September 4, 2026 • 35 mins
As you buckle up and hit the road, you can't help but feel a sense of unease. The roads in Colorado are some of the most treacherous in the country, and it's not just the stunning scenery that's to blame. The speaker shares a personal anecdote about a harrowing experience on I-25, where they witnessed drag racing in the middle of the day, and it's a wake-up call for the state's lax attitude towards reckless driving. But is it time to take drastic measures to ensure safety on the roads?
The conversation delves into the idea of implementing 24/7 surveillance on major roadways, using the latest technology to monitor and enforce traffic laws. It's a proposal that sparks debate, with some arguing that it's an infringement on personal freedom. But what if it's a necessary evil to prevent the carnage on Colorado's roads? The speaker also touches on the topic of dash cams, which can provide valuable evidence in cases of reckless driving, and even offer a discount on insurance rates for those who install them.
The discussion also explores the role of law enforcement in preventing reckless driving, and how the left's undermining of the police has led to a lack of deterrence on the roads. It's a complex issue, but one thing is clear: something needs to be done to address the alarming number of accidents and fatalities on Colorado's roads.
If you're tired of living in fear of getting behind the wheel, tune in to this episode to hear the speaker's thoughts on how to take back our roads and make them safer for everyone. With a mix of personal anecdotes, expert insights, and thought-provoking ideas, this episode is a must-listen for anyone who's ever felt the anxiety of driving in Colorado.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Topic, particularly if you're listening to the show in Colorado.
And that is because you are, unless you're a member,
active duty member of our military, fire, police, you are
never in more danger than you are on Colorado roads.
And more important to you, your children, your spouse, they're
never in more danger than they are when they're on
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Colorado roads. And we all know, we've talked about it,
you live it. The danger on the roads is exponentially
higher than it should be. But a couple of things
happened today at about the same time that were a
bit of a tipping.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Point for me, which is to say a lot, right?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Because I've been very focused on this issue for decades
on air and more and more so as the years
have passed and our roads have become crazier and crazier.
And then, of course, we've been talking recently about how
the left has undermined law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
And so we have less and less enforcement. But I
think we're.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Getting to that point where just as a people, we're
going to have to decide whether we are going to
fix this or not.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
That's the starting point.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Are we going to fix this or are we just
going to accept all the carnage and all the everyday
stress that you have out there? You know, because there
are so many killers on the roadway right now. Not
all the killers kill, but they're all killers. They're all
doing stuff they know could easily kill somebody. And the
only question is whether they will in the end and
who is going to be. And so that's the first question.
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Are we just willing to accept this casualty rate, both
in terms of broken bodies, dead bodies, all of that
devastation that comes with that on a human level and
then financially, and then the added stress, which is real
to your drive every day. Are we willing to just
accept that? Or are we going to do what the
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American people have traditionally done since and before the nation
was founded, which is say, no, enough's enough, and we're
going to find a way.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So I think that's the first question.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
The second question is, okay, if you're at where I'm
at now, which is we can't accept this.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
It's irresponsible. It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
And when do Americans ever let the bad guys win?
Since when do Americans allow that? And I know that
gets us off into leftist politics. But bottom line is,
real Americans don't sit back and let the bad guys win.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So how?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Okay, we start with the what and then we get
to the how. Let's say we have that consensus. No,
we got to do whatever we need to do to
stop it. How do you stop it? So I'd like
to open the show with that today because nothing is
more real, at least in terms of issues that we
can address. We can solve together. Now, solve doesn't mean perfection.
(02:48):
If it did, we wouldn't put up streetlights, right?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Traffic lights. Wouldn't put any of.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
That stuff up if perfection was the only acceptable standard
because it's never going to be perfect.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
You can put up all the traffic lights you want.
Some people are going to run them. Does that mean
we just take them down and have everybody run them?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
No.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
So, So what is the fix? So I want to
kick that around with you today.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
You can call, of course, if you'd like, 303-713-8255 or
text DAN57739.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
What I've found over the years is that.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
This kind of issue tends to be among the very
best uses of talk radio because you get a chance
to put big brains together. Now, some of those big
brains have a third grade education. Some of those big
brains have jobs.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Three different doctorates. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
You get extremely wise people, you know, across the spectrum.
And this obviously is not a partisan issue. And so
let's just put our heads together. You know, it takes
a village, right? Takes a village to stand up and
protect a community against a threat. And tell me, is
there a bigger threat out there right now to you
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and to your family and to this community? than all
of these reckless drivers on the roadway?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I mean, is there a bigger threat? There are plenty
of threats.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
We talk about them all the time on the show,
rising crime, the wide open borders, all of that. There
are plenty of threats, but is there a bigger one
to you and your family right now? I don't think
so as a practical matter. So, yeah, it drives me
crazy why we just seem willing to accept it as
a society. Maybe I'm more attuned to it because my
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real job for 43 years and continues to be every
day is representing a lot of people who have had
their lives devastated by these crashes. But we're all in
just as much danger. And what set me off on
it today, as we line up some text and calls,
and then I want to give you my thought on
where we should go with this. But what set me
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off today is I was driving back from Sky Ridge.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
That's a hospital out southeast. of town.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
It's in a suburb called Lone Tree. And I'm driving
north down I-25. And it's not a long drive where
I'm going. I'm driving someone very close to me back
from the hospital in a really fragile condition. So I'm
being extra careful out on the road. I think I'm
always a good driver, but I'm being extra careful out there.
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And then all of a sudden, I mean, this is
middle of the day, right? That's about one in the afternoon.
All of a sudden, I've got three SUVs drag racing
on I-25 North. And it'd be bad enough if, let's say,
I was coming home from work late and it's 11 midnight, whatever,
and they're drag racing on an open highway.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
That'd be bad enough. A whole lot of people get
killed that way. But this is one in the afternoon.
I-25 Northbound is really clogged. But they're drag racing.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
And they're just weaving in and out of traffic even
when there's nowhere to weave. And it's probably one of
the most dangerous things you could possibly do on the roads.
And I have to imagine it's probably drugs involved, maybe
some alcohol. Whatever it is, it's drag racing down I-25
northbound in the equivalent of rush hour traffic. And I'm
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just thinking, come on, enough is enough.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I mean, just as a man, I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Sit here and just take it. You know, I mean,
driving that vehicle at that moment, there's nothing I can
do to stop them.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
You know, what am I going to do? Throw my
car in front of them?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
No. Even if I didn't have somebody in a fragile
condition in the car, call it in. I do that
all the time. But they were going so fast, I
couldn't get a play. But I just sat there thinking.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I'm just not willing to sit back and just let
this happen. Not willing to go down without a fight.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Then, okay.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Okay. Then I get my loved one taken care of.
Then I'm back at work and I get this call.
And it's this family.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The whole family, literally torn to pieces by a drunk driver.
Kids with missing limbs. You know, everybody devastated for life.
And it was kind of that double whammy where I
just thought, this is insane. Why are we putting up
with this? So that's what I want to start. with
you on today. And then what is the fix? I've
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got a fix in mind. I'm not at the point
of looking you in the eye and saying, hey, this
is the law we should pass and this is how
subsection three should read and all of that. I'd want
to do a little more research on it. I'd want
to research constitutionality. I think it'd be constitutional. But as
you know, when I just mentioned that word constitutional, you
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know where I'm going with this, which is kind of
contrary to where I normally go with things because I'm
normally pushing back against a surveillance state. I know there's
big pushback in America right now against, you know, flock.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Cameras and things like that. But here's a question for you.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Are we at the point now where our major roadways
simply need to be under 24-7 surveillance with the very
finest cameras? most effective, leading-edge technology, updated as it can
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be updated? Are we at the point where, just take
I-25 or I-70 as a starting point, where we need
to use all the available technologies, and available technologies could
do this and more, but all the available technologies to
make sure that every vehicle is surveilled at all times,
and every plate read, and then you just You set
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your standards. And if somebody's going to violate this or
this or that or that, it's going to be enforced.
Are we at that point? Is that where we should
go with this? Now, as you ask yourself that question,
and then we'll line up calls and texts and take.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It on the other side.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
As you ask yourself that question, and I know you're
probably like me and you're just kind of repelled by
the idea of all of that camera surveillance stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
But would you feel the same way if it was just.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Going to be, you know, law enforcement in traditional patrol cars, motorcycles,
et cetera, out there? Because my guess is, you know,
you're probably at this point wanting a larger law enforcement
presence on the roadway because right now there isn't any
and the inmates are running the asylum.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
So what would the difference be? Because we know we
can't afford it.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
We know we can't afford to have as many troopers
and other officers out there as we want. We know
we can't afford the high speed chases. And these criminals,
and that's what they are, I mean, these reckless drivers,
these criminals, they know law enforcement isn't going to engage.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
If they go fast enough.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
So they're going 100, 120, 130, because they know law
enforcement isn't going to engage at that point unless they've
already killed somebody.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
So what do you think?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Do we accept the status quo, just the acceptable casualty rate?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Do we go all the.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Way to just a high tech on the roadways, nowhere else,
just take a constant surveillance state and we make our
roads in Colorado the safest roads in the nation? And
we reap all the benefits that come with that?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
303-713-8255, D-A-N-5-7-7-3-9.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
You're on the Dan Kaplan Show.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
What CU football is about, and I'm thankful that every
young man that we're dressing out in a uniform and
is on this team loves it. They want to be here.
They desire to be here. They understand what being a
Buff is all about.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Opening day. Love it.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Coach Prime, I think they're going to win that game
back in Georgia. I know they're underdogs, but I just
like the feeling around this team this year. Again, so
very glad he came to Colorado and that he stayed.
I think that shows the character of the man. It
would have been easy to use health as an excuse
and bail last year after he lost Shador and Travis.
It was going to be a tough rebuild, but he
hung in there. He's rebuilding this program back.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And I can't wait for it to kick off tonight.
Very excited as well for CSU football.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
With Jim Mora.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
He's always been one of my favorite college football coaches.
And I think he's going to do great things up
there because CSU has so much going for it. And
it's one big in the past. You throw Jim Mora
into that mix. It's going to be a fun season.
All topped off by the Broncos. And everybody knows the
story there. It's best ownership. in the NFL and, uh, and,
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and a great head coach. And yeah, they're likely to
be competitive for a long time.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So good stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Add three, three, seven, one, three, eight, two, five, five
D a N five, seven, seven, three, nine. If you
just joined us, I won't repeat my whole riff at
the beginning of the show, but it leads to the
question of, Hey, is it time?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Is it time?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
To just surveil our major roadways 24-7 and enforce the
law that way. Would you be comfortable with that? Would
you be willing to have that as a driver, to
just know that you are constantly being watched and you
go over X speed, you're going to get that ticket
in the mail, you do certain reckless things and you're
going to be prosecuted? Would you be comfortable with that
(12:29):
as a driver? I guess the better question is, is
it worth the tradeoff to you? to just know that
your kids are going to be safer on the road.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
No guarantees.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I mean, it's not like there's going to be a
force field around them, but they're going to be safer.
You know, your spouse is going to be safer. You're
going to be safer. Your neighbor is going to be safer.
Is it worth that tradeoff to you? 303-713-8255, DAN 57739.
So we'll take some text on that. I think that
the reality we're facing right now is it's either going
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to be that or it's going to be chaos and
constant devolvement. Because as you know, you're living it. It
gets worse and worse and worse on the roads. Maybe
not every day, but every month. Because the bad guys
and gals have figured out there's not any enforcement. Don't
blame the officers, blame the politicians. But there's not any
enforcement to speak of. And so right now, all of
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the bad actors out there, whether they're just kind of
chronic bad actors or occasional situational bad actors, There's no
deterrent factor. There's no deterrent factor. Just ask yourself, and
I assume you're a good, solid citizen. You're listening to
a show like this. So you're involved in community affairs.
Do you feel any sense of deterrence when you get
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behind the wheel?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
My guess is you don't.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And that whatever speed you're choosing to drive right now,
you're choosing to drive it because that's the speed you're
comfortable at. It's not because you're afraid of getting a ticket.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
And what about DUI?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
This has driven me crazy for a long time, but
now it's just reached chronic, insane levels, especially when they
layered marijuana in on top of it because, you know,
the big lie of safer.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Wow, drug dealers would lie? Whoever would have guessed?
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
But the big lie of safer, no, it's done. It
hasn't replaced alcohol. It's doubled down. It's doubled up. And
then you get the combo, right? So now you've got
all the drunk drivers with alcohol who have always been
a terrible scourge. And then you get all the high
drivers with dope, and now you've doubled down on the scourge.
And then you get the combos who are doing both,
and there are a lot of studies saying that's even worse.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Okay, so we got all that out there.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Isn't it time that we just make first-time DUI or DUID,
driving under influence of drugs, a felony?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Isn't it time we just do that? Aren't we sending
kind of the.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
opposite message of the one we want to when we
have it as a misdemeanor? I mean, we're sending the message,
which is true, that whether it's your first time or
your hundredth time, when you get behind the wheel impaired,
you could very well kill or maim somebody for life.
We're sending that message, but then it's a misdemeanor. Aren't
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we undermining our own message?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Doesn't it have to be a felony?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I'm not saying a felony with mandatory jail time, though.
I think there should be some mandatory really bad something.
But shouldn't it be a felony?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Even a first offense? I'd love your thoughts on that. 303-713-8255, DAN-57739.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I absolutely believe it should be. And this just comes
back to, listen, if your whole overall approach to just
public policy, to living together, is going to be respect
for priceless human life with its inherent dignity and importance, then.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Doesn't DUI need to be a felony? Then don't we
need to just right now crack down on the killing
fields that our major roadways have become? Sure seems to
me we do. And again, I do not.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Understand this psychology of us as a people together in
colorado just being willing to take it right now i
just don't get that i do think it's time to
rise up so love your thoughts and all that texture
dan what's even worse than that are these kids on
these motorcycles i've seen them doing wheelies down i-25 well.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I yeah tell me something we don't know i mean
who among us doesn't regularly see people doing wheelies down I-25.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I saw one on a side street. I mean, it's
all over the place right now. Again, because there's no
fear of deterrence. And that's affecting the broader crime rate
as well. Again, don't blame police. Blame the politicians who
undermine them in so many different ways. But, you know,
you don't have as much fear, as much deterrence in
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any category of crime right now. But on the roadways, Again,
just start with yourself. Are you really concerned when you're
driving around right now that you're going to get a
ticket the way you used to be? Now, maybe you've
just never spat. I think most people probably go a
little something over the limit, depending on circumstances, obviously. But
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I think there's a whole lot less concern anymore about
getting a ticket than they're used to.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
So.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
We're going to continue this conversation throughout the show today
because I think that I think this is something we
really need to take head on as a people. Be
real interesting to me, you know, to see what a
ballot issue on this would do to be hard to
put these into into ballot issues. So because of the
single issue rule and hard to do any polling on it,
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because can you believe it? There's almost no major polling.
even in our biggest political races right now, because polling
has become so expensive. And I think the Democrats right
now are so cocky as they trash this state, are
sitting there thinking, we don't want to do any major
published polling right now because, hey, what if it goes
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against us? You know, right now, everybody just thinks we're
invincible and we're going to win, etc., You know, if
our conservative candidates are doing any big, credible polling, we're
not seeing the results of that.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
So I think it'd be very hard.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
To get to get any of that polling and say
a major change to the way we enforce safety on
our roadways done.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
But I want to come back. I want to do that.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I want to talk about a really you talk about
clear and present dangers and the really dangerous double standard
in our media, which is all over conservative candidates all
the time. We have this Malak Kuros friend of Hasan
Piker in our midst.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Why isn't more being done?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah, and why does Hasan Piker matter to you, this
man who so clearly hates America and is working to
undermine America every single day? Why should it matter to you?
It should matter to you because you've got Malak Kuros
about to be elected to Congress from the 1st District
in Colorado. who campaigned publicly repeatedly with Hassan Piker.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
So it is not only fair to believe that she
agrees with him, it would be stupid not to believe
she agrees with him. So that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
We have got a person with those kind of dangerous,
demented views and more about to be a congresswoman from Colorado.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Where's the media?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
You got Kyle Clark, you know, all over GOP candidates.
And I have no beef with that if the GOP
candidates deserve it. I just want it to be equal opportunity.
Can you imagine what Kyle Clark would be doing to,
let's say, a GOP candidate? A GOP candidate who is
about to be elected to Congress, who associated with somebody
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on the right, who had these kind of dangerous, horrific, anti-Semitic,
anti-American views, it would be all you saw every single
night on KUSA.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Every single night. And rightfully so. But yet, Milad Kiros
gets this pass? When clearly, I mean, look at this
Michigan Senate race.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
When you've got Abdul Al-Sayed, who right now is in
serious trouble in that race because of his association with.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Hassan Piker, which from what I can tell is not.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
As close an association as the one Malat Keros has
with Hassan Piker. If the stuff I'm reading is correct,
and somebody from the Keros cabal can straighten me out
if it's not, but what I'm reading in the media,
Hassan Piker was at her victory party.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
The night she won. That may not be correct, but
that's what the reporting is.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
She did a live stream with Hassan Piker on May
9th on 614, right before the election. Hassan Piker came
to Denver to do an event with her. And then
there were problems with the venue because of security issues.
And they did a live stream together. So obviously, when
somebody has these kind of extraordinarily extreme hateful views, you
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don't campaign with that person unless you agree with them.
on those extreme hateful views. Because if you're going to
try to tell somebody, oh, no, I don't agree with
them on that stuff, I agree on other stuff, nobody's
going to believe you, nor should they. Because you would
never be willing to associate with them unless you agreed
on those views because you know those views are going to.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Be attributed to you.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
So why don't we have this five-alarm media fire in
Colorado right now over this woman who is joined at
the hip with Hassan Piker and is on the verge
of being elected to Congress, a woman who said, if
I understand her statements correctly, the state of Israel.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Should be abolished.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
You know, it said defunding the Pentagon would be the
ideal scenario. And I'm paraphrasing that, but it's fair. Yeah,
why is she being given this total pass?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I think we know, right? All righty.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Hey, the overarching issue, if you just joined us, is
with all of the chaos on our roadways right now
on the left, undermined enforcement on our roadways, is it
time to just go to full-time tech, high-tech surveillance of
our roadways and start enforcing the law that way? Is
that the best way to end, as well as we
can ever end, the craziness and the carnage?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
303-713-8255, DAN, 57739. Hey, I'll get back to you.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
The text on this as well, but let's go to
some calls. Lewis, you're on the Dan Kaplan Show.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Welcome. Hi, Dan.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Thank you. The reception on my phone isn't the best.
Can you understand me okay?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I can hear you now. Let's trademark that. Okay.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
I was wondering if the insurance companies gave some sort
of a discount on their insurance rates if someone had
a camera mounted on their helmet. If they drive a
motorcycle or on their cars, what do you think about that?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
You're suggesting that. I don't know if it's occurring right now.
I know that, and I've talked to our family about it.
I want to get dash cams in all of our vehicles.
It just hasn't been as easy as you might think.
But I don't know if carriers are giving discounts on that.
I think they'd be wise to, because I think anybody
who puts one in right away, that's going to be
a self-deterrence as well as self-protection.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Well, there ought to be some kind of financial incentive
for both, it would seem to me, among other good ideas.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I like it. I like it, my friend. Thank you.
I'm an all-of-the-above kind of guy when it comes to stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
That may very well save your life or the life
of your kids or your spouse. Yeah, and our roadways
right now, as you know, they're killing fields. And it's
Russian roulette going out there right now. And I told
a story about something that happened earlier today. I won't
go through that again right now.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
So interesting idea there. And I wonder, do you do
you have a dash cam?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
And I decided a long time ago, I talked about
on air, I want to get one for my car
and I want everybody in our family to have one.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Everybody in our family is up for it.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
But it has been more difficult than I would have
thought to actually get the right one, get them installed,
et cetera, you know, while still protecting warranties and everything else.
But I definitely want to get one. All the craziness
out there, very, very important to get one. And in
my law practice, where I'm often representing, it's all I
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do is represent the victims and survivors of those who've
been killed. We're getting more and more dash cams as
evidence in cases, and they're extraordinarily valuable. And one thing
that I've found, you know, representing victims over the years,
and I could tell you, you could bring in a
stack of Bibles and a polygraph and test me on
this one. But I will tell you, 43 years of
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doing this, I've probably had all the cases I've had
over all those years. I've probably had at most two,
and it would have been at least 20 years ago.
People say something to me that wasn't true about what happened. And,
of course, we immediately dropped those cases. But think about that.
All the people over all the years on the victim
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side I've represented, the honesty rate has been like 99.8%.
But I can tell you it is very, very common
in the cases I handle that you'll get people on
the other side saying things, you know, people who cause
these horrors, you know, not telling the truth about it
to one extent or another. Not every case, of course,
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but many cases.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
And then part of our job, right, is to go
out there and prove what the truth is. So having a.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Dash cam, I think, can be a very, very effective thing.
you know, for folks and a very big step towards self-protection.
I'm talking about something bigger here when I talk about, hey,
it's time to say, no, we are not going to
surrender our streets and our highways to the killers, to
the reckless drivers, to the criminals. You know, we are
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going to enforce the laws so we can save and
protect our families and ourselves. But I think as a
practical matter, the only way we're ever going to be
able to accomplish that is through high tech. We're not
going to be able to afford to have enough law
enforcement out there and we don't want the high-speed chases,
I think that technology can solve this problem for us.
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That may include drones as well, but are you willing
to make that trade?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
303-713-8255, DAN 57739.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Hey, our lines are totally jammed on this, so here's
what I'm going to do. I'm going to get a
couple of texts. I'm going to pop a break, then
we'll come back. So all the callers and all the lines,
hang on, and I will get you on air in
the next segment. Dan, why not blame the people who
are actually doing the dangerous driving? That's what I want
to do. That's what I want to do. I want
to use technology to make sure that all of them
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know they are going to get caught and they are
going to be held accountable.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Because you know what that's going to do.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
From day one is that's going to mean a whole
lot of those people don't commit the crimes. They don't
do the reckless driving because they're not willing to pay
the price.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
They won't do the crime because they don't want to
do the time. Now, it wouldn't actually be.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Time in jail, but there would be a big price
to be paid. Dan, why don't we just allow law
enforcement to do their jobs instead of adding more surveillance
and laws that will just further the corruption?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Well, two points there.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Fair question on why not just let law enforcement do
their job. And the reason is, first of all, the
left has undermined law enforcement to the point where you
don't have enough out there And law enforcement has to
be very concerned about consequences to themselves with every single
traffic stop. So as a practical matter, that isn't going
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to be doable. The other practical consideration is the bad
guys and gals have figured out if they go fast enough,
they're not going to get chased because unless they've killed
somebody already, in most cases, law enforcement is not going
to engage in the chase wisely because of the danger
that would create. So this is where technology can step in.
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And make sure that these really, really bad actors, these killers,
don't get away with it just because they plan to
outrun law enforcement at over 100 miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Hey, we'll come back to our jam lines. You're on
the Dan Kaplan Show.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Catching and prosecuting these reckless drivers, and this has led
to a discussion of dash cams as well. I'll get
to everybody jamming our lines, starting with Eric. You're on
the Dan Kaplan Show.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Welcome.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Hello, Dan. You are a wonderful guy. I love listening
to you.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Yeah, your take on stuff is very, it's just direct
and refreshing.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
But, hey, Metaglasses, all sorts. Boy, they could be handy
for what you're looking for. And then you don't have
to get anything installed on your vehicle. You can take
them anywhere you want to go. I e-bike everywhere, all
over the place. They're very handy.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Wow, what a great idea. Thank you for that, Eric.
And as Eric knows, there's a clear version of those.
metaglasses as well. I got this sunglass version as a
gift for Father's Day, but I haven't figured out how
to work them yet. I think maybe I'll do that
over this long weekend. Pete, you're on the Dan Kaplan Show.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Welcome.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Hey, Pete.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Hi, Dan. Hey, Dan, sorry.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
I'm a newbie to the dash cams and just wanted
to share just two quick points. First of all, if
you're thinking about getting a dash cam and you've got
an older car like I have, I got one dash
cam that goes out the front, but I got another
one that goes out the back windshield. And I don't
mean like a backup camera or a camera that records
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your passengers. And the reason why that's been beneficial is
that Sometimes I've gone through an intersection, someone's making a
left turn, and my rear dash cam catches what their
traffic light says. So, you know, if they claim I
still have the green arrow, I can say, no, it's
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clearly red.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Wow, that's thinking ahead, man.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
I kind of stumbled onto that. I wish I could
take credit for it. And just another quick one, and
this is you helping me think more legally, is that
because they're always recording, I'll take the SD card, pop
it in the computer, and the dash cams record your
speed and your GPS. You can turn that off if
you want, but I keep mine on because I'll download
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some random clips to say, on this day, I was
on I-25, and I'm going to limit. On this day,
I was in my neighborhood, and I'm going to limit.
On this day, I was on Horsetooth here in Fort Collins,
and I'm going to limit. It's just like you were
saying earlier. The dash cams help us think more about
our driving, and they give us some ammunition to say, normally,
I am a good driver.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Wow, Pete. Hey, appreciate the call. There's a very well-organized guy.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
And I just, you know, if you just joined us,
I've been trying to get dash cams in all our
family vehicles. I'm just running into some technical issues. So
if somebody has a suggestion for me there, I'd appreciate
it because I don't want to blow any warranties, screw
up any wiring. I thought it'd be as easy as
call the dealer and say, hey, can you throw a
dash cam in here for me? But it has not
been that easy. But I want them in all of
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our vehicles as soon as I can. I think, and
not that we need it. Everybody in our family is
a good driver. But, hey, it is some level of
deterrence for all of us, right? Just a reminder, hey,
just do it all right.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
It's all on film.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
But more importantly, you know, to make sure you can
show what really happened out there. Because when bad things happen...
There are a lot of people who cause bad things
to happen who then lie about it. Brian, you're on
the Dan Kaplan Show.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Welcome.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Hey, Dan.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
I'm a truck driver, and I wanted to call in
and say all these problems have been going on for
a long time. It was striking to me. See, the
night of 4th of July in 2016, I saw nine
accidents between Loveland and Piedlo.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
That used to be my run.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
And they all looked really serious. And the drag racing thing, too.
I took that job and I.
I didn't know that when I was going through Denver,
people were going to pass me in their cars in
the middle of the night and then get in front
of me and slam on the brakes and start a
drag race. And in the semi, you can't stop.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Right.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
I had more than one time when I about creamed
those guys because I just couldn't stop.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Well, then you throw drugs and alcohol into it. Yeah.
And so many of.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
These insane drivers just seem to have a death wish.
Or maybe it's video games, whatever it is. Drugs, alcohol,
video games, they think they're just bulletproof. Or they just
don't care if they die. They certainly don't care if
they kill you and your family.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Yes, for sure. Can I say one more thing real quick?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Sure, you bet.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
So I was a GM mechanic. From 86 to 2000.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
And back during my tenure with a Chevy dealer in
Fort Collins, where I'm from, General Motors was talking about
cars that just wouldn't let you speed or drag race
or tailgate. They had the technology supposedly way back then,
and I was dead set against it. But now, man,
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with what I see on the roads, I'm like, maybe
it's a good idea. I hate losing freedoms.
Speaker 7 (33:59):
It's kind of crazy out there.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Well, Brian, I'm glad you threw it in the mix,
and we'll carry that into the next hour, this question
of should, by law, vehicles be altered so they can't
do some of this bad stuff. I would oppose that
initially because I do think that would be too big
an infringement on our freedom. And that's not blanket. Maybe
there's some niche in there that could be addressed that way.
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I just think it's time to.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Use tech to.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Enforce the law on our roadways. We know we can't
put enough officers out there. The left has undermined law enforcement.
We know we don't want those officers doing high-speed chases
unless it's in connection with a crime where somebody's already
killed or seriously injured somebody, something like that.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
It seems to me tech is the answer here. But
I don't think, and you tell me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
I want to get to some texters on this as well.
who are not happy with me on this, they say
it's surveillance state stuff. No, I'm the opposite of a
surveillance state guy. I'm talking about our roadways. Listen, there
is no expectation of privacy on our roadways. If you're
sitting there thinking we should have an expectation of privacy
on our roadways, let's have that conversation. You know, we
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should have an expectation of privacy everywhere else. I mean,
unless you're like out in public walking down the street,
but on our roadways, Isn't that the one place where
you want everybody to know?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Because guess what? No matter how careful you are, your
life is not in your hands. Your child's life is
not in your hands on the roadways. It's in the
hands of some coked up, drugged up, doped up, drunk,
otherwise crazy person who put together a few hundred bucks
to buy a car. Now they're going to go 120
miles an hour. Do you want to bet your life
on them? Or do you want to try to take
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our streets back? You're on the Dan Kapler Show.
Topic, particularly if you're listening to the show in Colorado.
And that is because you are, unless you're a member,
active duty member of our military, fire, police, you are
never in more danger than you are on Colorado roads.
And more important to you, your children, your spouse, they're
never in more danger than they are when they're on
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Colorado roads. And we all know, we've talked about it,
you live it. The danger on the roads is exponentially
higher than it should be. But a couple of things
happened today at about the same time that were a
bit of a tipping.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Point for me, which is to say a lot, right?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Because I've been very focused on this issue for decades
on air and more and more so as the years
have passed and our roads have become crazier and crazier.
And then, of course, we've been talking recently about how
the left has undermined law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
And so we have less and less enforcement. But I
think we're.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Getting to that point where just as a people, we're
going to have to decide whether we are going to
fix this or not.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
That's the starting point.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Are we going to fix this or are we just
going to accept all the carnage and all the everyday
stress that you have out there? You know, because there
are so many killers on the roadway right now. Not
all the killers kill, but they're all killers. They're all
doing stuff they know could easily kill somebody. And the
only question is whether they will in the end and
who is going to be. And so that's the first question.
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Are we just willing to accept this casualty rate, both
in terms of broken bodies, dead bodies, all of that
devastation that comes with that on a human level and
then financially, and then the added stress, which is real
to your drive every day. Are we willing to just
accept that? Or are we going to do what the
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American people have traditionally done since and before the nation
was founded, which is say, no, enough's enough, and we're
going to find a way.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So I think that's the first question.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
The second question is, okay, if you're at where I'm
at now, which is we can't accept this.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
It's irresponsible. It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
And when do Americans ever let the bad guys win?
Since when do Americans allow that? And I know that
gets us off into leftist politics. But bottom line is,
real Americans don't sit back and let the bad guys win.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So how?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Okay, we start with the what and then we get
to the how. Let's say we have that consensus. No,
we got to do whatever we need to do to
stop it. How do you stop it? So I'd like
to open the show with that today because nothing is
more real, at least in terms of issues that we
can address. We can solve together. Now, solve doesn't mean perfection.
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If it did, we wouldn't put up streetlights, right?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Traffic lights. Wouldn't put any of.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
That stuff up if perfection was the only acceptable standard
because it's never going to be perfect.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
You can put up all the traffic lights you want.
Some people are going to run them. Does that mean
we just take them down and have everybody run them?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
No.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
So, So what is the fix? So I want to
kick that around with you today.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
You can call, of course, if you'd like, 303-713-8255 or
text DAN57739.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
What I've found over the years is that.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
This kind of issue tends to be among the very
best uses of talk radio because you get a chance
to put big brains together. Now, some of those big
brains have a third grade education. Some of those big
brains have jobs.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Three different doctorates. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
You get extremely wise people, you know, across the spectrum.
And this obviously is not a partisan issue. And so
let's just put our heads together. You know, it takes
a village, right? Takes a village to stand up and
protect a community against a threat. And tell me, is
there a bigger threat out there right now to you
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and to your family and to this community? than all
of these reckless drivers on the roadway?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I mean, is there a bigger threat? There are plenty
of threats.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
We talk about them all the time on the show,
rising crime, the wide open borders, all of that. There
are plenty of threats, but is there a bigger one
to you and your family right now? I don't think
so as a practical matter. So, yeah, it drives me
crazy why we just seem willing to accept it as
a society. Maybe I'm more attuned to it because my
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real job for 43 years and continues to be every
day is representing a lot of people who have had
their lives devastated by these crashes. But we're all in
just as much danger. And what set me off on
it today, as we line up some text and calls,
and then I want to give you my thought on
where we should go with this. But what set me
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off today is I was driving back from Sky Ridge.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
That's a hospital out southeast. of town.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
It's in a suburb called Lone Tree. And I'm driving
north down I-25. And it's not a long drive where
I'm going. I'm driving someone very close to me back
from the hospital in a really fragile condition. So I'm
being extra careful out on the road. I think I'm
always a good driver, but I'm being extra careful out there.
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And then all of a sudden, I mean, this is
middle of the day, right? That's about one in the afternoon.
All of a sudden, I've got three SUVs drag racing
on I-25 North. And it'd be bad enough if, let's say,
I was coming home from work late and it's 11 midnight, whatever,
and they're drag racing on an open highway.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
That'd be bad enough. A whole lot of people get
killed that way. But this is one in the afternoon.
I-25 Northbound is really clogged. But they're drag racing.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
And they're just weaving in and out of traffic even
when there's nowhere to weave. And it's probably one of
the most dangerous things you could possibly do on the roads.
And I have to imagine it's probably drugs involved, maybe
some alcohol. Whatever it is, it's drag racing down I-25
northbound in the equivalent of rush hour traffic. And I'm
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just thinking, come on, enough is enough.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I mean, just as a man, I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Sit here and just take it. You know, I mean,
driving that vehicle at that moment, there's nothing I can
do to stop them.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
You know, what am I going to do? Throw my
car in front of them?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
No. Even if I didn't have somebody in a fragile
condition in the car, call it in. I do that
all the time. But they were going so fast, I
couldn't get a play. But I just sat there thinking.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I'm just not willing to sit back and just let
this happen. Not willing to go down without a fight.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Then, okay.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Okay. Then I get my loved one taken care of.
Then I'm back at work and I get this call.
And it's this family.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The whole family, literally torn to pieces by a drunk driver.
Kids with missing limbs. You know, everybody devastated for life.
And it was kind of that double whammy where I
just thought, this is insane. Why are we putting up
with this? So that's what I want to start. with
you on today. And then what is the fix? I've
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got a fix in mind. I'm not at the point
of looking you in the eye and saying, hey, this
is the law we should pass and this is how
subsection three should read and all of that. I'd want
to do a little more research on it. I'd want
to research constitutionality. I think it'd be constitutional. But as
you know, when I just mentioned that word constitutional, you
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know where I'm going with this, which is kind of
contrary to where I normally go with things because I'm
normally pushing back against a surveillance state. I know there's
big pushback in America right now against, you know, flock.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Cameras and things like that. But here's a question for you.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Are we at the point now where our major roadways
simply need to be under 24-7 surveillance with the very
finest cameras? most effective, leading-edge technology, updated as it can
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be updated? Are we at the point where, just take
I-25 or I-70 as a starting point, where we need
to use all the available technologies, and available technologies could
do this and more, but all the available technologies to
make sure that every vehicle is surveilled at all times,
and every plate read, and then you just You set
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your standards. And if somebody's going to violate this or
this or that or that, it's going to be enforced.
Are we at that point? Is that where we should
go with this? Now, as you ask yourself that question,
and then we'll line up calls and texts and take.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It on the other side.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
As you ask yourself that question, and I know you're
probably like me and you're just kind of repelled by
the idea of all of that camera surveillance stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
But would you feel the same way if it was just.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Going to be, you know, law enforcement in traditional patrol cars, motorcycles,
et cetera, out there? Because my guess is, you know,
you're probably at this point wanting a larger law enforcement
presence on the roadway because right now there isn't any
and the inmates are running the asylum.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
So what would the difference be? Because we know we
can't afford it.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
We know we can't afford to have as many troopers
and other officers out there as we want. We know
we can't afford the high speed chases. And these criminals,
and that's what they are, I mean, these reckless drivers,
these criminals, they know law enforcement isn't going to engage.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
If they go fast enough.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
So they're going 100, 120, 130, because they know law
enforcement isn't going to engage at that point unless they've
already killed somebody.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
So what do you think?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Do we accept the status quo, just the acceptable casualty rate?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Do we go all the.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Way to just a high tech on the roadways, nowhere else,
just take a constant surveillance state and we make our
roads in Colorado the safest roads in the nation? And
we reap all the benefits that come with that?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
303-713-8255, D-A-N-5-7-7-3-9.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
You're on the Dan Kaplan Show.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
What CU football is about, and I'm thankful that every
young man that we're dressing out in a uniform and
is on this team loves it. They want to be here.
They desire to be here. They understand what being a
Buff is all about.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Opening day. Love it.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Coach Prime, I think they're going to win that game
back in Georgia. I know they're underdogs, but I just
like the feeling around this team this year. Again, so
very glad he came to Colorado and that he stayed.
I think that shows the character of the man. It
would have been easy to use health as an excuse
and bail last year after he lost Shador and Travis.
It was going to be a tough rebuild, but he
hung in there. He's rebuilding this program back.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And I can't wait for it to kick off tonight.
Very excited as well for CSU football.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
With Jim Mora.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
He's always been one of my favorite college football coaches.
And I think he's going to do great things up
there because CSU has so much going for it. And
it's one big in the past. You throw Jim Mora
into that mix. It's going to be a fun season.
All topped off by the Broncos. And everybody knows the
story there. It's best ownership. in the NFL and, uh, and,
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and a great head coach. And yeah, they're likely to
be competitive for a long time.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So good stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Add three, three, seven, one, three, eight, two, five, five
D a N five, seven, seven, three, nine. If you
just joined us, I won't repeat my whole riff at
the beginning of the show, but it leads to the
question of, Hey, is it time?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Is it time?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
To just surveil our major roadways 24-7 and enforce the
law that way. Would you be comfortable with that? Would
you be willing to have that as a driver, to
just know that you are constantly being watched and you
go over X speed, you're going to get that ticket
in the mail, you do certain reckless things and you're
going to be prosecuted? Would you be comfortable with that
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as a driver? I guess the better question is, is
it worth the tradeoff to you? to just know that
your kids are going to be safer on the road.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
No guarantees.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I mean, it's not like there's going to be a
force field around them, but they're going to be safer.
You know, your spouse is going to be safer. You're
going to be safer. Your neighbor is going to be safer.
Is it worth that tradeoff to you? 303-713-8255, DAN 57739.
So we'll take some text on that. I think that
the reality we're facing right now is it's either going
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to be that or it's going to be chaos and
constant devolvement. Because as you know, you're living it. It
gets worse and worse and worse on the roads. Maybe
not every day, but every month. Because the bad guys
and gals have figured out there's not any enforcement. Don't
blame the officers, blame the politicians. But there's not any
enforcement to speak of. And so right now, all of
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the bad actors out there, whether they're just kind of
chronic bad actors or occasional situational bad actors, There's no
deterrent factor. There's no deterrent factor. Just ask yourself, and
I assume you're a good, solid citizen. You're listening to
a show like this. So you're involved in community affairs.
Do you feel any sense of deterrence when you get
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behind the wheel?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
My guess is you don't.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And that whatever speed you're choosing to drive right now,
you're choosing to drive it because that's the speed you're
comfortable at. It's not because you're afraid of getting a ticket.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
And what about DUI?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
This has driven me crazy for a long time, but
now it's just reached chronic, insane levels, especially when they
layered marijuana in on top of it because, you know,
the big lie of safer.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Wow, drug dealers would lie? Whoever would have guessed?
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
But the big lie of safer, no, it's done. It
hasn't replaced alcohol. It's doubled down. It's doubled up. And
then you get the combo, right? So now you've got
all the drunk drivers with alcohol who have always been
a terrible scourge. And then you get all the high
drivers with dope, and now you've doubled down on the scourge.
And then you get the combos who are doing both,
and there are a lot of studies saying that's even worse.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Okay, so we got all that out there.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Isn't it time that we just make first-time DUI or DUID,
driving under influence of drugs, a felony?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Isn't it time we just do that? Aren't we sending
kind of the.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
opposite message of the one we want to when we
have it as a misdemeanor? I mean, we're sending the message,
which is true, that whether it's your first time or
your hundredth time, when you get behind the wheel impaired,
you could very well kill or maim somebody for life.
We're sending that message, but then it's a misdemeanor. Aren't
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we undermining our own message?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Doesn't it have to be a felony?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I'm not saying a felony with mandatory jail time, though.
I think there should be some mandatory really bad something.
But shouldn't it be a felony?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Even a first offense? I'd love your thoughts on that. 303-713-8255, DAN-57739.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I absolutely believe it should be. And this just comes
back to, listen, if your whole overall approach to just
public policy, to living together, is going to be respect
for priceless human life with its inherent dignity and importance, then.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Doesn't DUI need to be a felony? Then don't we
need to just right now crack down on the killing
fields that our major roadways have become? Sure seems to
me we do. And again, I do not.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Understand this psychology of us as a people together in
colorado just being willing to take it right now i
just don't get that i do think it's time to
rise up so love your thoughts and all that texture
dan what's even worse than that are these kids on
these motorcycles i've seen them doing wheelies down i-25 well.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I yeah tell me something we don't know i mean
who among us doesn't regularly see people doing wheelies down I-25.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I saw one on a side street. I mean, it's
all over the place right now. Again, because there's no
fear of deterrence. And that's affecting the broader crime rate
as well. Again, don't blame police. Blame the politicians who
undermine them in so many different ways. But, you know,
you don't have as much fear, as much deterrence in
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any category of crime right now. But on the roadways, Again,
just start with yourself. Are you really concerned when you're
driving around right now that you're going to get a
ticket the way you used to be? Now, maybe you've
just never spat. I think most people probably go a
little something over the limit, depending on circumstances, obviously. But
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I think there's a whole lot less concern anymore about
getting a ticket than they're used to.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
So.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
We're going to continue this conversation throughout the show today
because I think that I think this is something we
really need to take head on as a people. Be
real interesting to me, you know, to see what a
ballot issue on this would do to be hard to
put these into into ballot issues. So because of the
single issue rule and hard to do any polling on it,
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because can you believe it? There's almost no major polling.
even in our biggest political races right now, because polling
has become so expensive. And I think the Democrats right
now are so cocky as they trash this state, are
sitting there thinking, we don't want to do any major
published polling right now because, hey, what if it goes
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against us? You know, right now, everybody just thinks we're
invincible and we're going to win, etc., You know, if
our conservative candidates are doing any big, credible polling, we're
not seeing the results of that.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
So I think it'd be very hard.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
To get to get any of that polling and say
a major change to the way we enforce safety on
our roadways done.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
But I want to come back. I want to do that.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I want to talk about a really you talk about
clear and present dangers and the really dangerous double standard
in our media, which is all over conservative candidates all
the time. We have this Malak Kuros friend of Hasan
Piker in our midst.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Why isn't more being done?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah, and why does Hasan Piker matter to you, this
man who so clearly hates America and is working to
undermine America every single day? Why should it matter to you?
It should matter to you because you've got Malak Kuros
about to be elected to Congress from the 1st District
in Colorado. who campaigned publicly repeatedly with Hassan Piker.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
So it is not only fair to believe that she
agrees with him, it would be stupid not to believe
she agrees with him. So that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
We have got a person with those kind of dangerous,
demented views and more about to be a congresswoman from Colorado.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Where's the media?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
You got Kyle Clark, you know, all over GOP candidates.
And I have no beef with that if the GOP
candidates deserve it. I just want it to be equal opportunity.
Can you imagine what Kyle Clark would be doing to,
let's say, a GOP candidate? A GOP candidate who is
about to be elected to Congress, who associated with somebody
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on the right, who had these kind of dangerous, horrific, anti-Semitic,
anti-American views, it would be all you saw every single
night on KUSA.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Every single night. And rightfully so. But yet, Milad Kiros
gets this pass? When clearly, I mean, look at this
Michigan Senate race.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
When you've got Abdul Al-Sayed, who right now is in
serious trouble in that race because of his association with.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Hassan Piker, which from what I can tell is not.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
As close an association as the one Malat Keros has
with Hassan Piker. If the stuff I'm reading is correct,
and somebody from the Keros cabal can straighten me out
if it's not, but what I'm reading in the media,
Hassan Piker was at her victory party.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
The night she won. That may not be correct, but
that's what the reporting is.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
She did a live stream with Hassan Piker on May
9th on 614, right before the election. Hassan Piker came
to Denver to do an event with her. And then
there were problems with the venue because of security issues.
And they did a live stream together. So obviously, when
somebody has these kind of extraordinarily extreme hateful views, you
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don't campaign with that person unless you agree with them.
on those extreme hateful views. Because if you're going to
try to tell somebody, oh, no, I don't agree with
them on that stuff, I agree on other stuff, nobody's
going to believe you, nor should they. Because you would
never be willing to associate with them unless you agreed
on those views because you know those views are going to.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Be attributed to you.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
So why don't we have this five-alarm media fire in
Colorado right now over this woman who is joined at
the hip with Hassan Piker and is on the verge
of being elected to Congress, a woman who said, if
I understand her statements correctly, the state of Israel.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Should be abolished.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
You know, it said defunding the Pentagon would be the
ideal scenario. And I'm paraphrasing that, but it's fair. Yeah,
why is she being given this total pass?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I think we know, right? All righty.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Hey, the overarching issue, if you just joined us, is
with all of the chaos on our roadways right now
on the left, undermined enforcement on our roadways, is it
time to just go to full-time tech, high-tech surveillance of
our roadways and start enforcing the law that way? Is
that the best way to end, as well as we
can ever end, the craziness and the carnage?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
303-713-8255, DAN, 57739. Hey, I'll get back to you.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
The text on this as well, but let's go to
some calls. Lewis, you're on the Dan Kaplan Show.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Welcome. Hi, Dan.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Thank you. The reception on my phone isn't the best.
Can you understand me okay?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I can hear you now. Let's trademark that. Okay.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
I was wondering if the insurance companies gave some sort
of a discount on their insurance rates if someone had
a camera mounted on their helmet. If they drive a
motorcycle or on their cars, what do you think about that?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
You're suggesting that. I don't know if it's occurring right now.
I know that, and I've talked to our family about it.
I want to get dash cams in all of our vehicles.
It just hasn't been as easy as you might think.
But I don't know if carriers are giving discounts on that.
I think they'd be wise to, because I think anybody
who puts one in right away, that's going to be
a self-deterrence as well as self-protection.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Well, there ought to be some kind of financial incentive
for both, it would seem to me, among other good ideas.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I like it. I like it, my friend. Thank you.
I'm an all-of-the-above kind of guy when it comes to stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
That may very well save your life or the life
of your kids or your spouse. Yeah, and our roadways
right now, as you know, they're killing fields. And it's
Russian roulette going out there right now. And I told
a story about something that happened earlier today. I won't
go through that again right now.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
So interesting idea there. And I wonder, do you do
you have a dash cam?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
And I decided a long time ago, I talked about
on air, I want to get one for my car
and I want everybody in our family to have one.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Everybody in our family is up for it.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
But it has been more difficult than I would have
thought to actually get the right one, get them installed,
et cetera, you know, while still protecting warranties and everything else.
But I definitely want to get one. All the craziness
out there, very, very important to get one. And in
my law practice, where I'm often representing, it's all I
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do is represent the victims and survivors of those who've
been killed. We're getting more and more dash cams as
evidence in cases, and they're extraordinarily valuable. And one thing
that I've found, you know, representing victims over the years,
and I could tell you, you could bring in a
stack of Bibles and a polygraph and test me on
this one. But I will tell you, 43 years of
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doing this, I've probably had all the cases I've had
over all those years. I've probably had at most two,
and it would have been at least 20 years ago.
People say something to me that wasn't true about what happened. And,
of course, we immediately dropped those cases. But think about that.
All the people over all the years on the victim
(25:42):
side I've represented, the honesty rate has been like 99.8%.
But I can tell you it is very, very common
in the cases I handle that you'll get people on
the other side saying things, you know, people who cause
these horrors, you know, not telling the truth about it
to one extent or another. Not every case, of course,
(26:03):
but many cases.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
And then part of our job, right, is to go
out there and prove what the truth is. So having a.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Dash cam, I think, can be a very, very effective thing.
you know, for folks and a very big step towards self-protection.
I'm talking about something bigger here when I talk about, hey,
it's time to say, no, we are not going to
surrender our streets and our highways to the killers, to
the reckless drivers, to the criminals. You know, we are
(26:32):
going to enforce the laws so we can save and
protect our families and ourselves. But I think as a
practical matter, the only way we're ever going to be
able to accomplish that is through high tech. We're not
going to be able to afford to have enough law
enforcement out there and we don't want the high-speed chases,
I think that technology can solve this problem for us.
(26:54):
That may include drones as well, but are you willing
to make that trade?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
303-713-8255, DAN 57739.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Hey, our lines are totally jammed on this, so here's
what I'm going to do. I'm going to get a
couple of texts. I'm going to pop a break, then
we'll come back. So all the callers and all the lines,
hang on, and I will get you on air in
the next segment. Dan, why not blame the people who
are actually doing the dangerous driving? That's what I want
to do. That's what I want to do. I want
to use technology to make sure that all of them
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know they are going to get caught and they are
going to be held accountable.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Because you know what that's going to do.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
From day one is that's going to mean a whole
lot of those people don't commit the crimes. They don't
do the reckless driving because they're not willing to pay
the price.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
They won't do the crime because they don't want to
do the time. Now, it wouldn't actually be.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Time in jail, but there would be a big price
to be paid. Dan, why don't we just allow law
enforcement to do their jobs instead of adding more surveillance
and laws that will just further the corruption?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Well, two points there.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Fair question on why not just let law enforcement do
their job. And the reason is, first of all, the
left has undermined law enforcement to the point where you
don't have enough out there And law enforcement has to
be very concerned about consequences to themselves with every single
traffic stop. So as a practical matter, that isn't going
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to be doable. The other practical consideration is the bad
guys and gals have figured out if they go fast enough,
they're not going to get chased because unless they've killed
somebody already, in most cases, law enforcement is not going
to engage in the chase wisely because of the danger
that would create. So this is where technology can step in.
(28:36):
And make sure that these really, really bad actors, these killers,
don't get away with it just because they plan to
outrun law enforcement at over 100 miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Hey, we'll come back to our jam lines. You're on
the Dan Kaplan Show.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Catching and prosecuting these reckless drivers, and this has led
to a discussion of dash cams as well. I'll get
to everybody jamming our lines, starting with Eric. You're on
the Dan Kaplan Show.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Welcome.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Hello, Dan. You are a wonderful guy. I love listening
to you.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Yeah, your take on stuff is very, it's just direct
and refreshing.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
But, hey, Metaglasses, all sorts. Boy, they could be handy
for what you're looking for. And then you don't have
to get anything installed on your vehicle. You can take
them anywhere you want to go. I e-bike everywhere, all
over the place. They're very handy.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Wow, what a great idea. Thank you for that, Eric.
And as Eric knows, there's a clear version of those.
metaglasses as well. I got this sunglass version as a
gift for Father's Day, but I haven't figured out how
to work them yet. I think maybe I'll do that
over this long weekend. Pete, you're on the Dan Kaplan Show.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Welcome.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Hey, Pete.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Hi, Dan. Hey, Dan, sorry.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
I'm a newbie to the dash cams and just wanted
to share just two quick points. First of all, if
you're thinking about getting a dash cam and you've got
an older car like I have, I got one dash
cam that goes out the front, but I got another
one that goes out the back windshield. And I don't
mean like a backup camera or a camera that records
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your passengers. And the reason why that's been beneficial is
that Sometimes I've gone through an intersection, someone's making a
left turn, and my rear dash cam catches what their
traffic light says. So, you know, if they claim I
still have the green arrow, I can say, no, it's
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clearly red.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Wow, that's thinking ahead, man.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
I kind of stumbled onto that. I wish I could
take credit for it. And just another quick one, and
this is you helping me think more legally, is that
because they're always recording, I'll take the SD card, pop
it in the computer, and the dash cams record your
speed and your GPS. You can turn that off if
you want, but I keep mine on because I'll download
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some random clips to say, on this day, I was
on I-25, and I'm going to limit. On this day,
I was in my neighborhood, and I'm going to limit.
On this day, I was on Horsetooth here in Fort Collins,
and I'm going to limit. It's just like you were
saying earlier. The dash cams help us think more about
our driving, and they give us some ammunition to say, normally,
I am a good driver.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Wow, Pete. Hey, appreciate the call. There's a very well-organized guy.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
And I just, you know, if you just joined us,
I've been trying to get dash cams in all our
family vehicles. I'm just running into some technical issues. So
if somebody has a suggestion for me there, I'd appreciate
it because I don't want to blow any warranties, screw
up any wiring. I thought it'd be as easy as
call the dealer and say, hey, can you throw a
dash cam in here for me? But it has not
been that easy. But I want them in all of
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our vehicles as soon as I can. I think, and
not that we need it. Everybody in our family is
a good driver. But, hey, it is some level of
deterrence for all of us, right? Just a reminder, hey,
just do it all right.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
It's all on film.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
But more importantly, you know, to make sure you can
show what really happened out there. Because when bad things happen...
There are a lot of people who cause bad things
to happen who then lie about it. Brian, you're on
the Dan Kaplan Show.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Welcome.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Hey, Dan.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
I'm a truck driver, and I wanted to call in
and say all these problems have been going on for
a long time. It was striking to me. See, the
night of 4th of July in 2016, I saw nine
accidents between Loveland and Piedlo.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
That used to be my run.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
And they all looked really serious. And the drag racing thing, too.
I took that job and I.
I didn't know that when I was going through Denver,
people were going to pass me in their cars in
the middle of the night and then get in front
of me and slam on the brakes and start a
drag race. And in the semi, you can't stop.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Right.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
I had more than one time when I about creamed
those guys because I just couldn't stop.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Well, then you throw drugs and alcohol into it. Yeah.
And so many of.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
These insane drivers just seem to have a death wish.
Or maybe it's video games, whatever it is. Drugs, alcohol,
video games, they think they're just bulletproof. Or they just
don't care if they die. They certainly don't care if
they kill you and your family.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Yes, for sure. Can I say one more thing real quick?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Sure, you bet.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
So I was a GM mechanic. From 86 to 2000.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
And back during my tenure with a Chevy dealer in
Fort Collins, where I'm from, General Motors was talking about
cars that just wouldn't let you speed or drag race
or tailgate. They had the technology supposedly way back then,
and I was dead set against it. But now, man,
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with what I see on the roads, I'm like, maybe
it's a good idea. I hate losing freedoms.
Speaker 7 (33:59):
It's kind of crazy out there.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Well, Brian, I'm glad you threw it in the mix,
and we'll carry that into the next hour, this question
of should, by law, vehicles be altered so they can't
do some of this bad stuff. I would oppose that
initially because I do think that would be too big
an infringement on our freedom. And that's not blanket. Maybe
there's some niche in there that could be addressed that way.
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I just think it's time to.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Use tech to.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Enforce the law on our roadways. We know we can't
put enough officers out there. The left has undermined law enforcement.
We know we don't want those officers doing high-speed chases
unless it's in connection with a crime where somebody's already
killed or seriously injured somebody, something like that.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
It seems to me tech is the answer here. But
I don't think, and you tell me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
I want to get to some texters on this as well.
who are not happy with me on this, they say
it's surveillance state stuff. No, I'm the opposite of a
surveillance state guy. I'm talking about our roadways. Listen, there
is no expectation of privacy on our roadways. If you're
sitting there thinking we should have an expectation of privacy
on our roadways, let's have that conversation. You know, we
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should have an expectation of privacy everywhere else. I mean,
unless you're like out in public walking down the street,
but on our roadways, Isn't that the one place where
you want everybody to know?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Because guess what? No matter how careful you are, your
life is not in your hands. Your child's life is
not in your hands on the roadways. It's in the
hands of some coked up, drugged up, doped up, drunk,
otherwise crazy person who put together a few hundred bucks
to buy a car. Now they're going to go 120
miles an hour. Do you want to bet your life
on them? Or do you want to try to take
(35:40):
our streets back? You're on the Dan Kapler Show.
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