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Speaker 2: So is it the American.
Speaker 1: Way to let Colleen Maxwell out of jail in order
Speaker 1: to convict a lot of child rapists? Keeping in mind
Speaker 1: and my mind, at least she's a child rapist. What
Speaker 1: do you think would you make that deal? Three oh
Speaker 1: three seven one three eight two five five the number
Speaker 1: text d an five seven seven three nine. We're also
Speaker 1: talking about, and I think this far more important. We're
Speaker 1: talking about this killing field that the Colorado roadways and
Speaker 1: highways has become, in large part because the Left has
Speaker 1: undermined law enforcement and so there isn't much law enforcement
Speaker 1: on the roadways anymore, in part large part because of
Speaker 1: the legalization of marijuana and the green lighting of drug use.
Speaker 1: And now on top of drunk driving, we've got this drugged.
Speaker 1: There are other reasons as well. I'd like your taking
Speaker 1: the reasons, but this we know it's happening, right, It's insane.
Speaker 1: And what's even more insane as we as a society
Speaker 1: seem to be willing to sit back and just say, oh,
Speaker 1: that's an acceptable casualty rate. Screw that. I mean that,
Speaker 1: that's a society that's begging for what it gets. No,
Speaker 1: we got to stand up to these killers. And they're
Speaker 1: no less killers because they're using a car instead of
Speaker 1: a gun. They're no less killers because they're killing your
Speaker 1: wife when she's on the highway as opposed to in
Speaker 1: your bedroom. They are killers. And we got to get smart,
Speaker 1: and we got to stand up, and we got to
Speaker 1: start fighting back. We got to put them in jail,
Speaker 1: We got to take away their licenses. We got to
Speaker 1: do something dramatic in a hurry. What should that look like?
Speaker 1: So a question I have on the table for you
Speaker 1: is do we start This is in menace a silver bullet,
Speaker 1: but you gotta start somewhere. Do we start by saying
Speaker 1: we're going to have a magic number one hundred and
Speaker 1: no matter where you are, if you go over that,
Speaker 1: then you're going to automatically lose your license. You're going
Speaker 1: to automatically have to do at least a day in jail.
Speaker 1: And that assumes nobody gets hurt. Do we do something
Speaker 1: dramatic like that. Now, obviously, if we're talking about in town,
Speaker 1: those penalties should kick in at a much lower speed.
Speaker 1: But do we have that magic number. We had a
Speaker 1: caller who said, in Texas they used to I think
Speaker 1: it's past tense. You know, they used to have a
Speaker 1: lawwear if you did that, they impound your car and
Speaker 1: crush it. Now I haven't been able to verify that story,
Speaker 1: but that would get people's attention. So we're getting a
Speaker 1: lot of intelligent text and calls on this. Would like
Speaker 1: your take, because this needs to happen and the Left
Speaker 1: isn't going to do it. In Colorado, the left shot
Speaker 1: down just this relatively mild increase in penalties for reckless
Speaker 1: driving this year, because the Left is pro criminal of
Speaker 1: every stripe. But in terms of a ballot measure, you know,
Speaker 1: in terms of people running for office on hey, I
Speaker 1: want to save your life, I want to save your wife,
Speaker 1: I want to save your kids. Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: going to get a lot of traction in a hurry,
Speaker 1: pun intended. So let's look at it. A couple of
Speaker 1: text on this, some really intelligent stuff. Because if there's
Speaker 1: one thing we're all experts in, right, it's what happens
Speaker 1: on the roadways, Dan, if you looked at the features
Speaker 1: new cars are required to built in over the next
Speaker 1: few years after Biden's term. And then it goes into
Speaker 1: how I'll shorten this up AI, other tech, etc. Monitoring
Speaker 1: a lot of car behavior, etc. And it leads this
Speaker 1: text to an interesting question in the interest to public safety,
Speaker 1: would you accept a law if it was constitutional, where
Speaker 1: cars were just monitor on the roadway and they got
Speaker 1: over a certain speed, They're automatically be recorded. There'd automatically
Speaker 1: be a ticket. I'm not advocating that, but I'm throwing
Speaker 1: the question out there, Daniell, your law should be a
Speaker 1: percentage of the speed. Thirty five and twenty five is
Speaker 1: like one and ten and a seventy five. Really good
Speaker 1: thinking on your part, but I still think we need
Speaker 1: something clear, understandable. Every kid in high school knows it.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows it. You drive over X, you know you're
Speaker 1: getting punished severely. You drive over why in town you're
Speaker 1: getting punished severely? What should that number be for in town?
Speaker 2: Ryan?
Speaker 1: What would you're in town number be? I think we're
Speaker 1: in agreement on one hundred, though we've both done it
Speaker 1: in situations we think we're safe. But what what should
Speaker 1: the number be in town? You go over that number,
Speaker 1: you're losing your license.
Speaker 2: In town on the freeway on twenty five or seven?
Speaker 1: I thank you, good, good question. No, I'm just talking
Speaker 1: about off highway surface streets in town, anywhere in a
Speaker 1: and you could define it anywhere in a residential type
Speaker 1: area for.
Speaker 2: This ultimate punishment that you're advocating.
Speaker 1: Well, just an automatic. It's not ultimate to be the
Speaker 1: death penalty, right, but I'm talking about an automatic loss
Speaker 1: of license, automatic to do a day and some kind
Speaker 1: of jail.
Speaker 2: Someone certainly thirty over is egregious, you know, you get
Speaker 2: into I don't know. It depends on the speed limit
Speaker 2: of the residential area. If it's that way, then it
Speaker 2: might be a little bit lower. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, I got to tell you driving town on Bellevue,
Speaker 1: it has to be in Bellevue's forty five, right, it
Speaker 1: has to be at least once a week. Somebody's blown
Speaker 1: by me doing at least eighty.
Speaker 2: Really, Oh yeah, not like that, Oh not on Bellevue. Well,
Speaker 2: and I do travel on Bellevue quite a bit like
Speaker 2: you do.
Speaker 1: Well, that truck that would have killed Caroline if she'd
Speaker 1: gone when the light turn green. So thank you Lord.
Speaker 1: She listened to me and she didn't go when the
Speaker 1: light turn green. You know, she thinks that was going
Speaker 1: sixty five to seventy five and that was a semi Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think we got a lot. And again, doesn't it
Speaker 1: come back to because the left has undermined law enforcement.
Speaker 1: There isn't much enforcement on the roads.
Speaker 2: Correct, Yeah, I don't see hardly any even like state
Speaker 2: patrol on say four seventy or the wide open freeways.
Speaker 2: I don't see a lot of enforcement.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because they don't have the support, they don't have
Speaker 1: the money, they don't have the money from the Democrats
Speaker 1: in the state. And then on top of that you
Speaker 1: got the left undermining law enforcement to the point I mean,
Speaker 1: if you were in law enforcement, I know we're blessed
Speaker 1: with many listeners who are to be really hard to
Speaker 1: initiate any kind of contact with any stranger out there
Speaker 1: that isn't absolutely required, because you know, you've got leftist
Speaker 1: prosecutors all over the place, leftist elected officials just waiting
Speaker 1: to make you a human sacrifice. Yeah, it's boy, Texter Dan.
Speaker 1: One of your texts at a good point going one
Speaker 1: hundred and five on the highway in a new Corvette
Speaker 1: that has made to go that fast, has speed rated tires, etc.
Speaker 1: Is safer in that car is than somebody driving a
Speaker 1: big truck going one hundred miles an hour not made
Speaker 1: to do that. All fare points, right, all fair points.
Speaker 1: My only point is I do think we need something
Speaker 1: that's clear and applies to all and in Colorado, you
Speaker 1: don't do this or you pay a big price. That's
Speaker 1: not the total solution, but it has to start, and
Speaker 1: then we've got to add to that. Right, if it
Speaker 1: ends up being an injury crash, then that automatic penalty
Speaker 1: has to go way up. If it ends up, god forbid,
Speaker 1: being a fatal, automatic penalty has to go up again.
Speaker 1: If you disagree with the concept, you know, I'd love
Speaker 1: to have the conversation with you, because honestly, I don't
Speaker 1: know how anybody could. And maybe you don't think it's
Speaker 1: as big a deal as I do, which I'd completely understand, right,
Speaker 1: because unless you have the kind of job I have,
Speaker 1: and unless you're looking at this stuff all the time, yeah,
Speaker 1: normal people would have no way of knowing how incredibly
Speaker 1: irresponsibly soft our laws are. When it comes to traffic carnage.
Speaker 1: But you know what you're experiencing on the roadway, right,
Speaker 1: and you know it's psycho And you know, we're not
Speaker 1: talking about the people on the Harleys and Indians and
Speaker 1: everything else, as Ryan points out, but this explosion, and
Speaker 1: it is that right of the crotch rocket riders out
Speaker 1: there going one hundred looks like one hundred and ten,
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty, some of them weaving in and
Speaker 1: out of traffic. And I know that the you know,
Speaker 1: common thought probably for a lot of people as they
Speaker 1: blow by, is they're going to get what they deserve.
Speaker 1: But but I'm sure there are a lot of people
Speaker 1: who look at it the way I do too, which is,
Speaker 1: you know, my mom, I've mentioned this before, but it's
Speaker 1: one of the things I remember from when I was
Speaker 1: very very young, is, hey, that's somebody's son, that's somebody's daughter, right,
Speaker 1: no matter how stupid a thing they're doing or whatever.
Speaker 1: And then you know the cars, You get somebody out
Speaker 1: there driving crazy things like that, and then then a
Speaker 1: car ends up perfectly innocent car driver ends up killing them.
Speaker 1: That weighs very heavily. I'm that innocent driver who you know,
Speaker 1: had no chance to avoid it, but still somebody's dad
Speaker 1: right in front of them after a collision with their car.
Speaker 1: We've got to do something here. Why do you think
Speaker 1: something hasn't been done already? I'd really like your take,
Speaker 1: not only on the fix, but why do you think
Speaker 1: something hasn't been done already. I've got a theory on
Speaker 1: that I want to run by you, But the focus
Speaker 1: is on the fix. Three H three seven to one
Speaker 1: to three A two five five the number text d
Speaker 1: A N five seven seventh three nine. We're also mixing
Speaker 1: in the Glen Maxwell topic, which is really heating up
Speaker 1: right now after these two days of meetings with DJ.
Speaker 2: Would you consider a pardon or a commutation for Heelan Maxwell?
Speaker 3: Is something I haven't thought about it really, As I
Speaker 3: recommend you had.
Speaker 2: Something, I'm allowed to do it, but there's something I
Speaker 2: have not thought about it.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now. There will not be a pardon.
Speaker 1: There should not be a pardon. It would send such
Speaker 1: a horrific message to pardon somebody who's been responsible for
Speaker 1: so much child rape. No, can't do it now. What
Speaker 1: would you think of DJ doing a deal where she
Speaker 1: stays convicted, but her jail sens is reduced or maybe
Speaker 1: eliminated in exchange for names support successful prosecutions. And how
Speaker 1: many how many of these child rapists would she have
Speaker 1: to help put away to be able to get that deal?
Speaker 1: Where do you come down on that? You're on the
Speaker 1: Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 2: And now back to the Dan Capless Show podcast torture
Speaker 2: in me?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Now I know who my friends are.
Speaker 2: Hey, you has a moment.
Speaker 1: Beautiful time in life. What was that about? Eight months?
Speaker 1: I had that Corvette car I've never had. Oh, it
Speaker 1: was such a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2: And you're very selfless to turn that in.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm telling the story. Thank you. Yes we did.
Speaker 1: We don't have the garage space because came and then
Speaker 1: it's either the corvette in the garage or my wife's
Speaker 1: car in the garage. That was an easy call.
Speaker 2: Here's what I know. You're Dan Capless. If you wanted
Speaker 2: to create more garage space, you could make that happen,
Speaker 2: right or do you not have a building permit?
Speaker 1: I appreciate your confidence in me, but no, wait, it
Speaker 1: would have been give him house a cookie, give him
Speaker 1: house a corvette and then okay, now you need a
Speaker 1: new house because you need more garage space. Now we
Speaker 1: just couldn't do that. But what an amazing car that
Speaker 1: was then, Lyles Chevrolet. You're original car, American sports car. Yes,
Speaker 1: text or in lines on fire. I want to get
Speaker 1: to those two. We're talking about how to actually step
Speaker 1: up now and like men and women and protect ourselves
Speaker 1: from these killers on the roadway who right now have
Speaker 1: their run of the place, and don't blame law enforcement.
Speaker 1: They're doing all they can, but the left is undermine
Speaker 1: law enforcement. Dan says a Texter. I work as a
Speaker 1: law enforcement officer in northern Colorado. Within the last month,
Speaker 1: I wrote a seventeen year old a ticket for how
Speaker 1: many points would you guess? Five? Seventy three? Wrote a
Speaker 1: seventeen year old a ticket for seventy three points. Come on,
Speaker 1: And then it goes on to say I routinely stop
Speaker 1: drivers going over one hundred miles an hour. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: need a law and that's what we're talking about. We
Speaker 1: need to get tough in a hurry. We need to
Speaker 1: have a magic number. You go over that you're losing
Speaker 1: your license. All sorts of other bad things happening, and
Speaker 1: then that's just one of many tools we need. Brent
Speaker 1: and Aura, you're on the dan Kaplis show.
Speaker 2: Welcome, how you doing.
Speaker 3: I'm also a retired law.
Speaker 1: Enforcement as you're serious, Thank you.
Speaker 3: I'm also I'm also a professional truck driver. And I
Speaker 3: say this all the time, but I've talked to a
Speaker 3: lot of law enforcement and because Colorado passed a law
Speaker 3: where law enforcement is now responsible can be personally held
Speaker 3: liable like the twenty five thousand dollars, a lot of
Speaker 3: them don't even want to take the chance even stopping
Speaker 3: any amen. Amen, And I think that's part of the
Speaker 3: problem right there.
Speaker 1: You bet you, you bet you, you nailed it. And hey,
Speaker 1: thanks for your service as a truck driver, because I've
Speaker 1: always said that the true professional truck drivers they're great
Speaker 1: public servants. The bad ones that there are a few
Speaker 1: things is dangerous in society. But thanks for what you
Speaker 1: do out there.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The other thing too. I drive all the way I
Speaker 3: seventy out the middle of Kansas. Routinely the truck that
Speaker 3: I drive will tell me how fast people are going.
Speaker 3: And I routinely have people like one hundred, one hundred
Speaker 3: and twenty miles an hour over.
Speaker 2: To speed women.
Speaker 1: Man, that is insane.
Speaker 3: And the thing is, if I could call it in
Speaker 3: in Colorado because they're so little law enforcement available. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they very rarely get stopped in Colorado. In Kansas, they
Speaker 3: get stopped within ten to twenty miles. So somebody's going
Speaker 3: over on her.
Speaker 2: I call them in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm glad you do. I'm glad you do.
Speaker 1: My friend, I'm calling nine to one one all the
Speaker 1: time on reckless drivers. Hey, do you do anything in
Speaker 1: the mountains? Do you drive west at all?
Speaker 3: I have, but not recently.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, good man. That has to be so brutal. Hey, thanks, Brent,
Speaker 1: appreciate the call. James and Pueblo. You're on the Dan
Speaker 1: Kapitalist Show.
Speaker 4: Welcome, Hey Dan.
Speaker 5: Hey, I was just listening to all this stuff going
Speaker 5: on with all these drivers this last weekend. This guy
Speaker 5: going one hundred and forty killed a woman and her
Speaker 5: fourteen year old daughter over here just in town.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, no, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4: Just pretty evil.
Speaker 1: So what needs to be done?
Speaker 4: Okay, here's my idea. When there's been reckless driving and
Speaker 4: somebody's killed that person, once they get out of the hospital,
Speaker 4: they should hold over those bodies in the Morgue and
Speaker 4: force that person to go look at those bodies and
Speaker 4: see what they did, and then they lose their briving
Speaker 4: fledges for a year at least one year in jail
Speaker 4: and then another year of probation on top of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, boy, James, appreciate the call. We've got to do
Speaker 1: something really, really dramatic. I was just as James was talking,
Speaker 1: I was picturing that one of these thoughts that just
Speaker 1: haunts me and always will is I was representing this amazing,
Speaker 1: amazing single mom and her beautiful, beautiful six year old
Speaker 1: son just killed on the roadways and we eventually went
Speaker 1: to trial in that case, but she was so courageous.
Speaker 4: But just.
Speaker 1: Her having to leave his body in the hospital and
Speaker 1: walk out of that hospital with him dead on that table,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's something you can never ever
Speaker 1: ever get out of your head, and no parents should
Speaker 1: ever have to do that. And the fact that we
Speaker 1: have these killers on the roadway, all ages, shape sizes,
Speaker 1: they just don't care about other life. We got to
Speaker 1: stand up to them. And if you knew, if you
Speaker 1: knew how soft Colorado law was on these killers right now,
Speaker 1: it would make you throw up. So lame the legislators.
Speaker 1: It all goes back there. We got to change that.
Speaker 1: We got to empower police instead of undermined police, which
Speaker 1: is what most politicians are doing now. Dan, to your question,
Speaker 1: why hasn't something been done already about excessive speed and
Speaker 1: reckless driving, it's because it's a hard decision to make
Speaker 1: and you have to hold people accountable and Democrats are
Speaker 1: not good at that. Texter, I think you're being way
Speaker 1: too generous what we have right now in Colorado with
Speaker 1: the left. They are pro criminal and there was a
Speaker 1: very mild increase in punishment for reckless driving bill and
Speaker 1: the legislature this year that they shot down. They shot
Speaker 1: it down. They are so habitually reflexively pro criminal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it can only happen in Colorado one or two ways, right,
Speaker 1: It can only happen with starting to elect Republicans, you know,
Speaker 1: to enough offices or through a ballot measure, because the
Speaker 1: Democrats that control the state they are not going to
Speaker 1: do it, which is so insane, right, because they and
Speaker 1: their family members, etc. They are just as much at risk.
Speaker 1: And I understand the hypocrisy we get from these high
Speaker 1: level elected lefties who say you can't have your gun,
Speaker 1: or you can only have so many bullets in your magazine.
Speaker 1: But then they've got all this taxpayer funded security. I
Speaker 1: understand that hypocrisy, but don't these people realize when they're
Speaker 1: out on the road. When they're out on the road,
Speaker 1: they're in't as much danger as the rest of us
Speaker 1: and their families and as much danger as the rest
Speaker 1: of us. But it comes back to that the far
Speaker 1: left has reached the point where their devotion to criminals,
Speaker 1: whether it's folks here illegally you've committed other crimes, or
Speaker 1: just folks who commit all sorts of crimes, their devotion
Speaker 1: to criminals is more important to them than their own
Speaker 1: life and safety and the life and safety of their family.
Speaker 1: How do people ever reach that point? But that's the
Speaker 1: point the left that runs Colorado has reached. A Texter
Speaker 1: says Dan. We drove back from the Springs last night,
Speaker 1: and all along I twenty five there were many people
Speaker 1: speeding excessively and changing three lanes at a time, etc.
Speaker 1: It was a mix of trucks at Anne's, SUV's, motorcycles,
Speaker 1: et cetera. I'm with you, my brother or sister.
Speaker 2: You know, I've had a.
Speaker 1: Bunch of trials down in the Springs recently, so I'll
Speaker 1: be making that trip back. But it doesn't It all
Speaker 1: come back to the left undermining law enforcements, so there
Speaker 1: isn't much enforcement. So it's like some sort of psycho
Speaker 1: video game where you've got a lot of drivers who
Speaker 1: just know the chance of actually being stopped is so
Speaker 1: low they're just going to do whatever they want. And
Speaker 1: this Ryan, this Texter brings us to an important point.
Speaker 1: We have these psycho killers who don't care at all
Speaker 1: about other life that we focus on, and we should,
Speaker 1: but because of the left undermining law enforcement, we now
Speaker 1: have another layer developing normally responsible people who just feel
Speaker 1: as if there isn't any enforcement out there, so they're
Speaker 1: going to do dangerous things they otherwise wouldn't do. It's
Speaker 1: a brutal mix. We got to do something. What do
Speaker 1: you think we should do? You're on the Dan Capless Show.
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast five.
Speaker 1: Point thirty six. Glad you're with us. Just reading a
Speaker 1: text from one of the toughest people I know, happens
Speaker 1: to be a state trooper as well. Dan listening to
Speaker 1: the show and getting my blood boiling traffic safety has
Speaker 1: been my life's passion and work. Nothing in less than
Speaker 1: a second changes the life so negatively. Yes, jail and impound.
Speaker 1: The vehicle drivers hate the five hundred dollars payment to
Speaker 1: get their car out more than anything. The car is
Speaker 1: built to handle it. The driver is not trained for it.
Speaker 1: That's the problem, not the car driver. And this is
Speaker 1: this is a great human. I wish I could say
Speaker 1: more about him, but he's out there. He's out there
Speaker 1: in the trenches trying to protect people, and that you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's funny because my dead a cop for thirty
Speaker 1: years in Chicago, and obviously I admire law enforcement, but
Speaker 1: I've had many many officers say to me, the toughest
Speaker 1: job out there is state patrol because you you see
Speaker 1: all of these horrific things that you can never get
Speaker 1: out of your head. Right, all these teenagers, let's say,
Speaker 1: who were alive two minutes ago and now they're dead
Speaker 1: because somebody did something reckless and stupid, or the families
Speaker 1: killed there, all these horrible things that that state troopers
Speaker 1: have to see that they can never get out of
Speaker 1: their heads. And then state troopers don't have the don't
Speaker 1: have that the the support structure. I mean within state patrol,
Speaker 1: they have a superb support structure. But just you know, say,
Speaker 1: if you're a Denver police officer, you have that, you
Speaker 1: have that city, you have that, that family, you know
Speaker 1: of fellow officers in this common area of terrain State patrol.
Speaker 1: You're off and out on these long stretches of dangerous
Speaker 1: road alone. So that is a tough, tough job. Three
Speaker 1: O three seven one three eight two five five the
Speaker 1: number tex DA N five seven seven three nine. As
Speaker 1: we talk about okay, you know what are we going
Speaker 1: to do? Are we going to be men or mized?
Speaker 1: So we're going to step up and start protecting the
Speaker 1: people we love and pass some laws and support law
Speaker 1: enforcement and make this place safer because we all know
Speaker 1: that no matter what laws we pass, unless there's more
Speaker 1: support for law enforcement, it's not going to matter because
Speaker 1: you can't enforce the law. Right now, law enforcement is
Speaker 1: so underfunded and so undersupported. And as the former law
Speaker 1: enforcement officer who called earlier said, you got these lefties
Speaker 1: passing these laws, we're now law enforcement libel out of pocket,
Speaker 1: personally lible. You know, if they're sued, how can you
Speaker 1: expect any law enforcement officer to take initiative as as
Speaker 1: much as law enforcement used to, especially when you got
Speaker 1: the left out there ready to make you a human sacrifice. Dan,
Speaker 1: you say there's no enforcement, but if there were one
Speaker 1: thousand cars going twenty over and only one cup, nine
Speaker 1: times out of ten, he'd.
Speaker 2: Pull me over.
Speaker 1: Okay, I get it. I'm sure it feels that way, right,
Speaker 1: But we can all see it. Everybody listening, we all
Speaker 1: see it. We just used to see much much more
Speaker 1: enforcement out there, and because of the politicians, it just
Speaker 1: isn't there anymore. There's some right, but doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: that much. Dan, in Virginia, fifteen miles per hour over
Speaker 1: is automatic steel bracelets. The officer has no discretion. Wow,
Speaker 1: did you know that?
Speaker 2: Ryan?
Speaker 1: I've got to double check that. I'd never heard that
Speaker 1: fifteen over in Virginia. I'll check that during teen in
Speaker 1: Virginia does what it says? Fifty eight texter says fifteen
Speaker 1: miles over automatic handcuffs, officer no discretion.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know that sounds pretty Uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I spend some time in Virginia. You know,
Speaker 1: our son Joe working in DC this summer. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: had no idea about that, Yeah, Dan, how about the
Speaker 1: condition of our roads? They are embarrassing and dangerous. Where
Speaker 1: does the twenty nine cent point two nine send delivery
Speaker 1: fego not to the roads? And to what extent do
Speaker 1: the roads continue, you know, contribute to the danger. It'd
Speaker 1: be hard for me to quantify. I think the obviously
Speaker 1: we need better roads, right, but the vast majority, in
Speaker 1: my experience forty one years now hard to believe. Of
Speaker 1: representing people in catastrophic cases, The vast majority of this
Speaker 1: completely unnecessary, shameful killing is because of these reckless drivers
Speaker 1: and speed very very very often a factor. Now we
Speaker 1: have many more on drugs mixed in, but it is stunning.
Speaker 1: I'll give you another example, Ryan, Okay, I'm representing this
Speaker 1: amazing woman and her husband, the coolest guy on the
Speaker 1: face of the earth. You got a trucker who we
Speaker 1: were eventually able to prove, took his eyes off the
Speaker 1: road for nine seconds at highway speeds in Metro area
Speaker 1: rush hour traffic and kills this man. How much time
Speaker 1: do you think he's spent in jail?
Speaker 2: Ten years? Zero?
Speaker 1: Come and on the civil side, listen, we got a
Speaker 1: very very large recovery on the civil side, But that
Speaker 1: doesn't get this woman her husband back nine seconds highway speeds,
Speaker 1: eyes off the road, not a day in jail. We
Speaker 1: met with the prosecutors, We did everything you could do
Speaker 1: under the law. But then you bring it back to
Speaker 1: the state of the Long Colorado, which is nowhere near
Speaker 1: as tough as it needs to be. And again, I
Speaker 1: don't mean to hammer on truckers, because I have to
Speaker 1: make this clear. I have a big focus of my
Speaker 1: practice is on reckless truckers, and we've done these cases
Speaker 1: here and around the country, and we still do. We're
Speaker 1: doing over ten of them right now. But the point
Speaker 1: is that the trucking industry, it is this split personality.
Speaker 1: This is one guy's opinion, right, You've got half the industry.
Speaker 1: They're American heroes. They're doing an extraordinarily tough job, and
Speaker 1: if they didn't do it, we couldn't have our quality
Speaker 1: of life. Much of the other half the gravest danger
Speaker 1: you'll ever find, and it's getting worse, and people like
Speaker 1: polists make it even worse with some of the stuff
Speaker 1: he's pulled. So yeah, and that's why as we talk about, Okay,
Speaker 1: are we going to man up? Are we going to
Speaker 1: woman up. Are we going to protect our kids? How
Speaker 1: are we going to make this state safer? Part of
Speaker 1: this program has to be aimed at trucking. Thank the
Speaker 1: great ones, but the others, and it's getting worse by
Speaker 1: the day. We've got to really, really, really get tough
Speaker 1: on reckless, reckless truckers. The last thing in the world
Speaker 1: this state ever needed was Jared Polis stepping in to
Speaker 1: cut that killer truck or a huge break because Kim
Speaker 1: Kardashian will spred in his ear. You know, think about
Speaker 1: the horrible message that sends, the horrible message that sends
Speaker 1: all over the country. Yeah, great text on this today.
Speaker 1: Hope you keep it up. Dam five, seven, seventh through nine.
Speaker 1: It's something we're all experts in, right, what goes on
Speaker 1: on the roadways, because all of us spend so much
Speaker 1: of our time there. Ryan Fascar was another good song
Speaker 1: to come back from break Thank you. However, the number
Speaker 1: of times Dan said psycho killer in the last segment
Speaker 1: had me thinking of the talking heads that from DK.
Speaker 1: How many times did I say psycho killer?
Speaker 2: Psycho killer?
Speaker 1: You know when I say it so often because I
Speaker 1: stare these people down. I came out of a meeting
Speaker 1: today where we're planning, I'm gonna be staring down another
Speaker 1: psycho killer in a deposition, another psycho killer who killed
Speaker 1: on the roadway.
Speaker 2: All I can say is stay tuned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And all I'm saying is it is true. It
Speaker 1: is true. It's that just so many people doing these
Speaker 1: psycho killers behind the wheel. Dan, how do you know
Speaker 1: there won't be a pardon for Glaine Maxwell? If it's
Speaker 1: something that will benefit Trump somehow, you know he will
Speaker 1: consider it. There will not be a pardon for Glaine Maxwell.
Speaker 1: How do I know that? Here's how I know it,
Speaker 1: because it would be fundamentally wrong. It would send the
Speaker 1: worst possible message. Now, will there be a deal that
Speaker 1: maybe reduces her prison sentence, maybe eliminates her prison sentence.
Speaker 1: You might see that if she's got information valuable enough
Speaker 1: to the federal government to have that deal make sense
Speaker 1: to them. Do you think that deal would have to
Speaker 1: include Bill Clinton for Trump to do it? But you're
Speaker 1: not going to see a pardon. Think of the message
Speaker 1: that would send. Pardon a child rapist that ain't happening, Not.
Speaker 2: To be a pardon. But I think if information she
Speaker 2: gives Dan leads to concrete charges and convictions, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: would make a deal along.
Speaker 1: Those lines, and I think that's what we're going to see,
Speaker 1: a red cent.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Listen, if she is able to help identify and convict
Speaker 1: enough people, I wouldn't be surprised if they eliminated herself.
Speaker 2: I'm seeing media reports right now that she didn't hold
Speaker 2: anything back. The Deputy Attorney General met with her, and
Speaker 2: apparently she was just letting it all.
Speaker 1: Well, they were talking about some for nine hours, right,
Speaker 1: and so like so many heinous criminals, she's also very intelligent.
Speaker 1: She sees her moment. She understands that if President Trump
Speaker 1: now can be the person to help publicly identify and
Speaker 1: prosecute a lot of those people who are involved in
Speaker 1: the child Rapehill come out of this very well. So
Speaker 1: she wants to take advantage of that to try to
Speaker 1: get herself out of prison. But there will not be
Speaker 1: a pardon. You can take that to the bank. You're
Speaker 1: on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 2: And now back to the Dan Kaplass Show podcast.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. So first time we've ever
Speaker 1: done a show together, or the five point fifty break
Speaker 1: wasn't working for the weekend.
Speaker 2: You know, that's a good point. It usually is. But
Speaker 2: I had to get that in by request.
Speaker 1: You had to, absolutely, Texter Dan, I believe Trump was
Speaker 1: there with the kids, but we needed him to save
Speaker 1: the country as we know it. Wait a second. You
Speaker 1: can be sure of a few different things in life,
Speaker 1: one of which is there was no way Donald Trump
Speaker 1: was having sex with underage girls as part of in
Speaker 1: any context, let alone, is part of this Epstein Epstein evil.
Speaker 1: Just no way. And there are a lot of different
Speaker 1: ways we can know that, right, But first of all,
Speaker 1: it's just not him, that that is not him. But
Speaker 1: on top of that, we know that if it had happened,
Speaker 1: you would know it by now, right. I mean, you
Speaker 1: have the entire presidency, You had the entire presentency abusing
Speaker 1: the law, abusing the entire legal system to try to
Speaker 1: destroy Donald Trump. If there was a hint of him
Speaker 1: doing anything appropriate with any underage female, you would have
Speaker 1: known about it. If they thought they could get away
Speaker 1: with the lie, they would have told that lie. So
Speaker 1: now you can be sure of that. Plus that's obviously
Speaker 1: just not who he is. I'm not saying he's a saint.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying any of us are. Though I heard
Speaker 1: a great, great, great line this morning. Ryan. In fact,
Speaker 1: I wrote it down. The only reason you're not a
Speaker 1: saint yet is because you don't want to be. That's
Speaker 1: a powerful point.
Speaker 2: Isn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So yeah, he's not a saying. I'm not a saying.
Speaker 1: But Donald Trump is not the type of person who
Speaker 1: would do something like that. And again, if he had,
Speaker 1: or even if they even thought they could get away
Speaker 1: with the lie, you would have heard about it. Dan
Speaker 1: just did some more homework about Jena. Now looks like
Speaker 1: twenty over may result in steel bracelet's we're talking about
Speaker 1: in Colorado. How do we stop the carnage? Well, first
Speaker 1: we've got to really, really really toughen up our laws dramatically,
Speaker 1: and then there has to be more support for law enforcement.
Speaker 1: So we have more law enforcement on the road. They
Speaker 1: have the support they need to be able to do
Speaker 1: their jobs right. But right now it is just a
Speaker 1: killing field out there, Ryan, play Sammy Higger, I can't
Speaker 1: drive fifty five? Yeah, yep, Dan, I love watching Fridays
Speaker 1: with Frank. It makes one appreciate what these officers put
Speaker 1: up with. Shock how many people are pulled over with
Speaker 1: no driver's license or a suspended license. That from Alexa,
Speaker 1: Dan the pardon will happen, but she will mysteriously pass
Speaker 1: away right after. Boy, you would not want to be
Speaker 1: selling life insurance to Glene Maxwell, right since it appears
Speaker 1: right now she's doing a deal with DOJ where she's
Speaker 1: going to identify people and help prosecute them. That at
Speaker 1: least is the impression that I have right now. Do
Speaker 1: you think and listen, I'm not judging anybody here. Do
Speaker 1: you think Bill Clinton will be part of this?
Speaker 2: How could he not be? He's like the primary suspect
Speaker 2: in the terms of frequency visits all Board, the Lolita
Speaker 2: Express and Epstein Island. I mean, he's at the top
Speaker 2: of the list. Him and I would say Prince Andrew.
Speaker 1: Probably. Yeah, I'm trying to remember factually, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: remember the story. Was the story twenty plus trips to
Speaker 1: the island for Bill Clinton? Right? Yeah? Yeah, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure it was just the Foliage, right, Probably the Foliage
Speaker 1: and the Ryan and the sandy beaches. Oh careful, yeah,
Speaker 1: my goodness, Ryan, Oh my goodness. Well, we're about done
Speaker 1: for the week. Next week, Hey, let me give you
Speaker 1: heads up on something I want to talk about next week,
Speaker 1: talking about these sex crimes. I want to cover a
Speaker 1: little bit different twist on that with you next Monday.
Speaker 1: And we've got this Colorado jail commander viewed strip search
Speaker 1: videos of one hundred and seventeen inmates. Investigators say. This
Speaker 1: is a Denver Post story from Katie Langford. It's said that,
Speaker 1: in part, investigators say Aber aber logged into an evidence
Speaker 1: website used to store videos of inmates strip searches of
Speaker 1: more than three thousand times, often for repeated late night
Speaker 1: and early morning viewings of body camera videos of female
Speaker 1: inmates being strip naked and closely inspected for contraband as
Speaker 1: part of the jail intake process. Question, should each of
Speaker 1: those women be paid? Should the county, the state? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Should each of those women be paid?
Speaker 2: I think so?
Speaker 1: And how much should they be paid? That's a question
Speaker 1: I want to get into Monday. This is not the
Speaker 1: type of law I practice. You know, we made a
Speaker 1: decision a long time ago we would not take cases
Speaker 1: against law enforcement. My deticop for thirty years. We represent
Speaker 1: lots of law enforcement who've been injured in very serious crashes,
Speaker 1: things like that. We don't take cases against law enforcement.
Speaker 1: So I'm not talking about this from that standpoint. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about it from the standpoint of fundamental fairness, and
Speaker 1: then there are some legal issues that enter into it.
Speaker 1: But do you think that the county do you think
Speaker 1: the state should have to pay these women whose strip
Speaker 1: search videos were viewed by this person allegedly for sexual gratification.
Speaker 1: If so, how much should have to be paid? So, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that on Monday, along with you know
Speaker 1: that this continuing effort and how are we going to
Speaker 1: accomplish it because we know we have to right and
Speaker 1: the left will not pass laws in Colorado to more
Speaker 1: severely punish any offenders, and they shot down just a
Speaker 1: mild toughening of traffic lasses year. So it's probably going
Speaker 1: to have to be a ballot issue. So we'll continue
Speaker 1: that conversation as we talk about concrete specifics and then
Speaker 1: you know, how do you put it together into a
Speaker 1: ballot issue. Do you think it had passed ry? Do
Speaker 1: you think people would vote to toughen up those penalties
Speaker 1: knowing that everybody drives and oh my goodness, what if
Speaker 1: it's enforced against me? Do you think people would do that?
Speaker 2: Self preservation is a powerful motivator.
Speaker 1: No, it really is. And the reason I think there
Speaker 1: hasn't been more pressure on the legislature so far because
Speaker 1: our laws are so lame and weak. Is because, and
Speaker 1: I understand it is self preservation. None of us want
Speaker 1: to think that could be us or our loved one
Speaker 1: killed in that next wreck. You just don't want to
Speaker 1: dwell on it. You don't want your mind to go there.
Speaker 1: And so I think that's one reason there hasn't been
Speaker 1: this outcry to toughen the law is when we have
Speaker 1: this mass destruction going on. Have a great weekend, Ryan,
Speaker 1: Thank you, tremendous job is always Kelly, you are human sunshine.
Speaker 1: Join us Monday please on the Dan Capla Show