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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that was all American Way today.
Speaker 1: And what a beautiful site that was and sound that
Speaker 1: was right as Kamala Harris had to say and do
Speaker 1: this before the world.
Speaker 3: The state of the vote for the President of the
Speaker 3: United States, as delivered to the President of the Senate
Speaker 3: is as follows. The whole number of the electors appointed
Speaker 3: to vote for President of the United States is five
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty eight. Within that whole number, the majority
Speaker 3: is two hundred and seventy. The votes for President of
Speaker 3: the United States are as follows.
Speaker 4: Donald J.
Speaker 3: Trump of the state of Florida has received three hundred
Speaker 3: and twelve votes. Kamala D.
Speaker 2: Harris, Yeah, that deserves some across. You wanted to just
Speaker 2: sort of step right urda ah, you gotta let that
Speaker 2: point of the little bath.
Speaker 3: Kamala DE Harris of the state of California has received
Speaker 3: two hundred and twenty six votes.
Speaker 1: You know that second part had to be even tougher
Speaker 1: for and who was cheering on that second part? That
Speaker 1: must have been the Republicans too, right, And listen, I
Speaker 1: don't sit here gloating or taking any delight in her
Speaker 1: misery here because she's a Democrat who lost, That's not
Speaker 1: the point. The point is she was part of a group.
Speaker 1: She was part of a group that really undermined America.
Speaker 1: But by trying to abuse the legal system, employ this
Speaker 1: lawfare to try to jail somebody they could not beat
Speaker 1: at the polls, and then even after these multiple assassination attempts,
Speaker 1: saying some things that went way beyond the bounds, knowing
Speaker 1: they would increase the danger to him. And so in
Speaker 1: so many different ways. No, it's not about her person,
Speaker 1: but it's so good for her to have to do that,
Speaker 1: and for America in the world to see it, because
Speaker 1: you know, this is a crossroads.
Speaker 2: Election and and you know, good.
Speaker 1: Defeated good prevailed here. I'm not saying good prevailed over evil,
Speaker 1: but good prevailed over evil actions, good prevailed over evil policies.
Speaker 1: And and it's just right and just that she had
Speaker 1: to stand up there and do that today. Eight five
Speaker 1: five for zero five eight two five five the number
Speaker 1: text d A N five seven seven three nine. And
Speaker 1: they we're also talking about here in Colorado phil Weiser
Speaker 1: declaring for governor. Is that another sign that hey, wait
Speaker 1: a second, there's an opportunity here for the GOP because
Speaker 1: obviously Phil Weiser, there's nothing to really commend him as governor.
Speaker 2: Seems like a nice guy.
Speaker 1: I've enjoyed him when we've had him on the show,
Speaker 1: But I would bet you the biggest stake in town
Speaker 1: there wasn't a single water cooler today or over the
Speaker 1: weekend where anybody was talking about, Hey, you see Phil
Speaker 1: under the governor's race and eight five Z five and
Speaker 1: two five five and you've got to text me and
Speaker 1: tell me DA N five seven seven three nine. Why
Speaker 1: traffic has gotten so much worse in Denver than any
Speaker 1: other city in the country, Not meaning that we're more
Speaker 1: congested than every other city, but it's gotten worse faster.
Speaker 1: And as those stats just came out today, Denver's congestion
Speaker 1: got twenty percent worse over the course of the past year.
Speaker 2: No other city in America got that much worse in
Speaker 2: just a year.
Speaker 1: So why what's going on here in the Denver metro
Speaker 1: let's start on the phone lines with Eric from Denver.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Kapito Show.
Speaker 1: By the way, projected two to five inches of snow
Speaker 1: in the metro starting later tonight ending probably late tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: Welcome Eric, Hi Dan, you greater mericon Greater.
Speaker 1: American Eric, Yeah, you as well. How did you celebrate
Speaker 1: the Trump's certification today?
Speaker 5: I still have my banners. I'm gonna have my wife
Speaker 5: shad you the pictures my banners my driveway.
Speaker 2: Please describe them for everybody.
Speaker 5: I still have them. I am my yard signed. Remember
Speaker 5: I told you it beautiful, stolen, beautiful. I replaced them
Speaker 5: and they're still out there in Joe January the twentieth,
Speaker 5: my brother beautiful.
Speaker 1: I would have such a yard sign, but I value
Speaker 1: intimacy too much.
Speaker 2: Or well more than the yard sign. I should say, you.
Speaker 5: Told me to be careful, our tendative that you didn't
Speaker 5: want me to go through when I was mad, But
Speaker 5: they sole much Trump yard sign.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Anyway, before I run out of break, you know what.
Speaker 1: You have to do because you're I remember that beautiful
Speaker 1: picture you sent me from the where we're all wearing
Speaker 1: our Trump stuff at a Trump party. You've got to
Speaker 1: go to the inaugural ball that's coming up on the
Speaker 1: twentieth that Lynn Cottrell and Bow and the crew are
Speaker 1: putting on over at the High A Tech Center.
Speaker 2: Take a look at that. I think it's going to
Speaker 2: be a great party.
Speaker 5: Okay, Mike Boyle over at your other you know, your competitors,
Speaker 5: he invited me.
Speaker 2: Oh wonderful.
Speaker 1: That'll be a great time. Yeah, Well look forward to
Speaker 1: seeing you there. Hopefully, hopefully I'll be able to get there.
Speaker 5: I could go to boats. Dan, that's a beautiful invitation
Speaker 5: coming from you. How could I refuse that? Great American?
Speaker 2: What do you think? Yes? What did you call on?
Speaker 2: My friend?
Speaker 5: I'm just glad you asked that question right before you
Speaker 5: from me on the air. It's these ridiculous barriers, my brother,
Speaker 5: These yellow and white things that are holding up the
Speaker 5: police force, the ambulance, the fire trucks. My god, you
Speaker 5: can't squeeze through, and all by the hospitals, for God's sake, Dan,
Speaker 5: they're all they're everywhere. If I was telling Kelly, you're
Speaker 5: a great producer that, if I was promotion, love to
Speaker 5: see Greg Lopez run on that if they had any
Speaker 5: guts to remove them all and put everything back the way.
Speaker 2: They were great campaign slogan, I'll remove all barriers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then the bikes, I mean all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh, you're right, Eric, if you tried to go through
Speaker 1: a downtown Denver now and these other places where all
Speaker 1: of a sudden they've made bikes king and they've carved
Speaker 1: out all these lanes, bikes only this this yield the bikes,
Speaker 1: and I might see one bike down there a week
Speaker 1: other than couriers, right.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's probably why people don't travel down there,
Speaker 5: white and yellow barriers for God's sake. Another thing, Dan,
Speaker 5: that the Democrat, that black. I'm not the councilman. He
Speaker 5: might have been the curtain or he doesn't he was.
Speaker 5: I gotta it's a blank, but I knew his name.
Speaker 5: He was a horrible congressman.
Speaker 2: But he with that.
Speaker 5: Law to where we have to pay seventy five dollars
Speaker 5: a month for our our tresh cards could be dumped
Speaker 5: every Thursday. And if the Republicans would you know.
Speaker 2: Just bread and butter and kitchen table issues. Yeah, you do,
Speaker 2: you pay a fee and Boulder, Dan, Oh, I don't
Speaker 2: live there.
Speaker 1: I haven't lived there since my wedding day. Literally, I
Speaker 1: moved on my wedding day.
Speaker 4: Oh where you stay at my brother?
Speaker 2: Well at home? No, we're.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we are down here. Our studio is down
Speaker 1: here in the Denver text and are Denver part of it?
Speaker 1: And I literally can get home in a good night
Speaker 1: three minutes.
Speaker 5: Well, Randy Corporan just moved down there.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, it's going to be a party, it's going
Speaker 1: to be a part of Yeah, it's.
Speaker 5: A wonderful man. Guy.
Speaker 1: If I hear loud noise, I'll know it's Randy South.
Speaker 1: But well, Eric, great talking to you.
Speaker 2: My friends. Off there's no office. Yeah, okay, okay over
Speaker 2: there on Parker and Yale. Okay, well, Eric, appreciate the call,
Speaker 2: my friend. I hope we see at that inaugural party.
Speaker 2: Thanks Dan, thank you, you take care. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Boulder, let's go up there and talk to Kevin.
Speaker 1: You're on the Dankaplas show.
Speaker 2: Welcome.
Speaker 7: Yeah, a few days ago your substitute had on a
Speaker 7: senator Byron Pelton, and he was talking about Fentandel, Colorado.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, you.
Speaker 7: Know, I live in Boulder now, but I used to
Speaker 7: live in rocky Ford. And there's a line of small
Speaker 7: towns from Pueblo to Lamar along the river. And it's
Speaker 7: well known. And now I don't know if if state
Speaker 7: authorities know this or county. Uh, maybe you can talk
Speaker 7: to someone, but it's well known among the locals and
Speaker 7: the police that there's a chapter of the crew living
Speaker 7: in rocky Ford and rocky Ford. In rocky Ford, Yeah,
Speaker 7: and rocky Ford is known to be the center of
Speaker 7: distribution for Colorado in fentanyl.
Speaker 2: I'd never heard such a thing, and.
Speaker 7: It that's that's what the locals know.
Speaker 1: Hey, can I ask you a quick question, Kevin and
Speaker 1: I will follow up. Then, we just finished a big
Speaker 1: case down in Baca County and it's just such rich
Speaker 1: history down there and everything else. I'm disturbed here this
Speaker 1: rocky Ford business. But but let me ask you, not
Speaker 1: a big rocky Ford the Boulder pipeline. How'd you end
Speaker 1: up in Boulder from rocky Ford.
Speaker 7: Well, I lived in Boulder for a while before I
Speaker 7: about a place in rocky Ford to invest in.
Speaker 2: Okay, and you're back because Coach Prime brought you back?
Speaker 4: What's that?
Speaker 1: Coach Prime brought you back? You wanted to be part
Speaker 1: of that great resurgence of the CU team. But Kevin
Speaker 1: appreciate the call check into this Rocky Ford thing. I
Speaker 1: had not heard that eight five five. I have a
Speaker 1: two five five the number when we come back. Two
Speaker 1: things I do want to tell you about this crazy
Speaker 1: thing that just happened with my car, and it is
Speaker 1: it is life changing. And again I don't expect anybody
Speaker 1: to be interested in except me, but it is absolutely fascinating.
Speaker 2: I think i'd seen it all before. And why do
Speaker 2: you think Denver.
Speaker 1: Has just had the biggest surge in traffic delays of
Speaker 1: any city in the country.
Speaker 2: What do you think is behind that? You're on the
Speaker 2: Dan Kapla.
Speaker 8: Show and now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 7: I think that President Trump not only has will, he
Speaker 7: has all these possibilities and it's not just talk.
Speaker 9: I really count on him and I think that our
Speaker 9: people really count on him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the world's about to change so much for the better.
Speaker 1: Eight five five for zero five eight two five five
Speaker 1: the number takes d a N five seven seven three
Speaker 1: nine and really just had to be inescapable for the
Speaker 1: left today. I mean, they'd never admit it, right because
Speaker 1: they view truth and honesty as a weakness. But it
Speaker 1: has to be crystal clear to them that their whole
Speaker 1: J six pitch in this election, building their campaign around it,
Speaker 1: in abortion, et cetera, thoroughly rejected by the American people
Speaker 1: and very significantly on both fronts as well.
Speaker 2: So how.
Speaker 1: Rich it had to be today not the word they'd use,
Speaker 1: you know, if Kamala Harris have to stand up there
Speaker 1: herself and not just announce his incredibly impressive three twelve total,
Speaker 1: but are really pathetic to twenty six because this was
Speaker 1: a shellacking and it's not likely to get better for them,
Speaker 1: particularly when they're just doubling down on this stuff that
Speaker 1: the American people, they've rendered their verdict that the Democrats
Speaker 1: lied about Biden. It was a major cover up. It
Speaker 1: was a reason the Democrats lost, and they're just going
Speaker 1: to double down on.
Speaker 10: That INTERRITI Well, what do you say to Americans who
Speaker 10: feel as though you and other top Democrats misled them
Speaker 10: about President Biden's mental acuity?
Speaker 6: We didn't, And let's look. Let's look at President Biden.
Speaker 6: He's had an amazing record. The legislation we passed one
Speaker 6: of the most significant groups of legislation since the New
Speaker 6: Deal since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, putting in two hundred
Speaker 6: and thirty five judges a record, and.
Speaker 2: He's a patriot, he's a great guy.
Speaker 6: And when he stepped down, he did it on his
Speaker 6: own because he thought it was better not only for
Speaker 6: the Democratic Party, for the America.
Speaker 2: We should all salute him. We should all salute him.
Speaker 10: Do you feel, as we have this conversation today, that
Speaker 10: President Biden could serve another four years had he stayed
Speaker 10: in the race and potentially won.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm not going to speculate, as I said, I
Speaker 6: think his record is a stellar one and he'll go
Speaker 6: down in history as a really outstanding president.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Wow, just I mean, please keep talking like that. I
Speaker 1: hope he says that every single day.
Speaker 10: I want to play you a little bit of something
Speaker 10: you said last year.
Speaker 6: Take a I talk to President Biden, you know, regularly,
Speaker 6: or sometimes several times in a week, or usually several
Speaker 6: times in a week. His mental acuity is great, it's fine.
Speaker 6: It's as good as it's been over the years. All
Speaker 6: this right wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined
Speaker 6: is wrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I just hope Schumer keeps doing what he's doing
Speaker 1: because all that stuff, it's interesting, isn't it When you
Speaker 1: stop and think about it if you kind of share
Speaker 1: my worldview on things, Everything that the left does that
Speaker 1: makes us mad helps us win. Now, we still wish
Speaker 1: they didn't do a lot of those things, because a
Speaker 1: lot of those things have horrible, irreversible consequences, such as
Speaker 1: mass killing of the young before birth. But everything they
Speaker 1: do that makes us mad helps us win because it
Speaker 1: separates them further from the American people. And the whole
Speaker 1: point of winning is then to be able to stop
Speaker 1: them from doing these bad things. And we just took
Speaker 1: a major step forward today. And listen, I know the
Speaker 1: certification today with ceremonial, but I think the symbolism carries
Speaker 1: added importance. Right now, I did want to tell you
Speaker 1: that wild story about my car, and that is and
Speaker 1: I'll make it short, but Ryan, you don't know the
Speaker 1: funny twist on this. But there's this car I always
Speaker 1: wanted and I just didn't feel right about paying what
Speaker 1: they charged for it new, so I bought it used
Speaker 1: and I found the best deal on it, and the
Speaker 1: best car that fit all my spec set a dealership
Speaker 1: back in Ohio, and so you know, we're reputable dealership
Speaker 1: all that good stuff. So I ordered this car up
Speaker 1: used back in twenty twenty one and then have absolutely
Speaker 1: loved the car. It's been the best car I think
Speaker 1: I've ever had. But it always seemed kind of loud
Speaker 1: to me, and it always seemed just a little loose,
Speaker 1: just a little loose, but such a great car in
Speaker 1: so many other ways.
Speaker 2: I kind of did mine.
Speaker 1: And then recently did I tell you this, Ryan, recently
Speaker 1: it sounded like the bottom was going to fall off
Speaker 1: the thing, to the point where I just stopped driving it.
Speaker 1: And then they took it in and they had it
Speaker 1: in and these are really good texts and everything else.
Speaker 1: And then they get back and they say, well, we've
Speaker 1: got to replace this in that, okay. And then they
Speaker 1: get back to me and say, I don't know, supervisor
Speaker 1: just stepped in. Long story short, here's what it is, Ryan,
Speaker 1: And there's a moral to this story.
Speaker 2: I just don't know what it is yet.
Speaker 1: But what they found was this car coming out of
Speaker 1: the factory. The factory had failed to put a washer
Speaker 1: in at a key joint on the bottom of the
Speaker 1: car that holds the entire bottom of the car on
Speaker 1: and so over the years, because this thing is three
Speaker 1: years old now, without the washer, it was cutting a
Speaker 1: hole in that frame on the bottom of the car,
Speaker 1: so it was growing looser and looser, or is it
Speaker 1: more loose and more loose anyway, So they kept it.
Speaker 1: They replaced the whole bottom of the car, put a
Speaker 1: washer on this time, which the factory hadn't and Ryan,
Speaker 1: it's the cars three years old.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 1: I drove it this morning, first time back from the shop.
Speaker 2: It's like a new car.
Speaker 1: It's even better than it ever was, like exponentially better.
Speaker 1: Note ever well obviously because now it has this critical
Speaker 1: piece it never yeah, but it's it's just amazing.
Speaker 9: What would have happened had this not been remedy taking
Speaker 9: care of hernem would have fallen off.
Speaker 8: Literally they told you that.
Speaker 1: No, I made it. I mean it not right, because
Speaker 1: it sounded like it was about to fall off. But
Speaker 1: all I'm saying is, I guess the moral of the
Speaker 1: story is never buy a used car without actually driving it.
Speaker 1: But I loved this car for two years even without
Speaker 1: that piece on it. Wow, even if I'd done a
Speaker 1: test drive, I probably wouldn't have noticed, just because the
Speaker 1: car was so good. But it's just made me very determined,
Speaker 1: and I do think it's really wise in many not
Speaker 1: all cases to buy used you know, just because there's
Speaker 1: so much depreciation right when it's.
Speaker 2: Really it's the showroom floor and everything else.
Speaker 1: But but I think next time, I'm just going to find,
Speaker 1: you know, the very best independent inspector I can get, you.
Speaker 5: Know, Dan working on the Martino Show.
Speaker 2: I've got people? Oh you got you do have people?
Speaker 2: Do you have people?
Speaker 1: I have such great memories of being on the Martino Show,
Speaker 1: Like back in the day Tom gave me my starting radio.
Speaker 3: I know exactly the person that could have inspected that
Speaker 3: car before, Yes, okay, before you.
Speaker 2: And it only costs one hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1: Well that's great, but you know I'd pay more than
Speaker 1: that to get like the deepest dive inspection possible.
Speaker 2: It is the deepest dive, and especially I buy i've
Speaker 2: used car. I'm going to do that anyway. I know
Speaker 2: that's what everybody tuned in for today.
Speaker 1: But when we come back, we have an awful out
Speaker 1: of ground we want to cover just some fun red
Speaker 1: hats sound obviously with Trump being certified today and then
Speaker 1: a lot of big local issues, including what is behind
Speaker 1: we still haven't I think completely explained this. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on why Denver traffic is getting worse faster
Speaker 1: than any other city in the country.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Capla ship.
Speaker 8: You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast, So thank
Speaker 8: you for that.
Speaker 2: Ryan. Yeah, we are talking about traffic today because this
Speaker 2: big study just came out show it's.
Speaker 1: Getting worse in Denver a faster and it's getting worse
Speaker 1: anywhere else in the country, Like twenty percent worse in
Speaker 1: the Denver Metro in one year.
Speaker 2: What do you think is behind that?
Speaker 1: Eight five five for zero five eight two five five
Speaker 1: text d an five seven seven through nine.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 1: I know we talk about a lot of important life
Speaker 1: and de have stuff on this show, but when it
Speaker 1: comes to real life, Yeah, the roadways, they affect all
Speaker 1: of us a ton. We just know by living it, right,
Speaker 1: And it's not just in Denver, it's most places, not
Speaker 1: all in Colorado. It is getting worse. And I know
Speaker 1: we can have different explanations for different places, but let's
Speaker 1: start with the Denver Metro. What's making it worse here
Speaker 1: and what is the fix? So talking about that, I
Speaker 1: told my boring car story which really came down to
Speaker 1: we discovered three years after I bought it that the
Speaker 1: factory had failed to put a washer in and a
Speaker 1: critical joint, and it had been tearing away at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the frame on the car, and.
Speaker 2: The whole bottom was going to fall off.
Speaker 1: And now that they've fixed it, it's magnificent. The car
Speaker 1: is just better than new. Dan, I bought a brand
Speaker 1: new car in two thousand and seven, a month after
Speaker 1: dealership called me said I hadn't signed one document. It
Speaker 1: was to acknowledge that I knew the car was damaged
Speaker 1: and repaired. I was never told that, says Alexa. She
Speaker 1: returned it and bought a different car. We are starting
Speaker 1: to sound like Tom Martine's show, right, which is not
Speaker 1: all bad. I mean that show has been around for
Speaker 1: a long long time. It was about thirty years ago
Speaker 1: kind enough to give me my start on radio. I'd
Speaker 1: been on TV at Channel four as part of his
Speaker 1: Trouble Shooters show, and boy, you heard it all on
Speaker 1: that show.
Speaker 2: Ryan.
Speaker 1: Do you ever work the Troubleshooter Show or listen to
Speaker 1: the Trouble Show on occasion?
Speaker 2: Yes, you just hear it all.
Speaker 9: Oh, it's coming directions. I don't know how they heard those.
Speaker 9: Catstualy does it too.
Speaker 2: It is amazing.
Speaker 1: Dan was yesterday, April Fool's Day. Schumer saying Biden was
Speaker 1: a great president was so laughable. Yeah, I just boy,
Speaker 1: I just hope Schumer keeps talking like this.
Speaker 10: I want to play you a little bit of something
Speaker 10: you said last year.
Speaker 2: Take a look.
Speaker 6: I talked to President Biden, you know, regularly, sometimes several
Speaker 6: times in a week, or usually several times in a week.
Speaker 6: His mental acuity is great, it's fine.
Speaker 2: It's as good as it's been over the years.
Speaker 6: All this right wing propaganda that his mental acuity has
Speaker 6: declined is wrong.
Speaker 1: Wow, And you think about, and I think forever as
Speaker 1: it should be, the credibility of so many on the left,
Speaker 1: including Schumer, just destroy in the eyes of the American people.
Speaker 1: I think, guys, tell me if i'm I think that
Speaker 1: most voters just assume that virtually all there may be
Speaker 1: some noble exceptions, virtually all elected officials tell some falsehoods,
Speaker 1: and that's wrong, right, that's just you know, truth will
Speaker 1: sets you free, and that's wrong. But I think there
Speaker 1: is a line, and it's like obscenity, you know, when
Speaker 1: you see it in the minds of voters as a mass,
Speaker 1: that you just shouldn't lie about anything, But there are
Speaker 1: certain things you just cannot lie about and keep any
Speaker 1: credibility with the American voters, and they cover up to
Speaker 1: hide the fact that the president doesn't have the mental
Speaker 1: capacity to protect the country and do his job.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't think that the media, the shumers of the world,
Speaker 1: the pelosis, etc. With a lot of Americans, they're just
Speaker 1: done and I think it's going to hurt the Democrats
Speaker 1: for a long time as well. Let's go back up
Speaker 1: to Beautiful Boulder. Eric, you're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 2: Welcome.
Speaker 4: Hey, Dan, I just wanted to give you my theory
Speaker 4: of why the traffic is getting so bad. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: think it's a culture. I think it's a culture of
Speaker 4: speeding and you know, doing wheelies, motorcycle games, driving around
Speaker 4: doing wheelies on their bikes, and people racing. My wife
Speaker 4: and I live by I seventy and Wadsworth and during
Speaker 4: the summer, with the window open, you can hear the
Speaker 4: just people going matt bonkers on the highways. I don't
Speaker 4: know it's motorcycles or hot rods, but it goes on
Speaker 4: for hours and hours and it's so loud that it's
Speaker 4: got to be people racing on the highways.
Speaker 2: What a great point.
Speaker 1: Thank you for that, Eric, And I think it goes
Speaker 1: to a broader point we've talked about, which is you've
Speaker 1: got the left which is undermining law enforcement but not
Speaker 1: funding law enforcement adequately, not giving law enforcement the support
Speaker 1: that it needs in other ways. So as the left
Speaker 1: undermines law enforcement, you're going to have less what enforcement,
Speaker 1: including on the roadways. And so to Eric's point, yeah,
Speaker 1: that may contribute in its own way. I think it
Speaker 1: combines with some other factors. And this brings us to
Speaker 1: where I thought Eric might go with it as well,
Speaker 1: which is, you know, you've got this commitment, this extreme
Speaker 1: commitment to this woke cars are bad thing, and so
Speaker 1: you've got people like Polis and others on the left
Speaker 1: going out and doing this really idiotic stuff to try
Speaker 1: to be anti car and pro bike, for example, saying
Speaker 1: that oh yeah no, under certain conditions, now bikes don't
Speaker 1: even have to stop it stop signs, and this insane
Speaker 1: you know, lane filtering they call it, which is really
Speaker 1: turned into lane splitting, where motorcyclists can just drive down
Speaker 1: between cars, you know, on the highway for example. Just
Speaker 1: stuff like that that just discombobulates our roadways.
Speaker 2: I'll give you an example, Ryan.
Speaker 1: We went down to we went down to the Nutcracker,
Speaker 1: kind of an annual tradition. My daughter danced and my
Speaker 1: wife was on you know, the board of the belly
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So we go down to the Nutcracker,
Speaker 1: which is beautifully absolutely beautifully done downtown. As we're walking down,
Speaker 1: here's this huge herd of us as pedestrians crossing a street.
Speaker 1: And here comes this girl, probably in her twenties or so,
Speaker 1: driving right through the middle of us on this scooter.
Speaker 1: And she's in one of these you know, they've torn
Speaker 1: up downtown Denver to build these big green striped lanes
Speaker 1: now as some kind of lefty sociology project. And she's screaming,
Speaker 1: I have the right of way. I have the right
Speaker 1: of way as she pinballs off pedestrians and everybody's doing
Speaker 1: you don't have the right of way because pedestrians always
Speaker 1: have the right of way. But then I got to thinking,
Speaker 1: in crazy leftist Denver, was she right now? I can't
Speaker 1: believe she was, but she believed she was because of
Speaker 1: all the goofy stuff they've done. I mean, they built
Speaker 1: this lane. Lord knows how much it costs and it
Speaker 1: tied up traffic forever. They built this big lane which
Speaker 1: apparently had her thinking she had the right to plow
Speaker 1: through pedestrians.
Speaker 9: That's one of the worst things to happen to downtown Denver.
Speaker 9: And as you know, Dan, I used to drive Uber
Speaker 9: and lift down there a lot. And when they dumped
Speaker 9: and that literally, this is what happened. They ambushed this
Speaker 9: scooter is a function of Lime or Uber or whatever.
Speaker 9: They just dumped all these scooters. There's no training required
Speaker 9: all night, there's no license required. These people get on there.
Speaker 9: They're high as a kite or they're drunk, or they're both. Yeah,
Speaker 9: and they don't know how to operate this thing. And
Speaker 9: everybody could see that coming. Yeah, absolutely, everybody could see
Speaker 9: and go out and try to find the stats.
Speaker 2: Ryan.
Speaker 1: Every now and then you'll see some stats pop up,
Speaker 1: But shouldn't they have a comprehensive one source stats for Okay,
Speaker 1: how many people have been brain damaged on these things?
Speaker 1: How many people have had surgical fractures? Right on downline?
Speaker 1: Because everybody could see it come in the day they
Speaker 1: put that first scooter out there. Oh yeah, no way,
Speaker 1: somebody who's high or drunk is going to ride on these.
Speaker 1: No way somebody's going to speed. I mean, you just
Speaker 1: put it out there knowing you were going to just
Speaker 1: have a.
Speaker 9: I've had to dodge them so many times down there,
Speaker 9: and if I wasn't like really paying attention, it wouldn't
Speaker 9: have been my fault. But they're darting right now in
Speaker 9: front of traffic and.
Speaker 1: It's nuts, absolutely nuts. Yeah, But everybody knew that the
Speaker 1: minute they put them out there. And you know what's
Speaker 1: and I don't mean to get all poetic or anything,
Speaker 1: but what drives me crazy And that's part of I mean,
Speaker 1: the job I've done for forty years representing all these
Speaker 1: injured people and survivors have killed people, which is, where's
Speaker 1: the humanity?
Speaker 2: I mean, the people.
Speaker 1: Who decided, whether they're city officials, the company, whatever, they
Speaker 1: decided to dump all these scooters out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: ever stopped to sink. Wait a second, this is somebody's child.
Speaker 1: You've got children, this is somebody's child. You know, who's
Speaker 1: gonna get brain damage for life on this Who's gonna
Speaker 1: get shredded, who's going to get their limbs broken? All
Speaker 1: this other terrible stuff? Do you think they even think
Speaker 1: about that?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: For the First, the left, it's about anything to undermine cars,
Speaker 1: any alternative to cars for the company. It's about maximizing profits.
Speaker 1: And listen, I understand everything in life carries some risk.
Speaker 1: You're probably listening in the car and there's real risk there. Right,
Speaker 1: I'll never be in more danger than I am when
Speaker 1: I get my car to travel home tonight. I get that,
Speaker 1: But there's a social utility that outweighs that risk. What
Speaker 1: is the social utility that outweighs the certainty you're going
Speaker 1: to have all these broken, shredded bodies, including some dead people,
Speaker 1: when you dump all these scooters into the middle of
Speaker 1: a bunch of drunks and eye people. What's the social
Speaker 1: utility that justifies that carnage? Yeah, but do they even
Speaker 1: think about that, they even think about the humanity of it?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. Eight fi five for zero five
Speaker 2: A two five five.
Speaker 1: But that is a common streak on the left is
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about Democrats, but the left that runs
Speaker 1: that party is just the lack of respect for human life.
Speaker 1: And we talk about it most often, you know, the
Speaker 1: mass killing of the young before birth, but it plays
Speaker 1: out in so many other ways where just these individual
Speaker 1: human lives just don't have any values to the value
Speaker 1: to these lefty policymakers. It's just part of their big
Speaker 1: state worldview. You're on the Dankplas.
Speaker 8: Show and now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Snicky Glass, I never heard of her before, but I
Speaker 1: was watching a clip on X and looks like a
Speaker 1: pretty good monologue yesterday at the Golden Globes.
Speaker 5: Now, some of you may know me as a stand
Speaker 5: up comedian and from my appearances on Roast, but I
Speaker 5: am not here rose to tonight.
Speaker 2: I want you to know that.
Speaker 5: And how could I really You're all so famous, so talented,
Speaker 5: so powerful.
Speaker 7: I mean, you could really.
Speaker 5: Do anything, I mean except tell the country who to
Speaker 5: vote for.
Speaker 2: But it's okay, you'll.
Speaker 1: It's just perfect and a perfect timing. Hey, if you
Speaker 1: just joined us, thank you. We're talking about this big
Speaker 1: study came out today, National study and showed that the
Speaker 1: traffic is getting worse in the Denver metro quicker than
Speaker 1: any other place in the country, like twenty percent worse
Speaker 1: this year than last year. And we all know it's
Speaker 1: true just from driving it. But why why is it
Speaker 1: getting worse? So we're getting specifics from folks and my
Speaker 1: good friend our text did this. One traffic issue is
Speaker 1: the fact that Denver is the only major metro area
Speaker 1: in the country that doesn't have a completed beltway. Golden
Speaker 1: objected to the route and the northwest portion was never built. Yeah,
Speaker 1: fascinating on that, and that would make sense. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Kenon Denver. You're on the dan Kaplosha. I'll get
Speaker 1: to some texts and well.
Speaker 2: Them can.
Speaker 4: Way dan I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Sure, what do you think?
Speaker 4: Well, longtime listener. Thanks back in the capitalist space. And
Speaker 4: something that was mentioned earlier about those list scooters is
Speaker 4: actually has a sticker on them that says they're not
Speaker 4: supposed to ride them on the sidewalk.
Speaker 2: Think anybody ever reads that?
Speaker 5: Uh? Yeah, I have.
Speaker 4: I also had a good friend of my sons who
Speaker 4: have wrote on them as well, and he fell off,
Speaker 4: not congregated, not drunk, right, right, there's no discraimer on him.
Speaker 4: But those foods go anywhere from twenty five to thirty
Speaker 4: miles per hour.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, it's I mean, you just know it's
Speaker 1: a meat grinder, right. Whoever dumped those in the middle
Speaker 1: of Denver, whoever in city government approved they just knew
Speaker 1: they were about to get a lot of kids, a
Speaker 1: lot of people shredded, and traffic. Obviously, it interrupts the
Speaker 1: floid traffic. You got all these things darting around.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I live in the Barnum area. I'm sure if
Speaker 4: you're familiar with that area, but it's basically third in
Speaker 4: Central was created by P. T. Barnum.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
Speaker 4: And whoa, it's it's.
Speaker 2: So it's a circus out there.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I guess it has been a certain sotion. The
Speaker 4: Bartum Park that is over in that area was created
Speaker 4: by PG Barnum and it was originally a pinion.
Speaker 1: Wow, what great history. But well, thank you for the call, Kenon,
Speaker 1: thank you for listening to this show. Yeah, the scooter thing,
Speaker 1: it's it's just one of those things. And it was
Speaker 1: I was listening to some tape over the weekend, fascinating
Speaker 1: tape on righteous anger, because you know, we all try
Speaker 1: to control our anger, right, But the point of this
Speaker 1: tape I was listening to is wait a second. Often
Speaker 1: when you get angry, it's it's just because you are
Speaker 1: acknowledging your worst and the worth of others. And if
Speaker 1: you don't get angry at certain things, then there's something
Speaker 1: wrong with you. And I really think this is one
Speaker 1: of those things. I mean, if you just have respect
Speaker 1: for human life and the inherent dignity of human life.
Speaker 1: All these politicians, corporate types, lefties who decided to just
Speaker 1: dump all these scooters out in the middle of a city,
Speaker 1: knowing darn well that they were going to be driven
Speaker 1: by all young people, also the drunk people, all sorts
Speaker 1: of high people in and out of traffic, and you're
Speaker 1: just gonna have a lot, a lot of broken bodies
Speaker 1: and serious injuries and ruined lives. But they didn't care.
Speaker 1: It fit their political agenda. It led to some profits whatever,
Speaker 1: And again I come back to the Yeah, there's danger
Speaker 1: in everything, including driving cars, but you got to balance
Speaker 1: social utility and you know freedom, you bet you know.
Speaker 1: That's the core of the founding of this country. But
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that you have to legalize and support
Speaker 1: and endorse absolutely everything under the sun, no matter how
Speaker 1: much harm it's going to cause in exchange for very
Speaker 1: minimal benefit. Like we wouldn't legalize heroin, right, It wouldn't
Speaker 1: legalize heroin, but the left convinced us, with the help
Speaker 1: of a few on the right. I think we're well intentioned,
Speaker 1: but just didn't see where this would actually end. You know,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you gotta legalize this Krakawana. They called it marijuana.
Speaker 1: It's a freedom thing. But as I pointed out at
Speaker 1: the time, but you wouldn't legalize heroines, So if it's
Speaker 1: truly a freedom thing, you can't call it a freedom
Speaker 1: thing when you wouldn't legalize heroin.
Speaker 2: I had more.
Speaker 1: Respect for the people, as kooky as they were, and
Speaker 1: it would be suicidal for society. As Elton John just
Speaker 1: pointed out, the legalization of marijuana has been But the
Speaker 1: people who just came all the way out and said, yeah,
Speaker 1: legalize all drugs, right, total nut sell right, But at
Speaker 1: least they were intellectually consistent. The people who say, no,
Speaker 1: legalize is marijuana, legalize this high potency pod. It's a
Speaker 1: freedom thing. But yeah, no, we couldn't legalized crack. Yeah no,
Speaker 1: it's just someday Hopefully that mistake will get fixed too.
Speaker 1: Some more text on traffic wide so bad around here.
Speaker 1: A large part of oid traffic is bad is people
Speaker 1: camp in the left lane and are oblivious to keep
Speaker 1: right except to pass and slow. I think some people
Speaker 1: just do that on purpose. It's some kind of power
Speaker 1: trip for them. I think we have more traffic because
Speaker 1: we keep adding toll lanes. Not everyone can afford to
Speaker 1: pay the price gouging during high traffic times. Fascinating boy,
Speaker 1: I bet you that that is very, very true. And
Speaker 1: then we'll follow up on some of these other suggestions tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We know there needs to be a fix. What is
Speaker 1: that fix you talk about, like people running for governor
Speaker 1: and everything else. I've got to believe a lot of
Speaker 1: those bread and butter issues if somebody could come up
Speaker 1: with some great, brilliant, workable, true idea that would work.
Speaker 1: Ry and thank you again. Great to see again you
Speaker 1: as well. Kelly, join us tomorrow on The Dankapla Show.