Dan reads texts and takes calls from listeners relaying the best advice they ever received from their dads ahead of Father's Day on Sunday.
President Trump warned Iran they had 60 days to strike a deal on their nuclear program - or else. The 'or else' happened with Israel launching comprehensive, devastating aerial attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities on Day 61.
President Trump warned Iran they had 60 days to strike a deal on their nuclear program - or else. The 'or else' happened with Israel launching comprehensive, devastating aerial attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities on Day 61.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Kaplis and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Kaplis 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. Boy, thank you, Lord.
I'm so grateful to be alive at this moment because
I think it will go down as one of the
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most important moments in human history, now where you rank it.
Certainly in any of our lifetimes, it's going to be
a top two to three moment. But Israel Israel, David
versus Goliath, Israel taking on evil Israel in the process
we hope of taking out the Iranian nuclear program. We
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really hope Israel's in the process of leading the people
of Iran to their freedom through an overthrow of that evil,
vicious regime. And think about just imagine, just imagine the
world with a free Iran and with our great ally Israel,
the amazing Israeli people protected. Think about how that whole
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region could thrive. This this is one of the most
exciting opportunities that certainly we've seen in my lifetime. Obviously,
there's going to be a lot of pain ahead. It's
it's not a movie, it's not a TV show, it's
not going to be straight lined, but it's off to
a great start. And it really is biblical. I mean,
when you think about it, think about this, this small,
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tiny nation geographically and a relatively small number of people,
yet surviving against all of these forces determined to literally
kill every last one of them. And this people with
this brilliance and ingenuity and courage, and what it's any
people that's able to plant hundreds of explosives in the
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enemy's pagers. And then what we've already heard Israel has
been able to pull off in terms of infiltrating Iran
and the military structure, et cetera. Before this attack. This
this attack can sell defense. Yeah, if you're one of
these evil leaders of Iran right now, you can have
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zero belief that you're going to live any longer than
Israel wants you to live, right because you've got to
believe right now that the person next to you, no
matter who they are, may be masad. You've got to
believe that you can be killed anytime Israel wants to
kill you. And hopefully that creates that creates the environment
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the scenario where again, the great people of Iran can
overthrow their captors, and that would be the very best
ending to all of this mission A. Yeah, there cannot
be a nuclear Iran, that's clear. Can you imagine if
Iran had nukes, all these missiles raining down in Israel,
you can bet the day would come soon when some
of those would have nuclear tips on them. As Netanyahu said, hey,
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when you're that, the Israeli people have learned, the Jewish
people have learned when your enemy says that it's going
to destroy you, believe them, believe them. So we'll take
some calls and text and above all keep you up
to the minute. But I think you know, if you've
been monitoring the news, if you listen to a show
like this, then you have been monitoring the news that
right now you have Israel on the attack in Iran,
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and you have Iran attacking Israel with hundreds and hundreds
of missiles and drones, et cetera. So latest report Israel's
military headquarters hit. Obviously, Iran has been targeting I shouldn't
say around the regime right, has been targeting civilian targets,
apartment buildings, et cetera. Israel has said that a crosses
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a red line from which there is no return. And
one thing about Israel. It walks the talk. It walks
the talk. There's no bomb bast Israel tells you it's
going to do something. It does it. Three oh three,
is someone three eight two five five text d An
five seven seven three nine and the Friday before Father's
Day and Mother's Day favorite shows of the year because
we do the best advice your father ever gave you,
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so share that collective wisdom and can't wait to hear
from you, Dan, Dad, all he said, keep the windshield
clean outside and inside. He would always wash my windshield
for me before he hit the roadback to college and elsewhere. See,
that's the cool thing. We've got this mix right of
the philosophical and the practical. Maybe we should have two
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categories on these calls and texts, But that's great practical
advice because you have an awful lot of crashes and
stuff caused by dirty windshields. Yeah, good advice. Good advice there, Dan,
I don't want to sound like Bender from the Breakfast Club.
I'm not sure that reference. The only real advice that
I remember my dad giving me is that if I
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was going to get hit by a car. Make sure
I got hit very hard. Okay, Dan, I'm trying to
picture that advice being delivered. Would it have been an anger?
Got to go back.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You were twenty seven years old, if my math is correct,
when The Breakfast Flip Club came out.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
It was one of the big hit movies of the eighties.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
You saw Caddyshack millions of times, probably millions, yes, but
you never watch The Breakfast Club, not once.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
You know what's probably an easier approach to this, my friend,
what's that? Just to name the movies I have seen?
You're probably talking one hand, Okay, Wizard of Oz as
a kid in class, Caddy Shack for my life, obviously
I was Danny Noon.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
You were literally Danny And if it's true that the
whole movie Caddy Shack, it was Bill Murray's brother and
I were competing for the same Caddy scholarship about the
same time the other scholarship, And yeah was Danny noonan.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yep, and and Dumb and Dummer. So we got Wizard
of Oz, Caddy Shack, Dumb and Dummer, Animal House, A
Saving Private Ryan, Okay, Passion of the Christ.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Try to think like the Dan cappl was top ten
all time, well the only ten.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
All right, let's go to the front lines. Yeah, Dennis
and Morrison, you're on the dan Kepla show. I've been busy.
How you doing, my frianks for taking my claw. Welcome.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I'd like to tell you about the greatest advice my dad.
Thank you never gave me, didn't give me twist and
A long time ago in the seventies, I was nineteen,
I had a motorcycle for sale. I was getting married
nine hundred dollars. My dad was the head of the
fraud department for La County District Attorneys Office.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
He's guy.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
So we're in our garage and a guy comes up
and he takes my bike for a ride, and my
dad's standing in his work bench and the guy goes,
I really like it. He goes, how about if I
pay you one hundred dollars a month? And my dad
told he used to tell us stories, especially when we
were camping, about all the suckers that he ran into,
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you know, in his career. And I didn't need the
money desperately, and he said, I'll mail it to you
on the first So the next month, I wait by
my bailbox every day. Nothing another another month.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah, nothing.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Well I found I drove to the guy's house. I
had his address, his landlord. His landlord says he's a bum.
He got evicted. My dad found my bike in Monterey
Park at the bike shop in an accident. The fork
was bent in and it cost me about five hundred
and you know, we never talked about it.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, that's a good dad. No, I told you so.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
He knew I was a sucker. And uh, I can
still picture from standing there in his work pinks.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, that's a great story, man.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
And really quick. When I went I went to college
at cal Poly Pomona, and all my friends were Iranian
and they were my bachelor party in Las Vegas, Will
with three Iranian friends. Yeah. The most wonderful people. Yeah,
oh yeah in the world. Yeah. And I hope they
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get their their freedom.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Back, their freedom, amen. And can you imagine a thriving
around like that. I would make it a visit as
soon as it was open. Hey, thank you man. Appreciate
that call, Alexa text remembering all the great fathers who
passed away, especially in the last year obviously our thoughts
with Kelly. Yeah, and as Ryan said, earlier. Everybody knows that.
Who's listening, right, If you've experienced it, it doesn't get
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any easier. It did just I mean, it may get
less hard, but it doesn't get any easier. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, I have a question real quick before we go
to break here, Dan, about you and your father. And
this was the interesting part to me about when you
became a father and lucky for you your dad was still around.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Oh that was we were so fortunate dad right as
a grandfather.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
But what he observed of you being a father and
whether you went back to him and going, you know what, Dad,
you were right about X y Z something like that.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, you know, And thank you for asking. But but
to the extent I've been a decent father, it's all
because of watching him. Sure, And when I think about
the mistakes I've made, they're all mine, that they're not
mistakes he made, because I honestly can't think of any
mistakes he made. Oh you know, yeah, I mean, and
I get it, I get how lucky I've been. And then,
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like everybody, I'm sure you'd think the same thing. Because
Ryan was talking earlier about how his dad all the
different things he would do with him and teaching him
to fish and play ball and all this and that.
But think about where you would be without your dad. Oh,
totally different life. I think about that all the time.
Where do you think you'd be?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Not here, not here, not doing this, not nearly as
successful having that rock solid male presence in our household.
I mean, it was the magnet. It was the anchor
for everything that went on. And I have him to
credit for a lot of that.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Oh yeah, yeah. And I truly have no doubt in
my mind. Without my mom and dad, and they are
such an amazing combo, I have no doubt I'd be
in some kind of institution. And then it's just a
matter of what category, yeah, and who would have put
me there and when? But I'm just thinking, yeah, yeah,
So I just you know, this is a positive segment.
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I don't want to get all all negative. But I
just can't imagine. You see all these success stories with
people who didn't have good parents, and it blows me away.
I'm in awe. It's so hard even with the best
parents in the world, like I hadn't some of us hat,
but can you imagine without good parents? My heart breaks
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to the people who didn't. And then the people who
still succeed despite that. I just yeah, I'm in total
lawe three out three someone three eight, two five five.
You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
And then he went on to say this, Dana bash
Jarn should have listened to me when I said, you know,
I gave them. I don't know if you know this,
but I gave them a six day warning, and today
is day sixty one. And then he said they, meaning Iran,
should now come to the table to make a deal
before it's too late. And then he said something really noteworthy.
(11:14):
He said, the people I was dealing with are dead,
the hardliners, to which I just wanted to underscore. So
what you're saying is Israel has now killed the people
who you were dealing with. And he said, very sarcastically,
they didn't die of the flu.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
They didn't die of COVID.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Wow, one of the great lines ever. They didn't die
of COVID. Right, So yeah, boy, again, the whole world
is going to owe Israel a great debt. And let's
pray that Israel succeeds in knocking out the nuclear weapons
program and in softening up this evil regime for a
revolution by the people to take back their nation. What
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a beautiful future it'll be for the world and our
great alli is real if this succeeds, and I believe
that it will succeed at least in knocking out the
nuclear weapons program. And boy, you would think it would
set up a revolution, right Obviously the people of Iran
have wanted to revolt for a long time. And isn't
it so interesting? Right now we get all these images right,
all these images off the streets in Israel Tel Aviv
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are real target right now? Where are the images off
the streets in Iran?
Speaker 7 (12:23):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I mean, that's just that's just what a captive nation
looks like. Three oh three someone three eight two five
five text d A N five seven seven three nine. Hey,
this sound doesn't fit anything we're talking about today. It's
just the greatest sound I have ever heard. So this
is the Brevard County Sheriff in Florida delivering a message
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to protesters.
Speaker 8 (12:46):
So I'm gonna I'm gonna break it down for you,
all right. And if somebody wants to know what I
mean by turn violent, all right, this is what I mean.
If you resist law florders, you're going to jail. Let
me be very clear about that. If you block an
intersection or a roadway in Brevard County, you are going
to jail. If you flee arrest, you're going to go
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to jail tired, because we are going to run you
down and put you in jail. If you try to
mob rule a car in Brevard County, gathering around it
refusing to let the driver leave in our county, you're
most likely going to get run over and dragged across
the street. If you spit on us, you're going to
the hospital and in jail. If you hit one of us,
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you're going to the hospital and jail and most likely
get bitten by one of our big, beautiful dogs that
we have here. If throw a brick, a fire bomb,
or point a gun at one of our deputies, we
will be notifying your family where to collect your remains
at because we will kill you graveyard dead. We're not
going to play. This has got to stop. You're watching
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what's taking place out there. You're seeing police officers that
are being attacked, being spit on, being put in harm's
way just for doing their jobs. You're seeing ice agents
that are being targeted for doing their jobs, and you're
seeing obstructionists that are doing all of this standing in
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the way of law and order.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I think he could get elected in a lot of
counties in America. I bet he could get elected in
a lot of blue counties by a lot of people
who'd never admit they voted for. But they want him
on that wall. They need him on that wall. Three
h three seOne, three eight two five five of the
number best advice your father ever gave you? And on
our Father's Day, Dan, our family is in the movie
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theater industry. Of course, the show must go on, but
Dad use that phrase for everything in our life. I
love it.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
If I was the father of an Iranian nuclear worker
or nuclear scientist, I would recommend early retirement. That would
be great advice.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I just read an interesting article about Israel attacking around
fulfilling prophecy from Jeremiah forty nine thirty four to thirty nine,
Break the Bows of Ilam, Dan. The best advice I
got from my dad was when I got my first
supervisor job at the age of twenty four, and he
told me, don't forget where you came from, and your
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subordinates are more important than you are. That is wonderful advice.
Dan song for your Dad Watching You by Rodney Atkins.
So I got that one teed up because I mentioned
earlier that, you know, when I was thinking about it
getting ready for the show today. The best advice my
dad ever gave me, and he gave me a lot
of you know, spoken advice, but the best advice he
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ever gave me was unspoken, and it came down to
watch me, watch me, and that was the best advice
because just watching him in action. Yeah, that that was
the greatest advice instruction that you could ever have. And
as we all know, right, it's it's a million times
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more impactful than any words, is just people's actions. And
I remember how much trouble they got me into at
the convent, my friend when I was being detained for
one of many transgressions. Damn, and I'm sitting there and
I remember she's a saint, sister and felice, God rest
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her soul, but she had brought me over there for
some kind of abuse that I'd engaged in class and
being held against my will. And I remember her telling me,
and this was in a rare smart elec phase for me,
but I remember her telling me you'll never be half
the man your father is, and I said I'd settle
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for half o whack. I was not rewarded for the
good humor that was well timed, though, way yeah, was
it worth it?
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
It was, but mainly because I was rescued by my
mom shortly thereafter. Because I had been one of the
rare asians when I was falsely accused. Normally I was
correctly accused, but I had been falsely accused of writing
Michelle Hanrahan as a sex pot on her book cover. Now, first,
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I had no idea what that even meant.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Second, it was definitely not my handwriting, uh huh. But
when sister and Felice made me submit to a handwriting sample,
I refused based on my constitutional This guy ahead of
his time, well not effectively.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
May I suggest a hypothesis as to what actually happened?
Michelle wrote it herself, blamed.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
You could have been Yes, that was I think the
way boys and girls meant in those days. Did she
have a crush on you? Hard to believe, but she attractive?
Oh yeah, yeah, it's a fifth grader. Well I remember
those signs. But no, sister and felice. It just a
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true saint and tough love which is often required for
me three or three someone three, two, five, five, text
D and five, seven, seventh through nine. Keeping you up
to a minute on this fight for the freedom of
the world, which Israel is waging for their own survival,
but on all of our behalf. And then we'll mix
it in with the best advice your father ever gave you.
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You're on the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's cool, that's kill. We're doing the best advice your
father ever gave you. And on our Father's Day, obviously
both mother and Father's Day. We get so much collective
wisdom from this vast audience. And obviously we're talking about
one of the most important I think will go down
as when it's done, one of the most important developments
in modern world history, with this existential battle of good
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versus evil, as Israel stands up to the evil Iranian regime,
tries to free the Iranian people, but first and foremost
preserve preserve the great State of Israel. So Israel doing
the entire world an enormous favor, and it's not going
to be easy. It's going to be very painful. Appears
to be off to a superb start in prayers for
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our great Ali Israel and innocence on both sides who
will die. We know any innocence in Iran who die
are dying because of it evil regime that has put
them in harm's way. Is Israel simply fights for its
survival and the innocents who are killed in Israel, the
blood is on the hands of the evil Iranian regime.
And you can be sure that Israel. Israel walks the talk.
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When Israel says something, Israel acts on it. And Israel
said that the intentional targeting of civilians in Israel which
is going on by the Iranian regime right now, crosses
a red line and that the punishment will be unimaginable.
Israel is not given overstatements. So I think we all
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know what is about to come. Let's go out to
beautiful Palmer Lake. We'll talk with John. You're on the
Dan Kapla shall welcome John.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Hey, Thanks Dan. I lost my dad when I was five.
My mom. My mom was widowed with four boys living,
and number five was in the womb. Oh Man after
a couple of years of her having to sell the
farm and we had to spend a couple of delightful
years in the projects in al Equippa, Pennsylvania. Mom found
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the Builton Hershey School in Hershey, Pennsylvania, founded by mister
Hershey of the candy bar name. Anyway, my two older
brothers and I went there, and though we didn't have
advice from Dad, we had a house father who was
six foot six and well over three hundred pounds. His
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hobby happened to be singing as an operatic tenor wow.
But anyway, I remember very clearly my English teacher, who
was a bachelor. He would take his summers and go
to Britain, go to Oxford and Cambridge and take short courses,
and he'd come back and one day he stuck his
finger in my face and he said, John, you got
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to go to England. At the same time or the
following year, my German teacher, who was formerly of the home,
had become a military policeman in Berlin for the Berlin Brigade.
He said much the same. He says, John, you got
to go to Germany because you're good at the language.
And I heard you have family over there. So anyway,
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I got drafted, stayed twenty five years in the army,
went from private to lieutenant colonel wow. And I did
make it. I did make it to England on a
very secretive mission to fight the nuclear warfare for the
un US European Command. And I did make it to Germany,
and I did find my family. And it was just
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totally unique. And if I didn't have those men in
my life and the structure of the school, it would
have been insane.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
What an amazing story. And did you say, five of
you when your dad passed away? When you were five?
Speaker 7 (22:24):
He passed away, he passed away. I was five, Mom,
We had four, There were four of us living at
the time, and then number five was in the womb.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I cannot even imagine that. Your mom, What a saint
she must be.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Oh yes. And then all three of us that went
to the boys Home ended up doing at least one
tour in the military. Two of us were drafted to Vietnam,
and the oldest brother had gotten out a couple of
years earlier, and he did his time in the Marine
Corps and then ended up being the vice president of
communications for the American Trucking Association. I thought of him
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last week when I heard you talking about yeah truckers.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Yeah, so hey Hey. Let me ask you, John, this
is one of the coolest stories I've ever heard. What
kind of father are you? How did that whole experience,
that hardship and then these other men stepping into your life?
How did that affect you as a dad?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Well?
Speaker 7 (23:23):
I did earn a father, and I'm sorry, a stepfather.
When I was a junior in high school, I could
have left the boys home, but I made the choice
to stay there and graduate and so forth. And then
the Hershey Organization had a junior college that was free
to me, And that was the best thing about it
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was we us boys were allowed to sit next to
girls and talk to because the only girls we had
had for those seven years were the cows we milked
the first thing in the morning and then late afternoon
after school. But anyway, it happens that I bore three
children and they all are now retired military. Wow. Uh,
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my daughter just just retired as a twenty six year
Army lawyer. She's a graduate of du Law School.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Cool.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Her husband's her husband's a West Point engineer.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
The middle guy was an Army and Coast Guard aviator.
He's now FedEx and the youngest went to the went to
the Coast Guard Academy and he's now running the think
tank for Arctic studies at the Coastguard Academy.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
Cool.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
They have three granddaughters, I'm sorry, two granddaughters and a grandson.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Uh and in the military one coast one Army bomb tech.
I got a girl bomb tech in my family. And yeah,
what I mean.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
It's just a great American story, John, And and thank
you man, thanks for your service and thanks to the call.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
One more thing. By last fifteen years of teaching high
pick up my twenty five year career with high school ROTC.
Last fifteen were at Denver East and George Washington. Wow.
That is fifteen years work, fifteen years working in the hood.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
That is that is a great.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
Stonderful young Americans.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
That is a great story. Thank you man, Thank you
for that. Wow. Speaking of which, Ryan, are you going
to watch the parade tomorrow? The military parade in.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Two hundred and fiftieth anniversary?
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Wow?
Speaker 7 (25:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I was talking to our son Joe. He works back
there this summer and he's got the whole day planned.
He's got his tickets. He's going to be the first
guy out there. He's going to be out there all day,
all night. Hey, he bought a lawnchair for it, but
then found out he couldn't take it in. Ah, so
he'll just go sit on the grass and watch it all.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And you saw what your pale Governor Tim Walls said
about it, right, that he hopes that it rains. Is
that I don't have the sound, Yeah, I.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
Know.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And and then but when you match that up with
the sound we did play earlier, and I want to
get to that where he says China is now the
moral authority in the world. You wonder do they have
something on him, because if he's just trying to outflank
noose in to the left or whatever, and hard to
mention there's any room there, you wouldn't you wouldn't say that,
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you wouldn't go there. I mean, China is one of
the most immoral, killer brutal regimes ever. So yeah, I
just wonder, because you know, he spent all that time
in China, something that crazy to be said. I just
wonder if they have something on the guy. And then
he comes out and he's because doesn't he comes out
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and he's rooting for rain tomorrow as the American military
celebrates the history of our nation and our military and
Kenny's he's hoping for.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Like so many, he cannot squelch his hatred for Donald Trump,
even if it means showing respect to our military candidate.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
But but I would go beyond that with him, seriously,
when he comes out and you know he could have
been our vice president. When he comes out and says
China is the moral authority in the world, the Communist
Party of China and then wants it to literally reign
on America's celebration of its anniversary and the military parade.
You wonder, right, I mean, yeah, three out three someone
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three eight, two five five the number around state media.
New explosions heard in Tehran. Good, good, good, Please please Israel,
wipe out that nuclear program, free the great Iranian people,
help liberate the world from this evil and above all,
you know, save Israel for future generations. You're on the
(27:54):
Dan Kapla.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Show and now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Obviously, we're following what I believe to be one of
the most important military battles in modern world history, and
Israel fighting on behalf of its survival and for the
world right now, the freedom loving world so epic and
of epic importance, and off to from everything we can
tell a tremendous start talk about good versus evil in
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terms of the evil Iranian regime which keeps the people
of Iron captive as well. Right, So, Wow, prayers for
Israel and we'll continue. I'm sure you'll watch it all
weekend as I will, but we'll be all over it
on Monday Show. Talking about the best advice your father
ever gave you, Dan, You need to dig a ditch.
(28:44):
He was a farmer. My backyard was flooding. Pretty good advice.
We've had the good mix of practical and philosophical Dan
regarding Iran and likely La looks like when Dad came
home from a work trip and just saw what the
kids were up to. Yeah, boy, just the brilliance right
and and we're just hearing whatever they want to steer
(29:06):
right now. But I have no doubt that Israel's genius
has has been playing out in so many different ways
inside Iran and the ability to get all of this technology,
all of this firepower smuggled into Iran and in place
before the attack it's absolutely ingenious nation match to its
(29:30):
courage along but very accurate text came in about the
evil of Iran, and it's just too long to get
into right now. Three or three someone three eight two
five five text d A N five seven seventh three nine.
We'll try to squeeze in our friend Warren before the
end of the show. Warren in beautiful Colorado Springs. Welcome
to the dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 9 (29:50):
Hey, goodness to talk to you talk about your trained,
but today I'd rather talk to you about Israel. First
of all, I'm all for what Israel is doing big time.
I hope you're successful.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
We're is it will be.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
It's if they do revolt, are they going to get
rid of a theocracy? Hero they still maintain a thorocracy?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Oh, I believe you know. And I was a little
little boy. Well I can't say that. I was very
young back then in nineteen seventy nine. But you know,
like one of our favorite places is down where you
are in the broad More, And you know they got
that picture of the wall of the Chavaran, you know,
just on one of those paddle boats. It was a
whole different nation back then. I have to believe, and
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they've been in the streets right crying for freedom for decades.
I have to believe that that nation does not continue
as a theocracy.
Speaker 9 (30:38):
I hope you're right, But let me tell you what
makes you think that they would.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Though I'm not challenging you because because you're not taking
up set. But but what makes anybody think that after
finally getting their freedom, and let's pray they do, the
Iranian people would choose another theocracy.
Speaker 9 (30:54):
Well here's what bothers me. After October the seventh, of
a few months out to that, I saw in the
news they took a poll of the countries around the
Middle East Egypt, Syria, Iraq, a couple of the other ones.
And according to this poll, only five percent of the
people that were polled thought what they what Hamas did
(31:17):
on October the seventh was inappropriate? Only five percent.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
You said, that's in I run.
Speaker 9 (31:23):
This was in the Middle East, Yeah, all of them, Yeah, Egypt, Syria, Iraq.
But they took a poll what they what the people
thought of what Hamas did, and only five percent of
them thought, of corner of this news articles, yeah it
was inappropriate.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
First, I want to see that, to see how the
poll was done and everything else. But listen, I'm not pollyannish.
I understand that that there's been this hatred of Israel,
you know, that's just been fomented over the years in many,
many different places. And and I think that what we
have to look at right now is I believe we
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have a number of Gulf states helping to protect Israel
right now from these tax attacks by Iran. And then
you know, we also have to think of the people
who are living in places where they may not feel
free to speak the truth. But even if it is
as bad as that Pole says, I have to believe
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that Israel defeating the evil regime, freeing the people of
Iran hopefully will foster an awful lot of good will
in the region.
Speaker 9 (32:30):
All right, Just want to tell you one more thing
experience that I did with the Catholic University seven years ago.
I saw a horrible thing on the internet just one time.
That was enough for me. I didn't want to see
any more of it. I showed as amost a couple
and others guys had off of the hatchet, and I
went to this Catholic University and what's the front office
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in the Northwest part of the country and asked if
I could talk to a theology professor, and they said, yeah,
we have one. He's out of class right now. And
I says, well, they told me a look for realm
I could go to and he'd probably be there. So
I did, and I want to talk to him. And
I asked him a question. I says, as far as
you know, you're a theology professor, do you know of
any religion in the world in the last several hundred
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years that when they're killing somebody they're chanting God is
great akbala Because you could hear in the background when
they were cuting this guy's head off, there are three
or four other Arabs around all chanting Akbaalah. And he said, no,
he know of any other religion that does that.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yeah, well, my friend and I appreciate the call.
Speaker 7 (33:38):
Warren.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
We've got to go for the end of the show.
But I would bet you the biggest stake in town
that we know Israel is going to succeed in knocking
out the nuclear weapons program, because Israel is that brilliant
and brave and they have to for their survival. Let's
hope it leads to an overthrow of the regime. No
way in the world those people choose a theocracy if
they're given a free choice. Now text, what a great
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way to and the best advice your dad ever gave you, Dan,
I have nine siblings. We didn't have much, and our
parents took in others and help them get back on
their feet. We also took in pregnant single moms. Our
dad told us that you are never too poor to
help others who are worse off than you.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
So true. I can remember my mom feeding what we're
called hoboes at the time, that they would come from
the railroad yard nearby, and word was out that my
mom would give them food, and so we'd have and
kind of I mean just look like you'd picture back
in the movies and everything, hoboes come to the back door.
So great advice from that Texter with the nine siblings,
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Ryan Kelly, our thoughts are with you obviously losing your
father this year, and hope you all have a great weekend.
Can't wait to get together Monday. On The Dan Kapli Show.
This is Dan Kaplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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I'm so grateful to be alive at this moment because
I think it will go down as one of the
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most important moments in human history, now where you rank it.
Certainly in any of our lifetimes, it's going to be
a top two to three moment. But Israel Israel, David
versus Goliath, Israel taking on evil Israel in the process
we hope of taking out the Iranian nuclear program. We
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really hope Israel's in the process of leading the people
of Iran to their freedom through an overthrow of that evil,
vicious regime. And think about just imagine, just imagine the
world with a free Iran and with our great ally Israel,
the amazing Israeli people protected. Think about how that whole
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region could thrive. This this is one of the most
exciting opportunities that certainly we've seen in my lifetime. Obviously,
there's going to be a lot of pain ahead. It's
it's not a movie, it's not a TV show, it's
not going to be straight lined, but it's off to
a great start. And it really is biblical. I mean,
when you think about it, think about this, this small,
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tiny nation geographically and a relatively small number of people,
yet surviving against all of these forces determined to literally
kill every last one of them. And this people with
this brilliance and ingenuity and courage, and what it's any
people that's able to plant hundreds of explosives in the
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enemy's pagers. And then what we've already heard Israel has
been able to pull off in terms of infiltrating Iran
and the military structure, et cetera. Before this attack. This
this attack can sell defense. Yeah, if you're one of
these evil leaders of Iran right now, you can have
(02:07):
zero belief that you're going to live any longer than
Israel wants you to live, right because you've got to
believe right now that the person next to you, no
matter who they are, may be masad. You've got to
believe that you can be killed anytime Israel wants to
kill you. And hopefully that creates that creates the environment
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the scenario where again, the great people of Iran can
overthrow their captors, and that would be the very best
ending to all of this mission A. Yeah, there cannot
be a nuclear Iran, that's clear. Can you imagine if
Iran had nukes, all these missiles raining down in Israel,
you can bet the day would come soon when some
of those would have nuclear tips on them. As Netanyahu said, hey,
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when you're that, the Israeli people have learned, the Jewish
people have learned when your enemy says that it's going
to destroy you, believe them, believe them. So we'll take
some calls and text and above all keep you up
to the minute. But I think you know, if you've
been monitoring the news, if you listen to a show
like this, then you have been monitoring the news that
right now you have Israel on the attack in Iran,
(03:11):
and you have Iran attacking Israel with hundreds and hundreds
of missiles and drones, et cetera. So latest report Israel's
military headquarters hit. Obviously, Iran has been targeting I shouldn't
say around the regime right, has been targeting civilian targets,
apartment buildings, et cetera. Israel has said that a crosses
(03:31):
a red line from which there is no return. And
one thing about Israel. It walks the talk. It walks
the talk. There's no bomb bast Israel tells you it's
going to do something. It does it. Three oh three,
is someone three eight two five five text d An
five seven seven three nine and the Friday before Father's
Day and Mother's Day favorite shows of the year because
we do the best advice your father ever gave you,
(03:54):
so share that collective wisdom and can't wait to hear
from you, Dan, Dad, all he said, keep the windshield
clean outside and inside. He would always wash my windshield
for me before he hit the roadback to college and elsewhere. See,
that's the cool thing. We've got this mix right of
the philosophical and the practical. Maybe we should have two
(04:15):
categories on these calls and texts, But that's great practical
advice because you have an awful lot of crashes and
stuff caused by dirty windshields. Yeah, good advice. Good advice there, Dan,
I don't want to sound like Bender from the Breakfast Club.
I'm not sure that reference. The only real advice that
I remember my dad giving me is that if I
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was going to get hit by a car. Make sure
I got hit very hard. Okay, Dan, I'm trying to
picture that advice being delivered. Would it have been an anger?
Got to go back.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You were twenty seven years old, if my math is correct,
when The Breakfast Flip Club came out.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
It was one of the big hit movies of the eighties.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
You saw Caddyshack millions of times, probably millions, yes, but
you never watch The Breakfast Club, not once.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
You know what's probably an easier approach to this, my friend,
what's that? Just to name the movies I have seen?
You're probably talking one hand, Okay, Wizard of Oz as
a kid in class, Caddy Shack for my life, obviously
I was Danny Noon.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
You were literally Danny And if it's true that the
whole movie Caddy Shack, it was Bill Murray's brother and
I were competing for the same Caddy scholarship about the
same time the other scholarship, And yeah was Danny noonan.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yep, and and Dumb and Dummer. So we got Wizard
of Oz, Caddy Shack, Dumb and Dummer, Animal House, A
Saving Private Ryan, Okay, Passion of the Christ.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Try to think like the Dan cappl was top ten
all time, well the only ten.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
All right, let's go to the front lines. Yeah, Dennis
and Morrison, you're on the dan Kepla show. I've been busy.
How you doing, my frianks for taking my claw. Welcome.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I'd like to tell you about the greatest advice my dad.
Thank you never gave me, didn't give me twist and
A long time ago in the seventies, I was nineteen,
I had a motorcycle for sale. I was getting married
nine hundred dollars. My dad was the head of the
fraud department for La County District Attorneys Office.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
He's guy.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
So we're in our garage and a guy comes up
and he takes my bike for a ride, and my
dad's standing in his work bench and the guy goes,
I really like it. He goes, how about if I
pay you one hundred dollars a month? And my dad
told he used to tell us stories, especially when we
were camping, about all the suckers that he ran into,
(06:54):
you know, in his career. And I didn't need the
money desperately, and he said, I'll mail it to you
on the first So the next month, I wait by
my bailbox every day. Nothing another another month.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah, nothing.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Well I found I drove to the guy's house. I
had his address, his landlord. His landlord says he's a bum.
He got evicted. My dad found my bike in Monterey
Park at the bike shop in an accident. The fork
was bent in and it cost me about five hundred
and you know, we never talked about it.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, that's a good dad. No, I told you so.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
He knew I was a sucker. And uh, I can
still picture from standing there in his work pinks.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, that's a great story, man.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
And really quick. When I went I went to college
at cal Poly Pomona, and all my friends were Iranian
and they were my bachelor party in Las Vegas, Will
with three Iranian friends. Yeah. The most wonderful people. Yeah,
oh yeah in the world. Yeah. And I hope they
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get their their freedom.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Back, their freedom, amen. And can you imagine a thriving
around like that. I would make it a visit as
soon as it was open. Hey, thank you man. Appreciate
that call, Alexa text remembering all the great fathers who
passed away, especially in the last year obviously our thoughts
with Kelly. Yeah, and as Ryan said, earlier. Everybody knows that.
Who's listening, right, If you've experienced it, it doesn't get
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any easier. It did just I mean, it may get
less hard, but it doesn't get any easier. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, I have a question real quick before we go
to break here, Dan, about you and your father. And
this was the interesting part to me about when you
became a father and lucky for you your dad was still around.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Oh that was we were so fortunate dad right as
a grandfather.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
But what he observed of you being a father and
whether you went back to him and going, you know what, Dad,
you were right about X y Z something like that.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, you know, And thank you for asking. But but
to the extent I've been a decent father, it's all
because of watching him. Sure, And when I think about
the mistakes I've made, they're all mine, that they're not
mistakes he made, because I honestly can't think of any
mistakes he made. Oh you know, yeah, I mean, and
I get it, I get how lucky I've been. And then,
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like everybody, I'm sure you'd think the same thing. Because
Ryan was talking earlier about how his dad all the
different things he would do with him and teaching him
to fish and play ball and all this and that.
But think about where you would be without your dad. Oh,
totally different life. I think about that all the time.
Where do you think you'd be?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Not here, not here, not doing this, not nearly as
successful having that rock solid male presence in our household.
I mean, it was the magnet. It was the anchor
for everything that went on. And I have him to
credit for a lot of that.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Oh yeah, yeah. And I truly have no doubt in
my mind. Without my mom and dad, and they are
such an amazing combo, I have no doubt I'd be
in some kind of institution. And then it's just a
matter of what category, yeah, and who would have put
me there and when? But I'm just thinking, yeah, yeah,
So I just you know, this is a positive segment.
(10:16):
I don't want to get all all negative. But I
just can't imagine. You see all these success stories with
people who didn't have good parents, and it blows me away.
I'm in awe. It's so hard even with the best
parents in the world, like I hadn't some of us hat,
but can you imagine without good parents? My heart breaks
(10:36):
to the people who didn't. And then the people who
still succeed despite that. I just yeah, I'm in total
lawe three out three someone three eight, two five five.
You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
And then he went on to say this, Dana bash
Jarn should have listened to me when I said, you know,
I gave them. I don't know if you know this,
but I gave them a six day warning, and today
is day sixty one. And then he said they, meaning Iran,
should now come to the table to make a deal
before it's too late. And then he said something really noteworthy.
(11:14):
He said, the people I was dealing with are dead,
the hardliners, to which I just wanted to underscore. So
what you're saying is Israel has now killed the people
who you were dealing with. And he said, very sarcastically,
they didn't die of the flu.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
They didn't die of COVID.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Wow, one of the great lines ever. They didn't die
of COVID. Right, So yeah, boy, again, the whole world
is going to owe Israel a great debt. And let's
pray that Israel succeeds in knocking out the nuclear weapons
program and in softening up this evil regime for a
revolution by the people to take back their nation. What
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a beautiful future it'll be for the world and our
great alli is real if this succeeds, and I believe
that it will succeed at least in knocking out the
nuclear weapons program. And boy, you would think it would
set up a revolution, right Obviously the people of Iran
have wanted to revolt for a long time. And isn't
it so interesting? Right now we get all these images right,
all these images off the streets in Israel Tel Aviv
(12:18):
are real target right now? Where are the images off
the streets in Iran?
Speaker 7 (12:23):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I mean, that's just that's just what a captive nation
looks like. Three oh three someone three eight two five
five text d A N five seven seven three nine. Hey,
this sound doesn't fit anything we're talking about today. It's
just the greatest sound I have ever heard. So this
is the Brevard County Sheriff in Florida delivering a message
(12:44):
to protesters.
Speaker 8 (12:46):
So I'm gonna I'm gonna break it down for you,
all right. And if somebody wants to know what I
mean by turn violent, all right, this is what I mean.
If you resist law florders, you're going to jail. Let
me be very clear about that. If you block an
intersection or a roadway in Brevard County, you are going
to jail. If you flee arrest, you're going to go
(13:07):
to jail tired, because we are going to run you
down and put you in jail. If you try to
mob rule a car in Brevard County, gathering around it
refusing to let the driver leave in our county, you're
most likely going to get run over and dragged across
the street. If you spit on us, you're going to
the hospital and in jail. If you hit one of us,
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you're going to the hospital and jail and most likely
get bitten by one of our big, beautiful dogs that
we have here. If throw a brick, a fire bomb,
or point a gun at one of our deputies, we
will be notifying your family where to collect your remains
at because we will kill you graveyard dead. We're not
going to play. This has got to stop. You're watching
(13:53):
what's taking place out there. You're seeing police officers that
are being attacked, being spit on, being put in harm's
way just for doing their jobs. You're seeing ice agents
that are being targeted for doing their jobs, and you're
seeing obstructionists that are doing all of this standing in
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the way of law and order.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I think he could get elected in a lot of
counties in America. I bet he could get elected in
a lot of blue counties by a lot of people
who'd never admit they voted for. But they want him
on that wall. They need him on that wall. Three
h three seOne, three eight two five five of the
number best advice your father ever gave you? And on
our Father's Day, Dan, our family is in the movie
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theater industry. Of course, the show must go on, but
Dad use that phrase for everything in our life. I
love it.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
If I was the father of an Iranian nuclear worker
or nuclear scientist, I would recommend early retirement. That would
be great advice.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I just read an interesting article about Israel attacking around
fulfilling prophecy from Jeremiah forty nine thirty four to thirty nine,
Break the Bows of Ilam, Dan. The best advice I
got from my dad was when I got my first
supervisor job at the age of twenty four, and he
told me, don't forget where you came from, and your
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subordinates are more important than you are. That is wonderful advice.
Dan song for your Dad Watching You by Rodney Atkins.
So I got that one teed up because I mentioned
earlier that, you know, when I was thinking about it
getting ready for the show today. The best advice my
dad ever gave me, and he gave me a lot
of you know, spoken advice, but the best advice he
(15:35):
ever gave me was unspoken, and it came down to
watch me, watch me, and that was the best advice
because just watching him in action. Yeah, that that was
the greatest advice instruction that you could ever have. And
as we all know, right, it's it's a million times
(15:56):
more impactful than any words, is just people's actions. And
I remember how much trouble they got me into at
the convent, my friend when I was being detained for
one of many transgressions. Damn, and I'm sitting there and
I remember she's a saint, sister and felice, God rest
(16:16):
her soul, but she had brought me over there for
some kind of abuse that I'd engaged in class and
being held against my will. And I remember her telling me,
and this was in a rare smart elec phase for me,
but I remember her telling me you'll never be half
the man your father is, and I said I'd settle
(16:37):
for half o whack. I was not rewarded for the
good humor that was well timed, though, way yeah, was
it worth it?
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
It was, but mainly because I was rescued by my
mom shortly thereafter. Because I had been one of the
rare asians when I was falsely accused. Normally I was
correctly accused, but I had been falsely accused of writing
Michelle Hanrahan as a sex pot on her book cover. Now, first,
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I had no idea what that even meant.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Second, it was definitely not my handwriting, uh huh. But
when sister and Felice made me submit to a handwriting sample,
I refused based on my constitutional This guy ahead of
his time, well not effectively.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
May I suggest a hypothesis as to what actually happened?
Michelle wrote it herself, blamed.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
You could have been Yes, that was I think the
way boys and girls meant in those days. Did she
have a crush on you? Hard to believe, but she attractive?
Oh yeah, yeah, it's a fifth grader. Well I remember
those signs. But no, sister and felice. It just a
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true saint and tough love which is often required for
me three or three someone three, two, five, five, text
D and five, seven, seventh through nine. Keeping you up
to a minute on this fight for the freedom of
the world, which Israel is waging for their own survival,
but on all of our behalf. And then we'll mix
it in with the best advice your father ever gave you.
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You're on the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's cool, that's kill. We're doing the best advice your
father ever gave you. And on our Father's Day, obviously
both mother and Father's Day. We get so much collective
wisdom from this vast audience. And obviously we're talking about
one of the most important I think will go down
as when it's done, one of the most important developments
in modern world history, with this existential battle of good
(18:57):
versus evil, as Israel stands up to the evil Iranian regime,
tries to free the Iranian people, but first and foremost
preserve preserve the great State of Israel. So Israel doing
the entire world an enormous favor, and it's not going
to be easy. It's going to be very painful. Appears
to be off to a superb start in prayers for
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our great Ali Israel and innocence on both sides who
will die. We know any innocence in Iran who die
are dying because of it evil regime that has put
them in harm's way. Is Israel simply fights for its
survival and the innocents who are killed in Israel, the
blood is on the hands of the evil Iranian regime.
And you can be sure that Israel. Israel walks the talk.
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When Israel says something, Israel acts on it. And Israel
said that the intentional targeting of civilians in Israel which
is going on by the Iranian regime right now, crosses
a red line and that the punishment will be unimaginable.
Israel is not given overstatements. So I think we all
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know what is about to come. Let's go out to
beautiful Palmer Lake. We'll talk with John. You're on the
Dan Kapla shall welcome John.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Hey, Thanks Dan. I lost my dad when I was five.
My mom. My mom was widowed with four boys living,
and number five was in the womb. Oh Man after
a couple of years of her having to sell the
farm and we had to spend a couple of delightful
years in the projects in al Equippa, Pennsylvania. Mom found
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the Builton Hershey School in Hershey, Pennsylvania, founded by mister
Hershey of the candy bar name. Anyway, my two older
brothers and I went there, and though we didn't have
advice from Dad, we had a house father who was
six foot six and well over three hundred pounds. His
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hobby happened to be singing as an operatic tenor wow.
But anyway, I remember very clearly my English teacher, who
was a bachelor. He would take his summers and go
to Britain, go to Oxford and Cambridge and take short courses,
and he'd come back and one day he stuck his
finger in my face and he said, John, you got
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to go to England. At the same time or the
following year, my German teacher, who was formerly of the home,
had become a military policeman in Berlin for the Berlin Brigade.
He said much the same. He says, John, you got
to go to Germany because you're good at the language.
And I heard you have family over there. So anyway,
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I got drafted, stayed twenty five years in the army,
went from private to lieutenant colonel wow. And I did
make it. I did make it to England on a
very secretive mission to fight the nuclear warfare for the
un US European Command. And I did make it to Germany,
and I did find my family. And it was just
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totally unique. And if I didn't have those men in
my life and the structure of the school, it would
have been insane.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
What an amazing story. And did you say, five of
you when your dad passed away? When you were five?
Speaker 7 (22:24):
He passed away, he passed away. I was five, Mom,
We had four, There were four of us living at
the time, and then number five was in the womb.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I cannot even imagine that. Your mom, What a saint
she must be.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Oh yes. And then all three of us that went
to the boys Home ended up doing at least one
tour in the military. Two of us were drafted to Vietnam,
and the oldest brother had gotten out a couple of
years earlier, and he did his time in the Marine
Corps and then ended up being the vice president of
communications for the American Trucking Association. I thought of him
(23:02):
last week when I heard you talking about yeah truckers.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Yeah, so hey Hey. Let me ask you, John, this
is one of the coolest stories I've ever heard. What
kind of father are you? How did that whole experience,
that hardship and then these other men stepping into your life?
How did that affect you as a dad?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Well?
Speaker 7 (23:23):
I did earn a father, and I'm sorry, a stepfather.
When I was a junior in high school, I could
have left the boys home, but I made the choice
to stay there and graduate and so forth. And then
the Hershey Organization had a junior college that was free
to me, And that was the best thing about it
(23:43):
was we us boys were allowed to sit next to
girls and talk to because the only girls we had
had for those seven years were the cows we milked
the first thing in the morning and then late afternoon
after school. But anyway, it happens that I bore three
children and they all are now retired military. Wow. Uh,
(24:07):
my daughter just just retired as a twenty six year
Army lawyer. She's a graduate of du Law School.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Cool.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Her husband's her husband's a West Point engineer.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
The middle guy was an Army and Coast Guard aviator.
He's now FedEx and the youngest went to the went to
the Coast Guard Academy and he's now running the think
tank for Arctic studies at the Coastguard Academy.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
Cool.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
They have three granddaughters, I'm sorry, two granddaughters and a grandson.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Uh and in the military one coast one Army bomb tech.
I got a girl bomb tech in my family. And yeah,
what I mean.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
It's just a great American story, John, And and thank
you man, thanks for your service and thanks to the call.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
One more thing. By last fifteen years of teaching high
pick up my twenty five year career with high school ROTC.
Last fifteen were at Denver East and George Washington. Wow.
That is fifteen years work, fifteen years working in the hood.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
That is that is a great.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
Stonderful young Americans.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
That is a great story. Thank you man, Thank you
for that. Wow. Speaking of which, Ryan, are you going
to watch the parade tomorrow? The military parade in.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Two hundred and fiftieth anniversary?
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Wow?
Speaker 7 (25:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I was talking to our son Joe. He works back
there this summer and he's got the whole day planned.
He's got his tickets. He's going to be the first
guy out there. He's going to be out there all day,
all night. Hey, he bought a lawnchair for it, but
then found out he couldn't take it in. Ah, so
he'll just go sit on the grass and watch it all.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And you saw what your pale Governor Tim Walls said
about it, right, that he hopes that it rains. Is
that I don't have the sound, Yeah, I.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
Know.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And and then but when you match that up with
the sound we did play earlier, and I want to
get to that where he says China is now the
moral authority in the world. You wonder do they have
something on him, because if he's just trying to outflank
noose in to the left or whatever, and hard to
mention there's any room there, you wouldn't you wouldn't say that,
(26:28):
you wouldn't go there. I mean, China is one of
the most immoral, killer brutal regimes ever. So yeah, I
just wonder, because you know, he spent all that time
in China, something that crazy to be said. I just
wonder if they have something on the guy. And then
he comes out and he's because doesn't he comes out
(26:49):
and he's rooting for rain tomorrow as the American military
celebrates the history of our nation and our military and
Kenny's he's hoping for.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Like so many, he cannot squelch his hatred for Donald Trump,
even if it means showing respect to our military candidate.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
But but I would go beyond that with him, seriously,
when he comes out and you know he could have
been our vice president. When he comes out and says
China is the moral authority in the world, the Communist
Party of China and then wants it to literally reign
on America's celebration of its anniversary and the military parade.
You wonder, right, I mean, yeah, three out three someone
(27:31):
three eight, two five five the number around state media.
New explosions heard in Tehran. Good, good, good, Please please Israel,
wipe out that nuclear program, free the great Iranian people,
help liberate the world from this evil and above all,
you know, save Israel for future generations. You're on the
(27:54):
Dan Kapla.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Show and now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Obviously, we're following what I believe to be one of
the most important military battles in modern world history, and
Israel fighting on behalf of its survival and for the
world right now, the freedom loving world so epic and
of epic importance, and off to from everything we can
tell a tremendous start talk about good versus evil in
(28:23):
terms of the evil Iranian regime which keeps the people
of Iron captive as well. Right, So, Wow, prayers for
Israel and we'll continue. I'm sure you'll watch it all
weekend as I will, but we'll be all over it
on Monday Show. Talking about the best advice your father
ever gave you, Dan, You need to dig a ditch.
(28:44):
He was a farmer. My backyard was flooding. Pretty good advice.
We've had the good mix of practical and philosophical Dan
regarding Iran and likely La looks like when Dad came
home from a work trip and just saw what the
kids were up to. Yeah, boy, just the brilliance right
and and we're just hearing whatever they want to steer
(29:06):
right now. But I have no doubt that Israel's genius
has has been playing out in so many different ways
inside Iran and the ability to get all of this technology,
all of this firepower smuggled into Iran and in place
before the attack it's absolutely ingenious nation match to its
(29:30):
courage along but very accurate text came in about the
evil of Iran, and it's just too long to get
into right now. Three or three someone three eight two
five five text d A N five seven seventh three nine.
We'll try to squeeze in our friend Warren before the
end of the show. Warren in beautiful Colorado Springs. Welcome
to the dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 9 (29:50):
Hey, goodness to talk to you talk about your trained,
but today I'd rather talk to you about Israel. First
of all, I'm all for what Israel is doing big time.
I hope you're successful.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
We're is it will be.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
It's if they do revolt, are they going to get
rid of a theocracy? Hero they still maintain a thorocracy?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Oh, I believe you know. And I was a little
little boy. Well I can't say that. I was very
young back then in nineteen seventy nine. But you know,
like one of our favorite places is down where you
are in the broad More, And you know they got
that picture of the wall of the Chavaran, you know,
just on one of those paddle boats. It was a
whole different nation back then. I have to believe, and
(30:30):
they've been in the streets right crying for freedom for decades.
I have to believe that that nation does not continue
as a theocracy.
Speaker 9 (30:38):
I hope you're right, But let me tell you what
makes you think that they would.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Though I'm not challenging you because because you're not taking
up set. But but what makes anybody think that after
finally getting their freedom, and let's pray they do, the
Iranian people would choose another theocracy.
Speaker 9 (30:54):
Well here's what bothers me. After October the seventh, of
a few months out to that, I saw in the
news they took a poll of the countries around the
Middle East Egypt, Syria, Iraq, a couple of the other ones.
And according to this poll, only five percent of the
people that were polled thought what they what Hamas did
(31:17):
on October the seventh was inappropriate? Only five percent.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
You said, that's in I run.
Speaker 9 (31:23):
This was in the Middle East, Yeah, all of them, Yeah, Egypt, Syria, Iraq.
But they took a poll what they what the people
thought of what Hamas did, and only five percent of
them thought, of corner of this news articles, yeah it
was inappropriate.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
First, I want to see that, to see how the
poll was done and everything else. But listen, I'm not pollyannish.
I understand that that there's been this hatred of Israel,
you know, that's just been fomented over the years in many,
many different places. And and I think that what we
have to look at right now is I believe we
(32:00):
have a number of Gulf states helping to protect Israel
right now from these tax attacks by Iran. And then
you know, we also have to think of the people
who are living in places where they may not feel
free to speak the truth. But even if it is
as bad as that Pole says, I have to believe
(32:21):
that Israel defeating the evil regime, freeing the people of
Iran hopefully will foster an awful lot of good will
in the region.
Speaker 9 (32:30):
All right, Just want to tell you one more thing
experience that I did with the Catholic University seven years ago.
I saw a horrible thing on the internet just one time.
That was enough for me. I didn't want to see
any more of it. I showed as amost a couple
and others guys had off of the hatchet, and I
went to this Catholic University and what's the front office
(32:52):
in the Northwest part of the country and asked if
I could talk to a theology professor, and they said, yeah,
we have one. He's out of class right now. And
I says, well, they told me a look for realm
I could go to and he'd probably be there. So
I did, and I want to talk to him. And
I asked him a question. I says, as far as
you know, you're a theology professor, do you know of
any religion in the world in the last several hundred
(33:15):
years that when they're killing somebody they're chanting God is
great akbala Because you could hear in the background when
they were cuting this guy's head off, there are three
or four other Arabs around all chanting Akbaalah. And he said, no,
he know of any other religion that does that.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yeah, well, my friend and I appreciate the call.
Speaker 7 (33:38):
Warren.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
We've got to go for the end of the show.
But I would bet you the biggest stake in town
that we know Israel is going to succeed in knocking
out the nuclear weapons program, because Israel is that brilliant
and brave and they have to for their survival. Let's
hope it leads to an overthrow of the regime. No
way in the world those people choose a theocracy if
they're given a free choice. Now text, what a great
(33:59):
way to and the best advice your dad ever gave you, Dan,
I have nine siblings. We didn't have much, and our
parents took in others and help them get back on
their feet. We also took in pregnant single moms. Our
dad told us that you are never too poor to
help others who are worse off than you.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
So true. I can remember my mom feeding what we're
called hoboes at the time, that they would come from
the railroad yard nearby, and word was out that my
mom would give them food, and so we'd have and
kind of I mean just look like you'd picture back
in the movies and everything, hoboes come to the back door.
So great advice from that Texter with the nine siblings,
(34:38):
Ryan Kelly, our thoughts are with you obviously losing your
father this year, and hope you all have a great weekend.
Can't wait to get together Monday. On The Dan Kapli Show.
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