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Speaker 2: Dan, It's Heidi. Heidi ganall here filling in for Dan Capless.
Speaker 3: Very blessed to be with you on this Wednesday afternoons
Speaker 3: slash evening. Okay, Ryan, you're headed out to the ball game.
Speaker 3: Uh huh, who's gonna win?
Speaker 4: Tigers are going to sweep this series. I don't think
Speaker 4: that's breaking news of the best team in the American League.
Speaker 4: I'm very proud of them. And the Rockies, well, they're
Speaker 4: still trying to find themselves. My favorite part of the
Speaker 4: night though, I just got a text from your husband Jason,
Speaker 4: and he told me exactly where the locations were for GQ.
Speaker 4: They're on the upper level. Free advertising I'm doing. I
Speaker 4: don't care, Yeah, go right, I'm paying me, I'm paying them.
Speaker 4: I'm hiring them to do the catering for the wedding receptions.
Speaker 5: I think the Rockies are gonna do an upset get
Speaker 5: out of here.
Speaker 6: With that anyway.
Speaker 4: So GQ is directly behind home player level. Take your
Speaker 4: beagling go, but the third level directly behind plate. Jason
Speaker 4: Telly's like the main stand. Then there's another one that's
Speaker 4: a little bit further down. But he said go to
Speaker 4: the main one, and I thanked him for that. He
Speaker 4: is such a nerd. He and I would be like
Speaker 4: besties because he said, thank c Yes, I live with that.
Speaker 4: Funny guy.
Speaker 2: Was awesome.
Speaker 6: I love to laugh.
Speaker 3: You want to hear a funny story. So Jason and
Speaker 3: I met. We got set up on a blind date.
Speaker 2: Really yeah.
Speaker 3: It was August of two thousand and seven when we
Speaker 3: got set up and we hit it off. And one
Speaker 3: of our first dates after we met was I got
Speaker 3: comp tickets one of my can't bow out clients to
Speaker 3: the Rockies Red Sox World Series game. Oh wow seven Yeah,
Speaker 3: And Jason's gonna have to text you if he's listening.
Speaker 2: Is how you Which game it was?
Speaker 3: I can't remember, but we literally got kicked out of
Speaker 3: the club section for cheering too much. And he's from
Speaker 3: Saint Louis and he's like, what the heck? Who gets
Speaker 3: kicked out of a baseball game for cheering too Like
Speaker 3: this would never happen Saint Louis. No, and he's like,
Speaker 3: and by the way, you're the perfect girl for me.
Speaker 3: Let's get married. And we ran off.
Speaker 2: No, I'm just kidding. It was a little longer than that.
Speaker 4: But I tell I think that was a turning point
Speaker 4: because it was I mean, if you're a real fan,
Speaker 4: people know this, whether it's Saint Louis or Detroit or Boston,
Speaker 4: the Yankees and Europe. You said a Dodgers fan, those
Speaker 4: those traditional teams, you care for the teams?
Speaker 6: Was it because you were in a certain section? Are
Speaker 6: you're supposed to be.
Speaker 2: Selling you in details? In trouble?
Speaker 4: It was a grand thrown right, Are you supposed to
Speaker 4: be like a golf clap crowd or.
Speaker 3: Whatever the kind of was. And I was a little rowdy,
Speaker 3: and I may have had a beer in my hand.
Speaker 3: I'm rowing up and down celebrated another one.
Speaker 6: Oh wow.
Speaker 5: Sorry, Adam moved in with me because I had cable.
Speaker 2: What no, Kelly, that sounds all right, Yeah, that's hilarious.
Speaker 5: No, three days after we knew each other, he spent
Speaker 5: on my couch for about a month.
Speaker 2: Whatevers.
Speaker 3: You know, the young people are listening, that's a valuable
Speaker 3: piece of advice.
Speaker 6: I don't know about the table party more. That's out dated.
Speaker 4: If you got all the apps, like you know, Prime
Speaker 4: Video and Hulu and Netflix and Amazon, all that sort
Speaker 4: of thing, it's.
Speaker 2: Such a racket.
Speaker 3: Like I've obviously been sitting on the couch for a
Speaker 3: month healing from the surgery, and I've watched every stink
Speaker 3: in series on the planet's favorite one. So when I
Speaker 3: go dark, I go Handmaid's Tail. I really liked Oh gosh, man,
Speaker 3: man who fall?
Speaker 2: What was it? Man who felt?
Speaker 3: It was like political? I can't remember. And we watched
Speaker 3: with the kids. I watched The Perfect Couple. That was
Speaker 3: pretty good. I mean all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 6: Let me ask you real quick.
Speaker 4: About Handmaid's Tale, because you're going to get a negative
Speaker 4: reaction from this crowd, and I understand it. But my fiance, Kelsey,
Speaker 4: who I've told you is the right of me, watched
Speaker 4: that whole thing series caught up and liked it. I
Speaker 4: guess I'm not gonna watch this. It's a sick it's dark,
Speaker 4: but my point would be it well her. Here's Kelsey's
Speaker 4: selling point for it for the conservative audience out there,
Speaker 4: was the United States went way too far left, so
Speaker 4: it overcorrected with the Handmaid's Tale universe to be in
Speaker 4: this like strict misogynistic society, and that's what happens.
Speaker 6: When you go too far one direction. That was her announced.
Speaker 2: So I took it a little bit differently.
Speaker 3: I took it as government control, like government just like
Speaker 3: control everything to the nth degree, and how badly that
Speaker 3: can go. And so that's kind of the perspective I
Speaker 3: watched it from. But yeah, I try and watch all
Speaker 3: kinds of things. We watched that Demi Moore movie that
Speaker 3: got nominated for the Academy Awards and Global Did you
Speaker 3: guys watch that?
Speaker 6: Which one was sick?
Speaker 2: It is weird.
Speaker 3: It is so wild. I do not recommend watching it.
Speaker 3: I think I have nightmares still over it. Demi mort
Speaker 3: she did a good job acting in it, but it
Speaker 3: is bizarro. I can't remember the name offhand. I'll remember
Speaker 3: at three in the morning, since yes, the substance to
Speaker 3: look it up. It's an aging actress who wants to
Speaker 3: be young and cool and hip, so she gets like
Speaker 3: makes a deal with the devil kind of and takes
Speaker 3: this substance and it just goes terribly wrong.
Speaker 2: Oh so, yeah, it was weird.
Speaker 3: But you know, I like watching lots of different things
Speaker 3: and getting different perspectives. But man, it was like it
Speaker 3: was disappointing in a way too.
Speaker 2: At the end of the day, be like, this is.
Speaker 3: All you got, Like I'm on the couch for a month,
Speaker 3: I can watch whatever, and this is what you got.
Speaker 3: And I ended up going back to watching with my
Speaker 3: daughter's young Sheldon. We love that series.
Speaker 6: Do you watch that? Yeah? When it's on, like, oh, well,
Speaker 6: I'll tune in for a little bit.
Speaker 3: It's so cute and it's a throwback to like the
Speaker 3: eighties and growing up.
Speaker 2: I think it's the eighties.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, But I just resonate so much with that show.
Speaker 2: And I also love The Gilmore Girls. We watched The
Speaker 2: Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 6: That's a throwback.
Speaker 2: We watched that over and over again in our house.
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: Uh the one series I would highly recommend from the
Speaker 4: Tailor's shared and catalog that I've watched, but which I
Speaker 4: love the most because of who's in it and how
Speaker 4: awesome he is.
Speaker 6: Landman with Billy Bob Thornton.
Speaker 7: Watch that.
Speaker 6: You gotta watch it. He's so good in it.
Speaker 4: Okay, and there's a scene but there's a scene that
Speaker 4: I actually played it on either this show or my own.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to remember which where Billy Bob Thorne explains
Speaker 4: why solar and wind it's just not in all that's
Speaker 4: not an all encompassing strategy for energy.
Speaker 6: We need to drill oil.
Speaker 2: Hollywood made this.
Speaker 6: Oh this is incredible.
Speaker 4: If you watch it, it's like an advertisement for us,
Speaker 4: you know, Colorado Oil and Gas Association.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's good, It's really good.
Speaker 3: I don't know how on Earth I left off, Like
Speaker 3: the new season of nineteen twenty three that was freaking awesome,
Speaker 3: and I love the Yellowstone series.
Speaker 4: One thing about nineteen twenty three, and I won't give
Speaker 4: away spoilers, Yeah, but wow, is it relentlessly just sad?
Speaker 4: I know all the characters. Horrible things happen to these people.
Speaker 4: Very few good things happen to these people that you're
Speaker 4: rooting for.
Speaker 6: In nineteen twenty three.
Speaker 2: It was nineteen twenty three Ryan, things were wrough.
Speaker 6: I guess it was.
Speaker 2: I mean, were there anibotics back then?
Speaker 6: Nope, yeah, just before it was.
Speaker 2: It's brutal.
Speaker 6: It is brutal, but it's.
Speaker 4: Like there's no let up. It's one of the reasons
Speaker 4: I stopped watching The Walking Dead was there was no humor,
Speaker 4: there was no lightness. It was all darkness, and I
Speaker 4: was watching Breaking Bad having that same feeling. I actually
Speaker 4: spoke about this name drop with the Scholar Brothers who
Speaker 4: have a guest role in Better Call Saul, that you
Speaker 4: spin off that I actually prefer to Breaking Bad. But
Speaker 4: I was going to give up on Breaking Bad because
Speaker 4: of that. It was so dark, it was so like downer.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I feel worse about life right now. And
Speaker 4: then Bob Odenkirk showed up as Saul Goodman, the attorney, hilarious,
Speaker 4: and he brought me back in. He won me over
Speaker 4: and I watched the rest of Breaking Bad because of him.
Speaker 4: I have not watched Breaking Bad. I know that really crazy. Well,
Speaker 4: you got to watch Better Call Saul, because I think
Speaker 4: it's superior to Even It's such a ridge.
Speaker 2: Better Call Saul. I'm gonna have to text with this later.
Speaker 6: Land Man, land Man, Billy, Bob Thornton.
Speaker 2: And land Man. I'm excited to watch it.
Speaker 6: I love that one.
Speaker 4: Well, Sean Hamm, Demi Morris in it is she Yeah,
Speaker 4: now think about it, duh, I should have put that together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, you know, and I grew up in the
Speaker 3: era I'm older than you with About Last Night, like
Speaker 3: the sixteen Candles and like all the brat Pack movies
Speaker 3: or what were they called?
Speaker 6: Was it the Brackpack?
Speaker 2: That's right, we had the best movies. What was the
Speaker 2: director back then, John Hughes Hughes Gosh, best shows.
Speaker 3: I try and show some of these movies to my kids,
Speaker 3: not the naughty ones, but the more pure ones, and
Speaker 3: they are just bored.
Speaker 2: They're like, there's nothing cool about this.
Speaker 4: It's kind of like, you know, I guess it's data.
Speaker 4: I mean, gotta think, Heidi, these movies are now like
Speaker 4: forty years old.
Speaker 6: I can't believe it. Like The Breakfast Club is forty
Speaker 6: one years old.
Speaker 2: I think we tried to get the kids to watch
Speaker 2: Goonies a couple of weeks ago. This is great, I know,
Speaker 2: and they were not impressed. Oh man, I know, it's
Speaker 2: very sad.
Speaker 8: It was very sad.
Speaker 2: It makes my heart hurt a little bit.
Speaker 6: But makes you feel really old, I know.
Speaker 2: I have so I have twins that are thirteen now.
Speaker 3: They just turned thirteen, and I have a fifteen year
Speaker 3: old who's a freshman in high school, and a twenty
Speaker 3: nine year old Tory, who, funny enough, was on a
Speaker 3: different radio show this morning, co hosting for the first
Speaker 3: time ever on the radio. That dang broadcast journalism degree
Speaker 3: that I got her at the University of Oregon paid off. Finally, finally,
Speaker 3: I think it's been while she graduated twenty seventeen, so
Speaker 3: it's taken a few years. But it's like watching these
Speaker 3: kids and their interaction with media and the things that
Speaker 3: they like. And they'll sit and watch these YouTube videos
Speaker 3: that are just lame for hours on end and just
Speaker 3: laugh and think they're hilarious, and I'm like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: good quality.
Speaker 2: And I wanted to ask her.
Speaker 3: I don't know, if we have time before break, maybe
Speaker 3: we can talk about this after break about Trump's tariff
Speaker 3: on Hollywood and producing movies outside the country.
Speaker 2: That's an interesting play. Do you think he's for real?
Speaker 6: Well, we're talking about this.
Speaker 4: Actually, she plugged for my own program on Friday in
Speaker 4: my first hour, the Right Side of Hollywood, Christian Toto,
Speaker 4: Deborah Flora, because we'll be talking to Bill Walton, No,
Speaker 4: not that to Seize basketball announcer, but the Rush River
Speaker 4: Entertainment founder who is pushing back against this idea from
Speaker 4: President Trump, Ah, got it?
Speaker 2: Okay. Well, I think he says just some of this
Speaker 2: stuff to get a rise from people, and some of
Speaker 2: it comes out, some of it doesn't.
Speaker 3: And I think it's kind of funny he's so confident
Speaker 3: with the media right now, he just lays them to waste.
Speaker 2: It's crazy to watch.
Speaker 3: One more thing I want to talk about after the break, Ryan,
Speaker 3: This Axios story about how they're so upset that mainstream
Speaker 3: media is being destroyed at the White House, like they
Speaker 3: don't have their seat at the White House anymore. Maybe
Speaker 3: you can look up and see if there's a fun clip.
Speaker 3: But it's going to be a fun one to talk about,
Speaker 3: So let's talk about that after the break. This is
Speaker 3: Hidigan All filling in for Dan Kaplis and I having
Speaker 3: a good time with my friends Ryan and Kelly.
Speaker 2: We'll be back after the break.
Speaker 6: And now back to the Dankaplass Show podcast.
Speaker 3: It is over, Ryan, legislative session in Colorado is over today.
Speaker 3: It is a happy, happy thing for Colorado. This is
Speaker 3: Heidigan All. I'm filling in for Dan Kaplis here with
Speaker 3: Ryan Shilling, and it has been a crazy, crazy legislative
Speaker 3: session in Colorado. I think what seven hundred bills or something.
Speaker 3: They're way too long. We need to shorten this up
Speaker 3: and keep them away from that Capitol building for a
Speaker 3: much longer period of time going forward in my estimation.
Speaker 3: But you know what do I know.
Speaker 6: Well? And that's the thing I was lamenting and worrying
Speaker 6: about during the break, Hei, do you request? I want
Speaker 6: a celebratory song the end of the session.
Speaker 4: But KBB Christy Burton Brown was forecasting some ominous sky,
Speaker 4: saying that they might try to advance a special session.
Speaker 4: Oh no, to expand on their absolute lunacy that we've seen.
Speaker 4: That's the thing too, Heidi, is I'm thinking back and
Speaker 4: I remember the last session was terrible, and.
Speaker 6: They'm like, wait a minut.
Speaker 4: It somehow, some way, they always find a way to
Speaker 4: make it even worse the next time.
Speaker 6: And they did that here, worst.
Speaker 4: Ever, worst ever gun grab bill thirteen twelve. Take me
Speaker 4: through a one two punch in Colorado General Assembly history.
Speaker 4: That's worse than just those two. And that's two of many.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, there's so many bad things that they've
Speaker 3: done in this session. And here's the bad part is
Speaker 3: like people don't pay attention. Average voters don't pay attention
Speaker 3: a lot of them don't even vote. We have bad
Speaker 3: turnout rates in some areas of Colorado and in some instances,
Speaker 3: especially with Republicans, and the policies don't really start to
Speaker 3: impact things for a year or two, and by then
Speaker 3: the politicians are long gone, nobody's held accountable, and it's
Speaker 3: just like, oh well.
Speaker 2: And this goes back to the list.
Speaker 3: That I talked about when we first came on air
Speaker 3: that was in the Denver Gazette today about Colorado going
Speaker 3: down the drain, and it lists this whole long laundry
Speaker 3: list of stats that are just terrible for our state.
Speaker 3: And this is not a happy thing to see for
Speaker 3: those of us that have been here a while. And
Speaker 3: you've been here a while. I've been here since nineteen.
Speaker 2: Seventy eight, and I am ticked off, like.
Speaker 3: I'm tired of this state being destroyed by these folks.
Speaker 3: And you know, we may not be in the majority,
Speaker 3: but we still get to talk about it and call
Speaker 3: them out.
Speaker 2: Here's here's a crazy thing.
Speaker 3: I read Redfinn projects Denver will have the most homes
Speaker 3: on the market per capita in the US, coupled with
Speaker 3: having the highest apartment vacancy rate since two thousand and eight,
Speaker 3: property values are falling. Denver has become undesirable almost overnight.
Speaker 3: We're on a path becoming the next Detroit City bankruptcy
Speaker 3: and all. And here's our mayor of Denver asking for
Speaker 3: what like an eight hundred million dollar addition to his budget.
Speaker 2: Have you heard about that?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Oh, it's just ridiculous. And you know what, people will
Speaker 3: probably vote for it because money solves everything, or they
Speaker 3: think it does in this state. In our state has
Speaker 3: doubled in the last decade. And look at all these stats.
Speaker 3: I'll read off a couple of them again because I
Speaker 3: think we had to stop and go to break because
Speaker 3: I went through so many of them. But Colorado fell
Speaker 3: from a top state, a top ten state for in
Speaker 3: migration people moving into Colorado, to the bottom in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five to the bottom ten. So it went from
Speaker 3: the top ten to the bottom ten. People are not
Speaker 3: moving here and post pandemic math performance and literacy performance
Speaker 3: has fallen for our kids.
Speaker 2: The education system is a mess.
Speaker 3: In the economy, we went from being one of the
Speaker 3: top five states for economic performance to the bottom ten
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four, and the state ranks and this
Speaker 3: is my favorite because we.
Speaker 2: Have such a liberty loving governor.
Speaker 3: State ranks as the sixth most regulated in the United States,
Speaker 3: six most regulated state in the United States. Colorado, Land
Speaker 3: of the Free, and a governor who claims he's a libertarian.
Speaker 2: Dana Perino puts him on Fox all the time talking
Speaker 2: about how libertarian ish he is. It makes me so crazy.
Speaker 2: And the list goes on and on.
Speaker 3: So how come people don't understand these stats? They live
Speaker 3: them every day and they still won't vote a different
Speaker 3: person into office. One saw Jimmy Fayala down and Colorado Springs.
Speaker 3: I'll never forget it because Kelly was there too. It
Speaker 3: was on the day that Donald Trump got shot and
Speaker 3: he still did the act. It was kind of an
Speaker 3: uncomfortable scene, but he did the best he could and
Speaker 3: we met him afterwards. Well back, there was Dana Perino's sister,
Speaker 3: really and I got to believe that she, Dana Perno's
Speaker 3: sister still lives here in Colorado.
Speaker 4: She knows what's going on. I gotta believe that Dana
Speaker 4: talks to her sister. She has to know that Jared
Speaker 4: Poulis is not the libertarian he told us he was.
Speaker 2: I think her mom lives here too well, there you go. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it shocks me. They would not let me on her
Speaker 2: and Bill's show the whole time I was running for governor.
Speaker 2: It was so weird. And they had Jared Pulis on
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 6: Are you seriously right now?
Speaker 2: We tried over and over and over again.
Speaker 3: I'd even met Dana a while back and she would
Speaker 3: just fawn over Jared Paulis.
Speaker 2: And I don't even think that's allowed. Is it to
Speaker 2: not give equal time? Maybe it's the network overall?
Speaker 4: Why am I not shocked that a former bushy wit
Speaker 4: was preferring a Democrat in a race against a Republican
Speaker 4: like you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And what's so interesting to me, Ryan is right
Speaker 3: now I'm getting called a rhino and establishment.
Speaker 2: I know it's crazy.
Speaker 3: And I've gotten to the point where in these threads
Speaker 3: I just put a crazy face like a little emoji.
Speaker 3: That's just like, y'all are just nuts, Like you don't
Speaker 3: know me. You don't know what I've done. You don't
Speaker 3: know who I was as a region at University of Colorado.
Speaker 3: You don't know that I've been involved in Turning Point
Speaker 3: for all these years. I mean, it's like it drives
Speaker 3: me crazy. We're eating our own. I hope brit It
Speaker 3: can get a handle on this. And wow, how did
Speaker 3: I shift to this topic? So? Well?
Speaker 4: No, it's important because I think if we did, like
Speaker 4: the old blind taste between coke and PEPSI if we
Speaker 4: did a blind kind of resume test of quotes and
Speaker 4: we took some Donald Trump quotes and didn't tell the
Speaker 4: so called Rhino watch people, and I'm very sad. I
Speaker 4: don't think I've been on there yet, but I'm working
Speaker 4: my way on Ryan.
Speaker 2: We got to get you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, what's what's the deal? But Trump himself
Speaker 4: would be called a rhino. I think for some comments
Speaker 4: that he's made, maybe on tariff's in trade, there are unions,
Speaker 4: there's nominations. He's made, not everything that you and I
Speaker 4: agree with, but we like the total package that is
Speaker 4: Donald Trump. I think if these individuals are calling you
Speaker 4: a rhino, Lauren Bobert a rhino, Steve Reems a rhino,
Speaker 4: Like wait a minute, if those three are rhinos, then
Speaker 4: everybody's a rhino.
Speaker 3: You're a rhino, and you're a rhino. And yeah, it's
Speaker 3: it's gotten to the point of just it's just laughable.
Speaker 3: And they're making a mockery of themselves and our party,
Speaker 3: and I don't I'm not even gonna name who they are.
Speaker 3: They know who they are, most of us know who
Speaker 3: they are, and they just have nothing better to do
Speaker 3: then pick at us all day and take our time
Speaker 3: and attention away from doing the real work of fixing
Speaker 3: this party and turning this state around that I love
Speaker 3: so much, and I want us to be the land
Speaker 3: of the Free again, the wild wild.
Speaker 2: West, the new Frontier.
Speaker 3: So afterwards, we're gonna after the break, we're going to
Speaker 3: talk about that with Lacy Williams about how to.
Speaker 2: Bring the youth, the youth into our movement again. We'll
Speaker 2: be right back.
Speaker 6: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 3: She wants to adopt one of the beagles that was
Speaker 3: tested on in these horrible labs that were shut down.
Speaker 2: Thank goodness, they're finally waking up and doing that.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 3: We got to address the crazy bat lab we have
Speaker 3: up at CSU where they're doing like.
Speaker 2: COVID function or gain of function research. No, yes, that's a.
Speaker 4: Very last thing.
Speaker 6: We should be doing it to what happened.
Speaker 3: I know in Wuhan they just did a fourteen million
Speaker 3: dollar addition to their back lab about.
Speaker 2: I know anything but that it's crazy.
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, I'll talk.
Speaker 3: I'll come with some details tomorrow and talk to you
Speaker 3: about that. And it's crazy. You're not even gonna believe it.
Speaker 3: You're gonna think I'm a conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 2: But I have I have the goods. I have the goods.
Speaker 3: Also, tomorrow we're going to talk about marching orders for
Speaker 3: fall twenty five, the school board elections in the midterms.
Speaker 3: There are some specific things people can do. It's not
Speaker 3: hard five minutes a day to make a difference. I
Speaker 3: want to talk about this kind of crazy story that
Speaker 3: Bob Cooper wrote for us in Rocky Mount Voice about
Speaker 3: Act Blue and Win Red and how they're they've maybe
Speaker 3: scammed people and done identity theft in Colorado up to
Speaker 3: four thousand Colorado's there's a tool you can use to
Speaker 3: look it up that have maybe been donated to political
Speaker 3: operatives or candidates in Colorado's names that didn't know about it.
Speaker 2: That's kind of crazy. And then I want to give.
Speaker 3: Five actstions that you can actually take, each one of
Speaker 3: you can take to make our elections more secure at
Speaker 3: the county level.
Speaker 2: So those are some of the things we're going to
Speaker 2: hit on tomorrow. I'm excited to be back.
Speaker 3: But now, in just a minute, we're going to talk
Speaker 3: with Lacey Williams about gen Z and Lacey's.
Speaker 2: On our team.
Speaker 3: I wanted to give you some stats though right now.
Speaker 3: Voters aged eighteen to twenty one favor Republicans by twelve
Speaker 3: points in a Yale poll recently, while twenty two to
Speaker 3: twenty nine year olds leaned Democrat by six points. So
Speaker 3: the youngest voters are tilting Republican by twelve points in
Speaker 3: this Yale poll.
Speaker 2: It's a Yale poll, which is crazy.
Speaker 3: So gen Z was born in the late nineteen nineties
Speaker 3: to early twenty tens, and so these are young Americans
Speaker 3: and they did grow up during COVID.
Speaker 2: It was a rough time. They were kept in their houses.
Speaker 3: They didn't get the experience that a lot of teenagers did,
Speaker 3: and they're probably ticked off about it. They've also they're
Speaker 3: also living in Colorado with unaffordable housing, a jobs market
Speaker 3: that's crazy, it's so expensive to live here, and the
Speaker 3: money song I wanted to start off with this. I
Speaker 3: got a little distracted, but personal income growth fell in
Speaker 3: Colorado from third in the country to thirty ninth here
Speaker 3: between twenty eighteen and twenty four right when you came
Speaker 3: to Colorado, Ryan, you ruined it for everybody.
Speaker 6: Don't blame me. I brought a red vote here.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 6: Good point.
Speaker 3: And this is despite some of the world's highest minimum
Speaker 3: wage mandates, because those work so well, don't they. We've
Speaker 3: learned over and over again that doesn't work. It drives
Speaker 3: me nuts, and we keep doing it. We just keep
Speaker 3: doing it and doing it and doing it, and keep
Speaker 3: thinking it's going to solve the problems, and it makes
Speaker 3: it worse, especially for US business owners. If you're an entrepreneur,
Speaker 3: business owner, you want to hire more people, you want
Speaker 3: to pay your people well, you don't want to keep
Speaker 3: the money all to yourself. That's such a misnover for entres.
Speaker 3: None of the entrepreneurs I know are like that. They
Speaker 3: all want to take great care of their people, and
Speaker 3: they want.
Speaker 2: To give back.
Speaker 3: They want to build an amazing business that provides a
Speaker 3: value to society and to whatever market they live in.
Speaker 2: So all right, looks like we've got miss Lacy Williams
Speaker 2: on the line. Lacy, are you there?
Speaker 10: Yes, I'm hot, Hidy, I'm good.
Speaker 2: I'm good. It's so great to have you on Lacey.
Speaker 3: I was giving some stats about a recent poll about
Speaker 3: young Republicans, like aged eighteen to twenty one. They favored
Speaker 3: Republicans in this Yale poll by twelve points.
Speaker 2: Now, you are on the front lines as.
Speaker 3: One of the leaders of Colorady young Republicans in this state,
Speaker 3: also writing for us at Rocky Mountain Voice and working
Speaker 3: on our social media, and also as a previous Turning
Speaker 3: Point leader for many years.
Speaker 2: So I want to hear your take.
Speaker 3: On this poll and if it's if it's real, are
Speaker 3: you seeing this on the ground, especially in Colorado totally?
Speaker 9: I mean, honestly, in Colorado, I can see it. I mean,
Speaker 9: even though we do have.
Speaker 10: I was listening to Jeff Hunt with your daughter actually
Speaker 10: this morning.
Speaker 9: Over on his station, and he was talking about how
Speaker 9: all the older people are who is who he was
Speaker 9: seeing at the Bernie Sanders rally, and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 9: it's because we're getting all the young people are there are.
Speaker 2: Is Now that's an absolutely positive thing.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's definitely a really positive thing. And I actually was,
Speaker 9: I mean, I'm in and around ten now in the
Speaker 9: state of Colorado. I'm not sure my sister is right
Speaker 9: in that age bracket. She just turned twenty one, and
Speaker 9: especially her guy. They are very They're.
Speaker 10: Getting their news from Joe Rogan and these guys that
Speaker 10: are doing podcasts, and it's very inspiring to see them
Speaker 10: kind of break away from the fold and come into
Speaker 10: their own and.
Speaker 9: Start speaking out about conservative ideas because they don't want
Speaker 9: to be told that they're toxic with the skilling anymore.
Speaker 9: They're proud of it. Also saw a full this morning,
Speaker 9: or maybe it was yesterday morning, The Wire put something
Speaker 9: out that was talking about how far and more young
Speaker 9: people are becoming more and more religious, and so I
Speaker 9: think there's definitely a tie between the two of those things.
Speaker 9: And in Colorado, I can definitely seep Lacey.
Speaker 3: It's breaking up a little bit, but I think I
Speaker 3: got the gist of what you were saying. And so
Speaker 3: I'm going to talk about a couple more polls that
Speaker 3: we're seeing thirty four percent of Trump voting gen Z
Speaker 3: is listening to conservative podcasts like Charlie Kirks like you
Speaker 3: talked about, compared to nine percent of Harris voters. So
Speaker 3: that's showing the media influence of these podcasters. And then
Speaker 3: x sentiment posts.
Speaker 2: Claimed that eighty four of eighty eight.
Speaker 3: Major college campuses saw an eleven point right word shift
Speaker 3: among eighteen to twenty four year olds from twenty twenty
Speaker 3: to twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Well, what happened, COVID happened. So what do you think.
Speaker 3: COVID's effect was on shifting these young people to the right.
Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh, I.
Speaker 9: Was working for turning point at this time. And the
Speaker 9: people that are now seniors at college, they're in.
Speaker 8: The age age range and right when they came into school,
Speaker 8: not only did they not have a high school graduation,
Speaker 8: not have a college or not have a high school graduation,
Speaker 8: but also when they came into college, they were the
Speaker 8: COVID kids.
Speaker 9: Uh, they didn't say anything normal, they didn't have prom
Speaker 9: in high school. Then they come into call told they
Speaker 9: originally were going to have roommates at the Boulder and
Speaker 9: now they can only have uh, you know, one person
Speaker 9: across the hall. They were separating people, making everybody test crazy,
Speaker 9: I know personally, and I witnessed this with some leaders
Speaker 9: up in Fort Collins at CSU. I thinks SU did
Speaker 9: way worse.
Speaker 10: They were making kids.
Speaker 9: They're making kids test weekly, and not only that, they
Speaker 9: were they sent summons to kids that didn't have the
Speaker 9: COVID vaccine. These kids remember, and now that they are
Speaker 9: starting to listen to more and more people in popular
Speaker 9: culture like the Joe Rogans, and they basically had given
Speaker 9: permission to the younger people, younger men specifically, that have said,
Speaker 9: you know, it's okay, remember what happened during COVID. We
Speaker 9: certainly didn't, and you should either. So it's really cool
Speaker 9: to see.
Speaker 3: One other thing I'm noticing with young people is there
Speaker 3: like move to traditional values again, Like hey, it's it's
Speaker 3: cool to get married and have babies young now and
Speaker 3: to stay home and you know, start a little garden
Speaker 3: in the backyard.
Speaker 2: And what's going on there, well, I mean your daughter.
Speaker 9: And I actually had a conversation with with another young
Speaker 9: Republican this morning about this. And there's this trad wife movement.
Speaker 7: That we're now seeing on wife talking trad wife, traditional wife,
Speaker 7: so biblical sense of what it means to be a wife,
Speaker 7: so staying home, taking there kids, making food.
Speaker 9: But this doesn't have to be something that's a disservice.
Speaker 9: It's more a badge of honor because guys have to
Speaker 9: go work and protecting and the earning and women are
Speaker 9: now staying home and making sour dough and learning how
Speaker 9: to cook and taking care of kids because it's part
Speaker 9: and I think there's a good point of our generation
Speaker 9: where our parents were always working and didn't give anybody
Speaker 9: any attention. That's why you're getting some people on the left.
Speaker 9: But it's just really interesting the young people wanting to
Speaker 9: get married so much younger. Everybody I know is married now, well,
Speaker 9: mine is your daughter. But that's happening here, It's happening soon, yes, right,
Speaker 9: But it's very interesting now to see the whip come
Speaker 9: to this trad wife now that her trad idea that
Speaker 9: we've already got the guy since the election go to
Speaker 9: joke In and THEO Vaughne and more conservative leaning ideas
Speaker 9: and people to look up to. So women are coming.
Speaker 8: It's just a little flower.
Speaker 9: It's slightly point, I would say, on.
Speaker 8: The female side of the young people.
Speaker 3: Well, Lazie, thanks so much for joining us. I really
Speaker 3: appreciate you hopping on. We're going to have some more
Speaker 3: conversation around this with Tori tomorrow. She's going to hop
Speaker 3: in the studio for a little bit and we're going
Speaker 3: to talk about her path from Boulder Valley's public school
Speaker 3: district to University of Oreon to being a very strong conservative.
Speaker 3: So I know you've had a similar path, and you
Speaker 3: girls are two of my favorite leaders in the conservative
Speaker 3: young movement. So keep staying strong and doing the work
Speaker 3: you're doing. We really appreciate you and we'll talk soon.
Speaker 2: Lazy, thank you.
Speaker 3: Say all right, guys, before we go to break, I'm
Speaker 3: going to read this last stat before we had off.
Speaker 3: In the twenty twenty four election, Trump had fifty two
Speaker 3: point seven percent support among eighteen to twenty nine year olds,
Speaker 3: especially young men, which was critical and flipping key battlegrounds.
Speaker 3: So what Lacy said about young men being a little
Speaker 3: bit ahead of the curve from young women turning conservative,
Speaker 3: I think was really critical and getting Donald Trump elected.
Speaker 3: So we'll talk more about this after the break. This
Speaker 3: is howdi can all filling in for Dan Kaplis hold.
Speaker 6: Tight And now back to the Dan KAPLSS Show podcast.
Speaker 3: Hi everyone, it's Heidi Goan all filling in for Dan Kaplis.
Speaker 3: Excited to be here for this last little bit of segment. Ryan,
Speaker 3: I wanted to wrap up by following up on Lacey's
Speaker 3: episode or segment talking about Turning Point and how they're
Speaker 3: a big part of rebuilding Colorado.
Speaker 2: And I've been involved with the organization for many, many years.
Speaker 3: And of course the liberal media goes crazy on Charlie
Speaker 3: in the Turning Point movement, but they're doing really good work,
Speaker 3: and they're giving kids a lot of confidence and the
Speaker 3: ability or the words on how to speak up for
Speaker 3: their values and what they believe. And obviously it's countercultural
Speaker 3: in some places. But we are hosting a zoom tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I'll actually be on the air, or actually it's right
Speaker 3: after I'm on the air. I think it's at Actually
Speaker 3: I think it's at five o'clock tomorrow, five o'clock tomorrow,
Speaker 3: five o'clock to six o'clock. The Turning Point two of
Speaker 3: the Turning Point leaders from the organization are going to
Speaker 3: be hosting a zoom for parents and students who are
Speaker 3: interested in starting a chapter at their high school. And
Speaker 3: I can't tell you how important this is, Like this
Speaker 3: is a way to give our kids confidence and a
Speaker 3: place to go and a fun way to get engaged
Speaker 3: in the conservative movement. And they do all the work
Speaker 3: Turning Point. It's like a chapter in a box. It's
Speaker 3: super easy, but a lot of times the kids need
Speaker 3: parents to step in and help too, and board members
Speaker 3: and teachers.
Speaker 2: So anyone who's interested, if you want.
Speaker 3: To be a part of this, just email info I
Speaker 3: n FO at Rockymountain Voice dot com and I will
Speaker 3: make sure that you get the login information for the
Speaker 3: zoom call tomorrow night at five o'clock about how to
Speaker 3: start one of these high school chapters.
Speaker 2: Have you heard about this at all? This movement? Have
Speaker 2: you heard about the Turning Point movement and what's happening
Speaker 2: in call.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you right now, I don't think I'm outing
Speaker 4: anything that isn't for public knowledge. But my good friend
Speaker 4: Christian total hollywind to toota dot com. His sons who
Speaker 4: are of this generation and younger versions of that generation
Speaker 4: in high school right now, they're turning to Turning Point
Speaker 4: for Charlie Kirk. And what they love the most are
Speaker 4: Charlie's on campus kind of give and takes with the
Speaker 4: liberal students that try to, you know, catch him off guard.
Speaker 6: And he's got all his facts and all his ducks
Speaker 6: in a row sets them straight.
Speaker 4: And it's a big influence on these young high school conservatives,
Speaker 4: especially like Lacey was talking about earlier, young disaffected males
Speaker 4: who feel that they've been villainized, villified, they haven't done
Speaker 4: anything wrong. Trevor Kelly's son as well, like why would
Speaker 4: they vote Democrat for a party that hates them?
Speaker 6: Of course they're not going to do that.
Speaker 2: I that's so true.
Speaker 3: And I've been so impressed with how Turning Point kind
Speaker 3: of wraps around these kids and helps them and provides it.
Speaker 2: But they don't tell them what to think. That's the
Speaker 2: whole gig.
Speaker 3: It's like, you can critically think, you know, you can
Speaker 3: decide you support a candidate or not.
Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be you know what you're told
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 3: And these are kids who care about the Maha movement,
Speaker 3: about the environment, who care deeply about what happened in COVID,
Speaker 3: about getting jobs, about affordable housing. We all have different
Speaker 3: things they care about and are interested in, and this
Speaker 3: is just a way to get a different perspective than
Speaker 3: typically what they're seeing in their schools.
Speaker 5: So fun fact, Trevor actually read pilled Haley, what my
Speaker 5: daughter really yep?
Speaker 2: Like, tactically, how did that work? Kelly?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 5: This was the first election she voted in for president,
Speaker 5: and she literally I could not be any prouder. She
Speaker 5: called me and said, do I just go all ours.
Speaker 2: After Trumps?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, please, yes, And that's what I said.
Speaker 5: And I said, but you don't have to do that,
Speaker 5: and she goes, well, I already talked to Trevor and
Speaker 5: you know, he explained a lot of stuff to me.
Speaker 5: And she also started working this year and she got
Speaker 5: her first paychecks.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. It's always was a very big eye
Speaker 2: opening that Fika that fight a guy that takes all
Speaker 2: our money.
Speaker 3: You know, I think Brett Cooper and Alex Clark, there's
Speaker 3: a lot of young gals coming up that are, you know,
Speaker 3: getting very popular and.
Speaker 2: Very influential in the conservative movement.
Speaker 3: It's not just the guys, and we need more options
Speaker 3: for our young ladies too, which is why I'm so
Speaker 3: proud of Lacy at Tory for speaking out and doing
Speaker 3: more media and really trying to find their voice. And
Speaker 3: I think that's going to become more and more important.
Speaker 3: But it's just it's just awesome to see it growing
Speaker 3: so fast in Colorado. They have over twenty high school
Speaker 3: chapters in Colorado Turning points as and twenty college chapters.
Speaker 2: I believe too, and we want to we want to
Speaker 2: grow that, grow that all over this all over the state.
Speaker 3: So if you're listening and you have a child or
Speaker 3: a grandchild, or a friend or a niece or nephew
Speaker 3: who's interested in learning more about this, that zoom calls
Speaker 3: tomorrow night, Thursday night at five o'clock and just email
Speaker 3: info at Rockymountain Voice dot com and we'll make sure
Speaker 3: you get that link. But you know, this has been
Speaker 3: great fun you guys. I was thinking about as we
Speaker 3: were talking about movies and shows. To wrap up the segment,
Speaker 3: what's your favorite political series or movie?
Speaker 6: Oh wow, that's a difficult one. I love Primary Colors.
Speaker 2: Primary Colors.
Speaker 3: I haven't watched that, Dave, Dave, okay, go, I haven't
Speaker 3: watched either of those, you guys.
Speaker 2: I mean I was gonna go with the House of
Speaker 2: Cards because that's a classic true Kevin Spacey Bye.
Speaker 3: I know he's a little weird, but all right, Well,
Speaker 3: it's been great joining you guys.
Speaker 2: I'll see you tomorrow. This is Heidig and All filling
Speaker 2: in for Dan Kaplis.
Speaker 3: I hope everyone has a wonderful evening and we'll talk soon.
Speaker 6: Go Tigers,