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Speaker 2: This is not Dan Caples, This is Heidi Ganoll on
Speaker 2: with Ryan Schuling. This afternoon. Dan is working hard to
Speaker 2: put bad guys in jail or get money out of
Speaker 2: bad guys. I mean, Dan just does it all. Anyway,
Speaker 2: we are going to have a great time together today.
Speaker 2: I've got some really interesting folks joining us, including my
Speaker 2: own daughter, Tory Ganall who is She's twenty nine. She's
Speaker 2: a millennial and she's also the national committee woman for
Speaker 2: the Colord of Young Republicans. So I want to he.
Speaker 3: Way, wait, there's no way you have a twenty nine
Speaker 3: year old child.
Speaker 2: Oh thanks, Ron. I had her when I was like, yeah, nineteen,
Speaker 2: Now I have so many kids. Import Tory. When I
Speaker 2: was when she was like twelve or thirteen, I'd been
Speaker 2: a single mom. I met Jason, got set up on
Speaker 2: a blind date, and you know, we found madly love
Speaker 2: and did all the things and got married. And she's like, wait,
Speaker 2: what like you and I were having a lot of
Speaker 2: fun together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fella Louise type stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, she reminds me that during my crazy evenings of
Speaker 2: driving kids all over the place, She's like, we could
Speaker 2: be traveling the world having a good time. But I
Speaker 2: also have a fifteen year old daughter, Holly, who's a
Speaker 2: freshman at Valor, and then twins Jack and Jenna, who
Speaker 2: are thirteen that just had their last day of school
Speaker 2: at Cardo Christian Academy today. So it's summer, it's summer.
Speaker 3: Who has more kids? You are, Kelly Rippa. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know how many kids yet a lot.
Speaker 3: The joke was like a Saturday Night Live bit.
Speaker 5: I think Dana Carvey played Regis Philbin and they kept
Speaker 5: showing like little photos of kids that Kelly Rippa had.
Speaker 3: I think they went like a ridiculous amount. Oh she's cute. Ah,
Speaker 3: he's a good looking cat. He's got through like seventeen
Speaker 3: different kids from all over the world.
Speaker 2: Are you guys gonna have kids? Is that is that too?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 3: We're not ruling it out. Okay, we're not trying not to.
Speaker 2: Oh well then that's like.
Speaker 5: Come on right, no, I you know, I feel weird
Speaker 5: about I'm fifty, so, you know, a little late in
Speaker 5: the game.
Speaker 2: Wait, I had my twins at forty five.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad you inform me of that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because you know, Kelsey's a little concerned she's forty
Speaker 5: one going on forty two.
Speaker 2: No, she's fun. I had three kids from the time
Speaker 2: I was forty two to forty five.
Speaker 3: I'm gonta text her that right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was it was nuts. Now that I'm older,
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, this is this is why you don't
Speaker 2: have kids when you're forty five. It's a little, a
Speaker 2: little tiring. But I'm basically just a taxi cab driver.
Speaker 2: I just I mean literally, from like three o'clock in
Speaker 2: the afternoon, when I'm not here, I'm driving children from
Speaker 2: this place to that place to this activity over here.
Speaker 2: And now with summer it's going to just go into overdrive.
Speaker 2: But oh yeah, but you know, Ryan, this is part
Speaker 2: of why I fight so hard for Colorado because I
Speaker 2: am really really worried about your future kids, my kids,
Speaker 2: my future grandkids. And I found some very very troubling
Speaker 2: stats about what's happened since our favorite guy, Jared Polis
Speaker 2: became governor. Get this. We've gone from the top five
Speaker 2: in economic performance to the bottom five. We've become one
Speaker 2: of the five least affordable states for housing. Colorado is
Speaker 2: now the sixth most regulated state. Prices are up fifteen
Speaker 2: percent higher than four years ago. We have the second
Speaker 2: highest unemployment rate in the US and the second highest
Speaker 2: rate of teenage fentanyl deaths. Thank you, Jared Polus and
Speaker 2: the Democrats.
Speaker 3: That's just terrible.
Speaker 2: So Ryan, why on earth do people keep voting for
Speaker 2: this stuff.
Speaker 5: This is the thing that really I can't wrap my
Speaker 5: head around. I mean, there's so much evidence, and you
Speaker 5: don't even have to be as right of center as
Speaker 5: you or I are. But when you watch what's happening,
Speaker 5: you watch Colorado crumbling, you watch the city of Denver,
Speaker 5: and the business is fleeing, they're running a deficit, they're
Speaker 5: transing the kids. You know, this is a parental rights
Speaker 5: issue that should not even be partisan or political. They
Speaker 5: ram through thirteen twelve police signs that into law, claiming
Speaker 5: that they took a couple words out so it's not
Speaker 5: as bad as it would have been.
Speaker 3: No, come on, we know that's not true. They're taking
Speaker 3: our guns away.
Speaker 5: I mean again, these are independent libertarian type issues that
Speaker 5: people living here in Colorado, no matter what party affiliation
Speaker 5: they might have, you would.
Speaker 3: Think would take seriously.
Speaker 5: You know what, I might not love everything about the Republicans,
Speaker 5: but it's got to I gotta at least give them
Speaker 5: a shot because of what's happening over there on the left.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think we need at least we
Speaker 2: need some balance, right, It just not. I mean, we
Speaker 2: did stop them from having a supermajority at the Capitol
Speaker 2: of this last session. It didn't stop a lot of
Speaker 2: the crazy stuff that happened, but a little bit. But
Speaker 2: imagine if we had a Republican governor to veto a
Speaker 2: lot of this stuff or stand firm and not allow
Speaker 2: some of these bills to go through. That would at
Speaker 2: least bring some balance back to the state. So, you know,
Speaker 2: the other thing, and we've talked so much about this,
Speaker 2: but I have to get this in. We have a terrible, horrible,
Speaker 2: no good, very bad liberal corporate media here in Colorado,
Speaker 2: and God bless you and Dan and Manny and so
Speaker 2: many others that fight back and try and tell the
Speaker 2: truth about what's happening. We try and do that at
Speaker 2: Rockymountain Voice dot com. Sign up for our newsletter. It's free,
Speaker 2: no pay, paywalls or ads. But it is hard. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's like a tidal wave of misinformation and negativity about
Speaker 2: conservative principles, and you know, just accusations that were lying,
Speaker 2: that were terrible human beings, were Nazis, all the things,
Speaker 2: all day long. And I think people are influenced by that,
Speaker 2: the average everyday voter that doesn't pay attention to politics.
Speaker 6: Like we do.
Speaker 5: What do you think, Well, well, I love that we
Speaker 5: have this hub and you gave me this great hat.
Speaker 5: By the way, this is truth the Rocky Mountain Voice
Speaker 5: that you are literally a hub of the wheel now
Speaker 5: for all things conservative media. And there's one place that
Speaker 5: people can go to find my show, to find Dan's show,
Speaker 5: to find all these publications and great people like you know,
Speaker 5: John Caldera Independence Institute.
Speaker 3: You know, so many resources that you can use.
Speaker 5: And even if you just had let's say, like an
Speaker 5: elevator pitch conversation maybe with somebody in your circle, your
Speaker 5: orbit that's persuadable.
Speaker 3: Let's say a center.
Speaker 5: Left person who's disaffected with how things are going here
Speaker 5: in Colorado, Well, let me recommend to you, Rocky Mountain Voice.
Speaker 3: You go check it out, go do your own research.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to force it on you, but just
Speaker 3: give it a shot.
Speaker 5: And I think that a lot of people, once they're
Speaker 5: exposed to shows like this one, websites like yours, that
Speaker 5: they have an opportunity to kind of find things out
Speaker 5: for themselves, they will be, if not red pilled, then
Speaker 5: certainly black pilled based on the experience that you have
Speaker 5: being lied to by, as you put it, the corporate
Speaker 5: liberal media in this state and nationally as well.
Speaker 2: I agree, Ryan, and I think I think folks are
Speaker 2: starting to find their news in different places, like we
Speaker 2: can ask Tory about that, but TikTok and Twitter and
Speaker 2: or x sorry didn't mean to insult to you on sorry,
Speaker 2: and you know, just all the different resources there are
Speaker 2: now podcasts to get your news. So hopefully that trend
Speaker 2: will continue. I saw some interesting emails come out this
Speaker 2: week from Collab, and I think there's another like news
Speaker 2: nonprofit organization that's trying to deal with the destruction of
Speaker 2: the media as we know it right now, And I'm like,
Speaker 2: what's wrong with that?
Speaker 4: Burn it down?
Speaker 2: I know it's crazy that they're trying to, you know,
Speaker 2: they're trying to come up with new and different ideas
Speaker 2: to claim their stake back, you know. But I also
Speaker 2: think that two other things. One is, we definitely have
Speaker 2: the disease of Trump arrangements as syndrome and Colorado TDS
Speaker 2: is everywhere. And then finally, the Democrats spend so much
Speaker 2: stinking more money than we do on policy like ballad
Speaker 2: initiatives and getting people across the finish line as far
Speaker 2: as elections and misleading voters honestly, just with ads that
Speaker 2: just say something that's completely not true. So it's the money,
Speaker 2: it's the TDS, it's the liberal media, And I honestly
Speaker 2: don't think the pain is personal enough yet I like
Speaker 2: to call it the frogs and boiling water. And so
Speaker 2: we've lived here a long I've lived here since seventy eight.
Speaker 2: You've lived here a long time. We've seen it. But honestly, people,
Speaker 2: it just gets worse little by little by little, and
Speaker 2: most people don't pay attention to the day to day,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden they're like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: house on fire, my kids are getting taken away because
Speaker 2: I called them the wrong name.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've had this conversation with Dick Wadams, and we
Speaker 3: call them the human lightning rout here on this program.
Speaker 5: But I respect his background is knowledge of all things politics,
Speaker 5: and he has made the observation.
Speaker 3: I think it's the correct.
Speaker 5: One that the TDS it extends, it permeates throughout the
Speaker 5: state of Colorado, even for some people that might otherwise
Speaker 5: be right leaning voters. For whatever reason, He's much more
Speaker 5: appealing in my home state of Michigan, which Trump won twice.
Speaker 3: But it's purple.
Speaker 5: It's a purple state with the Democrat governor, and you
Speaker 5: know those tendencies through its populous. But do you think, Heidi,
Speaker 5: I'll pose it to you this way, if Trump is
Speaker 5: the MAGA movement America first, the new Republican Party, if
Speaker 5: it has a new figure.
Speaker 3: Had new face, whether that's JD.
Speaker 5: Vance, Ronda Santis, Marco Rubio, that there might be kind
Speaker 5: of a changing of the tide here in Colorado once
Speaker 5: Trump is no longer in the picture.
Speaker 2: I've thought about that, yeah, And I honestly think what's
Speaker 2: going to make the biggest difference is the pain factor,
Speaker 2: Like they're going to have to just get you know,
Speaker 2: like they're going to have to see something so horrible
Speaker 2: with their pocketbook, with their housing costs, with the you know,
Speaker 2: the all the kids stuff going on, thirteen twelve, et cetera.
Speaker 2: In their church, they're going to have a wake up call.
Speaker 2: There's so many options right now, so many bad things
Speaker 2: have and then I'm hoping that it gets to the
Speaker 2: point where the frogs are boiling and they jump out
Speaker 2: of the water. I hope it's before three and a
Speaker 2: half years from now, when we have a new president.
Speaker 2: That's terrible to think that we're going to go on
Speaker 2: like this for three and a half more years. We
Speaker 2: have a very important mid term in twenty six. We
Speaker 2: have all the state wide offices up. We could try
Speaker 2: and flip the legislature in Colorado back, but I think
Speaker 2: the most important thing we need to do in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six is protect our four congressional seats that we have,
Speaker 2: because that'll help nationally, it will help locally. So Gabe
Speaker 2: Evans in Congressional District eight, which is up north Denver,
Speaker 2: Jeff Hurd in Congressional District three, which is Pueblo and
Speaker 2: the western Slope, Lauren Bobert in Congressional District four, which
Speaker 2: is Douglas County, and the eastern slope and then Congressional
Speaker 2: District five Jeff Crank, which is down in al Paso County.
Speaker 2: And here's some really disturbing numbers, and then we'll go
Speaker 2: to break. We've lost fourteen points in CD four since
Speaker 2: twenty twenty. We've lost five points in CD five, two
Speaker 2: points in CD three just since twenty twenty. In those
Speaker 2: congressional races. We had a lot of work to do. Ryan,
Speaker 2: we'll come back after the break. This is Heidi can
Speaker 2: All filling in for Dan Kaplis and talk more about.
Speaker 3: This and now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 3: You don't think it's an infringement on the First Amendment?
Speaker 3: Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 4: Well, look, obviously you have to if you have an employer.
Speaker 3: There's things you can say and can't say at work, right.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is not like you know, with your
Speaker 4: friends in your house at all, right, right, I mean,
Speaker 4: that's not against a lot when you.
Speaker 3: Go to work.
Speaker 4: You cannot call your African American colleague the N word.
Speaker 4: I mean that that is, you know, that is a
Speaker 4: civil rights violation. So of course this is a great
Speaker 4: diverse state. You may have to work with somebody who's
Speaker 4: transit or somebody you may have to work with, somebody
Speaker 4: who who's African Americans like, you just have to respect
Speaker 4: whoever you work with. You you know, and you you
Speaker 4: all try to get along. And that is in the
Speaker 4: professional side of things, how we all get together as
Speaker 4: a state. And I would add this goes always if
Speaker 4: you have a doubt Christian who you work with, you
Speaker 4: have to respect that he never mocked their Christianity. You
Speaker 4: never mocked their faith. At work again, in your own home,
Speaker 4: you know, if you're with friends and you can argue
Speaker 4: about Christianity or transgender and you can get mean, ambitious,
Speaker 4: and there's no viholation of law, totally free speech. But
Speaker 4: when you're at work, absolutely there are expectations of what
Speaker 4: you do at work and treat everybody civilly. This bill
Speaker 4: doesn't too much about that, but that was already the.
Speaker 3: Law in Colorado.
Speaker 2: Well, Ryan, that's our gas lighting. Governor Jared Poulos, nobody
Speaker 2: knows that better than you. He is so full of
Speaker 2: whoy he's talking about this bill that went through that
Speaker 2: you know, basically says parents if they change, if they
Speaker 2: call their kids the wrong name or they dead name them,
Speaker 2: then I guess what, guys, you can get your kid
Speaker 2: taken away. And also if you work in a business
Speaker 2: and you say something like to call somebody the wrong name,
Speaker 2: you can be I don't know if it's fired or
Speaker 2: filed the complaints. There's all kinds of consequences to this
Speaker 2: attack on free speech, especially on parents. You can't call
Speaker 2: your own kid the name that you gave your kid.
Speaker 5: Here was my analysis of this interview, and I listened
Speaker 5: to the whole thing. And credit to Ross Kaminski for
Speaker 5: pressing Jared Polis on this particular issue thirteen twelve. This
Speaker 5: was on Tuesday over on KOA here in Denver. Jared
Speaker 5: Pulis identifies two places where you might be in your
Speaker 5: life your home in the workplace. What about a place
Speaker 5: of business or anywhere else you might go. What if
Speaker 5: I'm a customer a masterpiece cake shop run by Jack Phillips.
Speaker 5: What if I'm Jack Phillips and a transgender person comes
Speaker 5: in and I'm not willing to engage in whatever ideology
Speaker 5: they have?
Speaker 3: Now is that a civil rights violation? Is that actionable?
Speaker 5: Because that's already been decided by the Supreme Court of
Speaker 5: the United States ruling in favor of Jack Phillips and
Speaker 5: Masterpiece Cake Shop for a violation of his First Amendment
Speaker 5: rights that you cannot force an ideology upon somebody. So
Speaker 5: Polus leaves out a very big, glaring blind spot here
Speaker 5: of everywhere else in public you might go that's not
Speaker 5: your home, home and not your workplace.
Speaker 3: So what's the standard operating procedure here? If I go
Speaker 3: to a restaurant and I have a very.
Speaker 5: Fundamentent menalist Christian friend of mine sitting with me, and
Speaker 5: we have a trans waiter waitress, and my friend happens
Speaker 5: to dead name or misgender this waiter waitress, than what,
Speaker 5: that's the workplace for them, it's not for us.
Speaker 3: We're customers. What happens then, Jared, Oh, he.
Speaker 2: Knows what happens. He just wants to, you know, gloss
Speaker 2: it over and make it sound like it's the best
Speaker 2: thing since slice bread. He also, I believe he signed
Speaker 2: thirteen oh nine today, didn't he? Which is the other
Speaker 2: the kind of sister bill that it forces all of
Speaker 2: us to pay for elective transgender affirming procedures and includes
Speaker 2: a slush fund to circumvent Medicaid that's no longer covering this.
Speaker 2: And it also so we have to pay for men's
Speaker 2: breast implants, laser hair removal, and skin tightening, but your
Speaker 2: insurance will not cover any of these elect elective procedures
Speaker 2: for you. Let that sink in. And also it takes
Speaker 2: testosterone off the drug tracking program, so the wrong sex
Speaker 2: hormones that you're paying for will be given to children
Speaker 2: in secret. Like this is six stuff and I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I mean, I just am getting to the point where
Speaker 2: I don't know if I recommend people raise their kids here.
Speaker 2: This is bad, bad, bad bad, and it's gonna get worse.
Speaker 2: I think next year, when Polus is like totally on
Speaker 2: his way out, the legislature is going to go even crazier.
Speaker 2: As my prediction, what.
Speaker 3: Do you think Michael Bennett's gonna do he comes in
Speaker 3: if he wints governor, Oh.
Speaker 2: Michael vin it just like I believe that. I don't
Speaker 2: know he's going to talk like this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he gets a little riled up sometimes and he
Speaker 5: loses all of his enunciation skills.
Speaker 3: That's what happens.
Speaker 2: He does nothing. He's like the biggest no like heet Well,
Speaker 2: doesn't do anything.
Speaker 5: Even Comrade Kyle of nine News compared him to a
Speaker 5: cicada who just comes around every thirteen years.
Speaker 3: I mean, that was funny.
Speaker 2: I can't laugh at anything.
Speaker 3: Kyle Clark was and it was accurate.
Speaker 2: He's a he's a weedy too, just like Michael Bennett.
Speaker 2: They all are. I've had it with all of them.
Speaker 3: Throw them out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got a long way to go in Colorado.
Speaker 2: And you know, I spoke at the Otero Lincoln Dinner
Speaker 2: last weekend. That's Lahunta. It was so fun. The people
Speaker 2: were amazing, couple hundred patriots down there. It's a long drive,
Speaker 2: it's like three hours down, three hours back. But I
Speaker 2: had a little fun with the audience and I did
Speaker 2: the Ragon quote the person who agrees with you eighty
Speaker 2: percent of the time is an eighty percent friend, not
Speaker 2: a twenty percent enemy. So there's so much dysfunction in
Speaker 2: our party here, in the whole conservative movement in Colorado,
Speaker 2: and everybody's arguing and bickering. And I've got the point
Speaker 2: where I just kind of ignore the attacks, or I
Speaker 2: just call them out, or I delete them or block
Speaker 2: them or whatever. But we've got to we've got to
Speaker 2: get together to win anything in the midterms. And so
Speaker 2: I asked people, I want everybody to hoop and holler
Speaker 2: or boo and hiss, depending on how you feel about
Speaker 2: this question. How many of you, and this is a
Speaker 2: room of very conservative people, believe that Donald J. Trump
Speaker 2: is handling his presidency very well? And of course the
Speaker 2: crab went wild. Yeah, everybody was happy. I said, who thanks,
Speaker 2: Jared Poulos and Democrats are destroying Colorado, and everybody went
Speaker 2: WHOOA yes, of course. How many people believe there are
Speaker 2: only two sexes, male and female? How many believe boys
Speaker 2: shouldn't play in girls' sports? Who wants to protect the
Speaker 2: unborn and doesn't like abortion until birth? Who loves our
Speaker 2: ranchers and farmers and doesn't like what they're doing with wolves?
Speaker 2: Who hates potholes, bike lanes? And I seventy traffic? And finally,
Speaker 2: who loves Elon and doche I mean? And I said
Speaker 2: to everybody, there is your eighty percent. Like that is
Speaker 2: your eighty percent. We are united. Stop treating these eighty
Speaker 2: percent or the twenty percent people as enemies and start
Speaker 2: treating them as eighty percent friends. And let's turn our attacks,
Speaker 2: our criticisms to the Democrats. Because you heard those stats,
Speaker 2: I rattled off in the very beginning. Our state is
Speaker 2: going down the tubes and we're going to talk more
Speaker 2: about this after the break with my daughter Tori Ganal.
Speaker 2: I think she'll be in here pretty soon. And I'm
Speaker 2: just blessed and honored to be here.
Speaker 5: With you today, Ryan, and we are blessed and honored
Speaker 5: to have you in studio with your high jinks.
Speaker 3: Hi, Hi, will you continue? Yes, very big.
Speaker 6: Fan of that.
Speaker 3: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast video that.
Speaker 7: Shows prison guards and Costa Rica catching a drug smuggler
Speaker 7: and the culprit.
Speaker 2: As you can see, it's free and us four legs.
Speaker 7: Guards caught this cat as it jumped over the prison
Speaker 7: fence at night with marijuana and crack taped to its body.
Speaker 7: Guards carefully cut those packages from the cat's tiny body,
Speaker 7: removing the drugs from the fur person. Officials handed over
Speaker 7: that cat to an animal health service to be checked out.
Speaker 2: That is the craziest story. When I saw that, Ryan,
Speaker 2: I was like, who wait, who does that? There's lots
Speaker 2: of weirdos out there, but the cat's just tooling along,
Speaker 2: taped up with all kinds of drugs. Like I probably
Speaker 2: had people chasing him down the street to try and
Speaker 2: get the drugs.
Speaker 3: Cokaine Kitty, go Kain Kitty.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was mentioning how I was.
Speaker 5: Watching Mayor Kingstown, the paramount series with Jeremy Renner, and
Speaker 5: they were using drones to fly over the prison yard
Speaker 5: and drop drugs or whatever.
Speaker 3: In well, why use a drone when you can simply
Speaker 3: use a cat?
Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh, speaking of and part of why I
Speaker 2: wanted you to play that clip. Obviously, I've been taking
Speaker 2: it easy, laying low since I had that big surgery
Speaker 2: a few like six weeks ago now, and I've gotten
Speaker 2: caught up in some wild like things I'm seeing on
Speaker 2: the internet, and one of them. And if you guys,
Speaker 2: if you guys know about this, call in or texting.
Speaker 2: You can text Dan five seven seven three six or
Speaker 2: calling at three oh three seven one three eight two
Speaker 2: five five because this is taking off around the country. Ryan,
Speaker 2: have you heard about sailing with Phoenix?
Speaker 3: Sailing with Phoenix?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Oh, this is the coolest thing.
Speaker 6: What is it?
Speaker 2: This young guy, I think he's twenty nine thirty years old,
Speaker 2: got a bad health diagnosis whereas his neck is like
Speaker 2: his spine is compressing and he may be paralyzed at
Speaker 2: some point soon. So he literally cashed out as four
Speaker 2: ohe k he took. He quit his job at discount Tyre.
Speaker 2: He'd been there for a decade, and he bought a
Speaker 2: boat and he has gold to sail around the world,
Speaker 2: so he he learned how to sail a little bit,
Speaker 2: but not a lot. He got in the boat. I
Speaker 2: think it was twenty three days ago now, and he's
Speaker 2: on his way to Hawaii from Oregon, and every day
Speaker 2: all of us are checking in, like how's Oliver doing?
Speaker 2: Is he alive? Like what's going on? Did he hit
Speaker 2: a squall? Like we're learning all these boating terms. But
Speaker 2: this is the coolest thing. He's doing it with his cat.
Speaker 2: And his cat's name is Phoenix, and Phoenix is this
Speaker 2: little tabby calico looking thing. It's just sweet as can be,
Speaker 2: mews and it's You can follow him on Instagram sailing
Speaker 2: with Phoenix. You can follow him on Twitter if somebody's
Speaker 2: tweeting for him. But he has he has starlink so
Speaker 2: he can post videos and he's gonna get to Hawaii tomorrow.
Speaker 2: And he's got one point six million followers now on Instagram.
Speaker 3: This is amazing.
Speaker 5: So the cat's just a partner in crime, so to speak,
Speaker 5: but not in the way that the drug's bo right, right, no, no, no, right, Okay.
Speaker 3: I want a cat that can tweet for itself. Though
Speaker 3: you said that somebody's tweeting for the k Come on,
Speaker 3: step up your game. I need a tabby that can tweet.
Speaker 2: Tabby that can tweet. That's like Heidi's hygiens, but a
Speaker 2: cat tweet. I'm just you know, I find so much
Speaker 2: pleasure in some of these little like wandering I do
Speaker 2: on the internet. Sometimes the Internet can be so horrible,
Speaker 2: and especially in politics, but then you find a story
Speaker 2: like that and you're like, go all over, go Phoenix,
Speaker 2: and you're waiting for the updates. It's kind of silly,
Speaker 2: but it's really really fun.
Speaker 5: So you were literally looking for cat videos because a
Speaker 5: lot of people use that as a punch flying Like,
Speaker 5: I just gonna go on and watch cat videos all day.
Speaker 8: You are watching cat videos. I watching inspirational story Cats
Speaker 8: on a boat, Cats on a boat. Everybody watch Oliver
Speaker 8: And I even bought some merch. I had a sweatshirt
Speaker 8: on earlier today that has Phoenix the cat.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 2: I think Phoenix the Cats like the new Morris You remember.
Speaker 3: Morris Me Mix.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have to find that a commercial coming back
Speaker 5: for the gen z Ors are like, what are those
Speaker 5: two olds talking about?
Speaker 2: Yes, please find that. We'll be singing it all weekend.
Speaker 5: I'm going to put that earworm in every one of
Speaker 5: you listeners out there so you have it going into
Speaker 5: Memorial Day.
Speaker 2: That would be good. You know, dogs and cats, that's
Speaker 2: they just make the world such a much better place.
Speaker 2: And I brought Kelly a book about a guy. This
Speaker 2: is my other internet little following on the animal front,
Speaker 2: about Tina the Dog. And there's Niall who's in Thailand.
Speaker 2: He had an addiction problem. He quit kind of he
Speaker 2: quit cold Turkey I think, and went to Thailand and
Speaker 2: started rescuing dogs. And now he feeds over one hundred
Speaker 2: street dogs every day on his bikes and he has
Speaker 2: all these volunteers that mix up all the food and
Speaker 2: he rescues these dogs and gets them out of horrible situations.
Speaker 2: And he just came out with this wonderful book about
Speaker 2: Tina the Dog that's saving the world, and it just
Speaker 2: made my heart happy. It's really cool. Check it out
Speaker 2: on Amazon and Kelly, I'll have to tell us how
Speaker 2: she likes it. But one of the things I'm most
Speaker 2: proud about of building Camp Bawow, which it became the
Speaker 2: largest franchise pet care franchise in the world. I think
Speaker 2: it still is. It got over two hundred locations now
Speaker 2: around the country. I sold it a few years ago
Speaker 2: when I had three kids under the age of three
Speaker 2: and a teenager when I was older, Like we were
Speaker 2: talking about, couldn't handle it all. But one of the
Speaker 2: things I'm most proud about was starting the Bowot Buddies Foundation,
Speaker 2: and we were able to find homes for over ten
Speaker 2: thousand dogs through all of our franchises around the country
Speaker 2: over ten years. And I just it makes me very,
Speaker 2: very happy to think that there's lots of doggies that
Speaker 2: have homes, whether it's from Nile and Thailand, or it's
Speaker 2: Oliver in Phoenix, the cat on the boat. But there's
Speaker 2: been a lot of talk about these laws that Jared
Speaker 2: Pulis is signing lately around pets. I think today they
Speaker 2: signed the one that said you're not allowed to sell
Speaker 2: animals in front of the safeway. Do you know any
Speaker 2: details on that. I don't really know the details now.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't either.
Speaker 3: During the break though, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, my gut check is anything Jared Pulis signs.
Speaker 3: Is bad, but I did.
Speaker 2: I did agree with them on a bill this last
Speaker 2: election to bring in more like nurse practitioners in the
Speaker 2: in the veterinary care space. So that's the only thing
Speaker 2: that Jared Pulis and I have ever worked on together
Speaker 2: that we agreed on. But I don't know I got Yeah,
Speaker 2: we got to check out this bill because I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if Jared signed it what I think about it.
Speaker 2: But I talked a little bit about the distress that
Speaker 2: I saw that I felt when I saw the numbers
Speaker 2: in how are congressional races. We've lost so much ground,
Speaker 2: especially in Congressional Districts three, four, and five, which are
Speaker 2: kind of the mainstay of conservative the conservative movement here
Speaker 2: in Colorado. So CD three is the western slope in Pueblo,
Speaker 2: CD four is Douglas County, and the eastern slope in
Speaker 2: CD five is El Paso County. And if you look
Speaker 2: at the elections for the congress folks between twenty twenty
Speaker 2: and twenty four, and we did do some redistricting, so
Speaker 2: it's not quite apples to apples, but it's important. We've
Speaker 2: lost two points in CD three. That's the Western Slope
Speaker 2: in Pueblo, we've lost fourteen points. In CD four that's
Speaker 2: Douglas County, and then CD five we've lost five points.
Speaker 2: So I think one of the most important things we
Speaker 2: can do in twenty twenty six is pay attention to
Speaker 2: these congressional races and get boots on the ground. Help
Speaker 2: Gabe Evans, Lauren Bobert, Jeff Crank, Jeff Heard, all four
Speaker 2: of them keep their seats and start to claw back
Speaker 2: some of these numbers and stop this digression towards blue
Speaker 2: congressional seats not too far off. If we're only two
Speaker 2: points away in CD three, that's scary. I know, you know,
Speaker 2: we almost lost that one before in the election before
Speaker 2: Jeff Heard. But they're coming after these seats and they
Speaker 2: want everything. They're not happy with just what they have now,
Speaker 2: which is almost everything. They want these congressional seats.
Speaker 5: And we've seen also a couple of candidates come out
Speaker 5: in the eighth Democrats that are going looking to run
Speaker 5: against Gabe Evans.
Speaker 3: What I'm fascinated by, what I asked him about earlier this.
Speaker 5: Week, was if he notices that you, Derek Caraveo, for instance,
Speaker 5: she's getting back in the race and as much as
Speaker 5: she tried to distance herself from the Biden administration, especially
Speaker 5: on the border late in that campaign, she's coming into
Speaker 5: this race, I think, full throttle, trying to race to
Speaker 5: the middle, appear as a moderate, dissociate herself almost entirely
Speaker 5: from the Democratic Party. I don't know how that's going
Speaker 5: to fly in a primary, but we know that that's
Speaker 5: a district among any in the United States that says
Speaker 5: no narrowly defined, you know, between Republican and Democrat as
Speaker 5: it gets.
Speaker 3: And then another Democrat.
Speaker 5: Jumps in, probably trying to outflank you, Derek Caravea to
Speaker 5: the left. Is that going to That might work in
Speaker 5: the primary, but then in the general against Gabe Evans,
Speaker 5: who I think is doing a terrific job tolling the
Speaker 5: line for our values here in Colorado and in the
Speaker 5: eighth Congressional district. They're trying to find their sea legs
Speaker 5: in the eighth Congressional I think this is very telling
Speaker 5: about where the Democratic Party is right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Yadara one by zero point seventy five percent
Speaker 2: when she first went and then gave one by point
Speaker 2: seventy five percent. So I flipped one point five percent
Speaker 2: but I mean, the scary thing is the Democrats are
Speaker 2: so organized, so well funded, and you know we're not.
Speaker 2: And that's why I talked earlier about how we've got
Speaker 2: to make our you know, twenty percent enemies are eighty
Speaker 2: percent friends, and we've got to figure out how to
Speaker 2: work together. And it really comes down to on the
Speaker 2: ground action, actually engaging in your own neighborhoods and not
Speaker 2: just sitting online and complaining about things. So pick a
Speaker 2: policy area that you're passionate about and oofs, Ryan, can
Speaker 2: you hear me? Okay, okay, sorry, guys, I had a
Speaker 2: little glitch technology wise. This is howding. You know, we're
Speaker 2: gonna go to break filling in for Dan Kapless. We'll
Speaker 2: see it soon.
Speaker 3: And now back to the Dan Tapless Show. Podcast Nine
Speaker 3: Lives presents Marris, who came to visit.
Speaker 6: It's a visit. If it's an invasion, it means me
Speaker 6: Darling's Morris. I'll tell them the facts of life.
Speaker 4: Everybody.
Speaker 6: Fact one, be finicky, don't budge.
Speaker 2: If nine Lives wait here, I'll.
Speaker 6: Be right back. Food platter, Liver, nine Lives, Liver nine Lives,
Speaker 6: nutritious foods. Cats really like even Morris. Nine lives kids today.
Speaker 6: Don't listen. I told him the way.
Speaker 3: Listen. I was wrong too, wasn't me? Mix was nine lives?
Speaker 4: Far?
Speaker 3: Be it for me to get that wrong on the
Speaker 3: cat food?
Speaker 2: Well, then you got to find me megs song for
Speaker 2: the next event.
Speaker 3: We'll have a theme going out through today's program.
Speaker 5: You mentioned earlier you like cats and dog living together
Speaker 5: mass hysteria.
Speaker 3: But if you got to pick one pet cat.
Speaker 2: Or pet dog, and why oh, I'm the dog girl.
Speaker 2: I know I love my kidties too, Okay, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I've been a dog girl my whole life. And I
Speaker 2: wasn't like the crazy dog lady when I started Camp
Speaker 2: bow Wow. I more just saw a problem that I
Speaker 2: didn't have any place to put my dogs.
Speaker 5: Even the way you said it, though, crazy dog Lady
Speaker 5: sounds a lot less bad than crazy cat Lady, doesn't it, Kelly.
Speaker 3: If you had to pick one or the other dog
Speaker 3: or cat, why oh, I.
Speaker 6: Love them both.
Speaker 2: You can't do that.
Speaker 6: I do.
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 9: I my cat unfortunately, oh a while ago, and uh oh,
Speaker 9: so I've got two dogs in right now. I've got
Speaker 9: my son's dog shacking up with us, and she is adorable,
Speaker 9: so I would kind of have to go with a
Speaker 9: dog and have more personality because cats kind of just
Speaker 9: use you.
Speaker 4: And want you to just.
Speaker 9: Fall all over them, and you know, when they aren't
Speaker 9: into you anymore, they just kind of go away.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 5: I kind of like that about cats, though, that they're
Speaker 5: more independent. Like you can leave a cat at home
Speaker 5: with some food in a litter box and you're fine.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I can't leave a dog at home like that.
Speaker 2: Do you guys remember the old movie That Darn Cat
Speaker 2: with the Sign.
Speaker 3: I sure do. Yes.
Speaker 2: They tried to do the remake. It wasn't as good,
Speaker 2: but that was a great, great movie. Those parents out
Speaker 2: there that don't know about that movie, you got to
Speaker 2: watch it with your kids.
Speaker 5: I remember the movie Homeward Bound, which has a Himalayan cat,
Speaker 5: and we had a cat named Boris, not Morris, but
Speaker 5: Boris because he bought him from a Russian lady who
Speaker 5: looked exactly like that cat. And Homeward Bound the chocolate
Speaker 5: kind of seal point Himalayan, seal point Himalayan.
Speaker 3: That movie just.
Speaker 2: Tore your heart out.
Speaker 3: I know, Get Home.
Speaker 2: Not worse than Old Yeller, but that was the worst
Speaker 2: worst dog movie for dog lovers ever created.
Speaker 6: Uh, huh.
Speaker 3: I a real brief story here. It's a little sad,
Speaker 3: but it's.
Speaker 5: A little heartwarming at the same time. I think, but
Speaker 5: I'm mainly a dog guy now, but growing up with Boris,
Speaker 5: I mean, he was my cat.
Speaker 3: He was a family cat.
Speaker 5: But a cat typically will pick its person. Yes, this
Speaker 5: one person who was absolute favorite, and Boris I was
Speaker 5: his guy. And I remember he was dying of cancer.
Speaker 5: So he's like thirteen years old. And my sister, my
Speaker 5: baby sister, Liz, calls me on the phone.
Speaker 3: She's crying.
Speaker 5: I'm in Grand Rapids, Michigan. So I'm like an hour
Speaker 5: and forty five minutes away from our hometown of Grass Lake.
Speaker 5: She says, Boris is nearing the end, but I keep
Speaker 5: telling him that you're going to come home and see him.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm on my way. I get there and
Speaker 5: he's near the end. Wei should have had him put
Speaker 5: to sleep, by the way, that's so humane.
Speaker 3: But I get there. He kind of lifts his head up.
Speaker 3: I'm talking to him.
Speaker 5: He died twenty minutes after I go, oh no, he
Speaker 5: waited for me though. He waited for me, and I
Speaker 5: got to see him and talk to him, pet him,
Speaker 5: and then he was gone, but that was It was
Speaker 5: always remarkable to me that he knew and he was
Speaker 5: listening to my sister and heard him and held on
Speaker 5: and he was there when.
Speaker 3: I got there.
Speaker 2: Well, I know another dog lover. Welcome my daughter, Tory
Speaker 2: Gannal to the show. Hello, toy, Hello, I'm so happy
Speaker 2: to be here. Yeah, sorry you got stuck in a
Speaker 2: little bit of traffic. And speaking of dogs, Tory has
Speaker 2: Poppy Rose, the three year old Golden Retriever puppy, who
Speaker 2: is my grand dog.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I mean that's such a cute little dog.
Speaker 5: I know that Dan has a little Golden too, so
Speaker 5: they're about the same age. I would bet how old
Speaker 5: is this puppy?
Speaker 2: Three three?
Speaker 10: And she's quite the little princess and also a little menace.
Speaker 3: So spoiled and she knows it.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh yeah, absolutely. Have you seen those memes, Ryan
Speaker 2: where the Golden Retrievers like this sweet little puppy and
Speaker 2: then turns into like the Torontosaurus Rex and then it
Speaker 2: becomes good again, like after the age.
Speaker 5: Of three.
Speaker 3: Golden.
Speaker 5: The thing is that they're so affable, they're so friendly
Speaker 5: and playful. I've never met a Golden that has a
Speaker 5: mean bone.
Speaker 3: In its body.
Speaker 2: They're not mean, They're just a menace.
Speaker 10: He choose everything known to mankind. But she is so
Speaker 10: spoiled and that mostly comes from this one over here.
Speaker 10: My mom more than me.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I don't have grandkids. I have a grand dog.
Speaker 2: So there you go. Yeah, Tori, speaking of dogs, I
Speaker 2: want to talk about the dog eat dog world of
Speaker 2: politics with you, and we have just a couple of
Speaker 2: minutes till the break and then we'll continue the conversation afterwards.
Speaker 2: But you are the National committee woman for the Cowardy
Speaker 2: Young Republicans. Correct, Yes, I am proud to be it.
Speaker 2: How's that? How did that happen?
Speaker 10: I kind of got talked into it. Honestly, I feel
Speaker 10: like over the last ten years it's been this journey
Speaker 10: of me getting involved in politics and not willing to
Speaker 10: step forward into the spotlight of it, mostly watching you
Speaker 10: watch be in the spotlight of it. Now it's it's
Speaker 10: kind of my turn to step up. And I think
Speaker 10: the young Republicans, especially in Colorado, are looking for their
Speaker 10: next leadership and their next the face of the party
Speaker 10: because there's a lot of work to be done here.
Speaker 10: So I'm really excited and proud to be on the
Speaker 10: front of that, and I think we've got a lot
Speaker 10: of really exciting stuff coming up.
Speaker 2: You guys have fourteen chapters now across the state. Is
Speaker 2: that correct?
Speaker 10: Yes, we're growing super quickly. We actually just got a
Speaker 10: huge grant award from our national for our growth, so
Speaker 10: super excited about that. And over twenty of us are
Speaker 10: headed to Nashville in July August for the national convention.
Speaker 2: That's very exciting.
Speaker 3: Oh well, we are.
Speaker 2: We are about to go to Afterwards, I want to
Speaker 2: talk about your journey because I threw everything liberal I
Speaker 2: possibly could put you in Boulder Valley School. You really
Speaker 2: did University of Oregon. We'll talk about that after the break.
Speaker 2: This is how do you get all filling in for
Speaker 2: Dan Kaplis