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Good Day Program. I'm Doug Stefan along with Do I say that too quickly?
I kind of slurred Doug Steffan, Doug step and Jay Kirshner. The
fate of New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is being more closely scrutinized. I suppose
maybe his fate is sealed as far as I'm concerned. He's been charged with
acting as a foreign agent. This guy has been slimy for years, so
the Egyptians have been using him, apparently for whatever he was on the Senator
Foreign Relations Committee. As a matter of fact, he was Chairman Jay for
a number of years. Prosecutors say he's been acting as a foreign agent for
Egypt in terms of passing sensitive information. There's a federal grand jury that has
been arguing that Menendez has violated what they call a foreign Agent Registration Act.
He's been paid off by the Egyptians. It's kind of embarrassing. For the
Egyptians as much as it is for him. It is. Yeah, right,
So anyway, I've never thought he was and there's something about him,
and I suppose I could be criticized for this. He just looks like he's
kind of a worm and he doesn't come across as as someone who gives you
confidence that they're cool when it comes to business dealings or anything like that.
And his new wife also is up to her mickey in this one. Well,
we shouldn't judge a book by its cover. We shoudn't judge people based
on her looks. But in this specific scenario, you are correct. Well,
thank you, all right. Anyway, what he's actually charged with they
get into his safety deposit box and they found four hundred and eighty thousand dollars
in cash envelope some of this, right, Yeah, yeah, I think
Bill Maher had a joke about that on his program last Friday night, about
where he keeps his cash. There are a lot of jokes certainly that will
come out of this. But also he's got supposedly Egyptians paid for his Mercedes
Benz convertible, and she was involved in that car. She struck and killed
somebody and I'm not sure whatever happened with that. That happened over in Europe,
right, Yeah, I believe that she was released of all charges because
of who she is. So the phrase I'm forgetting yeah right, diplomatic community,
Uh huh, yeah, I could. All right, here's the story
of these three who could face assault charges in Boston. Remember that Patriots fan
who got punched and died a couple of three. I think it was the
first Patriots game of the season. Yeah, and Jillette Stadium. Good,
they all should face Yeah, well, basically they should go to jail for
a long time disorderly conduct. Yeah, that's that's putting it mildly. It's
amazing they aren't getting manslaughter, but I guess they're they're you know, it'ssumed.
They're not at fault for the heart attack, but assault chest they are
a less Yes they are. No, they are at fault for this guy
wouldn't have had an art game. But how can you prove that we would
have had a heart attack that day? How can you prove that you wouldn't
have had a heart attack at some point that day? I can prove anything.
Give me a few minutes and I'll find the way to lawyer Doug.
Yeah, that's right, right, especial lawyer Doug. All right. Not
a good day for the Eisley Brothers, one of the founding members of this
fabulous Rhythm and Bruce Bruce could how about I put an ail in there someplace.
Rhythm and Blues they described as stalwarts by many people from the music isle
Isisley Brothers. Rudolph Eesley passed away at the age of eighty four yesterday.
There are probably very few people who haven't heard or have been influenced, no
matter what your age, by the music of the Isisley Brothers. I've been
a fan ember since they first I think I've played some of this stuff when
I was still a disc jockey. It's just something about the way it just
it just got you. Well, those groups and the music that they came
out with. It's like there are three or four groups from that era,
like Jane the Americans also what they when you when you listen to him,
you got something from it. And so anyway, just how talented they all
were. Yeah, yeah, right, exactly, all right. So Rudolph
Isley wrote a lot of the tunes. I remember seeing them on Soul Train
all right, So I gotta check with James and Jay. You both know
what soul Train is. I am familiar with it. I've never seen it,
but there are a lot of clips that are used at different memes on
social media. I am not familiar with. Okay, well you go.
I spent your weekend listening to some of this stuff on it. The way
they harmonized. I was thinking about them and Jackie Wilson, who was another
guy that was from this era, the energy that they brought to the music.
But this is the story of this song. Particularly, this was the
early nineteen sixties. This whole Heart of Mine is week for you. It
was a big during Motown's heyday. This was this State is number one for
like fourteen weeks in the charts. They really had it. And it's too
bad. But these guys getting older. They started in the fifties and so
during the sixties and the seventies they were just all over the place, constantly
on the radio, and for good reason, because this stuff is good,
which is anything else. And then there's you know, the songs like it's
your thing, maybe we'll touch onto that. I just when I see these
things, you know, it sort of makes you I guess conscious of your
age as much as anything else. They were on Motown for a while,
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good day about the old fossils that have been found, but the footprint that
was thirty thousand years old or something that somebody found down in New Mexico.
So now a rare mammal from one hundred and eighty million years ago has been
found in Utah. Isn't that exciting? It really is this around the early
Jurassic period. All people who don't know about the history of anything, they
think Jurassic Park is about something that is happening now. The reason is called
Jurassic Park is because during the Dinosaur era it was referred to as the Jurassic
Period. Anyway, Sonia, the Park Service says that a National Recreation Area
in Utah. This field crew is out there working and they found this first.
I can't pronounce who can pronounce the name of most of these other than
my grandson. Most of these dinosaurs Tridillo, Daunton, bone bed. I
got bone bed. Good for you, congratulations. This is in the Navajo
area too. The Navajo Indians were but fossil history is fascinating in that it
tells us a lot about the The palaeontologists know a lot about the history of
the Earth. How granted, one hundred and eighty million years sounds like a
long time, but it isn't really in the history of the planet. But
just think we can touch something, imagine touching something that was around one hundred
and eighty million years ago. But then when you think about that, that's
what you do with water every day. Because the water that is that we
are living with is the same water that was created as the planet was being
formed. It's not new water. It's the same water. Yeah, I
haven't scientists deemed it. It's old. The water on Earth is older than
the Sun. Yeah about that? Mapp, Well, I don't know about
that because the Sun came first. Where did that come from? Who told
you that? You sure? Well, because it came from other galaxies?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, got it? All right. Here's
some good news. I don't know whether you think this good news or not.
The Social Security Administration has announced that those of you who are on Social
Security, not just older folks, but there are people who are on what
they call it social security. The young people that are in need. I
forget what they call it. It's some kind of social security disability, that's
what it is. Anyway, three point two percent. What does that mean.
It means that most people would get an increase of about fifty bucks a
month starting in January. All right, So that affects you or not.
I think the increase this year was quite a bit more than that, but
that's because they were trying to collect or bring up the sort of equalize things
as inflation has gotten so high in the last couple of years that people got
more money, but a lot of people depend they don't have any other sources
of income, so this is again better than having it being here are also
this is something to think about. A couple of best friends decided to sign
up for their school's robotic team, and they didn't realize that it was going
to change their lives freshmen in high school. They're now juniors. But these
two from your hometown of Cleveland, Jay had started wearing with three D printers
to create parts for their robots. And now because they did that, they
figured out how to do it. This is a whole new world of help
for people or amputees. They went to work to find to help a girl
who was a friend of theirs who was hurt in an accident come up with
a new arm. And so now they have this new arm, then they're
now able to put what they learned. They figured it out in their teens.
Right, definitely cuts the cost of how much this really takes. Right,
They made a prototype of this young girl, a twelve year old girl
who lost her arm in an accident. We got her measurements, they said,
made prototypes, then originals, and they brought the prosthetic to her and
it fit her perfectly. Wow. Imagine the future of these two have in
terms of what this is worth. Who's gonna have Some big company will buy
it out. But they were smart enough to patent it, or they could
go to the shark tankersse mister wonderful can invest in putting new arms on people.
That'd be something anyway. It just shows you that if you want to
expand your mental muscle muscles, you can do it. And you're never too
young. You're never young to help with things. No, All right,
here's something that has connected once again the Russians to the Ukrainians. The war
in Ukraine. For those of you who have forgotten has been going on almost
two years. It's twenty first month right now. So Russia was suspended by
the International Olympic Committee for a land grab. This refers to what they did
with the Ukrainians. It's a breach of the Olympic charter to do this sort
of thing. They put together. There are regions of the Ukraine where apparently
there are a lot of athletes, international athletes and that sort of thing,
and so the Russians because of their aggressiveness, have been tossed as a member.
So when is the Olympics in Paris next year? Right? I think
they it's Paris, Yes, yes, I think so. Yeah. So,
anyway, the Russians have been suspended. They did the same thing in
twenty sixteen after the annexation of Crimea, which was part of Ukraine. So
this is just another way of highlighting what's going on, what these people,
the aggressiveness of so many people who get into power. Again, I suppose
we could relay that to what's going on in Israel in the Middle least.
I saw something last night. Excuse me, Cuomo, who's on News Nation
now does quite a good job. I think all of them do. Dan
Matthews and Ashley Banfield. So Cuomo's over there and he's talking to some guy
who's a professor at a college on the West Bank. This guy was the
hatred. My god, it just fews how these people blame Israel for everything.
Instead, if you want to blame somebody, blame the United Nations.
They were the one who figured this out, these Raelies. There was no
Israel. The Israelis didn't figure out where they were going to go. The
United Nations did. And so this guy kept interrupting Chris Cuomo, and he
kept saying, you're all wrong. Israel is the aggressor. Israel. You'll
all have to pay. This guy is a college professor. What do you
suppose he's teaching the youngsters who come along in whatever college he's teaching in.
If you saw it, you look at this guy and you I guess he
was. He's kind of the face of terrorism and the way they think.
There's no not you have to convince, but no even rational conversation you can
have with these people. Well two things can be true at once, though,
where the Palestinians were kind of invaded by Israel at one point years ago.
But when it comes to what just recently happened with Hamas and then the
baby's being decapitated, And there are two different things where you can it be
a Palestinian and feel a certain way and not support Hamas. There has not
been a day since Israel was formed. Palai Ha Mos goes back in about
fifty years. This guy was claiming they were duly elected to represent the people
of Palestine. That's not true at all. And some people believe that they
are freedom fighters. Yeah, well, but that's that's that just disregards civilians
on all sides is rare. How do you fix that? How do you
deal? How do you if it's changed? How do you live with it?
How do you fix it? How do you does it? Is it
just? You know, I've said this every time I go over there.
It's something that will never get fixed because the hatred is so deep seated and
taught at such a young age. It's been such a hostile region for how
long? Now? Yeah? Wow. During our we have two things,
the talk radio Countdown show and then we have the ancillary hour that goes with
at the talk radio review, And during that we're going to talk to somebody
who went over to Israel just on a vacation and happen to get there the
day before all that this started. He's back now and we'll have his conversation.
All right, here's the latest from the problem in Idaho that was created
by a gas line explosion. I would you like to live next door near
this? This is Middletown, Idaho. Gas line explodes and the sheriff there
says that he isn't even sure now about injuries and stuff because it's a very
rural area in southwestern Idaho. Town has about ten thousand people that live in
it. Everybody was evacuated and apparently now it's been lifting, they good go
back again. But these explosions happen sometimes they're never caused by nature somehow,
or there's something there was a somebody working with a backo somewhere that's happened,
or they're getting into the line. But the line, they don't just explode.
It happens with the cause. It's gonna be as far away from those
sorts of things, right, That's what always terrifies me. And I think
that I don't know if it's all of the states. I know it's it's
New York and LA where apartment complexes or any anything that's not a single family
standing home is not permitted to have gas stoves because if somebody it forgets to
turn it off or starts to light a candle right next to like when it's
been running and they didn't realize it was running, it can take out so
many other units. I didn't I don't know that. I'll that's I can't
remember where that is. I think it's becoming more whitespreader. Maybe it was
one of those proposal things that hasn't actually taken effect. Yeah, it could
be. All right. Here's another attack. Bobcat when after two children and
a couple of dogs in Georgia. This is actually a post on Facebook that
you can see Bobcat attacking the children in the area of Milton, Georgia.
The two were attacked, the young boy and a young girl. A young
girl was three years old. Good God. And so this is you know
again, this is the people say, well, they're not provoked. Well
they you don't understand if you think that they aren't provoked, they aren't looking
well, they're looking for food much as anything else. They're not necessarily going
to go after humans because they're humans. They're going to go after something that
smells like it'll be good to eat, and it happened. I don't know.
It was the bobcat rabbit. I'm not sure about. The two dogs
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week on Most People's Minds, television, radio, you name it, social
media, the experiences that people have had what we're watching happen in Israel.
I have a very close friend with whom I've done business for decades, who
when I talked to him last week, we were talking some business stuff and
he said, I'm going to Israel for a week with my wife and a
couple of my friends. And I was talking to him because he's Jewish and
he'd never been there before, and I was telling him about the experiences I've
had loving my trips to Israel, have been there five times and a few
you know, highlights, and so I shared that, and so now let's
pick it up there, Spencer Brown. He is with us. And when
you told me you were going, I think I was excited for you,
right, And you were excited because you never have been before. Yeah,
Doug, as you corrected, point out, I am Jewish, my wife
and I had talked about going to Israel for a long time, ten plus
years, and we had this other couple that every dinner we had together we'd
talk about going, And finally about a year ago, we said, let's
stop talking about it, let's actually go, which is what we did right
just in time. Your timing was great, I mean everything. Yeah,
so you get over there and you had a day at least, didn't you
to do stuff before this all happened. No, not at all. Actually,
we were mid flight when the people we were traveling with had their Wi
Fi on. It was middle of the night for us this morning in Israel,
and she said, oh my god, I'm getting texts that that Hamas
has invaded Israel across the Gaza border. So about halfway through our flight started
creeping through the main cabin and people were obviously getting texts and checking news,
and I jumped on and was reading reports from the journal in the Times,
and there was a full invasion in process while we were flying, and in
fact when we landed. So when you first thought that you saw it and
you were thinking about it, was there any did like the captain come on
and say, there's a problem in Israel. Maybe we should turn around or
land somewhere else. Did that ever happen now by either design or intent,
or just happened since the pilot's never said anything, it was it was actually
kind of strange. And we were sitting up front close to the flight attendants
and started talking to them, and really word came back that we had some
options either to land. Well I don't know that there were options. They
were considering landing in Israel or diverting to Greece or Cyprus. But they never
said anything until they got on just like any other flight about a half hour
ago, and then acknowledged that ladies and gentlemen, as you may have heard,
and there's a situation in Israel, you know, rest assured it's safe
to land, and that was that. I have to say, it wasn't
handled or as I'm concerned very well. But that's a completely different and minor
story, you know, in light of what's going on there. All right,
So you got off the plane, what was it like in the airport,
and then when you went to your hotel, what was what was what
was kind of going on? And what were you thinking? One? What
was going on? It was just very solemn, I mean, the fog
of war is a very apt metaphor. No one really understood exactly what was
going on other than there was clearly an invasion. At that point, the
death toll was estimated to be and this was all kind of chatter in the
airport at two hundred, so people didn't understand the scale and scope of what
had happening, and at that time, what was still happening. It was
just a very solemn quiet time in the airport. I would I would,
I would say, you know, I'm from New York City. It was
like nine to twelve, if not, you know, the evening of nine
to eleven's people trying to gather and comprehend what had happened. And then what
we were thinking was the same thing, you know, is this an event?
Is it something even bigger? And I would say each hour it just
became more and more apparent, you know that it was something bigger, And
we were trying figure out whether to stay at the airport. A lot of
confusion. Do we stay at the airport? We just go to our hotel
and see what's happening from there, And that's ultimately what we decided to do,
is get to the hotel least, you know, that was a ground
where we could base ourselves and just figure this all out, or at least
try to determine what's happening. Having a conversation with my good friend Spencer Brown,
as he's indicated, he's from New York, he went to Israel with
his wife and a couple of friends to visit. On the first trip they
encounter all of this. So you're at the hotel, then what you actually
ended up spending back and forth with you was it three or four days?
How long did you actually end up staying sort of having to stay there.
Yeah, having to stay is the correct term. We stayed three days.
We really didn't leave the hotel, but the first night when we got there,
Yeah, this surreal situation. The fog of wars is very true,
you know, just a lot of different reports. Trying to figure out what
our options were. We had a guide that was going as supposed to take
us around the country and she was calling us. But the first night we
were you know, the missiles were flying over Tel Aviv and we were sitting
in the lobby on the one hand, you know, having dinner with a
lot of people, and it was it was like a normal resort hotel,
and then you know, the sirens would would ring and we would go into
the bomb shelter, which is really the inner part of the building. You
know, in Israel, the staircases are fortified and that's where people go if
they don't have exact shelter in the basement. We were probably in and out
of that four times, and then you'd go back to the lobby and it
was just a surreal situation. What was interesting is probably the wrong word,
but this was just rolling, you know, things coming in and rolling realization
that this was not only a horrific nightmare situation for Israel, but strategically,
you know, a huge country changing, history changing event. And I think
dawn that started to dawn on people Monday morning, Israel time. Just to
give you a sense, you know, Sunday morning, which would have been
our first full day there. Our guy was asking if he wanted to go
touring up north because she thought it was safe, and we said thanks,
but I didn't think it was appropriate and also for safety reasons, just wanted
to stay close. By Monday, her advice was to get out of the
country. And I think that that really is, you know, kind of
symbolizes or really sums up what happened there. So what did you see though,
in reality in terms of the Israelis and what they were doing to mobilize.
Certainly there were a lot of reports, but because Israel is such a
small country and Tel Aviv's not that big either, you go, you know,
you're not that far from Jerusalem and the guy's strip is right there,
and what was going on is right there. So did you ever feel like
you were literally in danger? And as you looked at what was going on,
the goosebumps, the shows go uping down, your spy kind of what
were you and your wife? What you experienced was something, as you just
suggested, it would probably be life changing. Certainly you'll be able to talk
about it for the rest of your life. But what kind of did you
actually experience. Let's say there were two things. Tell Aviv's just to give
your listeners a sense. It's about forty five miles and probably less as the
crow flies from the Gaza strip, So it would be like being in a
suburb of New York with war going on down in the city. And so
what we heard and saw, we saw a lot of missiles. You could
see them streaking through the sky. At night. We heard the Iron domee
blowing up a lot of missiles, and we saw there were you know,
because it shares the same coastlines. Literally, if you walk just walk down
the water from you know, for forty five miles from Tel Aviv, you
would walk into the Gaza strip. There were a lot of boats and cider
helicopters trolling the shore. That was mostly what we saw. You could hear,
you know, we'd be sitting. It was again, surreal is really
the word I've kept using for our experience, tragic for theirs. But you
could on the one hand, we were sitting because there was nothing to do
at the hotel, you know, on the roof by the pool, and
then on the other hand, you could hear the bombs going off, you
know, in Gaza on Tuesday and Monday. So it was a very strange
situation for us. Never felt, you know, in personal danger. I
did get out Tuesday night, but I did feel the sense of and I
think this is what a lot of Israelis feel, of being trapped and things
closing in. You've got enemies to the south, You've got Hesbala shooting rockets
to the north, there's the threat of the Palestinian uprise on the West Bank,
and then there's the Mediterranean Sea. Those are basically Israel's borders. I'm
oversimplifying, So that's really what I felt if I didn't get out. But
things were starting to close in and ratcheting up, and it was a very
unsettling feeling. So how long actually was the airport ever really closed or how
long did it take you to arrange to get out? The airport wasn't permanently
closed, but a lot of carriers, and American carriers in particular, stopped
flying in and out. Air France stopped flying, so there were just less
flights going in and out. It took about forty hours well, you know,
to figure to get our plans and ended up flying l all out.
That kept on flying I think as a show of strength. But you know,
and if we hadn't gotten out Tuesday, it really would have it would
have been difficult. And the government now is chartering planes and getting people out
by you know, flying them out I think even by ground and also see
so it's a situation that you know, is deteriorating as far as as things
closing in and war ratcheting up. You're talking about our gument. The American
government has hired the carriers to send one planes they can get to get There's
like one hundred thousand Americans who live in Israel, so there's a lot of
Americans that live there, and there's always a lot of Americans visiting. Yeah,
yes, yeah, yeah, exactly. Well, I'm glad you're safe
because of our friendship. I'm glad that you. I don't want to say
i'm glad you had the experience, but I think it's an experience that,
as you tell the story here, helps us all to understand on a person
to person basis someone who's not directly involved in the war itself, but the
way it's coagulating, and how many people are involved in how earthshaking it is
not just for you and the experience you had, but for the world.
So I appreciate it, and I'm glad you're okay. Spencer Brown, who
went to Israel for a good time, didn't have it, but he's okay
and he's safe back here in America. Thanks for joining us. The next
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