November 18, 2025 • 35 mins
Dan comments on a 9 NEWS story outlining exorbinant $340 ticket fines for speeding in a photo-enforced area of Kersey in Weld County. What is the remedy for drivers and for residents in the town?
Also, in a near-unanimous vote, the U.S. House passes a bill calling upon the Department of Justice to release the remaining documents included in the so-called 'Epstein Files.'
Also, in a near-unanimous vote, the U.S. House passes a bill calling upon the Department of Justice to release the remaining documents included in the so-called 'Epstein Files.'
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Kaplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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Epstein file legally and in all fairness, get it disclosed.
Get the Senate on board. Good move by the GOP
you know to vote. I think every member of the
gopicks have one Congressman from Louisiana voted to release the
Epstein files. Great, it should be the same way in
the US Senate. Get it out there and then in
the meantime, continue to do what the administration's doing. And okay,
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they want to play that game. Get the full truth
out there about the Democrats and Epstein. Three oh three
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d an five seven seven three nine. We'll have some
hot take sound from the President to taking on particular
and ABC reporter on this today. But want to get
your reaction to what should come next. I mean, we
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know what's just happened, And I'm glad the President pivoted
when he did. You know, perfect world, Hey yeah, and
we've never had a perfect president. This one's a lot
better than the vast majority of the others. I think
I'll go down as historically great. He's mishandled this Epstein thing.
I think I understand why, but he has mishandled it,
and I think he's getting it right now. So get
it all out there, turn the heat on the Democrats
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where it fairly and factually belongs, and then go from there.
Much more to talk about today. Boy, there's so much
stuff going on locally nationally. I really want to zero
one on and thank you to Sheriff Steve Riams for
filling in. Yesterday we had really just one of the
greatest trips we've ever taken as a family. We went
back to see our son Joe, he's a third year
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law student back east, and went to see him. He
was on a team that competed in the finals of
the Moot Court Company, arguably the most prestigious mood court
competition in America, and he and his teammates, thank god,
won the competition. And even if they hadn't. I mean,
both teams were so good, and I've been practicing law
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forty years. I sat there and I said to Amy afterwards,
I said, I've been doing this forty years. That's some
of the top five lowering I've ever seen. Both sides. Wow,
both sides, and these kids aren't even out of school yet.
And yeah, Joe very fortunate to be on that winning team,
and there was a big contributor there, so grateful for that.
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I probably ryan Probably my reaction when the court announced
the winning team was probably a little too much like
reaction at the state championship game then might have been
appropriate for that courtroom setting, but you're kind of allowed.
But hey, they had that. The auditorium was full, that
had an overflow room of students, so it's a big
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deal on that campus and it should be should be
in So yeah, I was probably a little too exuberant
when the winner was announced. Well yeah, but hey, we're
all parents three all three someone three eight two five
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And if we're not parents yet, we've been kids ourselves,
so everybody can relate. So thank you to the sheriff
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for filling in had Victor marks On and so that's
great and great that they had a chance to have
that conversation. Steve Riams one of the most, if not
the most respected lungman in the state, and so great
for a victor, and he'd have the chance to talk about,
you know, public policy and public safety and things like that.
So lot's a I can see boy text already exploding,
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and I'd love to see that. I also want to
get to this sound. I didn't have a chance. I
called Steve to thank him for filling in, didn't have
a chance to ask him about this one. Did you
guys talk about the three hundred and forty dollars parking
tickets being issued up? And yeah, because I want to
do that story, give you my own take on it.
What was Steve's take on it?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, it's a local immunis palady, not parking tickets, I'm sorry,
moving violation tickets.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
What happens real quick summation.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
The speed limit drops from sixty five to forty.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Five and they've been popping them.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Like you said it was it three hundred forty eight
dollars a crack some of one of these women in
the story had six of those that's over two thousand dollars.
Sheriff Reees is not a fan because it's photo and
forest and he doesn't like, you know, that kind of setup.
But there's not much he can do about it as
the county sheriff because this is a local thing.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
It's a municipality within Weld County.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, let me fire that straia because the three forty
only kicks in if you're I think twenty or twenty
fivey five I think, so let's listen to that. And
I've got to tell you that's that's where my sympathy ends.
My sympathy ends a lot lower than twenty five over.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
On the road that oil built in Weld County. A
warning to keep your eyes peeled. It's hard to miss
the big sign a friendly neighbor posted in his yard
along County Road forty nine warning of a speed trap
four miles ahead. Easier to miss the small construction sign
warning of a photo radar a few hundred feet ahead.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And it drops from sixty five to fifty five to
forty five, and.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Your eyes will bulge at the ticket you might get
if you miss that sign.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And I was like thirty hundred forty dollars, and.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I was shocked.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Tracy Miller called Steve on your side after she got
a photo radar ticket that didn't make any sense.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I was just in my mind, like, this has got
to be a typo.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Ashley Marazzak, who lives a couple miles up the road,
so she's already gotten six of them, all delivered weeks
after she's accused of driving too fast.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
So I've gotten so many three hundred and forty dollars
tickets that I just can't afford them right now.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Both of them drove through this stretch of Weld County
where the speed limit reduces from sixty five miles an
hour to forty five miles an hour in less than
a quarter of a mile.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The camera sits not far from that forty five sign.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
I literally looked up the statute that says the maximum
is forty dollars. So I did write to them and say,
can you explain to me where you came up with
the extra three hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Tracy still hasn't gotten a response back, but Tracy's right.
A recent change in Colorado state law allows municipalities to
use photo radar to issue tickets but the law sets
limits on what municipalities can charge for those tickets forty
dollars in a normal stretch of road or eighty bucks
in a school or construction zone.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
This spot isn't a school or construction zone.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
I think it's definitely a speed trap, and it's a
moneymaker for that town of Kurzy.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
It is a money maker, Steve on your Side learned
since May the town has already made about three hundred
and sixteen thousand dollars writing three hundred and forty dollars
tickets alone. Even though the town's own ordinance regulating speed
cameras sets up much smaller cap on how much police
are supposed to charge.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
The council said, no, the most you can do is
forty to eighty dollars.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Criminal defense attorney Jeremy Low says this rules and Curzy
are pretty clearly laid out.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
There's nothing illegal about speed traps. Once you hit that
forty five mile for hour zote, you need to be
going at that speed limit, and if you don't, the
tickets themselves are allowed. What isn't allowed is the amount
of money that they are charging.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
So Steve on your Side asked the police chief who
said the town ups the charge to three point forty
if drivers are found going twenty five or more. Over,
both Tracy and Ashley were clocked in the seventies passing
that forty five side. The Chief claims a carve out
in state law allows this.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Certainly don't believe the bill allows for anything over the
caps explicitly already in law.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Democratic state Representative Meg Frolick helped write that law and
says what Curzy is doing was not necessarily the intent
of that carve out.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
This is not meant to be a revenue generator for
the local government.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
This is supposed to be a safety.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Component, a tool and a toolkit to get folks to
slow down.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
He works for this town. He needs to follow this
town's rules.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Lo says.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Anyone who gets a three hundred and forty dollars photo
ticket in Curzy should take it to court.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
Bring up the law that shows that the most I
can even charge is the forty dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
What do you want people to know if they get
a ticket going through.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Here, challenge it or context Steve and say hey, is
this legal order?
Speaker 8 (08:15):
So the Chief argues, anyone driving twenty five or over
the speed limit would technically be committing a criminal traffic
offense worth six points on your license and a guaranteed
court summons if a police officer pulled you over and
gave you a ticket. These tickets don't come with any points,
only that fee. When we ask the chief how this
complies with his own town's ordinance, he replied that he's
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now reviewing that internally and he'll get back to us.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I want to get your reaction to this. Three or
three seven win three eight two five five The number
takes d an five seven seven three nine. I think
it all depends on whether there's a fair opportunity, fair
warning of the change in speed limit, fair opportunity to
slow down, because otherwise, if it is in fact a
trap and it's inded that way, then it's just fundamentally wrong,
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fundamentally unfair if there's fair warning. Listen, my job doing
catastrophic injury and death cases for victims. There are so
many yahoos out there. I'm not saying the woman in
the story, she sounds very nice and normal, but there
are so many crazy, so many reckless drivers out there
now going twenty twenty five thirty over and they're killing
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people without thinking twice about it. Half of them are loaded,
you know, they're either drugged up or they've been drinking
or both. The others they're just you know, they don't
think there's any enforcement. They're just beat demons. They may
be driving a car worth one hundred grand, or they
may be driving a car worth one hundred bucks, but
they don't care who they hurt. And this state needs
to get serious about protecting our own and needs to
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start throwing those some of those those a holes in jail. So,
on the one hand, this state needs to get a
lot tougher in a hurry on reckless drivers. On the
other the lady in that piece didn't sound like a
reckless driver to me. And if that's some tricky trap
kind of deal, then need to use the law, politics,
everything else to end it. Today you're on the Dan
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Kapla Show.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
And now back to the Dan kapless Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Talking about speed traps. One in particular, allegedly a speed
trap outside of Cursey. Three hundred and forty dollars tickets.
Were told in the KUSA piece that it drops from
sixty five to forty five in a quarter of a
mile and the camera set up just beyond the forty
five and then text or Dan, this exact stretch of
highway is wide open and a steep downhill run into
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a wide open four lane area and seven miles from
the actual town of Cursey. It's nothing but a cash grab.
And listen, we've all seen the use of photoar radar
where you can tell, Okay, this is a real safety
issue around here, right for whatever reason might be a
school might be this, might be that. And then we've
all seen ones where clearly it's not about safety at all,
it's a cash grab. And so what makes me really
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suspicious that this one's a cash grab. And even before
seeing this detail in this text is first the woman
was willing to go public, do the story, etc. And
then they laid out the whole scene and she clearly
felt as if there was no safety issue. But much
bigger than that to me is the fact that wait
a second, these three hundred and forty dollars tickets kick
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in when you're twenty five miles over the speed limit
or more. And it's that kind of driving and kills
an awful lot of people in Colorado. So there can
be an extraordinarily important safety issue involved when somebody gets
going that fast, or it can be one of these. Okay,
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we're going to drop it quickly from sixty five to
forty five and it's kind of a gotcha and we'll
set up the camera just past it. If that's what's
going on here, I don't know. But here's what's very
telling to me. It sounds like these are all photo
radar tickets, right correct. Well, wait a second. If you've
got people routinely going twenty five miles over the speed limit,
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then that has the potential to be an enormous safety issue.
So if it is in fact safety motivated at that point,
aren't you putting car Aren't you putting law enforcement officers
out there? Right so you can track these people down
if in fact it's a safety issue, track them down,
issue a full ticket with the six point violation, and
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get dangerous sobs off the road. So I've got to
believe that if Kursey really believed this was a safety issue,
they'd be putting some of Kursey's finess out there, and
they have some excellent law enforcement officers up there. Put
them on the roadway, chase these menaces down, hammer them
with the ticket, and help protect the people. So the
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fact they're not doing that, but they're using, according to
the story, anyway, they're using photo radar. Doesn't that just
tell you what's really going on.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
That's a great point, Dan, because truly, if it was
an issue of the magnitude you're speaking of that you
know you want to make sure you serve and protect,
and that this is putting other drivers, pedestrians, whatever, in danger,
you wouldn't just leave it up to a photo enforced
ticket generating system. You would put actual physical officers out
there to stem the tide.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Hey, get those bad drivers off the street. I'll tell
you start issuing six point tickets and you can go
even higher. At that point, you got people driving those
kind of speeds, you can easily go to a reckless
I mean, because you talk about in danger in life
and limb depending on the circumstances, right. So, yeah, I
think knowing that the horrific photos I look at at work,
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the dead bodies, people who a minute before were somebody's
mom and now those kids aren't going to have a
mother because somebody was driving twenty five over. Yeah, throw
the book at them. But the fact that this is
just photo radar, and if you're generating that much money,
you can afford to put officers out there. So let's
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see if we can get the Chief on tomorrow and
have a conversation about this based upon what I heard
in that story, and then you know what this text
is telling us. But above all, that they're using photo
radar and not officers to take reckless drivers off the streets.
I'm suspicious. I'd like to talk to the Chief, and
I know Ryan will make that happen. Three all three, seven, one,
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three eight, two five five text d an five seven,
seventh through nine. So I love your thoughts on the
whole photo radar thing. Kind of a hard turn, but
we've got to talk about I want to talk about
what's going on with this Epstein business, because smart move
by President Trump to just heay tell all Republicans go
vote for it, go vote for releasing the files. Senate
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tell them that as well. I don't know if the
President has done that. I saw a headline pop up
that there is going to be a vote in the Senate.
So hopefully all the Republicans vote for the release of
the files and then just hammer the Democrats. Hammer the
Democrats with every connection in there, and I get the
president's concerned. I don't believe for a second his concern
is that the files are going to make him look bad.
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I think his can is the distraction because he's been
on a historically great role. I think he's mishandled this
Epstein thing, but he's been on a historically great role.
I understand he has not wanted the distraction of the
Epstein files because the way that the dishonest media, which
is a large portion of it, will use these files
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to try to distract from all of his other accomplishments
past and present in future. So I get his concern,
but just put it all out there and then just
start hammering these Democrats for all of their connections to Epstein.
So I want to play some of that sound, but
also get your reaction to it. If you disagree with
my premise that the president's mishandled this, let me know. Obviously,
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you've got a large portion of the media that's been
very dishonest about this whole Epstein thing, covering for the
Democrats who did nothing with this stuff for four years
for obvious reasons, because you're going to have so many
Democrats made to look bad from these files. But the
Democrats got to the point where Trump Trump was on
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such a role they felt they had to do something
to try to distract. This is a desperation play that
ultimately is going to hurt the Democrats, but it's all
they got right now. So that's why, all right, that's
why it's going to be on the table now, and
just keep blowing up these Democrats with a three oh
three seven one three eight two five five text d
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an five seven seven three nine. You can tell that
it's really bothering the president on a personal level. And
I get it, because he is doing so many great things,
and it's obvious that he never did anything nefarious when
it came to Epstein or Epstein's horrific conduct, or we
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would have known about it a long time ago. So
I understand the personal frustration on his part. Also having
been a victim of the coup attempt, as I called
it while it was happening, and it was a coup
attempt using this Russia lie. You know, this is another
form of that aimed at him, and so he's only human.
I get the fact that he's really really ticked. But
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hopefully this recent move on his part will help this
all Now get focused where it should be and help
them move on and get fully back on his game.
Here he goes after Mary Bruce, ABC News reporter, it's
about a one week.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
For Congress to release the Epstein files.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Why not just do it that now?
Speaker 9 (17:26):
It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude.
I think you are a terrible reporter. It's the way
you ask these questions. You start off with a man
who's highly respected asking him a horrible, insubordinate and just
a terrible question. And you could even ask that same
exact question nicely.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
You're all psyched.
Speaker 9 (17:48):
Somebody sucks you over at ABC and you're gonna psych it.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
You're a terrible person.
Speaker 9 (17:55):
And a terrible reporter. As far as the Epstein Files is,
I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. I threw
him out of my club many years ago because I
thought he was a sick perverb. But I guess I
would turn out.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
To be right. But you know who does have built Letton?
Speaker 9 (18:12):
Larry Summers, who ran Harvard, was with him at four
single night, every single weekend. They lived together. They went
to his island many times. I never did.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Andrew Weisman here.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
All these guys were friends of his.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
You don't even talk about this, go for it, Go
for it. Didn't talk about the Biden administration not releasing
any of this. So I understand his anger. But hopefully
these recent moves let him get fully back on his
game and then just turn it on the Damsel Love
to get your react to that. Then we'll have some
of that sound of that same reporter and others going
after MBS as he visited the White House today. You're
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on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 10 (18:58):
I was called a trader by a man that I
fought for five no actually six years for and I
gave him my loyalty for free. I won my first
election without his endorsement, beating eight men in a primary.
And I've never owed him anything, but I fought for him,
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for the policies and for America first. And he called
me a trader for standing with these women and refusing
to take my name off.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
The discharge petition. Let me tell you what a trader is.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
A trader is a is an American that serves foreign
countries and themselves. A patriot is an American that serves
the United States of America.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
No, she's calling trumpet trader. You know, when everybody was
getting on board that train, the Marjory Taylor Green train,
I was like really, and yeah, yeah, so three or
three seven one three two five five text D five
seven seven thirty nine. But as you know, we love
to look around corners here, and you know, this is
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a there's a little taste of what is to come,
because you know, you've got Trump doing these historically great things,
and he's going to hit this two year point and
at that point, you're going to see a lot more
of this and it won't be as graphic or as
blatant as this, but you're going to see a lot
more people distancing themselves from Trump. But I think he
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knows that, just knowing human nature and knowing the nature
of politicians, and I think that's one reason he's so
frustrated about this Epstein nonsense right now, because he knows
he's completely innocent. He knows what the Democrats are trying
to do distract from his successes and derel his agenda
going forward. He knows he has this limited amount of
time to work with legislatively, he'll have the power of
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commander in chief obviously until the very last minute in office,
but in legislatively a pretty narrow window. And so you
know you're going to start seeing a lot more of this,
you know, as we approach the midterms and then of
course immediately afterward and not as extreme, but we're going
to see it in many different forms. Three out three
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seven to one to three A two five five the
number text d A N five seven seven three nine.
And by this what I mean is if people who
think it's to their advantage politically to then start distancing
themselves from Trump. And it'll be on a scale. Some
of it will be subtle, some of it'll be blatant,
but he knows it's coming. We know it's coming. And
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that's that's unfortunate because when have we had a better president,
I mean in our lifetimes, when have we had a
better more effective president? Style stuff. Yeah, you obviously can
quibble with this bit of style and that bit of style.
At the same time, his strength has been a big
reason for his success, which his country has benefited so
much from. I also want to talk to you about
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interesting story out there. Did you see that Ryan at
Denver one of these single worst price drop in homes
in America study that just came out to see it.
And why do you think that's the case. Why are
homes in Denver dropping faster, dropping in value faster than
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almost anywhere else in the country.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Are we saying Denver or Denver metro? No, we're talking
Denver ever city limit, Denver County. We don't have Denver.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah, Dedwell City and County of Denver, same thing, right,
So yeah, we don't have at this point Colorado wide data.
But why do you see it dropping like a rock
in Denver? So I want to get your take on that.
Also promised you some of this MBS sound from Muhammed
Ben Salomon meeting with the President today at the White
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House and he was being questioned by ABC again on
the Koshogee killing, et cetera. And those questions I think
are absolutely perfectly appropriate. And then hear some of the
response there.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Just yes, a personation you allow me to answer. You know,
I feel painful about, you know, the families of ninety
eleven in America, but you know, we have to focus
on reality. Reality based in CI documents and based on
a lot of documents that osa a Laddin, he used
Saudi people, and that event. For one main purpose is
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to destroy this relation, to destroy the American Saudi relation.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
That's the purpose of ninety eleven.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
So whoever buying that, that means they are helping Osama
the ladin purpose of destroying this relation. You know, that's
a strong relation between America and Saudi Arabia. It's bad
for extremism, it's bad for terrorism, and we have to
improve him wrong and to build our relation could continue
to floping our relation. It's a critical in the safety
of the world, is a critical against extremism and terrorism.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
And here's nbs on Kushoki about the generals. That's really
painful to hear.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
You know, anyone that been losing his life fault, you know,
no ret the purpose of nothing illegal way, And it's
been painful for us in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
We've did all the light steps.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Of investigation, et cetera in Saudi Arabia, and we've improved
our system to be sure that nothing happened like that.
And it's painful and it's a huge mistake and beldly
our business that doesn't happen again.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah, and so I think those kinds of questions are
perfectly appropriate. Obviously, the Saudi government has done some bad things,
and I think those you know, should have every right
to explore in a country like this where we pride
ourselves on freedom of press, freedom of speech. Trump's approach,
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and it's been its approach across the board, is what's
in America's interest in terms of the relationship with this government,
because we all know there aren't any perfect heads of state.
Now that's not trying to you'll say that all of
these bad acts are equal, not at all. But the
point is when your starting point is there are no
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pure heads of state, and the president's looking for relationships
that are in this nation's best interest, you know what
approach does he take? You get somebody like Putin is
Satan on Earth. I don't know enough about MBS. There's
there's no way Saudi can be as bad as Putin, right,
not at all, but because Putin is Satan on Earth.
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And then you have Trump trying to maneuver that relationship
so that the United States of America benefits as well
as possible, particularly from the kind of web of relationships
around the world, and how Putin fits into that. And
I'll never fall to President for trying to do that.
Then the question is the specifics, how how far does
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the president go, etc. But you know, with Saudi, does
anybody really think we end up with this kind of
historic shot at peace in the Mideast right now without
Trump's very positive relationship with NBS. No way, So no
doubt in my mind. Trump's motives and you can see
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the consistent pattern of action is try to try to
forge these new relationships, these new coalitions so you can
break these these old destructive cycles around the world. And
it's part of what he was elected to do, to
be a disruptor, to come in with this fresh vision,
not be beholden, you know, to the usual gang of
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quote experts, and along the way, he's going to open
him up self up to some of these types of criticisms. Obviously,
the American people support what the president's doing, or he
would not have won this second term. He wouldn't have
won either term. He was elected to be a disruptor.
Three or three someone three eight two five five tags
d an five seven seven three nine. So when we
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come back, I do want to die. For a couple
minutes into this story about home is in Denver, trailing
the nation, losing more ground than most of the rest
of the nation. Why do you think that's happening. I
obviously think there's a much bigger, broader message in this
that tells us a lot about what is to come
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in Colorado. The only question is is it going to
come sooner or later? But what do you think the
reasons are? What do you think the reasons are for
Denver home prices getting hammered so much harder than most
of the rest of the country. You're on the Dan
Caplas Show.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 9 (27:34):
Here with the men and the women who are really
the heart and soul of one of the greatest, most admired,
and most successful companies.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
In the history of the world. Frankly, the one and
only McDonald's. I've gone there a couple of times.
Speaker 9 (27:51):
And I'm on interestand before you as the very first
McDonald's Frei Cook ever to become President of.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
The United Why that was the moment, wasn't it. I Mean,
you knew before Butler that that Trump was going to win,
But at Butler that was absolute. But if there was
any doubt left, absolute brilliance that appearance at the McDonald's
A couple of weeks out in Pennsylvania. Yeah, dynamite stuff
(28:21):
and this creativity of his, this this fresh thinking, willing
to operate outside the box or in that case, inside
the box of fries. Are McDonald's fries still in the box?
We were talking about that the other day. We need
to get back there. Do you know the current kind
of like health and nutrition take on McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I believe that they're changing maybe to back to beef tallow.
I know RFK Junior's back big on that steak and shake.
Does that there's only one here in the beef tallow. Well,
that's how the fries used to be. They were deep
fried in beef tallow instead of this, you know, whatever
hydrogenated oil that.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
They because the original McDonald's fries, there's no greater taste
on the face of the Earth's so right, Yeah, but
Burger's nutrition, maybe we can look at it. Turner breaks
that would be there every night if I could without
killing myself.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Well, look at President Trump man, he's pushing eighty, is
in great shape.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
That's a great point that he is. He is a
force in nature. Dan prices are dropping in Denver because
of and then Ryan had me said on a thirty
second refresh well intended, my friend would be still annoying.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Because of the high crime and high inflation in Colorado,
Denver has put illegals and homeless above the legal residents
who are now paying nine point fifty sales text.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
That's probably a good leading to this story. This from
the Denver Post. Nine to ten Denver area homes lost
value in the past years, Zilla reports, So your first
question is probably okay, Well, is that the case across
the country? Not a metro Denver is leading the country
for the share of homes that have lost value over
the past year, with nine and ten homes down in price,
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compared to only half nationally, according to an analysis from Zilla.
So nationally you go out of a half the homes
are down right now, ebanos, interest rates are high, etc.
Denver nine in ten homes worst in the country. Story
goes on to say about ninety one percent of Metro
Denver homes lost value in the past year, compared to
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fifty three percent nationally. I love how they've tried to
write this story with a favorable spin for Denver. Denver
edges out other once hot metros like Austin with eighty
nine point five percent of homes down in value in Phoenix,
with eighty six point nine down the past year. Home
prices have bounced around in a narrowband since the peak
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in June of twenty twenty two, making it hard to
discern the overall trend. Yeah, so this is more than
the canary in the coal mine. Obviously, it's just coming
just logic. It's the same kind of logic when you
know the talk tod is gonna be a nirvana to
legalize marijuana. We knew at that point you were going
(31:09):
to have so many more wrecked kids, so many more
dead bodies on the roadways, et cetera. Just common sense.
That's why no other city in the world had ever
done it the way that in no other state either
had done it the way Colorado did it in twenty twelve.
But this is similar. The point here is, and if
anybody has a good counterargument, I'd love to hear. But
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the point is that you cannot do all of these
far left things that Denver does without having to pay
for it. You can get away with it for a
little while because it's one of the most beautiful places
on earth. You can get away for a little while
longer because you do have the gleaming part of Denver
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that's always going to be there to a point and
is going to be supported by, you know, the remaining
wealth in the metro area and some of the advantages
to some of living Danta. So you can get away
with it for a little while. But you can't have
you can't have this open, welcome arm embrace of dangerous criminals.
(32:15):
You can't have this love of legalized drugs, this passionate
love of legalized drugs, without paying a big price for it.
Part of the price of boths is that you drive
off jobs, you drive off some of the best companies,
and then you attract some really bad people along with
some good people. You can't have this open and Mike
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Johnston's still doing it. The marri of Denver that this
recruiting effort to try to attract as many people who
are in America illegally to come to Denver as possible.
And that's what Johnston has openly been doing, openly been
recruiting folks in the country legally to come to Denver.
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You can't do that without paying a long term price,
because some of those people are going to be hard
in criminals. Many are going to be otherwise good people
just trying to make a living. But whether it's the
hard and criminal category going to wrecavoc on your community
and drive out good businesses and drive out families, et cetera,
or whether it's the otherwise peaceful and now law abiding
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folks who you just can't afford. You can't be doing
all these far left things and not pay a big
price for it. It's like bankruptcy. You go bankrupt slowly
and then all at once. And that's the trajectory Denver.
Now Johnston's batting that he'll be gone before the all
at once happens, you know, because he's obviously got a
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political plan mapped out. Not sure how well that's working
for him right now, but yes, So that's that's what
what's going on with Denver. Same thing's going to go
on with Colorado is you just can't do all these
far left things at the left that owns and operates
a state does You can't do that. You can't do
that long term without paying an enormous price for it.
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It's and I'm comparing socialism separately here, though obviously you
have a lot of socialist ideas and attitudes which are
our core to the Democratic Party in Colorado. But it's
like socialism has never worked anywhere in the world long
term and not very well short term. It just can't.
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It's a matter of gravity, logical gravity. But the same
is true of all these far left things. Whether you
want to classify this bad move or that crazy leftist
move as socialist or not, doesn't matter. It's the same principle.
This stuff can't work. It doesn't work. It's never worked
anywhere long term, and it's not going to work here.
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It's just delayed. The impact is softened a little bit
along the way because we have so much going for us,
which is really the maddening thing, because when you're blessed
with everything we have here, all of the advantages Colorado has,
you know it. They're the weather, the location, the stunning
beauty that we're insulated from so many of the natural
(35:12):
disasters that plague other states. You know, our surrounding states
are lightly populated and low crime kind of states. We've
got every conceivable advantage. It takes longer to ruin a
place like this, but the left is getting there. Three
all three seven, one, three eight two five five. The
number text D A N five, seven, seven through ninety
(35:34):
when we come back, Epstein, do you think the president's
making the right.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Moves on this?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
What else would you advise? Obviously he's personally innocent. Dems
are trying to use this to just hijack the conversation
distract from his accomplishments. What should the president do next?
I've got some advice, hope he follows it. You're on
the Dan Catholic Show.
This is Dan Kaplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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Epstein file legally and in all fairness, get it disclosed.
Get the Senate on board. Good move by the GOP
you know to vote. I think every member of the
gopicks have one Congressman from Louisiana voted to release the
Epstein files. Great, it should be the same way in
the US Senate. Get it out there and then in
the meantime, continue to do what the administration's doing. And okay,
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they want to play that game. Get the full truth
out there about the Democrats and Epstein. Three oh three
seven one three A two five five the number text
d an five seven seven three nine. We'll have some
hot take sound from the President to taking on particular
and ABC reporter on this today. But want to get
your reaction to what should come next. I mean, we
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know what's just happened, And I'm glad the President pivoted
when he did. You know, perfect world, Hey yeah, and
we've never had a perfect president. This one's a lot
better than the vast majority of the others. I think
I'll go down as historically great. He's mishandled this Epstein thing.
I think I understand why, but he has mishandled it,
and I think he's getting it right now. So get
it all out there, turn the heat on the Democrats
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where it fairly and factually belongs, and then go from there.
Much more to talk about today. Boy, there's so much
stuff going on locally nationally. I really want to zero
one on and thank you to Sheriff Steve Riams for
filling in. Yesterday we had really just one of the
greatest trips we've ever taken as a family. We went
back to see our son Joe, he's a third year
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law student back east, and went to see him. He
was on a team that competed in the finals of
the Moot Court Company, arguably the most prestigious mood court
competition in America, and he and his teammates, thank god,
won the competition. And even if they hadn't. I mean,
both teams were so good, and I've been practicing law
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forty years. I sat there and I said to Amy afterwards,
I said, I've been doing this forty years. That's some
of the top five lowering I've ever seen. Both sides. Wow,
both sides, and these kids aren't even out of school yet.
And yeah, Joe very fortunate to be on that winning team,
and there was a big contributor there, so grateful for that.
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I probably ryan Probably my reaction when the court announced
the winning team was probably a little too much like
reaction at the state championship game then might have been
appropriate for that courtroom setting, but you're kind of allowed.
But hey, they had that. The auditorium was full, that
had an overflow room of students, so it's a big
(02:57):
deal on that campus and it should be should be
in So yeah, I was probably a little too exuberant
when the winner was announced. Well yeah, but hey, we're
all parents three all three someone three eight two five
five text d A N five seven seven three nine,
And if we're not parents yet, we've been kids ourselves,
so everybody can relate. So thank you to the sheriff
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for filling in had Victor marks On and so that's
great and great that they had a chance to have
that conversation. Steve Riams one of the most, if not
the most respected lungman in the state, and so great
for a victor, and he'd have the chance to talk about,
you know, public policy and public safety and things like that.
So lot's a I can see boy text already exploding,
(03:41):
and I'd love to see that. I also want to
get to this sound. I didn't have a chance. I
called Steve to thank him for filling in, didn't have
a chance to ask him about this one. Did you
guys talk about the three hundred and forty dollars parking
tickets being issued up? And yeah, because I want to
do that story, give you my own take on it.
What was Steve's take on it?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, it's a local immunis palady, not parking tickets, I'm sorry,
moving violation tickets.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
What happens real quick summation.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
The speed limit drops from sixty five to forty.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Five and they've been popping them.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Like you said it was it three hundred forty eight
dollars a crack some of one of these women in
the story had six of those that's over two thousand dollars.
Sheriff Reees is not a fan because it's photo and
forest and he doesn't like, you know, that kind of setup.
But there's not much he can do about it as
the county sheriff because this is a local thing.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
It's a municipality within Weld County.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, let me fire that straia because the three forty
only kicks in if you're I think twenty or twenty
fivey five I think, so let's listen to that. And
I've got to tell you that's that's where my sympathy ends.
My sympathy ends a lot lower than twenty five over.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
On the road that oil built in Weld County. A
warning to keep your eyes peeled. It's hard to miss
the big sign a friendly neighbor posted in his yard
along County Road forty nine warning of a speed trap
four miles ahead. Easier to miss the small construction sign
warning of a photo radar a few hundred feet ahead.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And it drops from sixty five to fifty five to
forty five, and.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Your eyes will bulge at the ticket you might get
if you miss that sign.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And I was like thirty hundred forty dollars, and.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I was shocked.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Tracy Miller called Steve on your side after she got
a photo radar ticket that didn't make any sense.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I was just in my mind, like, this has got
to be a typo.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Ashley Marazzak, who lives a couple miles up the road,
so she's already gotten six of them, all delivered weeks
after she's accused of driving too fast.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
So I've gotten so many three hundred and forty dollars
tickets that I just can't afford them right now.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Both of them drove through this stretch of Weld County
where the speed limit reduces from sixty five miles an
hour to forty five miles an hour in less than
a quarter of a mile.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The camera sits not far from that forty five sign.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
I literally looked up the statute that says the maximum
is forty dollars. So I did write to them and say,
can you explain to me where you came up with
the extra three hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Tracy still hasn't gotten a response back, but Tracy's right.
A recent change in Colorado state law allows municipalities to
use photo radar to issue tickets but the law sets
limits on what municipalities can charge for those tickets forty
dollars in a normal stretch of road or eighty bucks
in a school or construction zone.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
This spot isn't a school or construction zone.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
I think it's definitely a speed trap, and it's a
moneymaker for that town of Kurzy.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
It is a money maker, Steve on your Side learned
since May the town has already made about three hundred
and sixteen thousand dollars writing three hundred and forty dollars
tickets alone. Even though the town's own ordinance regulating speed
cameras sets up much smaller cap on how much police
are supposed to charge.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
The council said, no, the most you can do is
forty to eighty dollars.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Criminal defense attorney Jeremy Low says this rules and Curzy
are pretty clearly laid out.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
There's nothing illegal about speed traps. Once you hit that
forty five mile for hour zote, you need to be
going at that speed limit, and if you don't, the
tickets themselves are allowed. What isn't allowed is the amount
of money that they are charging.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
So Steve on your Side asked the police chief who
said the town ups the charge to three point forty
if drivers are found going twenty five or more. Over,
both Tracy and Ashley were clocked in the seventies passing
that forty five side. The Chief claims a carve out
in state law allows this.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Certainly don't believe the bill allows for anything over the
caps explicitly already in law.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Democratic state Representative Meg Frolick helped write that law and
says what Curzy is doing was not necessarily the intent
of that carve out.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
This is not meant to be a revenue generator for
the local government.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
This is supposed to be a safety.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Component, a tool and a toolkit to get folks to
slow down.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
He works for this town. He needs to follow this
town's rules.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Lo says.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Anyone who gets a three hundred and forty dollars photo
ticket in Curzy should take it to court.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
Bring up the law that shows that the most I
can even charge is the forty dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
What do you want people to know if they get
a ticket going through.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Here, challenge it or context Steve and say hey, is
this legal order?
Speaker 8 (08:15):
So the Chief argues, anyone driving twenty five or over
the speed limit would technically be committing a criminal traffic
offense worth six points on your license and a guaranteed
court summons if a police officer pulled you over and
gave you a ticket. These tickets don't come with any points,
only that fee. When we ask the chief how this
complies with his own town's ordinance, he replied that he's
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now reviewing that internally and he'll get back to us.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I want to get your reaction to this. Three or
three seven win three eight two five five The number
takes d an five seven seven three nine. I think
it all depends on whether there's a fair opportunity, fair
warning of the change in speed limit, fair opportunity to
slow down, because otherwise, if it is in fact a
trap and it's inded that way, then it's just fundamentally wrong,
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fundamentally unfair if there's fair warning. Listen, my job doing
catastrophic injury and death cases for victims. There are so
many yahoos out there. I'm not saying the woman in
the story, she sounds very nice and normal, but there
are so many crazy, so many reckless drivers out there
now going twenty twenty five thirty over and they're killing
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people without thinking twice about it. Half of them are loaded,
you know, they're either drugged up or they've been drinking
or both. The others they're just you know, they don't
think there's any enforcement. They're just beat demons. They may
be driving a car worth one hundred grand, or they
may be driving a car worth one hundred bucks, but
they don't care who they hurt. And this state needs
to get serious about protecting our own and needs to
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start throwing those some of those those a holes in jail. So,
on the one hand, this state needs to get a
lot tougher in a hurry on reckless drivers. On the
other the lady in that piece didn't sound like a
reckless driver to me. And if that's some tricky trap
kind of deal, then need to use the law, politics,
everything else to end it. Today you're on the Dan
(10:07):
Kapla Show.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
And now back to the Dan kapless Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Talking about speed traps. One in particular, allegedly a speed
trap outside of Cursey. Three hundred and forty dollars tickets.
Were told in the KUSA piece that it drops from
sixty five to forty five in a quarter of a
mile and the camera set up just beyond the forty
five and then text or Dan, this exact stretch of
highway is wide open and a steep downhill run into
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a wide open four lane area and seven miles from
the actual town of Cursey. It's nothing but a cash grab.
And listen, we've all seen the use of photoar radar
where you can tell, Okay, this is a real safety
issue around here, right for whatever reason might be a
school might be this, might be that. And then we've
all seen ones where clearly it's not about safety at all,
it's a cash grab. And so what makes me really
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suspicious that this one's a cash grab. And even before
seeing this detail in this text is first the woman
was willing to go public, do the story, etc. And
then they laid out the whole scene and she clearly
felt as if there was no safety issue. But much
bigger than that to me is the fact that wait
a second, these three hundred and forty dollars tickets kick
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in when you're twenty five miles over the speed limit
or more. And it's that kind of driving and kills
an awful lot of people in Colorado. So there can
be an extraordinarily important safety issue involved when somebody gets
going that fast, or it can be one of these. Okay,
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we're going to drop it quickly from sixty five to
forty five and it's kind of a gotcha and we'll
set up the camera just past it. If that's what's
going on here, I don't know. But here's what's very
telling to me. It sounds like these are all photo
radar tickets, right correct. Well, wait a second. If you've
got people routinely going twenty five miles over the speed limit,
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then that has the potential to be an enormous safety issue.
So if it is in fact safety motivated at that point,
aren't you putting car Aren't you putting law enforcement officers
out there? Right so you can track these people down
if in fact it's a safety issue, track them down,
issue a full ticket with the six point violation, and
(12:22):
get dangerous sobs off the road. So I've got to
believe that if Kursey really believed this was a safety issue,
they'd be putting some of Kursey's finess out there, and
they have some excellent law enforcement officers up there. Put
them on the roadway, chase these menaces down, hammer them
with the ticket, and help protect the people. So the
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fact they're not doing that, but they're using, according to
the story, anyway, they're using photo radar. Doesn't that just
tell you what's really going on.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
That's a great point, Dan, because truly, if it was
an issue of the magnitude you're speaking of that you
know you want to make sure you serve and protect,
and that this is putting other drivers, pedestrians, whatever, in danger,
you wouldn't just leave it up to a photo enforced
ticket generating system. You would put actual physical officers out
there to stem the tide.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Hey, get those bad drivers off the street. I'll tell
you start issuing six point tickets and you can go
even higher. At that point, you got people driving those
kind of speeds, you can easily go to a reckless
I mean, because you talk about in danger in life
and limb depending on the circumstances, right. So, yeah, I
think knowing that the horrific photos I look at at work,
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the dead bodies, people who a minute before were somebody's
mom and now those kids aren't going to have a
mother because somebody was driving twenty five over. Yeah, throw
the book at them. But the fact that this is
just photo radar, and if you're generating that much money,
you can afford to put officers out there. So let's
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see if we can get the Chief on tomorrow and
have a conversation about this based upon what I heard
in that story, and then you know what this text
is telling us. But above all, that they're using photo
radar and not officers to take reckless drivers off the streets.
I'm suspicious. I'd like to talk to the Chief, and
I know Ryan will make that happen. Three all three, seven, one,
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three eight, two five five text d an five seven,
seventh through nine. So I love your thoughts on the
whole photo radar thing. Kind of a hard turn, but
we've got to talk about I want to talk about
what's going on with this Epstein business, because smart move
by President Trump to just heay tell all Republicans go
vote for it, go vote for releasing the files. Senate
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tell them that as well. I don't know if the
President has done that. I saw a headline pop up
that there is going to be a vote in the Senate.
So hopefully all the Republicans vote for the release of
the files and then just hammer the Democrats. Hammer the
Democrats with every connection in there, and I get the
president's concerned. I don't believe for a second his concern
is that the files are going to make him look bad.
(14:59):
I think his can is the distraction because he's been
on a historically great role. I think he's mishandled this
Epstein thing, but he's been on a historically great role.
I understand he has not wanted the distraction of the
Epstein files because the way that the dishonest media, which
is a large portion of it, will use these files
(15:19):
to try to distract from all of his other accomplishments
past and present in future. So I get his concern,
but just put it all out there and then just
start hammering these Democrats for all of their connections to Epstein.
So I want to play some of that sound, but
also get your reaction to it. If you disagree with
my premise that the president's mishandled this, let me know. Obviously,
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you've got a large portion of the media that's been
very dishonest about this whole Epstein thing, covering for the
Democrats who did nothing with this stuff for four years
for obvious reasons, because you're going to have so many
Democrats made to look bad from these files. But the
Democrats got to the point where Trump Trump was on
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such a role they felt they had to do something
to try to distract. This is a desperation play that
ultimately is going to hurt the Democrats, but it's all
they got right now. So that's why, all right, that's
why it's going to be on the table now, and
just keep blowing up these Democrats with a three oh
three seven one three eight two five five text d
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an five seven seven three nine. You can tell that
it's really bothering the president on a personal level. And
I get it, because he is doing so many great things,
and it's obvious that he never did anything nefarious when
it came to Epstein or Epstein's horrific conduct, or we
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would have known about it a long time ago. So
I understand the personal frustration on his part. Also having
been a victim of the coup attempt, as I called
it while it was happening, and it was a coup
attempt using this Russia lie. You know, this is another
form of that aimed at him, and so he's only human.
I get the fact that he's really really ticked. But
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hopefully this recent move on his part will help this
all Now get focused where it should be and help
them move on and get fully back on his game.
Here he goes after Mary Bruce, ABC News reporter, it's
about a one week.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
For Congress to release the Epstein files.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Why not just do it that now?
Speaker 9 (17:26):
It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude.
I think you are a terrible reporter. It's the way
you ask these questions. You start off with a man
who's highly respected asking him a horrible, insubordinate and just
a terrible question. And you could even ask that same
exact question nicely.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
You're all psyched.
Speaker 9 (17:48):
Somebody sucks you over at ABC and you're gonna psych it.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
You're a terrible person.
Speaker 9 (17:55):
And a terrible reporter. As far as the Epstein Files is,
I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. I threw
him out of my club many years ago because I
thought he was a sick perverb. But I guess I
would turn out.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
To be right. But you know who does have built Letton?
Speaker 9 (18:12):
Larry Summers, who ran Harvard, was with him at four
single night, every single weekend. They lived together. They went
to his island many times. I never did.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Andrew Weisman here.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
All these guys were friends of his.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
You don't even talk about this, go for it, Go
for it. Didn't talk about the Biden administration not releasing
any of this. So I understand his anger. But hopefully
these recent moves let him get fully back on his
game and then just turn it on the Damsel Love
to get your react to that. Then we'll have some
of that sound of that same reporter and others going
after MBS as he visited the White House today. You're
(18:49):
on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 10 (18:58):
I was called a trader by a man that I
fought for five no actually six years for and I
gave him my loyalty for free. I won my first
election without his endorsement, beating eight men in a primary.
And I've never owed him anything, but I fought for him,
(19:19):
for the policies and for America first. And he called
me a trader for standing with these women and refusing
to take my name off.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
The discharge petition. Let me tell you what a trader is.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
A trader is a is an American that serves foreign
countries and themselves. A patriot is an American that serves
the United States of America.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
No, she's calling trumpet trader. You know, when everybody was
getting on board that train, the Marjory Taylor Green train,
I was like really, and yeah, yeah, so three or
three seven one three two five five text D five
seven seven thirty nine. But as you know, we love
to look around corners here, and you know, this is
(20:06):
a there's a little taste of what is to come,
because you know, you've got Trump doing these historically great things,
and he's going to hit this two year point and
at that point, you're going to see a lot more
of this and it won't be as graphic or as
blatant as this, but you're going to see a lot
more people distancing themselves from Trump. But I think he
(20:28):
knows that, just knowing human nature and knowing the nature
of politicians, and I think that's one reason he's so
frustrated about this Epstein nonsense right now, because he knows
he's completely innocent. He knows what the Democrats are trying
to do distract from his successes and derel his agenda
going forward. He knows he has this limited amount of
time to work with legislatively, he'll have the power of
(20:51):
commander in chief obviously until the very last minute in office,
but in legislatively a pretty narrow window. And so you
know you're going to start seeing a lot more of this,
you know, as we approach the midterms and then of
course immediately afterward and not as extreme, but we're going
to see it in many different forms. Three out three
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seven to one to three A two five five the
number text d A N five seven seven three nine.
And by this what I mean is if people who
think it's to their advantage politically to then start distancing
themselves from Trump. And it'll be on a scale. Some
of it will be subtle, some of it'll be blatant,
but he knows it's coming. We know it's coming. And
(21:33):
that's that's unfortunate because when have we had a better president,
I mean in our lifetimes, when have we had a
better more effective president? Style stuff. Yeah, you obviously can
quibble with this bit of style and that bit of style.
At the same time, his strength has been a big
reason for his success, which his country has benefited so
much from. I also want to talk to you about
(21:55):
interesting story out there. Did you see that Ryan at
Denver one of these single worst price drop in homes
in America study that just came out to see it.
And why do you think that's the case. Why are
homes in Denver dropping faster, dropping in value faster than
(22:16):
almost anywhere else in the country.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Are we saying Denver or Denver metro? No, we're talking
Denver ever city limit, Denver County. We don't have Denver.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah, Dedwell City and County of Denver, same thing, right,
So yeah, we don't have at this point Colorado wide data.
But why do you see it dropping like a rock
in Denver? So I want to get your take on that.
Also promised you some of this MBS sound from Muhammed
Ben Salomon meeting with the President today at the White
(22:45):
House and he was being questioned by ABC again on
the Koshogee killing, et cetera. And those questions I think
are absolutely perfectly appropriate. And then hear some of the
response there.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Just yes, a personation you allow me to answer. You know,
I feel painful about, you know, the families of ninety
eleven in America, but you know, we have to focus
on reality. Reality based in CI documents and based on
a lot of documents that osa a Laddin, he used
Saudi people, and that event. For one main purpose is
(23:23):
to destroy this relation, to destroy the American Saudi relation.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
That's the purpose of ninety eleven.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
So whoever buying that, that means they are helping Osama
the ladin purpose of destroying this relation. You know, that's
a strong relation between America and Saudi Arabia. It's bad
for extremism, it's bad for terrorism, and we have to
improve him wrong and to build our relation could continue
to floping our relation. It's a critical in the safety
of the world, is a critical against extremism and terrorism.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
And here's nbs on Kushoki about the generals. That's really
painful to hear.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
You know, anyone that been losing his life fault, you know,
no ret the purpose of nothing illegal way, And it's
been painful for us in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
We've did all the light steps.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Of investigation, et cetera in Saudi Arabia, and we've improved
our system to be sure that nothing happened like that.
And it's painful and it's a huge mistake and beldly
our business that doesn't happen again.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah, and so I think those kinds of questions are
perfectly appropriate. Obviously, the Saudi government has done some bad things,
and I think those you know, should have every right
to explore in a country like this where we pride
ourselves on freedom of press, freedom of speech. Trump's approach,
(24:45):
and it's been its approach across the board, is what's
in America's interest in terms of the relationship with this government,
because we all know there aren't any perfect heads of state.
Now that's not trying to you'll say that all of
these bad acts are equal, not at all. But the
point is when your starting point is there are no
(25:06):
pure heads of state, and the president's looking for relationships
that are in this nation's best interest, you know what
approach does he take? You get somebody like Putin is
Satan on Earth. I don't know enough about MBS. There's
there's no way Saudi can be as bad as Putin, right,
not at all, but because Putin is Satan on Earth.
(25:27):
And then you have Trump trying to maneuver that relationship
so that the United States of America benefits as well
as possible, particularly from the kind of web of relationships
around the world, and how Putin fits into that. And
I'll never fall to President for trying to do that.
Then the question is the specifics, how how far does
(25:48):
the president go, etc. But you know, with Saudi, does
anybody really think we end up with this kind of
historic shot at peace in the Mideast right now without
Trump's very positive relationship with NBS. No way, So no
doubt in my mind. Trump's motives and you can see
(26:08):
the consistent pattern of action is try to try to
forge these new relationships, these new coalitions so you can
break these these old destructive cycles around the world. And
it's part of what he was elected to do, to
be a disruptor, to come in with this fresh vision,
not be beholden, you know, to the usual gang of
(26:30):
quote experts, and along the way, he's going to open
him up self up to some of these types of criticisms. Obviously,
the American people support what the president's doing, or he
would not have won this second term. He wouldn't have
won either term. He was elected to be a disruptor.
Three or three someone three eight two five five tags
d an five seven seven three nine. So when we
(26:54):
come back, I do want to die. For a couple
minutes into this story about home is in Denver, trailing
the nation, losing more ground than most of the rest
of the nation. Why do you think that's happening. I
obviously think there's a much bigger, broader message in this
that tells us a lot about what is to come
(27:14):
in Colorado. The only question is is it going to
come sooner or later? But what do you think the
reasons are? What do you think the reasons are for
Denver home prices getting hammered so much harder than most
of the rest of the country. You're on the Dan
Caplas Show.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 9 (27:34):
Here with the men and the women who are really
the heart and soul of one of the greatest, most admired,
and most successful companies.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
In the history of the world. Frankly, the one and
only McDonald's. I've gone there a couple of times.
Speaker 9 (27:51):
And I'm on interestand before you as the very first
McDonald's Frei Cook ever to become President of.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
The United Why that was the moment, wasn't it. I Mean,
you knew before Butler that that Trump was going to win,
But at Butler that was absolute. But if there was
any doubt left, absolute brilliance that appearance at the McDonald's
A couple of weeks out in Pennsylvania. Yeah, dynamite stuff
(28:21):
and this creativity of his, this this fresh thinking, willing
to operate outside the box or in that case, inside
the box of fries. Are McDonald's fries still in the box?
We were talking about that the other day. We need
to get back there. Do you know the current kind
of like health and nutrition take on McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I believe that they're changing maybe to back to beef tallow.
I know RFK Junior's back big on that steak and shake.
Does that there's only one here in the beef tallow. Well,
that's how the fries used to be. They were deep
fried in beef tallow instead of this, you know, whatever
hydrogenated oil that.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
They because the original McDonald's fries, there's no greater taste
on the face of the Earth's so right, Yeah, but
Burger's nutrition, maybe we can look at it. Turner breaks
that would be there every night if I could without
killing myself.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Well, look at President Trump man, he's pushing eighty, is
in great shape.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
That's a great point that he is. He is a
force in nature. Dan prices are dropping in Denver because
of and then Ryan had me said on a thirty
second refresh well intended, my friend would be still annoying.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Because of the high crime and high inflation in Colorado,
Denver has put illegals and homeless above the legal residents
who are now paying nine point fifty sales text.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
That's probably a good leading to this story. This from
the Denver Post. Nine to ten Denver area homes lost
value in the past years, Zilla reports, So your first
question is probably okay, Well, is that the case across
the country? Not a metro Denver is leading the country
for the share of homes that have lost value over
the past year, with nine and ten homes down in price,
(30:06):
compared to only half nationally, according to an analysis from Zilla.
So nationally you go out of a half the homes
are down right now, ebanos, interest rates are high, etc.
Denver nine in ten homes worst in the country. Story
goes on to say about ninety one percent of Metro
Denver homes lost value in the past year, compared to
(30:27):
fifty three percent nationally. I love how they've tried to
write this story with a favorable spin for Denver. Denver
edges out other once hot metros like Austin with eighty
nine point five percent of homes down in value in Phoenix,
with eighty six point nine down the past year. Home
prices have bounced around in a narrowband since the peak
(30:48):
in June of twenty twenty two, making it hard to
discern the overall trend. Yeah, so this is more than
the canary in the coal mine. Obviously, it's just coming
just logic. It's the same kind of logic when you
know the talk tod is gonna be a nirvana to
legalize marijuana. We knew at that point you were going
(31:09):
to have so many more wrecked kids, so many more
dead bodies on the roadways, et cetera. Just common sense.
That's why no other city in the world had ever
done it the way that in no other state either
had done it the way Colorado did it in twenty twelve.
But this is similar. The point here is, and if
anybody has a good counterargument, I'd love to hear. But
(31:32):
the point is that you cannot do all of these
far left things that Denver does without having to pay
for it. You can get away with it for a
little while because it's one of the most beautiful places
on earth. You can get away for a little while
longer because you do have the gleaming part of Denver
(31:52):
that's always going to be there to a point and
is going to be supported by, you know, the remaining
wealth in the metro area and some of the advantages
to some of living Danta. So you can get away
with it for a little while. But you can't have
you can't have this open, welcome arm embrace of dangerous criminals.
(32:15):
You can't have this love of legalized drugs, this passionate
love of legalized drugs, without paying a big price for it.
Part of the price of boths is that you drive
off jobs, you drive off some of the best companies,
and then you attract some really bad people along with
some good people. You can't have this open and Mike
(32:37):
Johnston's still doing it. The marri of Denver that this
recruiting effort to try to attract as many people who
are in America illegally to come to Denver as possible.
And that's what Johnston has openly been doing, openly been
recruiting folks in the country legally to come to Denver.
(32:58):
You can't do that without paying a long term price,
because some of those people are going to be hard
in criminals. Many are going to be otherwise good people
just trying to make a living. But whether it's the
hard and criminal category going to wrecavoc on your community
and drive out good businesses and drive out families, et cetera,
or whether it's the otherwise peaceful and now law abiding
(33:21):
folks who you just can't afford. You can't be doing
all these far left things and not pay a big
price for it. It's like bankruptcy. You go bankrupt slowly
and then all at once. And that's the trajectory Denver.
Now Johnston's batting that he'll be gone before the all
at once happens, you know, because he's obviously got a
(33:43):
political plan mapped out. Not sure how well that's working
for him right now, but yes, So that's that's what
what's going on with Denver. Same thing's going to go
on with Colorado is you just can't do all these
far left things at the left that owns and operates
a state does You can't do that. You can't do
that long term without paying an enormous price for it.
(34:04):
It's and I'm comparing socialism separately here, though obviously you
have a lot of socialist ideas and attitudes which are
our core to the Democratic Party in Colorado. But it's
like socialism has never worked anywhere in the world long
term and not very well short term. It just can't.
(34:26):
It's a matter of gravity, logical gravity. But the same
is true of all these far left things. Whether you
want to classify this bad move or that crazy leftist
move as socialist or not, doesn't matter. It's the same principle.
This stuff can't work. It doesn't work. It's never worked
anywhere long term, and it's not going to work here.
(34:48):
It's just delayed. The impact is softened a little bit
along the way because we have so much going for us,
which is really the maddening thing, because when you're blessed
with everything we have here, all of the advantages Colorado has,
you know it. They're the weather, the location, the stunning
beauty that we're insulated from so many of the natural
(35:12):
disasters that plague other states. You know, our surrounding states
are lightly populated and low crime kind of states. We've
got every conceivable advantage. It takes longer to ruin a
place like this, but the left is getting there. Three
all three seven, one, three eight two five five. The
number text D A N five, seven, seven through ninety
(35:34):
when we come back, Epstein, do you think the president's
making the right.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Moves on this?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
What else would you advise? Obviously he's personally innocent. Dems
are trying to use this to just hijack the conversation
distract from his accomplishments. What should the president do next?
I've got some advice, hope he follows it. You're on
the Dan Catholic Show.
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