October 13, 2025 • 35 mins
President Trump speaks before the Knesset in Israel to memorialize his greatest achievement on the world stage - a potential lasting peace in the Middle East, after operating as the driving force behind a peace deal between the Israelis and Hamas to stop the fighting in Gaza. Dan marvels at this diplomatic breakthrough and accomplishment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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that was the American way on full display today in Israel.
What a glorious day for the all of the great
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things that happened today, but everything now that may be
possible in the future.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Glad you're here. Three oh three seven one.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Three eight two five five The number takes d an
five seven seven three nine, because I think that the
lasting significance of today, it could be a breakthrough almost
beyond our imaginations. And that's because who would have thought
today would be possible?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Right?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And the way today came down, I'm sure that you
prompably thought of maybe different ways that you know, there
might be living hostages return, But the way it came
down with an American president able to convince classic piece
through strength right, able to convince you know, Arab states
to turn their back on Hamas, which you know obviously
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bodes very well for the future steps.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Of this piece deal.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
But what it offers the promise that it offers goes
so far beyond that, because don't you feel like over
the last whatever, ten twenty thirty years that I think
many people have given up on seismic changes, truly landscape
changing events for the good on the world stage, and
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I think there's been this kind of pessimism, sometimes hard,
sometimes soft, that's crept in butt toxic to the point
that I think it's convinced a lot of people who
maybe thirty forty years ago would have believed anything was
possible to no longer believe that.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
But I think that's kind of one of the lasting gifts.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Of Trump is not just this amazing accomplishment today, but
just hopefully causing enough people to start thinking about, Hey,
what is possible? What else that we thought was impossible
is actually possible now?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
RFK. You know it's been attributed to him. I think
it was.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
George Bernard's Shaw before him, But RFK. Some men see
things as they are and ask why. I dream of
things that never were.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
And ask why not.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So it's one of the things I want to throw
out there for you today, whether you want to call
the show text, just think about it in the car whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
What other things.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
What other things that seem impossible right now that the
world is just kind of accepted as impossible problems do
you think are actually fixable?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
You know, whether we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
If you're listening in Colorado, whether you're talking about in Denver, Colorado,
where we're doing the show from today, or you're talking
about worldwide, what other things that seem impossible do you
think are actually fixed?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And then what would that take.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I'd love to have that conversation because I think about
that all the time. On a day like today, it
seems even more attainable, right because they think about this
Donald Trump. You're talking about a guy who, if the
Democrats had their way, he would be dying in jail. Literally,
if the Democrats had their way, he would be destroyed
in every way, his reputation, his legacy, his finances, his family,
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and he'd be dying in jail. And now he's leading
the world and has led the world today to a
piece that most thought was unattainable. And I'm not assuming
in that that this piece that was going to last forever,
et cetera. It doesn't have to for this accomplishment to
be as mammoth as it is. But it also creates
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the real possibility that this could be the kind of
disruption in the pattern, disruption in the cycle that leads
to that lasting piece, perhaps even a forever piece, right,
I mean the defeat of Iran, because Amas is a
that the defeat of Iran and the way it was
defeated in Gaza, that's the sort of thing that can
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can be a permanent pivot. Three h three seven one
three eight two five five the number text d A
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your take on that. I have some ideas, some concrete
ideas on other things that so many people assume are
impossible that may very well be possible, and so I'd
like to bounce those off. You also also just enjoy
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enjoy the sound, enjoy the sound of Trump in Israel
today addressing that government, and enjoy some of the sound
of some people on the left, to their everlasting credit
now being intellectually honest about the magnitude of this accomplishment
for President Trump. And then some who just won't give
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it up, like Christine I'm gonna pour from CNN, who
I think just did herself lasting damage with this business to.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
And I think for sure people who start to talk
to the hostages have only just been released, will find
that it will take a long long time for them
to recover physically, but also mentally. It's been a terrible,
terrible two years for them because not only are they there,
you know, they're probably been treated better than the average
garden because they are the pawns and the chips that
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Hamas had. Now Hamas has given up all its leverage,
by the way, by giving them all up, So that
is a big walk.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Two things there to throw in, These hostages have been
treated better than the average guysen.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Really you think so? You think so?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
The kidnapped under the most brutal of circumstances, held in
terror at not knowing whether they're going to be killed
by their captor every day, tortured by the idea of
what their families were going through. Oh yeah, you think
they've been treated better than the average garsen?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Really?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And who's the innocent party here? By the way, and listen,
obviously Hammas third saintan on earth. You know, they caused
an awful lot of death and destruction for Gazans, who
I assume I are innocent, But my goodness, that just
shows such a for a person who has actual intelligence,
brain power.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
That just Brian.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That proves my point that that hate interferes with brain function.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It's chemical, and she's got so much hate.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Twenty hostages were released alive.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
How many were women? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Zero?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Great point.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Okay, so Christian amanpur a woman, I would ask her
how were the female hostages treated and why were none
released alive?
Speaker 6 (06:38):
And there were twenty men but zero women.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
That's such a great point. And then you extend that
to the rest of you know, the American left right
that pretends to care so much about women. Where have
they been This has been one of the worst cases
of brutal mass rape that we've seen in recent history.
Where was the American left on that? It's just proofs
what phonies? They are absolute phonies when they claim to
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care about women, they claim to care about people of color, etc.
Now that's that's a great point, Ryan. And then she
goes on to say, oh, well, by Hamas giving up
the hostages, they give up their leverage. If I could
say the word on air, I would, and I'd say
it one hundred times. They didn't give anything up. They
didn't give anything up that they were defeated. They were
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defeated by Israel, they were defeated by Donald Trump. In
the end, they didn't give anything up, they were defeated.
That's what happened here. Three h three someone three eight
two five five text d An five seven seven three nine.
But Ryan, I think that's part of the lasting benefit
of this, And I've been saying this since long before
election day, when we all knew President Trump was going
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to win. But then the long term defeated the left
would depend upon two things coming together, a Trump victory
but also the left being exposed and exposing itself to
the point that it led to a permanent shift in
voting habits.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And this helps that.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
When you have people like her come out and say
the things she did today, that helps open eyes because again, man,
as a guy I was a Democrat for years, I
know there are so many good people who vote Democrat
out of habit, and they just they don't know the
things that you and I know about the modern Democratic Party.
And each time you get something like this, it just.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Helps open eyes.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
But the other part of the equation, right is the
massive success, because it's not just exposing the left, it's
having massive success on the right.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And this is the kind of massive success.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Today that is a former Democrat I can tell you
is going to have some Democrat people who normally vote
Democrat thinking, Wait a second, maybe I should take a
second look at this conservative stuff, this Republican party.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Hey, we're going to come back.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
We're going to enjoy a bunch of the sound of
President Trump triumphant today hostages returning home. But I really
do want to hear from you. Okay, with today as
an example, what else out there has the world just
regarded to America or Colorado regarded as an impossible problem
to solve, But it may actually be solvable because that's
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what we saw happen today.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Well, Israel, with our help, has won all that they
can by force of arms. You've won, I mean you've won.
Now it's time to translate these victories against terrace on
the battlefield into the ultimate prize of peace and prosperity
for the entire Middle East. It's about time you were
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able to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Wow, he has just absolutely nailed it.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
And I think there are so many structural reasons to
believe that this is going to change the landscape long term.
Steve will kick it off with you in beautiful Colorado Springs.
You're on the dan Kaplas show, Welcome after.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Their counselor capitalists. Just thought i'd see if your beautiful,
ladacious bride I softened her tone on Potus Trump because
my Persian princess of perpetual indulgence seems to be softening
her tone. Number one. Number two for anyone who's interested
in which I think you would be in this group,
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call the White House and leave your thoughts. It's two
or two, four or five, six, eleven eleven, because this
is a pretty momentous occasion, I think, in my opinion,
and I didn't think I'd say it in my lifetime.
And then real quickly because I know you've got their callers.
Back in the nineties, I was on a tour with
a really really nice Arabic gal who had grown up
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in gossip and was living in Israel. Lot of people
know there's like turn fifty two, one thousand people living
in Israel that are not is really Jews. Anyway, we
are taking a break, really nouveled down we're taking a
break at lunch, and she said, you know, I don't
think Than is ever going to be an actual piece here.
Until the people in the Palestinian Organization love their kids
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more than they hate to do, They're not gonna but
suicide best. I'm going to blow up for kids. I
thought that was very profound, great points.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I'm just looking up bodacious and what I'm reading here
Webster's bodacious, excellent, admirable, or attractive.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah, you've already said that about Amy r.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You have a great vocabulary, my friend, really.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Really good stuff that I'm sorry for that, but you
no great great question that you ask as well, And
I will ask her tonight. Her mom's under the weather,
so appreciate prayers for my mother in law. She's under
the weather. So Amy is back there helping her out.
But I will ask Amy tonight because today, right, this
isn't like some ceasefire, This isn't like a typical peace deal.
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Today was as tough as it gets to a team.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
And also the ruture of the deal is, you obviously know, Steve,
is such that there is reason, real reason to believe
that it will literally alter the landscape for the next
hundred years.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I hope so in if the other five elements of
the plan come to fruition, that would be fantastic.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Well, and you know that they are. Thank you, Steve.
Appreciate the call. Ryan. Have we had a caller with
a better rapid fire vocabulary?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
No?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
And I want to find out more about this Persian princess.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
He speaking, yes, yes, yes, it's his own personal life. Yeah, no,
it sounds like it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
But the pointy makes is a good one because when
we were in Israel and our family trip, what was
so striking to me is we couldn't remember a more
diverse place that we had been, right just in terms
of racial diversity, for example, And we're trying to think
of It's not like I've been everywhere, but I've been
a few places.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
And you can attest to this.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
I believe Dan in the great irony of let's say,
gaze for Palestine, queers for Palestine, or the kind of
coastal liberal elite women who choose to support Palestine over Israel.
There's no place in the Middle East where women have
more rights, are more empowered, or saint can be said
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for gay individuals than Israel in all of the Middle East.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Well, the whole society was so impressive right in so
many different ways. I cannot wait to go back, and
hopefully what just happened will make it easier for a
lot of people to go three or three someone three eight,
two five five takes d An five seven seven, three nine.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Let me get to some of these texts as well.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
It's so telling that some on the left are giving
credit to the bistration that Trump could make this piece
Deale stunning, but they will steal credit for this Alexa.
I rarely disagree with our friend Alexa, who's the toughest
don brust you'll ever meet. She has well like a
major neck surgery and she's out chopping wood in the afternoon.
But that's right, I would disagree here. I'd say they
will attempt to steal credit. And this comes back to
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a point I'm made over the years on air that's
proven true over and over again.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
The people are smart.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
So when you have the left out there lying about
the things they lie about, they can get away with
it for a little while. But when people turn on
them because they figure out their liars, they're likely turning
on them for good. So anybody now who tries to
take credit away from Trump is really just digging their
own grave. It's going to be so interesting to watch
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who tries to do that. Have we heard from the
phantoms yet? Bennett and Hickenlooper are the phantoms of the Senate?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Ooh, I don't believe. So yeah, so it'll be so interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
So there's a little bit of discipline in place here
because they just realize if you come out and criticize
Trump right now on this or refuse to give them credit,
those are pretty much from us talking points. So so
how long will they be able to resist?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I give it twenty two hours.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Maybe by this time tomorrow they will come up with
some talking point where they can attack Trump. And I
invite that because this will help expose the left more.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
How about two examples, real quick, Dan, Yes, the former
president of the United States, Barack Obama, having the gall
the audacity, the nerve to send out a post on Acts,
you know, celebrating this piece in Gayza not mentioning Donald
Trump's name once, come on, pal.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
And even CNN called him off for that. Right, but
it's a blessing.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
We want more of that, please, right, because it exposes
him because a lot of people buy into the whole
Obama thing because.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
He's so talented.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Right, have we seen a more talented Democrat in our
lifetime than Obama?
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Clinton?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
And I was a little little kid when Kennedy was killed,
so certainly John Kennedy. But yeah, Bill Clinton, he was
a five tool player for a little while.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
But Obama is so talented, So so many people buy
the con by the con stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Helps cut through that text or dan it from us
cared so much? Why are there any dead? Exactly listen
at this point. That that's why structurally this has not
only the possibility, I'd say the probability of working long
term because Trump and who else on earth could do it.
Trump was able to turn those other Arab countries against
Tmus and freeze them out. That's the only way this
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thing happened today. And then Trump, though, in order to
do that, was willing to, was willing to and able
to convince Israel, you know, to swallow some tough pills,
you know, saying hey, west.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Bank's going to be left alone. I mean, that's that's hard.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
But Trump was able peace through strength and then obviously
the willingness to go in and support Israel as he
should have in the bombing of Iran.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Who else could pull that off.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
But that's why structurally this thing is going to work
because Hamas is not going to be in a position
to stand in the way of Phase two, which is
literally the redevelopment of Gaza.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
I'm so glad you brought that up, Dan, to connect
those dots, and that's the peace through strength part and
the bombing of the nuclear facilities in Iran. That sent
a message. And you've got to believe that that carrot
and stick approach. The stick mattered, maybe more so than
the carrot of bringing an end to this because Donald
Trump showed that he had what it took to deliver
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that kind of military strike and he wasn't afraid to
do it again.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, and you had that match of guts, persistence, and
then real brilliance in terms of an overall strategy. Right
because right now, okay, you know Trump has made it
clear to Israel as part of all this, you know
you're not going to annex the West Bank, et cetera.
But what's going to happen is when this actual physical
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reconstruction of Gaza. And who better to lead that, right
Trump is president of the Peace Board, right they call
it the Peace Board. That's brilliant, and major Arab bleeders
on it as well. Once the people in the West
Bank see that the wait a second Gaza is being rebuilt,
people are actually going to have a good, normal life,
then who's going to go on? I want to go
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back to this existence where from the time you're born
your only purpose in life is to hate Israel and
leave hate Jews and live a life of squalor. You
think of how many innocent little kids, right, innocent little
kids born in Gaza, born in the West Bank, have
had their lives thrown away by these evil demons from
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Hamas in the Iranian regime.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
So it's a liberation day.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
It's an independence day for lots and lots of people
on both sides of that border, none of which would
have happened without Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Think about that for a second.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
The guy the Democrats would have, if not already in
jail on his way, they would have destroyed, destroyed him
and his family. Hopefully this opens the eyes of a
lot of people who normally vote Democrat.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Can't be doing that anymore.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis show, podcast.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
After two harrowing years and darkness and captivity, twenty courageous
hostages are each turning to the glorious embrace of their families.
And it is glorious twenty eight more precious loved ones.
They are coming home at last, to rest in the
sacred soil for all of time. And after so many
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years of unceasing war and endless danger, today the skies
are calm, the guns are silent, the sirens are still,
and the sun rises on a holy land that is
finally at peace, a land and a region that will
live God willing in peace for all eternity.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
See, that's historic stuff in so many ways and just
has to make you so optimistic for the future. One
of the things we're talking about this afternoon. If you
want to call her text, you can call us three
or three someone three eight two five five text five
seven seven three nine is Bobby Kennedy, And it was
George Fernardshaw before him in a different way used to say,
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you know, hey, some dream of things that never were
and say why And I dream of things the way
they should be and say why not? And so it's
one of those moments, I mean, what is it that
the world or Colorado or your town in Colorado right
now thinks is impossible but really can be fixed. I
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think I think this is we need a change of mindset.
Right Who would have thought what was accomplished today could
be accomplished in the way it was and with all
the concrete hope for the future right now? Three or
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Former Secretary Blincoln was glad Trump continued Biden's groundworkl just
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exposing guys like blink and when they say stuff like that.
Dan absolutely disgusting that Elizabeth Warren could not give Trump
credit for the peace deal.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Love JD. Vance's post that from Alexi.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, did you see Vance's post instantly as right where
Elizabeth Warren, you know, tweets out appropriately. You know how
happy she has the hostages have been released. Doesn't mention Trump,
and she doesn't mention Trump.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
She's been calling for.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Vance posts that, you know, posts that, and then his
comment on it was that President Trump decided to do
this on Indigenous People's Day to honor you referring to
Elizabeth Warren. Yeah, that was that was an instant classic
right there. And yeah, Dan, remember that Biden and Harris
criticized Republicans for not funding more war no question. I
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mean Trump is the peace president. We'll play this cut
from him in a bit that's just so interesting. He's
always funny, right, but I think this is from the heart.
This is serious stuff where he's asked about on Air
Force one on the way over. Okay, you know, do
you think this will help get you into heaven? So
we'll get into that because it gets into some deeper
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issues there. Short answer, he's said no, he thought he
probably wasn't destined for heaven.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Well, he looks at it like Trump's looks at things
as a ledger.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
I don't think I've done enough. I gotta do more.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
And you could speak much more to that part of it, Dan,
the faith based works and that I don't I'm.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Not sure how the Catholic Church views that.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
But from my Protestant position, it's not your works that
get you into heaven. It's a well belief in Christ
and it's a savior and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
No, and believe me, I don't speak for the Catholic Church,
and I'm no theologian. I'm just I am, and I'm
a guy work in progress, trying to figure it all out.
But knowing and our faith works are very important, and
because the whole idea is, if you believe it, you
got to show it. If you're not showing it, then
you don't really believe it. And so listen again, I'm
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no theologian. I just had my four years in the
seminary in my high school years. Never even got to
hear a confession that would be fascinating. Fascinating. Yeah, but anyway, No,
I mean my personal belief just one guy. You know,
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how would God view all of this? I mean it
comes back to Trump in some ways being a biblical figure,
right because you look at the Bible and you look
at all the broken people who are chosen for really
big jobs, starting with being the apostles. You know, so
many broken people that has been that has been god'szmo.
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You know, which I'm all for obviously, but that's been
God's mo is working with broken people. And then you
look at Trump and you look at the.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Things he's done.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I go back to the field in Butler, I go
back to twenty sixteen, where if Trump doesn't win that race,
we lose our American democracy. People think that hyperbole. It's
not because the left wins. Clinton wins. In twenty sixteen,
the US Supreme Court's gone, which means now it becomes
a Democrat legislature. A super legislature can never be voted out,
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serves for life. So every major policy issue that should
be decided through democratic channels is now taken out of
the hands of the American people and has decided at
the US Supreme Court in a very political way. That's
what was at stake in twenty sixteen, before we even
get to the other stuff like World peace and so,
and then Trump being saved in that field, and Butler
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and then all these amazing things he's accomplished. Yet, as
I said at the time, I do believe there's divine
intervention at work.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
How about this Dan, he's seventy nine years old. Got
to start with that. So horse, we know there's no
way Joe Biden could have done what was done over
these last twenty four hours. I don't think Kamala Harris,
even at her age, could do the following. Here's what
a rapid response forty seven just posted. Donald Trump flew
to Israel, spoke to the press, met with Israeli leaders,
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spoke again to the pres US, met with the families
of the hostages, delivered an hour long speech the Knesset,
that's the Israeli legislature, did an interview, flew to Egypt,
met with the Egyptian president, spoke to the press again,
took photos and chatted individually with dozens of world leaders,
signed the historic Gaza Peace Deal, delivered another speech meant
privately with world leaders, then flew back to the United States.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I want what he's having. Did it say how many
diet cokes?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
It's diet COKEX and Big Max. But that is what
I did. Does anybody know anybody who really knows Trump? Well,
I've never even met him. What I truly what I
want to know is, you know, is it the diet cokes?
Is there some like supplement from Walgreens?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
What is it? Because it is it is kind of superhuman? Yeah?
What is it?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
And in sixteen we all remember, I mean one of
the big reasons he won that close race.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Is he just outworked or absolutely? Yeah? So what what
is it?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I would love to know if anybody knows him well
enough to know, well, it might just be the diet.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Cokes from both Don Junior and Eric. I've heard them
say many times they don't have the stamina at their
age that their father does at his age.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Now, yeah, now, I truly would like to know. Yeah,
because that is who was it who said it? You know,
one of those great wise men said you look at it.
The common denominator of almost all of the greatest figures
in history has been they didn't sleep much. Right, And
I understand we need more sleep in general, our kids
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need more sleep, all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
But that is a common denominator of most of the
greatest figures in history. And obviously it gives you more
hours than the day to work, assuming that you can
stay alive and stay mentally sharp.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
If I may, well for the following that our listeners
are well aware of because of our exchanges years of mind,
one Dan Kaplis does not sleep a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Oh, thank you, But I believe me, I'm not going
to get into this discussion. But what I will say, no, no, no,
But what I will say about that is it is
a tremendous advantage. You know, hey, we all have our
plus and minus columns, right, I mean, I wish I
was this, and I wish I was that. But I
am very grateful for that gift because it gives you
more hours in the day and you can outwork your
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competition and go yeah, yeah, you can outwork your competition.
And that's another thing where yeah, Trump has just outworked
as competition. Plus he's got that iron will right. Oh,
I mean, can we think of any other figure in
our lifetime who would have had what it took to
keep going in.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
The face of everything he was up against.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Every other leader I can think of would have done
some deal with the Democrats. Hey, keep me out of jail,
I'll go away. I won't run again. Leave my family alone,
I'll go away. I won't run again. Trump wouldn't have.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
Any of that, not one bit.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Wow three or three SEVENE three eight two five five
text d A N five seven seven three nine. So
what would love to hear from me in this What
else that seems impossible, could be local, could be here
in Colorado? Seems impossible? Do you think really can be fixed?
It's a day for that kind of conversation. I have
a very concrete example in mind. But Trump accomplishing something
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today nobody believed could happen.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
You're on the Dan Caplas Show.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
And now back to the Dan Taplass Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
This is not only the end of a war. This
is the end of a age of terror and death
and the beginning of the age of faith and hope
and of God. It's the start of a grand concord
and lasting harmony for Israel and all the nations of
what will soon be a truly magnificent region.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I believe that so strongly. This is the historic dawn
of a new Middle East.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
I want to express my gratitude to a man of
exceptional courage and patriotism whose partnership is so much to
make this momentous day possible. You know I'm talking about
there's only one Prime Minister, Benjamin Nahu, we do send up.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
See.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I love his point about the births of a new
Middle East, because there's every reason to believe that that's achievable.
Now in fact that I think there's reason to believe
it's probable because of the structure of this particular peace deal,
because obviously in peace deal understates that this doesn't happen
without Trump doing what needs to be done, both with
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Israel and you know, the Arab nations in the Mid
East doing what needs to be done to isolate Hamas,
which will destroy Hamas. This doesn't happen today unless you
had multiple Arab states making it clear to Hamas no
games all twenty they have to be delivered today. And
then of course the remains of those murdered by Hamas
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which have just started to arrive. Now, it doesn't happen
without those other Arab nations turning their back on Hamas
and giving Hamas these marching orders. And so that means
Phase two, which is a physical reconstruction of Asa, is
actually likely to happen. I'm not talking about by Christmas,
but is actually likely to happen. And once that happens,
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all things are possible, right because of a common denominator
we have as humans, and I understand there are differences
in worldview. Sometimes those differences are profound, you know, based
upon obviously there's a radicalized version of Islam out there.
You know that affects some people's worldview. But you come
right back to just the vast majority of humans and
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what we have in common. Unless somebody's a psychopath or
otherwise it lacks, you know, brain function, and that is
just those common denominators, right of a love for children
that goes.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Beyond all human understanding. Right, just just that kind of.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Profound, motivating love for one's children, let alone other members
of your family, and a desire for those just basics
in life and freedom. I mean, those are the things
that give real hope for the future. Now if Gaza
is in fact reconstructed, because then people can see for
themselves there's a much better life. There's a much better
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way than being used and raised from birth as pawns
for hate, where your whole existence is centered around hating Jews. No,
and so there's this is breakthrough stuff, a very real
chance for a totally different mid East, as Trump says,
based around peace and prosperity, you know, those common basic
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human desires. Let's go to the textures as well, because
the broader question I'm asking you know the RFK quote,
some men see things as they are and say why
I dream things that never wear and say why not?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
What about here? What about in Colorado?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Things that seem impossible, Now we're no that they can
be fixed. We can have a much different and better future.
I think there are concrete examples sh Dan without the
bombing of Iran. There is no peace deal. Trump certified
themselves wrong, man, I think I think that's very very true.
Without Trump traveling to the Mid East and meeting with
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all the Arab leaders and doing these economic deals, and
without Trump willing to step up and say to Israel,
which is the victim and all this, but say to Israel,
you got to give something up in terms of you're
not going to annex the West Bank, et cetera. Yeah, now,
there's so much that Trump did. This other Trump text
is very good, except it gets too long.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
What seems impossible is for Colorado to vote in Victor
Marx as governor. That might help restore a little of
my faith in this state. Hey, I look very forward
to having Victor on the show. We hope that happens soon. Dan,
You cannot work your way into heaven, but faith without
works is dead. And that leads me to this great
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Trump sound. Peter Deucey had asked the President about this
on the flight over today because Trump had talked openly
we did on the show, and he did about you know,
wanting to to get to heaven and maybe making peace.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Blessed or the peacemakers will help him.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
You had talked a couple of weeks ago, you were
doing an interview, and you talked about how you hope
to end the war in Ukraine because it might help
you get into heaven.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
How does how does this help?
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Does this help?
Speaker 8 (33:15):
I mean, you know, be a little cute. I don't
think there's anything gonna get me in heaven, Okay, I
really I think I think I'm not maybe heaven bound.
I may be in heaven right now as we fly
at the Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna
be able to make heaven, but I've made life a
lot better for a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Yeah, So what's your what's your reaction to that?
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Three of three seven eight two five five the number
text d A N five seven seven three nine. Do
you think President Trump is gonna get into heaven?
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Well?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I sure hope so.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
And I think that is absolutely the right answer, right
because of the humility involved. I mean, here's a guy
who is saving all these lives, and I'm a firm
believer in the importance of that individual life, right, just
that the basic human dignity, importance of each life. So
you start with today these twenty lives, but then on
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top of that, obviously he's saving very large numbers of lives.
I've got to believe that means a lot, right in
the end. And then also you know that this idea,
it's not an idea, right, it's Christ teaching that man
knows no greater love than to lay down his life
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for another. And so you look at Trump, who, in
his job, when he decided to take out that evil
solo money to protect our troops and protect America, he
knew he was putting a target on his own back,
and he was willing to take that physical risk. And
obviously these two serious assassination attempts. I just think there
are so many reasons and what can I say, right,
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I mean, I'm just a guy trying to get there myself,
but so many since to believe that Trump will.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I mean the other side of the ledger.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
And I understand not all sins are created equal, but
we're all sinners, right, And then you look at these
tremendous accomplishments, the evil he has taken on evil in
its rawest form, and all the success he's had there. Yeah,
but love your thoughts on that three oh three seven,
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three eight two five five text D an five seven
seven three nine. As we celebrate this truly historic day
and all the good things to come.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
You're on the dan Caplish
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that was the American way on full display today in Israel.
What a glorious day for the all of the great
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things that happened today, but everything now that may be
possible in the future.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Glad you're here. Three oh three seven one.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Three eight two five five The number takes d an
five seven seven three nine, because I think that the
lasting significance of today, it could be a breakthrough almost
beyond our imaginations. And that's because who would have thought
today would be possible?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Right?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And the way today came down, I'm sure that you
prompably thought of maybe different ways that you know, there
might be living hostages return, But the way it came
down with an American president able to convince classic piece
through strength right, able to convince you know, Arab states
to turn their back on Hamas, which you know obviously
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bodes very well for the future steps.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Of this piece deal.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
But what it offers the promise that it offers goes
so far beyond that, because don't you feel like over
the last whatever, ten twenty thirty years that I think
many people have given up on seismic changes, truly landscape
changing events for the good on the world stage, and
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I think there's been this kind of pessimism, sometimes hard,
sometimes soft, that's crept in butt toxic to the point
that I think it's convinced a lot of people who
maybe thirty forty years ago would have believed anything was
possible to no longer believe that.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
But I think that's kind of one of the lasting gifts.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Of Trump is not just this amazing accomplishment today, but
just hopefully causing enough people to start thinking about, Hey,
what is possible? What else that we thought was impossible
is actually possible now?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
RFK. You know it's been attributed to him. I think
it was.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
George Bernard's Shaw before him, But RFK. Some men see
things as they are and ask why. I dream of
things that never were.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
And ask why not.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So it's one of the things I want to throw
out there for you today, whether you want to call
the show text, just think about it in the car whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
What other things.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
What other things that seem impossible right now that the
world is just kind of accepted as impossible problems do
you think are actually fixable?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
You know, whether we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
If you're listening in Colorado, whether you're talking about in Denver, Colorado,
where we're doing the show from today, or you're talking
about worldwide, what other things that seem impossible do you
think are actually fixed?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And then what would that take.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I'd love to have that conversation because I think about
that all the time. On a day like today, it
seems even more attainable, right because they think about this
Donald Trump. You're talking about a guy who, if the
Democrats had their way, he would be dying in jail. Literally,
if the Democrats had their way, he would be destroyed
in every way, his reputation, his legacy, his finances, his family,
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and he'd be dying in jail. And now he's leading
the world and has led the world today to a
piece that most thought was unattainable. And I'm not assuming
in that that this piece that was going to last forever,
et cetera. It doesn't have to for this accomplishment to
be as mammoth as it is. But it also creates
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the real possibility that this could be the kind of
disruption in the pattern, disruption in the cycle that leads
to that lasting piece, perhaps even a forever piece, right,
I mean the defeat of Iran, because Amas is a
that the defeat of Iran and the way it was
defeated in Gaza, that's the sort of thing that can
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can be a permanent pivot. Three h three seven one
three eight two five five the number text d A
N five seven seven three nine. Would love to get
your take on that. I have some ideas, some concrete
ideas on other things that so many people assume are
impossible that may very well be possible, and so I'd
like to bounce those off. You also also just enjoy
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enjoy the sound, enjoy the sound of Trump in Israel
today addressing that government, and enjoy some of the sound
of some people on the left, to their everlasting credit
now being intellectually honest about the magnitude of this accomplishment
for President Trump. And then some who just won't give
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it up, like Christine I'm gonna pour from CNN, who
I think just did herself lasting damage with this business to.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
And I think for sure people who start to talk
to the hostages have only just been released, will find
that it will take a long long time for them
to recover physically, but also mentally. It's been a terrible,
terrible two years for them because not only are they there,
you know, they're probably been treated better than the average
garden because they are the pawns and the chips that
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Hamas had. Now Hamas has given up all its leverage,
by the way, by giving them all up, So that
is a big walk.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Two things there to throw in, These hostages have been
treated better than the average guysen.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Really you think so? You think so?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
The kidnapped under the most brutal of circumstances, held in
terror at not knowing whether they're going to be killed
by their captor every day, tortured by the idea of
what their families were going through. Oh yeah, you think
they've been treated better than the average garsen?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Really?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And who's the innocent party here? By the way, and listen,
obviously Hammas third saintan on earth. You know, they caused
an awful lot of death and destruction for Gazans, who
I assume I are innocent, But my goodness, that just
shows such a for a person who has actual intelligence,
brain power.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
That just Brian.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That proves my point that that hate interferes with brain function.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It's chemical, and she's got so much hate.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Twenty hostages were released alive.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
How many were women? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Zero?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Great point.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Okay, so Christian amanpur a woman, I would ask her
how were the female hostages treated and why were none
released alive?
Speaker 6 (06:38):
And there were twenty men but zero women.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
That's such a great point. And then you extend that
to the rest of you know, the American left right
that pretends to care so much about women. Where have
they been This has been one of the worst cases
of brutal mass rape that we've seen in recent history.
Where was the American left on that? It's just proofs
what phonies? They are absolute phonies when they claim to
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care about women, they claim to care about people of color, etc.
Now that's that's a great point, Ryan. And then she
goes on to say, oh, well, by Hamas giving up
the hostages, they give up their leverage. If I could
say the word on air, I would, and I'd say
it one hundred times. They didn't give anything up. They
didn't give anything up that they were defeated. They were
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defeated by Israel, they were defeated by Donald Trump. In
the end, they didn't give anything up, they were defeated.
That's what happened here. Three h three someone three eight
two five five text d An five seven seven three nine.
But Ryan, I think that's part of the lasting benefit
of this, And I've been saying this since long before
election day, when we all knew President Trump was going
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to win. But then the long term defeated the left
would depend upon two things coming together, a Trump victory
but also the left being exposed and exposing itself to
the point that it led to a permanent shift in
voting habits.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And this helps that.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
When you have people like her come out and say
the things she did today, that helps open eyes because again, man,
as a guy I was a Democrat for years, I
know there are so many good people who vote Democrat
out of habit, and they just they don't know the
things that you and I know about the modern Democratic Party.
And each time you get something like this, it just.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Helps open eyes.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
But the other part of the equation, right is the
massive success, because it's not just exposing the left, it's
having massive success on the right.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And this is the kind of massive success.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Today that is a former Democrat I can tell you
is going to have some Democrat people who normally vote
Democrat thinking, Wait a second, maybe I should take a
second look at this conservative stuff, this Republican party.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Hey, we're going to come back.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
We're going to enjoy a bunch of the sound of
President Trump triumphant today hostages returning home. But I really
do want to hear from you. Okay, with today as
an example, what else out there has the world just
regarded to America or Colorado regarded as an impossible problem
to solve, But it may actually be solvable because that's
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what we saw happen today.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Well, Israel, with our help, has won all that they
can by force of arms. You've won, I mean you've won.
Now it's time to translate these victories against terrace on
the battlefield into the ultimate prize of peace and prosperity
for the entire Middle East. It's about time you were
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able to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Wow, he has just absolutely nailed it.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
And I think there are so many structural reasons to
believe that this is going to change the landscape long term.
Steve will kick it off with you in beautiful Colorado Springs.
You're on the dan Kaplas show, Welcome after.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Their counselor capitalists. Just thought i'd see if your beautiful,
ladacious bride I softened her tone on Potus Trump because
my Persian princess of perpetual indulgence seems to be softening
her tone. Number one. Number two for anyone who's interested
in which I think you would be in this group,
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call the White House and leave your thoughts. It's two
or two, four or five, six, eleven eleven, because this
is a pretty momentous occasion, I think, in my opinion,
and I didn't think I'd say it in my lifetime.
And then real quickly because I know you've got their callers.
Back in the nineties, I was on a tour with
a really really nice Arabic gal who had grown up
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in gossip and was living in Israel. Lot of people
know there's like turn fifty two, one thousand people living
in Israel that are not is really Jews. Anyway, we
are taking a break, really nouveled down we're taking a
break at lunch, and she said, you know, I don't
think Than is ever going to be an actual piece here.
Until the people in the Palestinian Organization love their kids
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more than they hate to do, They're not gonna but
suicide best. I'm going to blow up for kids. I
thought that was very profound, great points.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I'm just looking up bodacious and what I'm reading here
Webster's bodacious, excellent, admirable, or attractive.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah, you've already said that about Amy r.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You have a great vocabulary, my friend, really.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Really good stuff that I'm sorry for that, but you
no great great question that you ask as well, And
I will ask her tonight. Her mom's under the weather,
so appreciate prayers for my mother in law. She's under
the weather. So Amy is back there helping her out.
But I will ask Amy tonight because today, right, this
isn't like some ceasefire, This isn't like a typical peace deal.
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Today was as tough as it gets to a team.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
And also the ruture of the deal is, you obviously know, Steve,
is such that there is reason, real reason to believe
that it will literally alter the landscape for the next
hundred years.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I hope so in if the other five elements of
the plan come to fruition, that would be fantastic.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Well, and you know that they are. Thank you, Steve.
Appreciate the call. Ryan. Have we had a caller with
a better rapid fire vocabulary?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
No?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
And I want to find out more about this Persian princess.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
He speaking, yes, yes, yes, it's his own personal life. Yeah, no,
it sounds like it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
But the pointy makes is a good one because when
we were in Israel and our family trip, what was
so striking to me is we couldn't remember a more
diverse place that we had been, right just in terms
of racial diversity, for example, And we're trying to think
of It's not like I've been everywhere, but I've been
a few places.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
And you can attest to this.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
I believe Dan in the great irony of let's say,
gaze for Palestine, queers for Palestine, or the kind of
coastal liberal elite women who choose to support Palestine over Israel.
There's no place in the Middle East where women have
more rights, are more empowered, or saint can be said
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for gay individuals than Israel in all of the Middle East.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Well, the whole society was so impressive right in so
many different ways. I cannot wait to go back, and
hopefully what just happened will make it easier for a
lot of people to go three or three someone three eight,
two five five takes d An five seven seven, three nine.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Let me get to some of these texts as well.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
It's so telling that some on the left are giving
credit to the bistration that Trump could make this piece
Deale stunning, but they will steal credit for this Alexa.
I rarely disagree with our friend Alexa, who's the toughest
don brust you'll ever meet. She has well like a
major neck surgery and she's out chopping wood in the afternoon.
But that's right, I would disagree here. I'd say they
will attempt to steal credit. And this comes back to
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a point I'm made over the years on air that's
proven true over and over again.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
The people are smart.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
So when you have the left out there lying about
the things they lie about, they can get away with
it for a little while. But when people turn on
them because they figure out their liars, they're likely turning
on them for good. So anybody now who tries to
take credit away from Trump is really just digging their
own grave. It's going to be so interesting to watch
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who tries to do that. Have we heard from the
phantoms yet? Bennett and Hickenlooper are the phantoms of the Senate?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Ooh, I don't believe. So yeah, so it'll be so interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
So there's a little bit of discipline in place here
because they just realize if you come out and criticize
Trump right now on this or refuse to give them credit,
those are pretty much from us talking points. So so
how long will they be able to resist?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I give it twenty two hours.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Maybe by this time tomorrow they will come up with
some talking point where they can attack Trump. And I
invite that because this will help expose the left more.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
How about two examples, real quick, Dan, Yes, the former
president of the United States, Barack Obama, having the gall
the audacity, the nerve to send out a post on Acts,
you know, celebrating this piece in Gayza not mentioning Donald
Trump's name once, come on, pal.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
And even CNN called him off for that. Right, but
it's a blessing.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
We want more of that, please, right, because it exposes
him because a lot of people buy into the whole
Obama thing because.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
He's so talented.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Right, have we seen a more talented Democrat in our
lifetime than Obama?
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Clinton?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
And I was a little little kid when Kennedy was killed,
so certainly John Kennedy. But yeah, Bill Clinton, he was
a five tool player for a little while.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
But Obama is so talented, So so many people buy
the con by the con stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Helps cut through that text or dan it from us
cared so much? Why are there any dead? Exactly listen
at this point. That that's why structurally this has not
only the possibility, I'd say the probability of working long
term because Trump and who else on earth could do it.
Trump was able to turn those other Arab countries against
Tmus and freeze them out. That's the only way this
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thing happened today. And then Trump, though, in order to
do that, was willing to, was willing to and able
to convince Israel, you know, to swallow some tough pills,
you know, saying hey, west.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Bank's going to be left alone. I mean, that's that's hard.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
But Trump was able peace through strength and then obviously
the willingness to go in and support Israel as he
should have in the bombing of Iran.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Who else could pull that off.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
But that's why structurally this thing is going to work
because Hamas is not going to be in a position
to stand in the way of Phase two, which is
literally the redevelopment of Gaza.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
I'm so glad you brought that up, Dan, to connect
those dots, and that's the peace through strength part and
the bombing of the nuclear facilities in Iran. That sent
a message. And you've got to believe that that carrot
and stick approach. The stick mattered, maybe more so than
the carrot of bringing an end to this because Donald
Trump showed that he had what it took to deliver
(17:10):
that kind of military strike and he wasn't afraid to
do it again.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, and you had that match of guts, persistence, and
then real brilliance in terms of an overall strategy. Right
because right now, okay, you know Trump has made it
clear to Israel as part of all this, you know
you're not going to annex the West Bank, et cetera.
But what's going to happen is when this actual physical
(17:34):
reconstruction of Gaza. And who better to lead that, right
Trump is president of the Peace Board, right they call
it the Peace Board. That's brilliant, and major Arab bleeders
on it as well. Once the people in the West
Bank see that the wait a second Gaza is being rebuilt,
people are actually going to have a good, normal life,
then who's going to go on? I want to go
(17:55):
back to this existence where from the time you're born
your only purpose in life is to hate Israel and
leave hate Jews and live a life of squalor. You
think of how many innocent little kids, right, innocent little
kids born in Gaza, born in the West Bank, have
had their lives thrown away by these evil demons from
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Hamas in the Iranian regime.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
So it's a liberation day.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
It's an independence day for lots and lots of people
on both sides of that border, none of which would
have happened without Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Think about that for a second.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
The guy the Democrats would have, if not already in
jail on his way, they would have destroyed, destroyed him
and his family. Hopefully this opens the eyes of a
lot of people who normally vote Democrat.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Can't be doing that anymore.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis show, podcast.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
After two harrowing years and darkness and captivity, twenty courageous
hostages are each turning to the glorious embrace of their families.
And it is glorious twenty eight more precious loved ones.
They are coming home at last, to rest in the
sacred soil for all of time. And after so many
(19:16):
years of unceasing war and endless danger, today the skies
are calm, the guns are silent, the sirens are still,
and the sun rises on a holy land that is
finally at peace, a land and a region that will
live God willing in peace for all eternity.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
See, that's historic stuff in so many ways and just
has to make you so optimistic for the future. One
of the things we're talking about this afternoon. If you
want to call her text, you can call us three
or three someone three eight two five five text five
seven seven three nine is Bobby Kennedy, And it was
George Fernardshaw before him in a different way used to say,
(20:02):
you know, hey, some dream of things that never were
and say why And I dream of things the way
they should be and say why not? And so it's
one of those moments, I mean, what is it that
the world or Colorado or your town in Colorado right
now thinks is impossible but really can be fixed. I
(20:23):
think I think this is we need a change of mindset.
Right Who would have thought what was accomplished today could
be accomplished in the way it was and with all
the concrete hope for the future right now? Three or
three seven one three A two five five text d
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Former Secretary Blincoln was glad Trump continued Biden's groundworkl just
(20:46):
exposing guys like blink and when they say stuff like that.
Dan absolutely disgusting that Elizabeth Warren could not give Trump
credit for the peace deal.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Love JD. Vance's post that from Alexi.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, did you see Vance's post instantly as right where
Elizabeth Warren, you know, tweets out appropriately. You know how
happy she has the hostages have been released. Doesn't mention Trump,
and she doesn't mention Trump.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
She's been calling for.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Vance posts that, you know, posts that, and then his
comment on it was that President Trump decided to do
this on Indigenous People's Day to honor you referring to
Elizabeth Warren. Yeah, that was that was an instant classic
right there. And yeah, Dan, remember that Biden and Harris
criticized Republicans for not funding more war no question. I
(21:38):
mean Trump is the peace president. We'll play this cut
from him in a bit that's just so interesting. He's
always funny, right, but I think this is from the heart.
This is serious stuff where he's asked about on Air
Force one on the way over. Okay, you know, do
you think this will help get you into heaven? So
we'll get into that because it gets into some deeper
(21:58):
issues there. Short answer, he's said no, he thought he
probably wasn't destined for heaven.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Well, he looks at it like Trump's looks at things
as a ledger.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
I don't think I've done enough. I gotta do more.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
And you could speak much more to that part of it, Dan,
the faith based works and that I don't I'm.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Not sure how the Catholic Church views that.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
But from my Protestant position, it's not your works that
get you into heaven. It's a well belief in Christ
and it's a savior and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
No, and believe me, I don't speak for the Catholic Church,
and I'm no theologian. I'm just I am, and I'm
a guy work in progress, trying to figure it all out.
But knowing and our faith works are very important, and
because the whole idea is, if you believe it, you
got to show it. If you're not showing it, then
you don't really believe it. And so listen again, I'm
(22:52):
no theologian. I just had my four years in the
seminary in my high school years. Never even got to
hear a confession that would be fascinating. Fascinating. Yeah, but anyway, No,
I mean my personal belief just one guy. You know,
(23:13):
how would God view all of this? I mean it
comes back to Trump in some ways being a biblical figure,
right because you look at the Bible and you look
at all the broken people who are chosen for really
big jobs, starting with being the apostles. You know, so
many broken people that has been that has been god'szmo.
(23:34):
You know, which I'm all for obviously, but that's been
God's mo is working with broken people. And then you
look at Trump and you look at the.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Things he's done.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I go back to the field in Butler, I go
back to twenty sixteen, where if Trump doesn't win that race,
we lose our American democracy. People think that hyperbole. It's
not because the left wins. Clinton wins. In twenty sixteen,
the US Supreme Court's gone, which means now it becomes
a Democrat legislature. A super legislature can never be voted out,
(24:08):
serves for life. So every major policy issue that should
be decided through democratic channels is now taken out of
the hands of the American people and has decided at
the US Supreme Court in a very political way. That's
what was at stake in twenty sixteen, before we even
get to the other stuff like World peace and so,
and then Trump being saved in that field, and Butler
(24:30):
and then all these amazing things he's accomplished. Yet, as
I said at the time, I do believe there's divine
intervention at work.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
How about this Dan, he's seventy nine years old. Got
to start with that. So horse, we know there's no
way Joe Biden could have done what was done over
these last twenty four hours. I don't think Kamala Harris,
even at her age, could do the following. Here's what
a rapid response forty seven just posted. Donald Trump flew
to Israel, spoke to the press, met with Israeli leaders,
(24:59):
spoke again to the pres US, met with the families
of the hostages, delivered an hour long speech the Knesset,
that's the Israeli legislature, did an interview, flew to Egypt,
met with the Egyptian president, spoke to the press again,
took photos and chatted individually with dozens of world leaders,
signed the historic Gaza Peace Deal, delivered another speech meant
privately with world leaders, then flew back to the United States.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I want what he's having. Did it say how many
diet cokes?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
It's diet COKEX and Big Max. But that is what
I did. Does anybody know anybody who really knows Trump? Well,
I've never even met him. What I truly what I
want to know is, you know, is it the diet cokes?
Is there some like supplement from Walgreens?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
What is it? Because it is it is kind of superhuman? Yeah?
What is it?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
And in sixteen we all remember, I mean one of
the big reasons he won that close race.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Is he just outworked or absolutely? Yeah? So what what
is it?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I would love to know if anybody knows him well
enough to know, well, it might just be the diet.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Cokes from both Don Junior and Eric. I've heard them
say many times they don't have the stamina at their
age that their father does at his age.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Now, yeah, now, I truly would like to know. Yeah,
because that is who was it who said it? You know,
one of those great wise men said you look at it.
The common denominator of almost all of the greatest figures
in history has been they didn't sleep much. Right, And
I understand we need more sleep in general, our kids
(26:29):
need more sleep, all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
But that is a common denominator of most of the
greatest figures in history. And obviously it gives you more
hours than the day to work, assuming that you can
stay alive and stay mentally sharp.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
If I may, well for the following that our listeners
are well aware of because of our exchanges years of mind,
one Dan Kaplis does not sleep a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Oh, thank you, But I believe me, I'm not going
to get into this discussion. But what I will say, no, no, no,
But what I will say about that is it is
a tremendous advantage. You know, hey, we all have our
plus and minus columns, right, I mean, I wish I
was this, and I wish I was that. But I
am very grateful for that gift because it gives you
more hours in the day and you can outwork your
(27:12):
competition and go yeah, yeah, you can outwork your competition.
And that's another thing where yeah, Trump has just outworked
as competition. Plus he's got that iron will right. Oh,
I mean, can we think of any other figure in
our lifetime who would have had what it took to
keep going in.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
The face of everything he was up against.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Every other leader I can think of would have done
some deal with the Democrats. Hey, keep me out of jail,
I'll go away. I won't run again. Leave my family alone,
I'll go away. I won't run again. Trump wouldn't have.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
Any of that, not one bit.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Wow three or three SEVENE three eight two five five
text d A N five seven seven three nine. So
what would love to hear from me in this What
else that seems impossible, could be local, could be here
in Colorado? Seems impossible? Do you think really can be fixed?
It's a day for that kind of conversation. I have
a very concrete example in mind. But Trump accomplishing something
(28:05):
today nobody believed could happen.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
You're on the Dan Caplas Show.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
And now back to the Dan Taplass Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
This is not only the end of a war. This
is the end of a age of terror and death
and the beginning of the age of faith and hope
and of God. It's the start of a grand concord
and lasting harmony for Israel and all the nations of
what will soon be a truly magnificent region.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I believe that so strongly. This is the historic dawn
of a new Middle East.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
I want to express my gratitude to a man of
exceptional courage and patriotism whose partnership is so much to
make this momentous day possible. You know I'm talking about
there's only one Prime Minister, Benjamin Nahu, we do send up.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
See.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I love his point about the births of a new
Middle East, because there's every reason to believe that that's achievable.
Now in fact that I think there's reason to believe
it's probable because of the structure of this particular peace deal,
because obviously in peace deal understates that this doesn't happen
without Trump doing what needs to be done, both with
(29:26):
Israel and you know, the Arab nations in the Mid
East doing what needs to be done to isolate Hamas,
which will destroy Hamas. This doesn't happen today unless you
had multiple Arab states making it clear to Hamas no
games all twenty they have to be delivered today. And
then of course the remains of those murdered by Hamas
(29:47):
which have just started to arrive. Now, it doesn't happen
without those other Arab nations turning their back on Hamas
and giving Hamas these marching orders. And so that means
Phase two, which is a physical reconstruction of Asa, is
actually likely to happen. I'm not talking about by Christmas,
but is actually likely to happen. And once that happens,
(30:08):
all things are possible, right because of a common denominator
we have as humans, and I understand there are differences
in worldview. Sometimes those differences are profound, you know, based
upon obviously there's a radicalized version of Islam out there.
You know that affects some people's worldview. But you come
right back to just the vast majority of humans and
(30:29):
what we have in common. Unless somebody's a psychopath or
otherwise it lacks, you know, brain function, and that is
just those common denominators, right of a love for children
that goes.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Beyond all human understanding. Right, just just that kind of.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Profound, motivating love for one's children, let alone other members
of your family, and a desire for those just basics
in life and freedom. I mean, those are the things
that give real hope for the future. Now if Gaza
is in fact reconstructed, because then people can see for
themselves there's a much better life. There's a much better
(31:10):
way than being used and raised from birth as pawns
for hate, where your whole existence is centered around hating Jews. No,
and so there's this is breakthrough stuff, a very real
chance for a totally different mid East, as Trump says,
based around peace and prosperity, you know, those common basic
(31:31):
human desires. Let's go to the textures as well, because
the broader question I'm asking you know the RFK quote,
some men see things as they are and say why
I dream things that never wear and say why not?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
What about here? What about in Colorado?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Things that seem impossible, Now we're no that they can
be fixed. We can have a much different and better future.
I think there are concrete examples sh Dan without the
bombing of Iran. There is no peace deal. Trump certified
themselves wrong, man, I think I think that's very very true.
Without Trump traveling to the Mid East and meeting with
(32:06):
all the Arab leaders and doing these economic deals, and
without Trump willing to step up and say to Israel,
which is the victim and all this, but say to Israel,
you got to give something up in terms of you're
not going to annex the West Bank, et cetera. Yeah, now,
there's so much that Trump did. This other Trump text
is very good, except it gets too long.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
What seems impossible is for Colorado to vote in Victor
Marx as governor. That might help restore a little of
my faith in this state. Hey, I look very forward
to having Victor on the show. We hope that happens soon. Dan,
You cannot work your way into heaven, but faith without
works is dead. And that leads me to this great
(32:50):
Trump sound. Peter Deucey had asked the President about this
on the flight over today because Trump had talked openly
we did on the show, and he did about you know,
wanting to to get to heaven and maybe making peace.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Blessed or the peacemakers will help him.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
You had talked a couple of weeks ago, you were
doing an interview, and you talked about how you hope
to end the war in Ukraine because it might help
you get into heaven.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
How does how does this help?
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Does this help?
Speaker 8 (33:15):
I mean, you know, be a little cute. I don't
think there's anything gonna get me in heaven, Okay, I
really I think I think I'm not maybe heaven bound.
I may be in heaven right now as we fly
at the Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna
be able to make heaven, but I've made life a
lot better for a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Yeah, So what's your what's your reaction to that?
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Three of three seven eight two five five the number
text d A N five seven seven three nine. Do
you think President Trump is gonna get into heaven?
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Well?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I sure hope so.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
And I think that is absolutely the right answer, right
because of the humility involved. I mean, here's a guy
who is saving all these lives, and I'm a firm
believer in the importance of that individual life, right, just
that the basic human dignity, importance of each life. So
you start with today these twenty lives, but then on
(34:12):
top of that, obviously he's saving very large numbers of lives.
I've got to believe that means a lot, right in
the end. And then also you know that this idea,
it's not an idea, right, it's Christ teaching that man
knows no greater love than to lay down his life
(34:32):
for another. And so you look at Trump, who, in
his job, when he decided to take out that evil
solo money to protect our troops and protect America, he
knew he was putting a target on his own back,
and he was willing to take that physical risk. And
obviously these two serious assassination attempts. I just think there
are so many reasons and what can I say, right,
(34:56):
I mean, I'm just a guy trying to get there myself,
but so many since to believe that Trump will.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I mean the other side of the ledger.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
And I understand not all sins are created equal, but
we're all sinners, right, And then you look at these
tremendous accomplishments, the evil he has taken on evil in
its rawest form, and all the success he's had there. Yeah,
but love your thoughts on that three oh three seven,
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three eight two five five text D an five seven
seven three nine. As we celebrate this truly historic day
and all the good things to come.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
You're on the dan Caplish
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