd asked George's question
as well, and he gave the same answer I would
(20:05):
have before I read this article. The question was, all right,
say you win the billion dollar powerball in Colorado. As
a Colorado resident, you take the lump sum. How much
do you actually nat off that billion dollar dollar powerball win?
I think George said somewhere around four hundred That would
have been my guess in Colorado. The exact number two
(20:28):
hundred and sixty five million, five hundred and fifty nine
five eighty so fascinating. Why so quote little though I
think we'd all be very happy to get by on that.
The reason is because first, in a billion dollar powerball
lottery is, as you may well know, the if you
(20:49):
take the lump some then you're just taking the present
day value of those future benefits. It's only a billion
dollar prize if you take it over thirty years, but
the present value of that billion, you know, is then
about half of that. Then you get into taxes, and
I'm sure you already know how that's all going to work,
(21:10):
because you're going to be in the highest bracket. That's
why you'd end up with two sixty five five point
fifty nine five eighty and not the billion. Let's go
to the phone lines. We'll start with Kevin in beautiful Boulder, Colorado.
You're on the dan Kaplas Sho'll welcome Kevin.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Do you know what the second most leading cause of
death is in Canada?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
It's euthanasia, and they're going to make it so people
as young as twelve years old can decide on their
own whether they want to access it or not. If
I told you last spring that by PROPS states that
child sacrifice will be rampant in the nations of Israel
in the last days, and I think abortion and this
(22:00):
new euthanasia saying on children is at least part of that.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Boy Kevin, I did not know that statistic out of Canada.
One of these days we'll have to have some experts
on Ryan and talk about where do all this nuttiness
come from in Canada? Has it always been there? Is
it new? It just seems like such an unlikely place
to end up with all of this crazy, extreme woke nuttiness. Well,
(22:31):
in euthanasia, obviously that one of the worst forms of that.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Let me give you a through line.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
So George made the point earlier about the Battle of
Trenton and everything leading into that great knowledge of history,
and he's absolutely right. But remember the Canadians were Tories.
The Canadians were loyalists to the Brits. They never fought
for their independence. They were dependent upon the crown, the monarchy.
They've remained an entity of the United Kingdom.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
They still have the Queen and I would assume now
King Charles on their money.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
So they've never really valued independence, Dan in the same
way that we have here. We would never tolerate I
would hope, not that sort of government control over our lives.
So I guess what I'm saying is it doesn't surprise
me as much coming out of Canada as it would here.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah. No, good point, good analysis, good analysis. Do you
think today if the nation had to mount the kind
of effort that we had to mountain World War two
to stay free, to have a free world, do you
think that people of America would support that?
Speaker 8 (23:38):
The only thing we can go back to is any
similar point of reference Dan is nine to eleven.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
And I think that.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
Our people of that generation that would have been my generation,
did respond, did step up, didn't serve, did volunteer on
the war on Terror?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
And I would hope.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
So.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah. And then I wonder about the people, right, because
I think we're always going to have because of our
heritage and a lot of that DNA that just makes
for so many great people to come out of this country,
and so many brave people, because again that's part of
our heritage, right, something larger than ourselves, being willing to
die for something larger than ourselves die for others. And
(24:21):
so I think we'd always have enough brave men and
women willing to step up and fight the battle, but
with the people. Would you have enough unity among the
people of the country for that kind of effort to succeed.
Let's hope we don't have to find out. You're right
about nine to eleven and the way it brought everybody together.
(24:42):
But this is such a different era now, and there's
so much polarization has occurred between nine to eleven and today.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
I just think about the world we live in right now.
Zoron Mumdani getting elected as mayor of New York City.
I didn't see this in the wake of nine to eleven, Dan,
And maybe I was just to my bick and naive
and Pollyanna and raw raw America and getting my American
flag and loving my country. But I don't remember there
being any kind of clamoring on behalf of al Qaeda
(25:10):
or Osama bin Laden or the forces of evil that
attacked us that day. I think there would be support
for it in this country if that were to happen.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Now, well, right, I mean, you go back to nine
to eleven, and that's how Ward Churchill gained fame, you know,
coming out and celebrating the attacks. The chickens have come
home to roost. So you're right. There was so little
of that cheering for the other side that Ward Churchill
became famous that way and very proud of the role
our show played in exposing him on multiple levels. But
(25:44):
today is there with today this modern Democratic Party. I'm
not talking about your everyday Democrat, because there are so
many very patriotic Democrats, including those who serve in our
armed forces and those who support them. But the Democratic
Party has owned it, not raided by a whole different
type of political critter. I don't think the modern Democratic Party,
(26:07):
today's Democratic Party would have lined up against a Republican
president in the response to nine to eleven. I think
it's a whole different power group in the Democratic Party today.
Would the American people get behind it? I think that
because most of the media is an extension of those
(26:29):
who own and operate the Democratic Party. I don't think
you'd have the media support for it. I think you'd
have the media pushing, you know, actively against the administration's
narrative if everything else was the same, God forbid another
nine to eleven occurred today. Yes, sad and sad and
scary thing. The good news is. The good news is,
(26:50):
as we saw in the last election, you know, the
good in America pushes back, and each time we get
to the brink. In sixteen, we were at the brink.
Our democracy was on the line in that election, and
the people of America saved America through the election of
Donald Trump. Faced another watershed type of moment in twenty
four the people of America came through. So I'm optimistic
(27:14):
about that, but yeah, a danger level we haven't seen before.
The good news is, as we talked about on Wednesday,
that the election of Mom Donnie and his certain spectacular
and by that I mean very visible and obvious failure
to come is going to help you know, dampen, you
know this rising desire for socialism in America. You're on
(27:36):
the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast. Man
that Cross with.
Speaker 9 (27:45):
The spreto don com an Americans, an American design, my
brothers and my sisters, our politic custam when in jeopardy
Hello with me? What ran about here on the front
(28:08):
line in the very.
Speaker 10 (28:22):
Ladies, gentlemen, the President of the United States, my fellow Americans.
Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall
of Rome, I knew at that moment the troops of
the United States and our allies were crossing the channel
(28:45):
in another and greater operation. It has come to pass
with success thus far. And so in this poignant hour
I asked you old join with me in prayer. Almighty God,
(29:06):
our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set
upon the mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic,
our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a
suffering humanity.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Well, what a tremendous wartime leader. FDR. Could you imagine
a Democrat president uttering those words today? And not with
the radical far left secularists who have taken over the
Democratic Party. I can't imagine there is any war, major
war effort that they would support. And let's hope it's
(29:49):
not necessary. Obviously, the best chance of avoiding it is
peace through strength, and that is obviously what Trump has
successfully practiced. My friend, tomorrow, we've heard so much about
to one of the GOP candidates for governor, Victor Marx.
He's going to join us on the show tomorrow at
four oh six, So looking forward to that conversation. And Yeah,
(30:13):
when do you think this whole GOP primary will really
heat up? I mean, it's after the new year. Yeah,
they get better, right right? Yeah? Well, who are the
favorites in your mind as it stands, right? Well, I
mean Barb Kirkmeyer obviously, you know, Barb's very accomplished and
(30:34):
very knowledgeable. I'm very impressed with Barb. I would think
she's a favorite. But I don't think anybody at this
point is anything locked up. You know, candidates like Victor Marx,
who you know, I have a large following outside of politics.
They come from outside of politics. I always get very,
very interested in those those candidacies. To me, one of
(30:54):
the great contributions of President Trump long term, way beyond
his two terms, is is going to be kind of
shattering that model where, hey, if if you wanted to
be governor, then you had to be in the state
legislature and do this and do that, and your dues
and the party you want to be president, you come
out of governors or Congress or Senate. And it was
always so stupid, right, why limit yourself to such a
(31:16):
very small talent pool for those big jobs when other
jobs outside of politics, it can be a teacher, it
can be you know, somebody comes out of this or
that can prepare somebody so much better, and then they
come in without all those entanglements. So that's a lasting
contribution of Trump. So I always get, always get really
intrigued when somebody's coming in from having success on the outside,
(31:40):
and then you just have to get to know them
and learn all about them and size them up, and
people make their own decision. But really looking forward to
that conversation tomorrow with Victor Marx and then so much
more we want to tackle. I saw something else today,
is this you sixty three percent of millennial and gen zs.
(32:01):
So if I have my math right, we're talking about
people from maybe thirteen to forty one. Sixty three percent
watch their TV with subtitles. Interesting. I was just thinking
about do that? Oh why were you thinking about it?
Because I debate whether or not to do that.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
For instance, I was going back and watching The Godfather
and there's a lot of quiet moments, or you know,
Marlon Brando's got cotton balls in his mouth or something,
or there's Italian and I want to know, you know
that I miss something right.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
But then to me, it takes away.
Speaker 8 (32:33):
A little bit from the overall film experience that you're
immersing yourself in and you're in that world, and then you.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Got these little subtitles that.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
The younger people do prefer them, though, you're right.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
And how many times now, let's say you're watching a
movie on the iPad or something, do you have to
rewind just to make sure you picked up the dialogue,
That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, that's the main reason
they do it, and they say it helps with focus
and everything else. I also wonder whether they're multitasking, because
that really is one of the destructive forces in society.
(33:04):
And I'm not saying we go backwards technologically because we're
having trouble adjusting, but it is addictive, whether it's technically addictive,
the flashing collars, the lights, everything on the screen. My
kids now call me a screenager and you know, I
got show prep to do on the phone. That's always
my answer at chill prep screener. I think so many
(33:25):
people can relate to it because there's so much information
available there it just the visuals everything else. So maybe
it's that too. Maybe a lot of people in that
age group are multitasking while they try to watch a show.
But I can't remember ever watching a show with subtitles.
It was some well when I started dating Amy. I
(33:47):
went to some movie with subtitles and a foreign Yeah. No,
I can't understand slish. Yeah right, but that was my
one and only. You know what the is to those,
so you never have to go back, just fall asleep.
I could see you in that get out and I get, yeah,
(34:08):
that's too much work. Was she nudging you you go
to a movie? Yeah, you could call it a nudge.
It's a little more direct than that. But given that
I had taken her to Dumb and Dumber while I
was courting her, I probably the trade off is probably
some payback right there. But one of the few movies
(34:30):
I've seen twice, so Victor Marx tomorrow into four o'clock.
I we're very much looking forward to that. Thank you, Ryan,
Catch you tomorrow on The Dan Caper Show.
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