Speaker 1: This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 1: day we honor the people who really have done that,
Speaker 1: and it's the reason we're here, including D Day, so
Speaker 1: we'll have some really compelling D Day sound throughout the show,
Speaker 1: but with us right now, and I feel so privileged
Speaker 1: because I think it's the only interview she's agreed to today.
Speaker 1: Is a woman who has written the first draft of
Speaker 1: the history of the state of Colorado, and that is
Speaker 1: Kathy Walker, who's been news director at eight fifty KOA
Speaker 1: and the station group for a very long time. If
Speaker 1: you're new to the area, she is the quintessential journalist
Speaker 1: in this area and has been an absolute rock of
Speaker 1: integrity and tremendous reporting for thirty five years. And your
Speaker 1: last day, and at least your last day full time
Speaker 1: as news director hard to imagine.
Speaker 2: Hi, Dan, Yes, it's my last day as news director
Speaker 2: and I'm still going to hang out part time, but
Speaker 2: I'm really thrilled to be at this place where I'm
Speaker 2: choosing where to leave. We know that so many people
Speaker 2: in broadcasts don't get that option.
Speaker 1: No, I remember the day I was fired here, but
Speaker 1: I'm glad to be back. I've never been.
Speaker 2: Fired, and we have worked together off and on obviously
Speaker 2: through my whole career here really, and I'm so appreciative
Speaker 2: of you talking about the truth telling. I think if there,
Speaker 2: if I want when, I would leave the door tonight.
Speaker 2: I've always just sought the truth. I've always tried to
Speaker 2: tell the truth. Sadly, not everyone told the truth to me, Dan,
Speaker 2: but I've always tried.
Speaker 1: To tell you right and again. If you're new to
Speaker 1: the area, Kathy is one of those people you can't
Speaker 1: find a single bad thing written about. I've never heard
Speaker 1: a bad word sad about you. I mean, it's just true,
Speaker 1: and it's remarkable because you have been this absolute rock
Speaker 1: of integrity, fair and balance. As we sit here right now,
Speaker 1: thirty five years roughly together. Right because I've been with
Speaker 1: this station group for almost the entire time you've been here,
Speaker 1: I can't remember anybody ever saying a critical word about you.
Speaker 1: I can't remember you ever getting anything wrong in a story. Wow,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's almost been like you were AI decades
Speaker 1: before AI was invented.
Speaker 2: You know what, though, I think what we have all learned,
Speaker 2: I don't know that I love the word multitasking, but
Speaker 2: certainly you can look at legal documents and synthesize them quickly.
Speaker 2: I can look at all types of documents and synthesize
Speaker 2: that information quickly. It's a skill. It's something you'll learn
Speaker 2: by doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but for you and Kathy Walker, a news director,
Speaker 1: our guests, for you, it goes way beyond that, because
Speaker 1: the point is all those years together right here, however
Speaker 1: many they've been, I have no idea what your politics are.
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell if you lean left or right or
Speaker 1: middle because you have been in appso loot down the
Speaker 1: middle journalist.
Speaker 2: Well, I was told and taught and believe that my
Speaker 2: politics didn't matter. And you know what it's like having
Speaker 2: a job like this, You get to know politicians as people.
Speaker 2: I'm so honored that every governor of Colorado I've had
Speaker 2: at least one great conversation with throughout the course of
Speaker 2: my life. And what a great thing. I'm the girl
Speaker 2: in high school Dan who told Governor Lamb I wanted
Speaker 2: this job.
Speaker 1: That's so you would have done it way.
Speaker 2: Back, right, But I don't think my politics do matter.
Speaker 2: And I guess if there's anything about the political climate
Speaker 2: we find ourselves in now, I wish I could just
Speaker 2: share story after story of the statesmen that I've met
Speaker 2: in politics throughout my life, and I don't mean that
Speaker 2: in a sex way, but gender neutral, who were invested
Speaker 2: in being in politics because they cared about Colorado so
Speaker 2: so much.
Speaker 1: He's your favorite. Wow.
Speaker 2: Governor Owens was so good to these radio stations. I mean,
Speaker 2: he was just wonderful to deal with. I adore Governor Roamer.
Speaker 2: I thought he was the guy that at least you
Speaker 2: knew the role he would play in every kind of
Speaker 2: political debate. I remember covering an all night long negotiation
Speaker 2: of Denver Public schools contract that he got in the
Speaker 2: middle of, and I was standing there, going, what good
Speaker 2: as a governor in the middle of like a very
Speaker 2: local political problem like this just seemed like a waste
Speaker 2: of his time from my point of view. And he
Speaker 2: was so concerned about, you know, driving to the capitol
Speaker 2: every day and seeing teachers on picket lines that he
Speaker 2: wanted that to end, and he was willing to do
Speaker 2: whatever it of his own political capital if you will
Speaker 2: to make it end.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I guess I've.
Speaker 2: Had really great conversations with a lot of our governors
Speaker 2: and I'm grateful for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, Kathy Walker, our guest her last day as
Speaker 1: news director, thirty five years at eight fifty koa and
Speaker 1: for the station group. And so you have you have
Speaker 1: been news director through an era of what I consider
Speaker 1: to be some giants in politics on both sides of
Speaker 1: the aisle. And uh and I think we went through
Speaker 1: a phase there, whether there's a Democrat or Republican, there
Speaker 1: were some some very larger than life, very talented people
Speaker 1: who would just step up and tell you what what
Speaker 1: they truly believed and why whether or not. I think
Speaker 1: another great one.
Speaker 2: Sean Sothers, just a rock star of a lawyer. I
Speaker 2: loved it when he was attorney general. He could explain
Speaker 2: the most complex legal thing and a fifteen seconds.
Speaker 1: A talented guy. Which story and obviously one of the
Speaker 1: most powerful memories of my life is having the privilege
Speaker 1: of being on your Live with You on nine to
Speaker 1: eleven through as that horrific day was unfolding. We anchored
Speaker 1: the coverage together. Obviously you were lead, But what are
Speaker 1: the most powerful memories you have? The most powerful story experiences.
Speaker 2: Columbine has to be there, because it's really even hard
Speaker 2: to explain to people how we get so much information
Speaker 2: now within three hours of some terrible tragedy like that happening,
Speaker 2: and even the headlines on the newspapers the next day
Speaker 2: after Columbine said there were fifty people dead. That was
Speaker 2: never true. But I mean the amount of time it
Speaker 2: took for us to find out the truth of what
Speaker 2: had happened at Columbine, by today's standards, was so slow,
Speaker 2: and because of that, it made the coverage so scary
Speaker 2: and terrifying and heartbreaking, heart breaking to cover.
Speaker 1: You were telling a story earlier about the initial reports
Speaker 1: you were receiving as to how many children may have been.
Speaker 2: No, we thought there were fifty.
Speaker 1: And I thought at one point there were even some
Speaker 1: reports because Kathy's always getting access to information first. At
Speaker 1: one point, didn't they think there might be one hundred children?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we were told horrific numbers. Yeah, people
Speaker 2: that we thought were dead at Columbine. And that does
Speaker 2: not mean to mitigate that thirteen people lost their lives
Speaker 2: that day in Columbine, that one of them was a teacher,
Speaker 2: that twelve of them were students, and Dan I covered
Speaker 2: all the Catholic kids funerals from Columbine, right and only
Speaker 2: once during a prayer service that I attended, and I
Speaker 2: went to so many things in the week after, only
Speaker 2: once did we talk about the fifteen people who died
Speaker 2: a college right. Only once? Yeah, yeah, Wow, the Youth Day,
Speaker 2: I just I don't even want to go away without
Speaker 2: thinking about.
Speaker 1: We had the light wear I got to go to
Speaker 1: another news do you home? But we had the Pope,
Speaker 1: don't you last one?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: We had the Pope here. We had this amazing influx.
Speaker 2: People kept telling us the World Youth Day was going
Speaker 2: to be this really great thing for Denver, and most
Speaker 2: of us are like, going, what is it? We don't
Speaker 2: even understand.
Speaker 1: What it is.
Speaker 2: And they were like, well, Pope John Paul will be
Speaker 2: here and all these kids from all around the world
Speaker 2: will be here. And then pretty soon everyone you knew
Speaker 2: was either helping out, feeding a kid, running people all
Speaker 2: over town, doing security, working extra because their company was
Speaker 2: somehow involved. Everybody in this whole community played a role
Speaker 2: in World Youth Day. It was such a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: It was beautiful. Do you feel a Katy, because I
Speaker 1: think it changed this area forever because remember how violent
Speaker 1: the summer had been before that and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden that turned around.
Speaker 4: But just in case you take.
Speaker 1: Off, because Kathy never likes talking about Kathy, I want
Speaker 1: to mention two powerful experiences I've had with you, and
Speaker 1: so many more than that, but one makes me laugh,
Speaker 1: one makes me cry. The one that makes me laugh
Speaker 1: is I'll never forget walking in here during COVID with
Speaker 1: a guest of mine without a mask on, and the
Speaker 1: look I got from you, and I thought they are
Speaker 1: going to list my death as COVID related, and I
Speaker 1: guess it would have been in one way but the other.
Speaker 1: And I'll be eternally grateful to you because when my
Speaker 1: mom passed away, When my mom passed away, you reported
Speaker 1: it on eight fifty KOWA as news, and that was
Speaker 1: that meant so much to our whole family. And my
Speaker 1: mom deserved that because she wasn't in the headlines, but
Speaker 1: she was one of those great people who did great
Speaker 1: things that nobody ever heard about. So for Kathy Walker
Speaker 1: at eight fifty KOA to report her death as news
Speaker 1: just meant more than you'll ever know. So, but that's
Speaker 1: just how you are. But that's the.
Speaker 2: Life sperience of being a human lives in a community
Speaker 2: who wants to be responsible to a community. And it's
Speaker 2: been my privilege, am I honor and I'm so grateful.
Speaker 2: I'm just so grateful.
Speaker 1: Well, you've got to write a book. And that's why
Speaker 1: I open the segment by stealing a ligne. Somebody else
Speaker 1: came up with that. You've written the first draft of
Speaker 1: the history of this state. So I really hope you
Speaker 1: write a book because you are and I've had the
Speaker 1: privilege of knowing is you have some really outstanding people
Speaker 1: in journalism. I can't think of a single person who
Speaker 1: has shown more absolutely rock steady integrity down the middle
Speaker 1: journalism year after year after year. You're the person who
Speaker 1: should write a book.
Speaker 2: Wow, that is so kind of you to say, Dan,
Speaker 2: and with your knowledge and your expertise in your life
Speaker 2: story here in Colorado, right, Well, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, but thank you. There many of those what she does.
Speaker 2: I've lived here for an appreciable amount of our adult lives,
Speaker 2: Like there just aren't that many of us, and it's
Speaker 2: such a gift.
Speaker 1: It's it's so nice. We're all better off because you
Speaker 1: are you and you did what you did for thirty
Speaker 1: five years. Wow, thank you and I'll buy the first
Speaker 1: copy of the book.
Speaker 2: It's been awesome. Thank you for your encouragement.
Speaker 1: There you go, I thank you, Jenny Walker, go get him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just one of a kind. We've all been so lucky
Speaker 1: to have her. Three or three someone three eight two
Speaker 1: five five tags d A N five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Thank you to Kathy Walker for joining us the only
Speaker 1: interview she's agreed to give today, and such a privilege
Speaker 1: for me because we've been here a long time together.
Speaker 1: She longer thirty five years as news director, but right
Speaker 1: down the middle and truly as we sit here today,
Speaker 1: I don't know her politics. Think about that talk about
Speaker 1: a true journalist. So great stuff. If you missed it,
Speaker 1: you can get it off the podcast. In the last segment,
Speaker 1: Scott Jennings joins us at five oh six. I've talked
Speaker 1: about him a lot on the show because I think
Speaker 1: he's obviously by far the best can conservative on air,
Speaker 1: particularly since he has to do battle right. It's one
Speaker 1: thing to have a conservative talk show and I have
Speaker 1: a lot of respect for a lot of these guys
Speaker 1: and ladies, you know, people like Jesse Waters, et cetera.
Speaker 1: But it is uniquely difficult to go on and do
Speaker 1: battle with other smart people who have opposing political points
Speaker 1: of view. And so Scott Jennings does that so incredibly
Speaker 1: well on CNN. And because he is opposed and he
Speaker 1: has to give and take and do it on the fly,
Speaker 1: I think he gains even more for conservatism and persuades
Speaker 1: more people and helps more people be able to go
Speaker 1: out and defend what they believe. So a true talent.
Speaker 1: I also think he's presidential material, and I'll ask him
Speaker 1: about that when he joins us at five oh six.
Speaker 1: Got a great text here before I play some very
Speaker 1: compelling sound for you on this D day, But this
Speaker 1: text D and I moved to Colorado in nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 1: Kathy is all I've ever known is the voice of news.
Speaker 1: Since I arrived there, I still listen eight hundred miles
Speaker 1: away and pursue voice of reason at the top of
Speaker 1: every hour. Has kept me up to the moment every
Speaker 1: news story that matters for the last thirty years. Cheers
Speaker 1: Kathy from Gina in Springfield want a cool text. So
Speaker 1: you know, you sit here right now and d day,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't even hear much talk about it, right,
Speaker 1: And then you go back and you know, we're lucky,
Speaker 1: right because we can just YouTube stuff and we can
Speaker 1: see some of the newsreels from that day and hear
Speaker 1: some of the sound and everything else, and it's almost
Speaker 1: impossible to wrap your mind around, you know, what people
Speaker 1: were willing to do then, to save others, to save
Speaker 1: foreign countries, to save Europe, to save the world. And
Speaker 1: just you know, obviously I never have so many odes,
Speaker 1: so much to so few, but I just I just
Speaker 1: wonder if America is going to remember are the kids
Speaker 1: being taught this? Do the kids remember? But I did
Speaker 1: want to play some of that sound today, Ladies and.
Speaker 5: Gentlemen, the President of the United States, my fellow Americans,
Speaker 5: last night, when I spoke with you about the fall
Speaker 5: of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of
Speaker 5: the United States and our allies were crossing the channel
Speaker 5: in another and greater operation. It has come to pass
Speaker 5: with success thus far. And so in this poignant hour,
Speaker 5: I ask you to join with me in prayer.
Speaker 6: Almighty God, our sons pride of our nation. This day
Speaker 6: have set upon a.
Speaker 5: Mighty endeavor, a struggled to preserve our public, our religion,
Speaker 5: and our civilization, and to set free a suffering human manity.
Speaker 6: Plead them straight and crue.
Speaker 5: Give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness
Speaker 5: in their faith. They will need thy blessings. Their road
Speaker 5: will be long and hard, for the enemy is strong.
Speaker 6: He may hurl back our forces.
Speaker 5: Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return.
Speaker 6: Again and again. And we know that by Thy grace
Speaker 6: and by.
Speaker 5: The righteousness of our cause, our suns will triumph. They
Speaker 5: will be soret tried by night and by day, without rest,
Speaker 5: until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent
Speaker 5: by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with
Speaker 5: the violences of war.
Speaker 6: For these men.
Speaker 5: Are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight
Speaker 5: not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end
Speaker 5: the conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let
Speaker 5: justice arise, and tolerance and good will among all thy people.
Speaker 6: They yearn but for the end of battle, for their
Speaker 6: return to the haven of home. Some will never return.
Speaker 6: Embrace these father.
Speaker 5: And receive them thy heroic servants into Thy kingdom, and
Speaker 5: for us at home, fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and
Speaker 5: brothers of brave men overseas, whose thoughts and.
Speaker 6: Prayers are ever with.
Speaker 5: Them, Help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed
Speaker 5: faith in THEE in this hour of great sacrifice. Many
Speaker 5: people have urged that I call the nation into a
Speaker 5: single day of special prayer.
Speaker 6: But because the road is long and.
Speaker 5: The desire is great, I ask that our people devote
Speaker 5: themselves in a continuance of prayer as we rise to
Speaker 5: each new day, and again when each day.
Speaker 6: Is spent.
Speaker 1: FDR. It's like that was divinely inspired, absolutely perfect. And
Speaker 1: then you think about today, and I don't mean this
Speaker 1: as a shot, just the reality. You think about today,
Speaker 1: how fast he would be sued by how many different
Speaker 1: groups because he used that broadcast to push religion, to
Speaker 1: push prayer, to push God. Obviously, the world doesn't survive
Speaker 1: without that deep faith and without that commitment to faith.
Speaker 1: You're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Certainly I was.
Speaker 7: Sailors and airman of the Allied Expeditionary Force. You are
Speaker 7: about to embark upon the great crusade toward which we
Speaker 7: have striven these many months.
Speaker 1: The world are upon you.
Speaker 7: The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march
Speaker 7: with you, in company with our brave allies and brothers
Speaker 7: in arms on other fronts. You will bring about the
Speaker 7: destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi
Speaker 7: tyranny over the oppessed peoples of Europe, and security for
Speaker 7: ourselves in a free world. Your task will not be
Speaker 7: an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped,
Speaker 7: and battle hardened. He will fight savagely. But this is
Speaker 7: the year nineteen forty four. Much has happened since the
Speaker 7: Nazi triumphs of nineteen forty forty one. The United Nations
Speaker 7: have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats in open battle.
Speaker 6: Man demand.
Speaker 7: Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the
Speaker 7: air and their capacity to wage war on the ground.
Speaker 7: Our home fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in
Speaker 7: weapons and munitions of war, and place at our disposal
Speaker 7: great reserves of trained fighting men.
Speaker 1: The tide has turned.
Speaker 7: The freemen of the world are marching together to victory.
Speaker 7: I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty,
Speaker 7: and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than
Speaker 7: full victory, good luck, and let us all be seeks
Speaker 7: the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
Speaker 1: Wow Ike's D Day's speech June sixth, nineteen forty four
Speaker 1: is so inspiring, and we started with FDR's prayer to
Speaker 1: the Nation, with the nation his prayer to God on
Speaker 1: D Day, and we'll play that again. It's just so
Speaker 1: inspiring and obviously raises a lot of questions about where
Speaker 1: we're at today. Somebody out there fighting a good fight
Speaker 1: every day. Aaron Lee, Protect Kids Colorado. Great to ever back.
Speaker 4: Aaron.
Speaker 8: How you doing, Hey, Dan, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: I'm doing great, good, good well. I wanted to get
Speaker 1: you out and talk a little bit about the measures.
Speaker 1: I know you've cleared the first hurdle and just fill
Speaker 1: folks in and let them know how they can help
Speaker 1: if if they want to.
Speaker 8: Yes, thank you so much for giving me this opportunity
Speaker 8: to talk about protect Kids. So I'm the executive director.
Speaker 8: We started last year so people may remember our girls
Speaker 8: sports and parents must be notified. Initiatives that circulated and
Speaker 8: we actually on Wednesday just survived challenge at the title Board,
Speaker 8: and so we are the green light to print our
Speaker 8: three initiatives. And the three issues are stopping trafficking, making
Speaker 8: it a life in prison sentence no chance of parole
Speaker 8: if you buy or sell a child for sex in
Speaker 8: the state of Colorado, and that's chaired by Mark Ozgeist,
Speaker 8: the ben Gazi Hero. And then our second issue is
Speaker 8: again keeping boys out of girls sports and locker rooms,
Speaker 8: which is shared by Jennifer Say who started XXXY Athletics.
Speaker 8: She's a tremendous champion on this issue. And then our
Speaker 8: third issue is preventing making it illegal to perform these barbaric,
Speaker 8: irreversible sex change procedures on minor children and I am
Speaker 8: hearing that issue myself, and so we will be printing
Speaker 8: here in the next few weeks. We're looking for every
Speaker 8: Colorado who's interested in doing something, you know, especially with
Speaker 8: thirteen twelve, I've had so many people reach out and say,
Speaker 8: what can we do? The state is it's in trouble
Speaker 8: and we all want to take part, and this is
Speaker 8: such an easy way of being part of the solution.
Speaker 8: Take a petition, get forty people or more to sign it,
Speaker 8: and we all just do a little bit, we absolutely
Speaker 8: will win at the ballot.
Speaker 1: Well said, how many signatures do you need?
Speaker 8: So we need roughly one hundred and thirty five thousand.
Speaker 8: We're shooting for two hundred thousand on each issue. And
Speaker 8: I should mention that you know, last year we had
Speaker 8: eighty days because we had because of legal challenges, our
Speaker 8: timeline was shortened, we had no money, we were an
Speaker 8: all volunteer effort, we were just starting out, and in
Speaker 8: about eighty days we got nearly eighty thousand signatures, which
Speaker 8: is almost quadri ruple what has ever been done with
Speaker 8: an all volunteer effort with a full six month timeline.
Speaker 8: So it really speaks to how hungry Colorado's are to
Speaker 8: make change in this state and how agreeable these issues are,
Speaker 8: these eighty twenty, you know, even ninety ten issues on
Speaker 8: the trafficking front. The people don't agree with what's happening
Speaker 8: at our capital. And so we're so blessed to have
Speaker 8: this Citizen's Baalid initiative process where we the people can
Speaker 8: make change in past law.
Speaker 1: Absolutely aerinly, our guest, how again can people plug.
Speaker 4: In so protect kids?
Speaker 8: Colorado dot org encourage people to sign up just to
Speaker 8: volunteer to carry a petition or help out anyway they
Speaker 8: can and follow us on social just protect kids Colorado.
Speaker 1: Great work, great work, Aaron. I hope we have you
Speaker 1: back off, and we will have you back off, and
Speaker 1: I hope you get all these past.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much, Thank you.
Speaker 1: You take care and de boys. She's doing great work
Speaker 1: out there, Erinlee and the initiative process is a real
Speaker 1: opportunity in Colorado, right, because we see that all the time.
Speaker 1: You know, anything in a red Jersey often gets shots.
Speaker 1: Politically speaking, on election, you know, Republicans are losing these
Speaker 1: state wide races way too often, including a lot of
Speaker 1: really good Republican candidates. But yet in those same elections
Speaker 1: you'll see ballot measures pass that obviously are favored by
Speaker 1: the GOP Conservatives, et cetera. So there is still hope,
Speaker 1: and I think there's hope statewide as well. Right candidate,
Speaker 1: right campaign, everything comes together well three all three seven
Speaker 1: to one three eight two five five the number techs
Speaker 1: d A N five seven seven three nine. Scott Jennings
Speaker 1: joins us at five six. Looking forward to that conversation.
Speaker 1: I you know, there have been some really talented conservative
Speaker 1: warriors on national TV over the years. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think of anybody better than Scott Jennings. Ryan. I cannot
Speaker 1: right now. And you know, it's not like globetrotters v.
Speaker 1: Washington generals. They throw them up against every now and
Speaker 1: then some pretty intelligent, eloquent people on the left, bad ideas,
Speaker 1: but smart talented people, and Jennings handles all of them,
Speaker 1: and so it'll be great to have this conversation. I
Speaker 1: really do think. I expect he'll be in the US
Speaker 1: Center from Kentucky, but I'd love to see you on
Speaker 1: that presidential arena over the years.
Speaker 9: So certainly the Senate seat would be a tremendous get
Speaker 9: for him, and I think for people that are of
Speaker 9: our political persuasion, You're right, he is a uniquely talented voice.
Speaker 9: But I'll say this too, dan Abby Phillip is smart
Speaker 9: in the sense that she has him on the show regularly.
Speaker 9: I think she is by far the highest rated show
Speaker 9: on CNN. Sure as a result, but wouldn't it be
Speaker 9: a harbinger or an indicator to executives at CNNMSNBC that
Speaker 9: if you have a smart conservative voice on there, you're
Speaker 9: gonna get twice as many eyeballs.
Speaker 4: If not more so, why not do it?
Speaker 1: And I'll ask him, But they were talking about giving
Speaker 1: him his own show.
Speaker 4: Right, well, you can ask him that too. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then the question is is it would be
Speaker 1: great right because he's obvious you retwent it, But would
Speaker 1: it be as compelling if he doesn't have the point counterpoint?
Speaker 1: And that's one of the things that's so impressive to
Speaker 1: me is that he's able to engage in that battle
Speaker 1: day in and day out and do very well. And
Speaker 1: I know how hard that is because for what's seven
Speaker 1: years on air here, you know, I'd go up against
Speaker 1: a really smart guy in Craig Silverman, and it's it's
Speaker 1: a lot more work, you know, it makes you better,
Speaker 1: it's a lot more work. But very few people can
Speaker 1: do it as well as Scott Jennings does it. So
Speaker 1: he'll be at five oh six Texter to d An
Speaker 1: five seven, seven, three nine. It's incredible how much more
Speaker 1: eloquent yesterday's leaders were compared with today. Thank you for
Speaker 1: playing FDR's address to the nation after D Day. My
Speaker 1: grandfather fought in the South Pacific and he wasn't there
Speaker 1: on D Day. But I always think of him on
Speaker 1: sixty six and twelve seven. That's some DK in Broomfield.
Speaker 1: It really is striking. I'm going to play that sound
Speaker 1: throughout the afternoon. First, FDR's addressed to the nation, which
Speaker 1: was a prayer and a call to join together in prayer,
Speaker 1: which in and of itself is so telling, right, because
Speaker 1: you see the modern day left FDR obviously the leader
Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party at the time. The modern day
Speaker 1: Democratic Party is so rabidly secular and so rabidly hostile
Speaker 1: toward faith, particularly Christianity. And yet you see one of
Speaker 1: the greatest Democrat leaders of the nation ever in FDR.
Speaker 1: You know who got it. He understood, He understood the
Speaker 1: pay grades and the pecking order, and he understood, hey,
Speaker 1: we need God, and this starts and ends with God,
Speaker 1: just like the Founders, right, I mean the last line
Speaker 1: of the Declaration, with reliance on divine providence. We pledged
Speaker 1: you our lives, our fortune, our sacred honor. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: got it too. But today's modern Democratic Party do you
Speaker 1: think you'd ever hear anything like that going into war?
Speaker 1: Do you think the modern Democratic Party? And I don't
Speaker 1: mean Democrats, because there are so many patriotic Democrats God
Speaker 1: loving Democrats. I'm talking about the people who own and
Speaker 1: operate the party. Do you think they'd ever support going
Speaker 1: to war for anything? I mean, no matter how noble
Speaker 1: the cause, but certainly not with the prayer in an
Speaker 1: appeal to God. They'd file lawsuits over that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's worth remembering, as the texture says, how much more
Speaker 1: eloquent and how open about reliance on God and commitment
Speaker 1: to God that leaders from both parties were in the past.
Speaker 1: And so when we come back, I want to do
Speaker 1: a punch of that sound in the next segment. There's
Speaker 1: nothing I can say that can rival this sound. For example, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll do FDR's Addressed to the Nation. We'll do Eisenhower again.
Speaker 1: We'll do Eisenhower's Address to the Troops, which was shorter
Speaker 1: but I think so compelling. As so often as the
Speaker 1: case right, Ryan, so often it's the shorter statements, Gettyberg's dragon,
Speaker 1: Gettysburg attrass that lived through history. I'll blame that on
Speaker 1: the peanut butter, but it's probably Friday of Trial. Weak
Speaker 1: brain three or three five takes d An five seven, seven,
Speaker 1: three nine, Scott Jennings at five six. You're on the
Speaker 1: Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 10: I have received this afternoon a message from the Japanese government.
Speaker 10: They interplied to the message forward to that government by
Speaker 10: the Secretary of State on August eleventh. I deem this
Speaker 10: reply a full acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, which specifies
Speaker 10: the unconditional surrender of Japan. In the reply, there is
Speaker 10: no qualification. Arrangements are now being made for the formal
Speaker 10: signing of the surrender terms at the earliest possible moment.
Speaker 10: General Douglas MacArthur has been appointed the Supreme Allied Commander
Speaker 10: to receive the Japanese surrender. Great Britain, Russia and China
Speaker 10: will be represented by high ranking officers. Meantime, the Allied
Speaker 10: armed forces have been ordered to suspend offensive action. The
Speaker 10: proclamation of VJ Day must have waited upon the pharma
Speaker 10: signing of the surrender terms by Japan.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine Can you imagine being alive then and
Speaker 1: hearing that with all that had been sacrificed and suffered through,
Speaker 1: you know, to win that war, that the war obviously
Speaker 1: for the future of civilization in the world. On this
Speaker 1: D Day, On this D Day, anniversary, playing a lot
Speaker 1: of sound from that day and related to that day,
Speaker 1: and none better. I think, well that tie right between
Speaker 1: Ike's addressed to the troops and FDR's addressed to the Nation,
Speaker 1: which was really a prayer, Fdr leading the nation in prayer.
Speaker 1: But I do want to squeeze I do want to
Speaker 1: squeeze this one in. In the meantime, President Reagan part
Speaker 1: of his epic speech at Normandy.
Speaker 3: We stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern
Speaker 3: shore of France.
Speaker 1: The air was soft, but forty years ago.
Speaker 3: At this moment, the air was dense with smoke and
Speaker 3: the cries of men, and the air was filled with
Speaker 3: the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon.
Speaker 3: At dawn on the morning of the sixth of June
Speaker 3: nineteen forty four, two hundred and twenty five rangers jumped
Speaker 3: off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom
Speaker 3: of these cliffs. Their mission was one of the most
Speaker 3: difficult and daring of the invasion, to climb these sheer
Speaker 3: and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns. The
Speaker 3: Allies had been told that some of the mightiest of
Speaker 3: these guns were here, and they would be trained on
Speaker 3: the beaches to stop the Allied advance. The rangers looked
Speaker 3: up and saw the enemy soldiers the edge of the cliffs,
Speaker 3: shooting down at them with machine guns and throwing grenades,
Speaker 3: and the American rangers began to climb. They shot rope
Speaker 3: ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to
Speaker 3: pull themselves up. When one ranger fell, another would take
Speaker 3: his place. When one rope was cut, a ranger would
Speaker 3: grab another and begin his climb again. They climbed, shot back,
Speaker 3: and held their footing. Soon one by one the rangers
Speaker 3: pulled themselves over the top, and in seizing the firm
Speaker 3: land at the top of these cliffs, they began to
Speaker 3: seize back the continent of Europe. Two hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: five came here after two days of fighting, only ninety
Speaker 3: could still bear arms. Behind me as a memorial the
Speaker 3: symbolizers the ranger daggers that were thrust into the top
Speaker 3: of these cliffs, and before me are the men who
Speaker 3: put them there. These are the boys of Puentejo.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 6: These are the who took the cliffs.
Speaker 3: These are the champions who helped free a continent, And
Speaker 3: these are the heroes who helped end a war. Gentlemen,
Speaker 3: I look at you, and I think of the words
Speaker 3: of Steven Spender's poem. You were men who, in your
Speaker 3: quote lives, fought for life and left the vivid air
Speaker 3: signed with your honor.
Speaker 1: Wow, just blows you away, doesn't He left the vivid
Speaker 1: air signed with your honor. Man.
Speaker 9: That was neat because there was a little over forty
Speaker 9: years ago, so about half the time ago that it was,
Speaker 9: and Ronald Reagan delivering that address, and many of those
Speaker 9: veterans were still surviving at that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they would have been young guys, they would
Speaker 1: have been in their sixties, right. But then you listened
Speaker 1: to FDR, you listen to Reagan, you know, you listen
Speaker 1: to Ike's address on D Day, and you think, you know,
Speaker 1: where have the giants gone?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: And will we get more? Because you you know, obviously
Speaker 1: we faced and will face some existential challenges to civilization.
Speaker 1: But I don't think you can get through those without
Speaker 1: giants like that. And it's one of the things here.
Speaker 1: Remember the founders, they said they were relying on divine providence.
Speaker 1: That was their big bat. They truly believed that they
Speaker 1: could win because of God, because they couldn't win any
Speaker 1: other way. Right, You look at the odds when they
Speaker 1: started out, and I think one of the ways, right,
Speaker 1: I think one of the ways that has played out
Speaker 1: very concretely, is it seems like, and maybe I'm forgetting something,
Speaker 1: but it seems like at every true watershed, crossroads moment
Speaker 1: when it was all on the line for this nation
Speaker 1: and beyond that, you know, God has provided that great leader,
Speaker 1: sometimes the Democrats, sometimes a Republican, but that God has
Speaker 1: provided that great leader. And you hear some of them here, right,
Speaker 1: sometimes Democrats and Republicans at the same time. It Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it brings you back to today. Listen Trump, And
Speaker 1: I know he's polarizing, but he's a larger than life
Speaker 1: figure and a figure who is a force of nature
Speaker 1: shaping events dramatically in the world. But how many truly
Speaker 1: great leaders are there right now, locally, nationally, worldwide. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would love you're taking that. But Scott Jennings after
Speaker 1: the break, it's going to be so cool to talk
Speaker 1: to him. I just think he's one of the best
Speaker 1: to have ever done what he's doing right now, which
Speaker 1: is going on air, not just commentating, but doing battle
Speaker 1: with these on the left and some pretty sharp people
Speaker 1: on the left. He joins us after the break on
Speaker 1: the Dan Capsule Show.