July 17, 2026 • 35 mins
This week on the Dan Caplis Show, we're tackling some of the most pressing issues facing our country and state. From election integrity to the impact of legalized marijuana, our host is not holding back on his thoughts and opinions. If you're looking for a dose of reality and a healthy dose of skepticism, you're in the right place.
This episode covers a range of topics, from the media's role in shaping public opinion to the consequences of Colorado's decision to legalize marijuana. Our host shares his thoughts on the importance of election integrity and how the media's manipulation of information can have a significant impact on the outcome of elections. He also delves into the issue of marijuana use among teenagers and the potential consequences of legalization.
One of the most striking aspects of this episode is the host's candid discussion of the Democratic Party's approach to election integrity and voter ID laws. He argues that the party's opposition to voter ID is motivated by a desire to maintain their power and influence, rather than a genuine concern for the rights of voters. He also touches on the issue of same-day voting and the potential for voter fraud.
If you're interested in hearing more of our host's thoughts on these critical issues, tune in to this episode of the Dan Caplis Show. With his signature blend of humor and straight talk, he's not afraid to tackle the tough topics and offer his unique perspective.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Kaplis Show. Please be sure to
give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind,
and to subscribe, download and listen to the show every
single day on your favorite podcast platform. Election integrity, right,
So what do we need to do to make it better?
We're breaking down the president's address last night, but talking
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in broader terms. If you agree with my thesis, election
integrity gets threatened in so many different ways, and we
can look at practically, I mean, like real world, we
can prove it up impact. Right now, how election meddling
by the media likely changed the outcome of the twenty
twenty election because the media censored that Hudter Biden laptop story,
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which would have indicted Joe Biden in so many different ways.
And it was a gross abuse of power. Now, it's
not illegal, but it's a moral it's unethical, it's a
dereliction of duty, it's a denial of the intended role
of the press in our society. And it was a
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form of election interference. And we see ongoing media manipulation
and election cycles, which which again it's not illegal, but
it is a form of election interference, because it's one thing.
If somebody's just out there saying the course of whether
it's a TV broadcast or whatever, saying, hey, this is commentary,
I say, Okay, that's that guy's opinion or that gal's opinion.
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I'll weigh it and see what I think. But when
they manipulate the news, when they manipulate debates, when they
censor stories, when they report things that are false, all
to influence the outcome of election, that's that's a form,
in my opinion, of election interference. Again, it's not criminal,
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but the impact is just as bad. Three all three
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calls and texts. So we're going to talk about that.
We've got this other topic going that fascinates me. We
played the sound earlier. But Colorado man living here now
who was switched at births and now suing the hospital
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thirty five years old, just after all those years of hey,
I'm the only blonde in this family, I don't look
like anybody here. Having the DNA test done. I'm not laughing,
but I am having the DNA tech. Not on purpose,
having the DNA test done and then all of a
sudden you find out your parents are not your parents
and they unwind it all and the babies were switched
in the hospital. Is the allegation, Yeah, what do you
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do with that? And if you ever thought of running
out and having DNA tests done because you thought something
didn't look or feel right. So we got that going
for us too, So we'll play a lot of sound
on that. I do want to get to our great Texters,
and we continue to get text on the governor's race
as well, just out of the blue, which is always
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over the decades, a pretty obvious sign right that there's
a real intensity out there on both sides. This one
Dan suggesting Marx run a conventional campaign is ridiculous. I'd
love to have the chance to talk to that Texter
because I'm what is a conventional campaign? I don't know
that there is such a thing anymore, but I think
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there are certain absolute, certain common denominators that apply no
matter what form. Then you know the campaign takes. And
one is if you're running for governor Republican or Democrat,
but especially as a Republican where it's uphill. If you're
running for governor. It has to be perpetual motion from
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the beginning to the end. And for those people who say, well, Dan,
come on, you're a cave man, it's all about social media. Now,
I wish you could see both of my hands right now,
give me a break. I know that world, right, I
know that world in lots of different ways, and it
is a factor. It is a factor. It is something
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that any good campaign is going to need and need
to do well. But are you trying to tell me
that maximizing maximizing free media, maximizing TV time, maximizing time
on radio stations around the state shouldn't be an absolutely
essential part of any campaign. I'd love to hear the
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logic behind that. I've never heard anybody actually try to
make that argument, but I'd love to hear the logic
behind that, because what do you think? It was a
key part of his success from day one, his willingness
to go anywhere, give anybody an interview, no matter how
biased and awful the left he was. He would sit
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down and do interviews, He'd do interviews with conservative media.
He was everywhere at once because he wanted to win, right.
So if somebody's going to try to make the case
know a GOP candidate should not be on TV, should
not be on the radio, should just sit there and
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put out videos on social media. I would love to
have that conversation three or three someone three eight two
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I want to get you some sound before we get
back to our texters. This is the President and this
is just kind of the basic setup sound from last night.
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But then we'll spin off that is that. Can you
queue up fourteen for us? This is President Trump announcing
the declassification of election fraud documents.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Tonight, I'm announcing the immediate declassification and release of critical
intelligence revealing shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
This evidence shows that the election.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
System we have dangerously exposes and really exposes like levels
never thought by possible hacking, exploitation and foreign interference. Just
as disturbingly, this vital information has for many years been
covered up and hidden from you. The American people are beautiful,
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are great American people, But that all changes right now.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So as you know, part of the gist of the
President's remarks is is hey, China was trying to meddle
the Biden administration knew it and then tried to keep
that from the American people. I think that sums up
one of the points the President was making in terms
of vulnerabilities. Yeah, and we should have zero tolerance, right,
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But one of the challenges is that in federal elections,
we have fifty different states running those elections. And that's
absolutely fine. I'm just saying that that's one of the
mechanical challenges. But there aren't a lot that there's no
question there are vulnerabilities, and then the question is, Okay,
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how do you best address it? And it's really hard
when you've got the leadership of one party that doesn't
want to address it at all because their survival plan.
Their survival plan, i believe, is bringing people here illegally
and getting them to vote for the Democrats. They don't
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have any interest in addressing election integrity in any kind
of good way. I mean, they're out there fighting tooth
and nail against voter ID and they're doing it shamelessly.
And why is it. I mean, I think it's a
reasonable inference that they're doing it because the day you're
required to show an ID to vote, they lose a
lot of votes. That that must be their belief, why
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else would they oppose voter id And has anybody ever
come up with any other explanation for why the Democrats
so mercilessly have been attracting people to make that long
day Jurish journey to this country illegally other than for
Democrat votes. Does anybody believe that Democrats are doing this
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out of the goodness of their heart? No, because if
they cared at all about humanity, and that those who
control the Democratic Party prove over and over again they
do not care about human life unless it's their owner,
their cronies. If they cared at all about humanity, they'd
be joining the Republicans and trying to discourage illegal immigration.
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You know, how many women are raped? How many children
are trafficked? You know through this mass illegal immigration, through
those open borders. All these Democrats knew the answer was many, many,
many men many how many women in this country would
then be raped by somebody here illegally. It's a very
very small percentage of people who come here illegally who
commit those kind of violent crimes. But there shouldn't be
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any There shouldn't be anybody in this country, any woman
raped in this country by somebody here illegally, but the
Democrats don't care about that. Oh, wide open borders, knowing,
knowing that among the many people coming to this country
who don't have other criminal records, there would be a
significant number who are vicious, vicious criminals. But it just
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comes back to the Democrats not caring about human life,
not caring about women. And it's like, I don't know, Ryan, Ryan,
I'm sorry, Zach, that's a compliment. If you saw the
latest story in the Denver Post, it's part of a
national feed of outrage over somebody here illegally or suspected
to be tackled in the Las Vegas airport. Well, hey,
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if that was a bad arrest, then shouldn't happen learn
the lessons might have been a good arrest. But here's
the point. When do you ever see that kind of
outrage from the left of their news media over that
the women who are raped and murdered by illegal immigrants.
You never see that, never see that. What explains that
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The only thing that can possibly explain something so fundamentally
inhumane and in insulting as the media downplaying the stories
of the victims here is is that they want these
votes that the media arm of the Democratic Party, which
is most of the media out there. You know, it
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just sees all these folks come in here illegal the
votes for the Democrats. How do we fix it? Three
or three? Is that one? Three eight two five five,
dn five seven, seven, three nine. I'll tell you one
of the real practical fixes that I think we need
sooner or later. And you can't legislat it. You can't
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impose it that way. It's not illegal. But the way
the media interferes with elections by censoring stories that are Democrats,
by telling lies that help Democrats, by rigging debates in
favor of Democrats. I think the only way you change
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that is consumers voting with their feet. And that's that's
not that easy to accomplish, right three out three seOne
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How do we make our elections safer? How do we
build in more election integrity? Here on the Dan Kapli Show.
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Now back to the Dan Kapler Show Podcast. Another gorgeous
Friday afternoon across the Rockies. Hot yeah, excuse me. It's
gonna be hot and dry throughout the weekend as well,
particularly if you're in the front range. Really anywhere in
the state, though better chance of isolated rain across the
state other places. Whether pattern looks like it's going to
take a little bit of a shift Monday in most
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places in Colorado, and a little bit better chance of
precipitation throughout the week. Let's hope we keep going in
that direction. If you just joined us, thank you. Talking
about a lot of interesting things. This after centered around
election integrity and President Trump's address last night, but much
more ground we want to cover as well. I wanted
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to at least give you a peek at this Denver
Post story because it repeats the big lie that you
hear all over the country right now. But I just
need you to know it's a lie and to act accordingly.
This story does have some important true information in it.
It says more teams with cannabis use disorder are facing
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treatment delays, study fines, and this is a wire service piece.
As federal officials consider whether to reclassify marijuana under federal
drug law, a new study has found that more American
teenagers seeking treatment for cannabis use disorder known as CUD
CUD are facing longer wait times before receiving care. Now
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that part's true, and important, and I'm glad they did
the story. But the reason this is happening is because
there's much more of it, and there's much more of
it because of legalization. Now the story is, you'll see,
it goes on to repeat the big lie that teen
use is actually leveling off. Absolute garbage. Let me find
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where the study published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine,
and that's a big one. Analyze national data from more
than one hundred and twenty four thousand adolescent admissions to
publicly funded substance abuse treatment facilities between twelve and twenty two.
Researchers found that after several years of decline, the share
of young people experiencing delays and accessing treatment increase sharply. Yeah,
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why do you think it increased sharply? Because there's a
lot more of it, This legalization kick that began in
Colorado in twenty four and just continues to snowball. And
then the story goes on to say that, you know,
adolescent use is leveling off or declining. That is garbage.
And whenever somebody is citing a study like that, what
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I suggest you do is drill down. Just see what
they link to look at the study. What you'll see
is is almost always those studies require teams to self report. Hey, teenager,
let me ask you whether you're doing something illegal that
would get you kicked out of school and grounded and
all these other terrible things. Are you doing that thing
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or not? Oh, we'll keep it confidentially. That kind of garbage. No,
no objective indicators are as one would expect with an
addictive substance like this that most of the civilized world
has made illegal for many years for very good reason,
the harm it causes kids. To start with that, if
all of a sudden you legalize it and you green
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light it, then you're gonna have a lot more kids
doing it. Right, nothing else would make any sense, And
of course that's what we're experiencing. But because you now
have even the New York Times starting to say, what
have we made a big mistake on marijuana? Got this
big dollar industry and the left that depends on a
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drugged up population. Because the more drugged up the population is,
the more dependent it is on government. Why do you
think the left favors legalized drugs so now they have
to peddle the big lie They don't know teen use
has leveled off. Garbage. Here's who you should ask. And
I saw a study out there on this that was
just brilliant. Ask principles, Ask school resource officers, or best
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of all, Best of all, look for the polls of
middle school and high school kids who are then asked
what percentage of your classmates are using marijuana? And you
can rely on those numbers, and those numbers are all
very high and growing, just as common sense would tell
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you it would until our society, you know, just wisens
up and gets to the point where it says, you
know what, We're not willing to harm our kids this
way anymore. It's not worth it, and it really isn't.
I mean, if there's ever a gazillionaire steps forward with
the money to fund the kind of campaign it would
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take to repeal Amendment sixty four in Colorado, that should
probably be the slogan it's just not worth it, because
I think for political slogans to work, they have to
be absolutely true. They have to ring true immediately. They
don't take any explanation or any deep thought or anything else.
It's just a quick punch and yeah, that's true. It
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just isn't worth it because you get these arguments about
legalized marijuana that hey, it's good for this, or it's
good for that, or look at the money they use
to build a school over here where now thirty percent
of the kids you know, really can't focus in there
because their habitual marijuana users is so you will hear
some people make some plus arguments for legalized marijuana that
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maybe you don't immediately dismiss. But here's the key. When
people weigh it, when informed people weigh it, there's only
one clear answer. It's just not worth it. So if
you're a gazillionaire and you're willing to fund this campaign,
you know, I'll work for free on it. I'll take
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the lead on it. But I don't have anywhere near
the kind of money it would take to run this campaign.
Because the Left they will print money. I mean, it'll
all be legal, but they will print money to keep
marijuana legal because they know it's more. First of all,
old style marijuana was so damaging that no other place
in the world had ever legalized it the way Colorado did,
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and in the manner Colorado did before Colorado did. But
this krakle Wana they're pushing now, No, the Left will
fight to the death and spend any amount of money
to keep dumping that crap into the kids, because they
know a drugged population is a dependent population, and a
dependent population votes for lefties. That's their formula. Dependent population
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plus attracting plenty of people to come here illegally and
then vote for him. But that's the left schame three
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five seven seven three nine. Hey, one of the great
inspirational messages of all time, brought to life. On the
other side, You're on the Dan Kaplas Show. You're listening
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to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast. Oh glorious Friday afternoon
phone lines in Fuego. Let's start up in beautiful Fort Collins, Tyler,
You're on the Dan Caplis Show. Welcome.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
How are you, sir?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I'm living the dream? How about you?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Indeed, indeed, hey, you know, with everything with standing politically
in Colorado right now, I was just curious what it
would take for you in the upcoming scenario to say
that Colorado is a place worth leaving.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Boy, what a great question. I see. My friend Jeff
Hunt raised that very provocative question the other day, and
I just got done promoing for Monday Show John Caldera,
who has a great peace out on the long list
of harms that a Wiser as governor with the Democrat
legislature will inflict. So your question is right on for me.
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Probably there's no level of harm that would force me
out of the state because our kids are grown. But
I've got a believe that let's say our kids right now,
you know they're three years apart, Let's say they were
three and six, I think we'd be very close to
leaving just the way it is now, let alone how
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much worse it's going to get soon if Wiser's elected
and has a Democrat legislature.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
What if Jennet Griswold's elected.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
You know, that's a good point. I don't think Griswold
is going to have the impact on public safety and
daily quality of life in Colorado that Wiser is going
to have. For the worse with the Democrat legislature. I
think Griswold and that's why you see many Democrats afraid
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of her. I think that that's more just going to
be kind of a dark cloud hanging over the state
as you probably lose some really good prosecutors. You put
just like she lost some good people from her other office,
and then you have this constant fear of politically motivated
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prosecutions and that sort of thing. But in terms of
everyday impact on Tyler from Fort Collins or Dan or
any of us, I think that's going to be much
more wiser driven.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Well, if that's the point, I mean, what if what
if we are not looking up this solid picture as
a whole as much as we should be. I mean,
look at look at the gun regulations that are coming,
Look at you know, go down the list of things.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Oh yeah, Tyler. If your point is they want to
run us out, you're one hundred percent right. I don't
think they've ever been subtle about that. There's this personal
there's this personal animosity from so many of these Democrats
towards so many of us, and I think they've made
it clear they want us gone.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Oh yeah, this is the California formula. This is this
is I don't know how long you've been in Colorado.
I've been here for forty seven years a native, and
I've watched this place go from top five to bottom five.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Yeah. I've been here about the same amount of time,
a little longer than you have. But you're right about that.
But you know who I blame is is I blame
the Colorado Republican Party exactly because and I mean I
include all of us as part of that.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, because you know, the lefties are who they are, yep.
And it's it's our responsibility to find a way to
stop that and turn it around. Now, they've given us
a great opening. Now, don't you think by just coming
out as openly socialist?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
I think so. I mean, I don't know, I don't
know what people are looking for. I mean I really don't.
I walk you and I walk around everybody walks around
the same people in the supermarket, so to the football
game and all. And these are the people that are
asking for this. And at what point do you say,
you know what, here's the bathtub that you've drawn and
you need to sit in this damn thing.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Well, what what makes you think they're asking for the
bad stuff?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Well, indirectly or directly, because something is working for them
at the point in this thing, and that you and
I know better that the end the end of this,
this whatever trial that is going on, this experiment is
not going to work.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Yeah. But but but what I would I what I'd
submit to you, Tyler, is that I don't think these
folks at the grocery store that you and I wonder about,
I don't think they're looking for any of this bad stuff.
I mean, you have the activist lefties who are, but
I'm talking about your typical person as a former Democrat.
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I really think what's going on is you just have
so many of those people who could never even imagine
voting for a Republican, even when the Colorado GOP was
at its peak, just couldn't imagine voting for a Republican
habit the way they were born, the stereotypes, etc. And
then when we went into the bad years, what's that?
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Yeah, that's the mind game that's been that when you
raise people to want for nothing more than scraps off
the table, than they are thrilled when they get it.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
You see, I respectfully disagree. I don't think anybody really
wants that. I think that I think that people get
to a point where they think, realistically, there's no alternative
because they could not imagine voting for publicans. I think
it's our job to change that, not with everybody, but
with enough people that we can turn the ship around.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Turnout in the GOP ubernatorial race.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Oh my lord. Yeah, that was so pathetic, so pathetically low.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
So what are we talking about right now?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
We're I think what we're talking about. If you want
to talk about the low turnout for the GOP. I
think that's explainable in a few different ways, including Barb
who I think it very, very talented and would have
been a great governor. As far as I could tell
from the outside, her campaign didn't really gear up until
the legislative session ended because she had all that important
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JBC work. And then Victor from what I can tell,
and hey, they ran a brilliant campaign and figured out
how to win there, but it was kind of a
close to the vast stay focused on our core supporters
rather than a growth orient its strategy. Scott actually generated
a pretty fair number of votes, but you still end
up with your winner getting two hundred and eight thousand
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votes Greg Greg Lopez got way way more than that,
finishing second to Heidi four years before.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Indeed, and now we sit in the same position that
the Republican Party is going to tear each other apart
until the Democrats just lick their fingers and go, thank
you well.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I see it a little differently there, Tyler. I think
that every single cycle that I can remember, for a
long time, the GOP has been divided and therefore the
GOP candidate has had zero chance of winning. Now, there
are different reasons in each cycle for why the GOP
is divided, but can you remember I can't remember a
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cycle since Bill Owens. One is second term when the
GOP was united behind their gubernatorial nominee.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Well, that's the exact point, is that the Democrats will
give you two options. One is cyanied and the other
is rat poison, and either.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Will You're well that the Democrats have this built in
advantage in the state right because of the negative brand
of the GOP combined with the media, most of it
being solidly in the Democrats camp. That isn't to whine,
it's not to make excuses. It's just to do the
calculus and say that's what we've got overcome. But we
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know the math. We know if if you don't have
a united GOP, then you got no chance in the general. Well,
so that's that. That's why it's a tough job for
any of our nominees. But every nominee has this burden
of having to unite the party, because if they don't,
they've got no choice, no chance. Pardon me. So the
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question then, is, okay, Victor one that the primary fare
and square, what's he going to do now to unite
the GOP so that there's a chance in the general
he's going to.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Stay away from Democrat media.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Well, listen, I'd love to speak with somebody who sees
it differently, but I don't care who the candidate is,
any GOP candidate in the history of Colorado for governor.
If that, if that candidate is not willing to go
everywhere talk to everyone, including typically Democrat groups and bastions,
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they have no chance. You can't win this race with
just Republicans. You got to be at every Kiwanis clubs.
I mean, you can't go to literally every meeting. You
got to be all over the state. You got to
be on every significant media outlet as often as they'll
have you. You have to be speaking to Democrat groups.
Look at the Trump model, and if somebody is not
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willing to do that in this race or any of
the races for the last one hundred years in Colorado,
they have no chance.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Yeah, but we've we've just we've got back to the
past Democrat rule. What you're going to do in front
of Democrat run media, if that's going to determine your outcome.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Well, but what we know is if you look at
the Republican candidates who have been successful locally and nationally,
they do that. They don't say. Look at Trump. He
goes on Democrat media all the time, and because he
knows that's the way to reach the people, and he
can cut through to enough of them, because he's good
enough and he's talented enough, he can cut through enough
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of them to make a difference.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Sure, but when we're in Colorado and how much what
percent of media in Colorado do you think is Democrat running?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Probably eighty five percent. But listen, if you're going to
be afraid of that and you're going to say, Okay,
I'm not going to take that free TV time because
they lean Democrat, just quit the race. I mean, because
if you're going to run to win, you have to
have enough confidence in yourself to be able to go
into the lions den and stand up, Hey man, you
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are a great caller. I hope you call every day.
I've got to hit this heartbreak everybody else on the
line I'll get to you right out of that. You're
on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
I don't think a woman that lives in a senior
community that's going to be seventy seven years old next month,
we'll be driving around with what this plate has to say.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Zach was trying to figure out that bumper music Send
your emails please to Zach. But then then I heard
the bite. It does fit. What that woman from Florida's
referring to is the state just randomly issued her the
license plate sqz A five to five and the fives
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look like s's sqz A five to five. That's what
she was upset about. That's what led to Zach's bumper
music there. So Zach, the creative spirit has appreciated my friend.
And hey, when you get an opportunity to play some
sir mix a lot, you gotta yeah that that is rare, right,
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that is rare. What what year is that from? Seems
like Fred Flinstone was singing that.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Yeah, definitely somewhere in the nineties, I think early nineties,
but yeah, before my time.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Yeah, yeah it h I think they stopped playing that
at weddings a few years ago. Trying to remember the
last time I heard it. But anyway, let's go back
to the phone line there in Fuego, which we always appreciate.
Rob from Lakewood, you're on the Dan Kaplas show.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Welcome, Hey Dan, Thanks taking my call, Jurn. Brief thing,
uh is on election integrity. We need to go the
same day voting, just like we did when I first
came to Colorado. Would valid government ID if it's not
a driver's license, and you know, just regular ID card,
not a paychecks, not a utility bill, et cetera, but
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valid ID? And if we need to have the discussion
about making a national holiday so more people can easily vote.
Find I'm not opposed to absentee ballots being mailed out,
but this wholesale mailing out of ballots is just craziness,
and it is something the Democrats will fight to keep
because they like the craziness, because it serves their best interest.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Well, Rob, I'm so glad you brought us back to
this question of same day voting. I think as a
practical matter that's gone forever just as a matter of convenience,
But is there a way we can at least limit
it limited to maybe same week because how it distorts
the process to have Americans voting based on different information.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Well, exactly, I'm not opposed to having two or three
days particular sites, but again, stringent qualifications as to ID,
and we make sure you're veted as best we can.
And I suppose there'll still be room for some kind
of fraud, but not the extent that it is now,
as Democrats can set their election results of the election
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and then keep counting for a week or two to
make sure.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Well, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the great.
I mean, just because we can't have a perfect system,
because every human endeavor has some kind of flaw, it
should be as good as we can possibly make it.
And you know, when you stop, and I don't mean
to get all heavy on this, but when you stop
and think about it, it's such an insult to the
men and women who died so we could have this franchise,
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so we could have this right to vote, that we
treat it so frivolous, frivolously, we don't even require an
ID for people to vote. Yeah, but that's that's why
we see a cross party lot. It's large majority supporting
voter ID. It's the elected Democrats who don't want it
because they're afraid they won't get elected again.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Correct, and they probably would greatly minimize their opportunities for sure,
if not stop it, because you're right, they're not going
to have the margin of error for what they've got
to work with at this point.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
If true voter ideas required, many fewer people are going
to be willing to take that risk right of showing
up with a fake idea. They may do it at
a bar, but not to vote. Yeah, hey, man, appreciate
the call. Thank you for that. Have a good weekend.
Hard to believe the weekends here, Zach. My goodness. Oh,
I think we've got Alan from Kenyon City right on
daylight savings time popular subject this week. By the way,
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I have come down hard in my own mind in
favor of not changing it to full time daylight savings
Alan from Canyon. How you doing, my friend?
Speaker 7 (33:33):
I'm doing all right? How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
There is profound sadness in our family. In fact, my wife,
who's one of the strongest humans I've ever known, is
literally very close to tears because we have not seen
the kittens now for over twenty four hours. And the
fear is that maybe mom relocated him because we have dogs,
so we're just we're literally praying they come back. We've
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also got people lined up to adopt them.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Oh shoot, oh my goodness. Yeah, yeah, you better get
dogs with her area. Try to get them back.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
You're gonna lose them. Yeah, no, we have fought hard
to do that. We have fought hard to do it.
But but yes, so, my friend, you'll be the last
call for the week. In fact, we only have about
thirty seconds. Where do you come down on daylight savings time?
Speaker 7 (34:28):
Okay? Great, okay, I was farmara ratcher for years, that
dead livestock for years. Now. Whenever you start changing your
time to feed cattle or any animals, you know, you
change that time and it throws them off their feet.
You know what I'm talking about. When you throw them
off your feet?
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Makes sense?
Speaker 8 (34:51):
Okay, yeah, it makes sense the same way it trickles down.
When you're ready for supper at six o'clock, you're ready,
you have to wait another hour. A lot of people
lose their appetite just how to stay with his livestock.
You'll either have him buzzed out of your fists or
go somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
That'll be the last word for this week. Ellen, hope
we hear from you again soon. Thank you for that, Zach,
tremendous job. Thank you my friend. Hey John Kelt, there
are a great piece out on what a wiser governorship
with the Democrat legislature will look like for Colorado. It's
very specific, it's very concerning. We'll talk about that Monday
on the Dan Kaplis Show. Have a great weekend.
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Kaplis Show. Please be sure to
give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind,
and to subscribe, download and listen to the show every
single day on your favorite podcast platform. Election integrity, right,
So what do we need to do to make it better?
We're breaking down the president's address last night, but talking
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in broader terms. If you agree with my thesis, election
integrity gets threatened in so many different ways, and we
can look at practically, I mean, like real world, we
can prove it up impact. Right now, how election meddling
by the media likely changed the outcome of the twenty
twenty election because the media censored that Hudter Biden laptop story,
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which would have indicted Joe Biden in so many different ways.
And it was a gross abuse of power. Now, it's
not illegal, but it's a moral it's unethical, it's a
dereliction of duty, it's a denial of the intended role
of the press in our society. And it was a
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form of election interference. And we see ongoing media manipulation
and election cycles, which which again it's not illegal, but
it is a form of election interference, because it's one thing.
If somebody's just out there saying the course of whether
it's a TV broadcast or whatever, saying, hey, this is commentary,
I say, Okay, that's that guy's opinion or that gal's opinion.
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I'll weigh it and see what I think. But when
they manipulate the news, when they manipulate debates, when they
censor stories, when they report things that are false, all
to influence the outcome of election, that's that's a form,
in my opinion, of election interference. Again, it's not criminal,
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but the impact is just as bad. Three all three
seven one three eight two five five d A N
five seven seven three. So we'll get to lots of
calls and texts. So we're going to talk about that.
We've got this other topic going that fascinates me. We
played the sound earlier. But Colorado man living here now
who was switched at births and now suing the hospital
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thirty five years old, just after all those years of hey,
I'm the only blonde in this family, I don't look
like anybody here. Having the DNA test done. I'm not laughing,
but I am having the DNA tech. Not on purpose,
having the DNA test done and then all of a
sudden you find out your parents are not your parents
and they unwind it all and the babies were switched
in the hospital. Is the allegation, Yeah, what do you
(02:38):
do with that? And if you ever thought of running
out and having DNA tests done because you thought something
didn't look or feel right. So we got that going
for us too, So we'll play a lot of sound
on that. I do want to get to our great Texters,
and we continue to get text on the governor's race
as well, just out of the blue, which is always
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over the decades, a pretty obvious sign right that there's
a real intensity out there on both sides. This one
Dan suggesting Marx run a conventional campaign is ridiculous. I'd
love to have the chance to talk to that Texter
because I'm what is a conventional campaign? I don't know
that there is such a thing anymore, but I think
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there are certain absolute, certain common denominators that apply no
matter what form. Then you know the campaign takes. And
one is if you're running for governor Republican or Democrat,
but especially as a Republican where it's uphill. If you're
running for governor. It has to be perpetual motion from
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the beginning to the end. And for those people who say, well, Dan,
come on, you're a cave man, it's all about social media. Now,
I wish you could see both of my hands right now,
give me a break. I know that world, right, I
know that world in lots of different ways, and it
is a factor. It is a factor. It is something
(04:03):
that any good campaign is going to need and need
to do well. But are you trying to tell me
that maximizing maximizing free media, maximizing TV time, maximizing time
on radio stations around the state shouldn't be an absolutely
essential part of any campaign. I'd love to hear the
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logic behind that. I've never heard anybody actually try to
make that argument, but I'd love to hear the logic
behind that, because what do you think? It was a
key part of his success from day one, his willingness
to go anywhere, give anybody an interview, no matter how
biased and awful the left he was. He would sit
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down and do interviews, He'd do interviews with conservative media.
He was everywhere at once because he wanted to win, right.
So if somebody's going to try to make the case
know a GOP candidate should not be on TV, should
not be on the radio, should just sit there and
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put out videos on social media. I would love to
have that conversation three or three someone three eight two
five five d an five seven seven three nine. So
I want to get you some sound before we get
back to our texters. This is the President and this
is just kind of the basic setup sound from last night.
(05:29):
But then we'll spin off that is that. Can you
queue up fourteen for us? This is President Trump announcing
the declassification of election fraud documents.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Tonight, I'm announcing the immediate declassification and release of critical
intelligence revealing shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
This evidence shows that the election.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
System we have dangerously exposes and really exposes like levels
never thought by possible hacking, exploitation and foreign interference. Just
as disturbingly, this vital information has for many years been
covered up and hidden from you. The American people are beautiful,
(06:14):
are great American people, But that all changes right now.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So as you know, part of the gist of the
President's remarks is is hey, China was trying to meddle
the Biden administration knew it and then tried to keep
that from the American people. I think that sums up
one of the points the President was making in terms
of vulnerabilities. Yeah, and we should have zero tolerance, right,
(06:41):
But one of the challenges is that in federal elections,
we have fifty different states running those elections. And that's
absolutely fine. I'm just saying that that's one of the
mechanical challenges. But there aren't a lot that there's no
question there are vulnerabilities, and then the question is, Okay,
(07:01):
how do you best address it? And it's really hard
when you've got the leadership of one party that doesn't
want to address it at all because their survival plan.
Their survival plan, i believe, is bringing people here illegally
and getting them to vote for the Democrats. They don't
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have any interest in addressing election integrity in any kind
of good way. I mean, they're out there fighting tooth
and nail against voter ID and they're doing it shamelessly.
And why is it. I mean, I think it's a
reasonable inference that they're doing it because the day you're
required to show an ID to vote, they lose a
lot of votes. That that must be their belief, why
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else would they oppose voter id And has anybody ever
come up with any other explanation for why the Democrats
so mercilessly have been attracting people to make that long
day Jurish journey to this country illegally other than for
Democrat votes. Does anybody believe that Democrats are doing this
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out of the goodness of their heart? No, because if
they cared at all about humanity, and that those who
control the Democratic Party prove over and over again they
do not care about human life unless it's their owner,
their cronies. If they cared at all about humanity, they'd
be joining the Republicans and trying to discourage illegal immigration.
(08:28):
You know, how many women are raped? How many children
are trafficked? You know through this mass illegal immigration, through
those open borders. All these Democrats knew the answer was many, many,
many men many how many women in this country would
then be raped by somebody here illegally. It's a very
very small percentage of people who come here illegally who
commit those kind of violent crimes. But there shouldn't be
(08:50):
any There shouldn't be anybody in this country, any woman
raped in this country by somebody here illegally, but the
Democrats don't care about that. Oh, wide open borders, knowing,
knowing that among the many people coming to this country
who don't have other criminal records, there would be a
significant number who are vicious, vicious criminals. But it just
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comes back to the Democrats not caring about human life,
not caring about women. And it's like, I don't know, Ryan, Ryan,
I'm sorry, Zach, that's a compliment. If you saw the
latest story in the Denver Post, it's part of a
national feed of outrage over somebody here illegally or suspected
to be tackled in the Las Vegas airport. Well, hey,
(09:36):
if that was a bad arrest, then shouldn't happen learn
the lessons might have been a good arrest. But here's
the point. When do you ever see that kind of
outrage from the left of their news media over that
the women who are raped and murdered by illegal immigrants.
You never see that, never see that. What explains that
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The only thing that can possibly explain something so fundamentally
inhumane and in insulting as the media downplaying the stories
of the victims here is is that they want these
votes that the media arm of the Democratic Party, which
is most of the media out there. You know, it
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just sees all these folks come in here illegal the
votes for the Democrats. How do we fix it? Three
or three? Is that one? Three eight two five five,
dn five seven, seven, three nine. I'll tell you one
of the real practical fixes that I think we need
sooner or later. And you can't legislat it. You can't
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impose it that way. It's not illegal. But the way
the media interferes with elections by censoring stories that are Democrats,
by telling lies that help Democrats, by rigging debates in
favor of Democrats. I think the only way you change
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that is consumers voting with their feet. And that's that's
not that easy to accomplish, right three out three seOne
three eight, two five, five, five seven, seven three nine.
How do we make our elections safer? How do we
build in more election integrity? Here on the Dan Kapli Show.
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Now back to the Dan Kapler Show Podcast. Another gorgeous
Friday afternoon across the Rockies. Hot yeah, excuse me. It's
gonna be hot and dry throughout the weekend as well,
particularly if you're in the front range. Really anywhere in
the state, though better chance of isolated rain across the
state other places. Whether pattern looks like it's going to
take a little bit of a shift Monday in most
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places in Colorado, and a little bit better chance of
precipitation throughout the week. Let's hope we keep going in
that direction. If you just joined us, thank you. Talking
about a lot of interesting things. This after centered around
election integrity and President Trump's address last night, but much
more ground we want to cover as well. I wanted
(12:06):
to at least give you a peek at this Denver
Post story because it repeats the big lie that you
hear all over the country right now. But I just
need you to know it's a lie and to act accordingly.
This story does have some important true information in it.
It says more teams with cannabis use disorder are facing
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treatment delays, study fines, and this is a wire service piece.
As federal officials consider whether to reclassify marijuana under federal
drug law, a new study has found that more American
teenagers seeking treatment for cannabis use disorder known as CUD
CUD are facing longer wait times before receiving care. Now
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that part's true, and important, and I'm glad they did
the story. But the reason this is happening is because
there's much more of it, and there's much more of
it because of legalization. Now the story is, you'll see,
it goes on to repeat the big lie that teen
use is actually leveling off. Absolute garbage. Let me find
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where the study published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine,
and that's a big one. Analyze national data from more
than one hundred and twenty four thousand adolescent admissions to
publicly funded substance abuse treatment facilities between twelve and twenty two.
Researchers found that after several years of decline, the share
of young people experiencing delays and accessing treatment increase sharply. Yeah,
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why do you think it increased sharply? Because there's a
lot more of it, This legalization kick that began in
Colorado in twenty four and just continues to snowball. And
then the story goes on to say that, you know,
adolescent use is leveling off or declining. That is garbage.
And whenever somebody is citing a study like that, what
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I suggest you do is drill down. Just see what
they link to look at the study. What you'll see
is is almost always those studies require teams to self report. Hey, teenager,
let me ask you whether you're doing something illegal that
would get you kicked out of school and grounded and
all these other terrible things. Are you doing that thing
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or not? Oh, we'll keep it confidentially. That kind of garbage. No,
no objective indicators are as one would expect with an
addictive substance like this that most of the civilized world
has made illegal for many years for very good reason,
the harm it causes kids. To start with that, if
all of a sudden you legalize it and you green
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light it, then you're gonna have a lot more kids
doing it. Right, nothing else would make any sense, And
of course that's what we're experiencing. But because you now
have even the New York Times starting to say, what
have we made a big mistake on marijuana? Got this
big dollar industry and the left that depends on a
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drugged up population. Because the more drugged up the population is,
the more dependent it is on government. Why do you
think the left favors legalized drugs so now they have
to peddle the big lie They don't know teen use
has leveled off. Garbage. Here's who you should ask. And
I saw a study out there on this that was
just brilliant. Ask principles, Ask school resource officers, or best
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of all, Best of all, look for the polls of
middle school and high school kids who are then asked
what percentage of your classmates are using marijuana? And you
can rely on those numbers, and those numbers are all
very high and growing, just as common sense would tell
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you it would until our society, you know, just wisens
up and gets to the point where it says, you
know what, We're not willing to harm our kids this
way anymore. It's not worth it, and it really isn't.
I mean, if there's ever a gazillionaire steps forward with
the money to fund the kind of campaign it would
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take to repeal Amendment sixty four in Colorado, that should
probably be the slogan it's just not worth it, because
I think for political slogans to work, they have to
be absolutely true. They have to ring true immediately. They
don't take any explanation or any deep thought or anything else.
It's just a quick punch and yeah, that's true. It
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just isn't worth it because you get these arguments about
legalized marijuana that hey, it's good for this, or it's
good for that, or look at the money they use
to build a school over here where now thirty percent
of the kids you know, really can't focus in there
because their habitual marijuana users is so you will hear
some people make some plus arguments for legalized marijuana that
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maybe you don't immediately dismiss. But here's the key. When
people weigh it, when informed people weigh it, there's only
one clear answer. It's just not worth it. So if
you're a gazillionaire and you're willing to fund this campaign,
you know, I'll work for free on it. I'll take
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the lead on it. But I don't have anywhere near
the kind of money it would take to run this campaign.
Because the Left they will print money. I mean, it'll
all be legal, but they will print money to keep
marijuana legal because they know it's more. First of all,
old style marijuana was so damaging that no other place
in the world had ever legalized it the way Colorado did,
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and in the manner Colorado did before Colorado did. But
this krakle Wana they're pushing now, No, the Left will
fight to the death and spend any amount of money
to keep dumping that crap into the kids, because they
know a drugged population is a dependent population, and a
dependent population votes for lefties. That's their formula. Dependent population
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plus attracting plenty of people to come here illegally and
then vote for him. But that's the left schame three
three seven one three eight two five five d an
five seven seven three nine. Hey, one of the great
inspirational messages of all time, brought to life. On the
other side, You're on the Dan Kaplas Show. You're listening
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to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast. Oh glorious Friday afternoon
phone lines in Fuego. Let's start up in beautiful Fort Collins, Tyler,
You're on the Dan Caplis Show. Welcome.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
How are you, sir?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I'm living the dream? How about you?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Indeed, indeed, hey, you know, with everything with standing politically
in Colorado right now, I was just curious what it
would take for you in the upcoming scenario to say
that Colorado is a place worth leaving.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Boy, what a great question. I see. My friend Jeff
Hunt raised that very provocative question the other day, and
I just got done promoing for Monday Show John Caldera,
who has a great peace out on the long list
of harms that a Wiser as governor with the Democrat
legislature will inflict. So your question is right on for me.
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Probably there's no level of harm that would force me
out of the state because our kids are grown. But
I've got a believe that let's say our kids right now,
you know they're three years apart, Let's say they were
three and six, I think we'd be very close to
leaving just the way it is now, let alone how
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much worse it's going to get soon if Wiser's elected
and has a Democrat legislature.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
What if Jennet Griswold's elected.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
You know, that's a good point. I don't think Griswold
is going to have the impact on public safety and
daily quality of life in Colorado that Wiser is going
to have. For the worse with the Democrat legislature. I
think Griswold and that's why you see many Democrats afraid
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of her. I think that that's more just going to
be kind of a dark cloud hanging over the state
as you probably lose some really good prosecutors. You put
just like she lost some good people from her other office,
and then you have this constant fear of politically motivated
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prosecutions and that sort of thing. But in terms of
everyday impact on Tyler from Fort Collins or Dan or
any of us, I think that's going to be much
more wiser driven.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Well, if that's the point, I mean, what if what
if we are not looking up this solid picture as
a whole as much as we should be. I mean,
look at look at the gun regulations that are coming,
Look at you know, go down the list of things.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Oh yeah, Tyler. If your point is they want to
run us out, you're one hundred percent right. I don't
think they've ever been subtle about that. There's this personal
there's this personal animosity from so many of these Democrats
towards so many of us, and I think they've made
it clear they want us gone.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Oh yeah, this is the California formula. This is this
is I don't know how long you've been in Colorado.
I've been here for forty seven years a native, and
I've watched this place go from top five to bottom five.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Yeah. I've been here about the same amount of time,
a little longer than you have. But you're right about that.
But you know who I blame is is I blame
the Colorado Republican Party exactly because and I mean I
include all of us as part of that.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, because you know, the lefties are who they are, yep.
And it's it's our responsibility to find a way to
stop that and turn it around. Now, they've given us
a great opening. Now, don't you think by just coming
out as openly socialist?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
I think so. I mean, I don't know, I don't
know what people are looking for. I mean I really don't.
I walk you and I walk around everybody walks around
the same people in the supermarket, so to the football
game and all. And these are the people that are
asking for this. And at what point do you say,
you know what, here's the bathtub that you've drawn and
you need to sit in this damn thing.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Well, what what makes you think they're asking for the
bad stuff?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Well, indirectly or directly, because something is working for them
at the point in this thing, and that you and
I know better that the end the end of this,
this whatever trial that is going on, this experiment is
not going to work.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Yeah. But but but what I would I what I'd
submit to you, Tyler, is that I don't think these
folks at the grocery store that you and I wonder about,
I don't think they're looking for any of this bad stuff.
I mean, you have the activist lefties who are, but
I'm talking about your typical person as a former Democrat.
(23:18):
I really think what's going on is you just have
so many of those people who could never even imagine
voting for a Republican, even when the Colorado GOP was
at its peak, just couldn't imagine voting for a Republican
habit the way they were born, the stereotypes, etc. And
then when we went into the bad years, what's that?
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Yeah, that's the mind game that's been that when you
raise people to want for nothing more than scraps off
the table, than they are thrilled when they get it.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
You see, I respectfully disagree. I don't think anybody really
wants that. I think that I think that people get
to a point where they think, realistically, there's no alternative
because they could not imagine voting for publicans. I think
it's our job to change that, not with everybody, but
with enough people that we can turn the ship around.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Turnout in the GOP ubernatorial race.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Oh my lord. Yeah, that was so pathetic, so pathetically low.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
So what are we talking about right now?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
We're I think what we're talking about. If you want
to talk about the low turnout for the GOP. I
think that's explainable in a few different ways, including Barb
who I think it very, very talented and would have
been a great governor. As far as I could tell
from the outside, her campaign didn't really gear up until
the legislative session ended because she had all that important
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JBC work. And then Victor from what I can tell,
and hey, they ran a brilliant campaign and figured out
how to win there, but it was kind of a
close to the vast stay focused on our core supporters
rather than a growth orient its strategy. Scott actually generated
a pretty fair number of votes, but you still end
up with your winner getting two hundred and eight thousand
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votes Greg Greg Lopez got way way more than that,
finishing second to Heidi four years before.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Indeed, and now we sit in the same position that
the Republican Party is going to tear each other apart
until the Democrats just lick their fingers and go, thank
you well.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I see it a little differently there, Tyler. I think
that every single cycle that I can remember, for a
long time, the GOP has been divided and therefore the
GOP candidate has had zero chance of winning. Now, there
are different reasons in each cycle for why the GOP
is divided, but can you remember I can't remember a
(25:43):
cycle since Bill Owens. One is second term when the
GOP was united behind their gubernatorial nominee.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Well, that's the exact point, is that the Democrats will
give you two options. One is cyanied and the other
is rat poison, and either.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Will You're well that the Democrats have this built in
advantage in the state right because of the negative brand
of the GOP combined with the media, most of it
being solidly in the Democrats camp. That isn't to whine,
it's not to make excuses. It's just to do the
calculus and say that's what we've got overcome. But we
(26:19):
know the math. We know if if you don't have
a united GOP, then you got no chance in the general. Well,
so that's that. That's why it's a tough job for
any of our nominees. But every nominee has this burden
of having to unite the party, because if they don't,
they've got no choice, no chance. Pardon me. So the
(26:41):
question then, is, okay, Victor one that the primary fare
and square, what's he going to do now to unite
the GOP so that there's a chance in the general
he's going to.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Stay away from Democrat media.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Well, listen, I'd love to speak with somebody who sees
it differently, but I don't care who the candidate is,
any GOP candidate in the history of Colorado for governor.
If that, if that candidate is not willing to go
everywhere talk to everyone, including typically Democrat groups and bastions,
(27:18):
they have no chance. You can't win this race with
just Republicans. You got to be at every Kiwanis clubs.
I mean, you can't go to literally every meeting. You
got to be all over the state. You got to
be on every significant media outlet as often as they'll
have you. You have to be speaking to Democrat groups.
Look at the Trump model, and if somebody is not
(27:40):
willing to do that in this race or any of
the races for the last one hundred years in Colorado,
they have no chance.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Yeah, but we've we've just we've got back to the
past Democrat rule. What you're going to do in front
of Democrat run media, if that's going to determine your outcome.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Well, but what we know is if you look at
the Republican candidates who have been successful locally and nationally,
they do that. They don't say. Look at Trump. He
goes on Democrat media all the time, and because he
knows that's the way to reach the people, and he
can cut through to enough of them, because he's good
enough and he's talented enough, he can cut through enough
(28:21):
of them to make a difference.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Sure, but when we're in Colorado and how much what
percent of media in Colorado do you think is Democrat running?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Probably eighty five percent. But listen, if you're going to
be afraid of that and you're going to say, Okay,
I'm not going to take that free TV time because
they lean Democrat, just quit the race. I mean, because
if you're going to run to win, you have to
have enough confidence in yourself to be able to go
into the lions den and stand up, Hey man, you
(28:53):
are a great caller. I hope you call every day.
I've got to hit this heartbreak everybody else on the
line I'll get to you right out of that. You're
on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
I don't think a woman that lives in a senior
community that's going to be seventy seven years old next month,
we'll be driving around with what this plate has to say.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Zach was trying to figure out that bumper music Send
your emails please to Zach. But then then I heard
the bite. It does fit. What that woman from Florida's
referring to is the state just randomly issued her the
license plate sqz A five to five and the fives
(29:45):
look like s's sqz A five to five. That's what
she was upset about. That's what led to Zach's bumper
music there. So Zach, the creative spirit has appreciated my friend.
And hey, when you get an opportunity to play some
sir mix a lot, you gotta yeah that that is rare, right,
(30:06):
that is rare. What what year is that from? Seems
like Fred Flinstone was singing that.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Yeah, definitely somewhere in the nineties, I think early nineties,
but yeah, before my time.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Yeah, yeah it h I think they stopped playing that
at weddings a few years ago. Trying to remember the
last time I heard it. But anyway, let's go back
to the phone line there in Fuego, which we always appreciate.
Rob from Lakewood, you're on the Dan Kaplas show.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Welcome, Hey Dan, Thanks taking my call, Jurn. Brief thing,
uh is on election integrity. We need to go the
same day voting, just like we did when I first
came to Colorado. Would valid government ID if it's not
a driver's license, and you know, just regular ID card,
not a paychecks, not a utility bill, et cetera, but
(30:55):
valid ID? And if we need to have the discussion
about making a national holiday so more people can easily vote.
Find I'm not opposed to absentee ballots being mailed out,
but this wholesale mailing out of ballots is just craziness,
and it is something the Democrats will fight to keep
because they like the craziness, because it serves their best interest.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Well, Rob, I'm so glad you brought us back to
this question of same day voting. I think as a
practical matter that's gone forever just as a matter of convenience,
But is there a way we can at least limit
it limited to maybe same week because how it distorts
the process to have Americans voting based on different information.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Well, exactly, I'm not opposed to having two or three
days particular sites, but again, stringent qualifications as to ID,
and we make sure you're veted as best we can.
And I suppose there'll still be room for some kind
of fraud, but not the extent that it is now,
as Democrats can set their election results of the election
(32:01):
and then keep counting for a week or two to
make sure.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Well, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the great.
I mean, just because we can't have a perfect system,
because every human endeavor has some kind of flaw, it
should be as good as we can possibly make it.
And you know, when you stop, and I don't mean
to get all heavy on this, but when you stop
and think about it, it's such an insult to the
men and women who died so we could have this franchise,
(32:26):
so we could have this right to vote, that we
treat it so frivolous, frivolously, we don't even require an
ID for people to vote. Yeah, but that's that's why
we see a cross party lot. It's large majority supporting
voter ID. It's the elected Democrats who don't want it
because they're afraid they won't get elected again.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Correct, and they probably would greatly minimize their opportunities for sure,
if not stop it, because you're right, they're not going
to have the margin of error for what they've got
to work with at this point.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
If true voter ideas required, many fewer people are going
to be willing to take that risk right of showing
up with a fake idea. They may do it at
a bar, but not to vote. Yeah, hey, man, appreciate
the call. Thank you for that. Have a good weekend.
Hard to believe the weekends here, Zach. My goodness. Oh,
I think we've got Alan from Kenyon City right on
daylight savings time popular subject this week. By the way,
(33:23):
I have come down hard in my own mind in
favor of not changing it to full time daylight savings
Alan from Canyon. How you doing, my friend?
Speaker 7 (33:33):
I'm doing all right? How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
There is profound sadness in our family. In fact, my wife,
who's one of the strongest humans I've ever known, is
literally very close to tears because we have not seen
the kittens now for over twenty four hours. And the
fear is that maybe mom relocated him because we have dogs,
so we're just we're literally praying they come back. We've
(34:02):
also got people lined up to adopt them.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Oh shoot, oh my goodness. Yeah, yeah, you better get
dogs with her area. Try to get them back.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
You're gonna lose them. Yeah, no, we have fought hard
to do that. We have fought hard to do it.
But but yes, so, my friend, you'll be the last
call for the week. In fact, we only have about
thirty seconds. Where do you come down on daylight savings time?
Speaker 7 (34:28):
Okay? Great, okay, I was farmara ratcher for years, that
dead livestock for years. Now. Whenever you start changing your
time to feed cattle or any animals, you know, you
change that time and it throws them off their feet.
You know what I'm talking about. When you throw them
off your feet?
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Makes sense?
Speaker 8 (34:51):
Okay, yeah, it makes sense the same way it trickles down.
When you're ready for supper at six o'clock, you're ready,
you have to wait another hour. A lot of people
lose their appetite just how to stay with his livestock.
You'll either have him buzzed out of your fists or
go somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
That'll be the last word for this week. Ellen, hope
we hear from you again soon. Thank you for that, Zach,
tremendous job. Thank you my friend. Hey John Kelt, there
are a great piece out on what a wiser governorship
with the Democrat legislature will look like for Colorado. It's
very specific, it's very concerning. We'll talk about that Monday
on the Dan Kaplis Show. Have a great weekend.
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