Dan ushers in archival audio of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Franklin D. Roosevelt as we remember D-Day on the 81st anniversary of 'Operation Overlord.'
Kathy Walker is retiring as KOA News Director after 35 years reporting and anchoring for Denver's signature news radio station. She joins Dan to reflect on her amazing career.
Erin Lee, mother of a daughter who experienced gender dysphoria after a falsely labeled 'Art Club' afterschool LGBTQ club meeting, successfully led the effort to defend the titles on all three ballot initiatives her group (Protect Kids Colorado) is looking to get on the ballot this fall. These measures would help protect girls' and women's sports and spaces by appealing directly to the voters of Colorado.
https://x.com/Erin4Parents/status/1930432593331105864
Kathy Walker is retiring as KOA News Director after 35 years reporting and anchoring for Denver's signature news radio station. She joins Dan to reflect on her amazing career.
Erin Lee, mother of a daughter who experienced gender dysphoria after a falsely labeled 'Art Club' afterschool LGBTQ club meeting, successfully led the effort to defend the titles on all three ballot initiatives her group (Protect Kids Colorado) is looking to get on the ballot this fall. These measures would help protect girls' and women's sports and spaces by appealing directly to the voters of Colorado.
https://x.com/Erin4Parents/status/1930432593331105864
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind,
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day we honor the people who really have done that,
and it's the reason we're here, including D Day, so
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we'll have some really compelling D Day sound throughout the show,
but with us right now, and I feel so privileged
because I think it's the only interview she's agreed to today.
Is a woman who has written the first draft of
the history of the state of Colorado, and that is
Kathy Walker, who's been news director at eight fifty KOA
and the station group for a very long time. If
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you're new to the area, she is the quintessential journalist
in this area and has been an absolute rock of
integrity and tremendous reporting for thirty five years. And your
last day, and at least your last day full time
as news director hard to imagine.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Hi, Dan, Yes, it's my last day as news director
and I'm still going to hang out part time, but
I'm really thrilled to be at this place where I'm
choosing where to leave. We know that so many people
in broadcasts don't get that option.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
No, I remember the day I was fired here, but
I'm glad to be back. I've never been.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Fired, and we have worked together off and on obviously
through my whole career here really, and I'm so appreciative
of you talking about the truth telling. I think if there,
if I want when, I would leave the door tonight.
I've always just sought the truth. I've always tried to
tell the truth. Sadly, not everyone told the truth to me, Dan,
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but I've always tried.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
To tell you right and again. If you're new to
the area, Kathy is one of those people you can't
find a single bad thing written about. I've never heard
a bad word sad about you. I mean, it's just true,
and it's remarkable because you have been this absolute rock
of integrity, fair and balance. As we sit here right now,
thirty five years roughly together. Right because I've been with
(02:04):
this station group for almost the entire time you've been here,
I can't remember anybody ever saying a critical word about you.
I can't remember you ever getting anything wrong in a story. Wow,
I mean, it's almost been like you were AI decades
before AI was invented.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You know what, though, I think what we have all learned,
I don't know that I love the word multitasking, but
certainly you can look at legal documents and synthesize them quickly.
I can look at all types of documents and synthesize
that information quickly. It's a skill. It's something you'll learn
by doing.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, but for you and Kathy Walker, a news director,
our guests, for you, it goes way beyond that, because
the point is all those years together right here, however
many they've been, I have no idea what your politics are.
I couldn't tell if you lean left or right or
middle because you have been in appso loot down the
middle journalist.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Well, I was told and taught and believe that my
politics didn't matter. And you know what it's like having
a job like this, You get to know politicians as people.
I'm so honored that every governor of Colorado I've had
at least one great conversation with throughout the course of
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my life. And what a great thing. I'm the girl
in high school Dan who told Governor Lamb I wanted
this job.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
That's so you would have done it way.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Back, right, But I don't think my politics do matter.
And I guess if there's anything about the political climate
we find ourselves in now, I wish I could just
share story after story of the statesmen that I've met
in politics throughout my life, and I don't mean that
in a sex way, but gender neutral, who were invested
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in being in politics because they cared about Colorado so
so much.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
He's your favorite. Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Governor Owens was so good to these radio stations. I mean,
he was just wonderful to deal with. I adore Governor Roamer.
I thought he was the guy that at least you
knew the role he would play in every kind of
political debate. I remember covering an all night long negotiation
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of Denver Public schools contract that he got in the
middle of, and I was standing there, going, what good
as a governor in the middle of like a very
local political problem like this just seemed like a waste
of his time from my point of view. And he
was so concerned about, you know, driving to the capitol
every day and seeing teachers on picket lines that he
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wanted that to end, and he was willing to do
whatever it of his own political capital if you will
to make it end.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
So yeah, I guess I've.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Had really great conversations with a lot of our governors
and I'm grateful for that.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah. Hey, Kathy Walker, our guest her last day as
news director, thirty five years at eight fifty koa and
for the station group. And so you have you have
been news director through an era of what I consider
to be some giants in politics on both sides of
the aisle. And uh and I think we went through
a phase there, whether there's a Democrat or Republican, there
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were some some very larger than life, very talented people
who would just step up and tell you what what
they truly believed and why whether or not. I think
another great one.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Sean Sothers, just a rock star of a lawyer. I
loved it when he was attorney general. He could explain
the most complex legal thing and a fifteen seconds.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
A talented guy. Which story and obviously one of the
most powerful memories of my life is having the privilege
of being on your Live with You on nine to
eleven through as that horrific day was unfolding. We anchored
the coverage together. Obviously you were lead, But what are
the most powerful memories you have? The most powerful story experiences.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Columbine has to be there, because it's really even hard
to explain to people how we get so much information
now within three hours of some terrible tragedy like that happening,
and even the headlines on the newspapers the next day
after Columbine said there were fifty people dead. That was
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never true. But I mean the amount of time it
took for us to find out the truth of what
had happened at Columbine, by today's standards, was so slow,
and because of that, it made the coverage so scary
and terrifying and heartbreaking, heart breaking to cover.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You were telling a story earlier about the initial reports
you were receiving as to how many children may have been.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
No, we thought there were fifty.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
And I thought at one point there were even some
reports because Kathy's always getting access to information first. At
one point, didn't they think there might be one hundred children?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, I mean we were told horrific numbers. Yeah, people
that we thought were dead at Columbine. And that does
not mean to mitigate that thirteen people lost their lives
that day in Columbine, that one of them was a teacher,
that twelve of them were students, and Dan I covered
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all the Catholic kids funerals from Columbine, right and only
once during a prayer service that I attended, and I
went to so many things in the week after, only
once did we talk about the fifteen people who died
a college right. Only once? Yeah, yeah, Wow, the Youth Day,
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I just I don't even want to go away without
thinking about.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
We had the light wear I got to go to
another news do you home? But we had the Pope,
don't you last one?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You know?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
We had the Pope here. We had this amazing influx.
People kept telling us the World Youth Day was going
to be this really great thing for Denver, and most
of us are like, going, what is it? We don't
even understand.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
What it is.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And they were like, well, Pope John Paul will be
here and all these kids from all around the world
will be here. And then pretty soon everyone you knew
was either helping out, feeding a kid, running people all
over town, doing security, working extra because their company was
somehow involved. Everybody in this whole community played a role
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in World Youth Day. It was such a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
It was beautiful. Do you feel a Katy, because I
think it changed this area forever because remember how violent
the summer had been before that and then all of
a sudden that turned around.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
But just in case you take.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Off, because Kathy never likes talking about Kathy, I want
to mention two powerful experiences I've had with you, and
so many more than that, but one makes me laugh,
one makes me cry. The one that makes me laugh
is I'll never forget walking in here during COVID with
a guest of mine without a mask on, and the
look I got from you, and I thought they are
going to list my death as COVID related, and I
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guess it would have been in one way but the other.
And I'll be eternally grateful to you because when my
mom passed away, When my mom passed away, you reported
it on eight fifty KOWA as news, and that was
that meant so much to our whole family. And my
mom deserved that because she wasn't in the headlines, but
she was one of those great people who did great
(09:46):
things that nobody ever heard about. So for Kathy Walker
at eight fifty KOA to report her death as news
just meant more than you'll ever know. So, but that's
just how you are. But that's the.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Life sperience of being a human lives in a community
who wants to be responsible to a community. And it's
been my privilege, am I honor and I'm so grateful.
I'm just so grateful.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Well, you've got to write a book. And that's why
I open the segment by stealing a ligne. Somebody else
came up with that. You've written the first draft of
the history of this state. So I really hope you
write a book because you are and I've had the
privilege of knowing is you have some really outstanding people
in journalism. I can't think of a single person who
has shown more absolutely rock steady integrity down the middle
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journalism year after year after year. You're the person who
should write a book.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Wow, that is so kind of you to say, Dan,
and with your knowledge and your expertise in your life
story here in Colorado, right, Well, I.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Mean, but thank you. There many of those what she does.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I've lived here for an appreciable amount of our adult lives,
Like there just aren't that many of us, and it's
such a gift.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
It's it's so nice. We're all better off because you
are you and you did what you did for thirty
five years. Wow, thank you and I'll buy the first
copy of the book.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
It's been awesome. Thank you for your encouragement.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
There you go, I thank you, Jenny Walker, go get him. Yeah,
just one of a kind. We've all been so lucky
to have her. Three or three someone three eight two
five five tags d A N five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Thank you to Kathy Walker for joining us the only
interview she's agreed to give today, and such a privilege
for me because we've been here a long time together.
She longer thirty five years as news director, but right
down the middle and truly as we sit here today,
I don't know her politics. Think about that talk about
a true journalist. So great stuff. If you missed it,
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you can get it off the podcast. In the last segment,
Scott Jennings joins us at five oh six. I've talked
about him a lot on the show because I think
he's obviously by far the best can conservative on air,
particularly since he has to do battle right. It's one
thing to have a conservative talk show and I have
a lot of respect for a lot of these guys
and ladies, you know, people like Jesse Waters, et cetera.
(12:11):
But it is uniquely difficult to go on and do
battle with other smart people who have opposing political points
of view. And so Scott Jennings does that so incredibly
well on CNN. And because he is opposed and he
has to give and take and do it on the fly,
I think he gains even more for conservatism and persuades
(12:31):
more people and helps more people be able to go
out and defend what they believe. So a true talent.
I also think he's presidential material, and I'll ask him
about that when he joins us at five oh six.
Got a great text here before I play some very
compelling sound for you on this D day, But this
text D and I moved to Colorado in nineteen ninety four.
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Kathy is all I've ever known is the voice of news.
Since I arrived there, I still listen eight hundred miles
away and pursue voice of reason at the top of
every hour. Has kept me up to the moment every
news story that matters for the last thirty years. Cheers
Kathy from Gina in Springfield want a cool text. So
you know, you sit here right now and d day,
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you know, you don't even hear much talk about it, right,
And then you go back and you know, we're lucky,
right because we can just YouTube stuff and we can
see some of the newsreels from that day and hear
some of the sound and everything else, and it's almost
impossible to wrap your mind around, you know, what people
were willing to do then, to save others, to save
foreign countries, to save Europe, to save the world. And
(13:40):
just you know, obviously I never have so many odes,
so much to so few, but I just I just
wonder if America is going to remember are the kids
being taught this? Do the kids remember? But I did
want to play some of that sound today, Ladies and.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Gentlemen, the President of the United States, my fellow Americans,
last night, when I spoke with you about the fall
of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of
the United States and our allies were crossing the channel
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in another and greater operation. It has come to pass
with success thus far. And so in this poignant hour,
I ask you to join with me in prayer.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Almighty God, our sons pride of our nation. This day
have set upon a.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Mighty endeavor, a struggled to preserve our public, our religion,
and our civilization, and to set free a suffering human manity.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
Plead them straight and crue.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness
in their faith. They will need thy blessings. Their road
will be long and hard, for the enemy is strong.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
He may hurl back our forces.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Again and again. And we know that by Thy grace
and by.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
The righteousness of our cause, our suns will triumph. They
will be soret tried by night and by day, without rest,
until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent
by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with
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the violences of war.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
For these men.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight
not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end
the conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let
justice arise, and tolerance and good will among all thy people.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
They yearn but for the end of battle, for their
return to the haven of home. Some will never return.
Embrace these father.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
And receive them thy heroic servants into Thy kingdom, and
for us at home, fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and
brothers of brave men overseas, whose thoughts and.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Prayers are ever with.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Them, Help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed
faith in THEE in this hour of great sacrifice. Many
people have urged that I call the nation into a
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single day of special prayer.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
But because the road is long and.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
The desire is great, I ask that our people devote
themselves in a continuance of prayer as we rise to
each new day, and again when each day.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Is spent.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
FDR. It's like that was divinely inspired, absolutely perfect. And
then you think about today, and I don't mean this
as a shot, just the reality. You think about today,
how fast he would be sued by how many different
groups because he used that broadcast to push religion, to
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push prayer, to push God. Obviously, the world doesn't survive
without that deep faith and without that commitment to faith.
You're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Certainly I was.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Sailors and airman of the Allied Expeditionary Force. You are
about to embark upon the great crusade toward which we
have striven these many months.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
The world are upon you.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march
with you, in company with our brave allies and brothers
in arms on other fronts. You will bring about the
destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi
tyranny over the oppessed peoples of Europe, and security for
ourselves in a free world. Your task will not be
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an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped,
and battle hardened. He will fight savagely. But this is
the year nineteen forty four. Much has happened since the
Nazi triumphs of nineteen forty forty one. The United Nations
have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats in open battle.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Man demand.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the
air and their capacity to wage war on the ground.
Our home fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in
weapons and munitions of war, and place at our disposal
great reserves of trained fighting men.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
The tide has turned.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
The freemen of the world are marching together to victory.
I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty,
and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than
full victory, good luck, and let us all be seeks
the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Wow Ike's D Day's speech June sixth, nineteen forty four
is so inspiring, and we started with FDR's prayer to
the Nation, with the nation his prayer to God on
D Day, and we'll play that again. It's just so
inspiring and obviously raises a lot of questions about where
we're at today. Somebody out there fighting a good fight
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every day. Aaron Lee, Protect Kids Colorado. Great to ever back.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Aaron.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
How you doing, Hey, Dan, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I'm doing great, good, good well. I wanted to get
you out and talk a little bit about the measures.
I know you've cleared the first hurdle and just fill
folks in and let them know how they can help
if if they want to.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
Yes, thank you so much for giving me this opportunity
to talk about protect Kids. So I'm the executive director.
We started last year so people may remember our girls
sports and parents must be notified. Initiatives that circulated and
we actually on Wednesday just survived challenge at the title Board,
and so we are the green light to print our
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three initiatives. And the three issues are stopping trafficking, making
it a life in prison sentence no chance of parole
if you buy or sell a child for sex in
the state of Colorado, and that's chaired by Mark Ozgeist,
the ben Gazi Hero. And then our second issue is
again keeping boys out of girls sports and locker rooms,
which is shared by Jennifer Say who started XXXY Athletics.
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She's a tremendous champion on this issue. And then our
third issue is preventing making it illegal to perform these barbaric,
irreversible sex change procedures on minor children and I am
hearing that issue myself, and so we will be printing
here in the next few weeks. We're looking for every
Colorado who's interested in doing something, you know, especially with
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thirteen twelve, I've had so many people reach out and say,
what can we do? The state is it's in trouble
and we all want to take part, and this is
such an easy way of being part of the solution.
Take a petition, get forty people or more to sign it,
and we all just do a little bit, we absolutely
will win at the ballot.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Well said, how many signatures do you need?
Speaker 8 (22:37):
So we need roughly one hundred and thirty five thousand.
We're shooting for two hundred thousand on each issue. And
I should mention that you know, last year we had
eighty days because we had because of legal challenges, our
timeline was shortened, we had no money, we were an
all volunteer effort, we were just starting out, and in
about eighty days we got nearly eighty thousand signatures, which
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is almost quadri ruple what has ever been done with
an all volunteer effort with a full six month timeline.
So it really speaks to how hungry Colorado's are to
make change in this state and how agreeable these issues are,
these eighty twenty, you know, even ninety ten issues on
the trafficking front. The people don't agree with what's happening
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at our capital. And so we're so blessed to have
this Citizen's Baalid initiative process where we the people can
make change in past law.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Absolutely aerinly, our guest, how again can people plug.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
In so protect kids?
Speaker 8 (23:32):
Colorado dot org encourage people to sign up just to
volunteer to carry a petition or help out anyway they
can and follow us on social just protect kids Colorado.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Great work, great work, Aaron. I hope we have you
back off, and we will have you back off, and
I hope you get all these past.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Thank you so much, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
You take care and de boys. She's doing great work
out there, Erinlee and the initiative process is a real
opportunity in Colorado, right, because we see that all the time.
You know, anything in a red Jersey often gets shots.
Politically speaking, on election, you know, Republicans are losing these
state wide races way too often, including a lot of
really good Republican candidates. But yet in those same elections
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you'll see ballot measures pass that obviously are favored by
the GOP Conservatives, et cetera. So there is still hope,
and I think there's hope statewide as well. Right candidate,
right campaign, everything comes together well three all three seven
to one three eight two five five the number techs
d A N five seven seven three nine. Scott Jennings
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joins us at five six. Looking forward to that conversation.
I you know, there have been some really talented conservative
warriors on national TV over the years. I'm trying to
think of anybody better than Scott Jennings. Ryan. I cannot
right now. And you know, it's not like globetrotters v.
Washington generals. They throw them up against every now and
(24:58):
then some pretty intelligent, eloquent people on the left, bad ideas,
but smart talented people, and Jennings handles all of them,
and so it'll be great to have this conversation. I
really do think. I expect he'll be in the US
Center from Kentucky, but I'd love to see you on
that presidential arena over the years.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
So certainly the Senate seat would be a tremendous get
for him, and I think for people that are of
our political persuasion, You're right, he is a uniquely talented voice.
But I'll say this too, dan Abby Phillip is smart
in the sense that she has him on the show regularly.
I think she is by far the highest rated show
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on CNN. Sure as a result, but wouldn't it be
a harbinger or an indicator to executives at CNNMSNBC that
if you have a smart conservative voice on there, you're
gonna get twice as many eyeballs.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
If not more so, why not do it?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
And I'll ask him, But they were talking about giving
him his own show.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Right, well, you can ask him that too. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, And then the question is is it would be
great right because he's obvious you retwent it, But would
it be as compelling if he doesn't have the point counterpoint?
And that's one of the things that's so impressive to
me is that he's able to engage in that battle
day in and day out and do very well. And
I know how hard that is because for what's seven
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years on air here, you know, I'd go up against
a really smart guy in Craig Silverman, and it's it's
a lot more work, you know, it makes you better,
it's a lot more work. But very few people can
do it as well as Scott Jennings does it. So
he'll be at five oh six Texter to d An
five seven, seven, three nine. It's incredible how much more
eloquent yesterday's leaders were compared with today. Thank you for
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playing FDR's address to the nation after D Day. My
grandfather fought in the South Pacific and he wasn't there
on D Day. But I always think of him on
sixty six and twelve seven. That's some DK in Broomfield.
It really is striking. I'm going to play that sound
throughout the afternoon. First, FDR's addressed to the nation, which
was a prayer and a call to join together in prayer,
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which in and of itself is so telling, right, because
you see the modern day left FDR obviously the leader
of the Democratic Party at the time. The modern day
Democratic Party is so rabidly secular and so rabidly hostile
toward faith, particularly Christianity. And yet you see one of
(27:20):
the greatest Democrat leaders of the nation ever in FDR.
You know who got it. He understood, He understood the
pay grades and the pecking order, and he understood, hey,
we need God, and this starts and ends with God,
just like the Founders, right, I mean the last line
of the Declaration, with reliance on divine providence. We pledged
(27:43):
you our lives, our fortune, our sacred honor. Yeah, they
got it too. But today's modern Democratic Party do you
think you'd ever hear anything like that going into war?
Do you think the modern Democratic Party? And I don't
mean Democrats, because there are so many patriotic Democrats God
loving Democrats. I'm talking about the people who own and
operate the party. Do you think they'd ever support going
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to war for anything? I mean, no matter how noble
the cause, but certainly not with the prayer in an
appeal to God. They'd file lawsuits over that. So yeah,
it's worth remembering, as the texture says, how much more
eloquent and how open about reliance on God and commitment
to God that leaders from both parties were in the past.
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And so when we come back, I want to do
a punch of that sound in the next segment. There's
nothing I can say that can rival this sound. For example, Yeah,
we'll do FDR's Addressed to the Nation. We'll do Eisenhower again.
We'll do Eisenhower's Address to the Troops, which was shorter
but I think so compelling. As so often as the
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case right, Ryan, so often it's the shorter statements, Gettyberg's dragon,
Gettysburg attrass that lived through history. I'll blame that on
the peanut butter, but it's probably Friday of Trial. Weak
brain three or three five takes d An five seven, seven,
three nine, Scott Jennings at five six. You're on the
Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 10 (29:14):
I have received this afternoon a message from the Japanese government.
They interplied to the message forward to that government by
the Secretary of State on August eleventh. I deem this
reply a full acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, which specifies
the unconditional surrender of Japan. In the reply, there is
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no qualification. Arrangements are now being made for the formal
signing of the surrender terms at the earliest possible moment.
General Douglas MacArthur has been appointed the Supreme Allied Commander
to receive the Japanese surrender. Great Britain, Russia and China
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will be represented by high ranking officers. Meantime, the Allied
armed forces have been ordered to suspend offensive action. The
proclamation of VJ Day must have waited upon the pharma
signing of the surrender terms by Japan.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Can you imagine Can you imagine being alive then and
hearing that with all that had been sacrificed and suffered through,
you know, to win that war, that the war obviously
for the future of civilization in the world. On this
D Day, On this D Day, anniversary, playing a lot
of sound from that day and related to that day,
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and none better. I think, well that tie right between
Ike's addressed to the troops and FDR's addressed to the Nation,
which was really a prayer, Fdr leading the nation in prayer.
But I do want to squeeze I do want to
squeeze this one in. In the meantime, President Reagan part
of his epic speech at Normandy.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
We stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern
shore of France.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
The air was soft, but forty years ago.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
At this moment, the air was dense with smoke and
the cries of men, and the air was filled with
the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon.
At dawn on the morning of the sixth of June
nineteen forty four, two hundred and twenty five rangers jumped
off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom
of these cliffs. Their mission was one of the most
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difficult and daring of the invasion, to climb these sheer
and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns. The
Allies had been told that some of the mightiest of
these guns were here, and they would be trained on
the beaches to stop the Allied advance. The rangers looked
up and saw the enemy soldiers the edge of the cliffs,
shooting down at them with machine guns and throwing grenades,
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and the American rangers began to climb. They shot rope
ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to
pull themselves up. When one ranger fell, another would take
his place. When one rope was cut, a ranger would
grab another and begin his climb again. They climbed, shot back,
and held their footing. Soon one by one the rangers
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pulled themselves over the top, and in seizing the firm
land at the top of these cliffs, they began to
seize back the continent of Europe. Two hundred and twenty
five came here after two days of fighting, only ninety
could still bear arms. Behind me as a memorial the
symbolizers the ranger daggers that were thrust into the top
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of these cliffs, and before me are the men who
put them there. These are the boys of Puentejo.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
These are the who took the cliffs.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
These are the champions who helped free a continent, And
these are the heroes who helped end a war. Gentlemen,
I look at you, and I think of the words
of Steven Spender's poem. You were men who, in your
quote lives, fought for life and left the vivid air
signed with your honor.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Wow, just blows you away, doesn't He left the vivid
air signed with your honor. Man.
Speaker 9 (33:34):
That was neat because there was a little over forty
years ago, so about half the time ago that it was,
and Ronald Reagan delivering that address, and many of those
veterans were still surviving at that.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Oh yeah, they would have been young guys, they would
have been in their sixties, right. But then you listened
to FDR, you listen to Reagan, you know, you listen
to Ike's address on D Day, and you think, you know,
where have the giants gone?
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
And will we get more? Because you you know, obviously
we faced and will face some existential challenges to civilization.
But I don't think you can get through those without
giants like that. And it's one of the things here.
Remember the founders, they said they were relying on divine providence.
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That was their big bat. They truly believed that they
could win because of God, because they couldn't win any
other way. Right, You look at the odds when they
started out, and I think one of the ways, right,
I think one of the ways that has played out
very concretely, is it seems like, and maybe I'm forgetting something,
but it seems like at every true watershed, crossroads moment
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when it was all on the line for this nation
and beyond that, you know, God has provided that great leader,
sometimes the Democrats, sometimes a Republican, but that God has
provided that great leader. And you hear some of them here, right,
sometimes Democrats and Republicans at the same time. It Yeah,
(35:01):
and it brings you back to today. Listen Trump, And
I know he's polarizing, but he's a larger than life
figure and a figure who is a force of nature
shaping events dramatically in the world. But how many truly
great leaders are there right now, locally, nationally, worldwide. Yeah,
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I would love you're taking that. But Scott Jennings after
the break, it's going to be so cool to talk
to him. I just think he's one of the best
to have ever done what he's doing right now, which
is going on air, not just commentating, but doing battle
with these on the left and some pretty sharp people
on the left. He joins us after the break on
the Dan Capsule Show.
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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and it's the reason we're here, including D Day, so
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we'll have some really compelling D Day sound throughout the show,
but with us right now, and I feel so privileged
because I think it's the only interview she's agreed to today.
Is a woman who has written the first draft of
the history of the state of Colorado, and that is
Kathy Walker, who's been news director at eight fifty KOA
and the station group for a very long time. If
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you're new to the area, she is the quintessential journalist
in this area and has been an absolute rock of
integrity and tremendous reporting for thirty five years. And your
last day, and at least your last day full time
as news director hard to imagine.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Hi, Dan, Yes, it's my last day as news director
and I'm still going to hang out part time, but
I'm really thrilled to be at this place where I'm
choosing where to leave. We know that so many people
in broadcasts don't get that option.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
No, I remember the day I was fired here, but
I'm glad to be back. I've never been.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Fired, and we have worked together off and on obviously
through my whole career here really, and I'm so appreciative
of you talking about the truth telling. I think if there,
if I want when, I would leave the door tonight.
I've always just sought the truth. I've always tried to
tell the truth. Sadly, not everyone told the truth to me, Dan,
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but I've always tried.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
To tell you right and again. If you're new to
the area, Kathy is one of those people you can't
find a single bad thing written about. I've never heard
a bad word sad about you. I mean, it's just true,
and it's remarkable because you have been this absolute rock
of integrity, fair and balance. As we sit here right now,
thirty five years roughly together. Right because I've been with
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this station group for almost the entire time you've been here,
I can't remember anybody ever saying a critical word about you.
I can't remember you ever getting anything wrong in a story. Wow,
I mean, it's almost been like you were AI decades
before AI was invented.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You know what, though, I think what we have all learned,
I don't know that I love the word multitasking, but
certainly you can look at legal documents and synthesize them quickly.
I can look at all types of documents and synthesize
that information quickly. It's a skill. It's something you'll learn
by doing.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, but for you and Kathy Walker, a news director,
our guests, for you, it goes way beyond that, because
the point is all those years together right here, however
many they've been, I have no idea what your politics are.
I couldn't tell if you lean left or right or
middle because you have been in appso loot down the
middle journalist.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Well, I was told and taught and believe that my
politics didn't matter. And you know what it's like having
a job like this, You get to know politicians as people.
I'm so honored that every governor of Colorado I've had
at least one great conversation with throughout the course of
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my life. And what a great thing. I'm the girl
in high school Dan who told Governor Lamb I wanted
this job.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
That's so you would have done it way.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Back, right, But I don't think my politics do matter.
And I guess if there's anything about the political climate
we find ourselves in now, I wish I could just
share story after story of the statesmen that I've met
in politics throughout my life, and I don't mean that
in a sex way, but gender neutral, who were invested
(04:04):
in being in politics because they cared about Colorado so
so much.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
He's your favorite. Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Governor Owens was so good to these radio stations. I mean,
he was just wonderful to deal with. I adore Governor Roamer.
I thought he was the guy that at least you
knew the role he would play in every kind of
political debate. I remember covering an all night long negotiation
(04:34):
of Denver Public schools contract that he got in the
middle of, and I was standing there, going, what good
as a governor in the middle of like a very
local political problem like this just seemed like a waste
of his time from my point of view. And he
was so concerned about, you know, driving to the capitol
every day and seeing teachers on picket lines that he
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wanted that to end, and he was willing to do
whatever it of his own political capital if you will
to make it end.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
So yeah, I guess I've.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Had really great conversations with a lot of our governors
and I'm grateful for that.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah. Hey, Kathy Walker, our guest her last day as
news director, thirty five years at eight fifty koa and
for the station group. And so you have you have
been news director through an era of what I consider
to be some giants in politics on both sides of
the aisle. And uh and I think we went through
a phase there, whether there's a Democrat or Republican, there
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were some some very larger than life, very talented people
who would just step up and tell you what what
they truly believed and why whether or not. I think
another great one.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Sean Sothers, just a rock star of a lawyer. I
loved it when he was attorney general. He could explain
the most complex legal thing and a fifteen seconds.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
A talented guy. Which story and obviously one of the
most powerful memories of my life is having the privilege
of being on your Live with You on nine to
eleven through as that horrific day was unfolding. We anchored
the coverage together. Obviously you were lead, But what are
the most powerful memories you have? The most powerful story experiences.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Columbine has to be there, because it's really even hard
to explain to people how we get so much information
now within three hours of some terrible tragedy like that happening,
and even the headlines on the newspapers the next day
after Columbine said there were fifty people dead. That was
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never true. But I mean the amount of time it
took for us to find out the truth of what
had happened at Columbine, by today's standards, was so slow,
and because of that, it made the coverage so scary
and terrifying and heartbreaking, heart breaking to cover.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You were telling a story earlier about the initial reports
you were receiving as to how many children may have been.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
No, we thought there were fifty.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
And I thought at one point there were even some
reports because Kathy's always getting access to information first. At
one point, didn't they think there might be one hundred children?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, I mean we were told horrific numbers. Yeah, people
that we thought were dead at Columbine. And that does
not mean to mitigate that thirteen people lost their lives
that day in Columbine, that one of them was a teacher,
that twelve of them were students, and Dan I covered
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all the Catholic kids funerals from Columbine, right and only
once during a prayer service that I attended, and I
went to so many things in the week after, only
once did we talk about the fifteen people who died
a college right. Only once? Yeah, yeah, Wow, the Youth Day,
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I just I don't even want to go away without
thinking about.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
We had the light wear I got to go to
another news do you home? But we had the Pope,
don't you last one?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You know?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
We had the Pope here. We had this amazing influx.
People kept telling us the World Youth Day was going
to be this really great thing for Denver, and most
of us are like, going, what is it? We don't
even understand.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
What it is.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And they were like, well, Pope John Paul will be
here and all these kids from all around the world
will be here. And then pretty soon everyone you knew
was either helping out, feeding a kid, running people all
over town, doing security, working extra because their company was
somehow involved. Everybody in this whole community played a role
(08:46):
in World Youth Day. It was such a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
It was beautiful. Do you feel a Katy, because I
think it changed this area forever because remember how violent
the summer had been before that and then all of
a sudden that turned around.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
But just in case you take.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Off, because Kathy never likes talking about Kathy, I want
to mention two powerful experiences I've had with you, and
so many more than that, but one makes me laugh,
one makes me cry. The one that makes me laugh
is I'll never forget walking in here during COVID with
a guest of mine without a mask on, and the
look I got from you, and I thought they are
going to list my death as COVID related, and I
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guess it would have been in one way but the other.
And I'll be eternally grateful to you because when my
mom passed away, When my mom passed away, you reported
it on eight fifty KOWA as news, and that was
that meant so much to our whole family. And my
mom deserved that because she wasn't in the headlines, but
she was one of those great people who did great
(09:46):
things that nobody ever heard about. So for Kathy Walker
at eight fifty KOA to report her death as news
just meant more than you'll ever know. So, but that's
just how you are. But that's the.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Life sperience of being a human lives in a community
who wants to be responsible to a community. And it's
been my privilege, am I honor and I'm so grateful.
I'm just so grateful.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Well, you've got to write a book. And that's why
I open the segment by stealing a ligne. Somebody else
came up with that. You've written the first draft of
the history of this state. So I really hope you
write a book because you are and I've had the
privilege of knowing is you have some really outstanding people
in journalism. I can't think of a single person who
has shown more absolutely rock steady integrity down the middle
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journalism year after year after year. You're the person who
should write a book.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Wow, that is so kind of you to say, Dan,
and with your knowledge and your expertise in your life
story here in Colorado, right, Well, I.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Mean, but thank you. There many of those what she does.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I've lived here for an appreciable amount of our adult lives,
Like there just aren't that many of us, and it's
such a gift.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
It's it's so nice. We're all better off because you
are you and you did what you did for thirty
five years. Wow, thank you and I'll buy the first
copy of the book.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
It's been awesome. Thank you for your encouragement.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
There you go, I thank you, Jenny Walker, go get him. Yeah,
just one of a kind. We've all been so lucky
to have her. Three or three someone three eight two
five five tags d A N five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Thank you to Kathy Walker for joining us the only
interview she's agreed to give today, and such a privilege
for me because we've been here a long time together.
She longer thirty five years as news director, but right
down the middle and truly as we sit here today,
I don't know her politics. Think about that talk about
a true journalist. So great stuff. If you missed it,
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you can get it off the podcast. In the last segment,
Scott Jennings joins us at five oh six. I've talked
about him a lot on the show because I think
he's obviously by far the best can conservative on air,
particularly since he has to do battle right. It's one
thing to have a conservative talk show and I have
a lot of respect for a lot of these guys
and ladies, you know, people like Jesse Waters, et cetera.
(12:11):
But it is uniquely difficult to go on and do
battle with other smart people who have opposing political points
of view. And so Scott Jennings does that so incredibly
well on CNN. And because he is opposed and he
has to give and take and do it on the fly,
I think he gains even more for conservatism and persuades
(12:31):
more people and helps more people be able to go
out and defend what they believe. So a true talent.
I also think he's presidential material, and I'll ask him
about that when he joins us at five oh six.
Got a great text here before I play some very
compelling sound for you on this D day, But this
text D and I moved to Colorado in nineteen ninety four.
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Kathy is all I've ever known is the voice of news.
Since I arrived there, I still listen eight hundred miles
away and pursue voice of reason at the top of
every hour. Has kept me up to the moment every
news story that matters for the last thirty years. Cheers
Kathy from Gina in Springfield want a cool text. So
you know, you sit here right now and d day,
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you know, you don't even hear much talk about it, right,
And then you go back and you know, we're lucky,
right because we can just YouTube stuff and we can
see some of the newsreels from that day and hear
some of the sound and everything else, and it's almost
impossible to wrap your mind around, you know, what people
were willing to do then, to save others, to save
foreign countries, to save Europe, to save the world. And
(13:40):
just you know, obviously I never have so many odes,
so much to so few, but I just I just
wonder if America is going to remember are the kids
being taught this? Do the kids remember? But I did
want to play some of that sound today, Ladies and.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Gentlemen, the President of the United States, my fellow Americans,
last night, when I spoke with you about the fall
of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of
the United States and our allies were crossing the channel
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in another and greater operation. It has come to pass
with success thus far. And so in this poignant hour,
I ask you to join with me in prayer.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Almighty God, our sons pride of our nation. This day
have set upon a.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Mighty endeavor, a struggled to preserve our public, our religion,
and our civilization, and to set free a suffering human manity.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
Plead them straight and crue.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness
in their faith. They will need thy blessings. Their road
will be long and hard, for the enemy is strong.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
He may hurl back our forces.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Again and again. And we know that by Thy grace
and by.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
The righteousness of our cause, our suns will triumph. They
will be soret tried by night and by day, without rest,
until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent
by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with
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the violences of war.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
For these men.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight
not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end
the conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let
justice arise, and tolerance and good will among all thy people.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
They yearn but for the end of battle, for their
return to the haven of home. Some will never return.
Embrace these father.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
And receive them thy heroic servants into Thy kingdom, and
for us at home, fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and
brothers of brave men overseas, whose thoughts and.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Prayers are ever with.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Them, Help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed
faith in THEE in this hour of great sacrifice. Many
people have urged that I call the nation into a
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single day of special prayer.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
But because the road is long and.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
The desire is great, I ask that our people devote
themselves in a continuance of prayer as we rise to
each new day, and again when each day.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Is spent.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
FDR. It's like that was divinely inspired, absolutely perfect. And
then you think about today, and I don't mean this
as a shot, just the reality. You think about today,
how fast he would be sued by how many different
groups because he used that broadcast to push religion, to
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push prayer, to push God. Obviously, the world doesn't survive
without that deep faith and without that commitment to faith.
You're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Certainly I was.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Sailors and airman of the Allied Expeditionary Force. You are
about to embark upon the great crusade toward which we
have striven these many months.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
The world are upon you.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march
with you, in company with our brave allies and brothers
in arms on other fronts. You will bring about the
destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi
tyranny over the oppessed peoples of Europe, and security for
ourselves in a free world. Your task will not be
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an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped,
and battle hardened. He will fight savagely. But this is
the year nineteen forty four. Much has happened since the
Nazi triumphs of nineteen forty forty one. The United Nations
have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats in open battle.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Man demand.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the
air and their capacity to wage war on the ground.
Our home fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in
weapons and munitions of war, and place at our disposal
great reserves of trained fighting men.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
The tide has turned.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
The freemen of the world are marching together to victory.
I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty,
and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than
full victory, good luck, and let us all be seeks
the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Wow Ike's D Day's speech June sixth, nineteen forty four
is so inspiring, and we started with FDR's prayer to
the Nation, with the nation his prayer to God on
D Day, and we'll play that again. It's just so
inspiring and obviously raises a lot of questions about where
we're at today. Somebody out there fighting a good fight
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every day. Aaron Lee, Protect Kids Colorado. Great to ever back.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Aaron.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
How you doing, Hey, Dan, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I'm doing great, good, good well. I wanted to get
you out and talk a little bit about the measures.
I know you've cleared the first hurdle and just fill
folks in and let them know how they can help
if if they want to.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
Yes, thank you so much for giving me this opportunity
to talk about protect Kids. So I'm the executive director.
We started last year so people may remember our girls
sports and parents must be notified. Initiatives that circulated and
we actually on Wednesday just survived challenge at the title Board,
and so we are the green light to print our
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three initiatives. And the three issues are stopping trafficking, making
it a life in prison sentence no chance of parole
if you buy or sell a child for sex in
the state of Colorado, and that's chaired by Mark Ozgeist,
the ben Gazi Hero. And then our second issue is
again keeping boys out of girls sports and locker rooms,
which is shared by Jennifer Say who started XXXY Athletics.
(21:53):
She's a tremendous champion on this issue. And then our
third issue is preventing making it illegal to perform these barbaric,
irreversible sex change procedures on minor children and I am
hearing that issue myself, and so we will be printing
here in the next few weeks. We're looking for every
Colorado who's interested in doing something, you know, especially with
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thirteen twelve, I've had so many people reach out and say,
what can we do? The state is it's in trouble
and we all want to take part, and this is
such an easy way of being part of the solution.
Take a petition, get forty people or more to sign it,
and we all just do a little bit, we absolutely
will win at the ballot.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Well said, how many signatures do you need?
Speaker 8 (22:37):
So we need roughly one hundred and thirty five thousand.
We're shooting for two hundred thousand on each issue. And
I should mention that you know, last year we had
eighty days because we had because of legal challenges, our
timeline was shortened, we had no money, we were an
all volunteer effort, we were just starting out, and in
about eighty days we got nearly eighty thousand signatures, which
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is almost quadri ruple what has ever been done with
an all volunteer effort with a full six month timeline.
So it really speaks to how hungry Colorado's are to
make change in this state and how agreeable these issues are,
these eighty twenty, you know, even ninety ten issues on
the trafficking front. The people don't agree with what's happening
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at our capital. And so we're so blessed to have
this Citizen's Baalid initiative process where we the people can
make change in past law.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Absolutely aerinly, our guest, how again can people plug.
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In so protect kids?
Speaker 8 (23:32):
Colorado dot org encourage people to sign up just to
volunteer to carry a petition or help out anyway they
can and follow us on social just protect kids Colorado.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Great work, great work, Aaron. I hope we have you
back off, and we will have you back off, and
I hope you get all these past.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Thank you so much, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
You take care and de boys. She's doing great work
out there, Erinlee and the initiative process is a real
opportunity in Colorado, right, because we see that all the time.
You know, anything in a red Jersey often gets shots.
Politically speaking, on election, you know, Republicans are losing these
state wide races way too often, including a lot of
really good Republican candidates. But yet in those same elections
(24:16):
you'll see ballot measures pass that obviously are favored by
the GOP Conservatives, et cetera. So there is still hope,
and I think there's hope statewide as well. Right candidate,
right campaign, everything comes together well three all three seven
to one three eight two five five the number techs
d A N five seven seven three nine. Scott Jennings
(24:36):
joins us at five six. Looking forward to that conversation.
I you know, there have been some really talented conservative
warriors on national TV over the years. I'm trying to
think of anybody better than Scott Jennings. Ryan. I cannot
right now. And you know, it's not like globetrotters v.
Washington generals. They throw them up against every now and
(24:58):
then some pretty intelligent, eloquent people on the left, bad ideas,
but smart talented people, and Jennings handles all of them,
and so it'll be great to have this conversation. I
really do think. I expect he'll be in the US
Center from Kentucky, but I'd love to see you on
that presidential arena over the years.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
So certainly the Senate seat would be a tremendous get
for him, and I think for people that are of
our political persuasion, You're right, he is a uniquely talented voice.
But I'll say this too, dan Abby Phillip is smart
in the sense that she has him on the show regularly.
I think she is by far the highest rated show
(25:36):
on CNN. Sure as a result, but wouldn't it be
a harbinger or an indicator to executives at CNNMSNBC that
if you have a smart conservative voice on there, you're
gonna get twice as many eyeballs.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
If not more so, why not do it?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
And I'll ask him, But they were talking about giving
him his own show.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Right, well, you can ask him that too. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, And then the question is is it would be
great right because he's obvious you retwent it, But would
it be as compelling if he doesn't have the point counterpoint?
And that's one of the things that's so impressive to
me is that he's able to engage in that battle
day in and day out and do very well. And
I know how hard that is because for what's seven
(26:15):
years on air here, you know, I'd go up against
a really smart guy in Craig Silverman, and it's it's
a lot more work, you know, it makes you better,
it's a lot more work. But very few people can
do it as well as Scott Jennings does it. So
he'll be at five oh six Texter to d An
five seven, seven, three nine. It's incredible how much more
eloquent yesterday's leaders were compared with today. Thank you for
(26:38):
playing FDR's address to the nation after D Day. My
grandfather fought in the South Pacific and he wasn't there
on D Day. But I always think of him on
sixty six and twelve seven. That's some DK in Broomfield.
It really is striking. I'm going to play that sound
throughout the afternoon. First, FDR's addressed to the nation, which
was a prayer and a call to join together in prayer,
(27:00):
which in and of itself is so telling, right, because
you see the modern day left FDR obviously the leader
of the Democratic Party at the time. The modern day
Democratic Party is so rabidly secular and so rabidly hostile
toward faith, particularly Christianity. And yet you see one of
(27:20):
the greatest Democrat leaders of the nation ever in FDR.
You know who got it. He understood, He understood the
pay grades and the pecking order, and he understood, hey,
we need God, and this starts and ends with God,
just like the Founders, right, I mean the last line
of the Declaration, with reliance on divine providence. We pledged
(27:43):
you our lives, our fortune, our sacred honor. Yeah, they
got it too. But today's modern Democratic Party do you
think you'd ever hear anything like that going into war?
Do you think the modern Democratic Party? And I don't
mean Democrats, because there are so many patriotic Democrats God
loving Democrats. I'm talking about the people who own and
operate the party. Do you think they'd ever support going
(28:06):
to war for anything? I mean, no matter how noble
the cause, but certainly not with the prayer in an
appeal to God. They'd file lawsuits over that. So yeah,
it's worth remembering, as the texture says, how much more
eloquent and how open about reliance on God and commitment
to God that leaders from both parties were in the past.
(28:28):
And so when we come back, I want to do
a punch of that sound in the next segment. There's
nothing I can say that can rival this sound. For example, Yeah,
we'll do FDR's Addressed to the Nation. We'll do Eisenhower again.
We'll do Eisenhower's Address to the Troops, which was shorter
but I think so compelling. As so often as the
(28:48):
case right, Ryan, so often it's the shorter statements, Gettyberg's dragon,
Gettysburg attrass that lived through history. I'll blame that on
the peanut butter, but it's probably Friday of Trial. Weak
brain three or three five takes d An five seven, seven,
three nine, Scott Jennings at five six. You're on the
Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 10 (29:14):
I have received this afternoon a message from the Japanese government.
They interplied to the message forward to that government by
the Secretary of State on August eleventh. I deem this
reply a full acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, which specifies
the unconditional surrender of Japan. In the reply, there is
(29:38):
no qualification. Arrangements are now being made for the formal
signing of the surrender terms at the earliest possible moment.
General Douglas MacArthur has been appointed the Supreme Allied Commander
to receive the Japanese surrender. Great Britain, Russia and China
(29:59):
will be represented by high ranking officers. Meantime, the Allied
armed forces have been ordered to suspend offensive action. The
proclamation of VJ Day must have waited upon the pharma
signing of the surrender terms by Japan.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Can you imagine Can you imagine being alive then and
hearing that with all that had been sacrificed and suffered through,
you know, to win that war, that the war obviously
for the future of civilization in the world. On this
D Day, On this D Day, anniversary, playing a lot
of sound from that day and related to that day,
(30:43):
and none better. I think, well that tie right between
Ike's addressed to the troops and FDR's addressed to the Nation,
which was really a prayer, Fdr leading the nation in prayer.
But I do want to squeeze I do want to
squeeze this one in. In the meantime, President Reagan part
of his epic speech at Normandy.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
We stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern
shore of France.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
The air was soft, but forty years ago.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
At this moment, the air was dense with smoke and
the cries of men, and the air was filled with
the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon.
At dawn on the morning of the sixth of June
nineteen forty four, two hundred and twenty five rangers jumped
off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom
of these cliffs. Their mission was one of the most
(31:35):
difficult and daring of the invasion, to climb these sheer
and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns. The
Allies had been told that some of the mightiest of
these guns were here, and they would be trained on
the beaches to stop the Allied advance. The rangers looked
up and saw the enemy soldiers the edge of the cliffs,
shooting down at them with machine guns and throwing grenades,
(31:58):
and the American rangers began to climb. They shot rope
ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to
pull themselves up. When one ranger fell, another would take
his place. When one rope was cut, a ranger would
grab another and begin his climb again. They climbed, shot back,
and held their footing. Soon one by one the rangers
(32:21):
pulled themselves over the top, and in seizing the firm
land at the top of these cliffs, they began to
seize back the continent of Europe. Two hundred and twenty
five came here after two days of fighting, only ninety
could still bear arms. Behind me as a memorial the
symbolizers the ranger daggers that were thrust into the top
(32:43):
of these cliffs, and before me are the men who
put them there. These are the boys of Puentejo.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
These are the who took the cliffs.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
These are the champions who helped free a continent, And
these are the heroes who helped end a war. Gentlemen,
I look at you, and I think of the words
of Steven Spender's poem. You were men who, in your
quote lives, fought for life and left the vivid air
signed with your honor.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Wow, just blows you away, doesn't He left the vivid
air signed with your honor. Man.
Speaker 9 (33:34):
That was neat because there was a little over forty
years ago, so about half the time ago that it was,
and Ronald Reagan delivering that address, and many of those
veterans were still surviving at that.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Oh yeah, they would have been young guys, they would
have been in their sixties, right. But then you listened
to FDR, you listen to Reagan, you know, you listen
to Ike's address on D Day, and you think, you know,
where have the giants gone?
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
And will we get more? Because you you know, obviously
we faced and will face some existential challenges to civilization.
But I don't think you can get through those without
giants like that. And it's one of the things here.
Remember the founders, they said they were relying on divine providence.
(34:20):
That was their big bat. They truly believed that they
could win because of God, because they couldn't win any
other way. Right, You look at the odds when they
started out, and I think one of the ways, right,
I think one of the ways that has played out
very concretely, is it seems like, and maybe I'm forgetting something,
but it seems like at every true watershed, crossroads moment
(34:40):
when it was all on the line for this nation
and beyond that, you know, God has provided that great leader,
sometimes the Democrats, sometimes a Republican, but that God has
provided that great leader. And you hear some of them here, right,
sometimes Democrats and Republicans at the same time. It Yeah,
(35:01):
and it brings you back to today. Listen Trump, And
I know he's polarizing, but he's a larger than life
figure and a figure who is a force of nature
shaping events dramatically in the world. But how many truly
great leaders are there right now, locally, nationally, worldwide. Yeah,
(35:22):
I would love you're taking that. But Scott Jennings after
the break, it's going to be so cool to talk
to him. I just think he's one of the best
to have ever done what he's doing right now, which
is going on air, not just commentating, but doing battle
with these on the left and some pretty sharp people
on the left. He joins us after the break on
the Dan Capsule Show.
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