WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.520 This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast 2 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:05.719 edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to 3 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:08.240 give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind, 4 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:11.599 and to subscribe, download, and listen to the show every 5 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:14.839 single day on your favorite podcast platform. 6 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:20.399 No, no, Dan is not here. It's made. I'm John Geldera. 7 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:22.199 Sorry you got to put up with me for just 8 00:00:22.359 --> 00:00:24.679 this one more day. That's it. That's it. It's not 9 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:27.760 that bad. We can get through it together. It was 10 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:31.039 as always a treat listening to Uh, who's that guy 11 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:36.719 who was before me, Brian Yueling anyway, Brian who brought 12 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:42.159 up some great points about how it is Brian, isn't it? 13 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:48.799 Yah would be absolutely yeah, good, all right? About how 14 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:53.000 they're trying to already change the story on our vice 15 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:58.399 president soon to be our president, Kamala Kamalah. That's it. 16 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:02.679 I always have a problem with Kamala, and I love that, 17 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:08.719 you know, it was it was she's not she's not 18 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:14.200 the immigrations are She's not the immigrations are She's not 19 00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:18.359 the immigration Why? I was that a wonderful, wonderful thing. 20 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:20.400 Let me let me take a moment here and play 21 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:23.719 for you a clip from Media Research Group did this. 22 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:29.760 They Media Research Center did this, and you'll hear what 23 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:36.000 what they say about Kamala not being a immigrations are 24 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:40.799 and then they go back to the exact same network 25 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:44.519 before Biden dropped out to hear what they called what 26 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:49.519 the liberals called Kamala I think you might enjoy this. 27 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:56.239 Orders are respect quote unquote, borders are. Vice President Harris 28 00:01:56.359 --> 00:01:57.920 was not a borders are. 29 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:00.840 Being time vice president and borders are Tama Harris facing 30 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:02.040 some backlash. 31 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:04.359 What he said about Harris and immigration was not true. 32 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:06.400 She was never appointed borders are, and. 33 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:09.400 This will be her first visit to the US Mexico 34 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:12.080 border region since she was appointed as the borders are 35 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:13.159 by President Biden. 36 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:14.800 People don't have to counter the misinformation. 37 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:16.960 You already hear folks talking about the borders are. She 38 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:17.919 wasn't the borders are. 39 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:21.479 President Biden tapped Kamala Harris Vice President Kamala Harris to 40 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:22.960 be the borders are now. 41 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:24.680 She wasn't the borders are. 42 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:27.080 That's what Republicans labeled her. 43 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:30.759 They were very critical of Kamala Harris, especially in her 44 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:32.599 role as borders are now. 45 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:35.439 What she's up against his soas line about her border record, 46 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:36.879 calling her borders are. 47 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:39.680 Kamala Harris, who was appointed as the borders are the. 48 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:41.520 Biden team didn't declare her the borders are. They wanted 49 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:43.479 her to work on kind of the root causes of immigration. 50 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:46.080 There has been so much Chrisism against Kamala Harris. You know, 51 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:48.599 she was the borders are calling her sort of the 52 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:51.479 borders are, which wasn't necessarily the case. 53 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:53.759 So the border if they weren't planning to address it 54 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:55.800 in a major way, do not make her your borders are. 55 00:02:55.919 --> 00:02:57.759 She met with some of the Northern Triangle countries, but 56 00:02:57.840 --> 00:02:59.280 nothing has effectively changed. 57 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:05.000 I just love all of that. So in each one 58 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:09.759 of those you heard Afterbiden dropped out, and then from 59 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:14.639 the very same network, how they referred to Harris as 60 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:19.400 the borders are before before that. This is what I 61 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:25.879 love about our activist press. It's not that it's not 62 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:32.280 even that they choose sides, it's that they actively work 63 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:37.879 for that side. Yep. I've never seen a pack of 64 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:43.639 wolves jump on a politician like the left media did 65 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:47.639 on Joe Biden. It was amazing to see that the 66 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:50.639 same people who covered for him for three and a 67 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:54.400 half years, as as a guy who was fit and 68 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:58.800 ready to go and turned a blind eye onto everything 69 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:01.599 you and I have been talking about for three and 70 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:05.080 a half years. And then as soon as it's obvious 71 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:11.400 the guy can't win, they go after him. And for 72 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:17.759 years Kamala was the borders are. Let me just do 73 00:04:17.839 --> 00:04:19.879 a little bit more of this, just because it's it's 74 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:22.920 so fun. Let me give you the the companies here, 75 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:27.720 borders are. Vice President has CBS News. 76 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:30.920 Are the time Vice President's CBS News Hares. 77 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:33.600 Facing some backlash what he said about Harry CNN immigration 78 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:36.120 was not true. She was never appointed borders are. 79 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:38.920 And this will be her first visit to the US 80 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:42.000 Mexico border regions. And she was appointed as the borders 81 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:43.279 are by also CNN. 82 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:47.040 People now ms NBC, what about the borders are? She 83 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:50.240 wasn't the borders are. President Biden tapped Kamala Harris, Vice 84 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:53.639 President Kamala Harris to be the borders are. She wasn't 85 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:57.839 the borders are. ABC News labeled her. They were very 86 00:04:57.920 --> 00:04:59.839 critical BBC News again. 87 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:02.240 Especially in her role as borders Are. 88 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:06.839 Now she's up against MSNBC Border calling her borders are. 89 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:10.879 Kamala Harris, who was appointed as the borders are MSNBC. 90 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:11.240 Declare who the borders are? 91 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:12.800 They wanted her to work on kind of CNN. 92 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:15.920 There has been so much criticism against Kamala Harris. 93 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:18.600 You know, she was the borders are CNN sort of 94 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:21.839 the borders are, baby c She wasn't necessarily the case, so. 95 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:24.000 The border if they were, CNN address it in a 96 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:26.079 major way. Do not make her your borders are. She 97 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:28.160 met with some of the Northern Triangle countries, but nothing 98 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:29.360 has effectively changed. 99 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:35.879 It's just it's just lovely. It's just lovely, and it's 100 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:38.560 worth not. I know it's not a surprise to you, 101 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:40.399 but it's one of those things you want to have 102 00:05:40.439 --> 00:05:43.279 in your back pocket for when when your friends go 103 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:46.360 she was never she never the borders are. It's like, no, 104 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:50.600 you you guys called her the borders all we just 105 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:58.920 we're just using your words, that's all. Is it? Is 106 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:04.519 it really that bad? Anyway? How how delightful if you 107 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:06.160 have a thought three or three seven to one, three 108 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:08.360 eight two five five seven to one three talk and 109 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:15.199 of course feel free to drop a text. She is 110 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:20.519 on a roll. She is on a roll. Let me 111 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:29.480 read this from Axios HM HM exclusive poll. Harris opens 112 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:35.879 up early Edge with young voters. Here's the question, if 113 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:39.399 the twenty twenty four election were held today, who would 114 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:44.079 you vote for if the candidates were Joe Biden or 115 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:47.879 Donald Trump? And in that one it was it was 116 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:53.920 fifty three to seventy four for Joe Biden. 117 00:06:55.720 --> 00:06:56.000 Hmm. 118 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:00.680 How about this one if the election were held today, 119 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:03.519 who would you vote for for the candidates were Kamala 120 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:09.360 Harris and Donald Trump? It moves to sixty forty. Sixty forty. 121 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:17.639 Harris is significantly more popular among America's youngest voters than 122 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:21.839 President Biden. Well that's not a surprise, is it. This 123 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:25.639 came from Generation Lab, a left leaning polling firm, so 124 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:32.959 keep that in mind. Hmm. Former President Trump appears to 125 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:36.319 be chipping away at Democrats in decades long hold on 126 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:39.879 the youth vote, but Harris could be extending that gap 127 00:07:40.279 --> 00:07:48.079 once again. That's that's odd. Forty five percent of young 128 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:51.759 people say they have an extremely or somewhat favorable opinion 129 00:07:51.759 --> 00:08:01.560 of Harris because they're stupid. If you're not young in liberal, 130 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:04.279 you have no heart. If you're not old and conservative, 131 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:09.480 you have no brain. So these young voters Gen Z 132 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:13.839 millennial voters were key to Biden's victory in twenty twenty, 133 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:18.959 they came out in huge numbers, favored him by twenty 134 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:24.560 points for a Pew Research Center analysis. So it's not 135 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:26.600 a surprise that this is going to be a big 136 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:30.480 part of Harris's plan as well. But of course, as 137 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:36.519 you know, there is no one election. There are fifty 138 00:08:36.759 --> 00:08:43.279 separate elections for delegates, and it's the states that choose 139 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:49.879 the president. So that's going to be the issue. And 140 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:54.440 I'm not at all surprised by this honeymoon phase with 141 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:57.919 our vice president. It was going to be the media 142 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:01.960 was going to clear a field for her. No matter what, 143 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:09.399 it will erode, there's no question it will erode. The 144 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:16.039 difference between Hillary Clinton and Harris is just one of exposure. 145 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:23.000 People hated Hillary Clinton because they knew her for so 146 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:30.240 very long. She was the first Lady and people didn't 147 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:35.120 like her. She senator and people didn't like her. She 148 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:39.519 became Secretary of State, people didn't like her. Why because 149 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:44.480 she just has that personality that people don't like. And 150 00:09:44.519 --> 00:09:46.399 I know a lot of Republicans don't like hearing this, 151 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:51.519 but it is the reality. People vote for candidates they like, 152 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:55.840 not candidates that agree with them on policy. I don't 153 00:09:55.879 --> 00:10:02.440 understand that, but that's the way that is. We had 154 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:07.200 so many years hearing Hillary's voice and watching her turn 155 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:15.039 off crowds. She was just a delightfully unlikable person. She 156 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:18.120 is the opposite of her husband, who could go into 157 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:22.480 pretty much any place and they would love him because 158 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:26.840 he just knew how to charm people. By the way, 159 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:30.799 our own Jared Polis has a lot of that too, 160 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:36.799 as did Hickenlooper when he was in his prime. Corey 161 00:10:36.840 --> 00:10:40.440 Gardner on the Republican side also has it. These are 162 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:45.440 likable people for swing voters, but we don't have that 163 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:49.519 much experience with Harris. Yeah, they know we're in California, 164 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:55.799 but she hasn't been a national harp for that long. 165 00:10:59.080 --> 00:11:03.120 Clinton was a hard people just took a dislike to her. 166 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:08.039 Harris has a cackle and a lot of people dislike her, 167 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:10.759 but they haven't had years and years and years to 168 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:15.279 get tired of her. That is my fear. Is it 169 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:17.639 a worthy fear? Let me know? Three oh three seven, 170 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:20.519 one three eight two five five And for Dan, I'm 171 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:23.320 John Keldrek keep it right here six point thirty k how. 172 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:27.399 And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast. 173 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.879 Steve Matthews still doing a lot of stuff. I define stuff, 174 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:37.159 John putting out new music that people want to purchase 175 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:41.399 and listen to that front, not as much, but definitely 176 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:43.879 touring still and making a lot of money doing it. 177 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:49.200 I used to do lights for him, no kidding, Yeah, 178 00:11:49.240 --> 00:11:53.320 way back when, back when I had a real job. 179 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:56.320 I used to I used to actually work for a living. 180 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:59.080 It was it was Were you a key grip for John? 181 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:03.679 I was not a key grip. No. I I owned 182 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:10.399 a stage lighting company. Oh more than a gaffer. You 183 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:13.519 were a gaffer. I was not a gaffer. I don't 184 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:15.159 really even know what a gaffer is. 185 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:17.679 Were you a best boy? 186 00:12:19.639 --> 00:12:24.759 I'm a best man? Hikes. No, I owned a stage 187 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:27.679 lighting company, and I used to do lighting design and 188 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:29.840 did a lot of a lot of rock and roll 189 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:35.120 and did lights for them at Red Rocks, And uh yeah, 190 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:40.440 they were. They were nice guys. I'dlike YouTube. They were 191 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:41.120 nice guys. 192 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:44.519 What you heard about the whole debacle with the dumping 193 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:48.919 of the Pooh right in Chicago, that was them, No 194 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:49.679 help me with that. 195 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:50.120 Now. 196 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:52.320 There was an incident, Kelly, you remember this in the news, 197 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:57.480 right Their tour bus was getting rid of some waste matter. 198 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:01.159 I don't know. It was of something they were tr 199 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:04.679 emptying their tour buses. Yes, bathroom And what happened? 200 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:06.639 I think it went onto a ship down below in 201 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:09.240 the lake Michigan, Chicago. 202 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:12.840 I think it was an airplane though they were. They 203 00:13:12.919 --> 00:13:16.519 basically dumped the laboratory and it landed on top of 204 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:18.840 the ship, on top of what. 205 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:20.320 I had to have a ship dump. 206 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:26.000 That word ship, she said, ship ship A ship made 207 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:31.320 that very clear. There there was a banned bluegrass band, 208 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:33.240 a folk band that I did like for are called 209 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:38.679 the mother Folkers and their tagline was the most carefully 210 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:43.279 pronounced folk band in the world. That's awesome. Yeah, all right, 211 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:45.919 three all three, seven to one, three eight two five 212 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:53.320 five seven one three talk turn our sites to the 213 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:58.840 to the local world. This from Colorado Politics. Eli Bremmer, 214 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:03.879 the former Publican county chair, launches a bid to run 215 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:10.480 for Colorado chair if the party ousts Dave Williams. A 216 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:16.159 group of former former Republican county chairs led by Eli Bremer, 217 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:20.759 launched a bid today to replace the GOP chairman, who 218 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:23.960 is facing a vote this weekend to fire him from 219 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:31.480 the party position. God, I hope. So what an embarrassment. No, 220 00:14:32.159 --> 00:14:35.960 to be fair, I don't have a dog in this fight. 221 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:40.399 I am not a registered Republican was for most of 222 00:14:40.440 --> 00:14:46.279 my life. I am not now, So so what do 223 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:52.399 you think I got? A group of a group of 224 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:57.200 people have now called for a special meeting to decide 225 00:14:57.399 --> 00:15:02.519 whether or not to oust to Stave Williams. My suspicion 226 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:07.759 is they probably will be successful, at which case they've 227 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:10.559 got to They've got to find someone to replace him. 228 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:13.720 So members of the State Party Central Committee plan to 229 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:18.360 meet in a church in a church in Brighton this 230 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:22.480 Saturday to consider whether or not to oust them and 231 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:28.879 the other elected party officials that's Hope Shepplman and Anna 232 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:34.320 Ferguson that's the vice chair and the secretary if they're unseated. 233 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:38.639 The agenda then includes electing a replacement for those officers 234 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:46.039 to serve through this election. Wow. Dave Williams last week 235 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:50.879 sued to block the meeting from being considered official party business, 236 00:15:51.879 --> 00:15:55.799 but the lawsuit has yet to be heard in court. 237 00:15:56.200 --> 00:16:02.000 State party officials have urged Republicans not to attend, calling 238 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:06.559 the meeting illegal and fraudulent. Are we getting a little 239 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:10.279 tired of that? Are we getting a little tired of 240 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:17.159 it's a fraud. So apparently there's other people who are 241 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:20.600 looking at running for the party chair in addition to 242 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:27.799 Eli Bremmer. Let's see former Weld County chair Scott Scott, James, 243 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:34.759 Kevin McCarthy, Don Yittberg. These are the people who are 244 00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:38.039 who are running in different positions. Also, who are britt 245 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:44.000 a horn fun lady is looking at that. This is 246 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:51.600 this is good stuff. This is good stuff. It shows 247 00:16:51.679 --> 00:17:00.240 that even Republicans have had enough of this, enough of this. 248 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:05.799 So I wonder if you're part of the Republican Central Committee, 249 00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:10.559 and I believe there's what like four hundred ish of them. 250 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:12.519 I believe, and I could be wrong, they need to 251 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:16.480 get sixty percent of that of those folks to vote 252 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:22.880 to oust him. And so Williams saying it's fraudulent, just 253 00:17:23.200 --> 00:17:27.839 don't go is a wonderful way to try to make 254 00:17:27.880 --> 00:17:30.480 sure there's not enough people there to get the vote across. 255 00:17:32.039 --> 00:17:36.599 If you were a Central Committee member, how would you 256 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:39.799 vote on this? Three h three seven one three eight 257 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:42.680 two five five Feel free to drop a text as well. 258 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:48.039 Of course I'd vote to oust him. Not only is 259 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:58.799 he an embarrassment, he's he's misspending the funds. Is this 260 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:03.000 a guy as republic kids are trying to build? Voters 261 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:11.240 told people to burn the gay pride flag. What the 262 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:14.279 this is the let's get out and lose big team? 263 00:18:14.599 --> 00:18:16.519 Keep it here here in six point thirty K how, 264 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:18.839 I'm John Caldery. 265 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:24.880 You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast. 266 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:27.079 I'm assuming a c D C. 267 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:32.160 Oh yeah, Brian Johnson lead vocal. 268 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:37.039 There. I don't I don't get it. I don't get it. 269 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:40.039 It's old time rock and roll. Now, that's not old 270 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:43.559 time rock and roll. Helbrry is old time rocking. Well, 271 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:46.480 this is just like whiny eighties stuff forty. 272 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:53.079 Three years old. You disparage a c DC. The great Angus. 273 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:57.359 Young, Great Angus Young. Can you imagine lifting up a 274 00:18:57.400 --> 00:19:04.720 newborn baby, honey to name him Angus? This is? This 275 00:19:04.799 --> 00:19:06.400 is This is the kind of name you can get 276 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:10.519 away with when when your wife is so high on 277 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:15.680 epidurals and painkillers, she doesn't know what's going on. Oh 278 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:19.519 she hears, Angel Angel. What a beautiful name for our 279 00:19:19.559 --> 00:19:26.160 son Angel. All right, Angus it is. Did you have 280 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:28.559 any wonderful names you wanted for your kids? 281 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:35.160 I don't have any kids. But that kid did Angus. Yeah, 282 00:19:35.240 --> 00:19:36.519 after the great Angus Young. 283 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:43.039 I always wanted to name one of my kids Dragon Gunner, 284 00:19:43.799 --> 00:19:48.839 but I had a very uncooperative partner in that, so 285 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:53.160 I got nothing. You got a chance. That chance is cool. 286 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:55.559 But you know, if I had my way, my son 287 00:19:55.720 --> 00:20:00.119 chance would be Dragon Gunner. And if not that, he 288 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:05.079 would be named Elvis. Oh yeah, Elvis Caldera. Would that 289 00:20:05.119 --> 00:20:09.240 be great? Actually sounds pretty good. Elvis Caldera. Yeah, it 290 00:20:09.240 --> 00:20:12.279 would be great. And you know the grandparents would go, 291 00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:14.480 oh god, I can't believe you did that. But in 292 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:20.680 a couple of years, maybul go Elvis, where's Elvis? Hey? Elvis? Yeah? Yeah. 293 00:20:21.079 --> 00:20:24.400 The problem is there are just not very many good 294 00:20:24.759 --> 00:20:30.839 boy names. There are tons of spectacular girl names, boy names, 295 00:20:30.839 --> 00:20:35.480 are they all? Yeah, let's name him Chad. No, there's 296 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:39.519 just no good names out there for guys. That's why 297 00:20:39.559 --> 00:20:46.160 you gotta do something military and and macha like Dragon Gunner. 298 00:20:47.079 --> 00:20:50.400 Anybody wants to use that, feel free, come up and 299 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:55.000 show me your baby called Dragon Gunner. I wouldn't. 300 00:20:55.880 --> 00:20:56.000 Uh. 301 00:20:56.079 --> 00:21:01.680 And so someone texted us, apparently the Dave Matthews band. 302 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:05.240 It was a tour bus. What I said, killer bus 303 00:21:05.319 --> 00:21:09.480 Kelly doubted me. Yeah, and he also says Dave Matthews 304 00:21:09.480 --> 00:21:14.559 band also sucks. No, they don't. Well, they they're nice. 305 00:21:14.680 --> 00:21:16.799 I tell you they're nice. All right, let's get back 306 00:21:16.799 --> 00:21:21.519 to this, this little civil war going on inside the 307 00:21:21.559 --> 00:21:24.599 Colorado Republican Party in a lot of ways. I think 308 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:31.240 it's how to put it meaningless, No, that would probably 309 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:35.319 not be right. I think the problems with the party 310 00:21:35.400 --> 00:21:41.680 are so deep that whether whether Dave Williams leaves now 311 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:50.559 in disgrace or after the November races in disgrace, it 312 00:21:50.559 --> 00:21:54.079 it doesn't it doesn't really matter. I don't know, given 313 00:21:54.079 --> 00:21:57.480 that there's only eighty days. Let me say that again, 314 00:21:57.799 --> 00:22:04.440 eighty days until ballots start dropping in Colorado. Isn't that amazing? 315 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:12.119 Would a new would a new administration be able to 316 00:22:12.119 --> 00:22:17.400 do something in time that was meaningful? So Dave Williams 317 00:22:17.559 --> 00:22:21.559 took money that came to the Republican Party, used it 318 00:22:21.680 --> 00:22:26.759 for his own race, which might have helped if he 319 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:31.799 only he won, but he didn't. And then the incredible 320 00:22:31.920 --> 00:22:37.359 purity test of being a Rhino and their Rhino watch. 321 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:41.960 It's almost as if Republicans don't want to win in 322 00:22:42.039 --> 00:22:48.799 Colorado because Republicans don't want to win. In Colorado. There's 323 00:22:48.839 --> 00:22:54.240 a real problem with reality in politics, and it's something 324 00:22:54.359 --> 00:22:56.319 I deal with all the time in my role as 325 00:22:56.480 --> 00:22:59.440 running the Independence Institute and taking a look at the 326 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:03.559 political time temperature of the state. And I have found 327 00:23:03.759 --> 00:23:11.880 that Republicans are among the worst when it comes to denial. 328 00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:16.400 You know, there's five stages of grief, was it? Elizabeth 329 00:23:16.440 --> 00:23:21.839 Koopler Roth studied that, and the very first one is denial. 330 00:23:23.519 --> 00:23:27.559 When you lose somebody, you deny that it happens before 331 00:23:27.599 --> 00:23:30.319 you can start to get angry about it, before you 332 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:35.799 can start to bargain, before you end up finally having acceptance. 333 00:23:36.200 --> 00:23:41.079 The first one is denial. And I have found in 334 00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:49.480 my over three decades of political activism that Republicans in 335 00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:52.839 the state of Colorado, maybe not nationwide, but here in Colorado, 336 00:23:52.839 --> 00:24:01.279 in my area of the Woods, have raging with reality. 337 00:24:01.960 --> 00:24:07.319 They really have raging disconnect with reality. Now, I think 338 00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:11.680 it's a good thing to have a spirited and effective 339 00:24:11.680 --> 00:24:17.319 fight about when Republicans act like Democrats. And in my mind, 340 00:24:17.359 --> 00:24:21.359 it's pretty simple. When you raise taxes, you're a Democrat 341 00:24:21.640 --> 00:24:24.200 and we should we should oust you. We don't need 342 00:24:24.279 --> 00:24:28.759 Republicans to grow government just a little more slowly than 343 00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:36.279 the folks on the left. But on other issues it's 344 00:24:36.359 --> 00:24:39.880 usually been a wide tent that works. Why because we 345 00:24:39.960 --> 00:24:43.240 need the social conservatives and the fiscal conservatives and the 346 00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:47.240 libertarian leading Republicans and those people who are concerned about 347 00:24:47.319 --> 00:24:50.559 crime and those people who are concerned about society and 348 00:24:50.599 --> 00:24:54.799 all the rest to join together to beat a well 349 00:24:55.000 --> 00:25:02.559 formed leftist team. But when you have nothing but purity 350 00:25:02.599 --> 00:25:06.640 test after purity test, and especially if that purity test 351 00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:11.480 is built on hero worship, that you have to you 352 00:25:11.599 --> 00:25:14.960 have to not only love Donald Trump, you have to 353 00:25:16.640 --> 00:25:20.279 agree with him that the election was stolen. And if 354 00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:22.759 you're not doing that, well, then you're just a rhino. 355 00:25:24.920 --> 00:25:27.920 I used to think that a rhino was someone who 356 00:25:28.359 --> 00:25:34.599 grew the size of government, and Republicans have many, many 357 00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:41.640 of them, but that's changed. It's it's this odd thing 358 00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:47.160 that if you don't accept denying things, you won't be loved. 359 00:25:47.240 --> 00:25:52.599 You'll be put on the rhino watch list. Are you 360 00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:56.039 on the rhino watch list? John? I am? Yeah, it was. 361 00:25:56.240 --> 00:25:59.680 It was hysterical. Actually, not me personally. The Independence Institute, 362 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:04.319 the organization that has brought us tabor and term limits 363 00:26:04.359 --> 00:26:09.000 and flat taxes and concealed carry permits and school choice 364 00:26:09.039 --> 00:26:11.000 and charter schools, and I can just keep going down 365 00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:14.440 the rue. The organization that has fought for thirty years 366 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:19.319 against tax increases is a rhino organization and on the 367 00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:21.559 Rhino watch list. Now, really, what that had to do 368 00:26:21.680 --> 00:26:25.240 with was Dave Williams hit me up for money for 369 00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:29.400 one of their lawsuits. That they wanted us to put 370 00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:35.000 money into one of their failing lawsuits. I basically said, no, 371 00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:37.599 that's not our mission and I'm not spending our donors' 372 00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:40.680 money doing that. And the next week, surprise, the Independent 373 00:26:40.759 --> 00:26:48.200 Institute was a rhino organization, the which is just laughable. 374 00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:51.799 So you're looking at these these people who have been 375 00:26:53.839 --> 00:26:59.119 good conservatives. I look at our friend Christy Burton Brown 376 00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:02.680 and why you and I might have policy differences. This 377 00:27:02.799 --> 00:27:05.440 is not a woman I would call a rhino. A 378 00:27:05.519 --> 00:27:10.240 woman who several times tried to put a personhood amendment 379 00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:16.000 and get it through, get it through to vote. She's 380 00:27:16.039 --> 00:27:19.279 the one who spearheaded a late term abortion and she's 381 00:27:19.319 --> 00:27:23.319 a rhino. It makes it really makes you wonder. So 382 00:27:25.680 --> 00:27:29.319 the party is out of touch and watching it burn 383 00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:33.440 down to the ground is sad. But I think it 384 00:27:33.519 --> 00:27:37.680 has to happen. There is no way the conservative movement 385 00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:41.880 politically is going to get any better until you clean 386 00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:48.039 up the system. So whether he goes now or whether 387 00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:50.400 he goes later, I don't think it matters a lot. 388 00:27:50.480 --> 00:27:52.759 This is going to be This is going to be 389 00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:59.319 a horrific election for Republicans in Colorado. Keep in mind, 390 00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:04.799 you've got both Donald Trump, well hated by swing voters, 391 00:28:05.920 --> 00:28:13.079 and abortion beloved by swing voters, on the ballot this year. 392 00:28:13.359 --> 00:28:15.799 That is, you have the presidential ballot, but there's also 393 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:20.400 an initiative to put protecting abortion rights into the state constitution. 394 00:28:23.119 --> 00:28:25.279 This is not going to be pretty. Who knows, maybe 395 00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:28.519 Republicans could win back a seat or two. That would 396 00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:31.599 be a step in the right direction. They should be 397 00:28:31.640 --> 00:28:33.799 able to pick up the seat up in Weld County 398 00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:40.880 that's held by Kevin Priola, who turned Democrat and out 399 00:28:40.920 --> 00:28:44.359 of step. That should be a very easy pickup. But 400 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:47.720 we'll see about the other ones. If you're going to 401 00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:51.079