June 11, 2026 • 35 mins
This episode of the Dan Caplis Show sparks a lively discussion about naming roads and buildings in Colorado after notable figures. The conversation begins with a thought-provoking question: should we name major roads and buildings after politicians, or should we honor those who have made significant sacrifices for the state? The speaker shares personal anecdotes and opinions on the matter, citing the example of Federico Pena Boulevard, which he believes should be renamed to reflect the state's values.
The discussion delves into the importance of recognizing individuals who have demonstrated exceptional courage and selflessness, such as Dave Sanders, a teacher who lost his life saving students during the Columbine High School shooting. The speaker argues that naming roads and buildings after such individuals would serve as a powerful reminder of the state's values and virtues. Meanwhile, the topic of Jason Crow, a Colorado congressman, is brought up, with the speaker expressing concern over his apparent support for the Iranian regime.
The conversation also touches on the topic of sports heroes, with the speaker suggesting that naming roads and buildings after athletes who have brought joy and pride to the state could be a fitting tribute. The discussion highlights the unique ability of sports to bring people together and create a sense of community. With a range of opinions and perspectives on the table, this episode of the Dan Caplis Show encourages listeners to think critically about the importance of naming roads and buildings in Colorado.
Tune in to hear the full discussion and join the conversation about what it means to be a hero in Colorado.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I cannot imagine how it could get nicer. If you're
not in Colorado, well you should be three or three
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Speaker 2 (00:31):
So here's what we got going. Thank you for joining.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I'm talking about what in Colorado, roads, buildings, et cetera.
Would you want to name something after and who would
that person be. My premise is we should not be
naming things after politicians. Should we take down the names
of anything currently named after politicians? Paena Boulevard and I
mentioned that while I disagree with a lot of his policies,
(00:54):
I really like Federico Penya as a person, you know,
got to cross paths in youth based but I don't
think Payya Boulevard should be named after a former Democrat mayor.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I think we need to be naming the big.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Stuff after people who exemplify the biggest virtues and great sacrifice.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, and so I would love to get your thoughts
on that.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
What triggered it was a newscast that mentioned Kendrick Castio
Parkway and how great it is that such a major
thoroughfare is named after one of Colorado's greatest heroes.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So that's why we're talking about that.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
And then we're talking about the latest from the Croatola.
Jason Crowe, who's the six CD congressman in Colorado, cannot
claim credit for the name. We had a contest among
our listeners and somebody came up with Croatola, and again
that stoning dichotomy. Somebody who sacrificed and so bravely in
(01:52):
his military service extraordinarily admirable and should deserve eternal credit
for that, and then when he went into politics went
the opposite way. To the point now, I think most
honest people would conclude he's rooting for Iran in this
war because he thinks that will advance his political fortunes.
And if the president succeeds in Iran, obviously very good
(02:14):
for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
But listen to the latest from the Crowatola. We talked
about him.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Before because he was part of that gang of Democrats
who had formerly served honorably and nobly, had formally served,
and we're now trying to destabilize the military by encouraging
people to disobey quote, illegal orders. But they never defined
what those illegal orders were. And so what do you
think the message to people was, Yeah, disobey orders. So
(02:39):
the latest from the Crowatola where he appears to be,
he appears to be suggesting that the evil regime that
slaughters thirty to forty thousand people in a few days
in their own streets more reliable than our administration.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
You know, when we're in a situation where we'd have
to tune into what the Iranians say to get the
real in from a on the status of the negotiations.
That's a huge problem, right, because the information coming out
of the administration is inconsistent at best, in misleading at work.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Oh my goodness, that's like Jane Fondas stuff. But but
here's the question, why would you do that?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It's so whack? Why would he do it?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Here's why he would do it, And it goes back
to the point I was making before the break, when
I posed you the question of Okay, want a Republican,
but if it has to be a Democrat, do you
want Wiser or Bennett?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And I made the case, I think conclusively, that.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
If you want Republicans to return to power in four years,
you want Michael Bennett as the governor. And then I
made the cases why he'll be terrible, but I made
the case as to why he'll be less terrible for
the States simply because he won't get as much done.
He's just very ineffective, and it'll be easier to beat
in four years three.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Or three, seven, three eight, two, five five.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
But above all, it's going to cause mass chaos in
the Democratic Party. The resentment, the infighting, the anger. When
Michael Bennett, the single least effective senator in the last
hundred years, chooses his successor rather than the people, everybody
who's not his successor is going to be very upset,
more upset than they'd be if there was just a
normal primary where Michael Bennett decides to finally give up
(04:13):
the power he's wasted for all these decades and let
the people decide who the nominee should be.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
So they're they're heading for a world of hurt.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
There so getting your take on that text or Dan,
I agree with you one hundred percent on your analysis
of Wiser and Bennett Benett wuld definitely be the way
I'd want to go. But I want a Republican obviously,
yes I do too. But the name of this show
is brutal honesty.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's actually the Dan Kaplis show.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
But we should change it and we just, you know,
relentless pursuit of the truth. And the GOP is not
likely to win this race. Doesn't mean they can't, but
but the chances are lower than they should be, and
that I frustrates me. I understand why big money has
just decided the GOP can't win, so it's not coming in.
I get that makes it extra hard on a candidate.
(05:00):
What that means then, is that the GOP candidate has
to be out there going retail round the clock, round
the clock, probably for a year or two to be
able to overcome that money disadvantage.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Because here's what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Like you look at this race, and I'm not endorsing
anybody in this race because you know, the Democrat stuff
is so wicked. Democrat stuff is so wicked. I don't
want to destabilize GOP. But you look at this race,
and I think reasonable, most reasonable people would look at
this race and say, you know what, Barb Kirkmeyer is
(05:34):
very obviously ready to be governor and would appeal to
an awful lot of Colorado voters.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I understand Barb.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Isn't the cup of tea of some folks in the audience,
and I respect that, but when you think about winning
a general I think Barb Kirkmeyer brings a tremendous amount
to the table. That's not to disrespect any other candidate,
but just just being honest about when you think about
a general election, who's going to have, you know, a
lot of appeal and so so yeah, you.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
But then the problem is, you know, Barba has been
a very important member of the Joint Budget Committee, and
she takes that very seriously and she's worked very hard
at it and served the state well. But as a result,
she has not been able to go out and campaign
statewide around the clock. And I just don't know how
a GOP candidate overcomes the money disadvantage without doing that.
(06:27):
Hopefully Barb or somebody else can can flip that, but
that's that's a concern because as we sit here right now,
in a normal kind of cycle, you would have expected
someone who brings to the table what Barb does to
have caught fire by now and being kind of a
clear lead, and the Democrats coming in and trying to
get somebody else nominated. You know, we're not seeing that.
(06:49):
I think in part because of Barb's work on the
JBC very important. But yeah, just just all of that
hasn't caught fire yet. I sure hope it does. I
hope it catches.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Fire, you know, before, you know, before it's too late.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
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Speaker 2 (07:10):
Zach, what's going on back there?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I was just wondering, do you think part of the
dems motivation there or the fact that they haven't gotten
involved yet, you know, despite them typically doing so, is
the fact that they're happy with how things currently seem
to be stacked up on that side of the primary,
and they have no desire to upset that apple cart.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
You know, I think you're probably right, unless it's a
case where you know, this Bennett Wiser thing is so
close and so important that maybe that's sucking up all
their money because I think there's real division in the
Democratic Party among the money people as to what they
want to do. I think you've got a whole bunch
(07:48):
of people thinking it's going to cause a world of
trouble for the Dems if Bennett wins at governor's job
for the reasons I laid out, And so I think
there's more money. I would guess we'll know when we
see the numbers starting to come in for Wiser.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So maybe maybe that's what's going on.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
What's I going that because the ballots have dropped right, Normally,
if the Dems are going to play, which they have
in every GOP primary for governor I can remember, But normally,
if the Dems are going to play, they would have
played by now. So yeah, like you say, maybe they're
just happy.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
With the trajectory. What is the trajectory?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Can somebody tell me that there's no polling, no reliable polling.
What's the trajectory of this governor's primer? The GOP primer
three out, three seven, three eight, two five, five, d
an five seven, seventh or nine getting back to the
Texas DAN instead of paying you boulevard, how about Sullenberger Boulevard?
Something should be named after Dave Sanders.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I started with the Dave Sanders example after praising the
Kender Castillo Boulevard naming. And come on, now, you've got
a hero teacher who lays down his life at Columbine
to save his students. Something big should be named for
Dave Sanders. So I did the Sullenberger suggests from the texture.
I imagine as Sully Sullenberger for that heroic work that
(09:03):
the captain did, you know, in landing in the Hudson.
But I think it's got to be a Coloraden. You've
got to be naming this big stuff after Coloraden's What
about replacing Painia Boulevard with Sanders Boulevard. Now some people
who are new to the area would think it's Coach Prime.
You could clarify that with the signage, and hopefully by
(09:23):
the time Coach Prime is done, we'll want to name
stuff after him. I'm still very glad he came here.
Hope it ends very successfully. But with Dave Sanders, what
about that? Should we take down Paynia Boulevard with thanks
to the primary for his service, take down Payia Boulevard
and change it to Sanders Boulevard.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
We had one caller recommend Bruce Randolph.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Oh, there is a major boulevard now Okay named after
Bruce Brandon. But I understand why maybe a lot of
people new to the area who don't know that Bruce
Randolph was this great, great guy, you know, used to
feed the poor and do all lots of great civic work,
including a big Thanksgiving Day free meal that he would do. So, yeah,
that's wonderful, Dan. If we removed Caesar Chavez from his
(10:09):
road yet, is there a Caesar Chavez Road in Colorado?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
And that's think there is one. I don't know if
they've changed it yet.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, yeah, somebody can tell us.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I'm sure three h three someone three eight, two, five, five, five, seven, seventh,
three or nine.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And that one was.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Really bizarre to me because when I was in my
senior year at the seminary, and that was high school years, so.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
We didn't live there. We went home at night and
then often dated.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
But when I was in my senior year at the Seminary,
we were saving up our money to try to travel
to California to meet Caesar Chavez, you know, back in
the seventies. And so the fact now that all these
scandals are being revealed. It's just kind of bizarre, all right,
wellcome back to other text calls on hey, should Penya Bolvard?
(10:57):
Should that name be taken down? Named after somebody else?
I would say it should be Dave Sanders. Should it
be somebody other than Dave Sanders. But let's start with
Payna Boulevard? Is it time to change it? And that's
no knock on Federico. You know, I think he was
a big time guy with great skills. He's not like
one of these little Putian scared of their shadow lying
democrats we have. Now, I just disagreed with Federico in
(11:18):
a lot of policies, But should we have that major
boulevard named after him?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
You're on the Dan Kaplas.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Show, and now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
When we're in a situation where we have to tune
into what the Iranians say to get the real information
on the status of the negotiations, that's a huge problem,
right because information coming out of the administration is inconsistent
at best in misleading that work.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Well, the crow Toola has officially jumped the sharp this
evil regime that mass slaughters tens of thousands and days,
Jason Crow now praises and praises is being honest and reliable,
more honest and reliable than the Americans.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Oh my goodness, he has lost his mind.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
But again, tying into the past conversation, I believe this,
this willingness to kind of open in my opinion, openly
root for Iran and root against Trump.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
To the point he's praising this regime for honesty, honesty,
This regime.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
That says, all those tens of thousands of dead people,
you know, it was all their fault. They're all traders.
So that's who Jason Crow's praising this regime. Think about it,
Jason played again. I'm sorry, I'll go to our fiery
phone lines. In twenty seconds, Jason Crow is praising as
honest and reliable, this regime that hangs gaze, that throws
(12:42):
gaze off rooftops, This regime that is hanging young people,
hanging young people, including star athletes, for having the audacity
to stand up to the regime that's to an American
congressman is praising.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
You.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Don't think that video and sound is going to be
used by that evil regime.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
You know, we when we're in a situation where we
have to tune into what the Iranians say to get
the real information on the status of the negotiations.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Wow, he has way more than jumped to Shark. All right,
let's go to the phone lines. We'll start with Evan
in Seattle. You're on the dan Kaplis. Shall welcome Evan.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Yes, I was born in Seattle, and I think your
topic for naming famous sames is very good.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
There are two famous floating bridges in Seattle, when named
after a famous bomber pilot in World War Two, the
other after a government which is once again political. Yeah.
My school in California, where you've got the Nemets Freeway
where No Nemets is heavily armed and heavily remembered. That
type of thing I think should be done more and
more in Colorad. I don't we have some famous mountain
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passes the public do not have made today, just geographically located.
But heck of an idea. Always a good show, sir,
and I'll always love listening to it.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Thank you, my friend, Thank you for your service. Evan
in Seattle. Let's go down a beautiful pueblo. Talk to
Joseph you're on the Dan Caplis.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
You're welcome, Hi, Dan.
Speaker 9 (14:09):
Yeah, we have a road that just recently opened here
in Pueblo that is named Medal of Honor Boulevard. But
there's only one building on the road, and that's the
New County Jail.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (14:22):
It just seems an injustice to the Medal of Honor winners.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
It certainly is.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I'm sure it was all very well intended, but that
is that is misplaced, my friend.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah, have you talked to anybody about that?
Speaker 9 (14:38):
I wanted to get your opinion first.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, no, thank you, I'm honored, but no, I've got it.
This should be one of those one hundred zero issues.
Just well intentioned, but a faux pa there, and just
move it to somewhere where the stuff along the road
is consistent.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
With the honor.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, no, I appreciate that. Hey, thank you, Joseph. Wow,
Medal of Honor Boulevard and the only thing on.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
It's the jail. Yeah, yeah, I would change that.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
But I really am anxious to hear what you think
about Penia Boulevard because when it comes to okay, of
our roads, and I know we want to talk buildings too,
but of our roads.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Which of our roads get talked about the most Penia Boulevard,
certainly because of the airport.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I've never tested it mathematically, Probably I twenty five, But
would you well, I twenty five really isn't named. It's
named in portions, But would you just name I twenty
five like the whole stretch in Colorado?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Would you name it for somebody? And if so, who
Pania Boulevard? Do we change that? Again?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Knock on Federica.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I think he's been one of the most talented, reasonable Democrats,
still way wrong on policy, but a talented, reasonable, big
time kind of guy compared to.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
This current crop of Democrats.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
But if Penia Boulevard was named after a Republican, I'd
say this thing.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I just don't think we.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Should be naming our biggest things after politicians, whether I
like the politician or not. Three O three seven three
eight two five five D eight N five seven seven
three nine.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Where do you come down on that? I put out
Dave Sanders.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
For Payina Boulevard, but there are certainly many, many others
who are deserving. I think military is an obvious place
to start, right because these, by nature are the men
and women like police and fire who will lay down
their lives so we can have all this fun. So
I think that's a good place to start. But I
don't think that has to be exclusive. You know, you
throw in Dave Sanders, Okay, teacher laid down his life
(16:40):
to save others. It's really kind of embarrassing there isn't
something really big named after him already?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Who else?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Who else would you name any sing Let me ask
you this, would you name anything after a sports hero?
And if so, hoom I would suggest if we're going
to name anything big after a sports hero, and I
would not roll that out. And the reason I say
that is, if you've got the right galler guy, then
it would be somebody who's shown a lot of physical courage,
because I think most of our sports heroes have shown
(17:09):
some physical courage, shown great toughness, mental and physical toughness, but.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Just brought a lot of happiness to the state.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Because it's a unique position, right, if you got the
right guy or gal, they can bring an enormous happiness
to the state. Because again, I think our joy in sports, yeah,
you like watching people do things very well, but I
think it comes from the way we're created and wired
to want to be together, and sports brings us together
in a way that a lot of things can't.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
But is there somebody? Is there somebody in sports? Somebody
in sports you'd name a major roadway after? Who would
that be? Who would that be? And why?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I've got some thoughts in that I want to throw
out after the break. That's not the only thing we're doing,
by the way, we're covering the other big stuff of
I do want to get to that gallop pol also
that talks about moral acceptability, and some things that were
once considered morally acceptable in America are losing they're losing steam,
they're losing ground. And abortion, for example, there's some good
(18:18):
news there for pro lifers like me.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
You're on the Dan Kepler Show.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
The information coming out of the administration, my bad.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I fired that in the middle. Here we go, you.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Know, when we're in a situation where we have to
tune into what the Iranians say to get the real
information on the status of the negotiations.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Wow, and then he says I can trust them more
than our administration.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Amazing, isn't it? That evil? Straight on hell regime?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Mass slaughtering its citizens, you know, hanging young women, hanging
young women, raping young women as his sexual violence as
a tool, just for posing the administration. He is praising
that administration for its honesty. He has lost his mind.
I mean really, when it comes to politics, he's lost
(19:10):
his mind.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
He is just.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Openly, in my opinion, rooting now for Ron to win
in the US to lose that war. Wow, And how
do you get there when he was so brave and
courageous in his military service and serve this nation so nobly.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
How do you do that one? But in any case,
it's it's scary now.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
The political motivation that's obvious, right, And that's all about
twenty eight. That's all about the twenty eighth Senate seat.
And I think Jason Crow has made the calculation that
the only shot he has on that, right because because
the Dems are all about identity politics right now, But
the only shot he except if you're a pic and
look prow wiser, the only shot he has at that
(19:53):
is to be so wildly radically far left that it
it can pull in some big money and stand apart
from the FI. But boy, to reach that point, that's
just like literally sick. Let's go to some text and
then back to the phone lines. Now we're talking about, Hey,
what should be named big stuff like big roads, big
buildings in Colorado and after whom? And do you take
(20:15):
some names down like Paya Boulevard, Niggain. I keep saying
this because Pania was a big timer. We disagreed on
policy different parties, but he was a big timer and
he'd come.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
On the show.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
He's not afraid of his own shadow and did some
good things. He just had different policies. But I don't
care who the politician is, you know, writer left. I
don't think that major boulevard should be named after a politician.
Should be named after somebody who's you know, made a
big sacrifice and just exemplifies all our best virtues. That's
why I suggested, say Dave Sanders. Kendrick Castillo obviously is
(20:49):
in that same category ultimate Colorado hero and now has
that major boulevard which triggered this discussion. And I think
more should be named after Kendrick. But can agree that Paynia.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Boulevard that name should come down.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Not that he's done anything wrong, not at all. It's
just the premise that our stuff shouldn't be named after politicians.
And then I threw out the idea of what about sports,
anybody in sports you would name something after or would
that be an insult to the people who've died for us?
I think you can have both. I think overall the
default is to the people who've died for us, you know,
(21:23):
or sacrificed gravely physically for us. That's why I think
we properly see so much stuff around the country named
after military heroes. But if it was to be a
sports figure, my first thought, and Zach is a real
sports whiz. He's in for Ryan today anxious to get
his take, But my first thought would be, Zach, who
(21:45):
would you guess? My first thought is I know what
my first thought is, But who would you guess?
Speaker 7 (21:48):
It is?
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yes, yeah, John Elway, even though I'm furious in him
for running Tim Tebow out over ego, which deprived Denver
of years of our own, you know, success, But I'm
furious at him over that. But the greatness John always
showed such physical courage playing the game, and he is
so underrated as a quarterback. He was just one of
(22:12):
the great quarterbacks of all time. I don't know that
anybody ever had a better arm. But he brought so
much joy to the entire state in a way that
only sports can do. It's not that it's more important
than the real stuff, but it's uniquely positioned to bring
that kind of joy.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Labeled the Duke of Denver, and it wasn't just a
moniker like it was reflective of what he meant to
the city. If you watch that Netflix documentary about it,
it's very apparent how meanfull he was to not even
the city, but the region. The Broncos represent this whole
mountain time zone.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, so if it was going to be an athlete,
my first thought would be John Elway. I just think
he meant that much and is he a perfect human? No?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
But I'm not who is you know?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
It's yeah, so I'd throw that out there. I'm not
saying change Penia Boulevard to Elway Boulevard, but I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Object to it. I just might start learning.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Point is whether I like the politician or not, Our
big stuff shouldn't be named after politicians. If you are
going to name something after a politician, how do you
not name it after Bill Owens?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Two very successful terms as governor. But I just don't
think it should be politicians.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
And I think a road like Charlie Blackman Boulevard or
to ken Ba Mtumble Road might be appropriate. Then he
says Tom, but Tumble thing was a joke, like am Bose.
I just don't think either rise to that level of say, like,
you know, way Peyton Manning, who doesn't like Peyton Manning right,
but not the deep long history in Colorado there.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
The other athlete i'd throw out locally might be Jokich.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
I feel like you know, great immigrants, scorch story.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
You talked about reflecting the traits that the virtues we idealize.
He's someone who's always been a selfless teammate, putting other
guys first, not about ego or about him wanting to
always uplift others. Deeply competitive has brought, you know, arguably
the greatest stretch in that franchise is history to them.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
I think he's another one.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
A lot to like there, a lot to like there
speaking to Wich and I'm not going to digress into sports.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I'll go to the phone lines now.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
But this goes to my premise that sports is uniquely
situated to bring us together. And I do believe we're created.
That God creates us to want to be together in
positive ways in sports, right, that that's an easier way
to do it. But I think that NBA Finals game
last night. Did you see that live, Zach?
Speaker 5 (24:30):
It was outstanding?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Oh my lord, it just you know.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I was working hard on a case and then Joe said, hey, man,
you know that they're in the last five minutes here.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
You got to see this.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
And I won't bore you with it, but here's the
point a pack Medicine Square Garden. That New York team
was down twenty nine points didn't seem to bother Taylor Swift,
who was still, you know, dancing around at aftime. But God, lover,
but they were down twenty nine points and then what
it took to come back. And I was rooting for
the Spurs to start the series, and now I'm pulling
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for New York because they showed such mental time toughness,
such determination, such physical toughness, and then.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
The way they want it.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
When a guy I really like runts and their point
guard when or maybe off, but when he missed a
shot with a second and a half left, it looked
like they were going to lose.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
And then you know, one of.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
His teammates comes flying through the air, tips it in
and it was absolutely electrifying.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
It reminded me Zach of when Elway.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
That the helicopter play in Super Bowl thirty two with Elway,
when he was so determined to get that fourth down,
he threw his body out there, got spun around like
a helicopter, got the first down. It was electrifye And
I just think that's just a good example of how
sports can be unique.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
But for me, if it's going to be a sports
figure on.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
A roadway, I would vote for Elway. Troy, you're on
the Dan Kaplas show.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Welcome, Hey, Dan, Hey, I'm an independent, I'm related. And
when it comes to of the ballots, I'm looking at
the Democratic ballot because I want to make sure that
the crazies are not They do not have a chance.
(26:08):
Dinner gruppol and uh Phil, Oh my god. If those
two get elected, this say yeah, I got to move.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Well, I gotta tell you the roads.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
Yeah, when it comes to the roads, I'm with you
on the lay. But my guy is Eddie McCaffery.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Man.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
He was a tank. He would take he would take
a hit for anybody.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yeah, yeah, no, I hear you. He was tough. He
was tough. There was no doubt about that.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Three or three seven three eight two five five d
an five seven seven three nine. You know, we've we've
talked a lot about it before. It's interesting you have people,
including some people who have worked for openly saying they
fear Jenna Chris while becoming Attorney General because they think
she'll misuse the position to punish political enemies. We have
never seen that in Colorado, but that's one of her
(27:03):
own staffers. And the stuff we have seen from Jenna Griswold,
I mean she has done, in my opinion, more single
handedly to undermine confidence in Colorado elections than anyone ever born.
And so thought of her becoming Attorney general, Yeah, there
are a lot of reasons to be concerned. Now if
she is the nominee, does the GOP have the best
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chance to win?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Clearly they do.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I think we had you know, Michael Doherty on earlier
in the week The Post endorsed him Democrat, and as
I told Michael on the show, I greatly admire him
as a prosecutor and a lawman. Doesn't mean he's perfect,
none of us are, but he's the real deal. He's
a real prosecutor, and she's the opposite of that lies
about arguing before the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Oh my goodness, that's who you want as your chief
law enforcement office.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
But as I told Michael Doherty on the show, you know, hey,
love you, but really hope you lose, because if Michael
Doherty's the nominee, he will be much tougher to beat.
I do think there's a real chance to beat Griswold
with Michael Allen, who is a tremendous prosecutor at a Elpaso,
very accomplished, clearly highly highly qualified for the job, and
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a real lawman. And I think when it comes to
that ag position, you know that it's primal, this primal
desire we're all born with to protect our families and ourselves.
And when it comes to a law enforcement ag position,
I think enough Democrats and independence would break away from
their voting habits to actually get a real lawyer, a
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real lawyer in the AG position, a real prosecutor.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
So we'll see how that rolls out.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Three all, three, seven, three, eight, two, five, five have
a lot of texts coming in on the issue of
who should we be naming big stuff after I'd love
to hear some more from folks on do you think
the name pay Your Boulevard should be changed? He hasn't
done anything wrong, there's no negativity there. But is it
time to, you know, not name things after politicians and
name them after somebody else?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Here on the Day Capitalis Show.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
And now back to the Dan Tapless Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
You're here. We've been talking about a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Thanks for joining us, and probably the lightest of those
topics right now. He is this business of Hey, who
would you name big stuff after major roads, buildings, et cetera?
Would you take down the name pena Boulevard? He hasn't
done anything wrong at all, but should we just not
be naming this stuff after politicians? Three out three seven
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three eight two five five Dan five seven seven three
nine Dan good point about the possible confusion of Sanders
referring to coach Prime instead of Dave Sanders. Further, Dave
Sanders as my sister's softball coach, so I would think
of it as Coach Sanders Boulevard, which.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Would be confusing as well.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
So if Dave Sanders Parkway to DIAI sat listen, Can
we all agree, I bet we can't. That's something really,
really big should be named after Dave Sanders.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
If you're new to the area.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
A teacher at Columbine softball coach Dave Sanders who laid
down his life to save the children in his classroom
when those evil straight out of Hell demons attack Columbine
and he was left there. There was nobody to protect
those kids other than him, and he was unarmed, and
he laid down his life for them. There has to
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be something. That's why I say no, not going to
any politician, whether I liked the politician or not, but
how do you justify naming the really big stuff after
politicians rather than somebody like Dave Sanders.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
By the way, I really like coach Prime.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I'm glad he came here, but I don't think we
should be talking about naming stuff after him until maybe
things get a little bit better. But again, very very
very happy he's here. Dan Sully, referring to Captain Selenberg,
was from Colorado, Thank you, text. I didn't know that
somebody had suggested Paya Boulevard be named after Sully. Sullenberger,
(30:55):
as you know, he just heroically landed that passenger jet
in the Hudson.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
What else do we have here?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
A couple of textures reminding me that there's about three
mile stretch of C four seventy seven mile thank You
named after.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Dave Sanders, and Lord knows he deserves that.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I'm just saying there should be something bigger, and like
Kendrick Castill a major thing that the boulevard's named after him,
but there should be something bigger too. I mean, these
are people who exemplify our highest virtues, and I just
think it's great for kids to grow. It's a great
reminder to me and to all of us about what
we really value and who our heroes really are.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
But I think it's also great for kids growing up.
What's that about? And you know, just just more of
a chance to learn.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
And now, who's contrasting that to what the left does
right where they meant license plates to glorify marijuana use
and the worst forms of marijuana use. I was telling Zach,
I even bought one of those plates out of an auction.
Polus put up a license plate daph dabbing, which is
his horribly destructive behavior that many kids are involved in
(32:07):
because they can hide it from parents and teacher because
it's THHC in highly concentrated oil form and police glorifies
it with the license plate. So I bid what I
had to to win the auction just to make sure
that Playton never appeared on our roadways. So that's what
the left wants to glorify. But we need to honor people,
(32:27):
whether Democrat, Republican, unaffiliated, who just exemplify our true values. Dan,
why don't you talk about Trump wanting to name things
after him? A fair question, good question. I don't like it.
I don't like the Trump Kennedy Center thing. I think
that's wrong, and it's not because he doesn't deserve it. Listen,
(32:49):
Donald Trump and his voters save democracy in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
There's no question about that. And you know that Trump
has in so.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Many different ways benefited America, world, and by the end
of this term.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Even more so.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
So when he's done, I think there should be a
whole bunch of stuff named after him, but not while
he's in office, and not by him, not by him.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Anybody disagree with that.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
I be shocked if anybody did disagree with it, So
then why is he trying to do it?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Listen? Part of the magic of Trump and what's made
him so.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Successful is that he's just bold and fearless and larger
than life, and he wants something and he just goes
for it, and it's impossible. I think, has there ever been, Zach,
you tell me you're a student of history in your
full twenty six years, has there ever been a truly
great figure in American life who just could color inside
the lines perfectly? No, because when you're gonna live that
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large and be that bold and active, it's a human process.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
You're gonna make mistakes.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
You know. The beauty of Trump is his true commitment
to the American people and his willingness to go out
there risk his own life and the life of his
family taking out that terrorist General Solomoni. He knew that
would put a target on his back and it did.
But yeah, he's not going to be able to color
perfectly inside the lines. But yeah, this stuff of naming
after himself while in office, no, not a good look.
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That great working with you, Thank you, Thank you Jesus
to those whose text I didn't get two. But yeah,
so big question for you, Zach, And the show's that's
a big sports guy filling in for Ryan today.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Broncos record this year.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
It's a tough one.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
I'm thinking about twelve and five, thirteen and four. You
know that seems like a backslide obviously, But the Broncos,
it's hard to win fourteen games in a season. I
think they've done it two or three times in franchise history.
I think this is probably a better team on paper,
but you know, tougher schedule. They got a crazy number
of breaks last year. They read you a little worse
than the record books. But better team.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Unless the Good Lord forms a team or you bring
back the eighty Bears.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
There's not a team that's ever lived that could play
the schedule. It's just that tough.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I think it's going to be a fun, exciting year
to be a playoff team, but that is a brutal schedule.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Hey, enjoy this beautiful evening. God management willing.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
We'll get together together, let's say tomorrow at four on
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I cannot imagine how it could get nicer. If you're
not in Colorado, well you should be three or three
seven three eight two five five d an five seven
seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
So here's what we got going. Thank you for joining.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I'm talking about what in Colorado, roads, buildings, et cetera.
Would you want to name something after and who would
that person be. My premise is we should not be
naming things after politicians. Should we take down the names
of anything currently named after politicians? Paena Boulevard and I
mentioned that while I disagree with a lot of his policies,
(00:54):
I really like Federico Penya as a person, you know,
got to cross paths in youth based but I don't
think Payya Boulevard should be named after a former Democrat mayor.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I think we need to be naming the big.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Stuff after people who exemplify the biggest virtues and great sacrifice.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, and so I would love to get your thoughts
on that.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
What triggered it was a newscast that mentioned Kendrick Castio
Parkway and how great it is that such a major
thoroughfare is named after one of Colorado's greatest heroes.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So that's why we're talking about that.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
And then we're talking about the latest from the Croatola.
Jason Crowe, who's the six CD congressman in Colorado, cannot
claim credit for the name. We had a contest among
our listeners and somebody came up with Croatola, and again
that stoning dichotomy. Somebody who sacrificed and so bravely in
(01:52):
his military service extraordinarily admirable and should deserve eternal credit
for that, and then when he went into politics went
the opposite way. To the point now, I think most
honest people would conclude he's rooting for Iran in this
war because he thinks that will advance his political fortunes.
And if the president succeeds in Iran, obviously very good
(02:14):
for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
But listen to the latest from the Crowatola. We talked
about him.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Before because he was part of that gang of Democrats
who had formerly served honorably and nobly, had formally served,
and we're now trying to destabilize the military by encouraging
people to disobey quote, illegal orders. But they never defined
what those illegal orders were. And so what do you
think the message to people was, Yeah, disobey orders. So
(02:39):
the latest from the Crowatola where he appears to be,
he appears to be suggesting that the evil regime that
slaughters thirty to forty thousand people in a few days
in their own streets more reliable than our administration.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
You know, when we're in a situation where we'd have
to tune into what the Iranians say to get the
real in from a on the status of the negotiations.
That's a huge problem, right, because the information coming out
of the administration is inconsistent at best, in misleading at work.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Oh my goodness, that's like Jane Fondas stuff. But but
here's the question, why would you do that?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It's so whack? Why would he do it?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Here's why he would do it, And it goes back
to the point I was making before the break, when
I posed you the question of Okay, want a Republican,
but if it has to be a Democrat, do you
want Wiser or Bennett?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And I made the case, I think conclusively, that.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
If you want Republicans to return to power in four years,
you want Michael Bennett as the governor. And then I
made the cases why he'll be terrible, but I made
the case as to why he'll be less terrible for
the States simply because he won't get as much done.
He's just very ineffective, and it'll be easier to beat
in four years three.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Or three, seven, three eight, two, five five.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
But above all, it's going to cause mass chaos in
the Democratic Party. The resentment, the infighting, the anger. When
Michael Bennett, the single least effective senator in the last
hundred years, chooses his successor rather than the people, everybody
who's not his successor is going to be very upset,
more upset than they'd be if there was just a
normal primary where Michael Bennett decides to finally give up
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the power he's wasted for all these decades and let
the people decide who the nominee should be.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
So they're they're heading for a world of hurt.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
There so getting your take on that text or Dan,
I agree with you one hundred percent on your analysis
of Wiser and Bennett Benett wuld definitely be the way
I'd want to go. But I want a Republican obviously,
yes I do too. But the name of this show
is brutal honesty.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's actually the Dan Kaplis show.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
But we should change it and we just, you know,
relentless pursuit of the truth. And the GOP is not
likely to win this race. Doesn't mean they can't, but
but the chances are lower than they should be, and
that I frustrates me. I understand why big money has
just decided the GOP can't win, so it's not coming in.
I get that makes it extra hard on a candidate.
(05:00):
What that means then, is that the GOP candidate has
to be out there going retail round the clock, round
the clock, probably for a year or two to be
able to overcome that money disadvantage.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Because here's what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Like you look at this race, and I'm not endorsing
anybody in this race because you know, the Democrat stuff
is so wicked. Democrat stuff is so wicked. I don't
want to destabilize GOP. But you look at this race,
and I think reasonable, most reasonable people would look at
this race and say, you know what, Barb Kirkmeyer is
(05:34):
very obviously ready to be governor and would appeal to
an awful lot of Colorado voters.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I understand Barb.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Isn't the cup of tea of some folks in the audience,
and I respect that, but when you think about winning
a general I think Barb Kirkmeyer brings a tremendous amount
to the table. That's not to disrespect any other candidate,
but just just being honest about when you think about
a general election, who's going to have, you know, a
lot of appeal and so so yeah, you.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
But then the problem is, you know, Barba has been
a very important member of the Joint Budget Committee, and
she takes that very seriously and she's worked very hard
at it and served the state well. But as a result,
she has not been able to go out and campaign
statewide around the clock. And I just don't know how
a GOP candidate overcomes the money disadvantage without doing that.
(06:27):
Hopefully Barb or somebody else can can flip that, but
that's that's a concern because as we sit here right now,
in a normal kind of cycle, you would have expected
someone who brings to the table what Barb does to
have caught fire by now and being kind of a
clear lead, and the Democrats coming in and trying to
get somebody else nominated. You know, we're not seeing that.
(06:49):
I think in part because of Barb's work on the
JBC very important. But yeah, just just all of that
hasn't caught fire yet. I sure hope it does. I
hope it catches.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Fire, you know, before, you know, before it's too late.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Three out three seven one three eight two five five
d and five seven seventeen nine.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Zach, what's going on back there?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I was just wondering, do you think part of the
dems motivation there or the fact that they haven't gotten
involved yet, you know, despite them typically doing so, is
the fact that they're happy with how things currently seem
to be stacked up on that side of the primary,
and they have no desire to upset that apple cart.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
You know, I think you're probably right, unless it's a
case where you know, this Bennett Wiser thing is so
close and so important that maybe that's sucking up all
their money because I think there's real division in the
Democratic Party among the money people as to what they
want to do. I think you've got a whole bunch
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of people thinking it's going to cause a world of
trouble for the Dems if Bennett wins at governor's job
for the reasons I laid out, And so I think
there's more money. I would guess we'll know when we
see the numbers starting to come in for Wiser.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So maybe maybe that's what's going on.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
What's I going that because the ballots have dropped right, Normally,
if the Dems are going to play, which they have
in every GOP primary for governor I can remember, But normally,
if the Dems are going to play, they would have
played by now. So yeah, like you say, maybe they're
just happy.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
With the trajectory. What is the trajectory?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Can somebody tell me that there's no polling, no reliable polling.
What's the trajectory of this governor's primer? The GOP primer
three out, three seven, three eight, two five, five, d
an five seven, seventh or nine getting back to the
Texas DAN instead of paying you boulevard, how about Sullenberger Boulevard?
Something should be named after Dave Sanders.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I started with the Dave Sanders example after praising the
Kender Castillo Boulevard naming. And come on, now, you've got
a hero teacher who lays down his life at Columbine
to save his students. Something big should be named for
Dave Sanders. So I did the Sullenberger suggests from the texture.
I imagine as Sully Sullenberger for that heroic work that
(09:03):
the captain did, you know, in landing in the Hudson.
But I think it's got to be a Coloraden. You've
got to be naming this big stuff after Coloraden's What
about replacing Painia Boulevard with Sanders Boulevard. Now some people
who are new to the area would think it's Coach Prime.
You could clarify that with the signage, and hopefully by
(09:23):
the time Coach Prime is done, we'll want to name
stuff after him. I'm still very glad he came here.
Hope it ends very successfully. But with Dave Sanders, what
about that? Should we take down Paynia Boulevard with thanks
to the primary for his service, take down Payia Boulevard
and change it to Sanders Boulevard.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
We had one caller recommend Bruce Randolph.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Oh, there is a major boulevard now Okay named after
Bruce Brandon. But I understand why maybe a lot of
people new to the area who don't know that Bruce
Randolph was this great, great guy, you know, used to
feed the poor and do all lots of great civic work,
including a big Thanksgiving Day free meal that he would do. So, yeah,
that's wonderful, Dan. If we removed Caesar Chavez from his
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road yet, is there a Caesar Chavez Road in Colorado?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
And that's think there is one. I don't know if
they've changed it yet.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, yeah, somebody can tell us.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I'm sure three h three someone three eight, two, five, five, five, seven, seventh,
three or nine.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And that one was.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Really bizarre to me because when I was in my
senior year at the seminary, and that was high school years, so.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
We didn't live there. We went home at night and
then often dated.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
But when I was in my senior year at the Seminary,
we were saving up our money to try to travel
to California to meet Caesar Chavez, you know, back in
the seventies. And so the fact now that all these
scandals are being revealed. It's just kind of bizarre, all right,
wellcome back to other text calls on hey, should Penya Bolvard?
(10:57):
Should that name be taken down? Named after somebody else?
I would say it should be Dave Sanders. Should it
be somebody other than Dave Sanders. But let's start with
Payna Boulevard? Is it time to change it? And that's
no knock on Federico. You know, I think he was
a big time guy with great skills. He's not like
one of these little Putian scared of their shadow lying
democrats we have. Now, I just disagreed with Federico in
(11:18):
a lot of policies, But should we have that major
boulevard named after him?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
You're on the Dan Kaplas.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Show, and now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
When we're in a situation where we have to tune
into what the Iranians say to get the real information
on the status of the negotiations, that's a huge problem,
right because information coming out of the administration is inconsistent
at best in misleading that work.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Well, the crow Toola has officially jumped the sharp this
evil regime that mass slaughters tens of thousands and days,
Jason Crow now praises and praises is being honest and reliable,
more honest and reliable than the Americans.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Oh my goodness, he has lost his mind.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
But again, tying into the past conversation, I believe this,
this willingness to kind of open in my opinion, openly
root for Iran and root against Trump.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
To the point he's praising this regime for honesty, honesty,
This regime.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
That says, all those tens of thousands of dead people,
you know, it was all their fault. They're all traders.
So that's who Jason Crow's praising this regime. Think about it,
Jason played again. I'm sorry, I'll go to our fiery
phone lines. In twenty seconds, Jason Crow is praising as
honest and reliable, this regime that hangs gaze, that throws
(12:42):
gaze off rooftops, This regime that is hanging young people,
hanging young people, including star athletes, for having the audacity
to stand up to the regime that's to an American
congressman is praising.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
You.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Don't think that video and sound is going to be
used by that evil regime.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
You know, we when we're in a situation where we
have to tune into what the Iranians say to get
the real information on the status of the negotiations.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Wow, he has way more than jumped to Shark. All right,
let's go to the phone lines. We'll start with Evan
in Seattle. You're on the dan Kaplis. Shall welcome Evan.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Yes, I was born in Seattle, and I think your
topic for naming famous sames is very good.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
There are two famous floating bridges in Seattle, when named
after a famous bomber pilot in World War Two, the
other after a government which is once again political. Yeah.
My school in California, where you've got the Nemets Freeway
where No Nemets is heavily armed and heavily remembered. That
type of thing I think should be done more and
more in Colorad. I don't we have some famous mountain
(13:50):
passes the public do not have made today, just geographically located.
But heck of an idea. Always a good show, sir,
and I'll always love listening to it.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Thank you, my friend, Thank you for your service. Evan
in Seattle. Let's go down a beautiful pueblo. Talk to
Joseph you're on the Dan Caplis.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
You're welcome, Hi, Dan.
Speaker 9 (14:09):
Yeah, we have a road that just recently opened here
in Pueblo that is named Medal of Honor Boulevard. But
there's only one building on the road, and that's the
New County Jail.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (14:22):
It just seems an injustice to the Medal of Honor winners.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
It certainly is.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I'm sure it was all very well intended, but that
is that is misplaced, my friend.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah, have you talked to anybody about that?
Speaker 9 (14:38):
I wanted to get your opinion first.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, no, thank you, I'm honored, but no, I've got it.
This should be one of those one hundred zero issues.
Just well intentioned, but a faux pa there, and just
move it to somewhere where the stuff along the road
is consistent.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
With the honor.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, no, I appreciate that. Hey, thank you, Joseph. Wow,
Medal of Honor Boulevard and the only thing on.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
It's the jail. Yeah, yeah, I would change that.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
But I really am anxious to hear what you think
about Penia Boulevard because when it comes to okay, of
our roads, and I know we want to talk buildings too,
but of our roads.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Which of our roads get talked about the most Penia Boulevard,
certainly because of the airport.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I've never tested it mathematically, Probably I twenty five, But
would you well, I twenty five really isn't named. It's
named in portions, But would you just name I twenty
five like the whole stretch in Colorado?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Would you name it for somebody? And if so, who
Pania Boulevard? Do we change that? Again?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Knock on Federica.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I think he's been one of the most talented, reasonable Democrats,
still way wrong on policy, but a talented, reasonable, big
time kind of guy compared to.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
This current crop of Democrats.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
But if Penia Boulevard was named after a Republican, I'd
say this thing.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I just don't think we.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Should be naming our biggest things after politicians, whether I
like the politician or not. Three O three seven three
eight two five five D eight N five seven seven
three nine.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Where do you come down on that? I put out
Dave Sanders.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
For Payina Boulevard, but there are certainly many, many others
who are deserving. I think military is an obvious place
to start, right because these, by nature are the men
and women like police and fire who will lay down
their lives so we can have all this fun. So
I think that's a good place to start. But I
don't think that has to be exclusive. You know, you
throw in Dave Sanders, Okay, teacher laid down his life
(16:40):
to save others. It's really kind of embarrassing there isn't
something really big named after him already?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Who else?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Who else would you name any sing Let me ask
you this, would you name anything after a sports hero?
And if so, hoom I would suggest if we're going
to name anything big after a sports hero, and I
would not roll that out. And the reason I say
that is, if you've got the right galler guy, then
it would be somebody who's shown a lot of physical courage,
because I think most of our sports heroes have shown
(17:09):
some physical courage, shown great toughness, mental and physical toughness, but.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Just brought a lot of happiness to the state.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Because it's a unique position, right, if you got the
right guy or gal, they can bring an enormous happiness
to the state. Because again, I think our joy in sports, yeah,
you like watching people do things very well, but I
think it comes from the way we're created and wired
to want to be together, and sports brings us together
in a way that a lot of things can't.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
But is there somebody? Is there somebody in sports? Somebody
in sports you'd name a major roadway after? Who would
that be? Who would that be? And why?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I've got some thoughts in that I want to throw
out after the break. That's not the only thing we're doing,
by the way, we're covering the other big stuff of
I do want to get to that gallop pol also
that talks about moral acceptability, and some things that were
once considered morally acceptable in America are losing they're losing steam,
they're losing ground. And abortion, for example, there's some good
(18:18):
news there for pro lifers like me.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
You're on the Dan Kepler Show.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
The information coming out of the administration, my bad.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I fired that in the middle. Here we go, you.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Know, when we're in a situation where we have to
tune into what the Iranians say to get the real
information on the status of the negotiations.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Wow, and then he says I can trust them more
than our administration.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Amazing, isn't it? That evil? Straight on hell regime?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Mass slaughtering its citizens, you know, hanging young women, hanging
young women, raping young women as his sexual violence as
a tool, just for posing the administration. He is praising
that administration for its honesty. He has lost his mind.
I mean really, when it comes to politics, he's lost
(19:10):
his mind.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
He is just.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Openly, in my opinion, rooting now for Ron to win
in the US to lose that war. Wow, And how
do you get there when he was so brave and
courageous in his military service and serve this nation so nobly.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
How do you do that one? But in any case,
it's it's scary now.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
The political motivation that's obvious, right, And that's all about
twenty eight. That's all about the twenty eighth Senate seat.
And I think Jason Crow has made the calculation that
the only shot he has on that, right because because
the Dems are all about identity politics right now, But
the only shot he except if you're a pic and
look prow wiser, the only shot he has at that
(19:53):
is to be so wildly radically far left that it
it can pull in some big money and stand apart
from the FI. But boy, to reach that point, that's
just like literally sick. Let's go to some text and
then back to the phone lines. Now we're talking about, Hey,
what should be named big stuff like big roads, big
buildings in Colorado and after whom? And do you take
(20:15):
some names down like Paya Boulevard, Niggain. I keep saying
this because Pania was a big timer. We disagreed on
policy different parties, but he was a big timer and
he'd come.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
On the show.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
He's not afraid of his own shadow and did some
good things. He just had different policies. But I don't
care who the politician is, you know, writer left. I
don't think that major boulevard should be named after a politician.
Should be named after somebody who's you know, made a
big sacrifice and just exemplifies all our best virtues. That's
why I suggested, say Dave Sanders. Kendrick Castillo obviously is
(20:49):
in that same category ultimate Colorado hero and now has
that major boulevard which triggered this discussion. And I think
more should be named after Kendrick. But can agree that Paynia.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Boulevard that name should come down.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Not that he's done anything wrong, not at all. It's
just the premise that our stuff shouldn't be named after politicians.
And then I threw out the idea of what about sports,
anybody in sports you would name something after or would
that be an insult to the people who've died for us?
I think you can have both. I think overall the
default is to the people who've died for us, you know,
(21:23):
or sacrificed gravely physically for us. That's why I think
we properly see so much stuff around the country named
after military heroes. But if it was to be a
sports figure, my first thought, and Zach is a real
sports whiz. He's in for Ryan today anxious to get
his take, But my first thought would be, Zach, who
(21:45):
would you guess? My first thought is I know what
my first thought is, But who would you guess?
Speaker 7 (21:48):
It is?
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yes, yeah, John Elway, even though I'm furious in him
for running Tim Tebow out over ego, which deprived Denver
of years of our own, you know, success, But I'm
furious at him over that. But the greatness John always
showed such physical courage playing the game, and he is
so underrated as a quarterback. He was just one of
(22:12):
the great quarterbacks of all time. I don't know that
anybody ever had a better arm. But he brought so
much joy to the entire state in a way that
only sports can do. It's not that it's more important
than the real stuff, but it's uniquely positioned to bring
that kind of joy.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Labeled the Duke of Denver, and it wasn't just a
moniker like it was reflective of what he meant to
the city. If you watch that Netflix documentary about it,
it's very apparent how meanfull he was to not even
the city, but the region. The Broncos represent this whole
mountain time zone.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, so if it was going to be an athlete,
my first thought would be John Elway. I just think
he meant that much and is he a perfect human? No?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
But I'm not who is you know?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
It's yeah, so I'd throw that out there. I'm not
saying change Penia Boulevard to Elway Boulevard, but I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Object to it. I just might start learning.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Point is whether I like the politician or not, Our
big stuff shouldn't be named after politicians. If you are
going to name something after a politician, how do you
not name it after Bill Owens?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Two very successful terms as governor. But I just don't
think it should be politicians.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
And I think a road like Charlie Blackman Boulevard or
to ken Ba Mtumble Road might be appropriate. Then he
says Tom, but Tumble thing was a joke, like am Bose.
I just don't think either rise to that level of say, like,
you know, way Peyton Manning, who doesn't like Peyton Manning right,
but not the deep long history in Colorado there.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
The other athlete i'd throw out locally might be Jokich.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
I feel like you know, great immigrants, scorch story.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
You talked about reflecting the traits that the virtues we idealize.
He's someone who's always been a selfless teammate, putting other
guys first, not about ego or about him wanting to
always uplift others. Deeply competitive has brought, you know, arguably
the greatest stretch in that franchise is history to them.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
I think he's another one.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
A lot to like there, a lot to like there
speaking to Wich and I'm not going to digress into sports.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I'll go to the phone lines now.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
But this goes to my premise that sports is uniquely
situated to bring us together. And I do believe we're created.
That God creates us to want to be together in
positive ways in sports, right, that that's an easier way
to do it. But I think that NBA Finals game
last night. Did you see that live, Zach?
Speaker 5 (24:30):
It was outstanding?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Oh my lord, it just you know.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I was working hard on a case and then Joe said, hey, man,
you know that they're in the last five minutes here.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
You got to see this.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
And I won't bore you with it, but here's the
point a pack Medicine Square Garden. That New York team
was down twenty nine points didn't seem to bother Taylor Swift,
who was still, you know, dancing around at aftime. But God, lover,
but they were down twenty nine points and then what
it took to come back. And I was rooting for
the Spurs to start the series, and now I'm pulling
(24:57):
for New York because they showed such mental time toughness,
such determination, such physical toughness, and then.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
The way they want it.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
When a guy I really like runts and their point
guard when or maybe off, but when he missed a
shot with a second and a half left, it looked
like they were going to lose.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
And then you know, one of.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
His teammates comes flying through the air, tips it in
and it was absolutely electrifying.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
It reminded me Zach of when Elway.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
That the helicopter play in Super Bowl thirty two with Elway,
when he was so determined to get that fourth down,
he threw his body out there, got spun around like
a helicopter, got the first down. It was electrifye And
I just think that's just a good example of how
sports can be unique.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
But for me, if it's going to be a sports
figure on.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
A roadway, I would vote for Elway. Troy, you're on
the Dan Kaplas show.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Welcome, Hey, Dan, Hey, I'm an independent, I'm related. And
when it comes to of the ballots, I'm looking at
the Democratic ballot because I want to make sure that
the crazies are not They do not have a chance.
(26:08):
Dinner gruppol and uh Phil, Oh my god. If those
two get elected, this say yeah, I got to move.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Well, I gotta tell you the roads.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
Yeah, when it comes to the roads, I'm with you
on the lay. But my guy is Eddie McCaffery.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Man.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
He was a tank. He would take he would take
a hit for anybody.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yeah, yeah, no, I hear you. He was tough. He
was tough. There was no doubt about that.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Three or three seven three eight two five five d
an five seven seven three nine. You know, we've we've
talked a lot about it before. It's interesting you have people,
including some people who have worked for openly saying they
fear Jenna Chris while becoming Attorney General because they think
she'll misuse the position to punish political enemies. We have
never seen that in Colorado, but that's one of her
(27:03):
own staffers. And the stuff we have seen from Jenna Griswold,
I mean she has done, in my opinion, more single
handedly to undermine confidence in Colorado elections than anyone ever born.
And so thought of her becoming Attorney general, Yeah, there
are a lot of reasons to be concerned. Now if
she is the nominee, does the GOP have the best
(27:25):
chance to win?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Clearly they do.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I think we had you know, Michael Doherty on earlier
in the week The Post endorsed him Democrat, and as
I told Michael on the show, I greatly admire him
as a prosecutor and a lawman. Doesn't mean he's perfect,
none of us are, but he's the real deal. He's
a real prosecutor, and she's the opposite of that lies
about arguing before the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Oh my goodness, that's who you want as your chief
law enforcement office.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
But as I told Michael Doherty on the show, you know, hey,
love you, but really hope you lose, because if Michael
Doherty's the nominee, he will be much tougher to beat.
I do think there's a real chance to beat Griswold
with Michael Allen, who is a tremendous prosecutor at a Elpaso,
very accomplished, clearly highly highly qualified for the job, and
(28:11):
a real lawman. And I think when it comes to
that ag position, you know that it's primal, this primal
desire we're all born with to protect our families and ourselves.
And when it comes to a law enforcement ag position,
I think enough Democrats and independence would break away from
their voting habits to actually get a real lawyer, a
(28:33):
real lawyer in the AG position, a real prosecutor.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
So we'll see how that rolls out.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Three all, three, seven, three, eight, two, five, five have
a lot of texts coming in on the issue of
who should we be naming big stuff after I'd love
to hear some more from folks on do you think
the name pay Your Boulevard should be changed? He hasn't
done anything wrong, there's no negativity there. But is it
time to, you know, not name things after politicians and
name them after somebody else?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Here on the Day Capitalis Show.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
And now back to the Dan Tapless Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
You're here. We've been talking about a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Thanks for joining us, and probably the lightest of those
topics right now. He is this business of Hey, who
would you name big stuff after major roads, buildings, et cetera?
Would you take down the name pena Boulevard? He hasn't
done anything wrong at all, but should we just not
be naming this stuff after politicians? Three out three seven
(29:31):
three eight two five five Dan five seven seven three
nine Dan good point about the possible confusion of Sanders
referring to coach Prime instead of Dave Sanders. Further, Dave
Sanders as my sister's softball coach, so I would think
of it as Coach Sanders Boulevard, which.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Would be confusing as well.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
So if Dave Sanders Parkway to DIAI sat listen, Can
we all agree, I bet we can't. That's something really,
really big should be named after Dave Sanders.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
If you're new to the area.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
A teacher at Columbine softball coach Dave Sanders who laid
down his life to save the children in his classroom
when those evil straight out of Hell demons attack Columbine
and he was left there. There was nobody to protect
those kids other than him, and he was unarmed, and
he laid down his life for them. There has to
(30:21):
be something. That's why I say no, not going to
any politician, whether I liked the politician or not, but
how do you justify naming the really big stuff after
politicians rather than somebody like Dave Sanders.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
By the way, I really like coach Prime.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I'm glad he came here, but I don't think we
should be talking about naming stuff after him until maybe
things get a little bit better. But again, very very
very happy he's here. Dan Sully, referring to Captain Selenberg,
was from Colorado, Thank you, text. I didn't know that
somebody had suggested Paya Boulevard be named after Sully. Sullenberger,
(30:55):
as you know, he just heroically landed that passenger jet
in the Hudson.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
What else do we have here?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
A couple of textures reminding me that there's about three
mile stretch of C four seventy seven mile thank You
named after.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Dave Sanders, and Lord knows he deserves that.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I'm just saying there should be something bigger, and like
Kendrick Castill a major thing that the boulevard's named after him,
but there should be something bigger too. I mean, these
are people who exemplify our highest virtues, and I just
think it's great for kids to grow. It's a great
reminder to me and to all of us about what
we really value and who our heroes really are.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
But I think it's also great for kids growing up.
What's that about? And you know, just just more of
a chance to learn.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
And now, who's contrasting that to what the left does
right where they meant license plates to glorify marijuana use
and the worst forms of marijuana use. I was telling Zach,
I even bought one of those plates out of an auction.
Polus put up a license plate daph dabbing, which is
his horribly destructive behavior that many kids are involved in
(32:07):
because they can hide it from parents and teacher because
it's THHC in highly concentrated oil form and police glorifies
it with the license plate. So I bid what I
had to to win the auction just to make sure
that Playton never appeared on our roadways. So that's what
the left wants to glorify. But we need to honor people,
(32:27):
whether Democrat, Republican, unaffiliated, who just exemplify our true values. Dan,
why don't you talk about Trump wanting to name things
after him? A fair question, good question. I don't like it.
I don't like the Trump Kennedy Center thing. I think
that's wrong, and it's not because he doesn't deserve it. Listen,
(32:49):
Donald Trump and his voters save democracy in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
There's no question about that. And you know that Trump
has in so.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Many different ways benefited America, world, and by the end
of this term.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Even more so.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
So when he's done, I think there should be a
whole bunch of stuff named after him, but not while
he's in office, and not by him, not by him.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Anybody disagree with that.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
I be shocked if anybody did disagree with it, So
then why is he trying to do it?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Listen? Part of the magic of Trump and what's made
him so.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Successful is that he's just bold and fearless and larger
than life, and he wants something and he just goes
for it, and it's impossible. I think, has there ever been, Zach,
you tell me you're a student of history in your
full twenty six years, has there ever been a truly
great figure in American life who just could color inside
the lines perfectly? No, because when you're gonna live that
(33:46):
large and be that bold and active, it's a human process.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
You're gonna make mistakes.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
You know. The beauty of Trump is his true commitment
to the American people and his willingness to go out
there risk his own life and the life of his
family taking out that terrorist General Solomoni. He knew that
would put a target on his back and it did.
But yeah, he's not going to be able to color
perfectly inside the lines. But yeah, this stuff of naming
after himself while in office, no, not a good look.
(34:16):
That great working with you, Thank you, Thank you Jesus
to those whose text I didn't get two. But yeah,
so big question for you, Zach, And the show's that's
a big sports guy filling in for Ryan today.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Broncos record this year.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
It's a tough one.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
I'm thinking about twelve and five, thirteen and four. You
know that seems like a backslide obviously, But the Broncos,
it's hard to win fourteen games in a season. I
think they've done it two or three times in franchise history.
I think this is probably a better team on paper,
but you know, tougher schedule. They got a crazy number
of breaks last year. They read you a little worse
than the record books. But better team.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Unless the Good Lord forms a team or you bring
back the eighty Bears.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
There's not a team that's ever lived that could play
the schedule. It's just that tough.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I think it's going to be a fun, exciting year
to be a playoff team, but that is a brutal schedule.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Hey, enjoy this beautiful evening. God management willing.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
We'll get together together, let's say tomorrow at four on
The Dan Cantor Show.
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