January 6, 2025 • 34 mins
Dan outlines his experience as a pedestrian attending 'The Nutcracker' in downtown Denver, with an out-of-control scooter rider weaving through foot traffic on a main sidewalk.
Trouble with a missing part has Dan tracing his car's woes all the way back to the assembly plant.
Attorney General Phil Weiser is the first candidate to officially announce his candidacy for governor in Colorado, will his early splash help him outpace the field in a Democratic primary?
Trouble with a missing part has Dan tracing his car's woes all the way back to the assembly plant.
Attorney General Phil Weiser is the first candidate to officially announce his candidacy for governor in Colorado, will his early splash help him outpace the field in a Democratic primary?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Oh yeah, that was all American Way today.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
And what a beautiful site that was and sound that
was right as Kamala Harris had to say and do
this before the world.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
The state of the vote for the President of the
United States, as delivered to the President of the Senate
is as follows. The whole number of the electors appointed
to vote for President of the United States is five
hundred and thirty eight. Within that whole number, the majority
is two hundred and seventy. The votes for President of
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the United States are as follows.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Donald J.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Trump of the state of Florida has received three hundred
and twelve votes. Kamala D.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Harris, Yeah, that deserves some across. You wanted to just
sort of step right urda ah, you gotta let that
point of the little bath.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Kamala DE Harris of the state of California has received
two hundred and twenty six votes.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
You know that second part had to be even tougher
for and who was cheering on that second part? That
must have been the Republicans too, right, And listen, I
don't sit here gloating or taking any delight in her
misery here because she's a Democrat who lost, That's not
the point. The point is she was part of a group.
She was part of a group that really undermined America.
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But by trying to abuse the legal system, employ this
lawfare to try to jail somebody they could not beat
at the polls, and then even after these multiple assassination attempts,
saying some things that went way beyond the bounds, knowing
they would increase the danger to him. And so in
so many different ways. No, it's not about her person,
(02:00):
but it's so good for her to have to do that,
and for America in the world to see it, because
you know, this is a crossroads.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Election and and you know, good.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Defeated good prevailed here. I'm not saying good prevailed over evil,
but good prevailed over evil actions, good prevailed over evil policies.
And and it's just right and just that she had
to stand up there and do that today. Eight five
five for zero five eight two five five the number
text d A N five seven seven three nine. And
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they we're also talking about here in Colorado phil Weiser
declaring for governor. Is that another sign that hey, wait
a second, there's an opportunity here for the GOP because
obviously Phil Weiser, there's nothing to really commend him as governor.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Seems like a nice guy.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I've enjoyed him when we've had him on the show,
But I would bet you the biggest stake in town
there wasn't a single water cooler today or over the
weekend where anybody was talking about, Hey, you see Phil
under the governor's race and eight five Z five and
two five five and you've got to text me and
tell me DA N five seven seven three nine. Why
traffic has gotten so much worse in Denver than any
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other city in the country, Not meaning that we're more
congested than every other city, but it's gotten worse faster.
And as those stats just came out today, Denver's congestion
got twenty percent worse over the course of the past year.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
No other city in America got that much worse in
just a year.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
So why what's going on here in the Denver metro
let's start on the phone lines with Eric from Denver.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You're on the Dan Kapito Show.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
By the way, projected two to five inches of snow
in the metro starting later tonight ending probably late tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Welcome Eric, Hi Dan, you greater mericon Greater.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
American Eric, Yeah, you as well. How did you celebrate
the Trump's certification today?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I still have my banners. I'm gonna have my wife
shad you the pictures my banners my driveway.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Please describe them for everybody.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
I still have them. I am my yard signed. Remember
I told you it beautiful, stolen, beautiful. I replaced them
and they're still out there in Joe January the twentieth,
my brother beautiful.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I would have such a yard sign, but I value
intimacy too much.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Or well more than the yard sign. I should say, you.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Told me to be careful, our tendative that you didn't
want me to go through when I was mad, But
they sole much Trump yard sign.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Anyway, before I run out of break, you know what.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
You have to do because you're I remember that beautiful
picture you sent me from the where we're all wearing
our Trump stuff at a Trump party. You've got to
go to the inaugural ball that's coming up on the
twentieth that Lynn Cottrell and Bow and the crew are
putting on over at the High A Tech Center.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Take a look at that. I think it's going to
be a great party.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Okay, Mike Boyle over at your other you know, your competitors,
he invited me.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Oh wonderful.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That'll be a great time. Yeah, Well look forward to
seeing you there. Hopefully, hopefully I'll be able to get there.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
I could go to boats. Dan, that's a beautiful invitation
coming from you. How could I refuse that? Great American?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
What do you think? Yes? What did you call on?
My friend?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
I'm just glad you asked that question right before you
from me on the air. It's these ridiculous barriers, my brother,
These yellow and white things that are holding up the
police force, the ambulance, the fire trucks. My god, you
can't squeeze through, and all by the hospitals, for God's sake, Dan,
(05:50):
they're all they're everywhere. If I was telling Kelly, you're
a great producer that, if I was promotion, love to
see Greg Lopez run on that if they had any
guts to remove them all and put everything back the way.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
They were great campaign slogan, I'll remove all barriers.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Yeah, and then the bikes, I mean all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Oh, you're right, Eric, if you tried to go through
a downtown Denver now and these other places where all
of a sudden they've made bikes king and they've carved
out all these lanes, bikes only this this yield the bikes,
and I might see one bike down there a week
other than couriers, right.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
I mean, that's probably why people don't travel down there,
white and yellow barriers for God's sake. Another thing, Dan,
that the Democrat, that black. I'm not the councilman. He
might have been the curtain or he doesn't he was.
I gotta it's a blank, but I knew his name.
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He was a horrible congressman.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
But he with that.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Law to where we have to pay seventy five dollars
a month for our our tresh cards could be dumped
every Thursday. And if the Republicans would you know.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Just bread and butter and kitchen table issues. Yeah, you do,
you pay a fee and Boulder, Dan, Oh, I don't
live there.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I haven't lived there since my wedding day. Literally, I
moved on my wedding day.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Oh where you stay at my brother?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Well at home? No, we're.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Oh yeah, we are down here. Our studio is down
here in the Denver text and are Denver part of it?
And I literally can get home in a good night
three minutes.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Well, Randy Corporan just moved down there.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Okay, Well, it's going to be a party, it's going
to be a part of Yeah, it's.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
A wonderful man. Guy.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
If I hear loud noise, I'll know it's Randy South.
But well, Eric, great talking to you.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
My friends. Off there's no office. Yeah, okay, okay over
there on Parker and Yale. Okay, well, Eric, appreciate the call,
my friend. I hope we see at that inaugural party.
Thanks Dan, thank you, you take care. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Speaking of Boulder, let's go up there and talk to Kevin.
You're on the Dankaplas show.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Welcome.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Yeah, a few days ago your substitute had on a
senator Byron Pelton, and he was talking about Fentandel, Colorado.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Okay, well, you.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Know, I live in Boulder now, but I used to
live in rocky Ford. And there's a line of small
towns from Pueblo to Lamar along the river. And it's
well known. And now I don't know if if state
authorities know this or county. Uh, maybe you can talk
(08:53):
to someone, but it's well known among the locals and
the police that there's a chapter of the crew living
in rocky Ford and rocky Ford. In rocky Ford, Yeah,
and rocky Ford is known to be the center of
distribution for Colorado in fentanyl.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I'd never heard such a thing, and.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
It that's that's what the locals know.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Hey, can I ask you a quick question, Kevin and
I will follow up. Then, we just finished a big
case down in Baca County and it's just such rich
history down there and everything else. I'm disturbed here this
rocky Ford business. But but let me ask you, not
a big rocky Ford the Boulder pipeline. How'd you end
up in Boulder from rocky Ford.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Well, I lived in Boulder for a while before I
about a place in rocky Ford to invest in.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Okay, and you're back because Coach Prime brought you back?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Coach Prime brought you back? You wanted to be part
of that great resurgence of the CU team. But Kevin
appreciate the call check into this Rocky Ford thing. I
had not heard that eight five five. I have a
two five five the number when we come back. Two
things I do want to tell you about this crazy
thing that just happened with my car, and it is
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it is life changing. And again I don't expect anybody
to be interested in except me, but it is absolutely fascinating.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I think i'd seen it all before. And why do
you think Denver.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Has just had the biggest surge in traffic delays of
any city in the country.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
What do you think is behind that? You're on the
Dan Kapla.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
Show and now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
I think that President Trump not only has will, he
has all these possibilities and it's not just talk.
Speaker 9 (10:40):
I really count on him and I think that our
people really count on him.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, the world's about to change so much for the better.
Eight five five for zero five eight two five five
the number takes d a N five seven seven three
nine and really just had to be inescapable for the
left today. I mean, they'd never admit it, right because
they view truth and honesty as a weakness. But it
has to be crystal clear to them that their whole
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J six pitch in this election, building their campaign around it,
in abortion, et cetera, thoroughly rejected by the American people
and very significantly on both fronts as well.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
So how.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Rich it had to be today not the word they'd use,
you know, if Kamala Harris have to stand up there
herself and not just announce his incredibly impressive three twelve total,
but are really pathetic to twenty six because this was
a shellacking and it's not likely to get better for them,
particularly when they're just doubling down on this stuff that
the American people, they've rendered their verdict that the Democrats
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lied about Biden. It was a major cover up. It
was a reason the Democrats lost, and they're just going
to double down on.
Speaker 10 (11:49):
That INTERRITI Well, what do you say to Americans who
feel as though you and other top Democrats misled them
about President Biden's mental acuity?
Speaker 6 (12:00):
We didn't, And let's look. Let's look at President Biden.
He's had an amazing record. The legislation we passed one
of the most significant groups of legislation since the New
Deal since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, putting in two hundred
and thirty five judges a record, and.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
He's a patriot, he's a great guy.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
And when he stepped down, he did it on his
own because he thought it was better not only for
the Democratic Party, for the America.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
We should all salute him. We should all salute him.
Speaker 10 (12:33):
Do you feel, as we have this conversation today, that
President Biden could serve another four years had he stayed
in the race and potentially won.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Well, I'm not going to speculate, as I said, I
think his record is a stellar one and he'll go
down in history as a really outstanding president.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Wow, just I mean, please keep talking like that. I
hope he says that every single day.
Speaker 10 (12:57):
I want to play you a little bit of something
you said last year.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Take a I talk to President Biden, you know, regularly,
or sometimes several times in a week, or usually several
times in a week. His mental acuity is great, it's fine.
It's as good as it's been over the years. All
this right wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined
is wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
So I just hope Schumer keeps doing what he's doing
because all that stuff, it's interesting, isn't it When you
stop and think about it if you kind of share
my worldview on things, Everything that the left does that
makes us mad helps us win. Now, we still wish
they didn't do a lot of those things, because a
lot of those things have horrible, irreversible consequences, such as
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mass killing of the young before birth. But everything they
do that makes us mad helps us win because it
separates them further from the American people. And the whole
point of winning is then to be able to stop
them from doing these bad things. And we just took
a major step forward today. And listen, I know the
certification today with ceremonial, but I think the symbolism carries
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added importance. Right now, I did want to tell you
that wild story about my car, and that is and
I'll make it short, but Ryan, you don't know the
funny twist on this. But there's this car I always
wanted and I just didn't feel right about paying what
they charged for it new, so I bought it used
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and I found the best deal on it, and the
best car that fit all my spec set a dealership
back in Ohio, and so you know, we're reputable dealership
all that good stuff. So I ordered this car up
used back in twenty twenty one and then have absolutely
loved the car. It's been the best car I think
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I've ever had. But it always seemed kind of loud
to me, and it always seemed just a little loose,
just a little loose, but such a great car in
so many other ways.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I kind of did mine.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
And then recently did I tell you this, Ryan, recently
it sounded like the bottom was going to fall off
the thing, to the point where I just stopped driving it.
And then they took it in and they had it
in and these are really good texts and everything else.
And then they get back and they say, well, we've
got to replace this in that, okay. And then they
get back to me and say, I don't know, supervisor
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just stepped in. Long story short, here's what it is, Ryan,
And there's a moral to this story.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I just don't know what it is yet.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But what they found was this car coming out of
the factory. The factory had failed to put a washer
in at a key joint on the bottom of the
car that holds the entire bottom of the car on
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and so over the years, because this thing is three
years old now, without the washer, it was cutting a
hole in that frame on the bottom of the car,
so it was growing looser and looser, or is it
more loose and more loose anyway, So they kept it.
They replaced the whole bottom of the car, put a
washer on this time, which the factory hadn't and Ryan,
(16:12):
it's the cars three years old.
Speaker 10 (16:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I drove it this morning, first time back from the shop.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
It's like a new car.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
It's even better than it ever was, like exponentially better.
Note ever well obviously because now it has this critical
piece it never yeah, but it's it's just amazing.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
What would have happened had this not been remedy taking
care of hernem would have fallen off.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
Literally they told you that.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
No, I made it. I mean it not right, because
it sounded like it was about to fall off. But
all I'm saying is, I guess the moral of the
story is never buy a used car without actually driving it.
But I loved this car for two years even without
that piece on it. Wow, even if I'd done a
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test drive, I probably wouldn't have noticed, just because the
car was so good. But it's just made me very determined,
and I do think it's really wise in many not
all cases to buy used you know, just because there's
so much depreciation right when it's.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Really it's the showroom floor and everything else.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
But but I think next time, I'm just going to find,
you know, the very best independent inspector I can get, you.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Know, Dan working on the Martino Show.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I've got people? Oh you got you do have people?
Do you have people?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I have such great memories of being on the Martino Show,
Like back in the day Tom gave me my starting radio.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I know exactly the person that could have inspected that
car before, Yes, okay, before you.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And it only costs one hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well that's great, but you know I'd pay more than
that to get like the deepest dive inspection possible.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It is the deepest dive, and especially I buy i've
used car. I'm going to do that anyway. I know
that's what everybody tuned in for today.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
But when we come back, we have an awful out
of ground we want to cover just some fun red
hats sound obviously with Trump being certified today and then
a lot of big local issues, including what is behind
we still haven't I think completely explained this. What are
your thoughts on why Denver traffic is getting worse faster
than any other city in the country.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
You're on the Dan Capla ship.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast, So thank
you for that.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Ryan. Yeah, we are talking about traffic today because this
big study just came out show it's.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Getting worse in Denver a faster and it's getting worse
anywhere else in the country, Like twenty percent worse in
the Denver Metro in one year.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
What do you think is behind that?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Eight five five for zero five eight two five five
text d an five seven seven through nine.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I know we talk about a lot of important life
and de have stuff on this show, but when it
comes to real life, Yeah, the roadways, they affect all
of us a ton. We just know by living it, right,
And it's not just in Denver, it's most places, not
all in Colorado. It is getting worse. And I know
we can have different explanations for different places, but let's
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start with the Denver Metro. What's making it worse here
and what is the fix? So talking about that, I
told my boring car story which really came down to
we discovered three years after I bought it that the
factory had failed to put a washer in and a
critical joint, and it had been tearing away at the
bottom of the frame on the car, and.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
The whole bottom was going to fall off.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
And now that they've fixed it, it's magnificent. The car
is just better than new. Dan, I bought a brand
new car in two thousand and seven, a month after
dealership called me said I hadn't signed one document. It
was to acknowledge that I knew the car was damaged
and repaired. I was never told that, says Alexa. She
returned it and bought a different car. We are starting
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to sound like Tom Martine's show, right, which is not
all bad. I mean that show has been around for
a long long time. It was about thirty years ago
kind enough to give me my start on radio. I'd
been on TV at Channel four as part of his
Trouble Shooters show, and boy, you heard it all on
that show.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Ryan.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Do you ever work the Troubleshooter Show or listen to
the Trouble Show on occasion?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yes, you just hear it all.
Speaker 9 (20:13):
Oh, it's coming directions. I don't know how they heard those.
Catstualy does it too.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
It is amazing.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Dan was yesterday, April Fool's Day. Schumer saying Biden was
a great president was so laughable. Yeah, I just boy,
I just hope Schumer keeps talking like this.
Speaker 10 (20:31):
I want to play you a little bit of something
you said last year.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Take a look.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
I talked to President Biden, you know, regularly, sometimes several
times in a week, or usually several times in a week.
His mental acuity is great, it's fine.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
It's as good as it's been over the years.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
All this right wing propaganda that his mental acuity has
declined is wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Wow, And you think about, and I think forever as
it should be, the credibility of so many on the left,
including Schumer, just destroy in the eyes of the American people.
I think, guys, tell me if i'm I think that
most voters just assume that virtually all there may be
some noble exceptions, virtually all elected officials tell some falsehoods,
(21:15):
and that's wrong, right, that's just you know, truth will
sets you free, and that's wrong. But I think there
is a line, and it's like obscenity, you know, when
you see it in the minds of voters as a mass,
that you just shouldn't lie about anything, But there are
certain things you just cannot lie about and keep any
credibility with the American voters, and they cover up to
(21:36):
hide the fact that the president doesn't have the mental
capacity to protect the country and do his job.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I don't think that the media, the shumers of the world,
the pelosis, etc. With a lot of Americans, they're just
done and I think it's going to hurt the Democrats
for a long time as well. Let's go back up
to Beautiful Boulder. Eric, you're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Welcome.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Hey, Dan, I just wanted to give you my theory
of why the traffic is getting so bad. Yeah, I
think it's a culture. I think it's a culture of
speeding and you know, doing wheelies, motorcycle games, driving around
doing wheelies on their bikes, and people racing. My wife
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and I live by I seventy and Wadsworth and during
the summer, with the window open, you can hear the
just people going matt bonkers on the highways. I don't
know it's motorcycles or hot rods, but it goes on
for hours and hours and it's so loud that it's
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got to be people racing on the highways.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
What a great point.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Thank you for that, Eric, And I think it goes
to a broader point we've talked about, which is you've
got the left which is undermining law enforcement but not
funding law enforcement adequately, not giving law enforcement the support
that it needs in other ways. So as the left
undermines law enforcement, you're going to have less what enforcement,
including on the roadways. And so to Eric's point, yeah,
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that may contribute in its own way. I think it
combines with some other factors. And this brings us to
where I thought Eric might go with it as well,
which is, you know, you've got this commitment, this extreme
commitment to this woke cars are bad thing, and so
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you've got people like Polis and others on the left
going out and doing this really idiotic stuff to try
to be anti car and pro bike, for example, saying
that oh yeah no, under certain conditions, now bikes don't
even have to stop it stop signs, and this insane
you know, lane filtering they call it, which is really
(23:53):
turned into lane splitting, where motorcyclists can just drive down
between cars, you know, on the highway for example. Just
stuff like that that just discombobulates our roadways.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I'll give you an example, Ryan.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
We went down to we went down to the Nutcracker,
kind of an annual tradition. My daughter danced and my
wife was on you know, the board of the belly
and all that stuff. So we go down to the Nutcracker,
which is beautifully absolutely beautifully done downtown. As we're walking down,
here's this huge herd of us as pedestrians crossing a street.
(24:29):
And here comes this girl, probably in her twenties or so,
driving right through the middle of us on this scooter.
And she's in one of these you know, they've torn
up downtown Denver to build these big green striped lanes
now as some kind of lefty sociology project. And she's screaming,
I have the right of way. I have the right
(24:49):
of way as she pinballs off pedestrians and everybody's doing
you don't have the right of way because pedestrians always
have the right of way. But then I got to thinking,
in crazy leftist Denver, was she right now? I can't
believe she was, but she believed she was because of
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all the goofy stuff they've done. I mean, they built
this lane. Lord knows how much it costs and it
tied up traffic forever. They built this big lane which
apparently had her thinking she had the right to plow
through pedestrians.
Speaker 9 (25:23):
That's one of the worst things to happen to downtown Denver.
And as you know, Dan, I used to drive Uber
and lift down there a lot. And when they dumped
and that literally, this is what happened. They ambushed this
scooter is a function of Lime or Uber or whatever.
They just dumped all these scooters. There's no training required
all night, there's no license required. These people get on there.
(25:43):
They're high as a kite or they're drunk, or they're both. Yeah,
and they don't know how to operate this thing. And
everybody could see that coming. Yeah, absolutely, everybody could see
and go out and try to find the stats.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Ryan.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Every now and then you'll see some stats pop up,
But shouldn't they have a comprehensive one source stats for Okay,
how many people have been brain damaged on these things?
How many people have had surgical fractures? Right on downline?
Because everybody could see it come in the day they
put that first scooter out there. Oh yeah, no way,
somebody who's high or drunk is going to ride on these.
No way somebody's going to speed. I mean, you just
(26:17):
put it out there knowing you were going to just
have a.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
I've had to dodge them so many times down there,
and if I wasn't like really paying attention, it wouldn't
have been my fault. But they're darting right now in
front of traffic and.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
It's nuts, absolutely nuts. Yeah, But everybody knew that the
minute they put them out there. And you know what's
and I don't mean to get all poetic or anything,
but what drives me crazy And that's part of I mean,
the job I've done for forty years representing all these
injured people and survivors have killed people, which is, where's
the humanity?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I mean, the people.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Who decided, whether they're city officials, the company, whatever, they
decided to dump all these scooters out there. I mean,
ever stopped to sink. Wait a second, this is somebody's child.
You've got children, this is somebody's child. You know, who's
gonna get brain damage for life on this Who's gonna
get shredded, who's going to get their limbs broken? All
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this other terrible stuff? Do you think they even think
about that?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Now?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
For the First, the left, it's about anything to undermine cars,
any alternative to cars for the company. It's about maximizing profits.
And listen, I understand everything in life carries some risk.
You're probably listening in the car and there's real risk there. Right,
I'll never be in more danger than I am when
I get my car to travel home tonight. I get that,
(27:40):
But there's a social utility that outweighs that risk. What
is the social utility that outweighs the certainty you're going
to have all these broken, shredded bodies, including some dead people,
when you dump all these scooters into the middle of
a bunch of drunks and eye people. What's the social
utility that justifies that carnage? Yeah, but do they even
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think about that, they even think about the humanity of it?
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I don't think so. Eight fi five for zero five
A two five five.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
But that is a common streak on the left is
I'm not talking about Democrats, but the left that runs
that party is just the lack of respect for human life.
And we talk about it most often, you know, the
mass killing of the young before birth, but it plays
out in so many other ways where just these individual
human lives just don't have any values to the value
(28:33):
to these lefty policymakers. It's just part of their big
state worldview. You're on the Dankplas.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
Show and now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Snicky Glass, I never heard of her before, but I
was watching a clip on X and looks like a
pretty good monologue yesterday at the Golden Globes.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Now, some of you may know me as a stand
up comedian and from my appearances on Roast, but I
am not here rose to tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I want you to know that.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
And how could I really You're all so famous, so talented,
so powerful.
Speaker 7 (29:07):
I mean, you could really.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Do anything, I mean except tell the country who to
vote for.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
But it's okay, you'll.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
It's just perfect and a perfect timing. Hey, if you
just joined us, thank you. We're talking about this big
study came out today, National study and showed that the
traffic is getting worse in the Denver metro quicker than
any other place in the country, like twenty percent worse
this year than last year. And we all know it's
true just from driving it. But why why is it
(29:33):
getting worse? So we're getting specifics from folks and my
good friend our text did this. One traffic issue is
the fact that Denver is the only major metro area
in the country that doesn't have a completed beltway. Golden
objected to the route and the northwest portion was never built. Yeah,
fascinating on that, and that would make sense. Let's go
(29:56):
to Kenon Denver. You're on the dan Kaplosha. I'll get
to some texts and well.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Them can.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Way dan I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Sure, what do you think?
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Well, longtime listener. Thanks back in the capitalist space. And
something that was mentioned earlier about those list scooters is
actually has a sticker on them that says they're not
supposed to ride them on the sidewalk.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Think anybody ever reads that?
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Uh? Yeah, I have.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
I also had a good friend of my sons who
have wrote on them as well, and he fell off,
not congregated, not drunk, right, right, there's no discraimer on him.
But those foods go anywhere from twenty five to thirty
miles per hour.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Oh my goodness, it's I mean, you just know it's
a meat grinder, right. Whoever dumped those in the middle
of Denver, whoever in city government approved they just knew
they were about to get a lot of kids, a
lot of people shredded, and traffic. Obviously, it interrupts the
floid traffic. You got all these things darting around.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Absolutely, I live in the Barnum area. I'm sure if
you're familiar with that area, but it's basically third in
Central was created by P. T. Barnum.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
And whoa, it's it's.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
So it's a circus out there.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Absolutely, I guess it has been a certain sotion. The
Bartum Park that is over in that area was created
by PG Barnum and it was originally a pinion.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Wow, what great history. But well, thank you for the call, Kenon,
thank you for listening to this show. Yeah, the scooter thing,
it's it's just one of those things. And it was
I was listening to some tape over the weekend, fascinating
tape on righteous anger, because you know, we all try
to control our anger, right, But the point of this
(31:48):
tape I was listening to is wait a second. Often
when you get angry, it's it's just because you are
acknowledging your worst and the worth of others. And if
you don't get angry at certain things, then there's something
wrong with you. And I really think this is one
(32:08):
of those things. I mean, if you just have respect
for human life and the inherent dignity of human life.
All these politicians, corporate types, lefties who decided to just
dump all these scooters out in the middle of a city,
knowing darn well that they were going to be driven
by all young people, also the drunk people, all sorts
of high people in and out of traffic, and you're
(32:28):
just gonna have a lot, a lot of broken bodies
and serious injuries and ruined lives. But they didn't care.
It fit their political agenda. It led to some profits whatever,
And again I come back to the Yeah, there's danger
in everything, including driving cars, but you got to balance
social utility and you know freedom, you bet you know.
That's the core of the founding of this country. But
(32:53):
that doesn't mean that you have to legalize and support
and endorse absolutely everything under the sun, no matter how
much harm it's going to cause in exchange for very
minimal benefit. Like we wouldn't legalize heroin, right, It wouldn't
legalize heroin, but the left convinced us, with the help
(33:15):
of a few on the right. I think we're well intentioned,
but just didn't see where this would actually end. You know,
Oh yeah, you gotta legalize this Krakawana. They called it marijuana.
It's a freedom thing. But as I pointed out at
the time, but you wouldn't legalize heroines, So if it's
truly a freedom thing, you can't call it a freedom
thing when you wouldn't legalize heroin.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I had more.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Respect for the people, as kooky as they were, and
it would be suicidal for society. As Elton John just
pointed out, the legalization of marijuana has been But the
people who just came all the way out and said, yeah,
legalize all drugs, right, total nut sell right, But at
least they were intellectually consistent. The people who say, no,
legalize is marijuana, legalize this high potency pod. It's a
(33:58):
freedom thing. But yeah, no, we couldn't legalized crack. Yeah no,
it's just someday Hopefully that mistake will get fixed too.
Some more text on traffic wide so bad around here.
A large part of oid traffic is bad is people
camp in the left lane and are oblivious to keep
right except to pass and slow. I think some people
(34:19):
just do that on purpose. It's some kind of power
trip for them. I think we have more traffic because
we keep adding toll lanes. Not everyone can afford to
pay the price gouging during high traffic times. Fascinating boy,
I bet you that that is very, very true. And
then we'll follow up on some of these other suggestions tomorrow.
We know there needs to be a fix. What is
(34:40):
that fix you talk about, like people running for governor
and everything else. I've got to believe a lot of
those bread and butter issues if somebody could come up
with some great, brilliant, workable, true idea that would work.
Ry and thank you again. Great to see again you
as well. Kelly, join us tomorrow on The Dankapla Show.
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Oh yeah, that was all American Way today.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
And what a beautiful site that was and sound that
was right as Kamala Harris had to say and do
this before the world.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
The state of the vote for the President of the
United States, as delivered to the President of the Senate
is as follows. The whole number of the electors appointed
to vote for President of the United States is five
hundred and thirty eight. Within that whole number, the majority
is two hundred and seventy. The votes for President of
(00:46):
the United States are as follows.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Donald J.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Trump of the state of Florida has received three hundred
and twelve votes. Kamala D.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Harris, Yeah, that deserves some across. You wanted to just
sort of step right urda ah, you gotta let that
point of the little bath.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Kamala DE Harris of the state of California has received
two hundred and twenty six votes.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
You know that second part had to be even tougher
for and who was cheering on that second part? That
must have been the Republicans too, right, And listen, I
don't sit here gloating or taking any delight in her
misery here because she's a Democrat who lost, That's not
the point. The point is she was part of a group.
She was part of a group that really undermined America.
(01:38):
But by trying to abuse the legal system, employ this
lawfare to try to jail somebody they could not beat
at the polls, and then even after these multiple assassination attempts,
saying some things that went way beyond the bounds, knowing
they would increase the danger to him. And so in
so many different ways. No, it's not about her person,
(02:00):
but it's so good for her to have to do that,
and for America in the world to see it, because
you know, this is a crossroads.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Election and and you know, good.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Defeated good prevailed here. I'm not saying good prevailed over evil,
but good prevailed over evil actions, good prevailed over evil policies.
And and it's just right and just that she had
to stand up there and do that today. Eight five
five for zero five eight two five five the number
text d A N five seven seven three nine. And
(02:35):
they we're also talking about here in Colorado phil Weiser
declaring for governor. Is that another sign that hey, wait
a second, there's an opportunity here for the GOP because
obviously Phil Weiser, there's nothing to really commend him as governor.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Seems like a nice guy.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I've enjoyed him when we've had him on the show,
But I would bet you the biggest stake in town
there wasn't a single water cooler today or over the
weekend where anybody was talking about, Hey, you see Phil
under the governor's race and eight five Z five and
two five five and you've got to text me and
tell me DA N five seven seven three nine. Why
traffic has gotten so much worse in Denver than any
(03:13):
other city in the country, Not meaning that we're more
congested than every other city, but it's gotten worse faster.
And as those stats just came out today, Denver's congestion
got twenty percent worse over the course of the past year.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
No other city in America got that much worse in
just a year.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
So why what's going on here in the Denver metro
let's start on the phone lines with Eric from Denver.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You're on the Dan Kapito Show.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
By the way, projected two to five inches of snow
in the metro starting later tonight ending probably late tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Welcome Eric, Hi Dan, you greater mericon Greater.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
American Eric, Yeah, you as well. How did you celebrate
the Trump's certification today?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I still have my banners. I'm gonna have my wife
shad you the pictures my banners my driveway.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Please describe them for everybody.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
I still have them. I am my yard signed. Remember
I told you it beautiful, stolen, beautiful. I replaced them
and they're still out there in Joe January the twentieth,
my brother beautiful.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I would have such a yard sign, but I value
intimacy too much.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Or well more than the yard sign. I should say, you.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Told me to be careful, our tendative that you didn't
want me to go through when I was mad, But
they sole much Trump yard sign.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Anyway, before I run out of break, you know what.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
You have to do because you're I remember that beautiful
picture you sent me from the where we're all wearing
our Trump stuff at a Trump party. You've got to
go to the inaugural ball that's coming up on the
twentieth that Lynn Cottrell and Bow and the crew are
putting on over at the High A Tech Center.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Take a look at that. I think it's going to
be a great party.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Okay, Mike Boyle over at your other you know, your competitors,
he invited me.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Oh wonderful.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That'll be a great time. Yeah, Well look forward to
seeing you there. Hopefully, hopefully I'll be able to get there.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
I could go to boats. Dan, that's a beautiful invitation
coming from you. How could I refuse that? Great American?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
What do you think? Yes? What did you call on?
My friend?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
I'm just glad you asked that question right before you
from me on the air. It's these ridiculous barriers, my brother,
These yellow and white things that are holding up the
police force, the ambulance, the fire trucks. My god, you
can't squeeze through, and all by the hospitals, for God's sake, Dan,
(05:50):
they're all they're everywhere. If I was telling Kelly, you're
a great producer that, if I was promotion, love to
see Greg Lopez run on that if they had any
guts to remove them all and put everything back the way.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
They were great campaign slogan, I'll remove all barriers.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Yeah, and then the bikes, I mean all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Oh, you're right, Eric, if you tried to go through
a downtown Denver now and these other places where all
of a sudden they've made bikes king and they've carved
out all these lanes, bikes only this this yield the bikes,
and I might see one bike down there a week
other than couriers, right.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
I mean, that's probably why people don't travel down there,
white and yellow barriers for God's sake. Another thing, Dan,
that the Democrat, that black. I'm not the councilman. He
might have been the curtain or he doesn't he was.
I gotta it's a blank, but I knew his name.
(06:56):
He was a horrible congressman.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
But he with that.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Law to where we have to pay seventy five dollars
a month for our our tresh cards could be dumped
every Thursday. And if the Republicans would you know.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Just bread and butter and kitchen table issues. Yeah, you do,
you pay a fee and Boulder, Dan, Oh, I don't
live there.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I haven't lived there since my wedding day. Literally, I
moved on my wedding day.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Oh where you stay at my brother?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Well at home? No, we're.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Oh yeah, we are down here. Our studio is down
here in the Denver text and are Denver part of it?
And I literally can get home in a good night
three minutes.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Well, Randy Corporan just moved down there.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Okay, Well, it's going to be a party, it's going
to be a part of Yeah, it's.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
A wonderful man. Guy.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
If I hear loud noise, I'll know it's Randy South.
But well, Eric, great talking to you.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
My friends. Off there's no office. Yeah, okay, okay over
there on Parker and Yale. Okay, well, Eric, appreciate the call,
my friend. I hope we see at that inaugural party.
Thanks Dan, thank you, you take care. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Speaking of Boulder, let's go up there and talk to Kevin.
You're on the Dankaplas show.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Welcome.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Yeah, a few days ago your substitute had on a
senator Byron Pelton, and he was talking about Fentandel, Colorado.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Okay, well, you.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Know, I live in Boulder now, but I used to
live in rocky Ford. And there's a line of small
towns from Pueblo to Lamar along the river. And it's
well known. And now I don't know if if state
authorities know this or county. Uh, maybe you can talk
(08:53):
to someone, but it's well known among the locals and
the police that there's a chapter of the crew living
in rocky Ford and rocky Ford. In rocky Ford, Yeah,
and rocky Ford is known to be the center of
distribution for Colorado in fentanyl.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I'd never heard such a thing, and.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
It that's that's what the locals know.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Hey, can I ask you a quick question, Kevin and
I will follow up. Then, we just finished a big
case down in Baca County and it's just such rich
history down there and everything else. I'm disturbed here this
rocky Ford business. But but let me ask you, not
a big rocky Ford the Boulder pipeline. How'd you end
up in Boulder from rocky Ford.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Well, I lived in Boulder for a while before I
about a place in rocky Ford to invest in.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Okay, and you're back because Coach Prime brought you back?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Coach Prime brought you back? You wanted to be part
of that great resurgence of the CU team. But Kevin
appreciate the call check into this Rocky Ford thing. I
had not heard that eight five five. I have a
two five five the number when we come back. Two
things I do want to tell you about this crazy
thing that just happened with my car, and it is
(10:09):
it is life changing. And again I don't expect anybody
to be interested in except me, but it is absolutely fascinating.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I think i'd seen it all before. And why do
you think Denver.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Has just had the biggest surge in traffic delays of
any city in the country.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
What do you think is behind that? You're on the
Dan Kapla.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
Show and now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
I think that President Trump not only has will, he
has all these possibilities and it's not just talk.
Speaker 9 (10:40):
I really count on him and I think that our
people really count on him.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, the world's about to change so much for the better.
Eight five five for zero five eight two five five
the number takes d a N five seven seven three
nine and really just had to be inescapable for the
left today. I mean, they'd never admit it, right because
they view truth and honesty as a weakness. But it
has to be crystal clear to them that their whole
(11:06):
J six pitch in this election, building their campaign around it,
in abortion, et cetera, thoroughly rejected by the American people
and very significantly on both fronts as well.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
So how.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Rich it had to be today not the word they'd use,
you know, if Kamala Harris have to stand up there
herself and not just announce his incredibly impressive three twelve total,
but are really pathetic to twenty six because this was
a shellacking and it's not likely to get better for them,
particularly when they're just doubling down on this stuff that
the American people, they've rendered their verdict that the Democrats
(11:43):
lied about Biden. It was a major cover up. It
was a reason the Democrats lost, and they're just going
to double down on.
Speaker 10 (11:49):
That INTERRITI Well, what do you say to Americans who
feel as though you and other top Democrats misled them
about President Biden's mental acuity?
Speaker 6 (12:00):
We didn't, And let's look. Let's look at President Biden.
He's had an amazing record. The legislation we passed one
of the most significant groups of legislation since the New
Deal since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, putting in two hundred
and thirty five judges a record, and.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
He's a patriot, he's a great guy.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
And when he stepped down, he did it on his
own because he thought it was better not only for
the Democratic Party, for the America.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
We should all salute him. We should all salute him.
Speaker 10 (12:33):
Do you feel, as we have this conversation today, that
President Biden could serve another four years had he stayed
in the race and potentially won.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Well, I'm not going to speculate, as I said, I
think his record is a stellar one and he'll go
down in history as a really outstanding president.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Wow, just I mean, please keep talking like that. I
hope he says that every single day.
Speaker 10 (12:57):
I want to play you a little bit of something
you said last year.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Take a I talk to President Biden, you know, regularly,
or sometimes several times in a week, or usually several
times in a week. His mental acuity is great, it's fine.
It's as good as it's been over the years. All
this right wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined
is wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
So I just hope Schumer keeps doing what he's doing
because all that stuff, it's interesting, isn't it When you
stop and think about it if you kind of share
my worldview on things, Everything that the left does that
makes us mad helps us win. Now, we still wish
they didn't do a lot of those things, because a
lot of those things have horrible, irreversible consequences, such as
(13:43):
mass killing of the young before birth. But everything they
do that makes us mad helps us win because it
separates them further from the American people. And the whole
point of winning is then to be able to stop
them from doing these bad things. And we just took
a major step forward today. And listen, I know the
certification today with ceremonial, but I think the symbolism carries
(14:06):
added importance. Right now, I did want to tell you
that wild story about my car, and that is and
I'll make it short, but Ryan, you don't know the
funny twist on this. But there's this car I always
wanted and I just didn't feel right about paying what
they charged for it new, so I bought it used
(14:28):
and I found the best deal on it, and the
best car that fit all my spec set a dealership
back in Ohio, and so you know, we're reputable dealership
all that good stuff. So I ordered this car up
used back in twenty twenty one and then have absolutely
loved the car. It's been the best car I think
(14:50):
I've ever had. But it always seemed kind of loud
to me, and it always seemed just a little loose,
just a little loose, but such a great car in
so many other ways.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I kind of did mine.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
And then recently did I tell you this, Ryan, recently
it sounded like the bottom was going to fall off
the thing, to the point where I just stopped driving it.
And then they took it in and they had it
in and these are really good texts and everything else.
And then they get back and they say, well, we've
got to replace this in that, okay. And then they
get back to me and say, I don't know, supervisor
(15:26):
just stepped in. Long story short, here's what it is, Ryan,
And there's a moral to this story.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I just don't know what it is yet.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But what they found was this car coming out of
the factory. The factory had failed to put a washer
in at a key joint on the bottom of the
car that holds the entire bottom of the car on
(15:51):
and so over the years, because this thing is three
years old now, without the washer, it was cutting a
hole in that frame on the bottom of the car,
so it was growing looser and looser, or is it
more loose and more loose anyway, So they kept it.
They replaced the whole bottom of the car, put a
washer on this time, which the factory hadn't and Ryan,
(16:12):
it's the cars three years old.
Speaker 10 (16:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I drove it this morning, first time back from the shop.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
It's like a new car.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
It's even better than it ever was, like exponentially better.
Note ever well obviously because now it has this critical
piece it never yeah, but it's it's just amazing.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
What would have happened had this not been remedy taking
care of hernem would have fallen off.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
Literally they told you that.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
No, I made it. I mean it not right, because
it sounded like it was about to fall off. But
all I'm saying is, I guess the moral of the
story is never buy a used car without actually driving it.
But I loved this car for two years even without
that piece on it. Wow, even if I'd done a
(16:56):
test drive, I probably wouldn't have noticed, just because the
car was so good. But it's just made me very determined,
and I do think it's really wise in many not
all cases to buy used you know, just because there's
so much depreciation right when it's.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Really it's the showroom floor and everything else.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
But but I think next time, I'm just going to find,
you know, the very best independent inspector I can get, you.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Know, Dan working on the Martino Show.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I've got people? Oh you got you do have people?
Do you have people?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I have such great memories of being on the Martino Show,
Like back in the day Tom gave me my starting radio.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I know exactly the person that could have inspected that
car before, Yes, okay, before you.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And it only costs one hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well that's great, but you know I'd pay more than
that to get like the deepest dive inspection possible.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It is the deepest dive, and especially I buy i've
used car. I'm going to do that anyway. I know
that's what everybody tuned in for today.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
But when we come back, we have an awful out
of ground we want to cover just some fun red
hats sound obviously with Trump being certified today and then
a lot of big local issues, including what is behind
we still haven't I think completely explained this. What are
your thoughts on why Denver traffic is getting worse faster
than any other city in the country.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
You're on the Dan Capla ship.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast, So thank
you for that.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Ryan. Yeah, we are talking about traffic today because this
big study just came out show it's.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Getting worse in Denver a faster and it's getting worse
anywhere else in the country, Like twenty percent worse in
the Denver Metro in one year.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
What do you think is behind that?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Eight five five for zero five eight two five five
text d an five seven seven through nine.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I know we talk about a lot of important life
and de have stuff on this show, but when it
comes to real life, Yeah, the roadways, they affect all
of us a ton. We just know by living it, right,
And it's not just in Denver, it's most places, not
all in Colorado. It is getting worse. And I know
we can have different explanations for different places, but let's
(19:06):
start with the Denver Metro. What's making it worse here
and what is the fix? So talking about that, I
told my boring car story which really came down to
we discovered three years after I bought it that the
factory had failed to put a washer in and a
critical joint, and it had been tearing away at the
bottom of the frame on the car, and.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
The whole bottom was going to fall off.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
And now that they've fixed it, it's magnificent. The car
is just better than new. Dan, I bought a brand
new car in two thousand and seven, a month after
dealership called me said I hadn't signed one document. It
was to acknowledge that I knew the car was damaged
and repaired. I was never told that, says Alexa. She
returned it and bought a different car. We are starting
(19:50):
to sound like Tom Martine's show, right, which is not
all bad. I mean that show has been around for
a long long time. It was about thirty years ago
kind enough to give me my start on radio. I'd
been on TV at Channel four as part of his
Trouble Shooters show, and boy, you heard it all on
that show.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Ryan.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Do you ever work the Troubleshooter Show or listen to
the Trouble Show on occasion?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yes, you just hear it all.
Speaker 9 (20:13):
Oh, it's coming directions. I don't know how they heard those.
Catstualy does it too.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
It is amazing.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Dan was yesterday, April Fool's Day. Schumer saying Biden was
a great president was so laughable. Yeah, I just boy,
I just hope Schumer keeps talking like this.
Speaker 10 (20:31):
I want to play you a little bit of something
you said last year.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Take a look.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
I talked to President Biden, you know, regularly, sometimes several
times in a week, or usually several times in a week.
His mental acuity is great, it's fine.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
It's as good as it's been over the years.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
All this right wing propaganda that his mental acuity has
declined is wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Wow, And you think about, and I think forever as
it should be, the credibility of so many on the left,
including Schumer, just destroy in the eyes of the American people.
I think, guys, tell me if i'm I think that
most voters just assume that virtually all there may be
some noble exceptions, virtually all elected officials tell some falsehoods,
(21:15):
and that's wrong, right, that's just you know, truth will
sets you free, and that's wrong. But I think there
is a line, and it's like obscenity, you know, when
you see it in the minds of voters as a mass,
that you just shouldn't lie about anything, But there are
certain things you just cannot lie about and keep any
credibility with the American voters, and they cover up to
(21:36):
hide the fact that the president doesn't have the mental
capacity to protect the country and do his job.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I don't think that the media, the shumers of the world,
the pelosis, etc. With a lot of Americans, they're just
done and I think it's going to hurt the Democrats
for a long time as well. Let's go back up
to Beautiful Boulder. Eric, you're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Welcome.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Hey, Dan, I just wanted to give you my theory
of why the traffic is getting so bad. Yeah, I
think it's a culture. I think it's a culture of
speeding and you know, doing wheelies, motorcycle games, driving around
doing wheelies on their bikes, and people racing. My wife
(22:24):
and I live by I seventy and Wadsworth and during
the summer, with the window open, you can hear the
just people going matt bonkers on the highways. I don't
know it's motorcycles or hot rods, but it goes on
for hours and hours and it's so loud that it's
(22:46):
got to be people racing on the highways.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
What a great point.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Thank you for that, Eric, And I think it goes
to a broader point we've talked about, which is you've
got the left which is undermining law enforcement but not
funding law enforcement adequately, not giving law enforcement the support
that it needs in other ways. So as the left
undermines law enforcement, you're going to have less what enforcement,
including on the roadways. And so to Eric's point, yeah,
(23:11):
that may contribute in its own way. I think it
combines with some other factors. And this brings us to
where I thought Eric might go with it as well,
which is, you know, you've got this commitment, this extreme
commitment to this woke cars are bad thing, and so
(23:32):
you've got people like Polis and others on the left
going out and doing this really idiotic stuff to try
to be anti car and pro bike, for example, saying
that oh yeah no, under certain conditions, now bikes don't
even have to stop it stop signs, and this insane
you know, lane filtering they call it, which is really
(23:53):
turned into lane splitting, where motorcyclists can just drive down
between cars, you know, on the highway for example. Just
stuff like that that just discombobulates our roadways.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I'll give you an example, Ryan.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
We went down to we went down to the Nutcracker,
kind of an annual tradition. My daughter danced and my
wife was on you know, the board of the belly
and all that stuff. So we go down to the Nutcracker,
which is beautifully absolutely beautifully done downtown. As we're walking down,
here's this huge herd of us as pedestrians crossing a street.
(24:29):
And here comes this girl, probably in her twenties or so,
driving right through the middle of us on this scooter.
And she's in one of these you know, they've torn
up downtown Denver to build these big green striped lanes
now as some kind of lefty sociology project. And she's screaming,
I have the right of way. I have the right
(24:49):
of way as she pinballs off pedestrians and everybody's doing
you don't have the right of way because pedestrians always
have the right of way. But then I got to thinking,
in crazy leftist Denver, was she right now? I can't
believe she was, but she believed she was because of
(25:09):
all the goofy stuff they've done. I mean, they built
this lane. Lord knows how much it costs and it
tied up traffic forever. They built this big lane which
apparently had her thinking she had the right to plow
through pedestrians.
Speaker 9 (25:23):
That's one of the worst things to happen to downtown Denver.
And as you know, Dan, I used to drive Uber
and lift down there a lot. And when they dumped
and that literally, this is what happened. They ambushed this
scooter is a function of Lime or Uber or whatever.
They just dumped all these scooters. There's no training required
all night, there's no license required. These people get on there.
(25:43):
They're high as a kite or they're drunk, or they're both. Yeah,
and they don't know how to operate this thing. And
everybody could see that coming. Yeah, absolutely, everybody could see
and go out and try to find the stats.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Ryan.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Every now and then you'll see some stats pop up,
But shouldn't they have a comprehensive one source stats for Okay,
how many people have been brain damaged on these things?
How many people have had surgical fractures? Right on downline?
Because everybody could see it come in the day they
put that first scooter out there. Oh yeah, no way,
somebody who's high or drunk is going to ride on these.
No way somebody's going to speed. I mean, you just
(26:17):
put it out there knowing you were going to just
have a.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
I've had to dodge them so many times down there,
and if I wasn't like really paying attention, it wouldn't
have been my fault. But they're darting right now in
front of traffic and.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
It's nuts, absolutely nuts. Yeah, But everybody knew that the
minute they put them out there. And you know what's
and I don't mean to get all poetic or anything,
but what drives me crazy And that's part of I mean,
the job I've done for forty years representing all these
injured people and survivors have killed people, which is, where's
the humanity?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I mean, the people.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Who decided, whether they're city officials, the company, whatever, they
decided to dump all these scooters out there. I mean,
ever stopped to sink. Wait a second, this is somebody's child.
You've got children, this is somebody's child. You know, who's
gonna get brain damage for life on this Who's gonna
get shredded, who's going to get their limbs broken? All
(27:14):
this other terrible stuff? Do you think they even think
about that?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Now?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
For the First, the left, it's about anything to undermine cars,
any alternative to cars for the company. It's about maximizing profits.
And listen, I understand everything in life carries some risk.
You're probably listening in the car and there's real risk there. Right,
I'll never be in more danger than I am when
I get my car to travel home tonight. I get that,
(27:40):
But there's a social utility that outweighs that risk. What
is the social utility that outweighs the certainty you're going
to have all these broken, shredded bodies, including some dead people,
when you dump all these scooters into the middle of
a bunch of drunks and eye people. What's the social
utility that justifies that carnage? Yeah, but do they even
(28:04):
think about that, they even think about the humanity of it?
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I don't think so. Eight fi five for zero five
A two five five.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
But that is a common streak on the left is
I'm not talking about Democrats, but the left that runs
that party is just the lack of respect for human life.
And we talk about it most often, you know, the
mass killing of the young before birth, but it plays
out in so many other ways where just these individual
human lives just don't have any values to the value
(28:33):
to these lefty policymakers. It's just part of their big
state worldview. You're on the Dankplas.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
Show and now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Snicky Glass, I never heard of her before, but I
was watching a clip on X and looks like a
pretty good monologue yesterday at the Golden Globes.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Now, some of you may know me as a stand
up comedian and from my appearances on Roast, but I
am not here rose to tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I want you to know that.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
And how could I really You're all so famous, so talented,
so powerful.
Speaker 7 (29:07):
I mean, you could really.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Do anything, I mean except tell the country who to
vote for.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
But it's okay, you'll.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
It's just perfect and a perfect timing. Hey, if you
just joined us, thank you. We're talking about this big
study came out today, National study and showed that the
traffic is getting worse in the Denver metro quicker than
any other place in the country, like twenty percent worse
this year than last year. And we all know it's
true just from driving it. But why why is it
(29:33):
getting worse? So we're getting specifics from folks and my
good friend our text did this. One traffic issue is
the fact that Denver is the only major metro area
in the country that doesn't have a completed beltway. Golden
objected to the route and the northwest portion was never built. Yeah,
fascinating on that, and that would make sense. Let's go
(29:56):
to Kenon Denver. You're on the dan Kaplosha. I'll get
to some texts and well.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Them can.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Way dan I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Sure, what do you think?
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Well, longtime listener. Thanks back in the capitalist space. And
something that was mentioned earlier about those list scooters is
actually has a sticker on them that says they're not
supposed to ride them on the sidewalk.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Think anybody ever reads that?
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Uh? Yeah, I have.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
I also had a good friend of my sons who
have wrote on them as well, and he fell off,
not congregated, not drunk, right, right, there's no discraimer on him.
But those foods go anywhere from twenty five to thirty
miles per hour.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Oh my goodness, it's I mean, you just know it's
a meat grinder, right. Whoever dumped those in the middle
of Denver, whoever in city government approved they just knew
they were about to get a lot of kids, a
lot of people shredded, and traffic. Obviously, it interrupts the
floid traffic. You got all these things darting around.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Absolutely, I live in the Barnum area. I'm sure if
you're familiar with that area, but it's basically third in
Central was created by P. T. Barnum.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
And whoa, it's it's.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
So it's a circus out there.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Absolutely, I guess it has been a certain sotion. The
Bartum Park that is over in that area was created
by PG Barnum and it was originally a pinion.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Wow, what great history. But well, thank you for the call, Kenon,
thank you for listening to this show. Yeah, the scooter thing,
it's it's just one of those things. And it was
I was listening to some tape over the weekend, fascinating
tape on righteous anger, because you know, we all try
to control our anger, right, But the point of this
(31:48):
tape I was listening to is wait a second. Often
when you get angry, it's it's just because you are
acknowledging your worst and the worth of others. And if
you don't get angry at certain things, then there's something
wrong with you. And I really think this is one
(32:08):
of those things. I mean, if you just have respect
for human life and the inherent dignity of human life.
All these politicians, corporate types, lefties who decided to just
dump all these scooters out in the middle of a city,
knowing darn well that they were going to be driven
by all young people, also the drunk people, all sorts
of high people in and out of traffic, and you're
(32:28):
just gonna have a lot, a lot of broken bodies
and serious injuries and ruined lives. But they didn't care.
It fit their political agenda. It led to some profits whatever,
And again I come back to the Yeah, there's danger
in everything, including driving cars, but you got to balance
social utility and you know freedom, you bet you know.
That's the core of the founding of this country. But
(32:53):
that doesn't mean that you have to legalize and support
and endorse absolutely everything under the sun, no matter how
much harm it's going to cause in exchange for very
minimal benefit. Like we wouldn't legalize heroin, right, It wouldn't
legalize heroin, but the left convinced us, with the help
(33:15):
of a few on the right. I think we're well intentioned,
but just didn't see where this would actually end. You know,
Oh yeah, you gotta legalize this Krakawana. They called it marijuana.
It's a freedom thing. But as I pointed out at
the time, but you wouldn't legalize heroines, So if it's
truly a freedom thing, you can't call it a freedom
thing when you wouldn't legalize heroin.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I had more.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Respect for the people, as kooky as they were, and
it would be suicidal for society. As Elton John just
pointed out, the legalization of marijuana has been But the
people who just came all the way out and said, yeah,
legalize all drugs, right, total nut sell right, But at
least they were intellectually consistent. The people who say, no,
legalize is marijuana, legalize this high potency pod. It's a
(33:58):
freedom thing. But yeah, no, we couldn't legalized crack. Yeah no,
it's just someday Hopefully that mistake will get fixed too.
Some more text on traffic wide so bad around here.
A large part of oid traffic is bad is people
camp in the left lane and are oblivious to keep
right except to pass and slow. I think some people
(34:19):
just do that on purpose. It's some kind of power
trip for them. I think we have more traffic because
we keep adding toll lanes. Not everyone can afford to
pay the price gouging during high traffic times. Fascinating boy,
I bet you that that is very, very true. And
then we'll follow up on some of these other suggestions tomorrow.
We know there needs to be a fix. What is
(34:40):
that fix you talk about, like people running for governor
and everything else. I've got to believe a lot of
those bread and butter issues if somebody could come up
with some great, brilliant, workable, true idea that would work.
Ry and thank you again. Great to see again you
as well. Kelly, join us tomorrow on The Dankapla Show.
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