HOW Do We Fight Back? The First Live Audience Erin Molan Show

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Speaker 1: Ladies, ladies and gentlemen, if we could get you to take your seats, were just a couple of seconds away from starting. Thank you so so much. It's so great to see you all. Hello, and welcome. It's so wonderful to be here. We're so so excited to have you, and we have some incredibly special guests coming up for you in just a moment. My name is Eron Mollin and welcome, Thank you. We are making history here. This is the first live taping of the Eron Mollin Show. So this is very exciting, more for me than for you. But maybe one day, when we're huge, you can say you were here for the first one. So give yourselves a massive round of applause. We're so excited. I won't take too long before I bring out some incredible guests. But I was having a think about what I wanted to say to you off the cuff to start off this show, and a lot of people who watch will often send me messages and say, I don't have your profile, I don't have a show, I don't have your platform.
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Speaker 2: What can I do to make a difference?
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Speaker 1: And it's a great question, and I understand that not everyone is in a position where they can pick up a microphone and reach millions of people, but it doesn't mean that you can't have the most extraordinary impact. And for me, and I know every single one of the panelists who will be joining me this afternoon, it starts at home. And the reason that I can stand up here and tell you what I think without fear, or maybe sometimes there's fear, but it doesn't stop me ever, is because of the home that I grew up in. And I didn't have the same city, same school environment, that stability, but what I had was a family unit that loved me more than life and a mum and dad who.
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Speaker 2: Made sure I believed it every step of the.
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Speaker 1: Way that I could do absolutely anything, and my siblings included. And I've had a few of the members of this panel on this show, and the way they've spoken about their parents, about their fathers or their grandparents has reiterated that fact.
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Speaker 2: And my dad was a major general in.
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Speaker 1: The Army then an Australian senator, an extraordinarily brave human being, and he taught me always not just through words because words matter greatly, absolutely I use them all the time for a living, but through his actions that you always do what is right, even when you were scared, even when there are consequences, even when your handshake.
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Speaker 2: And I only ever saw my dad's.
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Speaker 1: Always get emotional talking about Dad, And I tell you what, I'm not ashamed by it or embarrassed by it, because it's such a privilege to feel so much pain at his loss.
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Speaker 2: We lost him a couple of years ago.
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Speaker 1: But the only time I saw his handshake wasn't when he was in Iraq fighting against the kind of terrorists that we're fighting against today. Wasn't again when he was in politics and was being backstabbed by his own political party. It was when he was telling us kids to look after mum as he was dying. That's the only time I saw, maybe not fear, but a bit of vulnerability in him. And so I say to all of you, you may not have a show or a platform with millions, like a lot of the people up here, but what you can instill in your children and your grandchildren is the self belief and the courage and the conviction to change maybe just one world in their life, and that is enough. It doesn't need to be millions. So when people ask me, that's what I say starts at home, raise strong, confident, empathetic children, and you can all do that with your so thank you, so so much. Thank you for having me. It now gives me great pleasure. And believe you me, I have clocked the level of cheer when I walked out, and if anyone.
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Speaker 2: El succeeds that, I'll be really annoyed.
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Speaker 1: Sid Rosenberg, top New York City talk show host, Welcome, sir, right Bruce Pearl sid one over my love Nope, right there, perfect, perfect, legendary basketball coach, most winningest, love you. Winningest is not a word we use in Australia, but I love that about you. James Maslow, Hollywood superzar singer.
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Speaker 2: What a legend.
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Speaker 1: And now the only one actually you can cheer loudest for because I think he's the closest to God. Would that be correct. I don't know how it works in your religion, but I'm assuming so.
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Speaker 2: Rabbi Wilds welcome.
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Speaker 1: What an amazing privilege it is to sit up here with these extraordinary men, and said, I want to start with you, and I'll have a little chat with all of our panelists, and then at the end a chance for you guys to ask questions as well. So if you think of anything, make sure you keep it sid will.
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Speaker 2: You run for mayor of New York City? And when can we start to prepare and plan?
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Speaker 3: Well, that has been an ongoing discussion for folks that do listen to my radio show, which is far and away at this point, the best radio show in the country.
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Speaker 4: That's the truth.
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Speaker 3: I've been talking about it a lot. So for example, Laura Trump comes on President Trump's thought and Laws. She says, said, you got to do it. We need somebody with balls, excuse me, ladies in the Republican Party in New York City to run. Mike Lawler, who I recently spent the day with von party with President Trump up in Rockland County. He's endorsed me. Bruce Blakeman, who hope he will be our next governor here in New York, he's endorsed me. So this is not just Irving in Brooklyn and Sammy and Staten Island and Johnny in Manhattan. These are some of the biggest politicians in New York. I've had one discussion with President Trump. I can't tell you what he said. The issue is really one fold, ye. The three reasons why I wouldn't run, are Danielle. Danielle and Danielle folks said, don't know. That's my wife, and she is scared to death. When you run for public office, they look into your past. I'm a pretty angelic guy, you know, but if I can't find anything, they make it up. And she's like, I'm sick of our kids reading about you on the internet. So just so you know, if you run, I'm going to divorce you. There's no Lossanzra, but I'm leaving you. I said, I got to think about it. Daint it so right now I am getting a lot of folks that would like to see it. This guy can't win again. That's the bottom line. This is the worst mayor in the history of New York City. He's the most dangerous politician in the history of our country. If anybody out here tonight actually voted for Mamdani, shame on you. Because I am seeing way too many Jewish people at Gracie Mansion and hanging out with the mayor telling me how good he is. He's a horrible person. He hates you. He wants you dead. He wants you dead. He's the only mayor in the history of our city that will not show up Sunday at There's Really Day parade on a watum there. He's the last person I want to see there who wants a terrorist at the is Really Day Parade. But he's got to go. So whether it's me, Jessica Tish, or police Commissioner Julie Mennin, our city council speaker, or anybody else that may run except for Curtis. He's foolish. He's run twice, He's embarrassed himself twice. He's gonna do it again. He's got twenty one percent combined in the two elections. But he must be making a lot of money because he's going to do it again. The point is somebody has to beat this guy, and if I'm the guy, I'm gonna have to do it.
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Speaker 2: I love that.
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Speaker 1: Might I suggest a better answer for your wife next time is yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 2: I need to think about it.
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Speaker 3: I'm married thirty four years. I've said a lot of yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 5: I've spent some time with said I just never realized like he's the Jewish version of Trump.
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Speaker 2: How have you only just picked that up forever?
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Speaker 6: Well, I live in Alabama. I don't listen to him every day.
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Speaker 1: Coach Sid's just gone through some of the significant issues that New York City is facing under this horrific man that he cannot go again, no chance in hell. What are you seeing more broadly in America that concerns you when it comes to this issue, And it's not it's not just anti Semitism. It's not just these flugs on the streets of New York City and at jfka put waving his full of flags.
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Speaker 2: It's the tolerance of them that is terrifying.
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Speaker 5: Well, I just think that you know, I'm a basketball coach, so my job was to try to bring people together. I coached ninety five percent of the guys that coached were African American men. I saw real racism growing up in the sixties and the seventies, and I would tell my guys, look, these are obstacles, but they're not roadblocks to your success. And of course with that comes a lot of excuses for failure. And I can't do this and I don't want to hear it because losing is not an option. It's the same thing with anti Semitism. They are tremendous obstacles, but they're not rope blocks. There were three Jewish basketball coaches that played in the twenty twenty five Final four, Todd Golden.
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Speaker 6: Bruce Pearl, and John Shire.
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Speaker 5: This is the greatest country in the world, and we should be this country's greatest patriots. So I'm not lessening the challenges that we're facing out there. We're clearly treated differently than everybody else, clearly, And I want to stop the nonsense about the fact that anti Zionism is not anti Semitism.
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Speaker 6: It's exactly the same thing.
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Speaker 5: It's just an it's just a it's just an excuse.
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Speaker 6: So look, how's Israel doing.
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Speaker 5: I think if you look at the big picture of how it's doing pretty good compared to where it could be.
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Speaker 6: How are you doing? Are you doing?
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Speaker 3: How you coming?
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Speaker 6: In New York? I think we're doing okay. How's this guy doing? I'm great? How am I doing?
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Speaker 5: How? And So therefore I think I think sometimes we're gonna stop it.
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Speaker 6: And and and and thank.
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Speaker 5: God for the opportunities that we have in this country. Oh, by the way, we are running out of places to go. If we can't do it here and we don't have Israel, we're running out of place to do so we need to continue to make sure that this place is a place where your grandchildren can have the same opportunities that you've had.
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Speaker 6: That's how I.
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Speaker 1: See it, beautifully, say that that's why you did, James, you're a Hollywood type.
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Speaker 7: I've been accused of this before.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Now, you wouldn't have much company currently.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't imagine given the incredible stance you've taken, which is insane because it's a common sense, compassionate, normal stance that you'd think, given what they purport to believe in, that they'd all take as well. But we know that they're completely hypocritical and just a bunch of knobs if we're being you said balls before.
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Speaker 2: But tell me, I'm just.
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Speaker 7: Tell me.
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Speaker 1: What was the reaction when you first came out and spoke up off the back of Are you okay?
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Speaker 8: I love?
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Speaker 2: That was not ideal? We just had an exploding dream.
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Speaker 9: We got very physy, spokeling waters wanting all it's just water.
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Speaker 2: It'll be fine. What was the initial reaction?
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Speaker 9: Wow, well, the initial reaction you know post October seventh, For those of you guys who don't know me, I sing, and I act, and I dance and I've never thought about doing politics or standing up even being an advocate from my career. Having said that, when I looked after October seventh, and I saw a lot of not just Hollywood peers, I saw a lot of friends, even some family basically reposting this narrative that I knew to be untrue. I knew from Judaica studies. I knew from traveling to Israel multiple times. I knew from traveling the world as an artist. I'd seen this perspective that what do you mean apartheid, There's two million Muslims that live in Israel with equal rights, right, things like that, like, wait a second, that's not true, and then going down the line of now we're turning into blood libels. I saw for maybe twenty four hours reaction on the news and from my peers and family of well that's scary, that's bad, and went yep, and then all of a sudden twenty fifth hour, I mean only the next day, even the same day, I saw people justifying it, encouraging it, and I took a moment, by a moment, you know, the coming days, maybe weeks, to look around to go is this gonna simmer down? Are people going to come to their senses, and we all know that they haven't. In fact, it grew worse and worse and worse.
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Speaker 7: So I made the.
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Speaker 9: Decision to go over to Israel about a month after October seventh. I thought, let me go there so I can take some photos, take some make some content, and show people. And that turned into actually a full fledged documentary called Bearing.
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Speaker 7: Witness that I shot. It's on my website and can go to. And the reaction to that wasn't what I hoped for.
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Speaker 9: It wasn't this understanding of oh wow, I didn't know that. You went there, you talked to people Muslim, Jewish, Jews, Christian, you showed me, now factually what's happening, what's not happening. I'm so sorry I was wrong. It was doubling down on you deserve to die. Just the death threats began in such abundance, and okay, I can deal with that. Most of them are people who I don't really care to have much respect for. If that's your reaction to something, you should die. We're not gonna have a dialogue. What's been more shocking, more disappointing are the agents that left. That's happened even as recently as last week. I had an agent who stopped responding. Eventually we got to the crux of him, as are called, and goes what the hell is going on?
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Speaker 7: What are you doing?
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Speaker 9: And he goes, oh, I saw all the Zionist comments on his platforms.
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Speaker 7: I don't want to deal with it. And I'm like, did you not know who you signed?
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Speaker 9: I've been paying, paying, attention less, you know, three years, and I'll land the plane with this thought. My biggest frustration is not even the anti Semitism, or now anti Zionism, which most people don't know what the word Zionist means. We're proud of it. It's a right to exist in Jews ancestral homeland. It's equivalent to a patriotism. It's a wonderful word, and should be a Zionist. But it's this anti American rhetoric that has come out of it. So at this point I speak from the perspective of, yeah, I happen to be Jewish, but I'm American. I am so grateful. I think Bruce said it best. We are so lucky to live in this country. Do we have things to work on?
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Speaker 6: Sure?
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Speaker 9: And I want to be part of working on those things. But can we acknowledge how far we've come in comparison to the rest of the world and the rest of history. We live in the greatest country that has ever existed, So let's start with there. With that, I wish we could start with America good, terrorism bad and then have a conversation.
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Speaker 7: And the fact that we can't even get that far it's disappointing and it's shocking.
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Speaker 9: But I will not stop speaking about that and trying to bring people together. If for no other grounds, to start with America good, terrorism bad.
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Speaker 7: Now, let's work to find a path forward.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you need perspective, imagine if Kammler had one. I mean, that's all you need is perspective, right, Like imagine America has Trump as sid wearing him on his collar. Will attest to Rabbi, can you explain to me your why we're here for a specific reason the mje.
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Speaker 2: Why and has the need grown? I'm assuming yes.
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Speaker 10: Well, first of all, I just want to welcome everyone and thank you Erin and all of you for coming and for being here.
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Speaker 4: It's a tremendous honor for us. We decided this.
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Speaker 10: Year, we decided this year. Rather than just doing what we typically do at a MG dinner, which is to pump ourselves up, we would shine a light on people that are doing what I think is God's work in the world and standing up to lives and fabrications and boost you guys up a little because you're helping us. So I started MGE. I can't believe it's twenty seven years.
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Speaker 4: And I did this.
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Speaker 10: I did this because if we are not knowledgeable, we cannot be proud, and if you're not proud, you can't stand up for yourself, and a people that does not know their own story cannot defend itself. And I grew up watching amazing sitcoms like we all did. Most of the writers would Jews, and every time they got to something which perceived or portrayed a Jew, they were always like a little woody allen Ish schleppie, like not terribly excited, proud, or positive about their Judaism. And it's no fault of their own because they didn't get a substantive Jewish education in their youth. And what I set out to do was to try to provide that substantive Jewish education for people in their twenties and thirties. Because people in their twenties and thirties, they're starting their careers, they're starting their families. They can make a big difference politically. And I think we need to get to more and more of our Jewish brothers and sisters because we need to defend Israel. We need to fight against anti Semitism. But the best response, and I'm sure you know this, coach, best defense is a good offense.
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Speaker 4: Did I say that, right?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Right?
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Speaker 10: It's never a ballplayer, And the best offense is for there to be strong, proud, knowledgeable Jews because at the end of the day, you know, Erin, you've been an incredible friend to the Jewish people. We can't depend only on our friends out there. We have to build ourselves up from within. And that's what I've been doing. We've been doing. We're honoring Rabbi Penny tonight and Sarah Joyce and other mg ears besides this distinguished panel, because the more we build ourselves up from within, this is what Israel does, and this is what Americans Jews need to do.
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Speaker 2: Today beautifully saying.
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Speaker 1: And it leads me onto the next thing I wanted to talk about, and Sid, you came on my show and it was such a privilege to have you on. You got emotional, really emotional, talking about your beautiful dad, and it leads into what you were talking about, Rabbi, and what I was talking about at the start in my little opening monologue is that it starts at home and particularly for those of the Jewish faith, to instill in your kids a real sense of pride in who you are and why at Madison why it's wonderful. And your dad was a big part of that. Can you explain to us what he meant to you and how he helped you to be such a powerful voice.
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Speaker 3: It's hard you bring them up. I started my radio show at six o'clock this morning telling story and I don't believe in ghosts, and I don't believe in aliens, all that nonsense. It actually makes me angry, but I'm pretty sure. At two fifteen this morning, my father came to me. He's been dead now. It'll be six years in July.
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Speaker 4: My best friend.
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Speaker 3: The first time I dreamed about him was today.
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Speaker 6: He knew about tonight.
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Speaker 3: He knew that I saw President Trump on Froday. He knows all the things I've accomplished he knew everything. People keep telling me since he passed away, not only is your father watching you, but he's engineering all this him and Hasha, sure he is. He knew everything, And I was about to go kiss him and thank him.
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Speaker 6: I woke up.
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Speaker 3: And my fear was, that'll be a life last time I see him in this dream. Hopefully it's not. But to your point, my father grew up in this little place called Coney Island, Brooklyn, and he was a very religious young man. He married my mother. She claims she's Jewish, my beautiful mom. They owed me she's ninety one. I'm pretty sure she's a guy. So we ended up having Christmas parties and Hanika parties.
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Speaker 6: You know.
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Speaker 3: My father instilled that in me. But I'll be honest, I did not grow up a very religious person. I went to schule on Young Kapor and Rosashana the first two nights of the past over a holiday, we had our Satyrs by night three and meeting Phil Parmasan. So that's the time of jew I am. But I said this to Mark Wilds this morning. It was great on my radio show too. There are more sid Rosenberg's out there than religious Jews. There's more of us, and my whole world changed on October seventh. That next day, October eighth. I'll make this quick. The Jets and Giants played once every five years.
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Speaker 6: That's it.
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Speaker 3: It's not it's a big deal.
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Speaker 6: When they actually play.
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Speaker 3: Giants would be good this year, the Jets, I'm not so sure. So I was getting ready to watch the Jets and Giants on that Sunday morning. I'm sitting in my favorite chair in my living room and I just started to cry. It just hit me what our people were going through, and it was just the beginning. So I become an animal, I mean an animal. Since October eighth, I was on a subway train. This was pro you know this, This was in the papers about two months after. I also went to Israel, James, like you did. I'd never been there my whole life, fifty six years, never went to Israel. I'm going for the fifth time in two weeks that I was there, two months after the war starting. But I'm on a downtown four train one day and I see a guy with the yamaka. It was a Friday. He was going home for shopas He's going to Brooklyn udic Avenue and I see this guy walk up to him.
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Speaker 6: Not that it matters, black guy.
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Speaker 3: He was really drunk eleven o'clock in the morning on a four train and he stuck his finger in this guy's chest and he said, I'm not gonna fight for you. You jettisodle mother effort. And I was sitting right there next to the to the ratline, and I had two choices. I could just sit there like too many Jews do the Jews that take off your yamacha's and hide your mugg and David's disgraceful, disgraceful, or knowing this half drunk guy was twice as big as me was gonna kick my ass, I can still stand up and say not on this train, not today. And that's what I did. I stood up and I said not on this train, not today. Two weeks later, a detective from their IPD came to my house with a video from the train and said, was this the guy? And I said, you bet it was. So my story is my bother in sold it in me. But for me, the rallies, the bullhorns, the Instagram is not enough. We need to become a much stronger people. When I was a kid, the JDL if the Proha Mosque guys walked around Brooklyn, they would have gotten their ass kicked for twenty blocks. The ADL same thing. We don't do that anymore. We think putting videos on Instagram all of a sudden, it's going to stop it. The anti seventism is getting worse. So my idea is we start to train our young Jewish people, both emotionally and physically to fight back because right now we're not doing that. We're not doing that.
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Speaker 6: We need to fight back.
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Speaker 3: When Jewish fight back, they'll get the message go ahead.
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Speaker 1: I love that, and Coach, I just think you would be a very big supporter of that mentality.
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Speaker 6: Yeah. I used to walk saying around you want to mess with me, I'm Israeli.
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Speaker 5: You should watch them run run.
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Speaker 1: You sat on your grandpa's lap as a little boy, and I think he was probably the biggest influence when it came to who you are and where you come from.
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Speaker 2: Can you tell us a little bit about that?
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Speaker 5: Well, I think listening to Rabbi in the here and said about his dad and then telling the story about my grandfather.
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Speaker 6: I think that's why it's.
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Speaker 5: Even more why MJ is so vital, because we had some foundation. We had, somebody, We had a rock there somewhere that taught us a certain thing. And then you know, going to Hebrew school and be and bur MIT's going to do the things that we did. But not every Jewish person has that foundation. And it's it's never too late, and it's more now, it's more important now, like since that, it's more of those than there are. So nineteen sixty seven, I'm seven years old. My papa came over here from Let me tell you what happened.
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Speaker 6: So he's a plumber.
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Speaker 5: Yiddish was the language spoken in the house that kept kosher. He was Orthodox. And one that night he's watching television. He never watched television, and he never he went to bed after supper, and I never saw him get emotional.
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Speaker 6: He's crying watching TV. None of this.
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Speaker 5: Has ever happened. I said, Papa, what's what's wrong? I'll never forget it. You over puss, you up his lap. He's watching the television black and white. It's a six day war. And Papa is old enough and not smart enough, but superstition enough. He's afraid to go to bed because he's afraid that when he woke up, the television would tell that Israel's no longer there, and so then he begins to tell me the story of who I am and who we are. Nineteen twenty nine, Julius Pearlmunter immigrated from Turnapul.
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Speaker 6: He was eleven. He brought his three younger siblings. He was eleven. He was the oldest.
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Speaker 5: Anti Shirley monte Claire, and uncle Harold was an infant.
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Speaker 6: Papa brought them over.
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Speaker 5: Most of the family stayed behind Wow because they couldn't afford the trip. And Papa was telling me the importance of Israel and that if maybe Israel was born. I don't think he either knew about Zionism or whatever, but explain, maybe more of the family, if the state of Israel was born, we could have gone to Israel and it would have been less expensive, and more of his cousins and his aunts and uncles would still be alive, and it wouldn't have had to go through the pilgrims and the Holocaust. And he wanted to make sure that I understood that this country, while it's not perfect, and we know many many stories of how they turned the boats around and a lot of different things that took place, and how they saw the Holocaust, they saw what was going on, and they chose not to do anything about it.
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Speaker 6: We got to recognize those things. It's as true and real.
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Speaker 5: This country saved our family's life, and he wanted me to understand that. And so as a result, you know, I get asked all the time, why aren't you in coaching? Why aren't you coaching anymore? Because I used to wake up every single day worrying and thinking about how I could be Kentucky's ass. That's all I cared about. Can I be Kentucky's That's all I cared about? And in the last couple of years, I work at the every day thinking about, oh, how can I help us Jews become stronger? You know what, our success, Our success is our greatest weapon. The haters hate us because of our success. We're going to stop apologizing for it. Whatever you're doing, whatever your passion is for the Jewish people, just do more of it.
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Speaker 6: And we're not going anywhere. We're here to stay.
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Speaker 1: You love that story, James, who was the most influential person in your life.
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Speaker 2: That I guess also enables you to do this because it's.
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Speaker 1: Not easy and there are a lot in your position who don't sure.
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Speaker 7: I'm lucky to also say my father, you know.
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Speaker 9: And actually I don't have a huge group of people in my life. I don't have a huge family that I'm very close with. I'm lucky to pick and choose a few mentors these days. I have my beautiful fiance who's my biggest supporter. But interestingly enough, back to the quick little mention I said of going to Israel a month after October seventh. And I'll say this as quickly and frankly, as politely as I can, because I've said it in ways before that my fiance has said, hey, can you be nicer of that?
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Speaker 7: And I want to respect that. She did not want me to go for obvious reasons.
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Speaker 9: There was a war happening, something to the likes that we'd never seen, right, And she's also not Jewish, to be clear, so she didn't have the same history and understanding nor the same connection.
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Speaker 7: Now I had taken her to Israel, it took her two or three years previous.
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Speaker 9: She had a great time, but she was also inundated with so much history and so much Hebrew and a bit of a fish out of water, and so that she had a great time and she tried to understand.
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Speaker 7: For one of the first.
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Speaker 9: Time, maybe the first time in our entire relationship. She put her foot down and said, you're not going.
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Speaker 7: Let's move on.
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Speaker 9: And I didn't immediately say no because I was still contemplating it. And it was my dad that was the last person I had to confer to make the decision. And I'll try and say this without getting emotional. I called him up, explained it, you know, thirty seconds and Heedy kind of cuts me off and he goes, James, I know you and if you believe you can do some good and you don't go, you will for.
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Speaker 7: Never forgive yourself and you will regret it for the rest of your life. Right, And so I'm, uh, thank you. So think my dad really no, no, no.
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Speaker 9: But the point of this, this story is not so much my dad being being a rock in my life and encouraging me, teaching me from a young age.
00:29:16
Speaker 7: Like everybody in this panel has been speaking.
00:29:18
Speaker 9: About teaching your children to understand good and evil, to understand.
00:29:21
Speaker 7: Right and wrong.
00:29:22
Speaker 9: And I fear I look around and I'm not so sure that all parents do that, but mine did, and I'm sure a.
00:29:27
Speaker 7: Lot of yours did.
00:29:28
Speaker 6: As well.
00:29:29
Speaker 9: That's a fundamental lesson that we got time and time again, and I'm.
00:29:32
Speaker 7: Afraid that's not being taught.
00:29:33
Speaker 9: But what that what happened is when I went back to Caitlyn and said, Honey, I'm going, it was the biggest fight we've ever had. And it didn't end when I got on the plane. It continued for the next few days as I was speaking with families of recently taken hostages, going to the homes of families I've recently murdered Israelis and Americans and human beings, and I got.
00:30:05
Speaker 7: A call from her at one point, I'm going to the Western Wall.
00:30:07
Speaker 9: I hadn't slept in days, you know, because I went there trying to take a few social media posts and decided to shoot a documentary in five days I had off on tour, so we committed, you know, twelve hours in. There's a lot of great stories we need to tell. Let's just go. So we didn't sleep a whole lot, and I remember calling me up and similar to this emotion, but a few more tears, saying Honey, I love you so much, and I don't need you to understand, but I do need you to support me, and that changed our entire relationship.
00:30:39
Speaker 6: Awesome.
00:30:40
Speaker 7: I flew back a few days later and something was different.
00:30:44
Speaker 9: We went from literally living in Miami figuring out where we wanted to live.
00:30:48
Speaker 7: We met in La. I hated La. I was tired of it, and we moved.
00:30:51
Speaker 9: Around and she said, I want to start a family with you.
00:30:56
Speaker 7: I want to marry you. Let's move to Nashville.
00:30:58
Speaker 9: I always said I wanted to go there, And three years later we live there. We're building our house and God willing, we started a family.
00:31:04
Speaker 7: We're getting married in December.
00:31:05
Speaker 9: But so very much, very much my father and my fiance has grown to be one of the most impactful, supportive and motivational people I have in my life.
00:31:18
Speaker 1: On behalf of some of the women here, we were hoping that ended differently.
00:31:23
Speaker 2: You told her to kicked out of the cub and just kidding. She's a very lucky woman, as are you.
00:31:28
Speaker 3: No doubt he is a pretty handsome guy that.
00:31:34
Speaker 1: I got a question on this, I mean, Fance, is that a tough.
00:31:38
Speaker 10: Choice for you?
00:31:39
Speaker 7: I don't know, I don't know.
00:31:40
Speaker 3: It's close.
00:31:41
Speaker 1: You get to know Sid a little bit better, Rabbi, what about you? A similar story with parents that that kind of instilled in you.
00:31:48
Speaker 10: First of all, thank you and thank you for sharing that. I have my own version of what you went through. So we raised our kids. We went every summer with mg E to Israel, and.
00:32:02
Speaker 6: You're going last week in July.
00:32:04
Speaker 10: We still have a couple of spots of doing it with birthright and and you know, they grew up in this environment. And our youngest son, after October seventh, said he really wanted to do something. You wanted to go to israelik Alian join the idea. And my wife turned to him and said, why are you doing this? And my son turned back to my wife and said, why are you asking me that?
00:32:33
Speaker 4: After everything you taught me.
00:32:35
Speaker 10: He actually passed by a classroom at Yeshiva University where he was studying, he heard one of the great rabbinic luminaries of our generation of Herschel schachter se and it's a molemis mitzvah, which means it's an obligatory type of war. When you are attacked, according to Jewish tradition, you have to defend yourself, and everyone who can defend themselves, whether they're living in Israel or not, should really be trying to go he heard that. He's a young, impressionable guy and that's where he is.
00:33:05
Speaker 4: Right now and the idea.
00:33:08
Speaker 10: But I will tell you though, it's not a simple thing, and I don't think we have to go to that extreme necessarily. We're all not gonna join the Israeli army, but all of us could decide to spend more of our vacation time and money going because as you all know, when you go, you get so much more than you give. We're going on another volunteer trip and it's hard.
00:33:36
Speaker 4: The economy has.
00:33:37
Speaker 10: Been hit very you know, Tourism is really down. And it's not just the money, it's the feeling of, like, you know, are my brothers and sisters continuing to come and showing me love and support. I just want to say one other thing, because you asked about fathers, and my brother is here and our father was a huge eugen influence and as I sit here and literally I'm able to see the statue of Liberty. Our dad came from a little hicktown in Pennsylvania called Olephant. His father, of blessed memory, My grandfather left Poland.
00:34:15
Speaker 4: In nineteen twenty.
00:34:17
Speaker 10: He came from Bialistock, which was the third largest Jewish population in Poland in pre war Europe, and became here to find a brighter future because it's a terrible anti semitism there. And my dad of blessed memory, just passed two years ago, spent his entire life helping to bring immigrants from all over the world to the United States according to the law. Okay, my brother took over the firm and they do incredible, incredible work. And when I walked onto this floor, I had a little crazy deja vous. Said, you were talking about a dream, and I was like, I've been here, and then I realized, Michael, we were here to see an exhibit for.
00:34:59
Speaker 4: The glove of Peter Mulkin Malclin. So my dad got Peter malkoln his green card.
00:35:07
Speaker 10: He was the gentleman who caught Eichmann, and they displayed his gloves here and I remember we took we came here with right, I mean, you were here with us, and and he was such a proud Jew. And it is not an exaggeration to say that this whole organization would not exist if it wasn't for him, because I wouldn't have the values that I have or the support that he gave for so many years, and I feel like we we all need parents like this, and if we didn't have parents I gave us some Jewish values or just values American, good old fashioned western American values, then we need then we need to teach that. And we're getting very jaded about the young generation because a lot of them, and as you mentioned before, even amongst our own young Jews who voted from Mandalami and brought him into office. As quickly as young people can be brainwashed one way, I feel we can start the inductrination the other way, and that's our responsibility.
00:36:14
Speaker 2: We need to do that.
00:36:16
Speaker 1: It's not indoctrination if it's true, and it's just thank you Rabbi for sharing very very much. Now a final question to each of the panelists, and I'd love to I mean, it's been a discussion based on hope and optimism, hasn't it It hasn't. I mean, we've shared tears and emotions, but in a beautiful positive way. I've loved every second of it. I'd love your message of hope to everyone here for when they may struggle a little bit to look at it as passionately as you talked about coaching as that we're so blessed and lucky, which we are.
00:36:47
Speaker 2: But see it.
00:36:48
Speaker 1: I'll start with you a message of hope and faith and belief, and not necessarily religious.
00:36:54
Speaker 2: But what do you say to pep.
00:36:55
Speaker 1: Yourself up if sometimes Mum Danny's face gets a little too much.
00:37:01
Speaker 3: I don't really have a message of hope, no I do. Look the facts. Bruce talked about it. We are celebrating this year the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of the greatest nation in the world, that's ours, okay, And you know, I get aggravated with Jewish people who are top on Israel, and I get aggravated with Jewish people. And if you're in the audience, I'm sorry. I'm not really sorry. Who get BB Nathaniau a hard time? I think BB Natanyao was a hero. I'd love to see any one of the people that stand in Times Square or Tel Avive have to deal with all these our Nietionans trying to kill us every day, led by Iran. Also, get the hostages out alive, make the world happy, make the president happy, Biden.
00:37:48
Speaker 4: He was a piece of garbage.
00:37:50
Speaker 6: Yes, do that every day.
00:37:52
Speaker 3: It wasn't like BB had an easy job. And it's one thing when the world gets on BB. But when Jewish people. Now, look, if you're Rebecca Goberg, fine, you say what you want to do. Your son hirsh, God rest his soul. She's exclusive to this conversation the hostage parents. But when I see Jewish people getting on BIB, what do you guys want? What do you guys want? There'd be no Israel today without bbing nettingna who.
00:38:18
Speaker 6: That's a fact.
00:38:18
Speaker 3: It would be gone.
00:38:20
Speaker 6: So what's my hope. I'll tell you this right now.
00:38:22
Speaker 3: This is not up for debate, because if you think it is, you're not as smart as I am. But President Trump running this country and bb nettigne who running Israel? This is the golden age. I couldn't think of two better men to run our respective countries than Trump and BIB. And all the challenges that we are facing in Israel will be going again in three weeks and in this country, thank god, those two men are in charge. And you look at Israel. Boo's talked about it. They're all looking pretty good. You know, guys are okay, not perfect yet. They're still down there, those animals. But you know there are a lot less in number, and they're doing a lot less damage, and there's no hostages left. Every hostage is home, dead or alive. You've gotten every hostage home, and we're still fighting. We're still fighting Cspola in Lebanon. Obviously, Hamas is still armed, and the UTIs are still out there. This is what PB has to deal with every day. So while you're out there in Times Square yelling and screaming, maybe someday you guys can explain to me what exactly you're angry about, because I don't get it. So my hope is President Trump bb neting Yahoo. Israel will never be better. The United States as long as Ruby Old wins next will.
00:39:39
Speaker 6: Never be better.
00:39:40
Speaker 3: And there's a lot to look forward to with those two men in charge.
00:39:43
Speaker 2: Beautifully. Yeah, my prisoners as always coach.
00:39:48
Speaker 5: Why I don't need there's not much to add to that. I mean, I agree with everything. I agree with everything that Sid said. There's been a revival amongst Americans jew I think, unfortunately, my story had something to do with my grandfather talking about the Holocaust.
00:40:07
Speaker 6: Our kids haven't experienced the Holocaust.
00:40:10
Speaker 5: They don't know anything about it. It's it's one of the reasons why America. Our young people aren't ist patriotic because they don't have an aunt and uncle or a neighbor that brought got brought home in a coffin with a flag draped. And so our young people are soft and they don't appreciate and and and you know, and I'll spoil my kids, but I'll slap the rot and right out of them, right, and so we gotta have we got to have these conversations. But I am I am hopeful because I do believe there's a been a revival of American Jewry. I do, and I think there's been a revival around a country amongst all faiths. And I think that's really important because God is uh, He's our only hope. And I just the last thing I'm gonna just say on this would be, you know, we got to take advantage of this window with President Trump and bb Danyaho right now. This is it because I don't know what's going to happen either in Israel or here.
00:41:08
Speaker 6: And Rabbi, you.
00:41:09
Speaker 5: Know that in Genesis, I think it's forty seven when Jacob is dying and he says to his son Joseph says, don't don't bury me here in Egypt. When when I die, when I rest, take me back to where my father was buried. Take me back to Hebron, the Cave of the Patriarchs, where Abraham is buried, where Leah, Rebecca Sarah. The world says, that's disputed territory. The Palestinians call it the West Bank. I call it you, Dan Samaria.
00:41:51
Speaker 6: Damn. I call it you Dan Samaria.
00:41:55
Speaker 5: And I don't know about you, but I feel in many ways, our return to our ancestral Jewish homeland is the fulfillment of prophecy. But that prophecy does not stop there.
00:42:07
Speaker 6: I'm not okay with Hebron being disputed? Are you? Are you Jews okay with I'm not? And so what's gonna come next?
00:42:15
Speaker 5: It, maybe, hopefully, is where about eighty percent of our Bible was written, where the stories we're all told will become a part of Israel.
00:42:26
Speaker 6: Awesome, will become a part of Israel. It's our ancestral homeland, and that's what I'm open.
00:42:32
Speaker 3: James, fantastic.
00:42:35
Speaker 9: Well, I'll try and give a slightly more tangible, hopeful takeaway.
00:42:39
Speaker 7: No, I mean, I can't add any more than they already said.
00:42:42
Speaker 9: So eloquently, but as an actor, as a singer, I have to learn about social media.
00:42:47
Speaker 5: Right.
00:42:47
Speaker 9: Part of what I did is I invested into a marketing company and I've sat in on meetings the last two and a half years to just start to understand marketing, touch points, funnels, conversions, all of that nonsense.
00:42:58
Speaker 7: Well, all that gibberish.
00:43:01
Speaker 9: And when somebody wants to buy something, it takes somewhere between seven.
00:43:04
Speaker 7: And twelve touch points. So what's a touch point?
00:43:06
Speaker 9: An email, a click, a post, seven to twelve before you can expect a conversion, and the conversion might just be the first step to get their email, right, takes a lot when they want to see something. When somebody doesn't want to see or hear something, And what are some trigger words with that? Israel, anti Semitism, even Judaism these days, Unfortunately, that's something that most of the world just doesn't want to touch because it doesn't pertain to them more point or zero two percent of the entire population. Most people may not be anti Israel, anti Zionists, antisemitic, they just don't really have a relationship to it, so they're stepping back going.
00:43:40
Speaker 7: Not my problem for something like that, it's going to be way more than seven to twelve. It could be fifty, it could be one hundred.
00:43:47
Speaker 9: So if you're posting content, it might be one hundred posts before you get somebody to actually look at it and go, oh, wait a.
00:43:53
Speaker 7: Second, that actually makes sense to me.
00:43:54
Speaker 9: If you're on stages, it might be one hundred speeches. If you're having conversations, it can be one hundred more conversation. So my hope, my encouragement, my takeaway here is keep doing it, keep having it, because it will resonate. I believe the truth will always rise to the top. I believe God knows what's going on, and the rest of the world can and will if we continue to tell the true version of history, We continue to show the world what Judaism and what being Americans is all about.
00:44:26
Speaker 2: A position if you applies us up, that would be lovely.
00:44:31
Speaker 6: So I.
00:44:33
Speaker 10: Like to think I'm a student of history, and specifically Jewish history, and the stuff can get you down our new mayor and a.
00:44:41
Speaker 4: Lot of other things going on in the world. And I'm not trying to dispute the facts. Anti Semitism is reared its ugly head. But if you have any sense of Jewish history. We are living in a golden age. We are, and.
00:44:53
Speaker 10: I'll just bring this home. I went to visit a gentleman. He was ninety six at the time. It was one hundred when he passed. Henry Moskowitz, a blessed memory. Henry Mosquwitz came to the United States without a penny in his pocket, lost his wife and daughter in the show on the Holocaust, and I came to him for help because he was a very charitable philanthropist.
00:45:14
Speaker 4: I was sitting in his living room waiting for him.
00:45:18
Speaker 10: And this was in the middle of the Second Intofada, and there was a New York Times.
00:45:23
Speaker 4: Addition whatever, just sitting on his.
00:45:27
Speaker 10: On the coffee table, and I was reading it and there was this terrible picture of a wrangled bus of this terrorist incident, of Palestinian terrorists that committed this atrocity in Jerusalem. And by the time mister Moskwitz came out to.
00:45:42
Speaker 4: See me, I was all upset.
00:45:43
Speaker 10: And he saw and he says, what's the matter in this heavy Polish accent, And I handed him the newspaper and he looked at it.
00:45:51
Speaker 4: He put his glasses on and he says to me.
00:45:54
Speaker 10: He goes We never had it so good, I said, mister Moskits, there were eleven Jews that were killed.
00:46:00
Speaker 4: What do you mean?
00:46:01
Speaker 10: He says, yeah, But now we have an army, he says, now we have a government, says when I grew up in Polden, if a Jew is beaten up on the street, there was no recourse. We have to stop relying on other people for our own protection. And I would love to start said what you mentioned before, not just spiritual and knowledge, but some kravmagah and the like, because we need to really stand up for ourselves. But I want to end on a hopeful note. We have an incredible state of Israel. We have a thriving diaspora Jewish community, with more Torah being studied and more young people coming back to their faith and their roots than ever before in Jewish history. With all the problems and all the issues, we are strong. We've got some issues. We got to fight back, but we got to fight back, as I was saying before, from within by knowing who we really are and being proud of our American and our Jewish heritage.
00:46:55
Speaker 1: Well said, Well said, ladies and gentlemen.
00:46:59
Speaker 2: That wraps up the panel part of this show. But we're going to do a.
00:47:02
Speaker 3: Very can we get a laughing?
00:47:10
Speaker 1: They made it very very easy for me. Bless you, Thank you, sir Sick, You're amazing.
00:47:15
Speaker 2: We're going to do a very quick Q and A.
00:47:18
Speaker 10: Now, everyone else to know that during the program, part of after the dinner, after you guys, enjoy a beautiful dinner, we're gonna have a program and we're gonna be able to hear from each of our esteemed tonight again.
00:47:29
Speaker 4: So don't leave later.
00:47:31
Speaker 2: Please, absolutely so, doctor Tuvia.
00:47:33
Speaker 1: Now, if there's a man in a uniform, particularly the id F one, we go to him first.
00:47:38
Speaker 2: Is everyone comfortable with absolutely? Please?
00:47:54
Speaker 11: Hello, Okay, I hope you guys are okay with.
00:47:57
Speaker 6: The King's English.
00:47:59
Speaker 4: We don't have chance to This is the colonial dialect.
00:48:01
Speaker 11: So even though I'm actually wearing an idea of uniform, as you could tell, i'm currently serving in the idea if I'm a combat medic.
00:48:09
Speaker 6: Your age.
00:48:11
Speaker 11: In fact, I'm not older serving combamedic and I've met I had the pleasure to meet Erin on her first Israel trip and Tel Aviv a few years ago, and first of I just wanted to relate to what all of you were saying the reason I'm wearing this uniform ne now, which is my proudest suit of clothes that I own, it's because of the.
00:48:29
Speaker 4: Way I was raised as well.
00:48:30
Speaker 11: One side of my family were Holocaust survivors. My mother grew up with only a mother and a father and a brother and a sister because everyone else was killed because the state of Isault came around ten years too late, in nineteen forty eight and not nineteen thirty eight. If you want to know genocideers, we're still not back to those nineteen thirty nine numbers.
00:48:48
Speaker 3: So that's one.
00:48:49
Speaker 11: Reason I joined the idea, and the other reason quite simply because my late grandfather was in the British Army World or two and fourt the Nazis for six years. So based on that and my Zonus education, this is why I'm wearing this suit of clothes. However, when I wrote my book called Heroes of Palma, in addition to honoring the men and women who serve in my unit, I took special attention at the back of the book, and this hasn't been mentioned in this entire panel.
00:49:14
Speaker 6: To honor people.
00:49:14
Speaker 11: Who have no skin in the game, to honor people who have no religious connection, who are not Israeli, who are not Jewish, who go out of their way and quite often an incredible danger to themselves to stand up for what is right.
00:49:30
Speaker 4: And Aaron Mullen sitting.
00:49:31
Speaker 6: Here in front of us here is one of these luminaries, and they.
00:49:41
Speaker 11: And they literally understand that it's not just the ideas against the Hamas or the Ideaf against the bala Iran. It is a war, as doctor Story wrote, of the forces of light and Judaeo Christian values against the forces of evil and darkness. That's what this is all about, is a much much bigger battle. So what I wanted to do is actually not answer, not.
00:50:03
Speaker 6: Ask a question because of the old joke. Why did Jews.
00:50:06
Speaker 4: Always answer questions with questions? I don't know why do they?
00:50:09
Speaker 11: But what I wanted to do is I want to do something at Judaism which is called hakatv which is to recognize the good. In this case, Aaron, who's been getting amazing information with these gentlemen on the panel, failed to neglected. She's also a beacon of what is good in this world as well.
00:50:24
Speaker 7: Thank you.
00:50:27
Speaker 2: I promise that is not planned on any level, but thank you. That's very cold.
00:50:33
Speaker 8: Hi.
00:50:33
Speaker 12: My name is Valerie David, and I want to thank all of you for being here. My father is a survivor of the Farhood program in nineteen forty one in Baghdad, so I'm very strong in that.
00:50:50
Speaker 13: And also influenced by my father. What I wanted to ask said, so many Jews did vote for Mandami. If Sleiwa dropped out, he's Mondamie still would have won.
00:51:03
Speaker 2: It didn't split the vote.
00:51:05
Speaker 13: So I have a friend that wears a cafia, So I'd like to know. Do you know has anyone said why they did and has anyone regretted that decision? Like said, you know what, I kind of wish I hadn't voted for Mondami.
00:51:19
Speaker 3: You're right about the vote, but you just don't know.
00:51:22
Speaker 6: Right when you added up forty one.
00:51:24
Speaker 3: Percent for Cuomo, seven percent for Sliev, they still lost by two points, but you don't know. Curtis should have dropped out. That's the bottom line. But he made a lot of money, made a lot of money. That's why he's running again despite getting seven percent of the vote. Now, in terms of buyer's remorse, I hear a lot of it. I talked to many people throughout the week in New York that say to me, I voted for him, and I made a mistake. They don't care about us. It's not the Jewish thing. It's all the other promises that he hasn't kept. Free buses and out Fort Allas is not fantastic. Your rent has gone up in New York City. He wants to fire cops, not to hire a cop. So don't confuse the issue. People are not souring on Mamdani.
00:52:07
Speaker 6: Because they like us.
00:52:08
Speaker 3: They still hate us, but he made a lot of promises that he has and kept. And I make it very very clear when I criticized the mayor not to just make it about us, because even though James is right and he does a tremendous job telling the truth to people out there, people are getting tired. It's sad to hear that, but they're tired. Okay, So I go out of my way to make sure. Okay, fine, you want to talk about the Jews. He's anti cop, he wants to raise taxes. He doesn't want to any bupper zones in part of synagogues or churches. When Ronald Hicks was a place in Cardinal Dolan, he didn't.
00:52:44
Speaker 6: Go to church.
00:52:45
Speaker 3: So it's not just about the Jews. There is buyer's remorse, not enough. But there are people in this town that will tell you that he did not win because of the Jews. Okay, yes, whether it's fifteen percent or twenty percent, said, that's too many. Not one Jew should have voted.
00:53:03
Speaker 6: With that guy, not one.
00:53:04
Speaker 3: It's a disgrace. But to say that Jews voted in Mamdani, how do I say this nicely?
00:53:11
Speaker 6: That's bullshit.
00:53:13
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you, thank.
00:53:15
Speaker 2: You, thank you, thank you.
00:53:18
Speaker 9: Aaron.
00:53:19
Speaker 14: As you know, we're kind of we took the same flight in together.
00:53:22
Speaker 4: Vote from Australia.
00:53:24
Speaker 14: And just a quick question because as you know, I was directly impacted by that incident in Bandai Beati. I had a very dear friend of mine who almost lost his life. My son and I could have been there very easily. I know a couple of the rabbis all too well. And as you know also there's been a royal commission now into.
00:53:44
Speaker 2: The nature of it.
00:53:45
Speaker 14: And I think if you asked many Jewish Australians, unfortunately, our reaction was we weren't so surprised, you know, we saw this coming. We saw this coming the day after October seventh, when they were shouting gas the Jews in front of the Sydney Arbor Bridge, you know, and unfortunately, So I'm just asking you, as someone who's close to it, have you seen Australia turn around and make us feel safer? And again, thank you for everything I had to do.
00:54:10
Speaker 4: We really appreciate it.
00:54:12
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Glenn.
00:54:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Bondai massacre is what Glenn is referring to there, and I thought to myself that that would be the moment that we would see a shift in my country. And I'm an incredibly proud Australian. My dad was willing to die for our nation, and to be honest, it turned out that he did. His cancer was caused from the burn pits in Afghanistan and in Iraq from his service there. It takes a lot to make me feel shame about my nation, and I felt almost nothing but shame. The Opera House, whilst Israelis and Jews were still being slaughtered and people from all other walks of life. October eight, October nine, the Harbor Bridge a march for humanity which waved the flags of Hezbula and Hermas and held up the Islamic leader of Iran's face purported much for humanity, and not just that, but the tolerance of it. The way my fellow Australians remained silence is what hurt me the most, I think of all of it, but Bondai, I thought, this is horrific, this is terrifying. My daughter and I were on the balcony. We heard the shots ring out. Her father rang and I thought, I said. The first thing I said to him, is it the Jews? Have they targeted the Jews? And he said yes, And I just I knew. We were all in shock, but we knew because everything had been leading and building up to this point, because our society had accepted it and tolerated it. In the aftermath of Bondai, maybe we had a week I reckon and tirely here my really good friend from Australia, before it started again. You're playing the victims. The Jews are playing the victims. Well, I mean, how many more need to be shot dead, including a little girl, for them to maybe say, hey, like, we're cool. We don't want special treatment. We don't want you to glorify ours or to bow at our altar. We just don't want to be slaughtered at the beach. That's bare minimum. Yet it was all the jew you know. So to be honest, I think we needed well, we definitely need a change of government. I think that would help because the culture is set from the top down. But I don't know what needs to happen in Australia for people to wake.
00:56:13
Speaker 2: Up and realize. And again, you just made this very point.
00:56:17
Speaker 1: It's not the Jews versus Hamas or the Islamic creigime of Iran, or Hesbler or the Hoothis. It's Western civilization. They want to kill us all death to America, death to the West. Australians have died. Australians died on.
00:56:31
Speaker 2: That beach who were not Jewish.
00:56:33
Speaker 1: They might target the Jews, but they ain't checking closely as to whether or not you're wearing a star or a cross when they're shooting on the beach indiscriminately.
00:56:42
Speaker 2: And that's what I'm trying to convince Australians and the rest.
00:56:45
Speaker 1: Of the West that I don't do this because I'm an amazing person. I do this because I've got a seven year old daughter who's going to exist in a world and if we let them win, We're screwed, all of us, not just the Jews.
00:56:56
Speaker 2: All of us are screwed.
00:56:58
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you a funny story about horror. So I was in Washington, d C. For the White House Honika Party, night three of honeker President Trump called me up on stage.
00:57:07
Speaker 4: It was a big deal.
00:57:08
Speaker 3: You remember that boost called up three people, Mark Levin, said Rosenberg, Liz pipcop The next day, I did my show live from Washington, DC, and it was two days after Vondai Beach and I wanted a guest from Australia. Now I knew Tarlly Shine very well. She's a big star there too. I've heard of this girl Erin. She's a big star. She's a big, big star. I never spoke to her before.
00:57:28
Speaker 2: Copy that big dissacked me from every.
00:57:30
Speaker 6: Job I had, pretty big.
00:57:32
Speaker 3: So that morning from Washington, d C. I had Aaron on live from Australia for the first time, and I think we cried for about four minutes. For about four minutes, I remember the one part you said that that really WoT at home for me was your daughters seven. Now she was six at the time, and you said, my six year old daughter is scared to go outside, and I remember how that affected me because you know, in America, you think Australia think what you think of, like you know, kangaroos and barbecues and steeb when God rest his soul right and six yearlds afraid to go outside. So I met you'd be cause of that tragedy.
00:58:10
Speaker 2: And that's right.
00:58:11
Speaker 4: And uh man, am I lucky?
00:58:12
Speaker 2: No, bless you. It's mutual, very mutual.
00:58:14
Speaker 1: Now I think we only have time for a couple more these well do these two lovely ladies.
00:58:18
Speaker 2: I can't get up again my skin social Hi, my name is Amy James.
00:58:24
Speaker 15: I had a question for you from where I sit on social media. It seems like everyone hates us, but I love what you said about most people don't have skin in the game, and I just want to you know, it seems like everyone is out to get us, But I like hearing that most people don't have skin in the game or it's.
00:58:40
Speaker 2: Not their fight.
00:58:41
Speaker 15: So how do you if you know they don't, if they don't really hate us, how do you win over those people who really don't have skin in the game and don't really you know, can go either way, So how do you get those people it's.
00:58:55
Speaker 7: A great question I have. I think I have one of these sitting right here.
00:59:00
Speaker 9: So when I started speaking out, you know, it was much more from the Jewish perspective. But then I've realized that's when it can connect to a very small amount of people, right, And I realized, let's say it's ten percent of people that agree with us, and then ten or twenty percent of people that will never agree with us.
00:59:17
Speaker 7: Well, I don't need to speak to the ten percent.
00:59:18
Speaker 9: We already kind of know the same things, have the same principles, agree in the same thing.
00:59:21
Speaker 7: So how do I reach that seventy percent?
00:59:24
Speaker 9: So most of how I speak now isn't from the perspective of being Jewish. I just happened to be Jewish and kind of like a sid jewsh here. You know, we went to high Holidays, but it was an Orthodox but you know, not extremely observant.
00:59:35
Speaker 7: It happened to be how I was raised and what's.
00:59:37
Speaker 6: In my blood.
00:59:38
Speaker 9: But I am a proud American, and so I speak mostly from the respective of all. Right, Okay, I ignore Israel. Right, if you've never been there, it's going to be hard to convince you how wonderful it is.
00:59:47
Speaker 7: I get it.
00:59:48
Speaker 9: You're seeing so much propaganda, especially if you're younger, and you're looking in TikTok. What becomes popular the thing that's posted the most right. So, not to make this into a religious equivalent, but you have two billion Muslims, fifteen million Jews. Who's gonna win that one? Right, that's what becomes popular whatever they want. So instead of speaking from that perspective, I speak from an American perspective these days to try and get to a broader audience because as an American, there's so many reasons to protect your brethren of all faith, Judeo Christian and beyond this place.
01:00:19
Speaker 7: Despite the fact that we have.
01:00:20
Speaker 9: Many things to work on, like everywhere of course has gotten it right more times than not, we need to focus on the commonality that we have as Americans of how far we have come in so many different categories, and there's so many different points.
01:00:33
Speaker 7: I'm sure you're all thinking of them all ready to speak about.
01:00:36
Speaker 9: So if I had advice there, and what I try and do is find something that is a little bit broader than just Judaism. In fact, unless I'm really trying to have a trigger word in my hook, I don't even necessarily start with Israel or start with zion ms, I start with something else that maybe can relate to more people, and then we've in well. As a proud American, I am grateful for Israel being the front line of defense against the most extent potential threat that we have, which is radical Islam. So there's a way to, I think, get people interested in the conversation without immediately pissing them off, and then hopefully my intention always is to have a dialogue. So the manner in which I create content is the same man in which I have a conversation with anybody in person, which is say, here's why i'd love to talk to you, this is how I think about it, how to you And if you want to yell and scream at me.
01:01:23
Speaker 7: Probably not going to get very far. Then you can leave.
01:01:26
Speaker 9: But if you're willing to have that conversation, I think that that is where we can truly make progress for that seventy eighty percent that don't really know what's going on. Beautiful, hellum me, lem me, oh bless you, thank you, love us, want everyone, thank you.
01:01:43
Speaker 4: Just add something to James that that population, not the extremes.
01:01:51
Speaker 10: I think we overlook that at our at our detriment, yea.
01:01:56
Speaker 4: And I just want to I just want.
01:01:57
Speaker 10: To sort of highlight what you just said, because because I've seen this in my own teaching, that we don't get young Jews.
01:02:06
Speaker 4: Coming through our doors. They're just not coming.
01:02:09
Speaker 10: But most of the young Jewish people who come through our doors at MGE are left of center, because when you're in your twenties and thirties and you grew up in the New York City area, you're left of center. And that population is I think open because they haven't really studied any history. Much of the history being taught today is on TikTok and a lot of we have high school teachers who come to MGE or participants in MGE and they're afraid to say anything. We have to double down, I think, and I know people don't care about facts anymore. It's all about feelings, all about conversations. But we're giving up. We are giving up. You know, you talked about the Six Day War you were seven years old. People don't realize that had Israel not struck prehmptively, okay, there would be no Israel probably okay, minus the God factor, of course. But people have to understand that Israel bolded size took back you Hudavis Chomron because they were four hundred and sixty five thousand troops encircled the tiny, infant state of Israel. Okay, and now Israel not taken off and preemptively strug and that's why we have three times as much territory. Most Jews don't know that, and we have given up that educational fight.
01:03:22
Speaker 4: I'm not exactly sure how it's done.
01:03:24
Speaker 10: I hear you, fifteen billion how any mean Muslims excuse me?
01:03:28
Speaker 4: And fifteen million Jews. We're going to lose that war.
01:03:31
Speaker 10: But there are a lot of it's like the silent majority, and they don't know. And we have the opportunity to educate. We have to get in front of as many young people as possible.
01:03:41
Speaker 5: I think the other thing, too, is where God's chosen people. Okay, everybody knows you're Jewish, at least they ought to. How do you treat people? How kind are you?
01:03:53
Speaker 6: How generous are you?
01:03:55
Speaker 5: Are you the person at work that they'll go to because you're a great listener and you really really care. We've got to be and we're capable of being the best versions of ourselves.
01:04:04
Speaker 6: I want to be like Mike. I want to be like Michael Jordan. My players want.
01:04:07
Speaker 5: To be great that let people get to know you. But understand this, you've got a responsibility. You gotta represent the name of the front of jersey and the name on the back of the jersey.
01:04:19
Speaker 6: So when we screw up, we heard all of us. Okay, So we should get out there and be unbelievable today.
01:04:27
Speaker 5: Be the best possible people we possibly can be every single day, relentlessly. And you know what, the seventy percent will see us. Oh, you know what, he's a really good guy, what a great friend. And you know what, the hate us. They're gonna hate us. Anyways. We just gotta protect ourselves from them.
01:04:44
Speaker 6: Period.
01:04:45
Speaker 5: Don't worry about it, don't stress about it. But there are still lots of undecideds out there. Just be the best version you possibly can.
01:04:54
Speaker 2: Final question.
01:04:55
Speaker 8: So my name is Mandelker. First of all, I wanted to, like so many other people, think each and every one of you. I can tell you two am. I'm sure I'm speaking for many people in the room. Two am doom scrolling and one of you shows up on my Instagram and it's such a relief. So thank you, and Aaron also a special thank you, not just to you, but to your daughter, because it is not easy to have a mom who is so public out there putting yourself at risk, and you're doing it for your kid and for so many other moms. It's an inspiration for us and for our kids too, So thank you for.
01:05:34
Speaker 6: I'll be told you.
01:05:36
Speaker 8: My question is for the coach, which is it is such a delight to see you out there, so outspoken, and I'm really curious to know your fellow coaches, the players, how do they respond to you? What more can we do with the sports industry?
01:05:57
Speaker 6: Yeah?
01:05:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, Athletes for Israel, Yeah for sure, we I took yeah, and I'd like to introduce the my partner and the founder of Athletes for Israel, Daniel Posner.
01:06:10
Speaker 6: Daniel Police stand up and commands you.
01:06:14
Speaker 5: So so with with that, we're taking teams to Israel and and you know, the greatest thing in the world is we don't have to sell them anything beforehand. You just get off the plane, you take them to the beaches of Tel Aviv. I don't know if you like big boobs and curly hair, and you know, I mean, you know beautiful eyes.
01:06:32
Speaker 6: I don't mean most of my guys. The end of that stuff, I don't know.
01:06:35
Speaker 5: But you said, we bring them right to the right, the.
01:06:38
Speaker 6: Right to keep going back, keep going back to and and in other words, they see the diversity.
01:06:43
Speaker 5: They also see people that are so glad to be home and so proud and so grateful, kind of like we were when we first came here to this country, and we've forgotten a little bit about we've been again, go back to a little bit being spelled so.
01:06:56
Speaker 6: Athletes for asual bringing people to Israel. You know, that's the greatest thing.
01:06:59
Speaker 5: We can do people when you ask this is really what can we do? Come visit, come back, bring somebody else. We need to continue to do that as soon as we possibly can. My biggest thing as far as is this, uh, as far as coach is concerned. Look, kids know who I am, and so one of the things, one of the things the best thing coaches can do is be honest. It doesn't make us right all the time, but if I'm honest and to the best of my ability, this is how I feel, this is what's in my soul. I'm not trying to be somebody that that that that I'm not, and.
01:07:32
Speaker 6: I just think that.
01:07:32
Speaker 5: You know, our universities are high school. Everyone wants to stay institutionally neutral, like they're afraid of starting a Middle East Jewish studies program, a Christian studies program because they're afraid somebody else is gonna want to start an Islamic studies program, so let's just not do it because they don't want the controversy. And I think that's that's that's our problem. We don't want to talk about religion, we don't want to talk about politics, we don't want to teach anything controversial. You're gonna come play for me at Auburn, Okay, We're gonna stand at attention for the national anthem. Our right hand is gonna be over our heart, our left hand is gonna be on our back, and we're gonna stand the attention. And if you don't want to, then you can go play for another coach and hide in the locker room. I understand it, But at the same time, I understand where my players were because they're getting calls from homegoing you're kneeling right, I mean, you're you're kneeling right because they're right. There is there is profiling there is racism, and and and and I get what they want. How about this idea, why don't we raise money for scholarships for students to come to Auburn that look like you, rather than just teach, have the conversation, be open, be honest. I bring the military in, I bring military in, talk about it.
01:08:40
Speaker 6: I say, look, I would give my life so that you would have the right to kneel.
01:08:46
Speaker 5: But I love Auburn basketball and it would break my heart if you do.
01:08:50
Speaker 6: Would you would you stand the attention for me?
01:08:53
Speaker 5: And every one of my guys will stand the attention. We got to keep teaching and got to keep coaching.
01:08:58
Speaker 3: I know you're wrapping it up for one good story. I also don't know about Blues Pearl because not only your colleens basketball bands. So he coached at Auburn. That's a big SEC score. They take on Kentucky, some of the greatest teams in the country. This guy, before his games would be sitting up in the raptors with his players rapping to filing. He'd be rapping the filing before a big game on CBS against Kentucky or LSU. And let me tell you something, the media they love it. You get people like Tony Kornhouser's partner Michael Wilburn or Plony of proption who took a shot at him because he did that. So you talk about walking the walk, talking the talk, This man before his games would be rapping to filing on CBS legend.
01:09:38
Speaker 1: So well said, ladies and gentlemen, this has been absolutely phenomenal. Now what I want you to do before you go, I'm going to say goodbye to each of you individually. Can you do like at basketball where they jog off like it kind of pay and then a runoff each of you?
01:09:53
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Okay, let's start not with the Rabbi. He looks the least athletic.
01:10:00
Speaker 6: I'm running to dinner. I'm running to dinner.
01:10:02
Speaker 4: We're running to dinner.
01:10:04
Speaker 2: Run away. I know that I was. I'm under a light. It's not the change. I'm too young for it. So if you notice me, gotta go, I'm.
01:10:15
Speaker 1: Said, Sid Rising bag Legend, James fast Flow, thank you so much, Rabbie wild Legend, all of you, thank you so much, thank you, thank you,