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Speaker 2: The hour two of The Dan Capla Show here with
Speaker 2: well kind of shaff Steve Raimes setting in as Dan
Speaker 2: does some trial prep for another one of his big cases.
Speaker 2: So I'll have the show all week. And that's to
Speaker 2: the chagrin of some of you and to the support
Speaker 2: of some of you. One of the texts that came
Speaker 2: in came in and said that myself and Brockler are
Speaker 2: the favorite fill ins for this particular listener and always
Speaker 2: likes to tune in on either of us are on.
Speaker 2: You know, Brockler and I talked about doing a combined
Speaker 2: show at some point, but I'm afraid that might get
Speaker 2: off the rails pretty fast, because.
Speaker 3: Which is a great thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we would have a good time, there's no doubt
Speaker 2: about that. He and I definitely throw shots at each other.
Speaker 2: But let's get to the show what we're really here for.
Speaker 2: I got a governor's candidate on the line, a mister
Speaker 2: will Bride. And I don't know much about Will and
Speaker 2: maybe you don't either as a listener, but you're about
Speaker 2: to get to hear why this gentleman has jumped in
Speaker 2: the race. Straight from his mouth, Will, how are you doing?
Speaker 4: Hello, Sheriff Reims. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: On you bet Will, And you know, I'm kind of
Speaker 2: trying to give as many of the candidates a platform
Speaker 2: if they take advantage of using it. And we spoke
Speaker 2: just a little bit earlier today and kind of trying
Speaker 2: to fill you out. But if you would just tell
Speaker 2: the listeners a little bit about who you are, kind
Speaker 2: of what your background is and what made you decide
Speaker 2: to jump in this Colorado governor's race.
Speaker 4: Right, I'm running because there's so many important issues, But
Speaker 4: the main issue that's affecting us right here in Colorado
Speaker 4: is our economy. This isn't a left or a right issue.
Speaker 4: It's either up or down if you invest in, whether
Speaker 4: any type of stock, or you buy some type of
Speaker 4: business or a home or whatever it is you wanted
Speaker 4: to go up. And unfortunately in Colorado, our economy was
Speaker 4: ranked fifth in the country in two thousand and three,
Speaker 4: but we've dropped to forty first. Our roads have dropped
Speaker 4: to forty third, our education has dropped to forty fifth.
Speaker 4: Now you probably know this, but unfortunately we've become one
Speaker 4: of the most dangerous violence yes states in the country.
Speaker 4: I heard we were at fifth, but someone told me
Speaker 4: recently that we've gone up to third. So we're going
Speaker 4: in the wrong direction. And the party that's been in
Speaker 4: charge for the last twenty years, I can't blame anyone
Speaker 4: else because they've been in charge has been taking us
Speaker 4: on a downward spiral. And we've got to turn this around.
Speaker 4: So we want to make it an up. We want
Speaker 4: to go up.
Speaker 2: We want to go up.
Speaker 4: We want to go up. And one of the main
Speaker 4: things we're going to do is we want to end
Speaker 4: state income tax here in Colorado. That is something we
Speaker 4: filed a ballot initiative. So I thought, if I'm running
Speaker 4: as governor for one state white campaign, why not run two.
Speaker 4: So I filed the Will of the People twenty twenty
Speaker 4: six to end state income tax. And so we are
Speaker 4: out there talking about a new state income text. And
Speaker 4: I've heard from other people say, wow, if you take
Speaker 4: away income taxes, well our roads are going to go down.
Speaker 4: Well we're at forty third, it's going to hurt our economy. Well,
Speaker 4: we're forty first. Our education is going to suffer. Well,
Speaker 4: when you're at the bottom, you got to fire a coach,
Speaker 4: throw away the playbook, and go with something new. Now,
Speaker 4: something interesting that I really like about Dan is he's
Speaker 4: a trial lawyer, and if he doesn't win, he doesn't
Speaker 4: get paid. I've been a trial lawyer for over twenty
Speaker 4: two years, and I know what it's like to make
Speaker 4: a case, to present it to a jury. So that
Speaker 4: we can show those decision makers who are going to
Speaker 4: be our jury, We've got to go get unaffiliated in
Speaker 4: the middle. We've got to go get some Democrats and
Speaker 4: say they aren't up or down left rights or up
Speaker 4: or down issues, come join with us so that we
Speaker 4: can restore our constitutional freedoms and our economic freedoms here
Speaker 4: in Colorado.
Speaker 2: So, how do you get that message out to the
Speaker 2: voters on the republican side or the unaffiliated side as
Speaker 2: you hinted to, how do you get that message through this?
Speaker 2: Through this i'll say left leaning mainstream media that we
Speaker 2: have here in the state of Colorado. How do you
Speaker 2: break through that wall if you.
Speaker 4: Will, Well, first you start like we are now. I'm
Speaker 4: going all over across the state to whether it's some
Speaker 4: breakfasts or Lincoln Day dinners, and I'm getting to meet people.
Speaker 4: But I've been a trial lawyer for over twenty two
Speaker 4: years and I've reached out to the Latino community. I
Speaker 4: speak Spanish. Even though my last name is McBride, my
Speaker 4: dad was a Mexican migrant worker, so some people may
Speaker 4: know me as Abogato William And I've been on Spanish television,
Speaker 4: radio and in the community and we've got to go
Speaker 4: reach I speak Spanish, so we've been advertising, spent millions
Speaker 4: of dollars over the years on television advertising and radio,
Speaker 4: but also serving the community in the area of personal injury,
Speaker 4: wrong full death, and where justice needs to be fought
Speaker 4: for after a brain injury or spinal cord injury. So
Speaker 4: kind of like what Dan exactly what Dan's doing. So
Speaker 4: I think that's something that we've got to be able
Speaker 4: to get the message out in English and in Spanish
Speaker 4: and getting out there and talking about hey, this isn't
Speaker 4: about that's right, this is up or down, and we
Speaker 4: want to be able to put more money in color
Speaker 4: Run's wallet so they can spend because I mean, face it,
Speaker 4: it's going to be about ten thousand dollars per household
Speaker 4: if we do away with state income tax. Now, the
Speaker 4: legislature will never get it through, but that doesn't matter,
Speaker 4: because we the people tell the government what to do,
Speaker 4: Like Ronald Reagan said, they don't tell us. We have
Speaker 4: a ballid initiative. We can repeal state income tax and
Speaker 4: that'll save about ten thousand per household. And there are
Speaker 4: two point three million households in Colorado. That's twenty three
Speaker 4: billion dollars that will be pumped back into our economy
Speaker 4: for consumers to spend. That's that's the message I'm trying
Speaker 4: to get out there. Let's build our businesses.
Speaker 2: Okay. And so the thought process there is, you're you're
Speaker 2: the cut tax candidate in some ways, I mean that
Speaker 2: I'm putting words into your mouth and taxes are in taxes.
Speaker 2: So what kind of reception have you got with the
Speaker 2: crowds that you've been out talking to with that, with
Speaker 2: that message, are you being received well?
Speaker 4: Well, from what I'm hearing, yeah, I mean people are like, well,
Speaker 4: what's the catch? Why would I say no to that?
Speaker 4: And in fact, sixty five percent of Coloraden's voted in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty two to reduce state income text. And the
Speaker 4: irony here is pol Us back in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 4: If you call my Facebook McBride for Governor Facebook or
Speaker 4: you'll see he was an advocate to ending state income text.
Speaker 4: I think this is a very uniting point that we
Speaker 4: can go out there and get others to join our
Speaker 4: conservative message. And look, it comes down to the three ms.
Speaker 4: If we want to win, it comes down to three ms.
Speaker 4: We've got to have our message, which I believe is
Speaker 4: the economy. You got to have the right messenger who's
Speaker 4: going to go make the case. I believe I've been
Speaker 4: doing that for twenty two years. I'm also a licensed
Speaker 4: day minister, so I know how to communicate with people.
Speaker 4: And then finally it comes down to money, money, money.
Speaker 4: It's like real estate, location, location, location. We have been outraised.
Speaker 4: We have been out raised and hasn't even been close.
Speaker 4: Pol Us in this last we had about thirty two
Speaker 4: million compared to maybe one or two million dollars before
Speaker 4: that same thing. And we got to get away from
Speaker 4: there's going to be a millionaire that's going to put
Speaker 4: a few million dollars in and then and raise three
Speaker 4: hundred thousand dollars and think we're going to have a
Speaker 4: chance of standing up to bureaucrat Bennett versus the will
Speaker 4: of the people. But if we can all come together
Speaker 4: and get behind one candidate early, because they've they've basically
Speaker 4: rallied around bureaucrat benit right. The will of the people
Speaker 4: is coming in twenty twenty six, and I believe that's
Speaker 4: Will McBride and I want to hear what people have
Speaker 4: to say, but it's going to take money to get
Speaker 4: it out there, and you can't get your message out
Speaker 4: there without the money. So I look forward to people joining.
Speaker 4: I'm putting money in. I'm self funding right now, but
Speaker 4: we're I think this is a message we can all take.
Speaker 2: So it's interesting because oftentimes if a candidate is willing
Speaker 2: to put their own money into their race, it kind
Speaker 2: of tells you their level of commitment. So I applaud
Speaker 2: you for that. If the listeners want to find out
Speaker 2: more about you, you mentioned Facebook. Where else can they
Speaker 2: find you? On x or? I think you said you
Speaker 2: had a web page.
Speaker 4: Yeah, McBride for governor dot com, McBride for Governor dot com,
Speaker 4: McBride for Governor, Facebook, any you can go for McBride
Speaker 4: for govern All social media is going to be McBride
Speaker 4: for governor. I think one is Will McBride for governor.
Speaker 4: But yeah, look forward to visiting. I know we're in
Speaker 4: Well County. We're going to be back for the rodeo
Speaker 4: or tomorrow. It's tomorrow. We have a yes, and the
Speaker 4: roady is going to be tomorrow. I got six kids.
Speaker 4: My kids are excited about that kind of stuff and
Speaker 4: so and then we're going to be back for the fourth.
Speaker 4: We'll be in the parade fourth there in world?
Speaker 2: Sure, Well, where are you based out of? I mean
Speaker 2: where you're running your campaign from Loan Tree.
Speaker 4: We'll live in Loan Tree in Douglas County and my
Speaker 4: office is in DTC, and I have offices in other
Speaker 4: states as well, but we're here in the South Denver area.
Speaker 2: Very good. Well, just I guess one final question before
Speaker 2: we cut to break. If you've got to pick one
Speaker 2: of the Democrats to run against Phil Wiser and Michael Bennett,
Speaker 2: which do you think is the easier the easier opponent
Speaker 2: to run against? Personally? I think it's Bennett because he's
Speaker 2: so boring. But what's your take on that?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: Right, the Democrats are going to raise the money they have, sure,
Speaker 4: and I'm not running against any candidate. I'm running against
Speaker 4: time and many. There's some really good, respectable Republicans running,
Speaker 4: good guys, but if they can't raise the money, they
Speaker 4: can't get their message out. And so I am running
Speaker 4: for the will of the people and I want to
Speaker 4: get out there and say whomever it is. In twenty
Speaker 4: thirteen was my last heavyweight boxing with USA Boxing in
Speaker 4: Kansas City, and all I do is I just prepare.
Speaker 4: I go into the ring. I'm ready to fight, and
Speaker 4: I want to be be the happy warrior, come in
Speaker 4: there and share what I need to do, be very positive.
Speaker 4: So you know, but I will tell you Democrats have
Speaker 4: been well funded, but we're going to change that. We
Speaker 4: are definitely. I mean Hicky Looper had forty five million
Speaker 4: in his last race, and so we've got to get
Speaker 4: out there and raise the money. So well, got or two.
Speaker 2: Give one last shout out to the listeners here, tell
Speaker 2: them why you versus the rest of the field. What
Speaker 2: do you bring that the rest doesn't leave us with that?
Speaker 4: Okay, I bring a mess. We're going to focus on
Speaker 4: the economy that's so important. But I have conservatives strong
Speaker 4: values that I won't deviate from, but we got to
Speaker 4: do it in a respectful way. And I'm the messenger.
Speaker 4: I've been making a case in court for twenty two years,
Speaker 4: like Dan's been doing, and if we don't win, we
Speaker 4: don't get paid. So I know what it's like to
Speaker 4: be able to communicate a message in a very positive way.
Speaker 4: And I will be able to communicate this message in
Speaker 4: English and in Spanish and be able to go out
Speaker 4: and get those unaffiliated voters and even some Democrats and
Speaker 4: find common ground using the message of our good economy.
Speaker 4: We want to get it. We want to fight to
Speaker 4: improve our economy.
Speaker 2: Which is bad right now.
Speaker 4: We're going to make it good. We're going to make
Speaker 4: it great, and then eliminate state incotext. I'm not going
Speaker 4: to ask you what I'm going to do as governor.
Speaker 4: What I am going to what I have done, is governor.
Speaker 4: When I get elected, will have state incompacts ended on
Speaker 4: January one, twenty twenty six, our twenty twenty seven, that'll
Speaker 4: be phased out. But then finally it's about the money.
Speaker 4: I believe I can go out there, I can raise
Speaker 4: the money because people aren't going to give money to
Speaker 4: a candidate they don't believe in and that it doesn't
Speaker 4: believe they have a chance to win. So I'm Will McBride.
Speaker 4: I look forward to fighting for you, just like I've
Speaker 4: done in the courtroom. And this is going to be
Speaker 4: bureaucrat Bennett well funded against the will of the people.
Speaker 4: And like Rob and Reagan once said, we the people
Speaker 4: tell the government to do it doesn't tell us absolutely no.
Speaker 4: We need to take the wheel, we need to go
Speaker 4: back and we need to fight. The will of the
Speaker 4: people's coming in twenty twenty six. Will McBride for governor
Speaker 4: and I'd be honored to earn your vote.
Speaker 2: Sounds good, Will, Thanks for coming on the show and
Speaker 2: thanks for bringing a little bit of energy to this discussion.
Speaker 2: Wish you the best of luck and hopefully we'll have
Speaker 2: you back on at some point. Again, that's Will McBride.
Speaker 2: You can find him on the Googles and everywhere else
Speaker 2: and get to know him, find out a little bit
Speaker 2: about his race, and again, thanks Will for being on.
Speaker 2: We're going to cut the break when we come back.
Speaker 2: We'll get a few updates here and get back to
Speaker 2: our text messages. If you're listening to the Dankplash Show
Speaker 2: here at six thirty k how with well Keny Sheriff
Speaker 2: Steve Reims filling in.
Speaker 3: And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Dan's off doing trial prep and that music is obviously
Speaker 2: in reference to our last guest that Will McBride talking
Speaker 2: a little bit about how the money kind of drives
Speaker 2: these candidacies, and in Colorado, but in any state realistically,
Speaker 2: if you don't have the money, you can't get your
Speaker 2: message out. And you know, I think Will has an
Speaker 2: interesting approach to trying to get the energy behind him
Speaker 2: by saying, let's get rid of state income tax. I
Speaker 2: could support that for sure. I hate paying any kind
Speaker 2: of income tax. I hate paying taxes period, Like most
Speaker 2: people think taxation is theft. Just let me keep my money.
Speaker 2: But generated a few text messages here we got sheriff
Speaker 2: my apologies, but this guy needs to do a little
Speaker 2: bit more research. Colorado is second in crime in the
Speaker 2: crime rate. First in the state or first in the
Speaker 2: United States is New Mexico, and that is correct. I'm
Speaker 2: sure Colorado's fighting to become national champions. You know, we
Speaker 2: got to get to the top of the rung there.
Speaker 2: But another one here in reference to the moronic ed
Speaker 2: it in New York that's running to be the mayor.
Speaker 2: There are reports that membership is get membership is getting
Speaker 2: bigger for the Democratic Socialists because of mam Ranie. Uh.
Speaker 2: Just that just blows my mind.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then our good friend Steven Littleton, retired l e O.
Speaker 2: He says this state hasn't experienced enough pain to induce
Speaker 2: Colorado voters to admit that dim ideology is a failure.
Speaker 2: You know, he might be right. I hope, I hope
Speaker 2: you're wrong, Steve. I hope that you know that the
Speaker 2: middle of the road folks are just kind of setting
Speaker 2: as a silent majority right now saying we can't keep
Speaker 2: doing this. But uh, I'm always the optimist, and I
Speaker 2: want to believe that people see the things that are
Speaker 2: going on around them. But who knows. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: I can tell you as a sheriff, it's very frustrating
Speaker 2: to see our state legislature going one way while the
Speaker 2: common the common citizen is kind of going, this isn't
Speaker 2: what this isn't what we want, this isn't what we
Speaker 2: voted for. That played it self out very, very hugely
Speaker 2: in my office today. Some of you will remember a
Speaker 2: house build that was passed last year house built twenty
Speaker 2: four DASH eleven seventy four, and that was the redoing
Speaker 2: of the concealed weapon permit process. Where now when your
Speaker 2: permit starts to expire, you have to go out and
Speaker 2: take this refresher course. If you're newly applying, you have
Speaker 2: to take a two day course that takes twelve hours.
Speaker 2: You have to do a certain amount of shooting. You
Speaker 2: have to pass with a certain proficiency, a much higher proficiency.
Speaker 2: Your instructor has to be what they call a verified instructor.
Speaker 2: All that stuff goes into place tomorrow, so July one.
Speaker 2: So in the days and weeks leading up to this date,
Speaker 2: we've been inundated at the Weld County Sheriff's office with
Speaker 2: people who are trying to come in and beat that
Speaker 2: deadline to either apply under the current rules, the more
Speaker 2: realistic rules or laws, or they're trying to renew in
Speaker 2: that same window. So just to give an idea of
Speaker 2: how bad this Democrat policy fails when it comes to
Speaker 2: protecting people's Second Amendment rights. In Weald County, on average,
Speaker 2: we issue about twenty five to forty I say issue
Speaker 2: we either renew or issue concealed weapons permits at about
Speaker 2: that level every day at the Weld County Sheriff's Office,
Speaker 2: five days a week, somewhere between twenty five and forty
Speaker 2: permits a day. All last week they were issuing at
Speaker 2: least eighty a day, with Friday being the number of
Speaker 2: one twenty six. And I just got an update from
Speaker 2: my office staff that said today they had to stop
Speaker 2: taking applications at around three point thirty because they just
Speaker 2: couldn't continue to process the number of people we had waiting.
Speaker 2: And we've processed one hundred and eighty permits today through
Speaker 2: our tiny little lobby at the Weld County Sheriff's Office,
Speaker 2: just to keep people, you know, having access to their
Speaker 2: concealed weapon permit without having to jump through these extra
Speaker 2: hoops that the state legislatures put into place. And I
Speaker 2: just I can't help but point out when we hear
Speaker 2: gun crime in Denver or Aurora or even Weld County,
Speaker 2: the people that are committing that gun crime are not
Speaker 2: the people that are carrying their licensed I shouldn't even
Speaker 2: say license, they're concealed carry permit on them using their weapon.
Speaker 2: They're not the ones out committing crime. It's the little gangster,
Speaker 2: the underage kid who stolen out of a mom's house
Speaker 2: or out of a car on the street, or you know,
Speaker 2: those are the people that we are dealing with that
Speaker 2: are committing gun violence in this state. Or the nutball
Speaker 2: that goes into you know, a King Supers in Boulder
Speaker 2: with a very intentional plan. It's not the person who's
Speaker 2: going down and saying, hey, I want to protect myself.
Speaker 2: I want to get my concealed weapon permit. I want
Speaker 2: to be able to carry my gun on me in
Speaker 2: a legal fashion. But that's who this legislature focused on
Speaker 2: so much so that today I had every office staff
Speaker 2: available trying to help people to not be impacted by
Speaker 2: this law until you know, a five year window down
Speaker 2: the road when the permit expires and they have to
Speaker 2: then jump through these hoops that were created by a
Speaker 2: house built twenty four eleven seventy four. It's bad legislation.
Speaker 2: It was bad legislation when it was passed last year,
Speaker 2: and it's playing out exactly like we said it would.
Speaker 2: The honest people are still going to you know, they're
Speaker 2: going to go ahead and jump through the hoops because
Speaker 2: they want to carry their gun and they want to
Speaker 2: protect themselves. And the criminals are going to continue to
Speaker 2: be criminals because they don't follow the law, especially when
Speaker 2: it comes to carrying a concealed weapon. They just tuck
Speaker 2: it in the back of their pants and go about
Speaker 2: their business and don't expect to get caught because the
Speaker 2: crime that they're going to commit is far more extensive
Speaker 2: than the crime of carrying an unregistered CCW or an
Speaker 2: unlicensed CCW. It's ridiculous, but it's the policies of this state,
Speaker 2: and it's another reason why we need a good governor's
Speaker 2: candidate running on the Republican side. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we're going to talk to Justin Watada. He's the CEO
Speaker 2: of the Greeley Stampede because we happen to have this
Speaker 2: little thing going on in Weld County called the Stampede
Speaker 2: of our big rodeo and concert event. So when we
Speaker 2: come back from break, we'll have him here. Listening to
Speaker 2: the Dan Campless Show with Well Kenny Sheriff Steve Riams.
Speaker 3: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast Steve.
Speaker 2: Reams and we're going to cut to our guests here
Speaker 2: pretty quickly, and I'm glad we use such a traditional
Speaker 2: country song leading into our next guest, as he's the
Speaker 2: CEO for the Greeley Stampede. But for those of you
Speaker 2: who have never been up to Weld County or to
Speaker 2: Greeley to go to the Greeley Stampede, you're really missing out.
Speaker 2: It's not quite a Metallica concert. It's a little more
Speaker 2: laid back, a little more western. But justin, I hope
Speaker 2: you're on the line with us and you can tell
Speaker 2: us all about the goings on at the Greeley Stampede
Speaker 2: this year. Thanks sure m.
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me today.
Speaker 2: You bet, And so justin for the listeners around the
Speaker 2: state who have never been to the Greeley Stampede, give
Speaker 2: them a flavor of what they're missing and tell them
Speaker 2: why they should be coming up to visit.
Speaker 5: First off, shame on them as they haven't been up
Speaker 5: really stampede. As this will be our one hundred and
Speaker 5: third community celebration. So it's been going on for quite
Speaker 5: a long time, and it started in nineteen twenty two
Speaker 5: as a local community celebration to bring the farmers into
Speaker 5: town and so they were giving away coffee and pie
Speaker 5: and it's kind of grown over throughout the years, and
Speaker 5: so we have about two hundred and fifty thousand people
Speaker 5: that come to Island.
Speaker 2: Grove Park every year.
Speaker 5: Rodeo and country music's kind of the backbone of the Stampede,
Speaker 5: but there's a lot of different attractions and entertainment to
Speaker 5: bring people.
Speaker 2: Here to Greeley. So, having said all that, what are
Speaker 2: some of the things that are still in the lineup
Speaker 2: for people if they want to go grab a concert
Speaker 2: or see a rodeo. What are some of the events
Speaker 2: that they can still catch and when does the Stampede.
Speaker 4: In So this year was a twelve day event.
Speaker 5: We started last Wednesday and now we're onto Monday, so
Speaker 5: we're onto nighttime rodeos.
Speaker 4: We have our Pink Rodeo tonight, Tomorrow's our First Responder.
Speaker 5: Appreciation Night, and then Wednesday's our rodeo finals, and then
Speaker 5: we'll go into the final weekend with American bull fighting
Speaker 5: and fireworks on July fourth, Heritage of Mexico Rodeo on Saturday,
Speaker 5: followed by the Parker McCollum concert, and then we'll wrap
Speaker 5: things up with the popular Demolition Derby on Sunday, July fish.
Speaker 2: I can tell you that that is an all time
Speaker 2: favorite to attend is that demolition derby. I don't miss
Speaker 2: it any year. Being a gearhead, I love it, especially
Speaker 2: when they put a few RVs out there and knock
Speaker 2: the crap out of each other and sometimes literally knocked
Speaker 2: the bathroom out onto to the arena floor. It's a
Speaker 2: great time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's definitely crazy.
Speaker 5: You know, it's four hours plus of cars crashing and
Speaker 5: it sold out.
Speaker 4: It actually sold out yesterday.
Speaker 5: So the only tickets available for that.
Speaker 4: Are pit passes.
Speaker 5: And what's cool about the pit passes is people can
Speaker 5: get a close view of the cars. Yeah, and you're right,
Speaker 5: the most popular heat that we have are the RV
Speaker 5: heats that come in at the very end, because once
Speaker 5: they get hitting and exploding, you'll see that toilet hanging
Speaker 5: off the side.
Speaker 4: Or it's just pretty cool.
Speaker 2: It's truly Americana at the Greeley Stampede, whether it's a rodeo,
Speaker 2: whether it's a concert or you know, the traditional demolition derby.
Speaker 2: Just for the people that haven't been. What other events
Speaker 2: do you have other than just the rodeo. I mean
Speaker 2: there's exhibits, there's food, you got you got a fairway there?
Speaker 2: What all you got going so.
Speaker 5: I would tell people if they haven't been in the stampede.
Speaker 5: We're kind of a local community celebration. We kind of
Speaker 5: call it a reunion that people come down to Island
Speaker 5: Grove Park every summer during the fourth July weekend and if.
Speaker 4: They come and visit, it's.
Speaker 5: A lot usually anchored around what's happening in the arena
Speaker 5: that's a concert or rodeo, but there's over forty food vendors,
Speaker 5: so it's that festival food everything fried on a stick.
Speaker 5: We have a lot of family entertainment and attractions. We
Speaker 5: have a big carnival midway as well as different things
Speaker 5: for the families. We have a a dog show or
Speaker 5: these are the dogs that jump into the pool.
Speaker 4: We also have a dinosaur attraction.
Speaker 5: So we have a lot of different things that people
Speaker 5: can come out. And one of our main things is
Speaker 5: that affordable family entertainment so when people coming that if
Speaker 5: you don't want to go to a concert rodeo, parker
Speaker 5: mission is five dollars for adults, two dollars for kids
Speaker 5: and seniors, so it's really relatively affordable day to come
Speaker 5: out to the Greeley Stampede.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys have done a phenomenal job and it
Speaker 2: just gets better every year. You know, there was there
Speaker 2: was some negativity around the event in years past, and
Speaker 2: I think you guys have shunned that and and moved
Speaker 2: on to a new direction. I mean, I love taking
Speaker 2: my family out there. We have a good time every
Speaker 2: time we go. And for the people in the state
Speaker 2: of Colorado who have not got a chance to go
Speaker 2: up to Greeley and see the Greeley Stampede, you're really
Speaker 2: missing out. Justin what what would you leave the listeners
Speaker 2: with as a as a bright point if if they
Speaker 2: really want to come up, what's what's the best day?
Speaker 2: Or you know, just just tell us why should they
Speaker 2: come and what's the best day to get up there?
Speaker 5: I think you should come to the Greeley Stampede because
Speaker 5: we have something a little bit for everybody. And our
Speaker 5: thing is once people who have never been to the
Speaker 5: Greeley Stampede come actually and experience of stampede, then they
Speaker 5: become annual every year they started a canning.
Speaker 4: And so what I would say, especially if people.
Speaker 5: Are driving a little farther to the Greely Stampede, I
Speaker 5: would make a weekend out of it. Come up for
Speaker 5: a Friday, Saturday, or spend a couple of days and
Speaker 5: then you can get to full full experience of the
Speaker 5: Stampede instead of just coming for one thing. And what
Speaker 5: I really tell people is what makes the Stampede is
Speaker 5: that full experience. It's more than a venue getting out
Speaker 5: of your car and going to a concert or rodeo
Speaker 5: and then getting back in your car.
Speaker 4: When you come here, you can have that festival food.
Speaker 5: You can see the fifteen longhorns during our daily prey
Speaker 5: to the park at six o'clock, split the sea and
Speaker 5: it come right up the middle.
Speaker 4: But there's a lot of just.
Speaker 5: Different things that we still celebrate here at the Greely
Speaker 5: Stampede that we welcome you with some Western hospitality.
Speaker 2: And it's way cheaper than a metallic a concert.
Speaker 4: That is true.
Speaker 5: So next time we'll have some country music coming into
Speaker 5: the introll.
Speaker 2: Justin thanks for coming on with us. I just wanted
Speaker 2: to get your event out there as best we could. Again,
Speaker 2: we appreciate you being on and being on the show
Speaker 2: with us, and good luck tonight. I know it's a
Speaker 2: busy event and you got something going on every night,
Speaker 2: so we'll let you get back to it. But again,
Speaker 2: thanks for being on the show with us.
Speaker 4: Sound great.
Speaker 5: Thanks gee.
Speaker 2: You know, for those of you who haven't been up
Speaker 2: to the Greeley Stampede, I mean, I've lived in Weld
Speaker 2: County since nineteen ninety five and it's just a cool event.
Speaker 2: There were a few years where we got some pretty
Speaker 2: negative rap, but the concerts are great, the venue is great.
Speaker 2: It's very safe place to be, it's very family friendly,
Speaker 2: and it's very affordable because it's in Weld County, and
Speaker 2: we try to make sure that, you know, we do
Speaker 2: things at the right price for the people that are
Speaker 2: up there working hard and putting in the sweat equity
Speaker 2: to go out and enjoy themselves a little bit for
Speaker 2: an evening and justin what Todd has just done a
Speaker 2: great job of organizing that, and so again, if you
Speaker 2: haven't been up there, please go and visit. It's also
Speaker 2: good for the tax base in Weld County. And that'll
Speaker 2: get me back to one of these text messages I
Speaker 2: got here, says Steve. If taxation is theft, howerre roads
Speaker 2: to be built, police and fire departments and school is
Speaker 2: going to be paid for, you know, you got a
Speaker 2: good point. There's just a there's a point where it
Speaker 2: goes too far, and when it feels like half of
Speaker 2: your income is going to taxes, or you're being taxed
Speaker 2: before you get paid, you're getting taxed on things you
Speaker 2: buy after you get paid. At some point the government's
Speaker 2: got to rein in its belt and say, Okay, we
Speaker 2: can do more with less. Another text here says share
Speaker 2: if your last guest, that's Will McBride, talked about doing
Speaker 2: away with state income tax, and the question is what
Speaker 2: is his alternative for income tax? You know, he didn't
Speaker 2: get to that, and quite honestly, we didn't have enough
Speaker 2: time to really dive in as much as i'd I
Speaker 2: would have liked to. I would encourage you to go
Speaker 2: check out his website and see if he has an
Speaker 2: alternative for where that funding is going to be or
Speaker 2: how the budget's gonna going to get made here here
Speaker 2: in Colorado without a state income tax. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of states that function without a state income tax. They
Speaker 2: tend to have a little higher property tax rate. But
Speaker 2: I don't know what his specific plan is, and that's
Speaker 2: for him to define. I'm not going to try to
Speaker 2: do that for him. And then one last one here
Speaker 2: before we go to break, I have someone asking me
Speaker 2: they live in Larimer County, but can they get their
Speaker 2: conceal weapons permitting? Well, unfortunately know and with a new
Speaker 2: state law it's even more stringent about you know, how
Speaker 2: the CCW process works or conceill weapons process works. I
Speaker 2: would encourage you, if you have insomnia, to read how
Speaker 2: Spilled twenty four DASH eleven seventy four and it'll give
Speaker 2: you an idea of just how difficult the process is
Speaker 2: going to be in the future compared to what it was.
Speaker 2: I guess what it was today and in the past.
Speaker 2: So we'll cut to break. When we come back, we'll
Speaker 2: have our last little segment and we'll do some clean
Speaker 2: up work here. Stick with us. You listen to Dan
Speaker 2: Capless show here on six point thirty k how with
Speaker 2: Well County Sheriff Steve Raimes setting in as a fill in, and.
Speaker 3: Now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Listen to that song oftentimes, while I'm riding my motorcycle
Speaker 2: around in Wild County, I think I might actually bring
Speaker 2: that thing down here tomorrow just to stretch the legs
Speaker 2: a little bit and get a chance to get out
Speaker 2: in the wind. And tomorrow when the show's open over
Speaker 2: I'm driving straight to the Greeley Independent Stampede and attending
Speaker 2: the law Enforcement Appreciation night at the Rodeo. So I'll
Speaker 2: ride my steel horse to the Rodeo.
Speaker 6: I think, you know, we got to get a picture
Speaker 6: of you with that outside the iHeart Studios here and
Speaker 6: put that up on the socials.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, i'd love to. We'll make it a plan, and
Speaker 2: then you know, they'll probably be a hailstorm. I'll get
Speaker 2: beat to death, so it tends to be how it goes.
Speaker 3: I don't tell anybody, and I know this is just
Speaker 3: between you and me and nobody else.
Speaker 2: Nobody's listening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there are some car ports out there in back lot.
Speaker 6: Yeah they're not ours, Okay, they belong to whatever the
Speaker 6: businesses on the second floor.
Speaker 3: You know, if there's a few open and you're not
Speaker 3: taking anybody's, they're not like a sign. Put that steel
Speaker 3: horse right under there.
Speaker 2: That might not be a bad idea, but I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't own anything that's so impressive that I'm not
Speaker 2: too worried about it. But I love my motorcycle. I
Speaker 2: love a chance to get to ride it. Plan. I'm
Speaker 2: going to Sturgis this year. The worst hail storm I've
Speaker 2: ever been in, though, was riding back from Sturgis on
Speaker 2: a previous motorcycle. I had to pull over on the
Speaker 2: side of the road and cover my head with my
Speaker 2: jacket because at that point I didn't wear a helmet.
Speaker 2: I hope my wife's not listening. I'm she's no, she
Speaker 2: doesn't care. I covered. I covered the least valuable thing
Speaker 2: on me, which was my head. Couldn't do any damage. Yeah,
Speaker 2: what are you gonna hurt?
Speaker 4: There?
Speaker 2: So looking forward to doing that again this year. Heading
Speaker 2: up to Sturgis and getting out on the bike tomorrow
Speaker 2: will be a good warm up for that.
Speaker 4: So good.
Speaker 3: Big question, Yeah, are you a Harley or Indian Motors?
Speaker 2: I'm a Harley guy? How do you feel about Indian Motors?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 2: I think they're fine. I mean, if I had to
Speaker 2: pick a second choice, I'd ride an Indian. They make
Speaker 2: some they make some cool bikes. But we had this
Speaker 2: debate on one of the previous shows, and they're technically
Speaker 2: owned by Polaris, so yeah, you know it's it's cool,
Speaker 2: but Harley's just got a heritage to it that even
Speaker 2: though they kind of misstepped and tried to go woke
Speaker 2: for a little bit. They're still Harley's and I just
Speaker 2: love them. They're simple bikes and they have a sound
Speaker 2: that's unmistakable, and I've just addicted to him. I love
Speaker 2: to ride. And they got off of that woke train
Speaker 2: right real fast. Yeah yeah, they did not make the
Speaker 2: mistake of bud light and saying oh yeah watch this now.
Speaker 2: They stopped pretty quickly. So so talking about just a
Speaker 2: couple of things here to clear up the show or
Speaker 2: clean up the show. An announcement came out from Ryan
Speaker 2: Armagost in HD sixty four saying he is leaving the
Speaker 2: General Assembly on September one. He's going to step down,
Speaker 2: moved to Arizona, and he's taken a job out there. So,
Speaker 2: you know, for those of you that are loyal listeners
Speaker 2: and listening to Dan show all the time, you probably
Speaker 2: remember we had Ryan on towards the end of the session.
Speaker 2: He was kind of battling it out with the Rocky
Speaker 2: Mountain gun owners and then we had RNGO representatives from RMGO,
Speaker 2: Dudley Brown and Ian Escalante. They were kind of having
Speaker 2: a war of words back and forth about you know,
Speaker 2: who allowed for the Democrats to do more damage to
Speaker 2: our gun rights in Colorado kind of back and forth,
Speaker 2: back and forth, and I hope that's not what that
Speaker 2: isn't what is driving Ryan Armagous to take a different
Speaker 2: a different route with his career. But you know, the
Speaker 2: best of luck to him. I think he's done a
Speaker 2: good job down there at the State House. With the
Speaker 2: terrible numbers that the Republicans have down there, Sometimes it's
Speaker 2: just a matter of fighting a good fight and trying
Speaker 2: to stall things out. And I think Ryan, as the
Speaker 2: House Minority whip, was doing all he could. You know,
Speaker 2: I can't imagine being in that environment and having much fun.
Speaker 2: But good luck to him and wherever he's going down
Speaker 2: in Arizona. And he says he's going to stay in
Speaker 2: the Second Amendment advocacy arena, So we'll see what that
Speaker 2: looks like in future years. But that might give us
Speaker 2: an opportunity to see who's going to step up and
Speaker 2: and and fill that seat. I don't even know exactly
Speaker 2: what that uh, that process looks like, looks like. I
Speaker 2: think there's a I think there's a vacancy committee that
Speaker 2: will actually appoint the next the next person for that seat.
Speaker 2: So maybe we'll see who that is and see if
Speaker 2: we get him on the show and I can provide
Speaker 2: a segue.
Speaker 6: Okay, what's tailing off at your point about Representative armagust
Speaker 6: and he's resigning to take a job in Arizona.
Speaker 2: I believe so better for him and his endeavors.
Speaker 6: But Representative Brandy Bradley has thrown her hat into the
Speaker 6: ring to be the next minority whip. Okay, Arma goust
Speaker 6: was and she'll be joining me tomorrow on my program. Ryan,
Speaker 6: she'll provide her and cool be interesting to see. I
Speaker 6: know she's been very outspoken, very vocal. So uh, you know,
Speaker 6: if you if you spend any time around Ryan, you
Speaker 6: know he's not necessarily the most vocal guy, but kind
Speaker 6: of a I called him a silent warrior sarmitage.
Speaker 2: Is it not me? You wrong? Ryan?
Speaker 4: Wrong?
Speaker 2: Ryan? You were definitely not a silent warrior. You're not
Speaker 2: silent about much. I'm so talking about silence. Did we
Speaker 2: really turn off Kelly's microphone because she's she's been silent
Speaker 2: for a while.
Speaker 4: I'm good, I'm here.
Speaker 2: I thought you were. I thought she were still in
Speaker 2: communist purgatory.
Speaker 3: She is, well, yeah, well Metallica does help.
Speaker 2: So I thought she was going to throw her back
Speaker 2: out over there, Agoe. So, Kelly, I just have to
Speaker 2: ask the Metallica concert, is that Is that the best
Speaker 2: concert you've ever been to or where's it rank?
Speaker 7: It was a really really good concert. I have to say,
Speaker 7: I've seen a c DC many times, and that was
Speaker 7: Those are always great concerts. Metallica is very solid. I
Speaker 7: will tell you Pantera looks a.
Speaker 4: Little bit old.
Speaker 2: Yeah they've been around a while.
Speaker 7: Yeah they're aging a little, but no, they're they were solid.
Speaker 7: I also was one of the I don't know if
Speaker 7: you want to say fortunate ones in La when Guns
Speaker 7: N' Roses, Rolling Stones and Metallica actually played the triple show.
Speaker 7: And that was when Axel was a baby and he
Speaker 7: didn't come out for two hours.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, and the crowd really ticked off.
Speaker 7: Yes, the crowd was not happy.
Speaker 2: Was the reason because Axl rose.
Speaker 7: But it was weird because they were sandwiched in between
Speaker 7: Rolling Stones, who came on first, and then Metallica, who
Speaker 7: came on last, and so there was like this two
Speaker 7: hour gap in between and you had to wait for that.
Speaker 7: It didn't go like that last night, but I will
Speaker 7: I'll tell you I can I can say that I'm
Speaker 7: not twenty one anymore.
Speaker 2: Gotcha, gotcha? Well, thanks for tuning in out there. If
Speaker 2: you're Dan Caplis's loyal follower, you will not have him
Speaker 2: for the next two days. You'll have me, but please
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Speaker 2: candidates on in the next couple of days, and we'll
Speaker 2: try to make sure we give all these guys a
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