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November 10, 2025 35 mins
Rep. Ty Winter (R-47), assistant House minority leader, joins Dan to discuss Fort Lewis College overturning its decision to prohibit Turning Point USA from establishing a chapter on campus.

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Dan asks listeners whether a later-than-usual 'first snow' for the Denver metro concerns them, or whether people are just fine without the wintry weather.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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is the Denver Post at this point in dangering ice?

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Listen?

Speaker 1 (00:22):
I have plenty of friends that the Denver Poster are
some great journalists there. We disagree ideologically most of the time.
But why is the Denver Post in dangering Ice? Because
I don't think there can be any doubt that this
house editorial attacking Ice puts ICE agents in additional danger.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
And we'll break that down. Now.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
It's possible that the Denver Post editorial board just didn't
realize that at the time they wrote the editorial, but
there are so many super smart people on that editorial board.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
How could they have not.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
So we'll dive into that, and then also want to
talk about you know it is and I know not
a lot of people apparently watched a Roadrunner and Wiley
Coyote and Roadrunner always wins and even though it looks
like the coyote has roadrunner halfway down, has throated. Roadrunner
ends up dropping the anvil on coyote's head. Once again,

(01:14):
Trump wins. So we'll savor it, we'll enjoy it. We'll
place some of the sound of the left wailing and
gnashing teeth. But big question for you is why do
you think the Democrats folded? Why do you think the
Democrats folded? I've got my own theory on that, but
it is one of the the really interesting developments, i'd say,
of the last year, since election Day, last year, Democrats folding, folding? Now,

(01:39):
why do you think it happened? We'll cover that tremendous
victory up in Central City, voters rejecting a strip club
on Main Street. So we'll get into that story and
then we'll extrapolate it down here. Do you think as
long as we have legalized marijuana, and I do believe
voters will someday overturn that is, the bodies and the

(02:01):
harm and the harm to kids stack up. But in
the meantime, how would you feel how would you feel
about changing the law constitution in this case so that
all of these dope stores now more McDonald's and Starbucks combined.
We have these dope stores in Colorado? How would you
feel about them being relegated? Relegated to industrial areas, just

(02:21):
as you can legally do with strip clubs. There's a
First Amendment right now, there's no constitutional right to have
dope shops, but there is a constitutional right to have strippers,
because the Supreme Court has ruled that's a form of
First Amendment expression. But you can limit time, place, and manner.

(02:42):
So there are many areas that have now limited strip
clubs to industrial park areas. What if Colorado was to
do that with these dope sellers?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
What would you think about that?

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Three oh three seven one three eight two five five
tags d A N five seven seven three nine. And
that just down the road to hopefully reversing Amendment sixty four,
repealing it all together as soon as humanly possible.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Also, want to talk to you about the weather.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
How would you feel? This is the latest I can
ever remember. I know somewhere Bend snow later than this,
but no snow yet. Today's feels like just a beautiful,
perfect late spring day. How would you feel if we
didn't have any snow in the front range all winter?

Speaker 2 (03:25):
We got our moisture.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
We got it, ter rain, the mountains got all the
snow they needed for everybody to prosper in a fun
and frolic And I love all that, But how would
you feel about no snow at all in the metro
all winter?

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Would love your taking that. Really started to think seriously
about it the last few days three or.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Three seven to one, three eight, two five five the
number text d an five seven seven three. Now I
was thinking about it from Afar because first vacation of
the year.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Really enjoyed it.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
In fact, round I realized my first day off all year,
and people, you can send money if you don't feel
like shedding tears or whatever.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
But first day off all year was last Saturday. Wow.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
And it wasn't supposed and I'm talking seven days a week,
it was not supposed.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
To be my first day off. I was supposed to
work last Saturday.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
I was on a plane, but I had work to
get done and sat down on the plane, pulled out
my depositions, put them down, picked up the iPad and
binge watched a show. Yes, yes, I love it, you know,
and listen, hey, if we had been in trial Monday,
I would have read the depositions, but no trial this week.

(04:33):
Last week, pardon me, last week was kind of a
vacation week. Still did the show every day except Thursday.
That was a glorious day. But yeah, So one thing
I did notice, my friend Ryan, and thank you for
all you did and shareff reams to hold down the
fort here.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
But one thing I did notice, because you know, there
was all.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
This, there was some flight interruption because of the closure
of government. One thing I noticed was four separate times
on a four hour flight, I saw planes close stars.
Now I'm not talking about near mid air collisions or
anything like that, but I don't know about you. I'd

(05:11):
love to look out the window and I fly. I
just I feel so lucky to be alive right now.
How many people in human history have been able to
see the earths everything from that perspective, I love looking
out the window. It's it doesn't make me the most
popular guy in economy right because or wherever I happen
to be at the moment they did.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Capitalist doesn't fly first class.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Come on, I do sometimes, but you know I'm not
going to pay it when it's just obscene. If you're
talking about a reasonable difference, I'll pay it. But when
when they're just trying to another guy stick you with
a cattle pride. No, that's a matter of principle. And
I was telling him, well, I don't have to tell
her that, but exit row. If you can get in

(05:50):
the exit row.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Love it. What more do you need? You don't, that's true,
I love it.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
I mean you may not get an over cooked chicken
stuffed with something that's going to make you sick.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
For a but you've got a really good seat. My
ponent is this.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
I like looking out the window, and I look out
the window all the time. And there's one time I
was coming back from a deposition, maybe fifteen years ago,
and I looked out and there was a B two
bomber like right below the plane, I mean right below
the plane, like you could reach out and touch, and
it was obviously having some fun and everybody was safe.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
But other than that, it's very very rare.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
That I can see another check when we're airborne. And
yesterday it happened four times, my friend, and one of
them it was headed right at us from the side
and it went under us close now obviously not close
enough that the plane had to take any evasive action
or anything like that, And I tried to capture. I
tried to capture on video. I'll show you the picture

(06:45):
during the break. You know, I got that contrail of it.
You can see that contral is very close. I'm just
wondering whether the government shut down, cutbacks on staff, everything
else had anything to do with that, and if any
but he's had that experience, or you know, we're blessed
with such a diverse audience. They probably have a lot
of pilots and air traffic control folks, et.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Cetera, who would know the answer to this.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Why yesterday did I see four in one flight and
one that came right under us what appeared to be
very close? And I understand the distances are deceiving, but
my point is that normally there's nothing even close enough
to see it.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Three out thirty seven.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
One, three eight, two five five the number text or Dan,
I would love no snow on the Front Range. The
mountains can have it all. Yeah, if we could have that,
I would too. I would too, I would take I
would take a winner on the front range just like
today is as long as the mountains are getting it.
But I bet there are a lot of people who
would not who would not take that you had just

(07:44):
missed the snow too much?

Speaker 2 (07:45):
And I get that.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
I'm not sure my answer would have been the same
to this ten years ago. Now, if the price was
the mountains don't get the snow, of course not.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Who's going to do that. Nobody's going to do that.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
If you wanted that, you'd live in Nevada or California.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Right.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
What do you think of our friends in Central City
rejecting the strip club on Main Street? I want to
get you that story. This is a very compelling story
from KUSA.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
Central City voters want to keep sobs out of their community.
Sexually oriented businesses sobs, and that's why Rix Cabaret and
Steakhouse in Central City will be Rix Steakhouse for the
foreseeable future. Central City's ballot Question two A might seem
kind of vague, but it is pretty straightforwardly about Rix.
It asks voters to allow sobs on Main Street, and

(08:33):
voters are like not interested, went down by fourteen points.
The cabaret and Steakhouse opened a location on Main Street
earlier this year in defiance of the city's zoning rules
for sexually oriented businesses. RIX has been fighting for one
of these sob permits for years now. In the meantime,
they say that they are staying within the rules because

(08:54):
their dancers are covered up in latex. That quote works
so well, people think they're nude. Feels like something that
we should investigate.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Good life line there. So that makes me so happy.
It makes me so happy. And believe anybody knows me
knows I'm the opposite of a proud but it makes
me so happy that the peoprils Central City voted this down.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, how do you feel about that?

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Do you think that there should be Do you think
if you're listening in the front range in Colorado, do
you think that there should be strip clubs allowed just
you know, anywhere people do business. Do you think they
should be banished to industrial areas? And should we do
the same thing with legalized marijuana until we can get
rid of it all together.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
You're on the dan Capla Show.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
And now back to the Dankaplas Show podcast.

Speaker 5 (09:51):
There's got to be a story behind that one Addie
Murphy iconic scene as Axel Foley strip Club Beverly Hills
stops stops a robbery. As a matter of fact, Oh
spoiler alert, but I haven't seen that. If they haven't
seen h yet, they're never going to see it.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Ye.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah, that is a great movie. So good, thank you
for that. My friend will.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Pop to the phone lines. You got a text mean
for the show, but on your phone. How does that
happen some listeners.

Speaker 6 (10:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
Maybe it's quicker they feel to reach out directly to me. So, yeah,
this is summer from up in the mountains. Sometimes she
comes down from the mountains to live amongst us people,
you know, on the plains. She says, I've been to
that strip club in Central City. It's kind of weird.
There's no poll. It's basically just naked stage yoga. But
I've heard the steakhouse is worth it, and that's where

(10:38):
my mind went to. I was wondering, was the steakhouse
actually good?

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Now?

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Is that one of those places? I mean, and we're
talking about if you just joined the show. I was
praising the voters of Central City who rejected allowing a
strip club.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
On main Street, and then we're.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Talking about, Hey, is that what we should do down
here with legalized dope until we get rid of it,
just zone it out to the industrial areas, which is
if it was going to be legalized at all. Shouldn't
have been It should have been zoned out to the
industrial areas. But of course that's not what the dope
dealers wanted, right, they want it everywhere. So kids say, oh,
it must be okay, it must be normal, and they
can hook them young and forever. So that's how we're

(11:16):
on that topic. Yeah, Like Denver has that Dimond Cabaret, Right,
never been there? Truth Domon Cabaret which is downtown and
it's also a restaurant.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Right have you been there? No?

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Okay, So my understanding is that you have topless people
who serve you there as well.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Oh but that's just by word of mouth.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Three all three seven one three eight two five five
takes d a n five seven seven three nine. We're
going to run off to the phone lines here just
in time. Lan in Denver, You're on the Dan Kaplis Show.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Welcome.

Speaker 7 (11:50):
Hi.

Speaker 6 (11:50):
I'm going with the lighthearted topic tonight, and that is
the snow and weather. Who cares what I think?

Speaker 2 (11:57):
But I thought there's strippers topic.

Speaker 6 (12:01):
I no, no, I'm stand away round that one. But
I'm with you on anything on the.

Speaker 7 (12:05):
Outskirts and you know.

Speaker 6 (12:07):
But anyway, so I can do with snow on Christmas
Eve and Christmas Day and before and after I could
do without it. I learned to live without it in
southern California for twenty years. But I grew up in
Denver with the best of winter, and the seasons were
more normal because they're not as much now, they were

(12:27):
more regular and predictable. And so I love the snow
and I love to see it, but I'm kind of
over it. So I love just two days of it
during the holidays, and that's it.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, Now, if you had to give up a white
Christmas and a white Christmas Eve and just and the
question as we started the show was would you take
this weather all year round on the Front Range as
long as the mountains got the snow they needed? And
you're answered, b yes, you'd even give up Christmas and
Christmas Eve?

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Okay, yes, I was. Well. Then appreciate the call.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Thank you that. It's really kind of cool to think about,
isn't it. Who knows, maybe it'll happen, but.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
They're getting snow up there. All good dance.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
As a Texter to DN five seven seven through nine,
strippers are no worse than gambling.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
In my opinion, if.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
They have casinos, they should have strippers and weed two
a perfect den of iniquity.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Dave in the Hood.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Interesting, are strippers a worse vice for a community than gambling?

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Or maybe he means on.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
Other levels, not public impact, but just kind of basic morality,
the kind of public morality which you know so much
of it comes down to what kind of culture do
you want the kids to grow up?

Speaker 2 (13:37):
You know, and you just picture kids.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
I could picture fish growing up in a fishball, right,
I mean, you don't want a dirty fishball. What kind
of culture do you want kids growing up? Personally, I
believe it's really harmful to kids when a community just
green lights and advances drugs, you know, strippers, stuff like that.
I think it's just bad for a community, bad for kids.

(14:00):
Kids are not little adults, you know kids. Everybody knows, right,
because even if you don't have kids, you were a kid,
and there is that really critical stage of innocence which
any any same community, you know what, would fight to
protect to what age We can have that conversation as well,
but at least till ten, twelve, fourteen, you know where

(14:23):
you really want to protect that innocence. Take as long
as you can but clearly the left at this point
wants the opposite. The left wants to strip away that innocence,
wants to sexualize kids at a very young age. There
can be no doubt about that when you just look
at the policy positions they've taken. Why do you think
the left wants to do that? Thank you Texter for

(14:44):
your note there. I'll tell you one thing. I mean,
if you had to choose, and you shouldn't, but if
you had to choose, I think that this kind of
nudity stuff is a lesser harm than the violence, you know,
than the violence that kids are dipped in now, you know,
from such a very young age in so many different ways,

(15:04):
TV movies, video games, et cetera. I think that's more
harmful to them than you know, some of this sexualizing stuff.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
But they shouldn't have either. They shouldn't have either.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Dad, as long as the mountains get the snow that
should fall, I'm happy to let them have it.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
So yeah, so far, it's one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Everybody would love it, just like it is now, no
snow all winter in the front Range. Dan the Dems
wanted the government shut down to her Trump and to
have voters for the twenty twenty five elections. I believe
all Senate Dems who voted for opening the government are
not up for re election in twenty six. Not a coincidence, Alexa.
Great insight by Alexible. Why did they do it? Why
do you think the Dems did it? You know, really

(15:48):
want to spend a segment on that now. First of all,
I think it validates what I was saying last week.
Democrats were way over eating. I understand they were desperate
for some good news. They've been getting thumped for a year,
but they way over read the election night results. The
Dems won where the Dems were supposed to win. But
why do you think they did it? And why do

(16:09):
you think they did it?

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Now?

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Three oh three seven, one, three eight, two five five
the number? Because they they sure do look bad, right,
I mean, they they look like they caved. They look
like Trump won, even MSNBC admitting that Trump won. And
we'll have some fun with some of that sound. So
what's your theory, Ryan, Why do you think.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
They did it? Why they overplayed their hand? Well, no,
why they cave? Now? It was just a few years
after election day.

Speaker 5 (16:35):
There are so many and what really surprises me is
that somebody like John Ossoff who's on the ballot in
Georgia this next time around in twenty twenty six, and
that's a.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Purple lean red state in Georgia.

Speaker 5 (16:45):
He is very much targeted by Republicans donations, et cetera.
He stayed with like Hick and Looper Bennett, the far
left senators. It was those like New Hampshire Nevata Purple
States that figured this is not politically expedient anymore for
us to keep fighting this fight, that there's no end
in sight.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, and I think I think it goes even as
step deeper. Now here's MSNBC piling on Schumer and again
just admitting Trump one.

Speaker 8 (17:12):
It's strange Dean to go back to the original sort
of part of this conversation of whether.

Speaker 7 (17:17):
He is a good deal maker.

Speaker 9 (17:19):
I in a way, it seems like the President is
kind of getting what he wanted.

Speaker 7 (17:23):
Forty days ago, when.

Speaker 8 (17:24):
All this started, he was out there saying that, oh,
this is all about.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yeah, and it's a piece through strength thing.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
Right. I mean, clearly how this happened now in Angus King,
just Senator Angus King just flat admitted that that, hey,
this wasn't working.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
But the only reason for that is is Trump.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
You know that Trump is not going to fold and
Trump is going to bury anybody on his side who does.

Speaker 10 (17:47):
You have to go back to what the strategy was
at the beginning of the shutdown. There were two goals,
both of which I support. One was standing up to
Donald Trump. The other was getting some resolution on the
ACA premium tax credit issue. The problem was the shutdown
wasn't accomplishing either goals.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
You've got to give the credit for frankness there. It's
peace through strength. I was sitting here expecting yet Trump
would see it all the way through, and he's in
a position to put enough pressure on that Republican Senate
to do it.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Obviously, the Dems read it the same way.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
And then, as you know, they've got access to polling
that goes so far beyond what we can see publicly,
and polling that really gets into the fine points and
like how it's actually polling in swing states and then
polling where you layer in scenarios, so you're polling people
on Okay, let's say it's Christmas and you know the

(18:39):
airport's aren't working right and snap benefits aren't coming in,
so I think the Democrats only did it because they
had to another big w for Trump.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
You're on the Dan Capler Show.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.

Speaker 7 (18:57):
Let it snow, Let it snow, let it.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
Stay or maybe not. We're talking about that today. It's
not all we're talking about.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
But hey, if you could have this all winter, would
you take it? As long as the mountains get what
they need?

Speaker 2 (19:07):
So far?

Speaker 1 (19:08):
One hundred to zero in terms of our callers and
Texas people.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
Would love this all winter.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Not sure about our friend Thie winter Tie of course,
assistant house minority leader and an original, badass, tough ombre tie.
Would you feel like you'd missed out if you didn't
have a chance to freezer you know what off sometime
this winter?

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (19:31):
I know, I love the snow. I mean as I
get older, Dan, of course they'll deal with arthritis, But
what the heck, it's beautiful. We need the moisture farmers
and ranchers, and takes a lot of money in ski country.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Now, what if you could get the moisture through rain
instead of snow? Would you settle for that? Oh? Yeah,
in ski country, we all agree, you'd have to have
it in the mountains, but how about down here.

Speaker 7 (19:51):
I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 9 (19:52):
I like the white stuff.

Speaker 7 (19:53):
I think it's beautiful.

Speaker 9 (19:54):
Yeah, and I think it's part of the ambiance of
Colorado and that's what makes this special. So we're rugged.
People gotta be the snow.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
Okay, yeah, I'd be fine being rugging in other ways,
but so now now, Okay, Well it's good. It's not
one hundred to zero at this point. But hey, great
to have you here, and nice to see Fort Lewis
College finally get it back together.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Fill us in on that.

Speaker 9 (20:16):
First and foremost thinks it's always great to be on.
I appreciate you getting our voice out there, and it
was something that we had to do. You know, you
watches the House Minority. We're constantly battling for our free
speech rights, and when this came across our desk, it
was a no brainer. I mean, what makes us feel
really good about it is you know, I would like
to think and I can't one hundred percent prove it,
but we sent that letter on Thursday morning, and there

(20:40):
was an emergency meeting called, and you know, we basically said, hey,
we fight for free speech all the time. You understand
because we're the minority caucus at the Capitol, and we
think you should reconsider this based on number one, free
speech issues and number two, you know, your student body
claims to be inclusive and want to have dialogue until
it's conservatives. So yah, it was honored to be able

(21:01):
to help what we hoped was to help those kids
over there.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
Well, and I'm glad you guys stepped up because it
was so obviously grossly wrong, right, But it's it's fascinating
how there's no question anytime they use the word inclusive,
it's just automatically read to exclude conservative, so it's code
for something else. Nice thing is at a certain point,
I think they know they're going to get there, you
know what sued off and I think it helped that

(21:26):
you guys stepped up just kind of reinforced that people
weren't just going to whimper away.

Speaker 9 (21:31):
Oh thank you. And we look at it as a win,
one hundred and ten percent a win. And you know,
the minority leader spoke to the gentleman from you know,
the Turning Point organization that was trying to start it,
you know, thank this, and you know said, hey, Rep called, well,
thank you. We think that the letter helped a lot.
And at the end of the day, this wasn't about press,
this wasn't about anything other win for free speech in Colorado,

(21:52):
a win for those kids over there on the western slope,
and then a win for the House Republicans for you know,
I'm proud of my caucus way they stepped up signed
onto this letter, and we were unified and coming out
and saying, hey, there's a whole bunch of us, and
we fight this every day, and we're going to be
in the fight for free speech no matter where it is.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Wonderful, Well glad you were on those front lines. Hey,
why do we have you? What else should folks know
that maybe they're not seen in the headlines about what's
going on under the Golden Dome?

Speaker 9 (22:17):
You know, sir, I think that we're going to see
the timeline for the governor's you know, net zero move
up by five to ten years. That's been big talk.
We've heard that some of the climate activists in the
legislature are trying to overturn the nuclear build it myself
and Rep. Beltz passed last year along with come O
lan which they'll only even allow for a new and

(22:38):
then you know, I'm sure it's going to be a
spattering of anti Trump anti you know Colorado first laws
that come to the capital. Yeah, yeah, Well, you know
we're facing a huge thing. You know, the new president
or appointed leader of the Secretary of the state Land
Board coming after private property rights, wanting to eliminate farming

(23:00):
and ranch in Colorado. We see what we're doing to
our industry sector. So you know, all I can tell
the listeners that is, be ready to testify and be
ready to get to work in this offseason. We have
a big opportunity. The Democrats in the state are disaster.
They've done some bad things here and we need to
unify and capitalize on this and put in the work
and get some more Republicans there. That way, we can
bring common sense ideas and common sense legislation back to

(23:23):
save this state and return it to what it once was.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Well, and I agree with you on all that time.
What do you make though of Tuesday night?

Speaker 1 (23:30):
I think nationally the Dems are over reading it and
the Dems now caving on the shutdown is proof of that.
But in Colorado it seemed that anything with the Red
Jersey on school board races, all of that you know
it's getting thumped with few exceptions. What do you read
into that.

Speaker 9 (23:49):
You know, to be honest with you, Dan, I think
more people are gonna have to get in the fight. Yeah,
you've been involved in these things and it's a lot
of the same small groups of people, right, and you
know they're they're rowing the boat and they don't doing it.
No complain. I love doing this for my country, but
we need more people to start going through precinct caucuses
and assemblies and meetings and sign up for door knocking
and helping them fundraising and doing sign wavings. And the

(24:12):
thing is that there's a lot more of them than us.
And I truly believe the independence in this state. They
want common sense, they want a solid voice that's going
to stick up for them, make sure that their pockets
are full, that they can feed their kids, but also
not anything crazy, and I think that's the balance we're
trying to strike in Colorado. So I personally, I don't
read too much into it. I think everybody was a

(24:33):
little tired, come off of the high of president from
getting reelected, had worked their tails off in Colorado to
fight sometimes against their sun amountable odds.

Speaker 7 (24:42):
I think we'll be back.

Speaker 9 (24:43):
I think people are going to get rested and get
ready to rock n roll, and I think that, you know,
Republicans are going to make gains and that's that's my
hope and that's what I'm going to be working for.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
And as well as the Minority.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
Leader, well, keep fighting a good fight, my friend. Appreciate
the time today, Yes.

Speaker 9 (24:56):
Sir, thank you, thank you. It's an honor to be
on your show. Godless call Rattle, but most importantly God
bless America.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Thank you, my friend.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Sure do appreciate that, and privileged to have Representative ty
Winter with this Assistant House Minority Leader personally, Ryan, I
think that it's going to take a breakthrough candidate in
Colorado brillly appealing have to be obviously to win statewide
conservative candidate to break through and then become the face

(25:23):
of the party. Right now, there are so many great
people involved in the Republican Party in Colorado, but there's
no one face of the party because we haven't had
that statewide office holder. There's no one face of the party.
There was a day, and this is no criticism of
any other gopchair, not at all. There was a day
the GOP chair was very well known statewide. But I

(25:44):
think that went hand in hand with the fact that
you had state wide officeholders. But it just you're in
this vicious cycle where you don't have a face of
the party because you don't have a state wide office holder.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
So you need that breakthrough.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
And once you get that breakthrough, I think things begin
to shift consistently.

Speaker 5 (26:02):
Well, one example I go back to, and it will
shock you, I know, and you were just there is Florida,
which was a purple state that nearly elected a guy
named Andrew Gillum as governor exactly and instead Rond de Santis,
who was a relative unknown at the time, wins eight
years later. That state is dominated by Republicans. And that
just shows you what you just said, Dan, when you

(26:23):
have a unifying figure of force like Ron De Santis
was as a game changer.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
Who's doing a real good job, right, I mean, because
then DeSantis, you know, was able to prove his chops.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
Through COVID, correct, the free state of Florida.

Speaker 7 (26:36):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
We both enjoyed time.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
There, right, lots Yeah, the contrast with yeah, where the
damn mask Polis?

Speaker 2 (26:44):
But yeah, so no, that's that's right.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
And but obviously it gets tougher every year because we
don't have a face of the party. You know that
the and you know most of the media is aligned
with the Democratic Party. Things keep spinning down, but it's
going to take that very special candidate to break through
and then I believe things really start to shift, especially
since obviously in Colorado the Democratic Party is effectively operated

(27:10):
at this point by the socialist wing, you know, the
Democratic Socialists they call themselves. Now you get a bunch
of Democrats in power who don't call themselves democratic socialists,
but look at what they're actually doing, right and see
where that party's moving. Chad the GOP, they're going to
have to have that breakthrough. If you have thoughts on
who that will be, when it should be, well, we
all know it should be now.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
But how they do it? Hey, we'd love to hear
them text or Dan. We need the snow.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Every tree, flower, blade of grass, animals, et cetera on
the Front Range needs water, Yes, text or thank you,
But the point being, if you could have a snow
free winter on the Front Range, get all the moisture
you need through rain, would you want that?

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Now?

Speaker 1 (27:49):
Everybody, we all have the same qualifier that assumes the
mountains get the snow they need, because if you think
that's impossible, it's happened so far. The mountains are getting
pretty good snow, and down here it's been we've been basking, right.
I drew up in Michigan, across from Chicago. You know
what the snow is like there Here it's a piece
of cake gone in today. Boy, that is so very true. Dan,

(28:10):
love your show and your analysis and everything you do.
Thanks so thank you, Thank you.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Texter. Really do appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
But it is so true, Ryan, and any you know what,
I know, anybody who's coming from the Midwest knows it.
This like the perfect climate in the world, right, even
with the snow, because you get sun most days and
the snow comes and it melts and it's gone.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
In Chicago, it's there for months. I had this thing.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Happened to me when I came out to school as
a freshman and I had one coat. I mean I
had one coat to my name, and I was in
class at SEU. It was a big class, like a
couple other people. And then I go back to my
seat after picking up a test at the front of
the room.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
My coat was gone. My one coat.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Now, I wasn't going to be able to buy another
coat the rest of the winter. So I asked the
professor if I talked to the class and see if
anybody on my coat.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
He said, oh, sure, go.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Bre It was just such a nice guy. I got
up there and I said, hey, my coat told the story.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
It's gone. I'm from Chicago.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
If my coat isn't back on my chair by this
time tomorrow, I am going door to door everybody in
this classroom until I get my coat back. And I'll
tell you, the professor's eyes are biggest saucers. I can
still picture that class because they must have had one
hundred and two hundred kids in there. It was just
like everybody like their mouse open and yeah. So spent

(29:37):
the whole winter without that coat. But that's the point
is Colorado winners are so mild. I got by that
whole winter without a coat, and I was fine.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Still. I would take this every day. You're on the
Dankpla Show.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
And now back to the Dankaplass Show podcast.

Speaker 8 (29:53):
I don't think it's coincidental, you know how I think.
But it's after forty days of wandering in the wilderness
and making the American people suffer needlessly. Some Senate Democrats
finally have stepped forward to end the pain. It appears
to us this morning that our long national nightmare is
finally coming to an end, and we're grateful for that.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
And I think there's going to be a vote. There's
going to be a vote sometime during the show today.
So it's a foregone conclusion at this point. Yet Senate's
going to vote to end it, and House is going
to back that.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Then it will be done. But why do you think
the Dems folded?

Speaker 1 (30:29):
And nobody's trying to deny that, not even the leftist
you know, news outlets are trying to deny that the
Dems lost in Trump won?

Speaker 2 (30:35):
Why do you think they folded?

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Working in a fascinating text, we have a topic going
this afternoon about hey, would you take this no snow
front range all summer as long as the mountain's got
what they need and we got our rain here and
so far it's ninety nine to one, right, ninety nine
percent to one percent. And the one percent is our
friend representative Ty Winner. He would really like the snow
in the front range. And I get that, I respect it.

(31:00):
I probably would have given that answer ten years ago.
But I kind of like this stuff now and life
is easier that way. I want to be able to
go up in the mountains and see the snow. Interesting text,
and this is a reference to we're talking about this
tremendous election result in Central City where voters turn down
a strip club on Main Street voted against it. And

(31:23):
so in Central City, like a lot of places, you know,
it's got to be out on the outskirts. A lot
of places they zone the strip clubs into essentially industrial parks.
US Supreme Court says there's a First Amendment right to
strip to have, you know, like a strip club, but
you know it can be out in industrial parks, time place,
manner restrictions. So anyway, this texture says, Dan, I want

(31:45):
my kids to grow up surrounded by freedom. As restrictions grow,
freedoms die. Great bumper sticker, terrible public policy. I'd love
to have a talk with this text because it do
you then believe we should have legal meth? Should meth
be legal? That's a restriction, that's a restriction on math.

(32:07):
Does that mean that because we have a restriction on meth,
freedoms die. I would love to have that conversation, because
that's one of the reasons we now have the big
mistake of legalized marijuana in Colorado is because you know
that the left had been pounded in two straight elections
in Colorado. Voters had over overwhelmingly turned down legalizing marijuana,

(32:31):
and then the left poured huge money and Bill Maher
was part of a group to put together over a
million dollars and they swamped the opposition in Colorado. That
was a lot at the time of that election back
in twelve and then they got some conservative support under
the freedom banner. It's a matter of freedom, and that,
in my mind was always a misplaced argument by some

(32:53):
really respected conservatives who've contributed a lot to this state.
But I think they really misplaced it's the freedom argument there,
because what does that mean? Does that mean that you
support them legal cocaine, legal math, legal heroin? Because if
it's a freedom argument, doesn't that have to apply to everything?
Because you look at marijuana, nobody can doubt the harms

(33:15):
that it costs.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
Is that's been very.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Well documented medically, and you know, everything from academic studies
to you know, c DC, et cetera. So, yeah, if
you're going to pursue that freedom argument. Don't you have
to argue that all drugs should be legal? Three oh
three seven one three eight two five five the number
text d A N five seven seven three nine.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Let's go to the phone lines.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
Robert in Dinosaur, you're on the Dan Kapla show.

Speaker 7 (33:41):
Welcome, he's doing Dan. I'm living the dream, all right.
I live the dream every day here because it's so quiet,
no one in the front range and see it out.
How to find their way to the land.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Well, you got, you got what you got, Fred Wilma
already pebbles.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yeah, that's right. Where exactly is Dinosaur.

Speaker 7 (34:06):
It's three miles from the Utah border. I live about
eleven miles from the Utah border, or as far as
we can get away from the insanity at the capitol.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Well, I'm glad you listened to the show. Thank you.

Speaker 7 (34:20):
I do online and I'm thankful it comes through. I
can only hear KOA at night.

Speaker 5 (34:27):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (34:27):
Or you know that's just the way they always work.
That we need to consider about snow. There's three major things.
One and I know your firefighters will really be happy
to see the snow come because the danger of fire
right now is immense without snow cover. And if you

(34:50):
want to see another incident like happened up there at
you know, Lewisville or whatever up there in the bolder
no snow, you know, and if the winds get going
off the mountains of the front and the dumb blots
of snow and we don't even get rain on the
Front Range, you know, if there's a fire, yeah, you

(35:12):
won't stop it.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Oh yeah, but you know, my hypothetical is we'd get
rain instead of snow on the Front Range. So it's
just kind of a fun mind trick.

Speaker 7 (35:20):
But you're right, But Denver gets about what eighteen to
twenty inch of the year. Yeah, that rain is not
You would have to double and maybe triple it to
do away with much of the fire danger.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
Yeah, Robert, appreciate the call. Really appreciate you listening from
Dinosaur Colorado. Hey, when we come back, Denver Post editorial
attacking ice, is it endangering ice agents? Why do you
think they did that? And isn't it fundamentally wrong and unfair?
You're on the Dan Kapitlo Show.
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