Speaker 1: Kind of a part of Republican politics, a big part
Speaker 1: of the log cabin Republicans before deciding to jump into
Speaker 1: what I think is probably one of the most challenging
Speaker 1: races in Colorado for a Republican the first congressional district
Speaker 1: against the firmly entrenched Diana to Get. But Valdemar Argiletta
Speaker 1: was either crazy, maybe he was a little drunk, I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: But he's been doing it and.
Speaker 1: He's been doing a great job representing conservative opinions and
Speaker 1: Republican values during this race.
Speaker 2: And on the blog today at mandy'sblog dot.
Speaker 1: Com, I embedded his candidate debate with Diana to Get
Speaker 1: from last weekend.
Speaker 2: So, first of all, it's a big get.
Speaker 1: She doesn't really necessarily pay attention to her opponents.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 3: I give her credit for being willing to do the
Speaker 3: debate because, you know, honestly in her on her side
Speaker 3: and with her strategy. Maybe it's not I don't know
Speaker 3: what she gained from it, but she still was willing
Speaker 3: to do it and go on Channel eight and have
Speaker 3: the conversation and do the debate, and.
Speaker 2: It was very good.
Speaker 1: But I want to ask you this, we kind of
Speaker 1: been chatting off the air. You know, I'm not breaking
Speaker 1: any news here that if you were to win the
Speaker 1: first it would be a shock across the country.
Speaker 2: It really would, really would.
Speaker 3: I'd be making international news with what happened here in Denver,
Speaker 3: and that would be amazing.
Speaker 2: So why did you do it?
Speaker 1: I mean, why did you jump into this race that
Speaker 1: is going to be damn near impossible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I had been asked to do it back
Speaker 3: in twenty two and I was like, hell, no, I'm
Speaker 3: not doing that.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 3: But it started a lot of conversations at that point,
Speaker 3: right people within the Republican community and the Denver community
Speaker 3: as to how this race and my campaign could be
Speaker 3: used as a platform to have conversations with different different
Speaker 3: demographics through the city, and just a platform to speak
Speaker 3: about conservative policies and issues and solutions in the city
Speaker 3: of Denver, because we don't really have a voice there
Speaker 3: most of the time, and it's I found that it's
Speaker 3: really missing.
Speaker 2: I've gone to a lot.
Speaker 3: Of town halls meetings that the city puts on, and
Speaker 3: typically I am the only Republican or Conservative in the
Speaker 3: entire room, and you know, the conversation happens and it's
Speaker 3: a very one sided conversation, and everything they talk about
Speaker 3: has kind of the same ideas, the same solutions, and
Speaker 3: I just feel like you can sense in the room
Speaker 3: there's something missing, and the people in Denver want to
Speaker 3: hear something else. I was at one meeting and they
Speaker 3: were talking about immigration, and I let everyone say their thing.
Speaker 3: I think most of the things people were talking about, well,
Speaker 3: we need more money, we need more money, we need
Speaker 3: more government to deal with this. And one man raised
Speaker 3: his hand and he said, you know, I want to
Speaker 3: be a good Democrat. But then he really said nothing.
Speaker 3: But it was like he was afraid. He wanted to
Speaker 3: say more, but he's afraid to say it. And that
Speaker 3: feeling was around the room, and so I eventually raised
Speaker 3: my hand and I stood up and I was like,
Speaker 3: you know, this is all you know good, you know
Speaker 3: you want to help people, but.
Speaker 2: This is unsustainable.
Speaker 3: We have to stop the inflow of immigration at the border.
Speaker 3: And again there was this air in the room that like,
Speaker 3: I'm glad somebody finally said that. They go everyone was
Speaker 3: thinking it, but they don't want to say it.
Speaker 1: And so the conservative gosh, you know what I mean, Valdemar,
Speaker 1: that is one of those things that I think to
Speaker 1: myself in my lifetime, I'm fifty five years old. Do
Speaker 1: you have any idea how many biparson conversations have happened
Speaker 1: around legal immigration?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: And for until.
Speaker 1: Until ten years ago, the thought of encouraging more illegal
Speaker 1: immigration would it would have been completely appalling to anyone.
Speaker 1: The issue has been so politicized that now you have
Speaker 1: people who are rational, reasonable, thoughtful people who feel like
Speaker 1: they're too scared to say, up, hey, maybe we should
Speaker 1: do this the legal way, which is I'm sure what.
Speaker 2: They were all thinking.
Speaker 3: And if that's just an example, but there are so
Speaker 3: many issues like that. I was in Cheeseman Park and
Speaker 3: I had a table set up. I just put my
Speaker 3: table there and put my signs up, and I was
Speaker 3: sitting there talking to people and a guy came up
Speaker 3: to me in a white dudes for Harris Hat and
Speaker 3: you know, he really hates Trump and he was not
Speaker 3: going to support me because at the federal level he
Speaker 3: doesn't want Republicans and blah blah whatever. But then we
Speaker 3: were talking about local politics and he said, I agree
Speaker 3: that Democrats have ruined our state and our city. I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: you don't see that at the national level. How this
Speaker 3: ties in? Why didn't say that. I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 3: this is good. I'm gonna stop the argument.
Speaker 2: Let's just talk about that.
Speaker 3: And I think he's going to vote for our House
Speaker 3: district Republican candidate in that area who also has a
Speaker 3: major uphill battle. But still he was like, I'm willing
Speaker 3: to look at Republicans at a local level.
Speaker 1: Now this is but Faltimore, what you're doing right now?
Speaker 1: I know you're you're trying to win the race, because
Speaker 1: nobody wants to lose a race, but the attitude that
Speaker 1: you're taking of like, Okay, you know what, even if
Speaker 1: I don't win this race, I'm going to lay the
Speaker 1: groundwork to make it so Republicans can have a conversation
Speaker 1: with people because this has been a frustration of mine
Speaker 1: for a really long time, not just in Colorado. I
Speaker 1: have stood up at Republican meetings and said, why are
Speaker 1: we not actively working in communities of color, communities of poverty.
Speaker 1: Why are we not working in these areas where we've
Speaker 1: just given all the voters when.
Speaker 2: In reality our ideas will make their lives better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I went to I met I met a man
Speaker 3: at a I think it was at the Colorado Black
Speaker 3: round Table, and I went to the Northeast Denver Islamic
Speaker 3: Center and met with their group and they had their
Speaker 3: their worship going on, and so I sat through and
Speaker 3: I pretty much just expected I'm going to sit here,
Speaker 3: listen to them and just you know, be in the background.
Speaker 3: But they ended up talking to me for like a
Speaker 3: half hour. It was almost like I was on a
Speaker 3: talk show, ye asking me questions and we had a conversation.
Speaker 3: And their main issues are family. They are concerned about
Speaker 3: family values and what's happening to families in our country.
Speaker 3: And so by the end they were like, all right,
Speaker 3: how do we help you get elected?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 3: So I'm like, there a lot of these communities want
Speaker 3: to hear from us.
Speaker 2: Need to be asked. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I was at the you know, John Fabricatory.
Speaker 2: Nothing against all our.
Speaker 3: Other candidates, but I think he's like the for what
Speaker 3: that we need right now. He is like the best
Speaker 3: candidate we have in the state. Again, nothing against our others,
Speaker 3: they're all wonderful. But we were at the Taste of Ethiopia.
Speaker 3: He had a booth there and I was hanging out
Speaker 3: with him because it was in Denver, but a lot
Speaker 3: of the population live in Aurora. So the number of
Speaker 3: people we had come up to us who were Ethiopia
Speaker 3: and African immigrants who were like, all right, we're we're
Speaker 3: tired of what the Democrats are doing.
Speaker 2: They don't rep present our values.
Speaker 3: And I even told one man there's like, you know,
Speaker 3: I've never been to an African festival like this, but
Speaker 3: I've been to hundreds and hundreds of Latino Hispanic festivals,
Speaker 3: and like, you guys might have us beat on the
Speaker 3: Jesus T shirts.
Speaker 2: I think we win when it comes to the Mary
Speaker 2: T shirts. But the Jesus T shirts, you guys.
Speaker 3: They're more there than I've seen at any other People
Speaker 3: have strong faith, yeah, very strong faith. And I was
Speaker 3: talking to a man who owns a store in Aurora,
Speaker 3: and he was talking to me about how he's concerned
Speaker 3: about what's happening in schools, and he gave you a
Speaker 3: really sad statistic that he said in the Ethiopian community
Speaker 3: in the previous year, twenty two young people had committed
Speaker 3: and he's like, we left Africa to come here to
Speaker 3: build a better life, and now our young.
Speaker 2: People are being put in this position.
Speaker 3: So he was going to open his store longer and
Speaker 3: work harder so he could send his kids to a
Speaker 3: private school or a charter school where because he he
Speaker 3: kind of put it on a lot of things they're
Speaker 3: learning in public schools right that are hurting kids and
Speaker 3: hurting their mental health, and not promoting family values and
Speaker 3: not promoting faith.
Speaker 1: And so I mean they're putting kids at odds with
Speaker 1: their parents' values. Yes they are, and that is a
Speaker 1: huge problem. And for kids who are already struggling, who
Speaker 1: don't fit in their support system should be their parents,
Speaker 1: and schools are literally saying your.
Speaker 2: Parents are dangerous.
Speaker 1: They're creating Yeah, you can't talk to your parents about this,
Speaker 1: it's too dangerous for you.
Speaker 3: I said that working with the Colorado Parental Advocacy Network.
Speaker 3: I went and I don't remember where I was, but
Speaker 3: I basically said, you know, as a gay man, we
Speaker 3: have fought for years to build a better relationship with
Speaker 3: our families and bring our families into our lives. And
Speaker 3: now we're doing that, and now the schools are trying
Speaker 3: to tear us apart again. Like we've worked so hard
Speaker 3: to get our families to accept us and to be
Speaker 3: part of their lives and all and I feel like
Speaker 3: we've done a great job at that, but now they
Speaker 3: are putting that little seed of thought into kids' minds
Speaker 3: that your parents are wrong, your parents are not looking
Speaker 3: out for your best interests. Don't tell your parents, don't
Speaker 3: talk to them.
Speaker 2: They're wrong, dangerous. Yeah, and it's verrifying to me, it
Speaker 2: really is.
Speaker 3: So there's so many communities within our cities that we
Speaker 3: don't think about, or maybe we we I don't know.
Speaker 3: We're not talking to them, but they are on our side.
Speaker 2: We need to give.
Speaker 3: Them the opportunity to understand who Republicans actually are, to
Speaker 3: even just go beyond the political party, but just what
Speaker 3: our conservative politics are, what are.
Speaker 2: Whatever you want to label it as is they agree
Speaker 2: with us.
Speaker 3: And there was something that I don't remember where it was,
Speaker 3: where the Christians and the Muslims got together and went
Speaker 3: to the school board and they were united and sticking
Speaker 3: up for family values.
Speaker 2: And we need to do that.
Speaker 3: We need to be making allies throughout our states. And
Speaker 3: and that's what this is I want to do. Like
Speaker 3: I understand, you know the realities of my campaign, but
Speaker 3: this is a step that's not going to end after
Speaker 3: this campaign. Reaching out to the people in the city
Speaker 3: and where it goes from here, I don't know yet.
Speaker 2: I just want to get past November.
Speaker 1: At this point, you're in the state of the race
Speaker 1: where I need the candidate's about this point, you got
Speaker 1: a few weeks left.
Speaker 2: Every candidate, it's like weeks. I just need this to
Speaker 2: be over. I just need it to be done.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you about the actual campaigning, the political
Speaker 1: aspect of it. And it might be too soon for
Speaker 1: us to tap into this, but I've had the opportunity
Speaker 1: to talk to many candidates after the fact, and they
Speaker 1: talk about things like the political class, consultant class, it
Speaker 1: wants to micromanage every aspect of the campaign. How challenging
Speaker 1: has it been for you? Because, in all honesty, like
Speaker 1: I don't we're not best friends. We don't braid each
Speaker 1: other's hair. But I've known you now for many years.
Speaker 1: I've seen no change in you, which is a compliment.
Speaker 1: I've seen no change from the guy who said we
Speaker 1: can do a better job when you first started to
Speaker 1: the person you are now. You're still out there having
Speaker 1: conversations with people and just trying to find commonality and
Speaker 1: areas where you can grow, you know, bridges to.
Speaker 2: These other people. Has that been well received?
Speaker 1: Have you been micromanager of they looking over you because
Speaker 1: they're like, it's the first congressional district, it's.
Speaker 2: Going to be impossible. I'm That's one thing.
Speaker 3: I think I've been fairly lucky that most people have
Speaker 3: left me alone and just let me do whatever I want.
Speaker 3: And I have pretty much been myself, and I feel
Speaker 3: like that's kind of why I fit this campaign, is
Speaker 3: that I don't have to make things up. I don't
Speaker 3: have to lie, I don't have to pretend I believe
Speaker 3: things I don't.
Speaker 2: I can just go be myself all the time.
Speaker 3: And it works and it is a very unique district
Speaker 3: and a unique campaign. We I don't know if this
Speaker 3: is a good thing or not, but sometimes I guess
Speaker 3: I'm the type of person if someone tells me I
Speaker 3: can't do something.
Speaker 2: Correct, I want to do it. It just inspires you.
Speaker 3: A few weeks ago, we were at an event and
Speaker 3: you know, there doing campaign pictures and I was with
Speaker 3: other candidates. There were a bunch there and I had
Speaker 3: a beer and they're like, all right, let's take a picture,
Speaker 3: and like, no, you got to put that down because
Speaker 3: you can't be seen holding a.
Speaker 2: Beer you're a grown ass man. You do whatever you want.
Speaker 3: It led to talking to my team and this past
Speaker 3: weekend we did a campaign pub crawl in down.
Speaker 2: I was like, all right, because we talked about in Denver.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I think in some areas, maybe that's true,
Speaker 3: Like if I were in ultra conservative district.
Speaker 1: Maybe if you're in a southern Baptist neighborhood, they're not
Speaker 1: taking pictures with beer because it's hidden in the back
Speaker 1: of their fridge, you know.
Speaker 2: But otherwise I just don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, don't get me wrong, if you were like
Speaker 1: sloppy with your tie tied around your head like it was.
Speaker 3: We didn't make sure everyone behaved themselves. We don't need
Speaker 3: negative pictures coming yeah this event.
Speaker 2: But we had a great time.
Speaker 3: We went downtown, we talked to people and we all
Speaker 3: had on the same hat, my campaign hat, and people
Speaker 3: would be like, what are those hats? Who are you guys,
Speaker 3: And we would talk to them. We handed out cards
Speaker 3: and we just we just had fun. We talked about
Speaker 3: real stuff. A lot of the conversations weren't even about politics.
Speaker 3: Press were meeting people and we met people from all
Speaker 3: over and it was a great time.
Speaker 2: So it is it is a unique district where I
Speaker 2: think we could do.
Speaker 3: Something like that and it comes across, well, maybe some
Speaker 3: other districts. You shouldn't have a pub crawl as part
Speaker 3: of your campaign.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say it. I had fun. I think
Speaker 2: that's a genius move.
Speaker 1: It is a little bit reminiscent in a way of
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's McDonald's experience yesterday. Yeah, that was great, and
Speaker 1: I wanted to compliment you on the way you handled
Speaker 1: represented Caravello's attacks or they were they weren't really attacks.
Speaker 2: They were just kind of lobs across the mountain where
Speaker 2: she was trying to you. What did I say? You said,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I was like, wait, she said something talk negative,
Speaker 2: Diana Togain.
Speaker 1: She said something to the effect of, well, you're a
Speaker 1: Trump supporter and basically implying that you were just going
Speaker 1: to be another lockstep Republican, which is hilarious.
Speaker 2: Considering her record. I mean, I'm like, come on, But you.
Speaker 1: Handled it very well by saying, look, I'm not afraid
Speaker 1: to stand up to the Republican Party. And that was
Speaker 1: about the unfortunate you know, Pride mailer that Dave Williams
Speaker 1: loves so much that he keeps sending out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one of my volunteers earlier that literally just hours
Speaker 3: before that debate, kind of gave me that talking point.
Speaker 3: She's like, I've been researching her. She has never pushed
Speaker 3: back against her party ever.
Speaker 2: Yep. She walks in lockstep with them one hundred percent
Speaker 2: of the time. And you did a really really good show.
Speaker 2: It was in my head. So when she said that,
Speaker 2: I was like, well, here's an opening.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 3: I pushed back on my party. You never pushed back
Speaker 3: on yours, yeap.
Speaker 1: Valdemar Argeletta is my guest. He is running for the
Speaker 1: first congressional district seat currently head by Diana to get
Speaker 1: not a anyone named Caravale. But I'd really love for
Speaker 1: you guys to support Valdemar. He is not only a
Speaker 1: really good person, his outsider perspective would be very welcome
Speaker 1: for Colorado in Congress. And this is such a long
Speaker 1: shot and we know it, but I am just so incredibly.
Speaker 2: Proud of you for taking this.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, I got to hear all hang on those
Speaker 3: things happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm Marco Rubio now, No, I'm just so proud of.
Speaker 1: I got some for doing what you're doing, because I
Speaker 1: do think that the only way forward is to talk
Speaker 1: to people that aren't normally talked to explain the commonalities,
Speaker 1: talk about their value system, talk about the value system
Speaker 1: of the Democrats. Sprinkly, I mean, for someone of faith,
Speaker 1: it's it's a tough lift right now with the current
Speaker 1: candidate for a president anyway.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, Paul, it is a game of numbers,
Speaker 3: and we need to do everything we can to increase
Speaker 3: our numbers. And you know, in Colorado we don't have
Speaker 3: the luxury of being able to push anyone away, and
Speaker 3: so I don't I don't get some of these individuals
Speaker 3: in our state who feel like they want to.
Speaker 2: Burn it down so they can rule over the ashes.
Speaker 2: That's what it is. I don't know. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: I makes much sense as anything else.
Speaker 1: Your power base over nine people is more important than
Speaker 1: them than winning races.
Speaker 2: That's what it is, all right now.
Speaker 1: Valdemar has reluctantly agreed to play of the Day because
Speaker 1: he says he's terrible. It's fine, no one is gonna,
Speaker 1: no one is listening. Why it's time for the most
Speaker 1: exciting segment all the radio.
Speaker 2: It's kind in the world. Ye in the world.
Speaker 1: Is so in the world, Like, guys, I did push
Speaker 1: my cough button. But Valdemar's mic is on as well,
Speaker 1: so you were hearing me cough in his mic.
Speaker 2: Sorry about that. Valdemar. What a breath of fresh air.
Speaker 2: Great interview. Vote for him.
Speaker 1: Get all your friends in the district one to vote for.
Speaker 1: What is our dad joke?
Speaker 2: Did you see? I have a list of one hundred
Speaker 2: Halloween jokes. Well, I have a three for Halloween. All right,
Speaker 2: here we go.
Speaker 4: My house is haunted by a chicken. It's a poultry, guys,
Speaker 4: Oh my god, haunted by a foul spirit. I plan
Speaker 4: to call an exorcist. That'll help it cross the other side.
Speaker 1: Wow, there was a lot going on in that entire
Speaker 1: joke situation there.
Speaker 2: So all right, what is our word of the day? Please?
Speaker 2: Is a what is this adjective? Hey? O lid O
Speaker 2: L I D? What old lid I O L I
Speaker 2: D adjective? Here's a hint.
Speaker 4: Something stinky, maybe valdimar, maybe old factory.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's a scented.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it smells good like candle, something foul smelling. Oh,
Speaker 1: I was right the first time that I guessed basically, well,
Speaker 1: if you ever need to pass gas, yanked candle in
Speaker 1: them all, that's.
Speaker 4: Your jam right now indoors though apparently bad candles, remember
Speaker 4: on the blog, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: Don't burn candles anymore. They're gonna kill you, all right?
Speaker 1: What is our trivia question?
Speaker 2: That is?
Speaker 1: What does the internet slang acronym TBT mean Thursday?
Speaker 2: Correct?
Speaker 1: It was popularized on Instagram, where users post old photos
Speaker 1: on Thursdays and tag them hashtag tvt Okay, what is
Speaker 1: our jeopardy category? You know you have to yell out,
Speaker 1: just yell out? Volved, okay, vault because.
Speaker 2: That's sort of the Valdemar. What is it?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: I thought you said my full name was too long
Speaker 2: and your parents hated you. What is going on?
Speaker 4: How generous is feeling today? Do you want to give
Speaker 4: them a little, a little I'll give them the edge.
Speaker 2: I can wait until the end of the question.
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, all right, we're going to oh sorry, the
Speaker 4: category is let it roll?
Speaker 2: Okay, roll r O L L okay r O L L.
Speaker 4: We're going to roll out this cylindrical wooden container.
Speaker 2: Manny, what is the barrel?
Speaker 4: That is?
Speaker 2: Correct?
Speaker 4: Sixty four million pieces of this chewy candy bearing the
Speaker 4: nickname of its inventor's daughter.
Speaker 2: Val Val. I don't know Ti roll correct oay, I
Speaker 2: was saying ers, and then I was like that can't
Speaker 2: be right?
Speaker 4: All right again, Valdemar, you can answer it anytimes like
Speaker 4: you just did, because it's gonna be helpful here, Alexa
Speaker 4: play never gonna give you up by this individual. He
Speaker 4: sang it with food Fighters in twenty seventeen, and you've
Speaker 4: been him.
Speaker 2: Roll Mandy, what is rick?
Speaker 3: Roll?
Speaker 2: Correct? This siny, This.
Speaker 4: Mighty omnivore can roll into a ball and float on
Speaker 4: its back. It's porcupine like signs val Edge correct?
Speaker 2: Hey what we too? I used to have tied did
Speaker 2: so cute? This last? This one is terrible?
Speaker 4: Permission to skip to go ahead one mark sixteen to
Speaker 4: three asks who shall roll us away? The stone from
Speaker 4: the door of this a synonym for tomb t o NB.
Speaker 2: I told you, I warned you, I warned you. Wait wait,
Speaker 2: permission to still pass. I'm telling you it's terrible. Just
Speaker 2: neither be that joke so pulture, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's go with new category three syllable words to
Speaker 4: decide it all time to do this recite to verbs
Speaker 4: inflected forms.
Speaker 2: I am, you are, she is we are? You are
Speaker 2: needing to blake? What?
Speaker 4: What is the category where we're still told you three
Speaker 4: solo words in the answer?
Speaker 3: Whole sales that conjugate? Straight up, my friend, you don't
Speaker 3: conjugate one.
Speaker 2: I know you, Valdemar. Do I let people win a rod?
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 1: I do accept some limiting rules like I did today,
Speaker 1: But you won that fair and square.
Speaker 2: I don't. I used to beat my six year old
Speaker 2: daughter at.
Speaker 1: Candyland because I didn't want her to think that we
Speaker 1: were you gonna let her grow.
Speaker 2: Up to I mean, you need to learn how to lose. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you did a great jobs a child