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Speaker 2: You're back in hour two of The Dan Caplis Show,
Speaker 2: and no I am not Dan Kaplis. You're listening to Weld,
Speaker 2: Kenny Sheriff Steve Reims. I'm honored to be able to
Speaker 2: guest host this wonderful show, one that I am a
Speaker 2: big fan of. I love listening to Dan and Ryan
Speaker 2: before him any day I can. In law enforcement, sometimes
Speaker 2: your days are a little unpredictable, but I do spend
Speaker 2: a lot of time in a car, and so that
Speaker 2: gives me an opportunity to listen to some of the
Speaker 2: best talk radio in the nation, I think right here
Speaker 2: in Colorado. So we had a little bit of time
Speaker 2: in this first segment that I want to get to
Speaker 2: some of the callers. But if we want to load
Speaker 2: the line, the numbers three oh three seven one, three eight,
Speaker 2: two five five. You can also also text in at
Speaker 2: five seven seven three nine. Just start your text with
Speaker 2: Dan so I know it's aimed at me or Dan
Speaker 2: in any other day. But we have a caller from Pueblo.
Speaker 2: I think he's been waiting the longest.
Speaker 3: Matt, Yes, sir, thank you, Sheriff Steve, appreciate the opportunity.
Speaker 4: Just one thing. It's just near and.
Speaker 3: Dear to my heart and kind of took a little
Speaker 3: issue with what the congresswoman said. But the current SB
Speaker 3: twenty five zor iSER A three.
Speaker 4: I think it's more important that we educate people about
Speaker 4: the Colorado Constitution. At the federal level, the second amendment
Speaker 4: is that the federal government shall make no law. But
Speaker 4: I believe it's an Article two, section thirteen of the
Speaker 4: state Constitution. It says that the right of no person
Speaker 4: to keep in bare arms in defense of her home, person,
Speaker 4: or property paraphrasing flightly shall be called into question. The
Speaker 4: sbive it definitely does.
Speaker 2: It definitely calls that into question.
Speaker 3: Doesn't it exactly?
Speaker 4: And the taxes if you go back to Article one,
Speaker 4: section three, I believe the inalienable right to acquire property.
Speaker 4: Now you're you're basically putting a poll tax right on
Speaker 4: gun and ammunition to exercise our right. So at the
Speaker 4: federal level, I think it should be more of a
Speaker 4: fourteenth Amendment issue that protects US from the states. They
Speaker 4: do have ninth to tenth Amendment rights, but it's already
Speaker 4: in our Constitution that guns and defense are inalienable. Right,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, my dog, that's all right.
Speaker 2: And Dodd's passionate about the Second Amendment too, so that's okay.
Speaker 2: So Matt, I couldn't agree with you more. I do
Speaker 2: have a question for you, though, being done in Publuo,
Speaker 2: I mean, what's the tone of the community down there?
Speaker 2: I mean, I know Weld County thinks this bill stinks,
Speaker 2: and I can I think I can even speak for
Speaker 2: that on on the basis of a lot of Democrats
Speaker 2: that don't support this bill. Pablo is a more Democrat
Speaker 2: area than Weld. But what are your neighbors saying, What
Speaker 2: do your friends saying? What do they think of this bill?
Speaker 3: Well, all the.
Speaker 4: People I know and associate with agree, and I'm encouraging
Speaker 4: them to look at it at the cot at the
Speaker 4: state level as well. Yeah, but you know, clearly everybody
Speaker 4: agrees there's no standing under the Second Amendment for sus.
Speaker 4: This where I'm at, honestly, it's I also since i've
Speaker 4: I've only been here about six years myself, since I
Speaker 4: got transferred from Texas.
Speaker 2: I know the feeling here, so.
Speaker 4: I'm still going through a little bit of culture shock.
Speaker 4: But most of them, said, most of the folks I know,
Speaker 4: even like you said, yet the Democrats as well understand
Speaker 4: how important this is.
Speaker 2: Well, Matt, I moved here from Texas and nineteen ninety five,
Speaker 2: and when I moved to Colorado, I thought, uh, Colorado
Speaker 2: was very much like Texas, but with a better view,
Speaker 2: and that has definitely changed over the years. The view
Speaker 2: is still nice well, as long as you look towards
Speaker 2: the mountains. If you look towards downtown Denver, it's awful
Speaker 2: at this point. But they yeah, no, it's You've got
Speaker 2: a great view down there too. But Matt, we got
Speaker 2: to keep fighting the fight. This bill's not over yet.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the call in, and you know you keep
Speaker 2: rallying the troops down there. I tell you what, Emailing
Speaker 2: and calling the governor's office and urging him to veto
Speaker 2: this bill is probably our best bet at this point.
Speaker 2: But thanks for listening, and get your dog on the
Speaker 2: phone too.
Speaker 3: Good job.
Speaker 2: Share That sounds good, Thank you, sir. So you know
Speaker 2: I think statewide. There's there's going to be a pushback
Speaker 2: to this bill. We know it's probably going to get
Speaker 2: you know, there's probably going to be some kind of
Speaker 2: lawsuit filed. In fact, we may have a guest on
Speaker 2: tomorrow and Ian Escalante with the Rocky Mountain gun owners
Speaker 2: that's planning to do just that. But you know, it
Speaker 2: ever hurts for your governor to hear from you, and
Speaker 2: whether that's you're a Democrat voter, you're a Republican voter,
Speaker 2: those calls, those those messages, they do matter, and when
Speaker 2: those start stacking up, you know, that gets sometimes that
Speaker 2: does get the needle moved. I'm not saying that it's
Speaker 2: going to be successful with this particular issue, but it's
Speaker 2: about all we got left. So you can't leave you
Speaker 2: can't leave that strategy on the table. We have another
Speaker 2: caller on the line, Jennifer from Denver.
Speaker 5: What do you got to say, Jim, Hey, sure, I
Speaker 5: was at the World County meeting the first one, okay,
Speaker 5: and I was also at the Douglas County one, and
Speaker 5: I have some observations between the two counties.
Speaker 2: Okay, tell me what you saw.
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, I saw people voting in circles
Speaker 5: and circles and circles. But that's another matter. Well, in
Speaker 5: Weld County, you know, it was clear that the people
Speaker 5: that are reasonable Republicans that want you know, less government,
Speaker 5: less taxation and don't go on the crazy bandwagon, we're
Speaker 5: definitely I felt like the dominant voice of the meeting,
Speaker 5: and no wonder Weld County is being attacked by the
Speaker 5: state GOP.
Speaker 2: Well it's kind of ironic, yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, but the contrast was really interesting in Douglas County.
Speaker 5: And the Douglas County meeting was before the Well County run.
Speaker 5: And in Douglas County they ran a slate of.
Speaker 6: What I will call the.
Speaker 5: Far right because I don't like the name calling and
Speaker 5: all of that, the.
Speaker 6: Very far right.
Speaker 5: They ran a whole slate. Only two of those on
Speaker 5: the slate got elected. So the other two possions they
Speaker 5: were more of the reasonable. You know, I guess you
Speaker 5: can call them rhinos or what. But it was kind
Speaker 5: of an interesting contrast to Weld County.
Speaker 6: When I was at welld.
Speaker 5: County, I mean, I just felt at ease. I felt
Speaker 5: like people reasonable, you could talk about things, except for
Speaker 5: Lorie saying trotting around and you know, making grand statements
Speaker 5: and all.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll leave it to that. She's a candidate for GEOP,
Speaker 2: for the state GOP chairperson now, so she didn't an
Speaker 2: she didn't announce it that that first meeting, but I
Speaker 2: guess she's announced since then, and she was a candidate
Speaker 2: by the time we had our second election or second meeting,
Speaker 2: but she didn't show for that one.
Speaker 5: Well, some people just want to be a.
Speaker 2: Name, right, Well, she's looking for a job.
Speaker 5: So that's office. You can't get elected here, let's run
Speaker 5: for the state, right, great.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate the feedback.
Speaker 5: Oh, go ahead, Yeah, on SB twenty five zero Z three.
Speaker 5: Got a question if that passes, which it will probably
Speaker 5: go to the court to YadA YadA YadA.
Speaker 6: Hopefully it does, but.
Speaker 5: They probably won't set a start dating until September.
Speaker 3: Is that correct?
Speaker 2: So it's sept first. I think September one, if I'm
Speaker 2: not mistaken, But yeah, it's in September. You know, there's
Speaker 2: no way this can all get into places.
Speaker 5: Can I'll go out and buy our AR fifteens and whatnot.
Speaker 2: Correct, you can buy anything up until the point that
Speaker 2: that bill is enacted, and you'll have to follow the
Speaker 2: current laws, which requires still a background check in a
Speaker 2: three day way. This would be on top of that.
Speaker 5: Okay, so what's to prevent, you know, a run on
Speaker 5: people going and buying these guns? I mean I might
Speaker 5: even go buy one, not because I necessarily have a
Speaker 5: youth for it, but just because.
Speaker 6: It's my right to own it.
Speaker 2: Well, so you hit the nail on the head. And
Speaker 2: I think Democrats are the best gun salesman when they
Speaker 2: start running this kind of legislation because it makes people
Speaker 2: really want to exercise their Second Amendment rights. And Jen,
Speaker 2: I I appreciate you calling in. We got another caller
Speaker 2: to get to. I think we have Kevin from Boulder
Speaker 2: on the line. He says he's got a comment about
Speaker 2: the FBI. Kevin, are you with us?
Speaker 7: I'm here, Kevin.
Speaker 2: What's your comment? We just have a few minutes, so
Speaker 2: I'll have to ask you to keep it a little brief.
Speaker 2: But what do you got? What's what do you? What
Speaker 2: are your comments about the FBI?
Speaker 7: Would you say that the FBI is a national police force?
Speaker 2: I don't think I would characterize the FBI as a
Speaker 2: national police force. Now, I think there are people that
Speaker 2: do characterize them as a national police force, but I
Speaker 2: think their powers are are limited in scope. I don't
Speaker 2: think they can enforce a lot of what you see
Speaker 2: local law enforcement dealing with. They have a narrower focus.
Speaker 2: But you know, arguments have been made the other way.
Speaker 7: The reason I ask, of course, is that your opinion
Speaker 7: or are you speaking legally or constitutionally?
Speaker 2: I guess both. I don't. I don't think. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's my opinion, and I think that's my interpretation of
Speaker 2: what their constitutional authority would be, if you want to
Speaker 2: call it that.
Speaker 7: I ask, because the Constitution forbids a national police force, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I don't I don't believe that that's what
Speaker 2: they represent now. I think they've been weaponized by some
Speaker 2: administrations to try to look that way. You know, we
Speaker 2: saw that under the last administration, where the FBI was
Speaker 2: kind of kind of doing the bidding of someone else
Speaker 2: who was pulling the string. So I see where your
Speaker 2: concern of them becoming that becoming a slippery slope can
Speaker 2: come from. But quite honestly, I've never had a lot
Speaker 2: of interactions with the FBI where they were helpful in
Speaker 2: many investigations. Now that's not saying they don't serve a
Speaker 2: place and a purpose they have. They have taken some
Speaker 2: cases that we were glad to have them around. But
Speaker 2: for the most part, Uh, the FBI is is not
Speaker 2: somebody that we that we in my agency call on
Speaker 2: very often. But thanks for the call. Thanks for calling in, Kevin,
Speaker 2: and we appreciate you listening. We got just a couple
Speaker 2: of seconds here left before we go to break. But
Speaker 2: you know, I encourage people to call in and we
Speaker 2: can do this whole Ask the sheriff a question thing.
Speaker 2: I'm never going to dodge a question. If you've got
Speaker 2: something about Weld County, if you got something about law
Speaker 2: enforcement in the state of Colorado, I'll try to answer it.
Speaker 2: I may not know. I may have to get back
Speaker 2: with you by tomorrow. But you can call in at
Speaker 2: three O three seven one three eight two five five,
Speaker 2: or you can text Dan at five seven seven three
Speaker 2: nine and we'll read your text off the wall here.
Speaker 2: So again, you know, it's it's great to have these
Speaker 2: callers getting involved. It's great to have people that are
Speaker 2: activated and leaning in about Senate Bill three twenty five
Speaker 2: zero zero three. But ultimately, in this state, we have
Speaker 2: to make a movement as a Republican Party to bring
Speaker 2: balance back if we want to see these things stop,
Speaker 2: and we can't do that by calling each other names.
Speaker 2: We can't do that by fighting within our own party.
Speaker 2: We have to do that standing shoulder to shoulder and
Speaker 2: moving forward in the right direction and showing voters that
Speaker 2: we have better solutions to their problems, just like you
Speaker 2: saw at the national level when Donald Trump won the
Speaker 2: presidency and he's back in office, and I couldn't be
Speaker 2: more happy with that. I think we'll cut to break,
Speaker 2: and on the other side, we're going to have guest
Speaker 2: Matt Turner, who's running to replace me in Weld County,
Speaker 2: and he can have it at this point, So we'll
Speaker 2: cut to break, and you're listening to The Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 2: Steve Reams filling in for the Big Guy.
Speaker 8: And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Back with the Dan Kaplis Show. We got Steve Raims,
Speaker 2: Weld County Sheriff, filling in. And in honor of that
Speaker 2: song that Ryan just played, coming back in, we must
Speaker 2: announce that the astronauts are back in the terrestrial Earth.
Speaker 2: They are I don't think they're walking yet, but they're
Speaker 2: unloaded from the spacecraft and they don't look like they're
Speaker 2: feeling the greatest, but they got smiles from ear to ear,
Speaker 2: and I can't imagine a better feeling than what they're
Speaker 2: going through. I want to hit just a couple of
Speaker 2: texts before we get to our next guest. Eric sent
Speaker 2: in a text saying, Hey, we've got an event coming up.
Speaker 2: Take back the second. It's Saturday, eleven am to two
Speaker 2: pm May eighteenth. Oh no, I'm sorry, that was an
Speaker 2: old event. He's talking about a flag that I gave him,
Speaker 2: a thin blue line flag that I pulled out of
Speaker 2: my back pocket and told him thank you for being
Speaker 2: at the event. I know who this Eric is. He's
Speaker 2: a great guy. He's just glad to be part of
Speaker 2: the process here. And love's listening to the show. Another one, Hey,
Speaker 2: sheriff and joined the show so much, great job. And
Speaker 2: then actually, Sheriff, you talk about can you talk about
Speaker 2: what the los athemous? Let's see what the I don't
Speaker 2: know it's against Oh the how tough it's been to
Speaker 2: recruit people over the last five years because some of
Speaker 2: the stuff that's happened at the state House. We'll get
Speaker 2: to that in a little bit. Well, that's a topic
Speaker 2: in and of itself. Maybe we'll cover that a little
Speaker 2: bit with our next guest. I hinted to this before
Speaker 2: the show start. At the start of the show, I
Speaker 2: only have one year, nine months, and eighteen days left
Speaker 2: in office, not that anyone's counting. And there's a young
Speaker 2: man who's running to take my place. When I say
Speaker 2: young man, he's younger than me, so that's what counts.
Speaker 2: He's been with the Wellcounty Sheriff's Office for a little
Speaker 2: bit of time, and his name is Matt Turner. We've
Speaker 2: got him on the line and I want to introduce
Speaker 2: him to you. So, Matt Turner, are you with us?
Speaker 6: I'm with you. How you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great and good talking to you again from
Speaker 2: a remote location. I don't have to see your face
Speaker 2: all the time, but I get to see it pretty
Speaker 2: frequently because we work side by side on a lot
Speaker 2: of things. But Matt, you decided that you're going to
Speaker 2: a run for sheriff because you must have suffered a
Speaker 2: really bad head injury at some point in your life.
Speaker 2: And I say that tongue in cheek because I know
Speaker 2: you did suffer a head injury when you were serving
Speaker 2: our country. So the give the callers, a little bit
Speaker 2: of a background about who you are, why you're running
Speaker 2: for sheriff, other than just having a head injury, and
Speaker 2: you know what's the calling, Why do you want to
Speaker 2: do this and why do you want to carry on
Speaker 2: the torch of the Weld County Sheriff's Office.
Speaker 6: Go ahead, Matt Hey, thanks very much, Boston. You know,
Speaker 6: I'll go ahead and say that I've had a few
Speaker 6: head injuries, but man, I'm super happy to serve this community.
Speaker 6: This I have grown to love this community. I'm not
Speaker 6: a native to Weald County. I came here and I've
Speaker 6: been here for the last thirteen years, and I have
Speaker 6: loved every second of it. But a lot of that
Speaker 6: has to do with the ethics, the character, and the
Speaker 6: mission of Weld County, and I think you're a great
Speaker 6: picture of that. So I've had a great time working
Speaker 6: for you. I've had a great time serving a citizens.
Speaker 6: But I thrive in public service. I working my time
Speaker 6: in the military, I developed a love for service, sure,
Speaker 6: and it gives me purpose. It gives me a mission.
Speaker 6: Every day when my alarm goes off, I wake up
Speaker 6: energized and ready to come to work, and I'm happy
Speaker 6: to continue that, but more so, I want to make
Speaker 6: sure that our office continues to do that too. And
Speaker 6: you know, I'll say this one thing is that I
Speaker 6: didn't ever dream of being a politician. I never dreamed
Speaker 6: of running for office. It's not something I want. I
Speaker 6: don't want the authority that comes with it. I don't
Speaker 6: want the image that comes with it. And honestly, if
Speaker 6: there was a person at the office that I saw
Speaker 6: who I think would be a better person to run
Speaker 6: the office than me, I would support them. I just
Speaker 6: don't see that. And we have a rich history of
Speaker 6: growing our sheriffs within our office, and I want to
Speaker 6: be that next person to make sure that the community
Speaker 6: is taken care of. That's my ultimate goal.
Speaker 2: Well, and that's you know. I saw that in you too, Matt.
Speaker 2: I think you've you've risen through the ranks of the
Speaker 2: Sheriff's office and an amazing amount of time. But I
Speaker 2: think that a lot of that comes from your past history.
Speaker 2: Tell the callers a little bit about your history before
Speaker 2: the Shareff's office, and we're a little limited on time,
Speaker 2: so you know the reader's digest version if you will.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I woke up one Tuesday morning. I didn't have
Speaker 6: any direction in life.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 6: I was twenty three years old. I didn't know what
Speaker 6: I was going to do, and that day I decided
Speaker 6: to join the military and I joined the United States Army.
Speaker 6: I left for Fort Benning, Georgia, and I had quite
Speaker 6: the experience. By the time I hit Iraq. I was
Speaker 6: a fire team leader and I did nothing. For most
Speaker 6: of my time in Iraq led I led a great
Speaker 6: group of guys doing that. They're guys that I still
Speaker 6: talked to Matt monthly. But after my time in the
Speaker 6: my tour of service in the United States Army, I
Speaker 6: came back to Colorado and I served in the Colorado
Speaker 6: Army National Guard out of Fort Lefton for three years.
Speaker 6: And right around that time, I got the job at
Speaker 6: the Sheriff's office and found that new way to serve
Speaker 6: and I got out of the military. But every lesson
Speaker 6: that I learned through leadership lesson just tactical lessons in life,
Speaker 6: lessons from the military, I've applied to my time in
Speaker 6: the Sheriff's office, and like you said, I help it.
Speaker 6: I think it helped me escalate very quickly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I know you won't mention this. You're and
Speaker 2: this isn't something you wear on your sleeve, but you're
Speaker 2: a Purple Heart recipient from your time in Iraq. You
Speaker 2: were in a vehicle that hit a roadside bomb and
Speaker 2: your your entire crew took it pretty hard. You were
Speaker 2: you were able to survive that incident and recover, but
Speaker 2: it obviously leaves leaves some lasting scars, both emotionally and physically.
Speaker 2: And you've overcome that and applied what you've what you've
Speaker 2: been through to the Sheriff's Office in a in a
Speaker 2: great way. So talk a little bit about your talk
Speaker 2: a little bit about your experience with the s O.
Speaker 2: Just real quick, we only have about thirty seconds.
Speaker 6: You know, I jumped around the Sheriff's Office quite a
Speaker 6: bit in different, different different areas. I started out as
Speaker 6: a deputy in the jail, and I've just tried to
Speaker 6: experience as much of the office as I can.
Speaker 2: And I, oh, sorry, go ahead, you're running from the
Speaker 2: position to Captain Matt. I'm sorry, we're cutting you a
Speaker 2: little short. You're gonna have a fundraiserund Thursday night. Go
Speaker 2: to his website TURNERF Sheriff dot com And we appreciate
Speaker 2: you having you on. You're listening to Dan Caplis with
Speaker 2: Steve Riems as the host. You're back with the Dan
Speaker 2: Caplis Show. You got Steve Rieims welcoming Sheriff filling in
Speaker 2: today and again, it's just an honor to be helping
Speaker 2: keep Dan's show on the rails, or at least trying to.
Speaker 2: I'm trying not to crash the corvette and run it
Speaker 2: into the wall, but he gave me the keys, so
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm I'm gonna have to at least
Speaker 2: bring it back with a couple of scratches and maybe
Speaker 2: a dent. So it's cool sitting here and getting to
Speaker 2: be on the other side of the stereo, I guess,
Speaker 2: or the radio if you will, actually putting the show
Speaker 2: out instead of just listening to it. Because I'm a
Speaker 2: big fan of the Dan Caplis Show and the show
Speaker 2: before that, the Ryan Shuling Show. So this is kind
Speaker 2: of a bucket list thing for me today, a lot
Speaker 2: of fun, to be honest with you. We didn't get
Speaker 2: much time with the last guest, and I want to
Speaker 2: make sure in that final segment that I put out
Speaker 2: just a little bit of his information because it's important
Speaker 2: to me to see a good candidate get elected in
Speaker 2: Weld County for the office of Sheriff. I am term limited.
Speaker 2: I am happy to be leaving. It's not that the
Speaker 2: job hasn't been great, but it's time for some new
Speaker 2: faces and new blood, and I think Matt Turner is
Speaker 2: going to be a great candidate for that office. But
Speaker 2: we're going to transition just a little bit now to
Speaker 2: another former law enforcement guy, Ryan Armagos. He is the
Speaker 2: representative for HD sixty four. He's also the minority whip,
Speaker 2: which has to come with some really cool accouterments. I
Speaker 2: hope he's like Indiana Jones looking. But Ryan, are you
Speaker 2: on the line with us? And how you doing this afternoon?
Speaker 9: Yes, sir, thank you, Sheriff, I'm doing it. How are
Speaker 9: you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great. Ryan. Do you get to carry an
Speaker 2: actual whip with you down at the State House, because
Speaker 2: I feel like that could be pretty handy.
Speaker 9: I don't I would probably be sort of the probing
Speaker 9: the ethical issue, ever be you.
Speaker 2: Probably end up wanting to use that in a way
Speaker 2: that's not most advantageous to your career. But Ryan, you know,
Speaker 2: I know you pretty well. I know when you got
Speaker 2: into into this seed. I know kind of some of
Speaker 2: your motivations for running to be a state rep. But
Speaker 2: the callers are the listeners may not, So what made
Speaker 2: you decide to switch gears and say, you know what,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna throw my hat in the ring and run
Speaker 2: for HD sixty four and represent some great people in
Speaker 2: northern Colorado, mostly that birthed area. But just tell us
Speaker 2: how you got to where you're at.
Speaker 9: Absolutely five years ago, I never would have said I'd
Speaker 9: be in any kind of elected position. But I came
Speaker 9: from career, military and law enforcement, just like who you're
Speaker 9: talking about with Kevin Turner. But I didn't have any
Speaker 9: anything other than service. I think between military a I
Speaker 9: served a couple of years as a firefighter in Evans
Speaker 9: and then went into law enforcement larmer chemist sheriff's office,
Speaker 9: and after twenty twenty kind of the negative turn toward
Speaker 9: law enforcement is really what led me there. Well, there
Speaker 9: was a steep turn toward holding up the criminal and
Speaker 9: holding down the victims, and you know, the people that
Speaker 9: are just trying to live their lives from day to day,
Speaker 9: go to work and.
Speaker 3: Do their thing.
Speaker 9: So that's what got me a lot more politically vocal
Speaker 9: in twenty twenty. And then come twenty twenty one, I
Speaker 9: started getting very politically driven, and that's when I was
Speaker 9: running for or looking for an opportunity to run for something,
Speaker 9: and it just so happened they redistricted and there was
Speaker 9: a new house Distory sixty four that opened up and
Speaker 9: threw my hat in the ring, and it seemed like
Speaker 9: it was just kind of paid from there on out.
Speaker 2: So right, So, Ryan, you know, I think it's important
Speaker 2: to highlight your background. You do have some law enforcement experience,
Speaker 2: you do have some great military experience, and you bring
Speaker 2: that with you to the job. But you hinted on
Speaker 2: something that one of the callers had talked about before,
Speaker 2: and it's basically, how tough has the world of law enforcement?
Speaker 2: Then in the state of Colorado? Why are things so
Speaker 2: upside down? And you can probably speak to it better
Speaker 2: than anyone because you're down at the place where all
Speaker 2: where I think all the responsibility lies for why law
Speaker 2: enforcement has gotten so upside down in the state of Colorado.
Speaker 2: You described why you wanted to activate and get involved
Speaker 2: in politics, and it was, if I'm not speaking out
Speaker 2: of turn, probably sent it Bill two seventeen. But those
Speaker 2: same legislators are those same types of legislators have continued
Speaker 2: to push the anti law enforcement narrative. How do you
Speaker 2: see it down there? How does it feel being down
Speaker 2: in that house and hearing that rhetoric that goes on,
Speaker 2: and what do you do to fight back?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 9: Absolutely, there's this level of just anti law enforcement, anti authority,
Speaker 9: and that's what really got me more motivated once I
Speaker 9: started visiting the capitol and really seeing what the tone
Speaker 9: was down there. And since then, it's only seeming like
Speaker 9: it's been getting progressively worse from year to year. This
Speaker 9: year it seems like it's definitely the worst. And like
Speaker 9: you said, since two seventeen came around, there have been
Speaker 9: other methods of that, if not tying the hands of
Speaker 9: law enforcement, making their job more restrictive and more bureaucratic
Speaker 9: to be able to make a simple split second decisions
Speaker 9: that are required by a law enforcement officer minute to minute.
Speaker 9: So I think it's just made it to where it's
Speaker 9: hard to be a cop in Colorado. There's you know,
Speaker 9: retention became an issue. There was really nothing until you know,
Speaker 9: when the new proposition came out for the voters to
Speaker 9: decide that they wanted to refund law enforcement and give
Speaker 9: them the ability to get back to where they were,
Speaker 9: the incentive to provide the training that is now obviously
Speaker 9: required by the state. But it's just been it's been
Speaker 9: very hard to counter that. Being in the minority, we
Speaker 9: only had a few me and Gabe Evans who were
Speaker 9: the two law enforcement prior law enforcement officers in the Capitol.
Speaker 9: Now it's just done to me, it's and seemed moved
Speaker 9: gone up to Congress. But it's been the challenge just
Speaker 9: having that ability to speak for law enforcement and constantly
Speaker 9: listen to just the negative rhetoric and the negative outlook
Speaker 9: from a lot of the legislators down there on law
Speaker 9: and toward me.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine what you hear and how frustrating it
Speaker 2: can be. And you know, you transition from that to
Speaker 2: some of the other bills that I think you know,
Speaker 2: we're seeing in this legislative session. We've talked about Senate
Speaker 2: Bill three, but you're in the fight down there. You're
Speaker 2: on some of those committees that are having the discussions
Speaker 2: about Senate Bill three and how that travels through the House.
Speaker 2: How frustrating is it to you to see this obvious
Speaker 2: gun grab, this terrible bill push through and to listen
Speaker 2: to the testimony. I mean, how do you how do
Speaker 2: you how do you digest that? How do you push
Speaker 2: back and kind of what's your thought process of where
Speaker 2: this thing ends up.
Speaker 9: Well, it's just this is one of I think there's
Speaker 9: twenty three I believe anti bills coming to legislatures this year.
Speaker 9: But yeah, that's the most egregious and atrocious that we've
Speaker 9: had in Colorado history of non American history. And it's
Speaker 9: morphed so many times. Every time it's been read, it's
Speaker 9: morphed into something different, and this more the most recent
Speaker 9: one became an all out attack on gun owners. Anyone
Speaker 9: that wants to purchase any any firearm. Basically they have
Speaker 9: to now pay their way into owning a firearm. So
Speaker 9: they have to go through some sort of training, whether
Speaker 9: it be hunter education or a twelve hour course that
Speaker 9: would end up being a two day training that they
Speaker 9: would have to attend just to be able to purchase
Speaker 9: a firearm. But beyond that, it became a slap in
Speaker 9: the face to law enforcement because not only are they
Speaker 9: putting this on Colorado parks and lid life that is
Speaker 9: not funded for that, and definitely not employee. They don't
Speaker 9: have the employees to do this. They barely have enough
Speaker 9: to do hunter education, so doing making it an unfunded
Speaker 9: mandate for the county Sheriff's to Calleretto, it's basically going
Speaker 9: to come on them to do the fingerprints in the
Speaker 9: background without any funding from the state, So they're going
Speaker 9: to have to eat that cost as kind of a
Speaker 9: slap in the base to law enforcement, the Colorado Parks
Speaker 9: and Wildlife and the hunters, because this is going to
Speaker 9: comeout of licensing toes to get your hunting license, so
Speaker 9: it's not going to be very dismantling for hunters, iron owners,
Speaker 9: and law enforcement.
Speaker 2: I always say when a bill has to take multiple
Speaker 2: pages to figure out how to strip away your rights
Speaker 2: and really doesn't ever tackle anything dealing with, you know,
Speaker 2: how you're going to reduce crime or how you're going
Speaker 2: to increase public safety, the bill's probably a bad bill.
Speaker 2: This one's eighteen pages long in its current version. It's
Speaker 2: eighteen pages of well, I won't say what I want
Speaker 2: to say, but on page seventeen there's a portion there
Speaker 2: that it drives me crazy more than anything because it
Speaker 2: basically says, hey, the Attorney General has the ability to
Speaker 2: go in and kind of make decisions about what they
Speaker 2: think the intent this bill is if anything is to
Speaker 2: ever come into question. I know that's not in a
Speaker 2: lot of bills, but it's in this bill, and that
Speaker 2: can't even I mean, that gives the attorney general power
Speaker 2: in my mind that they just shouldn't be seated.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, And that's obviously another partisan seat where I can
Speaker 9: go either direction, and we obviously know what direction that
Speaker 9: would go in the current in Colorado administration.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, Ryan, I can't tell you that I
Speaker 2: envy the position that you're in because when you were
Speaker 2: running for that I may have asked you if you
Speaker 2: were crazy, but you've proven that you are because you're
Speaker 2: in your second term down there, you're fighting the fight.
Speaker 2: You are a voice of reason when it comes to
Speaker 2: gun bills. We appreciate the fact that you're down there
Speaker 2: trying to do everything you can. We hope that we
Speaker 2: keep adding Republican seats down there, because Republicans really do
Speaker 2: have the solutions to a lot of these problems, and
Speaker 2: the Democrats just keep making life harder in the way
Speaker 2: I see it. Do you have any closing comments you
Speaker 2: want to leave us with any bills that we should
Speaker 2: be on the lookout for. Just we'll close out with
Speaker 2: whatever you have to provide to the listeners.
Speaker 9: There's definitely a lot more coming. I think the biggest
Speaker 9: thing for people to do is just get involved. I
Speaker 9: think it's scary when people don't know that these builts
Speaker 9: are coming until they're already they've already become law. Right,
Speaker 9: getting involved, Getting in touch with your legislator, even if
Speaker 9: it's not somebody that is on the same side you
Speaker 9: vote on, but at least getting getting in touch with
Speaker 9: a legislator that you know you can get information from
Speaker 9: and valid information from on what's coming. Just to stay
Speaker 9: in touch, stand the know, and be forward looking on
Speaker 9: what's coming down before it has already become law and
Speaker 9: it's already affecting you. So getting involved in the capital
Speaker 9: as much as you can is definitely important for everybody
Speaker 9: to come on down and get your voice heard in
Speaker 9: the people's house and right.
Speaker 2: If people want to follow you, I assume you're on Facebook,
Speaker 2: X all those places. You got a website you want
Speaker 2: to throw out real quick? Yeah.
Speaker 3: Rep.
Speaker 9: Ryan armagust On on X Representative Ryan and armagust on
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Speaker 9: And yeah, Ryan, Armagos dot or sorry armagsfrast sixty four
Speaker 9: dot com is the website so everyone can kind of
Speaker 9: see where we're at on any given moment. You can
Speaker 9: send up with my newsletters and anything there as well.
Speaker 2: Great, Ryan, we appreciate you you being on. I know
Speaker 2: you personally, and you're not a guy who's got a
Speaker 2: lot of words a lot of time. You're very you're
Speaker 2: very quiet, you're very thoughtful, you keep your conversation short,
Speaker 2: and so bringing you on the radio is probably outside
Speaker 2: of your comfort zone. But I really appreciate you being on.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate you educating the listeners and just thanks
Speaker 2: for your time and thanks for what you do down
Speaker 2: there at the stay House. We appreciate it.
Speaker 9: Thanks for everything you do. I appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 2: You bet so we'll got we're going to cut to break.
Speaker 2: We'll come back in this last segment and kind of
Speaker 2: do a mop up and clean up the mess I've made.
Speaker 2: Ryan's laughing because he's kind thinking right now, you should
Speaker 2: throw this guy out of the booth. But regardless, you
Speaker 2: listen to the Dan Kaples Show. You got Steve Rims
Speaker 2: as a guest host, and we'll be back in just
Speaker 2: a few.
Speaker 8: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Music musical entrance in honor of House Minority Whip Ryan
Speaker 2: Arma Gost You said that.
Speaker 10: I'm reminded of the scene where the samurai guy shows
Speaker 10: up and raiders at Lastar.
Speaker 8: He's got all these.
Speaker 10: Moves, he's showing off the sword and then he just
Speaker 10: busts up the gun and blows them away.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think it's a forty four that he pulls.
Speaker 8: Out and just stevens the score certainly did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's a great scene.
Speaker 11: But do you guys know the story behind that scene?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 8: No, you should tell us that, you really should. Yeah.
Speaker 11: So Harrison Ford had dysentery what and so he had
Speaker 11: lived that scene because he was feeling so bad that
Speaker 11: he basically, you know, let the guy do all of
Speaker 11: his stuff and then he just love it.
Speaker 2: You know, you couldn't have written it any better. No, Right,
Speaker 2: that's that's such a memorable scene out of you know,
Speaker 2: a movie from my generation.
Speaker 8: I love it.
Speaker 10: Doesn't it surprise me either with Harrison Ford because there's,
Speaker 10: you know, the long standing observation that George Lucas is
Speaker 10: really poor at writing dialogue. And especially romantic dialogue with
Speaker 10: real stilted like he'd.
Speaker 8: Never spoken to a girl before.
Speaker 10: So at the end of Empire strikes Back spoiler alert,
Speaker 10: Princess Leah, as Hans Solo is being lowered into the carbonite,
Speaker 10: says I love you, and the original script says I
Speaker 10: love you too, and then Harrison Ford's like, Han Solo
Speaker 10: wouldn't say that, So he just looks back and goes,
Speaker 10: I know, and that is totally a Han Solo respect.
Speaker 2: That is right. The other way, it doesn't work the
Speaker 2: other way, it's too cheesy. Well, so you know, this
Speaker 2: is like the fastest two hours I think I've ever
Speaker 2: had in my life.
Speaker 8: That's a good sign, let me tell you.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it went great, But you do have to break
Speaker 11: an argument that that we have had here.
Speaker 8: Like she knows she's wrong.
Speaker 10: She's an anti American communist because she hates both chocolate
Speaker 10: and bacon.
Speaker 8: What the exactly, See, I almost had to dump you there.
Speaker 11: Yeah, No, that's the Seriously, that's not what I was
Speaker 11: going to say.
Speaker 2: Chocolate covered bacon, Yes, it's awesome, sweet and savor. Okay,
Speaker 2: so what's the tiebreaker going on?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 11: I was talking about barbecue.
Speaker 10: Oh no, yeah, she Again, this doesn't help your cause
Speaker 10: either doesn't like chocolate, doesn't like bacon, doesn't like barbecue,
Speaker 10: smoke meats of any kind.
Speaker 2: So I grew up in Texas. Barbecue is a whole
Speaker 2: food group.
Speaker 8: O lord, and they do not have good not helping.
Speaker 2: They do not have good barbecue in Colorado. Well, I'm
Speaker 2: going to give you a pass because you've probably never
Speaker 2: had really good barbecue from California.
Speaker 10: So communists, obviously, Sheriff, you think that Texas barbecue is
Speaker 10: the best, better than Memphis, better than Saint louis better
Speaker 10: than Carolina, right.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know if I think it's I
Speaker 2: love it. I love it, but you know, they're all
Speaker 2: a little different. It doesn't mean I don't like those
Speaker 2: others though. Good barbecue is good barbecue, but there is
Speaker 2: a difference in all of them. I mean, I've been
Speaker 2: to Kansas City and they do it right there too,
Speaker 2: But Texas has that that smoky you know, rich, It's
Speaker 2: it's so good.
Speaker 10: What do you go with, Like, you go to a
Speaker 10: barbecue restaurant, what's your go to order? Oh it's brisket,
Speaker 10: absolutely brisket. Yeah, good stuff, burn ins too, Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: The best. But honestly, in Kansas City, I think they
Speaker 2: did the burned ins better there, So.
Speaker 8: Okay, I think, I okay, that doesn't help at all
Speaker 8: this conversation. Well, I'm just telling it.
Speaker 2: At least you didn't say a corn dog.
Speaker 8: Oh love, oh boy, barbecue loves corn dogs.
Speaker 2: So I don't know how you know. I was afraid
Speaker 2: I was going to derail the show. Now look what
Speaker 2: has happened. It's all her fun. Well, well, just clean
Speaker 2: up here a little bit, you know it was. It
Speaker 2: was a fun day with everybody. I didn't get to
Speaker 2: have Matt Turner on as long as i'd like, but
Speaker 2: I do want to plug his website. You can go
Speaker 2: to his website at Turner turnerfor sheriff dot com. He's
Speaker 2: having a fundraiser on Thursday night. He'd probably love to
Speaker 2: have some donations and some people attending. And I want
Speaker 2: to see him get elected. I fully endorse him, and
Speaker 2: I hope the people of Weald County will too. This
Speaker 2: has been a pleasure. I'm signing off on the Dan
Speaker 2: Kaplas Show Steve Raims as guest host,