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Speaker 1: glorious springtime weather, right, and part of the beauty of
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Speaker 1: sun in there. Easter Sunday fortunately looks like a bunch
Speaker 1: of sun, low sixties that being in the Denver metro area,
Speaker 1: but kind of mirrored throughout the states.
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Speaker 1: fun time of the year, isn't it, Because you're starting
Speaker 1: to get this good weather and then you know it's
Speaker 1: summer ahead. It's not like fall when you get all
Speaker 1: that good weather, which you enjoy, but then you know
Speaker 1: winter is coming, right, But no, now the good stuff's
Speaker 1: I had and it's getting interesting for the first time
Speaker 1: anybody's interesting besides Ryan and me in the Colorado Governor's race,
Speaker 1: in the Colorado Center race, because now people are starting
Speaker 1: to see what I've been talking about for a long time.
Speaker 2: The GOP does have a chance here. They do have
Speaker 2: a chance here.
Speaker 1: And then that chance has been created by Michael Bennett,
Speaker 1: the presumptive Democrat.
Speaker 2: He just the epitome.
Speaker 1: He always has the epitome of East Coast you know, elitism,
Speaker 1: silver spoonism, but now.
Speaker 2: He adds to it a level of arrogance.
Speaker 1: I don't think Ryan, we have seen in Colorado politics,
Speaker 1: at least not in our lifetimes. Now people could argue, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, Jared paul is coming out and cursing at
Speaker 1: the people of.
Speaker 2: The state and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: You know, he's obviously a snob, but he tries to pretend,
Speaker 1: at least he tries to pretend not to be and.
Speaker 2: To be some kind of regular guy.
Speaker 1: Like remember that spot with the goofiest looking like Little
Speaker 1: League helmet he wore playing softball in a commercial. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: probably the first time he ever swung a bad which
Speaker 1: doesn't make.
Speaker 2: Him a bad guy.
Speaker 1: But don't don't do a spot saying you're a softball
Speaker 1: player when you're not, because I guarantee this as a
Speaker 1: guy who used to play one hundred games a year
Speaker 1: of competitive softball, nobody would ever wear a helmet, let
Speaker 1: alone that helmet. So yeah, but anyway, at least he
Speaker 1: pretended Bennett. If Bennett had three arms, he'd be given
Speaker 1: three middle fingers. He's just out there, just.
Speaker 2: Just owning the arrogance, owning the entitlement. I'm gonnae on
Speaker 2: the Senate and I gotta appoint my own successor.
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to execute everybody who ran against me.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's a remarkable thing to behold. So
Speaker 1: it's creating a lot of excitement on the GOP side, because, hey,
Speaker 1: when you're the presumptive Democrat nominee and the Denver Post,
Speaker 1: which and I love a lot of people there but
Speaker 1: usually functions as an arm of the Democratic Party, you're
Speaker 1: the presumptive Democrat nominee for governor and the Denver Post
Speaker 1: is rightly hammering you on your second day in the race.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that bodes well for the GOP. Will it be enough?
Speaker 1: No, GOP has to get a real good candidate and
Speaker 1: then they're gonna have. GOP is probably gonna have at
Speaker 1: least five, probably ten credible candidates in the primary, especially
Speaker 1: with this Bennette stuff. So then the big challenge is
Speaker 1: going to be the GOP nominating the right person, but
Speaker 1: then rallying behind him or her. That's going to be
Speaker 1: the challenge, right, because you know how it normally works, right, right,
Speaker 1: the losers they kind of say the right thing, but
Speaker 1: then it's and people really don't enthusiastically support and sometimes
Speaker 1: enthusiastically try to undermine the people who won the primary,
Speaker 1: and this time around, yeah, that would be unfortunate because
Speaker 1: there's a real chance here. So we got that to
Speaker 1: talk about so much more as well. Jes See, Caraveo
Speaker 1: is getting back in the race. She wants to take
Speaker 1: on Gabe Evans again, says, hey, the last race was
Speaker 1: a tough time for Dems. Think so, yeah, why weren't
Speaker 1: you out there condemning Biden? And she says this is
Speaker 1: going to be a better environment. Well, it probably will be, right,
Speaker 1: mid term party out of power, party in power, that's
Speaker 1: usually tough on their candidates in the midterm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question about that. But she's also going to
Speaker 2: have a primary because there's a guy up there.
Speaker 1: If you're into that lefty stuff, an impressive guy who's
Speaker 1: already in that dem primary. So we'll keep an eye
Speaker 1: on that one. But so interesting she'd want back in, right,
Speaker 1: because didn't we hear all those years we heard about
Speaker 1: a great doctor, this family doctor, loved that love caring
Speaker 1: for families, but apparently wants to get back into this.
Speaker 3: Makes you wonder too, Dan, doesn't it about that eighth
Speaker 3: Congressional district, which is so pivotal, so critical, so important
Speaker 3: in this past election the upcoming one it will be
Speaker 3: as well? Is that the best they've got in the
Speaker 3: eighth district for the Democrats? Is there any other Democrats? No,
Speaker 3: I can be a better candidate than your dear Caraveo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think most people can be.
Speaker 1: And that's nothing personal, no, right, right, And she had
Speaker 1: a chance, man, she had a chance to really be spectacular.
Speaker 1: I don't doubt she's a fine doctor in certain ways,
Speaker 1: but she had a chance to really be spectacular. And remember,
Speaker 1: she came out, she came out and was speaking the
Speaker 1: truth on marijuana, and then she got pounded down by
Speaker 1: the left so fast and just didn't have the guts
Speaker 1: to stand up to him and say no, that the
Speaker 1: health of these kids is more important than my political career.
Speaker 1: And so she folded on that. But she she had
Speaker 1: the right idea on dope, and she had a chance
Speaker 1: to really be special there, because come on, the people
Speaker 1: who do you remember, right, you remember the people who
Speaker 1: are willing to sacrifice it all to do the right thing,
Speaker 1: sacrifice it all for something more important than themselves, for
Speaker 1: something bigger than themselves. And she had that chance, and
Speaker 1: she folded. You know, that's part of Trump's tremendous appeal.
Speaker 1: He went out there, this great comfortable life everything else,
Speaker 1: he went out there and he laid his life on
Speaker 1: the line to serve and that that's part of his appeal.
Speaker 1: Dan Bennett is in a real conundrum right now. An
Speaker 1: underused word rhying conundrn. You don't use it, not enough.
Speaker 1: You use every word some things that aren't.
Speaker 2: Words that aren't unairworthy of it.
Speaker 1: Sure, Bennett. Yeah, And that's really expanding now. It's too bad,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Things are getting more and more crass. I'm
Speaker 1: guilty of that sometimes I'm going on.
Speaker 2: The air though. But you're right.
Speaker 3: In general discourse with the especially members of the left
Speaker 3: that are speaking out against Trump or Tesla or elon
Speaker 3: a lot of profanity.
Speaker 1: But even with me, I mean I never before, like
Speaker 1: in my first ten or twenty years on air, would
Speaker 1: have said crap. And I don't like it when I
Speaker 1: say it, and I'm not going to say it again.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be some goodie two shoes. You
Speaker 1: know what happens during breaks and stuff? Oh yeah, man,
Speaker 1: if we could have broadcast the Brakes in the Capitalists
Speaker 1: and Silverman.
Speaker 2: Show, oh boy, oh my buddyness.
Speaker 1: Wow. You know, if we'd been on satellite, that probably
Speaker 1: would have been the number one show in the country.
Speaker 1: It would have been the number one show in the country.
Speaker 1: It would have ben What do they call those things
Speaker 1: when it's kind of a wrap off? What do they
Speaker 1: call those things?
Speaker 2: Yeah? This track or no no no, no, no no, yeah,
Speaker 2: like an eight mile of M and M. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: got ya. I don't know what that is, but anyway,
Speaker 2: the movie.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but that's what happened during those breaks, and
Speaker 1: the combinations of words not fit for public consumption were
Speaker 1: pretty remarkable.
Speaker 2: For all of us involved. Dan Bennett's in a real conundrum.
Speaker 2: What literally did in the Senate. I believe he voted
Speaker 2: with Biden like ninety eight percent of the time. Now
Speaker 2: he can only.
Speaker 1: Vote opposite of Trump, which puts him getting things wrong
Speaker 1: eighty to ninety percent of the time would be.
Speaker 2: Very bad for Colorado.
Speaker 1: Well, that that is such an important point, and that's
Speaker 1: the thing, is the left versus right thing. Okay, that
Speaker 1: matters to a certain extent in Colorado, right, But unfortunately,
Speaker 1: what we've seen is it doesn't matter enough because we
Speaker 1: saw in that last cycle.
Speaker 2: Right that you can you can be told totally.
Speaker 1: Trashing this state and all the way the Democrats are
Speaker 1: the last state wide cycle and they're still going to
Speaker 1: win by a comfortable margin. And a lot of that
Speaker 1: is because of negative perception of the GOP. That's just
Speaker 1: kind of baked in. So you need something dramatic to
Speaker 1: change that. So the left versus right thing alone is
Speaker 1: not going to get the GOP there.
Speaker 2: It's going to take more. It's going to take more, and.
Speaker 1: The starting point is a really unappealing Democrat candidate in
Speaker 1: Michael Bennett, and not just really unappealing to Republicans and
Speaker 1: hopefully a lot unaffiliateds, but he's going to be really
Speaker 1: unappealing to a lot of Democrats. So that's what you
Speaker 1: need to start. And then of course the gops to
Speaker 1: get their thing rights. So yeah, the left versus the
Speaker 1: right thing. But come on now, and it's tough because
Speaker 1: the media extension of the dem Party, so they won't
Speaker 1: put a lot of pressure on him. But you got
Speaker 1: a zero in on some of those eighty twenty ninety
Speaker 1: ten issues. You know, men in women's sports, men in
Speaker 1: girls bathrooms and showers, you know, issues like that that
Speaker 1: really are important on their face and tell the public
Speaker 1: who you really are. So yeah, a lot of opportunity there.
Speaker 1: So Dan not getting emotional. It's the peanut butter. Very
Speaker 1: smart move to get addicted to peanut butter. When you're
Speaker 1: a talk show stan listening to Michael Bennett telling you
Speaker 1: what time it is is painful. It takes five minutes,
Speaker 1: and he's slow as a dead turtle. Hearing him with turtle,
Speaker 1: Hearing him speak is slow and difficult. This comes back
Speaker 1: to a key point. Okay, separate from the left and
Speaker 1: right stuff, and Colorado's more left than right right now,
Speaker 1: but can be persuaded, I think enough people, but separate
Speaker 1: from the left and right stuff. When it comes to governor,
Speaker 1: people want somebody skilled. People want somebody with the skill
Speaker 1: set for that job. Because in that job, right that
Speaker 1: they're going to be the crisis, there are going to
Speaker 1: be the natural disasters, they are going to be all
Speaker 1: this other stuff where you just need somebody as the
Speaker 1: skills for the job, and clearly he does not, and
Speaker 1: that's proven by what.
Speaker 2: He's done in the job he's had.
Speaker 1: So again, that may be the thing close second to
Speaker 1: just the incredibly stunning elitism and arrogance, but that may
Speaker 1: be the thing that really opens the door for the GOP.
Speaker 1: The guy clearly doesn't have the skills.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Caplis Show, and now back to
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Speaker 1: You don't like one of those magic moments two issues
Speaker 1: on the Secretary of State making a comment.
Speaker 4: The reason the administration believes they got a big win
Speaker 4: at the Supreme Court is because the district court was
Speaker 4: trying to compel the executive on foreign affairs.
Speaker 2: The Supreme Court through that out.
Speaker 4: That's not what the Supreme Court has ruled, and what
Speaker 4: Marco Rubio is saying is true. The courts have long
Speaker 4: recognized that they cannot compel the executive on foreign policy matters.
Speaker 2: That's number one.
Speaker 4: Number two, What they also believe is that politically, the
Speaker 4: American people want them to be as aggressive as possible
Speaker 4: and pull all the levers they can pull to solve
Speaker 4: the crisis that has festered for years. And you know
Speaker 4: that we keep calling this guy marilynd Man in the press.
Speaker 2: Nobody seems to worry about.
Speaker 4: The Maryland mother, Rachel Morin, who was murdered by someone
Speaker 4: that the previous administration let out of jail.
Speaker 5: But this is a vier.
Speaker 2: Scott Jennings nailed it.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that's so striking right is
Speaker 1: you see all these different polls, and they're all from
Speaker 1: the left that show way over fifty percent support for
Speaker 1: deporting everyone here illegally. Obviously we're up into the eighty
Speaker 1: ninety support range for deporting those here illegally who commit crimes,
Speaker 1: but strong majority plus support for deporting everybody here illegally.
Speaker 1: So the Democrats can go out there and do what
Speaker 1: they're doing now and just try to make heroes out
Speaker 1: of all these people here illegally committing other crimes, MS
Speaker 1: thirteen gang members, everything else, and try to make that
Speaker 1: their cause.
Speaker 2: And please, I'll send the limo for you, literally.
Speaker 1: Because all you're doing is helping elect more Republicans and
Speaker 1: you're not going to slow Trump down on that.
Speaker 2: That's for darn sure.
Speaker 1: Three or three seven, three eight two five to five
Speaker 1: the number, which is another reason TEXTDA and five seven
Speaker 1: seven three nine to be really excited if if you're
Speaker 1: a conservative like me, be really excited about Michael Bennett
Speaker 1: as the DEM candidate for governor because he has a
Speaker 1: history of far far, far left commitment to open borders,
Speaker 1: to to not deporting people here illegally who have committed
Speaker 1: other crimes.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's yeah, he is.
Speaker 1: He is extremely vulnerable and now I understand, under the
Speaker 1: best of circumstances it's a big, uphill battle for the
Speaker 1: GOP nominee. But but there is a real shot here.
Speaker 1: Thank you Michael Bennett and the left for that. Dan,
Speaker 1: I actually think you're right about Bennett. But curious if
Speaker 1: you got the courage to chat about the bond market
Speaker 1: and now Trump mucked up our economy. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: my friend, are you watching the same stuff I'm watching?
Speaker 1: Wait a second, when it comes to the economy. I mean,
Speaker 1: you look at his first term prior to COVID. It
Speaker 1: tells you what you need to know about his ability
Speaker 1: to do that. But also my goodness, we're what a
Speaker 1: month or two into this, and we just all know
Speaker 1: that the only way, the only way to change course
Speaker 1: and to steer away from this fiscal cliff we're headed
Speaker 1: for is some dramatic action. And Trump has a courage
Speaker 1: to do that, and I trusted him on this. Nothing's
Speaker 1: guaranteed to work, right, but what we are guaranteed to
Speaker 1: do is crash if we stay on the course we're on.
Speaker 1: And he has the guts to try something dramatic. And
Speaker 1: by the way, if it matters to anybody, it happens
Speaker 1: to be exactly what he told the people he would
Speaker 1: do when he ran for office, right, which is not
Speaker 1: what you get from these Democrats. You know, they run
Speaker 1: for office trying to sound like some kind of moderate
Speaker 1: and then they get elected and it's you know, they're
Speaker 1: left to Bernie Sanders. Literally right now under Jared Polis,
Speaker 1: Colorado is left of California in some very significant ways.
Speaker 2: Fortunately not yet. The statue.
Speaker 1: Did you see the statue Ryan in San Francisco? No
Speaker 1: over four stories tall? Of what just think about it
Speaker 1: for a second. It's San Francisco, It's true, this exists. Okay,
Speaker 1: over four stories tall? What do you think it's.
Speaker 2: Of a large Is this the one of a large women?
Speaker 5: Naked?
Speaker 2: Naked? Fuck naked? Did you see the worker that had
Speaker 2: to go through a certain area? Oh, don't say it.
Speaker 1: I don't need that on the statue, right, but I
Speaker 1: don't need the statue.
Speaker 2: I don't need that. What if it was Blucifer, I
Speaker 2: don't need that in my head.
Speaker 1: That's a great topic, that's a great top because you
Speaker 1: talk about a monument to the arrogance of the left.
Speaker 1: Ooh nice, right, yeah, old maths out at Dia. You've
Speaker 1: got this great state of Colorado, one of the most
Speaker 1: beautiful places on God's Earth, and you've got the people
Speaker 1: of Colorado are rich, Western heritage, everything else. And what
Speaker 1: does the left decide they're going to put up in
Speaker 1: the most prominent place at Dia, where millions.
Speaker 2: Of people go each year and millions of people visiting
Speaker 2: flow through. What do they decide to.
Speaker 1: Put up a monument to drug use? It is a
Speaker 1: horse on meth and it's ugly. No offense to the
Speaker 1: deceased sculptor at all, but it's ugly.
Speaker 2: It's horse bought ugly.
Speaker 1: But that's the left, right, If we like it, If
Speaker 1: normal people like us like art, then it's garbage, right,
Speaker 1: it's garbage because we're peons.
Speaker 2: What would you put up there? I'd love to get
Speaker 2: your take on this.
Speaker 1: Three or three someone three eight two five five text
Speaker 1: Dan five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2: What should be in that spot?
Speaker 1: The single most prominent spot in the state of Colorado
Speaker 1: for a piece of public art. What should be in
Speaker 1: that spot? What should replace old myth? And Ryan, you
Speaker 1: talk about an issue across party lines. Yeah, getting rid
Speaker 1: of old meth is one of those. I guarantee you that.
Speaker 1: But what should replace it?
Speaker 2: Dan?
Speaker 1: How about a Bennett Buck rematch? I'm not betting a
Speaker 1: buck on that, are you.
Speaker 3: I'm glad that Texter brought it up because I think
Speaker 3: ken Buck won himself some favor with those that.
Speaker 2: Hate Trump on the left.
Speaker 3: But it goes back to our Joe O'Day analysis, which
Speaker 3: is you can try to make the other side like you,
Speaker 3: but you're just going to be a light version of
Speaker 3: what they already are the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2: And he's lost any and all support of the Trump
Speaker 2: base here. Well, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: To me, the unfortunate thing is ken Buck I think
Speaker 1: would have been a tremendous US senator at the time
Speaker 1: he ran against Michael Bennett and he had him beat.
Speaker 2: He flat head him beat.
Speaker 1: I remember talking to Ken, called him the Friday night
Speaker 1: before election day, just to tell him what a great
Speaker 1: race he'd well run. I mean, there was obviously that
Speaker 1: hiccup on meet the press, but just encourage him. And
Speaker 1: I had every expectation he was going to win that race,
Speaker 1: and he came so close. And the Ken Buck of
Speaker 1: that era, he would have been a tremendous US Senator.
Speaker 1: So yeah, very very unfortunate. And what's even more unfortunate
Speaker 1: is that Jane Norton wasn't our US senator because she
Speaker 1: was in that same cycle. I can't remember. I think
Speaker 1: it was the ten cycle. She would have been a
Speaker 1: superstar US senator. And if Jane Norton that she lost
Speaker 1: a very close primary to Ken. If Jane had won
Speaker 1: that primary, well she would have and Michael Bennett's team
Speaker 1: will tell you they've told me she would have beat
Speaker 1: him by eight points. It she would have not only
Speaker 1: been a tremendous US centator, Jane Norton would have become
Speaker 1: the face of the GOP in Colorado.
Speaker 2: And it just would have been a whole different era.
Speaker 1: Moving forward, but that's life, right, I mean so close,
Speaker 1: just a game of inches.
Speaker 2: But she would have been phenomenal and Ken would have
Speaker 2: been a great senator and lost to Bennett by a hair.
Speaker 1: Well, there's a real chance to beat Michael Bennett. Now
Speaker 1: you're on the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 2: You're listening to The Dan Kaplis Show Podcast one, My friend, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we just cut our promo for tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We're going to be talking about what we should replace
Speaker 1: old mes with. Right, because it's time. I don't care
Speaker 1: if we need a ballot measure statewide.
Speaker 2: It is time. That hideous, that hideous work of public
Speaker 2: art out at DiiA, which again is the left double
Speaker 2: middle finger to the rest of the state, because there
Speaker 2: can't be five people outside of the deceased sculpture's family.
Speaker 2: God rest his soul.
Speaker 1: I understand a good man and a talented artist who
Speaker 1: just had an off day with that thing. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there can't be five people in the state who like
Speaker 1: that thing. But obviously, these elitist on the left. If
Speaker 1: we like something, if normal people across party lines like something,
Speaker 1: it's trash, it's garbage because we're just normal people.
Speaker 2: But what should it be? What should it be. We'll
Speaker 2: talk about that more detail tomorrow, but I'd love your
Speaker 2: thoughts today.
Speaker 3: It bears repeating too, Dan that that monstrosity that statue
Speaker 3: killed the sculptor himself.
Speaker 2: So sad fell on him, so killed him. That should
Speaker 2: have been an omen right there. Oh it yeah, so sad,
Speaker 2: so sad.
Speaker 1: But who would What I'd love to know is who
Speaker 1: in the right mind could ever think that look good
Speaker 1: or that that represented us? Because you know what, and
Speaker 1: that's part of the arrogance too. And what God is
Speaker 1: talking about arrogance today is is my belief that this
Speaker 1: bizarre entitlement power played by Michael Bennett that even the
Speaker 1: Denver post is hammered in his second day in the race,
Speaker 1: is the single most arrogant political move in Colorado history.
Speaker 1: And that's saying a lot when you've just had eight
Speaker 1: years of kind of the ultimate snobb Jared Polis. But
Speaker 1: but Poulus would at least try to pretend at times
Speaker 1: that he wasn't. Bennett's just sticking it right in everybody's face.
Speaker 2: He's going to stay in the side of well, he
Speaker 2: runs for governor and then he's going to appoint his
Speaker 2: old successor. Then he's going to execute everybody who didn't
Speaker 2: support him.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's bizarre, but if you're a Republican, it's
Speaker 1: a wonderful thing to watch.
Speaker 2: How about Dan.
Speaker 3: You go to a lot of Broncos games, right, and
Speaker 3: they introduced those new cool looking horse statues at empower
Speaker 3: Field at Mile High Who's replaced old method one of
Speaker 3: the oaths?
Speaker 2: So I'm luckily.
Speaker 1: You know what, probably the greatest failure of my life.
Speaker 2: Has to do with the horse at Mile High Stadium.
Speaker 2: Well what happened.
Speaker 1: I have tried, and I consider myself to have some
Speaker 1: persuasive ability. I have tried as hard as I can
Speaker 1: to convince the Bronco organization, through everybody I know in
Speaker 1: the organization, to do one simple thing which would be
Speaker 1: immediately iconic. It would enhance the experience, it would become
Speaker 1: recognized all over the country. It cost a few thousand bucks.
Speaker 1: Just wire up Bucky. You know that big white horse,
Speaker 1: beautiful horse at that south end zone. Just wire them
Speaker 1: up so every time there's a touchdown, you get fire
Speaker 1: out of the snout and you get orange smoke.
Speaker 2: It's simple, It's awesome.
Speaker 1: I catted the crowd would love it all over the country.
Speaker 2: I just do it. Hyrotechnics works every time.
Speaker 1: But that that would be so cool, and you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's such a no brainer.
Speaker 5: Okay, truth I actually did shows like that with tyro Okay.
Speaker 2: Well, can you go climb up there and wire up Bucky?
Speaker 1: I have people, Yeah, we're good, get them up there
Speaker 1: and we'll get a defense fund for him.
Speaker 2: But the good thing is the Broncos now have the.
Speaker 1: Best ownership in the NFL, and so hopefully that it
Speaker 1: will happen, because it should.
Speaker 2: Happen, there's no downside. It would be awesome.
Speaker 1: How about a sculpture of John Denver in front of
Speaker 1: a fourteen er? I think that would be nice, But
Speaker 1: I don't see it for the airport. Do you see
Speaker 1: it for the airport? Because that is the single most
Speaker 1: prominent spot in the state for public art, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean yeah, it's the nexus for everybody coming
Speaker 3: to Denver, if even if you're just stopping on a
Speaker 3: layover and maybe you go downtown, careful if you do that.
Speaker 3: But well, what would be iconically descriptive of this region,
Speaker 3: this area of the state, right right?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: What about Doc Holiday?
Speaker 2: Yeah, wasn't he a criminal? He was? Sorry? I maybe.
Speaker 1: One of the best lawmen of the I'm not sure
Speaker 1: you could put a criminal up there, I mean the
Speaker 1: left wing right, because.
Speaker 2: He was a criminal. I'm sorry. I won't be missing
Speaker 2: this guy. It's just a scambler and gunfighter.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay at poker.
Speaker 2: Oh he was just good.
Speaker 1: Famous gunfight at the Oka Krall in Tombstone, Arizona.
Speaker 2: Don't we need a Colorado guy or Gale?
Speaker 5: Well he died here and he was buried here.
Speaker 2: Okay, well we should do a statue.
Speaker 1: But no, no, no, you know what Chris Olinger, tremendous
Speaker 1: program director at KOWA in the day, said when I
Speaker 1: was a baby talk show host, there are no mistakes
Speaker 1: in brainstorming, which meant I had a really stupid idea, right,
Speaker 1: But there are no mistakes in brain storms. But I
Speaker 1: would love to hear from folks on what would be
Speaker 1: that one piece of art?
Speaker 2: And think what you have to work with there. You
Speaker 2: have all that land, You can build it as tall
Speaker 2: and wide as you want.
Speaker 1: Everybody's going to see it. There's only one way in
Speaker 1: and out of there, right, if you're going to get
Speaker 1: out live, there's only one way in and out of there.
Speaker 1: And you've got the easiest in history to follow. Now
Speaker 1: one person in the world is going to say, oh,
Speaker 1: that's not as good as the thing that came before it.
Speaker 5: What about Jack Swaggert?
Speaker 1: Oh that is subject. That's one of the best statues ever,
Speaker 1: isn't it the one in the airport?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Apollo thirteen.
Speaker 1: I've only seen it like six times, which isn't really
Speaker 1: true because I watched the end over and over. I
Speaker 1: think I've seen the full movie once, but sometimes when
Speaker 1: you need a little pump up watching him. But for
Speaker 1: those new to the area, yeah, he was a Colorado guy.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: Wasn't Dick Wadhams helping him out politically? I'd have to
Speaker 1: ask Dick that. I think Dick helped get him elected.
Speaker 1: He got elected to Congress and then died before he
Speaker 1: took office after of course, being a famous astronaut, died
Speaker 1: of cancer before he took office. But that is a
Speaker 1: great statue. The one in Dia really really well done
Speaker 1: because they got the head size right right. So often
Speaker 1: the head size is disproportionate.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, all of that. So okay, well, dive in.
Speaker 2: That's some more tomorrow. I want to think about it
Speaker 2: tonight too.
Speaker 1: What would be perfect, because Ryan, I remember when we
Speaker 1: actually did some investigative work into another terrible piece of
Speaker 1: public art. Have you ever seen Craig, one of one
Speaker 1: of his greatest ideas ever, came up with the name
Speaker 1: for it. Have you ever seen that that almost is hideous.
Speaker 2: Piece of art.
Speaker 1: If you're an I twenty five and you're just north
Speaker 1: of downtown and it looks like a red male body part,
Speaker 1: it's it's yeah, just.
Speaker 2: Kind of north Main downtown.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's made out of beanbags, oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And Craig named it the Venus. But it's another in
Speaker 1: your face lefty kind of thing. Right, here's a public place.
Speaker 1: Everybody drives by it every day, but they have to
Speaker 1: do something overtly Yeah, lefty like that. So but the
Speaker 1: main priority, one at a time, God have our priorities
Speaker 1: is replacing old maths and getting the right thing up there.
Speaker 1: What would that right thing be? And I think, Ryan,
Speaker 1: I think it's going to take having the right thing
Speaker 1: in mind before then generating the public action to replace
Speaker 1: old meth because everybody wants it replaced. But we just
Speaker 1: need to get that one great substitute that'll get everybody
Speaker 1: jazzed up and motivated to go get it done.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: And I'm not in the business of helping Diamond Mike Johnston,
Speaker 1: you know, because I think he's doing such a lousy
Speaker 1: job in Denver.
Speaker 2: But if he wants to do something to boost his.
Speaker 1: Popularity right now, to like climb out of the toilet,
Speaker 1: pardon the expression, Yeah, it would be get rid of
Speaker 1: old meth and replace it with something just really colorado.
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, we'll talk more tomorrow about what that
Speaker 1: might be. In the meantime, we've got some of this
Speaker 1: serious stuff we need to get after. When do we
Speaker 1: go back President Trump? President Trump is going to be
Speaker 1: offering cash payments and a plane ticket to people willing
Speaker 1: to self deport. How much do you think that amount
Speaker 1: should be? First, what do.
Speaker 2: You think the amount is it'll take to get people
Speaker 2: to do it? Enough people? Right?
Speaker 1: And second, what's the right amount? What's the fair amount?
Speaker 1: What would be too much to pay? You're on the
Speaker 1: Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 2: And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast. I
Speaker 2: don't think he can cover Peter Paul and Mary He
Speaker 2: wrote the song him. Yeah, yeah, they covered Bob Dylan.
Speaker 2: This is a John Denver original.
Speaker 1: Before Peter Paul and Mary. Yeah, aren't they a lot
Speaker 1: older than him? Or I don't know about Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think they were older. But he is one of America's
Speaker 1: great songwriters.
Speaker 2: John Denver.
Speaker 1: I want I know you know everything musical, but I
Speaker 1: want to look that up because my memory was Peter,
Speaker 1: Paul and Mary were the mid of the errors before
Speaker 1: John Denver.
Speaker 2: Oh no, he wrote the.
Speaker 3: Song da He's the man, and that song works on
Speaker 3: two levels. One John Denver, who took the name of
Speaker 3: this city that was not his original name. He loved
Speaker 3: the rocky mountains, he loved Colorado, So statue of him
Speaker 3: that works, and leaving on a jet plane like President
Speaker 3: Trump would like to offer to the illegals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, very very wise bump there. Yeah, if you
Speaker 2: just joined us.
Speaker 1: President Trump's going to be offering cash, hasn't said how
Speaker 1: much yet, and a plane ticket to folks here illegally.
Speaker 1: And what do you think it would take to get
Speaker 1: folks to leave? What do you think he will offer?
Speaker 1: How much is too much?
Speaker 5: Boy?
Speaker 1: We're getting some tremendous, tremendous text already on what's going
Speaker 1: to be a topic tomorrow. What should re replace that
Speaker 1: hideous old meth a Dia with.
Speaker 2: Dan, don't take this wrong way.
Speaker 1: But I think if you every time I drive past
Speaker 1: the nus on I twenty five, okay, I will take that.
Speaker 2: The wrong way.
Speaker 1: Dan. A small herd of giant cattle grazing four five
Speaker 1: six cows and big like two to three building stories
Speaker 1: each cow.
Speaker 2: That is so cool, isn't that? See?
Speaker 1: That sort of thing Old Math is the opposite of
Speaker 1: who we are as a people right now. It's who
Speaker 1: the left wants us to be, all stoned out, dependent
Speaker 1: on government, ugly, that kind of stuff. But that's not
Speaker 1: who we are as a people. And so something like that,
Speaker 1: that is a beautiful suggestion. And the key would be
Speaker 1: in the magnitude, right, the magnitude.
Speaker 2: The size of these glorious beasts.
Speaker 3: Another thing about the Old Math, your buddy, I was
Speaker 3: talking to Kelly about this. Didn't it at one time,
Speaker 3: at least when it originated, it had red laser.
Speaker 2: Beams shooting out of it.
Speaker 3: It still does, but they had to turn that off
Speaker 3: because of the planes, right, or turn it down maybe
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Okay, they turned it, well, I know it still has
Speaker 1: the glowing orangeize. Yeah, I would not just be kelly
Speaker 1: on it. But I love this idea of the big oversize.
Speaker 1: You get some steers, you get some bulls. Oh yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: because like Greg, now, if you came into our conf
Speaker 1: ins room on twenty one, we have this, I gotta
Speaker 1: get you over there. We have this big, magnificent piece
Speaker 1: of art of a long horn steer and then just
Speaker 1: stars shining over the long horn steer. It's called in
Speaker 1: the Stars. It's just beautiful. But yeah, that kind of
Speaker 1: art out there would be fantastic. Dan, since the airport
Speaker 1: is out in kan't scupe some oversized corn rows. O.
Speaker 1: Listen now, this next one, this is a good one, Dan,
Speaker 1: keep it simple. A cowboy on horseback, you know, but
Speaker 1: what if you had I would change that a little bit.
Speaker 1: Love the concept again, it's got to be oversized, it's
Speaker 1: got to be beautiful. I would have a cowboy on
Speaker 1: the back of a bucking Bronco, you know, because then
Speaker 1: you're tying into the mile High icon. It's the spirit
Speaker 1: of the people of Colorado, at least the right spirit
Speaker 1: right across party lines and everything else, which is rugged, outdoor, courageous,
Speaker 1: you know, the Bucking Bronco, you know, representing the energy
Speaker 1: of our wildlife and yeah, right, something like that instead
Speaker 1: of this truly drugged out it's either Satan's steed or
Speaker 1: it's old meth right. It's the opposite of who we are.
Speaker 1: Not original, not original. But that's how these names percolated
Speaker 1: up from the people. Is it looks like Satan's horse
Speaker 1: to me, it looks like a strung out horse on
Speaker 1: meth that hasn't eaten in four months. But one way
Speaker 1: or the other, it does not represent us. Dan replaced
Speaker 1: the statue at Dia with a majestic bull elk with
Speaker 1: a bunch of wolves hanging off its side trying to
Speaker 1: drag it down. That would be a fitting tribute to
Speaker 1: what's happening in the state, said thought. But it is
Speaker 1: so sad. It's so sad what paulus in the left
Speaker 1: have done to animals, have done to the livestock, to
Speaker 1: the farmers and ranchers, but have also done to the wolves,
Speaker 1: you know, setting the wolves up for doom in the end,
Speaker 1: Dan so said to hear Wink Martindale passed away today.
Speaker 2: Was he a guest host on the show A game
Speaker 2: show host?
Speaker 3: Okay In the seventies and eighties, recalled what did he
Speaker 3: do tic Tac dough? That was one of the ones
Speaker 3: that he did. Trying to remember, but yeah, he was
Speaker 3: mid eighties, I think.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yeah I missed that one. What was your
Speaker 1: favorite game show?
Speaker 2: Great?
Speaker 3: I love the Jokers Wild When I was a kid,
Speaker 3: Jack Barry was the host of that one.
Speaker 2: That was a good one.
Speaker 1: Sale of the Century, Let's make a Deal? And what
Speaker 1: was the one with the briefcases? Because that got good
Speaker 1: for a while. We would sit around and there'd be
Speaker 1: a few bever.
Speaker 2: That deal or no, that's fairly recent. Yeah, got good
Speaker 2: for a while. That got good for a while.
Speaker 3: Who wants to be a Millionaire? There was another one
Speaker 3: around that time. I think that got popular.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, what's the one where you'd call for a lifeline?
Speaker 2: Who wants to be a millionaire? Who wants to be?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: That was Regis Philbin. Who would you have called? Uh
Speaker 2: you on anything related? I guess it's for sure a special.
Speaker 3: Anything heavy metal? That'd be Kelly over here. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I've have several lifelines planned out. Yeah, I was one
Speaker 3: for one of.
Speaker 2: Our FM hosts and Grand Rapids missions. Well, you would
Speaker 2: make total sense. I was like the trivia bowl teammate.
Speaker 2: So we've but we will.
Speaker 1: By the way, we'll get back on this sculpture topic
Speaker 1: tomorrow because you talk about practical things that could really
Speaker 1: benefit the whole state. That's just something that would be
Speaker 1: real nice and in its own small way, make everyday
Speaker 1: life better and just right or wrong. Because again it
Speaker 1: comes back to when we've been talking about. We opened
Speaker 1: with Michael Bennett and his historically elitist, arrogant and titled
Speaker 1: play that he's going to stay in the center, then
Speaker 1: he's going to point a success or, even the Denver
Speaker 1: Post hammering him for that, but creating this opening for Republicans.
Speaker 2: So that got us off on.
Speaker 1: The arrogance and elitism of the left, and you also
Speaker 1: see it play out in public art, and so that's
Speaker 1: what got us to old math out at DiiA, which
Speaker 1: has really been a blight on this state since the
Speaker 1: day it went up would which was soon after it
Speaker 1: had killed unfortunately its sculptors. So we'll get back on
Speaker 1: all that and much more tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Maybe by tomorrow the President will have told us how
Speaker 2: much he's gonna offer. He's gonna be offering cash.
Speaker 1: To people to self to port along with a plane ticket.
Speaker 1: Please do join us tomorrow. Enjoy this glorious weather. It's
Speaker 1: gonna turn a bit on Friday, but that's part of
Speaker 1: the beauty of spring, right and then it'll pop right
Speaker 1: back off. Should be a sunny Easter Sunday, Ryan, thank
Speaker 1: you for your great work. As always, Kelly, our human sunshine,
Speaker 1: join us tomorrow please on the Dan Kapla Show.