July 7, 2025 • 36 mins
In the first hour of today's edition of The Dan Caplis Show, Sheriff Steve Reams fills in and discusses the flooding disaster down in Texas.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Basically, back to work for everybody after the holiday weekend,
including myself, and back to work for Dan. I think
he's in trial today from the trial prep he was
doing last week when I filled in, So I think
I'll be covering for Dan today and tomorrow, and he'll
probably be back in studio Wednesday or Thursday. I don't
know for sure, but that's the way trial work goes,
(00:35):
and fortunately I don't do that work. I just do
the prep work to prepare people to go to trial,
sometimes or arrest them before they go to trial, I
guess is a better way of saying it. Two different
kinds of law that are practiced. Dan does a lot
of civil law. I have my realm in the criminal
law side, but sometimes they cross over. So anyways, Dan
will be back with you at some point this week,
(00:57):
just not exactly sure what day that is. Coming off
of the holiday weekend. Boy, it's tough to get back
into the workflow. I had a four day weekend, as
many of you probably did, but it was a great
busy weekend as I hope many of you have had
the same experience with fireworks and celebrating Independence Day, and
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we'll get to a little bit of that. But I
think it would only be, I guess, disrespectful to not
cover the news of the weekend, which is the events
down in Texas, down in Kerrville, Texas, with the massive
flooding that has taken place down there and the loss
of life count I think is up to around ninety
four now, with obviously many more bodies that will probably
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be discovered over the days and weeks to come. And
that's just a tragic incident. And unfortunately it's being made
political by certain individuals on both sides of the aisle.
You know, there's Democrats that are blaming Trump and there
are Republicans that are blaming you know, the previous administration.
When ultimately this comes down to an act of God,
and whether we like it or not, you know, sometimes
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you just can't. You can't beat mother Nature. She plays
the ultimate card sometimes, and you know, I spent some
time in that area of Texas in two thousand and
five attending Polygraph School down in Austin and the Guadalupe River,
you know, it runs right through that area between Austin
and San Antonio and up from the Curveville area. So
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on the weekends we would go and float that river.
The students in my class, you know, trying to get
away from Polygraph School, which is a son of a gun.
If I'm sure there's not many of you out there
that have ever gone through it, but it's an eleven
week school and it's it's full time. I mean, there's
no there's no joke about it. It's it's a tough
class to go through. So on the weekends we try
to unwind a little bit. And it's a big thing
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down in that area. To go float the Guadalupe River.
You go down and rent tubes. You can rent a
cooler that's on a tube also, you know, load it
up with your favorite beverage and float down the river
for a few hours. And you know, most parts of
that river, and I've floated many, many my of it
over the weekends that we went down there. Most parts
of that river you can get out of your tube,
touch the ground. You know, it's maybe five or six
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feet deep at the most. A few places where it
gets deeper, but oftentimes you're picking up your tube and
you're walking it along the creek because there's just not
enough water for you to float certain areas. And so
when you see this video, you know a lot of
people say, well, why would you build a house that
close to the river. You know, why were they camped
that close to the river. It's just uncommon for anything
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like this to occur. But where that rain hit was
right in the hill country around Kerrville. And when they
say hill country in Texas, you know, it's kind of
small mountain ranges if you will, and they're very rocky.
They're not going to absorb a lot of water. And
when it rains, it rains hard and fast down in
that area. And you basically just had a funnel effect
that went into the Guadalupe River, with accounts being that
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that river rose as much as twenty four to twenty
six feet in an hour's time frame. Well, no matter
how much warning you give people, that kind of act
from Mother and Nate is just unbelievable. And I think
the top of the river got up to thirty two
feet at its crest, to kind of tie that back
into the local area. In twenty thirteen, we had the
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floods in Boulder and Larimer and Weld County and then
out to the east, and I think the highest the
flood levels got during that time was eleven feet and
we had three days to kind of see that flood coming.
And you know, there's still a lot of property damage,
but I don't believe I don't remember any loss of life,
not at least in Weld County. There may have been
a few people that were taken by the tragedy in
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Boulder County, if memory serves me right, But regardless, nothing
like what we're seeing in Texas. I mean, you got
ninety four kids, twenty or ninety four people missing, twenty
seven of them from the Mystic Ranch Christian camp. I mean,
these are seven to nine or ten year olds that
were swept away in the middle of the night from
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a cabin that they thought they were safely sleeping in.
It's just a tragedy all the way around. While we
always hope that these things don't get made political, obviously
they will, and that's the unfortunateness of where we're at
in this state of the world. At this point. But
you know, we have to pray for those people and
hope that hope that some survivors are still found, and
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hope that the people that are left behind, you know,
they can figure out a way to move on with
their lives. And uh, just such a tragic situation. And
for the people in that area, like I said, that
Guadalupe River is a major it's a major issue, a
major part of their culture. That's that's part of their recreation,
that's part of just kind of their daily lives of
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what they do and where they go camp and you know,
float the river and all that kind of stuff. So, man,
you just hope for recovering that community. It's a very
sad time. And those of us who have been through
some other natural disaster understand that sometimes you just you're
just at the whim of mother nature and it's unfortunate.
That being said, if you have comments you'd like to
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make about the incident, feel free you can text in
at text Dan at five seven seven three nine, or
you can call in a three O three seven one
three eight two five five and we can definitely discuss
the similarities of that incident to what we've seen here
in the past and even back in I think it
was nineteen seventy six when the Thompson Canyon flooded, you know,
down from Estes Park through Larimer County and again out
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into other parts of the Eastern Plains. I think from
what I'm seeing here from a text from last week,
that took about one hundred and twenty lives. And you
know that you look at where they're at at the
with the issue in Texas today, and it's probably going
to be much worse than than where it is at
this point obviously, But you know, that's the bad news
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over the weekend, and you know, you always look at
tragedy and say, we gotta we got to deal with
it head on and at least acknowledge that it exists.
But we also had our Independence Day celebrations over the weekend,
and John Caldera in the previous show on the Ryan
Schuling Show was talking about, you know, popping fire works
and doing all the fun stuff, and that's what That's
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what I really hope you guys will call in and
talk about. Are those things that anchor you to the
Independence Day weekend? What is it that is just part
of your tradition that you say, you know, I got
to do this thing, and for me, I got to
check off a whole lot of those boxes this last weekend.
It was. It was quite a busy weekend, you know.
I will say there was a new tradition that was added.
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Trump signed the Big Beautiful Bill on July fourth and
did so with a lot of fanfare, B two flyovers,
you name it. I don't know if that's something to
celebrate or something to worry about. At this point, the
Big Beautiful Bill has been signed and we're all going
to see what the ramifications of that bill are. It's
caused Elon Musk to kind of lose his mind a
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little bit. He started his own American Political Party or
America Political Party. I don't know exactly what he aims
to gain with that, but he's involved in politics now
and we're probably going to see him around for quite
some time. So we'll say he's been triggered from the
signing of the Big Beautiful Bill and the passage of
the Big Beautiful Bill. But regardless, that's not a tradition
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of the fourth of July. That's kind of a one off.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
For me.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
It was the chance to take my thirteen year old
up to see his grandmother and his step grandfather up
in Nebraska and pop fireworks for hours. My mom and
stepdad went out and bought I don't know how many
dollars worth of fireworks, and then when we got there,
of course that wasn't enough, so my thirteen year old
had to hop in the truck with his step grandpa
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and go out and buy some more fireworks because you know,
five hundred dollars worth wasn't enough, so we needed up
that to have her much more. And they had an arsenal.
So between my thirteen year old son and my nephew,
I think they popped fireworks NonStop for about two hours
in what looked like a war zone out of a
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out of Fallujah, and you looked at the scenery of
everybody else that was popping fireworks. And again that was
in Nebraska, so what we were doing was legal in
that particular state because they still believe in some tenets
of democracy, I guess, unlike Colorado, where everything's illegal if
it has any risk to it whatsoever, it seems. So
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I had to take my kid out of state so
he could experience fireworks and have a chance to connect
with his youth. But we also did some rodeos. I
went to the Greeley Stampede Parade on the fourth of July,
walked with some political candidates supporting Matt Turner to replace
me as the Weld County Sheriff. I went to a
Parker McCollum concert at the Greeley Stampede, which was so
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and also did our family tradition of attending the demolition
derby at the Greeley Stampede on July sixth, which is
just Americana all in and of itself, because who doesn't like
watching cars intentionally crash into each other and knock the
snot out of one another for hours? And I think
one heat in particular, the Unlimited Class or something like that,
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there were thirty two cars and they went for a
full hour before they finally got down to just one car.
It was a marathon, but it was a great weekend. Again,
got a chance to reconnect with some family up in Nebraska,
pop fireworks, have a great time. What are your traditions?
What are the things that you got to check off
the box every year on the fourth of July before
you can officially say that you've celebrated your Independence Day. Correctly.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Hold on, I have a question.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I thought you were going to a rodeo.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Well, I did go to a rodeo. I went to
a rodeo. Yeah, we checked off the stampede, all of
it checked off everything. Cowboys, you know that's not the thing. Yes,
you can't have a rodeo with a.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Different reaction to cowboys.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Probably you do.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Well, then you should probably come up to the stampede
or twice I have been. So it was great. I
mean they have, you know, all the all the traditional
events and then you know, a little bit of bull
riding at the end. That was tough. Not too many
bull could make it. In fact, I think only one
had a qualifying run, so obviously he won for the night.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Did they do mutton bus They did.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
That during one of the slow times, and that's the best, right, My.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Kids did it at the National stock shows.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
It's the best vagonal Western stocks. They should just make
an event totally for that age brackets and all that
instead of a feeling. It's so much fun to watch
and those kids get so excited, you know, they make
it five six seconds on the on the sheep, and man,
they're just they're pumped, you know, jumping up and kicking
the dirt. Yeah, it's great. So those are our Fourth
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of July, my family's Fourth of July traditions. But what
are yours? You know, I know sometimes you guys are
a little shy, but you can text in text Dan
at five seven, seven, three nine or call in three
O three seven one three eight two five five. Today's show,
we're also going to cover kind of some of the
out of the box stuff. You know. I told you guys,
I always like to try to get the governor's candidates on.
So we're going to have one who I think has
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done some interviews on our sister station over at eight fifty.
His name's Joshua Griffin. He'll be on with us at
four thirty six. He's got a pretty extensive website. I'd
encourage you to go take a look at it before
we have him on for the show, just so you
can kind of get some background text in some questions
you might want to want to ask of him, And
you know, we'll kind of prep for that in our
next little segment before before we have josh on. With that,
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we'll cut to break. When we come back, hopefully your
text and your phone calls will start lining up and
we'll engage with you guys and say, all right, how
are we going to get our next governor's candidate in
the seat? And also what is that thing you got
to have for the fourth of July in order to
just say I had a successful holiday. We'll cut to break.
You're listening to the Dan Capless Show here on six
thirty k how with Well Kenny Sheriff, Steve Reims and
(12:42):
the guest seat.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Or substitute today. As Dan's off doing some trial work,
be here today and tomorrow, and I think Dan will
be back with you Wednesday or Thursday. I'm only committed
for the first two days of the week. So if
you just got to survive my time on the radio
and wait for Dan to get back, that's what you
got to look forward to.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Stop He's on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Okay, fair enough, We've got you for the next two days,
which is awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
And then we have Heidiganal okay, well there's quite a
change in pace, so we can go Yeah, that's cool. Heidi.
You's always got an interesting message or two. She kind
of goes around in the bigger circles of the Washington
d C. Stuff. So who knows. We'll see what her
show has to bring on Wednesday, but I will not
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be here that day. You got me Monday and Tuesday,
and then hopefully Dan's back. After that. We went to break.
We were talking a little bit about holiday traditions. What
do you got to do in order to make your
Fourth of July complete? And apparently you guys, you're not
real engaged in that issue. So we'll switch gears. Let's
go to something that I think will trigger you guys
for sure, and that's the Epstein files. So you know,
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for years we've been told that, hey, Jeffrey Epstein didn't
kill himself, and there's a bunch of folks who have said,
I think you probably did. I can tell you as
a person who runs a prison or a jail, there
were some circumstances around Jeffrey Epstein's death that made me think, eh,
you know, they definitely had a very unlikely calamity of errors,
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with guards falling asleep, cameras not working, all those kind
of things. It just it seemed very we'll say, concerning
that all those things could line up. And then you
had cash Patel and others who were coming out in
the news. Dan Bongino back in the day saying, oh,
it's definitely you know, the evidence shows that this was
a This was not a suicide. It was a homicide
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or some other weird kind of death. And as the
presidency is kind of unfolded, you know, Donald Trump has
hinted that through Pam Bondy they were going to release
a list. We were going to see all this stuff.
And I think Dan did a couple of shows, maybe
even a couple of days back to back, where it
was brought up of where's the list, And I know
Ryan's been beating the table. Where's the list. We want
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to see the list. I want to see the list.
And it's hard for me to believe someone like Jeffrey Epstein,
who's accused of all the horrific things that he did,
and you know, having sex with people under age and
holding them captive potentially on his island, and just some
really grotesque things. I've watched a few documentaries about him
that just make you scratch your head how someone like
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that could exist in the world, and how he got
to where he is, and how he got connected with
so many people other than you know, just the pure money. Well,
now we find out that there is no list, or
that's what we're told today. There is no list, and
there's video footage that monitor Jeffrey Epstein for like the
last eleven hours leading up to his death, and there's
nothing suspicious about his death. And that's coming from from
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the current administration, through Pam Bondi, Cash Betel. What say
you as the listener? Do you where do you fall
on this issue? And is it even a concern anymore?
Do you care? I have to tell you, as a
law enforcement person, it makes me scratch my brain a
little bit and say, all right, this was such a
big political issue. We were all supposed to find out,
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you know, where's this, where's this smoking gun? Conservatives were
triggered that we weren't getting the truth. And now we
have conservatives in power who are saying no, that that
was the truth, and we're all supposed to just swallow
it and go on and it's no big deal. And again,
I'm not big into conspiracy theories, but when you start
looking at a series of events surrounding one person, it
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definitely definitely makes me concerned. And when we when we
talk about triggering you know, there are a lot of
Republicans that were just absolutely upset at the prior administration saying,
you know this, this can't be true. You're not telling
us the truth at all. And now you know the
shoes on the other foot, and are we going to
throw those same rocks back at this administration, the Trump administration,
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the cash betels, the Pam bondis. Where's this going to go?
Do you belie leave that Jeffrey Epstein didn't have a list.
You can text in text Dan at five seven seven,
three nine or call in three o three seven one
three eight two five y five. I'd really love to
hear your opinion on this, because anybody who's doing that
much nefarious activity, all the things that that that he
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was accused of doing, that Jeffrey Epstein was accused of doing,
it's hard for me to believe that they can locate
no evidence of who was at his island, there is
no list. Suddenly it's gone. I mean, we we even
have some flight logs showing who flew on his plane,
the Lolita Express, but suddenly we don't have a client list.
That just I don't know something. Something isn't right in
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the world in my mind there, And again, is it
a national Is it a national security issue?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Not?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Probably?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Not.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I mean, this guy was a disgusting pervert. But we
also know that there were a lot of folks connected
to him, to include some former presidents, and of course
Trump was accused of being connected to him in some ways,
at least having flown on his plane a few times.
There's also a lot of evidence that Trump, once he
figured out what Jeffrey Epstein was all about, he said,
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I don't want you anywhere around my clubs. Stay away.
But again, you know, this new administration is telling us
there's nothing to see here, move on, And I can't
believe that conservatives are just going to take that and
believe it. So we'll have plenty of time to talk
about that as well throughout the rest of the show.
We're going to cut the break. When we come back,
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we'll have a governor's candidate, Joshua Griffin on with us.
And again, you know, this is a chance for candidates
to have a little bit of a platform. We'll see
what all josh is about. If you're listening to The
Dankplace Show here on six point thirty k How with
Well Kenny Sheriff Steve Raims setting in and as your
guest host.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
You're listening to the Dan Plus Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
And I love that Bumper music because that's actually one
of my favorite songs by r Em. I can remember
listening to that with my dad when that song first
came out. In fact, my wife and I were talking
about that song not too long ago and just kind
of the goofiness of it. But for whatever reason, it
caught fired and it was great. So enough of that.
But we have with us on the line another candidate
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for governor. I think we've gone through about eleven or
twelve of them at this point, because there's a field
of fifteen. And that's not to speak light of any
of the candidates. We want all of them to have
a platform to send their message out to the listeners.
But with us on the line is Joshua Griffin. Josh
how are you doing?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Thank you for having me?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
You bet Joshua? If you would is Joshuacare? Do you
prefer Joshua?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
It's fine either way. I'm from the military.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Okay, you've been called a lot of things. Then, yeah,
I know the feeling from being in law enforcement, so
you know, kind of what's a little bit about your background,
informed the listeners about you know, who you are, kind
of where you come from, and maybe what made you
start looking at this race.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yeah, certainly so. I mean this is always the worst
part about running for offices talking about yourself, right, but yeah,
just keep it plain and simple. Born and raised in Houston, Texas.
Come from a military family, very proud patriots, and joined
the military. Did auswe years, majority of that with special operations.
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The main unit was with the one sixtieth Nights Soccers.
Retired as a infantry officer and currently I am a
I guess you would say a tech company owner where
we do a lot of innovative technology, really saying our
main target audience is the military. Why am I running
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for office is because, I mean I'm not to be
critical or just be mean towards the other candidates, but
I mean I really believe that we're the only ones
that have a chance in the general and quite frankly,
you know, we are the only ones that actually have
a plan not only how to win, but to bring
this state back to some sense of normalcy and in
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national dominance.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Okay, well, I looked at your web page quite a
bit Josh, and again thank you for your service to
the US military. You were in the army. I believe so,
and looking through your page, you've put a lot of
work into it, There's no doubt about it. What would
you say your top few priorities if elected or when
elected as governor? Uh? You know what, what are those
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things you're going to focus on for the state of Colorado?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Well, when elected, I am definitely going to first and
foremost take a step back and look at everything that
I personally can do without the legislature and whatever I
can streamline cut with it, you know, use of spending
in the budget, fluff positions. That's gonna be the first thing,
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and also make sure that we bring in a strong
administration with us. The second thing gets just normal stuff.
But I think every governor should be be doing. You know,
let's look at the books to make sure everything is
good on that and then that's at the same time,
let's restore our constitutional rights, you know, and the things
that have been happening right now. But again I can't
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stress that that's not just a governor's position, it's going
to be ours because we definitely have to start fighting
to put more common sense people in the legislature, but
also make sure that the AG that gets elected, would
that be somebody who is willing to play lawfare just
because they have a crop with the president.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Sure, I understand that the stuff that our current AG
is doing right now is kind of mind numbing at times.
So you're basically looking at doing a little bit of
a doge if I will, for the state of Colorado
as the governor, you want to clean up spending. So
from that point, you know you want to focus on
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government efficiency. If I'm not putting words in your mouth,
but what are some of the ways that you see
turning Colorado in a different direction? I mean, how do
we get back on a path where the common voter
feels like they have someone representing them in their own interests.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Well, stop playing partisan politics. Number one starts understanding that
when you are elected to represent the people of Colorado,
you're not supposed to be beholding to the party first.
And I know that sounds weird. It sounds, well, well,
you know what about the Democrats. Well, I don't care
about the Democrats. What I care about is the people.
And if we learn to actually address people as the
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person that they are instead of the party they represent.
I'm almost assured that we will be able to come
to some kind of common ground. They will allow both
Democrats and Republicans divorce themselves from the far fringes of
each been separate parties.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Well, on your web page, you decide are you define
yourself as I think you said, a center right type person,
not necessarily on any of the fringe areas, not extreme
right wing or obviously not le left wing, which is
probably what has to resonate in the state of Colorado.
But I guess the secondary part of that is how
do you get out to those voters who are unaffiliated?
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How do you get your message out to Republican voters
because we know that in the past, our current Governor
Polis has just written checks in order to get his
voice out there. Maybe you're independently wealthy like he is,
but writing, you know, fifty million dollars worth of ad
time is not something that most of us can do.
So how do you break that barrier? How do you
get your message out there? And what's your strategy?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Well, we are very blessed financially here, so I mean
we're not maybe fifty million dollars blessed yet but we
are definitely blessed me and all compare, so we definitely
have the funds to strategically go out there and you know,
place ads to the voters themselves. But you know, quite
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frankly want to do is is that in the beginning
of next year, we want to do a tour. We're
gonna probably we're gonna start a podcast and we're gonna
do a tour. We're gonna highlight the small businesses along
the way. We're gonna go out to the rural counties.
We're gonna actually go and talk to people and naturally
not even talk to them, but listen to them. Because
most politicians, and I don't consider myself want to consider
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myself a statesman. You know, all they want to do
is tell you what they want to do. They don't
really care what the people want to say, because nine
times out of ten, once they get in office, they
know who the real bosses. And that's gonna be the donors,
and that's going to be the party establishment. We're not
running on that. You know, I'm what you can say
bad about polls or not, but I'm going to put
my own money into this. And yes, we're going to fundraise.
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But more importantly, we're going to go to every place
in Colorado. I'm talking to them, and yes they even
includes the Progressive and in the Democrat domains as well,
because guess what, when I become governor, we become the
leader of the entire Colorado. So just because you belong
to a different party, that doesn't mean I don't have
your best interest in mind.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
So, so far in the race, I believe there's fifteen candidates,
and that's not to say that there can't be more
that get in or maybe a few that drop out.
Have you been engaging in those those political debates, the
political events, and if so, what kind of response are
you getting?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
No, I have not to be quite frankly, and I
don't want to be rude, but it's just worthless to
build there because everybody's right now is just fighting to
be you know, the parties, you know, a puppet or
candidate right and let's be let's be h. You know
the frank here that that doesn't work here in Colorado,
the biggest population is unaffiliated, you know, And unfortunately, because
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of our past and our inability to actually market ourselves
properly in speak to the voters, and what they want.
The Republican Party has had such a tumultuous time that
some would even say that the GOP is irrelevant at
this point. So, no, we are running as Republicans, but
you might want to say that we are operating as
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independent because we understand that the true boss in the
state are the people, and so we're focusing on the
people right now versus the party.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
So you're you're registered as a Republican, running as a
Republican because that's the party that you most affiliate with
as a as as far as values go. But you
don't necessarily you don't necessarily believe in the machine. If
you will, and I use that loosely in air quotes,
that is the Republican Party. Is that Is that a
fair statement?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah? I'm my own man, I stand on my own
two feet. I don't I don't do anything based on
someone's endorsement of me or my endorsement of another person.
You vote for me, you're getting Joshua Joseph something something
Griffin I got you.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Well, that's a that's a non traditional approach, I'll say that.
So that that tells me that your your plan is
not necessarily to go through the state Assembly, but maybe
more of the petitioner oute to access to the ballot.
Is is that accurate or if you've made that decision yet?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Yes, we ever made a decision, and the unfortunately I'm
not saying anything that no one else knows. The party
is in a disarray, you know, from the last chair.
You know, no one has any no fidelity in integrity
and the Venter party right now. So we're not going
to go through that as Assembly. I would love to,
but unfortunately I'm not going to put my time and
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effort in a place where, unfortunately it has been wanted
for quite some time.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
So your your plan is to access the ballot through
the through other means, the petition process, and go out
directly to the voters, the Republicans. The Republican voters will
be the ones that have to sign your petition. But
you're trying to access every voter when you're out pounding
the pavement. I guess, is that is that fair?
Speaker 3 (28:51):
That's true? No different in the general.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Okay, So what kind of success, what kind of feedback
are you having so far?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Very very and quite frankly, it's it's a lot of
great feedback from the unaffiliated independence that you know, they
they like the understanding that someone is actually looking to
run the state not as a party puppet, but as
an executive, clearing unnecessary committees, putting directors, former leading you know,
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like even with water, right, let's talk about water. Everybody's
going to talk about water and say, oh no, we
just need to preserve height. We preserve what you don't get,
you know what I mean, So we're our ideas not preserved,
but to increase same thing with taxes and funding and
stuff like that. And when we can talk about the
one point one billion dollars that you know have been
just taken because of just bad governance and ilegal immigration,
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but also the solvent Wealth Fund where we actually will
bring in you know, commerce and revenue, so we can
eliminate income tax, we can lower property tax. We can
also expand the living footprint of Colorado, thus increasing the
supply and lessening the demand that will actually lower the
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calls for housing. We're coming this with a practical executive approach,
and people actually are finding that very refreshing.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Well, so you mentioned the legal immigration. I mean, that's
a that's a topic that's going to be part of
running for any any statewide seat in the state of Colorado.
What do you think of the current administration's plan for
removing illegal immigrants from the United States and specifically Colorado.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
One thousand percent behind it. But you know, let me
let me prefence this with something that a lot of
people have lost the understanding and definition of is nuanced. Yes,
one thousand percent. We should not be putting people in
front of the line who have not ever know, produced
or given anything to our economy. That's number one. Number two.
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You know, you're in the law enforcement, I'm in the military.
Pretty much is the same spirit, but in a different church.
So we understand why are we prioritizing age fighting men
to come to this country when they should be out
there fighting for their own people. We definitely have salt
hearts for women and children, right and I'm not always
going to have a salt heart for women and children
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and find anything that's moral ethimately found in order to
help them in any kind of way. But most importantly,
you know, I'll say this, when my son had a one
hundred and six degree temperature at the age of eighteen
months and we went to UC Health emergency and their
staff was barely there because they are prioritizing illegal pens
over the citizens. You know, I look at him, and
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I look at these other beautiful babies and not saying
that they're better than any other child. By how dare
we prioritize somebody else and then put our own children
at risk? So you dog, you dog on straight. I'm
going to be fighting to go with the federal government
to in a more ethical way and moral way get
these people back home where they belong. But first and foremost,
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let's go just on the criminals first.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah, Okay, I got you. I got you.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Well.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
So I guess that you don't necessarily agree with the
governor Polus when he says Colorado is not a sanctuary state.
I'm gathering that from your from your comments. Totally not Well,
we had just a couple of seconds here. Josh finish
out with telling the listeners how they can find you
out in social media world Internet. How can people get
a hold of you if they want to find out
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more about your campaign?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Yes, please just visit us at j Griff for Colorado.
That is J Griff g R I F F letter
four c O. That's our Twitter or X handle. And
also Joshua Griffin for the letter.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Four c O.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Is our website and we would love for you to
look at it and just think about what Colorado can be,
you know, when there's actually somebody who's looking for you
and not trying to get into that office based on
how much they love or hate somebody else.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Well, thanks for the time, josh and good luck to
you in this race. If I'm filling in in the future,
we'll try to get you back on again again. Thanks
for being on the show. And with that we're going
to cut the break. You're listening to the Dan Capless
Show here on six thirty k how with Will Kenny Sheriff,
Steve Dreams.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Or Steve Reams. I just got done with our interview
with Joshua Griffin, candidate for governor. Definitely an untraditional approach
to his candidacy for governor, and you know his strategy
for accessing the ballot. We'll see how successful that is.
You know, I've run for political office a few times,
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and there's no succinct way of saying this, but you're
going to need Republican voters and you definitely, if you're
going to run as a Republican, you need the Republican voters,
and sometimes that assembly process is the make or break
for whether or not you're going to be taken seriously
by your own party. But who knows. We haven't had
a win in the governor's race or a statewide race
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even for the Republicans and quite some time, so maybe
he's onto something. Also, before we had josh On, we
were talking about the Epstein files and whether or not
you believe the federal government's line of yep, you've seen
everything and there's just nothing here. I can tell you.
As a law enforcement person, I'm a bit skeptical, But
you know, maybe I'm just wrong. It seems like either
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there was not either there wasn't a very good investigation
done and evidence wasn't maintained the way it should have been,
or we're all just filling in gaps that never were
really there. I don't know, it just something doesn't seem
quite right. But a few texts rolled in. One of
our favorite listeners here, Steven Littlton says, Sheriff, I'd like
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to believe the current Epstein narrative, but I just feel
there's much we're not being told. And man, that summarizes
it great, Steve. I couldn't agree with you more. There
just seems like there's some gaps here, and that sometimes
happens in a big investigation. You know, things just get
missed and the conclusion doesn't necessarily come out the way
you thought it was going to. And maybe that's what
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we're seeing. I don't know. Here's another one, pretty pretty
on point for the Epstein stuff. It says, where's the list,
follow the money? He didn't do anything for income, but
he was worth nearly a billion. And you know, the
only thing I remember a little bit of Epstein's way
of making money was he was a financier. He was
an investor. He did some stuff with the owner of
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Victoria's secrets, and he started his own finance company of
some kind. But never really could explain where his income
came from. And I just, I don't know, something doesn't
sound quite right. I'd love to make billions, almost well
almost a billion or over a billion dollars and never
really be able to explain where it came from. Wouldn't
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that be great? And then here's one a little bit
of feedback about our governor's candidate. Like I said, you
text them, We read them. This governor's candidate is a
full Did he just insult all the people that work
hard on the committee and he really should learn to
speak proper English. If he's going to run for governor,
well you send him, we'll read him. We're going to
go to break. When we come back, we'll have Carlos
Baron on with us at the top of the hour.
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He's going to be the new Republican whip down at
the Statehouse. You're listening to Dan Cafleas show here on
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Basically, back to work for everybody after the holiday weekend,
including myself, and back to work for Dan. I think
he's in trial today from the trial prep he was
doing last week when I filled in, So I think
I'll be covering for Dan today and tomorrow, and he'll
probably be back in studio Wednesday or Thursday. I don't
know for sure, but that's the way trial work goes,
(00:35):
and fortunately I don't do that work. I just do
the prep work to prepare people to go to trial,
sometimes or arrest them before they go to trial, I
guess is a better way of saying it. Two different
kinds of law that are practiced. Dan does a lot
of civil law. I have my realm in the criminal
law side, but sometimes they cross over. So anyways, Dan
will be back with you at some point this week,
(00:57):
just not exactly sure what day that is. Coming off
of the holiday weekend. Boy, it's tough to get back
into the workflow. I had a four day weekend, as
many of you probably did, but it was a great
busy weekend as I hope many of you have had
the same experience with fireworks and celebrating Independence Day, and
(01:17):
we'll get to a little bit of that. But I
think it would only be, I guess, disrespectful to not
cover the news of the weekend, which is the events
down in Texas, down in Kerrville, Texas, with the massive
flooding that has taken place down there and the loss
of life count I think is up to around ninety
four now, with obviously many more bodies that will probably
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be discovered over the days and weeks to come. And
that's just a tragic incident. And unfortunately it's being made
political by certain individuals on both sides of the aisle.
You know, there's Democrats that are blaming Trump and there
are Republicans that are blaming you know, the previous administration.
When ultimately this comes down to an act of God,
and whether we like it or not, you know, sometimes
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you just can't. You can't beat mother Nature. She plays
the ultimate card sometimes, and you know, I spent some
time in that area of Texas in two thousand and
five attending Polygraph School down in Austin and the Guadalupe River,
you know, it runs right through that area between Austin
and San Antonio and up from the Curveville area. So
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on the weekends we would go and float that river.
The students in my class, you know, trying to get
away from Polygraph School, which is a son of a gun.
If I'm sure there's not many of you out there
that have ever gone through it, but it's an eleven
week school and it's it's full time. I mean, there's
no there's no joke about it. It's it's a tough
class to go through. So on the weekends we try
to unwind a little bit. And it's a big thing
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down in that area. To go float the Guadalupe River.
You go down and rent tubes. You can rent a
cooler that's on a tube also, you know, load it
up with your favorite beverage and float down the river
for a few hours. And you know, most parts of
that river, and I've floated many, many my of it
over the weekends that we went down there. Most parts
of that river you can get out of your tube,
touch the ground. You know, it's maybe five or six
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feet deep at the most. A few places where it
gets deeper, but oftentimes you're picking up your tube and
you're walking it along the creek because there's just not
enough water for you to float certain areas. And so
when you see this video, you know a lot of
people say, well, why would you build a house that
close to the river. You know, why were they camped
that close to the river. It's just uncommon for anything
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like this to occur. But where that rain hit was
right in the hill country around Kerrville. And when they
say hill country in Texas, you know, it's kind of
small mountain ranges if you will, and they're very rocky.
They're not going to absorb a lot of water. And
when it rains, it rains hard and fast down in
that area. And you basically just had a funnel effect
that went into the Guadalupe River, with accounts being that
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that river rose as much as twenty four to twenty
six feet in an hour's time frame. Well, no matter
how much warning you give people, that kind of act
from Mother and Nate is just unbelievable. And I think
the top of the river got up to thirty two
feet at its crest, to kind of tie that back
into the local area. In twenty thirteen, we had the
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floods in Boulder and Larimer and Weld County and then
out to the east, and I think the highest the
flood levels got during that time was eleven feet and
we had three days to kind of see that flood coming.
And you know, there's still a lot of property damage,
but I don't believe I don't remember any loss of life,
not at least in Weld County. There may have been
a few people that were taken by the tragedy in
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Boulder County, if memory serves me right, But regardless, nothing
like what we're seeing in Texas. I mean, you got
ninety four kids, twenty or ninety four people missing, twenty
seven of them from the Mystic Ranch Christian camp. I mean,
these are seven to nine or ten year olds that
were swept away in the middle of the night from
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a cabin that they thought they were safely sleeping in.
It's just a tragedy all the way around. While we
always hope that these things don't get made political, obviously
they will, and that's the unfortunateness of where we're at
in this state of the world. At this point. But
you know, we have to pray for those people and
hope that hope that some survivors are still found, and
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hope that the people that are left behind, you know,
they can figure out a way to move on with
their lives. And uh, just such a tragic situation. And
for the people in that area, like I said, that
Guadalupe River is a major it's a major issue, a
major part of their culture. That's that's part of their recreation,
that's part of just kind of their daily lives of
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what they do and where they go camp and you know,
float the river and all that kind of stuff. So, man,
you just hope for recovering that community. It's a very
sad time. And those of us who have been through
some other natural disaster understand that sometimes you just you're
just at the whim of mother nature and it's unfortunate.
That being said, if you have comments you'd like to
(05:59):
make about the incident, feel free you can text in
at text Dan at five seven seven three nine, or
you can call in a three O three seven one
three eight two five five and we can definitely discuss
the similarities of that incident to what we've seen here
in the past and even back in I think it
was nineteen seventy six when the Thompson Canyon flooded, you know,
down from Estes Park through Larimer County and again out
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into other parts of the Eastern Plains. I think from
what I'm seeing here from a text from last week,
that took about one hundred and twenty lives. And you
know that you look at where they're at at the
with the issue in Texas today, and it's probably going
to be much worse than than where it is at
this point obviously, But you know, that's the bad news
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over the weekend, and you know, you always look at
tragedy and say, we gotta we got to deal with
it head on and at least acknowledge that it exists.
But we also had our Independence Day celebrations over the weekend,
and John Caldera in the previous show on the Ryan
Schuling Show was talking about, you know, popping fire works
and doing all the fun stuff, and that's what That's
(07:03):
what I really hope you guys will call in and
talk about. Are those things that anchor you to the
Independence Day weekend? What is it that is just part
of your tradition that you say, you know, I got
to do this thing, and for me, I got to
check off a whole lot of those boxes this last weekend.
It was. It was quite a busy weekend, you know.
I will say there was a new tradition that was added.
(07:25):
Trump signed the Big Beautiful Bill on July fourth and
did so with a lot of fanfare, B two flyovers,
you name it. I don't know if that's something to
celebrate or something to worry about. At this point, the
Big Beautiful Bill has been signed and we're all going
to see what the ramifications of that bill are. It's
caused Elon Musk to kind of lose his mind a
(07:47):
little bit. He started his own American Political Party or
America Political Party. I don't know exactly what he aims
to gain with that, but he's involved in politics now
and we're probably going to see him around for quite
some time. So we'll say he's been triggered from the
signing of the Big Beautiful Bill and the passage of
the Big Beautiful Bill. But regardless, that's not a tradition
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of the fourth of July. That's kind of a one off.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
For me.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
It was the chance to take my thirteen year old
up to see his grandmother and his step grandfather up
in Nebraska and pop fireworks for hours. My mom and
stepdad went out and bought I don't know how many
dollars worth of fireworks, and then when we got there,
of course that wasn't enough, so my thirteen year old
had to hop in the truck with his step grandpa
(08:37):
and go out and buy some more fireworks because you know,
five hundred dollars worth wasn't enough, so we needed up
that to have her much more. And they had an arsenal.
So between my thirteen year old son and my nephew,
I think they popped fireworks NonStop for about two hours
in what looked like a war zone out of a
(08:58):
out of Fallujah, and you looked at the scenery of
everybody else that was popping fireworks. And again that was
in Nebraska, so what we were doing was legal in
that particular state because they still believe in some tenets
of democracy, I guess, unlike Colorado, where everything's illegal if
it has any risk to it whatsoever, it seems. So
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I had to take my kid out of state so
he could experience fireworks and have a chance to connect
with his youth. But we also did some rodeos. I
went to the Greeley Stampede Parade on the fourth of July,
walked with some political candidates supporting Matt Turner to replace
me as the Weld County Sheriff. I went to a
Parker McCollum concert at the Greeley Stampede, which was so
(09:42):
and also did our family tradition of attending the demolition
derby at the Greeley Stampede on July sixth, which is
just Americana all in and of itself, because who doesn't like
watching cars intentionally crash into each other and knock the
snot out of one another for hours? And I think
one heat in particular, the Unlimited Class or something like that,
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there were thirty two cars and they went for a
full hour before they finally got down to just one car.
It was a marathon, but it was a great weekend. Again,
got a chance to reconnect with some family up in Nebraska,
pop fireworks, have a great time. What are your traditions?
What are the things that you got to check off
the box every year on the fourth of July before
you can officially say that you've celebrated your Independence Day. Correctly.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Hold on, I have a question.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I thought you were going to a rodeo.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Well, I did go to a rodeo. I went to
a rodeo. Yeah, we checked off the stampede, all of
it checked off everything. Cowboys, you know that's not the thing. Yes,
you can't have a rodeo with a.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Different reaction to cowboys.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Probably you do.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Well, then you should probably come up to the stampede
or twice I have been. So it was great. I
mean they have, you know, all the all the traditional
events and then you know, a little bit of bull
riding at the end. That was tough. Not too many
bull could make it. In fact, I think only one
had a qualifying run, so obviously he won for the night.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Did they do mutton bus They did.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
That during one of the slow times, and that's the best, right, My.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Kids did it at the National stock shows.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
It's the best vagonal Western stocks. They should just make
an event totally for that age brackets and all that
instead of a feeling. It's so much fun to watch
and those kids get so excited, you know, they make
it five six seconds on the on the sheep, and man,
they're just they're pumped, you know, jumping up and kicking
the dirt. Yeah, it's great. So those are our Fourth
(11:36):
of July, my family's Fourth of July traditions. But what
are yours? You know, I know sometimes you guys are
a little shy, but you can text in text Dan
at five seven, seven, three nine or call in three
O three seven one three eight two five five. Today's show,
we're also going to cover kind of some of the
out of the box stuff. You know. I told you guys,
I always like to try to get the governor's candidates on.
So we're going to have one who I think has
(11:57):
done some interviews on our sister station over at eight fifty.
His name's Joshua Griffin. He'll be on with us at
four thirty six. He's got a pretty extensive website. I'd
encourage you to go take a look at it before
we have him on for the show, just so you
can kind of get some background text in some questions
you might want to want to ask of him, And
you know, we'll kind of prep for that in our
next little segment before before we have josh on. With that,
(12:20):
we'll cut to break. When we come back, hopefully your
text and your phone calls will start lining up and
we'll engage with you guys and say, all right, how
are we going to get our next governor's candidate in
the seat? And also what is that thing you got
to have for the fourth of July in order to
just say I had a successful holiday. We'll cut to break.
You're listening to the Dan Capless Show here on six
thirty k how with Well Kenny Sheriff, Steve Reims and
(12:42):
the guest seat.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Or substitute today. As Dan's off doing some trial work,
be here today and tomorrow, and I think Dan will
be back with you Wednesday or Thursday. I'm only committed
for the first two days of the week. So if
you just got to survive my time on the radio
and wait for Dan to get back, that's what you
got to look forward to.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Stop He's on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Okay, fair enough, We've got you for the next two days,
which is awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
And then we have Heidiganal okay, well there's quite a
change in pace, so we can go Yeah, that's cool. Heidi.
You's always got an interesting message or two. She kind
of goes around in the bigger circles of the Washington
d C. Stuff. So who knows. We'll see what her
show has to bring on Wednesday, but I will not
(13:38):
be here that day. You got me Monday and Tuesday,
and then hopefully Dan's back. After that. We went to break.
We were talking a little bit about holiday traditions. What
do you got to do in order to make your
Fourth of July complete? And apparently you guys, you're not
real engaged in that issue. So we'll switch gears. Let's
go to something that I think will trigger you guys
for sure, and that's the Epstein files. So you know,
(14:00):
for years we've been told that, hey, Jeffrey Epstein didn't
kill himself, and there's a bunch of folks who have said,
I think you probably did. I can tell you as
a person who runs a prison or a jail, there
were some circumstances around Jeffrey Epstein's death that made me think, eh,
you know, they definitely had a very unlikely calamity of errors,
(14:23):
with guards falling asleep, cameras not working, all those kind
of things. It just it seemed very we'll say, concerning
that all those things could line up. And then you
had cash Patel and others who were coming out in
the news. Dan Bongino back in the day saying, oh,
it's definitely you know, the evidence shows that this was
a This was not a suicide. It was a homicide
(14:43):
or some other weird kind of death. And as the
presidency is kind of unfolded, you know, Donald Trump has
hinted that through Pam Bondy they were going to release
a list. We were going to see all this stuff.
And I think Dan did a couple of shows, maybe
even a couple of days back to back, where it
was brought up of where's the list, And I know
Ryan's been beating the table. Where's the list. We want
(15:03):
to see the list. I want to see the list.
And it's hard for me to believe someone like Jeffrey Epstein,
who's accused of all the horrific things that he did,
and you know, having sex with people under age and
holding them captive potentially on his island, and just some
really grotesque things. I've watched a few documentaries about him
that just make you scratch your head how someone like
(15:24):
that could exist in the world, and how he got
to where he is, and how he got connected with
so many people other than you know, just the pure money. Well,
now we find out that there is no list, or
that's what we're told today. There is no list, and
there's video footage that monitor Jeffrey Epstein for like the
last eleven hours leading up to his death, and there's
nothing suspicious about his death. And that's coming from from
(15:47):
the current administration, through Pam Bondi, Cash Betel. What say
you as the listener? Do you where do you fall
on this issue? And is it even a concern anymore?
Do you care? I have to tell you, as a
law enforcement person, it makes me scratch my brain a
little bit and say, all right, this was such a
big political issue. We were all supposed to find out,
(16:10):
you know, where's this, where's this smoking gun? Conservatives were
triggered that we weren't getting the truth. And now we
have conservatives in power who are saying no, that that
was the truth, and we're all supposed to just swallow
it and go on and it's no big deal. And again,
I'm not big into conspiracy theories, but when you start
looking at a series of events surrounding one person, it
(16:33):
definitely definitely makes me concerned. And when we when we
talk about triggering you know, there are a lot of
Republicans that were just absolutely upset at the prior administration saying,
you know this, this can't be true. You're not telling
us the truth at all. And now you know the
shoes on the other foot, and are we going to
throw those same rocks back at this administration, the Trump administration,
(16:56):
the cash betels, the Pam bondis. Where's this going to go?
Do you belie leave that Jeffrey Epstein didn't have a list.
You can text in text Dan at five seven seven,
three nine or call in three o three seven one
three eight two five y five. I'd really love to
hear your opinion on this, because anybody who's doing that
much nefarious activity, all the things that that that he
(17:19):
was accused of doing, that Jeffrey Epstein was accused of doing,
it's hard for me to believe that they can locate
no evidence of who was at his island, there is
no list. Suddenly it's gone. I mean, we we even
have some flight logs showing who flew on his plane,
the Lolita Express, but suddenly we don't have a client list.
That just I don't know something. Something isn't right in
(17:41):
the world in my mind there, And again, is it
a national Is it a national security issue?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Not?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Probably?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Not.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I mean, this guy was a disgusting pervert. But we
also know that there were a lot of folks connected
to him, to include some former presidents, and of course
Trump was accused of being connected to him in some ways,
at least having flown on his plane a few times.
There's also a lot of evidence that Trump, once he
figured out what Jeffrey Epstein was all about, he said,
(18:11):
I don't want you anywhere around my clubs. Stay away.
But again, you know, this new administration is telling us
there's nothing to see here, move on, And I can't
believe that conservatives are just going to take that and
believe it. So we'll have plenty of time to talk
about that as well throughout the rest of the show.
We're going to cut the break. When we come back,
(18:31):
we'll have a governor's candidate, Joshua Griffin on with us.
And again, you know, this is a chance for candidates
to have a little bit of a platform. We'll see
what all josh is about. If you're listening to The
Dankplace Show here on six point thirty k How with
Well Kenny Sheriff Steve Raims setting in and as your
guest host.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
You're listening to the Dan Plus Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
And I love that Bumper music because that's actually one
of my favorite songs by r Em. I can remember
listening to that with my dad when that song first
came out. In fact, my wife and I were talking
about that song not too long ago and just kind
of the goofiness of it. But for whatever reason, it
caught fired and it was great. So enough of that.
But we have with us on the line another candidate
(19:22):
for governor. I think we've gone through about eleven or
twelve of them at this point, because there's a field
of fifteen. And that's not to speak light of any
of the candidates. We want all of them to have
a platform to send their message out to the listeners.
But with us on the line is Joshua Griffin. Josh
how are you doing?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Thank you for having me?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
You bet Joshua? If you would is Joshuacare? Do you
prefer Joshua?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
It's fine either way. I'm from the military.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Okay, you've been called a lot of things. Then, yeah,
I know the feeling from being in law enforcement, so
you know, kind of what's a little bit about your background,
informed the listeners about you know, who you are, kind
of where you come from, and maybe what made you
start looking at this race.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yeah, certainly so. I mean this is always the worst
part about running for offices talking about yourself, right, but yeah,
just keep it plain and simple. Born and raised in Houston, Texas.
Come from a military family, very proud patriots, and joined
the military. Did auswe years, majority of that with special operations.
(20:27):
The main unit was with the one sixtieth Nights Soccers.
Retired as a infantry officer and currently I am a
I guess you would say a tech company owner where
we do a lot of innovative technology, really saying our
main target audience is the military. Why am I running
(20:50):
for office is because, I mean I'm not to be
critical or just be mean towards the other candidates, but
I mean I really believe that we're the only ones
that have a chance in the general and quite frankly,
you know, we are the only ones that actually have
a plan not only how to win, but to bring
this state back to some sense of normalcy and in
(21:12):
national dominance.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Okay, well, I looked at your web page quite a
bit Josh, and again thank you for your service to
the US military. You were in the army. I believe so,
and looking through your page, you've put a lot of
work into it, There's no doubt about it. What would
you say your top few priorities if elected or when
elected as governor? Uh? You know what, what are those
(21:36):
things you're going to focus on for the state of Colorado?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Well, when elected, I am definitely going to first and
foremost take a step back and look at everything that
I personally can do without the legislature and whatever I
can streamline cut with it, you know, use of spending
in the budget, fluff positions. That's gonna be the first thing,
(22:00):
and also make sure that we bring in a strong
administration with us. The second thing gets just normal stuff.
But I think every governor should be be doing. You know,
let's look at the books to make sure everything is
good on that and then that's at the same time,
let's restore our constitutional rights, you know, and the things
that have been happening right now. But again I can't
(22:20):
stress that that's not just a governor's position, it's going
to be ours because we definitely have to start fighting
to put more common sense people in the legislature, but
also make sure that the AG that gets elected, would
that be somebody who is willing to play lawfare just
because they have a crop with the president.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Sure, I understand that the stuff that our current AG
is doing right now is kind of mind numbing at times.
So you're basically looking at doing a little bit of
a doge if I will, for the state of Colorado
as the governor, you want to clean up spending. So
from that point, you know you want to focus on
(23:01):
government efficiency. If I'm not putting words in your mouth,
but what are some of the ways that you see
turning Colorado in a different direction? I mean, how do
we get back on a path where the common voter
feels like they have someone representing them in their own interests.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Well, stop playing partisan politics. Number one starts understanding that
when you are elected to represent the people of Colorado,
you're not supposed to be beholding to the party first.
And I know that sounds weird. It sounds, well, well,
you know what about the Democrats. Well, I don't care
about the Democrats. What I care about is the people.
And if we learn to actually address people as the
(23:39):
person that they are instead of the party they represent.
I'm almost assured that we will be able to come
to some kind of common ground. They will allow both
Democrats and Republicans divorce themselves from the far fringes of
each been separate parties.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Well, on your web page, you decide are you define
yourself as I think you said, a center right type person,
not necessarily on any of the fringe areas, not extreme
right wing or obviously not le left wing, which is
probably what has to resonate in the state of Colorado.
But I guess the secondary part of that is how
do you get out to those voters who are unaffiliated?
(24:15):
How do you get your message out to Republican voters
because we know that in the past, our current Governor
Polis has just written checks in order to get his
voice out there. Maybe you're independently wealthy like he is,
but writing, you know, fifty million dollars worth of ad
time is not something that most of us can do.
So how do you break that barrier? How do you
get your message out there? And what's your strategy?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Well, we are very blessed financially here, so I mean
we're not maybe fifty million dollars blessed yet but we
are definitely blessed me and all compare, so we definitely
have the funds to strategically go out there and you know,
place ads to the voters themselves. But you know, quite
(24:59):
frankly want to do is is that in the beginning
of next year, we want to do a tour. We're
gonna probably we're gonna start a podcast and we're gonna
do a tour. We're gonna highlight the small businesses along
the way. We're gonna go out to the rural counties.
We're gonna actually go and talk to people and naturally
not even talk to them, but listen to them. Because
most politicians, and I don't consider myself want to consider
(25:20):
myself a statesman. You know, all they want to do
is tell you what they want to do. They don't
really care what the people want to say, because nine
times out of ten, once they get in office, they
know who the real bosses. And that's gonna be the donors,
and that's going to be the party establishment. We're not
running on that. You know, I'm what you can say
bad about polls or not, but I'm going to put
my own money into this. And yes, we're going to fundraise.
(25:43):
But more importantly, we're going to go to every place
in Colorado. I'm talking to them, and yes they even
includes the Progressive and in the Democrat domains as well,
because guess what, when I become governor, we become the
leader of the entire Colorado. So just because you belong
to a different party, that doesn't mean I don't have
your best interest in mind.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
So, so far in the race, I believe there's fifteen candidates,
and that's not to say that there can't be more
that get in or maybe a few that drop out.
Have you been engaging in those those political debates, the
political events, and if so, what kind of response are
you getting?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
No, I have not to be quite frankly, and I
don't want to be rude, but it's just worthless to
build there because everybody's right now is just fighting to
be you know, the parties, you know, a puppet or
candidate right and let's be let's be h. You know
the frank here that that doesn't work here in Colorado,
the biggest population is unaffiliated, you know, And unfortunately, because
(26:44):
of our past and our inability to actually market ourselves
properly in speak to the voters, and what they want.
The Republican Party has had such a tumultuous time that
some would even say that the GOP is irrelevant at
this point. So, no, we are running as Republicans, but
you might want to say that we are operating as
(27:05):
independent because we understand that the true boss in the
state are the people, and so we're focusing on the
people right now versus the party.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
So you're you're registered as a Republican, running as a
Republican because that's the party that you most affiliate with
as a as as far as values go. But you
don't necessarily you don't necessarily believe in the machine. If
you will, and I use that loosely in air quotes,
that is the Republican Party. Is that Is that a
fair statement?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah? I'm my own man, I stand on my own
two feet. I don't I don't do anything based on
someone's endorsement of me or my endorsement of another person.
You vote for me, you're getting Joshua Joseph something something
Griffin I got you.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Well, that's a that's a non traditional approach, I'll say that.
So that that tells me that your your plan is
not necessarily to go through the state Assembly, but maybe
more of the petitioner oute to access to the ballot.
Is is that accurate or if you've made that decision yet?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Yes, we ever made a decision, and the unfortunately I'm
not saying anything that no one else knows. The party
is in a disarray, you know, from the last chair.
You know, no one has any no fidelity in integrity
and the Venter party right now. So we're not going
to go through that as Assembly. I would love to,
but unfortunately I'm not going to put my time and
(28:24):
effort in a place where, unfortunately it has been wanted
for quite some time.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
So your your plan is to access the ballot through
the through other means, the petition process, and go out
directly to the voters, the Republicans. The Republican voters will
be the ones that have to sign your petition. But
you're trying to access every voter when you're out pounding
the pavement. I guess, is that is that fair?
Speaker 3 (28:51):
That's true? No different in the general.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Okay, So what kind of success, what kind of feedback
are you having so far?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Very very and quite frankly, it's it's a lot of
great feedback from the unaffiliated independence that you know, they
they like the understanding that someone is actually looking to
run the state not as a party puppet, but as
an executive, clearing unnecessary committees, putting directors, former leading you know,
(29:25):
like even with water, right, let's talk about water. Everybody's
going to talk about water and say, oh no, we
just need to preserve height. We preserve what you don't get,
you know what I mean, So we're our ideas not preserved,
but to increase same thing with taxes and funding and
stuff like that. And when we can talk about the
one point one billion dollars that you know have been
just taken because of just bad governance and ilegal immigration,
(29:48):
but also the solvent Wealth Fund where we actually will
bring in you know, commerce and revenue, so we can
eliminate income tax, we can lower property tax. We can
also expand the living footprint of Colorado, thus increasing the
supply and lessening the demand that will actually lower the
(30:09):
calls for housing. We're coming this with a practical executive approach,
and people actually are finding that very refreshing.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Well, so you mentioned the legal immigration. I mean, that's
a that's a topic that's going to be part of
running for any any statewide seat in the state of Colorado.
What do you think of the current administration's plan for
removing illegal immigrants from the United States and specifically Colorado.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
One thousand percent behind it. But you know, let me
let me prefence this with something that a lot of
people have lost the understanding and definition of is nuanced. Yes,
one thousand percent. We should not be putting people in
front of the line who have not ever know, produced
or given anything to our economy. That's number one. Number two.
(30:55):
You know, you're in the law enforcement, I'm in the military.
Pretty much is the same spirit, but in a different church.
So we understand why are we prioritizing age fighting men
to come to this country when they should be out
there fighting for their own people. We definitely have salt
hearts for women and children, right and I'm not always
going to have a salt heart for women and children
(31:16):
and find anything that's moral ethimately found in order to
help them in any kind of way. But most importantly,
you know, I'll say this, when my son had a one
hundred and six degree temperature at the age of eighteen
months and we went to UC Health emergency and their
staff was barely there because they are prioritizing illegal pens
over the citizens. You know, I look at him, and
(31:39):
I look at these other beautiful babies and not saying
that they're better than any other child. By how dare
we prioritize somebody else and then put our own children
at risk? So you dog, you dog on straight. I'm
going to be fighting to go with the federal government
to in a more ethical way and moral way get
these people back home where they belong. But first and foremost,
(31:59):
let's go just on the criminals first.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah, Okay, I got you. I got you.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Well.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
So I guess that you don't necessarily agree with the
governor Polus when he says Colorado is not a sanctuary state.
I'm gathering that from your from your comments. Totally not Well,
we had just a couple of seconds here. Josh finish
out with telling the listeners how they can find you
out in social media world Internet. How can people get
a hold of you if they want to find out
(32:24):
more about your campaign?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Yes, please just visit us at j Griff for Colorado.
That is J Griff g R I F F letter
four c O. That's our Twitter or X handle. And
also Joshua Griffin for the letter.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Four c O.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Is our website and we would love for you to
look at it and just think about what Colorado can be,
you know, when there's actually somebody who's looking for you
and not trying to get into that office based on
how much they love or hate somebody else.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Well, thanks for the time, josh and good luck to
you in this race. If I'm filling in in the future,
we'll try to get you back on again again. Thanks
for being on the show. And with that we're going
to cut the break. You're listening to the Dan Capless
Show here on six thirty k how with Will Kenny Sheriff,
Steve Dreams.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Or Steve Reams. I just got done with our interview
with Joshua Griffin, candidate for governor. Definitely an untraditional approach
to his candidacy for governor, and you know his strategy
for accessing the ballot. We'll see how successful that is.
You know, I've run for political office a few times,
(33:40):
and there's no succinct way of saying this, but you're
going to need Republican voters and you definitely, if you're
going to run as a Republican, you need the Republican voters,
and sometimes that assembly process is the make or break
for whether or not you're going to be taken seriously
by your own party. But who knows. We haven't had
a win in the governor's race or a statewide race
(34:02):
even for the Republicans and quite some time, so maybe
he's onto something. Also, before we had josh On, we
were talking about the Epstein files and whether or not
you believe the federal government's line of yep, you've seen
everything and there's just nothing here. I can tell you.
As a law enforcement person, I'm a bit skeptical, But
you know, maybe I'm just wrong. It seems like either
(34:25):
there was not either there wasn't a very good investigation
done and evidence wasn't maintained the way it should have been,
or we're all just filling in gaps that never were
really there. I don't know, it just something doesn't seem
quite right. But a few texts rolled in. One of
our favorite listeners here, Steven Littlton says, Sheriff, I'd like
(34:46):
to believe the current Epstein narrative, but I just feel
there's much we're not being told. And man, that summarizes
it great, Steve. I couldn't agree with you more. There
just seems like there's some gaps here, and that sometimes
happens in a big investigation. You know, things just get
missed and the conclusion doesn't necessarily come out the way
you thought it was going to. And maybe that's what
(35:07):
we're seeing. I don't know. Here's another one, pretty pretty
on point for the Epstein stuff. It says, where's the list,
follow the money? He didn't do anything for income, but
he was worth nearly a billion. And you know, the
only thing I remember a little bit of Epstein's way
of making money was he was a financier. He was
an investor. He did some stuff with the owner of
(35:27):
Victoria's secrets, and he started his own finance company of
some kind. But never really could explain where his income
came from. And I just, I don't know, something doesn't
sound quite right. I'd love to make billions, almost well
almost a billion or over a billion dollars and never
really be able to explain where it came from. Wouldn't
(35:48):
that be great? And then here's one a little bit
of feedback about our governor's candidate. Like I said, you
text them, We read them. This governor's candidate is a
full Did he just insult all the people that work
hard on the committee and he really should learn to
speak proper English. If he's going to run for governor,
well you send him, we'll read him. We're going to
go to break. When we come back, we'll have Carlos
Baron on with us at the top of the hour.
(36:09):
He's going to be the new Republican whip down at
the Statehouse. You're listening to Dan Cafleas show here on
six point thirty k HOW with Well County Sheriff Steve Riams.
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