November 7, 2025 • 34 mins
Dan describes the scene where he first met future wife Aimee, and Ryan observes it's straight from the script of the film 'Anchorman.'
Also, would you ever appear as a contestant on The Bachelor or The Bachelorette? Dan tells the story of how very eligible bachelor son Joe almost did that very thing.
Also, would you ever appear as a contestant on The Bachelor or The Bachelorette? Dan tells the story of how very eligible bachelor son Joe almost did that very thing.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Kaples and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Kaplis Show. Please be sure to
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single day on your favorite podcast platform. Yeah, no better
day to fight than today.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Glad you were here.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
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three nine. So much to talk about it, It's wide open,
so jump in at any time. We've spanned the globe
from Tim Tebow. My fundamental truth of the day, I
think it's undeniable is that at this point in their
mutual careers, TBO is a better quarterback for the Denver
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Broncos and Bonnicks, And I love Bonnicks as a person
and a quarterback. I'm glad he's here. Hope he stays
a long time. He's going to win a lot of games.
But it's just undeniable. At this point in their careers,
TBO was better and accomplishing more with less. So we've
talked about that, We've talked about, Hey, what what's the
big concern about Tuesday Night?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Nationally?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Democrats trying to make this out to be, you know,
Dewey v. Truman. I mean, Democrats didn't win anything nationally
Tuesday night that they weren't supposed to, and this cartoon character,
Ma'm Donnie. He won because of this perfect storm of craziness,
and he poses no threat because he's an open socialist
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and therefore, by definition, he is going to fail. And
it's clear already he's failing. And so it's going to
be great for the country to see once again, especially
for kids who may not have focused on socialism. Yeah,
this stuff does not work. It is evil, it does
not work. So should the GOP fold at this point
in the government shut down? Because the Democrats allegedly have
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so much momentum after Tuesday Night? I think that's a
phantom momentum. It's a fantasy. Again, am I missing something?
Did the Democrats win somewhere they weren't supposed to?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Now?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Colorado a different critter. Colorado. I think Democrats virtually swept
and it is clear we're the deepest shade of blue
we've ever been in Colorado. So how do we get here?
How did the COLORADOJP get to this point? And how
do we fix it? So that, among other things. We
know that Bachelorette's in town. Would you ever go on
a show like that? Whether you're a guy or gal,
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would you ever go on a show like that? Three
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d A ND five seven seven three nine Ryan, how
about you? Would you go on either Bachelor as the
bachelor or Bachelorette as one of the twenty five guys
competing for the woman.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
I would host the show, and I think I have
a lot of fun with it, But no, I don't
want to immerse myself in that canned environment. Yeah, it's
this forced perspective. You fall in love with somebody you
just meet, you're competing, like you said, with two dozen
other guys. I don't want to do that. I like
to meet my ladies the old fashioned way and earn it.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, and then the fantasy suite, right, there's no way
in the world you'd want that.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
No, No, it's still contrived, Dan, And I think it
takes the magic out of you know, when you when
you meet someone. I would compare it like to when
you met Amy. There's just this chemistry, right, this connection,
and it's unique to that experience and it can't be
replicated in a lab No, no, it can'd be.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I still remember that, I vividly the first time I
saw her.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I still remember that.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Now in our case, there had been I can't say, hey,
we just bumped into each.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Other at Starbucks. Eight. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
She was coming to the station, and surely this amazing
woman at the front desk when they used to have
front desk person just say hey, you know, there's this
amazing young lady coming in. She used to intern here,
So there was a little of that going on before
Amy hit the ground. Oh on Denver, So I had
a little heads up on all that.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
But what you describe right there, Dan, And I'm hoping
that you're familiar with this reference, but it definitely brings
up memories of the movie Anchor Man, when Ron Burgundy
first sees Veronica Corningstone.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yes, yes, I don't remember that scene. I love anchor
I don't remember that.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Oh she walks in, She's wearing this really neat kind
of pink and red suit, and he's like, you know,
by the beard of Zeus, and I can hear you
saying something like that.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
One.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
You gotta go back and watch it, if only for
that scene.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, I remember, I can't remember who it was in
the newsroom. I think I do, but I don't want
to use his name in case I'm wrong. But we
were both just sitting at our desks in the newsroom
the first day she walked in and she walked past us,
and you know, both of us are kind of watching
her walk by, and then we both look at each
other and and go at the same time, go wow
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and yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
So again the competition was on ross competition was Brian Fantana,
Paul Rodd, You were Will Ferrell.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
And you know there was another guy who another guy
who asked her out first. Wonderful, wonderful guy and just
a tremendous human. Again, don't want to use his name,
tremendous human. And he asked her out and they went
on a few days. I couldn't ask her out until
they were no longer dating, and they were never an item.
They just went out on a few days. A great
guy and just you know, bro code, you know, I
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wasn't going to ask her out.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Worry good.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
They were still having a cup of coffee or whatever.
Solid So fortunately, as soon as that ended, I was
able to swoop nice three three seven, went three two five, five, five, seven,
seven three nine. I am kind of glad there wasn't
a show like Bachelor or Bachelorette back then, because I
might have been crazy enough to try to get on it.
Like our son Joe. I think it's very clear he
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could have been one of the twenty five bachelors on
The Bachelorette a couple of seasons ago. They went hard
after him and and he seriously thought about it. But
I'm glad he didn't do it because you never First
of all, you have no control over the editing. You
don't know what's going to end up on the floor.
They can make you look like anything they want to
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make you look like to Jack Ratings, and I'd hate
to lose control like that.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Yeah, I don't blame Joe. I mean the temptation is clear.
I mean Joe good looking guy, smart guy, has a
lot going for him. Joe quarterback literally, you know. I
think he would have brought a lot to the table
as a contestant. And probably Dan. Here's the other part
of it, So not just being on the show and
there's this one Bachelorette and he's one of twenty five
whatever there are a lot of young ladies that would
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be watching the show, going, well, I'd like to meet Joe,
so that might be another angle.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Well, yeah, and he had to make his own decision
on that. He's an adult. He's just one of the
greatest people imaginable.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
But my advice was not to do it, in.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Part because of the cutting room floor. But the other
part is, you know how you then get labeled because
and I'm just talking in this case about our son,
but in our son's case, he's such a great person
in so many different ways, you know, from his faith
to a sense of humors and intelligence all that other stuff.
You know, just like our daughter, they're great people in
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their own ways. And do you really want to be
known as the Bachelorette guy?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You know, do you.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Really want to be labeled that way? And I just
my advice to him was not to do it. I
think he decided not to do it for his own
group of reasons, but I'm glad he didn't. The other
part is, I don't know, for those familiar with these shows,
Bachelor and Bachelorette. In the Bachelor, obviously there's one guy
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and then there are twenty five women competing for him,
and when it gets down to like the final three
or final four, then they all have this separate night
in the fantasy suite where they're supposed to consummate the relationship.
To me, that's all we seems so tacky.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
But so tacky phenomena because I watched these shows going
back to Trista and Ryan, like the very first Bachelorette,
and I believe they live here in Colorado and they're
still together. They didn't have that what you just described.
I know it's part of the show now, but that
had to evolve over time. That was not the case
in the early two thousands.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
And I'm very confident in our son. If he had
done the show and he had gotten that fire, he
would not have been like a zoo animal, you know,
he just wouldn't have done. He's too well grounded, he's
too animal.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Remember that scene in Spartacus where they throw him into
the or was.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It Planet of the Apes?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
No Apes, Planet of the Apes where they throw them
in with the female and then everybody's just go, no, you.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Don't do that.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
No, But but yeah, that that's built into both of
these shows. And but anyway, Bachelorette is in Colorado right now,
for anybody who may be interested, wide range of Texters, Dan, Ryan,
is mom Ganni a socialist or a communist? I've got
my answer, Ryan, what's yours?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Yes is my answer to that question.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Oh, okay, okay. And I don't like getting caught up
in those semantics. He's just awful in so many ways,
but awful out in the open, which is going to
end up being a positive for America.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
They'll all see this fail.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
But I would tend to put him in the communist
category because I believe he's just a true redistribution of
wealth guy, a straight redistribution of wealth. I'm going to
steal it from this gale over here and give it
to this other gale over there kind of guy. And
then it goes deeper than that.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
He's against private property, yeah, right right, think about that.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I also think he's very much I mean, you can't
say a wolf in sheep's clothing, because he's he's very
upfront about some really really all full stuff. But I
think he's so much worse than he even appears on
the surface. Right now, Dan, Rumors abound that Michael Bloomberg
is writing checks for Bennett and his governor's race. If true,
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how could conservatives in Colorado compete with that? That text
goes to the broader question I'm asking, how did the
Colorado Republican Party ever get to this point and the
obviously the deepest shade of blue we've ever been?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And how do we fix that? Money?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I think money is not the cause here. It's a
symptom of the GOP, you know, losing steam and power
and failing more often, and the money's not wanted to
go there. But yeah, that's true about as I understand it.
Bloomberg supporting Bennett's campaign. I believe, you know, through one
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of these outside groups. So how do you compete with that?
I do, I think have a very good answer to that.
You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
During the election, you threw yourself into politics, which I guest,
essay New York Times looking back, would you do that again?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yes, we had a chance.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
I wanted there to be, as I wrote in a
p ed a primary, let's battle test this quickly and
get it up and go. And I think the mistake
with it being commonly is that she had to run
against her own record, and it's very hard to do.
If the point of running is to say I'm not
that person, you know, it's hard to do. And so
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she was given a very tough task. I think it
was a mistake, quite honestly.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
But we are where we are. We're going to lose
more house seats.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
They say, yeah, it's interesting with George, sooy, you know,
I don't know to not do st George's not going
to tell the truth. Hope that means he's not going
to come on the show anyway. I hope that doesn't
mean he's not going to come on the show.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
When is he scheduled?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Right, I'm working on it, Thank you, thank you. But
here's the thing with people like Clooney. I disagree with
him on every major ideological issue, including life and death
issues like the right to life. But I respect him
for moving out of his wealth bubble to get in
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the arena and to speak out on things he cares about.
I wish he had it right and was on my
side of the issues, but I respect people who want
to be about more than themselves, and so yeah, he
paid a price for going there. But the beauty of
this is Hunter Biden in the end, Make no mistake,
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it was Hunter, Biden and Joe Biden who outmaneuvered Clooney,
outmaneuvered Obama, outmaneuvered Pelosi, outmaneuvered most of the powerful Democrats
who very wisely wanted to jettison Biden. I mean, they
shouldn't have ridden that along with Biden, wanted to jettison
Biden and wanted up primary. It would have been very exciting,
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would have attracted a lot of attention, and that the Dems,
you know, would have come out of it in much
better shape than they did with Kamala. They were still
going to lose to Trump, but they would have looked
better as a party. They would have introduced the nation
to some of their better younger talent, which is insane
a whole lot, but a whole lot better than Kamala Harris.
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So it would have been infinitely better for that party
if they'd done what Colooney wanted, and then they get
out maneuvered by Hunter and Jill. I'm assuming Joe wasn't
and I truly believe he was not competent enough to
pull off the strategy himself. But remember it all came
down within the first few hours, you know, Harris ended
up with Biden's endorsement in the first few hours after
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the crew was pulled on Biden, and at that point
everybody had to fall in line. So pretty brilliant on
the part of Hunter and Jill to submarine the Democratic
Party as we predicted they would, and they did, and
thinkiness they did. Three or three seven one three two
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seventh three nine. Let's go to beautiful Monument, Colorado. Talk
to Tom every time we think about Monument. Of course
you think about okay, you often get the early snowfall. There,
got to be careful going over the past. Tom wouldn't
bother you if we did not get any snow in
Monument at all this.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Year, it would bother me tremendously. And I've moved here
because when the when the weather report comes out, it
says from the Palmer Divide north is going to get hammered,
or from the Palmer Divide South is going to get hammered.
And I moved here to be on the Palmer Divide.
I love the snow.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yes, yeah, how weird?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Do you remember a year where we had ned snow
by now?
Speaker 7 (14:45):
No? In fact, it's funny. Facebook just popped up a
picture and I want to say, this time last year,
I had eight inches of snow on the ground. So oh, well,
that's life. It comes and goes. Why they call it
the weather, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Flows Hey, what do you think in my friend.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
Well, here's my problem. You're asking how did the Republican
Party get here? And what can we do to fix it?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
All right?
Speaker 7 (15:10):
And my thought is we're pulling in so many different directions.
If I don't like what you say, Dan, because you're
a pull a life Republican and I'm more of a
libertarian leading Republican, I'm going to take my section of
this wagon and I'm going to take the wheels off
it and I'm going home. Yep. And until we as
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a group pulled together, offer solutions together, and quit being
a freaking laughing stock of the state of Colorado politics,
the Republican Party will cease to be a relevant group.
And in fact, we're lucky. After the whole fiasco where
Tom Tancredo jumped in, we almost got uncertified or den't
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certified because we didn't get enough votes.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, now that was a heroic effort by Tom.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Hey appreciate the call man, and I appreciate that. I
hope you call off and thank you Tom from monument
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a lot of text on this I'll get to after
the break as well. How did the Republican Party ever
get to this point? But Tom has nailed it. I mean,
the internal division within the Republican Party is fatal because
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starting point is if you've got a fully unified Republican Party,
it's still a tall mountain to climb.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
But without a.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Unified based Republican voter block, you got no shot in
this state. And in the Republicans in this state are
so divided, I don't know how you'd articulate or describe
those different camps. And I understand somebody may be saying, well,
wait a second, Dan, you are unwilling to.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Support Joe O'Day, who was pro abortion.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I put that in a different category because we're not
likely to see that again.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Of course, I.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Can't support somebody who's pro abortion. I mean, that's just elemental.
Would you have supported somebody who's pro slavery? Because other
it's going to be a better chance to win the election. No,
but the kind of divide I'm talking about within the
Colorado GOP has nothing to do with that. This is
a divide that exists, you know, between candidates who are
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all pro life, and then you get some you know,
in what would be called the establishment camp, and these
are broad labels, kind of sloppy labels, and then others
in you know, the you know, the some call them
the hard right camp, whatever labels people want to put
on it. But yeah, that that division right now is fatal.
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Fixing that alone won't get us where we need to be.
But we can't get there without fixing that. How do
you fix that? I also when we come back, I
want to call your attention to we'll dive into it Monday.
A really kind of dangerous and dangerously wrong, fundamentally unfair
and inaccurate editor about Ice by the Denver Post.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
You've got to basically master increase the economic output, and
the only way to do that is a on AI
in robotics. So basically we're going to bankraft without AI
and robotics.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Interesting, We'll follow up on that next week. Elon Musk obviously,
and we'll also talk about this trillion dollar pay package
that was improved I think a pretty wide margin.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
By the shareholders.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
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Because interesting comment there right is Elon Musk talks about, Hey,
the only way we're going to be able to overcome
this massive federal debt we have right now is growing
our way out of it, and that's going to have
to happen through robotics and AI, where at the same time,
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you have so many people rightfully concerned that it's robotics
and AI that are going to put that out of work.
So how do you mesh the two? And Musk brilliant obviously,
and we'll get into a more depth on how he
sees this emerging if it comes down the right way.
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Let's go up to beautiful Fort Collins. We'll talk to Bill.
You're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Welcome Bill, Hey, Dan, how you doing tonight?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I am living the dream?
Speaker 7 (19:26):
How you doing good?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Yeah? I know it's Friday. Then I'm starting with probably Colorado.
You know, you know where we've gone. I think one
is we haven't had a lot of great candidates. But
I think one of the things that you know, I
thought about this, you were mentioning that, but you know
in the eighties, that's when we had people just you know,
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leaving cal Are you company here? And I think that
had a small percentage of impact. I think Colorado. I
think the other thing is since we passed the marijuana laws,
you know, that brought in a lot of people that uh,
you know, you know, I won't judge anybody, but you know,
it makes me wonder. But I think the other thing
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that I go back to is our school systems. Over
the last two to three deades that that conservatives have
been asleep at the will, including me. And the fact
is over the last three elections, uh, you know, you know,
for president, I've asked people to explain me the difference
between a conservative or liberal and they can't. Then they
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ask com the difference between a Republican a Democrat and
they can't. I think we just have a lot of
people that are just just aren't very educated on the
issues and what drives these things, Like you have talked about.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Well, Bill, you're right about the demographic demographic shift, and
Dick Wanhams has documented that very well. Legalization to marijuana,
and I believe this was part of the blueprint. The
plan has changed the demo also because you may remember,
we were the first state in the world that had
made the mistake of legalizing marijuana the way that we did,
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and it just drew lots of people to Colorado who
were going to tend to skew liberal and their voting.
So that a major factor. Yeah, major demographic shift. And
then question becomes, Okay, how do we overcome that.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
The last couple of things I think was Tibo looking
back at that, you know, that was what ten years
ago anyway, you know, I think a lot of the
press was now we probably know that, you know, do
you know Tibo was a Christian and reward on a sleeve.
They didn't like that. And then finally, my vote for
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the worst president ever is Barack Obama. That guy threw
up studying the Quran and he is not you know,
he just isn't red, white and blue like all of
us who grew up. And whether it was Chicago or
Broom Build or Timbuktu, that love this country's and that's
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how I see him, and there's not a doubt in
my mind. You know, you go back to his anagation's
inauguration when he talked about we're going to fundamentally change America.
At that point there I was like, what's wrong with America? Well,
we know what he thinks of it. So anyway, thank
you as always for taking my call then, and you
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guys have a great weekend.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Thank you, Bill, you too appreciate the call regarding Tim Tebow.
And the reason we're talking about it today is glad
the Broncos won last night. Obviously it was not pretty
and it doesn't bode well for you know, the ultimate goal,
which is the Super Bowl. Still time to fix things.
But the point I wanted to make spinning out of
the game last night goes way beyond football because it
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extends to me society, and that is Tim Tebow. Because
I think any honest observer would have to say right
now that this far into their NFL careers, this far
into quarterbacking the Denver Broncos, Tim Tebow was playing better
and accomplishing more than Bo Nicks. I'm a big fan
of Bo Nicks as a person and a quarterback, and
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I think he's going to be very successful in Denver.
But at this point in the process, Tebow was more successful,
yet he was derided by most of the press.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Why.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
My answer is because the press doesn't like to be wrong,
and Tebow had proven them wrong. I think it's that simple.
I understand the concern about Tebow because he'd become the
most popular athlete in the world that was documented objectively,
and because he was a phenomenally powerful and effective Christian influence.
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I understand the suspicion that forces were working against him
because of his Christianity. Maybe that's true, that's not the
way I see it. I see it as that's simple.
The media is being proven wrong. They don't like to
be proven wrong. I think that for John Elway, I
think there was probably some ego involvement there. And I
think John Elway one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history,
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very much underrated as a quarterback and the most important
sports figure in the history of our city. And the
overall success of the Broncos, the Super Bowl triumph, none
of it possible without ohweih But you got to be honest,
and I think there was an ego involvement in running
Tebow off and to end in not picking Josh Allen
doesn't mean Elway isn't one of the great figures in
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Colorado history. He is, but none of us are perfect,
and that's where his flaws were. But yeah, that's where
we were at. And Pyton Manning one of the greatest
people and quarterbacks ever. We were lucky to have him,
but he was always going to be a short term fix.
If they'd just ridden Tebow, then you get ten to twelve,
maybe thirteen years of really good, exciting, solid quarterback playing.
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We weren't out in the quarterback wilderness for a decade. Ryan,
There's no flaw in that logic.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Greg, I'm still just shaking my head over passing on
Josh Allen when the geography is right there. He's just
to the north in Wyoming. He's tearing it up. We
knew he's going to be great. Nothing about what his
careers revealed has been a surprise so far. But I
like bo Nicks a lot, Dan, and I think if
we're patient with him, he can get the job done.
I go back to what you said initially, though, it's like, Okay,
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they have all these fourth quarter comebacks. They look great
doing it. Why not just do in the first quarter
what you've been doing in the fourth quarter. It seems like,
especially in that first drive that I watch, they're just
so hell ben on running the ball and establishing the
run and not really using bow and the very diverse
talents that he brings to the table. Maybe they're afraid
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of hanging at all on him. I don't know. Sean
Payton has forgotten more football than I know, but that's
just what I observed.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Oh yeah, and it was the same thing with Elway
and Dan Reeves, right, and Dan Reeps a great human,
but same thing. You know, coaches off and over coach.
It's well intentioned sometimes it's ego, but they often over coach.
They want to over control. If you just let the
athlete be the athlete, there are going to be some mistakes.
Hell yeah, they're going to be sorry. There are going
to be some mistakes, but you're gonna have more great
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plays which then outweigh the mistakes most of the time,
and it's going to be a lot more interesting to
watch in the meantime. So I think we're kind of
stuck in that cycle right now. But my broader point was.
It was not an anti Bow point. I preface everything
with love him and love him as a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
He's going to be a winner.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
But it's more a the point that undeniably t Bow
was more effective and more effective with the team. You know,
t Bow had an awful team, the worst team in
the NFL for the prior eighteen months, had very mediocre coaching,
and was able to put that team on his back
and take him to the playoffs. Bo Nicks is a
tremendous surrounding cast and a Hall of Fame coach, and
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he will get there. My point is just t Bou
didn't get a fair shake. And then we get this
texter who says, Dan, if Tibo is a great quarterback,
he would still be playing in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
It's so silly.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
We don't have to extrapolate here. We don't have to
extrapolate anything. If we were having a conversation about boy,
if Tbau had a chance in the NFL, what would
have happened. That's one thing. We know what happened in Denver.
It doesn't matter what happened anywhere else. He did succeed
in Denver. He succeeded in Denver. At a record level
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for a new NFL quarterback, let alone a new NFL
quarterback playing with the worst team in football. So we
know what happened in Denver. We don't have to look
at Oh, he didn't succeed with this team down the
road or that team down the road. We know he
succeeded in Denver, and that Denver then threw that away.
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Yeah three oh three seven one three eight, two five five.
And my bigger beef is just you know that the
media that would never admit it was wrong about him,
all right, so much to get to my friend, I've
got to hit this hard break grind.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
You have to be rich to be the bachelor bacherette.
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I don't know if fel one one of the criteria.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Remember Andrew Firestone, the heir to the Firestone Tire Empire,
was the bachelor one time.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Right, Yeah, but I think you decided that you didn't
want to do that anyway, we're talking about this because
Bachelorette is in Colorado. Then this other text, Dan, stick
to politics. You lost your sports credibility when you predicted
that Sanders is going to have the Buffs in the playoffs.
Are two years fascinating. So that must mean there are
no sports experts in Denver, because every single sports expert
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in Denver, pick one, including all the former players. They
have been wrong on occasion too, But I'll put my
batting average up against anybody. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 9 (28:58):
A third or a fourth or a fifth, three or
three seven with three eight two five five useless information
as we are approaching the end of the show, texts
DA N five seven seven, three nine.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I want to try to get as many text in
as I can. Quick heads up going to deep dive
this on Monday. I hope you're here for it. And
that is our friends at the Denver Post. I think
a fundamentally unfair, unsupported, and dangerous editorial attacking Ice. The
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headline is Ice is lawlessly detaining Colorado's the judicial branch
is our only hope. When it comes to the danger
piece of it, It's this first line that's that's my
biggest concern.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
The rest of it.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Listen, we can disagree on the most profound issues of
the day without our opponent creating some danger because they
disagree with us. So I don't play that card. The
left plays that card all the time. When I've got
a winning point and they can't rebut it, they come
out and say, oh, it's dangerous to say that, because
that's just what they go to. But here you can
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see the danger. Listen to this first line from this editorial.
Federal immigration officials are out of control in America's third
branch of government needs to rein in the gross abuse
of power on display in Colorado and across the nation. Listen,
when a major newspaper and the Denver Post, I mean,
we have different political ideologies. There are a lot of
talented people who work there. It's a major newspaper. When
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a major newspaper comes out and says ice is out
of control, federal officers are out of control, that is
unnecessary danger creation. First of all, it's a sloppy, intellectually sloppy,
way over broad statement. But that's part of the danger creation.
Is for a major newspaper to come out and say, hey,
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federal immigration officials are out of control. You know at
this point that the first of all, it's not accurate.
It's you may believe that this policy or this officer
or whatever, but federal immigration officials as a whole are
out of control, so all of ICE is out of control.
That's a sloppy, intellectually juvenile statement to make, but you
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know it's made against the backdrop of a lot of
nut jobs out there, and talk about green lighting nutjobs.
When a major paper makes a statement like that federal
immigration officials are out of control, yes, I just think
it's intellectually sloppy, and it's fundamentally unfair, and it is
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creating additional danger. I think it's wrong on every level.
And Monday we'll dig into some of the details and
you'll see it's just not fair. It's just not fair
in terms of the facts. Did they not know certain
facts such as you can arrest someone Ice can arrest
somebody outside of their home without a warrant. Did the
post just not know that or did they decide to
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deprive the listener of that critical fact in order to
make the listener more angry or the reader in their case. Okay,
let's get to us in texts before we wrap up
the show today. One of the big issues, of course,
has been how do we get to this point where
Colorado is its deepest shade of blue? Ever, how did
the Colorado GOP get to this point? Great Caller earlier
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talking about the major demographic shift true, Dick Wadhams has
documented that very well, and legalization of marijuana was part
of the plan of the left to rig that shift.
Texter Dan, I think the Republican GOP has the view
of being old people, and that does not appeal to
the young voters who don't remember history because they never
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learned it properly. If the Texter is talking about the
stereotype of the GOP just being old white people who
don't care about the poor, the vulnerable, the week, the defenseless,
you're right that STEREO's out there. As a former Democrat,
I can tell you that STEREO's out there is stereotype.
Pardon me, it's the stereotype I had of the GOP
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before I actually became active than the GOP learned that
stereotype is freaking backwards, and so yeah, that is the
stereotype that's out there. That ryan not absolutely stunning to me.
I never would have believed it until I joined the
GOP out of desperation. You know, I was a lifelong Democrat,
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never imagined I'd be part of the GOP. But then
the Democratic Party whacked out the way it whacked out
and just became the whole death Star thing and lead
from behind and all that other garbage. And then so
I joined the GOP out of desperation because you want
to have an impact, and the Republican Party had it
right on life and some other major issues. But then
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I got to know the people, and I never in
a million years would have believed that that conservatives members
of the Republican Party overall were as an even more caring.
They were more concerned, they were more sympathetic to you know,
the underprivileged, you know, to people of color, to people
who aren't getting a fair shake. And it was just
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one of the great revelations of my life. And conservatism
is actually a way to accomplish good things for all
those people. So have a tremendous weekend. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Ryan.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Please join us Monday on the Dankapla Show.
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day to fight than today.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Glad you were here.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Three h three seven to win three eight two five
five the number text d A N five seven seven
three nine. So much to talk about it, It's wide open,
so jump in at any time. We've spanned the globe
from Tim Tebow. My fundamental truth of the day, I
think it's undeniable is that at this point in their
mutual careers, TBO is a better quarterback for the Denver
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Broncos and Bonnicks, And I love Bonnicks as a person
and a quarterback. I'm glad he's here. Hope he stays
a long time. He's going to win a lot of games.
But it's just undeniable. At this point in their careers,
TBO was better and accomplishing more with less. So we've
talked about that, We've talked about, Hey, what what's the
big concern about Tuesday Night?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Nationally?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Democrats trying to make this out to be, you know,
Dewey v. Truman. I mean, Democrats didn't win anything nationally
Tuesday night that they weren't supposed to, and this cartoon character,
Ma'm Donnie. He won because of this perfect storm of craziness,
and he poses no threat because he's an open socialist
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and therefore, by definition, he is going to fail. And
it's clear already he's failing. And so it's going to
be great for the country to see once again, especially
for kids who may not have focused on socialism. Yeah,
this stuff does not work. It is evil, it does
not work. So should the GOP fold at this point
in the government shut down? Because the Democrats allegedly have
(01:47):
so much momentum after Tuesday Night? I think that's a
phantom momentum. It's a fantasy. Again, am I missing something?
Did the Democrats win somewhere they weren't supposed to?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Now?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Colorado a different critter. Colorado. I think Democrats virtually swept
and it is clear we're the deepest shade of blue
we've ever been in Colorado. So how do we get here?
How did the COLORADOJP get to this point? And how
do we fix it? So that, among other things. We
know that Bachelorette's in town. Would you ever go on
a show like that? Whether you're a guy or gal,
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would you ever go on a show like that? Three
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d A ND five seven seven three nine Ryan, how
about you? Would you go on either Bachelor as the
bachelor or Bachelorette as one of the twenty five guys
competing for the woman.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
I would host the show, and I think I have
a lot of fun with it, But no, I don't
want to immerse myself in that canned environment. Yeah, it's
this forced perspective. You fall in love with somebody you
just meet, you're competing, like you said, with two dozen
other guys. I don't want to do that. I like
to meet my ladies the old fashioned way and earn it.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, and then the fantasy suite, right, there's no way
in the world you'd want that.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
No, No, it's still contrived, Dan, And I think it
takes the magic out of you know, when you when
you meet someone. I would compare it like to when
you met Amy. There's just this chemistry, right, this connection,
and it's unique to that experience and it can't be
replicated in a lab No, no, it can'd be.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I still remember that, I vividly the first time I
saw her.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I still remember that.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Now in our case, there had been I can't say, hey,
we just bumped into each.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Other at Starbucks. Eight. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
She was coming to the station, and surely this amazing
woman at the front desk when they used to have
front desk person just say hey, you know, there's this
amazing young lady coming in. She used to intern here,
So there was a little of that going on before
Amy hit the ground. Oh on Denver, So I had
a little heads up on all that.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
But what you describe right there, Dan, And I'm hoping
that you're familiar with this reference, but it definitely brings
up memories of the movie Anchor Man, when Ron Burgundy
first sees Veronica Corningstone.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yes, yes, I don't remember that scene. I love anchor
I don't remember that.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Oh she walks in, She's wearing this really neat kind
of pink and red suit, and he's like, you know,
by the beard of Zeus, and I can hear you
saying something like that.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
One.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
You gotta go back and watch it, if only for
that scene.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, I remember, I can't remember who it was in
the newsroom. I think I do, but I don't want
to use his name in case I'm wrong. But we
were both just sitting at our desks in the newsroom
the first day she walked in and she walked past us,
and you know, both of us are kind of watching
her walk by, and then we both look at each
other and and go at the same time, go wow
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and yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
So again the competition was on ross competition was Brian Fantana,
Paul Rodd, You were Will Ferrell.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
And you know there was another guy who another guy
who asked her out first. Wonderful, wonderful guy and just
a tremendous human. Again, don't want to use his name,
tremendous human. And he asked her out and they went
on a few days. I couldn't ask her out until
they were no longer dating, and they were never an item.
They just went out on a few days. A great
guy and just you know, bro code, you know, I
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wasn't going to ask her out.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Worry good.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
They were still having a cup of coffee or whatever.
Solid So fortunately, as soon as that ended, I was
able to swoop nice three three seven, went three two five, five, five, seven,
seven three nine. I am kind of glad there wasn't
a show like Bachelor or Bachelorette back then, because I
might have been crazy enough to try to get on it.
Like our son Joe. I think it's very clear he
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could have been one of the twenty five bachelors on
The Bachelorette a couple of seasons ago. They went hard
after him and and he seriously thought about it. But
I'm glad he didn't do it because you never First
of all, you have no control over the editing. You
don't know what's going to end up on the floor.
They can make you look like anything they want to
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make you look like to Jack Ratings, and I'd hate
to lose control like that.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Yeah, I don't blame Joe. I mean the temptation is clear.
I mean Joe good looking guy, smart guy, has a
lot going for him. Joe quarterback literally, you know. I
think he would have brought a lot to the table
as a contestant. And probably Dan. Here's the other part
of it, So not just being on the show and
there's this one Bachelorette and he's one of twenty five
whatever there are a lot of young ladies that would
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be watching the show, going, well, I'd like to meet Joe,
so that might be another angle.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Well, yeah, and he had to make his own decision
on that. He's an adult. He's just one of the
greatest people imaginable.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
But my advice was not to do it, in.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Part because of the cutting room floor. But the other
part is, you know how you then get labeled because
and I'm just talking in this case about our son,
but in our son's case, he's such a great person
in so many different ways, you know, from his faith
to a sense of humors and intelligence all that other stuff.
You know, just like our daughter, they're great people in
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their own ways. And do you really want to be
known as the Bachelorette guy?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You know, do you.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Really want to be labeled that way? And I just
my advice to him was not to do it. I
think he decided not to do it for his own
group of reasons, but I'm glad he didn't. The other
part is, I don't know, for those familiar with these shows,
Bachelor and Bachelorette. In the Bachelor, obviously there's one guy
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and then there are twenty five women competing for him,
and when it gets down to like the final three
or final four, then they all have this separate night
in the fantasy suite where they're supposed to consummate the relationship.
To me, that's all we seems so tacky.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
But so tacky phenomena because I watched these shows going
back to Trista and Ryan, like the very first Bachelorette,
and I believe they live here in Colorado and they're
still together. They didn't have that what you just described.
I know it's part of the show now, but that
had to evolve over time. That was not the case
in the early two thousands.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
And I'm very confident in our son. If he had
done the show and he had gotten that fire, he
would not have been like a zoo animal, you know,
he just wouldn't have done. He's too well grounded, he's
too animal.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Remember that scene in Spartacus where they throw him into
the or was.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It Planet of the Apes?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
No Apes, Planet of the Apes where they throw them
in with the female and then everybody's just go, no, you.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Don't do that.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
No, But but yeah, that that's built into both of
these shows. And but anyway, Bachelorette is in Colorado right now,
for anybody who may be interested, wide range of Texters, Dan, Ryan,
is mom Ganni a socialist or a communist? I've got
my answer, Ryan, what's yours?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Yes is my answer to that question.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Oh, okay, okay. And I don't like getting caught up
in those semantics. He's just awful in so many ways,
but awful out in the open, which is going to
end up being a positive for America.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
They'll all see this fail.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
But I would tend to put him in the communist
category because I believe he's just a true redistribution of
wealth guy, a straight redistribution of wealth. I'm going to
steal it from this gale over here and give it
to this other gale over there kind of guy. And
then it goes deeper than that.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
He's against private property, yeah, right right, think about that.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I also think he's very much I mean, you can't
say a wolf in sheep's clothing, because he's he's very
upfront about some really really all full stuff. But I
think he's so much worse than he even appears on
the surface. Right now, Dan, Rumors abound that Michael Bloomberg
is writing checks for Bennett and his governor's race. If true,
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how could conservatives in Colorado compete with that? That text
goes to the broader question I'm asking, how did the
Colorado Republican Party ever get to this point and the
obviously the deepest shade of blue we've ever been?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And how do we fix that? Money?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I think money is not the cause here. It's a
symptom of the GOP, you know, losing steam and power
and failing more often, and the money's not wanted to
go there. But yeah, that's true about as I understand it.
Bloomberg supporting Bennett's campaign. I believe, you know, through one
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of these outside groups. So how do you compete with that?
I do, I think have a very good answer to that.
You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
During the election, you threw yourself into politics, which I guest,
essay New York Times looking back, would you do that again?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yes, we had a chance.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
I wanted there to be, as I wrote in a
p ed a primary, let's battle test this quickly and
get it up and go. And I think the mistake
with it being commonly is that she had to run
against her own record, and it's very hard to do.
If the point of running is to say I'm not
that person, you know, it's hard to do. And so
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she was given a very tough task. I think it
was a mistake, quite honestly.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
But we are where we are. We're going to lose
more house seats.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
They say, yeah, it's interesting with George, sooy, you know,
I don't know to not do st George's not going
to tell the truth. Hope that means he's not going
to come on the show anyway. I hope that doesn't
mean he's not going to come on the show.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
When is he scheduled?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Right, I'm working on it, Thank you, thank you. But
here's the thing with people like Clooney. I disagree with
him on every major ideological issue, including life and death
issues like the right to life. But I respect him
for moving out of his wealth bubble to get in
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the arena and to speak out on things he cares about.
I wish he had it right and was on my
side of the issues, but I respect people who want
to be about more than themselves, and so yeah, he
paid a price for going there. But the beauty of
this is Hunter Biden in the end, Make no mistake,
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it was Hunter, Biden and Joe Biden who outmaneuvered Clooney,
outmaneuvered Obama, outmaneuvered Pelosi, outmaneuvered most of the powerful Democrats
who very wisely wanted to jettison Biden. I mean, they
shouldn't have ridden that along with Biden, wanted to jettison
Biden and wanted up primary. It would have been very exciting,
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would have attracted a lot of attention, and that the Dems,
you know, would have come out of it in much
better shape than they did with Kamala. They were still
going to lose to Trump, but they would have looked
better as a party. They would have introduced the nation
to some of their better younger talent, which is insane
a whole lot, but a whole lot better than Kamala Harris.
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So it would have been infinitely better for that party
if they'd done what Colooney wanted, and then they get
out maneuvered by Hunter and Jill. I'm assuming Joe wasn't
and I truly believe he was not competent enough to
pull off the strategy himself. But remember it all came
down within the first few hours, you know, Harris ended
up with Biden's endorsement in the first few hours after
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the crew was pulled on Biden, and at that point
everybody had to fall in line. So pretty brilliant on
the part of Hunter and Jill to submarine the Democratic
Party as we predicted they would, and they did, and
thinkiness they did. Three or three seven one three two
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seventh three nine. Let's go to beautiful Monument, Colorado. Talk
to Tom every time we think about Monument. Of course
you think about okay, you often get the early snowfall. There,
got to be careful going over the past. Tom wouldn't
bother you if we did not get any snow in
Monument at all this.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Year, it would bother me tremendously. And I've moved here
because when the when the weather report comes out, it
says from the Palmer Divide north is going to get hammered,
or from the Palmer Divide South is going to get hammered.
And I moved here to be on the Palmer Divide.
I love the snow.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yes, yeah, how weird?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Do you remember a year where we had ned snow
by now?
Speaker 7 (14:45):
No? In fact, it's funny. Facebook just popped up a
picture and I want to say, this time last year,
I had eight inches of snow on the ground. So oh, well,
that's life. It comes and goes. Why they call it
the weather, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Flows Hey, what do you think in my friend.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
Well, here's my problem. You're asking how did the Republican
Party get here? And what can we do to fix it?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
All right?
Speaker 7 (15:10):
And my thought is we're pulling in so many different directions.
If I don't like what you say, Dan, because you're
a pull a life Republican and I'm more of a
libertarian leading Republican, I'm going to take my section of
this wagon and I'm going to take the wheels off
it and I'm going home. Yep. And until we as
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a group pulled together, offer solutions together, and quit being
a freaking laughing stock of the state of Colorado politics,
the Republican Party will cease to be a relevant group.
And in fact, we're lucky. After the whole fiasco where
Tom Tancredo jumped in, we almost got uncertified or den't
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certified because we didn't get enough votes.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, now that was a heroic effort by Tom.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Hey appreciate the call man, and I appreciate that. I
hope you call off and thank you Tom from monument
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a lot of text on this I'll get to after
the break as well. How did the Republican Party ever
get to this point? But Tom has nailed it. I mean,
the internal division within the Republican Party is fatal because
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starting point is if you've got a fully unified Republican Party,
it's still a tall mountain to climb.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
But without a.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Unified based Republican voter block, you got no shot in
this state. And in the Republicans in this state are
so divided, I don't know how you'd articulate or describe
those different camps. And I understand somebody may be saying, well,
wait a second, Dan, you are unwilling to.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Support Joe O'Day, who was pro abortion.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I put that in a different category because we're not
likely to see that again.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Of course, I.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Can't support somebody who's pro abortion. I mean, that's just elemental.
Would you have supported somebody who's pro slavery? Because other
it's going to be a better chance to win the election. No,
but the kind of divide I'm talking about within the
Colorado GOP has nothing to do with that. This is
a divide that exists, you know, between candidates who are
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all pro life, and then you get some you know,
in what would be called the establishment camp, and these
are broad labels, kind of sloppy labels, and then others
in you know, the you know, the some call them
the hard right camp, whatever labels people want to put
on it. But yeah, that that division right now is fatal.
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Fixing that alone won't get us where we need to be.
But we can't get there without fixing that. How do
you fix that? I also when we come back, I
want to call your attention to we'll dive into it Monday.
A really kind of dangerous and dangerously wrong, fundamentally unfair
and inaccurate editor about Ice by the Denver Post.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
You've got to basically master increase the economic output, and
the only way to do that is a on AI
in robotics. So basically we're going to bankraft without AI
and robotics.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Interesting, We'll follow up on that next week. Elon Musk obviously,
and we'll also talk about this trillion dollar pay package
that was improved I think a pretty wide margin.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
By the shareholders.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
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The number text d A N five seven seven three nine.
Because interesting comment there right is Elon Musk talks about, Hey,
the only way we're going to be able to overcome
this massive federal debt we have right now is growing
our way out of it, and that's going to have
to happen through robotics and AI, where at the same time,
(18:54):
you have so many people rightfully concerned that it's robotics
and AI that are going to put that out of work.
So how do you mesh the two? And Musk brilliant obviously,
and we'll get into a more depth on how he
sees this emerging if it comes down the right way.
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the number text d A N five seven seven three nine.
Let's go up to beautiful Fort Collins. We'll talk to Bill.
You're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Welcome Bill, Hey, Dan, how you doing tonight?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I am living the dream?
Speaker 7 (19:26):
How you doing good?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Yeah? I know it's Friday. Then I'm starting with probably Colorado.
You know, you know where we've gone. I think one
is we haven't had a lot of great candidates. But
I think one of the things that you know, I
thought about this, you were mentioning that, but you know
in the eighties, that's when we had people just you know,
(19:50):
leaving cal Are you company here? And I think that
had a small percentage of impact. I think Colorado. I
think the other thing is since we passed the marijuana laws,
you know, that brought in a lot of people that uh,
you know, you know, I won't judge anybody, but you know,
it makes me wonder. But I think the other thing
(20:12):
that I go back to is our school systems. Over
the last two to three deades that that conservatives have
been asleep at the will, including me. And the fact
is over the last three elections, uh, you know, you know,
for president, I've asked people to explain me the difference
between a conservative or liberal and they can't. Then they
(20:36):
ask com the difference between a Republican a Democrat and
they can't. I think we just have a lot of
people that are just just aren't very educated on the
issues and what drives these things, Like you have talked about.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Well, Bill, you're right about the demographic demographic shift, and
Dick Wanhams has documented that very well. Legalization to marijuana,
and I believe this was part of the blueprint. The
plan has changed the demo also because you may remember,
we were the first state in the world that had
made the mistake of legalizing marijuana the way that we did,
(21:15):
and it just drew lots of people to Colorado who
were going to tend to skew liberal and their voting.
So that a major factor. Yeah, major demographic shift. And
then question becomes, Okay, how do we overcome that.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
The last couple of things I think was Tibo looking
back at that, you know, that was what ten years
ago anyway, you know, I think a lot of the
press was now we probably know that, you know, do
you know Tibo was a Christian and reward on a sleeve.
They didn't like that. And then finally, my vote for
(21:52):
the worst president ever is Barack Obama. That guy threw
up studying the Quran and he is not you know,
he just isn't red, white and blue like all of
us who grew up. And whether it was Chicago or
Broom Build or Timbuktu, that love this country's and that's
(22:13):
how I see him, and there's not a doubt in
my mind. You know, you go back to his anagation's
inauguration when he talked about we're going to fundamentally change America.
At that point there I was like, what's wrong with America? Well,
we know what he thinks of it. So anyway, thank
you as always for taking my call then, and you
(22:36):
guys have a great weekend.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Thank you, Bill, you too appreciate the call regarding Tim Tebow.
And the reason we're talking about it today is glad
the Broncos won last night. Obviously it was not pretty
and it doesn't bode well for you know, the ultimate goal,
which is the Super Bowl. Still time to fix things.
But the point I wanted to make spinning out of
the game last night goes way beyond football because it
(22:59):
extends to me society, and that is Tim Tebow. Because
I think any honest observer would have to say right
now that this far into their NFL careers, this far
into quarterbacking the Denver Broncos, Tim Tebow was playing better
and accomplishing more than Bo Nicks. I'm a big fan
of Bo Nicks as a person and a quarterback, and
(23:20):
I think he's going to be very successful in Denver.
But at this point in the process, Tebow was more successful,
yet he was derided by most of the press.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Why.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
My answer is because the press doesn't like to be wrong,
and Tebow had proven them wrong. I think it's that simple.
I understand the concern about Tebow because he'd become the
most popular athlete in the world that was documented objectively,
and because he was a phenomenally powerful and effective Christian influence.
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I understand the suspicion that forces were working against him
because of his Christianity. Maybe that's true, that's not the
way I see it. I see it as that's simple.
The media is being proven wrong. They don't like to
be proven wrong. I think that for John Elway, I
think there was probably some ego involvement there. And I
think John Elway one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history,
(24:14):
very much underrated as a quarterback and the most important
sports figure in the history of our city. And the
overall success of the Broncos, the Super Bowl triumph, none
of it possible without ohweih But you got to be honest,
and I think there was an ego involvement in running
Tebow off and to end in not picking Josh Allen
doesn't mean Elway isn't one of the great figures in
(24:36):
Colorado history. He is, but none of us are perfect,
and that's where his flaws were. But yeah, that's where
we were at. And Pyton Manning one of the greatest
people and quarterbacks ever. We were lucky to have him,
but he was always going to be a short term fix.
If they'd just ridden Tebow, then you get ten to twelve,
maybe thirteen years of really good, exciting, solid quarterback playing.
(24:58):
We weren't out in the quarterback wilderness for a decade. Ryan,
There's no flaw in that logic.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Greg, I'm still just shaking my head over passing on
Josh Allen when the geography is right there. He's just
to the north in Wyoming. He's tearing it up. We
knew he's going to be great. Nothing about what his
careers revealed has been a surprise so far. But I
like bo Nicks a lot, Dan, and I think if
we're patient with him, he can get the job done.
I go back to what you said initially, though, it's like, Okay,
(25:26):
they have all these fourth quarter comebacks. They look great
doing it. Why not just do in the first quarter
what you've been doing in the fourth quarter. It seems like,
especially in that first drive that I watch, they're just
so hell ben on running the ball and establishing the
run and not really using bow and the very diverse
talents that he brings to the table. Maybe they're afraid
(25:46):
of hanging at all on him. I don't know. Sean
Payton has forgotten more football than I know, but that's
just what I observed.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Oh yeah, and it was the same thing with Elway
and Dan Reeves, right, and Dan Reeps a great human,
but same thing. You know, coaches off and over coach.
It's well intentioned sometimes it's ego, but they often over coach.
They want to over control. If you just let the
athlete be the athlete, there are going to be some mistakes.
Hell yeah, they're going to be sorry. There are going
to be some mistakes, but you're gonna have more great
(26:15):
plays which then outweigh the mistakes most of the time,
and it's going to be a lot more interesting to
watch in the meantime. So I think we're kind of
stuck in that cycle right now. But my broader point was.
It was not an anti Bow point. I preface everything
with love him and love him as a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
He's going to be a winner.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
But it's more a the point that undeniably t Bow
was more effective and more effective with the team. You know,
t Bow had an awful team, the worst team in
the NFL for the prior eighteen months, had very mediocre coaching,
and was able to put that team on his back
and take him to the playoffs. Bo Nicks is a
tremendous surrounding cast and a Hall of Fame coach, and
(26:54):
he will get there. My point is just t Bou
didn't get a fair shake. And then we get this
texter who says, Dan, if Tibo is a great quarterback,
he would still be playing in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
It's so silly.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
We don't have to extrapolate here. We don't have to
extrapolate anything. If we were having a conversation about boy,
if Tbau had a chance in the NFL, what would
have happened. That's one thing. We know what happened in Denver.
It doesn't matter what happened anywhere else. He did succeed
in Denver. He succeeded in Denver. At a record level
(27:34):
for a new NFL quarterback, let alone a new NFL
quarterback playing with the worst team in football. So we
know what happened in Denver. We don't have to look
at Oh, he didn't succeed with this team down the
road or that team down the road. We know he
succeeded in Denver, and that Denver then threw that away.
(27:54):
Yeah three oh three seven one three eight, two five five.
And my bigger beef is just you know that the
media that would never admit it was wrong about him,
all right, so much to get to my friend, I've
got to hit this hard break grind.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
You have to be rich to be the bachelor bacherette.
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I don't know if fel one one of the criteria.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Remember Andrew Firestone, the heir to the Firestone Tire Empire,
was the bachelor one time.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Right, Yeah, but I think you decided that you didn't
want to do that anyway, we're talking about this because
Bachelorette is in Colorado. Then this other text, Dan, stick
to politics. You lost your sports credibility when you predicted
that Sanders is going to have the Buffs in the playoffs.
Are two years fascinating. So that must mean there are
no sports experts in Denver, because every single sports expert
(28:39):
in Denver, pick one, including all the former players. They
have been wrong on occasion too, But I'll put my
batting average up against anybody. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 9 (28:58):
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Speaker 3 (29:08):
I want to try to get as many text in
as I can. Quick heads up going to deep dive
this on Monday. I hope you're here for it. And
that is our friends at the Denver Post. I think
a fundamentally unfair, unsupported, and dangerous editorial attacking Ice. The
(29:28):
headline is Ice is lawlessly detaining Colorado's the judicial branch
is our only hope. When it comes to the danger
piece of it, It's this first line that's that's my
biggest concern.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
The rest of it.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Listen, we can disagree on the most profound issues of
the day without our opponent creating some danger because they
disagree with us. So I don't play that card. The
left plays that card all the time. When I've got
a winning point and they can't rebut it, they come
out and say, oh, it's dangerous to say that, because
that's just what they go to. But here you can
(30:03):
see the danger. Listen to this first line from this editorial.
Federal immigration officials are out of control in America's third
branch of government needs to rein in the gross abuse
of power on display in Colorado and across the nation. Listen,
when a major newspaper and the Denver Post, I mean,
we have different political ideologies. There are a lot of
talented people who work there. It's a major newspaper. When
(30:26):
a major newspaper comes out and says ice is out
of control, federal officers are out of control, that is
unnecessary danger creation. First of all, it's a sloppy, intellectually sloppy,
way over broad statement. But that's part of the danger creation.
Is for a major newspaper to come out and say, hey,
(30:48):
federal immigration officials are out of control. You know at
this point that the first of all, it's not accurate.
It's you may believe that this policy or this officer
or whatever, but federal immigration officials as a whole are
out of control, so all of ICE is out of control.
That's a sloppy, intellectually juvenile statement to make, but you
(31:10):
know it's made against the backdrop of a lot of
nut jobs out there, and talk about green lighting nutjobs.
When a major paper makes a statement like that federal
immigration officials are out of control, yes, I just think
it's intellectually sloppy, and it's fundamentally unfair, and it is
(31:30):
creating additional danger. I think it's wrong on every level.
And Monday we'll dig into some of the details and
you'll see it's just not fair. It's just not fair
in terms of the facts. Did they not know certain
facts such as you can arrest someone Ice can arrest
somebody outside of their home without a warrant. Did the
post just not know that or did they decide to
(31:53):
deprive the listener of that critical fact in order to
make the listener more angry or the reader in their case. Okay,
let's get to us in texts before we wrap up
the show today. One of the big issues, of course,
has been how do we get to this point where
Colorado is its deepest shade of blue? Ever, how did
the Colorado GOP get to this point? Great Caller earlier
(32:15):
talking about the major demographic shift true, Dick Wadhams has
documented that very well, and legalization of marijuana was part
of the plan of the left to rig that shift.
Texter Dan, I think the Republican GOP has the view
of being old people, and that does not appeal to
the young voters who don't remember history because they never
(32:36):
learned it properly. If the Texter is talking about the
stereotype of the GOP just being old white people who
don't care about the poor, the vulnerable, the week, the defenseless,
you're right that STEREO's out there. As a former Democrat,
I can tell you that STEREO's out there is stereotype.
Pardon me, it's the stereotype I had of the GOP
(32:57):
before I actually became active than the GOP learned that
stereotype is freaking backwards, and so yeah, that is the
stereotype that's out there. That ryan not absolutely stunning to me.
I never would have believed it until I joined the
GOP out of desperation. You know, I was a lifelong Democrat,
(33:20):
never imagined I'd be part of the GOP. But then
the Democratic Party whacked out the way it whacked out
and just became the whole death Star thing and lead
from behind and all that other garbage. And then so
I joined the GOP out of desperation because you want
to have an impact, and the Republican Party had it
right on life and some other major issues. But then
(33:40):
I got to know the people, and I never in
a million years would have believed that that conservatives members
of the Republican Party overall were as an even more caring.
They were more concerned, they were more sympathetic to you know,
the underprivileged, you know, to people of color, to people
who aren't getting a fair shake. And it was just
(34:03):
one of the great revelations of my life. And conservatism
is actually a way to accomplish good things for all
those people. So have a tremendous weekend. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Ryan.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
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