12-10-25 *INTERVIEW* Republican Candidate for Governor Victor Marx In Studio pt 1

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am very, very pleased to be joined in studio
by a guy who I've wanted to talk to for
some time. His name is Victor Marx and he is,
among other things, a candidate for governor here in the
state of Colorado. But when I say among other things,
those other things are by themselves really really interesting, and

(00:22):
quite a few people, a lot of my friends and
listeners are you know, Republicans.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Maybe to my right.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
I've got a lot of emails about you saying like
you should talk to this guy.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
So glad to have you here. Thanks for having me.
Tell us just a.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Little bit about you, and then Gina and I will
both you know, ask you things about your life and
about politics, and we'll just have some fun.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Well, I'm excited to actually be in the race. And
today I'm celebrating my thirty seventh wedding anniversary.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Congratulations, Thank you man.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
And I've been a number of countries around the world
with my humanitaris and work, and I've always had a
heart for helping people who suffered from trauma, and it
just kind of grew after my time in the Marine Corps.
It grew to I think we're best known for rescuing, recovering,
or facilitating rescues of women and children from ISIS overseas.

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That's where we've been doing a lot of work for
the last decade.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
Victor, I know you're founder of All Things Possible ministries
like you mentioned, but I think we even need to
take a couple steps back. I know, to really ask
how'd you get here and summarize that in a couple
of minutes is really hard, But tell us a little
bit about your upbringing and what actually brought you to
finding that ministry.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, well, I come from a challenge background. As a kid,
I was abused.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Mainly by a stepfather but others, and I was left
for dead and commercial cooler. It required one hundred and
twenty three visits to a trauma specialists. And I'm very
open about my past and the abuse as a child.
And people say, were your victim? I said, no, I
was victimized. They go, your survivor. I was, But I'm

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a thriver, so I've learned to My whole life has
been doing what things, doing things people absolutely don't think
I could. And again, my greatest accomplishment is being married
thirty seven years today with five children and five grandkids.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Just my parents were both Navy, but I grew up
on Camp Pendleton. Give me a few seconds about serving
in the marineas.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Right there, I was in eighty three to eighty six
under President Reagan. I tell the young lawyers, we used
muskets and horses back then. I started off as a
calm guy because in high school I actually did radio.
I worked for one hundred thousand wt FM station kaj
N and Crowley, Louisiana. Then I moved to television for

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a short bit of time. Yeah, I've always just again
on camera on were you on TV? Or behind scenes
audio director? Then back when we were rolling mash On Film,
you know, the TV show. And then I did write
news stories and I did a few voiceovers, but it

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made me sound like a nine year old girl, so
I had to wait till every peabty amazing Victor.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Okay, I'm gonna ask this question pretty blunt, and the
pawn is intended talking about the elephant in the room
in Colorado?

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Do Republicans have a chance?

Speaker 3 (03:34):
I would say before me no, and I'm just being honest.
The party has been highly dysfunctional, and I'm not a politician.
Someone tried to pin me to that, saying, well, you're
a politician. Now it's a normal leader. We studied in
an analysis of the Republican situation here, and frankly, it

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was so bad, both the state of affairs in Colorado
and then an aspect of the party itself. That's when
my wife and I had to decide, Oh, we're gonna
leave like so many others, or do we step into
the fray? And I looked at every other candidate, hoping
someone had a chance to win, and they just don't.

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So me being an outsider, me not being although people
try to pat me everything far right, I'm not believe me.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
I've spoken at Marlago.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
I appreciate President Trump's leadership, but I'm a common sense
person who i may be a Republican card carrying, but
I'm independent my way of thinking because I think common
sense should rule the day, not politics over people, and
certainly not a party.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
We're talking with Victor Marx. I'll give you a couple
of websites, Victor Marx dot com. It's mr X not
chas Victor Marx dot com or Victor twenty twenty six
dot com listeners. If you had a question for Victor
Marx text it in at five sixty six nine zero.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
I don't promise to ask every question, but.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
If you send a good question, there's a good chance
you'll hear it asked a Victor on the air five
six six nine zero. So I'd like to kind of
follow up on what Gene asked you. So what Gene
asked you is more of a general election question.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Which I think is a huge question.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
You know, it's a pretty blue state, so we'll see
how that plays out. But in order to get there,
you'd have to win Republican primary.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
And I generally don't and won't now.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Mention names of any other Republicans who might be running
because I'm here talking to you right now. But what
do you think it is that would cause you to
appeal to the people who participate in Republican primaries, which
could be Republican base voters and also could be unaffiliated
voters like me who will participate in the Republican primary.

(05:56):
You know, give me your best elevator pitch. I like
prime numbers, so give me your best twenty nine seconds
on why I.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Who don't know very much about you and.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Libertarian leaning, let's say, ye, why should I vote for you.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Well, One, I have the ability to bring the party together,
to energize the Republicans, and three attract independent voice for
the votes, and finally raise the money that's needed to win.
And I'm leading in all those areas right now. There
are thousands of people who have contacted us and said
I'm independent or a disenfranchised Republican or haven't voted in years,

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and I am now. So we outraised opponents financially in
the first three weeks. We have people that have swarmed
us so much so every place I've gone and spoken,
it's standing room only.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
I will not You know, I have the ability to.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Bring groups together because like you who traveled the world,
I spend a lot of time bringing Sunny and she
Hit together. And if I can do that, I can
certainly do in the Republican Party and ging independance and
actually probably a few of the Democrats as well.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Interesting, all right, I'll tell you what, if you don't mind,
I'd like to ask you to stick around, and Gene
and I both have other things we'd like to talk
to you about. This is great, So we're just going
to have just a very short pause here. That's just
for news, weather, and traffic, and then we're going to
continue the conversation with Victor Marx. He is seeking the

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Republican nomination for governor here in Colorado. If you have
a question for Victor, please text it to us at
five six six nine zero