July 30, 2026 • 35 mins
This episode of the Dan Caplis Show is a wild ride, full of humor, politics, and thought-provoking discussions. The host dives into the Denver Post's list of the 150 most influential Coloradans, exposing its glaring biases and omissions. From the absence of notable figures like Bill Owens and Julia Greeley to the inclusion of Dottie Lamb, a Democrat first lady, the host isn't afraid to speak his mind.
The conversation covers a range of topics, including the importance of being prepared for potential cyber attacks, the recent news about Hickenlooper's video on affordability, and the fascinating story of Jon Stewart's courageous take on Dr. Fauci's claims. The host also shares a hilarious anecdote about his encounter with Rodney Dangerfield and discusses the significance of the Denver Post's list in the context of Colorado's history.
Throughout the episode, the host engages with listeners, taking calls and responding to texts, and even gets into a humorous exchange with a caller who claims to have been a crack cocaine dealer. The conversation also touches on the Democratic Party's shift towards socialism and its potential impact on the 2024 election.
If you're interested in hearing more about the Denver Post's list, the importance of being prepared for cyber attacks, and the host's humorous take on current events, tune in to this episode of the Dan Caplis Show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind,
and to subscribe, download and listen to the show every
single day on your favorite podcast platform. Five seven, seventh,
three nine. And pretty cool to think about the fact
that we have the chance to fight for all that right.
(00:21):
How many people in world history have even had that chance,
and we just have to do our fighting, you know,
within a political process peacefully at the ballot box. But
the stakes couldn't be higher. That's it's kind of a
gift three or three seven, one, three, eight, two, five,
five to text us d an five, seven, seventh through nine.
So a lot of text coming in, a lot of
(00:42):
text coming in on the Denver Post list of one
hundred and fifty most influential Coloradans, because they're coming up
on that big anniversary, right, one hundred and fifty years,
and so when you're talking about over that length of time,
who've been the most influential, that's really interesting stuff. Now,
first we have to expose the Denver Post list as
(01:03):
being politically motivated and slanted, and that's too bad. Right,
because something like that you like to have it straight up,
but let's just expose the truth. It's slanted. Now. A
lot of names deserve to be on there, for sure,
but give me a break, and I won't go through
the same list at length I did earlier. But you
leave Bill Owens off, two term Colorado governor, very influential,
(01:24):
a lot of accomplishments, but you put on Democrat first,
lady Dottie Lamb. I mean, that's how ludicrous it got politically.
And I gave other examples and other examples of really important,
influential people who should have been on there, like Julia Greeley,
Kendrick Castile, Dave Logan. I mean a lot of categories.
(01:45):
But so we're going to continue to take thoughts on
that calls as well as text, etc. But there's a
lot more I want to get to with you as well.
You know a couple of things in the newscasts that
have been on my list, and might as well dive
into him now. One is, you know the talk of
the cyber attacks that the FBI is investigating on various
water plants. So we all know the day is coming, right,
(02:07):
we hope it doesn't, but we all know the day
is coming when some enemy, maybe China on behalf of run.
It may be having Prutent obviously Satan on Earth if
he has a capability. But there's going to be a
major cyber attack on this country that could very well
take much of the grid down for a while. So
what is your plan? And I truly would be interested
(02:28):
to hear because I think about it all the time
and we do our own things, But what is your
plan for surviving say a week off the grid or
thirty days without the grid? You know this is people
are being careful planners. It's not alarmist or doomsday. It's
just you know, being careful, realistic planners. And then we
(02:49):
heard the newscast about picking Looper reduces of it, releases
a video on affordability. Yeah, where was all that during Biden?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And what was that like forty percent inflation? Where was
hicken Looper? But the real point there is he must
consider himself the luckiest person in the world that Melot
Kiros decided to run against to get instead of him.
And Kiros is probably ready to jump off a bridge
because she knows she would have beat Hickenlooper by at
least ten points, so pick and Looper has probably been
(03:20):
the luckiest man in politics his entire tenure. There was
that other note in the news about Todd Blanche and
you know, you got Tillis and and you've got who
else is holding out on him? Texas senator right holding
out on him? Anyway, two guys who you know Trump
opposed and are leaving the Senate when he defeated down
(03:44):
in Texas. And so Zach this is peanut butter brain.
I cannot be drawing a blank on this man. This
man invited Amy and I to his office in DC
to talk to me about running for the US. Maybe
it's a good thing I didn't since I can't remember
his name Cornet. See peanut Butter will do that to you.
(04:08):
How did I get hooked on the worst possible snack
for a talk show hosting peanut butter John Corny, who
was very nice to us, very nice to us, and
we had a great meeting in his office. He was
a cool guy, and I thought a straight shooter and
everything else. But obviously Trump, you know, endorsed his opponent
and the Ken Paxton in that primary in Texas and
(04:32):
ran Conyers out of the Senate and till Us, you know, left,
but a lot of opposition from Trump helped force that,
and so both of them are at least for now
opposing Blanche. I know probably nobody in this audience cares
about the whole attorney general thing in DC. I just
want to make a quick comment on it. Under these circumstances,
I do not fall President Trump whatsoever for wanting, above all,
(04:58):
somebody he can trust as attorney general. And I understand
the ideal attorney general would be somebody who is not
necessarily in the President's pocket. But this is a president
who was the victim of a coup attempt, and by
the grace of God and voter support, et cetera, he
(05:20):
survived that. But he was not only the target of
multiple assassination attempts, he was the target of a form
of coup attempt. And so who in the world could
blame him for saying, above all, I need to be
sure that my attorney general is somebody who's going to
listen to me. So I just don't fault him for that,
(05:41):
given everything that he's been through. Three three seven three
two five seven seven three nine. I want to give
credit where credit is due. We spent so much time
as we should on Fauci and will spend more. But
as we listened to all that yesterday, Fauci being exposed
on the Hill, you know, I'm sure for you and
(06:03):
like for me, it brought us back to that terrible
time when Fauci's being treated as a god is he's
he's you know, driving all of these shutdowns, all this
super destructive stuff and denying it and then lying about
other things. But people who who stood up to him
were being ruined. I guess the polite term these days
(06:25):
is canceled, but being ruined. And then you had John Stewart,
a lefty. But John Stewart who who had the courage
to come forward and take Fauci on on this whole
nonsense that oh no, no, the wu Wan virus it
wasn't from that lab in China. I remember how people
were vilified for saying that it was run off social media, ostracized,
(06:49):
ruined professionally. But John Stewart, from the left, had the
courage to take it on on Stephen Colbert's show. What
do you mean do you mean like there's a chance
that this is creating a lab? There's an investigation, a
chance the evidence. I'd love to hear it.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
There's a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking wu Han, China.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
What do we do?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You know who?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
We could ask the Wuhn Novel Respiratory coronavirus lab.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
The disease is the same name as the labs.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
That's just that's just a little too weird, don't you think?
And then they asso scientists, they're like, how did this?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
So wait a minute, you work at the wun.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Respiratory coronavirus lab.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
How did this happen?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
And they're like a tangled and kiss the turtle.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
And you're like, no, the name of your lab if
you look at the name, Look at the name tonight.
Let me see your business card, show me your business card.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Oh, I work at the coronavirus lab in wun Oh,
because there's a coronavirus loose in wu An?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
How did that happen? Maybe bad that flew into the paka.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Of the Turkey and then it sneezed into my chili
and now we all have coronavirus?
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Like okay, okay, what about this?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
What about this? Wait a second, all right, John, Oh
my god, oh my god, there's been.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
An outbreak of chocolate e goodness near Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
What do you think happened? Like, Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Maybe a steam shovel made it with a cocoa bean,
or it's the chocolate factory.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Maybe that's it.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
That could be.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
That could be.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
That could be.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I gave them all tuberculosis.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
That could That could very well be. And Anthony Fauci
and Francis Collins and Anser said like, you should definitely
be investigated.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Stop with the logic and people and things.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
No, even the disease. Wait a second, Wait a second, building,
wait a second. But I think it could be possible.
You could be right. It could be possible that they
have the lab in Wuhan to study the novel coronavirus
diseases because in Wohan there are a lot of novel
coronavirus diseases because of the bat population out there. I understand.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
It's like to say specialty and it's the only place
to find backs.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You won't find backs.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
We're saying, oh way, Austin, Texas has thousands of them.
But fly out of a cane every night, every night
at dusk, is there a coronavirus an Austin coronavirus doesn't
seem to be an Austin coronavirus.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
That, you know, I was so brilliant, absolute genius at first,
the courage piece of it, right, But but then to
be able to do it in a humorous way like that,
that's impressive. And I know our politics are opposite in
most things, but that was really impressive. Three or three seven,
three eight two five five d an five seven And
we're going to be playing, you know that really kind
(10:03):
of fun sound now of all these sanctimonious lefty broadcasters
back in the day lecturing the rest of us. Hey,
if we don't believe in doctor Fauci, if we don't
follow what Fauci says, you know that, then we're just
these ignoramuses and mocked in so many different ways. So
we will savor that sound over the next weeks and months.
(10:24):
Going back to the list, the Denver Post list, which
I think at this point I pretty much proved is
you know, politically slanted, to use the very generous term,
But what a great point from a Texter Dan is
mother Cabrini on the list? If not she should be,
(10:45):
of course she should be, So of course she's not
because what is Mother Cabrini? Hmm? Do we see a
pattern here? Bill Owens Nope, Julia Greeley, Kendrick Castile nope,
Mother Cabrini nope. Cardinal Stafford Nope. But Dottie Lamb yes,
(11:13):
Mason Tverd mouthpiece for the drug industry, Yes, m Mother Cabrini.
There's a statue overlooking Denver. She's the first US citizen
to be canonized as a saint. She did all these
great works in Colorado, such great works in Colorado that
(11:38):
there's a twenty two foot statue of her overlooking the
entire valley. How is she not on the list? She's
a patron saint of immigrants. How is she not on
the list? But Dotty Lamb is and the marijuana mouthpiece?
Guy is? What do you think is going on there?
You're on the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
And now back to the Dan kapler Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Thank a man, Right boy? What a crowd?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
What a crowd?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
No?
Speaker 4 (12:15):
I tell you I'm all right now. But last week
was in a rough shape, you know. Yeah, last your
wife signed me up for a bridge club. I jump
off next Tuesday. I mean, last week nothing went right.
I bought a waterbed. There were two Cuban guys swimming
and looking for Florida.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Last week I went to the track too, and that
was a beauty. I shut off the opening gun and
they killed my horse. I'll tell you nothing about my
car broke down again. I got a car. I got
nothing but for it. Every Sunday I take my family
out for a push. The last time my wife drove
the car, she cracked it up into a tree.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
He told me it wasn't no fault.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
She blew a horn. My wife wasn't too slunch. You
know why night you announced some guy stole the car.
I said to you, to see what he looked like.
She told me you got the license plate number. She's
not spot at all.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I told him, I.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Kild have spoiled. She told me a lot of kids
smell that way. You know.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
You know a different error.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
That was a performance for President Reagan. It's wild to
watch some of that stuff. I just I love the
whole Rodney Dangerfield thing. I was on my way to
a deposition in La I can't remember what year, and
weather forced us down in Vegas. Fortunately, for some reason
(13:30):
we couldn't land in La So I'm walking into the
Tropicana at like two thirty in the morning, just trying
to get a couple hours sleep before the connector in
the morning. Round a corner, here's Rodney Dangerfield hitting on
a waitress, you know, and he's doing the whole thing
with his tie everything else. It was like so surreal anyway,
(13:51):
three or three seven, three eight, two five five five
seven seven three nine. We're talking about the Denver Post
most influential in the history of Colorado, So the top
one fifty because we're having that one hundred and fiftieth
birthday coming up for the state. And if you just
joined us, thank you. I won't repeat all the stuff
I've been saying, but I've been proving, I think beyond
any doubt that the list is politically skewed, because how
(14:15):
else do you leave Bill Owens, a two term governor
with great accomplishments, off, but put Dottie Lamb, a Democrat
first lady on not a gender thing, but obviously, come on,
that's ludicrous. And then I went through a long list
of others left off and bill Owens, as I mentioned
Julia Greeley, the former slave who became the angel of Denver,
(14:38):
Mother Cabrini. You've got the statute overlooking the Valley, Kendrick Castill. Yes,
the list goes on and on, getting back to Texters. Dan,
are you all worked up over this list because you're
not on it? I'll tell you if I was on it,
we know it was a joke, right that. That's the
only evidence I'd need. No, No, I'm you know. I'm
(15:00):
worked up over this list because this was a cool idea.
One fifty is a big deal. I hope to be
around for two hundred, but that's not guaranteed. One fifty
is a big deal, and something like this, you think
you could leave the cheap politics out of it and
just do a real list. That's that's what bugs me, Dan.
(15:21):
Regarding the most influential or notable, what about ellen Burgh? Yes,
he is on the list, thank goodness, as he should
be one Ellen Bergh. Now I have also asked this question,
who's number one Numero Uno, King of the hill, top
of the Totem Pole. Who's the number one most influential
(15:45):
person in Colorado history?
Speaker 6 (15:47):
I was blinking earlier. I think I got a good
nominee for you.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I bet you do.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
How about Byron white Byron J.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
White, boy, that's a that's a pretty good one man.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Supreme Court Justice.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
JFK's only pick. And plus he's known for sitting.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Next to me in a buff game famously honestly when
people most know him.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah, oh, I know, I know, and I just hey,
I don't want to talk about that anymore. Funny thing,
wasn't great guy, the greatest guy in the world. He
had no idea I was there, as he should not.
But I thoroughly enjoyed just sitting there and listening to
his conversations with other people. But yeah, Supreme Court justice.
(16:27):
Somebody told me he was the only the first two term,
the only two term student body president other than me,
at least at the time old company. I don't even
know if that's true. I don't know even though if
you could call me a two term student body president,
because I was student body president but the first term
(16:47):
they had a try executive thing going because it was
all about, you know, just just collaboration. And then my
second term I was sole president. But anyway, no, Byron
White Man, that's a good suggestion. And you know, all
American football player JFK's only Supreme Court pick. I remember
(17:07):
him saying there is no way JFK would have been
down with this whole constitutional right to abortion thing. I
don't know if he and the Justice ever discussed that,
but wow, good suggestion, my man. All right, who should
number one be? And then let's talk about others who
should be on the list? Dan, not political? Can you
really leave out zebulon Pike? He spotted but never submitted
(17:31):
what's now known as America's Mountain? What could that be
Zebulon Peak? Do we have a Zebulon Peak in Colorado?
We have Pipe's Peak? Yeah? I was joking their sack.
Even peanut butter can't degrade my brain that much. Yeah,
even peanut butter does not. Dan uh, just shuck it
(17:52):
to that one. After the break, Dan, Central Nebraska listener here,
ninety five degrees with about seventy percent humidity. Did you
complain about triple digits at this point if it were
dry heat? Amen to that. I was just talking earlier
how lucky we are in Colorado that that we don't
have that humidity. People complaining about the heat right now,
this is not heat, and two months from now it'll
(18:15):
be snowing. So who is the most influential person in
Colorado history. You're on the Dan Capitlas Show.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I'm gonna be like Fauci and just take the Fifth
Amendment on on questions.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Did you guys say that?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Oh my god, what was the question?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
That's a beautiful thing to see. It's it's seeping into
popular culture. A fick Fangiona who used to be Denver's
head coach, great defensive coordinator. Glad you're here, fun afternoon.
As we've been talking about, I've been, you know, modestly
exposing that the Repost top one hundred and fifty in
Colorado History list is being obviously very politically slanted, while
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still plenty of good names on it. But who's number one?
Who is the single most influential person in Colorado history?
I'd love your take on that. I'll give you mine
three or three seOne, three eight, two, five, five, d
an five, seven, seventh through nine. Somebody nominates Alfred Packer,
known infamously as the Colorado Cannibal. Stephen Lyttleton as a
(19:29):
cu Boulder guy. We go to Packer grill all the time. Yeah,
it's it's part of the lore. I just don't see
the influence there unless he happened to eat you. I
just don't see the influence there myself. Let's go to
the phone lines, mixing some calls. We'll starting Beautiful Boulder, Colorado. Kevin,
you're on the Dan Kapla show. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah, calling about your cats.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Hmm, what'd you do with some Kevin? Thank you for
that question. But a great sadness has come over our
house and it's a very, very sore subject. What Kevin's
talking about is his great joy came into our lives.
We are not cat people only because you know, we
have a child who's allergic. But one day the dog's
(20:14):
going crazy. I look out back and there are all
these kittens have been born under the porch with the
actually beautiful mother. And it was so much fun day
and night. Like I'd get up go to the bathroom
at two in the morning and I'd go down to
look out the window and Amy'd be down there watching them.
They were the coolest thing in the world to watch.
I sent you video, Zach of those kittens.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
They are adorable.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Could watch them all day.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
I showed my girlfriend that video. I was like, look
at these cute man.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
She wanted all four of it.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Bit she did, and I was at five cats.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
We started feeding them and giving them water, and then
we we went visited these different Our daughter visited the
different shelters to pick out the right one to facilitate
the adoptions. We found them homes to adopt them out.
We were all set and then the humane professional was
going to come over on Sunday to put them in
the right kind of transport and get them in and
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the families are waiting. Then all of a sudden, they're gone,
not a trace. So we're trying to We're trying to
find them, just to get them to these good homes.
So yeah, great, great sadness for us. And funny thing
is that, you know, I'll still wander in and Amy
will too and just look through that window and see, hey,
(21:29):
have they come back? And I don't know, Zach, you're
a cat person. We've never had one, but we fed
them for a while. I've got to believe one of
these days, at least one of them is coming back.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Maybe I think there's a good chance of that. I
think there's also what happened is I think the mom
moved them, so I think they're okay, I don't think
something bad, right.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Right, right, So it's a selfish sadness.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Yeah, I think there's a good chance to you cross
paths with them again. I'd say they know where they're
they're bread's buttered, and where they got.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I think it was probably she'd probably moved. They might
probably outgrew that space under the patio because it's a
concrete patio and they were living underneath it. Or maybe
it was the dogs, because we got a bunch of dogs.
We got dogs in the house sometimes. I literally don't
know their names. I don't know where they came from.
But we're just dog people. So maybe the mom just
(22:23):
figured too much assle with the dogs. But we miss him,
and you know, again from people who've never had cats.
So I'll let you know if they come back. I'm
hoping one of these days. And if any of them
come back, we've got the families waiting for him. Now.
Credit to Zach, you know. With the Doctor Fauci public
hearing yesterday, Zach was able to get access to the
(22:44):
audio of Fauci in the closed door session taking the
fifth Fascinating stuff. Didn't know he had this talent.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Sir is it true you were a crack cocaine dealer
for seven years, I plead the philth.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Sir, will you tell us about the cartels you dealt
with in your time as a crack cocaine dealer?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
No, but I can tell you that I plead the physics.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Exactly how much money did you earn in your time
as a crack cocaine dealer?
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Yeah, I sait.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
There so many amendments in the Constitution of the United
States of a build.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Only choose one. Let the fife the phil five two
three four, Good work, Zac, good work. Sounded like you
(23:56):
loosened duck back there. Yep. And some thanks I probably
to David Chappelle three out three seven three two five
five five seven seven threety nine some other things that
I want to make sure we touch on before the
end of the show today, and we'll get into a
more depth that's coming up. Just more great news for
those of us who who want to see more people
(24:19):
do what I did and move from being Democrats to Republicans,
or at least from Democrats to unaffiliateds, because that was
my journey democrat, unaffiliated Republican, and so maybe the best
news possible for that hope is Democrats now coming out
as openly socialist in this poll that just came out
(24:39):
today should put a smile on your face. See an
n what what percentage of current Democrats identify as Democrats socialist?
What percentage? What would you guess, Zach?
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Fifteen twenty?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Maybe a third? Wow, a third identify as Demo crat socialist.
This is fantastic that this will this will lead to
the rapid tipping point decline of the Democratic Party in
a way that all these failures and policy failures and
everything else could not Because obviously you've got the trend
(25:19):
line down for the Democratic Party nationwide in Colorado, it's
still dominant. It'll be one of the last dominoes to fall,
but you got the trend line down because they've got
all these terrible ideas that lead to terrible outcomes. Okay,
but then you've got this dramatic shift where they're openly
using the F word pardon me, S word, which is
as bad or worse than the F word. They are
(25:41):
self identifying as socialists. And now you've got a third
of Democrats who identify as socialists. That's death. Man. Can
you imagine if like a third of your food was poisoned,
it wouldn't matter that the other two thirds was pretty delicious.
Poison third was probably gonna get you. And when you
(26:03):
get to that point of contamination in anything, the Democratic Party, Yeah,
that ain't gonna work because they cannot afford to lose
anywhere near that many votes. Yeah, so that is good news.
I mean, obviously, if I thought it was going to
lead to the country becoming socialist, it'd be the worst
(26:25):
possible news. But I don't see any way that happens none.
And I speak with some authority as a former Democrat
and my out of Colorado family, extended family, which is
big all Democrats, not one socialist in the group. Patriotic,
great Americans, not one socialist in the group, despise socialism uniformly.
(26:49):
So yeah, this is great news for the GP. Now
can it take advantage? Can it take advantage in Colorado
of this cycle next cycle? I think the next cycle
is likely to be better for the GOP in Colorado
because more and more people will be aware that what
we've got now are socialists and they're proud of it.
(27:09):
People aren't going to like that. They'll start opening their
eyes and minds to Republicans in ways they never did before.
Not because they like Republicans, but they hate socialists. And
then the other thing is, hey, listen, I think Trump's
going to go down is one of the great presidents
in American history, you know, some of the personality stuff aside.
(27:30):
I think he's going to go down as one of
the most impactful and in many good ways. But the
fact is that Colorado doesn't like them. Colorado unaffiliateds really
don't like him, and he really gets Colorado Democrats fired up,
so a lot of them normally don't vote vote. So
when President Trump finishes these two successful terms, I think
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it's going to be easier for Colorado Republicans to win
stay wide. I don't think there's any question about that.
So hey, we'll find out together about this cycle. I
think for Republican wins state wide in Colorado, they have
to have a lot going for him. Run a really
really good aggressive campaign and uh and the Attorney general's
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race in calor please do look at that race as well.
Got a great candidate and Michael Allen Jenna Griswold scares
as she showed a lot of people, including a lot
of Democrats. Hey, when we come back. Thank you. We
finally have a courageous caller to name the single most
influential Colorado in history. We've been exposing the post list
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while having a lot of good names, is being politically
motivated to the point of liticoriosity. New word there, Zach,
So can we trademark that I want royalties?
Speaker 6 (28:44):
I got Mariam Webster on the phone right now, Thank.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
You, thank you well that that's going to be a
news story because she's been dead for what one hundred
and twenty years.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
We're doing great things over here. I got to I know,
I got Mariam weak sources.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I have amazing what ay I does, Amazing what ay
I does. So anyway, welcome back. We'll go to the calls.
But I'm looking now for the number one most influential
person in Colorado history. Who is that woman? Who is
that man? It can't be both because there are only
two sexes. You're on the Dan Capitla.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Show and now back to the Dan Kapler Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Did you glad you're with us on this pretty afternoon?
Let's go back to the phone lines. We're talking about
the most influential person in Colorado history. As we approach
the one hundred and fiftieth birthday of this amazing state.
And then also the Denver Post list, which has a
plenty of good names on it. But I've exposed, I
think conclusively, as been so politically slanted that it's just
(29:49):
a big, big disappointment. I mean, how do you leave
Bill Owens off two term governor, a lot of accomplishments,
and put Gottie Lamb on Democrat first lady? No, now, Dick,
I'm the governor. Yeah, yeah, he should definitely be on
that list, But so should Bill Owens and Kendrick Castillo
and Mother Cabrini, as a Texter pointed out, and there
(30:12):
are others who should not be. Let's go to the
phone lines. How about Alan in Kenyon City. I don't
know if he's in or residing within, but Alan, one
way or the other, You're welcome to the Dan Kapla show.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
How are you living the dream? My friend?
Speaker 5 (30:28):
All right? Very good? Hey, I wanted to speak to
you about Colorado being the sanctuary state. You know, I
think if a person could make Colorado not a sanctuary state,
that would be a very important person. Yeah, if you
(30:50):
think about it. Why do you think that Trump does
not like Colredo.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Like if Trump liked Colorado, he would do things for Colorado,
you know, if it was not a thank suor estate.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yeah, Alan, sure appreciate that. And I think you're right
about the president. I think when Polis decided to go
to war with him over Tina Peters, Trump decided I'm
going to win that war, and Trump punished Colorado in
lots of ways because Jared Poulis decided to go to
war to keep a seventy year old, non violent first
(31:29):
defender in jail more than a year. Now, Listen, I
think Tina Peters was guilty of a serious crime, but
she should not have been in jail more than a year,
and especially when you know, as Polish knew when he
pointed out, you know, there were Democrats convicted the same
crime who never did a day in jail. Yeah, and
then Polish, you've got this mass killing trucker convicted by
(31:52):
a jury and Polis cuts his sentence ninety percent because
Kim Kardashian whispers in his ear.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
No, so he decided to go to war with Trump.
I don't think Trump should have punished Colorado for it.
He did, but that was predictable that he would that
that has been his MO and Paulus decided to trash
the state to keep this elderly, nonviolent first offender in jail.
Evan in Denver, you're on the dan Kapla show.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Welcome, Yes, another good show, sir, thank you. My nomination
for the top of the list would be a gentleman
named Bruce Benson.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Oh yeah, Bruce Benson. And I think he is on
the list. Let me double check that he should be,
or maybe he's on there also ran list, but yeah,
oh man, it's such a prominent figure and energy and
then see you president. He raised a ton of money
to see you president.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Yes. And he's prominent in the patroling industry. Yeah, and
that's one of the businesses in Colorado. As far as
I'm a lot of people argue with me.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
I thought we call that the energy industry.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Now, wow, energy.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I know. He was well, a lot of great stuff
from Bruce bens in great suggestion, Evan Cy. We're up
against the end of the show, but great, and is
the post at a lot of people who deserved it
on the list. But I can't just sit here and
ignore it when it's so obviously politically skewed. Yeah, Doddie Lamb,
(33:25):
but not Bill Owens, Mason Tivert mouthpiece for the marijuana industry,
but not Julia Greeley, freed slave, became the Angel of
Denver for all her great works up for sainthood, and
then Mason Tavert instead of Mother Cabrini. You got a
twenty foot statue of her overlooking the entire valley, overlooking
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the entire front range. She's the first American to become
a saint, in part because of all the great works
in Denver. I no, you gotta have the mouthpiece for
the marijuana industry, and boy, you gotta have Dottie Lamb.
And by the way, I like Dotty Lamb. I knew
Dotty Lamb. I enjoyed it when I was around her.
Our politics are polar opposite. She was, in my opinion,
(34:12):
as wild eyed and radical a pro abortionists as you
could get. But a nice person. But that just proves
what was going on with this list, right, No, Mother Cabrini,
first American saint, all those great works, No, Mother Kabrini.
But you're gonna have your Dotty Lamb, your pro abortion
Dotty Lamb first, lady A, it just undermines the whole thing. Anyway,
(34:38):
I am still looking for and I'm gonna give it
a lot of thought tonight because I'm I'm having a
hard time separating out Numero Uno, King of the Hill,
number one, the number one most influential person in Colorado history.
I need to give that some more thought.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
Hand shoots.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Boy, he'd have to be a lead contender, wouldn't he
sounds of impact. He'd have to be a lead and
not just alphabetically. He'd have to be a lead contender.
So we'll follow up in the hey Leland Conway. He's
one of the many people who's left Colorado, moved out
of state. He's thrilled that he did. He's going to
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be in tomorrow and he'll explain to you why. Zack,
thanks for the great work.
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind,
and to subscribe, download and listen to the show every
single day on your favorite podcast platform. Five seven, seventh,
three nine. And pretty cool to think about the fact
that we have the chance to fight for all that right.
(00:21):
How many people in world history have even had that chance,
and we just have to do our fighting, you know,
within a political process peacefully at the ballot box. But
the stakes couldn't be higher. That's it's kind of a
gift three or three seven, one, three, eight, two, five,
five to text us d an five, seven, seventh through nine.
So a lot of text coming in, a lot of
(00:42):
text coming in on the Denver Post list of one
hundred and fifty most influential Coloradans, because they're coming up
on that big anniversary, right, one hundred and fifty years,
and so when you're talking about over that length of time,
who've been the most influential, that's really interesting stuff. Now,
first we have to expose the Denver Post list as
(01:03):
being politically motivated and slanted, and that's too bad. Right,
because something like that you like to have it straight up,
but let's just expose the truth. It's slanted. Now. A
lot of names deserve to be on there, for sure,
but give me a break, and I won't go through
the same list at length I did earlier. But you
leave Bill Owens off, two term Colorado governor, very influential,
(01:24):
a lot of accomplishments, but you put on Democrat first,
lady Dottie Lamb. I mean, that's how ludicrous it got politically.
And I gave other examples and other examples of really important,
influential people who should have been on there, like Julia Greeley,
Kendrick Castile, Dave Logan. I mean a lot of categories.
(01:45):
But so we're going to continue to take thoughts on
that calls as well as text, etc. But there's a
lot more I want to get to with you as well.
You know a couple of things in the newscasts that
have been on my list, and might as well dive
into him now. One is, you know the talk of
the cyber attacks that the FBI is investigating on various
water plants. So we all know the day is coming, right,
(02:07):
we hope it doesn't, but we all know the day
is coming when some enemy, maybe China on behalf of run.
It may be having Prutent obviously Satan on Earth if
he has a capability. But there's going to be a
major cyber attack on this country that could very well
take much of the grid down for a while. So
what is your plan? And I truly would be interested
(02:28):
to hear because I think about it all the time
and we do our own things, But what is your
plan for surviving say a week off the grid or
thirty days without the grid? You know this is people
are being careful planners. It's not alarmist or doomsday. It's
just you know, being careful, realistic planners. And then we
(02:49):
heard the newscast about picking Looper reduces of it, releases
a video on affordability. Yeah, where was all that during Biden?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And what was that like forty percent inflation? Where was
hicken Looper? But the real point there is he must
consider himself the luckiest person in the world that Melot
Kiros decided to run against to get instead of him.
And Kiros is probably ready to jump off a bridge
because she knows she would have beat Hickenlooper by at
least ten points, so pick and Looper has probably been
(03:20):
the luckiest man in politics his entire tenure. There was
that other note in the news about Todd Blanche and
you know, you got Tillis and and you've got who
else is holding out on him? Texas senator right holding
out on him? Anyway, two guys who you know Trump
opposed and are leaving the Senate when he defeated down
(03:44):
in Texas. And so Zach this is peanut butter brain.
I cannot be drawing a blank on this man. This
man invited Amy and I to his office in DC
to talk to me about running for the US. Maybe
it's a good thing I didn't since I can't remember
his name Cornet. See peanut Butter will do that to you.
(04:08):
How did I get hooked on the worst possible snack
for a talk show hosting peanut butter John Corny, who
was very nice to us, very nice to us, and
we had a great meeting in his office. He was
a cool guy, and I thought a straight shooter and
everything else. But obviously Trump, you know, endorsed his opponent
and the Ken Paxton in that primary in Texas and
(04:32):
ran Conyers out of the Senate and till Us, you know, left,
but a lot of opposition from Trump helped force that,
and so both of them are at least for now
opposing Blanche. I know probably nobody in this audience cares
about the whole attorney general thing in DC. I just
want to make a quick comment on it. Under these circumstances,
I do not fall President Trump whatsoever for wanting, above all,
(04:58):
somebody he can trust as attorney general. And I understand
the ideal attorney general would be somebody who is not
necessarily in the President's pocket. But this is a president
who was the victim of a coup attempt, and by
the grace of God and voter support, et cetera, he
(05:20):
survived that. But he was not only the target of
multiple assassination attempts, he was the target of a form
of coup attempt. And so who in the world could
blame him for saying, above all, I need to be
sure that my attorney general is somebody who's going to
listen to me. So I just don't fault him for that,
(05:41):
given everything that he's been through. Three three seven three
two five seven seven three nine. I want to give
credit where credit is due. We spent so much time
as we should on Fauci and will spend more. But
as we listened to all that yesterday, Fauci being exposed
on the Hill, you know, I'm sure for you and
(06:03):
like for me, it brought us back to that terrible
time when Fauci's being treated as a god is he's
he's you know, driving all of these shutdowns, all this
super destructive stuff and denying it and then lying about
other things. But people who who stood up to him
were being ruined. I guess the polite term these days
(06:25):
is canceled, but being ruined. And then you had John Stewart,
a lefty. But John Stewart who who had the courage
to come forward and take Fauci on on this whole
nonsense that oh no, no, the wu Wan virus it
wasn't from that lab in China. I remember how people
were vilified for saying that it was run off social media, ostracized,
(06:49):
ruined professionally. But John Stewart, from the left, had the
courage to take it on on Stephen Colbert's show. What
do you mean do you mean like there's a chance
that this is creating a lab? There's an investigation, a
chance the evidence. I'd love to hear it.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
There's a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking wu Han, China.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
What do we do?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You know who?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
We could ask the Wuhn Novel Respiratory coronavirus lab.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
The disease is the same name as the labs.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
That's just that's just a little too weird, don't you think?
And then they asso scientists, they're like, how did this?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
So wait a minute, you work at the wun.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Respiratory coronavirus lab.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
How did this happen?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
And they're like a tangled and kiss the turtle.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
And you're like, no, the name of your lab if
you look at the name, Look at the name tonight.
Let me see your business card, show me your business card.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Oh, I work at the coronavirus lab in wun Oh,
because there's a coronavirus loose in wu An?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
How did that happen? Maybe bad that flew into the paka.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Of the Turkey and then it sneezed into my chili
and now we all have coronavirus?
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Like okay, okay, what about this?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
What about this? Wait a second, all right, John, Oh
my god, oh my god, there's been.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
An outbreak of chocolate e goodness near Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
What do you think happened? Like, Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Maybe a steam shovel made it with a cocoa bean,
or it's the chocolate factory.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Maybe that's it.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
That could be.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
That could be.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
That could be.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I gave them all tuberculosis.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
That could That could very well be. And Anthony Fauci
and Francis Collins and Anser said like, you should definitely
be investigated.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Stop with the logic and people and things.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
No, even the disease. Wait a second, Wait a second, building,
wait a second. But I think it could be possible.
You could be right. It could be possible that they
have the lab in Wuhan to study the novel coronavirus
diseases because in Wohan there are a lot of novel
coronavirus diseases because of the bat population out there. I understand.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
It's like to say specialty and it's the only place
to find backs.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You won't find backs.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
We're saying, oh way, Austin, Texas has thousands of them.
But fly out of a cane every night, every night
at dusk, is there a coronavirus an Austin coronavirus doesn't
seem to be an Austin coronavirus.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
That, you know, I was so brilliant, absolute genius at first,
the courage piece of it, right, But but then to
be able to do it in a humorous way like that,
that's impressive. And I know our politics are opposite in
most things, but that was really impressive. Three or three seven,
three eight two five five d an five seven And
we're going to be playing, you know that really kind
(10:03):
of fun sound now of all these sanctimonious lefty broadcasters
back in the day lecturing the rest of us. Hey,
if we don't believe in doctor Fauci, if we don't
follow what Fauci says, you know that, then we're just
these ignoramuses and mocked in so many different ways. So
we will savor that sound over the next weeks and months.
(10:24):
Going back to the list, the Denver Post list, which
I think at this point I pretty much proved is
you know, politically slanted, to use the very generous term,
But what a great point from a Texter Dan is
mother Cabrini on the list? If not she should be,
(10:45):
of course she should be, So of course she's not
because what is Mother Cabrini? Hmm? Do we see a
pattern here? Bill Owens Nope, Julia Greeley, Kendrick Castile nope,
Mother Cabrini nope. Cardinal Stafford Nope. But Dottie Lamb yes,
(11:13):
Mason Tverd mouthpiece for the drug industry, Yes, m Mother Cabrini.
There's a statue overlooking Denver. She's the first US citizen
to be canonized as a saint. She did all these
great works in Colorado, such great works in Colorado that
(11:38):
there's a twenty two foot statue of her overlooking the
entire valley. How is she not on the list? She's
a patron saint of immigrants. How is she not on
the list? But Dotty Lamb is and the marijuana mouthpiece?
Guy is? What do you think is going on there?
You're on the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
And now back to the Dan kapler Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Thank a man, Right boy? What a crowd?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
What a crowd?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
No?
Speaker 4 (12:15):
I tell you I'm all right now. But last week
was in a rough shape, you know. Yeah, last your
wife signed me up for a bridge club. I jump
off next Tuesday. I mean, last week nothing went right.
I bought a waterbed. There were two Cuban guys swimming
and looking for Florida.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Last week I went to the track too, and that
was a beauty. I shut off the opening gun and
they killed my horse. I'll tell you nothing about my
car broke down again. I got a car. I got
nothing but for it. Every Sunday I take my family
out for a push. The last time my wife drove
the car, she cracked it up into a tree.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
He told me it wasn't no fault.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
She blew a horn. My wife wasn't too slunch. You
know why night you announced some guy stole the car.
I said to you, to see what he looked like.
She told me you got the license plate number. She's
not spot at all.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I told him, I.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Kild have spoiled. She told me a lot of kids
smell that way. You know.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
You know a different error.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
That was a performance for President Reagan. It's wild to
watch some of that stuff. I just I love the
whole Rodney Dangerfield thing. I was on my way to
a deposition in La I can't remember what year, and
weather forced us down in Vegas. Fortunately, for some reason
(13:30):
we couldn't land in La So I'm walking into the
Tropicana at like two thirty in the morning, just trying
to get a couple hours sleep before the connector in
the morning. Round a corner, here's Rodney Dangerfield hitting on
a waitress, you know, and he's doing the whole thing
with his tie everything else. It was like so surreal anyway,
(13:51):
three or three seven, three eight, two five five five
seven seven three nine. We're talking about the Denver Post
most influential in the history of Colorado, So the top
one fifty because we're having that one hundred and fiftieth
birthday coming up for the state. And if you just
joined us, thank you. I won't repeat all the stuff
I've been saying, but I've been proving, I think beyond
any doubt that the list is politically skewed, because how
(14:15):
else do you leave Bill Owens, a two term governor
with great accomplishments, off, but put Dottie Lamb, a Democrat
first lady on not a gender thing, but obviously, come on,
that's ludicrous. And then I went through a long list
of others left off and bill Owens, as I mentioned
Julia Greeley, the former slave who became the angel of Denver,
(14:38):
Mother Cabrini. You've got the statute overlooking the Valley, Kendrick Castill. Yes,
the list goes on and on, getting back to Texters. Dan,
are you all worked up over this list because you're
not on it? I'll tell you if I was on it,
we know it was a joke, right that. That's the
only evidence I'd need. No, No, I'm you know. I'm
(15:00):
worked up over this list because this was a cool idea.
One fifty is a big deal. I hope to be
around for two hundred, but that's not guaranteed. One fifty
is a big deal, and something like this, you think
you could leave the cheap politics out of it and
just do a real list. That's that's what bugs me, Dan.
(15:21):
Regarding the most influential or notable, what about ellen Burgh? Yes,
he is on the list, thank goodness, as he should
be one Ellen Bergh. Now I have also asked this question,
who's number one Numero Uno, King of the hill, top
of the Totem Pole. Who's the number one most influential
(15:45):
person in Colorado history?
Speaker 6 (15:47):
I was blinking earlier. I think I got a good
nominee for you.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I bet you do.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
How about Byron white Byron J.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
White, boy, that's a that's a pretty good one man.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Supreme Court Justice.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
JFK's only pick. And plus he's known for sitting.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Next to me in a buff game famously honestly when
people most know him.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah, oh, I know, I know, and I just hey,
I don't want to talk about that anymore. Funny thing,
wasn't great guy, the greatest guy in the world. He
had no idea I was there, as he should not.
But I thoroughly enjoyed just sitting there and listening to
his conversations with other people. But yeah, Supreme Court justice.
(16:27):
Somebody told me he was the only the first two term,
the only two term student body president other than me,
at least at the time old company. I don't even
know if that's true. I don't know even though if
you could call me a two term student body president,
because I was student body president but the first term
(16:47):
they had a try executive thing going because it was
all about, you know, just just collaboration. And then my
second term I was sole president. But anyway, no, Byron
White Man, that's a good suggestion. And you know, all
American football player JFK's only Supreme Court pick. I remember
(17:07):
him saying there is no way JFK would have been
down with this whole constitutional right to abortion thing. I
don't know if he and the Justice ever discussed that,
but wow, good suggestion, my man. All right, who should
number one be? And then let's talk about others who
should be on the list? Dan, not political? Can you
really leave out zebulon Pike? He spotted but never submitted
(17:31):
what's now known as America's Mountain? What could that be
Zebulon Peak? Do we have a Zebulon Peak in Colorado?
We have Pipe's Peak? Yeah? I was joking their sack.
Even peanut butter can't degrade my brain that much. Yeah,
even peanut butter does not. Dan uh, just shuck it
(17:52):
to that one. After the break, Dan, Central Nebraska listener here,
ninety five degrees with about seventy percent humidity. Did you
complain about triple digits at this point if it were
dry heat? Amen to that. I was just talking earlier
how lucky we are in Colorado that that we don't
have that humidity. People complaining about the heat right now,
this is not heat, and two months from now it'll
(18:15):
be snowing. So who is the most influential person in
Colorado history. You're on the Dan Capitlas Show.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I'm gonna be like Fauci and just take the Fifth
Amendment on on questions.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Did you guys say that?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Oh my god, what was the question?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
That's a beautiful thing to see. It's it's seeping into
popular culture. A fick Fangiona who used to be Denver's
head coach, great defensive coordinator. Glad you're here, fun afternoon.
As we've been talking about, I've been, you know, modestly
exposing that the Repost top one hundred and fifty in
Colorado History list is being obviously very politically slanted, while
(19:06):
still plenty of good names on it. But who's number one?
Who is the single most influential person in Colorado history?
I'd love your take on that. I'll give you mine
three or three seOne, three eight, two, five, five, d
an five, seven, seventh through nine. Somebody nominates Alfred Packer,
known infamously as the Colorado Cannibal. Stephen Lyttleton as a
(19:29):
cu Boulder guy. We go to Packer grill all the time. Yeah,
it's it's part of the lore. I just don't see
the influence there unless he happened to eat you. I
just don't see the influence there myself. Let's go to
the phone lines, mixing some calls. We'll starting Beautiful Boulder, Colorado. Kevin,
you're on the Dan Kapla show. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah, calling about your cats.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Hmm, what'd you do with some Kevin? Thank you for
that question. But a great sadness has come over our
house and it's a very, very sore subject. What Kevin's
talking about is his great joy came into our lives.
We are not cat people only because you know, we
have a child who's allergic. But one day the dog's
(20:14):
going crazy. I look out back and there are all
these kittens have been born under the porch with the
actually beautiful mother. And it was so much fun day
and night. Like I'd get up go to the bathroom
at two in the morning and I'd go down to
look out the window and Amy'd be down there watching them.
They were the coolest thing in the world to watch.
I sent you video, Zach of those kittens.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
They are adorable.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Could watch them all day.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
I showed my girlfriend that video. I was like, look
at these cute man.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
She wanted all four of it.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Bit she did, and I was at five cats.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
We started feeding them and giving them water, and then
we we went visited these different Our daughter visited the
different shelters to pick out the right one to facilitate
the adoptions. We found them homes to adopt them out.
We were all set and then the humane professional was
going to come over on Sunday to put them in
the right kind of transport and get them in and
(21:07):
the families are waiting. Then all of a sudden, they're gone,
not a trace. So we're trying to We're trying to
find them, just to get them to these good homes.
So yeah, great, great sadness for us. And funny thing
is that, you know, I'll still wander in and Amy
will too and just look through that window and see, hey,
(21:29):
have they come back? And I don't know, Zach, you're
a cat person. We've never had one, but we fed
them for a while. I've got to believe one of
these days, at least one of them is coming back.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Maybe I think there's a good chance of that. I
think there's also what happened is I think the mom
moved them, so I think they're okay, I don't think
something bad, right.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Right, right, So it's a selfish sadness.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Yeah, I think there's a good chance to you cross
paths with them again. I'd say they know where they're
they're bread's buttered, and where they got.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I think it was probably she'd probably moved. They might
probably outgrew that space under the patio because it's a
concrete patio and they were living underneath it. Or maybe
it was the dogs, because we got a bunch of dogs.
We got dogs in the house sometimes. I literally don't
know their names. I don't know where they came from.
But we're just dog people. So maybe the mom just
(22:23):
figured too much assle with the dogs. But we miss him,
and you know, again from people who've never had cats.
So I'll let you know if they come back. I'm
hoping one of these days. And if any of them
come back, we've got the families waiting for him. Now.
Credit to Zach, you know. With the Doctor Fauci public
hearing yesterday, Zach was able to get access to the
(22:44):
audio of Fauci in the closed door session taking the
fifth Fascinating stuff. Didn't know he had this talent.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Sir is it true you were a crack cocaine dealer
for seven years, I plead the philth.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Sir, will you tell us about the cartels you dealt
with in your time as a crack cocaine dealer?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
No, but I can tell you that I plead the physics.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Exactly how much money did you earn in your time
as a crack cocaine dealer?
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Yeah, I sait.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
There so many amendments in the Constitution of the United
States of a build.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Only choose one. Let the fife the phil five two
three four, Good work, Zac, good work. Sounded like you
(23:56):
loosened duck back there. Yep. And some thanks I probably
to David Chappelle three out three seven three two five
five five seven seven threety nine some other things that
I want to make sure we touch on before the
end of the show today, and we'll get into a
more depth that's coming up. Just more great news for
those of us who who want to see more people
(24:19):
do what I did and move from being Democrats to Republicans,
or at least from Democrats to unaffiliateds, because that was
my journey democrat, unaffiliated Republican, and so maybe the best
news possible for that hope is Democrats now coming out
as openly socialist in this poll that just came out
(24:39):
today should put a smile on your face. See an
n what what percentage of current Democrats identify as Democrats socialist?
What percentage? What would you guess, Zach?
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Fifteen twenty?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Maybe a third? Wow, a third identify as Demo crat socialist.
This is fantastic that this will this will lead to
the rapid tipping point decline of the Democratic Party in
a way that all these failures and policy failures and
everything else could not Because obviously you've got the trend
(25:19):
line down for the Democratic Party nationwide in Colorado, it's
still dominant. It'll be one of the last dominoes to fall,
but you got the trend line down because they've got
all these terrible ideas that lead to terrible outcomes. Okay,
but then you've got this dramatic shift where they're openly
using the F word pardon me, S word, which is
as bad or worse than the F word. They are
(25:41):
self identifying as socialists. And now you've got a third
of Democrats who identify as socialists. That's death. Man. Can
you imagine if like a third of your food was poisoned,
it wouldn't matter that the other two thirds was pretty delicious.
Poison third was probably gonna get you. And when you
(26:03):
get to that point of contamination in anything, the Democratic Party, Yeah,
that ain't gonna work because they cannot afford to lose
anywhere near that many votes. Yeah, so that is good news.
I mean, obviously, if I thought it was going to
lead to the country becoming socialist, it'd be the worst
(26:25):
possible news. But I don't see any way that happens none.
And I speak with some authority as a former Democrat
and my out of Colorado family, extended family, which is
big all Democrats, not one socialist in the group. Patriotic,
great Americans, not one socialist in the group, despise socialism uniformly.
(26:49):
So yeah, this is great news for the GP. Now
can it take advantage? Can it take advantage in Colorado
of this cycle next cycle? I think the next cycle
is likely to be better for the GOP in Colorado
because more and more people will be aware that what
we've got now are socialists and they're proud of it.
(27:09):
People aren't going to like that. They'll start opening their
eyes and minds to Republicans in ways they never did before.
Not because they like Republicans, but they hate socialists. And
then the other thing is, hey, listen, I think Trump's
going to go down is one of the great presidents
in American history, you know, some of the personality stuff aside.
(27:30):
I think he's going to go down as one of
the most impactful and in many good ways. But the
fact is that Colorado doesn't like them. Colorado unaffiliateds really
don't like him, and he really gets Colorado Democrats fired up,
so a lot of them normally don't vote vote. So
when President Trump finishes these two successful terms, I think
(27:51):
it's going to be easier for Colorado Republicans to win
stay wide. I don't think there's any question about that.
So hey, we'll find out together about this cycle. I
think for Republican wins state wide in Colorado, they have
to have a lot going for him. Run a really
really good aggressive campaign and uh and the Attorney general's
(28:11):
race in calor please do look at that race as well.
Got a great candidate and Michael Allen Jenna Griswold scares
as she showed a lot of people, including a lot
of Democrats. Hey, when we come back. Thank you. We
finally have a courageous caller to name the single most
influential Colorado in history. We've been exposing the post list
(28:33):
while having a lot of good names, is being politically
motivated to the point of liticoriosity. New word there, Zach,
So can we trademark that I want royalties?
Speaker 6 (28:44):
I got Mariam Webster on the phone right now, Thank.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
You, thank you well that that's going to be a
news story because she's been dead for what one hundred
and twenty years.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
We're doing great things over here. I got to I know,
I got Mariam weak sources.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I have amazing what ay I does, Amazing what ay
I does. So anyway, welcome back. We'll go to the calls.
But I'm looking now for the number one most influential
person in Colorado history. Who is that woman? Who is
that man? It can't be both because there are only
two sexes. You're on the Dan Capitla.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Show and now back to the Dan Kapler Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Did you glad you're with us on this pretty afternoon?
Let's go back to the phone lines. We're talking about
the most influential person in Colorado history. As we approach
the one hundred and fiftieth birthday of this amazing state.
And then also the Denver Post list, which has a
plenty of good names on it. But I've exposed, I
think conclusively, as been so politically slanted that it's just
(29:49):
a big, big disappointment. I mean, how do you leave
Bill Owens off two term governor, a lot of accomplishments,
and put Gottie Lamb on Democrat first lady? No, now, Dick,
I'm the governor. Yeah, yeah, he should definitely be on
that list, But so should Bill Owens and Kendrick Castillo
and Mother Cabrini, as a Texter pointed out, and there
(30:12):
are others who should not be. Let's go to the
phone lines. How about Alan in Kenyon City. I don't
know if he's in or residing within, but Alan, one
way or the other, You're welcome to the Dan Kapla show.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
How are you living the dream? My friend?
Speaker 5 (30:28):
All right? Very good? Hey, I wanted to speak to
you about Colorado being the sanctuary state. You know, I
think if a person could make Colorado not a sanctuary state,
that would be a very important person. Yeah, if you
(30:50):
think about it. Why do you think that Trump does
not like Colredo.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Like if Trump liked Colorado, he would do things for Colorado,
you know, if it was not a thank suor estate.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yeah, Alan, sure appreciate that. And I think you're right
about the president. I think when Polis decided to go
to war with him over Tina Peters, Trump decided I'm
going to win that war, and Trump punished Colorado in
lots of ways because Jared Poulis decided to go to
war to keep a seventy year old, non violent first
(31:29):
defender in jail more than a year. Now, Listen, I
think Tina Peters was guilty of a serious crime, but
she should not have been in jail more than a year,
and especially when you know, as Polish knew when he
pointed out, you know, there were Democrats convicted the same
crime who never did a day in jail. Yeah, and
then Polish, you've got this mass killing trucker convicted by
(31:52):
a jury and Polis cuts his sentence ninety percent because
Kim Kardashian whispers in his ear.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
No, so he decided to go to war with Trump.
I don't think Trump should have punished Colorado for it.
He did, but that was predictable that he would that
that has been his MO and Paulus decided to trash
the state to keep this elderly, nonviolent first offender in jail.
Evan in Denver, you're on the dan Kapla show.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Welcome, Yes, another good show, sir, thank you. My nomination
for the top of the list would be a gentleman
named Bruce Benson.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Oh yeah, Bruce Benson. And I think he is on
the list. Let me double check that he should be,
or maybe he's on there also ran list, but yeah,
oh man, it's such a prominent figure and energy and
then see you president. He raised a ton of money
to see you president.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Yes. And he's prominent in the patroling industry. Yeah, and
that's one of the businesses in Colorado. As far as
I'm a lot of people argue with me.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
I thought we call that the energy industry.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Now, wow, energy.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I know. He was well, a lot of great stuff
from Bruce bens in great suggestion, Evan Cy. We're up
against the end of the show, but great, and is
the post at a lot of people who deserved it
on the list. But I can't just sit here and
ignore it when it's so obviously politically skewed. Yeah, Doddie Lamb,
(33:25):
but not Bill Owens, Mason Tivert mouthpiece for the marijuana industry,
but not Julia Greeley, freed slave, became the Angel of
Denver for all her great works up for sainthood, and
then Mason Tavert instead of Mother Cabrini. You got a
twenty foot statue of her overlooking the entire valley, overlooking
(33:51):
the entire front range. She's the first American to become
a saint, in part because of all the great works
in Denver. I no, you gotta have the mouthpiece for
the marijuana industry, and boy, you gotta have Dottie Lamb.
And by the way, I like Dotty Lamb. I knew
Dotty Lamb. I enjoyed it when I was around her.
Our politics are polar opposite. She was, in my opinion,
(34:12):
as wild eyed and radical a pro abortionists as you
could get. But a nice person. But that just proves
what was going on with this list, right, No, Mother Cabrini,
first American saint, all those great works, No, Mother Kabrini.
But you're gonna have your Dotty Lamb, your pro abortion
Dotty Lamb first, lady A, it just undermines the whole thing. Anyway,
(34:38):
I am still looking for and I'm gonna give it
a lot of thought tonight because I'm I'm having a
hard time separating out Numero Uno, King of the Hill,
number one, the number one most influential person in Colorado history.
I need to give that some more thought.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
Hand shoots.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Boy, he'd have to be a lead contender, wouldn't he
sounds of impact. He'd have to be a lead and
not just alphabetically. He'd have to be a lead contender.
So we'll follow up in the hey Leland Conway. He's
one of the many people who's left Colorado, moved out
of state. He's thrilled that he did. He's going to
(35:17):
be in tomorrow and he'll explain to you why. Zack,
thanks for the great work.
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