Speaker 1: This is Dan Caples and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 1: is to fight that, and the American way is to
Speaker 1: protect others. And I have this right now, this combination
Speaker 1: of emotions going on I don't think I've ever had
Speaker 1: at the same time before, and it is a combination
Speaker 1: of incredible gratitude and unfathomable rage. And I have him
Speaker 1: at the same time, and I've never had him at
Speaker 1: the same time before because I have gratitude all the time.
Speaker 1: My mom taught us that every morning when you woke up,
Speaker 1: since I was a little kid, every morning when you
Speaker 1: wake up, think of the five things.
Speaker 2: You're grateful for that day.
Speaker 1: So I've always had that gift from my mom of
Speaker 1: gratitude and extreme gratitude. But I've never had that emotion
Speaker 1: at the same time. I felt this rage where I
Speaker 1: don't know if i'd trust myself if I've got my
Speaker 1: hands on this guy. Maybe it was a woman, but
Speaker 1: I'm ninety nine point nine percent sure it was a guy,
Speaker 1: because he almost killed my daughter. And I'm going to
Speaker 1: find him, and I'm going to find him with your help.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to give somebody a big fat reward
Speaker 1: if they can help me find this guy. And so
Speaker 1: here's what happened, right. You know, we talk about on
Speaker 1: this show all the time. We say, Hey, one thing
Speaker 1: I've learned over the years doing the kind of law
Speaker 1: I do is when the light turns green, look both
Speaker 1: ways before you go. When the light turns green, do
Speaker 1: not drive forward. Look both ways. Because Colorado right now
Speaker 1: has become so many reckless drivers right who are just
Speaker 1: running red lights. Sometimes they're drugged up, sometimes they just
Speaker 1: think they can get away with anything. But you've heard
Speaker 1: callers to this show, Hey, Dan, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: saying that, because I did that and then I would
Speaker 1: have been killed if I got out in the intersection.
Speaker 1: We had one of those calls last week, right, Ryan,
Speaker 1: somebody who called and said that. So what I've suggested
Speaker 1: on air is talk about it at the dinner table.
Speaker 1: Tell your kids, don't go when the light turns green,
Speaker 1: somebody may be running that red light.
Speaker 2: Look both ways.
Speaker 1: So our wonderful, amazing daughter, she is at a red
Speaker 1: light and the light turns green, and she doesn't go
Speaker 1: because we drill it into her at dinner. You know,
Speaker 1: don't go when the light turn not every dinner, but
Speaker 1: we bring it up and then I tell these stories from.
Speaker 2: The show when people call and say it saved him.
Speaker 1: So anyway, she calls me up and she, you know,
Speaker 1: very composed kid, very sharp, handles situations real well.
Speaker 2: She calls me up.
Speaker 1: She is extremely upset and she says, I could have
Speaker 1: just been kicked old. I said, what happened? She said,
Speaker 1: the light turned green, and I waited a long time
Speaker 1: and I didn't go. And as I started to go,
Speaker 1: here comes this big semi barreling down Bellevue.
Speaker 2: She said, probably sixty or more miles per hour, right
Speaker 2: through a red light.
Speaker 1: So she has a green light and this semi blows
Speaker 1: left to right, right through the red light, and it
Speaker 1: would have absolutely obliterated her.
Speaker 2: It would have killed her instantly. I know.
Speaker 1: I do those cases all the time, so I've been
Speaker 1: on a mission to try to get to the bottom
Speaker 1: of this. So the good news is we finally have video.
Speaker 1: We got video, so I've got a picture of this
Speaker 1: truck in the angle I got the video from You
Speaker 1: can see the light that our daughter had, solid green,
Speaker 1: solid green, and you can see this semi coming into
Speaker 1: that intersection while she has a solid green light. And
Speaker 1: I don't care if that was a Volkswagen bug coming
Speaker 1: into the intersection.
Speaker 2: It's a lethal weapon at that point.
Speaker 1: But this is an enormous eighteen wheeler and it's carrying
Speaker 1: all this heavy equipment. That son of that driver, that
Speaker 1: driver knew, absolutely new they.
Speaker 2: May kill somebody, and they did it.
Speaker 1: Anyway, when you're driving anything, let alone a semi through
Speaker 1: a light a solid red. Because the way this light
Speaker 1: sequencing works, for our daughter to have that solid green light,
Speaker 1: that trucker, that westbound trucker on Bellvue had to have
Speaker 1: a solid red light for a long time. And we're
Speaker 1: pulling the exact sequencing of that light so we will
Speaker 1: be able to show how long how long that light
Speaker 1: was solid red for let alone yellow, solid red, And
Speaker 1: I'm going to post I'm going to post the photos
Speaker 1: so everybody can see solid green light for our daughter
Speaker 1: and this semi blowing right through the intersection.
Speaker 3: First practical question is on everybody's mind, including my own.
Speaker 3: First of all, thank God, Caroline's okay, and thank god
Speaker 3: she feeded your advice, Dan, because I do it too.
Speaker 4: I do the same thing.
Speaker 2: Reminder of that, like you.
Speaker 4: And like some of our colors, I've witnessed the same thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like you pause, Here comes a car, right, a
Speaker 3: clear red light not orange?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, so no in the video.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're way ahead of me on this, I'm sure.
Speaker 3: But for the listeners out there, are you able to identify,
Speaker 3: zoom in and clarify the license plate on the truck?
Speaker 2: Here's here's the challenge.
Speaker 1: It is a side angle, which is great in the
Speaker 1: sense that it you can see the solid green while
Speaker 1: the truck enters. Okay, so you have that angle. That's
Speaker 1: going to be very good for law enforcement. But it's
Speaker 1: a side angle, so you don't have plates. Now, as
Speaker 1: you know, it's a semi so it's dot right, so
Speaker 1: you're going to have all that on the side right.
Speaker 1: The problem is the quality of the video we have.
Speaker 1: Now I'm sending it to a former FBI analyst and
Speaker 1: hopefully they can use their technology to get us a
Speaker 1: clear read on that. But in the meantime, I've got
Speaker 1: to get people's help to try to identify this trucker.
Speaker 1: And my hope is that just wanting to make the
Speaker 1: world safer, plus a little financial sweetener will will help
Speaker 1: help because somebody, somebody is going to be able to
Speaker 1: look at that and say, yeah, I know that truck
Speaker 1: because the cargo, the load, Ryan, it was a semi
Speaker 1: eighteen wheeler with the full cab and then it has
Speaker 1: the flatbed and it's carrying a bunch of heavy equipment
Speaker 1: and machinery on the flatbed. So it's going to be
Speaker 1: the kind of load that somebody out there is going
Speaker 1: to be able to recognize.
Speaker 2: It's just not another trailer.
Speaker 3: I know how doggedly you fight on behalf of your client.
Speaker 2: Stand Biden Man, you put Caroline Man in the equation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my good.
Speaker 2: Whoever you are, I'm going to find you. I mean
Speaker 2: that it is only a matter of time. Now.
Speaker 1: I'm going to find you, and I am going to
Speaker 1: work within the system. But I'm going to work within
Speaker 1: the system to make sure you can't hurt anybody else
Speaker 1: out there. I mean, and that driver is really really lucky,
Speaker 1: right because that driver right now easily looking at vehicular
Speaker 1: homicide charges if she had simply gone when the light
Speaker 1: turn green, right, if she went, when the light turn green,
Speaker 1: she's dead.
Speaker 2: It's that simple.
Speaker 1: So a driver like that, a driver like that needs
Speaker 1: to be fully prosecuted. Now we got this big gaping
Speaker 1: hole in Colorado law when it comes to traffic stuff.
Speaker 1: So there's only so much you can do to somebody
Speaker 1: like that, correct, But they got to be fully prosecuted.
Speaker 1: That company has to be investigated. Maybe it's the one off.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a great company, and you got a one off,
Speaker 1: reckless driver who easily could have killed somebody there, could
Speaker 1: have killed you know, and obviously we're talking about our daughter,
Speaker 1: most important thing in the world to.
Speaker 2: Me, could have killed a family of eight.
Speaker 1: If it had been a family of eight that it's
Speaker 1: simply gone when the light turned green, they are all dead.
Speaker 3: Might have George Brockler join you today, Dan, because he
Speaker 3: just got a conviction on a somewhat similar case trunk
Speaker 3: driving at a gas station at like a seven eleven.
Speaker 3: But just one final thing, because I go full detective
Speaker 3: mode on stuff like this true crime. You can't see
Speaker 3: the plate you mentioned dot, You mentioned the green equality
Speaker 3: of the video, but aren't there marks on the side
Speaker 3: of the truck that should be able to identify it
Speaker 3: if you were able to read it like number.
Speaker 2: Definitely all of that.
Speaker 1: And again that's a clue in and of itself, right
Speaker 1: because we can tell this is a late model cap
Speaker 1: So we can tell this is a company with resources
Speaker 1: and it's got You can tell because you can't.
Speaker 2: Read it, but you can see all the lines.
Speaker 1: So they follow dot, They've got their dot number, They've
Speaker 1: got all the other identifiers you can see Ryan by
Speaker 1: virtue of the type of equipment that they have. Everything else.
Speaker 1: This is this is likely, and it's an important clue.
Speaker 1: This is likely a larger This is likely a larger operation.
Speaker 1: So that helps us right out of the gate.
Speaker 2: So I have a question.
Speaker 5: Were there other cars around her that actually went no
Speaker 5: and had a garage?
Speaker 2: Thank god there weren't. She was she was. I'll ask
Speaker 2: her if there's anybody behind her. But she was the
Speaker 2: first car and line. Oh wow, she was the first
Speaker 2: car and line. But I'll show you, guys, I'll show
Speaker 2: you guys.
Speaker 1: The picture during the break. And we have got to
Speaker 1: find this guy for everybody's safety. We've got to find
Speaker 1: this guy. Personal favor, I want your help finding this
Speaker 1: guy because this simple truth is if she had gone
Speaker 1: when the light turned green.
Speaker 2: She's dead and and we've got to find this guy.
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Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1: We got the video of this trucker running a solid red,
Speaker 1: solid red. My daughter was waiting when the light turned green.
Speaker 1: She didn't go, and she credits her guardian Angel and
Speaker 1: I do too, but she did not go. She said
Speaker 1: it was green for a couple of seconds before this
Speaker 1: trucker blew through. She estimated sixty seventy eighty miles an
Speaker 1: hour on Bellevue. And I've got the photo. So I
Speaker 1: want everybody to help in finding this guy. And so
Speaker 1: we're going to get that posted. I'll put up some
Speaker 1: kind of reward, and just for public safety, we need
Speaker 1: to find him. Let's go to the phone lines talk
Speaker 1: with Corey and Castle Pines here on the Dankaplas Show.
Speaker 2: Welcome Corey.
Speaker 6: Hey Dan, I've been driving locally here in Denver for
Speaker 6: forty two years and a own own company since ninety nine.
Speaker 2: And I have a lot.
Speaker 6: Of contact, you know a lot of people, I mean
Speaker 6: in the hundreds. So if I can get the you know,
Speaker 6: the pictures and video.
Speaker 7: We I've got belonged to several local Facebook.
Speaker 8: Pages and we'll find out who it is just by
Speaker 8: looking at the truck. So, yeah, Corey, you don't take long.
Speaker 2: No, you are the man.
Speaker 1: If you could do me a favor, Kelly, can you
Speaker 1: give Corey myself and do you mind just hitting me
Speaker 1: on my cell and and I'll get you.
Speaker 2: I'll get you the photo right away. Absolutely, all right, man, Hey,
Speaker 2: really appreciate it. Thank you, and there.
Speaker 1: And I know you're not doing this for any kind
Speaker 1: of reward, but there will be some kind of tangible
Speaker 1: expression of our gratitude.
Speaker 6: I don't need anything due.
Speaker 8: Yes, I mean I push Yellow's myself, but not not
Speaker 8: when they're read.
Speaker 2: Oh dude, dude, you will see this photo.
Speaker 6: You just can't do it.
Speaker 1: You will see this photo, solid solid red in a
Speaker 1: semi And she estimated the speed at sixty to eighty.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and that's all right on belvye because I'm forty
Speaker 8: five on BELLVU.
Speaker 2: No, that's right, that's right. Yeah, No, hey, appreciate the help.
Speaker 8: Not a good spot.
Speaker 2: Hey, thank you.
Speaker 1: If you'd hold Kelly, you'll give you myself. Yep, thank you, man,
Speaker 1: appreciate that that's see.
Speaker 2: That's very encouraging. Mark and Morrison. You're on the Dankaplas Show.
Speaker 7: Welcome, Hey, Dan, how you doing.
Speaker 9: I'm glad your daughter's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you. Oh man, I'm still shaking.
Speaker 10: Oh.
Speaker 9: A big question for me is if you've already done
Speaker 9: a police report?
Speaker 2: No, no, are you going to do one?
Speaker 10: Well?
Speaker 1: Yeah, as soon as I can identify as I've got
Speaker 1: a former FBI guy trying to use some of their
Speaker 1: technology to get to be able to read the side,
Speaker 1: read the dot, read everything else on the side.
Speaker 2: Because the video we have is low quality.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it doesn't matter on you know what. I've been
Speaker 9: in law enforcement about.
Speaker 8: The same amount of time as your dad has, wow
Speaker 8: and or had.
Speaker 9: But to get it to local law enforcement and get
Speaker 9: it out to crime stoppers. And when you have a
Speaker 9: route like that on Bellevue, even if it's going from
Speaker 9: east to west, it's going to have other cameras in
Speaker 9: the area that are going to be more functional, more clear,
Speaker 9: maybe be able to enhance them a little bit. And
Speaker 9: even if you get it to law enforcement, there are
Speaker 9: different Like you said, your FBI buddy can throw it
Speaker 9: out there, and there's difference church engines that can clear
Speaker 9: up those numbers.
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 9: So just I think it's important that you get into
Speaker 9: law enforcement first. You don't want to have digital anti
Speaker 9: out there. All your fans love what you do.
Speaker 2: And what you do for.
Speaker 9: People, and our Catholics in the community. I think it's
Speaker 9: just a good idea to start first because they can
Speaker 9: probably do just as much as anybody else. And once
Speaker 9: it gets out there on crime stoppers, that's crime solved
Speaker 9: all the time.
Speaker 2: That is a great suggestion.
Speaker 1: Mark, sure appreciate that, man, Thank you, Sure do appreciate
Speaker 1: that you too, Thank.
Speaker 2: You, my friend.
Speaker 1: And and like most people, we're fortunate to have very
Speaker 1: very good law enforcement in our city, so Texter says Dan.
Speaker 1: If this was in a Repo County or Terry Hills,
Speaker 1: if you know any officers, they have a tool called
Speaker 1: force metrics that they might be able to look at
Speaker 1: different phrases, quote semi running red light to find it. Also,
Speaker 1: flocked safety has license plate readers and those police agencies
Speaker 1: might have flock LPRs at various places close to that intersection.
Speaker 1: That from Alexa, Thank you Alexa. That is great to hear. Dan,
Speaker 1: truck or pee here. I've been in the industry almost
Speaker 1: thirty years, and I've seen the quality of truck drivers
Speaker 1: go way downhill.
Speaker 2: I believe it's due to a lot of.
Speaker 1: Unqualified and illegal drivers being hired by desperate trucking companies.
Speaker 1: I operate my rig is if every other car on
Speaker 1: the road had one of my family members in it.
Speaker 1: See that's why I say that you got a lot
Speaker 1: of hero truckers out there, right, the people who do
Speaker 1: it right, because that's a hard job, and the people
Speaker 1: who do it right are heroes.
Speaker 2: And the ones who don't. We talk about this all
Speaker 2: the time, you are in more danger.
Speaker 1: We were just talking about that two days ago, right, Ryan,
Speaker 1: that everybody listening to this show, you and your family
Speaker 1: members are probably in more danger from reckless truckers than
Speaker 1: anything else in your life right now. And the great
Speaker 1: ones heroes, the reckless ones menace to society. Dan, get
Speaker 1: a dash can for all your cars. I've been saying
Speaker 1: that forever. I know for mine, I was trying to
Speaker 1: get one through the dealer because just knowing me, if
Speaker 1: I do it after market, the whole damn thing's going
Speaker 1: to blow up. Right, So now you are a thousand
Speaker 1: percent right. We've talked about that as a family see,
Speaker 1: we got lucky here because when you see this photo,
Speaker 1: and I do I appreciate the good advice of our
Speaker 1: caller that, yeah, I didn't realize. I knew my former
Speaker 1: FBI guy might be able to access some technology to
Speaker 1: read it. I didn't realize law enforcement might be willing
Speaker 1: to take this on. My assumption was since we didn't
Speaker 1: have an actual fatal wreck, etc.
Speaker 2: But if law.
Speaker 1: Enforcement can crack the code, or I can get this
Speaker 1: through a former FBI guy, you know, we'll do it
Speaker 1: that way.
Speaker 3: Are we dealing with Greenwood Village police? In this case,
Speaker 3: it'd be Cherry Hills?
Speaker 2: Okay? Yeah, it was on the Cherry Hills side of Bellevue. Okay.
Speaker 3: So another question is, because there's a chance you never
Speaker 3: know that one of our listeners might have been near
Speaker 3: that intersection at that time.
Speaker 4: What day and time did it take place?
Speaker 2: You never know? You never know. It was a week ago.
Speaker 1: We just got the video, so yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: week ago today, and I'll get the exact date and everything.
Speaker 2: I want to make sure I don't mix that up.
Speaker 1: But we've got the precise time because we've got the
Speaker 1: precise time off the video time code, so we know
Speaker 1: the precise time. But yeah, no, that's a good suggestion, Ryan,
Speaker 1: because this is this is not.
Speaker 2: Your typical semi.
Speaker 1: Not your typ It is a full sized beast of
Speaker 1: a semi, but it's a flat bed loaded up with
Speaker 1: different kind of equipment materials, so it would be more
Speaker 1: recognizable and more memorable texture.
Speaker 5: Hey, down, we just had a caller he could not
Speaker 5: stay on. But he's also a trucker and he says
Speaker 5: that if you know the color of the equipment, you know,
Speaker 5: you will be able to basically know the trucking company
Speaker 5: because everybody's equipment is different, whether it's Sunstay or United
Speaker 5: Rentals or all of that.
Speaker 2: If you have a picture of the wed the collar,
Speaker 2: we've got that. It's a red cab. We've got the color.
Speaker 3: And to the previous callers point, that has been a
Speaker 3: trucker too.
Speaker 4: I bet if he sees.
Speaker 3: It or some of his associates see it, they'll be
Speaker 3: able to pinpoint it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then the question is, you know, if it's an associate,
Speaker 1: are they going to be willing to come forward? Right,
Speaker 1: because that's not going to make you very popular with
Speaker 1: your own company. Yeah, but that's why we want to
Speaker 1: add some kind of tangible reward here, so thank you,
Speaker 1: we will. I think I'm going to take that caller suggestion.
Speaker 1: I should know by tomorrow if my former FBI guy,
Speaker 1: because we work with a lot of those guys in
Speaker 1: the law practice, you know, on gals as well, and
Speaker 1: they've got all that great expertise and access to resources,
Speaker 1: and if they can't crack the code on this, then
Speaker 1: we'll take the next step with with law enforcement. But
Speaker 1: one way to the other, I will find this guy.
Speaker 2: I will report to you.
Speaker 1: I won't do anything outside the bounds of the law,
Speaker 1: but I don't do everything evenly possible within the law,
Speaker 1: not out of vengeance, but to protect the public. And
Speaker 1: the simple reality is if our daughter, most precious thing
Speaker 1: in the world, right to everybody is their children, if
Speaker 1: she had gone when the light turned green, she wouldn't
Speaker 1: be here.
Speaker 4: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Want you think Vladimir Putin wants peace? I think he does. Yes,
Speaker 2: I think he does. I think is a reigning missiles.
Speaker 2: I think he really is.
Speaker 11: His dream was to take over the whole country. I
Speaker 11: think because of me, he's not going to do that.
Speaker 2: Do you trust him?
Speaker 11: I think? Do you trust him. I don't trust you.
Speaker 11: I don't trust I don't trust a lot of people.
Speaker 11: I don't trust you. Look at you.
Speaker 2: You're come in all shooting for bear. You're so happy
Speaker 2: to do the interview. I am you start hit me
Speaker 2: with fake questions.
Speaker 11: He saw telling me that a guy whose hand is
Speaker 11: covered the tattoo doesn't have the tattoo.
Speaker 2: You know, I mean you're being dishonest. No, I'm not.
Speaker 11: Leonois's not so I trust. I don't trust a lot
Speaker 11: of people, but I do think this. I think that here.
Speaker 11: Let's say he respects me, and I believe because of me,
Speaker 11: he's not going to take over the whole. But his decision,
Speaker 11: his choice would be to take over all of Ukraine.
Speaker 2: Ok, it's the war that never should have happened.
Speaker 1: See this is so beautiful, right, and it really helps
Speaker 1: protect us as a nation that the Trump is so strong.
Speaker 1: He goes out, he sits down with all of these
Speaker 1: all of these press who are out.
Speaker 2: To get him.
Speaker 1: Right, he just did the Atlantic, now he's doing ABC,
Speaker 1: et cetera. And then he shows such tremendous strength and
Speaker 1: really really mental acuity in taking on these attackers. And
Speaker 1: that's what they are in these interviews is these attackers.
Speaker 2: So very glad that.
Speaker 1: He's doing these interviews to begin with, and I think
Speaker 1: it's sets a great example for Republicans for years to come,
Speaker 1: you know, and you know, don't elect people who don't
Speaker 1: have the skill set to be able to take on
Speaker 1: all comers and expose them during the interview. It shows voters,
Speaker 1: shows the public, It shows the nation's allies and enemies.
Speaker 1: It shows them the kind of strength and ability that
Speaker 1: will actually deter problems. So really glad to see the
Speaker 1: President do that.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I chose that particular cut from the interview because it
Speaker 1: ties into this really important breaking news. And as a
Speaker 1: guy who has not wanted to see Putin win, because
Speaker 1: as I'm set on air forever, you know, Putin is Satan.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's Satan on Earth and a Satan in
Speaker 1: a suit, and so any right thinking person would want
Speaker 1: to see Putin lose, not be rewarded for the raping
Speaker 1: and pillaging of Ukraine. And unfortunately he is going in
Speaker 1: the end to have some gains. And that's because of
Speaker 1: the weakness that of Joe Biden that encouraged Putin to
Speaker 1: come in, the weakness of Barack Obama before Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: Let's see what happened during the Trump first term.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he didn't go in. But anyway, anyway, this
Speaker 2: is great.
Speaker 1: News for those of US who want to see Putin
Speaker 1: at the very least at this point not get any
Speaker 1: more gains. And that is the US and Ukraine just
Speaker 1: signed this deal, this economic deal for minerals. And I'll
Speaker 1: give you the Wall Street version of the piece. And
Speaker 1: this is significant, I think quite obviously for reasons so
Speaker 1: far beyond the cash involved, etc. It's significant because it
Speaker 1: sends aloud and clear message to Russia that US has
Speaker 1: skin in the game in Ukraine now and US has
Speaker 1: an important economic interest in Ukraine, and Putin isn't going
Speaker 1: to be able to roll over the country. And so
Speaker 1: I love this in so many ways. So just part
Speaker 1: of the story says the US and Ukraine signed a
Speaker 1: deal Wednesday for access to Ukrainian mineral wealths, overcoming last
Speaker 1: minute haggling that held up the agreement. But here's what
Speaker 1: I really like about what the White House is doing here,
Speaker 1: the messaging with this Treasury Secretary held the deal step
Speaker 1: forward and negotiated end to the war in Ukraine and
Speaker 1: the beginning of the country's reconstruction. In a tightly controlled negotiation,
Speaker 1: the Trump administration dropped its insistence that the agreement allowed
Speaker 1: Washington to crew billions of dollars of past military aid.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: As the President has said, the United States is committed
Speaker 1: helping facilitate the end of this cruel and senseless war.
Speaker 1: This agreement signals clearly to Russia that the Trump administration
Speaker 1: is committed to a peace process centered on a free,
Speaker 1: sovereign and prosperous Ukraine over the long term. The agreement
Speaker 1: marks a high point for relations between Kiev and Washington.
Speaker 1: A one on one meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian
Speaker 1: President Flood Marsolenski at the Vatican ahead of the pope
Speaker 1: funeral appears to have eased the tension. So I love
Speaker 1: this Ryan. I think that it is a clear, tangible,
Speaker 1: concrete projection of strength aimed at Putin.
Speaker 2: And I do believe you know peace through strength. It
Speaker 2: will bring the.
Speaker 1: End of this meat grinder war more quickly, and it
Speaker 1: will hopefully prevent Putin from gaining any more territory. So
Speaker 1: very important. Encouraging news of the day. Three or three
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Speaker 2: What if it doesn't, because listen, Putin is evil.
Speaker 1: What if Putin did he doesn't care about these lives
Speaker 1: of these Russian boys who are just being you know,
Speaker 1: chewed up on the battlefield, and all these innocent Ukrainians
Speaker 1: who have fought so bravely for their country in the
Speaker 1: face of this invasion and rape and pillaging.
Speaker 2: So what if Putin says, screw it, I'm just going
Speaker 2: to go full bore. What do you think Trump would
Speaker 2: do at that point? What do you think he should do?
Speaker 1: Love your take on that, Dan, I'd like to see
Speaker 1: a public service announcement, says a Texter on your TV
Speaker 1: and radio ads regarding pausing at green lights.
Speaker 2: Hey, thank you. I'm going to do that.
Speaker 1: I'm going to do some of that because we've been
Speaker 1: talking about on air, Aryan, how many calls have we
Speaker 1: had It's not a ton, but one makes my year.
Speaker 1: How many calls have we had from people who have said, hey, man,
Speaker 1: heard you talking on the show.
Speaker 2: Don't go when the light turns green because so many
Speaker 2: people are running red lights. I waited.
Speaker 1: It saved my life, right, So yeah, that's a great
Speaker 1: suggestion text.
Speaker 2: I will make that happen. I can't promise on what scale,
Speaker 2: but on.
Speaker 3: Some scale I have taken that advice to heart. And
Speaker 3: I don't know that it's as far as it would
Speaker 3: have saved my life, but it certainly would have saved
Speaker 3: my car on more than one occasion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but like the one we're talking about today, where
Speaker 1: without question, our daughter would have been killed if she
Speaker 1: did not do that. And I'm not saying she waited
Speaker 1: when the light turned green because of me at all.
Speaker 1: I mean what she says is her guardian angel.
Speaker 2: She just felt it. She just felt she had to wait.
Speaker 1: And then I just showed Ryan and Kelly the picture
Speaker 1: we got the picture now.
Speaker 2: Of this eighteen wheeler.
Speaker 1: Roaring through this intersection against a solid red Because you
Speaker 1: can see our daughter's light solid green.
Speaker 2: She said it had been green for seconds and she
Speaker 2: just waited. Yeah, so we're going to.
Speaker 1: Find that guy, and within the bounds of the law,
Speaker 1: do everything possible.
Speaker 2: Dan, go get him. Glad you have great resources.
Speaker 1: Probably anyone who's been driving several years has had this
Speaker 1: kind of close call. The one I'll always remember was
Speaker 1: about thirty years ago, then months.
Speaker 2: Ago had a rock store.
Speaker 1: Oh, similar to the horror and jeffco fortunately his name
Speaker 1: was off that from Peter and Colorado Springs. And thank
Speaker 1: you Peter for mentioning it, because I am very grateful that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I do have the resources to go spend
Speaker 1: whatever and need to spend to track this guy down.
Speaker 1: And since he would have killed my daughter, there is
Speaker 1: no doubt if she had gone when the light turned green,
Speaker 1: she is in heaven now she's no longer with us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am.
Speaker 1: Grateful that I have the resources to track them down,
Speaker 1: and I will Dan Trump say, blanking blank hole, thank
Speaker 1: you for your support.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: I noticed he's not calling the show to actually have
Speaker 1: a conversation because, as we documented yesterday, President Trump just
Speaker 1: had the most successful first hundred days of I think
Speaker 1: any president in modern American history.
Speaker 2: But Dan, when and where are you going to post
Speaker 2: the photos? Good question? Trying to figure that out right now?
Speaker 3: Can I tweet it out or post it a next there?
Speaker 2: Oh? Brother, I'll put it everywhere, but when you put
Speaker 2: it on X.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying is I can retweet it from the
Speaker 3: six thirty K I account here at Denver and my
Speaker 3: own great so.
Speaker 1: And what I want to do, what I want to
Speaker 1: do and it's it's you know, caller suggested earlier as well.
Speaker 1: I started the show with this, saying that we you know,
Speaker 1: in our law practice, we work with former FBI a
Speaker 1: bunch in our civil practice trying to track down to.
Speaker 2: And evidence and things like that.
Speaker 1: So I've got a former FBI guy who's accessing some
Speaker 1: technology to see if they can read the side of
Speaker 1: this semi because all the dot stuff, all the other
Speaker 1: identifiers are there. It's just the video we have of
Speaker 1: the semi running the red is so blurry. It's not blurry, right, Ryan,
Speaker 1: you saw it, but the writing on the side cannot
Speaker 1: be read. So hopefully we can clear that up with
Speaker 1: technology find them that way. If we can't, then yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going to post it everywhere because this semi is
Speaker 1: unusual enough, and that it's not just a and that's
Speaker 1: why this has to be a big company.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: It's not just a very large tractor. It's a sleeper.
Speaker 1: It's a sleeper cab. It's a very large red sleeper cab,
Speaker 1: huge sleeping compartment, biggest I've seen. And it's carrying a
Speaker 1: flatbread with all this heavy material on it. So I
Speaker 1: think it's going to be much easier for folks out
Speaker 1: there to recognize and if someone's willing to come forward,
Speaker 1: tell us who it is. But one way or the
Speaker 1: other will find this guy. Hey, everybody on the line.
Speaker 1: Text will get right.
Speaker 2: Back to you.
Speaker 1: And we're going to have George Brockler at some point
Speaker 1: right we're looking forward to that.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Capitlas Show.
Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Taplass Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Really important breaking news this afternoon, the US signs the
Speaker 1: minerial deal with Ukraine, and the statement issued at the
Speaker 1: same time is hey, this is a message to Putin.
Speaker 1: You know, the US now, the US now has this
Speaker 1: very important strategic relationship with Ukraine. Three h three someone
Speaker 1: three eight two five five text d An five seven,
Speaker 1: seven through nine. Obviously Trump doesn't want more war. If
Speaker 1: you want war, then convey weakness. If you want to
Speaker 1: prevent war, convey strength. Trump has been masterful at peace
Speaker 1: through strength, and I think this is another one of
Speaker 1: these moves. He tried the other approach with Putin. Putin
Speaker 1: spit in his face and hammered Ukraine. Trump obviously isn't
Speaker 1: pleased with that, and now he's he's going to get.
Speaker 2: This piece one way or the other.
Speaker 1: But now he's going to do it through the piece
Speaker 1: through strength approach, which he has been again masterful with.
Speaker 1: Also really appreciate all the text and calls coming in
Speaker 1: on the reckless trucker who would have killed our daughter.
Speaker 1: There is no question if she had gone when the
Speaker 1: light turned green, she would be debt.
Speaker 2: There is no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: And we've got the film, we've got the video, and
Speaker 1: you can now see the trucker. Her light is a
Speaker 1: solid green and this full semi roars through the intersection
Speaker 1: against a solid red. So if she had gone when
Speaker 1: when the light turned green, she is gone. So no
Speaker 1: matter what it takes, I'm going to find this trucker.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to limit my response to what is
Speaker 1: permissible within the bounds of the law, but it will
Speaker 1: be a full throated response because he would have killed
Speaker 1: our daughter and I don't want him killing anybody else either,
Speaker 1: and want to get to the bottom of who he
Speaker 1: works for and how that company operates. Maybe it's a
Speaker 1: great company and this is a one off, but it's
Speaker 1: a one off killer because he would have killed David
Speaker 1: and Boulder. You're on the Dan Kapla, Sh'll welcome.
Speaker 7: Hey, Dan, horrible story about your daughter, and it is
Speaker 7: so important. I've got an eighteen year old daughter. I'm
Speaker 7: a new driver. Yeah, and sixteen year old girl up
Speaker 7: and Boulder died last week running a red light. You
Speaker 7: got t bones. Sixteen year old kid up at Boulder
Speaker 7: High I think supposedly wrecked his car last night on
Speaker 7: Flagstaff Road. He's in the calm other going to harvest jargons.
Speaker 7: Anybody's listening with these kids need to be so safe
Speaker 7: and so careful. I mean that a horrible story about
Speaker 7: always business partner that came out today.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Second, everything can change one second. Oh yeah, in life,
Speaker 7: and these families are all fractured and craft people need.
Speaker 10: To be careful.
Speaker 1: And and then this is a perfect example, right because
Speaker 1: because no matter how careful you are, if if that
Speaker 1: other person is is reckless enough. And and that's that's
Speaker 1: how we got to crack downe and that stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: if she had gone when the light turned green, she
Speaker 1: would have been a careful driver, right, but she'd be dead.
Speaker 10: Thank god.
Speaker 7: That's she was cogitant enough to not do it. Yeah,
Speaker 7: we forever something like that happened.
Speaker 2: You know, I yeah, I don't even know.
Speaker 7: How you congrets on that I know follow but thank
Speaker 7: god you say yeah now, and I was all, you know,
Speaker 7: I was initially calling before that conversation though, big news.
Speaker 7: Thank god the auto tariffs that switch last week by Trump.
Speaker 7: It's going to really change and make things a lot different.
Speaker 7: People don't realize it's the second biggest industry in the
Speaker 7: United States that for healthcare. You know, between building cars,
Speaker 7: selling new cars, use cars, servicing cars, carts, everything has
Speaker 7: to do with cars. It's the second biggest industry in
Speaker 7: the United States. And having those tears taken off are
Speaker 7: gonna hopefully give that industry some room debrief.
Speaker 1: Well, but you'd need there are still tariffs in effect, right,
Speaker 1: I mean he needs to find.
Speaker 7: The urn not they're yeah, not what they were talking,
Speaker 7: which will be much much different.
Speaker 2: So well they do you disagree, David?
Speaker 1: And I'm grateful for all the kind of thoughts for
Speaker 1: our daughter, but do you disagree with me that we
Speaker 1: need a healthy and robust American auto industry.
Speaker 7: I mean, there's no question, like you it's the second
Speaker 7: biggest industry in the US after healthcare. Yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 7: that thing's not healthy. It's never going to be healthy.
Speaker 7: And you know there's peaks and valleys. Things go up
Speaker 7: and down. You know, new cars a couple of years ago,
Speaker 7: prices are through the roof. People were paying addendums on
Speaker 7: top of the sticker price because they couldn't get anything.
Speaker 7: That's the danger of that happening again. So, yeah, made
Speaker 7: some money, but if you're on you know, you're making
Speaker 7: twice as much for car, but you're only selling this
Speaker 7: third as many cars as you used to sell. You're
Speaker 7: still not making any more money.
Speaker 10: Well, and then it.
Speaker 7: Makes the more expensive on used cars for people that
Speaker 7: can't afford new cars. And yeah, I mean it's the
Speaker 7: whole combination service in your car.
Speaker 2: I get it, David.
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is in the status quo with
Speaker 1: the industry before Trump has now stepped in to try
Speaker 1: to save and strengthen it. Were you happy with the
Speaker 1: status quo with the American car industry because it was
Speaker 1: it was trending down?
Speaker 7: Oh it's uh, Chad. Reality is American cars just for
Speaker 7: armbuilt as well as European and Asian engineered cars. It's
Speaker 7: a sad state. So what do they need to do
Speaker 7: to make it better? That's a big question that's been
Speaker 7: going on since the seventies.
Speaker 1: Well, but be part of that, and thank you, David
Speaker 1: lineser Jam. Part of that, again, is is our industry
Speaker 1: being able to compete on equal footing and allowing all
Speaker 1: these foreign cars to flood our market. You know, when
Speaker 1: when our manufacturers fail, these high tariffs overseas, you can't
Speaker 1: have that. I am simply unwilling. There's no logical reason
Speaker 1: to believe that American cars can't be made it as
Speaker 1: high or a higher level than any of these foreign cars.
Speaker 1: There's no logical reason to think that's true. I'm not
Speaker 1: doubting right now the beliefs that there are a lot
Speaker 1: of really well made foreign cars. But there's every reason
Speaker 1: on equal footing our industry can compete. Let's go to
Speaker 1: thorn and Centennial. You're on the Dan kaplash.
Speaker 10: Welcome, Hey, Dan. We'll more you with my life story.
Speaker 10: But I've been a lawyer for over forty years. In
Speaker 10: two thousand, I had a rough patch in life where
Speaker 10: I abandoned law practice and lived in the back of
Speaker 10: a truck for a year and drove one hundred thousand miles.
Speaker 10: Even back then, twenty five years ago, this company that
Speaker 10: I was running for out of Rockwall, Texas, was a
Speaker 10: refrigerated tractor trailer company. They knew the exact location of
Speaker 10: that rig at all times with a system called and
Speaker 10: I'm sure that's been replaced now, but if you if
Speaker 10: the COOT number is legible, you bet your website that
Speaker 10: you can go to to find the company and then
Speaker 10: the company will know exactly where that rig was horn.
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry the music means we have to bail,
Speaker 1: but you are one thousand percent correct. And I know
Speaker 1: because I do a ton of semi cases fatals around
Speaker 1: the country that yeah, once we can identify that rig,
Speaker 1: we'll get the electronic data that we'll put it at
Speaker 1: that intersection, we'll know the speed, and we're going straight
Speaker 1: to law enforcement.
Speaker 2: You're on the DAN Caplish