August 12, 2025 • 32 mins
In the second hour of today's show, Kay joins Ryan to discuss Trump's accomplishments in 200 days as well as current events and the idiocy of the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Aurora city leaders are calling on the state to address
safety concerns on I two twenty five and less than
one year, at least seven people have died in traffic
crashes in the highway between Second and East Alameda, and the.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Most recent victim of fifteen year old girl just last month.
All Right, Janell Finch is with us now with what
the city council is hoping for.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
And the state's response.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
You know, we know from investigators high speed played a
part in most of those deadly crashes from the last
nine months.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
But some community leaders.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Want to know if anything can be done to the
road to make it safer. Traveling north on I two
twenty five towards Sixth Avenue, drivers went into a small
dip before going over a bump in the highway. There
are signs leading up to that bump alerting people there
is road damage. City leaders with concerns for safety are
calling for the state to address this a r reward.
(00:49):
I Councilman Steve Sunberg believes that bump is also contributing
to recent crashes.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
I believe it is safe to say that all seven
fatalities in the last nine months are directly attributed to
that bump in combination with excessive speed, and it would
be helpful if people would wear seat belts as well.
Seat belts, speed, that bump deadly combination when you combine
all three.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Especially. A statement to.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Nine News from Sea Dot reads, in part quote, Sea
Dot takes all crashes in fatalities seriously, and we are
saddened by this recent incident involving young Colorado's We always
examine crash data to better understand where improvements need to
be made and prioritize projects based on identified needs. The
state says it's developing a safety design project for I
two twenty five at second and sixth Avenue bridges. Sunberg
(01:36):
says Seed Dot is set to begin work this summer
and then start construction next year, but he's hoping for
faster action. In the studio Janelle Finch nine News, Well, Janelle.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
We do have rules laws about seat belts and about speed,
but that bump sounds like something that should be fixed
as soon as.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Possible, and that's exactly what the city wants.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Well, that's what all of us want. What is the
deal here? Brian Schuling line back with you and Zach Seegers.
Kelly could share alongside your text at five seven seven
three nine. I know exactly where this bump is. I've
been over it many times, and I always forget about it,
and then I remember it, and then I'm like, you know,
Bow and Luke from Duke say he in the Ford focus.
(02:17):
Then I'm gonna getripped for just by saying it, but
a little bit of air. I am wearing my seat belt,
I'm driving responsibly, reasonable speed. But even so, how many
fatalities potentially linked to this? Let me ask it this way,
see that what else could be more of a priority
(02:38):
than this bump on one of our major arteries in
the Denver metro I two twenty five. I take this
going from Greenwood Village out to the airport a lot.
It's significant. There's a sign that it's you know, Patchworkler
watch over the bump, good luck? Like, come on and Kelly,
did you hear this? They're gonna study it, and then
(03:01):
they might start the project and a construction might begin
summer of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Wells on, how would they always do is study stuff?
And then it's actually.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
You just heard the study The bumps a problem? Have
you experienced it? Kelly? I know you have I have yes.
Can you know what we're talking about, Zach, have you
driven there to twenty five?
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Yep, rh.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yes, we don't hear you in the air. Sorry, was
the question, if you experienced this bump on two twenty five,
that's going okay, here, MIC's down, by the way, your
not your fly, Your mic is low. I can't hear
(03:45):
you over the air anyway, So if you've experienced this,
let us know at five seven, seven, three nine. I'm
trying to come up with again, if you've driven anywhere
else see dot around the Denver metro. Let's say four
to seventy I twenty five north and south, I seventy
east and west I to twenty five, which is what
(04:07):
was this design to do. This was so that those
of us that live in the south suburbs, you know,
you could either take the toll road four seventy going
all the way around at the airport, or rather than
taking twenty five all the way downtown, which kind of
veers northwest and then you got to cut back on seventy.
This was a diagonal that kind of connected the dots,
so you could go from the suburbs south of Denver
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straight up through Aurora and onto briefly I seventy and
then Paya Boulevard. That's another thing. Who are the ad
wizards that designed that one? So wrote?
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Who designed to seventy?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Well, let's stay focused, okay, don't care is a piece
of crap. Well, not only that, now there's there's got
to be something with ordinances Aurora. I'm not sure but
how this should have gone. In my view, having driven
all around the in major cities Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit, New York, Boston,
et cetera, two twenty five should have gone right through
(05:09):
I seventy, become Paya Boulevards, straight up, and then gone
out to the airport. But instead there's what you do.
You go two twenty five till it ends. Now you
gotta go east on seventy and do that merge. Otherwise
you go over with it's chambers I think it is.
Then you got to get over the left lane. You
gotta trust that the semis not gone, and then you
gotta get and then immediately.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Yep, within a mile.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Now you got to exit again on Pania. What the
hell is that?
Speaker 6 (05:35):
And it's only two too? Well, I believe it's a
two lane and that's another pay on Pania Pania.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
If you're thinking for it, and Denver's growing and there's
gonna be traffic going to and from the airport that
automatically out of the gate should have been a three
lane highway in either direction. Now they're talking about expanding
it right now after think ahead, you wonder why money
is wasted now they're not fixing this bump. I mean,
this is just the beginning of our problems out there
(06:04):
on the roads. I know Dan talks about this a lot.
He deals with this a lot in his law practice
at Sheriff Steve Reemes Weld County deals with it. And
the next story I really want to get his take
on because he's just coming back from Sturgis and the
big motorcycle rally there. Do you see some of his
pictures on Facebook there, Kelly, Well, they were so cool.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
I am so anxious for him to come in today
and tell us all the you know stories.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Well, that was nine News that we heard about before,
and you know Finch with the report, I want to
make sure we properly attribute. This is Evan Krugel on
nine News. Another favorite topic of yours, truly lane filtering.
Here we go here go.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Today, motorcyclists in Colorado got the green light to start
slipping through gridlock traffic. Yes, stab show riders are hesitant
to do that. Lane filtering set out to learn why.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Few things test your temper or your engine like roasting
in summer grid lack. So Jim Wilson understands the envy
drivers must feel as he cruises between them on his motorcycle.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
Hot day, it's almost one hundred degrees out and yeah,
I took advantage of the law and I filtered through
traffic to the front of the lights.
Speaker 8 (07:23):
Today marks one year since lane filtering became legal in Colorado.
Allowing motorcyclists to drive through stopped traffic at a slow
speed if it's safe to do so and.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
Those situations is definitely helping them out. They're able to
filter through traffic, they're not getting stuck in a position
where they might get hit from behind.
Speaker 8 (07:42):
But even Jim, a motorcycle instructor, has been choosing his
spots carefully.
Speaker 9 (07:48):
It really depends on the situation. I do sometimes and
sometimes I don't. And Jim isn't alone. In a recent
survey from sea Dot, only twenty nine percent of motorcyclists
say they actually engage in lane. I can see where
an inexperienced motorcyclist or maybe somebody this is very cautious
doesn't feel the need to do it.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
There is risk doing.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
It, and even a year in Jim says some motorcyclists
still seem confused by what's allowed.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
When traffic's moving.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
Motorcyclists are splitting traffic while traffic's moving, and that is
not legal in Colorado.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
He believes more riders will eventually begin to filter once
it becomes more accepted by drivers, but says following the
law will be key to getting everyone on board.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
You know, we're all sharing the road.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Now that law remains in a bit of a probationary period.
See dot is currently putting together a study to see
if this is having positive impacts on motorcycle safety. God
a state legislature will then get to look at that
study and they'll have to decide in twenty twenty seven
whether or not to make this law permanent in Colorado.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Kyle, I mean, at the end of.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
The day, you just want predictability, right, You want the
people on the bikes kind of behave predictably, like as
a car driver.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I want to be predictable to them. I don't want
to put them in danger.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
But when you have that uncertainty, that's tough, and that's
such a big part of this. As drivers are still
getting used to this, I'll admit I'm still a little
shocked when I see one cruise buy me in traffic,
and then you have those motorcyclists who aren't obeying the
law in the right way. Jim says, that's a big
problem here. Drivers won't be on board on this and
truly recognize this until motorcyclists are truly obeyed that law. Well,
(09:28):
education is a big part of the process. So I
appreciate you talking about it. Evan Krugel, thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Now. Who could have anticipated that there would be mass
confusion between lane filtering and lane splitting? Oh wait, that
was me when this first came about. I'm like, you
know what's going to happen here. You have to go
to the law of logic here and know that the
lowest common denominator of those who operate, whether it's a
(09:53):
vehicle or a motorcycle out there, you have to allow
for that margin of error. And unfortunately, when we're out
on the roads, it's always a calculation of risk. Right,
You are putting your life on the line every time
you get in a vehicle and go out on the road.
Your chances, unfortunately and God willing it doesn't happen. But
your chances of being in an accident and being injured
(10:15):
and or killed are much greater in your car than
they are on an airplane or on a train. It's
just a fact of life that we accept. We accept
that risk. We want to get from here to there.
We want to have our own transportation. I want that
freedom of having our own car. Maybe you don't, maybe
take public transportation, that's fine, but if you do drive
your own car like I do, what I want is
(10:36):
kind of what Comrade Kyleffe said there. We want as
many predictable factors out there as possible, and as few
unpredictable factors, as many constants in the equation that we
know that we can all agree on, and as few
variables in the equations. So why don't we just throw
another variable into the equation with lane filtering? And why?
And I understand he was talking to that expert that
(10:59):
instructor why a motorcyclist for his or her own safety?
You know, I could lane filter, but I don't know
that it's worth the risk. Do I really have to
filter in and out? And is it worth potentially get
in sideswiped by a car if I go buy and
the car's not aware of this new law? Correct me
if I'm wrong, Kelly. But I haven't seen a lot
of like public education campaigns PSAs out there on television
(11:22):
or hearing them on the radio about lane filtering. What
it is, the fact that it's been instituted, have you
not at all?
Speaker 6 (11:30):
And there is a difference between lane filtering and lane splitting.
I obviously grew up in California where lane splitting was
the thing, and uh, there are a lot of rich
people in California. And I have been witnessed to somebody
(11:55):
just opening their door and having their door blown off.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
By Why would they be opening your door.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
In traffic because they didn't like the fact that a
motorcyclist was now blowing diet. Oh no, I've witnessed it
a couple.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I don't know if I believe that.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Okay, well you don't have to believe me, but it
has happened because.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
People look at they get out of the car because
traffic was stopped and they were complaining about a backup
on that five or something.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Absolutely both times it happened on the four or five,
which four or five is a parking lot. I mean,
you're not going anywhere for two.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
And a half hours, Great, that's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
So if some motorcyclist is coming around you and you're
already pissed off because you have been in traffic for
two hours, and you open your door, so who cares
about your door? That's easily replaceable. But you're also attemptingly
killing the motorcyclist. But that's legal in California.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
I just don't see when I do the cost benefit
analysis of this filtering law, that the positives outweigh the negatives, and.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Don't see the first of all, Colorado is stupid. Okay,
they don't know what they're getting into. Remember we also
pass laws where the bikers you know, no longer have
to stop at re that's that. All of that is bicyclists, Yeah, proper, yes,
And so it's kind of like, okay, what's the next
(13:37):
step whatever?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Texts five seven, seven, three nine on this very topic.
Shoestring I was a certified motorcycle endorsement instructor for two
years in Virginia. If you have any questions. Interesting, I
got lots of questions. I think I might have articulated
some of them. But just would you Texter her, as
the expert that you are and the experienced rider that
you are, do you engage and lane splitting out there
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here in Colorado? Would you? Or would you not?
Speaker 10 (14:03):
Why?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Or why not? That's my question? This textor Ryan I
two twenty five bump. That bump is part of an overpass.
You're right, there is one additional factor, the curve after
the bump. Correct Start posting COHP there, highway patrol and
start issuing speeding tickets revenue source to rebuild the entire freeway.
Got a bad idea. You got to watch yourself there,
(14:24):
and you got to know what's coming. And I think
there should be better signage alerting you to this fact.
It's a bad deal. Ryan tried getting off on Chambers
from seventy with all the traffic coming from two twenty five.
Most motorcycles seem to use the filter at traffic lights. Yeah,
and that's fine. And the big ones, the Harley's, the
Indian motorcycles, the type that Steve Reams rides, the type
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that go to Sturgis. They are, by and large some
of the most responsible riders that are out there, and
I don't notice a lot of them lane splitting. It's
a bigger bike, it's wider. I think I would be
more hesitant and reluctant a not a rider. But it's
these crawch rockets that we're talking about. When you're around
and they're like, you know, veering in and out of
traffic going one hundred miles an hour and they're filtering,
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they're splitting, they're doing whatever else. But yeah, oh that chambers.
It's a there's a word I want to use for
it that I can't use on the air. Kelly knows
where I'm going with this. It's a cluster and it
didn't have to be that way, at least I don't
think so. Like, you got this little jog that you
do on a major highway I seventy, Why wouldn't it
just two twenty five? You cut around and it goes
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right and it becomes Painia Boulevard on the other side
of seventy. Boom, there you are all good, and you
have to exit off of seventy to get on to
paini of Boulevard. But no, it's all. It's the worst.
It's the worst. Ryan Seatot wants everybody out of their vehicles.
That's a good point. They don't want to repair roads.
For example, they're spending fifty million dollars for a bike
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path from Boulder to Longmont. What what that money would
go a long ways for a road and road paving
in the region. Also, when a new project is starting
to be built, it's already outdated. Yes, our roads are
so underdesigned. It's pitiful. The traffic just because heavier and
heavier as time goes on, and you need to forward
project and forecast for that possibility and eventuality. I don't
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know why they wouldn't. You live in the now, man,
but you think about the future and what is the
now in the future will be the future. Now, see
what I'm saying, what is legal? I can open my
door anytime. I know if you're if you're going seventy
five miles an hour down twenty five, you don't open
your door, do you. I don't recommend it, Ryan, not
(16:42):
just the metro area. Try coming from Kansas and I
seventy or Nebraska and I seventy six. I have definitely
done the later right after hitting a RNZA on my
way out of the Cornhusker state. The roads, especially in Kansas,
I've heard, but even in Nebraska they're nice. And then
once you cross that Colorado Boulder border, it's like, idea,
(17:03):
do better see dot Patty? Oh Patty, why don't you
start that handle's that's piffy patty right there. We have
various forms of patty. There's piffy Patty, there's peppy Patty
like peppermint Patty where she's in a good mood. And
then there's uh, petty Patty. We got a petty Patty
text somewhere here. I gotta scroll it down.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
I love the fact that we had a shout out
to Runza.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
I love runs. The man runs is awesome. Gal that
I know and you know of her name's Kathy Redman.
She lives down in Castle Rock, friend of mine. Her
grandmother founded Ronso she has the original recipes and they
serve them as you know at Nebraska football games.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Yeah, that and the red hot dogs that you hate.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
All right. I just get the runs as though you're
there for one reason. Oh what, I gotta understand the
assignment Kelly Kimberly says, I seventy six between seventy and
twenty five has been that way for a decade. YEP,
I know exactly where you're talking, and yeah, it's like,
what are you thinking? Ryan? The left wants driving in
highways to be luxurious or extinct pathetic leadership aka polists.
(18:10):
That's right. They want to put us all on the
light rail and buses and bicycles on paths and not
stopping at red lights or stop signs. Stupid, Ryan, A
bump in the road is a life lesson learned. I
think we need more of these pumps. Stop speeding, period.
He should be able to go on a freeway two
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twenty five at a regular speed. I'm not talking about
like clown speed on hundred miles an hour, but when
you're going like sixty five seventy and you pop up
in the air, that's not good. Much more to get to,
including our visit next. Are you ready for this, Kelly?
You want to tell the good people?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
K holmness hair case.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Mythel joins us next on ryan schuling line.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
I'm not going to get away with calling there.
Speaker 10 (19:02):
I know.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
You're not lying. You're lying. Nobody's lying about anything you're
lying about everything. This is just the left though. If
you want to watch an exercise and futility, it's these
leftists going on CNN attempting to tangle with Scott Jennings
front of the program, and he is constantly trying to
fact check them in real time because they're just used
to spouting these lies on CNN or MSNBC, not being
(19:27):
called out on it, not having to flex those muscles
and defending their position, just putting the sin speaking it
out in new existence that Donald Trump he didn't strike
peace deals.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
He didn't whether the dons are actually solved by Donald
Trump or whether it was pomp and circumstances. Anyway, Donald
Trump's affinity for for Vladimir Putin versus the way he
treats Zelenski.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Who's the one.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
We're saying things do not exist in reality.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
He just got NATO to do hundreds and millions of
dollars a lethal weapons to Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Deny, deny, deny, if they just deny that Donald Trump
did anything, even though he has struck several piece deals
in the Oval Office. No, no, no, no. Ask the
American people who are misinformed by a media that misleads
them seeing an MSNBC in others New York Times, Washington Post.
Of course they're going to eat that up, not question it,
not think to question it. You're being told what they
(20:29):
think is the version of the truth they want you
to believe. And it's just pop it. Circumstance, cutting through
the clutter and the white noise is what she does.
She is our favorite British import and we don't even
charge a tiff for her case. Smythe Hill back with
us here on Ryan Schuling Live. Kay, it's been too long.
How are you?
Speaker 10 (20:48):
Oh r, It's just such a lovely intro. I'm doing
amazing after that, Thank you, I love that. No steal
it and terrorists, that's too funny.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
No, you are terriff and proud to be and an
American citizen, I might add, we're proud of you.
Speaker 10 (21:04):
Oh, thank you, thank you. I appreciate it. I actually
I'm still in the process of getting my green card.
I mean, I have my one visa. I've had that
for like ten years now, and everyone I think it
is so funny. I was having this conversation this weekend
with some friends of mine. They were like, Oh, it
must be so difficult and so complicated and blah blah
blah blah blah, and I'm like, it's really not like.
(21:25):
This is what everyone gets wrong about the Republicans. They
think that they don't want immigrants here, and it's like, actually,
they make it a lot simpler for immigrants to be
here if you are legal, if you are doing things correctly,
you're filling out the paperwork, you're paying your fees, and
you're not breaking any laws. It is literally that simple.
And so everyone who complains about immigration under Republicans is
(21:48):
racist as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Okay, if you could do me one big favor, and
it's asking a lot, can you do an American accent?
What you think we sound like?
Speaker 10 (21:59):
I make fun of my my husband's accent, but it
sounds pretty racist when I do it, because he's from
the South, and I can do a pretty good Valley
gil do it. But no, she just gets so mad
at me some out here with all my chickens. He's
just like, geat thanks, chickens out of my yard. And
I'm like, okay, like that where we get our eggs
(22:21):
from Darling, like do you want breakfast on all? And
then there's the valley girl and They're like, oh my god,
I care about how big my engagement ring is more
than I care about my personality. And that's what a
Valley girl sounds like me at least.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
But you know, well, okay, that's awesome. So I got
to ask semantics here. So I heard you on Joe
Pegs are good to counterpart at the bottom of the
clock here he's airs six to nine pm here in
the Mountain time zone. He calls you just k Hill.
I see your name on exit's case Smith Hill. I
see your ex handle and it's case smythe which is it?
Speaker 10 (22:59):
So hey like the smithe is my maiden name. I
will be k Hill. And you know PAGs is you
know Pax is one of my closest friends. Like I
think It's what a lot of people don't realize. It's
like I don't do his show. I do his show
every week because I love it. But he's also one
of my favorite human beings in the world, and so
(23:20):
we talk most days. I'm super blessed to call him
one of my best friends. So he as soon as
I got married, I said to him, I was like, Joe,
I just want to be K Hill. But all I
want to do is be K Hill, and I can't
because I'm going through the green card process and the
way that you have to go through that process, I'm
(23:40):
not going to have time to legally change my name
before I started, because the only reason that I decided
to go for a green card was yeah, I was
just going to renew my current visa. But then they
dropped the COVID vax mandate. So I was like, okay, well,
let's do it now, just in case the midterms don't
go away and somehow bring back for COVID wags mandate
(24:01):
for the green cards. So I was like, let's just
do it all now so I couldn't legally change my
name to K Hill. And then I got my first
book deal. He was going to be in my name.
I've written, you know, ghost written for other people, but
I got this book deal. And just because my great grandfather,
this is going to sound really softy, my great grandfather
(24:23):
was back in his day quite a famous mountaineer and
explorer and wrote about his explorations and things like that.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
He was Frank smythe.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
Or Ff Smith, And so I was just like, you know,
what if I'm going to write non fiction under my
own name. Let's do K smythe Hill and so I
just am stuck in this messy middle ground. Right. You
can call me K Hill, you can call me k
Smith Hill. Most people can't pronounce Smith the first time
they read it, so I'm just like, just call me
K Hill. That's easier. Don't really care. How many CA's
(24:58):
do you know under the age of like eight.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Probably not that many.
Speaker 10 (25:01):
You can just call me Kay. I have an awful name.
It's an old lady name and I love it.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Oh, you're an old soul, so it fits K Hill
joining us not you, Kate. You mentioned a book. I
just tried to look you up on Amazon. I don't
see anything yet, but I might be searching incorrectly. Is
it available yet or is it when? Is it coming out?
Speaker 10 (25:20):
Oh no, it won't be out until either late this
year or early next year. Okay, yeah, yeah, but thank
you though for looking it up.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Well yeah, and you make sure to check back in
with us when it does come out. We'll talk about
it all right.
Speaker 10 (25:33):
Oh? Absolutely, thank you, No, you, I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I got to get your take for everything that's going
on right here with President Trump and DC and federalizing
the law enforcement there, and we're seeing recent polling for
Mayor Muriel Bowser and it's absolutely abysmal for her handling
of crime and of homelessness in the district of Columbia.
They got kind of a tepid response from her as
to Donald Trump announcing this, like she wasn't fighting it,
(25:58):
but she wasn't going to give him and she said,
we'll do what the law requires, et cetera. What do
you make of this? And the left of course losing
their minds about it.
Speaker 10 (26:08):
I think they should do it in every major blue
city because I'm sick of people I know getting robbed.
I'm sick of my friends in these cities getting kajacked.
I used to love going to places, you know, like Okay,
I lived in Los Angeles for a long time and
it went from like when I lived in Venice Beach,
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even back in twenty sixteen, I could ride my bike
at ten o'clock at night on the beach from Venice
all the way up to Santa Monica, go and catch
a comedy show, go and hang out, see some friends,
and ride my bike back. I mean, admittedly, I was
in my twenties, so I wanted to ride my bike
that far. But I could do all of that. I
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wouldn't have to worry about my bike getting stolen, I
wouldn't have to worry about being attacked. It was it
was bliss. It was absolute paradise and absolute bliss. And
in less than I would say a year, it went
from that to oh, I'm scared to go out in
the middle of the day, like someone might do something
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because there is so much. And here's the thing, everyone,
it's not just crime. It's rampant mental illness and untreated
mental illness, and it's a lot of it stems from addiction.
And you speak to any addict like any addict them.
I think it was Michael Schallenberger wrote a book on this,
and there's another great book on it the series called Dreamland,
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and I can't remember what the other book is called
in that series. But everyone that these authors speak to,
and certainly everyone I used to speak to and I
had my radio show in La they all say, the
only thing that got them clean and the only thing
that got them the care that they needed was getting arrested.
So I am absolutely here for it. I think that
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this is a great first step in cleaning up our cities.
I think this is going to bring more tourism. I
think it's going to bring business back. I think that
the knock on effect of this, it's going to be
no different to what we saw under Rudy Giuliani in
New York. And everyone is going to look back on
this as a golden era and it had to happen.
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They let it go too far.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Absolutely, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
That's I don't care if people think that I'm an extremist.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
I feel it's okay for all the people out there.
We know that you're newly married and you're getting to
know each other, and you have the chickens and you say, hey,
this tub, we're gonna eat the eggs. You got to
you got some things to do when you're melding lives together.
What's the number one thing you've learned about living with
your husband?
Speaker 10 (28:40):
Ooh, that's a great question.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (28:44):
Do you know what? I'm really glad that he's working
right now and not listening to me. But I think
the most important thing that I've learned is the I
don't need to be right, and that nine times out
of ten when he and I are coming making a
decision together, my first thought is only going to be half,
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if not less than half of how we'll think and
deal with any kind of situation once we start working together.
And I know so many women who pressure their husbands
and push their husbands to be a certain way and
to behave a certain way and want certain things and
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spend money on stuff, and I'm like, she, just sit back.
You'll realize that most of that stuff really isn't that important,
And what really matters is like coming together and blending
a life together where you're listening to each other in
such a way that you're helping each other. And my
cat is trying to run out onto the street.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Oh no, oh no, I was just going to ask
you about your kittens. Kelly told me, Oh yeah.
Speaker 10 (29:49):
We woke up this morning and as another one.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Okay, just another kitten. Another day, another kitten.
Speaker 10 (29:57):
Didn't even know that the mom was pregnant. This time
just popped out the one in this slic So I
was like, all right, then, Oh she's a sweet little thing. Yeah,
that's another thing. It's like the most important thing about
blending her lives together. There is he now loves the
cats more than I do.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Oh well, I'll go let you collect the kittens. She
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great catching up. We'll talk again soon.
Speaker 10 (30:22):
All right, thank you so much. You have a blessed day.
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
All right? Five seven seven three nine. Your text to
wrap up Ryan schuling live after this, so we'll find
out about that in just a moment. But this text
are leading into the convo to close out the show.
Five seven seven three nine, Ryan, I have never seen
a biker follow that law correctly lane splitting on twenty five,
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I'll be doing seventy five and a bike will passed
me doing ninety and thread between me and another car. Yes,
I would open a window and stick a pull out
for them to hit Rice Ricketts. What always? I never
do that on my Harley. Oh okay, well there you go.
Let's bring in a guy that knows how to ride.
He was just in sturge of Sheriff Steve Riems fill
in for Dan Caplis.
Speaker 11 (31:07):
Yes, sir, so you know I understand the desire to
stick a stick out the window and get those guys
because of the last I guess the last time I
covered Dan's show. One of the days I rode my
bike down here. I think it was the last day
I was covering the show, and on my way back,
you know, I don't lane split, I don't even lane filter,
but there was plenty of bikes that were doing that.
It scares the snot out of you, and that is
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definitely not the intent of the laws. So I don't
recommend putting a stick out your window, but I can
totally understand why somebody'd want to.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
What's coming up here, Sheriff?
Speaker 11 (31:38):
Well, you know, Dan previewed it. You know, this stuff
that's going out and out in DC with President Trump,
you know, federalizing the law enforcement to kind of do
his own bidding and clean up Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I think is a.
Speaker 11 (31:50):
Very fascinating topic. And as a law enforcement guy, we're
gonna talk about that.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Yeah, it's gonna be fascinating. Your take on it as
the sheriff of Wild County and the kill and host
for Dan kaplis coming straight up, Ben, you can listen
to him more of me Kelly two be a fun time.
Keep it right here in six point thirty k O.
I'll talk to you tomorrow with another edition of Ryan
Scherling Live. Thanks for tuning in today
Aurora city leaders are calling on the state to address
safety concerns on I two twenty five and less than
one year, at least seven people have died in traffic
crashes in the highway between Second and East Alameda, and the.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Most recent victim of fifteen year old girl just last month.
All Right, Janell Finch is with us now with what
the city council is hoping for.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
And the state's response.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
You know, we know from investigators high speed played a
part in most of those deadly crashes from the last
nine months.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
But some community leaders.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Want to know if anything can be done to the
road to make it safer. Traveling north on I two
twenty five towards Sixth Avenue, drivers went into a small
dip before going over a bump in the highway. There
are signs leading up to that bump alerting people there
is road damage. City leaders with concerns for safety are
calling for the state to address this a r reward.
(00:49):
I Councilman Steve Sunberg believes that bump is also contributing
to recent crashes.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
I believe it is safe to say that all seven
fatalities in the last nine months are directly attributed to
that bump in combination with excessive speed, and it would
be helpful if people would wear seat belts as well.
Seat belts, speed, that bump deadly combination when you combine
all three.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Especially. A statement to.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Nine News from Sea Dot reads, in part quote, Sea
Dot takes all crashes in fatalities seriously, and we are
saddened by this recent incident involving young Colorado's We always
examine crash data to better understand where improvements need to
be made and prioritize projects based on identified needs. The
state says it's developing a safety design project for I
two twenty five at second and sixth Avenue bridges. Sunberg
(01:36):
says Seed Dot is set to begin work this summer
and then start construction next year, but he's hoping for
faster action. In the studio Janelle Finch nine News, Well, Janelle.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
We do have rules laws about seat belts and about speed,
but that bump sounds like something that should be fixed
as soon as.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Possible, and that's exactly what the city wants.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Well, that's what all of us want. What is the
deal here? Brian Schuling line back with you and Zach Seegers.
Kelly could share alongside your text at five seven seven
three nine. I know exactly where this bump is. I've
been over it many times, and I always forget about it,
and then I remember it, and then I'm like, you know,
Bow and Luke from Duke say he in the Ford focus.
(02:17):
Then I'm gonna getripped for just by saying it, but
a little bit of air. I am wearing my seat belt,
I'm driving responsibly, reasonable speed. But even so, how many
fatalities potentially linked to this? Let me ask it this way,
see that what else could be more of a priority
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than this bump on one of our major arteries in
the Denver metro I two twenty five. I take this
going from Greenwood Village out to the airport a lot.
It's significant. There's a sign that it's you know, Patchworkler
watch over the bump, good luck? Like, come on and Kelly,
did you hear this? They're gonna study it, and then
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they might start the project and a construction might begin
summer of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Wells on, how would they always do is study stuff?
And then it's actually.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
You just heard the study The bumps a problem? Have
you experienced it? Kelly? I know you have I have yes.
Can you know what we're talking about, Zach, have you
driven there to twenty five?
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Yep, rh.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yes, we don't hear you in the air. Sorry, was
the question, if you experienced this bump on two twenty five,
that's going okay, here, MIC's down, by the way, your
not your fly, Your mic is low. I can't hear
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you over the air anyway, So if you've experienced this,
let us know at five seven, seven, three nine. I'm
trying to come up with again, if you've driven anywhere
else see dot around the Denver metro. Let's say four
to seventy I twenty five north and south, I seventy
east and west I to twenty five, which is what
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was this design to do. This was so that those
of us that live in the south suburbs, you know,
you could either take the toll road four seventy going
all the way around at the airport, or rather than
taking twenty five all the way downtown, which kind of
veers northwest and then you got to cut back on seventy.
This was a diagonal that kind of connected the dots,
so you could go from the suburbs south of Denver
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straight up through Aurora and onto briefly I seventy and
then Paya Boulevard. That's another thing. Who are the ad
wizards that designed that one? So wrote?
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Who designed to seventy?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Well, let's stay focused, okay, don't care is a piece
of crap. Well, not only that, now there's there's got
to be something with ordinances Aurora. I'm not sure but
how this should have gone. In my view, having driven
all around the in major cities Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit, New York, Boston,
et cetera, two twenty five should have gone right through
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I seventy, become Paya Boulevards, straight up, and then gone
out to the airport. But instead there's what you do.
You go two twenty five till it ends. Now you
gotta go east on seventy and do that merge. Otherwise
you go over with it's chambers I think it is.
Then you got to get over the left lane. You
gotta trust that the semis not gone, and then you
gotta get and then immediately.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Yep, within a mile.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Now you got to exit again on Pania. What the
hell is that?
Speaker 6 (05:35):
And it's only two too? Well, I believe it's a
two lane and that's another pay on Pania Pania.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
If you're thinking for it, and Denver's growing and there's
gonna be traffic going to and from the airport that
automatically out of the gate should have been a three
lane highway in either direction. Now they're talking about expanding
it right now after think ahead, you wonder why money
is wasted now they're not fixing this bump. I mean,
this is just the beginning of our problems out there
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on the roads. I know Dan talks about this a lot.
He deals with this a lot in his law practice
at Sheriff Steve Reemes Weld County deals with it. And
the next story I really want to get his take
on because he's just coming back from Sturgis and the
big motorcycle rally there. Do you see some of his
pictures on Facebook there, Kelly, Well, they were so cool.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
I am so anxious for him to come in today
and tell us all the you know stories.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Well, that was nine News that we heard about before,
and you know Finch with the report, I want to
make sure we properly attribute. This is Evan Krugel on
nine News. Another favorite topic of yours, truly lane filtering.
Here we go here go.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Today, motorcyclists in Colorado got the green light to start
slipping through gridlock traffic. Yes, stab show riders are hesitant
to do that. Lane filtering set out to learn why.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Few things test your temper or your engine like roasting
in summer grid lack. So Jim Wilson understands the envy
drivers must feel as he cruises between them on his motorcycle.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
Hot day, it's almost one hundred degrees out and yeah,
I took advantage of the law and I filtered through
traffic to the front of the lights.
Speaker 8 (07:23):
Today marks one year since lane filtering became legal in Colorado.
Allowing motorcyclists to drive through stopped traffic at a slow
speed if it's safe to do so and.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
Those situations is definitely helping them out. They're able to
filter through traffic, they're not getting stuck in a position
where they might get hit from behind.
Speaker 8 (07:42):
But even Jim, a motorcycle instructor, has been choosing his
spots carefully.
Speaker 9 (07:48):
It really depends on the situation. I do sometimes and
sometimes I don't. And Jim isn't alone. In a recent
survey from sea Dot, only twenty nine percent of motorcyclists
say they actually engage in lane. I can see where
an inexperienced motorcyclist or maybe somebody this is very cautious
doesn't feel the need to do it.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
There is risk doing.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
It, and even a year in Jim says some motorcyclists
still seem confused by what's allowed.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
When traffic's moving.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
Motorcyclists are splitting traffic while traffic's moving, and that is
not legal in Colorado.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
He believes more riders will eventually begin to filter once
it becomes more accepted by drivers, but says following the
law will be key to getting everyone on board.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
You know, we're all sharing the road.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Now that law remains in a bit of a probationary period.
See dot is currently putting together a study to see
if this is having positive impacts on motorcycle safety. God
a state legislature will then get to look at that
study and they'll have to decide in twenty twenty seven
whether or not to make this law permanent in Colorado.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Kyle, I mean, at the end of.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
The day, you just want predictability, right, You want the
people on the bikes kind of behave predictably, like as
a car driver.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I want to be predictable to them. I don't want
to put them in danger.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
But when you have that uncertainty, that's tough, and that's
such a big part of this. As drivers are still
getting used to this, I'll admit I'm still a little
shocked when I see one cruise buy me in traffic,
and then you have those motorcyclists who aren't obeying the
law in the right way. Jim says, that's a big
problem here. Drivers won't be on board on this and
truly recognize this until motorcyclists are truly obeyed that law. Well,
(09:28):
education is a big part of the process. So I
appreciate you talking about it. Evan Krugel, thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Now. Who could have anticipated that there would be mass
confusion between lane filtering and lane splitting? Oh wait, that
was me when this first came about. I'm like, you
know what's going to happen here. You have to go
to the law of logic here and know that the
lowest common denominator of those who operate, whether it's a
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vehicle or a motorcycle out there, you have to allow
for that margin of error. And unfortunately, when we're out
on the roads, it's always a calculation of risk. Right,
You are putting your life on the line every time
you get in a vehicle and go out on the road.
Your chances, unfortunately and God willing it doesn't happen. But
your chances of being in an accident and being injured
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and or killed are much greater in your car than
they are on an airplane or on a train. It's
just a fact of life that we accept. We accept
that risk. We want to get from here to there.
We want to have our own transportation. I want that
freedom of having our own car. Maybe you don't, maybe
take public transportation, that's fine, but if you do drive
your own car like I do, what I want is
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kind of what Comrade Kyleffe said there. We want as
many predictable factors out there as possible, and as few
unpredictable factors, as many constants in the equation that we
know that we can all agree on, and as few
variables in the equations. So why don't we just throw
another variable into the equation with lane filtering? And why?
And I understand he was talking to that expert that
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instructor why a motorcyclist for his or her own safety?
You know, I could lane filter, but I don't know
that it's worth the risk. Do I really have to
filter in and out? And is it worth potentially get
in sideswiped by a car if I go buy and
the car's not aware of this new law? Correct me
if I'm wrong, Kelly. But I haven't seen a lot
of like public education campaigns PSAs out there on television
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or hearing them on the radio about lane filtering. What
it is, the fact that it's been instituted, have you
not at all?
Speaker 6 (11:30):
And there is a difference between lane filtering and lane splitting.
I obviously grew up in California where lane splitting was
the thing, and uh, there are a lot of rich
people in California. And I have been witnessed to somebody
(11:55):
just opening their door and having their door blown off.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
By Why would they be opening your door.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
In traffic because they didn't like the fact that a
motorcyclist was now blowing diet. Oh no, I've witnessed it
a couple.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I don't know if I believe that.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Okay, well you don't have to believe me, but it
has happened because.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
People look at they get out of the car because
traffic was stopped and they were complaining about a backup
on that five or something.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Absolutely both times it happened on the four or five,
which four or five is a parking lot. I mean,
you're not going anywhere for two.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
And a half hours, Great, that's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
So if some motorcyclist is coming around you and you're
already pissed off because you have been in traffic for
two hours, and you open your door, so who cares
about your door? That's easily replaceable. But you're also attemptingly
killing the motorcyclist. But that's legal in California.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
I just don't see when I do the cost benefit
analysis of this filtering law, that the positives outweigh the negatives, and.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Don't see the first of all, Colorado is stupid. Okay,
they don't know what they're getting into. Remember we also
pass laws where the bikers you know, no longer have
to stop at re that's that. All of that is bicyclists, Yeah, proper, yes,
And so it's kind of like, okay, what's the next
(13:37):
step whatever?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Texts five seven, seven, three nine on this very topic.
Shoestring I was a certified motorcycle endorsement instructor for two
years in Virginia. If you have any questions. Interesting, I
got lots of questions. I think I might have articulated
some of them. But just would you Texter her, as
the expert that you are and the experienced rider that
you are, do you engage and lane splitting out there
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here in Colorado? Would you? Or would you not?
Speaker 10 (14:03):
Why?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Or why not? That's my question? This textor Ryan I
two twenty five bump. That bump is part of an overpass.
You're right, there is one additional factor, the curve after
the bump. Correct Start posting COHP there, highway patrol and
start issuing speeding tickets revenue source to rebuild the entire freeway.
Got a bad idea. You got to watch yourself there,
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and you got to know what's coming. And I think
there should be better signage alerting you to this fact.
It's a bad deal. Ryan tried getting off on Chambers
from seventy with all the traffic coming from two twenty five.
Most motorcycles seem to use the filter at traffic lights. Yeah,
and that's fine. And the big ones, the Harley's, the
Indian motorcycles, the type that Steve Reams rides, the type
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that go to Sturgis. They are, by and large some
of the most responsible riders that are out there, and
I don't notice a lot of them lane splitting. It's
a bigger bike, it's wider. I think I would be
more hesitant and reluctant a not a rider. But it's
these crawch rockets that we're talking about. When you're around
and they're like, you know, veering in and out of
traffic going one hundred miles an hour and they're filtering,
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they're splitting, they're doing whatever else. But yeah, oh that chambers.
It's a there's a word I want to use for
it that I can't use on the air. Kelly knows
where I'm going with this. It's a cluster and it
didn't have to be that way, at least I don't
think so. Like, you got this little jog that you
do on a major highway I seventy, Why wouldn't it
just two twenty five? You cut around and it goes
(15:30):
right and it becomes Painia Boulevard on the other side
of seventy. Boom, there you are all good, and you
have to exit off of seventy to get on to
paini of Boulevard. But no, it's all. It's the worst.
It's the worst. Ryan Seatot wants everybody out of their vehicles.
That's a good point. They don't want to repair roads.
For example, they're spending fifty million dollars for a bike
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path from Boulder to Longmont. What what that money would
go a long ways for a road and road paving
in the region. Also, when a new project is starting
to be built, it's already outdated. Yes, our roads are
so underdesigned. It's pitiful. The traffic just because heavier and
heavier as time goes on, and you need to forward
project and forecast for that possibility and eventuality. I don't
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know why they wouldn't. You live in the now, man,
but you think about the future and what is the
now in the future will be the future. Now, see
what I'm saying, what is legal? I can open my
door anytime. I know if you're if you're going seventy
five miles an hour down twenty five, you don't open
your door, do you. I don't recommend it, Ryan, not
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just the metro area. Try coming from Kansas and I
seventy or Nebraska and I seventy six. I have definitely
done the later right after hitting a RNZA on my
way out of the Cornhusker state. The roads, especially in Kansas,
I've heard, but even in Nebraska they're nice. And then
once you cross that Colorado Boulder border, it's like, idea,
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do better see dot Patty? Oh Patty, why don't you
start that handle's that's piffy patty right there. We have
various forms of patty. There's piffy Patty, there's peppy Patty
like peppermint Patty where she's in a good mood. And
then there's uh, petty Patty. We got a petty Patty
text somewhere here. I gotta scroll it down.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
I love the fact that we had a shout out
to Runza.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
I love runs. The man runs is awesome. Gal that
I know and you know of her name's Kathy Redman.
She lives down in Castle Rock, friend of mine. Her
grandmother founded Ronso she has the original recipes and they
serve them as you know at Nebraska football games.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Yeah, that and the red hot dogs that you hate.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
All right. I just get the runs as though you're
there for one reason. Oh what, I gotta understand the
assignment Kelly Kimberly says, I seventy six between seventy and
twenty five has been that way for a decade. YEP,
I know exactly where you're talking, and yeah, it's like,
what are you thinking? Ryan? The left wants driving in
highways to be luxurious or extinct pathetic leadership aka polists.
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That's right. They want to put us all on the
light rail and buses and bicycles on paths and not
stopping at red lights or stop signs. Stupid, Ryan, A
bump in the road is a life lesson learned. I
think we need more of these pumps. Stop speeding, period.
He should be able to go on a freeway two
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twenty five at a regular speed. I'm not talking about
like clown speed on hundred miles an hour, but when
you're going like sixty five seventy and you pop up
in the air, that's not good. Much more to get to,
including our visit next. Are you ready for this, Kelly?
You want to tell the good people?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
K holmness hair case.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Mythel joins us next on ryan schuling line.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
I'm not going to get away with calling there.
Speaker 10 (19:02):
I know.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
You're not lying. You're lying. Nobody's lying about anything you're
lying about everything. This is just the left though. If
you want to watch an exercise and futility, it's these
leftists going on CNN attempting to tangle with Scott Jennings
front of the program, and he is constantly trying to
fact check them in real time because they're just used
to spouting these lies on CNN or MSNBC, not being
(19:27):
called out on it, not having to flex those muscles
and defending their position, just putting the sin speaking it
out in new existence that Donald Trump he didn't strike
peace deals.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
He didn't whether the dons are actually solved by Donald
Trump or whether it was pomp and circumstances. Anyway, Donald
Trump's affinity for for Vladimir Putin versus the way he
treats Zelenski.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Who's the one.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
We're saying things do not exist in reality.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
He just got NATO to do hundreds and millions of
dollars a lethal weapons to Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Deny, deny, deny, if they just deny that Donald Trump
did anything, even though he has struck several piece deals
in the Oval Office. No, no, no, no. Ask the
American people who are misinformed by a media that misleads
them seeing an MSNBC in others New York Times, Washington Post.
Of course they're going to eat that up, not question it,
not think to question it. You're being told what they
(20:29):
think is the version of the truth they want you
to believe. And it's just pop it. Circumstance, cutting through
the clutter and the white noise is what she does.
She is our favorite British import and we don't even
charge a tiff for her case. Smythe Hill back with
us here on Ryan Schuling Live. Kay, it's been too long.
How are you?
Speaker 10 (20:48):
Oh r, It's just such a lovely intro. I'm doing
amazing after that, Thank you, I love that. No steal
it and terrorists, that's too funny.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
No, you are terriff and proud to be and an
American citizen, I might add, we're proud of you.
Speaker 10 (21:04):
Oh, thank you, thank you. I appreciate it. I actually
I'm still in the process of getting my green card.
I mean, I have my one visa. I've had that
for like ten years now, and everyone I think it
is so funny. I was having this conversation this weekend
with some friends of mine. They were like, Oh, it
must be so difficult and so complicated and blah blah
blah blah blah, and I'm like, it's really not like.
(21:25):
This is what everyone gets wrong about the Republicans. They
think that they don't want immigrants here, and it's like, actually,
they make it a lot simpler for immigrants to be
here if you are legal, if you are doing things correctly,
you're filling out the paperwork, you're paying your fees, and
you're not breaking any laws. It is literally that simple.
And so everyone who complains about immigration under Republicans is
(21:48):
racist as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Okay, if you could do me one big favor, and
it's asking a lot, can you do an American accent?
What you think we sound like?
Speaker 10 (21:59):
I make fun of my my husband's accent, but it
sounds pretty racist when I do it, because he's from
the South, and I can do a pretty good Valley
gil do it. But no, she just gets so mad
at me some out here with all my chickens. He's
just like, geat thanks, chickens out of my yard. And
I'm like, okay, like that where we get our eggs
(22:21):
from Darling, like do you want breakfast on all? And
then there's the valley girl and They're like, oh my god,
I care about how big my engagement ring is more
than I care about my personality. And that's what a
Valley girl sounds like me at least.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
But you know, well, okay, that's awesome. So I got
to ask semantics here. So I heard you on Joe
Pegs are good to counterpart at the bottom of the
clock here he's airs six to nine pm here in
the Mountain time zone. He calls you just k Hill.
I see your name on exit's case Smith Hill. I
see your ex handle and it's case smythe which is it?
Speaker 10 (22:59):
So hey like the smithe is my maiden name. I
will be k Hill. And you know PAGs is you
know Pax is one of my closest friends. Like I
think It's what a lot of people don't realize. It's
like I don't do his show. I do his show
every week because I love it. But he's also one
of my favorite human beings in the world, and so
(23:20):
we talk most days. I'm super blessed to call him
one of my best friends. So he as soon as
I got married, I said to him, I was like, Joe,
I just want to be K Hill. But all I
want to do is be K Hill, and I can't
because I'm going through the green card process and the
way that you have to go through that process, I'm
(23:40):
not going to have time to legally change my name
before I started, because the only reason that I decided
to go for a green card was yeah, I was
just going to renew my current visa. But then they
dropped the COVID vax mandate. So I was like, okay, well,
let's do it now, just in case the midterms don't
go away and somehow bring back for COVID wags mandate
(24:01):
for the green cards. So I was like, let's just
do it all now so I couldn't legally change my
name to K Hill. And then I got my first
book deal. He was going to be in my name.
I've written, you know, ghost written for other people, but
I got this book deal. And just because my great grandfather,
this is going to sound really softy, my great grandfather
(24:23):
was back in his day quite a famous mountaineer and
explorer and wrote about his explorations and things like that.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
He was Frank smythe.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
Or Ff Smith, And so I was just like, you know,
what if I'm going to write non fiction under my
own name. Let's do K smythe Hill and so I
just am stuck in this messy middle ground. Right. You
can call me K Hill, you can call me k
Smith Hill. Most people can't pronounce Smith the first time
they read it, so I'm just like, just call me
K Hill. That's easier. Don't really care. How many CA's
(24:58):
do you know under the age of like eight.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Probably not that many.
Speaker 10 (25:01):
You can just call me Kay. I have an awful name.
It's an old lady name and I love it.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Oh, you're an old soul, so it fits K Hill
joining us not you, Kate. You mentioned a book. I
just tried to look you up on Amazon. I don't
see anything yet, but I might be searching incorrectly. Is
it available yet or is it when? Is it coming out?
Speaker 10 (25:20):
Oh no, it won't be out until either late this
year or early next year. Okay, yeah, yeah, but thank
you though for looking it up.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Well yeah, and you make sure to check back in
with us when it does come out. We'll talk about
it all right.
Speaker 10 (25:33):
Oh? Absolutely, thank you, No, you, I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I got to get your take for everything that's going
on right here with President Trump and DC and federalizing
the law enforcement there, and we're seeing recent polling for
Mayor Muriel Bowser and it's absolutely abysmal for her handling
of crime and of homelessness in the district of Columbia.
They got kind of a tepid response from her as
to Donald Trump announcing this, like she wasn't fighting it,
(25:58):
but she wasn't going to give him and she said,
we'll do what the law requires, et cetera. What do
you make of this? And the left of course losing
their minds about it.
Speaker 10 (26:08):
I think they should do it in every major blue
city because I'm sick of people I know getting robbed.
I'm sick of my friends in these cities getting kajacked.
I used to love going to places, you know, like Okay,
I lived in Los Angeles for a long time and
it went from like when I lived in Venice Beach,
(26:28):
even back in twenty sixteen, I could ride my bike
at ten o'clock at night on the beach from Venice
all the way up to Santa Monica, go and catch
a comedy show, go and hang out, see some friends,
and ride my bike back. I mean, admittedly, I was
in my twenties, so I wanted to ride my bike
that far. But I could do all of that. I
(26:49):
wouldn't have to worry about my bike getting stolen, I
wouldn't have to worry about being attacked. It was it
was bliss. It was absolute paradise and absolute bliss. And
in less than I would say a year, it went
from that to oh, I'm scared to go out in
the middle of the day, like someone might do something
(27:09):
because there is so much. And here's the thing, everyone,
it's not just crime. It's rampant mental illness and untreated
mental illness, and it's a lot of it stems from addiction.
And you speak to any addict like any addict them.
I think it was Michael Schallenberger wrote a book on this,
and there's another great book on it the series called Dreamland,
(27:33):
and I can't remember what the other book is called
in that series. But everyone that these authors speak to,
and certainly everyone I used to speak to and I
had my radio show in La they all say, the
only thing that got them clean and the only thing
that got them the care that they needed was getting arrested.
So I am absolutely here for it. I think that
(27:53):
this is a great first step in cleaning up our cities.
I think this is going to bring more tourism. I
think it's going to bring business back. I think that
the knock on effect of this, it's going to be
no different to what we saw under Rudy Giuliani in
New York. And everyone is going to look back on
this as a golden era and it had to happen.
(28:14):
They let it go too far.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Absolutely, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
That's I don't care if people think that I'm an extremist.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
I feel it's okay for all the people out there.
We know that you're newly married and you're getting to
know each other, and you have the chickens and you say, hey,
this tub, we're gonna eat the eggs. You got to
you got some things to do when you're melding lives together.
What's the number one thing you've learned about living with
your husband?
Speaker 10 (28:40):
Ooh, that's a great question.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (28:44):
Do you know what? I'm really glad that he's working
right now and not listening to me. But I think
the most important thing that I've learned is the I
don't need to be right, and that nine times out
of ten when he and I are coming making a
decision together, my first thought is only going to be half,
(29:06):
if not less than half of how we'll think and
deal with any kind of situation once we start working together.
And I know so many women who pressure their husbands
and push their husbands to be a certain way and
to behave a certain way and want certain things and
(29:26):
spend money on stuff, and I'm like, she, just sit back.
You'll realize that most of that stuff really isn't that important,
And what really matters is like coming together and blending
a life together where you're listening to each other in
such a way that you're helping each other. And my
cat is trying to run out onto the street.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Oh no, oh no, I was just going to ask
you about your kittens. Kelly told me, Oh yeah.
Speaker 10 (29:49):
We woke up this morning and as another one.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Okay, just another kitten. Another day, another kitten.
Speaker 10 (29:57):
Didn't even know that the mom was pregnant. This time
just popped out the one in this slic So I
was like, all right, then, Oh she's a sweet little thing. Yeah,
that's another thing. It's like the most important thing about
blending her lives together. There is he now loves the
cats more than I do.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Oh well, I'll go let you collect the kittens. She
is k hill kse smythe hill and kse smythe m
s M y t h e on x K. It's
great catching up. We'll talk again soon.
Speaker 10 (30:22):
All right, thank you so much. You have a blessed day.
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
All right? Five seven seven three nine. Your text to
wrap up Ryan schuling live after this, so we'll find
out about that in just a moment. But this text
are leading into the convo to close out the show.
Five seven seven three nine, Ryan, I have never seen
a biker follow that law correctly lane splitting on twenty five,
(30:47):
I'll be doing seventy five and a bike will passed
me doing ninety and thread between me and another car. Yes,
I would open a window and stick a pull out
for them to hit Rice Ricketts. What always? I never
do that on my Harley. Oh okay, well there you go.
Let's bring in a guy that knows how to ride.
He was just in sturge of Sheriff Steve Riems fill
in for Dan Caplis.
Speaker 11 (31:07):
Yes, sir, so you know I understand the desire to
stick a stick out the window and get those guys
because of the last I guess the last time I
covered Dan's show. One of the days I rode my
bike down here. I think it was the last day
I was covering the show, and on my way back,
you know, I don't lane split, I don't even lane filter,
but there was plenty of bikes that were doing that.
It scares the snot out of you, and that is
(31:29):
definitely not the intent of the laws. So I don't
recommend putting a stick out your window, but I can
totally understand why somebody'd want to.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
What's coming up here, Sheriff?
Speaker 11 (31:38):
Well, you know, Dan previewed it. You know, this stuff
that's going out and out in DC with President Trump,
you know, federalizing the law enforcement to kind of do
his own bidding and clean up Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I think is a.
Speaker 11 (31:50):
Very fascinating topic. And as a law enforcement guy, we're
gonna talk about that.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Yeah, it's gonna be fascinating. Your take on it as
the sheriff of Wild County and the kill and host
for Dan kaplis coming straight up, Ben, you can listen
to him more of me Kelly two be a fun time.
Keep it right here in six point thirty k O.
I'll talk to you tomorrow with another edition of Ryan
Scherling Live. Thanks for tuning in today
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