October 9, 2025 • 34 mins
In the second hour of today's show, Dan Caplis reacts to the latest news and updates surrounding President Trump's historic peace deal in the Middle East.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Kaplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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so much fun, right because of what's happening in the
world and President Trump getting and deserves full credit for it.
It doesn't happen just because of Trump, but it sure
doesn't happen without him. What apparently is about to happen
in the in the Mideast with the hostages being returned
obviously twenty of the forty killed by these monsters of
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Hamas and but twenty being returned live, and then of
course phase two of the deal to come. And people say, well,
no guarantee Phase two will happen. Listen once Hamas is
forced to give up the hostages. Phase two, which is
the reconstruction of Gaza on or board headed by Trump,
It's going to happen because the only power whatsoever these
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demons have Hamas is possession of the hostages and they
know once they give those up, they're utterly powerless. And
they're only giving them up now because they're being cut
off by other major Arab sponsors, and they're being cut
off because of pressure from President Trump. But also some
moves President Trump has made, and some moves which is
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included putting certain pressures on the great state of Israel,
which Trump has been a tremendous ally to overall. So
I just think we're living through one of those moments together. Now,
what would you compare it to? I don't know how
old you are, but what would you compare it to
in terms of those great positive times in life that
you've been alive for. Now? We always talk about when
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we focus on the bad stuff, right, and I mean
that's news because it's new and it's different, and it's
a problem, and we worry about problems. But certainly you've
lived through some really great moments talking about your personal life,
but great moments in terms of events in your city
and state world. How would you compare what's unfolding here
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in the Mid East to that some of those other
great moments had The mayor a beautiful Loveland, Colorado, Jackie
Marshaw on with us. She's under fire from some for
opening city hall to allow some homeless and during a storm,
some saying, hey, there should have been more planning in advance,
more steps taken, et cetera. I had a great conversation
with her, and I came away. I have no idea
whether she's Democrat, Republican, whatever. I came away and pressed
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that everything she did was sincere and done from sincere
human compassion. And she had stayed outside the night before
with the homeless. Can you imagine Mike Johnston doing that,
staying outside the night before with the homeless. How about
Jared Polis? Yeah, Jared Polus, Oh my goodness, we had
pay to see that. You know, you could sell the
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rights to that one, but you'll never have the chance to. Oh,
let me do this. I want to go back up
to four Collins. But Don in Colorado Springs has been
so patient. Appreciate that. Don. You're on the Dan caplis
so welcome. Good afternoon, Dan.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I just it's been a while since we talked. And
as I told Ryan I in his last hour, the
reason for the fight with his guest is it all
comes down to the revolution. That's why they want to
take all these kids into the into that alphabet people.
Cause now about the peace deal, I do want to
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get to that. And yes, the Democrats, especially in Colorado
want him to fail on that. Then they can try
to capitalize that because if he wins on that.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
You know, that could open up a few cracks.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Even in Colorado and they may not have the win
to their backs as they would would like to.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I mean, I appreciate the calling that, Don, thank you
so much. I'm going to try to get to everybody here.
Don leads us to an interesting point. And I was
in that long trial when the Magellan poll came out
that shows really stunningly low approval numbers for elected Democrats
in Colorado. Poll is at like forty one. I think
Hick and Looper at thirty eight, Bennet at thirty seven.
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So worry some stuff from Dems for Dems now, within
that poll, you still see when they talk about a
generic Dem versus a generic Republican for this officeer that
you still see the DEM about ten twelve points had.
But yeah, I think the Dems have to be starting
to worry that, hey, maybe this isn't guaranteed for all
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of eternity. You know that they win every office in Colorado.
So the question I'd led with, and I'd love your
take on it, is in your heart of hearts, go
with the first number now that comes to mind. What
percentage of elected Democrats in Colorado poll is Bennett Hick
and Loooper Wiser, you know the crew. What percentage want
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Trump's Mid East piece plan to fail? What percentage of
those elected Democrats in Colorado want it to fail? And
I think the answer to that, whether it's one you'd
share through a text or a call, But the answer
to that, because I would imagine most of us are
coming up with about the same number, which is almost
all of them, if not all of them, just tells
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you so much, right, just tells you so much about
the modern Democratic Party and about where we're at right
now in this nation. And it makes the triumph of
Trump even more impressive. Right, and everybody knows the story,
but to now see the world, the entire world, including
these Democrats who are out to destroy him, personally, destroy
his family, have him die in jail on bogus charges.
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They're benefiting from Trump, Their children are benefiting from Trump,
their grandchildren are benefiting from Trump. This is this is
such a giant moment of history now with so many
lessons in it. It's got a beautiful four towns. We'll
talk to Bill. You're on the Dan Kaplis Show. Welcome Bill,
Try Dan.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
When I called it had to do with a homeless
I lived all through that era. I was born in
nineteen twenty eight. I lived all through the depression. And
the key was two areas. One was that you had
to depend a lot on your family, and people moved
all over the country to wherever their family was. It
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could be a distant cousin, it could be a grandparents
at whatever, because this was an on again, off again situation,
because you might have a job this month and maybe
not next month. Father worked for the railroad and they'd
have layoffs, and every time they had a layoff, we
are to Georgia from Kentucky because that's where my grandparents were.
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But this happened for a lot of people. And then
when we were living in Kentucky and we were employed,
our great uncle worked for a railroad somewhere but he
lost his job, so he came to live with us.
The family, extended family is the biggest help. Now. We
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were central in railroad town, there were a lot of hoboes.
The thing is, the hoboes were just people down in
their luck. It was mostly men and young boys. And
we never never had any occasion when they were arrested. Yeah,
people they work.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Oh yeah, we used to have We used to have
hoboes come to our back door all the time. At
seventy six and Aberdeen in Chicago. We were about two
blocks from the tracks. And word got out that my
mom was generous and pretty durned pretty, and so we'd
have a long line of hoboes at our back door.
And my experience was the same. All of them were
very cook, courteous, total gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
And yeah, and they would take what they would take,
the food that they would work for, and they would
take the remnants. They would always save some and they
would take it back. So in the evening they would
all converge what was called a hobo jungle, where all
of them came in together and shared over an open fire.
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And this was in North Kentucky, right beside the Ohio River.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
How did you end up in Colorado?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
The Air Force?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Oh? Okay, now that jill to be on it, And
forgive me, I don't mean to call you a liar,
But there's no way you're ninety seven. You sound like
you're twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Well, listen, do you try KLZ. I worked with Kim
Munson all a lot. In the last four years. I've
done at least thirty five or maybe forty shows on
American history.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
That's awesome, that is well, we got to do some
of that. Man. They tell everybody the secret to going
as strong as you are at ninety seven.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Well, I always tell people as four factors. One is
a good mother, a good wife, good luck, and good geens.
I never drank it, never smoked. Really, I didn't associate
with people who did.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Wow wow until today.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well, I hope not.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I hope no, no, no, I don't smoke.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I hope most of the habits at your studio are
pretty good.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Oh, I wouldn't say that. I don't smoke, and I
did just have my second beer the year after we
were blessed to win that trial. You sound like a
really cool guy, Bill. I hope you call us off
and we'd love to have you on.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Hey, I lived in Germany and I couldn't stand beer.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Interesting think about that. Yeah, you had a lot of friends.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
No, everybody else in the family drink beer.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
But it Bill appreciate the call man. How cool is that? Ryan?
How old did he sound to you? Really?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
What he called? I would have said around seventy. Yeah,
I would have put him. I would have put him
at forty five, forty five. He's gonna love hearing that. No,
but isn't that one of the big things that's happened
in life, I mean, during our lifetimes, is how dramatically
the age paradigm is shifted. It really has, because you've
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got so many people now who are seventies, like what
fifty five? I mean, unless you're Joe Biden obviously, John Hickenlooper. No,
look at Trump. Yeah, oh the machine got total machine.
Make sure you want to try diet coke? Have you
ever had a diet CAx?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
A lot of diet cokes. They're not good for you.
They don't taste that good. He loves them, though. He's
got a button for him in the office, a red button.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
You know that the funny thing is not to be
self serving. How often do I say that each day?
Not to be self serving, but but because I do
have people ask me, because I have one talent, which
is I don't need to sleep and I people say,
how does that happen? This is set down to me.
(10:52):
I think it's just that I don't drink. You know,
I drink water, that's the other tale and electrolytes. But
I drink like seventeen beers and not be affected. Isn't
Isn't that a wasted gift? Really? Truly, I could and
I've had to prove that on occasion. What beer did
you drink after the trial when everyone, Oh, no, no,
I thought you were talking. I'm seventeen. That was a
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that was a course light. Okay, yeah, I'll always remember
that beautiful spot in Glenwood Springs and just thank you
God toast everybody. But I've had to prove it a
couple of times in my life where I just have
to sit down and say, okay, I got to prove
it to you. And I can just drink and drink
and drink, and everybody around he's falling over drunk and
I'm drinking and drinking. It has no effect on me,
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feeding that Irish stereotype there dad, Ye, well there's no
effect on me. But I don't do it. You're on
the Dan Capla Show. And now back to the Dan
Kaplas Show podcast of the Ledger.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
I know you and I have been in meetings before
together speaking with Arab leaders and Arab diplomats who say
the same thing.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Only Donald Trump can resolve this issue.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
He understands us, we understand him, which again very unique
that you're hearing that not only from the people on
the streets of Israel, but also hearing that from Arab
diplomats and leaders.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah, that's Joe Scarborough MSNBC. That's how undeniable and beyond
historic this is. And so at this point, with the
Israeli cabinet approving Phase one of the peace deal, now
a timeline kicks in. And so when you play that out,
it means all of the prisoners, the hostages, those kidnapped
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by the demons from Hamas will be returned, about twenty
eight murdered and about twenty still alive, you know, will
be returned within about seventy two hours is the expectation
right now is local time, probably Monday into early Tuesdays,
and Israel will be pulling back to agreed upon lines
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and then Phase two will involve the reconstruction of Gaza
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Just curious, how does this moment compare to other great
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elective Democrats do you think want this monumental deal to fail?
And I believe elected democrats, I believe virtually all normal,
just kind of Democrat members of society. I would think
a fairly small percentage. A judge, a federal judge, has
temporarily halted deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago, as
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I predicted the other day, I would expect this will
make its way quickly up the chain, and that probably
a circuit will get involved quickly, and the US Supreme
Court probably soon after that. So should be an interesting
test in Chicago there, Dan, one hundred year old Euston
lady said bacon and whiskey were in her diet. Dan,
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I believe that's what we're talking about. That we had
a guy called the show in the last segment who
says he's ninety seven, he sounds forty seven, And so
we're just talking about how age has changed so dramatically, right,
I don't know what age you are, but I do
think in general, you know their exceptions, but in general,
I think seventy is probably like fifty five used to be.
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And what do you think forty is? I mean there
was a time forty was considered old. That's more like
over the hill twenty five maybe twenty five to thirty.
And what about some like genuinely old people, Like you've
got some eighty five year olds who are more like
seventy five year olds. Yeah, it's just it's kind of
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a cool thing to see. How long would you want
to live? Ryan? I mean, if you could decent healths,
you still aged right, but you could be in bodies
functioning pretty well, your mind's good. It's not like your
Benjamin Button and you're going to stay like you are
right now forever. How long would you want to live?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
My dad's all right. Grandpa's best friend lived to be
one hundred and four, and he just died a few
years ago, and.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
He was nimble.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
I was at his one hundred birthday party and there
were guests of his that were much younger than him
coming there with walkers and wheelchairs with air oxygen tanks.
He's just showing me his class of nineteen thirty three
graduation yearbook.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
From his high school.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
And he got his foot caught on one of the
plastic chairs at one of the tables there where were gathered,
and on one foot he hopped and he kicked the.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Chair away one hundred years. That's impressive. And if I
could live like Carl Kepler, then I'll take a hundred. Yeah, Carl,
you're the man. And you know, unless there's like a
disease process, big injury, whatever, I think so much of
it's just mental because I remember being around this group
of guys, wasn't that long ago, and you know, I
was just meeting him to play some golf and they
were all turning like sixty five ish or so, and
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they had just mentally checked out. It's okay, okay, they're
sixty five, it's time to retire, it's time to do this,
time to do that. I think they just aged themselves.
Texter Dad, I believe Hick, Bennett, and Johnson could all
have been Republicans. They were simply groomed by Democrats. This
is one of the most profound interesting texts we've received.
Because I am a firm believer and I'm not saying
this in any red versus blue kind of way. This
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is just from the heart and the mind. Firm believer
that ninety nine point nine percent of all Democrats know
what they're supporting is fundamentally wrong. Not everything, but the
big things like abortion right. They have just decided to
make that trade for power. And so I think it
is fun to talk about which prominent Democrats could be
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great successful conservatives, because I do believe most of them
are just living a life. They don't really believe this
stuff they're saying. And not Bennett, because Michael Bennett, I'm
sure he's good at some things and probably a real
good family man, but he's just very very bad at
elective office, just like an electoral blob kick. Yeah. No,
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I think Hick could be a more natural Republican. Mike Johnson,
same thing. Johnson used to be a reasonable guy. We
talked on air all the time, we had a lot
of fun. We'd disagree on some things. If he had
been and he I think he's probably much more likely
to be a conservative at heart, and he's just made
these trades for power. If he had just, say, been
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a conservative and true to conservative ideals, he'd be a
superstar with a big future. As it stands right now,
he has very very little room to move in the
Democratic Party. Don't you think same thing with Wiser. I
can't believe Wiser believes that lefty crab hey, that lefty stuff.
You know, he was truly conservative. I think he'd be
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an enormously successful conservative and now he's kind of stuck
in that party. You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast,
thank you to get it?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I mean, let's we could go through all the number
of reasons why he shouldn't get it.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
He's gonna invade Greenland, the rights he wants to take
away from.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Press pot talking about invading Greenland.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Billy origin story of this is.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
When Obama won the Nobel Prize and the perception on
the right was he did not deserve it.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Perception on the give to him. So we could stop
talking about broke. I know. It's yeah, it's like, do
you know that the actual textbook definition of sushi? Mmmm?
What the word sushi actually means? No malfunction. It means
the grill's broken. But that's Megan Hayes, former Biden White
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House Director of Message.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
And I remember when you could go wrong when the
Obama Nobel Peace Prize thing happened. Even Barack Obama himself like, look,
I didn't do anything. I just got elected.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
He just got elected. Yeah, it's well he did. This
is hilarious because now they'll have to give it to
Trump and some of the cool things you've seeing right now,
to see that aeriel of this big field in farmland
in Israel where they've carved out, give Trump the Nobel.
And then I think it was the major Jerusalem newspaper
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today had the profile of Donald Trump, you know, his
head and then they had the picture of all the
hostages in there and the headline was Trump is bringing
them home. I mean, just really really cool stuff. And
to the credit credit of Scarborough and others on the
left today for stepping up and acknowledging this goes beyond historic.
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So what a cool moment to be alive, just asking folks,
what are some of the other just great historic things
you've been alive for. I mean, we we talk about
the negative stuff all the time, right, it's like a
magnet that we're just drawn to it, but because we
want to fix it and we don't want to just
ignore it. But there is there are these big positive moments.
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Dan phil Wiser came from pure legacy academia. He's a
true leftist. Yeah, you're probably right about that. All I'm
saying is was any of these Democrat candidates would be
bad in office because of their ideology. But I'm saying
that Wiser is obviously so much more skilled, so much
more talented, so much better qualified to serve as a governor.
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Not on ideology. Not on ideology, I wouldn't vote for him,
I wouldn't want him as governor. But if you're comparing
him to Bennett, he's just light years Bennett better, which means,
of course that Bennett will be their nominy. We're talking
earlier about kind of a bad sign for the Wiser
campaign when his top advisor's wife is now supporting Bennett.
His wife happens to be an elected member of Congress,
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Brittany Petterson. I think that's a sure sign of impending
electoral death there. But there are other signs of that
as well. Just so ironic, because there can't be one
honest person out there who would sit there and say, hey,
Michael Bennett's really going to be a great governor, and
here's why. So let's hope the GOP can get a
great nominee and pull it off in that race, which
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goes to another text that I have, which is here.
It is Dan, I know this is kind of off
subject today. Hey, nothing is ever off subject on this show. Dan,
what are your thoughts on Victor Marx running for governor?
I'm intrigued trying to get him on the show. Would
love to just get him in studio and do a
good long interview. So I always love it. I enjoy
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it when somebody comes in from outside of politics and
they're interesting and there's a buzz around them. I love
that part of politics. I think that Trump has done
so much at this point, is so much could in
a lasting way for this country, beyond the obvious, including
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just opening the door wide to people from outside of
politics to come in and run for anything, including the presidency,
which makes total sense, right, I mean, what kind of
nation would be dumb enough to say, oh, no, our
pool of people for elective office is going to be
this small, little, narrow group that's already in elective office.
That's just goofy.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Even Caitlin Collins, hardly a friend to the President, from CNN,
in a recent interview was just glowing about the fact
that Donald Trump's story could arise.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
At any moment in any venue. He could be having just.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
A real matter of fact gathering in the Oval office
and it would turn into a press conference and he
might make news.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
And it's very exciting for her to deal with a
president who's that accessible. Oh yeah, and that fearless. She
wouldn't want to say that, but again, and you look
at the great figures throughout history, and when we say fearless,
what we're really talking about is people who aren't going
to let their fears stop. Because everybody who's human is
going to have some fear. But who is going to
be fearless in the sense said, Okay, that's not going
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to stop me. And Trump is obviously utterly fearless and
the reason he's won twice. But yeah, he's not afraid
of these lefty journalists. He'll sit down and he'll talk
to any of them.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
By the way, yeah, we were talking about this earlier.
The latest indictment Letitia James on mortgage fraud related charges.
The irony, of course, is she brought those totally bogus
fraud charges against Trump and put him and his family
through hell and into financial peril, etc. All to punish
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him for his politics. And as we predicted it would,
it backfired on the left as it should have. And
how fascinating is this Ryan And it's really kind of
biblical that now all these lefties who tried to destroy him,
really they wanted him to die in jail, destroy his family,
destroy him all financially, all of those left are going
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to benefit from Trump's successes. Their children will, their grand
children will with the you know, beyond historic nature of
this piece deal in the mid East, and eventually Trump
will get there in Ukraine. It's just going to take
a while. Dan, I have liberal friends. They say Trump
is pro Israel. I say, bull blank, he's pro American.
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Every thing he does shows he is pro American. And
bb Netanya who knows. He does not own Trump by
any means, nobody owns Trump. What do you think I'd
love your taking this. What do you think truly at
the core drives Trump? What do you think at the
core drives him? You know, yeah, he is not owned.
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He is not owned. And I take great pride in
say not that anybody cares or it makes any difference.
It doesn't but I just personally, I take great satisfaction
if it all ended today. You know, one of the
things I take great satisfaction and is I've proven it.
I've never allowed myself to be a prisoner of any
political party. God made us to be much more than that.
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And I've been a Democrat, I've been an un affiliated.
I'm a Republican. I expect, hopefully eighty years from now,
I will die a Republican. But yeah, I've never allowed
myself to be imprisoned by a political party. I don't
think that anybody or anything owns Trump.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
No.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I think he is addicted to success, to achievement and accomplishment,
and in this instance, making deals. He loves making deals.
He loves getting people together. You're going to do this,
You're going to do that, We're going.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
To make a deal. You know, he brings people together
in that way.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
And it's I was editing this sound for you, Dan,
and these normal adversaries of his, even like Martha rattis
no Scarborough's ignacious.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
They had to admit that this is what he does.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
It's his mill u, it's his wheelhouse, and it defines
him in many ways.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, what I all of which is true. Yeah, play
that Martha sound it. Stop talking about it because it
is so obnoxious to get it? Hey, can I mean,
what can we maybe do this? We work out of
this gleaming studio in this beautiful building, blessed to be
on this tremendous worldwide network of iHeart and this computer. Truly,
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it's like a two dollars compute. You'd like to punt it?
Can we just pull our resources? What would it cost us?
Like forty bucks?
Speaker 4 (26:29):
I put a trouble ticket in for the trouble ticket.
But you know what I mean, that's what. Let's just
step on it.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
You want to go up, up and down on it?
Have you seen the movie No Oh, you Gotta Okay?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Tell us about the role President Trump played and bringing
all of this about, well, Robin, there's no question that
if this goes as planned, if we see those remaining
hostages freed in Israel begin its withdrawal, it is a
remarkable achievement and President Trump most certainly deserves credit for
his role. He has done this through diplomacy, pressure, and
the sheer force of his personality and persistence. He dispatched
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diplomats again and again, made threats just in the last
few days to Moss say again, if they did not
sign the deal, all hell would break loose, and they
had the bombing of Iran as an example of that.
But perhaps most importantly, he pushed Benjamin Ettanyahu and weighs
his predecessor and others.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Us from Martha Radits, it's that's cool, and it's times
like this you can tell, okay, who does have some
intellectual honesty left? Some on the left are so far
gone they're hopeless, but you're seeing today's Scarborough Radits ignacious. Yeah,
there's some hope out there, which brings me back to
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what prominent left He is most likely to become a Republican,
to become a conservative John Fetterman. Ah, but that's a
given right. I don't know. But he'd probably go independent.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Yeah, but yeah, he'd be more right laning than the
other independence in the Senate, Angus King, Bernie.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Sanders, I had no doubt about it. But prominent lefty,
I think it's a no brainer. It's Taylor Swift, don't
you think, wow? Off the top of rose in Oh? No,
but isn't that pretty obvious? No? Okay, I thought it was. No.
I think it's a hot take, but not in the
negative sense of that. No, I just it's expected at
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this point. It is expected at this point. Hey, I
want to come back play some more of this hot
sound from today surrounding this beyond historic piece. Deal talk
to you about some local things as well, including is
it a pipe dreamer? Do you think we can get
Michael Bloomberg to donate big, big money to repeal Amendment
sixty four in Colorado? And I'm telling you why I
(28:46):
think that's even worth talking about. And I will explain
not that anybody cares, but why Taylor Swift is likely
to end her life as a conservative. You're on the
Dan Kepla Show and now back to the Dan Kaplas
Show podcast. Here this exciting moment in world history on
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the verge of this Phase one being delivered on and
hostages being returned, that the bodies of those murdered by
Hamas being returned, and then what comes next is Phase
two and the reconstruction of Gaza with Hamas out politically
and militarily, Texters and Fuego today d A n five
seven seventh through nine, Dan true fact, if the sun
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goes out, we've got five days left to live on earth.
That doesn't sound right to me, Ryan, I would think
it'd be like five hours a lot less. Yes, yeah,
So I'd love to know the sourcing on that. And
then we've been talking about, Okay, President Trump now with
so many from the left now you know, in the media,
none politically that I'm aware of, you know, praising him
(29:55):
for this beyond historic accomplishment, We've been talking about, Okay,
what drives him? And Dan Trump is a winner. He
wants to be the best with whatever he's doing. Bad
sometimes maybe, but good most times. I thank you. I
don't doubt that. But I think it's much much deeper
with him. I mean, how many other people that you
know of, in or out of public life could have
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overcome what he overcame? How many would have even tried
right with all of that aligned against him. So he
was obviously fighting for his own survival after this horrific
lawfare against him. But I think probably the single biggest
driver beyond family from what I've seen, I've never met
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the guy, but would be the nation. I do think
there's a deep, deep, deep gratitude for and commitment to
our country, and he proved it right when he took
out Solomoney because he knew at that point he was
putting himself in grave danger and probably members of his
family in grave danger, and so wouldn't be it all
(30:56):
surprised if one or both of those assassinations somehow had
an Iranian connection. So he proved his love for the
country when he was willing to take out Solomony and
put himself in such physical danger that way. I also
think Ryan, I think that there is this deep, deep, deep,
deep commitment to working people in America, and part of
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that is because working people in America saved first. Working
people in America gave him the presidency in sixteen, and
then saved him in twenty four, where if he had
lost the presidency, you know, the hyenas and the jackals
were lined up the Democratic Party and their apparatus and
their law fair to just destroy him. And so the
working people of America saved him twice. I think he's
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deeply committed to doing everything he can for the working
people of America. Texture says nine to eleven, one of
the matters that drives Trump. I think that just goes
into that bucket of commitment to the nation and protecting
the nation. I just said success prior to Ryan. Great
minds think alike. I'm not really clear on that one
(32:05):
other than yes, does have a great mind. I said
that about Trump, and the Texter agreed with me. Yeah,
and this point Trump forgave Hillary. He could have locked
her up. Yeah, that's a great point. And we've talked
about it that she was obviously guilty, and Trump, for
the good of the nation, you know, was willing to pass.
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Now there were issues about statutes of limitation, double jeopardy,
et cetera, but he did not even try there. Letitia
James was indicted today and we had some interesting sound
don't have time to play it, with very very legitimate claims,
complaints from Peter Navarro about how he was wrongly purp
walked and pursued and taken to the airport in chains,
(32:47):
and then James Comy just got to turn himself in
and Navarro was so so badly mistreated. But my point
on Comy is the reason they didn't purple walk Comy
is those charges are not likely to stick. He is
not likely to be convicted. And Comy has done some evil, evil,
evil things to Trump and some very very harmful things
(33:07):
to this nation. But I think Comy was smart enough
to make sure that his evil acts did not translate
into violations of criminal law. And so from everything I
can see from the outside, I don't think those charges
against him are going to stick. Well, we'll find out together.
It looks like they have more meat on the bone
with the charges against Letitia James. So in the last
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minute or two of the show, Dan I voted for
the guy who's missing part of his ear. No great point,
very poetic way to put it. And we all knew,
I mean we knew before Butler that Trump was going
to win. We talked about it often on the show.
But certainly the way he handled that assassin's bullet and that,
(33:52):
you know, being hit and everything surrounding it, you just
knew for sure the election was over. The minute he
stood up and pumped his fist, said fight, fight, fights.
So great time to be alive, Great time to be alive.
So much positive and so much opportunity now that flows
from the positive things that are happening. So glad we're
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here together to do it. Appreciate the time today. Hope
you're back tomorrow. Thank you Ryan for all you do,
and catch you tomorrow at four on the Dan Kapli
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so much fun, right because of what's happening in the
world and President Trump getting and deserves full credit for it.
It doesn't happen just because of Trump, but it sure
doesn't happen without him. What apparently is about to happen
in the in the Mideast with the hostages being returned
obviously twenty of the forty killed by these monsters of
(00:43):
Hamas and but twenty being returned live, and then of
course phase two of the deal to come. And people say, well,
no guarantee Phase two will happen. Listen once Hamas is
forced to give up the hostages. Phase two, which is
the reconstruction of Gaza on or board headed by Trump,
It's going to happen because the only power whatsoever these
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demons have Hamas is possession of the hostages and they
know once they give those up, they're utterly powerless. And
they're only giving them up now because they're being cut
off by other major Arab sponsors, and they're being cut
off because of pressure from President Trump. But also some
moves President Trump has made, and some moves which is
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included putting certain pressures on the great state of Israel,
which Trump has been a tremendous ally to overall. So
I just think we're living through one of those moments together. Now,
what would you compare it to? I don't know how
old you are, but what would you compare it to
in terms of those great positive times in life that
you've been alive for. Now? We always talk about when
(01:47):
we focus on the bad stuff, right, and I mean
that's news because it's new and it's different, and it's
a problem, and we worry about problems. But certainly you've
lived through some really great moments talking about your personal life,
but great moments in terms of events in your city
and state world. How would you compare what's unfolding here
(02:09):
in the Mid East to that some of those other
great moments had The mayor a beautiful Loveland, Colorado, Jackie
Marshaw on with us. She's under fire from some for
opening city hall to allow some homeless and during a storm,
some saying, hey, there should have been more planning in advance,
more steps taken, et cetera. I had a great conversation
with her, and I came away. I have no idea
whether she's Democrat, Republican, whatever. I came away and pressed
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that everything she did was sincere and done from sincere
human compassion. And she had stayed outside the night before
with the homeless. Can you imagine Mike Johnston doing that,
staying outside the night before with the homeless. How about
Jared Polis? Yeah, Jared Polus, Oh my goodness, we had
pay to see that. You know, you could sell the
(02:54):
rights to that one, but you'll never have the chance to. Oh,
let me do this. I want to go back up
to four Collins. But Don in Colorado Springs has been
so patient. Appreciate that. Don. You're on the Dan caplis
so welcome. Good afternoon, Dan.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I just it's been a while since we talked. And
as I told Ryan I in his last hour, the
reason for the fight with his guest is it all
comes down to the revolution. That's why they want to
take all these kids into the into that alphabet people.
Cause now about the peace deal, I do want to
(03:33):
get to that. And yes, the Democrats, especially in Colorado
want him to fail on that. Then they can try
to capitalize that because if he wins on that.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
You know, that could open up a few cracks.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Even in Colorado and they may not have the win
to their backs as they would would like to.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I mean, I appreciate the calling that, Don, thank you
so much. I'm going to try to get to everybody here.
Don leads us to an interesting point. And I was
in that long trial when the Magellan poll came out
that shows really stunningly low approval numbers for elected Democrats
in Colorado. Poll is at like forty one. I think
Hick and Looper at thirty eight, Bennet at thirty seven.
(04:16):
So worry some stuff from Dems for Dems now, within
that poll, you still see when they talk about a
generic Dem versus a generic Republican for this officeer that
you still see the DEM about ten twelve points had.
But yeah, I think the Dems have to be starting
to worry that, hey, maybe this isn't guaranteed for all
(04:36):
of eternity. You know that they win every office in Colorado.
So the question I'd led with, and I'd love your
take on it, is in your heart of hearts, go
with the first number now that comes to mind. What
percentage of elected Democrats in Colorado poll is Bennett Hick
and Loooper Wiser, you know the crew. What percentage want
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Trump's Mid East piece plan to fail? What percentage of
those elected Democrats in Colorado want it to fail? And
I think the answer to that, whether it's one you'd
share through a text or a call, But the answer
to that, because I would imagine most of us are
coming up with about the same number, which is almost
all of them, if not all of them, just tells
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you so much, right, just tells you so much about
the modern Democratic Party and about where we're at right
now in this nation. And it makes the triumph of
Trump even more impressive. Right, and everybody knows the story,
but to now see the world, the entire world, including
these Democrats who are out to destroy him, personally, destroy
his family, have him die in jail on bogus charges.
(05:42):
They're benefiting from Trump, Their children are benefiting from Trump,
their grandchildren are benefiting from Trump. This is this is
such a giant moment of history now with so many
lessons in it. It's got a beautiful four towns. We'll
talk to Bill. You're on the Dan Kaplis Show. Welcome Bill,
Try Dan.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
When I called it had to do with a homeless
I lived all through that era. I was born in
nineteen twenty eight. I lived all through the depression. And
the key was two areas. One was that you had
to depend a lot on your family, and people moved
all over the country to wherever their family was. It
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could be a distant cousin, it could be a grandparents
at whatever, because this was an on again, off again situation,
because you might have a job this month and maybe
not next month. Father worked for the railroad and they'd
have layoffs, and every time they had a layoff, we
are to Georgia from Kentucky because that's where my grandparents were.
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But this happened for a lot of people. And then
when we were living in Kentucky and we were employed,
our great uncle worked for a railroad somewhere but he
lost his job, so he came to live with us.
The family, extended family is the biggest help. Now. We
(07:05):
were central in railroad town, there were a lot of hoboes.
The thing is, the hoboes were just people down in
their luck. It was mostly men and young boys. And
we never never had any occasion when they were arrested. Yeah,
people they work.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Oh yeah, we used to have We used to have
hoboes come to our back door all the time. At
seventy six and Aberdeen in Chicago. We were about two
blocks from the tracks. And word got out that my
mom was generous and pretty durned pretty, and so we'd
have a long line of hoboes at our back door.
And my experience was the same. All of them were
very cook, courteous, total gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
And yeah, and they would take what they would take,
the food that they would work for, and they would
take the remnants. They would always save some and they
would take it back. So in the evening they would
all converge what was called a hobo jungle, where all
of them came in together and shared over an open fire.
(08:05):
And this was in North Kentucky, right beside the Ohio River.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
How did you end up in Colorado?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
The Air Force?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Oh? Okay, now that jill to be on it, And
forgive me, I don't mean to call you a liar,
But there's no way you're ninety seven. You sound like
you're twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Well, listen, do you try KLZ. I worked with Kim
Munson all a lot. In the last four years. I've
done at least thirty five or maybe forty shows on
American history.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
That's awesome, that is well, we got to do some
of that. Man. They tell everybody the secret to going
as strong as you are at ninety seven.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Well, I always tell people as four factors. One is
a good mother, a good wife, good luck, and good geens.
I never drank it, never smoked. Really, I didn't associate
with people who did.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Wow wow until today.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well, I hope not.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I hope no, no, no, I don't smoke.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I hope most of the habits at your studio are
pretty good.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Oh, I wouldn't say that. I don't smoke, and I
did just have my second beer the year after we
were blessed to win that trial. You sound like a
really cool guy, Bill. I hope you call us off
and we'd love to have you on.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Hey, I lived in Germany and I couldn't stand beer.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Interesting think about that. Yeah, you had a lot of friends.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
No, everybody else in the family drink beer.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
But it Bill appreciate the call man. How cool is that? Ryan?
How old did he sound to you? Really?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
What he called? I would have said around seventy. Yeah,
I would have put him. I would have put him
at forty five, forty five. He's gonna love hearing that. No,
but isn't that one of the big things that's happened
in life, I mean, during our lifetimes, is how dramatically
the age paradigm is shifted. It really has, because you've
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got so many people now who are seventies, like what
fifty five? I mean, unless you're Joe Biden obviously, John Hickenlooper. No,
look at Trump. Yeah, oh the machine got total machine.
Make sure you want to try diet coke? Have you
ever had a diet CAx?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
A lot of diet cokes. They're not good for you.
They don't taste that good. He loves them, though. He's
got a button for him in the office, a red button.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
You know that the funny thing is not to be
self serving. How often do I say that each day?
Not to be self serving, but but because I do
have people ask me, because I have one talent, which
is I don't need to sleep and I people say,
how does that happen? This is set down to me.
(10:52):
I think it's just that I don't drink. You know,
I drink water, that's the other tale and electrolytes. But
I drink like seventeen beers and not be affected. Isn't
Isn't that a wasted gift? Really? Truly, I could and
I've had to prove that on occasion. What beer did
you drink after the trial when everyone, Oh, no, no,
I thought you were talking. I'm seventeen. That was a
(11:16):
that was a course light. Okay, yeah, I'll always remember
that beautiful spot in Glenwood Springs and just thank you
God toast everybody. But I've had to prove it a
couple of times in my life where I just have
to sit down and say, okay, I got to prove
it to you. And I can just drink and drink
and drink, and everybody around he's falling over drunk and
I'm drinking and drinking. It has no effect on me,
(11:38):
feeding that Irish stereotype there dad, Ye, well there's no
effect on me. But I don't do it. You're on
the Dan Capla Show. And now back to the Dan
Kaplas Show podcast of the Ledger.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
I know you and I have been in meetings before
together speaking with Arab leaders and Arab diplomats who say
the same thing.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Only Donald Trump can resolve this issue.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
He understands us, we understand him, which again very unique
that you're hearing that not only from the people on
the streets of Israel, but also hearing that from Arab
diplomats and leaders.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah, that's Joe Scarborough MSNBC. That's how undeniable and beyond
historic this is. And so at this point, with the
Israeli cabinet approving Phase one of the peace deal, now
a timeline kicks in. And so when you play that out,
it means all of the prisoners, the hostages, those kidnapped
(12:45):
by the demons from Hamas will be returned, about twenty
eight murdered and about twenty still alive, you know, will
be returned within about seventy two hours is the expectation
right now is local time, probably Monday into early Tuesdays,
and Israel will be pulling back to agreed upon lines
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and then Phase two will involve the reconstruction of Gaza
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Just curious, how does this moment compare to other great
moments of history and hope that you've lived through text
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elective Democrats do you think want this monumental deal to fail?
And I believe elected democrats, I believe virtually all normal,
just kind of Democrat members of society. I would think
a fairly small percentage. A judge, a federal judge, has
temporarily halted deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago, as
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I predicted the other day, I would expect this will
make its way quickly up the chain, and that probably
a circuit will get involved quickly, and the US Supreme
Court probably soon after that. So should be an interesting
test in Chicago there, Dan, one hundred year old Euston
lady said bacon and whiskey were in her diet. Dan,
(14:14):
I believe that's what we're talking about. That we had
a guy called the show in the last segment who
says he's ninety seven, he sounds forty seven, And so
we're just talking about how age has changed so dramatically, right,
I don't know what age you are, but I do
think in general, you know their exceptions, but in general,
I think seventy is probably like fifty five used to be.
(14:35):
And what do you think forty is? I mean there
was a time forty was considered old. That's more like
over the hill twenty five maybe twenty five to thirty.
And what about some like genuinely old people, Like you've
got some eighty five year olds who are more like
seventy five year olds. Yeah, it's just it's kind of
(14:55):
a cool thing to see. How long would you want
to live? Ryan? I mean, if you could decent healths,
you still aged right, but you could be in bodies
functioning pretty well, your mind's good. It's not like your
Benjamin Button and you're going to stay like you are
right now forever. How long would you want to live?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
My dad's all right. Grandpa's best friend lived to be
one hundred and four, and he just died a few
years ago, and.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
He was nimble.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
I was at his one hundred birthday party and there
were guests of his that were much younger than him
coming there with walkers and wheelchairs with air oxygen tanks.
He's just showing me his class of nineteen thirty three
graduation yearbook.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
From his high school.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
And he got his foot caught on one of the
plastic chairs at one of the tables there where were gathered,
and on one foot he hopped and he kicked the.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Chair away one hundred years. That's impressive. And if I
could live like Carl Kepler, then I'll take a hundred. Yeah, Carl,
you're the man. And you know, unless there's like a
disease process, big injury, whatever, I think so much of
it's just mental because I remember being around this group
of guys, wasn't that long ago, and you know, I
was just meeting him to play some golf and they
were all turning like sixty five ish or so, and
(16:04):
they had just mentally checked out. It's okay, okay, they're
sixty five, it's time to retire, it's time to do this,
time to do that. I think they just aged themselves.
Texter Dad, I believe Hick, Bennett, and Johnson could all
have been Republicans. They were simply groomed by Democrats. This
is one of the most profound interesting texts we've received.
Because I am a firm believer and I'm not saying
this in any red versus blue kind of way. This
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is just from the heart and the mind. Firm believer
that ninety nine point nine percent of all Democrats know
what they're supporting is fundamentally wrong. Not everything, but the
big things like abortion right. They have just decided to
make that trade for power. And so I think it
is fun to talk about which prominent Democrats could be
(16:50):
great successful conservatives, because I do believe most of them
are just living a life. They don't really believe this
stuff they're saying. And not Bennett, because Michael Bennett, I'm
sure he's good at some things and probably a real
good family man, but he's just very very bad at
elective office, just like an electoral blob kick. Yeah. No,
(17:14):
I think Hick could be a more natural Republican. Mike Johnson,
same thing. Johnson used to be a reasonable guy. We
talked on air all the time, we had a lot
of fun. We'd disagree on some things. If he had
been and he I think he's probably much more likely
to be a conservative at heart, and he's just made
these trades for power. If he had just, say, been
(17:36):
a conservative and true to conservative ideals, he'd be a
superstar with a big future. As it stands right now,
he has very very little room to move in the
Democratic Party. Don't you think same thing with Wiser. I
can't believe Wiser believes that lefty crab hey, that lefty stuff.
You know, he was truly conservative. I think he'd be
(17:57):
an enormously successful conservative and now he's kind of stuck
in that party. You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast,
thank you to get it?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I mean, let's we could go through all the number
of reasons why he shouldn't get it.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
He's gonna invade Greenland, the rights he wants to take
away from.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Press pot talking about invading Greenland.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Billy origin story of this is.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
When Obama won the Nobel Prize and the perception on
the right was he did not deserve it.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Perception on the give to him. So we could stop
talking about broke. I know. It's yeah, it's like, do
you know that the actual textbook definition of sushi? Mmmm?
What the word sushi actually means? No malfunction. It means
the grill's broken. But that's Megan Hayes, former Biden White
(18:57):
House Director of Message.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
And I remember when you could go wrong when the
Obama Nobel Peace Prize thing happened. Even Barack Obama himself like, look,
I didn't do anything. I just got elected.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
He just got elected. Yeah, it's well he did. This
is hilarious because now they'll have to give it to
Trump and some of the cool things you've seeing right now,
to see that aeriel of this big field in farmland
in Israel where they've carved out, give Trump the Nobel.
And then I think it was the major Jerusalem newspaper
(19:29):
today had the profile of Donald Trump, you know, his
head and then they had the picture of all the
hostages in there and the headline was Trump is bringing
them home. I mean, just really really cool stuff. And
to the credit credit of Scarborough and others on the
left today for stepping up and acknowledging this goes beyond historic.
(19:50):
So what a cool moment to be alive, just asking folks,
what are some of the other just great historic things
you've been alive for. I mean, we we talk about
the negative stuff all the time, right, it's like a
magnet that we're just drawn to it, but because we
want to fix it and we don't want to just
ignore it. But there is there are these big positive moments.
(20:12):
Dan phil Wiser came from pure legacy academia. He's a
true leftist. Yeah, you're probably right about that. All I'm
saying is was any of these Democrat candidates would be
bad in office because of their ideology. But I'm saying
that Wiser is obviously so much more skilled, so much
more talented, so much better qualified to serve as a governor.
(20:35):
Not on ideology. Not on ideology, I wouldn't vote for him,
I wouldn't want him as governor. But if you're comparing
him to Bennett, he's just light years Bennett better, which means,
of course that Bennett will be their nominy. We're talking
earlier about kind of a bad sign for the Wiser
campaign when his top advisor's wife is now supporting Bennett.
His wife happens to be an elected member of Congress,
(20:58):
Brittany Petterson. I think that's a sure sign of impending
electoral death there. But there are other signs of that
as well. Just so ironic, because there can't be one
honest person out there who would sit there and say, hey,
Michael Bennett's really going to be a great governor, and
here's why. So let's hope the GOP can get a
great nominee and pull it off in that race, which
(21:21):
goes to another text that I have, which is here.
It is Dan, I know this is kind of off
subject today. Hey, nothing is ever off subject on this show. Dan,
what are your thoughts on Victor Marx running for governor?
I'm intrigued trying to get him on the show. Would
love to just get him in studio and do a
good long interview. So I always love it. I enjoy
(21:44):
it when somebody comes in from outside of politics and
they're interesting and there's a buzz around them. I love
that part of politics. I think that Trump has done
so much at this point, is so much could in
a lasting way for this country, beyond the obvious, including
(22:05):
just opening the door wide to people from outside of
politics to come in and run for anything, including the presidency,
which makes total sense, right, I mean, what kind of
nation would be dumb enough to say, oh, no, our
pool of people for elective office is going to be
this small, little, narrow group that's already in elective office.
That's just goofy.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Even Caitlin Collins, hardly a friend to the President, from CNN,
in a recent interview was just glowing about the fact
that Donald Trump's story could arise.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
At any moment in any venue. He could be having just.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
A real matter of fact gathering in the Oval office
and it would turn into a press conference and he
might make news.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
And it's very exciting for her to deal with a
president who's that accessible. Oh yeah, and that fearless. She
wouldn't want to say that, but again, and you look
at the great figures throughout history, and when we say fearless,
what we're really talking about is people who aren't going
to let their fears stop. Because everybody who's human is
going to have some fear. But who is going to
be fearless in the sense said, Okay, that's not going
(23:06):
to stop me. And Trump is obviously utterly fearless and
the reason he's won twice. But yeah, he's not afraid
of these lefty journalists. He'll sit down and he'll talk
to any of them.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
By the way, yeah, we were talking about this earlier.
The latest indictment Letitia James on mortgage fraud related charges.
The irony, of course, is she brought those totally bogus
fraud charges against Trump and put him and his family
through hell and into financial peril, etc. All to punish
(23:40):
him for his politics. And as we predicted it would,
it backfired on the left as it should have. And
how fascinating is this Ryan And it's really kind of
biblical that now all these lefties who tried to destroy him,
really they wanted him to die in jail, destroy his family,
destroy him all financially, all of those left are going
(24:00):
to benefit from Trump's successes. Their children will, their grand
children will with the you know, beyond historic nature of
this piece deal in the mid East, and eventually Trump
will get there in Ukraine. It's just going to take
a while. Dan, I have liberal friends. They say Trump
is pro Israel. I say, bull blank, he's pro American.
(24:22):
Every thing he does shows he is pro American. And
bb Netanya who knows. He does not own Trump by
any means, nobody owns Trump. What do you think I'd
love your taking this. What do you think truly at
the core drives Trump? What do you think at the
core drives him? You know, yeah, he is not owned.
(24:46):
He is not owned. And I take great pride in
say not that anybody cares or it makes any difference.
It doesn't but I just personally, I take great satisfaction
if it all ended today. You know, one of the
things I take great satisfaction and is I've proven it.
I've never allowed myself to be a prisoner of any
political party. God made us to be much more than that.
(25:08):
And I've been a Democrat, I've been an un affiliated.
I'm a Republican. I expect, hopefully eighty years from now,
I will die a Republican. But yeah, I've never allowed
myself to be imprisoned by a political party. I don't
think that anybody or anything owns Trump.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
No.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I think he is addicted to success, to achievement and accomplishment,
and in this instance, making deals. He loves making deals.
He loves getting people together. You're going to do this,
You're going to do that, We're going.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
To make a deal. You know, he brings people together
in that way.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
And it's I was editing this sound for you, Dan,
and these normal adversaries of his, even like Martha rattis
no Scarborough's ignacious.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
They had to admit that this is what he does.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
It's his mill u, it's his wheelhouse, and it defines
him in many ways.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, what I all of which is true. Yeah, play
that Martha sound it. Stop talking about it because it
is so obnoxious to get it? Hey, can I mean,
what can we maybe do this? We work out of
this gleaming studio in this beautiful building, blessed to be
on this tremendous worldwide network of iHeart and this computer. Truly,
(26:21):
it's like a two dollars compute. You'd like to punt it?
Can we just pull our resources? What would it cost us?
Like forty bucks?
Speaker 4 (26:29):
I put a trouble ticket in for the trouble ticket.
But you know what I mean, that's what. Let's just
step on it.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
You want to go up, up and down on it?
Have you seen the movie No Oh, you Gotta Okay?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Tell us about the role President Trump played and bringing
all of this about, well, Robin, there's no question that
if this goes as planned, if we see those remaining
hostages freed in Israel begin its withdrawal, it is a
remarkable achievement and President Trump most certainly deserves credit for
his role. He has done this through diplomacy, pressure, and
the sheer force of his personality and persistence. He dispatched
(27:03):
diplomats again and again, made threats just in the last
few days to Moss say again, if they did not
sign the deal, all hell would break loose, and they
had the bombing of Iran as an example of that.
But perhaps most importantly, he pushed Benjamin Ettanyahu and weighs
his predecessor and others.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Us from Martha Radits, it's that's cool, and it's times
like this you can tell, okay, who does have some
intellectual honesty left? Some on the left are so far
gone they're hopeless, but you're seeing today's Scarborough Radits ignacious. Yeah,
there's some hope out there, which brings me back to
(27:45):
what prominent left He is most likely to become a Republican,
to become a conservative John Fetterman. Ah, but that's a
given right. I don't know. But he'd probably go independent.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Yeah, but yeah, he'd be more right laning than the
other independence in the Senate, Angus King, Bernie.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Sanders, I had no doubt about it. But prominent lefty,
I think it's a no brainer. It's Taylor Swift, don't
you think, wow? Off the top of rose in Oh? No,
but isn't that pretty obvious? No? Okay, I thought it was. No.
I think it's a hot take, but not in the
negative sense of that. No, I just it's expected at
(28:24):
this point. It is expected at this point. Hey, I
want to come back play some more of this hot
sound from today surrounding this beyond historic piece. Deal talk
to you about some local things as well, including is
it a pipe dreamer? Do you think we can get
Michael Bloomberg to donate big, big money to repeal Amendment
sixty four in Colorado? And I'm telling you why I
(28:46):
think that's even worth talking about. And I will explain
not that anybody cares, but why Taylor Swift is likely
to end her life as a conservative. You're on the
Dan Kepla Show and now back to the Dan Kaplas
Show podcast. Here this exciting moment in world history on
(29:10):
the verge of this Phase one being delivered on and
hostages being returned, that the bodies of those murdered by
Hamas being returned, and then what comes next is Phase
two and the reconstruction of Gaza with Hamas out politically
and militarily, Texters and Fuego today d A n five
seven seventh through nine, Dan true fact, if the sun
(29:33):
goes out, we've got five days left to live on earth.
That doesn't sound right to me, Ryan, I would think
it'd be like five hours a lot less. Yes, yeah,
So I'd love to know the sourcing on that. And
then we've been talking about, Okay, President Trump now with
so many from the left now you know, in the media,
none politically that I'm aware of, you know, praising him
(29:55):
for this beyond historic accomplishment, We've been talking about, Okay,
what drives him? And Dan Trump is a winner. He
wants to be the best with whatever he's doing. Bad
sometimes maybe, but good most times. I thank you. I
don't doubt that. But I think it's much much deeper
with him. I mean, how many other people that you
know of, in or out of public life could have
(30:15):
overcome what he overcame? How many would have even tried
right with all of that aligned against him. So he
was obviously fighting for his own survival after this horrific
lawfare against him. But I think probably the single biggest
driver beyond family from what I've seen, I've never met
(30:36):
the guy, but would be the nation. I do think
there's a deep, deep, deep gratitude for and commitment to
our country, and he proved it right when he took
out Solomoney because he knew at that point he was
putting himself in grave danger and probably members of his
family in grave danger, and so wouldn't be it all
(30:56):
surprised if one or both of those assassinations somehow had
an Iranian connection. So he proved his love for the
country when he was willing to take out Solomony and
put himself in such physical danger that way. I also
think Ryan, I think that there is this deep, deep, deep,
deep commitment to working people in America, and part of
(31:20):
that is because working people in America saved first. Working
people in America gave him the presidency in sixteen, and
then saved him in twenty four, where if he had
lost the presidency, you know, the hyenas and the jackals
were lined up the Democratic Party and their apparatus and
their law fair to just destroy him. And so the
working people of America saved him twice. I think he's
(31:43):
deeply committed to doing everything he can for the working
people of America. Texture says nine to eleven, one of
the matters that drives Trump. I think that just goes
into that bucket of commitment to the nation and protecting
the nation. I just said success prior to Ryan. Great
minds think alike. I'm not really clear on that one
(32:05):
other than yes, does have a great mind. I said
that about Trump, and the Texter agreed with me. Yeah,
and this point Trump forgave Hillary. He could have locked
her up. Yeah, that's a great point. And we've talked
about it that she was obviously guilty, and Trump, for
the good of the nation, you know, was willing to pass.
(32:26):
Now there were issues about statutes of limitation, double jeopardy,
et cetera, but he did not even try there. Letitia
James was indicted today and we had some interesting sound
don't have time to play it, with very very legitimate claims,
complaints from Peter Navarro about how he was wrongly purp
walked and pursued and taken to the airport in chains,
(32:47):
and then James Comy just got to turn himself in
and Navarro was so so badly mistreated. But my point
on Comy is the reason they didn't purple walk Comy
is those charges are not likely to stick. He is
not likely to be convicted. And Comy has done some evil, evil,
evil things to Trump and some very very harmful things
(33:07):
to this nation. But I think Comy was smart enough
to make sure that his evil acts did not translate
into violations of criminal law. And so from everything I
can see from the outside, I don't think those charges
against him are going to stick. Well, we'll find out together.
It looks like they have more meat on the bone
with the charges against Letitia James. So in the last
(33:31):
minute or two of the show, Dan I voted for
the guy who's missing part of his ear. No great point,
very poetic way to put it. And we all knew,
I mean we knew before Butler that Trump was going
to win. We talked about it often on the show.
But certainly the way he handled that assassin's bullet and that,
(33:52):
you know, being hit and everything surrounding it, you just
knew for sure the election was over. The minute he
stood up and pumped his fist, said fight, fight, fights.
So great time to be alive, Great time to be alive.
So much positive and so much opportunity now that flows
from the positive things that are happening. So glad we're
(34:14):
here together to do it. Appreciate the time today. Hope
you're back tomorrow. Thank you Ryan for all you do,
and catch you tomorrow at four on the Dan Kapli
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