Rich Bennett, President and CEO of Life Network in Colorado Springs details for Dan why state legislation from Democrats are targeting his organization, looking to ban abortion-reversal drug treatment therapies for young women navigating unexpected pregnancies.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
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and to subscribe, download, and listen to the show every
single day on your favorite podcast platform. Yeah. And how
cool to be able to talk about the civil rights
issue of our lifetime, right. And I just think it's
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amazing that we're all born at a time when we
get a chance to have a big impact on something
like this, and all we have to do, all we
have to do is be active politically, be active in
other ways and save lives. I think it's enormously cool
and I think an obligation every week at this time.
We have doctor Catherine Wheeler, and she used to be
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an abortionist and now she saves lives. She helps save
unborn children, and it's just great to have her medical
perspective every week. She has a well deserved week off
this week, and so sitting in is Rich Bennett. Now
Rich is the president and CEO of Life Network. They
operate Colorado Springs pregnancy centers. So you know, again this
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is the work in the trenches, you know, where you're
saving those lives each and every day type of thing.
And so I want to talk to Rich and let
you get a little more information about all of this
and about the legislation that has been targeting pregnancy centers
and why the heck would the left want to do that? Well,
Rich'll tell us. Rich, welcome to the Dan Kapli show.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well, Dan, it's a pleasure being on with you today.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Well, thank you, my friend, and appreciate the work that
you do and all the great work everybody in pregnancy
centers does. But if you would just tell us what
they are for those who don't know, and then what's
up with this legislation targeting pregnancy centers?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well, Dan, every day in our state and it's hits
around the country, there are young women facing the biggest
decision of their young lives ahead with the pregnancy that
they weren't expecting, and pregnancy centers like those operated by
Life Network, like those around the country, are there to
provide compassionate, confidential care for women and increasingly men who
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are also there should be there together facing unexpected pregnancies.
And all of our services are available at no costs
thanks to the generosity of private donors that pregnancy centers.
The majority of them are medical clinics, and we offer
pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, STI testing, and treatment. Our clinics in
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the Springs actually provide something we called early pregnancy care,
which includes a well woman's visit as well. That maybe
that crystallize best what it is that pregnancy centers do
would be to share a recent story, if that's okay. Yeah,
we met a young woman just to think the last
few months. But I'll call Camilla and eighteen, newly married,
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starting a new job when she learned that she was pregnant,
and that was she wanted to be a mom one day,
but this was not that day. So she's completely overwhelmed.
She's fearful, and she told our clinic it's not the
right time, and she was just overwhelmed and was asking
about the abortion pill. Well, we don't provide or refer
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to abortion, but it is something that we're going to
talk to women and then about in terms of the
implications of that decision. And we're going to talk to
them about making an adoption plan, and we're going to
talk to.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Them about parenting, but ultimately we're also going to have
them meet their baby via ultrasound. And for Camilla everything
changed when that happened, and as an imagepeared on the screen,
her husband whispered, I can't believe how clear that heartbeat is,
and that moment, combined with the compassionate care that she received,
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brought a piece to her heart, and she and her
husband chose life for that baby.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Awesome and then everything that then springs from that life. Right.
But it seems to me that the core is the
truth because what really it sounds like changed Camilla as
we'll call her, is just the truth. Just seeing the
Ultra Center, and I'm sure your folks and the great
work that they do played a big role. But once
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she saw that that is really a human life that
she would be ending, I have to believe that that
had a big impact.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well that's just it is that coming face to face with,
like you said, the truth, reality, what is happening inside
a woman's body. And she was one of her baby
was one of five lettered eyty three little lives that
were saved across our force centers in the Springs last year.
But that happens in pregnancy resource centers in Denver and
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all around the country. Become alongside young women and men
and as you said, sharing the truth about them, the
truth about their value and the truth about the value
of their baby.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Rich Bennett our guest, and we're talking about pregnancy centers,
the CEO of Life Network. So why are you guys
being targeted with this legislation.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, So, dating back even a couple of years ago,
you know, pro abortion legislators in Colorado were approached by
abortion advocacy groups and basically they were given a bill
to pass that sought to do two things. First was
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target pregnancy centers with their advertising and try to intimidate
them from advertising. And it built in stiff penalties of
twenty five thousand dollars per offense for any ads that
were found to be deceptive. Now, it's fascinating about this.
There was no smoking gun, there was no and here's
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what we're talking about. It was really a solution about
a problem, but it was really all about intimidating pregnancy centers.
And so yeah, so that that happened. And then, of course,
as I know doctor Wheeler has shared with you and
your listeners, we had the abortion pill reversal band and
we were you know, clinics among you know, probably at
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least a dozen of us that were providing this progesterone
treatment that was saving the lives of babies after a
mom took that first pill that stopped progesterone. But if
you reintroduce progesterone sid enough, two thirds of the time
that baby can be saved. And we had twenty lives
saving here in calif Springs until our legislature stopped that procedure.
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And and you know a lot of people ask why,
why would why would they do that? And you know,
I believe it's because it's a terrible narrative for the
abortion movements, right that there are women minutes and hours
after taking that deadly abortion pill to regret that decision.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
That's right, that's right. And I think that was one
of those lightning bolt moments that really revealed to a
lot of people who these pro abortion people are that
they would want to strip from a woman the choice
to save her child when she changed her mind in
the middle of a chemical abortion. Yeah, I think that
tells people all they need to know. But hey, Rich,
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appreciate you drop it in. How can folks follow you?
How can they follow Colorado Springs pregnancy centers?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, you know, for people who are interested in more
about what we do when they can go to elivenetwork
dot com the letter E for everyone, livenetwork dot com.
And I would just encourage your listeners if they want
to find out about pregnancy centers in general or pregnancy
centers in their area, if they go to optionline dot
org they can get connected to the pregnancy center nearest then.
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But I just appreciate the opportunity to share about As
you said, what is true about the work of pregnancy
centers like Life Network and those are in the country.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Well, I would imagine you've had the same experience I have.
There has never been a human who has taken a
picture of that altsound showed it to a friend and said, here,
look at my feetus.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
No, that is exactly right. It really does. It is
this reality striking moment and really a pivotal moment for
so many of the moms and dads that we see
who come under our clinic.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Oh yeah, no, Amy and I we were waiving that
thing around like a powerball ticket, a winning powerball ticket
when we got ours. So that just yeah, that altsound,
it just cuts right to the truth. But hey, thanks,
thanks rich and to all the folks who are doing
such great work there.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Well, thanks, Dare. I appreciate the opportunity to.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Share you take care. That is Rich Bennett's CEO Life
Network Colorado Springs Pregnancy Centers. So you know, Ryan, that's
that's the everybody knows it. But it's the interesting thing
in life is for everybody you get in the headlines
right who's doing something wrong or doing something good, there
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are probably what a thousand or ten thousand people out
there doing really great things that you just never hear about,
you know, like all these people working in pregnancy centers
and everything else. So appreciate him dropping in three at
three seven to one three eight two five five the
number text d A N five seven seven three nine. Hey,
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I do want to touch on President Trump's upcoming visit
with Putin. We've talked a lot and we will continue
to because it applies to us in Denver here. Not
because the president has the power or inclination to take
over law enforcement in Denver. He can't do that, right,
He can do it in DC obviously, because DC has
the right to the federal governments, the right to just
federalize Washington, DC and take it away from home rule.
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But lessons for us there as well. And would you
support the capitalist plan? How much would you be willing
to pay to at least double the size of law
enforcement where you live, make your community much safer. How
much would you be willing to pay for that? Because
in terms of tax increases, etc. Because the rewards would
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obviously be so vast, and I think pretty quickly make
any kind of tax increase unnecessary. You're on the Dan
Capla Show.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Do you believe human nature won't encourage some leader somewhere
to or some government somewhere to believe that they can
control it, whether or not that's actually possible.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Well, we have a nice example in the States of
a government that's determined to control it. I don't think
that's going to work. It may it may work against
other countries, but when Ahnna becomes smarter than people, that's
just not going to work. This whole idea that people
need to be dominant in the eye, needs to be submissive,
that's the kind of tech bra idea that I don't
think will work when they're much smarter than us.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Do you do you really believe?
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Do you still believe that ten to twenty percent chance
of AI's wiping out humans is possible.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Oh yes, if we don't, if we can't figure out
a solution to how we can still be around when
they're much smarter than us and much more powerful on us,
we'll be toasted.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah. I mean it's kind of amazing, isn't it? That
we're living in a September ten mentality right now? Can
you think back to the folks who are around then,
I mean, think back to what it was like, right
and nine ten, two thousand and one. I mean, none
of us saw that coming, you know, all of us
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were just caught up and all the usual stuff were
always caught up in. And it's the same thing now,
And nothing can compare to nine eleven, right, just terms
of that particular form of evil. But the dramatic changes
to our lives that AI is bringing are far larger
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than the changes nine to eleven brought to our lives,
And the potential for harm is infinitely larger than even
the horrific harm done on nine to eleven. And we're
all just sort of going along in life every day,
kind of oblivious to it. I'm sure there are a
handful of folks in the audience who are very dialed in, etc.
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And it's just it's a fascinating study in human nature,
mind and yours and everybody else is because this is
this is beyond anything we've ever seen before. I mean,
as you sit here right now, Ryan, and you're such
a talented young broadcaster, but is your job going to
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be around it? Not just because of the normal changes
in talk radio, et cetera. I mean what jobs. And
I'd love to hear from folks in this because you know,
every now and then I have some some kid who's
kind enough to ask, Okay, you know what, what's your advice?
What's what's your career advice? This? This, that, that, and
And for me, it always starts with AI. It always
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starts with identifying a job that's still going to be there.
So what do you think, Ryan, Well, even for the
most talented like you, is is that job still going
to be there?
Speaker 7 (13:29):
It's already happening. And I remember having this conversation with
a buddy of my longtime veteran of radio back in
the state of Michigan, and a mutual colleague of ours
was kind of touting the fact this was an iheartstation
in Grand Rapids, that she would be her voice used
using AI and sampling from her own voice, would be
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the midday host. She wouldn't be there to do it,
but just as a DJ introducing songs, doing segues, transitions
and such, and that she would be live in the afternoon.
And he and I are both like, hello, do you
not understand that it's not going to stop there? When
they can replace you with your own voice and recordings
of it, You're going to be gone. They want to
pay benefits or insurance, they can just have the AI
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version of you as an avatar doing that job as
an FMDJ now expressing oneself like you do, like I
do opinions on the air. That's next level AI, and
I would be really freaked out by that if they
had an AI version of me that could express itself
the same way that I do with my opinions.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Well, and this is a name that you or me
or anything else. I just think that it won't be
long at all before the version they're able to come
up with is far more interesting than either of us
could be. And the reason for that, I think is
going to be both the novelty and the intelligence levels,
like you are a super intelligent guy, and you work hard,
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and you're very very well informed, and I try to
be helpful. But AI is already so far in so
many ways, so far beyond either of us. But then
it'll also be the novelty. Right when you get this
AI generated host who who is? Then you know people
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can call in, people can text in, people can ask
their questions, make their arguments, and then get the novelty
of something AI generated, which is then just operating at
a whole another level. I mean they can never have it,
can never have the morality, right, I don't think you
can can never have the heart, It can never have
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the soul. But just in terms of kind of value
added and interesting radio, I think it's going to happen
very quickly.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Don't you think there might ultimately be a robot dan
Kaplis that can have the heart, that can have the values,
that can express those things based on what you've already
put out there into the universe.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Well, I think you'd have to program it that way,
right right, Yeah, So if you wanted to program it
to you know, Ryan Schuling's core principles and values, and
then you market that show that way sure, you know
it's it's going to reflect all of that. What what
we can't know yet is, you know, will it reach
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the point you know that it's willing to fight and
die and sacrifice to defend certain values. All I'm saying
in terms of an actual marketplace, you know, like what's
super interesting and what our listeners going to be willing
to spend their time on. Yeah, I think that's coming,
and it's coming quickly. Scary to think about, you know what,
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I what I see happening for you know, guys like you,
you know, who have a lot of years ahead of
you in the market is I see you know, like
I used to do Capitalists and Swiman with Craig, I
see you co hosting a show with with an AI
co host? Oh boy, you know okay, and that would
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be very interesting, right are you? Okay? Who's going to
win the argument? So instead of Capitalists in so minutes,
it's going to be you know, shooling and what would
you name your AI co host? Maybe he names you.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
That's what I'm saying. It's like playing chess against a computer.
This is like war games or something.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, and but but that would be a lot of
the intrigue of it. Right, So instead of you having
just like a human lefty co host, and those are
so hard to find, you'll have an AI lefty co host.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Oh don't, don't put that on.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Me, and then it'll be not Then it'd be really
hard work to prepare. I used to have to prepare
so hard every day to do that show with Craig
right and it it was good. It was good. We
all want competition. It makes all of us better. But yeah,
it'll be shooing and tell us on the other side,
what you're going to name your your lefty co host
until it games you and then when we come back.
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Among other things I'd like to hear from folks on
you know, are you going to listen to an AI
host because that's that's coming and it's coming soon, and
what do you want that to look like? And do
you support the capitalist plan at least doubling the size
of the police force. How much you want to pay
for that? On the Game Capitalist Show.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
The mainstream wing of the party is scared the death
of the moon wing. They won't speak up and they
don't stand for anything anymore. All they stand for is
whatever is against whatever President Trump stands for. That's why
we find ourselves shelves in the extraordinary position of mainstream
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Democrats have now come out firmly and passionately in favor
of crime in Washington.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
D C.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
Why and mis Trump we know something about it?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Chucky Schumer, Hakim Jeffries, they're quote minority leaders in name only.
They'll never stand up to that wing, will they? No,
they could.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
And I don't mean any disrespect. I don't know mister
Jeffries that will. I know Senator Schelmer very well. So
I say this with respect. Chuck and Hakeem need to
go to Amazon, buy some testicles and stand to the
moon wind of their party.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Hard to say that with a whole lot of respect, right,
I thoroughly enjoy Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana. You know,
whenever anybody starts something with you know, I say this
with respect, and I start a lot of sentences that way.
You know what's coming, right, yeah? Yeah, So hey, if
you just joined the conversation, what we're talking about is
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just kind of this nine to ten mentality that most
of us are in right now. I don't say I'm
any better on this, and that is just almost completely
oblivious to what AI is doing right now and what
is going to do to your life in mind. And yeah,
there'll be plenty of pluses. There are right now right
if you know how to use one of those apps,
and it's not hard, but in terms of the way,
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it's just kind of just radically transform everyday life and
the world and the job market, and you know, the
potential to eventually, you know, destroy the world as we
know it or turn it into you know, something that
can be even better. Yeah, it's it's the magnitude of
that I think most of us don't even begin to
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appreciate right now. And it is happening so fast. We're
not talking about hey ya, Jetson's thing like you know,
twenty forty this or that. No, No, it's happening like exponentially.
And so we were just talking about, okay, what jobs
will survive? And as I mentioned, you know, every now
and then I do have somebody, some students, somebody say
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what would you recommend career wise? And for me, it's
always starting with AI. You know, you got to look
at what careers are still going to be there unless
somebody's interested in the same missionary work, et cetera. You know,
and there are some support type things that can be
done for the poor with AI, and that's great stuff.
But but yeah, what careers are still going to be there?
I think, my friend, there's just going to be an explosion.
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It'll be a beautiful thing to see. There's going to
be an explosion in the trades, right, you know, you're
talking about electricians, you're talking about plumbers and people who
already do very well financially, and you see a lot
of really skilled people doing that. But there's just going
to be an explosion in it because you know AI.
I mean, it will affect certain facets of those skills,
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but it's not going to come out to your house
and fix it. I don't think we're going to be
fully robotic like that anytime in the near future. Talking
about AI other applications.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
Have you seen the robot that Elon has created. It's
walking around kind of like a human with human motions
and so forth.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, yeah, could be repair John. You're going to make
a call and the shooling estate, the van pulls up,
the robot out comes up to your door and comes
in and gets the lights back. Gun.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, but how soon do you think that's going? You see,
whereas Ai I mean, is radically transforming the job market, lives,
et cetera as we speak right now, short of robotics.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
I think it's closer than you think.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Dan. Yeah, oh, I'm sure that's true. But all I'm
saying is the other is here.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
So well, you saw Rosie and the Jetsons.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
You just mentioned the Jetsons, all right, and where are
the flying cars?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
But you know, where are the flying cars? I was
sure by now they'd be flying cars. But whereas Ai, Yeah,
that has been implemented textures, Dan, Washington, d C. Has
five point four to seven cops per one thousand citizen.
Denver has two point five eight. This is a reference
to the capitalist plan, which is, you know, at least
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double the number of police officers. But again, as you know,
my plan always includes much more than that. And the
point of the plan is it's going to take an
increase in spending to make our communities what they should be,
the safest communities in America, and then the payoff and economically,
more importantly, precious human life and the ability to just
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because you know, the kind of stress that the threat
of crime brings to your life in weighs large and
small all the time. And to take away that that
price that people pay and it doesn't show up in
the stats, right because maybe somebody doesn't stick the gun
in your ribs and take your watch, but you live
with this fear for your family members, your kids, et cetera.
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It may affect where you go when you go. That's
another type of crime victim and price it's paid. But
to the Texter's fair point. Yet, my plan and for
this to succeed is never just based on sheer numbers.
It has to be done the right way. Starting with
you got to let law enforcement enforce the law. So
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you could have one hundred cops per thousand citizens in
DC and it's not help no matter how great those
officers are, because the politicians aren't going to let them
enforce the law. It's like so many places in Colorado
where lefties are in charge. You know, Denver law enforcement.
If you know you had people supportive of law enforcement
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who just allowed officers to enforce the law, you know
that would be a beautiful thing, right, and it goes
to another Texter's point who says, there's another texture, where
is it talking about. Yeah, I would want a huge
increase in traffic control because that's where I feel most unsafe.
I've spent most of my long life in Colorado and
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have seen the roads become increasingly more dangerous. Huge increase
in population, with many more distractive, aggressive, and seemingly not
caring drivers. Yeah, all of that, right, I mean, you've
got a state where the lefties have legalized Krakawana, You've
got rampant impaired drivers out there, and then the left
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under mining law enforcement, so you have fewer law enforcement
officers out there and understandably less willing to engage because
the left is always looking to make cops of human sacrifice.
If you don't engage in a traffic stop, you don't
run that risk of that, you know, being done unfairly
to you by the left, and so you end up
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with very little enforcement anymore. And we all know the
chaos on the roadways that come from that. So yeah,
for this plan of taking Colorado from where it is now,
which is a very very bad place, you know it
in terms of crime and what's happening on the roadways
and take it to among the very best. Yeah, it's
going to take increasing the police forces, but letting officers
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do their jobs and having the money in the system
to be able to hire the very best in support positions, etc.
And have accountability, have the ability to reward the great
ones and to get rid of those who are Someday
our society will come to its census on that, but
right now, the voters just do not seem to be
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interested in punishing the left for making this state so dangerous.
And I love your thoughts and why that is because
we all know, well, I should say, I believe, and
I think it's true that the way we have been created,
we are wired to protect those we love. We're wired
to protect and defend our community and ourselves. And so
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this powerful self preservation instinct. Why isn't it kicking in
at the voting booth? Why isn't it kicking in? Why
Why are Democrats being thrown out of office left and
right because of all their pro criminal stuff. I got
my own theory, but I'd love your take on that.
By the way, Tomorrow's show is going to be I
think particularly interesting, not because of me but because of
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what's happening, and that is this meeting between Trump and Putin,
you know, where Trump's involved, there's always the potential for
that kind of lightning bolt breakthrough. That wouldn't shock me.
I'm not predicting, but it wouldn't shock me if there
is a cease fire announced, but then how that's defined
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and what it really means and whether it's really implemented.
But that wouldn't surprise me. It also wouldn't surprise me
if Trump scheduled the joint presser afterwards just to cancel
it if Putin doesn't come ready to deal. So yeah,
I think because Putin, you know, is like the devil
on earth, I think anything's possible tomorrow. I respect Trump
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for trying, you know, Trump, but the future belongs to
the bold and a lot of good things are happening
now because he's bold and confident and strong and doesn't
mean tomorrow is going to work, but it's worth the shots.
So three, three, seven, three eight, two five, five the
number what jobs do you think are still going to
be here in five years? And any meaningful numbers give
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an Ai You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
But let me just say also, it's not lost on
anyone that the cities that he is calling out, first
of all, have large.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Numbers of black and brown people.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Secondly, the crime rate is going down in all of
these cities. Thirdly, they're all headed by black mayors. Now
what does that say? What does that picture paint? So
we all know who he is, Barbara Lee Oakland mayor
playing the race card. What a gift to Trump and
the Republicans, because look, hey, everybody's a graduate of the
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University of Real Life, right, everybody can see what's actually
going on out there. And when you get these false
cries of racism, all it does is turn more black
voters to Trump, that turn more Latino voters to Trump,
turn more white voters to Trump. Because crime is an
equal opportunity destroyer. And the fact that Trump is calling
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out these cities because of unacceptably high crime rates and
that cities, many of these cities, happen at black mayors.
It has nothing to do with the race of the mayors.
It has to do with the radicalism. And it's this
radicalism that we see in Colorado from Polis and Johnston.
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All the left that's so pro criminal you know, it's
that radicalism that's driving these crime rates up. And people
across all racial lines and party lines, they're sick of it.
That's why you have so many lefties welcoming what Trump
has done in DC and what I'm saying I've been
saying for decades on air. You know, we need to
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make a very bold step here in Colorado because naturally, right,
just all our advantages, we should have one of the
very lowest crime rates in the country. The only way
we can have this very high crime rate is by
bringing it on ourselves through these lefty policies. So we
could be we could be one of the lowest what
three four five in the country. You want to be
(29:59):
number one one always, but one of the lowest, and
that's easy. You know, we just have to at least
double our police forces, but more importantly, take the handcuffs
off them, fully support them, and that includes that includes
at the DA level, and you know, strict not only enforcement,
but punishment. That would do it. That way it can
(30:22):
be done. Ryan. In terms of the increase in enforcement,
there's no question that lowers crime when you allow officers
to enforce because when bad actors believe they're more likely
to get caught. Few of them are going to do it.
And I lived it, man, I was out there. I
was covering the Rodney King case in LA. This is
(30:43):
the one in federal court in LA. And there were
all sorts of concerns about riots after the verdict, like
there had been the riots in Seamy Valley after officers
were acquitted there. And I lived out there largely for months.
And I remember when, Okay, the jury went into deliberation.
There was a plan in place, a very smart plan,
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and they more than doubled the number of officers on
the street in LA while the jury was deliberating. And
I'm trying to remember. I think it was five or
six days, can't remember for sure. However long that jury
was out, I was there at the time. Crime dramatically dropped,
if I remember right. It was like from six or
seven murders a night to one, just because there were
(31:27):
so many more cops on the street and so and
there are other examples around the country where under special
circumstances there was a surge in law enforcement presence and
crime went way down. Makes sense, So you think we'll
ever see that day here? Ryan, Well, that's support be here.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
I'm not sure, but I know the scene that you
described and I remember it.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Well, yeah, it works, it works. And of course we
got to break the cycle of lefty control in Colorado.
And at this point voters are not inclined to punish
the last for bringing more crime down upon the people
of the state, shifting gears. I'm just really intrigued to
see what's going to happen tomorrow at this meeting. I
(32:10):
am you know, President Trump, he very smart guy, has
been very effective. Do you think he'd be going to
this meeting unless he had some really good reason to
believe that there's a better than fifty to fifty chance
to come out of it with a ceasefire, not a treaty.
You can't do a treaty, you know, Ukraine isn't there.
But a ceasefire.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
Well, he has to be betting on that, and Putin
has to give him something or the hammer's going to
come down.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Trump said as much.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, no, that's yeah, perfectly logical. Now I think that
this joint presser and I know you'll have all the
sound right, because you have nothing else to do. You
do your great show every day two to four. But
you know, this joint presser between the two of them,
if it happens, I expect it will, but I think
maybe Trump's schedule it in part to be able to
cancel it if Putin shows up and pulls some kind
(32:58):
of bait and switch. But if that presser goes forward,
I cannot wait to see. That should be must see television. Yeah,
and you know, blessed are the peacemakers. And it's just
a it is a horrific shame that evil Putin is
going to gain any territory out of this. But we
know in any peace deal he is going to and
(33:20):
that's because Biden's weakness allowed him to go in, and
then Europe's weakness allowed him to make gains. The people
Ukraine have fought in very, very bravely, but once Europe
made it clear they weren't going to put boots on
the ground should never be American boots. But once Europe
made it clear they wouldn't put European boots on the ground.
Even evil can do math and Putin figure that one out.
(33:42):
So yeah, evil he is. It'll be sick to see
him get any land. But that won't be Trump's fault.
Trump's just trying to save, you know, hundreds of thousands
of more lives that are likely to be lost if
there isn't a deal. Thank you, Ryan, Thank you Kelly.
Should be a history direk Day tomorrow one way or
the other. Join us then on The Dan Kapla Show
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind,
and to subscribe, download, and listen to the show every
single day on your favorite podcast platform. Yeah. And how
cool to be able to talk about the civil rights
issue of our lifetime, right. And I just think it's
(00:22):
amazing that we're all born at a time when we
get a chance to have a big impact on something
like this, and all we have to do, all we
have to do is be active politically, be active in
other ways and save lives. I think it's enormously cool
and I think an obligation every week at this time.
We have doctor Catherine Wheeler, and she used to be
(00:43):
an abortionist and now she saves lives. She helps save
unborn children, and it's just great to have her medical
perspective every week. She has a well deserved week off
this week, and so sitting in is Rich Bennett. Now
Rich is the president and CEO of Life Network. They
operate Colorado Springs pregnancy centers. So you know, again this
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is the work in the trenches, you know, where you're
saving those lives each and every day type of thing.
And so I want to talk to Rich and let
you get a little more information about all of this
and about the legislation that has been targeting pregnancy centers
and why the heck would the left want to do that? Well,
Rich'll tell us. Rich, welcome to the Dan Kapli show.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well, Dan, it's a pleasure being on with you today.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Well, thank you, my friend, and appreciate the work that
you do and all the great work everybody in pregnancy
centers does. But if you would just tell us what
they are for those who don't know, and then what's
up with this legislation targeting pregnancy centers?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well, Dan, every day in our state and it's hits
around the country, there are young women facing the biggest
decision of their young lives ahead with the pregnancy that
they weren't expecting, and pregnancy centers like those operated by
Life Network, like those around the country, are there to
provide compassionate, confidential care for women and increasingly men who
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are also there should be there together facing unexpected pregnancies.
And all of our services are available at no costs
thanks to the generosity of private donors that pregnancy centers.
The majority of them are medical clinics, and we offer
pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, STI testing, and treatment. Our clinics in
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the Springs actually provide something we called early pregnancy care,
which includes a well woman's visit as well. That maybe
that crystallize best what it is that pregnancy centers do
would be to share a recent story, if that's okay. Yeah,
we met a young woman just to think the last
few months. But I'll call Camilla and eighteen, newly married,
(03:02):
starting a new job when she learned that she was pregnant,
and that was she wanted to be a mom one day,
but this was not that day. So she's completely overwhelmed.
She's fearful, and she told our clinic it's not the
right time, and she was just overwhelmed and was asking
about the abortion pill. Well, we don't provide or refer
(03:24):
to abortion, but it is something that we're going to
talk to women and then about in terms of the
implications of that decision. And we're going to talk to
them about making an adoption plan, and we're going to
talk to.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Them about parenting, but ultimately we're also going to have
them meet their baby via ultrasound. And for Camilla everything
changed when that happened, and as an imagepeared on the screen,
her husband whispered, I can't believe how clear that heartbeat is,
and that moment, combined with the compassionate care that she received,
(03:56):
brought a piece to her heart, and she and her
husband chose life for that baby.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Awesome and then everything that then springs from that life. Right.
But it seems to me that the core is the
truth because what really it sounds like changed Camilla as
we'll call her, is just the truth. Just seeing the
Ultra Center, and I'm sure your folks and the great
work that they do played a big role. But once
(04:26):
she saw that that is really a human life that
she would be ending, I have to believe that that
had a big impact.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well that's just it is that coming face to face with,
like you said, the truth, reality, what is happening inside
a woman's body. And she was one of her baby
was one of five lettered eyty three little lives that
were saved across our force centers in the Springs last year.
But that happens in pregnancy resource centers in Denver and
(04:58):
all around the country. Become alongside young women and men
and as you said, sharing the truth about them, the
truth about their value and the truth about the value
of their baby.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Rich Bennett our guest, and we're talking about pregnancy centers,
the CEO of Life Network. So why are you guys
being targeted with this legislation.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, So, dating back even a couple of years ago,
you know, pro abortion legislators in Colorado were approached by
abortion advocacy groups and basically they were given a bill
to pass that sought to do two things. First was
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target pregnancy centers with their advertising and try to intimidate
them from advertising. And it built in stiff penalties of
twenty five thousand dollars per offense for any ads that
were found to be deceptive. Now, it's fascinating about this.
There was no smoking gun, there was no and here's
(06:05):
what we're talking about. It was really a solution about
a problem, but it was really all about intimidating pregnancy centers.
And so yeah, so that that happened. And then, of course,
as I know doctor Wheeler has shared with you and
your listeners, we had the abortion pill reversal band and
we were you know, clinics among you know, probably at
(06:29):
least a dozen of us that were providing this progesterone
treatment that was saving the lives of babies after a
mom took that first pill that stopped progesterone. But if
you reintroduce progesterone sid enough, two thirds of the time
that baby can be saved. And we had twenty lives
saving here in calif Springs until our legislature stopped that procedure.
(06:53):
And and you know a lot of people ask why,
why would why would they do that? And you know,
I believe it's because it's a terrible narrative for the
abortion movements, right that there are women minutes and hours
after taking that deadly abortion pill to regret that decision.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
That's right, that's right. And I think that was one
of those lightning bolt moments that really revealed to a
lot of people who these pro abortion people are that
they would want to strip from a woman the choice
to save her child when she changed her mind in
the middle of a chemical abortion. Yeah, I think that
tells people all they need to know. But hey, Rich,
(07:32):
appreciate you drop it in. How can folks follow you?
How can they follow Colorado Springs pregnancy centers?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, you know, for people who are interested in more
about what we do when they can go to elivenetwork
dot com the letter E for everyone, livenetwork dot com.
And I would just encourage your listeners if they want
to find out about pregnancy centers in general or pregnancy
centers in their area, if they go to optionline dot
org they can get connected to the pregnancy center nearest then.
(08:02):
But I just appreciate the opportunity to share about As
you said, what is true about the work of pregnancy
centers like Life Network and those are in the country.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Well, I would imagine you've had the same experience I have.
There has never been a human who has taken a
picture of that altsound showed it to a friend and said, here,
look at my feetus.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
No, that is exactly right. It really does. It is
this reality striking moment and really a pivotal moment for
so many of the moms and dads that we see
who come under our clinic.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Oh yeah, no, Amy and I we were waiving that
thing around like a powerball ticket, a winning powerball ticket
when we got ours. So that just yeah, that altsound,
it just cuts right to the truth. But hey, thanks,
thanks rich and to all the folks who are doing
such great work there.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Well, thanks, Dare. I appreciate the opportunity to.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Share you take care. That is Rich Bennett's CEO Life
Network Colorado Springs Pregnancy Centers. So you know, Ryan, that's
that's the everybody knows it. But it's the interesting thing
in life is for everybody you get in the headlines
right who's doing something wrong or doing something good, there
(09:18):
are probably what a thousand or ten thousand people out
there doing really great things that you just never hear about,
you know, like all these people working in pregnancy centers
and everything else. So appreciate him dropping in three at
three seven to one three eight two five five the
number text d A N five seven seven three nine. Hey,
(09:39):
I do want to touch on President Trump's upcoming visit
with Putin. We've talked a lot and we will continue
to because it applies to us in Denver here. Not
because the president has the power or inclination to take
over law enforcement in Denver. He can't do that, right,
He can do it in DC obviously, because DC has
the right to the federal governments, the right to just
federalize Washington, DC and take it away from home rule.
(10:02):
But lessons for us there as well. And would you
support the capitalist plan? How much would you be willing
to pay to at least double the size of law
enforcement where you live, make your community much safer. How
much would you be willing to pay for that? Because
in terms of tax increases, etc. Because the rewards would
(10:25):
obviously be so vast, and I think pretty quickly make
any kind of tax increase unnecessary. You're on the Dan
Capla Show.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Do you believe human nature won't encourage some leader somewhere
to or some government somewhere to believe that they can
control it, whether or not that's actually possible.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Well, we have a nice example in the States of
a government that's determined to control it. I don't think
that's going to work. It may it may work against
other countries, but when Ahnna becomes smarter than people, that's
just not going to work. This whole idea that people
need to be dominant in the eye, needs to be submissive,
that's the kind of tech bra idea that I don't
think will work when they're much smarter than us.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Do you do you really believe?
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Do you still believe that ten to twenty percent chance
of AI's wiping out humans is possible.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Oh yes, if we don't, if we can't figure out
a solution to how we can still be around when
they're much smarter than us and much more powerful on us,
we'll be toasted.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah. I mean it's kind of amazing, isn't it? That
we're living in a September ten mentality right now? Can
you think back to the folks who are around then,
I mean, think back to what it was like, right
and nine ten, two thousand and one. I mean, none
of us saw that coming, you know, all of us
(11:52):
were just caught up and all the usual stuff were
always caught up in. And it's the same thing now,
And nothing can compare to nine eleven, right, just terms
of that particular form of evil. But the dramatic changes
to our lives that AI is bringing are far larger
(12:12):
than the changes nine to eleven brought to our lives,
And the potential for harm is infinitely larger than even
the horrific harm done on nine to eleven. And we're
all just sort of going along in life every day,
kind of oblivious to it. I'm sure there are a
handful of folks in the audience who are very dialed in, etc.
(12:34):
And it's just it's a fascinating study in human nature,
mind and yours and everybody else is because this is
this is beyond anything we've ever seen before. I mean,
as you sit here right now, Ryan, and you're such
a talented young broadcaster, but is your job going to
(12:55):
be around it? Not just because of the normal changes
in talk radio, et cetera. I mean what jobs. And
I'd love to hear from folks in this because you know,
every now and then I have some some kid who's
kind enough to ask, Okay, you know what, what's your advice?
What's what's your career advice? This? This, that, that, and
And for me, it always starts with AI. It always
(13:17):
starts with identifying a job that's still going to be there.
So what do you think, Ryan, Well, even for the
most talented like you, is is that job still going
to be there?
Speaker 7 (13:29):
It's already happening. And I remember having this conversation with
a buddy of my longtime veteran of radio back in
the state of Michigan, and a mutual colleague of ours
was kind of touting the fact this was an iheartstation
in Grand Rapids, that she would be her voice used
using AI and sampling from her own voice, would be
(13:49):
the midday host. She wouldn't be there to do it,
but just as a DJ introducing songs, doing segues, transitions
and such, and that she would be live in the afternoon.
And he and I are both like, hello, do you
not understand that it's not going to stop there? When
they can replace you with your own voice and recordings
of it, You're going to be gone. They want to
pay benefits or insurance, they can just have the AI
(14:10):
version of you as an avatar doing that job as
an FMDJ now expressing oneself like you do, like I
do opinions on the air. That's next level AI, and
I would be really freaked out by that if they
had an AI version of me that could express itself
the same way that I do with my opinions.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Well, and this is a name that you or me
or anything else. I just think that it won't be
long at all before the version they're able to come
up with is far more interesting than either of us
could be. And the reason for that, I think is
going to be both the novelty and the intelligence levels,
like you are a super intelligent guy, and you work hard,
(14:49):
and you're very very well informed, and I try to
be helpful. But AI is already so far in so
many ways, so far beyond either of us. But then
it'll also be the novelty. Right when you get this
AI generated host who who is? Then you know people
(15:09):
can call in, people can text in, people can ask
their questions, make their arguments, and then get the novelty
of something AI generated, which is then just operating at
a whole another level. I mean they can never have it,
can never have the morality, right, I don't think you
can can never have the heart, It can never have
(15:30):
the soul. But just in terms of kind of value
added and interesting radio, I think it's going to happen
very quickly.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Don't you think there might ultimately be a robot dan
Kaplis that can have the heart, that can have the values,
that can express those things based on what you've already
put out there into the universe.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Well, I think you'd have to program it that way,
right right, Yeah, So if you wanted to program it
to you know, Ryan Schuling's core principles and values, and
then you market that show that way sure, you know
it's it's going to reflect all of that. What what
we can't know yet is, you know, will it reach
(16:11):
the point you know that it's willing to fight and
die and sacrifice to defend certain values. All I'm saying
in terms of an actual marketplace, you know, like what's
super interesting and what our listeners going to be willing
to spend their time on. Yeah, I think that's coming,
and it's coming quickly. Scary to think about, you know what,
(16:34):
I what I see happening for you know, guys like you,
you know, who have a lot of years ahead of
you in the market is I see you know, like
I used to do Capitalists and Swiman with Craig, I
see you co hosting a show with with an AI
co host? Oh boy, you know okay, and that would
(16:55):
be very interesting, right are you? Okay? Who's going to
win the argument? So instead of Capitalists in so minutes,
it's going to be you know, shooling and what would
you name your AI co host? Maybe he names you.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
That's what I'm saying. It's like playing chess against a computer.
This is like war games or something.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, and but but that would be a lot of
the intrigue of it. Right, So instead of you having
just like a human lefty co host, and those are
so hard to find, you'll have an AI lefty co host.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Oh don't, don't put that on.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Me, and then it'll be not Then it'd be really
hard work to prepare. I used to have to prepare
so hard every day to do that show with Craig
right and it it was good. It was good. We
all want competition. It makes all of us better. But yeah,
it'll be shooing and tell us on the other side,
what you're going to name your your lefty co host
until it games you and then when we come back.
(17:50):
Among other things I'd like to hear from folks on
you know, are you going to listen to an AI
host because that's that's coming and it's coming soon, and
what do you want that to look like? And do
you support the capitalist plan at least doubling the size
of the police force. How much you want to pay
for that? On the Game Capitalist Show.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
The mainstream wing of the party is scared the death
of the moon wing. They won't speak up and they
don't stand for anything anymore. All they stand for is
whatever is against whatever President Trump stands for. That's why
we find ourselves shelves in the extraordinary position of mainstream
(18:37):
Democrats have now come out firmly and passionately in favor
of crime in Washington.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
D C.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
Why and mis Trump we know something about it?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Chucky Schumer, Hakim Jeffries, they're quote minority leaders in name only.
They'll never stand up to that wing, will they? No,
they could.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
And I don't mean any disrespect. I don't know mister
Jeffries that will. I know Senator Schelmer very well. So
I say this with respect. Chuck and Hakeem need to
go to Amazon, buy some testicles and stand to the
moon wind of their party.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Hard to say that with a whole lot of respect, right,
I thoroughly enjoy Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana. You know,
whenever anybody starts something with you know, I say this
with respect, and I start a lot of sentences that way.
You know what's coming, right, yeah? Yeah, So hey, if
you just joined the conversation, what we're talking about is
(19:40):
just kind of this nine to ten mentality that most
of us are in right now. I don't say I'm
any better on this, and that is just almost completely
oblivious to what AI is doing right now and what
is going to do to your life in mind. And yeah,
there'll be plenty of pluses. There are right now right
if you know how to use one of those apps,
and it's not hard, but in terms of the way,
(20:03):
it's just kind of just radically transform everyday life and
the world and the job market, and you know, the
potential to eventually, you know, destroy the world as we
know it or turn it into you know, something that
can be even better. Yeah, it's it's the magnitude of
that I think most of us don't even begin to
(20:23):
appreciate right now. And it is happening so fast. We're
not talking about hey ya, Jetson's thing like you know,
twenty forty this or that. No, No, it's happening like exponentially.
And so we were just talking about, okay, what jobs
will survive? And as I mentioned, you know, every now
and then I do have somebody, some students, somebody say
(20:45):
what would you recommend career wise? And for me, it's
always starting with AI. You know, you got to look
at what careers are still going to be there unless
somebody's interested in the same missionary work, et cetera. You know,
and there are some support type things that can be
done for the poor with AI, and that's great stuff.
But but yeah, what careers are still going to be there?
I think, my friend, there's just going to be an explosion.
(21:08):
It'll be a beautiful thing to see. There's going to
be an explosion in the trades, right, you know, you're
talking about electricians, you're talking about plumbers and people who
already do very well financially, and you see a lot
of really skilled people doing that. But there's just going
to be an explosion in it because you know AI.
I mean, it will affect certain facets of those skills,
(21:32):
but it's not going to come out to your house
and fix it. I don't think we're going to be
fully robotic like that anytime in the near future. Talking
about AI other applications.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
Have you seen the robot that Elon has created. It's
walking around kind of like a human with human motions
and so forth.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, yeah, could be repair John. You're going to make
a call and the shooling estate, the van pulls up,
the robot out comes up to your door and comes
in and gets the lights back. Gun.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, but how soon do you think that's going? You see,
whereas Ai I mean, is radically transforming the job market, lives,
et cetera as we speak right now, short of robotics.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
I think it's closer than you think.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Dan. Yeah, oh, I'm sure that's true. But all I'm
saying is the other is here.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
So well, you saw Rosie and the Jetsons.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
You just mentioned the Jetsons, all right, and where are
the flying cars?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
But you know, where are the flying cars? I was
sure by now they'd be flying cars. But whereas Ai, Yeah,
that has been implemented textures, Dan, Washington, d C. Has
five point four to seven cops per one thousand citizen.
Denver has two point five eight. This is a reference
to the capitalist plan, which is, you know, at least
(22:48):
double the number of police officers. But again, as you know,
my plan always includes much more than that. And the
point of the plan is it's going to take an
increase in spending to make our communities what they should be,
the safest communities in America, and then the payoff and economically,
more importantly, precious human life and the ability to just
(23:10):
because you know, the kind of stress that the threat
of crime brings to your life in weighs large and
small all the time. And to take away that that
price that people pay and it doesn't show up in
the stats, right because maybe somebody doesn't stick the gun
in your ribs and take your watch, but you live
with this fear for your family members, your kids, et cetera.
(23:34):
It may affect where you go when you go. That's
another type of crime victim and price it's paid. But
to the Texter's fair point. Yet, my plan and for
this to succeed is never just based on sheer numbers.
It has to be done the right way. Starting with
you got to let law enforcement enforce the law. So
(23:54):
you could have one hundred cops per thousand citizens in
DC and it's not help no matter how great those
officers are, because the politicians aren't going to let them
enforce the law. It's like so many places in Colorado
where lefties are in charge. You know, Denver law enforcement.
If you know you had people supportive of law enforcement
(24:16):
who just allowed officers to enforce the law, you know
that would be a beautiful thing, right, and it goes
to another Texter's point who says, there's another texture, where
is it talking about. Yeah, I would want a huge
increase in traffic control because that's where I feel most unsafe.
I've spent most of my long life in Colorado and
(24:39):
have seen the roads become increasingly more dangerous. Huge increase
in population, with many more distractive, aggressive, and seemingly not
caring drivers. Yeah, all of that, right, I mean, you've
got a state where the lefties have legalized Krakawana, You've
got rampant impaired drivers out there, and then the left
(24:59):
under mining law enforcement, so you have fewer law enforcement
officers out there and understandably less willing to engage because
the left is always looking to make cops of human sacrifice.
If you don't engage in a traffic stop, you don't
run that risk of that, you know, being done unfairly
to you by the left, and so you end up
(25:22):
with very little enforcement anymore. And we all know the
chaos on the roadways that come from that. So yeah,
for this plan of taking Colorado from where it is now,
which is a very very bad place, you know it
in terms of crime and what's happening on the roadways
and take it to among the very best. Yeah, it's
going to take increasing the police forces, but letting officers
(25:45):
do their jobs and having the money in the system
to be able to hire the very best in support positions, etc.
And have accountability, have the ability to reward the great
ones and to get rid of those who are Someday
our society will come to its census on that, but
right now, the voters just do not seem to be
(26:05):
interested in punishing the left for making this state so dangerous.
And I love your thoughts and why that is because
we all know, well, I should say, I believe, and
I think it's true that the way we have been created,
we are wired to protect those we love. We're wired
to protect and defend our community and ourselves. And so
(26:29):
this powerful self preservation instinct. Why isn't it kicking in
at the voting booth? Why isn't it kicking in? Why
Why are Democrats being thrown out of office left and
right because of all their pro criminal stuff. I got
my own theory, but I'd love your take on that.
By the way, Tomorrow's show is going to be I
think particularly interesting, not because of me but because of
(26:52):
what's happening, and that is this meeting between Trump and Putin,
you know, where Trump's involved, there's always the potential for
that kind of lightning bolt breakthrough. That wouldn't shock me.
I'm not predicting, but it wouldn't shock me if there
is a cease fire announced, but then how that's defined
(27:13):
and what it really means and whether it's really implemented.
But that wouldn't surprise me. It also wouldn't surprise me
if Trump scheduled the joint presser afterwards just to cancel
it if Putin doesn't come ready to deal. So yeah,
I think because Putin, you know, is like the devil
on earth, I think anything's possible tomorrow. I respect Trump
(27:35):
for trying, you know, Trump, but the future belongs to
the bold and a lot of good things are happening
now because he's bold and confident and strong and doesn't
mean tomorrow is going to work, but it's worth the shots.
So three, three, seven, three eight, two five, five the
number what jobs do you think are still going to
be here in five years? And any meaningful numbers give
(27:57):
an Ai You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
But let me just say also, it's not lost on
anyone that the cities that he is calling out, first
of all, have large.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Numbers of black and brown people.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Secondly, the crime rate is going down in all of
these cities. Thirdly, they're all headed by black mayors. Now
what does that say? What does that picture paint? So
we all know who he is, Barbara Lee Oakland mayor
playing the race card. What a gift to Trump and
the Republicans, because look, hey, everybody's a graduate of the
(28:36):
University of Real Life, right, everybody can see what's actually
going on out there. And when you get these false
cries of racism, all it does is turn more black
voters to Trump, that turn more Latino voters to Trump,
turn more white voters to Trump. Because crime is an
equal opportunity destroyer. And the fact that Trump is calling
(28:58):
out these cities because of unacceptably high crime rates and
that cities, many of these cities, happen at black mayors.
It has nothing to do with the race of the mayors.
It has to do with the radicalism. And it's this
radicalism that we see in Colorado from Polis and Johnston.
(29:18):
All the left that's so pro criminal you know, it's
that radicalism that's driving these crime rates up. And people
across all racial lines and party lines, they're sick of it.
That's why you have so many lefties welcoming what Trump
has done in DC and what I'm saying I've been
saying for decades on air. You know, we need to
(29:39):
make a very bold step here in Colorado because naturally, right,
just all our advantages, we should have one of the
very lowest crime rates in the country. The only way
we can have this very high crime rate is by
bringing it on ourselves through these lefty policies. So we
could be we could be one of the lowest what
three four five in the country. You want to be
(29:59):
number one one always, but one of the lowest, and
that's easy. You know, we just have to at least
double our police forces, but more importantly, take the handcuffs
off them, fully support them, and that includes that includes
at the DA level, and you know, strict not only enforcement,
but punishment. That would do it. That way it can
(30:22):
be done. Ryan. In terms of the increase in enforcement,
there's no question that lowers crime when you allow officers
to enforce because when bad actors believe they're more likely
to get caught. Few of them are going to do it.
And I lived it, man, I was out there. I
was covering the Rodney King case in LA. This is
(30:43):
the one in federal court in LA. And there were
all sorts of concerns about riots after the verdict, like
there had been the riots in Seamy Valley after officers
were acquitted there. And I lived out there largely for months.
And I remember when, Okay, the jury went into deliberation.
There was a plan in place, a very smart plan,
(31:05):
and they more than doubled the number of officers on
the street in LA while the jury was deliberating. And
I'm trying to remember. I think it was five or
six days, can't remember for sure. However long that jury
was out, I was there at the time. Crime dramatically dropped,
if I remember right. It was like from six or
seven murders a night to one, just because there were
(31:27):
so many more cops on the street and so and
there are other examples around the country where under special
circumstances there was a surge in law enforcement presence and
crime went way down. Makes sense, So you think we'll
ever see that day here? Ryan, Well, that's support be here.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
I'm not sure, but I know the scene that you
described and I remember it.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Well, yeah, it works, it works. And of course we
got to break the cycle of lefty control in Colorado.
And at this point voters are not inclined to punish
the last for bringing more crime down upon the people
of the state, shifting gears. I'm just really intrigued to
see what's going to happen tomorrow at this meeting. I
(32:10):
am you know, President Trump, he very smart guy, has
been very effective. Do you think he'd be going to
this meeting unless he had some really good reason to
believe that there's a better than fifty to fifty chance
to come out of it with a ceasefire, not a treaty.
You can't do a treaty, you know, Ukraine isn't there.
But a ceasefire.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
Well, he has to be betting on that, and Putin
has to give him something or the hammer's going to
come down.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Trump said as much.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, no, that's yeah, perfectly logical. Now I think that
this joint presser and I know you'll have all the
sound right, because you have nothing else to do. You
do your great show every day two to four. But
you know, this joint presser between the two of them,
if it happens, I expect it will, but I think
maybe Trump's schedule it in part to be able to
cancel it if Putin shows up and pulls some kind
(32:58):
of bait and switch. But if that presser goes forward,
I cannot wait to see. That should be must see television. Yeah,
and you know, blessed are the peacemakers. And it's just
a it is a horrific shame that evil Putin is
going to gain any territory out of this. But we
know in any peace deal he is going to and
(33:20):
that's because Biden's weakness allowed him to go in, and
then Europe's weakness allowed him to make gains. The people
Ukraine have fought in very, very bravely, but once Europe
made it clear they weren't going to put boots on
the ground should never be American boots. But once Europe
made it clear they wouldn't put European boots on the ground.
Even evil can do math and Putin figure that one out.
(33:42):
So yeah, evil he is. It'll be sick to see
him get any land. But that won't be Trump's fault.
Trump's just trying to save, you know, hundreds of thousands
of more lives that are likely to be lost if
there isn't a deal. Thank you, Ryan, Thank you Kelly.
Should be a history direk Day tomorrow one way or
the other. Join us then on The Dan Kapla Show
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