May 20, 2026

Aston Bright From Dennis Rodman to Firefighter Running For Council Volunteers in Israel to Help Jews

Season 20, Episode 54 of The Adventures of Pipeman. It’s the Pipeman – The Wandering Jew, spinoff of The Adventures of Pipeman. Support for Israel and the Jewish people, volunteer firefighting here in Florida and in Israel, politics and running for...

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Season 20

Season 20, Episode 54 of The Adventures of Pipeman.

It’s the Pipeman – The Wandering Jew, spinoff of The Adventures of Pipeman.

Support for Israel and the Jewish people, volunteer firefighting here in Florida and in Israel, politics and running for council, working with Dennis Rodman of the Chicago Bulls and retiring his Jersey in Chicago. These are all the things our hero, Aston Bright, will reveal on this special Wandering Jew segment.

In our fight against Antisemitism and giving real life stories of real heroes in support of Israel and Jews everywhere this week we bring on Aston Bright who Pipeman deems as a real hero. You might know Aston as a right-hand person to #1 Rebounder of The Chicago Bulls Dennis Rodman. You might also know Aston from his non-emotional and biased experience in Politics through his social media and Podcasting. This week we want you to know the Volunteer Firefighter who joined The Emergency Volunteers Project, and Israel Organization that recruits and trains American firefighters for deployments in Israel. Aston has been on 6 deployments where he leaves the safety of his home of South Florida and volunteers to deploy to Israel during these times of War.

Aston Bright brings to the show not only some stories of his life adventures. Most importantly, he is not Jewish nor Israeli and shares his real-life experiences as a firefighter in Israel and why he does it. Aston is such a strong supporter and volunteer for Israel and the Jews? Let’s hear some stories of what this is all about and what Aston has seen and heard from Jews and non-Jews in Israel to give our audience some insight of why he is so Pro Israel and Pro Jew.

We will also discuss the newest way he will be making a difference here in our local community as Aston is now running for Plantation City Council. /please go to www.astonbright.com to show your support.

To Pipeman, Aston is a real hero who transformed from Entertainment and Business to Volunteering and risking his life for the betterment of lives in Israel, Florida, and creating a better world for all of us. Tune in and find out more.

Pipeman – The Wandering Jew is a spin-off podcast born of The Adventures of Pipeman. The show is The Movement of An Avenger for Jews Everywhere Fighting Antisemitism & Hate Globally. It’s Not Just a Podcast! It’s a Jewish Movement of Love & Unity For All of Humanity with guests of all religions in support of Jews and even guests who are Antisemites to debate the TRUTH!

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love them too?

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Yes, Susue.

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For see way for you.

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You Wake up America.

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It's time for the Adventures of pipe Man. I'm vy

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Why I'm com lispon Beach is number one Internet radio station.

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Here's your host, the Fight Man.

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Yo, It's pipe Man, the Wandering Jew. This is our

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new spinoff podcast because pipe Man is sick and tired

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of people hating on each other, sick and tired of

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people being divided. We need to collectively as humans, create

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unity and love throughout the world. And I couldn't think

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of a better guest to bring on that promotes that.

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Who Okay, he had a show on our station years ago,

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and we're going to talk a little bit, like very

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briefly about that, because I have some funny things to

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talk about there. But he, oh, my god, he has

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captured my heart by going to Israel in the middle

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of chaos to help the Israelis and the Jews and

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the fire department and first responders over there in Israel,

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because they're pretty busy right now. So there's gotta be

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some hero that goes and helps them fight fires and

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just help in any way he can. And that is

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asked him Bright, So let's bring him on to the show.

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Hello, Hello, Hello, what's going on? Brother? How are you?

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Oh? What's happening? You know? Listen, we've known each other

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a long time. Yes, yeah, it started by the way,

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I have a trivia question for you. And right now,

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did you recognize a voice before you came on the show?

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No, I didn't recognize it was it me?

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No, it wasn't you, but it well, the first part

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of it was you wouldn't recognize because it was my

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grandkids doing the ok and then there was my daughter

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doing the disclaimers and she worked at the station when

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you had the show here. But then the last part

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of the intro was chad.

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Ah Chad oh Man.

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Okay, okay, and I I've been wanting to change the intro,

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but I just can't do it. Get rid of Chad

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off the intro, Like.

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I get that.

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I mean, he was around before even the station was

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around that. I don't know if you know, but when

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I decided to start this network, I used to got

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We were really close friends, Chay and I and I

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used to go support his gigs all the time, and

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I looked at him and he would literally be playing guitar,

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singing and messing with the mixer board the whole performance,

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and I'm like, that's who I need as my engineer

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my station for real. That's how it happened.

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Yeah, and he was great.

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And then I vividly remember sitting at the studio table

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with you one day and you were gonna invite me. Okay.

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So for everybody that's listening watching doesn't know, when I

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met you, you were the personal assistant to Dennis Rodman,

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and you still work with him, but you have gone

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way way in a lot of different better directions, not better,

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but more directions and just growing as a person. And

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all the time I've known you and I you know,

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it was funny back then, because I remember you were

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really smart, you know, very very into your uh you're

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very educated and formed on all things politics, but not

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like today, like really educated and somebody you could have

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a conversation with and no matter what the viewpoint was,

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it was a good conversation.

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Yeah. Absolutely. I try to always stay up on the

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different issues and try to do.

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Whatever I can to stay involved and to help.

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Dennis eventually went on to be one of his managers

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for many years. And but yeah, I've since returned to

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the business community and that's that's where I'm at now.

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I am gonna say one thing that I remember vividly

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seeing at that studio table is you invited me to

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go to one of the Rodman parties. Okay, but you

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warned me. And at the time, I was raised my kids,

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and you warned me. You're like, but you better be

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prepared that you're gonna be gone from like I don't know,

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Thursday till Tuesday, and you're not gonna be able to swim,

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prepared for that. And I think I said something you like,

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totally down with that, but my kids that.

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Long Dennis's parties or legendary. Matter of fact, Lionskate Films

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is making a movie about Dennis when he left the

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playoffs the NBA Finals and went to Vegas for forty

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eight hours. So it's called to be called forty eight

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Hours in Vegas. There's a feature film that's coming.

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Wow, that's pretty cool, and I understand you guys are

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also you know, try and get his number retired in Chicago,

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which I am a million percent for. He is the

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greatest rebounder ever in the NBA and he deserves it.

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Yeah, there's a I'm pretty sure it's a fan that

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started this campaign with retire ninety one dot com. He

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created a website and someone sent it to me the

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other day and I actually he told Dennis about it,

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and he loves the idea of having his number retired

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next to Jordan and Pippin and all the other Chicago greats.

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So we really appreciate the fan that is created that

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retire ninety one dot com to try to help Dennis

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get his number retired. And I have a great story

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about how Nanni's got in the whole fan, which we

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can also maybe touch on as well at.

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Some point today. Absolutely, whenever you want. And I do

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have to say something like, okay, I have to tell

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everybody I would vote in a heartbeat if I lived

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in Plantation. But I am so excited that you are

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running for counsel in Plantation because I think we really

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need more people like you in politics, and because I

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just think you have so much to offer, and you're

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such a source of you know, energy, volunteering, you know,

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just to me a hero in that respect. Now, I

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will say I have a request. Sure, when you win, Okay,

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when you win, the parade for your winning has to

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be a parade of one wheels.

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I'm actually down with that.

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You know how much I love riding one I actually

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have no problem doing that. And what's even crazier is

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I have just recently decided that I'm going to get

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back into skateboarding.

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So stay tuned to that.

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Oh that we got to do that together. I have

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three skateboards at home, Okay, I have my I have

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one that it's in my jeep outside right now. It's

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with me at all times. That's my trick board. I

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just got done with doing Welcome to Rockville and Daytona

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at the Daytona International Speedway, and I was like, hey, well,

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I lose my media credential if I take my skateboard

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and I ride the wall. Now, of course that we've

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probably been one of the stupidest things I ever did anyway,

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because that wall is insane. Man. But I also have

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a long board and check this out. You'll want to

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know this. I have this thing. It's it's a stick okay,

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almost like a paddle boarding so I use it to

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practice paddle boarding on land. And now my newest edition,

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which now the newest edition of skateboard, also combines politics

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into it. By the way, Okay, go figure that out

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and I'll tell you in a second. But it's a

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surf skate, which is the newest thing. The trucks are

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very different. They're made so that when there's no waves

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like here in Florida and you're a surfer, you can

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surf on your skateboard. That's why it's called surf skate

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because you don't you don't kick, you pump just like

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you're on a wave, and that gets it going. Got

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check it out. It's pretty wild and like it's I've

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been skateboarding all my life and when I got this thing,

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like I never wear pads, I never wear a helmet.

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I called up my daughter. I'm like, yeah, I think

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maybe it's time I got a helmet, uh and pads

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because this thing is insane. Like I ate crap, okay,

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and I don't eat crap on my skateboard. It was

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it was pre and so I like it because it's

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a new challenge. Okay. But here's what's funny. I did

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some research and I bought it from the best surf

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skate company in the world, Like Carver is pretty popular

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here in the US, but there's one called Yowie and

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there out of Spain, and I bought it, okay, and

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I got a factual experience to dispel all all myths

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about tariffs. Because I bought this thing. It took so

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long to get to me, like really long. I got it,

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And after I got it, I was getting like a

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collection agency calls and text messages. I thought they were

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scams from FedEx saying I owe them money and that

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I have to pay the tariff and I owe them.

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I am like or I'm not getting the board. That's

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why I thought it was a scam. I'm like, all right,

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I have it. I ignored it, ignored it. I got a

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collection letter in my mail and I literally, I literally

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called them up. I'm like, what are you talking about? Well,

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you agreed to tarif. I'm like no, otherwise, I wasn't

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paid it array. It wasn't in my contract to buy it.

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So they were trying to stick me with the tariff.

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The country wasn't paying it, the company wasn't paying it.

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I didn't pay it either, Pipeman, don't pay no terrorff

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for buying something. You're muted a little there aston Hello,

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uh there you're back.

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All right, here we go.

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See see, I saw your bounce moving. But I'm like, well,

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maybe he's muted on purpose, But now that you start talking, it.

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Might just be some sort of noise canceling situation.

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Yes, it was probably Zoom Zoom takes over your thingy

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and so it doesn't play well with others and we're

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not on zoom. So will you think about that? Okay,

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from a political standpoint, what is your opinion on tariffs

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and what do you think about the fact that me

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as American is paying the tariff, not the country.

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our economic policy, I think, you know, it is what

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it is, and some of the changes that have recently

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been made. Obviously the courts have if sussed out and

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have sorted out a lot of those things. And my

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understanding is that anyone who has been paying tariffs is

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going to be getting a refund. So it sounds like

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most of those tariffs have been struck down that didn't

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follow the proper procedure for that. But you know, I

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will tell you that one of the things that that

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I think is is really important. It's just really taking

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care of our people, you know. And so one of

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the things that's really important to me and just being

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in service to others, is that I always think that

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if we put our people first, no matter what you're

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talking about, whether the federal government, the state government, the

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local government, we put our people first, I think that

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will always be ahead and will always be better off.

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So that's that's really just the position I take in.

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And we're not going that, you know, we're I can

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always agree on everything, but I think that we can

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always agree that the people need to always.

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Come first, no doubt and I'll tell you what I did.

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I did the total American thing. I called up. I

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call them, I'm not paying it charge the country and

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they gave me. Wait, they did give me an email.

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So they said if I email them and said that

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in an email, I went, I wouldn't have to pay.

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And so that's why I did. And then they told

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me the email address and I started laughing. The email

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address was DJT at FedEx dot com.

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Oh that's crazy, right.

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Oh my god, it's just so funny. But so the

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bottom line is I love what you're about because it

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is always about the people. And I think, you know

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what we stopped. We need to really stop just focusing

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on all the stuff that really is not that important

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and and focus on being the United States of America.

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of division, mostly on partisan lines, and one of the

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things I really believe is important is that we don't

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have to agree on everything to be able to be.

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A community, right, you know, and we're not going to

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agree on everything, you know.

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I and I think that's important to remember. Things have

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become so hyperpartisan now that it's like, oh, this side

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versus that side, and I don't think it needs to

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be like that because one of the things that and

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as a person who's traveled to thirty different countries, I

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can tell you that one of the things that has

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kept America together is whether you're on the left, right, center,

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or different. We probably agree on like seventy five to

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eighty percent of things, and then there's that fifteen twenty

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percent maybe where there's some disagreement. But the thing that

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makes us different than most a lot of other countries,

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especially like say in certain parts of the Middle East

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and in Africa, or even in Latin America, is those

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countries agree on maybe like two or three percent, and

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they have ninety seven percent differences, which is why they

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have revolutions every fifteen twenty years, why they have unstable

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governments and coups and all these problems. And so I

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always try to remind people that if you think that

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we have division here, you should see how a lot

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of other countries are trying to deal with a lot

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of these issues. And it is like kindergarten compared to

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some things going on in the Middle East and in

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Africa and in Latin America and in other parts.

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Of the world. So we have a really good thing.

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Here, and one of the things I think that I'd

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like to do is to try to help us to

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keep this thing going and to make things better and stronger.

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I love it because that is what makes us stronger.

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of that is my brother. If I have a brother

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that if people don't agree with him, they're uninformed and uneducated.

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And when he said that the first time to me,

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I was like, or, I was like, or maybe they

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just grew up at a different place than you did.

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they have a different upbringing than you do. Maybe there's,

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like I could give you a million variables of maybe.

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way they do or believe the way they do before

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criticizing them, because maybe they have good reasons for it.

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as they are, you know, and like you said, it's

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a lot to do with their background, their experiences, their

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education level. Everyone comes to the table bringing something of

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value and it's not going to always be the same

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as you and we're all going to be a little

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bit different. But that's what makes this country so great

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is that we are all different. We bring a little

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something special and something different. We're a nation of immigrants,

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the biggest I think mistakes people make is that they

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take someone's ignorance and they use it as an insult.

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And ignorance actually is not an insult. It actually just

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a lack of knowledge. It doesn't mean that they're wrong.

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They just a lot of people just don't know what

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they should know about something, and that's why they feel

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how they feel, believe what they believe. So I am

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a person who always will talk. I'll talk to anybody.

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I'll talk to anyone. I'm interested to learn from anyone,

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And whether we agree or disagree, I think that I

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might be able to teach you something, you may be

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able to teach me something. And I think that's how

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we can work together and how we can build something.

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You know, very very special, and I think that's very important.

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And you know what, I'll tell you it is so

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true because I think the only way to really learn

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is from people with different points of view than you,

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because the people with the same already you already know that.

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Yeah, and I caution people to stay out of echo chambers.

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some sort of Facebook group or some sort of Reddit forum,

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and you're only going to places where everyone violently agrees

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with you, then you're doing yourself a great disservice. You

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need to definitely you need to watch MSNBC or whatever

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they call themselves. Now, you need to watch Fox News,

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you need to watch CNN, you need to watch News Nation.

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You need to you need to read and watch a

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wide range of networks so then you can decide where

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you want to land and what you want to believe

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and what you think is accurate. Because if you no

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one on the far left is always right, no one

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the far right is always right.

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It's usually something in the middle. And yah, good, good.

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Variety of information sources, you're probably going to be getting

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better information than if you were only watching sources from

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the left or only watching sources from the right. Then

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that level of bias and bias is necessarily wrong. But

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you need to have some variety so you can, now

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you know, sort through all the information and you can

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have a good, well rounded view of what's really going on,

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as opposed to just in your area where you think

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everyone's going to agree with you, and that's not how

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you grow. You've got to have people challenge your ideas

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and challenge your beliefs because if not, then you're never

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going to change.

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And we have to look at our country. Our country

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has changed, We have changed.

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I mean over the two hundred and fifty years we're

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about to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of America.

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That blows.

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It's incredible.

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And this country has changed a tremendous tremendously And that

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would have never happened had we all just stuck in

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our silos and stuck to what it is that we believe,

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it never would have happened. So I think that that's

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important to talk to the other side, to have voices

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that you're listening to from all angles so you can learn.

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You can learn from that, no doubt. And like, had

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that happen two hundred and fifty years, it was just yesterday,

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I would celebrate in the by centennial fifth grade in school.

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Amaze, it's amazing.

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No, it's incredible, it's right.

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Absolutely, absolutely incredible.

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Twodred and fifty years is just it's amazing.

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Listen, this isn't this is an experiment.

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It's the first time. This is the first time in

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history where you had a country where the leaders, the

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first leader, George Washington, you know, stepped down on his

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own voluntarily.

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Yeah, where someone was in.

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Charge of a country and voluntarily stepped down. There wasn't

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a war fought, or he wasn't assassinated or killed to

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change power. It didn't go to his family. He voluntarily

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stepped down. It was the first time in human history

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that that's ever happened. And it's wow, amazing. It's an

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amazing thing. If you really know understand history, and like

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the Roman Empire and all these different empires that have

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been around, the power has always changed through violence, and

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this was the first time that that never happens. I

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think that's very special.

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I bet you most people don't even know that. I'm

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glad you brought that up. For sure.

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People don't realize that.

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And I have to tell you, you know, like I

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consider you a hero for some of the things you do,

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and most of all as the wandering Jew. First of all,

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I want to say that I think everybody needs to

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travel because we live in this bubble sometimes and I

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have changed dramatically since I started traveling compared to when

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I never left the US, And I know people that

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never even left or street their whole life and they're

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clueless of what have have. I don't know if you remember,

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but one of the people works with me, Rebel, she

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runs our Louisiana studio. First time she came to Florida

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to come to a Florida studio, she was flipping out

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because there was this big billboard by the airport for

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free STD testing, and like she's like, what the hell

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is that? Like, well, would you rather be? And I'm

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a Yankee, so I had to bust her chops. Would

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you rather be? Like like you out there and to

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buy you and just spread and crap all over the place.

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That's funny.

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But I also have to say, as pipeman wandering Jew,

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and my hat is off to you because you know,

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you're captain of the volunteer fire department here in South Florida.

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You know of implantation, but you have gone on several

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trips to Israel, yes, and like not because you had to,

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because you chose to and excited about it during these

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times where even Jews are like afraid to go to Israel,

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so I want to know how that started and why

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you do it.

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One of the most amazing things about the trips I've

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made to Israel was really highlighted to me by a

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friend of mine. He's one of the directors of the

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Israel Fire and Rescue Authority, and he.

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Said something to the American delegation that was just there.

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I just got back from Isoe, by the way, about

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thirty days ago, and one of the things he said

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is that the United States is the only country that

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sends firefighters or sends help to Israel when rockets are firing,

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when they're under attack, when there's a war. And he

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said that, and it just really stunned me. And this

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most recent trip was my sixth trip to Israel to

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fight wild and I never really thought about it that way,

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but it just really stunned me when he said that,

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because it really is quite remarkable when you think about it,

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that there is a country under attack and at war

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and the United States is sending firefighters over there to

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help this country.

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When we do, like you said, we we don't have

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to go.

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And the organization that has made all this possible is

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was started in two thousand and eight by a gentleman

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named Adeza Hobby. It's called the Emergency Volunteers Project. And

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after the Second Lebanese War, he was a first responder

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and he just said, you know what, when there's trouble

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here in Israel, our resources are consumed very quickly, and

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maybe we can have some friends from the United States

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come and help. And that's how we started this organization.

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And over the over the last many years, he has

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also included bringing over physicians and healthcare workers like pets

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and e mts and physical therapists, and also civilians to

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help with feeding trucks. And so it's just an incredible

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effort of Americans who have decided, you know what, when

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our friend and our best ally in the Middle East,

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Israel's in trouble, we're going to go over there to

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help them. And it's just really quite extraordinary. One of

440
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the most amazing things after the October seventh attacks happened

441
00:26:02.720 --> 00:26:06.720
was the EVP website in the US was crashed by

442
00:26:06.759 --> 00:26:09.759
over seven hundred American firefighters who were trying to sign

443
00:26:09.839 --> 00:26:13.839
up to go to help. Wow, it's just really extraordinary,

444
00:26:13.880 --> 00:26:16.400
and I like to share that because a lot of people,

445
00:26:16.480 --> 00:26:20.519
especially Israelis and Jews. They feel very alone right now,

446
00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:22.119
and I share that just so they can know and

447
00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:25.559
understand how much support that they really do have, not

448
00:26:25.640 --> 00:26:27.559
only here in the United States, but around the world.

449
00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:31.119
I love it because Okay, so first of all, when

450
00:26:31.319 --> 00:26:37.559
the last Iran conflict happened, Israel Iran conflict, my son's

451
00:26:37.559 --> 00:26:40.559
in the military and he was there with his unit,

452
00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:45.400
you know, uh, fighting on the side of Israel. But

453
00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:48.359
what was even better, which made me so proud, was

454
00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:52.839
his unit was, you know, going to leave, and he

455
00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:57.160
requested that he stayed behind and fight with the IDF

456
00:26:58.720 --> 00:27:01.599
And he was the last one of his whole unit

457
00:27:01.680 --> 00:27:04.240
that ever came back. But he stayed there, and he

458
00:27:04.319 --> 00:27:06.559
told me he wanted to fight for the mother country.

459
00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:12.880
And then my youngest daughter, she did birthright in Israel

460
00:27:13.160 --> 00:27:17.759
the summer before October seventh. So for those listening that

461
00:27:17.799 --> 00:27:20.079
don't know what birthright is. When you're born a Jew,

462
00:27:20.359 --> 00:27:23.759
they have this thing called birthright that at any time,

463
00:27:24.440 --> 00:27:30.119
by time you're thirty, they even expanded it to thirty recently,

464
00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:34.480
you get a free trip to Israel and then they

465
00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:38.039
show you everything and you're on a kibbutz and they

466
00:27:38.799 --> 00:27:44.400
you get to learn the culture, your history, your heritage,

467
00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:48.880
you know, because so many people think, oh, Israel has

468
00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:55.599
only been around since nineteen forty eight. No, not even close.

469
00:27:56.160 --> 00:28:00.599
I had a couple add some thousands of years to that, Okay,

470
00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:05.079
you know, and you know. So the bottom line is

471
00:28:05.160 --> 00:28:07.880
she came back and it was a very eye opening

472
00:28:07.880 --> 00:28:11.880
experience when she came back because she was going to

473
00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:16.160
school up in the Panhandle where the violent protests were happening,

474
00:28:17.480 --> 00:28:21.279
and she had friends that she met in Israel that

475
00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:25.000
were taking hostage or new people or family that were

476
00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:30.680
taking hostage. Her kibbutz was bombed the one she was at,

477
00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:35.200
like so many stories, and she has to come back

478
00:28:35.240 --> 00:28:38.519
to the United States to be afraid to go to

479
00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:45.000
school because of the fact of people thinking Israel's the

480
00:28:45.039 --> 00:28:51.559
one trying to commit genocide, and it's outrageous.

481
00:28:51.359 --> 00:28:56.000
It's something that you don't only see in the Israel situation,

482
00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:58.960
but there's a lot of times a very loud, vocal

483
00:28:59.079 --> 00:29:02.000
minority that makes seem like that's how everyone feels, and

484
00:29:02.039 --> 00:29:06.319
that's just absolutely not true. The United States has always

485
00:29:06.359 --> 00:29:10.640
supported Israel since nineteen forty eight, when Ben Gurion announced

486
00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:13.039
that the gates of Israel will open in May of

487
00:29:13.119 --> 00:29:17.880
nineteen forty eight, Harry Truman. Twelve minutes later, Harry Truman

488
00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:22.200
got on the radio and showed support that the United

489
00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:24.599
States was going to support Israel, and his Secretary of

490
00:29:24.599 --> 00:29:26.319
State and his Secretary of Defense told him not to

491
00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:26.839
do it, and he.

492
00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:27.519
Did it anyway.

493
00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:31.240
And since that day, the United States has always supported Israel.

494
00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:33.680
And we always will.

495
00:29:34.079 --> 00:29:37.759
So the loud vocal minority and the kids and the

496
00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:41.200
tents on the campus is that's not that they don't

497
00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:43.160
represent the United they don't represent America.

498
00:29:43.720 --> 00:29:45.599
A lot of them, you ask, and they don't even

499
00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:47.359
know where Israel or Palace going is.

500
00:29:47.680 --> 00:29:49.799
They don't even know where Israel is. They don't know where,

501
00:29:49.839 --> 00:29:53.200
they don't know anything about it. There they think it's

502
00:29:53.240 --> 00:29:55.680
like cosplay for them. They're putting on their kefias and

503
00:29:55.720 --> 00:30:02.079
they're like they're doing something, and that's not how America feels.

504
00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:02.839
It's just not.

505
00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:06.119
But again, this isn't the only area where you find

506
00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:10.200
that a very loud vocal minority can sometimes because of

507
00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:12.240
the algorithm of social media, because of the way that

508
00:30:12.279 --> 00:30:15.000
media works, they want clicks, they want eyeballs, can make

509
00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:18.119
it seem like that's how people feel, but that's not

510
00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:20.599
how the majority of America feels. Because I will tell

511
00:30:20.640 --> 00:30:26.039
you this much. People ask me all the time about

512
00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:27.680
how I feel about what's going on the Middle East.

513
00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:29.359
I say, listen, First of all, the most important thing

514
00:30:29.359 --> 00:30:31.680
you need to understand is just because I go to

515
00:30:31.759 --> 00:30:34.920
Israel and I support Israel with the humanitarian work that

516
00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:37.799
I do there, just because I'm pro Israel doesn't mean

517
00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:38.960
I'm anti Palestinian.

518
00:30:39.640 --> 00:30:41.440
Yeah, that's the most of me. That's what I think.

519
00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:44.319
That's what people don't get too. It doesn't have to

520
00:30:44.359 --> 00:30:46.240
be one way or the other all the time with

521
00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:48.000
everything they don't.

522
00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:51.200
And also I also remind them that Israel's a nation

523
00:30:51.240 --> 00:30:53.880
of ten million people, but there are Muslims, Christians, and

524
00:30:53.960 --> 00:30:57.039
Jews who are Israeli citizens. So when I say Israel,

525
00:30:57.079 --> 00:31:01.160
I'm talking about everyone in Israel. They're over two million

526
00:31:01.599 --> 00:31:06.279
Arab Muslims considered to be like Arab israelis is what

527
00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:09.279
they're referred to as. But they're citizens of Israel with

528
00:31:09.640 --> 00:31:11.839
equal rights, and they have that Israeli passport and they

529
00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:14.119
can vote, they can have any job that they want.

530
00:31:14.440 --> 00:31:19.240
And by the way, in the Middle East, these Arab.

531
00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:24.640
Muslims are the freest in the entire region. So Arab

532
00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:28.240
israelis are the freest Arab Muslims in the Middle East.

533
00:31:28.279 --> 00:31:30.720
There's nowhere else in the Middle East where you're going

534
00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:35.240
to find Arab Muslims who have more freedom than in Israel,

535
00:31:35.400 --> 00:31:40.519
especially for the women. Yeah, for the women. So we

536
00:31:40.599 --> 00:31:43.880
have much more in common with Israel than we do

537
00:31:43.960 --> 00:31:44.640
with anyone else.

538
00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:46.200
Not that we can't.

539
00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:50.799
Partner with and ally ourselves with other Arab states, Gulf states.

540
00:31:51.240 --> 00:31:55.039
We can support many other people, and that's fine, but

541
00:31:55.119 --> 00:31:57.920
we are most closely allied with Israel.

542
00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:00.000
Number One. They have elections.

543
00:32:01.160 --> 00:32:04.759
They have elections, they have the rule of law, they

544
00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:08.079
have courts, they have a court system. They have you know,

545
00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:10.519
if you commit crimes, you go, you can be tried

546
00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:13.000
and go to prison. In many other parts of the

547
00:32:13.039 --> 00:32:15.480
Arab world, that's just not the case. There are no elections.

548
00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:18.319
There haven't been elections in Gaza in twenty years. They

549
00:32:18.319 --> 00:32:20.480
haven't been elections in Gaza or the West Bank in

550
00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:26.079
twenty years. So and I'm not here to castigate whatever

551
00:32:26.200 --> 00:32:28.720
they're doing. I'm here to talk about the humanitarian work

552
00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:31.440
that we do, our strength and friendship that we have

553
00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:35.160
with Israel, which includes the Muslims Christians and Jews who live.

554
00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:37.480
That's everybody, not to mention the IDEF.

555
00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:39.559
I have a friend who is a major in the

556
00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:41.680
idea F and he said something to me that I

557
00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:44.319
never really thought about. But the IDEA is the Israel

558
00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:47.599
Defense Forces. That's not the Jewish Defense Forces. It's the

559
00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:52.559
Israel Defense Forces. That right, everyone in Israel, everyone Muslims, Christians, Jews,

560
00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:54.319
it doesn't matter. And by the way, there are a

561
00:32:55.079 --> 00:32:59.559
Muslim Arab Israelians who serve in the IDEF. So it's

562
00:32:59.599 --> 00:33:03.880
a very unique country. It's a very diverse country. If

563
00:33:03.960 --> 00:33:07.000
you ever go there, there are a lot of Ethiopian

564
00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:10.680
Jews who are there. There are Jews Sephardic Jews who

565
00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:13.359
are descendants of the eight hundred thousand Jews were who

566
00:33:13.480 --> 00:33:17.079
were expelled from the Arab countries in nineteen forty eight.

567
00:33:17.119 --> 00:33:22.200
There were almost a million Jews kicked out of Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Morocco,

568
00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:27.240
North Africa, Syria, Lebanon. There were almost a million Jews

569
00:33:27.279 --> 00:33:30.440
that were kicked out of their homelands and they all

570
00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:32.960
ended up in Israel nineteen forty eight. So you have

571
00:33:33.599 --> 00:33:36.880
a rainbow of people. So they always are like, oh,

572
00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:40.079
Israel's this, you know, white colonizers. I'm like, have you

573
00:33:40.119 --> 00:33:41.480
ever been to Israel?

574
00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:45.599
You know, there's a lot of different There's not really

575
00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:47.039
not that many white people in Israel.

576
00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:50.359
That's what I was about to say. I'm like, listen,

577
00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:53.119
I would stick out like a sore thumb in Israel.

578
00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:56.680
You would be the odd man out in Israel, you know.

579
00:33:57.720 --> 00:34:01.359
So it's a very diverse place, very diverse place. They

580
00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:05.119
have all religions can practice there, and that can't always

581
00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:06.920
be said in some of their neighbors, you know. So

582
00:34:08.039 --> 00:34:09.519
and then at the end of the day, you know,

583
00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:13.840
it's a very tough neighborhood. And they have been in many,

584
00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:16.039
many wars, none which if they have started, they only

585
00:34:16.199 --> 00:34:17.599
have fought defensive wars.

586
00:34:18.679 --> 00:34:20.199
They're in a really tough neighborhood.

587
00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:23.440
Then, you know, sometimes unfortunately they got to, you know,

588
00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:26.079
kick a little ass sometimes, and that's just the nature

589
00:34:26.119 --> 00:34:30.440
of the beast. And I'm a person who doesn't like war.

590
00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:34.800
I'm a humanitarian and I wish for peace in the

591
00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:35.239
Middle East.

592
00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:36.079
And by my.

593
00:34:36.119 --> 00:34:39.079
Trips to Israel working as a firefighter, they're volunteering with

594
00:34:39.159 --> 00:34:41.559
the Israel Fire and Rescue Service, is my way of

595
00:34:41.639 --> 00:34:45.519
trying to help to maintain the peace there for everyone

596
00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:47.800
who is there. And I believe that the children in

597
00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:50.679
Israel have peace and safety, and I believe the pasting

598
00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:53.159
and children of that peace and safety as well. So,

599
00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:56.480
like you said, it's not a binary choice. I can

600
00:34:57.280 --> 00:34:59.639
hope for peace for the Israelis and I can hope

601
00:34:59.639 --> 00:35:01.880
for peace for the Palestinians.

602
00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:06.719
And I'm gonna show some pictures in a second that

603
00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:09.760
I want us to kind of I'm gonna have you

604
00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:13.639
kind of describe the pictures. But that what you just

605
00:35:13.719 --> 00:35:17.119
said is why I consider you a hero. Okay, because

606
00:35:18.000 --> 00:35:22.880
to me, everything you do is about the human race,

607
00:35:23.800 --> 00:35:28.880
any particular race, not any particular political thing. Because listen,

608
00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:34.679
you know what people you cannot like the politicians of Israel.

609
00:35:34.920 --> 00:35:37.480
That doesn't mean hate all Israelis.

610
00:35:38.039 --> 00:35:38.760
It doesn't matter.

611
00:35:38.840 --> 00:35:41.760
Yeah, I don't have to agree with the leaders of

612
00:35:41.800 --> 00:35:43.840
Israel to support Israel. It's just like I don't have

613
00:35:43.840 --> 00:35:45.880
to agree with the leaders of the United States to

614
00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:48.039
support the United States. It's no different. I'm not going

615
00:35:48.119 --> 00:35:51.760
to always agree with everything our government does. Doesn't mean

616
00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:55.360
that I hate America. You know, that's crazy. So this

617
00:35:55.519 --> 00:35:58.320
binary choice that people think that they have is just

618
00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:01.599
not it's not good for the country. It raises the

619
00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:05.920
political temperature very high. We need to lower the temperature down.

620
00:36:06.280 --> 00:36:08.239
We need to make sure that we know and understand.

621
00:36:08.239 --> 00:36:09.880
These are our friends and neighbors. You know, we have

622
00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:13.440
members of our family that may not always agree on politics.

623
00:36:13.440 --> 00:36:15.760
And that's okay. You know, that's why there's that rule,

624
00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:18.119
you know, no politics at the thanksgetting table, you know,

625
00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:19.199
just right that.

626
00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:22.320
Happened to that. When I was a kid, you didn't

627
00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:26.199
discuss the politics, you didn't discuss religion and here go.

628
00:36:26.320 --> 00:36:30.320
You didn't get into fights with people. And then like,

629
00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:32.800
you didn't even tell people you vote for. I remember

630
00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:35.480
being told as a kid, don't tell people who you

631
00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:39.159
vote for. It's your personal choice. And nowadays people come

632
00:36:39.239 --> 00:36:41.320
up to who do you vote for? And I'll say,

633
00:36:41.880 --> 00:36:47.320
it's not your freaking business. Speaking of voting. Before we

634
00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:51.599
go into pictures, I have to express a story with

635
00:36:51.639 --> 00:36:55.360
you because you know, I don't know if you know this,

636
00:36:55.559 --> 00:37:00.440
but I have for several presidential campaigns. Right now, pipe

637
00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:06.320
Man has ran for president. Okay, yeah, all right, And

638
00:37:06.559 --> 00:37:11.559
first I want one to play our audio commercial of

639
00:37:11.599 --> 00:37:15.559
my presidential you know, my presidential ad, and I want

640
00:37:15.559 --> 00:37:19.639
you to hear it, okay, and then I'm going to

641
00:37:19.719 --> 00:37:27.119
tell you what happened in twenty sixteen. Roll at one, Hey, folks,

642
00:37:27.159 --> 00:37:30.760
this is Bill Clinton. I listen to W fourcy dot com.

643
00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:33.960
And just remember I did not have sexual relations with

644
00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:41.599
that woman. Bring back the good old days, and I

645
00:37:41.760 --> 00:37:46.159
will have sexual relations with that woman. Vote Pipeman for

646
00:37:46.280 --> 00:37:53.360
pres Now. There's a reason I was playing that for

647
00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:57.280
you because but you're talking about what happens on social

648
00:37:57.400 --> 00:38:02.440
media and everything else. You know, I think we need

649
00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:06.079
more people like you that really really dig in and

650
00:38:06.280 --> 00:38:12.559
know your stuff. Because in twenty sixteen, I had six

651
00:38:12.760 --> 00:38:17.519
people that were listeners of my show vote vote for

652
00:38:17.599 --> 00:38:18.440
me for president.

653
00:38:18.840 --> 00:38:22.719
Oh my gosh, vote I have a joke.

654
00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:23.920
It was a joke.

655
00:38:26.880 --> 00:38:27.400
Pretty good.

656
00:38:27.760 --> 00:38:30.840
I love so I could. I can now say that

657
00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:34.199
I got six votes for president in the United States

658
00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:38.960
of America. God help us all if I get more votes. Okay,

659
00:38:40.159 --> 00:38:44.000
but everybody definitely needs to vote for you. That's implantation

660
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:48.639
for counsel, because I think you're going to make amazing

661
00:38:48.760 --> 00:38:54.440
changes and do amazing things because you're all about helping,

662
00:38:54.559 --> 00:38:57.760
and that's what public service is, you know, in.

663
00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:02.400
The best example of freedom is that everybody gets to decide,

664
00:39:02.440 --> 00:39:03.880
you know, what they want to do and who they

665
00:39:03.880 --> 00:39:06.639
want to support. You know, that's the ultimate idea of freedom.

666
00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:10.719
And I truly believe, as I said at the open

667
00:39:10.719 --> 00:39:13.440
of the show, that we've got to put our people first.

668
00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:15.320
And one of the things I'm really leading into is

669
00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:18.840
that our residents come first. We're going to take care

670
00:39:18.880 --> 00:39:21.599
of our people. We're going to make things more affordable,

671
00:39:21.840 --> 00:39:23.920
We're going to make it easier to do to get

672
00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:26.079
things done in the city. We're going to tackle the

673
00:39:26.199 --> 00:39:30.119
traffic nightmares. Plantation is booming right now. There was a

674
00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:32.480
time just a few years ago we had tower cranes

675
00:39:32.599 --> 00:39:33.639
all over Plantation.

676
00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:37.039
We're building banding. We're in the center part.

677
00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:40.719
Of the county of Broward County, so tens of thousands

678
00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:44.119
of cars passed through to get to Sunrise, into Oakland

679
00:39:44.199 --> 00:39:47.119
Park and to Tamarak coming from five ninety five. So

680
00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:49.480
we have a lot of pass through traffic that comes

681
00:39:49.519 --> 00:39:53.039
through here. And it's just a very vibrant city, which

682
00:39:53.079 --> 00:39:55.199
is also why I think one of the most important

683
00:39:55.239 --> 00:39:56.880
things I can talk about is public safety. You know,

684
00:39:56.920 --> 00:39:58.880
police and fire. So we've got to make sure the police,

685
00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:01.639
Department of Fire Department everything that they need. So these

686
00:40:01.639 --> 00:40:03.239
are some of the things that I'm running on and

687
00:40:04.039 --> 00:40:07.360
I'm really just asking for the voters in Plantation to

688
00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:11.400
support me and I'm gonna keep doing the incredible work

689
00:40:11.400 --> 00:40:14.599
that our Plantation City Council and our mayor has been doing.

690
00:40:14.599 --> 00:40:16.679
And I'm really looking forward to having that opportunity.

691
00:40:17.559 --> 00:40:22.320
And everybody, whether you're Implantation or not, if you agree

692
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:26.840
with me that Aston is definitely a hero and worth

693
00:40:27.079 --> 00:40:31.000
doing public service for us, go to astonbright dot com

694
00:40:31.320 --> 00:40:35.880
donate help out because as you can tell, this is

695
00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:38.599
a man of the people. This is not a man

696
00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:42.480
of a party. It is a man of the people.

697
00:40:43.480 --> 00:40:45.880
Thank you. I really do appreciate that. Yes, anyone who

698
00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:47.679
would like to support me or learn a little bit

699
00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:49.719
more about me, they can go to astonbright dot com

700
00:40:49.960 --> 00:40:51.480
where they can make a donation. You have to be

701
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:54.440
a US citizen or a Green Card resident. If you're

702
00:40:54.480 --> 00:40:56.960
a Green Card resident, you can still make a donation.

703
00:40:58.239 --> 00:41:02.079
And yeah, it's just been and I always love having

704
00:41:02.119 --> 00:41:04.480
an opportunity to share my story and to talk about

705
00:41:04.800 --> 00:41:08.000
the Emergency Volunteers Project and the amazing volunteers that we have.

706
00:41:08.280 --> 00:41:12.599
And by the way, the last time I went to Israel, which,

707
00:41:12.679 --> 00:41:15.079
as I said, I just got back about thirty days ago.

708
00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:25.199
We had firefighters from California, New York, Maryland, Michigan, Florida, Texas,

709
00:41:25.239 --> 00:41:26.039
and Alaska.

710
00:41:26.880 --> 00:41:29.559
Wow, from all over the country.

711
00:41:32.599 --> 00:41:36.079
Taking time off of work, leaving their families and going

712
00:41:36.119 --> 00:41:38.840
into a war zone. And I think it takes just

713
00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:43.199
a really special individual who really believes in helping people.

714
00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:45.559
The only reason why we do this. I'm a firefighter

715
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:48.760
because I believe in helping others. I've dedicated my life

716
00:41:49.639 --> 00:41:52.000
and becoming a firefighter in twenty fourteen has given me

717
00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:55.440
the opportunity to do that, and it's something that is

718
00:41:55.559 --> 00:41:59.639
very important to me and I just really do love

719
00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:02.400
being in service to others. And then of course I

720
00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:05.639
have my business background, working for Fortune five hundred companies

721
00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:09.559
and working in the business and professional world. Now it

722
00:42:09.679 --> 00:42:11.800
just really gives me an opportunity to take those skills

723
00:42:11.920 --> 00:42:14.199
in order to help our city and to help the

724
00:42:14.239 --> 00:42:16.159
residents of Plantation, which is what I intend to do.

725
00:42:16.239 --> 00:42:18.559
So I'm very just very excited to be here and

726
00:42:18.559 --> 00:42:20.719
to share some time with you and catch up with

727
00:42:20.760 --> 00:42:23.800
an old friend, and to share my story and see

728
00:42:23.800 --> 00:42:25.760
what we can do about getting me onto the City council.

729
00:42:25.880 --> 00:42:27.079
November thirty is the election.

730
00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:30.440
By the way, Oh, we got to get you on there.

731
00:42:30.679 --> 00:42:33.800
You are so well rounded. I'm a total Labra. I

732
00:42:33.880 --> 00:42:36.880
love your viewpoints because I see viewpoints on all sides

733
00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:39.679
as a Libra, and like you said in the beginning,

734
00:42:40.440 --> 00:42:43.639
I don't like the extremes. Put me somewhere in the middle,

735
00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:46.159
and I don't have to stick to my guns. You know,

736
00:42:46.239 --> 00:42:49.800
it's like I gotta do what's right, not what's right

737
00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:50.519
or left.

738
00:42:50.920 --> 00:42:55.079
Absolutely kitchen table issues. You know, we got to focus

739
00:42:55.119 --> 00:42:58.320
on the kitchen table issues. You know, as James Carvel

740
00:42:58.719 --> 00:43:01.199
very famously said, it's the economy stupid.

741
00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:04.360
You know, we've got to focus on those issues.

742
00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:06.000
A lot of times we can get distracted with a

743
00:43:06.039 --> 00:43:08.920
lot of these other issues that are out there, but

744
00:43:09.039 --> 00:43:10.840
at the end of the day, we've got to focus

745
00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:14.679
on finding ways. So people like imagine today a young

746
00:43:14.719 --> 00:43:17.079
person who just graduated high school. Maybe they went to

747
00:43:17.159 --> 00:43:20.159
the military, or they started they started working in a trade,

748
00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:23.119
or they went away to college. They finished now they're training,

749
00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:25.960
they finished the military, they finished their trade school. How

750
00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:28.280
are they going to buy a house? How they're going

751
00:43:28.280 --> 00:43:31.199
to buy a house today? The prices are just completely

752
00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:35.079
through the roof. The rents are going through the roof.

753
00:43:35.119 --> 00:43:36.960
Rents are too high, so it's really difficult for the

754
00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:39.039
young people to get started. And then you have folks

755
00:43:39.119 --> 00:43:41.440
on the other side of the spectrum, the seniors. You know,

756
00:43:41.480 --> 00:43:43.119
a lot of them are no longer working. They're own

757
00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:46.039
fixed incomes. So we got to find a way to

758
00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:48.760
give some relief and make things more affordable. And I

759
00:43:48.840 --> 00:43:52.480
just think that's very, very important, and being focused on

760
00:43:52.519 --> 00:43:54.280
a lot of these other issues is not going to

761
00:43:54.280 --> 00:43:56.440
help to resolve a lot of those problems. So that's

762
00:43:56.480 --> 00:44:00.079
really where I'm focusing a lot of my time on

763
00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:02.760
things that are going to help to help people live

764
00:44:02.800 --> 00:44:03.480
better lives.

765
00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:05.559
And that's really what I'm focused on.

766
00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:08.559
I love it. I love it. And now going back

767
00:44:08.599 --> 00:44:12.199
to Israel, I'll have one pull up some pictures, okay,

768
00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:16.960
in action in Israel, and as each one comes up,

769
00:44:17.039 --> 00:44:19.320
I kind of want you to describe the picture to

770
00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:22.079
the audience. So tell us about this one.

771
00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:27.079
Yeah, So this one was on Yamha show that we

772
00:44:27.079 --> 00:44:32.159
were headed to a Holocaust remembrance event, and so I

773
00:44:32.199 --> 00:44:36.119
had on my class address uniform. I'm there in the

774
00:44:36.159 --> 00:44:38.440
fire station. What most people don't realize is when the

775
00:44:38.480 --> 00:44:42.119
EVP deploys us to Israel, we live in the fire

776
00:44:42.159 --> 00:44:45.039
stations with with the firefighters. So we lived there. We're

777
00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:46.679
not at a hotel, and like we just kind of

778
00:44:46.679 --> 00:44:48.719
go on calls them and again, no, we're living in

779
00:44:48.719 --> 00:44:51.000
the fire stations. Wherever they go, we go. When the

780
00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:53.880
call comes out, we go out with them, and we're

781
00:44:53.920 --> 00:44:58.400
fighting fires from rocket attacks or just even things that

782
00:44:58.440 --> 00:45:00.480
don't have anything to do with the war. Because even

783
00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:02.760
though there's a war going on, there's still car accidents

784
00:45:02.800 --> 00:45:05.519
and someone leaves up part of the stove, so those

785
00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:09.519
calls are still coming in and so we redo the

786
00:45:09.519 --> 00:45:12.599
exact same thing anybody else is doing. And so yeah,

787
00:45:12.599 --> 00:45:16.599
this was a picture on the day of Yama show up.

788
00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:18.639
We're getting ready to.

789
00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:22.880
December. That was actually my first time in Israel on

790
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:27.159
Holocaust Remembrance Day where they played the siren and then

791
00:45:27.239 --> 00:45:29.599
all the cars stop, people get out of their cars

792
00:45:29.599 --> 00:45:32.199
and stand at attention for two minutes. I mean, it

793
00:45:32.960 --> 00:45:38.440
really was just an incredible display of respect, unlike anything

794
00:45:38.480 --> 00:45:41.360
I have ever seen, where the whole country comes to

795
00:45:41.440 --> 00:45:43.239
a standstill for two whole minutes.

796
00:45:43.800 --> 00:45:44.559
It's incredible.

797
00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:50.079
Wow, all right, So let's what else we got here.

798
00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:53.199
On scene of a of an apartment fire. We had

799
00:45:53.280 --> 00:45:56.440
just finished fighting a fire in an apartment. There was

800
00:45:56.480 --> 00:45:59.800
some sort of electrical issue and so it was made

801
00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:01.840
all of fire fighters kind of talking afterwards.

802
00:46:03.800 --> 00:46:09.079
Next one one, Okay, so we were doing some training

803
00:46:09.199 --> 00:46:11.159
at one of the training grounds there.

804
00:46:11.280 --> 00:46:15.719
That's just me putting on my airpack and getting my

805
00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:17.119
mask situated.

806
00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:19.920
So another great question I always get.

807
00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:23.679
Is is it different fighting a fire in Israel versus

808
00:46:23.719 --> 00:46:27.199
in the United States? And it's not different. A fire

809
00:46:27.360 --> 00:46:30.400
is a fire, and it doesn't matter if it's here

810
00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:31.880
or it's in Israel. Now, the fires there are a

811
00:46:31.920 --> 00:46:34.159
little bit different because all their buildings are made out

812
00:46:34.199 --> 00:46:38.639
of stone, so where as opposed to the United States,

813
00:46:38.679 --> 00:46:41.039
where our buildings sometimes are made out of wood and

814
00:46:41.039 --> 00:46:43.679
made out of other materials that can also burn. So

815
00:46:44.039 --> 00:46:46.880
their fires, for the most part, unless it's like a

816
00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:50.840
shed or something, are the room and contents fire, So

817
00:46:50.880 --> 00:46:53.400
the building itself is not on fire, it's just whatever

818
00:46:53.519 --> 00:46:56.480
is in the room. So those fires are actually much

819
00:46:56.519 --> 00:46:59.639
more dangerous because it can get a lot hotter, and

820
00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:04.400
a concrete or a stone structure versus say a wooden

821
00:47:04.400 --> 00:47:07.280
structure because at some point the fire will ventilate and

822
00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:09.920
it'll start to expel a lot of heat and gases,

823
00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:13.679
which does not happen in the Israel buildings unless a

824
00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:16.719
window is vented or something like that. But even then,

825
00:47:17.719 --> 00:47:20.119
it's like a it's like a brick oven because it's stone.

826
00:47:20.320 --> 00:47:21.920
You know, the rooms are stone. So this was a

827
00:47:21.960 --> 00:47:24.079
training event with one of the.

828
00:47:23.960 --> 00:47:27.000
Local firefighters kind of getting me rigged up with their gear.

829
00:47:29.519 --> 00:47:32.159
And then this was me getting dressed. I think I

830
00:47:32.159 --> 00:47:33.360
was getting ready to go on a call.

831
00:47:33.480 --> 00:47:36.400
I think, just put my gear on, get ready to

832
00:47:36.400 --> 00:47:38.079
go on a call. And I bring my own gear.

833
00:47:39.800 --> 00:47:41.159
I bring my own gear. This is my gear I

834
00:47:41.199 --> 00:47:43.000
wear every day, so I brought it with me to

835
00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:45.559
the US. And I like to thank the airlines because

836
00:47:47.239 --> 00:47:49.039
this time I flew on l Al, but I fall

837
00:47:49.039 --> 00:47:52.159
on United, I phone on American excuse my phone on

838
00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:55.199
Delta as well to Israel on my six trips. But

839
00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:58.480
the airlines will always allow us for our firefighter gear

840
00:47:58.559 --> 00:48:00.679
to fly for free, which we appreciate.

841
00:48:01.559 --> 00:48:03.280
Nice to the airlines.

842
00:48:03.920 --> 00:48:08.360
I like the PFD there in Israel. You're you're you're

843
00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:14.960
wearing the plantation proud in Israel. Oh, absolutely absolutely, next

844
00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:19.000
one one, all right, Okay, that's all of them, all right. Cool,

845
00:48:19.119 --> 00:48:22.119
So everybody that's watching right now, I put a QR

846
00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:25.480
code up in the top left. Hit that QR code

847
00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:29.559
and you can go vote, not vote, but donate to

848
00:48:29.760 --> 00:48:35.440
Aston's campaign. And if you are Implantation, please vote vote

849
00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:40.440
for Aston because he I think it's gonna make such

850
00:48:40.639 --> 00:48:46.239
amazing you know, great things happen in Plantation and it's

851
00:48:46.280 --> 00:48:49.199
just gonna make it a better place for better humans.

852
00:48:49.559 --> 00:48:51.880
Thank you so much for that, Gan, I really appreciate that,

853
00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:53.920
and just it's been great to catch up with you

854
00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:56.519
and spend some time and tell my story about what's

855
00:48:56.559 --> 00:48:59.320
going on. I think right now, with the rise of

856
00:48:59.760 --> 00:49:02.280
a Semitism, I think it's more important now than ever

857
00:49:02.360 --> 00:49:05.480
for us to speak out and speak up. Yeah, because

858
00:49:05.519 --> 00:49:09.719
it's not it's not right, and it's it's very detrimental

859
00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:13.039
to the Jewish community, and we have to stand together

860
00:49:13.079 --> 00:49:15.239
with our friends in the Jewish community and definitely stand

861
00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:15.719
up for them.

862
00:49:16.400 --> 00:49:19.559
I love it because I love somebody like you saying

863
00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:22.880
that who's not a part of the Jewish community just

864
00:49:23.039 --> 00:49:26.480
more of a ally to the Jewish community. And I

865
00:49:26.519 --> 00:49:30.119
have when I have people that are Jews that are

866
00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:33.440
being anti Semitic. It kind of makes me shake my head, like,

867
00:49:34.400 --> 00:49:35.760
come on, you have.

868
00:49:35.679 --> 00:49:38.000
A saying I'm not Jewish even though I know I

869
00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:42.199
look Jewish. You know, I mean we can all still

870
00:49:42.199 --> 00:49:42.880
be together.

871
00:49:43.679 --> 00:49:45.199
Yeah, I think that's important.

872
00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:49.079
I think it's really important for the outside community to help.

873
00:49:49.119 --> 00:49:52.159
And not for nothing but the philanthropy that comes.

874
00:49:51.960 --> 00:49:54.599
From the Jewish community, especially with the Black community, the

875
00:49:54.599 --> 00:49:57.079
black community. Jeish community have always been great allies and

876
00:49:57.119 --> 00:49:59.719
we still are and I like to go out and

877
00:49:59.760 --> 00:50:03.320
talk remind people of that. Again, the loud, vocal minority

878
00:50:03.559 --> 00:50:05.440
might make it seem like that's not still the case,

879
00:50:05.599 --> 00:50:07.519
but I can assure you that it definitely is.

880
00:50:08.360 --> 00:50:12.679
Yes, Well, I hope you have great things coming on

881
00:50:12.679 --> 00:50:15.199
the horizon and I know you well. Are there any

882
00:50:15.239 --> 00:50:18.559
final words you want to leave the listeners with the most.

883
00:50:18.360 --> 00:50:21.320
Important thing I can share with you and your listeners

884
00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:25.000
about the very important humanitarian work that I'm thinking in

885
00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:28.239
Israel is that I want everyone in the Jewish community

886
00:50:28.320 --> 00:50:31.599
and Israel to know that we're with you, and an

887
00:50:31.599 --> 00:50:34.199
attack against Israel is an attack against the United States.

888
00:50:34.199 --> 00:50:35.679
We're always going to stand together with you.

889
00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:40.239
Well, thank you for that. Thank you for your support

890
00:50:40.320 --> 00:50:42.400
and being a hero, because I'll tell you what, my

891
00:50:42.440 --> 00:50:43.960
hat's off to you. I don't know if i'd want

892
00:50:43.960 --> 00:50:52.280
to fight fires, no doubt, and you certainly aren't either,

893
00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:56.159
And so thank you for all your service to thank

894
00:50:56.199 --> 00:51:00.000
you everybody around the world. That's why I say thank you,

895
00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:00.519
all right, man, I.

896
00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:02.199
Really appreciate it. So great to see you again. Great

897
00:51:02.199 --> 00:51:02.880
to catch up brother.

898
00:51:03.440 --> 00:51:05.599
Great thanks for being on the adventures of pipe Man

899
00:51:05.719 --> 00:51:06.840
the Wandering Jew.

900
00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:10.400
Take care.

901
00:51:18.719 --> 00:51:22.960
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man.

902
00:51:23.480 --> 00:51:26.960
I'm w for c u I Radio.