June 30, 2025 • 34 mins
In the second hour of today's edition of the show, Steve Reams is joined by representative Will McBride and Greeley Stampede CEO Justin Watada.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
The hour two of The Dan Capla Show here with
well kind of shaff Steve Raimes setting in as Dan
does some trial prep for another one of his big cases.
So I'll have the show all week. And that's to
the chagrin of some of you and to the support
of some of you. One of the texts that came
in came in and said that myself and Brockler are
the favorite fill ins for this particular listener and always
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likes to tune in on either of us are on.
You know, Brockler and I talked about doing a combined
show at some point, but I'm afraid that might get
off the rails pretty fast, because.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Which is a great thing.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, we would have a good time, there's no doubt
about that. He and I definitely throw shots at each other.
But let's get to the show what we're really here for.
I got a governor's candidate on the line, a mister
will Bride. And I don't know much about Will and
maybe you don't either as a listener, but you're about
to get to hear why this gentleman has jumped in
the race. Straight from his mouth, Will, how are you doing?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Hello, Sheriff Reims. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
On you bet Will, And you know, I'm kind of
trying to give as many of the candidates a platform
if they take advantage of using it. And we spoke
just a little bit earlier today and kind of trying
to fill you out. But if you would just tell
the listeners a little bit about who you are, kind
of what your background is and what made you decide
to jump in this Colorado governor's race.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Right, I'm running because there's so many important issues, But
the main issue that's affecting us right here in Colorado
is our economy. This isn't a left or a right issue.
It's either up or down if you invest in, whether
any type of stock, or you buy some type of
business or a home or whatever it is you wanted
to go up. And unfortunately in Colorado, our economy was
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ranked fifth in the country in two thousand and three,
but we've dropped to forty first. Our roads have dropped
to forty third, our education has dropped to forty fifth.
Now you probably know this, but unfortunately we've become one
of the most dangerous violence yes states in the country.
I heard we were at fifth, but someone told me
recently that we've gone up to third. So we're going
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in the wrong direction. And the party that's been in
charge for the last twenty years, I can't blame anyone
else because they've been in charge has been taking us
on a downward spiral. And we've got to turn this around.
So we want to make it an up. We want
to go up.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
We want to go up.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
We want to go up. And one of the main
things we're going to do is we want to end
state income tax here in Colorado. That is something we
filed a ballot initiative. So I thought, if I'm running
as governor for one state white campaign, why not run two.
So I filed the Will of the People twenty twenty
six to end state income tax. And so we are
out there talking about a new state income text. And
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I've heard from other people say, wow, if you take
away income taxes, well our roads are going to go down.
Well we're at forty third, it's going to hurt our economy. Well,
we're forty first. Our education is going to suffer. Well,
when you're at the bottom, you got to fire a coach,
throw away the playbook, and go with something new. Now,
something interesting that I really like about Dan is he's
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a trial lawyer, and if he doesn't win, he doesn't
get paid. I've been a trial lawyer for over twenty
two years, and I know what it's like to make
a case, to present it to a jury. So that
we can show those decision makers who are going to
be our jury, We've got to go get unaffiliated in
the middle. We've got to go get some Democrats and
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say they aren't up or down left rights or up
or down issues, come join with us so that we
can restore our constitutional freedoms and our economic freedoms here
in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
So, how do you get that message out to the
voters on the republican side or the unaffiliated side as
you hinted to, how do you get that message through this?
Through this i'll say left leaning mainstream media that we
have here in the state of Colorado. How do you
break through that wall if you.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Will, Well, first you start like we are now. I'm
going all over across the state to whether it's some
breakfasts or Lincoln Day dinners, and I'm getting to meet people.
But I've been a trial lawyer for over twenty two
years and I've reached out to the Latino community. I
speak Spanish. Even though my last name is McBride, my
dad was a Mexican migrant worker, so some people may
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know me as Abogato William And I've been on Spanish television,
radio and in the community and we've got to go
reach I speak Spanish, so we've been advertising, spent millions
of dollars over the years on television advertising and radio,
but also serving the community in the area of personal injury,
wrong full death, and where justice needs to be fought
for after a brain injury or spinal cord injury. So
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kind of like what Dan exactly what Dan's doing. So
I think that's something that we've got to be able
to get the message out in English and in Spanish
and getting out there and talking about hey, this isn't
about that's right, this is up or down, and we
want to be able to put more money in color
Run's wallet so they can spend because I mean, face it,
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it's going to be about ten thousand dollars per household
if we do away with state income tax. Now, the
legislature will never get it through, but that doesn't matter,
because we the people tell the government what to do,
Like Ronald Reagan said, they don't tell us. We have
a ballid initiative. We can repeal state income tax and
that'll save about ten thousand per household. And there are
two point three million households in Colorado. That's twenty three
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billion dollars that will be pumped back into our economy
for consumers to spend. That's that's the message I'm trying
to get out there. Let's build our businesses.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Okay. And so the thought process there is, you're you're
the cut tax candidate in some ways, I mean that
I'm putting words into your mouth and taxes are in taxes.
So what kind of reception have you got with the
crowds that you've been out talking to with that, with
that message, are you being received well?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Well, from what I'm hearing, yeah, I mean people are like, well,
what's the catch? Why would I say no to that?
And in fact, sixty five percent of Coloraden's voted in
twenty twenty two to reduce state income text. And the
irony here is pol Us back in twenty twenty one.
If you call my Facebook McBride for Governor Facebook or
you'll see he was an advocate to ending state income text.
I think this is a very uniting point that we
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can go out there and get others to join our
conservative message. And look, it comes down to the three ms.
If we want to win, it comes down to three ms.
We've got to have our message, which I believe is
the economy. You got to have the right messenger who's
going to go make the case. I believe I've been
doing that for twenty two years. I'm also a licensed
day minister, so I know how to communicate with people.
And then finally it comes down to money, money, money.
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It's like real estate, location, location, location. We have been outraised.
We have been out raised and hasn't even been close.
Pol Us in this last we had about thirty two
million compared to maybe one or two million dollars before
that same thing. And we got to get away from
there's going to be a millionaire that's going to put
a few million dollars in and then and raise three
hundred thousand dollars and think we're going to have a
chance of standing up to bureaucrat Bennett versus the will
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of the people. But if we can all come together
and get behind one candidate early, because they've they've basically
rallied around bureaucrat benit right. The will of the people
is coming in twenty twenty six, and I believe that's
Will McBride and I want to hear what people have
to say, but it's going to take money to get
it out there, and you can't get your message out
there without the money. So I look forward to people joining.
I'm putting money in. I'm self funding right now, but
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we're I think this is a message we can all take.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
So it's interesting because oftentimes if a candidate is willing
to put their own money into their race, it kind
of tells you their level of commitment. So I applaud
you for that. If the listeners want to find out
more about you, you mentioned Facebook. Where else can they
find you? On x or? I think you said you
had a web page.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah, McBride for governor dot com, McBride for Governor dot com,
McBride for Governor, Facebook, any you can go for McBride
for govern All social media is going to be McBride
for governor. I think one is Will McBride for governor.
But yeah, look forward to visiting. I know we're in
Well County. We're going to be back for the rodeo
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or tomorrow. It's tomorrow. We have a yes, and the
roady is going to be tomorrow. I got six kids.
My kids are excited about that kind of stuff and
so and then we're going to be back for the fourth.
We'll be in the parade fourth there in world?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Sure, Well, where are you based out of? I mean
where you're running your campaign from Loan Tree.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
We'll live in Loan Tree in Douglas County and my
office is in DTC, and I have offices in other
states as well, but we're here in the South Denver area.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Very good. Well, just I guess one final question before
we cut to break. If you've got to pick one
of the Democrats to run against Phil Wiser and Michael Bennett,
which do you think is the easier the easier opponent
to run against? Personally? I think it's Bennett because he's
so boring. But what's your take on that?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Well?
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Right, the Democrats are going to raise the money they have, sure,
and I'm not running against any candidate. I'm running against
time and many. There's some really good, respectable Republicans running,
good guys, but if they can't raise the money, they
can't get their message out. And so I am running
for the will of the people and I want to
get out there and say whomever it is. In twenty
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thirteen was my last heavyweight boxing with USA Boxing in
Kansas City, and all I do is I just prepare.
I go into the ring. I'm ready to fight, and
I want to be be the happy warrior, come in
there and share what I need to do, be very positive.
So you know, but I will tell you Democrats have
been well funded, but we're going to change that. We
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are definitely. I mean Hicky Looper had forty five million
in his last race, and so we've got to get
out there and raise the money. So well, got or two.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Give one last shout out to the listeners here, tell
them why you versus the rest of the field. What
do you bring that the rest doesn't leave us with that?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Okay, I bring a mess. We're going to focus on
the economy that's so important. But I have conservatives strong
values that I won't deviate from, but we got to
do it in a respectful way. And I'm the messenger.
I've been making a case in court for twenty two years,
like Dan's been doing, and if we don't win, we
don't get paid. So I know what it's like to
be able to communicate a message in a very positive way.
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And I will be able to communicate this message in
English and in Spanish and be able to go out
and get those unaffiliated voters and even some Democrats and
find common ground using the message of our good economy.
We want to get it. We want to fight to
improve our economy.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Which is bad right now.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
We're going to make it good. We're going to make
it great, and then eliminate state incotext. I'm not going
to ask you what I'm going to do as governor.
What I am going to what I have done, is governor.
When I get elected, will have state incompacts ended on
January one, twenty twenty six, our twenty twenty seven, that'll
be phased out. But then finally it's about the money.
I believe I can go out there, I can raise
the money because people aren't going to give money to
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a candidate they don't believe in and that it doesn't
believe they have a chance to win. So I'm Will McBride.
I look forward to fighting for you, just like I've
done in the courtroom. And this is going to be
bureaucrat Bennett well funded against the will of the people.
And like Rob and Reagan once said, we the people
tell the government to do it doesn't tell us absolutely no.
We need to take the wheel, we need to go
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back and we need to fight. The will of the
people's coming in twenty twenty six. Will McBride for governor
and I'd be honored to earn your vote.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Sounds good, Will, Thanks for coming on the show and
thanks for bringing a little bit of energy to this discussion.
Wish you the best of luck and hopefully we'll have
you back on at some point. Again, that's Will McBride.
You can find him on the Googles and everywhere else
and get to know him, find out a little bit
about his race, and again, thanks Will for being on.
We're going to cut the break when we come back.
We'll get a few updates here and get back to
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our text messages. If you're listening to the Dankplash Show
here at six thirty k how with well Keny Sheriff
Steve Reims filling in.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Dan's off doing trial prep and that music is obviously
in reference to our last guest that Will McBride talking
a little bit about how the money kind of drives
these candidacies, and in Colorado, but in any state realistically,
if you don't have the money, you can't get your
message out. And you know, I think Will has an
interesting approach to trying to get the energy behind him
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by saying, let's get rid of state income tax. I
could support that for sure. I hate paying any kind
of income tax. I hate paying taxes period, Like most
people think taxation is theft. Just let me keep my money.
But generated a few text messages here we got sheriff
my apologies, but this guy needs to do a little
bit more research. Colorado is second in crime in the
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crime rate. First in the state or first in the
United States is New Mexico, and that is correct. I'm
sure Colorado's fighting to become national champions. You know, we
got to get to the top of the rung there.
But another one here in reference to the moronic ed
it in New York that's running to be the mayor.
There are reports that membership is get membership is getting
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bigger for the Democratic Socialists because of mam Ranie. Uh.
Just that just blows my mind.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
And then our good friend Steven Littleton, retired l e O.
He says this state hasn't experienced enough pain to induce
Colorado voters to admit that dim ideology is a failure.
You know, he might be right. I hope, I hope
you're wrong, Steve. I hope that you know that the
middle of the road folks are just kind of setting
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as a silent majority right now saying we can't keep
doing this. But uh, I'm always the optimist, and I
want to believe that people see the things that are
going on around them. But who knows. I mean, it's
I can tell you as a sheriff, it's very frustrating
to see our state legislature going one way while the
common the common citizen is kind of going, this isn't
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what this isn't what we want, this isn't what we
voted for. That played it self out very, very hugely
in my office today. Some of you will remember a
house build that was passed last year house built twenty
four DASH eleven seventy four, and that was the redoing
of the concealed weapon permit process. Where now when your
permit starts to expire, you have to go out and
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take this refresher course. If you're newly applying, you have
to take a two day course that takes twelve hours.
You have to do a certain amount of shooting. You
have to pass with a certain proficiency, a much higher proficiency.
Your instructor has to be what they call a verified instructor.
All that stuff goes into place tomorrow, so July one.
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So in the days and weeks leading up to this date,
we've been inundated at the Weld County Sheriff's office with
people who are trying to come in and beat that
deadline to either apply under the current rules, the more
realistic rules or laws, or they're trying to renew in
that same window. So just to give an idea of
how bad this Democrat policy fails when it comes to
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protecting people's Second Amendment rights. In Weald County, on average,
we issue about twenty five to forty I say issue
we either renew or issue concealed weapons permits at about
that level every day at the Weld County Sheriff's Office,
five days a week, somewhere between twenty five and forty
permits a day. All last week they were issuing at
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least eighty a day, with Friday being the number of
one twenty six. And I just got an update from
my office staff that said today they had to stop
taking applications at around three point thirty because they just
couldn't continue to process the number of people we had waiting.
And we've processed one hundred and eighty permits today through
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our tiny little lobby at the Weld County Sheriff's Office,
just to keep people, you know, having access to their
concealed weapon permit without having to jump through these extra
hoops that the state legislatures put into place. And I
just I can't help but point out when we hear
gun crime in Denver or Aurora or even Weld County,
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the people that are committing that gun crime are not
the people that are carrying their licensed I shouldn't even
say license, they're concealed carry permit on them using their weapon.
They're not the ones out committing crime. It's the little gangster,
the underage kid who stolen out of a mom's house
or out of a car on the street, or you know,
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those are the people that we are dealing with that
are committing gun violence in this state. Or the nutball
that goes into you know, a King Supers in Boulder
with a very intentional plan. It's not the person who's
going down and saying, hey, I want to protect myself.
I want to get my concealed weapon permit. I want
to be able to carry my gun on me in
a legal fashion. But that's who this legislature focused on
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so much so that today I had every office staff
available trying to help people to not be impacted by
this law until you know, a five year window down
the road when the permit expires and they have to
then jump through these hoops that were created by a
house built twenty four eleven seventy four. It's bad legislation.
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It was bad legislation when it was passed last year,
and it's playing out exactly like we said it would.
The honest people are still going to you know, they're
going to go ahead and jump through the hoops because
they want to carry their gun and they want to
protect themselves. And the criminals are going to continue to
be criminals because they don't follow the law, especially when
it comes to carrying a concealed weapon. They just tuck
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it in the back of their pants and go about
their business and don't expect to get caught because the
crime that they're going to commit is far more extensive
than the crime of carrying an unregistered CCW or an
unlicensed CCW. It's ridiculous, but it's the policies of this state,
and it's another reason why we need a good governor's
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candidate running on the Republican side. When we come back,
we're going to talk to Justin Watada. He's the CEO
of the Greeley Stampede because we happen to have this
little thing going on in Weld County called the Stampede
of our big rodeo and concert event. So when we
come back from break, we'll have him here. Listening to
the Dan Campless Show with Well Kenny Sheriff Steve Riams.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast Steve.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Reams and we're going to cut to our guests here
pretty quickly, and I'm glad we use such a traditional
country song leading into our next guest, as he's the
CEO for the Greeley Stampede. But for those of you
who have never been up to Weld County or to
Greeley to go to the Greeley Stampede, you're really missing out.
It's not quite a Metallica concert. It's a little more
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laid back, a little more western. But justin, I hope
you're on the line with us and you can tell
us all about the goings on at the Greeley Stampede
this year. Thanks sure m.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Thanks for having me today.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
You bet, And so justin for the listeners around the
state who have never been to the Greeley Stampede, give
them a flavor of what they're missing and tell them
why they should be coming up to visit.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
First off, shame on them as they haven't been up
really stampede. As this will be our one hundred and
third community celebration. So it's been going on for quite
a long time, and it started in nineteen twenty two
as a local community celebration to bring the farmers into
town and so they were giving away coffee and pie
and it's kind of grown over throughout the years, and
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so we have about two hundred and fifty thousand people
that come to Island.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Grove Park every year.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Rodeo and country music's kind of the backbone of the Stampede,
but there's a lot of different attractions and entertainment to
bring people.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Here to Greeley. So, having said all that, what are
some of the things that are still in the lineup
for people if they want to go grab a concert
or see a rodeo. What are some of the events
that they can still catch and when does the Stampede.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
In So this year was a twelve day event.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
We started last Wednesday and now we're onto Monday, so
we're onto nighttime rodeos.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
We have our Pink Rodeo tonight, Tomorrow's our First Responder.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Appreciation Night, and then Wednesday's our rodeo finals, and then
we'll go into the final weekend with American bull fighting
and fireworks on July fourth, Heritage of Mexico Rodeo on Saturday,
followed by the Parker McCollum concert, and then we'll wrap
things up with the popular Demolition Derby on Sunday, July fish.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I can tell you that that is an all time
favorite to attend is that demolition derby. I don't miss
it any year. Being a gearhead, I love it, especially
when they put a few RVs out there and knock
the crap out of each other and sometimes literally knocked
the bathroom out onto to the arena floor. It's a
great time.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Yeah, it's definitely crazy.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
You know, it's four hours plus of cars crashing and
it sold out.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
It actually sold out yesterday.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
So the only tickets available for that.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Are pit passes.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
And what's cool about the pit passes is people can
get a close view of the cars. Yeah, and you're right,
the most popular heat that we have are the RV
heats that come in at the very end, because once
they get hitting and exploding, you'll see that toilet hanging
off the side.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Or it's just pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
It's truly Americana at the Greeley Stampede, whether it's a rodeo,
whether it's a concert or you know, the traditional demolition derby.
Just for the people that haven't been. What other events
do you have other than just the rodeo. I mean
there's exhibits, there's food, you got you got a fairway there?
What all you got going so.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
I would tell people if they haven't been in the stampede.
We're kind of a local community celebration. We kind of
call it a reunion that people come down to Island
Grove Park every summer during the fourth July weekend and if.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
They come and visit, it's.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
A lot usually anchored around what's happening in the arena
that's a concert or rodeo, but there's over forty food vendors,
so it's that festival food everything fried on a stick.
We have a lot of family entertainment and attractions. We
have a big carnival midway as well as different things
for the families. We have a a dog show or
these are the dogs that jump into the pool.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
We also have a dinosaur attraction.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
So we have a lot of different things that people
can come out. And one of our main things is
that affordable family entertainment so when people coming that if
you don't want to go to a concert rodeo, parker
mission is five dollars for adults, two dollars for kids
and seniors, so it's really relatively affordable day to come
out to the Greeley Stampede.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, you guys have done a phenomenal job and it
just gets better every year. You know, there was there
was some negativity around the event in years past, and
I think you guys have shunned that and and moved
on to a new direction. I mean, I love taking
my family out there. We have a good time every
time we go. And for the people in the state
of Colorado who have not got a chance to go
up to Greeley and see the Greeley Stampede, you're really
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missing out. Justin what what would you leave the listeners
with as a as a bright point if if they
really want to come up, what's what's the best day?
Or you know, just just tell us why should they
come and what's the best day to get up there?
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I think you should come to the Greeley Stampede because
we have something a little bit for everybody. And our
thing is once people who have never been to the
Greeley Stampede come actually and experience of stampede, then they
become annual every year they started a canning.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
And so what I would say, especially if people.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Are driving a little farther to the Greely Stampede, I
would make a weekend out of it. Come up for
a Friday, Saturday, or spend a couple of days and
then you can get to full full experience of the
Stampede instead of just coming for one thing. And what
I really tell people is what makes the Stampede is
that full experience. It's more than a venue getting out
of your car and going to a concert or rodeo
and then getting back in your car.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
When you come here, you can have that festival food.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
You can see the fifteen longhorns during our daily prey
to the park at six o'clock, split the sea and
it come right up the middle.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
But there's a lot of just.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Different things that we still celebrate here at the Greely
Stampede that we welcome you with some Western hospitality.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
And it's way cheaper than a metallic a concert.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
That is true.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
So next time we'll have some country music coming into
the introll.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Justin thanks for coming on with us. I just wanted
to get your event out there as best we could. Again,
we appreciate you being on and being on the show
with us, and good luck tonight. I know it's a
busy event and you got something going on every night,
so we'll let you get back to it. But again,
thanks for being on the show with us.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Sound great.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Thanks gee.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
You know, for those of you who haven't been up
to the Greeley Stampede, I mean, I've lived in Weld
County since nineteen ninety five and it's just a cool event.
There were a few years where we got some pretty
negative rap, but the concerts are great, the venue is great.
It's very safe place to be, it's very family friendly,
and it's very affordable because it's in Weld County, and
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we try to make sure that, you know, we do
things at the right price for the people that are
up there working hard and putting in the sweat equity
to go out and enjoy themselves a little bit for
an evening and justin what Todd has just done a
great job of organizing that, and so again, if you
haven't been up there, please go and visit. It's also
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good for the tax base in Weld County. And that'll
get me back to one of these text messages I
got here, says Steve. If taxation is theft, howerre roads
to be built, police and fire departments and school is
going to be paid for, you know, you got a
good point. There's just a there's a point where it
goes too far, and when it feels like half of
your income is going to taxes, or you're being taxed
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before you get paid, you're getting taxed on things you
buy after you get paid. At some point the government's
got to rein in its belt and say, Okay, we
can do more with less. Another text here says share
if your last guest, that's Will McBride, talked about doing
away with state income tax, and the question is what
is his alternative for income tax? You know, he didn't
get to that, and quite honestly, we didn't have enough
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time to really dive in as much as i'd I
would have liked to. I would encourage you to go
check out his website and see if he has an
alternative for where that funding is going to be or
how the budget's gonna going to get made here here
in Colorado without a state income tax. There's a lot
of states that function without a state income tax. They
tend to have a little higher property tax rate. But
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I don't know what his specific plan is, and that's
for him to define. I'm not going to try to
do that for him. And then one last one here
before we go to break, I have someone asking me
they live in Larimer County, but can they get their
conceal weapons permitting? Well, unfortunately know and with a new
state law it's even more stringent about you know, how
the CCW process works or conceill weapons process works. I
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would encourage you, if you have insomnia, to read how
Spilled twenty four DASH eleven seventy four and it'll give
you an idea of just how difficult the process is
going to be in the future compared to what it was.
I guess what it was today and in the past.
So we'll cut to break. When we come back, we'll
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have our last little segment and we'll do some clean
up work here. Stick with us. You listen to Dan
Capless show here on six point thirty k how with
Well County Sheriff Steve Raimes setting in as a fill in, and.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Listen to that song oftentimes, while I'm riding my motorcycle
around in Wild County, I think I might actually bring
that thing down here tomorrow just to stretch the legs
a little bit and get a chance to get out
in the wind. And tomorrow when the show's open over
I'm driving straight to the Greeley Independent Stampede and attending
the law Enforcement Appreciation night at the Rodeo. So I'll
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ride my steel horse to the Rodeo.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
I think, you know, we got to get a picture
of you with that outside the iHeart Studios here and
put that up on the socials.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Absolutely, i'd love to. We'll make it a plan, and
then you know, they'll probably be a hailstorm. I'll get
beat to death, so it tends to be how it goes.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
I don't tell anybody, and I know this is just
between you and me and nobody else.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Nobody's listening.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Yeah, there are some car ports out there in back lot.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Yeah they're not ours, Okay, they belong to whatever the
businesses on the second floor.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
You know, if there's a few open and you're not
taking anybody's, they're not like a sign. Put that steel
horse right under there.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
That might not be a bad idea, but I don't know.
I don't own anything that's so impressive that I'm not
too worried about it. But I love my motorcycle. I
love a chance to get to ride it. Plan. I'm
going to Sturgis this year. The worst hail storm I've
ever been in, though, was riding back from Sturgis on
a previous motorcycle. I had to pull over on the
side of the road and cover my head with my
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jacket because at that point I didn't wear a helmet.
I hope my wife's not listening. I'm she's no, she
doesn't care. I covered. I covered the least valuable thing
on me, which was my head. Couldn't do any damage. Yeah,
what are you gonna hurt?
Speaker 4 (28:48):
There?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
So looking forward to doing that again this year. Heading
up to Sturgis and getting out on the bike tomorrow
will be a good warm up for that.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
So good.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Big question, Yeah, are you a Harley or Indian Motors?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I'm a Harley guy? How do you feel about Indian Motors?
Speaker 5 (29:04):
So?
Speaker 2 (29:04):
I think they're fine. I mean, if I had to
pick a second choice, I'd ride an Indian. They make
some they make some cool bikes. But we had this
debate on one of the previous shows, and they're technically
owned by Polaris, so yeah, you know it's it's cool,
but Harley's just got a heritage to it that even
though they kind of misstepped and tried to go woke
for a little bit. They're still Harley's and I just
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love them. They're simple bikes and they have a sound
that's unmistakable, and I've just addicted to him. I love
to ride. And they got off of that woke train
right real fast. Yeah yeah, they did not make the
mistake of bud light and saying oh yeah watch this now.
They stopped pretty quickly. So so talking about just a
(29:47):
couple of things here to clear up the show or
clean up the show. An announcement came out from Ryan
Armagost in HD sixty four saying he is leaving the
General Assembly on September one. He's going to step down,
moved to Arizona, and he's taken a job out there. So,
you know, for those of you that are loyal listeners
and listening to Dan show all the time, you probably
(30:09):
remember we had Ryan on towards the end of the session.
He was kind of battling it out with the Rocky
Mountain gun owners and then we had RNGO representatives from RMGO,
Dudley Brown and Ian Escalante. They were kind of having
a war of words back and forth about you know,
who allowed for the Democrats to do more damage to
our gun rights in Colorado kind of back and forth,
(30:29):
back and forth, and I hope that's not what that
isn't what is driving Ryan Armagous to take a different
a different route with his career. But you know, the
best of luck to him. I think he's done a
good job down there at the State House. With the
terrible numbers that the Republicans have down there, Sometimes it's
just a matter of fighting a good fight and trying
(30:50):
to stall things out. And I think Ryan, as the
House Minority whip, was doing all he could. You know,
I can't imagine being in that environment and having much fun.
But good luck to him and wherever he's going down
in Arizona. And he says he's going to stay in
the Second Amendment advocacy arena, So we'll see what that
(31:10):
looks like in future years. But that might give us
an opportunity to see who's going to step up and
and and fill that seat. I don't even know exactly
what that uh, that process looks like, looks like. I
think there's a I think there's a vacancy committee that
will actually appoint the next the next person for that seat.
So maybe we'll see who that is and see if
we get him on the show and I can provide
(31:31):
a segue.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Okay, what's tailing off at your point about Representative armagust
and he's resigning to take a job in Arizona.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
I believe so better for him and his endeavors.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
But Representative Brandy Bradley has thrown her hat into the
ring to be the next minority whip. Okay, Arma goust
was and she'll be joining me tomorrow on my program. Ryan,
she'll provide her and cool be interesting to see. I
know she's been very outspoken, very vocal. So uh, you know,
if you if you spend any time around Ryan, you
know he's not necessarily the most vocal guy, but kind
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of a I called him a silent warrior sarmitage.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Is it not me? You wrong? Ryan?
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Wrong?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Ryan? You were definitely not a silent warrior. You're not
silent about much. I'm so talking about silence. Did we
really turn off Kelly's microphone because she's she's been silent
for a while.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
I'm good, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I thought you were. I thought she were still in
communist purgatory.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
She is, well, yeah, well Metallica does help.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
So I thought she was going to throw her back
out over there, Agoe. So, Kelly, I just have to
ask the Metallica concert, is that Is that the best
concert you've ever been to or where's it rank?
Speaker 7 (32:44):
It was a really really good concert. I have to say,
I've seen a c DC many times, and that was
Those are always great concerts. Metallica is very solid. I
will tell you Pantera looks a.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Little bit old.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yeah they've been around a while.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Yeah they're aging a little, but no, they're they were solid.
I also was one of the I don't know if
you want to say fortunate ones in La when Guns
N' Roses, Rolling Stones and Metallica actually played the triple show.
And that was when Axel was a baby and he
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didn't come out for two hours.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, and the crowd really ticked off.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
Yes, the crowd was not happy.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Was the reason because Axl rose.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
But it was weird because they were sandwiched in between
Rolling Stones, who came on first, and then Metallica, who
came on last, and so there was like this two
hour gap in between and you had to wait for that.
It didn't go like that last night, but I will
I'll tell you I can I can say that I'm
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not twenty one anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Gotcha, gotcha? Well, thanks for tuning in out there. If
you're Dan Caplis's loyal follower, you will not have him
for the next two days. You'll have me, but please
tune in anyways. We're going to have some more governor's
candidates on in the next couple of days, and we'll
try to make sure we give all these guys a
platform to explain why they're running. Again. Thanks for tuning
in to the Dan Capless Show here on six point
(34:24):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
The hour two of The Dan Capla Show here with
well kind of shaff Steve Raimes setting in as Dan
does some trial prep for another one of his big cases.
So I'll have the show all week. And that's to
the chagrin of some of you and to the support
of some of you. One of the texts that came
in came in and said that myself and Brockler are
the favorite fill ins for this particular listener and always
(00:37):
likes to tune in on either of us are on.
You know, Brockler and I talked about doing a combined
show at some point, but I'm afraid that might get
off the rails pretty fast, because.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Which is a great thing.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, we would have a good time, there's no doubt
about that. He and I definitely throw shots at each other.
But let's get to the show what we're really here for.
I got a governor's candidate on the line, a mister
will Bride. And I don't know much about Will and
maybe you don't either as a listener, but you're about
to get to hear why this gentleman has jumped in
the race. Straight from his mouth, Will, how are you doing?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Hello, Sheriff Reims. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
On you bet Will, And you know, I'm kind of
trying to give as many of the candidates a platform
if they take advantage of using it. And we spoke
just a little bit earlier today and kind of trying
to fill you out. But if you would just tell
the listeners a little bit about who you are, kind
of what your background is and what made you decide
to jump in this Colorado governor's race.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Right, I'm running because there's so many important issues, But
the main issue that's affecting us right here in Colorado
is our economy. This isn't a left or a right issue.
It's either up or down if you invest in, whether
any type of stock, or you buy some type of
business or a home or whatever it is you wanted
to go up. And unfortunately in Colorado, our economy was
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ranked fifth in the country in two thousand and three,
but we've dropped to forty first. Our roads have dropped
to forty third, our education has dropped to forty fifth.
Now you probably know this, but unfortunately we've become one
of the most dangerous violence yes states in the country.
I heard we were at fifth, but someone told me
recently that we've gone up to third. So we're going
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in the wrong direction. And the party that's been in
charge for the last twenty years, I can't blame anyone
else because they've been in charge has been taking us
on a downward spiral. And we've got to turn this around.
So we want to make it an up. We want
to go up.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
We want to go up.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
We want to go up. And one of the main
things we're going to do is we want to end
state income tax here in Colorado. That is something we
filed a ballot initiative. So I thought, if I'm running
as governor for one state white campaign, why not run two.
So I filed the Will of the People twenty twenty
six to end state income tax. And so we are
out there talking about a new state income text. And
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I've heard from other people say, wow, if you take
away income taxes, well our roads are going to go down.
Well we're at forty third, it's going to hurt our economy. Well,
we're forty first. Our education is going to suffer. Well,
when you're at the bottom, you got to fire a coach,
throw away the playbook, and go with something new. Now,
something interesting that I really like about Dan is he's
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a trial lawyer, and if he doesn't win, he doesn't
get paid. I've been a trial lawyer for over twenty
two years, and I know what it's like to make
a case, to present it to a jury. So that
we can show those decision makers who are going to
be our jury, We've got to go get unaffiliated in
the middle. We've got to go get some Democrats and
(03:39):
say they aren't up or down left rights or up
or down issues, come join with us so that we
can restore our constitutional freedoms and our economic freedoms here
in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
So, how do you get that message out to the
voters on the republican side or the unaffiliated side as
you hinted to, how do you get that message through this?
Through this i'll say left leaning mainstream media that we
have here in the state of Colorado. How do you
break through that wall if you.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Will, Well, first you start like we are now. I'm
going all over across the state to whether it's some
breakfasts or Lincoln Day dinners, and I'm getting to meet people.
But I've been a trial lawyer for over twenty two
years and I've reached out to the Latino community. I
speak Spanish. Even though my last name is McBride, my
dad was a Mexican migrant worker, so some people may
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know me as Abogato William And I've been on Spanish television,
radio and in the community and we've got to go
reach I speak Spanish, so we've been advertising, spent millions
of dollars over the years on television advertising and radio,
but also serving the community in the area of personal injury,
wrong full death, and where justice needs to be fought
for after a brain injury or spinal cord injury. So
(04:48):
kind of like what Dan exactly what Dan's doing. So
I think that's something that we've got to be able
to get the message out in English and in Spanish
and getting out there and talking about hey, this isn't
about that's right, this is up or down, and we
want to be able to put more money in color
Run's wallet so they can spend because I mean, face it,
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it's going to be about ten thousand dollars per household
if we do away with state income tax. Now, the
legislature will never get it through, but that doesn't matter,
because we the people tell the government what to do,
Like Ronald Reagan said, they don't tell us. We have
a ballid initiative. We can repeal state income tax and
that'll save about ten thousand per household. And there are
two point three million households in Colorado. That's twenty three
(05:31):
billion dollars that will be pumped back into our economy
for consumers to spend. That's that's the message I'm trying
to get out there. Let's build our businesses.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Okay. And so the thought process there is, you're you're
the cut tax candidate in some ways, I mean that
I'm putting words into your mouth and taxes are in taxes.
So what kind of reception have you got with the
crowds that you've been out talking to with that, with
that message, are you being received well?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Well, from what I'm hearing, yeah, I mean people are like, well,
what's the catch? Why would I say no to that?
And in fact, sixty five percent of Coloraden's voted in
twenty twenty two to reduce state income text. And the
irony here is pol Us back in twenty twenty one.
If you call my Facebook McBride for Governor Facebook or
you'll see he was an advocate to ending state income text.
I think this is a very uniting point that we
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can go out there and get others to join our
conservative message. And look, it comes down to the three ms.
If we want to win, it comes down to three ms.
We've got to have our message, which I believe is
the economy. You got to have the right messenger who's
going to go make the case. I believe I've been
doing that for twenty two years. I'm also a licensed
day minister, so I know how to communicate with people.
And then finally it comes down to money, money, money.
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It's like real estate, location, location, location. We have been outraised.
We have been out raised and hasn't even been close.
Pol Us in this last we had about thirty two
million compared to maybe one or two million dollars before
that same thing. And we got to get away from
there's going to be a millionaire that's going to put
a few million dollars in and then and raise three
hundred thousand dollars and think we're going to have a
chance of standing up to bureaucrat Bennett versus the will
(07:05):
of the people. But if we can all come together
and get behind one candidate early, because they've they've basically
rallied around bureaucrat benit right. The will of the people
is coming in twenty twenty six, and I believe that's
Will McBride and I want to hear what people have
to say, but it's going to take money to get
it out there, and you can't get your message out
there without the money. So I look forward to people joining.
I'm putting money in. I'm self funding right now, but
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we're I think this is a message we can all take.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
So it's interesting because oftentimes if a candidate is willing
to put their own money into their race, it kind
of tells you their level of commitment. So I applaud
you for that. If the listeners want to find out
more about you, you mentioned Facebook. Where else can they
find you? On x or? I think you said you
had a web page.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah, McBride for governor dot com, McBride for Governor dot com,
McBride for Governor, Facebook, any you can go for McBride
for govern All social media is going to be McBride
for governor. I think one is Will McBride for governor.
But yeah, look forward to visiting. I know we're in
Well County. We're going to be back for the rodeo
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or tomorrow. It's tomorrow. We have a yes, and the
roady is going to be tomorrow. I got six kids.
My kids are excited about that kind of stuff and
so and then we're going to be back for the fourth.
We'll be in the parade fourth there in world?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Sure, Well, where are you based out of? I mean
where you're running your campaign from Loan Tree.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
We'll live in Loan Tree in Douglas County and my
office is in DTC, and I have offices in other
states as well, but we're here in the South Denver area.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Very good. Well, just I guess one final question before
we cut to break. If you've got to pick one
of the Democrats to run against Phil Wiser and Michael Bennett,
which do you think is the easier the easier opponent
to run against? Personally? I think it's Bennett because he's
so boring. But what's your take on that?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Well?
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Right, the Democrats are going to raise the money they have, sure,
and I'm not running against any candidate. I'm running against
time and many. There's some really good, respectable Republicans running,
good guys, but if they can't raise the money, they
can't get their message out. And so I am running
for the will of the people and I want to
get out there and say whomever it is. In twenty
(09:20):
thirteen was my last heavyweight boxing with USA Boxing in
Kansas City, and all I do is I just prepare.
I go into the ring. I'm ready to fight, and
I want to be be the happy warrior, come in
there and share what I need to do, be very positive.
So you know, but I will tell you Democrats have
been well funded, but we're going to change that. We
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are definitely. I mean Hicky Looper had forty five million
in his last race, and so we've got to get
out there and raise the money. So well, got or two.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Give one last shout out to the listeners here, tell
them why you versus the rest of the field. What
do you bring that the rest doesn't leave us with that?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Okay, I bring a mess. We're going to focus on
the economy that's so important. But I have conservatives strong
values that I won't deviate from, but we got to
do it in a respectful way. And I'm the messenger.
I've been making a case in court for twenty two years,
like Dan's been doing, and if we don't win, we
don't get paid. So I know what it's like to
be able to communicate a message in a very positive way.
(10:20):
And I will be able to communicate this message in
English and in Spanish and be able to go out
and get those unaffiliated voters and even some Democrats and
find common ground using the message of our good economy.
We want to get it. We want to fight to
improve our economy.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Which is bad right now.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
We're going to make it good. We're going to make
it great, and then eliminate state incotext. I'm not going
to ask you what I'm going to do as governor.
What I am going to what I have done, is governor.
When I get elected, will have state incompacts ended on
January one, twenty twenty six, our twenty twenty seven, that'll
be phased out. But then finally it's about the money.
I believe I can go out there, I can raise
the money because people aren't going to give money to
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a candidate they don't believe in and that it doesn't
believe they have a chance to win. So I'm Will McBride.
I look forward to fighting for you, just like I've
done in the courtroom. And this is going to be
bureaucrat Bennett well funded against the will of the people.
And like Rob and Reagan once said, we the people
tell the government to do it doesn't tell us absolutely no.
We need to take the wheel, we need to go
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back and we need to fight. The will of the
people's coming in twenty twenty six. Will McBride for governor
and I'd be honored to earn your vote.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Sounds good, Will, Thanks for coming on the show and
thanks for bringing a little bit of energy to this discussion.
Wish you the best of luck and hopefully we'll have
you back on at some point. Again, that's Will McBride.
You can find him on the Googles and everywhere else
and get to know him, find out a little bit
about his race, and again, thanks Will for being on.
We're going to cut the break when we come back.
We'll get a few updates here and get back to
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our text messages. If you're listening to the Dankplash Show
here at six thirty k how with well Keny Sheriff
Steve Reims filling in.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Dan's off doing trial prep and that music is obviously
in reference to our last guest that Will McBride talking
a little bit about how the money kind of drives
these candidacies, and in Colorado, but in any state realistically,
if you don't have the money, you can't get your
message out. And you know, I think Will has an
interesting approach to trying to get the energy behind him
(12:21):
by saying, let's get rid of state income tax. I
could support that for sure. I hate paying any kind
of income tax. I hate paying taxes period, Like most
people think taxation is theft. Just let me keep my money.
But generated a few text messages here we got sheriff
my apologies, but this guy needs to do a little
bit more research. Colorado is second in crime in the
(12:44):
crime rate. First in the state or first in the
United States is New Mexico, and that is correct. I'm
sure Colorado's fighting to become national champions. You know, we
got to get to the top of the rung there.
But another one here in reference to the moronic ed
it in New York that's running to be the mayor.
There are reports that membership is get membership is getting
(13:06):
bigger for the Democratic Socialists because of mam Ranie. Uh.
Just that just blows my mind.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
And then our good friend Steven Littleton, retired l e O.
He says this state hasn't experienced enough pain to induce
Colorado voters to admit that dim ideology is a failure.
You know, he might be right. I hope, I hope
you're wrong, Steve. I hope that you know that the
middle of the road folks are just kind of setting
(13:33):
as a silent majority right now saying we can't keep
doing this. But uh, I'm always the optimist, and I
want to believe that people see the things that are
going on around them. But who knows. I mean, it's
I can tell you as a sheriff, it's very frustrating
to see our state legislature going one way while the
common the common citizen is kind of going, this isn't
(13:56):
what this isn't what we want, this isn't what we
voted for. That played it self out very, very hugely
in my office today. Some of you will remember a
house build that was passed last year house built twenty
four DASH eleven seventy four, and that was the redoing
of the concealed weapon permit process. Where now when your
permit starts to expire, you have to go out and
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take this refresher course. If you're newly applying, you have
to take a two day course that takes twelve hours.
You have to do a certain amount of shooting. You
have to pass with a certain proficiency, a much higher proficiency.
Your instructor has to be what they call a verified instructor.
All that stuff goes into place tomorrow, so July one.
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So in the days and weeks leading up to this date,
we've been inundated at the Weld County Sheriff's office with
people who are trying to come in and beat that
deadline to either apply under the current rules, the more
realistic rules or laws, or they're trying to renew in
that same window. So just to give an idea of
how bad this Democrat policy fails when it comes to
(15:02):
protecting people's Second Amendment rights. In Weald County, on average,
we issue about twenty five to forty I say issue
we either renew or issue concealed weapons permits at about
that level every day at the Weld County Sheriff's Office,
five days a week, somewhere between twenty five and forty
permits a day. All last week they were issuing at
(15:24):
least eighty a day, with Friday being the number of
one twenty six. And I just got an update from
my office staff that said today they had to stop
taking applications at around three point thirty because they just
couldn't continue to process the number of people we had waiting.
And we've processed one hundred and eighty permits today through
(15:45):
our tiny little lobby at the Weld County Sheriff's Office,
just to keep people, you know, having access to their
concealed weapon permit without having to jump through these extra
hoops that the state legislatures put into place. And I
just I can't help but point out when we hear
gun crime in Denver or Aurora or even Weld County,
(16:05):
the people that are committing that gun crime are not
the people that are carrying their licensed I shouldn't even
say license, they're concealed carry permit on them using their weapon.
They're not the ones out committing crime. It's the little gangster,
the underage kid who stolen out of a mom's house
or out of a car on the street, or you know,
(16:27):
those are the people that we are dealing with that
are committing gun violence in this state. Or the nutball
that goes into you know, a King Supers in Boulder
with a very intentional plan. It's not the person who's
going down and saying, hey, I want to protect myself.
I want to get my concealed weapon permit. I want
to be able to carry my gun on me in
a legal fashion. But that's who this legislature focused on
(16:50):
so much so that today I had every office staff
available trying to help people to not be impacted by
this law until you know, a five year window down
the road when the permit expires and they have to
then jump through these hoops that were created by a
house built twenty four eleven seventy four. It's bad legislation.
(17:11):
It was bad legislation when it was passed last year,
and it's playing out exactly like we said it would.
The honest people are still going to you know, they're
going to go ahead and jump through the hoops because
they want to carry their gun and they want to
protect themselves. And the criminals are going to continue to
be criminals because they don't follow the law, especially when
it comes to carrying a concealed weapon. They just tuck
(17:32):
it in the back of their pants and go about
their business and don't expect to get caught because the
crime that they're going to commit is far more extensive
than the crime of carrying an unregistered CCW or an
unlicensed CCW. It's ridiculous, but it's the policies of this state,
and it's another reason why we need a good governor's
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candidate running on the Republican side. When we come back,
we're going to talk to Justin Watada. He's the CEO
of the Greeley Stampede because we happen to have this
little thing going on in Weld County called the Stampede
of our big rodeo and concert event. So when we
come back from break, we'll have him here. Listening to
the Dan Campless Show with Well Kenny Sheriff Steve Riams.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast Steve.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Reams and we're going to cut to our guests here
pretty quickly, and I'm glad we use such a traditional
country song leading into our next guest, as he's the
CEO for the Greeley Stampede. But for those of you
who have never been up to Weld County or to
Greeley to go to the Greeley Stampede, you're really missing out.
It's not quite a Metallica concert. It's a little more
(18:45):
laid back, a little more western. But justin, I hope
you're on the line with us and you can tell
us all about the goings on at the Greeley Stampede
this year. Thanks sure m.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Thanks for having me today.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
You bet, And so justin for the listeners around the
state who have never been to the Greeley Stampede, give
them a flavor of what they're missing and tell them
why they should be coming up to visit.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
First off, shame on them as they haven't been up
really stampede. As this will be our one hundred and
third community celebration. So it's been going on for quite
a long time, and it started in nineteen twenty two
as a local community celebration to bring the farmers into
town and so they were giving away coffee and pie
and it's kind of grown over throughout the years, and
(19:29):
so we have about two hundred and fifty thousand people
that come to Island.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Grove Park every year.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Rodeo and country music's kind of the backbone of the Stampede,
but there's a lot of different attractions and entertainment to
bring people.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Here to Greeley. So, having said all that, what are
some of the things that are still in the lineup
for people if they want to go grab a concert
or see a rodeo. What are some of the events
that they can still catch and when does the Stampede.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
In So this year was a twelve day event.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
We started last Wednesday and now we're onto Monday, so
we're onto nighttime rodeos.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
We have our Pink Rodeo tonight, Tomorrow's our First Responder.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Appreciation Night, and then Wednesday's our rodeo finals, and then
we'll go into the final weekend with American bull fighting
and fireworks on July fourth, Heritage of Mexico Rodeo on Saturday,
followed by the Parker McCollum concert, and then we'll wrap
things up with the popular Demolition Derby on Sunday, July fish.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I can tell you that that is an all time
favorite to attend is that demolition derby. I don't miss
it any year. Being a gearhead, I love it, especially
when they put a few RVs out there and knock
the crap out of each other and sometimes literally knocked
the bathroom out onto to the arena floor. It's a
great time.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Yeah, it's definitely crazy.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
You know, it's four hours plus of cars crashing and
it sold out.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
It actually sold out yesterday.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
So the only tickets available for that.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Are pit passes.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
And what's cool about the pit passes is people can
get a close view of the cars. Yeah, and you're right,
the most popular heat that we have are the RV
heats that come in at the very end, because once
they get hitting and exploding, you'll see that toilet hanging
off the side.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Or it's just pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
It's truly Americana at the Greeley Stampede, whether it's a rodeo,
whether it's a concert or you know, the traditional demolition derby.
Just for the people that haven't been. What other events
do you have other than just the rodeo. I mean
there's exhibits, there's food, you got you got a fairway there?
What all you got going so.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
I would tell people if they haven't been in the stampede.
We're kind of a local community celebration. We kind of
call it a reunion that people come down to Island
Grove Park every summer during the fourth July weekend and if.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
They come and visit, it's.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
A lot usually anchored around what's happening in the arena
that's a concert or rodeo, but there's over forty food vendors,
so it's that festival food everything fried on a stick.
We have a lot of family entertainment and attractions. We
have a big carnival midway as well as different things
for the families. We have a a dog show or
these are the dogs that jump into the pool.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
We also have a dinosaur attraction.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
So we have a lot of different things that people
can come out. And one of our main things is
that affordable family entertainment so when people coming that if
you don't want to go to a concert rodeo, parker
mission is five dollars for adults, two dollars for kids
and seniors, so it's really relatively affordable day to come
out to the Greeley Stampede.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, you guys have done a phenomenal job and it
just gets better every year. You know, there was there
was some negativity around the event in years past, and
I think you guys have shunned that and and moved
on to a new direction. I mean, I love taking
my family out there. We have a good time every
time we go. And for the people in the state
of Colorado who have not got a chance to go
up to Greeley and see the Greeley Stampede, you're really
(22:49):
missing out. Justin what what would you leave the listeners
with as a as a bright point if if they
really want to come up, what's what's the best day?
Or you know, just just tell us why should they
come and what's the best day to get up there?
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I think you should come to the Greeley Stampede because
we have something a little bit for everybody. And our
thing is once people who have never been to the
Greeley Stampede come actually and experience of stampede, then they
become annual every year they started a canning.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
And so what I would say, especially if people.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Are driving a little farther to the Greely Stampede, I
would make a weekend out of it. Come up for
a Friday, Saturday, or spend a couple of days and
then you can get to full full experience of the
Stampede instead of just coming for one thing. And what
I really tell people is what makes the Stampede is
that full experience. It's more than a venue getting out
of your car and going to a concert or rodeo
and then getting back in your car.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
When you come here, you can have that festival food.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
You can see the fifteen longhorns during our daily prey
to the park at six o'clock, split the sea and
it come right up the middle.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
But there's a lot of just.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Different things that we still celebrate here at the Greely
Stampede that we welcome you with some Western hospitality.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
And it's way cheaper than a metallic a concert.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
That is true.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
So next time we'll have some country music coming into
the introll.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Justin thanks for coming on with us. I just wanted
to get your event out there as best we could. Again,
we appreciate you being on and being on the show
with us, and good luck tonight. I know it's a
busy event and you got something going on every night,
so we'll let you get back to it. But again,
thanks for being on the show with us.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Sound great.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Thanks gee.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
You know, for those of you who haven't been up
to the Greeley Stampede, I mean, I've lived in Weld
County since nineteen ninety five and it's just a cool event.
There were a few years where we got some pretty
negative rap, but the concerts are great, the venue is great.
It's very safe place to be, it's very family friendly,
and it's very affordable because it's in Weld County, and
(24:45):
we try to make sure that, you know, we do
things at the right price for the people that are
up there working hard and putting in the sweat equity
to go out and enjoy themselves a little bit for
an evening and justin what Todd has just done a
great job of organizing that, and so again, if you
haven't been up there, please go and visit. It's also
(25:07):
good for the tax base in Weld County. And that'll
get me back to one of these text messages I
got here, says Steve. If taxation is theft, howerre roads
to be built, police and fire departments and school is
going to be paid for, you know, you got a
good point. There's just a there's a point where it
goes too far, and when it feels like half of
your income is going to taxes, or you're being taxed
(25:28):
before you get paid, you're getting taxed on things you
buy after you get paid. At some point the government's
got to rein in its belt and say, Okay, we
can do more with less. Another text here says share
if your last guest, that's Will McBride, talked about doing
away with state income tax, and the question is what
is his alternative for income tax? You know, he didn't
get to that, and quite honestly, we didn't have enough
(25:49):
time to really dive in as much as i'd I
would have liked to. I would encourage you to go
check out his website and see if he has an
alternative for where that funding is going to be or
how the budget's gonna going to get made here here
in Colorado without a state income tax. There's a lot
of states that function without a state income tax. They
tend to have a little higher property tax rate. But
(26:12):
I don't know what his specific plan is, and that's
for him to define. I'm not going to try to
do that for him. And then one last one here
before we go to break, I have someone asking me
they live in Larimer County, but can they get their
conceal weapons permitting? Well, unfortunately know and with a new
state law it's even more stringent about you know, how
the CCW process works or conceill weapons process works. I
(26:34):
would encourage you, if you have insomnia, to read how
Spilled twenty four DASH eleven seventy four and it'll give
you an idea of just how difficult the process is
going to be in the future compared to what it was.
I guess what it was today and in the past.
So we'll cut to break. When we come back, we'll
(26:54):
have our last little segment and we'll do some clean
up work here. Stick with us. You listen to Dan
Capless show here on six point thirty k how with
Well County Sheriff Steve Raimes setting in as a fill in, and.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Listen to that song oftentimes, while I'm riding my motorcycle
around in Wild County, I think I might actually bring
that thing down here tomorrow just to stretch the legs
a little bit and get a chance to get out
in the wind. And tomorrow when the show's open over
I'm driving straight to the Greeley Independent Stampede and attending
the law Enforcement Appreciation night at the Rodeo. So I'll
(27:37):
ride my steel horse to the Rodeo.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
I think, you know, we got to get a picture
of you with that outside the iHeart Studios here and
put that up on the socials.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Absolutely, i'd love to. We'll make it a plan, and
then you know, they'll probably be a hailstorm. I'll get
beat to death, so it tends to be how it goes.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
I don't tell anybody, and I know this is just
between you and me and nobody else.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Nobody's listening.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Yeah, there are some car ports out there in back lot.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Yeah they're not ours, Okay, they belong to whatever the
businesses on the second floor.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
You know, if there's a few open and you're not
taking anybody's, they're not like a sign. Put that steel
horse right under there.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
That might not be a bad idea, but I don't know.
I don't own anything that's so impressive that I'm not
too worried about it. But I love my motorcycle. I
love a chance to get to ride it. Plan. I'm
going to Sturgis this year. The worst hail storm I've
ever been in, though, was riding back from Sturgis on
a previous motorcycle. I had to pull over on the
side of the road and cover my head with my
(28:32):
jacket because at that point I didn't wear a helmet.
I hope my wife's not listening. I'm she's no, she
doesn't care. I covered. I covered the least valuable thing
on me, which was my head. Couldn't do any damage. Yeah,
what are you gonna hurt?
Speaker 4 (28:48):
There?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
So looking forward to doing that again this year. Heading
up to Sturgis and getting out on the bike tomorrow
will be a good warm up for that.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
So good.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Big question, Yeah, are you a Harley or Indian Motors?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I'm a Harley guy? How do you feel about Indian Motors?
Speaker 5 (29:04):
So?
Speaker 2 (29:04):
I think they're fine. I mean, if I had to
pick a second choice, I'd ride an Indian. They make
some they make some cool bikes. But we had this
debate on one of the previous shows, and they're technically
owned by Polaris, so yeah, you know it's it's cool,
but Harley's just got a heritage to it that even
though they kind of misstepped and tried to go woke
for a little bit. They're still Harley's and I just
(29:25):
love them. They're simple bikes and they have a sound
that's unmistakable, and I've just addicted to him. I love
to ride. And they got off of that woke train
right real fast. Yeah yeah, they did not make the
mistake of bud light and saying oh yeah watch this now.
They stopped pretty quickly. So so talking about just a
(29:47):
couple of things here to clear up the show or
clean up the show. An announcement came out from Ryan
Armagost in HD sixty four saying he is leaving the
General Assembly on September one. He's going to step down,
moved to Arizona, and he's taken a job out there. So,
you know, for those of you that are loyal listeners
and listening to Dan show all the time, you probably
(30:09):
remember we had Ryan on towards the end of the session.
He was kind of battling it out with the Rocky
Mountain gun owners and then we had RNGO representatives from RMGO,
Dudley Brown and Ian Escalante. They were kind of having
a war of words back and forth about you know,
who allowed for the Democrats to do more damage to
our gun rights in Colorado kind of back and forth,
(30:29):
back and forth, and I hope that's not what that
isn't what is driving Ryan Armagous to take a different
a different route with his career. But you know, the
best of luck to him. I think he's done a
good job down there at the State House. With the
terrible numbers that the Republicans have down there, Sometimes it's
just a matter of fighting a good fight and trying
(30:50):
to stall things out. And I think Ryan, as the
House Minority whip, was doing all he could. You know,
I can't imagine being in that environment and having much fun.
But good luck to him and wherever he's going down
in Arizona. And he says he's going to stay in
the Second Amendment advocacy arena, So we'll see what that
(31:10):
looks like in future years. But that might give us
an opportunity to see who's going to step up and
and and fill that seat. I don't even know exactly
what that uh, that process looks like, looks like. I
think there's a I think there's a vacancy committee that
will actually appoint the next the next person for that seat.
So maybe we'll see who that is and see if
we get him on the show and I can provide
(31:31):
a segue.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Okay, what's tailing off at your point about Representative armagust
and he's resigning to take a job in Arizona.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
I believe so better for him and his endeavors.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
But Representative Brandy Bradley has thrown her hat into the
ring to be the next minority whip. Okay, Arma goust
was and she'll be joining me tomorrow on my program. Ryan,
she'll provide her and cool be interesting to see. I
know she's been very outspoken, very vocal. So uh, you know,
if you if you spend any time around Ryan, you
know he's not necessarily the most vocal guy, but kind
(32:03):
of a I called him a silent warrior sarmitage.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Is it not me? You wrong? Ryan?
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Wrong?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Ryan? You were definitely not a silent warrior. You're not
silent about much. I'm so talking about silence. Did we
really turn off Kelly's microphone because she's she's been silent
for a while.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
I'm good, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I thought you were. I thought she were still in
communist purgatory.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
She is, well, yeah, well Metallica does help.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
So I thought she was going to throw her back
out over there, Agoe. So, Kelly, I just have to
ask the Metallica concert, is that Is that the best
concert you've ever been to or where's it rank?
Speaker 7 (32:44):
It was a really really good concert. I have to say,
I've seen a c DC many times, and that was
Those are always great concerts. Metallica is very solid. I
will tell you Pantera looks a.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Little bit old.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yeah they've been around a while.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Yeah they're aging a little, but no, they're they were solid.
I also was one of the I don't know if
you want to say fortunate ones in La when Guns
N' Roses, Rolling Stones and Metallica actually played the triple show.
And that was when Axel was a baby and he
(33:25):
didn't come out for two hours.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, and the crowd really ticked off.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
Yes, the crowd was not happy.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Was the reason because Axl rose.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
But it was weird because they were sandwiched in between
Rolling Stones, who came on first, and then Metallica, who
came on last, and so there was like this two
hour gap in between and you had to wait for that.
It didn't go like that last night, but I will
I'll tell you I can I can say that I'm
(34:02):
not twenty one anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Gotcha, gotcha? Well, thanks for tuning in out there. If
you're Dan Caplis's loyal follower, you will not have him
for the next two days. You'll have me, but please
tune in anyways. We're going to have some more governor's
candidates on in the next couple of days, and we'll
try to make sure we give all these guys a
platform to explain why they're running. Again. Thanks for tuning
in to the Dan Capless Show here on six point
(34:24):
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