July 15, 2026 • 35 mins
This episode of the Dan Caplis Show is a must-listen for anyone concerned about school safety and the latest developments in the world of politics. From the potential dangers of school shooters to the controversy surrounding daylight savings time, this episode covers it all.
The speaker discusses the innovative approach being taken by a new charter school in Douglas County, which is deploying advanced drone technology to protect kids against school shooters. This technology has the potential to be a game-changer in the fight against school violence, but it's not without its critics. The speaker also delves into the world of politics, discussing the upcoming address by President Trump on election integrity and the potential for new evidence to come to light.
The episode also touches on the topic of daylight savings time, with some callers expressing their opposition to the idea of staying lighter later all year round. One caller even suggests that the decision should be put to a national vote, which could be a fascinating way to resolve the issue. Meanwhile, the speaker shares some heartwarming stories about kittens born under their porch, and the challenges of finding them new homes.
If you're interested in learning more about the charter school's innovative approach to school safety, the latest developments in the world of politics, or the debate surrounding daylight savings time, tune in to this episode of the Dan Caplis Show.
Kim Gilmartin is the founder and executive director of the Liberty Schools Initiative, a nonprofit that helps families and community leaders develop new charter school options. Over the past decade, she has helped plan, open, or launch seven classical charter schools across Colorado. She is a co-founder of Ascent Classical Academy Charter Schools and a co-founder and board vice chair of John Adams Academy of Douglas County. Kim is a longtime advocate for educational choice, classical education, and safe, excellent schools for families. In 2025, she was named Charter School Advocate of the Year by the Colorado League of Charter Schools.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Shooters, and for reasons I will never comprehend, the left
seems perfectly fine just just allowing kids to be sitting.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Ducks for school shooters.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
It's insane, it's obscene, and smart people out there are
doing what they need to do to make sure the
kids have a fighting chance when the next demon shows
up at a school. And our next guest, Kim Gilmartin,
founder and executive director of Liberty Schools Initiative. Now that's
a nonprofit. It helps family as community leaders develop new
charter school option. She's done a lot of that very
(00:31):
successfully over the years, including co founding Ascent Classical Academy
Charter Schools. And now this is what we're going to
be talking about today, co founder and board vice chair
of John Adams Academy of Douglas County. And they're invoking
I let her tell you about it. They're invoking this
great new drone technology to protect kids against school shooters.
(00:52):
But they're actually facing some opposition which is mind boggling. Kim,
Welcome to the Dan Kapli Show.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Hi Dan, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, well, thanks for what to do and tell people
the story.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Well, yeah, so we, as you said, we are opening
a new, brand new classical charter school. It's called John
Adams Academy. It's going to be a tuition free school.
Opening and Sterling Ranch in Douglas County.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
That's kind of near for people who don't.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Know, near Chatfield Reservoir, kind of near Lucky Martin.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
We're a K.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Twelve school, but we're going to open with grades K
eight this fall. We are a constant. Our mission is
to provide a content rich education for kids, strong academics,
great books, character information, you know, going back to sort
of the old time, tiny way of doing things, and
so we have a ton of families interested in this.
(01:46):
We are also doing some things that other schools aren't
doing when it comes to school security. So we have
armed staff, we have our stuff that participates in faster training.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
You know about that I.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Don't know, ye well trained, of course, this is volunteer.
And now we're doing something a little different where we are.
We are launching something called Campus Guardian Angel and.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
It's a rapid.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Response security system that's designed to address that most dangerous
gap in an active shooter situation, right which is when
it's the time between the first report of the threat
and the moment lawn law enforcement can get there.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, and that's what the killers map out, that their
entire plan is based on those minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
That's right, And we all know that the worst happens
in the first few minutes. Okay, So that is what
we're doing here. This is a very cool it is innovative, it.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Is a new technology.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
But these are drones that are secured in station throughout
the building, but they sit dormant unless there's an emergency
and that emergency is reported and then and we know
the threat is validated, then these are drones that come out.
They're trained human operators at a command center that deploy
them within sucond. They provide live video and audio. They
(03:03):
helped locate the attacker. They distract and disorient that attacker
with sirens, strobe lights, pepper jel their kinetic force, they cannot.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
What kind of kinetic course, what kind of physical force.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
And actually I've seen a demo of it where there's
a very big man and they only had it at
sixty percent power and it knocked them over, knocked them over.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Wow, wow, I love that.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
And these are not all Thomas Strom's, okay, that are
making their own decisions. They're controlled by trained professionals, and
these are like world class racer drone racers and ex
military former military that are doing this at the WOW.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Let me ask you, I'm so excited about this, kim
just having you know, it's been very very close to
several school shooting cases and including one that I litigated.
Just picturing this technology and how it could have saved
lives in a lot of different situations, whether you're talking
about column behind, how helpful it could have been at STEM,
et cetera. But let me ask you, does this technology
(04:06):
require these kind of hyper trained professional operators that you're
talking about, or can regular school staff be trained.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
To do that?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Well?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I don't really know that the answer to that question.
Because this is the program that we're looking at. It
is the first of its kind, really, and they have
done they are doing. They've got contracts for three districts
in Florida. They got contracts for multi schools in Georgia. Oh,
they're doing demos in Texas.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
So kim MIT's so their staff, their staff who's wired
into the school and then operating the drones.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Correct, Okay, I got.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
You located in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I gotcha. Now, so who in the world would oppose this?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Well, that's a good question. And the reason this has
sort of reached the level of frenzi that it has
is because we so in twenty nineteen, after the STEM shooting,
the Douglas County Commissioners put aside ten million dollars into
a fund to help all Douglas County schools, private charter
district schools, to say, we want to help you with
(05:12):
security upgrades, you know, and mental health, those kinds of things.
So this is part of that. And it's been a
long time. We are the newest charter school. I don't
think there's been a new charter school that's open in years,
and so we knew about this fund. So we went
to them and said, we would like to acce us
this fund, and that's what we're using, you.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Know, to do these security upgrades.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
We also were looking at a school resource officer, but
you know, we're looking at the multi layered approach. We
won't have every tool, got it. Yeah, Yeah, So we
we went and asked the question. It was on an
agenda to discuss the people who have always been against
John Onis Academy. And let me be clear, these are
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people that have fought us every step.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Of the way.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
This newest thing, which is our security, because we're asking
for a grant from the county. This is just another
reason to come atact US. And I know this because
I've been working.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
On it since twenty twenty four and these.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Are the same people who have opposed us when we requested.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
To be released put the state and apply to the.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Charter School Institute A really went through authorization.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You got this whole world of people out there who
just want to keep people down and they understand you
get true school choice like great charters, vouchers, et cetera.
All of a sudden, you know, lots of people are
going to reach their full potential, and that is against
the interest of certain groups out there.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
That's right, It's really just if they get another bite
at the apple. And I have to explain to people
that they're not really concerned about it's the safety of
the kids in school security. It's just another excuse. But
what I have been hearing, and you know, there was
a news story by.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
CBS last night and.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
They interviewed a couple of people who are very opposed
to this. I'm not sure why, because they don't have
kids that are going to the school or even grandkids.
But they said, you know, oh it's untested.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
What if the pepper joel hits the kid?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And I'm thinking, well, would it be better if a
bullet hit?
Speaker 6 (07:09):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I love I love talking to those people can because
they oppose everything that will save the kids because it
might endanger somebody else. Well, what do you think the
mass murderers are going to do? And those people, when
you boil it right down, that they would be they
would prefer to just leave the entire school at the
mercy of the mass murderers until law enforcement gets there,
even though they know the best law enforcement response in
(07:32):
the world other than.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
An SRO in that school is probably going to be
five to ten minutes away.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
That's correct.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
How many people can you kill in five to ten minutes?
These monsters have proven a lot.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
And if you think about it, in all of.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
The school shootings, what do they have in common? Before
law enforcement can get there.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
These kids are running and screaming and fighting.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
And the attacker is in charge.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It's like fish in a barrel.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
So what we're doing is saying, within seconds, we're going
to have something on top of those.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Right right, And I'll tell you what you're going to
accomplish with this technology, Kim. And I'm absolutely certain of
this from studying these cases. You're going to deter an
awful lot of shooters because they're not going to want
to go to a place where they're going to face opposition,
no matter what form that opposition is going to take.
(08:28):
And and you know, people think that just because these
shooters are straight out of hell evil that they're stupid.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And even the stupid ones can figure out which schools
have defenses in place and which don't.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
It looks like I lost you there, fir.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Oh, Sorry, sorry you didn't miss much. But but all
all I was saying is I think you're going to
have great deterrent value with this system. It's going to
make it much less likely there's an attack at the
school that the drones even have to respond to well.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
And that you bring up such a good point, Dan,
because that's when you have arm staff in Colorado. If
you do have arm stuff, you do have to put.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
A sign on the front of the door. This is
not an unarmed.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Facility, and that in itself is a deterrent. Same thing
with the drones. What we're trying to do is stop
it before it ever happened.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Amen, Piece through strength.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I'll never forget that video I watched of the Aurora
shooter monster as he stood outside that theater number nine
in street close, looking back and forth, back and forth,
looking to see if there was law enforcement there that night.
And it was only after he saw that there wasn't
that he went down into that went around the back,
and then went into the theater. So that there's no
(09:40):
question about the deterrent value.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
It's not rocket science. I don't understand why people don't
get that. But instead what they.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Want to say, and this is what I keep hearing.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
You need more mental health experts. Why don't we just
ban guns. There's an easy solution.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Oh oh yeah, because all these school shooters are going
to say, wait a second, if guns are against the law,
I'm not going to go commit that mass murder, right,
That's what they're going to say. I mean, it's it's
an insane approach. I'm like you, I'm all of the above,
attack this thing. There's nothing more precious than our kids.
Let's say that at a school, Let's say you had
a billion dollars worth of gold in there. How much
(10:19):
security do you think you'd have? And these kids are
much more precious than that. So all the above. Attack
it at every level, but don't compromise on the point
of attack.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Defense.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
That's right, everything that we can possibly do. And our
parents love this. They do our families, we love that
you're doing all of these things. So it's they want
that this is their most precious thing to their children.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
How ack.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yes, and Kim, I apologize.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I've got to bail because we have a heart out
at seventeen. But where can people learn more? Given where
can they follow you? Or the school?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Yeah, so we do still have seats available if people
are interested.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
It's not too late to enroll.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
It's a JAA Doug dougco dot org so jaadugc dot
Orgman you can learn all about the school.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
John Adams Academy. Hey, Kim Gilmartin, thanks for the time,
keep up the great work.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Thank you, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Take care you're on the dan Kapla show.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Of course, the vast majority of pregnancies are in women,
and I have absolutely no problem with using the word
pregnant women.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I use it myself. It's a non biological woman. Ever
had a baby.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
A transgenders, that's not a biological These people have no pride,
right this witness who's the chancellor University of California, San Francisco,
he must feel.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
So emasculated right to sit there and be spouting just nonsense,
you know, is absolute garbage. To be so weak a
man that you're unwilling to stand up and just say, yeah,
only women can have babies, you know, to forfeit your
manhood that way so you can please the howling mob
(12:14):
on the left and keep your job or whatever. What
a sad existence that must be. I mean, every one
of these, every one of these people out there, you know,
who are unwilling to say that only a biological woman
can have a baby. They know they're lying, but they
have just decided to lie, either to get things for
themselves or out of weakness.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
It's just so pathetic.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Three or three e sive one three eight two five
five d an five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
We wouldn't even be able to we wouldn't even be.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Talking about it if it was just that it's pathetic.
It's that it's harmful. They're causing a lot of harm.
And that's why I mean, you see Aaron Lee protect
kids Colorado. They got all these ballot measures up, including
you can't be mutilating these kids and you can't be
having boys and girls' sports. Yeah, that's why so many
(13:04):
people sign those and hopefully will those will win come
the fall. I do hope you look at getting involved
in all that. Hey, if you just joined us, thank you.
We are talking about a lot of things, one of
which is permanent daylight savings time, which, as you mean no,
means lighter later. And do you want that here in Colorado?
Because it's real close to being reality. I'm kind of
(13:25):
surprised at the opposition we've heard on today's show to this,
but it's been fascinating and the callers against it have
really been compelling. One woman who is just very very
devoted to it so and then another fascinating gentleman talking
about the science of it all. So, yeah, just getting
your take on do you want it staying lighter later?
(13:47):
And I know that sounds like a silly question, because
obviously the issue is what's the trade off. It's gonna
get lighter later, it's going to be darker longer, and
that's where most of the focus and controversy is, but
I think there's a point to be made on the downsides,
on the downsides of it staying lighter later in certain months.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Listen, I would.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Never in a million years want what one caller wanted,
which was to have full time standard time, which means
these beautiful summer nights, which are part of the great
richness of life, all of a sudden it start at
seven thirty.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Forget that.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I would never want that. But do I want it
to stay light longer on Christmas Day?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
In the winter, I'm very happy with it getting dark
at four twenty four thirty. I think that's kind of cool.
But I guess I can't always get what you want.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
What do you think? Do you want to see this change?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Because it looks like it's coming to full time daylight
savings time now. Zach arrays a good question earlier, Hey,
is that going to cost kids Friday night lights fall football, soccer, lacrosse,
things like that. No, it will not, because the clocks,
you know, turn late. I did a little research on
That's that great question you asked. The clocks turn late
enough already with with you know, standard daylight savings time
(15:08):
that that No, it will not affect.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
It will not affect Friday night lights.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
You will you will still have darkness by kickoff like
in October. And I think even those September games. I'd
have to go back and check, but yeah, kids should
not be deprived of Friday night lights. So we're talking
about the daylight savings time. And as always, you know,
there's so many people just calling and texting on their
(15:34):
own about the governor's race.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
There's so much interest in that.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
So we'll continue that conversation I think is going to
be happening about every day. Appreciate all the people who
have been calling about the kittens because I mentioned on air,
not a cat guy. We've never had a cat as
a pack because one of our kids is allergic and
I've never minded. I'm just just never really been excited
about him. Then these kittens were born under our porch
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and we started feeding them and stuff like that, and
now they're amazing and.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
They're so much fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
We would sit there literally and watch for hours as
the four of them play together all over the back porch.
It's just one of the coolest things ever. But we
understand from reading up on it and what people are
telling us. It's at the point now they're probably six
or seven weeks that we need to be adopting them out.
But Zach, I want to wait until their mom's done
(16:28):
feeding them. I don't want to be tearing these kittens
away from their mother.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Yeah, you got to be very careful about that process.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah. I was a little worried when I went to.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
King Soupers to get this cat food, since we've never
had cats. I was a little worried it might make
them sick. But they love it. Like if I get
home late from work or get up real early and
I bring catfured out there, they're immediately all over it.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Oh the wet cat food. They'll go crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Oh they love it.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
And they're grown big and strong, and they still are kittens,
but you can see them getting healthier with the food on.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
The churrus at all.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
What are those?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
They gross me out there like a gogurt for a cat.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Man, have not seen those.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
No, it's like that tube, but it's instead of you know,
a yogurt like you would give a kid, it's some
sort of disgusting fish paste creation that that it my
girlfriend to give them to our cat. Yeah, he loves them,
but it's too gross for me.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I may hold off on that. I may hold off
on that. But one thing I'd love to do, and.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I know Amy feels the same way, and Caroline the same.
Joe is out of town studying for the bar.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
What I'd love to do.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I would love to just hold these cats before we
give them away.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
They're so cool.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
We spend so many hours watching them. I'd like to
just hold them and pet them.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
But I don't know if that's a good thing. Back,
how do you how do you catch them?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
We got to figure out how to catch them because
to get them adopted out?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
How do we catch these kittens? They're really fast. It's
amazing how much they can jump.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
But anyway, book back, we'll get to our callo, get
to our tags, permanent daylight savings time.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
As well as of course, what do we do with
these kittens? Want one?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
You're on the Dan Kapitol show. That's really good Zach
cat scratch fever. Yeah, just been talking about it. It's
not the whole show topic, but just been talking about
these kittens born under our porch and we started feeding
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them and they're amazing to just sit there and watch
all day. But one of our kids is allergic to cats,
so we can't keep them there for them, and trying
to figure out what to do next. I know we've
learned that people don't adopt adult cats, they adopt kittens,
so we got to get them adopted out soon. So
thank you everybody who's called and texted on that permanent
(18:53):
daylight savings time. I've really been impressed with the intensity
of the opposite position to it, staying lighter later all
year and getting you know, getting lighter later in the morning.
So it's really been a tremendous discussion. If you want
to chime in on that, and then so much more
(19:13):
we want to do. I want to I do want
to start this segment though, bringing you what I think
is this incredibly compelling sound from this Peter Crieft. He's
a Catholic philosopher, but he was talking about the death
of his wife, and I just thought he gave the
(19:34):
greatest advice in the world on how to decide whether
to marry somebody. And this applies equally to men and women,
but in his case it was his wife he lost.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
What advice.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
I know I've asked this, but I want to take
another swing to give you another opportunity. What advice do
you have someone watching this who's newly married or who
is about to be.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
Do you think that when you are very old and
your wife is very old, ugly and wrinkled and fat
and not very bright or even nasty, that you will
still find her beautiful? If so, get if so, marry her.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
But the last.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
View I add of my wife in the nursing home,
about an hour after she died, I fell in love
with her again. Here's a wasteed, emaciated, wrinkled, suffering body.
It's as beautiful as a crucifix because that body ain't
gonna last. But this all is so if you don't
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love hers all, but just love her body, don't get married.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I just think that's so right on and so powerful.
Three or three seven three eight two five five d
an five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I want to go to the phone line.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Let me get some text in first, because people have
been so patient doing such.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Hard work on that DAN.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Until schools have as much protection as sporting events, politicians
and elites the left can just sit down on this discussion.
Why do their security guards and police need guns to
protect them at places where the guns are not allowed.
Is Polis or mayor Mikey entering any public school or
even the convention center without their security detail armed. Nope,
complete bs that from Alexa right on Alexa, Dan, If
(21:24):
they aren't mass school shootings, the left can't push more
gun control. And this is in response to a tremendous
guest we had at five oh six talking about this
new charter school, John Adams in Douglas County. They want
to deploy this advanced drone technology to protect kids against
school shooters, and they're actually getting some pushback from the left. Dan,
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catch the mother kitty and get her spade if she
can be adopted grade. If not, you can let her
back out and she will no longer have kittens. Thanks
for what you're doing for these kitties. There's a place
for you in heaven. Thank you for saying that. But
I have to tell you it's one of the most
selfish things I've ever done in my life, because we
just love watching these kittens. All of us will just
(22:07):
sit there for a long time watching them. And like
I was saying, I'll get up in the middle the
night to go to the bathroom. I'll go downstairs and
check and look out and yeah, it's like two in
the morning, all four kittens out there playing.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
No, it has been a it has been a very
selfish endeavor. But thank you for the kind words. Yeah
that do they not sleep at night? Cats?
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Mine?
Speaker 7 (22:29):
I think sleeps on and off throughout the day at night,
but he's never woken me up during the night. I
know some people have problems with their cats going buck
wild in the night, and maybe keeping them up. Never
been a problem for me.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
This, well, that's that's good. Here, it's this one says Dan,
you trust your friends to adopt these cats?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Do you include Brockler in that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Sketchy, it says no. I, uh, of course, at what
George is just one of the most trustworthy people. I
should call him up see if he wants a kitten.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
You think he does. They are so cool.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
It's really kicking me off. We're finding out.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
People don't want to adopt black cats, and I'm like,
wait a second, that's craziest of all. And I don't
mean to get heavy here, but it is directly against
Christian theology to be superstitious. And second, all four of
these are great. There are two kind of gold ones
and two black ones, and the black ones are probably
my favorite. They're just all of them are great. But
(23:24):
they have such interesting pert that would not concern us
at all.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Best cats that they were black with all black ones.
Oh really, there's something about like the cat breeds are
almost the color they are, like orange cats have a
have a reputation tuxedo cats and so on. Black cats
that I've had have just been the sweetest, the most loving,
amazing cats. And I've heard the same thing it's about
some weird superstitious deal. Yeah, they're amazing, amazing pets. I
(23:51):
would strongly recommend it.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
It's a black one who keeps trying to get into
the house and it'll come right up. I'll be at
the window, come right up, you'll look at me, lick
the window. And then he brought me a vole, which
I have learned cats do that. They bring presents.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Yeah, that's a gift and Amy a naked gift.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
But Amy said that means he likes you, which I
thought was really cool. And I'd been hoping to get
a vole. D daylight savings time. Not sure how we
could cope with sleeping children would be impossible to handle. Yeah,
because with daylight savings time. I mean, it's going to
be staying dark at certain times in the year in
Colorado till like eight in the morning, eight thirty.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
In the morning.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Dan, let's get rid of time zones all together. Let's
put us on UMT and let localities decide what their
business hours are. School starts at fourteen hundred at the
beginning and end of the year at fifteen hundred during
the winter. But sounds like a recipe for total chaos, Dan,
People's circadian rhythm is standard time.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
God's time. Our bodies work better.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
But do you really want to get in dark in
the summer at seven or seven thirty? To me, just
one of the sweetest things in life. Are you know
these long summer nights and they don't last long as
it is?
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Dan? Are you on drugs? No?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
No, And I don't judge people who are. But I
can look you right in the eye and tell you.
I mean, I've never even done marijuana, and I don't.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Judge adults who do.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
You know we should never legalize because it's trashing kids.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
But no, I am not. Thank you for the inquiry. Oh.
It goes on to say, do you really believe pathetic.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Joe Biden gets eighty one million votes in twenty twenty,
the most votes ever for a presidential candidate, and more Black.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Votes than Barack Obama. Give me a break.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Twenty twenty was rigged and then stolen. And this ties
into the President addressing the nation tomorrow night at seven
Mountain about election integrity. And you know, reportedly there's going
to be new evidence. All I've ever said is this,
there is no doubt there is some fraud in certain elections.
(26:03):
The question is how much and is it enough to
overturn elections? Now we shouldn't have any we agree on that, right.
But when I look at twenty twenty, I understand the
fair questions people have. I've just never seen proof that
it was stolen. That's all I'm saying. And there are
a lot of fair questions, and this fair question about
Joe Biden eighty one million votes and then the flow
(26:24):
votes in election night, fair questions, and it's hurt America
that they haven't been answered in an objective way. But
that could also the concerns the texter have could also
be the result of that being a COVID election with
many more states doing mal in balloting.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Which is going to.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Up the participation and the risk for fraud. Believe me,
I understand, but it's going to up their participation and
then potentially affect the flow vote counts an election night.
But yeah, that's all I'm saying is I think if
somebody's going to say an election was stolen, the burden
is on them to prove it. Now, that's very hard
because our court system is not literally not set up,
(27:03):
our laws are not set up, and the system's not
set up to facilitate the kind of discovery you need
quickly enough to meet these various deadlines after an election.
But I still I had default back to and I
don't know how else we can sensibly approach it in
America other than pull out the stops to have total
(27:24):
election integrity and then regard our elections as valid unless
somebody can prove that that an election was stolen. If
there's a flaw in that logic texture.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I would love to see it all.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Right, game plan, I'm going to come back and to
start with our great callers. We'll start in Denver with
Andrea when we come back, and then lots of great
texts and some more really interesting sound as well.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
You're on the dan Kapla show good three all three, seven.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
One three, two, five, five, seven, seven three nine to text.
Let's go to our fiery phone line. Start with Andrea
in Denver. You're on the dan Kaplas.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
She'll welcome Hi, Dan. I have a British short hair
that had two litters. So they are a lot of
fun when they're little. So how old are they now?
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Do you have?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Ai is telling us like six maybe seven weeks?
Speaker 9 (28:31):
Okay, So, I mean they are an absolute blast when
they're little. So and I know once they start eating food,
I read a lot, you know, I got a little
kitten books that I was reading. But we were feeding
them four to six times a day regular food. Once
they start eating, because they're growing, they need a lot
of food, so I would feed them as often as
you can. And then typically at eight weeks they're ready
(28:53):
to give away. And usually there's one out of each
litter that tries to test test you and try to
get into things that you know, there's always one with
the strongest personality, kind of a leader. They're all cute,
and they were all over me. I was like their
second mother. They just would scale up the side of
the couch, and they were always with me and on
(29:13):
me and everything. So I would say, yes, hold them.
They love the attention, and they like to have safe
places to sleep, and they still kind of pile up
on each other when they sleep at night.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
It is so cool. Now, can I ask you a
quick question, Andrew? Can I ask you a quick question?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
How I don't want to take them away from their
mom while she's still feeding. I hate separating them from
their mom at all. But what do you do there?
Speaker 9 (29:40):
So typically at eight weeks they're ready to go, but
I would give them away one at a time. They
can stay longer. I didn't get but I didn't bring
my mom at home until like when I bought her.
I didn't bring her home till she was nine weeks okay,
So I would just give them a little bit of
time between each giveaway, because once that last kitten is
given away, my mother was, uh, my cat, the mom
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cat was walking around the house crying, looking.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Oh man, don't.
Speaker 9 (30:07):
Even then they're great moms, and all of a sudden
they're all gone. So I would get them away one
at a time, and then just was the second batch
that I had, the second litter that I had I
kept one of the boys.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Well, Andrew really really appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
I want to get everybody in. That breaks my heart
to think of the mom said, because she is a great,
great mother. Uh that you know, kids born under the
porch and it's a really narrow space. And yeah, she
really has been very, very attentive. Rebecca and Pueblo, you're
on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Welcome, Hi, Hi, Rebecca.
Speaker 10 (30:42):
I got I got a kind of an opposite story
of your gal there in Aurora. Our mom was was
a stray paral cat, and she left and we got
rid of the kittens. But I was going to tell
you you don't want them, don't touch them, because you
will want them after that.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Oh, I bet you're right, And and we would we honestly,
we would keep all four if it wasn't for one
of our kids having an allergy. Now, Zach was telling me,
we can we can get our child some shots, right, Yeah,
so I'll.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Let her know. She would go for it. Animals love
our daughter. She would she would go for taking the shots.
Speaker 10 (31:27):
There's food and there is also shampoo for them.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Okay, okay, But I was.
Speaker 10 (31:32):
Going to say, too, I like the drone idea. I
think that's.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
School security, school shooter or drone.
Speaker 10 (31:38):
Yeah yeah. And you know, as far as daylight savings
time is concerned, I think everybody in the whole wide nation,
I won't say world, is really tired of spring forward
and fall back. And we are a democratic republic. I
think that we should put it up for a national vote,
(31:58):
and whichever one wins, they Oh.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I love that idea.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
That'd be so much fun, wouldn't it, and just be
kind of like a super Bowl, but of politics. I
love that that'd be fun rather than just like Canada
A or B. So that'll probably have to be a
less call for the day. I'll try to squeeze in
some more texts there, but Dan Texter Victor should choose
(32:21):
Tina Peters as his running mate. Dan. As far as
daylight savings, if you cut an inch off a blanket
and then sew it to the other end, you don't
have a longer blanket. Well, one of the ends is longer, Dan.
Daylight savings time was tried in seventy three lasted nine
months until.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
A schoolgirl was killed.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Wow, I didn't know that, but we did talk in
the very beginning today on this of the big concern
about school safety, right, because it seems to me elemental
kids are going to be in more danger in the
morning going to school when it's dark, and since it
goes far beyond cliche to say they are our most
(32:59):
precious commodity, seems these decisions need to be driven by the.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Safety of school kids.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Which would tell me that we don't want full time
daylight savings time, right because kids are getting out of
school by three anyway, so we want it lighter earlier
so they're safer on the way to school. I think
that should sort of easily decide the argument.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Yeah, and so many more more text on daylight savings
time than we can possibly get. I'm looking forward to tomorrow.
Looking forward to tomorrow, I'm really interested to see the
new evidence of President Trump is presenting to the nation
tomorrow night on election fraud.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
So your best guest, sach Man, what that's going to.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
Be thinking with the prediction that it's it's war knock
or oss.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Off something in that race, just so a Georgia related thing, Yeah,
it'll be. It'll be really interesting to see. Yeah, obviously
the President very properly pushing the Save Act. I mean Americans,
you know, overwhelmingly nothing's unanimous want voter id uh. But
he is promising new evidence, so it does sound like
(34:12):
it's gonna be maybe Georgia specific. So you know, we'll
be all over it tomorrow night, and then we'll be
talking with you about that on Friday, looking forward to that.
I do appreciate all the text and everything else on cats,
on the kittens that we now have born under the porch.
I am trying to figure out though, how we safely
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and without traumatizing them, how we catch them, how we
catch them so we can get them the care they
need and then get them to good homes. Literally, how
do you catch them?
Speaker 7 (34:47):
Have you seen that device that vet offices will use
that's kind of like it's almost like tongs. It's like
a kiddy tongue, and on either end it's like a
net almost and also hurting the cat, you like kind
of in a mess scissor device, you know, but it's
a big nets on the either end of it, so
you kind of capture them or like fly swatter looking
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things bots a net.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
It sounds scary to me if I'm a little kitten
and something two hundred times bigger than you is approaching.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
You with the tongs.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Is there something that might be a little less psychologically.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Trump I had ways to do it, certainly.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Okay, well, we'll keep looking into that. Thank you, Zach,
and thanks for all your great work, and thank you
for being with us on the show today. I do
hope you'll join us tomorrow. We'll be previewing, you know,
President Trump's big address to the nation and so much more.
Have a great, safe evening.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Join us tomorrow on The Dankpla Show.
Shooters, and for reasons I will never comprehend, the left
seems perfectly fine just just allowing kids to be sitting.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Ducks for school shooters.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
It's insane, it's obscene, and smart people out there are
doing what they need to do to make sure the
kids have a fighting chance when the next demon shows
up at a school. And our next guest, Kim Gilmartin,
founder and executive director of Liberty Schools Initiative. Now that's
a nonprofit. It helps family as community leaders develop new
charter school option. She's done a lot of that very
(00:31):
successfully over the years, including co founding Ascent Classical Academy
Charter Schools. And now this is what we're going to
be talking about today, co founder and board vice chair
of John Adams Academy of Douglas County. And they're invoking
I let her tell you about it. They're invoking this
great new drone technology to protect kids against school shooters.
(00:52):
But they're actually facing some opposition which is mind boggling. Kim,
Welcome to the Dan Kapli Show.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Hi Dan, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, well, thanks for what to do and tell people
the story.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Well, yeah, so we, as you said, we are opening
a new, brand new classical charter school. It's called John
Adams Academy. It's going to be a tuition free school.
Opening and Sterling Ranch in Douglas County.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
That's kind of near for people who don't.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Know, near Chatfield Reservoir, kind of near Lucky Martin.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
We're a K.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Twelve school, but we're going to open with grades K
eight this fall. We are a constant. Our mission is
to provide a content rich education for kids, strong academics,
great books, character information, you know, going back to sort
of the old time, tiny way of doing things, and
so we have a ton of families interested in this.
(01:46):
We are also doing some things that other schools aren't
doing when it comes to school security. So we have
armed staff, we have our stuff that participates in faster training.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
You know about that I.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Don't know, ye well trained, of course, this is volunteer.
And now we're doing something a little different where we are.
We are launching something called Campus Guardian Angel and.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
It's a rapid.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Response security system that's designed to address that most dangerous
gap in an active shooter situation, right which is when
it's the time between the first report of the threat
and the moment lawn law enforcement can get there.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, and that's what the killers map out, that their
entire plan is based on those minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
That's right, And we all know that the worst happens
in the first few minutes. Okay, So that is what
we're doing here. This is a very cool it is innovative, it.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Is a new technology.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
But these are drones that are secured in station throughout
the building, but they sit dormant unless there's an emergency
and that emergency is reported and then and we know
the threat is validated, then these are drones that come out.
They're trained human operators at a command center that deploy
them within sucond. They provide live video and audio. They
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helped locate the attacker. They distract and disorient that attacker
with sirens, strobe lights, pepper jel their kinetic force, they cannot.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
What kind of kinetic course, what kind of physical force.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
And actually I've seen a demo of it where there's
a very big man and they only had it at
sixty percent power and it knocked them over, knocked them over.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Wow, wow, I love that.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
And these are not all Thomas Strom's, okay, that are
making their own decisions. They're controlled by trained professionals, and
these are like world class racer drone racers and ex
military former military that are doing this at the WOW.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Let me ask you, I'm so excited about this, kim
just having you know, it's been very very close to
several school shooting cases and including one that I litigated.
Just picturing this technology and how it could have saved
lives in a lot of different situations, whether you're talking
about column behind, how helpful it could have been at STEM,
et cetera. But let me ask you, does this technology
(04:06):
require these kind of hyper trained professional operators that you're
talking about, or can regular school staff be trained.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
To do that?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Well?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I don't really know that the answer to that question.
Because this is the program that we're looking at. It
is the first of its kind, really, and they have
done they are doing. They've got contracts for three districts
in Florida. They got contracts for multi schools in Georgia. Oh,
they're doing demos in Texas.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
So kim MIT's so their staff, their staff who's wired
into the school and then operating the drones.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Correct, Okay, I got.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
You located in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I gotcha. Now, so who in the world would oppose this?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Well, that's a good question. And the reason this has
sort of reached the level of frenzi that it has
is because we so in twenty nineteen, after the STEM shooting,
the Douglas County Commissioners put aside ten million dollars into
a fund to help all Douglas County schools, private charter
district schools, to say, we want to help you with
(05:12):
security upgrades, you know, and mental health, those kinds of things.
So this is part of that. And it's been a
long time. We are the newest charter school. I don't
think there's been a new charter school that's open in years,
and so we knew about this fund. So we went
to them and said, we would like to acce us
this fund, and that's what we're using, you.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Know, to do these security upgrades.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
We also were looking at a school resource officer, but
you know, we're looking at the multi layered approach. We
won't have every tool, got it. Yeah, Yeah, So we
we went and asked the question. It was on an
agenda to discuss the people who have always been against
John Onis Academy. And let me be clear, these are
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people that have fought us every step.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Of the way.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
This newest thing, which is our security, because we're asking
for a grant from the county. This is just another
reason to come atact US. And I know this because
I've been working.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
On it since twenty twenty four and these.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Are the same people who have opposed us when we requested.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
To be released put the state and apply to the.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Charter School Institute A really went through authorization.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You got this whole world of people out there who
just want to keep people down and they understand you
get true school choice like great charters, vouchers, et cetera.
All of a sudden, you know, lots of people are
going to reach their full potential, and that is against
the interest of certain groups out there.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
That's right, It's really just if they get another bite
at the apple. And I have to explain to people
that they're not really concerned about it's the safety of
the kids in school security. It's just another excuse. But
what I have been hearing, and you know, there was
a news story by.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
CBS last night and.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
They interviewed a couple of people who are very opposed
to this. I'm not sure why, because they don't have
kids that are going to the school or even grandkids.
But they said, you know, oh it's untested.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
What if the pepper joel hits the kid?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And I'm thinking, well, would it be better if a
bullet hit?
Speaker 6 (07:09):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I love I love talking to those people can because
they oppose everything that will save the kids because it
might endanger somebody else. Well, what do you think the
mass murderers are going to do? And those people, when
you boil it right down, that they would be they
would prefer to just leave the entire school at the
mercy of the mass murderers until law enforcement gets there,
even though they know the best law enforcement response in
(07:32):
the world other than.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
An SRO in that school is probably going to be
five to ten minutes away.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
That's correct.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
How many people can you kill in five to ten minutes?
These monsters have proven a lot.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
And if you think about it, in all of.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
The school shootings, what do they have in common? Before
law enforcement can get there.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
These kids are running and screaming and fighting.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
And the attacker is in charge.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It's like fish in a barrel.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
So what we're doing is saying, within seconds, we're going
to have something on top of those.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Right right, And I'll tell you what you're going to
accomplish with this technology, Kim. And I'm absolutely certain of
this from studying these cases. You're going to deter an
awful lot of shooters because they're not going to want
to go to a place where they're going to face opposition,
no matter what form that opposition is going to take.
(08:28):
And and you know, people think that just because these
shooters are straight out of hell evil that they're stupid.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And even the stupid ones can figure out which schools
have defenses in place and which don't.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
It looks like I lost you there, fir.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Oh, Sorry, sorry you didn't miss much. But but all
all I was saying is I think you're going to
have great deterrent value with this system. It's going to
make it much less likely there's an attack at the
school that the drones even have to respond to well.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
And that you bring up such a good point, Dan,
because that's when you have arm staff in Colorado. If
you do have arm stuff, you do have to put.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
A sign on the front of the door. This is
not an unarmed.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Facility, and that in itself is a deterrent. Same thing
with the drones. What we're trying to do is stop
it before it ever happened.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Amen, Piece through strength.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I'll never forget that video I watched of the Aurora
shooter monster as he stood outside that theater number nine
in street close, looking back and forth, back and forth,
looking to see if there was law enforcement there that night.
And it was only after he saw that there wasn't
that he went down into that went around the back,
and then went into the theater. So that there's no
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question about the deterrent value.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
It's not rocket science. I don't understand why people don't
get that. But instead what they.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Want to say, and this is what I keep hearing.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
You need more mental health experts. Why don't we just
ban guns. There's an easy solution.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Oh oh yeah, because all these school shooters are going
to say, wait a second, if guns are against the law,
I'm not going to go commit that mass murder, right,
That's what they're going to say. I mean, it's it's
an insane approach. I'm like you, I'm all of the above,
attack this thing. There's nothing more precious than our kids.
Let's say that at a school, Let's say you had
a billion dollars worth of gold in there. How much
(10:19):
security do you think you'd have? And these kids are
much more precious than that. So all the above. Attack
it at every level, but don't compromise on the point
of attack.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Defense.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
That's right, everything that we can possibly do. And our
parents love this. They do our families, we love that
you're doing all of these things. So it's they want
that this is their most precious thing to their children.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
How ack.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yes, and Kim, I apologize.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I've got to bail because we have a heart out
at seventeen. But where can people learn more? Given where
can they follow you? Or the school?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Yeah, so we do still have seats available if people
are interested.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
It's not too late to enroll.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
It's a JAA Doug dougco dot org so jaadugc dot
Orgman you can learn all about the school.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
John Adams Academy. Hey, Kim Gilmartin, thanks for the time,
keep up the great work.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Thank you, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Take care you're on the dan Kapla show.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Of course, the vast majority of pregnancies are in women,
and I have absolutely no problem with using the word
pregnant women.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I use it myself. It's a non biological woman. Ever
had a baby.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
A transgenders, that's not a biological These people have no pride,
right this witness who's the chancellor University of California, San Francisco,
he must feel.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
So emasculated right to sit there and be spouting just nonsense,
you know, is absolute garbage. To be so weak a
man that you're unwilling to stand up and just say, yeah,
only women can have babies, you know, to forfeit your
manhood that way so you can please the howling mob
(12:14):
on the left and keep your job or whatever. What
a sad existence that must be. I mean, every one
of these, every one of these people out there, you know,
who are unwilling to say that only a biological woman
can have a baby. They know they're lying, but they
have just decided to lie, either to get things for
themselves or out of weakness.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
It's just so pathetic.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Three or three e sive one three eight two five
five d an five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
We wouldn't even be able to we wouldn't even be.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Talking about it if it was just that it's pathetic.
It's that it's harmful. They're causing a lot of harm.
And that's why I mean, you see Aaron Lee protect
kids Colorado. They got all these ballot measures up, including
you can't be mutilating these kids and you can't be
having boys and girls' sports. Yeah, that's why so many
(13:04):
people sign those and hopefully will those will win come
the fall. I do hope you look at getting involved
in all that. Hey, if you just joined us, thank you.
We are talking about a lot of things, one of
which is permanent daylight savings time, which, as you mean no,
means lighter later. And do you want that here in Colorado?
Because it's real close to being reality. I'm kind of
(13:25):
surprised at the opposition we've heard on today's show to this,
but it's been fascinating and the callers against it have
really been compelling. One woman who is just very very
devoted to it so and then another fascinating gentleman talking
about the science of it all. So, yeah, just getting
your take on do you want it staying lighter later?
(13:47):
And I know that sounds like a silly question, because
obviously the issue is what's the trade off. It's gonna
get lighter later, it's going to be darker longer, and
that's where most of the focus and controversy is, but
I think there's a point to be made on the downsides,
on the downsides of it staying lighter later in certain months.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Listen, I would.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Never in a million years want what one caller wanted,
which was to have full time standard time, which means
these beautiful summer nights, which are part of the great
richness of life, all of a sudden it start at
seven thirty.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Forget that.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I would never want that. But do I want it
to stay light longer on Christmas Day?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
In the winter, I'm very happy with it getting dark
at four twenty four thirty. I think that's kind of cool.
But I guess I can't always get what you want.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
What do you think? Do you want to see this change?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Because it looks like it's coming to full time daylight
savings time now. Zach arrays a good question earlier, Hey,
is that going to cost kids Friday night lights fall football, soccer, lacrosse,
things like that. No, it will not, because the clocks,
you know, turn late. I did a little research on
That's that great question you asked. The clocks turn late
enough already with with you know, standard daylight savings time
(15:08):
that that No, it will not affect.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
It will not affect Friday night lights.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
You will you will still have darkness by kickoff like
in October. And I think even those September games. I'd
have to go back and check, but yeah, kids should
not be deprived of Friday night lights. So we're talking
about the daylight savings time. And as always, you know,
there's so many people just calling and texting on their
(15:34):
own about the governor's race.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
There's so much interest in that.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
So we'll continue that conversation I think is going to
be happening about every day. Appreciate all the people who
have been calling about the kittens because I mentioned on air,
not a cat guy. We've never had a cat as
a pack because one of our kids is allergic and
I've never minded. I'm just just never really been excited
about him. Then these kittens were born under our porch
(15:57):
and we started feeding them and stuff like that, and
now they're amazing and.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
They're so much fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
We would sit there literally and watch for hours as
the four of them play together all over the back porch.
It's just one of the coolest things ever. But we
understand from reading up on it and what people are
telling us. It's at the point now they're probably six
or seven weeks that we need to be adopting them out.
But Zach, I want to wait until their mom's done
(16:28):
feeding them. I don't want to be tearing these kittens
away from their mother.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Yeah, you got to be very careful about that process.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah. I was a little worried when I went to.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
King Soupers to get this cat food, since we've never
had cats. I was a little worried it might make
them sick. But they love it. Like if I get
home late from work or get up real early and
I bring catfured out there, they're immediately all over it.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Oh the wet cat food. They'll go crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Oh they love it.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
And they're grown big and strong, and they still are kittens,
but you can see them getting healthier with the food on.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
The churrus at all.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
What are those?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
They gross me out there like a gogurt for a cat.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Man, have not seen those.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
No, it's like that tube, but it's instead of you know,
a yogurt like you would give a kid, it's some
sort of disgusting fish paste creation that that it my
girlfriend to give them to our cat. Yeah, he loves them,
but it's too gross for me.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I may hold off on that. I may hold off
on that. But one thing I'd love to do, and.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I know Amy feels the same way, and Caroline the same.
Joe is out of town studying for the bar.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
What I'd love to do.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I would love to just hold these cats before we
give them away.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
They're so cool.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
We spend so many hours watching them. I'd like to
just hold them and pet them.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
But I don't know if that's a good thing. Back,
how do you how do you catch them?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
We got to figure out how to catch them because
to get them adopted out?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
How do we catch these kittens? They're really fast. It's
amazing how much they can jump.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
But anyway, book back, we'll get to our callo, get
to our tags, permanent daylight savings time.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
As well as of course, what do we do with
these kittens? Want one?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
You're on the Dan Kapitol show. That's really good Zach
cat scratch fever. Yeah, just been talking about it. It's
not the whole show topic, but just been talking about
these kittens born under our porch and we started feeding
(18:30):
them and they're amazing to just sit there and watch
all day. But one of our kids is allergic to cats,
so we can't keep them there for them, and trying
to figure out what to do next. I know we've
learned that people don't adopt adult cats, they adopt kittens,
so we got to get them adopted out soon. So
thank you everybody who's called and texted on that permanent
(18:53):
daylight savings time. I've really been impressed with the intensity
of the opposite position to it, staying lighter later all
year and getting you know, getting lighter later in the morning.
So it's really been a tremendous discussion. If you want
to chime in on that, and then so much more
(19:13):
we want to do. I want to I do want
to start this segment though, bringing you what I think
is this incredibly compelling sound from this Peter Crieft. He's
a Catholic philosopher, but he was talking about the death
of his wife, and I just thought he gave the
(19:34):
greatest advice in the world on how to decide whether
to marry somebody. And this applies equally to men and women,
but in his case it was his wife he lost.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
What advice.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
I know I've asked this, but I want to take
another swing to give you another opportunity. What advice do
you have someone watching this who's newly married or who
is about to be.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
Do you think that when you are very old and
your wife is very old, ugly and wrinkled and fat
and not very bright or even nasty, that you will
still find her beautiful? If so, get if so, marry her.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
But the last.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
View I add of my wife in the nursing home,
about an hour after she died, I fell in love
with her again. Here's a wasteed, emaciated, wrinkled, suffering body.
It's as beautiful as a crucifix because that body ain't
gonna last. But this all is so if you don't
(20:35):
love hers all, but just love her body, don't get married.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I just think that's so right on and so powerful.
Three or three seven three eight two five five d
an five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I want to go to the phone line.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Let me get some text in first, because people have
been so patient doing such.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Hard work on that DAN.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Until schools have as much protection as sporting events, politicians
and elites the left can just sit down on this discussion.
Why do their security guards and police need guns to
protect them at places where the guns are not allowed.
Is Polis or mayor Mikey entering any public school or
even the convention center without their security detail armed. Nope,
complete bs that from Alexa right on Alexa, Dan, If
(21:24):
they aren't mass school shootings, the left can't push more
gun control. And this is in response to a tremendous
guest we had at five oh six talking about this
new charter school, John Adams in Douglas County. They want
to deploy this advanced drone technology to protect kids against
school shooters, and they're actually getting some pushback from the left. Dan,
(21:46):
catch the mother kitty and get her spade if she
can be adopted grade. If not, you can let her
back out and she will no longer have kittens. Thanks
for what you're doing for these kitties. There's a place
for you in heaven. Thank you for saying that. But
I have to tell you it's one of the most
selfish things I've ever done in my life, because we
just love watching these kittens. All of us will just
(22:07):
sit there for a long time watching them. And like
I was saying, I'll get up in the middle the
night to go to the bathroom. I'll go downstairs and
check and look out and yeah, it's like two in
the morning, all four kittens out there playing.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
No, it has been a it has been a very
selfish endeavor. But thank you for the kind words. Yeah
that do they not sleep at night? Cats?
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Mine?
Speaker 7 (22:29):
I think sleeps on and off throughout the day at night,
but he's never woken me up during the night. I
know some people have problems with their cats going buck
wild in the night, and maybe keeping them up. Never
been a problem for me.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
This, well, that's that's good. Here, it's this one says Dan,
you trust your friends to adopt these cats?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Do you include Brockler in that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Sketchy, it says no. I, uh, of course, at what
George is just one of the most trustworthy people. I
should call him up see if he wants a kitten.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
You think he does. They are so cool.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
It's really kicking me off. We're finding out.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
People don't want to adopt black cats, and I'm like,
wait a second, that's craziest of all. And I don't
mean to get heavy here, but it is directly against
Christian theology to be superstitious. And second, all four of
these are great. There are two kind of gold ones
and two black ones, and the black ones are probably
my favorite. They're just all of them are great. But
(23:24):
they have such interesting pert that would not concern us
at all.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Best cats that they were black with all black ones.
Oh really, there's something about like the cat breeds are
almost the color they are, like orange cats have a
have a reputation tuxedo cats and so on. Black cats
that I've had have just been the sweetest, the most loving,
amazing cats. And I've heard the same thing it's about
some weird superstitious deal. Yeah, they're amazing, amazing pets. I
(23:51):
would strongly recommend it.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
It's a black one who keeps trying to get into
the house and it'll come right up. I'll be at
the window, come right up, you'll look at me, lick
the window. And then he brought me a vole, which
I have learned cats do that. They bring presents.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Yeah, that's a gift and Amy a naked gift.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
But Amy said that means he likes you, which I
thought was really cool. And I'd been hoping to get
a vole. D daylight savings time. Not sure how we
could cope with sleeping children would be impossible to handle. Yeah,
because with daylight savings time. I mean, it's going to
be staying dark at certain times in the year in
Colorado till like eight in the morning, eight thirty.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
In the morning.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Dan, let's get rid of time zones all together. Let's
put us on UMT and let localities decide what their
business hours are. School starts at fourteen hundred at the
beginning and end of the year at fifteen hundred during
the winter. But sounds like a recipe for total chaos, Dan,
People's circadian rhythm is standard time.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
God's time. Our bodies work better.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
But do you really want to get in dark in
the summer at seven or seven thirty? To me, just
one of the sweetest things in life. Are you know
these long summer nights and they don't last long as
it is?
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Dan? Are you on drugs? No?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
No, And I don't judge people who are. But I
can look you right in the eye and tell you.
I mean, I've never even done marijuana, and I don't.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Judge adults who do.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
You know we should never legalize because it's trashing kids.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
But no, I am not. Thank you for the inquiry. Oh.
It goes on to say, do you really believe pathetic.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Joe Biden gets eighty one million votes in twenty twenty,
the most votes ever for a presidential candidate, and more Black.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Votes than Barack Obama. Give me a break.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Twenty twenty was rigged and then stolen. And this ties
into the President addressing the nation tomorrow night at seven
Mountain about election integrity. And you know, reportedly there's going
to be new evidence. All I've ever said is this,
there is no doubt there is some fraud in certain elections.
(26:03):
The question is how much and is it enough to
overturn elections? Now we shouldn't have any we agree on that, right.
But when I look at twenty twenty, I understand the
fair questions people have. I've just never seen proof that
it was stolen. That's all I'm saying. And there are
a lot of fair questions, and this fair question about
Joe Biden eighty one million votes and then the flow
(26:24):
votes in election night, fair questions, and it's hurt America
that they haven't been answered in an objective way. But
that could also the concerns the texter have could also
be the result of that being a COVID election with
many more states doing mal in balloting.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Which is going to.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Up the participation and the risk for fraud. Believe me,
I understand, but it's going to up their participation and
then potentially affect the flow vote counts an election night.
But yeah, that's all I'm saying is I think if
somebody's going to say an election was stolen, the burden
is on them to prove it. Now, that's very hard
because our court system is not literally not set up,
(27:03):
our laws are not set up, and the system's not
set up to facilitate the kind of discovery you need
quickly enough to meet these various deadlines after an election.
But I still I had default back to and I
don't know how else we can sensibly approach it in
America other than pull out the stops to have total
(27:24):
election integrity and then regard our elections as valid unless
somebody can prove that that an election was stolen. If
there's a flaw in that logic texture.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I would love to see it all.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Right, game plan, I'm going to come back and to
start with our great callers. We'll start in Denver with
Andrea when we come back, and then lots of great
texts and some more really interesting sound as well.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
You're on the dan Kapla show good three all three, seven.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
One three, two, five, five, seven, seven three nine to text.
Let's go to our fiery phone line. Start with Andrea
in Denver. You're on the dan Kaplas.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
She'll welcome Hi, Dan. I have a British short hair
that had two litters. So they are a lot of
fun when they're little. So how old are they now?
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Do you have?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Ai is telling us like six maybe seven weeks?
Speaker 9 (28:31):
Okay, So, I mean they are an absolute blast when
they're little. So and I know once they start eating food,
I read a lot, you know, I got a little
kitten books that I was reading. But we were feeding
them four to six times a day regular food. Once
they start eating, because they're growing, they need a lot
of food, so I would feed them as often as
you can. And then typically at eight weeks they're ready
(28:53):
to give away. And usually there's one out of each
litter that tries to test test you and try to
get into things that you know, there's always one with
the strongest personality, kind of a leader. They're all cute,
and they were all over me. I was like their
second mother. They just would scale up the side of
the couch, and they were always with me and on
(29:13):
me and everything. So I would say, yes, hold them.
They love the attention, and they like to have safe
places to sleep, and they still kind of pile up
on each other when they sleep at night.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
It is so cool. Now, can I ask you a
quick question, Andrew? Can I ask you a quick question?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
How I don't want to take them away from their
mom while she's still feeding. I hate separating them from
their mom at all. But what do you do there?
Speaker 9 (29:40):
So typically at eight weeks they're ready to go, but
I would give them away one at a time. They
can stay longer. I didn't get but I didn't bring
my mom at home until like when I bought her.
I didn't bring her home till she was nine weeks okay,
So I would just give them a little bit of
time between each giveaway, because once that last kitten is
given away, my mother was, uh, my cat, the mom
(30:03):
cat was walking around the house crying, looking.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Oh man, don't.
Speaker 9 (30:07):
Even then they're great moms, and all of a sudden
they're all gone. So I would get them away one
at a time, and then just was the second batch
that I had, the second litter that I had I
kept one of the boys.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Well, Andrew really really appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
I want to get everybody in. That breaks my heart
to think of the mom said, because she is a great,
great mother. Uh that you know, kids born under the
porch and it's a really narrow space. And yeah, she
really has been very, very attentive. Rebecca and Pueblo, you're
on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Welcome, Hi, Hi, Rebecca.
Speaker 10 (30:42):
I got I got a kind of an opposite story
of your gal there in Aurora. Our mom was was
a stray paral cat, and she left and we got
rid of the kittens. But I was going to tell
you you don't want them, don't touch them, because you
will want them after that.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Oh, I bet you're right, And and we would we honestly,
we would keep all four if it wasn't for one
of our kids having an allergy. Now, Zach was telling me,
we can we can get our child some shots, right, Yeah,
so I'll.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Let her know. She would go for it. Animals love
our daughter. She would she would go for taking the shots.
Speaker 10 (31:27):
There's food and there is also shampoo for them.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Okay, okay, But I was.
Speaker 10 (31:32):
Going to say, too, I like the drone idea. I
think that's.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
School security, school shooter or drone.
Speaker 10 (31:38):
Yeah yeah. And you know, as far as daylight savings
time is concerned, I think everybody in the whole wide nation,
I won't say world, is really tired of spring forward
and fall back. And we are a democratic republic. I
think that we should put it up for a national vote,
(31:58):
and whichever one wins, they Oh.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I love that idea.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
That'd be so much fun, wouldn't it, and just be
kind of like a super Bowl, but of politics. I
love that that'd be fun rather than just like Canada
A or B. So that'll probably have to be a
less call for the day. I'll try to squeeze in
some more texts there, but Dan Texter Victor should choose
(32:21):
Tina Peters as his running mate. Dan. As far as
daylight savings, if you cut an inch off a blanket
and then sew it to the other end, you don't
have a longer blanket. Well, one of the ends is longer, Dan.
Daylight savings time was tried in seventy three lasted nine
months until.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
A schoolgirl was killed.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Wow, I didn't know that, but we did talk in
the very beginning today on this of the big concern
about school safety, right, because it seems to me elemental
kids are going to be in more danger in the
morning going to school when it's dark, and since it
goes far beyond cliche to say they are our most
(32:59):
precious commodity, seems these decisions need to be driven by the.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Safety of school kids.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Which would tell me that we don't want full time
daylight savings time, right because kids are getting out of
school by three anyway, so we want it lighter earlier
so they're safer on the way to school. I think
that should sort of easily decide the argument.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Yeah, and so many more more text on daylight savings
time than we can possibly get. I'm looking forward to tomorrow.
Looking forward to tomorrow, I'm really interested to see the
new evidence of President Trump is presenting to the nation
tomorrow night on election fraud.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
So your best guest, sach Man, what that's going to.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
Be thinking with the prediction that it's it's war knock
or oss.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Off something in that race, just so a Georgia related thing, Yeah,
it'll be. It'll be really interesting to see. Yeah, obviously
the President very properly pushing the Save Act. I mean Americans,
you know, overwhelmingly nothing's unanimous want voter id uh. But
he is promising new evidence, so it does sound like
(34:12):
it's gonna be maybe Georgia specific. So you know, we'll
be all over it tomorrow night, and then we'll be
talking with you about that on Friday, looking forward to that.
I do appreciate all the text and everything else on cats,
on the kittens that we now have born under the porch.
I am trying to figure out though, how we safely
(34:34):
and without traumatizing them, how we catch them, how we
catch them so we can get them the care they
need and then get them to good homes. Literally, how
do you catch them?
Speaker 7 (34:47):
Have you seen that device that vet offices will use
that's kind of like it's almost like tongs. It's like
a kiddy tongue, and on either end it's like a
net almost and also hurting the cat, you like kind
of in a mess scissor device, you know, but it's
a big nets on the either end of it, so
you kind of capture them or like fly swatter looking
(35:09):
things bots a net.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
It sounds scary to me if I'm a little kitten
and something two hundred times bigger than you is approaching.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
You with the tongs.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Is there something that might be a little less psychologically.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Trump I had ways to do it, certainly.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Okay, well, we'll keep looking into that. Thank you, Zach,
and thanks for all your great work, and thank you
for being with us on the show today. I do
hope you'll join us tomorrow. We'll be previewing, you know,
President Trump's big address to the nation and so much more.
Have a great, safe evening.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Join us tomorrow on The Dankpla Show.
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