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 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:18.839 Well, Happy Monday, Colorado. It's Heidi Ganal filling in for 7 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:22.440 Dan Caplis. I'm really happy to be here. There has 8 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:25.000 been so much going on. I like to say every 9 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:28.800 day is like Christmas right now. Ryan, I mean, there 10 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:32.159 are so many things happening. It's making everybody's head spin, 11 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:36.520 especially the Democrats. I mean last night, Dan Bongino, I 12 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:39.479 mean I think he became enemy number one and out 13 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:41.000 and displaced Cash Ptel. 14 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:41.640 What do you think. 15 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:46.679 He's definitely making liberals headspin. He's been very combative in 16 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:49.280 his own podcast and radio show, and he has not 17 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:51.039 been shy about it whatsoever. 18 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:53.799 And it's just I go back to this quote from 19 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:54.520 John Fetterman. 20 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:56.439 He appeared with the Ladies on the View and he 21 00:00:56.479 --> 00:00:58.240 gave some sage advice as. 22 00:00:58.119 --> 00:01:00.000 He has wont to do, but they won't. 23 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:03.399 It's like we can't be like cats with the red 24 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:06.680 laser beam following around every little thing. 25 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:07.680 That Donald Trump does. 26 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:10.599 They don't pick their battles, their scattershot, they don't have 27 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:11.640 a targeted approach. 28 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:13.239 They just have these knee jerk. 29 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:17.680 Responses, threat to democracy, Nazi hitler, blah blah blah. And meanwhile, 30 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:20.560 like you just said, oh, punch one, here's cash. Buttell, 31 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:24.439 by the way, uppercut, Dan Bongino, Deputy FBI Director, what 32 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:25.319 are you going to do about it? 33 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:27.200 I love that analogy. 34 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:30.159 I was at the leadership program of the Rockies retreat 35 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:32.719 over the weekend and at the Broad Moor and Newt 36 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:35.560 Ginrick was the speaker on Friday night. 37 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:38.159 I love this saying he came up with. 38 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:40.799 He goes, now, there's the traditional maha we all love, 39 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:43.959 make America healthy again. But he has a two point 40 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:47.040 zero another maha that we should integrate, and that is 41 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:51.640 make America honest again. And I think with Doge and 42 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:55.359 everything that's coming clean on that, with the exposing what 43 00:01:55.480 --> 00:02:00.079 happened with JFK and the Epstein files and all of that, 44 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:04.000 what's happening with Ukraine and what we're finding out about 45 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:08.560 what's really gone on there, and in education with Title nine, 46 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:12.199 I mean, we're exposing all this stuff and it is 47 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:15.759 shock and awe. But I do think make America honest again, 48 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:19.800 what a great, great tagline. And I do think that 49 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:22.639 it's hard to argue on the Democrat side that that 50 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:23.680 isn't a good goal. 51 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:26.840 Well, and it's something James Carville said here, and I 52 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:28.240 guess we'll just come out of the gate with its 53 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:29.919 I have the sound on this side. 54 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:31.800 But when one of the greatest. 55 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:34.919 Strategists and minds of the Democratic Party, at least in 56 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:37.680 this generation and certainly over the last thirty years, when 57 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:41.400 his best advice to Democrats is to lay low, stay 58 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:44.680 out of sight, say nothing, not even be seen, and 59 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:47.080 don't be heard. I mean, that's the best he's got. 60 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:49.240 Just listen to what he says here about Elizabeth Lawren. 61 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:51.599 But what I've said very public said, Democrats need to 62 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:52.360 play possum. 63 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:54.479 This whole thing is collapsing. 64 00:02:55.080 --> 00:03:01.080 It doesn't need Elizabeth Warren and somebody's screaming to pacify 65 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:05.000 some progressive adversing groups in Washington, which, by the way, 66 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:05.599 I wish. 67 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:06.840 These people were just useless. 68 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:08.520 They're actually worse than useless. 69 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:12.639 That they're detrimental and they never ever learned to shut up. 70 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:14.759 Ah. 71 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:17.319 He is a character I do like listening to him 72 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:20.719 raging Cajun. He does not hold back, and we have 73 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:24.360 our own folks who don't hold back. And it's interesting 74 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:27.599 to see how the anti Trumpers or the never trumpers 75 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:30.039 are reacting to everything that's going on too. They've been 76 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:34.240 pretty quiet overall, I would say, in Colorado not so much. 77 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:36.479 They're actually trying to kind of take credit for some 78 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:37.639 of these things happening. 79 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:38.479 I saw or I. 80 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:41.800 Heard at the retreat, which really ticked me off. I'm like, 81 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:45.000 where have you been for the last four years as 82 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:48.960 we battled all these horrible things going on against Donald Trump? 83 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:52.719 And you know, everybody and their brother wants to know 84 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:54.680 say that they were the original Doge. 85 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:57.240 But I'm I'm going to be one of those people. 86 00:03:57.280 --> 00:03:59.919 I mean, I talked about going to zero income tax 87 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:03.599 and reducing the size of bureaucracy by ten percent a 88 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:06.879 year in the first term, forty percent overall, and people 89 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:10.560 thought I was nuts. The liberal media went crazy. How 90 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:13.360 on earth could she say that she's insane, we can't 91 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:17.040 reduce bureaucracy, she will leave kids starving on the street. 92 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:19.800 And I was like, well, there's plenty of waste and fraud. 93 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:22.920 I think we could cut ten percent right there, absolutely not, 94 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:24.720 there is no waste in fraud. 95 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:26.839 And Jared Poulus would stand. 96 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:29.199 On the debate stage and smile and say, absolutely not. 97 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:31.639 Everything's wonderful. Everything's wonderful. 98 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:35.399 I love those debates because you just flattened them, and 99 00:04:35.439 --> 00:04:37.360 every one of them was entertaining to watch. 100 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:38.879 I had my popcorn ready and everything. 101 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:42.360 But it's just factually inaccurate to suggest that there isn't waste, 102 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:45.800 fraud and abuse. Barack Obama, when he was president was 103 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:47.439 talking about this sort of thing and. 104 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:49.040 Designing a task force. 105 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:52.199 Al Gore was appointed to head that up in Bill 106 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:54.279 Clinton's first term. It's what he ran on as a 107 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:57.839 moderate Democrat. And to his credit and Gingrich has who 108 00:04:57.839 --> 00:05:01.639 you mentioned earlier, they passed two balanced budgets in Clinton's 109 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:02.959 second term in office. 110 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:05.040 And I think back, like you said. 111 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:09.720 These never trumpers, these neo cons that are left in 112 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:11.959 the past, the dust spin of history when it comes 113 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:14.759 to our party right now, I just think backhiding. I 114 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:18.160 was a very strong supporter of George W. Bush in 115 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:20.920 two thousand and four, and I remember all the promises 116 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:23.160 he made on the campaign trail. What he won on, 117 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:26.279 did he govern on that, did he enact those policies. 118 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:27.920 Did he sign executive orders? 119 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:28.240 No? 120 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:31.680 And so when even the Democrats join in in this 121 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:34.839 recent poll, I think was CBS News saying, yeah, seventy 122 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:37.439 percent of Americans say, Hey, Trump's doing what he said 123 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:38.879 he was going to do and running on it. 124 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:42.279 I mean the flurry of activity with executive orders. 125 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:46.040 Donald Trump promise has made promises kept even better than 126 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:48.199 he did in the first term, knowing the lay of 127 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:51.000 the land and the landscape politically, and that he's going 128 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:52.600 to need Acts of Congress. 129 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:53.319 To make these things stick. 130 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:55.879 But he doesn't need one to write the executive orders 131 00:05:55.920 --> 00:05:58.399 and get the ball rolling. And so I don't know 132 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:01.240 that you could view this first month in office, Heidi's 133 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:04.639 anything other than an unmitigated success for Donald Trump and 134 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:05.920 everything that we voted for. 135 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:10.240 I agree with you, and I'm a little worried about Congress. 136 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:12.959 They seem to be moving a little slow. I want 137 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:15.759 to see more a sense of urgency with the Senate 138 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:20.480 and the House of Representatives, but specifically our congressional members, like, 139 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:23.319 come on, guys, get it together, let's move on. Let's 140 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:25.360 get a budget across the finish line so that we 141 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:28.480 can really deep dive in and get some of these 142 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:32.920 executive orders put into long term play through legislation. And 143 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:36.360 there is no excuse, no excuse for us to not 144 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:40.639 go all in to get these things memorialized. And if 145 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:43.560 they don't do the right things, then let's get ready 146 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:45.680 and let's primary a lot of people who don't play 147 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:49.959 ball correctly. Now we've got four congressmen out of the 148 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:53.959 eight in Colorado, congressmen and a woman, and I believe 149 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:55.839 they're fighters. They're going to go in, they're going to 150 00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:57.480 try and do the right things. They're going to get 151 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:01.560 what we want past they We've got to stop having 152 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:04.839 to deal with the Colorado GOP care race every day 153 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:08.040 and the drama around that. It's ridiculous and it's wasting 154 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:12.480 everybody's time, the back and forth, the lawsuits, that why 155 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:14.839 can't we all just get along? And so I sat 156 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:17.720 on my podcast the other day. My Unleashed podcast is 157 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:20.120 back out there. I put one out yesterday, it's out 158 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:22.360 on social media today, and I kind of go off 159 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:23.079 about how. 160 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:24.360 You know, what we can agree on. 161 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:27.360 We can all agree that we don't like what's happening 162 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:29.920 in Colorado. We don't like what the Democrats are doing 163 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:33.240 in Colorado. We can also all agree, except for a 164 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:37.680 few never trumpers, which whatever, we can all agree that 165 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:40.800 we love what's happening nationally, that what's happening in the 166 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:43.560 White House is what we want here in Colorado. 167 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:45.199 So if we just agree. 168 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:48.879 On those two things, why does anything else matter? 169 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:50.279 It doesn't. 170 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:54.079 And most of the people running for the different positions 171 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:57.920 and the different offices and the different county chair positions, 172 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:02.199 everybody pretty much agree on policy. I think that's what 173 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:04.199 I feel on the ground as I travel the state, 174 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:07.560 like if all of these people were in Congress, they 175 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:08.839 would all vote the same way. 176 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:12.240 It's just it's this purity test. It's sys some what 177 00:08:12.439 --> 00:08:15.399 if contests. What if this were to happen, What if 178 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:16.399 this vote came up? 179 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:19.560 Well, we need to deal in what is real, and 180 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:22.120 I'm going to dig into that in the next segment 181 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:26.680 and talk about numbers around unaffiliateds, around Republicans, around turnout 182 00:08:27.079 --> 00:08:29.120 and actually look at the data, because I think at 183 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:31.759 this point we need to put a motion aside and 184 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:35.559 look at data, numbers, the reality of the situation we're 185 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:39.039 in Colorado and figure out how to get a path forward. 186 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:41.679 Knowing exactly what we need to do, how many voters. 187 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:44.360 We need to bring across what those voters resonate with 188 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:47.080 message wise, and I have some input from some polsters 189 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:49.320 on that front too. I'll tease it a little bit. 190 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:52.519 One thing we should not talk about here in Colorado. 191 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:55.960 For whatever reason. Colorado's do not want the Department of 192 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:59.679 Education torn down, So we've got to be careful. 193 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:00.039 Around I do. 194 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:02.240 I think it's the right thing to do block grant 195 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:05.240 that money back to the states, but they're worried. Republicans 196 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:07.240 are worried that that money's of course going to go 197 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:09.200 into the wrong hands here in Colorado and be spent 198 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:11.720 the wrong way. And Democrats just think it's a terrible 199 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:13.799 thing and that education is going to get even worse 200 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:16.639 than it is, which in Colorado that's pretty hard to do. 201 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:19.919 Our kids can't read, write, or do math at grade level. 202 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:22.039 So we're going to deep dive right now. We're going 203 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:24.440 to take a break. We'll be back after this. Heidi 204 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:26.600 ganall in for Dan Kaplis. 205 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:35.840 And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast. 206 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:38.639 Oh, Bryan, that's so sad. 207 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:41.960 I know we lost her bird of Flack and wow, 208 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:44.600 she lived a full life age of eighty eight and 209 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:46.960 of course, this is one of a handful of top 210 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:50.240 charting hits that she had. Her biggest hit'll be coming 211 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:55.480 up next. Oh okay, you'll recognize it. She beautiful pea music, 212 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:57.480 tremendous voice. 213 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:03.000 Okay, So talk about something equally as sad, the state 214 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:06.039 of the Republican Party in Colorado, the conservative movement. 215 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:06.600 Ouch. 216 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:10.679 I don't even know where to start, Ryan. I took 217 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:13.039 a lot of notes, I did some digging on different data. 218 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:14.840 Here's where we are, guys. 219 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:17.480 We need to flip about four hundred and fifty thousand 220 00:10:17.559 --> 00:10:21.080 votes in Colorado to win statewide. And I'm going to 221 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:24.480 break this down. There's three point seven million registered voters 222 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:30.559 in Colorado, and of those a lot are unaffiliateds. 223 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:32.759 We've got one point eight million. 224 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:36.559 Unaffiliated registered voters or they're not they're unaffiliated, so they're 225 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:41.679 not registered Republican or Democrat. If you take the unaffiliateds 226 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:45.360 that tend to vote Democrat, that's about sixty percent. So 227 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:48.240 out of all the affiliated, it's about sixty percent typically 228 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:53.159 vote in the last couple elections Democrat. Forty percent vote Republican. 229 00:10:53.559 --> 00:10:57.120 So if you take that and subtract that one point 230 00:10:57.200 --> 00:10:59.600 one million minus about seven hundred and thirty eight thousand. 231 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:01.799 It's four hundred and fifty one thousand is the difference. 232 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:05.200 So that's where I get the four hundred thousand gap. 233 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:08.320 Now where are we going to get those folks? Well, 234 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:10.639 we've got a lot of voters. 235 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:12.919 That didn't vote in the last couple elections. 236 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:16.639 So about two million in the twenty two election did 237 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:21.320 not vote, like Democrat and unaffiliated and Republican, and then 238 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:25.559 you've got Republicans who only voted. About seventy percent of 239 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:29.480 Republicans voted. Thirty percent of Republicans did not vote in 240 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:34.000 the general election, and I think that's both elections. 241 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:35.120 Overall. 242 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:39.000 In twenty twenty four, about seventy percent of Colorado registered 243 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:41.759 active voters voted, So there are tons of people who 244 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:44.440 do not vote. We do not have a registration problem 245 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:46.320 in Colorado. A lot of people are like get scot 246 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:49.159 prosts are out here to register people. It's actually more 247 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:51.639 of a get people to vote and get the right 248 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:55.679 people to vote problem here in Colorado. So we need 249 00:11:56.000 --> 00:12:00.799 every Republican to vote that's registered Republican if the election 250 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:03.360 were tomorrow, and that would add about two hundred and 251 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:05.519 fifty thousand to our vote total statewide. 252 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:06.799 And then we need. 253 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:09.399 All of the unaffiliateds that have voted Republican in the 254 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:12.159 last couple elections to vote. And then we need two 255 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:16.120 about two hundred thousand more to come to our side 256 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:19.039 from the people who have voted Democrat, the unaffiliated who 257 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:24.120 have voted Democrat. And that depends on Republican turnout. I said, 258 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:27.399 if every Republican turned out, we would need two hundred thousand. 259 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:31.360 If only seventy percent turnout, then we need four hundred 260 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:33.799 and fifty thousand to come our way. So it's a 261 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:37.200 daunting task. But what I've been trying to tell people 262 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:40.840 is you are the leader you've been waiting for in 263 00:12:40.919 --> 00:12:43.480 this party. You are the leader of your neighborhood. You 264 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:46.320 are the leader of your sphere of influence. Make a 265 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:49.240 list of everyone you know who's like minded, and then 266 00:12:49.559 --> 00:12:52.240 get to know all your neighbors better. You can get 267 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:55.039 to know your precinct chair, which is basically your neighborhood 268 00:12:55.080 --> 00:12:58.360 cheerleader for the conservative movement in your neighborhood. You can 269 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:01.759 find out who that is by calling the Colorado GOP, 270 00:13:02.159 --> 00:13:03.480 I mean the county GOP. 271 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:05.320 And asking and they'll connect you. 272 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:07.320 And if there isn't one, because there are tons of 273 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:10.879 vacancies for precinct chairs around this state. Volunteer to be 274 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:13.320 that person. It's not hard, it's not brain surgery. 275 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:13.840 We can do this. 276 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:15.600 And I've had brain surgery, so I can say that. 277 00:13:17.039 --> 00:13:19.440 So you've got to start local. You've got to get 278 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:22.279 active in your neighborhood. You have to attend your county commissioners, 279 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:25.120 city council, school board race meetings. Don't do it on zoom, 280 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:27.639 go live, and even if you can only go for 281 00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:29.279 a part of it, and have your little two minute 282 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:32.200 speech ready and get up there and say your peace. 283 00:13:32.679 --> 00:13:34.720 And then get to know your elected officials in your 284 00:13:34.759 --> 00:13:37.320 local neighborhood and start to communicate with them about what 285 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:42.080 you like, what you don't like, Republican and Democrat. And then, guys, 286 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:45.879 we have got to got to got to focus on 287 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:49.080 issues that are going to be okay to talk about 288 00:13:49.080 --> 00:13:52.080 with everybody. And I've been talking to the pollsters about 289 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:54.679 this about Colorado and where things stand, and there are 290 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:57.159 two things that people are totally fired up about on 291 00:13:57.240 --> 00:13:59.759 both sides that are okay to talk about. We have 292 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:02.600 from perspectives about how to solve those problems. But what 293 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:03.639 is the economy? 294 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:06.000 Inflation? Affordability. 295 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:10.519 And the other is crime, and that includes illegal immigration, 296 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:14.039 sanctuary state status, it includes all of those things that 297 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:17.679 we're dealing with in Colorado, fentanyl. So you've got crime, 298 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:20.360 and you've got the economy crime and the economy of 299 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:21.320 the economy and crime. 300 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:23.840 Those are the things we should be talking. 301 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:26.360 About when we're out chatting with our neighbors, when we're 302 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:30.039 testifying on a bill, when we're testifying to our county 303 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:34.120 commissioners or city council. It works magic and find little 304 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:38.000 places where you can agree, like, Hey, it's really expensive 305 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:39.720 to go out to eat lately, isn't it? 306 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:42.480 Well, yeah, it is. Why do you think that is? 307 00:14:42.840 --> 00:14:45.279 Ask a lot of questions, as I learned in sales, 308 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:47.159 because I was in sales a lot of my life. 309 00:14:47.720 --> 00:14:50.480 You should be listening most of the time and learning 310 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:54.200 and asking questions and finding out what makes people tick. 311 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:56.960 And what I learned from the polsters that what makes 312 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:01.360 people tick in Colorado the unaffiliated voters, the famous unaffiliated voters. 313 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:04.320 And we're really talking about the four hundred and fifty 314 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:06.519 thousand or two hundred thousand, whatever number you want to use, 315 00:15:06.559 --> 00:15:08.559 between two hundred and fifty and five hundred thousand people 316 00:15:08.559 --> 00:15:11.080 that we need to swing our way to change this state. 317 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:15.519 It's the economy and it's crime, and the Democrats are 318 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:18.799 handing us a gift with this. They are making every 319 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:22.320 bad decision they possibly can at the legislature, in the 320 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:28.320 governor's mansion, in Congress, the Democrats are making every bad decision. 321 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:30.600 They can and they do not have anything to stand on. 322 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:35.480 As James Carvill said, be quiet, sit down and be quiet. Well, 323 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:37.879 I'm asking you not to sit down and be quiet, 324 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:41.159 but to stand up, speak out, get out of your house, 325 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:46.120 talk to folks, and start now. We cannot wait until 326 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:49.399 the elections here. We've got some very very critical school 327 00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:52.559 board elections coming up this fall. How about we start 328 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:57.360 in Jefferson County, Colorado, where, oh my goodness, every other 329 00:15:57.480 --> 00:16:01.200 day it's a different story. God bless Lindsay dot Co 330 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:05.440 with jeff co Kiss. First, she's so patient, so she's 331 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:08.559 so kind in the way she approaches the criticism of 332 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:12.480 what's happening. I won't be as kind. It's really messed up. 333 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:15.679 And if it's not a better I don't know a 334 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:20.399 better time to elect different people to the Jefferson County 335 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:22.919 school Board. You guys should watch some of those meetings. 336 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:25.919 I watched the last one. I encouraged everybody to do that, 337 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:28.559 and a whopping I don't know thirty people showed up 338 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:30.440 online to watch it. I'm like, do you guys not 339 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:33.720 read all the articles about what's happening with teachers being 340 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:38.440 accused of sexual misconduct and a teacher who groomed a 341 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:41.720 student who now I think still lives with the teacher 342 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:46.159 on California. She's past eighteen now, but their story after 343 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:48.960 story so at In just a few minutes, we're going 344 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:52.039 to have the infamous George Brockler. 345 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:52.360 On with us. 346 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:54.080 Infamous is a great word for him. 347 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:56.639 It's a sure thing, George. It's a good thing. 348 00:16:57.200 --> 00:17:01.960 He is our district attorney for he's district attorney down 349 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:03.279 in Douglas County, and. 350 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:06.039 It's so great to have a fighter. 351 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:09.359 It's great to have a fighter compared to all the 352 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:11.559 stuff that's going on in California. And we're going to 353 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:14.359 talk about the sanctuary state issue. We're going to talk 354 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:17.839 about what's happening in Jefferson County, and we're really just 355 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:21.519 going to break down how do we change what's happening 356 00:17:21.559 --> 00:17:26.200 as parents, as Republicans, as unaffiliateds who might be open 357 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:29.839 to voting differently. What will we do differently if we 358 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:32.200 govern to stop this stuff from happening. 359 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:34.160 Now you're hearing it from the White House. 360 00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:38.160 You're hearing no more boys playing in girls' sports, no 361 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:42.960 more DEI, no more of this stuff happening in our schools, 362 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:46.519 or you're going to lose funding. Like that's what needs 363 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:49.720 to happen from the top. We're going to talk about 364 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:52.759 what needs to happen here in Colorado and from the 365 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:53.480 ground up. 366 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:54.160 So this is. 367 00:17:54.119 --> 00:17:57.279 Heidigan All filling in for Dan Kaplis. We'll be back 368 00:17:57.359 --> 00:17:59.720 right after the break with George Brockler. 369 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:25.079 You're listening to the Dan Capless Show podcast. 370 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:27.440 Hello, Happy Monday. 371 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:30.680 It's Heidi Ganal filling in for Dan Caplis, and I'm 372 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:34.640 very excited to have a friend and my district attorney, 373 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:40.680 George Brockler, on the line. Hello George, Happy Monday. 374 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:41.839 Happy Monday. It was great seeing you and Jason over 375 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:42.359 the weekend. 376 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:43.680 That was fun. 377 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:45.880 We were talking a little bit about the OPR retree 378 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:47.079 and nuke Ginrick. 379 00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:49.799 Saying make America honest again. I love that. 380 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:53.519 I think some of the funniest stuff came out of 381 00:18:53.599 --> 00:18:56.400 a speaker nude, especially when he said, a look the 382 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:01.880 difference between conservatives and the liberals that they view The 383 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:04.559 Lion King as a documentary, you know what I mean, 384 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:08.200 Like he says, lions eat gazelle's and they say no, no, 385 00:19:08.200 --> 00:19:09.720 no no. They sing and dance together. 386 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:14.000 They get along great. That was hilarious. That was That 387 00:19:14.119 --> 00:19:15.200 was a crazy weekend. 388 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:17.319 I mean, I love that weekend because it's like six 389 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:20.440 hundred patriots in one place and we haven't seen each other, 390 00:19:20.519 --> 00:19:23.119 most of us, in like a year, and everybody stays 391 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:25.400 I mean stays up pretty much all night, like till 392 00:19:25.400 --> 00:19:27.279 three or four in the morning, hanging out talking. 393 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:29.240 And then you get up and you're like, oh my god, 394 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:31.240 I forgot how old I am. Oh that was. 395 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:34.079 That was. That's right, still recovering. 396 00:19:34.759 --> 00:19:37.480 So George Colorado was not recovering yet. 397 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:41.279 And I love what you've been saying about what's happening 398 00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:44.720 with this push that I mean, Paulus is basically saying 399 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:47.960 we're not a sanctuary state, and you're saying, oh, yes 400 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:50.759 we are, So tell us what the distinction is there? 401 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:56.279