NY Mayor Mamdani and AOC seen laughing at 9 11 memorial

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
K-R-F-X-H-D-2-Denver.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
K-H-O-W-Denver. This is 630-K-HOW. Denver's talk station. And iHeartRadio station.
Guaranteed human. Well, yeah, the American way is why we
still have a free world, right? I mean, in this
25 years since 9-11, what a perfect time to remember
that because who would have ever thought on 9-11 that

(00:25):
we'd be able to go 25 more years without a
9-11 pandemic? or larger, style attack on this nation again.
It is a remarkable achievement by everybody, you know, in
that protective chain. You know, from our military, police, fire,
you know, people in decision-making. I mean, that is a
phenomenal accomplishment. And you've had people across party lines be

(00:48):
part of that. I think it's important on this day
to remember that. Now, it may not last another five minutes.
We know that. That's just the nature of evil out there.
But who's sitting there? Like I was anchoring the KOA
coverage of Kathy Walker on 9-11. And, you know, everybody,
the state of mind, for good reason, was that, okay,
there's a new era upon us. And attacks like this

(01:10):
are going to be happening regularly. And we have to
be very concerned the next one may involve dirty bomb,
may involve this, may involve that. To be able to
stop that, I mean, there have been isolated terror attacks
in the country. I'm not minimizing any of those. but
to not have another 9-11 style attack, that is a
remarkable accomplishment. And so what do we need to do

(01:31):
to keep that moving forward? Well, the first thing we
need to do is make sure that the kids these
days understand what really happened on 9-11, the reality of it,
not the whitewashed, you know, leftist political spin on it.
That is so important, because if you don't understand the
reality of it, you're not going to be able to

(01:52):
adequately prepare to stop the next one. So one of
the things we're doing today, not that I think it's
going to impact any of those kids, but it's just
the right thing to do is we're going back and
playing some of the actual sound from 9-11. So I'll
sprinkle that into this hour. Other topics as well. You know,
there's a lot of interest in the Clancy case, and
there are some more developments today, more jurors speaking out.

(02:14):
And then as we talked about earlier, the reporting can't
independently verify, but NBC 10 out of Boston reporting that
the holdout juror had a domestic violence restraining order against him.
And then that eventually was dismissed, but then had, uh,
one in effect from a nephew at the time of
these deliberations. And, and I really hope we get a

(02:34):
chance to hear from, uh, from this gentleman. Uh, we
know at this point, one juror, uh, talked about the
idea that he's an African-American male, which really shook a
Gail King, the interviewer. And she said so, but, um,
But yeah, really hope that we hear from him. And
you know me, if you listen to this show, I'm
the opposite from a fence sitter. But I try to

(02:57):
engage in a relentless pursuit of the truth. And the
simple truth is, I can't at least sit here right
now and know whether the 11 are right or the
holdout's right without knowing more details. But I do hope
we hear from the holdout. 303-713-8255, D-A-N-57739. I'm going to
get into some of the fun stuff since it's Friday afternoon.

(03:18):
I want to get you my predictions on the weekend games.
I always do it with a caveat because I have
been kind of eerily accurate over the years with many
of these sports predictions, but not all. Not all. Which
is why I'm really reluctant to even give them because
I'm always sitting there afraid somebody's going to bet their
hard-earned money based on one of my predictions. And that's

(03:40):
not meant to be presumptuous. It's probably an irrational fear.
They probably hear what I predict and bet the other way,
which would make more sense. But over the years, yeah,
just scarily correct. Shannon, I'm trying to remember, did I
predict that CU win over Georgia Tech? Oh, the last one?
I do not remember. Oh, that's because you were on
the team playing when I did it. Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, I did.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
I did.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
So I'll just tell you right now, and then we
can get back to the life and death stuff. By
the way, Congressman Jeff Hurd will be with us at 5.50,
and we're expecting he'll have some other big shots with
him as well, some really prominent fellow congressmen. Congress folks are,
which I've heard in Colorado today, so important that he
be reelected down in CD3. But predictions, I'll do it

(04:27):
quickly and not much mystery this weekend, right? Because Buffs
and Rams are both looking real good and they have
relatively patsy opponents. So I expect both to To win handily,
the question is, will they be impressive in victory? I
fully expect, for reasons I won't take your time with now,
that both will be impressive in victory, show even more growth,

(04:49):
setting up then an enormously important games for both of them.
And CU would then have BYU next weekend, a ranked BYU,
and CU looking at Baylor. But CU tracking toward what
may be the biggest game in the nation on October 4th.
If CU goes into that, I think they'd be, let

(05:10):
me do the math. I think they'd be 4-0 going
up against a highly ranked Texas Tech on October 4
if CU keeps winning. So both programs looking real good.
And CSU, what a great chance it would have under
Jim Mora to get an enormous national victory next weekend
when they face BYU Broncos Monday night. You have a

(05:32):
feel for that game, Shannon? Bronco Chiefs Monday night football?

Speaker 1 (05:36):
It's out of town.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, that's right. You won't be there. But yeah, this
is one of those games where it is so close.
I'd be lying to you if I told you, oh,
I'm just sure the Broncos are going to win. This
is truly one of those games that I think is
going to turn on which way a particular ball bounces
or a bad call goes or something like that. I
think the game is going to be that close. My

(06:00):
gut tells me in the end that the Broncos are
going to find a way to win it because I
think it's their time. I think the Chiefs' time has passed.
But it's just going to be one of those toss-up
type games. I think the lock of the week, and
there's no such thing, right? Because the sure thing bet
almost always goes the other way. But personally, I think

(06:21):
kind of the lock of the week is Oklahoma-Michigan, where
I think Oklahoma's only given four or five points. So
got the football out of the way. We'll only talk
about that during breaks from now on. 303-713-8255, DAN, 57739. Uh,
we're also talking about this, uh, really disturbing video. You

(06:41):
may have seen it by now. It happened today at
ground zero. Mayor Mamdami of, of New York and AOC
during a, a very, very sensitive part of the commemoration
where the names of those who died in such an
awful way, you know, were being read and people around
them were sobbing and the two of them are laughing

(07:01):
it up, laughing it up. And, and, you know, it's
a visual world right now, right? I think a picture.
often says a million words. Texters, Dan, can you play
the audio of Mamdami responding to a question about the
nine of 10 first responders who died on 9-11 being Catholic,
and then Texter sends a link. Thank you for the link,
my friend, but we're unable to receive links through these texts.

(07:24):
I am familiar roughly with the story, though. It was interesting.
I didn't know that, and I haven't had a chance
to independently verify the premise, but the interviewer was asking Mamdami,
telling Mamdami that nine of 10 Nine out of every
10 first responders who gave their lives on 9-11 was Catholic.
And then Mom Tommy went on to say, you know,

(07:45):
what a great debt was owed to all of them.
You know, appropriate comments. And that's why when I promote
in today's show, when we cut it yesterday, the question was,
you know, these hardcore anti-American lefties, will they be able
to help themselves today? Will they be able to just
say the right things, check the boxes, or will their
true feelings seep through? So I think the big question

(08:07):
now is, Mamdami and AOC yucking it up during that
part of solemn part of the ceremony? Is that just
like a brain lock thing all of us have been
guilty of at some point in our life? Is it
just them? Hey, you know, did you think that they
were happy the 9-11 attacks occurred? I don't know the
answer to that. Do you think they wanted people to

(08:29):
see this? To me, that's the most intriguing question because
you got to remember, scary stuff, including here in Colorado
right now, Mamdami is seen by many as the leader
of the Democratic Party. And to keep his street cred, first,
I think his true beliefs are extraordinarily radical and in
many ways anti-American, at least basic American principles. But to

(08:54):
keep his street cred, and that's the reason I asked
that question in the promo for today, to keep their
street cred among the other anti-American leftists. Would they have
to do something on 9-11 in their minds, you know,
to show their true feelings? So that's why we cut
that promo. Is that what we were seeing today with

(09:14):
Mamdami and AOC? Also, when we come back, oh, here's
another texter. Dan, your expression of Trump's resolve and courage
was well said. I think of him as St. Michael
of our time. And I will not repeat what I
thought was a very good riff about the resolve and
courage Trump has shown with very noble and selfless motives

(09:37):
to try to protect this nation from the evil of
the Iranian leadership, since no president, Republican or Democrat before
him has been willing to, and none after him will
likely be willing to. So we were having that conversation.
And I've got to tell the texter, first, thank you.
And thank you for keeping it short. And thank you
for being facetious because that adds some fun to the show.

(09:57):
On the one serious note, here, you say you think
of him as a St. Michael of our time. Listen,
I'm no theologian. I try. I try to learn. I
spent four years in a Catholic seminary during my high
school years. I'm no theologian. But this I do know.
This I do know. It runs throughout the Bible. God

(10:20):
uses broken people you see that throughout the bible you
see it throughout human history and um so i think
those who who mock a guy like trump because he's
had x number of wives or slept with this number
of women or told this many lies i think i
think they're missing the point you know i think it's

(10:40):
not a license to sin but the point is through
throughout biblical history which is world history God has used
broken people to accomplish phenomenal things. And I think Trump
has accomplished phenomenal things. You're on the Dan Kaplan Show.

(11:02):
As we mourn the loss of thousands of our citizens.
I can hear you.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
I can hear you. I can hear you.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
The rest of.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
The world hears you. And the people who knocked these
buildings down will hear all of us soon. What an
iconic moment. And it happened because President Bush went off script,

(11:41):
which was a beautiful thing to see. There was just
so much great leadership from him in the immediate aftermath
of 9-11 that I think gets forgotten over time. 303-713-8255,
DAN 57739, including that first pitch at Yankee Stadium. I mean,
can you imagine the pressure? Most presidents would have just
said no. Because what if you get out there right

(12:03):
after 9-11 and the world, the country looking to you
for leadership and you throw one in the dirt? or
salad five feet over the catcher's head, which could easily happen.
I mean, that is not a natural thing to go
on to a major league mound and to throw a pitch.
You know, that is not a natural thing at all.
So Bush, I think, underrated in so many different ways.

(12:23):
He made some big mistakes, obviously, but doesn't get enough
credit for the great stuff. And one of the overarching
themes of my point, at least today, is, hey, let's
give credit where credit's due. And this is an across-party
line thing to a certain extent, but Who would have
thought back on 9-11 that we'd go 25 years without
another 9-11 style or level attack on this nation? And

(12:48):
that's a remarkable accomplishment. Remarkable. It doesn't guarantee the next
five minutes, but it's a remarkable accomplishment. Texter says, Dan,
you must know that Iran will get a nuclear weapon
at some point 10 to 15 years down the road.
No Democrat president will stop that. Some may even encourage it,
knowing how evil they can be. Listen, I don't think
there's any question that a Democrat president president will probably

(13:10):
actively work to get Iran a nuclear weapon. Obama did it.
I don't think there's any question about that. Now, that
doesn't necessarily mean that that American president wants America to
be conquered by Iran. I'm not drawing that conclusion. But
the left is so far gone, the Democratic Party is
so far gone, the Democratic Party is so anti-Semitic, so anti-Israel,

(13:34):
not your typical Democrat voter. I'm not saying that. But
the party leadership is No, I think they will actively
work to get Iran a nuclear weapon because they will
see that as a way to, to the greatest extent possible,
to neuter our great ally, Israel, which would be a
disaster for the world to turn on our great ally.
But that's clearly what the leadership of the Democratic Party

(13:57):
wants to do and is in the process of doing.
So are we in a situation? Because you know how
it is. Every presidential election, most important election of our lifetime.
If we don't win this one, there'll never be another election,
et cetera. But as a practical matter, do I sit
here thinking, okay, no, the GOP has to win every
presidential election from now for the next hundred years or

(14:17):
America's done? No, I don't think that. But I do
think it's very, very important that the GOP win the
next two or three because I say this as a
former Democrat. This conservative stuff really works. It's not perfect,
but it really works, and it works infinitely better than
the lefty stuff. And one of the sadnesses of Trump's

(14:38):
terms getting interrupted in between is that you didn't have
the benefit of a full eight years of that kind
of success, which would have been a very important result
for America to see. So here, I think it's just very,
very important that Trump be followed up by another Republican,
whether it's Vance or Rubio. And Vance gave a heck
of a speech at the convention. And this convention, I think,

(15:01):
was a good idea that's been well done. Rubio would
be a great president, too. But I think it's really
important the GOP hold the White House for at least
the next, you know, six years. And if they do,
then highly likely they will be on that because, again,
the conservative stuff actually works. All righty, let me get

(15:22):
you some more sound, then we'll get back to the
phone lines. I do want to bring some more sound
from 9-11 itself.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
Number three in the back, the cockpit's not answering.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Somebody's stabbed in business class.

Speaker 5 (15:35):
And I think there's mace that we can't breathe.

Speaker 4 (15:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (15:38):
I think we're getting hijacked.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
I just dropped 800 feet in like one sweep. That's
another situation.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
What kind of a plane is that? Can you guys tell?
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
I'll read it out in a minute.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
I am monitoring a call in which Flight 11 The
flight attendant is advising.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Our refs that the pilot, everyone's been stabbed.

Speaker 4 (15:56):
I got the position down. Keep remaining sitting.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
We have a power port.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Nobody move. Everything will be okay.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
If he tries to make any move, he'll danger himself
and the airplane.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
You know, some of that sound we just heard, obviously,
was Todd Beamer and others on Flight 93, those American
heroes forcing that plane to the ground before it could
be used to attack Washington. I don't know if you're
familiar with the story. You probably are, that a female
fighter pilot had been deployed to conduct a suicide mission

(16:36):
to take Flight 93 down. And they didn't have any
time to load up the aircraft. So they didn't have
any weapons. So she and her partner, Mel Pilot, there
were two of them. There were two of them, actually.
She was piloting one of the two crafts. She was
going to take out the tail. And he was going

(16:57):
to take out the cockpit. And it would have been
a suicide mission. And just so impressive that they were
fully prepared to do it. They planned in the air
on the way how they were going to do it.
And I'll play that sound sometime soon. Just so impressive,
the interview with her as she talked about how there
was never a second's hesitation, how honored she was to

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be in a position to protect her country like that,
and how she felt that if that's how it had
to end, that that would be God's will. And she
would have felt, you know, just a great honor in
being able to do that. But yeah, that moment. Could
you imagine doing that? And she talked about how knowing
that that aircraft is full of innocent Americans, but as
she said, also knowing that they were dead already, that

(17:43):
they were dead already, that if, you know, that the
pilots didn't, the American fighter pilots didn't take them down
by ramming the aircraft, that they would be killed by,
you know, the evil terrorists on board. So what heroism
that day. And since then, I mean, who truly, I

(18:04):
hate to sound like a broken record, but I don't
think we think about this enough or in enough depth.
Everything it's taken for the last 25 years to prevent
another 9-11 type attack on this country, I don't think
there's any question that as we sit here at this moment,
the good guys and gals won, and the terrorists lost,
and now we just have to keep that up.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
Is that American 11 trying to call?

Speaker 2 (18:32):
And who's trying to call me here? American 11, are
you trying to call? Nobody move. Everything will be okay.

Speaker 5 (18:58):
If you try to make any move, you'll injure yourself.

Speaker 4 (19:01):
And the airplane.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Do you know Mark Wahlberg had a reservation on that
flight that he changed? I think that morning changed at
the last minute, but just playing a lot of sound,
real sound from 9-11, just trying to always remember the
reality of that day, of the enemy that attacked this nation,
and And all the people, all the heroism on that

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day and beyond, right? 25 years without another 9-11-style attack
on this nation. What a phenomenal accomplishment by so many
different people. Hey, Congressman Jeff Hurd going to join us
at 5.50. Look forward to that. So important that he
wins re-election and very deserving of it. So 303-713-8255, D-A-N-57739.
Talking about, I promote into today's show with, hey, the anti.

(19:50):
Left, will they be able to help themselves on 9-11?
Will you see this open anti-American expressionism today? And what's
so interesting is, you know, we have Mondami, the mayor
of New York, who said a lot of you know,
appropriate things and checked a bunch of boxes, but then
in the middle of the very, very somber emotional part

(20:14):
of the commemoration at Ground Zero, when they're reading the
names of the people who not only died, but died
in such an unimaginably awful way, he and AOC are
yucking it up, just laughing their heads off together. You know,
if that had been two kindergarten kids, it would have been.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Like, what?

Speaker 2 (20:32):
How could you? But it's maybe the two most prominent
leaders in the entire Democratic Party. And that's really the juxtaposition,
isn't it? I mean, you think about since 9-11, people
across party lines have heroically and a lot have died
to keep this nation safe. We haven't had another 9-11

(20:53):
style attack. Yet politically, we've seen over that same period
of time, the transformation of the Democratic Party, not your
typical Democrat voter, but the people who own and operate
the party transforming into many of their most prominent people
being obviously blatantly anti-American, as we would typically and traditionally
think of somebody being anti-American, to the point where probably

(21:16):
the two most prominent leaders in the Democratic Party are
yucking it up in the middle of a memorial on
9-11 where people around them are sobbing, and the names
of the those killed by the terrorists are being read?

Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Do you think it's just one of those brain-locked things?
Because I look at my own life, and there have
been a handful of times over the years where I
just said, wow, what I did in that moment was
so inappropriate. You know, what was I thinking? And I wasn't.
But do you think it was just one of those?
Or do you think they wanted to be seen doing

(21:54):
that for street cred with their other you know, socialist,
anti-American lefties, et cetera, because they are both enormously powerful
right now. And, you know, there's no doubt they're constantly
thinking about how to keep their credibility with all of
these gullible or just very, very badly intentioned people who

(22:18):
are now moving the Democratic Party to full-throated socialism. Some
other sound I want to get you, Gayle King questioning
a juror in the Clancy case today, and Gayle King
ends up saying she was very surprised by what she learned.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
I'm curious about the jurors themselves because we know it
was nine women, three men. What was the age range?
What was the racial makeup? I haven't heard any of that.
What was it? 70-ish to 22.

Speaker 5 (22:43):
And one person of color and then everybody else was white.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
A lot of the jurors had children. One person of
color was a person of color, a woman or a man?
A man. A man. Is a holdout juror a person,
a black man?

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
A black man is a holdout juror? Yes. Well, I'll
have to sit with that for just a second.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
What does that mean? And what difference would it make?
Sounded a little like Hillary Clinton there. What difference would
it make? But Yeah, because truly, what difference would that make?
I mean, what critical thing here is depending on facts
that aren't available to us right now. But I sure
do hope that the holdout juror comes forward and speaks,

(23:40):
and there's some real valuable interview done there. I can't
wait to hear from the gentleman. NBC10 in Boston today
reporting he had a DV restraining order against him for
allegedly assaulting a nephew. at the time this happened, and
that he'd had an earlier one years before with his
wife prior to their divorce that was then dismissed. But obviously,

(24:02):
this individual is going to come under attack from a
lot of different directions. So we'll see where all that goes.
But I do hope he speaks out at some point.
I think that would be so valuable for the country.
And then this deeply, deeply, deeply disturbing sound off the
Oprah show.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
And not.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
The racial piece of this has nothing to do with it.
In my mind, I'm much more concerned about a broader
movement on the left because the left is openly committed
at this point to a mother's right to kill her child,
that they're openly committed to that. You know, the left
for years had said on abortion, oh, it's not a
real life, it's a blob of tissue. And then ultrasounds
proved that to be a big lie. So then the

(24:42):
left just shifted to, no, the mother has the right
to kill the child up to the moment of delivery.
That's the official position of the left. What I'm concerned
about is, first, that's fundamentally wrong and needs to be changed.
But beyond that as well, is the left now pushing
for the right of the mother, the so-called right? There
is no such right. The left claims the right of

(25:04):
the mother to kill the child. That right does not
exist in the Constitution. The left wants women to have that.
And this isn't a gender thing. It's about the value
of innocent human life and that no society should come
out and say anybody has the right to take that
innocent human life. It's not a gender thing. But that

(25:26):
is the left's position. The mother has the right to
kill the child till the moment of delivery. And I
know it's almost impossible to wrap our minds around when
it's put that way, but that way is 100% accurate.
So now is the left trying to extend it beyond
the delivery of the child. And I think that There

(25:47):
is a very real concern about that as you listen
to this sound from the Oprah show.

Speaker 5 (25:51):
And the other thing that I would just be remiss
to not say is I hope this never happens again.
We know statistically it really will.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
It will.

Speaker 5 (26:02):
I want us to have the same passion for people
who don't look like Lindsay, who don't have her same access.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (26:17):
Who don't have her same access and education, her melanin,
her privilege. There are women of color sitting around this
country in prisons for the same thing that we've never
heard of. And I just want to remind us to
have the pink shirts and the energy for them as well.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
Wow. And again, to me, the significance of this isn't
that racial piece, that the significance of this is the
support in the crowd, you know, for supporting women who
kill their children. I'm not saying there's never a legitimate
insanity defense. I'm saying there's a broader concern here about

(27:06):
this broader, it seems to be acceptance of the idea that,
oh yeah, this is kind of a common thing and No, no.
And again, I'm sure in some very, very rare and
isolated cases, there's true insanity where the person who's killing
that child just literally doesn't know right from wrong. But

(27:27):
I think those cases are very, very, very, very, very rare.
And my concern is this broader push to expand the
non-existent but claimed right to kill a child. 303-713-8255, D-A-N-57739. Hey,
when we come back, I'm going to have a couple
of big shots with us. Jeff Hurd, a great congressman

(27:49):
from Colorado in CD3, and Congressman Westerman, chairman of the
House Natural Resources Committee, which is a very big deal,
particularly as it affects Colorado. You're on the Dan Kaplan Show. Hey,
551 on this pretty afternoon. What a privilege. Go to
the VIP line and welcome a particularly important member of Congress,

(28:12):
Chairman Bruce Westerman, who's chairman of the Natural Resources Committee,
obviously vital to the great state of Colorado. More impressively,
played football at Arkansas. And Mr. Chairman, welcome to the
Dan Kaplan Show. You're here today with a good friend
of the show, Congressman Jeff Hurd. How are you doing?

Speaker 4 (28:32):
Doing great, Dan, and I appreciate the opportunity to be on.
You may need an interpreter for my southern accent, but
great to be here with Jeff Hurd, who's done a
phenomenal job in Congress. I asked Jeff to chair the
subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs under the Natural Resources Committee,
and he's just knocking it out of the park on that,

(28:53):
along with many other things, the legislation he's moving, and
proud to be out here in western Colorado, which is
a A rural district like mine back in Arkansas, a
lot of similarities. Districts, different kinds of beauty. Ag and
forestry and natural resources-based economies in both places. So I

(29:17):
feel like I'm at home out here. And I need
to correct one thing. I was on the team for
the Arkansas Razorbacks for four years. There was a guy
named Steve Atwater that some of you in Colorado might remember.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
He had a moment.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
He played the position I was listed as.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
Timing's everything.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
Made me feel better after he won some Super Bowls
and went into the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Yeah, yeah. What a great man, too. And I do
have to ask, you're on your way over to Utah
to see the Arkansas team play Utah this weekend. That
is tough sledding going into Utah to win. CU knows
all about that challenge.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
Oh, I know, and I was at the Arkansas opener
last weekend, and, well, I texted the coach, and he said,
that's not our team. We won, but it wasn't the
way everybody expected.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
And I don't think I didn't look at every travel
option possible to get over there and watch the game,
but I just can't make it happen.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
No.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
Probably be watching it on an airplane flying back to Arkansas.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
Well, you are a busy man, but I know you're
here in part because it's so important to get Jeff reelected.
So can you tell the people of Colorado in kind
of concrete terms why, when it comes to natural resources
and maybe other things, it's so important that he stay
the congressman from the third?

Speaker 3 (30:40):
You know, I look at.

Speaker 4 (30:41):
Jeff as a person. He's a principled, serious legislator. He's
not trying to get on every cable news show and
be an influencer on social media, but he's there in D.C.
every day doing the work for his constituents in western
Colorado and for the rest of the country. We were

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talking earlier about a geothermal energy bill that he got passed.
This is a huge bill. There wasn't a lot made
of it because it was such a bipartisan effort because
of the work that he did on it, but Our
country needs more forms of every kind of energy available.
We're talking about hundreds of gigawatts of potential electrical generating capacity.

(31:30):
It's a source that's hardly been tapped. And when I
managed it on the floor, you'd have thought we were
managing some kind of minimal bill because nobody could find
anything wrong with it. Yeah. Huge support. And that's just
the kind of issues he works on, the results he gets. And,
you know, as if I lived in western Colorado, I

(31:54):
would definitely want him representing me. But as as an American,
I like having guys like Jeff Hurd in the Congress
that that's looking out for the whole country.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Yeah, really the opposite of polarizing, Mr. Chairman, and grateful
for your time in the last few minutes of the show.
Congressman Jeff Hurd, anything you want to throw in?

Speaker 3 (32:16):
I just want to say thanks, Dan, and thanks to
Chairman Westerman for being here. Colorado's third district is a
natural resource district. It's half of the state, and it's
not only incredibly beautiful, but we have so much potential
here to create the energy and opportunity in manufacturing and
jobs that benefit not only Colorado and the third district,

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but our country and And it's great to– I think
it's a testament to the importance of this district that
the chairman of the House National Resources Committee is here.
And I'm working hard to be a conservative, effective legislator,
and I've done that. And I'm working hard to get reelected, Dan.
And folks that are out there listening, just know that
I'm proud to be from this district and would be

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honored to have their vote as we head into the
election here.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
And what's that website again?

Speaker 3 (33:03):
So my website is Jeff. heard for colorado.com j-e-f-f-h-u-r-d-s-o-r colorado.com
you can uh check that out would love to have
the support um and um we're gonna with your with
the support of your listeners and we're gonna win this
in november.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Well i have no doubt that you will and appreciate
the time mr chairman thanks for the time and a
safe trip home and good luck to the razorbacks.

Speaker 4 (33:30):
Thank you, Dan. I thought I was going to hear
Go Hog or Woo Pig Suey there for a minute.
Great to be with you. And everybody get out and
support Jeff Hurd.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Amen to that, sir. Thank you. You guys take care.
And yeah, you know, as a guy who grew up
in Colorado, Chicago, I literally am grateful every single day
to be in this state and just the natural beauty.
And I started Trial Monday, so I'm no longer up
at this little trial prep cabin we have in the mountains.
But I got a call from our daughter who is.
And it's just such a cool thing. I mean, for

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a guy who grew up in Chicago, your daughter calls
and she's so happy. And she said she was walking
down the street and she said the cutest little baby
bear just started walking right next to her. That is
so wild. I'm hoping the mama isn't too close by,
but betting that she is. And I made that point
to my daughter, but what a great place to live.

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Shannon Scott, thanks for all your amazing work this week.
Talk about a guy who works hard. I mean, he's
producing the buffs and doing all this other stuff and
Then he comes in to produce this show, which we
are very grateful for.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Going to miss you desperately next week.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
Oh, what's up? Oh, me in trial. I thought maybe
you were on a gig, but I'm in trial next week.
But thank you for saying that. But, boy, what a
great crew we're going to have in. And that's one
thing I'm proud of with this show is some shows
in other places, you know, the host is going to
be gone. They try to find the worst fill-in they
can so the host doesn't lose their job. But we
go the opposite direction. We try to find the very

(34:58):
best people out there, and we got them. I mean,
what do we have next week, Shannon? We've got George
Brockler is going to be in, Heidi Ganahl, Christy Burton-Brown,
Aaron Lee. I mean, these are all-stars, highly accomplished people
in their own world. So it's going to be a
great ride on the show next week while I'm in trial.
I hope you're there with them for it and with
our friend Shannon. Have a great weekend. Enjoy the Buffs'

(35:20):
big win. Rams are going to win big. Broncos, I think,
are going to win a real close one. And then
I'll catch you after my trial ends right here on
the Dan Kaplan Show.