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Speaker 2: Basically, back to work for everybody after the holiday weekend,
Speaker 2: including myself, and back to work for Dan. I think
Speaker 2: he's in trial today from the trial prep he was
Speaker 2: doing last week when I filled in, So I think
Speaker 2: I'll be covering for Dan today and tomorrow, and he'll
Speaker 2: probably be back in studio Wednesday or Thursday. I don't
Speaker 2: know for sure, but that's the way trial work goes,
Speaker 2: and fortunately I don't do that work. I just do
Speaker 2: the prep work to prepare people to go to trial,
Speaker 2: sometimes or arrest them before they go to trial, I
Speaker 2: guess is a better way of saying it. Two different
Speaker 2: kinds of law that are practiced. Dan does a lot
Speaker 2: of civil law. I have my realm in the criminal
Speaker 2: law side, but sometimes they cross over. So anyways, Dan
Speaker 2: will be back with you at some point this week,
Speaker 2: just not exactly sure what day that is. Coming off
Speaker 2: of the holiday weekend. Boy, it's tough to get back
Speaker 2: into the workflow. I had a four day weekend, as
Speaker 2: many of you probably did, but it was a great
Speaker 2: busy weekend as I hope many of you have had
Speaker 2: the same experience with fireworks and celebrating Independence Day, and
Speaker 2: we'll get to a little bit of that. But I
Speaker 2: think it would only be, I guess, disrespectful to not
Speaker 2: cover the news of the weekend, which is the events
Speaker 2: down in Texas, down in Kerrville, Texas, with the massive
Speaker 2: flooding that has taken place down there and the loss
Speaker 2: of life count I think is up to around ninety
Speaker 2: four now, with obviously many more bodies that will probably
Speaker 2: be discovered over the days and weeks to come. And
Speaker 2: that's just a tragic incident. And unfortunately it's being made
Speaker 2: political by certain individuals on both sides of the aisle.
Speaker 2: You know, there's Democrats that are blaming Trump and there
Speaker 2: are Republicans that are blaming you know, the previous administration.
Speaker 2: When ultimately this comes down to an act of God,
Speaker 2: and whether we like it or not, you know, sometimes
Speaker 2: you just can't. You can't beat mother Nature. She plays
Speaker 2: the ultimate card sometimes, and you know, I spent some
Speaker 2: time in that area of Texas in two thousand and
Speaker 2: five attending Polygraph School down in Austin and the Guadalupe River,
Speaker 2: you know, it runs right through that area between Austin
Speaker 2: and San Antonio and up from the Curveville area. So
Speaker 2: on the weekends we would go and float that river.
Speaker 2: The students in my class, you know, trying to get
Speaker 2: away from Polygraph School, which is a son of a gun.
Speaker 2: If I'm sure there's not many of you out there
Speaker 2: that have ever gone through it, but it's an eleven
Speaker 2: week school and it's it's full time. I mean, there's
Speaker 2: no there's no joke about it. It's it's a tough
Speaker 2: class to go through. So on the weekends we try
Speaker 2: to unwind a little bit. And it's a big thing
Speaker 2: down in that area. To go float the Guadalupe River.
Speaker 2: You go down and rent tubes. You can rent a
Speaker 2: cooler that's on a tube also, you know, load it
Speaker 2: up with your favorite beverage and float down the river
Speaker 2: for a few hours. And you know, most parts of
Speaker 2: that river, and I've floated many, many my of it
Speaker 2: over the weekends that we went down there. Most parts
Speaker 2: of that river you can get out of your tube,
Speaker 2: touch the ground. You know, it's maybe five or six
Speaker 2: feet deep at the most. A few places where it
Speaker 2: gets deeper, but oftentimes you're picking up your tube and
Speaker 2: you're walking it along the creek because there's just not
Speaker 2: enough water for you to float certain areas. And so
Speaker 2: when you see this video, you know a lot of
Speaker 2: people say, well, why would you build a house that
Speaker 2: close to the river. You know, why were they camped
Speaker 2: that close to the river. It's just uncommon for anything
Speaker 2: like this to occur. But where that rain hit was
Speaker 2: right in the hill country around Kerrville. And when they
Speaker 2: say hill country in Texas, you know, it's kind of
Speaker 2: small mountain ranges if you will, and they're very rocky.
Speaker 2: They're not going to absorb a lot of water. And
Speaker 2: when it rains, it rains hard and fast down in
Speaker 2: that area. And you basically just had a funnel effect
Speaker 2: that went into the Guadalupe River, with accounts being that
Speaker 2: that river rose as much as twenty four to twenty
Speaker 2: six feet in an hour's time frame. Well, no matter
Speaker 2: how much warning you give people, that kind of act
Speaker 2: from Mother and Nate is just unbelievable. And I think
Speaker 2: the top of the river got up to thirty two
Speaker 2: feet at its crest, to kind of tie that back
Speaker 2: into the local area. In twenty thirteen, we had the
Speaker 2: floods in Boulder and Larimer and Weld County and then
Speaker 2: out to the east, and I think the highest the
Speaker 2: flood levels got during that time was eleven feet and
Speaker 2: we had three days to kind of see that flood coming.
Speaker 2: And you know, there's still a lot of property damage,
Speaker 2: but I don't believe I don't remember any loss of life,
Speaker 2: not at least in Weld County. There may have been
Speaker 2: a few people that were taken by the tragedy in
Speaker 2: Boulder County, if memory serves me right, But regardless, nothing
Speaker 2: like what we're seeing in Texas. I mean, you got
Speaker 2: ninety four kids, twenty or ninety four people missing, twenty
Speaker 2: seven of them from the Mystic Ranch Christian camp. I mean,
Speaker 2: these are seven to nine or ten year olds that
Speaker 2: were swept away in the middle of the night from
Speaker 2: a cabin that they thought they were safely sleeping in.
Speaker 2: It's just a tragedy all the way around. While we
Speaker 2: always hope that these things don't get made political, obviously
Speaker 2: they will, and that's the unfortunateness of where we're at
Speaker 2: in this state of the world. At this point. But
Speaker 2: you know, we have to pray for those people and
Speaker 2: hope that hope that some survivors are still found, and
Speaker 2: hope that the people that are left behind, you know,
Speaker 2: they can figure out a way to move on with
Speaker 2: their lives. And uh, just such a tragic situation. And
Speaker 2: for the people in that area, like I said, that
Speaker 2: Guadalupe River is a major it's a major issue, a
Speaker 2: major part of their culture. That's that's part of their recreation,
Speaker 2: that's part of just kind of their daily lives of
Speaker 2: what they do and where they go camp and you know,
Speaker 2: float the river and all that kind of stuff. So, man,
Speaker 2: you just hope for recovering that community. It's a very
Speaker 2: sad time. And those of us who have been through
Speaker 2: some other natural disaster understand that sometimes you just you're
Speaker 2: just at the whim of mother nature and it's unfortunate.
Speaker 2: That being said, if you have comments you'd like to
Speaker 2: make about the incident, feel free you can text in
Speaker 2: at text Dan at five seven seven three nine, or
Speaker 2: you can call in a three O three seven one
Speaker 2: three eight two five five and we can definitely discuss
Speaker 2: the similarities of that incident to what we've seen here
Speaker 2: in the past and even back in I think it
Speaker 2: was nineteen seventy six when the Thompson Canyon flooded, you know,
Speaker 2: down from Estes Park through Larimer County and again out
Speaker 2: into other parts of the Eastern Plains. I think from
Speaker 2: what I'm seeing here from a text from last week,
Speaker 2: that took about one hundred and twenty lives. And you
Speaker 2: know that you look at where they're at at the
Speaker 2: with the issue in Texas today, and it's probably going
Speaker 2: to be much worse than than where it is at
Speaker 2: this point obviously, But you know, that's the bad news
Speaker 2: over the weekend, and you know, you always look at
Speaker 2: tragedy and say, we gotta we got to deal with
Speaker 2: it head on and at least acknowledge that it exists.
Speaker 2: But we also had our Independence Day celebrations over the weekend,
Speaker 2: and John Caldera in the previous show on the Ryan
Speaker 2: Schuling Show was talking about, you know, popping fire works
Speaker 2: and doing all the fun stuff, and that's what That's
Speaker 2: what I really hope you guys will call in and
Speaker 2: talk about. Are those things that anchor you to the
Speaker 2: Independence Day weekend? What is it that is just part
Speaker 2: of your tradition that you say, you know, I got
Speaker 2: to do this thing, and for me, I got to
Speaker 2: check off a whole lot of those boxes this last weekend.
Speaker 2: It was. It was quite a busy weekend, you know.
Speaker 2: I will say there was a new tradition that was added.
Speaker 2: Trump signed the Big Beautiful Bill on July fourth and
Speaker 2: did so with a lot of fanfare, B two flyovers,
Speaker 2: you name it. I don't know if that's something to
Speaker 2: celebrate or something to worry about. At this point, the
Speaker 2: Big Beautiful Bill has been signed and we're all going
Speaker 2: to see what the ramifications of that bill are. It's
Speaker 2: caused Elon Musk to kind of lose his mind a
Speaker 2: little bit. He started his own American Political Party or
Speaker 2: America Political Party. I don't know exactly what he aims
Speaker 2: to gain with that, but he's involved in politics now
Speaker 2: and we're probably going to see him around for quite
Speaker 2: some time. So we'll say he's been triggered from the
Speaker 2: signing of the Big Beautiful Bill and the passage of
Speaker 2: the Big Beautiful Bill. But regardless, that's not a tradition
Speaker 2: of the fourth of July. That's kind of a one off.
Speaker 3: For me.
Speaker 2: It was the chance to take my thirteen year old
Speaker 2: up to see his grandmother and his step grandfather up
Speaker 2: in Nebraska and pop fireworks for hours. My mom and
Speaker 2: stepdad went out and bought I don't know how many
Speaker 2: dollars worth of fireworks, and then when we got there,
Speaker 2: of course that wasn't enough, so my thirteen year old
Speaker 2: had to hop in the truck with his step grandpa
Speaker 2: and go out and buy some more fireworks because you know,
Speaker 2: five hundred dollars worth wasn't enough, so we needed up
Speaker 2: that to have her much more. And they had an arsenal.
Speaker 2: So between my thirteen year old son and my nephew,
Speaker 2: I think they popped fireworks NonStop for about two hours
Speaker 2: in what looked like a war zone out of a
Speaker 2: out of Fallujah, and you looked at the scenery of
Speaker 2: everybody else that was popping fireworks. And again that was
Speaker 2: in Nebraska, so what we were doing was legal in
Speaker 2: that particular state because they still believe in some tenets
Speaker 2: of democracy, I guess, unlike Colorado, where everything's illegal if
Speaker 2: it has any risk to it whatsoever, it seems. So
Speaker 2: I had to take my kid out of state so
Speaker 2: he could experience fireworks and have a chance to connect
Speaker 2: with his youth. But we also did some rodeos. I
Speaker 2: went to the Greeley Stampede Parade on the fourth of July,
Speaker 2: walked with some political candidates supporting Matt Turner to replace
Speaker 2: me as the Weld County Sheriff. I went to a
Speaker 2: Parker McCollum concert at the Greeley Stampede, which was so
Speaker 2: and also did our family tradition of attending the demolition
Speaker 2: derby at the Greeley Stampede on July sixth, which is
Speaker 2: just Americana all in and of itself, because who doesn't like
Speaker 2: watching cars intentionally crash into each other and knock the
Speaker 2: snot out of one another for hours? And I think
Speaker 2: one heat in particular, the Unlimited Class or something like that,
Speaker 2: there were thirty two cars and they went for a
Speaker 2: full hour before they finally got down to just one car.
Speaker 2: It was a marathon, but it was a great weekend. Again,
Speaker 2: got a chance to reconnect with some family up in Nebraska,
Speaker 2: pop fireworks, have a great time. What are your traditions?
Speaker 2: What are the things that you got to check off
Speaker 2: the box every year on the fourth of July before
Speaker 2: you can officially say that you've celebrated your Independence Day. Correctly.
Speaker 3: Hold on, I have a question.
Speaker 1: I thought you were going to a rodeo.
Speaker 2: Well, I did go to a rodeo. I went to
Speaker 2: a rodeo. Yeah, we checked off the stampede, all of
Speaker 2: it checked off everything. Cowboys, you know that's not the thing. Yes,
Speaker 2: you can't have a rodeo with a.
Speaker 4: Different reaction to cowboys.
Speaker 1: Probably you do.
Speaker 2: Well, then you should probably come up to the stampede
Speaker 2: or twice I have been. So it was great. I
Speaker 2: mean they have, you know, all the all the traditional
Speaker 2: events and then you know, a little bit of bull
Speaker 2: riding at the end. That was tough. Not too many
Speaker 2: bull could make it. In fact, I think only one
Speaker 2: had a qualifying run, so obviously he won for the night.
Speaker 3: Did they do mutton bus They did.
Speaker 2: That during one of the slow times, and that's the best, right, My.
Speaker 1: Kids did it at the National stock shows.
Speaker 2: It's the best vagonal Western stocks. They should just make
Speaker 2: an event totally for that age brackets and all that
Speaker 2: instead of a feeling. It's so much fun to watch
Speaker 2: and those kids get so excited, you know, they make
Speaker 2: it five six seconds on the on the sheep, and man,
Speaker 2: they're just they're pumped, you know, jumping up and kicking
Speaker 2: the dirt. Yeah, it's great. So those are our Fourth
Speaker 2: of July, my family's Fourth of July traditions. But what
Speaker 2: are yours? You know, I know sometimes you guys are
Speaker 2: a little shy, but you can text in text Dan
Speaker 2: at five seven, seven, three nine or call in three
Speaker 2: O three seven one three eight two five five. Today's show,
Speaker 2: we're also going to cover kind of some of the
Speaker 2: out of the box stuff. You know. I told you guys,
Speaker 2: I always like to try to get the governor's candidates on.
Speaker 2: So we're going to have one who I think has
Speaker 2: done some interviews on our sister station over at eight fifty.
Speaker 2: His name's Joshua Griffin. He'll be on with us at
Speaker 2: four thirty six. He's got a pretty extensive website. I'd
Speaker 2: encourage you to go take a look at it before
Speaker 2: we have him on for the show, just so you
Speaker 2: can kind of get some background text in some questions
Speaker 2: you might want to want to ask of him, And
Speaker 2: you know, we'll kind of prep for that in our
Speaker 2: next little segment before before we have josh on. With that,
Speaker 2: we'll cut to break. When we come back, hopefully your
Speaker 2: text and your phone calls will start lining up and
Speaker 2: we'll engage with you guys and say, all right, how
Speaker 2: are we going to get our next governor's candidate in
Speaker 2: the seat? And also what is that thing you got
Speaker 2: to have for the fourth of July in order to
Speaker 2: just say I had a successful holiday. We'll cut to break.
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Dan Capless Show here on six
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Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Or substitute today. As Dan's off doing some trial work,
Speaker 2: be here today and tomorrow, and I think Dan will
Speaker 2: be back with you Wednesday or Thursday. I'm only committed
Speaker 2: for the first two days of the week. So if
Speaker 2: you just got to survive my time on the radio
Speaker 2: and wait for Dan to get back, that's what you
Speaker 2: got to look forward to.
Speaker 1: Stop He's on Thursday.
Speaker 3: Okay, fair enough, We've got you for the next two days,
Speaker 3: which is awesome.
Speaker 2: And then we have Heidiganal okay, well there's quite a
Speaker 2: change in pace, so we can go Yeah, that's cool. Heidi.
Speaker 2: You's always got an interesting message or two. She kind
Speaker 2: of goes around in the bigger circles of the Washington
Speaker 2: d C. Stuff. So who knows. We'll see what her
Speaker 2: show has to bring on Wednesday, but I will not
Speaker 2: be here that day. You got me Monday and Tuesday,
Speaker 2: and then hopefully Dan's back. After that. We went to break.
Speaker 2: We were talking a little bit about holiday traditions. What
Speaker 2: do you got to do in order to make your
Speaker 2: Fourth of July complete? And apparently you guys, you're not
Speaker 2: real engaged in that issue. So we'll switch gears. Let's
Speaker 2: go to something that I think will trigger you guys
Speaker 2: for sure, and that's the Epstein files. So you know,
Speaker 2: for years we've been told that, hey, Jeffrey Epstein didn't
Speaker 2: kill himself, and there's a bunch of folks who have said,
Speaker 2: I think you probably did. I can tell you as
Speaker 2: a person who runs a prison or a jail, there
Speaker 2: were some circumstances around Jeffrey Epstein's death that made me think, eh,
Speaker 2: you know, they definitely had a very unlikely calamity of errors,
Speaker 2: with guards falling asleep, cameras not working, all those kind
Speaker 2: of things. It just it seemed very we'll say, concerning
Speaker 2: that all those things could line up. And then you
Speaker 2: had cash Patel and others who were coming out in
Speaker 2: the news. Dan Bongino back in the day saying, oh,
Speaker 2: it's definitely you know, the evidence shows that this was
Speaker 2: a This was not a suicide. It was a homicide
Speaker 2: or some other weird kind of death. And as the
Speaker 2: presidency is kind of unfolded, you know, Donald Trump has
Speaker 2: hinted that through Pam Bondy they were going to release
Speaker 2: a list. We were going to see all this stuff.
Speaker 2: And I think Dan did a couple of shows, maybe
Speaker 2: even a couple of days back to back, where it
Speaker 2: was brought up of where's the list, And I know
Speaker 2: Ryan's been beating the table. Where's the list. We want
Speaker 2: to see the list. I want to see the list.
Speaker 2: And it's hard for me to believe someone like Jeffrey Epstein,
Speaker 2: who's accused of all the horrific things that he did,
Speaker 2: and you know, having sex with people under age and
Speaker 2: holding them captive potentially on his island, and just some
Speaker 2: really grotesque things. I've watched a few documentaries about him
Speaker 2: that just make you scratch your head how someone like
Speaker 2: that could exist in the world, and how he got
Speaker 2: to where he is, and how he got connected with
Speaker 2: so many people other than you know, just the pure money. Well,
Speaker 2: now we find out that there is no list, or
Speaker 2: that's what we're told today. There is no list, and
Speaker 2: there's video footage that monitor Jeffrey Epstein for like the
Speaker 2: last eleven hours leading up to his death, and there's
Speaker 2: nothing suspicious about his death. And that's coming from from
Speaker 2: the current administration, through Pam Bondi, Cash Betel. What say
Speaker 2: you as the listener? Do you where do you fall
Speaker 2: on this issue? And is it even a concern anymore?
Speaker 2: Do you care? I have to tell you, as a
Speaker 2: law enforcement person, it makes me scratch my brain a
Speaker 2: little bit and say, all right, this was such a
Speaker 2: big political issue. We were all supposed to find out,
Speaker 2: you know, where's this, where's this smoking gun? Conservatives were
Speaker 2: triggered that we weren't getting the truth. And now we
Speaker 2: have conservatives in power who are saying no, that that
Speaker 2: was the truth, and we're all supposed to just swallow
Speaker 2: it and go on and it's no big deal. And again,
Speaker 2: I'm not big into conspiracy theories, but when you start
Speaker 2: looking at a series of events surrounding one person, it
Speaker 2: definitely definitely makes me concerned. And when we when we
Speaker 2: talk about triggering you know, there are a lot of
Speaker 2: Republicans that were just absolutely upset at the prior administration saying,
Speaker 2: you know this, this can't be true. You're not telling
Speaker 2: us the truth at all. And now you know the
Speaker 2: shoes on the other foot, and are we going to
Speaker 2: throw those same rocks back at this administration, the Trump administration,
Speaker 2: the cash betels, the Pam bondis. Where's this going to go?
Speaker 2: Do you belie leave that Jeffrey Epstein didn't have a list.
Speaker 2: You can text in text Dan at five seven seven,
Speaker 2: three nine or call in three o three seven one
Speaker 2: three eight two five y five. I'd really love to
Speaker 2: hear your opinion on this, because anybody who's doing that
Speaker 2: much nefarious activity, all the things that that that he
Speaker 2: was accused of doing, that Jeffrey Epstein was accused of doing,
Speaker 2: it's hard for me to believe that they can locate
Speaker 2: no evidence of who was at his island, there is
Speaker 2: no list. Suddenly it's gone. I mean, we we even
Speaker 2: have some flight logs showing who flew on his plane,
Speaker 2: the Lolita Express, but suddenly we don't have a client list.
Speaker 2: That just I don't know something. Something isn't right in
Speaker 2: the world in my mind there, And again, is it
Speaker 2: a national Is it a national security issue?
Speaker 1: Not?
Speaker 2: Probably?
Speaker 3: Not.
Speaker 2: I mean, this guy was a disgusting pervert. But we
Speaker 2: also know that there were a lot of folks connected
Speaker 2: to him, to include some former presidents, and of course
Speaker 2: Trump was accused of being connected to him in some ways,
Speaker 2: at least having flown on his plane a few times.
Speaker 2: There's also a lot of evidence that Trump, once he
Speaker 2: figured out what Jeffrey Epstein was all about, he said,
Speaker 2: I don't want you anywhere around my clubs. Stay away.
Speaker 2: But again, you know, this new administration is telling us
Speaker 2: there's nothing to see here, move on, And I can't
Speaker 2: believe that conservatives are just going to take that and
Speaker 2: believe it. So we'll have plenty of time to talk
Speaker 2: about that as well throughout the rest of the show.
Speaker 2: We're going to cut the break. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we'll have a governor's candidate, Joshua Griffin on with us.
Speaker 2: And again, you know, this is a chance for candidates
Speaker 2: to have a little bit of a platform. We'll see
Speaker 2: what all josh is about. If you're listening to The
Speaker 2: Dankplace Show here on six point thirty k How with
Speaker 2: Well Kenny Sheriff Steve Raims setting in and as your
Speaker 2: guest host.
Speaker 4: You're listening to the Dan Plus Show podcast.
Speaker 2: And I love that Bumper music because that's actually one
Speaker 2: of my favorite songs by r Em. I can remember
Speaker 2: listening to that with my dad when that song first
Speaker 2: came out. In fact, my wife and I were talking
Speaker 2: about that song not too long ago and just kind
Speaker 2: of the goofiness of it. But for whatever reason, it
Speaker 2: caught fired and it was great. So enough of that.
Speaker 2: But we have with us on the line another candidate
Speaker 2: for governor. I think we've gone through about eleven or
Speaker 2: twelve of them at this point, because there's a field
Speaker 2: of fifteen. And that's not to speak light of any
Speaker 2: of the candidates. We want all of them to have
Speaker 2: a platform to send their message out to the listeners.
Speaker 2: But with us on the line is Joshua Griffin. Josh
Speaker 2: how are you doing?
Speaker 3: Thank you for having me?
Speaker 2: You bet Joshua? If you would is Joshuacare? Do you
Speaker 2: prefer Joshua?
Speaker 3: It's fine either way. I'm from the military.
Speaker 2: Okay, you've been called a lot of things. Then, yeah,
Speaker 2: I know the feeling from being in law enforcement, so
Speaker 2: you know, kind of what's a little bit about your background,
Speaker 2: informed the listeners about you know, who you are, kind
Speaker 2: of where you come from, and maybe what made you
Speaker 2: start looking at this race.
Speaker 3: Yeah, certainly so. I mean this is always the worst
Speaker 3: part about running for offices talking about yourself, right, but yeah,
Speaker 3: just keep it plain and simple. Born and raised in Houston, Texas.
Speaker 3: Come from a military family, very proud patriots, and joined
Speaker 3: the military. Did auswe years, majority of that with special operations.
Speaker 3: The main unit was with the one sixtieth Nights Soccers.
Speaker 3: Retired as a infantry officer and currently I am a
Speaker 3: I guess you would say a tech company owner where
Speaker 3: we do a lot of innovative technology, really saying our
Speaker 3: main target audience is the military. Why am I running
Speaker 3: for office is because, I mean I'm not to be
Speaker 3: critical or just be mean towards the other candidates, but
Speaker 3: I mean I really believe that we're the only ones
Speaker 3: that have a chance in the general and quite frankly,
Speaker 3: you know, we are the only ones that actually have
Speaker 3: a plan not only how to win, but to bring
Speaker 3: this state back to some sense of normalcy and in
Speaker 3: national dominance.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I looked at your web page quite a
Speaker 2: bit Josh, and again thank you for your service to
Speaker 2: the US military. You were in the army. I believe so,
Speaker 2: and looking through your page, you've put a lot of
Speaker 2: work into it, There's no doubt about it. What would
Speaker 2: you say your top few priorities if elected or when
Speaker 2: elected as governor? Uh? You know what, what are those
Speaker 2: things you're going to focus on for the state of Colorado?
Speaker 3: Well, when elected, I am definitely going to first and
Speaker 3: foremost take a step back and look at everything that
Speaker 3: I personally can do without the legislature and whatever I
Speaker 3: can streamline cut with it, you know, use of spending
Speaker 3: in the budget, fluff positions. That's gonna be the first thing,
Speaker 3: and also make sure that we bring in a strong
Speaker 3: administration with us. The second thing gets just normal stuff.
Speaker 3: But I think every governor should be be doing. You know,
Speaker 3: let's look at the books to make sure everything is
Speaker 3: good on that and then that's at the same time,
Speaker 3: let's restore our constitutional rights, you know, and the things
Speaker 3: that have been happening right now. But again I can't
Speaker 3: stress that that's not just a governor's position, it's going
Speaker 3: to be ours because we definitely have to start fighting
Speaker 3: to put more common sense people in the legislature, but
Speaker 3: also make sure that the AG that gets elected, would
Speaker 3: that be somebody who is willing to play lawfare just
Speaker 3: because they have a crop with the president.
Speaker 2: Sure, I understand that the stuff that our current AG
Speaker 2: is doing right now is kind of mind numbing at times.
Speaker 2: So you're basically looking at doing a little bit of
Speaker 2: a doge if I will, for the state of Colorado
Speaker 2: as the governor, you want to clean up spending. So
Speaker 2: from that point, you know you want to focus on
Speaker 2: government efficiency. If I'm not putting words in your mouth,
Speaker 2: but what are some of the ways that you see
Speaker 2: turning Colorado in a different direction? I mean, how do
Speaker 2: we get back on a path where the common voter
Speaker 2: feels like they have someone representing them in their own interests.
Speaker 3: Well, stop playing partisan politics. Number one starts understanding that
Speaker 3: when you are elected to represent the people of Colorado,
Speaker 3: you're not supposed to be beholding to the party first.
Speaker 3: And I know that sounds weird. It sounds, well, well,
Speaker 3: you know what about the Democrats. Well, I don't care
Speaker 3: about the Democrats. What I care about is the people.
Speaker 3: And if we learn to actually address people as the
Speaker 3: person that they are instead of the party they represent.
Speaker 3: I'm almost assured that we will be able to come
Speaker 3: to some kind of common ground. They will allow both
Speaker 3: Democrats and Republicans divorce themselves from the far fringes of
Speaker 3: each been separate parties.
Speaker 2: Well, on your web page, you decide are you define
Speaker 2: yourself as I think you said, a center right type person,
Speaker 2: not necessarily on any of the fringe areas, not extreme
Speaker 2: right wing or obviously not le left wing, which is
Speaker 2: probably what has to resonate in the state of Colorado.
Speaker 2: But I guess the secondary part of that is how
Speaker 2: do you get out to those voters who are unaffiliated?
Speaker 2: How do you get your message out to Republican voters
Speaker 2: because we know that in the past, our current Governor
Speaker 2: Polis has just written checks in order to get his
Speaker 2: voice out there. Maybe you're independently wealthy like he is,
Speaker 2: but writing, you know, fifty million dollars worth of ad
Speaker 2: time is not something that most of us can do.
Speaker 2: So how do you break that barrier? How do you
Speaker 2: get your message out there? And what's your strategy?
Speaker 3: Well, we are very blessed financially here, so I mean
Speaker 3: we're not maybe fifty million dollars blessed yet but we
Speaker 3: are definitely blessed me and all compare, so we definitely
Speaker 3: have the funds to strategically go out there and you know,
Speaker 3: place ads to the voters themselves. But you know, quite
Speaker 3: frankly want to do is is that in the beginning
Speaker 3: of next year, we want to do a tour. We're
Speaker 3: gonna probably we're gonna start a podcast and we're gonna
Speaker 3: do a tour. We're gonna highlight the small businesses along
Speaker 3: the way. We're gonna go out to the rural counties.
Speaker 3: We're gonna actually go and talk to people and naturally
Speaker 3: not even talk to them, but listen to them. Because
Speaker 3: most politicians, and I don't consider myself want to consider
Speaker 3: myself a statesman. You know, all they want to do
Speaker 3: is tell you what they want to do. They don't
Speaker 3: really care what the people want to say, because nine
Speaker 3: times out of ten, once they get in office, they
Speaker 3: know who the real bosses. And that's gonna be the donors,
Speaker 3: and that's going to be the party establishment. We're not
Speaker 3: running on that. You know, I'm what you can say
Speaker 3: bad about polls or not, but I'm going to put
Speaker 3: my own money into this. And yes, we're going to fundraise.
Speaker 3: But more importantly, we're going to go to every place
Speaker 3: in Colorado. I'm talking to them, and yes they even
Speaker 3: includes the Progressive and in the Democrat domains as well,
Speaker 3: because guess what, when I become governor, we become the
Speaker 3: leader of the entire Colorado. So just because you belong
Speaker 3: to a different party, that doesn't mean I don't have
Speaker 3: your best interest in mind.
Speaker 2: So, so far in the race, I believe there's fifteen candidates,
Speaker 2: and that's not to say that there can't be more
Speaker 2: that get in or maybe a few that drop out.
Speaker 2: Have you been engaging in those those political debates, the
Speaker 2: political events, and if so, what kind of response are
Speaker 2: you getting?
Speaker 3: No, I have not to be quite frankly, and I
Speaker 3: don't want to be rude, but it's just worthless to
Speaker 3: build there because everybody's right now is just fighting to
Speaker 3: be you know, the parties, you know, a puppet or
Speaker 3: candidate right and let's be let's be h. You know
Speaker 3: the frank here that that doesn't work here in Colorado,
Speaker 3: the biggest population is unaffiliated, you know, And unfortunately, because
Speaker 3: of our past and our inability to actually market ourselves
Speaker 3: properly in speak to the voters, and what they want.
Speaker 3: The Republican Party has had such a tumultuous time that
Speaker 3: some would even say that the GOP is irrelevant at
Speaker 3: this point. So, no, we are running as Republicans, but
Speaker 3: you might want to say that we are operating as
Speaker 3: independent because we understand that the true boss in the
Speaker 3: state are the people, and so we're focusing on the
Speaker 3: people right now versus the party.
Speaker 2: So you're you're registered as a Republican, running as a
Speaker 2: Republican because that's the party that you most affiliate with
Speaker 2: as a as as far as values go. But you
Speaker 2: don't necessarily you don't necessarily believe in the machine. If
Speaker 2: you will, and I use that loosely in air quotes,
Speaker 2: that is the Republican Party. Is that Is that a
Speaker 2: fair statement?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I'm my own man, I stand on my own
Speaker 3: two feet. I don't I don't do anything based on
Speaker 3: someone's endorsement of me or my endorsement of another person.
Speaker 3: You vote for me, you're getting Joshua Joseph something something
Speaker 3: Griffin I got you.
Speaker 2: Well, that's a that's a non traditional approach, I'll say that.
Speaker 2: So that that tells me that your your plan is
Speaker 2: not necessarily to go through the state Assembly, but maybe
Speaker 2: more of the petitioner oute to access to the ballot.
Speaker 2: Is is that accurate or if you've made that decision yet?
Speaker 3: Yes, we ever made a decision, and the unfortunately I'm
Speaker 3: not saying anything that no one else knows. The party
Speaker 3: is in a disarray, you know, from the last chair.
Speaker 3: You know, no one has any no fidelity in integrity
Speaker 3: and the Venter party right now. So we're not going
Speaker 3: to go through that as Assembly. I would love to,
Speaker 3: but unfortunately I'm not going to put my time and
Speaker 3: effort in a place where, unfortunately it has been wanted
Speaker 3: for quite some time.
Speaker 2: So your your plan is to access the ballot through
Speaker 2: the through other means, the petition process, and go out
Speaker 2: directly to the voters, the Republicans. The Republican voters will
Speaker 2: be the ones that have to sign your petition. But
Speaker 2: you're trying to access every voter when you're out pounding
Speaker 2: the pavement. I guess, is that is that fair?
Speaker 3: That's true? No different in the general.
Speaker 2: Okay, So what kind of success, what kind of feedback
Speaker 2: are you having so far?
Speaker 3: Very very and quite frankly, it's it's a lot of
Speaker 3: great feedback from the unaffiliated independence that you know, they
Speaker 3: they like the understanding that someone is actually looking to
Speaker 3: run the state not as a party puppet, but as
Speaker 3: an executive, clearing unnecessary committees, putting directors, former leading you know,
Speaker 3: like even with water, right, let's talk about water. Everybody's
Speaker 3: going to talk about water and say, oh no, we
Speaker 3: just need to preserve height. We preserve what you don't get,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, So we're our ideas not preserved,
Speaker 3: but to increase same thing with taxes and funding and
Speaker 3: stuff like that. And when we can talk about the
Speaker 3: one point one billion dollars that you know have been
Speaker 3: just taken because of just bad governance and ilegal immigration,
Speaker 3: but also the solvent Wealth Fund where we actually will
Speaker 3: bring in you know, commerce and revenue, so we can
Speaker 3: eliminate income tax, we can lower property tax. We can
Speaker 3: also expand the living footprint of Colorado, thus increasing the
Speaker 3: supply and lessening the demand that will actually lower the
Speaker 3: calls for housing. We're coming this with a practical executive approach,
Speaker 3: and people actually are finding that very refreshing.
Speaker 2: Well, so you mentioned the legal immigration. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: a that's a topic that's going to be part of
Speaker 2: running for any any statewide seat in the state of Colorado.
Speaker 2: What do you think of the current administration's plan for
Speaker 2: removing illegal immigrants from the United States and specifically Colorado.
Speaker 3: One thousand percent behind it. But you know, let me
Speaker 3: let me prefence this with something that a lot of
Speaker 3: people have lost the understanding and definition of is nuanced. Yes,
Speaker 3: one thousand percent. We should not be putting people in
Speaker 3: front of the line who have not ever know, produced
Speaker 3: or given anything to our economy. That's number one. Number two.
Speaker 3: You know, you're in the law enforcement, I'm in the military.
Speaker 3: Pretty much is the same spirit, but in a different church.
Speaker 3: So we understand why are we prioritizing age fighting men
Speaker 3: to come to this country when they should be out
Speaker 3: there fighting for their own people. We definitely have salt
Speaker 3: hearts for women and children, right and I'm not always
Speaker 3: going to have a salt heart for women and children
Speaker 3: and find anything that's moral ethimately found in order to
Speaker 3: help them in any kind of way. But most importantly,
Speaker 3: you know, I'll say this, when my son had a one
Speaker 3: hundred and six degree temperature at the age of eighteen
Speaker 3: months and we went to UC Health emergency and their
Speaker 3: staff was barely there because they are prioritizing illegal pens
Speaker 3: over the citizens. You know, I look at him, and
Speaker 3: I look at these other beautiful babies and not saying
Speaker 3: that they're better than any other child. By how dare
Speaker 3: we prioritize somebody else and then put our own children
Speaker 3: at risk? So you dog, you dog on straight. I'm
Speaker 3: going to be fighting to go with the federal government
Speaker 3: to in a more ethical way and moral way get
Speaker 3: these people back home where they belong. But first and foremost,
Speaker 3: let's go just on the criminals first.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, I got you. I got you.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: So I guess that you don't necessarily agree with the
Speaker 2: governor Polus when he says Colorado is not a sanctuary state.
Speaker 2: I'm gathering that from your from your comments. Totally not Well,
Speaker 2: we had just a couple of seconds here. Josh finish
Speaker 2: out with telling the listeners how they can find you
Speaker 2: out in social media world Internet. How can people get
Speaker 2: a hold of you if they want to find out
Speaker 2: more about your campaign?
Speaker 3: Yes, please just visit us at j Griff for Colorado.
Speaker 3: That is J Griff g R I F F letter
Speaker 3: four c O. That's our Twitter or X handle. And
Speaker 3: also Joshua Griffin for the letter.
Speaker 4: Four c O.
Speaker 3: Is our website and we would love for you to
Speaker 3: look at it and just think about what Colorado can be,
Speaker 3: you know, when there's actually somebody who's looking for you
Speaker 3: and not trying to get into that office based on
Speaker 3: how much they love or hate somebody else.
Speaker 2: Well, thanks for the time, josh and good luck to
Speaker 2: you in this race. If I'm filling in in the future,
Speaker 2: we'll try to get you back on again again. Thanks
Speaker 2: for being on the show. And with that we're going
Speaker 2: to cut the break. You're listening to the Dan Capless
Speaker 2: Show here on six thirty k how with Will Kenny Sheriff,
Speaker 2: Steve Dreams.
Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Or Steve Reams. I just got done with our interview
Speaker 2: with Joshua Griffin, candidate for governor. Definitely an untraditional approach
Speaker 2: to his candidacy for governor, and you know his strategy
Speaker 2: for accessing the ballot. We'll see how successful that is.
Speaker 2: You know, I've run for political office a few times,
Speaker 2: and there's no succinct way of saying this, but you're
Speaker 2: going to need Republican voters and you definitely, if you're
Speaker 2: going to run as a Republican, you need the Republican voters,
Speaker 2: and sometimes that assembly process is the make or break
Speaker 2: for whether or not you're going to be taken seriously
Speaker 2: by your own party. But who knows. We haven't had
Speaker 2: a win in the governor's race or a statewide race
Speaker 2: even for the Republicans and quite some time, so maybe
Speaker 2: he's onto something. Also, before we had josh On, we
Speaker 2: were talking about the Epstein files and whether or not
Speaker 2: you believe the federal government's line of yep, you've seen
Speaker 2: everything and there's just nothing here. I can tell you.
Speaker 2: As a law enforcement person, I'm a bit skeptical, But
Speaker 2: you know, maybe I'm just wrong. It seems like either
Speaker 2: there was not either there wasn't a very good investigation
Speaker 2: done and evidence wasn't maintained the way it should have been,
Speaker 2: or we're all just filling in gaps that never were
Speaker 2: really there. I don't know, it just something doesn't seem
Speaker 2: quite right. But a few texts rolled in. One of
Speaker 2: our favorite listeners here, Steven Littlton says, Sheriff, I'd like
Speaker 2: to believe the current Epstein narrative, but I just feel
Speaker 2: there's much we're not being told. And man, that summarizes
Speaker 2: it great, Steve. I couldn't agree with you more. There
Speaker 2: just seems like there's some gaps here, and that sometimes
Speaker 2: happens in a big investigation. You know, things just get
Speaker 2: missed and the conclusion doesn't necessarily come out the way
Speaker 2: you thought it was going to. And maybe that's what
Speaker 2: we're seeing. I don't know. Here's another one, pretty pretty
Speaker 2: on point for the Epstein stuff. It says, where's the list,
Speaker 2: follow the money? He didn't do anything for income, but
Speaker 2: he was worth nearly a billion. And you know, the
Speaker 2: only thing I remember a little bit of Epstein's way
Speaker 2: of making money was he was a financier. He was
Speaker 2: an investor. He did some stuff with the owner of
Speaker 2: Victoria's secrets, and he started his own finance company of
Speaker 2: some kind. But never really could explain where his income
Speaker 2: came from. And I just, I don't know, something doesn't
Speaker 2: sound quite right. I'd love to make billions, almost well
Speaker 2: almost a billion or over a billion dollars and never
Speaker 2: really be able to explain where it came from. Wouldn't
Speaker 2: that be great? And then here's one a little bit
Speaker 2: of feedback about our governor's candidate. Like I said, you
Speaker 2: text them, We read them. This governor's candidate is a
Speaker 2: full Did he just insult all the people that work
Speaker 2: hard on the committee and he really should learn to
Speaker 2: speak proper English. If he's going to run for governor,
Speaker 2: well you send him, we'll read him. We're going to
Speaker 2: go to break. When we come back, we'll have Carlos
Speaker 2: Baron on with us at the top of the hour.
Speaker 2: He's going to be the new Republican whip down at
Speaker 2: the Statehouse. You're listening to Dan Cafleas show here on
Speaker 2: six point thirty k HOW with Well County Sheriff Steve Riams.