May 23, 2025 • 33 mins
Heidi Ganahl fills in for Dan Caplis today. In the second hour of the show, Heidi is joined by her daugher and young conservative activist, Tori Ganahl, to talk about the outlook for young Colorado Republicans.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hello everyone, and happy Friday. This is Heidi Ganoal filling
in for Dan Caplis. So happy to be with all
of you right before Memorial Day weekend. I hope you
all have great plans. I heard the weather's going to
be a little iffy here. I'm headed to Land of
the Free, Florida tomorrow morning with my whole family, except
for one child who's sitting next to me right now,
Toy Ganall my oldest daughter, Tory. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I'm so happy to be here, and I will be
in Grand Junction, Colorado, not quite Florida, So thanks for
leaving me here the.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Beautiful Grand Junction that's kind of Colorado's Land of the Free,
Masa County a little bit. They're holding firm there, Toy
I am. I have to apologize. I put you in
public school in Boulder Valley School District when you were little,
and then so you went through high school. Then I
let you go off to the University of Oregon, conservative
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bastion that it is, and you surprisingly came out even
more conservative. How did that happen despite your mother making
really bad choices?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yeah, I always joke about it.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I really like growing up a Boulder University of Oregon,
and then I lived in Portland for four years during
the pandemic, which was Portland.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Yeah wow, yep, during the.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Worst of it too.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It wasn't even like when it was good, It was
when it was the worst.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
So somehow I think all of that made me.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
A stronger conservative, mostly because one, I mean, I had
great foundation with you and Papa and Eden Jason back
in the day was really political, it's the thing, yes,
But yeah, I think just hearing the conversations that we
had at the dinner table, and even if I didn't
know what they were, and then seeing them come to
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fruition when I was on my own, seeing politics play
out in a way that it really did on campus
and in Portland. It we really, I mean, everything that's
happening here is nothing compared to what it was there.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well, and your grandfather got you to run for student
body vice president because Charlie Kirk sat next to him
at an event before Charlie was a big deal, like
this was back in what twenty.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Twenty fifteen, twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah, it must have been twenty fifteen, because I ran
in twenty sixteen when Trump was running and you were
running for regent. And he flew out to Oregon the
next day after meeting Papa and met with me and said,
you're running. And I was like, no, I'm not. You're
crazy if you think that I'm gonna. I was Paneltic
president at the time, so head of all of Greek life,
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and I was like, you think I'm going to step
out in front of everyone and be like, Hi, I'm
conservative and I'm going to run for student vice chair or.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And I got the heck beaten out of me during
that campaign.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
So but you guys actually won and then they flipped
it somehow talk.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
About a political scandal before there was political scandals. I
mean there was Pizzagate. We were giving pizza to students,
we were giving away free T shirts, which the other
team was doing too. Somehow we got doctor that we
had all the ballots counted, we had won, and then
they took it away from us, and then we had
to sue the university for character defamation on my behalf
because they trashed me in the student newspaper.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Okay, so, and they might have heard your mom Mike
was political.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
It was definitely a part of it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Sorry again, I'm sorry. Also, pronouns became a thing at
University of Oregon before it was a thing anywhere else.
Because I remember you telling me about mom I have
to put my pronouns on my email and I was like,
what are you talking about? Do you remember that?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yeah, this was back in twenty fifteen. It was a
thing back then.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I even had somebody who identified as a cat in
one of my classes.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So, oh, don't go there, toy, We're not going there.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
If there was a thing, it was a thing, I mean,
or hear you say that, Yeah, I should keep my
mouth shut.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Well that was the one, just to interject briefly here
on your mom's behalf that I covered in real time.
I had heidian to talk about it, and Comrade Kyle
went through the four stages of liberalism, which is it's
not happening. You're nuts for thinking it's even happening. But
if it did happen, this is step two would actually
be a good thing because this would allow kids to
express themselves. And then part three is, well, it's happening,
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and quite frankly, it's a good thing because now these
marginalized kids they have an outlet, don't you know. And
then part four is it's happening, you need to like it,
and if you don't like it, well then you're anti furry,
you're transphobic, you're homophobic, et cetera. That's the journey they
take on these issues like that.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh, if I ever post a picture of a cat
or refer to a cat on Twitter, all heck breaks
loose and furries come back to haunt me.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Well, you know what, hold on because my kids went
to Cherry Creek School District and there's a middle school
that are still basically allowing this behavior.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, I was a young Life leader
in Cherry Creek School District, didn't it. There's some crazy
stuff that happens in that school district.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
There's crazy stuff happening in every school district in Colorado.
So Tory, now that you're the National committee woman for CYO,
you're also the head of operations for Rocky Mountain Voice
and when you get these newsletters every day, you guys,
and see that beautiful website. We have an amazing writer
and editor, Jen Human, but then Tory puts it all together.
It makes it look beautiful. And so thank you for
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all you do on that front. That broadcast journalism degree is.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I know it's me Sending me to Oregon did turn
out in some way benefiting you.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
My favorite was that you guys had Duck TV.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I was the anchor of Duck TV for one whole year.
They really they have the best branding. You can't beat it.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Oh God, well that wait a minute, I'm gonna see you,
boff Ralphie. We've got some pretty dark good branding.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I broke my mom's heart.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I had my dorm committed fully ready to go to
see you, and I pulled out the day decision day.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I was like, I'm going to Oregon.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I'm like, we've never even I know Oregon, and we
hopped on a plane winter. I was like, dang, this
is pretty cool. And I had so much fun going
back to visit Eugene and going to see you, Like
we had a couple see you Oregon games so fun
at Autin Stadium is amazing, and Portland and Oregon is beautiful.
It used to be except for the politics. Yeah, so Tory.
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If you're talking to me as a mom, other other folks,
maybe grandparents, and you've got young people in your life
and they're tending conservative, how do you give them a
boost to get involved? What do you tell them to do?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I think right now a big place to tell them
to turn to is social media, honestly, which is kind
of counterintuitive because it used to be the place where you.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Didn't want them to be.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
But now you've got people like Charlie Kirk, You've got
podcasts like Joe Rogan coming out. I mean, like podcasts
in social media are where a lot of these younger
people are turning for answers, and maybe not even answers,
but just conflict. I mean, there's no really like freedom
to talk about these things anymore in schools where they
used to be able to have those commonversations at dinner tables.
(07:01):
Hopefully they're having those conversations, but I'd say turn turn
some turn them on to some people that may be vocal.
You know, Rocking Mount Voice. We've been doing our three
minute or even our minute rundowns.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
On social media, and that's very huge.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
You're getting quite the following. She does these little I
did them for a while, but then I have my surgery,
so Toy took over and I'm not going back. So
Tory does these little two to three minute videos on
the Mountain Minute on what the latest news of the
day is, and I mean, you're you're cranking on the floors.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I think people are interested in hearing a young perspective.
I think that they're interested in hearing the news that
no one else is reporting. And kids and even people
my age I'm almost thirty, that's where they get their
news now. They get it from TikTok and Instagram and
maybe X. I don't know a lot of people my
age that are on X, but i think those are
the two big platforms. So I'd say put them in
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front of people that are going to help them become
more conservative. I think also getting them involved with groups
like Turning Point or Young Republicans is huge, especially if
they're younger, if they're in high school or college. Buy
them books. I know that sounds crazy, but buy them
conservative books. I went through a lot of leadership programs
that I think helped develop my understanding of politics and
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society and policy, which I'm really grateful for. And yeah,
I just had a lot of really great mentors in
my life that I think directed me in the right way.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, and you're very brave, You're very courageous in speaking
out a lot about a lot of things. You've always
been that way in high school. You are the same
way before you kind of got your sea legs in
the political realm. But we have to go to break
in just a minute. But tell people how to get
involved in call her to Young Republicans, like, where are
the meetings? How do they follow you?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Well, like you said, we have fourteen chapters. If you're
interested in getting involved, you can reach out to us
on social media any of our accounts Colorado Young Republicans,
Colorada Federation of Young Republicans. You can go to our website.
I would say reach out to your county chair if
you're interested in being involved in one of those counties
are just you can reach out to me too, and
I can direct you in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, watch toy on the Mountain Minute, the little videos.
You go to Rocky Mountain Voice. Follow Rocky Mountain Voice.
It's free, there's no paywalls or ads sponsors, and it's
super fun. We're covering things that the liberal media doesn't
cover every day. And we've got over what forty to
fifty citizen journalists around the state that are submitting great
content for us.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Things you would never know about if it weren't for
them just being on the ground and witnessing themselves.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
And a lot of young people.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yes, a lot of young people. We even have a
girl at Valor High School who just is going to
start writing for us this summer. Really excited to see
that come to fruition. And lots of college kids that
are interested in talking about what's going on in their
campuses too.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah, I mean, I think Turning Point has over twenty
chapters for high schools around the state and twenty college
chapters around the state. You guys have fourteen chapters. You
got all the county dops that are trying to recruit
young people, so there's a lot of opportunity. This is
how you can all filling in for Dan Kaplis. We'll
see you after the break, toy, I'll be back to
talk more about how we turn this beautiful state around.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis show podcast.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Heightigan All filling in for Dan Kapli's Happy Memorial Day weekend.
I hope you have some great plans. I am here
with my daughter, Tory Ganal, who is the National committee
woman for the Colordy Young Republicans. And if you'd like
to ask Tory a question. I know we have a
lot of questions for young people in Colorado that are conservative.
How on earth do you survive here? Call in to
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And thanks Alexa for the nice message, She says, Toy
you rock thanks for all you do for Rocky Mountain
Voice and Conservatives. I dittow her.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Thanks Alexa, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
So Tory, we were talking about what we can actually
suggest our young people do to get engaged to make
a difference here in Colorado, and I wanted to talk
a little bit about the numbers right now. We've got
four million active registered voters in Colorado. Of those a
millionaire Democrat, a millionaire Republican. Two million are unaffiliateds which
I think a lot of young people are. But those
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unaffiliated vote almost always in Colorado. In the last three
or four cycles, sixty percent Democrat, forty percent Republican. So
we've a got to figure out how to get all
of our Republicans, register Republicans to turn out to vote,
and then we've got to convince some unaffiliateds that usually
vote Democrats to vote our way. Which let's assume there
are a lot of young people there. What are the
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issues that young people in Colorado care about that we
need to talk about as conservatives that will open their
mind to joining us.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Well, I think some of the ones they're experiencing firsthand
are immigration. I live in a neighborhood where.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
I have.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
TDA headquarters right right next to an apartment that is
right next to her.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
I know, it.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Breaks me out.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, it's actually everything has really calmed down since January February,
which I wonder why. But I think immigration we're seeing
first and how it is impacting everyone in the country.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
I think cost of living.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Obviously, it's so expensive to be a young person in
this country right now. Afford rent, I mean rent and Denver.
You can't afford anything for less than twenty five hundred
a month. If you're making a standard salary, that's your
whole entire paycheck.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
And then I think the environment.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I think, how the environment is impacted by AI and
technology is going to be a big conversation coming up
in the future. And I think, just yeah, I think
those are the big ones. I think a big another
big one that we all will start to see more
young people caring about. I think a lot of young
people that are involved in politics care about it, but
not a lot of We aren't all parents yet, but
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I think once we all become parents, we'll see this
massive rise in parental rights and what's going on with
kids too.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
What about the MAHA movement Make America Healthy again? Do
it seems like that's a young person issue.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Absolutely, Thanks for bringing that one up. That's the one
that means the most to me.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
No, I think.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I mean, I had lime disease for three years. I'm
in remission now. I think so many young people are
dealing with chronic illness or no people in their lives
that are dealing with chronic illness. So I think what
Bobby Kennedy is doing right now with the MAHA movement
is so impactful, not just because he's actually doing something,
but because you see people on the left and the right,
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coming together for a cause, which is so inspiring, and
I think it's really.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Brought people together.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
And also we've seen how it's destroyed lives, and we
all live through COVID, and so I think we're just
waking up to the fact that we're not twenty years
old anymore.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Our bodies aren't.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
The same as they used to be, and I think
a lot of us are seeing the repercussions of the
food that we grew up with, with the chemicals and
the vaccines and all the things that we grew up
as a norm.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, I agree, and as parents, boy, we feel bad
about some of the things. We're not your fault. Oh
my gosh, is my thirteen your old son, Tory's little brother.
He lives and dies for getting Donald's, Like it's so weird.
And I'm like, no, we're eating healthy. And he'll sit
and pick at the green Bees like I'd really like
a cheeseburger for McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I'm like, dude, and he's like underweight, and we're like, okay, well,
the only thing we're gonna get you to eat is McDonald's.
Like how else are we gonna get you to gain weight?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, Bobby Kennedy would not like Trump.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Trump loves McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
That's maybe it'll come out with the beef tallfries.
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
But I'm hoping I think they would do that. Yes,
I can't wait. He does eat GQ barbecue and geh
just came out with beef tallowfries.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yes, yes, on board. I love it. Jason is so healthy.
Jason's so healthy. He tries to rub off on me.
It hasn't quite happened.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Both of us really try to rub off on you.
We're both obsessed with all of the weird, quirky health stuff.
And I mean, I just did a parasite cleans and
you are so disgusted by that.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
You're like, oh my gosh, and the red light and
the infrared sauna in the oh my gosh, all the things.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
What I feel bad about, though, is Colorado has really changed,
and I want you to stay here and have kids here.
I want all my kids to even though we're going
to the Land of Freedom, Florida tomorrow, to just get
a break from the craziness.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
In Cola there last weekend, so it's okay, I've got
a taste of it.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
So some stats that I rattle off at the beginning
of the show. I'm going to repeat because they're really,
really horrible and really an incentive for people to vote differently.
Not that they are, but I want to give people
talking points out there. We have gone from the top
five to the bottom five. And economic performance here in Colorado.
We're one of the five least affordable states for housing,
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We're the sixth most regulated state, and we supposedly have
a libertarian governor HAJA. Prices are fifteen percent higher than
they were four years ago. We have the second highest
unemployment rate in the US, and this one is terrible.
We have the second highest rate of teen fentanyl deaths.
And I don't call it an overdose, to call it
poisoning because kids don't usually know that the pills that
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they're taking or laced with fentanyl, whether it's a xanax,
add or all or whatever. And it's rampant. And a
lot of these issues can be tied back to immigration policy,
tax policy policy at the federal level. So what's your view?
Are you going to stay here? Do you know yet?
Are you waiting to see? Like how can you kind
of bear this view of Colorado? And what's happening to
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it well.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
For me and my fiance, I mean, we're stuck here
pretty much because he has an amazing job and we're
going to stay here. And also family is the most
important thing to me. I went off to Oregon for
eight years and I didn't have that at all. So
being near family, especially when we're thinking about having kids soon,
is crucial. But if I could pick us up, all
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of us and move us to another state, I absolutely would.
I do think that people are starting to wake up.
I think after this legislative session that I think there
was a lot of people that were like, WHOA, Wow,
it's getting worse than I thought. And I think we're
almost at that point where you'll see people start to
tip back the other way, especially young people.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I mean, Colorado is a mess, and I saw what
happened in Portland, and I think that's the caveats. Like
I've seen the bottom of the bottom. I've seen buildings
go up and fire. I've seen, you know, I lived
in downtown Portland where there was a homeless In a
suburb of Portland that I lived in, there was a
whole homeless encampment going in right before I moved right
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next to a childhood development center and a school, so
it's like that is happening here.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
We're not far off from it.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
So I do think that if we are going to
stay and if young people are going to live here,
we need to see a change and we need.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
To see people get involved, which is huge.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
So it's almost time to take a break. But after
the break, I'd like to talk about what tactically we
can do, Like I want to go through a little
list things that young people can do, old people can do,
we can all do to turn this state around in
our own neighborhoods. You are the leader you've been waiting
for in your own neighborhood. This is Hidi Ganal filling
in for Dan Capless. We'll see you after the break.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
You're listening to the Dan Caplis Show podcast.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
Is she just a lie in the community?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Wow? That was Jennifer Perry, deputy superintendent of Cherry Creek
Schools that admits that they hide children's gender transitions from parents. Tory,
You've been covering a lot of this. This is Tory Ganell,
my daughter who's with me. This is Heidi Ganal filling
in for Dan Kaplis and at Rocky Mountain Voice, We've
written a lot. We've had a lot of people writing
about this issue, and this is real stuff. This is
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happening in Cherry Creek schools. Like we are one of
the fan favorites of lib libs of TikTok for sharing
stories of bad behavior in schools. What's your sense about
what conservatives are actually doing about this?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
To fix this, Well, we have to stand up.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I mean I listened to eight hours of testimony from
HB thirteen twelve, all straight through, and you know, people
did stand up, and there was a lot of people
that didn't get their voices heard because they purposely shut
down a lot of the testimony. There was eight hundred
people that signed up or seven hundred something like that.
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But you know what I'd love to see more of
is people showing up to school board meetings. I've been
to a couple this year and we have not had
the turnout that we need to.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Make a voice.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I hate to say it, but we have to, as conservatives,
be better about organizing and showing up. It's just not happening.
The Democrats are so so good at it. We just
have to be better.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Well, Tory and I went to a charter school meeting
for John Adams charter school that's going to be down
in Strolling Ranch, and the Democrats are just ticked off
about this school because it's patriotic, it talks about civics
in the way that we all think of civics. And
this was a community meeting about the chartering of the school,
and the Democrats all showed up in blue shirts, very vocal, hissing, yelling,
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interrupting the meeting. There were probably one hundred people there, Toy,
what do you think maybe sixty seventy percent of them
were organized Democrats that were there to stop the school
from going through.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
And I doubt half of them even live in Douglas County.
That's the thing that just shocks me every time.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Right, they probably don't, but they are all so well organized,
and they take marching orders and they follow through. They've
written tons of letters and called CSI the chartering authority
that John Adams is going through, and they'll just they
called it the fight of their lives. They're that passionate
about this when all it is is a choice. A
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charter school is a choice. You don't have to go
to the school if you don't want to go there,
that's what's so ironic. And so the temperature that room
was insane. But what's incredibly frustrating is with Rocky Mountain Voice,
we wrote about the meeting, We posted on all the
social media, Hey, guys, show up support this school, Like,
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actually go to the meeting, and it was crickets.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I mean yeah, and the people that were there were
already people that were on board. I mean the point
of the meeting was for people that were interested to
ask questions, not for people to show up and be
activists against this.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
But we're seeing this all across the board.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
And if we don't show up to these school board meetings,
these city council meetings, if we don't have even conservative
minded people running for those positions, and mean, one thing
you talked about for the break was like, how do
we change things?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
And it has to.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Start at a local level because they are so effective
at attacking on a local level, and we have this
I think much more high site like oh, who's running
for governor, who's running for secretary of state, who's running
for this state position? But it is so much more
important for us to have organization and amazing candidates in
city councils and school boards and local positions, because that's
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where the attacks are happening.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
That's right, that's right. And so I like to say
you are the leader you've been waiting for. Like everyone
wants some savior to come in and flip Colorado, You've
got to flip your own neighborhood first, yep. And if
you're a young person, if you start now, maybe by
the time you have kids, you know, you'll be living
in a place that's you know, doesn't have wack of
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doodal policies and you feel comfortable raising your kids in.
But I always suggest getting to know your precinct person,
which is your precinct person is the person appointed by
the county GOP or Republican party to like kind of
oversee the neighborhood and get people to know each other
and has a list of everyone who votes you know,
a Republican, Democrat, unaffiliated. So why not get that list
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from your precinct person and go knock doors, make phone calls,
make techs, ask to talk to these folks. Get organized
just in your precinct and your little neighborhood, start to
attend city council meetings, county commissioner meetings, school board meetings,
and then adopt a high school turning point chapter, like
actually help them go to their meetings, get them engaged,
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help them get good speakers, have their back. Same with
Colwardy Young Republicans.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Right, Yeah, I mean if we say you do that
and say you want to go ockdors, bring ten young
Republicans with you, people will be much more responsive to
a person that's in their eighteen to thirty year old
likely than a sixty year old showing up in their
doorstep saying hey, I'm a Republican.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
I want to talk to you about it.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I think people are lacking this level of conversation that
we just forgot about. Like I mean, people don't want
to go knock doors because there's conflict, But like that's
the only way we're going to change hearts and minds
is if we have conversations.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
One of my favorite groups that I'm now on the
board of is American Conservation Coalition. They have over sixty
thousand members across the country and what they decided to
do it's young people. The head of the organizations are
in their early mid twenties and Chris and Danielle do
a great job of leading this organization. And Chris Bernard
actually is married to a gal from Pagosa Springs, so
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he comes out to Colorado a lot. And they just
hired Hunter Rivera as the director for Colorado or the
regional director, who is also he's the.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
My fellow committee man.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah, he's committee man and he's also the chair of
Weld County GOP. Now yes, and so Hunter his directive
is to show Colorado that there's a different way to
look at the environmental issues that actually Republicans were the
first conservationists with Teddy Roosevelt, and we have really good
policy solutions to protect our land, our seas, our water,
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drinking water, our air.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Our animals, our animals.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yes, and as evidenced by their focus on nuclear energy.
And I mean there's just really cool technology advances like
you were talking about using AI. It doesn't have to
be this heavy, dark climate change conversation. There's a solution
based conversation that a you see is going after. So
go to acc dot Eco to check them out and
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get involved. That's just another option from turning Point and
Colority owned Republicans. There's a lot of great young people
groups that are popping up Tory before we go to
break and I'll let you go because I know you're
precious puppies out in the car waiting for you.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Okayig's in sixty four degrees, but I'm.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
A controlled car. This is a new thing. What are
you doing, like on a local level to make a difference.
I know what you're doing, but I want you to
tell folks like what a day in the life of
Tory looks like fighting these battles.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Yeah, I mean, I'm engaged. I'm about to be married
in October. And a big conversation that my fiance and
I are having are where are we going to live
that we feel like we're in an area that we
have a voice, that we aren't going to be overpowered
right now, We're not in a good area that we
want to raise kids in. So choosing an area that
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we feel like we can be active in. And then
I'm going to school board meetings, going going to different
meetings all around the state. I'm speaking at them, but
I'm also attending them different conservative groups and just hearing
what people have to say. You know, even if you
go to just one meeting a week, or one meeting
a month even. I think you'll be shocked at what's happening,
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the conversations that are being had behind the scenes that
may not be public, and how you can have a
voice in those. So I just really encourage people to try.
Just go to one meeting.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Yeah, just see how it goes.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I guarantee you you'll be shocked. You will be shocked,
and you will get activated. You will want to make
a difference for your kids and grandkids. You guys are
also very involved. Cary Young Republicans is going to be
one of our partners in the Rocky Mountain Majesty Gala
that we're hosting in Golden in just a few weeks
January or June twenty first. It's a Saturday. If you're
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interested or want to get tickets, go to Rocky Mountain
Voice dot com. If you're on the new if you
see the newsletter of the Mountain at newsletter, you'll be
able to find your way to tickets. It's gonna be
a lot of fun. Eric Trump is our speaker YEP,
very excited about that and would love to have everyone
join us for that event. Lots of young people there.
This is Heidigan All filling in for Dan Kaplis. Thanks
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Tory for joining us today. It's great to hear your perspective.
And Ryan, it's back to us old books after the break.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast again.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Are you Ryan Shully?
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Oh yeah, especially this weekend.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Kelly is Kelly there?
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Well she's wandering around, but yeah, you know, remembering our
fallen service members. Of course, that's what this weekend's all about.
But it's through their sacrifice that we even get that
day off on Monday, so be sure to take time
to reflect upon that. And kind of going to our
earlier conversation, Kelsey and I are getting a new puppy tomorrow, yep.
To add to our little pack. We have Bruce, who's
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a Wheaten Terrier poodle mix a Woodle. He's a very
sweet boy. But Kel's she felt a little out numbered,
so we're getting a Muyan poodle. It's like a medium
sized poodle and we're naming her Diana because Kelsey's all
about the superhero movies. So Bruce is Bruce Wayne and
Diana is for wonder Woman.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Oh that is too cool. You have to send pictures
for sure.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Oh, without question, I'll post them and get all kinds
of likes.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
How is this baby going to be eight weeks?
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Oh, so it's like as soon as we can get her.
And we visited it was cute a couple of weeks ago.
I think it was two weeks ago. And there are
a whole bunch of these little puppies that are all adorable.
One was kind of chocolate with the white mix, and
then one was black and that was nipping on my fingers,
and then a bunch of them were kind of a
lighter beige. And this one in particular, I didn't say anything,
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and the breeder didn't say anything, but we're sitting there
and she just kind of set up shop right next
to Kelsey. Didn't move, didn't say anything, didn't make any noise,
just stayed with her the whole time. And then by
you know, about twenty minutes and I'm like, this one's
not eating your side. That's the one we picked.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Oh that's so sweet.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Oh yeah, we're looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
You're such a softie.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Oh I know. Yeah, I'm a pushover totally. This is
a preview. So going back to the original question, what
you asked me to begin the show? If I were
to have kids. And this is where Kelsey I have
had that discussion. If we have one that like a
little girl that looks like Kelsey and gives me the
eyes like dad, but damn, and I'm gonna be like, okay,
and I'll be that guy.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
That's a good thing because Mama is like, Yeah, we
don't put up with a lot of stuff from our kiddos.
They need their dad, especially the girls their dads.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Oh yeah, I just know I'm gonna I'm gonna tell myself,
I'm not gonna be that way, but I'm gonna.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
Be that way.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I know you are. You're gonna be a great dad.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Thanks. And I had a texture along those lines. I
want to think that text her too. I'm gonna do
my best.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yeah, somebody texted, You're gonna be a great dad.
Speaker 8 (29:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
If called upon, I will surf.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
All right.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
We have a caller like from Littleton has a call
about civil rights. Mike, welcome to the show. This is
how do you get all filling in for Dan Kaplis.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Yeah, I.
Speaker 8 (30:09):
Great the burst the bubble on this one. But you know,
these people that want civil rights or whatever they want
to pick it out to be, should be able to
get that because I mean civil rights and civil rights.
I mean, all you guys do is ask for it,
you should get it, and if you don't get it,
you just keep beating that drum until you get it.
And there's nothing really anybody can do to fight that.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Now, are you talking about HP thirteen twelve and the
whole misgendering and dead naming thing.
Speaker 8 (30:36):
It's just another group of people that are not quite
as good as everybody else as far as they know,
or think or act. They want to put it that way,
and therefore they need civil rights to get up there
with everybody else. So I mean, it's it's just like
every other thing. I mean, you know, they've done it
to blacks women Latino, they done they haven't done it
with white christer mail like me. So that's why I
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had a clear vision wanted I I don't need it
on a one and I never want it because I
followed this is government from the government, and once you
get rights from the government, you get blackmails, and then
and then they get the control and before you know it,
they run the world. And then through civil rights, everybody's cooperation,
so you know, they create enough victims to where they
say Hey, we're going to save you, like you know, Jesus,
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maybe really save people. But the government wants to be Jesus.
And so instead of constitutional rights, we have civil rights.
And with civil rights, there's no line between oh this
is kind of weird that this is quite right, and
you know they're also sing there's no line there that
says there's no moral line with civil rights. It's that's
that's the thing. That's what what's what It's called pronouns
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because a noun is a noun, and then you know,
the other one is that, you know, is an action.
So and we're talking action. Republicans talk action and and
and and you know, Democrats talking now it's and just
as whining civil rights is at the base of nouns.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Well, the good news is that nationally we're winning now
and President Trump is doing his best to take care
of this. Thanks for the call. I appreciate it, and
I'm grateful that we won the election last fall, and
at least it's coming down from the federal perspective to
stop a lot of this nonsense. I don't know if
you saw what happened today with I think it was
Harvard where Trump put the hammer down and said we're
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going to stop this nonsense on a lot of the
international students are here. It's a privilege to be here,
and they don't appreciate being in America or are founding principles, and.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Of course another liberal judge stepped in to try to
block it. I mean, this is just a part for
the course. But to the caller's previous point, I mean
there's civil rights, but yeah, you can't infringe upon the
First Amendment rights of somebody like Jack Phillips or Heidi
Ganal or yours truly, So that's where this is going
to be loggerheads. And again I think we're on the
right side of history. We just got to stay the course.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Yeah, Ryan, I agree. And another big issue is election
integrity here in Colorado. And there's an important press conference
on Tuesday at two thirty at the Capitol about some
Shenan against some high jinks Heidie hijinks, not my high jinks,
Rapahoe County hijaks. So check out Rocky mountin Voice to
hear more about that. Ryan, It's been a great, great
time with you and Kelly, a lot of fun. Well,
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hope you have a.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Great weekend everyone.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
This is hiking, all filling in for Dan Kaplis. We'll
see you soon.
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hello everyone, and happy Friday. This is Heidi Ganoal filling
in for Dan Caplis. So happy to be with all
of you right before Memorial Day weekend. I hope you
all have great plans. I heard the weather's going to
be a little iffy here. I'm headed to Land of
the Free, Florida tomorrow morning with my whole family, except
for one child who's sitting next to me right now,
Toy Ganall my oldest daughter, Tory. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I'm so happy to be here, and I will be
in Grand Junction, Colorado, not quite Florida, So thanks for
leaving me here the.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Beautiful Grand Junction that's kind of Colorado's Land of the Free,
Masa County a little bit. They're holding firm there, Toy
I am. I have to apologize. I put you in
public school in Boulder Valley School District when you were little,
and then so you went through high school. Then I
let you go off to the University of Oregon, conservative
(01:04):
bastion that it is, and you surprisingly came out even
more conservative. How did that happen despite your mother making
really bad choices?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yeah, I always joke about it.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I really like growing up a Boulder University of Oregon,
and then I lived in Portland for four years during
the pandemic, which was Portland.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Yeah wow, yep, during the.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Worst of it too.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It wasn't even like when it was good, It was
when it was the worst.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
So somehow I think all of that made me.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
A stronger conservative, mostly because one, I mean, I had
great foundation with you and Papa and Eden Jason back
in the day was really political, it's the thing, yes,
But yeah, I think just hearing the conversations that we
had at the dinner table, and even if I didn't
know what they were, and then seeing them come to
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fruition when I was on my own, seeing politics play
out in a way that it really did on campus
and in Portland. It we really, I mean, everything that's
happening here is nothing compared to what it was there.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well, and your grandfather got you to run for student
body vice president because Charlie Kirk sat next to him
at an event before Charlie was a big deal, like
this was back in what twenty.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Twenty fifteen, twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah, it must have been twenty fifteen, because I ran
in twenty sixteen when Trump was running and you were
running for regent. And he flew out to Oregon the
next day after meeting Papa and met with me and said,
you're running. And I was like, no, I'm not. You're
crazy if you think that I'm gonna. I was Paneltic
president at the time, so head of all of Greek life,
(02:37):
and I was like, you think I'm going to step
out in front of everyone and be like, Hi, I'm
conservative and I'm going to run for student vice chair or.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And I got the heck beaten out of me during
that campaign.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
So but you guys actually won and then they flipped
it somehow talk.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
About a political scandal before there was political scandals. I
mean there was Pizzagate. We were giving pizza to students,
we were giving away free T shirts, which the other
team was doing too. Somehow we got doctor that we
had all the ballots counted, we had won, and then
they took it away from us, and then we had
to sue the university for character defamation on my behalf
because they trashed me in the student newspaper.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Okay, so, and they might have heard your mom Mike
was political.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
It was definitely a part of it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Sorry again, I'm sorry. Also, pronouns became a thing at
University of Oregon before it was a thing anywhere else.
Because I remember you telling me about mom I have
to put my pronouns on my email and I was like,
what are you talking about? Do you remember that?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yeah, this was back in twenty fifteen. It was a
thing back then.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I even had somebody who identified as a cat in
one of my classes.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So, oh, don't go there, toy, We're not going there.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
If there was a thing, it was a thing, I mean,
or hear you say that, Yeah, I should keep my
mouth shut.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Well that was the one, just to interject briefly here
on your mom's behalf that I covered in real time.
I had heidian to talk about it, and Comrade Kyle
went through the four stages of liberalism, which is it's
not happening. You're nuts for thinking it's even happening. But
if it did happen, this is step two would actually
be a good thing because this would allow kids to
express themselves. And then part three is, well, it's happening,
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and quite frankly, it's a good thing because now these
marginalized kids they have an outlet, don't you know. And
then part four is it's happening, you need to like it,
and if you don't like it, well then you're anti furry,
you're transphobic, you're homophobic, et cetera. That's the journey they
take on these issues like that.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh, if I ever post a picture of a cat
or refer to a cat on Twitter, all heck breaks
loose and furries come back to haunt me.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Well, you know what, hold on because my kids went
to Cherry Creek School District and there's a middle school
that are still basically allowing this behavior.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, I was a young Life leader
in Cherry Creek School District, didn't it. There's some crazy
stuff that happens in that school district.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
There's crazy stuff happening in every school district in Colorado.
So Tory, now that you're the National committee woman for CYO,
you're also the head of operations for Rocky Mountain Voice
and when you get these newsletters every day, you guys,
and see that beautiful website. We have an amazing writer
and editor, Jen Human, but then Tory puts it all together.
It makes it look beautiful. And so thank you for
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all you do on that front. That broadcast journalism degree is.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I know it's me Sending me to Oregon did turn
out in some way benefiting you.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
My favorite was that you guys had Duck TV.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I was the anchor of Duck TV for one whole year.
They really they have the best branding. You can't beat it.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Oh God, well that wait a minute, I'm gonna see you,
boff Ralphie. We've got some pretty dark good branding.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I broke my mom's heart.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I had my dorm committed fully ready to go to
see you, and I pulled out the day decision day.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I was like, I'm going to Oregon.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I'm like, we've never even I know Oregon, and we
hopped on a plane winter. I was like, dang, this
is pretty cool. And I had so much fun going
back to visit Eugene and going to see you, Like
we had a couple see you Oregon games so fun
at Autin Stadium is amazing, and Portland and Oregon is beautiful.
It used to be except for the politics. Yeah, so Tory.
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If you're talking to me as a mom, other other folks,
maybe grandparents, and you've got young people in your life
and they're tending conservative, how do you give them a
boost to get involved? What do you tell them to do?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I think right now a big place to tell them
to turn to is social media, honestly, which is kind
of counterintuitive because it used to be the place where you.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Didn't want them to be.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
But now you've got people like Charlie Kirk, You've got
podcasts like Joe Rogan coming out. I mean, like podcasts
in social media are where a lot of these younger
people are turning for answers, and maybe not even answers,
but just conflict. I mean, there's no really like freedom
to talk about these things anymore in schools where they
used to be able to have those commonversations at dinner tables.
(07:01):
Hopefully they're having those conversations, but I'd say turn turn
some turn them on to some people that may be vocal.
You know, Rocking Mount Voice. We've been doing our three
minute or even our minute rundowns.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
On social media, and that's very huge.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
You're getting quite the following. She does these little I
did them for a while, but then I have my surgery,
so Toy took over and I'm not going back. So
Tory does these little two to three minute videos on
the Mountain Minute on what the latest news of the
day is, and I mean, you're you're cranking on the floors.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I think people are interested in hearing a young perspective.
I think that they're interested in hearing the news that
no one else is reporting. And kids and even people
my age I'm almost thirty, that's where they get their
news now. They get it from TikTok and Instagram and
maybe X. I don't know a lot of people my
age that are on X, but i think those are
the two big platforms. So I'd say put them in
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front of people that are going to help them become
more conservative. I think also getting them involved with groups
like Turning Point or Young Republicans is huge, especially if
they're younger, if they're in high school or college. Buy
them books. I know that sounds crazy, but buy them
conservative books. I went through a lot of leadership programs
that I think helped develop my understanding of politics and
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society and policy, which I'm really grateful for. And yeah,
I just had a lot of really great mentors in
my life that I think directed me in the right way.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, and you're very brave, You're very courageous in speaking
out a lot about a lot of things. You've always
been that way in high school. You are the same
way before you kind of got your sea legs in
the political realm. But we have to go to break
in just a minute. But tell people how to get
involved in call her to Young Republicans, like, where are
the meetings? How do they follow you?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Well, like you said, we have fourteen chapters. If you're
interested in getting involved, you can reach out to us
on social media any of our accounts Colorado Young Republicans,
Colorada Federation of Young Republicans. You can go to our website.
I would say reach out to your county chair if
you're interested in being involved in one of those counties
are just you can reach out to me too, and
I can direct you in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, watch toy on the Mountain Minute, the little videos.
You go to Rocky Mountain Voice. Follow Rocky Mountain Voice.
It's free, there's no paywalls or ads sponsors, and it's
super fun. We're covering things that the liberal media doesn't
cover every day. And we've got over what forty to
fifty citizen journalists around the state that are submitting great
content for us.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Things you would never know about if it weren't for
them just being on the ground and witnessing themselves.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
And a lot of young people.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yes, a lot of young people. We even have a
girl at Valor High School who just is going to
start writing for us this summer. Really excited to see
that come to fruition. And lots of college kids that
are interested in talking about what's going on in their
campuses too.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah, I mean, I think Turning Point has over twenty
chapters for high schools around the state and twenty college
chapters around the state. You guys have fourteen chapters. You
got all the county dops that are trying to recruit
young people, so there's a lot of opportunity. This is
how you can all filling in for Dan Kaplis. We'll
see you after the break, toy, I'll be back to
talk more about how we turn this beautiful state around.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis show podcast.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Heightigan All filling in for Dan Kapli's Happy Memorial Day weekend.
I hope you have some great plans. I am here
with my daughter, Tory Ganal, who is the National committee
woman for the Colordy Young Republicans. And if you'd like
to ask Tory a question. I know we have a
lot of questions for young people in Colorado that are conservative.
How on earth do you survive here? Call in to
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or texta texts Dan to five seven seven three six.
And thanks Alexa for the nice message, She says, Toy
you rock thanks for all you do for Rocky Mountain
Voice and Conservatives. I dittow her.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Thanks Alexa, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
So Tory, we were talking about what we can actually
suggest our young people do to get engaged to make
a difference here in Colorado, and I wanted to talk
a little bit about the numbers right now. We've got
four million active registered voters in Colorado. Of those a
millionaire Democrat, a millionaire Republican. Two million are unaffiliateds which
I think a lot of young people are. But those
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unaffiliated vote almost always in Colorado. In the last three
or four cycles, sixty percent Democrat, forty percent Republican. So
we've a got to figure out how to get all
of our Republicans, register Republicans to turn out to vote,
and then we've got to convince some unaffiliateds that usually
vote Democrats to vote our way. Which let's assume there
are a lot of young people there. What are the
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issues that young people in Colorado care about that we
need to talk about as conservatives that will open their
mind to joining us.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Well, I think some of the ones they're experiencing firsthand
are immigration. I live in a neighborhood where.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
I have.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
TDA headquarters right right next to an apartment that is
right next to her.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
I know, it.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Breaks me out.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, it's actually everything has really calmed down since January February,
which I wonder why. But I think immigration we're seeing
first and how it is impacting everyone in the country.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
I think cost of living.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Obviously, it's so expensive to be a young person in
this country right now. Afford rent, I mean rent and Denver.
You can't afford anything for less than twenty five hundred
a month. If you're making a standard salary, that's your
whole entire paycheck.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
And then I think the environment.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I think, how the environment is impacted by AI and
technology is going to be a big conversation coming up
in the future. And I think, just yeah, I think
those are the big ones. I think a big another
big one that we all will start to see more
young people caring about. I think a lot of young
people that are involved in politics care about it, but
not a lot of We aren't all parents yet, but
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I think once we all become parents, we'll see this
massive rise in parental rights and what's going on with
kids too.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
What about the MAHA movement Make America Healthy again? Do
it seems like that's a young person issue.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Absolutely, Thanks for bringing that one up. That's the one
that means the most to me.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
No, I think.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I mean, I had lime disease for three years. I'm
in remission now. I think so many young people are
dealing with chronic illness or no people in their lives
that are dealing with chronic illness. So I think what
Bobby Kennedy is doing right now with the MAHA movement
is so impactful, not just because he's actually doing something,
but because you see people on the left and the right,
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coming together for a cause, which is so inspiring, and
I think it's really.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Brought people together.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
And also we've seen how it's destroyed lives, and we
all live through COVID, and so I think we're just
waking up to the fact that we're not twenty years
old anymore.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Our bodies aren't.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
The same as they used to be, and I think
a lot of us are seeing the repercussions of the
food that we grew up with, with the chemicals and
the vaccines and all the things that we grew up
as a norm.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, I agree, and as parents, boy, we feel bad
about some of the things. We're not your fault. Oh
my gosh, is my thirteen your old son, Tory's little brother.
He lives and dies for getting Donald's, Like it's so weird.
And I'm like, no, we're eating healthy. And he'll sit
and pick at the green Bees like I'd really like
a cheeseburger for McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I'm like, dude, and he's like underweight, and we're like, okay, well,
the only thing we're gonna get you to eat is McDonald's.
Like how else are we gonna get you to gain weight?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, Bobby Kennedy would not like Trump.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Trump loves McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
That's maybe it'll come out with the beef tallfries.
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
But I'm hoping I think they would do that. Yes,
I can't wait. He does eat GQ barbecue and geh
just came out with beef tallowfries.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yes, yes, on board. I love it. Jason is so healthy.
Jason's so healthy. He tries to rub off on me.
It hasn't quite happened.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Both of us really try to rub off on you.
We're both obsessed with all of the weird, quirky health stuff.
And I mean, I just did a parasite cleans and
you are so disgusted by that.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
You're like, oh my gosh, and the red light and
the infrared sauna in the oh my gosh, all the things.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
What I feel bad about, though, is Colorado has really changed,
and I want you to stay here and have kids here.
I want all my kids to even though we're going
to the Land of Freedom, Florida tomorrow, to just get
a break from the craziness.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
In Cola there last weekend, so it's okay, I've got
a taste of it.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
So some stats that I rattle off at the beginning
of the show. I'm going to repeat because they're really,
really horrible and really an incentive for people to vote differently.
Not that they are, but I want to give people
talking points out there. We have gone from the top
five to the bottom five. And economic performance here in Colorado.
We're one of the five least affordable states for housing,
(15:41):
We're the sixth most regulated state, and we supposedly have
a libertarian governor HAJA. Prices are fifteen percent higher than
they were four years ago. We have the second highest
unemployment rate in the US, and this one is terrible.
We have the second highest rate of teen fentanyl deaths.
And I don't call it an overdose, to call it
poisoning because kids don't usually know that the pills that
(16:04):
they're taking or laced with fentanyl, whether it's a xanax,
add or all or whatever. And it's rampant. And a
lot of these issues can be tied back to immigration policy,
tax policy policy at the federal level. So what's your view?
Are you going to stay here? Do you know yet?
Are you waiting to see? Like how can you kind
of bear this view of Colorado? And what's happening to
(16:27):
it well.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
For me and my fiance, I mean, we're stuck here
pretty much because he has an amazing job and we're
going to stay here. And also family is the most
important thing to me. I went off to Oregon for
eight years and I didn't have that at all. So
being near family, especially when we're thinking about having kids soon,
is crucial. But if I could pick us up, all
(16:49):
of us and move us to another state, I absolutely would.
I do think that people are starting to wake up.
I think after this legislative session that I think there
was a lot of people that were like, WHOA, Wow,
it's getting worse than I thought. And I think we're
almost at that point where you'll see people start to
tip back the other way, especially young people.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I mean, Colorado is a mess, and I saw what
happened in Portland, and I think that's the caveats. Like
I've seen the bottom of the bottom. I've seen buildings
go up and fire. I've seen, you know, I lived
in downtown Portland where there was a homeless In a
suburb of Portland that I lived in, there was a
whole homeless encampment going in right before I moved right
(17:34):
next to a childhood development center and a school, so
it's like that is happening here.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
We're not far off from it.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
So I do think that if we are going to
stay and if young people are going to live here,
we need to see a change and we need.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
To see people get involved, which is huge.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
So it's almost time to take a break. But after
the break, I'd like to talk about what tactically we
can do, Like I want to go through a little
list things that young people can do, old people can do,
we can all do to turn this state around in
our own neighborhoods. You are the leader you've been waiting
for in your own neighborhood. This is Hidi Ganal filling
in for Dan Capless. We'll see you after the break.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
You're listening to the Dan Caplis Show podcast.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
Is she just a lie in the community?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Wow? That was Jennifer Perry, deputy superintendent of Cherry Creek
Schools that admits that they hide children's gender transitions from parents. Tory,
You've been covering a lot of this. This is Tory Ganell,
my daughter who's with me. This is Heidi Ganal filling
in for Dan Kaplis and at Rocky Mountain Voice, We've
written a lot. We've had a lot of people writing
about this issue, and this is real stuff. This is
(18:48):
happening in Cherry Creek schools. Like we are one of
the fan favorites of lib libs of TikTok for sharing
stories of bad behavior in schools. What's your sense about
what conservatives are actually doing about this?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
To fix this, Well, we have to stand up.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I mean I listened to eight hours of testimony from
HB thirteen twelve, all straight through, and you know, people
did stand up, and there was a lot of people
that didn't get their voices heard because they purposely shut
down a lot of the testimony. There was eight hundred
people that signed up or seven hundred something like that.
(19:25):
But you know what I'd love to see more of
is people showing up to school board meetings. I've been
to a couple this year and we have not had
the turnout that we need to.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Make a voice.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I hate to say it, but we have to, as conservatives,
be better about organizing and showing up. It's just not happening.
The Democrats are so so good at it. We just
have to be better.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Well, Tory and I went to a charter school meeting
for John Adams charter school that's going to be down
in Strolling Ranch, and the Democrats are just ticked off
about this school because it's patriotic, it talks about civics
in the way that we all think of civics. And
this was a community meeting about the chartering of the school,
and the Democrats all showed up in blue shirts, very vocal, hissing, yelling,
(20:13):
interrupting the meeting. There were probably one hundred people there, Toy,
what do you think maybe sixty seventy percent of them
were organized Democrats that were there to stop the school
from going through.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
And I doubt half of them even live in Douglas County.
That's the thing that just shocks me every time.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Right, they probably don't, but they are all so well organized,
and they take marching orders and they follow through. They've
written tons of letters and called CSI the chartering authority
that John Adams is going through, and they'll just they
called it the fight of their lives. They're that passionate
about this when all it is is a choice. A
(20:51):
charter school is a choice. You don't have to go
to the school if you don't want to go there,
that's what's so ironic. And so the temperature that room
was insane. But what's incredibly frustrating is with Rocky Mountain Voice,
we wrote about the meeting, We posted on all the
social media, Hey, guys, show up support this school, Like,
(21:13):
actually go to the meeting, and it was crickets.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I mean yeah, and the people that were there were
already people that were on board. I mean the point
of the meeting was for people that were interested to
ask questions, not for people to show up and be
activists against this.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
But we're seeing this all across the board.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
And if we don't show up to these school board meetings,
these city council meetings, if we don't have even conservative
minded people running for those positions, and mean, one thing
you talked about for the break was like, how do
we change things?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
And it has to.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Start at a local level because they are so effective
at attacking on a local level, and we have this
I think much more high site like oh, who's running
for governor, who's running for secretary of state, who's running
for this state position? But it is so much more
important for us to have organization and amazing candidates in
city councils and school boards and local positions, because that's
(22:05):
where the attacks are happening.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
That's right, that's right. And so I like to say
you are the leader you've been waiting for. Like everyone
wants some savior to come in and flip Colorado, You've
got to flip your own neighborhood first, yep. And if
you're a young person, if you start now, maybe by
the time you have kids, you know, you'll be living
in a place that's you know, doesn't have wack of
(22:27):
doodal policies and you feel comfortable raising your kids in.
But I always suggest getting to know your precinct person,
which is your precinct person is the person appointed by
the county GOP or Republican party to like kind of
oversee the neighborhood and get people to know each other
and has a list of everyone who votes you know,
a Republican, Democrat, unaffiliated. So why not get that list
(22:51):
from your precinct person and go knock doors, make phone calls,
make techs, ask to talk to these folks. Get organized
just in your precinct and your little neighborhood, start to
attend city council meetings, county commissioner meetings, school board meetings,
and then adopt a high school turning point chapter, like
actually help them go to their meetings, get them engaged,
(23:11):
help them get good speakers, have their back. Same with
Colwardy Young Republicans.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Right, Yeah, I mean if we say you do that
and say you want to go ockdors, bring ten young
Republicans with you, people will be much more responsive to
a person that's in their eighteen to thirty year old
likely than a sixty year old showing up in their
doorstep saying hey, I'm a Republican.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
I want to talk to you about it.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I think people are lacking this level of conversation that
we just forgot about. Like I mean, people don't want
to go knock doors because there's conflict, But like that's
the only way we're going to change hearts and minds
is if we have conversations.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
One of my favorite groups that I'm now on the
board of is American Conservation Coalition. They have over sixty
thousand members across the country and what they decided to
do it's young people. The head of the organizations are
in their early mid twenties and Chris and Danielle do
a great job of leading this organization. And Chris Bernard
actually is married to a gal from Pagosa Springs, so
(24:08):
he comes out to Colorado a lot. And they just
hired Hunter Rivera as the director for Colorado or the
regional director, who is also he's the.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
My fellow committee man.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah, he's committee man and he's also the chair of
Weld County GOP. Now yes, and so Hunter his directive
is to show Colorado that there's a different way to
look at the environmental issues that actually Republicans were the
first conservationists with Teddy Roosevelt, and we have really good
policy solutions to protect our land, our seas, our water,
(24:41):
drinking water, our air.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Our animals, our animals.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yes, and as evidenced by their focus on nuclear energy.
And I mean there's just really cool technology advances like
you were talking about using AI. It doesn't have to
be this heavy, dark climate change conversation. There's a solution
based conversation that a you see is going after. So
go to acc dot Eco to check them out and
(25:05):
get involved. That's just another option from turning Point and
Colority owned Republicans. There's a lot of great young people
groups that are popping up Tory before we go to
break and I'll let you go because I know you're
precious puppies out in the car waiting for you.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Okayig's in sixty four degrees, but I'm.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
A controlled car. This is a new thing. What are
you doing, like on a local level to make a difference.
I know what you're doing, but I want you to
tell folks like what a day in the life of
Tory looks like fighting these battles.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Yeah, I mean, I'm engaged. I'm about to be married
in October. And a big conversation that my fiance and
I are having are where are we going to live
that we feel like we're in an area that we
have a voice, that we aren't going to be overpowered
right now, We're not in a good area that we
want to raise kids in. So choosing an area that
(25:56):
we feel like we can be active in. And then
I'm going to school board meetings, going going to different
meetings all around the state. I'm speaking at them, but
I'm also attending them different conservative groups and just hearing
what people have to say. You know, even if you
go to just one meeting a week, or one meeting
a month even. I think you'll be shocked at what's happening,
(26:16):
the conversations that are being had behind the scenes that
may not be public, and how you can have a
voice in those. So I just really encourage people to try.
Just go to one meeting.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Yeah, just see how it goes.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I guarantee you you'll be shocked. You will be shocked,
and you will get activated. You will want to make
a difference for your kids and grandkids. You guys are
also very involved. Cary Young Republicans is going to be
one of our partners in the Rocky Mountain Majesty Gala
that we're hosting in Golden in just a few weeks
January or June twenty first. It's a Saturday. If you're
(26:48):
interested or want to get tickets, go to Rocky Mountain
Voice dot com. If you're on the new if you
see the newsletter of the Mountain at newsletter, you'll be
able to find your way to tickets. It's gonna be
a lot of fun. Eric Trump is our speaker YEP,
very excited about that and would love to have everyone
join us for that event. Lots of young people there.
This is Heidigan All filling in for Dan Kaplis. Thanks
(27:09):
Tory for joining us today. It's great to hear your perspective.
And Ryan, it's back to us old books after the break.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast again.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Are you Ryan Shully?
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Oh yeah, especially this weekend.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Kelly is Kelly there?
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Well she's wandering around, but yeah, you know, remembering our
fallen service members. Of course, that's what this weekend's all about.
But it's through their sacrifice that we even get that
day off on Monday, so be sure to take time
to reflect upon that. And kind of going to our
earlier conversation, Kelsey and I are getting a new puppy tomorrow, yep.
To add to our little pack. We have Bruce, who's
(27:55):
a Wheaten Terrier poodle mix a Woodle. He's a very
sweet boy. But Kel's she felt a little out numbered,
so we're getting a Muyan poodle. It's like a medium
sized poodle and we're naming her Diana because Kelsey's all
about the superhero movies. So Bruce is Bruce Wayne and
Diana is for wonder Woman.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Oh that is too cool. You have to send pictures
for sure.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Oh, without question, I'll post them and get all kinds
of likes.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
How is this baby going to be eight weeks?
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Oh, so it's like as soon as we can get her.
And we visited it was cute a couple of weeks ago.
I think it was two weeks ago. And there are
a whole bunch of these little puppies that are all adorable.
One was kind of chocolate with the white mix, and
then one was black and that was nipping on my fingers,
and then a bunch of them were kind of a
lighter beige. And this one in particular, I didn't say anything,
(28:47):
and the breeder didn't say anything, but we're sitting there
and she just kind of set up shop right next
to Kelsey. Didn't move, didn't say anything, didn't make any noise,
just stayed with her the whole time. And then by
you know, about twenty minutes and I'm like, this one's
not eating your side. That's the one we picked.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Oh that's so sweet.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Oh yeah, we're looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
You're such a softie.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Oh I know. Yeah, I'm a pushover totally. This is
a preview. So going back to the original question, what
you asked me to begin the show? If I were
to have kids. And this is where Kelsey I have
had that discussion. If we have one that like a
little girl that looks like Kelsey and gives me the
eyes like dad, but damn, and I'm gonna be like, okay,
and I'll be that guy.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
That's a good thing because Mama is like, Yeah, we
don't put up with a lot of stuff from our kiddos.
They need their dad, especially the girls their dads.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Oh yeah, I just know I'm gonna I'm gonna tell myself,
I'm not gonna be that way, but I'm gonna.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
Be that way.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I know you are. You're gonna be a great dad.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Thanks. And I had a texture along those lines. I
want to think that text her too. I'm gonna do
my best.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yeah, somebody texted, You're gonna be a great dad.
Speaker 8 (29:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
If called upon, I will surf.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
All right.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
We have a caller like from Littleton has a call
about civil rights. Mike, welcome to the show. This is
how do you get all filling in for Dan Kaplis.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Yeah, I.
Speaker 8 (30:09):
Great the burst the bubble on this one. But you know,
these people that want civil rights or whatever they want
to pick it out to be, should be able to
get that because I mean civil rights and civil rights.
I mean, all you guys do is ask for it,
you should get it, and if you don't get it,
you just keep beating that drum until you get it.
And there's nothing really anybody can do to fight that.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Now, are you talking about HP thirteen twelve and the
whole misgendering and dead naming thing.
Speaker 8 (30:36):
It's just another group of people that are not quite
as good as everybody else as far as they know,
or think or act. They want to put it that way,
and therefore they need civil rights to get up there
with everybody else. So I mean, it's it's just like
every other thing. I mean, you know, they've done it
to blacks women Latino, they done they haven't done it
with white christer mail like me. So that's why I
(30:58):
had a clear vision wanted I I don't need it
on a one and I never want it because I
followed this is government from the government, and once you
get rights from the government, you get blackmails, and then
and then they get the control and before you know it,
they run the world. And then through civil rights, everybody's cooperation,
so you know, they create enough victims to where they
say Hey, we're going to save you, like you know, Jesus,
(31:19):
maybe really save people. But the government wants to be Jesus.
And so instead of constitutional rights, we have civil rights.
And with civil rights, there's no line between oh this
is kind of weird that this is quite right, and
you know they're also sing there's no line there that
says there's no moral line with civil rights. It's that's
that's the thing. That's what what's what It's called pronouns
(31:42):
because a noun is a noun, and then you know,
the other one is that, you know, is an action.
So and we're talking action. Republicans talk action and and
and and you know, Democrats talking now it's and just
as whining civil rights is at the base of nouns.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Well, the good news is that nationally we're winning now
and President Trump is doing his best to take care
of this. Thanks for the call. I appreciate it, and
I'm grateful that we won the election last fall, and
at least it's coming down from the federal perspective to
stop a lot of this nonsense. I don't know if
you saw what happened today with I think it was
Harvard where Trump put the hammer down and said we're
(32:22):
going to stop this nonsense on a lot of the
international students are here. It's a privilege to be here,
and they don't appreciate being in America or are founding principles, and.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Of course another liberal judge stepped in to try to
block it. I mean, this is just a part for
the course. But to the caller's previous point, I mean
there's civil rights, but yeah, you can't infringe upon the
First Amendment rights of somebody like Jack Phillips or Heidi
Ganal or yours truly, So that's where this is going
to be loggerheads. And again I think we're on the
right side of history. We just got to stay the course.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Yeah, Ryan, I agree. And another big issue is election
integrity here in Colorado. And there's an important press conference
on Tuesday at two thirty at the Capitol about some
Shenan against some high jinks Heidie hijinks, not my high jinks,
Rapahoe County hijaks. So check out Rocky mountin Voice to
hear more about that. Ryan, It's been a great, great
time with you and Kelly, a lot of fun. Well,
(33:15):
hope you have a.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Great weekend everyone.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
This is hiking, all filling in for Dan Kaplis. We'll
see you soon.
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