October 27, 2025 • 36 mins
Dan runs down the top sports Colorado bettors are wagering their dollars on, along with how much tax revenue it brings in for the state. While it is a boon for our budget, is legalized sports betting really a good thing for Colorado's citizens?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caples and welcome to today's online podcast
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in Colorado plus or minus three oh three seven one
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N five seven seven three nine. I wanted to talk
about this for a long time, and then you know,
this came up, that came up, and then finally we
have this big betting related scandal involving you know, Colorado's
own Chauncey Billups. So it seems like the right time.
And my guess is you've been thinking about it for
a while. You know, if you're like me, I've got
an MGM app and I do some very very light,
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you know, betting on this game or that game, nothing
serious at all. But but you probably have an app yourself.
Judging by the numbers I have in front of me,
lots and lots of Colorado's are doing that. So you know,
one thing I've just wondered over the years, not in
terms of, hey, do we outlaw it or anything, like that.
I mean, if you're advocating that, let's have the conversation.
But that's not the reason for me bringing it up.
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I've just been wondering is this good or bad for Colorado?
So let's start with that three ozho three seven one
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I predicted in the very beginning, when when this was
all legalized, there is going to be so much more,
so much more bet on sports in Colorado than anybody
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was predicting at the time, certainly at the legislature. What
would you guess, Ryan, how much would you guess was
bet in Colorado last year on sports? Hmm?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Eighty four million?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Eighty four million total everybody betting on sports. That would
be less than if my mass right. Let me think,
I think that'd be less than this week's total, wouldn't well,
I mean, here are the numbers, Here are the numbers.
You know, I wasn't a math major, but I'll double
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check it. Breaking records. Over six billion in sports betting,
raises about how much tax revenue? How much tax revenue
do you think Colorado got off of six billion in
sports betting. That numbers blow in my mind. I know
it's a big number. What would you guess how much
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tax revenue? I don't even know that billion? Well they did,
just I'm asking for fairness, just gut level fairness. Sixty
minis Colorado is going to invite in sports betting because
I think one thing we have to appreciate is that
every dollar that's spent there is money that's not spent
somewhere else in the economy. Now, not every dollar bet
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is lost, of course, right over time, it probably will
be depending upon how long and how often you play.
But yeah, so how much do you think, just a
gut level of Colera are gonna wager six billion in
sports betting? How much tax revenue should that generate? I said,
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sixty million, thirty seven million? Okay, so I was on
the high end breaking records according to this story from Colora, Well,
it's not a story, it's a report from Colorado Department
of Revenue, breaking records. Over six billion in sports betting
raises about thirty seven million in tax revenue, setting new
fiscal year mark, breaking records subhead. Over six billion in
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sports betting raises about thirty seven million in tax revenue
setting new fiscal year mark. How is that a subheading?
It's identical to the main heading. Then it goes on
to say, June's three hundred and seventy two million in
wagers nets over three million in taxes just seems to
me like a small amount of revenue for the taxpayers
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off of that much. Wagered Blakewood, Colorado fiscal year twenty
four to twenty five sets records for sports betting wagers
and taxes in Colorado, according to the Colorado Division of
Gaming's latest monthly report, annual sports betting tax revenues used
for water conservation and protection projects, which provide a framework
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for helping Colorado meet its water needs. Colorado's wagered six billion,
three hundred million, eight hundred and forty two thousand, and
do not forget forty five dollars well forty five cents
in total wagers for the fiscal year, almost two hundred
and eighty seven million more than the previous record. Now
we can be sure then that for twenty twenty five,
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this is probably going to be significantly larger, because it
seems to me people are just betting more. So, Yeah,
thirty six million, eight hundred nineteen thousand in taxes. Seems
to me that it should be more. Now I've got
to ask you this, what are the top sports that
are bet on in what amounts? Below are the top
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ten And this comes right from the state's top ten
betting sports of the fiscal year.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
So I would say NFL number one, college football number two.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
No, no, no, and these are for Holy cow, I'm
getting a little shocked here myself. Basketball basketball leading the
way one billion, four hundred and five million.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Interesting Is that all basketball? College and pro? Or yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That's everything? No? No, no, no, no, no, my friend, thank
you for the clarification. That's not so. It looks like
basketball pulls. I would have been with you and said
NFL and college football basketball, So just pro one billion,
four hundred and five million. Bet by Coloraden's American Pro
Football eight hundred and fifty one million. I would have
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thought it would have dwarfed basketball. Baseball prize. There's six
hundred million bet by Coloraden's on baseball. I would think
that number would be lower. This one will blow your mind. Tennis.
How much do you think Coloraden's bet on tennis in
the last fiscal.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Year fifty million, three.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Hundred and fifty seven million. Where do you even watch tennis?
Is this like get kids tennis down at the corner?
Where to even watch tennis? And then stunningly low number
Frenzy DOAA basketball two hundred and ninety eight million bet
by Coloraden's soccer. What would you guess? How much on soccer?
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One hundred thirty five million, two hundred and ninety one.
Now this one is gonna blow your mind. How much
on ping pong?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Ooh seventy five million?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Last year Coloraden's bet two hundred and seventy nine million
dollars on ping pong. Now that that just tells you
somebody's got a gambling problem, right, A lot of people
though for that amount. When you're gambling on ping pong,
Oh my goodness. Now it's an exciting game when played
at the highest levels. But two hundred and so think
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about that. Wow, almost a million dollars a day in
Colorado bet on ping pong. And can you believe this?
More money, more Colorado money bet on ping pong than
NCAA football. No, yeah, no, yeah, comes into two hundred
and ten million. Ice hockey way below ping pong at
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one hundred and sixty million. There must be a whole
lot of ping pong out there. The we're just not seen.
Do you think that's like overnight stuff out of Asia
where there are just a million ping pong games going on,
and I mean, gambling addicts just need to fix and
they're betting on ping pong.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
That used to be. You know, when ESPN was in
its infancy in the eighties, it would be on like
late at night like you saw.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
It saying yeah, and fishing as fishing contest.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
That's right, Faid Winkleman.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Your son used to watch all the fishing shows. It
was great. He turned into a great fisherman. And then golf,
I'm a little disappointed golf pulling up the rear at
sixty million. So golf getting lapped by ping pong? Wow, Yeah,
probably because nobody can stay awake long enough to get
the bet down in golf pingpong, you're probably pretty jazzed up.
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Suck anyway, but I'd love to get your take. Three
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an five seven seven three nine. Is this good or
bad for Colorado to have all of this money being
bad on sports? Keeping in mind that the money is
money that's not being spent somewhere else in the economy.
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Now that only applies to the losses, right, I mean
the losses are gone, and they're gone to the casinos
and the corporate owners of those casinos. Love to get
your take on that. And also on sports at this point,
how much gambling do you think there is in the
sports you like to watch on TV? Mean, let me
ask a better question. We know how much is bad
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on the sports, but how much cheating do you think
there is? You know how many players, coaches, staff, it
may vary in your mind from sport to sport are
now providing information to gamblers. I mean, this a whole
issue obviously being raised by the reports on Chauncey Billips
and others last week. So I'd love to get your take.
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I wondered for a long time whether people think Colorado
made a mistake by legalizing sports betting three all three
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CAAPLA Show.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
And now back to the DANKAPLA Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
But I don't have to get into that. But we
have one of them standing right here. Well, you have JD.
Obviously the vice President's great. They aren't goes great. I
think I'm not sure if anybody would run against us.
I think if they have a the group would be
let's stop. I really do I believe that I would.
I would, I would love to do it, and I
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have my best numbers. Ever, it's very terrible. I have
my best numbers. Did you read it? Am I not
ruling it out? And you'll have to tell me.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
He's just having so much fun with them, right tharo
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dead serious when he's talking about excuse me, j D
and Marco doing the thing together. And yeah, and that
makes perfect sense, right is Vance next? And then Rubio
in line after him? Makes perfect sense? Man plans God laughs,
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I get it. But man should still plan responsibly, and
I think that is responsible planning right there. For political succession.
Anything you think is going to disrupt there there, young Ryan.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
There would have to be a Democratic candidate that comes
out of.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
The woodwork that we haven't seen yet that would be
a threat to that, because well, President Trump, you put
that duo together Vance Rubio good luck?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
What do you mean you haven't seen You haven't seen
Jared Polus, Yeah, you haven't seen Jared. But he's going
to light America on fives.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
You know he is.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Who is not going to get excited about Jared Polis as.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
A Fox News Sunday pundit, like I predicted.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Well what did? What did Chris Matthews say? The thrill
is going to go up his leg? I mean, yeah,
how could he not? Right? Well? Yeah, no, who would?
And I'd love to hear from people on there who
who would that lightning, bold, exciting democrat out of the
blue candidate be at least among the people we know
out there right now? And let's see the left, it's uh,
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they're having their family friendly show. Let me just say ecstasy.
Today Trump reveals he got an MRI. So the left
now going crazy speculating on Trump's health. Has anybody seen
ever seen a healthier person his age? No? And I
mean not just looking right, because you can have somebody
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who looks good, they're sitting there in their beach chair
and then you ask him to walk across the beach
and pick up a beer and they'd fall over. But
this guy, this guy's a horse.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
So yeah, Oh and now they're showing a picture of
a crooked foot. This is their yah. They don't even
try to hide it, just hoping there's something wrong with
them physically, and they can't stop saying all these things
that they just know increase the chance that somebody tries
to assassinate him again. They just can't help themselves. They
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don't even try so to hide it.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Let me keep track.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Now over the weekend, what we're witnessing. They're having a tizzy,
a hissy fit about the East wing demolition in the
ballroom being constructed.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That's point one. Point two. He's a dictator. He's going
to try to run for a third term. He was
joking about it. They're on Air Force one. They're really
crazy about that. And now his MRI. This is their
order about thing.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
It's a beautiful thing. Now, if they took a line
in Vegas on this, what would you bet he got
the MR four.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
The scan.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Yeah, I don't a routine. I don't think it was
for anything as particular.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I don't think an m r's routine. I mean it's
you're not being subject to radiation.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
So as a president's side to it, but as a
president of the United States, at his age, and at
any person that age, I think you would want to
have regular tests done just to make sure that you're
you know, well, cognitively.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Listen, I think this guy's a medical marvel, an absolute horse,
and whatever he's having I want. But all I'm saying
is an m R is not part of a regular checkup,
and at the President not discussing why he got the MR.
It doesn't concern me one little bit because it's the
old thing. You treat the patient right, and you look
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at him, and you look how big and strong and
everything else he is. There's nothing I'm seeing that suggests
to me that that he's got any kind of significant issues,
some stuff you couldn't see from the outside. But he's
so full of life. The MR thing. If this was
a game show, it'd be it'd be an interesting question.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
So if you want to be like him, there's a
lot of big Max and diet coke. When's the last
time you had either one of those things, Dan, a
big Mac or a diet coke?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Probably together fifty years ago.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Okay, I could see you having a big Mac before
a diet coke.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
You don't drink pop, right.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Oh yeah, I would I'd love to have a big Max. Okay,
I mean I get regular McDonald Samberger's. I just don't
get the big Man. Why not? You know, that's a
great question. I'm excited now to go get a big Mac.
There's no good answer to that question. You could do it,
but yeah, the Trump MRI. You know what would you
bet that is? For? Okay, Texter on polus? That's not
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family friendly, Dan, I don't know if you can research it,
but can you look up what demographics do most sports betting.
I've heard horror stories about young men early to mid
twenties getting fifty to one hundred in debt on sports betting.
This just comes back to my premise that I think
sports betting overall has been bad for Colorado. Does that
mean that I would outlaw no oh, because there are
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plenty of things that are bad for Colorado that you
don't outlaw. But let's just be honest. It's been bad
for Colorado. It's been good for me. I enjoy it.
I'm good at it. That was proven by Saturday CU game. Right.
I think we have a text or two on that.
I didn't know you could fit this many emojis on
a single text, Dan, you said CEU was going to win,
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and then a wide variety of many, many mocking emojis.
Thank you for the reminder. Sure, but that's the beauty
of sports, right you look over the years, how eerily
scarily accurate I've been in my sports predictions. But then
you have a night like Saturday that just defies logic.
That's the beauty of sports. It's a human process. There's
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going to be that kind of night. By the way,
so you got thumped beyond recognition that night wouldn't surprise
me at all if they came back and won a
big game next week. That's just life. There's been a
human remember when the Broncos what to Get? Was it
last year or the year before Miami puts seventy on them?
Any human process, there are gonna be days like that
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no matter what you do for a living. And that
just happened to be that night for see you. But
I noticed, Ryan, I'm not getting any text or calls
right now commending me on the accurate prediction for the
Bronco game, which is, let bo Nicks play, let the
offense create and play, and you're gonna score a lot
of points. They did, and they did.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
How good was bow Nicks on Sunday?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Just let him play? Oh, he's great. But the first
drive made my point. We're not gonna go x and os.
But it made my point, which is, if you let
him play, there are gonna be some mistakes. So what
who cares if he throws a pick or two as
long as at the end of the game you have
forty points. Let the man play football. And they did.
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And he threw a pick on the opening drive, a
really terrible pick. And he came back and he had
a great game. And did they put forty up? I
think by the end they put forty up? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Or were you.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I was watching. I was doing some work stuff, so
multitak was not at the game. I just loved the
game on TV. The game's covered so well on TV.
You know, they use the wire cam. They bring you down,
you're right in back of the huddle. The only way
I get that at Mile High is once. I'm only
going to get that at at Empower Field. Once that
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view of the game, and then they're going to drag
me off the field and they're going to throw me
into jail cell. So I think we're going to go
out to one of these games that coming up, maybe Raiders,
maybe Case C. Dan, why do you say mr rather
than MRI. It's just the reference that's used in the
medical community, and I do all this medical legal work. Dan,
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only think police will light on fire is no, no,
We're not going to go there, Dan, Hockey fans aren't idiots,
just saying refer to the fact that we went through
the Colorado sports betting numbers and three times as much
as bet on ping pong as hockey. Can you believe
that Colorado's spending on ping pong? Do you agree with
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me Ryan that legalized gambling has been bad for Colorado?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I think anytime you get into those vices and you
try to legalize it. I mean, it's much the same
way with marijuana that in a void, the UI are
actually in agreement on this. Somebody wants to smoke dope
in their own home libertarian and me goes, I don't care.
But it's the societal impact and the criminal element that
it's brought to Colorado.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Its degraded the quality of life here.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
And I feel the same way in some ways about
sports betting, that it's just this thing that best left
kind of in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I guess yeah, and listen. I wouldn't outlaw sports betting
because it's bad for Colorado. I think there are certain
freedoms on balance that we need to have, even though
they're bad for the state and bad for a lot
of people. But at a certain price point, the price
is too high, and I think that's clearly the case
with legalized marijuana. I'd reverse that. You're on the Dan
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Caplas Show.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
Job is when you talk to people who aren't journalists,
don't work in politics. On both sides of the Aisle,
Americans just cannot understand how the president has been able
to do this. They are watching daily the destruction where
they were of the East wing, and no one is stopping.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, why not, right, because first of all, these people
don't care about the truth at all. Have you run
into one normal person who says, oh, Ryan's tearing down
the East Wing? I mean, no, that's not what Americans
are talking about all. What this is, obviously everybody is
this is the left losing its mind because Trump is
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winning so much, they're getting tired of it. I mean,
he's a man of action, he's a person of accomplishment.
They're so used to Republicans, you know, just being so
Wimbledon rules and dainty and like talk about this and
know if you approve of that. Trump's just said, Okay,
we're gonna go do it. Yeah, we're gonna go do
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it now. We're not going to declare war. We're just
going to kill those people bringing drugs in. Listen, you
got to stay within the bounds of the law. I
always say that, and I always will, but Trump does
unless you can prove otherwise. And so yeah, he's just
a person of action, and that drives them out of
what's left of their minds. Three oh three seven one
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seven three nine. Would still love your take on sports batting.
I understand you may be sitting there thinking it's not
going to matter what I think because it's not going
away in Colorado. And you're right, it's not going away
in Colorado. I don't since there's any big public push
to get rid of it, and I wouldn't see the
legislature willingly giving up this money.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
What should go.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Away in Colorado is legalized marijuana, because that does so
much more harm. But that negative, I think that's pretty
darn clear. I think you probably just have an awful
lot of people who are hooked on it. I think
it's bad for the state economically. That money that's lost
there would help the state economy better somewhere else. But
that's not the test of whether something should be legal
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or not, whether it's best for the state. No, that's
not the test, the ultimate absolute test. But you know,
it's a freedom. People like it. People enjoy it. It's
here to stay. I like it. I enjoy it, probably
because I've never had any temptation to go beyond my
comfort zone, which is very small wagers. I don't know
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about you, Brian, do you ever feel like it's going
to get out of control? You just all right, you
just lost. It was a bad beat, and so now
you're going to double or triple down and you just
can't help yourself. You bet for me jets versus vikings,
so you don't care about either.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I am in a picks pool with people that I know,
and it's like you're saying, it's just a pittance amount.
Never gambled with that which you can't afford to lose.
Its entertainment and I always look at it like you
could spend that money in a Disney World or somebody
where else.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
You're not going to get that money back. You're going
to get the experience.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
But in gambling, you know, put the money out there,
you could win, could win it back, could win more.
But you got to go into the understanding that you
could lose, and you got to budget for that.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
But do you ever feel out of control?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
No, because you know why. I'm like, my dad doesn't
gamble at all.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
And it's interesting because he is an alcoholic and he's
recovering alcoholic. Why not, but that personality, he's like me,
I hate losing astronomically more than I like winning.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
That's yeah. The pain of losing is so much career
than the pleasure of winning because because you know, eventually,
that's why they have these big casinos, you're gonna end
up losing it. I was impressed Amy is on the road,
and so I went to the Nuggets game Saturday night.
That is an NBA championship team if they stay healthy,
you think the Nuggets, but talent level, experience level, also
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team dynamics, all of that. Yeah, Pet's an NBA no
more Russ, right, but they have to say and I
like Russ, but they've got to stay healthy. You know
that the new guy that the new center dead ringer
for Jason, not Jason Kelcey, Travis Kelcey. And now I
realized nobody cares about it. But the point of Saturday
night was I took my nephew because Amy's on the
road and I'm so proud of him. He opened an
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account with one hundred dollars two years ago and he
has never put any additional money in. He just always
stays in that range. And really a support of betting
app Yeah, he's never put it to see, That's that's
the way to do it. Texters says Trump was supposed
to have the renovation approved by Congress. Not true. It's
not required. You can bet if it was required, what
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would we have seen by now? We would have seen
ten lawsuits in the first hour. We would have seen
an injunction if approval by Congress was required.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Where was the congressional approval for any other renovations made
to the previous president? The bowling alley by Nixon, the
basketball court adjustment by Obama. There was this glowing report
on CNN from the Obama terms, like twenty ten of
this happened Susanne Melvaux. I remember her doing this reporting.
They're giddy and they're like, oh, it's all being torn
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up and here comes all the construction and nobody seemed
to have a problem with it.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Then no, there would have been lawsuits out there. You
know what? Speaking of the you know what, Dan Trump MRI,
it's to check to see why his blank is so big.
Thank you Abe for elevating our conversation. Dan and Ryan,
did you see President Trump doing the Trump dance on
his arrival in Malaysia? It sounded like he was dancing
to the Malaysian version of the theme to Hawaii five.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Oh oh, well, then I'm gonna have to find something.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I thought that you would. The next break, I thought
that you would. And then another interesting text about what
do you think the demos are on the people who
are doing the online sports betting? Text or says Dan,
if nothing else, I know the airport in Burlington sells
a fair bit of jet fuel. The private jets that
fly in just to place online bets and then go
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on their way. That's fascinating, isn't it. That is fascinating
because I haven't even checked to see what's going on
with the surrounding states and legalization. But yeah, you could
see that they've got the app it's Colorado. They land
here and place some bets. Thank you, Texter. That's interesting.
Did not know that. Dan? Please tell Shah Ryan, please
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tell Sheriff Frames that I love it when he fills
in for Dan. I think what they're really saying is,
let's get reams on here instead of Dan. I can
take it. I can take it, thick skin Dan. This
is why Trump is so unlikable, saying idiotic things like
there's a way around the twenty second amendments so he
can be president again at eighty four years old. I
don't think age should be a barrier. I always said
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if Bill Clinton, if Bill Clinton was eligible to be
elected to a third term, the American people would have
elected him post impeachment. Is there any doubt about that?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
He was probably his approval rating sword in the wake
of the impeachment and the Monica Lewinsky scandal. I think
people rallied to him because they just felt like, you know,
you and I differ on this, but that it wasn't relevant.
Germane to the cause of him being president, that we
had already voted for him twice knowing that he was
a philanderers if this wasn't exactly breaking news or surprising,
But to your point, he was much more popular than
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al Gore. Drying paint was more popular than al Gore.
And I don't know that w could have gone head
to head with Bill Clinton and won.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
No, Clinton would have won by mile.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah, probably by mile.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
And yeah, I don't want to relitigate it. Nobody wants
to listen to that. But to me, it was all
about the oath. You just the oath is foundational to America,
not just some nice ideal or anything to the functioning
of America. There has to be respect for the oath.
And when you have the president of the United States
blatantly committing perjury, and I understand people say, well, it
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was on something minor, he shouldn't that shouldn't be all
against him. No, if he's not willing to answer those
questions just to fault the case, say you're not going
to sit for the depot rather than go in there
and lie under oath just to fault the case, pay
some money. You can't just come out and urinate all
over the Oath, which is foundational to the functioning of
this nation. Uh, Texter, angry with Trump? What about this
(27:11):
business anyway around the twenty second Amendment? He's just pulling
chains there. We've talked about it before. I'll go back
to I did myself a little memo on the law.
I don't believe it's as clear cut and simple. As
he runs for vice president on the ticket with jad
Vance and then Advance resigns, I think there'd be I
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think we obviously end up with the US Supreme Court.
But it's not going to happen, so I spend the
time on it. He is just he is just living
rent free. You know where this Texter. I've said about
Trump not telling us what the MRI was for. Why
should he? Do you think Trump should have to tell
us what the MRI is for? To me, unless a
medical condition affects somebody's fitness to serve, why should they
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have to tell us, particularly when they aren't running again,
I am kind of curious. I think it's probably in
the end nothing. It's probably some ortho thing and yeah,
maybe his back hurts or this or that, and they're
checking to see if there's some disk issue, but it
does drive the left crazy, which is great for us
because then they just look more and more unhinged to
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the people and they'll get fewer votes. Dan more food
bank lies from you. Very unprofessional when this guy is
obsessed about food banks. I mentioned last week that my
wife works at a food bank, and he went off
about lefty creations and all this, and that, Hey, we
have a lot of ground to cover today, and it
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goes well beyond what we were talking about there as
we look forward to things in the future that are
going to help get conservatives elected and defeat the left
when we come back. Pretty tempting to say this will
be exhibit A and you're going to see it play
out in a big, loud way in Colorado. You're on
the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast. Boy,
I'm liking that.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Do you remember the way Tom Sellix had used to
stick out the top of that Ferrari?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
But that's that's magnip I never watched either.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I just remember selicks Head because I went through that
phase when I was a lot younger, where hey, I
just wanted to Ferrari. By the way, I've never had
it just wanted one and then looked into that car
a little bit. Why not Dan treats yourself well, thank you, Ryan. Yeah,
you need his Amy's vote. I was just going to
give your number. But it's not her. She would always
want me to have whatever I could have. But it's
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so it's it's not her. It's not her at all.
It's you know. Yeah, you would just.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
You're disciplined, you exercise restraint. I get it. They'd be
practical and you got rid of the Corvette.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Dan. Every day I think about getting that car back,
my good friend Dan Johnson. I bought it from Lenn
Lyles Chevrolet Dan Johnson. It's a great GM over there.
I know he ended up selling it off once I
once I sold it back to him.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Especially once people found out it had been your car.
I believe me.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
They weren't telling me that they wanted to sell it. Yeah,
it might be the only car I ever made money on,
other than my first car that I bought for seventy
five and sold for a hundred. But yeah, what a
great car. I think all the time about getting that
car back. But No, to me, the Ferrari would just
seem it would just seem kind of gluttonous and excessive ostentatious. Ah,
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that's a good word.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Over the top.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yeah, that's a good word.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I think it could be tastefully done.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I think there are works of art. I mean, if
I was to ever get a Ferrari, and I haven't,
I'd be more inclined to buy it as a work
of art, drain it and have it put maybe like
in the lobby of the office or something like that,
just as a work of art. I just think they're
beautiful works of art, just like I thought that corvette
was a beautiful work of art. Certainly is and it
(31:16):
still is. Yeah. Wow, all righty boy, we got some
angry people out there today. A little hard to figure. Dan.
The election granted Trump police on the White House not
a quick claim deed for ownership the owners of the
American people. And he's supposed to go through this step
or that step. No, he isn't. He's not required to
do any of that. And Tom, here's the proof. If
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he was required to take any step that he didn't,
he would have been sued on it immediately. It's the
only thing he's done other than taking a leak. He
hasn't been sued on. Now Here is the point I
was making before the break about more good news to
come for conservatism in America and how we're going to
see it play out big time in Colorado. Here's New
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York Governor Kathy Hokeel all that sorn. We take back America.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Thank you Queens, thank you New York.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I love it. Yeah. So talking about this soon to
be next mayor of New York, this open communist mom
dommy right, So Mom, Donnie, Mom, Donnie. I better get
used to saying that because he is going to be
the mayor of New York and we're going to talk
about him a lot because he's going to do things
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that are so horrible. A we have to talk about it,
and B we want to talk about it because it's
going to help bury the left. And the reason I
mentioned Colorado is once this guy wins, I mean, this
is their fantasy that this is who they really are.
It's like the cicadas. And I'm not trying to compare
humans to insects, but it's the first example that occurred
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to me. So you have all these hardcore socialists very
active in the Colorado Democratic Party, many holding power positions,
but they have to, you know, wear this mask, and
they have to act moderate or at least less open
about their socialism slash communism than Mom Donnie. And as
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soon as he wins Ryan, they're not going to be
able to help themselves. They're going to be like those
cicadas coming right out of the ground. And I can
make that comparison. Kyle Clark did that to Michael Bennett, right, Sure,
did call them the cicada of controversy or something pops
up once every seventeen years thirteen. I think it was
a great line, yes, But anyway, the point being that
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that's what's going to happen in Colorado is a bunch
of these elected dams and other powerful dams. They're going
to be so intoxicated by him winning they're just going
to drop the mask and come into the open and
just start openly advocating this raw socialism that they really
believe in. And that will be great for conservatism because
America doesn't want to go there. It's still dangerous because
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you have a certain percentage of folks who do just
want us to become a socialist nation, and a lot
of people assume, oh, okay, that those are just people
who want the government to take care of them. Right. No, Wrong,
That's where the Democratic Party messes up all the time,
and we in the Republican Party sometimes don't see it. Right.
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You have so many people who are dependent on government
benefits who don't want socialism. They don't want to be
on government benefits. They never vote for socialists. They are
true patriots with love of country. They just find themselves
in a position where they are on government benefits. And
then you've got another group of folks who they don't
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need government benefits, and they may be very well intentioned,
and they just think that, oh, okay, if we have socialism,
there'll be more equity and equality, and then you'll end
up with so many people in a better place. They
just don't understand. They don't read history, they haven't looked
at it. You know, it's just kind of puppies and rainbows,
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Unicorn's kind of thing for them. But you put different
groups together, starting with the hard socialists. They just don't
like America. They want it torn down, and they know
socialism does that. So you start adding some of the
well intentioned, uninformed folks to the hardcore socialists who want
that to the Democratic Party, which now sees it it's
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life flying because it's it's dying. It's going right down
the toilet. Most places in America, some places the trend
line is steeper than others. But yeah, all of a sudden,
it's real enough that you should be concerned about it.
But here in Colorado, it'll just come so much more
out in the open, and I don't believe Coloradin's are
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there at all at all. So this again something that
will help create a little bit of opening for the
GOP by opening more eyes to who the left really
is in Colorado. Right now three h three someone three
eight two five five the number. A lot to do
in the five o'clock cower. I do want to talk
to you about traffic cams as well, because there are
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some more going in right now. Do you think we
need more everywhere as we see more carnage on the
roadway you're on the Dan Kapla show man.
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in Colorado plus or minus three oh three seven one
three eight two five five the number text d A
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N five seven seven three nine. I wanted to talk
about this for a long time, and then you know,
this came up, that came up, and then finally we
have this big betting related scandal involving you know, Colorado's
own Chauncey Billups. So it seems like the right time.
And my guess is you've been thinking about it for
a while. You know, if you're like me, I've got
an MGM app and I do some very very light,
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you know, betting on this game or that game, nothing
serious at all. But but you probably have an app yourself.
Judging by the numbers I have in front of me,
lots and lots of Colorado's are doing that. So you know,
one thing I've just wondered over the years, not in
terms of, hey, do we outlaw it or anything, like that.
I mean, if you're advocating that, let's have the conversation.
But that's not the reason for me bringing it up.
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I've just been wondering is this good or bad for Colorado?
So let's start with that three ozho three seven one
three eight two five five the number text d A
N five seven seven three nine. Because the numbers, as
I predicted in the very beginning, when when this was
all legalized, there is going to be so much more,
so much more bet on sports in Colorado than anybody
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was predicting at the time, certainly at the legislature. What
would you guess, Ryan, how much would you guess was
bet in Colorado last year on sports? Hmm?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Eighty four million?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Eighty four million total everybody betting on sports. That would
be less than if my mass right. Let me think,
I think that'd be less than this week's total, wouldn't well,
I mean, here are the numbers, Here are the numbers.
You know, I wasn't a math major, but I'll double
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check it. Breaking records. Over six billion in sports betting,
raises about how much tax revenue? How much tax revenue
do you think Colorado got off of six billion in
sports betting. That numbers blow in my mind. I know
it's a big number. What would you guess how much
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tax revenue? I don't even know that billion? Well they did,
just I'm asking for fairness, just gut level fairness. Sixty
minis Colorado is going to invite in sports betting because
I think one thing we have to appreciate is that
every dollar that's spent there is money that's not spent
somewhere else in the economy. Now, not every dollar bet
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is lost, of course, right over time, it probably will
be depending upon how long and how often you play.
But yeah, so how much do you think, just a
gut level of Colera are gonna wager six billion in
sports betting? How much tax revenue should that generate? I said,
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sixty million, thirty seven million? Okay, so I was on
the high end breaking records according to this story from Colora, Well,
it's not a story, it's a report from Colorado Department
of Revenue, breaking records. Over six billion in sports betting
raises about thirty seven million in tax revenue, setting new
fiscal year mark, breaking records subhead. Over six billion in
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sports betting raises about thirty seven million in tax revenue
setting new fiscal year mark. How is that a subheading?
It's identical to the main heading. Then it goes on
to say, June's three hundred and seventy two million in
wagers nets over three million in taxes just seems to
me like a small amount of revenue for the taxpayers
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off of that much. Wagered Blakewood, Colorado fiscal year twenty
four to twenty five sets records for sports betting wagers
and taxes in Colorado, according to the Colorado Division of
Gaming's latest monthly report, annual sports betting tax revenues used
for water conservation and protection projects, which provide a framework
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for helping Colorado meet its water needs. Colorado's wagered six billion,
three hundred million, eight hundred and forty two thousand, and
do not forget forty five dollars well forty five cents
in total wagers for the fiscal year, almost two hundred
and eighty seven million more than the previous record. Now
we can be sure then that for twenty twenty five,
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this is probably going to be significantly larger, because it
seems to me people are just betting more. So, Yeah,
thirty six million, eight hundred nineteen thousand in taxes. Seems
to me that it should be more. Now I've got
to ask you this, what are the top sports that
are bet on in what amounts? Below are the top
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ten And this comes right from the state's top ten
betting sports of the fiscal year.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
So I would say NFL number one, college football number two.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
No, no, no, and these are for Holy cow, I'm
getting a little shocked here myself. Basketball basketball leading the
way one billion, four hundred and five million.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Interesting Is that all basketball? College and pro? Or yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That's everything? No? No, no, no, no, no, my friend, thank
you for the clarification. That's not so. It looks like
basketball pulls. I would have been with you and said
NFL and college football basketball, So just pro one billion,
four hundred and five million. Bet by Coloraden's American Pro
Football eight hundred and fifty one million. I would have
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thought it would have dwarfed basketball. Baseball prize. There's six
hundred million bet by Coloraden's on baseball. I would think
that number would be lower. This one will blow your mind. Tennis.
How much do you think Coloraden's bet on tennis in
the last fiscal.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Year fifty million, three.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Hundred and fifty seven million. Where do you even watch tennis?
Is this like get kids tennis down at the corner?
Where to even watch tennis? And then stunningly low number
Frenzy DOAA basketball two hundred and ninety eight million bet
by Coloraden's soccer. What would you guess? How much on soccer?
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One hundred thirty five million, two hundred and ninety one.
Now this one is gonna blow your mind. How much
on ping pong?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Ooh seventy five million?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Last year Coloraden's bet two hundred and seventy nine million
dollars on ping pong. Now that that just tells you
somebody's got a gambling problem, right, A lot of people
though for that amount. When you're gambling on ping pong,
Oh my goodness. Now it's an exciting game when played
at the highest levels. But two hundred and so think
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about that. Wow, almost a million dollars a day in
Colorado bet on ping pong. And can you believe this?
More money, more Colorado money bet on ping pong than
NCAA football. No, yeah, no, yeah, comes into two hundred
and ten million. Ice hockey way below ping pong at
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one hundred and sixty million. There must be a whole
lot of ping pong out there. The we're just not seen.
Do you think that's like overnight stuff out of Asia
where there are just a million ping pong games going on,
and I mean, gambling addicts just need to fix and
they're betting on ping pong.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
That used to be. You know, when ESPN was in
its infancy in the eighties, it would be on like
late at night like you saw.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
It saying yeah, and fishing as fishing contest.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
That's right, Faid Winkleman.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Your son used to watch all the fishing shows. It
was great. He turned into a great fisherman. And then golf,
I'm a little disappointed golf pulling up the rear at
sixty million. So golf getting lapped by ping pong? Wow, Yeah,
probably because nobody can stay awake long enough to get
the bet down in golf pingpong, you're probably pretty jazzed up.
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Suck anyway, but I'd love to get your take. Three
or three seven, three eight two five five tags d
an five seven seven three nine. Is this good or
bad for Colorado to have all of this money being
bad on sports? Keeping in mind that the money is
money that's not being spent somewhere else in the economy.
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Now that only applies to the losses, right, I mean
the losses are gone, and they're gone to the casinos
and the corporate owners of those casinos. Love to get
your take on that. And also on sports at this point,
how much gambling do you think there is in the
sports you like to watch on TV? Mean, let me
ask a better question. We know how much is bad
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on the sports, but how much cheating do you think
there is? You know how many players, coaches, staff, it
may vary in your mind from sport to sport are
now providing information to gamblers. I mean, this a whole
issue obviously being raised by the reports on Chauncey Billips
and others last week. So I'd love to get your take.
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I wondered for a long time whether people think Colorado
made a mistake by legalizing sports betting three all three
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CAAPLA Show.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
And now back to the DANKAPLA Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
But I don't have to get into that. But we
have one of them standing right here. Well, you have JD.
Obviously the vice President's great. They aren't goes great. I
think I'm not sure if anybody would run against us.
I think if they have a the group would be
let's stop. I really do I believe that I would.
I would, I would love to do it, and I
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have my best numbers. Ever, it's very terrible. I have
my best numbers. Did you read it? Am I not
ruling it out? And you'll have to tell me.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
He's just having so much fun with them, right tharo
three he's someone three eight two five five text d
A N five seven seven three. Now I think he's
dead serious when he's talking about excuse me, j D
and Marco doing the thing together. And yeah, and that
makes perfect sense, right is Vance next? And then Rubio
in line after him? Makes perfect sense? Man plans God laughs,
(10:40):
I get it. But man should still plan responsibly, and
I think that is responsible planning right there. For political succession.
Anything you think is going to disrupt there there, young Ryan.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
There would have to be a Democratic candidate that comes
out of.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
The woodwork that we haven't seen yet that would be
a threat to that, because well, President Trump, you put
that duo together Vance Rubio good luck?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
What do you mean you haven't seen You haven't seen
Jared Polus, Yeah, you haven't seen Jared. But he's going
to light America on fives.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
You know he is.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Who is not going to get excited about Jared Polis as.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
A Fox News Sunday pundit, like I predicted.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Well what did? What did Chris Matthews say? The thrill
is going to go up his leg? I mean, yeah,
how could he not? Right? Well? Yeah, no, who would?
And I'd love to hear from people on there who
who would that lightning, bold, exciting democrat out of the
blue candidate be at least among the people we know
out there right now? And let's see the left, it's uh,
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they're having their family friendly show. Let me just say ecstasy.
Today Trump reveals he got an MRI. So the left
now going crazy speculating on Trump's health. Has anybody seen
ever seen a healthier person his age? No? And I
mean not just looking right, because you can have somebody
(12:01):
who looks good, they're sitting there in their beach chair
and then you ask him to walk across the beach
and pick up a beer and they'd fall over. But
this guy, this guy's a horse.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
So yeah, Oh and now they're showing a picture of
a crooked foot. This is their yah. They don't even
try to hide it, just hoping there's something wrong with
them physically, and they can't stop saying all these things
that they just know increase the chance that somebody tries
to assassinate him again. They just can't help themselves. They
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don't even try so to hide it.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Let me keep track.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Now over the weekend, what we're witnessing. They're having a tizzy,
a hissy fit about the East wing demolition in the
ballroom being constructed.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That's point one. Point two. He's a dictator. He's going
to try to run for a third term. He was
joking about it. They're on Air Force one. They're really
crazy about that. And now his MRI. This is their
order about thing.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
It's a beautiful thing. Now, if they took a line
in Vegas on this, what would you bet he got
the MR four.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
The scan.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Yeah, I don't a routine. I don't think it was
for anything as particular.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I don't think an m r's routine. I mean it's
you're not being subject to radiation.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
So as a president's side to it, but as a
president of the United States, at his age, and at
any person that age, I think you would want to
have regular tests done just to make sure that you're
you know, well, cognitively.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Listen, I think this guy's a medical marvel, an absolute horse,
and whatever he's having I want. But all I'm saying
is an m R is not part of a regular checkup,
and at the President not discussing why he got the MR.
It doesn't concern me one little bit because it's the
old thing. You treat the patient right, and you look
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at him, and you look how big and strong and
everything else he is. There's nothing I'm seeing that suggests
to me that that he's got any kind of significant issues,
some stuff you couldn't see from the outside. But he's
so full of life. The MR thing. If this was
a game show, it'd be it'd be an interesting question.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
So if you want to be like him, there's a
lot of big Max and diet coke. When's the last
time you had either one of those things, Dan, a
big Mac or a diet coke?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Probably together fifty years ago.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Okay, I could see you having a big Mac before
a diet coke.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
You don't drink pop, right.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Oh yeah, I would I'd love to have a big Max. Okay,
I mean I get regular McDonald Samberger's. I just don't
get the big Man. Why not? You know, that's a
great question. I'm excited now to go get a big Mac.
There's no good answer to that question. You could do it,
but yeah, the Trump MRI. You know what would you
bet that is? For? Okay, Texter on polus? That's not
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family friendly, Dan, I don't know if you can research it,
but can you look up what demographics do most sports betting.
I've heard horror stories about young men early to mid
twenties getting fifty to one hundred in debt on sports betting.
This just comes back to my premise that I think
sports betting overall has been bad for Colorado. Does that
mean that I would outlaw no oh, because there are
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plenty of things that are bad for Colorado that you
don't outlaw. But let's just be honest. It's been bad
for Colorado. It's been good for me. I enjoy it.
I'm good at it. That was proven by Saturday CU game. Right.
I think we have a text or two on that.
I didn't know you could fit this many emojis on
a single text, Dan, you said CEU was going to win,
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and then a wide variety of many, many mocking emojis.
Thank you for the reminder. Sure, but that's the beauty
of sports, right you look over the years, how eerily
scarily accurate I've been in my sports predictions. But then
you have a night like Saturday that just defies logic.
That's the beauty of sports. It's a human process. There's
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going to be that kind of night. By the way,
so you got thumped beyond recognition that night wouldn't surprise
me at all if they came back and won a
big game next week. That's just life. There's been a
human remember when the Broncos what to Get? Was it
last year or the year before Miami puts seventy on them?
Any human process, there are gonna be days like that
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no matter what you do for a living. And that
just happened to be that night for see you. But
I noticed, Ryan, I'm not getting any text or calls
right now commending me on the accurate prediction for the
Bronco game, which is, let bo Nicks play, let the
offense create and play, and you're gonna score a lot
of points. They did, and they did.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
How good was bow Nicks on Sunday?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Just let him play? Oh, he's great. But the first
drive made my point. We're not gonna go x and os.
But it made my point, which is, if you let
him play, there are gonna be some mistakes. So what
who cares if he throws a pick or two as
long as at the end of the game you have
forty points. Let the man play football. And they did.
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And he threw a pick on the opening drive, a
really terrible pick. And he came back and he had
a great game. And did they put forty up? I
think by the end they put forty up? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Or were you.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I was watching. I was doing some work stuff, so
multitak was not at the game. I just loved the
game on TV. The game's covered so well on TV.
You know, they use the wire cam. They bring you down,
you're right in back of the huddle. The only way
I get that at Mile High is once. I'm only
going to get that at at Empower Field. Once that
(17:18):
view of the game, and then they're going to drag
me off the field and they're going to throw me
into jail cell. So I think we're going to go
out to one of these games that coming up, maybe Raiders,
maybe Case C. Dan, why do you say mr rather
than MRI. It's just the reference that's used in the
medical community, and I do all this medical legal work. Dan,
(17:38):
only think police will light on fire is no, no,
We're not going to go there, Dan, Hockey fans aren't idiots,
just saying refer to the fact that we went through
the Colorado sports betting numbers and three times as much
as bet on ping pong as hockey. Can you believe
that Colorado's spending on ping pong? Do you agree with
(17:58):
me Ryan that legalized gambling has been bad for Colorado?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I think anytime you get into those vices and you
try to legalize it. I mean, it's much the same
way with marijuana that in a void, the UI are
actually in agreement on this. Somebody wants to smoke dope
in their own home libertarian and me goes, I don't care.
But it's the societal impact and the criminal element that
it's brought to Colorado.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Its degraded the quality of life here.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
And I feel the same way in some ways about
sports betting, that it's just this thing that best left
kind of in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I guess yeah, and listen. I wouldn't outlaw sports betting
because it's bad for Colorado. I think there are certain
freedoms on balance that we need to have, even though
they're bad for the state and bad for a lot
of people. But at a certain price point, the price
is too high, and I think that's clearly the case
with legalized marijuana. I'd reverse that. You're on the Dan
(18:52):
Caplas Show.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
Job is when you talk to people who aren't journalists,
don't work in politics. On both sides of the Aisle,
Americans just cannot understand how the president has been able
to do this. They are watching daily the destruction where
they were of the East wing, and no one is stopping.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, why not, right, because first of all, these people
don't care about the truth at all. Have you run
into one normal person who says, oh, Ryan's tearing down
the East Wing? I mean, no, that's not what Americans
are talking about all. What this is, obviously everybody is
this is the left losing its mind because Trump is
(19:43):
winning so much, they're getting tired of it. I mean,
he's a man of action, he's a person of accomplishment.
They're so used to Republicans, you know, just being so
Wimbledon rules and dainty and like talk about this and
know if you approve of that. Trump's just said, Okay,
we're gonna go do it. Yeah, we're gonna go do
(20:05):
it now. We're not going to declare war. We're just
going to kill those people bringing drugs in. Listen, you
got to stay within the bounds of the law. I
always say that, and I always will, but Trump does
unless you can prove otherwise. And so yeah, he's just
a person of action, and that drives them out of
what's left of their minds. Three oh three seven one
three eight two five five d A N five seven
(20:27):
seven three nine. Would still love your take on sports batting.
I understand you may be sitting there thinking it's not
going to matter what I think because it's not going
away in Colorado. And you're right, it's not going away
in Colorado. I don't since there's any big public push
to get rid of it, and I wouldn't see the
legislature willingly giving up this money.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
What should go.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Away in Colorado is legalized marijuana, because that does so
much more harm. But that negative, I think that's pretty
darn clear. I think you probably just have an awful
lot of people who are hooked on it. I think
it's bad for the state economically. That money that's lost
there would help the state economy better somewhere else. But
that's not the test of whether something should be legal
(21:09):
or not, whether it's best for the state. No, that's
not the test, the ultimate absolute test. But you know,
it's a freedom. People like it. People enjoy it. It's
here to stay. I like it. I enjoy it, probably
because I've never had any temptation to go beyond my
comfort zone, which is very small wagers. I don't know
(21:29):
about you, Brian, do you ever feel like it's going
to get out of control? You just all right, you
just lost. It was a bad beat, and so now
you're going to double or triple down and you just
can't help yourself. You bet for me jets versus vikings,
so you don't care about either.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I am in a picks pool with people that I know,
and it's like you're saying, it's just a pittance amount.
Never gambled with that which you can't afford to lose.
Its entertainment and I always look at it like you
could spend that money in a Disney World or somebody
where else.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
You're not going to get that money back. You're going
to get the experience.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
But in gambling, you know, put the money out there,
you could win, could win it back, could win more.
But you got to go into the understanding that you
could lose, and you got to budget for that.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
But do you ever feel out of control?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
No, because you know why. I'm like, my dad doesn't
gamble at all.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
And it's interesting because he is an alcoholic and he's
recovering alcoholic. Why not, but that personality, he's like me,
I hate losing astronomically more than I like winning.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
That's yeah. The pain of losing is so much career
than the pleasure of winning because because you know, eventually,
that's why they have these big casinos, you're gonna end
up losing it. I was impressed Amy is on the road,
and so I went to the Nuggets game Saturday night.
That is an NBA championship team if they stay healthy,
you think the Nuggets, but talent level, experience level, also
(22:52):
team dynamics, all of that. Yeah, Pet's an NBA no
more Russ, right, but they have to say and I
like Russ, but they've got to stay healthy. You know
that the new guy that the new center dead ringer
for Jason, not Jason Kelcey, Travis Kelcey. And now I
realized nobody cares about it. But the point of Saturday
night was I took my nephew because Amy's on the
road and I'm so proud of him. He opened an
(23:14):
account with one hundred dollars two years ago and he
has never put any additional money in. He just always
stays in that range. And really a support of betting
app Yeah, he's never put it to see, That's that's
the way to do it. Texters says Trump was supposed
to have the renovation approved by Congress. Not true. It's
not required. You can bet if it was required, what
(23:36):
would we have seen by now? We would have seen
ten lawsuits in the first hour. We would have seen
an injunction if approval by Congress was required.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Where was the congressional approval for any other renovations made
to the previous president? The bowling alley by Nixon, the
basketball court adjustment by Obama. There was this glowing report
on CNN from the Obama terms, like twenty ten of
this happened Susanne Melvaux. I remember her doing this reporting.
They're giddy and they're like, oh, it's all being torn
(24:05):
up and here comes all the construction and nobody seemed
to have a problem with it.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Then no, there would have been lawsuits out there. You
know what? Speaking of the you know what, Dan Trump MRI,
it's to check to see why his blank is so big.
Thank you Abe for elevating our conversation. Dan and Ryan,
did you see President Trump doing the Trump dance on
his arrival in Malaysia? It sounded like he was dancing
to the Malaysian version of the theme to Hawaii five.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Oh oh, well, then I'm gonna have to find something.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I thought that you would. The next break, I thought
that you would. And then another interesting text about what
do you think the demos are on the people who
are doing the online sports betting? Text or says Dan,
if nothing else, I know the airport in Burlington sells
a fair bit of jet fuel. The private jets that
fly in just to place online bets and then go
(24:54):
on their way. That's fascinating, isn't it. That is fascinating
because I haven't even checked to see what's going on
with the surrounding states and legalization. But yeah, you could
see that they've got the app it's Colorado. They land
here and place some bets. Thank you, Texter. That's interesting.
Did not know that. Dan? Please tell Shah Ryan, please
(25:16):
tell Sheriff Frames that I love it when he fills
in for Dan. I think what they're really saying is,
let's get reams on here instead of Dan. I can
take it. I can take it, thick skin Dan. This
is why Trump is so unlikable, saying idiotic things like
there's a way around the twenty second amendments so he
can be president again at eighty four years old. I
don't think age should be a barrier. I always said
(25:38):
if Bill Clinton, if Bill Clinton was eligible to be
elected to a third term, the American people would have
elected him post impeachment. Is there any doubt about that?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
He was probably his approval rating sword in the wake
of the impeachment and the Monica Lewinsky scandal. I think
people rallied to him because they just felt like, you know,
you and I differ on this, but that it wasn't relevant.
Germane to the cause of him being president, that we
had already voted for him twice knowing that he was
a philanderers if this wasn't exactly breaking news or surprising,
But to your point, he was much more popular than
(26:08):
al Gore. Drying paint was more popular than al Gore.
And I don't know that w could have gone head
to head with Bill Clinton and won.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
No, Clinton would have won by mile.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah, probably by mile.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
And yeah, I don't want to relitigate it. Nobody wants
to listen to that. But to me, it was all
about the oath. You just the oath is foundational to America,
not just some nice ideal or anything to the functioning
of America. There has to be respect for the oath.
And when you have the president of the United States
blatantly committing perjury, and I understand people say, well, it
(26:45):
was on something minor, he shouldn't that shouldn't be all
against him. No, if he's not willing to answer those
questions just to fault the case, say you're not going
to sit for the depot rather than go in there
and lie under oath just to fault the case, pay
some money. You can't just come out and urinate all
over the Oath, which is foundational to the functioning of
this nation. Uh, Texter, angry with Trump? What about this
(27:11):
business anyway around the twenty second Amendment? He's just pulling
chains there. We've talked about it before. I'll go back
to I did myself a little memo on the law.
I don't believe it's as clear cut and simple. As
he runs for vice president on the ticket with jad
Vance and then Advance resigns, I think there'd be I
(27:32):
think we obviously end up with the US Supreme Court.
But it's not going to happen, so I spend the
time on it. He is just he is just living
rent free. You know where this Texter. I've said about
Trump not telling us what the MRI was for. Why
should he? Do you think Trump should have to tell
us what the MRI is for? To me, unless a
medical condition affects somebody's fitness to serve, why should they
(27:57):
have to tell us, particularly when they aren't running again,
I am kind of curious. I think it's probably in
the end nothing. It's probably some ortho thing and yeah,
maybe his back hurts or this or that, and they're
checking to see if there's some disk issue, but it
does drive the left crazy, which is great for us
because then they just look more and more unhinged to
(28:19):
the people and they'll get fewer votes. Dan more food
bank lies from you. Very unprofessional when this guy is
obsessed about food banks. I mentioned last week that my
wife works at a food bank, and he went off
about lefty creations and all this, and that, Hey, we
have a lot of ground to cover today, and it
(28:41):
goes well beyond what we were talking about there as
we look forward to things in the future that are
going to help get conservatives elected and defeat the left
when we come back. Pretty tempting to say this will
be exhibit A and you're going to see it play
out in a big, loud way in Colorado. You're on
the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast. Boy,
I'm liking that.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Do you remember the way Tom Sellix had used to
stick out the top of that Ferrari?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
But that's that's magnip I never watched either.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I just remember selicks Head because I went through that
phase when I was a lot younger, where hey, I
just wanted to Ferrari. By the way, I've never had
it just wanted one and then looked into that car
a little bit. Why not Dan treats yourself well, thank you, Ryan. Yeah,
you need his Amy's vote. I was just going to
give your number. But it's not her. She would always
want me to have whatever I could have. But it's
(29:49):
so it's it's not her. It's not her at all.
It's you know. Yeah, you would just.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
You're disciplined, you exercise restraint. I get it. They'd be
practical and you got rid of the Corvette.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Dan. Every day I think about getting that car back,
my good friend Dan Johnson. I bought it from Lenn
Lyles Chevrolet Dan Johnson. It's a great GM over there.
I know he ended up selling it off once I
once I sold it back to him.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Especially once people found out it had been your car.
I believe me.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
They weren't telling me that they wanted to sell it. Yeah,
it might be the only car I ever made money on,
other than my first car that I bought for seventy
five and sold for a hundred. But yeah, what a
great car. I think all the time about getting that
car back. But No, to me, the Ferrari would just
seem it would just seem kind of gluttonous and excessive ostentatious. Ah,
(30:50):
that's a good word.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Over the top.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yeah, that's a good word.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I think it could be tastefully done.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I think there are works of art. I mean, if
I was to ever get a Ferrari, and I haven't,
I'd be more inclined to buy it as a work
of art, drain it and have it put maybe like
in the lobby of the office or something like that,
just as a work of art. I just think they're
beautiful works of art, just like I thought that corvette
was a beautiful work of art. Certainly is and it
(31:16):
still is. Yeah. Wow, all righty boy, we got some
angry people out there today. A little hard to figure. Dan.
The election granted Trump police on the White House not
a quick claim deed for ownership the owners of the
American people. And he's supposed to go through this step
or that step. No, he isn't. He's not required to
do any of that. And Tom, here's the proof. If
(31:37):
he was required to take any step that he didn't,
he would have been sued on it immediately. It's the
only thing he's done other than taking a leak. He
hasn't been sued on. Now Here is the point I
was making before the break about more good news to
come for conservatism in America and how we're going to
see it play out big time in Colorado. Here's New
(31:58):
York Governor Kathy Hokeel all that sorn. We take back America.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Thank you Queens, thank you New York.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I love it. Yeah. So talking about this soon to
be next mayor of New York, this open communist mom
dommy right, So Mom, Donnie, Mom, Donnie. I better get
used to saying that because he is going to be
the mayor of New York and we're going to talk
about him a lot because he's going to do things
(32:25):
that are so horrible. A we have to talk about it,
and B we want to talk about it because it's
going to help bury the left. And the reason I
mentioned Colorado is once this guy wins, I mean, this
is their fantasy that this is who they really are.
It's like the cicadas. And I'm not trying to compare
humans to insects, but it's the first example that occurred
(32:46):
to me. So you have all these hardcore socialists very
active in the Colorado Democratic Party, many holding power positions,
but they have to, you know, wear this mask, and
they have to act moderate or at least less open
about their socialism slash communism than Mom Donnie. And as
(33:07):
soon as he wins Ryan, they're not going to be
able to help themselves. They're going to be like those
cicadas coming right out of the ground. And I can
make that comparison. Kyle Clark did that to Michael Bennett, right, Sure,
did call them the cicada of controversy or something pops
up once every seventeen years thirteen. I think it was
a great line, yes, But anyway, the point being that
(33:28):
that's what's going to happen in Colorado is a bunch
of these elected dams and other powerful dams. They're going
to be so intoxicated by him winning they're just going
to drop the mask and come into the open and
just start openly advocating this raw socialism that they really
believe in. And that will be great for conservatism because
America doesn't want to go there. It's still dangerous because
(33:51):
you have a certain percentage of folks who do just
want us to become a socialist nation, and a lot
of people assume, oh, okay, that those are just people
who want the government to take care of them. Right. No, Wrong,
That's where the Democratic Party messes up all the time,
and we in the Republican Party sometimes don't see it. Right.
(34:13):
You have so many people who are dependent on government
benefits who don't want socialism. They don't want to be
on government benefits. They never vote for socialists. They are
true patriots with love of country. They just find themselves
in a position where they are on government benefits. And
then you've got another group of folks who they don't
(34:34):
need government benefits, and they may be very well intentioned,
and they just think that, oh, okay, if we have socialism,
there'll be more equity and equality, and then you'll end
up with so many people in a better place. They
just don't understand. They don't read history, they haven't looked
at it. You know, it's just kind of puppies and rainbows,
(34:54):
Unicorn's kind of thing for them. But you put different
groups together, starting with the hard socialists. They just don't
like America. They want it torn down, and they know
socialism does that. So you start adding some of the
well intentioned, uninformed folks to the hardcore socialists who want
that to the Democratic Party, which now sees it it's
(35:16):
life flying because it's it's dying. It's going right down
the toilet. Most places in America, some places the trend
line is steeper than others. But yeah, all of a sudden,
it's real enough that you should be concerned about it.
But here in Colorado, it'll just come so much more
out in the open, and I don't believe Coloradin's are
(35:38):
there at all at all. So this again something that
will help create a little bit of opening for the
GOP by opening more eyes to who the left really
is in Colorado. Right now three h three someone three
eight two five five the number. A lot to do
in the five o'clock cower. I do want to talk
to you about traffic cams as well, because there are
(35:58):
some more going in right now. Do you think we
need more everywhere as we see more carnage on the
roadway you're on the Dan Kapla show man.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
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