Dave Aronberg, Hero of Truth & Justice in the Opioid Epidemic & Current State of Global Antisemitism

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1:03 It's time for the adventures. So Fight Man on W four C. Why I'm com wis pon Beach is number one internet radio station. Here's your host of Lie Man. Yo. I am back from the UK and Orlando and Milwaukee and Daytona and everything on the Pipemin Radio tour. And here I am the wandering Jew that is back in Florida. I'm not wandering right now, but I have a very special guest for a show today, and I am so excited because I think it was like eighteen years ago was the last time he was on this show. And that's why I'm wearing the sunglasses too, because then he can't tell that I'm eighteen years older. But let's welcome to his show. My friend and an amazing person and human being, Dave Ehrenberg, how are you.

1:55 HiPE Man's creepy back with you? Brother? Thank you for having me. Oh my pleasure. And you know it's interesting. While I was watching my own intro. First of all, you heard a familiar voice there. That was Chad, who's no longer with us. I don't know if you know that. If you remember our engineer Chad who played around town to Chaneather, he's no longer with us. And then my grandson's in that too. But then I saw the guitar part. I'm thinking, I'm wondering if that was Dave when he was on my show last time, because he played guitar on the show when you were actually running for election. Then now now you've been elected multiple times and now you're back in our Palm Beach County, I would say, private sector and doing great things.

2:45 And it's been a wild ride. So first let's start there. Tell the listeners a little bit about your wild ride from eighteen years ago being on my show to now and everything that you've accomplished, because you've accomplished some great things, it's amazing. Well, thank you, and I'm sorry we lost Chad. I hope that his family is doing okay. I didn't know that. Yeah, thank you for letting me know. I started in this business twenty two when I ran for the first time for the State Senate and got elected at the age of thirty one. I was the youngest state senator and I was on your show trying to promote my candidacy.

3:31 We played then we played Coldplay. I think we play love da. Song, loveta Loca. It's a cold Play songs. I'm trying to think of what it was. I'm gonna get it here. It's uh. I think one will look it up for us. Look one look up for a cold Play song that maybe starts with love Vita and yeah, no. It's uh, Martin, that's Viva LaVita. There it is there, it is Viva Lovita. Yeah, that's a great song. And that's that's what we played, and I remember well. So I was elected to the State Senate. I was there for eight years, three terms.

4:17 The first term was two years, then I did two four year terms after that. I left with two years remaining to run for attorney general and I lost in the primary. It's my being in six or seven elections and seven elections, that's the one I lost. And then after the Republican beat the Democrat who beat me, she turned around and hired me as her drugs are. That was the attorney general named Pam Bondi and the drugs are for the state of Florida where I went for the Attorney General's office, where I went after the opioid epidemic, and then from there I ran for state attorney in palmache County. I became the state attorney and was there for twelve years, going after the problems at drug rehabs and sober homes, and so I kept my focus on the open wood epidemic. And then after twelve years, in January twenty twenty five and sided they go into the private sector. I got married. I'm going to have a child.

5:09 Late October, I moved to the suburbs and so in Palm Beach Gardens. So you know, life is very different than when we first met. That's right, that's right. And now I just literally in September moved my studios from Wellington over to Palm Beach Gardens because I've lived over this side. For a while now. When all my kids, like. The diaspora, just left the house and just split everywhere, then I came over to this side. I like this side better. It's a little more sane over here than Wellington was. Wells is a great place, yes, but I do love gardens, and my wife likes it most importantly, and the dogs would like it.

5:50 Happy wife, happy life. That's right, I got it right, Oh my god, and I am so glad. Well. I want to start there that you're a champion for opioids, because that's a big peeve of mine. And I don't know if you agree with me or not, but I have said that. I feel the whole problem with drugs in our country got so much worse once Nancy Reagan declared the War on Drugs. I just feel like I was in high school in that time, and that's when they invented crack and meth, and then you start going to opiates, and I think all these really killer drugs have been going on since that time, and it's worse than ever now.

6:33 Unfortunately, Well, you know, I. Was focused on trying to stop the proliferation of all these pill mills. These yeah, places that were relatively unregulated where people got high under the auspices of a so called doctor's care. But that was ridiculous, and it wasn't It was just it was drug dealers wearing white coats, and people would use these and die, and they would come down on the oxy Cotton Express down here from West Virginia, in all parts of the country, and it was just an It was as awful. It was a tough time as the government turned the other way, but we were able to shut it down. And then at State Attorney, I focused on the rehabs that were engaged in corruption, fraud, abuse, and we worked to shut them down and to chase the bad sober homeowners out of our community so that we will once again have the best, most ethical drug treatment industry anywhere right here in Palmeach County.

7:34 Yeah, and you have definitely done a lie cleaning up. As somebody that's been the South Florida area a long time. Yeah, I remember all those pill mills and all the stuff that was going on, and I don't hear as much about it anymore here in South Florida. That's that's why because of the work we did. Yeah, yeah, exactly, that's it. I mean, that's why, because we were able to focus on this, and we're the only county in the country that did, and so it really turned out to be the most worthwhile thing I think I've done as a state attorney because it had a direct impact on saving lives, and I just wish that other communities around the country would follow our lead. I even wrote a book about It's right here behind me here of fighting the Florida Shuffle, and you can get on Amazon or anywhere. It talks about our fight to cleaning up the drug treatment industry here in Palm Beach County, how we succeeded, and what families need to know as they choose a rehab for their loved one.

8:35 Absolutely, because there are other parts of the country that I know firsthand from people I know that have odeed and that they need the same kind of help you gave us here in Palm Beach County. For sure, Thank you, Thank you, brother. So what are you doing now? What's the current thing that you are cleaning up in our area? Well, I am I'm the managing partner of Dave Arenberg Law, which is a boutique litigation firm. We do criminal and civil work. We represent some drug treatment centers who want to stay on the right side of the law, but we do civil and criminal work. I have four attorneys and we even have an immigration practice from one of our attorneys. So you know, we're rocking and rolling, and I still do TV and streaming and so it kes me busy. Plus about to add my first child later this year, so it got a lot going on.

9:32 Mazle tough, thank you, thank And so now you're having this first child come into the world when I don't know anti Semitism. I can't believe I'm actually talking about it now in twenty twenty six. But what's your feelings as somebody that's bringing a child into the world of what's going on in the world of anti Semitism, of even from Jewish people. I've gotten anti semitism from other Jews, which kind of blows my mind. It's awful. I mean, s who's happening. And there's a congressional race in New York where you have one of the camp both they're both Jewish and a very Jewish district, and you have one who sides with the anti Semites.

10:15 And you have the other Dan Goldman, who is the incumbent who has been harassed and attacked because of his of his support for Israel and the Israeli people. And it looks like the person who's in bed with with open anti Semites, his opponent's gonna win in a Jewish, largely Jewish district. So there's a rift here. You see that American Jews aren't all supportive of Israel, and some of them even support the people on the far left who are openly anti Semitic. They haven't gotten a memo that you may not be in their cross hairs yet, but you will be. You know, you anti Zionism is anti Semitism. And if you're thinking that you're gonna be safe, beare because you denounce your religion or you denounce your homeland, that's not it. You're going to be treated just like everyone else. And it's just and it never stops with the Jews. You know, it may start with the Jews, but it never stops with the Jews. It's about Western civilization.

11:18 And this is the type of thing that threatens to destroy the Democratic Party, and Democratic Party needs to get a hold of it. There are a lot of anti sites on the far right. I'm not going to leave that out on the Republican side, but the Democratic Party has a real issue with this very aggressive, very passionate far left that is promoting a vision of the world where Israel doesn't exist. It's wild to me. Many things are wild to me. One of the things wild to me is that people think that Israel's only existed. Since nineteen forty eight. That kind of blows my mind. But I think about when I was in college at Rutgers University and I was very involved in the temple there and somebody came up to me, and at that point in my time, I was like, I was in the financial business, so I did tend to be towards Republican because of the type of business I was in.

12:13 And they comes up to me and goes, how can you be a Republican you're Jewish? And now I think of how we are here in twenty twenty six, and it's like, I think almost people are saying, how can you be a Democrat you're Jewish? And it just it's to me, right, I'm a Democrat and you can be yes, We'll see which part which way the direction of the party goes. I mean, you have people in the party who are really strong on Israel and protecting the Jewish people, and they're still and the party is still hanging on with those individuals. But will they get displaced by the Mandamis of the world who openly call Jewish donors to political campaigns monsters? I mean, is that is that what you is that the vision of the Democratic Party? I don't think so. You know, when they talk about APAC, it's such as hypocritical. There are so many packs out there that represent interests that you may or may not disagree agree with. But when you focus on one that sort of sounds anti submid to me. And that's the one You're focusing on Americans who believe in a strong American relationship with Israel. That's the one you're going to focus on as the one evil of the monsters?

13:37 Is that? That's it? Right? So many others who you know, for example, the Katari lobby is so much bigger and larger, They spend so much more money than the pro Israel lobby. And when it comes to APAC, there are Americans, it's Americans. It's it's not a foreign organization. So it's really uh, you know, you can criticize Israel all you want, leaving next to Yahoo, I do in christicize Israeli government in christsise the American garments. That mean you believe that America shouldn't exist. No, but Israel is somehow held a double standard. Boy, my son, you know, I'm so glad you brought that up because I say all the time that I don't you know, you cannot like the Israeli government. That doesn't mean don't like the Israeli people, you know, or anybody that's a descendant like you know, you're gonna hate all Jews because you don't like net and Yahoo it may you know.

14:33 That's weird. Yeah, it's a weird world we're living in where you know, this political divide that's so deep that people don't even have common sense anymore. Like I'm not a fan of what Netan Yahoo does, but I am a fan of Israel and Israelis and Jews no matter what. You know. And that's I mean. You had you had a coffee shop in New York who try to humiliate Dan Gold and the congressman there, he came in, bought some coffee, was there with his daughter, and then the owner put out a horrific message banning him giving his money back, calling him a support of genocide.

15:17 It is so ignorant and so hateful, and it just it just shows you this is this is what's going on today, and that should never happen. You know that. And first off, it's not a genocide. It's a war, and there was a genocide on oct a tempted genocide in October seventh when I was to kill all Jews. But you know, you can criticize the Israeli government and the response in God, you can do that. That's not anti semitic. But when you throw around words you don't know the meaning of and you try to exclude Jews as a reason for it. Or here's a trying to exclude Dan Goldan from the coffee shop because he is Jewish and he has expressed support for Israel, that that's enough to kick him out at coffee shop. No, that to me is a violation of civil rights laws. And it shows you if this is the way our country is going, then it's a dangerous direction. Instead of talking to each other, you're essentially just demonizing other people. You're hating other people automatically. That's not who we are as Americans.

16:19 And I hope that the Federal Grammar does investigate this coffee shop owner. Oh, no doubt about it. And like it's just like maybe people should experience things before talking about them, because I find a lot of times these people, you know, I go around and I go tour do touring of music festivals all over the world to do media coverage, and I see a lot of these uncomfortable moments of chant and stuff like that. And I'll talk to some of these people, you know, and they don't even know where Palestine is, Okay, they don't even know anything, and they don't realize the people that are the biggest supporters are the ones that would be free to speak their mind do whatever they want in Israel. But if they did in Palestine, or they did with the regime of Iran or anybody Hamas or anybody Husbala, they would be tortured and killed and raped and everything else.

17:26 I mean, there is there's no Palestine as people describe it. There is. There's Gaza, and there's a West Bank. And Gaza was controlled was occupied by Israel for years. It was after a war and the Israel was attacked and Israel was able to secure the territory, and then Israel voluntarily pulled out, gave the Palestinians its own state, you have it, this is yours, and instead they elected they elected Hamas and turned into a terrast state with tunnels and all the money that was given to them to rebuild this place. Instead of building it like like Dubai. Instead they built it like a terrorist haven where they have towels and missiles and use it to kill more Jews on October seventh than ever been killed before since the Holocaust. And yes, and that's what started the war.

18:16 And Israel a member had pulled out. That's what they got for pulling out. So it's a lot of it's tough to say, right, we'll keep pulling out of these territories, and I'm sure you'll get a promise of missiles. I mean, I would hope that there could be a piece the openly have a two state solution. And it's just it's not so easy because you have to find a partner to do peace with. It's not gonna be Amas. Amas, by their definition, wants the destruction of Israel and the murder of every Jew. So it won't be a mass could be the Palacinian authority, Well they're not Amas, but they have their own issues with corruption and they're run by Abu Mazan who's in its nineties, and they still pay the families of terrorists who kill Jews in Israel, and so it's it's not idea. I think that it would be nice to have a new generation of Palestinians who can make peace with Israel and then we can have a two state solution. But when you say Palestine, you have to define where is that. Some people is from the river to the sea, which means there's no Israel.

19:13 It's just all Palestine. And you have this one Jewish state that's the size of New Jersey, where half the Jews in the entire world, that was born after the Holocaust as a safe refuge for Jews who have been slaughtered wholesale on a real genocide, and it is the natural, original Jewish homeland. And you know, for people who think that Jews just got to Israel in nineteen forty eight, I asked you you celebrate Christmas, right? I mean Christmas year is the birth of a Jewish boy in Bethlehem, thousands of years ago, right, So you can't tell me that Jews just got to Israel in nineteen forty. Eight exactly exactly. And you know, the thing is so interesting story my youngest daughter, Rachel, who she just went through right before or October seventh, she did birthrate like that summer right before, and she was very much a very far left woke person before going to Israel. She went to Israel, she experienced all these things, met all these people. October seventh happened.

20:18 People she knows became hostages. People that she knows were, you know, at that music festival, her kibbutz was bombed and everything else. And then she went back to school up in tallahasse A, n in Tallhassee up in Pensacola, and all of her friends, all of them were violently protesting against Jews, which in turn were against her. And she was actually literally scared to go to school until she aligned herself with the khabbad at the school who kind of protected her and by us banding together. But it was a really scary experience. And I if I'm going to take one thing of October seventh is that's where she found their Jewish identity. And I wish a lot more Jews would too. Instead, they're turning against their own people, their own land. I remember being Hebrew school. Listen, you were taught it's not just a religion, it's a land and a people, you know, and it's a very different thing. And like people don't understand, Okay, you do a twenty three meter or ancestry, you have DNA of being a Jew. There's no DNA of a lot of the other stuff. And it's almost like people just want to jump on the bandwagon. But like I sit there and scratch my house. What world do we live in that liberals support terrorists.

21:49 It's really amazing when you see people who support human rights and civil rights and gay rights LGBTQ. The largest gay rights parade outside of the West is in tel Aviv, right, so other than New York, it's Tel Aviv. And yet if you try to march in any of those countries that they now revere the fall far Left, they get thrown off a building, shot and then thrown off the building. So it's really amazing how you have this coalition of far left with these radical jihadis, Like the most culturally conservative, anti woman, anti gay jihadis it is something that I would never have expected. But when you think about it, they have a worldview. They share the worldview that Israel somehow the cause of all evil, where Israel is a colonizer, which of course Israel Jews have been in Israel before before Islam was a religion, I mean thousands of years.

22:47 And you have Israel being called in apartheid state, even though you have two million Arabs who live in Israel have equal rights, they have voting representation, whereas there are no Jews living in Arab countries. Well, if you and Iran and they don't have equal rights and all the right to vote. In fact, the only Arab citizens don't have the right to vote Arab citizens that were rights to vote in Israel than they do it out there in Arab countries. Yeah, and so you have all this and suppose and actually most of Israel is non white, supposed its non white colonizing apartheid state. And none of this stuff is true. So all this stuff is based on ignorance. I mean, it's based on total ignorance. And I just wish that the people would do a little more research instead of relying on a twenty second TikTok video.

23:31 Well, you're so right, because you brought up something earlier that I talked about, and you know, it's basically there's so many more of the other side and so much more money being put into social media to promote the propaganda against the Jews, and that's what people like. It blows my mind nowadays that nobody substantiates anything. They just read that headline and they take the ball and run with it. Where's the money coming from. It's coming from China, which runs TikTok, owns TikTok. It's come from Qatar that spreads a lot. It's misinformation. It's not organic. This is an international it's a funding different disinformation campaign and it's been successful. Yeah, So it's just it's it's it's too bad, but it's something that you know now we're alerted to it. It has been going on under our noses for years. We've been asleep at the wheel, but no longer, and we're gonna have to deal with the consequences. You have the entire generation of young people, a lot of them have been radicalized, and it's just gonna have to fight misinformation with facts.

24:38 Yeah, it's so simple, too facts like it just blows online. Like if you were to interview any of these people on any of these massfactual things, they swear they know what they're talking about, but they can't substantiate any of it. And it's almost like they don't have to. We have you know, you have somebody right now that tells people's stuff and it doesn't matter what he says. They believe them, whether it's true or not. It's weird. Yeah, well you know what. This is why it's important that you do the show. Dean. It's great to be on with you. I appreciate the chance to talk about it normally, you know, I talk about issues. It's legal issues and let me talk about Millie's politics. But I really enjoy it as you can tell.

25:22 Well, yes, and you're very well informed in it. And that's why I had you on, and because you are somebody that could be a champion for all of us, because of your belief and your voice. And I thank you for that because the minute I asked you to be on, like there was no hesitation because it is an important cause. And you know what hate is hate. I don't care what it is, it's hate. Why can't we all just love each other, unite, stop laying the powers that be divide us and have us at war with each other. Unite and be one race, the human race, and treat people right.

26:02 It's that simple. Yeah. Hey, well, you're a good man, brother, and thanks for keeping us speaking the truth. And let's do this again sometimes. Let's absolutely do it again. And thank you for all you do. And thank you because you're what you do. With everything else in your legal career and with the opios and everything else, you are definitely making. Florida a better place. Thank you, my friend. Thanks again for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. All right, partner, take care.

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