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Speaker 1: the last ten minutes, you know, as LA mates may
Speaker 1: start voting Republican, Like maybe in the next twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: You see that, Ryan, that a group of protesters now
Speaker 1: marching on an LA freeway. You want to talk about
Speaker 1: flipping people's votes in a heartbeat, Yeah, march on the
Speaker 1: freeway during rush hour, and it's always rush hour out there.
Speaker 1: So this is a beautiful thing, right. I wish none
Speaker 1: of it was happening, but if it has to happen,
Speaker 1: it's a beautiful thing because it's going to make for
Speaker 1: such a better America because Trump is going to win.
Speaker 1: We started the show with Any McCarthy from National Review
Speaker 1: at four oh six, and it's just crystal clear Trump
Speaker 1: has the authority to do what he's doing, and even
Speaker 1: the well, I shouldn't say that, but federal court judge
Speaker 1: out there already slap down Newsom's effort to you the
Speaker 1: courts to block Trump from exercising his appropriate constitutional authority here.
Speaker 1: He has the power to do it. He is going
Speaker 1: to win. The Left is just making it worse for
Speaker 1: itself right now, with every single day and with this
Speaker 1: right it is and get this even better for trying
Speaker 1: to get Republicans elected in Los Angeles and across the country.
Speaker 1: You not only have people shutting down the freeway, marching
Speaker 1: in protests, but waving Mexican flags. That just doesn't sell
Speaker 1: in ninety eight percent of this country. It just doesn't sell.
Speaker 1: So left can't help itself. It's just going to make
Speaker 1: it worse for itself, and that will end up being
Speaker 1: better for the country. It literally pretty god nobody gets
Speaker 1: killed or seriously injured. And a remarkable restraint by law
Speaker 1: enforcement across the board right now. But the Left, at
Speaker 1: least some elements there, seem seem dedicated at this point
Speaker 1: to just pushing it to the extreme. So we'll watch
Speaker 1: us unfold. You think we're going to see it in Colorado?
Speaker 1: I mean, you hear the chatter here this year that
Speaker 1: I would be surprised if we do.
Speaker 2: Because the story that I cut for you from Pop's
Speaker 2: thirty one there, and it was pretty lowly attended.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, that's my point, right, is that? Wait
Speaker 1: a second, It's it's clear Trump is the authority and
Speaker 1: he's going to win, so why would the left do
Speaker 1: it here? Yeah, I bet that we're not going to
Speaker 1: see that much of this anywhere outside of California. Maybe
Speaker 1: in California they figured they started it. They can't just
Speaker 1: put their tail between their legs and wander off. But
Speaker 1: I don't see. We're gonna think we're gonna see a
Speaker 1: lot of copycat stuff. We'll find out together three out
Speaker 1: three someone three eight two five five text da in
Speaker 1: five seven seven three nine. If you just joined us,
Speaker 1: thank you. We've been talking about a lot, including what
Speaker 1: we had predicted on this show. As soon as this
Speaker 1: quote lane filtering, lunacy was passing Colorado and lane filtering
Speaker 1: that's supposed to be the magic word, right, that says
Speaker 1: that motorcyclists can drive between lanes if the traffic is stopped.
Speaker 1: And as we said in the beginning, what a joke.
Speaker 1: We all know, once you pass that law, it's going
Speaker 1: to green light lane splitting, which is when you see
Speaker 1: motorcycles going full speed between lanes down highways. And that's
Speaker 1: exactly what we're getting and we're getting a lot of
Speaker 1: dead bodies along with that. And we played a CBS
Speaker 1: four story earlier aka Channel four what they say a
Speaker 1: round one hundred and sixty two motorcycle deaths already. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and then we had a good caller made a great point.
Speaker 1: Wait a second, if you're stopped, you're at an intersection.
Speaker 1: It's very important to safety of a rider, you know,
Speaker 1: to be able to get over between lanes, between those
Speaker 1: two cars so you don't get rear ended. I'm all
Speaker 1: for that. And I used to be a rider until
Speaker 1: gotten what could have easily been a horrific wreck. And
Speaker 1: then I just decided after that it's not worth it.
Speaker 1: It's just not or it. In fact, do you think
Speaker 1: this is wrong with me to do? Ryan? It may
Speaker 1: be the only thing we've ever asked our kids, or
Speaker 1: I have ever asked our kids not to do. And
Speaker 1: I don't want to alienate people in the audience. Obviously
Speaker 1: I rode for years. I love it. I'm just talking
Speaker 1: about my children, our children, and that is I asked
Speaker 1: them not to ride a motorcycle. You know, I see
Speaker 1: so much carnage, so much paralysis, is so much death
Speaker 1: and crashes that in a car, you know, Okay, a
Speaker 1: few hundred bucks for repair. And again I rode for
Speaker 1: years and loved it. But every parent knows that. I
Speaker 1: don't know how any parent ever survives, you know, losing
Speaker 1: a child, and just selfishly, I've just asked them not
Speaker 1: to ride. And you know, I understand that they may
Speaker 1: at some point they may just need to do it,
Speaker 1: and I respect that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, all you can do is all you can do, Dan,
Speaker 2: which in your line of work and what you see, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean it's just so amplified and magnified and you
Speaker 2: know the horrors of this and what can go wrong.
Speaker 2: So what did Joe say when you said that to him?
Speaker 2: Imagine Caroline would be like, yeah, okay, I won't ride. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but Joe maybe.
Speaker 1: You know, he's such a good kid. He is such
Speaker 1: a good kid. Yeah, he is, just he is. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he's not going to ride, you know, he just yeah,
Speaker 1: and Caroline the same. But but I understand the attraction. Again,
Speaker 1: That's why I did it, and I did it for
Speaker 1: years until I ended up under a bike in Boulder
Speaker 1: Canyon with about the entire fuel tank emptied out on
Speaker 1: top of me and the bike's running and I'm pinned.
Speaker 1: I can't get up, and so that's not the way
Speaker 1: you want to go out, right. So I just when
Speaker 1: I lucked out on that and got out of there,
Speaker 1: I just decided, Yeah, there are other ways to have
Speaker 1: a thrill. And I understand. I have a lot of
Speaker 1: great friends who are riders. Everything else. I know it's
Speaker 1: a lifestyle. I get it. And the vast majority of
Speaker 1: people who ride are extremely safe and careful. Completely get it.
Speaker 1: No disrespect, just personal decision here, Dad, I've lived from
Speaker 1: coast to coast in this country. Colorado has the absolute
Speaker 1: rudest drivers on the highway and surface street, the rudest
Speaker 1: all in caps. I haven't lived everywhere. I mean I
Speaker 1: traveled a bunch. I'm trying to think through you know,
Speaker 1: that could be true. That could be true in Colorado now.
Speaker 1: And I think it's a mix of the big drug
Speaker 1: culture that's been pushed the left, undermining law enforcement, too
Speaker 1: many people for the roads that we have. I think
Speaker 1: I think that the big, big, big recruitment effort among
Speaker 1: the left to recruit folks to come here illegally. And
Speaker 1: that's just going to put by definition, it's going to
Speaker 1: put not only more people on your roads, but more
Speaker 1: people who may be coming from a different culture where
Speaker 1: they haven't grown up with the same rules of the
Speaker 1: road that we have. And I'm sure there are plenty
Speaker 1: of folks here illegally who are good drivers, shouldn't be
Speaker 1: here illegally, but are good drivers. But boy, I think
Speaker 1: they're an awful lot who are horrible drivers. All of
Speaker 1: that is combined. Yeah, you'd say California, but most of
Speaker 1: California is just one big traffic jam, right, Yeah, can
Speaker 1: you think of can you think I know you're in
Speaker 1: Florida A lot don't. I don't think that's.
Speaker 3: They're just old and that's danger. A lot of them.
Speaker 3: I'm not joking, like, yeah, a lot of those old ones.
Speaker 3: I'm not on the road anymore. Oh I am New
Speaker 3: York City. Have you ever driven in New York City?
Speaker 1: I didn't think you could.
Speaker 2: It's not easy and the rude. But let me get
Speaker 2: this straight. I love New Yorkers. I love that they're blunt.
Speaker 2: I love that they tell you exactly what they think.
Speaker 2: But on the road it can get a little aggressive
Speaker 2: by Colorado standards.
Speaker 1: In New York. I'm not there often enough to say honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of anywhere else. Yeah, I can't
Speaker 1: think of any any place as bad as this. And
Speaker 1: then you throw in the way Polo is in the
Speaker 1: left to have green lighted reckless trucking like through our highways.
Speaker 3: You know, as.
Speaker 2: A generational native Illinois, that's you. You know what Indiana
Speaker 2: and Wisconsin, it's what they call you. And people in Michigan,
Speaker 2: I didn't call you Phipps. You ever heard that?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: You never heard that? No effing Illinois people.
Speaker 1: I've never heard that. Yeah, no, I haven't.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Please, somebody in the audience tell me you've
Speaker 3: heard of that.
Speaker 1: Wow, theah A quote protest right involving foreign flags sounds
Speaker 1: like an insurrection to me, you know, I has Somebody
Speaker 1: had a great tweet over the weekend when those images
Speaker 1: came out of LA and you had all these Mexican
Speaker 1: flags being waived by gangs that were then trying to
Speaker 1: stop ICE from doing its job. Yeah, that's textbook insurrection.
Speaker 1: And I think the tweet was, Hey, how about that
Speaker 1: Alien Enemies Act? You know, Supreme Court, can we use
Speaker 1: it now? Kind of tweet? Yeah, No, that that would
Speaker 1: qualify as an insurrection. And I don't know if it
Speaker 1: would be legally prosecutable, because I don't do that kind
Speaker 1: of law. But when you've got the mayor of Denver
Speaker 1: out there saying that that, hey, you know, use the
Speaker 1: and pairaphrase and use the police force to stop the
Speaker 1: FEDS from enforcing the law. Tens of thousands of Denverights
Speaker 1: or what do they call it, Highland moms taking to
Speaker 1: the streets to stop them. Next, your sounds like calling
Speaker 1: for an insurrection. And then of course we're always going
Speaker 1: to have the consummate exhibit A on insurrection. How's he
Speaker 1: not prosecuted for this?
Speaker 3: I want to tell you, Gorsuch.
Speaker 2: I want to tell you Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind.
Speaker 1: And you will pay the price.
Speaker 2: You won't know what hit you if you go forward
Speaker 2: with these awful decisions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's an insurrection. Threatening Supreme Court justice is by
Speaker 1: name with violence if they don't rule the way you
Speaker 1: want on a case, as you're a leader in the Senate.
Speaker 3: Yet and then that qualify we forget this part of
Speaker 3: the story.
Speaker 2: Dan would be assassin was camped outside of Justice Kavanaugh's home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, that's right.
Speaker 2: In tolerance, this kind of casual embrace dan a political
Speaker 2: violence on the left is far reaching. It's evidencing itself
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. But there's another case right there, there's
Speaker 2: the boulder, would be the terrorists, the firebomber there well.
Speaker 2: But this is an embrace of violence, or at least
Speaker 2: a tolerance of it that the end justifies the means
Speaker 2: on the left.
Speaker 1: You're being so very generous. Having been the target of it,
Speaker 1: I can tell you. I can tell you it's intentional.
Speaker 1: I mean, the left knows they can't win on logic,
Speaker 1: on fact, on reason, on common morality, they can't win
Speaker 1: on any of that. So part of their playbook is
Speaker 1: the politics of personal destruction, the threat of violence and
Speaker 1: actual violence. Doesn't mean everybody on the left actually participates
Speaker 1: in actual violence, but they don't seem very upset by it.
Speaker 3: We final question, we got a break.
Speaker 2: Why is it only Senator John Fetterman, not a surprise,
Speaker 2: has stood up and posted a next that this what
Speaker 2: we're seeing in LA is not acceptable. Yeah, and it
Speaker 2: undermines the Democratic Party. He's the only one saying.
Speaker 1: But because most of the rest of them, including the
Speaker 1: Colorado people, are into this whole insurrection thing, they don't
Speaker 1: want to have to follow federal law, at least not
Speaker 1: federal immigration law. You're on the Dan Capla.
Speaker 5: Show and now back to the Dan Tapla Show podcast.
Speaker 1: How do you think a song like that has such
Speaker 1: a stained Oh?
Speaker 3: I was just talking to Kelly about this.
Speaker 2: I said, there are very few perfect rock songs, but
Speaker 2: this may in fact be one of them. From the
Speaker 2: start to the finish, the guitar solo is dueling in between.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all that stuff well done, But I think any
Speaker 1: song that tells the story, yes, has much more stained power.
Speaker 1: Keta Taylor Swift's success.
Speaker 2: Right, I don't know that I would put her on
Speaker 2: the level of Hotel California by the Eagles, but point taken.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tomato, Tomato. But here's a very sad story that
Speaker 1: we predicted would be told now being told by Channel
Speaker 1: four once Polus in the left trying to do this
Speaker 1: whole Green New Deal agenda. You know, Jes you're saying, okay, motorcycles. Now,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you can lane filter which really
Speaker 1: means lane split, which really means at high speed driving
Speaker 1: between lanes on the freeways. And what do you think
Speaker 1: is going to happen? A lot of dead bodies, and.
Speaker 6: We are continuing to see too many crashes across the
Speaker 6: state of Colorado, the most common with our motorcycle community.
Speaker 6: Colorado State Patrol says last year motorcyclists were at fault
Speaker 6: for more than six hundred crashes.
Speaker 1: Among those, one.
Speaker 6: Hundred and sixty two people lost their lives on our
Speaker 6: roadways and your First Alert Traffic Tracker reporter Brian Sharad
Speaker 6: joining us live from CSP headquarters in Golden and Brian,
Speaker 6: most of these crashes are on highways many of us
Speaker 6: take every single.
Speaker 7: Day, and that's right, Ashley. The two biggest ones I
Speaker 7: twenty five and I seventy and speeding contains to be
Speaker 7: to number one issues and in those two areas alone.
Speaker 7: This is something we've been tracking for the last several
Speaker 7: months as well. The biggest thing is just making sure
Speaker 7: you're being careful, but we're also noticing it around the
Speaker 7: times of two and four pm, the biggest day on Saturdays.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 7: When I spoke with troopers today, they said, along with speeding,
Speaker 7: we're seeing too many motorcyclists not being attentive on the roads,
Speaker 7: lack of experience causing crashes and driving under intoxication. Lane
Speaker 7: splitting is another huge reason for crashes. This is what
Speaker 7: a motorcyclist will use the highway lanes to drive in
Speaker 7: between cars while speeding.
Speaker 3: We want to remind you not only is as dangerous
Speaker 3: but illegal.
Speaker 7: By going through those vehicles at highway speeds, you are causing,
Speaker 7: whether it be small or big issues.
Speaker 1: No question about it. Dany, you could see this coming right,
Speaker 1: But again, the life doesn't care about human life. They
Speaker 1: just don't see it as having inherent value. Texter Dan,
Speaker 1: it still freaks me out when I'm driving on I
Speaker 1: twenty five and all of a sudden a loud motorcycle
Speaker 1: passes in between myself and the car next to me.
Speaker 1: Ah that from Alexa, What a great point because in
Speaker 1: addition to all this unnecessary bloodshed on the roadway, you
Speaker 1: have all of this unnecessary aggravation being inflicted on drivers.
Speaker 1: That's not fair. And listen, I rode for years. I
Speaker 1: have great respect for serious riders out there, but and
Speaker 1: they don't inflict unnecessary aggravation on drivers. I know motorcycles
Speaker 1: are harder to spot in this and that, but it's
Speaker 1: all part of being on the road. But these people
Speaker 1: doing the lane splitting car drivers, you know, SUV drivers,
Speaker 1: MVA drives should not be subjected to that kind of
Speaker 1: unnecessary stress. And tens three h three someone three eight
Speaker 1: two five five the new morose Dan Feederman atterstroking. It
Speaker 1: is the only JFK era a Democrat around connection question Mark.
Speaker 1: You know what this comes back to is is what
Speaker 1: we've been talking about forever, right the Democratic Party has
Speaker 1: that the people who control it, et cetera. They have
Speaker 1: so separated from mainstream Democrats, the mainstream American people. They're
Speaker 1: just whack right now. And so a guy like Fetterman,
Speaker 1: who's very far left, somehow seems kind of normal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And this is one of the biggest dynamics that's getting
Speaker 1: missed right now is the massive separation of the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party leadership and power from a lot of Democrats. And
Speaker 1: they take it from a former Democrat. I think every
Speaker 1: single one of my family members outside the state of
Speaker 1: Colorado are Democrats. I mean, I know a little something
Speaker 1: about this. You've got a party that's separating from them now.
Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting you. I've got family members who are
Speaker 1: thinking about becoming a Republican. No, because the stereotypes and
Speaker 1: everything else, it would be unimaginable for many Democrats to
Speaker 1: become a Republican. But ay, you don't need them all
Speaker 1: to all of a sudden alter the electoral landscape a lot.
Speaker 1: Just do that math and b if you get enough
Speaker 1: of them to just stay home, that's enough to alter
Speaker 1: the map. And we saw some of that in November
Speaker 1: twenty four. Let's go to Anne in Westcliff. You're on
Speaker 1: the dan Kaplis. You're welcome.
Speaker 4: Good evening. How you doing it?
Speaker 1: I am living the dream? How about you? Ed?
Speaker 4: Oh you know I'm living the dream up in Westlift's
Speaker 4: plenty of room for it, that's for sure. I just
Speaker 4: wanted to mention on this lane splitting.
Speaker 2: I drive a.
Speaker 4: Horse trailer and truck that is literally the length of
Speaker 4: a semi and last Sunday I had somebody come right through.
Speaker 4: We didn't even see him until he was up at
Speaker 4: our front right bumper. Wow, and he must have missed
Speaker 4: both cars. That was next to me and me by
Speaker 4: a mere six inches.
Speaker 1: Could have given you a heart.
Speaker 4: And it's oh yeah, And you know I'm driving with
Speaker 4: horses that mean the world to me, right right, And
Speaker 4: you know I don't want to bump into anybody, but
Speaker 4: that would have been a major Mester accident. There was
Speaker 4: a lot of traffic and just to say, even with
Speaker 4: the traffic on I twenty five is crazy. When you're
Speaker 4: driving a horse trailer, people do not give you enough
Speaker 4: room and they want to see the horse. Well I
Speaker 4: don't think they can see them do well, okay, but
Speaker 4: you know we try to leave room in front of
Speaker 4: us and people just wiz in and then they put
Speaker 4: on the brakes and it drives us crazy. Nothing will
Speaker 4: cause me to see red than that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you should not be subjected to the stress
Speaker 1: of these lane splitters. And you know what if they
Speaker 1: cause you to suddenly just instinctively veer and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you know, the trailers rolling and all
Speaker 1: of it is the insanity. They've a they've got to
Speaker 1: get rid of that law and B they have to
Speaker 1: start cracking down on it. Don't blame law enforcement. It's
Speaker 1: the left that's undermining law enforcement.
Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely, And I do have to say Colorado is
Speaker 4: one of the worst states for drivers. That is a
Speaker 4: lot of states, and they are able.
Speaker 1: You are so right in thank you for the call.
Speaker 1: I hope you call off and when we come back
Speaker 1: Denver falling apart fiscally. I wonder why.
Speaker 5: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Thank you for that. It's a good reminder. I want
Speaker 1: to write a song. I've never written a song, maybe
Speaker 1: because I can't say the word written, but I've ever
Speaker 1: written a song.
Speaker 3: You're written a poem because you could set that to music.
Speaker 1: It was just taught written and good talk. But I
Speaker 1: don't know I've ever written a poem. But I want
Speaker 1: to write a song. That's going to be my mission
Speaker 1: for the next week. When are we doing the that
Speaker 1: the humor show talking about all the serious topics but
Speaker 1: in a humorous way. Start to finish, no exception.
Speaker 2: Well what are you doing around the fourth? Like, what's
Speaker 2: your schedule court wise?
Speaker 1: Hopefully celebrating our thirty first anniversary.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about, because I have found and
Speaker 2: I had a email exchange with the lovely Amy, the missus.
Speaker 3: She was very excited that I found that clip.
Speaker 2: By the way, Oh okay, she was very excited and yeah,
Speaker 2: the third of July is your anniversary, right?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Are you taking the day off from the show
Speaker 3: and from the law firm.
Speaker 1: You know, we're getting ready for a trial and we
Speaker 1: started a trial on the seventh, so damn, We've got
Speaker 1: out of state meetings, the first and second trial prep meetings,
Speaker 1: and then trial starts the seventh, so I'll be there
Speaker 1: for dinner.
Speaker 3: Thank you God for that.
Speaker 1: But she gets it, she gets it.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe she didn't marry a man of leisure. Let
Speaker 2: me and I don't know what you're she could have
Speaker 2: you wore a leisure suit. So but not to our
Speaker 2: weddy think. But if you're in trial prep mode, what
Speaker 2: you will be It sounds like if you are doing
Speaker 2: the shows that week, Okay for follow me here. I
Speaker 2: am out the third to the seventh. I'm going back
Speaker 2: home to Michigan for that, okay, but I'm thinking maybe
Speaker 2: that July two, which is a Wednesday.
Speaker 1: I'm in those meetings beating ironically in La. Yeah, getting
Speaker 1: ready for that trial.
Speaker 3: So meeting's in La.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Sandbagger, No, no, it's not. It's not pleasure.
Speaker 1: I'm sure not. But yeah, we'll figure it out. But
Speaker 1: then I because I want to figure out when we're
Speaker 1: doing the All Humor show, because that's going to need
Speaker 1: some real work.
Speaker 2: What about the last day that you are on the
Speaker 2: mic for this show before you go.
Speaker 1: Off to the lace. Let's look at a ste Friday
Speaker 1: nail that downd of this month. But then I want
Speaker 1: to stagger it because I want to get the show
Speaker 1: where I'm going to introduce the song that I write.
Speaker 1: I don't think Convoy counts because I just covered that.
Speaker 3: That was pretty awesome, though, do you still have that sound?
Speaker 3: I have it, and.
Speaker 2: That's a total de Kelly knows story behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: Our audio failed and either what did I even dig
Speaker 2: it out of any great but I did get it
Speaker 2: great work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that doesn't count because I just covered convoy.
Speaker 1: But vaccine waters bright and every day, and even.
Speaker 7: Those who were out of step with what we are advocating,
Speaker 7: peaceful protest did not create any violence.
Speaker 3: Nobody was shot, nobody was killed.
Speaker 1: That's the standard now in LA I guess right, yeah, No,
Speaker 1: it's not violence.
Speaker 3: That's not violence. Vehicles on fire.
Speaker 1: Oh, please keep talking. I mean in Republican National Committee
Speaker 1: should pay her, right, should just pay her. But what
Speaker 1: do we have going on the text line? All sorts
Speaker 1: of fun stuff. Let me real a few of those
Speaker 1: off Dan. My sister had a stroke. She was a
Speaker 1: conservative before the stroke and remained a conservative after I'm
Speaker 1: sorry she had the stroke. Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry she
Speaker 1: had the stroke to get a bunch of these texts
Speaker 1: saying that Colorado drivers are the worst. And I do
Speaker 1: think we have to seriously consider that possibility, you know,
Speaker 1: for all the reasons mentioned earlier. But it starts with
Speaker 1: the left in Colorado undermining law enforcements, so you can't
Speaker 1: have the enforcement b the left in Colorado actively recruiting
Speaker 1: people that come here illegally from all over the world,
Speaker 1: including countries where they're not going to have our some
Speaker 1: rules of the road, the left drowning Colorado in drugs,
Speaker 1: pushing their legalized drug agenda because a drug population is
Speaker 1: more dependent on government, right, So you get all these
Speaker 1: fat and then the left actively defeating legislation that would
Speaker 1: make our road safer, like you know, toughening up the penalties. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so no, wonder we have what we have that is
Speaker 1: a bad, bad brew. My friend, So, do you have
Speaker 1: a strategy, young Ryan, or do you just kind of say, hey,
Speaker 1: if your numbers up, your numbers up, do you have
Speaker 1: some strategy for protecting yourself on the roadways? And I'd
Speaker 1: love to hear what folks do there. I've got one,
Speaker 1: but it's three or three someone three eight two five
Speaker 1: five takes d a N five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2: I drive very defensively, and I learned a tactic in
Speaker 2: so my driver's education course that oh, it always drove
Speaker 2: my mom nuts, but I'm glad that I do it,
Speaker 2: which is you don't trust your mirrors, and any vehicle
Speaker 2: that you have there's gonna be a blind spots. So
Speaker 2: you have your side mirrors and your rear view mirror,
Speaker 2: and I do the look over the shoulder as emerging lanes.
Speaker 2: And the part that I really do that for is
Speaker 2: what we've been discussing, which is these motorcycles come like
Speaker 2: a bat out of hell, out of nowhere, and you
Speaker 2: might have checked your mirror, but then something changes in
Speaker 2: a half second, so I look over, I look over
Speaker 2: that shoulder, and then I go right.
Speaker 1: So that's my right enough obviously when you're leaving enough
Speaker 1: room in front of you. But yeah, yeah, no wise
Speaker 1: for me, I think everybody knows that it starts with
Speaker 1: when the light turns green, do not go that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when the light turns green, don't assume it's clear. Look
Speaker 1: both ways.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 1: That saved me this year alone, six or seven times
Speaker 1: incredible obviously saved her daughter. By the way, the update
Speaker 1: on that, because I talked about it on the show.
Speaker 1: I will find if it's the last thing I do
Speaker 1: with my dying breath, I will find this trucker who
Speaker 1: would have killed her if she had not thought about
Speaker 1: my advice and didn't go when the light turn green.
Speaker 1: And I've got the photo. I've got the photo taken
Speaker 1: off a video of the trucker blowing through. It was
Speaker 1: a hard red blowing through a hard read, my daughter says,
Speaker 1: at very high speed, and he would have killed her
Speaker 1: if she had gone when the light turn green. So
Speaker 1: rule number one, do not go when the light turnscreen.
Speaker 1: By the way, you know, I work with some really really,
Speaker 1: really high level experts, and none of them have been
Speaker 1: able to clarify this picture enough to get the name
Speaker 1: of the company off the side of that truck because
Speaker 1: the video was such poor quality. Yeah. So, but I'm
Speaker 1: not going to stop. I'm going to find a way.
Speaker 1: But that that approach so far has failed. I did
Speaker 1: get a call from somebody in the audience who has
Speaker 1: a pretty good sized trucking company, and he thinks that
Speaker 1: just off the photo alone, he may be able to
Speaker 1: give it all his drivers and something identify it.
Speaker 3: Are you going to go full Liam Niece and taken here?
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm going to operate within the bounds of
Speaker 1: the law. I never saw that movie. Did you operate
Speaker 1: in the bounds of the law?
Speaker 2: And you got to see it because it's about a
Speaker 2: father daughter relationship. Okay, it's you and Caroline, and it's
Speaker 2: you doing whatever it needs to be done, and you
Speaker 2: have whatever a particular set of skills, hm, and you
Speaker 2: will find this guy.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'll find him. Yeah, But then I'll act within
Speaker 1: the bounds of the law.
Speaker 3: I obviously, yeah, yeah, severely severely.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, for the protection of others, Andy, he would
Speaker 1: have killed my daughter, that's right. I'm assuming it's a he.
Speaker 1: I would do what percentage I should know this, and
Speaker 1: I think I do. Female semi drivers, I think it's
Speaker 1: under two percent. If that, I mean, somebody on the
Speaker 1: road can tell us. Right now, We're fortunate to have
Speaker 1: a lot of good drivers who listen to the show.
Speaker 1: And that's a funny, really a funny industry that way,
Speaker 1: isn't it, Because I think you look at most industries
Speaker 1: and pick one. Okay, law enforcement, lawyers, doctors, you look
Speaker 1: at most industry and you say, any human endeavor is
Speaker 1: going to have a handful of knuckleheads, right, but the
Speaker 1: knucklehead factor is going to be relatively low, but they
Speaker 1: can do a lot of damage, even a few. Then
Speaker 1: you look at the trucking industry and we have this,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, constitutionally protected opinion, is this a guy
Speaker 1: who does a lot of these serious and catastrophic trucking cases.
Speaker 1: This whole big segment of the trucking industry that are
Speaker 1: just absolute heroes. They're true professionals. They're as professional as
Speaker 1: bo Nicks, and they've got a tougher job and they
Speaker 1: do it with great pride, they do it superbly. And
Speaker 1: that's why our country can function, because we could not
Speaker 1: function without the trucking industry. So you got that, and
Speaker 1: then you've got this growing underbelly in the industry, fueled
Speaker 1: by greed and fueled by shell games, and you've got
Speaker 1: this underbelly that is horrible and extraordinarily dangerous, and so
Speaker 1: it is. It's a really concerning industry that way. But
Speaker 1: the great ones, hey, they deserve everybody's respect because that
Speaker 1: is a tough job to do really well. And there
Speaker 1: are a bunch of the move do it really well.
Speaker 1: The other ones. They put you in more danger day
Speaker 1: in and day out than probably anything else in your life.
Speaker 1: And more needs to be done under the law. More
Speaker 1: needs to be done, starting with isn't this just insane? Ryan?
Speaker 1: You have got to be able to read and speak
Speaker 1: English in order to drive a semi on a roadway. Shit,
Speaker 1: it might be a basic starting point.
Speaker 3: Gotta be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if I was driving any other country like Mexico
Speaker 2: and I didn't know Spanish, You've got to know the
Speaker 2: rules of the road and how to read them exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: But our lawmakers so very lax, especially in a place
Speaker 1: like Colorado. Help poll us. You know, if Kim Kardashian
Speaker 1: whispers in his ear, the guy who convicted of homicide,
Speaker 1: remember the I seventy murder, set all those people on fire.
Speaker 1: Kim Kardashian whispers in your ear, cut him a big break.
Speaker 1: He'll be out in a few You're on the Dan
Speaker 1: Capla Show.
Speaker 5: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast. WI
Speaker 5: the people wain the people way, not people.
Speaker 3: That's what teaching your kids.
Speaker 1: Love us of us, have that right to life, liberty
Speaker 1: and the pursuit ob justice. Yeah, another convert to the
Speaker 1: pro life cause we're picking them off on the left.
Speaker 3: Is that how it reads?
Speaker 2: This is the NA National Education Association president, Life, Liberty
Speaker 2: and the pursuit of justice.
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 1: Okay? Especially got two out of three.
Speaker 2: That's better than they usually do, right, could you I
Speaker 2: asked this earlier, Dan, if you're a teacher out there,
Speaker 2: I don't even care about your political affiliation, the fact
Speaker 2: that you're represented at the highest level in labor by
Speaker 2: this woman and Randy Wineingarten.
Speaker 3: How do you sleep at night? How do you live
Speaker 3: with that? You know, it's one of three?
Speaker 1: Since I'm really excited for the future because the day's coming, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, you think about teachers, and you think about
Speaker 1: how they have been so screwed by their own union. Right,
Speaker 1: first that they're screwing the kids, right, but then the teachers.
Speaker 1: Because if we had the secret sauce of America, right
Speaker 1: that makes so many things so great, If we had
Speaker 1: true competition, fair competition in education, what do you think
Speaker 1: that would do to the salaries of the really good teachers?
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if we had a true free market
Speaker 1: in education where poor and middle income parents that they
Speaker 1: got about that same amount of money that the government's
Speaker 1: now pouring into schools, and they got to decide where
Speaker 1: to spend it. And then you had people competing for
Speaker 1: their dollars in a true free market education system. And
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you know, these lower income
Speaker 1: and middle income parents, they've got this enormous purchasing power,
Speaker 1: which means they have real power. And the people who
Speaker 1: want to have their kids go to their schools, now
Speaker 1: they have to make sure those schools do a really
Speaker 1: good job for those kids. Can you imagine the bidding
Speaker 1: war for top teachers, So all these teachers who think
Speaker 1: they're being QUO protected by their union, which is first
Speaker 1: undermining the kids, but also undermining good teachers, because man, oh, first,
Speaker 1: the good teachers would be getting really good contracts on
Speaker 1: a free and open market. More importantly, the kids, particularly
Speaker 1: poor kids and middle income kids, they would have their
Speaker 1: potential unleashed as they were able to finally fairly, you know,
Speaker 1: compete in the education world, get a competitive start in
Speaker 1: the schools that they're attending. And some do now, but
Speaker 1: so many don't. Write and then you think what that
Speaker 1: does for society in terms of unleashing prosperity. It's just
Speaker 1: it's exciting to think about. But that's a problem. You're
Speaker 1: probably looking for a shorter answer, but that's my point
Speaker 1: is that's great. Well, what do you think, let's say
Speaker 1: there's a free market in education out there right now,
Speaker 1: you have true school choice. What do you think top teachers,
Speaker 1: let's say elementary school teachers. What do you think a
Speaker 1: top first grade teacher is going to make if all
Speaker 1: of a sudden there are these bidding wars which there
Speaker 1: would be with true competition.
Speaker 2: And that's the problem with this particular aspect of a
Speaker 2: unionized workforce is that the truly great teachers, look at
Speaker 2: that end of it, are not properly rewarded, not really.
Speaker 1: Right, And then think about all the other people who'd
Speaker 1: go into teaching. If all of a sudden there's going
Speaker 1: to be a free market, it's going to be respected.
Speaker 1: If you turn out to be great, people are going
Speaker 1: to be bidding for your services. Yeah, I mean, so
Speaker 1: you would think teachers would be pushing for true school choice.
Speaker 1: Should really reward the better ones. Yeah, that day's coming, man,
Speaker 1: it has to. It just has to. And the sooner
Speaker 1: the better. And we're seeing more than incremental progress in
Speaker 1: different places around the country, but there will be a
Speaker 1: tipping point at some point. And I think what we're
Speaker 1: seeing now Ryan, this obvious political realignment in progress. It
Speaker 1: all fits together because you see the Republican Party, particularly
Speaker 1: under Trump, becoming the party of working people. The Democratic
Speaker 1: Party no longer. Now, it's going to take some time
Speaker 1: for that to continue to play out, and you're going
Speaker 1: to have to have a great successor to Trump, whether
Speaker 1: it's Jdie Vance, whether it's Marco Rubio, somebody else of
Speaker 1: that caliber. But hopefully the GOP will keep moving in
Speaker 1: that direction and then this tipping point on education will
Speaker 1: follow because I think what you see, and you know,
Speaker 1: working people in America understand for a long time, because
Speaker 1: working people in America are super smart, and they also
Speaker 1: have common sense in streets smarts that go along with it.
Speaker 1: So they know they've been getting screwed for a long time.
Speaker 1: Their kids have been getting screwed for a long time
Speaker 1: by the Democrats. They just for a long time haven't
Speaker 1: been able to even consider voting Republican. Trump has changed that,
Speaker 1: some GOP candidates have changed that. But you continue that,
Speaker 1: then sure is that quo do people love more than
Speaker 1: anything on this earth. They love their kids, and so
Speaker 1: that tipping point on education, it's going to come. If
Speaker 1: the GOP keeps expanding as the party of working people.
Speaker 1: You think they will it will?
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I think we're going to have an even
Speaker 2: more effective messenger, although not the emotional appeal of Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: But like you said, in the next election, Dan and
Speaker 2: the Democrats better get it by then, because when the
Speaker 2: census comes down the pike in twenty thirty and all
Speaker 2: these people are leaving blue states like Colorado, California, New
Speaker 2: York going to red states, that's going to be a
Speaker 2: real tough hill to climb.
Speaker 1: Some of our Texters, we've been talking a lot about
Speaker 1: how do you protect yourself on the roadways right now,
Speaker 1: because they've gotten so crazy here. Dan, I also watch
Speaker 1: the front tires of adjacent drivers to try to anticipate
Speaker 1: their next move. My big tip, obviously, is when the
Speaker 1: light turns green, don't go look both ways first, because
Speaker 1: so many people are blown reds hard reds right now. Dan,
Speaker 1: I keep my eyes on my rearview mirror and always
Speaker 1: look before crossing intersections. Stand to thank you Patrick. In
Speaker 1: southern Colorado, I want to keep this conversation going. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you one other big thing that I do to
Speaker 1: protect myself and my family. And I know it's tough,
Speaker 1: right because you know, these cars are expensive, but there
Speaker 1: are a lot of good used car deals on cars
Speaker 1: that are particularly safe. And I've been doing this catastrophic
Speaker 1: injury work for forty years. There are certain cars, Thank god,
Speaker 1: I've never seen anybody killed it, and so you can
Speaker 1: get you know, cars that are five and even ten
Speaker 1: years old, or some new ones much safer. Thank you, Ryan,
Speaker 1: Thank you Kelly. Join us tomorrow, please,